Module:Signpost/index/2012
< Module:Signpost | index
This is a Lua table for one year of Signpost article data, used by Module:Signpost.
These tables are filled out by a combination of Mr. Stradivarius's SignpostTagger (source) and JPxG's and WegweiserBot (source).
See Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Technical/Index validation for a report on errors and inconsistencies.
Below is a series of tables with this module's information.
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return {
{
date = "2012-01-02",
subpage = "Arbitration report",
title = "New case accepted, four open cases, terms begin for new arbitrators",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Lord Roem"},
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tags = {"arbitrationreport", "images", "muhammad"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-01-02",
subpage = "Featured content",
title = "Ghosts of featured content past, present, and future",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Crisco 1492"},
piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""},
tags = {"featuredcontent"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-01-02",
subpage = "Interview",
title = "The Gardner interview",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Tony1", "Skomorokh"},
piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""},
tags = {"executivedirector", "gardner", "interview", "interviews", "wikimedia"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-01-02",
subpage = "News and notes",
title = "Things bubbling along as Wikimedians enjoy their holidays",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Resident Mario"},
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tags = {"incubator", "newsandnotes"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-01-02",
subpage = "WikiProject report",
title = "Where are they now? ''Part III''",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Mabeenot"},
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tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-01-09",
subpage = "Arbitration report",
title = "Four open cases, proposed decision in Betacommand 3",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Lord Roem", "Steven Zhang"},
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tags = {"arbitrationreport", "images", "muhammad"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-01-09",
subpage = "Featured content",
title = "Contentious FAC debate: a week in review",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Crisco 1492", "The ed17"},
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tags = {"featuredcontent", "inreview"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-01-09",
subpage = "In the news",
title = "Wikipedia ends annual fundraising drive; Monmouthpedia launches",
subhead = "",
authors = {"SL93"},
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tags = {"inthemedia", "inthenews", "finance"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-01-09",
subpage = "News and notes",
title = "Fundraiser 2011 ends with a bang",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Resident Mario", "Amir E. Aharoni", "Tom Morris", "Aude"},
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tags = {"newsandnotes", "wikimediauk", "finance"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-01-09",
subpage = "Technological roadmap",
title = "2011's technological achievements in review, and what 2012 may hold",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Jarry1250"},
piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""},
tags = {"inreview", "technologyreport", "yearinreview"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-01-09",
subpage = "Technology report",
title = "December in more detail; and why the MediaWiki codebase was \"slushed\" this week",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Jarry1250"},
piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""},
tags = {"mediawiki", "tech", "technologyreport", "technologyreport"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-01-09",
subpage = "WikiProject report",
title = "From Traditional to Experimental: WikiProject Jazz",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Mabeenot"},
piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""},
tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-01-16",
subpage = "Arbitration report",
title = "Four open cases, Betacommand case deadlocked, Muhammad images close near",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Steven Zhang"},
piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""},
tags = {"arbitrationreport", "images", "muhammad"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-01-16",
subpage = "Featured content",
title = "Lecen on systemic bias in featured content",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Crisco 1492"},
piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""},
tags = {"featuredcontent", "bias", "bias"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-01-16",
subpage = "News and notes",
title = "WMF on the looming SOPA blackout, Wikipedia turns 11, and Commons passes 12 million files",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Resident Mario", "Tony1", "Aude", "Tom Morris"},
piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""},
tags = {"medical", "newsandnotes", "sopa", "wikiprojects", "wikimediacommons"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-01-16",
subpage = "Sister projects",
title = "What are our sisters up to now?",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Banaticus"},
piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""},
tags = {"sisterprojects", "wikitionary", "wikimediacommons"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-01-16",
subpage = "Special report",
title = "English Wikipedia to go dark on January 18",
subhead = "",
authors = {"SMasters"},
piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""},
tags = {"englishwikipedia", "sopa", "specialreport"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-01-16",
subpage = "Technology report",
title = "ArticleFeedback moves into new trial phase; and how MediaWiki integrates with Facebook, IPv6, and PostgreSQL explored",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Jarry1250"},
piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""},
tags = {"ipv6", "mediawiki", "tech", "technologyreport", "technologyreport"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-01-16",
subpage = "WikiProject report",
title = "WikiProject Beer",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Mabeenot"},
piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""},
tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-01-23",
subpage = "Arbitration report",
title = "Four open cases, proposed decision in Muhammad images, AUSC call for applications",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Lord Roem"},
piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""},
tags = {"arbitrationreport", "images", "muhammad"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-01-23",
subpage = "Featured content",
title = "Interview with Muhammad Mahdi Karim and the best of the week",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Crisco 1492", "Mathew Townsend", "Tony1"},
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tags = {"featuredcontent", "interviews", "muhammad", "portals"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-01-23",
subpage = "In the news",
title = "World watched as Wikipedia shut down for SOPA blackout",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Tom Morris"},
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tags = {"inthemedia", "sopa", "inthenews"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-01-23",
subpage = "News and notes",
title = "SOPA blackout, Orange partnership",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Aude", "Rd232"},
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tags = {"newsandnotes", "sopa"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-01-23",
subpage = "Technology report",
title = "Looking ahead to MediaWiki 1.19 and related issues",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Jarry1250"},
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tags = {"mediawiki", "tech", "technologyreport", "technologyreport"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-01-23",
subpage = "WikiProject report",
title = "The Golden Horseshoe: WikiProject Toronto",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Mabeenot"},
piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""},
tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-01-30",
subpage = "Arbitration report",
title = "Five open cases, voting on proposed decisions in two cases",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Lord Roem"},
piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""},
tags = {"arbitrationreport", "images", "muhammad"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-01-30",
subpage = "Featured content",
title = "Featured content soaring this week",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Crisco 1492"},
piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""},
tags = {"featuredcontent", "portals"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-01-30",
subpage = "In the news",
title = "Zambian wiki-assassins, Foundation ''über alles'', editor engagement and the innovation plateau",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Skomorokh"},
piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""},
tags = {"inthemedia", "journals", "inthenews", "foundation"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-01-30",
subpage = "News and notes",
title = "Update on Global Development, Wikipedia Day NYC is a success, JFK audio on Commons",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Resident Mario", "Aude", "Skomorokh", "Sj"},
piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""},
tags = {"newsandnotes", "wikimediacommons", "education", "education"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-01-30",
subpage = "Recent research",
title = "Language analyses examine power structure and political slant; Wikipedia compared to commercial databases",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Tilman Bayer", "Piotr Konieczny"},
piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""},
tags = {"recentresearch", "research", "researchreport", "bias", "bias", "blp"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-01-30",
subpage = "Technology report",
title = "Why \"Lua\" is on everybody's lips, and when to expect MediaWiki 1.19",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Jarry1250"},
piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""},
tags = {"lua", "mediawiki", "tech", "templates", "technologyreport", "technologyreport"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-01-30",
subpage = "WikiProject report",
title = "Digging Up WikiProject Palaeontology",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Mabeenot"},
piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""},
tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-02-06",
subpage = "Arbitration report",
title = "Four open cases, final decision in Muhammad images, Betacommand 3 near closure",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Lord Roem"},
piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""},
tags = {"arbitrationreport", "images", "muhammad"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-02-06",
subpage = "Discussion report",
title = "Discussion swarms around Templates for deletion and returning editors of colourful pasts",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Resident Mario", "Surturz"},
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tags = {"discussionreport", "templates", "afd"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-02-06",
subpage = "Featured content",
title = "Talking architecture with MrPanyGoff",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Crisco 1492", "Mathew Townsend"},
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tags = {"featuredcontent"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-02-06",
subpage = "In the news",
title = "Leading scholar hails Wikipedia, historians urged to contribute while PR pros remain shunned",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Skomorokh"},
piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""},
tags = {"inthemedia", "inthenews"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-02-06",
subpage = "News and notes",
title = "The Foundation visits Tunisia, analyzes donors",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Resident Mario"},
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tags = {"newsandnotes", "foundation"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-02-06",
subpage = "Technology report",
title = "October's coding challenge: results now in; progress on 1.19 steady; and why for a while interwiki links were no more",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Jarry1250"},
piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""},
tags = {"tech", "technologyreport", "technologyreport"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-02-06",
subpage = "WikiProject report",
title = "The Eye of the Storm: WikiProject Tropical Cyclones",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Mabeenot"},
piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""},
tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-02-13",
subpage = "Arbitration report",
title = "Betacommand 3 closed, proposed decision in Civility enforcement, AUSC candidates announced",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Lord Roem", "Steven Zhang"},
piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""},
tags = {"arbitrationreport"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-02-13",
subpage = "Featured content",
title = "The best of the week",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Crisco 1492", "Mathew Townsend"},
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tags = {"featuredcontent"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-02-13",
subpage = "In focus",
title = "Skirmishes in the 'great sectarian war of the Internet'",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Skomorokh"},
piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""},
tags = {"infocus", "jimmywales", "specialreport"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-02-13",
subpage = "In the news",
title = "Scholars and spindoctors contend with the emergent wikiorder",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Skomorokh"},
piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""},
tags = {"inthemedia", "inthenews", "employee"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-02-13",
subpage = "News and notes",
title = "Foundation launches Legal and Community Advocacy department",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Resident Mario", "Skomorokh"},
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tags = {"newsandnotes", "foundation"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-02-13",
subpage = "Special report",
title = "Fundraising proposals spark a furore among the chapters",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Tony1", "Skomorokh"},
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tags = {"chapters", "specialreport", "wikimedia", "movementroles", "finance", "board"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-02-13",
subpage = "Technology report",
title = "January sees prototype new geodata API; but February looks to be a testing time for top developers",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Jarry1250"},
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tags = {"developers", "geodata", "tech", "technologyreport", "technologyreport"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-02-13",
subpage = "WikiProject report",
title = "WikiProject Stub Sorting",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Mabeenot"},
piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""},
tags = {"stubs", "wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-02-20",
subpage = "Arbitration report",
title = "Civility enforcement closed, proposed decision in TimidGuy, two cases remain open",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Steven Zhang", "Lord Roem"},
piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""},
tags = {"arbitrationreport"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-02-20",
subpage = "Discussion report",
title = "Discussion on copyrighted files from non-US relation states",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Whenaxis"},
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tags = {"discussionreport", "images", "policy", "licensing"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-02-20",
subpage = "Featured content",
title = "The best of the week",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Mathew Townsend", "Crisco 1492"},
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tags = {"featuredcontent"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-02-20",
subpage = "News and notes",
title = "Fundraiser row continues, new director of engineering",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Resident Mario", "Skomorokh", "Tilman Bayer"},
piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""},
tags = {"featuredcontent", "newsandnotes", "movementroles", "finance"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-02-20",
subpage = "Special report",
title = "The plight of the new page patrollers",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Resident Mario"},
piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""},
tags = {"newpagepatrol", "specialreport", "wikimedia"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-02-20",
subpage = "Technology report",
title = "Major strands of development cycle coalesce as 1.19 is deployed to first wikis",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Jarry1250"},
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tags = {"tech", "technologyreport", "technologyreport"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-02-20",
subpage = "WikiProject report",
title = "WikiProject Poland",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Mabeenot"},
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tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"},
meta = {"-1"},
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{
date = "2012-02-27",
subpage = "Arbitration report",
title = "Final decision in TimidGuy ban appeal, one case remains open",
subhead = "",
authors = {"Lord Roem"},
piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""},
tags = {"arbitrationreport"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-02-27",
subpage = "Discussion report",
title = "Focus on admin conduct and editor retention",
subhead = "",
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meta = {"-1"},
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{
date = "2012-07-09",
subpage = "News and notes",
title = "Russian Wikipedia shuts down to fight censorship threat; E3 team and new tools; Wikitravel proposal bogged down",
subhead = "Russian Wikipedia blackout; WMF tools; Wikitravel proposal revisited: A protest against Russian State Duma Bill 89417-6, a draconian internet censorship bill. \"Today, the Wikipedia community protests against censorship as a threat to free knowledge that is open to all mankind. We ask that you oppose this bill.\"",
authors = {"Jan eissfeldt", "Tony1", "The ed17"},
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tags = {"censorship", "newsandnotes", "russianwikipedia", "stateactors", "toolserver"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-07-09",
subpage = "Special report",
title = "Reforming the education programs: lessons from Cairo",
subhead = "The Schools and universities program started in 2003 and evolved case by case with little system. But in 2009, as Wikimedia embarked on its formal strategic process, outreach in higher education came to be seen in terms of achieving explicit goals — especially that of increasing editor participation.",
authors = {"Tony1", "Jan eissfeldt"},
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tags = {"educationprogram", "specialreport", "education"},
meta = {"-1"},
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{
date = "2012-07-09",
subpage = "Technology report",
title = "Optimism over LastModified and MoodBar, but change in clock time causes downtime",
subhead = "The results from last month's trial of the LastModified extension were published this week on the Wikimedia blog. The first analyses have indicated a significant positive impact, suggesting that the extension – which makes the time since a page's last edit much more prominent in the interface – could eventually find its way onto Wikimedia wikis.",
authors = {"Jarry1250"},
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tags = {"moodbar", "tech", "technologyreport", "technologyreport"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-07-09",
subpage = "WikiProject report",
title = "Summer sports series: WikiProject Football",
subhead = "This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Football, which focuses on the sport also known as association football or soccer. WikiProject Football is by far the largest sport project and one of the most active projects on Wikipedia in terms of the number of articles covered, edits to articles, and talk page watchers.",
authors = {"Mabeenot"},
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tags = {"summersports", "wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-07-16",
subpage = "Arbitration report",
title = "Fæ faces site-ban, proposed decisions posted",
subhead = "No cases were closed or opened, leaving the number of open cases at three. A new remedy in the Fæ case calls for him to be indefinitely banned from the site after his attempts to solicit intervention from the Foundation, claiming that publicly listing all his accounts would be too onerous due to \"ongoing security risks.\" He was further criticised for attempting to dodge good-faith concerns; the committee believes that if Fæ's claims are valid then he must be removed from the community.",
authors = {"James"},
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tags = {"arbitrationreport"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-07-16",
subpage = "Discussion report",
title = "Discussion reports and miscellaneous articulations",
subhead = "A brief overview of the current discussions on the English Wikipedia, including one regarding the purpose of the Community Portal. Started by Maryana, a Wikimedia Foundation employee, is this page for new users to be educated about the community, or is it for experienced users to find updates about the community?",
authors = {"J36miles"},
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tags = {"discussionreport"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-07-16",
subpage = "Featured content",
title = "Takes flight",
subhead = "Eight featured articles were promoted this week, including Paul McCartney by GabeMc. McCartney (born 1942) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and composer. He gained worldwide fame as a member of the Beatles, and his collaboration with John Lennon is highly celebrated. After the band's break-up he pursued a solo career and formed the band Wings. McCartney has been described by Guinness World Records as the \"most successful composer and recording artist of all time\", and his song \"Yesterday\" has been covered more than any other song in history.",
authors = {"Crisco 1492"},
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tags = {"featuredcontent"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-07-16",
subpage = "News and notes",
title = "WMF enacts reforms at Wikimania; main page redesign; 4 millionth article milestone",
subhead = "During Wikimania (July 12-15), the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) board finalized and enacted long-discussed reforms of the movement's financial structures, and considered procedures for creating new ways for Wikimedians to organize themselves into offline communities. The board moved on the controversial image filter issue, approved the 2012–13 annual plan, and issued a statement on the wikitravel proposal. It also appointed the two new chapter-selected trustees and elected the four office-bearers.",
authors = {"Jan eissfeldt", "Rcsprinter123"},
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tags = {"events", "mainpage", "mainpageredesign", "millionmilestone", "newsandnotes", "wikimania"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-07-16",
subpage = "Special report",
title = "Chapters Association mired in controversy over new chair",
subhead = "User:Fæ was elected as the inaugural chair of the new Wikimedia Chapters Association, despite the controversies that have surrounded Fæ on the English Wikipedia and Commons, most recently aired in a live case before the Arbitration Committee. This is in marked contrast with unexciting movement, during the Wikimania meeting, on the most important issues facing the establishment of the association.",
authors = {"Tony1"},
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tags = {"chapters", "specialreport", "wmuk"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-07-16",
subpage = "Technology report",
title = "Tech talks at Wikimania amid news of a mixed June",
subhead = "As Wikimania, the annual conference targeted at Wikimedians and often well attended by those with a technical slant, draws to a close, comments have already begun to come in from attendees regarding the many tech-related features of the conference.",
authors = {"Jarry1250"},
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tags = {"events", "tech", "wikimania", "technologyreport", "technologyreport"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-07-16",
subpage = "Wikimania",
title = "Young chapter shows experience beyond its years",
subhead = "Nearly 1400 Wikimedians and others from 87 countries descended on the capital of the United States, Washington, D.C., for Wikimania 2012. Even with an unprecedented number (1400) of conference attendees — the previous two Wikimanias, held in Gdańsk (Poland) and Haifa (Israel), were attended by fewer than 1100 people combined – Wikimania 2012 was a complete success, with attendees' reaction to the conference coming out as ecstatic and laudatory.",
authors = {"The ed17"},
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tags = {"chapters", "events", "inreview", "wikimania"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-07-16",
subpage = "WikiProject report",
title = "Summer sports series: French WikiProject Cycling",
subhead = "With the Tour de France in its final week, we traveled to the French Wikipedia for a chat with Projet Cyclisme (WikiProject Cycling). The French Wikipedia places a greater emphasis on portals than the English Wikipedia, which explains why WikiProject Cycling and its discussion page are actually extensions of the Cycling Portal. The project is home to two Article de Qualité (equivalent to Featured Articles) and eight Bon Article (Good Articles), primarily biographies of cyclists.",
authors = {"Mabeenot", "Benzband"},
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tags = {"summersports", "wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-07-23",
subpage = "Arbitration report",
title = "Fæ and Michaeldsuarez banned; Kwamikagami desysopped; Falun Gong closes with mandated external reviews and topic bans",
subhead = "For the second time this year (and the third in the history of the committee), there are no open cases, as all three active cases were closed last week.",
authors = {"James"},
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meta = {"-1"},
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{
date = "2012-07-23",
subpage = "Featured content",
title = "When is an island not an island?",
subhead = "One featured article was promoted this week, Melville Island. A small peninsula in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, it was discovered by Europeans in the 1600s and initially used for storehouses. The land was purchased by the British and used to hold prisoners of war, then to receive escaped slaves from the United States. After being used as a place of quarantine and later a recruitment centre, the land was granted to Canada in 1907 and used to house prisoners of war. It is now home to the clubhouse and marina of the Armdale Yacht Club.",
authors = {"Crisco 1492"},
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tags = {"featuredcontent"},
meta = {"-1"},
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{
date = "2012-07-23",
subpage = "From the editor",
title = "''Signpost'' developments",
subhead = "The ''Signpost''{{'}}s goal is to provide readers with essential information about the Wikimedia movement and the English Wikipedia – both of which have become large and extremely complex institutions that require timely, balanced and in-depth coverage.",
authors = {"The ed17"},
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tags = {"fromtheeditor", "signpost"},
meta = {"-1"},
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{
date = "2012-07-23",
subpage = "News and notes",
title = "Chapter head speaks about the aftermath of Russian Wikipedia shutdown",
subhead = "Two weeks ago the Signpost reported that the Russian Wikipedia had just begun a 24-hour blackout in protest at a bill that was before the Russian parliament that proposed mechanisms to block IP addresses and DNS records. The protest, implemented after on-wiki consensus was reached during the preceding days, concerned the potential of the amendment to the information law to allow extra-judicial censorship of the internet in Russia, including the closure of access to the Russian Wikipedia. Among the questions now are how effective the blackout was and where we go from here in terms of internet freedom in one of the world's biggest and most influential countries.",
authors = {"Tony1"},
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tags = {"chapters", "newsandnotes", "russianwikipedia"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-07-23",
subpage = "Op-ed",
title = "The future of PR on Wikipedia",
subhead = "There has never been a better time to improve the behavior of marketing professionals on Wikipedia. For the first time we're seeing self-imposed statements of ethics. Professional PR bodies around the globe have supported the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) guidance for ethical Wikipedia engagement. Although their tone is different, CREWE and the PRSA have brought more attention to the issues. Awareness among PR professionals is rising. So are the number of paid editing operations sprouting up and the opportunity for dialogue.",
authors = {"David King"},
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tags = {"opinion"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-07-23",
subpage = "Paid editing",
title = "Does Wikipedia pay? The skeptic: Orange Mike",
subhead = "Does Wikipedia pay? The skeptic: Orange Mike: ''Does Wikipedia pay?'' is an ongoing Signpost series seeking to illuminate paid editing, paid advocacy, for-profit Wikipedia consultants, editing public relations professionals, conflict of interest guidelines in practice, and the Wikipedians who work on these issues... by speaking openly with the people involved.",
authors = {"Ocaasi"},
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tags = {"coi", "interview", "paidadvocacy"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-07-23",
subpage = "Technology report",
title = "Translating SVGs and making history bugs history",
subhead = "In the first of a series looking at this year's eight ongoing Google Summer of Code projects, the ''Signpost'' caught up with developer Harry Burt.",
authors = {"Jarry1250"},
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tags = {"tech", "technologyreport", "technologyreport", "megacorps"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-07-23",
subpage = "WikiProject report",
title = "Summer sports series: WikiProject Olympics",
subhead = "With the 2012 Summer Olympic Games beginning this weekend in London, we decided to catch up with the chaps at WikiProject Olympics. The last time we interviewed WikiProject Olympics was in February 2010 when the project was gearing up for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. We wanted to know how the project has grown since then and whether preparing for a Summer Olympics was more grueling.",
authors = {"Mabeenot"},
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meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-07-30",
subpage = "Arbitration report",
title = "No pending or open arbitration cases",
subhead = "Arbitrator Kirill Lokshin proposed a motion requiring the alteration of any instances of an editor's previous username in arbitration decisions to reflect their name changes. The Devil's Advocate has initiated an amendment request for the controversial Race and intelligence case.",
authors = {"James"},
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meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-07-30",
subpage = "Discussion report",
title = "Discussion reports and miscellaneous articulations",
subhead = "Edit buttons for lead sections, content dispute resolution proposals, machine translation guidelines, and more.",
authors = {"J36miles"},
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{
date = "2012-07-30",
subpage = "Featured content",
title = "One of a kind",
subhead = "Eight new featured articles, five new featured lists, and eight new featured pictures. The highlights include a new featured picture of Frank Sinatra, created by William P. Gottlieb and nominated by Tomer T. Sinatra (1915–98) was a highly successful American singer and film actor whose career spanned 60 years. This image dates from around 1947.",
authors = {"Crisco 1492"},
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tags = {"featuredcontent"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-07-30",
subpage = "News and notes",
title = "Wikimedians and London 2012; WMF budget – staffing, engineering, editor retention effort, and the global South",
subhead = "Wikimedians and London 2012; WMF budget – staffing, engineering, editor retention effort, and the global South; ''Telegraph''{{'}}s cheap shot at WP: Wikimedia Foundation published its Annual Plan, focusing on technical improvements, editor retention, and structural reforms over the coming year. The movement's total revenue, including almost all chapter funding, is slated to rise by 35%, from $34.2 million to $46.1 million, and global spending to more than $42.1 million. The foundation's own core spending will grow by 15% to $30.2 million in 2012–13.",
authors = {"Jan eissfeldt", "Tony1", "Urmi", "Surinder Wadhawan"},
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meta = {"-1"},
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{
date = "2012-07-30",
subpage = "Recent research",
title = "Conflict dynamics, collaboration and emotions; digitization vs. copyright; WikiProject field notes; quality of medical articles; role of readers; best wiki paper award",
subhead = "From the modeling of social dynamics in a collaborative environment to why the number of Wikipedia readers rises while the number of editors doesn't.",
authors = {"Daniel Mietchen", "Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia", "Jodi.a.schneider", "Taha Yasseri", "OrenBochman", "Dario Taraborelli", "Benjamin Mako Hill", "Tilman Bayer"},
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tags = {"awards", "medical", "recentresearch", "research", "wikiprojects", "wikisource", "researchreport", "licensing"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-07-30",
subpage = "Technology report",
title = "Talking performance with CT Woo and Green Semantic MediaWiki with Nischay Nahata",
subhead = "In the light of recent questions over the long-term reliability of Wikimedia wikis, the ''Signpost'' caught up with CT Woo, the Wikimedia Foundation's director of technical operations.",
authors = {"Jarry1250"},
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tags = {"mediawiki", "tech", "technologyreport", "technologyreport", "megacorps"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-07-30",
subpage = "WikiProject report",
title = "Summer sports series: WikiProject Horse Racing",
subhead = "We continue our Summer Sports Series this week with WikiProject Horse Racing. Started in November 2005, the project has grown to include nearly 8,000 articles maintained by 34 active members. There are 10 Featured Articles and 19 Good Articles included in the project's scope. In addition to preparing articles for GA and FA status, the project attempts to create requested articles and locate requested images. We interviewed Redrose64, Montanabw, Tigerboy1966, Ealdgyth, and Cuddy Wifter.",
authors = {"Mabeenot"},
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tags = {"summersports", "wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-08-06",
subpage = "Arbitration report",
title = "No pending or open arbitration cases",
subhead = "Arbitrator Kirill Lokshin proposed a motion for a procedure on the alteration of an editor's previous username(s) in arbitration decisions to reflect their name change(s). ... The Devil's Advocate initiated an amendment request for the controversial Race and intelligence case.",
authors = {"James"},
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tags = {"arbitrationreport"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-08-06",
subpage = "Featured content",
title = "Casliber's words take root",
subhead = "This week the ''Signpost'' interviews Casliber, an editor who has written or contributed significantly to a startling 69 featured articles. We learn what makes him tick, why he edits, and why he can write on everything from vampires to dinosaurs, birds to plants. He also gives some advice to budding featured article writers.",
authors = {"Crisco 1492", "Emily Temple-Wood"},
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tags = {"featuredcontent"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-08-06",
subpage = "News and notes",
title = "FDC portal launched",
subhead = "On August 1, the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) portal was launched on Meta. The FDC will implement the Wikimedia movement's new grant-orientated finance structure in accordance with the WMF board's recent resolutions. As a volunteer committee, the FDC will make recommendations to the WMF board on a $11.4 million budget for 2012–13.",
authors = {"Jan eissfeldt"},
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tags = {"newsandnotes", "portals", "fdc"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-08-06",
subpage = "Op-ed",
title = "The Athena Project: being bold",
subhead = "You should think of Athena as a kick in the head\" – because that's exactly what it's supposed to be: a radical and bold re-examination of some of our sacred cows when it comes to the interface.",
authors = {"Brandon Harris"},
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tags = {"opinion"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-08-06",
subpage = "Technology report",
title = "Wikidata nears first deployment but wikis go down in fibre cut calamity",
subhead = "Wikidata nears first deployment but wikis go down in fibre cut calamity: The Wikimedia Foundation's engineering report for July 2012 was published this week on the Wikimedia Techblog and on the MediaWiki wiki, giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month (as well as brief coverage of progress on Wikimedia Deutschland's Wikidata project). ... At least one fibre-optic cable was damaged at the WMF's Tampa site on August 6, leading to a sharp downwards spike in traffic lasting over an hour and almost three hours of disruption for readers around the globe.",
authors = {"Jarry1250"},
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tags = {"tech", "wikidata", "technologyreport", "technologyreport"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-08-06",
subpage = "WikiProject report",
title = "Summer sports series: WikiProject Martial Arts",
subhead = "This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Martial Arts. Since April 2004, the project has been the hub for discussion and improvement of martial arts articles, including all disciplines and national origins. The project maintains a variety of conventions for handling the names and descriptions of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Indian, Sikh, Filipino, Okinawan, and hybrid martial arts. WikiProject Martial Arts has spawned or absorbed several subprojects focusing on boxing, kickboxing, sumo, and mixed martial arts.",
authors = {"Mabeenot"},
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tags = {"summersports", "wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-08-13",
subpage = "Arbitration report",
title = "Youreallycan request for arbitration",
subhead = "You really can request for arbitration: A request for arbitration was filed late last week, ending the three-week long absence of pending cases.",
authors = {"M.O.X"},
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tags = {"arbitrationreport"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-08-13",
subpage = "Discussion report",
title = "Image placeholders, machine translations, Mediation Committee, de-adminship",
subhead = "Current proposals and requests for comments include a competition to redesign the main page ...",
authors = {"J36miles"},
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tags = {"discussionreport", "disputeresolution", "images", "mediation", "requestsforadminship"},
meta = {"-1"},
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{
date = "2012-08-13",
subpage = "Featured content",
title = "On the road again",
subhead = "Six featured articles were promoted this week, including Business US Highway 41, which was a state trunkline highway that served as a business loop in Marquette in the US state of Michigan.",
authors = {"Crisco 1492"},
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tags = {"featuredcontent"},
meta = {"-1"},
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{
date = "2012-08-13",
subpage = "News and notes",
title = "Bangla-language survey suggests the challenges for small Wikipedias",
subhead = "The Bangla language, also known as Bengali, is spoken by some 200 million people in Bangladesh and India. The Bangla Wikipedia has a very small active community of about ten to fifteen very active editors, with another 35–40 as less active editors. The project faces particular challenges in being a small Wikipedia, and Dhaka-based WMF community fellow User:Tanvir Rahman is working to understand these challenges and to develop strategies that can improve small wikis that have strong potential to expand their editing communities.",
authors = {"Jan eissfeldt", "Tony1"},
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tags = {"newsandnotes"},
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},
{
date = "2012-08-13",
subpage = "Op-ed",
title = "Small Wikipedias' burden",
subhead = "In a certain way, writing Wikipedia is the same everywhere, in every language or culture. You have to stick to the facts, aiming for the most objective way of describing them, including everything relevant and leaving out all the everyday trivia that is not really necessary to understand the context. You have to use critical thinking, trying to be independent of your own preferences and biases. To some effect, that's all there is to it. Naturally, Wikipedians have their biases, some of which can never be cured. Most Wikipedians tend to like encyclopedias; but millions of people in the world don't share that bias, and we represent them rather poorly. I'm also quite sure that an overwhelming majority of Wikipedia co-authors are literate. Again, that's not true for everyone in this world. Yet we have other, less noticeable but barely less fundamental biases.",
authors = {"Oop"},
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tags = {"opinion"},
meta = {"-1"},
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{
date = "2012-08-13",
subpage = "Technology report",
title = "\"Phabricating\" a serious alternative to Gerrit",
subhead = "Three weeks into a month-long evaluation of code review tool Gerrit, a serious alternative has finally gained traction in the review process: Facebook-developed but now independently operated Phabricator and its sister command-line tool Arcanist.",
authors = {"Jarry1250"},
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tags = {"tech", "technologyreport", "technologyreport", "megacorps"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-08-13",
subpage = "WikiProject report",
title = "WikiProject Dispute Resolution",
subhead = "Dispute Resolution: This week, we interviewed the lively bunch at WikiProject Dispute Resolution. Started in November 2011 to study and discuss improvements to Wikipedia's resources for resolving disputes between editors, the young project has supplemented dispute resolution efforts currently handled at the Dispute Resolution Noticeboard, Mediation Committee, and other venues. Over 40 editors have signed up to provide feedback, a variety of ideas have been proposed, and a manual for dispute resolution has been created.",
authors = {"Mabeenot"},
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meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-08-20",
subpage = "Featured content",
title = "Enough for a week – but I'm damned if I see how the helican.",
subhead = "Enough for a week – but I'm damned if I see how the helican.: Thirteen featured articles were promoted this week, including pelicans, which are a genus of large water birds comprising the family Pelecanidae, characterised by a long beak and large throat-pouch. They have a fossil record dating back at least 30 million years and are most closely related to the Shoebill and Hammerkop. These fish-feeders have a patchy relationship with humans: the birds are sometimes persecuted and sometimes feature in mythology.",
authors = {"Crisco 1492"},
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tags = {"featuredcontent"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-08-20",
subpage = "In the news",
title = "American judges on citing Wikipedia",
subhead = "In the Utah Court of Appeals this week, the majority opinion in Fire Insurance Exchange v. Robert Allen Oltmanns and Brady Blackner relied on Wikipedia for the basic premise of their legal opinion, and included a concurring opinion devoted solely to the issue of citing Wikipedia in a legal opinion.",
authors = {"The ed17"},
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tags = {"inthemedia", "inthenews"},
meta = {"-1"},
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{
date = "2012-08-20",
subpage = "News and notes",
title = "Core content competition in full swing; Wikinews fork taken offline",
subhead = "The Core Contest is a month-long competition among editors to improve Wikipedia's most important \"core\" articles—especially those that are in a relatively poor state. Core articles, such as Music, Computer, and Philosophy, tend to lie in the trunk of the tree of knowledge; by analogy, featured-and good-article processes generally attract more specialist topics out on the branches.",
authors = {"Tony1", "The ed17"},
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tags = {"contests", "newsandnotes", "wikinews", "contests", "contests"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-08-20",
subpage = "Op-ed",
title = "Wikimedians are rightfully wary",
subhead = "The Wikimedia Foundation sometimes proposes new features that receive substantive criticism from Wikimedians, yet those criticisms may be dismissed on the basis that people are resistant to change—there's an unjustified view that the wikis have been overrun by vested contributors who hate all change. That view misses a lot of key details and insight because there are good reasons that Wikimedians are suspicious of features development, given past and present development of bad software, growing ties with the problematic Wikia, and a growing belief that it is acceptable to experiment on users.",
authors = {"MZMcBride"},
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tags = {"opinion", "technologyreport"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-08-20",
subpage = "Technology report",
title = "Lua onto test2wiki and news of a convention-al extension",
subhead = "New embeddable scripting (\"template replacement\") language Lua received considerable scrutiny this week when it began its long road to widespread deployment, landing on the test2wiki test site on Wednesday (wikitech-l mailing list). ... the fourth in our series profiling participants in this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC) programme.",
authors = {"Jarry1250"},
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tags = {"lua", "tech", "technologyreport", "technologyreport", "megacorps"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-08-20",
subpage = "WikiProject report",
title = "Land of Calm and Contrast: WikiProject Korea",
subhead = "Land of Calm and Contrast: Korea: This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Korea. Started in September 2006, WikiProject Korea covers the history and culture of the Korean people, including both countries that currently occupy the Korean peninsula. This task has proven difficult with North Koreans notably absent from the Wikipedia community due to tight control over access to external media. The project is home to over 16,000 pages, including 15 pieces of Featured material and 66 Good and A-class Articles.",
authors = {"Mabeenot"},
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tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-08-27",
subpage = "Discussion report",
title = "Sidebar and main page alterations; Recent Deaths; Education Program extension",
subhead = "Current discussions on the English Wikipedia.",
authors = {"J36miles"},
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tags = {"deaths", "discussionreport", "educationprogram", "mainpage", "education"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-08-27",
subpage = "Featured content",
title = "Wikipedia rivals ''The New Yorker'': Mark Arsten",
subhead = "This week the ''Signpost'' interviews Mark Arsten, who has written or contributed significantly to ten featured articles; most have related to new religious movements, and some have touched on other controversial or quirky topics. Mark gives us a rundown on how he keeps neutral and what drives him to write featured content; he also gives some hints for aspiring writers.",
authors = {"Crisco 1492"},
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tags = {"featuredcontent", "portals"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-08-27",
subpage = "News and notes",
title = "Tough journey for new travel guide",
subhead = "Wikimedia editors have been debating a community proposal for the adoption of a new project to host free travel-guide content. The debate reached a new stage when a three-month request for comment on Meta came to an end, with a decision to set up the first new type of Wikimedia project in half a decade. The original proposal for the travel guide unfolded during April on Meta and the Wikimedia-l mailing lists, centring around the wish of volunteer contributors to the WikiTravel project to work in a non-commercial environment.",
authors = {"Jan eissfeldt", "Tony1"},
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tags = {"newsandnotes"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-08-27",
subpage = "Recent research",
title = "New influence graph visualizations; NPOV and history; 'low-hanging fruit'",
subhead = "A monthly overview of recent academic research about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, edited jointly with the Wikimedia Research Committee and republished as the Wikimedia Research Newsletter.",
authors = {"Piotr Konieczny", "Sage Ross", "Evan", "Dario Taraborelli", "Tilman Bayer", "OrenBochman"},
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tags = {"growth", "music", "recentresearch", "research", "researchreport", "bias", "bias"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-08-27",
subpage = "Technology report",
title = "Just how bad is the code review backlog?",
subhead = "Developers were left one step closer to an understanding of the code review outlook this week after the creation of a graph plotting \"number changesets awaiting review\" over time.",
authors = {"Jarry1250"},
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tags = {"backlogs", "codereview", "tech", "technologyreport", "technologyreport"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-08-27",
subpage = "WikiProject report",
title = "From sonic screwdrivers to jelly babies: WikiProject Doctor Who",
subhead = "From sonic screwdrivers to jelly babies: Doctor Who: This week, we hopped in a little blue box with a batch of companions started in April 2005, the parent of the Torchwood Taskforce and a child of WikiProject British TV and WikiProject Science Fiction.",
authors = {"Mabeenot"},
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tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-09-03",
subpage = "Featured content",
title = "Wikipedia's Seven Days of Terror",
subhead = "Five featured pictures were promoted this week, including a video explaining the recent landing of the ''Curiosity'' rover on Mars. NASA called the final minutes of the complicated landing procedure \"the seven minutes of terror\".",
authors = {"Crisco 1492", "Pine"},
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tags = {"featuredcontent"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-09-03",
subpage = "News and notes",
title = "World's largest photo competition kicks off; WMF legal fees proposal",
subhead = "Last year's Wiki Loves Monuments event resulted in the submission of an extraordinary 168,208 images from 18 countries, the world's largest photographic competition. The 2012 event — just opened and running for the full month of September — has required input from chapters and volunteers in 35 countries.",
authors = {"Jan eissfeldt", "Tony1", "Effeietsanders", "Dank"},
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tags = {"newsandnotes", "wikilovesmonuments"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-09-03",
subpage = "Op-ed",
title = "Dispute resolution – where we're at, what we're doing well, and what needs fixing",
subhead = "Since May 2012 I've been a Wikimedia Foundation community fellow with the task of researching and improving dispute resolution on English Wikipedia; I've analysed processes to determine their use and effectiveness, and present ideas that I hope will improve the future of dispute resolution.",
authors = {"Steven Zhang"},
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tags = {"disputeresolution", "disputeresolutionnoticeboard", "opinion"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-09-03",
subpage = "Technology report",
title = "Time for a MediaWiki Foundation?",
subhead = "Developers are currently discussing the possibility of a MediaWiki Foundation to oversee those aspects of MediaWiki development that relate to non-Wikimedia wikis. The proposal was generated after a discussion on the wikitech-l mailing list about generalising Wikimedia's CentralAuth system.",
authors = {"Jarry1250"},
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tags = {"incubator", "mediawiki", "tech", "wikimediafoundation", "technologyreport", "technologyreport", "megacorps"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-09-10",
subpage = "Discussion report",
title = "Closing Wikiquette; Image Filter; Education Program and Memento extensions",
subhead = "Current discussions on the English Wikipedia.",
authors = {"J36miles"},
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tags = {"discussionreport", "educationprogram", "imagefilter", "images", "education"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-09-10",
subpage = "Featured content",
title = "Not a \"Gangsta's Paradise\", but still rappin'",
subhead = "Three hip hop discographies were promoted this week, alongside seven other lists.",
authors = {"Crisco 1492"},
piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""},
tags = {"featuredcontent"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-09-10",
subpage = "From the editor",
title = "''Signpost'' adapts as news consumption changes",
subhead = "Thanks to the initiative of Yuvi Panda and Notnarayan, the Signpost now has an Android app, free for download on Google Play. ... but would readers be interested in an iOS app for Apple devices?",
authors = {"The ed17"},
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tags = {"fromtheeditor", "signpost"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-09-10",
subpage = "In the media",
title = "Author criticizes Wikipedia article; Wales attacks UK government proposal",
subhead = "Philip Roth, a widely known and acclaimed American author, wrote an open letter in the New Yorker addressed to Wikipedia this week, alleging severe inaccuracies in the article on his ''The Human Stain'' (2000).",
authors = {"The ed17"},
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tags = {"inthemedia", "jimmywales", "inthenews"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-09-10",
subpage = "News and notes",
title = "Researchers find that Simple English Wikipedia has \"lost its focus\"",
subhead = "In its September issue, the peer-reviewed journal ''First Monday'' published ''The readability of Wikipedia'', reporting research which shows that the English Wikipedia is struggling to meet Flesch reading ease test criteria, while the Simple English Wikipedia has \"lost its focus\".",
authors = {"Jan eissfeldt"},
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tags = {"englishwikipedia", "newsandnotes", "research", "simpleenglishwikipedia"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-09-10",
subpage = "Op-ed",
title = "Fixing Wikipedia's help pages one key to editor retention",
subhead = "Much like article content, the English Wikipedia's help pages have grown organically over the years. Although this has produced a great deal of useful documentation, with time many of the pages have become poorly maintained or have grown overwhelmingly complicated.",
authors = {"Peter Coombe"},
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tags = {"opinion"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-09-10",
subpage = "Special report",
title = "Lawsuit filed against two Wikipedians",
subhead = "Two Wikipedians set to face jury trial : In dramatic events that came to light last week, two English Wikipedia volunteers—Doc James (James Heilman) and Wrh2 (Ryan Holliday)—are being sued in the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Internet Brands, the owner of Wikitravel.com. Both Wikipedians have also been volunteer Wikitravel editors (and in Holliday's case, a volunteer administrator). IB's complaints focus on both editors' encouragement of their fellow Wikitravel volunteers to migrate to a proposed non-commercial travel guidance site that would be under the umbrella of the WMF.",
authors = {"Tony1", "The ed17"},
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tags = {"legal", "specialreport", "stateactors"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-09-10",
subpage = "Technology report",
title = "Mmmm, milkshake...",
subhead = "The Wikimedia Foundation's engineering report for August 2012 was published this week on the Wikimedia Techblog and on the MediaWiki wiki, giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month (as well as brief coverage of progress on Wikimedia Deutschland's Wikidata project, phase 1 of which is edging its way towards its first deployment).",
authors = {"Jarry1250"},
piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""},
tags = {"tech", "technologyreport", "technologyreport"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-09-10",
subpage = "WikiProject report",
title = "WikiProject Fungi",
subhead = "After a week's hiatus, the WikiProject Report returns with an interview featuring . Started in March 2006, the project has grown to include over 9,000 pages, including 47 Featured Articles and 176 Good Articles. The project maintains a list of high priority missing articles and stubs that need expansion.",
authors = {"Mabeenot"},
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tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-09-17",
subpage = "Featured content",
title = "Go into the light",
subhead = "Eight featured articles, six featured lists, ten featured pictures, and one featured topic were promoted this week.",
authors = {"Crisco 1492", "Dank"},
piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""},
tags = {"featuredcontent"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-09-17",
subpage = "From the editor",
title = "''Signpost'' expands to Facebook",
subhead = "We now have a Facebook page at facebook.com/wikisignpost. We invite you to \"like\" the page and join the discussion there.",
authors = {"The ed17"},
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tags = {"fromtheeditor", "signpost"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-09-17",
subpage = "News and notes",
title = "Tens of thousands of monuments loved; members of new funding body announced",
subhead = "The world's largest photo competition, Wiki Loves Monuments, is entering its final two weeks. The month-long event, of Dutch origin, is being held globally for the first time after the success of its European-level predecessor last year. During September 2011 more than 5000 volunteers from 18 countries took part and uploaded 168,208 free images. This year, volunteers and chapters from 35 countries around the world have organised the event. The best photographs will be determined by juries at the national and finally the global level.",
authors = {"Jan eissfeldt", "Tony1", "Dank"},
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tags = {"newsandnotes", "fdc"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-09-17",
subpage = "Technology report",
title = "Future-proofing: HTML5 and IPv6",
subhead = "1.20wmf12, the 12th release to Wikimedia wikis from the 1.20 branch, was deployed to its first wikis on September 17; if things go well, it will be deployed to all wikis by September 26. Its 200 or so changes – 111 to WMF-deployed extensions plus 98 to core MediaWiki code – include support for links with mixed-case protocols (e.g. Http://example.com) and the removal of the \"No higher resolution available\" message on the file description pages of SVG images.",
authors = {"Jarry1250"},
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tags = {"ipv6", "tech", "technologyreport", "technologyreport"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-09-17",
subpage = "WikiProject report",
title = "Action! — The Indian Cinema Task Force",
subhead = "With Indian cinema celebrating its 100th year of existence in 2013, we shine a spotlight on the Indian Cinema Task Force, a subproject that seeks to improve the quality and quantity of articles about Indian cinema, works on a to-do list, maintains the Bollywood Portal, and ensures articles follow the film style guidelines.",
authors = {"Mabeenot"},
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tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-09-24",
subpage = "Discussion report",
title = "Image filter; HotCat; Syntax highlighting; and more",
subhead = "Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...",
authors = {"J36miles"},
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tags = {"discussionreport", "imagefilter", "images"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-09-24",
subpage = "Featured content",
title = "Dead as...",
subhead = "Fourteen featured articles were promoted this week, including Dodo, along with six featured lists and five featured pictures.",
authors = {"Crisco 1492", "Dank"},
piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""},
tags = {"featuredcontent"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-09-24",
subpage = "In the media",
title = "Editor's response to Roth draws internet attention",
subhead = "Editor's response to Roth draws internet attention: Oliver Keyes' (User:Ironholds) defense of Wikipedia against the recent Philip Roth controversy has drawn a significant amount of attention over the last week — \"[they took] Roth’s explanation as the truth and launched into a lengthy discussion of how we [Wikipedia] handle primary sourcing.\"",
authors = {"The ed17", "Theopolisme"},
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tags = {"inthemedia", "inthenews"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-09-24",
subpage = "News and notes",
title = "UK chapter rocked by Gibraltar scandal",
subhead = "In the second controversy to engulf Wikimedia UK in two months, its immediate past chair Roger Bamkin has resigned from the board of the chapter following a growing furore over a conflict of interest.",
authors = {"Tony1"},
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tags = {"chapters", "newsandnotes"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-09-24",
subpage = "Recent research",
title = "\"Rise and decline\" of Wikipedia participation, new literature overviews, a look back at WikiSym 2012",
subhead = "A paper to appear in a special issue of ''American Behavioral Scientist'' describes how \"several changes that the Wikipedia community made to manage quality and consistency in the face of a massive growth in participation have led to a more restrictive environment for newcomers\" and points to three factors contributing to the increasingly \"restrictive environment\" they face.",
authors = {"Piotr Konieczny", "Phoebe", "Dario Taraborelli", "Benjamin Mako Hill", "Sage Ross", "Tilman Bayer"},
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tags = {"englishwikipedia", "recentresearch", "research", "wikisym", "researchreport"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-09-24",
subpage = "Technology report",
title = "''Signpost'' investigation: code review times",
subhead = "Late last month, the \"Technology report\" included a story using code review backlog figures – the only code review figures then available – to construct a rough narrative about the average experience of code contributors. This week, we hope to go one better, by looking directly at code review wait times, and, in particular, median code review times",
authors = {"Jarry1250"},
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tags = {"codereview", "signpost", "tech", "technologyreport", "technologyreport"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-09-24",
subpage = "WikiProject report",
title = "01010010 01101111 01100010 01101111 01110100 01101001 01100011 01110011",
subhead = "This week, we tinkered with WikiProject Robotics, which covers both fictitious and real-life robots, the technology that powers them, and many of the brains behind the robotics field",
authors = {"Mabeenot"},
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tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-10-01",
subpage = "Featured content",
title = "Mooned",
subhead = "Five articles, three lists, and nine images were promoted to \"featured\" this week.",
authors = {"Crisco 1492"},
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tags = {"featuredcontent"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-10-01",
subpage = "News and notes",
title = "Independent review of UK chapter governance; editor files motion against Wikitravel owners",
subhead = "Following considerable online and media reportage on the Gibraltar controversy and a ''Signpost'' report last week, the Wikimedia UK chapter and the foundation published a joint statement on September 28: \"To better understand the facts and details of these allegations and to ensure that governance arrangements commensurate with the standing of the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia UK and the worldwide Wikimedia movement, Wikimedia UK's trustees and the Wikimedia Foundation will jointly appoint an independent expert advisor to objectively review both Wikimedia UK's governance arrangements and its handling of the conflict of interest.\"",
authors = {"Jan eissfeldt", "Tony1"},
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tags = {"chapters", "coi", "legal", "newsandnotes"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-10-01",
subpage = "Paid editing",
title = "Does Wikipedia Pay? The Founder: Jimmy Wales",
subhead = "Does Wikipedia Pay? is a ''Signpost'' series seeking to illuminate paid editing, paid advocacy, for-profit Wikipedia consultants, editing public relations professionals, conflict of interest guidelines in practice, and the Wikipedians who work on these issues by speaking openly with the people involved. This week, a scandal centering around Roger Bamkin's work with Wikimedia UK and Gibraltarpedia erupted ... In light of these events, opinions on how to avoid future controversy are as important as ever. ... ''The Signpost'' spoke with Jimmy Wales to better understand how he views the paid editing environment and what he thinks is needed to improve it.",
authors = {"Ocaasi"},
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tags = {"coi", "jimmywales", "interview", "paidadvocacy"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-10-01",
subpage = "Technology report",
title = "WMF and the German chapter face up to Toolserver uncertainty",
subhead = "The Toolserver is an external service hosting the hundreds of webpages and scripts (collectively known as \"tools\") that assist Wikimedia communities in dozens of mostly menial tasks. Few people think that it has been operating well recently; the problems, which include high database replication lag and periods of total downtime, have caused considerable disruption to the Toolserver's usual functions. Those functions are highly valued by many Wikimedia communities ... In 2011, the Foundation announced the creation of Wikimedia Labs, a much better funded project that among other things aimed to mimic the Toolserver's functionality by mid-2013. At the same time, Erik Möller, the WMF's director of engineering, announced that the Foundation would no longer be supporting the Toolserver financially, but would continue to provide the same in-kind support as it had done previously.",
authors = {"Jarry1250", "Tony1"},
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tags = {"chapters", "tech", "toolserver", "wikimedialabs", "technologyreport", "technologyreport"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-10-01",
subpage = "WikiProject report",
title = "The Name's Bond... WikiProject James Bond",
subhead = "In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the James Bond film series, we spent some time bonding with WikiProject James Bond. The project is in the unique position of having already pushed all of its primary content to Good and Featured status, including all of Ian Fleming's novels, short stories, and every film that has been released. Work has begun in earnest on the article Skyfall for the release of the new Bond film later this month. The project could still use help improving articles about Bond actors, characters, gadgets, music, video games, and related topics",
authors = {"Mabeenot"},
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tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-10-08",
subpage = "Discussion report",
title = "Closing RfAs: Stewards or Bureaucrats?; Redesign of Help:Contents",
subhead = "Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include ...",
authors = {"J36miles"},
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tags = {"bureaucrats", "discussionreport", "stewards"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-10-08",
subpage = "Featured content",
title = "A dash of Arsenikk",
subhead = "This week the ''Signpost'' interviews Arsenikk, an editor of six years who has brought sixteen lists through our featured list process, mostly regarding transportation in Norway but also about the 1952 Winter Olympics and World Heritage Sites in Africa. Arsenikk tells us about why he joined the project, what moves him, and how editors can join the sometimes daunting world of featured lists.",
authors = {"Crisco 1492"},
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tags = {"featuredcontent"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-10-08",
subpage = "News and notes",
title = "Education Program faces community resistance",
subhead = "Wikipedia in education is far from a new idea: years of news stories, op-eds, and editorials have focused on the topic; and on Wikipedia itself, the Schools and universities projects page has existed in various forms since 2003. Over the next six years, the page was rarely developed, and when it did advance there was no clear goal in mind.",
authors = {"The ed17"},
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tags = {"educationprogram", "newsandnotes", "education"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-10-08",
subpage = "Technology report",
title = "The ups and downs of September and October, plus extension code review analysis",
subhead = "The Wikimedia Foundation's engineering report for September 2012 was published this week on the Wikimedia Techblog and on the MediaWiki wiki, giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month (as well as brief coverage of progress on Wikimedia Deutschland's Wikidata project, phase 1 of which is edging its way towards its first deployment). Three of the seven headline items in the report have already been covered in the ''Signpost'': problems with the corruption of several Gerrit (code) repositories, the introduction of widespread translation memory across Wikimedia wikis, and the launch of the \"Page Curation\" tool on the English Wikipedia, with development work on that project now winding down. The report also drew attention to the end of Google Summer of Code 2012, the deployment to the English Wikipedia of a new ePUB (electronic book) export feature, and improvements to the WLM app aimed at more serious photographers.",
authors = {"Jarry1250"},
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tags = {"codereview", "tech", "technologyreport", "technologyreport"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-10-08",
subpage = "WikiProject report",
title = "Ten years and one million articles: WikiProject Biography",
subhead = "On this day five years ago, the WikiProject Report debuted as a new ''Signpost'' column with an overview of WikiProject Biography. Today, we're celebrating two milestone: five years of the WikiProject Report and the tenth birthday of our first featured project. WikiProject Biography is by far the largest WikiProject on Wikipedia, with over one million articles under the project's scope. As a comparison, WikiProject Biography is three times larger than Wikipedia's second largest project, and if WikiProject Biography were split into its 14 subprojects and work groups, it would still make the list of the 20 largest WikiProjects... four times.",
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date = "2012-10-15",
subpage = "Featured content",
title = "Second star to the left",
subhead = "On the English Wikipedia, five featured articles, ten featured lists, and four featured pictures were promoted, including USS ''Lexington'', a ship built for the United States Navy that, although ordered in 1916 as a battlecruiser, was converted to an aircraft carrier. It was sunk in the Battle of the Coral Sea during the Second World War.",
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{
date = "2012-10-15",
subpage = "In the media",
title = "Wikipedia's language nerds hit the front page",
subhead = "This week saw a front-page story in the ''Wall Street Journal'' on editorial debates in Wikipedia. The story focused on the title-naming dispute surrounding the Beatles article, and specifically the RfC on whether the 'the' in the band's name should be capitalized or not.",
authors = {"Phoebe"},
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{
date = "2012-10-15",
subpage = "News and notes",
title = "Chapters ask for big bucks",
subhead = "The volunteer-led Wikimedia Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) and interested community members are looking at Wikimedia organization applications worth about US$10.4 million out of the committee's first full year's operation, in just the inaugural round one of two that have been planned for the year with a planned budget of US$11.4M.",
authors = {"Jan eissfeldt", "Tony1", "The ed17"},
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{
date = "2012-10-15",
subpage = "Op-ed",
title = "AdminCom: A proposal for changing the way we select admins",
subhead = "There is wide agreement among English Wikipedians that the administrator system is in some ways broken—but no consensus on how to fix it. Most suggestions have been relatively small in scope, and could at best produce small improvements. I would like to make a proposal to fundamentally restructure the administrator system, in a way that I believe would make it more effective and responsive. The proposal is to create an elected Administration Committee (\"AdminCom\") which would select, oversee, and deselect administrators.",
authors = {"Looie496"},
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{
date = "2012-10-15",
subpage = "Technology report",
title = "Wikidata is a go: well, almost",
subhead = "Wikidata is a go: well, almost: A trial of the first phase of Wikimedia Deutschland's \"Wikidata\" project–implementing the first ever interwiki repository—may soon get underway following the successful passage of much of its code through MediaWiki's review processes this week.",
authors = {"Jarry1250"},
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{
date = "2012-10-15",
subpage = "WikiProject report",
title = "WikiProject Chemicals",
subhead = "This week, we experimented with . Started in August 2004, has grown to include over 10,000 articles about chemical compounds. The project has a unique assessment system that omits C-class, Good, and Featured Articles. As a result, the project's 11 GAs and 9 FAs are treated as A-class articles. is a child of WikiProject Chemistry (interviewed in 2009) and a parent of WikiProject Polymers.",
authors = {"Mabeenot"},
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{
date = "2012-10-22",
subpage = "Arbitration report",
title = "Malleus Fatuorum accused of circumventing topic ban; motion to change \"net four votes\" rule",
subhead = "One clarification request concerns the civility enforcement case – specifically, Malleus Fatuorum's perceived circumvention of his topic ban. It has resulted in thousands of bytes spent in vitriolic discussions, multiple blocks, and \"no confidence\" motions against the Arbitration Committee and one arbitrator, among other ramifications.",
authors = {"James", "The ed17"},
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{
date = "2012-10-22",
subpage = "Discussion report",
title = "Good articles on the main page?; reforming dispute resolution",
subhead = "Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...",
authors = {"J36miles"},
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{
date = "2012-10-22",
subpage = "Featured content",
title = "Is RfA Kafkaesque?",
subhead = "Eleven articles, including one on Franz Kafka, three lists, one image, and one portal were promoted to 'featured' status this week.",
authors = {"Crisco 1492"},
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tags = {"featuredcontent", "portals"},
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{
date = "2012-10-22",
subpage = "News and notes",
title = "Wikimedians get serious about women in science",
subhead = "It is well known that women are underrepresented in the sciences, and that high-achieving female scientists have often been excluded from authorship lists and passed over for awards and honours solely on the basis of gender. Also significant has been the underplaying in the academic literature, news reporting, and online, of women's current and historical contributions to science.",
authors = {"Tony1", "Phoebe", "Jan eissfeldt"},
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{
date = "2012-10-22",
subpage = "Special report",
title = "Adminship from the German perspective",
subhead = "Examining adminship from the German perspective: Unlike the long-running disputes that have characterised attempts to reform the RfA process on the English Wikipedia, the German Wikipedia's tradition of making decisions not by consensus but knife-edged 50% + 1 votes has led to a fundamentally different outcome. In 2009, the project managed to largely settle the RfA mode issue in 2009 indirectly.",
authors = {"Jan eissfeldt"},
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{
date = "2012-10-22",
subpage = "Technology report",
title = "Wikivoyage migration: technical strategy announced",
subhead = "Planning for Wikivoyage's migration into the WMF fold built up steam this week following a statement by WMF Deputy Director Erik Möller about what the technical side of the migration will involve. Wikivoyage, which split from sister site Wikitravel in 2006, is hoping to migrate its own not-inconsiderable user base to Wikimedia, as well as much of its content, presenting novel challenges for Wikimedia developers",
authors = {"Jarry1250"},
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{
date = "2012-10-22",
subpage = "WikiProject report",
title = "Where in the world is Wikipedia?",
subhead = "The WikiProject Report normally brings tidings from Wikipedia's most active, inventive, and unique WikiProjects. This week, we're trying something new by focusing on Wikipedia's dark side: the various regional and national WikiProjects that are dead or dying. How can some tiny municipalities and exclaves generate highly active, cross-language, multimedia platforms be successful while the projects representing many sovereign countries and entire continents wallow in obscurity? Today, we'll search for answers among geographic projects large and small, highly active and barely functioning, enthusiastic about the future and mired in past conflicts.",
authors = {"Mabeenot"},
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{
date = "2012-10-29",
subpage = "Featured content",
title = "On the road again",
subhead = "Thirteen articles, ten lists, nine images, one topic, and one portal were promoted to featured after peer reviews.",
authors = {"Crisco 1492"},
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{
date = "2012-10-29",
subpage = "News and notes",
title = "First chickens come home to roost for FDC funding applicants; WMF board discusses governance issues and scope of programs",
subhead = "The first round of the Wikimedia Foundation's new financial arrangements has proceeded as planned, with the publication of scores and feedback by Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) staff on applications for funding by 11 entities—10 chapters, independent membership organisations supporting the WMF's mission in different countries, and the foundation itself. The results are preliminary assessments that will soon be put to the FDC's seven voting members and two non-voting board representatives. The FDC in turn will send its recommendations to the board of trustees on 15 November, which will announce its decision by 15 December. Funding applications have been on-wiki since 1 October, and the talk pages of applications were open for community comment and discussion from 2 to 22 October, though apart from queries by FDC staff, there was little activity.",
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{
date = "2012-10-29",
subpage = "Recent research",
title = "WP governance informal; community as social network; efficiency of recruitment and content production; Rorschach news",
subhead = "A paper in the ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology'', coming from the social control perspective and employing the repertory grid technique, has contributed interesting observations about the governance of Wikipedia.",
authors = {"Piotr Konieczny", "Taha Yasseri", "Bdamokos", "Sage Ross", "Tilman Bayer", "Phoebe"},
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{
date = "2012-10-29",
subpage = "Technology report",
title = "Improved video support imminent and Wikidata.org live",
subhead = "The TimedMediaHandler extension (TMH), which brings dramatic improvements to MediaWiki's video handling capabilities, will go live to the English Wikipedia this week following a long and turbulent development, WMF Director of Platform Engineering Rob Lanphier announced on Monday ... Wikidata.org, a new repository designed to host interwiki links, launched this week and will begin accepting links shortly. The site, which is one half of the forthcoming Wikidata trial (the other half being the Wikidata client, which will be deployed to the Hungarian Wikipedia shortly) will also act as a testing area for phase 2 of Wikidata (centralised data storage). The longer term plan is for Wikidata.org to become a \"Wikimedia Commons for data\" as phases 2 and 3 (dynamic lists) are developed, project managers say.",
authors = {"Jarry1250"},
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{
date = "2012-10-29",
subpage = "WikiProject report",
title = "In recognition of... WikiProject Military History",
subhead = "This week, we're checking out ways to motivate editors and recognize valuable contributions by focusing on the awards and rewards of WikiProject Military History. Anyone unfamiliar with WikiProject Military History is encouraged to start at the report's first article about the project and make your way forward. While many WikiProjects provide a barnstar that can be awarded to helpful contributors, WikiProject Military History has gone a step further by creating a variety of awards with different criteria ranging from the all-purpose WikiChevrons to rewards for participating in drives and improving special topics to medals for improving articles up to A-class status to the coveted \"Military Historian of the Year\" award.",
authors = {"Mabeenot"},
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{
date = "2012-11-05",
subpage = "Discussion report",
title = "Protected Page Editor right; Gibraltar hooks",
subhead = "The ''Signpost''{{'}}s weekly roundup of topics for discussion on the English Wikipedia.",
authors = {"J36miles"},
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{
date = "2012-11-05",
subpage = "Featured content",
title = "Jack-O'-Lanterns and Toads",
subhead = "This week, the ''Signpost'' interviewed two editors. The first, PumpkinSky, collaborated with Gerda Arendt in writing the recently featured article on Franz Kafka and won second prize in the Core contest last August. The second, Cwmhiraeth, collaborated with Thompsma in promoting the article Frog, which was featured last week. We asked them about the special challenges faced while writing Core content and things to watch out for.",
authors = {"Crisco 1492"},
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{
date = "2012-11-05",
subpage = "In the media",
title = "Was climate change a factor in Hurricane Sandy?",
subhead = "Hurricane Sandy was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record and has caused millions of dollars in damage. Naturally, Wikipedia covered it. But was Wikipedia's coverage unbiased?",
authors = {"The ed17"},
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{
date = "2012-11-05",
subpage = "News and notes",
title = "Wikimedian photographic talent on display in national submissions to Wiki Loves Monuments",
subhead = "The results of most of the national heats for Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) have been published on Commons. A maximum of 10 images have been submitted by all but eight of the 34 participating countries, and the international jury for what is the largest competition of its type in the world is set to announce the global winner in four weeks' time.",
authors = {"Jan eissfeldt"},
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{
date = "2012-11-05",
subpage = "Op-ed",
title = "2012 WikiCup comes to an end",
subhead = "J Milburn is a British editor who has been on the site since 2006. He is one of two judges of the WikiCup. Here, he uses an op-ed to explain the way the WikiCup works and to review this year's competition, which ended recently.",
authors = {"J Milburn"},
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meta = {"-1"},
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{
date = "2012-11-05",
subpage = "Technology report",
title = "Hue, Sqoop, Oozie, Zookeeper, Hive, Pig and Kafka",
subhead = "The Wikimedia Foundation's engineering report for October 2012 was published this week on the Wikimedia Techblog and on the MediaWiki wiki, giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month. TimedMediaHandler also went live.",
authors = {"Jarry1250"},
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{
date = "2012-11-05",
subpage = "WikiProject report",
title = "Listening to WikiProject Songs",
subhead = "This week, ''The Signpost'' sings along with WikiProject Songs which focuses on articles about songs of every generation and genre. The project initially began as a rough outline in October 2002 and was reimagined in March 2004 using its parent WikiProject Albums as a template.",
authors = {"Mabeenot"},
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{
date = "2012-11-12",
subpage = "Featured content",
title = "The table has turned",
subhead = "Thirteen articles, six lists, and five images were promoted to 'featured' status last week.",
authors = {"Crisco 1492"},
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tags = {"featuredcontent"},
meta = {"-1"},
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{
date = "2012-11-12",
subpage = "News and notes",
title = "Court ruling complicates the paid-editing debate",
subhead = "Last week, media outlets reported a ruling by a German court on the problem of businesses using Wikipedia for marketing purposes. The issue goes beyond the direct management of marketing-related edits by Wikipedians; it involves cross-monitoring and interacting among market competitors themselves on Wikipedia. A company that sells dietary supplements made from frankincense had taken a competitor to court. The recently published judgment by the Higher Regional Court of Munich, in dealing with the German Wikipedia article on frankincense products, was handed down in May and is based on European competition law.",
authors = {"Gnom", "Sandstein", "Jan Eissfeldt", "Tony1"},
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tags = {"coi", "newsandnotes", "paidadvocacy", "wikivoyage", "paidadvocacy", "paidadvocacy"},
meta = {"-1"},
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{
date = "2012-11-12",
subpage = "Technology report",
title = "MediaWiki 1.20 and the prospects for getting 1.21 code reviewed promptly",
subhead = "In late September, the ''Technology report'' published its findings about (particularly median) code review times. To the 23,900 changesets analysed the first time (the data for which has been updated), the ''Signpost'' added data from the 9,000 or so changesets contributed between September 17 and November 9 to a total of 93,000 reviews across 45,000 patchsets. Bots and self-reviews were also discarded, but reviews made by a different user in the form of a superseding patch were retained. Finally, users were categorised by hand according to whether they would be best regarded as staff or volunteers. The new analyses were consistent with the predictions of the previous analysis.",
authors = {"Jarry1250"},
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{
date = "2012-11-12",
subpage = "WikiProject report",
title = "Land of parrots, palm trees, and the Holy Cross: WikiProject Brazil",
subhead = "As promised, we're expanding our horizons by featuring projects that cover underrepresented areas of the globe. This week, we headed to WikiProject Brazil which keeps track of articles about the world's largest Portuguese-speaking country. The project has shown spurts of activity and continues to serve as a hub for discussions, despite the project's collaborations, peer reviews, and outreach activities being largely inactive.",
authors = {"Mabeenot"},
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{
date = "2012-11-19",
subpage = "Discussion report",
title = "GOOG, MSFT, WMT: the ticker symbol placement question",
subhead = "Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include the question of ticker symbol placement and the notability of various types of creative performer.",
authors = {"J36miles"},
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{
date = "2012-11-19",
subpage = "Featured content",
title = "Wikipedia hit by the Streisand effect",
subhead = "Seven featured articles, four featured lists and ten featured pictures – including the photograph that spawned the Streisand effect – were promoted this week.",
authors = {"Crisco 1492"},
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tags = {"featuredcontent"},
meta = {"-1"},
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{
date = "2012-11-19",
subpage = "News and notes",
title = "FDC's financial muscle kicks in",
subhead = "The WMF's Funds Dissemination Committee has published its recommendations for the inaugural round 1 of funding. Requests totalled US$10.4M, nearly all of the FDC's budget for both first and second rounds. The seven-member committee of community volunteers appointed in September advises the WMF board on the distribution of grant funds among applying Wikimedia organizations. The committee, which has a separate operating budget of $276k for salaries and expenses, considered 12 applications for funds, from 11 chapters and from the WMF itself for its non-core activities. The decision-making process included community and FDC staff input after October 1, the closing date for submissions. Taken together, the volunteers decided to endorse an average of 81% of the funding sought—a total of $8.43M, which went to 11 of the 12 applicants. This leaves $2.71M to be distributed in round 2, for which applications are due in little more than three months' time.",
authors = {"Jan eissfeldt", "Tony1"},
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meta = {"-1"},
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{
date = "2012-11-19",
subpage = "Technology report",
title = "Structural reorganisation \"not a done deal\"",
subhead = "WMF Executive Director Sue Gardner was forced to clarify this week that proposed structural changes to the Foundation's Engineering and Product Development Department were not a \"done deal\" and that it was \"important that you [particularly affected staff] realise that ... your input is wanted\". The reorganisation, announced on November 5 and planned for the middle of next year, will see its two components split off into their own departments.",
authors = {"Jarry1250"},
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{
date = "2012-11-19",
subpage = "WikiProject report",
title = "No teenagers, mutants, or ninjas: WikiProject Turtles",
subhead = "This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Turtles. The young project started in January 2011 and has accumulated 5 Featured Articles, 3 Featured Lists, and 6 Featured Pictures. The project maintains a combined to-do list and hot articles meter, a popular pages ranking, and a collection of resources for turtle articles. We interviewed Faendalimas and NYMFan69-86.",
authors = {"Mabeenot"},
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{
date = "2012-11-26",
subpage = "Featured content",
title = "Panoramic views, history, and a celestial constellation",
subhead = "Six articles, one list, and six images were promoted to 'featured' status this week.",
authors = {"Mathew Townsend"},
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tags = {"featuredcontent"},
meta = {"-1"},
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{
date = "2012-11-26",
subpage = "News and notes",
title = "Toolserver finance remains uncertain",
subhead = "On November 24, a general assembly of Wikimedia Germany (WMDE) voted on the fate of the Wikimedia Toolserver, a central external piece of technical infrastructure supporting the editing communities with volunteer-developed scripts and webpages of various kinds that are assisting in performing mostly menial tasks.",
authors = {"Jan eissfeldt"},
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tags = {"finance", "newsandnotes", "toolserver"},
meta = {"-1"},
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{
date = "2012-11-26",
subpage = "Recent research",
title = "Movie success predictions, readability, credentials and authority, geographical comparisons",
subhead = "An open-access preprint presents the results from a study attempting to predict early box office revenues from Wikipedia traffic and activity data. The authors – a team of computational social scientists from Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Aalto University and the Central European University – submit that behavioral patterns on Wikipedia can be used for accurate forecasting, matching and in some cases outperforming the use of social media data for predictive modeling. The results, based on a corpus of 312 English Wikipedia articles on movies released in 2010, indicate that the joint editing activity and traffic measures on Wikipedia are strong predictors of box office revenue for highly successful movies.",
authors = {"Piotr Konieczny", "Benjamin Mako Hill", "Tilman Bayer", "Dario Taraborelli", "Taha Yasseri", "Hfordsa", "Drdee"},
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meta = {"-1"},
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{
date = "2012-11-26",
subpage = "Technology report",
title = "Wikidata reaches 100,000 entries",
subhead = "Wikidata, the new \"Wikimedia Commons for data\" and the first new Wikimedia project since 2006, reached 100,000 entries this week. The project aims to be a single, human- and machine-readable database for common data, spanning across all Wikipedia projects, which will \"lead to a higher consistency and quality within Wikipedia articles, as well as increased availability of information in the smaller language editions\" while lowering the burden on Wikipedia's volunteer editors—whose numbers have stalled overall, and continue to dwindle on the English Wikipedia.",
authors = {"The ed17"},
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meta = {"-1"},
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{
date = "2012-11-26",
subpage = "WikiProject report",
title = "Directing Discussion: WikiProject Deletion Sorting",
subhead = "This week, we uncovered WikiProject Deletion Sorting, Wikipedia's most active project by number of edits to all the project's pages. This special project seeks to increase participation in Articles for Deletion nominations by categorizing the AfD discussions by various topic areas that may draw the attention of editors. The project was started in August 2005 with manual processes that are continued today by a bevy of bots, categories, and transclusions. The project took inspiration from WikiProject Stub Sorting and some historical discussions on deletion reform. As the sheer number of AfDs continues to grow, the project is seeking better tools to manage the deletion sorting process and attract editors to comment on these deletion discussions.",
authors = {"Mabeenot"},
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meta = {"-1"},
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{
date = "2012-12-03",
subpage = "Discussion report",
title = "Concise Wikipedia; standardize version history tables",
subhead = "Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...",
authors = {"J36miles"},
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{
date = "2012-12-03",
subpage = "Featured content",
title = "The play's the thing",
subhead = "Three articles, two lists, and four images were promoted to 'featured' status this week.",
authors = {"Crisco 1492"},
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tags = {"featuredcontent"},
meta = {"-1"},
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{
date = "2012-12-03",
subpage = "News and notes",
title = "Wiki Loves Monuments announces 2012 winner",
subhead = "The global jury of Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM), the world’s largest photo contest, announced its results on 3 December.",
authors = {"The ed17", "Tony1"},
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{
date = "2012-12-03",
subpage = "Technology report",
title = "MediaWiki problems but good news for Toolserver stability",
subhead = "Deployments of MediaWiki 1.21wmf5 cause widespread problems for users across wikis when HTML and CSS updates came temporarily out of sync. On the first wikis targeted for deployment, this was caused by the different cache invalidation rates for HTML (typically one month) and CSS (typically five minutes). The retrospective on the problem highlighted the fact that that the test wiki – the WMF's answer to a production environment that individual developers can no longer practically emulate themselves – actually demonstrated the exact problem that would later manifest itself on production wikis. It went unnoticed.",
authors = {"Jarry1250"},
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{
date = "2012-12-03",
subpage = "WikiProject report",
title = "The White Rose: WikiProject Yorkshire",
subhead = "This week, we went searching for white roses in the lands of WikiProject Yorkshire, started in May 2007 and since accumulated 31 Featured Articles, 14 Featured Lists, 91 Good Articles, and a monstrous list of Did You Know entries.",
authors = {"Mabeenot"},
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{
date = "2012-12-10",
subpage = "Featured content",
title = "Wikipedia goes to Hell",
subhead = "Eight articles, four images, six lists, and one topic were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week.",
authors = {"Crisco 1492"},
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{
date = "2012-12-10",
subpage = "News and notes",
title = "Wobbly start to ArbCom election, but turnout beats last year's",
subhead = "At the time of writing, this year's election has just closed after a two-week voting period. The eight seats were contested by 21 candidates. Of these, 15 have not been arbitrators (Beeblebrox, Count Iblis, Guerillero, Jc37, Keilana, Ks0stm, Kww, NuclearWarfare, Pgallert, RegentsPark, Richwales, Salvio giuliano, Timotheus Canens, Worm That Turned, and YOLO Swag); four candidates are sitting arbitrators (David Fuchs, Elen of the Roads, Jclemens, and Newyorkbrad); and two have previously served on the committee (Carcharoth and Coren). Four Wikimedia stewards from outside the English Wikipedia stepped forward as election scrutineers: Pundit, from the Polish Wikipedia; Teles, from the Portuguese Wikipedia; Quentinv57, from the French Wikipedia; and Mardetanha, from the Persian Wikipedia. The scrutineers' task is to ensure that the election is free of multiple votes from the same person, to tally the results, and to announce them. The full results are expected to be released within the next few days and will be reported in next week's edition of the ''Signpost''.",
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{
date = "2012-12-10",
subpage = "Technology report",
title = "The new Visual Editor gets a bit more visual",
subhead = "The first WMF-deployable WYSIWYG editor will go live on its first Wikipedias imminently following nearly six months of testing on MediaWiki.org.",
authors = {"Jarry1250"},
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meta = {"-1"},
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{
date = "2012-12-10",
subpage = "WikiProject report",
title = "WikiProject Human Rights",
subhead = "In celebration of Human Rights Day, we checked out . Started in February 2006, the project has grown to include over 3,000 articles, including 12 Featured Articles, 3 Featured Lists, 66 Good Articles, a large collection of Did You Know entries, and a few mentions \"in the news\". The project monitors listings of popular pages and cleanup tags. We interviewed Khazar2, Cirt, and Boud.",
authors = {"Mabeenot"},
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{
date = "2012-12-17",
subpage = "Discussion report",
title = "Concise Wikipedia; section headings for navboxes",
subhead = "Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include ...",
authors = {"J36miles"},
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{
date = "2012-12-17",
subpage = "Featured content",
title = "Wikipedia's cute ass",
subhead = "Four articles, three lists, and five images were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week, including a picture of a three-week old donkey (also known as an 'ass').",
authors = {"Crisco 1492"},
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tags = {"featuredcontent"},
meta = {"-1"},
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{
date = "2012-12-17",
subpage = "News and notes",
title = "Arbitrator election: stewards release the results",
subhead = "Of the 21 candidates, 13 managed to gain positive support-to-oppose ratios, and the top eight will be appointed to two-year terms on the committee by Jimbo.",
authors = {"The ed17", "Jan eissfeldt", "Tony1"},
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tags = {"elections", "newsandnotes", "stewards", "arbcom"},
meta = {"-1"},
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{
date = "2012-12-17",
subpage = "Op-ed",
title = "Finding truth in Sandy Hook",
subhead = "Quickly created and nominated for deletion not once but twice, and both times speedily kept, the article saw the expected flurry of edits and more than half a million page views on the first full day.",
authors = {"Drmies"},
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tags = {"opinion"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-12-17",
subpage = "Technology report",
title = "MediaWiki groups and why you might want to start snuggling newbie editors",
subhead = "MediaWiki users (including Wikimedians) can now organise themselves into groups, receiving recognition and support-in-kind from the Wikimedia Foundation. The project, backed by new Wikimedia technical contributor coordinator Quim Gil, has seen five proposals lodged in its first week of operation. The idea of MediaWiki groups mimics that of Wikimedia User Groups.",
authors = {"Jarry1250"},
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tags = {"mediawiki", "tech", "technologyreport", "technologyreport"},
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},
{
date = "2012-12-17",
subpage = "WikiProject report",
title = "WikiProjekt Computerspiel: Covering Computer Games in Germany",
subhead = "Following in the footsteps of our previously interviewed Czech and French projects, we visited the German Wikipedia to explore WikiProjekt Computerspiel (WikiProject Computer Games), which dates back to November 2004.",
authors = {"Mabeenot"},
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tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-12-24",
subpage = "Featured content",
title = "Battlecruiser operational",
subhead = "Seven articles and two lists were promoted to 'featured' status this week, including ''List of battlecruisers''. The article covers all of the battlecruisers—which were a type of warship similar in size to a battleship but with several defining characteristics—ever planned or constructed. The last British battlecruiser built, HMS ''Hood'', is pictured at right.",
authors = {"Crisco 1492"},
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tags = {"featuredcontent"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-12-24",
subpage = "News and notes",
title = "Debates on Meta sparking along—grants, new entities, and conflicts of interest",
subhead = "The WMF is reforming its grant schemes and the community is invited to look at proposals for a new scheme — for now called \"Individual Engagement Grants\" — due to kick off on January 15.",
authors = {"Jan eissfeldt", "Tony1"},
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tags = {"coi", "newsandnotes", "trademarks", "meta"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-12-24",
subpage = "Technology report",
title = "Efforts to \"normalise\" Toolserver relations stepped up",
subhead = "Our tool- and bot-hosting servers are currently operated by Wikimedia Germany, with assistance from the Foundation and volunteers — but they've failed to see eye-to-eye on the trajectory for the Toolserver, scheduled to be replaced by Wikimedia Labs in late 2013.",
authors = {"Jarry1250"},
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tags = {"tech", "toolserver", "technologyreport", "technologyreport"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-12-24",
subpage = "WikiProject report",
title = "A Song of Ice and Fire",
subhead = "This week, we spent some time with WikiProject , which focuses on the eponymous series of high fantasy literature, the television series Game of Thrones, and related works by George R. R. Martin. The project was started in July 2006 and has grown to include 11 Good Articles maintained by a small yet enthusiastic band of editors.",
authors = {"Mabeenot"},
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tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-12-31",
subpage = "Discussion report",
title = "Image policy and guidelines; resysopping policy",
subhead = "Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include ...",
authors = {"J36miles"},
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tags = {"discussionreport", "images", "policy", "administrator"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-12-31",
subpage = "Featured content",
title = "Whoa Nelly! Featured content in review",
subhead = "I would like to present some of my own musings on the state of featured content—especially as it pertains to systemic bias and core topics.",
authors = {"Crisco 1492"},
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tags = {"featuredcontent", "inreview"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-12-31",
subpage = "From the editor",
title = "Wikipedia, our Colosseum",
subhead = "In the impersonal, detached Colosseum that is Wikipedia, people find it much easier to put their thumbs down. As such, many people active in the Wikimedia movement have witnessed a precipitous decline in civil discourse. This is far from a new trend, yet many people would agree that it all seemed somehow worse in 2012.",
authors = {"The ed17"},
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tags = {"civility", "fromtheeditor", "opinion"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-12-31",
subpage = "In the media",
title = "Is the Wikimedia movement too 'cash rich'?",
subhead = "Is the Wikimedia movement too 'cash rich'?: The ''Telegraph'' and ''Daily Dot'', among others, have alleged that there are multiple links between the WMF, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, and Kazakhstan's government, which is, for all intents and purposes, a one-party non-democratic state.",
authors = {"The ed17"},
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tags = {"finance", "inthemedia", "jimmywales", "inthenews"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-12-31",
subpage = "Interview",
title = "Interview with Brion Vibber, the WMF's first employee",
subhead = "Brion Vibber has been a Wikipedia editor for nearly 11 years and was the first person officially hired to work for the Wikimedia Foundation. He was instrumental in early development of the MediaWiki software and is now the lead software architect for the foundation's mobile development team.",
authors = {"Kaldari"},
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meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-12-31",
subpage = "News and notes",
title = "Wikimedia Foundation fundraiser a success; Czech parliament releases photographs to chapter",
subhead = "On 27 December the Wikimedia Foundation announced the conclusion of their ninth annual fundraiser, which attracted more than 1.2 million donors. The appeal reached its goal of US$25 million, even though fundraising banners ran for only nine days.",
authors = {"Mono"},
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tags = {"chapters", "newsandnotes", "finance", "foundation"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-12-31",
subpage = "Recent research",
title = "Wikipedia and Sandy Hook; SOPA blackout reexamined",
subhead = "The gathering of hundreds of Wikipedians to cover the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in its immediate aftermath, and a look back at Wikipedians' participation in the January protests against SOPA and PIPA.",
authors = {"Daniel Mietchen", "Piotr Konieczny", "Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia", "Taha Yasseri", "Benjamin Mako Hill", "Aaron Shaw", "Tilman Bayer", "Dario Taraborelli", "Sage Ross"},
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tags = {"chinesewikipedia", "recentresearch", "research", "sopa", "spanishwikipedia", "researchreport"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-12-31",
subpage = "Technology report",
title = "Looking back on a year of incremental changes",
subhead = "In the first of two features, the ''Signpost'' this week looks back on 2012, a year when developers finally made inroads into three issues that had been put off for far too long (the need for editors to learn wiki-markup, the lack of a proper template language and the centralisation of data) but left all three projects far from finished.",
authors = {"Jarry1250"},
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tags = {"inreview", "tech", "technologyreport", "technologyreport"},
meta = {"-1"},
},
{
date = "2012-12-31",
subpage = "WikiProject report",
title = "New Year, New York",
subhead = "Since December 2004, WikiProject NYC has had the difficult task of maintaining articles about the largest city in the United States, many of which are also among the the most viewed articles on Wikipedia.",
authors = {"Mabeenot"},
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meta = {"-1"},
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