Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-11-06/Discussion report

Sockpuppet investigations, VisualEditor, Wikidata's birthday, and more: Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

Discussion report

Sockpuppet investigations, VisualEditor, Wikidata's birthday, and more

By Pine

The Reichstag in Berlin is the meeting place of the German Parliament.

This is mostly a list of Non-article page requests for comment believed to be active on 5 November 2013 linked from subpages of Wikipedia:RfC, recent watchlist notices and SiteNotices. The latter two are in bold. Items that are new to this report are in italics even if they are not new discussions. If an item can be listed under more than one category it is usually listed once only in this report. Clarifications and corrections are appreciated; please leave them in this article's comment box at the bottom of the page.

Style and naming

• Use of horizontal lines on date pages
• "Should Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Television#Broadcast be removed?"
• Styles for units of measure
• Placement of commas after dates and names

Policies and guidelines

• "Should IP block exemptions be granted without a need requirement to editors in good standing?"
• Sockpuppet investigations "code letters" categorizations
• "Best practice guidelines for Public Relations professionals"
• Should the external links section of the "Young Justice (TV series)" article include a link to the Young Justice Wiki?
• Proposal to merge some criteria for speedy deletion
• Promote "Wikipedia:No paid advocacy" to a site policy? There are two draft policies under discussion.
• Promote "Wikipedia:Rough consensus" to a site guideline?

WikiProjects and collaborations

• "Which image is more substantial to primarily identify a TV series: a promo advertisement, or a title card (or logo, free or un-free)?"
• "Should 'Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/Malplaced disambiguation pages' be given a prominent note at the top indicating that the page itself is not an official policy or guideline?"

Technical issues and templates

Wikidata celebrated its first birthday on 29 October, and a Wikidata office hour is scheduled

• In the "Infobox television" template, "Should the production_website parameter be renamed to website_2?"
• Restore the links on the "Bullying" template that were removed in April?
• Should the "Non-free review" template be used only on file pages or should it also be used on articles?

Proposals

• All tagged proposal RFCs are listed in other sections of this report.

English Wikipedia notable requests for permissions

(This section will include active RfAs, RfBs, CU/OS appointment requests, and Arbcom elections)

• None active at time of this writing

Meta

• "The first Wikimedia Research Hackathon takes place in cities around the world." on 9–10 November 2013
• "Wikidata celebrates its first birthday. Thanks to all who made this possible!"
• "The new Evaluation portal launches to support the community in evaluation practices."
• Start Wikireference as a new Wikimedia project?
• Start Wikifiction as a new Wikimedia project?
• Trademark practices
• Scope of the Ombudsman Commission
• Draft Privacy Policy – comments accepted until 15 January 2014

Upcoming online meetings

Office hours are scheduled for discussion of VisualEditor

• "Beta Features, Media Viewer, and Typography Refresh and VisualEditor Beta Opt-in", 8 November 18:30 UTC to 22:00 UTC
• "Inaugural L² (Labs²) Research Hackathon", 9 November 1:00 UTC to 10 November 2:00 UTC
• "Engineering Community Team", 12 November 17:00 UTC
• "An update about the recent projects and events at Wikimedia Language Engineering", 13 November 15:00 UTC
• "Wikidata – a status update and answers for all your questions", 13 November 17:00 UTC
• "VisualEditor", 2 December 19:00 UTC
• "VisualEditor", 3 December 1:00 UTC
• "Engineering Community Team", 17 December 17:00 UTC

Wikimedia blog posts

Wikipedia contributor Antonio "Tony the Marine" Santiago is profiled in a Wikimedia Blog post. According to the post, "...Puerto Rican Secretary of State Kenneth D. McClintock called Santiago the Commonwealth’s foremost military historian." Santiago said, “As a father and a grandfather, I can appreciate that for the first time in history there’s somewhere providing children around the world with the tools of knowledge, allowing them the opportunity to use what they have learned to make this a better world.”

• "Wikimedia Research Newsletter, October 2013"
• "Help design Wikipedia’s next-generation discussion system"
• "Wikimedia Foundation Report, September 2013"
• "Announcing the search for the Wikimedia Foundation’s Chief Communications Officer"
• "Wikipedia editor profile: Tony the Marine"
• "Designing a user-friendly trademark policy for some of the world’s most recognizable marks"
• "The Autonym Font for Language Names"
• "Call for community input on the funding proposals from 11 Wikimedia organisations"
• "Gamestorming: Making of The Wikipedia Adventure"
• "Airtel Wikipedia Zero partnership to pilot Wikipedia via text"
• "As Arab countries participate in Wiki Loves Monuments for the first time, stakes are especially high in Syria"
• "Swedish Museums freely sharing images from their collections"
• "Presenting about Wikipedia to academic audiences"
• "Inspiration from the Wikimedia Affiliates’ coolest projects"
• "Request for proposals: New datacenter in the continental US"
• "Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Sue Gardner’s response to paid advocacy editing and sockpuppetry"
• "Scientific multimedia files get a second life on Wikipedia"
• Join the inaugural Wiki Research Hackathon on November 9"
• "Speaking about free knowledge and the law at Yale ISP"
• "A farewell letter from Jay Walsh, Communications Director"
• "Amical Wikimedia awarded for its contribution to the Internet in Catalan"

This year's Wiki Loves Monuments event in Syria had an unusual situation because of the potential damage to monuments during the country's civil war. According to a post in the Wikimedia Blog, "Damascus, Aleppo, and Homs are among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world... There are buildings, churches, theaters, and gates that date back to the second century." This photo shows the dome of Khan As’ad Pasha in the Old City of Damascus. Over 1,000 photos were uploaded from Syria during Wiki Loves Monuments 2013. A commentator on the blog post wrote, "These places have a soul that have been silenced by the cannons hope one day the world conscience silence the guns and those cities come back to life again".

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• Once again, another great report. Thanks, Pine. I'd like to mention that the annual Arbitration Committee elections have started. Nominations are open until Tuesday, 19 November at 23:59 (UTC) for those interested in running. 64.40.54.139 (talk) 22:10, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
• You should mention the WikiEducation Foundation changes (https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/07/wiki-education-foundation/) in this week's Signpost. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:24, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

• Thank you. Both are noted in the next report. --Pine^✉ 08:06, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, Pine, I should have known you'd guys would be on top of all-things-Wiki. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:26, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

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