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-- <font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;">[[User:John Broughton|John Broughton]] </font> [[User talk:John Broughton |(♫♫)]] 14:48, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
-- <font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;">[[User:John Broughton|John Broughton]] </font> [[User talk:John Broughton |(♫♫)]] 14:48, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
:"[[FrontPage Magazine]] continues to point out the liberal bias we have here". You seem to have adopted FrontPage's (laughable) POV in your description. I can't wait until someone explains that what we really have is an educated white American male bias, which is liberal in certain contexts (for example: science and religion), but conservative in other contexts (for example: race and gender issues). [[User:Kaldari|Kaldari]] ([[User talk:Kaldari|talk]]) 17:50, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Navigation This page is for suggesting news to be covered in the next Signpost. For general discussion, comments or questions regarding The Signpost, please use Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost.

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Not every mention of Wikipedia in the media will make it into the Signpost, but please consider adding to Wikipedia:Press coverage 2024 or Wikipedia:Wikipedia as a press source so we have a comprehensive record. Please do not post newsletters to this page; news from WikiProjects is always appreciated, but templated messages are much more likely to be ignored.

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August

National Maritime Museum Collaboration

Can I point you in the direction of: Wikipedia:GLAM/NMM - many thanks. :-) The Land (talk) 16:05, 30 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia doesn't track visitors the way that almost all other websites do

According to a new study of user privacy and tracking, summarized here (with link to the full study), "Combined, Google has a presence on 97 of the top 100 websites. This includes popular government websites such as usps.com, irs.gov, and nih.gov. Only microsoft.com, ups.com, and wikipedia.org lacked some type of Google cookie." [That's from the full study document itself, not the summary, and is the only mention of Wikipedia.] -- John Broughton (♫♫) 21:17, 30 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This isn't particularly new news: it's been publicly known for a long time that Wikipedia visitors aren't tracked as they are on pretty much any other website. Mike Peel (talk) 22:31, 6 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Its very interesting, but has already been published at [[1]]. jorgenev 22:49, 6 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Article about Wikipedia in IEEE Spectrum

Article here: http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/education/wikipedias-shakespeare-problem

(Full disclosure: I'm quoted in the article.) -- John Broughton (♫♫) 21:19, 30 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm pretty suspicious about an article concerning English literature appearing in a an Engineering publication. Seems like a red flag that someone has an axe to grind, and couldn't grind it in a relevant place, so use their weight as an engineer to publish something that does not concern engineering in the least. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 21:32, 11 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Foundation/Chapter fundrasing deals

This:

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2011-August/067159.html

Has effectively thrown a grenade into the situation.©Geni 23:35, 5 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A better starting point in the thread, I think, is this. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 22:06, 6 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Note that a lot of the feedback from chapters with regards this topic has taken place on internal-l, and hence I'm worried that the discussion that is publicly visible may not represent a neutral and complete point of view. Mike Peel (talk) 22:30, 6 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Instructions on how to "game" Wikipedia . . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:W._V._Grant#Instructions_from_Grant_official_website_._._.

Sincerely,

GeorgeLouis (talk) 21:59, 8 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You have to go to No. 19 on that page, or go directly here: http://www.wvgrantchurch.com/wiki and read the stuff in the right hand column. GeorgeLouis (talk) 22:01, 8 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Looks like pretty standard WP:CANVASSing. Since it was in January and it doesn't seem to have worked out, I'm not sure how newsworthy that would be but it is interesting to note that an actual web designer was doing the canvassing. Beeblebrox (talk) 18:29, 9 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

WikiLove is counterproductive?

I thought I remembered seeing a snippet of a research paper indicating WikiLove is actually counterproductive. I can't find it now, but I'm posting here in case anyone else remembers seeing this in the last week. tedder (talk) 23:35, 8 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

We need an source. ~~Ebe123~~ talkContribs 18:18, 9 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Considering that WikiLove was just deployed 1 month ago, I find that hard to believe. Kaldari (talk) 00:16, 11 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Galina Voskoboeva article

There was an interview done with this tennis player where part of her article was brought up for comment... turns out to have been vandalism. Excerpted from the interview:

Q. I don't know how accurate this is, but the Wikipedia biography, it says that you hunt pigs. Do you hunt boars?
GALINA VOSKOBOEVA: (Laughter.) Yes, you know, I found that probably it's not interesting anymore to go to the cinema or to read books, so I decide to change something. You know, when I have free time I just go hunting pigs. Why not? For Russians it's normal when we have free time just, you know, go for hunting pigs.
Q. What's the biggest one that you've been able to snare down?
GALINA VOSKOBOEVA: Sorry?
Q. What's the biggest pig or boar that you've been able to hunt?
GALINA VOSKOBOEVA: No, of course not. No, it's a joke.
Q. How did that get started?
GALINA VOSKOBOEVA: Being serious, we just found it out recently with my ‑‑ actually, she read that. I didn't read it before. So probably it was somebody's joke. No, because other ‑‑ it also says that I like to play chess, yes, with Alex, so actually I also don't know who is Alex.
Q. But do you play chess?
GALINA VOSKOBOEVA: No. I like to play more cards.

The interview can be read at http://www.rogerscup.com/women/2011_interviews/G.Voskoboeva_08.08.11.doc (note: DOC format file at the other end) and also in an HTML version at http://www.asapsports.com/show_interview.php?id=73342. Tabercil (talk) 23:50, 9 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sue Gardner on cover of American Libraries

A photo of Sue Gardner speaking at the June American Library Association conference graced the cover of the July/August 2011 issue of the association's news magazine, American Libraries. There is also a 1-paragraph summary of her talk in the conference coverage, on p. 50. Libcub (talk) 00:09, 10 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

See link. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 04:43, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
And direct link to p.50 with the above mentioned paragraph. Still remarkable that she beat the "celebrity speakers" such as Dan Savage, Daniel Ellsberg and David Simon to the cover ;) Regards, HaeB (talk) 15:28, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

WikiChix Lunch Summary from Wikimania

Fresh off the presses: WikiChix Lunch 2011 SarahStierch (talk) 13:34, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestions

-- John Broughton (♫♫) 13:10, 14 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Presentation as a Wikipedian

On August 27, 2011, I will be speaking as a wikipedian at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in conjunction with the August 28 Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial dedication ceremonies. The theme of my presentation will be "Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"—Martin Luther King, Jr. Does this deserve a mention in WP:POST.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 00:38, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'd read it :-) Smallbones (talk) 01:09, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not really expecting suggesting a big story. Just maybe one of those one-liners because I just have a small role.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 02:50, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Two suggestions

Wikipedia survival guide

Haven't seen any news articles, just the press releases, such as this:

http://www.onlineprnews.com/news/161394-1313373979-ereviewguidecom-releases-wikipedia-survival-guide.html

but seems worth a mention. Here's the "survival guide":

http://www.ereviewguide.com/news/2011/08/10/how-to-use-wikipedia-more-effectively/

Wikipedia-like abstracts

http://www.forbes.com/sites/susannahbreslin/2011/08/17/this-man-thinks-the-internet-needs-cliffsnotes/

-- John Broughton (♫♫) 21:04, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the tips! They will be looked into! jorgenev 21:06, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Four more suggestions

-- John Broughton (♫♫) 13:47, 19 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia vandalism quoted in the Toronto Star

See this article from The Province, which explains the situation. I also summarized it at Talk:Rick Rypien. Basically, a vandal modified (diff) a Mike Gillis quote about Rick Rypien, in Rypien's Wikipedia article in July.. and at the time of Rypien's death earlier this week, the vandalism hadn't been found, and the Toronto Star published the vandalized quote in their print newspapers. The Toronto Star has since apologized, but Mike Gillis is apparently considering legal action.. I'm not sure if these kinds of incidents normally go in the Signpost, or if there's someone else I should be telling. Mlm42 (talk) 01:17, 21 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I just noticed this news item is also linked in the preceeding section via a Toronto Star article; sorry for the repetition. Mlm42 (talk) 01:20, 21 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

FAOL

I've been having a look around FAs on other Wikipedias and found hundreds of articles that we don't cover at all. Not sure if a story/short could be written about this but I thought it was quite interesting. violet/riga [talk] 09:47, 22 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'd be interested in doing a story on this for whenever we're short on stories like we almost were this week. It's interesting but I'd like to hear what the resident featured content writers have to say first. Strange Passerby (talk • cont) 10:25, 22 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

One thing that it's just highlighted for me is the woeful Maritime history of the Netherlands compared to the beautiful Featured Article on nl.wiki. Sure, the Dutch are obviously going to write quite a bit about themselves but surely this is a significant historical topic? violet/riga [talk] 21:29, 22 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Meredith Perry, uBeam

According to NPR, inventor-entrepreneur Meredith Perry has come up with a wireless battery charger called uBeam, which is in the first stages of commercialization. The point that surprised me was - "Perry has no background in electrical engineering. She's self-taught by reading online, mostly Wikipedia." Smallbones (talk) 12:14, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

WP:FOUR milestones

WP:FOUR recognized its 100th editor and 250th article on August 21 and 24 respectively.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 05:38, 24 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

WP:CROWN

What previously seemed unachievable by a mortal wikipedian has been achieved necessitating the renaming of the Ultimate Triple Crown as the Marco Polo Centurion Triple Crown. The new unachievable WP:CROWN level (the level at which one "eats Jimbo Wales for lunch and takes over Wikipedia") is now 250, which is called the Ultimate Triple Crown.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 05:41, 24 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestions, August 24th

  • "How the Left Conquered Wikipedia, Part 1", from FrontPage magazine. The lengthy article seems to think (based on a link to a 2009 news article) that flagged revisions have been implemented for all (English) Wikipedia articles, some time ago. Thus its odd conclusion: "Unfortunately, Wikipedia, because of its decision to create an elite group of 'information specialists,' has picked its side in this war and is now fighting on the front lines."

-- John Broughton (♫♫) 20:57, 24 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

New or already covered?

A user has suggested this might be newsworthy. Has it been covered before? User:Pine is offering to write it up in ITN for next week. Tony (talk) 08:07, 25 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wikisym scholarships

I'm not sure if this is of use/interest or not, but Wikimedia UK's offering two full scholarships to enable UK researchers to attend Wikisym this year - see wmuk:WikiSym Scholarships for more info. Mike Peel (talk) 15:06, 25 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Washington Post writeup of the making of the article 2011 Virginia earthquake

And probably off-point, but I found it curious that there was a fight to delete this article, because it wasn't important, as earthquakes go, while the article was simultaneously being added to the "In the news" section of the Main page. (Basically, confusion over "notability", which is measured by press coverage, versus "importance", which is subjective, and isn't the same thing at all as "notability", as used in Wikipedia policy.) -- John Broughton (♫♫) 17:07, 25 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestions, August 28th

-- John Broughton (♫♫) 03:45, 28 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

end of Google Summer of Code projects

I'm working on some wrapup posts/mail about the Google Summer of Code students. I hope to have it ready this week. It would be neat if a Signpost person interviewed one or two of the students! Sumanah (talk) 19:25, 29 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestions, September 1

-- John Broughton (♫♫) 14:48, 1 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"FrontPage Magazine continues to point out the liberal bias we have here". You seem to have adopted FrontPage's (laughable) POV in your description. I can't wait until someone explains that what we really have is an educated white American male bias, which is liberal in certain contexts (for example: science and religion), but conservative in other contexts (for example: race and gender issues). Kaldari (talk) 17:50, 1 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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