User talk:Atlasowa

Invitation to discussion

Hi Atlasowa! I saw you worked on "List of most popular websites", so I'd like to ask you to join the discussion about implementation of the bot which would display direct visits number to each particular site in the web-sites info box next to alexa ranking index. Would you please advance your idea on my suggestion here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Infobox_website. (Implementation of web measurement bot in website infobox) Thank you Noamsp (talk) 15:02, 11 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to edit

Hi Altasowa! Thank you for your observations. I have responded at User_talk:Anthonyhcole#Invitation_to_edit. --Anthonyhcole (talk) 07:07, 10 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

thank you for the cookie

I was really feeling like a voice crying out in the wilderness. It made my day. Elinruby (talk) 23:46, 18 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Hand-coding

Hey all :).

I'm dropping you a note because you've been involved in dealing with feedback from the Article Feedback Tool. To get a better handle on the overall quality of comments now that the tool has become a more established part of the reader experience, we're undertaking a round of hand coding - basically, taking a sample of feedback and marking each piece as inappropriate, helpful, so on - and would like anyone interested in improving the tool to participate :).

You can code as many or as few pieces of feedback as you want: this page should explain how to use the system, and there is a demo here. Once you're comfortable with the task, just drop me an email at okeyeswikimedia.org and I'll set you up with an account :).

If you'd like to chat with us about the research, or want live tutoring on the software, there will be an office hours session on Monday 17 December at 23:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office ^connect. Hope to see some of you there! Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:33, 14 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Notification of discussion

A few months ago, you participated in a discussion on Wikipedia talk:Did you know about Gibraltar-related DYKs on the Main Page. I am proposing that the temporary restrictions on such DYKs, which were imposed in September 2012, should be lifted and have set out a case for doing so at Wikipedia talk:Did you know/Gibraltar-related DYKs. If you have a view on this, please comment at that page. Prioryman (talk) 21:47, 13 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Image nomination at Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2013 March 1

Hi. I reviewed your nomination at Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2013 March 1 of File:Great Mosque Of Kano.jpg. From comparing the images, I believe that the image at allaboutnigeria is an upscale of our image, as opposed to our image being a scaled down version of that one. However, you said that the image was published at allaboutnigeria in 2008, which, of course, would mean there is no way that they copied our image. Can you tell me how you ascertained 2008 as the date for their image? I couldn't find anything on the site or google indicating that. Thanks. --B (talk) 03:25, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Article Feedback deployment

Hey Atlasowa; I'm dropping you this note because you've used the article feedback tool in the last month or so. On Thursday and Friday the tool will be down for a major deployment; it should be up by Saturday, failing anything going wrong, and by Monday if something does :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 22:18, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Institute for Cultural Diplomacy for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Institute for Cultural Diplomacy is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Institute for Cultural Diplomacy until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.

SkaraB 14:58, 19 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Lifting the Gibraltar DYK restrictions

A couple of months ago, you opposed a proposal to lift the restrictions on Gibraltar-related DYKs, which were imposed in September 2012. Could you possibly clarify (1) under what conditions you would support a lifting of the restrictions, and (2) when you think it would be appropriate to lift the restrictions? Prioryman (talk) 20:07, 7 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

April 2013

Hello, I'm Faizan Al-Badri. I wanted to let you know that I undid one of your recent contributions, such as the one you made with this edit to Egyptian universities, because it didn’t appear constructive to me. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks, Faizan Al-Badri -Let's talk! 13:07, 11 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

neues Benachrichtigungsdesign

Hei Atlasowa, ich habe gerade zufällig deine Nachricht auf meiner Disk. gefunden, als ich mal wieder das kleine Zifferchen oben zwischen Benutzerseite und -disk. ansah. Einen Benachrichtigungsbalken welcher Art auch immer oder was sonst noch so – egal in welchem Design nun – erhalte ich keinen mehr. Insofern muss damit gerechnet werden, dass ich so was übersehe. Tja. Ob neues oder altes Design ist dabei schnurz, der Balken ist einfach nur weg und der Ersatz ist nur eine kleine blaue Ziffer oben in Klammern. Das reicht nicht aus, um Benutzer auf Nachrichten aufmerksam zu machen, so viel steht fest. --Geit ost 12:59, 18 May 2013 (UTC) [reply]

Flickr images

Hi, thanks for sharing link to Flickr CC dataset. I may add these photos in near future. The only concern with Flickr images that lots of them are family photos with coordinates taken using approximate location by city or suburb. Panoramio or Wikimedia Commons generally provides better quality resources.

--Maxim75 (talk) 21:29, 29 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, you're right, Maxim75. But, 2 points:

Flickr apparently chose only 100 million of their 288 million CC flickr images for this dataset, and the dataset is supposed to help research on geolocation; so maybe they discarded the family photos (at least partially, automatically).
I recently had a look at how panoramio works (that is: google) and i found a 2009 paper about image recognition (Tour the World: building a web-scale landmark recognition engine Yan-Tao Zheng1, Ming Zhao2, Yang Song2, Hartwig Adam2Ulrich Buddemeier2, Alessandro Bissacco2, Fernando Brucher2, Tat-Seng Chua1, and Hartmut Neven). Have a look at "Panoramio Acceptance policy for Panoramio photos" and "Acceptance policy for Google Earth and Google Maps" and compare to their image recognition paper:

"we also adopt a multi-view face detector [15] to filter out photos with overly large area of face. This is to ensure the purity of landmark models, by pruning photos dominated by people in front of landmarks."
"map images (...) To prune these outliers, we exploit a photographic v.s. non-photographic image classifier. The classifier is trained based on Adaboost algorithm over low level visual features of color histogram and hough transform."
Panoramio excludes "Photos with advertising superimposed on the image or in the title", "inscriptions, or signs", "Logos, mini-images, images that are not real photos, scanned documents, text documents", "Text such as large copyright notices, advertising, or large URLs"... (Optical character recognition?)
Panoramio also excludes nudity. Compare nudejs.

I guess Flickr/Yahoo will have similar techniques. This will all be interesting for commons too, see i.e. commons:User:Multichill/Using OpenCV to categorize files... Best --Atlasowa (talk) 08:46, 30 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Your suggestions here have been duly noted. Your continued work watching over the page would be greatly appreciated. But in any case, hope all is well! Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 17:45, 1 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey Atlasowa. I'm contacting you because you're involved in the Article Feedback Tool in some way, either as a previous newsletter recipient or as an active user of the system. As you might have heard, a user recently anonymously disabled the feedback tool on 2,000 pages. We were unable to track or prevent this due to the lack of logging feature in AFT5. We're deeply sorry for this, as we know that quite a few users found the software very useful, and were using it on their articles.

We've now re-released the software, with the addition of a logging feature and restrictions on the ability to disable. Obviously, we're not going to automatically re-enable it on each article—we don't want to create a situation where it was enabled by users who have now moved on, and feedback would sit there unattended—but if you're interested in enabling it for your articles, it's pretty simple to do. Just go to the article you want to enable it on, click the "request feedback" link in the toolbox in the sidebar, and AFT5 will be enabled for that article.

Again, we're very sorry about this issue; hopefully it'll be smooth sailing after this :). If you have any questions, just drop them at the talkpage. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) 22:06, 1 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Atlasowa. Thanks for your interest. If you do wish to respect my preference, then the answer is no, I'd rather you not place the essay anywhere or draw attention to it. Please be aware that the writing has been widely shared already (it received much more attention than I could have imagined). Ceoil's edit summary about "fighting old wars" is relevant. Regards, Riggr Mortis (talk) 23:19, 7 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I understand. Is the dead link (to archive) at user:Riggr Mortis on purpose? Anyway, thank you for the quick response and for your essay. --Atlasowa (talk) 12:46, 8 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I should remove the link, but then I thought someone would be even more confused if they were following an old link to my user page. That is the problem with using my user page for that project!

Thanks for respecting my wishes on this. I would rather see other people writing their own thoughts on the subjects I mentioned. Riggr Mortis (talk) 07:48, 10 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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The Signpost: 26 March 2014

Comment: A foolish request

Traffic report: Down to a simmer

Recent research: Wikipedians' "encyclopedic identity" dominates even in Kosovo debates

News and notes: Commons Picture of the Year—winners announced

Featured content: Winter hath a beauty that is all his own

Op-ed: Why we're updating the default typography for Wikipedia

Technology report: Why will Wikipedia look like the Signpost?

WikiProject report: From the peak

The Signpost: 02 April 2014

News and notes: Wikimedia conferences—soul-searching about costs, attendance, and future

WikiProject report: Deutschland in English

Special report: On the cusp of the Wikimedia Conference

Featured content: April Fools

Traffic report: Regressing to the mean

The Signpost: 09 April 2014

News and notes: Round 2 of FDC funding open to public comments

WikiProject report: WikiProject Law

Special report: Community mourns passing of Adrianne Wadewitz

Traffic report: Conquest of the Couch Potatoes

Featured content: Snow heater and Ash sweep

The Signpost: 23 April 2014

Special report: 2014 Wikimedia Conference—what is the impact?

Op-ed: Five things a Wikipedian in residence can do

News and notes: Wikimedian passes away

WikiProject_report: To the altar—Catholicism

Wikimania: Winning bid announced for 2015

Traffic report: Reflecting in Gethsemane

Featured content: There was I, waiting at the church

Hello from a fellow viz enthusiast

Will you be there at the Zurich Hackathon?

Replaying Edits & Visualising Edit History is my submission for Wikimania 2014, would love your comments & ideas.

I was going through the list at Edit History Visualization and found Schnark's artikel-statistik very interesting. Are you interested only in wiki specific viz or viz in general ?--jeph (talk) 08:23, 25 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 30 April 2014

News and notes: WMF's draft annual plan turns indigestible as an FDC proposal

Traffic report: Going to the Doggs

Breaking: The Foundation's new executive director

WikiProject report: Genetics

Interview: Wikipedia in the Peabody Essex Museum

Featured content: Browsing behaviours

Recent research: Wikipedia predicts flu more accurately than Google

The Signpost: 07 May 2014

News and notes: New system of discretionary sanctions; Buchenwald; is Pirelli 'Cracking Wikipedia'?

Traffic report: TMZedia

In focus: Foundation announces long-awaited new executive director

WikiCup: 2014 WikiCup enters round three

In the media: Google and the flu; Adrianne

WikiProject report: Singing with Eurovision

Featured content: Wikipedia at the Rijksmuseum

The Signpost: 14 May 2014

Investigative report: Hong Kong's Wikimania 2013—failure to produce financial statement raises questions of probity

WikiProject report: Relaxing in Puerto Rico

News and notes: 'Ask a librarian'—connecting Wikimedians with the National Library of Australia

Featured content: On the rocks

Traffic report: Eurovision, Google Doodles, Mothers, and 5 May

Technology report: Technology report needs editor, Media Viewer offers a new look

The Signpost: 21 May 2014

News and notes: "Crisis" over Wikimedia Germany's palace revolution

Featured content: Staggering number of featured articles

Traffic report: Doodles' dawn

The Signpost: 28 May 2014

News and notes: The English Wikipedia's second featured-article centurion; wiki inventor interviewed on video

Featured content: Zombie fight in the saloon

Traffic report: Get fitted for flipflops and floppy hats

Recent research: Predicting which article you will edit next

The Signpost: 04 June 2014

Special report: IEG funding for women's stories: a new approach to the gender gap

News and notes: Two new affiliate-selected trustees

Op-ed: "Hospitality, jerks, and what I learned"—the amazing keynote at WikiConference USA

Featured content: Ye stately homes of England

In the media: Reliable or not, doctors use Wikipedia

Traffic report: Autumn in summer

The Signpost: 11 June 2014

News and notes: PR agencies commit to ethical interactions with Wikipedia

Traffic report: The week the wired went weird

Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Moderator: William Beutler

Special report: Questions raised over secret voting for WMF trustees

Featured content: Politics, ships, art, and cyclones

The Signpost: 18 June 2014

News and notes: With paid advocacy in its sights, the Wikimedia Foundation amends their terms of use

Featured content: Worming our way to featured picture

Special report: Wikimedia Bangladesh: a chapter's five-year journey

Traffic report: You can't dethrone Thrones

WikiProject report: Visiting the city

Speedy deletion declined: GJ Reynolds

Hello Atlasowa. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of GJ Reynolds, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not unambiguously promotional. Thank you. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 09:26, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 25 June 2014

News and notes: US National Archives enshrines Wikipedia in Open Government Plan

Traffic report: Fake war, or real sport?

Exclusive: "We need to be true to who we are": Foundation's new executive director speaks to the Signpost

Discussion report: Media Viewer, old HTML tags

Featured content: Showing our Wörth

WikiProject report: The world where dreams come true

Recent research: Power users and diversity in WikiProjects

The Signpost: 02 July 2014

In the media: Wiki Education; medical content; PR firms

Traffic report: The Cup runneth over... and over.

News and notes: Wikimedia Israel receives Roaring Lion award

Featured content: Ship-shape

WikiProject report: Indigenous Peoples of North America

Technology report: In memoriam: the Toolserver (2005–14)

The Signpost: 09 July 2014

Special report: Wikimania 2014—what will it cost?

Wikicup: Wikicup's third round sees money, space, battleships and more

Wikimedia in education: Exploring the United States and Canada with LiAnna Davis

Featured content: Three cheers for featured pictures!

News and notes: Echoes of the past haunt new conflict over tech initiative

Traffic report: World Cup, Tim Howard rule the week

The Signpost: 16 July 2014

Special report: $10 million lawsuit against Wikipedia editors withdrawn, but plaintiff intends to refile

Traffic report: World Cup dominates for another week

Wikimedia in education: Serbia takes the stage with Filip Maljkovic

Featured content: The Island with the Golden Gun

News and notes: Bot-created Wikipedia articles covered in the Wall Street Journal, push Cebuano over one million articles

The Signpost: 23 July 2014

Wikimedia in education: Education program gaining momentum in Israel

Traffic report: The World Cup hangs on, though tragedies seek to replace it

News and notes: Institutional media uploads to Commons get a bit easier

Forum: Did you know?—good idea, needs reform

Featured content: Why, they're plum identical!

The Signpost: 30 July 2014

Book review: Knowledge or unreality?

Recent research: Shifting values in the paid content debate

News and notes: How many more hoaxes will Wikipedia find?

Wikimedia in education: Success in Egypt and the Arab World

Traffic report: Doom and gloom vs. the power of Reddit

Featured content: Skeletons and Skeltons

The Signpost: 06 August 2014

Technology report: A technologist's Wikimania preview

Traffic report: Ebola

Featured content: Bottoms, asses, and the fairies that love them

Wikimedia in education: Leading universities educate with Wikipedia in Mexico

News and notes: "History is a human right"—first-ever transparency report released as Europe begins hiding Wikipedia in search results

Your Big Data cartoon

Hi there, FYI: Talk:Big_data#Notability_of_cartoon. Cheers 121.103.176.27 (talk) 08:11, 13 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 13 August 2014

Special report: Twitter bots catalogue government edits to Wikipedia

Traffic report: Disease, decimation and distraction

Wikimedia in education: Global Education: WMF's Perspective

Wikimania: Promised the moon, settled for the stars

News and notes: Media Viewer controversy spreads to German Wikipedia

Op-ed: Red links, blue links, and erythrophobia

In the media: Monkey selfie, net neutrality, and hoaxes

Featured content: Cambridge got a lot of attention this week

The Signpost: 20 August 2014

Interview: Improving the visibility of digital archival assets using Wikipedia

Traffic report: Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero

WikiProject report: Bats and gloves

Op-ed: A new metric for Wikimedia

Featured content: English Wikipedia departs for Japan

Regarding your recent comment on quality and maintenance metrics here, you might find the discussion here and here of interest. Regards. Andreas JN 466 15:51, 24 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Andreas, you might find the discussion at meta:Talk:Flagged Revisions‎ of interest. --Atlasowa (talk) 12:24, 25 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the link. I'll bring this to the attention of Signpost staff, and have also raised it for discussion off-wiki. Andreas JN 466 22:42, 25 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Atlasowa, also on flagged revisions, could you, perhaps, help Jimbo out here? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Status_of_Flagged_Revisions_in_German_Wikipedia.3F Andreas JN 466 16:09, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 27 August 2014

In the media: Plagiarism and vandalism dominate Wikipedia news

News and notes: Media Viewer—Wikimedia's emotional roller-coaster

Traffic report: Viral

Featured content: Cheats at Featured Pictures!

The Signpost: 03 September 2014

Arbitration report: Media viewer case is suspended

Featured content: 1882 × 5 in gold, and thruppence more

Op-ed: Automated copy-and-paste detection under trial

Traffic report: Holding Pattern

WikiProject report: Gray's Anatomy (v. 2)

Recent research: A Wikipedia-based Pantheon; new Wikipedia analysis tool suite; how AfC hamstrings newbies

The Signpost: 10 September 2014

Op-ed: Media Viewer software is not ready

Traffic report: Refuge in celebrity

Featured content: The louse and the fish's tongue

WikiProject report: Checking that everything's all right

The Signpost: 17 September 2014

In the media: Turkish Twitter outrage, medical translation, audience metrics

WikiProject report: A trip up north to Scotland

News and notes: Wikipedia's traffic statistics are off by nearly one-third

Traffic report: Tolstoy leads a varied pack

Featured content: Which is not like the others?

The Signpost: 24 September 2014

Featured content: Oil paintings galore

In the media: Indian political editing, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Congressional chelonii

Recent research: 99.25% of Wikipedia birthdates accurate; focused Wikipedians live longer; merging WordNet, Wikipedia and Wiktionary

Traffic report: Wikipedia watches the referendum in Scotland

WikiProject report: GAN reviewers take note: competition time

Arbitration report: Banning Policy, Gender Gap, and Waldorf education

The Signpost: 01 October 2014

From the editor: The Signpost needs your help

Dispatches: Let's get serious about plagiarism

News and notes: Wikipedia article published in peer-reviewed journal; Wikipedia in education

WikiProject report: Animals, farms, forests, USDA? It must be WikiProject Agriculture

Traffic report: Shanah Tovah

Featured content: Brothers at War

The Signpost: 08 October 2014

In the media: Opposition research firm blocked; Australian bushfires

Featured content: From a wordless novel to a coat of arms via New York City

Traffic report: Panic and denial

Technology report: HHVM is the greatest thing since sliced bread

The Signpost: 15 October 2014

Op-ed: Ships—sexist or sexy?

In the media: College player falsely linked to sports scandal by Wikipedia; the Nobel Prizes

Arbitration report: One case closed and two opened

Featured content: Bells ring out at the Temple of the Dragon at Peace

Technology report: Attempting to parse wikitext

Traffic report: Now introducing ... mobile data

WikiProject report: Signpost reaches the Midwest

The Signpost: 22 October 2014

Featured content: Admiral on deck: a modern Ada Lovelace

Op-ed: Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution—a wiki-protest

In the media: The story of Wikipedia; Wikipedia reanimated and republished; New UK government social media rules; death of Italian Wikipedia administrator

Traffic report: Death, War, Pestilence... Movies and TV

WikiProject report: De-orphanning articles—a huge task but with a huge team of volunteers to help

The Signpost: 29 October 2014

Featured content: Go West, young man

In the media: Wikipedia a trusted source on Ebola; Wikipedia study labeled government waste; football biography goes viral

Maps tagathon: Find 10,000 digitised maps this weekend

Traffic report: Ebola, Ultron, and Creepy Articles

Recent research: Informed consent and privacy; newsmaking on Wikipedia; Wikipedia and organizational theories

The Signpost: 05 November 2014

In the media: Predicting the flu, MH17 conspiracy theories

Traffic report: Sweet dreams on Halloween

The Signpost: 12 November 2014

In the media: Amazon Echo; EU freedom of panorama; Bluebeard's Castle

Traffic report: Holidays, anyone?

Featured content: Wikipedia goes to church in Lithuania

WikiProject report: Talking hospitals

The Signpost: 26 November 2014

Featured content: Orbital Science: Now you're thinking with explosions

In the media: A Russian alternative Wikipedia; Who's your grandfather?; ArtAndFeminism

Recent research: Gender gap and skills gap; academic citations on the rise; European food cultures

WikiProject report: Back with the military historians

Traffic report: Big in Japan

The Signpost: 03 December 2014

Op-ed: Who edits health-related content on Wikipedia and why?

In the media: Embroidery and cheese

Featured content: ABCD: Any Body Can Dance!

Traffic report: Turkey and a movie

WikiProject report: Today on the island

The Signpost: 10 December 2014

Op-ed: It's GLAM up North!

In the media: Wikipedia is "a rancorous, sexist, elitist, stupidly bureaucratic mess"

Traffic report: Dead Black Men and Science Fiction

Featured content: Honour him, love and obey? Good idea with military leaders.

Category:Articles containing video clips

Category:Articles containing video clips, which you contributed to, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. — xaosflux ^Talk 04:13, 19 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 17 December 2014

Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee election results

Featured content: Tripping hither, tripping thither, Nobody knows why or whither; We must dance and we must sing, Round about our fairy ring!

In the media: Wikipedia's year in review video; Checking in with Wikipedia's founders

Traffic report: A December Lull

The Signpost: 24 December 2014

From the editor: Looking for new editors-in-chief

In the media: Wales on GamerGate

Featured content: Still quoting Iolanthe, apparently.

WikiProject report: Microsoft does The Signpost

Traffic report: North Korea is not pleased

The Signpost: 31 December 2014

News and notes: The next big step for Wikidata—forming a hub for researchers

In the media: Study tour controversy; class tackles the gender gap

Traffic report: Surfin' the Yuletide

Op-ed: My issues with the Wiki Education Foundation

Featured content: A bit fruity

Recent research: Wikipedia in higher education; gender-driven talk page conflicts; disease forecasting

The Signpost: 07 January 2015

In the media: ISIL propaganda video; AirAsia complaints

Interview: Interview with Jakob, one of Wikipedia's more prolific waterway contributors

Featured content: Kock up

Traffic report: Auld Lang Syne

The Signpost: 14 January 2015

Op-ed: Articles for creation needs you

WikiProject report: Articles for creation: the inside story

News and notes: Erasmus Prize recognizes the global Wikipedia community

In the media: Wikipedia's birthday brings tributes, app, award; Castro death rumors

Featured content: Citations are needed

Traffic report: Wikipédia sommes Charlie

The Signpost: 21 January 2015

From the editor: Introducing your new editors-in-chief

Anniversary: A decade of the Signpost

Interview: WWII veteran honors shipmates through Wikipedia editing

News and notes: Annual report released; Wikimania; steward elections

Op-ed: Let's make WikiProjects better

In the media: Johann Hari; bandishes and delicate flowers

Featured content: Yachts, marmots, boat races, and a rocket engineer who attempted to birth a goddess

Arbitration report: As one door closes, a (Gamer)Gate opens

The Signpost: 28 January 2015

From the editor: An editorial board that includes you

In focus: Thirteen editors sanctioned in mammoth GamerGate arbitration case

In the media: A murderous week for Wikipedia

Forum: Evaluating the Arbitration Committee's handling of GamerGate

Traffic report: A sea of faces

Recent research: Bot writes about theatre plays; "Renaissance editors" create better content

Special report: Traffic in the fog—most-viewed articles of 2014 include death, Facebook, and Ebola

Featured content: Like Jack Kerouac's On The Road, this week's issue was written on amphetamines

The Signpost: 04 February 2015

News and notes: No men beyond this point: the proposal to create a no-men space on Wikipedia

Op-ed: Is Wikipedia for sale?

In the media: Gamergate and Muhammad controversies continue

Traffic report: The American Heartland

Featured content: It's raining men!

Arbitration report: Slamming shut the GamerGate

WikiProject report: Dicing with death – on Wikipedia?

Technology report: Security issue fixed; VisualEditor changes

Gallery: Langston Hughes

The Signpost: 11 February 2015

From the editors: We want to know what you think!

News and notes: One editor faces likely ban for work on Wikipedia; Jimmy Wales awarded $1 million

In the media: Is Wikipedia eating itself?

Featured content: A grizzly bear, Operation Mascot, Freedom Planet & Liberty Island, cosmic dust clouds, a cricket five-wicket list, more fine art, & a terrible, terrible opera...

Traffic report: Bowled over

WikiProject report: Brand new WikiProjects profiled

Gallery: Feel the love

The Signpost: 18 February 2015

Editorial: Recent retirements typify problem of admin attrition

In the media: Students' use and perception of Wikipedia

Special report: Revision scoring as a service

Gallery: Darwin Day

Traffic report: February is for lovers

Featured content: A load of bull-sized breakfast behind the restaurant, Koi feeding, a moray eel, Spaghetti Nebula and other fishy, fishy fish

Arbitration report: We've built the nuclear reactor; now what colour should we paint the bikeshed?

Research newsletter

Hallo Atlasowa,

it appears that you have a longstanding interest in research about Wikipedia (e.g. I noticed your insightful remarks about the Wagner et al. paper on the Kurier talk page recently). I was wondering if you might be interested in occasionally contributing actively to the Wikimedia Research Newsletter yourself, e.g. by writing up a review or brief summary of a new publication? See here for more details and a todo list for next week's issue.

Grüße, Tbayer (WMF) (talk) 22:36, 21 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 25 February 2015

News and notes: Questions raised over WMF partnership with research firm

Op-ed: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own

In the media: WikiGnomes and Bigfoot

Featured content: The Moon, Mars, Venus, and Saturn, in no particular order. Also, Kaiser Kong.

Gallery: Far from home

Traffic report: Fifty Shades of... self-denial?

Recent research: Gender bias, SOPA blackout, and a student assignment that backfired

WikiProject report: Be prepared... Scouts in the spotlight

Blog: Join the Wikimedia strategy consultation

The Signpost: 25 February 2015

News and notes: Questions raised over WMF partnership with research firm

Op-ed: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own

In the media: WikiGnomes and Bigfoot

Featured content: The Moon, Mars, Venus, and Saturn, in no particular order. Also, Kaiser Kong.

Gallery: Far from home

Traffic report: Fifty Shades of... self-denial?

Recent research: Gender bias, SOPA blackout, and a student assignment that backfired

WikiProject report: Be prepared... Scouts in the spotlight

Blog: Join the Wikimedia strategy consultation

The Signpost: 04 March 2015

From the editor: A sign of the times: the Signpost revamps its internal structure to make contributing easier

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation and OTRS team both publish reports, indicate operating changes

Editorial: Conspiracy theories distract from real questions about grantmaking report

Traffic report: Attack of the movies

Arbitration report: Bradspeaks—impact, regrets, and advice; current cases hinge on sex, religion, and ... infoboxes

Interview: Meet a paid editor

In the media: Kanye West rebranded; Wikipedia in court; editors for hire

Featured content: Ploughing fields and trading horses with Rosa Bonheur

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

Blog: Black History Month edit-a-thons tackle Wikipedia’s multicultural gaps

The Signpost: 11 March 2015

Special report: An advance look at the WMF's fundraising survey

News and notes: WikiWomen's History Month—meetups, blog posts, and "Inspire" grant-making campaign

In the media: Gamergate; a Wiki hoax; Kanye West

In focus: WMF to NSA: "stop spying on Wikipedia users"

Traffic report: Wikipedia: handing knowledge to the world, one prank at a time

Featured content: Here they come, the couple plighted –

Op-ed: Why the Core Contest matters

The Signpost: 18 March 2015

From the editor: A salute to Pine

News and notes: SUL finalization imminent; executive office shake-ups at the Foundation

In the media: NYPD editing articles regarding allegations of police brutality and misconduct

Op-ed: Does the Wikimedia fundraising survey address community concerns?

Featured content: A woman who loved kings

Traffic report: It's not cricket

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The Signpost – Volume 11, Issue 12 – 25 March 2015

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation adopts open-access research policy

Op-ed: How my father's railroad image collection now benefits the world: the value of digitization

Featured content: A carnival of animals, a river of dung, a wasteland of uncles, and some people with attitude

Special report: Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2014

Traffic report: Oddly familiar

Recent research: Most important people; respiratory reliability; academic attitudes

Blog: The Wikipedia Library Team reflects on its new Visiting Scholars program

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The Signpost, 1 April 2015

In focus: WMF's latest strategy document shows successes, vagueness, and the need for better data

In the media: Wiki-PR duo bulldoze a piñata store; Wifione arbitration case; French parliamentary plagiarism

Featured content: Stop Press. Marie Celeste Mystery Solved. Crew Found Hiding In Wardrobe.

Traffic report: All over the place

News and notes: New edits-by-mail option will "revolutionize" Wikipedia and its editor base

Special report: Pictures of the Year 2015

The Signpost: 01 April 2015

In focus: WMF's latest strategy document shows successes, vagueness, and the need for better data

In the media: Wiki-PR duo bulldoze a piñata store; Wifione arbitration case; French parliamentary plagiarism

Featured content: Stop Press. Marie Celeste Mystery Solved. Crew Found Hiding In Wardrobe.

Traffic report: All over the place

News and notes: New edits-by-mail option will "revolutionize" Wikipedia and its editor base

Special report: Pictures of the Year 2015

The Signpost: 01 April 2015

In focus: WMF's latest strategy document shows successes, vagueness, and the need for better data

In the media: Wiki-PR duo bulldoze a piñata store; Wifione arbitration case; French parliamentary plagiarism

Featured content: Stop Press. Marie Celeste Mystery Solved. Crew Found Hiding In Wardrobe.

Traffic report: All over the place

News and notes: New edits-by-mail option will "revolutionize" Wikipedia and its editor base

Special report: Pictures of the Year 2015

The Signpost: 08 April 2015

Op-ed: We are drowning in promotional artspam

News and notes: Advancement department to be created at the Foundation, milestone fixes

In the media: Wikipedia on 60 Minutes, Kickstarter, and in the classroom

Traffic report: Resurrection week

Featured content: Partisan arrangements, dodgy dollars, a mysterious union of strings, and a hole that became a monument

WikiProject report: WikiProject Christianity

Arbitration report: New Functionary appointments

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

The Signpost: 15 April 2015

News and notes: Erik Möller leaving Foundation; annual plan grants under community review

In the media: Saving Wikipedia; Internet regulation; Thoreau quote hoax

Blog: Single-User Login provides access to all wikis

Traffic report: Furious domination

Featured content: Au-delà de les Alpes, le chien lit de Sainte Bernard. Sous les pavés, les trimes d'argent! Mes enfants, suivez-moi!

The Signpost: 22 April 2015

Special report: Sony emails reveal corporate practices and undisclosed advocacy editing

In the media: UK political editing; hoaxes; net neutrality

News and notes: Call for candidates as the movement approaches the Wikimedia Board elections

In focus: 2015 Wikimedia Foundation election preparations underway

Featured content: Vanguard on guard

Traffic report: A harvest of couch potatoes

Gallery: The bitter end

The Signpost: 29 April 2015

Wikimania: Choice of small village for Wikimania 2016 ruffles feathers

News and notes: Wiki Loves Monuments evaluation sees diminishing returns and increasing cost

In the media: Scottish MEP blocked for edit warring; ranking articles by importance

Featured content: Another day, another dollar

Traffic report: Bruce, Nessie, and genocide

Recent research: Military history, cricket, and Australia targeted in Wikipedia articles' popularity vs. quality; how copyright damages economy

Technology report: VisualEditor and MediaWiki updates

Persondata RfC

Hi, You participated in the previous Persondata RfC. I just wanted to notify you that a new RfC regarding the methodical removal of Persondata is taking place at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals). Thanks, —Msmarmalade (talk) 08:00, 6 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 06 May 2015

News and notes: "Inspire" grant-making campaign concludes, grantees announced

Featured content: The amorous android and the horsebreeder; WikiCup round two concludes

In the media: Guggenheim image donation; Wiki campaign gets advertising award

Special report: FDC candidates respond to key issues

Traffic report: The grim ship reality

The Signpost: 13 May 2015

Foundation elections: Board candidates share their views with the Signpost

News and notes: Swedish Wikimedia chapter organizes simultaneous Wikidata contests

Traffic report: Round Two

In the media: Grant Shapps story continues

Op-ed: What made Wikipedia lose its reputation?

Featured content: Four first-time featured article writers lead the way

The Signpost: 20 May 2015

From the editor: Your voice is needed: strategic voting in the WMF election

In focus: The awful truth about Wikimedia's article counts

Traffic report: Inner Core

News and notes: A dark side of comedy: the Wikipedia volunteers cleaning up behind John Oliver's fowl jokes

Featured content: Puppets, fungi, and waterfalls

In the media: Jimmy Wales accepts Dan David Prize

WikiProject report: Cell-ebrating Molecular Biology

Arbitration report: Editor conduct the subject of multiple cases

The Signpost: 27 May 2015

News and notes: WMF releases quarterly reports, annual plans

In the media: Scrubbing Parliamentary biographies; Wikipedia's invisible history

Discussion report: A relic from the past that needs to be updated

Featured content: When music was confined to a ribbon of rust

Recent research: Drug articles accurate and largely complete; women "slightly overrepresented"; talking like an admin

Traffic report: Summer, summer, summertime

Technology report: MediaWiki blows up printers

The Signpost: 03 June 2015

News and notes: Three new community-elected trustees announced, incumbents out

Blog: How Wikipedia covered Caitlyn Jenner’s transition

Discussion report: The deprecation of Persondata; RfA – A broken process; Complaints from users on Swedish Wikipedia

Featured content: It's not over till the fat man sings

Technology report: Things are getting SPDYier

Special report: Towards "Health Information for All": Medical content on Wikipedia received 6.5 billion page views in 2013

In the media: Anonymous Australian editing targets football player, shooting victim

Traffic report: A rather ordinary week

The Signpost: 10 June 2015

News and notes: Chapter financial trends analyzed, news in brief

Traffic report: Two households, both alike in dignity

In the media: Arbitration case attracts media coverage; Wikipedia in Israel

Featured content: Just the bear facts, ma'am

Technology report: Wikimedia sites are going HTTPS only

Blog: Making Wikipedia’s medical articles accessible in Chinese

The Signpost: 17 June 2015

In the media: Wikipedia wins Asturias Prize; printing out Wikipedia; HTTPS switch

Arbitration report: An election has consequences

In focus: Three weeks to save freedom of panorama in Europe

Op-ed: Making a difference in Wikipedia, one GA at a time

Technology report: HTTPS-only rollout completed; proposal to enable VisualEditor for new accounts

Interview: A veteran’s Wikipedia edits help him understand the brutality behind Yugoslavia’s wars

News and notes: Labs outage kills tools, self; news in brief

Featured content: Great Dane hits 150

Discussion report: A quick way of becoming an admin

WikiProject report: Western Australia speaks – we are back

The Signpost: 24 June 2015

From the editor: The Signpost tagging initiative

Op-ed: Content Translation beta is coming to the English Wikipedia

Special report: Small impact of the large Google Translation Project on Telugu Wikipedia

Featured content: One eye when begun, two when it's done

Recent research: How Wikipedia built governance capability; readability of plastic surgery articles

Technology report: 2015 MediaWiki architecture focus and Multimedia roadmap announced

News and notes: Board of Trustees propose bylaw amendments

In the media: Turkish Wikipedia censorship; "Can Wikipedia survive?"; PR editing

Blog: 7,473 volumes at 700 pages each: meet Print Wikipedia

Arbitration report: Politics by other means: The American politics 2 arbitration

The Signpost: 01 July 2015

News and notes: Training the Trainers; VP of Engineering leaves WMF

In the media: EU freedom of panorama; Nehru outrage; BBC apology

WikiProject report: Able to make a stand

Featured content: Viva V.E.R.D.I.

Traffic report: We're Baaaaack

Technology report: Technical updates and improvements

Blog: These Texans are on a quest to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of their state’s revolution

The Signpost: 08 July 2015

Editorial: So you want to get your message out. Where do you turn?

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation annual plan released, news in brief

In the media: Wikimania warning; Wikipedia "mystery" easily solved

Traffic report: The Empire lobs back

Featured content: Pyrénées, Playmates, parliament and a prison...

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Edit Activity Graphs

Hi Atlasowa,

I've made some new graphs visualizing the entire edit activity of a wiki - https://cosmiclattes.github.io/wikigraphs/data/wikis.html. I'm documenting work at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Editor_Behaviour_Analysis_%26_Graphs.

I've also put down some of the preliminary inferences regarding editor activity on en. Each graph has a selector on top of the page that allows you to filter it. On taking the cursor to the left end of the selector you'll get a resize cursor, you should then be able to redraw/drag the selection.

The thread I started on the research mailing list https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/2015-July/004582.html. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jeph paul (talk • contribs) 17:57, 15 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Op-ed: My life as an autistic Wikipedian

Recent research: Wikipedia and collective intelligence; how Wikipedia is tweeted

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In the media: Paid editing; traffic drop; Nicki Minaj

Forum: Community voices on paid editing

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Hey, you tagged this page for speedy deletion under G8, and I would like time to continue developing it. Please revert the deletion ASAP. Thanks! Check-Six (talk) 05:30, 25 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]