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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
19	Carthay, Los Angeles (talk)	Add sources
15	BladeSystem (talk)	Add sources
187	Traffic message channel (talk)	Add sources
98	1980 Mr. Olympia (talk)	Add sources
41	1983 Mr. Olympia (talk)	Add sources
57	The Last of a Dying Breed (talk)	Add sources
85	Cannibalism in popular culture (talk)	Cleanup
31	Denver Police Department (talk)	Cleanup
1,718	Captain Marvel (DC Comics) (talk)	Cleanup
167	Century City, Los Angeles (talk)	Expand
28	Gopalganj District, Bangladesh (talk)	Expand
6	Dickey Lee Hullinghorst (talk)	Expand
113	Transportation in Los Angeles (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
657	CeeLo Green (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
115	Pacific Islands American (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
4	Weirton–Steubenville metropolitan area (talk)	Merge
39	Fan Expo Canada (talk)	Merge
146	Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles (talk)	Merge
6	Evgeny Mishin (talk)	Wikify
72	Metropolitan State University of Denver (talk)	Wikify
128	Westchester, Los Angeles (talk)	Wikify
2	International Development and Relief Foundation (talk)	Orphan
6	Latisha Wilder (talk)	Orphan
5	Julie Lohre (talk)	Orphan
14	SoundTeMP (talk)	Stub
32	Little Ethiopia, Los Angeles (talk)	Stub
13	Arthur Batanides (talk)	Stub
84	The Untouchable (talk)	Stub
39	True Story (Terror Squad album) (talk)	Stub
24	Digital Audio Radio Service (talk)	Stub

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We have changed the number of suggested articles and which categories they are selected from. The number of stubs has been greatly reduced, the number of articles needing sources doubled, and two new categories added (orphans and unencyclopaedic articles). We have also modified the layout of the suggestions and added sortable columns with various types of information about each article. The first two columns are:

Views/Day: Daily average number of views an article's had over the past 14 days.
Quality: Predicted article quality on a 1- to 3-star scale. Placing your cursor over the stars should give you a pop-up describing the article's quality (Low/Medium/High), current assessment class, and predicted assessment class.

The method we use to predict article quality also allows us to assess whether an article might need specific types of work in order to improve its quality. The work needed might not correspond to cleanup tags added to the article, since our method is not based on those. We have added five columns reflecting this work assessment, where a red X indicates improvement is needed. Placing your cursor over an X should give you a pop-up with a short description of the work needed. The five columns seek to answer the following five questions:

Content: Is more content needed?
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Images: Is the number of illustrative images about right?
Links: Does this article link to enough other Wikipedia articles?
Sources: For its length, is there an appropriate number of citations to sources in this article?

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Live in the Studio 1979

Thanks for fixing this up! Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 11:24, 26 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Books and Bytes: The Wikipedia Library Newsletter

Books and Bytes

Volume 1, Issue 1, October 2013

by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs)

Greetings Wikipedia Library members! Welcome to the inaugural edition of Books and Bytes, TWL’s monthly newsletter. We're sending you the first edition of this opt-in newsletter, because you signed up, or applied for a free research account: HighBeam, Credo, Questia, JSTOR, or Cochrane. To receive future updates of Books and Bytes, please add your name to the subscriber's list. There's lots of news this month for the Wikipedia Library, including new accounts, upcoming events, and new ways to get involved...

New positions: Sign up to be a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar, or a Volunteer Wikipedia Librarian

Wikipedia Loves Libraries: Off to a roaring start this fall in the United States: 29 events are planned or have been hosted.

New subscription donations: Cochrane round 2; HighBeam round 8; Questia round 4... Can we partner with NY Times and Lexis-Nexis??

New ideas: OCLC innovations in the works; VisualEditor Reference Dialog Workshop; a photo contest idea emerges

News from the library world: Wikipedian joins the National Archives full time; the Getty Museum releases 4,500 images; CERN goes CC-BY

Announcing WikiProject Open: WikiProject Open kicked off in October, with several brainstorming and co-working sessions

New ways to get involved: Visiting scholar requirements; subject guides; room for library expansion and exploration

Read the full newsletter

Thanks for reading! All future newsletters will be opt-in only. Have an item for the next issue? Leave a note for the editor on the Suggestions page. --The Interior 22:01, 27 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
6	WFKS (talk)	Add sources
3	Deposit model (talk)	Add sources
38	Themselves (talk)	Add sources
2	Board Up the House Remixes Volume 4 (talk)	Add sources
6	WVKS (talk)	Add sources
1,338	Assassin's Creed (video game) (talk)	Add sources
23	Warrior, Alabama (talk)	Cleanup
121	Railroad classes (talk)	Cleanup
2	Behind the Walls of Imagination (talk)	Cleanup
11	Jessica Bailiff (talk)	Expand
72	The Science of Things (talk)	Expand
1,486	Waterloo Road (TV series) (talk)	Expand
127	U.S. cities with teams from four major league sports (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
20	Songs Not to Get Married To (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
9	Bangladeshi hip hop (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
12	Kick in the Eye (talk)	Merge
14	International association without lucrative purpose (talk)	Merge
87	Texas Triangle (talk)	Merge
2	Void Dweller (talk)	Wikify
292	San Pedro, Los Angeles (talk)	Wikify
1	Freddy Fjellheim (talk)	Wikify
0	Nazis EP (talk)	Orphan
4	The Grand Partition and the Abrogation of Idolatry (talk)	Orphan
1	Electronic Warfare (album) (talk)	Orphan
414	Hot Pockets (talk)	Stub
15	Introducing The Beau Brummels (talk)	Stub
3	WCKS (talk)	Stub
1	WKKZ (talk)	Stub
99	Tunak Tunak Tun (talk)	Stub
5	Westside Village, Los Angeles (talk)	Stub

Changes to SuggestBot's suggestions

We have changed the number of suggested articles and which categories they are selected from. The number of stubs has been greatly reduced, the number of articles needing sources doubled, and two new categories added (orphans and unencyclopaedic articles). We have also modified the layout of the suggestions and added sortable columns with various types of information about each article. The first two columns are:

Views/Day: Daily average number of views an article's had over the past 14 days.
Quality: Predicted article quality on a 1- to 3-star scale. Placing your cursor over the stars should give you a pop-up describing the article's quality (Low/Medium/High), current assessment class, and predicted assessment class.

The method we use to predict article quality also allows us to assess whether an article might need specific types of work in order to improve its quality. The work needed might not correspond to cleanup tags added to the article, since our method is not based on those. We have added five columns reflecting this work assessment, where a red X indicates improvement is needed. Placing your cursor over an X should give you a pop-up with a short description of the work needed. The five columns seek to answer the following five questions:

Content: Is more content needed?
Headings: Does this article have an appropriate section structure?
Images: Is the number of illustrative images about right?
Links: Does this article link to enough other Wikipedia articles?
Sources: For its length, is there an appropriate number of citations to sources in this article?

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If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom (talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot (talk) 23:25, 30 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation link fixing one-day contest

I have decided to put on a mini-contest within the November 2013 monthly disambiguation contest, on Saturday, November 23 (UTC). I will personally give a $20 Amazon.com gift card to the disambiguator who fixes the most links on that server-day (see the project page for details on scoring points). Since we are not geared up to do an automated count for that day, at 00:00, 23 November 2013 (UTC) (which is 7:00 PM on November 22, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the project page leaderboard. I will presume that anyone who is not already listed on the leaderboard has precisely nine edits. At 01:00, 24 November 2013 (UTC) (8:00 PM on November 23, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the leaderboard at that time (the extra hour is to give the board time to update), and I will determine from that who our winner is. I will credit links fixed by turning a WP:DABCONCEPT page into an article, but you'll have to let me know me that you did so. Here's to a fun contest. Note that according to the Daily Disambig, we currently have under 256,000 disambiguation links to be fixed. If everyone in the disambiguation link fixers category were to fix 500 links, we would have them all done - so aim high! Cheers! bd2412 T 02:25, 18 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
2	Board Up the House Remixes Volume 5 (talk)	Add sources
12	Faircrest Heights, Los Angeles (talk)	Add sources
0	Silver (Minuit EP) (talk)	Add sources
353	Brentwood, Los Angeles (talk)	Add sources
3	Blade Wars (talk)	Add sources
3	Sunyata (Robert Rich album) (talk)	Add sources
389	Masters of Horror (talk)	Cleanup
12	Rustic Canyon, Los Angeles (talk)	Cleanup
21	Bengal Sultanate (talk)	Cleanup
8	Ironman Pro Invitational (talk)	Expand
43	Paul Thompson (musician) (talk)	Expand
27	Adela Garcia (talk)	Expand
227	Crime in Los Angeles (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
2,413	Horror film (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
52	Channel drift (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,707	Silver Surfer (talk)	Merge
0	Stevie Nicks Hearts (talk)	Merge
6	Palisades Highlands, Los Angeles (talk)	Merge
39	Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles (talk)	Wikify
81	ABU Song Festivals (talk)	Wikify
18	Mediaguide (talk)	Wikify
7	Kerry Kayes (talk)	Orphan
2	Rashid Shabazz (talk)	Orphan
2	Lara Bloom (talk)	Orphan
2	Book of Bad Breaks (talk)	Stub
4	Marina Peninsula, Los Angeles (talk)	Stub
4,455	McBusted (talk)	Stub
5	Brentwood Circle, Los Angeles (talk)	Stub
1	55 Stories (talk)	Stub
3	KIFS (talk)	Stub

SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!

If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom (talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot (talk) 19:00, 19 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]