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6 September 2017   From the editors: What happened at Wikimania? News and notes: Basselpedia; WMF Board of Trustees appointments Featured content: Warfighters and their tools or trees and butterflies Traffic report: A fortnight of conflicts Special report: Biomedical content, and some thoughts on its future Recent research: Discussion summarization; Twitter bots tracking government edits; extracting trivia from Wikipedia In the media: Google's Ideological Echo Chamber; What makes someone successful? WikiProject report: WikiProject YouTube Technology report: Latest tech news Wikicup: 2017 WikiCup round 4 wrap-up Humour: Bots Single page Book Front page About Subscribe Suggestions Archives Centralized discussion Unrecognized non-UN entities among bordering countries Impersonation and misrepresentation by paid editors CheckUser and Oversight appointments Arbitration Committee Election format Academic notability guideline modification Movement strategy: draft strategic direction This week's article for improvement is George Lazenby George Lazenby at the Supanova Pop Culture Expo in 2014 Please be bold and help to improve this article! WikiProject Missing Encyclopedic articles (% done) Project page—The goal of this project is to ensure that Wikipedia has a corresponding article for every article in every other encyclopedia. Sign in! Monthly focus: MacTutor biographies 33 left 1911 verification: 20.6% ACF Regionals answers: 64.1% Hotlist of topics: 88.7% General topics: 79.6% Science topics: 92% Catholic Encyclopedia: 86.2% Easton's Bible Dictionary: 88% Encyclopaedia Biblica : 69.5% Evangelical Dictionary of Theology: 80.6% Gutenberg authors : 57.1% Jewish Encyclopedia : 39% Literary Encyclopedia: 81.9% Polish Biographical Dictionary: 6% Find-A-Grave: 85.1% Stanford Archive answers 97.9% Missing paintings 64.4% Miscellaneous Many other lists of politicians, songs, TV shows and others. Overall progress: 65.2% Spread the word through {{Project missing articles}} Active Wiki Fixup Projects Article Rescue Squadron Check Wikipedia Cleanup Dead-end pages Disambig pages w/ links Fix common mistakes Free images to Commons Geo-coordinates Missing articles Most-wanted articles Orphaned articles Red Link Recovery Requested articles Single editor Stubsensor Today's articles for improvement Uncategorised articles Unreferenced articles Wikification needed Main · Inactive · Mini

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• Until 14 March 2018, as part of the autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL), autoconfirmed status is required in order to create new articles.
• The RFC discussion regarding WP:OUTING and WMF essay about paid editing and outing (see more at the ArbCom noticeboard archives) is now archived. Milieus #3 and #4 received support; so did concrete proposal #1.
• The gadget to opt-out search results from sister projects is created per discussion. Registered users may go to user preferences setup, find the opt-out option and select it.
• Search results from selected sister projects—Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikivoyage (title matches only), Wikiquote, and Wikisource—are now activated. See more at the archived RfC discussion (short summary of results).

  Correction: There was "no consensus" to include search results from Wikibooks. Therefore, a Phabricator task was filed to suppress those search results.

  Update: Another discussion resulted in "no consensus" to include Wikibooks, but the task to suppress it from the cross-wiki search results was declined. A task to sort the sister projects snippets was made instead.

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Outlines

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Outlines

Under construction

• Draft:Outline of JavaScript
• Draft:Outline of George Washington
• Draft:Outline of Marvel Comics
• Draft:Outline of deep learning

New to article space

• Outline of galaxies
• Outline of fungi

Being overhauled or expanded

• Outline of Venezuela

Nearing completion (need remainder of annotations added)

• Outline of theatre
• Outline of meteorology

Attention needed

• Outline of communication
• Outline of computer security
• Outline of skiing
• Outline of sustainable agriculture
• Outline of telecommunication

Need link placement

• Outline of solar energy (place entries from See also into body of outline)
• Outline of prehistoric technology (place entries from See also into body of outline)
• Outline of sustainability (from nav footer)

Portals

Recently created

• Portal:Melbourne
• Portal:Perth
• Portal:Fergie (singer)
• Portal:Donald Trump
• Portal:Crawley

Attention needed

• Portal:Space - The selected article excerpts were copied and pasted between 2006 and 2009. The leads of the corresponding articles have greatly improved since then.
• Portal:Thinking - "Selected" sections need new material. Been the same for years.

The following portals have interesting design features that you may find useful:

• Portal:South East England - A "parent" portal that uses selected content from several "child" portals, chosen at random for each type of content.
• Portal:Philosophy - Automatically cycles through 52 "Selected philosophers", one per week, year after year.
• Portal:Arts - Uses random generators to display random featured status selections.

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