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The Signpost: 08 April 2015
- Op-ed: We are drowning in promotional artspam
Wikipedia has been gravitating towards a vehicle for business and product promotion for too long.
- News and notes: Advancement department to be created at the Foundation, milestone fixes
March saw a number of high-level hirings and executive reorganizations in the Wikimedia Foundation.
- In the media: Wikipedia on 60 Minutes, Kickstarter, and in the classroom
The venerable CBS news program 60 Minutes profiled Wikipedia and the Wikimedia community.
- Traffic report: Resurrection week
How appropriate that the theme of Easter week would be resurrection from the dead.
- Featured content: Partisan arrangements, dodgy dollars, a mysterious union of strings, and a hole that became a monument
Four featured articles, seven featured lists, and 23 featured pictures were promoted this week.
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Christianity
With Holy Week having recently drawn to a close, it is an apt time to examine WikiProject Christianity, which was created in 2006, and boasts over 200 active members.
- Arbitration report: New Functionary appointments
The Committee has voted on the 2015 appointments to the Functionary team.
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community.
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Today's articles for improvement

- Hello ChamithN:
- This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaboration has begun at Week 19 of 2015. Thanks for participating!
This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2015)
Hello, ChamithN.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: History of technology • Garbage picking Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 01:25, 13 April 2015 (UTC) • |
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Regarding the article "Maithripala Sirisena"
This is regarding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maithripala_Sirisena.
This is the statement in question. "Sirsena was the winner in 12, 6 of which consisted of predominantly Tamil or Muslim minorities whilst Rajapaksa was victorious in the remaining 10 where the majority was the Sinhalese."
Your justification on reverting this statement was that "Other than your own words do you have a reliable source which explicitly says he won due to tamils?". Now could you kindly point out which of my phrases suggest that Mr.Sirisena won due to Tamils? I have just indicated the ethnic demographics of the electoral districts. Please answer this question directly, otherwise I will have to revert the changes you made.
Thanks
--Sadeera (talk) 21:59, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 15 April 2015
- News and notes: Erik Möller leaving Foundation; annual plan grants under community review
The Wikimedia Foundation's vice president for engineering, Erik Möller, will leave the WMF on April 30.
- In the media: Saving Wikipedia; Internet regulation; Thoreau quote hoax
Time profiles Lila Tretikov, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, and paints a grim picture of the challenges faced by Tretikov and the encyclopedia.
- Blog: Single-User Login provides access to all wikis
Later this month, everyone will be able to use the same user name on every wiki, thanks to Single-User Login.
- Traffic report: Furious domination
If it wasn't for Easter, Fast and Furious related articles would have taken the top four spots this week. The latest installment of the movie franchise, Furious 7, tops the chart for the second straight week.
- Featured content: Au-delà de les Alpes, le chien lit de Sainte Bernard. Sous les pavés, les trimes d'argent! Mes enfants, suivez-moi!
Six featured articles, four featured lists, and fourteen featured pictures were promoted this week.
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This week's article for improvement (week 17, 2015)
A satellite image demonstrating the Geography of Niger
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Aerophone • History of technology Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:08, 20 April 2015 (UTC) • |
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Pharrell Williams
Hello ChamithN,
Just got your message and thanks very much for your prompt reply !
I thought it would be a good idea to include this website : it seems to be a website which consolidates one's online presence. It seems to be a kind of dictionnary / address book of social networks for a specific person - hence the link to the true encyclopedia meaning. Since social network is a very current issue, I thought it would be useful to include it to help wikipedia users like me find our way quickly and in an efficient way.
What do you think ?
bob traf — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bobtraf (talk • contribs) 12:53, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
- Hi Bobtraf, I had to remove the link you added because of the Wikipedia guidelines. Specifically according to this one. If you read that you will understand why I had to remove that link. Also you used a template that doesn't exist. Which means you link wasn't shown. As
{{Pharrell Williams' Social Media|....link....}}is not in Wikimedia foundation databases it rejected your addition. Hope you will understand. Regards --Chamith (talk) 13:00, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 22 April 2015
- Special report: Sony emails reveal corporate practices and undisclosed advocacy editing
A Signpost investigation of the released data has revealed Sony's corporate practices regarding Wikipedia and uncovered what appears to be undisclosed advocacy editing of Wikipedia by Sony employees and possibly by others.
- In the media: UK political editing; hoaxes; net neutrality
Wikipedia appears to have been drawn into the drama of the upcoming, hotly contested UK general election.
- News and notes: Call for candidates as the movement approaches the Wikimedia Board elections
The Affiliates Committee this week announced the organization of a community referral for comment, currently open on the meta-wiki, to address upcoming changes to the way that the Affiliations Committee will review movement-affiliated user-groups in the future.
- In focus: 2015 Wikimedia Foundation election preparations underway
2015 will see through the biennial community election for the three community-elected seats on the Board of Trustees—the "ultimate corporate authority" of the Wikimedia Foundation and the level at which the strategic decisions regarding the Wikimedia movement are made.
- Featured content: Vanguard on guard
Six featured articles and fifteen featured pictures were promoted this week.
- Traffic report: A harvest of couch potatoes
Couch potatoes rule this week, as 9 of the top 10 slots were taken by either movies, TV, or sports.
- Gallery: The bitter end
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Today's articles for improvement

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- This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaboration has begun at Week 21 of 2015. Thanks for participating!
This week's article for improvement (week 18, 2015)
Hydroelectric dams use hydropower to generate electricity
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Geography of Niger • Aerophone Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:08, 27 April 2015 (UTC) • |
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The Signpost: 29 April 2015
- Wikimania: Choice of small village for Wikimania 2016 ruffles feathers
Esino Lario is set to host Wikimania 2016, but volunteers and others have raised a host of concerns that raise serious questions about the town's suitability for hosting such a large conference.
- News and notes: Wiki Loves Monuments evaluation sees diminishing returns and increasing cost
The evaluations reveal that in the last three years, WLM has possibly fallen victim to its own success and seen diminishing returns.
- In the media: Scottish MEP blocked for edit warring; ranking articles by importance
David Coburn, a Member of the European Parliament for the Scotland region for the UK Independence Party, was blocked from editing Wikipedia on April 6.
- Featured content: Another day, another dollar
Ten featured articles, nine featured lists, and twenty-eight featured pictures were promoted this week.
- Traffic report: Bruce, Nessie, and genocide
Though the continued predominance of movies, TV, and sports noted in last week's report largely continues, three additional topics joined the Top 10 this week.
- Recent research: Military history, cricket, and Australia targeted in Wikipedia articles' popularity vs. quality; how copyright damages economy
Reader demand for some topics (e.g. LGBT topics or pages about countries) is poorly satisfied, whereas there is over-abundance of quality on topics of comparatively little interest, such as military history.
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Spec Ops the line edits
Hi there,
So I recently noticed you removed the edits I recently made on Spec Ops The Line. I completely understand why you would, I just wanted to inform you that it wasn't a test edit. I just wanted to clean up a few things in that section. I was the gta v page as an example, and added in some other stuff like publisher, fixed some broken and downright wrong links, and added in what the metacritic was in the written part of reception. My apologies, I realized that I kind of came out of nowhere and made what seemed to be a bunch of random edits. Won't happen again :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Famous Hobo (talk • contribs) 18:15, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
- @Famous Hobo: I'm really sorry. I didn't know your intention was to improve that article. It seemed like a test edit to me so I reverted it. By reading your message I can feel that your motive was to improve Wikipedia. Please provide an edit summary next time so that your edits wont be hastily reverted again. Cheers!--Chamith (talk) 20:18, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
Today's articles for improvement

- Hello ChamithN:
- This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaboration has begun at Week 22 of 2015. Thanks for participating!
This week's article for improvement (week 24, 2026)
Hello, ChamithN.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Hydropower • Geography of Niger Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Sent by Northamerica1000 using mass messaging on 00:33, 4 May 2015 (UTC) • |
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Re: Windows 10
I'm sorry, but Wikipedia guidelines and policies override what the source says on this matter. MOS:SEASONS explicitly states that we do not make direct references to seasons in scenarios such as this. ViperSnake151 Talk 17:01, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
- @ViperSnake151: No problem. I wasn't aware of this. Well, you learn something new everyday right? Thank you for leaving me a message. Cheers--Chamith (talk) 17:23, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
WikiCup 2015 May newsletter

The Herald (submissions) during the second round.The second round one has all wrapped up, and round three has now begun! Congratulations to the 34 contestants who have made it through, but well done and thank you to all contestants who took part in our second round. Leading the way overall was
Cas Liber (submissions) in Group B with a total of 777 points for a variety of contributions including Good Articles on Corona Borealis and Microscopium - both of which received the maximum bonus.
Special credit must be given to a number of high importance articles improved during the second round.
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Coemgenus (submissions) was one of several users who worked on improving Ulysses S. Grant. Remember, you do not need to work on an article on your own - as long as each person has completed significant work on the article during 2015, multiple competitors can claim the same article. -
Cwmhiraeth (submissions) took Dragonfly to Good Article for a 3x bonus - and if that wasn't enough, they also took Damselfly there as well for a 2x bonus. -
LeftAire (submissions) worked up Alexander Hamilton to Good Article for the maximum bonus. Hamilton was one of the founding fathers of the United States and is a level 4 vital article.
The points varied across groups, with the lowest score required to gain automatic qualification was 68 in Group A - meanwhile the second place score in Group H was 404, which would have been high enough to win all but one of the other Groups! As well as the top two of each group automatically going through to the third round, a minimum score of 55 was required for a wildcard competitor to go through. We had a three-way tie at 55 points and all three have qualified for the next round, in the spirit of fairness. The third round ends on June 28, with the top two in each group progressing automatically while the remaining 16 highest scorers across all four groups go through as wildcards. Good luck to all competitors for the third round! Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), Miyagawa (talk · contribs · email) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) 16:26, 4 May 2015 (UTC)