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The Signpost: 02 September 2015
- Special report: Massive paid editing network unearthed on the English Wikipedia
Nearly 400 accounts blocked in largest paid-editing bust ever.
- News and notes: Flow placed on ice
The WMF collaboration team announced this week that Flow will no longer be under active development.
- Discussion report: WMF's sudden reversal on Wiki Loves Monuments
A conflict regarding fundraising banners on the Italian Wikipedia is resolved.
- Featured content: Brawny
This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from 16 August to 24 August.
- In the media: Orangemoody sockpuppet case sparks widespread coverage
Also vital statistics regarding Ja Rule.
- Traffic report: You didn't miss much
The late-summer smash success of Straight Outta Compton remains the chief talking point of the English-speaking world, interrupted only by the welcome return of a Google Doodle.
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
Community technical news.
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- MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:08, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:International Space Elevator Consortium
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Please comment on Talk:Conduit (company)
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Hi there,
Yes, apologies, this is my first time putting together a Wiki page...and to be honest it's rather daunting.
I have permission to use all the information from the website that the copy was taken from (the Wiki page is FAR from complete, I want to add images too) and I'm just struggling with the copyright permission letter.
So please bear with me. Thanks ever so much.
DrUtonium (talk) 18:10, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 09 September 2015
- Gallery: Being Welsh
The National Library is now releasing some of the nation's most treasured collections to Wikimedia Commons for everyone to use and enjoy.
- Featured content: Killed by flying debris
Tony1 interviews a prolific featured content participant, Ian Rose.
- Op-ed: DYK, or proudly displaying incorrect information on the Main Page with alarming regularity
Fram tells us why DYK is a problem.
- News and notes: The Swedish Wikipedia's controversial two-millionth article
First bot-created article generated from Wikidata; the Orange Bar of Doom has finally met its doom; active editor numbers still on the rise; arbitrator to resign; ne templates added in wake of Orangemoody case
- Traffic report: Mass media production traffic
This week's theme in popular articles revolved entirely around mass media productions.
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
section begin "tech-newsletter-content"
- In the media: Calling all scientists!; More Wikipedia editors in the Netherlands than all of Africa combined
A recap of Wikipedia in the media this week
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Please comment on Talk:Beepi
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Speedy deletion declined: Draft:Hassan shah
Hello QuiteUnusual. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Draft:Hassan shah, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: The A (in this case A3) series can only be used in mainspace. Thank you. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:17, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
- ah, okay. Thanks. QuiteUnusual (talk) 11:20, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:List of countries by real GDP growth rate
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U n.ob
Mess with the mi.go.sy.rn and you pay the price
- Oooh, scary. Goodbye! QuiteUnusual (talk) 09:18, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:United States
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The Signpost: 16 September 2015
- Editorial: No access is no answer to closed access
On Wikipedia's commitment to open access and its obligations to readers and editors.
- News and notes: Byrd and notifications leave, but page views stay; was a terror suspect editing Wikipedia?
WMF CFO to depart, notifications come and go, and questions about the possible editing by a recently arrested terrorism suspect.
- In the media: Is there life on Mars?
Probably not. Also, Whitehall still editing Wikipedia.
- Featured content: Why did the emu cross the road?
This week's featured content.
- Traffic report: Another week
No particular trends to spot in this week's top article traffic.
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
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The Signpost: 23 September 2015
- In the media: PETA makes "monkey selfie" a three-way copyright battle; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
PETA launches a copyright lawsuit over the infamous photograph.
- Op-ed: Can we please stop bashing Wikipedia?
No, really, just stop.
- Featured content: Inside Duke Humfrey's Library
This week's featured content.
- WikiProject report: Dancing to the beat of a... wikiproject?
This time of year features the Latin Grammy Awards, so here for an interview are WikiProject Latin music.
- Traffic report: ¡Viva la Revolución! Kinda.
This week, drug lord and wannabe Bolivar Pablo Escobar was joined by a whole host of somewhat more primetime-friendly political insurgents.
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- MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:25, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Volkswagen emissions violations
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The Signpost: 30 September 2015
- News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation fundraising report, Montreal to host 2017 Wikimania
A year of fundraising and a controversial decision.
- In the media: Irish legislative editing; coffee quarrel; more sports vandalism
More Wikipedia editing in the news.
- Op-ed: Wikipedia needs more administrators
Low numbers of active admins and high standards for adminship make a troubling combination.
- Recent research: Wiktionary special; newbies, conflict and tolerance; Is Wikipedia's search function inferior?
A look at newly published Wikipedia research.
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- MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:36, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
Please comment on Category talk:Establishments
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The Signpost: 07 October 2015
- Op-ed: Walled gardens of corruption
Kazakhstan and Wikipedia: A marriage made in hell.
- Traffic report: Reality is for losers
English speakers, like most of humanity, are primarily a northern-hemispheric people, and as autumn draws close and the days grow shorter, as a group we tend to huddle around our flickering screens and remember what matters: TV, movies, sports and, of course, crazy doomsday prophecies.
- Featured content: This Week's Featured Content
Some of Wikipedia's newest featured content.
- Gallery: Winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 in Pakistan
These winners of the Wiki Loves Monuments Pakistan 2015 contest were shared with the Social Media mailing list recently.
- Arbitration report: Warning: Contains GMOs
A new case was opened for ArbCom as the Genetically modified organisms case was accepted and opened on 28 September.
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
A reproduced version of the Wikimedia tech newsletter.
- In the media: Jailed Saudi blogger wins award; PR editing and Wiki-embarassment; Pakistan's third-richest person?
A summary of Wikimedia's mentions in the media.
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- MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:21, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Leschi (fireboat)
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The Signpost: 14 October 2015
- Op-ed: WikiConference USA 2015: built on good faith
We believe that human interaction can only make Wikipedia stronger.
- WikiConference report: US gathering sees speeches from Andrew Lih, AfroCrowd, and the Archivist of the United States
Three days at the US National Archives.
- Editorial: Why the news media needs a Wikipedian in residence
The news coverage we usually see about Wikipedia is neither in-depth, nor specialized, nor systematic.
- News and notes: 2015–2016 Q1 fundraising update sparks mailing list debate
Everyone's talking about money.
- Traffic report: Screens, Sport, Reddit, and Death
For the second consecutive week, the most viewed article had less than one million views, the only two weeks that has happened in all of 2015.
- Featured content: A fistful of dollars
This week's featured content.
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
Community technical news.
- Blog: Third Wikimedia Spain conference takes place in Madrid
On September 25, 26 and 27, Wikimedia Spain celebrated its third Wikimedia Conference at the Colegio Mayor Universitario Isabel de España in Madrid.
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- MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:39, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Keynesian economics
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Please comment on Talk:Economic history
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The Signpost: 21 October 2015
- Editorial: Women and Wikipedia: the world is watching
Time to clean up our mess.
- News and notes: Wikimedia lawsuit against NSA dismissed; Affiliates mailing list launched
District court judge decrees that the WMF lacks standing.
- In the media: "Wikipedia's hostility to women"
"The lunatics are running the asylum."
- Special report: One year of GamerGate, or how I learned to stop worrying and love bare rule-level consensus
Examining the conflict and its participants.
- Featured content: A more balanced week
Featured content
- Op-ed: Wikipedia is significantly amplifying the impact of Open Access publications
When given a choice between journals of similar impact factors, editors are significantly more likely to select the “open access” option.
- Arbitration report: Four ArbCom cases ongoing
Open cases before the Arbitration Committee.
- Traffic report: Hiding under the covers of the Internet
We live in a harsh, uncertain world.
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Please comment on Talk:Gary Cooper
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The Signpost: 28 October 2015
- From the editor: The Signpost's reorganization plan—we need your help
A call for volunteers.
- News and notes: English Wikipedia reaches five million articles
The community reacts to another milestone.
- In the media: The world's Wikipedia gaps; Google and Wikipedia accused of tying Ben Carson to NAMBLA
The week's news coverage about the encyclopedia.
- Op-ed: It’s time to stop the bullying
Gangs of bullies and trolls rove the internet and make life difficult for the rest of us.
- Arbitration report: A second attempt at Arbitration enforcement
A divisive case before the Committee opens.
- Traffic report: Canada, the most popular nation on Earth
What's this all aboot, eh?
- Recent research: Student attitudes towards Wikipedia; Jesus, Napoleon and Obama top "Wikipedia social network"; featured article editing patterns in 12 languages
New research about Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects.
- Featured content: Birds, turtles, and other things
This week's featured content.
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- Community letter: Five million articles
The community celebrates.
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Please comment on Talk:Socialism
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Angela McGlowan
I edited your Angela McGlowan page because it is quite un-factual. All I did was match it to biographies and press releases that have been approved by Angela herself. I have received absolutely NO compensation for the editing of the article, but the way you have it is inaccurate so it MUST be changed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fvandervoort (talk • contribs) 16:50, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
- Please read the policies I directed you to. You will see that as her assistant you are assumed to have a conflict of interest regardless of whether you were specifically paid for the work. The fact that McGlowan "approved" the material you edited into the article is itself a major problem. Wikipedia insists on a neutral point of view that is arrived at using independent sources that are reliable. As I am sure is obvious this clearly isn't the case if you are using press releases and biographies. Given your conflict of interest you are strongly encouraged to not directly edit the article. QuiteUnusual (talk) 17:23, 6 November 2015 (UTC)