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Reference system

Hi.

Please avoid further reversions of the reference system until it has been discussed in the case which I am about to open.

Greetings,

 — Breadbasket 17:25, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

Do you disagree with the improved reference system? If yes, why? It is not a sufficient argument that it ‘is fine’.
Greetings,
 — Breadbasket 17:39, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

Betty Carter

Thank you so much Gareth! It's been a lot of fun. Make sure when you're done with your page to put the link on the Betty Carter page. I definitely want to see the finished result! Maureenkhoff365 (talk) 18:16, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

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DYK nomination of Chipping Norton set

Hello! Your submission of Chipping Norton set at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Secretlondon (talk) 23:12, 25 May 2012 (UTC) Secretlondon (talk) 23:12, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

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Re: Kurt Elling - Burghausen 2011

Check out this live version of "Golden Lady" The vocalese is pretty good here towards the end. Kurt's playing around 200 gigs a year, can you believe it? Viriditas (talk) 11:57, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 July 2012

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  • WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Olympics
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  • Op-ed: The future of PR on Wikipedia
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  • Featured content: When is an island not an island?
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The Signpost: 30 July 2012

  • WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Horse Racing
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  • Featured content: One of a kind
    Eight new featured articles, five new featured lists, and eight new featured pictures. The highlights include a new featured picture of Frank Sinatra, created by William P. Gottlieb and nominated by Tomer T. Sinatra (1915–98) was a highly successful American singer and film actor whose career spanned 60 years. This image dates from around 1947.
  • Arbitration report: No pending or open arbitration cases
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First and last request

Kindly stay away from my article, it is under watch by some of the most senior editors on Wikipedia and because of your lack of knowledge about hip hop you put up that banner on my page and after I saved the article, it went back to the same because of that banner, there are 2 valid sources about Sanki King being the only super hip hopper in Pakistan, all my editing of 2 hours has gone down the drain. A super hip hopper is a term used for a person who has mastered all 4 elements of hip hop, talk to KRS ONE or Caddy One, they will teach you Hip Hop. Thanks - SameStruggle (talk) 23:04, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

Just because something is meaningless FOR YOU, doesnt give you the authority to go around messing with other people. I have valid references for the Super Hip Hopper thing and you cannot prove it wrong anywhere in the world because its in the news. Never come back to my article again I have master editors watching my page. SameStruggle (talk) 23:39, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 06 August 2012

  • Op-ed: The Athena Project: being bold
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  • Featured content: Casliber's words take root
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  • Technology report: Wikidata nears first deployment but wikis go down in fibre cut calamity
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  • WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Martial Arts
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The Signpost: 13 August 2012

  • Op-ed: Small Wikipedias' burden
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  • Featured content: On the road again
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  • Technology report: "Phabricating" a serious alternative to Gerrit
    Three weeks into a month-long evaluation of code review tool Gerrit, a serious alternative has finally gained traction in the review process: Facebook-developed but now independently operated Phabricator and its sister command-line tool Arcanist.
  • WikiProject report: Dispute Resolution
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The Signpost: 20 August 2012

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  • In the news: American judges on citing Wikipedia
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  • Featured content: Enough for a week – but I'm damned if I see how the helican.
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  • Technology report: Lua onto test2wiki and news of a convention-al extension
    New embeddable scripting ("template replacement") language Lua received considerable scrutiny this week when it began its long road to widespread deployment, landing on the test2wiki test site on Wednesday (wikitech-l mailing list). ... the fourth in our series profiling participants in this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC) programme.
  • WikiProject report: Land of Calm and Contrast: Korea
    This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Korea. Started in September 2006, WikiProject Korea covers the history and culture of the Korean people, including both countries that currently occupy the Korean peninsula. This task has proven difficult with North Koreans notably absent from the Wikipedia community due to tight control over access to external media. The project is home to over 16,000 pages, including 15 pieces of Featured material and 66 Good and A-class Articles.

The Signpost: 27 August 2012

  • News and notes: Tough journey for new travel guide
    Wikimedia editors have been debating a community proposal for the adoption of a new project to host free travel-guide content. The debate reached a new stage when a three-month request for comment on Meta came to an end, with a decision to set up the first new type of Wikimedia project in half a decade. The original proposal for the travel guide unfolded during April on Meta and the Wikimedia-l mailing lists, centring around the wish of volunteer contributors to the WikiTravel project to work in a non-commercial environment.
  • Technology report: Just how bad is the code review backlog?
    Developers were left one step closer to an understanding of the code review outlook this week after the creation of a graph plotting "number changesets awaiting review" over time. The chart, which also shows the number of new changesets created on a daily basis, reveals a peak in the number of unreviewed changesets in mid-July, followed by a short drop. The current figure stands at approximately 219 unreviewed changesets.
  • Featured content: Wikipedia rivals The New Yorker: Mark Arsten
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  • WikiProject report: From sonic screwdrivers to jelly babies: Doctor Who
    This week, we hopped in a little blue box with a batch of companions from WikiProject Doctor Who. Started in April 2005, the project has grown to include about 4,000 pages about the world's longest-running science fiction television show, its spinoffs, and various related material. The project is the parent of the Torchwood Taskforce and a child of WikiProject British TV and WikiProject Science Fiction. With new Doctor Who episodes airing this week and a 50th anniversary celebration around the corner, we thought now would be a good time to inquire about the famed Time Lord.

The Signpost: 03 September 2012

  • News and notes: World's largest photo competition kicks off; WMF legal fees proposal
    Some of Wikimedia's most valuable photographs have been shot and uploaded under free licenses as a direct result of the annual Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) event each September. Last year, the project was conducted on a European level, resulting in the submission of an extraordinary 168,208 free images of cultural heritage sites ("monuments") from 18 countries, making it the world's largest photographic competition. Organising the 2012 event—which has just opened and will run for the full month of September—has required input from chapters and volunteers in 35 countries.
  • Technology report: Time for a MediaWiki Foundation?
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  • Featured content: Wikipedia's Seven Days of Terror
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  • Op-ed: Dispute resolution – where we're at, what we're doing well, and what needs fixing
    Since May 2012 I've been a Wikimedia Foundation community fellow with the task of researching and improving dispute resolution on English Wikipedia. Surveying members of the community has revealed much about their thoughts on and experiences with dispute resolution. I've analysed processes to determine their use and effectiveness, and have presented ideas that I hope will improve the future of dispute resolution.

The Signpost: 10 September 2012

  • From the editor: Signpost adapts as news consumption changes
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  • Op-ed: Fixing Wikipedia's help pages one key to editor retention
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  • WikiProject report: WikiProject Fungi
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  • Special report: Two Wikipedians set to face jury trial
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  • News and notes: Researchers find that Simple English Wikipedia has "lost its focus"
    In its September issue, the peer-reviewed journal First Monday published The readability of Wikipedia, reporting research which shows that the English Wikipedia is struggling to meet Flesch reading ease test criteria, while the Simple English Wikipedia has "lost its focus".
  • Technology report: Mmmm, milkshake...
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Hi. Re. Chazara kaufmanni, thanks a lot Gareth for your comments. Much appreciated. I'm not sure if I'm using the right window to send you this message as I'm not familiar with the talk window. Jonathan Agius — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jonagius79 (talk • contribs) 21:57, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
For your great work reviewing new pages using Special:NewPagesFeed :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 06:25, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Willy Clarkson

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The Signpost: 17 September 2012

  • From the editor: Signpost expands to Facebook
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  • WikiProject report: Action! — The Indian Cinema Task Force
    This week, we shine the spotlight on the Indian Cinema Task Force, a subproject that seeks to improve the quality and quantity of articles about Indian cinema. As a child of WikiProject Film and WikiProject India, the Indian Cinema Task Force shares a variety of templates, resources, and members with its parent projects. The task force works on a to-do list, maintains the Bollywood Portal, and ensures articles follow the film style guidelines. With Indian cinema celebrating its 100th year of existence in 2013, we asked Karthik Nadar (Karthikndr), Secret of success, Ankit Bhatt, Dwaipayan, and AnimeshKulkarni what is in store for the Indian Cinema Task Force.
  • Featured content: Go into the light
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  • News and notes: Tens of thousands of monuments loved; members of new funding body announced
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  • Technology report: Future-proofing: HTML5 and IPv6
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James McGregor Stewart

Are you able to assist? You helped me before and this article is again being subjected to possible deletion. I am baffled as it is obviously notable. Any assistance would be great.==

Rmalhotr (talk) 23:46, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

Marcia Falkender, Baroness Falkender article

You might wish to contribute to the discussion at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard#Marcia Falkender, Baroness Falkender. — Richardguk (talk) 01:13, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

A7 of Azzan Bin Qais International School- Seeb

Hi. CSD:A7 specifically excludes schools. --Shirt58 (talk) 09:39, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

Page Curation newsletter

Hey No Swan So Fine. I'm dropping you a note because you've been using the Page Curation suite recently - this is just to let you know that we've deployed the final version :). There's some help documentation Wikipedia:Page Curation/Introductionhere that shows off all the features, just in case there are things you're not familiar with. If you find any bugs or have requests for new features, let us know here. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 11:51, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 September 2012

  • In the media: Editor's response to Roth draws internet attention
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  • WikiProject report: 01010010 01101111 01100010 01101111 01110100 01101001 01100011 01110011
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  • News and notes: UK chapter rocked by Gibraltar scandal
    In the second controversy to engulf Wikimedia UK in two months, its immediate past chair Roger Bamkin has resigned from the board of the chapter. The resignation last Wednesday followed a growing furore over the conflict of interest between two of Roger's roles outside the chapter and his close involvement in the UK board's decision-making process, including the access to private mailing lists that board members in all chapters need. But the irony surrounding Roger's resignation is its connection with efforts by Wikimedians and collaborators to strengthen the reach of Wikimedia projects through technical innovation.
  • Technology report: Signpost investigation: code review times
    Late last month, the "Technology report" included a story using code review backlog figures – the only code review figures then available – to construct a rough narrative about the average experience of code contributors. This week, we hope to go one better, by looking directly at code review wait times, and, in particular, median code review times
  • Featured content: Dead as...
    Fourteen featured articles were promoted this week, including Dodo, along with six featured lists and five featured pictures.

The Signpost: 01 October 2012

  • Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Founder: Jimmy Wales
    Does Wikipedia Pay? is a Signpost series seeking to illuminate paid editing, paid advocacy, for-profit Wikipedia consultants, editing public relations professionals, conflict of interest guidelines in practice, and the Wikipedians who work on these issues by speaking openly with the people involved. This week, a scandal centering around Roger Bamkin's work with Wikimedia UK and Gibraltarpedia erupted ... In light of these events, opinions on how to avoid future controversy are as important as ever. ... The Signpost spoke with Jimmy Wales to better understand how he views the paid editing environment and what he thinks is needed to improve it.
  • News and notes: Independent review of UK chapter governance; editor files motion against Wikitravel owners
    Following considerable online and media reportage on the Gibraltar controversy and a Signpost report last week, the Wikimedia UK chapter and the foundation published a joint statement on September 28: "To better understand the facts and details of these allegations and to ensure that governance arrangements commensurate with the standing of the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia UK and the worldwide Wikimedia movement, Wikimedia UK's trustees and the Wikimedia Foundation will jointly appoint an independent expert advisor to objectively review both Wikimedia UK's governance arrangements and its handling of the conflict of interest."
  • Featured content: Mooned
    Five articles, three lists, and nine images were promoted to "featured" this week.
  • Technology report: WMF and the German chapter face up to Toolserver uncertainty
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  • WikiProject report: The Name's Bond... WikiProject James Bond
    In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the James Bond film series, we spent some time bonding with WikiProject James Bond. The project is in the unique position of having already pushed all of its primary content to Good and Featured status, including all of Ian Fleming's novels, short stories, and every film that has been released. Work has begun in earnest on the article Skyfall for the release of the new Bond film later this month. The project could still use help improving articles about Bond actors, characters, gadgets, music, video games, and related topics

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The Signpost: 08 October 2012

  • News and notes: Education Program faces community resistance
    Wikipedia in education is far from a new idea: years of news stories, op-eds, and editorials have focused on the topic; and on Wikipedia itself, the Schools and universities projects page has existed in various forms since 2003. Over the next six years, the page was rarely developed, and when it did advance there was no clear goal in mind.
  • WikiProject report: Ten years and one million articles: WikiProject Biography
    On this day five years ago, the WikiProject Report debuted as a new Signpost column with an overview of WikiProject Biography. Today, we're celebrating two milestone: five years of the WikiProject Report and the tenth birthday of our first featured project. WikiProject Biography is by far the largest WikiProject on Wikipedia, with over one million articles under the project's scope. As a comparison, WikiProject Biography is three times larger than Wikipedia's second largest project, and if WikiProject Biography were split into its 14 subprojects and work groups, it would still make the list of the 20 largest WikiProjects... four times.
  • Featured content: A dash of Arsenikk
    This week the Signpost interviews Arsenikk, an editor of six years who has brought sixteen lists through our featured list process, mostly regarding transportation in Norway but also about the 1952 Winter Olympics and World Heritage Sites in Africa. Arsenikk tells us about why he joined the project, what moves him, and how editors can join the sometimes daunting world of featured lists.
  • Technology report: The ups and downs of September and October, plus extension code review analysis
    The Wikimedia Foundation's engineering report for September 2012 was published this week on the Wikimedia Techblog and on the MediaWiki wiki, giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month (as well as brief coverage of progress on Wikimedia Deutschland's Wikidata project, phase 1 of which is edging its way towards its first deployment). Three of the seven headline items in the report have already been covered in the Signpost: problems with the corruption of several Gerrit (code) repositories, the introduction of widespread translation memory across Wikimedia wikis, and the launch of the "Page Curation" tool on the English Wikipedia, with development work on that project now winding down. The report also drew attention to the end of Google Summer of Code 2012, the deployment to the English Wikipedia of a new ePUB (electronic book) export feature, and improvements to the WLM app aimed at more serious photographers.

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The Signpost: 15 October 2012

  • Op-ed: AdminCom: A proposal for changing the way we select admins
    There is wide agreement among English Wikipedians that the administrator system is in some ways broken—but no consensus on how to fix it. Most suggestions have been relatively small in scope, and could at best produce small improvements. I would like to make a proposal to fundamentally restructure the administrator system, in a way that I believe would make it more effective and responsive. The proposal is to create an elected Administration Committee ("AdminCom") which would select, oversee, and deselect administrators.
  • In the media: Wikipedia's language nerds hit the front page
    This week saw a front-page story in the Wall Street Journal on editorial debates in Wikipedia. The story focused on the title-naming dispute surrounding the Beatles article, and specifically the RfC on whether the 'the' in the band's name should be capitalized or not.
  • Featured content: Second star to the left
    On the English Wikipedia, five featured articles, ten featured lists, and four featured pictures were promoted, including USS Lexington, a ship built for the United States Navy that, although ordered in 1916 as a battlecruiser, was converted to an aircraft carrier. It was sunk in the Battle of the Coral Sea during the Second World War.
  • News and notes: Chapters ask for big bucks
    The volunteer-led Wikimedia Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) and interested community members are looking at Wikimedia organization applications worth about US$10.4 million out of the committee's first full year's operation, in just the inaugural round one of two that have been planned for the year with a planned budget of US$11.4M.
  • Technology report: Wikidata is a go: well, almost
    A trial of the first phase of Wikimedia Deutschland's "Wikidata" project–implementing the first ever interwiki repository—may soon get underway following the successful passage of much of its code through MediaWiki's review processes this week.
  • WikiProject report: WikiProject Chemicals
    This week, we experimented with WikiProject Chemicals. Started in August 2004, WikiProject Chemicals has grown to include over 10,000 articles about chemical compounds. The project has a unique assessment system that omits C-class, Good, and Featured Articles. As a result, the project's 11 GAs and 9 FAs are treated as A-class articles. WikiProject Chemicals is a child of WikiProject Chemistry (interviewed in 2009) and a parent of WikiProject Polymers.

The Signpost: 22 October 2012

  • Special report: Examining adminship from the German perspective
    Unlike the long-running disputes that have characterised attempts to reform the RfA process on the English Wikipedia, the German Wikipedia's tradition of making decisions not by consensus but knife-edged 50% + 1 votes has led to a fundamentally different outcome. In 2009, the project managed to largely settle the RfA mode issue in 2009 indirectly.
  • Technology report: Wikivoyage migration: technical strategy announced
    Planning for Wikivoyage's migration into the WMF fold built up steam this week following a statement by WMF Deputy Director Erik Möller about what the technical side of the migration will involve. Wikivoyage, which split from sister site Wikitravel in 2006, is hoping to migrate its own not-inconsiderable user base to Wikimedia, as well as much of its content, presenting novel challenges for Wikimedia developers
  • News and notes: Wikimedians get serious about women in science
    It is well known that women are underrepresented in the sciences, and that high-achieving female scientists have often been excluded from authorship lists and passed over for awards and honours solely on the basis of gender. Also significant has been the underplaying in the academic literature, news reporting, and online, of women's current and historical contributions to science.
  • WikiProject report: Where in the world is Wikipedia?
    The WikiProject Report normally brings tidings from Wikipedia's most active, inventive, and unique WikiProjects. This week, we're trying something new by focusing on Wikipedia's dark side: the various regional and national WikiProjects that are dead or dying. How can some tiny municipalities and exclaves generate highly active, cross-language, multimedia platforms be successful while the projects representing many sovereign countries and entire continents wallow in obscurity? Today, we'll search for answers among geographic projects large and small, highly active and barely functioning, enthusiastic about the future and mired in past conflicts.
  • Featured content: Is RfA Kafkaesque?
    Eleven articles, including one on Franz Kafka, three lists, one image, and one portal were promoted to 'featured' status this week.

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The Signpost: 29 October 2012

  • News and notes: First chickens come home to roost for FDC funding applicants; WMF board discusses governance issues and scope of programs
    The first round of the Wikimedia Foundation's new financial arrangements has proceeded as planned, with the publication of scores and feedback by Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) staff on applications for funding by 11 entities—10 chapters, independent membership organisations supporting the WMF's mission in different countries, and the foundation itself. The results are preliminary assessments that will soon be put to the FDC's seven voting members and two non-voting board representatives. The FDC in turn will send its recommendations to the board of trustees on 15 November, which will announce its decision by 15 December. Funding applications have been on-wiki since 1 October, and the talk pages of applications were open for community comment and discussion from 2 to 22 October, though apart from queries by FDC staff, there was little activity.
  • WikiProject report: In recognition of... WikiProject Military History
    This week, we're checking out ways to motivate editors and recognize valuable contributions by focusing on the awards and rewards of WikiProject Military History. Anyone unfamiliar with WikiProject Military History is encouraged to start at the report's first article about the project and make your way forward. While many WikiProjects provide a barnstar that can be awarded to helpful contributors, WikiProject Military History has gone a step further by creating a variety of awards with different criteria ranging from the all-purpose WikiChevrons to rewards for participating in drives and improving special topics to medals for improving articles up to A-class status to the coveted "Military Historian of the Year" award.
  • Technology report: Improved video support imminent and Wikidata.org live
    The TimedMediaHandler extension (TMH), which brings dramatic improvements to MediaWiki's video handling capabilities, will go live to the English Wikipedia this week following a long and turbulent development, WMF Director of Platform Engineering Rob Lanphier announced on Monday ... Wikidata.org, a new repository designed to host interwiki links, launched this week and will begin accepting links shortly. The site, which is one half of the forthcoming Wikidata trial (the other half being the Wikidata client, which will be deployed to the Hungarian Wikipedia shortly) will also act as a testing area for phase 2 of Wikidata (centralised data storage). The longer term plan is for Wikidata.org to become a "Wikimedia Commons for data" as phases 2 and 3 (dynamic lists) are developed, project managers say.
  • Featured content: On the road again
    Thirteen articles, ten lists, nine images, one topic, and one portal were promoted to featured after peer reviews.

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The Signpost: 05 November 2012

  • Op-ed: 2012 WikiCup comes to an end
    J Milburn is a British editor who has been on the site since 2006. He is one of two judges of the WikiCup. Here, he uses an op-ed to explain the way the WikiCup works and to review this year's competition, which ended recently.
  • News and notes: Wikimedian photographic talent on display in national submissions to Wiki Loves Monuments
    The results of most of the national heats for Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) have been published on Commons. A maximum of 10 images have been submitted by all but eight of the 34 participating countries, and the international jury for what is the largest competition of its type in the world is set to announce the global winner in four weeks' time.
  • In the media: Was climate change a factor in Hurricane Sandy?
    Hurricane Sandy was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record and has caused millions of dollars in damage. Naturally, Wikipedia covered it. But was Wikipedia's coverage unbiased?
  • Featured content: Jack-O'-Lanterns and Toads
    This week, the Signpost interviewed two editors. The first, PumpkinSky, collaborated with Gerda Arendt in writing the recently featured article on Franz Kafka and won second prize in the Core contest last August. The second, Cwmhiraeth, collaborated with Thompsma in promoting the article Frog, which was featured last week. We asked them about the special challenges faced while writing Core content and things to watch out for.
  • Technology report: Hue, Sqoop, Oozie, Zookeeper, Hive, Pig and Kafka
    The Wikimedia Foundation's engineering report for October 2012 was published this week on the Wikimedia Techblog and on the MediaWiki wiki, giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month. TimedMediaHandler also went live.
  • WikiProject report: Listening to WikiProject Songs
    This week, The Signpost sings along with WikiProject Songs which focuses on articles about songs of every generation and genre. The project initially began as a rough outline in October 2002 and was reimagined in March 2004 using its parent WikiProject Albums as a template.

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James Delingpole and Chris Heaton-Harris

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The Signpost: 12 November 2012

  • News and notes: Court ruling complicates the paid-editing debate
    Last week, media outlets reported a ruling by a German court on the problem of businesses using Wikipedia for marketing purposes. The issue goes beyond the direct management of marketing-related edits by Wikipedians; it involves cross-monitoring and interacting among market competitors themselves on Wikipedia. A company that sells dietary supplements made from frankincense had taken a competitor to court. The recently published judgment by the Higher Regional Court of Munich, in dealing with the German Wikipedia article on frankincense products, was handed down in May and is based on European competition law.
  • Featured content: The table has turned
    Thirteen articles, six lists, and five images were promoted to 'featured' status last week.
  • Technology report: MediaWiki 1.20 and the prospects for getting 1.21 code reviewed promptly
    In late September, the Technology report published its findings about (particularly median) code review times. To the 23,900 changesets analysed the first time (the data for which has been updated), the Signpost added data from the 9,000 or so changesets contributed between September 17 and November 9 to a total of 93,000 reviews across 45,000 patchsets. Bots and self-reviews were also discarded, but reviews made by a different user in the form of a superseding patch were retained. Finally, users were categorised by hand according to whether they would be best regarded as staff or volunteers. The new analyses were consistent with the predictions of the previous analysis.
  • WikiProject report: Land of parrots, palm trees, and the Holy Cross: WikiProject Brazil
    As promised, we're expanding our horizons by featuring projects that cover underrepresented areas of the globe. This week, we headed to WikiProject Brazil which keeps track of articles about the world's largest Portuguese-speaking country. The project has shown spurts of activity and continues to serve as a hub for discussions, despite the project's collaborations, peer reviews, and outreach activities being largely inactive.

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The Signpost: 19 November 2012

  • News and notes: FDC's financial muscle kicks in
    The WMF's Funds Dissemination Committee has published its recommendations for the inaugural round 1 of funding. Requests totalled US$10.4M, nearly all of the FDC's budget for both first and second rounds. The seven-member committee of community volunteers appointed in September advises the WMF board on the distribution of grant funds among applying Wikimedia organizations. The committee, which has a separate operating budget of $276k for salaries and expenses, considered 12 applications for funds, from 11 chapters and from the WMF itself for its non-core activities. The decision-making process included community and FDC staff input after October 1, the closing date for submissions. Taken together, the volunteers decided to endorse an average of 81% of the funding sought—a total of $8.43M, which went to 11 of the 12 applicants. This leaves $2.71M to be distributed in round 2, for which applications are due in little more than three months' time.
  • WikiProject report: No teenagers, mutants, or ninjas: WikiProject Turtles
    This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Turtles. The young project started in January 2011 and has accumulated 5 Featured Articles, 3 Featured Lists, and 6 Featured Pictures. The project maintains a combined to-do list and hot articles meter, a popular pages ranking, and a collection of resources for turtle articles. We interviewed Faendalimas and NYMFan69-86.
  • Technology report: Structural reorganisation "not a done deal"
    WMF Executive Director Sue Gardner was forced to clarify this week that proposed structural changes to the Foundation's Engineering and Product Development Department were not a "done deal" and that it was "important that you [particularly affected staff] realise that ... your input is wanted". The reorganisation, announced on November 5 and planned for the middle of next year, will see its two components split off into their own departments.
  • Featured content: Wikipedia hit by the Streisand effect
    Seven featured articles, four featured lists and ten featured pictures – including the photograph that spawned the Streisand effect – were promoted this week.

Nomination of Oscar Peterson and Nelson Riddle for deletion

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The Signpost: 26 November 2012

  • News and notes: Toolserver finance remains uncertain
    On November 24, a general assembly of Wikimedia Germany (WMDE) voted on the fate of the Wikimedia Toolserver, a central external piece of technical infrastructure supporting the editing communities with volunteer-developed scripts and webpages of various kinds that are assisting in performing mostly menial tasks.
  • Recent research: Movie success predictions, readability, credentials and authority, geographical comparisons
    An open-access preprint presents the results from a study attempting to predict early box office revenues from Wikipedia traffic and activity data. The authors – a team of computational social scientists from Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Aalto University and the Central European University – submit that behavioral patterns on Wikipedia can be used for accurate forecasting, matching and in some cases outperforming the use of social media data for predictive modeling. The results, based on a corpus of 312 English Wikipedia articles on movies released in 2010, indicate that the joint editing activity and traffic measures on Wikipedia are strong predictors of box office revenue for highly successful movies.
  • Technology report: Wikidata reaches 100,000 entries
    Wikidata, the new "Wikimedia Commons for data" and the first new Wikimedia project since 2006, reached 100,000 entries this week. The project aims to be a single, human- and machine-readable database for common data, spanning across all Wikipedia projects, which will "lead to a higher consistency and quality within Wikipedia articles, as well as increased availability of information in the smaller language editions" while lowering the burden on Wikipedia's volunteer editors—whose numbers have stalled overall, and continue to dwindle on the English Wikipedia.
  • WikiProject report: Directing Discussion: WikiProject Deletion Sorting
    This week, we uncovered WikiProject Deletion Sorting, Wikipedia's most active project by number of edits to all the project's pages. This special project seeks to increase participation in Articles for Deletion nominations by categorizing the AfD discussions by various topic areas that may draw the attention of editors. The project was started in August 2005 with manual processes that are continued today by a bevy of bots, categories, and transclusions. The project took inspiration from WikiProject Stub Sorting and some historical discussions on deletion reform. As the sheer number of AfDs continues to grow, the project is seeking better tools to manage the deletion sorting process and attract editors to comment on these deletion discussions.

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ACRI speedy deletion

PierreYvesLouis user answered to the speedy deletion of ACRI series of conferences :

This page should not be speedily deleted because... If you want, you can delete the link to the specific 2012 ACRI conference. But like the Saint Flour Ecole de probabilités is mentioned here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Flour,_Cantal I wanted to link to the series of ACRI conferences just to explain the acronym. May be it is better to link to the Proceeding of these conferences published in Lecture notes in computer science, Springer, like vol 6350, vol 7495, vol 5191... — Preceding unsigned comment added by PierreYvesLouis (talk • contribs) 16:23, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

I found no context or explanation in the article. It's never a bad idea to spend a long time on an article before launching it. You can do this in your sandbox. I certainly think an article on the series of conferences would be a good idea. Good luck! Gareth E Kegg (talk) 16:28, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 03 December 2012

  • Featured content: The play's the thing
    Three articles, two lists, and four images were promoted to 'featured' status this week.
  • Technology report: MediaWiki problems but good news for Toolserver stability
    Deployments of MediaWiki 1.21wmf5 cause widespread problems for users across wikis when HTML and CSS updates came temporarily out of sync. On the first wikis targeted for deployment, this was caused by the different cache invalidation rates for HTML (typically one month) and CSS (typically five minutes). The retrospective on the problem highlighted the fact that that the test wiki – the WMF's answer to a production environment that individual developers can no longer practically emulate themselves – actually demonstrated the exact problem that would later manifest itself on production wikis. It went unnoticed.
  • WikiProject report: The White Rose: WikiProject Yorkshire
    This week, we went searching for white roses in the lands of WikiProject Yorkshire. The project began in May 2007 as a way to improve articles about the historic English county of Yorkshire and its modern-day administrative divisions and cities. Since then, the project has accumulated 31 Featured Articles, 14 Featured Lists, 91 Good Articles, and a monstrous list of Did You Know entries. Despite all of the effort improving Yorkshire articles, the project has experienced waning participation in the last few years. The project still publishes a newsletter each month, monitors the popularity of and recent changes to its articles, maintains a portal, and collects resources for contributors to use.

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The Signpost: 10 December 2012

  • News and notes: Wobbly start to ArbCom election, but turnout beats last year's
    At the time of writing, this year's election has just closed after a two-week voting period. The eight seats were contested by 21 candidates. Of these, 15 have not been arbitrators (Beeblebrox, Count Iblis, Guerillero, Jc37, Keilana, Ks0stm, Kww, NuclearWarfare, Pgallert, RegentsPark, Richwales, Salvio giuliano, Timotheus Canens, Worm That Turned, and YOLO Swag); four candidates are sitting arbitrators (David Fuchs, Elen of the Roads, Jclemens, and Newyorkbrad); and two have previously served on the committee (Carcharoth and Coren). Four Wikimedia stewards from outside the English Wikipedia stepped forward as election scrutineers: Pundit, from the Polish Wikipedia; Teles, from the Portuguese Wikipedia; Quentinv57, from the French Wikipedia; and Mardetanha, from the Persian Wikipedia. The scrutineers' task is to ensure that the election is free of multiple votes from the same person, to tally the results, and to announce them. The full results are expected to be released within the next few days and will be reported in next week's edition of the Signpost.
  • Featured content: Wikipedia goes to Hell
    Eight articles, four images, six lists, and one topic were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week.
  • Technology report: The new Visual Editor gets a bit more visual
    The Visual Editor project – an attempt to create the first WMF-deployable WYSIWYG editor – will go live on its first Wikipedias imminently following nearly six months of testing on MediaWiki.org. A full explanatory blog post accompanied the news, explaining the project and its setup. Once a user has opted-in, the editor can handle basic formatting, headings and lists, while safely ignoring elements it is yet to understand, including references, categories, templates, tables and images. At the last count, approximately 2% of pages would break in some way if a user tried the Visual Editor on them; it is unclear whether any specific protection will be put in place beyond relying on editors to spot problems.
  • WikiProject report: WikiProject Human Rights
    In celebration of Human Rights Day, we checked out WikiProject Human Rights. Started in February 2006, the project has grown to include over 3,000 articles, including 12 Featured Articles, 3 Featured Lists, 66 Good Articles, a large collection of Did You Know entries, and a few mentions "in the news". The project monitors listings of popular pages and cleanup tags. We interviewed Khazar2, Cirt, and Boud.

Notablity

Hi. Thank you. Regarding notability, the death was due to hoax calls made by radio programmers and they were pretending as Queen Elizabeth and Prince. Again, the incident has attracted international attention, and in this angle, I think it is notable. Rayabhari (talk) 18:22, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

I'm fully aware of the incident, but still have doubts over its notability. Gareth E Kegg (talk) 18:23, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

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MansourJE (talk) 06:07, 17 December 2012 (UTC) Hello Sir,

Ok sir, if it doesn't fulfill the requirements of Wikipedia please delete "Brain Occupation in Traditional Chinese Medicine" immediately. I agree that I did not perhaps fulfill the requirements of article which Wikipedia wants.

Thank you Sir, Mansour

MansourJE (talk) 06:24, 17 December 2012 (UTC)Hi again sir,

The article "Brain occupation in Traditional Chinese Medicine" is an old philosophy of great China which is important nowadays. If you consider it, it might be right in our nowadays life. If it misleads people, it is right to be deleted as soon as possible. I always appreciate Wikipedia and its operators and administrators. Thank you sir, Mjesfahani

Jazz standards

There's standards and then there's ones like In Your Own Sweet Way. How on earth was this missing? Interested in helping me write an article for DYK on it?♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 22:16, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

Sure :) Gareth E Kegg (talk) 00:51, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Alexa Stone and the Lake of Fire

Sorry, you can't A7 a book, even with that damned Page Curation thing. I'm finding more misplaced A7s since that came into being than I did before when people Twinkled or (like me) did it manually. I've prodded it, and you're welcome to add a prod2. Peridon (talk) 23:35, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Now showing at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexa Stone and the Lake of Fire after prod was declined. Peridon (talk) 13:56, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 17 December 2012

  • News and notes: Arbitrator election: stewards release the results
    Seven days after the close of voting, the results of the recent Arbitration Committee (ArbCom) elections have been announced by two of the four stewards overseeing the election, Mardetanha and Pundit. Of the 21 candidates, 13 managed to gain positive support-to-oppose ratios, and the top eight will be appointed to two-year terms on the committee by Jimbo Wales, exercising one of his traditional responsibilities.
  • WikiProject report: WikiProjekt Computerspiel: Covering Computer Games in Germany
    In the past year, we've tried to expand our horizons by looking at how WikiProjects work in other languages of Wikipedia. Following in the footsteps of our previously interviewed Czech and French projects, we visited the German Wikipedia to explore WikiProjekt Computerspiel (WikiProject Computer Games). The project dates back to November 2004 and has become the back-end of the Computer Games Portal, which covers all video games regardless of platform. Editors writing about computer games at the German Wikipedia deal with unique cultural and legal challenges, ranging from a lack of fair use precedents to the limited availability of games deemed harmful for youths to strong standards for the inclusion of material on the German Wikipedia.
  • Op-ed: Finding truth in Sandy Hook
    This week's big story on the English Wikipedia is obviously the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting (which, by the time you read this, may be renamed 2012 Connecticut school shooting). Quickly created and nominated for deletion not once but twice, and both times speedily kept, the article saw the expected flurry of edits (a look at the history suggests an average of at least one a minute over the first day and a half) and more than half a million page views on the first full day.
  • Featured content: Wikipedia's cute ass
    Four articles, three lists, and five images were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week, including a picture of a three-week old donkey (also known as an 'ass').
  • Technology report: MediaWiki groups and why you might want to start snuggling newbie editors
    MediaWiki users (including Wikimedians) can now organise themselves into groups, receiving recognition and support-in-kind from the Wikimedia Foundation. The project, backed by new Wikimedia technical contributor coordinator Quim Gil, has seen five proposals lodged in its first week of operation. The idea of MediaWiki groups mimics that of Wikimedia User Groups.

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RE: Speedy Deletion of Frederick Kantor

Hey you should check the TALK pages of pages you decide to nominate for deletion. How about a little help or adding it to a page where others can see it and work on it! (i.e. the articles that need work page). I don't know where that page is anymore, but I'm sure you do as an admin. Please help wikipedia out by adding content not destroying content. Thanks! Mar2194 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 01:43, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Great. Please add content to articles before you create them in future. Gareth E Kegg (talk) 01:50, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Fuck it I don't have time for this wikipedia shit right now, I have a real life to attend to at the moment. Someone should create the Frederick Kantor article though that has time. Maybe if you have enough free time to add speedy deletion tags you could do the following: 1. google "Frederick W. Kantor" 2. Read the treatise on "Information Mechanics" 3. Read the wikipedia page on "Digital Physics" 4. Note the part of that article where he is attributed as the FOUNDER of DIGITAL PHYSICS. 5. Do some more research and fill out the article. If you can't do it, I can return to it at some later point in time. Mar2194 (talk)

Oh, and I would consider Frederick Kantor to be a "forgotten thing" so maybe this article will be right up your alley! Mar2194 (talk)

I don't consider him forgotten at all. Like you I don't have time to write articles from scratch that others have created with no content. I would caution you against edits like this in the future. Wikipedia is not a breaking news source, and all information should be reliably sourced. Gareth E Kegg (talk) 02:20, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

I received an email from the Dean of the Columbia... how much more reliable can you get? Stop trolling my edits if you "don't have time" Mar2194 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:43, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

And there was nothing in that edit that would be considered untrue or questionable. There was a NY-times op-ed (cited elsewhere in the article) about the letter of no confidence signed by 80% of faculty or some shit. I don't understand how you don't have time to make edits on an article yet you have time to go through my old edits and TROLL and CRITIQUE without really knowing what you're talking about. Merry Christmas. Mar2194 (talk)

Declined speedy deletion

I have declined your speedy deletion request on Kenosha County (comic strip). Since the article is about a creative work, it doesn't fall under WP:CSD#A7, which is only for people, organizations, animals, or web content. However, it may well be non-notable; if you check for sources and don't find any, feel free to prod or take it to AfD. Qwyrxian (talk) 10:14, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

THANK YOU. SOMEONE PUT THIS DUDE IN HIS PLACE. Mar2194 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:52, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 December 2012

  • News and notes: Debates on Meta sparking along—grants, new entities, and conflicts of interest
    As part of its new focus on core responsibilities, the Wikimedia Foundation is reforming its grant schemes so that they are more accessible to individual volunteers. The community is invited to look at proposals for a new scheme—for now called Individual engagement grants (IEGs)—which is due to kick off on January 15. On Meta, the community is once again debating the two new offline participation models—user groups (open membership groups designed to be easy to form) and thematic organizations (incorporated non-profits representing the Wikimedia movement and supporting work on a specific theme within or across countries). In a consultation process on Meta that will last until January 15, the community will be discussing WMF proposals for a new guideline on conflicts of interests concerning Wikimedia resources. The draft covers COI issues for both volunteers and organizations across the movement.
  • WikiProject report: A Song of Ice and Fire
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  • Featured content: Battlecruiser operational
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  • Technology report: Efforts to "normalise" Toolserver relations stepped up
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DYK nomination of Howell Conant

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The Signpost: 31 December 2012

  • From the editor: Wikipedia, our Colosseum
    In the impersonal, detached Colosseum that is Wikipedia, people find it much easier to put their thumbs down. As such, many people active in the Wikimedia movement have witnessed a precipitous decline in civil discourse. This is far from a new trend, yet many people would agree that it all seemed somehow worse in 2012.
  • In the media: Is the Wikimedia movement too 'cash rich'?
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  • Technology report: Looking back on a year of incremental changes
    In the first of two features, the Signpost this week looks back on 2012, a year when developers finally made inroads into three issues that had been put off for far too long (the need for editors to learn wiki-markup, the lack of a proper template language and the centralisation of data) but left all three projects far from finished.
  • Interview: Interview with Brion Vibber, the WMF's first employee
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  • Featured content: Whoa Nelly! Featured content in review
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  • WikiProject report: New Year, New York
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  • Recent research: Wikipedia and Sandy Hook; SOPA blackout reexamined
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Carl Sandburg mistake

Actually, I was creating Categories for the new Carl Sandburg template, and left out the word "Category". That page is to be speedily deleted. Sorry. Choor monster (talk) 18:24, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Cool. I've made a few of those in my time. There is SO much categorisation work to do on books. I recently started adding autobiographer cats to BLP's, I'll prob be doing it for the rest of my life :) Gareth E Kegg (talk) 18:27, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
So do I consider the redirect a fix, or do I request speedy deletion? Choor monster (talk) 19:21, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
Consider it a fix. Someone might get there from google or whatnot. Gareth E Kegg (talk) 20:30, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

2012-2013 Northern Ireland protests

Thanks for the comment. I searched everywhere on Wikipedia and couldn't find any relevant, so I thought, "why not?" and I'll create it :). -- LuK3 (Talk) 19:08, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Link it from Belfast City Hall, there's already something there. Gareth E Kegg (talk) 20:33, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Howell Conant

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The Signpost: 07 January 2013

  • Op-ed: Meta, where innovative ideas die
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  • WikiProject report: Where Are They Now? Episode IV: A New Year
    The dawning of a new year offers both a fresh slate and an opportunity to revisit our previous adventures. 2012 marked the fifth anniversary of the WikiProject Report and was the column's most productive year with 52 articles published. In addition to sharing the experiences of Wikipedia's many active projects, we expanded our scope to highlight unique projects from other languages of Wikipedia, and tracked down all of the former editors-in-chief of the Signpost for an introspective interview ... While last year's "Summer Sports Series" may have drawn yawns from some readers, a special report on "Neglected Geography" elicited more comments than any previous issue of the Report. Following in the footsteps of our past three recaps, we'll spend this week looking back at the trials and tribulations of the WikiProjects we encountered in 2012. Where are they now?
  • News and notes: 2012—the big year
    The past 12 months have seen a multitude of issues and events in the Wikimedia foundation, the movement at large, and the English Wikipedia. The movement, now in its second decade, is growing apace in its international reach, cultural and linguistic diversity, technical development, and financial complexity; and many factors have combined to produce what has in many ways been the biggest, most dynamic year in the movement's history. Looking back at 2012, we faced a difficult task in doing justice to all of the notable events in a single article; so the Signpost has selected just a few examples from outside the anglosphere, from the English Wikipedia, and from the Wikimedia Foundation, rather than attempting to cover every detail that happened.
  • Featured content: Featured content in review
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  • Technology report: Looking ahead to 2013
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Category:A cappella jazz albums

Category:A cappella jazz albums, which you created, 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. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 10:20, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Minor edits

Thank you for your contributions. Please remember to mark your edits as "minor" only if they truly are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Thank you. --John (talk) 19:39, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. What prompted you to remind me of this? Gareth E Kegg (talk) 20:10, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
This was not a minor edit, yet you marked it as such. --John (talk) 20:59, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
Sorry, I aimed to correct some redirects, no content was lost. Gareth E Kegg (talk) 00:08, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 14 January 2013

  • Investigative report: Ship ahoy! New travel site finally afloat
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  • News and notes: Launch of annual picture competition, new grant scheme
    On January 16, voting for the first round of the 2012 Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year contest will begin. Wikimedia editors with 75 edits or one project are eligible to vote to select their favorite image featured in 2012. ... On January 15, the foundation launched its latest grant scheme, called Individual Engagement Grants (IEG).
  • WikiProject report: Reach for the Stars: WikiProject Astronomy
    This week, we set off for the final frontier with WikiProject Astronomy. The project was started in August 2006 using the now-defunct WikiProject Space as inspiration. WikiProject Astronomy is home to 101 pieces of Featured material and 148 Good Articles maintained by a band of 186 members. The project maintains a portal, works on an assortment of vital astronomy articles, and provides resources for editors adding or requesting astronomy images.
  • Special report: Loss of an Internet genius
    Comforting those grieving after the loss of a loved one is an impossible task. How then, can an entire community be comforted? The Internet struggled to answer that question this week after the suicide of Aaron Swartz, a celebrated free-culture activist, programmer, and Wikipedian at the age of 26.
  • Featured content: Featured articles: Quality of reviews, quality of writing in 2012
    Continuing our recap of the featured content promoted in 2012, this week the Signpost interviewed three editors, asking them about featured articles which stuck out in their minds. Two, Ian Rose and Graham Colm, are current featured article candidates (FAC) delegates, while Brian Boulton is an active featured article writer and reviewer.
  • Technology report: Intermittent outages planned, first Wikidata client deployment
    The Wikidata client extension was successfully deployed to the Hungarian Wikipedia on 14 January, its team reports. The interwiki language links can now come from wikidata.org, though "manual" interwiki links remain functional, overriding those from the central repository.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

Hey Gareth, I really miss that old drinking article a lot. Wiki got a lot less fun for me when it bit the dust. Some people have no sense of humor. But I do like to think of all those famous drinkers out there, with nobody to remember them. I lift a glass to you, and Oliver Reed... thanks for the tip about Evander Berry Wall, a man I never heard of but will now admire. Cheers!


THIS ARTICLE IS INFINSHED AND WHY ARE YOU DELETING PEOPLE'S STAFF — Preceding unsigned comment added by Legacy hustler (talk • contribs) 01:10, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

Songs by lyricist

You have created one or more sub-categories in this scheme which I have nominated for deletion here. This nomination is only on the grounds that there is no corresponding article for the lyricist. If an editor can create a suitable article then there is no reason why the category(ies) should be deleted. Cheers. --Richhoncho (talk) 19:43, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

The Original Barnstar
For creating articles about songwriters and helping improve the coverage in Wikipedia of songwriters Richhoncho (talk) 10:08, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

Woodland House

What a fascinating article. And I did not know Michael Winner lived next door to the Tower House, and I thought I knew everything about Burges! A picture would be great, have you got one? Best Regards. KJP1 (talk) 06:52, 23 January 2013 (UTC).

Woodland House

Did you catch the article on the house, and Winner, in Saturday's Telegraph. The bedroom looked very "Hugh Hefner"!

KJP1 (talk) 17:56, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Saw it online, can't believe he choose Fildes humoungous studio for his room! I do ache to see it a la 1885, candles burning as the moon highlights Wilde's visage... Gareth E Kegg (talk) 21:08, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 January 2013

  • News and notes: Requests for adminship reform moves forward
    The English Wikipedia's requests for adminship (RfA) process has entered another cycle of proposed reforms. Over the last three weeks, various proposals, ranging from as large as a transition to a representative democracy to as small as a required edit count and service length, have been debated on the RfA talk page. The total number of new administrators for 2012 was just 28, barely more than half of 2011's total and less than a quarter of 2009's total. The total number of unsuccessful RfAs has fallen as well. These declining numbers, which were described in what would now be considered a successful year (2010) as an emerging "wikigeneration gulf", have been coupled with a sharp decline in the number of active administrators since February 2008 (1,021), reaching a low of 653 in November 2012.
  • WikiProject report: Say What? — WikiProject Linguistics
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  • Featured content: Wazzup, G? Delegates and featured topics in review
    This week, the Signpost's featured content section continues its recap of 2012 by looking at featured topics. We interviewed Grapple X and GamerPro64, who are delegates at the featured topic candidates.
  • Arbitration report: Doncram case continues
    The opening of the Doncram case marks the end of almost 6 months without any open cases, the longest in the history of the Committee.
  • Technology report: Data centre switchover a tentative success
    On 22 January, WMF staff and contractors switched incoming, non-cached requests (including edits) to the Foundation's newer data centre in Ashburn, Virginia, making it responsible for handling almost all regular traffic. For the first time since 2004, virtually no traffic will be handled by the WMF's other facility in Tampa, Florida.

The Signpost: 28 January 2013

  • In the media: Hoaxes draw media attention
    On New Year's Day, the Daily Dot reported that a "massive Wikipedia hoax" had been exposed after more than five years. The article on the Bicholim conflict had been listed as a "Good Article" for the past half-decade, yet turned out to be an ingenious hoax. Created in July 2007 by User:A-b-a-a-a-a-a-a-b-a, the meticulously detailed piece was approved as a GA in October 2007. A subsequent submission for FA was unsuccessful, but failed to discover that the article's key sources were made up. While the User:A-b-a-a-a-a-a-a-b-a account then stopped editing, the hoax remained listed as a Good Article for five years, receiving in the region of 150 to 250 page views a month in 2012. It was finally nominated for deletion on 29 December 2012 by ShelfSkewed—who had discovered the hoax while doing work on Category:Articles with invalid ISBNs—and deleted the same day.
  • WikiProject report: Checkmate! — WikiProject Chess
    When we challenged the masters of WikiProject Chess to an interview, Sjakkalle answered our call. WikiProject Chess dates back to December 2003 and has grown to include 4 Featured Articles and 15 Good Articles maintained by over 100 members. The project typically operates independently of other WikiProjects, although the project would theoretically be a child of WikiProject Board and Table Games (interviewed in 2011). WikiProject Chess provides a collection of resources, seeks missing photographs of chess players, and helps determine ways that Wikipedia's coverage of chess can be expanded.
  • News and notes: Khan Academy's Smarthistory and Wikipedia collaborate
    To many Wikimedians, the Khan Academy would seem like a close cousin: the academy is a non-profit educational website and a development of the massive open online course concept that has delivered over 227 million lessons in 22 different languages. Its mission is to give "a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere." This complements Wikipedia's stated goal to "imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge", then go and create that world. It should come as no surprise, then, that the highly successful GLAM-Wiki (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) initiative has partnered with the Khan Academy's Smarthistory project to further both its and Wikipedia's goals.
  • Featured content: Listing off progress from 2012
    This week, the Signpost featured content section continues its recap of 2012 by looking at featured lists. We interviewed FLC directors Giants2008 and The Rambling Man as well as active reviewer and writer PresN.
  • Arbitration report: Doncram continues
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  • Technology report: Developers get ready for FOSDEM amid caching problems
    As reported in last week's "Technology Report", the WMF's data centre in Ashburn, Virginia took over responsibility for almost all of the remaining functions that had previously been handled by their old facility in Tampa, Florida on 22 January. The Signpost reported then that few problems had arisen since handover. Unfortunately that was not to remain the case, with reports of caching problems (which typically only affect anonymous users) starting to come in.

The Signpost: 04 February 2013

  • Special report: Examining the popularity of Wikipedia articles
    On February 12, 2012, news of Whitney Houston's death brought 425 hits per second to her Wikipedia article, the highest peak traffic on any article since at least January 2010. It is broadly known that Wikipedia is the sixth most popular website on the Internet, but the English Wikipedia now has over 4 million articles and 29 million total pages. Much less attention has been given to traffic patterns and trends in content viewed.
  • News and notes: Article Feedback Tool faces community resistance
    Article feedback, at least through talk pages, has been a part of Wikipedia since its inception in 2001. The use of these pages, though, has typically been limited to experienced editors who know how to use them.
  • WikiProject report: Land of the Midnight Sun
    This week, we took a trip to WikiProject Norway. Started in February 2005, WikiProject Norway has become the home for almost 34,000 articles about the world's best place to live, including 16 Featured Articles, 19 Featured Lists, and nearly 250 Good Articles. The project works on a to do list, maintains a categorization system, watches article alerts, and serves as a discussion forum.
  • Featured content: Portal people on potent potables and portable potholes
    This week, the Signpost's featured content section continues its recap of 2012 by looking at featured portals, a small yet active part of the project. We interviewed FPOC directors Cirt and OhanaUnited.
  • In the media: Star Trek Into Pedantry
    On 30 January 2013, Kevin Morris in the Daily Dot summarised the bitter debates in Wikipedia around capitalisation or non-capitalisation of the word "into" in the title of the upcoming Star Trek film, Star Trek Into Darkness.
  • Technology report: Wikidata team targets English Wikipedia deployment
    Following the deployment of the Wikidata client to the Hungarian Wikipedia last month, the client was also deployed to the Italian and Hebrew Wikipedias on Wednesday. The next target for the client, which automatically provides phase 1 functionality, is the English Wikipedia, with a deployment date of 11 February already set.

Elm Guest House child abuse scandal

Good move. Ghmyrtle (talk) 12:50, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

and ditto. Ghmyrtle (talk) 15:44, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
BE BOLD! I'm not sure who said that first... Gareth E Kegg (talk) 15:46, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 11 February 2013

  • Featured content: A lousy week
    Six articles, one list, and fourteen pictures were promoted to "featured" states this week on the English Wikipedia.
  • WikiProject report: Just the Facts
    This week, we got the details on WikiProject Infoboxes.
  • In the media: Wikipedia mirroring life in island ownership dispute
    Foreign Policy has published a report on editing of the Wikipedia articles on the Senkaku Islands and Senkaku Islands dispute. The uninhabited islands are under the control of Japan, but China and Taiwan are asserting rival territorial claims. Tensions have risen of late—and not just in the waters surrounding the actual islands.
  • Discussion report: WebCite proposal
    Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

Stubs

Hi, Please remember not to add {{stub}} to an article like Brochoadmones which already has a specific stub tag like {{paleo-fish-stub}}. Thanks. PamD 13:53, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Multiple hook nom at DYK

... and the Dean Martin Prize goes to (drumroll)... Gareth E Kegg!

HI Gareth - Go with the date of the first article created/expanded. There is also some leniency if the date is a day or two off, especially when dealing with a multi-hook nom. Which articles? I'd love to take a look at them! --Rosiestep (talk) 03:17, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

The articles are really cool. --Rosiestep (talk) 15:58, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Meatballs, yum! I'd pair it with an Oregon pinot noir. --Rosiestep (talk) 04:31, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Happiness Is Dean Martin

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The Signpost: 18 February 2013

  • WikiProject report: Thank you for flying WikiProject Airlines
    This week, we put our life in the hands of WikiProject Airlines. Starting in July 2005, the project has improved articles relating to airline companies, alliances, destination lists, and travel benefit programs. WikiProject Airlines has accumulated over 4,000 pages, including 4 Featured Articles and 26 Good Articles.
  • Technology report: Better templates and 3D buildings
    As of time of writing, twenty wikis (including the English, French and Hungarian Wikipedias) are in the process of getting access to the Lua scripting language, an optional substitute for the clunky template code that exists at present.
  • News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation declares 'victory' in Wikivoyage lawsuit
    On February 15, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) declared 'victory' in its counter-lawsuit against Internet Brands (IB), the owner of Wikitravel and the operator of several online media, community, and e-commerce sites in vertical markets. The lawsuit clears the last remaining hurdles for the WMF's new travel guide project, Wikivoyage.
  • In the media: Sue Gardner interviewed by the Australian press
    Sue Gardner's visit to Australia sparked a number of interviews in the Australian press. An interview published in the Daily Telegraph on 12 February 2013, titled "Data plans 'unnerving': Wikipedia boss", saw Gardner comment on Australian plans to store personal internet and telephone data. The planned measure, intended to assist crime prevention, would involve internet service providers and mobile phone firms storing customer usage data for up to two years.
  • Featured content: Featured content gets schooled
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The Signpost: 25 February 2013

  • In the media: Ex-WMF trustee creates "Wikipedia Corporate Index" for PR agency
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    Six articles, three lists, and twelve images were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this month.
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WikiCup 2013 February newsletter

Round 1 is now over. The top 64 scorers have progressed to round 2, where they have been randomly split into eight pools of eight. At the end of April, the top two from each pool, as well as the 16 highest scorers from those remaining, will progress to round 3. Commiserations to those eliminated; if you're interested in still being involved in the WikiCup, able and willing reviewers will always be needed, and if you're interested in getting involved with other collaborative projects, take a look at the WikiWomen's Month discussed below.

Round 1 saw 21 competitors with over 100 points, which is fantastic; that suggests that this year's competition is going to be highly competative. Our lower scores indicate this, too: A score of 19 was required to reach round 2, which was significantly higher than the 11 points required in 2012 and 8 points required in 2011. The score needed to reach round 3 will be higher, and may depend on pool groupings. In 2011, 41 points secured a round 3 place, while in 2012, 65 was needed. Our top three scorers in round 1 were:

  1. Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), primarily for an array of warship GAs.
  2. London Miyagawa (submissions), primarily for an array of did you knows and good articles, some of which were awarded bonus points.
  3. New South Wales Casliber (submissions), due in no small part to Canis Minor, a featured article awarded a total of 340 points. A joint submission with Alaska Keilana (submissions), this is the highest scoring single article yet submitted in this year's competition.

Other contributors of note include:

Featured topics have still played no part in this year's competition, but once again, a curious contribution has been offered by British Empire The C of E (submissions): did you know that there is a Shit Brook in Shropshire? With April Fools' Day during the next round, there will probably be a good chance of more unusual articles...

March sees the WikiWomen's History Month, a series of collaborative efforts to aid the women's history WikiProject to coincide with Women's History Month and International Women's Day. A number of WikiCup participants have already started to take part. The project has a to-do list of articles needing work on the topic of women's history. Those interested in helping out with the project can find articles in need of attention there, or, alternatively, add articles to the list. Those interested in collaborating on articles on women's history are also welcome to use the WikiCup talk page to find others willing to lend a helping hand. Another collaboration currently running is an an effort from WikiCup participants to coordinate a number of Easter-themed did you know articles. Contributions are welcome!

A few final administrative issues. From now on, submission pages will need only a link to the article and a link to the nomination page, or, in the case of good article reviews, a link to the review only. See your submissions' page for details. This will hopefully make updating submission pages a little less tedious. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) J Milburn (talk) 01:24, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

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  • Op-ed: We must do more to turn readers into editors
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  • News and notes: Outing of editor causes firestorm
    "WP:OUTING", the normally little-noticed policy corner of the English Wikipedia that governs the release of editors' personal information, has suddenly been brought to wider attention after long-term contributor and featured article writer Cla68 was indefinitely blocked last week. This snowballed into several other blocks, a desysopping by ArbCom, and a request for arbitration.
  • Featured content: Slow week for featured content
    Three articles, six lists, and three pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week, including the article on "Laura Secord", who was a Canadian heroine of the War of 1812 best known for warning the British of an impending American attack.
  • WikiProject report: WikiProject Television Stations
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Template:Did you know nominations/Argus Retinal Prosthesis

Gareth, will you be coming back to this DYK nomination soon to give your suggestions, or should I put up the icon asking for a new reviewer to move this one forward. Please let me know. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:16, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

Please get a new reviewer! I was unwise to stray into medical products...Gareth E Kegg (talk) 14:46, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 11 March 2013

  • From the editor: Signpost–Wikizine merger
    I am pleased to announce that the Signpost and Wikizine have reached an in-principle agreement that will see Wikizine published as a special Signpost section at the beginning of each month.
  • News and notes: Finance committee updates
    During March, three of the Wikimedia Foundation's grantmaking schemes on Meta will reach important crossroads, which will shape how both the editing communities and Wikimedia institutions handle the distribution of donors' money across the movement.
  • Featured content: Batman, three birds and a Mercedes
    Twelve articles, five lists, and eight pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week, including an image of the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, a front-engine, 2-seat luxury grand tourer automobile developed by Mercedes-AMG.
  • WikiProject report: Setting a precedent
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  • Technology report: Article Feedback reversal
    The WMF has aborted a plan to deploy version 5 of the Article Feedback tool (AFTv5) rolled out to all English Wikipedia articles.

The Signpost: 18 March 2013

  • News and notes: Resigning arbitrator slams Committee
    Just two months into his second term as an arbitrator on the English Wikipedia, Coren resigned from the Committee with a blistering attack on his fellow arbitrators. At the heart of a strongly worded statement, posted both on his talk page and the arbitration notice board, was the claim that ArbCom has become politicised to the extent that "it can no longer do the job it was ostensibly elected for".
  • WikiProject report: Making music
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  • Interview: Meeting in the middle: Wikipedia and libraries
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  • Featured content: Wikipedia stays warm
    Nine articles, seven lists, eleven images, and one topic were promoted to "featured status" this week on the English Wikipedia.
  • Arbitration report: Richard case closes
    On Thursday, arbitrator Coren resigned, following closely on the heels of Hersfold's resignation on Wednesday. There are two open cases. A final decision has been given in the Richard case.
  • Technology report: Visual Editor "on schedule"
    The WMF's engineering report for January was published this week, giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month.

The Signpost: 25 March 2013

  • Featured content: One and a half soursops
    Seven articles, one list, six pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
  • Arbitration report: Two open cases
    This case, brought by Mark Arsten, was opened over a dispute over transgenderism topics that began off-wiki. The evidence phase was scheduled to close March 7, 2013, with a proposed decision due to be posted by March 29.
  • News and notes: Sue Gardner to leave WMF; German Wikipedians spearhead another effort to close Wikinews
    Sue Gardner, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation since December 2007, has announced her plans to leave the position when a successor is recruited. Ranked as one of the most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine, Sue Gardner is widely associated with the rise of the Wikimedia movement as a major custodian of human knowledge and cultural products.
  • Technology report: The Visual Editor: Where are we now, and where are we headed?
    Since its inception in May 2011, the Foundation's Visual Editor project has grown to become one of its main focuses. As the project nears its two-year birthday, the Signpost caught up with Visual Editor project manager James Forrester to discuss the progress on the project.

WikiProject Christianity Newsletter April 2013


ICHTHUS

April 2013

Membership report
The parent Christianity WikiProject currently has 357 active members. We would like to welcome our newest members, Thomas Cranmer, Mr.Oglesby, and Sneha Priscilla. Thank you all for your interest in this effort. We would be able to achieve nothing here without the input of all of you. If any members, new or not, wish any assistance, they should feel free to leave a message at the Christianity noticeboard or with me or other individual editors to request it.


From the Editor

We apologise for the hiatus in the publication of this newsletter due to unforseen circumstances leading to the wikibreak of John Carter, and so I have taken over as acting editor, and have taken this opportunity to move the publication date to the start of each month as planned, to better reflect on the previous month and look ahead to the next. This issue covers the period of time from mid-January to the end of March.

Since the last issue we have seen the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and the election of Pope Francis. This has received much coverage both in the world media and on Wikipedia. While there is still much work to do, several quality articles have been written and the editors involved are thanked for their efforts.


This month we look ahead to Easter and the celebration of God's love for mankind through the crucifixion and resurrection of his Son Jesus Christ. With that, I wish you all happy reading!

P.S. Please click here to add the new Christianity noticeboard to your watchlist to follow the latest discussions relevant to WikiProject Christianity and subprojects.

By Gilderien


Church of the month

This image of the Church of Saint Ildefonso, Portugal by Poco a poco was recently promoted to Featured Image. Thank you and congratulations for the great image!


Contest of the month
No particular contest this month. I am however getting rather close to getting together a more or less complete set of articles relating to different areas of Christianity which can be found in recent reference sources on the broad topic of Christianity, and about various subtopics, which I hope to have finished in the next few weeks. I wonder what the rest of you might think of, maybe, making the contests of future months be basically directed at filling in the gaps of our existing coverage of topics, like those topics given significant coverage in specialized reference works which we don't yet have content on, and giving the thanks, and rewards, whatever they might be, to those who create and develop such content. I am starting a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Christianity noticeboard#Future contests, and would very much welcome any input from interested parties in how to set it up, determine winners including how many winners, etc.

By John Carter




Featured content and GA report
Since the last report;

Grade I listed churches in Cumbria was promoted to Featured List status, thanks to Peter I. Vardy, and the image above of the Church of Saint Ildefonso was promoted to featured picture status.

Martin Luther King, Jr., by Khazar2, was promoted to GA status, as well Third Epistle of John by Cerebellum.

Also these past months, the DYKs on the main page included St Mary's Church, Cleobury Mortimer by Peter I. Vardy; Marion Irvine by Giants2008; Margaret McKenna by Guerillero; Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity by Epeefleche; St Edith's Church, Eaton-under-Heywood by Peter I. Vardy; Vester Egesborg Church by Ipigott, Rosiestep, Nvvchar, and Dr. Blofeld; Undløse Church by Ipigott, Rosiestep, Nvvchar, and Dr. Blofeld; St Martin's Church, Næstved by Ipigott, Rosiestep, Nvvchar, and Dr. Blofeld; St. Peter, Syburg by Gerda Arendt and Dr. Blofeld; Østre Porsgrunn Church by Strachkvas; Church of Our Saviour (Mechanicsburg, Ohio) by Nyttend; Dami Mission by Freikorp; Mechanicsburg Baptist Church by Nyttend; Acheiropoietos Monastery, by Proudbolsahye; T. Lawrason Riggs, by Gareth E Kegg; McColley's Chapel, by Mangoe; Oświęcim Chapel, by BurgererSF; Second Baptist Church (Mechanicsburg, Ohio), by Nyttend; Church of the Holy Ghost, Tallinn, by Yakikaki; Old Stone Congregational Church, by Orladyl Heath Chapel, by Peter I. Vardy; St. Joseph's Church, Beijing, by Bloom6132; Church of St Bartholomew, Yeovilton, by Rodw; and St. Michael's Catholic Church (Mechanicsburg, Ohio) also by Nyttend. Our profoundest thanks and congratulations to all those involved!

Christian art

Complete recording

Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe, BWV 22, a cantata by the German composer J.S. Bach, was promoted to GA this month and was written by Gerda Arendt. Many thanks for her continuing work in the area of early 18th Century Church music.

Spotlight

The Spotlight this month turns to the the Jesus work group. The scope of this project includes the life and teachings of the central figure of Christianity, Jesus Christ and aims to write about them in a non-denominational encylopædic style. Top-priority articles include Jesus, Christ, Resurrection of Jesus, and Holy Grail, whereas High-priority articles include Aramaic Language, a former FA, as well as Sermon on the Mount, Lamb of God, and Passion (Christianity). The workgroup has also published two books, covering Christ's final days and the Parables of Jesus. The workgroup has two GAs, Nativity scene, and Jesus in Islam, but unfortunately the flagship article, Jesus was delisted in 2009. It is also responsible for three WP:1.0 articles, and the WikiWork of the project is 4.56, which indicates the "average" article is between Start and C class.


By Gilderien


Calendar
This coming month (end-March through end-April) includes Easter Sunday in Western Christianity and both Lazarus Saturday and Palm Sunday for the Eastern Orthodox Church. Other major feasts in the next month include those of Saint George, Saint Mark the Evangelist, Saint Stanislaus, James, son of Zebedee, and Benedict the Moor.

Help requests
Please let us know if there are any particular areas, either individual articles or topics, which you believe would benefit from outside help from a variety of other editors. We will try to include such requests in future issues.

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Re 2013 South Korea cyber attack

Re: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2013_South_Korea_cyber_attack&diff=548288321&oldid=548208638 ; it's a blocked editor, (in part) repeating edits made by the same blocked editor under another IP. Most of the links are wrong or WP:OVERLINK, and the text additions need to be checked for accuracy and relevance, as he does both of those badly. You're welcome to restore those parts of the edit which are helpful. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 16:33, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 01 April 2013

  • Special report: Who reads which Wikipedia?
    The Wikimedia Foundation has released its latest report card for the movement's hundreds of sites. The WMF has published statistics about the sites since 2009, but only recently have these been expanded in scope and depth to provide a rich source of data for investigating the movement and the world it serves. Dutch-born Erik Zachte is the driver of the WMF's statistical output, and he writes that the report card and accompanying traffic statistics comprise "enough tables, bar charts and plots to keep you busy for a while".
  • WikiProject report: Special: FAQs
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  • Featured content: What the ?
    The Signpost interviewed prolific featured content creator and former Signpost "featured content" report writer Crisco 1492 about ? and Indonesian cinema. ? was the "Today's featured article" for 1 April 2013. 1 April is popularly known as April Fools' Day in many countries.
  • Arbitration report: Three open cases
    A case brought by Lecen involves several articles about former Argentinian president Juan Manuel de Rosas (1793–1877).

Mick Philpott

Hi, I left a comment about the merge proposal at Talk:Mick Philpott. Regards Widefox; talk 12:14, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Juliet Pannett

Hi Gareth, I've just reviewed your DYK nomination for Juliet Pannett and noticed a small problem. Looks like the quote is attributed to the wrong Prime Minister (the BBC says it was Douglas-Home rather than Eden), but other than that the article would be fine for DYK. Take a look when you have a chance and give me a shout. Once everything's fixed I'll be happy to pass it. Cheers and good luck. Paul MacDermott (talk) 13:24, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 08 April 2013

  • Wikizine: WMF scales back feature after outcry
    Numerous Wikimedia Commons editors have chimed in on the Wikimedia Foundation's deployment of a new feature to its mobile website. Allowing anonymous users to register and upload pictures for use in an article, the feature was placed prominently at the top of Wikipedia articles in multiple languages.
  • WikiProject report: Earthshattering WikiProject Earthquakes
    This week, we felt the world tremble in the presence of WikiProject Earthquakes. The project was started in May 2008 to deal with articles about earthquakes, aftershocks, seismology, seismologists, plate tectonics, and related articles. While the project has seen success building 14 Featured Articles, one A-class Article, and 21 Good Articles, a fairly heavy workload remains, with a relative WikiWork rating of 4.94. WikiProject Earthquakes maintains a portal, a list of open tasks, a popular pages listing, and an article alerts watchlist.
  • News and notes: French intelligence agents threaten Wikimedia volunteer
    Last Friday, the Wikimedia movement awoke to news that one of their number—Rémi Mathis, a French volunteer editor—had been summoned to the offices of the interior intelligence service DCRI and threatened with criminal charges and fines if he did not delete an article on the French Wikipedia about a radio station used by the French military.
  • Arbitration report: Subject experts needed for Argentine History
    The arbitration committee is looking for expertise in Argentina and the Spanish language for a case involving former Argentinean president Juan Manuel de Rosas (1793–1877).
  • Featured content: Wikipedia loves poetry
    Four articles and two pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
  • Technology report: Testing week
    The deployment of phase 2 of Wikidata to the English Wikipedia, originally scheduled for 8 April but delayed due to technical problems, may be rescheduled again as the result of community resistance.

Redirects

I noticed that, in the article Augustine Warner, Jr., you just unbundled the redirect Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon to the root article name Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. In general, it is advisable to leave these alone; see WP:NOTBROKEN for details. Rklear (talk) 01:07, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 April 2013

  • Op-ed: How do we fix RfA inactivity?
    The RfA process is widely discussed here on the English Wikipedia and it has been well documented that less and less new Requests for adminship are being filed. There are an abundance of bytes devoted to the discussion and analysis of this situation and plenty of hands have been wrung over the matter. Various RfCs have attempted to find a way to fix the problem. Many proposals have been made offering solutions, some more potentially drastic than others, with the goal of making the changes necessary to kick–start RfA back into regular action. However, Wikipedia operates based on consensus and, to this point, there are have simply been too many disagreeing views for us to reach a consensus on how to increase RfA activity.
  • WikiProject report: Unity in Diversity: South Africa
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The Signpost: 22 April 2013

  • WikiProject report: WikiProject Editor Retention
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  • News and notes: Milan conference a mixed bag
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  • Featured content: Batfish in the Red Sea
    Nine articles, four lists, eight pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.
  • Technology report: A flurry of deployments
    On Monday, the English Wikipedia became the 12th wiki to be able to pull data from the central Wikidata.org repository, with other wikis scheduled to receive the update on Wednesday.

Category:American women novelists

Uh, I don't know if you know by now, but this category, which you created last fall in what seems to be an apparently well-intended housekeeping effort, has now become the subject of a cultural brouhaha over here in the US (you can see the links at the CfD that was started. I can easily imagine all the other ones in Category:Women novelists by nationality becoming part of this as well, as indeed some people at the CfD are calling for a procedural close to reopen with all of them up for discussion.

Bearcat's comment, as the original writer of the guidelines page that addresses this issue, with a subsection for gender in particular, is especially pertinent.

Please try to be mindful of these issues in the future when doing this sort of thing. Thank you. Daniel Case (talk) 18:52, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Gareth, you wrote "I do wish I had a right of reply to Amanda Filipacchi's NYT article." at said discussion page. You actually can reply her! First, she has a Facebook account, and second she has a personal web-site which probably has contact information. I urge you to contact Filipacchi and shed the light over your motives and the whole situation. This would be the most helpful for Wikipedia' PR IMHO. Netrat (talk) 12:27, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

Also, yopu wrote "I regret not starting the male category when I created the women category.". It's never too late to fix something! You should know that such category have been created yesterday BTW. Netrat (talk) 12:27, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

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BREVAN HOWARD PAGE - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brevan_howard

Dear Mr. Kegg,

My name is Anthony Payne of Peregrine Communications, we represent Brevan Howard in a public relations capacity.

I’m contacting you with regard to one of your edits on the Brevan Howard page where you added information on LIBOR and sourced the Daily Telegraph’s piece entitled: Former RBS trader Tan Chi Min claims hedge fund asked UK bank to change Libor.

New information published in Bloomberg and Business Insider (http://www.businessinsider.com/brevan-howard-calls-rbs-on-libor-moves-2012-12) shows that Brevan Howard’s phone call to RBS was not a request to change the rate of LIBOR – they wanted to know why the rate jumped, even after the Fed had announced unprecedented steps to boost liquidity at the end of the week, something that should have lowered the measure.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/brevan-howard-calls-rbs-on-libor-moves-2012-12#ixzz2RZhmksxJa challenge in why the rate had jumped. (As a rates house it is 100% routine for BH to ask counterparties on a regular basis where they think rates are headed).

Your entry (and your sources) gives the polar opposite impression of what is actually alleged by Tan in his unfair dismissal suit against RBS.

What Tan was actually alleging was that the way his senior management reacted to Brevan Howard asking for a call to explain the movement of rates showed that they (RBS senior management)knew what was going on at RBS, and to therefore dismiss Tan for wrongdoing was therefore unfair.

Bloomberg’s initial headline and their earlier sources were based on snippets of information in the Singapore court filing – none of which is available to the public as these proceeding are still ‘sealed’ -- in fact even the later Bloomberg information was based on a reporter seeing the sealed pleadings and making notes of them.

Your edit is extremely damaging to Brevan Howard’s reputation and is also completely incorrect, and as a result I would urge you to correct it as soon as possible.

Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-13/rigged-libor-with-police-nearby-shows-flaw-of-light-touch.html http://www.businessinsider.com/brevan-howard-calls-rbs-on-libor-moves-2012-12) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Apayne19 (talk • contribs) 11:15, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Thank you. This does show the need to keep pages updated. Have you contacted the Daily Telegraph? Gareth E Kegg (talk) 12:28, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Category:Victorian women novelists

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Category:Victorian women poets

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