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Mill House and The Wharf, Sutton Courtenay

Not sure why EH is so mealy-mouthed. The alterations definitely were by Walter Cave. See Berkshire: Tyack, Bradley and Pevsner, pages 553-4. Regards. KJP1 (talk) 17:00, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. Fascinating group of buildings. I'll expand it this week. Gareth E Kegg (talk) 20:37, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

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List of buildings by William Burges

We're nearly there on this. Although I keep finding new church restorations. Then on to furniture and metalwork. But it'll be a drab list with few pictures. All the best. KJP1 (talk) 23:19, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

Your work is sensational! I'm surprised we still have a few missing articles on his buildings. Thank you. Gareth E Kegg (talk) 23:21, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
Any idea why Burges appears under L, for List, in the Category, Lists of buildings and structures by architect, rather than B? More importantly, do you know how to correct it, as I can't edit a Category? Another thing -checking back over Peter Vardy's lists, I see I've omitted any references. I shall correct this weekend. Many thanks for all your continued support in getting proper Wiki coverage for Mr B. KJP1 (talk) 07:13, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
I've changed it Categories are always edited from their repsective pages, really. I'll try and write some objet d'art soon. Gareth E Kegg (talk) 13:00, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
Can you help with the references? They should all be linking to Crook's 1981 WBTHVD, Appendix B, but I can't make it work. I think it may be to do with the table. My technical ability has again slipped badly in the year since we did Burges. Many thanks. KJP1 (talk) 09:21, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
I'll do it this week :) Gareth E Kegg (talk) 00:54, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
Thank you. I've actually sort of made it work- but it's a bit of a bodge. KJP1 (talk) 06:42, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
Much better,many thanks. One more bulding to add and then we can do the furniture. KJP1 (talk) 21:54, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

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The Tower House

Hi Gareth. Further to Dr B's suggestion that we try to push this to GA, I've done some copy-editing, removed quite a lot of repetition - most of which was mine! - and beefed up the lead, so that it focuses more on the house and its importance. I don't think that I've lost anything in the process of doing so and hope that you're happy with the changes. What do you think about a bit of trimming of the Richard Harris period? I wonder if some of it shades into trivia? Tim R has said he'll do the GA review, so we're in very good shape there. I'd really like a plan of the house. I don't think Crook's got one, and it'd be copyright anyway. Can we include the Survey of London plans? I've a very small plan of the ground floor from The Building News of 1880, I wonder if I could scan and enlarge it. Anything else we should do before it goes to GA? Best regards. KJP1 (talk) 18:12, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Great work. I've trimmed Harris, but I so love the quirky La Rue nonsense. Plans are essential to understanding it, the description of the rooms can become dreamlike otherwise. The "house is not large..." quote is in comparison to what? Gareth E Kegg (talk) 21:53, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
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I like Dr B's re-ordering. You happy with how it's proceeding? Now, I really think we need some maps. The Survey of London material is great, especially the elevations. Do you think we could use these? KJP1 (talk) 07:07, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
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Dr. B - great re-ordering. Looks excellent. Now hurry it on to Tim at GA before some copyright wallah queries my use of the Survey of London plans and elevations. They add greatly to the article, but I'm sure they're not pukkah! All the very best. KJP1 (talk) 23:02, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Nommed! |Review will begin Monday when KJP returns from the city of pornographers, I mean Prague :-] I've inquired into some interior photos too...♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:36, 30 January 2014 (UTC) Talk:The Tower House/GA1 review has begun!♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:19, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Gareth - have addressed Tim's set of preliminary GAR comments, hopefully to his satisfaction and to yours. Let me know how you want to handle the next batch(es). I can deal with them, or I can pass them over to you, or we can do a double act. I'm very conscious you did the major expansion of the article. Just let me know. Best regards. KJP1 (talk) 23:52, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
I'll happily do them in tandem with you, I can't thank you all enough for your work on the article. Tim's suggestions are very apposite, and I'll do my best. Gareth E Kegg (talk) 10:48, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
Heaven's we're there already. Many congratulations. We can do the FA in tandem. All the best. KJP1 (talk) 19:01, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
Ah, a minor sh*tstorm over at The Tower House. But I think things will calm now. Then back to what I understand to be the purpose of this place: the creation and improvement of articles on issues, people. places, ideas etc. which inform the people who read them. All the very best. KJP1 (talk) 22:58, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

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I’d like to continue a bit more on this topic:

It is true that Bäckström did not get a medal physically around his neck, if that is what the intended in that last column.

But on the other hand, having won the semifinal match, he had de facto secured himself a medal, and he was stripped of it because of the failed doping test. Thus, there must exist a written document to this effect. Whether that counts as “having won a medal” is, of course, debatable, but in my opinion, the last column in that table should somehow reflect these facts; that the drugs test failure in this case was more significant that if someone from the Austrian or Norwegian team had failed a drugs test, which would not have amounted to much of anything, in terms of consequences, or at least the fate of the medals.

I personally believe that something should be said in the last column, but then again, I’m sure that other opinions exist, too, including yours. Apanuggpak (talk) 19:02, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

I quite agree that he was a de facto medal winner, and that he was stripped of a medal that he never received. I feel we should wait until further documentation comes out from the IOC, and take our lead from there. You've highlighted one of the vagaries of history though, of what huge details are lost in footnotes. Thank you for such a civilised discussion! Gareth E Kegg (talk) 23:34, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

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Sinatra

Thanks for the kind words BTW. I hadn't realized you'd opted to improve the Sinatra article for the Core Contest. I'd have helped you out on it. It would be good to try to get him up to GA although really it would be best to get a couple of books on him to ensure it's as good as it can be. If you want me to join you working on it gradually I'd be happy to, the guy had a tremendous aura about him. I was toying with the idea actually of working on Ava Gardner and getting books through the WMUK grant.♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:29, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

I have the majority of the books listed in the further reading section, and several years ago in my madness spun off the article to "Life of Frank Sinatra", which was thankfully merged in time. If Elvis and Madonna can FA/GA then why shouldn't he? The "tremendous aura" is exactly what I wish our sparse prose could capture. Elvis has a good section on "Sex symbol" and impact, so these should give us pointers...Do we have a picture of the Ava Gardner's recent blue plaque? Gareth E Kegg (talk) 22:15, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
Yes it should have such a section. I'll look into it later in the week.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:44, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

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    Wikimedians around the world gathered to celebrate Women's History Month and the associated International Women's Day by holding editathons. If you lived in the United Kingdom, you had the opportunity to attend Wikimedia UK's event at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, part of University College London and host to one of the largest collections of Egyptian and Sudanese artifacts in the world.
  • Traffic report: War and awards
    An intensely busy week, as a confluence of celebratory, curious and urgent topics pushed typical residents like Facebook and Deaths in 2014 out of the top ten entirely.
  • Featured content: Ukraine burns
    Five articles, two lists, and 52 pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

The Signpost: 19 March 2014

  • WikiProject report: We have history
    This week, we visited WikiProject History, an ancient project with roots dating back to 2001. The project is home to 196 pieces of Featured material and 483 Good and A-class articles independent of the vast accomplishments of its various child projects. WikiProject History maintains a lengthy list of tasks, oversees the history portal, and continues to build Wikipedia's outline of history.
  • Featured content: Spot the bulldozer
    Twelve articles, fourteen lists, and six pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.
  • Traffic report: Into thin air
    The utterly mystifying events surrounding Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which has not fallen from the sky so much as vanished from it entirely, has left an information-starved public scrambling for precedents, some logical, some... not.
  • Technology report: Wikimedia engineering report
    The Wikimedia engineering report for February 2014 has been published. A summarized version is also available. Major news include

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The Signpost: 26 March 2014

  • Comment: A foolish request
    April Fools' Day is rapidly approaching. Every year, members of the community pull pranks and make (or attempt to make) humorous edits to pages across the project. Every year, the community follows April Fools' Day with a contentious debate about whether or not it is necessary to impose limits on April Fools' Day jokes for future years. It is a polarizing issue.
  • Traffic report: Down to a simmer
    Topics like the 2014 Crimea crisis or the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 eased down the list, making way for such traditional topics as St Patrick's Day, Reddit threads and even Google Doodles, which have reappeared after a long absence.
  • Recent research: Wikipedians' "encyclopedic identity" dominates even in Kosovo debates
    Have you wondered about differences in the articles on Crimea in the Russian, Ukrainian, and English versions of Wikipedia? A newly published article entitled "Lost in Translation: Contexts, Computing, Disputing on Wikipedia" doesn't address Crimea, but nonetheless offers insight into the editing of contentious articles in multiple language editions through a heavy qualitative examination of Wikipedia articles about the Kosovo in the Serbian, Croatian, and English editions.
  • News and notes: Commons Picture of the Year—winners announced
    Results for the two-stage 2013 Commons Picture of the Year have been announced. This year's winning photograph (above) shows a lightbulb that has been cracked, allowing inert gas to escape—and oxygen to enter, so that the tungsten filament burns. From the flames rise elegant curls of blue smoke.
  • Op-ed: Why we're updating the default typography for Wikipedia
    On 3 April, we will roll out some changes to the typography of Wikipedia's default Vector skin, to increase readability for users on all devices and platforms. After five months of testing, four major iterations, and through close collaboration with the global Wikimedia community, who provided more than 100 threads of feedback, we’ve arrived at a solution which improves the primary reading and editing experience for all users.
  • Technology report: Why will Wikipedia look like the Signpost?
    As you have probably read on this weeks op-ed, or via various other channels of announcement, 3 April will see the introduction of the Typography refresh (or update) for the Vector skin on all Wikipedias. Other projects like Commons will have this update rolled out a few days prior.
  • WikiProject report: From the peak
    This week, the Signpost interviewed the English Wikipedia's Mountains WikiProject.

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The Signpost: 02 April 2014

  • Special report: On the cusp of the Wikimedia Conference
    The annual Wikimedia Conference is about to start in Berlin, hosted by Wikimedia Germany, which won the bid to hold the event over three others. This will be the fifth time the chapter has hosted the Wikimedia Conference—it did so from 2009 to 2012, with attendance ranging from 100 to 180 Wikimedians. This year 160 people are expected at the four-day event, which is mainly for representatives of affiliated Wikimedia organisations. The conference has been built around two themes: Organisation, structures, and grants and Success and impact.
  • Featured content: April Fools
    The Signpost's "Featured content" writers had a bit of fun this week.
  • Traffic report: Regressing to the mean
    The mysterious fate of MH370 still tops the list, but in all other respects our readership has retreated from the real world into its pop-cultural happy place: TV, movies, music, Reddit and Google Doodles all made an appearance.

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The Signpost: 09 April 2014

  • News and notes: Round 2 of FDC funding open to public comments
    Community review is open for the four applications in the second and final round of applications to the WMF's Funds Dissemination Committee for 2013–14. Three eligible organisations have applied for funding under the newly named "annual program grants": Wikimedia France, Wikimedia Norway, and the India-based Centre for Internet and Society, which last November was recognised as eligible to apply for FDC funding purposes.
  • WikiProject report: WikiProject Law
    This week, we interviewed the Law WikiProject.
  • Special report: Community mourns passing of Adrianne Wadewitz
    "I remember laughing and talking and laughing and talking at Wikimania 2012. I took this picture of her that she used for a long while as a profile pic. Someone on Facebook said it looked 'skepchickal', which she loved."
  • Traffic report: Conquest of the Couch Potatoes
    Television has always been a topic of choice on this site, but it exploded this week. Fully six slots were devoted to television shows, as the final episode of How I Met Your Mother, one of the most popular Wikipedia searches of the last few years, coincided with the season finale of The Walking Dead and the upcoming fourth season of Game of Thrones. The number rises to 8 if movies released on video and new TV tech are are included.
  • Featured content: Snow heater and Ash sweep
    Five article, five lists, and ten pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.

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The Signpost: 23 April 2014

  • Special report: 2014 Wikimedia Conference—what is the impact?
    The annual Wikimedia Conference wound up last Sunday, 13 April—a four-day meeting costing several hundred thousand dollars, hosted in Berlin by Wikimedia Germany and attended by more than 100 Wikimedians.
  • Op-ed: Five things a Wikipedian in residence can do
    Hey you—yeah you, the Wikipedian! Do you want to help a museum, a library, a university, or other organization explore ways to engage with Wikipedia? Great—you should offer your expertise as a Wikipedian in residence!
  • News and notes: Wikimedian passes away
    Cynthia Ashley-Nelson, who edited as "Cindamuse" on the Wikimedia projects, passed away in her sleep at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin on 10 April.
  • Wikimania: Winning bid announced for 2015
    After just over a month of deliberation, the Wikimania jury has selected Wikimedia Mexico's bid to host Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City, with a proposed date of 15–19 July.
  • Traffic report: Reflecting in Gethsemane
    If I were the kind of person who made snap judgments based on flimsy evidence, I'd say our readership is in a funk.
  • Featured content: There was I, waiting at the church
    Fourteen articles, four lists, seven pictures, and one topic attained "featured" status on the English Wikipedia over the last two weeks.

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May 2014 disambig contest: let's do it again!

Greetings fellow disambiguator! Remember back in February when we made history by clearing the board for the first time ever, for the monthly disambiguation contest? Let's do it again in May! I personally will be aiming to lead the board next month, but for anyone who thinks they can put in a better effort, I will give a $10 Amazon gift card to any editor who scores more disambiguation points in May. Also, I will be setting up a one-day contest later in the month, and will try to set up more prizes and other ways to make this a fun and productive month. Cheers! bd2412 T 18:48, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 April 2014

  • News and notes: WMF's draft annual plan turns indigestible as an FDC proposal
    Like hammering a square peg into a round hole, the Wikimedia Foundation has submitted a draft annual plan for 2014–15 to its own Funds Dissemination Committee. Unlike the WMF's submission to the FDC's inaugural round in October 2012, the "proposal" does not seek funding.
  • Traffic report: Going to the Doggs
    Not much to report this week. The same post-Easter celebrations (4/20, Earth Day) were popular again this year, except last year we were still reeling from the Boston Marathon bombing.
  • Breaking: The Foundation's new executive director
    The Wikimedia Foundation has announced that its new executive director will be Lila Tretikov, until now a chief product officer in Silicon Valley.
  • WikiProject report: Genetics
    This week, we unraveled the mysteries of WikiProject Genetics.
  • Featured content: Browsing behaviours
    Four articles and sixteen featured pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.

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Kenneth Snowman

If you're interested in getting a DYK credit, I'll nominate him later tonight or in the morning (5-day limit). That will make a DYK three-generation trio of Snowmen. Edwardx (talk) 19:05, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

Let's hope the pages melt under the views! Gareth E Kegg (talk) 19:06, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
Yes, the surname alone guarantees a certain number of page hits. Edwardx (talk) 19:31, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 07 May 2014

  • News and notes: New system of discretionary sanctions; Buchenwald; is Pirelli 'Cracking Wikipedia'?
    The English Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee (ArbCom) introduced the first form of what are known as the "discretionary sanction" (DS) in 2009. A new DS regime, called Discretionary sanctions (2014), is the result of an elaborate review process involving both the community, since last September, and the committee, for more than a year.
  • Traffic report: TMZedia
    For all the claims of Wikipedia bringing the world's knowledge to all who want it, it seems the human race most wants is a tabloid newspaper; a quick source for TV listings, pop culture facts, celebrity gossip and, above all, scandal—with some nice juicy racism thrown in too.
  • In focus: Foundation announces long-awaited new executive director
    In a live video stream on 1 May, the Wikimedia Foundation announced that Lila Tretikov will be replacing Sue Gardner, its executive director. Gardner, who has been in the position since 2007, declared her intention to leave more than a year ago.
  • In the media: Google and the flu; Adrianne
    Boston Children's Hospital postdoctoral fellow David McIver and a team have determined that using page view statistics from Wikipedia, they can track flu progression better than the Center for Disease Control can using Google searches.
  • WikiProject report: Singing with Eurovision
    Formed in 2003, the Eurovision WikiProject boasts four featured articles and 22 good articles. The Eurovision Song Contest 2014 is currently taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark, so we went to the stage to talk with one of the project's members.
  • Featured content: Wikipedia at the Rijksmuseum
    Four articles, two lists, and five pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.

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The Signpost: 14 May 2014

  • WikiProject report: Relaxing in Puerto Rico
    This week, the Signpost jumped over the ocean to chat with the Puerto Rico WikiProject.
  • News and notes: 'Ask a librarian'—connecting Wikimedians with the National Library of Australia
    Editors of Australian-related topics on the English Wikipedia may have noticed an odd addition if they viewed the article's talk pages. For example, on Talk:Darwin, Northern Territory, they might be drawn in by the question mark, nested within what is often a sea of WikiProject templates: "Need help improving this article? Ask a librarian at the National Library of Australia, or the Northern Territory Library." Just what is this?
  • Featured content: On the rocks
    Six articles, seven lists, and four pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week.

Piers Morgan

I am sorry some of my notes on the Piers Morgan talk page were a bit jumbled! I couldn't quite understand your message to me on that talk page the other day, but I assume you meant that when posting comments/queries on a talk page I should put each on a separate line. Is that right?

I am new to Wiki editing and was fairly appalled at the state of this article, once I started delving into the footnotes and checking the quotations (especially as it seems to be quite an important one, judging by its semi-protected status). Whoever wrote it was careless about some pretty basic things, IMO, and I had to re-jig more than one or two sentences. Anyway, I have finished on it now and you will see a few more notes from me on the talk page. I am glad you are so experienced (I looked at your user page), as I really don't know what to do about the broken/redundant footnotes, the footnotes that didn't back up what they were supposed to, and the bits of quote in the text that had no back-up. I hope you can resolve this, though it may involve some fiddly investigation, I'm afraid. I wish I had the technical experience to do it myself. :(

Regards, Pcat --P123cat1 (talk) 00:17, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

If you need to refer to my copy-edits for this article, listed on my "Contributions" page and under the "View history" tab in the Piers Morgan article, I apologise in advance if they are difficult to follow. You may find paragraph (2) of my request posted to User:Dismas's talk page today (headed "Italics and other HTML") helpful in explaining why they almost certainly are!
If you think I should upload the relevant bits of this post onto the Piers Morgan talk page, please let me know. --P123cat1 (talk) 12:24, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
Oh, it's fine. If you aren't sure how a page will look, just use the "show preview" option. It's also a good idea to cut and paste references from other pages to use as templates for your own efforts. Gareth E Kegg (talk) 17:39, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

I used "Preview" as much as I could, but quite often forgot and went straight to "Save", unfortunately!

I have finished copy-editing Piers Morgan now, but there is one small task that is beyond me. There are a few footnotes to sort out in the paragraph I referred to that was in a terrible mess. I have allocated the footnotes to the right bits in that paragraph and adjusted the footnote code in the text accordingly, but there still remains double-counting of those sources in the "References" footnote list, which is beyond my experience to sort out. Could you take a look at it, please? I have left a small schedule and a note about it on the Talk page which I hope is clear, but please contact me if you need to. Resolved --P123cat1 (talk) 20:59, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

I have cleared up the above points in the text now, so there is no need to return to the article. In retrospect, there was probably no need to give a blow-by-blow account of what I had done. I don't normally do this and only did it this time for transparency as this article is semi-protected.. ..--P123cat1 (talk) 08:18, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 21 May 2014

  • News and notes: "Crisis" over Wikimedia Germany's palace revolution
    Last Sunday the board of Wikimedia Germany passed 9–1 a vote of no confidence in the chapter's executive director, Pavel Richter, who has held the position since 2009. With more than 50 employees, an annual budget approaching $10 million, and the right to conduct its own fundraising through the Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) site banners, Wikimedia Germany is the second-largest organisation in the movement after the WMF itself. The decision was announced on the Wikimedia mailing list by the chapter chair, Nikolas Becker.
  • Traffic report: Doodles' dawn
    It's a relief to see Google Doodles having an impact again; their wide coverage means that they inspire curiosity on many subjects which, for reasons of nationality, ethnicity or gender, might not be known in the English-speaking world. It's a shame then, that Wikipedia so often fails to keep up; articles on Google Doodles are almost invariably C-class, and seldom do justice to their subjects. Still, interest in Google Doodles has been waning in recent months—Audrey Hepburn last week was the first to top the list since December—so any rise in popularity is worth celebrating.

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The Signpost: 28 May 2014

  • News and notes: The English Wikipedia's second featured-article centurion; wiki inventor interviewed on video
    With the promotion to featured article of Grus (constellation) on 17 May, Casliber became Wikipedia's second featured-article centurion, following Wehwalt's groundbreaking achievement last December. Cas's first FA, Banksia integrifolia, a group effort, was promoted on 16 November 2006. His first solo project, Diplodocus, followed in January 2007; he has rarely been off the FAC since. In a second story, Ward Cunningham, an American computer programmer who invented the wiki, was interviewed by the WMF.
  • Featured content: Zombie fight in the saloon
    Wikipedia editor Sven Manguard's work is quite underappreciated a lot of the time, most likely because people haven't heard of it yet: He's developed good relationships with game companies, and is thus able to get full-resolution screenshots released under a Creative Commons license for use on Wikipedia and elsewhere. This week's trove of new featured items on the English Wikipedia comprises seven articles, three lists, and four pictures.
  • Traffic report: Get fitted for flipflops and floppy hats
    In the US, Memorial Day marks the unofficial beginning of summer, and summer is definitely on people's minds this week, with summer films Godzilla and X-Men: Days of Future Past, the apparently designated summer song "Fancy" by Iggy Azalea, and summer TV show, Game of Thrones.
  • Recent research: Predicting which article you will edit next
    Wikipedia in the eyes of its beholders; "Chinese-language time zones" favor Asian pop and IT topics on Wikipedia; and bipartite editing prediction in Wikipedia.

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The Signpost: 04 June 2014

  • Special report: IEG funding for women's stories: a new approach to the gender gap
    Individual engagement grants (IEGs) are announced twice yearly by a volunteer WMF committee, the most recent of which we covered last December. The scheme, launched at the start of last year, awards funds to individuals or teams of up to four to produce high-impact outcomes for the WMF's online projects. It favours innovative approaches to solving critical issues in the movement.
  • News and notes: Two new affiliate-selected trustees
    New trustee Frieda Briosch from Italy: we face "a couple of headaches", she says: "how to boost editors, which includes the development of the next strategic plan, and how to keep our project always 'glamorous'."
  • Op-ed: "Hospitality, jerks, and what I learned"—the amazing keynote at WikiConference USA
    I never feel quite adequate trying to paraphrase Sumana's words: she is so articulate. I highly encourage every person who reads this article to directly watch her keynote—it directly speaks to a lot of Wikimedia's most significant issues, made with great eloquence. We have a serious issue with retaining editors, and parts of her speech could serve as a pretty good partial blueprint towards how we could begin to fix that problem.
  • Featured content: Ye stately homes of England
    David Iliff, or Diliff, as he is known on here outside of the file pages for his many, many, excellent photographs, is one of Wikipedia's longest-standing professional-standard photographers. This week, the Signpost salutes him.
  • Traffic report: Autumn in summer
    The northern summer is a time when one is meant to celebrate the exuberance of life; instead, commemoration of the dead was a significant theme this week.

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The Signpost: 11 June 2014

  • News and notes: PR agencies commit to ethical interactions with Wikipedia
    Eleven public relations agencies have declared their intention to follow "ethical engagement practices" in Wikipedia editing. The results were published last Tuesday: a joint statement from the participating PR agencies—representing five of the top ten global agencies and all but one of the top ten in the United States—clarifying their views and practices with regards to the Wikimedia projects.
  • Traffic report: The week the wired went weird
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Gareth E Kegg (talk) 13:12, 7 July 2014 (UTC)== Police investigations ==

Just a request for your views. On the BBC last night there was a report on the various ongoing child abuse investigations, which referred to Operation Mapperton in Tower Hamlets and Essex - mentioned here, and there are other mentions on blogs. We don't have an article on it, and I can't find it mentioned in any articles here. Looking into it a bit further I came across this site, which lists a whole slew of investigations, some of which may be notable, either individually or in total. I don't suggest we use that site itself, but some of its links might be useful. Should we be covering these investigations in some way - perhaps in a single overview article? I'm undecided and in many ways don't want to lead on this, but would appreciate your opinion. Ghmyrtle (talk) 07:45, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

We're descending into the rabbit hole on these stories. I remember starting some of the early phone hacking articles, then just gave out, drowned in articles and spin offs. That operation does look interesting though, these pages must always be very closely watched. Perhaps there does need to be a broader article to bring together the unconnected but roughly linked by police stories on Savile, Barnes, North Wales, Norfolk, Westminster, PIE etc. I'm taking Exaro very seriously, not just on child abuse but phone hacking, BAE, etc.Gareth E Kegg (talk) 10:04, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
It now looks as though this, once it's formally announced, may be the focus of an overarching article. Re Exaro, my only point is that I would prefer to use the mainstream media, who monitor and use Exaro, as our secondary source, rather than using the investigators themselves. Ghmyrtle (talk) 10:30, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
The mainstream media investigate even more than Exaro, and yet so much still escapes their pervue. I think a template might be able to bring all these together, for the bottom of the pages. Has wider enquiry been named? Gareth E Kegg (talk) 13:12, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

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Thank you for writing the article on the 7 July Memorial. I've added links to it, some pictures, categories and templates. Keep up the good work. '''tAD''' (talk) 14:35, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

Such a surprise to see it wasn't there. There are so many amazing London memorials lacking articles. Gareth E Kegg (talk) 14:50, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

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Pinging again, please follow the instructions on the email for BNA access. Sadads (talk) 17:38, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

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You've done some brilliant work so far, I haven't done as much deep referencing as you have for many winners though. We've got just under 500 to go for the Civil War. I've also found many medal winners on Find a Grave that I had thought lost. Gareth E Kegg (talk) 09:47, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
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Ditto! I'm just doing Brucie's "Ironman" pose in my enormous porte-cochère. Gareth E Kegg (talk) 00:28, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

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