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Wikimedia NYC Meetup! Saturday October 5

Jefferson Market Public Library
 Please join the Wikimedia NYC Meetup on October 5, 2013!
Everyone gather at Jefferson Market Library to further Wikipedia's local outreach
for education, museums, libraries and planning WikiConference USA.
--Pharos (talk) 21:58, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 02 October 2013

  • Op-ed: Commons medical diagnostic images under threat from unresolved ownership
    Medical images have transformed many aspects of modern medicine. Over the past two decades the increasing sophistication of MRI, CT-scanning, and X-ray techniques has made these technologies the cornerstone of diagnosing a range of conditions, replacing what used to be largely guesswork by doctors. They can be the difference between life and death for a patient, and their importance is underlined by the tens of billions of dollars spent on them annually just in North America. For Wikimedia Foundation projects, advanced images are now a powerful tool for describing and explaining, and educating our worldwide readership of medical articles.
  • News and notes: WMF signals new grantmaking priorities
    In what will be remembered as a game-changing week for Wikimedia grantmaking, the Foundation's executive director, Sue Gardner, published a forthright and in places highly critical statement, Reflections on the FDC process, and grantmaking staff revealed that the WMF will significantly strengthen its targeting of optimal impact in funding.
  • Arbitration report: Infoboxes: After the war
    Editor's note: To go beyond the mere facts of cases, the "Arbitration report" invited several editors who participated in the recent Infoboxes case to comment on infoboxes: what they are, where new users can go to find out about them, specifications and protocols, best practices, and how the upcoming community discussion recommended by the Committee in the case decision should be framed.
  • WikiProject report: U2 Too
    This week, we revisited the enthusiastic editors at WikiProject U2. Started in June 2007, the project has grown in spurts, resulting in a collection of 8 Featured Articles and 24 Good Articles. The project maintains a to do list, portal, and a list of references.

AFCH

Your AfC helper gadget does not appear to show up with Modern skin. Is that correct or did I miss something? Would you mind adding support for that, once that the MediaWiki folks had made the list of skins shorter and some fair bit easier to keep track of? Gryllida (talk) 08:57, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, I realised that I need to wait a bit longer and it does show up. Please take my apologies for troubling you over a non-existant issue. Gryllida (talk) 08:59, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 October 2013

  • Traffic report: Shutdown shenanigans
    If you're living in the United States, what did you do during the government shutdown? Well, it seems most people watched the final episode of Breaking Bad.
  • WikiProject report: Australian Roads
    This week, we moved to the esoteric world of Australian roads.
  • Featured content: Under the sea
    Seven articles, six lists, and twelve pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.
  • News and notes: Extensive network of clandestine paid advocacy exposed
    An investigation by the English Wikipedia community into suspicious edits and sockpuppet activity has led to astonishing revelations that Wiki-PR, a multi-million-dollar US-based company, has created, edited, or maintained several thousand Wikipedia articles for paying clients using a sophisticated array of concealed user accounts.
  • In the media: College credit for editing Wikipedia
    The University of California, San Francisco attracted substantial media attention over its new course offering that will give credit to fourth year medical students for editing Wikipedia articles about medicine.

A blocked user is trying to communicate with you @ Meta

They posted here. Looks ignorable, but thought I'd let you know. Thanks. QuiteUnusual (talk) 08:58, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 October 2013

  • News and notes: Vice on Wiki-PR's paid advocacy; Featured list elections begin
    Media coverage on Wiki-PR, the multi-million-dollar US-based company that has broken several policies and guidelines on the English Wikipedia in its quest to create and maintain thousands of articles for paying clients, continued this week with a feature story by Martin Robbins in the British edition of Vice magazine.
  • Traffic report: Peaceful potpourri
    A slow week, with low overall views and the Top 10 dominated by longstanding pages. Gravity, Alfonso Cuaron's outer space-set action art film, not only held its position at the top of the US box office but climbed to the top of the Wikipedia chart as well, showing that it has become a major talking point.
  • WikiProject report: Heraldry and Vexillology
    This week, we studied coats of arms and flags with the folks at WikiProject Heraldry and Vexillology. Started in September 2006, the project has grown to include 20 Featured Articles and nearly 50 Good Articles. The project maintains a portal, a list of resources, and a variety of images and templates.
  • Featured content: That's a lot of pictures
    Six articles, two lists, and thirty-three pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.
  • Arbitration report: Manning naming dispute case closes
    The Manning naming dispute case has closed, with a strong and unanimous statement by the Committee against disparaging references to transgendered persons. Sanctions were enacted against six editors.

Where appeals go

Thank you for taking the time to weigh in on my AE appeal. I was told by an arb and Sandstein that appeals should probably be taken either to AE Appeal or Arb Clarification. Since you indicate that you feel arb clarification is not the right place to take appeals, perhaps the arbs could clarify where appeals should go. While this won't help me now, it may help other editors facing what I did. Thanks for your thoughts and consideration on this.(olive (talk) 14:23, 24 October 2013 (UTC))

The Signpost: 23 October 2013

  • News and notes: Grantmaking season—rumblings in the German-language community
    The next twice-yearly round of Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) grantmaking is soon to close for community questioning and commentary. Ten nation-based Wikimedia chapters and one thematic organisation are asking for a total of more than US$5M of donors’ money from the Foundation’s renamed annual plan grant process. Aside from Wikimedia UK ($708k), the three biggest asks are from the German-speaking chapters: Wikimedia Germany is asking for $2.4M and Wikimedia Austria $311k; and the German-language-related Swiss chapter is applying for $500k.
  • WikiProject report: Elements of the world
    This week, we headed to an elementary subject with WikiProject Elements. Founded by Mav in 2002, this project has grown to have 19 featured articles, 2 featured topics, and 68 good articles. The project also has a list of templates, and a periodic table of elements filled with pictures.

Wikimedia NYC Meetup- "Greenwich Village In The 60s" Editathon! Saturday November 2

Jefferson Market Public Library
 Please join Wikipedia "Greenwich Village In The 60s" Editathon on November 2, 2013!
Everyone gather at Jefferson Market Library to further Wikipedia's local outreach
for Greenwich Village articles on the history and the community.
--Pharos (talk) 21:50, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

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