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Please have a look into a couple of matters ...

(1) Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Macromolecular assembly. Rejection of stub article for want of formatting: if I take an hour of professional time to draft an article that is (a) absent in any form at present, and (b) better in substance and more referenced than many chemistry stubs -- in order to create a context for other wiki material already appearing -- why is it pro forma rejected for lack of section formatting (with no substantive content issues raised)? I do what I do best. Cannot an imperfect stub vis-a-vis formatting go forward, for others then to improve?

(2) Article on Marco Rubio. Here I was disturbed by what appeared to be bias in the section on personal life: limited description of his spouse (omitting hispanic heritage, listing only a single occupational aspect, cheerleader), and, further, omission of his office's formal response to a news report he had "embellished" his parents immigration story.

I edited these two sections to add content from referenced sources, in particular, drawing the balance from the same Washington Post story that provided the negative content.

The edit was reverted as being "over the top" (?!?), without a further substantive word (no talk). I reverted it back, for want of substance to the initial reversion.

It appears the the reverting individual has bias in this issue (as judged by my more recent discovery of a talk debate over the presentation of the immigration history issue, between him and a additional seemingly biased individual on the other side of the question.

Since my edit was (i) fact-based, adding references in both Rubio-positive (spouse representation) and -negative (immigration history) directions, (ii) uses the same source as the original version (the WP article) to balance the section on the immigration controversy, (iii) adds the detail that the WP report led to revision of the Senator's web pages on the matter (a possibly perceived negative), alongside his counter-explanation to the charge of embellishment (a possibly perceived positive) -- I ask that my edit be allowed to stand, or that the matter be elevated as appropriate (so that the back and forth on this section ceases).

(3) Fyi, recent work done on Burgi-Dunitz and Flippin-Lodge articles is substantially mine.

That I have to write such things as 1 and 2 here, and waste both of our time, has as opportunity cost other content not being written, and continues to fuel my speculation that this commitment to this organization is a waste of time.

I am studying for the bar exam now, so I won't be able to attend to any of this for a week or two. I agree that your macromolecular assembly article should have gone live, and if it hasn't been resolved when I return, I'll move it into mainspace. Thanks, Calliopejen1 (talk) 17:25, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Please assist, engage in resoultion

Please see this talk, from me. Appreciate intervention/guidance. This is last straw for this subject expert.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:IceUnshattered

Prof D Meduban (talk) 21:11, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

Apologies.

Jen, just saw the header indicating your busy summer. Apologies for tossing this in. If you can pass it on to someone in your network, great. If not, we will just have to make do while an Alaskan Harvard-trained lawyer gets bar'd, moves, and weds. Cheers, Prof D. Meduban (talk) 21:40, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

Laotian images

I see you are busy. If you have tme though could you bot upload these stunning images?♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:18, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

More in the issue of poor editing of new science article by science faculty

Jen when time permits, please see relevant talk entries related to my "macromolecular assemblies" article, discussing credentials, badgering, walkers versus talkers, etc. Perhaps, if you have time for one thing, you can find someone seniorin wikipedia to whom this process concern can be elevated. (If discussion dies this time, I'm gone.) This said to you because of your apparent accomplishment (since you will understand what the demands of the non-wiki world are like), and because you're experiencing, in this summer, the juggling and demands of life that will be more or less normal for the rest of it -- where time demands of other major, future "projects" will replace the current timeline and milestones of getting hitched! Bottom line here, life is too short for work-related commitments that do not bear proportionate fruit (which is what wiki currently is for me). If too arduous, they impinge, overly, on other truly important things. If I can ascertain with someone senior at wiki, Y/N, if there is any long-term hope for changes in process that might lead to higher quality quality scientific content, it will help me to my necessary decision-point. Cheers, and best wishes for the bar and the big event.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:IceUnshattered http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ktr101 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Meduban (talk • contribs) 16:15, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 July 2012

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The Signpost: 30 July 2012

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Ettore Petrolini

Can you find a PD image to upload? Could luck with the exam BTW!♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:23, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! Hey you got married? Congrats!! Last I heard you were dating some Spanish guy!♦ Dr. Blofeld 06:28, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

Request for comment/User

Hi. I'm notifying everyone who took part in the discussion at Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Wikiwatcher1, regardless of your position there, that I have co-signed with User:We hope at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Wikiwatcher1. Regardless of your position, your input would be most welcome so we can help to determine community consensus. Thank you. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 00:12, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 06 August 2012

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The Signpost: 13 August 2012

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Moving Burma to Myanmar - ongoing poll

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The Signpost: 27 August 2012

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• Featured content: Wikipedia rivals The New Yorker: Mark Arsten
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WikiProject Guyana

Hi Calliopejen1!

Dthomsen8 and I are trying to get WikiProject Guyana going again. I noticed you made a great contribution to the Religion in Guyana article. Any chance you might be up for joining the project? All best wishes, Lorelei (talk) 12:18, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

Alcatraz Dining Hall

Hi, can you find me an image of this with prisoners eating in it or something in whatever state archives you can think of. As a state institution there must be PD gov photos of it. Is this PD or not, its of the Alcatraz Library.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:33, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks!♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:12, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

See pages 10-32 here. There's tons of PD photographs I need for Alcatraz Citadel. Can you indicate where I can access them or help upload them somehow?♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:17, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Also I wondered if you could access national archives or whatever which might list all of the prisoners ever held at Alcatraz. I would be good for rooting out missing notable criminals, not to to mention being a valuable record on here. I was right, list here in the National Archives. This though is more valuable as it lists the inmates in order of arrival and details on their crimes and when they got out. Can you do me a favour and try to compile a resourceful table in excel or something which would list them both in order of arrival and in alpha order in sortable tables or something and create List of inmates of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary ? I've started Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary also today and it would be a useful link in the notable inmates section to have a full list. Also if you can find any more free images of its time as a penitentiary this would be much appreciated! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:49, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

No response in nearly 4 weeks Jen! I've started Bibliography of encyclopedias which might interest you. Probably not..♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:08, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

Neither am I, but I recall you were interested in missing articles and things like Chilean biographies etc at one point...♦ Dr. Blofeld 07:57, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 03 September 2012

• News and notes: World's largest photo competition kicks off; WMF legal fees proposal
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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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• In the media: Author criticizes Wikipedia article; Wales attacks UK government proposal
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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"
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• Technology report: Mmmm, milkshake...
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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
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• 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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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
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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
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• Technology report: WMF and the German chapter face up to Toolserver uncertainty
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You're invited: Ada Lovelace, STEM women edit-a-thon at Harvard

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The Signpost: 08 October 2012

• News and notes: Education Program faces community resistance
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• WikiProject report: Ten years and one million articles: WikiProject Biography
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• Technology report: The ups and downs of September and October, plus extension code review analysis
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PUF/FFD

Hi Jen. Thought you might not be aware of WP:PUF, which is usually a good way of proposing possibly non-free files for deletion (it frees up FFD for other deletion-related discussions). Magog the Ogre (t • c) 22:48, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

Yes, I maybe should use that more. I used to avoid it because of the 14-day system, and a general feeling that it wasn't much better than FFD, but I know that it has gone to 7 days too now. I try to nominate there when I think there are complex issues raised that can use the eyes of knowledgeable people, and I nominate at FFD where I think something is almost certainly a copyvio or needs more information from the uploader (as opposed to additional research) to show its free status. Calliopejen1 (talk) 00:40, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

Well I went out of my way to change PUF to 7 days in order to avoid precisely this problem. Anyway, a good rule of thumb might rather be, if the problem is it's non-free, it goes to PUF; if there are any other problems whatsoever, FFD. Magog the Ogre (t • c) 16:28, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 15 October 2012

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• Technology report: Wikidata is a go: well, almost
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• Technology report: Wikivoyage migration: technical strategy announced
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Note to self

Good sources for Varanasi economy: , . Calliopejen1 (talk) 04:34, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

Other good info: Calliopejen1 (talk) 04:35, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

Education: Calliopejen1 (talk) 16:07, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

The urban portion of Varanasi District had an infant mortality rate of 70 per 1,000 live births as of 2010-2011.

Saw your post on "ban Gibraltar DYKs for 1 year". So you'd oppose it if I expanded Algeciras from User:Gibmetal77/sandbox/Algeciras fully translating and sourcing it to a high quality articles and nom it for DYK. You'd say it is right to block it even though the work that had gone into it was done for free for a good purpose. It falls within Gibraltarpedia territory...♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 19:48, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

Algeciras is within Gibraltarpedia's territory though and would arguably one of the most important articles, commercially! Thanks for starting the cleanup of Varanasi, I'll start compiling a further reading section later which might help for gathering sources later.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 08:36, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Lihaas has practically reverted everything on Varanasi, I'd revert back, a lot of the poorly written.sourced stuff has returned.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 15:12, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Dunno, I have a rather dubious relationship with some of the WP:India members right now after I said its extremely unlikely a native will come along and write a decent sourced article. Have you seen my proposal on on Village pump proposals, that's what started it., a disgust of the state of average Pakistan and India articles. I'd be willing to put the effort into Varanasi but I suspect it'll be reverted. I've put your version in User:Calliopejen1/Varanasi, I'll work on it there with you if you like. If a few of us work on it bey the time we add to mainspace it'll be hard to dispute then. You are welcome to add history to Marrakech from the new History of Marrakech article to ensure it is fully comprehensive but concise. If you could find the most important missing info and make it concise in the main article with what's there this would be great. Once DYK'd I'll condense the Landmarks of Marrakesh to a reasonable size and GA nom, quite a lot to do yet though. Did you also see the Honiara expansion? Again Landmarks needs a cut but another possible GA..♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 17:02, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

That's exactly why you see I am no longer involved in continous mass stubbing and spend most of my time on quality nowadays on more core articles. Bjarke Ingels is my most recent GA with Ipigott. Most of the article people in the west care about and expect to be decent are not and I've been here 6 years and few of them have developed, some have degraded with haphazard lists and unsourced text actually. I still think Varanasi is worthy of the time and effort and a super interesting place. I will begin compiling a further reading section in your sandbox.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 17:33, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Did you see Door to Hell?♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 19:31, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Can you use the sfn notes, very easy, ref=harv at the end of the bibliography citations. Use http://reftag.appspot.com/ to draw up refs.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 22:11, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

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• WikiProject report: In recognition of... WikiProject Military History
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The book you asked for

Scanned Intro and chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 9, Bibliography and Index. I can get some more pages (may be a chapter), but probably beyond that copyright might end up an issue (the scanner itself is pretty fast). Let me know when you are done accessing the stuff. Churn and change (talk) 00:06, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Varanasi

I will concentrate on landmarks such as temples, ghats, university and so forth and also on cleaning of the Ganges in the Varanasi section. I have added all that was necessary on history and the lead section. Please tell me before you want to delete some of my inputs. if you have any particular sections to be added please let me know. Thanks and you are doing a great job on the article. In fact the Sapta Puri article was a DYK, which I did in collaboration with User:Redtigerxyz. Thanks.--Nvvchar. 19:22, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

Do me a favour Jen and let Nvv complete his inputs and then we can reedit it?♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 19:41, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

Sure, I only removed one paragraph about a specific university course. I think many of the current edits might make sense in a new article Landmarks of Varanasi? Might make sense not to splice out now to preserve time for DYK if you guys want to go that route? I don't do DYK anymore because it got too complicated. Calliopejen1 (talk) 19:44, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

I haven't finished thinking through what all is missing yet. We need some better info about culture in Varanasi, but it's pretty hard to separate from the religion section. I also think we should have a better explanation of the city's neighborhoods -- old city, new city, etc, and how it's all laid out. I have some good sources for that along with sources describing the city's architecture generally so hopefully I can add that soon. Demographics should be expanded - need to find the most recent census data to do that. I think some more info on health in the city - need to find sources for this. I have a good source for transport so I will also do that. We need more generic info about primary/secondary schools in Varanasi too. I think Kolkata is a good model article. That Sapta Puri article is great by the way! We'll have to be sure to link it from Varanasi so it isn't orphaned anymore! Calliopejen1 (talk) 19:54, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

I think it would have bene best yes that Nvvchar had concentrated his efforts into the landmark article first with as comprehensive as coverage as he could muster and then summarise the information in the main, I still urge him to do this..♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 19:56, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

Both Kolkata and Mumbai are excellent articles but I think they both undercover architecture and landmarks. As landmarks form the physical body of a city I think it is very important to cover them comprehensively, but you can be in danger of overcovering them.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 20:25, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

We may disagree a bit then... I agree that those are a little light on architecture/landmarks, but I don't think they're terrible. I generally don't like "landmarks" sections as such - I think the contents are generally better integrated into other sections (stadiums with sports, museums with culture, temples with religion, city hall with government, etc.). I think Istanbul, Washington, D.C., and Detroit are good models. Calliopejen1 (talk) 20:33, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

I didn't say they were terrible, they're great articles, but the landmarks coverage is definitely undercooked, "light" as you say. Not comprehensive enough. I primarily visit articles on cities and town to learn about their landmarks and history.

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Many thanks for messaging me regarding your proposal to delete my article about Ampthill RUFC. Obviously that's not news I like to receive but I would never have known if you had not mentioned it to me as I don't kepe a track of all of the articles I have written.

I have been working on producing articles for all current and former fifth tier rugby union clubs in England as this level, is seen as nationa level and I think partipating at national level is notable enough for each club which has reached this level to have their own article. Thus far I have completed this task for Northern and Midland teams and at some point I will finish the task by doing the London/SE and SW teams.

I've just taken a fresh look at this article because a major concern also seems to be about the level of basicness with this article is and it's fair to say that this is the most basic of all the pages I have created as part of this project. However, their website is very basic and contains very little information so I could only work with what was there. I have looked again at the article and added an additional sentence along with a reference so I hope this allays your concerns somewhat. However, I'm sure there are others who can assist with expanding this article rather than voting for deletion as it isn't just down to one person to work on these articles.{Rillington (talk) 16:45, 4 November 2012 (UTC)}

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Best Regards from Campora San Giovanni and polite request for cooperation and exchange of courtesies for translations. thanks in advance from the heart --Lodewijk Vadacchino (talk) 20:25, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Good evening from the Far Calabria My Dear and Good Jen,

I'm writing to say hello and know how you are, beyond this to wish you a good happy week for you and your husband. I write also and above all to ask what items I cordially translate into Sicilian and Italian, according to our discussion in chat. I ask you to apologize for the delay and especially since I renewed my personal computer with some little something more, just to keep up with the times.

From my part, I wonder if you could expand a little and translate articles, of course, when the time is available for you, I do not want to waste your time..the real life is demanding 100%, but Wikipedia for some of us is our breakout daily and our source of creativity.

Articles I ask are 3:

Radio Studio 54 Network: Radio flagship of Calabria, very popular in analog ie radios and FM radio in Calabria and southern half of Italy, followed but also thanks to streaming web Calabrian diaspora in the world, even from a small Italian restaurant in Hong Kong.

Catona: is a village in the municipality of Reggio Calabria, a former independent municipality until 1927 .. very nice and especially its picturesque waterfront, you should come to visit him.

Campora San Giovanni: is my native hamlet, very beautiful and picturesque that it was a land of immigrants and emigrants, just slightly better style and expanded here and there, to give another improvement of style for the English-speaking origins camporeses.

I know that you are easier to translate from Spanish, so I ask you kindly to always ispriarti Spanish and French versions.

For the rest I hope soon to check out for help. and thank you for your welcome your cookies are delicious, next time you visit the port to the Calabrian roasted coffee (U Caffé Mauro from Reggio Calabria).

Hugs to you and your husband. Your Luigi/Lodewijk --Lodewijk Vadacchino (talk) 20:25, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 12 November 2012

• News and notes: Court ruling complicates the paid-editing debate
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• WikiProject report: Land of parrots, palm trees, and the Holy Cross: WikiProject Brazil
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Images to delete

Greetings! Just a heads up, I noticed that you notimated a few images for deletion, that for some reason never hit the appropriate WP:FFD page: File:UNG-CAM9.jpg & File:Unl6-1-.jpg. -- ТимофейЛееСуда. 05:23, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, dealt with. Occasionally the script I use for deletion nominations has issues. Calliopejen1 (talk) 20:57, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

images contribution page

Hi Calliopejen1, just to let you know your images contribution page is in kind of a mess. Lotje (talk) 12:46, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

Yes, I know! I've never cared to fix it because it's not linked to on my user page anymore. I'm keeping it around just in case I'd like to use it later. Calliopejen1 (talk) 19:14, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

Are you keen on destroying content? My images were taken by myself. --carefree (talk) 10:07, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 19 November 2012

• News and notes: FDC's financial muscle kicks in
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• WikiProject report: No teenagers, mutants, or ninjas: WikiProject Turtles
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• Technology report: Structural reorganisation "not a done deal"
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• Featured content: Wikipedia hit by the Streisand effect
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• News and notes: Toolserver finance remains uncertain
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• Technology report: Wikidata reaches 100,000 entries
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Dear Calliopejen1, Although I have been contributing here and there with what I can, many of the infrequent twists and turns of the editing process remain a total mystery to me. I understand that you recently deleted a file uploaded by me at some point and although I'm sure that there were reasonable doubts I would like to understand why is it that I just noticed the warning for deletion this morning. It seems to me that I'm doing something wrong because I had no opportunity whatsoever to amend what needed to be amended or update the information required in aims to prevent the final outcome. Do you have any suggestions for future similar incidents? Best, Sabonarola — Preceding unsigned comment added by Contrakultura (talk • contribs) 16:44, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for the comment, and please forgive my ineptitude :) Sabonarola I can´t even find the tilde on this keyboard to sign the way it is supposed to.

CCI update

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The Signpost: 03 December 2012

• News and notes: Wiki Loves Monuments announces 2012 winner
  The global jury of Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM), the world’s largest photo contest, announced its results on 3 December.

• Featured content: The play's the thing
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• Discussion report: Concise Wikipedia; standardize version history tables
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• 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.

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• Featured content: Wikipedia goes to Hell
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• Technology report: The new Visual Editor gets a bit more visual
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• WikiProject report: WikiProject Human Rights
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Template:Infobox_County

Regarding Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2012_December_18#Template:Infobox_County .... the proposal is only about deleting the upper case versions. The "find" argument that you gave does not apply, because the templates can still be found by the lower case versions. In any listing, the upper case versions are only clutter on the page when mixed with the rest. NVanMinh (talk) 00:13, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

Here is one more example of what is broken: Template talk:Infobox settlement/Other templates up for TfD#Statistics with having Infobox settlement and Infobox Settlement. NVanMinh (talk) 02:14, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 17 December 2012

• News and notes: Arbitrator election: stewards release the results
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• WikiProject report: WikiProjekt Computerspiel: Covering Computer Games in Germany
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• Discussion report: Concise Wikipedia; section headings for navboxes
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• 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
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• 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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Loss of coordinates

Hi. I've just noticed that at least one of your additions of maps to infoboxes on buildings in Portland, Oregon, caused the coordinates to be removed from the title bar (and to no longer display anywhere in the article): in Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. It appears that your removal of the coordinates from the embedded NRHP infobox (which infobox is set to automatically displays coords in the title bar) caused them to no longer display. I reinstated them now in that article, which appears to have worked, but there are now two different sets of coordinates in the infobox, so I imagine this could cause problems at some point (or maybe not? It doesn't seem to be a problem in Union Station (Portland, Oregon)) – but I don't know enough about coordinates to know. If my fix needs cleaning up, please feel free. I ask you that please try to figure out how to avoid this problem in the future, as you presumably will be continuing to add maps to more articles. Thanks. SJ Morg (talk) 18:53, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

Wow, that was a fast reply (on my talk page). I was just about to add this addendum here, not the same exact problem but related: I also noticed that some of your coordinate reformatting, as in the article White Stag sign, has caused the coordinates to be removed from the title bar. It hasn't caused them to be removed entirely from the article (which was a much more significant problem), but a lot of people are accustomed to finding them in the title bar, and it is convenient to have them there. Is there a way to retain the coordinates in the title bar when making those coordinate format changes (which you said were necessary to make the pushpin map work)? From your earlier message, it sounds like the answer may be no. You can reply here if you like. SJ Morg (talk) 19:09, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

With the theaters, I'd rather get the template fixed first--hopefully that will solve the problem all at once. Again, the White Stag one is a weird default behavior of the infobox template. Most infoboxes default to displaying both title and inline, but Infobox building defaults to inline only. Those are easily fixed, I just have to add "| coordinates_display = yes" to the infobox. Maybe I should raise this as something to change - it seems weird not to have it go in the upper right by default. Calliopejen1 (talk) 19:20, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

Thank you. It's good to know there's an easy fix to this issue for this infobox, in case you opt not to raise the issue on the template's talk page. SJ Morg (talk) 09:08, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

infobox museum

I am pretty sure you want to change

{{#if:{{{coordinates_display|}}}|title|μ}}={{{coordinates_display|}}}

to

{{#ifeq:{{{coordinates_display|}}}|inline|μ|title}}={{{coordinates_display|}}}

which should work to suppress the coordinates in the title when |coordinates_display=inline, and will still keep the old behavior that when coordinates_display is blank, that the coordinates won't display in the title. Frietjes (talk) 21:28, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

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Hi Jen,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Cab Calloway Gottlieb.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on December 25, 2012. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2012-12-25. —howcheng {chat} 10:40, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 December 2012

• News and notes: Debates on Meta sparking along—grants, new entities, and conflicts of interest
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• WikiProject report: A Song of Ice and Fire
  This week, we spent some time with WikiProject A Song of Ice and Fire, which focuses on the eponymous series of high fantasy literature, the television series Game of Thrones, and related works by George R. R. Martin. The project was started in July 2006 and has grown to include 11 Good Articles maintained by a small yet enthusiastic band of editors.

• Featured content: Battlecruiser operational
  Seven articles and two lists were promoted to 'featured' status this week, including List of battlecruisers. The article covers all of the battlecruisers—which were a type of warship similar in size to a battleship but with several defining characteristics—ever planned or constructed. The last British battlecruiser built, HMS Hood, is pictured at right.

• Technology report: Efforts to "normalise" Toolserver relations stepped up
  Efforts were stepped up this week to sow a feeling of trust between the major parties with an interest in the future of the Toolserver. The tool- and bot-hosting server – more accurately servers – are currently operated by German chapter, Wikimedia Germany, with assistance from the Foundation and numerous volunteers, including long-time system administrator Daniel Baur (more commonly known by his pseudonym DaB). However, those parties have more recently failed to see eye-to-eye on the trajectory for the Toolserver, which is scheduled to be replaced by Wikimedia Labs in late 2013, with increasing concern about the tone of discussions.

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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'?
  A recent, poorly researched and poorly written story in the Register highlighted the perceived "cash rich" status of the Wikimedia movement. ... The Telegraph and Daily Dot, among others, have alleged that there are multiple links between the WMF, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, and Kazakhstan's government, which is, for all intents and purposes, a one-party non-democratic state.

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation fundraiser a success; Czech parliament releases photographs to chapter
  On 27 December the Wikimedia Foundation announced the conclusion of their ninth annual fundraiser, which attracted more than 1.2 million donors. The appeal reached its goal of US$25 million, even though fundraising banners ran for only nine days.

• 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.

• Discussion report: Image policy and guidelines; resysopping policy
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• Interview: Interview with Brion Vibber, the WMF's first employee
  Brion Vibber has been a Wikipedia editor for nearly 11 years and was the first person officially hired to work for the Wikimedia Foundation. He was instrumental in early development of the MediaWiki software and is now the lead software architect for the foundation's mobile development team.

• Featured content: Whoa Nelly! Featured content in review
  At the beginning of the year, we began a series of interviews with editors who have worked hard to combat systemic bias through the creation of featured content; although we haven't seen six installments yet, we've also had some delightful interviews with people who write articles on some of our most core topics. Now, as we close the year, I would like to present some of my own musings on the state of featured content—especially as it pertains to systemic bias and core topics.

• WikiProject report: New Year, New York
  This week, we're celebrating the New Year from Times Square by interviewing WikiProject New York City. Since December 2004, WikiProject NYC has had the difficult task of maintaining articles about the largest city in the United States, many of which are also among the the most viewed articles on Wikipedia. The project is home to 22 Featured Articles, 7 Featured Lists, 32 pieces of Featured Media, and a lengthy list of Did You Know? entries.

• Recent research: Wikipedia and Sandy Hook; SOPA blackout reexamined
  Northeastern University researcher Brian Keegan analyzed the gathering of hundreds of Wikipedians to cover the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy. ... A First Monday article reviews several aspects of the Wikipedia participation in the 18 January 2012, protests against SOPA and PIPA legislation in the USA. The paper focuses on the question of legitimacy, looking at how the Wikipedia community arrived at the decision to participate in those protests.

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Working out the details at Wikipedia:Today's article for improvement

The RFC for TAFI is nearing it's conclusion, and it's time to hammer out the details over at the project's talk page. There are several details of the project that would do well with wider input and participation, such as the article nomination and selection process, the amount and type of articles displayed, the implementation on the main page and other things. I would like to invite you to comment there if you continue to be interested in TAFI's development. --NickPenguin_(contribs) 02:46, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 07 January 2013

• Op-ed: Meta, where innovative ideas die
  Meta is the wiki that has coordinated a wide range of cross-project Wikimedia activities, such as the activities of stewards, the archiving of chapter reports, and WMF trustee elections. The project has long been an out-of-the-way corner for technocratic working groups, unaccountable mandarins, and in-house bureaucratic proceedings. Largely ignored by the editing communities of projects such as Wikipedia and organizations that serve them, Meta has evolved into a huge and relatively disorganized repository, where the few archivists running it also happen to be the main authors of some of its key documents. While Meta is well-designed for supporting the librarians and mandarins who stride along its corridors, visitors tend to find the site impenetrable—or so many people have argued over the past decade. This impenetrability runs counter to Meta's increasingly central role in the Wikimedia movement.

• 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
  Over the past year, 963 pieces of featured content were promoted. The most active of the featured content programs was featured article candidates (FAC), which promoted an average of 31 articles a month. This was followed by featured picture candidates (FPC; 28 a month). Coming in third was featured list candidates (FLC; 20 a month). Featured topic and featured portal candidates remained sluggish, each promoting fewer than 20 items over the year.

• Technology report: Looking ahead to 2013
  Following on from last week's reflections on 2012, this week the Technology report looks ahead to 2013, a year that will almost certainly be dominated by the juggernauts of Wikidata, Lua and the Visual Editor.

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An invitation for you!

	Hello, Calliopejen1. You're invited to join WikiProject Today's article for improvement. If you're interested in participating, please add your name to the list of members. Happy editing! Northamerica1000(talk) 00:04, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Template:Non-free newspaper

A tag has been placed on Template:Non-free newspaper, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

Template Redirect, not employed in a meaningful use or context

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CCI update

At long last, arguably the most tiresome copyright case I've worked on is done! A much better feeling when those big ones get taken down, I must say. --Wizardman 00:39, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Wizardman 23:34, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Gospel of the Hebrews, fork essay/theory Hebrew (Aramaic) Gospel back again

(cur | prev) 18:55, 15 November 2012‎ Calliopejen1 (talk | contribs)‎ . . (75,767 bytes) (+34)‎ . . (there is already an article on this subject. part of this page duplicates that article. i don't know if this is a WP:POVFORK or why the author didn't just edit the existing article) (undo)

Yes it duplicates, with a twist Gospel of the Hebrews, which is the standard academic name/approach. The POVfork essay/theory Hebrew (Aramaic) Gospel has already been deleted at least once and the editor keeps restoring it repeatedly under new titles. In ictu oculi (talk) 05:31, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

I have no stake in the outcome of this merge discussion, but this is a very biased notice for a discussion of proposal to merge. Ignocrates (talk) 15:58, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

Yeah maybe. Anyway Calliopejen, as you posted the initial the merge tag, you should be aware of a 2nd discussion. Cheers. In ictu oculi (talk) 14:49, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 January 2013

• Investigative report: Ship ahoy! New travel site finally afloat
  After six years without creating a new class of content projects, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has finally expanded into a new area: travel. Wikivoyage was formally launched—though without a traditional ship's christening—on 15 January, having started as a beta trial on 10 November. Wikivoyage has been taken under the WMF's umbrella on the argument that information resources that help with travel are educational and therefore within the scope of the foundation's mission.g

• 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.

• Discussion report: Flag Manual of Style; accessibility and equality
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• 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.

• Arbitration report: First arbitration case in almost six months
  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: 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.

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A barnstar for you!

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		Thanks for your contributions to WikiProject Today's article for improvement, which have served to expand the project and increase participation and collaboration there. Northamerica1000(talk) 12:59, 23 January 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
  This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Linguistics. Started in January 2004, the project has grown to include 7 Featured Articles, 4 Featured Lists, 2 A-class Articles, and 15 Good Articles maintained by 43 members. The project's members keep an eye on several watchlists, maintain the linguistics category, and continue to build a collection of Did You Know? entries. The project is home to six task forces and works with WikiProject Languages and WikiProject Writing Systems.

• 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.

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Your template-generated articles on human trafficking

I note that you created articles by using a template, during 2008-2011, of the form

{{{intro}}}{{{ref}}}
==Prosecution==
{{{prosecution}}}<ref name=dos/>
==Protection==
{{{protection}}}<ref name=dos/>
==Prevention==
{{{prevention}}}<ref name=dos/>
==See also==
*[[Human rights in {{{country}}}]]

e.g. South Africa, Colombia

What you did was create numerous articles with the exact same wording, with only the figures from the DoS "Trafficking in Persons Report 2010" inserted. What on earth would be the purpose of that? Why not just create a single article, human trafficking, or a tabular Trafficking in Persons Report 2010, which would then not be nightmare to maintain?

This isn't all. You yourself tagged your template-created articles as being useless, due to problems with neutrality, failure to meet quality standards, and relying upon a single source. Again, what is the purpose of creating one article, let alone lots of articles, of which you publicly avow that they are worthless?

Now, some of these articles have been fixed by editors cleaning up after you (Human trafficking in Greece), others may have received some minor edits Colombia) but sit there just as broken as the day your template spewed them out.

So here is my question: are you going to fix this anytime soon? These are your articles, you thought it necessary that they existed as separate pages, you tagged them for cleanup, but you do not seem to active in completing the work you started.

Because, if you are saying that you are not going to fix them, I would propose those articles which have not already been fixed by other editors and still have their template wording should be collapsed into a single article with a list of countries it is applicable to. People will then have a single article to fix instead of the current situation where there is an unknown number of broken articles sitting around the "human trafficking" category.

Thanks, --dab (𒁳) 12:48, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

These articles do not have the exact same wording, though they are each structured in the same way. (I used a template so that I could keep the structure uniform.) Each is from a totally customized report on human trafficking in that country. I do not believe that the articles are useless, or else I would not have created them, though obviously they can be improved. An uninformed reader is definitely better off reading the article, imperfect as it is, then not having any article at all. (And, as you note, some of these articles have been improved by others.) I plan to work on them at some point in the future (you can see they are on my to-do list on my user page), but Wikipedia accepts works in progress as articles because it is a collaborative project (one user can start an article, other users can improve it). They cannot feasibly be combined into a table because it's not just a matter of a few figures varying--the text of each article is basically totally different. As a final note, it is not necessary or productive to use such an unpleasant, hostile tone. Calliopejen1 (talk) 23:12, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Western Australian Climates

You disputed that I created the map of Western Australian climates from Scratch using Powerpoint. This is possible - as powerpoint allows maps to be created - I have used it for many maps I have uploaded into the web. The maps are created using the polygon tool in powerpoint with the various colours created as overlays. As a powerpoint it is then saved as a jpeg file which I have then uploaded.

I hope this explains the method I have used. I would appreciate it if this satisfies you that you withdraw the map from deletion. John D. Croft (talk) 06:43, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

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.

• Recent research: Lessons from the research literature on open collaboration; clicks on featured articles; credibility heuristics
  A special issue of the American Behavioral Scientist is devoted to "open collaboration".

• 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.

• Discussion report: Administrator conduct and requests
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• 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
  The Doncram case has continued into its third week.

• 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.

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Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Robertsch55

Hi Calliopejen1! The above CCI is done at last - thanks for all of your help on it. :) It is great to see it finished and closed. - Bilby (talk) 12:36, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

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.

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The Signpost: 11 February 2013

• Op-ed: An article is a construct – hoaxes and Wikipedia
  Wikipedia has a long, daresay storied history with hoaxes; our internal list documents 198 of the largest ones we have caught as of 4 January 2013. Why?

• 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.

• News and notes: UK chapter governance review marks the end of a controversial year
  Wikimedia UK, the non-profit organization devoted to furthering the goals of the Wikimedia movement in the United Kingdom, has published the findings of a governance review conducted by Compass Partnership.

• Discussion report: WebCite proposal
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• Technology report: Wikidata client rollout stutters
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Notification of discussion

A few months ago, you participated in a discussion on Wikipedia talk:Did you know about Gibraltar-related DYKs on the Main Page. I am proposing that the temporary restrictions on such DYKs, which were imposed in September 2012, should be lifted and have set out a case for doing so at Wikipedia talk:Did you know/Gibraltar-related DYKs. If you have a view on this, please comment at that page. Prioryman (talk) 21:48, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

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
  Two articles, nine lists, and thirteen pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week.

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CCI update

--Wizardman 03:00, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

MER-C 13:28, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 February 2013

• In the media: Ex-WMF trustee creates "Wikipedia Corporate Index" for PR agency
  On 13 February 2013, PR Report, the German sister publication of PR Week, published an article announcing that PR agency Fleishman-Hillard was offering a new analysis tool enabling companies to assess their articles in the German-language Wikipedia: the Wikipedia Corporate Index (WCI).

• Recent research: Wikipedia not so novel after all, except to UK university lecturers
  "Wikipedia and Encyclopedic Production" by Jeff Loveland (a historian of encyclopedias) and Joseph Reagle situates Wikipedia within the context of encyclopedic production historically, arguing that the features that many claim to be unique about Wikipedia actually have roots in encyclopedias of the past.

• News and notes: "Very lucky" Picture of the Year
  The Wikimedia Commons 2012 Picture of the Year contest has ended, with the winner being Pair of Merops apiaster feeding, taken by Pierre Dalous. The picture shows a pair of European Bee-eaters in a mating ritual—the male bird (right) has tossed the wasp into the air, and he will eventually offer it to the female (left).

• Discussion report: Wikivoyage links; overcategorization
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• Featured content: Blue birds be bouncin'
  Six articles, three lists, and twelve images were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this month.

• WikiProject report: How to measure a WikiProject's workload
  How can we measure the challenges facing a project or determine a WikiProject's productivity? Several prominent projects have been doing it for years: WikiWork.

• Technology report: Wikidata development to be continued indefinitely
  Wikimedia Germany (WMDE) this week committed itself to funding the Wikidata development team, ending fears that phase three would be abandoned.

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Orphaned non-free media (File:Fernando Amorsolo 1a.jpg)

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Hi Jen, Thanks for joining as an online ambassador to the Environmental Law class. It's great to have a lawyer on board! Aarf613 (talk) 06:43, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 March 2013

• Op-ed: We must do more to turn readers into editors
  Recently I was having a casual conversation with a friend, and he mentioned that he spent too many hours a day playing video games. I responded with a comment that I, too, spent way too much time on an activity of my own – Wikipedia. In an attempt to reply with a relevant remark, he offered something along the lines of: "So have you ever written anything?" After a second, I quickly answered yes, but I was still in shock over his question. It seemed to be rooted in a belief on his part that using Wikipedia meant just reading the articles, and that editing was something that someone, hypothetically, might do, but not really more likely than randomly counting to 7,744.

• 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
  This week, we tuned to WikiProject Television Stations, a project that dates back to March 2004. WikiProject Television Stations primarily focuses on local stations, national networks, television markets, and other topics related to television channels in North America, the Caribbean, and some Pacific countries. The project has a fair bit of work ahead of them with over 4,000 unassessed articles and only one Good Article out of 626 assessed articles, giving the project a relative WikiWork rating of 5.262.

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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.

• Arbitration report: Doncram case closes; arbitrator resigns
  There are three open cases, and a final decision has been given in the Doncram case.

• WikiProject report: Setting a precedent
  This week, we spent some time with WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court Cases.

• 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.

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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
  This week, we composed a tribute to WikiProject Composers. The project was created during the final hours of 2004 and finalized in early January 2005. It has grown to encompass over 8,000 pages, including 26 Featured Articles and 23 Good Articles. WikiProject Composers faces a difficult workload, with a relative WikiWork rating of 5.45.

• Interview: Meeting in the middle: Wikipedia and libraries
  Ask librarians what they think about Wikipedia and you might get some interesting answers. Some will throw up their hands about the laziness of the Google generation and their overdependence on Wikipedia. Some see it as the "competition". And some will tell you it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.

• 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.

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You've got mail

Hi Jen! I sent you an e-mail a couple of days ago, and I just wanted to make sure you got it. Thanks! Dominic·t 21:57, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 March 2013

• WikiProject report: The 'Burgh: WikiProject Pittsburgh
  Our travels have brought us to Pittsburgh, the American city known for steelworks and bridges.

• 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
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Seward Peninsula rivers

Happy Easter, Jen! I've been working on landforms of Seward Peninsula using the map in this document as a guide. I've never uploaded an image to Commons. Dr. Blofeld thought you might be able to assist. If it's PD and if you have the time for it, great, but no worries if you're busy with other things. Thanks. --Rosiestep (talk) 20:51, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

A work of an employee of the Department of Fisheries is under Template:PD-USGov-Interior-FWS I think?♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 21:06, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Unfortunately that is a work by a state employee, rather than a federal employee, so it is not public domain. Your best bet is probably to ask at the map section of the graphics lab if someone could do up a similar (but original) map of the same area, though the map section gets so many requests that not all are responded to... Calliopejen1 (talk) 01:10, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for clarifying it, Calliopejen! Cheers, --Rosiestep (talk) 03:43, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 01 April 2013

• Special report: Who reads which Wikipedia?
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Lifting the Gibraltar DYK restrictions

A couple of months ago, you opposed a proposal to lift the restrictions on Gibraltar-related DYKs, which were imposed in September 2012. Could you possibly clarify (1) under what conditions you would support a lifting of the restrictions, and (2) when you think it would be appropriate to lift the restrictions? Prioryman (talk) 20:12, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 08 April 2013

• Wikizine: WMF scales back feature after outcry
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unencyclopedic quotation list

Hi Calliopejen1 Could you please tell me what do you mean by "unencyclopedic quotation list"? I like quotes that you deleted at Elon Musk.

Thanks, User:New worl —Preceding undated comment added 06:29, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Church (building)/to do

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Boston marathon

I remembered you live in Boston don't you? Everything alright?♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 19:31, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

Replied by email. Calliopejen1 (talk) 16:06, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

Complain about many deletions by a Wikipedian

Hi Calliopejen1, I would like to make a complain about many deletions by Qworty. As you can see from his/her "contribution" here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Qworty, most are about deletions. I think this practice is bad. Because:

1. Citation needed should be mentioned first.
2. The most important strengths of Wikipedia is Wikipedians' contributions. If much information is deleted constantly, their morale would be damaged besides the damaged articles.
3. After his/her deletion, many articles would become almost nothing like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Death_Cure&diff=552106630&oldid=552094863 The earlier version is a much better one.

You can see the talk here for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:The_Death_Cure Please tell me your opinion. Thank you very much. New worl (talk) 03:23, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

Replied on article talk page. Calliopejen1 (talk) 16:06, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 April 2013

• In the media: Wikipedia inaccurate, says Florence; New Wikipedia app for breaking news
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Sea

Hi, I saw your edit. Perhaps a removal of this scale should be discussed first. However, the reason you gave - that it was not in the "introduction" - could be an omission in that section (the lead) rather than a commission in the body of the article. The matter of what exactly "sea" means is in fact under discussion, and it has a bearing on your edit. Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:06, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Environmental law articles ready for preliminary review

Hi Jen, I'm the Campus Ambassador for Aaron Frank's environmental law class, and wanted to let you know the students now have draft articles in mainspace and are starting to review each other's articles, and they could also use a preliminary review by an experienced Wikipedian in this area. When you get a chance, ideally sometime before next Wednesday or so, please take a look at the following list of articles and leave feedback on the talk page:

• Federal exemptions for hydraulic fracturing
• Storm King Mountain: Consolidated Edison v. Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference
• Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill
• American Electric Power Company v. Connecticut
• Sierra Club v. Babbitt
• Los Angeles County Flood Control District v. NRDC
• Hazardous Materials Transportation Act

Thank you! Dcoetzee 21:00, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

I'll try to get to these asap, but before Wednesday may not be doable given my crazy work schedule. I'll do my best. Calliopejen1 (talk) 21:07, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

That's okay, I apologise for the bad timing - they just have presentations on Saturday. Whenever you can give feedback it will be helpful. :-) Dcoetzee 23:42, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 April 2013

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Primark

Hi Calliopejen1,

Could you please take a look at Talk:Primark#.27Sweatshops.27_.26_Primark and offer your valuable comments?

Thank you very much,

New worl (talk) 10:40, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

Nomination of Angel Quintana for deletion

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The Signpost: 06 May 2013

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The Signpost: 20 May 2013

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• In the media: Qworty incident continues
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The Signpost: 27 May 2013

• News and notes: First-ever community election for FDC positions
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The Signpost: 05 June 2013

• From the editor: Signpost developments
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• Discussion report: Return of the Discussion report
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• News and notes: "Cease and desist", World Trade Organization says to Wikivoyage; Could WikiLang be the next WMF project?
  On 31 May, the Wikimedia Foundation's Legal and Community Advocacy team announced that the Wikivoyage logo would have to be replaced, because it has become the subject of a cease-and-desist letter from the World Trade Organization (WTO).

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The Signpost: 12 June 2013

• News and notes: How Wikimedia affiliates are spending $8.4 million; PRISM scandal
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• Featured content: Mixing Bowl Interchange
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• Discussion report: VisualEditor, elections, bots, and more
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• Traffic report: Who holds the throne?
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• Arbitration report: Two cases suspended; proposed decision posted in Argentine History
  Two cases, Race and politics and Tea Party movement have been suspended. Argentine History remains open, and a proposed decision was posted on 12 June.

• WikiProject report: Processing WikiProject Computing
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The Signpost: 19 June 2013

• Op-ed: Two responses to the 'Tragedy of Wikipedia's Commons'
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• Traffic report: Most popular Wikipedia articles of the last week
  The season finale of Game of Thrones ensured that the epic high fantasy series would dominate the top 10 again last week; however, it was joined by Maurice Sendak and Man of Steel.

• In the media: South African learners want Wikipedia; Editing of Israel topics
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• WikiProject report: The Volunteer State: WikiProject Tennessee
  This week, we visited WikiProject Tennessee, a project dedicate to the state at the geographic and cultural crossroads of the United States.

• News and notes: Swedish Wikipedia's millionth article leads to protests; WMF elections—where are all the voters?
  With erysichton elaborata, the Swedish Wikipedia passed the one million article Rubicon this week. While this is a mostly symbolic achievement, serving as a convenient benchmark with which to gain publicity and attention in an increasingly statistical world, the particular method by which the Swedish site has passed the mark has garnered significant attention—and controversy.

• Featured content: Cheaper by the dozen
  Eleven articles, twelve lists, and eleven pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week.

• Discussion report: Citations, non-free content, and a MediaWiki meeting
  A list of current discussions on the English Wikipedia.

• Technology report: May engineering report published
  The WMF's engineering report for May was published recently on the Wikimedia blog and on the MediaWiki wiki ("friendly" summary version), giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month.

• Arbitration report: The Farmbrough amendment request—automation and arbitration enforcement
  Richard Farmbrough was set to have his day in court, but as events transpired, this was not to be so. On 25 March 2013, an accusation was made against Farmbrough at Arbitration Enforcement (AE), claiming that he violated the terms of an automated edit restriction. Within hours, Farmbrough had filed his own request with the arbitration committee, citing the newly filed AE request and claiming that the motion was being used "in an absurd way" in the filing of enforcement requests: "I have not made any edits that a sane person would consider automation."

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June 2013

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The Signpost: 26 June 2013

• Traffic report: Most-viewed articles of the week
  With most TV shows on hiatus for the summer, attention has turned to movies, celebrity and sports. The dramatic events at the 2013 Confederations Cup drew massive attention, as did summer blockbusters like Man of Steel and World War Z. But the most searched event of the week was the tragic and unexpected death of popular actor James Gandolfini on June 19.

• In the media: Daily Dot on Commons and porn; Jimmy Wales accused of breaking Wikipedia rules in hunt for Snowden
  The Daily Dot has examined the perennial controversy over explicit or pornographic media on Commons. This latest salvo was touched off when Russavia uploaded a portrait of Jimmy Wales made by the artist Pricasso, who paints with his genitalia.

• Recent research: Most controversial Wikipedia topics, automatic detection of sockpuppets
  A comparative work by T. Yasseri., A. Spoerri, M. Graham and J. Kertész looks at the 100 most controversial topics in 10 language versions of Wikipedia, and tries to make sense of the similarities and differences in these lists.

• News and notes: Election results released
  Less than three days after the close of voting, the volunteer election committee posted the results on Meta. The worldwide Wikimedia movement has elected three WMF trustees for two-year terms on the 10-seat Board: Samuel Klein (supported by 43.5% of voters), Phoebe Ayers (38.3%), and María Sefidari (35.6%). The new trustees will take their seats at a critical time for the movement: one of the first tasks in their terms will be to help the Board to find and approve the new executive director to take up the top job when Sue Gardner departs.

• Discussion report: Privacy policy, X!'s edit counter, old rangeblocks, and the Article Incubator
  A list of current discussions on the English Wikipedia.

• Featured content: Wikipedia in black + Adam Cuerden
  This week, the Signpost interviews Adam Cuerden, a Wikimedian who has been for years gathering featured pictures, and who constantly participates in what could be his favourite part of the project. Cuerden dedicates most of his time to scanning and restoring old, valuable illustrative works. He explains to us how the featured process works, its relation with other parts of the encyclopedia, and how pictures evolve before reaching featured status.

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Fashion
  This week, we walked the runway with WikiProject Fashion. Started in March 2007, the project is home to 4 Featured Articles and 41 Good Articles. The project has a lengthy list of how you can help and a list of Article Alerts.

• Arbitration report: Argentine History closed; two cases remain suspended
  Argentine History was closed. Two cases, Race and politics and Tea Party movement, remain suspended until July.

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 22:47, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

CCI update

zAnother one taken down! Hopefully I'll see you around at CCI more :) --Wizardman 03:41, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 03 July 2013

• In the media: Jimmy Wales is not an Internet billionaire; a mass shooter's alleged Wikipedia editing
  Amy Chozick's profile of Jimmy Wales in the New York Times sparked significant controversy in international news outlets this week. Chozick's profile covered Wales's personal life, including his 12-year-old daughter, ex-wife, and current wife Kate Garvey, describing Wales himself as "a well-groomed version of a person who has been slumped over a computer drinking Yoo-hoo for hours." Chozick described his current role in Wikipedia as "Benevolent Dictator for Life", a statement which garnered conflict from all corners of the web, including from Wales, who responded to the piece as a whole with a lengthy talk page statement.

• Featured content: Queen of France
  Four articles, four lists, and fifteen pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.

• WikiProject report: Puppies!
  This week, the Signpost went to the kennel and interviewed WikiProject Dogs. The project has several featured and good articles, along with a large number of "Did you know" entries. We asked three project members about the challenges of creating, curating, and maintaining canine content in an increasingly dog-obsessed world.

• News and notes: Wikipedia's medical collaborations gathering pace
  The key annual event in the Wikimedia calendar, Wikimania 2013, will be held in Hong Kong in just five weeks' time. Among the events will be a presentation by two people who are working to promote the development of medical content on Wikimedia projects. One is James Heilman of Wiki Project Med, a non-profit dedicated to making "clear, reliable, comprehensive, up-to-date educational resources and information in the biomedical and related social sciences freely available to all people in the language of their choice". The other is Lori Thicke, president of Translators Without Borders (TWB), the Connecticut-based organisation set up in 2010 to provide pro-bono translation services for humanitarian non-profits

• Discussion report: Snuggle, mainpage link to Wikinews, 3RR, and more
  Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

• Technology report: VisualEditor in midst of game-changing deployment series
  The VisualEditor extension has gone live by default to registered users on the English Wikipedia, marking a huge milestone in a project that has taken the best part of a decade to reach fruition. The extension was previously described as "the biggest and most important change to our user experience we’ve ever undertaken" by the WMF team behind it.

• Traffic report: Yahoo! crushes the competition ... in Wikipedia views
  The real world made a strong showing in the top 10 last week, as news stories such as Yahoo!'s purchase of Tumblr, the murder of Odin Lloyd, the continuing drama over NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and the ill-health of Nelson Mandela crowded out the usual roster of TV shows, movies, websites and video games. Not that they were entirely excluded, of course.

• Arbitration report: Tea Party movement reopened, new AUSC appointments
  Following a one-month period of moderated discussion, Tea Party movement has been reopened by the Committee. The proposed decisions are currently being voted upon. Race and politics remains suspended pending the return of User:Apostle12.

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