User talk:Esowteric/Archives/2016/May

The Signpost: 24 April 2016

• News and notes: Lunar project; steering group formed to search for next executive director
  Maybe the rover could find an ED on the moon...

• Op-ed: Knowledge Engine and the Wales–Heilman emails
  When is competing with Google not competing with Google?

• Special report: Update on EranBot, our new copyright violation detection bot
  Help wanted!

• Traffic report: Two for the price of one
  What's better than one traffic report? Two!

• Featured content: The double-sized edition
  10 articles, 6 lists, and 11 pictures have been promoted in this cycle

• Arbitration report: Amendments made to the Race and intelligence case
  When it rains, it pours

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The Signpost: 2 May 2016

• News and notes: Wikimedia Switzerland's board and paid-editing firm; passing of Ed Dravecky
  Wikimedia Switzerland board members involved in paid-editing firm

• In the media: Wikipedia Zero piracy in Bangladesh; bureaucracy; chilling effects; too few cooks; translation gaps
  More reports surface of pirates' new favorite database: Wikimedia Commons

• Traffic report: Purple
  Prince's death breaks traffic report records

• Featured content: The best ... from the past two weeks
  Seven articles, six lists, and four pictures were promoted these weeks

• Arbitration report: Two editors unbanned; Wikicology case enters workshop phase; Gamaliel restricted from Gamergate at his own request
  Arbitration news

• Recent research: The eight roles of Wikipedians; do edit histories expose social relations among editors?
  Making sense of Wikipedia's social network

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The Signpost: 17 May 2016

• News and notes: Affiliates' nomination of WMF trustees announced; FDC's straight talking to WMF
  Christophe Henner and Nataliia Tymkiv respond to the Signpost's questions

• Op-ed: Swiss chapter in turmoil
  Paid-editing controversy

• In the media: Wikimedia's Dario Taraborelli quoted on Google's Knowledge Graph in The Washington Post
  Citations needed

• Featured content: Two weeks for the prize of one
  Nine featured articles, eight featured lists, and six featured pictures

• Traffic report: Oh behave, Beyhive / Underdogs
  Prince gives way to Captain America

• Arbitration report: "Wikicology" ends in site ban; evidence and workshop phases concluded for "Gamaliel and others"
  News from two arbitration cases

• Wikicup: That's it for WikiCup Round 2!
  35 competitors move on to round 3

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The Signpost: 28 May 2016

• News and notes: Upcoming Wikimedia conferences in the US and India; May Metrics and Activities Meeting
  Dates and venues for WikiCon USA 2016, WikiCon India 2016, 2016 Glam Boot Camp and 2016 Wikimedia Diversity Conference

• Special report: Compensation paid to Sue Gardner increased by almost 50 percent after she stepped down as executive director
  Sue Gardner appears to be earning more money as the WMF's special advisor than she did as its executive director

• In the media: The perils of Wikipedia's monopoly; Wikipedians' fragility; Street Sharks hoax
  Not everything you read online is fact

• Featured content: Eight articles, three lists and five pictures
  Another eight featured articles, three featured lists and five featured pictures

• Op-ed: Journey of a Wikipedian
  Mental health carries a powerful stigma. The more we are open about it, the less that weighs all of us down

• Arbitration report: Gamaliel resigns from the arbitration committee
  Gamaliel and others case nears its end, and there are new 30/500 rules

• Recent research: English as Wikipedia's Lingua Franca; deletion rationales; schizophrenia controversies
  Round-up of recent Wikipedia research

• Traffic report: Splitting (musical) airs / Slow Ride
  We've recently come into possession of a new tool.

• Blog: Freely licensed magic at Eurovision
  Albin Olsson has been right there with them, capturing dramatic images of singers from around the world.

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