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The Wikipedia Signpost: 5 July 2010

• News and notes: WMF expansion, community hires, award for MediaWiki, admin recall
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• In the news: Accidentally anonymized donation, democratized learning and more
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• Wikimania preview: Gearing up for Wikimania in Gdańsk
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• WikiProject report: WikiProject Children's Literature
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• Features and admins: This week's highlights
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• Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
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• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
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The Wikipedia Signpost: 12 July 2010

• UK COI edits: British politicians accused of WP cover-ups
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• News and notes: Board changes, Wikimania, Public Policy Initiative
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• In the news: Foundation plans, David Barton, dangerous occasional glitches
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• Discussion report: Article ownership, WikiProjects vs. Manual of Style, Unverifiable village
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• WikiProject report: WikiProject Apple Inc.
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• Features and admins: The best of the week
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• Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
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• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
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The Wikipedia Signpost: 19 July 2010

• News and notes: Politician defends editing own article, Google translation, Row about a small Wikipedia
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• In the news: Wikimania, Former Wikimedia employee looks back, Editing controversial articles
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• Vandalism: Vandalism edits fool media and a government, become object of bets
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• WikiProject report: Up close with WikiProject Animals
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• Features and admins: The best of the week
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• Arbitration report: ArbCom to appoint CU/OS positions after dumping election results
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• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
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The Wikipedia Signpost: 26 July 2010

• News and notes: New interwiki project improves biographies, and other news
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• In the news: Wikipedia leads in customer satisfaction, Google Translate and India, Citizendium transition, Jimbo's media accolade
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• WikiProject report: These Are the Voyages of WikiProject Star Trek
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• Features and admins: The best of the week
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• Discussion report: Controversial e-mail proposal, Invalid AfD
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• Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
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• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
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WikiCup 2010 July newsletter

We are half-way through our penultimate round, and nothing is yet certain. Pool A, currently led by Sasata (submissions) has ended up the more competitive, with three contestants ( Sasata (submissions), Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) and TonyTheTiger (submissions)) scoring over 500 points already. Pool B is led by Casliber (submissions), who has also scored well over 500. The top two from each pool, as well as the next four highest scorers regardless of pool, will make it through to our final eight. As ever, anything you worry may not receive the necessary attention before the end of the round (such as outstanding GA or FA nominations) is welcome at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, and please remember to continue offering reviews yourself where possible. As always, the judges are available to contact via email, IRC or their talk pages, and general discussion about the Cup is welcome on the WikiCup talk page.

Planning has begun for the 2011 WikiCup, with open discussions concerning scoring and flags for next year's competition. Contributions to those discussions would be appreciated, especially concerning the flags, as next year's signups cannot begin until the flag issue has been resolved. Signups will hopefully open at some point in this round, with discussion about possible changing in the scoring/process opening some time afterwards.

Earlier this round, we said goodbye to Hunter Kahn (submissions), who has bowed out to spend more time on the book he is authoring with his wife. We wish him all the best. In other news, the start of this round also saw some WikiCup awards sent out by Suomi Finland 2009 (submissions). We appreciate his enthusiasm, and contestants are of course welcome to award each other prizes as they see fit, but rest assured that we will be sending out "official" awards at the end of the competition. If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn, Fox and The ed17 22:38, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

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The Wikipedia Signpost: 2 August 2010

• News and notes: Canadian political edits, Swedish royal wedding, Italian "right of reply" bill, Chapter reports
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• In the news: Gardner and Sanger on why people edit Wikipedia, Fancy and frugal reading devices, Medical article assessed
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• WikiProject report: Always Expanding: WikiProject Images and Media
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• Features and admins: The best of the week
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• Arbitration report: Tricky and Lengthy Dispute Resolution
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• Technology report: Major MediaWiki release, password security, vulnerable MediaWiki installations, and more
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The Wikipedia Signpost: 9 August 2010

• News and notes: FBI requests takedown of seal, Public Policy advisors and ambassadors, Cary Bass leaving, new Research Committee
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• In the news: Wikinews interviews Umberto Eco, and more
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• Admin stats: RfA drought worsens in 2010—wikigeneration gulf emerging
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• Sister projects: Strategic Planning update
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• WikiProject report: Chocks away for WikiProject Aviation
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• Features and admins: The best of the week
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• Arbitration report: Tricky and Lengthy Dispute Resolution
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• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
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The Signpost: 16 August 2010

• News and notes: Book publisher apologizes for plagiarizing photos by Wikipedians, brief news
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• Spam attacks: Large scale vandalism revealed to be "study" by university researcher
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• In the news: Supportive communication and missing incentives on Wikipedia, and more
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• WikiProject report: A Pit Stop with WikiProject NASCAR
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• Features and admins: The best of the week
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• Arbitration report: ArbCom releases names of CU/OS applicants after delay
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• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
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The Signpost: 23 August 2010

• News and notes: Pending changes poll, Public policy classes, Payment schemes debate, and more
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• In the news: Zionist editing courses, newspaper denies editing candidate, net neutrality
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• WikiProject report: WikiProject Cryptozoology
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• Features and admins: The best of the week
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• Arbitration report: Proposed decision of climate change case posted
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• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
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The Signpost: 30 August 2010

• News and notes: Most linked websites on Wikipedia, New York Wiki-Conference, and more
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• In the news: Agatha Christie spoiled, Wales on Wikileaks, University students improve Wikipedia, and more
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• WikiProject report: Studying WikiProject Universities
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• Features and admins: Featured article milestone: 3,000
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• Arbitration report: What does the Race and intelligence case tell us?
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• Technology report: Reusability of MediaWiki code, Google Summer of Code: Interwiki transclusion, and more
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WikiCup 2010 August newsletter

We have our final eight! The best of luck to those who remain. A bumper newsletter this week as we start our home straight.

• Pool A's winner was Sturmvogel_66 (submissions). Awarded the top score overall this round, Sturmvogel_66 writes primarily on military history, favouring Naval warfare.
• Pool B's winner was Casliber (submissions). Awarded the top score for featured articles this round, Casliber writes primarily on natural sciences, especially botany and ornithology.
• Pool A's close second was Sasata (submissions). Awarded the top score for featured pictures this round, Sasata writes primarily on natural sciences, favouring mycology.
• Pool B's close second was ThinkBlue (submissions). Awarded the top score for good articles and topics this round, ThinkBlue primarily writes content related to television and film, including 30 Rock.
• The first wildcard was TonyTheTiger (submissions). Awarded the top score for did you knows and valued pictures this round, TonyTheTiger writes on a number of topics, including baseball, American football and Chicago.
• The second wildcard was White Shadows (submissions). Someone who has helped the Cup behind the scenes all year, White Shadows said "I'm still in shock that I made it this far" and writes primarily on Naval warfare, especially U-boats.
• The third wildcard was Staxringold (submissions). Awarded the top score for featured lists and topics this round, Staxringold primarily writes on sport and television, including baseball and 30 Rock.
• The fourth wildcard was William S. Saturn (submissions). Entering the final eight only on the final day of the round, William S. Saturn writes on a number of topics, mostly related to Texas.

We say goodbye to the six who fell at the final hurdle. Geschichte (submissions) only just missed out on a place in the final eight. Resolute (submissions) was not far behind. Candlewicke (submissions) was awarded top points for in the news this round. Gary King (submissions) contributed a variety of did you know articles. Suomi Finland 2009 (submissions) said "I'm surprised to have survived so far into the competition", but was extactic to see Finland in the semi-finals. Arsenikk (submissions) did not score this round, but has scored highly in previous rounds. We also say goodbye to Ian Rose (submissions), who withdrew earlier this month after spending six weeks overseas. Anyone interested in this round's results can see them here and here. Thank you to Stone (submissions) for these.

Signups for next year's competition are now open. Planning is ongoing, with a key discussion about judges for next year open. Discussion about how next year's scoring will work is ongoing, and thoughts are more than welcome at Wikipedia talk:WikiCup/Scoring. Also, TonyTheTiger is compiling some information and statistics on the finalists here- the final eight are encouraged to add themselves to the list.

Our final eight will play it out for two months, after which we will know 2010's WikiCup winner, and a variety of prizes will be awarded. As ever, anything you worry may not receive the necessary attention before the end of the round (such as outstanding GA or FA nominations) is welcome at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, and please remember to continue offering reviews yourself where possible. As always, the judges are available to contact via email, IRC or their talk pages, and general discussion about the Cup is welcome on the WikiCup talk page.If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn, Fox and The ed17 23:09, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

The Signpost: 6 September 2010

• News and notes: Pending changes analyzed, Foundation report, Main page bias, brief news
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• In the news: WikiLeaks and Wikipedia; Google–WP collaboration to translate health information
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• Book review: Cognitive Surplus, by Clay Shirky
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• Dispatches: Tools, part 1: References, external links, categories and size
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• WikiProject report: Putting articles in their place: the Uncategorized Task Force
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• Features and admins: Bumper crop of admins; Obama featured portal marks our 150th
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• Arbitration report: Interim desysopping, CU/OS appointments, and more
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• Technology report: Development transparency, resource loading, GSoC: extension management
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The Signpost: 13 September 2010

• News and notes: Page-edit stats, French National Library partnership, Mass page blanking, Jimbo on Pending changes
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• In the news: Public Policy Initiative, Houellebecq plagiarism?, Article revisions as book
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• Public Policy Initiative: Experiments with article assessment
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• Sister projects: Biography bloopers – update on the Death Anomalies collaboration
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• WikiProject report: Getting the picture – an interview with the Graphic lab
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• Features and admins: "Magnificent" warthog not so cute, says featured picture judge
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• Arbitration report: Tricky and Lengthy Dispute Resolution
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• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
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The Signpost: 20 September 2010

• From the editor: New ways to read and share the Signpost
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• News and notes: Dutch National Archives donation, French photo raid, brief notes
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• In the news: Rush Limbaugh falls for Wikipedia hoax, Public Policy Initiative, Nature cites Wikipedia
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• WikiProject report: All Aboard WikiProject Trains
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• Features and admins: The best of the week
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• Dispatches: Tools, part 2: Internal links and page histories
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• Arbitration report: Discretionary sanctions clarification and more
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• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
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The Signpost: 27 September 2010

• News and notes: French million, controversial content, Citizendium charter, Pending changes, and more
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• In the news: Wikimedia moves into India, critical conference, Vandalism detection contest
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• WikiProject report: Designing WikiProject Architecture
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• Features and admins: The best of the week
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• Arbitration report: EEML amendment requests & more
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• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
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WikiCup 2010 September newsletter

We are half-way through our final round, entering the home straight. TonyTheTiger (submissions) leads at the time of writing with 1180 points, immediately followed by Sasata (submissions) with 1175 points. Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) closely follows in third place with 1100 points. For those who are interested, data about the finalists has been compiled at Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2010/finalists, while a list of content submitted by all WikiCup contestants prior to this round has been compiled at Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2010/Submissions. As ever, anything contestants worry may not receive the necessary attention before the end of the round (such as outstanding GA or FA nominations) is welcome at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, and please remember to continue offering reviews yourself where possible. As always, the judges are available to contact via email, IRC or their talk pages, and general discussion about the Cup is welcome on the WikiCup talk page.

Despite controversy, the WikiCup remains open. Signups for next year's competition are more than welcome, and suggestions for how next year's competition will work are appreciated at Wikipedia talk:WikiCup/Scoring. More general comments and discussions should be directed at the WikiCup talk page. One month remains in the 2010 WikiCup, after which we will know our champion. Good luck everyone! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn, Fox and The ed17 23:03, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

The Signpost: 4 October 2010

• News and notes: German chapter remodeled to meet Foundation requirements, and more
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• In the news: Spanish police pursues BLP vandals, Jimbo interviewed, advice for experts and spammers
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• Book review: Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia, by Joseph Reagle
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• WikiProject report: Hot topics with WikiProject Volcanoes
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• Features and admins: Milestone: 2,500th featured picture
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• Arbitration report: Tricky and Lengthy Dispute Resolution
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• Technology report: Code reviewers, October Engineering update, brief news
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The Signpost: 11 October 2010

• News and notes: Board resolutions, fundraiser challenge, traffic report, ten thousand good articles, and more
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• In the news: Free culture conference, "The Register" retracts accusations, students blog about Wikipedia, and more
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• WikiProject report: WikiProject Smithsonian Institution
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• Features and admins: Big week for ships and music
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• Dispatches: Tools, part 3: Style tools and wikEd
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• Arbitration report: Tricky and Lengthy Dispute Resolution
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• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
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The Signpost: 18 October 2010

• News and notes: Wikipedia fundraiser event, Frankfurt book fair, news in brief
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• WikiProject report: Show Me the Money: WikiProject Numismatics
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• Features and admins: A week for marine creatures
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• Dispatches: Common issues seen in Peer review
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• Arbitration report: Climate change case closes after 4 months
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• Technology report: Video subtitling tool, staff vs. volunteer developers, brief news
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