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The Signpost: 08 April 2015
- Op-ed: We are drowning in promotional artspam
Wikipedia has been gravitating towards a vehicle for business and product promotion for too long.
- News and notes: Advancement department to be created at the Foundation, milestone fixes
March saw a number of high-level hirings and executive reorganizations in the Wikimedia Foundation.
- In the media: Wikipedia on 60 Minutes, Kickstarter, and in the classroom
The venerable CBS news program 60 Minutes profiled Wikipedia and the Wikimedia community.
- Traffic report: Resurrection week
How appropriate that the theme of Easter week would be resurrection from the dead.
- Featured content: Partisan arrangements, dodgy dollars, a mysterious union of strings, and a hole that became a monument
Four featured articles, seven featured lists, and 23 featured pictures were promoted this week.
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Christianity
With Holy Week having recently drawn to a close, it is an apt time to examine WikiProject Christianity, which was created in 2006, and boasts over 200 active members.
- Arbitration report: New Functionary appointments
The Committee has voted on the 2015 appointments to the Functionary team.
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community.
April 2015 GOCE newsletter
Guild of Copy Editors April 2015 Newsletter
  March drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's backlog-reduction drive. Of the 38 people who signed up, 18 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. April blitz: The one-week April blitz, again targeting our long requests list, will run from April 19–25. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the requests page. Sign up here! May drive: The month-long May backlog-reduction drive, with extra credit for articles tagged in December 2013, January and February 2014 and all request articles, begins soon. Sign up now! Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Miniapolis, Jonesey95, Biblioworm and Philg88. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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The Signpost: 15 April 2015
- News and notes: Erik Möller leaving Foundation; annual plan grants under community review
The Wikimedia Foundation's vice president for engineering, Erik Möller, will leave the WMF on April 30.
- In the media: Saving Wikipedia; Internet regulation; Thoreau quote hoax
Time profiles Lila Tretikov, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, and paints a grim picture of the challenges faced by Tretikov and the encyclopedia.
- Blog: Single-User Login provides access to all wikis
Later this month, everyone will be able to use the same user name on every wiki, thanks to Single-User Login.
- Traffic report: Furious domination
If it wasn't for Easter, Fast and Furious related articles would have taken the top four spots this week. The latest installment of the movie franchise, Furious 7, tops the chart for the second straight week.
- Featured content: Au-delà de les Alpes, le chien lit de Sainte Bernard. Sous les pavés, les trimes d'argent! Mes enfants, suivez-moi!
Six featured articles, four featured lists, and fourteen featured pictures were promoted this week.
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A Barnstar for you
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Teahouse Barnstar |
| It is wonderful that you devote some of your time to answering questions at the Teahouse. Thank you very much. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 06:39, 18 April 2015 (UTC) |
- Thanks m8. Much appreciated!--ukexpat (talk) 13:38, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 22 April 2015
- Special report: Sony emails reveal corporate practices and undisclosed advocacy editing
A Signpost investigation of the released data has revealed Sony's corporate practices regarding Wikipedia and uncovered what appears to be undisclosed advocacy editing of Wikipedia by Sony employees and possibly by others.
- In the media: UK political editing; hoaxes; net neutrality
Wikipedia appears to have been drawn into the drama of the upcoming, hotly contested UK general election.
- News and notes: Call for candidates as the movement approaches the Wikimedia Board elections
The Affiliates Committee this week announced the organization of a community referral for comment, currently open on the meta-wiki, to address upcoming changes to the way that the Affiliations Committee will review movement-affiliated user-groups in the future.
- In focus: 2015 Wikimedia Foundation election preparations underway
2015 will see through the biennial community election for the three community-elected seats on the Board of Trustees—the "ultimate corporate authority" of the Wikimedia Foundation and the level at which the strategic decisions regarding the Wikimedia movement are made.
- Featured content: Vanguard on guard
Six featured articles and fifteen featured pictures were promoted this week.
- Traffic report: A harvest of couch potatoes
Couch potatoes rule this week, as 9 of the top 10 slots were taken by either movies, TV, or sports.
- Gallery: The bitter end
The Gallery is an occasional Signpost feature highlighting quality images and articles from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons based on a particular theme.
RE: Don Lane (Santa Cruz)
I have talked about the revision in October 15, 2014 and it was negotiated and agreed. It has stood for five months with not problems. Isn't that good enough? A direct talk and negotiation? — Preceding unsigned comment added by The Man of Heart (talk • contribs) 15:24, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
This is a false allegation
Sorry. Since Keri has read and monitored all my correspondence, I have denied that I am one of the recipients of the Obscene Valentine's Card. It is the "Rep" of Don Lane (Santa Cruz) who is assuming this. It is patently untrueThe Man of Heart (talk) 19:24, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
- I'm not sure what you think I can do about this - I have no idea what you are talking about.--ukexpat (talk) 19:31, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
Sorry. I kept getting notices that I had messages here on your talk page. I have no idea why. Sorry to bother you.The Man of Heart (talk) 06:02, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 29 April 2015
- Wikimania: Choice of small village for Wikimania 2016 ruffles feathers
Esino Lario is set to host Wikimania 2016, but volunteers and others have raised a host of concerns that raise serious questions about the town's suitability for hosting such a large conference.
- News and notes: Wiki Loves Monuments evaluation sees diminishing returns and increasing cost
The evaluations reveal that in the last three years, WLM has possibly fallen victim to its own success and seen diminishing returns.
- In the media: Scottish MEP blocked for edit warring; ranking articles by importance
David Coburn, a Member of the European Parliament for the Scotland region for the UK Independence Party, was blocked from editing Wikipedia on April 6.
- Featured content: Another day, another dollar
Ten featured articles, nine featured lists, and twenty-eight featured pictures were promoted this week.
- Traffic report: Bruce, Nessie, and genocide
Though the continued predominance of movies, TV, and sports noted in last week's report largely continues, three additional topics joined the Top 10 this week.
- Recent research: Military history, cricket, and Australia targeted in Wikipedia articles' popularity vs. quality; how copyright damages economy
Reader demand for some topics (e.g. LGBT topics or pages about countries) is poorly satisfied, whereas there is over-abundance of quality on topics of comparatively little interest, such as military history.
- Technology report: VisualEditor and MediaWiki updates
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The Signpost: 06 May 2015
- News and notes: "Inspire" grant-making campaign concludes, grantees announced
The Wikimedia Foundation this week announced the winning grantees in March's "Inspire" grant-making campaign.
- Featured content: The amorous android and the horsebreeder; WikiCup round two concludes
Seven articles, three lists, and ten pictures were promoted to "featured" status this week. The second round of the WikiCup has ended.
- In the media: Guggenheim image donation; Wiki campaign gets advertising award
artnet and The Next Web report (May 6) that the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is releasing a hundred images of works in its collection under Creative Commons licences in conjunction with a May 19 editathon.
- Special report: FDC candidates respond to key issues
Elections have begun for five community members of the Funds Dissemination Committee, the Foundation's volunteer body for judging and recommending millions of dollars worth of annual grants to affiliates in the movement. The election lasts just eight days, from Sunday 3 May until 23:59 UTC on Sunday 10 May, so at the time of publication, voters will need to act promptly.
- Traffic report: The grim ship reality
Like colliding ocean liners, rousing entertainment and harsh reality merged ungainly in this week's top 10 list. The much heralded pay-per-view pummeling of Manny Pacquiao by Floyd Mayweather, Jr. dominated the list's top slots, giving this list one of its highest total view counts in months.
The Signpost: 13 May 2015
- Foundation elections: Board candidates share their views with the Signpost
Three community-elected seats on the Board of Trustees—the ultimate governing authority of the Wikimedia Foundation—will be decided by Wikimedians in the election to be held 17–31 May.
- News and notes: Swedish Wikimedia chapter organizes simultaneous Wikidata contests
This week has been a busy one for the Wikidata project, with nearly simultaneous Wikidata contests, both organized by Wikimedia Sweden, now underway.
- Traffic report: Round Two
Casual viewers may think I've posted the same list twice. But no, readers just happen to be really interested in May 2's Big Fight. In fact, last week was just the weigh-in and the trash talk. This week, the numbers actually increased.
- In the media: Grant Shapps story continues
Grant Shapps, who was the co-chairman of the UK's Conservative Party until this week, has been accused of maliciously editing the Wikipedia biographies of his party's rivals.
- Op-ed: What made Wikipedia lose its reputation?
There is a public misconception of Wikipedia: that any anonymous editor can edit Wikipedia at any time, and cannot be tracked or identified.
- Featured content: Four first-time featured article writers lead the way
Eight articles, one list, and five pictures were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia in a slow week.
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Genpact Wiki Page Update
Hi,
Can you please share with me why requested edits were not added to the Genpact page on Wikipedia?
Link to Requested Edits
Thank you. Wzt5zb (talk) 14:30, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
- Probably because no one has reviewed them yet. We are all volunteers so please be patient.--ukexpat (talk) 15:13, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) Also because most of them are blatantly promotional in nature, full of peacock words and press-agentry. --Orange Mike | Talk 05:04, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
Cruise Room draft
Great edits to the Cruise Room article. (How embarrassing... so many obvious grammar points.)Thank you! Justapersona (talk) 14:39, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
Invitation to WikiProject TAFI
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| Hello, Ukexpat. You're invited to join WikiProject Today's articles for improvement. Feel free to nominate an article for improvement at the project's Nominated articles page. Also feel free to contribute to !voting for new weekly selections at the project's talk page. If interested in joining, please add your name to the list of members. --Bananasoldier (talk) 18:47, 20 May 2015 (UTC) |
The Signpost: 20 May 2015
- From the editor: Your voice is needed: strategic voting in the WMF election
The Wikimedia Foundation's bi-annual Board of Trustees election is open for voting. Of the ten seats on the board, three are elected representatives of the global Wikimedia community—you.
- In focus: The awful truth about Wikimedia's article counts
The article counts of many Wikimedia wikis suddenly changed on 29 March 2015: as the Signpost reported at the time, sixty-five wikis fell below milestones tracked at the Wikimedia News Meta page, and three increased to new milestones.
- Traffic report: Inner Core
The list is topped this week by Danish scientist Inge Lehmann, thanks to a Google Doodle celebrating her 127th birthday. Lehmann discovered in 1936 that the Earth has a solid inner core. It is sometimes surprising to realize how recently such basic scientific knowledge of the Earth, which we now take for granted, was discovered.
- News and notes: A dark side of comedy: the Wikipedia volunteers cleaning up behind John Oliver's fowl jokes
Wikipedia editors logging in on May 19 found themselves walking into an unexpected amount of anti-vandal work to keep the site in line with its extensive biographies of living persons policy. A plethora of Wikipedia articles related to the United States House Committee on Appropriations, and the fifty-one representatives serving on it, have been hit by a raft of anonymous editors making often vulgar edits referencing "chicken fucker," or more creative combinations: "sexual conduct", "sexual congress", "fornicator", "intimate relations", or "trysts with chickens."
- Featured content: Puppets, fungi, and waterfalls
Three articles, seven lists, and seven pictures were featured on the English Wikipedia.
- In the media: Jimmy Wales accepts Dan David Prize
Jimmy Wales and five others accepted the 2015 Dan David Prize at Tel Aviv University on May 17. The prize comes with US$1 million, ten percent of which goes to doctoral and postdoctoral scholarships.
- WikiProject report: Cell-ebrating Molecular Biology
This week, we had the pleasure of interviewing WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology, which has come a long way since our last interview in 2008. Like most projects, it has a long member list, but only a small subset of that group regularly contributes. With 28 featured articles and 58 top-importance start class ones, the project has clearly had some success, but has a ways to go. We talked to three regular project contributors.
- Arbitration report: Editor conduct the subject of multiple cases
The Arbitration Committee has an unusually large case load at present. Although perhaps not on a par with the high-profile, multi-party cases seen towards the end of last year and the beginning of this year, with five open cases the arbitrators are likely to be kept busy for the next several weeks.
Macphun Article
Hello! I see you deleted the article I wrote about Macphun. The company is highly rated by the appstore, serves more than 5 million users already and is in a need of article on wikipedia. I am not trying to drive any commercial value from the article on wikipedia.org just want users to have understanding what they are getting, what Macphun is - do you have any tips for the new article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by SipleDailyUser (talk • contribs) 19:33, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
- Nope, I didn't delete it. It was deleted by the admins listed in the deletion log at Macphun.--ukexpat (talk) 19:43, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
Merger proposal
Your attention is called to a merger proposal at Talk:Oxford Hotel (Denver, Colorado). BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 23:52, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
Additional information for Dr. Maria Siemionow Wiki page
Hello Ukexpat, I work at the University of Illinois at Chicago for Dr. Maria Siemionow, best known for leading the surgical team that performed the first near total face transplant in the US in 2008 at the Cleveland Clinic. She has noticed that her Wiki page should be updated to include her new position at UIC and some of other information, as I have provided with links below. I have never tried to update a Wiki page before, and am told that asking the last person to have edited the page is the best way to do it - please let me know if there is a better or more appropriate way. Best, 128.248.20.91 (talk) 13:55, 27 May 2015 (UTC)Sharon Parmet <email redacted.
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Dr. Maria Siemionow is now professor of orthopaedics specializing in hand and peripheral nerve surgery and director of microsurgery research at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. She joined UIC in 2014. http://chicago.medicine.uic.edu/UserFiles/Servers/Server_442934/File/Orthopaedics/CVs/Maria_Siemionow_MD.pdf She co-led a team of surgeons who performed the second near-total face transplant at the Cleveland Clinic in 2014 http://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2014/11/cleveland_clinics_second-ever_face_transplant_signals_new_life_for_patient_hope_for_medical_advancements.html She is a past president of the American Society for Reconstructive Transplantation ( http://www.a-s-r-t.com/index.html ) , where she currently serves on its board of directors. http://www.a-s-r-t.com/board/board.html She is a member of the academic-industry team, Warrior Restoration Consortium, which focuses on the development of clinical therapies and new treatments for wounded soldiers as part of the second phase of the Armed Forces Institute for Regenerative Medicine (AFIRM II) (http://www.afirm.mil/ ) http://www.afirm.mil/index.cfm?pageid=research.research_areas.vascular_composite_tissue.research_leaders Under Education: She completed a hand surgery fellowship at the Christine Kleinert Institute for Hand and Microsurgery in Louisville, KY. In 1990, she was appointed associate professor of surgery at the University of Utah. Under Awards: In 2014 she was named one of the Carnegie Foundation of New York “Great Immigrants” http://greatimmigrants.carnegie.org/profile/maria-siemionow/ She received the American Association of Plastic Surgeons’ (http://aaps1921.org/ ) Clinical Researcher of the Year Award in 2010 http://www.aaps1921.org/awards_recipients_achievement.cgi If you would like to add a photograph of Dr. Siemionow to her Wiki page, one can be downloaded here: http://news.uic.edu/pioneer-tissue-transplant-surgeon-joins-uic She received the Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Research Award from the Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation (http://www.thepsf.org/ ) in 2010 http://www.thepsf.org/research/achievement-awards/outstanding-achievement-in-clinical-research-in-plastic-surgery/past-recipients.htm For additional Referecnes: William Hageman. (18 September 2014) “Maria Siemionow, pioneer surgeon.” http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-remarkable-maria-siemionow-20140918-story.html#page=1 Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 5/19/2015 |
- Please make your request on the article's talk page.--ukexpat (talk) 17:35, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
Vandalism warning?
Hi, I got a message about me vandalizing the Mad Max page. I'd like to clarify. I saw there was a link to illegally download the new sequel movie placed in the entry, so I reverted to the version just before the link was added. I'm sure the logs will back up my claim. I'm not a regular editor, and as far as I know, I was in fact doing the opposite, i.e. removing vandalism. If this was a mistake, please let me know. Cheers! Darkflame91 (talk) 20:03, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
- Sorry my mistake, thought you had added the bad link. Please feel free to remove the warning with my apologies.--ukexpat (talk) 20:06, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 27 May 2015
- News and notes: WMF releases quarterly reports, annual plans
The Wikimedia Foundation recently switched to a quarterly report structure to better align reporting with the generally quarterly planning and goal-setting processes.
- In the media: Scrubbing Parliamentary biographies; Wikipedia's invisible history
British media reports on Wikipedia editing to articles of Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom prior to the May 7 United Kingdom general election from IP addresses assigned to Parliament.
- Discussion report: A relic from the past that needs to be updated
To many, Internet Relay Chat is an old relic, but not to Wikipedia. Wikipedia currently has an IRC help channel designated to help and assist editors with editing Wikipedia.
- Featured content: When music was confined to a ribbon of rust
Fifteen featured articles, four featured lists, and six featured pictures were promoted this week.
- Recent research: Drug articles accurate and largely complete; women "slightly overrepresented"; talking like an admin
Wikipedia's articles on drugs are pretty good – good enough to impress even doctors. A new research study adds some substance to that impression.
- Traffic report: Summer, summer, summertime
As usual for the time of year, pop culture rules this week. The start of summer vacation in the US means a focus on summer movies, particularly blockbuster sequels Avengers: Age of Ultron, Pitch Perfect 2 and Mad Max: Fury Road.
- Technology report: MediaWiki blows up printers
...allegedly. In a post to wikitech-l, Steven Walling pointed out that the TV show CSI: Cyber had used a screenshot of MediaWiki's HTML output and claimed it was responsible for blowing up printers.
Wikipedia:ADMASQ listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:ADMASQ. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia:ADMASQ redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 14:49, 31 May 2015 (UTC)