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The Signpost: 24 September 2014
edit- Featured content: Oil paintings galore
Six articles, four lists, one topic, and 17 pictures were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.
- In the media: Indian political editing, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Congressional chelonii
The Hindustan Times speculates (September 18) that politicians and their supporters are "sanitizing" their articles in advance of the 2014 Maharashtra State Assembly election. The Times notes the absence of significant controversies in the articles of particular politicians and the presence of heavily promotional language.
- Recent research: 99.25% of Wikipedia birthdates accurate; focused Wikipedians live longer; merging WordNet, Wikipedia and Wiktionary
0.75% of Wikipedia birthdates are inaccurate, reported Robert Viseur at WikiSym 2014. Those inaccuracies are "low, although higher than the 0.21% observed for the baseline reference sources". Given that biographies represent 15% of English Wikipedia, the third largest category after "arts" and "culture", their accuracy is important.
- Traffic report: Wikipedia watches the referendum in Scotland
This could be the beginning of a new era for this list. Until now, decisions to remove suspicious content have been largely educated guesswork. This week though, we have a new collaborator who can shine a light on the origins and patterns, sorting once and for all the webwheat from the cyberchaff.
- WikiProject report: GAN reviewers take note: competition time
A year and a week later, we're with some of the members of WikiProject Good Articles, who wanted to share the news of their upcoming contest within the project, the GA Cup. The aim of this friendly competition, which is held in the same light friendly manner of the WikiCup and the Core Contest, is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed articles at Good article nominations which has been a constant problem for quite a few years for those running the GA process.
- Arbitration report: Banning Policy, Gender Gap, and Waldorf education
Banning Policy finishes the workshop phase on 23 September. Parties have proposed findings of fact on the topics of the 3RR, the role of Jimbo Wales, and proxying for banned users. A request for arbitration was posted on 20 September about Landmark Worldwide.
This week's article for improvement (week 40, 2014)
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Aerial photograph of George Bush Intercontinental Airport, an international airport in Houston, United States
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Ancient Roman architecture • Ancient Roman architecture Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:03, 29 September 2014 (UTC) • |
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WikiCup 2014 September newsletter
editIn one month's time, we will know our WikiCup 2014 champion. Newcomer
Godot13 (submissions) has taken a strong lead with a featured list (historical coats of arms of the U.S. states from 1876) and a raft of featured pictures. Reigning champion
Cwmhiraeth (submissions) is in second place with a number of high-importance biology articles, including new FA Isopoda and new GA least weasel.
Casliber (submissions), who is in his fifth WikiCup final, is in third, with featured articles Pictor and Epacris impressa.
Signups for the 2015 WikiCup are open. All Wikipedians, new and experienced, are warmly invited to sign up for the competition. Wikipedians interested in friendly competition may also like to sign up for the GA Cup, a new WikiCup-inspired competition which revolves around completing good article reviews. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 22:11, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Shooting of Michael Brown
editGreetings! You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Talk:Shooting of Michael Brown. Should you wish to respond to the invitation, your contribution to this discussion will be very much appreciated! If in doubt, please see suggestions for responding. If you do not wish to receive these types of notices, please remove your name from Wikipedia:Feedback request service. — Legobot (talk) 00:06, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Burundi at the 2008 Summer Olympics
editHi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Burundi at the 2008 Summer Olympics you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria.
This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Zanimum -- Zanimum (talk) 22:01, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
- I've done both a partial cleanup and a partial review, take a look at what's there so far. -- Zanimum (talk) 23:40, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 01 October 2014
edit- From the editor: The Signpost needs your help
Contributing to the Signpost can be one of the most rewarding things an editor can do.
- Dispatches: Let's get serious about plagiarism
This article was first published in the Signpost in 2009. Written by several long-standing editors, including the late Adrianne Wadewitz, the article was subjected to extensive commentary and ultimately influenced the English Wikipedia's plagiarism guideline. With recent debates about close paraphrasing vis-à-vis plagiarism, we feel that this dispatch retains its relevance and deserves a second airing.
- News and notes: Wikipedia article published in peer-reviewed journal; Wikipedia in education
The argument on Wikipedia over the benefits of crowdsourcing versus the primacy of "expert" contributors stretches back to co-founder Larry Sanger's break with the project to start the alternative Citizendium.
- WikiProject report: Animals, farms, forests, USDA? It must be WikiProject Agriculture
This week, the Signpost went down to the farm to have a look at the work of WikiProject Agriculture, which has been in existence since 2007 and has a scope covering crop production, livestock management, aquaculture, dairy farming and forest management.
- Traffic report: Shanah Tovah
Jews wished each other Shanah Tovah ("Good year") this week as Rosh Hashanah was our most popular article. It was also a week not dominated by heavy news and tragedies, so aside from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (#2, sixth week in the Top 10), our popular article list runs the gamut of current events including new television series Gotham (#3), the 2014 Asian Games (#4), and Reddit-fueled popularity for German director Uwe Boll (#7).
- Featured content: Brothers at War
As the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the American Civil War draws to a close, the race to improve content continues. The Battle of Franklin, fought on November 30, 1864, will, quite appropriately, be Picture of the Day for November 30, 2014, its 150th anniversary. If you want to help commemorate the American Civil War, why not help out at the Military History WikiProject's Operation Brothers at War. Or help out with the World War I centennial, just starting up, Operation Great War Centennial.
Your GA nomination of Burundi at the 2008 Summer Olympics
editThe article Burundi at the 2008 Summer Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed
; see Talk:Burundi at the 2008 Summer Olympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Zanimum -- Zanimum (talk) 19:42, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for message
editHi NG, just to say thanks for your message re my edit to Burundi at the 2008 Summer Olympics. I was about to give it further tweaking but noticed it has now been elevated to GA. Don't want to tread on anyone's toes. Moriori (talk) 21:21, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
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Mitchell Johnson FLC
editHi. Hope you're well. I noticed that you edited TRM's comments by closing them as resolved with these edits:[] [] I assume good faith but you should not modify other people's contributions. TRM should add the "resolved" it if it's resolved and in any case the closing delegate will check that all comments have been resolved so you don't need to make it clear.
Also, your comment asking whether it's ready to be closed, please be patient, the delegates go through the lists and usually check quite frequently for candidates to promote, you've done really well to get "four supports" in 2 weeks (normally can take more than a month) so I advice you to sit tight and get working on other projects for example you could now nominate another FLC if you're working on one. Cowlibob (talk) 12:49, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
- I'm so sorry Cowlibob, it's just people have hidden my comments before so I thought it was ok after a week or so. On your second point, I was looking through the FAC log and noticed someone had done what I did so I thought it was ok. I'll revert now. Thanks for AGF and telling me the error of my ways, cheers NickGibson3900 Talk 22:44, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
- No worries. I know you didn't have malicious intent but someone who did could easily decide to "resolve" comments when there was a disagreement and a delegate could forget to check this. FLC runs slower than FAC as currently the bot doesn't work so all FLCs are closed manually. So when a delegate writes a closing comment, feel free to add the FL star to the list but don't modify the talk page or the discussion. Cowlibob (talk) 08:25, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
- @Cowlibob:, yeah I know about the bot problems and what to do. FYI, AFAIK, FAC (Sorry about the WP:ALPHABETSOUP) has the same problem as they use the same bot. Cheers NickGibson3900 Talk 08:28, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
Featured content
editThanks for picking things up while I take a little time off. Last week's events stressed me out a lot, so... =) Adam Cuerden (talk) 23:19, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
- @Adam Cuerden:, it is ok. I am doing the description for the FPs at the moment - NickGibson3900 Talk 23:30, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
Did them all on 8 October 2014 — NickGibson3900 Talk 02:40, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
GOCE September 2014 bling
editYour GA nomination of Chad at the 2008 Summer Olympics
editHi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Chad at the 2008 Summer Olympics you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria.
This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Miyagawa -- Miyagawa (talk) 16:21, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Chad at the 2008 Summer Olympics
editThe article Chad at the 2008 Summer Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed
; see Talk:Chad at the 2008 Summer Olympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Miyagawa -- Miyagawa (talk) 17:42, 10 October 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 08 October 2014
edit- In the media: Opposition research firm blocked; Australian bushfires
Also, Wikimedia Norge and Nobel Peace Center edit-a-thon
- Featured content: From a wordless novel to a coat of arms via New York City
2 Featured articles, 4 Featured lists, 62 Featured pictures, and 2 Featured portals were promoted.
- Traffic report: Panic and denial
The first case of the Ebola virus on US shores sent people into a tizzy, rushing to their keyboards to try and learn what they could.
- Technology report: HHVM is the greatest thing since sliced bread
No seriously, it is.
Your GA nomination of Benin at the 2008 Summer Olympics
editHi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Benin at the 2008 Summer Olympics you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria.
This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Miyagawa -- Miyagawa (talk) 19:01, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Cape Verde at the 2008 Summer Olympics
editHi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Cape Verde at the 2008 Summer Olympics you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria.
This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Miyagawa -- Miyagawa (talk) 19:01, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 42, 2014)
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Central America is the geographic region that connects North America and South America.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Steak • International airport Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:04, 13 October 2014 (UTC) • |
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