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The Signpost: 27 May 2013

News and notes: First-ever community election for FDC positions

In the media: Pagans complain about Qworty's anti-Pagan editing

Foundation elections: Candidates talk about the Meta problem, the nation-based chapter model, world languages, and value for money

WikiProject report: WikiProject Geographical Coordinates

Featured content: Life of 2π

Recent research: Motivations on the Persian Wikipedia; is science eight times more popular on the Spanish Wikipedia than the English Wikipedia?

Technology report: Amsterdam hackathon: continuity, change, and stroopwafels

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The Signpost: 05 June 2013

From the editor: Signpost developments

Featured content: A week of portraits

Discussion report: Return of the Discussion report

News and notes: "Cease and desist", World Trade Organization says to Wikivoyage; Could WikiLang be the next WMF project?

In the media: China blocks secure version of Wikipedia

WikiProject report: Operation Normandy

Technology report: Developers accused of making Toolserver fight 'pointless'

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We are currently running a study on the effects of adding additional information to SuggestBot's suggestions. Participation in the study is voluntary. Should you wish to not participate in the study, or have questions or concerns, you can find contact information on the SuggestBot study page.

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Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information.

Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
391	1995 Rugby World Cup (talk)	Add sources
15	2000 Super 12 season (talk)	Add sources
11	2011 in Germany (talk)	Add sources
13	Fusiliers Commandos de l'Air (talk)	Add sources
38	Fête de la Fédération (talk)	Add sources
2,511	Swaziland (talk)	Add sources
20	Ten Days' Campaign (talk)	Cleanup
1,269	Benjamin Netanyahu (talk)	Cleanup
57	Foreign relations of Libya (talk)	Cleanup
807	Chaos;Head (talk)	Expand
56	Global Village Telecom (talk)	Expand
88	2009 in the United States (talk)	Expand
255	South African farm attacks (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
110	French–German enmity (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
135	Private security industry in South Africa (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
40	Judaism and violence (talk)	Merge
93	Error code (talk)	Merge
1,937	2003 invasion of Iraq (talk)	Merge
4,584	Evil Dead (2013 film) (talk)	Wikify
2,073	Police (talk)	Wikify
1,236	Jesse Jackson (talk)	Wikify
39	Overview of the Arab Spring (talk)	Orphan
9	European Costa Rican (talk)	Orphan
1	Queensland Reds season 2009 (talk)	Orphan
11	Paris International Agricultural Show (talk)	Stub
8	Shaun Sowerby (talk)	Stub
10	1956 South Africa rugby union tour of Australia and New Zealand (talk)	Stub
49	Blade element theory (talk)	Stub
18	7th Engineer Support Battalion (talk)	Stub
3	Botshabelo Stadium (talk)	Stub

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Content: Is more content needed?
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Images: Is the number of illustrative images about right?
Links: Does this article link to enough other Wikipedia articles?
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The Signpost: 12 June 2013

News and notes: How Wikimedia affiliates are spending $8.4 million; PRISM scandal

Featured content: Mixing Bowl Interchange

In the media: VisualEditor will "change world history"

Op-ed: The tragedy of Wikipedia's commons

Discussion report: VisualEditor, elections, bots, and more

Traffic report: Who holds the throne?

Arbitration report: Two cases suspended; proposed decision posted in Argentine History

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'

Traffic report: Most popular Wikipedia articles of the last week

In the media: South African learners want Wikipedia; Editing of Israel topics

WikiProject report: The Volunteer State: WikiProject Tennessee

News and notes: Swedish Wikipedia's millionth article leads to protests; WMF elections—where are all the voters?

Featured content: Cheaper by the dozen

Discussion report: Citations, non-free content, and a MediaWiki meeting

Technology report: May engineering report published

Arbitration report: The Farmbrough amendment request—automation and arbitration enforcement

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EdwardsBot (talk) 00:06, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot

We are currently running a study on the effects of adding additional information to SuggestBot's suggestions. Participation in the study is voluntary. Should you wish to not participate in the study, or have questions or concerns, you can find contact information on the SuggestBot study page.

IMPORTANT CHANGES: We have modified the selection of articles SuggestBot suggests and altered the design to incorporate more information about the articles, as described in this explanation.

Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information.

Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
2,074	Swaziland (talk)	Add sources
2,335	Marshall Plan (talk)	Add sources
527	1995 Rugby World Cup (talk)	Add sources
3,333	Superhero (talk)	Add sources
7,138	Cannabis (drug) (talk)	Add sources
14	Fusiliers Commandos de l'Air (talk)	Add sources
3,862	Evil Dead (2013 film) (talk)	Cleanup
1,956	Police (talk)	Cleanup
65	Foreign relations of Libya (talk)	Cleanup
29	2009 in the United States (talk)	Expand
55	Global Village Telecom (talk)	Expand
222	Future French aircraft carrier (talk)	Expand
149	Transportation in Los Angeles (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
293	South African farm attacks (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
79	French–German enmity (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,408	2003 invasion of Iraq (talk)	Merge
2,740	NoSQL (talk)	Merge
169	Template engine (web) (talk)	Merge
5	French-American Foundation (talk)	Wikify
14	Golden Cavalry of St George (talk)	Wikify
135	Ansar Dine (talk)	Wikify
2	Thierry Cassuto (talk)	Orphan
31	Overview of the Arab Spring (talk)	Orphan
1	Queensland Reds season 2009 (talk)	Orphan
30	Kasthuri Maan (talk)	Stub
3	Botshabelo Stadium (talk)	Stub
33	Lychnis viscaria (talk)	Stub
12	1956 South Africa rugby union tour of Australia and New Zealand (talk)	Stub
7	Sugar Ray Xulu Stadium (talk)	Stub
4	Rogene Worley Middle School (talk)	Stub

Changes to SuggestBot's suggestions

We have changed the number of suggested articles and which categories they are selected from. The number of stubs has been greatly reduced, the number of articles needing sources doubled, and two new categories added (orphans and unencyclopaedic articles). We have also modified the layout of the suggestions and added sortable columns with various types of information about each article. The first two columns are:

Views/Day: Daily average number of views an article's had over the past 14 days.
Quality: Predicted article quality on a 1- to 3-star scale. Placing your cursor over the stars should give you a pop-up describing the article's quality (Low/Medium/High), current assessment class, and predicted assessment class.

The method we use to predict article quality also allows us to assess whether an article might need specific types of work in order to improve its quality. The work needed might not correspond to cleanup tags added to the article, since our method is not based on those. We have added five columns reflecting this work assessment, where a red X indicates improvement is needed. Placing your cursor over an X should give you a pop-up with a short description of the work needed. The five columns seek to answer the following five questions:

Content: Is more content needed?
Headings: Does this article have an appropriate section structure?
Images: Is the number of illustrative images about right?
Links: Does this article link to enough other Wikipedia articles?
Sources: For its length, is there an appropriate number of citations to sources in this article?

SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!

If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom (talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot (talk) 11:34, 26 June 2013 (UTC)