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The Signpost: 26 June 2013

Traffic report: Most-viewed articles of the week

In the media: Daily Dot on Commons and porn; Jimmy Wales accused of breaking Wikipedia rules in hunt for Snowden

Recent research: Most controversial Wikipedia topics, automatic detection of sockpuppets

News and notes: Election results released

Discussion report: Privacy policy, X!'s edit counter, old rangeblocks, and the Article Incubator

Featured content: Wikipedia in black + Adam Cuerden

WikiProject report: WikiProject Fashion

Arbitration report: Argentine History closed; two cases remain suspended

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The Signpost: 03 July 2013

In the media: Jimmy Wales is not an Internet billionaire; a mass shooter's alleged Wikipedia editing

Featured content: Queen of France

WikiProject report: Puppies!

News and notes: Wikipedia's medical collaborations gathering pace

Discussion report: Snuggle, mainpage link to Wikinews, 3RR, and more

Technology report: VisualEditor in midst of game-changing deployment series

Traffic report: Yahoo! crushes the competition ... in Wikipedia views

Arbitration report: Tea Party movement reopened, new AUSC appointments

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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.

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…
13	Fusiliers Commandos de l'Air (talk)	Add sources
12	2000 Super 12 season (talk)	Add sources
62	Fête de la Fédération (talk)	Add sources
471	1995 Rugby World Cup (talk)	Add sources
4	French-American Foundation (talk)	Add sources
6	Military reserve forces of France (talk)	Add sources
53	Foreign relations of Libya (talk)	Cleanup
5	Cecil Moss (talk)	Cleanup
669	Algerian War (talk)	Cleanup
24	2009 in the United States (talk)	Expand
839	Leaves of Grass (talk)	Expand
3,394	Uganda (talk)	Expand
2,829	Superhero (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
100	Schalk Burger (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
131	Transportation in Los Angeles (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
196	Embedded database (talk)	Merge
1,183	2003 invasion of Iraq (talk)	Merge
2,546	NoSQL (talk)	Merge
289	2010 Pakistan floods (talk)	Wikify
14	Golden Cavalry of St George (talk)	Wikify
4	2007 suicide bombings in Iraq (talk)	Wikify
1	Queensland Reds season 2009 (talk)	Orphan
1	Thierry Cassuto (talk)	Orphan
4	Deaths in April 1996 (talk)	Orphan
23	Kasthuri Maan (talk)	Stub
9	Heart Solent (talk)	Stub
10	1956 South Africa rugby union tour of Australia and New Zealand (talk)	Stub
3	Botshabelo Stadium (talk)	Stub
9	Maurizio Gasparri (talk)	Stub
39	New Zealand Cavaliers (talk)	Stub

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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?

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The Signpost: 10 July 2013

Op-ed: It's time to stop pretending the English-language Wikinews is a viable project

WikiProject report: Not Jimbo: WikiProject Wales

Traffic report: Inflated view counts here, there, and everywhere

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation Board appoints world expert in women's issues, global south

Dispatches: Infoboxes: time for a fresh look?

Featured content: The week of the birds

Discussion report: Featured article process governance, signature templates, and more

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The Signpost: 17 July 2013

WikiProject report: WikiProject Square Enix

Traffic report: Most-viewed articles of the week

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation's new plans announced

Featured content: Documents and sports

Arbitration report: Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds case opens; July 22 deadline for checkuser and oversight applications

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The Signpost: 24 July 2013

In the media: Wikipedia flamewars

WikiProject report: WikiProject Religion

Discussion report: Partially disambiguated page names, page protection policy, and more

News and notes: Wikivoyage turns ten, but where to now?; Wikipedia Zero expands into India

Traffic report: Gleeless

Featured content: Engineering and the arts

Arbitration report: Infoboxes case opens

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EdwardsBot (talk) 22:59, 25 July 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…
262	BMW M30 (talk)	Add sources
18	Fusiliers Commandos de l'Air (talk)	Add sources
1,348	Marshall Plan (talk)	Add sources
2,787	Superhero (talk)	Add sources
1,861	Police (talk)	Add sources
380	Fête de la Fédération (talk)	Add sources
300	ΜTorrent (talk)	Cleanup
47	Foreign relations of Libya (talk)	Cleanup
28	Whittier High School (talk)	Cleanup
202	Future French aircraft carrier (talk)	Expand
56	Scorpions (South Africa) (talk)	Expand
24	2009 in the United States (talk)	Expand
102	Schalk Burger (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
2,290	Napoleonic Wars (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
619	Master race (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
6	Pan Africanist Student Movement of Azania (talk)	Merge
33	Thoma Cressey Bravo (talk)	Merge
203	Embedded database (talk)	Merge
247	2010 Pakistan floods (talk)	Wikify
5	James Arthur Calata (talk)	Wikify
548	Algerian War (talk)	Wikify
5	Deaths in April 1996 (talk)	Orphan
4	South African Youth Congress (talk)	Orphan
1	Thierry Cassuto (talk)	Orphan
32	Peter Mokaba (talk)	Stub
7	1956 South Africa rugby union tour of Australia and New Zealand (talk)	Stub
5	Daniel Vaillant (talk)	Stub
24	Kasthuri Maan (talk)	Stub
26	New Zealand Cavaliers (talk)	Stub
32	History of rugby union matches between England and New Zealand (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) 11:31, 27 July 2013 (UTC)