Module:Signpost/index/2014

return { {		date = "2014-01-01", subpage = "Arbitration report", title = "Examining the Committee's year", subhead = "In 2013, the arbitration committee closed 10 cases, 9 amendment requests, and 26 clarification requests.", authors = {"Neotarf"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"arbitrationreport", "infoboxes", "manning"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-01-01", subpage = "Book review", title = "Common Knowledge: An Ethnography of Wikipedia", subhead = "Dariusz Jemielniak's book is the newest about Wikipedia, published in Poland in 2013 and with an English edition forthcoming in 2014.", authors = {"Piotr Konieczny"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"bookreview"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-01-01", subpage = "Discussion report", title = "Article incubator, dates and fractions, medical disclaimer", subhead = "Current discussions on the English Wikipedia and around the Wikimedia movement include...", authors = {"Pine"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"blogs", "discussionreport", "englishwikipedia", "incubator", "medical", "templates", "wikiprojects", "meta"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-01-01", subpage = "Featured content", title = "2013—the trends", subhead = "Over the past year 1181 pieces of featured content were promoted. The most active of the featured content programs was featured picture candidates (FPC), which promoted an average of 46 pictures a month. This was followed by featured article candidates (FAC; 32.5 a month). Coming in third was featured list candidates (FLC; 18 a month).", authors = {"Crisco 1492"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-01-01", subpage = "In the media", title = "Does Wikipedia need a medical disclaimer?", subhead = "On New Year's Day, an article by Tim Sampson published in The Daily Dot and republished shortly after on Mashable covered the currently ongoing medical disclaimer RfC.", authors = {"Andreas Kolbe"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"inthemedia", "medical"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-01-01", subpage = "News and notes", title = "The year in review", subhead = "This was the year in which one journalist described the flagship site, Wikipedia, as \"wickedly seductive\". It was the year Wikipedia's replacement value was estimated at $6.6bn, its market value at \"tens of billions of dollars\", and its consumer benefit \"hundreds of billions of dollars\". But it was also the year in which one commentator forecast the decline of Wikipedia—that the project is in trouble from its shrinking volunteer workforce, skewed coverage, \"crushing bureaucracy\" and 90 percent male community.", authors = {"Tony1", "The ed17"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"inreview", "newsandnotes"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-01-01", subpage = "Technology report", title = "Looking back on 2013", subhead = "2013 saw a lot of changes to MediaWiki software and Wikimedia infrastructure.", authors = {"Legoktm"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"tech", "technologyreport", "technologyreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-01-01", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "A year stuck in traffic", subhead = "In fact, the majority are relatively evenly split between three themes: people of interest, television, and websites.", authors = {"Serendipodous"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport", "yearinreview"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-01-01", subpage = "WikiProject report", title = "Where Are They Now? Fifth Edition", subhead = "The year 2013 has come and gone, adding 50 new WikiProject Reports to our long list of projects we've had the privilege to meet. Last year saw the continuation of our Babel series, featuring WikiProjects from other languages of Wikipedia. We also expanded our selection of special reports, offering readers a growing collection of helpful tips and tools as they participate in WikiProjects.", authors = {"Mabeenot"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-01-08", subpage = "Featured content", title = "A portal to the wonderful world of technology", subhead = "Twelve articles, three lists, seven pictures, and a portal were promoted to \"featured\" status on the English Wikipedia in the last two weeks.", authors = {"Brambleberry of RiverClan"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent", "portals"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-01-08", subpage = "News and notes", title = "WMF employee forced out over \"paid advocacy editing\"", subhead = "On 8 January, the Wikimedia Foundation notified the Wikimedia-l mailing list that Sarah Stierch, a popular Wikimedian and the Foundation's Program Evaluation Community Coordinator, was no longer an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, as a result of being paid to create articles on the English Wikipedia.", authors = {"The ed17", "Tony1"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"coi", "newsandnotes", "paidadvocacy", "staff", "employee", "paidadvocacy"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-01-08", subpage = "Op-ed", title = "WikiCup competition beginning a new year", subhead = "At the very start of the new year, 2014's WikiCup—an annual competition which has been held on Wikipedia in various forms since 2007—began.", authors = {"J Milburn"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"contests", "opinion", "wikicup"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-01-08", subpage = "Public Domain Day", title = "Why the year 2019 is so significant", subhead = "Public Domain Day—January 1, 2014—gives me an opportunity to reflect on this important asset, mandated by the Constitution of the United States.", authors = {"kosboot"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"specialreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-01-08", subpage = "Technology report", title = "Gearing up for the Architecture Summit", subhead = "MediaWiki developers will be meeting in San Francisco on January 23–24 for an Architecture Summit.", authors = {"Legoktm"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"tech", "technologyreport", "technologyreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-01-08", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "Tragedy and television", subhead = "The various maladies that befall humanity got some well-known faces this week: the death of the well-liked actor James Avery topped the list, but Michael Schumacher, who is in a coma after a skiing accident, also drew attention.", authors = {"Serendipodous"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-01-08", subpage = "WikiProject report", title = "Jumping into the television universe", subhead = "This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Television.", authors = {"Mabeenot"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-01-15", subpage = "In the media", title = "Is Google hurting Wikipedia traffic?; \"Wikipedia-Mania\" in the New York Times", subhead = "Wikipedia's recent decline in readership, possibly due to Google's Knowledge Graph. ... Judith Newman in the New York Times asks \"What Does Judith Newman Have to Do to Get a Page?\"", authors = {"Andrewman327", "Andreas Kolbe"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"inthemedia", "traffic", "megacorps"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-01-15", subpage = "News and notes", title = "Wikimedia Germany asks for \"reworking\" of Funds Dissemination Committee; should MP4 be allowed on Wikimedia sites?", subhead = "German chapter asks for \"reworking\" of Funds Dissemination Committee; should MP4 be allowed on Wikimedia sites?: Wikimedia Germany, the largest national affiliate, has authored an extensive critique of the Funds Dissemination Committee's process for issuing funding recommendations for the various large organizations in the movement.", authors = {"The ed17"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"chapters", "newsandnotes", "wikimediagermany", "fdc"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-01-15", subpage = "Op-ed", title = "Licensed for reuse? Citing open-access sources in Wikipedia articles", subhead = "It is heavily ironic that two decades after the World Wide Web was started — largely to make it easier to share scholarly research — most of our past and present research publications are still hidden behind paywalls for private profit. The bitter twist is that the vast majority of this research is publicly funded, to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars worldwide each year.", authors = {"Daniel Mietchen"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"licensing", "openaccess", "opinion"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-01-15", subpage = "Technology report", title = "Architecture Summit schedule published", subhead = "The proposed schedule for the MediaWiki Archicture Summit has been published. The two main plenary sessions will be about HTML templating, and Service-oriented architecture.", authors = {"Legoktm"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"tech", "technologyreport", "technologyreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-01-15", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "The Hours are Ours", subhead = "We now can get a far more accurate picture of which short surges in popularity are likely natural and which are not.", authors = {"Serendipodous"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-01-15", subpage = "WikiProject report", title = "WikiProject Sociology", subhead = "This week, we studied human social behavior with the folks at .", authors = {"Mabeenot"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-01-22", subpage = "Book review", title = "Missing Links and Secret Histories: A Selection of Wikipedia Entries from Across the Known Multiverse", subhead = "A particularly esoteric anthology of speculative fiction, filled with imaginary Wikipedia entries from, as the introduction puts it, \"the many Wikipedias across the Multiverse.\"", authors = {"Gamaliel"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"bookreview"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-01-22", subpage = "Featured content", title = "Dr. Watson, I presume with the tramp", subhead = "Fifteen articles, nine lists, twenty pictures, and one topic were promoted to \"featured\" status on the English Wikipedia over the last two weeks.", authors = {"Pine"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-01-22", subpage = "In the media", title = "Wikipedia for robots; Wikipedia—a temperamental teenager", subhead = "An article in USA Today announced that a European-funded project called RoboEarth that is designed to give robots a mechanism by which to access information to dispense.", authors = {"Go Phightins!", "Jayen466"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"inthemedia"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-01-22", subpage = "News and notes", title = "Modification of WMF protection brought to Arbcom", subhead = "The Wikimedia Foundation's Director of Community Advocacy's application of pending changes level two on the article Conventional PCI—an action taken under its rarely used office actions policy—has escalated to the Arbitration Committee after an editor upgraded it to full protection.", authors = {"The ed17"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"newsandnotes", "protection", "arbcom"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-01-22", subpage = "Special report", title = "The few who write Wikipedia", subhead = "On 15 January, Wikipedia turned thirteen years old. In that time, this site has grown from a small site that was known to only a select few to one of the most popular websites on the internet. At the same time, recent data suggests that there is a power curve among users, where the comparative few who are writing most of Wikipedia have most of the edits. The result of this is that there is going to be bias in what is created, and how we deal with it as Wikipedians is indicative of the future of the site. Furthermore, this brings up what we have to do in order to combat this bias, as there are many ideas, but the question is whether they will work or not.", authors = {"Kevin Rutherford"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"specialreport", "researchreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-01-22", subpage = "Technology report", title = "Architecting the future of MediaWiki", subhead = "This week we're interviewing Brion Vibber about the then-upcoming Architecture Summit. Brion is a long time Wikipedian, the first employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, and currently the lead software architect working with the mobile team.", authors = {"Legoktm"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"mediawiki", "tech", "technologyreport", "technologyreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-01-22", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "No show for the Globes", subhead = "While the 71st Golden Globe Awards, held on 12 January, had an impact on the top 25, their presence was largely absent from the Top 10. With the exception of Best Actor winner Leonardo DiCaprio, the only Golden Globe entrants in the Top 10 are films that would have been there anyway.", authors = {"Serendipodous"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-01-29", subpage = "Arbitration report", title = "Kafziel case closed; Kww admonished by motion", subhead = "The Kafziel case has been closed, with Kafziel losing his administrator status as a result.", authors = {"Kirill Lokshin"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"arbitrationreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-01-29", subpage = "News and notes", title = "Wiki-PR defends itself, condemns Wikipedia's actions", subhead = "Wiki-PR, a public relations agency, whose employees used a sophisticated array of concealed user accounts to create, edit, and maintain several thousand Wikipedia articles for paying clients, has told Business Insider that it was demonized by the online encyclopedia. Jordan French, Wiki-PR's CEO, said he believes the Wikimedia Foundation \"painted\" his company to look like an \"evil entity\" that is \"scrubbing truths from Wikipedia\".", authors = {"The ed17"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"newsandnotes", "wikipr"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-01-29", subpage = "Recent research", title = "Translation assignments, weasel words, and Wikipedia's content in its later years", subhead = "An author experimented with \"a promising type of assignment in formal translator training which involves translating and publishing Wikipedia articles\", in three courses with students at the University of Warsaw.", authors = {"Aaron Halfaker", "Jonathan Morgan", "Piotr Konieczny", "Tilman Bayer"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"recentresearch", "research", "weaselwords", "researchreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-01-29", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "Six strikes out", subhead = "There are times when this job is hard. As an analogy, imagine navigating in fog at night, except you don't know where you are, you don't know where you want to go, and your flashlight keeps dying on you.", authors = {"Serendipodous"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-01-29", subpage = "WikiProject report", title = "Special report: Contesting contests", subhead = "Contests have existed almost as long as the English Wikipedia. Contestants have expanded hundreds of articles and made tens of thousands of edits. Although it may seem as though there aren't any negatives to contests, they have occasionally become a divisive topic on the English Wikipedia.", authors = {"Newyorkadam"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"backlogs", "coi", "contests", "specialreport", "wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects", "contests", "paidadvocacy"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-02-12", subpage = "Featured content", title = "Space selfie", subhead = "Thirteen articles, three lists, and twenty-five images were promoted to \"featured\" status on the English Wikipedia from 19 January to 1 February.", authors = {"The Herald", "Dank", "Pine"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-02-12", subpage = "In the media", title = "WikiVIP; Art Feminism; Medical articles; PR manipulation; Azerbaijani Wikipedia", subhead = "As reported in various media outlets this week, including The Next Web and The Daily Dot, this past week, Wikimedia Commons and various language Wikipedias are working together to encourage subjects of Wikipedia articles to record a 10-second clip of their voice to be appended to their Wikipedia article.", authors = {"Go Phightins!", "Jayen466", "Gamaliel"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"inthemedia", "medical"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-02-12", subpage = "News and notes", title = "WMF bites the bullet on affiliation and FDC funding, elevates Wikimedia user groups", subhead = "In a bold move, the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees has announced a major change in policy concerning affiliated groups in the worldwide movement, and FDC funding levels to eligible chapters and thematic organizations over the next two years. Both decisions were published last Tuesday after considerable post-meeting consultation with the FDC and the Affiliations Committee (AffCom). The core of the first decision is", authors = {"Tony1", "The ed17"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"fdc", "newsandnotes", "wikipr"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-02-12", subpage = "Technology report", title = "Left with no choice", subhead = "Software evolution does not always mean that features are being added. It also means that old fat is being trimmed. It is no different for MediaWiki.", authors = {"Edokter"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"tech", "technologyreport", "technologyreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-02-12", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "Sports Day", subhead = "Two great sporting events, the Super Bowl and the Winter Olympics, collide in one week, transforming the top ten into a festival of flying feet, a carnival of colliding caraniums and a bacchanal of bouncing balls, combined to influence Wikipedia's most popular articles last week.", authors = {"Serendipodous"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-02-12", subpage = "WikiProject report", title = "Game Time in Russia", subhead = "In celebration of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, we revisited the team at WikiProject Russia to learn how the project has changed since our first interview in 2011.", authors = {"Mabeenot"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-02-19", subpage = "Featured content", title = "Holotype", subhead = "Five articles, seven lists, forty-three pictures, and two portals were promoted to \"featured\" status on the English Wikipedia in the last two weeks.", authors = {"Pine", "Dank", "Cliftonian"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent", "portals"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-02-19", subpage = "News and notes", title = "Foundation takes aim at undisclosed paid editing; Greek Wikipedia editor faces down legal challenge", subhead = "The Wikimedia Foundation has proposed to modify the Wikimedia projects' Terms of use to specifically ban undisclosed paid editing. ... Dimitris Liourdis, a lawyer in training who moonlights as an administrator on the Greek Wikipedia, is embroiled in a legal dispute with a Greek politician over alleged edits made to his Wikipedia article.", authors = {"The ed17"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"coi", "foundation", "newsandnotes", "paidadvocacy", "stateactors", "paidadvocacy", "paidadvocacy"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-02-19", subpage = "Technology report", title = "ULS Comeback", subhead = "Runa Bhattacharjee has notified the community that the Foundation is ready to turn the Universal Language Selector back on.", authors = {"Edokter"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"tech", "technologyreport", "technologyreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-02-19", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "Chilly Valentines", subhead = "Valentines Day got a somewhat muted reception this week, overshadowed by continuing coverage of the Winter Olympics in Sochi and the death of Shirley Temple.", authors = {"Serendipodous"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-02-19", subpage = "WikiProject report", title = "Countering Systemic Bias", subhead = "WikiProject Countering System Bias aims to combat imbalanced coverage while encouraging neglected cultural perspectives and points of view, both in articles and in the larger Wikipedia community. As you'll see from the varied experiences and motivations of our nine respondents, the biases that the folks at WP CSB tackle run the full gamut of human characteristics and dispositions. The interview that follows unveils many of Wikipedia's greatest shortcomings.", authors = {"Mabeenot"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects", "bias", "systemicbias"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-02-26", subpage = "Featured content", title = "Odin salutes you", subhead = "Eight articles, three lists, and nine pictures were promoted to \"featured\" status on the English Wikipedia last week.", authors = {"The Herald", "The ed17"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-02-26", subpage = "Forum", title = "Should Wikimedia modify its terms of use to require disclosure?", subhead = "About a week ago, the Wikimedia Foundation proposed to modify the Wikimedia projects' terms of use to specifically ban paid editing, by adding a new clause titled \"Paid contributions without disclosure\". We have asked two users, one in favor of the measure (Smallbones) and one opposed (Pete Forsyth), to contribute their opinions on the matter.", authors = {"Smallbones", "Pete Forsyth"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"coi", "englishwikipedia", "forum", "paidadvocacy", "termsofuse", "wikimediafoundation", "specialreport", "wikimedia", "paidadvocacy", "termsofuse", "paidadvocacy"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-02-26", subpage = "News and notes", title = "Wikimedia chapters and communities challenge Commons' URAA policy", subhead = "Following a trend started by Wikimedia Israel, Wikimedia Argentina has published an open letter challenging the recent deletion of hundreds of images from the Commons under its policy on URAA-restored copyrights, relating to the United States' 1994 Uruguay Round Agreements Act.", authors = {"The ed17"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"chapters", "newsandnotes", "policy", "wikimediacommons"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-02-26", subpage = "Recent research", title = "CSCW '14 retrospective; the impact of SOPA on deletionism", subhead = "CSCW '14 retrospective; the impact of SOPA on deletionism: The monthly roundup of recent academic research about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, edited jointly with the Wikimedia Research Committee.", authors = {"David Ludwig", "Morten Warncke-Wang", "Maximilian Klein", "Piotr Konieczny", "Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia", "Dario Taraborelli", "Tilman Bayer"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"recentresearch", "research", "sopa", "researchreport", "afd", "afd", "bias", "bias"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-02-26", subpage = "Special report", title = "Diary of a protester—Wikimedian perishes in Ukrainian unrest", subhead = "Ukraine has been gripped by widespread protests over the past three months. Due to a decision by former president Viktor Yanukovych—at Russia's urging—to abandon integration with the European Union, the country was (and in many ways still is) split between the Europe-favoring Ukrainian-speaking western half and the Russian-speaking east and south. Hundreds have died during the unrest, leaving thousands of family members and friends to bury their loved ones. This week our Wikimedian colleagues in Ukraine are facing that challenge after the death of one of their own.", authors = {"The ed17"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"specialreport", "ukraine"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-02-26", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "Snow big deal", subhead = "The 2014 Winter Olympics had more of an impact on the Top 25 than the Top 10, which had to shoulder old stalwarts like the death list, Reddit threads, TV shows and the eternal presence of Facebook; still, with four slots, it's the most searched topic on the list.", authors = {"Serendipodous"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-02-26", subpage = "WikiProject report", title = "Racking brains with neuroscience", subhead = "This week, we found three Ph.D.s willing to give us a crash course on WikiProject Neuroscience.", authors = {"Mabeenot"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-03-05", subpage = "Discussion report", title = "Four paragraph lead, indefinitely blocked IPs, editor reviews broken?", subhead = "Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...", authors = {"Tucoxn"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"discussionreport", "englishwikipedia", "templates", "wikiprojects"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-03-05", subpage = "Featured content", title = "Full speed ahead for the WikiCup", subhead = "The WikiCup competition is ongoing, while six articles, three lists, and ten pictures were promoted to \"featured\" status of the English Wikipedia this week.", authors = {"Pine"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"contests", "featuredcontent", "wikicup"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-03-05", subpage = "News and notes", title = "Wikipedia Library finding success in matching contributors with sources", subhead = "This week, the Signpost caught up with the Wikipedia Library (TWL), which aims to connect reference resources with Wikipedia editors who can use them to improve articles. Funded through the Wikimedia Foundation's Individual Engagement Grants program, TWL has a new \"visiting scholars\" initiative and a microgrants program in the works.", authors = {"The ed17"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"glam", "libraries", "newsandnotes", "wikipedialibrary"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-03-05", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "Brinksmen on the brink", subhead = "There's nothing like a good old bit of Cold War nostalgia, combined with a suitably scary international incident, to focus our attention on the real world. That said, nothing could stem our outpouring of affection for the beloved comedian Harold Ramis, whose death managed to top the week in the face of those international concerns.", authors = {"Serendipodous"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-03-05", subpage = "WikiProject report", title = "Article Rescue Squadron", subhead = "This week, the Signpost delved into the English Wikipedia's .", authors = {"Buffbills7701"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"articlerescuesquadron", "wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-03-12", subpage = "Featured content", title = "Ukraine burns", subhead = "Five articles, two lists, and 52 pictures were promoted to \"featured\" status on the English Wikipedia this week.", authors = {"Adam Cuerden", "The ed17"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent", "ukraine"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-03-12", subpage = "News and notes", title = "Wikimedians celebrate International Women's Day and Women's History Month", subhead = "Wikimedians celebrate International Women's Day, Women's History Month: Wikimedians around the world gathered to celebrate Women's History Month and the associated International Women's Day by holding editathons. If you lived in the United Kingdom, you had the opportunity to attend Wikimedia UK's event at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, part of University College London and host to one of the largest collections of Egyptian and Sudanese artifacts in the world.", authors = {"The ed17"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"newsandnotes", "women"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-03-12", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "War and awards", subhead = "An intensely busy week, as a confluence of celebratory, curious and urgent topics pushed typical residents like Facebook and Deaths in 2014 out of the top ten entirely.", authors = {"Serendipodous"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"awards", "statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-03-12", subpage = "WikiProject report", title = "Examining the Russian Wikipedia's Entomology Project", subhead = "Russian WikiProject Entomology: This week, we interviewed Anaxibia from the Russian-language Entomology WikiProject.", authors = {"Mabeenot", "Daniel Mietchen"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"russianwikipedia", "wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-03-19", subpage = "Featured content", title = "Spot the bulldozer", subhead = "Twelve articles, fourteen lists, and six pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.", authors = {"Adam Cuerden", "The ed17", "The Herald"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-03-19", subpage = "Forum", title = "Wikimedia Commons mission: free media for the world or only Wikimedia projects?", subhead = "Non-US editors and chapters have taken issue with a multitude of image deletions done on the Wikimedia Commons to comply with the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, a US law that brought the country into compliance with the Berne Convention.", authors = {"Delirium", "TeleComNasSprVen", "Thryduulf"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"coi", "forum", "digitalmedia", "specialreport", "wikimediacommons"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-03-19", subpage = "Interview", title = "Nate Ott—the writer behind 71 articles in the largest-ever good topic", subhead = "In a record-breaker, the English Wikipedia has a new largest good topic: the 71-article Light cruisers of Germany, which concerns the light cruisers used by Germany during the 20th century.", authors = {"The ed17"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"interviews", "interview"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-03-19", subpage = "News and notes", title = "Foundation-supported Wikipedian in residence faces scrutiny", subhead = "One of the first university Wikipedian in residence positions, hosted at Harvard University in 2012, has jumped back into the spotlight amid questions about its ethical integrity.", authors = {"The ed17"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"newsandnotes", "wikimediansinresidence", "foundation"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-03-19", subpage = "Technology report", title = "Wikimedia engineering report", subhead = "The for February 2014 has been published. A summarized version is also available. Major news include", authors = {"Edokter"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"tech", "technologyreport", "technologyreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-03-19", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "Into thin air", subhead = "The utterly mystifying events surrounding Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which has not fallen from the sky so much as vanished from it entirely, has left an information-starved public scrambling for precedents, some logical, some... not.", authors = {"Serendipodous"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-03-19", subpage = "WikiProject report", title = "We have history", subhead = "This week, we visited WikiProject History, an ancient project with roots dating back to 2001. The project is home to 196 pieces of Featured material and 483 Good and A-class articles independent of the vast accomplishments of its various child projects. WikiProject History maintains a lengthy list of tasks, oversees the history portal, and continues to build Wikipedia's outline of history.", authors = {"Mabeenot"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-03-26", subpage = "Comment", title = "A foolish request", subhead = "April Fools' Day is rapidly approaching. Every year, members of the community pull pranks and make (or attempt to make) humorous edits to pages across the project. Every year, the community follows April Fools' Day with a contentious debate about whether or not it is necessary to impose limits on April Fools' Day jokes for future years. It is a polarizing issue.", authors = {"Sven Manguard"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"aprilfools", "opinion"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-03-26", subpage = "Featured content", title = "Winter hath a beauty that is all his own", subhead = "Four articles, two lists, and twelve pictures were promoted to \"featured\" status on the English Wikipedia this week.", authors = {"Adam Cuerden", "Pine"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-03-26", subpage = "News and notes", title = "Commons Picture of the Year—winners announced", subhead = "Results for the two-stage 2013 Commons Picture of the Year have been announced. This year's winning photograph (above) shows a lightbulb that has been cracked, allowing inert gas to escape—and oxygen to enter, so that the tungsten filament burns. From the flames rise elegant curls of blue smoke.", authors = {"Tony1", "The ed17"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"newsandnotes", "pictureoftheyear", "wikimediacommons"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-03-26", subpage = "Op-ed", title = "Why we're updating the default typography for Wikipedia", subhead = "On 3 April, we will roll out some changes to the typography of Wikipedia's default Vector skin, to increase readability for users on all devices and platforms. After five months of testing, four major iterations, and through close collaboration with the global Wikimedia community, who provided more than 100 threads of feedback, we’ve arrived at a solution which improves the primary reading and editing experience for all users.", authors = {"Jared Zimmerman"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"opinion", "typography"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-03-26", subpage = "Recent research", title = "Wikipedians' \"encyclopedic identity\" dominates even in Kosovo debates; analysis of \"In the news\" discussions; user hierarchy mapped", subhead = "Wikipedians' \"encyclopedic identity\" dominates even in Kosovo debates: Have you wondered about differences in the articles on Crimea in the Russian, Ukrainian, and English versions of Wikipedia? A newly published article entitled \"Lost in Translation: Contexts, Computing, Disputing on Wikipedia\" doesn't address Crimea, but nonetheless offers insight into the editing of contentious articles in multiple language editions through a heavy qualitative examination of Wikipedia articles about the Kosovo in the Serbian, Croatian, and English editions.", authors = {"Federico Leva", "Computermacgyver", "Kim Osman", "Jonathan Morgan", "Piotr Konieczny", "Niklas Laxström", "Tilman Bayer", "James Heilman"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"englishwikipedia", "inthemedia", "recentresearch", "research", "researchreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-03-26", subpage = "Technology report", title = "Why will Wikipedia look like the Signpost?", subhead = "As you have probably read on this weeks op-ed, or via various other channels of announcement, 3 April will see the introduction of the Typography refresh (or update) for the Vector skin on all Wikipedias. Other projects like Commons will have this update rolled out a few days prior.", authors = {"Edokter"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"signpost", "tech", "technologyreport", "technologyreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-03-26", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "Down to a simmer", subhead = "Topics like the 2014 Crimea crisis or the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 eased down the list, making way for such traditional topics as St Patrick's Day, Reddit threads and even Google Doodles, which have reappeared after a long absence.", authors = {"Serendipodous"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-03-26", subpage = "WikiProject report", title = "From the peak", subhead = "This week, the Signpost interviewed the English Wikipedia's Mountains WikiProject.", authors = {"Mabeenot"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-04-02", subpage = "Featured content", title = "April Fools", subhead = "The Signpost 's \"Featured content\" writers had a bit of fun this week.", authors = {"Adam Cuerden", "Pine"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"aprilfools", "featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-04-02", subpage = "News and notes", title = "Wikimedia conferences—soul-searching about costs, attendance, and future", subhead = "The run-up to the conference has seen the unfolding of two fractious threads on the Wikimedia public mailing list, both of which may serve as background for the last session at Berlin: \"Future of the Wikimedia Conference\".", authors = {"Tony1", "The ed17"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"conferences", "events", "mailinglists", "newsandnotes", "search", "wc2014", "wikimediaconference"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-04-02", subpage = "Special report", title = "On the cusp of the Wikimedia Conference", subhead = "The annual Wikimedia Conference is about to start in Berlin, hosted by Wikimedia Germany, which won the bid to hold the event over three others. This will be the fifth time the chapter has hosted the Wikimedia Conference—it did so from 2009 to 2012, with attendance ranging from 100 to 180 Wikimedians. This year 160 people are expected at the four-day event, which is mainly for representatives of affiliated Wikimedia organisations. The conference has been built around two themes: Organisation, structures, and grants and Success and impact.", authors = {"Tony1"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"conferences", "events", "specialreport", "wc2014", "wikimediaconference", "wikimedia"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-04-02", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "Regressing to the mean", subhead = "The mysterious fate of MH370 still tops the list, but in all other respects our readership has retreated from the real world into its pop-cultural happy place: TV, movies, music, Reddit and Google Doodles all made an appearance.", authors = {"Serendipodous"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-04-02", subpage = "WikiProject report", title = "Deutschland in English", subhead = "This week, we visited with WikiProject Germany.", authors = {"Mabeenot"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-04-09", subpage = "Featured content", title = "Snow heater and Ash sweep", subhead = "Snow heater and Ash sweep: Five article, five lists, and ten pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.", authors = {"Adam Cuerden", "The ed17"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-04-09", subpage = "News and notes", title = "Round 2 of FDC funding open to public comments", subhead = "Community review is open for the four applications in the second and final round of applications to the WMF's Funds Dissemination Committee for 2013–14. Three eligible organisations have applied for funding under the newly named \"annual program grants\": Wikimedia France, Wikimedia Norway, and the India-based Centre for Internet and Society, which last November was recognised as eligible to apply for FDC funding purposes.", authors = {"Tony1", "The ed17", "Kirill Lokshin"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"newsandnotes", "fdc"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-04-09", subpage = "Special report", title = "Community mourns passing of Adrianne Wadewitz", subhead = "\"I remember laughing and talking and laughing and talking at Wikimania 2012. I took this picture of her that she used for a long while as a profile pic. Someone on Facebook said it looked 'skepchickal', which she loved.\"", authors = {"The ed17", "Andrew Lih", "Liam Wyatt", "Alex Stinson"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"englishwikipedia", "obituary", "specialreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-04-09", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "Conquest of the Couch Potatoes", subhead = "Television has always been a topic of choice on this site, but it exploded this week. Fully six slots were devoted to television shows, as the final episode of How I Met Your Mother, one of the most popular Wikipedia searches of the last few years, coincided with the season finale of The Walking Dead and the upcoming fourth season of Game of Thrones. The number rises to 8 if movies released on video and new TV tech are are included.", authors = {"Serendipodous"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-04-09", subpage = "WikiProject report", title = "Law", subhead = "This week, we interviewed the Law WikiProject.", authors = {"Mabeenot"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-04-23", subpage = "Featured content", title = "There was I, waiting at the church", subhead = "Fourteen articles, four lists, seven pictures, and one topic attained \"featured\" status on the English Wikipedia over the last two weeks.", authors = {"Pine", "Adam Cuerden", "PresN"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-04-23", subpage = "News and notes", title = "Wikimedian passes away", subhead = "Cynthia Ashley-Nelson, who edited as \"Cindamuse\" on the Wikimedia projects, passed away in her sleep at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin on 10 April.", authors = {"The ed17"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"newsandnotes"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-04-23", subpage = "Op-ed", title = "Five things a Wikipedian in Residence can do", subhead = "Hey you—yeah you, the Wikipedian! Do you want to help a museum, a library, a university, or other organization explore ways to engage with Wikipedia? Great—you should offer your expertise as a Wikipedian in residence!", authors = {"Pete Forsyth"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"opinion", "glam", "licensing", "residence"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-04-23", subpage = "Special report", title = "2014 Wikimedia Conference—what is the impact?", subhead = "The annual Wikimedia Conference wound up last Sunday, 13 April—a four-day meeting costing several hundred thousand dollars, hosted in Berlin by Wikimedia Germany and attended by more than 100 Wikimedians.", authors = {"Tony1"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"board", "chapters", "conferences", "events", "grantmaking", "specialreport", "wc2014", "wikimediaconference", "wikimedia", "board"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-04-23", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "Reflecting in Gethsemane", subhead = "If I were the kind of person who made snap judgments based on flimsy evidence, I'd say our readership is in a funk.", authors = {"Serendipodous"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-04-23", subpage = "Wikimania", title = "Winning bid announced for 2015", subhead = "After just over a month of deliberation, the Wikimania jury has selected Wikimedia Mexico's bid to host Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City, with a proposed date of 15–19 July.", authors = {"Tony1", "The ed17"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"events", "wm2015", "wikimania"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-04-23", subpage = "WikiProject report", title = "To the altar—Catholicism", subhead = "This week, we visited WikiProject Catholicism.", authors = {"Mabeenot"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-04-30", subpage = "Breaking", title = "Wikimedia Foundation selects new executive director", subhead = "The Foundation's new executive director: The Wikimedia Foundation has announced that its new executive director will be Lila Tretikov, until now a chief product officer in Silicon Valley.", authors = {"The ed17", "Tony1", "Andrew Lih"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"foundation", "lilatretikov", "wikimedia"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-04-30", subpage = "Featured content", title = "Browsing behaviours", subhead = "Four articles and sixteen featured pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.", authors = {"Adam Cuerden"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-04-30", subpage = "Interview", title = "Wikipedia in the Peabody Essex Museum", subhead = "Ed Roley, Associate Director of Integrated Media at the Peabody Essex Museum, talks about GLAM engagement with Wikipedia.", authors = {"Dorothy Howard"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"glam", "interviews", "museums", "interview"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-04-30", subpage = "News and notes", title = "WMF's draft annual plan turns indigestible as an FDC proposal", subhead = "Like hammering a square peg into a round hole, the Wikimedia Foundation has submitted a draft annual plan for 2014–15 to its own Funds Dissemination Committee. Unlike the WMF's submission to the FDC's inaugural round in October 2012, the \"proposal\" does not seek funding.", authors = {"Tony1", "The ed17", "Scott"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"annualplan", "newsandnotes", "wikimediagermany", "fdc"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-04-30", subpage = "Recent research", title = "Wikipedia predicts flu more accurately than Google; 43% of academics have edited Wikipedia", subhead = "Wikipedia predicts flu more accurately than Google: Can you predict the number of seasonal influenza-like illness in the U.S. using data from Wikipedia?", authors = {"Piotr Konieczny", "Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia", "Tilman Bayer"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"openaccess", "recentresearch", "research", "researchreport", "megacorps"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-04-30", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "Going to the Doggs", subhead = "Not much to report this week. The same post-Easter celebrations (4/20, Earth Day) were popular again this year, except last year we were still reeling from the Boston Marathon bombing.", authors = {"Serendipodous"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-04-30", subpage = "WikiProject report", title = "Genetics", subhead = "This week, we unraveled the mysteries of WikiProject .", authors = {"Mabeenot"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-05-07", subpage = "Featured content", title = "Wikipedia at the Rijksmuseum", subhead = "Four articles, two lists, and five pictures were promoted to \"featured\" status on the English Wikipedia last week.", authors = {"Adam Cuerden", "Pine"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-05-07", subpage = "In focus", title = "Foundation announces long-awaited new executive director", subhead = "In a live video stream on 1 May, the Wikimedia Foundation announced that Lila Tretikov will be replacing Sue Gardner, its executive director. Gardner, who has been in the position since 2007, declared her intention to leave more than a year ago.", authors = {"The ed17"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"executivedirector", "foundation", "infocus", "lilatretikov", "wikimedia"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-05-07", subpage = "In the media", title = "Google and the flu; Adrianne", subhead = "Boston Children's Hospital postdoctoral fellow David McIver and a team have determined that using page view statistics from Wikipedia, they can track flu progression better than the Center for Disease Control can using Google searches.", authors = {"Go Phightins!"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"inthemedia", "obituary", "megacorps"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-05-07", subpage = "News and notes", title = "New system of discretionary sanctions; Buchenwald; is Pirelli 'Cracking Wikipedia'?", subhead = "The English Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee (ArbCom) introduced the first form of what are known as the \"discretionary sanction\" (DS) in 2009. A new DS regime, called Discretionary sanctions (2014), is the result of an elaborate review process involving both the community, since last September, and the committee, for more than a year.", authors = {"Tony1", "The ed17"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"newsandnotes"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-05-07", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "TMZedia", subhead = "For all the claims of Wikipedia bringing the world's knowledge to all who want it, it seems the human race most wants is a tabloid newspaper; a quick source for TV listings, pop culture facts, celebrity gossip and, above all, scandal—with some nice juicy racism thrown in too.", authors = {"Serendipodous"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-05-07", subpage = "WikiCup", title = "2014 WikiCup enters round three", subhead = "Round 3 of the 2014 WikiCup has just begun; 32 competitors remain.", authors = {"J Milburn", "Adam Cuerden"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"contests", "gallery", "wikicup", "specialreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-05-07", subpage = "WikiProject report", title = "Singing with Eurovision", subhead = "Formed in 2003, the Eurovision WikiProject boasts four featured articles and 22 good articles. The Eurovision Song Contest 2014 is currently taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark, so we went to the stage to talk with one of the project's members.", authors = {"Mabeenot"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-05-14", subpage = "Featured content", title = "On the rocks", subhead = "Six articles, seven lists, and four pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week.", authors = {"Adam Cuerden", "The Herald"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-05-14", subpage = "Investigative report", title = "Hong Kong's Wikimania 2013—failure to produce financial statement raises questions of probity", subhead = "On 2 May 2012, the Wikimania jury announced that Hong Kong's bid to hold the 2013 event had beaten four other proposals. Moderator James Forrester wrote: \"The Jury has confidence that the Hong Kong bidding team will pull off a magnificent Wikimania,\"—and indeed there were positive comments about the event from most attendees.", authors = {"Tony1"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"events", "finance", "investigativereport", "wm2013", "wikimania"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-05-14", subpage = "News and notes", title = "'Ask a librarian'—connecting Wikimedians with the National Library of Australia; watch 'Cracking Wikipedia'", subhead = "'Ask a librarian'—connecting Wikimedians with the National Library of Australia: Editors of Australian-related topics on the English Wikipedia may have noticed an odd addition if they viewed the article's talk pages. For example, on Talk:Darwin, Northern Territory, they might be drawn in by the question mark, nested within what is often a sea of WikiProject templates: \"Need help improving this article? Ask a librarian at the National Library of Australia, or the Northern Territory Library.\" Just what is this?", authors = {"The ed17"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"glam", "libraries", "newsandnotes"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-05-14", subpage = "Technology report", title = "Technology report needs editor; Media Viewer offers a new look", subhead = "Technology report needs editor, Media Viewer offers a new look: The Media Viewer is scheduled to launch on the English Wikipedia next week.", authors = {"Edokter"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"englishwikipedia", "mediaviewer", "tech", "technologyreport", "technologyreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-05-14", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "Eurovision, Google Doodles, Mothers, and 5 May", subhead = "Eurovision is known for being political, and it was a doozy this week.", authors = {"Serendipodous"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport", "megacorps"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-05-14", subpage = "WikiProject report", title = "Relaxing in Puerto Rico", subhead = "This week, the Signpost jumped over the ocean to chat with the Puerto Rico WikiProject.", authors = {"Mabeenot"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-05-21", subpage = "Featured content", title = "Staggering number of featured articles", subhead = "Thirteen articles, sixteen pictures, and one topic were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.", authors = {"Adam Cuerden"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-05-21", subpage = "News and notes", title = "\"Crisis\" over Wikimedia Germany's palace revolution", subhead = "Last Sunday the board of Wikimedia Germany passed 9–1 a vote of no confidence in the chapter's executive director, Pavel Richter, who has held the position since 2009. With more than 50 employees, an annual budget approaching $10 million, and the right to conduct its own fundraising through the Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) site banners, Wikimedia Germany is the second-largest organisation in the movement after the WMF itself. The decision was announced on the Wikimedia mailing list by the chapter chair, Nikolas Becker.", authors = {"Tony1"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"newsandnotes", "wikimediagermany"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-05-21", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "Doodles' dawn", subhead = "It's a relief to see Google Doodles having an impact again; their wide coverage means that they inspire curiosity on many subjects which, for reasons of nationality, ethnicity or gender, might not be known in the English-speaking world. It's a shame then, that Wikipedia so often fails to keep up; articles on Google Doodles are almost invariably C-class, and seldom do justice to their subjects. Still, interest in Google Doodles has been waning in recent months—Audrey Hepburn last week was the first to top the list since December—so any rise in popularity is worth celebrating.", authors = {"Serendipodous"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-05-28", subpage = "Featured content", title = "Zombie fight in the saloon", subhead = "Wikipedia editor Sven Manguard's work is quite underappreciated a lot of the time, most likely because people haven't heard of it yet: He's developed good relationships with game companies, and is thus able to get full-resolution screenshots released under a Creative Commons license for use on Wikipedia and elsewhere. This week's trove of new featured items on the English Wikipedia comprises seven articles, three lists, and four pictures.", authors = {"Adam Cuerden", "Pine"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-05-28", subpage = "News and notes", title = "The English Wikipedia's second featured-article centurion; wiki inventor interviewed on video", subhead = "With the promotion to featured article of Grus (constellation) on 17 May, Casliber became Wikipedia's second featured-article centurion, following Wehwalt's groundbreaking achievement last December. Cas's first FA, Banksia integrifolia, a group effort, was promoted on 16 November 2006. His first solo project, Diplodocus, followed in January 2007; he has rarely been off the FAC since. In a second story, Ward Cunningham, an American computer programmer who invented the wiki, was interviewed by the WMF.", authors = {"Brian Boulton", "Tony1"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"englishwikipedia", "interviews", "newsandnotes", "video"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-05-28", subpage = "Recent research", title = "Predicting which article you will edit next; reader research", subhead = "Predicting which article you will edit next: Wikipedia in the eyes of its beholders; \"Chinese-language time zones\" favor Asian pop and IT topics on Wikipedia; and bipartite editing prediction in Wikipedia.", authors = {"Piotr Konieczny", "Maximilian Klein", "Tilman Bayer"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"recentresearch", "research", "researchreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-05-28", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "Get fitted for flipflops and floppy hats", subhead = "In the US, Memorial Day marks the unofficial beginning of summer, and summer is definitely on people's minds this week, with summer films Godzilla and X-Men: Days of Future Past, the apparently designated summer song \"Fancy\" by Iggy Azalea, and summer TV show, Game of Thrones.", authors = {"Serendipodous"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-06-04", subpage = "Featured content", title = "Ye stately homes of England", subhead = "David Iliff, or Diliff, as he is known on here outside of the file pages for his many, many, excellent photographs, is one of Wikipedia's longest-standing professional-standard photographers. This week, the Signpost salutes him.", authors = {"Adam Cuerden", "The ed17"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-06-04", subpage = "In the media", title = "Reliable or not, doctors use Wikipedia", subhead = "The month of May saw significant coverage concerning the reliability of Wikipedia's medical articles.", authors = {"Go Phightins!", "Kevin Rutherford"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"inthemedia"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-06-04", subpage = "News and notes", title = "Two new affiliate-selected trustees", subhead = "New trustee Frieda Briosch from Italy: we face \"a couple of headaches\", she says: \"how to boost editors, which includes the development of the next strategic plan, and how to keep our project always 'glamorous'.\"", authors = {"Tony1", "The ed17"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"board", "newsandnotes"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-06-04", subpage = "Op-ed", title = "\"Hospitality, jerks, and what I learned\"—the amazing keynote at WikiConference USA", subhead = "I never feel quite adequate trying to paraphrase Sumana's words: she is so articulate. I highly encourage every person who reads this article to directly watch her keynote—it directly speaks to a lot of Wikimedia's most significant issues, made with great eloquence. We have a serious issue with retaining editors, and parts of her speech could serve as a pretty good partial blueprint towards how we could begin to fix that problem.", authors = {"Kevin Gorman"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"opinion", "wikimedia"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-06-04", subpage = "Special report", title = "IEG funding for women's stories—a new approach to the gender gap", subhead = "Individual engagement grants (IEGs) are announced twice yearly by a volunteer WMF committee, the most recent of which we covered last December. The scheme, launched at the start of last year, awards funds to individuals or teams of up to four to produce high-impact outcomes for the WMF's online projects. It favours innovative approaches to solving critical issues in the movement.", authors = {"Tony1"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"gendergap", "specialreport", "women", "wikimedia", "ieg"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-06-04", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "Autumn in summer", subhead = "The northern summer is a time when one is meant to celebrate the exuberance of life; instead, commemoration of the dead was a significant theme this week.", authors = {"Serendipodous"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-06-11", subpage = "Featured content", title = "Politics, ships, art, and cyclones", subhead = "Five articles, one list, twelve pictures, and one topic were promoted to 'featured' status last week on the English Wikipedia.", authors = {"Pine", "Adam Cuerden"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-06-11", subpage = "News and notes", title = "PR agencies commit to ethical interactions with Wikipedia", subhead = "Eleven public relations agencies have declared their intention to follow \"ethical engagement practices\" in Wikipedia editing. The results were published last Tuesday: a joint statement from the participating PR agencies—representing five of the top ten global agencies and all but one of the top ten in the United States—clarifying their views and practices with regards to the Wikimedia projects.", authors = {"The ed17"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"newsandnotes", "paidadvocacy", "paidadvocacy", "paidadvocacy", "paidadvocacy"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-06-11", subpage = "Paid editing", title = "Does Wikipedia Pay? The Moderator: William Beutler", subhead = "William Beutler (WWB), author of the blog The Wikipedian, is a long-time editor and community-watcher. He is also a paid editor (WWB Too). Well—not anymore—because he gave up direct editing of articles in 2011. Instead, for the past three years he has followed Jimmy Wales' Bright Line rule in acting as a researcher and consultant for companies and clients that want to suggest changes to Wikipedia articles and engage on the Talk page.", authors = {"Ocaasi"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"coi", "interview", "paidadvocacy"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-06-11", subpage = "Special report", title = "Questions raised over secret voting for WMF trustees", subhead = "Last week we reported the announcement of two new affiliate-selected WMF trustees. The board of trustees is the most powerful and influential body in the movement, and chapters have been permitted to select two of the 10 seats since 2008, for two-year terms that start in even-numbered years.", authors = {"Tony1"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"board", "specialreport", "wikimedia"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-06-11", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "The week the wired went weird", subhead = "It seems that, more than commemorating the great moments in our history, more than even anticipating great sporting events, what our audience wants is the weird.", authors = {"Serendipodous"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-06-18", subpage = "Featured content", title = "Worming our way to featured picture", subhead = "Five articles, five lists, 22 pictures, and one portal were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.", authors = {"Adam Cuerden"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent", "portals"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-06-18", subpage = "News and notes", title = "With paid advocacy in its sights, the Wikimedia Foundation amends their terms of use", subhead = "The Wikimedia Foundation has amended its terms of use to ban editing for pay without disclosing an employer or affiliation on any of its websites. The broad scope of these changes will allow the WMF to selectively enforce their terms of use to avoid ensnaring well-meaning editors.", authors = {"The ed17"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"coi", "newsandnotes", "paidadvocacy", "termsofuse", "wikimediafoundation", "wikipr", "paidadvocacy", "termsofuse"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-06-18", subpage = "Special report", title = "Wikimedia Bangladesh—a chapter's five-year journey", subhead = "The Bangladesh chapter of the Wikimedia movement was formed in 2009. They received official local registration from the national authorities on 10 June 2014. The long road in between was subject to much persistence, patience, and luck—along with a good deal of worry.", authors = {"Pine"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"chapters", "specialreport", "wmbangladesh"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-06-18", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "You can't dethrone Thrones", subhead = "To the surprise of absolutely no one, the 2014 FIFA World Cup was the main draw this week, taking four slots. People appeared desperate to bone up on their trivia; checking not only this year's World Cup, but the last one. Even so, they still couldn't push Game of Thrones from the top ten. It will be interesting to see what happens come next week's season finale.", authors = {"Serendipodous"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-06-18", subpage = "WikiProject report", title = "Visiting the city", subhead = "This week, the Signpost came in from the hinterland to interview members of the Cities WikiProject.", authors = {"Mabeenot"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-06-25", subpage = "Discussion report", title = "Media Viewer, old HTML tags", subhead = "Discussions on the English Wikipedia this week include...", authors = {"Hahc21"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"discussionreport", "englishwikipedia", "mediaviewer", "templates", "wikiprojects"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-06-25", subpage = "Exclusive", title = "\"We need to be true to who we are\"—Foundation's new executive director speaks to the Signpost", subhead = "In her first interview since taking office, Lila Tretikov, the Wikimedia Foundation's new executive director, speaks about grantmaking, the global south, and the gender gap.", authors = {"Tony1"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"audio", "executivedirector", "foundation", "lilatretikov", "signpost", "women", "interview", "wikimedia"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-06-25", subpage = "Featured content", title = "Showing our Wörth", subhead = "Ten articles and eleven pictures were promoted to \"featured\" status on the English Wikipedia this week.", authors = {"Ian Rose", "Adam Cuerden"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-06-25", subpage = "News and notes", title = "US National Archives enshrines Wikipedia in Open Government Plan, plans to upload all holdings to Commons", subhead = "US National Archives enshrines Wikipedia in Open Government Plan: The US National Archives and Record Administration (NARA) have committed to engaging with Wikimedia projects in their newest Open Government Plan. The biannual effort is a roadmap for how the agency will accomplish its goals in the digital age.", authors = {"The ed17"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"newsandnotes", "swedishwikipedia", "wikimediacommons", "bots"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-06-25", subpage = "Recent research", title = "Power users and diversity in WikiProjects; the \"network of cultures\" in multilingual Wikipedia biographies", subhead = "Power users and diversity in WikiProjects: In a recent paper, Jacob Solomon and Rick Wash investigate the question of sustainability in online communities by analysing trends in the growth of WikiProjects.", authors = {"Taha Yasseri", "Maximilian Klein", "Piotr Konieczny", "Kim Osman", "Tilman Bayer"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"chinesewikipedia", "growth", "recentresearch", "research", "wikiprojects", "researchreport", "biography"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-06-25", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "Fake war, or real sport?", subhead = "Despite the interest generated by its season finale, Game of Thrones still couldn't top the World Cup, which still dominated interest, as evidenced by the fact that this top 10 is virtually identical to last week's, just with a different dead celebrity.", authors = {"Serendipodous"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-06-25", subpage = "WikiProject report", title = "The world where dreams come true", subhead = "This week, the Signpost visited the land of Disney, blockbusters, explosions, dream sequences, and cultural masterpieces: film.", authors = {"Mabeenot"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-07-02", subpage = "Featured content", title = "Ship-shape", subhead = "Six articles, five lists, seventeen pictures, and one topic were promoted to \"featured\" status on the English Wikipedia this week.", authors = {"The Herald", "Adam Cuerden"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-07-02", subpage = "In the media", title = "Wiki Education; medical content; PR firms", subhead = "The Los Angeles Times highlighted a recent Wiki Education Foundation (WEF) course at Pomona College in their article \"Wikipedia pops up in bibliographies, and even college curricula\". We interviewed Char Booth, the campus ambassador for the course, for additional details.", authors = {"Chris Troutman", "Andreas Kolbe", "Andrew Lih", "The ed17", "Gamaliel", "Pine", "LtPowers", "Antrocent", "Kevin Rutherford"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"educationprogram", "inthemedia", "medical", "education", "foundation"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-07-02", subpage = "News and notes", title = "Wikimedia Israel receives Roaring Lion award", subhead = "Wikimedia Israel (WMIL) has won a Roaring Lion in the category of Internet and cellular for its public outreach during the tenth anniversary of the Hebrew Wikipedia in July 2013.", authors = {"The ed17"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"awards", "newsandnotes", "wikimediaisrael"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-07-02", subpage = "Technology report", title = "In memoriam: the Toolserver (2005–14)", subhead = "In the early hours of Tuesday morning, Wikimedia Deutschland's Toolserver project was switched off, marking the end of one of the Wikimedia movement's longest running Chapter-led projects. The Toolserver, which was in fact a collection of servers, first came online in 2005, hosting hundreds of webpages and scripts (\"tools\") made available for use by Wikimedia readers, editors and administrators.", authors = {"Jarry1250"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"tech", "toolserver", "technologyreport", "technologyreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-07-02", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "The Cup runneth over... and over.", subhead = "With Game of Thrones over for another year, the World Cup dominated yet again. And that is pretty much that. This list isn't likely to be particularly eventful until the Cup is won.", authors = {"Serendipodous"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-07-02", subpage = "WikiProject report", title = "Indigenous peoples of North America", subhead = "This week, the Signpost visited the Indigenous peoples of North America WikiProject.", authors = {"Mabeenot"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-07-09", subpage = "Featured content", title = "Three cheers for featured pictures!", subhead = "Five articles, six lists, and nine pictures were promoted to 'featured' status last week on the English Wikipedia.", authors = {"Ian Rose", "SchroCat", "Adam Cuerden"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-07-09", subpage = "News and notes", title = "Echoes of the past haunt new conflict over tech initiative", subhead = "As with the troubled release of the Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) flagship VisualEditor project, the release of the new Media Viewer has also been met with opposition from the English Wikipedia community.", authors = {"The ed17"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"newsandnotes"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-07-09", subpage = "Special report", title = "Wikimania 2014—what will it cost?", subhead = "Last May, James Forrester announced to the world that London had been awarded the 2014 Wikimania conference. Functioning as the Wikimedia movement's annual conference, it is separate from the chapter-focused Wikimedia Conference. The first, located in Frankfurt, took place in 2005 and had 380 attendees. London, the tenth, is now expected to attract 1500. With Wikimania ambition, attention, and attendance rising significantly over the last nine years, how have this year's monetary costs come to be?", authors = {"The ed17"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"events", "specialreport", "wm2014", "wikimania"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-07-09", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "World Cup, Tim Howard rule the week", subhead = "Unsurprisingly, the World Cup continued to dominate the English Wikipedia's viewing statistics. In particular, the record-breaking performance of US goalkeeper Tim Howard and the tournament-ending injury to Brazil's Neymar drove large amount of views to their articles.", authors = {"Serendipodous"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-07-09", subpage = "Wikicup", title = "Wikicup's third round sees money, space, battleships and more", subhead = "After an extremely close race, round three is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years—321 was required in 2013, and 243 points in 2012.", authors = {"J Milburn", "Adam Cuerden"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"contests", "wikicup", "specialreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-07-09", subpage = "Wikimedia in education", title = "Exploring the United States and Canada with LiAnna Davis", subhead = "The Wikimedia Education Program currently spans 60 programs around the world; students and instructors participate at almost every level of education. The Education program Signpost series presents a snapshot of the Wikimedia Global Education Program as it exists in 2014.", authors = {"Pine"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"educationprogram", "globaleducation", "interviews", "interview", "education"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-07-16", subpage = "Featured content", title = "The Island with the Golden Gun", subhead = "Eight articles, three lists, and 28 pictures were promoted to \"featured\" status on the English Wikipedia last week.", authors = {"SchroCat", "Crisco 1492"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-07-16", subpage = "News and notes", title = "Bot-created Wikipedia articles covered in the Wall Street Journal, push Cebuano over one million articles", subhead = "The Swedish Wikipedia's prolific Lsjbot, which has created a significant proportion of the site's 1.7 million articles and has nearly single-handedly pushed it to being the fourth-largest Wikipedia, was covered in the Wall Street Journal this week. The newspaper reported that the bot has created 2.7 million articles, which is apparently a reference to the Waray-Waray and Cebuano Wikipedias, where Lsjbot is also active, and that \"on a good day\", it creates 10,000 articles.", authors = {"The ed17"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"journals", "newsandnotes", "bots"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-07-16", subpage = "Special report", title = "$10 million lawsuit against Wikipedia editors withdrawn, but plaintiff intends to refile", subhead = "On the same day the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) announced it would offer assistance to English Wikipedia editors embroiled in a legal dispute with Yank Barry, the lawsuit has been withdrawn without prejudice at the request of Barry's legal team—but this action is being described as \"strategic\" so that they can refile the lawsuit with a \"new, more comprehensive complaint.\"", authors = {"The ed17"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"legal", "specialreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-07-16", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "World Cup dominates for another week", subhead = "This week it's still more and more World Cup, with five entries out of the top ten (and 14 out of the Top 25).", authors = {"Milowent"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-07-16", subpage = "Wikimedia in education", title = "Serbia takes the stage with Filip Maljkovic", subhead = "Serbia takes the stage with Filip Maljkovic: It all started in late 2005, when we first held lectures about Wikipedia in two educational institutions (universities) ...", authors = {"Pine"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"educationprogram", "globaleducation", "interviews", "education"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-07-23", subpage = "Featured content", title = "Why, they're plum identical!", subhead = "Ten articles, five lists, and 25 pictures were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia last week.", authors = {"The ed17", "SchroCat", "Adam Cuerden"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-07-23", subpage = "Forum", title = "Did you know?—good idea, needs reform", subhead = "The English Wikipedia's did you know (DYK) section has been a feature of the site's main page since February 2004. From the beginning, the section has served as a place to highlight Wikipedia's newest articles. But over the last few years, the did you know section has gotten steadily larger and more complex, and non-notable or plagiarized articles have occasionally slipped through the reviewing process, leading numerous editors to call for reforms to the system. We asked two editors to share their views.", authors = {"The Rambling Man", "Crisco 1492"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"forum", "specialreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-07-23", subpage = "News and notes", title = "Institutional media uploads to Commons get a bit easier", subhead = "Galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs) today are facing fewer barriers to uploading their content onto Wikimedia projects now that the new GLAM-Wiki Toolset Project has been launched. The tool, which is the fruit of a collaboration between Europeana and several Wikimedia chapters, relieves GLAMs from having to write their own automated scripts and gives them a standardized method of uploading large amounts of their digitized holdings.", authors = {"The ed17"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"newsandnotes", "wikimediacommons"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-07-23", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "The World Cup hangs on, though tragedies seek to replace it", subhead = "Last week I predicted that the World Cup dominance on the report would be over—but I was wrong. The World Cup Final fell on the 13th of July, which was actually the first day of the week covered by this report, not the last day of the last report. Hence, five of the Top 10 this week are again World Cup related-topics.", authors = {"Milowent"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-07-23", subpage = "Wikimedia in education", title = "Education program gaining momentum in Israel", subhead = "\"Great success\" in Israel universities is leading to collaboration and editing in high schools.", authors = {"Pine"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"educationprogram", "globaleducation", "schools", "education"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-07-30", subpage = "Book review", title = "Knowledge or unreality?", subhead = "In Common Knowledge: An Ethnography of Wikipedia, Dariusz Jemielniak discusses Wikipedia from the standpoint of an experienced editor and administrator who is also a university professor specializing in management and organizations. In Virtual Reality: Just Because the Internet Told You, How Do You Know It's True?, Charles Seife presents a more broadly themed work reminding us to question the reliability of information found throughout the Internet.", authors = {"Ira Brad Matetsky"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"bookreview"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-07-30", subpage = "Featured content", title = "Skeletons and Skeltons", subhead = "Two articles, four lists, and seven pictures attained featured status on the English Wikipedia last week.", authors = {"Adam Cuerden", "Matty.007", "The ed17", "Sock"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-07-30", subpage = "News and notes", title = "How many more hoaxes will Wikipedia find?", subhead = "Another hoax on the English Wikipedia was uncovered this week—not by any thorough investigation, but through the self-disclosure of an anonymous change made when the editors were in their sophomore year of college. The deliberate misinformation had been in the article for over five years with plenty of individuals noticing, but not one suspected its authenticity. This leads to one obvious question: how many more are there?", authors = {"The ed17", "Milowent"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"hoaxes", "newsandnotes"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-07-30", subpage = "Recent research", title = "Shifting values in the paid content debate; cross-language bot detection", subhead = "Shifting values in the paid content debate: Kim Osman has performed a fascinating study on the three 2013 failed proposals to ban paid advocacy editing in the English language Wikipedia. Using a Constructivist Grounded Theory approach, Osman analyzed 573 posts from the three main votes on paid editing conducted in the community in November 2013.", authors = {"Piotr Konieczny", "Maximilian Klein", "Heather Ford", "Han-Teng Liao"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"englishwikipedia", "recentresearch", "research", "vandalism", "wikitionary", "researchreport", "paidadvocacy"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-07-30", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "Doom and gloom vs. the power of Reddit", subhead = "We indeed moved far away from football this week, and further into much more serious issues of war and death. The Israel-Palestinian conflict continues to dominate the news, and the top 10, with Gaza Strip, Israel, and Hamas. The top 25 also includes Palestine and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Death also lies behind the popularity of James Garner, the American actor who died on July 19th, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, and deaths in 2014.", authors = {"Milowent"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-07-30", subpage = "Wikimedia in education", title = "Success in Egypt and the Arab world", subhead = "Success in Egypt and the Arab World: A \"program of heroes\" is leading the charge in Egypt.", authors = {"Pine"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"educationprogram", "email", "globaleducation", "interviews", "education"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-08-06", subpage = "Featured content", title = "Bottoms, asses, and the fairies that love them", subhead = "Bottoms, asses, and the fairies that love them: Eight articles, fifteen pictures, and two topics were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia last week.", authors = {"Dank", "Adam Cuerden", "Crisco 1492"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-08-06", subpage = "News and notes", title = "\"History is a human right\"—first-ever transparency report released as Europe begins hiding Wikipedia in search results", subhead = "The Wikimedia Foundation has published its first transparency report, covering from July 2012 to June 2014. The move comes on the same day the organization announced that Google, in order to comply with a recent court order upholding the \"right to be forgotten\", has removed a number of Wikipedia articles from their European search results.", authors = {"The ed17"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"newsandnotes", "search", "transparency", "transparency"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-08-06", subpage = "Technology report", title = "A technologist's Wikimania preview", subhead = "As the start of Wikimania proper on 8 August approaches, the Signpost looks ahead to what its dozens of presentations might offer the technologically-inclined, whether attending in person or taking advantage of what promises to be a strong digital offering.", authors = {"Jarry1250"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"events", "tech", "wikimania", "wm2014", "technologyreport", "technologyreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-08-06", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "Ebola drives reader interest", subhead = "Ebola: Serious news continues to dominate the most popular articles chart on Wikipedia this week, with the Ebola virus disease far and away in the top spot. In the top 25, we see the related articles Ebola virus, which talks about biological aspects, at #18 and 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak at #19.", authors = {"Milowent"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"ebola", "statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-08-06", subpage = "Wikimedia in education", title = "Leading universities educate with Wikipedia in Mexico", subhead = "\"Major growth\" expected in Mexican university after a Wikipedia program is formally accepted by the school's administration.", authors = {"Pine"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"educationprogram", "globaleducation", "education"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-08-13", subpage = "Featured content", title = "Cambridge got a lot of attention this week", subhead = "Cambridge got a lot of attention this week: Eight article, six lists, and two topics were promoted to featured status last week.", authors = {"The ed17", "Dank", "Adam Cuerden"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-08-13", subpage = "In the media", title = "Monkey selfie, net neutrality, and hoaxes", subhead = "The Observer reported (August 2) that Google would \"restrict search terms to a link to a Wikipedia article, in the first request under Europe's controversial new 'right to be forgotten' legislation to affect the 110m-page encyclopaedia.\"", authors = {"Andreas Kolbe", "Gamaliel"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"hoaxes", "inthemedia", "seigenthaler", "transparency", "wikipediazero", "licensing", "transparency", "megacorps"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-08-13", subpage = "News and notes", title = "Media Viewer controversy spreads to German Wikipedia", subhead = "Wikimedia Foundation staff members have now been granted superpowers that would allow them to override community consensus. The new protection level came as a response to attempts of German Wikipedia administrators to implement a community consensus on the new Media Viewer. \"Superprotect\" is a level above full protection, and prevents edits by administrators.", authors = {"Neotarf"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"germanwikipedia", "mediaviewer", "newsandnotes", "superprotect"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-08-13", subpage = "Op-ed", title = "Red links, blue links, and erythrophobia", subhead = "Erythrophobia is the fear of, or sensitivity to, the colour red. Recently, I have seen more and more erythrophobic Wikipedians; specifically, Wikipedians who are scared of red links. In Wikipedia's early days, red links were encouraged and well-loved, and when I started editing in 2006, this was still mostly the case. Jump forward to 2014, and many editors now have an aversion to red links.", authors = {"Josh Milburn"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"opinion", "portals"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-08-13", subpage = "Special report", title = "Twitter bots catalogue government edits to Wikipedia", subhead = "Slate reports that Tom Scott, co-creator of the emoji social network Emojli, created a Twitter bot called Parliament WikiEdits to automatically tweet a link to any Wikipedia edits made from an IP address belonging to the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Scott's bot initially did not tweet any links to edits made from Parliament and, according to Scott, an \"insider\" reports that their IP addresses changed. Despite this, Scott's Twitter bot has inspired similar creations in numerous other countries.", authors = {"Gamaliel"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"specialreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-08-13", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "Disease, decimation and distraction", subhead = "It's been a grim few weeks. It says something that formerly arresting crises like the war in Ukraine, Boko Haram and the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, despite still being ongoing, have fallen out of the top 10 to make way for the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak and the equally if not more intense conflict against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.", authors = {"Serendipodous"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-08-13", subpage = "Wikimania", title = "Promised the moon, settled for the stars", subhead = "Wikimania 2014 was held last week in the Barbican Centre in London. Below, the Signpost's former \"Technology report\" writer Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) shares his thoughts on a bustling conference.", authors = {"Harry Burt"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"events", "wikimania"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-08-13", subpage = "Wikimedia in education", title = "Global Education—WMF's Perspective", subhead = "\"Education is at the core of the Wikimedia Foundation’s mission.\"", authors = {"Pine"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"educationprogram", "globaleducation", "grantmaking", "education"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-08-20", subpage = "Featured content", title = "English Wikipedia departs for Japan", subhead = "Ten articles and three pictures were promoted to featured status last week.", authors = {"Adam Cuerden", "Dank", "Pine"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"englishwikipedia", "featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-08-20", subpage = "Interview", title = "Improving the visibility of digital archival assets using Wikipedia", subhead = "Improving the visibility of digital archival assets using Wikipedia: Dorothy Howard interviews Michael Szajewski, archivist for digital development and university records at Ball State University.", authors = {"Dorothy Howard"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"interviews", "interview", "education"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-08-20", subpage = "Op-ed", title = "A new metric for Wikimedia", subhead = "Denny Vrandečić argues that \"We should focus on measuring how much knowledge we allow every human to share in, instead of number of articles or active editors.\"", authors = {"Denny Vrandečić"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"opinion", "wikimedia"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-08-20", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero", subhead = "Comedian Robin Williams' untimely death takes the top spot.", authors = {"Milowent"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-08-20", subpage = "WikiProject report", title = "Bats and gloves", subhead = "At the plate with WikiProject Baseball!", authors = {"Seattle"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-08-27", subpage = "Featured content", title = "Cheats at Featured Pictures!", subhead = "Sixteen articles, five lists, five pictures, and one topic were promoted.", authors = {"SchroCat", "Adam Cuerden", "Tim Riley"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-08-27", subpage = "In the media", title = "Plagiarism and vandalism dominate Wikipedia news", subhead = "Journalistic integrity, Congressional edits, and other news.", authors = {"Gamaliel"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"inthemedia", "journals", "plagiarism", "vandalism"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-08-27", subpage = "News and notes", title = "Media Viewer—Wikimedia's emotional roller-coaster", subhead = "More discussions about Media Viewer, Superprotect, and software development", authors = {"Tony1"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"mediaviewer", "newsandnotes", "superprotect"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-08-27", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "Viral", subhead = "\"This was a week when an actual virus, Ebola, competed for attention with several viral social phenomena; most notably the Ice Bucket Challenge...\"", authors = {"Serendipodous"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-09-03", subpage = "Arbitration report", title = "Media viewer case is suspended", subhead = "\"On 1 September, the Arbitrators voted to suspend the Media Viewer case for 60 days. After the suspension period is up, the case is to be closed unless the committee votes otherwise. The case suspension comes in response to several new initiatives and policies announced by the Wikimedia Foundation that may make the case moot. In the same motion, the committee declared that Eloquence's resignation of the administrator right was \"under the cloud\" and that he can only regain the right through another RfA.\"", authors = {"Guerillero"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"arbitrationreport", "audits", "finance", "mediaviewer"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-09-03", subpage = "Featured content", title = "1882 × 6 in gold, and thruppence more", subhead = "1882 × 5 in gold, and thruppence more: Two articles, one list, and ten pictures were promoted", authors = {"Rcsprinter123", "Adam Cuerden"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-09-03", subpage = "Op-ed", title = "Automated copy-and-paste detection under trial", subhead = "Doc James and some collaborators are working on quick detection of copyright violations", authors = {"James Heilman"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"opinion"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-09-03", subpage = "Recent research", title = "A Wikipedia-based Pantheon; new Wikipedia analysis tool suite; how AfC hamstrings newbies", subhead = "The latest roundup of research about Wikimedia", authors = {"Federico Leva", "Piotr Konieczny", "Maximilian Klein", "Pine"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"recentresearch", "research", "researchreport", "afc"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-09-03", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "Holding Pattern", subhead = "Holding Pattern: \"This week we saw three of the top ten articles remain in place, with the Ice Bucket Challenge at #1, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at #2, and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant at #5, all for a second straight week...\"", authors = {"Milowent"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-09-03", subpage = "WikiProject report", title = "Gray's Anatomy (v. 2)", subhead = "\"This week, the Signpost went out to meet WikiProject Anatomy, dedicated to improving the articles about all our bones, brains, bladders and biceps, and getting them to the high standard expected of a comprehensive encyclopaedia.\"", authors = {"Rcsprinter123"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-09-10", subpage = "Featured content", title = "The louse and the fish's tongue", subhead = "The amazing and strange tongue-eating louse replacing a fish's tongue! Because isopods, the subject of a new featured article, are both awesome and really damn weird!", authors = {"Adam Cuerden", "Pine", "The ed17"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-09-10", subpage = "Op-ed", title = "Media Viewer software is not ready", subhead = "Last month, I wrote an open letter to the Wikimedia Foundation, inviting others to join me in a simple but important request: roll back the recent actions—both technical and social—by which the Wikimedia Foundation has overruled legitimate decisions of several Wikimedia projects.", authors = {"Pete Forsyth"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"mediaviewer", "opinion", "technologyreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-09-10", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "Refuge in celebrity", subhead = "Even though it's not quite 3/4 over, it's safe to say that 2014 will go down as a year of war, mass murder, plane crashes and terrible diseases. While certainly paying it some heed, it's not surprising that Wikipedia viewers tried this week to find any alternative to that litany of tragedy and pain, and their chosen method of escape was, as usual, celebrity.", authors = {"Serendipodous"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-09-10", subpage = "WikiProject report", title = "Checking that everything's all right", subhead = "This week, the Signpost decided to have a look around with WikiProject Check Wikipedia a maintenance project not concerned so much with articles' content, but in all the tiny errors that are to be found scattered within them. Their front page gives a list of things they mainly focus on ...", authors = {"Rcsprinter123"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-09-17", subpage = "Featured content", title = "Which is not like the others?", subhead = "Four articles, two lists, and 51 pictures were promoted to \"featured\" status this week on the English Wikipedia.", authors = {"Adam Cuerden", "The ed17", "Crisco 1492"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-09-17", subpage = "In the media", title = "Turkish Twitter outrage, medical translation, audience metrics", subhead = "The Hürriyet Daily News reports on a series of posts on Twitter from Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism Ömer Çelik.", authors = {"Gamaliel"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"conferences", "inthemedia", "medical"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-09-17", subpage = "News and notes", title = "Wikipedia's traffic statistics are off by nearly one-third", subhead = "Wikipedia's traffic statistics are off by nearly one-third: A prominent Wikipedia researcher has discovered that the encyclopedia's widely used article traffic statistics are missing out on approximately one-third of total views.", authors = {"The ed17", "Tony1"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"newsandnotes", "statistics", "traffic"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-09-17", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "Tolstoy leads a varied pack", subhead = "There is no unifying theme we can slap on top article popularity this week.", authors = {"Milowent"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-09-17", subpage = "WikiProject report", title = "A trip up north to Scotland", subhead = "As Scotland is deciding its future this week, we thought it might be a good idea to get to know the editors of WikiProject Scotland and talk to them about the project.", authors = {"Rcsprinter123"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-09-24", subpage = "Arbitration report", title = "Banning Policy, Gender Gap, and Waldorf education", subhead = "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.", authors = {"Guerillero"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"arbitrationreport", "educationprogram", "gendergap", "policy", "education"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-09-24", subpage = "Featured content", title = "Oil paintings galore", subhead = "Six articles, four lists, one topic, and 17 pictures were promoted to \"featured\" status this week on the English Wikipedia.", authors = {"Adam Cuerden", "Tony1", "Crisco 1492", "Rcsprinter123", "Pine"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-09-24", subpage = "In the media", title = "Indian political editing, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Congressional chelonii", subhead = "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.", authors = {"Gamaliel", "Peaceray"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"inthemedia", "politicians"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-09-24", subpage = "Recent research", title = "99.25% of Wikipedia birthdates accurate; focused Wikipedians live longer; merging WordNet, Wikipedia and Wiktionary", subhead = "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.", authors = {"Scott Hale", "Piotr Konieczny", "Maximilian Klein", "Andrew Krizhanovsky", "Tilman Bayer", "Pine"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"recentresearch", "research", "wikitionary", "researchreport", "biography"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-09-24", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "Wikipedia watches the referendum in Scotland", subhead = "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.", authors = {"Serendipodous"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-09-24", subpage = "WikiProject report", title = "GAN reviewers take note: competition time", subhead = "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.", authors = {"Rcsprinter123"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"contests", "wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-10-01", subpage = "Dispatches", title = "Let's get serious about plagiarism", subhead = "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.", authors = {"Awadewit", "Elcobbola", "Jbmurray", "Kablammo", "Moonriddengirl", "Tony1"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"dispatches", "plagiarism", "research", "licensing"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-10-01", subpage = "Featured content", title = "Brothers at War", subhead = "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 . Or help out with the World War I centennial, just starting up, Operation Great War Centennial.", authors = {"Alan Smithee", "Pine"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-10-01", subpage = "From the editor", title = "The Signpost needs your help", subhead = "Contributing to the Signpost can be one of the most rewarding things an editor can do.", authors = {"The ed17"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"fromtheeditor", "signpost"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-10-01", subpage = "News and notes", title = "Wikipedia article published in peer-reviewed journal; Wikipedia in education", subhead = "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.", authors = {"Tony1", "Peaceray", "Pine"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"educationprogram", "journals", "medical", "newsandnotes", "education"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-10-01", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "Shanah Tovah", subhead = "Jews wished each other (\"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).", authors = {"Milowent"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-10-01", subpage = "WikiProject report", title = "Animals, farms, forests, USDA? It must be WikiProject Agriculture", subhead = "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.", authors = {"Rcsprinter123"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-10-08", subpage = "Featured content", title = "From a wordless novel to a coat of arms via New York City", subhead = "2 Featured articles, 4 Featured lists, 62 Featured pictures, and 2 Featured portals were promoted.", authors = {"NickGibson3900", "Adam Cuerden"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent", "portals"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-10-08", subpage = "In the media", title = "Opposition research firm blocked; Australian brushfire", subhead = "Opposition research firm blocked; Australian bushfires: Also, Wikimedia Norge and Nobel Peace Center edit-a-thon", authors = {"Gamaliel", "Peaceray", "Pine"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"inthemedia", "research"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-10-08", subpage = "Technology report", title = "HHVM is the greatest thing since sliced bread", subhead = "No seriously, it is.", authors = {"Legoktm"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"hhvm", "tech", "technologyreport", "technologyreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-10-08", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "Panic and denial", subhead = "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.", authors = {"Serendipodous"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-10-15", subpage = "Arbitration report", title = "One case closed and two opened", subhead = "The Banning Policy case was closed on 12 October. Arbcom affirmed that users have \"considerable leeway\" in terms of how their talk pages are managed.", authors = {"Guerillero"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"arbitrationreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-10-15", subpage = "Featured content", title = "Bells ring out at the Temple of the Dragon at Peace", subhead = "Nine articles and twenty-six pictures were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia.", authors = {"Pine", "NickGibson3900", "Ɱ", "Adam Cuerden", "Hafspajen", "Muhammad Mahdi Karim"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-10-15", subpage = "In the media", title = "College player falsely linked to sports scandal by Wikipedia; the Nobel Prizes", subhead = "Ben Koo of the sports blog Awful Announcing investigated how player Joe Streater's name became involved in recent years with a historic sports scandal.", authors = {"Gamaliel"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"inthemedia"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-10-15", subpage = "Op-ed", title = "Ships—sexist or sexy?", subhead = "Why does Wikipedia still use the gendered pronouns \"she\" and \"her\" for ships?", authors = {"John"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"opinion", "women"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-10-15", subpage = "Technology report", title = "Attempting to parse wikitext", subhead = "Attempting to parse wikitext: This week we sat down with The Earwig to learn about his wikitext parser.", authors = {"Legoktm", "Σ"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"tech", "technologyreport", "technologyreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-10-15", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "Now introducing ... mobile data", subhead = "We are pleased to report that the WP:5000 has now been updated to include mobile views, including a column reflecting the percentage of views coming from mobile devices.", authors = {"Milowent"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"mobile", "statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-10-15", subpage = "WikiProject report", title = "Signpost reaches the Midwest", subhead = "Today, it's the turn of WikiProject Ohio to give us an interview probing deep into of how they manage to run a project covering one fiftieth of the United States, and the workings of how they manufacture their successes and other articles.", authors = {"Rcsprinter123"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"signpost", "wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-10-22", subpage = "Featured content", title = "Admiral on deck—a modern Ada Lovelace", subhead = "Four articles, four lists, and fifty-three pictures were promoted to featured status.", authors = {"SchroCat", "Adam Cuerden", "Pine"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-10-22", subpage = "In the media", title = "The story of Wikipedia; Wikipedia reanimated and republished; UK government social media rules; death of Italian Wikipedia administrator", subhead = "The story of Wikipedia; Wikipedia reanimated and republished; New UK government social media rules; death of Italian Wikipedia administrator: Among many newsworthy stories this week, the Signpost notes the passing of Italian Wikipedia administrator and former Wikimedia Italia treasurer [Cotton", authors = {"Gamaliel", "Peaceray", "Pine"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"deaths", "inthemedia", "italianwikipedia", "administrator"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-10-22", subpage = "Op-ed", title = "Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution—a wiki-protest", subhead = "Our op-ed writer this week opines that the organization of Hong Kong's \"Umbrella Revolution\" resembles how Wikipedia is organized.", authors = {"Deryck Chan"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"opinion"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-10-22", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "Death, War, Pestilence... Movies and TV", subhead = "Death, War, Pestilence... Movies and TV: Ebola, movies and television articles appear in this week's top ten.", authors = {"Serendipodous"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"deaths", "statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-10-22", subpage = "WikiProject report", title = "De-orphanning articles - a huge task but with a huge team of volunteers to help", subhead = "De-orphanning articles—a huge task but with a huge team of volunteers to help: PaintedCarpet explains that \"WikiProject Orphanage aims to connect all Wikipedia pages, so that pages can be found and read more easily.\"", authors = {"Rcsprinter123"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"orphans", "wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-10-29", subpage = "Featured content", title = "Go West, young man (By the way, there is a monster at the end of this article) ", subhead = "Go West, young man: By the way, there is a monster at the end of this article", authors = {"Adam Cuerden", "SchroCat", "Hafspajen"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-10-29", subpage = "In the media", title = "Wikipedia a trusted source on Ebola; Wikipedia study labeled government waste; football biography goes viral", subhead = "Noam Cohen reports in The New York Times (October 26) that Wikipedia's \"Ebola Virus Disease article has had 17 million page views in the last month,\" an indication of the public's reliance on the online encyclopedia.", authors = {"Gamaliel", "Peaceray"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"ebola", "inthemedia", "biography"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-10-29", subpage = "Maps tagathon", title = "Find 10,000 digitised maps this weekend", subhead = "Rather than the usual WikiProject Report, this week our guest author Jheald is telling us about a campaign to identify thousands of old maps which have been digitised, to make them available for georeferencing and upload", authors = {"Jheald"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"events", "glam", "libraries", "search", "digitalmedia"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-10-29", subpage = "Recent research", title = "Informed consent and privacy; newsmaking on Wikipedia; Wikipedia and organizational theories", subhead = "In new research conducted in light of proposed changes to data protection legislation in the European Union (EU), authors Bart Custers, Simone van der Hof, and Bart Schermer conducted a comparative analysis of social media and user-generated content websites’ privacy policies along with a user survey (N=8,621 in 26 countries) and interviews in 13 different EU countries on awareness, values, and attitudes toward privacy online.", authors = {"Maximilian Klein", "Piotr Konieczny", "Kim Osman", "Pine", "Tilman Bayer"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"privacy", "recentresearch", "research", "researchreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-10-29", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "Ebola, Ultron, and Creepy Articles", subhead = "Ebola virus disease leads the Report for the fourth straight week. The rest of the list is primarily a mix of pop culture topics, including movie Avengers: Age of Ultron (#4) whose trailer was leaked early, and the death of Oscar de la Renta (#7). A BuzzFeed article on creepy Wikipedia articles, no doubt well-timed with Halloween (#9) around the corner, was responsible for three articles in the Top 25, including June and Jennifer Gibbons (#10), Taman Shud Case (#17), Joyce Vincent (#25). And the internet-run-amok controversy of Gamergate cracked the Top 25 for the first time at #19.", authors = {"Milowent"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"ebola", "statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-11-05", subpage = "In the media", title = "Predicting the flu; MH17 conspiracy theories", subhead = "Predicting the flu, MH17 conspiracy theories: \"Rachel Feltman, in The Washington Post (November 4), examined research in which a team, mostly from Los Alamos National Laboratory, headed by Kyle Hickman developed a model that enabled them \"to successfully predict the 2013-2014 flu season in real time\" by employing \"an algorithm to link flu-related Wikipedia searches with CDC data from the same time.\" Apparently when individuals search for information about the flu and its symptoms in Wikipedia when they feel ill, this generates data useful in forecasting the the flu season.\"", authors = {"Peaceray", "Gamaliel"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent", "inthemedia", "search"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-11-05", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "Sweet dreams on Halloween", subhead = "\"It is, perhaps, ironic that humanity chose the week of Halloween to finally put its fears to bed. Let's face it: 2014 has been a year of tragedies, conflicts, plagues and pain, and eventually something had to break... Whether we at last came to terms with our limited ability to affect events, shoved those events under the carpet, or just decided to let go and move on, we turned our eye to more positive things, such as sports heroes, hotly anticipated movies, and lifelong learning; two Google doodles appeared in the top 25 for the first time since the beginning of August.\"", authors = {"Serendipodous"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-11-12", subpage = "Featured content", title = "Wikipedia goes to church in Lithuania", subhead = "Nine articles, two lists, and 55 featured pictures were promoted during the week of 26 October.", authors = {"Adam Cuerden", "SchroCat", "Pine"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-11-12", subpage = "In the media", title = "Amazon Echo; EU freedom of panorama; Bluebeard's Castle", subhead = "\"Technology media outlets are abuzz after the November 6 unveiling of the Amazon Echo, an Internet-connected voice command device\"; \"The EUobserver talks (November 4) with Dimitar Dimitrov (User:Dimi z) about the lack of freedom of panorama in some European Union countries and its implications for Wikimedia projects\"; \"Scott Cantrell, classical music critic for the Dallas Morning News, recounts efforts to verify an uncited claim in the Wikipedia article for the Béla Bartók opera Bluebeard's Castle.\"", authors = {"Gamaliel"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"blogs", "inthemedia"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-11-12", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "Holidays, anyone?", subhead = "This was very much a week dominated by holidays and pop culture over current events, with new film Interstellar taking the top spot followed by holidays Day of the Dead (#2), Guy Fawkes and his Night (#4 and #5), and Halloween (#8, and its third week on the list). And a foursome of television shows, all return visitors, appear to setting up residence on the greater Top 25: The Walking Dead (#11), American Horror Story: Freak Show (#14), Gotham (#16), and The Flash (#18).", authors = {"Milowent"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-11-12", subpage = "WikiProject report", title = "Talking hospitals", subhead = "We return to our interview format this week, speaking with the participants of WikiProject Hospitals. This project, formed in 2010, has no Featured content and only three Good articles, yet aided by around 30 hard-working Wikipedians covers a topic that is essential to life.", authors = {"Rcsprinter123"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects", "healthandmedical"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-11-19", subpage = "Featured content", title = "To Canaan via Jordan", subhead = "Two articles, five lists, and twenty-six featured pictures are noted in this week's report, along with disclosures about many movies that our correspondent hasn't seen.", authors = {"Adam Cuerden", "The Herald", "Hafspajen"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-11-19", subpage = "In the media", title = "Who Killed Wikipedia?; NCAA editing", subhead = "In the American magazine Pacific Standard, commentator Virginia Postrel asks \"Who Killed Wikipedia?\" (November 17). She details problems that have been plaguing the encyclopedia in recent years, beginning with the decline in the number of active editors. She concludes by noting that Wikipedia has survived for twelve years or so, meaning that those who argued it would prove unsustainable relatively quickly have been wrong. But, she asks, \"the perils of adolescence were one thing. What about middle age?\"", authors = {"Everymorning", "Gamaliel"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"inthemedia", "legal"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-11-19", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "Interstellar traffic", subhead = "The film Interstellar and Europe's Philae spacecraft feature in this report, along with events like Thanksgiving and Armistace Day.", authors = {"Serendipodous"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-11-19", subpage = "WikiProject report", title = "The interesting world of urban planning", subhead = "According to the WHO, 54% of the world's population now lives in urban areas. Chances are that you are one of them. Many Wikipedians contribute to articles relating to where they live or have visited. But have you ever thought a little beyond that and written about concepts of the cities, the towns, the areas themselves? If not, don't worry! There's a project for that, and they are the subject of the WikiProject Report this week.", authors = {"Rcsprinter123"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-11-26", subpage = "Featured content", title = "Orbital Science: Now you're thinking with explosions", subhead = "Four articles, four lists, eleven pictures, and one topic were promoted.", authors = {"The Herald", "Adam Cuerden", "Hafspajen"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-11-26", subpage = "In the media", title = "A Russian alternative Wikipedia; Who's your grandfather?; ArtAndFeminism", subhead = "Numerous media outlets are reporting on a November 14 statement on the website of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library announcing the formation of a Russian \"alternative\" to Wikipedia, a \"regional electronic encyclopedia\" dedicated to \"Russian regions and the life of the country\".", authors = {"Gamaliel"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"inthemedia"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-11-26", subpage = "Recent research", title = "Gender gap and skills gap; academic citations on the rise; European food cultures", subhead = "The monthly roundup of research related to Wikimedia.", authors = {"Piotr Konieczny", "Maximilian Klein", "Tilman Bayer"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"citations", "gendergap", "recentresearch", "research", "researchreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-11-26", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "Big in Japan", subhead = "Often times in popular culture, a subject will be quite popular among a distinct niche of people or region of the world, but little-known elsewhere -- like a musical artist that is boasted to be \"big in Japan\". The Traffic Report provides a bevy of examples this week.", authors = {"Milowent"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-11-26", subpage = "WikiProject report", title = "Back with the military historians", subhead = "It's time for this year's edition of the Report looking at possibly our largest wikiproject: Military history. Since our last interview in June 2013, the project has had no break in its huge quest to document everything in their scope, that is, militaries and conflicts of the past. As usual, its participants were eager to answer the questions posed by The Signpost and update us on how they are doing.", authors = {"Rcsprinter123"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-12-03", subpage = "Featured content", title = "ABCD: Any Body Can Dance!", subhead = "And the feelings of a young man about to go to war! Yeh, is he not afraid?", authors = {"Adam Cuerden", "Crisco 1492", "Hafspajen", "The Herald", "Xanthomelanoussprog"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-12-03", subpage = "In the media", title = "Embroidery and cheese", subhead = "Wikimédia France raises €5,000 for fromage", authors = {"Gamaliel"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"inthemedia"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-12-03", subpage = "Op-ed", title = "Who edits health-related content on Wikipedia and why?", subhead = "We found that around half of the editors are qualified medics or other healthcare professionals, providing reassurance about the reliability of content.", authors = {"Dr. Henry W. W. Potts"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"opinion", "healthandmedical"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-12-03", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "Turkey and a movie", subhead = "Real world tragedy and fantastical escapism often share space in the Top 10, and this week was no exception.", authors = {"Serendipodous"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-12-03", subpage = "WikiProject report", title = "Today on the island", subhead = "WikiProject Islands, from 2008 to now.", authors = {"Rcsprinter123"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-12-10", subpage = "Featured content", title = "Honour him, love and obey? Good idea with military leaders.", subhead = "And other featured content.", authors = {"Adam Cuerden", "Hafspajen", "Xanthomelanoussprog"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-12-10", subpage = "In the media", title = "Wikipedia is \"a rancorous, sexist, elitist, stupidly bureaucratic mess\"", subhead = "But tell us how you REALLY feel.", authors = {"Gamaliel"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"inthemedia"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-12-10", subpage = "Op-ed", title = "It's GLAM up North!", subhead = "Highlights from the York Museums Trust's online collections.", authors = {"PatHadley"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"glam", "images", "opinion"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-12-10", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "Dead Black Men and Science Fiction", subhead = "A traffic report filled with stark contrasts.", authors = {"Milowent"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-12-17", subpage = "Arbitration report", title = "Arbitration Committee election results", subhead = "Scrutineers give report.", authors = {"Pine"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"arbitrationreport", "elections"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-12-17", subpage = "Featured content", title = "Tripping hither, tripping thither, Nobody knows why or whither; We must dance and we must sing, Round about our fairy ring!", subhead = "And other featured content.", authors = {"Adam Cuerden", "Hafspajen", "The Herald"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-12-17", subpage = "In the media", title = "Wikipedia's year in review video; Checking in with Wikipedia's founders", subhead = "Wales under fire for $500k prize from UAE.", authors = {"Gamaliel"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"inreview", "inthemedia", "jimmywales", "larrysanger", "video"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-12-17", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "A December Lull", subhead = "The least-viewed Number One since September.", authors = {"Serendipodous"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-12-24", subpage = "Featured content", title = "Still quoting Iolanthe, apparently.", subhead = "And other featured content.", authors = {"Hafspajen", "Adam Cuerden", "Xanthomelanoussprog"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-12-24", subpage = "From the editor", title = "Looking for new editors-in-chief", subhead = "Looking for two people to replace me, both as a safeguard against similar real life changes and to spread the overall workload.", authors = {"The ed17"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"fromtheeditor"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-12-24", subpage = "In the media", title = "Wales on GamerGate", subhead = "\"I want you and others to understand that threatening people is not helpful.\"", authors = {"Gamaliel"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"gamergate", "inthemedia", "jimmywales"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-12-24", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "North Korea is not pleased", subhead = "The bizarre story around the American film \"The Interview\" propelled that article to the top spot this week, not that anyone can quite figure out what has happened.", authors = {"Milowent"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-12-24", subpage = "WikiProject report", title = "Microsoft does The Signpost", subhead = "A WikiProject does that old trick of becoming nearly inactive and then springing back to life.", authors = {"Rcsprinter123"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"signpost", "wikiprojectreport", "wikiprojects"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-12-31", subpage = "Featured content", title = "A bit fruity", subhead = "Three articles, three lists, fifteen pictures, and one topic were promoted.", authors = {"Adam Cuerden", "Hafspajen", "Khadar Khani", "Crisco 1492", "Bentvfan54321"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"featuredcontent"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-12-31", subpage = "In the media", title = "Study tour controversy; class tackles the gender gap", subhead = "A \"study tour\" by the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation for the purpose of researching development projects has been the subject of much controversy and criticism in the Indian press... The Indian Express described a government report about the trip as having copied extensively from the Wikipedia articles for Port Blair and the Kolkata Municipal Corporation.", authors = {"Gamaliel"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"gendergap", "inthemedia", "plagiarism"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-12-31", subpage = "News and notes", title = "The next big step for Wikidata—forming a hub for researchers", subhead = "Wikidata, Wikimedia's free linked database that supplies Wikipedia and its sister projects, is gearing up to submit a grant application to the EU that would expand Wikidata's scope by developing it as a science hub. The proposal, supported by more than 25 volunteers and half a dozen European institutions as project partners, aims to create a virtual research environment (VRE) that will enhance the project's capacity for freely sharing scientific data.", authors = {"Jan eissfeldt", "Tony1"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"newsandnotes", "research", "wikidata"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-12-31", subpage = "Op-ed", title = "My issues with the Wiki Education Foundation", subhead = "Chris Troutman has been a campus ambassador for six classes in the Los Angeles area over the past four consecutive semesters. He is currently a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar at University of California, Riverside.", authors = {"Chris Troutman"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"educationprogram", "opinion", "education", "foundation"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-12-31", subpage = "Recent research", title = "Wikipedia in higher education; gender-driven talk page conflicts; disease forecasting", subhead = "A paper titled \"Factors that influence the teaching use of Wikipedia in Higher Education\" uses the technology acceptance model to shed light on faculty's (of Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) views of Wikipedia as a teaching tool.", authors = {"Federico Leva", "Piotr Konieczny", "Maximilian Klein", "Tilman Bayer", "Pine"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"educationprogram", "recentresearch", "research", "researchreport", "education"}, meta = {"-1"}, },	{		date = "2014-12-31", subpage = "Traffic report", title = "Surfin' the Yuletide", subhead = "Unlike last year, Wikipedia viewers seem to have embraced the Christmas spirit, with three topics in the top 10 (and eight in the top 25) focused on the holiday season.", authors = {"Serendipodous"}, piccy = {credits = "", filename = "", license = "", scaling = "", xoffset = "", yoffset = ""}, tags = {"statistics", "traffic", "trafficreport"}, meta = {"-1"}, }, }