Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-02-22/News and notes

ed. note: including two items for 2005's "this week in history" is intentional. Although I couldn't pass by the historic Gdansk/Danzig dispute, the historical coincidence of February 2005's discussion of whether Google would be supporting Wikimedia's servers with this week's announcement of Google's $2M grant was too striking not to include. And in 2007, the Signpost covered a story about where traffic to the projects originates from, quoting data that seems similar to this week's story on the comScore analysis of traffic to the projects; if anything, the proportion of hits to Wikimedia that originate in Google searches has increased in the past three years. The relationship of the search engine to the health of Wikimedia's projects and their continued stunning growth has indeed been a topic of discussion and analysis for many years now, and with this week's announcement will no doubt continue to be. -- phoebe / (talk to me) 07:10, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

RFC for BLP
The author is assuming that everyone knows what RFC and BLP mean. Many people reading this article may not Racklever (talk) 13:18, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
 * clicking on the link spells it out, and there's also an explanation in past signpost stories; it's a request for comments on biographies of living persons. However, actually explaining what that means and what's going on would take far longer :) I wish I had time to write up everything with context. N&N needs more authors. -- phoebe / (talk to me) 18:15, 24 February 2010 (UTC)


 * This week in history - Thanks for adding this section to Signpost. It provides an interesting glimpse into Wikipedia's past.   — mattisse  (Talk) 16:35, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Editor statistics
If I am reading those editor statistics correctly, they indicate that the total number of editors has been rising over the past several months, and we are up near the historic total high. Ha! The reports of our impending demise are greatly exaggerated. -- Ssilvers (talk) 01:32, 25 February 2010 (UTC)