Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2011-07-18/In the news

Oregon has a "oregon encyclopedia", since they thought the Wiki model was too fast and loose. It's called The Oregon Encyclopedia. User:Peteforsyth has discussed the project on local radio, and it also led WikiProject Oregon to create a faux article about every Oregonian's Aunt Betty. tedder (talk) 00:19, 19 July 2011 (UTC)


 * If Matthew Lewis wants a better image in his article, by all means he should send Wikipedia one (under a free use license, of course). I would have to believe that he has several commissioned professional portrait photographs to choose from. All he has to do is follow the easy steps at WP:IOWN.  S ven M anguard   Wha?  00:43, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I doubt he reads our internal newsletter. I found a new image, but the best thing to do would be to contact him. I tried searching for his FB account, but no luck. Perhaps someone can (politely) contact his agent.--Chaser2 (talk) 04:38, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
 * If I were Matthew Lewis, I'd be even less pleased with the pic of the nerdy-looking 14-year-old than with the pic of the hot 20-year-old with the slightly derp expression on his face. Angr (talk) 05:11, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Well thanks to the current round of PR for the last movie in the series, Matthew's getting to a number of premieres and interviews which means there's photos being taken of him. I found one nice image on Flickr and got the account holder to change the license so we can use it.  Tabercil (talk) 00:41, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Ah, good. Thanks for doing that Tabercil.--Chaser2 (talk) 20:56, 20 July 2011 (UTC)


 * "Wikipedia now flags pages that have fewer citations" nice to have that recognised in the Sci Am blog, we have been flagging such articles for at least four years. Rich Farmbrough, 02:29, 19 July 2011 (UTC).


 * Though when you read the article, the impression is that there is some sort of system (human or automated) that takes care of this: Some individual pages may still need caution, but for these, you will get a warning right at the top. (As we know, whether or not an article has a tag/template at the top, regarding its quality, depends simply on whether one of the Wikipedia editors has decided to post such a tag/template, or not.) It's quite counter-intuitive (to someone not involved in editing Wikipedia) that there really isn't anyone in charge, let alone someone (or a system) that is able to ensure consistency. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 19:40, 22 July 2011 (UTC)


 * When you try to access Tennessee's "free rival encyclopaedia" you get this message: "You must be a resident of Tennessee in order to access these databases. Please click here to validate your Tennessee zipcode and telephone number." --Guy Macon (talk) 11:57, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
 * So may be not so free. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 22:51, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
 * On the plus side, that means that this dubious "rival" is rapidly on its way to being obsolete. Dcoetzee 18:07, 20 July 2011 (UTC)