User talk:Darkwind/Archive 4
The Signpost: 17 September 2012
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This week, we shine the spotlight on the Indian Cinema Task Force, a subproject that seeks to improve the quality and quantity of articles about Indian cinema. As a child of WikiProject Film and WikiProject India, the Indian Cinema Task Force shares a variety of templates, resources, and members with its parent projects. The task force works on a to-do list, maintains the Bollywood Portal, and ensures articles follow the film style guidelines. With Indian cinema celebrating its 100th year of existence in 2013, we asked Karthik Nadar (Karthikndr), Secret of success, Ankit Bhatt, Dwaipayan, and AnimeshKulkarni what is in store for the Indian Cinema Task Force.
Eight featured articles, six featured lists, ten featured pictures, and one featured topic were promoted this week.
The world's largest photo competition, Wiki Loves Monuments, is entering its final two weeks. The month-long event, of Dutch origin, is being held globally for the first time after the success of its European-level predecessor last year. During September 2011 more than 5000 volunteers from 18 countries took part and uploaded 168,208 free images. This year, volunteers and chapters from 35 countries around the world have organised the event. The best photographs will be determined by juries at the national and finally the global level.
1.20wmf12, the 12th release to Wikimedia wikis from the 1.20 branch, was deployed to its first wikis on September 17; if things go well, it will be deployed to all wikis by September 26. Its 200 or so changes – 111 to WMF-deployed extensions plus 98 to core MediaWiki code – include support for links with mixed-case protocols (e.g. Http://example.com) and the removal of the "No higher resolution available" message on the file description pages of SVG images.
interference lithographyI disagree with you about the link. Look for instance at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanoimprint_lithography. There's links to companies at the bottom there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 18.111.77.145 (talk) 14:25, 23 September 2012 (UTC) Page Curation newsletterHey Darkwind. This will be, if not our final newsletter, one of the final ones :). After months of churning away at this project, our final version (apart from a few tweaks and bugfixes) is now live. Changes between this and the last release include deletion tag logging, a centralised log, and fixes to things like edit summaries. Hopefully you like what we've done with the place; suggestions for future work on it, complaints and bugs to the usual address :). We'll be holding a couple of office hours sessions, which I hope you'll all attend. Many thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 11:02, 24 September 2012 (UTC) Per la pagine di TIGR sono stati gli anti - italiani e non anti - fascisti perché questa era un organizzazione terroristica che colpiva qualunque popolo italiano sia fascisti e non. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.14.103.28 (talk) 14:27, 24 September 2012 (UTC) hey i need to change this page for a school project, ill change it back right after. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Happygilmorefan99 (talk • contribs) 18:52, 24 September 2012 (UTC) Re the Talmud: It's Not a DisputeWhat's happening is that the Anti-Christian Talmudists are, at the very least, implying that any criticism of the Talmud is Anti Semitic, explicitly arguing that David Duke is a Christian, etc.. Thus, what's going on is my correcting of the Anti-Christian, Pharisaic Judaism bias. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nickidewbear (talk • contribs) 05:57, 25 September 2012 (UTC) Babylon is not a "conspiracy theory", or if it is, then so is Ahuriman and Satan. It's part of a belief system and I feel it is totally inappropriate to be singled out as a "conspiracy theory". I've never contributed to WIkipedia before but I just thought I'd correct an obvious error. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.107.110.76 (talk) 02:31, 26 September 2012 (UTC) Latin phrasesI am adding a legitimate phrase to that article. Proud2Bbi (talk) 07:11, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
{User:jkidner]] Hi Darkwind, I intentionally removed this content because I have decided as I am on the board of directors one of the part owners along with Flowers London to change the copyright status from share alike to non free works to try to protect the images from abuse. I have uploaded another version of these images as non free works and I am writing a permission letter now and listing the works to show their new status. Could you help me with getting rid of all the images that are in the share alike category, or am I doing it properly providing I show that I have edited it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jkidner (talk • contribs) 14:12, 26 September 2012 (UTC) 1992 Rose BowlI've never attempted to edit a Wikipedia page before and I'm completely confused by the messages you left me claiming I was doing something nefarious. The information on this page is 100% wrong and I was just trying to correct it. Could you please watch the actual video of this game at the link below. At the 1:40 mark left, you will clearly here Keith Jackson state that Michigan ILB Erick Anderson (#37) and Washington OLB Jaime Fields (#13) were the players of the game. It was NOT Steve Emtman and Billy Joe Hoebert as stated on this page. Please correct. Thank you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUlGiXYJ0Ms&feature=youtube_gdata_player — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.88.216.253 (talk) 04:02, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 01 October 2012
Does Wikipedia Pay? is a Signpost series seeking to illuminate paid editing, paid advocacy, for-profit Wikipedia consultants, editing public relations professionals, conflict of interest guidelines in practice, and the Wikipedians who work on these issues by speaking openly with the people involved. This week, a scandal centering around Roger Bamkin's work with Wikimedia UK and Gibraltarpedia erupted ... In light of these events, opinions on how to avoid future controversy are as important as ever. ... The Signpost spoke with Jimmy Wales to better understand how he views the paid editing environment and what he thinks is needed to improve it.
Following considerable online and media reportage on the Gibraltar controversy and a Signpost report last week, the Wikimedia UK chapter and the foundation published a joint statement on September 28: "To better understand the facts and details of these allegations and to ensure that governance arrangements commensurate with the standing of the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia UK and the worldwide Wikimedia movement, Wikimedia UK's trustees and the Wikimedia Foundation will jointly appoint an independent expert advisor to objectively review both Wikimedia UK's governance arrangements and its handling of the conflict of interest."
Five articles, three lists, and nine images were promoted to "featured" this week.
The Toolserver is an external service hosting the hundreds of webpages and scripts (collectively known as "tools") that assist Wikimedia communities in dozens of mostly menial tasks. Few people think that it has been operating well recently; the problems, which include high database replication lag and periods of total downtime, have caused considerable disruption to the Toolserver's usual functions. Those functions are highly valued by many Wikimedia communities ... In 2011, the Foundation announced the creation of Wikimedia Labs, a much better funded project that among other things aimed to mimic the Toolserver's functionality by mid-2013. At the same time, Erik Möller, the WMF's director of engineering, announced that the Foundation would no longer be supporting the Toolserver financially, but would continue to provide the same in-kind support as it had done previously.
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the James Bond film series, we spent some time bonding with WikiProject James Bond. The project is in the unique position of having already pushed all of its primary content to Good and Featured status, including all of Ian Fleming's novels, short stories, and every film that has been released. Work has begun in earnest on the article Skyfall for the release of the new Bond film later this month. The project could still use help improving articles about Bond actors, characters, gadgets, music, video games, and related topics
GOCE September 2012 drive wrap-up
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The Signpost: 08 October 2012
Wikipedia in education is far from a new idea: years of news stories, op-eds, and editorials have focused on the topic; and on Wikipedia itself, the Schools and universities projects page has existed in various forms since 2003. Over the next six years, the page was rarely developed, and when it did advance there was no clear goal in mind.
On this day five years ago, the WikiProject Report debuted as a new Signpost column with an overview of WikiProject Biography. Today, we're celebrating two milestone: five years of the WikiProject Report and the tenth birthday of our first featured project. WikiProject Biography is by far the largest WikiProject on Wikipedia, with over one million articles under the project's scope. As a comparison, WikiProject Biography is three times larger than Wikipedia's second largest project, and if WikiProject Biography were split into its 14 subprojects and work groups, it would still make the list of the 20 largest WikiProjects... four times.
This week the Signpost interviews Arsenikk, an editor of six years who has brought sixteen lists through our featured list process, mostly regarding transportation in Norway but also about the 1952 Winter Olympics and World Heritage Sites in Africa. Arsenikk tells us about why he joined the project, what moves him, and how editors can join the sometimes daunting world of featured lists.
The Wikimedia Foundation's engineering report for September 2012 was published this week on the Wikimedia Techblog and on the MediaWiki wiki, giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month (as well as brief coverage of progress on Wikimedia Deutschland's Wikidata project, phase 1 of which is edging its way towards its first deployment). Three of the seven headline items in the report have already been covered in the Signpost: problems with the corruption of several Gerrit (code) repositories, the introduction of widespread translation memory across Wikimedia wikis, and the launch of the "Page Curation" tool on the English Wikipedia, with development work on that project now winding down. The report also drew attention to the end of Google Summer of Code 2012, the deployment to the English Wikipedia of a new ePUB (electronic book) export feature, and improvements to the WLM app aimed at more serious photographers.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include ...
Soul Reaper huhHi there, I came across your userpage, and noticed one of your boxes says you're a soul reaper, I'm guessing by that you are a fellow Bleach watcher? BlueStars83 (talk) 04:35, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
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This week saw a front-page story in the Wall Street Journal on editorial debates in Wikipedia. The story focused on the title-naming dispute surrounding the Beatles article, and specifically the RfC on whether the 'the' in the band's name should be capitalized or not.
On the English Wikipedia, five featured articles, ten featured lists, and four featured pictures were promoted, including USS Lexington, a ship built for the United States Navy that, although ordered in 1916 as a battlecruiser, was converted to an aircraft carrier. It was sunk in the Battle of the Coral Sea during the Second World War.
The volunteer-led Wikimedia Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) and interested community members are looking at Wikimedia organization applications worth about US$10.4 million out of the committee's first full year's operation, in just the inaugural round one of two that have been planned for the year with a planned budget of US$11.4M.
A trial of the first phase of Wikimedia Deutschland's "Wikidata" project–implementing the first ever interwiki repository—may soon get underway following the successful passage of much of its code through MediaWiki's review processes this week.
This week, we experimented with WikiProject Chemicals. Started in August 2004, WikiProject Chemicals has grown to include over 10,000 articles about chemical compounds. The project has a unique assessment system that omits C-class, Good, and Featured Articles. As a result, the project's 11 GAs and 9 FAs are treated as A-class articles. WikiProject Chemicals is a child of WikiProject Chemistry (interviewed in 2009) and a parent of WikiProject Polymers.
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The Signpost: 22 October 2012
Unlike the long-running disputes that have characterised attempts to reform the RfA process on the English Wikipedia, the German Wikipedia's tradition of making decisions not by consensus but knife-edged 50% + 1 votes has led to a fundamentally different outcome. In 2009, the project managed to largely settle the RfA mode issue in 2009 indirectly.
One clarification request concerns the civility enforcement case – specifically, Malleus Fatuorum's perceived circumvention of his topic ban. It has resulted in thousands of bytes spent in vitriolic discussions, multiple blocks, and "no confidence" motions against the Arbitration Committee and one arbitrator, among other ramifications.
Planning for Wikivoyage's migration into the WMF fold built up steam this week following a statement by WMF Deputy Director Erik Möller about what the technical side of the migration will involve. Wikivoyage, which split from sister site Wikitravel in 2006, is hoping to migrate its own not-inconsiderable user base to Wikimedia, as well as much of its content, presenting novel challenges for Wikimedia developers
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
It is well known that women are underrepresented in the sciences, and that high-achieving female scientists have often been excluded from authorship lists and passed over for awards and honours solely on the basis of gender. Also significant has been the underplaying in the academic literature, news reporting, and online, of women's current and historical contributions to science.
The WikiProject Report normally brings tidings from Wikipedia's most active, inventive, and unique WikiProjects. This week, we're trying something new by focusing on Wikipedia's dark side: the various regional and national WikiProjects that are dead or dying. How can some tiny municipalities and exclaves generate highly active, cross-language, multimedia platforms be successful while the projects representing many sovereign countries and entire continents wallow in obscurity? Today, we'll search for answers among geographic projects large and small, highly active and barely functioning, enthusiastic about the future and mired in past conflicts.
Eleven articles, including one on Franz Kafka, three lists, one image, and one portal were promoted to 'featured' status this week.
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J Milburn is a British editor who has been on the site since 2006. He is one of two judges of the WikiCup. Here, he uses an op-ed to explain the way the WikiCup works and to review this year's competition, which ended recently.
The results of most of the national heats for Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) have been published on Commons. A maximum of 10 images have been submitted by all but eight of the 34 participating countries, and the international jury for what is the largest competition of its type in the world is set to announce the global winner in four weeks' time.
Hurricane Sandy was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record and has caused millions of dollars in damage. Naturally, Wikipedia covered it. But was Wikipedia's coverage unbiased?
The Signpost's weekly roundup of topics for discussion on the English Wikipedia.
This week, the Signpost interviewed two editors. The first, PumpkinSky, collaborated with Gerda Arendt in writing the recently featured article on Franz Kafka and won second prize in the Core contest last August. The second, Cwmhiraeth, collaborated with Thompsma in promoting the article Frog, which was featured last week. We asked them about the special challenges faced while writing Core content and things to watch out for.
The Wikimedia Foundation's engineering report for October 2012 was published this week on the Wikimedia Techblog and on the MediaWiki wiki, giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month. TimedMediaHandler also went live.
This week, The Signpost sings along with WikiProject Songs which focuses on articles about songs of every generation and genre. The project initially began as a rough outline in October 2002 and was reimagined in March 2004 using its parent WikiProject Albums as a template.
This is not a newsletterAnyway. You're getting this note because you've participated in discussion and/or asked for updates to either the Article Feedback Tool or Page Curation. This isn't about either of those things, I'm afraid ;p. We've recently started working on yet another project: Echo, a notifications system to augment the watchlist. There's not much information at the moment, because we're still working out the scope and the concepts, but if you're interested in further updates you can sign up here. In addition, we'll be holding an office hours session at 21:00 UTC on Wednesday, 14 November in #wikimedia-office - hope to see you all there :). I appreciate it's an annoying time for non-Europeans: if you're interested in chatting about the project but can't make it, give me a shout and I can set up another session if there's enough interest in one particular timezone or a skype call if there isn't. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 10:53, 10 November 2012 (UTC) The Signpost: 12 November 2012
Last week, media outlets reported a ruling by a German court on the problem of businesses using Wikipedia for marketing purposes. The issue goes beyond the direct management of marketing-related edits by Wikipedians; it involves cross-monitoring and interacting among market competitors themselves on Wikipedia. A company that sells dietary supplements made from frankincense had taken a competitor to court. The recently published judgment by the Higher Regional Court of Munich, in dealing with the German Wikipedia article on frankincense products, was handed down in May and is based on European competition law.
Thirteen articles, six lists, and five images were promoted to 'featured' status last week.
In late September, the Technology report published its findings about (particularly median) code review times. To the 23,900 changesets analysed the first time (the data for which has been updated), the Signpost added data from the 9,000 or so changesets contributed between September 17 and November 9 to a total of 93,000 reviews across 45,000 patchsets. Bots and self-reviews were also discarded, but reviews made by a different user in the form of a superseding patch were retained. Finally, users were categorised by hand according to whether they would be best regarded as staff or volunteers. The new analyses were consistent with the predictions of the previous analysis.
As promised, we're expanding our horizons by featuring projects that cover underrepresented areas of the globe. This week, we headed to WikiProject Brazil which keeps track of articles about the world's largest Portuguese-speaking country. The project has shown spurts of activity and continues to serve as a hub for discussions, despite the project's collaborations, peer reviews, and outreach activities being largely inactive.
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The Signpost: 19 November 2012
The WMF's Funds Dissemination Committee has published its recommendations for the inaugural round 1 of funding. Requests totalled US$10.4M, nearly all of the FDC's budget for both first and second rounds. The seven-member committee of community volunteers appointed in September advises the WMF board on the distribution of grant funds among applying Wikimedia organizations. The committee, which has a separate operating budget of $276k for salaries and expenses, considered 12 applications for funds, from 11 chapters and from the WMF itself for its non-core activities. The decision-making process included community and FDC staff input after October 1, the closing date for submissions. Taken together, the volunteers decided to endorse an average of 81% of the funding sought—a total of $8.43M, which went to 11 of the 12 applicants. This leaves $2.71M to be distributed in round 2, for which applications are due in little more than three months' time.
This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Turtles. The young project started in January 2011 and has accumulated 5 Featured Articles, 3 Featured Lists, and 6 Featured Pictures. The project maintains a combined to-do list and hot articles meter, a popular pages ranking, and a collection of resources for turtle articles. We interviewed Faendalimas and NYMFan69-86.
WMF Executive Director Sue Gardner was forced to clarify this week that proposed structural changes to the Foundation's Engineering and Product Development Department were not a "done deal" and that it was "important that you [particularly affected staff] realise that ... your input is wanted". The reorganisation, announced on November 5 and planned for the middle of next year, will see its two components split off into their own departments.
Seven featured articles, four featured lists and ten featured pictures – including the photograph that spawned the Streisand effect – were promoted this week.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include the question of ticker symbol placement and the notability of various types of creative performer.
The Signpost: 26 November 2012
On November 24, a general assembly of Wikimedia Germany (WMDE) voted on the fate of the Wikimedia Toolserver, a central external piece of technical infrastructure supporting the editing communities with volunteer-developed scripts and webpages of various kinds that are assisting in performing mostly menial tasks.
An open-access preprint presents the results from a study attempting to predict early box office revenues from Wikipedia traffic and activity data. The authors – a team of computational social scientists from Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Aalto University and the Central European University – submit that behavioral patterns on Wikipedia can be used for accurate forecasting, matching and in some cases outperforming the use of social media data for predictive modeling. The results, based on a corpus of 312 English Wikipedia articles on movies released in 2010, indicate that the joint editing activity and traffic measures on Wikipedia are strong predictors of box office revenue for highly successful movies.
Six articles, one list, and six images were promoted to 'featured' status this week.
Wikidata, the new "Wikimedia Commons for data" and the first new Wikimedia project since 2006, reached 100,000 entries this week. The project aims to be a single, human- and machine-readable database for common data, spanning across all Wikipedia projects, which will "lead to a higher consistency and quality within Wikipedia articles, as well as increased availability of information in the smaller language editions" while lowering the burden on Wikipedia's volunteer editors—whose numbers have stalled overall, and continue to dwindle on the English Wikipedia.
This week, we uncovered WikiProject Deletion Sorting, Wikipedia's most active project by number of edits to all the project's pages. This special project seeks to increase participation in Articles for Deletion nominations by categorizing the AfD discussions by various topic areas that may draw the attention of editors. The project was started in August 2005 with manual processes that are continued today by a bevy of bots, categories, and transclusions. The project took inspiration from WikiProject Stub Sorting and some historical discussions on deletion reform. As the sheer number of AfDs continues to grow, the project is seeking better tools to manage the deletion sorting process and attract editors to comment on these deletion discussions.
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The Signpost: 03 December 2012
The global jury of Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM), the world’s largest photo contest, announced its results on 3 December.
Three articles, two lists, and four images were promoted to 'featured' status this week.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
Deployments of MediaWiki 1.21wmf5 cause widespread problems for users across wikis when HTML and CSS updates came temporarily out of sync. On the first wikis targeted for deployment, this was caused by the different cache invalidation rates for HTML (typically one month) and CSS (typically five minutes). The retrospective on the problem highlighted the fact that that the test wiki – the WMF's answer to a production environment that individual developers can no longer practically emulate themselves – actually demonstrated the exact problem that would later manifest itself on production wikis. It went unnoticed.
This week, we went searching for white roses in the lands of WikiProject Yorkshire. The project began in May 2007 as a way to improve articles about the historic English county of Yorkshire and its modern-day administrative divisions and cities. Since then, the project has accumulated 31 Featured Articles, 14 Featured Lists, 91 Good Articles, and a monstrous list of Did You Know entries. Despite all of the effort improving Yorkshire articles, the project has experienced waning participation in the last few years. The project still publishes a newsletter each month, monitors the popularity of and recent changes to its articles, maintains a portal, and collects resources for contributors to use.
Darkwind disappearedI wonder why. Kaldari (talk) 12:13, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 10 December 2012
At the time of writing, this year's election has just closed after a two-week voting period. The eight seats were contested by 21 candidates. Of these, 15 have not been arbitrators (Beeblebrox, Count Iblis, Guerillero, Jc37, Keilana, Ks0stm, Kww, NuclearWarfare, Pgallert, RegentsPark, Richwales, Salvio giuliano, Timotheus Canens, Worm That Turned, and YOLO Swag); four candidates are sitting arbitrators (David Fuchs, Elen of the Roads, Jclemens, and Newyorkbrad); and two have previously served on the committee (Carcharoth and Coren). Four Wikimedia stewards from outside the English Wikipedia stepped forward as election scrutineers: Pundit, from the Polish Wikipedia; Teles, from the Portuguese Wikipedia; Quentinv57, from the French Wikipedia; and Mardetanha, from the Persian Wikipedia. The scrutineers' task is to ensure that the election is free of multiple votes from the same person, to tally the results, and to announce them. The full results are expected to be released within the next few days and will be reported in next week's edition of the Signpost.
Eight articles, four images, six lists, and one topic were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week.
The Visual Editor project – an attempt to create the first WMF-deployable WYSIWYG editor – will go live on its first Wikipedias imminently following nearly six months of testing on MediaWiki.org. A full explanatory blog post accompanied the news, explaining the project and its setup. Once a user has opted-in, the editor can handle basic formatting, headings and lists, while safely ignoring elements it is yet to understand, including references, categories, templates, tables and images. At the last count, approximately 2% of pages would break in some way if a user tried the Visual Editor on them; it is unclear whether any specific protection will be put in place beyond relying on editors to spot problems.
In celebration of Human Rights Day, we checked out WikiProject Human Rights. Started in February 2006, the project has grown to include over 3,000 articles, including 12 Featured Articles, 3 Featured Lists, 66 Good Articles, a large collection of Did You Know entries, and a few mentions "in the news". The project monitors listings of popular pages and cleanup tags. We interviewed Khazar2, Cirt, and Boud.
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The Signpost: 17 December 2012
Seven days after the close of voting, the results of the recent Arbitration Committee (ArbCom) elections have been announced by two of the four stewards overseeing the election, Mardetanha and Pundit. Of the 21 candidates, 13 managed to gain positive support-to-oppose ratios, and the top eight will be appointed to two-year terms on the committee by Jimbo Wales, exercising one of his traditional responsibilities.
In the past year, we've tried to expand our horizons by looking at how WikiProjects work in other languages of Wikipedia. Following in the footsteps of our previously interviewed Czech and French projects, we visited the German Wikipedia to explore WikiProjekt Computerspiel (WikiProject Computer Games). The project dates back to November 2004 and has become the back-end of the Computer Games Portal, which covers all video games regardless of platform. Editors writing about computer games at the German Wikipedia deal with unique cultural and legal challenges, ranging from a lack of fair use precedents to the limited availability of games deemed harmful for youths to strong standards for the inclusion of material on the German Wikipedia.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include ...
This week's big story on the English Wikipedia is obviously the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting (which, by the time you read this, may be renamed 2012 Connecticut school shooting). Quickly created and nominated for deletion not once but twice, and both times speedily kept, the article saw the expected flurry of edits (a look at the history suggests an average of at least one a minute over the first day and a half) and more than half a million page views on the first full day.
Four articles, three lists, and five images were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week, including a picture of a three-week old donkey (also known as an 'ass').
MediaWiki users (including Wikimedians) can now organise themselves into groups, receiving recognition and support-in-kind from the Wikimedia Foundation. The project, backed by new Wikimedia technical contributor coordinator Quim Gil, has seen five proposals lodged in its first week of operation. The idea of MediaWiki groups mimics that of Wikimedia User Groups.
An experimentI'm trying an experiment. The backlog at Wikipedia:Copyright problems is horrific, and frankly, embarrassing. In a discussion with Moonriddengirl, the goddess of copyright, someone mentioned that they couldn't help out because they weren't an admin. I wondered if other editors were under the same assumption. Changing gears slightly, I think it is important for admin to have a working knowledge of copyright issues, as admins have the power to delete articles identified as copyright violations. It occurred to me that we ought to find out whether prospective admins do have a solid knowledge of copyright issues and it occurs to me that one way to determine that is if editors contemplating becoming an admin work on a couple hundred items in the backlog. This would help establish several useful things:
Brand-new editors may not have the experience with copyright issues to dive in and help out. But someone who has self-identified as interested in being an admin someday, has probably been around long enough to get a feel for copyright issues, and if not that specifically, has been around long enough to know how to proceed carefully. So I looked at the transclusion of the User box indicating that you would consider becoming an admin someday, and your name was the first on the list. So my experiment is to see if you might be a candidate to take a stab at looking at some of the item in the backlog. There's no rush, and you can do it on your own, or you can ask me to be a mentor, (or you can decide that it isn't your cup of tea.) If you are interested, Wikipedia:Text Copyright Violations 101 is as close as we have to a user's manual. But keeping Wikipedia free of copyright violations is one of the most important tasks around, so if you are willing to pitch in, we will be very grateful.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 00:06, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
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RecommendationI submitted your name here I don't know how long the process takes, but based upon prior examples, a few days.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 15:03, 23 December 2012 (UTC) The Signpost: 24 December 2012As part of its new focus on core responsibilities, the Wikimedia Foundation is reforming its grant schemes so that they are more accessible to individual volunteers. The community is invited to look at proposals for a new scheme—for now called Individual engagement grants (IEGs)—which is due to kick off on January 15. On Meta, the community is once again debating the two new offline participation models—user groups (open membership groups designed to be easy to form) and thematic organizations (incorporated non-profits representing the Wikimedia movement and supporting work on a specific theme within or across countries). In a consultation process on Meta that will last until January 15, the community will be discussing WMF proposals for a new guideline on conflicts of interests concerning Wikimedia resources. The draft covers COI issues for both volunteers and organizations across the movement.
This week, we spent some time with WikiProject A Song of Ice and Fire, which focuses on the eponymous series of high fantasy literature, the television series Game of Thrones, and related works by George R. R. Martin. The project was started in July 2006 and has grown to include 11 Good Articles maintained by a small yet enthusiastic band of editors.
Seven articles and two lists were promoted to 'featured' status this week, including List of battlecruisers. The article covers all of the battlecruisers—which were a type of warship similar in size to a battleship but with several defining characteristics—ever planned or constructed. The last British battlecruiser built, HMS Hood, is pictured at right.
Efforts were stepped up this week to sow a feeling of trust between the major parties with an interest in the future of the Toolserver. The tool- and bot-hosting server – more accurately servers – are currently operated by German chapter, Wikimedia Germany, with assistance from the Foundation and numerous volunteers, including long-time system administrator Daniel Baur (more commonly known by his pseudonym DaB). However, those parties have more recently failed to see eye-to-eye on the trajectory for the Toolserver, which is scheduled to be replaced by Wikimedia Labs in late 2013, with increasing concern about the tone of discussions.
RfAMight as well make a live formal good luck and inform you of your first support vote, per nom. So good luck and hope you pass. John F. Lewis (talk) 20:16, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
WP:CPJust curious: has the library gotten you the book that you mention at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2012 October 4? Nyttend (talk) 17:21, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
Imitation...flatterySomeone mentioned at the beginning of your RFA that they liked your userpage, so I took a look at it and found that I did too (especially your userbox groupings). Hope you're holding up during hell week; never forget that it's not that important. Good luck, Happy New Year and all the best, Miniapolis (talk) 23:07, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 31 December 2012
In the impersonal, detached Colosseum that is Wikipedia, people find it much easier to put their thumbs down. As such, many people active in the Wikimedia movement have witnessed a precipitous decline in civil discourse. This is far from a new trend, yet many people would agree that it all seemed somehow worse in 2012.
A recent, poorly researched and poorly written story in the Register highlighted the perceived "cash rich" status of the Wikimedia movement. ... The Telegraph and Daily Dot, among others, have alleged that there are multiple links between the WMF, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, and Kazakhstan's government, which is, for all intents and purposes, a one-party non-democratic state.
On 27 December the Wikimedia Foundation announced the conclusion of their ninth annual fundraiser, which attracted more than 1.2 million donors. The appeal reached its goal of US$25 million, even though fundraising banners ran for only nine days.
In the first of two features, the Signpost this week looks back on 2012, a year when developers finally made inroads into three issues that had been put off for far too long (the need for editors to learn wiki-markup, the lack of a proper template language and the centralisation of data) but left all three projects far from finished.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include ...
Brion Vibber has been a Wikipedia editor for nearly 11 years and was the first person officially hired to work for the Wikimedia Foundation. He was instrumental in early development of the MediaWiki software and is now the lead software architect for the foundation's mobile development team.
At the beginning of the year, we began a series of interviews with editors who have worked hard to combat systemic bias through the creation of featured content; although we haven't seen six installments yet, we've also had some delightful interviews with people who write articles on some of our most core topics. Now, as we close the year, I would like to present some of my own musings on the state of featured content—especially as it pertains to systemic bias and core topics.
This week, we're celebrating the New Year from Times Square by interviewing WikiProject New York City. Since December 2004, WikiProject NYC has had the difficult task of maintaining articles about the largest city in the United States, many of which are also among the the most viewed articles on Wikipedia. The project is home to 22 Featured Articles, 7 Featured Lists, 32 pieces of Featured Media, and a lengthy list of Did You Know? entries.
Northeastern University researcher Brian Keegan analyzed the gathering of hundreds of Wikipedians to cover the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy. ... A First Monday article reviews several aspects of the Wikipedia participation in the 18 January 2012, protests against SOPA and PIPA legislation in the USA. The paper focuses on the question of legitimacy, looking at how the Wikipedia community arrived at the decision to participate in those protests.
AdminshipThough I didn't support you, that's not a reflection on the fact that I think you'll do fine as a sysop. Good luck, and let me be the first to congratulate you! Go Phightins! 22:20, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
Darkwind, I need help with Talk:Conservator_of_the_peaceMr. LeFande, or someone whom I assume to be Mr. LeFande, is being difficult. He is asserting that he has the right to use his own material in Wikipedia because it's his material (which I believe to be true), and any licensing issues are to be brushed aside because he's a lawyer and I am not. I believe the material ought to be removed unless he republishes the original sources with a CC-BY-SA-3.0 or GFDL license. Please comment on the talk page... what should be done next? Dpbsmith (talk) 03:03, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
Edward G. RobinsonI edited Edward G. Robinson Jr. at least. I just wanted to make Some Like It Hot complete (I also did Billy Gray, Dave Barry and Barbara Drew) It would be nice, if you check that. Thank You! - Clibenfoart 17:08, 4.Jan. 2013. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clibenfoart (talk • contribs) 16:11, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
Congratulations I've closed your RfA as successful. Good luck with your new tools! Maxim(talk) 22:22, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
More of a nail-biter than it should've been, but that's water under the bridge. Congratulations, Happy New Year and all the best, Miniapolis (talk) 02:14, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
Thanks!Thanks to all of you (including those who haven't commented), both those who supported and those who offered thoughtful feedback in opposition. Please feel free to drop by any time to give me advice you all might have, especially those of you with mop-calluses already. Generation X page lockCould you tell us why you locked the Gen X page please? Also could you explain your use of Twinkle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TW -- on that article? Wikipedia policy is: "it should not be used to undo good-faith changes unless an appropriate edit summary is used.". Thank you. Media67 (talk) 19:36, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
The Signpost: 07 January 2013Meta is the wiki that has coordinated a wide range of cross-project Wikimedia activities, such as the activities of stewards, the archiving of chapter reports, and WMF trustee elections. The project has long been an out-of-the-way corner for technocratic working groups, unaccountable mandarins, and in-house bureaucratic proceedings. Largely ignored by the editing communities of projects such as Wikipedia and organizations that serve them, Meta has evolved into a huge and relatively disorganized repository, where the few archivists running it also happen to be the main authors of some of its key documents. While Meta is well-designed for supporting the librarians and mandarins who stride along its corridors, visitors tend to find the site impenetrable—or so many people have argued over the past decade. This impenetrability runs counter to Meta's increasingly central role in the Wikimedia movement.
The dawning of a new year offers both a fresh slate and an opportunity to revisit our previous adventures. 2012 marked the fifth anniversary of the WikiProject Report and was the column's most productive year with 52 articles published. In addition to sharing the experiences of Wikipedia's many active projects, we expanded our scope to highlight unique projects from other languages of Wikipedia, and tracked down all of the former editors-in-chief of the Signpost for an introspective interview ... While last year's "Summer Sports Series" may have drawn yawns from some readers, a special report on "Neglected Geography" elicited more comments than any previous issue of the Report. Following in the footsteps of our past three recaps, we'll spend this week looking back at the trials and tribulations of the WikiProjects we encountered in 2012. Where are they now?
The past 12 months have seen a multitude of issues and events in the Wikimedia foundation, the movement at large, and the English Wikipedia. The movement, now in its second decade, is growing apace in its international reach, cultural and linguistic diversity, technical development, and financial complexity; and many factors have combined to produce what has in many ways been the biggest, most dynamic year in the movement's history. Looking back at 2012, we faced a difficult task in doing justice to all of the notable events in a single article; so the Signpost has selected just a few examples from outside the anglosphere, from the English Wikipedia, and from the Wikimedia Foundation, rather than attempting to cover every detail that happened.
Over the past year, 963 pieces of featured content were promoted. The most active of the featured content programs was featured article candidates (FAC), which promoted an average of 31 articles a month. This was followed by featured picture candidates (FPC; 28 a month). Coming in third was featured list candidates (FLC; 20 a month). Featured topic and featured portal candidates remained sluggish, each promoting fewer than 20 items over the year.
Following on from last week's reflections on 2012, this week the Technology report looks ahead to 2013, a year that will almost certainly be dominated by the juggernauts of Wikidata, Lua and the Visual Editor.
ProtectionHowdy! An editor requested semi-protection of Richard Manitoba to prevent some fairly long-term disruptive editing. Your interpretation was that there was an ongoing content dispute and the page was fully protected. A number of editors have since opined (on the article talk page) that longer-term semi-protection would have been more appropriate and have further explained the vandalism. I thought it only fair for you to have a right-of-reply if you felt so inclined. Stalwart111 22:48, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
UserboxHello Darkwind. Here is a userbox you might like to add:
Cheers! Congratulations for winning the mop! CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 03:55, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
Probably tomorrow after work, so if there's anything you want to discuss asynchronously, here is fine. —Darkwind (talk) 06:21, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
You should have added it on the day of your successful RFA, it would had said "This user has been an admin for no days at all!"
Anti-IslamismWhen you moved Anti-Islamism, you forgot to redirect Anti-Islamism to Criticism of Islamism. I'd do it myself but the page is protected. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 20:26, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
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Re: File permission problem with File:Ruski car.bmpWhow, that was uploaded in 2004. The thing is, it was copied from the German Wikipedia as you can see in the licensing part. I presumed by now all these permissions were reacquired through OTRS. Perhaps the author should be recontacted.--Avala (talk) 11:42, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
The Signpost: 14 January 2013
After six years without creating a new class of content projects, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has finally expanded into a new area: travel. Wikivoyage was formally launched—though without a traditional ship's christening—on 15 January, having started as a beta trial on 10 November. Wikivoyage has been taken under the WMF's umbrella on the argument that information resources that help with travel are educational and therefore within the scope of the foundation's mission.g
On January 16, voting for the first round of the 2012 Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year contest will begin. Wikimedia editors with 75 edits or one project are eligible to vote to select their favorite image featured in 2012. ... On January 15, the foundation launched its latest grant scheme, called Individual Engagement Grants (IEG).
This week, we set off for the final frontier with WikiProject Astronomy. The project was started in August 2006 using the now-defunct WikiProject Space as inspiration. WikiProject Astronomy is home to 101 pieces of Featured material and 148 Good Articles maintained by a band of 186 members. The project maintains a portal, works on an assortment of vital astronomy articles, and provides resources for editors adding or requesting astronomy images.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
Comforting those grieving after the loss of a loved one is an impossible task. How then, can an entire community be comforted? The Internet struggled to answer that question this week after the suicide of Aaron Swartz, a celebrated free-culture activist, programmer, and Wikipedian at the age of 26.
Continuing our recap of the featured content promoted in 2012, this week the Signpost interviewed three editors, asking them about featured articles which stuck out in their minds. Two, Ian Rose and Graham Colm, are current featured article candidates (FAC) delegates, while Brian Boulton is an active featured article writer and reviewer.
The opening of the Doncram case marks the end of almost 6 months without any open cases, the longest in the history of the Committee.
The Wikidata client extension was successfully deployed to the Hungarian Wikipedia on 14 January, its team reports. The interwiki language links can now come from wikidata.org, though "manual" interwiki links remain functional, overriding those from the central repository.
IP editsHey Darkwind, please have a look at my comment here, User_talk:Fæ#IP_edits. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 05:08, 14 August 2011 (UTC) Thiago AlcántaraFC Barcelona footballer Thiago Alcántara do Nascimento, "Thiago", is a Spanish person of Brazilian descent, his father, former football player, Mazinho, is Brazilian. Also his brother, Rafael Alcántara do Nascimento "Rafinha", also football player appears in this category, so why Thiago cannot be in this one? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.30.221.91 (talk) 05:22, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
NK Maribor..Thank you for everything that you have done to make this article pass the GA nomination (helping with the copyediting, finding grammar mistakes etc.). Maybe we will run into each other in the future as well:). Lep pozdrav, Ratipok (talk) 12:57, 22 August 2011 (UTC) Audrey KitchingHello! I noticed your help on the Audrey Kitching article, which has been the subject of frequent clear-cut vandalism. Do you know how we might be able to request protection on the page? Thanks for your contributions!Feather Jonah (talk) 19:52, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
GOCE March copy edit drive
Page Triage newsletterHey guys! Thanks to all of you who have commented on the New Page Triage talkpage. If you haven't had a chance yet, check it out; we're discussing some pretty interesting ideas, both from the Foundation and the community, and moving towards implementing quite a few of them :). In addition, on Tuesday 13th March, we're holding an office hours session in #wikimedia-office on IRC at 19:00 UTC (11am Pacific time). If you can make it, please do; we'll have a lot of stuff to show you and talk about, including (hopefully) a timetable of when we're planning to do what. If you can't come, for whatever reason, let me know on my talkpage and I'm happy to send you the logs so you can get an idea of what happened :). Regards, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:54, 8 March 2012 (UTC) Adding new horror authorsThank you for your kind welcome, I appreciate it. I've participated in Wikis before, so I understand Wikicode (but admit I am rusty). I intend on adding several horror authors, including the ones who are on the final Bram Stoker Award list for 2011. If you have the time, can you look at the page I posted and give me a bit of feedback? I would appreciate it. Thank you, VonSavant (talk) 04:53, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Re: Julia Sand articleHi Darkwind, Thanks for considering the article I submitted on Julia Sand and I'm sorry that it doesn't meet Wikipedia's needs. I tried to delete the information, but the template wouldn't let me. You'll find that the article has been replaced with a single line which you can disregard. Cheers, the president's dwarf — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thepresidentsdwarf (talk • contribs) 03:09, 14 March 2012 (UTC) Article on Joan HassallI have collected Joan Hassall's work for 40 years, and have all the published sources on her. I have written articles in scholarly book-collecting journals, and am shadowing an editor with the view of taking over from him. I made some corrections to the existing article on Joan Hassall, mostly the section on further reading. I realised that all the material in the present article comes from references on the web. Some are inaccurate, and some distorted through transmission. The greatest defect, however, lies in the omissions from her life. In my sandbox is a draft of a new article on which I would appreciate your opinion. It is broken down into sections, and has two overview sections, one on her life (Malham), the other on her work. The references are all to primary sources. I could add much more detail, but feel that that would be excessive for her stature in the greater order of things. I did add a photo of Joan Hassall (now deceased) taken By Brian North Lee (also deceased) for Hassall's private publicity needs, ie newspaper articles. I have several copies of the photo, but no scanner, so took the photo from the web (a newspaper article in the Craven Herald). I have received an automated message saying that the photo has been/will be omitted, which is fair enough. There is a rider which I do not fully understand which seems to indicate that It might be possible to use. I would like to add it if at all possible. Jim Maslen, 17th March Lowbourne (talk) 19:50, 17 March 2012 (UTC) Jackass, Dodger is NOT A DISCWORLD NOVELI have fixed it several times, and you keep reverting it to utter wrongness. Why? Because you have time to do that instead of just checking the facts. I have a life to attend to, the details are for fools like you who have nothing but time on their hands. Recognize that you are WRONG, learn something new, and fuck off. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.173.71.164 (talk) 19:34, March 19, 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 19 March 2012
Article on Joan HassallHi, Have you had a chance to look over the draft article in my sandbox? If it is acceptable, how do I go about replacing the existing article? Do I just paste my article in? Thanks for any help that you can give me.Lowbourne (talk) 11:09, 21 March 2012 (UTC) Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/TrademarksGreetings! You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Trademarks. Should you wish to respond to the invitation, your contribution to this discussion will be very much appreciated! If in doubt, please see suggestions for responding. If you do not wish to receive these types of notices, please remove your name from Wikipedia:Feedback request service. — RFC bot (talk) 07:15, 3 April 2012 (UTC) GOCE March drive newsletter
Hey AssholeHow bout you look a little beyond the zit on the end of your nose and fix the fucking specious 'Dodger' by Terry Pratchett entries while you're at it. Idiot. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.173.71.164 (talk) 05:17, March 19, 2012 (UTC) Z-WaveHi, you reverted my last edit on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Wave as vandalism. You you give me a reason. The members of the alliance were updated a link to vendor neutral info collection added and a link to a obviously commercial web shop removed. I like to learn, whats the problem here ? Chris — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.109.241.20 (talk) 13:03, 24 April 2012 (UTC) The Signpost: 30 April 2012
HelloRemember me? I was the one who nominated NK Maribor article for GA and you approved the article (and did some copyediting in the process). I am currently working on List of Slovenian football champions and I put the article on Peer review, before I nominate the list of FL. I have a small problem though. One of the reviewers isnt really satisfied with this phrasing "During its times in the Yugoslav leagues, most of Slovenian teams competed in the Slovenian Republic Football League, for the title of regional champions.", so I was wondering if you (since you are a member of copy guild) can give me an input on how could I rephrase this statement so it would be good enough:). If you have the time and the will, you could check the list's talk page (Talk:List of Slovenian football champions) and write your comment in the current PR that is going on. After that I will probably nominate the list. Thank you for your help, Ratipok (talk) 13:21, 6 May 2012 (UTC) New Page Triage prototype releasedHey Darkwind! We've finally finished the NPT prototype and deployed it on enwiki. We'll be holding an office hours session on the 16th at 21:00 in #wikimedia-office to show it off, get feedback and plot future developments - hope to see you there! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 03:36, 13 May 2012 (UTC) A revision you made for Panajachel, Guatemala, last year.Hi there, I'm a resident of Panajachel. On the current edition of the page, and for several preceeding revisions, a reference provided by Richard Morgan S... appears. He is slyly promoting his business, and holds very little credibility within the local community, especially since the locals recently found out that he works for an entity of the United States government. I don't feel it appropriate to make such a change without discussion with another party. Do you have any ideas or suggestions? 190.56.154.65 (talk) 00:24, 16 May 2012 (UTC) New Page Triage/New Pages FeedHey all :). A notification that the prototype for the New Pages Feed is now live on enwiki! We had to briefly take it down after an unfortunate bug started showing up, but it's now live and we will continue developing it on-site. The page can be found at Special:NewPagesFeed. Please, please, please test it and tell us what you think! Note that as a prototype it will inevitably have bugs - if you find one not already mentioned at the talkpage, bring it up and I'm happy to carry it through to the devs. The same is true of any additions you can think of to the software, or any questions you might have - let me know and I'll respond. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 13:21, 22 May 2012 (UTC) Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Blocking policyGreetings! You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Wikipedia talk:Blocking policy. Should you wish to respond to the invitation, your contribution to this discussion will be very much appreciated! If in doubt, please see suggestions for responding. If you do not wish to receive these types of notices, please remove your name from Wikipedia:Feedback request service. — RFC bot (talk) 11:15, 17 July 2012 (UTC) The Signpost: 06 August 2012At this year's Wikimania, I [Brandon Harris] gave a talk entitled The Athena Project: Wikipedia in 2015. The talk broadly outlined several ideas the foundation is exploring for planned features, user interface changes, and workflow improvements. We expect that many of these changes will be welcomed, while others will be controversial. During the question-and-answer period, I was asked whether people should think of Athena as a skin, a project, or something else. I responded, "You should think of Athena as a kick in the head" – because that's exactly what it's supposed to be: a radical and bold re-examination of some of our sacred cows when it comes to the interface.
On August 1, the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) portal was launched on Meta. The FDC will implement the Wikimedia movement's new grant-orientated finance structure in accordance with the WMF board's recent resolutions. As a volunteer committee, the FDC will make recommendations to the WMF board on a $11.4 million budget for 2012–13.
Arbitrator Kirill Lokshin proposed a motion for a procedure on the alteration of an editor's previous username(s) in arbitration decisions to reflect their name change(s). ... The Devil's Advocate initiated an amendment request for the controversial Race and intelligence case.
This week the Signpost interviews Casliber, an editor who has written or contributed significantly to a startling 69 featured articles. We learn what makes him tick, why he edits, and why he can write on everything from vampires to dinosaurs, birds to plants. He also gives some advice to budding featured article writers.
The Wikimedia Foundation's engineering report for July 2012 was published this week on the Wikimedia Techblog and on the MediaWiki wiki, giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month (as well as brief coverage of progress on Wikimedia Deutschland's Wikidata project). ... At least one fibre-optic cable was damaged at the WMF's Tampa site on August 6, leading to a sharp downwards spike in traffic lasting over an hour and almost three hours of disruption for readers around the globe.
This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Martial Arts. Since April 2004, the project has been the hub for discussion and improvement of martial arts articles, including all disciplines and national origins. The project maintains a variety of conventions for handling the names and descriptions of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Indian, Sikh, Filipino, Okinawan, and hybrid martial arts. WikiProject Martial Arts has spawned or absorbed several subprojects focusing on boxing, kickboxing, sumo, and mixed martial arts.
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