User talk:Godot13/Archive 2Welcome to the 2014 WikiCup!Hello Godot13, and welcome to the 2014 WikiCup! Your submission page can be found here. The competition will begin at midnight tonight (UTC). There have been a few small changes from last year; the rules can be read in full at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring, and the page also includes a summary of changes. One important rule to remember is that only content on which you have completed significant work, and nominated, in 2014 is eligible for points in the competition- the judges will be checking! As ever, this year's competition includes some younger editors. If you are a younger editor, you are certainly welcome, but we have written an advice page at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Advice for younger editors for you. Please do take a look. Any questions should be directed to one of the judges, or left on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will make it to round 2. Good luck! J Milburn (talk · contribs), The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 17:32, 31 December 2013 (UTC) POTD notification Hi Godot, Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:US-$1000-GC-1882-Fr.1218g.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on January 11, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-01-11. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:43, 1 January 2014 (UTC) Vandalism?I explained why I made my edits; calling them vandalism is completely unfair. 1000 in this case obviously doesn't mean 1 + 999 people; it means 1,000, plus or minus a few dozen, and you can't add 81 to that and get 1081, because 1081 does not mean 1081 plus or minus a few dozen. Again, read Significant figures.--Prosfilaes (talk) 02:30, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
@Crisco 1492-Thanks, unfortunately the way the table is set up it doesn't work (I tried)... @Prosfilaes-I can see from your talk page that your editing style has resulted in a number of edit disputes, warnings, and the occasional block. Dropping in on an article out of nowhere and using an unconventional form of logic to support your re-working of a table in a featured list (without bringing it up on the talk page first) is a fairly aggressive move. Per your user page - is this necessary drama? --Godot13 (talk) 07:23, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
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In fact, the majority are relatively evenly split between three themes: people of interest, television, and websites.
In 2013, the arbitration committee closed 10 cases, 9 amendment requests, and 26 clarification requests.
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.
Dariusz Jemielniak's book is the newest about Wikipedia, published in Poland in 2013 and with an English edition forthcoming in 2014.
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.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia and around the Wikimedia movement include...
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.
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).
2013 saw a lot of changes to MediaWiki software and Wikimedia infrastructure.
Treasury, or Coin, Notes ArticleHola, Godot13, can we also have an image of the proof for the ornate back $50? Cheers and Happy New Year! --LondonYoung (talk) 20:01, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi LondonYoung- Happy New Year to you. The $50 was never issued in 1890. I'm fairly certain that there was never even an approved design/proof for the series, same as the $500 which was not issued in either 1890 or 1891 (at least there is a proof for 1891). Regarding the large brown seal- I agree, the consistency would have looked nice but the $5 and $10 1890 large brown seal notes are missing from the Smithsonian collection, and the $20 1890 large brown seal has significantly less visual appeal... I'm going to be adding a lot of images this year!-Godot13 (talk) 20:50, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
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Public Domain Day—January 1, 2014—gives me an opportunity to reflect on this important asset, mandated by the Constitution of the United States.
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.
MediaWiki developers will be meeting in San Francisco on January 23–24 for an Architecture Summit.
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.
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.
This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Television.
Twelve articles, three lists, seven pictures, and a portal were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia in the last two weeks.
ITN nomination
--331dot (talk) 16:43, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
Coin NoteHi Godot, Thank you for contacting me on this issue rather than simply reverting my move. The former title did not conform to Wikipedia's naming conventions, but "Coin Note" is not our only option. The guidelines for choosing article titles when the most common title is ambiguous can be found here. I chose Option #1, "natural disambiguation", which is often the most preferable option, but Option #2 could also work in this case if you are concerned that Option #1 is misleading. Using Option #2, we would create an article title with the format "Treasury Note (disambiguator)" where the word "disambiguator" is replaced by a word or phrase that distinguishes the relevant definition of "Tresury Note" from the other definitions of "Treasury Note" discussed on other articles. What do you think of Treasury Note (Sherman Silver Purchase Act)? Neelix (talk) 04:35, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
Note: I copied to above discussion to the article talk page to create a more easily findable record of the discussion... I think we are in agreement on "Treasury Note (1890–91)" (the dash is an endash, incidentally) for article title. If so, the text of the article generally should read "Treasury Note", the note's proper name. --ThaddeusB (talk) 05:26, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 15 January 2014
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.
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.
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.
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?"
We now can get a far more accurate picture of which short surges in popularity are likely natural and which are not.
This week, we studied human social behavior with the folks at WikiProject Sociology.
WikicupBefore I start, let me just say I do not for a moment want to question the good you're doing on Featured pictures with images of notes. I'm solely bringing this up because I worked with FPs in last year's Wikicup, and know there's some somewhat arbitrary cutoffs for which FPs "count" for Wikicup purposes. Do you take the photographs of the banknotes yourself? Because the Wikicup requires some substantial personal work to get Featured Picture credit in the Wikicup; I had an image rejected from getting credit because the necessary edit I made - removing a repeated line in the image - was too small. If you're photographing them, though, all is well, and feel free to ignore this image, and I look forwards to a very strenuous competition for the FP credit this year. I'm currently working my way through a book of William Russell Flint watercolours. Half-toned, which is sad, but it's the first edition and the originals are apparently scattered and unavailable to the public. Cheers, Adam Cuerden (talk) 16:29, 22 January 2014 (UTC) Hi Adam- Fair question as I'm sure others may be curious too. In order to access the actual banknotes I joined the Smithsonian Institution (SI) as a consulting volunteer which required a U.S. Federal background check. I have personally handled every banknote in the images I post during ongoing week-long digitizing trips to the National Numismatic Collection. I use an Epson 10000 scanner at 800dpi to scan one note at a time in the SI numismatic vault. I wish I could load the bed and scan multiple notes at the same time, but this is not allowed per archiving policy. I do image alignment, color correction, and background/border cleaning but do not make virtual repairs or cleaning as the image would not be an exact representation of the actual note. In addition to the banknote scanning, I also maintain extensive database spreadsheets for the Smithsonian documenting the condition and relevant historical factors for each note. I feel confident that this qualifies as substantial personal work on my end, as well as providing access to images of some banknotes rarely (if ever) seen. I too look forward to some healthy competition in the FP category. Regardless of the outcome, Wikipedia is the ultimate beneficiary. Many thanks-Godot13 (talk) 20:15, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
UTCHey! Well, since the UTC says at least three there is no need to add them all. Though, I have amended your entry to include "7 others" :) Cheers. — ΛΧΣ21 Call me Hahc21 16:50, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 22 January 2014
A particularly esoteric anthology of speculative fiction, filled with imaginary Wikipedia entries from, as the introduction puts it, "the many Wikipedias across the Multiverse."
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.
Fifteen articles, nine lists, twenty pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia over the last two weeks.
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.
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.
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.
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.
WikiCup 2014 January newsletterThe 2014 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with, at time of writing, 138 participants. The is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2010. If you are yet to join the competition, don't worry- the judges have agreed to keep the signups open for a few more days. By a wide margin, our current leader is newcomer
Featured articles, featured lists, featured topics and featured portals are yet to play a part in the competition. The judges have removed a number of submissions which were deemed ineligible. Typically, we aim to see work on a project, followed by a nomination, followed by promotion, this year. We apologise for any disappointment caused by our strict enforcement this year; we're aiming to keep the competition as fair as possible. Wikipedians interested in friendly competition may be interested to take part in The Core Contest; unlike the WikiCup, The Core Contest is not about audited content, but, like the WikiCup, it is about article improvement; specifically, The Core Contest is about contribution to some of Wikipedia's most important article. Of course, any work done for The Core Contest, if it leads to a DYK, GA or FA, can earn WikiCup points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 19:54, 1 February 2014 (UTC) The Signpost: 29 January 2014
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.
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.
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".
The Kafziel case has been closed, with Kafziel losing his administrator status as a result.
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.
The Signpost: 29 January 2014
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.
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.
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".
The Kafziel case has been closed, with Kafziel losing his administrator status as a result.
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.
The Signpost: 12 February 2014As 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.
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.
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
Thirteen articles, three lists, and twenty-five images were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia from 19 January to 1 February.
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.
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.
The Signpost: 19 February 2014
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.
Runa Bhattacharjee has notified the community that the Foundation is ready to turn the Universal Language Selector back on.
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.
Five articles, seven lists, forty-three pictures, and two portals were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia in the last two weeks.
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.
February 2014
It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, BracketBot (talk) 23:33, 21 February 2014 (UTC) The Signpost: 26 February 2014About 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.
Eight articles, three lists, and nine pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.
This week, we found three Ph.D.s willing to give us a crash course on WikiProject Neuroscience.
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.
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.
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.
The monthly roundup of recent academic research about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, edited jointly with the Wikimedia Research Committee.
WikiCup 2014 February newsletterAnd so ends the most competitive first round we have ever seen, with 38 points required to qualify for round 2. Last year, 19 points secured a place; before that, 11 (2012) or 8 (2011) were enough. This is both a blessing and a curse. While it shows the vigourous good health of the competition, it also means that we have already lost many worthy competitors. Our top three scorers were:
Other competitors of note include:
After such a competitive first round, expect the second round to also be fiercely fought. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2, but please do not update your submission page until March (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 00:01, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
Aircraft incidents listHi Godot, It looks like you are doing some great work with respect to articles on banknotes and aviation. List of aircraft accidents and incidents resulting in at least 50 fatalities is particularly impressive. I have some concerns about that article's title and scope, and I thought that, as the one who pushed the article through to featured list status, you would be the best person to talk to. I would greatly appreciate your consideration of my points below:
What are your thoughts on my three concerns outlined above? If the article's title were to be altered according to my recommendations above, it would read thus: List of aircraft incidents resulting in the most fatalities. If my scope recommendation were to be followed, the incidents involving military aircraft would be split off from this article onto a new list, the current list being called List of civilian aircraft incidents resulting in the most fatalities and the new list being called List of military aircraft incidents resulting in the most fatalities. I hope we are able to come to mutually satisfactory decisions on these matters as we did with respect to the Treasury Note (1890–91) article title. Neelix (talk) 04:01, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
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— ΛΧΣ21 Call me Hahc21 16:24, 6 March 2014 (UTC) (test) The Signpost: 05 March 2014
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.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
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.
The WikiCup competition is ongoing, while six articles, three lists, and ten pictures were promoted to "featured" status of the English Wikipedia this week.
This week, the Signpost delved into the English Wikipedia's Article Rescue Squadron.
Just notifying you I've left a question on your FLC. Aureez (Talk) 21:58, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 12 March 2014Wikimedians 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.
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.
Five articles, two lists, and 52 pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
This week, we interviewed Anaxibia from the Russian-language Entomology WikiProject.
A barnstar for you!
TaftThe check Taft wrote is interesting, but it would be better with an explanation... --Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 16:42, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 19 March 2014Non-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.
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.
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.
Twelve articles, fourteen lists, and six pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.
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.
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.
The Wikimedia engineering report for February 2014 has been published. A summarized version is also available. Major news include
The Signpost: 26 March 2014
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.
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.
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.
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.
Four articles, two lists, and twelve pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
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.
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.
This week, the Signpost interviewed the English Wikipedia's Mountains WikiProject.
WikiCup 2014 March newsletterA quick update as we are half way through round two of this year's competition. WikiCup newcomer With 26 people having already scored over 100 points, it is likely that well over 100 points will be needed to secure a place in round 3. Recent years have required 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) and 100 (2010). Remember that only 64 will progress to round 3 at the end of April. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page; if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 22:55, 31 March 2014 (UTC) WikiCup errorHi there- this is just a quick note to apologise for a small but important mistake in the last WikiCup newsletter; it is not 64 users who will progress to the next round, but 32. J Milburn (talk) 18:48, 3 April 2014 (UTC) MaastrichtHas anyone (attention talk page stalkers) been to Maastricht? I will be there next week and have 1-2 days for photography. I would welcome any suggestions. Thanks--Godot13 (talk) 17:51, 5 April 2014 (UTC) har hazeitimYou can't change a photo with a description. I deletes your change in hebrew wikipedia "הר הזיתים". Uziel302 (talk) 02:54, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 02 April 2014The 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".
This week, we visited with WikiProject Germany.
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.
The Signpost's "Featured content" writers had a bit of fun this week.
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.
The Signpost: 09 April 2014
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.
This week, we interviewed the Law WikiProject.
"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."
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.
Five article, five lists, and ten pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.
A barnstar for you!
The Signpost: 23 April 2014
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.
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!
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.
This week, we visited WikiProject Catholicism.
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.
If I were the kind of person who made snap judgments based on flimsy evidence, I'd say our readership is in a funk.
Fourteen articles, four lists, seven pictures, and one topic attained "featured" status on the English Wikipedia over the last two weeks.
April 2014
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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.
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.
The Wikimedia Foundation has announced that its new executive director will be Lila Tretikov, until now a chief product officer in Silicon Valley.
This week, we unraveled the mysteries of WikiProject Genetics.
Ed Roley, Associate Director of Integrated Media at the Peabody Essex Museum, talks about GLAM engagement with Wikipedia.
Four articles and sixteen featured pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.
Can you predict the number of seasonal influenza-like illness in the U.S. using data from Wikipedia?
WikiCup 2014 April newsletterRound 3 of the 2014 WikiCup has just begun; 32 competitors remain. Pool G's 192 was our lowest qualifying score, again showing that this WikiCup is the most competitive ever. In previous years, 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) or 100 (2010) secured a place in Round 3. Pool H was the strongest performer, with all but one of its members advancing, while only the two highest scorers in Pools G and F advanced. At the end of June, 16 users will advance into the semi-finals. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 17:57, 4 May 2014 (UTC) The Signpost: 07 May 2014The 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.
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.
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.
Round 3 of the 2014 WikiCup has just begun; 32 competitors remain.
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.
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.
Four articles, two lists, and five pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.
National Gold bank NoteI originally had the banks listed in another column on the table and feel they would make more sense somehow incorporated into the table. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 01:37, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
Sorry I have not been active on the page, I just returned from NYC yesterday and had been busy before too to dedicate time for the article. The article looks great I think what you did greatly improved things. =) I feel the history section should be worked on next, do you have any book sources to work from? I have found before some sources with what National Gold Bank notes were used for but did not want to paraphrase the sources too closely. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 11:40, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
WikiCupIf you want to withdraw, I'll withdraw too. Adam Cuerden (talk) 01:21, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 14 May 2014
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.
This week, the Signpost jumped over the ocean to chat with the Puerto Rico WikiProject.
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?
Six articles, seven lists, and four pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week.
Eurovision is known for being political, and it was a doozy this week.
The Media Viewer is scheduled to launch on the English Wikipedia next week.
Curious about one of your photosHi Godot13. I am curious about these block-like shapes in this photo. What are they? Regards, Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia (talk) 21:11, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
About your cameraI noticed that your recent photos have been taken with a medium format camera with Leaf back. Obviously the resolution is fairly incredible with these cameras, but I always have the niggling feeling that you'd get better images with a good DSLR and stitching (as I do). After all, I can often downsample my stitched images to your camera's native resolution, gaining additional sharpness as well as great resolution. I'm a bit biased though as that's been my technique for getting great panoramic/architectural detail in my photography for about 10 years now. I do also appreciate that there are additional and significantly time-intensive post-processing requirements for this method (and occasionally stitching errors if you're not careful), although it could be argued that the technical attention to detail required of medium format photography (slower shutter speeds for equivalent depth of field etc) makes it just as complex. Anyway, I was just wondering how you came to the decision to go medium format though, as it's quite a big investment. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 10:19, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 21 May 2014
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.
Thirteen articles, sixteen pictures, and one topic were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.
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.
DYK for Alaskan parchment scrip
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 13:42, 24 May 2014 (UTC) Talk:King Alfred's Tower/GA1I think I've now addressed all the issues at Talk:King Alfred's Tower/GA1. Could you take a look and see what else needs doing?— Rod talk 08:03, 25 May 2014 (UTC) Brosius imageI hate these kind of battles. They have a tendency to screw up nominations, which is why I'm so reluctant to provide any but the most obviously-improved alts... Adam Cuerden (talk) 15:45, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
I'm a bit sensitive about this sort of things because of the number of times I've seen images uploaded without the captions, or have had some idiot on Commons come along and crop my images due to the idea that borders/text should always be removed. I really, really do not ever want to see a precedent emerge that this is acceptable at FPC. It's not so bad when the original exists, but... I hadn't realised voting had closed. I think the wrong decision was made, because the alt was judged in such haste, and may ask for a D&R later. Adam Cuerden (talk) 00:03, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
WonderSwanIn case you're thinking "I already answered this", Chris accidentally removed your comment by the looks of it. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:56, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 28 May 2014
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.
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.
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.
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.
Featured picture numberIn case I miss it, can you be sure to tell me when you pass 100 featured pictures for this year? Adam Cuerden (talk) 21:48, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
Image questionSorry to pester you. Could I get your opinion on the colours at File:Banyunibo Temple, 2014-05-31 01.jpg? I mean, I know the saturation should probably be knocked back, but for some reason the shadows are really extreme at thumbnail but not so much at full size. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:18, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
BanknotesDo you have any that you think would be good on the main page in the near future (already promoted, if possible). If we're going to avoid complaints about a flood of banknotes, it would be nice to start presenting them soon so that we can give them more space. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:42, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
Crisco 1492 - Two additional possibilities in the upcoming months, another further down the road (suggestions):
I'll keep looking. Thanks--Godot13 (talk) 04:45, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 04 June 2014Individual 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.
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'."
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.
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.
The month of May saw significant coverage concerning the reliability of Wikipedia's medical articles.
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.
I prefer the uncropped version; I don't want to oppose, but I find it very hard to support something when my preference is that strong for the other. May I suggest that if it doesn't pass, that you nominate the uncropped version I prefer, which I will very gladly support? And if it does pass, I'm outvoted, and will shut up. =) Adam Cuerden (talk) 08:44, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
Purple imagesJust wanted to let you know that these images still have the weird purple tinge: File:UK-2014-Oxford-All Souls College 01.jpg File:UK-2014-Oxford-St John's College 02.jpg File:NET-Margraten-American Cemetery 02.jpg (only slight in this one) File:UK-2014-Oxford-Wadham College 05.jpg File:UK-2014-Oxford-Oriel College 02.jpg File:UK-2014-Oxford-Trinity College 04.jpg File:UK-2014-Oxford-Christ Church College 01.jpg File:UK-2014-Oxford-New College 01.jpg File:UK-2014-Oxford-Trinity College 02.JPG (technically it's only the window reflection but it's still purple instead of blue) File:UK-2014-Oxford-Magdalen College 06.jpg File:UK-2014-London-Monument to the Women of World War II (2).jpg I find it very strange because the rest of the colours seem reasonably balanced, it's just a hue shift of the blues. What went wrong? Ðiliff «» (Talk) 19:55, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 11 June 2014
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.
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.
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.
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.
Five articles, one list, twelve pictures, and one topic were promoted to 'featured' status last week on the English Wikipedia.
About your username.I think your username is good. What does your username mean and how did you come up with it?
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The Signpost: 18 June 2014
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.
Five articles, five lists, 22 pictures, and one portal were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.
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.
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.
This week, the Signpost came in from the hinterland to interview members of the Cities WikiProject.
Oxford photosJust a quick note to thank you for your lovely Oxford photographs. I've added some to Portal:University of Oxford (feel free to add others) and I'm delighted to see such high-quality images. Did you take any others that you haven't uploaded to Commons? The reason I ask is that I have written a couple of articles about Oxford college architecture (Jesus and Nuffield) and sometimes it's not the grand photos like the Hawkesmoor towers of All Souls or the sundial of Corpus that help bring an article to life. (Sometimes a photo helps me understand what I'm writing about!) I have a couple of ideas for which colleges I'd like to do next, but if you have other images relating to particular college(s) that might influence my decision... Thanks, BencherliteTalk 10:29, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
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DistortionYou've done several overhead images before, right? (I seem to recall several in Israel, though I'm not sure if those were from a helicopter or a peak). I've got a question for you: do you think the distortion in File:Great Mosque of Central Java, aerial view.jpg is too much? It was bugging me a bit, but the image has grown on me. The angles sure are weird, though, when one shoots from several hundred feet up. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:25, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 25 June 2014
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.
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.
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.
Discussions on the English Wikipedia this week include...
Ten articles and eleven pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
This week, the Signpost visited the land of Disney, blockbusters, explosions, dream sequences, and cultural masterpieces: film.
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.
WikiCup 2014 June newsletterAfter an extremely close race, Round 3 is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years- 321 was required in 2013, while 243 points were needed in 2012. Pool C's The round saw this year's first featured portal, with The judges would like to remind participants to update submission pages promptly. This means that content can be checked, and allows those following the competition (including those participating) to keep track of scores effectively. This round has seen discussion about various aspects of the WikiCup's rules and procedures. Those interested in the competition can be assured that formal discussions about how next year's competition will work will be opened shortly, and all are welcome to voice their views then. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 18:48, 30 June 2014 (UTC) The Signpost: 02 July 2014
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.
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.
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.
Six articles, five lists, seventeen pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
This week, the Signpost visited the Indigenous peoples of North America WikiProject.
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.
An Award
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POTD notification.jpg) Hi Godot, Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Israel-2013-Jerusalem-Temple Mount-Al-Aqsa Mosque (NE exposure).jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on July 28, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-07-28. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:49, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
GreenbacksIs the Greenback set the one that puts you at 100? Adam Cuerden (talk) 01:00, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
Some satay for you Creating featured content is a drain. You could probably use a bit of nourishment. Hope you don't mind hot foods! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 03:51, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 09 July 2014
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?
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.
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.
Five articles, six lists, and nine pictures were promoted to 'featured' status last week on the English Wikipedia.
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.
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.
Demand Notes
- Alright, all done. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 03:45, 14 July 2014 (UTC) DYK for Art and engraving on United States banknotes
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 19:52, 14 July 2014 (UTC) Scans,_processed,_obverse.jpg)
The Signpost: 16 July 2014
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."
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).
It all started in late 2005, when we first held lectures about Wikipedia in two educational institutions (universities) ...
Eight articles, three lists, and 28 pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.
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.
Wikicup semifinalists interview requestAs you may know, I write for the Signpost, basically Wikipedia's newsletter. I'd like to do a feature on the semifinalists, would you be willing to provide, say, 250 to 500 words saying: (1.) Why did you join the Wikicup? (2.) What you you hope to get out of it? and (3.) Which of your contributions to the Wikicup are your favourites? Not quite sure how I'll order them - I'll probably make the ed17 decide, as, you know, Conflict of Interest: I am a semifinalist. I'd imagine point order or alphabetical or the like. Can you please reply at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2014-07-30/Wikicup#Godot13? Thanks! Adam Cuerden (talk) 00:21, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 23 July 2014
"Great success" in Israel universities is leading to collaboration and editing in high schools.
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.
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.
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.
Ten articles, five lists, and 25 pictures were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia last week.
Re: Seal of OhioIt is a beautiful illustration, and you did a great job restoring it. However, I found it misleading to include in the article, out of the context of the rest of the set. By 1876, Ohio had no longer had a coat of arms, only a seal containing a circular "device", which apart from the great seal was drawn rather crudely. Also, the absence of a river and motto would definitely rule out it being an illustration of the 1866 coat of arms. (I'm still looking for a better illustration of that coat of arms; the current one is missing several elements.) The 1879 and 1902 illustrations I included under "Empire" are believed to be historically accurate (Knabenshue 1902, Galbreath 1902). I'm also trying to make the article into more of an article and less of a gallery. The article is currently missing the seals of 1803, 1848–49, and 1965 for lack of space. There's still more to write about, so it may be possible at some point to make room for the illustration. In the meantime, the article does link to Commons:Category:State seals of Ohio, and the illustration is in that category, a couple levels down. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 09:09, 29 July 2014 (UTC) Scans again,_processed,_obverse%2Breverse.jpg) Hope the trip is going well. I did another scan. I think this is featureable, once it goes in the article. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:42, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 30 July 2014
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.
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.
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?
A "program of heroes" is leading the charge in Egypt.
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.
Two articles, four lists, and seven pictures attained featured status on the English Wikipedia last week.
A barnstar for you!
Commons:Valued image candidates/De Javasche Bank, complete 1948 IssueRegarding this... I think you forgot to transclude it, meaning nobody realized you nominated it. BTW, I've been cleaning up the banknotes of Indonesia category. It's now sorted by denomination, in case you want to classify notes more easily. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:44, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 06 August 2014
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.
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.
Eight articles, fifteen pictures, and two topics were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia last week.
"Major growth" expected in Mexican university after a Wikipedia program is formally accepted by the school's administration.
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.
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One more thing on coins I forget if I put this on my wishlist but I could really use images (both sides) of the two Panama-Pacific $50 pieces. As a high priority. Many thanks for your help.--Wehwalt (talk) 21:50, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
Perryville portraitHi, Godot! Adam Cuerden is working with me on a peer review for 33rd Regiment Alabama Infantry, and he suggested I contact you about a file:  . It comes from a collection currently held by the Smithsonian, and he suggested that you might know if there's a larger and/or better version out there. If not, no worries, but I thought I'd just follow up on his suggestion. Any help or advice you could give would be deeply appreciated! - Ecjmartin (talk) 00:45, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
Re:Leader of AlderneyI don't mind at all. Go ahead. I don't have much experience with FL (actually I think this is my first nom) so if a more experienced hand is willing to help, then I would gratefully appreciate it. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 23:23, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 13 August 2014
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.
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.
"Education is at the core of the Wikimedia Foundation’s mission."
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.
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.
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.
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."
Eight article, six lists, and two topics were promoted to featured status last week.
SteeplechaseI'll put the award here this weekend :) I've been very very busy in RL :( → Call me Hahc21 00:35, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 20 August 2014Dorothy Howard interviews Michael Szajewski, archivist for digital development and university records at Ball State University.
Comedian Robin Williams' untimely death takes the top spot.
At the plate with WikiProject Baseball!
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."
Ten articles and three pictures were promoted to featured status last week.
...122... OxfordAppears you and Diliff aren't the only ones doing some photographic work. I may nominate the image of Peter Carey (retired professor there) once I've cleaned up his article a bit. ;) — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:08, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
CSS Image CropFYI, I added this template into the List of Presidents of the United States ... and other articles. There is a problem with this template. It does not work on mobile view. To test this claim go to the List of Presidents of the United States article. Scroll to the end of the article and click onto "Mobile view." This will show you how the article will look to mobile users. I discovered this issue a few months ago. I have yet to find someone to make this template work correctly. Mitchumch (talk) 08:22, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
Template:commons category was placed near the top of the article, just below infobox template. This forced anything after to be below infobox as well. Moving Template:commons category to nearer bottom of article solved placement problem for photo you wanted to add. Roseohioresident (talk) 23:34, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 27 August 2014
Journalistic integrity, Congressional edits, and other news.
More discussions about Media Viewer, Superprotect, and software development
"This was a week when an actual virus, Ebola, competed for attention with several viral social phenomena; most notably the Ice Bucket Challenge..."
Sixteen articles, five lists, five pictures, and one topic were promoted.
DYK nomination of Historical coats of arms of the U.S. states
WikiCup 2014 August newsletterThe final of the 2014 WikiCup begins in a few short minutes! Our eight finalists are listed below, along with their placement in Round 4:
We say goodbye to this year's semi-finalists. There are two upcoming competitions unrelated to the WikiCup which may be of interest to those who receive this newsletter. The Stub Contest will run through September, and revolves around expanding stub articles, especially high-importance or old stubs. In addition, a proposal has been made for a new competition, the GA Cup, which the organisers plan to run next year. This competition is based on the WikiCup and aims to reduce the good article review backlog. There is now a thread for brainstorming on how next year's WikiCup competition should work. Please come along and share your thoughts- What works? What doesn't work? What needs changing? Signups for next year's competition will be open soon; we will be in touch. If, at this stage of the competition, you are keen to help the with the WikiCup, please do what you can to participate in review processes. Our finalists will find things much easier if the backlogs at good article candidates, featured article candidates, featured picture candidates and the rest are kept at a minimum. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 22:09, 31 August 2014 (UTC) Banknotes imagesOkay, so I scanned the remaining notes in the current issue, and am processing them. Question about tables: do you think we should work to keep the relative sizes of the notes accurate at Banknotes of the Rupiah? This might mean a bit of playing with sizes, but it's doable. I'm worried that some people may revert the addition of these (much clearer) scans simply because they're not formatted the way they like. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:54, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 03 September 2014
"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."
Two articles, one list, and ten pictures were promoted
Doc James and some collaborators are working on quick detection of copyright violations
"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..."
"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."
The latest roundup of research about Wikimedia
...I just came across the article, and really enjoyed it; some lovely images as well. Nice work! Hchc2009 (talk) 08:39, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
163? Damn. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:48, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
World banknotes.jpg) Hi, thanks for asking. Not sure what to suggest — my interests center around central and eastern European history. Countries that no longer exist as such would include Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and of course East Germany; defunct governments would be a long list. Suggest that Nazi-era German banknotes be avoided due to obnoxious symbols, but Soviet paper money might be interesting. Since the Baltic states are relatively obscure they might be good choices. I believe Lithuania (right) is the only one of the three not yet to have adopted the euro. As to Danzig, it's unique: A short-lived city-state of German ethnic composition which after 1945 was completely supplanted by Polish in-migrants; the city is now called Gdańsk. Some Freie Stadt Danzig notes list for thousands of dollars on eBay. Sca (talk) 20:26, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
DYK for Historical coats of arms of the U.S. states from 1876
—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:03, 12 September 2014 (UTC) The Signpost: 10 September 2014Last 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.
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.
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!
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 ...
You screwed up the big set.File:McCULLOCH,_Hugh-Treasury_(BEP_engraved_portrait).jpg and File:WINDOM,_William-Treasury_(BEP_engraved_portrait).jpg are not on the nomination page, nor on the navigation between the engravings at each file page. Please advise. Adam Cuerden (talk) 01:00, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 17 September 2014The Hürriyet Daily News reports on a series of posts on Twitter from Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism Ömer Çelik.
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.
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.
There is no unifying theme we can slap on top article popularity this week.
Four articles, two lists, and 51 pictures were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.
For all your work on historical images
Message for you You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. Congrats on getting this to FL! Snuggums (talk / edits) 06:01, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
CongratulationsWell, when I got around to chime in, the list had already been promoted, the efforts of which are deserving of a barnstar all by itself, but I think the above award has it covered. Congratulations! -- Gwillhickers (talk) 21:33, 22 September 2014 (UTC) _2.jpg) --Godot13 (talk) 22:23, 23 September 2014 (UTC) Have a smoke.jpg)
The Signpost: 24 September 2014
Six articles, four lists, one topic, and 17 pictures were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
WikiCup 2014 September newsletterIn one month's time, we will know our WikiCup 2014 champion. Newcomer Signups for the 2015 WikiCup are open. All Wikipedians, new and experienced, are warmly invited to sign up for the competition. Wikipedians interested in friendly competition may also like to sign up for the GA Cup, a new WikiCup-inspired competition which revolves around completing good article reviews. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 22:11, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
Coins Hermitage Museum Another great currency image Hafs, thanks. Do you know of any still life paintings with paper currency (any country but preferably US) by artists like William Harnett or John F. Peto, both of whom appear to have been inspirational for Otis Kaye (sadly still under copyright but see [here] and [here]). --Godot13 (talk) 19:07, 1 October 2014 (UTC) Will check on... Hafspajen (talk) 23:06, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
Allow me to present you your patron saint -> here Saint Eligius. Hafspajen (talk) 12:06, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 01 October 2014
Contributing to the Signpost can be one of the most rewarding things an editor can do.
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.
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.
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.
Jews wished each other Shanah Tovah ("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).
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 Brothers at War. Or help out with the World War I centennial, just starting up, Operation Great War Centennial.
Valued Image nominationHi Godot, I just nominated a stamp image at Commons:Valued image candidates but I'm not exactly sure if I followed the procedure correctly, esp as concerns 'Scope'. Could you give it a look to see if everything's in order, and also leave any comments, etc? -- Gwillhickers (talk) 21:20, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
One Hogshead, please One 'Hogshead' Just finished working on and uploading this image. Thought you'd appreciate it. Going to nominate it for Valued Image. As soon as I can find a 'home' for it (an article) I'd like to nominate it for featured picture. Think it will fly? -- Gwillhickers (talk) 02:42, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
@Godot13 and Crisco 1492: It seems we need to find some other sources besides the Smithsonian Postal Museum, not that it's not good enough, it's probably among the best, but we don't want an article being tagged for heavily relying on one source. Scott's catalog isn't much help. Aside from not including beer stamps, they only offer generic and summary info on revenues altogether. There are a few books listed in google, but they are not viewable on line so I'm not sure how well they cover beer stamps. Would like to offer the readers something besides just a list if that's possible -- at least a list with a good lede and perhaps a section devoted to some of the finer points, history, etc. I've been searching for websites that cover this difficult topic with not much luck, so far.. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 16:22, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
I'm trying to find a book with the title, 'Everything you could possibly want to know about Beer Stamps that Scotts never bothered to mention' . Restoration Here's an image I captured off of e'Bay. The left is the original and the copy to the right is (my attempt at) a restoration. Would like to know how this fares in terms of nominating other images (not this one per se) with similar restoration. I first added contrast, and then enhanced the color saturation. Once this is done, adding sharpness/clarity is easier to effect, compared to trying to sharpen an image that is not as defined. As I'm sure you know, you have to see the image in full view/resolution to really see the difference in sharpness. Thoughts? -- Gwillhickers (talk) 01:23, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
Better scopeI changed the scope/category on my Valued Image nomination from Category:Revenue stamps to Category:Revenue stamps of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. I'm hoping this will narrow the field down to a more acceptable level. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 08:56, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
Greetings Godot13. In editing the article Confederate States of America dollar] you are adding a reference "Fricke 2014" the book by Fricke in the bibliography is dated 2008. Are you using a 2014 edition of that book? If so, can you update the bibliography or add the isbn for the 2014 edition. Thanks, - - MrBill3 (talk) 05:56, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
Is this money he has in his hands? Hafspajen (talk) 12:44, 10 October 2014 (UTC) http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=126012 http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/giacomo-filippo-turrini-229181 http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/full.php?ID=126012 http://www.heraldrysinstitute.com/cognomi/Turrini+Rossi/Italia/idc/3828/lang/en/
The Signpost: 08 October 2014
Also, Wikimedia Norge and Nobel Peace Center edit-a-thon
2 Featured articles, 4 Featured lists, 62 Featured pictures, and 2 Featured portals were promoted.
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.
No seriously, it is.
Yours was "fun" to document accurately. It's alright. I don't hate you yet; I'm saving that for this week's set. ;) Adam Cuerden (talk) 19:41, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
?.JPG) .'Why aren't people voting on the dollars, Godot? Can't notice anything wrong with them .. and only three votes, and one day left... Hafspajen (talk) 22:44, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
_(Italian_(Ferrarese)_-_Allegory_of_Fortune_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) Hm, well, try breaking them up into individual noms - maybe - what a shame. I would withdraw it in the last moment -like three hours before closing - (poor Armb.) and go for the individual nomination of each of them, the fine portraits on them could tell a story - no? Like separate nomination: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln ... one for each of them.Hafspajen (talk) 23:27, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
DYK for Silver certificate (Cuba)
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:02, 16 October 2014 (UTC) DYK Barnstar
DanzigThanks for your update. I find the Freie Stadt Danzig notes aesthetically superb. I believe there is Notgeld currency from numerous German locales — mostly to do with the Inflation. Sca (talk) 13:49, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 15 October 2014_-_The_city_treasurer.jpg)
Why does Wikipedia still use the gendered pronouns "she" and "her" for ships?
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.
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.
Nine articles and twenty-six pictures were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia.
This week we sat down with The Earwig to learn about his wikitext parser.
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.
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.
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Adam Cuerden (talk) 17:27, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
!Godot WHAT am doing wrong ? I never succceeeed adding anything at the votes needed.. There are two windows is that what the problem - I think looks exactly as the other - but the link is redHafspajen (talk) 21:59, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
No. 
{{FPC urgents/Row|File:Portrait of a Man by Jan van Eyck-small.jpg|File:Portrait of a Man by Jan van Eyck-small.jpg|Portrait of a Man}}
{{FPC urgents/Row|Jan van Eyck Portrait of a Man with Red Turban|File:Portrait of a Man by Jan van Eyck-small.jpg}} But your nomination is Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Portrait of a Man by Jan van Eyck-small.jpg, your filename is Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Portrait of a Man by Jan van Eyck-small.jpg, and your suggested description of the nomination is Jan van Eyck Portrait of a Man with Red Turban So it should be {{FPC urgents/Row|File:Portrait of a Man by Jan van Eyck-small.jpg|File:Portrait of a Man by Jan van Eyck-small.jpg|Jan van Eyck Portrait of a Man with Red Turban}} Basically, computers are dumb, and have to have the information fed to them as they expect it. =) Adam Cuerden (talk) 07:03, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
POTD notification
DYK for US Treasury specimen book
PanydThe muffin is not subtle 13:16, 22 October 2014 (UTC) Nominating a setAye Godot, I'd like to nominate a set of 5 images for FP but don't quite know how to go about nominating more than one image at a time. Before I do however I'd like your advice on whether I should nominate these five Beer revenue stamps, (w/ portraits) (tucked away in collapsible box) used in the Revenue stamps of the United States article. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 20:17, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 22 October 2014
Four articles, four lists, and fifty-three pictures were promoted to featured status.
Our op-ed writer this week opines that the organization of Hong Kong's "Umbrella Revolution" resembles how Wikipedia is organized.
Among many newsworthy stories this week, the Signpost notes the passing of Italian Wikipedia administrator and former Wikimedia Italia treasurer [Cotton
Ebola, movies and television articles appear in this week's top ten.
PaintedCarpet explains that "WikiProject Orphanage aims to connect all Wikipedia pages, so that pages can be found and read more easily."
Lovely Halloween
Hafspajen (talk) 17:31, 27 October 2014 (UTC) 
Place holderWikipedia:Featured picture candidates/First Netherlands Indies gulden -1-Dutch_Administration-1_Gulden_(1815).jpg) Godot13 (talk) 17:00, 29 October 2014 (UTC) Danzig - 2 Sure, be glad to help with editing or whatever. I've read quite a lot about Danzig. Sca (talk) 14:27, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
Tax collectors
The Signpost: 29 October 2014
By the way, there is a monster at the end of this article
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.
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
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.
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.
The WikiCupCongratulations on your victory in the WikiCup. I could see way back in September that you would be likely to win if you continued nominating your excellent images at Featured Pictures at the same rate. After that realisation, I eased back on writing new articles for DYK, which had slowed down dramatically in any event, although I still managed 65 in the two month final round. I could have tried to speed up the FAC of Barn owl and the two GANs currently under review that seem to have stalled, but there was little point with you so far in the lead. The other finalists may also have abandoned hope at an early stage. I had thought I ought to retire from the Cup if I were victorious again, so I am quite pleased that you have won, because I enjoy taking part and would feel disappointed at having to give it a miss. :-) Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:16, 1 November 2014 (UTC)
A cup of coffee for you!
Cuban banknotes and WP:MILHISTFor practical purposes, I'm thinking the gallery should just contain the final proofs of the sides with the Cuban heroes. That sound good? I don't think we could CSS crop in a gallery. Adam Cuerden (talk) 11:27, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
Sorry I didn't respond earlier, but I haven't had as much time for editing as I've wanted lately and this slipped my mind. Your idea sounds good, but I am concerned about using an experimental photograph style in a list that is going on the main page. My suggestion is to replace the portraits and see how the new ones work. If they work fine, great; if not, they can be removed without exposure to reader criticism. Giants2008 (Talk) 16:11, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
MILHIST FPsThanks for pointing out the set with all the Union generals on dollar bills. I shall certainly add that, but, as we had a bumper month this month, I'm going to make it part of November's list, as November, without the Wikicup, will likely be a little slower. =) Adam Cuerden (talk) 00:18, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
WikiCup awards
WikiCup 2014: The results   The 2014 WikiCup champion is A full list of our prize-winners follows:
Congratulations to everyone who has been successful in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and a particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have participated this year. We warmly invite all of you to sign up for next year's competition. Discussions and polls concerning potential rules changes are also open, and all are welcome to participate. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2014 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 22:52, 4 November 2014 (UTC) CongratsHey Godot13! Congratulations on being the winner of the 2014 WikiCup. Your restorations of photos and banknotes to FP status are highly appreciated. If you are willing to compete in the 2015 WikiCup, the signups are open now. Best, ///EuroCarGT 23:06, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 05 November 2014
"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."
"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."
The Signpost: 12 November 2014
"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."
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).
Nine articles, two lists, and 55 featured pictures were promoted during the week of 26 October.
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.
Copyright checks when performing AfC reviewsHello Godot13. This message is part of a mass mailing to people who appear active in reviewing articles for creation submissions. First of all, thank you for taking part in this important work! I'm sorry this message is a form letter – it really was the only way I could think of to covey the issue economically. Of course, this also means that I have not looked to see whether the matter is applicable to you in particular. The issue is in rather large numbers of copyright violations ("copyvios") making their way through AfC reviews without being detected (even when easy to check, and even when hallmarks of copyvios in the text that should have invited a check, were glaring). A second issue is the correct method of dealing with them when discovered. If you don't do so already, I'd like to ask for your to help with this problem by taking on the practice of performing a copyvio check as the first step in any AfC review. The most basic method is to simply copy a unique but small portion of text from the draft body and run it through a search engine in quotation marks. Trying this from two different paragraphs is recommended. (If you have any question about whether the text was copied from the draft, rather than the other way around (a "backwards copyvio"), the Wayback Machine is very useful for sussing that out.) If you do find a copyright violation, please do not decline the draft on that basis. Copyright violations need to be dealt with immediately as they may harm those whose content is being used and expose Wikipedia to potential legal liability. If the draft is substantially a copyvio, and there's no non-infringing version to revert to, please mark the page for speedy deletion right away using {{db-g12|url=URL of source}}. If there is an assertion of permission, please replace the draft article's content with {{subst:copyvio|url=URL of source}}. Some of the more obvious indicia of a copyvio are use of the first person ("we/our/us..."), phrases like "this site", or apparent artifacts of content written for somewhere else ("top", "go to top", "next page", "click here", use of smartquotes, etc.); inappropriate tone of voice, such as an overly informal tone or a very slanted marketing voice with weasel words; including intellectual property symbols (™,®); and blocks of text being added all at once in a finished form with no misspellings or other errors. I hope this message finds you well and thanks again you for your efforts in this area. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 02:20, 18 November 2014 (UTC). Sent via--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:20, 18 November 2014 (UTC) SourceGiven negatives are very often flipped horizontally:
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POTD notification Hi Andrew, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Israel-2013-Aerial 21-Masada.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on December 14, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-12-14. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:28, 24 November 2014 (UTC) Japanese occupation money
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The Signpost: 26 November 2014
Four articles, four lists, eleven pictures, and one topic were promoted.
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".
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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.
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.
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The Signpost: 03 December 2014
POTD notification Hi Andrew, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Israel-2013-Aerial 00-Negev-Makhtesh Ramon.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on December 29, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-12-29. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:24, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
WikiCup 2015 is just around the corner...Hello everyone, and may we wish you all a happy holiday season. As you will probably already know, the 2015 WikiCup begins in the new year; there is still time to sign up. We have a few important announcements concerning the future of the WikiCup.
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The Signpost: 10 December 2014
Happy Saint Lucia's dayHappy Saint Lucia's day!
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The Signpost: 17 December 2014
Seasonal Greets!
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A page used for propagandaHi Godot13 and thanks for your explanation about copy paste. I would like to ask you to look at this page which was hijacked by pro-Palestinian and used for propaganda. It has almost no info about the equipment but probably every mention of it in the media. If you think it does require change, I would love to hear your opinion of why. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ashtul (talk • contribs) 07:02, 21 December 2014 (UTC) Best wishes for a happy holiday season
The Signpost: 24 December 2014
...for a 2014 total of 319 FPs...--Godot13 (talk) 05:50, 29 December 2014 (UTC) A barnstar for you!
A barnstar for you!
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