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The Signpost: 02 October 2013Medical images have transformed many aspects of modern medicine. Over the past two decades the increasing sophistication of MRI, CT-scanning, and X-ray techniques has made these technologies the cornerstone of diagnosing a range of conditions, replacing what used to be largely guesswork by doctors. They can be the difference between life and death for a patient, and their importance is underlined by the tens of billions of dollars spent on them annually just in North America. For Wikimedia Foundation projects, advanced images are now a powerful tool for describing and explaining, and educating our worldwide readership of medical articles.
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In what will be remembered as a game-changing week for Wikimedia grantmaking, the Foundation's executive director, Sue Gardner, published a forthright and in places highly critical statement, Reflections on the FDC process, and grantmaking staff revealed that the WMF will significantly strengthen its targeting of optimal impact in funding.
Six articles and two pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.
Editor's note: To go beyond the mere facts of cases, the "Arbitration report" invited several editors who participated in the recent Infoboxes case to comment on infoboxes: what they are, where new users can go to find out about them, specifications and protocols, best practices, and how the upcoming community discussion recommended by the Committee in the case decision should be framed.
This week, we revisited the enthusiastic editors at WikiProject U2. Started in June 2007, the project has grown in spurts, resulting in a collection of 8 Featured Articles and 24 Good Articles. The project maintains a to do list, portal, and a list of references.
The Signpost: 09 October 2013
If you're living in the United States, what did you do during the government shutdown? Well, it seems most people watched the final episode of Breaking Bad.
This week, we moved to the esoteric world of Australian roads.
Seven articles, six lists, and twelve pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.
An investigation by the English Wikipedia community into suspicious edits and sockpuppet activity has led to astonishing revelations that Wiki-PR, a multi-million-dollar US-based company, has created, edited, or maintained several thousand Wikipedia articles for paying clients using a sophisticated array of concealed user accounts.
The University of California, San Francisco attracted substantial media attention over its new course offering that will give credit to fourth year medical students for editing Wikipedia articles about medicine.
A proposed decision has been posted in the Manning naming dispute. The workshop phase of the Ebionites 3 case closes 13 October. Arbitrator NuclearWarfare has resigned.
Opting in to VisualEditorAs you may know, VisualEditor ("Edit beta") is currently available on the English Wikipedia only for registered editors who choose to enable it. Since you have made 50 or more edits with VisualEditor this year, I want to make sure that you know that you can enable VisualEditor (if you haven't already done so) by going to your preferences and choosing the item, " Re: Template:Cephalopod anatomyHi Invertzoo. Thank you for your note. I'll see if I can turn some of these blue in the next few days. While I agree that the inclusion of red links in navigation templates is useful primarily to editors, I think it can also serve readers. Excluding red links might give the false impression that the listed items represent (or at least approximate) a complete set of topics in a given area, when in reality they are a more-or-less arbitrary subset, possibly a very small one. Octopod internal shells, for example, would be completely omitted if red links were left out of this template. A more extreme example would be a genus template listing only species with Wikipedia articles - something I think should be avoided as highly misleading. mgiganteus1 (talk) 22:25, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
The Signpost: 16 October 2013
Media coverage on Wiki-PR, the multi-million-dollar US-based company that has broken several policies and guidelines on the English Wikipedia in its quest to create and maintain thousands of articles for paying clients, continued this week with a feature story by Martin Robbins in the British edition of Vice magazine.
A slow week, with low overall views and the Top 10 dominated by longstanding pages. Gravity, Alfonso Cuaron's outer space-set action art film, not only held its position at the top of the US box office but climbed to the top of the Wikipedia chart as well, showing that it has become a major talking point.
This week, we studied coats of arms and flags with the folks at WikiProject Heraldry and Vexillology. Started in September 2006, the project has grown to include 20 Featured Articles and nearly 50 Good Articles. The project maintains a portal, a list of resources, and a variety of images and templates.
Six articles, two lists, and thirty-three pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.
The Manning naming dispute case has closed, with a strong and unanimous statement by the Committee against disparaging references to transgendered persons. Sanctions were enacted against six editors.
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About Close paraphrase in Ctenoides alesHi Invertzoo, I know about it, I usually don't do that kind of stuff but it was so nicely said. That's a shame sometimes not to be able to use a scientist explanation that is clear as water even if we mention the reference. I can try to get the author authorisation but then how to mention it on wiki? Cheers, Bastaco (talk) 17:37, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
The Signpost: 23 October 2013
The next twice-yearly round of Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) grantmaking is soon to close for community questioning and commentary. Ten nation-based Wikimedia chapters and one thematic organisation are asking for a total of more than US$5M of donors’ money from the Foundation’s renamed annual plan grant process. Aside from Wikimedia UK ($708k), the three biggest asks are from the German-speaking chapters: Wikimedia Germany is asking for $2.4M and Wikimedia Austria $311k; and the German-language-related Swiss chapter is applying for $500k.
Media, sports and Google Doodles dominate, though a very odd fish decided to crash the party.
Twelve articles, four lists, and four pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week, including the article on cabbage.
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MIT Technology Review published a long article on what it called "The decline of Wikipedia". Editor involvement has decreased since 2007; according to the article, this has had an adverse qualitative effect on content, particularly on issues pertinent to non-British and American male geeks.
This week, we headed to an elementary subject with WikiProject Elements. Founded by Mav in 2002, this project has grown to have 19 featured articles, 2 featured topics, and 68 good articles. The project also has a list of templates, and a periodic table of elements filled with pictures.
Wikimedia NYC Meetup- "Greenwich Village In The 60s" Editathon! Saturday November 2Please join Wikipedia "Greenwich Village In The 60s" Editathon on November 2, 2013! HiHi and thanks for all your advice, if you couldn't tell The Way of St Andrews is my first post on Wikipedia. I'm actually doing it as a favour to a friend and he hasn't provided proper references for me to use - just the books that you have redirected to citations - I have already highlighted this to him but to be honest don't think this is likely to change any time soon. Feel free to give more feedback/move stuff around as you see fit. Your help is very much appreciated - this was a little trickier than I expected it to be! I think he's mostly concerned with having the content up and then we can work on it from there - next step is getting an image in, and finding the time to do it! Thanks again! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nicolahancock (talk • contribs) 22:35, 29 October 2013 (UTC) October 2013
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