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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.
Incorrect placement of speedy deletionHi there. I created an article only an hour or so ago - Scott Fraser (footballer born 1995) - which you tagged for speedy deletion, claiming it was a duplicate of Scott Fraser (footballer). This is not the case as my article is about a player who was born in 1995 and is currently active. The other article is about a retired player who was active in the 1980s. Clearly, this is not a duplicate, so I would appreciate if you could remove the speedy deletion tag. Many thanks. Username of a generic kind (talk) 09:24, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
I have unreviewed a page you curatedHi, I'm MrX. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Steve Stanley, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you. - MrX 12:19, 8 June 2014 (UTC) Speedy deletion tagHi, You wrote to me regarding the speedy deletion of an article. However, there are no speedy deletion tags on the page in question. I wish to contest this as the article is of a high profile and much sought after public speaker. Please direct me to where you have placed the tags. Thank you. – SMasters (talk) 09:43, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
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Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by MediaWiki message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 07:39, 9 June 2014 (UTC) Aspergers etcHallo Lor, I'm sorry to see that you thought that Wikipedia:High-functioning autism and Aspergers editors was an attempt at humour. You say on your user page that you have Aspergers Syndrome, so I would have thought you would have appreciated this very serious attempt to help relationships between Autism-spectrum editors and others, mostly written by the very highly-respected editor ThatPeskyCommoner (talk · contribs), who did a lot to help A-spectrum editors but is sadly no longer actively editing much because of serious health issues. Perhaps you should sit down calmly and read it, rather than just slamming a tag on it. Happy Editing. PamD 07:28, 11 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.
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Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by MediaWiki message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 07:13, 16 June 2014 (UTC) John Stauffer (professor)Hi Lor, Thanks so much for getting the John Stauffer (professor) wikipedia page up and running! Just out of curiosity, would it be possible to change "professor" to "historian?" The majority of his work is for historical documents, not necessarily a specific class or lecture....thoughts? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stauffer_(professor) Thanks again! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.113.92.25 (talk) 16:42, 16 June 2014 (UTC) ANGLCPR (talk) 16:44, 16 June 2014 (UTC)ANGLCPR Reviewer granted Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on pages protected by pending changes. The list of articles awaiting review is located at Special:PendingChanges, while the list of articles that have pending changes protection turned on is located at Special:StablePages. Being granted reviewer rights neither grants you status nor changes how you can edit articles. If you do not want this user right, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. See also:
 Message added 04:25, 18 June 2014 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. Request to remove the redirect templateI request that the page Misuse of women laws in Indiahas been redirected to the another page named Men's rights movement in India which is totally different and totally discouraging the creator/ editor of the page who has have spent hours on developing the same. Please revert and allow it to develop and grow as it is open for the world to give it shape as it was supposed to, when it was created. RomanSpa had marked it as a notable topic as the laws are being misused relating to women and only victims know its seriousness. Your objections may be worthy but all can be rectified but decision of redirecting it to the another page is harsh.Rajsector3 (talk) 07:19, 19 June 2014 (UTC) Note. I think the reason Rajsector3 mentioned my name above is because I spoke in support of retaining the article a couple of weeks ago. I don't have any particular involvement beyond that, and a vague plan to do some general clean-up of the article. I do feel slightly uneasy about this recent redirect, and hope we can reach a useful consensus on future actions. Thanks. RomanSpa (talk) 09:52, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
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.
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In December 2012, Ballard Designs launched the Ballard+ app, an augmented reality shopping application developed by Marxent Labs which allows consumers to interact with the Ballard Designs catalog using their iOS device.[1] References
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In December 2012, Ballard Designs launched the Ballard+ app, an [[augmented reality]] shopping application developed by [[Marxent Labs]] which allows consumers to interact with the Ballard Designs catalog using their iOS device.<ref name=Larsen12>{{cite news |title=Marxent launches “tap-to-buy” catalog app |author=Dave Larsen |url=http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/business/marxent-launches-tap-to-buy-catalog-app/nTZXJ/ |work=[[Dayton Daily News]] |date=22 December 2012 |accessdate=6 May 2014}}</ref>
Moosejaw language In November 2011, Moosejaw released an augmented reality app designed by Marxent Labs which allows shoppers to hold their mobile device over the Moosejaw catalog and view images of the models in their underwear.[1] References
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In November 2011, Moosejaw released an [[augmented reality]] app designed by [[Marxent Labs]] which allows shoppers to hold their mobile device over the Moosejaw catalog and view images of the models in their underwear.<ref name=Indvik11>{{cite web |url=http://mashable.com/2011/12/13/moosejaw-x-ray-augmented-reality-app-sales/ |title=Augmented X-Ray App Boosts Retailer's Sales by 37% |author=Lauren Indvik |date=13 December 2011 |work=[[Mashable]] |accessdate=7 May 2014}}</ref>
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Cool Stacks, a game developed by Marxent Labs for Speedway LLC, is an integration of an augmented reality game into a consumer loyalty application.[1] References
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Cool Stacks, a game developed by [[Marxent Labs]] for [[Speedway LLC]], is an integration of an augmented reality game into a consumer loyalty application.<ref name=Larsen13>{{cite news |title=Firm Makes Speedway Game ; Application Created by Kettering Company Gets 100,000 Downloads |author=Dave Larsen |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-34899571.html |work=[[Dayton Daily News]] |date=16 July 2013 |accessdate=6 May 2014}}</ref> If these additions look good to you, could you add them into the relevant articles and remove the orphan flag? If you have any other suggestions for places we could link from, I'm happy to look into putting together a sentence or two. Thanks again for your help! Cheers, ChrisPond (Talk · COI) 15:00, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
I would but Im not going to be as active until the 28th of june because of study's. ChrisPond LorChat 00:07, 25 June 2014 (UTC) VisualEditor global newsletter—June 2014  Did you know? The character formatting menu, or "Style text" menu lets you set bold, italic, and other text styles. "Clear formatting" removes all text styles and removes links to other pages. Do you think that clear formatting should remove links? Are there changes you would like to see for this menu? Share your opinion at MediaWiki.org. The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor. The VisualEditor team is mostly working to fix bugs, improve performance, reduce technical debt, and other infrastructure needs. You can find on Mediawiki.org weekly updates detailing recent work.
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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.
SpeediesThough most of your deletion nominations are very appropriate, and very helpful, the rules especially are speedy are quite narrow and specific. In particular: Passing A7 requires only a credible claim to possible significance, which is much less than actual notability. Bishops have at the least a claim to sigificance, and are usually notable. So are authors of books published by recognized publishers. As specific restrictions, if a musical artist has an article in WP, their works are not eligible for speedy A9. Colleges and secondary schools are explicitly not subject to Speedy A7 Please reread WP:CSD and WP:Deletion policy. It is very important not to discourage new contributors, --even if their article subjects are not notable, if there is any chance that they might be, they are entitled to have the community look at it, not just one editor and one admin. We admins who do deletions need the help of the editors marking articles to avoid incorrect or too hasty deletions , because we know that we too can make errors . I'll be glad to help you with any questions. DGG ( talk ) 00:32, 30 June 2014 (UTC) Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent software changes
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Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by MediaWiki message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 06:53, 30 June 2014 (UTC) Speedy deletion declined: Reina Hispanoamericana 2014Hello Lor. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Reina Hispanoamericana 2014, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: The fact that the pageant has a main article is enough - turn to redirect if merited or PROD/AFD instead. Thank you. §FreeRangeFrogcroak 01:55, 1 July 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.
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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.
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Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by MediaWiki message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 07:49, 14 July 2014 (UTC) Hello Lor. Your application for AWB has been approved. Please see WP:AWB#Rules of use for advice on how to use it. When you make edits with automatic assistance, you are still responsible for all your changes. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 18:22, 15 July 2014 (UTC) Auto-block lifting request
Block message: Autoblocked because your IP address was recently used by "Matt reyne has a big dick". The reason given for Matt reyne has a big dick's block is: " Your account has been blocked indefinitely because the chosen username is a clear violation of our username policy – it is obviously profane; threatens, attacks or impersonates another person; or suggests that you do not intend to contribute positively to the encyclopedia (see our blocking and username policies for more information). We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia, so if you think we are wrong then please tell us. But users are not allowed to edit with inappropriate usernames, and we do not tolerate 'bad faith' editing such as trolling or other disruptive behavior. If you think there are good reasons why these don't describe your account, or why you should be unblocked, you are welcome to appeal this block - read our guide to appealing blocks to understand more about unblock requests, and then add the text {{unblock-un|new username|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} at the end of your user talk page. ".
Accept reason: No problems here. Autoblock has been cleared. — Daniel Case (talk) 19:02, 16 July 2014 (UTC) 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.
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"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.
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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.
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