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Thanks a lot my friend. Please do the same if you can on these as I have no time, and don't forget to cast your vote. [1]. [2], [3]. Time we got them moved I think. Let's keep it neutral (talk) 11:43, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
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Please submit an AfD and FAIL. Also don't template the regulars, we know the rules and this is why you will lose. And if you're to tag something for Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion, you MUST discuss it on the talk page which you FAILED to do. Regards IJA (talk) 22:24, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
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.
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."
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."
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"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."
"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."
G'day, welcome to WikiProject Yugoslavia! We hope you'll stay, there's plenty to do! Feel free to contact other members of the WikiProject if you have any questions. Regards, Peacemaker67 (send... over) 03:29, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi Peacemaker67 mate, I've worked with you several times before and I've done loads of editing on Yugo, I just didn't realise there was a project. I thought I'd best join as I was pretty much a de facto member anyway. Regards IJA (talk) 09:49, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
Last 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 ...
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.
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.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 11,446 last month to 11,461 on September 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 112 is ahead of WP:GM who have 83. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,381 articles.
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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.
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.
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.
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. In the future, it is recommended that you use the preview button before you save; this helps you find any errors you have made, reduces edit conflicts, and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history. Hi, good work on football articles. Could you please use the Preview button rather than save each edit you make in future. Thanks :)JMHamo (talk) 14:21, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
Because that is what experienced editors (like yourself) usually do... It's easier to diff your changes on articles too... JMHamo (talk) 14:24, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
and as the template says... and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history. JMHamo (talk) 14:25, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
I'm sorry but I'm on a shared network and internet pages regularly time out. I do often use the preview button to make sure my edits look correct once published. Anyway because I'm on a shard network where the pages regularly times out, I don't want my edits going to waste therefore I'm saving them whilst I can. Sorry for any problems which may have occurred. Regards IJA (talk) 14:28, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
OK, that is fair enough. I understand what you mean. Keep up the good work!! JMHamo (talk) 14:32, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
Cheers mate. It is very frustrating when you're trying to make a big edit on the article and the pages just times out. All your hard work has gone. When I've been creating articles recently, I've been doing it on a Microsoft Work document and copying and pasting them into my sandbox to make sure they're correct before publishing. Hopefully this crappy internet I'm temporarily on gets sorted out soon! Regards IJA (talk) 14:35, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
Among many newsworthy stories this week, the Signpost notes the passing of Italian Wikipedia administrator and former Wikimedia Italia treasurer [Cotton
He didn't actually play in that game, it was a mistake by the BBC which was picked up by other sources. Therefore he is actually non-notable. Am I OK deleting it per WP:G7? GiantSnowman 17:07, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
@GiantSnowman: Hmmmm. Soccerbase says he got an appearance [4] as did Bradford City who says he played 30 mins and 2 seconds [5]. What do we do from here? IJA (talk) 17:12, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
@GiantSnowman:This confirms he didn't feature. You can delete it as he clearly isn't notable at this stage. I thought it was a weird that a goalkeeper came on for an outfield player. It is just annoying that I've spent time creating that article. IJA (talk) 17:31, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
Yes, that's what first got alarm bells ringing for me when I saw the game result, and that's why I didn't create the article back then (I'm a Bradford City fan so monitor club-related articles closely). I can delete - if and when he makes an appearance it can be restored very quickly and simply. Or alternatively I can move it into User:IJA/Matthew Urwin so you can continue to work on it? Let me know either way. GiantSnowman 17:50, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
"It is important to include that her new identity has been revealed too" – then please find a source that says so without attributing it to the Daily Star or another worthless source. – Smyth\talk 14:45, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
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.
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Just wanted to ask about your decision to delete Noah Pawlowski, it seems that there is some confusion as he isn't being listed as a professional athlete, rather as an Amateur Sports Person who has won a national award and who has received non trivial news coverage. This qualifies the entry as notable based on WP:NCOLLATH. Does this make sense? --YouCallThisClean? (talk) 08:02, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
Meetup!
Aye oop our kid! Is it time we organised a wikimeet soon? Can always do something round our way too - I'm heading to Keighley FabLab on Saturday as well if you fancy it? Leela0808 (talk) 12:09, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
@Leela0808: Hia, long time now see. I was thinking of a meet-up just recently actually. First weekend of December would be ideal for me, either 6th or 7th. Unfortunately I no longer liver in Keighley, I live in Huddersfield now. Have you got Bazonka on facebook? If so I'll get him to send me your facebook details and we can organise a wikimeet in Leeds. Also you'll have to do all the Wikimedia stuff as I have no idea how to do anything on there haha. Regards IJA (talk) 13:58, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
"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."
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@Psychonaut: Thanks for your message but you do realise that happened OVER FIVE YEARS AGO??? Also don't template the regulars, it is patronising. Regards IJA (talk) 10:49, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
Hello, IJA. Yes, I realized the copying happened five years ago. Sorry about the template, but it says pretty much everything I would have written even in a completely personalized message. Could you please have a look for and fix any other copy-paste moves you may have done in the past? It's important that the authors of articles be properly attributed, regardless of how long ago you may have copied their material. This is particularly important for Balkans-related topics, which for some reason tend to attract a greater than usual number of copyright violations. (I discovered your copy-paste move only because I was in the process of sorting through a massive Contributor Copyright Investigation involving hundreds of pages.) It's important that we preserve editing histories so that copyvios can be quickly identified and fixed when material is shifted between pages. —Psychonaut (talk) 10:58, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
@Psychonaut: - Cheers for getting back to me, as far as I'm aware that is the only one as I normally do the proper WP:RM procedure. However this one was something to do with two events on the same article and they needed splitting, I went the wrong way about doing it back then. Regards IJA (talk) 11:10, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
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Sheffield Editathon 22 November 2014
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Noah Pawlowski
Just wanted to ask about your decision to delete Noah Pawlowski, it seems that there is some confusion as he isn't being listed as a professional athlete, rather as an Amateur Sports Person who has won a national award and who has received non trivial news coverage. This qualifies the entry as notable based on WP:NCOLLATH. Does this make sense? --YouCallThisClean? (talk) 08:04, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi, just wondering if you thought about your reversion of my edit. Mother Teresa was born in Skopje. Her family appears to originate from Kosovo. She lived in and became famous for her work in India. Other than holding Albanian citizenship in the latter years of her life, I'm missing the strong ties she held to the Republic of Albania that warrant including an image of her in the religion section. I hope you'll be able to explain it to me. Albert Einstein held US citizenship towards the end of his life, yet his image is missing from the US article. Having her image there sends the message that she was Albania's most significant religious figure, but that is certainly not true since she was mostly on the other side of the globe.
Just browsing around the religion sections of some country articles, I noticed none of the them include images of individuals but, rather, of places. --Local herotalk 21:28, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
@Local hero: - I'm not questioning her birth place at all. The US is a lot bigger than Albania and has a lot more famous notable people than Albania. Her strong ties are citizenship and ethnicity. 23:09, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
Albania is an article about a country. For the ethnic group, there is Albanians. There is quite a difference between the two, especially since many ethnic Albanians originate from places outside that nation. Mother Teresa is one of those people.
The other reason you give is her citizenship. She appears to have held citizenship in eight different nations during her life. Maybe we should include her photo on all of those articles. Like I stated above, it comes down to the fact that she spent her life in India. She may have come from Macedonia, but it is India where she became notable.
I also repeat, it does not seem like common practice to include a photo of an individual in the religion section of a country article. --Local herotalk 05:07, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
Please also note that there appears to be no citation given in Mother Teresa's article that states she ever held Albanian citizenship. --Local herotalk 05:11, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
I could probably get more accomplished talking to a wall than continuing this discussion here. I've made points I'm sure I won't be addressed. It just seems like such a reach to include an image of someone whose notability has so little to do with Albania on that article; it sends a message that Albania has had no significant religious figures other than someone who spent her life in India and happened to be ethnically Albanian.
Gjirokastra, it was very big of you to change 'fyrom' to 'Macedonian' in your comment...
IJA, I know you're too cool to chime back in here but I'm really starting to question how much attention you pay when editing. Did you not realize your latest edit on Albania reinstated a couple spelling errors ([6])? C'mon, man. --Local herotalk 18:07, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
@Local hero:It is positive that you reached the conclusion ( on your own ) that your ¨points¨ were equal to someone talking to the wall . However if you meditate a bit harder you will see that even so , all of them were answered . The rest of the blah blah is a clear wp:idontlikeit . Btw, her notability has so much to with Albania as per citizenship , origin , family history and as per her own words of course ... ! So instead of non standing excuses of non notability or lack of religious figures from Albania , why don't you just assume the obvious ? Which is that Mother Teresa is one of the most (if not the most ) known religious figures globally of the past century , and she is Albanian ... i mean it gets so ridiculous as ridiculous it would be a discussion of why an orange is in fact an orange ...Gjirokastra15 (talk) 21:20, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
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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).
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Manchester meetup November 2014
Hi IJA.
Just thought you might like to know that the meetup start time has changed to 4pm. I know you said you can't come, but I thought I should say, just in case.
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".
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.
We talked about live updating last season and now I see you doing it again. Please do not do that as it is against consensus. People have beeen blocked for it in the past and if you continue I will consider your edits disruptive. Please stop, thank you. QED237(talk) 21:56, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
From Wikipedia:Ignore all rules: "If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it." The so-called consensus at Wikipedia:WikiProject Snooker was agreed by only three users. The 2014 proposal to make this an actual rule failed to gain consensus. I have have not violated a single Rule, Policy or Guideline by keeping sport articles up-to-date. I am aware that you warned me last season and I gave you an explanation again. If your warnings continue you, I may have to report you for Wikipedia:Harassment. As things stand, there is no consensus against live editing, I only update articles once the sources/ references have been updated. As a matter of fact, I have brought this issue up at several wiki meetups and the admins and bureaucrats agreed that it was ok for me to live edit as long as I ensure that the article is up-to-date once the match has ended. Regards IJA (talk) 08:26, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
Then you may not have been aware of recent consensus on Wikipedia:WikiProject Football and the fact that editor has gotten blocked for live updating after WP:ANI confirmed consensus and blocked the editors. QED237(talk) 23:15, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
Please show me this so-called "consensus". IJA (talk) 23:20, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (11,606 last month). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 112 is ahead of WP:GM who have 83. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,422 articles.
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You will probably not understand me but for clarity: you say the argument that links from outside are broken could be used against any move. No. Only when - as in this case - there is no redirect. I imagine the reaction of people expecting information about a person and arriving at a disambiguation page for two people ... --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:18, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
@Gerda Arendt: - I imagine they'd have to click on one of the two links, it isn't the end of the world and it isn't a concern for Wikipedia where an external website's link leads to. Regards IJA (talk) 18:29, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
@Gerda Arendt: - It would be a problem for the external website. We shouldn't let the concerns of external websites affect decision making on Wikipedia. It is up to the external website to fix and update their own links, but as a Wikipedian, I'm not bothered if an external website's links work or not, it is not of any concern for Wikipedia. IJA (talk) 18:42, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
I thought that would not understand me. I didn't speak about the move, but that the broken links don't speak against ANY MOVE as you seem to have claimed. A move leaving a redirect is fine, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:52, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
@Gerda Arendt: - It will still take them to the page but a redirect version of the page. But like I said, it isn't of any concern where an external website's link leads to. IJA (talk) 18:55, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
(What do you mean by "it"? Or perhaps I don't understand "lead"?) - I would like you to redact your "could be used as an argument against any RM", because it doesn't make sense. See also. (Happen to listen to Humperdinck music right now, Advent concert of Northrhine Westphalia in the Kevelaer Basilika, live broadcast, with the states prime minister.)[7] --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:09, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
@Gerda Arendt: - No because it still applies, an external weblink will still link to a redirect version of that page. It doesn't matter that someone has taken their name from someone else, Primary Topic still applies. If anything the singer is more notable and more famous than the composer. I know you're a fan of the composer and you probably have a website with a link to the wikipedia article of the composer and this RM has inconvenienced you however that is not a reason to be against this RM. We have guidelines and policies on Wikipedia and we must follow them to build a fair encyclopaedia. Regards IJA (talk) 20:21, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
Listen, I would normally give up trying to be understood. (English is not my first language, I guess you know that.) I am not a fan of the composer, interesting what you think you know. I don't talk about this move, do you understand? I am not talking about guidelines, only about logic or lack thereof. "The argument that off site links are now broken is laughable, you could use that argument to oppose any RM." No. Let's forget that you laugh where I am bitter: the logic is wrong. When there is a redirect, as with most moves, nothing is broken, - therefore that argument could NOT be used to oppose ANY RM, only those without a redirect, as this one, where an external link goes NOT to a redirect version but to a silly disambiguation page of just two names. Laughable, good word that, I didn't know it before, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:48, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
@Gerda Arendt: - I know all of that, repeating yourself isn't going to change anything, I understood you the first time. I'm not bothered if an external link goes to a disambiguation page. Your English is very good for a second language. Regards IJA (talk) 00:56, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
IJA here is the municipalty offical page name in english.here.Regards and Respect Lindi29 (talk) 22:05, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
@Lindi29: - Thanks for that Lindi however Official Names aren't going to help us per Wikipedia:Official names. WP:COMMONNAME is what we have to go off, if you are able to provide evidence that Peja is the Common Name in the English language, that would be most appreciated. 00:20, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
Wikidata, Wikimedia's free linked database that supplies Wikipedia and its sister projects, is gearing up to submit a grant application to the EU that would expand Wikidata's scope by developing it as a science hub. The proposal, supported by more than 25 volunteers and half a dozen European institutions as project partners, aims to create a virtual research environment (VRE) that will enhance the project's capacity for freely sharing scientific data.
A "study tour" by the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation for the purpose of researching development projects has been the subject of much controversy and criticism in the Indian press... The Indian Express described a government report about the trip as having copied extensively from the Wikipedia articles for Port Blair and the Kolkata Municipal Corporation.
Unlike last year, Wikipedia viewers seem to have embraced the Christmas spirit, with three topics in the top 10 (and eight in the top 25) focused on the holiday season.
Chris Troutman has been a campus ambassador for six classes in the Los Angeles area over the past four consecutive semesters. He is currently a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar at University of California, Riverside.
A paper titled "Factors that influence the teaching use of Wikipedia in Higher Education" uses the technology acceptance model to shed light on faculty's (of Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) views of Wikipedia as a teaching tool.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 11,606 in November to 11,657 on January 6th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 112 is ahead of WP:GM who have 83. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,450 articles.
Currently we have thirty three Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Happy New Year
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ISIL hostage quotes Wikipedia in propaganda video; AirAsia articles draw complaints regarding Flight 8501; Article errors reveal US political approaches to Wikipedia editing; Rhode Island Governor numbering debate
User:Jakec has been a Wikipedia editor for over two years and has been a writer of many recent Did you know articles on Wikipedia, including multiple articles on rivers and streams in the state of Pennsylvania.
We end 2014 and and start 2015 with the normal array of year-end activities, including movie watching with Bollywood film PK (#1) topping the list, followed by The Interview (#2), 2014 in film (#10), and five other films in the rest of the Top 25, plus a number of articles about the subjects of these films. We celebrated the New Year by singing "Auld Lang Syne" (#11), or perhaps watching Adam Lambert (#9) perform with Queen. But we could not avoid a final tragedy with the crash of Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 (#4) on December 28.
I don't know why you are threatening me, because it will get nowhere; I could very well report you too. However, we should work together to make a non-biased and NPOV-ish Pristina article. I'm just saying if you can put the "country" as Kosovo and put a measly little citation considering what a big territorial dispute it is and how evenly divided the subject is world wide, why can't you do it vice-versa? The best solution though is to put both the "Republic of Kosovo" and the APKM in the first paragraph of the article and acknowledge a territorial dispute, which is not in a citation.
LeoC12 (talk) 00:16, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
I don't think that would be helpful. Giving both positions parity would be a great disservice to readers, when one position is real and the other is a political fiction. bobrayner (talk) 00:27, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
There's no *real* position; there's a de facto position, which is obviously favours the "Republic of Kosovo". However, on other articles of unrecognised states which use the Kosovo precedent which also have de facto sovereignty, there is a mention of dispute. Even on China's article, there is a mention of a ROC claim and for the sake of a NPOV and consistency, we have to mention that Kosovo is a disputed territory, which it is. LeoC12 (talk) 03:29, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
@LeoC12: - Pristina is in Kosovo regardless as whether you believe Kosovo to be a province or a country, we have a note to explain the situation. Your ultra-POV pushing and edit warring is unhelpful. Continue and I'll report you. Blind reverting and making controversial edits without consensus is in violation of a load of Wikipedia policies (I could list them all if you wanted). Yes there is mention to the ROC claim on the China article just like there is mention to Serbian claim on the Kosovo article. There is however no mention to the ROC claim on the Beijing article because it isn't required or necessary, on the Pristina article there is mention to the dispute via the note; this is in line with the Wikipedia policy: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Kosovo-related articles. Regards IJA (talk) 14:33, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
The dispute is already mentioned. That's a red herring. Edits like this aren't teaching the controversy, they're erasing the de-facto position and replacing it with fantasy. bobrayner (talk) 14:36, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
Ever since the Wikipedia Seigenthaler biography incident in 2005 triggered the restriction against un-registered editors creating new pages, WikiProject Articles for creation (AfC) has stood in the breach. The WikiProject's purpose is to review draft submissions from IPs (and frequently new registered editors) to sort the wheat from the chaff.
This anniversary issue, the WikiProject report is returning to WikiProject Articles for creation for one of our largest interviews ever. Last looked at in 2011, AfC is the method used by unregistered or new users to create articles, and provides an effective filtering system to remove all unsuitable or unsourced submissions to save them needing to be found and deleted later.
On the fourteenth anniversary of the founding of the English Wikipedia, the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation has announced that its prestigious annual Erasmus Prize will be awarded to the worldwide community that has built Wikipedia.
It's a grim certainty what topic most interested Wikipedia viewers this week. The horrific attacks on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine have drawn anger and resolve from around the world, and also the attention of an English-speaking world that had previously never heard of it.
Without trying to impose any kind of sympathy, I'd like to invite you to review my proposed move of this page, regardless of your decision or opinion. It would be great if you'd give your thoughts on the proposal, and/or a comment/opinion. --PjeterPeter (talk) 15:39, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
Over seventy years ago, the US destroyer Mahan was patrolling off Ponson Island in the Philippines when eleven Japanese kamikaze aircraft appeared over the horizon and attacked. George Pendergast, who edits Wikipedia with the username Pendright, was eighteen years old when he joined Mahan 's crew in April 1944.
Our contributor opines that WikiProjects are failing to live up to their potential. WikiProject X is a new project funded by a Wikimedia Foundation Individual Engagement Grant that focuses on figuring out what makes some WikiProjects work and not others.
Quotes from Jimbo on Wikipedia in education; net neutrality; preserving musical heritage; Wikipedia in audio; a cheerful vandal credits high school with papal visitations.
The English Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee has closed the colossal GamerGate arbitration case, whose size—involving 27 named parties—recalls large and complex cases of the past.
A paper presented at the International Conference on Pattern Recognition last year presents an automated method to improve Wikipedia's coverage of theatre plays.
As with last year, music stars were the majority of celebrities on the list, as their frequent concerts and media appearances keep their flames alight longer than others of their stripe.
I think that given the sensitive issue of this matter , it merits a new move request . I am sure that the majority will vote in favor of sanity and not ' Wikipedia a medium for wp:pov nationalistic pushing' . Thus waiting for 2 more years for a matter that is in complete defiance of wikipedia's fundamental laws , is not the way to go .Gjirokastra15 (talk) 07:48, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 11,657 last month to 11,759 on January 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 112 is ahead of WP:GM who have 83. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,462 articles.
Currently we have thirty three Yorkshire featured articles:
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A small band of dedicated editors seek to improve articles relating to a less lively topic. If you haven't yet guessed, this week's focus is WikiProject Death.
Another British trying to hide the Fact that Gibraltar is under United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories
I really call for the Administrators to stop the british bulling against this fact. Stop hiding the truth, every single person removing it is British, colonial power trying to desinform. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pep2co (talk • contribs) 16:43, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
Epic Fail. You went running to Admins after your POV edit warring and it resulted in you getting blocked hahahahahahahahaha! IJA (talk) 20:00, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi there. As one of the recent editors of Gibraltar who recently (knowingly or not) participated in an edit war over how much prominence to give to a certain item in the lead of the article, I am inviting you to comment on a proposal at Talk:Gibraltar towards unprotecting the article. Can I also take this opportunity to cordially remind you that it is both more collegial and more effective to discuss in talk than to join in an edit war? Thanks a lot. --John (talk) 23:32, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Edina edit war illustrates disconnect between new and experienced editors; Wikipedia is "astroturf's dream come true"; Canadian government investigating even more Wikipedia editing; academics on Gamergate as "clash of civilizations"?
Wikipedia presents itself as a repository for the world, and while that is a noble sentiment, it is still true that, Conservapedian complaints notwithstanding, the English language Wikipedia is very often the American Wikipedia, and never has that been more apparent than this week.
This week, we bring three of the most recently created WikiProjects to come into being on the English Wikipedia. While many long-established projects are becoming inactive, (as we have covered before), that doesn't stop new ones forming every now and then to cover a topic that a group of editors feel should be better cared for.
Project IconHi, IJA, you are graciously extended an invitation to join the WikiProject Republika Srpska! WikiProject Republika Srpska is a WikiProject whose aim is to improve the quality and coverage of articles related to Republika Srpska and the Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is chiefly designed to help users collaborate on articles, but also to resolve open questions and disputes, to establish project-wide conventions, and to coordinate work on vandalism clean-up.
WikiProject Republika Srpska currently covers a total of 0 articles and 0 other related pages on the English Wikipedia.
The Australian ("Wikipedia not destroying life as we know it", February 11) and Times Higher Education ("Wikipedia should be 'better integrated' into teaching", February 10) reported on a recent study performed at Monash University, titled "Students’ use of Wikipedia as an academic resource – patterns of use and perceptions of usefulness".
The authors of this report inform us that the "goal in the Revision Scoring project is to do the hard work of constructing and maintaining powerful AI so that tool developers don't have to. This cross-lingual, machine learning classifier service for edits will support new wiki tools that require edit quality measures."
Darwin Day is observed annually on February 12 to commemorate the life and work of scientist Charles Darwin. Here is a selection of images of life on the Galápagos Islands, where Darwin made key observations leading to his scientific theory of evolution by natural selection.
This week saw the 57th Annual Grammy Awards (#13 on the Top 25) held on 8 February dominating the traffic chart, as music lovers checked out Sam Smith (#3) picking up four awards, Beck taking album of the year, and performances including Sia (#9), Madonna (#11), and Annie Lennox (#16). But Valentine's Day (#1) proved the perfect time for the release of Fifty Shades of Grey, with the movie coming in at #5, the book of the same name at #2, and the primary actors at #14 and #15.
The most significant item on ArbCom's agenda this fortnight has been the closure of the Wifione case and subsequent fallout, although the fallout from GamerGate continues to linger.
A report from the external research firm Lafayette Practice has declared that the Wikimedia Foundation is the "largest known participatory grantmaking fund." Several concerns have been raised with the report, the phrase being used (participatory grantmaking), the now-former Wikipedia article on that phrase, and an alleged conflict of interest by WMF staff members.
Doc James tells us that "The one good thing that has come out of all of this is that Wikipedia’s content passing a major textbook publisher review processes is some external validation of Wikipedia’s quality."
Andrew McMillen's February 3 profile of and his quest to rid Wikipedia of the phrase "comprised of" has been one of the most widely circulated and commented upon media stories about the encyclopedia recently.
The Gallery is an occasional Signpost feature highlighting quality images and articles from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons based on a particular theme, as well as an article you could help improve. This week, we feature subjects that are "far from home".
An odd juxtaposition this week, as interest in Fifty Shades of Grey coincided with the observance of the Chinese New Year and the annual festival of penance, Ash Wednesday.
This week's project is on a youth activity, one of the largest in the world; its project is commensurately large, containing around 136 active editors. It's WikiProject Scouting, a group of editors whose remit is everything relating to the Scouting movement, which has around 42 million members worldwide and celebrated the centenary of its founding only eight years ago.
Editor's note: the Blog will be a recurring Signpost section that will highlight a recent post from the Wikimedia blog, run by the Wikimedia Foundation. This week's installment is written by Philippe Beaudette, the Foundation's Director of Community Advocacy, and focuses on planning for the future of the Wikimedia movement.
A report from the external research firm Lafayette Practice has declared that the Wikimedia Foundation is the "largest known participatory grantmaking fund." Several concerns have been raised with the report, the phrase being used (participatory grantmaking), the now-former Wikipedia article on that phrase, and an alleged conflict of interest by WMF staff members.
Doc James tells us that "The one good thing that has come out of all of this is that Wikipedia’s content passing a major textbook publisher review processes is some external validation of Wikipedia’s quality."
Andrew McMillen's February 3 profile of and his quest to rid Wikipedia of the phrase "comprised of" has been one of the most widely circulated and commented upon media stories about the encyclopedia recently.
The Gallery is an occasional Signpost feature highlighting quality images and articles from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons based on a particular theme, as well as an article you could help improve. This week, we feature subjects that are "far from home".
An odd juxtaposition this week, as interest in Fifty Shades of Grey coincided with the observance of the Chinese New Year and the annual festival of penance, Ash Wednesday.
This week's project is on a youth activity, one of the largest in the world; its project is commensurately large, containing around 136 active editors. It's WikiProject Scouting, a group of editors whose remit is everything relating to the Scouting movement, which has around 42 million members worldwide and celebrated the centenary of its founding only eight years ago.
Editor's note: the Blog will be a recurring Signpost section that will highlight a recent post from the Wikimedia blog, run by the Wikimedia Foundation. This week's installment is written by Philippe Beaudette, the Foundation's Director of Community Advocacy, and focuses on planning for the future of the Wikimedia movement.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 11,759 last month to 11,786 on February 26th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 113 is ahead of WP:GM who have 84. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,470 articles.
Currently we have thirty three Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon
There is an edit-a-thon on the subject of Art+Feminism to be held at the Hepworth Wakefield on Sunday 8 March 2015. Any members who fit the criteria "Women and allies of all genders, including non-binary gender identities" in the Wakefield area who can get to the event would be welcome to participate. For more information and to sign-up see the event page.
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We received a large amount of feedback in our survey indicating that our readers found the idea of contributing to the Signpost difficult due to our opaque internal structure.
Last week, my colleagues on the Signpost produced a news report covering a minor controversy about a report commissioned by the Wikimedia Foundation. Written by the staff of The Lafayette Practice, a French research firm, it proclaimed the WMF as a leader in the practice of participatory grantmaking.
In the first of what the author hopes will become a regular feature of the Arbitration report, the Signpost speaks to veteran arbitrator Newyorkbrad, who recently retired from the committee after almost seven years of arbitrating. The Signpost was keen to hear his thoughts on his time on the committee and on the past, present, and future of ArbCom.
Before being indefinitely blocked, User:FergusM1970 made more than 4600 edits on the English Wikipedia, spread over eight years. In the last two years, he was paid to edit several articles for clients that included the Venezuelan energy company Derwick Associates. We spoke with him about his experiences.
Numerous news outlets are reporting that the domain loser.com now redirects to the Wikipedia article for rapper Kanye West. Page views on West's Wikipedia article skyrocketed to almost 250,000 views on March 2, up from less than 19 thousand the previous day.
Black History Month is celebrated annually in the United States in February, to commemorate the history of the African diaspora. For this occasion, Wikipedians worked together to honor black history and to address Wikipedia's multicultural gaps in the encyclopedia, hosting Wikipedia edit-a-thons throughout the United States, from February 1 to 28, 2015.
The Wikimedia Foundation gave the Signpost an advance copy of the results of a survey of English Wikipedia readers regarding Wikimedia fundraising, due for official release today.
In an effort to protect and maintain the privacy of Wikipedia's thousands of editors, the Wikimedia Foundation has filed a lawsuit against the United States' National Security Agency, Department of Justice, and the Attorney General.
A dull week, with only three new entries in the top 10; a UFC champion, a Google Doodle and a Hindu festival involving people throwing powder at each other (though that does sound fun).
I continue to be excited about the Core Contest because I see it as a way of encouraging the expansion of broad articles that are typically neglected by our article improvement incentives.
WP:AIRPORT-CONTENT (bullet point #11) specifically states that new services/destinations must have a full start date. So, Air Serbia cannot be added as you did to Pristina International Airport until an FIRM DATE is given. If you disagree, then take your matters to the project talk page. 71.12.206.168 (talk) 02:55, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
That is a preferred notation on a Wikiproject, not a Wikipedia Policy or Guideline. IJA (talk) 11:22, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
Yes, that was a guideline, which was agreed by consensus at WT:AIRLINE. And you're not following the majority's opinions with your edits, so please stop.--JetstreamerTalk 13:03, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
I only made one revision, so what 'edits' (plural) are you referring to? Anyway it was sourced content and depriving our readers/ audiences of properly and reliably referenced knowledge on an encyclopaedia isn't an improvement for Wikipedia. If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it, this is one of the key principles of Wikipedia. I don't particularly care what was agreed at WP:AIRLINE, depriving people of knowledge on a free encyclopaedia goes against what Wikipedia stands for. Does it really matter if a start date is yet to be confirmed? IJA (talk) 13:25, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
Oh and I've read that so-called consensus, it hardly stands for much as the so-called consensus doesn't explicitly state that an exact start date must be included before content should be added. Snoozlepet stated there should be a firm date but everyone else said it should just be a year. So my revert was in line with the so-called consensus as it included the year. It would appear that (bullet #11) was added to WP:AIRPORT-CONTENT without a consensus. IJA (talk) 13:35, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
Yes this content isn't news or a travel guide but encyclopaedic content about a future destination for the airport. Also, give me one good reason why I should "Wait for a firm date"? I've already shown that there is no consensus, if there is a consensus, it is to just add the year. IJA (talk) 13:46, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
Here you have the link to the discussion where the inclusion of the year (aside from month and day) was under debate. Pleaso also note that bobrayner stated that they updated the guidelines following consensus.--JetstreamerTalk 14:07, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
That doesn't say we can't have just a year, it says that if we use an exact date, we must include the year too to clarify which year. That archived discussion does not state that an exact confirmed date must be established before content can be added to the article. IJA (talk) 14:14, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
The source says that flights are expected to start in 2015. Therefore, it's reasonable for the article to say that flights are expected to start in 2015. To remove sourced content because one of wikipedia's internal guidelines prefers a precise date is either witless bureaucratism or deliberate disruption. Jetstreamer, when you linked to my comments, did you realise I was responding to somebody who was deliberately removing sourced content, leaving readers vulnerable to outdated articles? Do you now realise you're using the same comment to justify removing sourced content which leaves readers vulnerable to an outdated article? bobrayner (talk) 16:32, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
Cheers Bob. The content is sourced, I don't understand why we can't say that flights will take place at some point this year without having an exact date. It is ludicrous! IJA (talk) 16:39, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
I have started a discussion at WT:AIRPORTS regarding this. Let's continue the discussion there. Citydude1017 (talk) 17:11, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
The sourced content can be included anywhere in the article, except for the destinations table according to WP:AIRPORT-CONTENT. I don't know why this is so difficult to understand.--JetstreamerTalk 17:15, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
Many people have different opinions and arguments on Wikipedia. That is why it would be best to discuss this matter so we can all come to an agreement and strive to make Wikipedia a better encyclopedia. Citydude1017 (talk) 17:36, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
We announce with sadness and gratitude that Signpost publication and newsroom manager Pine will be stepping back to focus on other Wikipedia and Wikimedia-related endeavors.
This process is now entering its long-awaited final phase with the upcoming SUL finalization, scheduled for April 15, less than a month away. ... Wikimedia Foundation chief talent and culture officer Gayle Karen Young announced her retirement from the Foundation this week. Young will be replaced in that role by interim chief operating officer Terry Gilbey. According to the Foundation's job description for the title as it was applied in the past, Gilbey will be in charge of "overall administration and business operations of the Wikimedia Foundation."
On March 13, Kelly Weill of Capital New York revealed that numerous Wikipedia edits originated from 1 Police Plaza, the headquarters of the NYPD. Most of the attention has focused on a number of their edits to articles about incidents of alleged police brutality and controversial police practices.
The publication of the Wikimedia survey findings on fundraising questions came three months after significant concerns were voiced about the design and wording of the December 2014 fundraising banners and e-mails.
Once when I was young, growing up in the 1990s, my father pulled his collection of railroad slides out from the basement, set up his projector, and shared a glimpse into American railway history with our family.
The authors attempt to answer the question "Who are the most important people of all times?" Their findings clearly show that different Wikipedias give different prominence to different individuals.
A university gives a top Wikipedia editor free and full access to the university library's entire online content—and the Wikipedia editor, who is unpaid and not on campus, then creates and improves Wikipedia articles in a subject area of interest to the institution.
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The Report is more of a mix of random topics than usual this week. The top spot is taken by Bhutanese passport, a Wikipedia article which contained a crazed spoken word version which drew widespread attention.
The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) will announce later today that it will begin accepting edits by mail for all of the projects under its scope, including Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Commons.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 11,786 last month to 11,807 on March 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 113 is ahead of WP:GM who have 84. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,480 articles.
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The Report is more of a mix of random topics than usual this week. The top spot is taken by Bhutanese passport, a Wikipedia article which contained a crazed spoken word version which drew widespread attention.
The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) will announce later today that it will begin accepting edits by mail for all of the projects under its scope, including Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Commons.
With Holy Week having recently drawn to a close, it is an apt time to examine WikiProject Christianity, which was created in 2006, and boasts over 200 active members.
With Holy Week having recently drawn to a close, it is an apt time to examine WikiProject Christianity, which was created in 2006, and boasts over 200 active members.
Time profiles Lila Tretikov, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, and paints a grim picture of the challenges faced by Tretikov and the encyclopedia.
If it wasn't for Easter, Fast and Furious related articles would have taken the top four spots this week. The latest installment of the movie franchise, Furious 7, tops the chart for the second straight week.
A Signpost investigation of the released data has revealed Sony's corporate practices regarding Wikipedia and uncovered what appears to be undisclosed advocacy editing of Wikipedia by Sony employees and possibly by others.
The Affiliates Committee this week announced the organization of a community referral for comment, currently open on the meta-wiki, to address upcoming changes to the way that the Affiliations Committee will review movement-affiliated user-groups in the future.
2015 will see through the biennial community election for the three community-elected seats on the Board of Trustees—the "ultimate corporate authority" of the Wikimedia Foundation and the level at which the strategic decisions regarding the Wikimedia movement are made.
The Gallery is an occasional Signpost feature highlighting quality images and articles from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons based on a particular theme.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 11,807 last month to 11,836 on April 28th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 114 is ahead of WP:GM who have 84. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 58 out of a total number of 3,489 articles.
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Elections
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Esino Lario is set to host Wikimania 2016, but volunteers and others have raised a host of concerns that raise serious questions about the town's suitability for hosting such a large conference.
David Coburn, a Member of the European Parliament for the Scotland region for the UK Independence Party, was blocked from editing Wikipedia on April 6.
Though the continued predominance of movies, TV, and sports noted in last week's report largely continues, three additional topics joined the Top 10 this week.
Reader demand for some topics (e.g. LGBT topics or pages about countries) is poorly satisfied, whereas there is over-abundance of quality on topics of comparatively little interest, such as military history.
artnet and The Next Web report (May 6) that the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is releasing a hundred images of works in its collection under Creative Commons licences in conjunction with a May 19 editathon.
Elections have begun for five community members of the Funds Dissemination Committee, the Foundation's volunteer body for judging and recommending millions of dollars worth of annual grants to affiliates in the movement. The election lasts just eight days, from Sunday 3 May until 23:59 UTC on Sunday 10 May, so at the time of publication, voters will need to act promptly.
Like colliding ocean liners, rousing entertainment and harsh reality merged ungainly in this week's top 10 list. The much heralded pay-per-view pummeling of Manny Pacquiao by Floyd Mayweather, Jr. dominated the list's top slots, giving this list one of its highest total view counts in months.
Three community-elected seats on the Board of Trustees—the ultimate governing authority of the Wikimedia Foundation—will be decided by Wikimedians in the election to be held 17–31 May.
Casual viewers may think I've posted the same list twice. But no, readers just happen to be really interested in May 2's Big Fight. In fact, last week was just the weigh-in and the trash talk. This week, the numbers actually increased.
Grant Shapps, who was the co-chairman of the UK's Conservative Party until this week, has been accused of maliciously editing the Wikipedia biographies of his party's rivals.
The Wikimedia Foundation's bi-annual Board of Trustees election is open for voting. Of the ten seats on the board, three are elected representatives of the global Wikimedia community—you.
The article counts of many Wikimedia wikis suddenly changed on 29 March 2015: as the Signpost reported at the time, sixty-five wikis fell below milestones tracked at the Wikimedia News Meta page, and three increased to new milestones.
The list is topped this week by Danish scientist Inge Lehmann, thanks to a Google Doodle celebrating her 127th birthday. Lehmann discovered in 1936 that the Earth has a solid inner core. It is sometimes surprising to realize how recently such basic scientific knowledge of the Earth, which we now take for granted, was discovered.
Wikipedia editors logging in on May 19 found themselves walking into an unexpected amount of anti-vandal work to keep the site in line with its extensive biographies of living persons policy. A plethora of Wikipedia articles related to the United States House Committee on Appropriations, and the fifty-one representatives serving on it, have been hit by a raft of anonymous editors making often vulgar edits referencing "chicken fucker," or more creative combinations: "sexual conduct", "sexual congress", "fornicator", "intimate relations", or "trysts with chickens."
Jimmy Wales and five others accepted the 2015 Dan David Prize at Tel Aviv University on May 17. The prize comes with US$1 million, ten percent of which goes to doctoral and postdoctoral scholarships.
This week, we had the pleasure of interviewing WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology, which has come a long way since our last interview in 2008. Like most projects, it has a long member list, but only a small subset of that group regularly contributes. With 28 featured articles and 58 top-importance start class ones, the project has clearly had some success, but has a ways to go. We talked to three regular project contributors.
The Arbitration Committee has an unusually large case load at present. Although perhaps not on a par with the high-profile, multi-party cases seen towards the end of last year and the beginning of this year, with five open cases the arbitrators are likely to be kept busy for the next several weeks.
The Wikimedia Foundation recently switched to a quarterly report structure to better align reporting with the generally quarterly planning and goal-setting processes.
British media reports on Wikipedia editing to articles of Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom prior to the May 7 United Kingdom general election from IP addresses assigned to Parliament.
To many, Internet Relay Chat is an old relic, but not to Wikipedia. Wikipedia currently has an IRC help channel designated to help and assist editors with editing Wikipedia.
As usual for the time of year, pop culture rules this week. The start of summer vacation in the US means a focus on summer movies, particularly blockbuster sequels Avengers: Age of Ultron, Pitch Perfect 2 and Mad Max: Fury Road.
...allegedly. In a post to wikitech-l, Steven Walling pointed out that the TV show CSI: Cyber had used a screenshot of MediaWiki's HTML output and claimed it was responsible for blowing up printers.
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Kieran Wallace. Since you had some involvement with the Kieran Wallace redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. JMHamo (talk) 13:20, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
@JMHamo: - Makes a bit more sense haha, but there isn't even an article for the Irish banker. Oh well, at least it's been resolved. IJA (talk) 16:47, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 11,836 last month to 11,889 on June 1st). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 115 is ahead of WP:GM who have 83. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 59 out of a total number of 3,502 articles.
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York Meet-up
Members are invited to a meet-up in York on 15 June 2015 where you can meet other Wikipedians and discuss things. You can also have a meal and drink together. The meeting will be at 12:30 at Your Bike Shed, 148/150 Micklegate, York, YO1 6JX. If you are interested then you can find more details and sign-up at the meet-up page.
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The Wikimedia Foundation's volunteer election committee has announced the election results for the three vacant seats on the Board of Trustees. Dariusz Jemielnak, James Heilman, and Denny Vrandečić are set to take up their two-year terms on the Board. They will replace the three incumbents, all of whom stood this time unsuccessfully: Phoebe Ayers, Samuel Klein, and María Sefidari.
Caitlyn Jenner—the American hero of the 1976 Olympics, a film actor, and prominent member of Keeping Up with the Kardashians—may now be the most famous openly transgender person in the world.
The traffic report is nothing unusual this week, with a Google Doodle for astronaut Sally Ride topping the list, the accidental death of famous mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr. at #2, and the normal fare of recent popular American movies and television.
This week saw the publication of the Chapter-wide Financial Trends Report 2013, a now-completed research project that examines the finances and outlays of the 36 movement-affiliated chapters.
The Medical Translation Project, an ambitious attempt to improve and translate Wikipedia’s medical content from English into other languages, began in 2012.
The Princess of Asturias Foundation announced that Wikipedia would be the recipient of the 2015 Princess of Asturias award in the category of International Cooperation.
We interviewed an Australian veteran who deployed to the region as a peacekeeper and now writes articles on the region's history to help him understand what he encountered there.
Over more than a decade of weekly publication, The Signpost has accumulated an incredibly lengthy and detailed record about the issues, controversies, successes, and failures of the English Wikipedia community and the movement at large.
The Wikimedia Foundation's Language Engineering team plans to introduce Content Translation—a tool that makes it easier to translate Wikipedia articles into different languages—as a beta feature on the English Wikipedia.
During 2009–2011 Google ran the Google Translation Project (GTP), a program utilising paid translators to translate most popular English Wikipedia articles to various Indian language Wikipedias.
The Board of Trustees is the "ultimate corporate authority" of the Wikimedia Foundation and the level at which the strategic decisions regarding the Wikimedia movement are made ...
The Hürriyet Daily News reports that the Turkish Wikipedia has posted banners on the top of the encyclopedia to warn users that a number of articles are being blocked by the Turkish government.
After six years of work, a residency in the Canadian Rockies, endless debugging, and more than a little help from my friends, I have made Print Wikipedia.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 11,889 last month to 12,008 on June 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 115 is ahead of WP:GM who have 83. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 59 out of a total number of 3,512 articles.
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This week The Center for Internet and Society published a promotional blog post highlighting the heritage of the center's creation of the Train the Trainer program.
A week now remains until the vote, expected on 9 July, when the European Parliament will express either its approval, disapproval, or lack of opinion on the question of freedom of panorama in the European Union.
Like many editors of the world's largest encyclopedia, Karanacs was browsing the site's articles and found that they were of relatively poor quality—and that the traditional narrative she'd learned was not necessarily accurate.
Lila Tretikov this week posted an email to the wikimedia-l mailing list announcing the final publication of the Wikimedia Foundation's 2015 annual plan.
It's July 4 weekend and on this list that means only one thing: Wimbledon. Sure, the American Independence Day gets noticed too, but it can't hold a candle to that staggeringly British sporting event.
"How long will this take?" This is one of the first questions new clients ask. They come to us because the Wikipedia entry about the company at which they work is wrong, incomplete, or even just outdated. The answer varies ...
In The Register, Andrew Orlowski reports that three weeks ago, Grant Shapps filed a request with Wikimedia UK (WMUK) under the Data Protection Act 1998 "for all data relating to him".
Wikimania 2015 is underway in Mexico City, and one of its sessions—a scheduled follow-up to the annual Wikimedia Conference that was held in Berlin in May—is good reason to provide a retrospective of that Conference.
"Editors representing rival political tribes [are] frequently attempting to impose their respective narratives as the official version of one or another cultural controversy."
I appealed my topic ban (diff). Taking in consideration that we were involved in disputes in past and that you supported my ban and/or was against its lifting I would like to inform you that I appealed my ban so you could again present your opinion. All the best.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 20:55, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 12,008 last month to 12,031 on July 30th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 116 is ahead of WP:GM who have 83. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 60 out of a total number of 3,517 articles.
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That particular artists would be omitted through oversight or happenstance is reasonable, but that one of the world's leading publishers of art books is completely unaware of their major omissions is startling.
Death is no stranger to this list, but it has never cast such a pall as this week, when for the first time half the slots in the top 10 were devoted to it, including the top 3.
Hi, Thank you for that. I believe I can use primary sources for transfers then but use third-party for match reports which are more likely to be biased. Skyblueshaun (talk) 09:46, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
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