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Wikidata weekly summary #111

The Signpost: 28 May 2014

With the promotion to featured article of Grus (constellation) on 17 May, Casliber became Wikipedia's second featured-article centurion, following Wehwalt's groundbreaking achievement last December. Cas's first FA, Banksia integrifolia, a group effort, was promoted on 16 November 2006. His first solo project, Diplodocus, followed in January 2007; he has rarely been off the FAC since. In a second story, Ward Cunningham, an American computer programmer who invented the wiki, was interviewed by the WMF.
Wikipedia editor Sven Manguard's work is quite underappreciated a lot of the time, most likely because people haven't heard of it yet: He's developed good relationships with game companies, and is thus able to get full-resolution screenshots released under a Creative Commons license for use on Wikipedia and elsewhere. This week's trove of new featured items on the English Wikipedia comprises seven articles, three lists, and four pictures.
In the US, Memorial Day marks the unofficial beginning of summer, and summer is definitely on people's minds this week, with summer films Godzilla and X-Men: Days of Future Past, the apparently designated summer song "Fancy" by Iggy Azalea, and summer TV show, Game of Thrones.
Wikipedia in the eyes of its beholders; "Chinese-language time zones" favor Asian pop and IT topics on Wikipedia; and bipartite editing prediction in Wikipedia.

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Train the Trainers refresher 2014

Hi Andrew,

Are you going to the refresher on the 28th? I have created a page for it wmuk:Train the Trainers refresher 2014. Signing-up there isn't compulsory, but we can use the page to coordinate and discuss what we want to get out of the day.

Yaris678 (talk) 16:35, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

Hi Yaris. Sadly not - I'll probably be busy with a conference which is starting on the Sunday & suspect I won't have the time to get down to London! Andrew Gray (talk) 18:09, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

Geonotice

Very sorry it's so late! Wikipedia:Geonotice#Wikipedia:WikiProject_Royal_Society.2FNeuroscience_Wikipedia_Edit-a-thon_at_the_Royal_Society.2C_June_2014 Wiki at Royal Society John (talk) 00:34, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Many thanks (another day, another username!) Wiki CRUK John (talk) 13:24, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #112

The Signpost: 04 June 2014

Individual 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.

WikiIndaba geonotice

Please see MediaWiki talk:Geonotice.js#WikiIndaba error in coordinates. And look at the map. I guess they really want a box shifted to the east over the whole of Southern Africa.--Pharos (talk) 20:25, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

FYI, I'm experimenting now to get it to cover South Africa specifically.--Pharos (talk) 20:47, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

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