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June 2015

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In respose to 12th street station

I added a reference. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Coolkid234 (talk • contribs) 19:11, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 03 June 2015

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.
Since the dawn of Wikipedia, or at least since 22 December 2005, the template named Persondata has existed.
Two featured articles and ten featured pictures were promoted this week.
Over the past few weeks, developers have been working on improving Wikimedia's performance when users connect to it using SPDY.
Wikipedia appears to be the single most used website for health information globally, exceeding traffic observed at the NIH, WebMD, WHO et al..
More UK government vandalism; legend has it; minding the gender gap
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.

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The Signpost: 10 June 2015

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.
"Happy families are all alike," Leo Tolstoy said, "but unhappy families are unhappy after their own fashion."
UK media covers Wikipedia Arbitration case; Lila Tretikov visits Israel.
Four featured articles, two featured lists, one featured topic, and twenty-eight featured pictures were promoted this week.
Today it was announced that Wikimedia sites are going to become HTTPS only, finishing up 10 year effort of rolling out HTTPS.
The Medical Translation Project, an ambitious attempt to improve and translate Wikipedia’s medical content from English into other languages, began in 2012.

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The Signpost: 17 June 2015

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.
The Arbitration Committee delivered its final decision in a case that reached the attention of the UK national press.
This would end a long-standing tradition in many countries that the skyline and the public scene should belong to everybody.
We need to be ever-diligent in ensuring that articles remain of high quality.
The rollout of HTTPS only has now been completed across all Wikimedia wikis.
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.
A more than usually severe outage Wikimedia Labs occurred after a massive database corruption implosion on June 17.
Six featured articles, seven featured lists, and seven featured pictures were promoted this week.
Author's note: This might be a violation of WP:BEANS; read at your own risk.
It wouldn't be the WikiProject report if we didn't feature an Australian topic once in a while, so this week we're looking at the left side.

DYK for Alayna Westcom

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 03:31, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

Charivari

You tagged Charivari (Gruber) as "primary source", which is correct, but what better source would you expect anywhere secondary than a composer speaking about his work? - I remember a similar case for a composition by Killmayer, which was accepted for DYK after all (2011, see talk), because all secondary sources could only copy what the composer had said, or be wrong, no?--Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:59, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

In the more than 30 years since it was first performed, hasn't it been reviewed in the press at least once? A brief "critical reaction" section sourced to a couple of reliable third-party publications would help. As would a scholarly look at the piece. With only the composer's words to go by, it's impossible to prove notability for the purposes of Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. - Dravecky (talk) 13:03, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
I am only the nominator, so haven't done any research, nor will I, for lack of time. As expressed in the DYK nom, I think that publication by a notable publisher and recordings by notable orchestras establish notability. It's not a symphony scholars would write about. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:30, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
ps found mentioning but really have no time for this --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:36, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
Notability is not inherited so, no, simply being published by a notable publisher is not sufficient. According to WP:NMUSIC, "Self-promotion and product placement are not the routes to having an encyclopedia article. The published works must be someone else writing about the musician, ensemble, composer, or lyricist, or their works. (See Wikipedia:Self published sources for details about the reliability of self-published sources, and Wikipedia:Conflict of interest for treatment of promotional, vanity material.) The barometer of notability is whether people independent of the subject itself have actually considered the musician, ensemble, composer, or lyricist notable enough that they have written and published non-trivial works that focus upon it." - Dravecky (talk) 20:21, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
I still have no time but question two items of the above:
  • Boosey & Hawks is not a self-published source.
  • I said published AND performed and recorded by notable people (here in 2007), and haven't even mentioned the class of the composer. - Wait a week, and I go research, not now. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:52, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
Boosey & Hawkes is the music publisher and the cited page is a sales page. That's not the independent coverage required for notability. Not every composition by every composer is automatically notable. - Dravecky (talk) 01:34, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 June 2015

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.
Four articles and nine pictures were promoted to featured status this week.
One paper looks at the topic of Wikipedia governance in the context of online social production.
This past week saw the kick-off of the 2015 MediaWiki architecture focus of improving our content platform.
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.
Clausewitz' pithy summary of warfare as "politics by other means" seems to be the motto of some Wikipedia editors.

Re-look

Hi ... tx for your review of the Marpet DYK; I've made some revisions based on your comments, and perhaps you might have a re-look when you have a chance. Tx. --Epeefleche (talk) 20:12, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

Hello -- perhaps you have been busy? Might you take a second look now? Thanks. --Epeefleche (talk) 22:59, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
Sure thing. It's always best to leave this sort of update on the nomination itself so that the maximum number of editors will see that progress has been made and swiftest action may result. - Dravecky (talk) 05:33, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
Tx -- since you raised the issue, I wanted to make certain I satisfied you. And I wanted to make sure you saw my message by leaving it on your talkpage -- some editors look at their tp, but do not watchlist their entries. I'll take another look tomorrow. Tx. Epeefleche (talk) 06:14, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
No worries. I always watch the entries on which I am a principal reviewer. - Dravecky (talk) 06:53, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Meg McGuffin

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 01:21, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

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