User talk:Jmajeremy/Archives/2015/October

The Signpost: 30 September 2015

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation fundraising report, Montreal to host 2017 Wikimania
  

A year of fundraising and a controversial decision.

• In the media: Irish legislative editing; coffee quarrel; more sports vandalism
  

More Wikipedia editing in the news.

• Op-ed: Wikipedia needs more administrators
  

Low numbers of active admins and high standards for adminship make a troubling combination.

• Recent research: Wiktionary special; newbies, conflict and tolerance; Is Wikipedia's search function inferior?
  

A look at newly published Wikipedia research.

• Tech news: Tech news in brief
  

Community technical news

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The Signpost: 07 October 2015

• Op-ed: Walled gardens of corruption
  

Kazakhstan and Wikipedia: A marriage made in hell.

• Traffic report: Reality is for losers
  

English speakers, like most of humanity, are primarily a northern-hemispheric people, and as autumn draws close and the days grow shorter, as a group we tend to huddle around our flickering screens and remember what matters: TV, movies, sports and, of course, crazy doomsday prophecies.

• Featured content: This Week's Featured Content
  

Some of Wikipedia's newest featured content.

• Gallery: Winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 in Pakistan
  

These winners of the Wiki Loves Monuments Pakistan 2015 contest were shared with the Social Media mailing list recently.

• Arbitration report: Warning: Contains GMOs
  

A new case was opened for ArbCom as the Genetically modified organisms case was accepted and opened on 28 September.

• Technology report: Tech news in brief
  

A reproduced version of the Wikimedia tech newsletter.

• In the media: Jailed Saudi blogger wins award; PR editing and Wiki-embarassment; Pakistan's third-richest person?
  

A summary of Wikimedia's mentions in the media

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The Signpost: 14 October 2015

• Op-ed: WikiConference USA 2015: built on good faith
  

We believe that human interaction can only make Wikipedia stronger.

• WikiConference report: US gathering sees speeches from Andrew Lih, AfroCrowd, and the Archivist of the United States
  

Three days at the US National Archives.

• Editorial: Why the news media needs a Wikipedian in residence
  

The news coverage we usually see about Wikipedia is neither in-depth, nor specialized, nor systematic.

• News and notes: 2015–2016 Q1 fundraising update sparks mailing list debate
  

Everyone's talking about money.

• Traffic report: Screens, Sport, Reddit, and Death
  

For the second consecutive week, the most viewed article had less than one million views, the only two weeks that has happened in all of 2015.

• Featured content: A fistful of dollars
  

This week's featured content.

• Technology report: Tech news in brief
  

Community technical news.

• Blog: Third Wikimedia Spain conference takes place in Madrid
  

On September 25, 26 and 27, Wikimedia Spain celebrated its third Wikimedia Conference at the Colegio Mayor Universitario Isabel de España in Madrid.

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The Signpost: 21 October 2015

• Editorial: Women and Wikipedia: the world is watching
  

Time to clean up our mess.

• News and notes: Wikimedia lawsuit against NSA dismissed; Affiliates mailing list launched
  

District court judge decrees that the WMF lacks standing.

• In the media: "Wikipedia's hostility to women"
  

"The lunatics are running the asylum."

• Special report: One year of GamerGate, or how I learned to stop worrying and love bare rule-level consensus
  

Examining the conflict and its participants.

• Featured content: A more balanced week
  

Featured content

• Op-ed: Wikipedia is significantly amplifying the impact of Open Access publications
  

When given a choice between journals of similar impact factors, editors are significantly more likely to select the “open access” option.

• Arbitration report: Four ArbCom cases ongoing
  

Open cases before the Arbitration Committee.

• Traffic report: Hiding under the covers of the Internet
  

We live in a harsh, uncertain world.

• Technology report: Tech news in brief
  

Community technical news.

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