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Proposed deletion of The Caper Chronicles

The article The Caper Chronicles has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No reliable independent sources to indicate any notability for this web series. Only sources are the authors, the company that supported it, and the student newspaper from the University where it originated. No Google News sources at all, and no reliable independent sources could be found through a normal Google search either.

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the Proposed Deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The Speedy Deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and Articles for Deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Fram (talk) 08:41, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion declined: The Quigley

Hello Parent5446. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of The Quigley, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: The article is not about person, group or company therefore A7 does not apply. Suggest WP:PROD or WP:AFD. Thank you. Nancy talk 15:45, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Woops, sorry about that. I must have read it over too fast and mistook it for something else. Thanks for noticing though. — Parent5446 ☯ (message email) 17:03, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Updating my refs...

Thanks for updating my refs. Aside from bare-bones referencing, I've never been able to figure out/rememeber all the useful fields... —  X  S  G  18:59, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

No problem, it's just one of my pet peeves not having references in templates. Usually I just copy the example of Template:Cite web or Template:Cite news and copy stuff in. — Parent5446 ☯ (message email) 19:02, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

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Line breaks

Okay, I don't understand why people can't use line breaks..The text reads, "Foundation Place (Date)"..meanwhile,your version has the date which appears to be drooping down off the first line and partially on the second....the line break keeps that info on its own line, making it look neat and where everything can be read on a single line. Thats all. Please keep it the way it is. Tinton5 (talk) 19:51, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

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Discussion at Talk:Google

You are invited to join the discussion here. mono 00:30, 7 May 2010 (UTC) (Using {{Please see}})

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I really don't understand whats so important about the logo I mean damn it's just a logo everything has to get updated iCEMAN247 02:31, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

Did you read the talk page? The Google Press Page has the old logo as their official product logo. The logo may have been "updated" for Google's services, but their company logo has not changed. — Parent5446 ☯ (msg email) 03:04, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

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... for reverting the recent vandalism to my talk page! -- Bgpaulus (talk) 17:10, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

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Hi. This is just to let you know that considering that your main argument is that both pieces look the same, I think that you might have been misled by the fact that during these two weeks of discussion here, OSX has been moving little by little a good deal of the original content in the Camry Hybrid article to the new article Toyota Camry (XV40) and yesterday he trimmed it so now they both look the same. Just check the history of both articles beginning June 12 to confirm. If you still believe they should be merged, it is fine, I just want to make sure you were aware of this fact.-Mariordo (talk) 03:35, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

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I'm concluding the study related to the NICE user script (that you installed at some point), and I'd like to ask you some questions about your experiences with and ideas about Wikipedia. The questions will be related to how you interact with new editors and the way you communicate when reverting. The chat should take about 45 minutes to an hour and can happen over phone, voip(skype) or instant messenger(gtalk, ICQ, AIM, etc.). As thanks for your time, I'll donate $10 (US) to the Wikimedia foundation at the completion of the interview. If you are interested or need more information, please let me know. --EpochFail(talk|work) 16:52, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

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I have renominated Jehovah's Witnesses reference works for deletion (third-party sourced material already merged to Jehovah's Witnesses publications) at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Jehovah's_Witnesses_reference_works_(2nd_nomination), and have mentioned your previous participation at the first discussion, the result of which was No consensus.--Jeffro77 (talk) 03:15, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Google Discussion

User:Parent5446 please join the discussion at Talk:Google#Google Web Search - Dictionary Results , your input is appreciated. Fixblor (talk) 22:06, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

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List of minor Airbender characters

I also doubt the page will hold, given the current view being taken of such pages, but the speedy deletion criteria are interpreted literally, and you'll have to take it to AfD. I suggest though you give the author a few days first to try to find references. Who knows--maybe something's been published. I've seen stranger. DGG ( talk ) 21:56, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks DGG. I was just a little overzealous since I already spent so much time convincing everybody to delete the last minor characters articles. Also to be frank, I don't think I've ever used the G4 criteria before, which probably accounts for my inexperience. — Parent5446 ☯ (msg email) 22:36, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
no problem. The question is how to provide information without excessive details. I'd support a list with one sentence of identification for each, but certainly nothing more. I don't like to edit these down, though, as I don't know the series. DGG ( talk ) 22:41, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

I'd like to say that even though we disagreed about the worthiness of the article, it was thanks to your efforts that pointed out many of the flaws in it. If it weren't for your pushing, I wouldn't have tried to find good third-party sources for the article such as an episode review, like this one which basically gives a plot summary of an episode. http://www.denofgeek.com/television/410190/avatar_the_last_airbender_episode_5_review.html While I don't have the time to comb through every episode, this opens the door for other editors to contribute :)---CodeHydro 03:20, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

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Merge discussion

I am sorry if I came out like a nuisance or something with the merge discussion. It also looks like it's a dead conversation now with no clear discussion. Good luck on figuring what template look looks best. That was a tough one for me so I just left it be. Jhenderson777 (talk) 18:08, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

It's no problem. I was involved in many similar discussions, such as when the List of Avatar: The Last Airbender major secondary characters was up for deletion, or when we merged all the episode article, or when we merged all the bending articles. Each time, it was always a struggle because in-universe or not, the articles have content, and many editors are not willing to let go of it, and for good reasons too! As for your behavior, I believe you acted like any other protective editor would in the same situation, but thanks for apologizing. Happy editing! — Parent5446 ☯ (msg email) 22:38, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

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google criticism

hello,

you renamed/removed google criticism section. i don't think that is good. also, readTalk:Google#Why_is_there_no_criticism_section.3F_There.27s_certainly_lots.

for example, yahoo has extensive Yahoo!#Criticism_and_controversy. an article without it doesn't do justice to NPOV principle.

regards.

ps. you can respond here, i will see it... 89.216.196.129 (talk) 07:34, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Hey, sorry to respond so late. I've been on vacation for the past few days. Anyway, the reason we removed the Criticism section is because it tends to encourage POV. You could either single out all the controversial information about a company, or distribute it throughout the article. The latter is more appropriate for a number of reasons. Firstly, when criticism is bunched up in one section, it is much more likely that POV tone will find its way in. Furthermore, a separate criticism section is actually counterproductive to a prospective reader. If a reader comes looking for info on Google's products, they'll come to the Google article, and go to the Products section. They read a little, find out all the great things about Google, but they never hear the other side, they never hear the criticism, because it's not there. By distributing the criticism, it will always be found by the reader, and the reader will always hear all sides of the story, thus preserving NPOV. — Parent5446 ☯ (msg email) 18:41, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion of Template:Avatarref-101

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Thanks. — Parent5446 ☯ (msg email) 03:44, 2 September 2010 (UTC)


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Thanks. — Parent5446 ☯ (msg email) 03:44, 2 September 2010 (UTC)


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Thanks. — Parent5446 ☯ (msg email) 03:44, 2 September 2010 (UTC)


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Thanks. — Parent5446 ☯ (msg email) 03:45, 2 September 2010 (UTC)


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PR template

This edit [1] broke the template because you added spaces in a place where the parser is reading an external link, so part of the link was used as a description.

In general, the best practice is to avoid renaming templates to avoid this sort of issue. The name "PR" was just fine. However, if you insist on renaming templates, you need to test your changes more thoroughly. — Carl (CBM · talk) 19:40, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

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Concept of Ozai

Even though you nominated it for deletion. Can you help me out in figuring out where you can find a good concept of Ozai by the creators or a good reception? Jhenderson 777 14:42, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

I tried, trust me. Of course I will keep searching for more information, but I am not sure how much we will find. The problem is that he rarely appears in the series (keep in mind by appears I mean really shows up as a character and has dialogue). Even though he is probably one of the most significant characters in the entire series (being the main antagonist and all), and despite the fact he is mentioned and sometimes seen for a few seconds very often, since he does not actually show up and talk much, his character is not that well developed, or at least not well developed relative to the other characters. Anyway, as I said, I will continue to look, but I'm in my senior year of high school so my schedule is a little tight. — Parent5446 ☯ (msg email) 00:55, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

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Fyi, I've named you as a dispute participant in an informal request for mediation that I filed at WP:Mediation_Cabal/Cases/2010-08-29/Genetic_algorithms.

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Avatar: The Last Airbender

Hi Parent5446, can you recommend a specific revisionID of the Avatar: The Last Airbender article for the Version 0.8 release? We're trying to wrap things up over the next few days. Many thanks, Walkerma (talk) 02:52, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

The current revision 392490512 should be good. — Parent5446 ☯ (msg email) 03:32, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
Great! Thanks, Walkerma (talk) 03:34, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

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RfA Nomination

I Have Gave You An RfA Form, You Must answer The Questions on the page. If The Nomination Is Successful, You Will Become An Admin On English Wikipedia. See WP:RfA for more info. (And Please Remove The Template On The Top Of The Page) --S1312 (talk) 22:37, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Hi Parent5446, accepting S1312's RfA nomination is completely optional, even though his direct and in-your-face comment above may suggest that it is mandatory. I just don't want you to feel pressured to accept a nomination if you feel you aren't ready to run. Thanks, Eagles 24/7 (C) 22:50, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Removal of the stub section in Google

Concerning the removal of the stub section titled 'The World's most Attractive Employer', why not rename it to perhaps 'Employer happiness' and add more information? Perhaps expantion may help except axing it. General Rommel (talk) 21:36, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Well, we already have a section for that. It's the employees subsection under corporate affairs. At one point we will probably need to move a lot of information into that section that is currently spread throughout the article, but the section does exist for that purpose. — Parent5446 ☯ (msg email) 01:58, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
Perhaps you should move it to that section then instead of deleting it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by General Rommel (talk • contribs) 02:24, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
Well, I didn't delete it. I just moved it to the beginning of the Corporate affairs section, right after the sentence on Fortune magazine. — Parent5446 ☯ (msg email) 02:34, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
Ah. Right, the edit tools didn't show you moved it to another section. I'm sorry. Thanks for explaining though! General Rommel (talk) 05:50, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

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Just drop by to wish you and your family a Happy Thanksgiving! − Jhenderson 777 15:09, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! Happy Thanksgiving to you to! — Parent5446 ☯ (msg email) 17:31, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

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Separating vehicles by generation rather than powertrain or trim level

Hi, I am just dropping a note to inform you of a discussion currently taking place here (Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Automobiles#Mass article merger). In summary, WikiProject Automobiles is soliciting opinions based on the separation of automobile articles by generation, as opposed to other means such as powertrain or trim level. For example, rather than having an article on the Audi S3, the Audi A3 article would be split into two sub-articles (one for each generation), and the S3 content would be moved to the appropriate location. This would place automobiles with common engineering in the same place, as opposed to grouping by a mere marketing term. Since separate articles are always provided to detail the powertrain (engine and transmission, et cetera), the partitioning of articles based on this principle is superfluous (the powertrain is only briefly discussed in the article about the car). The reason for giving the actual powertrain a separate article is to cut down on overlap: engines and transmissions are almost universally used in more than one model.

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question.

Hey, I was just wondering. How would you feel if this replaces the Appa article. Do you think a fictional duos article like this will work. Feel free to correct any mistakes on the userpage if there is is as well. − Jhenderson 777 22:05, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

I really feel that they don't warrant notability individually as much as the major characters of the show are. But putting them together really seems to help with that and makes for an interesting article. − Jhenderson 777 22:25, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
Would you mind fixing {{subst:avatarref-204}} on the article Appa and Momo to whatever it is you were intending to do. I am pretty sure that's not what you intended to do. And also here I am being more specific on what I meant. ;) − Jhenderson 777 19:10, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
If you are willing to help, I am trying to find critical reception and other external links for proving notability for Appa and Momo and maybe other individual Avatar characters as well. If you notice any just let me know, alright. ;) − Jhenderson 777 21:03, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

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Nomination of Appa and Momo for deletion

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"That comment was out of line."
Ouch! That was harsh. I hope I explained myself a little better. − Jhenderson 777 02:43, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kuzco Academy

Given numerous concerns expressed about the probability of repeated recreation, you probably should have left this colsure to an Admin who would have been in a position to address those concerns by protecting the redirect. HrafnTalkStalk(P) 04:28, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

I requested the redirect be protected, but in the future I'll just leave these cases up to admins. Sorry about that. — Parent5446 ☯ (msg email) 04:47, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

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Decline reason: I'm sorry, but we do not allow editing from behind open proxies. It appears that at least one port is open - you may want to check that. TNXMan 15:18, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

But I'm not editing from behind a proxy. My computer has a direct connection to the Internet. — Parent5446 ☯ (msg email) 03:03, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
I really think that a declined unblock request needs to be left as is. I will pass your message to User:Tnxman307; of course you can post another unblock request. Tiderolls 03:53, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, the problem is that I can only edit this page so I have no way of contacting other editors. — Parent5446 ☯ (msg email) 04:25, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
I understand. I have left Tnxman a message and will follow up elsewhere if need be. Thanks for your patience. Tiderolls 04:29, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
I'll have to take a look at this later today. You may want to look at User:ProcseeBot, as it is the one that identified an open port. TNXMan 14:07, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks. My computer does have a bunch of open ports, but only because I host a website and other similar services on a server in my network. — Parent5446 ☯ (msg email) 21:33, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

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I Just Need Clarification.

Why is my article nominated for deletion? It, in my opinion, is notable. The original series was a HUGE hit, and this has gained quite a bit of publicity. I used sources. I was unbias and tried to make it as encyclopedic as possible. I know that you probably didn't nominate Korra for deletion, but since you posted the message on my talk page, I thought you could help.

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Hey Monster Rancher, unfortunately, notability is a big gray area, so truthfully I cannot say for a fact the article is not notable, it's just of my opinion that Korra, a character in a television series yet to be released, isn't notable enough to deserve her own article. The thing is that though the original series may have been great, its Korra herself that has to be notable for her to deserve her own article, meaning there have to be a significant number of outside sources specifically having to do with Korra. If you head over the Aang article, you'll notice how there are citations to reviews of Aang's character, interviews with the creators, among other sources. Currently, the only sources in the Korra article are Avatar Wikia articles, which are not considered reliable sources. I would wait until the new series makes it debut to start branching off and making character articles. — Parent5446 ☯ (msg email) 04:37, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

Hrm...I see your point. Thank you for clearing that up. However, as it stands, I will not do anything to try to delete that page. Your right. Notability is very relative and...well, I can't find the word for it. But thanks for clearing that up.

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Apparently this page got deleted, and I didn't even know it was up for deletion. Do you happen to know how I can find the deletion discussion? While it probably was a proper deletion I would at least like to see the discussion on it. I can't seem to find any reference to it at all.Derekloffin (talk) 08:31, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

It's confusing because there seems to be showing multiple deletions on it from some administrators. The last reason seemed to stated Prod but I don't remember seeing no prod. Jhenderson 777 20:42, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
Uggh, I think this might be partially my fault. About a week ago, User:Monster Rancher the Great (now a blocked sockpuppet) nominated the article for PROD thinking it would trigger people to "fix" the article, whatever that means. I was about to revert it but I was on my way out of the house and didn't have time, and by the time I came back, I had completely forgot about it. If we message an admin, we could probably get it restored because of the user who deleted it. — Parent5446 ☯ (msg email) 21:06, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
Hmm, I agree with the admin thing. But the question is who? What about User:Rjanag? He's been around with these type of articles sometimes. I did contact the last one who deleted it but no response so far. Jhenderson 777 01:33, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
Rjanag will help us out, but let's wait and see from the original admin. Generally it's not good to have one admin revert another admin's action unless it's absolutely necessary. — Parent5446 ☯ (msg email) 02:23, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
I concur. I am in no hurry. As long as the article's history will be restored. That's the main concern. I will give him at least one day. The response of later messages did prove he is online to see it but that's all I can tell you. Jhenderson 777 02:32, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

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Hello, Parent5446. Remember I told you that I will contact you after I carried out your advises in Talk:TuneUp Utilities/GA1? So, here we go. I think its time you take a look at the new changes and advise accordingly. See how I followed your GA suggestions. Fleet Command (talk) 18:32, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Parent5446, are you there? Look, I'm not here to chat; I want this article to become GA one day and you are the reviewer. Are all the problems that you noted in GA1 addressed or not? Fleet Command (talk) 13:08, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
Hey Fleet Command, I apologize if I have a life outside of Wikipedia that takes up quite a bit of time. I'll look over the article when I have time, but in the meantime, you can always just renominated the article at WP:GAN and another reviewer will look over it. In fact, that's probably a better solution since a fresh set of eyes will provide a better opinion. — Parent5446 ☯ (msg email) 14:51, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your attention. Oh, and no need to apologize; everyone has a life; though it is always a good idea to ping back just in case the message is missed. (What I did.) And thanks for being so nice. Fleet Command (talk) 18:50, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

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Hey Parent, I was just wondering what exactly these two templates you created are to be used for, when I found them I saw no practical use for them or them being used in any necessary way so I CSDed one of them and then realized there may actually be a reason for them so I thought I would ask. Thanks for your time,  Adwiii  Talk  15:36, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

Hmm, curious. I cannot recall when nor why I made these templates. I probably had a reason at the time but that was back when I was new to Wikipedia and had little idea what I was doing. They don't seem to be used anywhere so they can probably just be deleted. — Parent5446 ☯ (msg email) 04:11, 22 May 2011 (UTC)


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Why did you summon me for that. I didn't create the article. Jhenderson 777 13:15, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

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The Legend of Korra organization RfC

Hi, I'm contacting you becaused you started Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Legend of Korra (Book 2). Because it appears likely that the AfD will not end with deletion, I've set up a request for comment (RfC) on the talk page of the article about the series about how to organize the topic into subarticles. I'd appreciate it if you would add your opinion in that RfC. Regards,  Sandstein  06:51, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Damn, three RFCs (or two formal ones, I guess). I'll be sure to get to them as soon as I can. Thanks for the heads up. — Parent5446 ☯ (msg email) 15:32, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

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The article The Legend of Korra you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within 3 days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:The Legend of Korra for things which need to be addressed. ObtundTalk 03:09, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

Some issues still need to be addressed by the way. ObtundTalk 05:14, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 27 August 2012

Wikimedia editors have been debating a community proposal for the adoption of a new project to host free travel-guide content. The debate reached a new stage when a three-month request for comment on Meta came to an end, with a decision to set up the first new type of Wikimedia project in half a decade. The original proposal for the travel guide unfolded during April on Meta and the Wikimedia-l mailing lists, centring around the wish of volunteer contributors to the WikiTravel project to work in a non-commercial environment.
A monthly overview of recent academic research about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, edited jointly with the Wikimedia Research Committee and republished as the Wikimedia Research Newsletter.
Developers were left one step closer to an understanding of the code review outlook this week after the creation of a graph plotting "number changesets awaiting review" over time. The chart, which also shows the number of new changesets created on a daily basis, reveals a peak in the number of unreviewed changesets in mid-July, followed by a short drop. The current figure stands at approximately 219 unreviewed changesets.
This week the Signpost interviews Mark Arsten, who has written or contributed significantly to ten featured articles; most have related to new religious movements, and some have touched on other controversial or quirky topics. Mark gives us a rundown on how he keeps neutral and what drives him to write featured content; he also gives some hints for aspiring writers.
This week, we hopped in a little blue box with a batch of companions from WikiProject Doctor Who. Started in April 2005, the project has grown to include about 4,000 pages about the world's longest-running science fiction television show, its spinoffs, and various related material. The project is the parent of the Torchwood Taskforce and a child of WikiProject British TV and WikiProject Science Fiction. With new Doctor Who episodes airing this week and a 50th anniversary celebration around the corner, we thought now would be a good time to inquire about the famed Time Lord.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia.

The Signpost: 03 September 2012

Some of Wikimedia's most valuable photographs have been shot and uploaded under free licenses as a direct result of the annual Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) event each September. Last year, the project was conducted on a European level, resulting in the submission of an extraordinary 168,208 free images of cultural heritage sites ("monuments") from 18 countries, making it the world's largest photographic competition. Organising the 2012 event—which has just opened and will run for the full month of September—has required input from chapters and volunteers in 35 countries.
Developers are currently discussing the possibility of a MediaWiki Foundation to oversee those aspects of MediaWiki development that relate to non-Wikimedia wikis. The proposal was generated after a discussion on the wikitech-l mailing list about generalising Wikimedia's CentralAuth system.
Five featured pictures were promoted this week, including a video explaining the recent landing of the Curiosity rover on Mars. NASA called the final minutes of the complicated landing procedure "the seven minutes of terror".
Since May 2012 I've been a Wikimedia Foundation community fellow with the task of researching and improving dispute resolution on English Wikipedia. Surveying members of the community has revealed much about their thoughts on and experiences with dispute resolution. I've analysed processes to determine their use and effectiveness, and have presented ideas that I hope will improve the future of dispute resolution.

The Signpost: 10 September 2012

Thanks to the initiative of Yuvi Panda and Notnarayan, the Signpost now has an Android app, free for download on Google Play. ... but would readers be interested in an iOS app for Apple devices?
Much like article content, the English Wikipedia's help pages have grown organically over the years. Although this has produced a great deal of useful documentation, with time many of the pages have become poorly maintained or have grown overwhelmingly complicated.
Philip Roth, a widely known and acclaimed American author, wrote an open letter in the New Yorker addressed to Wikipedia this week, alleging severe inaccuracies in the article on his The Human Stain (2000).
Three hip hop discographies were promoted this week, alongside seven other lists.
After a week's hiatus, the WikiProject Report returns with an interview featuring WikiProject Fungi. Started in March 2006, the project has grown to include over 9,000 pages, including 47 Featured Articles and 176 Good Articles. The project maintains a list of high priority missing articles and stubs that need expansion.
In dramatic events that came to light last week, two English Wikipedia volunteers—Doc James (James Heilman) and Wrh2 (Ryan Holliday)—are being sued in the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Internet Brands, the owner of Wikitravel.com. Both Wikipedians have also been volunteer Wikitravel editors (and in Holliday's case, a volunteer administrator). IB's complaints focus on both editors' encouragement of their fellow Wikitravel volunteers to migrate to a proposed non-commercial travel guidance site that would be under the umbrella of the WMF.
In its September issue, the peer-reviewed journal First Monday published The readability of Wikipedia, reporting research which shows that the English Wikipedia is struggling to meet Flesch reading ease test criteria, while the Simple English Wikipedia has "lost its focus".
The Wikimedia Foundation's engineering report for August 2012 was published this week on the Wikimedia Techblog and on the MediaWiki wiki, giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month (as well as brief coverage of progress on Wikimedia Deutschland's Wikidata project, phase 1 of which is edging its way towards its first deployment).
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia.

The Signpost: 17 September 2012

We now have a Facebook page at facebook.com/wikisignpost. We invite you to "like" the page and join the discussion there.
This week, we shine the spotlight on the Indian Cinema Task Force, a subproject that seeks to improve the quality and quantity of articles about Indian cinema. As a child of WikiProject Film and WikiProject India, the Indian Cinema Task Force shares a variety of templates, resources, and members with its parent projects. The task force works on a to-do list, maintains the Bollywood Portal, and ensures articles follow the film style guidelines. With Indian cinema celebrating its 100th year of existence in 2013, we asked Karthik Nadar (Karthikndr), Secret of success, Ankit Bhatt, Dwaipayan, and AnimeshKulkarni what is in store for the Indian Cinema Task Force.
Eight featured articles, six featured lists, ten featured pictures, and one featured topic were promoted this week.
The world's largest photo competition, Wiki Loves Monuments, is entering its final two weeks. The month-long event, of Dutch origin, is being held globally for the first time after the success of its European-level predecessor last year. During September 2011 more than 5000 volunteers from 18 countries took part and uploaded 168,208 free images. This year, volunteers and chapters from 35 countries around the world have organised the event. The best photographs will be determined by juries at the national and finally the global level.
1.20wmf12, the 12th release to Wikimedia wikis from the 1.20 branch, was deployed to its first wikis on September 17; if things go well, it will be deployed to all wikis by September 26. Its 200 or so changes – 111 to WMF-deployed extensions plus 98 to core MediaWiki code – include support for links with mixed-case protocols (e.g. Http://example.com) and the removal of the "No higher resolution available" message on the file description pages of SVG images.

WikiProject Good articles (Participant Clean-Up)

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If you are still interested in being a participant for this WikiProject, please sign your user name here and please help review some articles so we can reduce the size of the backlog. If you are no longer interested, you do not need to sign your name anywhere and your name will be removed from the participants list after the deadline. Remember that even if you are not interested at this time, you can always re-add your name to the list whenever you want. The deadline to sign your name on the page above will be November 1, 2012. Thank-you. 13:31, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

Update for: WikiProject Good articles (Participant Clean-Up)

Sorry for having to send out a second message but a user has brought to my attention that a point mentioned in the first message should be clarified. If user's don't sign on this page, they will be moved to an "Inactive Participants" list rather then be being removed from the entire WikiProject. Sorry for any confusion.--Dom497 (talk)15:21, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 September 2012

Oliver Keyes' (User:Ironholds) defense of Wikipedia against the recent Philip Roth controversy has drawn a significant amount of attention over the last week. The problems between Roth, a widely known and acclaimed American author, and Wikipedia arose from an open letter he penned for the American magazine New Yorker, and were covered by the Signpost two weeks ago. Keyes—who wrote the piece as a prominent Wikipedian but is also a contractor for the Wikimedia Foundation—wrote a blog post on the topic, lamenting the factual errors in Roth's letter and criticizing the media for not investigating his claims: "[they took] Roth’s explanation as the truth and launched into a lengthy discussion of how we [Wikipedia] handle primary sourcing."
A paper to appear in a special issue of American Behavioral Scientist (summarized in the research index) sheds new light on the English Wikipedia's declining editor growth and retention trends. The paper describes how "several changes that the Wikipedia community made to manage quality and consistency in the face of a massive growth in participation have lead to a more restrictive environment for newcomers". The number of active Wikipedia editors has been declining since 2007 and research examining data up to September 2009 has shown that the root of the problem has been the declining retention of new editors. The authors show this decline is mainly due to a decline among desirable, good-faith newcomers, and point to three factors contributing to the increasingly "restrictive environment" they face.
This week, we tinkered with WikiProject Robotics. From the project's inception in December 2007, it has served as Wikipedia's hub for building and improving articles about robots and robotics, accumulating two Featured Articles and seven Good Articles along the way. The project covers both fictitious and real-life robots, the technology that powers them, and many of the brains behind the robotics field
In the second controversy to engulf Wikimedia UK in two months, its immediate past chair Roger Bamkin has resigned from the board of the chapter. The resignation last Wednesday followed a growing furore over the conflict of interest between two of Roger's roles outside the chapter and his close involvement in the UK board's decision-making process, including the access to private mailing lists that board members in all chapters need. But the irony surrounding Roger's resignation is its connection with efforts by Wikimedians and collaborators to strengthen the reach of Wikimedia projects through technical innovation.
Late last month, the "Technology report" included a story using code review backlog figures – the only code review figures then available – to construct a rough narrative about the average experience of code contributors. This week, we hope to go one better, by looking directly at code review wait times, and, in particular, median code review times
Fourteen featured articles were promoted this week, including Dodo, along with six featured lists and five featured pictures.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

The Signpost: 01 October 2012

Does Wikipedia Pay? is a Signpost series seeking to illuminate paid editing, paid advocacy, for-profit Wikipedia consultants, editing public relations professionals, conflict of interest guidelines in practice, and the Wikipedians who work on these issues by speaking openly with the people involved. This week, a scandal centering around Roger Bamkin's work with Wikimedia UK and Gibraltarpedia erupted ... In light of these events, opinions on how to avoid future controversy are as important as ever. ... The Signpost spoke with Jimmy Wales to better understand how he views the paid editing environment and what he thinks is needed to improve it.
Following considerable online and media reportage on the Gibraltar controversy and a Signpost report last week, the Wikimedia UK chapter and the foundation published a joint statement on September 28: "To better understand the facts and details of these allegations and to ensure that governance arrangements commensurate with the standing of the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia UK and the worldwide Wikimedia movement, Wikimedia UK's trustees and the Wikimedia Foundation will jointly appoint an independent expert advisor to objectively review both Wikimedia UK's governance arrangements and its handling of the conflict of interest."
Five articles, three lists, and nine images were promoted to "featured" this week.
The Toolserver is an external service hosting the hundreds of webpages and scripts (collectively known as "tools") that assist Wikimedia communities in dozens of mostly menial tasks. Few people think that it has been operating well recently; the problems, which include high database replication lag and periods of total downtime, have caused considerable disruption to the Toolserver's usual functions. Those functions are highly valued by many Wikimedia communities ... In 2011, the Foundation announced the creation of Wikimedia Labs, a much better funded project that among other things aimed to mimic the Toolserver's functionality by mid-2013. At the same time, Erik Möller, the WMF's director of engineering, announced that the Foundation would no longer be supporting the Toolserver financially, but would continue to provide the same in-kind support as it had done previously.
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the James Bond film series, we spent some time bonding with WikiProject James Bond. The project is in the unique position of having already pushed all of its primary content to Good and Featured status, including all of Ian Fleming's novels, short stories, and every film that has been released. Work has begun in earnest on the article Skyfall for the release of the new Bond film later this month. The project could still use help improving articles about Bond actors, characters, gadgets, music, video games, and related topics

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The Signpost: 08 October 2012

Wikipedia in education is far from a new idea: years of news stories, op-eds, and editorials have focused on the topic; and on Wikipedia itself, the Schools and universities projects page has existed in various forms since 2003. Over the next six years, the page was rarely developed, and when it did advance there was no clear goal in mind.
On this day five years ago, the WikiProject Report debuted as a new Signpost column with an overview of WikiProject Biography. Today, we're celebrating two milestone: five years of the WikiProject Report and the tenth birthday of our first featured project. WikiProject Biography is by far the largest WikiProject on Wikipedia, with over one million articles under the project's scope. As a comparison, WikiProject Biography is three times larger than Wikipedia's second largest project, and if WikiProject Biography were split into its 14 subprojects and work groups, it would still make the list of the 20 largest WikiProjects... four times.
This week the Signpost interviews Arsenikk, an editor of six years who has brought sixteen lists through our featured list process, mostly regarding transportation in Norway but also about the 1952 Winter Olympics and World Heritage Sites in Africa. Arsenikk tells us about why he joined the project, what moves him, and how editors can join the sometimes daunting world of featured lists.
The Wikimedia Foundation's engineering report for September 2012 was published this week on the Wikimedia Techblog and on the MediaWiki wiki, giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month (as well as brief coverage of progress on Wikimedia Deutschland's Wikidata project, phase 1 of which is edging its way towards its first deployment). Three of the seven headline items in the report have already been covered in the Signpost: problems with the corruption of several Gerrit (code) repositories, the introduction of widespread translation memory across Wikimedia wikis, and the launch of the "Page Curation" tool on the English Wikipedia, with development work on that project now winding down. The report also drew attention to the end of Google Summer of Code 2012, the deployment to the English Wikipedia of a new ePUB (electronic book) export feature, and improvements to the WLM app aimed at more serious photographers.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include ...

The Signpost: 15 October 2012

There is wide agreement among English Wikipedians that the administrator system is in some ways broken—but no consensus on how to fix it. Most suggestions have been relatively small in scope, and could at best produce small improvements. I would like to make a proposal to fundamentally restructure the administrator system, in a way that I believe would make it more effective and responsive. The proposal is to create an elected Administration Committee ("AdminCom") which would select, oversee, and deselect administrators.
This week saw a front-page story in the Wall Street Journal on editorial debates in Wikipedia. The story focused on the title-naming dispute surrounding the Beatles article, and specifically the RfC on whether the 'the' in the band's name should be capitalized or not.
On the English Wikipedia, five featured articles, ten featured lists, and four featured pictures were promoted, including USS Lexington, a ship built for the United States Navy that, although ordered in 1916 as a battlecruiser, was converted to an aircraft carrier. It was sunk in the Battle of the Coral Sea during the Second World War.
The volunteer-led Wikimedia Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) and interested community members are looking at Wikimedia organization applications worth about US$10.4 million out of the committee's first full year's operation, in just the inaugural round one of two that have been planned for the year with a planned budget of US$11.4M.
A trial of the first phase of Wikimedia Deutschland's "Wikidata" project–implementing the first ever interwiki repository—may soon get underway following the successful passage of much of its code through MediaWiki's review processes this week.
This week, we experimented with WikiProject Chemicals. Started in August 2004, WikiProject Chemicals has grown to include over 10,000 articles about chemical compounds. The project has a unique assessment system that omits C-class, Good, and Featured Articles. As a result, the project's 11 GAs and 9 FAs are treated as A-class articles. WikiProject Chemicals is a child of WikiProject Chemistry (interviewed in 2009) and a parent of WikiProject Polymers.

The Signpost: 22 October 2012

Unlike the long-running disputes that have characterised attempts to reform the RfA process on the English Wikipedia, the German Wikipedia's tradition of making decisions not by consensus but knife-edged 50% + 1 votes has led to a fundamentally different outcome. In 2009, the project managed to largely settle the RfA mode issue in 2009 indirectly.
One clarification request concerns the civility enforcement case – specifically, Malleus Fatuorum's perceived circumvention of his topic ban. It has resulted in thousands of bytes spent in vitriolic discussions, multiple blocks, and "no confidence" motions against the Arbitration Committee and one arbitrator, among other ramifications.
Planning for Wikivoyage's migration into the WMF fold built up steam this week following a statement by WMF Deputy Director Erik Möller about what the technical side of the migration will involve. Wikivoyage, which split from sister site Wikitravel in 2006, is hoping to migrate its own not-inconsiderable user base to Wikimedia, as well as much of its content, presenting novel challenges for Wikimedia developers
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
It is well known that women are underrepresented in the sciences, and that high-achieving female scientists have often been excluded from authorship lists and passed over for awards and honours solely on the basis of gender. Also significant has been the underplaying in the academic literature, news reporting, and online, of women's current and historical contributions to science.
The WikiProject Report normally brings tidings from Wikipedia's most active, inventive, and unique WikiProjects. This week, we're trying something new by focusing on Wikipedia's dark side: the various regional and national WikiProjects that are dead or dying. How can some tiny municipalities and exclaves generate highly active, cross-language, multimedia platforms be successful while the projects representing many sovereign countries and entire continents wallow in obscurity? Today, we'll search for answers among geographic projects large and small, highly active and barely functioning, enthusiastic about the future and mired in past conflicts.
Eleven articles, including one on Franz Kafka, three lists, one image, and one portal were promoted to 'featured' status this week.

The Signpost: 29 October 2012

The first round of the Wikimedia Foundation's new financial arrangements has proceeded as planned, with the publication of scores and feedback by Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) staff on applications for funding by 11 entities—10 chapters, independent membership organisations supporting the WMF's mission in different countries, and the foundation itself. The results are preliminary assessments that will soon be put to the FDC's seven voting members and two non-voting board representatives. The FDC in turn will send its recommendations to the board of trustees on 15 November, which will announce its decision by 15 December. Funding applications have been on-wiki since 1 October, and the talk pages of applications were open for community comment and discussion from 2 to 22 October, though apart from queries by FDC staff, there was little activity.
This week, we're checking out ways to motivate editors and recognize valuable contributions by focusing on the awards and rewards of WikiProject Military History. Anyone unfamiliar with WikiProject Military History is encouraged to start at the report's first article about the project and make your way forward. While many WikiProjects provide a barnstar that can be awarded to helpful contributors, WikiProject Military History has gone a step further by creating a variety of awards with different criteria ranging from the all-purpose WikiChevrons to rewards for participating in drives and improving special topics to medals for improving articles up to A-class status to the coveted "Military Historian of the Year" award.
The TimedMediaHandler extension (TMH), which brings dramatic improvements to MediaWiki's video handling capabilities, will go live to the English Wikipedia this week following a long and turbulent development, WMF Director of Platform Engineering Rob Lanphier announced on Monday ... Wikidata.org, a new repository designed to host interwiki links, launched this week and will begin accepting links shortly. The site, which is one half of the forthcoming Wikidata trial (the other half being the Wikidata client, which will be deployed to the Hungarian Wikipedia shortly) will also act as a testing area for phase 2 of Wikidata (centralised data storage). The longer term plan is for Wikidata.org to become a "Wikimedia Commons for data" as phases 2 and 3 (dynamic lists) are developed, project managers say.
Thirteen articles, ten lists, nine images, one topic, and one portal were promoted to featured after peer reviews.
A paper in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, coming from the social control perspective and employing the repertory grid technique, has contributed interesting observations about the governance of Wikipedia.

The Signpost: 05 November 2012

J Milburn is a British editor who has been on the site since 2006. He is one of two judges of the WikiCup. Here, he uses an op-ed to explain the way the WikiCup works and to review this year's competition, which ended recently.
The results of most of the national heats for Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) have been published on Commons. A maximum of 10 images have been submitted by all but eight of the 34 participating countries, and the international jury for what is the largest competition of its type in the world is set to announce the global winner in four weeks' time.
Hurricane Sandy was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record and has caused millions of dollars in damage. Naturally, Wikipedia covered it. But was Wikipedia's coverage unbiased?
The Signpost's weekly roundup of topics for discussion on the English Wikipedia.
This week, the Signpost interviewed two editors. The first, PumpkinSky, collaborated with Gerda Arendt in writing the recently featured article on Franz Kafka and won second prize in the Core contest last August. The second, Cwmhiraeth, collaborated with Thompsma in promoting the article Frog, which was featured last week. We asked them about the special challenges faced while writing Core content and things to watch out for.
The Wikimedia Foundation's engineering report for October 2012 was published this week on the Wikimedia Techblog and on the MediaWiki wiki, giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month. TimedMediaHandler also went live.
This week, The Signpost sings along with WikiProject Songs which focuses on articles about songs of every generation and genre. The project initially began as a rough outline in October 2002 and was reimagined in March 2004 using its parent WikiProject Albums as a template.

The Signpost: 12 November 2012

Last week, media outlets reported a ruling by a German court on the problem of businesses using Wikipedia for marketing purposes. The issue goes beyond the direct management of marketing-related edits by Wikipedians; it involves cross-monitoring and interacting among market competitors themselves on Wikipedia. A company that sells dietary supplements made from frankincense had taken a competitor to court. The recently published judgment by the Higher Regional Court of Munich, in dealing with the German Wikipedia article on frankincense products, was handed down in May and is based on European competition law.
Thirteen articles, six lists, and five images were promoted to 'featured' status last week.
In late September, the Technology report published its findings about (particularly median) code review times. To the 23,900 changesets analysed the first time (the data for which has been updated), the Signpost added data from the 9,000 or so changesets contributed between September 17 and November 9 to a total of 93,000 reviews across 45,000 patchsets. Bots and self-reviews were also discarded, but reviews made by a different user in the form of a superseding patch were retained. Finally, users were categorised by hand according to whether they would be best regarded as staff or volunteers. The new analyses were consistent with the predictions of the previous analysis.
As promised, we're expanding our horizons by featuring projects that cover underrepresented areas of the globe. This week, we headed to WikiProject Brazil which keeps track of articles about the world's largest Portuguese-speaking country. The project has shown spurts of activity and continues to serve as a hub for discussions, despite the project's collaborations, peer reviews, and outreach activities being largely inactive.

The Signpost: 19 November 2012

The WMF's Funds Dissemination Committee has published its recommendations for the inaugural round 1 of funding. Requests totalled US$10.4M, nearly all of the FDC's budget for both first and second rounds. The seven-member committee of community volunteers appointed in September advises the WMF board on the distribution of grant funds among applying Wikimedia organizations. The committee, which has a separate operating budget of $276k for salaries and expenses, considered 12 applications for funds, from 11 chapters and from the WMF itself for its non-core activities. The decision-making process included community and FDC staff input after October 1, the closing date for submissions. Taken together, the volunteers decided to endorse an average of 81% of the funding sought—a total of $8.43M, which went to 11 of the 12 applicants. This leaves $2.71M to be distributed in round 2, for which applications are due in little more than three months' time.
This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Turtles. The young project started in January 2011 and has accumulated 5 Featured Articles, 3 Featured Lists, and 6 Featured Pictures. The project maintains a combined to-do list and hot articles meter, a popular pages ranking, and a collection of resources for turtle articles. We interviewed Faendalimas and NYMFan69-86.
WMF Executive Director Sue Gardner was forced to clarify this week that proposed structural changes to the Foundation's Engineering and Product Development Department were not a "done deal" and that it was "important that you [particularly affected staff] realise that ... your input is wanted". The reorganisation, announced on November 5 and planned for the middle of next year, will see its two components split off into their own departments.
Seven featured articles, four featured lists and ten featured pictures – including the photograph that spawned the Streisand effect – were promoted this week.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include the question of ticker symbol placement and the notability of various types of creative performer.

The Signpost: 26 November 2012

On November 24, a general assembly of Wikimedia Germany (WMDE) voted on the fate of the Wikimedia Toolserver, a central external piece of technical infrastructure supporting the editing communities with volunteer-developed scripts and webpages of various kinds that are assisting in performing mostly menial tasks.
An open-access preprint presents the results from a study attempting to predict early box office revenues from Wikipedia traffic and activity data. The authors – a team of computational social scientists from Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Aalto University and the Central European University – submit that behavioral patterns on Wikipedia can be used for accurate forecasting, matching and in some cases outperforming the use of social media data for predictive modeling. The results, based on a corpus of 312 English Wikipedia articles on movies released in 2010, indicate that the joint editing activity and traffic measures on Wikipedia are strong predictors of box office revenue for highly successful movies.
Six articles, one list, and six images were promoted to 'featured' status this week.
Wikidata, the new "Wikimedia Commons for data" and the first new Wikimedia project since 2006, reached 100,000 entries this week. The project aims to be a single, human- and machine-readable database for common data, spanning across all Wikipedia projects, which will "lead to a higher consistency and quality within Wikipedia articles, as well as increased availability of information in the smaller language editions" while lowering the burden on Wikipedia's volunteer editors—whose numbers have stalled overall, and continue to dwindle on the English Wikipedia.
This week, we uncovered WikiProject Deletion Sorting, Wikipedia's most active project by number of edits to all the project's pages. This special project seeks to increase participation in Articles for Deletion nominations by categorizing the AfD discussions by various topic areas that may draw the attention of editors. The project was started in August 2005 with manual processes that are continued today by a bevy of bots, categories, and transclusions. The project took inspiration from WikiProject Stub Sorting and some historical discussions on deletion reform. As the sheer number of AfDs continues to grow, the project is seeking better tools to manage the deletion sorting process and attract editors to comment on these deletion discussions.

The Signpost: 03 December 2012

The global jury of Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM), the world’s largest photo contest, announced its results on 3 December.
Three articles, two lists, and four images were promoted to 'featured' status this week.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
Deployments of MediaWiki 1.21wmf5 cause widespread problems for users across wikis when HTML and CSS updates came temporarily out of sync. On the first wikis targeted for deployment, this was caused by the different cache invalidation rates for HTML (typically one month) and CSS (typically five minutes). The retrospective on the problem highlighted the fact that that the test wiki – the WMF's answer to a production environment that individual developers can no longer practically emulate themselves – actually demonstrated the exact problem that would later manifest itself on production wikis. It went unnoticed.
This week, we went searching for white roses in the lands of WikiProject Yorkshire. The project began in May 2007 as a way to improve articles about the historic English county of Yorkshire and its modern-day administrative divisions and cities. Since then, the project has accumulated 31 Featured Articles, 14 Featured Lists, 91 Good Articles, and a monstrous list of Did You Know entries. Despite all of the effort improving Yorkshire articles, the project has experienced waning participation in the last few years. The project still publishes a newsletter each month, monitors the popularity of and recent changes to its articles, maintains a portal, and collects resources for contributors to use.

The Signpost: 10 December 2012

At the time of writing, this year's election has just closed after a two-week voting period. The eight seats were contested by 21 candidates. Of these, 15 have not been arbitrators (Beeblebrox, Count Iblis, Guerillero, Jc37, Keilana, Ks0stm, Kww, NuclearWarfare, Pgallert, RegentsPark, Richwales, Salvio giuliano, Timotheus Canens, Worm That Turned, and YOLO Swag); four candidates are sitting arbitrators (David Fuchs, Elen of the Roads, Jclemens, and Newyorkbrad); and two have previously served on the committee (Carcharoth and Coren). Four Wikimedia stewards from outside the English Wikipedia stepped forward as election scrutineers: Pundit, from the Polish Wikipedia; Teles, from the Portuguese Wikipedia; Quentinv57, from the French Wikipedia; and Mardetanha, from the Persian Wikipedia. The scrutineers' task is to ensure that the election is free of multiple votes from the same person, to tally the results, and to announce them. The full results are expected to be released within the next few days and will be reported in next week's edition of the Signpost.
Eight articles, four images, six lists, and one topic were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week.
The Visual Editor project – an attempt to create the first WMF-deployable WYSIWYG editor – will go live on its first Wikipedias imminently following nearly six months of testing on MediaWiki.org. A full explanatory blog post accompanied the news, explaining the project and its setup. Once a user has opted-in, the editor can handle basic formatting, headings and lists, while safely ignoring elements it is yet to understand, including references, categories, templates, tables and images. At the last count, approximately 2% of pages would break in some way if a user tried the Visual Editor on them; it is unclear whether any specific protection will be put in place beyond relying on editors to spot problems.
In celebration of Human Rights Day, we checked out WikiProject Human Rights. Started in February 2006, the project has grown to include over 3,000 articles, including 12 Featured Articles, 3 Featured Lists, 66 Good Articles, a large collection of Did You Know entries, and a few mentions "in the news". The project monitors listings of popular pages and cleanup tags. We interviewed Khazar2, Cirt, and Boud.

The Signpost: 17 December 2012

Seven days after the close of voting, the results of the recent Arbitration Committee (ArbCom) elections have been announced by two of the four stewards overseeing the election, Mardetanha and Pundit. Of the 21 candidates, 13 managed to gain positive support-to-oppose ratios, and the top eight will be appointed to two-year terms on the committee by Jimbo Wales, exercising one of his traditional responsibilities.
In the past year, we've tried to expand our horizons by looking at how WikiProjects work in other languages of Wikipedia. Following in the footsteps of our previously interviewed Czech and French projects, we visited the German Wikipedia to explore WikiProjekt Computerspiel (WikiProject Computer Games). The project dates back to November 2004 and has become the back-end of the Computer Games Portal, which covers all video games regardless of platform. Editors writing about computer games at the German Wikipedia deal with unique cultural and legal challenges, ranging from a lack of fair use precedents to the limited availability of games deemed harmful for youths to strong standards for the inclusion of material on the German Wikipedia.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include ...
This week's big story on the English Wikipedia is obviously the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting (which, by the time you read this, may be renamed 2012 Connecticut school shooting). Quickly created and nominated for deletion not once but twice, and both times speedily kept, the article saw the expected flurry of edits (a look at the history suggests an average of at least one a minute over the first day and a half) and more than half a million page views on the first full day.
Four articles, three lists, and five images were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week, including a picture of a three-week old donkey (also known as an 'ass').
MediaWiki users (including Wikimedians) can now organise themselves into groups, receiving recognition and support-in-kind from the Wikimedia Foundation. The project, backed by new Wikimedia technical contributor coordinator Quim Gil, has seen five proposals lodged in its first week of operation. The idea of MediaWiki groups mimics that of Wikimedia User Groups.
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