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The Signpost: 13 May 2015

Foundation elections: Board candidates share their views with the Signpost

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.

News and notes: Swedish Wikimedia chapter organizes simultaneous Wikidata contests

This week has been a busy one for the Wikidata project, with nearly simultaneous Wikidata contests, both organized by Wikimedia Sweden, now underway.

Traffic report: Round Two

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.

In the media: Grant Shapps story continues

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.

Op-ed: What made Wikipedia lose its reputation?

There is a public misconception of Wikipedia: that any anonymous editor can edit Wikipedia at any time, and cannot be tracked or identified.

Featured content: Four first-time featured article writers lead the way

Eight articles, one list, and five pictures were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia in a slow week.

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36	Horace Wells (talk)	Add sources
749	Snoop Dogg discography (talk)	Add sources
36	Alwayz into Somethin' (talk)	Add sources
30	Eat the Rich (Aerosmith song) (talk)	Add sources
177	Crazy (Aerosmith song) (talk)	Add sources
656	Gangsta rap (talk)	Add sources
22	Dope discography (talk)	Cleanup
13	Roger Steffens (talk)	Cleanup
575	Optimus Prime (talk)	Cleanup
12	Return to Mysterious Island 2 (talk)	Expand
20	Paul Martinez (talk)	Expand
1,824	Pokémon (video game series) (talk)	Expand
31	Rastafari movement in the United States (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
212	Endless Love (song) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
340	Megatron (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
95	Family Guy, American Dad! and The Cleveland Show crossovers (talk)	Merge
241	City of Evil (talk)	Merge
148	Silicic acid (talk)	Merge
39	Laser peening (talk)	Wikify
134	Dr. Dre production discography (talk)	Wikify
7	Sunshine State Games (talk)	Wikify
1	Locations in Transformers: Prime (talk)	Orphan
6	Transformers SCF (talk)	Orphan
2	Alice Mary Cassie (talk)	Orphan
3	Workers' Front (Croatia) (talk)	Stub
31	Appetite for Destruction (song) (talk)	Stub
31	James Stephens (actor) (talk)	Stub
3	This Is Me Missing You (talk)	Stub
14	Phahurat (talk)	Stub
19	The N.W.A Legacy, Vol. 2 (talk)	Stub

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The Bugle: Issue CX, May 2015

Your Military History Newsletter

Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results
Articles: Last month's new Featured and A-Class content
Book review: Recent external reviews
Op-ed: TomStar81 and Simon Harley on the sinking of the Lusitania
Timeline: This month in World War I

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The Signpost: 20 May 2015

From the editor: Your voice is needed: strategic voting in the WMF election

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.

In focus: The awful truth about Wikimedia's article counts

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.

Traffic report: Inner Core

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.

News and notes: A dark side of comedy: the Wikipedia volunteers cleaning up behind John Oliver's fowl jokes

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."

Featured content: Puppets, fungi, and waterfalls

Three articles, seven lists, and seven pictures were featured on the English Wikipedia.

In the media: Jimmy Wales accepts Dan David Prize

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.

WikiProject report: Cell-ebrating Molecular Biology

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.

Arbitration report: Editor conduct the subject of multiple cases

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.

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34	Chin Check (talk)	Add sources
22	The Other Side (Aerosmith song) (talk)	Add sources
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75	Marley (film) (talk)	Cleanup
3	Hemigymnus melapterus (talk)	Cleanup
123	Rival Schools: United by Fate (talk)	Expand
64	Street Fighter II′: Champion Edition (talk)	Expand
19	Advance of the Islamic Courts Union (talk)	Expand
172	King Edward Memorial Hospital and Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
373	West Coast hip hop (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
145	Mansions of Rastafari (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
10	German (name) (talk)	Merge
1,504	The Cure (talk)	Merge
25	Captaincies of Brazil (talk)	Merge
72	Mumbai Port Trust (talk)	Wikify
361	Del the Funky Homosapien (talk)	Wikify
157	Soundwave (Transformers) (talk)	Wikify
3	Alan Oirich (talk)	Orphan
1	Allophroides (talk)	Orphan
2	Akdala mine (talk)	Orphan
17	Nicolae Rainea (talk)	Stub
38	I Threes (talk)	Stub
29	Said I Loved You...But I Lied (talk)	Stub
1	Gervais High School (talk)	Stub
8	Live at Wacken: The Reunion (talk)	Stub
8	Live at Hammersmith (Twisted Sister album) (talk)	Stub

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Mop wedding

Though your prod was removed, I've nominated this for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mop wedding. Fences&Windows 21:12, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 May 2015

News and notes: WMF releases quarterly reports, annual plans

The Wikimedia Foundation recently switched to a quarterly report structure to better align reporting with the generally quarterly planning and goal-setting processes.

In the media: Scrubbing Parliamentary biographies; Wikipedia's invisible history

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.

Discussion report: A relic from the past that needs to be updated

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.

Featured content: When music was confined to a ribbon of rust

Fifteen featured articles, four featured lists, and six featured pictures were promoted this week.

Recent research: Drug articles accurate and largely complete; women "slightly overrepresented"; talking like an admin

Wikipedia's articles on drugs are pretty good – good enough to impress even doctors. A new research study adds some substance to that impression.

Traffic report: Summer, summer, summertime

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.

Technology report: MediaWiki blows up printers

...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.

11:12:17, 7 June 2015 review of submission by Lianeya

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Hi there!

Thanks for your feedback and review.

Can you give me some examples of "Encyclopedia Facts" that pertain to writing an entry on arts/culture organizations? Thanks!

It would be great if you could also find the time to supply an example of a successful entry for a young but solid creative organization ~5 years old and expanding....

Thanks again.

11:24:38, 7 June 2015 review of submission by Lianeya

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Lianeya (talk) 11:24, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

Hi there!

Thanks for your feedback and review.

Can you give me some examples of "Encyclopedia Facts" that pertain to writing an entry on arts/culture organizations? Thanks!

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Thanks again.

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512	DJ Yella (talk)	Add sources
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776	Recovery (Eminem album) (talk)	Cleanup
60	Ravage (Transformers) (talk)	Cleanup
93	Institute of Chemical Technology (talk)	Cleanup
2,486	Rastafari movement (talk)	Expand
9	Rebel Music (song) (talk)	Expand
150	Shockwave (Transformers) (talk)	Expand
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74	Jimmy Crespo (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
18	Nandivarman II (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
14	Abhira Kingdom (talk)	Merge
11	Movin' Out (song) (talk)	Merge
80	Don't Stop (5 Seconds of Summer song) (talk)	Merge
118	Dude (Looks Like a Lady) (talk)	Wikify
34	Armageddon (A&M band) (talk)	Wikify
22	Shalla-Bal (talk)	Wikify
2	Albéniz, Álava (talk)	Orphan
2	Andrius Pinialis (talk)	Orphan
5	Anna Rogel (talk)	Orphan
8	One Drop (Bob Marley & The Wailers song) (talk)	Stub
24	SpinMedia (talk)	Stub
17	Made in America (EP) (talk)	Stub
15	Rats in the Cellar (talk)	Stub
21	The Promise Key (talk)	Stub
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how did you edit michael Jackson bioJmosley95mjj (talk) 04:55, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
I have used a tool called Findargdups to remove a duplicate arguement on the page, which was the title of one reference, but one duplicate of the same part of the reference was blank, so it told me where to find the blank "second" title and I removed it. this category lists all of the articles using duplicate arguments and thus are able to be fixed by Findargdups. See this page on how to use this tool and put it into your common.js script. The Snowager-is awake 06:58, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 03 June 2015

News and notes: Three new community-elected trustees announced, incumbents out

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.

Blog: How Wikipedia covered Caitlyn Jenner’s transition

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.

Discussion report: The deprecation of Persondata; RfA – A broken process; Complaints from users on Swedish Wikipedia

Since the dawn of Wikipedia, or at least since 22 December 2005, the template named Persondata has existed.

Featured content: It's not over till the fat man sings

Two featured articles and ten featured pictures were promoted this week.

Technology report: Things are getting SPDYier

Over the past few weeks, developers have been working on improving Wikimedia's performance when users connect to it using SPDY.

Special report: Towards "Health Information for All": Medical content on Wikipedia received 6.5 billion page views in 2013

Wikipedia appears to be the single most used website for health information globally, exceeding traffic observed at the NIH, WebMD, WHO et al..

In the media: Anonymous Australian editing targets football player, shooting victim

More UK government vandalism; legend has it; minding the gender gap

Traffic report: A rather ordinary week

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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133	2006 in music (talk)	Add sources
204	Boyz-n-the-Hood (talk)	Add sources
146	Cybertron (talk)	Add sources
41	What It Takes (Aerosmith song) (talk)	Add sources
254	Unicron (talk)	Add sources
60	St. Ides (talk)	Add sources
54	Cyclonus (talk)	Cleanup
37	The Comedians of Comedy (talk)	Cleanup
452	We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (talk)	Cleanup
1,075	Maserati (talk)	Expand
47	Bolivar Peninsula, Texas (talk)	Expand
20	Arkansas Children's Hospital (talk)	Expand
21	Let the Music Do the Talking (song) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
68	Matrix of Leadership (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
49	Rebirth (Futurama) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
17	We Wanna Be with You Tour (talk)	Merge
384	Freight transport (talk)	Merge
872	Nigel Farage (talk)	Merge
229	Grimlock (talk)	Wikify
41	Gary Barlow discography (talk)	Wikify
1,448	Cyndi Lauper (talk)	Wikify
4	Analytica (company) (talk)	Orphan
5	Abdul Gafur Hali (talk)	Orphan
1	Actinotachina angusta (talk)	Orphan
43	Got to Be There (song) (talk)	Stub
19	Warrior (Disturbed song) (talk)	Stub
33	Nahrees (talk)	Stub
4	Lumeneo Neoma (talk)	Stub
17	Joey Franco (talk)	Stub
31	Deuce (The D.O.C. album) (talk)	Stub

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The Signpost: 10 June 2015

News and notes: Chapter financial trends analyzed, news in brief

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.

Traffic report: Two households, both alike in dignity

"Happy families are all alike," Leo Tolstoy said, "but unhappy families are unhappy after their own fashion."

In the media: Arbitration case attracts media coverage; Wikipedia in Israel

UK media covers Wikipedia Arbitration case; Lila Tretikov visits Israel.

Featured content: Just the bear facts, ma'am

Four featured articles, two featured lists, one featured topic, and twenty-eight featured pictures were promoted this week.

Technology report: Wikimedia sites are going HTTPS only

Today it was announced that Wikimedia sites are going to become HTTPS only, finishing up 10 year effort of rolling out HTTPS.

Blog: Making Wikipedia’s medical articles accessible in Chinese

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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20	The Best of N.W.A: The Strength of Street Knowledge (talk)	Add sources
79	Breadstick (talk)	Add sources
586	Degrassi (season 14) (talk)	Add sources
70	Amazing (Aerosmith song) (talk)	Add sources
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340	Granada CF (talk)	Add sources
1,493	Eminem discography (talk)	Cleanup
24	Communications in the Isle of Man (talk)	Cleanup
1,518	Linda Ronstadt (talk)	Cleanup
29	Zorua and Zoroark (talk)	Expand
850	Transformers (talk)	Expand
175	Music from Another Dimension! (talk)	Expand
30	Naga people (Lanka) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
44	Fry and the Slurm Factory (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
31	The Joe Perry Project (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
352	Louie Louie (talk)	Merge
9	Palomar Mountain Range (talk)	Merge
49	She Looks So Perfect (EP) (talk)	Merge
30	Bossy (Kelis song) (talk)	Wikify
118	Gouken (talk)	Wikify
20	Niggaz4Life: The Only Home Video (talk)	Wikify
10	Umphrey's McGee discography (talk)	Orphan
2	Art and Remembrance: The Legacy of Felix Nussbaum (talk)	Orphan
0	Artsvakar (talk)	Orphan
18	Family Tree (N.W.A album) (talk)	Stub
14	Draw the Line (song) (talk)	Stub
16	Music from the Motion Picture Wayne's World 2 (talk)	Stub
37	Long Time Gone (talk)	Stub
142	Piero Ferrari (talk)	Stub
14	My Life and Ethiopia's Progress (talk)	Stub

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The Signpost: 17 June 2015

In the media: Wikipedia wins Asturias Prize; printing out Wikipedia; HTTPS switch

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.

Arbitration report: An election has consequences

The Arbitration Committee delivered its final decision in a case that reached the attention of the UK national press.

In focus: Three weeks to save freedom of panorama in Europe

This would end a long-standing tradition in many countries that the skyline and the public scene should belong to everybody.

Op-ed: Making a difference in Wikipedia, one GA at a time

We need to be ever-diligent in ensuring that articles remain of high quality.

Technology report: HTTPS-only rollout completed; proposal to enable VisualEditor for new accounts

The rollout of HTTPS only has now been completed across all Wikimedia wikis.

Interview: A veteran’s Wikipedia edits help him understand the brutality behind Yugoslavia’s wars

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.

News and notes: Labs outage kills tools, self; news in brief

A more than usually severe outage Wikimedia Labs occurred after a massive database corruption implosion on June 17.

Featured content: Great Dane hits 150

Six featured articles, seven featured lists, and seven featured pictures were promoted this week.

Discussion report: A quick way of becoming an admin

Author's note: This might be a violation of WP:BEANS; read at your own risk.

WikiProject report: Western Australia speaks – we are back

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.

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355	Megatron (talk)	Add sources
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428	Effects of cannabis (talk)	Cleanup
19	Dope discography (talk)	Cleanup
150	1991 in music (talk)	Cleanup
581	Bison (talk)	Expand
12	Return to Mysterious Island 2 (talk)	Expand
1,647	Pokémon (video game series) (talk)	Expand
35	Kidz Bop 25 (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
27	Kidz Bop 3 (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
181	Endless Love (song) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
14	Fox animated shared universe (talk)	Merge
104	Lupin Limited (talk)	Merge
1	Lament of Yemen (talk)	Merge
536	Optimus Prime (talk)	Wikify
32	The Glass Shield (talk)	Wikify
6	Teachers College Press (talk)	Wikify
0	Locations in Transformers: Prime (talk)	Orphan
4	Transformers SCF (talk)	Orphan
1	2012 in Canadian business (talk)	Orphan
26	Appetite for Destruction (song) (talk)	Stub
5	Kickstart Kids (talk)	Stub
25	Holy Piby (talk)	Stub
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The Bugle: Issue CXI, June 2015

Your Military History Newsletter

Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results
Articles: Last month's new Featured and A-Class content
Book review: Recent external reviews
Op-ed: TomStar81 on the new technology of World War I
Timeline: This month in World War I

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Username

I don't believe my username violates the username policy. I don't think "damn" is a very bad word (maybe if you're under 8), but my first name is "Adam" and I used to watch Dora the Explorer when I was little. That's how I got the username. What about OhDoradarnit? OhDoradammit (talk) 08:43, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

My mom gave me a nickname when I was very little: "Doradam." OhDoradammit (talk) 08:44, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

This states the definition of the last 6 letters spelling the word, and Wiktionary also classes the word as profane. A change in username would be recommended, wouldn't it? The Snowager-is awake 02:18, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 June 2015

From the editor: The Signpost tagging initiative

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Op-ed: Content Translation beta is coming to the English Wikipedia

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.

Special report: Small impact of the large Google Translation Project on Telugu 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.

Featured content: One eye when begun, two when it's done

Four articles and nine pictures were promoted to featured status this week.

Recent research: How Wikipedia built governance capability; readability of plastic surgery articles

One paper looks at the topic of Wikipedia governance in the context of online social production.

Technology report: 2015 MediaWiki architecture focus and Multimedia roadmap announced

This past week saw the kick-off of the 2015 MediaWiki architecture focus of improving our content platform.

News and notes: Board of Trustees propose bylaw amendments

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 ...

In the media: Turkish Wikipedia censorship; "Can Wikipedia survive?"; PR editing

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Blog: 7,473 volumes at 700 pages each: meet Print Wikipedia

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Arbitration report: Politics by other means: The American politics 2 arbitration

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The Signpost: 01 July 2015

News and notes: Training the Trainers; VP of Engineering leaves WMF

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In the media: EU freedom of panorama; Nehru outrage; BBC apology

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