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Indian terror organisations in North America

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Hi yousaf i have had a idea about a new article about Indian extremeists in North America and there growing activitys in canada through there radical VHP and lobbyists in Barack Obamas panel maybe wikireader41 could contribute lol :) heres the links

http://www.vhp-america.org/press/Elephant.htm

http://www.france24.com/en/20081115-united-states-politics-obama-indian-slammed-with-extremist-link-accusations

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9RYs-Z6AdpQC&pg=PA504&lpg=PA504&dq=hindu+nationalism+in+america&source=bl&ots=x0SXn4kiU4&sig=xqyGTALcL9MeK5d3d4O74OPo8vg&hl=en&ei=pt6_SZ3lFdSzjAeJxaw5&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result

86.156.208.231 (talk) 17:33, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I know,but what should I do with these edits.yousaf465


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AIV

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Next time you list someone on AIV, make sure they have vandalized after receiving a final, level4 warning or equivalent. This is in reference to User:Mlevy7. bibliomaniac15 03:56, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I blocked them because it was obvious that they were a vandalism-only account. In the future though, remember to list on AIV after a final warning like {{test4}} or {{uw-vand4}}. bibliomaniac15 04:03, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Will follow Advice.yousaf465

Thanks

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Thanks for your welcome. Wishes! -Zhinanzhen (talk) 04:02, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. An alumni. -Zhinanzhen (talk) 05:52, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. Thanks! My Pakistani brother. But seems you gave me a wrong link. unwary, haha. -Zhinanzhen (talk) 06:09, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I see. -Zhinanzhen (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 06:24, 18 March 2009 (UTC).[reply]

OK. -Zhinanzhen (talk) 06:45, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello there. Thank you for your message. I've been using/editing Wikipedia for a long time, just never gotten round to signing up! jamierr90 (talk) 16:15, 04 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

numbered list (#) wikicode

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Hi there Yousaf465; this is just a friendly reminder to be careful with how you format comments in numbered list sections. I've had to jigger your comment formatting a couple of times at Wikipedia talk:Flagged protection and patrolled revisions/Poll [2] [3] because it broke the numbering. Now, numbered lists are easily the worst-implemented feature of our wikicode; it's easy to break things accidentally, and the syntax for doing it right is counterintuitive. However, please just watch and be careful, and use preview if you have to. In particular, you can't use hard returns to add a blank line, even if you want multiple paragraphs; you have to add an unordered list comment at the same level as your first paragraph. Yes, that is painfully stupid. Also, the only syntax that works for adding unordered list comments to a numbered listis to start them with exactly '#:'. Yes, that is even more painfully stupid. There's nothing you or I can do about the bad syntax, though, so please just be careful. Thanks. — Gavia immer (talk) 04:53, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Rectified.yousaf465
Thanks. As I said, I understand making a mistake with that, so long as we make sure the numbering gets corrected. — Gavia immer (talk) 05:05, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

RE: ACC tool

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The issue has already been discussed with the only people who have power on ACC, the tool administrators. For all points and purposes, this decision is final. If you can keep up good behavior and reapply in a few months, you will probably get accepted. --FastLizard4 (Talk•Index•Sign) 06:05, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ahh, sorry for misunderstanding what you were trying to say :). The grounds for the denial is based on the fact that the tagging could be described as disruptive, regardless of whether or not the tagging was correct. --FastLizard4 (Talk•Index•Sign) 06:10, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Pearl Buck a missionary

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Actually she was a missionary herself, at least in the sense of being on the payroll of a mission board, until she resigned in 1932. But I agree that the huge Christian missionary sign on the side of her page is out of proportion to the importance in her life, so I agree it should have been removed. ch (talk) 05:56, 21 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for the offer of adoption

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I am glad for the offer of adoption as I am quite new and struggling on rules. Initially, can you send me your thoughts relative to the autobio Benito T. de Leon I earlier submitted--it has initially passed nomination for deletion: can I continue editing it or just leave it as is? Thanks and only the best.Sultan-Commander (talk) 03:33, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

2009 FATA mosque attack

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I've redirected 27 March 2009 Jamrud bombing to 2009 FATA mosque attack, I think that's the article on the evnt. If they are not the same event, I apologise, but I hope you agree it is better if every editor works on the same page. Hiding T 15:32, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of 2009 Manawan Police Training School in Lahore attack

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A tag has been placed on 2009 Manawan Police Training School in Lahore attack requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. JCutter (talk) 04:19, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Yousaf465,
The Lahore police academy attack is a new article based on the same incident as the earlier 2009 Lahore police academy attacks. What are your views on the merge discussion? JSR 0562 08:10, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Merge is my view.or rename first one to second.Second option is better.yousaf465

You are the lead contributor so your choice matters most. Do we copy/paste all your content to the second article and then redirect? Then do the same for talk? I'm not sure of the bureaucracy here. JSR 0562 08:18, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You should nevertheless get the credit for creating the first article on WP. Why did'nt you link it anywhere ? JSR 0562 08:20, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I think somebody as already done that.yousaf465

Redirect done and I have left a small note crediting the article to you. Thank you for your detailed work. JSR 0562 08:29, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the pie. I hope you contribute to the article and its as good as your other efforts. JSR 0562 08:36, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Will try,but have to take a short break.yousaf465

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Edit was from Geo or Dawn and very sketchy at the time as it was just happening.

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All reports, seemed to be changing from everyone, even differing groups Fazlullah or another want credit. Best I can tell from google earth the site is 31°35' 30.38" N by 74°26' 45.84"E (shows a foot trod running track) and 31° 35'31.07"N x 74° 26' 46' 46.50"E is the only other site which fits the photos. If you have ever been to Lahore, Pak. I am wondering what the 8 oval laal (terra cotta) structures are, just off GTroad. Each has a large upright mast at center. I can only guess?Allenwalla (talk) 01:04, 1 April 2009 (UTC) all are two to three km east of the police training camp.[reply]

I will check.Thanks for the coordinates.yousaf465

The first location is in Kashmir.And second is not workingyousaf465

The laal structure is a batha( brick making [factory] [4]).yousaf465

Yousaf465,Thanks for the info on the brick kilns/factories. With eight of them to the east of Lahore city I now understand the complaint of hazy air. I guess bricks are still heavily used around Lahore. I was very tired when I wrote the coordinates and miss wrote 34 when it should have been 31°. the 31°35' 30.93 x 74°26'45.76" seems to have a running track with a large triangle (different gravel or grass) like the badge on police berets, in the center of the track. Even Kashmir and Jammu on google earth have many pictures of local sights with history. Lahore area has only a few? Allenwalla (talk) 23:35, 2 April 2009 (UTC) Surprised I was that the Wagah crossing, with the choreographed splendidly daily show put on there, was not marked. As for the attack at Manawaan the numbers of shaheedi and wounded change daily. removing incorrect drivel, lager photo show assuption wrong. Bricks are type for using in house construction.yousaf465[reply]

Yes it seems to be I will correct.yousaf465

Saw your links-surprised by the condition of the police academy cadet barracks, bedrolls on floor and plaster peeling all around, not even charpais?

Message from JSR

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The ITN was delivered to me. Actually you deserve it so assuming that they had the wrong address, I'm delivering it to you.

Current events globe On 30 March, 2009, In the news was updated with a news item that involved the article 2009 Lahore police academy attacks, which you created. If you know of another interesting news item involving a recently created or updated article, then please suggest it on the In the news candidates page.

Let me see that article all through today. I will check back in the evening. JSR 0562 05:18, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oh Thanks.That article is just away from GA,your contribution will be highly welcome.yousaf465

Dear Yousaf,
I have just come back dead tired from work. Given my experience on editing when tired I'm not sure I can do much right now. I'm willing to do whatever I can to help you in the article but please give me until tomorrow to do so :) JSR 0562 16:44, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the ITN. I will try to reach the article by evening-night. JSR 0562 09:23, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'll need some more time (let me look at it for a couple of days). The first thing is my main area of study is science so I am finding this difficult. Secondly I usually like to refer to books and journals neither of which are currently with me for defense related research. The GA review has failed since Jan 11 so the need to renominate the article will arise. After forming an opinion in a couple of days I can help in writing and some expansion. I will also look for books and articles on this incident during the coming 48 hours. JSR 0562 17:44, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Usefull story on Manawan

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Yousafsai, sending you a story link, which may be helpful in your page on Manawaan [5]Allenwalla (talk) 13:30, 3 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

info - attack on the cricket team, another link--seems somebody was staying home when they were supposed to patrol ahead of the buses [6]

…‘The officers were supposed to reach the route of the visitors an hour before the cricketers were to leave their hotel for the stadium to make a last minute check on security deployments, but they instead preferred to stay back at their homes ignoring the warnings intelligence agencies had issued about a possible hit on the Sri Lankan team.’

Please toss my edits to your page if not needed.

re. did not understand:

just added link to story on the cricket team attack, some police commanders that had been informed of a threatened attack on the Sri Lanka team, did not check or order check of route of busses ahead of team as they were playing 'hookie' at home. If that story is of no interest to you please delete my comments.Allenwalla (talk) 15:07, 3 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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read the article you had done on extended 747s, amazing they could do such -- especially the whole tail being hinged. good job.Allenwalla (talk) 23:02, 3 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Aljazeera.com

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About a week ago, you posted a question at WP:RSN asking whether Aljazeera.com was a reliable source. [7] However, the first two people to comment on this apparently confused Aljazeera.com with Al Jazeera, which is not affiliated with it, and the discussion was closed prematurely. I reopened the discussion, and you may wish to check the discussion again at WP:RSN; if it is no longer on the main page there, check the most recent archive. It hasn't been archived yet, but it might be by the time you get this message. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:09, 5 April 2009 (UTC) replied there.--yousaf465 10:25, 5 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cute cat

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I just had to say, that is a cute cat in the picture(and a great picture as well). What happened to her/him? I too am a cat lover.WackoJackO 04:21, 5 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

My cat was of similar breed he dead in a terrible car Accident right in front of my house while I was watching Obama's election! I will Nov 4 for that.Thanks for commenting on the picture it isn't him but similar.--yousaf465 10:12, 5 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Message from JSR

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The ITN belongs solely to you and in no way can be attributed to me. Your hard work credit goes to you. I can't take advantage of your generosity and add a star to my page. I have been unsuccessful in finding material for defense research so your suggestion of just expanding existing content is the best way to work. I'm having my motorcycle repaired and having cooling installed where I live (summers are here) so I have been busy. I will try and take care of the article on your behalf soon. JSR 0562 08:22, 5 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Rewritten lead as asked. JSR 0562 07:04, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi!

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I got your message about the T-80UD image. I've asked the original author to give me the permission via an email so that the image stays on the website. What else do I have to do?

Regards; Bezerk —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bezerk86 (talk • contribs) 21:28, 5 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Just a tip

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Now my grammar is very ordinary but just letting you know, after a full stop (.) and a comma (,) there should always be a space. Example, Human habitation of Australia is estimated to have begun between 42,000 and 48,000 years ago. These first Australians may have been ancestors of modern Indigenous Australians; they may have arrived via land bridges and short sea-crossings from what is now South-East Asia.

Thankyou Aaroncrick(Tassie Boy talk) 09:55, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the tip.--yousaf465 02:01, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Your request at GL/I re Shaheen Air, please reply

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AfD discussion on India and state terrorism

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Did you just upload a picture of your bedroom to an AfD discussion? --OliverTwisted (Talk) (Stuff) 05:28, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No,it's Indira Ghandi's house.I don't have such a bedroom but do dream of it.--yousaf465 05:40, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm saddened to have to post this, but I don't see much of an alternative. I've repeatedly tried to communicate that I did not wish to continue discussing this article on my talk page, as evidenced here: [8]. Since that has failed to make an impression, I'm going to be as specific as I can. Please stop posting to my talk page. Please stop harassing me, and posting inappropriate content on the AfD discussion board regarding India and terrorism. You have become so wrapped up in WP:OWN, WP:NPOV and WP:DICK, that I confess to being somewhat greatful that you are taking a wikibreak. --OliverTwisted (Talk) (Stuff) 07:23, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks - CHZZ has solved my problem.Atmamatma (talk) 18:01, 19 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikireader41 again

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Hi just wanted to let you know the indian pov pusher is back after his break and is adding more trash against pakistanis this time on the British pakistani article please revert his edits and lets get some more info on poverty in India and the right wing hindu rise in the States :) 86.162.69.12 (talk) 14:41, 26 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

yousuf associating and encouraging banned vandals on wikipedia is not a characteristic desirable in aspiring administrators. I am sure you will agree Wikireader41 (talk) 14:50, 26 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I dont think he cares what a hindu fascist thinks maybe we could take another shot at the indian terro article 86.162.69.12 (talk) 14:53, 26 April 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.158.176.40 (talk) [reply]

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ITN for 2009 ICC World Twenty20

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Re:Pakistani cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2009

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I would like to help you with the article. I'll be not much active until 5th July, due to an exam. Hope thats alright. Cheers!--Chanaka L (talk) 13:13, 30 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No Problem. Test start from 4 so I think you will be ava. in mid test.yousaf465

Thanks for the Barnstar

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Hey,

Thanks for the Barnstar ;-) Pahari Sahib 07:19, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No Problem you deserved it.yousaf465

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The Special Barnstar
Four years and no Barnstar! Here's one for all the hardwork you have been doing lately - including Pakistani cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2009 and a whole bunch of other edits. Regards, Pahari Sahib 08:02, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

2009 Pakistan Army Mil Mi-17 crash

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Sure and it's my pleasure - excellent work on the article so far. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 16:45, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If anything comes into the American media I'll add what I can. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 16:52, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
OK - I have to run some errands today, but I'll see what I can do this evening. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 16:59, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Samjhauta Express bombing of 2007

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The recent UN resolution of 29 June 2009 squarely blames LeT for the terrorist bombing of Samjhauta Express-“Arif Qasmani is the chief coordinator for 1267-listed entity (QE.L.118.05) Lashkar-e-Tayyiba’s (LeT) dealings with outside organizations and has provided significant support for LeT terrorist operations. Qasmani has worked with LeT to facilitate terrorist attacks, to include the July 2006 train bombing in Mumbai, India, and the February 2007 Samjota Express bombing in Panipat, India.The URL link is - http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2009/sc9695.doc.htm. I presume that the blame should rightfully go to LeT based on this piece of evidence. Bharat74 (talk) 21:48, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

But I'm not editing that article so why inform me.yousaf465

ITN for 2009 Pakistan Army Mil Mi-17 crash

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need your e-mailUser:Yousaf465 (talk)

You can always email me using the 'E-mail this user' link in the toolbox on left-hand side of my user page. --IslesCapeTalk 14:08, 5 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Templates for deletion nomination of Template:Aviation accidents and incidents

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Template:Aviation accidents and incidents has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you.LeadSongDog come howl 16:32, 7 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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You may contact me on my e-mail. yousaf465@gmail.com Although I'm not editing thoese articles.yousaf465

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I would like to thank you, for your comments/understanding on my talk page. I will send you an email shortly. Thanks ..--99.51.223.161 (talk) 05:54, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Email sent. I had picked your email address from your comments on some other editor 99.51.223.161's talk page. He might send you an email as well, but please consider my email as separate one. --98.207.210.210 (talk) 06:49, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I have also sent you an Email after seeing some of your edits on my talk page. I have used the same email address which you had left out there. It appears that other respected editor 98.207.210.210 might have OR might send you an email as well, but in an effort to separate my view, I have specifically added my IP in my email text. Again thanks a lot for comming over to my talk page and expressing your kind views.--99.51.223.161 (talk) 07:28, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

About your BLA revert

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This is pertaining to your following edit in the page Balochistan Liberation Army ;

They are know to have contacted and got support from Indian agents stationed there. BLA operatives are also being trained in camps being run by RAW. BLA Leadership is currently operating from safe houses by RAW

The source you specified does say that the above are contents of the dossier that Pakistan gave to India, but they have to be stated that way itself; for the sake of NPOV. so i am reverting to the earlier version. pls let me know your reasoning if u still insist on reverting again to ur version,(lets avoid an edit war) Thanks... Arjun (talk) 10:21, 24 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well that o.k but it lacks a few sentences which should have been added. Well we can say this is how Pakistan put it. I think you will agree with me on this.yousaf465
Stating that Pakistan handed over a dossier stating such and such is okay. make sure it goes into the article that way itself ... Arjun (talk) 18:19, 24 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Well you may than do it.yousaf465

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Continental Airlines

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Yousaf Bhai,

APJ Abdul Kalam is not a day in an day out matter for an Indian. Read about him. Most Indians consider him as the best human symbol of India second only to Mahatma Gandhi.

Why don't you do the same when Bill Clinton or a George Bush comes to Pakistan.... I assure you Zardari will go to the White House and apologize personally ;-)

BTW... Continental Airlines have given an UNCONDITIONAL APOLOGY and offered to follow all Indian Laws and Protocols. If we do not uphold and respect the symbols of our own country... nobody else will.

Salaam --Shantanu2806 (talk) 19:32, 28 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

AA I will reply you later on. Until on just this " Zaradri might apologize for such a incident, but not our Prime Minister." I think matter is now solved, so no need to fuss over it anymore. WS. yousaf465

Good one. No probs.KH --Shantanu2806 (talk) 07:29, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bang

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The article seemed perfectly ready for the (article) namespace so you now have B-25 Empire State Building crash. — RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 12:09, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oh thanks. I'm thinking of expanding it.yousaf465

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Thanks.yousaf465

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Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight elections/August 2009/Oversight/Nishkid64 – I've given my answer to Meowy. I do consider a bit odd that you'd oppose before I even responded to Meowy, who I've already explained to that MarshallBagramyan had accepted the sockpuppetry allegations, but that's here nor there... Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 13:02, 3 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

O.k I have already voted, but thanks for explaining it. I didn't find response so such a vote. You see the issue is still not resloved. I have seen many other socks cases in which not sufficient evidence has been provided for a sockpuppet block. I'm myself have used CU on other wikis and know about it's limitation.yousaf465

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Hi. Could you please be sure to type out ~~~~ when signing your posts, so it displays both your signature and timestamp? Thanks, –Juliancolton | Talk 20:33, 9 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. yousaf465 05:27, 10 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of Rana Chandra Singh

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Hello! Your submission of Rana Chandra Singh at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Dabomb87 (talk) 04:21, 10 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have done that.yousaf465 05:28, 10 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
There's another problem. Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 14:21, 10 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I have tried to solve it, you may change it further.yousaf465 04:33, 11 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi - just a quick note that I've moved this to your user page User:Yousaf465/Eco train service here. Thanks.    7   talk | Δ |   08:32, 15 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for it, it was my mistake.--yousaf465 08:33, 15 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
No problem. The one in the main namespace will be removed shortly. Thanks.    7   talk | Δ |   08:39, 15 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
O.k but thanks again for correcting my mistake.--yousaf465 08:41, 15 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks.--yousaf465 16:06, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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In Pakistani–Turkish relations#Train Service is that 750 long tons, short tons or tonnes? There is a choice. Incedentally, where is the break-of-gauge? Peter Horn User talk 21:21, 15 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's tonne, or meteric tonne that is what we usually refer to in Pakistan.--yousaf465 16:17, 16 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, I'll now put a conversion in the article. But you have not answered my second question: where is the break-of-gauge? The rail link between Pakistan and Iran was long time in the making ,so when was it finally finished? I am quite aware of rhe fact that 66 gauge extended quite a distance into Iran without connecting with the Iranian standard gauge network and that the broad gauge portion within Iran would be converted as soon as the physical connection would be made. Some Wiki articles need to be updated now, like Rail transport in Iran and Rail transport in Pakistan. Peter Horn User talk 21:27, 16 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The break-of-gauge is at Zahedan, see Islamic Republic of Iran Railways#Link to Pakistan. Peter Horn User talk 23:48, 16 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't have any such knowledge about railways, so was unable to answer. I could to thanks you for your support, I'm willing to help as long as I could. There were some news that Pak-Iran links is under construction, I know no further.--yousaf465 03:23, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Here is one more link [9].--yousaf465 16:13, 17 August 2009 (UTC) We are now 3 days past the 14th so the link is finished and the trial container service is now up and running. Thanks for the new link, I'll use it. Peter Horn User talk 19:13, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

But on wiki we have to no deadline, so we an continue to improve the articles as more information pores in.--yousaf465 04:32, 18 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi/Salam Yousaf,

Its been a long time. Have once again had sometime to work on some article. Take a look at the difference! Recently have redone the entire articles of Faisalabad and Multan. Please comment and get back to me on any advice. Cheers. AH --Fast track (talk) 01:12, 16 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I will check into it.--yousaf465 15:56, 16 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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FYI - I have moved Yousaf465/SOHRAB CYCLES to User:Yousaf465/SOHRAB CYCLES. Regards  7  05:09, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks I also noticed something was not right about it.:)--yousaf465 05:11, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
No prob ;)  7  05:13, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It's the largest and most admired Bicycle company in Pakistan but still doesn't have a wiki article that is quite strange.--yousaf465 05:17, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I am sure you know this already, but you may want to avoid all-caps when you do move it to the main article namespace (unless that's how the company insists on it being written).  7  05:21, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
That was also a problem, but I left it till I complete the article and move it into mainspace. I copied that from the offical site and need to the check whether they write in all caps.--yousaf465 05:25, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Well they don't so we can do it has normal. This article also needs some pictures so they will be accounted for many shorabs can be found on the road.--yousaf465 05:27, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Did you heard of Karachi Meetup. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.155.15.45 (talk) 10:54, 3 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I did go through it. At what date ? --yousaf465 05:46, 4 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Better see Wikipedia_talk:Meetup/Karachi --Saqib Qayyum (talk) 10:03, 9 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
We've informed some active users working on Pakistan related articles but interest is not so good as I expected.. by the way, an anouncement on Urdu Wikipedia already made.--Saqib  talk  14:47, 10 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Should be enough for the Main Page now. --candle•wicke 12:26, 11 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks more suggestions on ITN.--yousaf465 13:05, 11 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Yousaf,

Seeing as you have been contributing heavily to October 2009 Lahore attacks, 2009 Pakistan Army General Headquarters attack, and 2009 Lahore police academy attacks, I want to ask you about this before I put this question on the talk pages for those articles: How would you feel about merging all three of the articles into a single article that covers attacks against Pakistani government facilities in October 2009? Are these all separate attacks that should each have its own article, or are they closely enough related to be clumped together in a single article? Caleb Jontalk 02:01, 17 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well 2009 Lahore police academy attacks, took place in March. Although the groups might be the same. But 2009 Pakistan Army General Headquarters attack, and October 2009 Lahore attacks, took place within a week of each other. On top of this same group claims resposnibility for both attacks. So must get input from other users as well. --yousaf465 02:14, 17 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, I'll post the question in the talk pages of October 2009 Lahore attacks and 2009 Pakistan Army General Headquarters attack Caleb Jontalk 04:37, 17 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Please see this page. Did you try to contact English newspapers (Dawn)? Saqib talk 12:03, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Could you help me with making English version of report on Wikimeetup? Waiting for your favour Saqib talk 14:49, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Me ? --yousaf465 14:54, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
They will be cursing me for blaming them again. Remember the Massal section intro.--yousaf465 14:58, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks.--yousaf465 01:50, 29 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Haha, thanks! And you mean it took a while to load? Apologies for that... I've been thinking of creating a text-only page where people can opt to proceed to the graphical one, but I haven't seen too many problems with the current one. Master of Puppets 03:05, 29 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey there! Just wanted to drop by and mention that you've been doing a great job on the article. One thing, though; try not to sign edits when they're in an article. :P Also, I find that it's more convenient to use ref names that are just a small portion of the publisher's name; that way, it's easy to remember and type (for example, <ref name=CNN />). Keep up the great work, though! Cheers, Master of Puppets 04:01, 30 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It was a run of mill mistake. Actually it was just loadshedding time and I had to do it in secs. Thanks for correcting it.--yousaf465 04:07, 30 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
No problem. In reply to your edit to my page, that's where you use numbers after the name (i.e. Geo1, Geo2). You can still do it your way, but I was just mentioning how I do it in case it might help you out. Cheers, Master of Puppets 04:12, 30 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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MSGJ suggested on Arsonal's (who's fairly new to ITN) talk page, that ITN suggestions made on the candidate's page would be put on separate pages, such as Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates/2009-12-05. The past seven days of discussion would be automatically transcluded. "This would avoid the need for archiving and it would also leave the history of the page intact. It might also make it easier to create new days because we can use preload templates, etc." The only disadvantage to this proposal would be that each new comment would not show up on people's watchlists.

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Hey dude please check out the edits of this indian pov pusher [10] he insists and beleives pakistan occupys Kashmir I think we should also add that India occupys jammu and kashmir in the Indian occupied Kashmir article this would be justice taking into account mass graves were found in indian occupied kashmir recently cheers Bhazan23 (talk) 18:34, 9 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

For for Kashmir we have two terms Indian administered Kashmir and Pakistani administered Kashmir, these are are netural terms as far as I know. I think the problem has been resolved.--yousaf465 05:47, 10 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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National Reconciliation Ordinance

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you might want to read this book by your fellow countryman.Descent Into Chaos, by Ahmed Rashid cheers & stay safe.Wikireader41 (talk) 04:48, 17 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Could you please help me with this article, as an outsider and hopefully neutral observer.--yousaf465 04:51, 17 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
sure I am already doing that. good that you think I am a 'neutral observer'.Wikireader41 (talk) 04:57, 17 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I also said "Hopefully". Then do something to remove that Npov banner.--yousaf465 05:00, 17 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for you help, continue with it.--yousaf465 05:10, 17 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks but other editors including you also deserve this.--yousaf465 14:29, 17 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks a lot.--yousaf465 09:52, 23 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Seasons greetings

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Oh thanks! The same to you! :) --candle•wicke 04:18, 24 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks.--yousaf465 04:32, 24 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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can you help improve this article. Wikireader41 (talk) 03:53, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well it's seems someone has gone on deletion spree, my red links in major incidents temp. Well I'm on kind of holiday from Wikipedia. Going to comment on deletion. Hopefully it gets atleast a stay.--yousaf465 08:46, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks. Recently I didn't have any internet access so late reply.--yousaf465 08:35, 24 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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@Saki:. --Saki talk 11:27, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

per your request I have expanded the article Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan. we can try for ITN once it is signed by zardari. Wikireader41 (talk) 16:54, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
never mind. it made it to ITN.  ;-) Wikireader41 (talk) 02:05, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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--Quick nom- well done! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 09:59, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks I got the breaking news even before it went on tv, so posted it quickly.--yousaf465 02:12, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Seems to be your pet project, if you want to create an expansion then it could be fair game for the main page but not like this. I don't know the details (but seen some al jazeera docs on it), but i can help a bit here adn there.Lihaas (talk) 09:02, 28 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No not my pet project, I haven't done have edit. Yeah, it needs some expansion. The details are that many villages have been inundated, so many people have to be moved. Simply a large natural disaster. --yousaf465 13:06, 28 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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When you nominate an item for ITN, it would be helpful if you'd provide an article and some description of the event- it makes it much easier to evaluate the item and much easier for admins to come up with a blurb if it gets on. Thanks, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 14:22, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, will be careful in future. but I couldn't find a suitable article for the item in question, so nominated it without a target article. --yousaf465 18:25, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The article's not that important, but some description of what's happening is. :) HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:41, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
So you may I should provide the context ? :)--yousaf465 22:06, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey, what do you need help with? Is it something to do with you recently being accused of "wahhabi sunni POV"? --Hj108 (talk) 18:35, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think we can discuss the what I have in mind via email.--yousaf465 18:41, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Or even via IRC channel.--yousaf465 18:42, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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A dumb user who claims to be an aviation expert is undoing my edits of Asiana code share which PIA do not have, keeps asking for reference, when the airlines are not codesharing how can there be a source to prove aginst it, also the code share article from PIA website is already linked showing airlines that they partner with, kindly inform him.119.155.44.186 (talk) 17:43, 3 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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The Signpost: 02 July 2012

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The Signpost: 09 July 2012

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Wikipedia has a long history of collaborating with educational institutions. The Schools and universities program — international and in many languages, but dominated by US institutions — started in 2003 and evolved case by case with little system. However, that changed in 2009 as Wikimedia embarked on its formal strategic process, and outreach in higher education came to be seen in terms of achieving explicit goals — especially that of increasing editor participation.
The Russian Wikipedia has been blacked out for 24 hours, ending 20:00 UTC Tuesday, as a protest against Russian State Duma Bill 89417-6, a bill currently before the Duma (the Russian parliament). Visitors to the Russian Wikipedia are confronted by the sign above in protest at a draconian internet censorship bill before the Duma. The Russian word for Wikipedia is crossed out in this banner, and the text says: "Imagine a world without free knowledge. The State Duma is currently conducting the second reading of a bill to amend the "Law on Information", which has the potential to lead to the creation of extra-judicial censorship of the Internet in Russia, including the closure of access to the Russian Wikipedia. Today, the Wikipedia community protests against censorship as a threat to free knowledge that is open to all mankind. We ask that you oppose this bill."
This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Football, which focuses on the sport also known as association football or soccer. WikiProject Football is by far the largest sport project and one of the most active projects on Wikipedia in terms of the number of articles covered, edits to articles, and talk page watchers.
Eight featured articles were promoted this week: ... Aries (constellation) by Keilana. Aries the Ram (symbol ♈) is one of the constellations of the Zodiac and one of 88 currently recognised constellations. Its area is 441 square degrees (1.1% of the celestial sphere). Although fairly dim, with only three bright stars, it is home to several deep-sky objects.
No cases were closed or opened, leaving the number of open cases at three. ... The case concerns alleged misconduct with regards to aggressive responses and harassment by Fæ toward users who question his actions.
The results from last month's trial of the LastModified extension were published this week on the Wikimedia blog. The first analyses have indicated a significant positive impact, suggesting that the extension – which makes the time since a page's last edit much more prominent in the interface – could eventually find its way onto Wikimedia wikis.

The Signpost: 16 July 2012

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User:Fæ was elected as the inaugural chair of the new Wikimedia Chapters Association, despite the controversies that have surrounded Fæ on the English Wikipedia and Commons, most recently aired in a live case before the Arbitration Committee. This is in marked contrast with unexciting movement, during the Wikimania meeting, on the most important issues facing the establishment of the association.
During Wikimania (July 12-15), the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) board finalized and enacted long-discussed reforms of the movement's financial structures, and considered procedures for creating new ways for Wikimedians to organize themselves into offline communities. The board moved on the controversial image filter issue, approved the 2012–13 annual plan, and issued a statement on the wikitravel proposal. It also appointed the two new chapter-selected trustees and elected the four office-bearers.
With the Tour de France in its final week, we traveled to the French Wikipedia for a chat with Projet Cyclisme (WikiProject Cycling). The French Wikipedia places a greater emphasis on portals than the English Wikipedia, which explains why WikiProject Cycling and its discussion page are actually extensions of the Cycling Portal. The project is home to two Article de Qualité (equivalent to Featured Articles) and eight Bon Article (Good Articles), primarily biographies of cyclists.
A brief overview of the current discussions on the English Wikipedia, including one regarding the purpose of the Community Portal. Started by Maryana, a Wikimedia Foundation employee, is this page for new users to be educated about the community, or is it for experienced users to find updates about the community?
Nearly 1400 Wikimedians and others from 87 countries descended on the capital of the United States, Washington, D.C., for Wikimania 2012. Even with an unprecedented number (1400) of conference attendees — the previous two Wikimanias, held in Gdańsk (Poland) and Haifa (Israel), were attended by fewer than 1100 people combined – Wikimania 2012 was a complete success, with attendees' reaction to the conference coming out as ecstatic and laudatory.
Eight featured articles were promoted this week, including Paul McCartney by GabeMc. McCartney (born 1942) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and composer. He gained worldwide fame as a member of the Beatles, and his collaboration with John Lennon is highly celebrated. After the band's break-up he pursued a solo career and formed the band Wings. McCartney has been described by Guinness World Records as the "most successful composer and recording artist of all time", and his song "Yesterday" has been covered more than any other song in history.
As Wikimania, the annual conference targeted at Wikimedians and often well attended by those with a technical slant, draws to a close, comments have already begun to come in from attendees regarding the many tech-related features of the conference.
No cases were closed or opened, leaving the number of open cases at three. A new remedy in the Fæ case calls for him to be indefinitely banned from the site after his attempts to solicit intervention from the Foundation, claiming that publicly listing all his accounts would be too onerous due to "ongoing security risks." He was further criticised for attempting to dodge good-faith concerns; the committee believes that if Fæ's claims are valid then he must be removed from the community.

The Signpost: 23 July 2012

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Does Wikipedia pay? is an ongoing 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.
The Signpost's goal is to provide readers with essential information about the Wikimedia movement and the English Wikipedia – both of which have become large and extremely complex institutions that require timely, balanced and in-depth coverage.
Two weeks ago the Signpost reported that the Russian Wikipedia had just begun a 24-hour blackout in protest at a bill that was before the Russian parliament that proposed mechanisms to block IP addresses and DNS records. The protest, implemented after on-wiki consensus was reached during the preceding days, concerned the potential of the amendment to the information law to allow extra-judicial censorship of the internet in Russia, including the closure of access to the Russian Wikipedia. Among the questions now are how effective the blackout was and where we go from here in terms of internet freedom in one of the world's biggest and most influential countries.
With the 2012 Summer Olympic Games beginning this weekend in London, we decided to catch up with the chaps at WikiProject Olympics. The last time we interviewed WikiProject Olympics was in February 2010 when the project was gearing up for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. We wanted to know how the project has grown since then and whether preparing for a Summer Olympics was more grueling.
For the second time this year (and the third in the history of the committee), there are no open cases, as all three active cases were closed last week.
There has never been a better time to improve the behavior of marketing professionals on Wikipedia. For the first time we're seeing self-imposed statements of ethics. Professional PR bodies around the globe have supported the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) guidance for ethical Wikipedia engagement. Although their tone is different, CREWE and the PRSA have brought more attention to the issues. Awareness among PR professionals is rising. So are the number of paid editing operations sprouting up and the opportunity for dialogue.
One featured article was promoted this week, Melville Island. A small peninsula in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, it was discovered by Europeans in the 1600s and initially used for storehouses. The land was purchased by the British and used to hold prisoners of war, then to receive escaped slaves from the United States. After being used as a place of quarantine and later a recruitment centre, the land was granted to Canada in 1907 and used to house prisoners of war. It is now home to the clubhouse and marina of the Armdale Yacht Club.
In the first of a series looking at this year's eight ongoing Google Summer of Code projects, the Signpost caught up with developer Harry Burt.

The Signpost: 30 July 2012

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From the modeling of social dynamics in a collaborative environment to why the number of Wikipedia readers rises while the number of editors doesn't.
Wikimedia Foundation published its Annual Plan, focusing on technical improvements, editor retention, and structural reforms over the coming year. The movement's total revenue, including almost all chapter funding, is slated to rise by 35%, from $34.2 million to $46.1 million, and global spending to more than $42.1 million. The foundation's own core spending will grow by 15% to $30.2 million in 2012–13.
We continue our Summer Sports Series this week with WikiProject Horse Racing. Started in November 2005, the project has grown to include nearly 8,000 articles maintained by 34 active members. There are 10 Featured Articles and 19 Good Articles included in the project's scope. In addition to preparing articles for GA and FA status, the project attempts to create requested articles and locate requested images. We interviewed Redrose64, Montanabw, Tigerboy1966, Ealdgyth, and Cuddy Wifter.
Eight new featured articles, five new featured lists, and eight new featured pictures. The highlights include a new featured picture of Frank Sinatra, created by William P. Gottlieb and nominated by Tomer T. Sinatra (1915–98) was a highly successful American singer and film actor whose career spanned 60 years. This image dates from around 1947.
In the light of recent questions over the long-term reliability of Wikimedia wikis, the Signpost caught up with CT Woo, the Wikimedia Foundation's director of technical operations.
Arbitrator Kirill Lokshin proposed a motion requiring the alteration of any instances of an editor's previous username in arbitration decisions to reflect their name changes. The Devil's Advocate has initiated an amendment request for the controversial Race and intelligence case.

The Signpost: 06 August 2012

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At this year's Wikimania, I [Brandon Harris] gave a talk entitled The Athena Project: Wikipedia in 2015. The talk broadly outlined several ideas the foundation is exploring for planned features, user interface changes, and workflow improvements. We expect that many of these changes will be welcomed, while others will be controversial. During the question-and-answer period, I was asked whether people should think of Athena as a skin, a project, or something else. I responded, "You should think of Athena as a kick in the head" – because that's exactly what it's supposed to be: a radical and bold re-examination of some of our sacred cows when it comes to the interface.
On August 1, the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) portal was launched on Meta. The FDC will implement the Wikimedia movement's new grant-orientated finance structure in accordance with the WMF board's recent resolutions. As a volunteer committee, the FDC will make recommendations to the WMF board on a $11.4 million budget for 2012–13.
Arbitrator Kirill Lokshin proposed a motion for a procedure on the alteration of an editor's previous username(s) in arbitration decisions to reflect their name change(s). ... The Devil's Advocate initiated an amendment request for the controversial Race and intelligence case.
This week the Signpost interviews Casliber, an editor who has written or contributed significantly to a startling 69 featured articles. We learn what makes him tick, why he edits, and why he can write on everything from vampires to dinosaurs, birds to plants. He also gives some advice to budding featured article writers.
The Wikimedia Foundation's engineering report for July 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). ... At least one fibre-optic cable was damaged at the WMF's Tampa site on August 6, leading to a sharp downwards spike in traffic lasting over an hour and almost three hours of disruption for readers around the globe.
This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Martial Arts. Since April 2004, the project has been the hub for discussion and improvement of martial arts articles, including all disciplines and national origins. The project maintains a variety of conventions for handling the names and descriptions of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Indian, Sikh, Filipino, Okinawan, and hybrid martial arts. WikiProject Martial Arts has spawned or absorbed several subprojects focusing on boxing, kickboxing, sumo, and mixed martial arts.

The Signpost: 13 August 2012

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In a certain way, writing Wikipedia is the same everywhere, in every language or culture. You have to stick to the facts, aiming for the most objective way of describing them, including everything relevant and leaving out all the everyday trivia that is not really necessary to understand the context. You have to use critical thinking, trying to be independent of your own preferences and biases. To some effect, that's all there is to it. Naturally, Wikipedians have their biases, some of which can never be cured. Most Wikipedians tend to like encyclopedias; but millions of people in the world don't share that bias, and we represent them rather poorly. I'm also quite sure that an overwhelming majority of Wikipedia co-authors are literate. Again, that's not true for everyone in this world. Yet we have other, less noticeable but barely less fundamental biases.
The Bangla language, also known as Bengali, is spoken by some 200 million people in Bangladesh and India. The Bangla Wikipedia has a very small active community of about ten to fifteen very active editors, with another 35–40 as less active editors. The project faces particular challenges in being a small Wikipedia, and Dhaka-based WMF community fellow User:Tanvir Rahman is working to understand these challenges and to develop strategies that can improve small wikis that have strong potential to expand their editing communities.
A request for arbitration was filed late last week, ending the three-week long absence of pending cases.
Six featured articles were promoted this week, including Business US Highway 41, which was a state trunkline highway that served as a business loop in Marquette in the US state of Michigan.
Three weeks into a month-long evaluation of code review tool Gerrit, a serious alternative has finally gained traction in the review process: Facebook-developed but now independently operated Phabricator and its sister command-line tool Arcanist.
This week, we interviewed the lively bunch at WikiProject Dispute Resolution. Started in November 2011 to study and discuss improvements to Wikipedia's resources for resolving disputes between editors, the young project has supplemented dispute resolution efforts currently handled at the Dispute Resolution Noticeboard, Mediation Committee, and other venues. Over 40 editors have signed up to provide feedback, a variety of ideas have been proposed, and a manual for dispute resolution has been created.
Current proposals and requests for comments include a competition to redesign the main page ...

The Signpost: 20 August 2012

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The Wikimedia Foundation sometimes proposes new features that receive substantive criticism from Wikimedians, yet those criticisms may be dismissed on the basis that people are resistant to change—there's an unjustified view that the wikis have been overrun by vested contributors who hate all change. That view misses a lot of key details and insight because there are good reasons that Wikimedians are suspicious of features development, given past and present development of bad software, growing ties with the problematic Wikia, and a growing belief that it is acceptable to experiment on users.
The Core Contest is a month-long competition among editors to improve Wikipedia's most important "core" articles—especially those that are in a relatively poor state. Core articles, such as Music, Computer, and Philosophy, tend to lie in the trunk of the tree of knowledge; by analogy, featured-and good-article processes generally attract more specialist topics out on the branches.
In the Utah Court of Appeals this week, the majority opinion in Fire Insurance Exchange v. Robert Allen Oltmanns and Brady Blackner relied on Wikipedia for the basic premise of their legal opinion, and included a concurring opinion devoted solely to the issue of citing Wikipedia in a legal opinion.
Thirteen featured articles were promoted this week, including pelicans, which are a genus of large water birds comprising the family Pelecanidae, characterised by a long beak and large throat-pouch. They have a fossil record dating back at least 30 million years and are most closely related to the Shoebill and Hammerkop. These fish-feeders have a patchy relationship with humans: the birds are sometimes persecuted and sometimes feature in mythology.
New embeddable scripting ("template replacement") language Lua received considerable scrutiny this week when it began its long road to widespread deployment, landing on the test2wiki test site on Wednesday (wikitech-l mailing list). ... the fourth in our series profiling participants in this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC) programme.
This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Korea. Started in September 2006, WikiProject Korea covers the history and culture of the Korean people, including both countries that currently occupy the Korean peninsula. This task has proven difficult with North Koreans notably absent from the Wikipedia community due to tight control over access to external media. The project is home to over 16,000 pages, including 15 pieces of Featured material and 66 Good and A-class Articles.

The Signpost: 27 August 2012

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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

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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

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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

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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.

The Signpost: 24 September 2012

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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

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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

The Signpost: 08 October 2012

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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The Signpost: 19 November 2012

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

The Signpost: 24 December 2012

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As part of its new focus on core responsibilities, the Wikimedia Foundation is reforming its grant schemes so that they are more accessible to individual volunteers. The community is invited to look at proposals for a new scheme—for now called Individual engagement grants (IEGs)—which is due to kick off on January 15. On Meta, the community is once again debating the two new offline participation models—user groups (open membership groups designed to be easy to form) and thematic organizations (incorporated non-profits representing the Wikimedia movement and supporting work on a specific theme within or across countries). In a consultation process on Meta that will last until January 15, the community will be discussing WMF proposals for a new guideline on conflicts of interests concerning Wikimedia resources. The draft covers COI issues for both volunteers and organizations across the movement.
This week, we spent some time with WikiProject A Song of Ice and Fire, which focuses on the eponymous series of high fantasy literature, the television series Game of Thrones, and related works by George R. R. Martin. The project was started in July 2006 and has grown to include 11 Good Articles maintained by a small yet enthusiastic band of editors.
Seven articles and two lists were promoted to 'featured' status this week, including List of battlecruisers. The article covers all of the battlecruisers—which were a type of warship similar in size to a battleship but with several defining characteristics—ever planned or constructed. The last British battlecruiser built, HMS Hood, is pictured at right.
Efforts were stepped up this week to sow a feeling of trust between the major parties with an interest in the future of the Toolserver. The tool- and bot-hosting server – more accurately servers – are currently operated by German chapter, Wikimedia Germany, with assistance from the Foundation and numerous volunteers, including long-time system administrator Daniel Baur (more commonly known by his pseudonym DaB). However, those parties have more recently failed to see eye-to-eye on the trajectory for the Toolserver, which is scheduled to be replaced by Wikimedia Labs in late 2013, with increasing concern about the tone of discussions.

The Signpost: 31 December 2012

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In the impersonal, detached Colosseum that is Wikipedia, people find it much easier to put their thumbs down. As such, many people active in the Wikimedia movement have witnessed a precipitous decline in civil discourse. This is far from a new trend, yet many people would agree that it all seemed somehow worse in 2012.
A recent, poorly researched and poorly written story in the Register highlighted the perceived "cash rich" status of the Wikimedia movement. ... The Telegraph and Daily Dot, among others, have alleged that there are multiple links between the WMF, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, and Kazakhstan's government, which is, for all intents and purposes, a one-party non-democratic state.
On 27 December the Wikimedia Foundation announced the conclusion of their ninth annual fundraiser, which attracted more than 1.2 million donors. The appeal reached its goal of US$25 million, even though fundraising banners ran for only nine days.
In the first of two features, the Signpost this week looks back on 2012, a year when developers finally made inroads into three issues that had been put off for far too long (the need for editors to learn wiki-markup, the lack of a proper template language and the centralisation of data) but left all three projects far from finished.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include ...
Brion Vibber has been a Wikipedia editor for nearly 11 years and was the first person officially hired to work for the Wikimedia Foundation. He was instrumental in early development of the MediaWiki software and is now the lead software architect for the foundation's mobile development team.
At the beginning of the year, we began a series of interviews with editors who have worked hard to combat systemic bias through the creation of featured content; although we haven't seen six installments yet, we've also had some delightful interviews with people who write articles on some of our most core topics. Now, as we close the year, I would like to present some of my own musings on the state of featured content—especially as it pertains to systemic bias and core topics.
This week, we're celebrating the New Year from Times Square by interviewing WikiProject New York City. Since December 2004, WikiProject NYC has had the difficult task of maintaining articles about the largest city in the United States, many of which are also among the the most viewed articles on Wikipedia. The project is home to 22 Featured Articles, 7 Featured Lists, 32 pieces of Featured Media, and a lengthy list of Did You Know? entries.
Northeastern University researcher Brian Keegan analyzed the gathering of hundreds of Wikipedians to cover the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy. ... A First Monday article reviews several aspects of the Wikipedia participation in the 18 January 2012, protests against SOPA and PIPA legislation in the USA. The paper focuses on the question of legitimacy, looking at how the Wikipedia community arrived at the decision to participate in those protests.

The Signpost: 07 January 2013

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Meta is the wiki that has coordinated a wide range of cross-project Wikimedia activities, such as the activities of stewards, the archiving of chapter reports, and WMF trustee elections. The project has long been an out-of-the-way corner for technocratic working groups, unaccountable mandarins, and in-house bureaucratic proceedings. Largely ignored by the editing communities of projects such as Wikipedia and organizations that serve them, Meta has evolved into a huge and relatively disorganized repository, where the few archivists running it also happen to be the main authors of some of its key documents. While Meta is well-designed for supporting the librarians and mandarins who stride along its corridors, visitors tend to find the site impenetrable—or so many people have argued over the past decade. This impenetrability runs counter to Meta's increasingly central role in the Wikimedia movement.
The dawning of a new year offers both a fresh slate and an opportunity to revisit our previous adventures. 2012 marked the fifth anniversary of the WikiProject Report and was the column's most productive year with 52 articles published. In addition to sharing the experiences of Wikipedia's many active projects, we expanded our scope to highlight unique projects from other languages of Wikipedia, and tracked down all of the former editors-in-chief of the Signpost for an introspective interview ... While last year's "Summer Sports Series" may have drawn yawns from some readers, a special report on "Neglected Geography" elicited more comments than any previous issue of the Report. Following in the footsteps of our past three recaps, we'll spend this week looking back at the trials and tribulations of the WikiProjects we encountered in 2012. Where are they now?
The past 12 months have seen a multitude of issues and events in the Wikimedia foundation, the movement at large, and the English Wikipedia. The movement, now in its second decade, is growing apace in its international reach, cultural and linguistic diversity, technical development, and financial complexity; and many factors have combined to produce what has in many ways been the biggest, most dynamic year in the movement's history. Looking back at 2012, we faced a difficult task in doing justice to all of the notable events in a single article; so the Signpost has selected just a few examples from outside the anglosphere, from the English Wikipedia, and from the Wikimedia Foundation, rather than attempting to cover every detail that happened.
Over the past year, 963 pieces of featured content were promoted. The most active of the featured content programs was featured article candidates (FAC), which promoted an average of 31 articles a month. This was followed by featured picture candidates (FPC; 28 a month). Coming in third was featured list candidates (FLC; 20 a month). Featured topic and featured portal candidates remained sluggish, each promoting fewer than 20 items over the year.
Following on from last week's reflections on 2012, this week the Technology report looks ahead to 2013, a year that will almost certainly be dominated by the juggernauts of Wikidata, Lua and the Visual Editor.

The Signpost: 14 January 2013

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After six years without creating a new class of content projects, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has finally expanded into a new area: travel. Wikivoyage was formally launched—though without a traditional ship's christening—on 15 January, having started as a beta trial on 10 November. Wikivoyage has been taken under the WMF's umbrella on the argument that information resources that help with travel are educational and therefore within the scope of the foundation's mission.g
On January 16, voting for the first round of the 2012 Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year contest will begin. Wikimedia editors with 75 edits or one project are eligible to vote to select their favorite image featured in 2012. ... On January 15, the foundation launched its latest grant scheme, called Individual Engagement Grants (IEG).
This week, we set off for the final frontier with WikiProject Astronomy. The project was started in August 2006 using the now-defunct WikiProject Space as inspiration. WikiProject Astronomy is home to 101 pieces of Featured material and 148 Good Articles maintained by a band of 186 members. The project maintains a portal, works on an assortment of vital astronomy articles, and provides resources for editors adding or requesting astronomy images.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
Comforting those grieving after the loss of a loved one is an impossible task. How then, can an entire community be comforted? The Internet struggled to answer that question this week after the suicide of Aaron Swartz, a celebrated free-culture activist, programmer, and Wikipedian at the age of 26.
Continuing our recap of the featured content promoted in 2012, this week the Signpost interviewed three editors, asking them about featured articles which stuck out in their minds. Two, Ian Rose and Graham Colm, are current featured article candidates (FAC) delegates, while Brian Boulton is an active featured article writer and reviewer.
The opening of the Doncram case marks the end of almost 6 months without any open cases, the longest in the history of the Committee.
The Wikidata client extension was successfully deployed to the Hungarian Wikipedia on 14 January, its team reports. The interwiki language links can now come from wikidata.org, though "manual" interwiki links remain functional, overriding those from the central repository.

The Signpost: 21 January 2013

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The English Wikipedia's requests for adminship (RfA) process has entered another cycle of proposed reforms. Over the last three weeks, various proposals, ranging from as large as a transition to a representative democracy to as small as a required edit count and service length, have been debated on the RfA talk page. The total number of new administrators for 2012 was just 28, barely more than half of 2011's total and less than a quarter of 2009's total. The total number of unsuccessful RfAs has fallen as well. These declining numbers, which were described in what would now be considered a successful year (2010) as an emerging "wikigeneration gulf", have been coupled with a sharp decline in the number of active administrators since February 2008 (1,021), reaching a low of 653 in November 2012.
This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Linguistics. Started in January 2004, the project has grown to include 7 Featured Articles, 4 Featured Lists, 2 A-class Articles, and 15 Good Articles maintained by 43 members. The project's members keep an eye on several watchlists, maintain the linguistics category, and continue to build a collection of Did You Know? entries. The project is home to six task forces and works with WikiProject Languages and WikiProject Writing Systems.
This week, the Signpost's featured content section continues its recap of 2012 by looking at featured topics. We interviewed Grapple X and GamerPro64, who are delegates at the featured topic candidates.
The opening of the Doncram case marks the end of almost 6 months without any open cases, the longest in the history of the Committee.
On 22 January, WMF staff and contractors switched incoming, non-cached requests (including edits) to the Foundation's newer data centre in Ashburn, Virginia, making it responsible for handling almost all regular traffic. For the first time since 2004, virtually no traffic will be handled by the WMF's other facility in Tampa, Florida.

The Signpost: 28 January 2013

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On New Year's Day, the Daily Dot reported that a "massive Wikipedia hoax" had been exposed after more than five years. The article on the Bicholim conflict had been listed as a "Good Article" for the past half-decade, yet turned out to be an ingenious hoax. Created in July 2007 by User:A-b-a-a-a-a-a-a-b-a, the meticulously detailed piece was approved as a GA in October 2007. A subsequent submission for FA was unsuccessful, but failed to discover that the article's key sources were made up. While the User:A-b-a-a-a-a-a-a-b-a account then stopped editing, the hoax remained listed as a Good Article for five years, receiving in the region of 150 to 250 page views a month in 2012. It was finally nominated for deletion on 29 December 2012 by ShelfSkewed—who had discovered the hoax while doing work on Category:Articles with invalid ISBNs—and deleted the same day.
A special issue of the American Behavioral Scientist is devoted to "open collaboration".
When we challenged the masters of WikiProject Chess to an interview, Sjakkalle answered our call. WikiProject Chess dates back to December 2003 and has grown to include 4 Featured Articles and 15 Good Articles maintained by over 100 members. The project typically operates independently of other WikiProjects, although the project would theoretically be a child of WikiProject Board and Table Games (interviewed in 2011). WikiProject Chess provides a collection of resources, seeks missing photographs of chess players, and helps determine ways that Wikipedia's coverage of chess can be expanded.
New discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
To many Wikimedians, the Khan Academy would seem like a close cousin: the academy is a non-profit educational website and a development of the massive open online course concept that has delivered over 227 million lessons in 22 different languages. Its mission is to give "a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere." This complements Wikipedia's stated goal to "imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge", then go and create that world. It should come as no surprise, then, that the highly successful GLAM-Wiki (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) initiative has partnered with the Khan Academy's Smarthistory project to further both its and Wikipedia's goals.
This week, the Signpost featured content section continues its recap of 2012 by looking at featured lists. We interviewed FLC directors Giants2008 and The Rambling Man as well as active reviewer and writer PresN.
The Doncram case has continued into its third week.
As reported in last week's "Technology Report", the WMF's data centre in Ashburn, Virginia took over responsibility for almost all of the remaining functions that had previously been handled by their old facility in Tampa, Florida on 22 January. The Signpost reported then that few problems had arisen since handover. Unfortunately that was not to remain the case, with reports of caching problems (which typically only affect anonymous users) starting to come in.

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WikiCup 2013 February newsletter

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Round 1 is now over. The top 64 scorers have progressed to round 2, where they have been randomly split into eight pools of eight. At the end of April, the top two from each pool, as well as the 16 highest scorers from those remaining, will progress to round 3. Commiserations to those eliminated; if you're interested in still being involved in the WikiCup, able and willing reviewers will always be needed, and if you're interested in getting involved with other collaborative projects, take a look at the WikiWomen's Month discussed below.

Round 1 saw 21 competitors with over 100 points, which is fantastic; that suggests that this year's competition is going to be highly competative. Our lower scores indicate this, too: A score of 19 was required to reach round 2, which was significantly higher than the 11 points required in 2012 and 8 points required in 2011. The score needed to reach round 3 will be higher, and may depend on pool groupings. In 2011, 41 points secured a round 3 place, while in 2012, 65 was needed. Our top three scorers in round 1 were:

  1. Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant4, primarily for an array of warship GAs.
  2. Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant4, primarily for an array of did you knows and good articles, some of which were awarded bonus points.
  3. Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant4, due in no small part to Canis Minor, a featured article awarded a total of 340 points. A joint submission with Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant4, this is the highest scoring single article yet submitted in this year's competition.

Other contributors of note include:

Featured topics have still played no part in this year's competition, but once again, a curious contribution has been offered by Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant4: did you know that there is a Shit Brook in Shropshire? With April Fools' Day during the next round, there will probably be a good chance of more unusual articles...

March sees the WikiWomen's History Month, a series of collaborative efforts to aid the women's history WikiProject to coincide with Women's History Month and International Women's Day. A number of WikiCup participants have already started to take part. The project has a to-do list of articles needing work on the topic of women's history. Those interested in helping out with the project can find articles in need of attention there, or, alternatively, add articles to the list. Those interested in collaborating on articles on women's history are also welcome to use the WikiCup talk page to find others willing to lend a helping hand. Another collaboration currently running is an an effort from WikiCup participants to coordinate a number of Easter-themed did you know articles. Contributions are welcome!

A few final administrative issues. From now on, submission pages will need only a link to the article and a link to the nomination page, or, in the case of good article reviews, a link to the review only. See your submissions' page for details. This will hopefully make updating submission pages a little less tedious. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) J Milburn (talk) 00:53, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, I would like to invite you to please join the WIkimedia Pakistan mailing list. We're proposing to create Wikimedia Foundation chapter in Pakistan. Shortly, we'll plan a meetup in Karachi, if you interested to join us in the meetup, please show you interest. thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 175.110.236.89 (talk) 08:01, 14 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Wiki Loves Monuments comes to Pakistan!
Hi safesubst:ROOTPAGENAME! WLM is the largest international photographic competition in the world and we are looking forward to expanding it to Pakistan this year. We have been planning to make this national competition really take off; but to do so, we need your help!
Sign up at Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in Pakistan and our mailing list if you are interested in being part of the organising team or can help spread the word. We look forward to hearing from you!

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The Pulse (WP:MED newsletter) June 2014

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Wiki Loves Monuments, the world's largest photography competition, will be taking place in Pakistan this September. The competition is all about capturing the cultural monuments and heritage sites of Pakistan and uploading these images on Commons to create an online repository which will be freely available to all.

Start taking photos of the sites enlisted here and upload them in September to be eligible for national and international prizes.

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Neat news: BMJ is offering 25 free, full-access accounts to their prestigious medical journal through The Wikipedia Library and Wiki Project Med Foundation (like we did with Cochrane). Please sign up this week: Wikipedia:BMJ --Cheers, Ocaasi via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:14, 10 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikimedia Community User Group Pakistan is organizing an edit drive for Pakistani Wikipedians on Pakistani Cultural Heritage throughout the month of July.
Top three contributors will be given a gift pack containing Wikipedia merchandise.

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Medical Translation Newsletter
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This is the first of a series of newsletters for Wikiproject Medicine's Translation Task Force. Our goal is to make all the medical knowledge on Wikipedia available to the world, in the language of your choice. note: you will not receive future editions of this newsletter unless you *sign up*; you received this version because you identify as a member of WikiProject MedicineTemplate:Clear Template:Anchor Spotlight - Simplified article translation

Wikiproject Medicine started translating simplified articles in February 2014. We now have 45 simplified articles ready for translation, of which the first on African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness has been translated into 46 out of ~100 languages. This list does not include the 33 additional articles that are available in both full and simple versions.

Our goal is to eventually translate 1,000 simplified articles. This includes:

We are looking for subject area leads to both create articles and recruit further editors. We need people with basic medical knowledge who are willing to help out. This includes to write, translate and especially integrate medical articles.

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I've (Template:U) taken on the role of community organizer for this project, and will be working with this until December. The goals and timeline can be found here, and are focused on getting the project on a firm footing and to enable me to work near full-time over the summer, and part-time during the rest of the year. This means I will be available for questions and ideas, and you can best reach me by mail or on my talk page.

Wikimania 2014

For those going to London in a month's time (or those already nearby) there will be at least one event for all medical editors, on Thursday August 7th. See the event page, which also summarizes medicine-related presentations in the main conference. Please pass the word on to your local medical editors.

Integration progress

There has previously been some resistance against translation into certain languages with strong Wikipedia presence, such as Dutch, Polish, and Swedish.
What was found is that thre is hardly any negative opinion about the the project itself; and any such critique has focused on the ways that articles have being integrated. For an article to be usefully translated into a target-Wiki it needs to be properly Wiki-linked, carry proper citations and use the formatting of the chosen target language as well as being properly proof-read. Certain large Wikis such as the Polish and Dutch Wikis have strong traditions of medical content, with their own editorial system, own templates and different ideas about what constitutes a good medical article. For example, there are not MEDRS (Polish,German,Romanian,Persian) guidelines present on other Wikis, and some Wikis have a stronger background of country-specific content.

  • Swedish
    Translation into Swedish has been difficult in part because of the amount of free, high quality sources out there already: patient info, for professionals. The same can be said for English, but has really given us all the more reason to try and create an unbiased and free encyclopedia of medical content. We want Wikipedia to act as an alternative to commercial sources, and preferably a really good one at that.
    Through extensive collaborative work and by respecting links and Sweden specific content the last unintegrated Swedish translation went live in May.
  • Dutch
    Dutch translation carries with it special difficulties, in part due to the premises in which the Dutch Wikipedia is built upon. There is great respect for what previous editors have created, and deleting or replacing old content can be frowned upon. In spite of this there are success stories: Anafylaxie.
  • Polish
    Translation and integration into Polish also comes with its own unique set of challenges. The Polish Wikipedia has long been independent and works very hard to create high quality contentfor Polish audience. Previous translation trouble has lead to use of unique templates with unique formatting, not least among citations. Add to this that the Polish Wikipedia does not allow template redirects and a large body of work is required for each article.
    (This is somewhat alleviated by a commissioned Template bot - to be released). - List of articles for integration
  • Arabic
    The Arabic Wikipedia community has been informed of the efforts to integrate content through both the general talk-page as well as through one of the major Arabic Wikipedia facebook-groups: مجتمع ويكيبيديا العربي, something that has been heralded with great enthusiasm.
Integration guides

Integration is the next step after any translation. Despite this it is by no means trivial, and it comes with its own hardships and challenges. Previously each new integrator has needed to dive into the fray with little help from previous integrations. Therefore we are creating guides for specific Wikis that make integration simple and straightforward, with guides for specific languages, and for integrating on small Wikis.

Instructions on how to integrate an article may be found here [13]

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To come
  • Medical editor census - Medical editors on different Wikis have been without proper means of communication. A preliminary list of projects is available here.
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Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2015/MassMessage MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:54, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Good to see you editing after nearly 6 years! We thought you left for good. Mar4d (talk) 15:04, 11 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Since when every talk starts with a bullet point ? --yousaf465 16:24, 11 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Go ahead and read it again. --yousaf465 14:54, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
That very article. --yousaf465 15:15, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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I don't think you can say I reverted the edit without consensus, when in fact the consensus is in favor of including as little about India as possible. El cid, el campeador (talk) 13:39, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

and ignore statements by all reliable sources ? There is no such consensus, It might be your personal opinion but nota general consensus. --yousaf465 13:45, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
The consensus on the talk page.El cid, el campeador (talk) 14:08, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
There is no Pro-India consensus on talkpage nor there should be. Wikipedia is not Official newspaper of Indian Government. --yousaf465 14:13, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Stop using bullet points, these are not meant for talkpages. Pakistani Channels don't use Wikipedia for publication. --yousaf465 14:56, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Read WP:SAID before accusing me of bias.--yousaf465 17:17, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!

Discussion at Wikipedia:Files_for_discussion/2018_September_8#File:Refugee-rights_rally_outside_Bank_of_Queensland.JPG

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 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Files_for_discussion/2018_September_8#File:Refugee-rights_rally_outside_Bank_of_Queensland.JPG. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 18:57, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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@User:Aviationwikiflight, this user hasn't edited since 2016, so I doubt you'll be getting an answer. I cleared up your MW:Help:Lint_errors/wikilink-in-extlink errors above (the nospam template was within another link's display text). I changed it to follow that seen at Template:No spam. Best wishes. Zinnober9 (talk) 03:32, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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