Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Archives/2013-04-01

Special report

Who reads which Wikipedia?

The Wikimedia Foundation has released its latest report card for the movement's hundreds of sites. The WMF has published statistics about the sites since 2009, but only recently have these been expanded in scope and depth to provide a rich source of data for investigating the movement and the world it serves. Dutch-born Erik Zachte is the driver of the WMF's statistical output, and he writes that the report card and accompanying traffic statistics comprise "enough tables, bar charts and plots to keep you busy for a while".

WikiProject report

Special: FAQs

This week's Report is dedicated to answering our readers' questions about WikiProjects. The following Frequently Asked Questions came from feedback at the WikiProject Report's talk page, the WikiProject Council's talk page, and from previous lists of FAQs.

Featured content

What the ?

The Signpost interviewed prolific featured content creator and former Signpost "featured content" report writer Crisco 1492 about ? and Indonesian cinema. ? was the "Today's featured article" for 1 April 2013. 1 April is popularly known as April Fools' Day in many countries.

News and notes

Grants given for Wikipedia Library, six others; April Fool's Day ructions

The first round of individual engagement grants (IEGs) have been awarded, disbursing about $55.6k (€42.7k) to seven applicants.

Arbitration report

Three open cases

A case brought by Lecen involves several articles about former Argentinian president Juan Manuel de Rosas (1793–1877).

Technology report

Wikidata phase 2 deployment timetable in doubt

Users of ten Wikipedias got access to phase 2 of Wikidata following its first rollout to production wikis.

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