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Public Domain Day

Why the year 2019 is so significant

Public Domain Day—January 1, 2014—gives me an opportunity to reflect on this important asset, mandated by the Constitution of the United States.

Traffic report

Tragedy and television

The various maladies that befall humanity got some well-known faces this week: the death of the well-liked actor James Avery topped the list, but Michael Schumacher, who is in a coma after a skiing accident, also drew attention.

Technology report

Gearing up for the Architecture Summit

MediaWiki developers will be meeting in San Francisco on January 23–24 for an Architecture Summit.

News and notes

WMF employee forced out over "paid advocacy editing"

On 8 January, the Wikimedia Foundation notified the Wikimedia-l mailing list that Sarah Stierch, a popular Wikimedian and the Foundation's Program Evaluation Community Coordinator, was no longer an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, as a result of being paid to create articles on the English Wikipedia.

Op-ed

WikiCup competition beginning a new year

At the very start of the new year, 2014's WikiCup—an annual competition which has been held on Wikipedia in various forms since 2007—began.

WikiProject report

Jumping into the television universe

This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Television.

Featured content

A portal to the wonderful world of technology

Twelve articles, three lists, seven pictures, and a portal were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia in the last two weeks.

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