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With paid advocacy in its sights, the Wikimedia Foundation amends their terms of use

The Wikimedia Foundation has amended its terms of use to ban editing for pay without disclosing an employer or affiliation on any of its websites. The broad scope of these changes will allow the WMF to selectively enforce their terms of use to avoid ensnaring well-meaning editors.

Featured content

Worming our way to featured picture

Five articles, five lists, 22 pictures, and one portal were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.

Special report

Wikimedia Bangladesh: a chapter's five-year journey

The Bangladesh chapter of the Wikimedia movement was formed in 2009. They received official local registration from the national authorities on 10 June 2014. The long road in between was subject to much persistence, patience, and luck—along with a good deal of worry.

Traffic report

You can't dethrone Thrones

To the surprise of absolutely no one, the 2014 FIFA World Cup was the main draw this week, taking four slots. People appeared desperate to bone up on their trivia; checking not only this year's World Cup, but the last one. Even so, they still couldn't push Game of Thrones from the top ten. It will be interesting to see what happens come next week's season finale.

WikiProject report

Visiting the city

This week, the Signpost came in from the hinterland to interview members of the Cities WikiProject.

The Signpost is looking for new talent.

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