Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Archives/2017-06-09

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Global Elections

WMF Board election results, and FDC elections begin

Arbitration report

Cases closed in the Pacific and with Magioladitis

Two cases were closed from 19 February to 27 March.

Op-ed

Wikipedia's lead sentence problem

Lead sentence metadata is out of control and a serious impediment to readability

Featured content

Three months in the land of the featured

Eighty-eight articles, forty-three lists, five topics and twenty-two pictures were promoted

In the media

Did Wikipedia just assume Garfield's gender?

Garfield is male, and other places Wikipedia made the news

Recent research

Wikipedia bot wars capture the imagination of the popular press

...but are they real?; personality and attitudes to Wikipedia; large expert review experiment

Technology report

Tech news catch-up

Bots, scripts, tools, and changes from February to June 2017

Traffic report

Film on Top: Sampling the weekly top 10

Two weeks of film dominance: Baahubali and the Academy Awards

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