Wikipedia:Signpost/Archief/2012

The Signpost: 02 January 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Interview: The Gardner interview
• News and notes: Things bubbling along as Wikimedians enjoy their holidays
• WikiProject report: Where are they now? Part III
• Featured content: Ghosts of featured content past, present, and future
• Arbitration report: New case accepted, four open cases, terms begin for new arbitrators

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The Signpost: 09 January 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Technological roadmap: 2011's technological achievements in review, and what 2012 may hold
• News and notes: Fundraiser 2011 ends with a bang
• In the news: Wikipedia ends annual fundraising drive; Monmouthpedia launches
• WikiProject report: From Traditional to Experimental: WikiProject Jazz
• Featured content: Contentious FAC debate: a week in review
• Arbitration report: Four open cases, proposed decision in Betacommand 3
• Technology report: December in more detail; and why the MediaWiki codebase was "slushed" this week

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The Signpost: 16 January 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Sister projects: What are our sisters up to now?
• Special report: English Wikipedia to go dark January 18
• News and notes: WMF on the looming SOPA blackout, Wikipedia turns 11, and Commons passes 12 million files
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Beer
• Featured content: Lecen on systematic bias in featured content
• Arbitration report: Four open cases, Betacommand case deadlocked, Muhammad images close near
• Technology report: ArticleFeedback moves into new trial phase; and how MediaWiki integrates with Facebook, IPv6, and PostgreSQL explored

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The Signpost: 23 January 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: SOPA blackout, Orange
• In the news: World watched as Wikipedia shut down for SOPA blackout
• WikiProject report: The Golden Horseshoe: WikiProject Toronto
• Featured content: Interview with Muhammad Mahdi Karim and the best of the week
• Arbitration report: Four open cases, proposed decision in Muhammad images, AUSC call for applications
• Technology report: Looking ahead to MediaWiki 1.19 and related issues

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The Signpost: 30 January 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Update on Global Development, Wikipedia Day NYC is a success, JFK audio on Commons
• In the news: Zambian wiki-assassins, Foundation über alles, editor engagement and the innovation plateau
• Recent research: Language analyses examine power structure and political slant; Wikipedia compared to commercial databases
• WikiProject report: Digging Up WikiProject Palaeontology
• Featured content: Featured content soaring this week
• Arbitration report: Five open cases, voting on proposed decisions in two cases
• Technology report: Why "Lua" is on everybody's lips, and when to expect MediaWiki 1.19

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The Signpost: 06 February 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: The Foundation visits Tunisia, analyzes donors
• In the news: Leading scholar hails Wikipedia, historians urged to contribute while PR pros remain shunned
• Discussion report: Discussion swarms around Templates for deletion and returning editors of colourful pasts
• WikiProject report: The Eye of the Storm: WikiProject Tropical Cyclones
• Featured content: Talking architechture with MrPanyGoff
• Arbitration report: Four open cases, final decision in Muhammad images, Betacommand 3 near closure
• Technology report: October's coding challenge: results now in; progress on 1.19 steady; and why for a while interwiki links were no more

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The Signpost: 13 February 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Discussion report: Administrators, vanishing, and ponies
• Special report: Fundraising proposals spark a furore among the chapters
• News and notes: Foundation launches Legal and Community Advocacy department
• In the news: Scholars and spindoctors contend with the emergent wikiorder
• In focus: Skirmishes in the 'great sectarian war of the Internet'
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Stub Sorting
• Featured content: The best of the week
• Arbitration report: Betacommand 3 closed, proposed decision in Civility enforcement, AUSC candidates announced
• Technology report: January sees prototype new geodata API; but February looks to be a testing time for top developers

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The Signpost: 20 February 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: The plight of the new page patrollers
• News and notes: Fundraiser row continues, new director of engineering
• Discussion report: Discussion on copyrighted files from non-US relation states
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Poland
• Featured content: The best of the week
• Arbitration report: Civility enforcement closed, proposed decision in TimidGuy, two cases remain open
• Technology report: Major strands of development cycle coalesce as 1.19 is deployed to first wikis

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The Signpost: 27 February 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Finance meeting fallout, Gardner recommendations forthcoming
• Recent research: Gender gap and conflict aversion; collaboration on breaking news; effects of leadership on participation; legacy of Public Policy Initiative
• Discussion report: Focus on admin conduct and editor retention
• WikiProject report: Just don't call it "sci-fi": WikiProject Science Fiction
• Featured content: By plane, by ship, and by stagecoach: Featured content goes trekking this week
• Arbitration report: Final decision in TimidGuy ban appeal, one case remains open
• Technology report: 1.19 deployment stress, Meta debates whether to enforce SUL

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The Signpost: 05 March 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Chapter-selected Board seats, an invite to the Teahouse, patrol becomes triage, and this week in history
• In the news: Heights reached in search rankings, privacy and mental health info; clouds remain over content policing
• Discussion report: COI and NOTCENSORED: policies under discussion
• WikiProject report: We don't bite: WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles
• Featured content: Best of the week
• Arbitration report: AUSC appointments announced, one case remains open
• Technology report: With the 1.19 deployment now (mostly) complete, developers consider possible "mini" deployment later in the month

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The Signpost: 12 March 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Interview: Liaising with the Education Program
• Women and Wikipedia: Women's history, what we're missing, and why it matters
• Arbitration analysis: A look at new arbitrators
• News and notes: Sue Gardner tackles the funds, and the terms of use update nears implementation
• In the news: Britannica runs out of print as Jimmy Wales anointed UK transparency tsar
• Discussion report: Nothing changes as long discussions continue
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Women's History
• Featured content: Extinct humans, birds, and Birdman
• Arbitration report: Proposed decision in 'Article titles', only one open case
• Education report: Diverse approaches to Wikipedia in Education
• Technology report: Git learning curve steep but not insurmountable, plus a diff style we can all agree on?

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The Signpost: 19 March 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Chapters Council proposals take form as research applications invited for Wikipedia Academy and HighBeam accounts
• Discussion report: Article Rescue Squadron in need of rescue yet again
• WikiProject report: Lessons from another Wikipedia: Czech WikiProject Protected Areas
• Featured content: Featured content on the upswing!
• Arbitration report: Race and intelligence 'review' opened, Article titles at voting
• Technology report: Bugmeister to leave at end of May, but developers keen to "chart" a path ahead

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The Signpost: 26 March 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Controversial content saga continues, while the Foundation tries to engage editors with merchandising and restructuring
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Rock Music
• Featured content: Malfunctioning sharks, toothcombs and a famous mother: featured content for the week
• Arbitration report: Race and intelligence review at evidence, article titles closed
• Recent research: Predicting admin elections; studying flagged revision debates; classifying editor interactions; and collecting the Wikipedia literature
• Education report: Universities unite for GLAM; and High Schools get their due.
• Technology report: A busy week: Git switchover, mobile site upgraded, and still time for three security releases

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The Signpost: 02 April 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Interview: An introduction to movement roles
• Arbitration analysis: Case review: TimidGuy ban appeal
• News and notes: Berlin reforms to movement structures, Wikidata launches with fanfare, and Wikipedia's day of mischief
• WikiProject report: The Signpost scoops The Signpost
• Featured content: Snakes, misnamed chapels, and emptiness: featured content this week
• Arbitration report: Race and intelligence review in third week, one open case
• Technology report: Somewhere amongst the endless discussions about Gerrit lie details of hackathons, performance blips explained and more

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The Signpost: 09 April 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Wikidata: The next big thing? An interview with Wikidata
• Interview: Funds, fiduciaries, and the Foundation: the complex dynamics of scaling
• News and notes: Projects launched in Brazil and the Middle East as advisors sought for funds committee
• WikiProject report: The Land of Steady Habits: WikiProject Connecticut
• Featured content: Assassination, genocide, internment, murder, and crucification: the bloodiest of the week
• Arbitration report: Arbitration evidence-limit motions, two open cases
• Technology report: Next Wikimedia deployment already in the pipeline and details of recent performance improvements

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The Signpost: 16 April 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Arbitration analysis: Inside the Arbitration Committee Mailing List
• Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Facilitator: Silver seren
• News and notes: French language outreach, WikiTravel debate, and HighBeam reloaded
• Discussion report: The future of pending changes
• WikiProject report: The Butterflies and Moths of WikiProject Lepidoptera
• Featured content: A few good sports: association football, rugby league, and the Olympics vie for medals
• Arbitration report: Evidence submissions begin in Rich Farmbrough case, proposed decision in R&I Review
• Technology report: MediaWiki 1.20wmf01 hits first WMF wiki, understanding 20% time, and why this report cannot yet be a draft

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The Signpost: 23 April 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Investigative report: Spin doctors spin Jimmy's "bright line"
• News and notes: Help-space revamp, WikiTravel RfC, and Justin Knapp scores a million edits
• WikiProject report: Skeptics and Believers: WikiProject The X-Files
• Featured content: A mirror (or seventeen) on this week's featured content
• Arbitration report: Evidence submissions ends in Rich Farmbrough case, vote on proposed decision in R&I Review
• Technology report: Wikimedia Labs: soon to be at the cutting edge of MediaWiki development?

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The Signpost: 30 April 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Consultant: Pete Forsyth
• News and notes: Showdown as featured article writer openly solicits commercial opportunities
• Recent research: Barnstars work; Wiktionary assessed; cleanup tags counted; finding expert admins; discussion peaks; Wikipedia citations in academic publications; and more
• Discussion report: 'ReferenceTooltips' by default
• WikiProject report: The Cartographers of WikiProject Maps
• Featured content: Featured content spreads its wings
• Arbitration report: R&I Review remains in voting, two open cases
• Technology report: What Git means for end users, design controversies and pertinent poll results

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The Signpost: 07 May 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Communicator: Phil Gomes
• News and notes: Hong Kong to host Wikimania 2013
• In the news: What does Wikipedia call an expert; and untruths in biographies ... again.
• WikiProject report: Say What?: WikiProject Languages
• Featured content: This week at featured content: How much wood would a Wood Duck chuck if a Wood Duck could chuck wood?
• Arbitration report: Proposed decision in Rich Farmbrough, two open cases
• Technology report: Search gets faster, GSoC gets more detail and 1.20wmf2 gets deployed

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The Signpost: 14 May 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: Wikimedia and the "seismic shift" towards open-access research publication
• News and notes: Finance debate drags on as editor survey finds Wikipedia too bureaucratic
• WikiProject report: Welcome to Wikipedia with a cup of tea and all your questions answered - at the Teahouse
• Featured content: Featured content is red hot this week
• Arbitration report: R&I Review closed, Rich Farmbrough near closure
• Technology report: Cross-wiki watchlist controversy; and is "go file a bug" really a useful response?

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The Signpost: 21 May 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: New editor-in-chief
• News and notes: Two new Wikimedia fellows to boost strategies for tackling major issues
• WikiProject report: Trouble in a Galaxy Far, Far Away....
• Featured content: Lemurbaby moves it with Madagascar: Featured content for the week
• Arbitration report: No open arbitration cases pending
• Technology report: On the indestructibility of Wikimedia content

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The Signpost: 28 May 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Wikimedia endorses open-access petition to the White House; pending changes RfC ends
• Recent research: Supporting interlanguage collaboration; detecting reverts; Wikipedia's discourse, semantic and leadership networks, and Google's Knowledge Graph
• WikiProject report: Experts and enthusiasts at WikiProject Geology
• Featured content: Featured content cuts the cheese
• Arbitration report: Fæ and GoodDay requests for arbitration, changes to evidence word limits
• Technology report: Developer divide wrangles; plus Wikimedia Zero, MediaWiki 1.20wmf4, and IPv6

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The Signpost: 04 June 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: WikiWomenCamp: From women, for women
• News and notes: Editors want most funding for technical areas, while widespread ignorance of WMF board elections and chapters persists; voting still live on Commons best picture
• Discussion report: Watching Wikipedia change
• WikiProject report: Views of WikiProject Visual Arts
• Featured content: On the lochs
• Arbitration report: Two motions for procedural reform, three requests for arbitration, Rich Farmbrough risks block and ban
• Technology report: Report from the Berlin Hackathon

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The Signpost: 11 June 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: Springer's misappropriation of Wikimedia content "the tip of the iceberg"
• News and notes: Foundation finance reformers wrestle with CoI
• WikiProject report: Counter-Vandalism Unit
• Featured content: The cake is a pi
• Arbitration report: Procedural reform enacted, Rich Farmbrough blocked, three requests for arbitration
• Technology report: To support or not to support? IPv6, and how best to serve non-Wikimedia wikis

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The Signpost: 18 June 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Investigative report: Is the Requests for adminship process 'broken'?
• News and notes: Ground shifts while chapters dither over new Association
• Discussion report: Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations
• WikiProject report: The Punks of Wikipedia
• Featured content: Taken with a pinch of "salt"
• Arbitration report: Three requests for arbitration, GoodDay case closed
• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 25 June 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: A call for editorial input in developing new Creative Commons licensing
• News and notes: "Mystical" Picture of the Year; run-up to Wikimania DC; RfA reform 2012
• In the news: Wales enters extradition battle; Wikipedia's political bias
• Recent research: Edit war patterns, deleters vs. the 1%, never used cleanup tags, authorship inequality, higher quality from central users, and mapping the wikimediasphere
• WikiProject report: Summer Sports Series: WikiProject Athletics
• Featured content: A good week for the Williams
• Arbitration report: Three requests for arbitration
• Technology report: Second Visual Editor prototype launches

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The Signpost: 02 July 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Analysis: Uncovering scientific plagiarism
• Op-ed: Representing knowledge – metadata, data and linked data
• News and notes: RfC on joining lobby group; JSTOR accounts for Wikipedians and the article feedback tool
• In the news: Public relations on Wikipedia: friend or foe?
• Discussion report: Discussion reports and miscellaneous articulations
• WikiProject report: Summer sports series: Burning rubber with WikiProject Motorsport
• Featured content: Heads up
• Arbitration report: Three open cases
• Technology report: Initialisms abound: QA and HTML5

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The Signpost: 09 July 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: Reforming the education programs: lessons from Cairo
• News and notes: Russian Wikipedia protest blackout; E3 team and new tools; Wikitravel proposal bogged down
• WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Football
• Featured content: Keeps on chuggin'
• Arbitration report: Three cases, Carnildo desysopped
• Technology report: Optimism over LastModified and MoodBar, but change in clock time causes downtime

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The Signpost: 16 July 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: Chapters Association mired in controversy over new chair
• Wikimania: Young chapter shows experience beyond its years
• News and notes: WMF enacts reforms at Wikimania; main page redesign; 4 millionth article milestone
• Discussion report: Discussion reports and miscellaneous articulations
• WikiProject report: Summer sports series: French WikiProject Cycling
• Featured content: Takes flight
• Arbitration report: Fæ faces site-ban, proposed decisions posted
• Technology report: Tech talks at Wikimania amid news of a mixed June

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The Signpost: 23 July 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: Signpost developments
• Op-ed: The future of PR on Wikipedia
• Paid editing: Does Wikipedia pay? The skeptic: Orange Mike
• News and notes: Chapter head speaks about the aftermath of Russian Wikipedia shutdown
• WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Olympics
• Featured content: When is an island not an island?
• Arbitration report: Fæ and Michaeldsuarez banned; Kwamikagami desysopped; Falun Gong closes with mandated external reviews and topic bans
• Technology report: Translating SVGs and making history bugs history

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The Signpost: 30 July 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Wikimedians and London 2012; WMF budget – staffing, engineering, editor retention effort, and the global South
• Recent research: Conflict dynamics, collaboration and emotions; digitization vs. copyright; WikiProject field notes; quality of medical articles; role of readers; best wiki paper award
• Discussion report: Discussion reports and miscellaneous articulations
• WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Horse Racing
• Featured content: One of a kind
• Arbitration report: No pending or open arbitration cases
• Technology report: Talking performance with CT Woo and Green Semantic MediaWiki with Nischay Nahata

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The Signpost: 06 August 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: The Athena Project: being bold
• News and notes: FDC portal launched
• WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Martial Arts
• Featured content: Casliber's words take root
• Arbitration report: No pending or open arbitration cases
• Technology report: Wikidata nears first deployment but wikis go down in fibre cut calamity

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The Signpost: 13 August 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: Small Wikipedias' burden
• News and notes: Bangla-language survey suggests the challenges for small Wikipedias
• Discussion report: Image placeholders, machine translations, Mediation Committee, de-adminship
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Dispute Resolution
• Featured content: On the road again
• Arbitration report: Youreallycan request for arbitration
• Technology report: "Phabricating" a serious alternative to Gerrit

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The Signpost: 20 August 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: Wikimedians are rightfully wary
• News and notes: Core content competition in full swing; Wikinews fork taken offline
• In the news: American judges on citing Wikipedia
• WikiProject report: Land of Calm and Contrast: WikiProject Korea
• Featured content: Enough for a week – but I'm damned if I see how the helican.
• Technology report: Lua onto test2wiki and news of a convention-al extension

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The Signpost: 27 August 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Tough journey for new travel guide
• Recent research: New influence graph visualizations; NPOV and history; 'low-hanging fruit'
• Discussion report: Sidebar and main page alterations; Recent Deaths; Education Program extension
• WikiProject report: From sonic screwdrivers to jelly babies: WikiProject Doctor Who
• Featured content: Wikipedia rivals The New Yorker: Mark Arsten
• Technology report: Just how bad is the code review backlog?

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The Signpost: 03 September 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: Dispute resolution – where we're at, what we're doing well, and what needs fixing
• News and notes: World's largest photo competition kicks off; WMF legal fees proposal
• Featured content: Wikipedia's Seven Days of Terror
• Technology report: Time for a MediaWiki Foundation?

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The Signpost: 10 September 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: Signpost adapts as news consumption changes
• Special report: Two Wikipedians set to face jury trial
• Op-ed: Fixing Wikipedia's help pages one key to editor retention
• News and notes: Researchers find that Simple English Wikipedia has "lost its focus"
• In the media: Author criticizes Wikipedia article; Wales attacks UK government proposal
• Discussion report: Closing Wikiquette; Image Filter; Education Program and Momento extensions
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Fungi
• Featured content: Not a "Gangsta's Paradise", but still rappin'
• Technology report: Mmmm, milkshake...

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The Signpost: 17 September 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: Signpost expands to Facebook
• News and notes: Tens of thousands of monuments loved; members of new funding body announced
• WikiProject report: Action! — The Indian Cinema Task Force
• Featured content: Go into the light
• Technology report: Future-proofing: HTML5 and IPv6

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The Signpost: 01 October 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Founder: Jimmy Wales
• News and notes: Independent review of UK chapter governance; editor files motion against Wikitravel owners
• Technology report: WMF and the German chapter face up to Toolserver uncertainty
• WikiProject report: The Name's Bond... WikiProject James Bond
• Featured content: Mooned

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The Signpost: 08 October 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Education Program faces community resistance
• Discussion report: Closing RfAs: Stewards or Bureaucrats?; Redesign of Help:Contents
• WikiProject report: Ten years and one million articles: WikiProject Biography
• Featured content: A dash of Arsenikk
• Technology report: The ups and downs of September and October, plus extension code review analysis

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The Signpost: 15 October 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• In the media: Wikipedia's language nerds hit the front page
• Op-ed: AdminCom: A proposal for changing the way we select admins
• News and notes: Chapters ask for big bucks
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Chemicals
• Featured content: Second star to the left
• Technology report: Wikidata is a go: well, almost

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The Signpost: 22 October 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: Adminship from the German perspective
• News and notes: Wikimedians get serious about women in science
• Arbitration report: War declared over Malleus Fatuorum
• WikiProject report: Where in the world is Wikipedia?
• Featured content: Is RfA Kafkaesque?
• Discussion report: Good articles on the main page?; reforming dispute resolution
• Technology report: Wikivoyage migration: technical strategy announced

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The Signpost: 29 October 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: First chickens come home to roost for FDC funding applicants; WMF board discusses governance issues and scope of programs
• WikiProject report: In recognition of... WikiProject Military History
• Featured content: On the road again
• Technology report: Improved video support imminent and Wikidata.org live
• Recent research: WP governance informal; community as social network; efficiency of recruitment and content production; Rorschach news

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The Signpost: 05 November 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: 2012 WikiCup comes to an end
• News and notes: Wikimedian photographic talent on display in national submissions to Wiki Loves Monuments
• In the media: Was climate change a factor in Hurricane Sandy?
• Discussion report: Protected Page Editor right; Gibraltar hooks
• WikiProject report: Listening to WikiProject Songs
• Featured content: Jack-O'-Lanterns and Toads
• Technology report: Hue, Sqoop, Oozie, Zookeeper, Hive, Pig and Kafka

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The Signpost: 12 November 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Court ruling complicates the paid-editing debate
• WikiProject report: Land of parrots, palm trees, and the Holy Cross: WikiProject Brazil
• Featured content: The table has turned
• Technology report: MediaWiki 1.20 and the prospects for getting 1.21 code reviewed promptly

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The Signpost: 19 November 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: FDC's financial muscle kicks in
• Discussion report: GOOG, MSFT, WMT: the ticker symbol placement question
• WikiProject report: No teenagers, mutants, or ninjas: WikiProject Turtles
• Featured content: Wikipedia hit by the Streisand effect
• Technology report: Structural reorganisation "not a done deal"

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The Signpost: 26 November 2012

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• News and notes: Toolserver finance remains uncertain
• Recent research: Movie success predictions, readability, credentials and authority, geographical comparisons
• WikiProject report: Directing Discussion: WikiProject Deletion Sorting
• Featured content: Panoramic views, history, and a celestial constellation
• Technology report: Wikidata reaches 100,000 entries

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The Signpost: 03 December 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Wiki Loves Monuments announces 2012 winner
• Discussion report: Concise Wikipedia; standardize version history tables
• WikiProject report: The White Rose: WikiProject Yorkshire
• Featured content: The play's the thing
• Technology report: MediaWiki problems but good news for Toolserver stability

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The Signpost: 10 December 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Wobbly start to ArbCom election, but turnout beats last year's
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Human Rights
• Featured content: Wikipedia goes to Hell
• Technology report: The new Visual Editor gets a bit more visual

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The Signpost: 17 December 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: Finding truth in Sandy Hook
• News and notes: Arbitrator election: stewards release the results
• Discussion report: Concise Wikipedia; section headings for navboxes
• WikiProject report: WikiProjekt Computerspiel: Covering Computer Games in Germany
• Featured content: Wikipedia's cute ass
• Technology report: MediaWiki groups and why you might want to start snuggling newbie editors

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The Signpost: 24 December 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Debates on Meta sparking along—grants, new entities, and conflicts of interest
• WikiProject report: A Song of Ice and Fire
• Featured content: Battlecruiser operational
• Technology report: Efforts to "normalise" Toolserver relations stepped up

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