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Wikimedia Highlights, Signpost und GLAM 2013

The Signpost: 07 January 2013

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

• Op-ed: Meta, where innovative ideas die
• News and notes: 2012—the big year
• WikiProject report: Where Are They Now? Episode IV: A New Year
• Featured content: Featured content in review
• Technology report: Looking ahead to 2013

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The Signpost: 14 January 2013

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

• Investigative report: Ship ahoy! New travel site finally afloat
• News and notes: Launch of annual photo competition, new grant scheme
• Special report: Loss of an Internet genius
• Discussion report: Flag Manual of Style, accessibility and equality
• WikiProject report: Reach for the Stars: WikiProject Astronomy
• Featured content: Featured articles: Quality of reviews, quality of writing in 2012
• Arbitration report: First arbitration case in almost six months
• Technology report: Intermittent outages planned, first Wikidata client deployment

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The Signpost: 21 January 2013

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

• News and notes: Requests for adminship reform moves forward
• WikiProject report: Say What? — WikiProject Linguistics
• Featured content: Wazzup, G? Delegates and featured topics in review
• Arbitration report: Doncram case continues
• Technology report: Data centre switchover a tentative success

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Wikimedia Highlights from December 2012

Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for December 2012, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

• Wikimedia Foundation highlights
  • Visual Editor opt-in launch on English Wikipedia
  • Record donations in shortest ever fundraiser
  • First round of the new funds dissemination process ends
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other movement highlights
  • Israeli and Czech chapters convince governments to make images freely available
  • More than half a million free photos of Dutch monuments for Wikimedia Commons
  • Workshop of the German Volunteer response team

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The Signpost: 28 January 2013

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

• In the media: Hoaxes draw media attention; Sue Gardner's op-ed; Women of Wikipedia
• News and notes: Khan Academy's Smarthistory and Wikipedia collaborate
• Recent research: Lessons from the research literature on open collaboration; clicks on featured articles; credibility heuristics
• Featured content: Listing off progress from 2012
• WikiProject report: Checkmate! – WikiProject Chess
• Discussion report: Administrator conduct and requests
• Arbitration report: Doncram continues
• Technology report: Developers get ready for FOSDEM amid caching problems

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The Signpost: 04 February 2013

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

• Special report: Examining the popularity of Wikipedia articles: catalysts, trends, and applications
• In the media: Star Trek Into Pedantry
• News and notes: Article Feedback Tool faces community resistance
• Featured content: Portal people on potent potables and portable potholes
• WikiProject report: Land of the Midnight Sun – WikiProject Norway
• Technology report: Wikidata team targets English Wikipedia deployment

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The Signpost: 11 February 2013

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

• Op-ed: An article is a construct – hoaxes and Wikipedia
• News and notes: UK chapter governance review marks the end of a controversial year
• In the media: Wikipedia mirroring life in island ownership dispute
• Discussion report: WebCite proposal; request for adminship reform
• WikiProject report: Just the Facts – WikiProject Infoboxes
• Featured content: A lousy week
• Technology report: Wikidata client rollout stutters

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Wikimedia Highlights from January 2013

Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for January 2013, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

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• Wikimedia Foundation highlights
  • New program offers financial support for projects by individual Wikimedians
  • Successful migration to new data center
  • New partnership grows the reach of Wikipedia Zero to 330 million mobile users
  • Wikivoyage becomes newest Wikimedia project
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other movement highlights
  • Asteroid named after Wikipedia
  • EU-funded RENDER project releases editor support tools
  • Wiki Loves Monuments exhibition in Polish railway station
  • Review of management and conflict of interest issues at Wikimedia UK

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The Signpost: 18 February 2013

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

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation declares 'victory' in Wikivoyage lawsuit
• In the media: Sue Gardner interviewed by the Australian press
• WikiProject report: Thank you for flying WikiProject Airlines
• Featured content: Featured content gets schooled
• Technology report: Better templates and 3D buildings

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The Signpost: 25 February 2013

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

• News and notes: "Very lucky" Picture of the Year
• In the media: Former WMF board member creates "Wikipedia Corporate Index" for Fleishman-Hillard PR agency
• Recent research: Wikipedia not so novel after all, except to UK university lecturers; EPOV instead of NPOV
• Discussion report: Wikivoyage links; overcategorization
• WikiProject report: How to measure a WikiProject's workload
• Featured content: Blue birds be bouncin'
• Technology report: Wikidata development to be continued indefinitely

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The Signpost: 11 March 2013

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

• From the editor: Signpost–Wikizine merger; new writers
• News and notes: Finance committee updates
• Featured content: Batman, three birds and a Mercedes
• WikiProject report: Setting a precedent
• Arbitration report: Doncram case closes; arbitrator resigns
• Technology report: Article Feedback reversal: watershed moment?; plus code review one year on

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Wikimedia Highlights from February 2013

Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for February 2013, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

• Wikimedia Foundation highlights
  • Legal victory for Wikivoyage and free knowledge
  • Mobile watchlist available
  • Language Engineering team attends open source conferences in India
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other movement highlights
  • Commons Picture of the Year 2012 contest results announced
  • New ombudsman commission
  • Open database of public art in Sweden

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The Signpost: 18 March 2013

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

• News and notes: Resigning arbitrator slams Committee
• Interview: Meeting in the middle: Wikipedia and libraries
• Featured content: Wikipedia stays warm
• WikiProject report: Making music with WikiProject Composers
• Arbitration report: Another arbitrator resigns; Richard case closes
• Technology report: Visual Editor "on schedule" for July rollout

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The Signpost: 25 March 2013

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

• News and notes: Sue Gardner to leave WMF; German Wikipedians spearhead another effort to close Wikinews
• Featured content: One and a half soursops
• WikiProject report: The 'Burgh: WikiProject Pittsburgh
• Arbitration report: Two open cases
• Technology report: The Visual Editor: Where are we now, and where are we headed?
• Recent research: "Ignore all rules" in deletions; anonymity and groupthink; how readers react when shown talk pages

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The Signpost: 01 April 2013

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

• Special report: Who reads which Wikipedia? The WMF's surprising stats
• News and notes: Funding for the Wikipedia Library and six other projects; April Fool's Day ructions
• Featured content: What the ?
• WikiProject report: Special: FAQs
• Arbitration report: Three open cases
• Technology report: Wikidata phase 2 deployment timetable in doubt

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The Signpost: 08 April 2013

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

• Wikizine: Introducing Wikizine: WMF scales back feature after outcry
• News and notes: French intelligence agents threaten Wikimedia volunteer
• Featured content: Wikipedia loves poetry
• WikiProject report: Earthshattering WikiProject Earthquakes
• Arbitration report: Subject experts needed for Argentine History
• Technology report: Testing week for developers and their deployments

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Wikimedia Highlights from March 2013

Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for March 2013, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

• • Wikimedia Foundation highlights
  • Lua speeds up pages and empowers Wikimedia's technical contributors
  • Mobile uploads launch for apps and the mobile web
  • First Individual Engagement Grants awarded to innovative community projects
  • Wikipedia Zero wins award, reaches new users
  • Ombudsmen meet, might expand mandate
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other movement highlights
  • Phase 2 of Wikidata is becoming available on Wikipedia
  • Evaluating the success of the "Mediagrant" project to document nature reserves
  • WikiAfrica offers physical space for Wikimedia contributions in Cameroon

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The Signpost: 15 April 2013

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

• Op-ed: How do we fix RfA inactivity?
• News and notes: Another admin reform attempt flops
• Featured content: The featured process swings into high gear
• WikiProject report: Unity in Diversity: WikiProject South Africa

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The Signpost: 22 April 2013

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

• News and notes: Milan conference a mixed bag
• In the media: Wikipedia inaccurate, says Florence; New Wikipedia app for breaking news
• Featured content: Batfish in the Red Sea
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Editor Retention
• Arbitration report: Sexology case nears closure after stalling over topic ban
• Technology report: A flurry of deployments

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The Signpost: 29 April 2013

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

• News and notes: Chapter furore over FDC knockbacks; First DC GLAM boot-camp
• In the media: Wikipedia's sexism; Yuri Gadyukin hoax
• Traffic report: Most popular Wikipedia articles of the last week
• Featured content: Wiki loves video games
• WikiProject report: Japanese WikiProject Baseball
• Arbitration report: Sexology closed; two open cases
• Recent research: Sentiment monitoring, Wikipedians and academics favor the same papers, UNESCO and systemic bias, How ideas flow on Wikiversity

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The Signpost: 06 May 2013

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

• News and notes: Candidates nominating for Foundation elections; Looking ahead to Wikimania 2014
• In the media: New Wikipedia for Schools edition; Anders Behring Breivik's Wikipedia contributions
• Featured content: WikiCup update: full speed ahead!
• WikiProject report: Earn $100 in cash... and a button!
• Technology report: Foundation successful in bid for larger Google subsidy

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The Signpost: 13 May 2013

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

• News and notes: WMF–community ruckus on Wikimedia mailing list
• In the media: PR firm accused of editing Wikipedia for government clients; can Wikipedia predict the stock market?
• Featured content: A mushroom, a motorway, a Munich gallery, and a map
• WikiProject report: Knock Out: WikiProject Mixed Martial Arts
• Arbitration report: Race and politics opened; three open cases

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The Signpost: 20 May 2013

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

• Foundation elections: Trustee candidates speak about Board structure, China, gender, global south, endowment
• News and notes: Spanish Wikipedia leaps past one million articles
• In the media: Qworty incident continues
• WikiProject report: Classical Greece and Rome
• Featured content: Up in the air

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Wikimedia Highlights from April 2013

Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for April 2013, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

• Wikimedia Foundation highlights
  • New notifications system launches on the English Wikipedia
  • Wikidata's content can now be used on all Wikipedias
  • Wikimedia Commons app announced for iOS and Android
  • Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) publishes its recommendations about $1.2 million
  • New conflict of interest guidelines
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other movement highlights
  • Chapters conference and GLAM-Wiki events
  • Students create the first online Arabic-Serbian dictionary
  • "Wiki Loves Sound" enriches Wikipedia with audio recordings

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The Signpost: 27 May 2013

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

• Foundation elections: Candidates talk about the Meta problem, the nation-based chapter model, world languages, and value for money
• News and notes: First-ever community election for FDC positions
• In the media: Pagans complain about Qworty's anti-Pagan editing
• Featured content: Life of 2p
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Geographical Coordinates
• Technology report: Amsterdam hackathon: continuity, change, and stroopwafels
• Recent research: Motivations on the Persian Wikipedia; is science eight times more popular on the Spanish Wikipedia than the English Wikipedia?

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The Signpost: 05 June 2013

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

• From the editor: Signpost developments
• News and notes: "Cease and desist", World Trade Organization says to Wikivoyage; Could WikiLang be the next WMF project?
• In the media: China blocks Wikipedia
• Discussion report: Return of the Discussion report
• Featured content: A week of portraits
• WikiProject report: Operation Normandy
• Technology report: Developers accused of making Toolserver fight 'pointless'

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Wikimedia Highlights from May 2013

Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for May 2013, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

• Wikimedia Foundation highlights
  • Community invited to discuss trademark practices
  • Wikipedia Zero launches in Pakistan
  • Search for new Executive Director begins
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other movement highlights
  • More than 11,000 nature photos in Ukrainian "Wiki loves Earth" contest
  • Hackathons in Amsterdam and Tel Aviv
  • Railway photo expedition in Poland
  • Online course about editing Wikipedia articles

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The Signpost: 12 June 2013

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

• Op-ed: The tragedy of Wikipedia's commons
• News and notes: How Wikimedia affiliates are spending $8.4 million; PRISM scandal
• Traffic report: Who holds the throne?
• In the media: VisualEditor will "change world history"
• Discussion report: VisualEditor, elections, bots, and more
• Featured content: Mixing Bowl Interchange
• Arbitration report: Two cases suspended; proposed decision posted in Argentine History
• WikiProject report: Processing WikiProject Computing

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The Signpost: 19 June 2013

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

• Op-ed: Two responses to the 'Tragedy of Wikipedia's Commons'
• News and notes: Swedish Wikipedia's millionth article leads to protests; WMF elections—where are all the voters?
• In the media: South African learners want Wikipedia
• Traffic report: Most popular Wikipedia articles of the last week
• Discussion report: Citations, non-free content, and a MediaWiki meeting
• Featured content: Cheaper by the dozen
• WikiProject report: The Volunteer State: WikiProject Tennessee
• Arbitration report: The Farmbrough amendment request—automation and arbitration enforcement
• Technology report: VisualEditor set for early July rollout

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The Signpost: 26 June 2013

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

• News and notes: Election results released
• In the media: Daily Dot on Commons and porn; Jimmy Wales accused of breaking Wikipedia rules in hunt for Snowden
• Traffic report: Most-viewed articles of the week
• Discussion report: Privacy policy, X!'s edit counter, old rangeblocks, and the Article Incubator
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Fashion
• Featured content: Wikipedia in black + Adam Cuerden
• Arbitration report: Argentine History closed; two cases remain suspended
• Recent research: Controversial Wikipedia topics

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The Signpost: 03 July 2013

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

• News and notes: Wikipedia's medical collaborations gathering pace
• In the media: Jimmy Wales is not an Internet billionaire; a mass shooter's alleged Wikipedia editing
• Traffic report: Yahoo! crushes the competition ... in Wikipedia views
• Discussion report: Snuggle, mainpage link to Wikinews, 3RR, and more
• WikiProject report: Puppies!
• Featured content: Queen of France
• Arbitration report: Tea Party movement reopened, new AUSC appointments
• Technology report: VisualEditor in midst of game-changing deployment series

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The Signpost: 10 July 2013

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

• News and notes: Wikimedia Board appoints world expert in women's issues, global south
• Op-ed: It's time to stop pretending the English-language Wikinews is a viable project
• Dispatches: Infoboxes: time for a fresh look?
• Traffic report: Most-viewed articles of the week
• Discussion report: Featured article process governance, signature templates, and more
• WikiProject report: Not Jimbo: WikiProject Wales
• Featured content: The week of the birds

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The Signpost: 17 July 2013

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

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation's new plans announced
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Square Enix
• Featured content: Documents and sports
• Arbitration report: Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds case opens; July 22 deadline for checkuser and oversight applications
• Traffic report: Most-viewed articles of the week

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Wikimedia Highlights from June 2013

Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for June 2013, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

• Wikimedia Foundation highlights
  • First workshop on how to evaluate the success of organized Wikimedia activities
  • Preparations for the launch of VisualEditor and Universal Language Selector
  • Community input invited for privacy policy update
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other movement highlights
  • Election results for Board and FDC
  • "Flow Funding" supports aerial photographs of Hamburg from a hot air balloon
  • Art and design students illustrate Wikipedia
  • Offline Wikipedia for prisoners

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The Signpost: 24 July 2013

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

• News and notes: Wikivoyage turns ten, but where to now?; Wikipedia Zero expands into India
• In the media: Wikipedia flamewars
• Discussion report: Partially disambiguated page names, page protection policy, and more
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Religion
• Featured content: Engineering and the arts
• Arbitration report: Infoboxes case opens
• Traffic report: Gleeless

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The Signpost: 31 July 2013

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

• Op-ed: The VisualEditor Beta and the path to change
• News and notes: Gearing up for Wikimania 2013
• Featured content: Caterpillars, warblers, and frogs—oh my!
• Discussion report: Defining consensus; VisualEditor default state; expert and layperson terms in article titles
• WikiProject report: Babel Series: Politics on the Turkish Wikipedia
• Arbitration report: Race and politics case closes
• Traffic report: Bouncing Baby Brouhaha
• Recent research: Napoleon, Michael Jackson and Srebrenica across cultures, 90% of Wikipedia better than Britannica, WikiSym preview

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The Signpost: 07 August 2013

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

• News and notes: Chapters Association self-destructs
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Freedom of Speech
• Featured content: The great Colorado River and the mysterious case of the grand duchess
• Discussion report: Civility policy, geographic names, CheckUser and Oversighter candidates, and more
• Arbitration report: Fourteen editors proposed for ban in Tea party movement case
• Traffic report: Greetings from the graveyard

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The Signpost: 14 August 2013

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

• Special report: Jimmy Wales: media favors entertainment over raising public awareness
• News and notes: "Beautifully smooth" Wikimania with few hitches
• In the media: Chinese censorship
• Discussion report: Wikivoyage, reliable sources, music bands, account creators, and OTRS
• WikiProject report: For the love of stamps
• Featured content: Wikipedia takes the cities
• Arbitration report: Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds case closes; invitation to comment on applicants for checkuser and oversight ends 16 August

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The Signpost: 21 August 2013

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

• From the editor: Call for contributors
• WikiProject report: Today's article for improvement
• News and notes: Wikipedia's Manual of Style marches into Manning's sex change
• Traffic report: Bad Cat
• Discussion report: Skyscrapers, Gibraltar DYKs, Four Award, Secure login, and more
• Featured content: Afrobeat
• Technology report: Generating musical scores with LilyPond

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The Signpost: 28 August 2013

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

• News and notes: Looking ahead to Wiki Loves Monuments
• In the media: Chelsea Manning, Box-office predictors, and 'Storming Wikipedia'
• Traffic report: Reddit creep
• WikiProject report: Loop-the-loop: Amusement Parks
• Featured content: WikiCup update, and the gardens of Finland
• Technology report: Gallery improvements launch on Wikipedia
• Recent research: WikiSym 2013 retrospective

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Wikimedia Highlights from July 2013

Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for July 2013, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

• Wikimedia Foundation highlights
  • Mobile editing
  • Wikipedia Zero comes to India
  • VisualEditor beta launch
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other movement highlights
  • Winners of "Wiki Loves Public Art" announced
  • New Board of Trustees member: Ana Toni
  • Buenos Aires edit-a-thon in former military prison

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The Signpost: 04 September 2013

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

• In the media: Manning "put back in the closet"; State involvement in the Azerbaijani Wikipedia
• News and notes: Privacy policy debate gears up
• WikiProject report: Writing on the frontier: Psychology on Wikipedia
• Traffic report: No accounting for the wisdom of crowds
• Discussion report: Arbcom election procedures, Wiki Loves Monuments, Privacy policy, FDC, and more
• Featured content: Bridging the way to a Peasants' Revolt
• Arbitration report: Manning naming dispute case opens; Tea Party case closes ; Infoboxes nears completion
• Technology report: Making Wikipedia more accessible

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The Signpost: 11 September 2013

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

• News and notes: As deadline approaches, Individual Engagement Grants looks for ideas
• In the media: Lawyer goes to court to discover Wikipedian's identity; Storming Wikipedia; Wikimedia UK Secretary in conflict-of-interest controversy; Does Wikipedia need a "right to reply" box?
• WikiProject report: Traveling to Indonesia
• Traffic report: Syria, celebrities, and association football: oh my!

• Featured content: Tintin goes featured
• Arbitration report: Workshop phase opens in Manning naming dispute ; Infoboxes case closes

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The Signpost: 18 September 2013

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

• News and notes: Third time's the charm: the FDC's newest round of funding requests
• Traffic report: Twerking, tragedy and TV
• WikiProject report: 18,464 Good Articles on the wall
• Featured content: Hurricane Diane and the Van Gogh
• Technology report: What can Wikidata do for Wikipedia?

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The Signpost: 25 September 2013

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

• Op-ed: Q&A on Public Relations and Wikipedia
• News and notes: Last call for Wiki Loves Monuments; Community–WMF tension over VisualEditor
• Traffic report: Look on Walter's works
• In the media: Fox News: Wikipedia abandons efforts to purge porn from online encyclopedia
• WikiProject report: Babel Series: GOOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLLL!!!!!
• Featured content: Wikipedia takes the stage
• Recent research: Automatic detection of "infiltrating" Wikipedia admins; Wiki, or 'pedia?

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The Signpost: 02 October 2013

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

• News and notes: WMF signals new grantmaking priorities
• Op-ed: Commons medical diagnostic images under threat from unresolved ownership
• Discussion report: References to individuals and groups, merging wikiprojects, portals on the Main page, and more
• WikiProject report: U2 Too
• Featured content: Bobby, Ben, Roger and a fantasia
• Arbitration report: Infoboxes: After the war

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Wikimedia Highlights from August 2013

Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for August 2013, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

• Wikimedia Foundation highlights
  • Foundation staff report on their work at Wikimania
  • Wikipedia Education Program in the Arab World completes its third term
  • HTTPS by default for logged-in users
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other movement highlights
  • Wikimania
  • Wikimedians and pilots cooperate to photograph Israel from the air

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The Signpost: 09 October 2013

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

• News and notes: Extensive network of clandestine paid advocacy exposed
• Traffic report: Shutdown shenanigans
• In the media: College credit for editing Wikipedia
• WikiProject report: Australian Roads
• Arbitration report: Manning naming dispute and Ebionites 3 cases continue; third arbitrator resigns
• Featured content: Under the sea

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The Signpost: 16 October 2013

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

• News and notes: Vice on Wiki-PR's paid advocacy; Featured list elections begin
• WikiProject report: Heraldry and Vexillology
• Traffic report: Peaceful potpourri
• Discussion report: Ada Lovelace Day, paid advocacy on Wikipedia, sidebar update, and more
• Featured content: That's a lot of pictures
• Arbitration report: Manning naming dispute case closes

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The Signpost: 23 October 2013

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

• News and notes: Grantmaking season—rumbling in the German-language Wikimedia
• In the media: The decline of Wikipedia; Sue Gardner releases statement on Wiki-PR; Australian minister relies on Wikipedia
• Featured content: Your worst nightmare as a child is now featured on Wikipedia
• Traffic report: Your average week... and a fish
• Discussion report: More discussion of paid advocacy, upcoming arbitrator elections, research hackathon, and more
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Elements

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Wikimedia Highlights from September 2013

Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for September 2013, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

• Wikimedia Foundation highlights
  • 22 proposals for Individual Engagement Grants submitted
  • FDC receives 11 proposals for annual plan grants, looks back on first year of operation
  • Community consultation about new privacy policy begins
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other movement highlights
  • Wiki Loves Monuments 2013
  • Indian Wikimedians and German university collaborate to digitize works of 19th century scholar
  • Australian government agency supports Wikimedia cooperation with Paralympic Movement

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The Signpost: 30 October 2013

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

• News and notes: Sex and drug tourism—Wikivoyage's soft underbelly?
• Traffic report: 200 miles in 200 years
• In the media: Rand Paul plagiarizes Wikipedia?
• WikiProject report: Special: Lessons from the dead and dying
• Featured content: Wrestling with featured content
• Recent research: User influence on site policies: Wikipedia vs. Facebook vs. Youtube

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The Signpost: 06 November 2013

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

• News and notes: Alleged 'outing' of an editor's personal information leads to Wikipedia ban
• Featured content: Five years of work leads to 63-article featured topic
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Accessibility
• Traffic report: Danse Macabre
• Discussion report: Sockpuppet investigations, VisualEditor, Wikidata's birthday, and more
• Arbitration report: Ebionites 3 case closed

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Wikimedia Highlights from October 2013

Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for October 2013, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

• Wikimedia Foundation highlights
  • Pilot project for free mobile access to Wikipedia via text messages in Kenya
  • Video about South African students' grassroot efforts to get Wikipedia free on their cellphones
  • Planning the replacement of the Florida data center
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other highlights from the Wikimedia movement
  • Science award for bot that imports multimedia from academic publications to Wikimedia Commons
  • New project encourages African communities to contribute local content to Wikimedia projects
  • Third "Iberoconf" summit in Mexico City

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The Signpost: 13 November 2013

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

• Special report: FDC staff assessments raise the benchmarks for activities, impact, planning, and governance
• News and notes: Trademark at issue again with the Italian Wikipedia and wikipedia.it
• Traffic report: Google Doodlebugs bust the block
• Discussion report: Commas, Draft namespace proposal, education updates, and more
• WikiProject report: The world of soap operas
• Featured content: 1244 Chinese handscroll leads nine-strong picture contingent

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The Signpost: 20 November 2013

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

• From the editor: The Signpost needs your help
• News and notes: Foundation to Wiki-PR: cease and desist; Arbitration Committee elections starting
• Book review: Peter Burke's Social History of Knowledge—ambitious, fascinating, and exhaustive
• Traffic report: Ill Winds
• WikiProject report: Score! American football on Wikipedia
• Featured content: Rockin' the featured pictures

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The Signpost: 04 December 2013

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

• News and notes: One decade of Wikisource; FDC recommendations raise serious questions
• Discussion report: Musical scores, diversity conference, Module:Convert, and more
• WikiProject report: Electronic Apple Pie
• Traffic report: Kennedy shot Who
• Featured content: F*&!
• Arbitration report: Ottoman Empire–Turkey naming dispute case opens; New discretionary sanctions draft proposal available for review
• Recent research: Reciprocity and reputation motivate contributions to Wikipedia; indigenous knowledge and "cultural imperialism"; how PR people see Wikipedia

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The Signpost: 11 December 2013

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

• News and notes: Wiki Loves Monuments—winners announced
• In the media: Edward Snowden a "hero"; German Wikipedia court ruling
• Interview: Wikipedia's first Featured Article centurion
• Traffic report: Deaths of Mandela, Walker top the list
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Wine
• Featured content: Viewer discretion advised
• Technology report: MediaWiki 1.22 released

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Wikimedia Highlights from November 2013

Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for November 2013, with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement

• Wikimedia Foundation highlights
  • New support material for program organizers: Evaluation report about edit-a-thons, and a pattern library
  • "Beta Features" option allows users to test upcoming software changes
  • Open Source Language Summit in Pune, India
  • OAuth extension makes it easier to use third-party editing tools
• Data and Trends
• Financials
• Other highlights from the Wikimedia movement
  • Tenth anniversary of Wikisource
  • Indian university releases encyclopedia under a free license
  • Diversity Conference
  • Photographer receives $17,000 Kickstarter funding to document video games on Wikimedia Commons

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This Month in GLAM: November 2013

This Month in GLAM – Volume III, Issue XI, November 2013

Headlines

Australia and New Zealand report: From East to West Belgium report: Wiki Loves Monuments in Belgium and Luxembourg France report: Mass uploads; Wiki Loves Monuments; Edit-a-thon; GLAM conference Germany report: MS Wissenschaft; Science Gallery; Zugang gestalten; Science 2.0; OKFest 2014 Italy report: Libraries and librarians (but there are still shoes) Mexico report: Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 award ceremony; Day of the Dead photo contest winners Netherlands report: Edit-a-thon Amersfoort; Wikipedia seminar Oslo; Wikimedia Nederland Conference; Europeana Fashion Spain report: Wiki Loves Monuments; Fundación Joaquín Díaz González; Wiki Party in Salamanca Sweden report: Motorcycles, Norway and shoes Switzerland report: Wiki Loves Monuments Awards Ceremony; Wikipedians in Residence; Image Donations UK report: Open content at the BBC; edit-a-thons; photography USA report: GLAM-Wiki Activities in Philadelphia and Vancouver, Washington Open Access report: Open Access Button and Berlin 11 conference Calendar: December's GLAM events

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The Signpost: 18 December 2013

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

• News and notes: Nine new arbitrators announced
• WikiProject report: Babel Series: Tunisia on the French Wikipedia
• Discussion report: Usernames, template data and documentation, Main page, and more
• Traffic report: Hopper to the top
• Featured content: Triangulum, the world's most boring constellation
• Technology report: Introducing the GLAMWikiToolset

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The Signpost: 25 December 2013

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

• News and notes: IEG round 2 funding rewards diverse ambitions
• Discussion report: Draft namespace, VisualEditor meetings
• WikiProject report: More Great WikiProject Logos
• Featured content: Drunken birds and treasonous kings
• Technology report: OAuth: future of user designed tools
• Recent research: Cross-language editors, election predictions, vandalism experiments

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This Month in GLAM: December 2013

This Month in GLAM – Volume III, Issue XII, December 2013

Headlines

France report: GlamWiki Toolset; local actions in Rennes Germany report: New year, new GLAM contacts! Sweden report: Old ship and new solutions UK report: UK report for December 2013 USA report: University of Colorado Museum of Natural History; GLAM-Wiki in New York City Open Access report: NISO cites GLAM Newsletter; Adoption of CC BY 4.0; Two years Open Access File of the Day Calendar: January's GLAM events

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