Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2012-04-09/News and notes
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- Call for POTY organizers: Mono, coordinator of the sixth annual Picture of the Year contest, has released a call for participants on this year's POTY Committee. The Picture of the Year contest, annualized since 2006, is a volunteer-run event that aims to pick out the best freely licensed featured picture that had been awarded Featured picture status that year; this year's event will cover images uploaded in 2011. Last year's POTY counted a sum total of 2,463 votes; committee members are expected to help in "set[ting] up contest pages, posting messages in relevant locations, *translating interface messages,* assisting voters, and counting votes." Applicants are directed to fill out this form.
- Article Feedback Tool updates: Updates includes an announcement of new office hours by Okeyes (WMF) who may be contacted with questions. Instructions for Article Feedback Tool/Version 5/Feedback evaluation have been released. Volunteers may still sign up on that page.
- Board Q&A: The Board of Trustees has issued a Q&A document about its recent recently published fundraising and funds dissemination resolutions. It is divided into three sections, one an overview of the board process leading up to the decision and its summary, and the other two specific questions about the resolutions, some already asked, some anticipated. Discussions are directed towards the resolution talk page.
- WikiData office hours: The WikiData team held their first office hours on April 5; the log has been published.
- New Page Triage update: Feedback on the NPT talkpage is requested.
- Teahouse Metrics Summary: The metrics summary for the Teahouse project to date has been published, showing visitor statistics and feedback.
- New administrators: The Signpost welcomes our new administrator, Yngvadottir, "an experienced clean-up editor...[who has] got a long history of rescuing/improving bad articles, often taking articles from AFD to the front page." Following her successful nomination, she plans to be most active at WP:DYK.
- Milestones: The following Wikipedia projects reached milestones this week:
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