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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
738	Equipment of the Indian Army (talk)	Add sources
572	Ballistic missile submarine (talk)	Add sources
744	HAL AMCA (talk)	Add sources
442	Akula-class submarine (talk)	Add sources
476	Indian classical dance (talk)	Add sources
324	Anti-ship missile (talk)	Add sources
82	Reeve Aleutian Airways (talk)	Cleanup
74	French aircraft carrier Foch (R99) (talk)	Cleanup
916	Typhoon-class submarine (talk)	Cleanup
271	Indian Coast Guard (talk)	Expand
175	OTO Melara 76 mm (talk)	Expand
192	Pilatus PC-7 (talk)	Expand
100	Cold Start (military doctrine) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
843	Pakistan Air Force (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
191	India–Israel relations (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
82	A. K. Antony (talk)	Merge
74	Rajput Regiment (talk)	Merge
42	ABG Shipyard (talk)	Merge
4	Tara Bai-class coastal patrol vessel (talk)	Wikify
7	Kalka Airport (talk)	Wikify
176	Kirloskar Group (talk)	Wikify
5	Vijay Kumar Ahluwalia (talk)	Orphan
2	Thomas Hebert (talk)	Orphan
4	The Great Lakes Group (talk)	Orphan
8	Aditya-class auxiliary ship (talk)	Stub
4	INS Savitri (P53) (talk)	Stub
20	Sir Robert McAlpine, 1st Baronet (talk)	Stub
179	Chola incident (talk)	Stub
14	PAF Base Minhas (talk)	Stub
6	Benkiya Bale (talk)	Stub

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The Signpost: 22 April 2015

Special report: Sony emails reveal corporate practices and undisclosed advocacy editing

A Signpost investigation of the released data has revealed Sony's corporate practices regarding Wikipedia and uncovered what appears to be undisclosed advocacy editing of Wikipedia by Sony employees and possibly by others.

In the media: UK political editing; hoaxes; net neutrality

Wikipedia appears to have been drawn into the drama of the upcoming, hotly contested UK general election.

News and notes: Call for candidates as the movement approaches the Wikimedia Board elections

The Affiliates Committee this week announced the organization of a community referral for comment, currently open on the meta-wiki, to address upcoming changes to the way that the Affiliations Committee will review movement-affiliated user-groups in the future.

In focus: 2015 Wikimedia Foundation election preparations underway

2015 will see through the biennial community election for the three community-elected seats on the Board of Trustees—the "ultimate corporate authority" of the Wikimedia Foundation and the level at which the strategic decisions regarding the Wikimedia movement are made.

Featured content: Vanguard on guard

Six featured articles and fifteen featured pictures were promoted this week.

Traffic report: A harvest of couch potatoes

Couch potatoes rule this week, as 9 of the top 10 slots were taken by either movies, TV, or sports.

Gallery: The bitter end

The Gallery is an occasional Signpost feature highlighting quality images and articles from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons based on a particular theme.

The Bugle: Issue CIX, April 2015

Your Military History Newsletter

Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results
Articles: Last month's new Featured and A-Class content
Book reviews: Nick-D looks at the landing at Anzac Cove
Op-ed: TomStar81 on the debut of poison gas in World War I
Timeline: This month in World War I

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The Signpost: 29 April 2015

Wikimania: Choice of small village for Wikimania 2016 ruffles feathers

Esino Lario is set to host Wikimania 2016, but volunteers and others have raised a host of concerns that raise serious questions about the town's suitability for hosting such a large conference.

News and notes: Wiki Loves Monuments evaluation sees diminishing returns and increasing cost

The evaluations reveal that in the last three years, WLM has possibly fallen victim to its own success and seen diminishing returns.

In the media: Scottish MEP blocked for edit warring; ranking articles by importance

David Coburn, a Member of the European Parliament for the Scotland region for the UK Independence Party, was blocked from editing Wikipedia on April 6.

Featured content: Another day, another dollar

Ten featured articles, nine featured lists, and twenty-eight featured pictures were promoted this week.

Traffic report: Bruce, Nessie, and genocide

Though the continued predominance of movies, TV, and sports noted in last week's report largely continues, three additional topics joined the Top 10 this week.

Recent research: Military history, cricket, and Australia targeted in Wikipedia articles' popularity vs. quality; how copyright damages economy

Reader demand for some topics (e.g. LGBT topics or pages about countries) is poorly satisfied, whereas there is over-abundance of quality on topics of comparatively little interest, such as military history.

Technology report: VisualEditor and MediaWiki updates

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
480	Official state car (talk)	Add sources
35	Brahmaputra-class frigate (talk)	Add sources
27	Central acquisition radar (3D-CAR) (talk)	Add sources
48	Godavari-class frigate (talk)	Add sources
81	PNS Ghazi (talk)	Add sources
666	People's Liberation Army Navy (talk)	Add sources
345	Soviet Navy (talk)	Cleanup
44	History of the Indian Navy (talk)	Cleanup
8	Russian submarine Novomoskovsk (K-407) (talk)	Cleanup
592	Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk (talk)	Expand
9	Akbarpur Airport (talk)	Expand
1,174	Boeing CH-47 Chinook (talk)	Expand
68	Anti Terrorist Squad (India) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
524	Operation Blue Star (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
58	Indo-Pakistani Air War of 1965 (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
4,252	Salman Khan (talk)	Merge
648	French Navy (talk)	Merge
70	IDAS (missile) (talk)	Merge
9	Pong Pagong (talk)	Wikify
17	W Selvamurthy (talk)	Wikify
14	IBSAMAR (talk)	Wikify
19	Ajai Shukla (talk)	Orphan
2	Tanerliq (talk)	Orphan
4	Samudrika Naval Marine Museum (talk)	Orphan
5	INS Shardul (2004) (talk)	Stub
26	INS Rajput (D51) (talk)	Stub
72	Manufacturer's empty weight (talk)	Stub
12	Raja Nanna Raja (talk)	Stub
77	Indian Navy SSN programme (talk)	Stub
14	INS Khukri (P49) (talk)	Stub

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The Signpost: 06 May 2015

News and notes: "Inspire" grant-making campaign concludes, grantees announced

The Wikimedia Foundation this week announced the winning grantees in March's "Inspire" grant-making campaign.

Featured content: The amorous android and the horsebreeder; WikiCup round two concludes

Seven articles, three lists, and ten pictures were promoted to "featured" status this week. The second round of the WikiCup has ended.

In the media: Guggenheim image donation; Wiki campaign gets advertising award

artnet and The Next Web report (May 6) that the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is releasing a hundred images of works in its collection under Creative Commons licences in conjunction with a May 19 editathon.

Special report: FDC candidates respond to key issues

Elections have begun for five community members of the Funds Dissemination Committee, the Foundation's volunteer body for judging and recommending millions of dollars worth of annual grants to affiliates in the movement. The election lasts just eight days, from Sunday 3 May until 23:59 UTC on Sunday 10 May, so at the time of publication, voters will need to act promptly.

Traffic report: The grim ship reality

Like colliding ocean liners, rousing entertainment and harsh reality merged ungainly in this week's top 10 list. The much heralded pay-per-view pummeling of Manny Pacquiao by Floyd Mayweather, Jr. dominated the list's top slots, giving this list one of its highest total view counts in months.

The Signpost: 13 May 2015

Foundation elections: Board candidates share their views with the Signpost

Three community-elected seats on the Board of Trustees—the ultimate governing authority of the Wikimedia Foundation—will be decided by Wikimedians in the election to be held 17–31 May.

News and notes: Swedish Wikimedia chapter organizes simultaneous Wikidata contests

This week has been a busy one for the Wikidata project, with nearly simultaneous Wikidata contests, both organized by Wikimedia Sweden, now underway.

Traffic report: Round Two

Casual viewers may think I've posted the same list twice. But no, readers just happen to be really interested in May 2's Big Fight. In fact, last week was just the weigh-in and the trash talk. This week, the numbers actually increased.

In the media: Grant Shapps story continues

Grant Shapps, who was the co-chairman of the UK's Conservative Party until this week, has been accused of maliciously editing the Wikipedia biographies of his party's rivals.

Op-ed: What made Wikipedia lose its reputation?

There is a public misconception of Wikipedia: that any anonymous editor can edit Wikipedia at any time, and cannot be tracked or identified.

Featured content: Four first-time featured article writers lead the way

Eight articles, one list, and five pictures were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia in a slow week.

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
48	TERCOM (talk)	Add sources
453	India and weapons of mass destruction (talk)	Add sources
148	Battle of Chamkaur (talk)	Add sources
54	Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport (talk)	Add sources
348	Islamic Republic of Iran Navy (talk)	Add sources
240	Fleet of the Royal Canadian Navy (talk)	Add sources
32	NPP Zvezda K-36 (talk)	Cleanup
120	Hansie Cronje (talk)	Cleanup
13	French submarine Triomphant (S616) (talk)	Cleanup
28	8 Gorkha Rifles (talk)	Expand
129	DCNS (company) (talk)	Expand
39	R.550 Magic (talk)	Expand
150	Para (Indian Special Forces) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
325	Fourth-generation jet fighter (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
108	2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
409	Unmanned combat aerial vehicle (talk)	Merge
34	MAA-1 Piranha (talk)	Merge
8	Vectoring nozzle (talk)	Merge
410	Bharat Electronics (talk)	Wikify
29	USS Virginia (CGN-38) (talk)	Wikify
10	Ranjit Lal Jetley (talk)	Wikify
0	Sahayak-class hopper barge (talk)	Orphan
0	INS DhruvaK (talk)	Orphan
68	One Rank, One Pension (talk)	Orphan
72	Kalvari-class submarine (talk)	Stub
12	Komandarm Fedko-class oiler (talk)	Stub
25	Nirmal Kumar Verma (talk)	Stub
7	Balat, Bihar (talk)	Stub
42	Jemadar (talk)	Stub
52	Air Navigation and Transport Act (talk)	Stub

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The Bugle: Issue CX, May 2015

Your Military History Newsletter

Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results
Articles: Last month's new Featured and A-Class content
Book review: Recent external reviews
Op-ed: TomStar81 and Simon Harley on the sinking of the Lusitania
Timeline: This month in World War I

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The Signpost: 20 May 2015

From the editor: Your voice is needed: strategic voting in the WMF election

The Wikimedia Foundation's bi-annual Board of Trustees election is open for voting. Of the ten seats on the board, three are elected representatives of the global Wikimedia community—you.

In focus: The awful truth about Wikimedia's article counts

The article counts of many Wikimedia wikis suddenly changed on 29 March 2015: as the Signpost reported at the time, sixty-five wikis fell below milestones tracked at the Wikimedia News Meta page, and three increased to new milestones.

Traffic report: Inner Core

The list is topped this week by Danish scientist Inge Lehmann, thanks to a Google Doodle celebrating her 127th birthday. Lehmann discovered in 1936 that the Earth has a solid inner core. It is sometimes surprising to realize how recently such basic scientific knowledge of the Earth, which we now take for granted, was discovered.

News and notes: A dark side of comedy: the Wikipedia volunteers cleaning up behind John Oliver's fowl jokes

Wikipedia editors logging in on May 19 found themselves walking into an unexpected amount of anti-vandal work to keep the site in line with its extensive biographies of living persons policy. A plethora of Wikipedia articles related to the United States House Committee on Appropriations, and the fifty-one representatives serving on it, have been hit by a raft of anonymous editors making often vulgar edits referencing "chicken fucker," or more creative combinations: "sexual conduct", "sexual congress", "fornicator", "intimate relations", or "trysts with chickens."

Featured content: Puppets, fungi, and waterfalls

Three articles, seven lists, and seven pictures were featured on the English Wikipedia.

In the media: Jimmy Wales accepts Dan David Prize

Jimmy Wales and five others accepted the 2015 Dan David Prize at Tel Aviv University on May 17. The prize comes with US$1 million, ten percent of which goes to doctoral and postdoctoral scholarships.

WikiProject report: Cell-ebrating Molecular Biology

This week, we had the pleasure of interviewing WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology, which has come a long way since our last interview in 2008. Like most projects, it has a long member list, but only a small subset of that group regularly contributes. With 28 featured articles and 58 top-importance start class ones, the project has clearly had some success, but has a ways to go. We talked to three regular project contributors.

Arbitration report: Editor conduct the subject of multiple cases

The Arbitration Committee has an unusually large case load at present. Although perhaps not on a par with the high-profile, multi-party cases seen towards the end of last year and the beginning of this year, with five open cases the arbitrators are likely to be kept busy for the next several weeks.

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
80	Delhi-class destroyer (talk)	Add sources
7	Vela-class submarine (talk)	Add sources
114	Popeye (missile) (talk)	Add sources
54	Shaitan Singh (talk)	Add sources
443	Consumer electronics (talk)	Add sources
5	Sub-units of the Frontier Force Regiment (talk)	Add sources
178	The Mosquito Coast (talk)	Cleanup
42	USS Trenton (LPD-14) (talk)	Cleanup
3	W. Selvamurthy (talk)	Cleanup
17	1st Horse (Skinner's Horse) (talk)	Expand
949	Dassault Mirage 2000 (talk)	Expand
86	Cochin Shipyard (talk)	Expand
264	Close-in weapon system (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
11	No. 26 Squadron (Pakistan Air Force) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
166	Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
73	Indian integration of Hyderabad (talk)	Merge
250	Sony Entertainment Television (India) (talk)	Merge
648	Ballistic missile (talk)	Merge
94	Nuclear navy (talk)	Wikify
53	Holland-class offshore patrol vessels (talk)	Wikify
283	Nuclear marine propulsion (talk)	Wikify
32	Weapon systems of the Indian Navy (talk)	Orphan
2	Kirpal Singh (Indian Navy officer) (talk)	Orphan
5	NIRDESH (talk)	Orphan
6	Battle of Peiwar Kotal (talk)	Stub
16	INS Sindhughosh (S55) (talk)	Stub
14	INS Sindhuratna (S59) (talk)	Stub
26	Survey vessel (talk)	Stub
4	INS Kesari (2008) (talk)	Stub
24	INS Mysore (D60) (talk)	Stub

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The Signpost: 03 June 2015

News and notes: Three new community-elected trustees announced, incumbents out

The Wikimedia Foundation's volunteer election committee has announced the election results for the three vacant seats on the Board of Trustees. Dariusz Jemielnak, James Heilman, and Denny Vrandečić are set to take up their two-year terms on the Board. They will replace the three incumbents, all of whom stood this time unsuccessfully: Phoebe Ayers, Samuel Klein, and María Sefidari.

Blog: How Wikipedia covered Caitlyn Jenner’s transition

Caitlyn Jenner—the American hero of the 1976 Olympics, a film actor, and prominent member of Keeping Up with the Kardashians—may now be the most famous openly transgender person in the world.

Discussion report: The deprecation of Persondata; RfA – A broken process; Complaints from users on Swedish Wikipedia

Since the dawn of Wikipedia, or at least since 22 December 2005, the template named Persondata has existed.

Featured content: It's not over till the fat man sings

Two featured articles and ten featured pictures were promoted this week.

Technology report: Things are getting SPDYier

Over the past few weeks, developers have been working on improving Wikimedia's performance when users connect to it using SPDY.

Special report: Towards "Health Information for All": Medical content on Wikipedia received 6.5 billion page views in 2013

Wikipedia appears to be the single most used website for health information globally, exceeding traffic observed at the NIH, WebMD, WHO et al..

In the media: Anonymous Australian editing targets football player, shooting victim

More UK government vandalism; legend has it; minding the gender gap

Traffic report: A rather ordinary week

The traffic report is nothing unusual this week, with a Google Doodle for astronaut Sally Ride topping the list, the accidental death of famous mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr. at #2, and the normal fare of recent popular American movies and television.

The Signpost: 10 June 2015

News and notes: Chapter financial trends analyzed, news in brief

This week saw the publication of the Chapter-wide Financial Trends Report 2013, a now-completed research project that examines the finances and outlays of the 36 movement-affiliated chapters.

Traffic report: Two households, both alike in dignity

"Happy families are all alike," Leo Tolstoy said, "but unhappy families are unhappy after their own fashion."

In the media: Arbitration case attracts media coverage; Wikipedia in Israel

UK media covers Wikipedia Arbitration case; Lila Tretikov visits Israel.

Featured content: Just the bear facts, ma'am

Four featured articles, two featured lists, one featured topic, and twenty-eight featured pictures were promoted this week.

Technology report: Wikimedia sites are going HTTPS only

Today it was announced that Wikimedia sites are going to become HTTPS only, finishing up 10 year effort of rolling out HTTPS.

Blog: Making Wikipedia’s medical articles accessible in Chinese

The Medical Translation Project, an ambitious attempt to improve and translate Wikipedia’s medical content from English into other languages, began in 2012.

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
47	Suzanna Mukherjee (talk)	Add sources
463	MARCOS (talk)	Add sources
95	People's Liberation Army Naval Air Force (talk)	Add sources
134	9K32 Strela-2 (talk)	Add sources
64	Indo-Pakistani Naval War of 1971 (talk)	Add sources
17	CRN 91 Naval Gun (talk)	Add sources
127	Equipment of the United States Armed Forces (talk)	Cleanup
1,208	Scud (talk)	Cleanup
24	WOHA (talk)	Cleanup
23	A244-S (talk)	Expand
31	Future of the Bangladesh Navy (talk)	Expand
48	Naval air station (talk)	Expand
45	Delhi Republic Day parade (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
585	Foreign relations of India (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
487	Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 unofficial disappearance theories (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
280	Nuclear weapons and the United Kingdom (talk)	Merge
452	EADS CASA C-295 (talk)	Merge
43	Precision bombing (talk)	Merge
38	Gabriel (missile) (talk)	Wikify
101	Pakistan and state-sponsored terrorism (talk)	Wikify
2	NAL Slybird (talk)	Wikify
9	Pipavav OPV (talk)	Orphan
2	Partha Pratim Bora (talk)	Orphan
3	Hatf-III (talk)	Orphan
4	INS Sharada (P55) (talk)	Stub
4	INS Kirpan (P44) (talk)	Stub
61	Srinagar Airport (talk)	Stub
98	Source code editor (talk)	Stub
5	INS Khanjar (P47) (talk)	Stub
21	Cabinet Committee on Security (talk)	Stub

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The Signpost: 17 June 2015

In the media: Wikipedia wins Asturias Prize; printing out Wikipedia; HTTPS switch

The Princess of Asturias Foundation announced that Wikipedia would be the recipient of the 2015 Princess of Asturias award in the category of International Cooperation.

Arbitration report: An election has consequences

The Arbitration Committee delivered its final decision in a case that reached the attention of the UK national press.

In focus: Three weeks to save freedom of panorama in Europe

This would end a long-standing tradition in many countries that the skyline and the public scene should belong to everybody.

Op-ed: Making a difference in Wikipedia, one GA at a time

We need to be ever-diligent in ensuring that articles remain of high quality.

Technology report: HTTPS-only rollout completed; proposal to enable VisualEditor for new accounts

The rollout of HTTPS only has now been completed across all Wikimedia wikis.

Interview: A veteran’s Wikipedia edits help him understand the brutality behind Yugoslavia’s wars

We interviewed an Australian veteran who deployed to the region as a peacekeeper and now writes articles on the region's history to help him understand what he encountered there.

News and notes: Labs outage kills tools, self; news in brief

A more than usually severe outage Wikimedia Labs occurred after a massive database corruption implosion on June 17.

Featured content: Great Dane hits 150

Six featured articles, seven featured lists, and seven featured pictures were promoted this week.

Discussion report: A quick way of becoming an admin

Author's note: This might be a violation of WP:BEANS; read at your own risk.

WikiProject report: Western Australia speaks – we are back

It wouldn't be the WikiProject report if we didn't feature an Australian topic once in a while, so this week we're looking at the left side.

The Bugle: Issue CXI, June 2015

Your Military History Newsletter

Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results
Articles: Last month's new Featured and A-Class content
Book review: Recent external reviews
Op-ed: TomStar81 on the new technology of World War I
Timeline: This month in World War I

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The Signpost: 24 June 2015

From the editor: The Signpost tagging initiative

Over more than a decade of weekly publication, The Signpost has accumulated an incredibly lengthy and detailed record about the issues, controversies, successes, and failures of the English Wikipedia community and the movement at large.

Op-ed: Content Translation beta is coming to the English Wikipedia

The Wikimedia Foundation's Language Engineering team plans to introduce Content Translation—a tool that makes it easier to translate Wikipedia articles into different languages—as a beta feature on the English Wikipedia.

Special report: Small impact of the large Google Translation Project on Telugu Wikipedia

During 2009–2011 Google ran the Google Translation Project (GTP), a program utilising paid translators to translate most popular English Wikipedia articles to various Indian language Wikipedias.

Featured content: One eye when begun, two when it's done

Four articles and nine pictures were promoted to featured status this week.

Recent research: How Wikipedia built governance capability; readability of plastic surgery articles

One paper looks at the topic of Wikipedia governance in the context of online social production.

Technology report: 2015 MediaWiki architecture focus and Multimedia roadmap announced

This past week saw the kick-off of the 2015 MediaWiki architecture focus of improving our content platform.

News and notes: Board of Trustees propose bylaw amendments

The Board of Trustees is the "ultimate corporate authority" of the Wikimedia Foundation and the level at which the strategic decisions regarding the Wikimedia movement are made ...

In the media: Turkish Wikipedia censorship; "Can Wikipedia survive?"; PR editing

The Hürriyet Daily News reports that the Turkish Wikipedia has posted banners on the top of the encyclopedia to warn users that a number of articles are being blocked by the Turkish government.

Blog: 7,473 volumes at 700 pages each: meet Print Wikipedia

After six years of work, a residency in the Canadian Rockies, endless debugging, and more than a little help from my friends, I have made Print Wikipedia.

Arbitration report: Politics by other means: The American politics 2 arbitration

Clausewitz' pithy summary of warfare as "politics by other means" seems to be the motto of some Wikipedia editors.

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
447	Equipment of the Indian Army (talk)	Add sources
1,004	Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 (talk)	Add sources
405	HAL AMCA (talk)	Add sources
38	Ottapalam (talk)	Add sources
295	Akula-class submarine (talk)	Add sources
174	OTO Melara 76 mm (talk)	Add sources
22	Kunhali Marakkar (talk)	Cleanup
494	Typhoon-class submarine (talk)	Cleanup
177	Flight dynamics (talk)	Cleanup
336	Harpoon (missile) (talk)	Expand
18	India–Mongolia relations (talk)	Expand
88	Garud Commando Force (talk)	Expand
128	Chola incident (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
59	Rajput Regiment (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
453	Pakistan Air Force (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
62	A. K. Antony (talk)	Merge
30	ABG Shipyard (talk)	Merge
175	Military beret (talk)	Merge
64	Reeve Aleutian Airways (talk)	Wikify
141	Kirloskar Group (talk)	Wikify
117	Saffron terror (talk)	Wikify
3	Vijay Kumar Ahluwalia (talk)	Orphan
2	Carrier Strike Group Eleven 2004–09 operations (talk)	Orphan
1	Thomas Hebert (talk)	Orphan
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14	INS Ranvijay (D55) (talk)	Stub
17	ITDunya.com (talk)	Stub
18	PAF Base Minhas (talk)	Stub

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The Signpost: 01 July 2015

News and notes: Training the Trainers; VP of Engineering leaves WMF

This week The Center for Internet and Society published a promotional blog post highlighting the heritage of the center's creation of the Train the Trainer program.

In the media: EU freedom of panorama; Nehru outrage; BBC apology

A week now remains until the vote, expected on 9 July, when the European Parliament will express either its approval, disapproval, or lack of opinion on the question of freedom of panorama in the European Union.

WikiProject report: Able to make a stand

Here to share their wisdom are Dodger67, Penny Richards, LilyKitty, and Mirokado of WikiProject Disability

Featured content: Viva V.E.R.D.I.

Four featured list and twelve featured pictures were promoted this week.

Traffic report: We're Baaaaack

For the week of June 21 to 27, 2015, the 10 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the most viewed pages.

Technology report: Technical updates and improvements

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community.

Blog: These Texans are on a quest to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of their state’s revolution

Like many editors of the world's largest encyclopedia, Karanacs was browsing the site's articles and found that they were of relatively poor quality—and that the traditional narrative she'd learned was not necessarily accurate.

The Signpost: 08 July 2015

Editorial: So you want to get your message out. Where do you turn?

It seems like a good time to discuss the various communications channels available to community members.

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation annual plan released, news in brief

Lila Tretikov this week posted an email to the wikimedia-l mailing list announcing the final publication of the Wikimedia Foundation's 2015 annual plan.

In the media: Wikimania warning; Wikipedia "mystery" easily solved

The mayor of Esino Lario warns that Wikimedia 2016 is "at risk of disappearing".

Traffic report: The Empire lobs back

It's July 4 weekend and on this list that means only one thing: Wimbledon. Sure, the American Independence Day gets noticed too, but it can't hold a candle to that staggeringly British sporting event.

Featured content: Pyrénées, Playmates, parliament and a prison...

12 featured articles, 2 featured lists, and 15 featured pictures were promoted this week.

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community.

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102	Child protection (talk)	Add sources
31	Godavari-class frigate (talk)	Add sources
6	Chandih, Laheriasarai, Darbhanga (talk)	Add sources
16	Nilgiri-class frigate (talk)	Add sources
32	Brahmaputra-class frigate (talk)	Add sources
90	Indian fast food (talk)	Cleanup
334	Soviet Navy (talk)	Cleanup
6	Arthur Lichte (talk)	Cleanup
18	Bhim self-propelled howitzer (talk)	Expand
6	Akbarpur Airport (talk)	Expand
56	Elta (talk)	Expand
557	Operation Blue Star (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
5,086	Narendra Modi (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
216	Ilyushin Il-78 (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
60	Combat radius (talk)	Merge
79	Rajputana Rifles (talk)	Merge
302	Rosoboronexport (talk)	Merge
623	Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (talk)	Wikify
1,837	Golden Dawn (political party) (talk)	Wikify
15	IBSAMAR (talk)	Wikify
1	M.R. Public School, Chandih, Darbhanga (talk)	Orphan
2	Cadex 2009 (talk)	Orphan
3	HCS Bisht (talk)	Orphan
10	INS Kattabomman (talk)	Stub
6	Capacity loss (talk)	Stub
12	INS Subhadra (P51) (talk)	Stub
5	INS Shardul (2004) (talk)	Stub
11	Kalvari-class submarine (1967) (talk)	Stub
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The Signpost: 15 July 2015

Op-ed: On paid editing and advocacy: when the Bright Line fails to shine, and what we can do about it

"How long will this take?" This is one of the first questions new clients ask. They come to us because the Wikipedia entry about the company at which they work is wrong, incomplete, or even just outdated. The answer varies ...

Traffic report: Belles of the ball

However coy they may be about it in public, Americans love to win. And when they do, they make no secret of it.

WikiProject report: What happens when a country is no longer a country?

We return this week with an interview with a historical project that's still fairly active, WikiProject Former countries.

In the media: Shapps requests WMUK data; professor's plagiarism demotion

In The Register, Andrew Orlowski reports that three weeks ago, Grant Shapps filed a request with Wikimedia UK (WMUK) under the Data Protection Act 1998 "for all data relating to him".

Blog: Wikimedia Foundation releases third transparency report

The Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to announce the release of our latest transparency report.

News and notes: The Wikimedia Conference and Wikimania

Wikimania 2015 is underway in Mexico City, and one of its sessions—a scheduled follow-up to the annual Wikimedia Conference that was held in Berlin in May—is good reason to provide a retrospective of that Conference.

Featured content: When angels and daemons interrupt the vicious and intemperate

One featured article, seven featured lists, and 14 featured pictures were promoted this week.

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community

The Bugle: Issue CXII, July 2015

Your Military History Newsletter

Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results
Articles: Last month's new Featured and A-Class content
Book review: Recent external reviews
Review essay: Nick-D on sourcing articles about bombing a battleship
Op-ed: TomStar81 on the role of nursing in World War I
Timeline: This month in World War I

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The Signpost: 22 July 2015

From the editor: Change the world

We want to take a moment to ask you to consider contributing to the Signpost.

News and notes: Wikimanía 2016; Lightbreather ArbCom case

Wikimania features remarks from some leading players from the Wikimedia Foundation as well as the free knowledge movement.

Wikimanía report: Wikimanía 2015 report, part 1, the plenaries

WMF's Executive Director, Lila Tretikov, gave the opening plenary address.

In the media: Novelists annotate Wikipedia; Wales promotes TPO; Working for free

Three novelists "have found a way to control the Wikipedia narrative" by using the annotation website Genius to annotate their own Wikipedia articles.

Traffic report: The Nerds, They Are A-Changin'

Summary:When I was a kid, being a nerd meant wanting to go to Pluto.

WikiProject report: Some more politics

WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom

Featured content: The sleep of reason produces monsters

Three featured articles, two featured lists, and 29 featured pictures were promoted this week.

Gallery: "One small step..."

46 years ago this week, humanity set foot on the Moon.

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Community technical news.

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450	Patrol boat (talk)	Add sources
1,289	Destroyer (talk)	Add sources
131	SOCAR (talk)	Add sources
434	India and weapons of mass destruction (talk)	Add sources
25	Central acquisition radar (3D-CAR) (talk)	Add sources
109	Webserver directory index (talk)	Add sources
93	International Rescue Committee (talk)	Cleanup
30	NPP Zvezda K-36 (talk)	Cleanup
4	GSL-class offshore patrol vessel (talk)	Cleanup
25	8 Gorkha Rifles (talk)	Expand
52	R.550 Magic (talk)	Expand
106	Bihar Legislative Council (talk)	Expand
156	2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
315	Fourth-generation jet fighter (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
142	Para (Indian Special Forces) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
387	Unmanned combat aerial vehicle (talk)	Merge
727	War in Afghanistan (2015–present) (talk)	Merge
79	2011 Indian anti-corruption movement (talk)	Merge
9	Ranjit Lal Jetley (talk)	Wikify
48	History of the Indian Navy (talk)	Wikify
536	People's Liberation Army Navy (talk)	Wikify
0	GSL-class power barge (talk)	Orphan
14	Al-Ofouq-class patrol vessel (talk)	Orphan
4	Pradeep Chauhan (talk)	Orphan
1	Balat, Bihar (talk)	Stub
125	Kalvari-class submarine (talk)	Stub
63	Indian Navy SSN programme (talk)	Stub
9	Komandarm Fedko-class oiler (talk)	Stub
21	Mike D'Angelo (talk)	Stub
20	Nirmal Kumar Verma (talk)	Stub

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The Signpost: 29 July 2015

News and notes: BARC de-adminship proposal; Wikimania recordings debate

An RFC proposes to create a "Bureaucrats' Admin Review Committee" (BARC) composed of bureaucrats empowered to remove adminship rights.

Op-ed: My life as an autistic Wikipedian

Two years ago, I discovered that I was on the autism spectrum.

Recent research: Wikipedia and collective intelligence; how Wikipedia is tweeted

An article argues that Wikipedia displays some key characteristics of a collective intelligence process.

In the media: Is Wikipedia a battleground in the culture wars?

"Editors representing rival political tribes [are] frequently attempting to impose their respective narratives as the official version of one or another cultural controversy."

Featured content: Even mammoths get the Blues

Five featured articles, five featured lists, and sixteen featured pictures were promoted this week.

Traffic report: Namaste again, Reddit

For the first time since this list began, India-related topics have claimed both the top two slots.

The Signpost: 05 August 2015

Editorial: Wikipedia better equipped to deal with systemic bias than traditional publishers

That particular artists would be omitted through oversight or happenstance is reasonable, but that one of the world's leading publishers of art books is completely unaware of their major omissions is startling.

Op-ed: Je ne suis pas Google

The public interest in remembering the facts about trials and convictions is, in my view, at least as strong as any "right to be forgotten."

News and notes: VisualEditor, endowment, science, and news in brief

VisualEditor is now on slow roll-out on the English Wikipedia.

WikiProject report: Meet the boilerplate makers

The Report checks in with WikiProject Templates.

In the media: Probe into Nehru edits launched; dangers of the right to be forgotten

The Indian government has launched an investigation into the source of Wikipedia edits regarding Jawaharlal Nehru that caused outrage in that country.

Traffic report: Mrityorma amritam gamaya...

Death is no stranger to this list, but it has never cast such a pall as this week, when for the first time half the slots in the top 10 were devoted to it, including the top 3.

Featured content: Maya, Michigan, Medici, Médée, and Moul n'ga

Three featured articles, seven featured lists, and twenty-two featured pictures were promoted this week.

Blog: Get help editing Wikipedia with the new “Co-op” mentorship program

What if there was a gathering place on Wikipedia for newer editors to find a mentor?

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88	PNS Ghazi (talk)	Add sources
211	CAIC Z-10 (talk)	Add sources
61	Delhi-class destroyer (talk)	Add sources
551	Gigi Gorgeous (talk)	Add sources
845	Corvette (talk)	Add sources
462	Nuclear submarine (talk)	Add sources
10	W. Selvamurthy (talk)	Cleanup
26	USS Trenton (LPD-14) (talk)	Cleanup
563	Hamid Karzai (talk)	Cleanup
57	Cochin Shipyard (talk)	Expand
64	S-200 (missile) (talk)	Expand
23	Dracut (software) (talk)	Expand
240	Close-in weapon system (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
106	Afghanistan–India relations (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
57	Mithila (ancient) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
163	Indian integration of Hyderabad (talk)	Merge
846	Ballistic missile (talk)	Merge
109	Metres above sea level (talk)	Merge
279	Nuclear marine propulsion (talk)	Wikify
96	Nuclear navy (talk)	Wikify
4	Anil Chopra (admiral) (talk)	Wikify
52	Weapon systems of the Indian Navy (talk)	Orphan
6	Shibipatti (talk)	Orphan
1	Directorate of Air Staff Inspection (talk)	Orphan
4	INS Kesari (2008) (talk)	Stub
7	Battle of Peiwar Kotal (talk)	Stub
18	Cashew MRT Station (talk)	Stub
14	INS Sindhuratna (S59) (talk)	Stub
20	Griffin LGB (talk)	Stub
482	Saint-André, Réunion (talk)	Stub

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The Signpost: 12 August 2015

News and notes: Superprotect, one year later; a contentious RfA

Superprotect was a novel page protection level implemented on August 10 last year, without warning.

In the media: Paid editing; traffic drop; Nicki Minaj

The Atlantic discusses "The Covert World of People Trying to Edit Wikipedia—for Pay".

Forum: Community voices on paid editing

The community speaks out on paid editing.

Wikimanía report: Wikimanía 2015, part 2, a community event

Our ongoing Wikimanía coverage.

Traffic report: Fighting from top to bottom

The charts are led this week by UFC women's champion Ronda Rousey, who won her last match at UFC 190 (#9) in 34 seconds.

Featured content: Fused lizards, giant mice, and Scottish demons

Watch out for icebergs.

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Wikimedia technical news.

Blog: The Hunt for Tirpitz

During World War II, the German battleship Tirpitz was a major threat to Allied convoys travelling across the North Atlantic and Arctic Sea.

The Signpost: 19 August 2015

Op-ed: WP:THREATENING2MEN: The English Wikipedia's misogynist infopolitics and the hegemony of the asshole consensus

Nothing makes Wikipedians more angry than a discussion of gender and feminism on Wikipedia.

In the media: Politically controversial science; "Wikipedia hates women"

A new article in PLOS ONE about Wikipedia's science coverage has attracted media attention.

Featured content: Dead parrots, live frogs, a symbolic kiss and what do we get? Enrique Iglesias!

This week's featured content.

Travelogue: Seeing is believing

Tony the Tiger tours New York City.

Traffic report: Straight Outta Connecticut

It's a long way from the leafy bowers of Greenwich, Connecticut to the concrete barrens of Compton, California.

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Community technical news.

Blog: How Wikipedia responds to breaking news

Wikipedia is capable of covering news like any news agency.

The Bugle: Issue CXIII, August 2015

Your Military History Newsletter

Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results
Articles: Last month's new Featured and A-Class content
Book reviews: Nick-D on the Second Schleswig War
Interview: Featured picture participants
Op-ed: TomStar81 on Indian nationalism during World War I
Timeline: This month in World War I

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