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The Signpost: 30 July 2014

Book review: Knowledge or unreality?

In Common Knowledge: An Ethnography of Wikipedia, Dariusz Jemielniak discusses Wikipedia from the standpoint of an experienced editor and administrator who is also a university professor specializing in management and organizations. In Virtual Reality: Just Because the Internet Told You, How Do You Know It's True?, Charles Seife presents a more broadly themed work reminding us to question the reliability of information found throughout the Internet.

Recent research: Shifting values in the paid content debate

Kim Osman has performed a fascinating study on the three 2013 failed proposals to ban paid advocacy editing in the English language Wikipedia. Using a Constructivist Grounded Theory approach, Osman analyzed 573 posts from the three main votes on paid editing conducted in the community in November 2013.

News and notes: How many more hoaxes will Wikipedia find?

Another hoax on the English Wikipedia was uncovered this week—not by any thorough investigation, but through the self-disclosure of an anonymous change made when the editors were in their sophomore year of college. The deliberate misinformation had been in the article for over five years with plenty of individuals noticing, but not one suspected its authenticity. This leads to one obvious question: how many more are there?

Wikimedia in education: Success in Egypt and the Arab World

A "program of heroes" is leading the charge in Egypt.

Traffic report: Doom and gloom vs. the power of Reddit

We indeed moved far away from football this week, and further into much more serious issues of war and death. The Israel-Palestinian conflict continues to dominate the news, and the top 10, with Gaza Strip, Israel, and Hamas. The top 25 also includes Palestine and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Death also lies behind the popularity of James Garner, the American actor who died on July 19th, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, and deaths in 2014.

Featured content: Skeletons and Skeltons

Two articles, four lists, and seven pictures attained featured status on the English Wikipedia last week.

Your GA nomination of Ryan Arcidiacono

The article Ryan Arcidiacono you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Ryan Arcidiacono for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Wizardman -- Wizardman (talk) 02:22, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
116	Rick Mittleman (talk)	Add sources
12	Party of the Republic (talk)	Add sources
3	David Gharibyan (talk)	Add sources
61	Saturday Night Live (season 11) (talk)	Add sources
20	Brazilian Republican Party (talk)	Add sources
164	Mandy (song) (talk)	Add sources
84	Mithibai College (talk)	Cleanup
40	Valentina Monetta (talk)	Cleanup
108	Politics of Brazil (talk)	Cleanup
1	2009–10 Penn State Lady Lions basketball team (talk)	Expand
13	Pernambucan Revolt (talk)	Expand
8	2010–11 Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball team (talk)	Expand
192	Four-letter word (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
84	Sweep-picking (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
174	Parallel Lives (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
8	Captaincy of Pernambuco (talk)	Merge
14	History of Pernambuco (talk)	Merge
427	Course credit (talk)	Merge
3	The Nod (talk)	Wikify
26	Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue (talk)	Wikify
520	The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (talk)	Wikify
2	Derrick McDicken (talk)	Orphan
1	Antônio de Barros Carvalho (talk)	Orphan
32	Certificate of Professional Competence (talk)	Orphan
9	1995 Wisconsin Badgers football team (talk)	Stub
5	Gao Xiumin (actress) (talk)	Stub
11	Anna Mazzamauro (talk)	Stub
13	Du bist (talk)	Stub
1,402	Torrin Lawrence (talk)	Stub
6	Westend (band) (talk)	Stub

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The Signpost: 06 August 2014

Technology report: A technologist's Wikimania preview

As the start of Wikimania proper on 8 August approaches, the Signpost looks ahead to what its dozens of presentations might offer the technologically-inclined, whether attending in person or taking advantage of what promises to be a strong digital offering.

Traffic report: Ebola

Serious news continues to dominate the most popular articles chart on Wikipedia this week, with the Ebola virus disease far and away in the top spot. In the top 25, we see the related articles Ebola virus, which talks about biological aspects, at #18 and 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak at #19.

Featured content: Bottoms, asses, and the fairies that love them

Eight articles, fifteen pictures, and two topics were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia last week.

Wikimedia in education: Leading universities educate with Wikipedia in Mexico

"Major growth" expected in Mexican university after a Wikipedia program is formally accepted by the school's administration.

News and notes: "History is a human right"—first-ever transparency report released as Europe begins hiding Wikipedia in search results

The Wikimedia Foundation has published its first transparency report, covering from July 2012 to June 2014. The move comes on the same day the organization announced that Google, in order to comply with a recent court order upholding the "right to be forgotten", has removed a number of Wikipedia articles from their European search results.

The Bugle: Issue CI, August 2014

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: Wrap-up of some recent external reviews
Interview: World War I editors
Op-ed: TomStar81 on the outbreak of World War I

The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here.
If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 15:23, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 13 August 2014

Special report: Twitter bots catalogue government edits to Wikipedia

Slate reports that Tom Scott, co-creator of the emoji social network Emojli, created a Twitter bot called Parliament WikiEdits to automatically tweet a link to any Wikipedia edits made from an IP address belonging to the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Scott's bot initially did not tweet any links to edits made from Parliament and, according to Scott, an "insider" reports that their IP addresses changed. Despite this, Scott's Twitter bot has inspired similar creations in numerous other countries.

Traffic report: Disease, decimation and distraction

It's been a grim few weeks. It says something that formerly arresting crises like the war in Ukraine, Boko Haram and the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, despite still being ongoing, have fallen out of the top 10 to make way for the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak and the equally if not more intense conflict against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.

Wikimedia in education: Global Education: WMF's Perspective

"Education is at the core of the Wikimedia Foundation’s mission."

Wikimania: Promised the moon, settled for the stars

Wikimania 2014 was held last week in the Barbican Centre in London. Below, the Signpost's former "Technology report" writer Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) shares his thoughts on a bustling conference.

News and notes: Media Viewer controversy spreads to German Wikipedia

Wikimedia Foundation staff members have now been granted superpowers that would allow them to override community consensus. The new protection level came as a response to attempts of German Wikipedia administrators to implement a community consensus on the new Media Viewer. "Superprotect" is a level above full protection, and prevents edits by administrators.

Op-ed: Red links, blue links, and erythrophobia

Erythrophobia is the fear of, or sensitivity to, the colour red. Recently, I have seen more and more erythrophobic Wikipedians; specifically, Wikipedians who are scared of red links. In Wikipedia's early days, red links were encouraged and well-loved, and when I started editing in 2006, this was still mostly the case. Jump forward to 2014, and many editors now have an aversion to red links.

In the media: Monkey selfie, net neutrality, and hoaxes

The Observer reported (August 2) that Google would "restrict search terms to a link to a Wikipedia article, in the first request under Europe's controversial new 'right to be forgotten' legislation to affect the 110m-page encyclopaedia."

Featured content: Cambridge got a lot of attention this week

Eight article, six lists, and two topics were promoted to featured status last week.

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
328	Wolfgang Leonhard (talk)	Add sources
68	KXAS-TV (talk)	Add sources
60	Social Christian Party (Brazil) (talk)	Add sources
139	Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (talk)	Add sources
18	Advanced Distribution Automation (talk)	Add sources
52	Progressive Party (Brazil) (talk)	Add sources
41	Naismith Prep Player of the Year Award (talk)	Cleanup
15	Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 (talk)	Cleanup
72	National String Instrument Corporation (talk)	Cleanup
5	2011–12 Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball team (talk)	Expand
27	Ira Losco (talk)	Expand
6	2011–12 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season (talk)	Expand
107	The Riordans (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
76	Double-barreled question (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
85	Etymological fallacy (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
9	Recife Antigo (talk)	Merge
84	Appeal to fear (talk)	Merge
1,350	Statistical significance (talk)	Merge
17	Will Leer (talk)	Wikify
115	Joe Hanson (talk)	Wikify
139	Discipline (academia) (talk)	Wikify
1	3 A.M. Vodka (talk)	Orphan
3	Ak-Guaz-Kaaz (talk)	Orphan
1	A Lost Wand (talk)	Orphan
7	Bhimadole (talk)	Stub
11	Republican Party of the Social Order (talk)	Stub
10	Gary Lux (talk)	Stub
2	2006–07 North Texas Mean Green men's basketball team (talk)	Stub
7	Randolfe Rodrigues (talk)	Stub
7	1912 Wisconsin Badgers football team (talk)	Stub

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The Signpost: 20 August 2014

Interview: Improving the visibility of digital archival assets using Wikipedia

Dorothy Howard interviews Michael Szajewski, archivist for digital development and university records at Ball State University.

Traffic report: Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero

Comedian Robin Williams' untimely death takes the top spot.

WikiProject report: Bats and gloves

At the plate with WikiProject Baseball!

Op-ed: A new metric for Wikimedia

Denny Vrandečić argues that "We should focus on measuring how much knowledge we allow every human to share in, instead of number of articles or active editors."

Featured content: English Wikipedia departs for Japan

Ten articles and three pictures were promoted to featured status last week.

The Signpost: 27 August 2014

In the media: Plagiarism and vandalism dominate Wikipedia news

Journalistic integrity, Congressional edits, and other news.

News and notes: Media Viewer—Wikimedia's emotional roller-coaster

More discussions about Media Viewer, Superprotect, and software development

Traffic report: Viral

"This was a week when an actual virus, Ebola, competed for attention with several viral social phenomena; most notably the Ice Bucket Challenge..."

Featured content: Cheats at Featured Pictures!

Sixteen articles, five lists, five pictures, and one topic were promoted.