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4	Harji Ram Burdak (talk)	Add sources
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950	2012 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament (talk)	Add sources
101	Master P discography (talk)	Add sources
12	Northeastern Football Alliance (talk)	Add sources
328	Video blog (talk)	Cleanup
4	1983 Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Tournament (talk)	Cleanup
15	Ohio State University, Marion Campus (talk)	Cleanup
119	Too Much Information (Maxïmo Park album) (talk)	Expand
13	Ted Petty Invitational (talk)	Expand
38	Suave House Records (talk)	Expand
215	Funkmaster Flex (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
269	Doctor's Advocate (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
33	Gary Michael Cappetta (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
42	UMBC Retrievers (talk)	Merge
152	2014 Moto2 Series season (talk)	Merge
8	Tapoco (talk)	Merge
44	The Return of Mr. Zone 6 (talk)	Wikify
5	1985 Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Tournament (talk)	Wikify
8	Watertown Red & Black (talk)	Wikify
5	AIM For Seva (talk)	Orphan
1	Angela Narth (talk)	Orphan
1	Arthur Xhignesse (talk)	Orphan
8	2007 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship (talk)	Stub
34	Old Dominion Monarchs and Lady Monarchs (talk)	Stub
6	New York Lions (talk)	Stub
26	Watertown Privateers (talk)	Stub
21	100 Miles & Running (talk)	Stub
7	Hudson Valley Kingz (talk)	Stub

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The Signpost: 12 March 2014

News and notes: Wikimedians celebrate International Women's Day, Women's History Month

Wikimedians around the world gathered to celebrate Women's History Month and the associated International Women's Day by holding editathons. If you lived in the United Kingdom, you had the opportunity to attend Wikimedia UK's event at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, part of University College London and host to one of the largest collections of Egyptian and Sudanese artifacts in the world.

Traffic report: War and awards

An intensely busy week, as a confluence of celebratory, curious and urgent topics pushed typical residents like Facebook and Deaths in 2014 out of the top ten entirely.

Featured content: Ukraine burns

Five articles, two lists, and 52 pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

WikiProject report: Russian WikiProject Entomology

This week, we interviewed Anaxibia from the Russian-language Entomology WikiProject.

The Signpost: 19 March 2014

Forum: Wikimedia Commons mission: free media for the world or only Wikimedia projects?

Non-US editors and chapters have taken issue with a multitude of image deletions done on the Wikimedia Commons to comply with the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, a US law that brought the country into compliance with the Berne Convention.

WikiProject report: We have history

This week, we visited WikiProject History, an ancient project with roots dating back to 2001. The project is home to 196 pieces of Featured material and 483 Good and A-class articles independent of the vast accomplishments of its various child projects. WikiProject History maintains a lengthy list of tasks, oversees the history portal, and continues to build Wikipedia's outline of history.

Interview: Nate Ott: the writer behind 71 articles in the largest-ever good topic

In a record-breaker, the English Wikipedia has a new largest good topic: the 71-article Light cruisers of Germany, which concerns the light cruisers used by Germany during the 20th century.

Featured content: Spot the bulldozer

Twelve articles, fourteen lists, and six pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.

News and notes: Foundation-supported Wikipedian in residence faces scrutiny

One of the first university Wikipedian in residence positions, hosted at Harvard University in 2012, has jumped back into the spotlight amid questions about its ethical integrity.

Traffic report: Into thin air

The utterly mystifying events surrounding Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which has not fallen from the sky so much as vanished from it entirely, has left an information-starved public scrambling for precedents, some logical, some... not.

Technology report: Wikimedia engineering report

The Wikimedia engineering report for February 2014 has been published. A summarized version is also available. Major news include

The Signpost: 26 March 2014

Comment: A foolish request

April Fools' Day is rapidly approaching. Every year, members of the community pull pranks and make (or attempt to make) humorous edits to pages across the project. Every year, the community follows April Fools' Day with a contentious debate about whether or not it is necessary to impose limits on April Fools' Day jokes for future years. It is a polarizing issue.

Traffic report: Down to a simmer

Topics like the 2014 Crimea crisis or the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 eased down the list, making way for such traditional topics as St Patrick's Day, Reddit threads and even Google Doodles, which have reappeared after a long absence.

Recent research: Wikipedians' "encyclopedic identity" dominates even in Kosovo debates

Have you wondered about differences in the articles on Crimea in the Russian, Ukrainian, and English versions of Wikipedia? A newly published article entitled "Lost in Translation: Contexts, Computing, Disputing on Wikipedia" doesn't address Crimea, but nonetheless offers insight into the editing of contentious articles in multiple language editions through a heavy qualitative examination of Wikipedia articles about the Kosovo in the Serbian, Croatian, and English editions.

News and notes: Commons Picture of the Year—winners announced

Results for the two-stage 2013 Commons Picture of the Year have been announced. This year's winning photograph (above) shows a lightbulb that has been cracked, allowing inert gas to escape—and oxygen to enter, so that the tungsten filament burns. From the flames rise elegant curls of blue smoke.

Featured content: Winter hath a beauty that is all his own

Four articles, two lists, and twelve pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

Op-ed: Why we're updating the default typography for Wikipedia

On 3 April, we will roll out some changes to the typography of Wikipedia's default Vector skin, to increase readability for users on all devices and platforms. After five months of testing, four major iterations, and through close collaboration with the global Wikimedia community, who provided more than 100 threads of feedback, we’ve arrived at a solution which improves the primary reading and editing experience for all users.

Technology report: Why will Wikipedia look like the Signpost?

As you have probably read on this weeks op-ed, or via various other channels of announcement, 3 April will see the introduction of the Typography refresh (or update) for the Vector skin on all Wikipedias. Other projects like Commons will have this update rolled out a few days prior.

WikiProject report: From the peak

This week, the Signpost interviewed the English Wikipedia's Mountains WikiProject.

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	Buddy Valastro (talk)	Add sources
	Barikad Crew (talk)	Add sources
	Rolling Papers (Wiz Khalifa album) (talk)	Add sources
42	Roller in-line hockey (talk)	Add sources
	Rugby Super League (United States) (talk)	Add sources
	J Dilla (talk)	Add sources
	Recovery (Eminem album) (talk)	Cleanup
	Kidz in the Hall (talk)	Cleanup
	Twitter (talk)	Cleanup
	Torch (American rapper) (talk)	Expand
	2012 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship (talk)	Expand
	Niagara Purple Eagles (talk)	Expand
	Oren Lyons (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
	Syleena Johnson (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
	Musical collective (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
	Kachin people (talk)	Merge
	History of geodesy (talk)	Merge
	Chain (real estate) (talk)	Merge
	History of the Miami Marlins (talk)	Wikify
	H. Wesley Perkins (talk)	Wikify
	Andre Dirrell (talk)	Wikify
	Avelino I. Razon, Jr. (talk)	Orphan
	Abolhassan Ziyā-Zarifi (talk)	Orphan
	Ashthabhuja Prasad Shukla (talk)	Orphan
	Present Tense (Wild Beasts album) (talk)	Stub
	Re-Up Gang (talk)	Stub
	2006 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship (talk)	Stub
	2004 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship (talk)	Stub
	1996 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship (talk)	Stub
	Manhattan Pride (talk)	Stub

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WikiCup 2014 March newsletter

A quick update as we are half way through round two of this year's competition. WikiCup newcomer Godot13 (submissions) (Pool E) leads, having produced a massive set of featured pictures for Silver certificate (United States), an article also brought to featured list status. Former finalist Adam Cuerden (submissions) (Pool G) is in second, which he owes mostly to his work with historical images, including a number of images from Urania's Mirror, an article also brought to good status. 2010 champion (Pool C) is third overall, thanks to contributions relating to naval history, including the newly featured Japanese battleship Nagato. Cliftonian (submissions), who currently leads Pool A and is sixth overall, takes the title for the highest scoring individual article of the competition so far, with the top importance featured article Ian Smith.

With 26 people having already scored over 100 points, it is likely that well over 100 points will be needed to secure a place in round 3. Recent years have required 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) and 100 (2010). Remember that only 64 will progress to round 3 at the end of April. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page; if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 22:55, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 02 April 2014

News and notes: Wikimedia conferences—soul-searching about costs, attendance, and future

The run-up to the conference has seen the unfolding of two fractious threads on the Wikimedia public mailing list, both of which may serve as background for the last session at Berlin: "Future of the Wikimedia Conference".

WikiProject report: Deutschland in English

This week, we visited with WikiProject Germany.

Special report: On the cusp of the Wikimedia Conference

The annual Wikimedia Conference is about to start in Berlin, hosted by Wikimedia Germany, which won the bid to hold the event over three others. This will be the fifth time the chapter has hosted the Wikimedia Conference—it did so from 2009 to 2012, with attendance ranging from 100 to 180 Wikimedians. This year 160 people are expected at the four-day event, which is mainly for representatives of affiliated Wikimedia organisations. The conference has been built around two themes: Organisation, structures, and grants and Success and impact.

Featured content: April Fools

The Signpost's "Featured content" writers had a bit of fun this week.

Traffic report: Regressing to the mean

The mysterious fate of MH370 still tops the list, but in all other respects our readership has retreated from the real world into its pop-cultural happy place: TV, movies, music, Reddit and Google Doodles all made an appearance.

The Signpost: 09 April 2014

News and notes: Round 2 of FDC funding open to public comments

Community review is open for the four applications in the second and final round of applications to the WMF's Funds Dissemination Committee for 2013–14. Three eligible organisations have applied for funding under the newly named "annual program grants": Wikimedia France, Wikimedia Norway, and the India-based Centre for Internet and Society, which last November was recognised as eligible to apply for FDC funding purposes.

WikiProject report: WikiProject Law

This week, we interviewed the Law WikiProject.

Special report: Community mourns passing of Adrianne Wadewitz

"I remember laughing and talking and laughing and talking at Wikimania 2012. I took this picture of her that she used for a long while as a profile pic. Someone on Facebook said it looked 'skepchickal', which she loved."

Traffic report: Conquest of the Couch Potatoes

Television has always been a topic of choice on this site, but it exploded this week. Fully six slots were devoted to television shows, as the final episode of How I Met Your Mother, one of the most popular Wikipedia searches of the last few years, coincided with the season finale of The Walking Dead and the upcoming fourth season of Game of Thrones. The number rises to 8 if movies released on video and new TV tech are are included.

Featured content: Snow heater and Ash sweep

Five article, five lists, and ten pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.