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The Signpost: 12 June 2013

News and notes: How Wikimedia affiliates are spending $8.4 million; PRISM scandal

Late last year, the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) awarded $8.4 million in donors' money to 11 Wikimedia entities, including the Wikimedia Foundation and 10 nationally defined chapters. Under this arrangement, these organisations are required to issue quarterly reports on how far they have progressed towards their declared programmatic and financial goals. The FDC has now announced that all 11 completed and submitted their reports by the 1 April deadline, and have responded to each.

Featured content: Mixing Bowl Interchange

Seven articles, two lists, five pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

In the media: VisualEditor will "change world history"

In an article published by the Huffington Post's United Kingdom edition, writer Thomas Church asserts that the new VisualEditor will change history, literally. It says that Wikipedia's mark-up language has been to its advantage, as most people didn't bother trying to learn it

Op-ed: The tragedy of Wikipedia's commons

I've long thought that we should get rid of the Wikimedia Commons as we know it. Commons has evolved into a project with interests that compete with the needs of the primary users of Commons and the reason it was created. It's also understaffed, which results in poor curation, large administrative backlogs, and poor policy development.

Discussion report: VisualEditor, elections, bots, and more

Current discussions on the English Wikipedia.

Traffic report: Who holds the throne?

Last week's most popular article list on the English Wikipedia was dominated by the massively popular TV series Game of Thrones, which claimed six slots in the top 25, including the top three. Its popularity was likely stoked by the most recent episode, The Rains of Castamere. Bollywood continued to increase its share of views as well, aided by the tragic suicide of star Nafisa Khan.

Arbitration report: Two cases suspended; proposed decision posted in Argentine History

Two cases, Race and politics and Tea Party movement have been suspended. Argentine History remains open, and a proposed decision was posted on 12 June.

WikiProject report: Processing WikiProject Computing

This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Computing. Started in October 2003, the project has grown to include 17 featured articles, 11 featured lists, 3 pieces of featured media, and 80 good articles.

Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot

We are currently running a study on the effects of adding additional information to SuggestBot's suggestions. Participation in the study is voluntary. Should you wish to not participate in the study, or have questions or concerns, you can find contact information on the SuggestBot study page.

IMPORTANT CHANGES: We have modified the selection of articles SuggestBot suggests and altered the design to incorporate more information about the articles, as described in this explanation.

Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information.

Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
8	Style: (magazine) (talk)	Add sources
7,975	Eye color (talk)	Add sources
73	Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) (talk)	Add sources
325	Stratford, Ontario (talk)	Add sources
200	Chinese Singaporean (talk)	Add sources
37	Class 95FM (talk)	Add sources
31	Kulasekaram (talk)	Cleanup
2	1989 Speedway Champions Cup (talk)	Cleanup
1	1988 Speedway Champions Cup (talk)	Cleanup
5	Oriya Wikipedia (talk)	Expand
28	T. T. Durai (talk)	Expand
3	October 2005 in Malaysia and Singapore (talk)	Expand
77	Anglo-Chinese School (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
317	Wikimedia Commons (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
320	Royal Malaysia Police (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
15	ATP-binding cassette family (talk)	Merge
6	Neo-environmentalism (talk)	Merge
689	Value added (talk)	Merge
11	Geeklog (talk)	Wikify
1	1992 Speedway Champions Cup (talk)	Wikify
1,863	JIRA (talk)	Wikify
4	Nostalgia Wikipedia (talk)	Orphan
228	Measuring GDP (talk)	Orphan
3	Sainath Thotapalli (talk)	Orphan
4	MediaCorp Teletext (talk)	Stub
14	Nigerian Premier League (basketball) (talk)	Stub
21	Sha Tin New Town (talk)	Stub
9	Daniel Jurafsky (talk)	Stub
59	BitBake (talk)	Stub
12	Edwin Tong (talk)	Stub

Changes to SuggestBot's suggestions

We have changed the number of suggested articles and which categories they are selected from. The number of stubs has been greatly reduced, the number of articles needing sources doubled, and two new categories added (orphans and unencyclopaedic articles). We have also modified the layout of the suggestions and added sortable columns with various types of information about each article. The first two columns are:

Views/Day: Daily average number of views an article's had over the past 14 days.
Quality: Predicted article quality on a 1- to 3-star scale. Placing your cursor over the stars should give you a pop-up describing the article's quality (Low/Medium/High), current assessment class, and predicted assessment class.

The method we use to predict article quality also allows us to assess whether an article might need specific types of work in order to improve its quality. The work needed might not correspond to cleanup tags added to the article, since our method is not based on those. We have added five columns reflecting this work assessment, where a red X indicates improvement is needed. Placing your cursor over an X should give you a pop-up with a short description of the work needed. The five columns seek to answer the following five questions:

Content: Is more content needed?
Headings: Does this article have an appropriate section structure?
Images: Is the number of illustrative images about right?
Links: Does this article link to enough other Wikipedia articles?
Sources: For its length, is there an appropriate number of citations to sources in this article?

SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!

If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom (talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot (talk) 00:53, 16 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2013-25

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

Recent software changes: (Not all changes will affect you.)

The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22wmf7) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 13. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on June 17, and on all Wikipedias on June 20. [1]
The Narayam and WebFonts extensions were successfully replaced by Universal Language Selector on June 11. [2]
VisualEditor news:
- VisualEditor was temporarily disabled on Wikipedia sites on June 14 due to an issue that inserted a lot of HTML code. The issue is now fixed and VisualEditor works as before.
- Users can now use VisualEditor to add images and other media items from their local wikis and Wikimedia Commons. [3].
- VisualEditor also allows editing references. [4]
The new Disambiguator extension, which was previously part of MediaWiki itself, was enabled on test wikis. It adds the magic word __DISAMBIG__ to mark disambiguation pages. [5]
The newly enabled Campaigns extension allows Wikimedia Foundation data analysts to track account creations that result from a specific outreach campaign.

Future software changes

Universal Language Selector will be added to the Catalan (ca), Cebuano (ceb), Persian (fa), Finnish (fi), Norwegian Bokmål (no), Portuguese (pt), Ukrainian (uk), Vietnamese (vi), Waray-Waray (war) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias on June 18. [6]
Starting on June 18, VisualEditor will be randomly enabled by default for half of newly created accounts on the English Wikipedia to test stability, performance and features. [7]
Two new webfonts (UnifrakturMaguntia and Linux Libertine) will be added to wikis that use Universal Language Selector. [8] [9]
It will now be possible to hide the sidebar while using the Translate extension to reduce distractions (bug #45836). [10]
A patrolling link will now be visible for un-patrolled pages, even if users don't visit it from Special:NewPages or Special:RecentChanges (bug #49123). [11]
A request for comments on enabling a new search engine for MediaWiki was started.

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by Global message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Unsubscribe. 00:26, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject AFC needs your help... again

WikiProject Articles for creation Backlog Elimination Drive

WikiProject AFC is holding a one month long Backlog Elimination Drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running from July 1st, 2013 – July 31st, 2013.

Awards will be given out for all reviewers participating in the drive in the form of barnstars at the end of the drive.
There is a backlog of over 1000 articles, so start reviewing articles! Visit the drive's page and help out!

A new version of our AfC helper script is released! It includes many bug fixes, new improvements and features, code cleanup, and more page cleanups. If you want to see a full list of changes, go to Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Helper script/Development page. Please report bugs and feature requests there, too! Thanks.

Delivered at 12:59, 19 June 2013 (UTC) by EdwardsBot (talk), on behalf of WikiProject AFC

The Signpost: 19 June 2013

Op-ed: Two responses to the 'Tragedy of Wikipedia's Commons'

Following last week's op-ed by Gigs ("The Tragedy of Wikipedia's Commons"), the Signpost is carrying two contrary opinions from MichaelMaggs, a bureaucrat on Wikimedia Commons, and Mattbuck, a British Commons administrator.

Traffic report: Most popular Wikipedia articles of the last week

The season finale of Game of Thrones ensured that the epic high fantasy series would dominate the top 10 again last week; however, it was joined by Maurice Sendak and Man of Steel.

In the media: South African learners want Wikipedia; Editing of Israel topics

Memeburn.com published an article on the yearning of students in South Africa for free knowledge through Wikipedia Zero.

WikiProject report: The Volunteer State: WikiProject Tennessee

This week, we visited WikiProject Tennessee, a project dedicate to the state at the geographic and cultural crossroads of the United States.

News and notes: Swedish Wikipedia's millionth article leads to protests; WMF elections—where are all the voters?

With erysichton elaborata, the Swedish Wikipedia passed the one million article Rubicon this week. While this is a mostly symbolic achievement, serving as a convenient benchmark with which to gain publicity and attention in an increasingly statistical world, the particular method by which the Swedish site has passed the mark has garnered significant attention—and controversy.

Featured content: Cheaper by the dozen

Eleven articles, twelve lists, and eleven pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week.

Discussion report: Citations, non-free content, and a MediaWiki meeting

A list of current discussions on the English Wikipedia.

Technology report: May engineering report published

The WMF's engineering report for May was published recently on the Wikimedia blog and on the MediaWiki wiki ("friendly" summary version), giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month.

Arbitration report: The Farmbrough amendment request—automation and arbitration enforcement

Richard Farmbrough was set to have his day in court, but as events transpired, this was not to be so. On 25 March 2013, an accusation was made against Farmbrough at Arbitration Enforcement (AE), claiming that he violated the terms of an automated edit restriction. Within hours, Farmbrough had filed his own request with the arbitration committee, citing the newly filed AE request and claiming that the motion was being used "in an absurd way" in the filing of enforcement requests: "I have not made any edits that a sane person would consider automation."

The Signpost: 26 June 2013

Traffic report: Most-viewed articles of the week

With most TV shows on hiatus for the summer, attention has turned to movies, celebrity and sports. The dramatic events at the 2013 Confederations Cup drew massive attention, as did summer blockbusters like Man of Steel and World War Z. But the most searched event of the week was the tragic and unexpected death of popular actor James Gandolfini on June 19.

In the media: Daily Dot on Commons and porn; Jimmy Wales accused of breaking Wikipedia rules in hunt for Snowden

The Daily Dot has examined the perennial controversy over explicit or pornographic media on Commons. This latest salvo was touched off when Russavia uploaded a portrait of Jimmy Wales made by the artist Pricasso, who paints with his genitalia.

Recent research: Most controversial Wikipedia topics, automatic detection of sockpuppets

A comparative work by T. Yasseri., A. Spoerri, M. Graham and J. Kertész looks at the 100 most controversial topics in 10 language versions of Wikipedia, and tries to make sense of the similarities and differences in these lists.

News and notes: Election results released

Less than three days after the close of voting, the volunteer election committee posted the results on Meta. The worldwide Wikimedia movement has elected three WMF trustees for two-year terms on the 10-seat Board: Samuel Klein (supported by 43.5% of voters), Phoebe Ayers (38.3%), and María Sefidari (35.6%). The new trustees will take their seats at a critical time for the movement: one of the first tasks in their terms will be to help the Board to find and approve the new executive director to take up the top job when Sue Gardner departs.

Discussion report: Privacy policy, X!'s edit counter, old rangeblocks, and the Article Incubator

A list of current discussions on the English Wikipedia.

Featured content: Wikipedia in black + Adam Cuerden

This week, the Signpost interviews Adam Cuerden, a Wikimedian who has been for years gathering featured pictures, and who constantly participates in what could be his favourite part of the project. Cuerden dedicates most of his time to scanning and restoring old, valuable illustrative works. He explains to us how the featured process works, its relation with other parts of the encyclopedia, and how pictures evolve before reaching featured status.

WikiProject report: WikiProject Fashion

This week, we walked the runway with WikiProject Fashion. Started in March 2007, the project is home to 4 Featured Articles and 41 Good Articles. The project has a lengthy list of how you can help and a list of Article Alerts.

Arbitration report: Argentine History closed; two cases remain suspended

Argentine History was closed. Two cases, Race and politics and Tea Party movement, remain suspended until July.

Tech news: 2013-27

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

Recent software changes: (Not all changes will affect you.)

The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf9) was added to test wikis on June 27. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 8, and on all Wikipedias on July 11.
On Wikisource, the canonical names of the "Index" and "Page" namespaces in the Proofread Page extension are no longer localized (bug #47596). Please check scripts that depend on $wgCanonicalNamespace. [12]
A JavaScript problem caused the "View history" and "New section" tabs in the Vector skin to be moved into the drop-down menu on right-to-left wikis. The issue is now fixed and links are visible as before (bug #50196). [13]
There was a short site outage on June 28.
The automated Category:Pages with missing files now includes broken file links inserted inside the <gallery /> tag (bug #50119). [14]
The Nearby feature is now enabled on Commons and shows images in a user's area. [15]
There is now a special page listing disambiguation pages for wikis that use the Disambiguator extension (bug #44040). [16]
The old version of the Article feedback tool (version 4) was removed from wikis that still used it. [17]
VisualEditor news:
- Many bugs that caused text to be removed or damaged have been fixed, including one related to copy-paste (bug #49816).
- VisualEditor now offers a visual interface to edit references.
- In preparation for enabling the VisualEditor on a wider scale, new documentation has been created, including a list of frequently-asked questions and a user guide with many images. Please help with translations.
- Several problems related to overlapping of elements with the VisualEditor toolbar have been fixed (bug #50096, #50159, #50324).
- TemplateData information is now displayed for templates that are added to a page (bug #49778).
- Section edit links now show links to both VisualEditor and the old (source) editor (bug #49666).
- Images are now loaded securely when using HTTPS (bug #43015). [18]

Future software changes

VisualEditor will be enabled for all logged-in English Wikipedia users on July 1, and for all users on July 8.
From July 8, it will be possible to upload WAV and native FLAC files to Commons, and use them directly on wiki pages ([[<tvar|bug-49505>bugzilla:49505</>|bug #49505]]). [19]
The Universal Language Selector will be added to the English Wikipedia on July 2, and to remaining wikis on July 9. [20]

Erratum

Tech news #26 incorrectly reported that audio transcoding was added to TimedMediaHandler; it was actually statistics about audio transcoding that were added. [21]

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14:19, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 03 July 2013

In the media: Jimmy Wales is not an Internet billionaire; a mass shooter's alleged Wikipedia editing

Amy Chozick's profile of Jimmy Wales in the New York Times sparked significant controversy in international news outlets this week. Chozick's profile covered Wales's personal life, including his 12-year-old daughter, ex-wife, and current wife Kate Garvey, describing Wales himself as "a well-groomed version of a person who has been slumped over a computer drinking Yoo-hoo for hours." Chozick described his current role in Wikipedia as "Benevolent Dictator for Life", a statement which garnered conflict from all corners of the web, including from Wales, who responded to the piece as a whole with a lengthy talk page statement.

Featured content: Queen of France

Four articles, four lists, and fifteen pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.

WikiProject report: Puppies!

This week, the Signpost went to the kennel and interviewed WikiProject Dogs. The project has several featured and good articles, along with a large number of "Did you know" entries. We asked three project members about the challenges of creating, curating, and maintaining canine content in an increasingly dog-obsessed world.

News and notes: Wikipedia's medical collaborations gathering pace

The key annual event in the Wikimedia calendar, Wikimania 2013, will be held in Hong Kong in just five weeks' time. Among the events will be a presentation by two people who are working to promote the development of medical content on Wikimedia projects. One is James Heilman of Wiki Project Med, a non-profit dedicated to making "clear, reliable, comprehensive, up-to-date educational resources and information in the biomedical and related social sciences freely available to all people in the language of their choice". The other is Lori Thicke, president of Translators Without Borders (TWB), the Connecticut-based organisation set up in 2010 to provide pro-bono translation services for humanitarian non-profits

Discussion report: Snuggle, mainpage link to Wikinews, 3RR, and more

Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

Technology report: VisualEditor in midst of game-changing deployment series

The VisualEditor extension has gone live by default to registered users on the English Wikipedia, marking a huge milestone in a project that has taken the best part of a decade to reach fruition. The extension was previously described as "the biggest and most important change to our user experience we’ve ever undertaken" by the WMF team behind it.

Traffic report: Yahoo! crushes the competition ... in Wikipedia views

The real world made a strong showing in the top 10 last week, as news stories such as Yahoo!'s purchase of Tumblr, the murder of Odin Lloyd, the continuing drama over NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and the ill-health of Nelson Mandela crowded out the usual roster of TV shows, movies, websites and video games. Not that they were entirely excluded, of course.

Arbitration report: Tea Party movement reopened, new AUSC appointments

Following a one-month period of moderated discussion, Tea Party movement has been reopened by the Committee. The proposed decisions are currently being voted upon. Race and politics remains suspended pending the return of User:Apostle12.

Tech news: 2013-28

Latest [[<tvar|technews>m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News</>|tech news]] from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. [[<tvar|more-transl>m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2013/28</>|Translations]] are available.

Recent software changes (Not all changes will affect you.)

VisualEditor news:
- VisualEditor deployment has been delayed by a week. It is now planned to enable the editor for logged–in editors on chosen Wikipedias on July 22, and on all Wikipedias on July 29.
- A bug that made it impossible to save VisualEditor edits that triggered a CAPTCHA has been fixed. [22]
- Several bugs that occurred on right–to–left wikis have been fixed last week (bug #49416, bug #49613, bug #50543).
Uploading files has been restricted on Meta Wiki to administrators and the newly created uploader group. An exemption doctrine policy is being developed (bug #50287). [23]
Emergency priority CentralNotice banners will always be shown unless users have hidden them, ignoring cookies set for lower priority banners. [24]

Future software changes

MediaWiki will allow choosing a specific page of a PDF document or a thumbnail of a video file to show up inside the

tag (bug #8480). [25]

It will now be possible to create empty MediaWiki: messages, for instance in order to disable them (bug #50124). [26]
The Nearby feature will soon be enabled on Wikivoyage wikis again. [27]
The Notifications extension messages will now include a direct link to diffs on wiki as well as in notification e-mails (bug #48183). [28]
Table of contents will now use the HTML <div /> element instead of <table />, fixing a nine–year–old bug #658. [29]
First mock–ups of a mobile Wikidata application have been published by Pragun Bhutani as part of his Google Summer of Code project. [30]
A discussion on minimum documentation practices in MediaWiki code has been started and awaits comments from the community.

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18:29, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 July 2013

Op-ed: It's time to stop pretending the English-language Wikinews is a viable project

This is Wikinews' fundamental problem: it can neither do a good job providing a summary of world news, nor does it have any special focus that it does well. It's a collection of random articles, with only the occasional, passing resemblance to important current events.

WikiProject report: Not Jimbo: WikiProject Wales

This week, we traveled to Cymru with the folks at WikiProject Wales.

Traffic report: Inflated view counts here, there, and everywhere

The most-viewed articles on the English Wikipedia last week include...

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation Board appoints world expert in women's issues, global south

In apparent acknowledgment of the urgency of two issues facing the Wikimedia movement—the need to engage both women and the global south—the WMF Board has appointed Ana Toni as one of its four expert members. Toni will bring rare expertise to the movement, and the Signpost understands that her skills in advocacy and her key roles in international NGOs are likely to be a natural match with the WMF as the hub of disseminating free knowledge around the world.

Dispatches: Infoboxes: time for a fresh look?

The fundamental idea of an infobox is clear: keep it simple and limited to essentials. At some point, however, these basic principles seem to have been abandoned, in favour of an approach akin to "the more the merrier".

Featured content: The week of the birds

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

Discussion report: Featured article process governance, signature templates, and more

Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include ...

Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot

We are currently running a study on the effects of adding additional information to SuggestBot's suggestions. Participation in the study is voluntary. Should you wish to not participate in the study, or have questions or concerns, you can find contact information on the SuggestBot study page.

IMPORTANT CHANGES: We have modified the selection of articles SuggestBot suggests and altered the design to incorporate more information about the articles, as described in this explanation.

Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information.

Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
250	Stratford, Ontario (talk)	Add sources
248	Chinese Singaporean (talk)	Add sources
2,517	Hair (talk)	Add sources
33	Zest (brand) (talk)	Add sources
11	Style: (magazine) (talk)	Add sources
9,083	Grand Theft Auto (series) (talk)	Add sources
22	Warora (talk)	Cleanup
13	Hai Sing Catholic School (talk)	Cleanup
0	1992 Speedway Champions Cup (talk)	Cleanup
83	Hwa Chong Institution (talk)	Expand
313	TeamSpeak (talk)	Expand
35	Ferrari Challenge: Trofeo Pirelli (talk)	Expand
83	Anglo-Chinese School (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
319	Wikimedia Commons (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
5	Hawaiianize (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
485	Value added (talk)	Merge
2,992	Voice over IP (talk)	Merge
8	Gongqingcheng (talk)	Merge
19	Nacho Duato (talk)	Wikify
44	Mad Pride (talk)	Wikify
8	Valentine (novel) (talk)	Wikify
1	Mongolian Wikipedia (talk)	Orphan
1	Nanchang Institute of Aeronautical Technology (talk)	Orphan
155	Measuring GDP (talk)	Orphan
15	Nigerian Premier League (basketball) (talk)	Stub
5	MediaCorp Teletext (talk)	Stub
1	1989 Speedway Champions Cup (talk)	Stub
8	Daniel Jurafsky (talk)	Stub
6	Edwin Tong (talk)	Stub
2	Ebun Comets (talk)	Stub

Changes to SuggestBot's suggestions

We have changed the number of suggested articles and which categories they are selected from. The number of stubs has been greatly reduced, the number of articles needing sources doubled, and two new categories added (orphans and unencyclopaedic articles). We have also modified the layout of the suggestions and added sortable columns with various types of information about each article. The first two columns are:

Views/Day: Daily average number of views an article's had over the past 14 days.
Quality: Predicted article quality on a 1- to 3-star scale. Placing your cursor over the stars should give you a pop-up describing the article's quality (Low/Medium/High), current assessment class, and predicted assessment class.

The method we use to predict article quality also allows us to assess whether an article might need specific types of work in order to improve its quality. The work needed might not correspond to cleanup tags added to the article, since our method is not based on those. We have added five columns reflecting this work assessment, where a red X indicates improvement is needed. Placing your cursor over an X should give you a pop-up with a short description of the work needed. The five columns seek to answer the following five questions:

Content: Is more content needed?
Headings: Does this article have an appropriate section structure?
Images: Is the number of illustrative images about right?
Links: Does this article link to enough other Wikipedia articles?
Sources: For its length, is there an appropriate number of citations to sources in this article?

SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!

If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom (talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot (talk) 01:21, 14 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]