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ARCHIVE PAGE 79: July 2014


July 2014

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The Signpost: 02 July 2014

The Los Angeles Times highlighted a recent Wiki Education Foundation (WEF) course at Pomona College in their article "Wikipedia pops up in bibliographies, and even college curricula". We interviewed Char Booth, the campus ambassador for the course, for additional details.
With Game of Thrones over for another year, the World Cup dominated yet again. And that is pretty much that. This list isn't likely to be particularly eventful until the Cup is won.
Wikimedia Israel (WMIL) has won a Roaring Lion in the category of Internet and cellular for its public outreach during the tenth anniversary of the Hebrew Wikipedia in July 2013.
Six articles, five lists, seventeen pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
This week, the Signpost visited the Indigenous peoples of North America WikiProject.
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, Wikimedia Deutschland's Toolserver project was switched off, marking the end of one of the Wikimedia movement's longest running Chapter-led projects. The Toolserver, which was in fact a collection of servers, first came online in 2005, hosting hundreds of webpages and scripts ("tools") made available for use by Wikimedia readers, editors and administrators.
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The Signpost: 09 July 2014

Last May, James Forrester announced to the world that London had been awarded the 2014 Wikimania conference. Functioning as the Wikimedia movement's annual conference, it is separate from the chapter-focused Wikimedia Conference. The first, located in Frankfurt, took place in 2005 and had 380 attendees. London, the tenth, is now expected to attract 1500. With Wikimania ambition, attention, and attendance rising significantly over the last nine years, how have this year's monetary costs come to be?
After an extremely close race, round three is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years—321 was required in 2013, and 243 points in 2012.
The Wikimedia Education Program currently spans 60 programs around the world; students and instructors participate at almost every level of education. The Education program Signpost series presents a snapshot of the Wikimedia Global Education Program as it exists in 2014.
Five articles, six lists, and nine pictures were promoted to 'featured' status last week on the English Wikipedia.
As with the troubled release of the Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) flagship VisualEditor project, the release of the new Media Viewer has also been met with opposition from the English Wikipedia community.
Unsurprisingly, the World Cup continued to dominate the English Wikipedia's viewing statistics. In particular, the record-breaking performance of US goalkeeper Tim Howard and the tournament-ending injury to Brazil's Neymar drove large amount of views to their articles.

Scallops

Invertzoo: I have made some... revisions... for you to see and comment on. I am not ready to offer it up for featured picture consideration, but I have been meticulous in improving it and have been reviewing all of the available literature before bringing it to its current state. I am braced. See what you think of it now. KDS444 (talk) 06:06, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

Well done and thanks KDS444 for working a lot more on this. And I really want to congratulate you on your gorgeous earthworm segment, which I thought was terrific. It very much had the look and feel of the real thing. I have to explain that currently I have a broken ankle, so I am lying in bed working on a little tiny MacBookAir. Your new scallop diagram looks very good indeed, but to see it properly I will need to examine it on the large screen of our iMac, and it might take me a few days before I can do that. Bear with me. Thanks again for all your painstaking work; it is people like you who make Wikipedia great! Invertzoo (talk) 11:50, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

The Festivus

Susan, the article on The Festivus is wonderful however it is inaccurate to state that the journal "was" peer reviewed when in fact it still "is" peer reviewed. I just added two more professionals to our peer review board. Give me a call when you have a chance. I hope all is well with you and Ed. Shellnut (talk) 02:43, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

I made some fixes. Unfortunately I am very busy IRL. Invertzoo (talk) 11:28, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 16 July 2014

On the same day the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) announced it would offer assistance to English Wikipedia editors embroiled in a legal dispute with Yank Barry, the lawsuit has been withdrawn without prejudice at the request of Barry's legal team—but this action is being described as "strategic" so that they can refile the lawsuit with a "new, more comprehensive complaint."
This week it's still more and more World Cup, with five entries out of the top ten (and 14 out of the Top 25).
It all started in late 2005, when we first held lectures about Wikipedia in two educational institutions (universities) ...
Eight articles, three lists, and 28 pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.
The Swedish Wikipedia's prolific Lsjbot, which has created a significant proportion of the site's 1.7 million articles and has nearly single-handedly pushed it to being the fourth-largest Wikipedia, was covered in the Wall Street Journal this week. The newspaper reported that the bot has created 2.7 million articles, which is apparently a reference to the Waray-Waray and Cebuano Wikipedias, where Lsjbot is also active, and that "on a good day", it creates 10,000 articles.

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The Signpost: 23 July 2014

"Great success" in Israel universities is leading to collaboration and editing in high schools.
Last week I predicted that the World Cup dominance on the report would be over—but I was wrong. The World Cup Final fell on the 13th of July, which was actually the first day of the week covered by this report, not the last day of the last report. Hence, five of the Top 10 this week are again World Cup related-topics.
Galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs) today are facing fewer barriers to uploading their content onto Wikimedia projects now that the new GLAM-Wiki Toolset Project has been launched. The tool, which is the fruit of a collaboration between Europeana and several Wikimedia chapters, relieves GLAMs from having to write their own automated scripts and gives them a standardized method of uploading large amounts of their digitized holdings.
The English Wikipedia's did you know (DYK) section has been a feature of the site's main page since February 2004. From the beginning, the section has served as a place to highlight Wikipedia's newest articles. But over the last few years, the did you know section has gotten steadily larger and more complex, and non-notable or plagiarized articles have occasionally slipped through the reviewing process, leading numerous editors to call for reforms to the system. We asked two editors to share their views.
Ten articles, five lists, and 25 pictures were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia last week.

Tunicate trouble

The controversial study on tunicates that was under discussion in May is back causing trouble in the article again. Somebody has now labelled it pseudoscience and the present state of the paragraph is no longer "neutral" in my opinion. Would you like to take a look? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:18, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

I edited that section a bit and left a note on the talk page. I guess this shows how tricky it can get when you tackle a subject as obscure as tunicates. Invertzoo (talk) 12:44, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
Thank you. I think I will remove Tunicate from my watchlist. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 13:26, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Meat of freshwater periwinkles

Dear Invertzoo, I will try to get the pictures you requested when I go to my village. It looks like NERITIDAE. Thanks, Jai Prakash Singh — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jaiprakashsingh (talk • contribs) 12:42, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

If you are able to do that, it would be really great; thank you so much Jai Prakash Singh! I know that people eat some of the freshwater nerite species, but on Wikipedia we have almost no images of these snails, so a full series of images from live animals in the river through to your dinner and a photo of the habitat along with good info as to where, when, and how, expanding how you find them and how you cook them, would be extremely helpful. If you are not sure where to put the info, you can always leave it on my talk page. Once I know where they are found and have a good image of the shells and trapdoors, I will try to see if I can identify them to species. I very much enjoy this kind of thing. Invertzoo (talk) 12:52, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
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