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The Signpost: 04 September 2013

After media praise for Wikipedia's decision to move the Bradley Manning article to Chelsea Manning, the reversion of that page move on August 31, after a discussion in which several hundred Wikipedians participated, has so far triggered less favourable feedback, as well as a blog post from Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Sue Gardner expressing her disappointment with the decision.
On September 3, the Wikimedia Foundation launched the second stage of the process to improve the privacy policy implemented on most Wikimedia sites, including Wikipedia and its sister projects, by publishing a policy draft.
A news-heavy week offers some insight, perhaps, into humanity's priorities.
As mentioned in "In the news" on Wikipedia's main page, the Library of Birmingham in the United Kingdom has opened. This interior photo was taken a week before opening. The article reports that the library "has been described as the largest public library in the United Kingdom, the largest public cultural space in Europe, and the largest regional library in Europe."
Four articles, four lists, and eight pictures were promoted to 'featured' status this week on the English Wikipedia
This week, we spent some time with the minds behind WikiProject Psychology. The project was created in March 2006 and has grown to include 14 Featured Articles and 43 Good Articles.
The dispute over the title for the Manning article escalated quickly to arbitration levels, as the Bradley/Chelsea Manning naming dispute case was accepted for arbitration.
In this week's "Technology report", we explore ways of making Wikipedia more accessible to users of screen readers. Graham87 is a highly active contributor who is also blind and accesses the site through a screen reader.

The Signpost: 11 September 2013

'The National Law Journal reported on September 9 that lawyer Susan L. Burke has been taking legal steps to discover the identity of Wikipedia editor . Zujua had edited her biography, allegedly adding misleading content about various lawsuits in the process
The Signpost went to Indonesia this week.
Four articles, eight lists, and eight pictures were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.
The deadline for proposals to the Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) volunteer committee on Meta will pass on 30 September. The program is designed to fund projects that tackle long-term problem and have a significant editing community impact; it has previously supported solutions like The Wikipedia Library, which improves Wikipedian access to online reference sources like JSTOR (see Signpost coverage).
While the Syrian Civil War crept its slow way into the minds of the public, with a new fourth related entry in the top 25, the top 10 remained dominated by celebrity, mainly sports and music. Two megabucks transfers stimulated public interest in football/soccer ahead of the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, while Lil Wayne's public apology ahead of his latest album release sent him to the top.
Discussion over the Manning title dispute was off to a running start as evidence and workshop phases continued in the Bradley/Chelsea Manning naming dispute. The Infoboxes case closed with topic bans for two users, and a recommendation for community discussion of infoboxes.

Wikidata weekly summary #75

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events/Press/Blogs
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Did you know?
    • Newest properties: Saskatchewan Register of Heritage Property identifier (P845), Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (P846), United States Navy aircraft designation (P847), Japanese military aircraft designation (P849), World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850), ESRB rating (P852), CERO rating (P853), URL (P854), Sandbox-URL (P855), official website (P856), CNKI (P857), ESPN SCRUM ID (P858), sponsor (P859), e-archiv.li ID (P860), premiershiprugby.com ID (P861), Operational Requirement of the UK Air Ministry (P862), InPhO identifier (P863), ACM Digital Library author identifier (P864), BMLO (P865), Perlentaucher (P866), ROME Occupation Code (P867), foods traditionally associated (P868), instrumentation (P870), printed by (P872), phase point (P873), UN class (P874), UN code classification (P875), UN packaging group (P876), NFPA Other (P877), avionics (P878), pennant number (P879), CPU (P880), Variable type (P881), FIPS 6-4 (US counties) (P882), FIPS 5-2 (code for US states) (P883), State Water Register Code (Russia) (P884), origin of the watercourse (P885), LIR (P886), based on heuristic (P887), JSTOR (P888), Mathematical Reviews identifier (P889), Request for Comments number (IETF) (P892), Social Science Research Network (P893)
    • Newest task forces: Occupations and professions task force
  • Development
    • Breaking change to the API in the last deployment
    • Started work on number data type
    • Worked on simple query special page
    • Worked more on moving (ordering) of qualifiers
    • Worked on JSON dumps
    • Continued working on allowing editentities API module to allow editing of claims
    • Continued work on the merge items API module
    • Worked on fixing the way Claim GUIDs are used throughout the code
    • Worked on TableDefinitionReaders for Database component
    • Unified and improved rendering of property values in summaries, diffs, wiki-pages, etc.
    • Continued moving to new browsertests framework
    • Bugfixes on autosummaries
    • Worked with GSoC student on mobile skin
    • Worked on refactoring of how we serialize and provide data about used entities on a page (e.g. entity pages or certain special pages) to the frontend
  • Open Tasks for You
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Talk page deletion

Haha yes I did mean to nominate the template and not the talk page, my bad! Thanks! Lady Lotus (talk) 12:45, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

No problem. Honest mistakes happen to even the best every once in a while. TCN7JM 23:01, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 September 2013

The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC), the volunteer-led body that evaluates chapter and (for the first time) thematic organizational annual plan grant requests to the Wikimedia Foundation, is preparing for its third round of public proceedings to deliberate on the distribution of several million US dollars of Wikimedia movement funds.
This week, the Signpost headed to WikiProject Good Articles. As of publishing time, out of the 4,331,477 articles on Wikipedia, only 18,464 are rated as "good" (about 1 in 235).
Thirteen articles, six lists, and five pictures were promoted to "featured" status last week on the English Wikipedia.
In this week's "Technology report", we look at how the growth of Wikidata can benefit Wikipedia. Gerard Meijssen is a highly active contributor and frequent blogger about Wikidata. We asked him to share his thoughts on how the new project benefits Wikipedia.
The top 10 is bookended by unlucky dates, as Friday the 13th fell just after the anniversary of 9/11. Breaking Bad's final season continued to draw attention, while interest in Miley Cyrus's youthful exuberance is fading only slowly.

Wikidata weekly summary #76

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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A barnstar for you

Moved, see User:TCN7JM#Last but not least, my awards

Maps / Infobox Road / Wikidata

I was doing some My Contributions stalking (like talk page stalking, but different) and noticed your edit here which deleted the line displaying the map I created for the article but the having the map still being displayed. You mentioned it's related to Wikidata but information about it seems to be scarce on the WP:USRD pages and tl;dr elsewhere. Is there anything I can do to expedite the process of getting the maps I create into there or should I just continue to do it the old |map=efojiefoijfe.svg method? —Mr. Matté (Talk/Contrib) 22:52, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) If the map name is entered into the Wikidata entry for the article, it will automatically appear in the infobox. In theory, any other articles on other language editions of Wikipedia would also import the map, assuming those infoboxes are set to automatically import. Imzadi 1979 → 23:02, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
I'll explain it a bit further. Basically, a module was created a couple months ago to link the |map= parameter on IBR to the road map property on Wikidata. The easiest way to add maps to articles from now on is to find the article's item on Wikidata (there's a "Data item" link on the sidebar) and add the property with your map as the claim. For example, with OH 257, this was the edit I performed to get the map to show up in the infobox. If you're unfamiliar with how to add properties to items, I'd be happy to walk you through that, too. It's quite simple. TCN7JM 23:10, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of K-146 (Kansas highway)

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article K-146 (Kansas highway) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of CycloneIsaac -- CycloneIsaac (talk) 21:12, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of K-146 (Kansas highway)

The article K-146 (Kansas highway) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:K-146 (Kansas highway) for comments about the article. Well done! Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of CycloneIsaac -- CycloneIsaac (talk) 22:22, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 September 2013

Over the last year, there's been extensive debate about whether public relations professionals and other corporate representatives should participate on Wikipedia and, if so, to what extent and what kinds of rules should be followed.
The saga of Walter White, chemistry teacher-turned-drug kingpin, as told in the critically adored television series Breaking Bad, has been a water-cooler necessity for years, and now, as it nears its end, audiences are feverishly following every plot thread to guess what the finale will reveal.
Fox News writer Perry Chiaramonte published an article detailing Wikipedia's alleged abandonment of its fight to remove pornography.
On 30 September, Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM), the Wikimedia community's global photo competition, will reach to the end of its submission period. The proceedings have been underway since the first of this month; national juries will start reviewing submissions for the first round of selections after it closes ... Community aggravation with one of the Wikimedia Foundation's signature initiatives, the VisualEditor, came to the fore again this week with the announcement and implementation of code blocking the tool.
This week, we continued our exploration of other language editions of Wikipedia by visiting the Spanish Wikipedia's Wikiproyecto Fútbol (WikiProject Football).
Twelve articles, six lists, and five pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
A conference paper makes a rather serious claim: "We find a surprisingly large number of editors who change their behavior and begin focusing more on a particular controversial topic once they are promoted to administrator status."

Wikidata weekly summary #77

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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Writer's block

Help! I have writer's block! I mean, I can't write any road articles because I can't think of any new roads. Can you help me? Philroc (talk) 22:15, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

Most of the articles for primary state highways in Virginia have already been created. The only one I can see that doesn't have an article yet and isn't only a proposed route is SR 380 (I'm going off of this list). If you have info on that, go ahead and create it. If not, you're just going to have to improve an existing article if you wish to keep working with highways in Virginia. TCN7JM 01:07, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
That's OK - I've already started creating an article! Philroc (talk) 02:42, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

New Page Patrol

Hi. Thank you for patrolling new pages. I noticed you tagged Mirsaidov Ulmas Mirsaidovich within just 2 minutes of creation. Please take a moment to check out the instructions for patrolling at WP:NPP. We do a disservice to new editors by deleting their efforts before they've evne had time to populate a page. Thanks. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 11:16, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

So...declining it thirty minutes after my tagging after the author had done nothing to it but initially create it with {{help me}} was correct? This seems like declining because I tagged it too hastily, not because it didn't meet the criterion. TCN7JM 11:27, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
And it was deleted shortly after anyway by Nyttend. Declining it only for another editor to have to come along and tag it for the same reason, does seem a little pointless. Personally, if I came across an article with just the {{help me}} template, I would likely delete it via A3 and contact the editor on their talk page to ask what the problem was. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 14:43, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm Kudpung. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Mirsaidov Ulmas Mirsaidovich, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 11:18, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #78

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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The Signpost: 02 October 2013

Medical images have transformed many aspects of modern medicine. Over the past two decades the increasing sophistication of MRI, CT-scanning, and X-ray techniques has made these technologies the cornerstone of diagnosing a range of conditions, replacing what used to be largely guesswork by doctors. They can be the difference between life and death for a patient, and their importance is underlined by the tens of billions of dollars spent on them annually just in North America. For Wikimedia Foundation projects, advanced images are now a powerful tool for describing and explaining, and educating our worldwide readership of medical articles.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
In what will be remembered as a game-changing week for Wikimedia grantmaking, the Foundation's executive director, Sue Gardner, published a forthright and in places highly critical statement, Reflections on the FDC process, and grantmaking staff revealed that the WMF will significantly strengthen its targeting of optimal impact in funding.
Six articles and two pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.
Editor's note: To go beyond the mere facts of cases, the "Arbitration report" invited several editors who participated in the recent Infoboxes case to comment on infoboxes: what they are, where new users can go to find out about them, specifications and protocols, best practices, and how the upcoming community discussion recommended by the Committee in the case decision should be framed.
This week, we revisited the enthusiastic editors at WikiProject U2. Started in June 2007, the project has grown in spurts, resulting in a collection of 8 Featured Articles and 24 Good Articles. The project maintains a to do list, portal, and a list of references.

The Signpost: 09 October 2013

If you're living in the United States, what did you do during the government shutdown? Well, it seems most people watched the final episode of Breaking Bad.
This week, we moved to the esoteric world of Australian roads.
Seven articles, six lists, and twelve pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.
An investigation by the English Wikipedia community into suspicious edits and sockpuppet activity has led to astonishing revelations that Wiki-PR, a multi-million-dollar US-based company, has created, edited, or maintained several thousand Wikipedia articles for paying clients using a sophisticated array of concealed user accounts.
The University of California, San Francisco attracted substantial media attention over its new course offering that will give credit to fourth year medical students for editing Wikipedia articles about medicine.
A proposed decision has been posted in the Manning naming dispute. The workshop phase of the Ebionites 3 case closes 13 October. Arbitrator NuclearWarfare has resigned.

Wikidata weekly summary #79

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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Wikidata weekly summary #80

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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The Signpost: 16 October 2013

Media coverage on Wiki-PR, the multi-million-dollar US-based company that has broken several policies and guidelines on the English Wikipedia in its quest to create and maintain thousands of articles for paying clients, continued this week with a feature story by Martin Robbins in the British edition of Vice magazine.
A slow week, with low overall views and the Top 10 dominated by longstanding pages. Gravity, Alfonso Cuaron's outer space-set action art film, not only held its position at the top of the US box office but climbed to the top of the Wikipedia chart as well, showing that it has become a major talking point.
This week, we studied coats of arms and flags with the folks at WikiProject Heraldry and Vexillology. Started in September 2006, the project has grown to include 20 Featured Articles and nearly 50 Good Articles. The project maintains a portal, a list of resources, and a variety of images and templates.
Six articles, two lists, and thirty-three pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.
The Manning naming dispute case has closed, with a strong and unanimous statement by the Committee against disparaging references to transgendered persons. Sanctions were enacted against six editors.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

SD 100

In case you hadn't seen it, there's a large article about SD Highway 100 in the Argus Leader. (I think you asked me about it last year.) AlexiusHoratius 14:57, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

I believe I did. With the amounts of sources I've found, writing a Future-class article for the highways has been on my mental to-do list for a while now, but I've not in recent time found the time to write it all. I might start a sandbox later. Thanks for alerting me of this source, I had not seen it. TCN7JM 20:33, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #81

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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A barnstar for you!

(Resilient Barnstar) Moved, see User:TCN7JM#Last but not least, my awards
Thanks. This means a lot to me. I think if I just work on the stuff those who opposed told me I needed to work on, I'll have a shot next year. TCN7JM 18:34, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
I myself opposed your adminship at this point of time, but simultaneously disagree with some of the other cited reasons for opposition. I also appreciate that you haven't blown a fuse at repeated use of the term immature instead of inexperienced (barring the two year old vandalism, I don't see any sign of the former; you have come a long way since 2011). So keep your chin up, take the constructive feedback at the RFA for what its worth, and reapply after a suitable period. You are likely to have my support then. Cheers. Abecedare (talk) 02:36, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
Will do. Thank you for your advice. TCN7JM 03:53, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
I'll also chime in: I think you are this close to being sysop material. Just take your time to brush up on the policies you haven't been too exposed to, and you'll be fine next time. Best of luck! §FreeRangeFrogcroak 03:20, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
Thanks! TCN7JM 03:21, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for offering for adminship. I endorse what your supporters have said in the RfA. In the future, anytime after say three months, if you wish to run for an RfA, why don't you drop me a line? Best. Wifione Message 04:13, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

Discussion of interest

A discussion you may be interested in is this RFC, a proposal to make the second comma in a date/place optional. United States Man (talk) 05:32, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 October 2013

The next twice-yearly round of Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) grantmaking is soon to close for community questioning and commentary. Ten nation-based Wikimedia chapters and one thematic organisation are asking for a total of more than US$5M of donors’ money from the Foundation’s renamed annual plan grant process. Aside from Wikimedia UK ($708k), the three biggest asks are from the German-speaking chapters: Wikimedia Germany is asking for $2.4M and Wikimedia Austria $311k; and the German-language-related Swiss chapter is applying for $500k.
Media, sports and Google Doodles dominate, though a very odd fish decided to crash the party.
Twelve articles, four lists, and four pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week, including the article on cabbage.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
MIT Technology Review published a long article on what it called "The decline of Wikipedia". Editor involvement has decreased since 2007; according to the article, this has had an adverse qualitative effect on content, particularly on issues pertinent to non-British and American male geeks.
This week, we headed to an elementary subject with WikiProject Elements. Founded by Mav in 2002, this project has grown to have 19 featured articles, 2 featured topics, and 68 good articles. The project also has a list of templates, and a periodic table of elements filled with pictures.

RfA

Sorry your RfA went the way it did. I went neutral but I would have liked to support, and may do so at some point in the future. Gigs (talk) 15:52, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

Gigs says it all to be honest, but adding my own thoughts for a quick second: You are highly respected cross-wiki, thus my support. Keep chugging along. Don't let this bring you down and unless you morph back into a vandal (), then I will be maintaining my support. Best of luck. Sportsguy17 02:24, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
Sorry it didn't go well, friend. Don't let it get you down. You're still a quality member of the community. AutomaticStrikeout (₵) 02:37, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
Thank you all for your support of me as an editor and for these words of encouragement. I will continue to contribute to Wikipedia in the ways I feel I do best...except for when my computer crashes like it did today (sad)! TCN7JM 04:34, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
Don't give up and I'm sure you will succeed one day! Good luck! Jianhui67 talk★contribs 07:16, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #82

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The Signpost: 30 October 2013

The top 10 encapsulates the history of human aviation; at #1, a Google Doodle celebrating the 216th anniversary of the first parachute jump; at #10, the enduringly popular scifi film Gravity, a paean to human spaceflight. It's odd to think it's taken us 200 years to travel about that many miles up.
While giving a speech on behalf of a gubernatorial candidate, Paul advocated his pro-life position, and compared allowing unrestricted abortions to the film Gattaca. He went on to use strikingly similar language and phraseology in his speech to what the Wikipedia page reads. The Washington Post's article conceded that Wikipedia is a widely used source for trivial information, but mocked the fact that a politician would view it as a reliable source.
In January we raised several potentially troublesome issues for the Wikimedia movement in taking on Wikivoyage, including the apparent inadequacy of the English Wikivoyage sex-tourism policy, hurriedly strengthened against mention of child sex after our inquiries. However, both sex-tourism and illegal-activities policies remain equivocal about how the site should treat entries about sex tourism more generally, and drugs that are classed as illicit in almost every country. Yet the Signpost has found it remarkably easy to locate material in Wikivoyage that violates both the spirit and the letter of the policies.
This year's WikiCup competition has finished, while three articles, five lists, and six pictures, were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.
Laura Stein, a researcher at the University of Texas at Austin, has concluded that, based on her comparison of user policy documents (including the Terms of Service) of YouTube, Facebook and Wikipedia, Wikipedia offers the highest level of participation power overall.
With Halloween, the Day of the Dead, and other gloomy celebrations this week, we're taking a look at Wikipedia's dead and dying. For some dead WikiProjects, the sole purpose of their life was simply to serve as a warning to others. Some of these projects may still be salvageable, but for most, a revival is unlikely. Here are some projects that never got off the ground and the lessons that can be gleaned from their follies
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