User:Jeblad/notes/2012

The Signpost: 16 July 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: Chapters Association mired in controversy over new chair
• Wikimania: Young chapter shows experience beyond its years
• News and notes: WMF enacts reforms at Wikimania; main page redesign; 4 millionth article milestone
• Discussion report: Discussion reports and miscellaneous articulations
• WikiProject report: Summer sports series: French WikiProject Cycling
• Featured content: Takes flight
• Arbitration report: Fæ faces site-ban, proposed decisions posted
• Technology report: Tech talks at Wikimania amid news of a mixed June

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The Signpost: 16 July 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: Chapters Association mired in controversy over new chair
• Wikimania: Young chapter shows experience beyond its years
• News and notes: WMF enacts reforms at Wikimania; main page redesign; 4 millionth article milestone
• Discussion report: Discussion reports and miscellaneous articulations
• WikiProject report: Summer sports series: French WikiProject Cycling
• Featured content: Takes flight
• Arbitration report: Fæ faces site-ban, proposed decisions posted
• Technology report: Tech talks at Wikimania amid news of a mixed June

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The Signpost: 23 July 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: Signpost developments
• Op-ed: The future of PR on Wikipedia
• Paid editing: Does Wikipedia pay? The skeptic: Orange Mike
• News and notes: Chapter head speaks about the aftermath of Russian Wikipedia shutdown
• WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Olympics
• Featured content: When is an island not an island?
• Arbitration report: Fæ and Michaeldsuarez banned; Kwamikagami desysopped; Falun Gong closes with mandated external reviews and topic bans
• Technology report: Translating SVGs and making history bugs history

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The Signpost: 30 July 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Wikimedians and London 2012; WMF budget – staffing, engineering, editor retention effort, and the global South
• Recent research: Conflict dynamics, collaboration and emotions; digitization vs. copyright; WikiProject field notes; quality of medical articles; role of readers; best wiki paper award
• Discussion report: Discussion reports and miscellaneous articulations
• WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Horse Racing
• Featured content: One of a kind
• Arbitration report: No pending or open arbitration cases
• Technology report: Talking performance with CT Woo and Green Semantic MediaWiki with Nischay Nahata

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The Signpost: 06 August 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: The Athena Project: being bold
• News and notes: FDC portal launched
• WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Martial Arts
• Featured content: Casliber's words take root
• Arbitration report: No pending or open arbitration cases
• Technology report: Wikidata nears first deployment but wikis go down in fibre cut calamity

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The Signpost: 13 August 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: Small Wikipedias' burden
• News and notes: Bangla-language survey suggests the challenges for small Wikipedias
• Discussion report: Image placeholders, machine translations, Mediation Committee, de-adminship
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Dispute Resolution
• Featured content: On the road again
• Arbitration report: Youreallycan request for arbitration
• Technology report: "Phabricating" a serious alternative to Gerrit

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The Signpost: 20 August 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: Wikimedians are rightfully wary
• News and notes: Core content competition in full swing; Wikinews fork taken offline
• In the news: American judges on citing Wikipedia
• WikiProject report: Land of Calm and Contrast: WikiProject Korea
• Featured content: Enough for a week – but I'm damned if I see how the helican.
• Technology report: Lua onto test2wiki and news of a convention-al extension

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The Signpost: 27 August 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Tough journey for new travel guide
• Recent research: New influence graph visualizations; NPOV and history; 'low-hanging fruit'
• Discussion report: Sidebar and main page alterations; Recent Deaths; Education Program extension
• WikiProject report: From sonic screwdrivers to jelly babies: WikiProject Doctor Who
• Featured content: Wikipedia rivals The New Yorker: Mark Arsten
• Technology report: Just how bad is the code review backlog?

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The Signpost: 03 September 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: Dispute resolution – where we're at, what we're doing well, and what needs fixing
• News and notes: World's largest photo competition kicks off; WMF legal fees proposal
• Featured content: Wikipedia's Seven Days of Terror
• Technology report: Time for a MediaWiki Foundation?

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The Signpost: 10 September 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: Signpost adapts as news consumption changes
• Special report: Two Wikipedians set to face jury trial
• Op-ed: Fixing Wikipedia's help pages one key to editor retention
• News and notes: Researchers find that Simple English Wikipedia has "lost its focus"
• In the media: Author criticizes Wikipedia article; Wales attacks UK government proposal
• Discussion report: Closing Wikiquette; Image Filter; Education Program and Momento extensions
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Fungi
• Featured content: Not a "Gangsta's Paradise", but still rappin'
• Technology report: Mmmm, milkshake...

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The Signpost: 17 September 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: Signpost expands to Facebook
• News and notes: Tens of thousands of monuments loved; members of new funding body announced
• WikiProject report: Action! — The Indian Cinema Task Force
• Featured content: Go into the light
• Technology report: Future-proofing: HTML5 and IPv6

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The Signpost: 01 October 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Founder: Jimmy Wales
• News and notes: Independent review of UK chapter governance; editor files motion against Wikitravel owners
• Technology report: WMF and the German chapter face up to Toolserver uncertainty
• WikiProject report: The Name's Bond... WikiProject James Bond
• Featured content: Mooned

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The Signpost: 08 October 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Education Program faces community resistance
• Discussion report: Closing RfAs: Stewards or Bureaucrats?; Redesign of Help:Contents
• WikiProject report: Ten years and one million articles: WikiProject Biography
• Featured content: A dash of Arsenikk
• Technology report: The ups and downs of September and October, plus extension code review analysis

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The Signpost: 15 October 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• In the media: Wikipedia's language nerds hit the front page
• Op-ed: AdminCom: A proposal for changing the way we select admins
• News and notes: Chapters ask for big bucks
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Chemicals
• Featured content: Second star to the left
• Technology report: Wikidata is a go: well, almost

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The Signpost: 22 October 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: Adminship from the German perspective
• News and notes: Wikimedians get serious about women in science
• Arbitration report: War declared over Malleus Fatuorum
• WikiProject report: Where in the world is Wikipedia?
• Featured content: Is RfA Kafkaesque?
• Discussion report: Good articles on the main page?; reforming dispute resolution
• Technology report: Wikivoyage migration: technical strategy announced

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The Signpost: 29 October 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: First chickens come home to roost for FDC funding applicants; WMF board discusses governance issues and scope of programs
• WikiProject report: In recognition of... WikiProject Military History
• Featured content: On the road again
• Technology report: Improved video support imminent and Wikidata.org live
• Recent research: WP governance informal; community as social network; efficiency of recruitment and content production; Rorschach news

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The Signpost: 05 November 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: 2012 WikiCup comes to an end
• News and notes: Wikimedian photographic talent on display in national submissions to Wiki Loves Monuments
• In the media: Was climate change a factor in Hurricane Sandy?
• Discussion report: Protected Page Editor right; Gibraltar hooks
• WikiProject report: Listening to WikiProject Songs
• Featured content: Jack-O'-Lanterns and Toads
• Technology report: Hue, Sqoop, Oozie, Zookeeper, Hive, Pig and Kafka

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The Signpost: 12 November 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Court ruling complicates the paid-editing debate
• WikiProject report: Land of parrots, palm trees, and the Holy Cross: WikiProject Brazil
• Featured content: The table has turned
• Technology report: MediaWiki 1.20 and the prospects for getting 1.21 code reviewed promptly

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The Signpost: 19 November 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: FDC's financial muscle kicks in
• Discussion report: GOOG, MSFT, WMT: the ticker symbol placement question
• WikiProject report: No teenagers, mutants, or ninjas: WikiProject Turtles
• Featured content: Wikipedia hit by the Streisand effect
• Technology report: Structural reorganisation "not a done deal"

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The Signpost: 26 November 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Toolserver finance remains uncertain
• Recent research: Movie success predictions, readability, credentials and authority, geographical comparisons
• WikiProject report: Directing Discussion: WikiProject Deletion Sorting
• Featured content: Panoramic views, history, and a celestial constellation
• Technology report: Wikidata reaches 100,000 entries

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The Signpost: 03 December 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Wiki Loves Monuments announces 2012 winner
• Discussion report: Concise Wikipedia; standardize version history tables
• WikiProject report: The White Rose: WikiProject Yorkshire
• Featured content: The play's the thing
• Technology report: MediaWiki problems but good news for Toolserver stability

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The Signpost: 10 December 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Wobbly start to ArbCom election, but turnout beats last year's
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Human Rights
• Featured content: Wikipedia goes to Hell
• Technology report: The new Visual Editor gets a bit more visual

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The Signpost: 17 December 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: Finding truth in Sandy Hook
• News and notes: Arbitrator election: stewards release the results
• Discussion report: Concise Wikipedia; section headings for navboxes
• WikiProject report: WikiProjekt Computerspiel: Covering Computer Games in Germany
• Featured content: Wikipedia's cute ass
• Technology report: MediaWiki groups and why you might want to start snuggling newbie editors

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The Signpost: 24 December 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Debates on Meta sparking along—grants, new entities, and conflicts of interest
• WikiProject report: A Song of Ice and Fire
• Featured content: Battlecruiser operational
• Technology report: Efforts to "normalise" Toolserver relations stepped up

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The Signpost: 31 December 2012

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: Wikipedia, our Colosseum
• Interview: Interview with Brion Vibber, the WMF's first employee
• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation fundraiser a success; Czech parliament releases photographs to chapter
• In the media: Is the Wikimedia movement too 'cash rich'?; Wales accused of Kazakh corruption
• Recent research: Wikipedia and Sandy Hook; SOPA blackout reexamined
• Discussion report: Image policy and guidelines; resysopping policy
• WikiProject report: New Year, New York
• Featured content: Whoa Nelly! Featured content in review
• Technology report: Looking back on a year of incremental changes

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