Contents
- 1 Please comment on Talk:Monkey Kingdom
- 2 The Signpost: 06 January 2016
- 3 Please comment on Talk:Socialism
- 4 Tech News: 2016-02
- 5 The Signpost: 13 January 2016
- 6 Please comment on Talk:List of best-selling music artists
- 7 Tech News: 2016-03
- 8 WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 6
- 9 The Signpost: 20 January 2016
- 10 Please comment on Talk:2015 Chinese stock market crash
- 11 Tech News: 2016-04
- 12 The Signpost: 27 January 2016
- 13 Tech News: 2016-05
- 14 Please comment on Talk:Housing in the United Kingdom
- 15 Tech News: 2016-06
- 16 The Signpost: 03 February 2016
- 17 Please comment on Talk:Erik Buell Racing
- 18 The Signpost: 10 February 2016
- 19 Tech News: 2016-07
- 20 Please comment on Talk:Dollar Shave Club
- 21 The Signpost: 17 February 2016
- 22 Tech News: 2016-08
- 23 WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 7
- 24 The Signpost: 24 February 2016
- 25 Please comment on Talk:Israeli lira
- 26 Tech News: 2016-09
- 27 Please comment on Talk:Penny
- 28 Tech News: 2016-10
- 29 The Signpost: 02 March 2016
- 30 Please comment on Talk:Ford Pinto
- 31 The Signpost: 09 March 2016
- 32 Tech News: 2016-11
- 33 The Signpost: 16 March 2016
- 34 Please comment on Talk:Ale Resnik
- 35 Tech News: 2016-12
- 36 The Signpost: 23 March 2016
- 37 Tech News: 2016-13
- 38 Please comment on Talk:Amway
- 39 The Signpost: 1 April 2016
- 40 "Women are everywhere"
- 41 Tech News: 2016-14
- 42 Please comment on Talk:Chrysler
- 43 FYI
- 44 Tech News: 2016-15
- 45 The Signpost: 14 April 2016
- 46 Please comment on Talk:John Carter (film)
- 47 Tech News: 2016-16
- 48 WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 8
- 49 Please comment on Talk:Biodynamic agriculture
- 50 The Signpost: 24 April 2016
- 51 Tech News: 2016-17
- 52 Please comment on Talk:Monowheel tractor
- 53 The Signpost: 2 May 2016
- 54 Tech News: 2016-18
- 55 Please comment on Talk:Hilton Worldwide
- 56 Tech News: 2016-19
- 57 Underreported stories
Please comment on Talk:Monkey Kingdom
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The Signpost: 06 January 2016
- News and notes: The WMF's age of discontent
- In the media: Impenetrable science; Jimmy Wales back in the UAE
- Arbitration report: Catflap08 and Hijiri88 case been decided
- Featured content: Featured menagerie
- WikiProject report: Try-ing to become informed - WikiProject Rugby League
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
- Read this Signpost in full
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- MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:48, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Socialism
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Tech News: 2016-02
16:59, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 13 January 2016
- News and notes: Community objections to new Board trustee
- In focus: The Crisis at New Montgomery Street
- Editorial: We need a culture of verification
- Community view: Battle for the soul of the WMF
- Traffic report: Pattern recognition: Third annual Traffic Report
- Special report: Wikipedia community celebrates Public Domain Day 2016
- Featured content: This Week's Featured Content
- Arbitration report: Interview: outgoing and incumbent arbitrators 2016
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
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- MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:17, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:List of best-selling music artists
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Tech News: 2016-03
17:56, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 6
Hello there! Happy to be writing this newsletter once more. This month:
Some good news: the Wikimedia Foundation has renewed WikiProject X. This means we can continue focusing on making WikiProjects better.
During our first round of work, we created a prototype WikiProject based on two ideas: (1) WikiProjects should clearly present things for people to do, and (2) The content of WikiProjects should be automated as much as possible. We launched pilots, and for the most part it works. But this approach will not work for the long term. While it makes certain aspects of running a WikiProject easier, it makes the maintenance aspects harder.
We are working on a major overhaul that will address these issues. New features will include:
- Creating WikiProjects by simply filling out a form, choosing which reports you want to generate for your project. This will work with existing bots in addition to the Reports Bot reports. (Of course, you can also have sections curated by humans.)
- One-click button to join a WikiProject, with optional notifications.
- Be able to define your WikiProject's scope within the WikiProject itself by listing relevant pages and categories, eliminating the need to tag every talk page with a banner. (You will still be allowed to do that, of course. It just won't be required.)
The end goal is a collaboration tool that can be used by WikiProjects but also by any edit-a-thon or group of people that want to coordinate on improving articles. Though implemented as an extension, the underlying content will be wikitext, meaning that you can continue to use categories, templates, and other features as you normally would.
This will take a lot of work, and we are just getting started. What would you like to see? I invite you to discuss on our talk page.
Until next time,
The Signpost: 20 January 2016
- News and notes: Vote of no confidence; WMF trustee speaks out
- In the media: 15th anniversary news round-up
- Traffic report: Danse Macabre
- Featured content: This week's featured content
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- MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:22, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:2015 Chinese stock market crash
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Tech News: 2016-04
16:39, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 27 January 2016
- Traffic report: Death and taxes
- News and notes: Geshuri steps down from the Board
- In the media: Media coverage of the Arnnon Geshuri no-confidence vote
- Recent research: Bursty edits; how politics beat religion but then lost to sports; notability as a glass ceiling
- Featured content: This week's featured content
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- MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:24, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
Tech News: 2016-05
21:02, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Housing in the United Kingdom
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Tech News: 2016-06
18:58, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 03 February 2016
- From the editors: Help wanted
- Special report: Board chair and new trustee speak with the Signpost
- Traffic report: Bowled
- Featured content: This week's featured content
- Arbitration report: Catching up on arbitration
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- MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:30, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Erik Buell Racing
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The Signpost: 10 February 2016
- News and notes: Another WMF departure
- In the media: Jeb Bush swings at Wikipedia and connects
- Featured content: This week's featured content
- Traffic report: A river of revilement
Tech News: 2016-07
16:16, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Dollar Shave Club
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The Signpost: 17 February 2016
- Featured content: This week's featured content
- Traffic report: Super Bowling
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
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Tech News: 2016-08
18:22, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 7
This month:
Development of the extension for setting up WikiProjects, as described in the last issue of this newsletter, is currently underway. No terribly exciting news on this front.
In the meantime, we are working on a prototype for a new service we hope to announce soon. The problem: there are requests scattered all across Wikipedia, including requests for new articles and requests for improvements to existing articles. We Wikipedians are very good at coming up with lists of things to do. But once we write these lists, where do they end up? How can we make them useful for all editors—even those who do not browse the missing articles lists, or the particular WikiProjects that have lists?
Introducing Wikipedia Requests, a new tool to centralize the various lists of requests around Wikipedia. Requests will be tagged by category and WikiProject, making it easier to find requests based on what your interests are. Accompanying this service will be a bot that will let you generate reports from this database on any wiki page, including WikiProjects. This means that once a request is filed centrally, it can syndicated all throughout Wikipedia, and once it is fulfilled, it will be marked as "complete" throughout Wikipedia. The idea for this service came about when I saw that it was easy to put together to-do lists based on database queries, but it was harder to do this for human-generated requests when those requests are scattered throughout the wiki, siloed throughout several pages. This should especially be useful for WikiProjects that have overlapping interests.
The newsletter this month is fairly brief; not a lot of news, just checking in to say that we are hard at work and hope to have more for you soon.
Until next time,
Harej (talk) 01:43, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 24 February 2016
- Special report: [UPDATED] WMF in limbo as decision on Tretikov nears
- Op-ed: Backward the Foundation
- Featured content: This week's featured content
- Traffic report: Of dead pools and dead judges
- Arbitration report: Motion on CheckUser and Oversight inactivity
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
Please comment on Talk:Israeli lira
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Tech News: 2016-09
20:12, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Penny
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Tech News: 2016-10
20:24, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 02 March 2016
- News and notes: Tretikov resigns, WMF in transition
- Featured content: This week's featured content
- Traffic report: Brawling
Please comment on Talk:Ford Pinto
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The Signpost: 09 March 2016
- Featured content: This week's featured content
- News and notes: Katherine Maher named interim head of WMF; Wales email re-sparks Heilman controversy; draft WMF strategy posted
- Technology report: Wikimedia wikis will temporarily go into read-only mode on several occasions in the coming weeks
- Traffic report: All business like show business
- WikiCup report: First round of the WikiCup finishes
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Tech News: 2016-11
18:37, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 16 March 2016
- News and notes: Wikipedia Zero: Orange mobile partnership in Africa ends; the evolution of privacy loss in Wikipedia
- In the media: Wales at SXSW; lawsuit over Wikipedia PR editing
- Discussion report: Is an interim WMF executive director inherently notable?
- Featured content: This week's featured content
- Traffic report: Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States
- Technology report: Watchlists, watchlists, watchlists!
- Wikipedia Weekly: Podcast #119: The Foundation and the departure of Lila Tretikov
Please comment on Talk:Ale Resnik
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Tech News: 2016-12
16:04, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 23 March 2016
- Interview: WMF interim executive director Katherine Maher says the org is at an "interesting moment of change"
- News and notes: Lila Tretikov a Young Global Leader; Wikipediocracy blog post sparks indefinite blocks
- In the media: Angolan file sharers cause trouble for Wikipedia Zero; the 3D printer edit war; a culture based on change and turmoil
- Editorial: "God damn it, you've got to be kind."
- Traffic report: Be weary on the Ides of March
- Featured content: Watch out! A slave trader, a live mascot, and a crested serpent await!
- Arbitration report: Palestine-Israel article 3 case amended
- Wikipedia Weekly: Podcast #120—the status of Wikimania 2016
Tech News: 2016-13
19:43, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Amway
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The Signpost: 1 April 2016
- News and notes: Trump/Wales 2016
- WikiProject report: Why should the Devil have all the good music? An interview with WikiProject Christian music
- Traffic report: Donald v Daredevil
- Featured content: A slow, slow week
- Technology report: Browse Wikipedia in safety? Use Telnet!
- Recent research: "Employing Wikipedia for good not evil" in education, useing eyetracking to find out how readers read articles
- Wikipedia Weekly: Podcast #121: How April fools went down
"Women are everywhere"
Hi EllenCT. I'm an editor of the Italian Wikipedia. I'm trying to participate to an IEG with the project "Women are everywhere". You will find the draft at this link https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Women_are_everywhere It would be great if you could have a look at it. I need any kind of suggestion or advice to improve it. Support or endorsement would be fantastic. Many thanks,--Kenzia (talk) 12:23, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
- @Kenzia: thank you so much for your kind invitation. Have you seen http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?pid=S0038-23532015000300001&script=sci_arttext ? EllenCT (talk) 07:17, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
Yes EllenCT, i've just seen it, thank you for the information. Grazie,--Kenzia (talk) 07:38, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
- @EllenCT: The article http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?pid=S0038-23532015000300001&script=sci_arttext is really interesting. "There can be no more excuses". So very true. We must all do something. That's the reason why I'm trying to collaborate with the project https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Women_are_everywhere I hope to have your support. Sincerely,--Kenzia (talk) 08:35, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
Thank you EllenCT for your support! Grazie. --Kenzia (talk) 12:07, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
Tech News: 2016-14
22:13, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Chrysler
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FYI
Connecticut Fighting For Free And Fair Elections
Not sure why the 😐 😒 .. you need to stay non-partisan? wbm1058 (talk) 21:27, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
- @Wbm1058: thank you for the informative update! What does, "One can only hope that the Signpost scoop that he will be the running mate of Donald Trump University is dead wrong" mean? I probably misunderstood you. EllenCT (talk) 16:35, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
- Just a little Before and After fun: "Before & After", a common category on the American game shows Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!
- You have heard about the Trump University controversy? A prime example of the issue with education being driven by the primary motivation of making money off the students.
- So I definitely don't want to see Wales endorsing Trump, much less running on his ticket.
- I have little faith that President Hillary would do much more to solve the issue than implement an Obamacare type of band-aid. wbm1058 (talk) 16:48, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
- Oh, and Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2016-04-01/News and notes, in case you didn't see that. There's been some controversy around that, too. An un-funny joke disparaging a living person. I have mixed feelings about the man, but this meme about his "small hands" should be put to bed. wbm1058 (talk) 16:55, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
Tech News: 2016-15
20:44, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 14 April 2016
- News and notes: Denny Vrandečić resigns from Wikimedia Foundation board
- In the media: Wikimedia Sweden loses copyright case; Tex Watson; AI assistants; David Jolly biography
- Featured content: This week's featured content
- Traffic report: A welcome return to pop culture and death
- Arbitration report: The first case of 2016—Wikicology
- Gallery: A history lesson
Please comment on Talk:John Carter (film)
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Tech News: 2016-16
20:40, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 8
This month:
In the last issue of the WikiProject X Newsletter, I discussed the upcoming Wikipedia Requests system: a central database for outstanding work on Wikipedia. I am pleased to announce Wikipedia Requests is live! Its purpose is to supplement automatically generated lists, such as those from SuggestBot, Reports bot, or Wikidata. It is currently being demonstrated on WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health (which I work on as part of my NIOSH duties) and WikiProject Women scientists.
Adding a request is as simple as filling out a form. Just go to the Add form to add your request. Adding sources will help ensure that your request is fulfilled more quickly. And when a request is fulfilled, simply click "mark as complete" and it will be removed from all the lists it's on. All at the click of a button! (If anyone is concerned, all actions are logged.)
With this new service is a template to transclude these requests: {{Wikipedia Requests}}. It's simple to use: add the template to a page, specifying article=
, category=
, or wikiproject=
, and the list will be transcluded. For example, for requests having to do with all living people, just do {{Wikipedia Requests|category=Living people}}
. Use these lists on WikiProjects but also for edit-a-thons where you want a convenient list of things to do on hand. Give it a shot!
The value of Wikipedia Requests comes from being a centralized database. The long work to migrating individual lists into this combined list is slowly underway. As of writing, we have 883 open tasks logged in Wikipedia Requests. We need your help building this list.
If you know of a list of missing articles, or of outstanding tasks for existing articles, that you would like to migrate to this new system, head on over to Wikipedia:Wikipedia Requests#Transition project and help out. Doing this will help put your list in front of more eyes—more than just your own WikiProject.
WikiProject X maintains a database that associates article talk pages (and draft talk pages) with WikiProjects. This database powers many of the reports that Reports bot generates. However, until very recently, this database was not made available to others who might find its data useful. It's only common sense to open up the database and let others build tools with it.
And indeed: Citation Hunt, the game to add citations to Wikipedia, now lets you filter by WikiProject, using the data from our database.
Are you a tool developer interested in using this? Here are some details: the database resides on Tool Labs with the name s52475__wpx_p
. The table that associates WikiProjects with articles and drafts is called projectindex
. Pages are stored by talk page title but in the future this should change. Have fun!
- The work on the CollaborationKit extension continues. The extension will initially focus on reducing template and Lua bloat on WikiProjects (especially our WPX UI demonstration projects), and will from there create custom interfaces for creating and maintaining WikiProjects.
- The WikiCite meeting will be in Berlin in May. The goal of the meeting is to figure out how to build a bibliographic database for use on the Wikimedia projects. This fits in quite nicely with WikiProject X's work: we want to make it easier for people to find things to work on, and with a powerful, open bibliographic database, we can build recommendations for sources. This feature was requested by the Wikipedia Library back in September, and this meeting is a major next step. We look forward to seeing what comes out of this meeting.
Until next time,
Harej (talk) 01:29, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Biodynamic agriculture
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The Signpost: 24 April 2016
- Special report: Update on EranBot, our new copyright violation detection bot
- Featured content: The double-sized edition
- Traffic report: Two for the price of one
- Arbitration report: Amendments made to the Race and intelligence case
Tech News: 2016-17
21:02, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Monowheel tractor
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The Signpost: 2 May 2016
- In the media: Wikipedia Zero piracy in Bangladesh; bureaucracy; chilling effects; too few cooks; translation gaps
- Traffic report: Purple
- Featured content: The best... from the past two weeks
Tech News: 2016-18
20:09, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Hilton Worldwide
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Tech News: 2016-19
23:22, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
Underreported stories
I missed your reply (14:16, 8 May 2016) to my post (18:19, 6 May 2016) until after the discussion was archived at 02:54, 10 May 2016, to User talk:Jimbo Wales/Archive 207#Underreported stories, and I found it when I was searching on that page for something else. My reply to your reply is: I do not know what their criteria are.
—Wavelength (talk) 03:10, 13 May 2016 (UTC)