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Wikimedia Highlights, Signpost und GLAM 2015
The Signpost: 07 January 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Interview: Interview with Jakob, one of Wikipedia's more prolific waterway contributors
- In the media: ISIL propaganda video; AirAsia complaints
- Featured content: Kock up
- Traffic report: Auld Lang Syne
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The Signpost: 14 January 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Featured content: Citations are needed
- In the media: Wikipedia's birthday brings tributes, app, award; Castro death rumors
- News and notes: Erasmus Prize recognizes the global Wikipedia community
- Op-ed: Articles for creation needs you
- Traffic report: Wikipédia sommes Charlie
- WikiProject report: Articles for Creation: the Inside Story
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The Signpost: 21 January 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- From the editor: Introducing your new editors-in-chief
- Anniversary: A decade of the Signpost
- Interview: WWII veteran honors shipmates through Wikipedia editing
- Op-ed: Let's make WikiProjects better
- News and notes: Annual report released; Wikimania; steward elections
- In the media: Johann Hari; bandishes and delicate flowers
- Featured content: Yachts, marmots, boat races, and a rocket engineer who attempted to birth a goddess
- Arbitration report: As one door closes, a (Gamer)Gate opens
- Technology report: The future of MediaWiki
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The Signpost: 28 January 2015
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- From the editor: An editorial board that includes you
- In the media: A murderous week for Wikipedia
- Traffic report: A sea of faces
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This Month in GLAM: January 2015
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The Signpost: 04 February 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: No men beyond this point: the proposal to create a no-men space on Wikipedia
- Op-ed: Is Wikipedia for sale?
- In the media: Gamergate and Muhammad controversies continue
- Traffic report: The American Heartland
- Featured content: It's raining men!
- Arbitration report: Slamming shut the GamerGate
- WikiProject report: Dicing with death – on Wikipedia?
- Technology report: Security issue fixed; VisualEditor changes
- Gallery: Langston Hughes
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The Signpost: 11 February 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- From the editors: We want to know what you think!
- News and notes: One editor faces likely ban for work on Wikipedia; another awarded $1 million
- In the media: Is Wikipedia eating itself?
- Traffic report: Bowled over
- WikiProject report: Brand new WikiProjects profiled
- Featured content: A grizzly bear, Operation Mascot, Freedom Planet & Liberty Island, cosmic dust clouds, a cricket five-wicket list, more fine art, & a terrible, terrible opera...
- Gallery: Feel the love
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Wikimedia Highlights from January 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in January 2015, covering selected activities of the Wikimedia Foundation and other important events from the Wikimedia movement.
- Wikipedia turns 14, receives prestigious Erasmus Prize 2015
- Civility, Wikipedia, and the conversation on Gamergate
- How high school student Jack Andraka used Wikipedia to research a new test for cancer
- Wellcome Library donates 100,000 medical images to Wikimedia Commons
- Senior citizens learn to edit Wikipedia in the Czech Republic
- Try Content Translation: A quick way to create new articles from other languages
- Weekly edit-a-thons help create new articles about women and literature in Sweden
(The Wikimedia Highlights issues from some recent months have not been distributed via this notice, but can be found in the archive.)
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The Signpost: 18 February 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Editorial: Recent retirements typify problem of admin attrition
- In the media: Students' use and perception of Wikipedia
- Special report: Revision scoring as a service
- Traffic report: February is for lovers
- Gallery: Darwin Day
- Featured content: A load of bull-sized breakfast behind the restaurant, Koi feeding, a moray eel, Spaghetti Nebula and other fishy, fishy fish
- Arbitration report: We've built the nuclear reactor; now what colour should we paint the bikeshed?
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The Signpost: 25 February 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Did WMF "participate" in nefarious activity?
- Op-ed: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own
- In the media: WikiGnomes and Bigfoot
- Gallery: Far from home
- Traffic report: Fifty Shades of... self-denial?
- Featured content: The Moon, Mars, Venus, and Saturn, in no particular order. Also, Kaiser Kong.
- Recent research: Gender bias, SOPA blackout, and a student assignment that backfired
- WikiProject report: Be prepared... Scouts in the spotlight
- Blog: Join the Wikimedia strategy consultation
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The Signpost: 25 February 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Did WMF "participate" in nefarious activity?
- Op-ed: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own
- In the media: WikiGnomes and Bigfoot
- Traffic report: Fifty Shades of... self-denial?
- Featured content: The Moon, Mars, Venus, and Saturn, in no particular order. Also, Kaiser Kong.
- Recent research: Gender bias, SOPA blackout, and a student assignment that backfired
- Gallery: Far from home
- WikiProject report: Be prepared... Scouts in the spotlight
- Blog: Join the Wikimedia strategy consultation
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The Signpost: 04 March 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- From the editor: A sign of the times—the Signpost revamps its internal structure to make contributing easier
- Editorial: Conspiracy theories distract from real questions about grantmaking report
- News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation and OTRS team both publish quarterly reports, indicate operating changes
- Interview: Meet a paid editor
- Traffic report: Attack of the movies
- In the media: Kanye West rebranded; Wikipedia in court; editors for hire
- Blog: Black History Month edit-a-thons tackle Wikipedia’s multicultural gaps
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Featured content: Ploughing fields and trading horses with Rosa Bonheur
- Arbitration report: Bradspeaks—impact, regrets, and advice; current cases hinge on sex, religion, and ... infoboxes
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The Signpost: 11 March 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]- Special report: An advance look at the WMF's fundraising survey
- In the media: Gamergate; a Wiki hoax; Kanye West
- Traffic report: Wikipedia: handing knowledge to the world, one prank at a time
- Featured content: Here they come, the couple plighted –
- Op-ed: Why the Core Contest matters
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The Signpost: 18 March 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]- From the editor: A salute to Pine
- Featured content: A woman who loved kings, a king who loved angels ...
- Traffic report: It's not cricket
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The Signpost: 25 March 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]- News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation adopts open-access research policy
- Featured content: A carnival of animals, a river of dung, a wasteland of uncles, and some people with attitude
- Special report: Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2014
- Traffic report: Oddly familiar
- Recent research: Most important people; respiratory reliability; academic attitudes
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Wikimedia Highlights from February 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in February 2015, covering selected activities of the Wikimedia Foundation and other important events from the Wikimedia movement.
- Love on the Wikis
- A WikiLove story
- Who links to Wikipedia?
- What is Wikipedia Zero? (VIDEO)
- Join the Wikimedia strategy consultation
- Black History Month edit-a-thons tackle Wikipedia’s multicultural gaps
- Wiki Loves Africa photo contest announces winning pictures
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This Month in GLAM: February 2015
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The Signpost: 01 April 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- In focus: WMF's latest strategy document shows successes, vagueness, and the need for better data
- In the media: Wiki-PR duo bulldoze a piñata store; Wifione arbitration case; French parliamentary plagiarism
- Traffic report: All over the place
- Featured content: Stop Press. Marie Celeste Mystery Solved. Crew Found Hiding In Wardrobe.
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This Month in GLAM: March 2015
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The Signpost: 08 April 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Op-ed: We are drowning in promotional artspam
- News and notes: Advancement department to be created at the Foundation, milestone fixes
- In the media: Wikipedia on 60 Minutes, Kickstarter, and in the classroom
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Christianity
- Featured content: Partisan arrangements, dodgy dollars, a mysterious union of strings, and a hole that became a monument
- Traffic report: Resurrection week
- Arbitration report: New Functionary appointments
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
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The Signpost: 15 April 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Erik Möller leaving Foundation; annual plan grants under community review
- In the media: Saving Wikipedia; Internet regulation; Thoreau quote hoax
- Featured content: Au-delà de les Alpes, le chien lit de Sainte Bernard. Sous les pavés, les trimes d'argent! Mes enfants, suivez-moi!
- Traffic report: Furious domination
- Blog: Single-User Login provides access to all wikis
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The Signpost: 22 April 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Special report: Sony emails reveal corporate practices and undisclosed advocacy editing
- News and notes: Call for candidates as the movement approaches the Wikimedia Board elections
- In the media: UK political editing; hoaxes; net neutrality
- In focus: 2015 Wikimedia Foundation election preparations underway
- Featured content: Vanguard on guard
- Traffic report: A harvest of couch potatoes
- Gallery: The bitter end
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The Signpost: 29 April 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Wikimania: Choice of small village for Wikimania 2016 ruffles feathers
- News and notes: Wiki Loves Monuments evaluation sees diminishing returns and increasing cost
- In the media: Scottish MEP blocked for edit warring; ranking articles by importance
- Featured content: Apartheid and related topics, awards and accolades, and a bunch of tough journeys
- Recent research: Popularity vs. quality, Wikipedia images show how copyright damages economy, bots as servants or policemen
- Traffic report: Bruce, Nessie, and genocide
- Technology report: VisualEditor and MediaWiki updates
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Wikimedia Highlights from March 2015
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- Wikimedia v. NSA: Wikimedia Foundation files suit against NSA to challenge upstream mass surveillance
- Womens History Month
- Growing free knowledge through open data
- Raspberry Pi in Masekelo: Bringing Wikipedia to a school without electricity
- Wikimedia Foundation adopts Open Access Policy to support free knowledge
- Welcome new members of Wikimedia Foundation
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The Signpost: 06 May 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Special report: FDC candidates respond to key issues
- News and notes: "Inspire" grant-making campaign concludes, grantees announced
- In the media: Guggenheim image donation; Wiki campaign gets advertising award
- Featured content: The amorous android and the horsebreeder; WikiCup round two concludes
- Traffic report: The grim ship reality
- Blog: How many women edit Wikipedia?
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This Month in GLAM: April 2015
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Wikimedia Highlights from April 2015
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- New features on Wikipedia iOS app help readers access, explore, and share knowledge
- Wiki Learning holds massive edit-a-thon at Tec de Monterrey in Mexico City
- The first Wikipedia TV spots and awareness campaign in Cameroon (VIDEO)
- Celebrity photographer Allan Warren shares the big shots on Wikipedia
- Introducing the new Wikipedia store
- A Wikimedian asks European Parliament members for copyright reform
- Join Wiki Loves Earth 2015: help capture our natural heritage
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The Signpost: 13 May 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Foundation elections: WMF Board candidates share their views with the Signpost
- Op-ed: What made Wikipedia lose its reputation?
- In the media: Grant Shapps story continues; Wikipedia's "leftist ties"
- News and notes: Swedish Wikimedia chapter organizes simultaneous Wikidata contests
- Featured content: Four first-time featured article writers lead the way
- Traffic report: Round Two
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The Signpost: 20 May 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: The dark side of comedy: Wikipedia volunteers cleaning up behind John Oliver's fowl jokes
- In focus: The awful truth about Wikimedia's article counts
- From the editor: Your voice is needed: strategic voting in the WMF election
- In the media: Jimmy Wales accepts Dan David Prize
- WikiProject report: Cell-ebrating Molecular Biology
- Arbitration report: Editor conduct the subject of multiple cases
- Featured content: Puppets, fungi, and waterfalls
- Traffic report: Inner Core
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The Signpost: 27 May 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: WMF releases quarterly reports, annual plans
- In the media: Scrubbing Parliamentary biographies; Wikipedia's invisible history
- Recent research: Drug articles accurate and largely complete; women "slightly overrepresented"; talking like an admin
- Traffic report: Summer, summer, summertime
- Discussion report: A relic from the past that needs to be updated
- Featured content: When music was confined to a ribbon of rust
- Technology report: MediaWiki blows up printers
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The Signpost: 03 June 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Three new community-elected trustees announced, incumbents out
- Blog: How Wikipedia covered Caitlyn Jenner’s transition
- Discussion report: The deprecation of Persondata; RfA – A broken process; Complaints from users on Swedish Wikipedia
- Special report: Towards "Health Information for All": Medical content on Wikipedia received 6.5 billion page views in 2013
- In the media: Anonymous Australian editing targets football player, shooting victim
- Traffic report: A rather ordinary week
- Featured content: It's not over till the fat man sings
- Technology report: Things are getting SPDYier
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This Month in GLAM: May 2015
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Wikimedia Highlights from May 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in April 2015.
- Meet the Inspire grantees working to increase gender diversity on Wikimedia
- A dark side of comedy: John Oliver asks TV viewers to vandalize Wikipedia articles on U.S. politicians
- Fundraising made in Germany: lessons learned by Wikimedia Deutschland
- Editing the Uzbek Wikipedia: Kamarniso Vrandečić
- First ever WikiArabia conference gathers Wikipedians in Tunisia to connect and share experiences
- Wikimania and the differences between online and offline cultures
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The Signpost: 10 June 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Chapter financial trends analyzed, news in brief
- Traffic report: Two households, both alike in dignity
- In the media: Arbitration case attracts media coverage; Wikipedia in Israel
- Featured content: Just the bear facts, ma'am
- Technology report: Wikimedia sites are going HTTPS only
- Blog: Making Wikipedia’s medical articles accessible in Chinese
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The Signpost: 17 June 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Arbitration report: An election has consequences
- Discussion report: A quick way of becoming an admin
- Featured content: Great Dane hits 150
- In focus: Three weeks to save freedom of panorama in Europe
- In the media: Wikipedia wins Asturias Prize; printing out Wikipedia; HTTPS switch
- Interview: A veteran’s Wikipedia edits help him understand the brutality behind Yugoslavia’s wars
- News and notes: Labs outage kills tools, self; news in brief
- Op-ed: Making a difference in Wikipedia, one GA at a time
- Technology report: HTTPS-only rollout completed, proposal to enable VisualEditor for new accounts
- WikiProject report: We are back - Western Australia speaks
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The Signpost: 24 June 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- From the editor: The Signpost tagging initiative
- Op-ed: Content Translation beta is coming to the English Wikipedia
- News and notes: Board of Trustees propose bylaw amendments
- In the media: Turkish Wikipedia censorship; "Can Wikipedia survive?"; PR editing
- Special report: Small impact of the large Google Translation Project on Telugu Wikipedia
- Recent research: How Wikipedia built governance capability; readability of plastic surgery articles
- Featured content: One eye when begun, two when it's done
- Blog: 7,473 volumes at 700 pages each: meet Print Wikipedia
- Arbitration report: Politics by other means: The American politics 2 arbitration
- Technology report: 2015 MediaWiki architecture focus and Multimedia roadmap announced
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The Signpost: 01 July 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Training the Trainers; VP of Engineering leaves WMF
- In the media: EU freedom of panorama; Nehru outrage; BBC apology
- WikiProject report: Able to make a stand
- Featured content: Viva V.E.R.D.I.
- Traffic report: We're Baaaaack
- Technology report: Technical updates and improvements
- Blog: These Texans are on a quest to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of their state’s revolution
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This Month in GLAM: June 2015
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Wikimedia Highlights from June 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in June 2015.
- These Texans are on a quest to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of their state’s revolution
- Securing access to Wikimedia sites with HTTPS
- 7,473 volumes at 700 pages each: meet Print Wikipedia
- Record featured article author recommends five Wikipedia articles
- How English Wikipedia covered Caitlyn Jenner’s transition
- Preserving Wikipedia citations for the future: Geoffrey Bilder
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The Signpost: 08 July 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Editorial: So you want to get your message out. Where do you turn?
- News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation annual plan released, news in brief
- In the media: Wikimania warning; Wikipedia "mystery" easily solved
- Traffic report: The Empire lobs back
- Featured content: Pyrénées, Playmates, parliament and a prison...
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
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The Signpost: 15 July 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Op-ed: On paid editing and advocacy: when the Bright Line fails to shine, and what we can do about it
- News and notes: The Wikimedia Conference and Wikimania
- In the media: Shapps requests WMUK data; professor's plagiarism demotion
- Blog: Wikimedia Foundation releases third transparency report
- Traffic report: Belles of the ball
- WikiProject report: What happens when a country is no longer a country?
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
- Featured content: When angels and daemons interrupt the vicious and intemperate
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The Signpost: 22 July 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- From the editor: Change the world
- News and notes: Wikimanía 2016; Lightbreather ArbCom case
- Wikimanía report: Wikimanía 2015 report, part 1, the plenaries
- In the media: Novelists annotate Wikipedia; Wales promotes TPO; Working for free
- Traffic report: The Nerds, They Are A-Changin'
- WikiProject report: Some more politics
- Featured content: The sleep of reason produces monsters\
- Gallery: "One small step..."
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
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The Signpost: 29 July 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: BARC de-adminship proposal; Wikimania recordings debate
- Op-ed: My life as an autistic Wikipedian
- Recent research: Wikipedia and collective intelligence; how Wikipedia is tweeted
- In the media: Is Wikipedia a battleground in the culture wars?
- Featured content: Even mammoths get the Blues
- Traffic report: Namaste again, Reddit
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The Signpost: 05 August 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Editorial: Wikipedia better equipped to deal with systemic bias than traditional publishers
- Op-ed: Je ne suis pas Google
- News and notes: VisualEditor, endowment, science, and news in brief
- WikiProject report: Meet the boilerplate makers
- In the media: Probe into Nehru edits launched; dangers of the right to be forgotten
- Traffic report: Mrityorma amritam gamaya...
- Featured content: Maya, Michigan, Medici, Médée, and Moul n'ga
- Blog: Get help editing Wikipedia with the new “Co-op” mentorship program
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This Month in GLAM: July 2015
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Wikimedia Highlights from July 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in July 2015.
- Konkani Wikipedia goes live
- “Becoming involved in making the changes you want to see”: Leigh Thelmadatter
- Wikidata, coming soon to a menu near you
- Wikimedians urge the EU to protect freedom of panorama
- ACLU files amended complaint on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation
- Get the latest Wikipedia updates easily with IFTTT
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The Signpost: 12 August 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Superprotect, one year later; a contentious RfA
- In the media: Paid editing; traffic drop; Nicki Minaj
- Forum: Community voices on paid editing
- Wikimanía report: Wikimanía 2015, part 2, a community event
- Traffic report: Fighting from top to bottom
- Featured content: Fused lizards, giant mice, and Scottish demons
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
- Blog: The Hunt for Tirpitz
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The Signpost: 19 August 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Op-ed: WP:THREATENING2MEN: The English Wikipedia's misogynist infopolitics and the hegemony of the asshole consensus
- In the media: Politically controversial science; "Wikipedia hates women"
- Featured content: Dead parrots, live frogs, a symbolic kiss and what do we get? Enrique Iglesias!
- Travelogue: Seeing is believing
- Traffic report: Straight Outta Connecticut
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
- Blog: How Wikipedia responds to breaking news
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The Signpost: 26 August 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- In focus: An increase in active Wikipedia editors
- Op-ed: Wikimania – can volunteers organize conferences?
- News and notes: Re-imagining grants
- In the media: Russia temporarily blocks Wikipedia
- Recent research: OpenSym 2015 report; PageRank and wiki quality; news suggestions; the impact of open access
- Featured content: Out to stud, please call later
- Arbitration report: Reinforcing Arbitration
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The Signpost: 02 September 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Special report: Massive paid editing network unearthed on the English Wikipedia
- News and notes: Flow placed on ice
- Discussion report: WMF's sudden reversal on Wiki Loves Monuments
- Featured content: Brawny
- In the media: Orangemoody sockpuppet case sparks widespread coverage
- Traffic report: You didn't miss much
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
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Wikimedia Highlights from August 2015
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- Hundreds of “black hat” English Wikipedia accounts blocked following investigation
- The Hunt for Tirpitz
- My life as an autistic Wikipedian
- Content Translation updates from Wikimania 2015
- Using Wikipedia to preserve indigenous languages of Colombia
- When cultural heritage gets a digital life
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The Signpost: 09 September 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Gallery: Being Welsh
- Op-ed: DYK, or proudly displaying incorrect information on the Main Page with alarming regularity
- News and notes: The Swedish Wikipedia's controversial two-millionth article
- In the media: Calling all scientists!; More Wikipedia editors in the Netherlands than all of Africa combined
- Featured content: Killed by flying debris
- Traffic report: Mass media production traffic
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
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This Month in GLAM: August 2015
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Wikimedia Highlights from August 2015
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- Hundreds of “black hat” English Wikipedia accounts blocked following investigation
- The Hunt for Tirpitz
- My life as an autistic Wikipedian
- Content Translation updates from Wikimania 2015
- Using Wikipedia to preserve indigenous languages of Colombia
- When cultural heritage gets a digital life
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The Signpost: 16 September 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Editorial: No access is no answer to closed access
- Traffic report: Another week
- News and notes: Byrd and notifications leave, but page views stay; was a terror suspect editing Wikipedia?
- In the media: Is there life on Mars?
- Featured content: Why did the emu cross the road?
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
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The Signpost: 23 September 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Featured content: Inside Duke Humfrey's Library
- In the media: PETA makes "monkey selfie" a three-way copyright battle; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Op-ed: Can we please stop bashing Wikipedia?
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
- Traffic report: ¡Viva la Revolución! Kinda.
- WikiProject report: Dancing to the beat of a... wikiproject?
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The Signpost: 30 September 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- In the media: Irish legislative editing; coffee quarrel; more sports vandalism
- News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation fundraising report, Montreal to host 2017 Wikimania
- Op-ed: Wikipedia needs more administrators
- Recent research: Wiktionary special; Is Wikipedia's search function inferior?; newbies, conflict and tolerance
- Tech news: Tech news in brief
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This Month in GLAM: September 2015
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The Signpost: 07 October 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Op-ed: Walled gardens of corruption
- In the media: Jailed Saudi blogger wins award; PR editing and Wiki-embarassment; Pakistan's third-richest person?
- Traffic report: Reality is for losers
- Featured content: This Week's Featured Content
- Arbitration report: Warning: Contains GMOs
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
- Gallery: Winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 in Pakistan
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Wikimedia Highlights from September 2015
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- Drone photography of Versailles
- Wikimedia project milestones: Swedish Wikipedia hits 2 million
- What I Learned: Wikipedia Education Program in Argentina
- In September, we love monuments
- Reimagining the Wikimedia Foundation’s grants
- Wikipedia’s very active editor numbers have stabilized—delve into the data with us
- Should I pay for a Wikipedia article?
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The Signpost: 14 October 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Blog: Third Wikimedia Spain conference takes place in Madrid
- Editorial: Why the news media needs a Wikipedian in residence
- Op-ed: WikiConference USA 2015: Built on good faith
- Traffic report: Screens, Sport, Reddit, and Death
- WikiConference Report: WikiConference USA 2015
- News and notes: Fundraising: 2015–2016 Q1 Update sparks mailing list debate
- Featured content: A fistful of dollars
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
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The Signpost: 21 October 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Editorial: Women and Wikipedia: the world is watching
- News and notes: Wikimedia lawsuit against NSA dismissed; Affiliates mailing list launched
- In the media: "Wikipedia's hostility to women"
- Special report: One year of GamerGate, or how I learned to stop worrying and love bare rule-level consensus
- Featured content: A more balanced week
- Op-ed: Wikipedia is significantly amplifying the impact of Open Access publications
- Arbitration report: Four ArbCom cases ongoing
- Traffic report: Hiding under the covers of the Internet
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
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The Signpost: 28 October 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- From the editor: The Signpost 's reorganization plan—we need your help
- News and notes: English Wikipedia reaches five million articles
- In the media: The world's Wikipedia gaps; Google and Wikipedia accused of tying Ben Carson to NAMBLA
- Op-ed: It’s time to stop the bullying
- Arbitration report: A second attempt at Arbitration enforcement
- Traffic report: Canada, the most popular nation on Earth
- Recent research: Student attitudes towards Wikipedia; Jesus, Napoleon and Obama top "Wikipedia social network"; featured article editing patterns in 12 languages
- Featured content: Birds, turtles, and other things
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
- Community letter: Five million articles
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The Signpost: 04 November 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Op-ed: You are invited to participate in the Community Wishlist Survey
- News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation finances; Superprotect is gone
- In the media: Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov: propaganda myth or history?
- Traffic report: Death, the Dead, and Spectres are abroad
- Featured content: Christianity, music, and cricket
- Gallery: Princess of Asturias Awards 2015 ceremony
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
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Wikimedia Highlights from October 2015
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- Wikipedia’s global impact recognized with Spain’s Princess of Asturias Award ceremony
- Creating change one step at a time: Miguel Zuñiga Gonzalez
- Your October milestones include Wikidata’s 15 millionth item
- District court grants government’s motion to dismiss Wikimedia v. NSA, appeal expected
- Making Chinese Wikipedia more ethnologically diverse
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This Month in GLAM: October 2015
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The Signpost: 11 November 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Op-ed: As one thousand of us requested, Superprotect has been removed
- Arbitration report: Elections, redirections, and a resignation from the Committee
- Discussion report: Compromise of two administrator accounts prompts security review
- Featured content: Texas, film, and cycling
- In the media: Sanger on Wikipedia; Silver on Vox; lawyers on monkeys
- Traffic report: Doodles of popularity
- Gallery: Paris
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The Signpost: 18 November 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Special report: ArbCom election—candidates’ opinions analysed
- In the media: Icelandic milestone; apolitical editing
- Discussion report: BASC disbanded; other developments in the discussion world
- Arbitration report: Ban Appeals Subcommittee goes up in smoke; 21 candidates running
- Featured content: Fantasia on a Theme by Jimbo Wales
- Traffic report: Darkness and light
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The Signpost: 25 November 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Blog: Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland urge Reiss Engelhorn Museum to reconsider suit over public domain works of art
- Op-ed: Wikidata: the new Rosetta Stone
- Traffic report: J'en ai ras le bol
- News and notes: Fundraising update; FDC recommendations
- In the media: Erasmus Prize awarded to Wikipedia; trouble on the Russian Wikipedia
- Recent research: Do Wikipedia citations mirror scholarly impact?; co-star networks in silent films
- Featured content: Caves and stuff
- Arbitration report: Third Palestine-Israel case closes; Voting begins
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
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The Signpost: 02 December 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Op-ed: Whither Wikidata?
- Traffic report: Jonesing for episodes
- News and notes: Online harassment consultation; High voter turnout at ArbCom elections
- In the media: Is Wikidata as transparent as it seems?; Wikimedia Fund-raising drive launches
- Featured content: This Week's Featured Content
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
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This Month in GLAM: November 2015
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The Signpost: 09 December 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: ArbCom election results announced
- Op-ed: Wikidata: Knowledge from different points of view
- In the media: Political editing in the context of the US presidential primaries
- Traffic report: So do you laugh, or does it cry?
- Featured content: Sports, ships, arts... and some other things
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
- Gallery: Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 winners
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The Signpost: 16 December 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- In the media: Wales in China; #Edit2015
- In focus: Drone photography: New possibilities and new challenges
- Arbitration report: GMO case decided
- WikiProject report: Women in Red—using teamwork and partnerships to elevate online and offline collaborations
- Traffic report: A feast of Spam
- Featured content: An unusually slow week
- Gallery: WikiConference USA 2015: images, slide decks, and videos
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The Signpost: 30 December 2015
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: WMF Board dismisses community-elected trustee
- Year in review: The top ten Wikipedia stories of 2015
- Arbitration report: Second Arbitration Enforcement case concludes as another case is suspended
- In the media: Wikipedia plagued by a "Basket of Deception"
- Traffic report: The Force we expected
- Featured content: The post-Christmas edition
- Gallery: It's that time of year again
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This Month in GLAM: December 2015
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Wikimedia Highlights from December 2015
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- Wikipedia celebrates 15 years of free knowledge
- Fifteen years ago, Wikipedia was a very different place: Magnus Manske
- Making our pageview data easily accessible
- In brief
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