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The Signpost: 29 August 2011

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

• News and notes: Abuse filter on all Wikimedia sites; Foundation's report for July; editor survey results
• In the news: Wikipedia praised for disaster news coverage, scolded for left-wing bias; brief news
• Recent research: Article promotion by collaboration; deleted revisions; Wikipedia's use of open access; readers unimpressed by FAs; swine flu anxiety
• The pending changes fiasco: How an attempt to answer one question turned into a quagmire
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Tennis
• Featured content: The best of the week
• Arbitration report: Four existing cases
• Technology report: The bugosphere, new mobile site and MediaWiki 1.18 close in on deployment

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This Month in GLAM: August 2011

This Month in GLAM – Volume I, Issue VIII, August 2011 USA report • UK report • Canada report • Spain report Germany report • Mexico report • Israel report • Event calendar To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 5 September 2011

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

• News and notes: 24,000 votes later and community position on image filter still unclear; first index of editor satisfaction appears positive

• In the news: Britannica and Wikipedia like "apples and chairs"; should anyone who's anyone get an article?; and why fighting and barriers to editing may be useful after all

• WikiProject report: Riding with WikiProject London Transport

• Sister projects: Wiki Loves Monuments 2011

• Featured content: The best of the week

• Opinion essay: The copyright crisis, and why we should care

• Arbitration report: BLP case closed; Cirt-Jayen466 nearly there; AUSC reshuffle

• Technology report: Pencils down in Google Summer of Code, August analysed and integrated HTTPS support in action

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The Signpost: 12 September 2011

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

• News and notes: Foundation reports on research, Kenya trip, Mumbai Wikiconference; Canadia, Hungary and Estonia; English Wikinews forked

• In the news: 9/11 coverage, Wikimedia hypothetically rebranded and Wikipedia golf 2.0

• WikiProject report: Politics in the Pacific: WikiProject Australian Politics

• Featured content: Wikipedians explain two new featured pictures

• Arbitration report: Ohconfucius sanctions removed, Cirt desysopped 6:5 and a call for CU/OS applications

• Technology report: What is: agile development? and new mobile site goes live

• Opinion essay: The Walrus and the Carpenter

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The Signpost: 19 September 2011

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

• From the editor: Changes to The Signpost

• News and notes: Ushahidi research tool announced, Citizendium five years on: success or failure?, and Wikimedia DC officially recognised

• In the news: Wikipedia: yesterday's news? Calls for women, doctors, and scholars of humanities; Wales makes Wikimedia work "look easy"

• Sister projects: On the Wikinews fork

• WikiProject report: Back to school

• Featured content: The best of the week

• Arbitration report: ArbCom narrowly rejects application to open new case

• Technology report: MediaWiki 1.18 deployment begins, the alleged "injustice" of WMF engineering policy, and Wikimedians warned of imminent fix to magic word

• Popular pages: Article stats for the English Wikipedia in the last year

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The Signpost: 26 September 2011

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

• Opinion essay: The global mission, the image filter and the "German question"

• Recent research: Top female Wikipedians, reverted newbies, link spam, social influence on admin votes, Wikipedians' weekends, WikiSym previews

• News and notes: WMF strikes down enwiki consensus, academic journal partnerships, and eyebrows raised over minors editing porn-related content

• In the news: Sockpuppeting journalist recants, search dominance threatened, new novels replete with Wikipedia references

• WikiProject report: A project in overdrive: WikiProject Automobiles

• Featured content: The best of the week

• Arbitration report: "Broadly construed" explained, voting beings on Senkaku Islands case, invitation to comment on CU/OS candidates

• Technology report: 1.18 deployment on track, "mythical" Git migration scheduled, editor decline statistics improved

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The Signpost: 03 October 2011

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

• News and notes: Italian Wikipedia threatens site shutdown over new privacy law; Wikimedia Sverige produce short Wikipedia films, Sue Gardner calls for empathy
• In the news: QRpedia launches to acclaim, Jimbo talks social media, Wikipedia attracts funghi, terriers and Greeks bearing gifts
• WikiProject report: Kia ora WikiProject New Zealand
• Featured content: Reviewers praise new featured topic: National treasures of Japan
• Arbitration report: Last call for comments on CheckUser and Oversight teams
• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 10 October 2011

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

• Opinion essay: The conservatism of Wikimedians

• News and notes: Largest ever donation to WMF, final findings of editor survey released, 'Terms of use' heavily revised

• In the news: Uproar over Italian shutdown, the varying reception of BLP mischief, and Wikipedia's doctor-evangelist

• WikiProject report: The World's Oldest People

• Featured content: The weird and the disgusting

• Arbitration report: Senkaku Islands closes; administrators authorized to place articles on discretionary sanctions

• Technology report: 1.18 deployment and HTTPS switchover completed, but developer help now needed with new projects

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This Month in GLAM: September 2011

This Month in GLAM – Volume I, Issue IX, September 2011 From the team • USA report • UK report France report • Germany report • Australia report • Event calendar Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 17 October 2011

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

• News and notes: Arabic Wikipedia gets video intros, Smithsonian gifts images, and WikiProject Conservatism scrutinized
• In the news: Why Wikipedia survives while others haven't; Wikipedia as an emerging social model; Jimbo speaks out
• WikiProject report: History in your neighborhood: WikiProject NRHP
• Featured content: Brazil's boom-time dreams of naval power: The ed17 explains the background to a new featured topic
• Arbitration report: Case requests on ethnic strife and a WikiProject in disrepute declined, Abortion case stalls but topic bans look to be lightened on amendment
• Technology report: WMDE renew investment in Toolserver, first offsite backup programme of Wikimedia begun

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The Signpost: 24 October 2011

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

• From the editors: A call for contributors

• Opinion essay: There is a deadline

• Interview: Contracting for the Foundation

• In the news: Are Wikipedians reluctant journalists?; Wikipedia:The Musical

• WikiProject report: Great WikiProject Logos

• Featured content: The best of the week

• Arbitration report: Abortion; request for amendment on Climate Change case

• Technology report: WMF launches coding challenge, WMDE starts hiring for major new project

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This Month in GLAM: October 2011

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The Signpost: 31 October 2011

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

• Opinion essay: The monster under the rug
• Recent research: WikiSym; predicting editor survival; drug information found lacking; RfAs and trust; Wikipedia's search engine ranking justified
• News and notes: German Wikipedia continues image filter protest
• In the news: Citizendium on the rocks, Shankbone celebrated, and the week in vandalism
• Discussion report: Proposal to return this section from hiatus is successful
• WikiProject report: 'In touch' with WikiProject Rugby union
• Featured content: The best of the week
• Arbitration report: Abortion case stalls, request for clarification on Δ, discretionary sanctions streamlined
• Technology report: Wikipedia Zero announced; New Orleans successfully hacked

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The Signpost: 7 November 2011

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

• Special report: A post-mortem on the Indian Education Program pilot* News and notes: Wikimedia Norway awarded, Halloween on the Main Page, Wikimedia UK recognised* In the news: The Economist assays the encyclopaedia's challenges, Jimbo speaks on net future, and an inclusionist alternative emerges.* Discussion report: Special report on the ArbCom Elections steering RfC* WikiProject report: Booting up with WikiProject Computer Science* Featured content: Slow week for Featured content* Arbitration report: Δ saga returns to arbitration, while the Abortion case stalls for another week* Technology report: Full steam ahead on Visual Editor, the avoidance of lock-breaking and 1.18b1 release

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The Signpost: 14 November 2011

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

• News and notes: ArbCom nominations open, participation grants finalized, survey results on perceptions on Wikipedia released
• In the news: Fundraising vs ads redux, WikiConference India nigh, a world lit up with articles
• WikiProject report: Having a Conference with WikiProject India
• Featured content: Writing featured content: Advice from Sturmvogel 66; Sports, sports, sports!
• Arbitration report: Abortion and Betacommand 3 in evidence phase, three case requests outstanding
• Technology report: Coding Challenge results; Wikimedians to wait and see if Athena really does represent "wisdom, courage and inspiration"

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