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== Editor of the Week ==

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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 2px solid lightgray" |Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as [[WP:Editor of the Week|Editor of the Week]], for extensive work at DYK. Thank you for the great contributions! <span style="color:#a0a2a5">(courtesy of the [[WP:WER|<span style="color:#80c0ff">Wikipedia Editor Retention Project</span>]])</span>
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[[User:Matty.007]] submitted the following nomination for [[WP:Editor of the Week|Editor of the Week]]:
:I nominate {{noping|Maile66}} as Editor of the Week for her incredible work on article promotion. She has helped 73 articles be featured in the 'Did you know' section of the main page; no mean feat (especially presently). She often contributes helpful comments on the DYK talk page, helping with ideas and new editors to the process, but doesn't let her standard of quality drop. She has helped get [[Audie Murphy]] and [[Audie Murphy honors and awards]] to featured status and [[Template:Did you know nominations/Audie Murphy filmography|she even managed to get a DYK]] out of the topic. Her 40,000 edits over 7-and-a-half years receive too little appreciation for their scale. She is truly a great editor. In all, thousands of gnomish and not-so-gnomish edits have massively benefited not only DYK, but also other areas such as the hugely important Murphy articles. '''Sublime'''.
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NRHP ref numbers

I noticed your last edit at National Register of Historic Places listings in Travis County, Texas. Do you know about Elkman's tool for NRHP articles? It will generate a full info box, including the ref number. Try this, it should help. Smallbones(smalltalk) 00:16, 9 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, this is great! I did not know about it. Thanks for showing it to me - big time saver. — Maile (talk) 00:22, 9 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
And then again, it doesn't work for everything. It's kind of hit and miss. Some searches, i.e. for historic districts, come up blank. — Maile (talk) 00:49, 9 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
These are likely new listings. Elkman's tool uses the NRIS database, which is updated every year or two, but should otherwise be "complete" (though the NRHP is sometimes inconsistent on maybe 1% of its entries). There are ways to get info on new listings, including a new listings announcement every week or two, and maybe something like a "Featured new listing" announcement, and announcements from the state organizations (SHPOs), though I use these fairly infrequently. E-mail requests to the NRHP also sometimes work, though in one case for a 1.5 year old listing, they told me they just didn't have it. Ask a question at WT:NRHP for help on the non-Elkman stuff. Smallbones(smalltalk) 17:39, 9 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Bot_requests#DYK_noting_bot

Hi Maile, just to note that someone has started coding the bot request. Thanks, Matty.007 18:43, 2 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hooray! Thanks for letting me know. — Maile (talk) 20:53, 2 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Audie Murphy honors and awards/archive1

I've replied to your FLC and not much to be fixed. Aureez (Talk) 11:38, 11 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Have replied there and fixed everything. Thank you. — Maile (talk) 12:10, 11 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Congratulations on this one. Well done! Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:27, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you.— Maile (talk) 20:40, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Military career of Audie Murphy

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Military career of Audie Murphy 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 Sturmvogel 66 -- Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 09:31, 4 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Military career of Audie Murphy

The article Military career of Audie Murphy you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Military career of Audie Murphy for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Sturmvogel 66 -- Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 06:21, 9 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. — Maile (talk) 11:35, 9 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Building your own featured topic one article at a time

The Biography Barnstar
For your work bringing Audie Murphy, Military career of Audie Murphy, Film career of Audie Murphy, and Audie Murphy honors and awards all to GA or better status. I doubt any other soldier in US history including Ike and Grant has been so well covered in Wikipedia. Your exceptional dedication not only improves Wikipedia but also honors the life of a heroic Solider.‎ Chris Troutman (talk) 06:46, 9 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. — Maile (talk) 11:36, 9 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

The Editor's Barnstar
For your exceptional work both at DYK and on Audie Murphy topics, for the messages of encouragement you send others, you are truly a brilliant and inspiring editor. All the best, Matty.007 15:29, 24 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. This means a great deal getting this from you. — Maile (talk) 15:31, 24 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Congratulations on the promotion of Audie Murphy at FAC. Well done. You might consider nominating the article for the front page. Also, thanks for the puppy. Hawkeye7 (talk) 00:18, 25 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

FA congratulations

Just a quick note to congratulate you on the promotion of Audie Murphy to FA status recently. If you would like to see this (or any other FA) appear as "Today's featured article" soon (either on a particular date or on any available date), please nominate it at the requests page. If you'd like to see an FA appear on a particular date in the next year or so, please add it to the "pending" list. In the absence of a request, the article may end up being picked at any time (although with about 1,307 articles waiting their turn at present, there's no telling how long – or short! – the wait might be). If you'd got any TFA-related questions or problems, please let me know. BencherliteTalk 18:16, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A brownie for you!

Page looks great! Moonchïld9 (talk) 01:53, 12 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hawaii

Is your username Hawaiian? I wrote a bit on Ford_Island#Ancient_Hawaiians about the use of a Maile during a Hawaiian ritual. If you are Hawaiian, and based in Hawaii, I just wanted to give you a heads up that we're planning an edit-a-thon in November.--v/r - TP 18:47, 12 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the heads up. — Maile (talk) 18:59, 12 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Military career of Audie Murphy

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 13:36, 20 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Bugle: Issue XCIX, June 2014

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Congratulations!

The 25 DYK Nomination Medal
Congratulations for reaching this milestone of making other editors' articles visible. Thank you for your work! Oceanh (talk) 16:46, 25 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Every bit of encouragement these days is appreciated. — Maile (talk) 16:54, 25 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Credo

Hey Maile, if you still want to give back your Credo access, could you please fill out this short form? Thanks, Nikkimaria (talk) 23:03, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There's a problem with this, not the least of which is that it happened almost 2 years ago. As far as I remember, I filled out a form to let someone else have that account. Another editor had asked me. But who that was, I have no idea. And a lot has happened since 2012, so I have no idea about this. Are you saying the account is still in my name? — Maile (talk) 23:28, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Nikkimaria, here's my talk page thread about it. It was Dr. Blofeld who requested I give it to Nvvchar, and Ocaasi who was going to take care of it. — Maile (talk) 23:35, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Well, at this point we do have more accounts, so if Nvvchar still wants one that should be doable without a give-back. Nikkimaria (talk) 23:42, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
OK, then. I filled out your form above for you. — Maile (talk) 23:53, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nvvchar isn't active now. I don't think I'd need access to it. I don't know if User:Aymatth2 or anybody else can access to it.♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:20, 17 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for letting me know. — Maile (talk) 12:48, 17 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I have not used this account in the last two years. You may like to allot it to someone else. Thanks for informing me.--Nvvchar. 16:27, 17 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for telling us. — Maile (talk) 18:46, 17 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Bugle: Issue C, July 2014

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Horatio Chriesman

Hello. Are you the one who added the "Quarterly" reference about Gay Hill? If so, please look at the DYK nomination. I'd like to make sure he wanted Gay Hill to be the capital of Texas, for the hook. Please reply there or on my talkpage. Thank you.Zigzig20s (talk) 03:45, 24 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Done and replied on the template. — Maile (talk) 11:58, 24 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 23 July 2014

  • Traffic report: The World Cup hangs on, though tragedies seek to replace it
    Last week I predicted that the World Cup dominance on the report would be over—but I was wrong. The World Cup Final fell on the 13th of July, which was actually the first day of the week covered by this report, not the last day of the last report. Hence, five of the Top 10 this week are again World Cup related-topics.
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    Galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs) today are facing fewer barriers to uploading their content onto Wikimedia projects now that the new GLAM-Wiki Toolset Project has been launched. The tool, which is the fruit of a collaboration between Europeana and several Wikimedia chapters, relieves GLAMs from having to write their own automated scripts and gives them a standardized method of uploading large amounts of their digitized holdings.
  • Forum: Did you know?—good idea, needs reform
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  • Featured content: Why, they're plum identical!
    Ten articles, five lists, and 25 pictures were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia last week.

Tech News: 2014-31

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Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf15) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 24. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 29, and to all Wikipedias on July 31 (calendar).
  • You can now download the latest version of the anti-vandalism tool Huggle.

VisualEditor news

  • You can now create, edit, and view HTML comments in VisualEditor. [1] [2]
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  • If you try to use a template which has no suggested or required parameters in TemplateData, you will now be asked to add the parameters. [4] [5]
  • You will no longer be able to edit a page if you can't create it, for example on pages protected against recreation. [6] [7]

Future software changes

  • You will soon be able to filter Meta-Wiki's user rights log by wiki and user. [8] [9]
  • Wikidata will soon be able to store data about article status, for example "good article" or "featured article". If your wiki has highlighted content, please make sure it is on Wikidata's list. [10]
  • It will soon be possible to directly create empty pages, for example in the user namespace. [11] [12]

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08:09, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks!

The Space Barnstar
A good friend of mine had a minor aneurysm trying to bring Moons of Neptune to FL status; thanks for finishing what he started. I kinda thought he'd do this but I suppose he doesn't want to revisit it :-) Serendipodous 20:06, 28 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Glad to be of help. — Maile (talk) 21:57, 28 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 30 July 2014

  • Book review: Knowledge or unreality?
    In Common Knowledge: An Ethnography of Wikipedia, Dariusz Jemielniak discusses Wikipedia from the standpoint of an experienced editor and administrator who is also a university professor specializing in management and organizations. In Virtual Reality: Just Because the Internet Told You, How Do You Know It's True?, Charles Seife presents a more broadly themed work reminding us to question the reliability of information found throughout the Internet.
  • Recent research: Shifting values in the paid content debate
    Kim Osman has performed a fascinating study on the three 2013 failed proposals to ban paid advocacy editing in the English language Wikipedia. Using a Constructivist Grounded Theory approach, Osman analyzed 573 posts from the three main votes on paid editing conducted in the community in November 2013.
  • News and notes: How many more hoaxes will Wikipedia find?
    Another hoax on the English Wikipedia was uncovered this week—not by any thorough investigation, but through the self-disclosure of an anonymous change made when the editors were in their sophomore year of college. The deliberate misinformation had been in the article for over five years with plenty of individuals noticing, but not one suspected its authenticity. This leads to one obvious question: how many more are there?
  • Traffic report: Doom and gloom vs. the power of Reddit
    We indeed moved far away from football this week, and further into much more serious issues of war and death. The Israel-Palestinian conflict continues to dominate the news, and the top 10, with Gaza Strip, Israel, and Hamas. The top 25 also includes Palestine and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Death also lies behind the popularity of James Garner, the American actor who died on July 19th, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, and deaths in 2014.
  • Featured content: Skeletons and Skeltons
    Two articles, four lists, and seven pictures attained featured status on the English Wikipedia last week.

Tech News: 2014-32

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Tech News updates

  • Tech News will be presented at the Wikimania 2014 conference in London! If you will be attending the conference, please join us in Auditorium 2 at 14:30 local time on Sunday, August 10.

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf16) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 31. Due to the Wikimania 2014 conference, it will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on August 12, and to all Wikipedias on August 14 (calendar). [13]
  • You can now test a new tool to render wiki pages as PDF files. [14] [15] [16]
  • You can now download an update to the archive of Wikimedia Commons files (uploaded up to December 31, 2013). If you have free space on your computer, please help preserve the files. [17]
  • New users using the mobile Commons site now need to make 75 edits before they can upload a file. [18] [19]

VisualEditor news

Future software changes

  • You will soon have a user option to watch pages where you revert edits. [31] [32]
  • All Toolserver data will be deleted in September. If you want to back up your data, contact Toolserver administrators before August 31. [33]
  • Pages in the Translations: namespace on wikis using the Translate extension will no longer be indexed by search engines. [34]

Problems

  • Wikivoyage wikis were broken for about 45 minutes on July 29 due to a configuration problem. [35]
  • Some users were not able to log in on test wikis and MediaWiki.org between July 31 and August 1. The problem is now fixed. [36]

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07:37, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 06 August 2014

  • Technology report: A technologist's Wikimania preview
    As the start of Wikimania proper on 8 August approaches, the Signpost looks ahead to what its dozens of presentations might offer the technologically-inclined, whether attending in person or taking advantage of what promises to be a strong digital offering.
  • Traffic report: Ebola
    Serious news continues to dominate the most popular articles chart on Wikipedia this week, with the Ebola virus disease far and away in the top spot. In the top 25, we see the related articles Ebola virus, which talks about biological aspects, at #18 and 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak at #19.

Tech News: 2014-33

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Recent software changes

  • Due to the Wikimania 2014 conference, there were no MediaWiki changes this week. The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf16) will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on August 12, and to all Wikipedias on August 14 (calendar). [37]
  • Bureaucrats on all Wikivoyage wikis are no longer able to merge two accounts into one. [38]

VisualEditor news

  • Tablet users visiting the mobile version of non-Wikipedia wikis will be able to use VisualEditor starting on August 12. The feature will also be enabled on all Wikipedias on August 14. [39]

Future software changes

  • Internet Explorer 6 users will soon see a JavaScript-free version of Wikimedia wikis; JavaScript tools and scripts will no longer work on that browser. If you use Internet Explorer 6, make sure to update to a newer browser! [40] [41] [42]
  • If you visit a special page that requires you to be logged-in, you will soon be automatically redirected to the log-in page instead of seeing a warning. [43] [44]
  • You will now always see recent changes to the source language text when editing a translation with the Translate extension. [45] [46]
  • An IRC meeting to discuss VisualEditor will take place on August 14 at 09:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [47]

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07:43, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CI, August 2014

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The Signpost: 13 August 2014

  • Special report: Twitter bots catalogue government edits to Wikipedia
    Slate reports that Tom Scott, co-creator of the emoji social network Emojli, created a Twitter bot called Parliament WikiEdits to automatically tweet a link to any Wikipedia edits made from an IP address belonging to the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Scott's bot initially did not tweet any links to edits made from Parliament and, according to Scott, an "insider" reports that their IP addresses changed. Despite this, Scott's Twitter bot has inspired similar creations in numerous other countries.
  • Traffic report: Disease, decimation and distraction
    It's been a grim few weeks. It says something that formerly arresting crises like the war in Ukraine, Boko Haram and the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, despite still being ongoing, have fallen out of the top 10 to make way for the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak and the equally if not more intense conflict against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.
  • Wikimania: Promised the moon, settled for the stars
    Wikimania 2014 was held last week in the Barbican Centre in London. Below, the Signpost's former "Technology report" writer Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) shares his thoughts on a bustling conference.
  • News and notes: Media Viewer controversy spreads to German Wikipedia
    Wikimedia Foundation staff members have now been granted superpowers that would allow them to override community consensus. The new protection level came as a response to attempts of German Wikipedia administrators to implement a community consensus on the new Media Viewer. "Superprotect" is a level above full protection, and prevents edits by administrators.
  • Op-ed: Red links, blue links, and erythrophobia
    Erythrophobia is the fear of, or sensitivity to, the colour red. Recently, I have seen more and more erythrophobic Wikipedians; specifically, Wikipedians who are scared of red links. In Wikipedia's early days, red links were encouraged and well-loved, and when I started editing in 2006, this was still mostly the case. Jump forward to 2014, and many editors now have an aversion to red links.
  • In the media: Monkey selfie, net neutrality, and hoaxes
    The Observer reported (August 2) that Google would "restrict search terms to a link to a Wikipedia article, in the first request under Europe's controversial new 'right to be forgotten' legislation to affect the 110m-page encyclopaedia."

Tech News: 2014-34

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf17) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on August 19, and on all Wikipedias on August 21 (calendar).
  • There is a new protection level called superprotection. At the moment, only some Wikimedia Foundation employees have access to it. Administrators can't edit "superprotected" pages. [48] [49] [50]
  • You can now create empty pages directly. A message asks you to confirm that you want to create an empty page. [51] [52]
  • You can search for Wikimedia tools using a new list of tools. [53]
  • You can watch the first videos from Wikimania 2014. Some of them are about technical topics. More videos will come later.

Wikidata

  • After August 19, you can use Wikidata for inter language links on Wikinews. [54]
  • After August 19, you can use Wikidata for badges like "good" or "featured" articles. Next week, you will be able to show the badges in the article sidebar on Wikipedia, Wikisource and Wikiquote. [55]

Problems

  • There was an issue with ProofreadPage and WikiEditor on Wikisource wikis. It is now fixed. [56] [57]

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07:17, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 August 2014

  • Op-ed: A new metric for Wikimedia
    Denny Vrandečić argues that "We should focus on measuring how much knowledge we allow every human to share in, instead of number of articles or active editors."

Tech News: 2014-35

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

VisualEditor news

  • There was a error when you put your cursor directly after a reference list. It is now fixed. [58]
  • You can now add colors to links in the editor using gadgets. You can do this to see links to redirects or disambiguation pages. [59]
  • If you use Internet Explorer, you will soon be able to use VisualEditor. [60] [61] [62]

Future software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf18) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 21. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on August 26, and on all Wikipedias on August 28 (calendar).
  • After August 26, you will have a central JavaScript and CSS page. They will be on Meta-Wiki and will work on all wikis. Read more on the help page. [63]

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09:21, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Some stroopwafels for you!

Best regards. {:>{)> 7&6=thirteen (☎) 18:54, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. — Maile (talk) 18:56, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 27 August 2014

  • Traffic report: Viral
    "This was a week when an actual virus, Ebola, competed for attention with several viral social phenomena; most notably the Ice Bucket Challenge..."

Tech News: 2014-36

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

  • You can now test a new Beta Feature to see links to other wikis in the sidebar. The links come from Wikidata. [64] [65]
  • You can now search pages that link to a page. Use the linksto: keyword in your search. [66] [67]
  • A redirect to a section now changes the URL in the address bar of your browser. If "Dog" redirects to "Animals#Dog", you now see "Animals#Dog" instead of "Dog#Dog". [68] [69]
  • If you are testing Flow, you now have a Flow tab in your Notifications. It is called "Messages". [70]

VisualEditor news

  • You can no longer delete required fields in templates. [71]
  • We fixed many Internet Explorer bugs. If you use Internet Explorer 11, you will get VisualEditor next week. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [72] [73] [74]
  • VisualEditor now looks better in Monobook. [75]
  • We fixed a bug where some of your typing could be undone when you used "cut" (Ctrl+X). [76]
  • You will no longer see empty or deleted categories among the suggestions when you add a category. [77]

Future software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf19) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 2, and on all Wikipedias on September 4 (calendar).
  • There is a proposal to build a database on Commons for file data. It will make it easier to see the author, license and topics. You can give feedback on this idea. You can also come to the IRC chat on September 3 at 18:00 (UTC) in #wikimedia-office at freenode. [78]
  • You can give feedback on Media Viewer until September 7. You can say what needs to be improved and ask other people to give feedback too. [79]
  • You can test a new version of the tool to show math. It uses MathML. Report bugs in bugzilla.
  • You will no longer be able to upload images from the mobile site. [80]

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07:49, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 03 September 2014

  • Arbitration report: Media viewer case is suspended
    "On 1 September, the Arbitrators voted to suspend the Media Viewer case for 60 days. After the suspension period is up, the case is to be closed unless the committee votes otherwise. The case suspension comes in response to several new initiatives and policies announced by the Wikimedia Foundation that may make the case moot. In the same motion, the committee declared that Eloquence's resignation of the administrator right was "under the cloud" and that he can only regain the right through another RfA."
  • Traffic report: Holding Pattern
    "This week we saw three of the top ten articles remain in place, with the Ice Bucket Challenge at #1, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at #2, and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant at #5, all for a second straight week..."
  • WikiProject report: Gray's Anatomy (v. 2)
    "This week, the Signpost went out to meet WikiProject Anatomy, dedicated to improving the articles about all our bones, brains, bladders and biceps, and getting them to the high standard expected of a comprehensive encyclopaedia."

Editor of the Week

Editor of the Week
Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week, for extensive work at DYK. Thank you for the great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)

User:Matty.007 submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

I nominate Maile66 as Editor of the Week for her incredible work on article promotion. She has helped 73 articles be featured in the 'Did you know' section of the main page; no mean feat (especially presently). She often contributes helpful comments on the DYK talk page, helping with ideas and new editors to the process, but doesn't let her standard of quality drop. She has helped get Audie Murphy and Audie Murphy honors and awards to featured status and she even managed to get a DYK out of the topic. Her 40,000 edits over 7-and-a-half years receive too little appreciation for their scale. She is truly a great editor. In all, thousands of gnomish and not-so-gnomish edits have massively benefited not only DYK, but also other areas such as the hugely important Murphy articles. Sublime.

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Thanks again for your efforts! Go Phightins! 11:57, 7 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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