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The Signpost: 01 January 2014

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  • Traffic report: A year stuck in traffic
    In fact, the majority are relatively evenly split between three themes: people of interest, television, and websites.
  • Arbitration report: Examining the Committee's year
    In 2013, the arbitration committee closed 10 cases, 9 amendment requests, and 26 clarification requests.
  • In the media: Does Wikipedia need a medical disclaimer?
    On New Year's Day, an article by Tim Sampson published in The Daily Dot and republished shortly after on Mashable covered the currently ongoing medical disclaimer RfC.
  • News and notes: The year in review
    This was the year in which one journalist described the flagship site, Wikipedia, as "wickedly seductive". It was the year Wikipedia's replacement value was estimated at $6.6bn, its market value at "tens of billions of dollars", and its consumer benefit "hundreds of billions of dollars". But it was also the year in which one commentator forecast the decline of Wikipedia—that the project is in trouble from its shrinking volunteer workforce, skewed coverage, "crushing bureaucracy" and 90 percent male community.
  • WikiProject report: Where Are They Now? Fifth Edition
    The year 2013 has come and gone, adding 50 new WikiProject Reports to our long list of projects we've had the privilege to meet. Last year saw the continuation of our Babel series, featuring WikiProjects from other languages of Wikipedia. We also expanded our selection of special reports, offering readers a growing collection of helpful tips and tools as they participate in WikiProjects.
  • Featured content: 2013—the trends
    Over the past year 1181 pieces of featured content were promoted. The most active of the featured content programs was featured picture candidates (FPC), which promoted an average of 46 pictures a month. This was followed by featured article candidates (FAC; 32.5 a month). Coming in third was featured list candidates (FLC; 18 a month).
  • Technology report: Looking back on 2013
    2013 saw a lot of changes to MediaWiki software and Wikimedia infrastructure.
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The Signpost: 08 January 2014

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  • Public Domain Day: Why the year 2019 is so significant
    Public Domain Day—January 1, 2014—gives me an opportunity to reflect on this important asset, mandated by the Constitution of the United States.
  • Traffic report: Tragedy and television
    The various maladies that befall humanity got some well-known faces this week: the death of the well-liked actor James Avery topped the list, but Michael Schumacher, who is in a coma after a skiing accident, also drew attention.
  • News and notes: WMF employee forced out over "paid advocacy editing"
    On 8 January, the Wikimedia Foundation notified the Wikimedia-l mailing list that Sarah Stierch, a popular Wikimedian and the Foundation's Program Evaluation Community Coordinator, was no longer an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, as a result of being paid to create articles on the English Wikipedia.
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This Month in Education: January 2014

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The Signpost: 15 January 2014

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  • Technology report: Architecture Summit schedule published
    The proposed schedule for the MediaWiki Archicture Summit has been published. The two main plenary sessions will be about HTML templating, and Service-oriented architecture.
  • Op-ed: Licensed for reuse? Citing open-access sources in Wikipedia articles
    It is heavily ironic that two decades after the World Wide Web was started — largely to make it easier to share scholarly research — most of our past and present research publications are still hidden behind paywalls for private profit. The bitter twist is that the vast majority of this research is publicly funded, to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars worldwide each year.
  • Traffic report: The Hours are Ours
    We now can get a far more accurate picture of which short surges in popularity are likely natural and which are not.
  • WikiProject report: WikiProject Sociology
    This week, we studied human social behavior with the folks at WikiProject Sociology.

The Signpost: 22 January 2014

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  • News and notes: Modification of WMF protection brought to Arbcom
    The Wikimedia Foundation's Director of Community Advocacy's application of pending changes level two on the article Conventional PCI—an action taken under its rarely used office actions policy—has escalated to the Arbitration Committee after an editor upgraded it to full protection.
  • Featured content: Dr. Watson, I presume
    Fifteen articles, nine lists, twenty pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia over the last two weeks.
  • Special report: The few who write Wikipedia
    On 15 January, Wikipedia turned thirteen years old. In that time, this site has grown from a small site that was known to only a select few to one of the most popular websites on the internet. At the same time, recent data suggests that there is a power curve among users, where the comparative few who are writing most of Wikipedia have most of the edits. The result of this is that there is going to be bias in what is created, and how we deal with it as Wikipedians is indicative of the future of the site. Furthermore, this brings up what we have to do in order to combat this bias, as there are many ideas, but the question is whether they will work or not.
  • Technology report: Architecting the future of MediaWiki
    This week we're interviewing Brion Vibber about the then-upcoming Architecture Summit. Brion is a long time Wikipedian, the first employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, and currently the lead software architect working with the mobile team.
  • Traffic report: No show for the Globes
    While the 71st Golden Globe Awards, held on 12 January, had an impact on the top 25, their presence was largely absent from the Top 10. With the exception of Best Actor winner Leonardo DiCaprio, the only Golden Globe entrants in the Top 10 are films that would have been there anyway.

The Signpost: 29 January 2014

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  • Traffic report: Six strikes out
    There are times when this job is hard. As an analogy, imagine navigating in fog at night, except you don't know where you are, you don't know where you want to go, and your flashlight keeps dying on you.
  • WikiProject report: Special report: Contesting contests
    Contests have existed almost as long as the English Wikipedia. Contestants have expanded hundreds of articles and made tens of thousands of edits. Although it may seem as though there aren't any negatives to contests, they have occasionally become a divisive topic on the English Wikipedia.
  • News and notes: Wiki-PR defends itself, condemns Wikipedia's actions
    Wiki-PR, a public relations agency, whose employees used a sophisticated array of concealed user accounts to create, edit, and maintain several thousand Wikipedia articles for paying clients, has told Business Insider that it was demonized by the online encyclopedia. Jordan French, Wiki-PR's CEO, said he believes the Wikimedia Foundation "painted" his company to look like an "evil entity" that is "scrubbing truths from Wikipedia".

The Signpost: 29 January 2014

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  • Traffic report: Six strikes out
    There are times when this job is hard. As an analogy, imagine navigating in fog at night, except you don't know where you are, you don't know where you want to go, and your flashlight keeps dying on you.
  • WikiProject report: Special report: Contesting contests
    Contests have existed almost as long as the English Wikipedia. Contestants have expanded hundreds of articles and made tens of thousands of edits. Although it may seem as though there aren't any negatives to contests, they have occasionally become a divisive topic on the English Wikipedia.
  • News and notes: Wiki-PR defends itself, condemns Wikipedia's actions
    Wiki-PR, a public relations agency, whose employees used a sophisticated array of concealed user accounts to create, edit, and maintain several thousand Wikipedia articles for paying clients, has told Business Insider that it was demonized by the online encyclopedia. Jordan French, Wiki-PR's CEO, said he believes the Wikimedia Foundation "painted" his company to look like an "evil entity" that is "scrubbing truths from Wikipedia".

Contributions to wiki

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Thanks, Jane023

I also much appreciate the contributions you have made/are making to the artist pages on wiki. Hope to see more of those. 

Doewiets (talk) 05:06, 5 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! Jane (talk) 11:01, 5 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 12 February 2014

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  • In the media: WikiVIP; Art Feminism; Medical articles; PR manipulation; Azerbaijani Wikipedia
    As reported in various media outlets this week, including The Next Web and The Daily Dot, this past week, Wikimedia Commons and various language Wikipedias are working together to encourage subjects of Wikipedia articles to record a 10-second clip of their voice to be appended to their Wikipedia article.
  • Technology report: Left with no choice
    Software evolution does not always mean that features are being added. It also means that old fat is being trimmed. It is no different for MediaWiki.
  • News and notes: WMF bites the bullet on affiliation and FDC funding, elevates Wikimedia user groups
    In a bold move, the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees has announced a major change in policy concerning affiliated groups in the worldwide movement, and FDC funding levels to eligible chapters and thematic organizations over the next two years. Both decisions were published last Tuesday after considerable post-meeting consultation with the FDC and the Affiliations Committee (AffCom). The core of the first decision is
  • Featured content: Space selfie
    Thirteen articles, three lists, and twenty-five images were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia from 19 January to 1 February.
  • Traffic report: Sports Day
    Two great sporting events, the Super Bowl and the Winter Olympics, collide in one week, transforming the top ten into a festival of flying feet, a carnival of colliding caraniums and a bacchanal of bouncing balls, combined to influence Wikipedia's most popular articles last week.
  • WikiProject report: Game Time in Russia
    In celebration of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, we revisited the team at WikiProject Russia to learn how the project has changed since our first interview in 2011.

This Month in Education: February 2014

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The Signpost: 19 February 2014

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  • Technology report: ULS Comeback
    Runa Bhattacharjee has notified the community that the Foundation is ready to turn the Universal Language Selector back on.
  • WikiProject report: Countering Systemic Bias
    WikiProject Countering System Bias aims to combat imbalanced coverage while encouraging neglected cultural perspectives and points of view, both in articles and in the larger Wikipedia community. As you'll see from the varied experiences and motivations of our nine respondents, the biases that the folks at WP CSB tackle run the full gamut of human characteristics and dispositions. The interview that follows unveils many of Wikipedia's greatest shortcomings.
  • Featured content: Holotype
    Five articles, seven lists, forty-three pictures, and two portals were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia in the last two weeks.
  • Traffic report: Chilly Valentines
    Valentines Day got a somewhat muted reception this week, overshadowed by continuing coverage of the Winter Olympics in Sochi and the death of Shirley Temple.
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The Signpost: 26 February 2014

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  • Forum: Should Wikimedia modify its terms of use to require disclosure?
    About a week ago, the Wikimedia Foundation proposed to modify the Wikimedia projects' terms of use to specifically ban paid editing, by adding a new clause titled "Paid contributions without disclosure". We have asked two users, one in favor of the measure (Smallbones) and one opposed (Pete Forsyth), to contribute their opinions on the matter.
  • Featured content: Odin salutes you
    Eight articles, three lists, and nine pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.
  • Special report: Diary of a protester: Wikimedian perishes in Ukrainian unrest
    Ukraine has been gripped by widespread protests over the past three months. Due to a decision by former president Viktor Yanukovych—at Russia's urging—to abandon integration with the European Union, the country was (and in many ways still is) split between the Europe-favoring Ukrainian-speaking western half and the Russian-speaking east and south. Hundreds have died during the unrest, leaving thousands of family members and friends to bury their loved ones. This week our Wikimedian colleagues in Ukraine are facing that challenge after the death of one of their own.
  • News and notes: Wikimedia chapters and communities challenge Commons' URAA policy
    Following a trend started by Wikimedia Israel, Wikimedia Argentina has published an open letter challenging the recent deletion of hundreds of images from the Commons under its policy on URAA-restored copyrights, relating to the United States' 1994 Uruguay Round Agreements Act.
  • Traffic report: Snow big deal
    The 2014 Winter Olympics had more of an impact on the Top 25 than the Top 10, which had to shoulder old stalwarts like the death list, Reddit threads, TV shows and the eternal presence of Facebook; still, with four slots, it's the most searched topic on the list.
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  • Traffic report: Brinksmen on the brink
    There's nothing like a good old bit of Cold War nostalgia, combined with a suitably scary international incident, to focus our attention on the real world. That said, nothing could stem our outpouring of affection for the beloved comedian Harold Ramis, whose death managed to top the week in the face of those international concerns.
  • News and notes: Wikipedia Library finding success in matching contributors with sources
    This week, the Signpost caught up with the Wikipedia Library (TWL), which aims to connect reference resources with Wikipedia editors who can use them to improve articles. Funded through the Wikimedia Foundation's Individual Engagement Grants program, TWL has a new "visiting scholars" initiative and a microgrants program in the works.
  • Featured content: Full speed ahead for the WikiCup
    The WikiCup competition is ongoing, while six articles, three lists, and ten pictures were promoted to "featured" status of the English Wikipedia this week.
  • WikiProject report: Article Rescue Squadron
    This week, the Signpost delved into the English Wikipedia's Article Rescue Squadron.

The Signpost: 12 March 2014

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  • News and notes: Wikimedians celebrate International Women's Day, Women's History Month
    Wikimedians around the world gathered to celebrate Women's History Month and the associated International Women's Day by holding editathons. If you lived in the United Kingdom, you had the opportunity to attend Wikimedia UK's event at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, part of University College London and host to one of the largest collections of Egyptian and Sudanese artifacts in the world.
  • Traffic report: War and awards
    An intensely busy week, as a confluence of celebratory, curious and urgent topics pushed typical residents like Facebook and Deaths in 2014 out of the top ten entirely.
  • Featured content: Ukraine burns
    Five articles, two lists, and 52 pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
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This Month in Education: March 2014

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In this discussion about a category you've created: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Poland#Category:Zabytki_probably_should_be_renamed. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:31, 18 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

See also Talk:National_heritage_site#Requested_move. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 07:17, 27 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
It's not merging, but expanding that is needed - some context is here: Wikipedia:Wiki Loves Monuments 2011/Infrastructure Jane (talk) 08:06, 27 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 19 March 2014

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  • WikiProject report: We have history
    This week, we visited WikiProject History, an ancient project with roots dating back to 2001. The project is home to 196 pieces of Featured material and 483 Good and A-class articles independent of the vast accomplishments of its various child projects. WikiProject History maintains a lengthy list of tasks, oversees the history portal, and continues to build Wikipedia's outline of history.
  • Featured content: Spot the bulldozer
    Twelve articles, fourteen lists, and six pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.
  • Traffic report: Into thin air
    The utterly mystifying events surrounding Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which has not fallen from the sky so much as vanished from it entirely, has left an information-starved public scrambling for precedents, some logical, some... not.
  • Technology report: Wikimedia engineering report
    The Wikimedia engineering report for February 2014 has been published. A summarized version is also available. Major news include

The Signpost: 26 March 2014

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  • Comment: A foolish request
    April Fools' Day is rapidly approaching. Every year, members of the community pull pranks and make (or attempt to make) humorous edits to pages across the project. Every year, the community follows April Fools' Day with a contentious debate about whether or not it is necessary to impose limits on April Fools' Day jokes for future years. It is a polarizing issue.
  • Traffic report: Down to a simmer
    Topics like the 2014 Crimea crisis or the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 eased down the list, making way for such traditional topics as St Patrick's Day, Reddit threads and even Google Doodles, which have reappeared after a long absence.
  • Recent research: Wikipedians' "encyclopedic identity" dominates even in Kosovo debates
    Have you wondered about differences in the articles on Crimea in the Russian, Ukrainian, and English versions of Wikipedia? A newly published article entitled "Lost in Translation: Contexts, Computing, Disputing on Wikipedia" doesn't address Crimea, but nonetheless offers insight into the editing of contentious articles in multiple language editions through a heavy qualitative examination of Wikipedia articles about the Kosovo in the Serbian, Croatian, and English editions.
  • News and notes: Commons Picture of the Year—winners announced
    Results for the two-stage 2013 Commons Picture of the Year have been announced. This year's winning photograph (above) shows a lightbulb that has been cracked, allowing inert gas to escape—and oxygen to enter, so that the tungsten filament burns. From the flames rise elegant curls of blue smoke.
  • Op-ed: Why we're updating the default typography for Wikipedia
    On 3 April, we will roll out some changes to the typography of Wikipedia's default Vector skin, to increase readability for users on all devices and platforms. After five months of testing, four major iterations, and through close collaboration with the global Wikimedia community, who provided more than 100 threads of feedback, we’ve arrived at a solution which improves the primary reading and editing experience for all users.
  • Technology report: Why will Wikipedia look like the Signpost?
    As you have probably read on this weeks op-ed, or via various other channels of announcement, 3 April will see the introduction of the Typography refresh (or update) for the Vector skin on all Wikipedias. Other projects like Commons will have this update rolled out a few days prior.
  • WikiProject report: From the peak
    This week, the Signpost interviewed the English Wikipedia's Mountains WikiProject.

The Signpost: 02 April 2014

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  • Special report: On the cusp of the Wikimedia Conference
    The annual Wikimedia Conference is about to start in Berlin, hosted by Wikimedia Germany, which won the bid to hold the event over three others. This will be the fifth time the chapter has hosted the Wikimedia Conference—it did so from 2009 to 2012, with attendance ranging from 100 to 180 Wikimedians. This year 160 people are expected at the four-day event, which is mainly for representatives of affiliated Wikimedia organisations. The conference has been built around two themes: Organisation, structures, and grants and Success and impact.
  • Featured content: April Fools
    The Signpost's "Featured content" writers had a bit of fun this week.
  • Traffic report: Regressing to the mean
    The mysterious fate of MH370 still tops the list, but in all other respects our readership has retreated from the real world into its pop-cultural happy place: TV, movies, music, Reddit and Google Doodles all made an appearance.

Thanks for your comments on meta regarding health

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Hello! You commented at

On one of those you commented about United States doctors overprescribing drugs. It is true - I am actually employed by Consumer Reports, the American equivalent of your Test-Achats or Consumentenbond, and my job is to add information to Wikipedia suggesting that in the United States medicines are far overused. Of course this is a American perspective also, and Wikipedia has to address a lot of problems about how to present health issues for various countries and cultures.

It is very difficult to learn what health information exists on Wikipedia or who is adding it. Many health articles are made by people who only develop a few articles and who do not talk with the larger Wikipedia community. Of the people who do participate in community conversations, I would say that the United States is not proportionately influential to its size, but then that does not explain why articles have the American bias you have noticed.

I am not sure what ought to be done but I favor more Wikipedia community conversations about it. Some reports are saying that Wikipedia is the most popular source of health information, and if it is popular, then it ought to be good for everyone also. This can only happen with diverse participation by people of many countries and cultures, but I am not sure how to make this happen. Thanks for commenting. Blue Rasberry (talk) 21:25, 10 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well the Dutch tend to undersubscribe drugs, which can also be damaging - lot's of people go way too long without proper treatment, so there is no ideal health program in any country. My point is that you need buy in for 1 on 1 translations to work, but I have looked at the problem and I think the project is highly useful and buy in is possible (for the EU languages at least). I don't see a problem with drive-by editors or anonymous edits, only problems with unsourced ones. If this project can help track down reliable sources on a global level it would be great. I am also not sure how to make it happen, but one thing I am missing is at least one example of a non-English article being translated to English. It would help reduce American bias if there was more cross-pollination in the articles (merging back and forth, rather than just translation).Jane (talk) 11:58, 11 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
So far as I know, there is not a single example in the history of Wikipedia of any health article in another language being of high quality, then cross-checked with English by any group of people. As you say, many European languages have their own communities and do not need English-language oversight. While we have tried to partner with people interested in health in other language Wikipedias, I think that the English health community has no regular collaboration with any Wikipedian who participates in an equivalent of WikiProject Medicine for their language. Indeed, I think there are no active WikiProjects for medicine outside of English, and that is a shame. We have contacted the Medicine WikiProjects which exist but were not able to establish regular communication. In our record at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_task_force/RTT you can see the languages which accept translations and which do not.
I completely agree that a multi-cultural perspective is highly desirable, and we have sought that, but it seems not available for merely requesting it, and also we do not have power to actually establish or start WikiProject Medicine groups in other languages. The presumption is that these things have to come from the community itself, and are difficult to start externally. Thoughts? Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:51, 11 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Well of course part of the problem may be your qualifier "high quality" as many projects have no quality system to speak of, so it's a tall order to ask for medical collaboration and also collaboration on the quality project. Also, in a project like the Dutch Wikipedia, wikiprojects are not that popular in general, and though there is a sort-of a village-pump "teahouse" for medical subjects, I have posted there before and received no comments at all. I think the best way forward is to work with chapters at getting names of potential Wikipedians who could sign up for a global mailing list. I think many people are otherwise not that involved and would not respond to user page queries. It would be also worth contacting any Wikipedians who made x (2? 3?) medical pages on whatever Wikipedia. Jane (talk) 16:18, 11 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I have doubts about this strategy because even in English Wikipedia there is not a solid community of editors developing health content. In any given month perhaps 30 people participate in community discussions and the count of active editors last year in medicine for English was about 120. To get high quality and diverse perspectives I think that we will have to go outside the Wikipedia community to get content from people who do not currently wish to learn Wikipedia, but who may be willing to write or review things for Wikipedia if someone helps facilitate what they do. I am not sure what is best. If you know anyone in medicine in Dutch, could you show them the Dutch translations we posted and ask them for comment? This is in the link I gave you. Thanks. Blue Rasberry (talk) 16:20, 16 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 09 April 2014

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  • News and notes: Round 2 of FDC funding open to public comments
    Community review is open for the four applications in the second and final round of applications to the WMF's Funds Dissemination Committee for 2013–14. Three eligible organisations have applied for funding under the newly named "annual program grants": Wikimedia France, Wikimedia Norway, and the India-based Centre for Internet and Society, which last November was recognised as eligible to apply for FDC funding purposes.
  • WikiProject report: WikiProject Law
    This week, we interviewed the Law WikiProject.
  • Special report: Community mourns passing of Adrianne Wadewitz
    "I remember laughing and talking and laughing and talking at Wikimania 2012. I took this picture of her that she used for a long while as a profile pic. Someone on Facebook said it looked 'skepchickal', which she loved."
  • Traffic report: Conquest of the Couch Potatoes
    Television has always been a topic of choice on this site, but it exploded this week. Fully six slots were devoted to television shows, as the final episode of How I Met Your Mother, one of the most popular Wikipedia searches of the last few years, coincided with the season finale of The Walking Dead and the upcoming fourth season of Game of Thrones. The number rises to 8 if movies released on video and new TV tech are are included.
  • Featured content: Snow heater and Ash sweep
    Five article, five lists, and ten pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.
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This Month in Education: April 2014

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The Signpost: 23 April 2014

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  • Special report: 2014 Wikimedia Conference—what is the impact?
    The annual Wikimedia Conference wound up last Sunday, 13 April—a four-day meeting costing several hundred thousand dollars, hosted in Berlin by Wikimedia Germany and attended by more than 100 Wikimedians.
  • Op-ed: Five things a Wikipedian in residence can do
    Hey you—yeah you, the Wikipedian! Do you want to help a museum, a library, a university, or other organization explore ways to engage with Wikipedia? Great—you should offer your expertise as a Wikipedian in residence!
  • News and notes: Wikimedian passes away
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Sorry I was traveling last week, but here is the list I promised. --Jarekt (talk) 18:09, 24 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sweet! Thx Jane (talk) 22:10, 24 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Abel Grimmer

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You're welcome. Abel Grimmer seems to be more than just an epigone of Pieter Brueghel. Like his cityscapes a lot.Caravaggista (talk) 14:34, 26 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Me too, and he deserved more Wikilove, so thanks for that. Jane (talk) 15:06, 26 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Vincent Malo

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Hi Jane,

Have noticed that the Vincent Malo article now seems to contain some contradictions after the merger with Vincenzo Armmano. For instance he now dies in Rome and Venice and at the age of 45 and 50 and first lives in Genua for many years and arrives in Rome as an adult. In one story he is a landscape painter in the other a genre painter. See other biographies here: http://books.google.it/books?id=oFcGAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=soprani-ratti&source=bl&ots=VE7Pu4lp9u&sig=ByVTjcGO328eUIDhqt981QJjZno&hl=it&ei=TG1RTeyXGoa0lQfPmvSTCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=malò&f=false and here:http://www2.academieroyale.be/academie/documents/FichierPDFBiographieNationaleTome2055.pdf#page=133.

So it is not clear whether these two persons are actually the same. Caravaggista (talk) 17:37, 20 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the headsup - I tend to go in and fix things in a hurry. A few years ago I thought these two were the same and merged them in my own list, but forgot to do it onwiki. The leading authority for artists born in the Netherlands is the RKD, and if they say these are the same person, then that's enough for me. The other inconsistencies are just inconsistencies. Most Dutch painters first trained as genre painters because that was a good market, then switched to landscapes when that market picked up. I will look at the links you have provided, and then send a mail to the RKD if it looks like they are indeed different people. Jane (talk) 18:29, 20 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. It would be great if you could cite in the article why you believe the two are the same person. RKD mentions Armanno, Vicenzo (not Armann) as an alternative name, but it is not clear where they base this on. Passeri actually does not talk about Vicenzo Armanno but about Vincenzo Armanno or Monsieur Armanno. The biography of the two persons seems to differ in that the one dies in Rome according to Raffaello Soprani and the other in Venice according to Passeri. Also the differences in subject matter of the paintings is striking. So it would be good for readers to understand why there is this confusion and why you believe it has been sufficiently resolved to justify the merging of the 2 articles.Caravaggista (talk) 15:39, 21 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well I think I have had enough experience looking at the garbled biographies of Flemish/Dutch painters that lived out their lives in Italy to make that judgement call on Vicenzo vs Vincenzo and Armann vs Armanno. Passeri called some others some weird names too. Armanno could even be confused with Herman Swanevelt, who was called Armanno Fiammingo in Rome. This Malo (I) is probably also the husband of Gertruida van Veen (daughter of Otto who died in 1656) and thus the father of Vincent Malo II (born 1629), whose works have been misattributed over the centuries. Who knows for sure? I do believe that a fairly close match in birth/death dates and Cambrai/Italy is enough to link these two biographies up. There is some evidence to make articles for his wife and kid though I suppose. Jane (talk) 18:13, 21 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate your experience working on wiki. My favourite scientist Lawrence Krauss always repeats that in science one should not look at authority but at the facts. As far as I can tell you decide to convict Vincent Malo to prison based on one fact: that RKD mentions Vicenzo Armanno as an alternative name of Vincent Malo. But RKD does not state anywhere that it is identifying this Vicenzo Armanno with the Vincenzo Armanno of Passeri. In fact, most facts mentioned by Passeri do not seem to have any relationship at all with the facts of the life of Vincent Malo described by Malo's earliest biographer Raffaello Soprani.
If you read Passeri you will have noticed that Passeri nowhere mentions that Armanno was born in Cambray. He solely states that he was a Fleming. He further writes that Armanno was not called by any other name but Monsieur Arrmanno. This completely ties in with the alternative names mentioned in RKD for Herman Swanevelt such as 'Monsieur Armand' and 'Monsu Armanno'. Armanno would be the Italian form of Swanevelt's first name Herman. The art historian Didier Bodart has compared the biography of Vincenzo Armanno by Passeri with that of Vincent Malo by Soprani in Les peintres des Pays-Bas méridionaux et de la principauté de Liège à Rome au XVIIeme siècle, Volume 1, Institut historique belge de Rome, 1970. Bodart came to the conclusion that there is absolutely no identity between the lives of the two persons described in these biographies. He argues that Malo is a history and genre painter while Armanno (like Swanevelt) is known for his landscapes. Bodart also shows on the basis of records in Rome that it was Swanevelt who was convicted by the Holy Chair in Rome. Also the character of Swanevelt as described by Passeri as being of a distrusting nature fully complies with that suggested by Swanevelt's bent name 'eremiet'. Bodart therefore makes a strong case for the identification of Passeri's Armanno with Swanevelt. Bodart states that in only one fact does Swanevelt's biography differ from that of Armanno: Armanno died in Venice while Swanevelt died in Paris. But in any event, neither died in Rome where the Vincent Malo of Soprani died.
Based on the foregoing facts, it seems that there are enough facts for doubting the identification of Vincent Malo with Vincenzo Armanno. In fact, there are strong arguments for the identification of Armanno with Swanevelt. For this reason, I suggest that the info about Armanno not be merged with that of Malo. The article on Vincenz Armann should be restored and the discussion about who he should be identified with (Malo, Swanevelt or someone else) carried on on that page. Until the scholars come to a unanimous view on this it is premature for wiki to make judgement calls either way (including on issues such as where or from what Malo died) Caravaggista (talk) 10:24, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well there is only one Armanno in the ULAN, and that's Malo (I). Believe me when I say I don't take all that the RKD says on face value, and since I started work on Dutch & Flemish painters onwiki I am proud to say that I have successfully mailed them and gotten them to change some inaccuracies. Others claim they are full of mistakes, but I just take what they say with a grain of salt (like anything I read onwiki). Just as you doubt that Malo (I) and Armanno are the same person, I doubt they are two distinct Flemish painters. I just found another Vincenzo Armanni (1608-1684)here listed as an Italian writer. Going back to Passeri, I would be very reluctant to say he was overflowing with "facts", and I don't think he should be the only source for an article, unless you explain the situation with Swanevelt, making it a disambig anyway, not a bio. I would be against restoring a bio for Vincent Armann, but I guess "Monsieur Armanno" could be a worthwhile disambig page. I am somewhat surprised you are so into this, BTW! Thanks for the time you are taking with this - I never knew anyone cared about these stubs except me. Jane (talk) 14:37, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It seems you have not read what I wrote: in essence, the identification of Armanno with Malo is not secure and should not be presented as fact in wiki. An identification of Armanno is equally and even more likely. I repeat: Passeri never says that Armanno was born in Cambrai. I am also not sure how you made the judgement call that Malo died in Rome rather than in Venice (as Passeri) writes if you believe that Armanno and Malo are the same person. In wiki we should present the state of scholarship not our own judgements. If there are two conflicting views they should both be presented and certainly if they offer good arguments and are by respectable sources.Caravaggista (talk) 19:21, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wait, I agree we should present the state of scholarship not our own judgements. I guess I don't understand what you want. Do you want to change the Vincent Malo stub or do you want the old situation with two stubs? I quite agree that the identification of this artist with his alias is not secure. All I am saying is that modern art history resources trump Passeri, by virtue of the scholarship that has taken place between then and now. If a triple of authorities (RKD, VIAF, Getty) point to Malo (I) when you search for Armanno, then we should too. Keeping the stub as we had it is just misleading for our readers. That said, there is nothing wrong with creating a paragraph in the Malo article about the Passeri bio mentioning that it has remained unrecognized by modern biographers. I have handled cases like this in the past (see Pieter Mulier II and Hans Jordaens). Jane (talk) 20:17, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

As indicated above, my view is that the article on Vincenz Armann should be restored and the discussion about who he should be identified with (Malo, Swanevelt or someone else) carried on on that page. I don't agree with the view that RKD etc. are authorities since science deals with evidence not authority (see wiki on Argument from authority). RKD is at best a data aggregator and seems to use as its primary sources reference works from the 19th and early 20th century. They hardly ever seem to be up to speed with the latest scholarship particularly if it concerns relatively obscure southern artists like Malo who spent a lot of time in Italy. Since RKD rarely provides inline sources, we can only guess why they state that Vincent Malo's alternative name is Vicenzo Malo. I see RKD as the beginning of research as it may give you a ball-park idea about an artist and some reference articles. But then the real research starts as one needs to read the original scholarly texts or consult the primary resources (if they are available). Caravaggista (talk) 10:01, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

But Passeri doesn't call him Vincenz Armann either. He calls him Vincenzo Armanno. Jane (talk) 10:21, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well then the article should be renamed VIncenzo Armanno and an explanation provided why some people believe his real/alternative name was Vincenz Armann. In the end we know nothing for certain about this person since Passeri is our only, and not so good, source. Caravaggista (talk) 14:51, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

For a separate article about Vincenzo Armanno we should have at least one more source than Passeri. Do you know who called him Vincenz Armann? Because I can't find that one. Lots of Flemish painters died of fevers in Venice, but the note about his run-in with the inquisition is a distinguishing piece of info. I think it could be useful to discuss the trouble that Flemish painters got into with the inquisition in general. Apparently the Flemish were notorious for getting in trouble - something like that is even mentioned in Don Quixote (but that was earlier, around 1600), and much later, Houbraken mentions it again in his biography of Jacob Ferdinand Voet. Jane (talk) 21:14, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Have made an initial draft in the Vincenzo Armanno article for your review. Caravaggista (talk) 15:47, 24 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Looks much better than what was there! It's good that it points to all three others, but it should include the others' nicknames, so Vincenzo Fiammingo for Adriaenssens is missing. It's not certain that Passeri was the first. There might be something else out there - did you check Baldinucci? Now the other three need to be brought in line and should all link back to this one too. Jane (talk) 21:58, 24 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If Jacob Hess writes he is the only source, I will just rely on his Gründlichkeit for that to be correct. In the end, I don't think Armanno may deserve that much attention as we don't know for sure who is and we don't have any paintings by him. His true identity is something that art historians may have arguments over. I only got involved because common sense seems to indicate that Armanno and Malo are unlikely to be the same person because their bios and specialisations are so completely different. And some of the scholarship seems to confirm that view. Caravaggista (talk) 09:29, 25 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is all about discoverability. If we can help point someone in some Italian archive somewhere at the material you just found and gathered together, then they may be able in future to add to these articles (any one of them). As far as the Gründlichkeit goes, we are missing a short article stub for Jacob Hess. If you are interested, the Dictionary of art historians has a bio on him. Jane (talk) 11:52, 25 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Jane: I have redirected your recently created article Painting (object) to Painting, which explicitly covers the object as well as the action. In my judgement this is an unneeded fork. I see you were the only one to have edited it or the talk page, but I've opened up a section at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Visual arts#Fork of painting for discussion; if the project disagrees with my action, it can be easily reverted. Yngvadottir (talk) 12:23, 7 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Flemish painters

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Got you. But he lived and died in Antwerp sounds so sad. FRAYK (talk) 14:18, 9 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oh yes, I totally agree - notice I am not reverting you, I am just saying that the convention seems to have changed the past few years. I also noticed that when creating items on Wikidata, Wikidata can read (1650-1700) and convert it into birth and death dates, but not when it's like (Amsterdam, 1650-Antwerp,1700) or something like that. Theoretically you only need to create an item once though, so this is a very minor feature. Otherwise, I really have no idea why people prefer it one way or another. Jane (talk) 14:52, 9 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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The Signpost: 09 July 2014

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  • Special report: Wikimania 2014—what will it cost?
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Flemish and Dutch painters

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Thanks. Am trying to give these articles more meat, otherwise you get the impression that they are just another Dutch or Flemish painter. Viamor (talk) 09:22, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well I just wanted to let you know that I noticed and I really appreciate it! Jane (talk) 10:01, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

militia group portrait or schutterstuk

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Hi Jane, I have set up this redirect with the usual English term; please use this (by all means with the Dutch afterwards as above). We don't want to confuse Wikidata after all! Thanks, Johnbod (talk) 14:45, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, but I feel bad for all of the "schutterij" clubs in the Southern Netherlands and Belgium - we have sort-of usurped their article for these group portraits. Eventually this meaning should be split out from that article, because we definitely don't mean all of the large group photo's of schutterij clubs (or the Olympic team shots). I will try to untangle that one of these days I suppose. Jane (talk) 15:12, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 16 July 2014

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  • Special report: $10 million lawsuit against Wikipedia editors withdrawn, but plaintiff intends to refile
    On the same day the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) announced it would offer assistance to English Wikipedia editors embroiled in a legal dispute with Yank Barry, the lawsuit has been withdrawn without prejudice at the request of Barry's legal team—but this action is being described as "strategic" so that they can refile the lawsuit with a "new, more comprehensive complaint."
  • Featured content: The Island with the Golden Gun
    Eight articles, three lists, and 28 pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.
  • News and notes: Bot-created Wikipedia articles covered in the Wall Street Journal, push Cebuano over one million articles
    The Swedish Wikipedia's prolific Lsjbot, which has created a significant proportion of the site's 1.7 million articles and has nearly single-handedly pushed it to being the fourth-largest Wikipedia, was covered in the Wall Street Journal this week. The newspaper reported that the bot has created 2.7 million articles, which is apparently a reference to the Waray-Waray and Cebuano Wikipedias, where Lsjbot is also active, and that "on a good day", it creates 10,000 articles.

The Signpost: 23 July 2014

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  • Traffic report: The World Cup hangs on, though tragedies seek to replace it
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  • News and notes: Institutional media uploads to Commons get a bit easier
    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
    The English Wikipedia's did you know (DYK) section has been a feature of the site's main page since February 2004. From the beginning, the section has served as a place to highlight Wikipedia's newest articles. But over the last few years, the did you know section has gotten steadily larger and more complex, and non-notable or plagiarized articles have occasionally slipped through the reviewing process, leading numerous editors to call for reforms to the system. We asked two editors to share their views.
  • Featured content: Why, they're plum identical!
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Wikimania 2014

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Hi!

My name is Victor and I'm a storyteller and video producer for the Wikimedia Foundation. I'll be looking to capture stories about Wikimedians at Wikimania in London in a week. Here is an example of the kind of thing that I'm aiming to do. I saw that you're attending Wikimania and I was wondering if you might have some time to talk about the work you do about Haarlem and female painters on Wikimedia projects. Anyway let me know if you are interested, I'll be at Wikimania from the 6th-10th of August and would need maybe 30 minutes of your time. I can answer any questions you may have. I’m best reached at vgrigas(at)wikimedia.org

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Victor, yes of course. I am always trying to get people interested in my data, so I would be very happy to talk to you! Jane (talk) 07:52, 2 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 30 July 2014

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  • 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.
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  • 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
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The Signpost: 06 August 2014

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  • 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.

The Signpost: 13 August 2014

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  • 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."

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  • 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."
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Thank You! More to come... WQUlrich (talk) 18:06, 25 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I really appreciate your work on this. Jane (talk) 20:11, 25 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 27 August 2014

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Thank you!

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Thank you Jane for appreciating my work; it made me feel invited to make love to all the men -and only one woman- mentioned on your userpage. E.Doornbusch (talk) 18:09, 1 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That's great E! I hope you enjoy it here, but I still think the place for all these external links should eventually be Wikidata. We are nowhere near being able to use those in Wikipedia though, unless we add the Rijksmuseum identifiers to the Authority control template, and as far as I know, we haven't done that for any other museum yet. I didn't realize there were so few comments by women on my user talk page until you mentioned it, and that is interesting. I think there are more women than men active in museums, so it's a bit odd. Thanks for the wiki love, Jane (talk) 11:03, 2 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 03 September 2014

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  • 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."

An invitation to join WikiProject Women writers

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The Signpost: 10 September 2014

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  • Op-ed: Media Viewer software is not ready
    Last month, I wrote an open letter to the Wikimedia Foundation, inviting others to join me in a simple but important request: roll back the recent actions—both technical and social—by which the Wikimedia Foundation has overruled legitimate decisions of several Wikimedia projects.
  • Traffic report: Refuge in celebrity
    Even though it's not quite 3/4 over, it's safe to say that 2014 will go down as a year of war, mass murder, plane crashes and terrible diseases. While certainly paying it some heed, it's not surprising that Wikipedia viewers tried this week to find any alternative to that litany of tragedy and pain, and their chosen method of escape was, as usual, celebrity.
  • Featured content: The louse and the fish's tongue
    The amazing and strange tongue-eating louse replacing a fish's tongue! Because isopods, the subject of a new featured article, are both awesome and really damn weird!
  • WikiProject report: Checking that everything's all right
    This week, the Signpost decided to have a look around with WikiProject Check Wikipedia a maintenance project not concerned so much with articles' content, but in all the tiny errors that are to be found scattered within them. Their front page gives a list of things they mainly focus on ...

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The Signpost: 17 September 2014

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  • WikiProject report: A trip up north to Scotland
    As Scotland is deciding its future this week, we thought it might be a good idea to get to know the editors of WikiProject Scotland and talk to them about the project.
  • Featured content: Which is not like the others?
    Four articles, two lists, and 51 pictures were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.
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Medical Translation Newsletter Aug./Sept. 2014

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Medical Translation Newsletter
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Feature – Ebola articles

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Electron micrograph of an Ebola virus virion

During August we have translated Disease and it is now live in more than 60 different languages! To help us focus on African languages Rubric has donated a large number of articles in languages we haven't previously reached–so a shout out them, and Ian Henderson from Rubric who's joined us here at Wikipedia. We're very happy for our continued collaboration with both Rubric and Translators without Borders!

Just some of our over 60 translations:
New roles and guides!

At Wikimania there were so many enthusiastic people jumping at the chance to help out the Medical Translation Project, but unfortunately not all of them knew how to get started. That is why we've been spending considerable time writing and improving guides! They are finally live, and you can find them at our home-page!

New sign up page!

We're proud to announce a new sign up page at WP:MTSIGNUP! The old page was getting cluttered and didn't allow you to speficy a role. The new page should be easier to sign up to, and easier to navigate so that we can reach you when you're needed!

Style guides for translations

Translations are of both full articles and shorter articles continues. The process where short articles are chosen for translation hasn't been fully transparent. In the coming months we hope to have a first guide, so that anyone who writes medical or health articles knows how to get their articles to a standard where they can be translated! That's why we're currently working on medical good lede criteria! The idea is to have a similar peer review process to good article nominations, but only for ledes.

Some more stats
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The Signpost: 24 September 2014

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  • Featured content: Oil paintings galore
    Six articles, four lists, one topic, and 17 pictures were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.
  • In the media: Indian political editing, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Congressional chelonii
    The Hindustan Times speculates (September 18) that politicians and their supporters are "sanitizing" their articles in advance of the 2014 Maharashtra State Assembly election. The Times notes the absence of significant controversies in the articles of particular politicians and the presence of heavily promotional language.
  • Traffic report: Wikipedia watches the referendum in Scotland
    This could be the beginning of a new era for this list. Until now, decisions to remove suspicious content have been largely educated guesswork. This week though, we have a new collaborator who can shine a light on the origins and patterns, sorting once and for all the webwheat from the cyberchaff.
  • WikiProject report: GAN reviewers take note: competition time
    A year and a week later, we're with some of the members of WikiProject Good Articles, who wanted to share the news of their upcoming contest within the project, the GA Cup. The aim of this friendly competition, which is held in the same light friendly manner of the WikiCup and the Core Contest, is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed articles at Good article nominations which has been a constant problem for quite a few years for those running the GA process.
  • Arbitration report: Banning Policy, Gender Gap, and Waldorf education
    Banning Policy finishes the workshop phase on 23 September. Parties have proposed findings of fact on the topics of the 3RR, the role of Jimbo Wales, and proxying for banned users. A request for arbitration was posted on 20 September about Landmark Worldwide.
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The Signpost: 01 October 2014

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  • Dispatches: Let's get serious about plagiarism
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  • WikiProject report: Animals, farms, forests, USDA? It must be WikiProject Agriculture
    This week, the Signpost went down to the farm to have a look at the work of WikiProject Agriculture, which has been in existence since 2007 and has a scope covering crop production, livestock management, aquaculture, dairy farming and forest management.
  • Traffic report: Shanah Tovah
    Jews wished each other Shanah Tovah ("Good year") this week as Rosh Hashanah was our most popular article. It was also a week not dominated by heavy news and tragedies, so aside from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (#2, sixth week in the Top 10), our popular article list runs the gamut of current events including new television series Gotham (#3), the 2014 Asian Games (#4), and Reddit-fueled popularity for German director Uwe Boll (#7).
  • Featured content: Brothers at War
    As the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the American Civil War draws to a close, the race to improve content continues. The Battle of Franklin, fought on November 30, 1864, will, quite appropriately, be Picture of the Day for November 30, 2014, its 150th anniversary. If you want to help commemorate the American Civil War, why not help out at the Military History WikiProject's Operation Brothers at War. Or help out with the World War I centennial, just starting up, Operation Great War Centennial.

The Signpost: 08 October 2014

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  • Traffic report: Panic and denial
    The first case of the Ebola virus on US shores sent people into a tizzy, rushing to their keyboards to try and learn what they could.

The Signpost: 15 October 2014

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  • Arbitration report: One case closed and two opened
    The Banning Policy case was closed on 12 October. Arbcom affirmed that users have "considerable leeway" in terms of how their talk pages are managed.
  • Traffic report: Now introducing ... mobile data
    We are pleased to report that the WP:5000 has now been updated to include mobile views, including a column reflecting the percentage of views coming from mobile devices.
  • WikiProject report: Signpost reaches the Midwest
    Today, it's the turn of WikiProject Ohio to give us an interview probing deep into of how they manage to run a project covering one fiftieth of the United States, and the workings of how they manufacture their successes and other articles.

Museum De Hallen

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Hello Jane023, I saw you edited Museum De Hallen, Haarlem. Before you, Annelieke1979 made revisions. On the Dutch article I noticed her copyvio-ing from the museum website, which she may or may not work for. But really, I can't tell whether she did that over here too. Just thought to let you know. Regards, Sander1453 (talk) 21:43, 21 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, you were correct and those comments were copied from the website - so I reverted the edits. Jane (talk) 07:21, 22 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 22 October 2014

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  • Featured content: Go West, young man
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  • Maps tagathon: Find 10,000 digitised maps this weekend
    Rather than the usual WikiProject Report, this week our guest author Jheald is telling us about a campaign to identify thousands of old maps which have been digitised, to make them available for georeferencing and upload
  • Traffic report: Ebola, Ultron, and Creepy Articles
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  • Recent research: Informed consent and privacy; newsmaking on Wikipedia; Wikipedia and organizational theories
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The Signpost: 05 November 2014

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  • In the media: Predicting the flu, MH17 conspiracy theories
    "Rachel Feltman, in The Washington Post (November 4), examined research in which a team, mostly from Los Alamos National Laboratory, headed by Kyle Hickman developed a model that enabled them "to successfully predict the 2013-2014 flu season in real time" by employing "an algorithm to link flu-related Wikipedia searches with CDC data from the same time." Apparently when individuals search for information about the flu and its symptoms in Wikipedia when they feel ill, this generates data useful in forecasting the the flu season."
  • Traffic report: Sweet dreams on Halloween
    "It is, perhaps, ironic that humanity chose the week of Halloween to finally put its fears to bed. Let's face it: 2014 has been a year of tragedies, conflicts, plagues and pain, and eventually something had to break... Whether we at last came to terms with our limited ability to affect events, shoved those events under the carpet, or just decided to let go and move on, we turned our eye to more positive things, such as sports heroes, hotly anticipated movies, and lifelong learning; two Google doodles appeared in the top 25 for the first time since the beginning of August."

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Hi Jane, thanks for this information on wikidata. I will give it a try. FRAYK (talk) 18:10, 7 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I think you may enjoy it as it enables your work to be easily translated into other languages with the reasonator by adding a language link, such as Gommaert van der Gracht in Dutch as opposed to the English version. Jane (talk) 11:01, 8 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi, can you please explain the reason you added that table to the Persondata page? Specifically, I don't understand the aim of the sentence: "The template can not get its information from Wikidata yet:". Thanks —Msmarmalade (talk) 15:12, 16 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. The table shows the Wikidata properties that the template's fields correspond to. The template is currently used on Wikipedia only, unlike the Authority control template, which now pulls its information from Wikidata. The more Wikidata is filled with this information, the less we will need this template on Wikipedia, and it can either go away completely or like the Authority control template, pull its info from Wikidata. Jane (talk) 15:32, 16 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 12 November 2014

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  • In the media: Amazon Echo; EU freedom of panorama; Bluebeard's Castle
    "Technology media outlets are abuzz after the November 6 unveiling of the Amazon Echo, an Internet-connected voice command device"; "The EUobserver talks (November 4) with Dimitar Dimitrov (User:Dimi z) about the lack of freedom of panorama in some European Union countries and its implications for Wikimedia projects"; "Scott Cantrell, classical music critic for the Dallas Morning News, recounts efforts to verify an uncited claim in the Wikipedia article for the Béla Bartók opera Bluebeard's Castle."
  • Traffic report: Holidays, anyone?
    This was very much a week dominated by holidays and pop culture over current events, with new film Interstellar taking the top spot followed by holidays Day of the Dead (#2), Guy Fawkes and his Night (#4 and #5), and Halloween (#8, and its third week on the list). And a foursome of television shows, all return visitors, appear to setting up residence on the greater Top 25: The Walking Dead (#11), American Horror Story: Freak Show (#14), Gotham (#16), and The Flash (#18).
  • WikiProject report: Talking hospitals
    We return to our interview format this week, speaking with the participants of WikiProject Hospitals. This project, formed in 2010, has no Featured content and only three Good articles, yet aided by around 30 hard-working Wikipedians covers a topic that is essential to life.
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The Signpost: 26 November 2014

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  • In the media: A Russian alternative Wikipedia; Who's your grandfather?; ArtAndFeminism
    Numerous media outlets are reporting on a November 14 statement on the website of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library announcing the formation of a Russian "alternative" to Wikipedia, a "regional electronic encyclopedia" dedicated to "Russian regions and the life of the country".
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This Month in Education: October 2014

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Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world.

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This Month in Education: November 2014

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Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world.

The Signpost: 03 December 2014

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The Signpost: 10 December 2014

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The Signpost: 17 December 2014

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Seasonal Greets!

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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2015!!!

Hello Jane023, May you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you a heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New year 2015.
Happy editing,
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Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to user talk pages with a friendly message.

Thanks! Jane (talk) 20:50, 21 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 24 December 2014

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Thank you

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Thank you
I do appreciate it. Heavy Horse (talk) 15:17, 28 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
You are more than welcome - it looks like you really assigned yourself a mega-task with that list of Rembrandts, but I think its value for Wikipedia will be worth it! Jane (talk) 15:31, 28 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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