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The Signpost: 2 May 2016

• News and notes: Wikimedia Switzerland's board and paid-editing firm; passing of Ed Dravecky

• In the media: Wikipedia Zero piracy in Bangladesh; bureaucracy; chilling effects; too few cooks; translation gaps

• Traffic report: Purple

• Featured content: The best ... from the past two weeks

• Arbitration report: Two editors unbanned; Wikicology case enters workshop phase; Gamaliel restricted from Gamergate at his own request

• Recent research: The eight roles of Wikipedians; do edit histories expose social relations among editors?

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WikiCup 2016 May newsletter

FP of Christ Church Cathedral, Falkland Islands by Godot13

Round 2 is over and 35 competitors have moved on to Round 3.

Round 2 saw three FAs (two by Cas Liber (submissions) and one by Montanabw (submissions)), four Featured Lists (with three by Calvin999 (submissions)), and 53 Good Articles (six by Worm That Turned (submissions) and five each by Hurricanehink (submissions), Cwmhiraeth (submissions), and MPJ-DK (submissions)). Eleven Featured Pictures were promoted (six by Adam Cuerden (submissions) and five by Godot13 (submissions)). One Featured Portal, Featured Topic and Good Topic were also promoted. The DYK base point total was 1,135. Cwmhiraeth (submissions) scored 265 base points, while The C of E (submissions) and MPJ-DK (submissions) each scored 150 base points. Eleven ITN were promoted and 131 Good Article Reviews were conducted with MPJ-DK (submissions) completing a staggering 61 reviews. Two contestants, Cwmhiraeth (submissions) and Cas Liber (submissions), broke the 700 point mark for Round 2.

If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Thanks to everyone for participating, and good luck to those moving into round 2. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), and Godot13 (talk · contribs · email) -- MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:59, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

GLAM Boot Camp announced (June 14-16 in DC)

You have expressed interest in the GLAM-Wiki US Consortium, so you may be interested in attending the GLAM Boot Camp next month in Washington, DC. This is a training designed to help Wikipedians interested in guiding museums, libraries, and other cultural institutions in wiki engagement. Travel funding available for those in North America. Since the event is coming up soon, please be sure to add your name to the page if you are interested -- and please pass this announcement along. (You may want to share on Facebook or on Twitter.) Thanks for your interest! -MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:24, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

Link for GLAM Boot Camp

My apologies - here is the link for the GLAM Boot Camp mentioned above: Wikipedia:GLAM/Boot Camp. -Pete (talk) 04:30, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: April 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue IV, April 2016 Headlines Africa report: Wiki Loves Women in Africa Argentina report: Edit-a-thons in Buenos Aires Belgium report: Writing weeks in and about Brussels Bulgaria report: Meeting lots of museum directors Germany report: Learning in the GLAM field & how to edit the GND Italy report: MUSE Edit-a-thon and Backstage pass and Small Museums in Italy Macedonia report: ArchiWiki edit-a-thon; Wikimedian-in-residence Netherlands report: Edit-a-thon Attic Nights Norway report: Photographic portraits Poland report: Faras discoveries, Carpathian ethnography, and a spreadsheet-based uploader Spain report: Free pictures, edit-a-thons and new partners Sweden report: Connected Open Heritage; Offentligkonst.se; Digkult; ArbetSams museidagar; VISS; Museernas vårmöte; GLAM/ED collaboration UK report: GLAMwiki work in Yorkshire; Mitchell Arts Centre Special story: Halfway point of the Europeana Art History Challenge Open Access report: Hypercycle; Wikipedia Year of Science; Snake envenomings Wikidata report: Wikimedia Commons gets arbitrary access Calendar: May's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Please delete

Wikipedia:AN/D; I get the joke but a user typing WP:AN/ ... into the search box should not be offered that as an option. NE Ent 09:58, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

WP:AN/K has been then for years with no complaint, I'm pretty sure we'll all be safe. ;-) Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 15:21, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 17 May 2016

• News and notes: Affiliates' nomination of WMF trustees announced; FDC's straight talking to WMF

• Op-ed: Swiss chapter in turmoil

• In the media: Wikimedia's Dario Taraborelli quoted on Google's Knowledge Graph in The Washington Post

• Featured content: Two weeks for the prize of one

• Traffic report: Oh behave, Beyhive / Underdogs

• Arbitration report: "Wikicology" ends in site ban; evidence and workshop phases concluded for "Gamaliel and others"

• Wikicup: That's it for WikiCup Round 2!

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Wikipedia:AN/D listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:AN/D. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia:AN/D redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Softlavender (talk) 10:35, 21 May 2016 (UTC)

Notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is We need an adult. Thank you. v/r - TP 05:21, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

I think that those who opposed the opposers should feel very stupid when they see how this ended. Friendly fire, one of the worst euphemisms ever, is always bad. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 13:44, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June 13, 2016

As good an excuse to start up a conversation as any. How are things? I'll get to work on this right away. - Dank (push to talk) 23:28, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

Hey Dank! Long time no talk. :-) Note that for North Carolina there's a date connection with NC's launch. Not sure if there's room to work that in.

I'm good, still in grad school as I'm working full time with the WMF and like my sanity (read: one class/semester at the moment). Job is going well, for the most part—it gets a little weird at times. How are you? Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 06:13, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

I admire people who don't settle for easy jobs.

No complaints, life is good.

TFA: is it okay if I revert? I did like "where it remains today", but even better would be "(pictured)", if you want to swap in a recent-ish image of the museum ship. - Dank (push to talk) 14:57, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

Happy if you want to revert that wording, but most of the pictures are meh aside from File:North carolina fireworks.jpg. Glad to hear life is good! I just bought a new (used) car, so I can travel places—we should finally do that lunch we discussed eons ago. :-) Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 19:08, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

Any time, and happy to meet you halfway. Ping me sometime when you're going to be in the Triangle. - Dank (push to talk) 20:24, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

Will do. Probably around the 1st of July, when I'm road-tripping to Michigan and seeing people all along the way! Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 22:40, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

Also Dank—I'm not a huge fan of the lead sentence there. Can we go with something like "The two battleships of the North Carolina class were built shortly before World War II. USS North Carolina (launched on 13 June 1940) and Washington had 16-inch guns, heavy firepower for their size, but their design sacrificed some speed and armor." ? Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 22:50, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

Done, + "the US entered". - Dank (push to talk) 00:09, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

Precious again, your battleships that "epitomized the problem faced by 1930s designers: how to fit a maximum of firepower, armor and speed into a 35,000 long ton ship"!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:24, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, Gerda Arendt! Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 17:28, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 May 2016

• News and notes: Upcoming Wikimedia conferences in the US and India; May Metrics and Activities Meeting

• Special report: Compensation paid to Sue Gardner increased by almost 50 percent after she stepped down as executive director

• In the media: The perils of Wikipedia's monopoly; Wikipedians' fragility; Street Sharks hoax

• Featured content: Eight articles, three lists and five pictures

• Op-ed: Journey of a Wikipedian

• Arbitration report: Gamaliel resigns from the arbitration committee

• Recent research: English as Wikipedia's Lingua Franca; deletion rationales; schizophrenia controversies

• Traffic report: Splitting (musical) airs / Slow Ride

• Blog: Freely licensed magic at Eurovision

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