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The following is an automatically-generated compilation of all talk pages for the Signpost issue dated 2012-03-26. For general Signpost discussion, see Wikipedia talk:Signpost.

Arbitration report: Race and intelligence review at evidence, article titles closed (323 bytes · 💬)

• Race and intelligence review – Wow and wow. It's time for hand bags at ten paces. Regards, RJH (talk) 00:31, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Education report: Universities unite for GLAM; and High Schools get their due. (975 bytes · 💬)

The separate wiki for Catalan students with an experienced user promoting articles to the regular Wikipedia is a fantastic idea. Perhaps we could make this easier for individual projects, universities, edit-a-thons, or classes to set up. Alternatively, maybe one big "Try out" wikipedia could be set up. Smallbones (talk) 17:17, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

This wiki has also an integrated moddle course. There are also some bots to track the results. We are just experimenting and continuously improving. If there is somebody interested in setting similar tools in other languages you can contact us and we will be happy to cooperate.--CàlculIntegral (talk) 07:42, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Featured content: Malfunctioning sharks, toothcombs and a famous mother: featured content for the week (419 bytes · 💬)

• It's nice to finally discover who that woman was sitting for that artist.

It was her first and last sitting for any artist. Although that is the whole basis of the entire painting. Fixnit11 (talk) 14:28, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

News and notes: Controversial content saga continues, while the Foundation tries to engage editors with merchandising and restructuring (4,450 bytes · 💬)

Just gonna stick this here to address any "wtf" thoughts that people may have upon seeing that I'm on a Wikibreak shortly after being appointed: my editing will be reduced, but I can accommodate crat stuff no problem; renaming a few users every day or so is not exactly time-consuming. WilliamH (talk) 03:32, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

• God, that's kind of an awful picture of us. Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 17:37, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Really like the idea of the Wikimedia shop – but please provide a valid certificate, that kinda ruins the opening. Nageh (talk) 17:43, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

I know that James is working on that - it's not just a certificate problem, it has something to do with the Shopify store. I'll point him here. Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 08:49, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

For those using the HTTPS Everywhere browser extension, a quick note that we contacted our friends at EFF and they already modified their ruleset to prevent this problem from occurring with http://shop.wikimedia.org . It should be deployed with their next release. Regards, Tbayer (WMF) (talk) 10:42, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

• I wonder if a misunderstanding was introduced into this article during copy-editing? Before copy-editing, the sentences said this: "On the broader picture of the saga the RfC came just after debates on another controversial issue, allegations of child porn." It now says this: "The RfC came shortly after debates on another controversial content issue: allegations that Wikimedia projects host child pornography." These are, of course, very different sentences. :) The discussion linked contains no allegations of or debates out (unless I'm missing them) child pornography being hosted on Wikimedia projects. If there are other discussions meant, could we get a link to those? --Maggie Dennis (WMF) (talk) 18:20, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

thanks Maggie, you are of course right. i indeed drafted intentionally & carefully the way i did. i reversed the sentence to my old version, regards --Jan eissfeldt (talk) 15:59, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

Indeed, the allegations were that Beta M had, at one time, been convicted for possession of child pornography, and did not involve WMF content at all except tangentially. In light of this, I find its connection to the Muhammad case to be tenuous, and I'm not sure it should have been mentioned in that section. Dcoetzee 03:14, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

what i was primarily considering on this aspect of the design of this part of the transwiki-section on the case you and others debated was:

a) have relevant amounts of explicit transwiki-references to past controversial content debates been made in debating the case? de:WD:K especially but not exclusively provided such.

b) were "implicit" references to such past debates made in discussing the case by using arguments originated in such past debates (in significant ways)? the introducing post of the related discussion at User talk:Jimbo_Wales, for example, was primarily built on press coverage, published one day (june 25) after the announcement (june 24) of the june 2010-resolution (no explicit reference to the resolution in the press article, btw).

looking at the debates on commons, de.wp, and en.wp under a) and b) it turned out to be justified in regard to editorial (especially contextual) aspects, regards --Jan eissfeldt (talk) 22:53, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

Recent research: Predicting admin elections; studying flagged revision debates; classifying editor interactions; and collecting the Wikipedia literature (403 bytes · 💬)

• Perhaps the term RfA "candidate" should be used instead of "target." We all know what you mean, of course, but that is also the problem. 71.215.74.243 (talk) 00:01, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

Technology report: A busy week: Git switchover, mobile site upgraded, and still time for three security releases (749 bytes · 💬)

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I tried out the mobile site. Now how do I get back to the normal one? (IE9, have already cleared cache)

There should be a link at the bottom for "Use desktop version" - or click here to achieve the same effect. - Jarry1250 ^{[Deliberation needed]} 08:58, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

• Is this the reason the Toolserver is still down? Mathew Townsend (talk) 19:58, 28 March 2012 (UTC)