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This Month in Education: November 2012

This Month in Education – Volume 1, Issue 4, November 2012 Headlines Preliminary results of cooperation about protected areas Winners of the Day of the Dead Wiki Style contest announced More than 20 classes join Egypt program this term U.S. student improves article on bird species Articles of Interest in other publications To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 19 November 2012

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

• News and notes: FDC's financial muscle kicks in
• Discussion report: GOOG, MSFT, WMT: the ticker symbol placement question
• WikiProject report: No teenagers, mutants, or ninjas: WikiProject Turtles
• Featured content: Wikipedia hit by the Streisand effect
• Technology report: Structural reorganisation "not a done deal"

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The Signpost: 26 November 2012

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

• News and notes: Toolserver finance remains uncertain
• Recent research: Movie success predictions, readability, credentials and authority, geographical comparisons
• WikiProject report: Directing Discussion: WikiProject Deletion Sorting
• Featured content: Panoramic views, history, and a celestial constellation
• Technology report: Wikidata reaches 100,000 entries

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The Signpost: 03 December 2012

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

• News and notes: Wiki Loves Monuments announces 2012 winner
• Discussion report: Concise Wikipedia; standardize version history tables
• WikiProject report: The White Rose: WikiProject Yorkshire
• Featured content: The play's the thing
• Technology report: MediaWiki problems but good news for Toolserver stability

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This Month in GLAM: November 2012

This Month in GLAM – Volume II, Issue XI, November 2012 Headlines Africa report: Wiki Loves Monuments in Africa 2012, a roadway... to victory Australia and New Zealand report: State Library of New South Wales; Freopedia France report: Semanticpedia; Lobbying at Ministry of Culture Germany report: Roundtable of the cultural heritage of the Rhineland; QRpedia at the Hamburg Museum Italy report: Celebrating a milestone: WikiAfrica hits its goals Mexico report: Mexico/Spain editathon Netherlands report: Dutch GLAM activities in November 2012 Sweden report: Commons and endings UK report: Activities in Birmingham and Stafford; digitised books in London USA report: VIAFbot Edits; The Brooklyn Museum Wiki Loves Monuments report: Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 finished Open Access report: The Open Access Media Importer at full speed; Publishers deliver inconsistent XML to PubMed Central; Importing from other sources Calendar: December'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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The Signpost: 10 December 2012

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

• News and notes: Wobbly start to ArbCom election, but turnout beats last year's
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Human Rights
• Featured content: Wikipedia goes to Hell
• Technology report: The new Visual Editor gets a bit more visual

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This Month in Education: December 2012

This Month in Education – Volume 1, Issue 5, December 2012 Headlines wikiArS initiative in Catalonia Pilot Project "Wikipedia in University", Coquimbo, Chile Editathon with the Digital Humanities Winter Institute and the University of Maryland Some Statistics from the Czech program: explosion of new projects Fall 2012 summary Tecnológico de Monterrey- Campus Ciudad de México NCA conference highlights Wikipedia initiative Sample syllabus brochure revamped Student's article featured the psychology of music preference on main page Ambassadors in Cairo hold many student workshops Brazil student creates important chemistry article Articles of Interest in other publications To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 17 December 2012

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

• Op-ed: Finding truth in Sandy Hook
• News and notes: Arbitrator election: stewards release the results
• Discussion report: Concise Wikipedia; section headings for navboxes
• WikiProject report: WikiProjekt Computerspiel: Covering Computer Games in Germany
• Featured content: Wikipedia's cute ass
• Technology report: MediaWiki groups and why you might want to start snuggling newbie editors

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The Signpost: 24 December 2012

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

• News and notes: Debates on Meta sparking along—grants, new entities, and conflicts of interest
• WikiProject report: A Song of Ice and Fire
• Featured content: Battlecruiser operational
• Technology report: Efforts to "normalise" Toolserver relations stepped up

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The Signpost: 31 December 2012

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

• From the editor: Wikipedia, our Colosseum
• Interview: Interview with Brion Vibber, the WMF's first employee
• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation fundraiser a success; Czech parliament releases photographs to chapter
• In the media: Is the Wikimedia movement too 'cash rich'?; Wales accused of Kazakh corruption
• Recent research: Wikipedia and Sandy Hook; SOPA blackout reexamined
• Discussion report: Image policy and guidelines; resysopping policy
• WikiProject report: New Year, New York
• Featured content: Whoa Nelly! Featured content in review
• Technology report: Looking back on a year of incremental changes

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The Signpost: 07 January 2013

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

• Op-ed: Meta, where innovative ideas die
• News and notes: 2012—the big year
• WikiProject report: Where Are They Now? Episode IV: A New Year
• Featured content: Featured content in review
• Technology report: Looking ahead to 2013

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This Month in GLAM: December 2012

This Month in GLAM – Volume II, Issue XII, December 2012 Headlines France report: Wikipedia Club at École du Louvre Italy report: WikiAfrica and Share Your Knowledge welcome 2013 with great achievements Netherlands report: 500,000+ monument photos by RCE being uploaded to Wikimedia Commons Spain report: QRpedia at Science Museum of Valladolid UK report: UK events in December 2012 USA report: GLAM-Wiki presence at Museum Computer Network Open Access report: 1 year Open Access File of the Day Tool testing report: BaGLAMa is back Calendar: January'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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This Month in Education: January 2013

This Month in Education – Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2013 Headlines United Kingdom sums up its year in Education Outreach Education Program kicks off in Sweden Teaching the Teachers in UK Secondary Schools Pilot program for Mexican university students working with Wikipedia to satisfy community service requirement Worldwide resources page created on outreach wiki Trophy Case highlights excellent student work Articles of Interest in other publications To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 14 January 2013

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

• Investigative report: Ship ahoy! New travel site finally afloat
• News and notes: Launch of annual photo competition, new grant scheme
• Special report: Loss of an Internet genius
• Discussion report: Flag Manual of Style, accessibility and equality
• WikiProject report: Reach for the Stars: WikiProject Astronomy
• Featured content: Featured articles: Quality of reviews, quality of writing in 2012
• Arbitration report: First arbitration case in almost six months
• Technology report: Intermittent outages planned, first Wikidata client deployment

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The Signpost: 21 January 2013

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

• News and notes: Requests for adminship reform moves forward
• WikiProject report: Say What? — WikiProject Linguistics
• Featured content: Wazzup, G? Delegates and featured topics in review
• Arbitration report: Doncram case continues
• Technology report: Data centre switchover a tentative success

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The Signpost: 28 January 2013

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

• In the media: Hoaxes draw media attention; Sue Gardner's op-ed; Women of Wikipedia
• News and notes: Khan Academy's Smarthistory and Wikipedia collaborate
• Recent research: Lessons from the research literature on open collaboration; clicks on featured articles; credibility heuristics
• Featured content: Listing off progress from 2012
• WikiProject report: Checkmate! – WikiProject Chess
• Discussion report: Administrator conduct and requests
• Arbitration report: Doncram continues
• Technology report: Developers get ready for FOSDEM amid caching problems

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The Signpost: 04 February 2013

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

• Special report: Examining the popularity of Wikipedia articles: catalysts, trends, and applications
• In the media: Star Trek Into Pedantry
• News and notes: Article Feedback Tool faces community resistance
• Featured content: Portal people on potent potables and portable potholes
• WikiProject report: Land of the Midnight Sun – WikiProject Norway
• Technology report: Wikidata team targets English Wikipedia deployment

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This Month in GLAM: January 2013

This Month in GLAM – Volume III, Issue I, January 2013 Headlines Africa report: "Have we ever done a GLAM partnership in Africa?" France report: News from Toulouse; Contacting GLAMs in Strasbourg; French Bishops; Public domain day Germany report: de.GLAMwiki 2013 - German GLAM workshop Italy report: WiR and VIAF bot Mexico report: Donation of 100 photos Netherlands report: Wiki Loves Monuments exhibition and evaluation, and New Year's Reception Spain report: GLAM activity in Spain Sweden report: More work and more people UK report: UK GLAM report USA report: GLAM in the USA Special story: The Europeana - Wiki GLAM Toolset Open Access report: Aaron is dead; 1 year WikiProject Open Access Calendar: February'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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The Signpost: 11 February 2013

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

• Op-ed: An article is a construct – hoaxes and Wikipedia
• News and notes: UK chapter governance review marks the end of a controversial year
• In the media: Wikipedia mirroring life in island ownership dispute
• Discussion report: WebCite proposal; request for adminship reform
• WikiProject report: Just the Facts – WikiProject Infoboxes
• Featured content: A lousy week
• Technology report: Wikidata client rollout stutters

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This Month in Education: February 2013

This Month in Education – Volume 2, Issue 2, February 2013 Headlines Welcome (back), Rod Dunican! ITESM-Campus Ciudad de México donates 100 photos to Commons School of Open to launch with a Wikipedia course for open education enthusiasts Cairo class creates Spanish literature portal Brazil program organizes Campus Party activities U.S., Canada Thematic Organization proposed Articles of Interest in other publications To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 18 February 2013

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

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation declares 'victory' in Wikivoyage lawsuit
• In the media: Sue Gardner interviewed by the Australian press
• WikiProject report: Thank you for flying WikiProject Airlines
• Featured content: Featured content gets schooled
• Technology report: Better templates and 3D buildings

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The Signpost: 25 February 2013

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

• News and notes: "Very lucky" Picture of the Year
• In the media: Former WMF board member creates "Wikipedia Corporate Index" for Fleishman-Hillard PR agency
• Recent research: Wikipedia not so novel after all, except to UK university lecturers; EPOV instead of NPOV
• Discussion report: Wikivoyage links; overcategorization
• WikiProject report: How to measure a WikiProject's workload
• Featured content: Blue birds be bouncin'
• Technology report: Wikidata development to be continued indefinitely

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This Month in GLAM: February 2013

This Month in GLAM – Volume III, Issue II, February 2013 Headlines Australia and New Zealand report: Library Conferences and Regional Workshops Finland report: Kiasma Edit-A-Thon; Theme Days France report: Wikipedia in public libraries; Borrowing books from public libraries; POTY Germany report: Reach out for cooperation Kosovo report: Wiki Academy Kosovo Mexico report: Wikimedia México turns green and goes to radio Netherlands report: War Monuments in the Netherlands Spain report: Viquimodernisme, from the classrom to Wikipedia Sweden report: Databases and image donations Switzerland report: Wickiana and History of Alps UK report: GLAM-Wiki 2013 preparation USA report: GLAM in the USA Open Access report: Interview; WikiProject Open Access News; Open Access Media Importer Calendar: March'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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The Signpost: 11 March 2013

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

• From the editor: Signpost–Wikizine merger; new writers
• News and notes: Finance committee updates
• Featured content: Batman, three birds and a Mercedes
• WikiProject report: Setting a precedent
• Arbitration report: Doncram case closes; arbitrator resigns
• Technology report: Article Feedback reversal: watershed moment?; plus code review one year on

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This Month in Education: March 2013

This Month in Education – Volume 2, Issue 3, March 2013 Headlines Program leaders invited to workshop in Milan Chesapeake College Wikipedia Project Toni Sant joins Wikimedia UK as Education Organiser Medical English students begin work with Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia Farewell, Annie! Articles of Interest in other publications To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 18 March 2013

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

• News and notes: Resigning arbitrator slams Committee
• Interview: Meeting in the middle: Wikipedia and libraries
• Featured content: Wikipedia stays warm
• WikiProject report: Making music with WikiProject Composers
• Arbitration report: Another arbitrator resigns; Richard case closes
• Technology report: Visual Editor "on schedule" for July rollout

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The Signpost: 25 March 2013

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

• News and notes: Sue Gardner to leave WMF; German Wikipedians spearhead another effort to close Wikinews
• Featured content: One and a half soursops
• WikiProject report: The 'Burgh: WikiProject Pittsburgh
• Arbitration report: Two open cases
• Technology report: The Visual Editor: Where are we now, and where are we headed?
• Recent research: "Ignore all rules" in deletions; anonymity and groupthink; how readers react when shown talk pages

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The Signpost: 01 April 2013

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

• Special report: Who reads which Wikipedia? The WMF's surprising stats
• News and notes: Funding for the Wikipedia Library and six other projects; April Fool's Day ructions
• Featured content: What the ?
• WikiProject report: Special: FAQs
• Arbitration report: Three open cases
• Technology report: Wikidata phase 2 deployment timetable in doubt

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This Month in GLAM: March 2013

This Month in GLAM – Volume III, Issue III, March 2013 Headlines Australia and New Zealand report: The Sydney Wikipedian-in-Residence story (Part I): where, why, what Finland report: Preparing and Planning France report: Case study in museum newsletter; Akan; Sèvres; Quai Branly Germany report: Caesar and the provinces Israel report: Wrapping up a 6-months pilot project at the Haifa University Academic Library Italy report: Libraries! Mexico report: GLAM Activities in Mexico Netherlands report: Wiki loves Monuments and Sound; Hackathon 2013; Hebrew and Jiddish words Spain report: GLAM Activities in Spain Sweden report: Fashion edit-a-thon; cooperating with the Working life museums Switzerland report: Small museums Taiwan report: GLAM Activities in Taiwan UK report: Workshops: scientists and photographs USA report: Chemical Heritage Foundation resident sought; editathons in D.C. and New York Open Access report: Topic Pages; Open Access on Wikispecies Calendar: April'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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The Signpost: 08 April 2013

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

• Wikizine: Introducing Wikizine: WMF scales back feature after outcry
• News and notes: French intelligence agents threaten Wikimedia volunteer
• Featured content: Wikipedia loves poetry
• WikiProject report: Earthshattering WikiProject Earthquakes
• Arbitration report: Subject experts needed for Argentine History
• Technology report: Testing week for developers and their deployments

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This Month in Education: April 2013

This Month in Education – Volume 2, Issue 4, April 2013 Headlines Survey research and design in psychology - Example of a Wikiversity resource Wikimedia Argentina's educational strategic plan Wikiversity and Moodle Czech program flourishes Egypt program celebrates end of second term Articles of Interest in other publications To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 15 April 2013

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

• Op-ed: How do we fix RfA inactivity?
• News and notes: Another admin reform attempt flops
• Featured content: The featured process swings into high gear
• WikiProject report: Unity in Diversity: WikiProject South Africa

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The Signpost: 22 April 2013

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

• News and notes: Milan conference a mixed bag
• In the media: Wikipedia inaccurate, says Florence; New Wikipedia app for breaking news
• Featured content: Batfish in the Red Sea
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Editor Retention
• Arbitration report: Sexology case nears closure after stalling over topic ban
• Technology report: A flurry of deployments

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The Signpost: 29 April 2013

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

• News and notes: Chapter furore over FDC knockbacks; First DC GLAM boot-camp
• In the media: Wikipedia's sexism; Yuri Gadyukin hoax
• Traffic report: Most popular Wikipedia articles of the last week
• Featured content: Wiki loves video games
• WikiProject report: Japanese WikiProject Baseball
• Arbitration report: Sexology closed; two open cases
• Recent research: Sentiment monitoring, Wikipedians and academics favor the same papers, UNESCO and systemic bias, How ideas flow on Wikiversity

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This Month in GLAM: April 2013

This Month in GLAM – Volume III, Issue IV, April 2013 Headlines From the team: Some personal thoughts on GLAM Australia and New Zealand report: Wikipedia in academia and libraries in Australia Denmark report: Upcoming Edit-a-thon 1864 Finland report: WLPA; GLAM Sessions; Funding France report: Brest Germany report: Hamburg Museum; Museum August Kestner Hungary report: Article writing contest about statistics and related sciences Italy report: Wikipedia workshop; Editathon on women's biographies Mexico report: Fotofestín activities; DIY scanner project progress and Winners of the Holy Week in Mexico photo contest at ITESM Campus Ciudad de Mexico Netherlands report: GLAM WIKI UK; Wiki loves Sound; Wikipedian in Residence; Wiki loves Libraries; Wikipedia Training National Museum of Ethnology Spain report: Longest edit-a-thon ever at Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona Sweden report: GLAM handbook version 3; conferences; hackathons and Wiki Loves Public Art Switzerland report: Swiss Federal Archives looking for a Wikipedian in Residence Taiwan report: Taiwan Government Data Portal Launched UK report: GLAM-Wiki; new and departing Wikipedians in Residence USA report: First GLAM Boot Camp; Consortium meeting; GLAMout; plus workshops and editathon Special story: Intersections between GLAM and Wikinews Open Access report: Featured content; Wikimania sessions 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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The Signpost: 06 May 2013

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

• News and notes: Candidates nominating for Foundation elections; Looking ahead to Wikimania 2014
• In the media: New Wikipedia for Schools edition; Anders Behring Breivik's Wikipedia contributions
• Featured content: WikiCup update: full speed ahead!
• WikiProject report: Earn $100 in cash... and a button!
• Technology report: Foundation successful in bid for larger Google subsidy

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This Month in Education: May 2013

This Month in Education – Volume 2, Issue 5, May 2013 Headlines First ever medical school education program pilot begins at UCSF 7th grade Wikipedia project in Geneva Wiki Education Foundation proposed Wikiversity-Moodle project is moving on Principles of radiation astronomy in Wikiversity Trophy Case highlights good student work Articles of Interest in other publications To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 13 May 2013

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

• News and notes: WMF–community ruckus on Wikimedia mailing list
• In the media: PR firm accused of editing Wikipedia for government clients; can Wikipedia predict the stock market?
• Featured content: A mushroom, a motorway, a Munich gallery, and a map
• WikiProject report: Knock Out: WikiProject Mixed Martial Arts
• Arbitration report: Race and politics opened; three open cases

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The Signpost: 20 May 2013

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

• Foundation elections: Trustee candidates speak about Board structure, China, gender, global south, endowment
• News and notes: Spanish Wikipedia leaps past one million articles
• In the media: Qworty incident continues
• WikiProject report: Classical Greece and Rome
• Featured content: Up in the air

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The Signpost: 27 May 2013

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

• Foundation elections: Candidates talk about the Meta problem, the nation-based chapter model, world languages, and value for money
• News and notes: First-ever community election for FDC positions
• In the media: Pagans complain about Qworty's anti-Pagan editing
• Featured content: Life of 2π
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Geographical Coordinates
• Technology report: Amsterdam hackathon: continuity, change, and stroopwafels
• Recent research: Motivations on the Persian Wikipedia; is science eight times more popular on the Spanish Wikipedia than the English Wikipedia?

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The Signpost: 05 June 2013

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

• From the editor: Signpost developments
• News and notes: "Cease and desist", World Trade Organization says to Wikivoyage; Could WikiLang be the next WMF project?
• In the media: China blocks Wikipedia
• Discussion report: Return of the Discussion report
• Featured content: A week of portraits
• WikiProject report: Operation Normandy
• Technology report: Developers accused of making Toolserver fight 'pointless'

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This Month in GLAM: May 2013

This Month in GLAM – Volume III, Issue V, May 2013 Headlines Australia and New Zealand report: Australian participation - east and west; urban and outback; at home and away Belgium report: Belgian cultural institutions interested in Open Data Czech Republic report: QRpedia codes in Silesian Museum Opava Finland report: Maps; WLPA; Workshop material France report: Edit-a-thon in Quai Branly Germany report: Being online on air - TV cooperation Mexico report: Edit-a-thons in Puebla and Mexico City; Möebius radio program Netherlands report: Europeana Fashion edit-a-thon; First Dutch Wikipedian in Residence; Wikimedia Hackathon; Wiki loves libraries Spain report: Wiki Loves Catalan Public libraries Sweden report: A month full of art Switzerland report: QRpedia Pilot at the Natural History Museum in Bern UK report: Monmouth; Museums; More USA report: Wikipedian in Residence in the Smithsonian; News in brief Special story: GLAM and Early Telescopes Open Access report: Bugfixes; over 10,000 files from PLOS; conferences Calendar: June'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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The Signpost: 12 June 2013

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

• Op-ed: The tragedy of Wikipedia's commons
• News and notes: How Wikimedia affiliates are spending $8.4 million; PRISM scandal
• Traffic report: Who holds the throne?
• In the media: VisualEditor will "change world history"
• Discussion report: VisualEditor, elections, bots, and more
• Featured content: Mixing Bowl Interchange
• Arbitration report: Two cases suspended; proposed decision posted in Argentine History
• WikiProject report: Processing WikiProject Computing

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This Month in Education: June 2013

This Month in Education – Volume 2, Issue 6, June 2013 Headlines Growing contributions from wikiArS initiative German Wikiversity continues its relaunch English Wikipedia program seeks Ambassadors Italian nursing students and Wikipedia Articles of Interest in other publications To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 24 July 2013

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

• News and notes: Wikivoyage turns ten, but where to now?; Wikipedia Zero expands into India
• In the media: Wikipedia flamewars
• Discussion report: Partially disambiguated page names, page protection policy, and more
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Religion
• Featured content: Engineering and the arts
• Arbitration report: Infoboxes case opens
• Traffic report: Gleeless

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The Signpost: 31 July 2013

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

• Op-ed: The VisualEditor Beta and the path to change
• News and notes: Gearing up for Wikimania 2013
• Featured content: Caterpillars, warblers, and frogs—oh my!
• Discussion report: Defining consensus; VisualEditor default state; expert and layperson terms in article titles
• WikiProject report: Babel Series: Politics on the Turkish Wikipedia
• Arbitration report: Race and politics case closes
• Traffic report: Bouncing Baby Brouhaha
• Recent research: Napoleon, Michael Jackson and Srebrenica across cultures, 90% of Wikipedia better than Britannica, WikiSym preview

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This Month in GLAM: July 2013

This Month in GLAM – Volume III, Issue VII, July 2013 Headlines Australia and New Zealand report: No letup from Libraries Italy report: Libraries! Mexico report: Wiki Loves Monuments meeting in Mexico City; Volunteers of Puebla and Fotofestin gets in the contest Spain report: IPC Athletic World Championships UK report: Art Nouveau & Rosalind Franklin USA report: 20,000 high quality photographs for Art History enthusiasts Special story: An archive with many stories to tell Open Access report: Media Importer; File of the Day Wiki Loves Monuments report: Wiki Loves Monuments is coming Calendar: August'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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The Signpost: 07 August 2013

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

• News and notes: Chapters Association self-destructs
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Freedom of Speech
• Featured content: The great Colorado River and the mysterious case of the grand duchess
• Discussion report: Civility policy, geographic names, CheckUser and Oversighter candidates, and more
• Arbitration report: Fourteen editors proposed for ban in Tea party movement case
• Traffic report: Greetings from the graveyard

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The Signpost: 14 August 2013

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• Special report: Jimmy Wales: media favors entertainment over raising public awareness
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This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue VI, June 2014 Headlines Belgium report: Bouchout Declaration on Open Access to Biodiversity data; Virtual collaboration in the government France report: Round table in Brussels; Video at Sèvres; 70th anniversary of the D-Day Germany report: Exhibition photography Mexico report: Edit-a-thon of Museo Soumaya; simulthaneous edit-a-thon in Argentina, Mexico and Spain about Spanish Exile; new cultural partner of Wikimedia México Netherlands report: Music edit-a-thon; Library workshops; Videos, maps and Japanese art donations; Wiki Loves Earth Sweden report: Wiki Loves Monuments is being prepared for Sweden UK report: Free Culture; Image releases USA report: A GLAM Day Out! in Philadelphia; Local History at the Local Library Wikimania report: GLAM presentations at Wikimania Open Access report: Open biodiversity data; Automated import of scholarly journal articles into Wikisource Calendar: July'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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• MACEDONIA: Internet marketing students learn about Wikipedia and suggest ways to improve its fundraising
• ISRAEL: Haifa University students write Wikipedia articles for academic credit
• MEXICO: Editing about Literary Theory in UNAM
• MEXICO: Professor training continues as part of the Wiki Learning program
• CZECH REPUBLIC: Education program presented at BarCamp
• GERMANY: Wikimedia Deutschland June Activities
• UK: 6th International Integrity and Plagiarism Conference
• UK: VLE content reuse at Wikimania
• TWL: The Wikipedia Library
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• Taiwan: Wikimedia Taiwan dreams of Open Knowledge
• Armenia: Vanadzor, Armenia again welcomes WikiCamp
• Netherlands: Education pilot projects by Wikimedia Nederland
• Sweden: Wikimedia Sverige creates Open Badges for education program
• Germany: Wikimedia Deutschland's July education activities
• Tech: VisualEditor for students and educators
• Media: Articles of interest in other publications: Israel, India, Armenia, Ukraine

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This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue VIII, August 2014 Headlines France report: Subtitling, Presenting, Flying Germany report: GLAM at Wikimania Mexico report: Wikipedia goes to Tlatelolco and Colmex Netherlands report: Content donations; Project Nature; GLAMwiki 2015; Meetup the Bonnefantenmuseum Sweden report: #Dåochnu, Wikimania; members meeting UK report: Wikimania and more Open Access report: Open Access at Wikimania; Citathon Calendar: September'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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• Wikipedia Education Collaborative welcomes five new members
• Wikimedia Deutschlands recent activities: events, events and more events
• Working with Wikipedia expands at Tec de Monterrey
• Digital agenda for education and open badges to be tested
• Most successful Czech course continues again this year
• Articles of interest in other publications

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• WikiProject report: GAN reviewers take note: competition time
• Arbitration report: Banning Policy, Gender Gap, and Waldorf education
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This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue IX, September 2014 Headlines From the team: GLAMout global Africa report: Uganda Museum Austria report: Open Science aboard the MS Wissenschaft in Vienna Belgium report: Wiki Loves Monuments in Belgium & Luxembourg France report: National archives upload Germany report: World Café; GLAM on Tour; Museum für Naturkunde releases 15 million insect items; MS Wissenschaft Italy report: A new Wikipedian in Residence; Lyon Declaration Mexico report: 50 hours of art in Wikipedia Netherlands report: Atlas Ortelius Norway report: The National Library of Oslo Spain report: Edit-a-thon at Biblioteca Nacional; Wiki Loves Monuments Sweden report: From industrial sound to books and libraries UK report: September, a month for the Arts USA report: News from Philadelphia & New York City Special story: Identifying images from Commons found in the wild Open Access report: Open Access Reader; New Topic Page; Open Access File of the Day suspended Calendar: October'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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The Signpost: 15 October 2014

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• Arbitration report: One case closed and two opened
• Discussion report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2014-10-15/Discussion report
• Featured content: Bells ring out at the Temple of the Dragon at Peace
• In the media: College player falsely linked to sports scandal by Wikipedia; the Nobel Prizes
• Op-ed: Ships—sexist or sexy?
• Technology report: Attempting to parse wikitext
• Traffic report: Now introducing ... mobile data
• WikiProject report: Signpost reaches the Midwest

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The Signpost: 22 October 2014

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• In the media: The story of Wikipedia; Wikipedia reanimated and republished; UK government social media rules; death of Italian Wikipedia administrator
• Featured content: Admiral on deck: a modern Ada Lovelace
• Op-ed: Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution—a wiki-protest
• WikiProject report: De-orphanning articles - a huge task but with a huge team of volunteers to help
• Traffic report: Death, War, Pestilence... Movies and TV

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The Signpost: 29 October 2014

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• Featured content: Go West, young man (By the way, there is a monster at the end of this article)
• In the media: Wikipedia a trusted source on Ebola; Wikipedia study labeled government waste; football biography goes viral
• Maps tagathon: Find 10,000 digitised maps this weekend
• Recent research: Informed consent and privacy; newsmaking on Wikipedia; Wikipedia and organizational theories
• Traffic report: Ebola, Ultron, and Creepy Articles

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• In the media: Predicting the flu; MH17 conspiracy theories
• Traffic report: Sweet dreams on Halloween

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This Month in GLAM: October 2014

This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue X, October 2014 Headlines Australia and New Zealand report: National Library Conference; Feminist Art Edit-a-thon Finland report: Edit-a-thon Course "Bring Culture to Wikipedia" France report: Edit-a-thon & Mass upload Germany report: GLAM on tour Sauerland; WMDE World Café at the Conference of National Cultural Institutions Italy report: War Books; EAGLE project; National Library Conference Netherlands report: Images donated by Nijmegen municipality archive; World Day for Audiovisual Heritage Sweden report: Wiki Loves Monuments; Europeana Task Force UK report: The breadth of UK GLAM work: chemistry, ballet, tanks and more USA report: News from Philadelphia & New York City Open Access report: Open Access Week; peer-reviewed OA journal publishes Wikipedia article Calendar: November'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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The Signpost: 12 November 2014

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• In the media: Amazon Echo; EU freedom of panorama; Bluebeard's Castle
• Featured content: Wikipedia goes to church in Lithuania
• WikiProject report: Talking hospitals
• Traffic report: Holidays, anyone?

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The Signpost: 26 November 2014

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• Featured content: Orbital Science: Now you're thinking with explosions
• In the media: A Russian alternative Wikipedia; Who's your grandfather?; ArtAndFeminism
• Recent research: Gender gap and skills gap; academic citations on the rise; European food cultures
• Traffic report: Big in Japan
• WikiProject report: Back with the military historians

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This Month in Education: October 2014

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

• Sweden: Swedish teacher wins national award for teaching with Wikimedia projects
• Greece: Greek university giving credit for translation of Wikipedia articles
• Greece: Wikipedia in Secondary and Adult Education: presentation at CIE2014 in Corfu, Greece
• Serbia & Hungary: Wikicamp 2014 in Serbia and Hungary brings chapters together
• Bulgaria: Bulgarian college students will explore Wikipedia in a new lecture course on "New Media and Participatory Culture"
• Bulgaria: Bulgarian college teachers "became nodes" in the Wikipedia Network
• Israel: 9th grade students in Be'er Sheva, Israel conclude a year-long project on Wikipedia
• Mexico: New classes and activities at Tec de Monterrey
• Catalonia: Education Program Extension enabled on Catalan Wikipedia
• Ukraine: Education Program Extension enabled on Ukrainian Wikipedia
• Netherlands: Education Program Extension enabled on Dutch Wikipedia
• WMF: Data Collection Round II has started: be part
• Articles of interest in other publications: Poland, Philippines, United States, WikiProject Medicine, Jimmy Wales, and more

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This Month in Education: November 2014

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

• France: Wikimedia France obtains an agreement from the French Ministry of Education
• Mexico: Tec de Monterrey wrapping up semester projects
• Mexico: A student in Mexico makes the best of her study to edit Wikipedia
• Egypt: Egyptian Student invites his colleagues at Al-Azhar University to edit Wikipedia
• Sweden: Successful Wikipedia assignments presented by faculty at national conference in Sweden
• Global: Wikipedia Education Collaborative members meet in Edinburgh
• Global: Iberoconf discusses Wikipedia in education
• Global:Welcoming new WMF staff supporting education
• Articles of interest in other publications: MIT, Myanmar, and Jimmy Wales

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The Signpost: 03 December 2014

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

• Op-ed: Who edits health-related content on Wikipedia and why?
• In the media: Embroidery and cheese
• Featured content: ABCD: Any Body Can Dance!
• Traffic report: Turkey and a movie
• WikiProject report: Today on the island

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The Signpost: 10 December 2014

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

• Op-ed: It's GLAM up North!
• In the media: Wikipedia is "a rancorous, sexist, elitist, stupidly bureaucratic mess"
• Traffic report: Dead Black Men and Science Fiction
• Featured content: Honour him, love and obey? Good idea with military leaders.

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This Month in GLAM: November 2014

This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue XI, November 2014 Headlines Australia and New Zealand report: ALIA partnership goes countrywide Belgium report: Workshops for collection holders across Europe; Founding event of Wikimedia Belgium; Wiki Loves Monuments in Belgium & Luxembourg; Plantin-Moretus Museum; Edit-a-thon at faculty library in Ghent University; Image donation UGentMemorie; Upcoming activities France report: Wiki Loves Monuments; mass upload; Musée de Bretagne Germany report: Facts, fun and free content Ireland report: Ada Lovelace day in Dublin Italy report: National Library Conference; Wiki Loves Monuments; Archaeological Open Data; BEIC Netherlands report: Video challenge; Wikidata workshop and hackathon; Wikipedia courses in libraries; WWII editathon Norway report: Edit-a-thon far north at the Museum of Nordland (Nordlandsmuseet) Spain report: Picasso, first Galipedia edit-a-thon, course in Biblioteca Reina Sofía and free portraits South Africa report: Wiki Loves GLAMs, Cape Town Sweden report: Use, reuse and contributions back and forth UK report: Medals, maps and multilingual marvels Special story: ORCID identifiers Open Access report: Open proposal: Wikidata for Research; Open Access signalling Tool testing report: Tools for references, images, video, file usage; Popular Pages Calendar: December'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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The Signpost: 17 December 2014

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• In the media: Wikipedia's year in review video; Checking in with Wikipedia's founders
• Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee election results
• Featured content: Tripping hither, tripping thither, Nobody knows why or whither; We must dance and we must sing, Round about our fairy ring!
• Traffic report: A December Lull

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The Signpost: 24 December 2014

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

• From the editor: Looking for new editors-in-chief
• In the media: Wales on GamerGate
• Featured content: Still quoting Iolanthe, apparently.
• WikiProject report: Microsoft does The Signpost
• Traffic report: North Korea is not pleased

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The Signpost: 31 December 2014

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

• News and notes: The next big step for Wikidata—forming a hub for researchers
• In the media: Study tour controversy; class tackles the gender gap
• Op-ed: My issues with the Wiki Education Foundation
• Featured content: A bit fruity
• Traffic report: Surfin' the Yuletide
• Recent research: Wikipedia in higher education; gender-driven talk page conflicts; disease forecasting

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This Month in Education: December 2014

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

• Uruguay: Wikipedia Education Program Celebration in Uruguay
• Egypt: Egyptian students wrap up their 5th term on Wikipedia with great success
• Serbia: First Wikipedia ambassador at the University of Belgrade
• Sweden: Swedish Wikimini 1 year anniversary
• UK: Wikimedia UK processing EduWiki 2014
• Regional: Eastern European education programs presented at regional conference
• Media: Articles of interest in other publications: Korea, Australia, the Gender Gap, the Wikipedia Library, WikiProject Medicine, Adrianne Wadewitz, Jimmy Wales, and Wikibombs

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The Signpost: 07 January 2015

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• Interview: Interview with Jakob, one of Wikipedia's more prolific waterway contributors
• In the media: ISIL propaganda video; AirAsia complaints
• Featured content: Kock up
• Traffic report: Auld Lang Syne

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This Month in GLAM: December 2014

This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue XII, December 2014 Headlines Australia and New Zealand report: Trove in the encyclopedia Germany report: Out now: GLAM on Tour film; Looking back: WMDE discussion rounds 2014 Norway report: Seminar at the NTNU University Museum: uploading images to Wikimedia Commons Spain report: Edith-a-thon about Spanish scientists in six museums Sweden report: Central Museums and Glöggmingel UK report: Going for Gold, map tagging and Histropedia USA report: Wikipedia in New York City Update Special story: Wikidata for cultural heritage Open Access report: Wikidata for research; Open Access Media Importer rewritten; JATS-Con Calendar: January'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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The Signpost: 14 January 2015

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

• Featured content: Citations are needed
• In the media: Wikipedia's birthday brings tributes, app, award; Castro death rumors
• News and notes: Erasmus Prize recognizes the global Wikipedia community
• Op-ed: Articles for creation needs you
• Traffic report: Wikipédia sommes Charlie
• WikiProject report: Articles for Creation: the Inside Story

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The Signpost: 21 January 2015

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

• From the editor: Introducing your new editors-in-chief
• Anniversary: A decade of the Signpost
• Interview: WWII veteran honors shipmates through Wikipedia editing
• Op-ed: Let's make WikiProjects better
• News and notes: Annual report released; Wikimania; steward elections
• In the media: Johann Hari; bandishes and delicate flowers
• Featured content: Yachts, marmots, boat races, and a rocket engineer who attempted to birth a goddess
• Arbitration report: As one door closes, a (Gamer)Gate opens
• Technology report: The future of MediaWiki

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The Signpost: 28 January 2015

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

• From the editor: An editorial board that includes you

• Special report: Traffic in the fog—2014's most popular articles include death, Facebook, and Ebola

• In focus: Thirteen editors sanctioned in mammoth GamerGate arbitration case

• Forum: Evaluating the Arbitration Committee's handling of GamerGate

• In the media: A murderous week for Wikipedia

• Featured content: Like Jack Kerouac's On The Road, this week's issue was written on amphetamines

• Traffic report: A sea of faces

• Recent research: Bot writes about theatre plays; "Renaissance editors" create better content

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This Month in Education: [January 2015]

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

• Czech Republic: Young Czech scientists upload pictures at Fluorescent Night
• India: 100+ Indian college students will contribute to Wikipedia to support national pilgrimage
• Sweden: Master students design prototypes for categorizing images on Wikimedia Commons
• Egypt: Wikipedia Education Program expands to new campuses in Cairo
• Syria: Pilot Wikipedia Education Program in Syria
• Wikimania: Get a scholarship to attend Wikimania 2015 and discuss education with the worldwide movement
• Mexico: Wiki Learning expands to three campuses at Tec de Monterrey
• Sweden: Open Badges in the Education Program in Sweden
• Czech Republic: Senior citizens learn to edit Wikipedia in the Czech Republic
• Media: Articles of interest in other publications: Egypt, India, Armenia, Books, Jimmy Wales, and more

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The Signpost: 04 February 2015

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

• News and notes: No men beyond this point: the proposal to create a no-men space on Wikipedia
• Op-ed: Is Wikipedia for sale?
• In the media: Gamergate and Muhammad controversies continue
• Traffic report: The American Heartland
• Featured content: It's raining men!
• Arbitration report: Slamming shut the GamerGate
• WikiProject report: Dicing with death – on Wikipedia?
• Technology report: Security issue fixed; VisualEditor changes
• Gallery: Langston Hughes

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This Month in GLAM: January 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue I, January 2015 Headlines Belgium report: SOIMA 2015; Wiki Loves Art; European Commission; FOSDEM