User talk:Sandgem Addict/Archive/March 4 2012 to July 5 2013

There are two non-free images; I have uploaded one of them recently. I wonder if one or both are enough images for this encyclopedic article. --George Ho (talk) 20:23, 22 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 25 June 2012

Op-ed: A call for editorial input in developing new Creative Commons licensing

News and notes: "Mystical" Picture of the Year; run-up to Wikimania DC; RfA reform 2012

In the news: Wales enters extradition battle; Wikipedia's political bias

Recent research: Edit war patterns, deleters vs. the 1%, never used cleanup tags, authorship inequality, higher quality from central users, and mapping the wikimediasphere

WikiProject report: Summer Sports Series: WikiProject Athletics

Featured content: A good week for the Williams

Arbitration report: Three open cases

Technology report: Second Visual Editor prototype launches

The Signpost: 02 July 2012

Analysis: Uncovering scientific plagiarism

Op-ed: Representing knowledge – metadata, data and linked data

News and notes: RfC on joining lobby group; JSTOR accounts for Wikipedians and the article feedback tool

In the news: Public relations on Wikipedia: friend or foe?

Discussion report: Discussion reports and miscellaneous articulations

WikiProject report: Summer sports series: Burning rubber with WikiProject Motorsport

Featured content: Heads up

Arbitration report: Three open cases, motion for the removal of Carnildo's administrative tools

Technology report: Initialisms abound: QA and HTML5

The Signpost: 09 July 2012

Special report: Reforming the education programs: lessons from Cairo

News and notes: Russian Wikipedia blackout; WMF tools; Wikitravel proposal revisited

WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Football

Featured content: Keeps on chuggin'

Arbitration report: Three requests for arbitration

Technology report: Optimism over LastModified and MoodBar, but change in clock time causes downtime

The Signpost: 16 July 2012

Special report: Chapters Association mired in controversy over new chair

News and notes: WMF enacts reforms at Wikimania; main page redesign; 4 millionth article milestone

WikiProject report: Summer sports series: French WikiProject Cycling

Discussion report: Discussion reports and miscellaneous articulations

Wikimania: Young chapter shows experience beyond its years

Featured content: Taking flight

Technology report: Tech talks at Wikimania amid news of a mixed June

Arbitration report: Fæ faces site-ban, proposed decisions posted

The Signpost: 23 July 2012

Paid editing: Does Wikipedia pay? The skeptic: Orange Mike

From the editor: Signpost developments

News and notes: Chapter head speaks about the aftermath of Russian Wikipedia shutdown

WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Olympics

Arbitration report: Fæ and Michaeldsuarez banned; Kwamikagami desysopped; Falun Gong closes with mandated external reviews and topic bans

Op-ed: The future of PR on Wikipedia

Featured content: When is an island not an island?

Technology report: Translating SVGs and making history bugs history

The Signpost: 30 July 2012

Recent research: Conflict dynamics, collaboration and emotions; digitization vs. copyright; WikiProject field notes; quality of medical articles; role of readers; Best Wiki Paper Award

News and notes: Wikimedians and London 2012; WMF budget – staffing, engineering, editor retention effort, and the global South; Telegraph's cheap shot at WP

WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Horse Racing

Featured content: One of a kind

Technology report: Talking performance with CT Woo and Green Semantic MediaWiki with Nischay Nahata

Arbitration report: No pending or open arbitration cases

The Signpost: 06 August 2012

Op-ed: The Athena Project: being bold

News and notes: FDC portal launched

Arbitration report: No pending or open arbitration cases

Featured content: Casliber's words take root

Technology report: Wikidata nears first deployment but wikis go down in fibre cut calamity

WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Martial Arts

The Signpost: 13 August 2012

Op-ed: Small Wikipedias' burden

News and notes: Bangla-language survey suggests the challenges for small Wikipedias

Arbitration report: You really can request for arbitration

Featured content: On the road again

Technology report: "Phabricating" a serious alternative to Gerrit

WikiProject report: Dispute Resolution

Discussion report: Image placeholders, machine translations, Mediation Committee, de-adminship

The Signpost: 20 August 2012

Op-ed: Wikimedians are rightfully wary

News and notes: Core content competition in full swing; Wikinews fork taken offline

In the news: American judges on citing Wikipedia

Featured content: Enough for a week – but I'm damned if I see how the helican.

Technology report: Lua onto test2wiki and news of a convention-al extension

WikiProject report: Land of Calm and Contrast: Korea

The Signpost: 27 August 2012

News and notes: Tough journey for new travel guide

Recent research: New influence graph visualizations; NPOV and history; 'low-hanging fruit'

Technology report: Just how bad is the code review backlog?

Featured content: Wikipedia rivals The New Yorker: Mark Arsten

WikiProject report: From sonic screwdrivers to jelly babies: Doctor Who

Discussion report: Sidebar and main page alterations; Recent Deaths; Education Program extension

The Signpost: 03 September 2012

News and notes: World's largest photo competition kicks off; WMF legal fees proposal

Technology report: Time for a MediaWiki Foundation?

Featured content: Wikipedia's Seven Days of Terror

Op-ed: Dispute resolution – where we're at, what we're doing well, and what needs fixing

The Signpost: 10 September 2012

From the editor: Signpost adapts as news consumption changes

Op-ed: Fixing Wikipedia's help pages one key to editor retention

In the media: Author criticizes Wikipedia article; Wales attacks UK government proposal

Featured content: Not a "Gangsta's Paradise", but still rappin'

WikiProject report: WikiProject Fungi

Special report: Two Wikipedians set to face jury trial

News and notes: Researchers find that Simple English Wikipedia has "lost its focus"

Technology report: Mmmm, milkshake...

Discussion report: Closing Wikiquette; Image Filter; Education Program and Momento extensions

The Signpost: 17 September 2012

From the editor: Signpost expands to Facebook

WikiProject report: Action! — The Indian Cinema Task Force

Featured content: Go into the light

News and notes: Tens of thousands of monuments loved; members of new funding body announced

Technology report: Future-proofing: HTML5 and IPv6

The Signpost: 24 September 2012

In the media: Editor's response to Roth draws internet attention

Recent research: "Rise and decline" of Wikipedia participation, new literature overviews, a look back at WikiSym 2012

WikiProject report: 01010010 01101111 01100010 01101111 01110100 01101001 01100011 01110011

News and notes: UK chapter rocked by Gibraltar scandal

Technology report: Signpost investigation: code review times

Featured content: Dead as...

Discussion report: Image filter; HotCat; Syntax highlighting; and more

The Signpost: 01 October 2012

Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Founder: Jimmy Wales

News and notes: Independent review of UK chapter governance; editor files motion against Wikitravel owners

Featured content: Mooned

Technology report: WMF and the German chapter face up to Toolserver uncertainty

WikiProject report: The Name's Bond... WikiProject James Bond

The Signpost: 08 October 2012

News and notes: Education Program faces community resistance

WikiProject report: Ten years and one million articles: WikiProject Biography

Featured content: A dash of Arsenikk

Technology report: The ups and downs of September and October, plus extension code review analysis

Discussion report: Closing RfAs: Stewards or Bureaucrats?; Redesign of Help:Contents

The Signpost: 15 October 2012

Op-ed: AdminCom: A proposal for changing the way we select admins

In the media: Wikipedia's language nerds hit the front page

Featured content: Second star to the left

News and notes: Chapters ask for big bucks

Technology report: Wikidata is a go: well, almost

WikiProject report: WikiProject Chemicals

The Signpost: 22 October 2012

Special report: Examining adminship from the German perspective

Arbitration report: Malleus Fatuorum accused of circumventing topic ban; motion to change "net four votes" rule

Technology report: Wikivoyage migration: technical strategy announced

Discussion report: Good articles on the main page?; reforming dispute resolution

News and notes: Wikimedians get serious about women in science

WikiProject report: Where in the world is Wikipedia?

Featured content: Is RfA Kafkaesque?

The Signpost: 29 October 2012

News and notes: First chickens come home to roost for FDC funding applicants; WMF board discusses governance issues and scope of programs

WikiProject report: In recognition of... WikiProject Military History

Technology report: Improved video support imminent and Wikidata.org live

Featured content: On the road again

Recent research: WP governance informal; community as social network; efficiency of recruitment and content production; Rorschach news

The Signpost: 05 November 2012

Op-ed: 2012 WikiCup comes to an end

News and notes: Wikimedian photographic talent on display in national submissions to Wiki Loves Monuments

In the media: Was climate change a factor in Hurricane Sandy?

Discussion report: Protected Page Editor right; Gibraltar hooks

Featured content: Jack-O'-Lanterns and Toads

Technology report: Hue, Sqoop, Oozie, Zookeeper, Hive, Pig and Kafka

WikiProject report: Listening to WikiProject Songs

WP:RECENTISM Metcard

Hello, no good reason to throw out Metcard, just change tense to had (until date...) and then text for Myki. Was there for about 15 years so still worth a mention, IMO. Cheers Crusoe8181 (talk) 08:31, 14 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 12 November 2012

News and notes: Court ruling complicates the paid-editing debate

Featured content: The table has turned

Technology report: MediaWiki 1.20 and the prospects for getting 1.21 code reviewed promptly

WikiProject report: Land of parrots, palm trees, and the Holy Cross: WikiProject Brazil

File:The Simpsons - Bart Gets Hit by a Car screenshot.jpg listed for deletion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:The Simpsons - Bart Gets Hit by a Car screenshot.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:54, 17 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 19 November 2012

News and notes: FDC's financial muscle kicks in

WikiProject report: No teenagers, mutants, or ninjas: WikiProject Turtles

Technology report: Structural reorganisation "not a done deal"

Featured content: Wikipedia hit by the Streisand effect

Discussion report: GOOG, MSFT, WMT: the ticker symbol placement question

The Signpost: 26 November 2012

News and notes: Toolserver finance remains uncertain

Recent research: Movie success predictions, readability, credentials and authority, geographical comparisons

Featured content: Panoramic views, history, and a celestial constellation

Technology report: Wikidata reaches 100,000 entries

WikiProject report: Directing Discussion: WikiProject Deletion Sorting

The Signpost: 03 December 2012

News and notes: Wiki Loves Monuments announces 2012 winner

Featured content: The play's the thing

Discussion report: Concise Wikipedia; standardize version history tables

Technology report: MediaWiki problems but good news for Toolserver stability

WikiProject report: The White Rose: WikiProject Yorkshire

The Signpost: 10 December 2012

News and notes: Wobbly start to ArbCom election, but turnout beats last year's

Featured content: Wikipedia goes to Hell

Technology report: The new Visual Editor gets a bit more visual

WikiProject report: WikiProject Human Rights

The Signpost: 17 December 2012

News and notes: Arbitrator election: stewards release the results

WikiProject report: WikiProjekt Computerspiel: Covering Computer Games in Germany

Discussion report: Concise Wikipedia; section headings for navboxes

Op-ed: Finding truth in Sandy Hook

Featured content: Wikipedia's cute ass

Technology report: MediaWiki groups and why you might want to start snuggling newbie editors

The Signpost: 24 December 2012

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

The Signpost: 31 December 2012

From the editor: Wikipedia, our Colosseum

In the media: Is the Wikimedia movement too 'cash rich'?

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation fundraiser a success; Czech parliament releases photographs to chapter

Technology report: Looking back on a year of incremental changes

Discussion report: Image policy and guidelines; resysopping policy

Interview: Interview with Brion Vibber, the WMF's first employee

Featured content: Whoa Nelly! Featured content in review

WikiProject report: New Year, New York

Recent research: Wikipedia and Sandy Hook; SOPA blackout reexamined

The Signpost: 07 January 2013

Op-ed: Meta, where innovative ideas die

WikiProject report: Where Are They Now? Episode IV: A New Year

News and notes: 2012—the big year

Featured content: Featured content in review

Technology report: Looking ahead to 2013

The Signpost: 14 January 2013

Investigative report: Ship ahoy! New travel site finally afloat

News and notes: Launch of annual picture competition, new grant scheme

WikiProject report: Reach for the Stars: WikiProject Astronomy

Discussion report: Flag Manual of Style; accessibility and equality

Special report: Loss of an Internet genius

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

Happy Birthday

Hey, Sandgem Addict. Just stopping by to wish you a Happy Birthday from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!
Have a great day! Pratyya ^(Hello!) 14:32, 21 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 21 January 2013

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

The Signpost: 28 January 2013

In the media: Hoaxes draw media attention

Recent research: Lessons from the research literature on open collaboration; clicks on featured articles; credibility heuristics

WikiProject report: Checkmate! — WikiProject Chess

Discussion report: Administrator conduct and requests

News and notes: Khan Academy's Smarthistory and Wikipedia collaborate

Featured content: Listing off progress from 2012

Arbitration report: Doncram continues

Technology report: Developers get ready for FOSDEM amid caching problems

The Signpost: 04 February 2013

Special report: Examining the popularity of Wikipedia articles

News and notes: Article Feedback Tool faces community resistance

WikiProject report: Land of the Midnight Sun

Featured content: Portal people on potent potables and portable potholes

In the media: Star Trek Into Pedantry

Technology report: Wikidata team targets English Wikipedia deployment

The Signpost: 11 February 2013

Op-ed: An article is a construct – hoaxes and Wikipedia

Featured content: A lousy week

WikiProject report: Just the Facts

In the media: Wikipedia mirroring life in island ownership dispute

News and notes: UK chapter governance review marks the end of a controversial year

Discussion report: WebCite proposal

Technology report: Wikidata client rollout stutters

The Signpost: 18 February 2013

WikiProject report: Thank you for flying WikiProject Airlines

Technology report: Better templates and 3D buildings

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation declares 'victory' in Wikivoyage lawsuit

In the media: Sue Gardner interviewed by the Australian press

Featured content: Featured content gets schooled

The Signpost: 25 February 2013

In the media: Ex-WMF trustee creates "Wikipedia Corporate Index" for PR agency

Recent research: Wikipedia not so novel after all, except to UK university lecturers

News and notes: "Very lucky" Picture of the Year

Discussion report: Wikivoyage links; overcategorization

Featured content: Blue birds be bouncin'

WikiProject report: How to measure a WikiProject's workload

Technology report: Wikidata development to be continued indefinitely

WikiCup 2013 February newsletter

Round 1 is now over. The top 64 scorers have progressed to round 2, where they have been randomly split into eight pools of eight. At the end of April, the top two from each pool, as well as the 16 highest scorers from those remaining, will progress to round 3. Commiserations to those eliminated; if you're interested in still being involved in the WikiCup, able and willing reviewers will always be needed, and if you're interested in getting involved with other collaborative projects, take a look at the WikiWomen's Month discussed below.

Round 1 saw 21 competitors with over 100 points, which is fantastic; that suggests that this year's competition is going to be highly competative. Our lower scores indicate this, too: A score of 19 was required to reach round 2, which was significantly higher than the 11 points required in 2012 and 8 points required in 2011. The score needed to reach round 3 will be higher, and may depend on pool groupings. In 2011, 41 points secured a round 3 place, while in 2012, 65 was needed. Our top three scorers in round 1 were:

Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), primarily for an array of warship GAs.
Miyagawa (submissions), primarily for an array of did you knows and good articles, some of which were awarded bonus points.
Casliber (submissions), due in no small part to Canis Minor, a featured article awarded a total of 340 points. A joint submission with Keilana (submissions), this is the highest scoring single article yet submitted in this year's competition.

Other contributors of note include:

Sven Manguard (submissions), whose Portal:Massachusetts is the first featured portal this year. The featured portal process is one of the less well-known featured processes, and featured portals have traditionally had little impact on WikiCup scores.
Sasata (submissions), whose Mycena aurantiomarginata was the first featured article this year.
Muboshgu (submissions) and Wizardman (submissions), who both claimed points for articles in the Major League Baseball tie-breakers topic, the first topic points in the competition.
Toa Nidhiki05 (submissions), who claimed for the first full good topic with the Casting Crowns studio albums topic.

Featured topics have still played no part in this year's competition, but once again, a curious contribution has been offered by The C of E (submissions): did you know that there is a Shit Brook in Shropshire? With April Fools' Day during the next round, there will probably be a good chance of more unusual articles...

March sees the WikiWomen's History Month, a series of collaborative efforts to aid the women's history WikiProject to coincide with Women's History Month and International Women's Day. A number of WikiCup participants have already started to take part. The project has a to-do list of articles needing work on the topic of women's history. Those interested in helping out with the project can find articles in need of attention there, or, alternatively, add articles to the list. Those interested in collaborating on articles on women's history are also welcome to use the WikiCup talk page to find others willing to lend a helping hand. Another collaboration currently running is an an effort from WikiCup participants to coordinate a number of Easter-themed did you know articles. Contributions are welcome!

A few final administrative issues. From now on, submission pages will need only a link to the article and a link to the nomination page, or, in the case of good article reviews, a link to the review only. See your submissions' page for details. This will hopefully make updating submission pages a little less tedious. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—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. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) J Milburn (talk) 00:54, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]