User talk:ANOMALY-117

Contributing to discussions

Hi ANOMALY-117, I was just looking at the discussion over at Dragon and it took me a while to work it out, but then I realised that you're adding comments on other people's comments inside their comments. - --Paularblaster (talk) 22:32, 19 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you go to a new line after their comment, and start your own comment on what they say with a colon (:), it should indent and then we can all see who says what. - --Paularblaster (talk) 22:34, 19 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

And two colons (go to "edit this page" to check it out) will indent further, for a comment on a comment on a comment. - --Paularblaster (talk) 22:35, 19 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• But if you just want to add your own comment on the general topic (not on someone else's comment on that topic) you can start a new bullet-point (without having to introduce a new heading) by using an asterisk (*). - --Paularblaster (talk) 22:37, 19 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• • And you can even use asterisks (rather than colons) to indent. - --Paularblaster (talk) 22:37, 19 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

But personally I think that looks rather messy! - --Paularblaster (talk) 22:39, 19 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hope this helps!

Barnstar

Goodness - thank you. Glad to be of service. - --Paularblaster (talk) 22:55, 19 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank You!

Thanks very much for the quasi-award/wiki-smile you posted to my userpage. It is much appreciated and as these things should be, unexpected. For future reference, please place any awards/etc. on the editor's talk page and let them decide where and what to post within their userspace if they so choose. Although I display them on my main userpage, there are some editors who do not display any awards they might receive and let them stay on their talk pages that eventually get archived.-MBK004 (talk) 03:48, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

Hi there. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. On many keyboards, the tilde is entered by holding the Shift key, and pressing the key with the tilde pictured. You may also click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you! --SineBot (talk) 18:49, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

New Article

Take a look here at my Sandbox User:MBK004/Sandbox to see where I work on major edits to articles. (Please don't edit it). Then follow the directions here to create your own: Wikipedia:User_page#How_do_I_create_a_user_subpage.3F. From there, start formulating the article and from there I'll help you out. You don't need to leave me a message every time you need help there because I'll put your sandbox on my watchlist so I'll see when you make edits to it. Hope this helps.
Besides, you don't need references to start an article, as long as it is inherently notable enough to warrant one. I started Supply class fast combat support ship, but I'll be leaving the actual article writing and expansion to someone else since my interests are more towards warships as seen here User:MBK004/Ships.-MBK004 (talk) 20:03, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I moved your new article to User:ANOMALY-117/Sandbox. If you make a temporary article, please leave it in a place like that until it's a bit more complete. Small articles are fine, but in general, don't leave any editorial comments in an article, so if an article is likely to be deleted and you feel it needs comments like those to prevent that, it's best to work on it for a bit somewhere else first. --JoanneB 20:19, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Here are some tips and things to work on with regards to your article from WP:SHIPS.

Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships/Guidelines

Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships/Tools

---Hope this helps. -MBK004 (talk) 20:31, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Spartan?

Hello, to answer your question, yes, I am associated with the Halo universe and halopedia. I used to be a very active vandal fighter(if you don't believe me, check my barnstars ;) but only on breaks. I haven't been very active during school. If you ever decide to go to Halopedia, or if you are already there, let me know. Enjoy playing "whack-a-vandal." Peace. Spartan-James 00:46, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ship tasks you can help with

These tasks aren't exciting or glamorous, but they need to be done and WP:SHIPS would be very grateful if you can help out. I think you can do them with your broken arm. I have two tasks in mind: Article assessment and Fixing U.S. Navy jacks. I'll do one of each myself and walk you through the process step-by-step.

Assessment

WikiProject Ships has tags that we put at the top of article talk pages. The tags help us maintain a list of ship articles. They also let us rate the quality of an article and how important it is. That helps us figure out what to work on: if an article is very important, but it's of poor quality, we need to fix it! Here's how to assess articles, step by step.

1. Check out the page describing our assessment process. Especially important are the tables describing the quality scale and the importance scale. When you look at an article, use these charts to figure out how good it is, and how important it is.
2. Go to Category:Unassessed-Class Ships articles, which lists all the pages that we haven't assessed.
3. Pick an article you think you can assess. I'm choosing USS Abarenda (IX-131), because I think ship articles are easy to assess.
4. Look at the article and figure out how to rate it. Abarenda best fits the criteria for "stub" quality, and since it's a ship, it's "mid" importance.
5. Go to the talk page, and add your assessment to the tag. See how I did it here. Write an edit summary (mine was "assessed for WP:SHIPS") and save.

That's it! Now repeat steps 2-5 until your brain melts.

Fixing U.S. Navy jacks

We used to put the United States Navy jack in the infobox of ship articles, but we talked about it and decided that the ensign, the Flag of the United States, is a better choice. You can't just go around pasting the same picture into every article, though, because the number of stars on the flag changed every time a state was admitted. We've got a template you can use to make sure the right flag appears on articles. Here's how to do it:

1. Go to Jack of the United States and click one of the images there. I'm picking Image:US Naval Jack 48 stars.svg, because it's used on tons of articles.
2. Scroll to the bottom, to the "File links" section. This shows you all the pages that use this image. Pick a ship article. I'm picking USS Thompson (DD-627).
3. Edit the page, and look for the spot where the image is used. It'll look something like this: [[Image:US Naval Jack 48 stars.svg|48px|USN Jack]]
4. Erase that text and replace it with this: {{USN flag|}}
5. Now you need to add the year, so that it shows the right flag. Read the article and figure out when the ship was last decommissioned (not struck), or when it sank. Type the date after the "|" in the template. For example, Thompson decommissioned in 1954, so I type 1954 into the template and end up with this: {{USN flag|1954}}
6. Write an edit summary (mine was "replacing jack with template") and save the article. See how I did it here.

Again, repeat until brain melts. Let me know if you have any questions. I'll keep an eye out to see how this goes, and if you have trouble I'll help out. TomTheHand 03:40, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

i'll see what i can do! ANOMALY-117 (talk) 21:27, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I looked at what you've done so far and I have a couple of comments. What you did at USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) is exactly right. However, at USS Adams (1799), you replaced the existing flag with [[USN|1814]]. You need to replace it with {{USN flag|1814}}. Note the curly brackets and the word "flag". Also remember to use an edit summary, but don't bother to type ~~~~. It doesn't do anything in edit summaries. TomTheHand (talk) 22:13, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your Userpage

no offense, dude, but your userpage is really a mess. you should clean it up somehow Mr. Joe Cool Dude (talk) 23:37, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, you found my Autograph page fast

How did you find it so fast? I just created it a few minutes ago? Fox rules for sure!--Smashbrosboy —Preceding comment was added at 00:13, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

oh i was browsing through recent changes and saw it pop up then i moved on but quikly went back to see what it was! man i haven't played that game in over ayear but i bet i can still kick butt with fox (thank god for the c-stick)--ANOMALY-117 00:17, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

CVU

Hi. I've moved your question at CVU from the dormant "Let's Clarify This Proposal" section to a new section on the bottom where it has a better chance of being seen. You'll find it at Wikipedia_talk:Counter-Vandalism_Unit/Task_Force#Online. I believe it takes statusbot a while to notice that you are active, but I'm not sure how it works. I know sometimes I show green when I come back after being inactive for a while. I know sometimes I don't show green even though I've been online for some time. Not being technically inclined myself, I regard it as one of the mysteries of the universe. :) You may get a more knowledgeable answer at the CVU talk page. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:50, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for signing my guest book

Thanks for signing, cheers! Sirkad(Talk) 23:42, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

	The Guest Book Barnstar
	This barnstar is awarded to ANOMALY-117 for signing Sirkad's Guestbook.

hello

i'm ANOMALY-116, ANOMALLY-117'S YOUNGER BROTHER --ANOMALY-116 (talk) 05:32, 8 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand what the heck you want to say. 96.229.179.106 (talk) 06:10, 8 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Watch out

Hey! This could be classified as a a personal attack, please be more careful in future. Thanks. --Mark (Mschel) 14:39, 8 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Halopedia

OK, first off, halopedia and wikipedia are not connected in any way. First, you go to http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page and click on create an account(upper left corner). Then you fill out the same stuff you did for the wikipedia account sign in and that's it. Other than that, it's basically the same setup here, i.e. click edit to change stuff, add personal info, talk page, etc. When you get that done, and if you use the same name, tell me...or I'll find out...Peace. Spartan-James 06:18, 9 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

red wolf

No, the red wolf lives in North America. The Southern East Asian wolf lives in the Middle East and central Asia.Dark hyena (talk) 17:02, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki etiquette

Perhaps you might want to leave User:TTN alone? Your behaviour could potentially be seen as stalking as well, and saying that you could be his worst nightmare is dangerously close to a personal attack. Benea (talk) 23:36, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Disputes like this are best settled between the two parties themselves, without non-involved parties adding to them. They'll sort it out themselves, or take it to higher powers for settlement. No need for you to worry about them, or get into trouble yourself. Benea (talk) 23:41, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

ok ok ill pull out.ANOMALY-117 (talk) 23:42, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User talk:TTN

Leaving a quote like: "i can be a friend or i can be your worst nightmare" on another user's page may indeed cause much difficulty for you from Wikipedia administrators, regardless of the underlying issue. Please refrain from such comments in future. --Bradeos Graphon (talk) 23:38, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

look im sorry i took it off ok! ANOMALY-117 (talk) 23:40, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's good. Discussion is also a good thing, but sometimes people need some time to cool off. Thanks for changing your message. --Bradeos Graphon (talk) 23:42, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I dunno, i thought it was appropriate for someone harassing others and nominating multiple articles for deletion with dubious reasoning behind it. If i were acting that way, i would expect much worse than that to be said to me. though, that's just me... RingtailedFox 23:44, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

thanks ill watch and help when i can but i don't want to cause anymore trouble then their is in the first place. ANOMALY-117 (talk) 23:47, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Like I said, WP:Civility is in force regardless of the underlying issue. TTN could be completely in the wrong, I don't know, but Wikipedia would implode in about twenty minutes if the civility, harassment and personal attack policies go away. There are other ways to deal with someone you think is being disruptive: Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User conduct and Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents for two. --Bradeos Graphon (talk) 23:51, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

good point. sooo..what do we do about the stalking?ANOMALY-117 (talk) 23:53, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'll contact User:Anthony Appleyard about this. he's an admin. RingtailedFox 23:56, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) I don't see evidence of stalking. User:TTN has nominated a number of similar articles for deletion. There is considerable debate going on at the moment over whether they should be kept, so perhaps the nominations were justified. But it isn't really for you or I to worry about. Both are free to take more formal measures if they feel it is justified, when the situation will be examined by impartial administrators. Benea (talk) 23:58, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Getting input from an uninvolved editor or editors is always good. The links I gave above are where to go if you want more than one person's input. Normally, I'd suggest Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User conduct first, and see where that gets you. If it is an extreme case or you don't hear anything back in a day or two, then Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents makes more sense. Good luck! --Bradeos Graphon (talk) 23:59, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Braedos: I've grown tired of trying to wade through Wikipedia's bureaucracy, recieving no help anyway in the end. I no longer ask the admins for help, i just do things on my own. Same thing in real life. and what are "doing things on my own"? Exactly what i've been doing so far. Remaining civil, but handling things myself. RingtailedFox 00:06, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

however you do mange yourself to an extant right imean theres doing it yourselff and then going to far right? ANOMALY-117 (talk) 00:12, 11 December 2007 (UTC) Yes, and if i overstep my boundaries (intentionally or unknowingly), i encourage others to correct me so i can learn from that and avoid the same mistake next time. RingtailedFox 00:25, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't looked into the content issue at all. I'd have to know more about the subject to help there (and it is a subject I know very little about). What administrators usually do is stop obvious stuff; harassment, vandalism, etc. Content issues have an entirely different resolution process. It is important to try our steps in these dispute resolution processes, though. It will save you a lot of trouble in the long run. You'll want to be able to say: "I tried that in good faith" when the time is right. --Bradeos Graphon (talk) 02:24, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re:question!

Well, actually, I did get help from someone to fix my user page and I don't know much about page formatting (apart from the basics), but I'll help to get you someone. Is that alright? And by the way, if you like my user page design, I'll help to make yours like that, unless you prefer another look. --Zacharycrimsonwolf 14:29, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've done some changes to your page; hope you like it! However, I had to remove certain stuff, its making you page too messy. Word of advice: You don't have to add every userbox/template/etc to your page, you have enough as it is. If you insist on adding some new ones, remove your old one, like the test userbox, I don't really see a use for it.

PS:If you don't like the changes I made, you can always tell me or WP:REVERT it. But ask for advice from your adopter before you do it, though! Cheers!! --Zacharycrimsonwolf 14:49, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, if you want to include a picture of the Yamato or dragons, you could find a picture that you like and put a link to it on my talk page (the red part of my sig, crimsonwolf, is a shortcut. Click on it.) and I'll put it in for you. This way, you get to choose what you want! :) --Zacharycrimsonwolf 15:02, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, and, I removed a couple of userboxes for you, there are some of which you have two. Perhaps you might want to look through them again and decide which are the ones you really need. They make your user page very long (and empty-looking). Cheers, --Zacharycrimsonwolf 15:13, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

THANKS!:>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Advice from your adopter.

Hey there! How are things going? As your adopter I just wanted to give you a little advice on various topics. First of all, try to make more contributions to the mainspace. I have noticed many edits to your userpage, talkpages, others secret pages, etc. But very little in the way of actual edits to the encyclopedia. Anything is fine, as long as it helps build the encyclopedia. Reverting vandalism, fixing typos, and all that sort of stuff counts. Secondly, it would be nice if you could work on your spelling and grammar. A good starting point would be capitalizing all letters that begin a sentence, and capitalizing the letter "I" when used in reference to yourself. Lastly, and of least importance: I would recommend getting rid of most of your userboxes that do not relate to your Wikipedia activity. They can send the wrong message about why you are editing, and frankly not many people care at all what television shows you like, or anything like that. --Mark (Mschel) 19:01, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

one word: subpage. ill see what i can do.ANOMALY-117 (talk) 01:09, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello!

Hello! How are you? --HotAbs (talk) 01:14, 12 December 2007 (UTC) ????????????????????????????????????thats really random how did you find me? or should i already know who you are?..............teddy?[reply]

Just browsed trough a few userpages and landed on yours :) Can i give you a few tips? --HotAbs (talk) 01:19, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Have you ever heard of enheancing wikipedia experience?--HotAbs (talk) 01:22, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

?????????????noo.. why?... and where is this going?..is this about my user page or something?.....your a little creepy, creepy like a door to door salesman that talks fast and won't take no for an answer. your not one of them are you?,ANOMALY-117 (talk) 01:31, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, just wanted to make tiny suggestions... What is your browser for browsing Wikipedia? Maybe i can suggest a few thingies... --HotAbs (talk) 02:32, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

my browser?????????? i think it's the search bar on the right side of my page. why?

Well, do you use FireFox? I can suggest like Lupin's tools, or maybe a pop-up, wich appears as a hovering box. I am on wikipedia and i watch for new pages. I check for validity or if it's a random or attack page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by HotAbs (talk • contribs) 02:47, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

aol. attack page?

An attack page is more like a page for launching insults at people or groups of people. And I agree with your adopter; you should use proper format for writing, full stops, capitals, leaving a space after every punctuation marks (full stop, exclamation marks, etc.) and so on. This is just an advice, nothing offensive whatsoever. Cheers, Zacharycrimsonwolf 13:37, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

USS Abraham Lincoln

I think I've figured out what you're talking about. Please try to be a bit clearer in what you want to say in future however. I'm afraid you're wrong however.

Pg 48 - "The frigate?" replied Conseil, turning on his back; "I think that master had better not count too much on her." "You think so?" "I say that, at the time that I threw myself into the sea, I heard the men at the wheel say, 'the screw and rudder are broken.'" "Broken?" "Yes, broken by the monster's teeth. It is the only injury the Abraham Lincoln has sustained. But it is a bad look out for us - she no longer answers her helm."

And after that the Abraham Lincoln disappears from the story, and the narrators enter the Nautilus, where the rest of the story takes place. The Lincoln was attacked, but not sunk in the novel, so I will revert your change. Benea (talk) 01:16, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

i would triple cheack that from what i read and watched on dvd the ship sinks towards the end of the middle of the book 3 1/2 through the book

Are you sure you're actually reading Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea? It's only one book, not three. And I can assure you it didn't sink. What is this DVD you're referring to? Benea (talk) 01:38, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

sorry thats three and a half, (15/16?) way through the book.
DVD: the movie of course however it isn't the same as the book but the abraham sites the natilus agian and nemo sinks her.--ANOMALY-117 (talk) 01:49, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

(by the way my fresmen nickname is Nemo) --ANOMALY-117 (talk) 01:49, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There have been at least twelve film adaptations of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. It is possible that in one of those, the story line has been altered to include a second encounter and subsequent sinking of the Abraham Lincoln. In the novel as written by Jules Verne, she is not sunk. We therefore can't write that she was on the disambiguation page, as at best it is misleading, and at worst, simply wrong. It is enough to simply say that a frigate of that name features in the book, and leave it at that. I'd recommend reading it by the way. It would go well with your nickname. Benea (talk) 01:54, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

yes i've read it but it was back in fith grade and i don't rember much. yea the thick one. i realllllllllllly good at reading. and yes the connection with my nickname i have pointed that out to friends but its mainly because of my broken arm and me being a fish. ANOMALY-117 (talk) 02:00, 12 December 2007 (UTC) however i do hope that people will start to refer the nick name to Captin Nemo.ANOMALY-117 (talk) 02:02, 12 December 2007 (UTC) hmm.. wow so sould we post comments about the 20 billion re-writes and movies?ANOMALY-117 (talk) 02:02, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That won't be necessary. There is a link to the novel on the page, which contains a summary of the story, and information on the remakes and reinterpretations that have been produced. A number of these then link to the films, etc in question. Trying to fit in everything on the disambiguation page would seriously overload it, and providing exhaustive information is not the point of a disambiguation page. Benea (talk) 02:08, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Guestbook

Just go here and modify it anyway you'd like. Zenlax ^{T C S} 20:35, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your V's shop assistant request

Dear ANOMALY-117,

After careful consideration, I, Vintei, have decided to decline your request. This might be one of the reasons but not limited to the following:

1. You do not have enough mainspace edits. Required: 100 You have: 38

After reaching all the requests, you are welcome to come back and request again. Thank you.-- Vintei  talk  22:17, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

harassment

please stop the harassment, okay? it's not apperciated. if you're going to act stupidly, do it on your own talk page, not mine. RingtailedFox 17:35, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I endorse the view that you should change your sig. You should also avoid the personal attacks (See WP:NPA and, as an aside, the correct spelling is "appreciated"). --Jack Merridew 07:29, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your VandalProof Application

Dear ANOMALY-117,

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof! Unfortunately, your application has been declined because it seems that you don't have at least 250 mainspace edits. When you fulfill this requirement, feel free to re-apply.

Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 23:34, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fair-use image

You have one of these on your userpage: Image:Texas Longhorn logo.svg. Because the image is copyrighted, and therefore is only used on WP under fair-use criteria, the image cannot be anywhere other than article space. Would you please remove it? Thank you. I (talk) 03:55, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

harassment part 2

that's alright. if you're sorry for doing it, then i forgive you for what ya did :) RingtailedFox 02:36, 15 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for forgiving me and if you need anything let me know.

by the way im glad you kept your signature. ANOMALY-117 (talk) 02:53, 15 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Card

Welcome to Wikipedia, and...

Happy Holidays from V's Shop.

Credits: This card was inspired by Macy's123, assistant of V's Shop

-- Vintei  Talk  01:26, 16 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Custom signatures

Sorry, please choose from an existing design. There will be new designs soon. Sorry for the inconvinience.-- Vintei  Talk  17:43, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

wikiships project

sure, i'll join RingtailedFox • Talk • Contribs 22:04, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your delivery

Add this code to the bottom of your page:

<div style="position: fixed; right:0; bottom:0; display:block; height:{{{1|150}}}px; width:{{{1|150}}}px;"><div style="position: relative; width: {{{1|150}}}px; height: {{{1|150}}}px; overflow: hidden"> <div style="position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; font-size: 300px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 300px; z-index: 3">[[Fair use|...]]</div> <div style="position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; z-index: 2">[[Image:Forest_fire_model.gif|150px]]</div> </div> </div>

which would produce:

Click for a sample -->
...

Also, you can change the size of the image by changing the 150px. Thank you for shopping at V's place.

Macy's123 23:46, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ascii art delivery failure

Hello, I'm sorry to inform you that I cannot make ASCII art animate. Please select a static image without motion and then resubmit your request. Thankyou!-- penubag  00:58, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

New Signature

You wanted an abnormal signature with the colors red, silver, blue and grey. Here's the signature that I came up with. I hope you like it.

ANOMALY117^Talk

[[User:ANOMALY-117|<strong><font color="#8B8589" face="Comic Sans Ms">AN<font color="#CF1020">O<font color="#002FA7">MA<font color="#FFD800">LY<font color= "black">117</font></font></font></font></font></strong>]]^{[[User talk:ANOMALY-117|Talk]]}

RuneWiki⁷⁷⁷ 23:45, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Iowa and Yamato

I'd certainly be prepared to offer a neutral view, but at the moment I don't think there is the potential for an edit war. However talk pages are usually confined to discussing how to improve the article in question. And such speculations tend to need to be backed up with sources, if you can provide any directly comparing the capabilities of the two classes? Benea (talk) 18:14, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's best to continue that discussion on one of our talk pages, as the article talk page is for discussions relating directly to improvement of that article. In any case, in terms of sheer number of guns, the Iowas are outrageously better than the Yamatos, especially when it comes to their anti-aircraft batteries. Yamato has a total of 50 anti-aircraft guns, in dual or triple mounts, along with 12 6.1 inch guns. The Iowas, on the other hand, have a whopping 129 anti-aircraft guns, along with 20 5" DP guns. The Iowas AA battery is much stronger than the Yamatos. No, the Yamato was at best able to fire at 1.5 salvoes per minute (which is wholly possible, it is a simplification of saying 3 salvoes per 2 minutes). No, all four of the Iowa class battleships were in service by the time Yamato was sunk in 1945. Yes, the absolute range of Yamato's guns are longer than the Iowas, but that's not really relevant. The longest hits ever scored in the history of naval gunfire (Warspite at Calabria, and Scharnhorst on Glorious) occurred at ranges considerably shorter than either ships' maximum ranges (around 25k yards, which is nearly half of Yamato's max range). Had the ships ever come to blows, it is highly likely that the American ships would've come out on top. Regardless, it's idle speculation, which isn't relevant or needed for Wikipedia. Parsecboy (talk) 20:46, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

i have three sorces one of them says it would have been a draw but what about the planed super-yamato battleship class? but all in all it is a close compitition it could be a draw imean the ship does not mean it will win it is up to the crew who wins and who dies i mean yamato could fire at it longest range and given a hold of nothing but ammo for its x1 x2 & y1 y2 turrets its only a matter of time before the iwoa is hit http://members.aol.com/ghe101/ijn_yamato_vs_uss_iowa.htm http://10.21.1.250/ContentFiltering/Blocked.aspx?DOMAIN=armchairgeneral.com&CATEGORY=games&OBJ=Content%20Filtering&USER=lvisd%2dinternet%5c011310 http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/ww2-general/iowa-vs-yamato-comparison-3687.html --ANOMALY-117 (talk) 16:20, 3 April 2008 (UTC) you say the american ships are we say that i should count the other two yamato class battleships including the scrapped one bassed on what it was origganly planed to be or are we going uss iwoa vs yamato battleship?[reply]

The argument that Yamato had a slightly longer range is irrelevant, as I stated above. The longest hits ever scored in the history of naval combat were both essentially a tie at around 26k yards, which is well within the ranges of either ship. Given the superior American gunnery control and use of radar, the Iowas probably actually had the range advantage. As for firing at max range, you've also got to consider barrel fatigue, which would likely occur long before Yamato ran out of shells. If we're going to talk about planned ships, why not add in the planned Montana class? They actually started construction on them, as opposed to the Super Yamatos, that never left the drawing board. In any case, a lot of this is really irrelevant; a lot of things come down to sheer luck. Take the Bismarck v. Hood engagement; had Bis's shells not hit the magazine, the British ships might've been able to overwhelm the German ships. Or say if Prince of Wales guns hadn't malfunctioned. There's a lot of "what if?" that no one can ever answer definitively, because that's just not how the cards played out. Parsecboy (talk) 17:53, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

same with the uss arizona and many other ships on both sides of the war. ...i think it should be safe to say that given luck he yamato or the iwoa could win because they are more than a match for each other seeing as though the iwoa class was the response to the yamato class and the super yamatos to the iwoa class. so ..draw?--ANOMALY-117 (talk) 17:57, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That's probably the best way to describe the likely result. Parsecboy (talk) 18:32, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

on a minor note the armor of the yamato makes up for its lack of speed and rate fire. --ANOMALY-117 (talk) 12:05, 4 April 2008 (UTC) but yes i must agree the issue will probaly never be solved i mean its all over the internet.ANOMALY-117 (talk) 12:05, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Rollback

Saw your question on Parsecboy's talk page. Take a look at Wikipedia:Rollback feature. That ought to answer your questions. -MBK₀₀₄ 17:45, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

em what?

What vandalism? --Fredrick Night (talk) 21:41, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Priscilla Ahn you like deleted most of the page.ANOMALY-117 (talk) 21:42, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Which is a Copyvio of http://www.musicremedy.com/p/Priscilla_Ahn/album/A_Good_Day-5010.html - as described in the edit summary - don't rollback the removal of copy violations or you could be blocked, copyvios should be removed on sight as per policy. --Fredrick Night (talk) 21:46, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

oh whoops i could hardly read your summuray or just now it took me five seconds to figure out copyvio is copy of wait ok now im confused what is copyvio?ANOMALY-117 (talk) 21:48, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WP:COPYVIO copyvio is a Copyright Violation, when someone cuts and pastes copyright material off another site. Basically, if you could across it, you should remove it and note in the edit summary where it came from. --Fredrick Night (talk) 21:52, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

thank ya and sorry for the rollback. and i will do what i can about copyvio but question for having created your account like 20 minuets ago you know alot have you been here before?

I used to edit before from an IP address and thought I'd get an account. anyway, no problem with the revert, always best to be on the safe side. --Fredrick Night (talk) 22:02, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism

Cheers for the user page revert, yours, Lord Foppington (talk) 22:23, 8 April 2008 (UTC) no problem[reply]

American Party

You commented in Talk:American Party, "sombody please fix this because i can't figure it out" -- what exactly were you trying to fix? Your first edit on that article looks like the right version to me -- so I've made that same edit. Is there something I'm missing there? Here's the history as near as I can tell:

• 22:09, 8 April 2008 User:Florida Eagle puts in a whole bunch of detailed information.
• 22:27, 8 April 2008 User:Florida Eagle removes that information. I don't know why, perhaps because the information didn't belong in a disambiguation page (the article The American Party probably covers it). They also didn't completely clean up after themselves -- messing up some of the formatting of the article and removing the "disambig" template.
• 22:27, 8 April 2008 you revert both of User:Florida Eagle's edits.

Not sure what you were trying to do; what you did in that edit looks right to me, but evidently (from the next several edits you made) it didn't satisfy you. What were you trying to do? Were you trying to restore the information that User:Florida Eagle put in and then removed? -- Why Not A Duck 00:22, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

it looked wierd on my computer and i was trying to restore it but if it looks allright then im alright.ANOMALY-117 (talk) 17:33, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Last Bus to Woodstock

Dear User,

You recently sent me a message warning me against plagarising copywright material, in reference to my plot summary for the Colin Dexter novel Last Bus to Woodstock. I think you'll find that the article is entirely my own work, and any similarities between it and anything else are entirely coincidental. Furthermore, I do not appreciate being threatened or spoken down to, so I'd it if you modified your tone in future communications.

Yours,

--6afraidof7 (talk) 14:40, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

He's actually after me (how he ended up here, I'm not sure), I've replied on his talkpage. --Fredrick Night (talk) 14:46, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re: the vandles

Very annoying indeed, thank you and have a nice day :) AVand^talk_contribs 13:09, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have updated the vandalism template accordingly, thanks and have a nice day :) AVand^talk_contribs 19:37, 30 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sandbox2

I've moved your recently created article here [1]. Please don't create any more articles in article space - all you have to do is append the title you want to the URL at the top of the userpage to create user space files. Acroterion _(talk) 17:52, 1 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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  Four articles, two lists, and twelve pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

• 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.

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The Signpost: 02 April 2014

• News and notes: Wikimedia conferences—soul-searching about costs, attendance, and future
  The run-up to the conference has seen the unfolding of two fractious threads on the Wikimedia public mailing list, both of which may serve as background for the last session at Berlin: "Future of the Wikimedia Conference".

• WikiProject report: Deutschland in English
  This week, we visited with WikiProject Germany.

• 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.

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The Signpost: 09 April 2014

• 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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The Signpost: 23 April 2014

• 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
  Cynthia Ashley-Nelson, who edited as "Cindamuse" on the Wikimedia projects, passed away in her sleep at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin on 10 April.

• WikiProject_report: To the altar—Catholicism
  This week, we visited WikiProject Catholicism.

• Wikimania: Winning bid announced for 2015
  After just over a month of deliberation, the Wikimania jury has selected Wikimedia Mexico's bid to host Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City, with a proposed date of 15–19 July.

• Traffic report: Reflecting in Gethsemane
  If I were the kind of person who made snap judgments based on flimsy evidence, I'd say our readership is in a funk.

• Featured content: There was I, waiting at the church
  Fourteen articles, four lists, seven pictures, and one topic attained "featured" status on the English Wikipedia over the last two weeks.

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The Signpost: 30 April 2014

• News and notes: WMF's draft annual plan turns indigestible as an FDC proposal
  Like hammering a square peg into a round hole, the Wikimedia Foundation has submitted a draft annual plan for 2014–15 to its own Funds Dissemination Committee. Unlike the WMF's submission to the FDC's inaugural round in October 2012, the "proposal" does not seek funding.

• Traffic report: Going to the Doggs
  Not much to report this week. The same post-Easter celebrations (4/20, Earth Day) were popular again this year, except last year we were still reeling from the Boston Marathon bombing.

• Breaking: The Foundation's new executive director
  The Wikimedia Foundation has announced that its new executive director will be Lila Tretikov, until now a chief product officer in Silicon Valley.

• WikiProject report: Genetics
  This week, we unraveled the mysteries of WikiProject Genetics.

• Interview: Wikipedia in the Peabody Essex Museum
  Ed Roley, Associate Director of Integrated Media at the Peabody Essex Museum, talks about GLAM engagement with Wikipedia.

• Featured content: Browsing behaviours
  Four articles and sixteen featured pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.

• Recent research: Wikipedia predicts flu more accurately than Google
  Can you predict the number of seasonal influenza-like illness in the U.S. using data from Wikipedia?

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The Signpost: 07 May 2014

• News and notes: New system of discretionary sanctions; Buchenwald; is Pirelli 'Cracking Wikipedia'?
  The English Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee (ArbCom) introduced the first form of what are known as the "discretionary sanction" (DS) in 2009. A new DS regime, called Discretionary sanctions (2014), is the result of an elaborate review process involving both the community, since last September, and the committee, for more than a year.

• Traffic report: TMZedia
  For all the claims of Wikipedia bringing the world's knowledge to all who want it, it seems the human race most wants is a tabloid newspaper; a quick source for TV listings, pop culture facts, celebrity gossip and, above all, scandal—with some nice juicy racism thrown in too.

• In focus: Foundation announces long-awaited new executive director
  In a live video stream on 1 May, the Wikimedia Foundation announced that Lila Tretikov will be replacing Sue Gardner, its executive director. Gardner, who has been in the position since 2007, declared her intention to leave more than a year ago.

• WikiCup: 2014 WikiCup enters round three
  Round 3 of the 2014 WikiCup has just begun; 32 competitors remain.

• In the media: Google and the flu; Adrianne
  Boston Children's Hospital postdoctoral fellow David McIver and a team have determined that using page view statistics from Wikipedia, they can track flu progression better than the Center for Disease Control can using Google searches.

• WikiProject report: Singing with Eurovision
  Formed in 2003, the Eurovision WikiProject boasts four featured articles and 22 good articles. The Eurovision Song Contest 2014 is currently taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark, so we went to the stage to talk with one of the project's members.

• Featured content: Wikipedia at the Rijksmuseum
  Four articles, two lists, and five pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.

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The Signpost: 14 May 2014

• Investigative report: Hong Kong's Wikimania 2013—failure to produce financial statement raises questions of probity
  On 2 May 2012, the Wikimania jury announced that Hong Kong's bid to hold the 2013 event had beaten four other proposals. Moderator James Forrester wrote: "The Jury has confidence that the Hong Kong bidding team will pull off a magnificent Wikimania,"—and indeed there were positive comments about the event from most attendees.

• WikiProject report: Relaxing in Puerto Rico
  This week, the Signpost jumped over the ocean to chat with the Puerto Rico WikiProject.

• News and notes: 'Ask a librarian'—connecting Wikimedians with the National Library of Australia
  Editors of Australian-related topics on the English Wikipedia may have noticed an odd addition if they viewed the article's talk pages. For example, on Talk:Darwin, Northern Territory, they might be drawn in by the question mark, nested within what is often a sea of WikiProject templates: "Need help improving this article? Ask a librarian at the National Library of Australia, or the Northern Territory Library." Just what is this?

• Featured content: On the rocks
  Six articles, seven lists, and four pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week.

• Traffic report: Eurovision, Google Doodles, Mothers, and 5 May
  Eurovision is known for being political, and it was a doozy this week.

• Technology report: Technology report needs editor, Media Viewer offers a new look
  The Media Viewer is scheduled to launch on the English Wikipedia next week.

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The Signpost: 21 May 2014

• News and notes: "Crisis" over Wikimedia Germany's palace revolution
  Last Sunday the board of Wikimedia Germany passed 9–1 a vote of no confidence in the chapter's executive director, Pavel Richter, who has held the position since 2009. With more than 50 employees, an annual budget approaching $10 million, and the right to conduct its own fundraising through the Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) site banners, Wikimedia Germany is the second-largest organisation in the movement after the WMF itself. The decision was announced on the Wikimedia mailing list by the chapter chair, Nikolas Becker.

• Featured content: Staggering number of featured articles
  Thirteen articles, sixteen pictures, and one topic were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.

• Traffic report: Doodles' dawn
  It's a relief to see Google Doodles having an impact again; their wide coverage means that they inspire curiosity on many subjects which, for reasons of nationality, ethnicity or gender, might not be known in the English-speaking world. It's a shame then, that Wikipedia so often fails to keep up; articles on Google Doodles are almost invariably C-class, and seldom do justice to their subjects. Still, interest in Google Doodles has been waning in recent months—Audrey Hepburn last week was the first to top the list since December—so any rise in popularity is worth celebrating.

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The Signpost: 28 May 2014

• News and notes: The English Wikipedia's second featured-article centurion; wiki inventor interviewed on video
  With the promotion to featured article of Grus (constellation) on 17 May, Casliber became Wikipedia's second featured-article centurion, following Wehwalt's groundbreaking achievement last December. Cas's first FA, Banksia integrifolia, a group effort, was promoted on 16 November 2006. His first solo project, Diplodocus, followed in January 2007; he has rarely been off the FAC since. In a second story, Ward Cunningham, an American computer programmer who invented the wiki, was interviewed by the WMF.

• Featured content: Zombie fight in the saloon
  Wikipedia editor Sven Manguard's work is quite underappreciated a lot of the time, most likely because people haven't heard of it yet: He's developed good relationships with game companies, and is thus able to get full-resolution screenshots released under a Creative Commons license for use on Wikipedia and elsewhere. This week's trove of new featured items on the English Wikipedia comprises seven articles, three lists, and four pictures.

• Traffic report: Get fitted for flipflops and floppy hats
  In the US, Memorial Day marks the unofficial beginning of summer, and summer is definitely on people's minds this week, with summer films Godzilla and X-Men: Days of Future Past, the apparently designated summer song "Fancy" by Iggy Azalea, and summer TV show, Game of Thrones.

• Recent research: Predicting which article you will edit next
  Wikipedia in the eyes of its beholders; "Chinese-language time zones" favor Asian pop and IT topics on Wikipedia; and bipartite editing prediction in Wikipedia.

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The Signpost: 04 June 2014

• Special report: IEG funding for women's stories: a new approach to the gender gap
  Individual engagement grants (IEGs) are announced twice yearly by a volunteer WMF committee, the most recent of which we covered last December. The scheme, launched at the start of last year, awards funds to individuals or teams of up to four to produce high-impact outcomes for the WMF's online projects. It favours innovative approaches to solving critical issues in the movement.

• News and notes: Two new affiliate-selected trustees
  New trustee Frieda Briosch from Italy: we face "a couple of headaches", she says: "how to boost editors, which includes the development of the next strategic plan, and how to keep our project always 'glamorous'."

• Op-ed: "Hospitality, jerks, and what I learned"—the amazing keynote at WikiConference USA
  I never feel quite adequate trying to paraphrase Sumana's words: she is so articulate. I highly encourage every person who reads this article to directly watch her keynote—it directly speaks to a lot of Wikimedia's most significant issues, made with great eloquence. We have a serious issue with retaining editors, and parts of her speech could serve as a pretty good partial blueprint towards how we could begin to fix that problem.

• Featured content: Ye stately homes of England
  David Iliff, or Diliff, as he is known on here outside of the file pages for his many, many, excellent photographs, is one of Wikipedia's longest-standing professional-standard photographers. This week, the Signpost salutes him.

• In the media: Reliable or not, doctors use Wikipedia
  The month of May saw significant coverage concerning the reliability of Wikipedia's medical articles.

• Traffic report: Autumn in summer
  The northern summer is a time when one is meant to celebrate the exuberance of life; instead, commemoration of the dead was a significant theme this week.

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The Signpost: 11 June 2014

• News and notes: PR agencies commit to ethical interactions with Wikipedia
  Eleven public relations agencies have declared their intention to follow "ethical engagement practices" in Wikipedia editing. The results were published last Tuesday: a joint statement from the participating PR agencies—representing five of the top ten global agencies and all but one of the top ten in the United States—clarifying their views and practices with regards to the Wikimedia projects.

• Traffic report: The week the wired went weird
  It seems that, more than commemorating the great moments in our history, more than even anticipating great sporting events, what our audience wants is the weird.

• Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Moderator: William Beutler
  William Beutler (WWB), author of the blog The Wikipedian, is a long-time editor and community-watcher. He is also a paid editor (WWB Too). Well—not anymore—because he gave up direct editing of articles in 2011. Instead, for the past three years he has followed Jimmy Wales' Bright Line rule in acting as a researcher and consultant for companies and clients that want to suggest changes to Wikipedia articles and engage on the Talk page.

• Special report: Questions raised over secret voting for WMF trustees
  Last week we reported the announcement of two new affiliate-selected WMF trustees. The board of trustees is the most powerful and influential body in the movement, and chapters have been permitted to select two of the 10 seats since 2008, for two-year terms that start in even-numbered years.

• Featured content: Politics, ships, art, and cyclones
  Five articles, one list, twelve pictures, and one topic were promoted to 'featured' status last week on the English Wikipedia.

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The Signpost: 18 June 2014

• News and notes: With paid advocacy in its sights, the Wikimedia Foundation amends their terms of use
  The Wikimedia Foundation has amended its terms of use to ban editing for pay without disclosing an employer or affiliation on any of its websites. The broad scope of these changes will allow the WMF to selectively enforce their terms of use to avoid ensnaring well-meaning editors.

• Featured content: Worming our way to featured picture
  Five articles, five lists, 22 pictures, and one portal were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.

• Special report: Wikimedia Bangladesh: a chapter's five-year journey
  The Bangladesh chapter of the Wikimedia movement was formed in 2009. They received official local registration from the national authorities on 10 June 2014. The long road in between was subject to much persistence, patience, and luck—along with a good deal of worry.

• Traffic report: You can't dethrone Thrones
  To the surprise of absolutely no one, the 2014 FIFA World Cup was the main draw this week, taking four slots. People appeared desperate to bone up on their trivia; checking not only this year's World Cup, but the last one. Even so, they still couldn't push Game of Thrones from the top ten. It will be interesting to see what happens come next week's season finale.

• WikiProject report: Visiting the city
  This week, the Signpost came in from the hinterland to interview members of the Cities WikiProject.

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The Signpost: 25 June 2014

• News and notes: US National Archives enshrines Wikipedia in Open Government Plan
  The US National Archives and Record Administration (NARA) have committed to engaging with Wikimedia projects in their newest Open Government Plan. The biannual effort is a roadmap for how the agency will accomplish its goals in the digital age.

• Traffic report: Fake war, or real sport?
  Despite the interest generated by its season finale, Game of Thrones still couldn't top the World Cup, which still dominated interest, as evidenced by the fact that this top 10 is virtually identical to last week's, just with a different dead celebrity.

• Exclusive: "We need to be true to who we are": Foundation's new executive director speaks to the Signpost
  In her first interview since taking office, Lila Tretikov, the Wikimedia Foundation's new executive director, speaks about grantmaking, the global south, and the gender gap.

• Discussion report: Media Viewer, old HTML tags
  Discussions on the English Wikipedia this week include...

• Featured content: Showing our Wörth
  Ten articles and eleven pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

• WikiProject report: The world where dreams come true
  This week, the Signpost visited the land of Disney, blockbusters, explosions, dream sequences, and cultural masterpieces: film.

• Recent research: Power users and diversity in WikiProjects
  In a recent paper, Jacob Solomon and Rick Wash investigate the question of sustainability in online communities by analysing trends in the growth of WikiProjects.

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The Signpost: 02 July 2014

• In the media: Wiki Education; medical content; PR firms
  The Los Angeles Times highlighted a recent Wiki Education Foundation (WEF) course at Pomona College in their article "Wikipedia pops up in bibliographies, and even college curricula". We interviewed Char Booth, the campus ambassador for the course, for additional details.

• Traffic report: The Cup runneth over... and over.
  With Game of Thrones over for another year, the World Cup dominated yet again. And that is pretty much that. This list isn't likely to be particularly eventful until the Cup is won.

• News and notes: Wikimedia Israel receives Roaring Lion award
  Wikimedia Israel (WMIL) has won a Roaring Lion in the category of Internet and cellular for its public outreach during the tenth anniversary of the Hebrew Wikipedia in July 2013.

• Featured content: Ship-shape
  Six articles, five lists, seventeen pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

• WikiProject report: Indigenous Peoples of North America
  This week, the Signpost visited the Indigenous peoples of North America WikiProject.

• Technology report: In memoriam: the Toolserver (2005–14)
  In the early hours of Tuesday morning, Wikimedia Deutschland's Toolserver project was switched off, marking the end of one of the Wikimedia movement's longest running Chapter-led projects. The Toolserver, which was in fact a collection of servers, first came online in 2005, hosting hundreds of webpages and scripts ("tools") made available for use by Wikimedia readers, editors and administrators.

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The Signpost: 09 July 2014

• Special report: Wikimania 2014—what will it cost?
  Last May, James Forrester announced to the world that London had been awarded the 2014 Wikimania conference. Functioning as the Wikimedia movement's annual conference, it is separate from the chapter-focused Wikimedia Conference. The first, located in Frankfurt, took place in 2005 and had 380 attendees. London, the tenth, is now expected to attract 1500. With Wikimania ambition, attention, and attendance rising significantly over the last nine years, how have this year's monetary costs come to be?

• Wikicup: Wikicup's third round sees money, space, battleships and more
  After an extremely close race, round three is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years—321 was required in 2013, and 243 points in 2012.

• Wikimedia in education: Exploring the United States and Canada with LiAnna Davis
  The Wikimedia Education Program currently spans 60 programs around the world; students and instructors participate at almost every level of education. The Education program Signpost series presents a snapshot of the Wikimedia Global Education Program as it exists in 2014.

• Featured content: Three cheers for featured pictures!
  Five articles, six lists, and nine pictures were promoted to 'featured' status last week on the English Wikipedia.

• News and notes: Echoes of the past haunt new conflict over tech initiative
  As with the troubled release of the Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) flagship VisualEditor project, the release of the new Media Viewer has also been met with opposition from the English Wikipedia community.

• Traffic report: World Cup, Tim Howard rule the week
  Unsurprisingly, the World Cup continued to dominate the English Wikipedia's viewing statistics. In particular, the record-breaking performance of US goalkeeper Tim Howard and the tournament-ending injury to Brazil's Neymar drove large amount of views to their articles.

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The Signpost: 16 July 2014

• 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."

• Traffic report: World Cup dominates for another week
  This week it's still more and more World Cup, with five entries out of the top ten (and 14 out of the Top 25).

• Wikimedia in education: Serbia takes the stage with Filip Maljkovic
  It all started in late 2005, when we first held lectures about Wikipedia in two educational institutions (universities) ...

• 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.

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The Signpost: 23 July 2014

• Wikimedia in education: Education program gaining momentum in Israel
  "Great success" in Israel universities is leading to collaboration and editing in high schools.

• Traffic report: The World Cup hangs on, though tragedies seek to replace it
  Last week I predicted that the World Cup dominance on the report would be over—but I was wrong. The World Cup Final fell on the 13th of July, which was actually the first day of the week covered by this report, not the last day of the last report. Hence, five of the Top 10 this week are again World Cup related-topics.

• 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!
  Ten articles, five lists, and 25 pictures were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia last week.

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The Signpost: 30 July 2014

• 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.

• Recent research: Shifting values in the paid content debate
  Kim Osman has performed a fascinating study on the three 2013 failed proposals to ban paid advocacy editing in the English language Wikipedia. Using a Constructivist Grounded Theory approach, Osman analyzed 573 posts from the three main votes on paid editing conducted in the community in November 2013.

• 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?

• Wikimedia in education: Success in Egypt and the Arab World
  A "program of heroes" is leading the charge in Egypt.

• 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
  Two articles, four lists, and seven pictures attained featured status on the English Wikipedia last week.

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The Signpost: 06 August 2014

• 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.

• Featured content: Bottoms, asses, and the fairies that love them
  Eight articles, fifteen pictures, and two topics were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia last week.

• Wikimedia in education: Leading universities educate with Wikipedia in Mexico
  "Major growth" expected in Mexican university after a Wikipedia program is formally accepted by the school's administration.

• News and notes: "History is a human right"—first-ever transparency report released as Europe begins hiding Wikipedia in search results
  The Wikimedia Foundation has published its first transparency report, covering from July 2012 to June 2014. The move comes on the same day the organization announced that Google, in order to comply with a recent court order upholding the "right to be forgotten", has removed a number of Wikipedia articles from their European search results.

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The Signpost: 13 August 2014

• 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.

• Wikimedia in education: Global Education: WMF's Perspective
  "Education is at the core of the Wikimedia Foundation’s mission."

• 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."

• Featured content: Cambridge got a lot of attention this week
  Eight article, six lists, and two topics were promoted to featured status last week.

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The Signpost: 20 August 2014

• Interview: Improving the visibility of digital archival assets using Wikipedia
  Dorothy Howard interviews Michael Szajewski, archivist for digital development and university records at Ball State University.

• Traffic report: Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero
  Comedian Robin Williams' untimely death takes the top spot.

• WikiProject report: Bats and gloves
  At the plate with WikiProject Baseball!

• 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."

• Featured content: English Wikipedia departs for Japan
  Ten articles and three pictures were promoted to featured status last week.

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The Signpost: 27 August 2014

• In the media: Plagiarism and vandalism dominate Wikipedia news
  Journalistic integrity, Congressional edits, and other news.

• News and notes: Media Viewer—Wikimedia's emotional roller-coaster
  More discussions about Media Viewer, Superprotect, and software development

• Traffic report: Viral
  "This was a week when an actual virus, Ebola, competed for attention with several viral social phenomena; most notably the Ice Bucket Challenge..."

• Featured content: Cheats at Featured Pictures!
  Sixteen articles, five lists, five pictures, and one topic were promoted.

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The Signpost: 03 September 2014

• 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."

• Featured content: 1882 × 5 in gold, and thruppence more
  Two articles, one list, and ten pictures were promoted

• Op-ed: Automated copy-and-paste detection under trial
  Doc James and some collaborators are working on quick detection of copyright violations

• 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."

• Recent research: A Wikipedia-based Pantheon; new Wikipedia analysis tool suite; how AfC hamstrings newbies
  The latest roundup of research about Wikimedia

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The Signpost: 10 September 2014

• 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

• In the media: Turkish Twitter outrage, medical translation, audience metrics
  The Hürriyet Daily News reports on a series of posts on Twitter from Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism Ömer Çelik.

• 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.

• News and notes: Wikipedia's traffic statistics are off by nearly one-third
  A prominent Wikipedia researcher has discovered that the encyclopedia's widely used article traffic statistics are missing out on approximately one-third of total views.

• Traffic report: Tolstoy leads a varied pack
  There is no unifying theme we can slap on top article popularity this week.

• 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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The Signpost: 24 September 2014

• 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.

• Recent research: 99.25% of Wikipedia birthdates accurate; focused Wikipedians live longer; merging WordNet, Wikipedia and Wiktionary
  0.75% of Wikipedia birthdates are inaccurate, reported Robert Viseur at WikiSym 2014. Those inaccuracies are "low, although higher than the 0.21% observed for the baseline reference sources". Given that biographies represent 15% of English Wikipedia, the third largest category after "arts" and "culture", their accuracy is important.

• 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

• From the editor: The Signpost needs your help
  Contributing to the Signpost can be one of the most rewarding things an editor can do.

• Dispatches: Let's get serious about plagiarism
  This article was first published in the Signpost in 2009. Written by several long-standing editors, including the late Adrianne Wadewitz, the article was subjected to extensive commentary and ultimately influenced the English Wikipedia's plagiarism guideline. With recent debates about close paraphrasing vis-à-vis plagiarism, we feel that this dispatch retains its relevance and deserves a second airing.

• News and notes: Wikipedia article published in peer-reviewed journal; Wikipedia in education
  The argument on Wikipedia over the benefits of crowdsourcing versus the primacy of "expert" contributors stretches back to co-founder Larry Sanger's break with the project to start the alternative Citizendium.

• 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.

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The Signpost: 08 October 2014

• In the media: Opposition research firm blocked; Australian bushfires
  Also, Wikimedia Norge and Nobel Peace Center edit-a-thon

• Featured content: From a wordless novel to a coat of arms via New York City
  2 Featured articles, 4 Featured lists, 62 Featured pictures, and 2 Featured portals were promoted.

• 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.

• Technology report: HHVM is the greatest thing since sliced bread
  No seriously, it is.

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The Signpost: 15 October 2014

• Op-ed: Ships—sexist or sexy?
  Why does Wikipedia still use the gendered pronouns "she" and "her" for ships?

• In the media: College player falsely linked to sports scandal by Wikipedia; the Nobel Prizes
  Ben Koo of the sports blog Awful Announcing investigated how player Joe Streater's name became involved in recent years with a historic sports scandal.

• 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.

• Featured content: Bells ring out at the Temple of the Dragon at Peace
  Nine articles and twenty-six pictures were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia.

• Technology report: Attempting to parse wikitext
  This week we sat down with The Earwig to learn about his wikitext parser.

• 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.

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The Signpost: 22 October 2014

• Featured content: Admiral on deck: a modern Ada Lovelace
  Four articles, four lists, and fifty-three pictures were promoted to featured status.

• Op-ed: Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution—a wiki-protest
  Our op-ed writer this week opines that the organization of Hong Kong's "Umbrella Revolution" resembles how Wikipedia is organized.

• In the media: The story of Wikipedia; Wikipedia reanimated and republished; New UK government social media rules; death of Italian Wikipedia administrator
  Among many newsworthy stories this week, the Signpost notes the passing of Italian Wikipedia administrator and former Wikimedia Italia treasurer [Cotton

• Traffic report: Death, War, Pestilence... Movies and TV
  Ebola, movies and television articles appear in this week's top ten.

• WikiProject report: De-orphanning articles—a huge task but with a huge team of volunteers to help
  PaintedCarpet explains that "WikiProject Orphanage aims to connect all Wikipedia pages, so that pages can be found and read more easily."

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The Signpost: 29 October 2014

• 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
  Noam Cohen reports in The New York Times (October 26) that Wikipedia's "Ebola Virus Disease article has had 17 million page views in the last month," an indication of the public's reliance on the online encyclopedia.

• 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
  Ebola virus disease leads the Report for the fourth straight week. The rest of the list is primarily a mix of pop culture topics, including movie Avengers: Age of Ultron (#4) whose trailer was leaked early, and the death of Oscar de la Renta (#7). A BuzzFeed article on creepy Wikipedia articles, no doubt well-timed with Halloween (#9) around the corner, was responsible for three articles in the Top 25, including June and Jennifer Gibbons (#10), Taman Shud Case (#17), Joyce Vincent (#25). And the internet-run-amok controversy of Gamergate cracked the Top 25 for the first time at #19.

• Recent research: Informed consent and privacy; newsmaking on Wikipedia; Wikipedia and organizational theories
  In new research conducted in light of proposed changes to data protection legislation in the European Union (EU), authors Bart Custers, Simone van der Hof, and Bart Schermer conducted a comparative analysis of social media and user-generated content websites’ privacy policies along with a user survey (N=8,621 in 26 countries) and interviews in 13 different EU countries on awareness, values, and attitudes toward privacy online.

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The Signpost: 05 November 2014

• 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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The Signpost: 12 November 2014

• 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).

• Featured content: Wikipedia goes to church in Lithuania
  Nine articles, two lists, and 55 featured pictures were promoted during the week of 26 October.

• 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

• Featured content: Orbital Science: Now you're thinking with explosions
  Four articles, four lists, eleven pictures, and one topic were promoted.

• 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".

• Recent research: Gender gap and skills gap; academic citations on the rise; European food cultures
  The monthly roundup of research related to Wikimedia.

• WikiProject report: Back with the military historians
  It's time for this year's edition of the Report looking at possibly our largest wikiproject: Military history. Since our last interview in June 2013, the project has had no break in its huge quest to document everything in their scope, that is, militaries and conflicts of the past. As usual, its participants were eager to answer the questions posed by The Signpost and update us on how they are doing.

• Traffic report: Big in Japan
  Often times in popular culture, a subject will be quite popular among a distinct niche of people or region of the world, but little-known elsewhere -- like a musical artist that is boasted to be "big in Japan". The Traffic Report provides a bevy of examples this week.

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The Signpost: 03 December 2014

• Op-ed: Who edits health-related content on Wikipedia and why?
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• In the media: Embroidery and cheese
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• Featured content: ABCD: Any Body Can Dance!
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• Traffic report: Turkey and a movie
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• WikiProject report: Today on the island
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The Signpost: 10 December 2014

• Op-ed: It's GLAM up North!
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• In the media: Wikipedia is "a rancorous, sexist, elitist, stupidly bureaucratic mess"
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• Traffic report: Dead Black Men and Science Fiction
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• Featured content: Honour him, love and obey? Good idea with military leaders.
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The Signpost: 17 December 2014

• Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee election results
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• Featured content: Tripping hither, tripping thither, Nobody knows why or whither; We must dance and we must sing, Round about our fairy ring!
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• In the media: Wikipedia's year in review video; Checking in with Wikipedia's founders
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• Traffic report: A December Lull
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The Signpost: 24 December 2014

• From the editor: Looking for new editors-in-chief
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• In the media: Wales on GamerGate
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• Featured content: Still quoting Iolanthe, apparently.
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• WikiProject report: Microsoft does The Signpost
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• Traffic report: North Korea is not pleased
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The Signpost: 31 December 2014

• News and notes: The next big step for Wikidata—forming a hub for researchers
  Wikidata, Wikimedia's free linked database that supplies Wikipedia and its sister projects, is gearing up to submit a grant application to the EU that would expand Wikidata's scope by developing it as a science hub. The proposal, supported by more than 25 volunteers and half a dozen European institutions as project partners, aims to create a virtual research environment (VRE) that will enhance the project's capacity for freely sharing scientific data.

• In the media: Study tour controversy; class tackles the gender gap
  A "study tour" by the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation for the purpose of researching development projects has been the subject of much controversy and criticism in the Indian press... The Indian Express described a government report about the trip as having copied extensively from the Wikipedia articles for Port Blair and the Kolkata Municipal Corporation.

• Traffic report: Surfin' the Yuletide
  Unlike last year, Wikipedia viewers seem to have embraced the Christmas spirit, with three topics in the top 10 (and eight in the top 25) focused on the holiday season.

• Op-ed: My issues with the Wiki Education Foundation
  Chris Troutman has been a campus ambassador for six classes in the Los Angeles area over the past four consecutive semesters. He is currently a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar at University of California, Riverside.

• Featured content: A bit fruity
  Three articles, three lists, fifteen pictures, and one topic were promoted.

• Recent research: Wikipedia in higher education; gender-driven talk page conflicts; disease forecasting
  A paper titled "Factors that influence the teaching use of Wikipedia in Higher Education" uses the technology acceptance model to shed light on faculty's (of Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) views of Wikipedia as a teaching tool.

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The Signpost: 07 January 2015

• In the media: ISIL propaganda video; AirAsia complaints
  ISIL hostage quotes Wikipedia in propaganda video; AirAsia articles draw complaints regarding Flight 8501; Article errors reveal US political approaches to Wikipedia editing; Rhode Island Governor numbering debate

• Interview: Interview with Jakob, one of Wikipedia's more prolific waterway contributors
  User:Jakec has been a Wikipedia editor for over two years and has been a writer of many recent Did you know articles on Wikipedia, including multiple articles on rivers and streams in the state of Pennsylvania.

• Featured content: Kock up
  Two lists and twelve pictures were promoted.

• Traffic report: Auld Lang Syne
  We end 2014 and and start 2015 with the normal array of year-end activities, including movie watching with Bollywood film PK (#1) topping the list, followed by The Interview (#2), 2014 in film (#10), and five other films in the rest of the Top 25, plus a number of articles about the subjects of these films. We celebrated the New Year by singing "Auld Lang Syne" (#11), or perhaps watching Adam Lambert (#9) perform with Queen. But we could not avoid a final tragedy with the crash of Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 (#4) on December 28.

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The Signpost: 14 January 2015

• Op-ed: Articles for creation needs you
  Ever since the Wikipedia Seigenthaler biography incident in 2005 triggered the restriction against un-registered editors creating new pages, WikiProject Articles for creation (AfC) has stood in the breach. The WikiProject's purpose is to review draft submissions from IPs (and frequently new registered editors) to sort the wheat from the chaff.

• WikiProject report: Articles for creation: the inside story
  This anniversary issue, the WikiProject report is returning to WikiProject Articles for creation for one of our largest interviews ever. Last looked at in 2011, AfC is the method used by unregistered or new users to create articles, and provides an effective filtering system to remove all unsuitable or unsourced submissions to save them needing to be found and deleted later.

• News and notes: Erasmus Prize recognizes the global Wikipedia community
  On the fourteenth anniversary of the founding of the English Wikipedia, the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation has announced that its prestigious annual Erasmus Prize will be awarded to the worldwide community that has built Wikipedia.

• In the media: Wikipedia's birthday brings tributes, app, award; Castro death rumors
  Wikipedia turned 14 on January 15. A few media outlets took note of the anniversary.

• Featured content: Citations are needed
  Six featured articles, five featured lists, and sixteen featured pictures were promoted this week.

• Traffic report: Wikipédia sommes Charlie
  It's a grim certainty what topic most interested Wikipedia viewers this week. The horrific attacks on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine have drawn anger and resolve from around the world, and also the attention of an English-speaking world that had previously never heard of it.

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The Signpost: 21 January 2015

• From the editor: Introducing your new editors-in-chief
  A letter from departing Signpost editor-in-chief The ed17.

• Anniversary: A decade of the Signpost
  Celebrating and remembering ten years of community journalism.

• Interview: WWII veteran honors shipmates through Wikipedia editing
  Over seventy years ago, the US destroyer Mahan was patrolling off Ponson Island in the Philippines when eleven Japanese kamikaze aircraft appeared over the horizon and attacked. George Pendergast, who edits Wikipedia with the username Pendright, was eighteen years old when he joined Mahan '​s crew in April 1944.

• News and notes: Annual report released; Wikimania; steward elections
  The municipality of Esino Lario in Italy will host Wikimania 2016.

• Op-ed: Let's make WikiProjects better
  Our contributor opines that WikiProjects are failing to live up to their potential. WikiProject X is a new project funded by a Wikimedia Foundation Individual Engagement Grant that focuses on figuring out what makes some WikiProjects work and not others.

• In the media: Johann Hari; bandishes and delicate flowers
  Quotes from Jimbo on Wikipedia in education; net neutrality; preserving musical heritage; Wikipedia in audio; a cheerful vandal credits high school with papal visitations.

• Featured content: Yachts, marmots, boat races, and a rocket engineer who attempted to birth a goddess
  Nine articles, one list, and ten pictures were promoted.

• Arbitration report: As one door closes, a (Gamer)Gate opens
  ArbCom's three open cases are GamerGate, Wifione, and Christianity and sexuality.

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The Signpost: 28 January 2015

• From the editor: An editorial board that includes you
  The editorial board is not complete without you. We are looking for Wikipedians with all kinds of experience levels.

• In focus: Thirteen editors sanctioned in mammoth GamerGate arbitration case
  The English Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee has closed the colossal GamerGate arbitration case, whose size—involving 27 named parties—recalls large and complex cases of the past.

• In the media: A murderous week for Wikipedia
  A murder suspect edits Wikipedia, Russia is kidding when it says it wants to censor Wikipedia.

• Forum: Evaluating the Arbitration Committee's handling of GamerGate
  Does the committee facilitate stability... or is it a circus. Two users, two perspectives.

• Traffic report: A sea of faces
  It is pretty clear what the theme is this week: people.

• Recent research: Bot writes about theatre plays; "Renaissance editors" create better content
  A paper presented at the International Conference on Pattern Recognition last year presents an automated method to improve Wikipedia's coverage of theatre plays.

• Special report: Traffic in the fog—most-viewed articles of 2014 include death, Facebook, and Ebola
  As with last year, music stars were the majority of celebrities on the list, as their frequent concerts and media appearances keep their flames alight longer than others of their stripe.

• Featured content: Like Jack Kerouac's On The Road, this week's issue was written on amphetamines
  Ten featured articles, three featured lists, and 22 featured images were promoted this week.

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:40, 24 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]