This is very concerning. My four paragraphs was not intended as a stand-alone feature, but a brief summary while leaving room for details. — Crisco 1492 ( talk) 09:01, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
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Hi,
Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archives/2014-01-01 is bugged, while Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2014-01-01 is OK.
Regards,
Cantons-de-l'Est ( talk) 18:50, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
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Newspaper Editor Award |
Awarded to The ed17 for editing the Signpost. No matter how hard it gets. StudiesWorld ( talk) 14:26, 5 January 2014 (UTC) |
Sumana Harihareswara 14:17, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
I've got another book review just about finished, it'll be ready in a day or two. Just wanted to let it sit and proofread it again. Gamaliel ( talk) 00:54, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
I'm definitely going to need another day or two. It's the combination of a shortened deadline already plus doing two weeks' worth of content plus a personal semi-emergency that came up. ö Brambleberry of RiverClan 22:42, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
In the area? You are invited to the upcoming Minnesota meetup in commemoration of Wikipedia Day.
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Thanks Ed, I always feel that any editing I do at MHP is under false pretences, but I'm grateful anyway Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:24, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
At least they credited Wikipedia, (see here and here for a much more infuriating example) though their claim that "Wikipedia believes Facebook may be its most read page due to people accidentally typing the term into the Wikipedia search bar" is a bit of a stretch; I actually said that it's impossible to tell if that's not the case, which is a bit different. And I'm not clear on why they said "Wikipedia has no idea how or why [G-force] received so many views" instead of "We didn't bother to ask Wikipedia why they removed it from the list." Serendi pod ous 08:49, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
Herald talk with me 12:23, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
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I am terribly sorry that I was unable to do more with ITN for the Signpost over the Christmas holiday. Real life had me only a single crises away from a long Wikibreak to deal with it and enjoy the holidays as much as I could through the issues. I will e-mail you to explain a little further but may be a little more at ease now. This is why I was really hoping that Matty would be a co-author of the content in case I was unable to continue at some point. That point came and I was unable to get to a computer for about two weeks.-- Mark Miller ( talk) 05:02, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
I'm new editor in Wikipedia and contributing from some days. Can I have one Barnstar please ? :-) Nechlison ( talk) 13:31, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
Its ok StudiesWorld , my contribution to Wikipedia is uncoditional. I was just asking for it. Thank you Nechlison ( talk) 15:37, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
Volume 1 Issue 3, December/January 2013
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The Wikipedia Library completed the first 6 months of its Individual Engagement grant last week. Here's where we are and what we've done:
Thank you again for the award. I deeply appreciate the words of encouragement from you and other members of MILHIST.-- Khanate General ☪ talk project mongol conquests 02:21, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
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Hi there The ed17,
As you likely know, many contests exist or are being created on WIkipedia. Just to name a few, the WikiCup, the Core contest, the Stub Contest, and the Tyop Contest (which I am running). I thought I could write an article about how helpful contests are, and I would also discuss the argument about prizes and paid editing. If you're ok with this, would you mind if I put a note about entering the Tyop Contest, which starts on February 1st? If possible, I'd like this to appear in the next SignPost (Wednesday, January 22nd), so that people will have an opportunity to participate in a contest. I'm not sure what section this goes under... any ideas?
Thanks! Newyorkadam ( talk) 15:56, 16 January 2014 (UTC)Newyorkadam
Hi. You appear to have reverted my talk page comment to
User:Hahc21 without explanation. Can you offer one? —
JennKR |
☎ 02:52, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi ed17,
Can you change the flag in the wikicup main page for me? I changed it from United States to South Korea. Thanks. If you have any questions, reply on this talkpage. Thanks!
Order of the sword ( talk) 04:46, 19 January 2014 (UTC)Order of the sword
Hi Ed, do you have an estimate on when last week's signpost is going to go out? I have some material that would have gone in next week's tech report, but might make sense to include in last week's if it is delayed for a few more days. Thanks, Legoktm ( talk) 09:26, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
I have saved a double issue of the Featured content report for this week. Please check that the headers and footers are correct. Your N&N this week was a lot of work for one person so great work there. -- Pine ✉ 01:25, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
Thanks for the huge amount of work you do for the Signpost! Pine ✉ 01:27, 20 January 2014 (UTC) |
Have you have a chance to look at my book review yet? Also, every time I stop by here it seems like you are swamped. Would you like some more help with the Signpost? I think I could find some time to chip in with the "In the media" section. Gamaliel ( talk) 19:39, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi there ed--
I'm really sorry I didn't finish my article by the deadline. It will definitely be done by tomorrow (Thursday). Sorry if I delayed the entire Post :/
Newyorkadam ( talk) 04:35, 23 January 2014 (UTC)Newyorkadam
There are six "unknowns" in the top 25 this week, and I don't feel comfortable posting it with so many omissions. Unless I can get some kind of confirmation, I don't think I can post it this week. So far I haven't had any takers. Serendi pod ous 15:48, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
My article's done and ready for copyedit :) Thanks! - Newyorkadam ( talk) 16:35, 29 January 2014 (UTC)Newyorkadam
I heard from my colleagues across the ocean that a German firm Otto-Brenner-Stiftung published a research report on covert PR participation on Wikipedia. I found the report here. I haven't read it yet (or at least a machine translated version), but I thought it may be of interest to the SignPost and something that you may not have seen since it is not in English. I'm going to see if I can get a readable translation now to check it out. CorporateM ( Talk) 16:05, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
The 2014 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with, at time of writing, 138 participants. The is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2010. If you are yet to join the competition, don't worry- the judges have agreed to keep the
signups open for a few more days. By a wide margin, our current leader is newcomer
Godot13 (
submissions), whose set of
14 featured pictures, the first FPs of the competition, was worth 490 points. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:
Featured articles, featured lists, featured topics and featured portals are yet to play a part in the competition. The judges have removed a number of submissions which were deemed ineligible. Typically, we aim to see work on a project, followed by a nomination, followed by promotion, this year. We apologise for any disappointment caused by our strict enforcement this year; we're aiming to keep the competition as fair as possible.
Wikipedians interested in friendly competition may be interested to take part in The Core Contest; unlike the WikiCup, The Core Contest is not about audited content, but, like the WikiCup, it is about article improvement; specifically, The Core Contest is about contribution to some of Wikipedia's most important article. Of course, any work done for The Core Contest, if it leads to a DYK, GA or FA, can earn WikiCup points.
If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email), The ed17 ( talk • email) and Miyagawa ( talk • email) 19:54, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
Why have you changed the font used here? I can't find any related discussion to this end, and it means the template no longer matches the rest of the Signpost. --— Pretzels Hii! 19:55, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
This is very concerning. My four paragraphs was not intended as a stand-alone feature, but a brief summary while leaving room for details. — Crisco 1492 ( talk) 09:01, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors
2013 Annual Report
The GOCE has wrapped up another successful year of operations! Our 2013 Annual Report is now ready for review. – Your project coordinators: Torchiest, Baffle gab1978 and Jonesey95 Sign up for the
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MediaWiki message delivery (
talk) 16:44, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
|
Hi,
Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archives/2014-01-01 is bugged, while Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2014-01-01 is OK.
Regards,
Cantons-de-l'Est ( talk) 18:50, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
![]() |
Newspaper Editor Award |
Awarded to The ed17 for editing the Signpost. No matter how hard it gets. StudiesWorld ( talk) 14:26, 5 January 2014 (UTC) |
Sumana Harihareswara 14:17, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
I've got another book review just about finished, it'll be ready in a day or two. Just wanted to let it sit and proofread it again. Gamaliel ( talk) 00:54, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
I'm definitely going to need another day or two. It's the combination of a shortened deadline already plus doing two weeks' worth of content plus a personal semi-emergency that came up. ö Brambleberry of RiverClan 22:42, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
In the area? You are invited to the upcoming Minnesota meetup in commemoration of Wikipedia Day.
For more info and to sign up (not required), see the meetup talk page.
This invitation was sent to users who were interested in past events. If you don't want to receive future invitations, you can remove your name from the invite list. — innotata 04:14, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
Thanks Ed, I always feel that any editing I do at MHP is under false pretences, but I'm grateful anyway Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:24, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
At least they credited Wikipedia, (see here and here for a much more infuriating example) though their claim that "Wikipedia believes Facebook may be its most read page due to people accidentally typing the term into the Wikipedia search bar" is a bit of a stretch; I actually said that it's impossible to tell if that's not the case, which is a bit different. And I'm not clear on why they said "Wikipedia has no idea how or why [G-force] received so many views" instead of "We didn't bother to ask Wikipedia why they removed it from the list." Serendi pod ous 08:49, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
Herald talk with me 12:23, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
|
I am terribly sorry that I was unable to do more with ITN for the Signpost over the Christmas holiday. Real life had me only a single crises away from a long Wikibreak to deal with it and enjoy the holidays as much as I could through the issues. I will e-mail you to explain a little further but may be a little more at ease now. This is why I was really hoping that Matty would be a co-author of the content in case I was unable to continue at some point. That point came and I was unable to get to a computer for about two weeks.-- Mark Miller ( talk) 05:02, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
I'm new editor in Wikipedia and contributing from some days. Can I have one Barnstar please ? :-) Nechlison ( talk) 13:31, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
Its ok StudiesWorld , my contribution to Wikipedia is uncoditional. I was just asking for it. Thank you Nechlison ( talk) 15:37, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
Volume 1 Issue 3, December/January 2013
(Sign up for
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Happy New Year, and welcome to a special double issue of Books & Bytes. We've included a retrospective on the changes and progress TWL has seen over the last year, the results of the survey TWL participants completed in December, some of our plans for the future, a second interview with a Wiki Love Libraries coordinator, and more. Here's to 2014 being a year of expansion and innovation for TWL!
The Wikipedia Library completed the first 6 months of its Individual Engagement grant last week. Here's where we are and what we've done:
Thank you again for the award. I deeply appreciate the words of encouragement from you and other members of MILHIST.-- Khanate General ☪ talk project mongol conquests 02:21, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
|
The Bugle is published by the
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If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from
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talk) and
Nick-D (
talk) 13:17, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi there The ed17,
As you likely know, many contests exist or are being created on WIkipedia. Just to name a few, the WikiCup, the Core contest, the Stub Contest, and the Tyop Contest (which I am running). I thought I could write an article about how helpful contests are, and I would also discuss the argument about prizes and paid editing. If you're ok with this, would you mind if I put a note about entering the Tyop Contest, which starts on February 1st? If possible, I'd like this to appear in the next SignPost (Wednesday, January 22nd), so that people will have an opportunity to participate in a contest. I'm not sure what section this goes under... any ideas?
Thanks! Newyorkadam ( talk) 15:56, 16 January 2014 (UTC)Newyorkadam
Hi. You appear to have reverted my talk page comment to
User:Hahc21 without explanation. Can you offer one? —
JennKR |
☎ 02:52, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi ed17,
Can you change the flag in the wikicup main page for me? I changed it from United States to South Korea. Thanks. If you have any questions, reply on this talkpage. Thanks!
Order of the sword ( talk) 04:46, 19 January 2014 (UTC)Order of the sword
Hi Ed, do you have an estimate on when last week's signpost is going to go out? I have some material that would have gone in next week's tech report, but might make sense to include in last week's if it is delayed for a few more days. Thanks, Legoktm ( talk) 09:26, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
I have saved a double issue of the Featured content report for this week. Please check that the headers and footers are correct. Your N&N this week was a lot of work for one person so great work there. -- Pine ✉ 01:25, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
![]() |
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
Thanks for the huge amount of work you do for the Signpost! Pine ✉ 01:27, 20 January 2014 (UTC) |
Have you have a chance to look at my book review yet? Also, every time I stop by here it seems like you are swamped. Would you like some more help with the Signpost? I think I could find some time to chip in with the "In the media" section. Gamaliel ( talk) 19:39, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi there ed--
I'm really sorry I didn't finish my article by the deadline. It will definitely be done by tomorrow (Thursday). Sorry if I delayed the entire Post :/
Newyorkadam ( talk) 04:35, 23 January 2014 (UTC)Newyorkadam
There are six "unknowns" in the top 25 this week, and I don't feel comfortable posting it with so many omissions. Unless I can get some kind of confirmation, I don't think I can post it this week. So far I haven't had any takers. Serendi pod ous 15:48, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
My article's done and ready for copyedit :) Thanks! - Newyorkadam ( talk) 16:35, 29 January 2014 (UTC)Newyorkadam
I heard from my colleagues across the ocean that a German firm Otto-Brenner-Stiftung published a research report on covert PR participation on Wikipedia. I found the report here. I haven't read it yet (or at least a machine translated version), but I thought it may be of interest to the SignPost and something that you may not have seen since it is not in English. I'm going to see if I can get a readable translation now to check it out. CorporateM ( Talk) 16:05, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
The 2014 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with, at time of writing, 138 participants. The is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2010. If you are yet to join the competition, don't worry- the judges have agreed to keep the
signups open for a few more days. By a wide margin, our current leader is newcomer
Godot13 (
submissions), whose set of
14 featured pictures, the first FPs of the competition, was worth 490 points. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:
Featured articles, featured lists, featured topics and featured portals are yet to play a part in the competition. The judges have removed a number of submissions which were deemed ineligible. Typically, we aim to see work on a project, followed by a nomination, followed by promotion, this year. We apologise for any disappointment caused by our strict enforcement this year; we're aiming to keep the competition as fair as possible.
Wikipedians interested in friendly competition may be interested to take part in The Core Contest; unlike the WikiCup, The Core Contest is not about audited content, but, like the WikiCup, it is about article improvement; specifically, The Core Contest is about contribution to some of Wikipedia's most important article. Of course, any work done for The Core Contest, if it leads to a DYK, GA or FA, can earn WikiCup points.
If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email), The ed17 ( talk • email) and Miyagawa ( talk • email) 19:54, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
Why have you changed the font used here? I can't find any related discussion to this end, and it means the template no longer matches the rest of the Signpost. --— Pretzels Hii! 19:55, 1 February 2014 (UTC)