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A new feature, the collection extension (also called "wiki-to-print" or the book tool) has been enabled on six more Wikipedias (French, Polish, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, and Simple English) and on the English Wikipedia for logged-in users, according to a post on the Wikimedia blog. The extension had previously been put into production on the German-language Wikipedia [1] and on Wikibooks and Wikisource.
The new extension means that for logged-in users on the English Wikipedia, there are three new links in the left-hand sidebar. The link in the toolbox labelled "PDF version" renders a pdf version on the fly of the article currently being viewed. The next two new links are in a new box called "create a book." These links enable creating collections of articles, or "books." The link "Add wiki page" adds the page currently being viewed to a new book, while "Books help" links to the help page with directions for producing books. Books that are created may be downloaded in pdf format or OpenDocument (.odf) format by clicking on the "show book" link once all the desired pages are added. This link leads to the Special:Book page, where a book title may be added and the order of pages changed. Books may also be shared with others, and there is a page to list books that are created at Wikipedia:Books.
Books can also be printed out for a fee by sending them to PediaPress, the developers of the new extension, which will create a printed book for any book produced using the extension. You can also go to the PediaPress collections site and develop a collection of content from any MediaWiki-based public wiki to be printed. Books printed by PediaPress vary in price depending on their size; a variety of existing books of Wikipedia content that have been collected may also be browsed and ordered on the PediaPress site.
Feedback and problems can be reported
on Meta; there is also a bug tracking system for the PediaPress code
here.
Reader comments
After the 2009 steward elections, Cary Bass of the Wikimedia Foundation announced that nine new stewards have been confirmed: Meno25, Erwin, Kylu, Laaknor, Mike.lifeguard, Leinad, Dorgan, Alexanderps, and Mardetanha. The new stewards come from a variety of projects and languages, including Arabic, Dutch, English, Norwegian, Polish, Hungarian, Portuguese, and Persian.
Bids for cities to host Wikimania 2010 are due on March 7. Further information may be added to bids after they are submitted (until March 30), but no new bids may be submitted after this date. Bids should be posted to the bid page, bearing in mind the judging criteria. Any questions may be directed to this year's Wikimania Jury or posted on the Wikimania-l mailing list.
The Store norske leksikon, the second-largest Norwegian-language encyclopedia (after the Norwegian Wikipedia), made its online version free from February 25. The encyclopedia will also begin to accept user-submitted content, which will be reviewed by experts and added as appropriate. See the official website and this Foundation-l post.
Amazon released its new Public Data Sets, which include two different subsets of Wikipedia data: structured data from DBpedia and a processed English Wikipedia dump from Freebase. The data sets (computer files having a record organization) are hosted for free as part of Amazon EC2. (See related New York Times article.)
In an article in American Journalism Review, Donna Shaw discusses the role of Wikipedia in today's society, specifically in the field of journalism. The article describes the vast spectrum of attitudes regarding the use of Wikipedia as a source in news articles. While some editors, authors, and teachers refuse to accept it as a source for any reason, others believe that "as a road map to reliable sources, Wikipedia seems valuable."
A new Wikipedia browsing Firefox add-on was released with the name Smarter Wikipedia. When browsing with Smarter Wikipedia, another box appears on the lefthand side of the screen labeled "related articles," which provides a series of links to articles which are relevant to the page that is currently being viewed. The add-on also allows highlighted terms to be searched for on Wikipedia or Google. Lifehacker writer Kevin Purdy describes Smarter Wikipedia as being a "helpful navigational tool".
Product Placement News reports that a newly redesigned website and ad campaign for the candy
Skittles features Wikipedia,
Twitter and other social media content. The Wikipedia article is used directly in place of conventional product descriptions. As of writing, the site,
skittles.com, does not function properly on all browsers.
Reader comments
On February 20, 2009, a nine-article Featured topic nomination for the Iowa class battleships passed unanimously. The nomination encompassed the articles for the battleship class, all six individual battleships, their armament, and the 1989 turret explosion on Iowa. With this successful nomination, WikiProject Ships joined the growing number of WikiProjects with one or more Featured topics. There are also seven Good topics within the project's scope.
A Featured topic is a collection of inter-related articles and lists which represents Wikipedia’s best work by thoroughly covering the topic with high-quality articles that share a similar structure (see related story). The concept was first proposed in August 2005 by Violetriga to encourage editors to write collections of quality articles across a whole topic. The articles within a Featured topic are grouped around a central article which ties them together. The articles should all be Featured articles, Featured lists, or Good articles. Articles which cannot attain FA, FL or GA status due to instability or limited available content may also be included if any major issues raised at a Peer review have been addressed. The Featured topic criteria require that a certain percentage of articles within the topic are Featured articles. Initially 20%, this percentage rose to 25%, and will become 33% as of April 1, 2009. Saffron was the first successful Featured topic nomination. As of February 2009, there are over 80 featured topics that encompass more than 600 articles.
In August 2008, Cirt suggested the creation of a Good topic process to recognize collections of high-quality articles that do not meet the Featured topic criteria. A Good topic must contain at least three inter-related articles, including a lead article central to the topic. At least three of the articles in the topic must be of Good article or Featured article quality. The first successful Good topic nomination was Gliese 876 in September 2008. As of February 2009, there are nearly 40 good topics that encompass nearly 300 articles.
WikiProject Ships did not have a Featured topic until the promotion of Iowa class battleships.
It took approximately three and a half years to get all of the articles up to Featured article status in preparation for the Featured topic nomination. The pathbreaking nomination was at times difficult, including one controversial Featured article candidacy, a long discussion concerning the use of "she" to informally refer to ships, multiple passes to check for spelling and grammar issues, breaking out information from the class page into subarticles to reduce the page size, and several Featured article reviews and WikiProject Peer reviews to ensure that the articles remained compliant with the Featured article criteria.
Although the nomination marks a milestone for WikiProject Ships, new additions to the Featured topic are already being considered. The nine-article nomination encompassed all core articles for the topic, but omitted at least one article pertaining to the battleships, which will be added at a later time. Possible future additions to the Featured topic include articles for the radar and electronic warfare systems, as well as an article about conversion proposals for the battleships.
Prior to the promotion of the Iowa class Featured topic, WikiProject Ships had several Good topics, the first three of which focused on Austro-Hungarian U-boats of the
U-1,
U-3, and
U-5 classes and were promoted on December 18, 2008. These three topics encompassed a total of ten articles, all of which were brought to Good article status by
Bellhalla. These three Good topics have since been joined by four more:
Yamato class battleships, which was nominated by
Cam, and
U-20 class submarines,
German Type U 66 submarines, and
U-27 class submarines, which were the work of Bellhalla.
Reader comments
The topic may seem an unusual one for a WikiProject to cover, but despite the seemingly narrow scope of the group, WikiProject Norse history and culture has still churned out ten featured articles and many more good articles. In mid-2008, Shoemaker's Holiday interviewed four active members, Bloodofox, Briangotts, Haukurth and Holt, to discover more about this exciting Project.
“ | I think it allows members to focus on areas of particular interest to them. There's room for a very broad array of interests in the project. | ” |
— Briangotts |
“ | We are fortunate that there is a large amount of public domain paintings and drawings out there, particularly art inspired by Norse mythology. This is a big help when it comes to creating attractive articles. | ” |
— Haukurth |
The following is a brief overview of new discussions taking place on and about the English Wikipedia and major discussions on its sister projects. For older, yet possibly active, discussions please see last week's edition.
{{
former guideline|Wikipedia:Manual of Style (links)}}
, {{
guideline}}, or no template. This most recent discussion regarding WP:BUILD is the result of a
merge from 11 January.It is important that to get as many views as possible on the format of a request for comment regarding date linking articles, we get individual views about the process.
- Fix the removal of the speedy deletion template by the creator of the page as specified in policy while remaining 1RR complient so as not to edit war. In the event that the article creator removes the template again notify both the article creator and the person who placed the tag on the article.
- For users who repeatedly remove speedy deletion templates warn them with the {{uw-speedy#}} series (or a similar derivative template) and report them to WP:AIV where appropriate, being lax with this to target only users who are obviously abusing the system by repeadly removing templates.
- For articles that are incorrectly tagged with the wrong speedy template, either due to the article changing since it was placed or the person who requested deletion making a mistake, either change the template to be accurate or notify the person that placed the speedy deletion template that the article may not meet the speedy deletion criterion.
- Maintain a noticeboard similar to Suspected Copyright Violations of all articles that have had the speedy deletion template removed by the creator to allow administrators and other users to easily check up on which articles have had the speedy deletion tag removed by the creator.
By uploading a file here to which you hold the copyright, you agree to licence it under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.
any book whose contents would be subject to speedy deletion as an article.
|confirmed=
parameter. This parameter would categorize books after they had been reviewed. This proposition has also been met with general approval.
Two editors were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Mfield ( nom) and Msgj ( nom).
Ten bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: Thehelpfulbot ( task request), MPUploadBot ( task request), SoxBot V ( task request), Thehelpfulbot ( task request), Sambot ( task request), BorgardeBot ( task request), Addbot ( task request), LucienBOT ( task request), SoxBot VI ( task request) and AnomieBOT ( task request).
Ten articles were promoted to featured status this week: The Million Dollar Homepage ( nom), Sebastian Shaw (actor) ( nom), Sam & Max: Freelance Police ( nom), Edmund Herring ( nom), Hurricane Daniel (2006) ( nom), Jupiter Trojan ( nom), Deinosuchus ( nom), Sunderland A.F.C. ( nom), Ælfheah of Canterbury ( nom) and Saxbe fix ( nom).
Twenty lists were promoted to featured status this week: Gaylactic Spectrum Awards ( nom), Willowtip Records discography ( nom), Bauhaus discography ( nom), List of Australian George Cross recipients ( nom), List of African American United States Cabinet Secretaries ( nom), List of awards and nominations received by Adele ( nom), Copley Medal ( nom), List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 2007 (U.S.) ( nom), List of current NHL captains and alternate captains ( nom), NHL Foundation Player Award ( nom), List of Metroid media ( nom), BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year ( nom), Sigur Rós discography ( nom), Gabor Medal ( nom), List of Philadelphia Phillies first-round draft picks ( nom), List of New York Yankees team records ( nom), Rihanna discography ( nom), List of Adventures of Mini-Goddess episodes ( nom), List of Bleach chapters ( nom) and List of Olympic medalists in ice hockey ( nom).
Three topics were promoted to featured status this week: Washington Park, Chicago ( nom), U-27 class submarines ( nom) and Mauritius campaign of 1809–1811 ( nom).
No portals were promoted to featured status this week.
The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page this week as Today's featured article: Meshuggah, Yes Minister, Hours of service, Caspar David Friedrich, Scene7, Edgar Speyer and King Vulture.
Two articles were delisted this week: Warsaw Uprising ( nom) and Paracetamol ( nom).
No lists were delisted this week.
One topic was delisted this week: Halo trilogy ( nom).
The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page this week as picture of the day: Alexander's Church, Tawny frogmouth, Glow water lily, Stitched panorama of Los Angeles, Painted Tiger Moth, Florida box turtle and Ursa Major.
Ten media files were featured this week:
| Rigoletto - Bella figlia dell'amore | ( nom) |
| Carmen - Toréador | ( nom) |
| Gerald Ford Vietnam clemency remarks | ( nom) |
| Tear Down This Wall | ( nom) |
| 2002 State of the Union Address | ( nom) |
| Il trovatore: "Stride la vampa" | ( nom) |
| Battle Hymn of the Republic | ( nom) |
| Handel's Fitzwilliam Sonata 1 | ( nom) |
| Handel's Fitzwilliam Sonata 2 | ( nom) |
| Handel's Fitzwilliam Sonata 3 | ( nom) |
One featured picture was demoted this week: Dust Storm in Texas ( nom).
Seventeen pictures were promoted to featured status this week and are shown below.
This is a summary of recent technology and site configuration changes that affect the English Wikipedia. Note that some changes described here have not yet gone live as of press time; the English Wikipedia is currently running version 1.43.0-wmf.13 (8eaf4e5), and changes to the software with a version number higher than that will not yet be active. Configuration changes and changes to interface messages, however, become active immediately.
In a private discussion and vote during the past week, the Committee blocked Chergles as a sockpuppet of a banned user. They also announced their current agenda. Major changes from the previous agenda include: integrating several previous points into the overhaul of the Arbitration Policy — the release date for which has been delayed. They also intend to focus on creating a ban appeal process, as reviewing bans is "preventing the Committee from dealing with other matters".
The Arbitration Committee opened two cases and closed one during the past week, leaving seven cases open.
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Volume 5, Issue 9 | 2 March 2009 | About the Signpost |
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( ← Prev) | 2009 archives | ( Next →) |
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Home | Archives | Newsroom | Tip Line | Shortcut : WP:POST/A |
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A new feature, the collection extension (also called "wiki-to-print" or the book tool) has been enabled on six more Wikipedias (French, Polish, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, and Simple English) and on the English Wikipedia for logged-in users, according to a post on the Wikimedia blog. The extension had previously been put into production on the German-language Wikipedia [1] and on Wikibooks and Wikisource.
The new extension means that for logged-in users on the English Wikipedia, there are three new links in the left-hand sidebar. The link in the toolbox labelled "PDF version" renders a pdf version on the fly of the article currently being viewed. The next two new links are in a new box called "create a book." These links enable creating collections of articles, or "books." The link "Add wiki page" adds the page currently being viewed to a new book, while "Books help" links to the help page with directions for producing books. Books that are created may be downloaded in pdf format or OpenDocument (.odf) format by clicking on the "show book" link once all the desired pages are added. This link leads to the Special:Book page, where a book title may be added and the order of pages changed. Books may also be shared with others, and there is a page to list books that are created at Wikipedia:Books.
Books can also be printed out for a fee by sending them to PediaPress, the developers of the new extension, which will create a printed book for any book produced using the extension. You can also go to the PediaPress collections site and develop a collection of content from any MediaWiki-based public wiki to be printed. Books printed by PediaPress vary in price depending on their size; a variety of existing books of Wikipedia content that have been collected may also be browsed and ordered on the PediaPress site.
Feedback and problems can be reported
on Meta; there is also a bug tracking system for the PediaPress code
here.
Reader comments
After the 2009 steward elections, Cary Bass of the Wikimedia Foundation announced that nine new stewards have been confirmed: Meno25, Erwin, Kylu, Laaknor, Mike.lifeguard, Leinad, Dorgan, Alexanderps, and Mardetanha. The new stewards come from a variety of projects and languages, including Arabic, Dutch, English, Norwegian, Polish, Hungarian, Portuguese, and Persian.
Bids for cities to host Wikimania 2010 are due on March 7. Further information may be added to bids after they are submitted (until March 30), but no new bids may be submitted after this date. Bids should be posted to the bid page, bearing in mind the judging criteria. Any questions may be directed to this year's Wikimania Jury or posted on the Wikimania-l mailing list.
The Store norske leksikon, the second-largest Norwegian-language encyclopedia (after the Norwegian Wikipedia), made its online version free from February 25. The encyclopedia will also begin to accept user-submitted content, which will be reviewed by experts and added as appropriate. See the official website and this Foundation-l post.
Amazon released its new Public Data Sets, which include two different subsets of Wikipedia data: structured data from DBpedia and a processed English Wikipedia dump from Freebase. The data sets (computer files having a record organization) are hosted for free as part of Amazon EC2. (See related New York Times article.)
In an article in American Journalism Review, Donna Shaw discusses the role of Wikipedia in today's society, specifically in the field of journalism. The article describes the vast spectrum of attitudes regarding the use of Wikipedia as a source in news articles. While some editors, authors, and teachers refuse to accept it as a source for any reason, others believe that "as a road map to reliable sources, Wikipedia seems valuable."
A new Wikipedia browsing Firefox add-on was released with the name Smarter Wikipedia. When browsing with Smarter Wikipedia, another box appears on the lefthand side of the screen labeled "related articles," which provides a series of links to articles which are relevant to the page that is currently being viewed. The add-on also allows highlighted terms to be searched for on Wikipedia or Google. Lifehacker writer Kevin Purdy describes Smarter Wikipedia as being a "helpful navigational tool".
Product Placement News reports that a newly redesigned website and ad campaign for the candy
Skittles features Wikipedia,
Twitter and other social media content. The Wikipedia article is used directly in place of conventional product descriptions. As of writing, the site,
skittles.com, does not function properly on all browsers.
Reader comments
On February 20, 2009, a nine-article Featured topic nomination for the Iowa class battleships passed unanimously. The nomination encompassed the articles for the battleship class, all six individual battleships, their armament, and the 1989 turret explosion on Iowa. With this successful nomination, WikiProject Ships joined the growing number of WikiProjects with one or more Featured topics. There are also seven Good topics within the project's scope.
A Featured topic is a collection of inter-related articles and lists which represents Wikipedia’s best work by thoroughly covering the topic with high-quality articles that share a similar structure (see related story). The concept was first proposed in August 2005 by Violetriga to encourage editors to write collections of quality articles across a whole topic. The articles within a Featured topic are grouped around a central article which ties them together. The articles should all be Featured articles, Featured lists, or Good articles. Articles which cannot attain FA, FL or GA status due to instability or limited available content may also be included if any major issues raised at a Peer review have been addressed. The Featured topic criteria require that a certain percentage of articles within the topic are Featured articles. Initially 20%, this percentage rose to 25%, and will become 33% as of April 1, 2009. Saffron was the first successful Featured topic nomination. As of February 2009, there are over 80 featured topics that encompass more than 600 articles.
In August 2008, Cirt suggested the creation of a Good topic process to recognize collections of high-quality articles that do not meet the Featured topic criteria. A Good topic must contain at least three inter-related articles, including a lead article central to the topic. At least three of the articles in the topic must be of Good article or Featured article quality. The first successful Good topic nomination was Gliese 876 in September 2008. As of February 2009, there are nearly 40 good topics that encompass nearly 300 articles.
WikiProject Ships did not have a Featured topic until the promotion of Iowa class battleships.
It took approximately three and a half years to get all of the articles up to Featured article status in preparation for the Featured topic nomination. The pathbreaking nomination was at times difficult, including one controversial Featured article candidacy, a long discussion concerning the use of "she" to informally refer to ships, multiple passes to check for spelling and grammar issues, breaking out information from the class page into subarticles to reduce the page size, and several Featured article reviews and WikiProject Peer reviews to ensure that the articles remained compliant with the Featured article criteria.
Although the nomination marks a milestone for WikiProject Ships, new additions to the Featured topic are already being considered. The nine-article nomination encompassed all core articles for the topic, but omitted at least one article pertaining to the battleships, which will be added at a later time. Possible future additions to the Featured topic include articles for the radar and electronic warfare systems, as well as an article about conversion proposals for the battleships.
Prior to the promotion of the Iowa class Featured topic, WikiProject Ships had several Good topics, the first three of which focused on Austro-Hungarian U-boats of the
U-1,
U-3, and
U-5 classes and were promoted on December 18, 2008. These three topics encompassed a total of ten articles, all of which were brought to Good article status by
Bellhalla. These three Good topics have since been joined by four more:
Yamato class battleships, which was nominated by
Cam, and
U-20 class submarines,
German Type U 66 submarines, and
U-27 class submarines, which were the work of Bellhalla.
Reader comments
The topic may seem an unusual one for a WikiProject to cover, but despite the seemingly narrow scope of the group, WikiProject Norse history and culture has still churned out ten featured articles and many more good articles. In mid-2008, Shoemaker's Holiday interviewed four active members, Bloodofox, Briangotts, Haukurth and Holt, to discover more about this exciting Project.
“ | I think it allows members to focus on areas of particular interest to them. There's room for a very broad array of interests in the project. | ” |
— Briangotts |
“ | We are fortunate that there is a large amount of public domain paintings and drawings out there, particularly art inspired by Norse mythology. This is a big help when it comes to creating attractive articles. | ” |
— Haukurth |
The following is a brief overview of new discussions taking place on and about the English Wikipedia and major discussions on its sister projects. For older, yet possibly active, discussions please see last week's edition.
{{
former guideline|Wikipedia:Manual of Style (links)}}
, {{
guideline}}, or no template. This most recent discussion regarding WP:BUILD is the result of a
merge from 11 January.It is important that to get as many views as possible on the format of a request for comment regarding date linking articles, we get individual views about the process.
- Fix the removal of the speedy deletion template by the creator of the page as specified in policy while remaining 1RR complient so as not to edit war. In the event that the article creator removes the template again notify both the article creator and the person who placed the tag on the article.
- For users who repeatedly remove speedy deletion templates warn them with the {{uw-speedy#}} series (or a similar derivative template) and report them to WP:AIV where appropriate, being lax with this to target only users who are obviously abusing the system by repeadly removing templates.
- For articles that are incorrectly tagged with the wrong speedy template, either due to the article changing since it was placed or the person who requested deletion making a mistake, either change the template to be accurate or notify the person that placed the speedy deletion template that the article may not meet the speedy deletion criterion.
- Maintain a noticeboard similar to Suspected Copyright Violations of all articles that have had the speedy deletion template removed by the creator to allow administrators and other users to easily check up on which articles have had the speedy deletion tag removed by the creator.
By uploading a file here to which you hold the copyright, you agree to licence it under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.
any book whose contents would be subject to speedy deletion as an article.
|confirmed=
parameter. This parameter would categorize books after they had been reviewed. This proposition has also been met with general approval.
Two editors were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Mfield ( nom) and Msgj ( nom).
Ten bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: Thehelpfulbot ( task request), MPUploadBot ( task request), SoxBot V ( task request), Thehelpfulbot ( task request), Sambot ( task request), BorgardeBot ( task request), Addbot ( task request), LucienBOT ( task request), SoxBot VI ( task request) and AnomieBOT ( task request).
Ten articles were promoted to featured status this week: The Million Dollar Homepage ( nom), Sebastian Shaw (actor) ( nom), Sam & Max: Freelance Police ( nom), Edmund Herring ( nom), Hurricane Daniel (2006) ( nom), Jupiter Trojan ( nom), Deinosuchus ( nom), Sunderland A.F.C. ( nom), Ælfheah of Canterbury ( nom) and Saxbe fix ( nom).
Twenty lists were promoted to featured status this week: Gaylactic Spectrum Awards ( nom), Willowtip Records discography ( nom), Bauhaus discography ( nom), List of Australian George Cross recipients ( nom), List of African American United States Cabinet Secretaries ( nom), List of awards and nominations received by Adele ( nom), Copley Medal ( nom), List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 2007 (U.S.) ( nom), List of current NHL captains and alternate captains ( nom), NHL Foundation Player Award ( nom), List of Metroid media ( nom), BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year ( nom), Sigur Rós discography ( nom), Gabor Medal ( nom), List of Philadelphia Phillies first-round draft picks ( nom), List of New York Yankees team records ( nom), Rihanna discography ( nom), List of Adventures of Mini-Goddess episodes ( nom), List of Bleach chapters ( nom) and List of Olympic medalists in ice hockey ( nom).
Three topics were promoted to featured status this week: Washington Park, Chicago ( nom), U-27 class submarines ( nom) and Mauritius campaign of 1809–1811 ( nom).
No portals were promoted to featured status this week.
The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page this week as Today's featured article: Meshuggah, Yes Minister, Hours of service, Caspar David Friedrich, Scene7, Edgar Speyer and King Vulture.
Two articles were delisted this week: Warsaw Uprising ( nom) and Paracetamol ( nom).
No lists were delisted this week.
One topic was delisted this week: Halo trilogy ( nom).
The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page this week as picture of the day: Alexander's Church, Tawny frogmouth, Glow water lily, Stitched panorama of Los Angeles, Painted Tiger Moth, Florida box turtle and Ursa Major.
Ten media files were featured this week:
| Rigoletto - Bella figlia dell'amore | ( nom) |
| Carmen - Toréador | ( nom) |
| Gerald Ford Vietnam clemency remarks | ( nom) |
| Tear Down This Wall | ( nom) |
| 2002 State of the Union Address | ( nom) |
| Il trovatore: "Stride la vampa" | ( nom) |
| Battle Hymn of the Republic | ( nom) |
| Handel's Fitzwilliam Sonata 1 | ( nom) |
| Handel's Fitzwilliam Sonata 2 | ( nom) |
| Handel's Fitzwilliam Sonata 3 | ( nom) |
One featured picture was demoted this week: Dust Storm in Texas ( nom).
Seventeen pictures were promoted to featured status this week and are shown below.
This is a summary of recent technology and site configuration changes that affect the English Wikipedia. Note that some changes described here have not yet gone live as of press time; the English Wikipedia is currently running version 1.43.0-wmf.13 (8eaf4e5), and changes to the software with a version number higher than that will not yet be active. Configuration changes and changes to interface messages, however, become active immediately.
In a private discussion and vote during the past week, the Committee blocked Chergles as a sockpuppet of a banned user. They also announced their current agenda. Major changes from the previous agenda include: integrating several previous points into the overhaul of the Arbitration Policy — the release date for which has been delayed. They also intend to focus on creating a ban appeal process, as reviewing bans is "preventing the Committee from dealing with other matters".
The Arbitration Committee opened two cases and closed one during the past week, leaving seven cases open.