Re: [Foundation-l] User talk page email notification

2011-05-16 Thread Thomas Morton
This causes a little confusion today :) when it was mistook for an email
message from a bot (which had edited the users talk page and cause the
notification).

(see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Question_about_Suggest_a_Bot
)

Did anyone announce this on-wiki?

Tom

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 Thanks to the devs, and thanks to MZMcBride for raising the opportunity.
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Re: [Foundation-l] User talk page email notification

2011-05-16 Thread Bartol Flint
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[Foundation-l] Commons as an art gallery?

2011-05-16 Thread Andreas Kolbe
There is a long thread on the Commons and Gendergap lists about today's
featured image on Commons:

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2011-May/
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/gendergap/2011-May/

It's an original piece of art by a Wikimedian, in the style of erotic 
manga:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:On_the_edge_-_free_world_version.jpg

The picture was removed from the main page by a WMF staff member, acting as
an ordinary editor, and then restored a few hours later by a Commons admin. 

Aspects of the image that have been discussed include the fact that 

* it has no noteworthy artistic value

* it is used to showcase a Wikimedian's artwork on the project main page

* it lacks educational value, being the work of a non-notable Wikimedian

* it makes the Foundation look puerile

* it might turn off serious educators

* it might turn off older people

* it might turn off schools

* it might turn off women

* it might turn off institutions owning valuable content from donating to the 
Foundation

* it is the victim of cultural fascism directed against manga/anime

* it is the victim of prudery

* it is the victim of censorship

* not showing the image on the mian page would undermine the Foundation's 
mission

etc. etc.
 
This is really a Foundation topic though. Are projects' main pages there to 
showcase Wikimedians' fine art? If yes, then why do we not have songs by 
unsigned garage bands in the style of ... as featured media of the day?

Should the Foundation establish guidelines on what type of content to feature
on project main pages?

Crossposted to Foundation-l, Commons-l and Gendergap.

Andreas

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Re: [Foundation-l] Commons as an art gallery?

2011-05-16 Thread Ilario Valdelli
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com wrote:
 There is a long thread on the Commons and Gendergap lists about today's
 featured image on Commons:

 http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2011-May/
 http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/gendergap/2011-May/

 It's an original piece of art by a Wikimedian, in the style of erotic
 manga:


I could continue to say what said in the past.

Commons is a common repository for the various projects.

Now the real problem is that Commons is in conflict with other
projects because original works of pure fantasy (I don't include
original works to document the reality) are not accepted, except in
Commons.

In general if I would use these images in Wikipedia, for example, I
would be in conflict because I cannot use original works in this
project (and this image is a strict original work).

In my opinion Commons is moving the project in an incorrect direction
and I would appreciate a lot if Commons will divide the project to
receive original works of pure fantasy in one repository and the
documentary work in another in order to help the other project to
understand what is original and what is not original.

Commons should have the same rule of Wikisource/Wikibooks.

Ilario

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Re: [Foundation-l] Commons as an art gallery?

2011-05-16 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Neil posted the following on Commons-l* and asked for it to be 
cross-posted here: --

* See http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2011-May/006038.html
* Also see  http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2011-May/006036.html 
for a longer post by Neil on the image


---o0o---

On 5/16/11 5:40 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote:

 This is really a Foundation topic though. Are projects' main pages there to
 showcase Wikimedians' fine art?

No. This is a non-issue.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Project_scope#Must_be_realistically_useful_for_an_educational_purpose

Examples of files that are not realistically useful for an educational 
purpose: [...]
* Self-created artwork without obvious educational use.

QED.

Someone else cross-post this to Foundation-L... I have assiduously 
avoided subscribing there and don't plan to now.


-- 
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Re: [Foundation-l] Commons as an art gallery?

2011-05-16 Thread Béria Lima
I would like to question something:

Why you people are not discussing that in commons? Because here people
can give opinions, in Gendergap mailing list too, but the people who can
actually change the policy are the commons editors.

So, is not better spend all that talk in the wiki?

_
*Béria Lima*
http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484

*Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre
acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a
fazer.***


2011/5/16 Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com

 Neil posted the following on Commons-l* and asked for it to be
 cross-posted here: --

 * See http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2011-May/006038.html
 * Also see
 http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2011-May/006036.html for a
 longer post by Neil on the image


 ---o0o---

 On 5/16/11 5:40 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote:

  This is really a Foundation topic though. Are projects' main pages there
 to
  showcase Wikimedians' fine art?

 No. This is a non-issue.


 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Project_scope#Must_be_realistically_useful_for_an_educational_purpose

 Examples of files that are not realistically useful for an educational
 purpose: [...]
* Self-created artwork without obvious educational use.

 QED.

 Someone else cross-post this to Foundation-L... I have assiduously
 avoided subscribing there and don't plan to now.


 --
 Neil Kandalgaonkar ( ) neilk at wikimedia.org




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Re: [Foundation-l] Commons as an art gallery?

2011-05-16 Thread Andreas Kolbe
--- On Mon, 16/5/11, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote:

 I would like to question something:
 
 Why you people are not discussing that in commons? Because
 here people
 can give opinions, in Gendergap mailing list too, but the
 people who can
 actually change the policy are the commons editors.
 
 So, is not better spend all that talk in the wiki?


I've been discussing it on your Commons talk page for the past four hours, 
but you're not replying. Would you like to suggest somewhere else?

Andreas 

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Re: [Foundation-l] Commons as an art gallery?

2011-05-16 Thread Béria Lima
well, you are not the only talking in my talk page, so i imaged my opinion
would be useless :P

But in this case, i will go there answer you people.
_
*Béria Lima*
http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484

*Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre
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fazer.***


2011/5/16 Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com

 --- On Mon, 16/5/11, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote:

  I would like to question something:
 
  Why you people are not discussing that in commons? Because
  here people
  can give opinions, in Gendergap mailing list too, but the
  people who can
  actually change the policy are the commons editors.
 
  So, is not better spend all that talk in the wiki?


 I've been discussing it on your Commons talk page for the past four hours,
 but you're not replying. Would you like to suggest somewhere else?

 Andreas

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Re: [Foundation-l] Commons as an art gallery?

2011-05-16 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Incidentally, that little piece of original art is also the picture of the
day on several Wikipedias' main pages; among them the Russian and Bulgarian
Wikipedias.

The image itself has been nominated for deletion in Commons by 
User:AndreasPraefcke, as out of scope.

A.

--- On Mon, 16/5/11, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com wrote:

 From: Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com
 Subject: [Foundation-l] Commons as an art gallery?
 To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org, 
 Wikimedia Commons Discussion List common...@lists.wikimedia.org, 
 Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects 
 gender...@lists.wikimedia.org
 Date: Monday, 16 May, 2011, 16:40
 There is a long thread on the Commons
 and Gendergap lists about today's
 featured image on Commons:
 
 http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2011-May/
 http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/gendergap/2011-May/
 
 It's an original piece of art by a Wikimedian, in the
 style of erotic 
 manga:
 
 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:On_the_edge_-_free_world_version.jpg
 
 The picture was removed from the main page by a WMF staff
 member, acting as
 an ordinary editor, and then restored a few hours later by
 a Commons admin. 
 
 Aspects of the image that have been discussed include the
 fact that 
 
 * it has no noteworthy artistic value
 
 * it is used to showcase a Wikimedian's artwork on the
 project main page
 
 * it lacks educational value, being the work of a
 non-notable Wikimedian
 
 * it makes the Foundation look puerile
 
 * it might turn off serious educators
 
 * it might turn off older people
 
 * it might turn off schools
 
 * it might turn off women
 
 * it might turn off institutions owning valuable content
 from donating to the Foundation
 
 * it is the victim of cultural fascism directed against
 manga/anime
 
 * it is the victim of prudery
 
 * it is the victim of censorship
 
 * not showing the image on the mian page would undermine
 the Foundation's mission
 
 etc. etc.
  
 This is really a Foundation topic though. Are projects'
 main pages there to 
 showcase Wikimedians' fine art? If yes, then why do we not
 have songs by 
 unsigned garage bands in the style of ... as featured
 media of the day?
 
 Should the Foundation establish guidelines on what type of
 content to feature
 on project main pages?
 
 Crossposted to Foundation-l, Commons-l and Gendergap.
 
 Andreas
 
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Re: [Foundation-l] Commons as an art gallery?

2011-05-16 Thread Risker
On 16 May 2011 12:54, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote:

 I would like to question something:

 Why you people are not discussing that in commons? Because here people
 can give opinions, in Gendergap mailing list too, but the people who can
 actually change the policy are the commons editors.

 So, is not better spend all that talk in the wiki?


Well, I suppose I would be happy to talk about it on the wikiif I could
find the place where it's being discussed.  Not at the village pump, the
talk page for picture of the day, the talk page of the image, the
administrator noticeboard, the Main Page talk page...

Risker/Anne
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Re: [Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Commons as an art gallery?

2011-05-16 Thread Andreas Kolbe
--- On Mon, 16/5/11, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com wrote:
 From: Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com
 Subject: Re: [Commons-l] [Foundation-l] Commons as an art gallery?
 To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org, 
 Wikimedia Commons Discussion List common...@lists.wikimedia.org, 
 Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects 
 gender...@lists.wikimedia.org
 Date: Monday, 16 May, 2011, 19:03
 Incidentally, that little piece of
 original art is also the picture of the
 day on several Wikipedias' main pages; among them the
 Russian and Bulgarian
 Wikipedias.


It's also on the Bengali Wikipedia's main page (serving Bangladesh and parts of 
India). 

http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%A7%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BE

Andreas

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Re: [Foundation-l] Commons as an art gallery?

2011-05-16 Thread Ilario Valdelli
On 16.05.2011 18:54, Béria Lima wrote:
 I would like to question something:

 Why you people are not discussing that in commons? Because here people
 can give opinions, in Gendergap mailing list too, but the people who can
 actually change the policy are the commons editors.

 So, is not better spend all that talk in the wiki?


I have thought to don't reply to this cross-post but I have only 
indicated one opinion concerning the impact of Commons choices in the 
other projects.

I would not influence the decision of the Commons community (probably in 
future I will subscribe to this list), but I would give to all 
communities a point of discussion to understand that an important 
project like Commons can influence other projects.

In my opinion this image, put in all wikipedia home pages, can create 
two big problems:

a) a problem of acceptance of original works
b) a problem of acceptance of promotional works (original works are 
not accepted also to prevent promotional works)

I understand the position of Commons, and there is no problem to have 
this content (but well categorized in order to prevent mistakes), but 
the decision of Commons has broken two important pilasters of Wikipedia, 
for example.

In any case we could start from this experience to improve the 
guidelines of Commons and of all other projects, not necessary looking 
in this experience like a point of dispute.

Ilario

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Re: [Foundation-l] [Gendergap] [Commons-l] Commons as an art gallery?

2011-05-16 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Pete Forsyth made what I think is an interesting point on the Gendergap list.

Reproduced below, with his permission.

 --- On Mon, 16/5/11, Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 From: Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.com
 Subject: Re: [Gendergap] [Commons-l] Fwd: Photo of the Day on Wikimedia 
 Commons
 To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects 
 gender...@lists.wikimedia.org
 Date: Monday, 16 May, 2011, 16:49

 In my opinion there's a large and
 pervasive problem behind today's controversy: in striking
 contrast to our core value of openness, it is very difficult
 to even *perceive* how important decisions like this are
 made. Both the technical and the editorial processes are
 pretty opaque to the average main page visitor.
 
 I suspect there are ways the Commons pages relating to
 Picture of the Day could be improved to make it clearer to
 the reader how decisions are made, and how to meaningfully
 participate in those processes.
 
 For instance, main page content could have a link named
 something like how did this get here? that would permit
 the reader to view the discussion that led to its inclusion
 on the main page. (This is just an off-the-cuff idea, to
 illustrate the general kind of usability changes I would
 like to explore.)
 
 To put it another way, the issue behind today's controversy
 that interests me most is access. Increasing the ability of
 a large and diverse group to participate in important
 decisions (like what gets featured on the main Commons page)
 is something that would both honor the basic values of our
 project, and (I believe) support better content decisions in
 the future.
 
 Anybody interested in tackling this issue?
 -Pete
 

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Re: [Foundation-l] Commons as an art gallery?

2011-05-16 Thread Steven Walling
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:

 Well, I suppose I would be happy to talk about it on the wikiif I could
 find the place where it's being discussed.  Not at the village pump, the
 talk page for picture of the day, the talk page of the image, the
 administrator noticeboard, the Main Page talk page...

 Risker/Anne


Ha! Exactly. I am on Commons just about every other day, and I couldn't
figure out the best place to bring it up.

Steven
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Re: [Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Commons as an art gallery?

2011-05-16 Thread David Richfield
How on earth can this become the POTD on any Wikipedia?  It's
tolerably well executed art, but utterly non-notable.

-- 
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e^(πi)+1=0

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Re: [Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Commons as an art gallery?

2011-05-16 Thread Robert Rohde
2011/5/16 David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com:
 How on earth can this become the POTD on any Wikipedia?  It's
 tolerably well executed art, but utterly non-notable.

The Commons Picture of the Day process allows photos / illustrations
of a very high technical quality to be promoted even if they have no
claim to notability at all.  In general, notability has very little
to do with Commons at any level.

-Robert Rohde

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Re: [Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Commons as an art gallery?

2011-05-16 Thread Thomas Morton
Ah... this is one of those perennial issues that is unlikely to be solved
this time around.

I think casting this a gender issue is incorrect; certainly amongst my group
of friends those who would not appreciate the image are fairly evenly split
between male/female. I think most rational adults can tell the difference
between porn (or gratuitous sexuality) and nudity.

The other problem is not recognizing this as art, in the same way as
artistic nudes. Given the ease of making images nowadays there is an awful
lot of them out there - and this one certainly  runs a fine line. It's an
area that is always going to be subjective.

Commons is, surely, about media. Is this good media? I am no expert of this
genre, but it seems reasonably decent. At the end of the day, NOTCENSORED
does come into play - it is a legitimate genre, where the image is judged to
be of a high quality. It just happens that it offends the sensibilities of,
by comparison to other issues, a largish portion of the editing community.

There is an irony in there somewhere.

Tom

On 16 May 2011 21:10, Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com wrote:

 2011/5/16 David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com:
  How on earth can this become the POTD on any Wikipedia?  It's
  tolerably well executed art, but utterly non-notable.

 The Commons Picture of the Day process allows photos / illustrations
 of a very high technical quality to be promoted even if they have no
 claim to notability at all.  In general, notability has very little
 to do with Commons at any level.

 -Robert Rohde

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Re: [Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Commons as an art gallery?

2011-05-16 Thread David Richfield
Ah, sorry, I missed the point that it was on the Wikipedias solely as a
Commons POTD, and that it hadn't been selected by the wikipedias
themselves.
On 16 May 2011 10:10 PM, Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com wrote:
 2011/5/16 David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com:
 How on earth can this become the POTD on any Wikipedia?  It's
 tolerably well executed art, but utterly non-notable.

 The Commons Picture of the Day process allows photos / illustrations
 of a very high technical quality to be promoted even if they have no
 claim to notability at all. In general, notability has very little
 to do with Commons at any level.

 -Robert Rohde

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Re: [Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Commons as an art gallery?

2011-05-16 Thread Dan Rosenthal
I feel like this image from the same author: 
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Futanari.png might be crossing the 
lines. Given Niabot's user page loudly railing against Commons being 
censored, I'd say the issue is less art and more lets see who we can shock 
and/or piss off.

-Dan
On May 16, 2011, at 4:30 PM, Thomas Morton wrote:

 Ah... this is one of those perennial issues that is unlikely to be solved
 this time around.
 
 I think casting this a gender issue is incorrect; certainly amongst my group
 of friends those who would not appreciate the image are fairly evenly split
 between male/female. I think most rational adults can tell the difference
 between porn (or gratuitous sexuality) and nudity.
 
 The other problem is not recognizing this as art, in the same way as
 artistic nudes. Given the ease of making images nowadays there is an awful
 lot of them out there - and this one certainly  runs a fine line. It's an
 area that is always going to be subjective.
 
 Commons is, surely, about media. Is this good media? I am no expert of this
 genre, but it seems reasonably decent. At the end of the day, NOTCENSORED
 does come into play - it is a legitimate genre, where the image is judged to
 be of a high quality. It just happens that it offends the sensibilities of,
 by comparison to other issues, a largish portion of the editing community.
 
 There is an irony in there somewhere.
 
 Tom
 
 On 16 May 2011 21:10, Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 2011/5/16 David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com:
 How on earth can this become the POTD on any Wikipedia?  It's
 tolerably well executed art, but utterly non-notable.
 
 The Commons Picture of the Day process allows photos / illustrations
 of a very high technical quality to be promoted even if they have no
 claim to notability at all.  In general, notability has very little
 to do with Commons at any level.
 
 -Robert Rohde
 
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Re: [Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Commons as an art gallery?

2011-05-16 Thread Thomas Morton
Yes. I would agree that image is the other side of the line and into
pornography.

Tom Morton

On 16 May 2011, at 23:22, Dan Rosenthal swatjes...@gmail.com wrote:

 I feel like this image from the same author: 
 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Futanari.png might be crossing the 
 lines. Given Niabot's user page loudly railing against Commons being 
 censored, I'd say the issue is less art and more lets see who we can 
 shock and/or piss off.

 -Dan
 On May 16, 2011, at 4:30 PM, Thomas Morton wrote:

 Ah... this is one of those perennial issues that is unlikely to be solved
 this time around.

 I think casting this a gender issue is incorrect; certainly amongst my group
 of friends those who would not appreciate the image are fairly evenly split
 between male/female. I think most rational adults can tell the difference
 between porn (or gratuitous sexuality) and nudity.

 The other problem is not recognizing this as art, in the same way as
 artistic nudes. Given the ease of making images nowadays there is an awful
 lot of them out there - and this one certainly  runs a fine line. It's an
 area that is always going to be subjective.

 Commons is, surely, about media. Is this good media? I am no expert of this
 genre, but it seems reasonably decent. At the end of the day, NOTCENSORED
 does come into play - it is a legitimate genre, where the image is judged to
 be of a high quality. It just happens that it offends the sensibilities of,
 by comparison to other issues, a largish portion of the editing community.

 There is an irony in there somewhere.

 Tom

 On 16 May 2011 21:10, Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com wrote:

 2011/5/16 David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com:
 How on earth can this become the POTD on any Wikipedia?  It's
 tolerably well executed art, but utterly non-notable.

 The Commons Picture of the Day process allows photos / illustrations
 of a very high technical quality to be promoted even if they have no
 claim to notability at all.  In general, notability has very little
 to do with Commons at any level.

 -Robert Rohde

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Re: [Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Commons as an art gallery?

2011-05-16 Thread Delphine Ménard
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Thomas Morton
morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote:
 Yes. I would agree that image is the other side of the line and into
 pornography.

 Tom Morton

 On 16 May 2011, at 23:22, Dan Rosenthal swatjes...@gmail.com wrote:

 I feel like this image from the same author: 
 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Futanari.png might be crossing the 
 lines. Given Niabot's user page loudly railing against Commons being 
 censored, I'd say the issue is less art and more lets see who we can 
 shock and/or piss off.


Allow me to disagree. While it would be hard for me to actually see
this Futunari image get to the front page (I'm prudish that way), I
actually learned something from it (had no clue what Futunari was
all about, now I know).

Which is far from being the case with that On the edge - free world
version image, which brought me absolutely nothing except a rather
puzzled wtf?


Delphine


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[Foundation-l] The Signpost – Volume 7, Issue 20 – 16 May 2011

2011-05-16 Thread Wikipedia Signpost
News and notes: Geographical distribution of Wikipedia edits; Sue
Gardner interviewed; brief news
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-05-16/News_and_notes

In the news: Education minister's speech copied from Wikipedia; Jimmy
Wales interviewed; brief news
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-05-16/In_the_news

WikiProject report: Back to Life: Reviving WikiProjects
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-05-16/WikiProject_report

Features and admins: The best of the week
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-05-16/Features_and_admins

Arbitration report: Motions - hyphens and dashes dispute
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-05-16/Arbitration_report

Technology report: Berlin Hackathon; April Engineering Report; brief news
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-05-16/Technology_report


Single page view
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single


PDF version
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-05-16


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