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Tech News: 2014-20
06:00, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 14 May 2014
- Investigative report: Hong Kong's Wikimania 2013—failure to produce financial statement raises questions of probity
- WikiProject report: Relaxing in Puerto Rico
- Featured content: On the rocks
- Traffic report: Eurovision, Google Doodles, Mothers, and 5 May
- Technology report: Technology report needs editor, Media Viewer offers a new look
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Tech News: 2014-21
07:18, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 21 May 2014
- News and notes: "Crisis" over Wikimedia Germany's palace revolution
- Featured content: Staggering number of featured articles
- Traffic report: Doodles' dawn
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Tech News: 2014-22
08:29, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
Request for comment
Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:47, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 28 May 2014
- News and notes: The English Wikipedia's second featured-article centurion; wiki inventor interviewed on video
- Featured content: Zombie fight in the saloon
- Traffic report: Get fitted for flipflops and floppy hats
- Recent research: Predicting which article you will edit next
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Tech News: 2014-23
08:07, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
Copyedit Request
It must be summer because I wrote an article in a single night. Would you please look over The Scoutmaster. merci. --Guerillero | My Talk 03:29, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
GOCE June 2014 newsletter
Guild of Copy Editors May 2014 backlog elimination drive wrap-up
Participation: Thanks to all who participated! Out of 51 people who signed up this drive, 33 copy edited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: We reduced our article backlog from 2,987 articles to 2,236 articles in May, the lowest backlog total since we began keeping records in 2009! Since at least 300 new articles were tagged during May, that means we copy edited over 1,000 articles in a single month. Amazing work, everyone! Blitz: The June blitz will run from June 15–21. This blitz's theme is Politics. Sign up here. Election: You can nominate yourself or others for the role of Coordinator for the second half of 2014 here. Nominations will be accepted until June 14. Voting will begin on June 15 and will conclude on June 28. Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:27, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
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Thank you and a sigh!
Hi Fluffernutter. I just wanted to thank you personally for removing this editor from AfC reviewing. The behaviour has been simply appalling and bordering on trolling. I have rescued the following three articles which he declined for spurious reasons, at a rate of 2 minutes per article: Washington State Auditor, Standard Theatre (Philadelphia), and Rainer Schmidt (landscape architect). This does so much damage to the effort to recruit and keep new editors, overcome systemic bias, and expand the encyclopedia. All of his AfC reviews will have to be redone. His block should never have been overturned. Can anything be done about it? No sooner is he stopped from wreaking havoc in one area of Wikipedia, and he heads off to another. He's also trolling the Teahouse ([69], [70]) In the latter, his reply to the new user was completely off the wall. He clearly hadn't even read their sandbox or the article they wished to improve. {{{SIGH}}}. Voceditenore (talk) 15:41, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
- @Voceditenore: Yeah, that whole situation is a mess. I'm honestly not sure if it's that he's just unaware that he's doing things wrong, that he doesn't care that he's doing things wrong, or that he's deliberately doing things wrong. Since he's been community-sanctioned before, the way to go if you feel his editing needs to be stopped entirely would probably be to post a request on AN or ANI asking for his block to be reinstated and/or for a community ban to be imposed (though they amount to largely the same thing at this point). A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 16:12, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
- The editor has now been re-blocked with a block time of "indefinite". That said, I've commented in detail on two of the declines mentioned above here at WT:AFC. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 20:48, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 04 June 2014
- News and notes: Two new affiliate-selected trustees
- Featured content: Ye stately homes of England
- In the media: Reliable or not, doctors use Wikipedia
- Traffic report: Autumn in summer
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Tech News: 2014-24
07:39, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 11 June 2014
- News and notes: PR agencies commit to ethical interactions with Wikipedia
- Traffic report: The week the wired went weird
- Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Moderator: William Beutler
- Special report: Questions raised over secret voting for WMF trustees
- Featured content: Politics, ships, art, and cyclones
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Tech News: 2014-25
07:13, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 18 June 2014
- News and notes: With paid advocacy in its sights, the Wikimedia Foundation amends their terms of use
- Featured content: Worming our way to featured picture
- Special report: Wikimedia Bangladesh: a chapter's five-year journey
- Traffic report: You can't dethrone Thrones
- WikiProject report: Visiting the city
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Tech News: 2014-26
07:20, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
Unfortunate
I'm sorry you're feeling exhausted by the fighting that comes with the territory of editing (or administrating) Wikipedia. It's unfortunate if you're feeling burned out. I actually came here looking for help with another user. You were the admin who made it clear to me that I don't have the right to speak abusively to other users, not even on my own User Talk page. I'm having problems with a guy called Parrot of Doom. As you can see from the top of his User Talk page, he says:
"Some basic rules. One, anyone coming here accusing me of WP:OWN will be told in no uncertain terms where to shove it. Two, anyone whinging about WP:CIVIL will be referred to the previous answer."
I think that's a pretty destructive attitude. The fact is, those are the very articles he needs to review and take seriously (along with WP:ONLYREVERT). The fact that he felt compelled to make these "rules" is pretty good evidence that he's had an ongoing problem with abusing other Users. So I looked through some archives and yes, yes he is routinely abusive to other users. He's actually been comparitively more civil to me. Our problems with each other stemmed from the article The Final Cut (album), with him reverting my good-faith, source-citing edits without explanation, and not really participating in any discussion on the article's Talk page, as I asked him to. He did accuse me of acting "childish" and throwing a "tantrum", which wasn't true. But I got off easy compared to how he speaks to others.
For details, you could read my comment on his User:Talk page, which lists some examples of him being personally insulting in his Edit Summaries and article Talk pages. You might even notice the comment above mine, where he is quoted as saying "oh fuckoff" and "get fucked" to another user (just as I was calling another user "fuckface" on my Talk page before you stepped in). I was wrong then, and now I'm trying to do the right thing, so I thought I'd refer you to him. But if you're not up for it, I totally understand. Myself, I've mostly not been participating on Wikipedia lately, due to things exactly like this. I wish you the best either way.
--Ben Culture (talk) 06:33, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 25 June 2014
- News and notes: US National Archives enshrines Wikipedia in Open Government Plan
- Traffic report: Fake war, or real sport?
- Exclusive: "We need to be true to who we are": Foundation's new executive director speaks to the Signpost
- Discussion report: Media Viewer, old HTML tags
- Featured content: Showing our Wörth
- WikiProject report: The world where dreams come true
- Recent research: Power users and diversity in WikiProjects
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GOCE July 2014 newsletter
Guild of Copy Editors July 2014 newsletter is now ready for review. Highlights:
– Your project coordinators: Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978 and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:27, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2014-27
06:53, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias
Hello! Could you also protect Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias talk page? That user is now vandalizing it.[146] --Lecen (talk) 19:00, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
- @Lecen: It only seems to have happened once so far; we generally try not to protect talk pages if we can avoid it (not least because that's where this dispute ought to be being hashed out). I'm keeping an eye on things and will consider protecting the talk if there's a lot more, but for the moment I don't think protection is warranted. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 19:03, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 02 July 2014
- In the media: Wiki Education; medical content; PR firms
- Traffic report: The Cup runneth over... and over.
- News and notes: Wikimedia Israel receives Roaring Lion award
- Featured content: Ship-shape
- WikiProject report: Indigenous Peoples of North America
- Technology report: In memoriam: the Toolserver (2005–14)
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Tech News: 2014-28
07:07, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 09 July 2014
- Special report: Wikimania 2014—what will it cost?
- Wikimedia in education: Exploring the United States and Canada with LiAnna Davis
- Featured content: Three cheers for featured pictures!
- News and notes: Echoes of the past haunt new conflict over tech initiative
- Traffic report: World Cup, Tim Howard rule the week
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Tech News: 2014-29
07:48, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 16 July 2014
- Special report: $10 million lawsuit against Wikipedia editors withdrawn, but plaintiff intends to refile
- Traffic report: World Cup dominates for another week
- Wikimedia in education: Serbia takes the stage with Filip Maljkovic
- Featured content: The Island with the Golden Gun
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Tech News: 2014-30
07:42, 21 July 2014 (UTC)