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Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot

We are currently running a study on the effects of adding additional information to SuggestBot's suggestions. Participation in the study is voluntary. Should you wish to not participate in the study, or have questions or concerns, you can find contact information on the SuggestBot study page.

IMPORTANT CHANGES: We have modified the selection of articles SuggestBot suggests and altered the design to incorporate more information about the articles, as described in this explanation.

Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information.

Views/Day	Quality	Title	Content	Headings	Images	Links	Sources	Tagged with…
56		El Mañana (song) (talk)						Add sources
222		Forever (Chris Brown song) (talk)						Add sources
21		Antavius Weems (talk)						Add sources
289		Beer in England (talk)						Add sources
1,462		Australian rules football (talk)						Add sources
479		Puberty Blues (TV series) (talk)						Add sources
3,098		Mrs. Brown's Boys (talk)						Cleanup
938		Prisoner (TV series) (talk)						Cleanup
9		Debut Tour (talk)						Cleanup
64		The X Factor (UK) discography (talk)						Expand
57		Voltaïc (talk)						Expand
384		Give Me Everything (Pitbull song) (talk)						Expand
207		One (Swedish House Mafia song) (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
640		Electronica (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
481		2D (musician) (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
18		Jack arch (talk)						Merge
160		Tip Drill (song) (talk)						Merge
28		Sibelius Software (talk)						Merge
58		Economy of Togo (talk)						Wikify
533		English phonology (talk)						Wikify
332		The Motto (talk)						Wikify
6		Weekend Festival (talk)						Orphan
1		Elysa Ayala (talk)						Orphan
1		Antal Bélafi (talk)						Orphan
42		Fat Les (talk)						Stub
27		Trade Gothic (talk)						Stub
40		Spacemonkeyz (talk)						Stub
47		Eyes Wide Open (Gotye song) (talk)						Stub
9		Hilbre High School (talk)						Stub
14		Come Alive (Netsky song) (talk)						Stub

Changes to SuggestBot's suggestions

We have changed the number of suggested articles and which categories they are selected from. The number of stubs has been greatly reduced, the number of articles needing sources doubled, and two new categories added (orphans and unencyclopaedic articles). We have also modified the layout of the suggestions and added sortable columns with various types of information about each article. The first two columns are:

Views/Day

Daily average number of views an article's had over the past 14 days.

Quality

Predicted article quality on a 1- to 3-star scale. Placing your cursor over the stars should give you a pop-up describing the article's quality (Low/Medium/High), current assessment class, and predicted assessment class.

The method we use to predict article quality also allows us to assess whether an article might need specific types of work in order to improve its quality. The work needed might not correspond to cleanup tags added to the article, since our method is not based on those. We have added five columns reflecting this work assessment, where a red X indicates improvement is needed. Placing your cursor over an X should give you a pop-up with a short description of the work needed. The five columns seek to answer the following five questions:

Content

Is more content needed?

Headings

Does this article have an appropriate section structure?

Images

Is the number of illustrative images about right?

Links

Does this article link to enough other Wikipedia articles?

Sources

For its length, is there an appropriate number of citations to sources in this article?

SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!

If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom (talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot (talk) 00:26, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 June 2013

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July 2013

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The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q2 2013

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 6, No. 2 — 2nd Quarter, 2013
Previous issue | Index | Next issue

Project At a Glance
As of Q2 2013, the project has:

• 158 Featured Articles
• 56 Featured Lists
• 7 Featured Topics
• 6 Featured Pictures

• 43 A-Class Articles
• 589 Good Articles
• 9 Good Topics

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Content

• Changes to Featured and Good content
• News items and announcements

• Feature: Featured Pictures and why the project should focus on obtaining more
• Interview: JDC808

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The Signpost: 03 July 2013

• In the media: Jimmy Wales is not an Internet billionaire; a mass shooter's alleged Wikipedia editing

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• News and notes: Wikipedia's medical collaborations gathering pace

• Discussion report: Snuggle, mainpage link to Wikinews, 3RR, and more

• Technology report: VisualEditor in midst of game-changing deployment series

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The Signpost: 10 July 2013

• Op-ed: It's time to stop pretending the English-language Wikinews is a viable project

• WikiProject report: Not Jimbo: WikiProject Wales

• Traffic report: Inflated view counts here, there, and everywhere

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation Board appoints world expert in women's issues, global south

• Dispatches: Infoboxes: time for a fresh look?

• Featured content: The week of the birds

• Discussion report: Featured article process governance, signature templates, and more

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The Signpost: 17 July 2013

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Square Enix

• Traffic report: Most-viewed articles of the week

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation's new plans announced

• Featured content: Documents and sports

• Arbitration report: Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds case opens; July 22 deadline for checkuser and oversight applications

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 16:49, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot

We are currently running a study on the effects of adding additional information to SuggestBot's suggestions. Participation in the study is voluntary. Should you wish to not participate in the study, or have questions or concerns, you can find contact information on the SuggestBot study page.

IMPORTANT CHANGES: We have modified the selection of articles SuggestBot suggests and altered the design to incorporate more information about the articles, as described in this explanation.

Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information.

Views/Day	Quality	Title	Content	Headings	Images	Links	Sources	Tagged with…
170		Forever (Chris Brown song) (talk)						Add sources
499		Sexy and I Know It (talk)						Add sources
8		Okoge (food) (talk)						Add sources
1,245		Australian rules football (talk)						Add sources
227		Say You're Just a Friend (talk)						Add sources
52		I Believe in You (Kylie Minogue song) (talk)						Add sources
68		Basement Jaxx discography (talk)						Cleanup
400		Sara Bareilles discography (talk)						Cleanup
702		Wilson Phillips (talk)						Cleanup
60		The X Factor (UK) discography (talk)						Expand
87		Arbëreshë people (talk)						Expand
2,807		Battle of Stalingrad (talk)						Expand
285		Diane Young (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
603		Electronica (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
11		Grace Digital (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
155		Tip Drill (song) (talk)						Merge
134		Hairball (talk)						Merge
21		Jack arch (talk)						Merge
271		The Motto (talk)						Wikify
96		Selmasongs: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack Dancer in the Dark (talk)						Wikify
11		Debut Tour (talk)						Wikify
100		Phaeleh (talk)						Orphan
1		Elysa Ayala (talk)						Orphan
0		Aquarian dawn (talk)						Orphan
43		Eyes Wide Open (Gotye song) (talk)						Stub
54		Krazy (song) (talk)						Stub
23		Anna and the Moods (talk)						Stub
43		Fat Les (talk)						Stub
98		Greyhound (song) (talk)						Stub
25		Poor Leno (talk)						Stub

Changes to SuggestBot's suggestions

We have changed the number of suggested articles and which categories they are selected from. The number of stubs has been greatly reduced, the number of articles needing sources doubled, and two new categories added (orphans and unencyclopaedic articles). We have also modified the layout of the suggestions and added sortable columns with various types of information about each article. The first two columns are:

Views/Day

Daily average number of views an article's had over the past 14 days.

Quality

Predicted article quality on a 1- to 3-star scale. Placing your cursor over the stars should give you a pop-up describing the article's quality (Low/Medium/High), current assessment class, and predicted assessment class.

The method we use to predict article quality also allows us to assess whether an article might need specific types of work in order to improve its quality. The work needed might not correspond to cleanup tags added to the article, since our method is not based on those. We have added five columns reflecting this work assessment, where a red X indicates improvement is needed. Placing your cursor over an X should give you a pop-up with a short description of the work needed. The five columns seek to answer the following five questions:

Content

Is more content needed?

Headings

Does this article have an appropriate section structure?

Images

Is the number of illustrative images about right?

Links

Does this article link to enough other Wikipedia articles?

Sources

For its length, is there an appropriate number of citations to sources in this article?

SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!

If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom (talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot (talk) 23:56, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 July 2013

• In the media: Wikipedia flamewars

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• Discussion report: Partially disambiguated page names, page protection policy, and more

• News and notes: Wikivoyage turns ten, but where to now?; Wikipedia Zero expands into India

• Traffic report: Gleeless

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DYK RfC

• As a listed GA participant, you are invited to contribute to a formal Request for Comment on the question of whether Good Articles should be eligible to appear in the Did You Know? slot in future. Please see the proposal on its subpage here, or on the main DYK talk page. To add the discussion to your watchlist, click this link. Thank you in advance. Gilderien Chat|Contributions03:15, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 July 2013

• Op-ed: The VisualEditor Beta and the path to change

• Recent research: Napoleon, Michael Jackson and Srebrenica across cultures, 90% of Wikipedia better than Britannica, WikiSym preview

• Traffic report: Bouncing Baby Brouhaha

• WikiProject report: Babel Series: Politics on the Turkish Wikipedia

• News and notes: Gearing up for Wikimania 2013

• Arbitration report: Race and politics case closes

• Featured content: Caterpillars, warblers, and frogs—oh my!

• Discussion report: Defining consensus; VisualEditor default state; expert and layperson terms in article titles

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 02:41, 2 August 2013 (UTC)