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The Signpost: 31 January 2011

• News and notes: Executive Director travels; DMCA takedowns; fellowship clarifications; brief news

• In the news: Facebook hack; gender gap; What is the Wikipedia "community"?; brief news

• The Science Hall of Fame: Building a pantheon of scientists from Wikipedia and Google Books

• WikiProject report: WikiWarriors

• Features and admins: The best of the week

• Arbitration report: Evidence in Shakespeare case moves to a close; Longevity case awaits proposed decision; AUSC RfC

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The February 2011 Wikification Backlog Elimination Drive has begun!

Get going! The February 2011 Wikification Backlog Elimination Drive has begun. Please get started, as the drive aims to wikify over 2,000 articles this month. We're going to need all the firepower we can get, so please remind your friends to join up as well. In case you didn't know, wikification is fairly simple: just add wiki markup, links, and similar formatting. Thanks for joining; we're looking forward to an exciting time this month! Regards, Guoguo12 (talk · contribs), Mono (talk · contribs), Nolelover (talk · contribs), and Sumsum2010 (talk · contribs).

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GOCE January Backlog elimination drive conclusion

Guild of Copy Editors January 2011 Backlog elimination drive Greetings from the January 2011 Backlog elimination drive! We have reached the end of the month and the end of another successful drive; thanks to all who participated. Statistics 54 people signed up for the year's first Backlog elimination drive. Of these, 40 participated. One of our goals was to reduce the size of the backlog by at least 10%. We managed to reduce the backlog by 633 articles, or about 12%. Another goal was to eliminate as many 2009 months as possible from the queue. We eliminated January, February, March, and April—4 out of 12 months is not bad! In addition, we eliminated 37% of all remaining 2009 articles from the queue. Chaosdruid copy edited Kutch Gurjar Kashtriya for 32,711 words, which is the largest single article completed in one of our drives so far. This article counts as six 5000-K articles, and Chaosdruid wins the "most 5000-K articles" leaderboard category. Way to go! A complete list of individual results is here. Barnstars If you copy edited at least 4,000 words, you qualify for a barnstar. If you participated in the November 2010 Backlog elimination drive, you may have earned roll-over words (more details can be found here). These roll-over words count as credit towards earning barnstars, except for leaderboard awards. We will be delivering the barnstars within the next couple of weeks. Thank you for participating in this year's first Backlog elimination drive! We hope to see you in March. Your drive coordinators –S Masters (talk), Diannaa (talk), The Utahraptor (talk), and Tea with toast (talk)

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The Signpost: 7 February 2011

• News and notes: New General Counsel hired; reuse of Google Art Project debated; GLAM newsletter started; news in brief

• In the news: Wikipedia controversies about Mormon topics examined; brief news

• Gender gap: Widespread discussions about the low participation of women in Wikipedia

• WikiProject report: Stargazing aboard WikiProject Spaceflight

• Features and admins: The best of the week

• Arbitration report: Open cases: Shakespeare authorship – Longevity; Motions on Date delinking, Eastern European mailing list

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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Xiongnu

Hi, why did you reject the edits without explanation? Xiongnu was a people who established a nomadic empire that covers a lot of territories far beyond the modern region of Mongolia and Manchuria, and is likely to be connected with the Huns (if you see the latter article you will see them too). Thanks. --173.206.1.3 (talk) 23:25, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

That was a see also link, you removed that without explaining yourself, I'm well aware of the territorial boundaries of the Xiongnu, however, removing that see also link under the header was not necessary. —Ancient Apparition • Champagne? • 10:29am • 23:29, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Well, if you check it again, I actually added a "see also" section (not removing that section) with two links in my edit, how can you remove it without an explanation? Thanks. --173.206.1.3 (talk) 23:34, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Sorry about that, slight misunderstanding in regards to your edit. I added the template again as it was relevant to the article as it's about Mongolia before present-day Mongol occupation. Regards, —Ancient Apparition • Champagne? • 10:59am • 23:59, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

OK, no problem. Thanks. --173.206.1.3 (talk) 00:03, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

By the way, you actually added two of the same template in different sections. Now I'm removing one of them. Cheers. --173.206.1.3 (talk) 00:21, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Whoops, my bad. Sorry about that. —Ancient Apparition • Champagne? • 11:23am • 00:23, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Stephen Colbert

On behalf of WP:CHICAGO, I would like to note my appreciation for being one of the people that helped to raise the quality of the Stephen Colbert article.

This user helped promote Stephen Colbert to good article status.

--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 19:56, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks Tony :) —Ancient Apparition • Champagne? • 9:09am • 22:09, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 February 2011

• News and notes: Foundation report; gender statistics; DMCA takedowns; brief news

• In the news: Wikipedia wrongly blamed for Super Bowl gaffe; "digital natives" naive about Wikipedia; brief news

• Accreditation: Gaining accreditation as Wikimedia photographers at sports events

• WikiProject report: Articles for Creation

• Features and admins: RFAs and active admins—concerns expressed over the continuing drought

• Arbitration report: Proposed decisions in Shakespeare and Longevity; two new cases; motions passed, and more

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The Bugle: Volume LVIX, January 2011

Your Military history Newsletter Project News: From the editors Articles: The month's featured and A-class Milhist content Members: Contest results, A-class medal recipients Editorial: EyeSerene discusses "Writing neutrally for Wikipedia"

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March 2011 GAN backlog elimination drive a week away

WikiProject Good Articles will be running a GAN backlog elimination drive for the entire month of March. The goal of this drive is to bring the number of outstanding Good Article nominations down to below 50. This will help editors in restoring confidence to the GAN process as well as actively improving, polishing, and rewarding good content. If you are interested in participating in the drive, please place your name here. Awards will be given out to those who review certain numbers of GANs as well as to those who review the most. On behalf of my co-coordinator Wizardman, we hope we can see you in March. MuZemike delivered by MuZebot 00:37, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Thank You!

		The Featured Sound Main Page Proposal Voter Barnstar
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The Signpost: 21 February 2011

• News and notes: Gender gap and sexual images; India consultant; brief news

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The February 2011 Wikification Backlog Elimination Drive Needs Your Help!

Please help! The February 2011 Wikification Backlog Elimination Drive is almost complete. Please help, as the backlog is still very large. Still exceeding 20,000 articles! The goal is 18,000 or less. Lets see if we can do it! We're going to need all the firepower we can get, so please remind your friends to help as well.Thank you for all your help thus far! Regards, Guoguo12 (talk · contribs), Mono (talk · contribs), Nolelover (talk · contribs), Sumsum2010 (talk · contribs), and WikiCopter (talk · contribs).

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Speedy nomations

I've just had to decline four of your R3 speedy nominations. Please be more careful in the future. Ucucha 00:53, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

The redirects were those contain improper capitalisation, I'm fairly certain that R3 covers that. —Ancient Apparition • Champagne? • 11:55am • 00:55, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

No, it doesn't. In fact, redirects for improper capitalizations should be created in order to lead readers to the correct article. Ucucha 00:59, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

Drive-by tag much?  Frank  |  talk  00:57, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

Ah, my mistake I wasn't aware of WP:FNAME and having re-read CSD R3 I'll be more careful about future R3 tagging. —Ancient Apparition • Champagne? • 12:00pm • 01:00, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

International polititical and religious rights union

Hi Ancient Apparition,

Apologies for overriding your speedy delete for International polititical and religious rights union. I thought the copy vio was a greater transgression. Cheers. Acabashi (talk) 02:05, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

That's fine, though I think you were right in overriding my CSD tag, the article was just a copy-paste from the organisation's website, the author appears to have a COI as well. Regards, —Ancient Apparition • Champagne? • 1:09pm • 02:09, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

WikiCup 2011 February newsletter

So begins round two of the WikiCup! We now have eight pools, each with eight random contestants. This round will continue until the end of April, when the top two of each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers of those remaining, will make it to round three. Congratulations to The Bushranger (submissions) (first, with 487 points) and Hurricanehink (submissions) (second, with 459), who stormed the first round. Casliber (submissions) finished third with 223. Twelve others finished with over 100 points- well done to all of you! The final standings in round one can be seen here. A mere 8 points were required to reach round two; competition will no doubt be much more fierce this round, so be ready for a challenge! A special thanks goes, again, to Jarry1250 (submissions) for dealing with all bot work. This year's bot, as well as running smoothly, is doing some very helpful things that last year's did not. Also, thanks to Stone (submissions) for some helpful behind-the-scenes updating and number crunching.

Some news for those who are interested- March will see a GAN backlog elimination drive, which you are still free to join. Organised by WikiProject Good articles, the drive aims to minimise the GAN backlog and offers prizes to those who help out. Of course, you may well be able to claim WikiCup points for the articles you review as part of the drive. Also ongoing is the Great Backlog Drive, looking to work on clearing all of the backlogs on Wikipedia; again, incentives are offered, and the spirit of friendly competition is alive, while helping the encyclopedia is the ultimate aim. Though unrelated to the WikiCup, these may well be of interest to some of you.

Just a reminder of the rules; if you have done significant work on content this year and it is promoted in this round, you may claim for it. Also, anything that was promoted after the end of round one but before the beginning of round two may be claimed for in round two. Details of the rules can be found on this page. For those interested in statistics, a running total of claims can be seen here, and a very interesting table of that information (along with the highest scorers in each category) can be seen here. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, 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 receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 23:41, 28 February 2011 (UTC)