User talk:SpacemanSpiff/Archives/2015/May

The Signpost: 29 April 2015

• Wikimania: Choice of small village for Wikimania 2016 ruffles feathers

• News and notes: Wiki Loves Monuments evaluation sees diminishing returns and increasing cost

• In the media: Scottish MEP blocked for edit warring; ranking articles by importance

• Featured content: Another day, another dollar

• Traffic report: Bruce, Nessie, and genocide

• Recent research: Military history, cricket, and Australia targeted in Wikipedia articles' popularity vs. quality; how copyright damages economy

• Technology report: VisualEditor and MediaWiki updates

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• MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:12, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 06 May 2015

• News and notes: "Inspire" grant-making campaign concludes, grantees announced

• Featured content: The amorous android and the horsebreeder; WikiCup round two concludes

• In the media: Guggenheim image donation; Wiki campaign gets advertising award

• Special report: FDC candidates respond to key issues

• Traffic report: The grim ship reality

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The Signpost: 13 May 2015

• Foundation elections: Board candidates share their views with the Signpost

• News and notes: Swedish Wikimedia chapter organizes simultaneous Wikidata contests

• Traffic report: Round Two

• In the media: Grant Shapps story continues

• Op-ed: What made Wikipedia lose its reputation?

• Featured content: Four first-time featured article writers lead the way

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• MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:26, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

Hey

So glad to see you on my watchlist, especially when you take up tasks I had intended to do but forgotten about. Cheers. Abecedare (talk) 17:39, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Once you pop, you can't stop! —SpacemanSpiff 17:45, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Don't I know it?! It's amazing how much of wiki-editing is motivated by that famous xkcd strip. Abecedare (talk) 17:51, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Yes, that's one, but stuff at Chennai wouldn't even go into that territory. —SpacemanSpiff 17:55, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 May 2015

• From the editor: Your voice is needed: strategic voting in the WMF election

• In focus: The awful truth about Wikimedia's article counts

• Traffic report: Inner Core

• News and notes: A dark side of comedy: the Wikipedia volunteers cleaning up behind John Oliver's fowl jokes

• Featured content: Puppets, fungi, and waterfalls

• In the media: Jimmy Wales accepts Dan David Prize

• WikiProject report: Cell-ebrating Molecular Biology

• Arbitration report: Editor conduct the subject of multiple cases

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• MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:48, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 May 2015

• News and notes: WMF releases quarterly reports, annual plans

• In the media: Scrubbing Parliamentary biographies; Wikipedia's invisible history

• Discussion report: A relic from the past that needs to be updated

• Featured content: When music was confined to a ribbon of rust

• Recent research: Drug articles accurate and largely complete; women "slightly overrepresented"; talking like an admin

• Traffic report: Summer, summer, summertime

• Technology report: MediaWiki blows up printers

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• MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:24, 29 May 2015 (UTC)