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Icelandic milestone; apolitical editing

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By Gamaliel

Apolitical editing: The National Journal asks "How Does Political Wikipedia Stay Apolitical?" and quotes users Billy Hathorn, Fuzheado, Orangemike, Tvoz, and WWB on editing political articles and other controversial topics. (Nov. 20)

Sanger speaks again: On his blog, interviewer Zach Schwartz posted the unedited version of his interview with Larry Sanger, published last week in Vice (see previous Signpost coverage). (Nov. 19)

Icelandic milestone: The Iceland Monitor reports on the 40,000th article on the Icelandic Wikipedia, about a novel by Icelandic author Auður Jónsdóttir. The November 16 milestone coincides with Icelandic Language Day. The Icelandic Wikipedia is currently the 82nd largest Wikipedia. (Nov. 18)

"Thank God for Wikipedia and Google": The Patriot-News reports on how transgender and non-binary Pennsylvanians communicated and sought information on the internet. "[T]hank God for Wikipedia and Google!" one said. (Nov. 17)

Paging Dr. Wiki: Of the "8 Things That Made My Hospital Stay Extremely Uncomfortable", according to Felix Clay of Cracked, number 7 was doctor referring to Wikipedia: "Dude, don't do that. Don't read those things. Know those things. Know everything about them, or at the very least Google it on your phone so I can't tell I'm being treated by Dr. Wiki who got his medical degree from a line of dialogue he remembered from House and used it to make an edit about antibiotic resistances at 3 a.m." (Nov. 17)

Wikipedia angel: The blog of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts of the University of Michigan discusses academic engagement with Twitter. One of them sought help on Twitter with the article on Arabella Chapman, stuck in Articles for creation during the October 2014 Global Women of Color Write-In. The article was rescued by a "Wikipedia angel", Gobonobo, who is not credited by name in the blog post. (Nov. 16)

Shaping the world: The British Council placed Wikipedia at 47 on their list of "80 moments that shaped the world" during the last 80 years. (Nov. 14)

Imprisoned Wikimedian: Global Voices Online reports on disturbing news about Bassel Khartabil, a Syrian open-source software developer and Wikimedian who has been imprisoned by the Syrian government since 2012. Khartabil's wife, lawyer and human rights activist Noura Ghazi, posted on Facebook: "I've just gotten disturbing and shocking news that Bassel has been sentenced to death. I think this means that the transfer to military prison was very dangerous. I really don't know other news. May God help him, we hope it's not too late. We are worried sick about his life." (Nov. 13)

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Bassel Khartabil what can we do to help? All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:08, 22 November 2015 (UTC).[reply]
This story should be higher up on this page and more prominent in this edition generally. Philafrenzy (talk) 00:13, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In the "in brief" section, we've traditionally put stories in chronological order. This important matter deserved a full story as opposed to an "in brief", but I regret I did not have the time to do it myself. We'd like to have more volunteers writing here so all such stories can get fuller treatment. Gamaliel (talk) 00:34, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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