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I am a regular if erratic editor at the Wikipedia Signpost where I write for the internal-news "News and notes" section. I was active from August–October 2010, October 2011–April 2012, and March 2015–present. A (searchable ) list of my work follows; particularly interesting items are in bold .
23 August 2010 News and notes - "Pending changes poll, Public policy classes, Payment schemes debate, and more"
30 August 2010 News and notes - "Most linked websites on Wikipedia, New York Wiki-Conference, and more"
30 August 2010 Features and admins - This at the time was a special feature I was writing on the 3,000th Featured article, but was squelched into Featured and admins while I was offline and published so, something that caused me great pain at the time
6 September 2010 Dispatches "Tools for content contributors p.1"
6 September 2010 News and notes - "Pending changes analyzed, Foundation report, Main page bias, brief news"
13 September 2010 News and notes - "Page-edit stats, French National Library partnership, Mass page blanking, Jimbo on Pending changes"
20 September 2010 Dispatches "Tools for content contributors p.2"
27 September 2010 News and notes - "French million, controversial content, Citizendium charter, Pending changes, and more"
4 October 2010 News and notes - "German chapter remodeled to meet Foundation requirements, and more"
4 October 2010 WikiProject report
11 October 2010 News and notes - "Board resolutions, fundraiser challenge, traffic report, ten thousand good articles, and more"
11 October 2010 Dispatches "Tools for content contributors p.3" - Thus concluding the triage
11 October 2010 Technology report - "Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News"
18 October 2010 News and notes - "Wikipedia fundraiser event, Frankfurt book fair, news in brief"
25 October 2010 News and notes - "Mike Godwin leaves the Foundation, ArbCom election announced"
15 November 2010 News and notes - "Fundraisers start for Wikipedia and Citizendium; controversial content and leadership"
22 November 2010 News and notes - "No further Bundesarchiv image donations; Dutch and German awards; anniversary preparations"
27 December 2010 News and notes - "Director of Technical Operations hired; South Korean mayor sues; brief news"
3 January 2011 Year in review
7 February 2011 News and notes - "New General Counsel hired; reuse of Google Art Project debated; GLAM newsletter started; news in brief"
31 October 2011 News and notes - "German Wikipedia continues image filter protest"
31 October 2011 Featured content
7 November 2011 News and notes - "Wikimedia Norway awarded, Halloween on the Main Page, Wikimedia UK recognised"
7 November 2011 Featured content - "Slow week for Featured content"
14 November 2011 News and notes - "ArbCom nominations open, participation grants finalized, survey results on perceptions on Wikipedia released"
28 November 2011 News and notes - "Arb's resignation sparks lightning RfC, Fundraiser 2011 off to a strong start, GLAM in Qatar"
5 December 2011 News and notes - "Amsterdam gets the GLAM treatment, fundraising marches on, and a flourish of new admins"
12 December 2011 News and notes - "Research project banner ads run afoul of community"
19 December 2011 News and notes - "Anti-piracy act has Wikimedians on the defensive, WMF annual report released, and Indic language dynamics"
26 December 2011 News and notes - "Fundraiser passes 2010 watermark, brief news"
26 December 2011 Opinion essay - "Openness versus quality: why we're doing it wrong, and how to fix it"
2 January 2012 News and notes - "Things bubbling along as Wikimedians enjoy their holidays"
9 January 2012 News and notes - "Fundraiser 2011 ends with a bang"
16 January 2012 News and notes - "SOPA blackout looms, Wikipedia turns 11, and Commons passes 12 million files"
30 January 2012 News and notes - "Update on Global Development, Wikipedia Day NYC is a success, JFK audio on Commons"
6 February 2012 News and notes - "The Foundation visits Tunisia, analyzes donors"
6 February 2012 Discussion report - "Discussion swarms around Templates for deletion and returning editors of colourful pasts"
13 February 2012 News and notes - "Foundation launches Legal and Community Advocacy department"
20 February 2012 News and notes - "Fundraiser row continues, new director of engineering"
20 February 2012 Special report - "Plight of the new page patrollers"
5 March 2012 News and notes - "Chapter-selected Board seats, an invite to the Teahouse, patrol becomes triage, and this week in history"
12 March 2012 News and notes - "Sue Gardner tackles the funds, and the terms of use update nears implementation"
19 March 2012 News and notes - "Chapters Council proposals take form as research applications invited for Wikipedia Academy and HighBeam accounts"
2 April 2012 News and notes - "Berlin reforms to movement structures, Wikidata launches with fanfare, and Wikipedia's day of mischief"
9 April 2012 News and notes - "Projects launched in Brazil and the Middle East as advisors sought for funds committee"
11 February 2013 Opinion essay - "An article is a construct – hoaxes and Wikipedia"
4 March 2015 From the editor - "A sign of the times: the Signpost revamps its internal structure to make contributing easier"
4 March 2015 News and notes - "Wikimedia Foundation and OTRS team both publish reports, indicate operating changes"
11 March 2015 News and notes - "WikiWomen's History Month—meetups, blog posts, and "Inspire" grant-making campaign"
18 March 2015 News and notes - "SUL finalization imminent; executive office shake-ups at the Foundation"
25 March 2015 News and notes - "Wikimedia Foundation adopts open-access research policy"
1 April 2015 In focus - "WMF's latest strategy document shows successes, vagueness, and the need for better data"
8 April 2015 News and notes - "Advancement department to be created at the Foundation, milestone fixes"
15 April 2015 News and notes - "Erik Möller leaving Foundation; annual plan grants under community review"
22 April 2015 News and notes - "Call for candidates as the movement approaches the Wikimedia Board elections"
22 April 2015 In focus - "2015 Wikimedia Foundation election preparations underway"
8 April 2015 News and notes - "Wiki Loves Monuments evaluation sees diminishing returns and increasing cost"
6 May 2015 News and notes - "'Inspire' grant-making campaign concludes, grantees announced"
13 May 2015 News and notes - "Swedish Wikimedia chapter organizes simultaneous Wikidata contests; FDC election results"
27 May 2015 News and notes - "WMF releases quarterly reports, annual plans"
3 June 2015 News and notes - "Three new community-elected trustees announced, incumbents out"
10 June 2015 News and notes - "Chapter financial trends analyzed, news in brief"
17 June 2015 News and notes - "Labs outage kills tools, self; news in brief"
24 June 2015 News and notes - "Board of Trustees propose bylaw amendments"
24 June 2015 From the editor - "The Signpost tagging initiative"
1 July 2015 News and notes - "Training the Trainers; VP of engineering leaves WMF"
8 July 2015 News and notes - "Wikimedia Foundation annual plan released, news in brief"
8 July 2015 Editorial - "So you want to get your message out. Where do you turn?"
15 July 2015 News and notes - "The Wikimedia Conference and Wikimania"
5 August 2015 News and notes - "VisualEditor, endowment, science, and news in brief"
12 August 2015 News and notes - "Superprotect, one year later; a contentious RfA"
26 August 2015 News and notes - "Re-imagining grants"
2 September 2015 News and notes - "Flow placed on ice"
2 September 2015 Special report - "Massive paid editing network unearthed on the English Wikipedia"
6 January 2016 News and notes - "The WMF's age of discontent"