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Wikidata weekly summary #178
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: code.talks (slides on migrating Freebase to Wikidata)
- Past: Wikidata:Mobilizing Open Cultural Data (videos, slides)
- Upcoming: Wikidata's 3rd birthday. We will have a party and you should come! (announcement, program and other details, IMPORTANT: sign up so we know how many people to expect)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- There are now almost 5000 articles in Czech Wikipedia which include an infobox without parameters, only with data from Wikidata.
- Input request about editing Wikidata from clients like Wikipedia
- Freebase to Wikidata: results of Tpt's internship have been published
- Articles without a Wikidata item can now be filtered by category tree. (example for chemists on enwiki)
- Wikidata:Units attempts to list available units and properties they can be used with
- Constraint reports can now check if units are within a user defined list: e.g. report for mass (P2067)
- WikiProject Economics needs more participants to organize all the new properties.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Georgian national system of romanization, Hepburn romanization, membership, YerelNet village ID, prize money, radius, vapor pressure, kinematic viscosity, combustion enthalpy, vaporization enthalpy, NDF-RT ID, half-life, sublimation temperature, wing area, power output, Kunstindex Danmark artwork, decomposition point, RXNO Ontology, size of team at finish, size of team at start, boiling point, melting point
- Development
- Changed the default RDF flavor to include all statements (phabricator:T101837)
- Started to work on creating new articles from scratch from the article placeholder
- Continued work on the Lua libraries of the default Article Placeholder layout
- Started the research on client editing with an input page
- More work on making the mobile view fit for being enabled per default for mobile users
- Changed our JavaScript coding style to be more in line with MediaWiki core’s
- In edit mode, the label is now displayed for units instead of a URL
- Added a new “YearMonthDay” date parser that supports many edge cases where all other date parsers fail
- More work on passing full edit summaries to the client wikis.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The link editor in the visual editor now shows results below the search box. This improves the usability on desktop and mobile. [1]
- The description at Special:ChangeEmail now clearly explains that the page can also be used to remove your email. [2]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 8 (calendar).
- UploadWizard will remind users to add a category. [3]
- UploadWizard's category selectors will be easier to use. [4]
- A new Cite error will be shown if a named reference is defined more than once in the same article. [5]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Wikidata requests your input on how to improve the editing of Wikidata's data in other locations, such as Wikipedias.
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18:33, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 07 October 2015
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Op-ed: Walled gardens of corruption
- In the media: Jailed Saudi blogger wins award; PR editing and Wiki-embarassment; Pakistan's third-richest person?
- Traffic report: Reality is for losers
- Featured content: This Week's Featured Content
- Arbitration report: Warning: Contains GMOs
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
- Gallery: Winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 in Pakistan
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The database size lists have been updated. These control special page update frequency and which wikis use global abuse filters. [6]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 15 (calendar).
- You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons using the visual editor. When the image is uploaded it will be added to the article you're editing. [7]
- Pages that show citation error messages will automatically be placed in a hidden category. [8]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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16:29, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #179
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: WikiCon USA (slides)
- Ongoing: World Health Summit (slides)
- Upcoming: ODI Summit with a session on the gene-related efforts on Wikidata
- Don't forget to sign up if you are coming to Wikidata's third birthday party.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Discussion has started on English WikiProject Football about using Wikidata for player squad templates (example) and player club history (example). Needs more input on best practices and commitment to update data.
- A command line client to the SPARQL query service has been released
- Query example: popularity of the given name Adolf
- MoMa artists have been added to Mix'n'match
- Books without authors on Wikidata are now down to 12.5K from 25K since drive began. You can help get it down even further.
- Number of articles that are not connected to a Wikidata item on Catalan Wikipedia has been brought down significantly. How about yours?
- This Month in GLAM has Wikidata coverage
- Interested in British politics? WikiProject British Politicians has some stats to show where you can help out
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: median lethal dose, first aid measures, official symbol, units used for this property, external subproperty, external superproperty, volume for quantity, semi-major axis, cash, explosive velocity, torque, Max TDP, maximum thrust, metallicity, market capitalization, discharge, spectral line, decay width, gyromagnetic ratio, flux, household wealth, real gross domestic product growth rate, net worth, cruise speed, radial velocity, proper motion, parallax, longitude of ascending node, angular distance, position angle, relative to, SourceForge project, average shot length, Spotify track ID, Discogs release ID, Spotify album ID, minimum explosive concentration, upper flammable limit, lower flammable limit, dipole moment, electric charge, autoignition temperature, (average) gradient, production volume, students count, Soccerbase manager id, PSS-Archi architect id, Soccerbase player id, endangeredlanguages.com ID, NILF author id, C-SPAN identifier of a person, BiblioNet publisher identifier, BiblioNet author identifier, BiblioNet publication identifier, Wiki Loves Monuments ID, DLI, history of topic, ISO 9:1995, Finnish Ministers database ID, Finnish MP ID, Kansallisbiografia ID, ACM Classification Code (2012), solvent, solubility, drug used for treatment, medical condition treated
- Development
- You'll now get redirected to the mobile view automatically on mobile devices (example)
- Made it possible to use more entities on a page via Lua without running into Lua's memory limit
- Added the Article Placeholder extension’s results to the search result page (this is one of a few remaining blockers before we can put it on a testsystem for you to try out and give feedback)
- Added option to create a new article from Article Placeholder
- More work on the new datatype for properties
- More work on making meaningful edit summaries on the client. Found a few remaining bugs during testing.
- More work on a birthday present :D
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikimedia Highlights from September 2015
Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in September 2015.
- Drone photography of Versailles
- Wikimedia project milestones: Swedish Wikipedia hits 2 million
- What I Learned: Wikipedia Education Program in Argentina
- In September, we love monuments
- Reimagining the Wikimedia Foundation’s grants
- Wikipedia’s very active editor numbers have stabilized—delve into the data with us
- Should I pay for a Wikipedia article?
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The Signpost: 14 October 2015
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Blog: Third Wikimedia Spain conference takes place in Madrid
- Editorial: Why the news media needs a Wikipedian in residence
- Op-ed: WikiConference USA 2015: Built on good faith
- Traffic report: Screens, Sport, Reddit, and Death
- WikiConference Report: WikiConference USA 2015
- News and notes: Fundraising: 2015–2016 Q1 Update sparks mailing list debate
- Featured content: A fistful of dollars
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
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Wikidata weekly summary #180
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- How many female scientists are there on Wikipedia? This time with SPARQL! (French)
- Wikidata Enpoint SPARQL and the paintings of Goya Wikidata's SPARQL endpoint and the paintings of Goya (French)
- Upcoming: 3rd Birthday \o/ (Please don't forget to register if you're coming to the party.)
- More wrapups of Wikiconference USA including slides: [9], [10]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Magnus overhauled the Wikidata Game! Sweeeeeet! Now includes one where you can match an author and a publication. And it has stats.
- Mix'n'match got skyscrapers to match up for you.
- Sitelinks and P569 compares various Wikipedias by the proportion of items with date of birth (Property:P569)
- Catalan Wikipedia match up all of their articles to items on Wikidata. Congrats!
- Did you know?
- Development
- Worked on adding auto-completion for item and property prefixes to the SPARQL query editor (so you can search by label when entering a query)
- Wrote maintenance script for changing some properties from datatype string to upcoming datatype identifier
- More work on birthday present
- More work on the article placeholder to get it ready for a first demo
- Prepared patch for also publishing JSON dumps with bzip2 compression
- Further improved edit summaries we show on Wikipedia etc
- Prepared for giving Wikispecies, Meta and Mediawiki access to the sitelinks on Wikidata on 20. of October
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Tech News is trying to make reading the newsletter easier. The
icon means the item is in the newsletter every week, but with new dates. The 
icon means the item is mainly relevant for readers with technical knowledge. You can leave feedback on this change. - Timestamps in the protection log will now be in the user's timezone. Previously they would show Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). [11]
Problems
- A problem with MediaWiki made some pages show no content on October 14. This has now been fixed. [12]
- Some templates were misplaced in the Flow description bar. This could make it impossible to click on links. This will be fixed this week. [13]
- The deployment of the new MediaWiki version was stopped on October 14. No new code was deployed for the rest of week. This meant planned changes did not happen. [14]
Changes this week
- Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week. [15]
- Wikispecies, Meta and MediaWiki.org will be able to use Wikidata for sitelinks. [16][17][18][19]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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16:02, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 21 October 2015
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Editorial: Women and Wikipedia: the world is watching
- News and notes: Wikimedia lawsuit against NSA dismissed; Affiliates mailing list launched
- In the media: "Wikipedia's hostility to women"
- Special report: One year of GamerGate, or how I learned to stop worrying and love bare rule-level consensus
- Featured content: A more balanced week
- Op-ed: Wikipedia is significantly amplifying the impact of Open Access publications
- Arbitration report: Four ArbCom cases ongoing
- Traffic report: Hiding under the covers of the Internet
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
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Wikidata weekly summary #181
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Derived properties, Are colors instance-of or subclass-of color
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Poof it works - using wikidata to build Wikipedia articles about genes
- Wikidata, SPARQL and huskies (French)
- Wikidata, SPARQL and elected dynasties (French)
- The birth and death of German playwrights
- Distributed stats
- Past: Wikidata training at Wikimedia UK
- Upcoming: Wikidata's 3rd birthday \o/ (on 29th)
- Upcoming: SemWeb.Pro in Paris
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- There's a new Wikidata taxonomy browser
- Meta, MediaWiki and Wikispecies now have access to sitelinks on Wikidata. Welcome to Wikidata, sisters!
- Harvest templates. New tool to copy data from templates to Wikidata.
- Number of articles that are not connected to a Wikidata item on Italian Wikipedia has been brought down significantly. How about yours?
- The Wikidata Game now has a primary sources game and one to match Wikispecies pages to Wikidata items
- The National Gallery of Arts was added to Mix'n'match
- Some more query examples: Dracula movies and their actors, movies with links to videos
- Did you know?
- Development
- ctrl-space now enables autocomplete for labels on http://query.wikidata.org . Should make it easier for you to find the right items and properties.
- Worked on birthday present :)
- From Monday on a bzip2 compressed version of the Wikidata json dumps will be published, along with the gzip compressed version.
- Made it possible to get from the search results page to the article placeholder. This was one of the last holdups for a first demo version.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).- The first time you use the visual editor, pop-ups will explain why and when you should use the citation and link tools. [20]
- You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons from inside the wikitext editor by clicking "Upload" in the "Insert file" dialog. You will also be able to drag and drop them into an article when using the visual editor. [21][22]
- When you edit a code block in visual editor, you will have the syntax highlighted. [23][24]
- Index and Page namespaces on Wikisource will be defined as content namespaces in
$wgContentNamespaces. [25]
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18:04, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 28 October 2015
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- From the editor: The Signpost 's reorganization plan—we need your help
- News and notes: English Wikipedia reaches five million articles
- In the media: The world's Wikipedia gaps; Google and Wikipedia accused of tying Ben Carson to NAMBLA
- Op-ed: It’s time to stop the bullying
- Arbitration report: A second attempt at Arbitration enforcement
- Traffic report: Canada, the most popular nation on Earth
- Recent research: Student attitudes towards Wikipedia; Jesus, Napoleon and Obama top "Wikipedia social network"; featured article editing patterns in 12 languages
- Featured content: Birds, turtles, and other things
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
- Community letter: Five million articles
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Wikidata weekly summary #182
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- How to add dates with undefined calendar (Julian or Gregorian)? is discussed on Project chat.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata turned 3! The party doubled as the award ceremony for the Land der Ideen price.
I love Wikidata because - Page with state of the project editorial, message from the development team and greetings
- Images from the party
- Denny and Erik look back at the beginning of the project - the other recordings are still being cut but you can already see the uncut stream here
- Presents:
- Three presents for Wikidata's third birthday from Amir including artificial intelligence to find vandalism!
- Improved query.wikidata.org by the dev team
- Preview of the Article Placeholder by Lucie (bachelor student of the dev team)
- Special:Nearby by the dev team
- Donation of CC World University & School (WUaS) to CC Wikidata to celebrate its 3rd birthday! by Scott_WUaS
- Your name in Wikidata Morse code from TMg
- Help organize the Wikidata related sessions at Wikimania 2016
- Past: Open Access Week
- Past: DINI Jahrestagung (slides)
- Past: Tehran SFD (video)
- Upcoming: ODI Summit
- Upcoming: SWAT4LS
- Modeling the social network of movie actors of the 1920s and 1930s with Wikidata
- Looking for…science fiction movies on the Linked Data Cloud
- Wikidata turned 3! The party doubled as the award ceremony for the Land der Ideen price.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Italian Wikipedia matched up nearly all of their articles to items on Wikidata. Congrats!
- Bene updated the Tours. Please help translate them here.
- The Distributed Game now has a Kian module suggesting statements to add
- Andrew made maps of missing images on Wikidata: South Africa, India, Australia, world
- Nikki imported dates of birth and death for more than 40,000 persons from Japanese Wikipedia.
- Example query: French people with an article on English Wikipedia but not French Wikipedia
- Example query: paintings without dimension (add some?)
- Example query: people or things born or created on the same day of the year as Wikidata
- We passed 15M items.
- Happy 10th anniversary to Semantic MediaWiki! We wouldn't be where we are today without you.
- All 8,860 fellows of the Royal Society have been matched to Wikidata items
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Wikidata property sample, Emporis building complex ID, Orsay Museum artist ID, Politifact Personality Identifier, Fashion Model Directory ID, mix'n'match catalogue ID, ISOCAT id, draft, beam, ionization energy, ITU-T network identifier, mobile country code, frequency of event
- Newest External tools: Top missing P31 by number of sitelinks list the items with most sitelinks lacking instance of or subclass of
- Development
- Worked on birthday presents (Special:Nearby, article placeholder demo system and improvements to query.wikidata.org)
- Wes, Stas, Dan and James from the WMF came over to talk through current work around Wikidata and plans for the future
- Further poked at editing references at the same time as rest of the statement
- Investigated where we can push next to improve performance
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can now see how many editors are using a gadget on a wiki on Special:GadgetUsage. [26]
- If you are using the mobile version of Wikipedia, you can now see Wikidata descriptions under article titles in search results. [27]
- Editing conflicts are now detected when you edit on a mobile device. Before, this did not work properly on mobile. [28]
Problems
- On October 26 the Wikimedia sites went down for ten minutes. [29]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 4. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 5 (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join. You can also read the latest VisualEditor newsletter.
Future changes
- A help link will be added to Special:Search. Administrators might have to update the MediaWiki:Search-summary message to avoid two help links. [30]
- Empty list items could be allowed in the future. If so, this could affect some templates. [31]
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16:43, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 04 November 2015
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Op-ed: You are invited to participate in the Community Wishlist Survey
- News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation finances; Superprotect is gone
- In the media: Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov: propaganda myth or history?
- Traffic report: Death, the Dead, and Spectres are abroad
- Featured content: Christianity, music, and cricket
- Gallery: Princess of Asturias Awards 2015 ceremony
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
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Wikidata weekly summary #183
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Lakokat
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata/Wikibase Json Dump Reader
- Wikidata project to tackle language barriers in scientific reserach
- Semantic Cities
- Q167545: Wikidata celebrated its third birthday
- Slides from talk at UCSD on "Open biomedical knowledge using crowdsourcing and citizenscience"
- Past: semwebpro (slides)
- Past: ODI Summit
- Past: MozFest (etherpad)
- Upcoming: WikiConference Seoul
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- List of Wikipedia articles without an image where Wikidata has one
- Want to use data from Wikidata to enrich data in your own application? S wrote a good start.
- Commons misconceptions and how to avoid them by School of Data
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: charted in, Danish parish code, venous drainage, lymphatic drainage, CRIStin ID, arterial supply, periapsis date, price, uses, Groeningemuseum work PID, iTunes album ID, Austrian Parliament ID, ambitus, Member of the Hellenic Parliament ID, Magdeburger Biographisches Lexikon, UEFA player code, World Health Organisation International Nonproprietary Name, Heidelberg Academy for Sciences and Humanities member ID, Hederich article
- Ever noticed ranks?
- Development
- Worked on the tests for the ArticlePlaceholder
- Finished the create article button for the ArticlePlaceholder page
- From Monday on a bzip2 compressed version of the beta Wikidata TTL dumps will be published along the gzip one
- Getting close to make it possible to add the main value of a statement and its reference at the same time
- Worked on adding a new section to item and property pages for identifiers
- Did backend work for making identifiers useful in our machine-readable outputs (by actually linking them instead of just giving the identifier string) - more work needed
- Fixed a bug where dates would have English months on non-English wikis (phabricator:T116503)
- Fixed a bug when editing labels on mobile (phabricator:T117184)
- Worked more on making search work on mobile
- Worked on a fix for a visual glitch in the table of content on mobile (the box is bigger than its content)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Superprotect has been removed. [32]
- You can now switch between the wikitext editor and the visual editor without saving. You will not lose the changes you have made. [33]
- JSON dumps of the production search indexes are now available. They can be imported to Elasticsearch. [34]
Problems
- Some translations for the Thanks and Echo extensions were missing. Translators have been asked to help and this should be solved soon. [35]
Changes this week
- Thumbnails of 16-bit TIFF files will be displayed properly. Before, this didn't work. [36]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- A new tool to navigate through diff pages is being developed. You can test it out and give feedback. [37]
- The options on Special:Watchlist will look slightly different. [38]
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17:18, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
Wikimedia Highlights from October 2015
Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in October 2015.
- Wikipedia’s global impact recognized with Spain’s Princess of Asturias Award ceremony
- Creating change one step at a time: Miguel Zuñiga Gonzalez
- Your October milestones include Wikidata’s 15 millionth item
- District court grants government’s motion to dismiss Wikimedia v. NSA, appeal expected
- Making Chinese Wikipedia more ethnologically diverse
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The Signpost: 11 November 2015
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Op-ed: As one thousand of us requested, Superprotect has been removed
- Arbitration report: Elections, redirections, and a resignation from the Committee
- Discussion report: Compromise of two administrator accounts prompts security review
- Featured content: Texas, film, and cycling
- In the media: Sanger on Wikipedia; Silver on Vox; lawyers on monkeys
- Traffic report: Doodles of popularity
- Gallery: Paris
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