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The following is an automatically-generated compilation of all talk pages for the Signpost issue dated 2010-05-03. For general Signpost discussion, see Wikipedia talk:Signpost.

Book review: Review of The World and Wikipedia (559 bytes · 💬)

I think this is a very well-written, thoughtful review. I'm very interested to read the book now. --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs)} 15:17, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Same here. It just placed pretty high on my reading list. Circéus (talk) 15:48, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Features and admins: Approved this week (767 bytes · 💬)

Only 2 new admins? 68.197.16.37 (talk) 22:08, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Two is about usual now, sometime there are none! Icewedge (talk) 04:48, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Woohoo! 2009 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final is finally an FA! Our Seattle Sounders FC featured topic is nearing completion! –CG^Talk 23:45, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

In the news: Government promotes Tamil Wikipedia, and more (3,827 bytes · 💬)

The deadline for article submission in Tamil Wikipedia Contest has been extended to May 15. And there has been only 2000 submissions so far.--Sodabottle (talk) 15:38, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Are the articles not actually uploaded to the Wiki until the end? YellowMonkey (vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll) 01:58, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Yes, they will be added only after the contest ends and wikipedians scrutinize the entries. The number of submissions can be found from the unique IDs of entries in the submission page. They use a incremental system starting from ***6000 . At present the last article submitted has ***8129 as ID. --Sodabottle (talk) 04:05, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Hmm.. Based on what I can gather from Google translate, the Italian article says nothing about the Catholic Church sex scandal. Samuell Lift me up or put me down 20:46, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out. My Italian is rusty. Ottre 21:43, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Ganesh, I find the news report on Tamil Wiki contest highly biased, having incorrect information and unnecessarily negative in tone. It would have been nice if the SignPost reporters had contacted any of the Tamil Wikipedia contributors for fact checking before publishing this. It will be good to allow us to improve the news report now. Below is a better and updated version of the article:

The Government of Tamil Nadu, an urbanised state in southern India, is running a contest until May 15th for college students and the general public to expand the Tamil Wikipedia. Currently, The Tamil Wikipedia has 22,000+ articles. Along with a graphic design contest for high school students, it aimed to introduce young people to modern Indic computing ahead of the Tamil Internet Conference, to be held in June.

Orientation programs were run at Loyola College in Chennai to teach participants how to write standard Wiki articles. The best entries, selected by an international jury of academicians and professionals, will receive prizes and certificates from the government.

This is the first time a state government has promoted local content in Wikipedia.

Thanks--Ravishankar (talk) 03:11, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

I believe that there was no bias in the editors who wrote this and I'm sure Ravi would agree on that. They went by the news items and the inaccuracies and the tone have reflected here. Let me fix the factual issues first and leave it to the original reporters to fix the rest taking the above submission by Ravi. -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 05:45, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

I appreciate the feedback Ravishankar, but please bear in mind that I don't speak the language and had to go by the reports in The Hindu, which skipped over a lot of detail. It took me over an hour to research the main points of the article and to make sure there was a clear connection to the Tamil Internet Conference per this press release. The article may simplify things because I could not find anyone to translate the Tamil news reports for me, but the tone is neutral. The only oversight is neglecting to mention who will be coordinating the contest -- I didn't think our readers would really be interested. Ottre 14:25, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

News and notes: iPhone app update, Vector rollout for May 13, brief news (3,112 bytes · 💬)

I wonder if this new app is as painfully slow as the first.  f o x  15:53, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Does the new iPhone/iPad app support editing of Wikipedia articles? I haven't found a way to edit Wikipedia on the ipad/iphone. The iPad's Mobile Safari doesn't allow to scroll in the editing text box. AxelBoldt (talk) 17:35, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

• Scroll with two fingers inside the text box. Kinda sucks, but it works. Protonk (talk) 16:00, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Yay! Vector releases on my birthday! Best birthday present ever: a new layout for Wikipedia! –CG^Talk 23:35, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Is this app free? I almost dl'd it once but I already have the net on my iphone. Tommy2010 23:39, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Also, I am (at the moment) using the Vector skin, and many options, such as a link to the Recent Changes, are now missing compared to the Monobook skin. Tommy2010 23:49, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

RC is where it's always been. The only thing that moved is the search box. -- phoebe / (talk to me) 21:13, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

I just got it - sadly, you still cant edit articles. If you really need to edit, you can just use normal Safari but it is very hard - I have tried. Also, yes it is free - just make sure you get the official one, there are a lot of others. Forenti^talk 07:53, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Still can't edit articles on it. It's a damn embarrassment that the official WMF app just lets you consume content, not add to the sum of human knowledge. Protonk (talk) 15:57, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Honestly, editing on an iPhone ? i hope WMF did not spend (donated) money to develop that app... did it ? 217.235.10.221 (talk) 00:10, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

I can't say I see any value in moving the search bar to the top right from the left sidebar. I suppose there was a massive study showing that new users were unable to find it where it's been for the past ten years . . . but it still seems like a change that was made just for the sake of making a change. The skin overall seems like a nice improvement, though.--~TPW 10:31, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject report: WikiProject U.S. Roads (555 bytes · 💬)

Its good to see my main project featured! Thanks! –CG^Talk 23:44, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds by any chance? Icewedge (talk) 04:46, 6 May 2010 (UTC)