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The Signpost: 18 March 2013
- News and notes: Resigning arbitrator slams Committee
Just two months into his second term as an arbitrator on the English Wikipedia, Coren resigned from the Committee with a blistering attack on his fellow arbitrators. At the heart of a strongly worded statement, posted both on his talk page and the arbitration notice board, was the claim that ArbCom has become politicised to the extent that "it can no longer do the job it was ostensibly elected for".
- WikiProject report: Making music
This week, we composed a tribute to WikiProject Composers. The project was created during the final hours of 2004 and finalized in early January 2005. It has grown to encompass over 8,000 pages, including 26 Featured Articles and 23 Good Articles. WikiProject Composers faces a difficult workload, with a relative WikiWork rating of 5.45.
- Interview: Meeting in the middle: Wikipedia and libraries
Ask librarians what they think about Wikipedia and you might get some interesting answers. Some will throw up their hands about the laziness of the Google generation and their overdependence on Wikipedia. Some see it as the "competition". And some will tell you it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.
- Featured content: Wikipedia stays warm
Nine articles, seven lists, eleven images, and one topic were promoted to "featured status" this week on the English Wikipedia.
- Arbitration report: Richard case closes
On Thursday, arbitrator Coren resigned, following closely on the heels of Hersfold's resignation on Wednesday. There are two open cases. A final decision has been given in the Richard case.
- Technology report: Visual Editor "on schedule"
The WMF's engineering report for January was published this week, giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month.
DYK nomination of List of covers of Time magazine (2010s)
Hello! Your submission of List of covers of Time magazine (2010s) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BlueMoonset (talk) 22:09, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
Tampering with the AfD template was just disruptive, I've reverted you but accidentally tagged it as vandalism in doing so. Though I'm not entirely convinced that isn't the case I apologise for tagging it so if it's not. Stuart.Jamieson (talk) 18:05, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
- I tampered with the AfD template? Likely trying to revert something else. Rcsprinter (Gimme a message) @ 20:20, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
My adoption test
I am ready to take it. TheOriginalSoni (talk) 06:40, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
- Just give me a couple of days to get ready again. Rcsprinter (yak) @ 22:30, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
- ok, knock yourself out. user:Rcsprinter123/Adopt/Test/TheOriginalSoni. One week, as standard. Rcsprinter (state) @ 22:05, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 25 March 2013
- WikiProject report: The 'Burgh: WikiProject Pittsburgh
Our travels have brought us to Pittsburgh, the American city known for steelworks and bridges.
- Featured content: One and a half soursops
Seven articles, one list, six pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
- Arbitration report: Two open cases
This case, brought by Mark Arsten, was opened over a dispute over transgenderism topics that began off-wiki. The evidence phase was scheduled to close March 7, 2013, with a proposed decision due to be posted by March 29.
- News and notes: Sue Gardner to leave WMF; German Wikipedians spearhead another effort to close Wikinews
Sue Gardner, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation since December 2007, has announced her plans to leave the position when a successor is recruited. Ranked as one of the most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine, Sue Gardner is widely associated with the rise of the Wikimedia movement as a major custodian of human knowledge and cultural products.
- Technology report: The Visual Editor: Where are we now, and where are we headed?
Since its inception in May 2011, the Foundation's Visual Editor project has grown to become one of its main focuses. As the project nears its two-year birthday, the Signpost caught up with Visual Editor project manager James Forrester to discuss the progress on the project.
- Recent research: "Ignore all rules" in deletions; anonymity and groupthink; how readers react when shown talk pages
A paper presented at last month's CSCW Conference observes that "Mass collaboration systems are often characterized as unstructured organizations lacking rule and order", yet Wikipedia has a well developed body of policies to support it as an organization.
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WikiCup 2013 March newsletter
We are halfway through round two. Pool A sees the strongest competition, with five out of eight of its competitors scoring over 100, and Pool H is lagging, with half of its competitors yet to score. WikiCup veterans lead overall; Pool A's 
Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) (2010's winner) leads overall, with poolmate 
Miyagawa (submissions) (a finalist in 2011 and 2012) not far behind. Pool F's 
Casliber (submissions) (a finalist in 2010, 2011 and 2012) is in third. The top two scorers in each pool, as well as the next highest 16 scorers overall, will progress to round three at the end of April.
Today has seen a number of Easter-themed did you knows from WikiCup participants, and March has seen collaboration from contestants with WikiWomen's History Month. It's great to see the WikiCup being used as a locus of collaboration; if you know of any collaborative efforts going on, or want to start anything up, please feel free to use the WikiCup talk page to help find interested editors. As well as fostering collaboration, we're also seeing the Cup encouraging the improvement of high-importance articles through the bonus point system. Highlights from the last month include GAs on physicist Niels Bohr (
Hawkeye7 (submissions)), on the European hare (
Cwmhiraeth (submissions)), on the constellation Circinus (
Keilana (submissions) and Casliber (submissions)) and on the Third Epistle of John (
Cerebellum (submissions)). All of these subjects were covered on at least 50 Wikipedias at the beginning of the year and, subsequently, each contribution was awarded at least three times as many points as normal.
Wikipedians who enjoy friendly competition may be interested in participating in April's wikification drive. While wikifying an article is typically not considered "significant work" such that it can be claimed for WikiCup points, such gnomish work is often invaluable in keeping articles in shape, and is typically very helpful for new writers who may not be familiar with formatting norms.
A quick reminder: now, submission pages will need only a link to the article and a link to the nomination page, or, in the case of good article reviews, a link to the review only. See your submissions' page for details. This will hopefully make updating submission pages a little less tedious. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) J Milburn (talk) 22:23, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
Hey uhh... can't tell if your triple-MFD was supposed to be a meta-joke. I really hope they are, because otherwise I should've been notified of the Example RFA one (I didn't create it, but I'm the one who created the joke). Also because otherwise you're needlessly disrupting three completely harmless jokes. — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 11:26, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
On April Fools...
Bravo, Rcsprinter123. I congratulate anyone who is out to nuke April Fools and its extraneous bullshit from Wikipedia, and your two MfDs on Frigidninja's "RFF" and Example's RFA are one step towards keeping WP serious, clean and professional. We get the piss taken out of us by the media enough as it is, we don't need to make ourselves look like a joke too! And, I'm serious. Good Call. Humblesnore (talk) 11:34, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
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The Barnstar of Diligence | |
| For helping in the fight to make April 1st history on Wikipedia, I award this barnstar. If only there were a hell of a lot more like you. Humblesnore (talk) 11:34, 1 April 2013 (UTC) |
- Thanks. I guess it is a little unusual for such a newcomer to be so involved with all this sort of thing, but if its what you found first, so what. Keep up the good work. Rcsprinter (warn) @ 11:49, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
- What got me involved was being on IRC during the night and have someone mention a six layer MfD of a page which couldn't be deleted anyhow. That's how I realized people were buggering around with Wikipedia because of some stupid tradition which is intended to make people look like idiots. It doesn't fly with me. Good call, keep it up! Humblesnore (talk) 11:53, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
Copyright test
I'm ready. 
Arctic Kangaroo 09:24, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
- Great; it's there for you. Rcsprinter (talk to me) @ 23:22, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
My test?
Weren't you supposed to be informing me when you had put the test up? :P I did not have your talk as watchlisted.
Once again, my examinations do not allow me to give the test now. I will, *sigh* once again delay it until i am free.
TheOriginalSoni (talk) 22:41, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
- I replied here on my talk page as soon as I put it up, do watch the threads please. Let me know when... Rcsprinter (warn) @ 22:48, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 01 April 2013
- Special report: Who reads which Wikipedia?
The Wikimedia Foundation has released its latest report card for the movement's hundreds of sites. The WMF has published statistics about the sites since 2009, but only recently have these been expanded in scope and depth to provide a rich source of data for investigating the movement and the world it serves. Dutch-born Erik Zachte is the driver of the WMF's statistical output, and he writes that the report card and accompanying traffic statistics comprise "enough tables, bar charts and plots to keep you busy for a while".
- WikiProject report: Special: FAQs
This week's Report is dedicated to answering our readers' questions about WikiProjects. The following Frequently Asked Questions came from feedback at the WikiProject Report's talk page, the WikiProject Council's talk page, and from previous lists of FAQs.
- Featured content: What the ?
The Signpost interviewed prolific featured content creator and former Signpost "featured content" report writer Crisco 1492 about ? and Indonesian cinema. ? was the "Today's featured article" for 1 April 2013. 1 April is popularly known as April Fools' Day in many countries.
- News and notes: Grants given for Wikipedia Library, six others; April Fool's Day ructions
The first round of individual engagement grants (IEGs) have been awarded, disbursing about $55.6k (€42.7k) to seven applicants.
- Arbitration report: Three open cases
A case brought by Lecen involves several articles about former Argentinian president Juan Manuel de Rosas (1793–1877).
- Technology report: Wikidata phase 2 deployment timetable in doubt
Users of ten Wikipedias got access to phase 2 of Wikidata following its first rollout to production wikis.
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The Signpost: 08 April 2013
- Wikizine: WMF scales back feature after outcry
Numerous Wikimedia Commons editors have chimed in on the Wikimedia Foundation's deployment of a new feature to its mobile website. Allowing anonymous users to register and upload pictures for use in an article, the feature was placed prominently at the top of Wikipedia articles in multiple languages.
- WikiProject report: Earthshattering WikiProject Earthquakes
This week, we felt the world tremble in the presence of WikiProject Earthquakes. The project was started in May 2008 to deal with articles about earthquakes, aftershocks, seismology, seismologists, plate tectonics, and related articles. While the project has seen success building 14 Featured Articles, one A-class Article, and 21 Good Articles, a fairly heavy workload remains, with a relative WikiWork rating of 4.94. WikiProject Earthquakes maintains a portal, a list of open tasks, a popular pages listing, and an article alerts watchlist.
- News and notes: French intelligence agents threaten Wikimedia volunteer
Last Friday, the Wikimedia movement awoke to news that one of their number—Rémi Mathis, a French volunteer editor—had been summoned to the offices of the interior intelligence service DCRI and threatened with criminal charges and fines if he did not delete an article on the French Wikipedia about a radio station used by the French military.
- Arbitration report: Subject experts needed for Argentine History
The arbitration committee is looking for expertise in Argentina and the Spanish language for a case involving former Argentinean president Juan Manuel de Rosas (1793–1877).
- Featured content: Wikipedia loves poetry
Four articles and two pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
- Technology report: Testing week
The deployment of phase 2 of Wikidata to the English Wikipedia, originally scheduled for 8 April but delayed due to technical problems, may be rescheduled again as the result of community resistance.
Template:Animation studios has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Izno (talk) 03:21, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
The Signpost: 15 April 2013
- Op-ed: How do we fix RfA inactivity?
The RfA process is widely discussed here on the English Wikipedia and it has been well documented that less and less new Requests for adminship are being filed. There are an abundance of bytes devoted to the discussion and analysis of this situation and plenty of hands have been wrung over the matter. Various RfCs have attempted to find a way to fix the problem. Many proposals have been made offering solutions, some more potentially drastic than others, with the goal of making the changes necessary to kick–start RfA back into regular action. However, Wikipedia operates based on consensus and, to this point, there are have simply been too many disagreeing views for us to reach a consensus on how to increase RfA activity.
- WikiProject report: Unity in Diversity: South Africa
This week, we ventured to WikiProject South Africa. The project was started in February 2005 and is home to thirteen pieces of featured material, two A-class articles, and twenty-one good articles.
- News and notes: Another admin reform attempt flops
The most recent move to reform the requests for adminship process on the English Wikipedia has failed, after a complex and drawn-out three-step procedure for community input was subject to decreasing participation as time wore on and came up with no clear consensus.
- Featured content: The featured process swings into high gear
Four articles, twelve lists, and seven pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
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Faresaver
I have no idea how this talk works, but i am trying to edit Faresaver Buses page to make it better and you keep changing it back. This is why everyone says that Wikipedia cannot be trusted ! Grahamjenkins4444 (talk) 16:30, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
- I am reverting it because the source we are working from says that Faresaver have a Plaxton Centro. Therefore, it should be included with the fleet list and not taken out. This is trying to make it more trustworthy. Rcsprinter (tell me stuff) @ 16:41, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
- Sorry i can't see how to respond to the existing thread there is no 'reply' button ? The changes i have made to the Faresaver page are accurate because i work for Faresaver and know them to be true, i haven't gleaned it from another website or news article. Grahamjenkins4444 (talk) 17:10, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
- In that case, you have a Conflict of Interest and should not be editing pages relating to Faresaver. But I don't know you work there, and so telling me that "they are true" is not evidence enough; the source needs to be changed. Please don't remove it again until it has. Rcsprinter (chinwag) @ 19:07, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
- Sorry i can't see how to respond to the existing thread there is no 'reply' button ? The changes i have made to the Faresaver page are accurate because i work for Faresaver and know them to be true, i haven't gleaned it from another website or news article. Grahamjenkins4444 (talk) 17:10, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
'COI editing involves contributing to Wikipedia in order to promote your own interests or those of other individuals, companies, or groups' I am not trying to promote my own interests or those of a company, i am simply trying to get the facts correct. As long as your article contains inaccuracies i will continue to edit them, surely this is the whole point of having an open editing policy. I have told you that your source is out of date but you are stubbornly refusing to accept this and keep entering information that is incorrect. Why will you not believe me that Faresaver no longer own a Plaxton Centro ? This is a waste of your time and mine ! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Grahamjenkins4444 (talk • contribs) 21:48, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
- As much as I want to believe you, the source needs updating first, then we can update the article. It's the rules. Rcsprinter (talkin' to me?) @ 22:02, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
DON'T SHOUT, its' rude ! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.158.247.106 (talk) 23:42, 23 April 2013 (UTC) So you will continue to put inaccurate information into an article even though it would be better to leave it out if there is any doubt ? The point is that bus fleets change all the time so you will always be out of date and you cannot expect the bus company to keep updating their website just to satisfy the needs of Wikipedia ! I can assure you 100% the source is now out of date. Grahamjenkins4444 (talk) 22:16, 22 April 2013 (UTC) YN56 SGV Plaxton Centro sold to Dealtop Ltd t/a Dartline, April 2013. Believe me now ? I really don't understand why you are being so stubborn about letting me help you with this ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Grahamjenkins4444 (talk • contribs) 22:22, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
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Adoption
Hello Rcsprinter, I'm done with the copyright test, and still have a pending question as well. Thanks. Arctic Kangaroo 15:44, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
- Ah yes, I'm terribly sorry, old chap. I saw your answer when you did, and then must have been busy and forgotten about it as you move down my watchlist. Still, only four days late! Thank you for reminding me; I shall mark it now. Rcsprinter (deliver) @ 20:52, 29 April 2013 (UTC)