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The Signpost: 04 December 2013

  • Traffic report: Kennedy shot Who
    Summary:Doctor Who nearly got cancelled in its first week because its premiere was swamped by coverage of the JFK assassination, which happened the same day. Thankfully, producers saw fit to rerun it the next day, which is now its official anniversary date.
  • News and notes: One decade of Wikisource; FDC recommendations raise serious questions
    The sister project Wikisource, the digital library that hosts free-content primary sources, is now a decade old. Wikisource, which now has versions in 63 languages, is the sixth type of project to reach ten-year milestone and will be the last until 2016. The Wikimedia Foundation's volunteer Funds Dissemination Committee has published its recommendations to the Board of Trustees on 11 new applications for annual grants by 11 WMF-affiliated organisations. The maximum total budget for the current and upcoming March rounds is US$6M.
  • WikiProject report: Electronic Apple Pie
    This week, we returned to WikiProject Apple Inc. for a peek at their newest articles about the latest in gadgets and software. The last time we took a bite out of WikiProject Apple, they had just finished merging WikiProject Macintosh and WikiProject iPhone OS. Today, the project is hard at work rewriting their primary article, improving the subject's outline, and adding to the project's list of 25 Good Articles and 6 Featured Articles.
  • Featured content: F*&!
    Seventeen articles, four lists, and twenty-eight pictures were promoted to "featured" status in the last two weeks.
Hello, Rcsprinter123:

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Posted by: Northamerica1000(talk) 18:44, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Library Survey

As a subscriber to one of The Wikipedia Library's programs, we'd like to hear your thoughts about future donations and project activities in this brief survey. Thanks and cheers, Ocaasi t | c 15:45, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Bacon WikiCup 2012 Award

Hey! If you've got a good memory, you'll remember that about a year and a half ago, you participated in the Bacon WikiCup 2012. Unfortunately I became inactive before I could give out the awards, which I apologize for. It's been forever since I disappeared from Wikipedia, but I decided to check back in out of nostalgia. I know I'm really pushing it with "better late than never", but here it is: your very-long-overdue medal. Cheers, ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 23:29, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Bacon WikiCup 2012 - Participant Medal
Due to your work in expanding bacon-related content during the Bacon WikiCup 2012, you have been awarded the Bacon WikiCup 2012 Particpant Medal. You received a final score of 86, earning yourself third place. Congratulations, and thank you for your great work! ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 23:29, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
This made my day, even though there's only 20 minutes of it left. Thank you SuperHamster! Rcsprinter (articulate) @ 23:40, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

RE: Q-go

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Q-go#Notability. -- Trevj (talk • contribs) 12:38, 10 December 2013 (UTC) -- Trevj (talk • contribs) 12:38, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

RC Sprinter

Quick work, much appreciated
RC Sprinter! 7&6=thirteen () 01:49, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 11 December 2013

  • Traffic report: Deaths of Mandela, Walker top the list
    When one edits this page for too long, one is tempted to appoint oneself as the psychoanalyst for the human race, or at least the English-speaking portion thereof. Since nearly everyone uses Wikipedia, the constant stream of TV updates, pointless celebrity scandals, and inquiries after who has died can seem like a dreary peek into humanity's surprisingly banal collective consciousness.
  • In the media: Edward Snowden a "hero"; German Wikipedia court ruling
    Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales caught headlines last week when he referred to former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden ... Loek Essers of the International Data Group, (IDG) News Service is reporting that a German court has held Wikipedia liable for its content, but still does not have to fact check the information in advance.
  • News and notes: Wiki Loves Monuments—winners announced
    Amid great anticipation the international prize winners have just been announced for the fourth annual Wiki Loves Monuments, now the world's largest photographic competition and one of the biggest events on the Wikimedia movement's calendar. ... The first prize has gone to David Gubler's photograph of a Swiss train crossing a viaduct.
  • WikiProject report: WikiProject Wine
    This week, the Signpost interviewed the Wine WikiProject.
  • Interview: Wikipedia's first Featured Article centurion
    On 7 December, Wikipedia editor Wehwalt reached the momentous milestone of 100 featured articles with History of Chincoteague, Virginia. Quite apart from the reading and research, that's around three-quarters of a million words of finalised text, not counting footnotes, image captions and the rest.
  • Featured content: Viewer discretion advised
    Three articles, one list, and eight pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.
  • Technology report: MediaWiki 1.22 released
    On 6 December, the latest version of the MediaWiki software was released. In development from March 2013 through October 2013, the release featured anti-spam and counter-vandalism improvements.

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Australian Highway 1 maps

Thank you for making Highway 1 maps for each state. I have, however, noticed some problems with them:

  • File:Australian national highway 1.svg is only PD in the US (or countries with similar copyright laws), and not necessarily Australia – a whole bunch of Australian route markers, including that one, were taken off commons and uploaded locally here under the precautionary principle. Therefore, maps using them should also be uploaded locally, and not on Commons, and note that the route markers are {{PD-ineligible-USonly}} (for example, see File:Great Northern Highway route map.png)
  • Highway 1 doesn't have a single route marker along its entire length. The National Highway 1 marker you've used for all of them is actually only used for the portions of the route that part of the National Highway (Australia), and then only in the states that don't use alphanumeric route markers for it. That is why there are seven route markers in the Highway 1 (Australia) infobox (and in fact the M1 and A1 route markers in New South Wales are a slightly different style). Therefor, all the maps (apart from Tasmania, actually) are inaccurate. It's probably better to just leave the route markers off, especially for New South Wales where it changes between M1 and A1 about 8 times.

Anyway, once again, thanks for taking the time to make the maps, and hopefully we can sort these problems out - Evad37 [talk] 04:32, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for contacting me with your concerns. I will correct the route markers soon. Rcsprinter (message) @ 17:15, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

Your KML maps

... aren't very precise. I mean, if you zoom in at all on them, you start see a whole lot of line segments approximating the route. Compare this to the KML for Great Eastern Highway, for example, and you'll see a clear difference. Does this have anything to do with the "Automatically updated from ShareMap.org"? Plus you should really be using {{Attached KML|display=inline,title}} in articles, unless the KML doesn't apply to the whole article. - Evad37 [talk] 18:12, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

OK, I'll make them accurate, and do all new ones accurate. What difference does inline,title make? Rcsprinter (gossip) @ 20:00, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
Per the template documentation: Simply placing the template in an article generates a box. In addition, the links can be placed near the top right of an article title, similar to coordinates by using one of the |display= options - Evad37 [talk] 03:08, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 18 December 2013

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The Signpost: 25 December 2013

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Happy New Year Rcsprinter123!

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