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Archives: July 2009 – present, January 2009 – June 2009, October 2008 – December 2008, older: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Contents 1 Suggestions for coverage in the Signpost 2 Ongoing 2.1 Requests for WikiProject features 3 November 9-15 3.1 WP:FOUR 3.2 User:Juliancolton/Project 3.3 Date de-linking 3.4 kswahili contest 3.5 The QI Book of the Dead 3.6 Craig Newmark 3.7 Arbitration Committee elections 4 November 16-22 4.1 President of Suriname visits WMF-partnered museum exhibit 4.2 Webby Awards cite birth of Wikipedia "among the top 10 internet moments of the decade"

[edit] Ongoing

[edit] Requests for WikiProject features

If you'd like your WikiProject featured in an upcoming WikiProject report, feel free to list it here. Note that these requests are entirely advisory, and may or may not be used in future reports. Please do not "support" or "oppose" individual requests, and keep requests short and concise. Ral315 (talk) 05:51, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

• WP:DINO, with over 90 members, the Dinosaur WikiProject is really dedicated to dinosaur coverage. See achievements for more information. Bibliomaniac15 21:51, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

• WikiProject Oregon is a lively and productive project that currently supports over 5000 articles, and has a dedicated core group of editors who work toward getting articles to GA and FA. Currently we are working on a response to the Oregon Historical Society's announcement that they are starting a collaborative encyclopedia project that will somehow be better than Wikipedia. Katr67 (talk) 02:21, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

• WikiProject Saints, the only project which to my knowledge has gotten a barnstar from an outsider as a project. And, of course, considering it just declared indpendence, Wikipedia:WikiProject Kosovo might be the most timely. John Carter (talk) 19:17, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Textile Arts nearly died and came back to life. Originally begun in early 2007, by the start of December it had dwindled to just two active members. For a view of how much it's revived, here's its March newsletter (featured pictures, good articles, DYKs, and a featured portal drive). Durova 09:19, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

• I think Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories/uncategorized might be a nice success-story to include in some edition of the Signpost. Various gnomes have hacked away at this backlog ever since bots like Alaibot started populating it a year and a half ago. Of course, this is a never-ending task but it's an important one and the backlog typically hovers around 2000 articles (compared to 10 times that a year ago). Pichpich (talk) 13:42, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

• WikiProject Long Island. Theres tons of things that happened in WP:LINY that would be great for the signpost. Nothing444 13:12, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Professional wrestling. The GA nominations have been overloaded for several months with articles that they've been working on. Royalbroil 14:36, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

• Wikipedia:Spotlight. We have just restarted and our first article was elevated to a GA by our effort. We have already created new templates and even a barnstar. The one thing we are missing is people. The last article (Kristallnacht) was a 3-person job, and we could do with a little feature just to let people know we're back Dendodge 17:45, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Further info;

Spotlight is a project where users choose an article to improve, and then discuss ideas online in real-time. We all have different skills, and we can all learn from each other. In the past, like many projects, it fizzled our through a lack of interest, but it has now been re-launched. The article chosen for the first week was Marco Polo, and after 634 edits from over 30 users, it was improved from a highly-disputed contested B-class to a "Good Article" - thus proving that "Many hands make (spot)light work!" The group have now turned their attentions to the Marco Polo sheep. Chzz ► 22:34, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

The idea is to truly collaborate in real time, discuss problems and split work so that an article is significantly improved and expanded in a very short time. Something that's really great is that new users get to practically learn new stuff with on demand users to answer their questions.--Diaa abdelmoneim (talk) 22:57, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

• WikiProject Environment. It has quite a bit of members and quality of articles (5 FA, 20 GA, 3 GAN). It has a task force that has attracted an English course in University of Kansas to improve environment-related sections in Wikipedia articles. OhanaUnited 13:21, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

• WikiProject U.S. Roads. There have been a recent surge of good articles, making a total of 12 featured articles, 2 featured lists, 1 featured picture, 2 featured topics, 9 A-Class articles, and 117 Good articles. There are five main users that should be interviewed, and they are Rschen7754, Scott5114, O, Kéiryn, and NE2. --CG 03:41, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

• WikiProject Comedy - It contains over 50 featured works, over 200 GAs, and has just under 50 members. ISD (talk) 08:43, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

• WikiProject Horror. Established in 2006, this project has been given renewed life recently and hopes to be able to contribute and improve articles within our scope. <span style="font-family:CarbonType,American Typewriter,Bookman Old Style

[edit] November 9-15

[edit] WP:FOUR

Consensus was reached at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Four Award to create Wikipedia:Four Award.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 21:12, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

• Thanks for letting us know, I added this into News and Notes. — Pretzels ^Hii! 22:34, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] User:Juliancolton/Project

Perhaps User:Juliancolton/Project could somehow be mentioned? –Juliancolton | ^Talk 05:21, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Date de-linking

Firstly, to the regulars, sorry for missing my slot(s) recently, it looks as this will continue into the future as work begins to bite.

The news: a couple of days back, after trialling, I approved the date delinking bot (it was flagged shortly afterwards). It should start its activities soon (probably already). - Jarry1250 ^{[Humorous? Discuss.]} 17:12, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] kswahili contest

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Seconded; a quite notable Google intervention, also good for WP:CSB points. Skomorokh, barbarian 23:49, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

• mentioned in this week's issue, and sj says he'll write something longer for next week after the workshops get started. -- phoebe / (talk to me) 17:29, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] The QI Book of the Dead

The QI Book of the Dead mentions Wikipedia in its "Further Reading and Acknowledgements". It reads:

"It would be churlish not to mention www.wikipedia.com. For all its unevenness and flaws it is an invaluable tool that will only grow in usefulness the more of us that use it."

ISD (talk) 21:35, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Craig Newmark

Wikimedia Foundation Appoints Craig Newmark to its Advisory Board. -- Zanimum (talk) 17:55, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Arbitration Committee elections

As things stand, the field of candidates for the Arbitration Committee December 2009 elections is rather sparse, with a mere nine editors standing for presumably eight seats. I hope that the Signpost is intending a dedicated story each week for the elections, and suggest should the field remain underpopulated, that the focus of this weeks' article being encouraging experienced and serious editors to run, with coverage of relevant information such as the historical record, perhaps further coverage of Risker's thoughts for candidates, and fervour for reform indicated in last year's RfC to discourage complacency about the progress made by the sitting Committee. Skomorokh, barbarian 23:44, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

• User:Manning Bartlett is planning to cover the story every week, previous articles are here and here. I expect this will be covered in our next edition. — Pretzels ^Hii! 01:04, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] November 16-22

[edit] President of Suriname visits WMF-partnered museum exhibit

The August 10 edition of Signpost reported that the Tropenmuseum of Amsterdam had partnered with WMF Netherlands and the Open Progress Foundation to hold a collaborative exhibit about the cultural history of Suriname. According to the Tropenmuseum's official Twitter feed, President Ronald Venetiaan of Suriname visited the museum to see the exhibit this past weekend.[2] First Lady Lisbeth Venetiaan came to the Tropenmuseum last Saturday and was so impressed that she returned with her husband the following day. The Suriname exhibit at Tropenmuseum is the first time a Wikimedia chapter has collaborated with a major museum to hold a joint exhibit. Durova³⁶⁶ 01:24, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Webby Awards cite birth of Wikipedia "among the top 10 internet moments of the decade"

[3]. Cirt (talk) 07:34, 19 November 2009 (UTC)