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The Signpost: 02 January 2012

Interview: The Gardner interview

News and notes: Things bubbling along as Wikimedians enjoy their holidays

WikiProject report: Where are they now? Part III

Featured content: Ghosts of featured content past, present, and future

Arbitration report: New case accepted, four open cases, terms begin for new arbitrators

The Signpost: 09 January 2012

Technological roadmap: 2011's technological achievements in review, and what 2012 may hold

News and notes: Fundraiser 2011 ends with a bang

In the news: Wikipedia ends annual fundraising drive; Monmouthpedia launches

WikiProject report: From Traditional to Experimental: WikiProject Jazz

Featured content: Contentious FAC debate: a week in review

Arbitration report: Four open cases, proposed decision in Betacommand 3

Technology report: December in more detail; and why the MediaWiki codebase was "slushed" this week

The Signpost: 16 January 2012

Special report: English Wikipedia to go dark on January 18

Sister projects: What are our sisters up to now?

News and notes: WMF on the looming SOPA blackout, Wikipedia turns 11, and Commons passes 12 million files

WikiProject report: WikiProject Beer

Featured content: Lecen on systemic bias in featured content

Arbitration report: Four open cases, Betacommand case deadlocked, Muhammad images close near

Technology report: ArticleFeedback moves into new trial phase; and how MediaWiki integrates with Facebook, IPv6, and PostgreSQL explored

The Signpost: 23 January 2012

News and notes: SOPA blackout, Orange partnership

In the news: World watched as Wikipedia shut down for SOPA blackout

WikiProject report: The Golden Horseshoe: WikiProject Toronto

Featured content: Interview with Muhammad Mahdi Karim and the best of the week

Arbitration report: Four open cases, proposed decision in Muhammad images, AUSC call for applications

Technology report: Looking ahead to MediaWiki 1.19 and related issues

The Signpost: 30 January 2012

News and notes: Update on Global Development, Wikipedia Day NYC is a success, JFK audio on Commons

In the news: Zambian wiki-assassins, Foundation über alles, editor engagement and the innovation plateau

Recent research: Language analyses examine power structure and political slant; Wikipedia compared to commercial databases

WikiProject report: Digging Up WikiProject Palaeontology

Featured content: Featured content soaring this week

Arbitration report: Five open cases, voting on proposed decisions in two cases

Technology report: Why "Lua" is on everybody's lips, and when to expect MediaWiki 1.19

The Signpost: 06 February 2012

News and notes: The Foundation visits Tunisia, analyzes donors

In the news: Leading scholar hails Wikipedia, historians urged to contribute while PR pros remain shunned

Discussion report: Discussion swarms around Templates for deletion and returning editors of colourful pasts

WikiProject report: The Eye of the Storm: WikiProject Tropical Cyclones

Featured content: Talking architecture with MrPanyGoff

Arbitration report: Four open cases, final decision in Muhammad images, Betacommand 3 near closure

Technology report: October's coding challenge: results now in; progress on 1.19 steady; and why for a while interwiki links were no more

The Signpost: 13 February 2012

Special report: Fundraising proposals spark a furore among the chapters

News and notes: Foundation launches Legal and Community Advocacy department

In the news: Scholars and spindoctors contend with the emergent wikiorder

In focus: Skirmishes in the 'great sectarian war of the Internet'

WikiProject report: WikiProject Stub Sorting

Featured content: The best of the week

Arbitration report: Betacommand 3 closed, proposed decision in Civility enforcement, AUSC candidates announced

Technology report: January sees prototype new geodata API; but February looks to be a testing time for top developers

The Signpost: 20 February 2012

Special report: The plight of the new page patrollers

News and notes: Fundraiser row continues, new director of engineering

Discussion report: Discussion on copyrighted files from non-US relation states

WikiProject report: WikiProject Poland

Featured content: The best of the week

Arbitration report: Civility enforcement closed, proposed decision in TimidGuy, two cases remain open

Technology report: Major strands of development cycle coalesce as 1.19 is deployed to first wikis

The Signpost: 27 February 2012

News and notes: Finance meeting fallout, Gardner recommendations forthcoming

Recent research: Gender gap and conflict aversion; collaboration on breaking news; effects of leadership on participation; legacy of Public Policy Initiative

Discussion report: Focus on admin conduct and editor retention

WikiProject report: Just don't call it "sci-fi": WikiProject Science Fiction

Featured content: By plane, by ship, and by stagecoach: Featured content goes trekking this week

Arbitration report: Final decision in TimidGuy ban appeal, one case remains open

Technology report: 1.19 deployment stress, Meta debates whether to enforce SUL

The Signpost: 05 March 2012

News and notes: Chapter-selected Board seats, an invite to the Teahouse, patrol becomes triage, and this week in history

In the news: Heights reached in search rankings, privacy and mental health info; clouds remain over content policing

Discussion report: COI and NOTCENSORED: policies under discussion

WikiProject report: We don't bite: WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles

Featured content: Best of the week

Arbitration report: AUSC appointments announced, one case remains open

Technology report: With the 1.19 deployment now (mostly) complete, developers consider possible "mini" deployment later in the month

The Signpost: 12 March 2012

Interview: Liaising with the Education Program

Women and Wikipedia: Women's history, what we're missing, and why it matters

Arbitration analysis: A look at new arbitrators

News and notes: Sue Gardner tackles the funds, and the terms of use update nears implementation

In the news: Britannica runs out of print as Jimmy Wales anointed UK transparency tsar

Discussion report: Nothing changes as long discussions continue

WikiProject report: WikiProject Women's History

Featured content: Extinct humans, birds, and Birdman

Arbitration report: Proposed decision in 'Article titles', only one open case

Education report: Diverse approaches to Wikipedia in Education

Technology report: Git learning curve steep but not insurmountable, plus a diff style we can all agree on?

The Signpost: 19 March 2012

News and notes: Chapters Council proposals take form as research applications invited for Wikipedia Academy and HighBeam accounts

Discussion report: Article Rescue Squadron in need of rescue yet again

WikiProject report: Lessons from another Wikipedia: Czech WikiProject Protected Areas

Featured content: Featured content on the upswing!

Arbitration report: Race and intelligence 'review' opened, Article titles at voting

Technology report: Bugmeister to leave at end of May, but developers keen to "chart" a path ahead

The Signpost: 26 March 2012

News and notes: Controversial content saga continues, while the Foundation tries to engage editors with merchandising and restructuring

WikiProject report: WikiProject Rock Music

Featured content: Malfunctioning sharks, toothcombs and a famous mother: featured content for the week

Arbitration report: Race and intelligence review at evidence, article titles closed

Recent research: Predicting admin elections; studying flagged revision debates; classifying editor interactions; and collecting the Wikipedia literature

Education report: Universities unite for GLAM; and High Schools get their due.

Technology report: A busy week: Git switchover, mobile site upgraded, and still time for three security releases

The Signpost: 02 April 2012

Interview: An introduction to movement roles

Arbitration analysis: Case review: TimidGuy ban appeal

News and notes: Berlin reforms to movement structures, Wikidata launches with fanfare, and Wikipedia's day of mischief

WikiProject report: The Signpost scoops The Signpost

Featured content: Snakes, misnamed chapels, and emptiness: featured content this week

Arbitration report: Race and intelligence review in third week, one open case

Technology report: Somewhere amongst the endless discussions about Gerrit lie details of hackathons, performance blips explained and more

The Signpost: 09 April 2012

Wikidata: The next big thing? An interview with Wikidata

Interview: Funds, fiduciaries, and the Foundation: the complex dynamics of scaling

News and notes: Projects launched in Brazil and the Middle East as advisors sought for funds committee

WikiProject report: The Land of Steady Habits: WikiProject Connecticut

Featured content: Assassination, genocide, internment, murder, and crucifixion: the bloodiest of the week

Arbitration report: Arbitration evidence-limit motions, two open cases

Technology report: Next Wikimedia deployment already in the pipeline and details of recent performance improvements

The Signpost: 16 April 2012

Arbitration analysis: Inside the Arbitration Committee Mailing List

Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Facilitator: Silver seren

News and notes: French language outreach, WikiTravel debate, and HighBeam reloaded

Discussion report: The future of pending changes

WikiProject report: The Butterflies and Moths of WikiProject Lepidoptera

Featured content: A few good sports: association football, rugby league, and the Olympics vie for medals

Arbitration report: Evidence submissions begin in Rich Farmbrough case, proposed decision in R&I Review

Technology report: MediaWiki 1.20wmf01 hits first WMF wiki, understanding 20% time, and why this report cannot yet be a draft

The Signpost: 23 April 2012

Investigative report: Spin doctors spin Jimmy's "bright line"

News and notes: Help-space revamp, WikiTravel RfC, and Justin Knapp scores a million edits

WikiProject report: Skeptics and Believers: WikiProject The X-Files

Featured content: A mirror (or seventeen) on this week's featured content

Arbitration report: Evidence submissions close in Rich Farmbrough case, vote on proposed decision in R&I Review

Technology report: Wikimedia Labs: soon to be at the cutting edge of MediaWiki development?

The Signpost: 30 April 2012

Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Consultant: Pete Forsyth

News and notes: Showdown as featured article writer openly solicits commercial opportunities

Recent research: Barnstars work; Wiktionary assessed; cleanup tags counted; finding expert admins; discussion peaks; Wikipedia citations in academic publications; and more

Discussion report: 'ReferenceTooltips' by default

WikiProject report: The Cartographers of WikiProject Maps

Featured content: Featured content spreads its wings

Arbitration report: R&I Review remains in voting, two open cases

Technology report: What Git means for end users, design controversies and pertinent poll results

The Signpost: 07 May 2012

Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Communicator: Phil Gomes

News and notes: Hong Kong to host Wikimania 2013

In the news: What does Wikipedia call an expert; and untruths in biographies ... again.

WikiProject report: Say What?: WikiProject Languages

Featured content: This week at featured content: How much wood would a Wood Duck chuck if a Wood Duck could chuck wood?

Arbitration report: Proposed decision in Rich Farmbrough, two open cases

Technology report: Search gets faster, GSoC gets more detail and 1.20wmf2 gets deployed

The Signpost: 14 May 2012

Special report: Wikimedia and the "seismic shift" towards open-access research publication

News and notes: Finance debate drags on as editor survey finds Wikipedia too bureaucratic

WikiProject report: Welcome to Wikipedia with a cup of tea and all your questions answered - at the Teahouse

Featured content: Featured content is red hot this week

Arbitration report: R&I Review closed, Rich Farmbrough near closure

Technology report: Cross-wiki watchlist controversy; and is "go file a bug" really a useful response?

The Signpost: 21 May 2012

From the editor: New editor-in-chief

News and notes: Two new Wikimedia fellows to boost strategies for tackling major issues

WikiProject report: Trouble in a Galaxy Far, Far Away....

Featured content: Lemurbaby moves it with Madagascar: Featured content for the week

Arbitration report: No open arbitration cases pending

Technology report: On the indestructibility of Wikimedia content

The Signpost: 28 May 2012

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation endorses open-access petition to the White House; pending changes RfC ends

Recent research: Supporting interlanguage collaboration; detecting reverts; Wikipedia's discourse, semantic and leadership networks, and Google's Knowledge Graph

WikiProject report: Experts and enthusiasts at WikiProject Geology

Featured content: Featured content cuts the cheese

Arbitration report: Fæ and GoodDay requests for arbitration, changes to evidence word limits

Technology report: Developer divide wrangles; plus Wikimedia Zero, MediaWiki 1.20wmf4, and IPv6

The Signpost: 04 June 2012

Special report: WikiWomenCamp: From women, for women

News and notes: Editors want most funding for technical areas, while widespread ignorance of WMF board elections and chapters persists; voting still live on Commons best picture

Discussion report: Watching Wikipedia change

WikiProject report: Views of WikiProject Visual Arts

Featured content: On the lochs

Arbitration report: Two motions for procedural reform, three open cases, Rich Farmbrough risks block and ban

Technology report: Report from the Berlin Hackathon

The Signpost: 11 June 2012

Special report: Springer's misappropriation of Wikimedia content "the tip of the iceberg"

News and notes: Foundation finance reformers wrestle with CoI

WikiProject report: Counter-Vandalism Unit

Featured content: The cake is a pi

Arbitration report: Procedural reform enacted, Rich Farmbrough blocked, three open cases

Technology report: To support or not to support IPv6, and why knowing when this report was last updated might be getting easier

The Signpost: 18 June 2012

Investigative report: Is the requests for adminship process 'broken'?

News and notes: Ground shifts while chapters dither over new Association

Discussion report: Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations

WikiProject report: The Punks of Wikipedia

Featured content: Taken with a pinch of "salt"

Arbitration report: Three open cases, GoodDay case closed

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

The Signpost: 25 June 2012

Op-ed: A call for editorial input in developing new Creative Commons licensing

News and notes: "Mystical" Picture of the Year; run-up to Wikimania DC; RfA reform 2012

In the news: Wales enters extradition battle; Wikipedia's political bias

Recent research: Edit war patterns, deleters vs. the 1%, never used cleanup tags, authorship inequality, higher quality from central users, and mapping the wikimediasphere

WikiProject report: Summer Sports Series: WikiProject Athletics

Featured content: A good week for the Williams

Arbitration report: Three open cases

Technology report: Second Visual Editor prototype launches

The Signpost: 02 July 2012

Analysis: Uncovering scientific plagiarism

Op-ed: Representing knowledge – metadata, data and linked data

News and notes: RfC on joining lobby group; JSTOR accounts for Wikipedians and the article feedback tool

In the news: Public relations on Wikipedia: friend or foe?

Discussion report: Discussion reports and miscellaneous articulations

WikiProject report: Summer sports series: Burning rubber with WikiProject Motorsport

Featured content: Heads up

Arbitration report: Three open cases, motion for the removal of Carnildo's administrative tools

Technology report: Initialisms abound: QA and HTML5

The Signpost: 09 July 2012

Special report: Reforming the education programs: lessons from Cairo

News and notes: Russian Wikipedia blackout; WMF tools; Wikitravel proposal revisited

WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Football

Featured content: Keeps on chuggin'

Arbitration report: Three requests for arbitration

Technology report: Optimism over LastModified and MoodBar, but change in clock time causes downtime

The Signpost: 16 July 2012

Special report: Chapters Association mired in controversy over new chair

News and notes: WMF enacts reforms at Wikimania; main page redesign; 4 millionth article milestone

WikiProject report: Summer sports series: French WikiProject Cycling

Discussion report: Discussion reports and miscellaneous articulations

Wikimania: Young chapter shows experience beyond its years

Featured content: Taking flight

Technology report: Tech talks at Wikimania amid news of a mixed June

Arbitration report: Fæ faces site-ban, proposed decisions posted

The Signpost: 23 July 2012

Paid editing: Does Wikipedia pay? The skeptic: Orange Mike

From the editor: Signpost developments

News and notes: Chapter head speaks about the aftermath of Russian Wikipedia shutdown

WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Olympics

Arbitration report: Fæ and Michaeldsuarez banned; Kwamikagami desysopped; Falun Gong closes with mandated external reviews and topic bans

Op-ed: The future of PR on Wikipedia

Featured content: When is an island not an island?

Technology report: Translating SVGs and making history bugs history

The Signpost: 30 July 2012

Recent research: Conflict dynamics, collaboration and emotions; digitization vs. copyright; WikiProject field notes; quality of medical articles; role of readers; Best Wiki Paper Award

News and notes: Wikimedians and London 2012; WMF budget – staffing, engineering, editor retention effort, and the global South; Telegraph's cheap shot at WP

WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Horse Racing

Featured content: One of a kind

Technology report: Talking performance with CT Woo and Green Semantic MediaWiki with Nischay Nahata

Arbitration report: No pending or open arbitration cases

The Signpost: 06 August 2012

Op-ed: The Athena Project: being bold

News and notes: FDC portal launched

Arbitration report: No pending or open arbitration cases

Featured content: Casliber's words take root

Technology report: Wikidata nears first deployment but wikis go down in fibre cut calamity

WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Martial Arts

The Signpost: 13 August 2012

Op-ed: Small Wikipedias' burden

News and notes: Bangla-language survey suggests the challenges for small Wikipedias

Arbitration report: You really can request for arbitration

Featured content: On the road again

Technology report: "Phabricating" a serious alternative to Gerrit

WikiProject report: Dispute Resolution

Discussion report: Image placeholders, machine translations, Mediation Committee, de-adminship

The Signpost: 20 August 2012

Op-ed: Wikimedians are rightfully wary

News and notes: Core content competition in full swing; Wikinews fork taken offline

In the news: American judges on citing Wikipedia

Featured content: Enough for a week – but I'm damned if I see how the helican.

Technology report: Lua onto test2wiki and news of a convention-al extension

WikiProject report: Land of Calm and Contrast: Korea

The Signpost: 27 August 2012

News and notes: Tough journey for new travel guide

Recent research: New influence graph visualizations; NPOV and history; 'low-hanging fruit'

Technology report: Just how bad is the code review backlog?

Featured content: Wikipedia rivals The New Yorker: Mark Arsten

WikiProject report: From sonic screwdrivers to jelly babies: Doctor Who

Discussion report: Sidebar and main page alterations; Recent Deaths; Education Program extension

The Signpost: 03 September 2012

News and notes: World's largest photo competition kicks off; WMF legal fees proposal

Technology report: Time for a MediaWiki Foundation?

Featured content: Wikipedia's Seven Days of Terror

Op-ed: Dispute resolution – where we're at, what we're doing well, and what needs fixing

The Signpost: 10 September 2012

From the editor: Signpost adapts as news consumption changes

Op-ed: Fixing Wikipedia's help pages one key to editor retention

In the media: Author criticizes Wikipedia article; Wales attacks UK government proposal

Featured content: Not a "Gangsta's Paradise", but still rappin'

WikiProject report: WikiProject Fungi

Special report: Two Wikipedians set to face jury trial

News and notes: Researchers find that Simple English Wikipedia has "lost its focus"

Technology report: Mmmm, milkshake...

Discussion report: Closing Wikiquette; Image Filter; Education Program and Momento extensions

The Signpost: 17 September 2012

From the editor: Signpost expands to Facebook

WikiProject report: Action! — The Indian Cinema Task Force

Featured content: Go into the light

News and notes: Tens of thousands of monuments loved; members of new funding body announced

Technology report: Future-proofing: HTML5 and IPv6

The Signpost: 24 September 2012

In the media: Editor's response to Roth draws internet attention

Recent research: "Rise and decline" of Wikipedia participation, new literature overviews, a look back at WikiSym 2012

WikiProject report: 01010010 01101111 01100010 01101111 01110100 01101001 01100011 01110011

News and notes: UK chapter rocked by Gibraltar scandal

Technology report: Signpost investigation: code review times

Featured content: Dead as...

Discussion report: Image filter; HotCat; Syntax highlighting; and more

The Signpost: 01 October 2012

Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Founder: Jimmy Wales

News and notes: Independent review of UK chapter governance; editor files motion against Wikitravel owners

Featured content: Mooned

Technology report: WMF and the German chapter face up to Toolserver uncertainty

WikiProject report: The Name's Bond... WikiProject James Bond

The Signpost: 08 October 2012

News and notes: Education Program faces community resistance

WikiProject report: Ten years and one million articles: WikiProject Biography

Featured content: A dash of Arsenikk

Technology report: The ups and downs of September and October, plus extension code review analysis

Discussion report: Closing RfAs: Stewards or Bureaucrats?; Redesign of Help:Contents

The Signpost: 15 October 2012

Op-ed: AdminCom: A proposal for changing the way we select admins

In the media: Wikipedia's language nerds hit the front page

Featured content: Second star to the left

News and notes: Chapters ask for big bucks

Technology report: Wikidata is a go: well, almost

WikiProject report: WikiProject Chemicals

The Signpost: 22 October 2012

Special report: Examining adminship from the German perspective

Arbitration report: Malleus Fatuorum accused of circumventing topic ban; motion to change "net four votes" rule

Technology report: Wikivoyage migration: technical strategy announced

Discussion report: Good articles on the main page?; reforming dispute resolution

News and notes: Wikimedians get serious about women in science

WikiProject report: Where in the world is Wikipedia?

Featured content: Is RfA Kafkaesque?

The Signpost: 29 October 2012

News and notes: First chickens come home to roost for FDC funding applicants; WMF board discusses governance issues and scope of programs

WikiProject report: In recognition of... WikiProject Military History

Technology report: Improved video support imminent and Wikidata.org live

Featured content: On the road again

Recent research: WP governance informal; community as social network; efficiency of recruitment and content production; Rorschach news

The Signpost: 05 November 2012

Op-ed: 2012 WikiCup comes to an end

News and notes: Wikimedian photographic talent on display in national submissions to Wiki Loves Monuments

In the media: Was climate change a factor in Hurricane Sandy?

Discussion report: Protected Page Editor right; Gibraltar hooks

Featured content: Jack-O'-Lanterns and Toads

Technology report: Hue, Sqoop, Oozie, Zookeeper, Hive, Pig and Kafka

WikiProject report: Listening to WikiProject Songs

The Signpost: 12 November 2012

News and notes: Court ruling complicates the paid-editing debate

Featured content: The table has turned

Technology report: MediaWiki 1.20 and the prospects for getting 1.21 code reviewed promptly

WikiProject report: Land of parrots, palm trees, and the Holy Cross: WikiProject Brazil

The Signpost: 19 November 2012

News and notes: FDC's financial muscle kicks in

WikiProject report: No teenagers, mutants, or ninjas: WikiProject Turtles

Technology report: Structural reorganisation "not a done deal"

Featured content: Wikipedia hit by the Streisand effect

Discussion report: GOOG, MSFT, WMT: the ticker symbol placement question

The Signpost: 26 November 2012

News and notes: Toolserver finance remains uncertain

Recent research: Movie success predictions, readability, credentials and authority, geographical comparisons

Featured content: Panoramic views, history, and a celestial constellation

Technology report: Wikidata reaches 100,000 entries

WikiProject report: Directing Discussion: WikiProject Deletion Sorting

The Signpost: 03 December 2012

News and notes: Wiki Loves Monuments announces 2012 winner

Featured content: The play's the thing

Discussion report: Concise Wikipedia; standardize version history tables

Technology report: MediaWiki problems but good news for Toolserver stability

WikiProject report: The White Rose: WikiProject Yorkshire

The Signpost: 10 December 2012

News and notes: Wobbly start to ArbCom election, but turnout beats last year's

Featured content: Wikipedia goes to Hell

Technology report: The new Visual Editor gets a bit more visual

WikiProject report: WikiProject Human Rights

The Signpost: 17 December 2012

News and notes: Arbitrator election: stewards release the results

WikiProject report: WikiProjekt Computerspiel: Covering Computer Games in Germany

Discussion report: Concise Wikipedia; section headings for navboxes

Op-ed: Finding truth in Sandy Hook

Featured content: Wikipedia's cute ass

Technology report: MediaWiki groups and why you might want to start snuggling newbie editors

The Signpost: 24 December 2012

News and notes: Debates on Meta sparking along—grants, new entities, and conflicts of interest

WikiProject report: A Song of Ice and Fire

Featured content: Battlecruiser operational

Technology report: Efforts to "normalise" Toolserver relations stepped up

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