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The Signpost: 29 January 2014

Traffic report: Six strikes out

WikiProject report: Special report: Contesting contests

News and notes: Wiki-PR defends itself, condemns Wikipedia's actions

Arbitration report: Kafziel case closed; Kww admonished by motion

Recent research: Translation assignments, weasel words, and Wikipedia's content in its later years

Abusive IP user

User:111.161.64.99 Has made these two edits on Dlv999's talk page. They are the only edits made by this IP but represent significant abuse. I'm not sure what the policy is here. SPACKlick (talk) 10:32, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 12 February 2014

In the media: WikiVIP; Art Feminism; Medical articles; PR manipulation; Azerbaijani Wikipedia

Technology report: Left with no choice

News and notes: WMF bites the bullet on affiliation and FDC funding, elevates Wikimedia user groups

Featured content: Space selfie

Traffic report: Sports Day

WikiProject report: Game Time in Russia

Electrical Engineering Project


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Freshman404^Talk 10:52, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 19 February 2014

News and notes: Foundation takes aim at undisclosed paid editing; Greek Wikipedia editor faces down legal challenge

Technology report: ULS Comeback

WikiProject report: Countering Systemic Bias

Featured content: Holotype

Traffic report: Chilly Valentines

The Signpost: 26 February 2014

Forum: Should Wikimedia modify its terms of use to require disclosure?

Featured content: Odin salutes you

WikiProject report: Racking brains with neuroscience

Special report: Diary of a protester: Wikimedian perishes in Ukrainian unrest

News and notes: Wikimedia chapters and communities challenge Commons' URAA policy

Traffic report: Snow big deal

Recent research: CSCW '14 retrospective; the impact of SOPA on deletionism

(test) The Signpost: 05 March 2014

Traffic report: Brinksmen on the brink

Discussion report: Four paragraph lead, indefinitely blocked IPs, editor reviews broken?

News and notes: Wikipedia Library finding success in matching contributors with sources

Featured content: Full speed ahead for the WikiCup

WikiProject report: Article Rescue Squadron

The Signpost: 12 March 2014

News and notes: Wikimedians celebrate International Women's Day, Women's History Month

Traffic report: War and awards

Featured content: Ukraine burns

WikiProject report: Russian WikiProject Entomology

The Signpost: 19 March 2014

Forum: Wikimedia Commons mission: free media for the world or only Wikimedia projects?

WikiProject report: We have history

Interview: Nate Ott: the writer behind 71 articles in the largest-ever good topic

Featured content: Spot the bulldozer

News and notes: Foundation-supported Wikipedian in residence faces scrutiny

Traffic report: Into thin air

Technology report: Wikimedia engineering report

The Signpost: 26 March 2014

Comment: A foolish request

Traffic report: Down to a simmer

Recent research: Wikipedians' "encyclopedic identity" dominates even in Kosovo debates

News and notes: Commons Picture of the Year—winners announced

Featured content: Winter hath a beauty that is all his own

Op-ed: Why we're updating the default typography for Wikipedia

Technology report: Why will Wikipedia look like the Signpost?

WikiProject report: From the peak

The Signpost: 02 April 2014

News and notes: Wikimedia conferences—soul-searching about costs, attendance, and future

WikiProject report: Deutschland in English

Special report: On the cusp of the Wikimedia Conference

Featured content: April Fools

Traffic report: Regressing to the mean

The Signpost: 09 April 2014

News and notes: Round 2 of FDC funding open to public comments

WikiProject report: WikiProject Law

Special report: Community mourns passing of Adrianne Wadewitz

Traffic report: Conquest of the Couch Potatoes

Featured content: Snow heater and Ash sweep

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 11:50, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 April 2014

Special report: 2014 Wikimedia Conference—what is the impact?

Op-ed: Five things a Wikipedian in residence can do

News and notes: Wikimedian passes away

WikiProject_report: To the altar—Catholicism

Wikimania: Winning bid announced for 2015

Traffic report: Reflecting in Gethsemane

Featured content: There was I, waiting at the church

The Signpost: 30 April 2014

News and notes: WMF's draft annual plan turns indigestible as an FDC proposal

Traffic report: Going to the Doggs

Breaking: The Foundation's new executive director

WikiProject report: Genetics

Interview: Wikipedia in the Peabody Essex Museum

Featured content: Browsing behaviours

Recent research: Wikipedia predicts flu more accurately than Google

Urdu

Dear User:MikeLynch, I just thought I'd say nice job with adding the New Delhi trilingual image in the Urdu article! It looks great! Best wishes, Anupam^Talk 09:52, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 07 May 2014

News and notes: New system of discretionary sanctions; Buchenwald; is Pirelli 'Cracking Wikipedia'?

Traffic report: TMZedia

In focus: Foundation announces long-awaited new executive director

WikiCup: 2014 WikiCup enters round three

In the media: Google and the flu; Adrianne

WikiProject report: Singing with Eurovision

Featured content: Wikipedia at the Rijksmuseum

The Signpost: 14 May 2014

Investigative report: Hong Kong's Wikimania 2013—failure to produce financial statement raises questions of probity

WikiProject report: Relaxing in Puerto Rico

News and notes: 'Ask a librarian'—connecting Wikimedians with the National Library of Australia

Featured content: On the rocks

Traffic report: Eurovision, Google Doodles, Mothers, and 5 May

Technology report: Technology report needs editor, Media Viewer offers a new look

The Signpost: 21 May 2014

News and notes: "Crisis" over Wikimedia Germany's palace revolution

Featured content: Staggering number of featured articles

Traffic report: Doodles' dawn

Request for comment

Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:46, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 May 2014

News and notes: The English Wikipedia's second featured-article centurion; wiki inventor interviewed on video

Featured content: Zombie fight in the saloon

Traffic report: Get fitted for flipflops and floppy hats

Recent research: Predicting which article you will edit next

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Stefan2 (talk) 14:57, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 June 2014

Special report: IEG funding for women's stories: a new approach to the gender gap

News and notes: Two new affiliate-selected trustees

Op-ed: "Hospitality, jerks, and what I learned"—the amazing keynote at WikiConference USA

Featured content: Ye stately homes of England

In the media: Reliable or not, doctors use Wikipedia

Traffic report: Autumn in summer

The Signpost: 11 June 2014

News and notes: PR agencies commit to ethical interactions with Wikipedia

Traffic report: The week the wired went weird

Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Moderator: William Beutler

Special report: Questions raised over secret voting for WMF trustees

Featured content: Politics, ships, art, and cyclones

The Signpost: 18 June 2014

News and notes: With paid advocacy in its sights, the Wikimedia Foundation amends their terms of use

Featured content: Worming our way to featured picture

Special report: Wikimedia Bangladesh: a chapter's five-year journey

Traffic report: You can't dethrone Thrones

WikiProject report: Visiting the city

The Signpost: 25 June 2014

News and notes: US National Archives enshrines Wikipedia in Open Government Plan

Traffic report: Fake war, or real sport?

Exclusive: "We need to be true to who we are": Foundation's new executive director speaks to the Signpost

Discussion report: Media Viewer, old HTML tags

Featured content: Showing our Wörth

WikiProject report: The world where dreams come true

Recent research: Power users and diversity in WikiProjects

The Signpost: 02 July 2014

In the media: Wiki Education; medical content; PR firms

Traffic report: The Cup runneth over... and over.

News and notes: Wikimedia Israel receives Roaring Lion award

Featured content: Ship-shape

WikiProject report: Indigenous Peoples of North America

Technology report: In memoriam: the Toolserver (2005–14)

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Stefan2 (talk) 09:12, 8 July 2014 (UTC)