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The Wikipedia Signpost 2009

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The Wikipedia Signpost[edit]

2009[edit]

3 January 2009: From the editor: Getting back on track; ArbCom elections: 10 arbitrators appointed; Virgin Killer page blocked, unblocked in UK; Editing statistics show decline in participation; Wikipedia drug coverage compared to Medscape, found wanting; News and notes: Fundraising success and other developments; Dispatches: Featured list writers; Wikipedia in the news; WikiProject Report: WikiProject Ice Hockey; Features and admins; The Report on Lengthy Litigation
10 January 2009: News and notes: Flagged Revisions and permissions proposals, hoax, milestones; Wikipedia in the news; Dispatches: December-themed Main Page; Features and admins; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News; The Report on Lengthy Litigation
17 January 2009: News and notes: New advisory board members, changes at ArbCom; Wikipedia in the news; Dispatches:Featured article writers—the 2008 leaders; WikiProject Report: WikiProject Pharmacology; Features and admins; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News; The Report on Lengthy Litigation
24 January 2009: Jimbo requests that developers turn on Flagged Revisions; Report on accessing Wikipedia via mobile devices; News and notes: New chapters, new jobs, new knight and more; Wikipedia in the news: Britannica, Kennedy, Byrd not dead yet; Dispatches: Reviewing featured picture candidates; Features and admins; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News; The Report on Lengthy Litigation
31 January 2009: Large portion of articles are orphans; News and notes: Ogg support, Wikipedia Loves Art, Jimbo honored; Wikipedia in the news: Flagged Revisions, Internet Explorer add-on; Dispatches: In the news; WikiProject Report: Motto of the Day; Features and admins; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News; The Report on Lengthy Litigation
8 February 2009: News and notes: Elections, licensing update, and more; Wikipedia in the news: Wikipedia's future, WikiDashboard, and "wiki-snobs"; Dispatches: April Fools 2009 mainpage; WikiProject Report: WikiProject Music; Features and admins; The Report on Lengthy Litigation
16 February 2009: A new leaf; Picture of the Year 2008 begins voting; Flagged Revisions, historical image discovery, and more; Political tiff, error repeated in press, predictions of doom; How busy was 2008?; WikiProject Gaelic games; Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations; Approved this week; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News; The Report on Lengthy Litigation
23 February 2009: Philosophers analyze Wikipedia as a knowledge source; An automated article monitoring system for WikiProjects; Wikimania, usability, picture contest, milestones; Lessons for Brits, patent citations; Hundredth Featured sound approaches; WikiProject Islam; Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations; Approved this week; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News; The Report on Lengthy Litigation
2 March 2009: Books extension enabled; Stewards, Wikimania bids, and more; Wikipedia's role in journalism, Smarter Wikipedia, Skittles; WikiProject Ships Featured topic and Good topics; WikiProject Norse History and Culture; Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations; Approved this week; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News; The Report on Lengthy Litigation
9 March 2009: Commons, conferences, and more; Politics, more politics, and more; 100 Featured sounds milestone; WikiProject Christianity; Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations; Approved this week; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News; The Report on Lengthy Litigation
16 March 2009: License update, Commons cartoons, films milestone, and more; Manufactured scandal, Wikipedia assignments, and more; New FAC and FAR appointments; Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations; Approved this week; The Report on Lengthy Litigation
23 March 2009: Reviewing books for the Signpost; Abuse Filter is enabled; Flaggedrevs, copyright project, fundraising reports, and more; Alternatives, IWF threats, and more; WikiProject Judaism; Approved this week; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News; The Report on Lengthy Litigation
30 March 2009: Follow the Signpost with RSS and Twitter; Community weighs license update; End of Encarta, flagged revisions poll, new image donation, and more; Censorship, social media in schools, and more; Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations; Approved this week; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News; The Report on Lengthy Litigation
6 April 2009: Interactive OpenStreetMap features in development; Statistics, Wikipedia research and more; Wikia Search abandoned, university plagiarism, and more; New FAC and FAR nomination process; WikiProject China; Approved this week; The Report on Lengthy Litigation
13 April 2009: Licensing vote begins; WMF petitions Obama, longer AFDs, UK meeting, and more; Let's get serious about plagiarism; WikiProject Color; Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations; Approved this week; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News; The Report on Lengthy Litigation
20 April 2009: Reviews of The Wikipedia Revolution; Wikipedia's coverage and conflicts quantified; New program officer, survey results, and more; Valued pictures; WikiProject Films; Approved this week; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News; The Report on Lengthy Litigation
27 April 2009: Reviews of Lazy Virtues: Teaching Writing in the Age of Wikipedia; Usability study, Wiki Loves Art, and more; Wikipedia Art dispute, and brief headlines; Interview on WikiProject Final Fantasy; Approved this week; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News; The Report on Lengthy Litigation
4 May 2009: Strategic planning, Wikipedia and scientists and more; Calling Dr. Wikipedia, the cause of Encarta's fall, and more; Re-examining Featured lists; Approved this week; The Report on Lengthy Litigation
11 May 2009: Wikimania 2010, usability project, link rot, and more; Quote hoax replicated in traditional media, and more; WikiProject Birds reaches an FA milestone; WikiProject Michael Jackson; Approved this week; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News; The Report on Lengthy Litigation
18 May 2009: Writers needed; WikiChemists and Chemical Abstracts announce collaboration; Embassies sponsor article-writing contests in three languages; Wiki Loves Arts winners, Wikimania Conference Japan, and more; Arbitrator blogs, French government edits, brief headlines; WikiProject Opera; Approved this week; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News; The Report on Lengthy Litigation
25 May 2009: Licensing vote results announced, resolution passed; New board member, flagged revisions, Eurovision interviews; Wikipedia: threat or menace?; WikiProject LGBT studies; Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations; Approved this week; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News; The Report on Lengthy Litigation
1 June 2009: Browsing the archives; Review of The Future of the Internet; End of Scientology arbitration brings blocks, media coverage; Picture of the Year, Wikipedia's first logo, Board elections, and more; Tamil Wikipedia, Internet Watch Foundation, and more; Approved this week; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News; The Report on Lengthy Litigation
8 June 2009: Picture process turmoil, block patterns, and more; ArbCom in the news, weak coverage of Italian firms, and more; Approved this week; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News; The Report on Lengthy Litigation
15 June 2009: Review of Cyberchiefs: Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes; License update, Google Translate, GLAM conference, Paid editing; In the Google News, London Review of Books, and more; WikiProject Chemistry; Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations; Approved this week; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News; The Report on Lengthy Litigation
22 June 2009: Study of vandalism survival times; Wikizine, video editing, milestones; Wikipedia impacts town's reputation, assorted blogging; Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations; Approved this week; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News; The Report on Lengthy Litigation
29 June 2009: Jackson's death, new data center, more; Wired editor plagiarizes Wikipedia, Google News Support; Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations; Approved this week; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News; The Report on Lengthy Litigation
6 July 2009: Commons grant, license change, new chapters, usability and more; Wikipedia and kidnapping, also new comedy series; WikiProject Food and Drink; Approved this week; The Report on Lengthy Litigation
13 July 2009: UK public gallery threatens Wikimedian; Working with, not against, cultural institutions; WMF Elections, Annual Financial Plan, Google Image Search, and more; More on kidnapping, vandalism commentary, libel suit, and more; WikiProject Years; Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations; Approved this week; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News; The Report on Lengthy Litigation
20 July 2009: Preliminary program released for Wikimania 2009; Further developments in copyright dispute; New stats, elections extended, strategic planning staff and more; Britannica brand still popular, Wikipedia 'a desert' for good portraits; Approved this week; The Report on Lengthy Litigation; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
27 July 2009: Welcome to the build-your-own edition of the Signpost; Board of Trustees elections draw 18 candidates for 3 seats; Wikimedians and others gather for Wiki-Conference New York; Volunteers lead Wikipedia Academy at National Institutes of Health; Things that happened in the Wikimedia world; Assorted news coverage of Wikipedia; Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations; WikiProject Oregon; Approved this week; The Report on Lengthy Litigation; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
3 August 2009: WMF elections, strategy wiki, museum partnerships, and much more; Dispute over Rorschach test images, and more; Approved this week; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News; The Report on Lengthy Litigation
10 August 2009: Tropenmuseum to host partnered exhibit with Wikimedia community; Tech news, strategic planning, BLP task force, and more; Shrinking community, GLAM-Wiki, and more; Approved this week; The Report on Lengthy Litigation
17 August 2009: Where should the Signpost go from here?; Review of Bigipedia radio series; Three million articles, Chen, Walsh and Klein win board election, and more; Reports of Wikipedia's imminent death greatly exaggerated, and more; Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations; Approved this week; The Report on Lengthy Litigation; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
24 August 2009: $500,000 grant, Wikimania, Wikipedia Loves Art winners; Health care coverage, 3 million articles, inkblots, and more; Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations; Approved this week; The Report on Lengthy Litigation; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
31 August 2009: Misleading media storm over flagged revisions; An extended look at how we got to flagged protection and patrolled revisions; Report on Wikimania 2009; $2 million grant, new board members; WikiTrust, Azerbaijan-Armenia edit wars; Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations; Approved this week; The Report on Lengthy Litigation; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
7 September 2009: Commons hits 5 million files, vandalism study, and more; Gender statistics, editors sued, and more; Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations; WikiProject Anime and manga; The Report on Lengthy Litigation; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
14 September 2009: Grant structure, and more; Reporter's kidnap blackout affects Wikipedia, and more; Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations; WikiProject Video games; Approved this week; The Report on Lengthy Litigation; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
21 September 2009: Call for opinion pieces; Footnotes updated, WMF office and jobs, Strategic Planning and more; Wales everywhere, participation statistics, and more; Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations; WikiProject Dungeons & Dragons; Approved this week; The Report on Lengthy Litigation; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
28 September 2009: White Barbarian; LocalisationUpdate has gone live; Sue Gardner answers questions from community; Vibber resigns, Staff office hours, Flagged Revs, new research and more; Stunting of growth, Polanski protected and more; Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations; WikiProject National Register of Historic Places; Approved this week; The Report on Lengthy Litigation; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
5 October 2009: LiquidThreads in Beta; The Law affair; Article Incubator, Wikipedians take Manhattan, new features in testing, and much more; Wikipedia used by UN, strange AFDs, iPhone reality; Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations; New developments at the Military history WikiProject; Approved this week; The Report on Lengthy Litigation; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
12 October 2009: Perspectives from other projects; Memorial and Collaboration; Bing launches Wikipedia search; New WMF hire, new stats, and more; IOC objects to Creative Commons license, Wikipedia at Yale, and more; Sounds; Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations; WikiProject Tropical cyclones; Approved this week; The Report on Lengthy Litigation; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
19 October 2009: WikiReader, Meetup in Pakistan, Audit committee elections, and more; Sanger controversy reignited, Limbaugh libelled, and more; Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations; Approved this week; The Report on Lengthy Litigation; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
26 October 2009: Interview with John Blossom; New hires, German Wikipedian dies, new book tool, and more; Editor profiled in Washington Post, Wikia magazines, and more; Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations; Approved this week; The Report on Lengthy Litigation; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
2 November 2009: Durova wins 2009 WikiCup; WikiSym features research on Wikipedia; 2009 ArbCom elections report; Inaugural Audit Subcommittee elections underway; Wikipedia remembers the Wall; Strategic planning, November conference, brief news and milestones; Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations; Project banner meta-templates; Approved this week; The Report on Lengthy Litigation; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
9 November 2009: Controversial "Wikipedia Forever" fundraiser to start 10 November; Wikipedians test the water at new page patrol; German Wikipedia under fire from inclusionists; Multimedia usability meeting concludes in Paris; Arbitration Committee candidate nominations open 10 November; Review of Connected Minds, Emerging Cultures: Cybercultures in Online Learning; Ant images, public outreach, and more; Beefeater vandalism, interview, and more; Meta-wiki interview; Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations; Approved this week; The Report on Lengthy Litigation
16 November 2009: "Wikipedia Forever" fundraiser begins; Bulgarian Wikipedia gets a prestigious award; Arbitration Committee Election: Several candidates standing; Kiswahili contest, new advisory board members, Foundation-l and more; German lawsuit, Jimbo interview and more; Wiktionary interview; Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations; Approved this week; The Report on Lengthy Litigation; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
23 November 2009: New tool for photo scavenger hunts; Arbitration Committee Election: Nominations closing November 24; "Wikipedia Forever" fundraiser continues; Government stubs, Suriname exhibit, milestones and more; The Decline of Wikipedia, and more; Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations; Approved this week; The Report on Lengthy Litigation; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
30 November 2009: ArbCom election begins December 1, using SecurePoll; 35k donated, WikiProject for Wikipedia-Books, 2M rated articles, and more; Reports of Wikipedia's demise, prescriptions for its ills, and more; Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations; Approved this week; The Report on Lengthy Litigation; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
7 December 2009: 250th issue of the Signpost; A digital restoration; ArbCom election in full swing; Interview with David G. Post; Wikipedia's death report premature, fundraiser, usability, new CSD, noms, and more; Ron Livingston sues vandal, disclosure of IP address ordered, brief headlines; Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations; Approved this week; The Report on Lengthy Litigation; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
14 December 2009: Voting closes in the Arbitration Committee Elections; Mapping geotagged articles language, import sources enabled, and more; Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations; Approved this week; The Report on Lengthy Litigation; Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
21 December 2009: ArbCom election result announced; Fundraiser update, milestones and more; Accusation of bias, misreported death, and more; Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations; Approved this week
28 December 2009: Flagged revisions petitions, image donations, brief news; Criticism from climate change sceptic, decade in review; Discussion Reports and Miscellaneous Articulations; Approved this week