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The Signpost: 06 September 2016[edit]

News and notes: AffCom still grappling with WMF Board's criteria for new chapters

Special report: Olympics readership depended on language

In the media: Librarians, Wikipedians, and a library of Wikipedia coverage

WikiProject report: Watching Wikipedia

Featured content: Entertainment, sport, and something else in-between

Traffic report: From Phelps to Bolt to Reddit

Technology report: Wikimedia mobile sites now don't load images if the user doesn't see them

Recent research: Ethics of machine-created articles and fighting vandalism

Blog: Upload of free photos from Swiss library underway

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Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot[edit]

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
3,312	Captain Marvel (DC Comics) (talk)	Add sources
11	Ciudad Barranquilla (talk)	Add sources
25	Fergee (talk)	Add sources
3,036	Eastern Orthodox Church (talk)	Add sources
39,323	Facebook (talk)	Add sources
7	Sky-surfer (talk)	Add sources
65	Cinema of Ghana (talk)	Cleanup
2,041	Network switch (talk)	Cleanup
506	History of Palestine (talk)	Cleanup
38	Cinema of Portugal (talk)	Expand
42,688	United States (talk)	Expand
41	Cinema of Hungary (talk)	Expand
2,467	Presbyterianism (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
10,422	Internet (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
432	Public broadcasting (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
244	Metres above sea level (talk)	Merge
13	Belgium in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest (talk)	Merge
5,047	Social media (talk)	Merge
12	Howard Pawley (talk)	Wikify
19	La Une (talk)	Wikify
3,099	Werner Herzog (talk)	Wikify
4	Alexandra Dunn (talk)	Orphan
3	Ajaqa (talk)	Orphan
16	Alex Hayes (talk)	Orphan
4	Judge Dredd: The Big Shot! (talk)	Stub
4	Judge Dredd: Dreddline (talk)	Stub
70	The News International (talk)	Stub
11	Stan Lee (Judge Dredd) (talk)	Stub
4	1560 in Spain (talk)	Stub
3	Edgar, Virginia (talk)	Stub

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Extended confirmed protection[edit]

Hello, Phantomsteve. This message is intended to notify administrators of important changes to the protection policy.

Extended confirmed protection (also known as "30/500 protection") is a new level of page protection that only allows edits from accounts at least 30 days old and with 500 edits. The automatically assigned "extended confirmed" user right was created for this purpose. The protection level was created following this community discussion with the primary intention of enforcing various arbitration remedies that prohibited editors under the "30 days/500 edits" threshold to edit certain topic areas.

In July and August 2016, a request for comment established consensus for community use of the new protection level. Administrators are authorized to apply extended confirmed protection to combat any form of disruption (e.g. vandalism, sock puppetry, edit warring, etc.) on any topic, subject to the following conditions:

Extended confirmed protection may only be used in cases where semi-protection has proven ineffective. It should not be used as a first resort.
A bot will post a notification at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard of each use. MusikBot currently does this by updating a report, which is transcluded onto the noticeboard.

Please review the protection policy carefully before using this new level of protection on pages. Thank you.
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The Signpost: 29 September 2016[edit]

News and notes: Wikipedia Education Program case study published; and a longtime Wikimedian has made his final edit

In the media: Wikipedia in the news

Featured content: Three weeks in the land of featured content

Arbitration report: Arbcom looking for new checkusers and oversight appointees while another case opens

Traffic report: From Gene Wilder to JonBenét

Technology report: Category sorting and template parameters

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