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Volume 10, Issue 01, 01 January 2014

• News and notes: The year in review

• In the media: Does Wikipedia need a medical disclaimer?

• Book review: Common Knowledge: An Ethnography of Wikipedia

• WikiProject report: Where Are They Now? Fifth Edition

• Traffic report: A year stuck in traffic

• Arbitration report: Examining the Committee's year

• Discussion report: Article incubator, dates and fractions, medical disclaimer

• Featured content: 2013—the trends

• Technology report: Looking back on 2013

Volume 10, Issue 02, 08 January 2014

• News and notes: WMF employee forced out over "paid advocacy editing"

• Public Domain Day: Why the year 2019 is so significant

• Op-ed: WikiCup competition beginning a new year

• WikiProject report: Jumping into the television universe

• Traffic report: Tragedy and television

• Featured content: A portal to the wonderful world of technology

• Technology report: Gearing up for the Architecture Summit

Volume 10, Issue 03, 15 January 2014

• Op-ed: Licensed for reuse? Citing open-access sources in Wikipedia articles

• News and notes: Wikimedia Germany asks for "reworking" of Funds Dissemination Committee; should MP4 be allowed on Wikimedia sites?

• In the media: Is Google hurting Wikipedia traffic?; "Wikipedia-Mania" in the New York Times

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Sociology

• Traffic report: The Hours are Ours

• Technology report: Architecture Summit schedule published

Volume 10, Issue 04, 22 January 2014

• Book review: Missing Links and Secret Histories: A Selection of Wikipedia Entries from Across the Known Multiverse

• Special report: The few who write Wikipedia

• News and notes: Modification of WMF protection brought to Arbcom

• In the media: Wikipedia for robots; Wikipedia—a temperamental teenager

• Featured content: Dr. Watson, I presume with the tramp
• Traffic report: No show for the Globes

• Technology report: Architecting the future of MediaWiki

Volume 10, Issue 05, 29 January 2014

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

• Traffic report: Six strikes out

• WikiProject report: Special report: Contesting contests

• Arbitration report: Kafziel case closed; Kww admonished by motion

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

Volume 10, Issue 06, 12 February 2014

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

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

• Featured content: Space selfie

• Traffic report: Sports Day

• WikiProject report: Game Time in Russia

• Technology report: Left with no choice

Volume 10, Issue 7, 19 February 2014

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

• WikiProject report: Countering Systemic Bias

• Featured content: Holotype

• Traffic report: Chilly Valentines

• Technology report: ULS Comeback

Volume 10, Issue 8, 26 February 2014

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

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

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

• Traffic report: Snow big deal

• WikiProject report: Racking brains with neuroscience

• Featured content: Odin salutes you

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

Volume 10, Issue 9, 05 March 2014

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

• Traffic report: Brinksmen on the brink

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

• WikiProject report: Article Rescue Squadron

• Featured content: Full speed ahead for the WikiCup

Volume 10, Issue 10, 12 March 2014

• Traffic report: War and awards

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

• WikiProject report: Examining the Russian Wikipedia's Entomology Project

• Featured content: Ukraine burns

Volume 10, Issue 11, 19 March 2014

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

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

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

• Traffic report: Into thin air

• WikiProject report: We have history

• Featured content: Spot the bulldozer

• Technology report: Wikimedia engineering report

Volume 10, Issue 12, 26 March 2014

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

• Comment: A foolish request

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

• Traffic report: Down to a simmer

• WikiProject report: From the peak

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

• Recent research: Wikipedians' "encyclopedic identity" dominates even in Kosovo debates; analysis of "In the news" discussions; user hierarchy mapped

• Technology report: Why will Wikipedia look like the Signpost?

Volume 10, Issue 13, 02 April 2014

• Special report: On the cusp of the Wikimedia Conference

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

• Traffic report: Regressing to the mean

• WikiProject report: Deutschland in English

• Featured content: April Fools

Volume 10, Issue 14, 09 April 2014

• Special report: Community mourns passing of Adrianne Wadewitz

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

• Traffic report: Conquest of the Couch Potatoes

• WikiProject report: Law

• Featured content: Snow heater and Ash sweep

Volume 10, Issue 15, 23 April 2014

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

• Wikimania: Winning bid announced for 2015

• Op-ed: Five things a Wikipedian in Residence can do

• News and notes: Wikimedian passes away

• WikiProject report: To the altar—Catholicism

• Featured content: There was I, waiting at the church

• Traffic report: Reflecting in Gethsemane

Volume 10, Issue 16, 30 April 2014

• Breaking: Wikimedia Foundation selects new executive director

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

• Interview: Wikipedia in the Peabody Essex Museum

• Featured content: Browsing behaviours

• WikiProject report: Genetics

• Traffic report: Going to the Doggs

• Recent research: Wikipedia predicts flu more accurately than Google; 43% of academics have edited Wikipedia

Volume 10, Issue 17, 07 May 2014

• In focus: Foundation announces long-awaited new executive director

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

• 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

• Traffic report: TMZedia

Volume 10, Issue 18, 14 May 2014

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

• News and notes: 'Ask a librarian'—connecting Wikimedians with the National Library of Australia; watch 'Cracking Wikipedia'

• Featured content: On the rocks

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

• WikiProject report: Relaxing in Puerto Rico

• Technology report: Technology report needs editor; Media Viewer offers a new look

Volume 10, Issue 19, 21 May 2014

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

• Traffic report: Doodles' dawn

• Featured content: Staggering number of featured articles

Volume 10, Issue 20, 28 May 2014

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

• Recent research: Predicting which article you will edit next; reader research

• Featured content: Zombie fight in the saloon

• Traffic report: Get fitted for flipflops and floppy hats

Volume 10, Issue 21, 04 June 2014

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

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

• News and notes: Two new affiliate-selected trustees

• In the media: Reliable or not, doctors use Wikipedia

• Traffic report: Autumn in summer

• Featured content: Ye stately homes of England

Volume 10, Issue 22, 11 June 2014

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

• Special report: Questions raised over secret voting for WMF trustees

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

• Traffic report: The week the wired went weird

• Featured content: Politics, ships, art, and cyclones

Volume 10, Issue 23, 18 June 2014

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

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

• Traffic report: You can't dethrone Thrones

• WikiProject report: Visiting the city

• Featured content: Worming our way to featured picture

Volume 10, Issue 24, 25 June 2014

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

• News and notes: US National Archives enshrines Wikipedia in Open Government Plan, plans to upload all holdings to Commons

• Featured content: Showing our Wörth

• WikiProject report: The world where dreams come true

• Discussion report: Media Viewer, old HTML tags

• Traffic report: Fake war, or real sport?

• Recent research: Power users and diversity in WikiProjects; the "network of cultures" in multilingual Wikipedia biographies

Volume 10, Issue 25, 02 July 2014

• News and notes: Wikimedia Israel receives Roaring Lion award

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

• WikiProject report: Indigenous peoples of North America

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

• Featured content: Ship-shape

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

Volume 10, Issue 26, 09 July 2014

• Special report: Wikimania 2014—what will it cost?

• Wikimedia in education: Exploring the United States and Canada with LiAnna Davis

• News and notes: Echoes of the past haunt new conflict over tech initiative

• Wikicup: Wikicup's third round sees money, space, battleships and more

• Featured content: Three cheers for featured pictures!

• Traffic report: World Cup, Tim Howard rule the week

Volume 10, Issue 27, 16 July 2014

• Special report: $10 million lawsuit against Wikipedia editors withdrawn, but plaintiff intends to refile

• Wikimedia in education: Serbia takes the stage with Filip Maljkovic

• News and notes: Bot-created Wikipedia articles covered in the Wall Street Journal, push Cebuano over one million articles

• Traffic report: World Cup dominates for another week

• Featured content: The Island with the Golden Gun

Volume 10, Issue 28, 23 July 2014

• Forum: Did you know?—good idea, needs reform

• Wikimedia in education: Education program gaining momentum in Israel

• News and notes: Institutional media uploads to Commons get a bit easier

• Traffic report: The World Cup hangs on, though tragedies seek to replace it

• Featured content: Why, they're plum identical!

Volume 10, Issue 29, 30 July 2014

• News and notes: How many more hoaxes will Wikipedia find?

• Book review: Knowledge or unreality?

• Wikimedia in education: Success in Egypt and the Arab world

• Featured content: Skeletons and Skeltons

• Traffic report: Doom and gloom vs. the power of Reddit

• Recent research: Shifting values in the paid content debate; cross-language bot detection

Volume 10, Issue 30, 06 August 2014

• Wikimedia in education: Leading universities educate with Wikipedia in Mexico

• News and notes: "History is a human right"—first-ever transparency report released as Europe begins hiding Wikipedia in search results

• Traffic report: Ebola drives reader interest
• Featured content: Bottoms, asses, and the fairies that love them

• Technology report: A technologist's Wikimania preview

Volume 10, Issue 31, 13 August 2014

• Wikimania: Promised the moon, settled for the stars

• Op-ed: Red links, blue links, and erythrophobia

• Special report: Twitter bots catalogue government edits to Wikipedia

• News and notes: Media Viewer controversy spreads to German Wikipedia

• Wikimedia in education: Global Education—WMF's Perspective

• In the media: Monkey selfie, net neutrality, and hoaxes

• Featured content: Cambridge got a lot of attention this week

• Traffic report: Disease, decimation and distraction

Volume 10, Issue 32, 20 August 2014

• Interview: Improving the visibility of digital archival assets using Wikipedia

• Op-ed: A new metric for Wikimedia

• Traffic report: Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero

• WikiProject report: Bats and gloves

• Featured content: English Wikipedia departs for Japan

Volume 10, Issue 33, 27 August 2014

• Featured content: Cheats at Featured Pictures!

• In the media: Plagiarism and vandalism dominate Wikipedia news

• News and notes: Media Viewer—Wikimedia's emotional roller-coaster

• Traffic report: Viral

Volume 10, Issue 34, 03 September 2014

• Op-ed: Automated copy-and-paste detection under trial

• WikiProject report: Gray's Anatomy (v. 2)

• Traffic report: Holding Pattern

• Featured content: 1882 × 6 in gold, and thruppence more

• Arbitration report: Media viewer case is suspended

• Recent research: A Wikipedia-based Pantheon; new Wikipedia analysis tool suite; how AfC hamstrings newbies

Volume 10, Issue 35, 10 September 2014

• Op-ed: Media Viewer software is not ready

• Featured content: The louse and the fish's tongue

• WikiProject report: Checking that everything's all right

• Traffic report: Refuge in celebrity

Volume 10, Issue 36, 17 September 2014

• News and notes: Wikipedia's traffic statistics are off by nearly one-third

• In the media: Turkish Twitter outrage, medical translation, audience metrics

• WikiProject report: A trip up north to Scotland

• Featured content: Which is not like the others?

• Traffic report: Tolstoy leads a varied pack

Volume 10, Issue 37, 24 September 2014

• In the media: Indian political editing, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Congressional chelonii

• Featured content: Oil paintings galore

• Traffic report: Wikipedia watches the referendum in Scotland

• WikiProject report: GAN reviewers take note: competition time

• Arbitration report: Banning Policy, Gender Gap, and Waldorf education

• Recent research: 99.25% of Wikipedia birthdates accurate; focused Wikipedians live longer; merging WordNet, Wikipedia and Wiktionary

Volume 10, Issue 38, 01 October 2014

• From the editor: The Signpost needs your help

• News and notes: Wikipedia article published in peer-reviewed journal; Wikipedia in education

• Dispatches: Let's get serious about plagiarism

• Featured content: Brothers at War

• Traffic report: Shanah Tovah

• WikiProject report: Animals, farms, forests, USDA? It must be WikiProject Agriculture

Volume 10, Issue 39, 08 October 2014

• In the media: Opposition research firm blocked; Australian brushfire

• Featured content: From a wordless novel to a coat of arms via New York City

• Traffic report: Panic and denial

• Technology report: HHVM is the greatest thing since sliced bread

Volume 10, Issue 40, 15 October 2014

• Op-ed: Ships—sexist or sexy?

• In the media: College player falsely linked to sports scandal by Wikipedia; the Nobel Prizes

• Traffic report: Now introducing ... mobile data

• Featured content: Bells ring out at the Temple of the Dragon at Peace

• Arbitration report: One case closed and two opened

• WikiProject report: Signpost reaches the Midwest

• Technology report: Attempting to parse wikitext

Volume 10, Issue 41, 22 October 2014

• In the media: The story of Wikipedia; Wikipedia reanimated and republished; UK government social media rules; death of Italian Wikipedia administrator

• Featured content: Admiral on deck—a modern Ada Lovelace

• Op-ed: Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution—a wiki-protest

• WikiProject report: De-orphanning articles - a huge task but with a huge team of volunteers to help

• Traffic report: Death, War, Pestilence... Movies and TV

Volume 10, Issue 42, 29 October 2014

• Featured content: Go West, young man (By the way, there is a monster at the end of this article)

• In the media: Wikipedia a trusted source on Ebola; Wikipedia study labeled government waste; football biography goes viral

• Maps tagathon: Find 10,000 digitised maps this weekend

• Recent research: Informed consent and privacy; newsmaking on Wikipedia; Wikipedia and organizational theories

• Traffic report: Ebola, Ultron, and Creepy Articles

Volume 10, Issue 43, 05 November 2014

• In the media: Predicting the flu; MH17 conspiracy theories

• Traffic report: Sweet dreams on Halloween

Volume 10, Issue 44, 12 November 2014

• In the media: Amazon Echo; EU freedom of panorama; Bluebeard's Castle

• Featured content: Wikipedia goes to church in Lithuania

• WikiProject report: Talking hospitals

• Traffic report: Holidays, anyone?

Volume 10, Issue 45, 19 November 2014

• Featured content: To Canaan via Jordan

• In the media: Who Killed Wikipedia?; NCAA editing

• Traffic report: Interstellar traffic

• WikiProject report: The interesting world of urban planning

Volume 10, Issue 46, 26 November 2014

• Featured content: Orbital Science: Now you're thinking with explosions

• In the media: A Russian alternative Wikipedia; Who's your grandfather?; ArtAndFeminism

• Recent research: Gender gap and skills gap; academic citations on the rise; European food cultures

• Traffic report: Big in Japan

• WikiProject report: Back with the military historians

Volume 10, Issue 47, 03 December 2014

• Op-ed: Who edits health-related content on Wikipedia and why?

• In the media: Embroidery and cheese

• Featured content: ABCD: Any Body Can Dance!

• Traffic report: Turkey and a movie

• WikiProject report: Today on the island

Volume 10, Issue 48, 10 December 2014

• Op-ed: It's GLAM up North!

• In the media: Wikipedia is "a rancorous, sexist, elitist, stupidly bureaucratic mess"

• Traffic report: Dead Black Men and Science Fiction

• Featured content: Honour him, love and obey? Good idea with military leaders.

Volume 10, Issue 49, 17 December 2014

• Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee election results

• Featured content: Tripping hither, tripping thither, Nobody knows why or whither; We must dance and we must sing, Round about our fairy ring!

• In the media: Wikipedia's year in review video; Checking in with Wikipedia's founders

• Traffic report: A December Lull

Volume 10, Issue 50, 24 December 2014

• From the editor: Looking for new editors-in-chief

• In the media: Wales on GamerGate

• Featured content: Still quoting Iolanthe, apparently.

• WikiProject report: Microsoft does The Signpost

• Traffic report: North Korea is not pleased

Volume 10, Issue 51, 31 December 2014

• News and notes: The next big step for Wikidata—forming a hub for researchers

• Op-ed: My issues with the Wiki Education Foundation

• In the media: Study tour controversy; class tackles the gender gap

• Featured content: A bit fruity

• Traffic report: Surfin' the Yuletide

• Recent research: Wikipedia in higher education; gender-driven talk page conflicts; disease forecasting