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12 November 2014
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In the media
Amazon Echo; EU freedom of panorama; Bluebeard's Castle
"Technology media outlets are abuzz after the November 6 unveiling of the Amazon Echo, an Internet-connected voice command device"; "The
EUobserver
talks (November 4) with Dimitar Dimitrov (User:Dimi z) about the lack of freedom of panorama in some European Union countries and its implications for Wikimedia projects"; "Scott Cantrell, classical music critic for the
Dallas Morning News
, recounts efforts to verify an uncited claim in the Wikipedia article for the Béla Bartók opera
Bluebeard's Castle
."
Traffic report
Holidays, anyone?
This was very much a week dominated by holidays and pop culture over current events, with new film
Interstellar
taking the top spot followed by holidays Day of the Dead (#2), Guy Fawkes and his Night (#4 and #5), and Halloween (#8, and its third week on the list). And a foursome of television shows, all return visitors, appear to setting up residence on the greater Top 25:
The Walking Dead
(#11),
American Horror Story: Freak Show
(#14),
Gotham
(#16), and
The Flash
(#18).
Featured content
Wikipedia goes to church in Lithuania
Nine articles, two lists, and 55 featured pictures were promoted during the week of 26 October.
WikiProject report
Talking hospitals
We return to our interview format this week, speaking with the participants of
WikiProject Hospitals
. This project, formed in 2010, has no Featured content and only three Good articles, yet aided by around 30 hard-working Wikipedians covers a topic that is essential to life.
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