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January
Volume 13, Issue 01
, 17 January 2017
From the editor:
Next steps for the
Signpost
News and notes:
Surge in RFA promotions—a sign of lasting change?
In the media:
Year-end roundups, Wikipedia's 16th birthday, and more
Featured content:
One year ends, and another begins
Arbitration report:
Concluding 2016 and covering 2017's first two cases
Traffic report:
Out with the old, in with the new
Technology report:
Tech present, past, and future
Recent research:
Female Wikipedians aren't more likely to edit women biographies; Black Lives Matter in Wikipedia
Interview:
What is it like to edit Wikipedia when you're blind?
February
Volume 13, Issue 02
, 6 February 2017
Arbitration report:
WMF Legal and ArbCom weigh in on tension between disclosure requirements and user privacy
Special report:
Wolves nip at Wikipedia's heels: A perspective on the cost of paid editing
News and notes:
Official WMF rebuke to Trump policy; WMF secures restricted funds
In focus:
WMF strategy consultant brings background in crisis reputation management; Team behind popular WMF software put "on pause"
WikiProject report:
For the birds!
Op-ed:
How to make editing workshops useful, even if participants don't stick around
In the media:
Presidential politics, periodic table, and our periodic roundup of updates
Technology report:
Better PDFs, backup plans, and birthday wishes
Traffic report:
Cool It Now
Featured content:
Three weeks dominated by articles
Forum:
Productive collaboration around coordinated protest marches; Media and political personalities comment on Wikipedia at its 16th birthday celebration
Volume 13, Issue 03
, 27 February 2017
From the editors:
Results from our poll on subscription and delivery, and a new RSS feed
Recent research:
Special issue: Wikipedia in education
Technology report:
Responsive content on desktop; Offline content in Android app
In the media:
The Daily Mail does not run Wikipedia
Gallery:
A Met montage
Special report:
Peer review – a history and call for reviewers
Op-ed:
Wikipedia has cancer
Featured content:
The dominance of articles continues
Traffic report:
Love, football, and politics
Blog:
WikiIndaba 2017: A continent gathers to chart a path forward
June
Volume 13, Issue 04
, 9 June 2017
From the editors:
Signpost status: On reserve power, Help wanted!
News and notes:
Global Elections
Arbitration report:
Cases closed in the Pacific and with Magioladitis
Op-ed:
Wikipedia's lead sentence problem
Featured content:
Three months in the land of the featured
In the media:
Did Wikipedia just assume Garfield's gender?
Recent research:
Wikipedia bot wars capture the imagination of the popular press
Technology report:
Tech news catch-up
Traffic report:
Film on Top: Sampling the weekly top 10
Volume 13, Issue 05
, 23 June 2017
News and notes:
Departments reorganized at Wikimedia Foundation, and a month without new RfAs (so far)
In the media:
Kalanick's nipples; Episode #138 of
Drama on the Hill
Op-ed:
Facto Post: a fresh take
Featured content:
Will there ever be a break? The slew of featured content continues
Traffic report:
Wonder Woman beats Batman, The Mummy, Darth Vader and the Earth
Recent research:
Utopian bubbles: Can Wikipedians create value outside of the capitalist system?
Technology report:
Improved search, and WMF data scientist tells all
July
Volume 13, Issue 06
, 15 July 2017
News and notes:
French chapter woes, new affiliates and more WMF team changes
Featured content:
Spectacular animals, Pine Trees screens, and more
In the media:
Concern about access and fairness, Foundation expenditures, and relationship to real-world politics and commerce
Recent research:
The chilling effect of surveillance on Wikipedia readers
Op-ed:
Why task forces are dying in 2017
Gallery:
A mix of patterns
Humour:
The infobox game
Traffic report:
Film, television and Internet phenomena reign with some room left over for America's birthday
Technology report:
New features in development; more breaking changes for scripts
Wikicup:
2017 WikiCup round 3 wrap-up
August
Volume 13, Issue 07
, 5 August 2017
News and notes:
Non-English special edition! 99% no news about English-based wiki communities!
Recent research:
Wikipedia can increase local tourism by +9%; predicting article quality with deep learning; recent behavior predicts quality
WikiProject report:
Comic relief
In the media:
Wikipedia used to judge death penalty, arms smuggling, Indonesian governance, and HOTTEST celebrity
Traffic report:
Swedish countess tops the list
Blog:
Canadian Supreme Court rules against Google in favor of worldwide court orders
Special report:
Sharing Wikipedia offline medical information in the Dominican Republic
Featured content:
Everywhere in the lead
Technology report:
Introducing TechCom
Humour:
WWASOHs and ETCSSs
September
Volume 13, Issue 08
, 6 September 2017
From the editors:
What happened at Wikimania?
News and notes:
Basselpedia; WMF Board of Trustees appointments
Featured content:
Warfighters and their tools or trees and butterflies
Traffic report:
A fortnight of conflicts
Special report:
Biomedical content, and some thoughts on its future
Recent research:
Discussion summarization; Twitter bots tracking government edits; extracting trivia from Wikipedia
In the media:
Google's Ideological Echo Chamber; What makes someone successful?
WikiProject report:
WikiProject YouTube
Technology report:
Latest tech news
Wikicup:
2017 WikiCup round 4 wrap-up
Humour:
Bots
Volume 13, Issue 09
, 25 September 2017
News and notes:
Chapter updates; ACTRIAL
In the media:
Monkey settlement; Wikipedia used to give AI context clues
Humour:
Chickenz
Recent research:
Wikipedia articles vs. concepts; Wikipedia usage in Europe
Technology report:
Flow restarted; Wikidata connection notifications
Gallery:
Chicken mania
Special report:
Two steps forward, one step backward: The Sustainability Initiative
Traffic report:
Fights and frights
Featured content:
Flying high
October
Volume 13, Issue 10
, 23 October 2017
News and notes:
Money! WMF fundraising, Wikimedia strategy, WMF new office!
Featured content:
Don, Marcel, Emily, Jessica and other notables
Humour:
Guys named Ralph
In focus:
Offline Wikipedia developed at OFF.NETWORK Content Hackathon
Blog:
The future of offline access to Wikipedia: The Kiwix example
In the media:
Facebook and poetry
Special report:
Working with GLAMs in the UK
Traffic report:
Death, disaster, and entertainment
November
Volume 13, Issue 11
, 24 November 2017
News and notes:
Cons, cons, cons
Arbitration report:
Administrator desysoped; How to deal with crosswiki issues; Mister Wiki case likely
Technology report:
Searching and surveying
Interview:
A featured article centurion
WikiProject report:
Recommendations for WikiProjects
In the media:
Open knowledge platform as a media institution
Traffic report:
Strange and inappropriate
Featured content:
We will remember them
Recent research:
Who wrote this? New dataset on the provenance of Wikipedia text
Humour:
Good faith (but still incomprehensible)
December
Volume 13, Issue 12
, 18 December 2017
Special report:
Women in Red World Contest wrap-up
Blog:
Close encounters of the Wikipedia kind
Featured content:
Featured content to finish 2017
In the media:
Stolen seagulls, public domain primates and more
Arbitration report:
Last case of 2017: Mister Wiki editors
Gallery:
Wiki loving
Interview:
Interview with Charlesjsharp, regular contributor of Wikipedia's Featured Pictures
Recent research:
French medical articles have "high rate of veracity"
Technology report:
Your wish lists and more Wikimedia tech
Traffic report:
Notable heroes and bad guys
Humour:
On their way to the WMF Incubator
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