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WikiProject report Dancing to the beat of a... wikiproject?
2015-09-23
This time of year features the Latin Grammy Awards, so here for an interview are WikiProject Latin music.
WikiProject report Meet the boilerplate makers
2015-08-05
The Report checks in with WikiProject Templates.
WikiProject report Some more politics
2015-07-22
WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom
WikiProject report What happens when a country is no longer a country?
2015-07-15
We return this week with an interview with a historical project that's still fairly active, WikiProject Former countries.
WikiProject report Able to make a stand
2015-07-01
Here to share their wisdom are Dodger67, Penny Richards, LilyKitty, and Mirokado of WikiProject Disability
WikiProject report We are back - Western Australia speaks
2015-06-17
Western Australia speaks – we are back: It wouldn't be the WikiProject report if we didn't feature an Australian topic once in a while, so this week we're looking at the left side.
WikiProject report Be prepared... Scouts in the spotlight
2015-02-25
This week's project is on a youth activity, one of the largest in the world; its project is commensurately large, containing around 136 active editors. It's WikiProject Scouting, a group of editors whose remit is everything relating to the Scouting movement, which has around 42 million members worldwide and celebrated the centenary of its founding only eight years ago.
WikiProject report Brand new WikiProjects profiled
2015-02-11
This week, we bring three of the most recently created WikiProjects to come into being on the English Wikipedia. While many long-established projects are becoming inactive, (as we have covered before), that doesn't stop new ones forming every now and then to cover a topic that a group of editors feel should be better cared for.
WikiProject report Dicing with death – on Wikipedia?
2015-02-04
A small band of dedicated editors seek to improve articles relating to a less lively topic. If you haven't yet guessed, this week's focus is WikiProject Death.
WikiProject report Articles for creation: the inside story
2015-01-14
This anniversary issue, the WikiProject report is returning to WikiProject Articles for creation for one of our largest interviews ever. Last looked at in 2011, AfC is the method used by unregistered or new users to create articles, and provides an effective filtering system to remove all unsuitable or unsourced submissions to save them needing to be found and deleted later.
WikiProject report Microsoft does The Signpost
2014-12-24
A WikiProject does that old trick of becoming nearly inactive and then springing back to life.
WikiProject report Today on the island
2014-12-03
WikiProject Islands, from 2008 to now.
WikiProject report Back with the military historians
2014-11-26
It's time for this year's edition of the Report looking at possibly our largest wikiproject: Military history. Since our last interview in June 2013, the project has had no break in its huge quest to document everything in their scope, that is, militaries and conflicts of the past. As usual, its participants were eager to answer the questions posed by The Signpost and update us on how they are doing.
WikiProject report The interesting world of urban planning
2014-11-19
According to the WHO, 54% of the world's population now lives in urban areas. Chances are that you are one of them. Many Wikipedians contribute to articles relating to where they live or have visited. But have you ever thought a little beyond that and written about concepts of the cities, the towns, the areas themselves? If not, don't worry! There's a project for that, and they are the subject of the WikiProject Report this week.
WikiProject report Talking hospitals
2014-11-12
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.
WikiProject report De-orphanning articles - a huge task but with a huge team of volunteers to help
2014-10-22
De-orphanning articles—a huge task but with a huge team of volunteers to help: PaintedCarpet explains that "WikiProject Orphanage aims to connect all Wikipedia pages, so that pages can be found and read more easily."
WikiProject report Signpost reaches the Midwest
2014-10-15
Today, it's the turn of WikiProject Ohio to give us an interview probing deep into of how they manage to run a project covering one fiftieth of the United States, and the workings of how they manufacture their successes and other articles.
WikiProject report Animals, farms, forests, USDA? It must be WikiProject Agriculture
2014-10-01
This week, the Signpost went down to the farm to have a look at the work of WikiProject Agriculture, which has been in existence since 2007 and has a scope covering crop production, livestock management, aquaculture, dairy farming and forest management.
WikiProject report GAN reviewers take note: competition time
2014-09-24
A year and a week later, we're with some of the members of WikiProject Good Articles, who wanted to share the news of their upcoming contest within the project, the GA Cup. The aim of this friendly competition, which is held in the same light friendly manner of the WikiCup and the Core Contest, is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed articles at Good article nominations which has been a constant problem for quite a few years for those running the GA process.
Featured content Oil paintings galore
2014-09-24
Six articles, four lists, one topic, and 17 pictures were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.
WikiProject report A trip up north to Scotland
2014-09-17
As Scotland is deciding its future this week, we thought it might be a good idea to get to know the editors of WikiProject Scotland and talk to them about the project.
WikiProject report Checking that everything's all right
2014-09-10
This week, the Signpost decided to have a look around with WikiProject Check Wikipedia a maintenance project not concerned so much with articles' content, but in all the tiny errors that are to be found scattered within them. Their front page gives a list of things they mainly focus on ...
WikiProject report Gray's Anatomy (v. 2)
2014-09-03
"This week, the Signpost went out to meet WikiProject Anatomy, dedicated to improving the articles about all our bones, brains, bladders and biceps, and getting them to the high standard expected of a comprehensive encyclopaedia."
Featured content 1882 × 6 in gold, and thruppence more
2014-09-03
1882 × 5 in gold, and thruppence more: Two articles, one list, and ten pictures were promoted
News and notes Candidates nominating for Foundation elections; Looking ahead to Wikimania 2014
2013-05-06
Although not yet in great numbers, candidates are coming forward for Wikimedia Foundation elections, which will be held from 1 to 15 June.
News and notes WMF enacts reforms at Wikimania; main page redesign; 4 millionth article milestone
2012-07-16
During Wikimania (July 12-15), the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) board finalized and enacted long-discussed reforms of the movement's financial structures, and considered procedures for creating new ways for Wikimedians to organize themselves into offline communities. The board moved on the controversial image filter issue, approved the 2012–13 annual plan, and issued a statement on the wikitravel proposal. It also appointed the two new chapter-selected trustees and elected the four office-bearers.



       

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