User talk:Mifter/Signpost/Archives/2018/February

The Signpost: 5 February 2018

• Op-ed: Do editors have the right to be forgotten?
  

Should an editor's block history be a permanent "rap sheet", or does Wikipedia forgive and forget? A reform initiative has begun.

• Featured content: Wars, sieges, disasters and everything black possible
  

Exemplary content recognized between January 12 and January 20, 2018

• Recent research: Automated Q&A from Wikipedia articles; Who succeeds in talk page discussions?
  

Also: Polish quality, Russian political mythologization, and multilingual analyses

• Blog: New monthly dataset shows where people fall into Wikipedia rabbit holes
  

The Wikimedia Foundation's Analytics team compiles a clickstream dataset, now available as a series of monthly data dumps for English, Russian, German, Spanish, and Japanese Wikipedias.

• Interview: Interview with The Rambling Man, Wikipedia's top contributor of Featured Lists
  

Lessons on Creating a Featured List

• Traffic report: TV, death, sports, and doodles
  

The most popular articles for January 14 to 27

• Special report: Cochrane–Wikipedia Initiative
  

A partnership to improve and update Wikipedia's medical content

• Arbitration report: New cases requested for inter-editor hostility and other collaboration issues
  

Politeness and collegial behavior about to be taken up by Arbcom, and perhaps a revisit of the infobox question.

• In the media: Solving crime; editing out violence allegations
  

Also, did UCF really win?

• Humour: You really are in Wonderland
  

Enjoy the humour of another contributor

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The Signpost: 20 February 2018

• News and notes: The future is Swedish with a lack of administrators
  

Sweden selected for Wikimania 2019; research report on shaping the future; a scarcity of RfAs.

• Recent research: Politically diverse editors write better articles; Reddit and Stack Overflow benefit from Wikipedia but don't give back
  

There might be good things about an edit war.

• Arbitration report: Arbitration committee prepares to examine two new cases
  

Editor in self-imposed exile and infobox wars a thorn in the side of arbitration committee.

• Traffic report: Addicted to sports and pain
  

The Superbowl, the Winter Olympics, death, and accusations of unspeakable things.

• Featured content: Entertainment, sports and history
  

An eclectic mix of promotions.

• Technology report: Paragraph-based edit conflict screen; broken thanks
  

And other recent tech news.

• Humour: Impossible and unexplained traffic report
  

Stubs get a lot of pageviews.

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