Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Archives/2013-05-27

News and notes

First-ever community election for FDC positions

Alongside the Signpost's interviews with the Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) Board of Trustees candidates, the Signpost asked the candidates for the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) and its Ombudsperson position a series of questions relating to the positions they may be taking on. For the FDC candidates, this will include specific recommendations to the WMF on how to disburse over US$11 million in donors' funds to affiliate organizations, something which appears to have garnered little attention from the editing community at large so far.

In the media

Pagans complain about Qworty's anti-Pagan editing

In the continuing saga of User:Qworty's outing as author Robert Clark Young, several blogs and websites covered the now-banned user's anti-Pagan editing. In an article published on 22 May 2013, TechEye described Qworty's edits as a "reign of terror" and were pleased to find that he had not succeeded in removing several prominent Pagan biographies from the encyclopedia.

Foundation elections

Candidates talk about the Meta problem, the nation-based chapter model, world languages, and value for money

The elections for the three community seats on the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees start on 8 June. This second and final part of the interview explores two broad themes: Meta, the site that hosts movement-wide coordination; and offline entities—the chapters and the new thematic organisations and user groups.

WikiProject report

WikiProject Geographical Coordinates

This week, we plotted out the demarcations of WikiProject Geographical Coordinates, which aims to create a single standard of handling coordinates in Wikipedia articles.

Featured content

Life of 2π

Twelve articles, four lists, and twelve pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

Recent research

Motivations on the Persian Wikipedia; is science eight times more popular on the Spanish Wikipedia than the English Wikipedia?

An article in Library Review offers a much-needed comparison of data from a population of editors outside the English Wikipedia.

Technology report

Amsterdam hackathon: continuity, change, and stroopwafels

Second only to the technical track of Wikimania in terms of numbers, the Berlin Hackathon (2009–2012) provided those with an interest in the software that underpins Wikimedia wikis and supports its editors a place to gather, exchange ideas and learn new skills.

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