Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Archives/2014-10-15

Op-ed

Ships—sexist or sexy?

Why does Wikipedia still use the gendered pronouns "she" and "her" for ships?

In the media

College player falsely linked to sports scandal by Wikipedia; the Nobel Prizes

Ben Koo of the sports blog Awful Announcing investigated how player Joe Streater's name became involved in recent years with a historic sports scandal.

Arbitration report

One case closed and two opened

The Banning Policy case was closed on 12 October. Arbcom affirmed that users have "considerable leeway" in terms of how their talk pages are managed.

Featured content

Bells ring out at the Temple of the Dragon at Peace

Nine articles and twenty-six pictures were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia.

Technology report

Attempting to parse wikitext

This week we sat down with The Earwig to learn about his wikitext parser.

Traffic report

Now introducing ... mobile data

We are pleased to report that the WP:5000 has now been updated to include mobile views, including a column reflecting the percentage of views coming from mobile devices.

WikiProject report

Signpost reaches the Midwest

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.

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