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Orbital Science: Now you're thinking with explosions

Four articles, four lists, eleven pictures, and one topic were promoted.

In the media

A Russian alternative Wikipedia; Who's your grandfather?; ArtAndFeminism

Numerous media outlets are reporting on a November 14 statement on the website of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library announcing the formation of a Russian "alternative" to Wikipedia, a "regional electronic encyclopedia" dedicated to "Russian regions and the life of the country".

Recent research

Gender gap and skills gap; academic citations on the rise; European food cultures

The monthly roundup of research related to Wikimedia.

WikiProject report

Back with the military historians

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.

Traffic report

Big in Japan

Often times in popular culture, a subject will be quite popular among a distinct niche of people or region of the world, but little-known elsewhere -- like a musical artist that is boasted to be "big in Japan". The Traffic Report provides a bevy of examples this week.

Explore Wikipedia history by browsing The Signpost archives.

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