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Wikimania

Choice of small village for Wikimania 2016 ruffles feathers

Esino Lario is set to host Wikimania 2016, but volunteers and others have raised a host of concerns that raise serious questions about the town's suitability for hosting such a large conference.

News and notes

Wiki Loves Monuments evaluation sees diminishing returns and increasing cost

The evaluations reveal that in the last three years, WLM has possibly fallen victim to its own success and seen diminishing returns.

In the media

Scottish MEP blocked for edit warring; ranking articles by importance

David Coburn, a Member of the European Parliament for the Scotland region for the UK Independence Party, was blocked from editing Wikipedia on April 6.

Featured content

Another day, another dollar

Ten featured articles, nine featured lists, and twenty-eight featured pictures were promoted this week.

Traffic report

Bruce, Nessie, and genocide

Though the continued predominance of movies, TV, and sports noted in last week's report largely continues, three additional topics joined the Top 10 this week.

Recent research

Military history, cricket, and Australia targeted in Wikipedia articles' popularity vs. quality; how copyright damages economy

Reader demand for some topics (e.g. LGBT topics or pages about countries) is poorly satisfied, whereas there is over-abundance of quality on topics of comparatively little interest, such as military history.

Technology report

VisualEditor and MediaWiki updates

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