Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Archives/2016-11-04

News and notes

Finally, a new CTO; trustee joins Quora; copyright upgrade impending

Victoria Coleman to fill long-vacant CTO role; Trustee Kelly Battles joins Quora executive team; last week for community input on Creative Commons 4.0 license

In the media

Washington Post continues in-depth Wikipedia coverage

Plus our roundup of recent media stories

Wikicup

WikiCup winners

Winners of the tenth annual WikiCup competition announced and profiled

Discussion report

What's on your tech wishlist for the coming year?

Progress on the 2015 Community Wishlist for tech features; and plans for a new Wishlist

Technology report

New guideline for technical collaboration; citation templates now flag open access content

Proposed best practices for communication and community involvement, and an improvement to Wikipedia's citation infrastructure

Featured content

Cream of the crop

Fourteen articles, six lists and fourteen pictures were promoted

Traffic report

Un-presidential politics

Two weeks of insights into the mind of the mob

Arbitration report

Recapping October's activities

Two cases closed, and an administrator loses editing rights

Recent research

Why women edit less, and where they are overrepresented; article importance and quality; predicting elections from Wikipedia

A recap of recent research in our realm

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