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The Signpost: 25 September 2013

Op-ed: Q&A on Public Relations and Wikipedia

Traffic report: Look on Walter's works

In the media: Fox News: Wikipedia abandons efforts to purge porn from online encyclopedia

News and notes: Last call for Wiki Loves Monuments; Community–WMF tension over VisualEditor

WikiProject report: Babel Series: GOOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLLL!!!!!

Featured content: Wikipedia takes the stage

Recent research: Automatic detection of "infiltrating" Wikipedia admins; Wiki, or 'pedia?

The Signpost: 02 October 2013

Op-ed: Commons medical diagnostic images under threat from unresolved ownership

Discussion report: References to individuals and groups, merging wikiprojects, portals on the Main page, and more

News and notes: WMF signals new grantmaking priorities

Featured content: Bobby, Ben, Roger and a fantasia

Arbitration report: Infoboxes: After the war

WikiProject report: U2 Too

The Signpost: 09 October 2013

Traffic report: Shutdown shenanigans

WikiProject report: Australian Roads

Featured content: Under the sea

News and notes: Extensive network of clandestine paid advocacy exposed

In the media: College credit for editing Wikipedia

Arbitration report: Manning naming dispute and Ebionites 3 cases continue; third arbitrator resigns

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
59	Montgomery Blair High School (talk)	Add sources
15	Heretic (novel) (talk)	Add sources
81	Margaret Corbin (talk)	Add sources
144	Ur Kaśdim (talk)	Add sources
28	Fernando Ortiz (talk)	Add sources
452	Legal personality (talk)	Add sources
253	Pat McCrory (talk)	Cleanup
6	Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (talk)	Cleanup
11	The World's Work (talk)	Cleanup
299	Nest Labs (talk)	Expand
329	Tobacco pipe (talk)	Expand
338	Torchlight II (talk)	Expand
197	Translational medicine (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
6,341	Steven Spielberg (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
518	Equity (legal concept) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
95	United States House of Representatives elections in California, 2012 (talk)	Merge
1,170	Neurology (talk)	Merge
7	University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville (talk)	Merge
16	Communications in the Isle of Man (talk)	Wikify
201	MakerBot Industries (talk)	Wikify
298	Permanent death (talk)	Wikify
6	Introception (talk)	Orphan
1	Mogoi (talk)	Orphan
2	North Carolina Science Olympiad (talk)	Orphan
29	Pavel Schilling (talk)	Stub
12	Leineschloss (talk)	Stub
31	Bicêtre Hospital (talk)	Stub
90	Homeothermy (talk)	Stub
1	Society of Anthropology of Paris (talk)	Stub
2	Wilson Area School District (talk)	Stub

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The Signpost: 16 October 2013

News and notes: Vice on Wiki-PR's paid advocacy; Featured list elections begin

Traffic report: Peaceful potpourri

WikiProject report: Heraldry and Vexillology

Featured content: That's a lot of pictures

Arbitration report: Manning naming dispute case closes

Discussion report: Ada Lovelace Day, paid advocacy on Wikipedia, sidebar update, and more

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The Signpost: 23 October 2013

News and notes: Grantmaking season—rumblings in the German-language community

Traffic report: Your average week ... and a fish

Featured content: Your worst nightmare as a child is now featured on Wikipedia

Discussion report: More discussion of paid advocacy, upcoming arbitrator elections, research hackathon, and more

In the media: The decline of Wikipedia; Sue Gardner releases statement on Wiki-PR; Australian minister relies on Wikipedia

WikiProject report: Elements of the world

The Signpost: 30 October 2013

Traffic report: 200 miles in 200 years

In the media: Rand Paul plagiarizes Wikipedia?

News and notes: Sex and drug tourism—Wikivoyage's soft underbelly?

Featured content: Wrestling with featured content

Recent research: User influence on site policies: Wikipedia vs. Facebook vs. Youtube

WikiProject report: Special: Lessons from the dead and dying

The Signpost: 06 November 2013

News and notes: Alleged "outing" of editor's personal information leads to Wikipedia ban

Traffic report: Danse Macabre

Featured content: Five years of work leads to 63-article featured topic

WikiProject report: WikiProject Accessibility

Arbitration report: Ebionites 3 case closed

Discussion report: Sockpuppet investigations, VisualEditor, Wikidata's birthday, and more

The Signpost: 13 November 2013

Traffic report: Google Doodlebugs bust the block

Featured content: 1244 Chinese handscroll leads nine-strong picture contingent

Special report: FDC staff raise the benchmarks for activities, impact, planning, and governance

News and notes: Trademark at issue again with the Italian Wikipedia and wikipedia.it

WikiProject report: The world of soap operas

Discussion report: Commas, Draft namespace proposal, education updates, and more

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
1,697	Wayans family (talk)	Add sources
17	Solomon Stoddard (talk)	Add sources
94	Buck-Tick (talk)	Add sources
762	Emasculation (talk)	Add sources
51	1-800 Contacts (talk)	Add sources
46	Landtag (talk)	Add sources
266	RepRap Project (talk)	Cleanup
25	Korean Minjok Leadership Academy (talk)	Cleanup
19	Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering (talk)	Cleanup
22	The Independent Games Developers Association (talk)	Expand
350	Vani Rani (TV series) (talk)	Expand
110	Spanish property bubble (talk)	Expand
170	Emergent gameplay (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,254	Russian mafia (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
20	Wayne State University Law School (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
230	Interlock (engineering) (talk)	Merge
18	Achille Bonito Oliva (talk)	Merge
78	Educational neuroscience (talk)	Merge
49	The Art of Video Games (talk)	Wikify
1	Spheroidene monooxygenase (talk)	Wikify
1	Qom University of Medical Sciences (talk)	Wikify
4	Rajshahi University School (talk)	Orphan
25	Auxiliary fraction (talk)	Orphan
4	Aredo (talk)	Orphan
280	Jangiri Madhumitha (talk)	Stub
12	Mallasamudram (talk)	Stub
7	Bürgerschaft of Bremen (talk)	Stub
2	Church of Saint Elias, Glamoč (talk)	Stub
3	Lubavitch Youth Organization (talk)	Stub
23	Ruth Orkin (talk)	Stub

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