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The Signpost: 28 May 2016

• News and notes: Upcoming Wikimedia conferences in the US and India; May Metrics and Activities Meeting

• Special report: Compensation paid to Sue Gardner increased by almost 50 percent after she stepped down as executive director

• In the media: The perils of Wikipedia's monopoly; Wikipedians' fragility; Street Sharks hoax

• Featured content: Eight articles, three lists and five pictures

• Op-ed: Journey of a Wikipedian

• Arbitration report: Gamaliel resigns from the arbitration committee

• Recent research: English as Wikipedia's Lingua Franca; deletion rationales; schizophrenia controversies

• Traffic report: Splitting (musical) airs / Slow Ride

• Blog: Freely licensed magic at Eurovision

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The Signpost: 05 June 2016

• News and notes: WMF cuts budget for 2016-17 as scope tightens

• In the media: Jimmy Wales on net neutrality—"It's complicated"—and his $100m fundraising challenge

• Featured content: Overwhelmed ... by pictures

• Traffic report: Pop goes the culture, again.

• Arbitration report: ArbCom case "Gamaliel and others" concludes

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Video Games

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This Month in GLAM: May 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue V, May 2016 Headlines Africa report: Joburg, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Nigeria and Ghana Brazil report: Immigration Museum of Sao Paulo: first steps towards an open access policy France report: Photography, a true hobby! Germany report: "Licence hint generator" at WMDEs event series about legal issues Italy report: A full month of activities Latvia report: Edit-a-thon in Latvian Academy of Culture Macedonia report: 1963 Skopje earthquake 300 photos Mexico report: Forestry and the Longest Edit-a-thon in history Netherlands report: Colonial images; Coutinho collection; Open Cultural Data; Netherlands and the world; NL Art History challenge Norway report: International Memory of the world register; Speak Norwegian? Access to The National Library's bokhylla.no? Spain report: Wiki Loves Earth; free resources; Pentathlon Wikimedia Sweden report: LSH upload; World Wide Wikipedia; Nationalmuseum Switzerland report: ETH-Bibliothek commences mass uploading campaign for photographs from the Image Archive UK report: Oxford and Scotland USA report: Archivist Award Special story: Ted Speakers Challenge - Win Books! Wiki Loves Earth Biosphere Reserves report: UNESCO and Wiki Loves Earth partner to run Wiki Loves Earth Biosphere Reserves in 120 countries throughout June Open Access report: WikiCite; Fluorescent vertebrates; Insights into a singer's head WMF GLAM report: WMF GLAM report Wikidata report: We feel used (and that makes us happy) OpenGLAM Benchmark Survey report: Survey results presented at conferences in Hong Kong and Montreal Wikimania report: GLAM at Wikimania Calendar: June's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 15 June 2016

• News and notes: Clarifications on status and compensation of outgoing executive directors Sue Gardner and Lila Tretikov

• Special report: Wikiversity Journal—A new user group

• Featured content: From the crème de la crème

• In the media: Biography disputes; Craig Newmark donation; PR editing

• Op-ed: Commons Picture of the Year; Wikidata licensing

• Traffic report: Another one with sports; Knockout, brief candle

• Blog: Why I proofread poetry at Wikisource

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The Signpost: 04 July 2016

• News and notes: Board unanimously appoints Katherine Maher as new WMF executive director; Wikimedia lawsuits in France and Germany

• Op-ed: Two policies in conflict?

• In the media: Terrorism database cites Wikipedia as a source

• Featured content: Triple fun of featured content

• Traffic report: Goalposts; Oy vexit

• Blog: Jimmy Wales names Emily Temple-Wood and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight as Wikipedians of the Year

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This Month in GLAM: June 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue VI, June 2016 Headlines Argentina report: Edit-a-thons and contest in Buenos Aires Belgium report: Just For The Record; Wiki Loves Art preparations Brazil report: New steps for the GLAM movement in Brazil France report: « Veni, vidi, wiki ! » Germany report: GLAM on Tour is a format, is a statement, is a tag Italy report: Contemporary art images from BEIC Macedonia report: National library collaboration and Contemporary art on Wikidata Mexico report: 3 continuous days of art; Efforts against the Wikipedia Gender Gap Netherlands report: Image donation by the Museum Catharijneconvent; 1300 Dutch underground newspapers from WW2; Collaboration with public libraries Spain report: Involving libraries in Wikimedia projects Sweden report: World Wide Wikipedia; Royal Library; Monuments database to Wikidata migration; Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon 2016 UK report: Wellcome USA report: June is busting out all over Open Access report: Open Science Fellows Program; OA Signalling Wikipedia Library report: Books & Bytes Wikidata report: Wikidatamania WMF GLAM report: A Wikimania Reflection, GLAM Phabricator Queues, and a WMF Update Calendar: July's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 21 July 2016

• News and notes: Board faces diversity and skill-base issues in new FDC appointments

• Discussion report: Busy month for discussions

• In the media: Women in science editathon gets national press; Wikipedia "shockingly biased"

• Featured content: A wide variety from the best

• Traffic report: Sports and esports

• Arbitration report: Script writers appointed for clerks

• Recent research: Using deep learning to predict article quality

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Nomination for deletion of Template:HAGAM object

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The Signpost: 04 August 2016

• Editorial: Wikipedia policy suppresses sharing of information

• News and notes: Foundation presents results of harassment research, plans for automated identification; Wikiconference submissions open

• In the media: Paid editing service announced; Commercial exploitation of free images; Wikipedia as a crystal ball; Librarians to counter systemic bias

• Obituary: Kevin Gorman, who took on Wikipedia's gender gap and undisclosed paid advocacy, dies at 24

• Traffic report: Summer of Pokémon, Trump, and Hillary

• Featured content: Women and Hawaii

• Recent research: Easier navigation via better wikilinks

• Blog: All-new notifications page helps Wikimedians focus on what matters most

• Technology report: User script report (January to July 2016, part 1)

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This Month in GLAM: July 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue VII, July 2016 Headlines Argentina report: Edit-a-thon in a historic building in Buenos Aires Basque Country report: Basque spring-summer blooming Belgium report: Wiki Loves Art halfway Brazil report: Cultural Mapping: knowing better the Brazilian museums scenario France report: Bons baisers de France Macedonia report: 290 photos by Manaki brothers Mexico report: Wikipedia in Mayan; GLAM in Aldea Digital Spain report: Attending the Peace Treaties in Art Edit-a-thon Sweden report: Connected Open Heritage; Critiquing social norms with free images Switzerland report: Open Cultural Data Hackathon UK report: Engaging the experts & training the trainers USA report: Engaging the experts & training the trainers Open Access report: Wikimedian in Residence opening; Ancestral reconstruction; A swimming centipede Wikidata report: Pokémon and more WMF GLAM report: Grants; New Content Donation Evaluation Report; WMF Updates Calendar: August's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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2,240		Punk rock (talk)						Merge
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285		UKUSA Agreement (talk)						Merge
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123		Cabinet Secretary (talk)						Wikify
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The Signpost: 18 August 2016

• News and notes: Focus on India—WikiConference produces new apps; state government adopts free licenses

• Special report: Engaging diverse communities to profile women of Antarctica

• In the media: The ugly, the bad, the playful, and the promising

• Featured content: Simply the best ... from the last two weeks

• Traffic report: Olympic views

• Technology report: User script report (January–July 2016, part 2)

• Arbitration report: The Michael Hardy case

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Liberal editathon

Hello sir, looking forward to Wednesday, please don't be put off by my username or bio I'm a friendly guy in person, but would like to do useful but serious edits when I'm at home and grumpy! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Libraryloser (talk • contribs) 12:28, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 06 September 2016

• News and notes: AffCom still grappling with WMF Board's criteria for new chapters

• Special report: Olympics readership depended on language

• In the media: Librarians, Wikipedians, and a library of Wikipedia coverage

• WikiProject report: Watching Wikipedia

• Featured content: Entertainment, sport, and something else in-between

• Traffic report: From Phelps to Bolt to Reddit

• Technology report: Wikimedia mobile sites now don't load images if the user doesn't see them

• Recent research: Ethics of machine-created articles and fighting vandalism

• Blog: Upload of free photos from Swiss library underway

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This Month in GLAM: August 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue VIII, August 2016 Headlines Argentina report: Workshop: ONU Mujeres; Case study: Digitization Project Basque Country report: Donostiapedia goes on Belgium report: Wiki Loves Art in Belgium finished, Wiki Loves Monuments started Brazil report: UG Wikimedia in Brazil: GLAM initiative with the Museum of Veterinary Anatomy will load hundreds of valuable images Estonia report: GLAM summer seminar France report: Belles and Bye Germany report: Cinamas in Cologne Italy report: WikiTrip and edit-a-thon at Gianni Caproni Museum of Aeronautics Macedonia report: 42 audio CD's of 2000-hour recorded dialect speech Mexico report: Documenting Tolerance; Murals in Sonora Netherlands report: The Netherlands and the world Norway report: Monuments, music and books Republic of Srpska report: Wikimedia community of the Republic of Srpska continues GLAM cooperation with City of East Sarajevo Main Library Spain report: Wiki Loves contests and Royal Spanish Academy Sweden report: Craft and collections UK report: Liberal Club Edit-a-thon & Wellcome Training USA report: New York & D.C. events; Philadelphia events Open Access report: Wikiversity Journal of Medicine; WikiCite; Collective respiration in bees Wikidata report: New team members and lots for you to read! WMF GLAM report: IFLA #WLIC2016 & Updates Calendar: September's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 29 September 2016

• News and notes: Wikipedia Education Program case study published; and a longtime Wikimedian has made his final edit

• In the media: Wikipedia in the news

• Featured content: Three weeks in the land of featured content

• Arbitration report: Arbcom looking for new checkusers and oversight appointees while another case opens

• Traffic report: From Gene Wilder to JonBenét

• Technology report: Category sorting and template parameters

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