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The Signpost: 15 January 2014

News and notes: German chapter asks for "reworking" of Funds Dissemination Committee; should MP4 be allowed on Wikimedia sites?

Technology report: Architecture Summit schedule published

Op-ed: Licensed for reuse? Citing open-access sources in Wikipedia articles

In the media: Is Google hurting Wikipedia traffic?; "Wikipedia-Mania" in the New York Times

Traffic report: The Hours are Ours

WikiProject report: WikiProject Sociology

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
10	St. Lawrence Quartet (talk)	Add sources
20	El Toro Y (talk)	Add sources
351	Axis & Allies (talk)	Add sources
1,867	Orange County, California (talk)	Add sources
561	Santa Ana, California (talk)	Add sources
164	Catch Phrase (game) (talk)	Add sources
1,507	Mega (website) (talk)	Cleanup
574	Safeway Inc. (talk)	Cleanup
168	Ontario International Airport (talk)	Cleanup
74	Light rail in North America (talk)	Expand
699	Riverside, California (talk)	Expand
9	Jamboree Road (talk)	Expand
22	East West (band) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
371	Kimberly-Clark (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
82	Foreign relations of Armenia (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
474	Santa Clarita, California (talk)	Merge
34	International (Nice) Classification of Goods and Services (talk)	Merge
54	Foreign relations of Azerbaijan (talk)	Merge
1	2011 in UEFA (talk)	Wikify
34	James Irvine (landowner) (talk)	Wikify
2,193	My Little Pony (talk)	Wikify
8	WHO regions (talk)	Orphan
0	2011 in Belarusian football (talk)	Orphan
4	Orange County Employees Association (talk)	Orphan
8	Long Beach Boulevard (talk)	Stub
9	Nam Le (poker player) (talk)	Stub
13	Tom Brower (talk)	Stub
23	Laguna Mountains (talk)	Stub
20	European Hockey Federation (talk)	Stub
70	Trabuco Canyon, California (talk)	Stub

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The Signpost: 22 January 2014

Book review: Missing Links and Secret Histories: A Selection of Wikipedia Entries from Across the Known Multiverse

News and notes: Modification of WMF protection brought to Arbcom

Featured content: Dr. Watson, I presume

Special report: The few who write Wikipedia

Technology report: Architecting the future of MediaWiki

In the media: Wikipedia for robots; Wikipedia—a temperamental teenager

Traffic report: No show for the Globes

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56	Upwords (talk)	Add sources
93	Nerf Blaster (talk)	Add sources
387	University of Melbourne (talk)	Add sources
89	Julian, California (talk)	Add sources
60	Baby Alive (talk)	Add sources
97	Kre-O (talk)	Add sources
7	European Canoe Association (talk)	Cleanup
299	Pictionary (talk)	Cleanup
76	Big Brother 6 (U.S.) (talk)	Cleanup
40	San Bernardino International Airport (talk)	Expand
722	Bakersfield, California (talk)	Expand
18	Bela Crkva, Banat (talk)	Expand
39	Comparison of Axis & Allies games (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
11	Axis & Allies: D-Day (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,075	Fresno, California (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
66	East-Central Europe (talk)	Merge
78	Interstate 95 in Maryland (talk)	Merge
766	President (talk)	Merge
37	Ben Maller (talk)	Wikify
219	San Pedro, Los Angeles (talk)	Wikify
11	San Jacinto Valley (talk)	Wikify
3	Military history by country (talk)	Orphan
4	Bull's-Eye Ball (talk)	Orphan
2	Azer Amiraslanov (talk)	Orphan
11	Cholado (talk)	Stub
14	Norwalk (Los Angeles Metro station) (talk)	Stub
4	Pomona (North) (talk)	Stub
82	Koosh ball (talk)	Stub
4	El Monte (Metrolink station) (talk)	Stub
8	Norwalk/Santa Fe Springs (Metrolink station) (talk)	Stub

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WikiCup 2014 January newsletter

The 2014 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with, at time of writing, 138 participants. The is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2010. If you are yet to join the competition, don't worry- the judges have agreed to keep the signups open for a few more days. By a wide margin, our current leader is newcomer Godot13 (submissions), whose set of 14 featured pictures, the first FPs of the competition, was worth 490 points. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:

12george1 (submissions) and TropicalAnalystwx13 (submissions) were the first people to score, for the good article Tropical Storm Bret (1981) and its good article review respectively. 12george1 was also the first person to score in 2012 and 2013.
Sven Manguard (submissions) scored the first ITN points for 2014 North American polar vortex.
WonderBoy1998 (submissions) scored points for an early good topic, finishing off Wikipedia:Featured topics/She Wolf.
TheAustinMan (submissions) scored the first bonus points of the competition, for his work on Typhoon Vera.
Igordebraga (submissions) has scored the highest number of bonus points for a single article, for the high-importance Jurassic Park (film).

Featured articles, featured lists, featured topics and featured portals are yet to play a part in the competition. The judges have removed a number of submissions which were deemed ineligible. Typically, we aim to see work on a project, followed by a nomination, followed by promotion, this year. We apologise for any disappointment caused by our strict enforcement this year; we're aiming to keep the competition as fair as possible.

Wikipedians interested in friendly competition may be interested to take part in The Core Contest; unlike the WikiCup, The Core Contest is not about audited content, but, like the WikiCup, it is about article improvement; specifically, The Core Contest is about contribution to some of Wikipedia's most important article. Of course, any work done for The Core Contest, if it leads to a DYK, GA or FA, can earn WikiCup points.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 19:54, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 January 2014

Traffic report: Six strikes out

WikiProject report: Special report: Contesting contests

News and notes: Wiki-PR defends itself, condemns Wikipedia's actions

Arbitration report: Kafziel case closed; Kww admonished by motion

Recent research: Translation assignments, weasel words, and Wikipedia's content in its later years