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General notices
- Want funding? Try Wikimedia Foundation's experimental decentralized flow funding process. A project that was flow funded this summer was a hot air balloon expedition over Hamburg, Germany, during which Wikipedians shot more than 2000 photographs now available for use on Wikipedia via WikiCommons. After reviewing your eligibility, you should directly contact a flow funding member in your area of interest. Flow funders make all decisions on an individual basis.
- VisualEditor – a new rich text way of editing, similar to word-processing software – is available on articles and user pages for logged-in users at the English Wikipedia! You can disable it in Preferences under the "Editing" tab.
- If the current system of talk pages seems confusing, a replacement is on the way! Flow, a much more intuitive way of communication resembling those on other websites, is currently in the design phase.
- Round two of the Individual Engagement Grants begins August 13, 2013. Grant-receiving projects from the first round, that involve Wikipedia, are:
Projects seeking help
Also consider posting WikiProject, Task Force, and Collaboration news at the Signpost's WikiProject Report page.
- WikiProject Concert Tours is in need of more editors to help in various areas. Lots of articles need assessing for importance and class, and project currently has less than ten members listed. Any and all help is welcome!
- WikiProject Globalization is actively recruiting new members to help with all tasks, but particularly our Clean-up list!
- WikiProject Good articles recently launched a Recruitment Centre designed to teach any registered user how to review Good article nominations. Users interested in being taught how to review nominations or want to be recruiters (people who teach) are welcome!
- The Shakira WikiProject has just been launched. We have a lot of work to do to get the project up and running, so interested editors are welcome to join!
What's going on with outlines:
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- New outlines
- Drafts in development
- Outlines undergoing overhaul or major development
The following portals are in need of attention/upkeep:
- Portal:Space – the selected article excerpts were copy and pasted between 2006 and 2009. The leads of the corresponding articles have greatly improved since then.
- Portal:Azerbaijan – news section has reports from 2009.
- Portal:Language – "Language-of-the-month" hasn't changed since June 2009. Monthly picture since March 2012.
- Portal:Thinking – "selected" sections need new material. Been the same for years.
The following portals have interesting design features that you may find useful:
- Portal:Philosophy – cycles through 52 "Selected philosophers", one per week, automatically year after year.
- Portal:Arts – uses random generators to display random featured status selections.
- Portal:Spaceflight – integrates with WikiProject Spaceflight, using the same formatting, and linking to it on its main menu as "Astronaut Cafe".
New Portal:Globalization created June 22, 2013.
Discussions and collaborations
Discussions in the following areas have requested wider attention:
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Editor Retention
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ikipedia:Editor Retention (Editors are willing to lend a helping hand, just ask)
Editors are as important as content. Without them there is no contribution. Editor retention is the concern and proactive effort of retaining contributors, many who leave for various reasons. WER is a collaboration of users willing to help out when needed. Here you can find other editors with interests in areas that could benefit your work and make your time on Wikipedia more enjoyable. Part of retaining editors is to demonstrate/illustrate best practices and the editors that use them, guide editors with questions to the best venues and connect users for their specific needs with those best able to assist as much as possible.
We all share the same goal of keeping good editors here
EDITOR RETENTION COLLABORATION
Please help with our current collaboration on Snuggle
Snuggle is a browser-based newcomer observation and support system currently being developed by EpochFail as part of his dissertation research. While the functionality is still limited, a working prototype is currently available for testing. Snuggle is designed to allow Wikipedian mentors to observe the activities of newly registered editors and separate desirable newcomers (good-faith & productive) from the undesirables (bad-faith & vandals).
This tool was designed in reaction to recent research that shows that the decline in newcomer retention in Wikipedia[1][2] is the result of an increasing negative environment for desirable newcomers[3][4] and that Wikipedia's current socialization systems don't work because mentors don't find newcomers when they most need help[5][6]. Snuggle is designed to help experienced Wikipedians quickly and efficiently identify desirable newcomers who are editing in good-faith and help them dodge Wikipedia's sharper corners.
This project and its author needs your feedback and ideas to make sure that Snuggle ends up being a useful tool. If you'd like to be notified of development updates, please add your username.
Editor of the Week
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| Ammodramus |
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Editor of the Week
for the week beginning July 28, 2013 |
| Ammodramus has significantly and substantially improved Wikipedia's coverage of the U.S. state of Nebraska. Contributing not only Good Article-level text, but also their own high-quality images, Ammodramus brings our readers articles that are both visually and textually informative. With over 14,300 edits to en-wiki (65% in article-space), and an amazing 11,000 image uploads to Commons, this editor gives both quantity and quality to their subject area of choice. |
| Recognized for |
| Photographs and article work |
| Notable work(s) |
| works on all kinds of Nebraska and National Register of Historic Places content |
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References for Editor Retention section
- ^ Wikimedia Foundation, The Editor Trends Study. http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Editor_Trends_Study
- ^ Bongwon Suh, Gregorio Convertino, Ed H. Chi, and Peter Pirolli. 2009. [The singularity is not near: slowing growth of Wikipedia]. WikiSym '09. ACM, DOI=10.1145/1641309.1641322
- ^ Halfaker, A., Geiger, R. S., Morgan, J., & Riedl, J. (in-press). The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration System: How Wikipedia's reaction to sudden popularity is causing its decline. American Behavioral Scientist.
- ^ Halfaker, A., Kids these days: The quality of new Wikipedia editors over time, Wikimedia Blog. March 27th, 2012.
- ^ David R. Musicant, Yuqing Ren, James A. Johnson, and John Riedl. 2011. Mentoring in Wikipedia: a clash of cultures. WikiSym '11 173-182. DOI=10.1145/2038558.2038586
- ^ Note that Musicant et al., 2011 was written before WP:Teahouse
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Here is a list of the main community pages of Wikipedia's sister projects.
All of these projects are multilingual and open-content. |
| Meta-Wiki – |
Coordination of all Wikimedia projects. |
| Wiktionary – |
A collaborative multilingual dictionary. |
| Wikinews – |
News stories written by readers. |
| Wikibooks – |
A collection of collaborative non-fiction books. |
| Wikiquote – |
A compendium of referenced quotations. |
| Wikisource – |
A repository for free source texts. |
| Wikispecies – |
A directory of species. |
| Wikiversity – |
Where teachers learn, and learners teach. |
| Wikivoyage – |
A world-wide travel guide. |
| Wikidata – |
A free knowledge base that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike. |
| Commons – |
Repository for free images and other media files. |
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