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25 September 2017   News and notes: Chapter updates; ACTRIAL In the media: Monkey settlement; Wikipedia used to give AI context clues Humour: Chickenz Recent research: Wikipedia articles vs. concepts; Wikipedia usage in Europe Technology report: Flow restarted; Wikidata connection notifications Gallery: Chicken mania Special report: Two steps forward, one step backward: The Sustainability Initiative Traffic report: Fights and frights Featured content: Flying high Single page Book Front page About Subscribe Suggestions Archives This week's article for improvement is Circular reporting Wikipedia is sometimes criticized for being used as a source of circular reporting. Please be bold and help to improve this article! WikiProject Missing Encyclopedic articles (% done) v t e Project page—The goal of this project is to ensure that Wikipedia has a corresponding article for every article in every other encyclopedia. Sign in! Monthly focus: MacTutor biographies 33 left 1911 verification: 20.6% ACF Regionals answers: 64.1% Hotlist of topics: 88.7% General topics: 79.6% Science topics: 92% Catholic Encyclopedia: 86.2% Easton's Bible Dictionary: 88% Encyclopaedia Biblica : 69.5% Evangelical Dictionary of Theology: 80.6% Gutenberg authors : 57.1% Jewish Encyclopedia : 39% Literary Encyclopedia: 81.9% Polish Biographical Dictionary: 6% Find-A-Grave: 85.1% Stanford Archive answers 97.9% Missing paintings 64.4% Miscellaneous Many other lists of politicians, songs, TV shows and others. Overall progress: 65.2% Spread the word through {{Project missing articles}} Active Wiki Fixup Projects Article Rescue Squadron Check Wikipedia Cleanup Dead-end pages Disambig pages w/ links Fix common mistakes Free images to Commons Geo-coordinates Missing articles Most-wanted articles Orphaned articles Red Link Recovery Requested articles Single editor Stubsensor Today's articles for improvement Uncategorised articles Unreferenced articles Wikification needed Main · Inactive · Mini v t e

General notices

• Until 14 March 2018, as part of the autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL), autoconfirmed status is required in order to create new articles.
• The RFC discussion regarding WP:OUTING and WMF essay about paid editing and outing (see more at the ArbCom noticeboard archives) is now archived. Milieus #3 and #4 received support; so did concrete proposal #1.
• The gadget to opt-out search results from sister projects is created per discussion. Registered users may go to user preferences setup, find the opt-out option and select it.
• Do you have need for a specialized script that doesn't exist yet, or have an idea for a cool new script or gadget? Post requests and ideas at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests.
• Free subscriptions to high-quality paywalled journals, newspaper archives, and online reference works are available for Wikipedia editors. For more information, see Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library/Databases

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