Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-10-02/Discussion report

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

This is mostly a list of Non-article page requests for comment believed to be active on 2 October 2013 linked from subpages of Wikipedia:RfC, recent watchlist notices and SiteNotices. The latter two are in bold. Items that are new to this report are in italics even if they are not new discussions. If an item can be listed under more than one category it is usually listed once only in this report. Clarifications and corrections are appreciated; please leave them in this article's comment box at the bottom of the page.

Style and naming

• Does kB mean 1000 bytes and does KB mean 1024 bytes?
• Naming conventions for tornado outbreaks

Policies and guidelines

• Number of templates at the bottom of country articles
• Use of pronouns before a transgender person's identity announcement
• Examples in the MOS-TW (Trans woman) template
• "Should organisations be included in templates such as Islamophobia, Racism and anti-Semitism"?
• Check of good article candidates for copyright violations and close paraphrasing
• How to refer to a person or group
• Clarifying the definition of edit warring
• Reverting edits of obvious sockpuppets

WikiProjects and collaborations

• Music genre field in infoboxes
• Does the Four Award need a director?
• Proposal to merge some wikiprojects

Technical issues and templates

• Redirect from move template issues
• Bot links to archive.is
• Disable the latest batch of Citation Style 1 error messages until a bot can fix them?
• "Should Userbox templates in Template: space be nominated at TfD or MfD?"

Proposals

• Include a weekly slot for a featured portal on the Main page?
• Parental advisories in album article infoboxes
• Create a new user right for editing fully protected templates, modules, and edit notices?
• Proposed revisions to Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User conduct/Rules

English Wikipedia notable requests for permissions

(This section will include active RfAs, RfBs, CU/OS appointment requests, and Arbcom elections)

• Request for comment about upcoming arbitrator elections
• Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Zad68
• Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Ginsuloft

Meta

• Start Wikireference as a new Wikimedia project?
• Start Wikifiction as a new Wikimedia project?
• Start Global-Wiki as a new Wikimedia project?
• Start Reviewiki as a new Wikimedia project?
• Start WeRelate as a new Wikimedia project?
• Start WikiNames as a new Wikimedia project?
• Adopt Wikidentify as a new Wikimedia project?
• Trademark practices
• Scope of the Ombudsman Commission
• Draft Privacy Policy - comments until 15 January 2014

Upcoming online meetings

• "BetaFeatures extension and framework (technical)", 3 October 21:00 UTC
• "MediaWiki 1.22 release plan", 9 October 19:00 UTC
• "Engineering Community Team", 15 October 15:00 UTC
• "Flow", 17 October 18:00 UTC
• "Engineering Community Team", 12 November 16:00 UTC
• "Engineering Community Team", 17 December 16:00 UTC

Wikimedia blog posts

• Notifications Launch on More Wikipedias
• FOSS Outreach Program for Women: success and new round
• Wikimedia Research Newsletter, September 2013
• Survey shows strong culture of evaluation in the Wikimedia movement, with room for growth
• Get introduced to Internationalization engineering through the MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle
• Humanizing Wikipedia editing with mobile experiments
• The key word in the future will be "share"
• Nepal kicks off Wikipedia Education Program pilot
• Call for Wikimedia tech projects needing contributors
• The Legal Internship program at the Wikimedia Foundation
• VipsScaler implementation by volunteer developer improves image handling on Wikimedia sites
• WikiSkills teachers share more of the lessons they learned
• HTTPS by default beta program
• Why the student learning aspect matters in the Wikipedia Education Program
• WikiSkills helps teachers use Wikipedia in their courses
• Wikimedia engineering August 2013 report
• Wikiexpedition takes Poland for the fifth time
• Wikivoyage has a new logo
• Wikipedia Education Program expands throughout Arab World

In this issue

2 October 2013

Op-ed

Discussion report

News and notes

Featured content

Arbitration report

WikiProject report

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Advisory on one of the images in the signpost

The Statue of Liberty Sign has a deletion request citing the sign was made by a private company and not by the US Government. The issue is of fair-use of the image and it's usage on Wikipedia. Dunno if the thing has been finalized or not, but I think this should be noted. --293.xx.xxx.xx (talk) 05:25, 3 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I have replaced the image. --Pine^✉ 07:20, 3 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Privacy policy RfC

Very happy to see the Discussion Report back in the Signpost. I missed it. Just wanted to note that there's a big RfC to rewrite the Foundation's privacy policy at meta:Privacy policy. The discussion is at meta:Talk:Privacy policy and will run a couple months—until January 15, 2014. 64.40.54.87 (talk) 02:45, 8 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Took the liberty to add this to the meta-list. @main editors, please feel free to change or revert, if necessary. GermanJoe (talk) 14:58, 8 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]