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12 June 2013
News and notes
How Wikimedia affiliates are spending $8.4 million; PRISM scandal
Late last year, the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) awarded $8.4 million in donors' money to 11 Wikimedia entities, including the Wikimedia Foundation and 10 nationally defined chapters. Under this arrangement, these organisations are required to issue quarterly reports on how far they have progressed towards their declared programmatic and financial goals. The FDC has now announced that all 11 completed and submitted their reports by the 1 April deadline, and have responded to each.
Featured content
Mixing Bowl Interchange
Seven articles, two lists, five pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
In the media
VisualEditor will "change world history"
In an article published by the
Huffington Post
'
s United Kingdom edition, writer Thomas Church asserts that the new VisualEditor will change history, literally. It says that Wikipedia's mark-up language has been to its advantage, as most people didn't bother trying to learn it
Op-ed
The tragedy of Wikipedia's commons
I've long thought that we should get rid of the Wikimedia Commons as we know it. Commons has evolved into a project with interests that compete with the needs of the primary users of Commons and the reason it was created. It's also understaffed, which results in poor curation, large administrative backlogs, and poor policy development.
Discussion report
VisualEditor, elections, bots, and more
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia.
Traffic report
Who holds the throne?
Last week's most popular article list on the English Wikipedia was dominated by the massively popular TV series
Game of Thrones
, which claimed six slots in the top 25, including the top three. Its popularity was likely stoked by the most recent episode,
The Rains of Castamere
. Bollywood continued to increase its share of views as well, aided by the tragic suicide of star Nafisa Khan.
Arbitration report
Two cases suspended; proposed decision posted in
Argentine History
Two cases,
Race and politics
and
Tea Party movement
have been suspended.
Argentine History
remains open, and a proposed decision was posted on 12 June.
WikiProject report
Processing WikiProject Computing
This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Computing. Started in October 2003, the project has grown to include 17 featured articles, 11 featured lists, 3 pieces of featured media, and 80 good articles.
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