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4 November 2016
News and notes
Finally, a new CTO; trustee joins Quora; copyright upgrade impending
Victoria Coleman to fill long-vacant CTO role; Trustee Kelly Battles joins Quora executive team; last week for community input on Creative Commons 4.0 license
In the media
Washington Post
continues in-depth Wikipedia coverage
Plus our roundup of recent media stories
Wikicup
WikiCup winners
Winners of the tenth annual WikiCup competition announced and profiled
Discussion report
What's on
your
tech wishlist for the coming year?
Progress on the 2015 Community Wishlist for tech features; and plans for a new Wishlist
Technology report
New guideline for technical collaboration; citation templates now flag open access content
Proposed best practices for communication and community involvement, and an improvement to Wikipedia's citation infrastructure
Featured content
Cream of the crop
Fourteen articles, six lists and fourteen pictures were promoted
Traffic report
Un-presidential politics
Two weeks of insights into the mind of the mob
Arbitration report
Recapping October's activities
Two cases closed, and an administrator loses editing rights
Recent research
Why women edit less, and where they are overrepresented; article importance and quality; predicting elections from Wikipedia
A recap of recent research in our realm
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