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Notice: 28 September issue

Ragesoss is likely to be busy this weekend with family matters, and I'm out of town. Any extra help with In the News, News & Notes, and the publication process would be great. -- phoebe / (talk to me) 17:14, 23 September 2009 (UTC)reply

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Interviews? I have been thinking about a possible series of interviews with the foundation staff. interview questions getting drafted here; please sign up/help out if you'd like. I also added a section for interviews with arbcom/board candidates, looking to the future. -- phoebe / (talk to me) 19:12, 17 May 2009 (UTC)reply

Interview with Frank Schulenburg (WMF Head of Public Outreach) - in progress.--ragesoss (talk) 16:28, 16 June 2009 (UTC)reply

Usability project - At some point, I would like to do a special story on the usability initiative. This might tie in with the staff interviews mentioned above. I need to come up with questions and some background. The usability project is beginning to show results, with forthcoming improvements to the search interface and a new MediaWiki skin, and I expect more. --Aude (talk) 23:54, 31 May 2009 (UTC)reply
So what's up with the Beta version? I haven't looked at it, but I assume it's related to the usability project. --Cryptic C62 · Talk 19:56, 13 August 2009 (UTC)reply
Wikipedia statistics thesis - Wikipedia: A quantitative analysis. User:Frank Schulenburg is summarizing this.
Toolserver - I have something in development about the toolserver. I expect this to be ready for next week. --Aude (talk) 23:06, 15 June 2009 (UTC)reply
Sister projects interview - I'm reviving this series after an extended period of hiatus. It may not make it by next issue, but it should be ready for the one after that. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 17:28, 27 August 2009 (UTC)reply
Request for comments I've discussed with Ragesoss the idea of doing a story on the history and utility of our RFC process. I was going to hit up User:Mav for thoughts as they were the person who initiated the process at that name, and I'll dig about the page history to see what else to look for. Ragesoss has pertinent info on the wider usage of RFCs. Anyone have any thoughts on other avenues. I was going to ask around about recent RFCs and see how useful the requesters had found them. Might have a chat to a friendly arb? Any other bases to be covered? Any questions I should be asking? Hiding T 20:33, 8 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Interview with John Blossom - I am currently interviewing John Blossom, the author of Content Nation, on facebook. If anyone has any questions they would like me to ask, feel free to drop a note here or on my talk page.
Office hours with Sue Gardner - for this week, we can include something on the office hours. Right now it's in interview / notes format, but could be reformatted, or maybe just summarized and be part of news & notes. --Aude (talk) 00:01, 26 September 2009 (UTC)reply

It's mostly done, though needs proofreading later. --Aude (talk) 01:20, 26 September 2009 (UTC)reply

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Two questions

I like the idea of having opinion pieces; I think if we get some that are written well, they will be a very good addition. My question is how the decision to run them will be made. Is this an editor-in-chief thing, or is it anyone-who-wants-to may provide input? Second question is a minor style point. When referring to editors, should it be written [[User:Foo]], or [[User:Foo|Foo]]? My preference is the former, and without doing any significant checking, I seem to recall that being the format used traditionally. The latter seems to be used often lately, though. ÷seresin 22:41, 21 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Would it be helpful for this kind of thing to be collated in a brief style guide? Pretzels^Talk! 21:52, 26 September 2009 (UTC)reply

Regarding the decision of what to run, the "anyone-who-wants-to may provide input" model seems the most appropriate to me. The way I imagined it working would be to use the opinion desk as a holding pen for non-time-sensitive pieces to give feedback and try to find ways to improve and polish them (and to collect sets of related pieces), and publish pieces or sets once they are mature. I think the "White Barbarian" essay would be a good way to start it off this week. There are some other submissions that are strong, but most of them I think could use some feedback and polishing.

As for referring to editors, the convention that I've been using lately is "[[User:Foo|Foo's Real Name]] (User:Foo)" for users who identify themselves by their real names on their userpages, and "[[User:Foo|Foo]]" for those who don't. But I'm not wedded to that, it just seemed like a good combination of naturalness and transparency. I think a Signpost style guide would be useful.--ragesoss (talk) 00:42, 28 September 2009 (UTC)reply

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