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Views/Day	Quality	Title	Content	Headings	Images	Links	Sources	Tagged with…
517		Greek primordial deities (talk)						Add sources
80		700 (number) (talk)						Add sources
7		Style: (magazine) (talk)						Add sources
92		Singaporean general election, 2006 (talk)						Add sources
72		Anglo-Chinese School (talk)						Add sources
811		Mount Olympus (talk)						Add sources
866		Tunku Abdul Rahman (talk)						Cleanup
15		Cedar Girls' Secondary School (talk)						Cleanup
41		Singapore–Taiwan relations (talk)						Cleanup
3		October 2005 in Malaysia and Singapore (talk)						Expand
4,546		Microsoft Windows (talk)						Expand
3		Jan Paweł Lelewel (talk)						Expand
24		Singaporean presidential election, 2005 (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
144		Internet encyclopedia (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
44		Occidental language (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
755		Intel Tick-Tock (talk)						Merge
8		Results of the Singaporean general election, 1963 (talk)						Merge
1,230		Open-source software (talk)						Merge
7		Singaporean by-election, 1970 (talk)						Wikify
51		Location-based advertising (talk)						Wikify
95		Wikiversity (talk)						Wikify
3		Kapadne (talk)						Orphan
5		UKHost4u (talk)						Orphan
2		Horizon College of Business and Technology (talk)						Orphan
3		Kampong Glam Single Member Constituency (talk)						Stub
2		Kaki Bukit Single Member Constituency (talk)						Stub
8		Icon (magazine) (talk)						Stub
5		Lowland Peruvian Quechua (talk)						Stub
13		8 Days (magazine) (talk)						Stub
31		Wikimedia Foundation v. NSA (talk)						Stub

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Tech News: 2015-15

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can join a new email list for important news about Wikimedia Labs. [1]
• You can read the last monthly report. In the future you can read team reports every three months. You can see current work on the roadmap. [2] [3]
• The number of articles in Special:Statistics is now updated once a month. [4]
• You can use a new version of the Wikipedia app for Android. Using the app, you can now share a fact with your friends. [5]

Problems

• The import tool was broken for a few days. Imports didn't add log entries. You can delete and import pages again if necessary. [6]
• Labs was broken several times this week. [7] [8] [9] [10]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 8 (calendar).
• You can now add the same special characters with VisualEditor as with the wikitext editor. [11]
• Many bugs around copy-paste in VisualEditor are now fixed. [12] [13]
• You can now use basic tools of VisualEditor in the new talk tool. You can add links, bold and italics. You can also mention people. [14]

Meetings

• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 8 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can again comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis. [15]

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15:42, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 08 April 2015

• Op-ed: We are drowning in promotional artspam

• News and notes: Advancement department to be created at the Foundation, milestone fixes

• In the media: Wikipedia on 60 Minutes, Kickstarter, and in the classroom

• Traffic report: Resurrection week

• Featured content: Partisan arrangements, dodgy dollars, a mysterious union of strings, and a hole that became a monument

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Christianity

• Arbitration report: New Functionary appointments

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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Tech News: 2015-16

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can read the latest news about VisualEditor.
• You can now use the new translation tool on 22 Wikipedias. You now see the tool the first time you create a new page. [16]
• The list of bad user names on your wiki no longer works. The global list replaces it. You can ask to add rules for bad user names on Meta. [17] [18]

Problems

• Some wikis had issues on Wednesday. [19] [20]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 15 (calendar).
• Developers will start to rename 1.5 million accounts on Wednesday. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis. [21] [22]
• All users can now test link previews ("Hovercards") on several Wikipedias. [23]

Meetings

• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 15 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:40, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 April 2015

• News and notes: Erik Möller leaving Foundation; annual plan grants under community review

• In the media: Saving Wikipedia; Internet regulation; Thoreau quote hoax

• Blog: Single-User Login provides access to all wikis

• Traffic report: Furious domination

• Featured content: Au-delà de les Alpes, le chien lit de Sainte Bernard. Sous les pavés, les trimes d'argent! Mes enfants, suivez-moi!

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Tech News: 2015-17

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• There was sometimes a problem when saving a page in VisualEditor. It is now fixed on all wikis. [24]
• VisualEditor sometimes showed empty warnings for wikis using Flagged Revisions. This is now fixed on all wikis. [25]
• You can get the new version of the Wikipedia app for iOS. With it you can share facts with your friends. [26]
• If you write JavaScript, you should stop using importScript and importStylesheet. [27]

Problems

• There was a problem with Labs on Monday. [28]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 21. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 22 (calendar).
• Developers are renaming 1.5 million accounts. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis. [29] [30] [31]
• If your wiki has the auto-fill tool for citations, you can now use it when you edit a reference. [32]
• You can now give examples for template options in TemplateData. [33]

Meetings

• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 22 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will soon be able to add and remove tags on edits. [34] [35]

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15:30, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 April 2015

• Special report: Sony emails reveal corporate practices and undisclosed advocacy editing

• In the media: UK political editing; hoaxes; net neutrality

• News and notes: Call for candidates as the movement approaches the Wikimedia Board elections

• In focus: 2015 Wikimedia Foundation election preparations underway

• Featured content: Vanguard on guard

• Traffic report: A harvest of couch potatoes

• Gallery: The bitter end

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Tech News: 2015-18

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• All accounts are now unique and work on all wikis. [36] [37]
• You can read a report from experts who tested the security of MediaWiki. [38]
• There was a problem between VisualEditor and an antivirus software. It is now fixed. [39]
• You can help test VisualEditor to see if it works in your language. [40]

Problems

• Some Labs tools had problems due to a software bug. [41]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 29 (calendar).
• It is now clearer that you can delete several rows and columns when you edit tables in VisualEditor. [42]
• You now see more information when you search for a template in VisualEditor. [43]
• You can now cancel when you add citations on desktop, or edit links on mobile, in VisualEditor. [44]
• You can now see the list of other formats for videos only after they're ready. [45]

Meetings

• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 29 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:10, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 April 2015

• Wikimania: Choice of small village for Wikimania 2016 ruffles feathers

• News and notes: Wiki Loves Monuments evaluation sees diminishing returns and increasing cost

• In the media: Scottish MEP blocked for edit warring; ranking articles by importance

• Featured content: Another day, another dollar

• Traffic report: Bruce, Nessie, and genocide

• Recent research: Military history, cricket, and Australia targeted in Wikipedia articles' popularity vs. quality; how copyright damages economy

• Technology report: VisualEditor and MediaWiki updates

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17		Lush 99.5FM (talk)						Add sources
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31		National Junior College (talk)						Add sources
191		Consumer confidence index (talk)						Add sources
3,274		Quantum mechanics (talk)						Add sources
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63		Lev Tahor (talk)						Cleanup
192		Foundation (nonprofit) (talk)						Cleanup
22		Telok Blangah (talk)						Cleanup
7		Alliance to Rescue Civilization (talk)						Expand
665		Midbrain (talk)						Expand
10		Charles Chong (talk)						Expand
20		Catholic High School, Singapore (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
66		Tampines (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
102		Gender bias on Wikipedia (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
251		Criticism of Wikipedia (talk)						Merge
9		Racial bias on Wikipedia (talk)						Merge
123		Swing (talk)						Merge
28		Tan Kim Ching (talk)						Wikify
111		Geylang (talk)						Wikify
94		GNU Bazaar (talk)						Wikify
3		Georgia Brass Band (talk)						Orphan
2		Chinchkhede (talk)						Orphan
3		Fair Consideration Framework (talk)						Orphan
5		Filip Neriusz Walter (talk)						Stub
4		St. Michael's, Singapore (talk)						Stub
10		Tabla! (talk)						Stub
17		Abdullah Tarmugi (talk)						Stub
8		Nanyang Siang Pau (Singapore) (talk)						Stub
10		Potong Pasir Single Member Constituency (talk)						Stub

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Wikimedia Highlights from March 2015

Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in March 2015.

• Wikimedia v. NSA: Wikimedia Foundation files suit against NSA to challenge upstream mass surveillance
• Womens History Month
• Growing free knowledge through open data
• Raspberry Pi in Masekelo: Bringing Wikipedia to a school without electricity
• Wikimedia Foundation adopts Open Access Policy to support free knowledge
• Welcome new members of Wikimedia Foundation

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