Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-10-16/Discussion report

Ada Lovelace Day, paid advocacy on Wikipedia, sidebar update, and more: Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

Discussion report

Ada Lovelace Day, paid advocacy on Wikipedia, sidebar update, and more

By Pine

This is mostly a list of Non-article page requests for comment believed to be active on 15 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

• Naming conventions for some television episode articles
• Does kB mean 1000 bytes and does KB mean 1024 bytes?

Policies and guidelines

A police officer writes a traffic ticket. English Wikipedia's discretionary sanctions process is under discussion.

• Promote "Wikipedia:No paid advocacy" to a site policy?
• Promote "Wikipedia:Rough consensus" to a site guideline?
• 2013 review of the discretionary sanctions process
• Request for comment about upcoming arbitrator elections

WikiProjects and collaborations

• "RFC on the platform of the ArbCom Reform party for the 2013 ArbCom elections"
• Music genre field in infoboxes
• Does the Four Award need a director?
• Proposal to merge some WikiProjects

Technical issues and templates

The Ada programming language is named for English mathematician and computer programmer Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, now commonly known as Ada Lovelace. She is often described as the world's first computer programmer. On October 15, Ada Lovelace Day celebrates women in science, engineering, technology and mathematics. Wikimedia notes Ada Lovelace Day with an entry in the Wikimedia Blog profiling veteran English Wikipedia contributor Emily Temple-Wood, and with the promotion of this portrait of Ada Lovelace to featured picture on English Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.

• Proposed updates to the sidebar
• Spambot attacks; API limits for editing while logged out
• Redirect from move template issues
• Bot links to archive.is

Proposals

• Include a weekly slot for a featured portal on the Main page?
• Parental advisories in album article infoboxes
• 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

Meta

• "The new Evaluation portal launches to support the community in evaluation practices."
• Start Wikireference as a new Wikimedia project?
• Start Wikifiction as a new Wikimedia project?
• Trademark practices
• Scope of the Ombudsman Commission
• Draft Privacy Policy - comments accepted until 15 January 2014

Upcoming online meetings

• "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

• "October report for the Wikisource vision development and online survey"
• "Emily Temple-Wood: A cool Wikipedian on a big mission"
• "'Good Pictures do Matter' – Miha Grmek"
• "A bird’s eye view of 'Wikiproject Sauerland' on German Wikipedia"
• "Prominent wildlife photographer donates images to Wikimedia Commons"
• "Umniah first to launch Wikipedia Zero in Jordan"
• "Scholarships allowed Wikimedians from around the world to attend Wikimania"
• "Wikimedia Highlights, August 2013"
• "Wikimedia Foundation Report, August 2013"
• "Wikimedia Commons, 'a step towards equality and freedom'"
• "A monumental Saturday in Puebla, Mexico"
• "The Hidden Wikipedia: a view from 2022"
• "Wikimedia engineering report, September 2013"

This photo of the Tivoli Bridge in Sète, France, is the favorite of Wikimedia Commons contributor Christian Ferrer. Ferrer is profiled in a post on the Wikimedia Blog called "Wikimedia Commons, 'a step towards equality and freedom'".

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Great report as always. Thanks, Pine. I think the discussion report is one of the most important features of the Signpost as it keeps our volunteers informed as to what's going on around the project. Keep up the good work. 64.40.54.174 (talk) 02:49, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

• Thanks for the comment! The "Featured content" report has priority for getting done, but if someone else is handling it then I will usually get the "Discussion report" done on at least alternate weeks. --Pine^✉ 05:58, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

• The RfC about ArbCom elections appears twice; is that deliberate? Nikkimaria (talk) 03:09, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

• Yes, I made an exception for that one. Thanks for checking. --Pine^✉ 05:58, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

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