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The Signpost: 30 July 2014

Book review: Knowledge or unreality?

Recent research: Shifting values in the paid content debate

News and notes: How many more hoaxes will Wikipedia find?

Wikimedia in education: Success in Egypt and the Arab World

Traffic report: Doom and gloom vs. the power of Reddit

Featured content: Skeletons and Skeltons

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DYK for Tripura local elections, 2014

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The Signpost: 06 August 2014

Technology report: A technologist's Wikimania preview

Traffic report: Ebola

Featured content: Bottoms, asses, and the fairies that love them

Wikimedia in education: Leading universities educate with Wikipedia in Mexico

News and notes: "History is a human right"—first-ever transparency report released as Europe begins hiding Wikipedia in search results

DYK for Socialist Workers Party of Romania

On 9 August 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Socialist Workers Party of Romania, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that in the midst of the 1929 financial crisis, the Socialist Workers Party of Romania argued that the time was ripe for revolution? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Socialist Workers Party of Romania. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:37, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

By-election deletion discussion

As you had been involved in the deletion discussion on the Aberdeen North by-election, 1928 I thought you would be interested in a deletion discussion I opened around uncontested ministerial by-elections. JASpencer (talk) 18:13, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 13 August 2014

Special report: Twitter bots catalogue government edits to Wikipedia

Traffic report: Disease, decimation and distraction

Wikimedia in education: Global Education: WMF's Perspective

Wikimania: Promised the moon, settled for the stars

News and notes: Media Viewer controversy spreads to German Wikipedia

Op-ed: Red links, blue links, and erythrophobia

In the media: Monkey selfie, net neutrality, and hoaxes

Featured content: Cambridge got a lot of attention this week

The Signpost: 20 August 2014

Interview: Improving the visibility of digital archival assets using Wikipedia

Traffic report: Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero

WikiProject report: Bats and gloves

Op-ed: A new metric for Wikimedia

Featured content: English Wikipedia departs for Japan

August 2014

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Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:05, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Of interest?

To you, and in need of cleanup: Volkswacht. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 14:48, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Thanks! I started some small article creations around it. --Soman (talk) 16:58, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

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