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Discussion moved to talk. Week-pertinent discussions only here, thank you =) ResMar

Nice to see the piece finally published, even if it is 2 days late. Apologies for my dis-involvement: tough week for me. ResMar 00:31, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

What is two days late? Regards, HaeB (talk) 03:10, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

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News and notes In progress

I don't think I will be able to cover this completely this week. Lot of IRL stuff going on. The Board Meeting resolutions deserve to be a separate article, however. ResMar 14:53, 16 October 2010 (UTC) I agree that it is important to cover the Board resolutions, but that was already done in the last issue (Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-10-11/News and notes#Board resolutions), as I would have thought you were aware because you complained about them having been the top story. The five year targets and the linked blog post by Sue Gardner (from August) were also mentioned in earlier issues. What is indeed new is some of her remarks in the IRC office hour (e.g. that the Controversial content study was discussed for three hours in the meeting, apparently without leading to a resolution as planned) and perhaps on Foundation-l. The August report card was covered in the last issue, too, and it has nothing to do with the Board meeting (the report card is or should be released every month). In addition, there were already several other errors in the short draft (e.g. September instead of October twice, etc). You can't be blamed if RL requirements keep you from contributing to the Signpost, but if you do contribute, please take the necessary time to prepare articles carefully. For the past few weeks, each N&N has necessitated significant fixes, sometimes at the last minute (such as this week when we were already late) or even after publication. I'll cover [1] and a story about Wikimedia Argentina. It would be great if someone could cover these as brief notes: Wikimedia Israel report Senior Research Analyst, Global Development hired job description (and in other WMF hiring news, the Community Hiring program - earlier coverage - seems to have ended) Regards, HaeB (talk) 00:44, 17 October 2010 (UTC) Sometimes I have better things to do with my time. I'm still mulling over the "get it right you twit" part. ResMar 02:02, 17 October 2010 (UTC) Your subsequent contributions after the above comments contained further serious factual blunders, e.g. [2]. What possibilities do you see to reduce the error rate in the future? Regards, HaeB (talk) 03:10, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

In the news Not started

Check status The following merit at least brief notes: In praise of Wikipedia Three recent blog posts by the Brooklyn Museum (or maybe in the Tech report instead?) What's interesting about WikiPop is that the Brooklyn Museum did the project, entirely on their own initiative, and Rebecca was able to contribute. I think Wikimedia NYC didn't know about in advance the project until the blog posts, though has worked with the Brooklyn Museum previously on Wikipedia Loves Art. The use of iPads is also interesting, seeing it can simplify implementing something such as this. --Aude (talk) 01:43, 17 October 2010 (UTC) [3] - as David Gerard points out, the position of the author make the quotes about Wikipedia newsworthy. Regards, HaeB (talk) 00:44, 17 October 2010 (UTC) OK, at this point I am actually considering dropping ITN for this issue (following a suggestion by Tony), since no work has been done on it yet and we are running late. Tinucherian has indicated he will do a write-up of this rather interesting article, but hasn't done so yet. I could spend some time myself on whipping up brief one-sentence notes for the above items, but it would still be a very meager section. On the other hand, while there are some interesting items (some of which will be stale by next week), there would be no deadly sins of omission. Regards, HaeB (talk) 18:44, 18 October 2010 (UTC) I would understand dropping the ITN section but I really think the Brooklyn Museum story is worth covering, there are multiple posts about Wikipedia related initiatives at the Brooklyn museum apart from all the praise, Maybe it could be moved to another section or be highlighted to be covered next week. Regards. Theo10011 (talk) 21:49, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject report In progress	Check status When will this be finished? Regards, HaeB (talk) 18:44, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Features and admins Done	Check status

Discussion report Not started	Check status

Arbitration report Done

Technology report Needs copyedit

Seems finished, although coverage of the Brooklyn Museum's iPad software (see above) would still be nice. Regards, HaeB (talk) 18:44, 18 October 2010 (UTC) Done, although there is more there for a regular story, I found only a brief story was pertinent to the tech report section, the rest seems unrelated to the tech-report aspect and deserves to be covered elsewhere. Theo10011 (talk) 21:49, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Sister projects On hiatus

Dispatches Done

I've moved their story over. Cheers, ResMar 04:24, 13 October 2010 (UTC) Needs copy-editing; I've removed the negative from the title; needs to be shorter, snappier. Is FCDW, whatever its acronym is, involved? That might be a good idea (not wanting to usurp the co-authors, of course). Tony (talk) 08:51, 14 October 2010 (UTC) I told Sandy and listed it on the FCDW page. Considering the seniority of the writers, I'm sure no one will have any problems. ResMar 23:45, 15 October 2010 (UTC) Marking this as "Done" now in the light of this discussion. I agree it is a bit long, but it is stylistically well written and seems to have been thoroughly proofread. I don't the picture is a good illustration though (it is not even of a jury), replacing it while keeping the humor. Regards, HaeB (talk) 20:18, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

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Task	User	Backup
News and notes	HaeB, Tarheel95, Tinucherian, Resident Mario, Pretzels
In the news	Sk8er5000, Belugaboy, Tarheel95, HaeB, extransit, Theo10011, Diego Grez, Tinucherian
WikiProject report	Coordinated at the WikiProject desk
Discussion report
Features and admins	Tony1, Dabomb87
Arbitration report	Ncmvocalist	Mabeenot, Jéské Couriano
Technology report	Jarry1250	TheDJ, Theo10011, Tinucherian
Sister Projects	Forty two
Dispatches	Coordinated at the Featured content dispatch workshop
Design & templates	Pretzels
Copy-editing team	Tony1, Pretzels, Tarheel95, Ohconfucius
Publication	HaeB	seresin
Talkpage deliveries	EdwardsBot	TinucherianBot

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