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{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|1|2012-09-24|In the media|Editor's response to Roth draws internet attention|sub=Oliver Keyes' (User:Ironholds) defense of Wikipedia against the recent Philip Roth controversy has drawn a significant amount of attention over the last week. The problems between Roth, a widely known and acclaimed American author, and Wikipedia arose from an open letter he penned for the American magazine New Yorker, and were covered by the Signpost two weeks ago. Keyes—who wrote the piece as a prominent Wikipedian but is also a contractor for the Wikimedia Foundation—wrote a blog post on the topic, lamenting the factual errors in Roth's letter and criticizing the media for not investigating his claims: "[they took] Roth’s explanation as the truth and launched into a lengthy discussion of how we [Wikipedia] handle primary sourcing."}}
{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|1|2012-09-24|In the media|Editor's response to Roth draws internet attention}}
{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|2|2012-09-24|Recent research|"Rise and decline" of Wikipedia participation, new literature overviews, a look back at WikiSym 2012|sub=A paper to appear in a special issue of ''American Behavioral Scientist'' (summarized in the research index) sheds new light on the English Wikipedia's declining editor growth and retention trends. The paper describes how "several changes that the Wikipedia community made to manage quality and consistency in the face of a massive growth in participation have lead to a more restrictive environment for newcomers". The number of active Wikipedia editors has been declining since 2007 and research examining data up to September 2009 has shown that the root of the problem has been the declining retention of new editors. The authors show this decline is mainly due to a decline among desirable, good-faith newcomers, and point to three factors contributing to the increasingly "restrictive environment" they face.}}
{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|2|2012-09-24|News and notes|UK chapter rocked by Gibraltar scandal}}
{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|3|2012-09-24|WikiProject report|01010010 01101111 01100010 01101111 01110100 01101001 01100011 01110011|sub=This week, we tinkered with WikiProject Robotics. From the project's inception in December 2007, it has served as Wikipedia's hub for building and improving articles about robots and robotics, accumulating two Featured Articles and seven Good Articles along the way. The project covers both fictitious and real-life robots, the technology that powers them, and many of the brains behind the robotics field}}
{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|3|2012-09-24|Recent research|"Rise and decline" of Wikipedia participation, new literature overviews, a look back at WikiSym 2012}}
{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|4|2012-09-24|News and notes|UK chapter rocked by Gibraltar scandal|sub=In the second controversy to engulf Wikimedia UK in two months, its immediate past chair Roger Bamkin has resigned from the board of the chapter. The resignation last Wednesday followed a growing furore over the conflict of interest between two of Roger's roles outside the chapter and his close involvement in the UK board's decision-making process, including the access to private mailing lists that board members in all chapters need. But the irony surrounding Roger's resignation is its connection with efforts by Wikimedians and collaborators to strengthen the reach of Wikimedia projects through technical innovation.}}
{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|4|2012-09-24|Discussion report|Image filter; HotCat; Syntax highlighting; and more}}
{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|5|2012-09-24|Technology report|''Signpost'' investigation: code review times|sub=Late last month, the "Technology report" included a story using code review backlog figures – the only code review figures then available – to construct a rough narrative about the average experience of code contributors. This week, we hope to go one better, by looking directly at code review wait times, and, in particular, median code review times}}
{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|5|2012-09-24|WikiProject report|01010010 01101111 01100010 01101111 01110100 01101001 01100011 01110011}}
{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|6|2012-09-24|Featured content|Dead as...}}
{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|6|2012-09-24|Featured content|Dead as...|sub=Fourteen featured articles were promoted this week, including Dodo, along with six featured lists and five featured pictures.}}
{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|7|2012-09-24|Technology report|''Signpost'' investigation: code review times}}
{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|7|2012-09-24|Discussion report|Image filter; HotCat; Syntax highlighting; and more|sub=Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...}}

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