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the project's touted accomplishments are improving the articles for Sea and Entertainment from start-class to Good Article status. In addition to drawing veteran editor attention with a Community Portal widget and weekly announcements posted to subscribed talk pages, TAFI briefly appeared as a box on Knowledge (XXG)'s main page welcoming new editors to contribute. Plans are ongoing to return TAFI to the main page.
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This week, we spent some time with the folks behind Today's Article for Improvement, commonly shortened to TAFI, which Coin945 notes is pronounced "taffy". The initiative began in July 2012 as an attempt to "use widespread collaborative editing to improve articles... over a short time frame." Two of
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A new post in the WMF blog describes Assistant Professor Amy E. Hughes' experience in the Wikimedia Education Program with a two term graduate class on Western theater history.
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In one of the more surprising turns of events surrounding the WikiLeaks saga, US soldier Bradley Manning announced a change in his sexual identity last Thursday.
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Seventeen articles, three lists, and three pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Knowledge (XXG) this week.
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Thanks to a new MediaWiki extension, editors can now use the popular LilyPond format to embed musical scores in articles.
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continues to grow, given the increasing complexity and financial expenditures of the global Wikimedia movement.
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can be one of the most rewarding things an editor can do, and the need for an independent, volunteer-run
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Knowledge (XXG)'s Manual of Style marches into Manning's sex change
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case that includes statements on metadata and microformat issues.
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Skyscrapers, Gibraltar DYKs, Four Award, Secure login, and more
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