Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Archives/2016-06-15

News and notes

Clarifications on status and compensation of outgoing executive directors Sue Gardner and Lila Tretikov

WMF board chair Patricio Lorente answers questions

Special report

Wikiversity Journal—A new user group

Wikimedia enters academic publishing

Featured content

From the crème de la crème

Eleven featured articles, nine featured lists and fourteen featured pictures

In the media

Biography disputes; Craig Newmark donation; PR editing

Recent media coverage of Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Op-ed

Commons Picture of the Year; Wikidata licensing

Two for the price of one—do the popular Commons image contest and Wikidata licensing serve the community as well as they should?

Traffic report

Another one with sports; Knockout, brief candle

Wikipedia's most read articles in the last two weeks

Blog

Why I proofread poetry at Wikisource

Poetry: “it is the stuff of the soul; it speaks to the body, the mind, and the spirit alike.” Sonja Bohm worked for years to get all of Florence Earle Coates’ poetry online, and now proofreads poetry on the English Wikisource, the free library. We asked why.

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