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The Signpost: 31 July 2013

Op-ed: The VisualEditor Beta and the path to change

Recent research: Napoleon, Michael Jackson and Srebrenica across cultures, 90% of Wikipedia better than Britannica, WikiSym preview

Traffic report: Bouncing Baby Brouhaha

WikiProject report: Babel Series: Politics on the Turkish Wikipedia

News and notes: Gearing up for Wikimania 2013

Arbitration report: Race and politics case closes

Featured content: Caterpillars, warblers, and frogs—oh my!

Discussion report: Defining consensus; VisualEditor default state; expert and layperson terms in article titles

The Signpost: 07 August 2013

Arbitration report: Fourteen editors proposed for ban in Tea Party movement case

Traffic report: Greetings from the graveyard

News and notes: Chapters Association self-destructs

WikiProject report: WikiProject Freedom of Speech

Featured content: Mysterious case of the grand duchess

Discussion report: CheckUser and Oversighter candidates, and more

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44	Military structure of the FARC-EP (talk)	Add sources
295	1995 Rugby World Cup (talk)	Add sources
260	Belt (clothing) (talk)	Add sources
189	The Power of Love (Huey Lewis and the News song) (talk)	Add sources
36	2000 Super 12 season (talk)	Add sources
15	Cityblis (talk)	Add sources
58	John Andretti (talk)	Cleanup
68	Macedonian nationalism (talk)	Cleanup
473	Mr. Clean (talk)	Cleanup
21	2008 in the United States (talk)	Expand
10,921	Star Wars (talk)	Expand
21	Solidarity tax on wealth (talk)	Expand
6	Operation Marion (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
449	Demagogue (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
68	French–German enmity (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,090	2003 invasion of Iraq (talk)	Merge
7	France–Americas relations (talk)	Merge
599	Zimbabwean presidential election, 2008 (talk)	Merge
79	Justin Miller (baseball, born 1977) (talk)	Wikify
5	1998 Currie Cup (talk)	Wikify
148	Rogue state (talk)	Wikify
10	2007 suicide bombings in Iraq (talk)	Orphan
5	Streaming Internet Radio toolbar (talk)	Orphan
31	Outline of the history of Western civilization (talk)	Orphan
7	South American Jaguars (talk)	Stub
2	Iryna Herashchenko (talk)	Stub
13	Herenigde Nasionale Party (talk)	Stub
38	Weenen massacre (talk)	Stub
5	Hannes Strydom (talk)	Stub
9	Chemical, Energy, Paper, Printing, Wood and Allied Workers' Union (talk)	Stub

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The Signpost: 14 August 2013

News and notes: "Beautifully smooth" Wikimania with few hitches

In the media: Chinese censorship

Featured content: Wikipedia takes the cities

Special report: Jimmy Wales: media favors entertainment over raising public awareness

Discussion report: Wikivoyage, reliable sources, music bands, account creators, and OTRS

WikiProject report: For the love of stamps

Arbitration report: Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds case closes

Please comment on Georgia (country) to Georgia move suggestion

Please comment here. Thanks. georgianJORJADZE 18:32, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
235	Blue Bulls (talk)	Add sources
8	2011 in Germany (talk)	Add sources
9	Sauer Commission (talk)	Add sources
44	Honorary whites (talk)	Add sources
13	Afrikaner Bond (talk)	Add sources
23	Swart gevaar (talk)	Add sources
109	Ellis Park Stadium (talk)	Cleanup
228	Aberystwyth University (talk)	Cleanup
61	Xenogenesis (film) (talk)	Cleanup
65	2011 in the United States (talk)	Expand
45	2007 in the United States (talk)	Expand
7	Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire (talk)	Expand
204	Pedi people (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,163	Car classification (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
6,241	HTTP cookie (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
22	Faculty of Health Sciences (University of the Witwatersrand) (talk)	Merge
2,145	NoSQL (talk)	Merge
71	Error code (talk)	Merge
111	Joe Hanson (talk)	Wikify
90	Ansar Dine (talk)	Wikify
10	1997 Currie Cup (talk)	Wikify
2	Die Arbeider en arm boer (talk)	Orphan
11	United States involvement in regime change (talk)	Orphan
3	Mbekite (talk)	Orphan
3	Adolf Malan (talk)	Stub
114	National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (talk)	Stub
11	SubSonic (software) (talk)	Stub
279	Economic Freedom Fighters (talk)	Stub
17	Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (talk)	Stub
14	Hoërskool Waterkloof (talk)	Stub

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We have changed the number of suggested articles and which categories they are selected from. The number of stubs has been greatly reduced, the number of articles needing sources doubled, and two new categories added (orphans and unencyclopaedic articles). We have also modified the layout of the suggestions and added sortable columns with various types of information about each article. The first two columns are:

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The method we use to predict article quality also allows us to assess whether an article might need specific types of work in order to improve its quality. The work needed might not correspond to cleanup tags added to the article, since our method is not based on those. We have added five columns reflecting this work assessment, where a red X indicates improvement is needed. Placing your cursor over an X should give you a pop-up with a short description of the work needed. The five columns seek to answer the following five questions:

Content: Is more content needed?
Headings: Does this article have an appropriate section structure?
Images: Is the number of illustrative images about right?
Links: Does this article link to enough other Wikipedia articles?
Sources: For its length, is there an appropriate number of citations to sources in this article?

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If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom (talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot (talk) 11:52, 24 August 2013 (UTC)