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Featured content: Wikipedia hit by the Streisand effect (2,836 bytes · 💬)

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• Where is the discussion of Wikipedia being "hit by the Streisand effect?"Edison (talk) 04:23, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
  • Wikipedia was not literally hit "hit by the Streisand effect", but something related to the Streisand effect was featured on Wikipedia. I'd rather not go into Gilbatrarpedia stuff in FC — Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:29, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
• Under Streisand Effect in Featured Pictures, doesn't "phenomena" have to be "phenomenon" as it's discussing only one thing? - a boat that can float! (watch me float!) 12:16, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

• Yeah, that's right. Fixed. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:27, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

• No mention of the Streisand effect being the basis for there being no centralized revdel/oversight request pages? — Francophonie&Androphilie (Je vous invite à me parler) 22:29, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
  • OR ;-) — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:13, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
    • Nuh-uh! ;) See WP:REVDEL#How to request Revision Deletion. — Francophonie&Androphilie (Je vous invite à me parler) 23:22, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
      • Hmm... shame putting it here could be seen as OR. I'd hate to have to block myself for "unconstructive content" — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:31, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
        • Haha it's just a strange coincidence - I only learned about this term last week, after reading the revdel policy. When I saw this headline, I assumed it was going to be about us screwing up in that regard! — Francophonie&Androphilie (Je vous invite à me parler) 23:36, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
          • That may have been where I learned the term too, actually. Don't remember. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:54, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

News and notes: FDC's financial muscle kicks in (1,321 bytes · 💬)

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• Shouldn't currently in the throws of a ... be currently in the throes of a ..., or is the spelling a US/Aus/Can/Indian etc variant of UK spelling? - Sitush (talk) 10:02, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
  • Meh. Fixed. Tony (talk) 10:22, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

• For context (scale), it might be useful to indicate what portion of the total WMF budget these FDC allocations represent. (These are big numbers, and one may recall a time, not so long ago, when $10M was more than the Foundation's total budget.) ~ Ningauble (talk) 18:20, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

• The Wikipedian in Residence page at http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence needs updating with the new position (I'd do it but I don't have time right now). --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 18:10, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

Technology report: Structural reorganisation "not a done deal" (1,187 bytes · 💬)

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• Thanks to the editor for the note about retiring a feature for which there are not resources to adequately manage. I appreciate the managing staff's efforts to maintain quality within the newspaper's scope. Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:33, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
  • Sure, you're right, "quality" (maybe one day also in the editor's own pieces?). --Nemo 08:30, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
• For those who missed the discussion on the poll: Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2012-11-12/Technology report (I also added some links pointing to discussions somebody there was looking for). --Nemo 08:30, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject report: No teenagers, mutants, or ninjas: WikiProject Turtles (329 bytes · 💬)

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@Mabeenot, thanks for one more piece of the puzzle. Great coverage - keep it up. Ottawahitech (talk) 20:48, 27 November 2012 (UTC)