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Arbcom election procedures, Wiki Loves Monuments, Privacy policy, FDC, and more: As mentioned in "In the news" on Wikipedia's main page, the Library of Birmingham in the United Kingdom has opened. This interior photo was taken a week before opening. The article reports that the library "has been described as the largest public library in the United Kingdom, the largest public cultural space in Europe, and the largest regional library in Europe."

Discussion report

Arbcom election procedures, Wiki Loves Monuments, Privacy policy, FDC, and more

By Pine

As mentioned in "In the news" on Wikipedia's main page, the Library of Birmingham in the United Kingdom has opened. This interior photo was taken a week before opening. The article reports that the library "has been described as the largest public library in the United Kingdom, the largest public cultural space in Europe, and the largest regional library in Europe."

This is mostly a list of Non-article page requests for comment believed to be active on 5 September 2013 linked from subpages of Wikipedia:RfC, recent watchlist notices and SiteNotices. The latter two are in bold. Items that are new to this report are in italics even if they are not new discussions. If an item can be listed under more than one category it is usually listed once only in this report. Clarifications and corrections are appreciated; please leave them in this article's comment box at the bottom of the page.

Style and naming

• Scope of the article "Italian dialects"
• "The" or "the" for the beginning of names of musical bands?
• Canoer or canoeist?

Policies and guidelines

The present building of the Supreme Court of the United States. An RfC regarding election procedures for the English Wikipedia Arbitration committee has started, and Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 is underway.

• Rules and practices for Arbitration committee elections, and amendments in future years
• The use of "(entertainer)" in entertainment-related disambiguations
• Determining, reading, and interpreting consensus
• Disambiguating works in a series and the series as a whole
• Should Skyscrapercity.com forums be accepted as reliable sources under at least some circumstances?
• Two proposed expansions of the Civility policy
• VisualEditor default state
• Include links to audio files of national anthems in country infoboxes?

WikiProjects and collaborations

• Wiki Loves Monuments 2013
• Guidelines for notability of tallest building lists
• Rescind the restrictions on Gibraltar-related DYKs?
• Four Award issues

Technical issues and templates

• Template talk:Infobox Swiss town
• Proposed reduction of wikilinks in some WikiProject Psychology templates

Proposals

• Userboxes and categories
• Keep or delete some subcategories of the Wikipedian category?
• How to discuss renaming files
• Articles for creation reviewer permission

English Wikipedia notable requests for permissions

(This section will include active RfAs, RfBs, CU/OS appointment requests, and Arbcom elections)

• Arbitration committee announces new CheckUser and Oversighter appointments
• Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/The Interior

Meta

The new logo for Wikivoyage

• "The new logo for Wikivoyage is announced! You can see it to the left of this text, or here: "
• "A new proposal is started to launch Global-Wiki as a Wikimedia project"
• "A new proposal is started to launch Reviewiki as a Wikimedia project"
• Start WeRelate as a new Wikimedia project?
• Start WikiNames as a new Wikimedia project?
• Adopt Wikidentify as a new Wikimedia project?
• Trademark practices
• Scope of the Ombudsman Commission

Upcoming online meetings

• "Chat on FDC Proposal Process & Milestones", 10 September 16:00 UTC
• "Chat on FDC Proposal Process & Milestones", 10 September 23:00 UTC
• "Chat on FDC Proposal content", 18 October 16:00 UTC
• "Chat on FDC Proposal content", 18 October 23:00 UTC

Wikimedia blog posts

• Your privacy, your policy – a call for Wikimedia community input
• Language support at Wikimania 2013 in Hong Kong
• Wikimedia Research Newsletter, August 2013
• Wikimedia Highlights, July 2013
• Wikimedia Foundation Report, July 2013
• Notifications launch on mobile
• Team Wikimedia Security has a spot for you
• A guide to getting started on Wikimedia Commons
• Visualising Edits
• HTTPS enabled by default for logged-in users on Wikimedia sites
• Third term of Wikipedia Education Program Arab World wraps up
• US, Canada students contribute massive amount of quality content to Wikipedia
• Drafting a strategy plan with the community
• Restoring the forgotten Javanese script through Wikimedia
• Kazakh students travel to Wikimania 2013 in Hong Kong
• Change the world and make it more free: Stanislav Kozlovskiy
• Reaching the many deadlines of WikiAfrica: Iolanda Pensa profile
• Students learn about history as a living, changing thing
• Ilya Utekhin profile: “Wikipedia, The New Stage of Our Civilization”
• Wikimedia Commons photographer profile: Airwolf
• Illustrating Wikipedia from the air in Israel

"Video of the monthly Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting covering the month of July (August 1, 2013)", from the Wikimedia Foundation Report, July 2013

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• A photo of the United States Supreme Court building to simultaneously represent the annual ArbCom elections procedure fiddling and "WP Loves Monuments"?!?! Hmmmmm.... That immediately set me to writing a joke about the somewhat more appropriate alternative use of a graphic featuring a building in Baraboo, Wisconsin... Alas, it appears that a Wikipedian with a camera needs to make a road trip to that monument... Carrite (talk) 20:44, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

• Link for "Scope of the article "Italian dialects"" doesn't go to an RFC. Johnbod (talk) 13:43, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
  

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