Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-10-09

{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|1|2013-10-09|Traffic report|Shutdown shenanigans|sub=If you're living in the United States, what did you do during the government shutdown? Well, it seems most people watched the final episode of Breaking Bad.}}

{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|2|2013-10-09|WikiProject report|Australian Roads|sub=This week, we moved to the esoteric world of Australian roads.}}

{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|3|2013-10-09|Featured content|Under the sea|sub=Seven articles, six lists, and twelve pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.}}

{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|4|2013-10-09|News and notes|Extensive network of clandestine paid advocacy exposed|sub=An investigation by the English Wikipedia community into suspicious edits and sockpuppet activity has led to astonishing revelations that Wiki-PR, a multi-million-dollar US-based company, has created, edited, or maintained several thousand Wikipedia articles for paying clients using a sophisticated array of concealed user accounts.}}

{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|5|2013-10-09|In the media|College credit for editing Wikipedia|sub=The University of California, San Francisco attracted substantial media attention over its new course offering that will give credit to fourth year medical students for editing Wikipedia articles about medicine.}}

{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|6|2013-10-09|Arbitration report|Manning naming dispute and Ebionites 3 cases continue; third arbitrator resigns|sub=A proposed decision has been posted in the Manning naming dispute. The workshop phase of the Ebionites 3 case closes 13 October. Arbitrator NuclearWarfare has resigned.}}