Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2014-01-08

{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|1|2014-01-08|Public Domain Day|Why the year 2019 is so significant|sub=Public Domain Day—January 1, 2014—gives me an opportunity to reflect on this important asset, mandated by the Constitution of the United States.}}

{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|2|2014-01-08|Traffic report|Tragedy and television|sub=The various maladies that befall humanity got some well-known faces this week: the death of the well-liked actor James Avery topped the list, but Michael Schumacher, who is in a coma after a skiing accident, also drew attention.}}

{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|3|2014-01-08|Technology report|Gearing up for the Architecture Summit|sub=MediaWiki developers will be meeting in San Francisco on January 23–24 for an Architecture Summit.}}

{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|4|2014-01-08|News and notes|WMF employee forced out over "paid advocacy editing"|sub=On 8 January, the Wikimedia Foundation notified the Wikimedia-l mailing list that Sarah Stierch, a popular Wikimedian and the Foundation's Program Evaluation Community Coordinator, was no longer an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, as a result of being paid to create articles on the English Wikipedia.}}

{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|5|2014-01-08|Op-ed|WikiCup competition beginning a new year|sub=At the very start of the new year, 2014's WikiCup—an annual competition which has been held on Wikipedia in various forms since 2007—began.}}

{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|6|2014-01-08|WikiProject report|Jumping into the television universe|sub=This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Television.}}

{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|7|2014-01-08|Featured content|A portal to the wonderful world of technology|sub=Twelve articles, three lists, seven pictures, and a portal were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia in the last two weeks.}}