Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2014-10-15

{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|1|2014-10-15|Op-ed|Ships—sexist or sexy?|sub=Why does Wikipedia still use the gendered pronouns "she" and "her" for ships?}}

{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|2|2014-10-15|In the media|College player falsely linked to sports scandal by Wikipedia; the Nobel Prizes|sub=Ben Koo of the sports blog Awful Announcing investigated how player Joe Streater's name became involved in recent years with a historic sports scandal.}}

{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|3|2014-10-15|Arbitration report|One case closed and two opened|sub=The Banning Policy case was closed on 12 October. Arbcom affirmed that users have "considerable leeway" in terms of how their talk pages are managed.}}

{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|4|2014-10-15|Featured content|Bells ring out at the Temple of the Dragon at Peace|sub=Nine articles and twenty-six pictures were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia.}}

{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|5|2014-10-15|Technology report|Attempting to parse wikitext|sub=This week we sat down with The Earwig to learn about his wikitext parser.}}

{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|6|2014-10-15|Traffic report|Now introducing ... mobile data|sub=We are pleased to report that the WP:5000 has now been updated to include mobile views, including a column reflecting the percentage of views coming from mobile devices.}}

{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|7|2014-10-15|WikiProject report|Signpost reaches the Midwest|sub=Today, it's the turn of WikiProject Ohio to give us an interview probing deep into of how they manage to run a project covering one fiftieth of the United States, and the workings of how they manufacture their successes and other articles.}}