Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2014-10-29

{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|1|2014-10-29|Featured content|Go West, young man|sub=By the way, there is a monster at the end of this article}}

{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|2|2014-10-29|In the media|Wikipedia a trusted source on Ebola; Wikipedia study labeled government waste; football biography goes viral|sub=Noam Cohen reports in The New York Times (October 26) that Wikipedia's "Ebola Virus Disease article has had 17 million page views in the last month," an indication of the public's reliance on the online encyclopedia.}}

{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|3|2014-10-29|Maps tagathon|Find 10,000 digitised maps this weekend|sub=Rather than the usual WikiProject Report, this week our guest author Jheald is telling us about a campaign to identify thousands of old maps which have been digitised, to make them available for georeferencing and upload}}

{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|4|2014-10-29|Traffic report|Ebola, Ultron, and Creepy Articles|sub=Ebola virus disease leads the Report for the fourth straight week. The rest of the list is primarily a mix of pop culture topics, including movie Avengers: Age of Ultron (#4) whose trailer was leaked early, and the death of Oscar de la Renta (#7). A BuzzFeed article on creepy Wikipedia articles, no doubt well-timed with Halloween (#9) around the corner, was responsible for three articles in the Top 25, including June and Jennifer Gibbons (#10), Taman Shud Case (#17), Joyce Vincent (#25). And the internet-run-amok controversy of Gamergate cracked the Top 25 for the first time at #19.}}

{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|5|2014-10-29|Recent research|Informed consent and privacy; newsmaking on Wikipedia; Wikipedia and organizational theories|sub=In new research conducted in light of proposed changes to data protection legislation in the European Union (EU), authors Bart Custers, Simone van der Hof, and Bart Schermer conducted a comparative analysis of social media and user-generated content websites’ privacy policies along with a user survey (N=8,621 in 26 countries) and interviews in 13 different EU countries on awareness, values, and attitudes toward privacy online.}}