Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-07-15

{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|1|2015-07-15|Op-ed|On paid editing and advocacy: when the Bright Line fails to shine, and what we can do about it|sub="How long will this take?" This is one of the first questions new clients ask. They come to us because the Wikipedia entry about the company at which they work is wrong, incomplete, or even just outdated. The answer varies ... }}

{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|2|2015-07-15|Traffic report|Belles of the ball|sub=However coy they may be about it in public, Americans love to win. And when they do, they make no secret of it.}}

{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|3|2015-07-15|WikiProject report|What happens when a country is no longer a country?|sub=We return this week with an interview with a historical project that's still fairly active, WikiProject Former countries.}}

{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|4|2015-07-15|In the media|Shapps requests WMUK data; professor's plagiarism demotion|sub=In The Register, Andrew Orlowski reports that three weeks ago, Grant Shapps filed a request with Wikimedia UK (WMUK) under the Data Protection Act 1998 "for all data relating to him".}}

{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|5|2015-07-15|Blog|Wikimedia Foundation releases third transparency report|sub=The Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to announce the release of our latest transparency report.}}

{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|6|2015-07-15|News and notes|The Wikimedia Conference and Wikimania|sub=Wikimania 2015 is underway in Mexico City, and one of its sessions—a scheduled follow-up to the annual Wikimedia Conference that was held in Berlin in May—is good reason to provide a retrospective of that Conference.}}

{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|7|2015-07-15|Featured content|When angels and daemons interrupt the vicious and intemperate|sub=One featured article, seven featured lists, and 14 featured pictures were promoted this week.}}

{{Signpost/item|{{{1}}}|8|2015-07-15|Technology report|Tech news in brief|sub=Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community}}