As usual, I am grateful for the volunteer contributors to the most recent
issue
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archives/2019-05-31>
of The Signpost.
I was happy to see that Wikimedia Canada
<https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page> and Library and Archives Canada
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_and_Archives_Canada> announced a
collaboration
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/glam/2019-June/001596.html>.
Thanks to Brooke Storm (WMF Cloud Services) and Bryan Davis (WMF Technical
Engagement), I found an amusing xkcd depiction <https://xkcd.com/1319/> of
successful task automation and unsuccessful task automation.
<https://xkcd.com/1319/>
Here are some recent stories that were published by WMF:
* Four open design methods we used to improve Wikipedia’s iOS app
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/05/28/four-open-design-methods-we-used-to-improve-wikipedias-ios-app/>
* With Wikipedia in the classroom, a former student has become the teacher
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/05/22/with-wikipedia-in-the-classroom-a-former-student-has-become-the-teacher/>
* Wikimedia Foundation announces tenth transparency report
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/05/20/wikimedia-foundation-announces-tenth-transparency-report/>
* Wikimedia Foundation urges Chinese authorities to lift block of Wikipedia
in China
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/05/17/wikimedia-foundation-urges-chinese-authorities-to-lift-block-of-wikipedia-in-china/>
* MediaWiki is the software that underpins Wikipedia. This conference shows
all the other ways it can be used.
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/05/01/mediawiki-is-the-software-that-underpins-wikipedia-this-conference-shows-all-the-other-ways-it-can-be-used/>
* Wikimedia Argentina and the National University of La Plata partner to
promote free knowledge
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/04/30/wikimedia-argentina-and-the-national-university-of-la-plata-partner-to-promote-free-knowledge/>
The Word of the Day for English Wiktionary on June 2nd was "rubicon". I was
familiar with a fictional ship named
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runabout_(Star_Trek)>Rubicon
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runabout_(Star_Trek)> and I guessed that the
name referred to a river, which it does
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubicon>, but I did not know that more than
one river <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubicon_River_(disambiguation)> is
named Rubicon, and I did not know about many other uses for the name
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubicon_(disambiguation)>. Thanks to
Wiktionary, I learned that the word "rubicon" (with a lowercase "r")
has its
own meanings
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Word_of_the_day/June_2> and
an interesting
etymology <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rubicon> that refers to the the
Italian river as a location of a notable event in history
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Rubicon>, and possibly also
refers the red color of the river
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h%E2%82%81rewd%CA%B0->
.
What's making you happy this week? You are welcome to comment in any
language.
Pine
(
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )