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.

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