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Submission deadline: Error: first parameter cannot be parsed as a date or time.!  Publication scheduled for late Wednesday.
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Current discussion

From the opinion desk

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From the special desk

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Other proposals

Ideas

• Gender ratio: This month is WikiWoman's month and a lot of scrutiny is being placed across the project on the gender gap. We will summarize the state of play in our end-of-March issue, with a special report on the gender ratio currently in draft.
• Copyright: How overly strict copyright limits are hurting Wikimedia contributors? Alternatively, how Wikimedia contributors' copyrights are violated on a daily basis?
• Resource exchange: An interview with the people who help content creators at the Resource Exchange.
• Public release I've seen a couple of stories about major releases of materials into the Creative Commons of large numbers of literary and scholarly works in the languages of India, specifically Kannada and Tamil, thanks to the efforts of Wikipedians. Perhaps a talk with some of the participants or an overview of these kinds of efforts?
• Wikimedia Ukraine: Possible follow-up with Wikimedia Ukraine on editing WP in the midst of war? (see previous coverage)
• Guerrilla Skepticism: Guerrilla Skepticism on Misplaced Pages is still a hot topic amongst proponents of alternative medicine and science. This seems ripe for a news feature or perhaps an interview with Susan Gerbic.

Note from editor(s)-in-chief

We're having some technical difficulties but we are mostly published. Thanks to everyone and a great job this week. Gamaliel (talk) 20:12, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Seconding Gamaliel here. Great work, folks. Go Phightins! 01:35, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

FC is having a manpower shortage, so go help if you can, and it looks like we'll publish Thursday. Gamaliel (talk) 22:26, 18 March 2015 (UTC) Friday Gamaliel (talk) 02:07, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

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