Volume 20

Issue 7

16 May 2024

Rama – CC BY-SA 2.0 fr

News and notes

Democracy in action: multiple elections

WMF trustee elections, U4C results, Italian ArbCom, WMF and Endowment annual reports.

Radomianin – CC BY-SA 4.0

Special report

Will the new RfA reform come to the rescue of administrators?

We don't know yet, but there is some encouraging news, nevertheless.

Bernard Gagnon – CC BY-SA 4.0

Arbitration report

Ruined temples for posterity to ponder over – arbitration from '22 to '24

Some go out with a bang, some with a whimper, few with much of a comprehensible explanation.

PLATEL – CC BY-SA 4.0

In the media

Deadnames on the French Wikipedia, and a duel between Russian wikis

Plus, the WMF joins the Unicode Consortium, Chris Albon talks about AI tools on Wikipedia, communities address under-representation on the site.

Alicia Fagerving – CC BY-SA 3.0

Op-Ed

Wikidata to split as sheer volume of information overloads infrastructure

More queries are failing, and more frequently, so what is to be done?

Generalissima – CC BY-SA 4.0

Comix

Generations

It do be like that sometimes.

m4mystery – CC BY 2.0

Traffic report

Crawl out through the fallout, baby

With cricket and some cute baby reindeer!

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