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The Signpost
: 25 February 2015
News and notes:
Questions raised over WMF partnership with research firm
Op-ed:
Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own
In the media:
WikiGnomes and Bigfoot
Featured content:
The Moon, Mars, Venus, and Saturn, in no particular order. Also, Kaiser Kong.
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Far from home
Traffic report:
Fifty Shades of... self-denial?
Recent research:
Gender bias, SOPA blackout, and a student assignment that backfired
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Be prepared... Scouts in the spotlight
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The Signpost
: 25 February 2015
News and notes:
Questions raised over WMF partnership with research firm
Op-ed:
Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own
In the media:
WikiGnomes and Bigfoot
Featured content:
The Moon, Mars, Venus, and Saturn, in no particular order. Also, Kaiser Kong.
Gallery:
Far from home
Traffic report:
Fifty Shades of... self-denial?
Recent research:
Gender bias, SOPA blackout, and a student assignment that backfired
WikiProject report:
Be prepared... Scouts in the spotlight
Blog:
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The Signpost
: 04 March 2015
From the editor:
A sign of the times: the
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News and notes:
Wikimedia Foundation and OTRS team both publish reports, indicate operating changes
Editorial:
Conspiracy theories distract from real questions about grantmaking report
Traffic report:
Attack of the movies
Arbitration report:
Bradspeaks—impact, regrets, and advice; current cases hinge on sex, religion, and ... infoboxes
Interview:
Meet a paid editor
In the media:
Kanye West rebranded; Wikipedia in court; editors for hire
Featured content:
Ploughing fields and trading horses with Rosa Bonheur
Technology report:
Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
Blog:
Black History Month edit-a-thons tackle Wikipedia’s multicultural gaps
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The Signpost
: 11 March 2015
Special report:
An advance look at the WMF's fundraising survey
News and notes:
WikiWomen's History Month—meetups, blog posts, and "Inspire" grant-making campaign
In the media:
Gamergate; a Wiki hoax; Kanye West
In focus:
WMF to NSA: "stop spying on Wikipedia users"
Traffic report:
Wikipedia: handing knowledge to the world, one prank at a time
Featured content:
Here they come, the couple plighted –
Op-ed:
Why the Core Contest matters
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The Signpost: 18 March 2015
From the editor:
A salute to Pine
News and notes:
SUL finalization imminent; executive office shake-ups at the Foundation
In the media:
NYPD editing articles regarding allegations of police brutality and misconduct
Op-ed:
Does the Wikimedia fundraising survey address community concerns?
Featured content:
A woman who loved kings
Traffic report:
It's not cricket
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The Signpost – Volume 11, Issue 12 – 25 March 2015
News and notes:
Wikimedia Foundation adopts open-access research policy
Op-ed:
How my father's railroad image collection now benefits the world: the value of digitization
Featured content:
A carnival of animals, a river of dung, a wasteland of uncles, and some people with attitude
Special report:
Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2014
Traffic report:
Oddly familiar
Recent research:
Most important people; respiratory reliability; academic attitudes
Blog:
The Wikipedia Library Team reflects on its new Visiting Scholars program
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The Signpost
, 1 April 2015
In focus:
WMF's latest strategy document shows successes, vagueness, and the need for better data
In the media:
Wiki-PR duo bulldoze a piñata store; Wifione arbitration case; French parliamentary plagiarism
Featured content:
Stop Press.
Marie Celeste
Mystery Solved. Crew Found Hiding In Wardrobe.
Traffic report:
All over the place
News and notes:
New edits-by-mail option will "revolutionize" Wikipedia and its editor base
Special report:
Pictures of the Year 2015
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The Signpost
: 01 April 2015
In focus:
WMF's latest strategy document shows successes, vagueness, and the need for better data
In the media:
Wiki-PR duo bulldoze a piñata store; Wifione arbitration case; French parliamentary plagiarism
Featured content:
Stop Press.
Marie Celeste
Mystery Solved. Crew Found Hiding In Wardrobe.
Traffic report:
All over the place
News and notes:
New edits-by-mail option will "revolutionize" Wikipedia and its editor base
Special report:
Pictures of the Year 2015
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The Signpost
: 08 April 2015
Op-ed:
We are drowning in promotional artspam
News and notes:
Advancement department to be created at the Foundation, milestone fixes
In the media:
Wikipedia on
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, Kickstarter, and in the classroom
Traffic report:
Resurrection week
Featured content:
Partisan arrangements, dodgy dollars, a mysterious union of strings, and a hole that became a monument
WikiProject report:
WikiProject Christianity
Arbitration report:
New Functionary appointments
Technology report:
Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
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The Signpost
: 15 April 2015
News and notes:
Erik Möller leaving Foundation; annual plan grants under community review
In the media:
Saving Wikipedia; Internet regulation; Thoreau quote hoax
Blog:
Single-User Login provides access to all wikis
Traffic report:
Furious domination
Featured content:
Au-delà de les Alpes, le chien lit de Sainte Bernard. Sous les pavés, les trimes d'argent! Mes enfants, suivez-moi!
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The Signpost
: 22 April 2015
Special report:
Sony emails reveal corporate practices and undisclosed advocacy editing
In the media:
UK political editing; hoaxes; net neutrality
News and notes:
Call for candidates as the movement approaches the Wikimedia Board elections
In focus:
2015 Wikimedia Foundation election preparations underway
Featured content:
Vanguard
on guard
Traffic report:
A harvest of couch potatoes
Gallery:
The bitter end
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The Signpost
: 29 April 2015
Wikimania:
Choice of small village for Wikimania 2016 ruffles feathers
News and notes:
Wiki Loves Monuments evaluation sees diminishing returns and increasing cost
In the media:
Scottish MEP blocked for edit warring; ranking articles by importance
Featured content:
Another day, another dollar
Traffic report:
Bruce, Nessie, and genocide
Recent research:
Military history, cricket, and Australia targeted in Wikipedia articles' popularity vs. quality; how copyright damages economy
Technology report:
VisualEditor and MediaWiki updates
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The Signpost
: 06 May 2015
News and notes:
"Inspire" grant-making campaign concludes, grantees announced
Featured content:
The amorous android and the horsebreeder; WikiCup round two concludes
In the media:
Guggenheim image donation; Wiki campaign gets advertising award
Special report:
FDC candidates respond to key issues
Traffic report:
The grim ship reality
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The Signpost
: 13 May 2015
Foundation elections:
Board candidates share their views with the
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News and notes:
Swedish Wikimedia chapter organizes simultaneous Wikidata contests
Traffic report:
Round Two
In the media:
Grant Shapps story continues
Op-ed:
What made Wikipedia lose its reputation?
Featured content:
Four first-time featured article writers lead the way
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04:40, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
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The Signpost
: 20 May 2015
From the editor:
Your voice is needed: strategic voting in the WMF election
In focus:
The awful truth about Wikimedia's article counts
Traffic report:
Inner Core
News and notes:
A dark side of comedy: the Wikipedia volunteers cleaning up behind John Oliver's fowl jokes
Featured content:
Puppets, fungi, and waterfalls
In the media:
Jimmy Wales accepts Dan David Prize
WikiProject report:
Cell-ebrating Molecular Biology
Arbitration report:
Editor conduct the subject of multiple cases
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00:49, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
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The Signpost
: 27 May 2015
News and notes:
WMF releases quarterly reports, annual plans
In the media:
Scrubbing Parliamentary biographies; Wikipedia's invisible history
Discussion report:
A relic from the past that needs to be updated
Featured content:
When music was confined to a ribbon of rust
Recent research:
Drug articles accurate and largely complete; women "slightly overrepresented"; talking like an admin
Traffic report:
Summer, summer, summertime
Technology report:
MediaWiki blows up printers
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20:43, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
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The Signpost
: 03 June 2015
News and notes:
Three new community-elected trustees announced, incumbents out
Blog:
How Wikipedia covered Caitlyn Jenner’s transition
Discussion report:
The deprecation of Persondata; RfA – A broken process; Complaints from users on Swedish Wikipedia
Featured content:
It's not over till the fat man sings
Technology report:
Things are getting SPDYier
Special report:
Towards "Health Information for All": Medical content on Wikipedia received 6.5 billion page views in 2013
In the media:
Anonymous Australian editing targets football player, shooting victim
Traffic report:
A rather ordinary week
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The Signpost
: 10 June 2015
News and notes:
Chapter financial trends analyzed, news in brief
Traffic report:
Two households, both alike in dignity
In the media:
Arbitration case attracts media coverage; Wikipedia in Israel
Featured content:
Just the bear facts, ma'am
Technology report:
Wikimedia sites are going HTTPS only
Blog:
Making Wikipedia’s medical articles accessible in Chinese
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The Signpost
: 17 June 2015
In the media:
Wikipedia wins Asturias Prize; printing out Wikipedia; HTTPS switch
Arbitration report:
An election has consequences
In focus:
Three weeks to save freedom of panorama in Europe
Op-ed:
Making a difference in Wikipedia, one GA at a time
Technology report:
HTTPS-only rollout completed; proposal to enable VisualEditor for new accounts
Interview:
A veteran’s Wikipedia edits help him understand the brutality behind Yugoslavia’s wars
News and notes:
Labs outage kills tools, self; news in brief
Featured content:
Great Dane hits 150
Discussion report:
A quick way of becoming an admin
WikiProject report:
Western Australia speaks – we are back
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The Signpost
: 24 June 2015
From the editor:
The
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Op-ed:
Content Translation beta is coming to the English Wikipedia
Special report:
Small impact of the large Google Translation Project on Telugu Wikipedia
Featured content:
One eye when begun, two when it's done
Recent research:
How Wikipedia built governance capability; readability of plastic surgery articles
Technology report:
2015 MediaWiki architecture focus and Multimedia roadmap announced
News and notes:
Board of Trustees propose bylaw amendments
In the media:
Turkish Wikipedia censorship; "Can Wikipedia survive?"; PR editing
Blog:
7,473 volumes at 700 pages each: meet
Print Wikipedia
Arbitration report:
Politics by other means: The American politics 2 arbitration
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The Signpost
: 01 July 2015
News and notes:
Training the Trainers; VP of Engineering leaves WMF
In the media:
EU freedom of panorama; Nehru outrage; BBC apology
WikiProject report:
Able to make a stand
Featured content:
Viva V.E.R.D.I.
Traffic report:
We're Baaaaack
Technology report:
Technical updates and improvements
Blog:
These Texans are on a quest to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of their state’s revolution
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21:01, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
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The Signpost
: 08 July 2015
Editorial:
So you want to get your message out. Where do you turn?
News and notes:
Wikimedia Foundation annual plan released, news in brief
In the media:
Wikimania warning; Wikipedia "mystery" easily solved
Traffic report:
The Empire lobs back
Featured content:
Pyrénées, Playmates, parliament and a prison...
Technology report:
Tech news in brief
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04:51, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
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The Signpost
: 15 July 2015
Op-ed:
On paid editing and advocacy: when the Bright Line fails to shine, and what we can do about it
Traffic report:
Belles of the ball
WikiProject report:
What happens when a country is no longer a country?
In the media:
Shapps requests WMUK data; professor's plagiarism demotion
Blog:
Wikimedia Foundation releases third transparency report
News and notes:
The Wikimedia Conference and Wikimania
Featured content:
When angels and daemons interrupt the vicious and intemperate
Technology report:
Tech news in brief
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22:44, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
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The Signpost
: 22 July 2015
From the editor:
Change the world
News and notes:
Wikimanía 2016; Lightbreather ArbCom case
Wikimanía report:
Wikimanía 2015 report, part 1, the plenaries
In the media:
Novelists annotate Wikipedia; Wales promotes TPO; Working for free
Traffic report:
The Nerds, They Are A-Changin'
WikiProject report:
Some more politics
Featured content:
The sleep of reason produces monsters
Gallery:
"One small step..."
Technology report:
Tech news in brief
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The Signpost
: 29 July 2015
News and notes:
BARC de-adminship proposal; Wikimania recordings debate
Op-ed:
My life as an autistic Wikipedian
Recent research:
Wikipedia and collective intelligence; how Wikipedia is tweeted
In the media:
Is Wikipedia a battleground in the culture wars?
Featured content:
Even mammoths get the Blues
Traffic report:
Namaste again, Reddit
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15:00, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
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The Signpost
: 05 August 2015
Editorial:
Wikipedia better equipped to deal with systemic bias than traditional publishers
Op-ed:
Je ne suis pas Google
News and notes:
VisualEditor, endowment, science, and news in brief
WikiProject report:
Meet the boilerplate makers
In the media:
Probe into Nehru edits launched; dangers of the right to be forgotten
Traffic report:
Mrityorma amritam gamaya...
Featured content:
Maya, Michigan, Medici, Médée, and Moul n'ga
Blog:
Get help editing Wikipedia with the new “Co-op” mentorship program
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The Signpost
: 12 August 2015
News and notes:
Superprotect, one year later; a contentious RfA
In the media:
Paid editing; traffic drop; Nicki Minaj
Forum:
Community voices on paid editing
Wikimanía report:
Wikimanía 2015, part 2, a community event
Traffic report:
Fighting from top to bottom
Featured content:
Fused lizards, giant mice, and Scottish demons
Technology report:
Tech news in brief
Blog:
The Hunt for
Tirpitz
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04:49, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
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The Signpost
: 19 August 2015
Op-ed:
WP:THREATENING2MEN: The English Wikipedia's misogynist infopolitics and the hegemony of the asshole consensus
In the media:
Politically controversial science; "Wikipedia hates women"
Featured content:
Dead parrots, live frogs, a symbolic kiss and what do we get? Enrique Iglesias!
Travelogue:
Seeing is believing
Traffic report:
Straight Outta Connecticut
Technology report:
Tech news in brief
Blog:
How Wikipedia responds to breaking news
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The Signpost
: 26 August 2015
In focus:
An increase in active Wikipedia editors
In the media:
Russia temporarily blocks Wikipedia
Op-ed:
Wikimania—can volunteers organize conferences?
News and notes:
Re-imagining grants
Featured content:
Out to stud, please call later
Arbitration report:
Reinforcing Arbitration
Recent research:
OpenSym 2015 report
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The Signpost
: 02 September 2015
Special report:
Massive paid editing network unearthed on the English Wikipedia
News and notes:
Flow placed on ice
Discussion report:
WMF's sudden reversal on Wiki Loves Monuments
Featured content:
Brawny
In the media:
Orangemoody sockpuppet case sparks widespread coverage
Traffic report:
You didn't miss much
Technology report:
Tech news in brief
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The Signpost
: 09 September 2015
Gallery:
Being Welsh
Featured content:
Killed by flying debris
Op-ed:
DYK, or proudly displaying incorrect information on the Main Page with alarming regularity
News and notes:
The Swedish Wikipedia's controversial two-millionth article
Traffic report:
Mass media production traffic
Technology report:
Tech news in brief
In the media:
Calling all scientists!; More Wikipedia editors in the Netherlands than all of Africa combined
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20:00, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
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The Signpost
: 16 September 2015
Editorial:
No access is no answer to closed access
News and notes:
Byrd and notifications leave, but page views stay; was a terror suspect editing Wikipedia?
In the media:
Is there life on Mars?
Featured content:
Why did the emu cross the road?
Traffic report:
Another week
Technology report:
Tech news in brief
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17:43, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
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The Signpost
: 23 September 2015
In the media:
PETA makes "monkey selfie" a three-way copyright battle; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Op-ed:
Can we please stop bashing Wikipedia?
Featured content:
Inside Duke Humfrey's Library
WikiProject report:
Dancing to the beat of a... wikiproject?
Traffic report:
¡Viva la Revolución! Kinda.
Technology report:
Tech news in brief
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21:25, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
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The Signpost
: 30 September 2015
News and notes:
Wikimedia Foundation fundraising report, Montreal to host 2017 Wikimania
In the media:
Irish legislative editing; coffee quarrel; more sports vandalism
Op-ed:
Wikipedia needs more administrators
Recent research:
Wiktionary special; newbies, conflict and tolerance; Is Wikipedia's search function inferior?
Tech news:
Tech news in brief
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The Signpost
: 07 October 2015
Op-ed:
Walled gardens of corruption
Traffic report:
Reality is for losers
Featured content:
This Week's Featured Content
Gallery:
Winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 in Pakistan
Arbitration report:
Warning: Contains GMOs
Technology report:
Tech news in brief
In the media:
Jailed Saudi blogger wins award; PR editing and Wiki-embarassment; Pakistan's third-richest person?
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18:21, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
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The Signpost
: 14 October 2015
Op-ed:
WikiConference USA 2015: built on good faith
WikiConference report:
US gathering sees speeches from Andrew Lih, AfroCrowd, and the Archivist of the United States
Editorial:
Why the news media needs a Wikipedian in residence
News and notes:
2015–2016 Q1 fundraising update sparks mailing list debate
Traffic report:
Screens, Sport, Reddit, and Death
Featured content:
A fistful of dollars
Technology report:
Tech news in brief
Blog:
Third Wikimedia Spain conference takes place in Madrid
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17:39, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
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The Signpost
: 21 October 2015
Editorial:
Women and Wikipedia: the world is watching
News and notes:
Wikimedia lawsuit against NSA dismissed; Affiliates mailing list launched
In the media:
"Wikipedia's hostility to women"
Special report:
One year of GamerGate, or how I learned to stop worrying and love bare rule-level consensus
Featured content:
A more balanced week
Op-ed:
Wikipedia is significantly amplifying the impact of Open Access publications
Arbitration report:
Four ArbCom cases ongoing
Traffic report:
Hiding under the covers of the Internet
Technology report:
Tech news in brief
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16:03, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
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The Signpost
: 28 October 2015
From the editor:
The
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News and notes:
English Wikipedia reaches five million articles
In the media:
The world's Wikipedia gaps; Google and Wikipedia accused of tying Ben Carson to NAMBLA
Op-ed:
It’s time to stop the bullying
Arbitration report:
A second attempt at Arbitration enforcement
Traffic report:
Canada, the most popular nation on Earth
Recent research:
Student attitudes towards Wikipedia; Jesus, Napoleon and Obama top "Wikipedia social network"; featured article editing patterns in 12 languages
Featured content:
Birds, turtles, and other things
Technology report:
Tech news in brief
Community letter:
Five million articles
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The Signpost
: 04 November 2015
Op-ed:
You are invited to participate in the Community Wishlist Survey
News and notes:
Wikimedia Foundation finances; Superprotect is gone
In the media:
Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov: propaganda myth or history?
Traffic report:
Death, the Dead, and Spectres are abroad
Featured content:
Christianity, music, and cricket
Gallery:
Princess of Asturias Awards 2015 ceremony
Technology report:
Tech news in brief
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The Signpost
: 11 November 2015
Op-ed:
As one thousand of us requested, Superprotect has been removed
Arbitration report:
Elections, redirections, and a resignation from the Committee
Discussion report:
Compromise of two administrator accounts prompts security review
Featured content:
Texas, film, and cycling
In the media:
Sanger on Wikipedia; Silver on
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Traffic report:
Doodles of popularity
Gallery:
Paris
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The Signpost
: 18 November 2015
Special report:
ArbCom election—candidates’ opinions analysed
In the media:
Icelandic milestone; apolitical editing
Discussion report:
BASC disbanded; other developments in the discussion world
Arbitration report:
Ban Appeals Subcommittee goes up in smoke; 21 candidates running
Featured content:
Fantasia on a Theme by Jimbo Wales
Traffic report:
Darkness and light
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22:27, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
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The Signpost
: 25 November 2015
Op-ed:
Wikidata: the new Rosetta Stone
News and notes:
Fundraising update; FDC recommendations
In the media:
Erasmus Prize awarded to Wikipedia; trouble on the Russian Wikipedia
Recent research:
Do Wikipedia citations mirror scholarly impact?; co-star networks in silent films
Featured content:
Caves and stuff
Traffic report:
J'en ai ras le bol
Arbitration report:
Third Palestine-Israel case closes; Voting begins
Technology report:
Tech news in brief
Blog:
Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland urge Reiss Engelhorn Museum to reconsider suit over public domain works of art
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: 09 December 2015
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Wikidata: Knowledge from different points of view
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Political editing in the context of the US presidential primaries
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: 16 December 2015
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GMO case decided
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: 06 January 2016
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Catflap08 and Hijiri88 case been decided
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The Crisis at New Montgomery Street
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Pattern recognition: Third annual Traffic Report
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Wikipedia community celebrates Public Domain Day 2016
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Community objections to new Board trustee
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: 27 January 2016
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Geshuri steps down from the Board
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: 03 February 2016
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Jeb Bush swings at Wikipedia and connects
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: 17 February 2016
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: 24 February 2016
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Backward the Foundation
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Of Dead Pools and Dead Judges
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: 09 March 2016
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A modest proposal for Wikimedia’s future
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Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States
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: 23 March 2016
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Angolan file sharers cause trouble for Wikipedia Zero; the 3D printer edit war; a culture based on change and turmoil
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Browse Wikipedia in safety? Use Telnet!
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: 14 April 2016
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Denny Vrandečić resigns from Wikimedia Foundation board
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Wikimedia Sweden loses copyright case; Tex Watson; AI assistants; David Jolly biography
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: 24 April 2016
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Knowledge Engine and the Wales–Heilman emails
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Wikipedia Zero piracy in Bangladesh; bureaucracy; chilling effects; too few cooks; translation gaps
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Purple
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: 17 May 2016
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Swiss chapter in turmoil
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Wikimedia's Dario Taraborelli quoted on Google's Knowledge Graph in
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The perils of Wikipedia's monopoly; Wikipedians' fragility; Street Sharks hoax
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Gamaliel resigns from the arbitration committee
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Jimmy Wales on net neutrality—"It's complicated"—and his $100m fundraising challenge
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: 15 June 2016
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Wikiversity Journal—A new user group
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From the crème de la crème
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Biography disputes; Craig Newmark donation; PR editing
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Commons Picture of the Year; Wikidata licensing
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Terrorism database cites Wikipedia as a source
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Women in science editathon gets national press; Wikipedia "shockingly biased"
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Wikipedia policy suppresses sharing of information
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Paid editing service announced; Commercial exploitation of free images; Wikipedia as a crystal ball; Librarians to counter systemic bias
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Kevin Gorman, who took on Wikipedia's gender gap and undisclosed paid advocacy, dies at 24
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Summer of Pokémon, Trump, and Hillary
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Women and Hawaii
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: 18 August 2016
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Engaging diverse communities to profile women of Antarctica
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The ugly, the bad, the playful, and the promising
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Librarians, Wikipedians, and a library of Wikipedia coverage
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Wikipedia in the news
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Washington Post
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WikiCup winners
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German ArbCom implodes
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Active user page filter prevents vandalism and harassment
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Operation successful, patient dead: Outreach workshops in Namibia
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In brief: Coverage of gender gap initiatives, banner fundraising, and more
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One year ends, and another begins
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Wolves nip at Wikipedia's heels: A perspective on the cost of paid editing
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Official WMF rebuke to Trump policy; WMF secures restricted funds
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WMF strategy consultant brings background in crisis reputation management; Team behind popular WMF software put "on pause"
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The
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Peer review – a history and call for reviewers
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Global Elections
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Wikipedia's lead sentence problem
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Did Wikipedia just assume Garfield's gender?
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Facto Post
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The media on Wikipedia's workings: the good and not-so-good
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World War II Myth-making and Wikipedia
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Money, milestones, and Wikimania
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Wrestling with Wikipedia reality
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Another newspaper for Wikipedia; Wikimania 2018 ends; changes at NPR
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Wikipedias take action against EU copyright proposal, plus new user right proposals
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Wikipedia does not need you
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Quicksilver AI writes articles
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Drafting an interface administrator policy
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Interface Admin policy proposal, part 2
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Wikipedia's Strickland affair
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The blogosphere migrates to Galaxy WMF
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: 28 February 2019
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Wikimedia affiliate organizations seek community participation in 2019 board election
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Blackouts fail to stop EU Copyright Directive
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Women's history month
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Portal debates continue, Prespa agreement aftermath, WMF seeks a rebranding
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Barnstar-like awards increase new editor retention
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Esperanza organization disbanded after deletion discussion
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English Wikipedia community's conclusions on talk pages
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An Active Arbitration Committee
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Portals revisited
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The gaps in our knowledge of our gaps
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Katherine Maher marks 3 years as executive director
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2019 Wikimedia Summit gathers movement affiliate representatives to discuss movement strategy
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Wikimania and trustee elections
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Politics, lawsuits and baseball
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Admin abuse leads to mass-desysop proposal on Azerbaijani Wikipedia
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The disinformation age
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Unlike the North Face, Wiki Loves Earth
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Women and Wikipedia: the world is watching
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WikiJournals: A sister project proposal
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Wikimedia grants less accessible for travel, equipment, meetups, and India
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New proposals in aftermath of Fram ban
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A month of reintegration
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: 30 August 2019
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Ryan Merkley joins WMF as Chief of Staff
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Many layers of fake news: Fake fiction and fake news vandalism
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Meta proposals on partial bans and IP users
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The Curious Case of Croatian Wikipedia
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Chinese Wikipedia and the battle against extradition from Hong Kong
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: 30 September 2019
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A net loss: Wikipedia attacked, closing off Russia? welcoming back Turkey?
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The Signpost
: 31 October 2019
In the media:
How to use or abuse Wikipedia for fun or profit
Special report:
“Catch and Kill” on Wikipedia: Paid editing and the suppression of material on alleged sexual abuse
In focus:
The BBC looks at Chinese government editing
Interview:
Carl Miller on Wikipedia Wars
Community view:
Observations from the mainland
Arbitration report:
October actions
Traffic report:
Wrestling with a couple of teenagers, a Nobelist, and a lot of jokers
Gallery:
Wiki Loves Broadcast
Recent research:
Research at Wikimania 2019: More communication doesn't make editors more productive; Tor users doing good work; harmful content rare on English Wikipedia
Essay:
Wikipedia is in the real world
News from the WMF:
Welcome to Wikipedia! Here's what we're doing to help you stick around
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The Signpost
: 29 November 2019
From the editor:
Put on your birthday best
News and notes:
How soon for the next million articles?
In the media:
You say you want a revolution
On the bright side:
What's making you happy this month?
Arbitration report:
Two requests for arbitration cases
Traffic report:
The queen and the princess meet the king and the joker
Technology report:
Reference things, sister things, stranger things
Gallery:
Winter and holidays
Recent research:
Bot census; discussions differ on Spanish and English Wikipedia; how nature's seasons affect pageviews
Essay:
Adminitis
From the archives:
WikiProject Spam, revisited
In focus:
An update on the Wikimedia Movement 2030 Strategy
Special report:
How many people edit in your favorite language? Where are they from?
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The Signpost
: 27 December 2019
From the editors:
Caught with their hands in the cookie jar, again
News and notes:
What's up (and down) with administrators, articles and languages
Special report:
Are reputation management operatives scrubbing Wikipedia articles?
In the media:
"The fulfillment of the dream of humanity" or a nightmare of PR whitewashing on behalf of one-percenters?
Discussion report:
December discussions around the wiki
Arbitration report:
Announcement of 2020 Arbitration Committee
Traffic report:
Queens and aliens, exactly alike, once upon a December
Technology report:
User scripts and more
Gallery:
Holiday wishes
Recent research:
Acoustics and Wikipedia; Wiki Workshop 2019 summary
From the archives:
The 2002 Spanish fork and ads revisited (re-revisited?)
On the bright side:
What's making you happy this month?
Op-Ed:
Why we need to keep talking about Wikipedia's gender gap
WikiProject report:
Wikiproject Tree of Life: A Wikiproject report
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The Signpost
: 27 January 2020
From the editor:
Reaching six million articles is great, but we need a moratorium
News and notes:
Six million articles on the English language Wikipedia
Special report:
The limits of volunteerism and the gatekeepers of Team Encarta
In the media:
Turkey's back up, but what's happening with Dot-org and a new visual identity?
Arbitration report:
Three cases at ArbCom
Traffic report:
The most viewed articles of 2019
Gallery:
Wiki Loves Monuments 2019, we're all winners
News from the WMF:
Capacity Building: Top 5 Themes from Community Conversations
Community view:
Our most important new article since November 1, 2015
In focus:
Cryptos and bitcoins and blockchains, oh no!
Recent research:
How useful is Wikipedia for novice programmers trying to learn computing concepts?
From the archives:
A decade of
The Signpost
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On the bright side:
What's making you happy this month?
WikiProject report:
WikiProject Japan: a wikiProject Report
Humour:
Predicting the 6,000,000th article
Obituary:
Remembering Wikipedia contributor Brian Boulton
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The Signpost
: 1 March 2020
From the editor:
The ball is in your court
News and notes:
Alexa ranking down to 13th worldwide
Special report:
More participation, more conversation, more pageviews
In the media:
Mapping IP editors, Smithsonian open-access, and coronavirus disinformation
Discussion report:
Do you prefer M or P?
Arbitration report:
Two prominent administrators removed
By the numbers:
How many actions by administrators does it take to clean up spam?
Community view:
The Incredible Invisible Woman
In focus:
History of
The Signpost
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Recent research:
Wikipedia generates $50 billion/year consumer surplus in the US alone
From the archives:
Is Wikipedia for sale?
Traffic report:
February articles, floating in the dark
Gallery:
Feel the love
On the bright side:
What's making you happy this month?
Op-Ed:
What I learned as Wikimedia UK Communications Coordinator
Opinion:
Wikipedia is another country
Humour:
The Wilhelm scream
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The Signpost
: 29 March 2020
From the editors:
The bad and the good
News and notes:
2018 Wikipedian of the year blocked
WikiProject report:
WikiProject COVID-19: A WikiProject Report
Special report:
Wikipedia on COVID-19: what we publish and why it matters
In the media:
Blocked in Iran but still covering the big story
Discussion report:
Rethinking draft space
Arbitration report:
Unfinished business
In focus:
"I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein …"
Community view:
Wikimedia community responds to COVID-19
Recent research:
Disease outbreak uncertainties, AfD forecasting, auto-updating Wikipedia
From the archives:
Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own
Traffic report:
The only thing that matters in the world
Gallery:
Visible Women on Wikipedia
News from the WMF:
Amid COVID-19, Wikimedia Foundation offers full pay for reduced hours, mobilizes all staff to work remote, and waives sick time
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What's making you happy this month?
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The Signpost
: 26 April 2020
News and notes:
Unbiased information from Ukraine's government?
In the media:
Coronavirus, again and again
Discussion report:
Redesigning Wikipedia, bit by bit
Featured content:
Featured content returns
Arbitration report:
Two difficult cases
Traffic report:
Disease the Rhythm of the Night
Gallery:
Roy is doing fine and sending more photos
Recent research:
Trending topics across languages; auto-detecting bias
Essay:
Wikipedia:An article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing
By the numbers:
Open data and COVID-19: Wikipedia as an informational resource during the pandemic
Opinion:
Trusting Everybody to Work Together
On the bright side:
What's making you happy this month?
Interview:
Health and RfA's: An interview with Guy Macon
In focus:
Multilingual Wikipedia
WikiProject report:
The Guild of Copy Editors
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The Signpost
: 31 May 2020
From the editor:
Meltdown May?
News and notes:
2019 Picture of the Year, 200 French paid editing accounts blocked, 10 years of Guild Copyediting
In the media:
CBS on COVID-19, Sanger on bias, false noses, and five prolific editors
Discussion report:
WMF's Universal Code of Conduct
Special report:
The sum of human knowledge? Not in one Wikipedia language edition
Featured content:
Weathering the storm
Arbitration report:
Board member likely to receive editing restriction
Traffic report:
Come on and slam, and welcome to the jam
Op-Ed:
Where Is Political Bias Taking Us?
Gallery:
Wildlife photos by the book
News from the WMF:
WMF Board announces Community Culture Statement
Recent research:
Automatic detection of covert paid editing; Wiki Workshop 2020
Community view:
Transit routes and mapping during stay-at-home order downtime
On video:
COVID-19 spurs innovations in Wikimedia video and virtual programming
WikiProject report:
Revitalizing good articles
On the bright side:
500,000 articles in the Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia
Obituaries:
Dmitrismirnov, Kattenkruid, Muidlatif, Ronhjones, Tsirel
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The Signpost
: 28 June 2020
News and notes:
Progress at Wikipedia Library and Wikijournal of Medicine
Community view:
Community open letter on renaming
Gallery:
After the killing of George Floyd
In the media:
Part collaboration and part combat
Discussion report:
Community reacts to WMF rebranding proposals
Featured content:
Sports are returning, with a rainbow
Arbitration report:
Anti-harassment RfC and a checkuser revocation
Traffic report:
The pandemic, alleged murder, a massacre, and other deaths
News from the WMF:
We stand for racial justice
Recent research:
Wikipedia and COVID-19; automated Wikipedia-based fact-checking
Interview:
What is wrong with rebranding to "Wikipedia Foundation"?
Humour:
Cherchez une femme
Opinion:
Trying to find COI or paid editors? Just read the news
On the bright side:
For what are you grateful this month?
In focus:
Edit Loud, Edit Proud: LGBTIQ+ Wikimedians and Global Information Activism
WikiProject report:
WikiProject Black Lives Matter
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The Signpost
: 2 August 2020
Special report:
Wikipedia and the End of Open Collaboration?
COI and paid editing:
Some strange people edit Wikipedia for money
News and notes:
Abstract Wikipedia, a hoax, sex symbols, and a new admin
In the media:
Dog days gone bad
Discussion report:
Fox News, a flight of RfAs, and banning policy
Featured content:
Remembering Art, Valor, and Freedom
Traffic report:
Now for something completely different
Gallery:
Photos of threatened species from iNaturalist
News from the WMF:
New Chinese national security law in Hong Kong could limit the privacy of Wikipedia users
Recent research:
Receiving thanks increases retention, but not the time contributed to Wikipedia
Essay:
Not compatible with a collaborative project
Obituaries:
Hasteur and Brian McNeil
In focus:
WikiLoop DoubleCheck, reviewing edits made easy
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The Signpost
: 30 August 2020
News and notes:
The high road and the low road
In the media:
Storytelling large and small
Featured content:
Going for the goal
Special report:
Wikipedia's not so little sister is finding its own way
Op-Ed:
The longest-running hoax
Traffic report:
Heart, soul, umbrellas, and politics
News from the WMF:
Fourteen things we’ve learned by moving Polish Wikimedia conference online
Recent research:
Detecting spam, and pages to protect; non-anonymous editors signal their intelligence with high-quality articles
Arbitration report:
A slow couple of months
From the archives:
Wikipedia for promotional purposes?
Obituaries:
Marcus Sherman, Jerome West, and Pauline van Till
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The Signpost
: 27 September 2020
Special report:
Paid editing with political connections
News and notes:
More large-scale errors at a "small" wiki
In the media:
WIPO, Seigenthaler incident 15 years later
Featured content:
Life finds a Way
Arbitration report:
Clarifications and requests
Traffic report:
Is there no justice?
Recent research:
Wikipedia's flood biases
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22:48, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
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The Signpost
: 27 September 2020
Special report:
Paid editing with political connections
News and notes:
More large-scale errors at a "small" wiki
In the media:
WIPO, Seigenthaler incident 15 years later
Featured content:
Life finds a Way
Arbitration report:
Clarifications and requests
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Is there no justice?
Recent research:
Wikipedia's flood biases
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22:54, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
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The Signpost
: 1 November 2020
News and notes:
Ban on IPs on ptwiki, paid editing for Tatarstan, IP masking
In the media:
Murder, politics, religion, health and books
Book review:
Review of
Wikipedia @ 20
Op-Ed:
Anti-vandalism with masked IPs: the steps forward
Discussion report:
Proposal to change board composition,
In The News
dumps Trump story
Featured content:
The "Green Terror" is neither green nor sufficiently terrifying. Worst Hallowe'en ever.
Traffic report:
Jump back, what's that sound?
Interview:
Joseph Reagle and Jackie Koerner
News from the WMF:
Meet the 2020 Wikimedian of the Year
Recent research:
OpenSym 2020: Deletions and gender, masses vs. elites, edit filters
In focus:
The many (reported) deaths of Wikipedia
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The Signpost
: 29 November 2020
News and notes:
Jimmy Wales "shouldn't be kicked out before he's ready"
Op-Ed:
Re-righting Wikipedia
Opinion:
How billionaires re-write Wikipedia
In the media:
Relying on Wikipedia: voters, scientists, and a Canadian border guard
Featured content:
Frontonia
sp. is thankful for delicious cyanobacteria
Traffic report:
007 with Borat, the Queen, and an election
News from Wiki Education:
An assignment that changed a life: Kasey Baker
GLAM plus:
West Coast New Zealand's Wikipedian at Large
Wikicup report:
Lee Vilenski wins the 2020 WikiCup
Recent research:
Wikipedia's Shoah coverage succeeds where libraries fail
Essay:
Writing about women
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The Signpost
: 28 December 2020
News and notes:
Year-end legal surprises cause concern, but Public Domain Day is imminent
In the media:
Concealment, data journalism, a non-pig farmer, and some Bluetick Hounds
Arbitration report:
2020 election results
Opinion:
How to make your factory's safety and labor issues disappear
Featured content:
Very nearly ringing in the New Year with "Blank Space" – but we got there in time.
Traffic report:
2020 wraps up
News from the WMF:
What Wikipedia saw during election week in the U.S., and what we’re doing next
Recent research:
Predicting the next move in Wikipedia discussions
Essay:
Subjective importance
Op-Ed:
An unforgettable year we might wish to forget
Gallery:
Angels in the architecture
Humour:
'Twas the Night Before Wikimas
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04:26, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
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The Signpost
: 31 January 2021
News and notes:
1,000,000,000 edits, board elections, virtual Wikimania 2021
Special report:
Wiki reporting on the United States insurrection
In focus:
From Anarchy to Wikiality, Glaring Bias to Good Cop: Press Coverage of Wikipedia's First Two Decades
Opinion:
Wikipedia's war against scientific disinformation
In the media:
The world's press says "Happy Birthday!" with a few twists
Technology report:
The people who built Wikipedia, technically
Videos and podcasts:
Celebrating 20 years
News from the WMF:
Wikipedia celebrates 20 years of free, trusted information for the world
Recent research:
Students still have a better opinion of Wikipedia than teachers
Humour:
Dr. Seuss's Guide to Wikipedia
Featured content:
New Year, same Featured Content report!
Traffic report:
The most viewed articles of 2020
Obituary:
Flyer22 Frozen
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20:12, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
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The Signpost
: 28 February 2021
News and notes:
Maher stepping down
Disinformation report:
A "billionaire battle" on Wikipedia: Sex, lies, and video
Opinion:
The call for feedback on community seats is a distraction
In the media:
Corporate influence at OSM, Fox watching the hen house
News from the WMF:
Who tells your story on Wikipedia
Recent research:
Take an AI-generated flashcard quiz about Wikipedia; Wikipedia's anti-feudalism
Featured content:
A Love of Knowledge, for Valentine's Day
Traffic report:
Does it almost feel like you've been here before?
Gallery:
What is Black history and culture?
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21:31, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
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The Signpost
: 28 March 2021
News and notes:
A future with a for-profit subsidiary?
Gallery:
Wiki Loves Monuments
In the media:
Wikimedia LLC and disinformation in Japan
News from the WMF:
Project Rewrite: Tell the missing stories of women on Wikipedia and beyond
Recent research:
10%-30% of Wikipedia’s contributors have subject-matter expertise
From the archives:
Google isn't responsible for Wikipedia's mistakes
Essay:
Wikipedia:The Free Encyclopedia
Obituary:
Yoninah
From the editor:
What else can we say?
Arbitration report:
Open letter to the Board of Trustees
Traffic report:
Wanda, Meghan, Liz, Phil and Zack
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20:46, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
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The Signpost
: 25 April 2021
From the editor:
A change is gonna come
Disinformation report:
Paid editing by a former head of state's business enterprise
In the media:
Fernando, governance, and rugby
Opinion:
The (Universal) Code of Conduct
Op-Ed:
A Little Fun Goes A Long Way
Changing the world:
The reach of protest images on Wikipedia
Recent research:
Quality of aquatic and anatomical articles
Traffic report:
The verdict is guilty, guilty, guilty
News from Wiki Education:
Encouraging professional physicists to engage in outreach on Wikipedia
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The Signpost
: 25 April 2021
From the editor:
A change is gonna come
Disinformation report:
Paid editing by a former head of state's business enterprise
In the media:
Fernando, governance, and rugby
Opinion:
The (Universal) Code of Conduct
Op-Ed:
A Little Fun Goes A Long Way
Changing the world:
The reach of protest images on Wikipedia
Recent research:
Quality of aquatic and anatomical articles
Traffic report:
The verdict is guilty, guilty, guilty
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Encouraging professional physicists to engage in outreach on Wikipedia
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04:31, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
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The Signpost
: 25 April 2021
From the editor:
A change is gonna come
Disinformation report:
Paid editing by a former head of state's business enterprise
In the media:
Fernando, governance, and rugby
Opinion:
The (Universal) Code of Conduct
Op-Ed:
A Little Fun Goes A Long Way
Changing the world:
The reach of protest images on Wikipedia
Recent research:
Quality of aquatic and anatomical articles
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The verdict is guilty, guilty, guilty
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Encouraging professional physicists to engage in outreach on Wikipedia
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The Signpost
: 27 June 2021
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Elections, Wikimania, masking and more
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Boris and Joe, reliability, love, and money
Disinformation report:
Croatian Wikipedia: capture and release
Recent research:
Feminist critique of Wikipedia's epistemology, Black Americans vastly underrepresented among editors, Wiki Workshop report
Traffic report:
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News from the WMF:
Searching for Wikipedia
Humour:
Wikipedia's best articles on the world's strangest things
WikiProject report:
WikiProject on open proxies interview
Forum:
Is WMF fundraising abusive?
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Reliability of WikiLeaks discussed
Obituary:
SarahSV
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The Signpost
: 25 July 2021
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Wikimania and a million other news stories
Special report:
Hardball in Hong Kong
In the media:
Larry is at it again
Board of Trustees candidates:
See the candidates
Recent research:
Gender bias and statistical fallacies, disinformation and mutual intelligibility
Traffic report:
Football, tennis and marveling at Loki
News from the WMF:
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Humour:
A little verse
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The Signpost
: 29 August 2021
News and notes:
Enough time left to vote! IP ban
In the media:
Vive la différence!
Wikimedians of the year:
Seven Wikimedians of the year
Gallery:
Our community in 20 graphs
News from Wiki Education:
Changing the face of Wikipedia
Recent research:
IP editors, inclusiveness and empathy, cyclones, and world heritage
WikiProject report:
WikiProject Days of the Year Interview
Traffic report:
Olympics, movies, and Afghanistan
Community view:
Making Olympic history on Wikipedia
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The Signpost
: 26 September 2021
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New CEO, new board members, China bans
In the media:
The future of Wikipedia
Opinion:
Wikimedians of Mainland China were warned
Op-Ed:
I've been desysopped
Disinformation report:
Paid promotional paragraphs in German parliamentary pages
Discussion report:
Editors discuss Wikipedia's vetting process for administrators
Recent research:
Wikipedia images for machine learning; Experiment justifies Wikipedia's high search rankings
Community view:
Is writing Wikipedia like making a quilt?
Traffic report:
Kanye, Emma Raducanu and 9/11
News from Diff:
Welcome to the first grantees of the Knowledge Equity Fund
WikiProject report:
The Random and the Beautiful
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The Signpost
: 31 October 2021
From the editor:
Different stories, same place
News and notes:
The sockpuppet who ran for adminship and almost succeeded
In the media:
China bans, and is there intelligent life on this planet?
Opinion:
A photo on Wikipedia can ruin your life
Discussion report:
Editors brainstorm and propose changes to the Requests for adminship process
Recent research:
Welcome messages fail to improve newbie retention
Community view:
Reflections on the Chinese Wikipedia
Traffic report:
James Bond and the Giant Squid Game
Technology report:
Wikimedia Toolhub, winners of the Coolest Tool Award, and more
Serendipity:
How Wikipedia helped create a Serbian stamp
Book review:
Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality
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Redirection
Humour:
A very Wiki crossword
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The Signpost
: 29 November 2021
In the media:
Denial: climate change, mass killings and pornography
WikiCup report:
The WikiCup 2021
Deletion report:
What we lost, what we gained
From a Wikipedia reader:
What's Matt Amodio?
Arbitration report:
ArbCom in 2021
Discussion report:
On the brink of change – RFA reforms appear imminent
Technology report:
What does it take to upload a file?
WikiProject report:
Interview with contributors to WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers
Serendipity:
"Did You Know ..." featured a photo of the wrong female WWII pilot
News from Diff:
Content translation tool helps create one million Wikipedia articles
Traffic report:
Reporting ticket sales on the edge of the Wiki, if
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Recent research:
Vandalizing Wikipedia as rational behavior
Humour:
A very new very Wiki crossword
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The Signpost
: 28 December 2021
From the editor:
Here is the news
News and notes:
Jimbo's NFT, new arbs, fixing RfA, and financial statements
Serendipity:
Born three months before her brother?
In the media:
The past is not even past
Recent research:
STEM articles judged unsuitable for undergraduates below the first paragraph
Arbitration report:
A new crew for '22
By the numbers:
Four billion words and a few numbers
Deletion report:
We laughed, we cried, we closed as "no consensus"
Gallery:
Wikicommons presents: 2021
Traffic report:
Spider-Man, football and the departed
Crossword:
Another Wiki crossword for one and all
Humour:
Buying Wikipedia
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The Signpost
: 30 January 2022
Special report:
WikiEd course leads to Twitter harassment
News and notes:
Feedback for Board of Trustees election
Interview:
CEO Maryana Iskander "four weeks in"
Black History Month:
What are you doing for Black History Month?
Deletion report:
Ringing in the new year: Subject notability guideline under discussion
WikiProject report:
The Forgotten Featured
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New arbitrators look at new case and antediluvian sanctions
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: 27 February 2022
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: 27 March 2022
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: 24 April 2022
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Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war
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: 29 May 2022
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Putin, Jimbo, Musk and more
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The Onion
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RfA trend line haruspicy: fact or fancy?
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Information considered harmful
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War diary (part 3)
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Criminals among us
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Wikidata insights from a handy little tool
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Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war — three (more) stories
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A century of rulemaking on Wikipedia analyzed
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Truth or consequences? A tough month for truth
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Removing watermarks, copyright signs and cigarettes from photos
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Kings and queens and VIPs
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Wikipedians question Wikimedia fundraising ethics after "somewhat-viral" tweet
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From Russia with WikiLove
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Isabelle Belato on their Request for Adminship
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Mama, they're in love with a criminal
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: 28 November 2022
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"The most beautiful story on the Internet"
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Lisa Seitz-Gruwell on WMF fundraising in the wake of big banner ad RfC
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Privacy on Wikipedia in the cyberpunk future
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Missed and Dissed
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Diminishing returns for article quality
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Writing the Revolution
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Galactic dreams, encyclopedic reality
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The Six Million FP Man
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(Wiki)break stuff
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A great month for featured articles
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: 1 January 2023
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Wikimedia Foundation ousts, bans quarter of Arabic Wikipedia admins
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Interview:
ComplexRational's RfA debrief
Technology report:
Wikimedia Foundation's Abstract Wikipedia project "at substantial risk of failure"
Essay:
Mobile editing
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Arbitration Committee Election 2022
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Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement in talk page disputes
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Wikipedia about FIFA World Cup 2022: quick, factual and critical
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Football, football, football! Wikipedia Football Club!
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: 16 January 2023
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Coverage of 2022 bans reveals editors serving long sentences in Saudi Arabia since 2020
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Revised Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines up for vote, WMF counsel departs, generative models under discussion
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Court orders user data in libel case, Saudi Wikipedia in the crosshairs, Larry Sanger at it again
Technology report:
View it! A new tool for image discovery
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Busting into Grand Central
Serendipity:
How I bought part of Wikipedia – for less than $100
Gallery:
What is our responsibility when it comes to images?
Humour:
New geologically speedy deletion criteria introduced
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Good old days, in which fifth-symbol-lacking lipograms roam'd our librarious litany
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Flip your lid
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Foundation update on fundraising, new page patrol, Tides, and Wikipedia blocked in Pakistan
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Twenty-six words that created the internet, and the future of an encyclopedia
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Wikipedia on Santos
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Furor over new Wikipedia skin, followup on Saudi bans, and legislative debate
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Estonian businessman and political donor brings lawsuit against head of national Wikimedia chapter
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Study examines cultural leanings of Wikimedia projects' visual art coverage
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Wikipedia's "moderate yet systematic" liberal citation bias
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WikiProject Organized Labour
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XTools: Data analytics for your list of created articles
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20,000 Featureds under the Sea
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Films, deaths and ChatGPT
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Terms of Use update, Steward elections, and Wikipedia back in Pakistan
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Arbitrators open case after article alleges Wikipedia "intentionally distorts" Holocaust coverage
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The "largest con in corporate history"?
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Machine-written articles: a new challenge for Wikipedia
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All about writing at DYK
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Eden, lost.
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Superbowl? Pfft. Give me some Bollywood! Yours sincerely, the world
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: 9 March 2023
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What's going on with the Wikimedia Endowment?
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Second flight of the Soviet space bears: Testing ChatGPT's accuracy
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What should Wikipedia do? Publish Russian propaganda? Be less woke? Cover the Holocaust in Poland differently?
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In which over two-thirds of the featured articles section needs to be copied over to WikiProject Military History's newsletter
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"Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the Holocaust" in Poland and "self-focus bias" in coverage of global events
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Way too many featured articles
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: 03 April 2023
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Some long-overdue retractions
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Sounding out, a universal code of conduct, and dealing with AI
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Twiddling Wikipedia during an online contest, and other news
Arbitration report:
"World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" case is ongoing
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Hail, poetry! Thou heav'n-born maid
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Language bias: Wikipedia captures at least the "silhouette of the elephant", unlike ChatGPT
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April Fools' through the ages
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Sus socks support suits, seems systemic
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: 26 April 2023
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Staff departures at Wikimedia Foundation, Jimbo hands in the bits, and graphs' zeppelin burns
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Contested truth claims in Wikipedia
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Remembering David "DGG" Goodman
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Holocaust in Poland, Jimbo in the hot seat, and a desysopping
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What Jimbo's question revealed about scamming
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Wikipedia as an anchor of truth
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In which we described the featured articles in rhyme again
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April Fools' through the ages, part two
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Long live machine, the future supreme
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The Signpost
: 8 May 2023
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New legal "deVLOPments" in the EU
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Vivek's smelly socks, online safety, and politics
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Gender, race and notability in deletion discussions
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I wrote a poem for each article, I found rhymes for all the lists; My first featured picture of this year now finally exists!
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"World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" approaches conclusion
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Planning together with the Wikimedia Foundation
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There Shall Be Seasons Refreshing – Stories from WikiConference India 2023
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: 22 May 2023
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Golden parachutes: Record severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation
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History, propaganda and censorship
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Final decision in "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland"
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Create or curate, cooperate or compete? Game theory for Wikipedia editors
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Coronation, chatbot, celebs
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Wikipedians Convene for Queering Wikipedia 2023: The First International LGBT+ Wikipedia Conference
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: 5 June 2023
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Section 230 stands tall, WP vs. UK bill, Miss Information dissed again
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Poetry under pressure
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: 19 June 2023
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English WP editor glocked after BLP row on Italian 'pedia
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Content, featured
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: 3 July 2023
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Online Safety Bill: Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia UK launch open letter
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Imploded submersible outfit foiled trying to sing own praises on Wikipedia
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Journo proposes mass Wiki dox, sponsored articles on Fandom, Section 230 discussed
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Incensed
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United Nations dispatches peacekeeping force to Wikipedia policy discussions
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: 17 July 2023
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Tentacles of Emirates plot attempt to ensnare Wikipedia
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David Thomsen (Dthomsen8) and Ingo Koll (Kipala)
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ABC for Fundraising: Advancing Banner Collaboration for fundraising campaigns
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Are the children of celebrities over-represented in French cinema?
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: 1 August 2023
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City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians, Ruwiki founder banned, WMF launches Mastodon server
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Truth, AI, bull from politicians, and climate change
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Hot climate, hot hit, hot money, hot news hot off the presses!
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Donald Cram, Peter McCawley, and Eagleash
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Citation tools for dummies!
Humour:
Does Wikipedia present neutral perspectives?
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Journals cited by Wikipedia
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Are global bans the last step?
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Featured Content, 1 to 15 July
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Come on Oppie, let's go party
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: 15 August 2023
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Dude, Where's My Donations? Wikimedia Foundation announces another million in grants for non-Wikimedia-related projects
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An accusation of bias from Brazil, a lawsuit from Portugal, plagiarism from Florida
In focus:
2023 Good Article Nomination drive is underway: get your barnstars here!
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Thirteen years later, why are most administrators still from 2005?
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Getting serious about writing
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Copyright trolls, or the last beautiful free souls on this planet?
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Why I stopped taking photographs almost altogether
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Barbenheimer confirmed
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The Signpost
: 31 August 2023
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In the media:
Taking it sleazy
Recent research:
The five barriers that impede "stitching" collaboration between Commons and Wikipedia
Draftspace:
Bad Jokes and Other Draftspace Novelties
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The Dehumourification Plan
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Raise your drinking glass, here's to yesterday
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The Signpost
: 16 September 2023
News and notes:
Wikimedia power sharing – just an advisory role for the volunteer community?
In the media:
"Just flirting", going Dutch and Shapps for the defence?
Obituary:
Nosebagbear
Serendipity:
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no paywall, for thou, Wikipedia Library, art with me
Featured content:
Catching up
Concept:
Strange portal opened by CERN researchers brings Wikipedia articles from "other worlds"
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Some of it's magic, some of it's tragic
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The Signpost
: 3 October 2023
News and notes:
Wikimedia Endowment financial statement published
In the media:
History is written by whoever can harness the most editors
Recent research:
Readers prefer ChatGPT over Wikipedia; concerns about limiting "anyone can edit" principle "may be overstated"
Featured content:
By your logic,
Concept:
Wikipedia policies from other worlds: WP:NOANTLERS
Poetry:
"The Sight"
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There shall be no slaves in the land of lands, it's a Bollywood jam
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The Signpost
: 23 October 2023
News and notes:
Where have all the administrators gone?
In the media:
Thirst traps, the fastest loading sites on the web, and the original collaborative writing
Gallery:
Before and After: Why you don't need to know how to restore images to make massive improvements
Featured content:
Yo, ho! Blow the man down!
Traffic report:
The calm and the storm
News from Diff:
Sawtpedia: Giving a Voice to Wikipedia Using QR Codes
Humour:
New citation template introduced for divine revelations, drug use, and really thinking about it
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The Signpost
: 6 November 2023
Arbitration report:
Admin bewilderingly unmasks self as sockpuppet of other admin who was extremely banned in 2015
In the media:
UK shadow chancellor accused of ripping off WP articles for book, Wikipedians accused of being dicks by a rich man
News and notes:
Board candidacy process posted, editors protest WMF privacy measure, sweet meetups
Opinion:
An open letter to Elon Musk
WikiCup report:
The WikiCup 2023
News from Wiki Ed:
Equity lists on Wikipedia
Recent research:
How English Wikipedia drove out fringe editors over two decades
Featured content:
Like putting a golf course in a historic site.
Wikidata:
Evaluating qualitative systemic bias in large article sets on Wikipedia
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Cricket jumpscare
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The Signpost
: 20 November 2023
In the media:
Propaganda and photos, lunatics and a lunar backup
News and notes:
Update on Wikimedia's financial health
Traffic report:
If it bleeds, it leads
Recent research:
Canceling disputes as the real function of ArbCom
Wikimania:
Wikimania 2024 scholarships
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The Signpost
: 4 December 2023
News and notes:
Beeblebrox ejected from Arbitration Committee following posts on Wikipediocracy
In the media:
Turmoil on Hebrew Wikipedia, grave dancing, Olga's impact and inspiring Bhutanese nuns
Disinformation report:
"Wikipedia and the assault on history"
In focus:
Tens of thousands of freely available sources flagged
Comix:
Bold comics for a new age
Essay:
I am going to die
Featured content:
Real gangsters move in silence
Traffic report:
And it's hard to watch some cricket, in the cold November Rain
Humour:
Mandy Rice-Davies Applies
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The Signpost
: 24 December 2023
Special report:
Did the Chinese Communist Party send astroturfers to sabotage a hacktivist's Wikipedia article?
News and notes:
The Italian Public Domain wars continue, Wikimedia RU set to dissolve, and a recap of WLM 2023
In the media:
Consider the humble fork
Discussion report:
Arabic Wikipedia blackout; Wikimedians discuss SpongeBob, copyrights, and AI
In focus:
Liquidation of Wikimedia RU
Technology report:
Dark mode is coming
Recent research:
"LLMs Know More, Hallucinate Less" with Wikidata
Gallery:
A feast of holidays and carols
Comix:
Lollus lmaois 200C tincture
Crossword:
when the crossword is sus
Traffic report:
What's the big deal? I'm an animal!
From the editor:
A piccy iz worth OVAR 9000!!!11oneone! wordz ^_^
Apocrypha:
Local editor discovered 1,380 lost subheadings in ancient Signpost scrolls. And what he found was shocking.
Humour:
Guess the joke contest
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Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense
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The Signpost
: 10 January 2024
From the editor:
NINETEEN MORE YEARS! NINETEEN MORE YEARS!
Special report:
Public Domain Day 2024
Technology report:
Wikipedia: A Multigenerational Pursuit
News and notes:
In other news ... see ya in court!
In focus:
The long road of a featured article candidate
In the media:
What is plagiarism? Oklahoma Disneyland? Reaching a human being at Wikipedia?
WikiProject report:
WikiProjects Israel and Palestine
Obituary:
Anthony Bradbury
Traffic report:
The most viewed articles of 2023
Crossword:
everybody gangsta till the style sheets start cascading
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Conflict resolution
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The Signpost
: 31 January 2024
News and notes:
Wikipedian Osama Khalid celebrated his 30th birthday in jail
Opinion:
Until it happens to you
Disinformation report:
How paid editors squeeze you dry
In the media:
Katherine Maher new NPR CEO, go check Wikipedia, race in the race
In focus:
The long road of a featured article candidate, part 2
Recent research:
Croatian takeover was enabled by "lack of bureaucratic openness and rules constraining [admins]"
Comix:
We've all got to start somewhere
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DJ, gonna burn this goddamn house right down
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The Signpost
: 13 February 2024
News and notes:
Wikimedia Russia director declared "foreign agent" by Russian gov; EU prepares to pile on the papers
Disinformation report:
How low can the scammers go?
Gallery:
Before and After: Why you don't need to touch grass to dramatically improve images of flora and fauna
In the media:
Speaking in tongues, toeing the line, and dressing the part
Serendipity:
Is this guy the same as the one who was a Nazi?
Traffic report:
Griselda, Nikki, Carl, Jannik and two types of football
Crossword:
Our crossword to bear
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Strongly
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The Signpost
: 2 March 2024
News and notes:
Wikimedia enters US Supreme court hearings as "the dolphin inadvertently caught in the net"
Recent research:
Images on Wikipedia "amplify gender bias"
In the media:
The Scottish Parliament gets involved, a wikirace on live TV, and the Foundation's CTO goes on record
Obituary:
Vami_IV
Traffic report:
Supervalentinefilmbowlday
WikiCup report:
High-scoring WikiCup first round comes to a close
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The Signpost
: 29 March 2024
Technology report:
Millions of readers still seeing broken pages as "temporary" disabling of graph extension nears its second year
Interview:
Interview on Wikimedia Foundation fundraising and finance strategy
Special report:
19-page PDF accuses Wikipedia of bias against Israel, suggests editors be forced to reveal their real names, and demands a new feature allowing people to view the history of Wikipedia articles
Op-Ed:
Wikipedia in the age of personality-driven knowledge
Recent research:
"Newcomer Homepage" feature mostly fails to boost new editors
News and notes:
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Charter ratified
In the media:
"For me it’s the autism": AARoad editors on the fork more traveled
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He rules over everything, on the land called planet Dune
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Letters from the editors
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Layout issue
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The Signpost
: 25 April 2024
In the media:
Censorship and wikiwashing looming over RuWiki, edit wars over San Francisco politics and another wikirace on live TV
News and notes:
A sigh of relief for open access as Italy makes a slight U-turn on their cultural heritage reproduction law
WikiConference report:
WikiConference North America 2023 in Toronto recap
WikiProject report:
WikiProject Newspapers (Not WP:NOTNEWS)
Recent research:
New survey of over 100,000 Wikipedia users
Traffic report:
O.J., cricket and a three body problem
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The Signpost
: 16 May 2024
News and notes:
Democracy in action: multiple elections
Special report:
Will the new RfA reform come to the rescue of administrators?
Arbitration report:
Ruined temples for posterity to ponder over – arbitration from '22 to '24
In the media:
Deadnames on the French Wikipedia, and a duel between Russian wikis
Op-Ed:
Wikidata to split as sheer volume of information overloads infrastructure
Comix:
Generations
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Crawl out through the fallout, baby
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The Signpost
: 8 June 2024
News and notes:
Wikimedia Foundation publishes its Form 990 for fiscal year 2022-2023
Technology report:
New Page Patrol receives a much-needed software upgrade
Deletion report:
The lore of Kalloor
In the media:
National cable networks get in on the action arguing about what the first sentence of a Wikipedia article ought to say
News from the WMF:
Progress on the plan — how the Wikimedia Foundation advanced on its Annual Plan goals during the first half of fiscal year 2023-2024
Opinion:
Public response to the editors of
Settler Colonial Studies
Recent research:
ChatGPT did not kill Wikipedia, but might have reduced its growth
Featured content:
We didn't start the wiki
Essay:
No queerphobia
Special report:
RetractionBot is back to life!
Traffic report:
Chimps, Eurovision, and the return of the Baby Reindeer
Comix:
The Wikipediholic Family
Humour:
Wikipedia rattled by sophisticated cyberattack of schoolboy typing "balls" in infobox
Concept:
Palimpsestuous
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The Signpost
: 4 July 2024
News and notes:
WMF board elections and fundraising updates
Special report:
Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification vote underway, new Council may surpass power of Board
In focus:
How the Russian Wikipedia keeps it clean despite having just a couple dozen administrators
Discussion report:
Wikipedians are hung up on the meaning of Madonna
In the media:
War and information in war and politics
Sister projects:
On editing Wikisource
Obituary:
Hanif Al Husaini, Salazarov, Hyacinth, and PirjanovNurlan
Opinion:
Etika: a Pop Culture Champion
Gallery:
Spokane Willy's photos
Op-Ed:
Why you should not vote in the 2024 WMF BoT elections
Crossword:
On a day of independence, beat crosswords into crossploughshares
Humour:
A joke
Cobwebs:
Counting to a billion — manuscripts don't burn
Recent research:
Is Wikipedia Politically Biased? Perhaps
Traffic report:
Talking about you and me, and the games people play
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The Signpost
: 22 July 2024
Discussion report:
Internet users flock to Wikipedia to debate its image policy over Trump raised-fist photo
News and notes:
Wikimedia community votes to ratify Movement Charter; Wikimedia Foundation opposes ratification
News from the WMF:
Wikimedia Foundation Board resolution and vote on the proposed Movement Charter
Essay:
Reflections on editing and obsession
In the media:
What's on Putin's fork, the court's docket, and in Harrison's book?
Obituary:
JamesR
Crossword:
Vaguely bird-shaped crossword
Humour:
Joe Biden withdraws RfA, Donald Trump selects co-nom
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The Signpost
: 25 February 2015
News and notes:
Questions raised over WMF partnership with research firm
Op-ed:
Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own
In the media:
WikiGnomes and Bigfoot
Featured content:
The Moon, Mars, Venus, and Saturn, in no particular order. Also, Kaiser Kong.
Gallery:
Far from home
Traffic report:
Fifty Shades of... self-denial?
Recent research:
Gender bias, SOPA blackout, and a student assignment that backfired
WikiProject report:
Be prepared... Scouts in the spotlight
Blog:
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The Signpost
: 25 February 2015
News and notes:
Questions raised over WMF partnership with research firm
Op-ed:
Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own
In the media:
WikiGnomes and Bigfoot
Featured content:
The Moon, Mars, Venus, and Saturn, in no particular order. Also, Kaiser Kong.
Gallery:
Far from home
Traffic report:
Fifty Shades of... self-denial?
Recent research:
Gender bias, SOPA blackout, and a student assignment that backfired
WikiProject report:
Be prepared... Scouts in the spotlight
Blog:
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The Signpost
: 04 March 2015
From the editor:
A sign of the times: the
Signpost
revamps its internal structure to make contributing easier
News and notes:
Wikimedia Foundation and OTRS team both publish reports, indicate operating changes
Editorial:
Conspiracy theories distract from real questions about grantmaking report
Traffic report:
Attack of the movies
Arbitration report:
Bradspeaks—impact, regrets, and advice; current cases hinge on sex, religion, and ... infoboxes
Interview:
Meet a paid editor
In the media:
Kanye West rebranded; Wikipedia in court; editors for hire
Featured content:
Ploughing fields and trading horses with Rosa Bonheur
Technology report:
Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
Blog:
Black History Month edit-a-thons tackle Wikipedia’s multicultural gaps
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The Signpost
: 11 March 2015
Special report:
An advance look at the WMF's fundraising survey
News and notes:
WikiWomen's History Month—meetups, blog posts, and "Inspire" grant-making campaign
In the media:
Gamergate; a Wiki hoax; Kanye West
In focus:
WMF to NSA: "stop spying on Wikipedia users"
Traffic report:
Wikipedia: handing knowledge to the world, one prank at a time
Featured content:
Here they come, the couple plighted –
Op-ed:
Why the Core Contest matters
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The Signpost: 18 March 2015
From the editor:
A salute to Pine
News and notes:
SUL finalization imminent; executive office shake-ups at the Foundation
In the media:
NYPD editing articles regarding allegations of police brutality and misconduct
Op-ed:
Does the Wikimedia fundraising survey address community concerns?
Featured content:
A woman who loved kings
Traffic report:
It's not cricket
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The Signpost – Volume 11, Issue 12 – 25 March 2015
News and notes:
Wikimedia Foundation adopts open-access research policy
Op-ed:
How my father's railroad image collection now benefits the world: the value of digitization
Featured content:
A carnival of animals, a river of dung, a wasteland of uncles, and some people with attitude
Special report:
Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2014
Traffic report:
Oddly familiar
Recent research:
Most important people; respiratory reliability; academic attitudes
Blog:
The Wikipedia Library Team reflects on its new Visiting Scholars program
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The Signpost
, 1 April 2015
In focus:
WMF's latest strategy document shows successes, vagueness, and the need for better data
In the media:
Wiki-PR duo bulldoze a piñata store; Wifione arbitration case; French parliamentary plagiarism
Featured content:
Stop Press.
Marie Celeste
Mystery Solved. Crew Found Hiding In Wardrobe.
Traffic report:
All over the place
News and notes:
New edits-by-mail option will "revolutionize" Wikipedia and its editor base
Special report:
Pictures of the Year 2015
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The Signpost
: 01 April 2015
In focus:
WMF's latest strategy document shows successes, vagueness, and the need for better data
In the media:
Wiki-PR duo bulldoze a piñata store; Wifione arbitration case; French parliamentary plagiarism
Featured content:
Stop Press.
Marie Celeste
Mystery Solved. Crew Found Hiding In Wardrobe.
Traffic report:
All over the place
News and notes:
New edits-by-mail option will "revolutionize" Wikipedia and its editor base
Special report:
Pictures of the Year 2015
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The Signpost
: 08 April 2015
Op-ed:
We are drowning in promotional artspam
News and notes:
Advancement department to be created at the Foundation, milestone fixes
In the media:
Wikipedia on
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, Kickstarter, and in the classroom
Traffic report:
Resurrection week
Featured content:
Partisan arrangements, dodgy dollars, a mysterious union of strings, and a hole that became a monument
WikiProject report:
WikiProject Christianity
Arbitration report:
New Functionary appointments
Technology report:
Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
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The Signpost
: 15 April 2015
News and notes:
Erik Möller leaving Foundation; annual plan grants under community review
In the media:
Saving Wikipedia; Internet regulation; Thoreau quote hoax
Blog:
Single-User Login provides access to all wikis
Traffic report:
Furious domination
Featured content:
Au-delà de les Alpes, le chien lit de Sainte Bernard. Sous les pavés, les trimes d'argent! Mes enfants, suivez-moi!
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The Signpost
: 22 April 2015
Special report:
Sony emails reveal corporate practices and undisclosed advocacy editing
In the media:
UK political editing; hoaxes; net neutrality
News and notes:
Call for candidates as the movement approaches the Wikimedia Board elections
In focus:
2015 Wikimedia Foundation election preparations underway
Featured content:
Vanguard
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Traffic report:
A harvest of couch potatoes
Gallery:
The bitter end
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The Signpost
: 29 April 2015
Wikimania:
Choice of small village for Wikimania 2016 ruffles feathers
News and notes:
Wiki Loves Monuments evaluation sees diminishing returns and increasing cost
In the media:
Scottish MEP blocked for edit warring; ranking articles by importance
Featured content:
Another day, another dollar
Traffic report:
Bruce, Nessie, and genocide
Recent research:
Military history, cricket, and Australia targeted in Wikipedia articles' popularity vs. quality; how copyright damages economy
Technology report:
VisualEditor and MediaWiki updates
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The Signpost
: 06 May 2015
News and notes:
"Inspire" grant-making campaign concludes, grantees announced
Featured content:
The amorous android and the horsebreeder; WikiCup round two concludes
In the media:
Guggenheim image donation; Wiki campaign gets advertising award
Special report:
FDC candidates respond to key issues
Traffic report:
The grim ship reality
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The Signpost
: 13 May 2015
Foundation elections:
Board candidates share their views with the
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News and notes:
Swedish Wikimedia chapter organizes simultaneous Wikidata contests
Traffic report:
Round Two
In the media:
Grant Shapps story continues
Op-ed:
What made Wikipedia lose its reputation?
Featured content:
Four first-time featured article writers lead the way
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The Signpost
: 20 May 2015
From the editor:
Your voice is needed: strategic voting in the WMF election
In focus:
The awful truth about Wikimedia's article counts
Traffic report:
Inner Core
News and notes:
A dark side of comedy: the Wikipedia volunteers cleaning up behind John Oliver's fowl jokes
Featured content:
Puppets, fungi, and waterfalls
In the media:
Jimmy Wales accepts Dan David Prize
WikiProject report:
Cell-ebrating Molecular Biology
Arbitration report:
Editor conduct the subject of multiple cases
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The Signpost
: 27 May 2015
News and notes:
WMF releases quarterly reports, annual plans
In the media:
Scrubbing Parliamentary biographies; Wikipedia's invisible history
Discussion report:
A relic from the past that needs to be updated
Featured content:
When music was confined to a ribbon of rust
Recent research:
Drug articles accurate and largely complete; women "slightly overrepresented"; talking like an admin
Traffic report:
Summer, summer, summertime
Technology report:
MediaWiki blows up printers
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The Signpost
: 03 June 2015
News and notes:
Three new community-elected trustees announced, incumbents out
Blog:
How Wikipedia covered Caitlyn Jenner’s transition
Discussion report:
The deprecation of Persondata; RfA – A broken process; Complaints from users on Swedish Wikipedia
Featured content:
It's not over till the fat man sings
Technology report:
Things are getting SPDYier
Special report:
Towards "Health Information for All": Medical content on Wikipedia received 6.5 billion page views in 2013
In the media:
Anonymous Australian editing targets football player, shooting victim
Traffic report:
A rather ordinary week
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The Signpost
: 10 June 2015
News and notes:
Chapter financial trends analyzed, news in brief
Traffic report:
Two households, both alike in dignity
In the media:
Arbitration case attracts media coverage; Wikipedia in Israel
Featured content:
Just the bear facts, ma'am
Technology report:
Wikimedia sites are going HTTPS only
Blog:
Making Wikipedia’s medical articles accessible in Chinese
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The Signpost
: 17 June 2015
In the media:
Wikipedia wins Asturias Prize; printing out Wikipedia; HTTPS switch
Arbitration report:
An election has consequences
In focus:
Three weeks to save freedom of panorama in Europe
Op-ed:
Making a difference in Wikipedia, one GA at a time
Technology report:
HTTPS-only rollout completed; proposal to enable VisualEditor for new accounts
Interview:
A veteran’s Wikipedia edits help him understand the brutality behind Yugoslavia’s wars
News and notes:
Labs outage kills tools, self; news in brief
Featured content:
Great Dane hits 150
Discussion report:
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Wikimedia Switzerland's board and paid-editing firm; passing of Ed Dravecky
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Wikipedia Zero piracy in Bangladesh; bureaucracy; chilling effects; too few cooks; translation gaps
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Wikimedia's Dario Taraborelli quoted on Google's Knowledge Graph in
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"Wikicology" ends in site ban; evidence and workshop phases concluded for "Gamaliel and others"
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The perils of Wikipedia's monopoly; Wikipedians' fragility; Street Sharks hoax
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Gamaliel resigns from the arbitration committee
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The Signpost
: 15 June 2016
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Wikiversity Journal—A new user group
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From the crème de la crème
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Biography disputes; Craig Newmark donation; PR editing
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Commons Picture of the Year; Wikidata licensing
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Women in science editathon gets national press; Wikipedia "shockingly biased"
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: 04 August 2016
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Wikipedia policy suppresses sharing of information
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Paid editing service announced; Commercial exploitation of free images; Wikipedia as a crystal ball; Librarians to counter systemic bias
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Kevin Gorman, who took on Wikipedia's gender gap and undisclosed paid advocacy, dies at 24
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The ugly, the bad, the playful, and the promising
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Wikipedia Education Program case study published; and a longtime Wikimedian has made his final edit
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Wikipedia in the news
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Fundraising, flora and fauna
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Cultivating leadership: Wikimedia Foundation seeks input
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A news columnist on the frustrations of tweaking his Wikipedia bio
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Upcoming tech projects for 2017
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Variety is the spice of life
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Washington Post
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WikiCup winners
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New guideline for technical collaboration; citation templates now flag open access content
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The top fifteen winning photos from Wiki Loves Earth
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Around the world with Wiki Loves Monuments 2016
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: 22 December 2016
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Strategic planning update; English ArbCom election results
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German ArbCom implodes
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Active user page filter prevents vandalism and harassment
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Operation successful, patient dead: Outreach workshops in Namibia
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In brief: Coverage of gender gap initiatives, banner fundraising, and more
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The Christmas edition
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Labs improvements impact 2016 Tool Labs survey results
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: 17 January 2017
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Year-end roundups, Wikipedia's 16th birthday, and more
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One year ends, and another begins
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Concluding 2016 and covering 2017's first two cases
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Out with the old, in with the new
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Tech present, past, and future
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Wolves nip at Wikipedia's heels: A perspective on the cost of paid editing
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Official WMF rebuke to Trump policy; WMF secures restricted funds
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WMF strategy consultant brings background in crisis reputation management; Team behind popular WMF software put "on pause"
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For the birds!
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How to make editing workshops useful, even if participants don't stick around
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Presidential politics, periodic table, and our periodic roundup of updates
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Better PDFs, backup plans, and birthday wishes
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: 27 February 2017
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The
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Peer review – a history and call for reviewers
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Wikipedia has cancer
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: 9 June 2017
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Global Elections
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Cases closed in the Pacific and with Magioladitis
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Wikipedia's lead sentence problem
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Three months in the land of the featured
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Did Wikipedia just assume Garfield's gender?
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Wikipedia bot wars capture the imagination of the popular press
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: 23 June 2017
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Departments reorganized at Wikimedia Foundation, and a month without new RfAs (so far)
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Kalanick's nipples; Episode #138 of
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Facto Post
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Wonder Woman beats Batman, The Mummy, Darth Vader and the Earth
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Concern about access and fairness, Foundation expenditures, and relationship to real-world politics and commerce
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The chilling effect of surveillance on Wikipedia readers
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Why Task Forces are Dying in 2017
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A mix of patterns
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The Infobox Game
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Film, television and Internet phenomena reign with some room left over for America's birthday
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2017 WikiCup round 3 wrap-up
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Non-English special edition! 99% no news about English-based wiki communities!
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Wikipedia can increase local tourism by +9%; predicting article quality with deep learning; recent behavior predicts quality
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Comic relief
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Wikipedia used to judge death penalty, arms smuggling, Indonesian governance, and HOTTEST celebrity
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Swedish countess tops the list
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Canadian Supreme Court rules against Google in favor of worldwide court orders
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Sharing Wikipedia offline medical information in the Dominican Republic
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Everywhere in the lead
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Basselpedia; WMF Board of Trustees appointments
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Warfighters and their tools or trees and butterflies
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A fortnight of conflicts
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Biomedical content, and some thoughts on its future
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Google's Ideological Echo Chamber; What makes someone successful?
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WikiProject YouTube
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2017 WikiCup round 4 wrap-up
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: 25 September 2017
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Monkey settlement; Wikipedia used to give AI context clues
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Chickenz
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Wikipedia articles vs. concepts; Wikipedia usage in Europe
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: 23 October 2017
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Money! WMF fundraising, Wikimedia strategy, WMF new office!
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Don, Marcel, Emily, Jessica and other notables
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Guys named Ralph
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Offline Wikipedia developed at OFF.NETWORK Content Hackathon
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Facebook and poetry
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: 24 November 2017
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Searching and surveying
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A featured article centurion
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Recommendations for WikiProjects
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Open knowledge platform as a media institution
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Strange and inappropriate
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We will remember them
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Who wrote this? New dataset on the provenance of Wikipedia text
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: 18 December 2017
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Close encounters of the Wikipedia kind
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Featured content to finish 2017
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Stolen seagulls, public domain primates and more
Arbitration report:
Last case of 2017: Mister Wiki editors
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Wiki loving
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Interview with Charlesjsharp, regular contributor of Wikipedia's Featured Pictures
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French medical articles have "high rate of veracity"
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Your wish lists and more Wikimedia tech
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: 16 January 2018
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Communication is key
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The Paris Review
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History, gaming and multifarious topics
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Interview with Ser Amantio di Nicolao, the top contributor to English Wikipedia by edit count
Technology report:
Dedicated Wikidata database servers
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Why don't we have an article about _________?
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Mister Wiki is first arbitration committee decision of 2018
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: 5 February 2018
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Wars, sieges, disasters and everything black possible
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Automated Q&A from Wikipedia articles; Who succeeds in talk page discussions?
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New monthly dataset shows where people fall into Wikipedia rabbit holes
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Interview with The Rambling Man, Wikipedia's top contributor of Featured Lists
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TV, death, sports, and doodles
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Cochrane–Wikipedia Initiative
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New cases requested for inter-editor hostility and other collaboration issues
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Solving crime; editing out violence allegations
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: 20 February 2018
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The future is Swedish with a lack of administrators
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Arbitration report:
Arbitration committee prepares to examine two new cases
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Addicted to sports and pain
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Entertainment, sports and history
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Paragraph-based edit conflict screen; broken thanks
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Signpost issue 4 – 29 March 2018
Op-ed:
Death knell for
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Wiki Conference roundup and new appointments.
Arbitration report:
Ironing out issues in infoboxes; not sure yet about New Jersey; and an administrator who probably wasn't uncivil to a sockpuppet.
In the media:
The media on Wikipedia's workings: the good and not-so-good
Traffic report:
Real sports, real women and an imaginary country: what's on top for Wikipedia readers
Featured content:
Animals, Ships, and Songs
Technology report:
Timeless skin review by Force Radical.
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ACTRIAL wrap-up.
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WikiWorld Reruns
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The Signpost
: 26 April 2018
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Photo of Kim Jong-un. Stephen Hawking death tops hits on many Wikipedias.
In the media:
The rise of Wikipedia as a disinformation mop
In focus:
Admin reports board under criticism
Special report:
ACTRIAL results adopted by landslide
Opinion:
Guideline for Organization Notability revised
Op-ed:
World War II Myth-making and Wikipedia
Community view:
It's time we look past Women in Red to counter systemic bias
Discussion report:
The future of portals
Arbitration report:
No new cases, and one motion on administrative misconduct
WikiProject report:
WikiProject Military History
Blog:
Why the world reads Wikipedia
Humour:
Our Favorite Places to Whine About Stuff
Traffic report:
A quiet place to wrestle with the articles of March
Technology report:
Coming soon: Books-to-PDF, interactive maps, rollback confirmation
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The Signpost
: 24 May 2018
From the editor:
Another issue meets the deadline
Op-ed:
Has the wind gone out of the AdminShip's sails?
Opinion:
Integrating my many lives on Wikipedia
WikiProject report:
WikiProject Portals
Discussion report:
User rights, infoboxes, and more discussion on portals
Featured content:
Featured content selected by the community
Arbitration report:
Managing difficult topics
News and notes:
Lots of Wikimedia
In the media:
Wikipedia in Turkish politics; COI politics in Wikipedia; most cited work
Traffic report:
We love our superheroes
Technology report:
A trove of contributor and developer goodies
Blog:
Why I write about women on Wikipedia
Recent research:
Why people don't contribute to Wikipedia; using Wikipedia to teach statistics, technical writing, and controversial issues
Humour:
Play with your food
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Wine not?
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The Signpost
: 29 June 2018
From the editor:
The Admin Ship is still barely afloat, while a Foundation project risks sinking
Special report:
NPR and AfC – The Marshall Plan: an engagement and a marriage?
Op-ed:
What do admins do?
Opinion:
Google isn't responsible for Wikipedia's mistakes
News and notes:
Money, milestones, and Wikimania
In the media:
Much wikilove from the Mayor of London, less from Paekākāriki or a certain candidate for U.S. Congress
Discussion report:
Deletion, page moves, and an update to the main page
Featured content:
New promotions
Arbitration report:
WWII, UK politics, and a user deCrat'ed
Traffic report:
Endgame
Technology report:
Improvements piled on more improvements
Gallery:
Wiki Loves Africa
Blog:
Wikipedia should be open for editors in Turkey
Recent research:
How censorship can backfire and conversations can go awry
Humour:
Television plot lines
Wikipedia essays:
This month's pick by
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The Signpost
: 31 July 2018
From the editor:
If only if
Op-ed:
The last leg of the Admin Ship's current cruise
Opinion:
Wrestling with Wikipedia reality
News and notes:
Another newspaper for Wikipedia; Wikimania 2018 ends; changes at NPR
In the media:
Blackouts in Europe; Wikipedia and capitalists; WMF Jet Set
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Today's young adults don't know a world without Wikipedia
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2018 Wikimedian of the Year, Farkhad Fatkullin
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Interface Admin policy proposal, part 2
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Reviewer of the year, WikiCup winner, and the 2019 Wikimedia Summit
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Wikimedia affiliate organizations seek community participation in 2019 board election
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Optimist's guide to Wikipedia
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Blackouts fail to stop EU Copyright Directive
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Women's history month
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Portal debates continue, Prespa agreement aftermath, WMF seeks a rebranding
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Barnstar-like awards increase new editor retention
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Esperanza organization disbanded after deletion discussion
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The Wikipedia SourceWatch
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English Wikipedia community's conclusions on talk pages
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An Active Arbitration Committee
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Portals revisited
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The gaps in our knowledge of our gaps
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2019 Wikimedia Summit gathers movement affiliate representatives to discuss movement strategy
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Picture that
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Wikimania and trustee elections
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Politics, lawsuits and baseball
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FORUM:Should Wikimedia modify its terms of use to require disclosure?
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Women and Wikipedia: the world is watching
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WikiJournals: A sister project proposal
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A CEO biography, paid for with taxes
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2019 Wikimedia Affiliate Selected Board Seats Election Results
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Wikimedia grants less accessible for travel, equipment, meetups, and India
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New proposals in aftermath of Fram ban
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A month of reintegration
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Classic panoramas from Heinrich Berann
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Video based summaries of Wikipedia articles. How and why?
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Most influential medical journals; detecting pages to protect
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The French Wikipedia is overtaking the German
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Meta proposals on partial bans and IP users
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Once upon a time in Greenland with Boris and cornflakes
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We couldn't have told you this, but Wikipedia was censored
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The Curious Case of Croatian Wikipedia
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Chinese Wikipedia and the battle against extradition from Hong Kong
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Finding freely licensed photo collections
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The BBC looks at Chinese government editing
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Carl Miller on Wikipedia Wars
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October actions
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Put on your birthday best
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You say you want a revolution
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Two requests for arbitration cases
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The queen and the princess meet the king and the joker
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Reference things, sister things, stranger things
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Winter and holidays
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Adminitis
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WikiProject Spam, revisited
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An update on the Wikimedia Movement 2030 Strategy
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"The fulfillment of the dream of humanity" or a nightmare of PR whitewashing on behalf of one-percenters?
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December discussions around the wiki
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Announcement of 2020 Arbitration Committee
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Queens and aliens, exactly alike, once upon a December
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User scripts and more
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Holiday wishes
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Acoustics and Wikipedia; Wiki Workshop 2019 summary
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Wikiproject Tree of Life: A Wikiproject report
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Six million articles on the English language Wikipedia
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The limits of volunteerism and the gatekeepers of Team Encarta
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Turkey's back up, but what's happening with Dot-org and a new visual identity?
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Three cases at ArbCom
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The most viewed articles of 2019
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Wiki Loves Monuments 2019, we're all winners
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Capacity Building: Top 5 Themes from Community Conversations
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Our most important new article since November 1, 2015
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Cryptos and bitcoins and blockchains, oh no!
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WikiProject Japan: a wikiProject Report
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Predicting the 6,000,000th article
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Mapping IP editors, Smithsonian open-access, and coronavirus disinformation
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Do you prefer M or P?
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Two prominent administrators removed
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The Incredible Invisible Woman
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History of
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Is Wikipedia for sale?
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Feel the love
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What I learned as Wikimedia UK Communications Coordinator
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Wikipedia is another country
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2018 Wikipedian of the year blocked
WikiProject report:
WikiProject COVID-19: A WikiProject Report
Special report:
Wikipedia on COVID-19: what we publish and why it matters
In the media:
Blocked in Iran but still covering the big story
Discussion report:
Rethinking draft space
Arbitration report:
Unfinished business
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"I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein …"
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Wikimedia community responds to COVID-19
Recent research:
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Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own
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The only thing that matters in the world
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Visible Women on Wikipedia
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Coronavirus, again and again
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Redesigning Wikipedia, bit by bit
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Featured content returns
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Two difficult cases
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Disease the Rhythm of the Night
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Roy is doing fine and sending more photos
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Trending topics across languages; auto-detecting bias
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Wikipedia:An article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing
By the numbers:
Open data and COVID-19: Wikipedia as an informational resource during the pandemic
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Trusting Everybody to Work Together
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What's making you happy this month?
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Multilingual Wikipedia
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2019 Picture of the Year, 200 French paid editing accounts blocked, 10 years of Guild Copyediting
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CBS on COVID-19, Sanger on bias, false noses, and five prolific editors
Discussion report:
WMF's Universal Code of Conduct
Special report:
The sum of human knowledge? Not in one Wikipedia language edition
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Weathering the storm
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Board member likely to receive editing restriction
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Come on and slam, and welcome to the jam
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Where Is Political Bias Taking Us?
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Wildlife photos by the book
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WMF Board announces Community Culture Statement
Recent research:
Automatic detection of covert paid editing; Wiki Workshop 2020
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Transit routes and mapping during stay-at-home order downtime
On video:
COVID-19 spurs innovations in Wikimedia video and virtual programming
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Revitalizing good articles
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500,000 articles in the Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia
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: 28 June 2020
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Progress at Wikipedia Library and Wikijournal of Medicine
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Community open letter on renaming
Gallery:
After the killing of George Floyd
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Part collaboration and part combat
Discussion report:
Community reacts to WMF rebranding proposals
Featured content:
Sports are returning, with a rainbow
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Anti-harassment RfC and a checkuser revocation
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We stand for racial justice
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Wikipedia and COVID-19; automated Wikipedia-based fact-checking
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What is wrong with rebranding to "Wikipedia Foundation"?
Humour:
Cherchez une femme
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For what are you grateful this month?
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Edit Loud, Edit Proud: LGBTIQ+ Wikimedians and Global Information Activism
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Wikipedia and the End of Open Collaboration?
COI and paid editing:
Some strange people edit Wikipedia for money
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Abstract Wikipedia, a hoax, sex symbols, and a new admin
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Dog days gone bad
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Fox News, a flight of RfAs, and banning policy
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Remembering Art, Valor, and Freedom
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Now for something completely different
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Photos of threatened species from iNaturalist
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New Chinese national security law in Hong Kong could limit the privacy of Wikipedia users
Recent research:
Receiving thanks increases retention, but not the time contributed to Wikipedia
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Not compatible with a collaborative project
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Hasteur and Brian McNeil
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WikiLoop DoubleCheck, reviewing edits made easy
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: 30 August 2020
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The high road and the low road
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Storytelling large and small
Featured content:
Going for the goal
Special report:
Wikipedia's not so little sister is finding its own way
Op-Ed:
The longest-running hoax
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Heart, soul, umbrellas, and politics
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Fourteen things we’ve learned by moving Polish Wikimedia conference online
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Detecting spam, and pages to protect; non-anonymous editors signal their intelligence with high-quality articles
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A slow couple of months
From the archives:
Wikipedia for promotional purposes?
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Marcus Sherman, Jerome West, and Pauline van Till
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: 27 September 2020
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Paid editing with political connections
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More large-scale errors at a "small" wiki
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WIPO, Seigenthaler incident 15 years later
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Life finds a Way
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Clarifications and requests
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Is there no justice?
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Wikipedia's flood biases
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Truth or consequences? A tough month for truth
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Boarding the Trustees
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Wikipedians question Wikimedia fundraising ethics after "somewhat-viral" tweet
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Governance updates from, and for, the Wikimedia Endowment
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Scribing, searching, soliciting, spying, and systemic bias
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From Russia with WikiLove
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Isabelle Belato on their Request for Adminship
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Mama, they're in love with a criminal
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"The most beautiful story on the Internet"
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Privacy on Wikipedia in the cyberpunk future
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Galactic dreams, encyclopedic reality
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The Six Million FP Man
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: 1 January 2023
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Wikimedia Foundation ousts, bans quarter of Arabic Wikipedia admins
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Odd bedfellows, Elon and Jimbo, reliable sources for divorces, and more
Interview:
ComplexRational's RfA debrief
Technology report:
Wikimedia Foundation's Abstract Wikipedia project "at substantial risk of failure"
Essay:
Mobile editing
Arbitration report:
Arbitration Committee Election 2022
Recent research:
Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement in talk page disputes
Serendipity:
Wikipedia about FIFA World Cup 2022: quick, factual and critical
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Would you like to swing on a star?
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Football, football, football! Wikipedia Football Club!
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#4: The Course of WikiEmpire
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The Signpost
: 16 January 2023
From the team:
We heard zoomers liked fortnights: the biweekly Signpost rides again
Special report:
Coverage of 2022 bans reveals editors serving long sentences in Saudi Arabia since 2020
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Revised Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines up for vote, WMF counsel departs, generative models under discussion
In the media:
Court orders user data in libel case, Saudi Wikipedia in the crosshairs, Larry Sanger at it again
Technology report:
View it! A new tool for image discovery
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Busting into Grand Central
Serendipity:
How I bought part of Wikipedia – for less than $100
Gallery:
What is our responsibility when it comes to images?
Humour:
New geologically speedy deletion criteria introduced
Opinion:
Good old days, in which fifth-symbol-lacking lipograms roam'd our librarious litany
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Flip your lid
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The most viewed articles of 2022
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Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
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The Signpost
: 4 February 2023
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New for the Signpost: Author pages, tag pages, and a decent article search function
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Foundation update on fundraising, new page patrol, Tides, and Wikipedia blocked in Pakistan
Section 230:
Twenty-six words that created the internet, and the future of an encyclopedia
Disinformation report:
Wikipedia on Santos
Special report:
Legal status of Wikimedia projects "unclear" under potential European legislation
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Furor over new Wikipedia skin, followup on Saudi bans, and legislative debate
Op-Ed:
Estonian businessman and political donor brings lawsuit against head of national Wikimedia chapter
Opinion:
Study examines cultural leanings of Wikimedia projects' visual art coverage
Recent research:
Wikipedia's "moderate yet systematic" liberal citation bias
WikiProject report:
WikiProject Organized Labour
Tips and tricks:
XTools: Data analytics for your list of created articles
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20,000 Featureds under the Sea
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Films, deaths and ChatGPT
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: 20 February 2023
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Terms of Use update, Steward elections, and Wikipedia back in Pakistan
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Arbitrators open case after article alleges Wikipedia "intentionally distorts" Holocaust coverage
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The "largest con in corporate history"?
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Machine-written articles: a new challenge for Wikipedia
Tips and tricks:
All about writing at DYK
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Eden, lost.
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Superbowl? Pfft. Give me some Bollywood! Yours sincerely, the world
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The Signpost
: 9 March 2023
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What's going on with the Wikimedia Endowment?
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Second flight of the Soviet space bears: Testing ChatGPT's accuracy
In the media:
What should Wikipedia do? Publish Russian propaganda? Be less woke? Cover the Holocaust in Poland differently?
Featured content:
In which over two-thirds of the featured articles section needs to be copied over to WikiProject Military History's newsletter
Recent research:
"Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the Holocaust" in Poland and "self-focus bias" in coverage of global events
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Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
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: 20 March 2023
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Wikimania submissions deadline looms, Russian government after our lucky charms, AI woes nix CNET from RS slate
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Paid editing, plagiarism payouts, proponents of a ploy, and people peeved at perceived preferences
Featured content:
Way too many featured articles
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The Signpost
: 03 April 2023
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Some long-overdue retractions
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Sounding out, a universal code of conduct, and dealing with AI
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Twiddling Wikipedia during an online contest, and other news
Arbitration report:
"World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" case is ongoing
Featured content:
Hail, poetry! Thou heav'n-born maid
Recent research:
Language bias: Wikipedia captures at least the "silhouette of the elephant", unlike ChatGPT
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April Fools' through the ages
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Sus socks support suits, seems systemic
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: 26 April 2023
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Staff departures at Wikimedia Foundation, Jimbo hands in the bits, and graphs' zeppelin burns
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Contested truth claims in Wikipedia
Obituary:
Remembering David "DGG" Goodman
Arbitration report:
Holocaust in Poland, Jimbo in the hot seat, and a desysopping
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What Jimbo's question revealed about scamming
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Wikipedia as an anchor of truth
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Signpost
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Collective planning with the Wikimedia Foundation
Featured content:
In which we described the featured articles in rhyme again
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April Fools' through the ages, part two
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The law of hats
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Long live machine, the future supreme
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: 8 May 2023
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Vivek's smelly socks, online safety, and politics
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Gender, race and notability in deletion discussions
Featured content:
I wrote a poem for each article, I found rhymes for all the lists; My first featured picture of this year now finally exists!
Arbitration report:
"World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" approaches conclusion
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Planning together with the Wikimedia Foundation
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There Shall Be Seasons Refreshing – Stories from WikiConference India 2023
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: 22 May 2023
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Golden parachutes: Record severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation
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History, propaganda and censorship
Arbitration report:
Final decision in "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland"
Recent research:
Create or curate, cooperate or compete? Game theory for Wikipedia editors
Featured content:
A very musical week for featured articles
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Coronation, chatbot, celebs
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Wikipedians Convene for Queering Wikipedia 2023: The First International LGBT+ Wikipedia Conference
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: 5 June 2023
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Section 230 stands tall, WP vs. UK bill, Miss Information dissed again
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Poetry under pressure
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Celebs, controversies and a chatbot in the public eye
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: 19 June 2023
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English WP editor glocked after BLP row on Italian 'pedia
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Content, featured
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Hoaxers prefer currently-popular topics
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: 3 July 2023
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Online Safety Bill: Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia UK launch open letter
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Imploded submersible outfit foiled trying to sing own praises on Wikipedia
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Journo proposes mass Wiki dox, sponsored articles on Fandom, Section 230 discussed
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Incensed
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Are you afraid of spiders? Arnold? The Idol? ChatGPT?
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United Nations dispatches peacekeeping force to Wikipedia policy discussions
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: 17 July 2023
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Big bux hidden beneath wine-dark sea as we wait for the Tides to go out?
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Tentacles of Emirates plot attempt to ensnare Wikipedia
Obituary:
David Thomsen (Dthomsen8) and Ingo Koll (Kipala)
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ABC for Fundraising: Advancing Banner Collaboration for fundraising campaigns
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Are the children of celebrities over-represented in French cinema?
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What automation can do for you (and your WikiProject)
Recent research:
Wikipedia-grounded chatbot "outperforms all baselines" on factual accuracy
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New fringe theories to be introduced
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If you're reading this, you're probably on a desktop
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The Idol becomes the Master
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: 1 August 2023
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City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians, Ruwiki founder banned, WMF launches Mastodon server
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Hot climate, hot hit, hot money, hot news hot off the presses!
Obituary:
Donald Cram, Peter McCawley, and Eagleash
Tips and tricks:
Citation tools for dummies!
Humour:
Does Wikipedia present neutral perspectives?
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Journals cited by Wikipedia
Opinion:
Are global bans the last step?
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Featured Content, 1 to 15 July
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Come on Oppie, let's go party
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: 15 August 2023
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Dude, Where's My Donations? Wikimedia Foundation announces another million in grants for non-Wikimedia-related projects
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An accusation of bias from Brazil, a lawsuit from Portugal, plagiarism from Florida
In focus:
2023 Good Article Nomination drive is underway: get your barnstars here!
Special report:
Thirteen years later, why are most administrators still from 2005?
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How to find images for your articles, check their copyright, upload them, and restore them
Cobwebs:
Getting serious about writing
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Copyright trolls, or the last beautiful free souls on this planet?
Serendipity:
Why I stopped taking photographs almost altogether
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Barbenheimer confirmed
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Arbitration Committee to accept case against Right Honorable Frimbley Cantingham, 15th Viscount Bellington-upon-Porkshire
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'Cause today it just goes with the fashion
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The Signpost
: 31 August 2023
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Beta version of signpost.news now online
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You like RecentChanges?
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Taking it sleazy
Recent research:
The five barriers that impede "stitching" collaboration between Commons and Wikipedia
Draftspace:
Bad Jokes and Other Draftspace Novelties
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The Dehumourification Plan
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Raise your drinking glass, here's to yesterday
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: 16 September 2023
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Wikimedia power sharing – just an advisory role for the volunteer community?
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Nosebagbear
Serendipity:
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no paywall, for thou, Wikipedia Library, art with me
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Catching up
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Strange portal opened by CERN researchers brings Wikipedia articles from "other worlds"
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Some of it's magic, some of it's tragic
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: 3 October 2023
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Wikimedia Endowment financial statement published
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History is written by whoever can harness the most editors
Recent research:
Readers prefer ChatGPT over Wikipedia; concerns about limiting "anyone can edit" principle "may be overstated"
Featured content:
By your logic,
Concept:
Wikipedia policies from other worlds: WP:NOANTLERS
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"The Sight"
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There shall be no slaves in the land of lands, it's a Bollywood jam
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: 23 October 2023
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Where have all the administrators gone?
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Thirst traps, the fastest loading sites on the web, and the original collaborative writing
Gallery:
Before and After: Why you don't need to know how to restore images to make massive improvements
Featured content:
Yo, ho! Blow the man down!
Traffic report:
The calm and the storm
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Sawtpedia: Giving a Voice to Wikipedia Using QR Codes
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New citation template introduced for divine revelations, drug use, and really thinking about it
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: 6 November 2023
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UK shadow chancellor accused of ripping off WP articles for book, Wikipedians accused of being dicks by a rich man
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Board candidacy process posted, editors protest WMF privacy measure, sweet meetups
Opinion:
An open letter to Elon Musk
WikiCup report:
The WikiCup 2023
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Equity lists on Wikipedia
Recent research:
How English Wikipedia drove out fringe editors over two decades
Featured content:
Like putting a golf course in a historic site.
Wikidata:
Evaluating qualitative systemic bias in large article sets on Wikipedia
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Cricket jumpscare
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: 20 November 2023
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Update on Wikimedia's financial health
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If it bleeds, it leads
Recent research:
Canceling disputes as the real function of ArbCom
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Wikimania 2024 scholarships
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: 4 December 2023
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Beeblebrox ejected from Arbitration Committee following posts on Wikipediocracy
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Turmoil on Hebrew Wikipedia, grave dancing, Olga's impact and inspiring Bhutanese nuns
Disinformation report:
"Wikipedia and the assault on history"
In focus:
Tens of thousands of freely available sources flagged
Comix:
Bold comics for a new age
Essay:
I am going to die
Featured content:
Real gangsters move in silence
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And it's hard to watch some cricket, in the cold November Rain
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Mandy Rice-Davies Applies
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: 24 December 2023
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Did the Chinese Communist Party send astroturfers to sabotage a hacktivist's Wikipedia article?
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The Italian Public Domain wars continue, Wikimedia RU set to dissolve, and a recap of WLM 2023
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Consider the humble fork
Discussion report:
Arabic Wikipedia blackout; Wikimedians discuss SpongeBob, copyrights, and AI
In focus:
Liquidation of Wikimedia RU
Technology report:
Dark mode is coming
Recent research:
"LLMs Know More, Hallucinate Less" with Wikidata
Gallery:
A feast of holidays and carols
Comix:
Lollus lmaois 200C tincture
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when the crossword is sus
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What's the big deal? I'm an animal!
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A piccy iz worth OVAR 9000!!!11oneone! wordz ^_^
Apocrypha:
Local editor discovered 1,380 lost subheadings in ancient Signpost scrolls. And what he found was shocking.
Humour:
Guess the joke contest
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: 10 January 2024
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NINETEEN MORE YEARS! NINETEEN MORE YEARS!
Special report:
Public Domain Day 2024
Technology report:
Wikipedia: A Multigenerational Pursuit
News and notes:
In other news ... see ya in court!
In focus:
The long road of a featured article candidate
In the media:
What is plagiarism? Oklahoma Disneyland? Reaching a human being at Wikipedia?
WikiProject report:
WikiProjects Israel and Palestine
Obituary:
Anthony Bradbury
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The most viewed articles of 2023
Crossword:
everybody gangsta till the style sheets start cascading
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Conflict resolution
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: 31 January 2024
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Wikipedian Osama Khalid celebrated his 30th birthday in jail
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Until it happens to you
Disinformation report:
How paid editors squeeze you dry
In the media:
Katherine Maher new NPR CEO, go check Wikipedia, race in the race
In focus:
The long road of a featured article candidate, part 2
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Croatian takeover was enabled by "lack of bureaucratic openness and rules constraining [admins]"
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: 13 February 2024
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Wikimedia Russia director declared "foreign agent" by Russian gov; EU prepares to pile on the papers
Disinformation report:
How low can the scammers go?
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Before and After: Why you don't need to touch grass to dramatically improve images of flora and fauna
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Speaking in tongues, toeing the line, and dressing the part
Serendipity:
Is this guy the same as the one who was a Nazi?
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Griselda, Nikki, Carl, Jannik and two types of football
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Our crossword to bear
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Strongly
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: 2 March 2024
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Wikimedia enters US Supreme court hearings as "the dolphin inadvertently caught in the net"
Recent research:
Images on Wikipedia "amplify gender bias"
In the media:
The Scottish Parliament gets involved, a wikirace on live TV, and the Foundation's CTO goes on record
Obituary:
Vami_IV
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Supervalentinefilmbowlday
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High-scoring WikiCup first round comes to a close
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: 29 March 2024
Technology report:
Millions of readers still seeing broken pages as "temporary" disabling of graph extension nears its second year
Interview:
Interview on Wikimedia Foundation fundraising and finance strategy
Special report:
19-page PDF accuses Wikipedia of bias against Israel, suggests editors be forced to reveal their real names, and demands a new feature allowing people to view the history of Wikipedia articles
Op-Ed:
Wikipedia in the age of personality-driven knowledge
Recent research:
"Newcomer Homepage" feature mostly fails to boost new editors
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Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Charter ratified
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"For me it’s the autism": AARoad editors on the fork more traveled
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He rules over everything, on the land called planet Dune
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Letters from the editors
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: 25 April 2024
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Censorship and wikiwashing looming over RuWiki, edit wars over San Francisco politics and another wikirace on live TV
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A sigh of relief for open access as Italy makes a slight U-turn on their cultural heritage reproduction law
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WikiConference North America 2023 in Toronto recap
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WikiProject Newspapers (Not WP:NOTNEWS)
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New survey of over 100,000 Wikipedia users
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O.J., cricket and a three body problem
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: 16 May 2024
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Democracy in action: multiple elections
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Will the new RfA reform come to the rescue of administrators?
Arbitration report:
Ruined temples for posterity to ponder over – arbitration from '22 to '24
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Deadnames on the French Wikipedia, and a duel between Russian wikis
Op-Ed:
Wikidata to split as sheer volume of information overloads infrastructure
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Generations
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: 8 June 2024
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Wikimedia Foundation publishes its Form 990 for fiscal year 2022-2023
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New Page Patrol receives a much-needed software upgrade
Deletion report:
The lore of Kalloor
In the media:
National cable networks get in on the action arguing about what the first sentence of a Wikipedia article ought to say
News from the WMF:
Progress on the plan — how the Wikimedia Foundation advanced on its Annual Plan goals during the first half of fiscal year 2023-2024
Opinion:
Public response to the editors of
Settler Colonial Studies
Recent research:
ChatGPT did not kill Wikipedia, but might have reduced its growth
Featured content:
We didn't start the wiki
Essay:
No queerphobia
Special report:
RetractionBot is back to life!
Traffic report:
Chimps, Eurovision, and the return of the Baby Reindeer
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The Wikipediholic Family
Humour:
Wikipedia rattled by sophisticated cyberattack of schoolboy typing "balls" in infobox
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Palimpsestuous
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The Signpost
: 4 July 2024
News and notes:
WMF board elections and fundraising updates
Special report:
Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification vote underway, new Council may surpass power of Board
In focus:
How the Russian Wikipedia keeps it clean despite having just a couple dozen administrators
Discussion report:
Wikipedians are hung up on the meaning of Madonna
In the media:
War and information in war and politics
Sister projects:
On editing Wikisource
Obituary:
Hanif Al Husaini, Salazarov, Hyacinth, and PirjanovNurlan
Opinion:
Etika: a Pop Culture Champion
Gallery:
Spokane Willy's photos
Op-Ed:
Why you should not vote in the 2024 WMF BoT elections
Crossword:
On a day of independence, beat crosswords into crossploughshares
Humour:
A joke
Cobwebs:
Counting to a billion — manuscripts don't burn
Recent research:
Is Wikipedia Politically Biased? Perhaps
Traffic report:
Talking about you and me, and the games people play
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The Signpost
: 22 July 2024
Discussion report:
Internet users flock to Wikipedia to debate its image policy over Trump raised-fist photo
News and notes:
Wikimedia community votes to ratify Movement Charter; Wikimedia Foundation opposes ratification
News from the WMF:
Wikimedia Foundation Board resolution and vote on the proposed Movement Charter
Essay:
Reflections on editing and obsession
In the media:
What's on Putin's fork, the court's docket, and in Harrison's book?
Obituary:
JamesR
Crossword:
Vaguely bird-shaped crossword
Humour:
Joe Biden withdraws RfA, Donald Trump selects co-nom
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