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Intel International Science and Engineering Fair

by all means, add to the article! just curious, what country did you represent at ISEF2005 phoenix? PeregrineAY July 3, 2005 11:11 (UTC)

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Selected Anniversaries

Hello, Blahma. Thank you for your suggestion. Battle of Austerlitz should have been featured on the MainPage yesterday. I wish I had seen your msg earlier. I've just moved your msg to Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/December 2 so that I can see it next year. The next time you have a good anniversary to propose for the MainPage, please leave a msg on the talk page of "Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/Month Day#" for that day. I usually check the talk page when I update each day's template. Thanks. -- PFHLai 21:34, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wikics template

Hi Blahma! I've just created a new template to indicate English Wikipedia users who also contribute to the Czech Wikipedia.

Template:User wikics

Feel free to add it to your userboxes if you like it (and if you actually contribute). Happy Easter. Daniel Šebesta (talk • contribs) 13:01, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Positive-definite matrix

Thank you very much for correcting my error on positive-definite matrix. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 13:05, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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File:Entropa-Bulgaria.jpg

If you have an opportunity, would you be able to get a version of File:Entropa-Bulgaria.jpg, taken from the same alignment and now covered up (for before, and after comparison). Many Thanks, —Sladen (talk) 17:01, 20 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that's a good idea. I will go to Brussels tomorrow, although I am not sure if I will have the opportunity to go to Justus Lipsius. Otherwise, I would try to find another opportunity soon. Blahma (talk) 17:58, 20 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Entropa

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euro

Hi there,

Just a quick note to let you know I have reverted your recent changes to Euro; in my opinion, this contribution does require to be sourced. If you need help adding references, please do not hesitate in asking.

Thanks, Miguel.mateo (talk) 07:03, 14 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Miguel.mateo, I have added the sources now directly into the article. First, I thought it would be enough to have the fact sourced in the article Germain Pirlot itself, but now I realize that it needs to be duplicated also in the Euro article. Note that I also own a copy of the letter (referred to in Germain Pirlot) which is the first level source in which the EC thanks to Pirlot for his suggestion. If that would be necessary, I can either add that source to the Euro article as well, or even publish the copy somewhere so that others can check it, but for now I consider the news article (which makes a reference to the letter, among others) as a sufficient source for the information. Thanks for your care and cooperation. Blahma (talk) 12:57, 14 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think you recent additions are great and we do not need to add any more sources. Thanks for your quick reply and good addition to the article. Miguel.mateo (talk) 02:45, 15 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Definitely is something we working at WP:MED need to look at with the collaboration with TWB. Here is our progress with the medical articles Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_task_force/RTT With the overview here Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_task_force. Another issue we have is that the translators are not used to MediaWiki markup and break it form time to time. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 07:02, 10 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Concerning wm2013:Submissions/Reproducing a featured article into other languages by coordinated effort

You had a question "was something alike before?". I want to remind (tell) you about CoSyne. Unfortunately, the project is ended and I can't see a working instrument. But the idea was similar and good. Infovarius (talk) 12:13, 27 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

March 2014

Welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, including your edits to Microsoft Office, but we cannot accept original research. Original research also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. Codename Lisa (talk) 18:27, 11 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello and thank you for bringing the SYNTH rule to my attention, because in spite of having edited for almost 10 years (though mainly on eowiki and cswiki), I have not heard about it so far. Still, after reading the description of the rule, I cannot understand in which way my edit might be considered a synthesis, i.e. original research.

The two statements that consitute the sentence "Microsoft Office 2010 [is named] Office 14.0, because [version] 13.0 was skipped [link to triskaidekaphobia]" are

A: "Microsoft Office 2010 is named 14.0 [in contrast to the previous version which was 12.0]" (that information was already present in the article before my edit) and

B: "triskaidekaphobia is a common reason for skipping number 13" (this can be found in the Wikipedia article on triskaidekaphobia).

The new piece of information in my edit is implying a relation between A and B.

However, the implied relation of A and B has, in my opinion, been properly sourced and the statement does appear as a whole in the source, cf.: "The company skipped 13 for superstitious (i.e. fun) reasons." In a related article, I have even discovered an additional source, in which the skip is put into relation with the superstition even in the article's title ("Microsoft to skip “unlucky” Office 13"). The latter source quotes a Microsoft employee as having said: "but that’s is an unlucky number so we’re going to skip Office 13 and call the next one Office 14". In your opinion, why does this fail to qualify as reliable sources publishing the same argument in relation to the topic of the article? --Blahma (talk) 22:09, 11 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Thanks for taking the time to write the reply and your due diligence.

I wouldn't have reverted you if you had supplied the APCMag source. The source claims to have interviewed with Jensen Harris, Group Program Manager for Microsoft’s Office User Experience Team, so we can at least attribute it to a certain person.

The source that you inserted, however, is Paul Thurrott's personal blog and reflects his own opinion. He didn't claim to have interviewed with anybody and this Microsoft fan does not himself go out there to interview with people. He just has seen the jump from 12 to 14 and assumed it was for either superstition or fun. If he had supplied a source, he'd have become a secondary source, something that Wikipedia loves. But he hasn't, therefore, his blog has become a primary source for a personal opinion (OR); it is already a WP:SPS. WP:NOT#OR has more on this.

Again, thanks for the due diligence.

Best regards,

Codename Lisa (talk) 19:24, 12 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again, and thanks for the patient and detailed explanation. I have now put the fact back with this second, "better" source. Obviously, the two other wikis I have been active in follow lower standards, because I have never seen such a deep analysis of sources like the one you have just demonstrated, nor have I seen someone trying to reconstruct the thinking processes of a source's author while evaluating its credibility. Thank you for providing links to further reading on the policies valid at this wiki. Also, unlike you, I am not a subject matter expert and I am not native to the English-speaking world, so it's not that straightforward at all for me to tell the credibility of "winsupersite.com" and "apcmag.com" compared (they might easily be blogs both, if judging only by domain name and website design).

Most importantly, however, when including the number 13 statement and quoting winsupersite.com as source, I was just copying a piece of information that was already present (same fact, same source) in another article – which you have also been editing in the past – Microsoft Office 2010. Actually, it had been there, "unremarked" (until I replaced it today, following your judgement), for more than 5(!) years – although it used to say "presumably" for the first few months – and the supposition that 13.0 was skipped because of triskaidekaphobia has even been a part of the article from its very beginning (7 years).

I know that Wikipedia will never be perfect and that there are still things in it that should not be there, but I point to that edit history in order to further justify the good faith of my edit. Because, believe me, it really feels somewhat uncomfortable if you just copy a sourced sentence from one article to another (believing it ought to be there as well and that you can't break anything by doing so) but your edit gets reverted immediately and you are told that you have to choose your sources more wisely next time. I do not believe that you meant to hurt me, but it is getting more and more difficult for me to imagine how a newbie could make a useful edit (other than fixing a typo) if the level is set that high. But that'd be already for another discussion and English Wikipedia probably does not need to attract new contributors so badly as the Czech or Esperanto ones.

Anyway, I appreciate your care of the Microsoft related articles here and thank you for your willingness to discuss these "cultural differences" with me here. Regards, --Blahma (talk) 22:36, 12 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome. I remember having removed the sentence in Office 2010 article. But I don't know when it came back. (Or maybe the day that I removed it, my change wasn't saved. Well, hard to tell.)

But you said something that I think I must comment on: "Trying to reconstruct the thinking processes of a source's author" isn't what I did. It is a dangerous form of original research. I just asked two questions: What is the source? What is the source of the source? In case of APC, the second question's answer is: Allegedly, Jensen Harris. In case of Paul, however, the second question has no answer. But, yes, we did investigate about the credibility of Paul's website and how he gathers his information. Now, we do know that whenever he does not supply a source for himself, the information has come from himself.

Oh, and by the way, you don't need to put talkback notice in my talk page every time you reply here. Your reply appears on my watchlist.

Best regards,

Codename Lisa (talk) 03:55, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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I have "fixed" the link, but please see my comment for this edit. I am not knowledgeable enough about English idioms to dare adding "monkey business" as an alias into the lead paragraph of mischief, so the sentence in the disambiguation page making a relation of monkey business to mischief still remains the most explicit information that Wikipedia can provide. --Blahma (talk) 09:39, 8 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Dee Voon

Very nice investigation. DGG ( talk ) 08:58, 23 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I made this discovery using a dedicated algorithm to discover possible hoaxes that I had made for this purpose, being inspired by another recently discovered hoax. Following this discovery, I have assembled a small team of volunteers willing to check more suspected articles. Therefore, more discoveries may come soon. --Blahma (talk) 09:26, 23 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, that explains the 'we' in your prod. Keep up the good work - there's bound to be more out there still that have been overlooked for years, but are b***** obvious when the right eyes look at them... Peridon (talk) 12:47, 23 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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for your work on Morgan Dee Voon. An added point is that neither Morgan nor Dee are very likely names for a girl in Moravia at that time. Morgan is a Welsh name, and has only comparatively recently been used by females (apart from the legendary Morgan(a) le Fay), and Voon doesn't look right for that area either - possibly Dutch or Asian (Thailand, Indochina etc). Double e I don't associate with the languages of what is now the Czech Republic. And as you said, 'very little is known about...' is a killer. Why do they put that in, and emphasise the fact that nothing is known about it? Peridon (talk) 12:43, 23 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome and I am glad that you have found my discovery interesting. In my argumenting, I wanted to stick only to factual proofs, but linguistic assumptions definitely play a part too. I actually happen to live in Brno, Czech is my mother tongue and I am conversant in German. My guess is that "Dee" and "Voon" are puns on the noble ranks "de" and "von". "Morgan" might sound alike the German word "Morgen". --Blahma (talk) 12:51, 23 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have added the page to List of hoaxes on Wikipedia, where it ranks 11th by length of existence. It needs an administrator to properly archive the page using the instructions provided there. Could I ask you to do this, so the article's text is visible again for archival purposes? --Blahma (talk) 13:11, 23 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I hope I've done that right. I've also removed her from Talk:List of female scientists before the 21st century/missing articles which appears to be a list of articles to be added somewhere. Found it by accident while dredging up the hoax article. I've linked to the archived article in the table of hoaxes. BTW do you agree with my 'linguistic analysis' of the name? Peridon (talk) 17:17, 23 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for accepting the task. Please move the page to Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia/Morgan Dee Voon (remove the placeholder "HOAX TITLE/" that you have included in its current name), unprotect the old names and protect the correct ones. I agree with your reasoning on the etymology of the names. I have never heard of anyone called "Morgan" in Czech or Austrian context, particularly of the 19th century. --Blahma (talk) 19:43, 23 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Knew I'd get something wrong... Sorted. Protection seems to follow the move. I also reckoned she'd be 'Voonova' if it was a Czech or Moravian name, just as Pešek becomes Peškova and Navratil becomes Navratilova. (I have met a non-notable Navratil, and had the pleasure of meeting a definitely notable Pešek.) Peridon (talk) 20:30, 23 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

After the move now, everything seems OK. I have written up a short story about this discovery for my user page. You are right that in Czech she would be Voonová and that is also how I mock nickname her when talking about her fate to my peers these days. Just take notice of the accute diacritical mark that makes the last vowel sound longer; and that Czech identity actually covers both Bohemian (from Bohemia) and Moravian (from Moravia) and that only the first of the three is also a language. There has been a famous female tennis player called Navrátilová. As for my part, I did not know before that Morgan was of Welsh origin. --Blahma (talk) 22:16, 23 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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The Wikimedia Foundation is planning a global consultation about communication. The goal is to bring Wikimedians and wiki-minded people together to improve tools for communication.

We want all contributors to be able to talk to each other on the wikis, whatever their experience, their skills or their devices.

We are looking for input from as many different parts of the Wikimedia community as possible. It will come from multiple projects, in multiple languages, and with multiple perspectives.

We are currently planning the consultation. We need your help.

We need volunteers to help talk to their communities or user groups.

You can help by hosting a discussion at your wiki. Here's what to do:

1. First, sign up your group here.
2. Next, create a page (or a section on a Village pump, or an e-mail thread – whatever is natural for your group) to collect information from other people in your group. This is not a vote or decision-making discussion: we are just collecting feedback.
3. Then ask people what they think about communication processes. We want to hear stories and other information about how people communicate with each other on and off wiki. Please consider asking these five questions:
   1. When you want to discuss a topic with your community, what tools work for you, and what problems block you?
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   4. What do you wish you could do on talk pages, but can't due to the technical limitations?
   5. What are the important aspects of a "wiki discussion"?
4. Finally, please go to Talk pages consultation 2019 on Mediawiki.org and report what you learned from your group. Please include links if the discussion is available to the public.

You can also help build the list of the many different ways people talk to each other.

Not all groups active on wikis or around wikis use the same way to discuss things: it can happen on wiki, on social networks, through external tools... Tell us how your group communicates.

You can read more about the overall process on mediawiki.org. If you have questions or ideas, you can leave feedback about the consultation process in the language you prefer.

Thank you! We're looking forward to talking with you.

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Many administrators resign related to Fram case; Wikimedia Thailand to host Wikimania 2020.

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The Signpost: 28 December 2020

• News and notes: Year-end legal surprises cause concern, but Public Domain Day is imminent
  

New laws in the US and Europe might enable trolls; sad admin milestone for English Wikipedia, or not?

• In the media: Concealment, data journalism, a non-pig farmer, and some Bluetick Hounds
  

As 2020 draws to a close, this website has been splattered all over the headlines.

• Arbitration report: 2020 election results
  

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• Opinion: How to make your factory's safety and labor issues disappear
  

Edit wars fought on the back of workers.

• Featured content: Very nearly ringing in the New Year with "Blank Space" – but we got there in time.
  

Texas amphibia, mongeese, and Normandy invasion plans grateful.

• Traffic report: 2020 wraps up
  

Punks and heroes, losers and winners, the bereaved and the deceased – they're all here.

• News from the WMF: What Wikipedia saw during election week in the U.S., and what we’re doing next
  

No evidence of large-scale state-sponsored disinformation.

• Recent research: Predicting the next move in Wikipedia discussions
  

Six million talk page threads analyzed, and other research.

• Essay: Subjective importance
  

Is not important to notability.

• Op-Ed: An unforgettable year we might wish to forget
  

The year that was 2020.

• Gallery: Angels in the architecture
  

Spinning in infinity.

• Humour: 'Twas the Night Before Wikimas
  

And to all a good night!

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Editing news 2021 #1

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Reply tool

Completion rates for comments made with the Reply tool and full-page wikitext editing. Details and limitations are in this report.

The Reply tool is available at most other Wikipedias.

• The Reply tool has been deployed as an opt-out preference to all editors at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
• It is also available as a Beta Feature at almost all Wikipedias except for the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias. If it is not available at your wiki, you can request it by following these simple instructions.

Research notes:

• As of January 2021, more than 3,500 editors have used the Reply tool to post about 70,000 comments.
• There is preliminary data from the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedia on the Reply tool. Junior Contributors who use the Reply tool are more likely to publish the comments that they start writing than those who use full-page wikitext editing.[1]
• The Editing and Parsing teams have significantly reduced the number of edits that affect other parts of the page. About 0.3% of edits did this during the last month.[2] Some of the remaining changes are automatic corrections for Special:LintErrors.
• A large A/B test will start soon.[3] This is part of the process to offer the Reply tool to everyone. During this test, half of all editors at 24 Wikipedias (not including the English Wikipedia) will have the Reply tool automatically enabled, and half will not. Editors at those Wikipeedias can still turn it on or off for their own accounts in Special:Preferences.

New discussion tool

Screenshot of version 1.0 of the New Discussion Tool prototype.

The new tool for starting new discussions (new sections) will join the Discussion tools in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures at the end of January. You can try the tool for yourself.[4] You can leave feedback in this thread or on the talk page.

Next: Notifications

During Talk pages consultation 2019, editors said that it should be easier to know about new activity in conversations they are interested in. The Notifications project is just beginning. What would help you become aware of new comments? What's working with the current system? Which pages at your wiki should the team look at? Please post your advice at mw:Talk:Talk pages project/Notifications.

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The Signpost: 31 January 2021

• News and notes: 1,000,000,000 edits, board elections, virtual Wikimania 2021
  

Who else but Ser Amantio di Nicolao?

• Special report: Wiki reporting on the United States insurrection
  

From the Hill to the news to Wikipedia in minutes!

• In focus: From Anarchy to Wikiality, Glaring Bias to Good Cop: Press Coverage of Wikipedia's First Two Decades
  

A new "wiki journalism" is needed.

• Opinion: Wikipedia's war against scientific disinformation
  

Are we getting lead by the nose?

• In the media: The world's press says "Happy Birthday!" with a few twists
  

Even the world's richest man is happy we exist!

• Technology report: The people who built Wikipedia, technically
  

Starting with trust, expanding, controversy, and opportunities.

• Videos and podcasts: Celebrating 20 years
  

Multimedia in many styles!

• News from the WMF: Wikipedia celebrates 20 years of free, trusted information for the world
  

Happy birthday!

• Recent research: Students still have a better opinion of Wikipedia than teachers
  

And other new research results

• Humour: Dr. Seuss's Guide to Wikipedia
  

With a special appearance by Senator Ted Cruz!

• Featured content: New Year, same Featured Content report!
  

...Well, except we did change the articles and pictures out. ...Mostly.

• Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2020
  

The end of the world as we know it?

• Obituary: Flyer22 Frozen
  

RIP.

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The Signpost: 28 February 2021

• News and notes: Maher stepping down
  

UCC launch.

• Disinformation report: A "billionaire battle" on Wikipedia: Sex, lies, and video
  

Edits of the rich and famous.

• Opinion: The call for feedback on community seats is a distraction
  

Free as in Liberty.

• In the media: Corporate influence at OSM, Fox watching the hen house
  

Wikidata, Turkey, Valentine's Day and all sorts of bias!

• News from the WMF: Who tells your story on Wikipedia
  

You can!

• Recent research: Take an AI-generated flashcard quiz about Wikipedia; Wikipedia's anti-feudalism
  

And other new research publications

• Featured content: A Love of Knowledge, for Valentine's Day
  

Stealing your heart, and Charles Darwin's notebooks.

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Watching the Super Bowl at the Cecil?

• Gallery: What is Black history and culture?
  

In paintings, photos, and recordings.

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The Signpost: 28 March 2021

• News and notes: A future with a for-profit subsidiary?
  

Or becoming more business-like?

• Gallery: Wiki Loves Monuments
  

2020 international winners

• In the media: Wikimedia LLC and disinformation in Japan
  

Plus CPAC misinformation

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Telling women’s stories is a radical act.

• Recent research: 10%-30% of Wikipedia’s contributors have subject-matter expertise
  

And other recent research results

• From the archives: Google isn't responsible for Wikipedia's mistakes
  

Huge profits sustained by unpaid labor.

• Essay: Wikipedia:The Free Encyclopedia
  

As in "free software" and "free culture".

• Obituary: Yoninah
  

Barukh dayan ha-emet ("Blessed is the true judge.")

• From the editor: What else can we say?
  

What can we link to?

• Arbitration report: Open letter to the Board of Trustees
  

Let's do the UCoC right!

• Traffic report: Wanda, Meghan, Liz, Phil and Zack
  

Another royal bash!

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The Signpost: 25 April 2021

• From the editor: A change is gonna come
  

But not soon enough.

• Disinformation report: Paid editing by a former head of state's business enterprise
  

The Trump Organization's paid editors

• In the media: Fernando, governance, and rugby
  

Jimmy does OK too!

• Opinion: The (Universal) Code of Conduct
  

Explicit behavioral expectations are better than unwritten social norms

• Op-Ed: A Little Fun Goes A Long Way
  

Why do we work so hard to avoid having a sense of humor?

• Changing the world: The reach of protest images on Wikipedia
  

Wikipedia's retweet and share buttons

• Recent research: Quality of aquatic and anatomical articles
  

And other research publications

• Traffic report: The verdict is guilty, guilty, guilty
  

Plus Godzilla and Kong

• News from Wiki Education: Encouraging professional physicists to engage in outreach on Wikipedia
  

Even a Nobel laureate can learn more!

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The Signpost: 25 April 2021

• From the editor: A change is gonna come
  

But not soon enough.

• Disinformation report: Paid editing by a former head of state's business enterprise
  

The Trump Organization's paid editors

• In the media: Fernando, governance, and rugby
  

Jimmy does OK too!

• Opinion: The (Universal) Code of Conduct
  

Explicit behavioral expectations are better than unwritten social norms

• Op-Ed: A Little Fun Goes A Long Way
  

Why do we work so hard to avoid having a sense of humor?

• Changing the world: The reach of protest images on Wikipedia
  

Wikipedia's retweet and share buttons

• Recent research: Quality of aquatic and anatomical articles
  

And other research publications

• Traffic report: The verdict is guilty, guilty, guilty
  

Plus Godzilla and Kong

• News from Wiki Education: Encouraging professional physicists to engage in outreach on Wikipedia
  

Even a Nobel laureate can learn more!

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Editing news 2021 #2

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When newcomers had the Reply tool and tried to post on a talk page, they were more successful at posting a comment. (Source)

Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.

The key results were:

• Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were more likely to post a comment on a talk page.
• The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also less likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.

These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.

Looking ahead

The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.

The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.

You can turn on "Discussion Tools" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

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The Signpost: 27 June 2021

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Submit your candidacy today!

• In the media: Boris and Joe, reliability, love, and money
  

Will he hang it in the Oval Office?

• Disinformation report: Croatian Wikipedia: capture and release
  

Curious and curiouser!

• Recent research: Feminist critique of Wikipedia's epistemology, Black Americans vastly underrepresented among editors, Wiki Workshop report
  

Summaries of 26 new research publications

• Traffic report: So no one told you life was gonna be this way
  

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How do our readers find us?

• Humour: Wikipedia's best articles on the world's strangest things
  

It's the wheel thing.

• WikiProject report: WikiProject on open proxies interview
  

Interview with volunteers at WikiProject on open proxies

• Forum: Is WMF fundraising abusive?
  

A calm discussion.

• Discussion report: Reliability of WikiLeaks discussed
  

WikiLeaks on multiple boards.

• Obituary: SarahSV
  

Requiescat in pace.

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The Signpost: 25 July 2021

• News and notes: Wikimania and a million other news stories
  

And one new admin!

• Special report: Hardball in Hong Kong
  

Three strikes and you're out?

• In the media: Larry is at it again
  

Bias, propaganda and more murderous mistakes!

• Board of Trustees candidates: See the candidates
  

Watch the video!

• Recent research: Gender bias and statistical fallacies, disinformation and mutual intelligibility
  

And other recent research publications

• Traffic report: Football, tennis and marveling at Loki
  

But you can call it soccer if you'd like.

• News from the WMF: Uncapping our growth potential – interview with James Baldwin, Finance and Administration Department
  

Money, money, money.

• Humour: A little verse
  

Two poems of Wikipedia.

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The Signpost: 29 August 2021

• News and notes: Enough time left to vote! IP ban
  

Just do it!

• In the media: Vive la différence!
  

May Father Will forgive us!

• Wikimedians of the year: Seven Wikimedians of the year
  

With two musical celebrations!

• Gallery: Our community in 20 graphs
  

We just look at the pictures!

• News from Wiki Education: Changing the face of Wikipedia
  

Moving forward.

• Recent research: IP editors, inclusiveness and empathy, cyclones, and world heritage
  

A monthly overview of new research results.

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Days of the Year Interview
  

You can start with your birthday article!

• Traffic report: Olympics, movies, and Afghanistan
  

Winners and losers.

• Community view: Making Olympic history on Wikipedia
  

Higher, faster, stronger and more informative!

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The Signpost: 26 September 2021

• News and notes: New CEO, new board members, China bans
  

And one new admin!

• In the media: The future of Wikipedia
  

And a bit about the past.

• Opinion: Wikimedians of Mainland China were warned
  

But just disregarded the warnings.

• Op-Ed: I've been desysopped
  

But not banned!

• Disinformation report: Paid promotional paragraphs in German parliamentary pages
  

Did German Wikipedia love parliaments a little too much? Plus fake-bacon and a ponzi scheme.

• Discussion report: Editors discuss Wikipedia's vetting process for administrators
  

Emotional injury and rising standards against a backdrop of a dwindling sysop cadre: the 2021 Requests for adminship review grapples with tough issues.

• Recent research: Wikipedia images for machine learning; Experiment justifies Wikipedia's high search rankings
  

And other new research publications

• Community view: Is writing Wikipedia like making a quilt?
  

Help us piece together WikiProject Craft!

• Traffic report: Kanye, Emma Raducanu and 9/11
  

Or is it Donda, Leylah Fernandez, and Flight 93?

• News from Diff: Welcome to the first grantees of the Knowledge Equity Fund
  

$4.5 million for equity.

• WikiProject report: The Random and the Beautiful
  

An interview with members of the Random Page Patrol.

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The Signpost: 31 October 2021

• From the editor: Different stories, same place
  

What Wikipedians can and cannot do.

• News and notes: The sockpuppet who ran for adminship and almost succeeded
  

And will the last person to leave the C-Suite please turn off the lights?

• In the media: China bans, and is there intelligent life on this planet?
  

Beam me up, Scotty – Matt Amodio for sure, and maybe just a few VIPs, billionaires, and Tucker Carlson.

• Opinion: A photo on Wikipedia can ruin your life
  

Section 230 in practice – this Black life should matter to us.

• Discussion report: Editors brainstorm and propose changes to the Requests for adminship process
  

Proposals to solve eight core problems – what many describe as a broken process – identified in the 2021 RfA review.

• Recent research: Welcome messages fail to improve newbie retention
  

And other new research results

• Community view: Reflections on the Chinese Wikipedia
  

Were the bans justified?

• Traffic report: James Bond and the Giant Squid Game
  

Plus German elections and movies galore.

• Technology report: Wikimedia Toolhub, winners of the Coolest Tool Award, and more
  

Now discovering and accessing Wikimedia tools will be easier.

• Serendipity: How Wikipedia helped create a Serbian stamp
  

Details can make all the difference!

• Book review: Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality
  

Or you could watch the video!

• WikiProject report: Redirection
  

An interview with participants at WikiProject Redirect.

• Humour: A very Wiki crossword
  

24 clues to chew on.

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The Signpost: 29 November 2021

• In the media: Denial: climate change, mass killings and pornography
  

Will they deny non-fungible tokens next?

• WikiCup report: The WikiCup 2021
  

15th annual event closes with hundreds of articles improved

• Deletion report: What we lost, what we gained
  

1,767 nominations in November... AN/Is... DRVs... The largest AfD in history, possibly ever!

• From a Wikipedia reader: What's Matt Amodio?
  

Wikipedia democratizes knowledge, but is it in Jeopardy?

• Arbitration report: ArbCom in 2021
  

We should have at least one of these every year!

• Discussion report: On the brink of change – RFA reforms appear imminent
  

Editors propose modifications to Wikipedia's admin-making process.

• Technology report: What does it take to upload a file?
  

How MediaWiki works with media files.

• WikiProject report: Interview with contributors to WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers
  

From the silver screen to your computer screen

• Serendipity: "Did You Know ..." featured a photo of the wrong female WWII pilot
  

A worthy pilot but the photo didn't match the article!

• News from Diff: Content translation tool helps create one million Wikipedia articles
  

Sharing the wealth of information!

• Traffic report: Reporting ticket sales on the edge of the Wiki, if Eternals should fail
  

Conjuring up the jesters again!

• Recent research: Vandalizing Wikipedia as rational behavior
  

And other recent research publications

• Humour: A very new very Wiki crossword
  

Answers to last month's puzzle included.

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The Signpost: 28 December 2021

• From the editor: Here is the news
  

And wishing our readers a healthy, fortunate and bountiful 2022.

• News and notes: Jimbo's NFT, new arbs, fixing RfA, and financial statements
  

Wrapping up 2021 with a pair of auctions, activity surrounding administrators, and an audit.

• Serendipity: Born three months before her brother?
  

Wikipedia and the Oxford Dictionary of Music have different opinions.

• In the media: The past is not even past
  

Even for Wikipedia critics in nappies!

• Recent research: STEM articles judged unsuitable for undergraduates below the first paragraph
  

And other new research results.

• Arbitration report: A new crew for '22
  

Elections certified, bans unlifted, mailing lists restricted, but no new cases.

• By the numbers: Four billion words and a few numbers
  

Commemorating a milestone: word count comparisons with other Wikipedias.

• Deletion report: We laughed, we cried, we closed as "no consensus"
  

More hats than a rodeo: the best, worst, and gnarliest AfDs of 2021.

• Gallery: Wikicommons presents: 2021
  

Some of 2021's most dramatic moments through Wikicommons images.

• Traffic report: Spider-Man, football and the departed
  

We'll always remember the Greek alphabet!

• Crossword: Another Wiki crossword for one and all
  

Answers to last month's puzzle included.

• Humour: Buying Wikipedia
  

Helpful how-to for the prospective buyer. Why settle for a measly single edit, when you can buy the whole thing?

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The Signpost: 30 January 2022

• Special report: WikiEd course leads to Twitter harassment
  

Education, deletion and social media can be a volatile mix.

• News and notes: Feedback for Board of Trustees election
  

Plus, the incredible shrinking admin cadre.

• Interview: CEO Maryana Iskander "four weeks in"
  

"Impossible ideas can be created, not just imagined."

• Black History Month: What are you doing for Black History Month?
  

Over 1,700 U.S. congressmen owned slaves. You can help document this.

• Deletion report: Ringing in the new year: Subject notability guideline under discussion
  

More than you wanted to know about the massive NSPORTS RfC.

• WikiProject report: The Forgotten Featured
  

Interview with volunteers at the Unreviewed featured articles 2020 working group.

• Arbitration report: New arbitrators look at new case and antediluvian sanctions
  

The spirit of 2006 is going strong.

• Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2021
  

Royals, Freddy and movies.

• Gallery: No Spanish municipality without a photograph
  

How many more photos are needed?

• Obituary: Twofingered Typist
  

Rest in peace.

• Op-Ed: Identifying and rooting out climate change denial
  

Will this method apply to other sensitive topics?

• Essay: The prime directive
  

Just imagine!

• Opinion: Should the Wikimedia Foundation continue to accept cryptocurrency donations?
  

One editor doesn't think so.

• In the media: Fuzzy-headed government editing
  

Get down and party! But no COI editing!

• Recent research: Articles with higher quality ratings have fewer "knowledge gaps"
  

And other research results.

• Serendipity: Pooh entered the Public Domain – but Tigger has to wait two more years
  

Copyright is almost always complicated, but we break it down for you.

• Crossword: Cross swords with a crossword
  

Featuring an experimental on-wiki entry box.

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Writing Wikipedia, joining the armed forces, and volunteering.

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"Our proud Sparta bleeds too."

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We showcase the best content that Wikipedians offered this past month.

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A multi-national encyclopedia tries to move forward.

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A varied collection of "special operations", and interviews.

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Tales of hope, perseverance and even a little humor.

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Editing newsletter 2022 – #1

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New editors were more successful with this new tool.

The New topic tool helps editors create new ==Sections== on discussion pages. New editors are more successful with this new tool. You can read the report. Soon, the Editing team will offer this to all editors at most WMF-hosted wikis. You can join the discussion about this tool for the English Wikipedia is at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Enabling the New Topic Tool by default. You will be able to turn it off in the tool or at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

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The Signpost: 26 June 2022

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Office actions to secretly delete stuff when told to? Well, at least not if they're Putin's.

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Belarusian Mark Bernstein to serve 36 months of "home chemistry" for unapproved posting, Slate covers historically large adminship bid, UBI economist with goofy infobox caption thinks it's funny.

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A review of Wikipedia's fundraising messages and financial status.

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Famed FP ace steps up to run main page outfit. Millions tremble in fear, or something.

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IGNORANCE IS NOT STRENGTH.

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Editing news 2022 #2

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• Essay: Delete the junk!
  

Some articles aren't worth saving

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Edinburgh in August.

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Candidates sign off and peel out – Sigalov is on and Peel is in.

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Was Katherine Maher a former encyclopedia salesperson?

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I can has Kremlin sockfarms?

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• Interview: Isabelle Belato on their Request for Adminship
  

The newest sysop speaks on the process that got them there.

• Featured content: Topics, lists, submarines and Gurl.com
  

Featured content from October.

• Serendipity: We all make mistakes – don’t we?
  

The strength of Wikipedia is the peer review afterwards.

• Traffic report: Mama, they're in love with a criminal
  

More serial killers than you can shake a stick at!

• From the archives: Paid advocacy, a lawsuit over spelling mistakes, deleting Jimbo's article, and the death of Toolserver
  

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The Signpost: 28 November 2022

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Joe Roe's close sows dough woes, manifestos... vetoes? overthrows?

• In the media: "The most beautiful story on the Internet"
  

Ineffective altruism, return of the toaster, Jess Wade keeps wading through it, Russia censors searches, schools embrace Wikipedia.

• Interview: Lisa Seitz-Gruwell on WMF fundraising in the wake of big banner ad RfC
  

An interview with Wikimedia's Chief Advancement Officer.

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Facebook's Galactica demo provides a case study in large language models for text generation at scale: this one was silly, but we cannot ignore them forever.

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• Special report: Coverage of 2022 bans reveals editors serving long sentences in Saudi Arabia since 2020
  

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UCoC draws nearer, alongside the rise of the machines, in mainspace this time.

• In the media: Court orders user data in libel case, Saudi Wikipedia in the crosshairs, Larry Sanger at it again
  

Wikipedia's birthday, a cute dog, and nipplefruit.

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Debunking widely-told myths about New York's grandest and centralest railway station.

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The economics of Wikipedia.

• Gallery: What is our responsibility when it comes to images?
  

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• Humour: New geologically speedy deletion criteria introduced
  

7,000,000-year Landmasses for Subduction discussions considered "too long".

• Opinion: Good old days, in which fifth-symbol-lacking lipograms roam'd our librarious litany
  

Allow us to bring you back, back, back, to days of Wikifun rampant.

• Featured content: Flip your lid
  

...and your ambigram. Also: Boring lava fields, birds of Tuvalu, and commelinid family names with etymologies.

• Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2022
  

War, sports, and all types of chaos.

• From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
  

The editor with five million edits, the death of Aaron Swartz, and rollback.

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The Signpost: 4 February 2023

• From the editor: New for the Signpost: Author pages, tag pages, and a decent article search function
  

Last issue's vow for "something to show for these efforts" revisited.

• News and notes: Foundation update on fundraising, new page patrol, Tides, and Wikipedia blocked in Pakistan
  

As well as the continued rise of the machines, and Amanda Keton's WMF departure.

• Section 230: Twenty-six words that created the internet, and the future of an encyclopedia
  

Section 230 before the Supreme Court in two cases, with broad implications for the web.

• Disinformation report: Wikipedia on Santos
  

Or Santos on Wikipedia?

• Special report: Legal status of Wikimedia projects "unclear" under potential European legislation
  

WMF issues salvo in latest battles of the Posting Wars

• In the media: Furor over new Wikipedia skin, followup on Saudi bans, and legislative debate
  

The good, the bad, and the ugly.

• Op-Ed: Estonian businessman and political donor brings lawsuit against head of national Wikimedia chapter
  

Isamaa party sponsor Parvel Pruunsild files claim in Tartu County Court against WMEE head Ivo Kruusamägi and Reform Party politicians.

• Opinion: Study examines cultural leanings of Wikimedia projects' visual art coverage
  

English Wikipedia among most "global" and Thai Wikipedia's among most "Western", but non-Western works neglected overall.

• Recent research: Wikipedia's "moderate yet systematic" liberal citation bias
  

And other new research publications.

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Organized Labour
  

An interview with those who pitch in together

• Tips and tricks: XTools: Data analytics for your list of created articles
  

Letting you find out about yourself (and others).

• Featured content: 20,000 Featureds under the Sea
  

An exceptionally good period for featured articles.

• Traffic report: Films, deaths and ChatGPT
  

Can we have a chat?

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The Signpost: 20 February 2023

• News and notes: Terms of Use update, Steward elections, and Wikipedia back in Pakistan
  

UCoC Enforcement Guidelines pass, Wikimedia Enterprise financials, GPTs gone wild, and a speedy deletion criterion removed.

• In the media: Arbitrators open case after article alleges Wikipedia "intentionally distorts" Holocaust coverage
  

Also: Russ Baker's BLP, the digital commons, the NSA, and more on Pakistan.

• Disinformation report: The "largest con in corporate history"?
  

Gautam Adani and his companies possibly behind scheme featuring scores of socks, infiltration of articles for creation process.

• Essay: Machine-written articles: a new challenge for Wikipedia
  

GPT: friend or foe?

• Tips and tricks: All about writing at DYK
  

Your one-stop hooker's handbook.

• Featured content: Eden, lost.
  

But much else to be found.

• Gallery: Love is in the air
  

Lovey-dovey stuff for Valentine's.

• Traffic report: Superbowl? Pfft. Give me some Bollywood! Yours sincerely, the world
  

And maybe a side of AI.

• From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 years ago: Let's (not) delete the Main Page!
  

Also: let's delete images of Muhammed! Let's delete portals!

• Cobwebs: Editorial: The loss of the moral high ground
  

Yesterday's controversies, reported on today.

• Humour: The RfA Candidate's Song
  

A musical interlude.

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Editing news 2023 #1

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This newsletter includes two key updates about the Editing team's work:

1. The Editing team will finish adding new features to the Talk pages project and deploy it.
2. They are beginning a new project, Edit check.

Talk pages project

Some of the upcoming changes

The Editing team is nearly finished with this first phase of the Talk pages project. Nearly all new features are available now in the Beta Feature for Discussion tools.

It will show information about how active a discussion is, such as the date of the most recent comment. There will soon be a new "Add topic" button. You will be able to turn them off at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion. Please tell them what you think.

Daily edit completion rate by test group: DiscussionTools (test group) and MobileFrontend overlay (control group)

An A/B test for Discussion tools on the mobile site has finished. Editors were more successful with Discussion tools. The Editing team is enabling these features for all editors on the mobile site.

New Project: Edit Check

The Editing team is beginning a project to help new editors of Wikipedia. It will help people identify some problems before they click "Publish changes". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Please watch that page for more information. You can join a conference call on 3 March 2023 to learn more.

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The Signpost: 9 March 2023

• News and notes: What's going on with the Wikimedia Endowment?
  

A lack of transparency.

• Technology report: Second flight of the Soviet space bears: Testing ChatGPT's accuracy
  

Using failed AI Galactica's worst mistakes to test a new AI.

• In the media: What should Wikipedia do? Publish Russian propaganda? Be less woke? Cover the Holocaust in Poland differently?
  

Probable answers: No, no, maybe?

• Featured content: In which over two-thirds of the featured articles section needs to be copied over to WikiProject Military History's newsletter
  

Seriously, even the chef has a major military history connection.

• Recent research: "Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the Holocaust" in Poland and "self-focus bias" in coverage of global events
  

And other new research publications.

• From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
  

Wikizine, Wikipedia Zero, Single User Login, and Wales allegedly editing his girlfriend's article.

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The Signpost: 20 March 2023

• News and notes: Wikimania submissions deadline looms, Russian government after our lucky charms, AI woes nix CNET from RS slate
  

Be part of the Wikimania 2023 program!

• Eyewitness: Three more stories from Ukrainian Wikimedians
  

One year in: volunteering, science, art, and candlelight.

• In the media: Paid editing, plagiarism payouts, proponents of a ploy, and people peeved at perceived preferences
  

Everything is broken, again.

• Featured content: Way too many featured articles
  

Seriously, it's only a fortnight's worth!

• Interview: 228/2/1: the inside scoop on Aoidh's RfA
  

An interview with Wikipedia's newest admin.

• Traffic report: Who died? Who won? Who lost?
  

All the pop culture that's fit to print, with a sprinkling of cocaine (bear).

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The Signpost: 03 April 2023

• From the editor: Some long-overdue retractions
  

Errata regretted.

• News and notes: Sounding out, a universal code of conduct, and dealing with AI
  

Skynet believed to be in violation of the new Universal Code of Conduct.

• In the media: Twiddling Wikipedia during an online contest, and other news
  

Taking the phrase "gaming the system" to the next level.

• Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" case is ongoing
  

Desysop case request still in accept/decline phase.

• Featured content: Hail, poetry! Thou heav'n-born maid
  

Thou gildest e'en the Signpost's trade.

• Recent research: Language bias: Wikipedia captures at least the "silhouette of the elephant", unlike ChatGPT
  

And a dataset of article revisions to provide a corpus for promotional content.

• From the archives: April Fools' through the ages
  

A retrospective of the best and worst pranks.

• Disinformation report: Sus socks support suits, seems systemic
  

Do important banks sock? Maybe – but don't grab your money and run just yet!

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Czech dictionaries

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Estonian dictionaries

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The Signpost: 26 April 2023

• News and notes: Staff departures at Wikimedia Foundation, Jimbo hands in the bits, and graphs' zeppelin burns
  

Plus: Wikipedians get own Mastodon account, and Wikiprojects move to uniform quality assessment.

• In the media: Contested truth claims in Wikipedia
  

Covering Russia, Poland, the Vatican, the U.S., and the "perilously thin" boundary between real life and Wikipedia.

• Obituary: Remembering David "DGG" Goodman
  

The prolific editor, former Arbitration Committee member and co-founder of Wikimedia New York City died in April.

• Arbitration report: Holocaust in Poland, Jimbo in the hot seat, and a desysopping
  

No news is good news, and this isn't no news.

• Opinion: What Jimbo's question revealed about scamming
  

The problem we haven't solved.

• Op-Ed: Wikipedia as an anchor of truth
  

Can Wikipedia help keep AI agents honest?

• Special report: Signpost statistics between years 2005 and 2022
  

In this article, we will look at The Signpost statistics. More precisely: Signpost article statistics by year, TOP 20 titles of Signpost articles, TOP 20 article authors, and the home wikis of article authors.

• News from the WMF: Collective planning with the Wikimedia Foundation
  

First of a two part series summarising the priorities for the Wikimedia Foundation's next fiscal year (July 2022–June 2023) including staffing, budget and other changes, and how to provide your feedback.

• Featured content: In which we described the featured articles in rhyme again
  

And somehow made it more readable than when it's not rhyming.

• From the archives: April Fools' through the ages, part two
  

2011 and on.

• Humour: The law of hats
  

The Selfish Hatnote, the Disambiguation Singularity, and other information-theoretic conundra of encyclopedic note.

• Traffic report: Long live machine, the future supreme
  

Wrestling bumps world-changing technology from the #1 spot, imagine that.

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The Signpost: 8 May 2023

• News and notes: New legal "deVLOPments" in the EU
  

... and at WP:Mastodon.

• In the media: Vivek's smelly socks, online safety, and politics
  

Fake fines, false alarms and faux headlines!

• Recent research: Gender, race and notability in deletion discussions
  

And other new research publications.

• 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!
  

...Layout lovers will hate this featured content's title.

• Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" approaches conclusion
  

There will likely be more to say next issue.

• News from the WMF: Planning together with the Wikimedia Foundation
  

The second article in a series describing the priorities and work of the Wikimedia Foundation. The article invites Wikimedians to collaborate with the Foundation.

• Special report: There Shall Be Seasons Refreshing – Stories from WikiConference India 2023
  

First national-level conference in the Indian subcontinent in seven years.

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The Signpost: 22 May 2023

• News and notes: Golden parachutes: Record severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation
  

... and a referendum on Jimmy Wales' traditional role as a final court of appeal in arbitration policy.

• In the media: History, propaganda and censorship
  

Opposing scholars on ArbCom case.

• Arbitration report: Final decision in "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland"
  

Includes stronger sourcing restriction, and a nod to the UCoC.

• Recent research: Create or curate, cooperate or compete? Game theory for Wikipedia editors
  

And other new research results.

• Featured content: A very musical week for featured articles
  

Bird is the word for featured pictures.

• Traffic report: Coronation, chatbot, celebs
  

Celebs and Bollywood film dominated reader interest, as usual, but with a new persistent presence on the lists of a certain AI.

• WikiProject report: Wikipedians Convene for Queering Wikipedia 2023: The First International LGBT+ Wikipedia Conference
  

An online conference with 12 distributed trans-local in-person meetup "Nodes" on 5 continents.

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The Signpost: 5 June 2023

• News and notes: WMRU director forks new 'pedia, birds flap in top '22 piccy, WMF weighs in on Indian gov's map axe plea
  

Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Building Committee Commences Command By Convening.

• In the media: Section 230 stands tall, WP vs. UK bill, Miss Information dissed again
  

Also: Goog gets delist ask for en-wp yt-dl ar-ticle, wacky football fails.

• Featured content: Poetry under pressure
  

Now is not this ridiculous, and is not this preposterous? A thorough-paced absurdity - explain it if you can.

• Traffic report: Celebs, controversies and a chatbot in the public eye
  

Plus mortalities, and movies about mermaids.

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The Signpost: 19 June 2023

• News and notes: WMF Terms of Use now in force, new Creative Commons licensing
  

Problems with emergency emails sent to WMF.

• In the media: English WP editor glocked after BLP row on Italian 'pedia
  

... and an AI writer explains why he just bought a paper encyc.

• Featured content: Content, featured
  

Poetry still present.

• Recent research: Hoaxers prefer currently-popular topics
  

And other new research findings.

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The Signpost: 3 July 2023

• News and notes: Online Safety Bill: Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia UK launch open letter
  

... and a new Elections Committee.

• Disinformation report: Imploded submersible outfit foiled trying to sing own praises on Wikipedia
  

A few editors who fought many times to keep advertisements out.

• In the media: Journo proposes mass Wiki dox, sponsored articles on Fandom, Section 230 discussed
  

Are you now, or have you ever been, a Wikipedia editor?

• Featured content: Incensed
  

In which featured pictures have a pleasing orange/blue colour scheme for some reason.

• Traffic report: Are you afraid of spiders? Arnold? The Idol? ChatGPT?
  

Don't worry, they are mostly harmless.

• Humour: United Nations dispatches peacekeeping force to Wikipedia policy discussions
  

Mission to ensure stability in conflict-ridden area.

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The Signpost: 17 July 2023

• News and notes: Big bux hidden beneath wine-dark sea as we wait for the Tides to go out?
  

Gitz666 unglocked, Wikimania scholarships given and a new admin anointed.

• In the media: Tentacles of Emirates plot attempt to ensnare Wikipedia
  

Ruwiki on the Ruinternet, Rauwerda on TEDx, and Jimbo on Fridman.

• Obituary: David Thomsen (Dthomsen8) and Ingo Koll (Kipala)
  

Philadelphians and Tanzanians say goodbye.

• News from the WMF: ABC for Fundraising: Advancing Banner Collaboration for fundraising campaigns
  

The collaboration process for the 2023 English fundraising campaign is kicking off now, right from the start of the fiscal year.

• In focus: Are the children of celebrities over-represented in French cinema?
  

Wikidata queries investigate nepo babies.

• Tips and tricks: What automation can do for you (and your WikiProject)
  

A summary of various tools designed over the years.

• Recent research: Wikipedia-grounded chatbot "outperforms all baselines" on factual accuracy
  

And various other research on large language models and Wikipedia.

• Humour: New fringe theories to be introduced
  

Bold move intended to "get some variety" into Wikipedia arguments.

• Cobwebs: If you're reading this, you're probably on a desktop
  

The annual report that tries to understand the Signpost through data, written in 2020, which never saw the light of day until now.

• Featured content: Scrollin', scrollin', scrollin', keep those readers scrollin', got to keep on scrollin', Rawhide!
  

In which choices have been made™.

• Traffic report: The Idol becomes the Master
  

Sex, drugs and violence, English, math and science.

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The Signpost: 1 August 2023

• News and notes: City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians, Ruwiki founder banned, WMF launches Mastodon server
  

And French gov't proposes legislation to slam Wikipedia, others.

• In the media: Truth, AI, bull from politicians, and climate change
  

Or just another brouhaha?

• Disinformation report: Hot climate, hot hit, hot money, hot news hot off the presses!
  

Hot damn, it's damned hot!

• Obituary: Donald Cram, Peter McCawley, and Eagleash
  

Three editors have departed.

• Tips and tricks: Citation tools for dummies!
  

You don't really want to do this stuff by yourself, do you?

• Humour: Does Wikipedia present neutral perspectives?
  

A serious visual investigation.

• In focus: Journals cited by Wikipedia
  

A compilation of over 3M citations.

• Opinion: Are global bans the last step?
  

Possible solutions after being re-harassed.

• Featured content: Featured Content, 1 to 15 July
  

Due to unfortunate events, this issue is published as is, in its unfinished state.

• Traffic report: Come on Oppie, let's go party
  

Oppenheimer, Barbie, and a couple other scandals.

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The Signpost: 15 August 2023

• News and notes: Dude, Where's My Donations? Wikimedia Foundation announces another million in grants for non-Wikimedia-related projects
  

Jimbo promises more transparency, Wikimania in Singapore, move away from Tides still planned, and Wikifunctions rolls out.

• In the media: An accusation of bias from Brazil, a lawsuit from Portugal, plagiarism from Florida
  

Harsh words from problematic fave Glenn Greenwald.

• In focus: 2023 Good Article Nomination drive is underway: get your barnstars here!
  

Rigorous Review of Content for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Wikipedia.

• Special report: Thirteen years later, why are most administrators still from 2005?
  

Damn kids need to get off our lawn and onto RfA.

• Tips and tricks: How to find images for your articles, check their copyright, upload them, and restore them
  

Because one gets some secondary skills when one has 645 featured pictures.

• Cobwebs: Getting serious about writing
  

The innards of the Signpost received a major overhaul in March/April 2019. Here's how we reduced behind-the-scenes busywork and improved writers resources.

• Opinion: Copyright trolls, or the last beautiful free souls on this planet?
  

For whom does the Creative Commons enforcement clause toll?

• Serendipity: Why I stopped taking photographs almost altogether
  

An announcement of 335,000 new images on Wikimedia Commons.

• Featured content: Barbenheimer confirmed
  

Some improvement on last week.

• Humour: Arbitration Committee to accept case against Right Honorable Frimbley Cantingham, 15th Viscount Bellington-upon-Porkshire
  

Case request cited misuse of tools by administrator who last used tools in 1661.

• Traffic report: 'Cause today it just goes with the fashion
  

Barbenheimer, Pee-Wee Herman and the Women's World Cup.

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The Signpost: 31 August 2023

• From the editor: Beta version of signpost.news now online
  

News for the editoriat. Stuff that matters.

• News and notes: You like RecentChanges?
  

Wikipedia really comes into its own, editorially and artistically.

• In the media: Taking it sleazy
  

"Poli", which means "many", and "tics", which means "under-the-table Wikipedia article whitewashing campaigns".

• Recent research: The five barriers that impede "stitching" collaboration between Commons and Wikipedia
  

And other recent research publications.

• Draftspace: Bad Jokes and Other Draftspace Novelties
  

The good, the bad, and the nonsense.

• Humour: The Dehumourification Plan
  

A message from the Counter-Fun Unit.

• Traffic report: Raise your drinking glass, here's to yesterday
  

I just poured HOT GRITS down my pants ohh yeah

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The Signpost: 16 September 2023

• News and notes: Wikimedia power sharing – just an advisory role for the volunteer community?
  

Plus: Africa news, funding report, U4C draft, roads fork and another ChatGPT block.

• In the media: "Just flirting", going Dutch and Shapps for the defence?
  

Plus a new judge, an "unimportant" record, and staying in the swim!

• Obituary: Nosebagbear
  

A Wikipedian and a friend.

• 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
  

Non-flammable, BPA-free, and really whips the llama's ass.

• Featured content: Catching up
  

Covering all of August. Pretty much.

• Concept: Strange portal opened by CERN researchers brings Wikipedia articles from "other worlds"
  

The Signpost brings you the latest from the source.

• Traffic report: Some of it's magic, some of it's tragic
  

Sports, film and singers. We've got it all!

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The Signpost: 3 October 2023

• News and notes: Wikimedia Endowment financial statement published
  

Finances during Tides Foundation management of the endowment are shown for the first time.

• In the media: History is written by whoever can harness the most editors
  

Plus Harvard, Yale, Lords and Commons, partners and trolls!

• Recent research: Readers prefer ChatGPT over Wikipedia; concerns about limiting "anyone can edit" principle "may be overstated"
  

And other new research publications

• Featured content: By your logic,
  

The first issue to feature two poetry article

• Concept: Wikipedia policies from other worlds: WP:NOANTLERS
  

Material must be written with the greatest care and attention; the level of detail and commentary regarding the antlers of living persons is to be kept to a minimum.

• Poetry: "The Sight"
  

Tamzin reflects on the hunt.

• Traffic report: There shall be no slaves in the land of lands, it's a Bollywood jam
  

Taylor Swift with an NFL tight end and Lauren Boebert with a Democrat?

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The Signpost: 23 October 2023

• News and notes: Where have all the administrators gone?
  

Long time passing

• In the media: Thirst traps, the fastest loading sites on the web, and the original collaborative writing
  

Also: High fives, Wikipedia as a guide for counterfeiters and crossword makers, and Iskander at the UN.

• Gallery: Before and After: Why you don't need to know how to restore images to make massive improvements
  

The benefits of research.

• Featured content: Yo, ho! Blow the man down!
  

These titles never make much sense even at the best of times, so why not be random?

• Traffic report: The calm and the storm
  

They are still fighting.

• News from Diff: Sawtpedia: Giving a Voice to Wikipedia Using QR Codes
  

Sounds good!

• Humour: New citation template introduced for divine revelations, drug use, and really thinking about it
  

"Cite altered state" to join the distinguished ranks of CS1 templates

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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
  

"Is this an ArbCom case request or an M. Night Shyamalan movie?"

• In the media: UK shadow chancellor accused of ripping off WP articles for book, Wikipedians accused of being dicks by a rich man
  

Plus Gaza bias, Speaker Johnson, Maher, the music of websites, and antisemitism.

• News and notes: Board candidacy process posted, editors protest WMF privacy measure, sweet meetups
  

And three new admins!

• Opinion: An open letter to Elon Musk
  

You should learn some of our rules!

• WikiCup report: The WikiCup 2023
  

The winner is...

• News from Wiki Ed: Equity lists on Wikipedia
  

Do you ever wonder where Wikipedia articles come from?

• Recent research: How English Wikipedia drove out fringe editors over two decades
  

And other new research findings.

• Featured content: Like putting a golf course in a historic site.
  

Only literally.

• Wikidata: Evaluating qualitative systemic bias in large article sets on Wikipedia
  

A systematic approach.

• Traffic report: Cricket jumpscare
  

Plus Kollywood, Killers of the Flower Moon, and ongoing war.

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The Signpost: 20 November 2023

• In the media: Propaganda and photos, lunatics and a lunar backup
  

Comic-con, Media summit, and a classic!

• News and notes: Update on Wikimedia's financial health
  

Plus: Sockpuppet investigators asking for help.

• Traffic report: If it bleeds, it leads
  

Or if it's Indian sport or cinema.

• Recent research: Canceling disputes as the real function of ArbCom
  

And other new research findings.

• Wikimania: Wikimania 2024 scholarships
  

Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2024 are now open!

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The Signpost: 4 December 2023

• News and notes: Beeblebrox ejected from Arbitration Committee following posts on Wikipediocracy
  

Just as his term was ending!

• In the media: Turmoil on Hebrew Wikipedia, grave dancing, Olga's impact and inspiring Bhutanese nuns
  

Plus Apple Pay, fiction, registration, expulsion, and elimination!

• Disinformation report: "Wikipedia and the assault on history"
  

An analysis of a literary mystery.

• In focus: Tens of thousands of freely available sources flagged
  

Continuing years of efforts to improve free-to-read access.

• Comix: Bold comics for a new age
  

"I think we ought to read only the kind of comics that wound or stab us. If the comic we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for?" — Franz Kafka

• Essay: I am going to die
  

And so are you.

• Featured content: Real gangsters move in silence
  

Quite literally, and other fascinating featured articles, pictures and lists

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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?
  

Wikipedia article histories are public records that can be easily examined, so unlike other websites, we can answer this question thoroughly.

• News and notes: The Italian Public Domain wars continue, Wikimedia RU set to dissolve, and a recap of WLM 2023
  

Not the best of times for Wikipedians across the world, but there are still glimpses of hope...

• In the media: Consider the humble fork
  

Forky on forky on forky, plus a strange donation scheme and other interesting bits of news.

• Discussion report: Arabic Wikipedia blackout; Wikimedians discuss SpongeBob, copyrights, and AI
  

Wiki goes dark and adopts Palestine flag logo; intellectual property rumblings from the bowels of the law.

• In focus: Liquidation of Wikimedia RU
  

Wikimedia Russia closes after founder is declared a "foreign agent".

• Technology report: Dark mode is coming
  

No more must Wikipedia always be a lightbulb in the dark — except metaphorically of course.

• Recent research: "LLMs Know More, Hallucinate Less" with Wikidata
  

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• Gallery: A feast of holidays and carols
  

Peace on earth, goodwill to all!

• Comix: Lollus lmaois 200C tincture
  

the dilution makes it stronger.

• Crossword: when the crossword is sus
  

The Signpost Crossword is a 2018 online multiplayer social deduction game that takes place in space-themed settings where players are colorful, armless cartoon astronauts.

• Traffic report: What's the big deal? I'm an animal!
  

Bollywood, Hollywood, and both kinds of football to close out December.

• From the editor: A piccy iz worth OVAR 9000!!!11oneone! wordz ^_^
  

The debugging will continue until performance improves.

• Apocrypha: Local editor discovered 1,380 lost subheadings in ancient Signpost scrolls. And what he found was shocking.
  

Heartwarming — MUST READ — You Won't BELIEVE #4!!!!!

• Humour: Guess the joke contest
  

Winner receives a special prize!

• BJAODN: Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense
  

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The Signpost: 10 January 2024

• From the editor: NINETEEN MORE YEARS! NINETEEN MORE YEARS!
  

The Signpost can now drink beer and chant slogans in Canada. What slogans should we chant for the next nineteen years?

• Special report: Public Domain Day 2024
  

Mickey & You: What can you do?

• Technology report: Wikipedia: A Multigenerational Pursuit
  

A techie looks at the big questions.

• News and notes: In other news ... see ya in court!
  

Let the games begin! The 2024 WikiCup is off to a strong start. With copyright enforcement, AI training and freedom of expression, it's another typical week in the wiki-sphere!

• In focus: The long road of a featured article candidate
  

The first of two installments, regarding a process of many installments.

• In the media: What is plagiarism? Oklahoma Disneyland? Reaching a human being at Wikipedia?
  

Watch out for those space ships!

• WikiProject report: WikiProjects Israel and Palestine
  

What are the editorial processes behind covering some of the most politically polarizing and contentious topics on English Wikipedia?

• Obituary: Anthony Bradbury
  

Rest in peace.

• Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2023
  

Around the world in 365 days (with many stops in India).

• Crossword: everybody gangsta till the style sheets start cascading
  

The good news is that I've perfected the templates that allow other people to make actually good crosswords.

• Comix: Conflict resolution
  

Getting down to brass tacks &c.

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The Signpost: 31 January 2024

• News and notes: Wikipedian Osama Khalid celebrated his 30th birthday in jail
  

Plus WMF child rights impact assessment, Chinese Wikipedia changes admin rules

• Opinion: Until it happens to you
  

A stream of consciousness about plagiarism on Wikipedia from the perspective of a user who directly witnessed it.

• Disinformation report: How paid editors squeeze you dry
  

And how you can stop them!

• In the media: Katherine Maher new NPR CEO, go check Wikipedia, race in the race
  

Another wobble, more Ackman, our usual pathological optimist, and football in dirty pants!

• In focus: The long road of a featured article candidate, part 2
  

Everything you really wanted to know about writing featured articles.

• Recent research: Croatian takeover was enabled by "lack of bureaucratic openness and rules constraining [admins]"
  

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• Comix: We've all got to start somewhere
  

Writing a good subheading for a one-sentence joke is basically like writing an entire second joke so I'm not going to do it.

• Traffic report: DJ, gonna burn this goddamn house right down
  

Job changes, death, sex, murder, suicide and a vacation!

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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
  

"the exact extent of the obligations" unclear... many such cases!

• Disinformation report: How low can the scammers go?
  

Lower, trust me!

• Gallery: Before and After: Why you don't need to touch grass to dramatically improve images of flora and fauna
  

Finding the right bumblebee among all the bumblebees!

• In the media: Speaking in tongues, toeing the line, and dressing the part
  

The usual odd articles about Wikipedia.

• Serendipity: Is this guy the same as the one who was a Nazi?
  

The hunt for Bertil Ragnar Anzén.

• Traffic report: Griselda, Nikki, Carl, Jannik and two types of football
  

Plus films, Grammys and a rumble!

• Crossword: Our crossword to bear
  

&c.

• Comix: Strongly
  

That's more than weakly!

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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"
  

Plus, the U4C Charter keeps planting seeds, the RfA process is set to become more sustainable, and more news from the Wikimedia ecosystem.

• Recent research: Images on Wikipedia "amplify gender bias"
  

And other new findings

• In the media: The Scottish Parliament gets involved, a wikirace on live TV, and the Foundation's CTO goes on record
  

Plus, naughty politicians, Federal judge not a fan, UFOs and beavers.

• Obituary: Vami_IV
  

Rest in peace.

• Traffic report: Supervalentinefilmbowlday
  

If you say it loud enough the views will come your way!

• WikiCup report: High-scoring WikiCup first round comes to a close
  

135 battle it out; 67 advance

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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
  

Much effort was spent drafting a movement charter about becoming "essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge". How much is spent maintaining it?

• Interview: Interview on Wikimedia Foundation fundraising and finance strategy
  

Signpost interviews Wikimedia Foundation leadership on fundraising banners

• 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
  

And does it have anything to do with the unusual decision to let a zero-edit user open an arbitration request?

• Op-Ed: Wikipedia in the age of personality-driven knowledge
  

Can we compete with social media? Will aoomers forget Wikipedia?

• Recent research: "Newcomer Homepage" feature mostly fails to boost new editors
  

And several papers look at climate change on Wikipedia

• News and notes: Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Charter ratified
  

WLM winners announced, Wikimania 2024, a new Wikimedia movement affiliate, and active enwp admins reach a record low.

• In the media: "For me it’s the autism": AARoad editors on the fork more traveled
  

Worldwide women turned blue and controversies on Serbian & French Wikipedia.

• Traffic report: He rules over everything, on the land called planet Dune
  

Let me take you to the movies.

• Humour: Letters from the editors
  

The only worthwhile grievance is the one that prompts satire.

• Comix: Layout issue
  

margin: 0 auto !important;

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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
  

Plus, tribute songs and shout-outs outweighing vandalism and hoaxes, a dispute about the real king of the platform and other bits of news.

• News and notes: A sigh of relief for open access as Italy makes a slight U-turn on their cultural heritage reproduction law
  

Plus, new updates on the privacy and research ethics whitepaper and the graphs outage situation, and an Iranian former steward is globally banned from Wikimedia projects

• WikiConference report: WikiConference North America 2023 in Toronto recap
  

Outcomes of the event including newly published videos and photos, the archived conference website and program, and some attendee reflections on its significance.

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Newspapers (Not WP:NOTNEWS)
  

A WikiProject report on the 📰🌍 globe's finest news source!

• Recent research: New survey of over 100,000 Wikipedia users
  

And other recent research publications

• Traffic report: O.J., cricket and a three body problem
  

Plus Godzilla meets Francis Scott Key!

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The Signpost: 16 May 2024

• News and notes: Democracy in action: multiple elections
  

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

• Special report: Will the new RfA reform come to the rescue of administrators?
  

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

• Arbitration report: Ruined temples for posterity to ponder over – arbitration from '22 to '24
  

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

• In the media: Deadnames on the French Wikipedia, and a duel between Russian wikis
  

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

• Op-Ed: Wikidata to split as sheer volume of information overloads infrastructure
  

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

• Comix: Generations
  

It do be like that sometimes.

• Traffic report: Crawl out through the fallout, baby
  

With cricket and some cute baby reindeer!

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The Signpost: 8 June 2024

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation publishes its Form 990 for fiscal year 2022-2023
  

The Form 990, as well as highlights and FAQs, are now available for review.

• Technology report: New Page Patrol receives a much-needed software upgrade
  

A new model for collaboration between the WMF and the community?

• Deletion report: The lore of Kalloor
  

Hoaxes and the genesis of information.

• In the media: National cable networks get in on the action arguing about what the first sentence of a Wikipedia article ought to say
  

First line, sixth paragraph, body text or unified Reich?

• 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
  

Outlining progress against the four key goals

• Opinion: Public response to the editors of Settler Colonial Studies
  

A letter.

• Recent research: ChatGPT did not kill Wikipedia, but might have reduced its growth
  

And various research findings about Wikidata and knowledge graphs.

• Featured content: We didn't start the wiki
  

No we didn't write it, but we tried to cite it

• Essay: No queerphobia
  

An essay.

• Special report: RetractionBot is back to life!
  

... and flagging your articles with big ugly red notices! (This is a good thing.)

• Traffic report: Chimps, Eurovision, and the return of the Baby Reindeer
  

Movies, deaths, elections (but no cricket).

• Comix: The Wikipediholic Family
  

Some stuff's only okay in the privacy of the home.

• Humour: Wikipedia rattled by sophisticated cyberattack of schoolboy typing "balls" in infobox
  

Project in shambles – "it had never occurred to us that this was possible".

• Concept: Palimpsestuous
  

Hypertext.

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The Signpost: 4 July 2024

• News and notes: WMF board elections and fundraising updates
  

Three new admins, but overall numbers still shrinking.

• Special report: Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification vote underway, new Council may surpass power of Board
  

Will we weather the storm?

• In focus: How the Russian Wikipedia keeps it clean despite having just a couple dozen administrators
  

Unbundling, automation, fighting spirit, and a bot named Reimu Hakurei.

• Discussion report: Wikipedians are hung up on the meaning of Madonna
  

Debate unsettled after seventeen years.

• In the media: War and information in war and politics
  

Advocacy organizations, a journalist, mycophobes, conservatives, leftists, photographers, and a disinformation task force imagine themselves in Wikipedia.

• Sister projects: On editing Wikisource
  

A journey to a sister project.

• Obituary: Hanif Al Husaini, Salazarov, Hyacinth, and PirjanovNurlan
  

Rest in peace.

• Opinion: Etika: a Pop Culture Champion
  

An article about Etika's appeal and legacy in pop culture.

• Gallery: Spokane Willy's photos
  

A virtual visit to the Inland Northwest.

• Op-Ed: Why you should not vote in the 2024 WMF BoT elections
  

"Simply not good enough".

• Crossword: On a day of independence, beat crosswords into crossploughshares
  

How well do you know the main page (no peeking)?

• Humour: A joke
  

...!

• Cobwebs: Counting to a billion — manuscripts don't burn
  

Special:Diff/1 and related techno-trivia more complicated than you'd think.

• Recent research: Is Wikipedia Politically Biased? Perhaps
  

And other new publications on systemic bias and other topics.

• Traffic report: Talking about you and me, and the games people play
  

Elections, movies, sports.

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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
  

Iconic photograph, invalid fair use exemption criterion #3a claimant, or both?

• News and notes: Wikimedia community votes to ratify Movement Charter; Wikimedia Foundation opposes ratification
  

Establishment of power-sharing agreement between WMF corporation and volunteer user community in limbo.

• News from the WMF: Wikimedia Foundation Board resolution and vote on the proposed Movement Charter
  

Natalia Tymkiv, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, on the Charter vote results, the resolution, meeting minutes, and proposed next steps.

• Essay: Reflections on editing and obsession
  

A lost Signpost submission from fifteen years ago brought into the light, as good and true now as it was then.

• In the media: What's on Putin's fork, the court's docket, and in Harrison's book?
  

Failing forks, smart and well-researched stories, LGBT rights, and oral sex!

• Obituary: JamesR
  

Rest in peace.

• Crossword: Vaguely bird-shaped crossword
  

Do you know these Wikipedia quotes?

• Humour: Joe Biden withdraws RfA, Donald Trump selects co-nom
  

Dems in disarray, GOP in chaos — analysts say news expected, but few can predict how race will shape up from here.

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The Signpost: 14 August 2024

• In the media: Portland pol profile paid for from public purse
  

A STORM over an AI that writes articles. And other notes of interest.

• Recent research: STORM: AI agents role-play as "Wikipedia editors" and "experts" to create Wikipedia-like articles, a more sophisticated effort than previous auto-generation systems
  

And other findings.

• In focus: Twitter marks the spot
  

Musk's Twitter acquisition and rebranding have caused long debates on Wikipedia.

• News and notes: Another Wikimania has concluded.
  

And Movement Charter ratification vote comments have been published

• Special report: Nano or just nothing: Will nano go nuclear?
  

Possibly paid articles.

• Opinion: HouseBlaster's RfA debriefing
  

HouseBlaster's reflections on his RfA. In particular, do not ask superlative questions.

• Traffic report: Ball games, movies, elections, but nothing really weird
  

Just normally weird!

• Humour: I'm proud to be a template
  

Come in, you whippersnapper, have a cup of tea.

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The Signpost: 4 September 2024

• News and notes: WikiCup enters final round, MCDC wraps up activities, 17-year-old hoax article unmasked
  

JCW compilation now tracks free DOIs, Wiki Loves Monuments getting started, WMF's status as UN observer stymied by China for fourth time.

• In the media: AI is not playing games anymore. Is Wikipedia ready?
  

Updates from the Portland pol's case, the war in Gaza, and other Wiki-related reports.

• Recent research: Simulated Wikipedia seen as less credible than ChatGPT and Alexa in experiment
  

And other new research findings

• News from the WMF: Meet the 12 candidates running in the WMF Board of Trustees election
  

Who are they, why are they running and what are they bringing to the Board?

• Wikimania: A month after Wikimania 2024
  

What all happened in Katowice?

• Serendipity: What it's like to be Wikimedian of the Year
  

Hannah Clover shares her fondest memories of her first Wikimania.

• Traffic report: After the gold rush
  

The Olympics (yay!) and the American election (oh no).

• Humour: Local man halfway through rude reply no longer able to recall why he hates other editor
  

"I can't remember whether he is an incompetent moron, or an incorrigible POV warrior, or some other thing, but either way, to hell with him."

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The Signpost: 26 September 2024

• In the media: Courts order Wikipedia to give up names of editors, legal strain anticipated from "online safety laws"
  

ANI (but probably not the one you're thinking of), bias and bans, crisis and Clover, Engelhorn's euros, and will the zoomers inherit the project?

• Community view: Indian courts order Wikipedia to take down name of crime victim, editors strive towards consensus
  

In response to a takedown request, Wikipedia editors reached a consensus on how to handle it appropriately.

• Serendipity: A Wikipedian at the 2024 Paralympics
  

User Hawkeye7 opens up on his experience as a media representative following the Australian team at the latest Summer Paralympics in Paris.

• Opinion: asilvering's RfA debriefing
  

User asilvering reflects on their recent successful request for adminship.

• News and notes: Are you ready for admin elections?
  

More changes to RfA on the way in October, final results for the U4C elections revealed, and other news from the Wikimedia world.

• Gallery: Are Luddaites defending the English Wikipedia?
  

Picture this: medicine, drugs, JFK, Cleopatra, anachronism, and global catastrophe.

• Recent research: Article-writing AI is less "prone to reasoning errors (or hallucinations)" than human Wikipedia editors
  

And other recent research publications.

• Traffic report: Jump in the line, rock your body in time
  

Band reunions and Beetlejuice!

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The Signpost: 19 October 2024

• News and notes: One election's end, another election's beginning
  

Find more about the new Trustees, the first election cycle for admins, and other news from the Wikimedia world.

• Recent research: "As many as 5%" of new English Wikipedia articles "contain significant AI-generated content", says paper
  

And other searchings and findings.

• In the media: Off to the races! Wikipedia wins!
  

Perplexing persistence, pay to play, potential president's possible plagiarism, crossword crossover to culture, and a wish come true!

• Contest: A WikiCup for the Global South
  

Can it be fun to address systemic bias? Eighty participants say yes, it can!

• Traffic report: A scream breaks the still of the night
  

Help me make it through the night!

• Book review: The Editors
  

A novel about us, from the point of view of three of us.

• Humour: The Newspaper Editors
  

Where do I even start?

• Crossword: Spilled Coffee Mug
  

Pasta, acronyms, and one computer-crashing talk page.

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The Signpost: 6 November 2024

• From the editors: Editing Wikipedia should not be a crime
  

But not everybody is able to legally read Wikipedia, and not everybody is able to legally edit Wikipedia.

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation shares ANI lawsuit updates; first admin elections appoint eleven sysops; first admin recalls opened; temporary accounts coming soon?
  

Defamation, privacy, censorship, and elections.

• In the media: An old scrimmage, politics and purported libel
  

Plus human knowledge and Ozzie places!

• Special report: Wikipedia editors face litigation, censorship
  

Asian News International, the Delhi High Court, and the encyclopedia.

• Gallery: Why you should take more photos and upload them
  

Your photos are more valuable than you may realize.

• In focus: Questions and answers about the court case
  

What is going on?

• Traffic report: Twisted tricks or tempting treats?
  

And Tata too!

• Technology report: Wikimedia tech, the Asian News International case, and the ultra-rare BLACKLOCK
  

IP address privacy tools, and mysterious archive sites.

• Humour: Man quietly slinks away from talk page argument after realizing his argument dumb, wrong
  

Many such cases.

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The Signpost: 18 November 2024

• News and notes: Open letter to WMF about court case breaks one thousand signatures, big arb case declined, U4C begins accepting cases
  

Many cases: many such cases.

• In the media: Summons issued for Wikipedia editors by Indian court, "Gaza genocide" RfC close in news, old admin Gwern now big AI guy, and a "spectrum of reluctance" over Australian place names
  

Publisher versus intermediary, bias versus verifiability, and probing questions about Gwern's personal finances.

• Recent research: SPINACH: AI help for asking Wikidata "challenging real-world questions"
  

And other recent publications.

• News from the WMF: Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Endowment audit reports: FY 2023–2024
  

An overview of the finances and an explanation of what the numbers mean.

• Traffic report: Well, let us share with you our knowledge, about the electoral college
  

It's so over.

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The Signpost: 12 December 2024

• News and notes: Arbitrator election concludes
  

New arbs to be seated in January.

• Arbitration report: Palestine-Israel articles 5
  

Will the fifth try at achieving peace be a mudfight, or something better?

• Disinformation report: Sex, power, and money revisited
  

Should old acquaintance be forgot?

• Op-ed: On the backrooms
  

An editor's reflection on social capital and their changing relationship with Wikipedia culture.

by Tamzin

• In focus: Are Wikipedia articles representative of Western or world knowledge?
  

Wikipedia aims to represent the sum of all knowledge. Is there an imbalance between Western countries and the rest of the world.

• In the media: Like the BBC, often useful but not impartial
  

Ballooning British bias bombast!

• Traffic report: Something Wicked for almost everybody
  

Fighting and killing – on screen, in politics, and in the ring – competes for attention with Disney.

• Opinion: Worm That Turned's reconfirmation RfA debriefing
  

The importance of feedback.

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The Signpost: 24 December 2024

• News and notes: Responsibilities and liabilities as a "Very Large Online Platform"
  

What the VLOP – findings of an outside auditor for "responsibilization" of Wikipedia. Plus, new EU Commissioners for tech policy, WLE 2024 winners, and a few other bits of news from the Wikipedia world.

• Op-ed: Beeblebrox on Wikipediocracy, the Committee, and everything
  

A personal essay.

• Opinion: Graham87 on being the first-ever administrator recall subject
  

Explanations for what led to it and what it was like to undergo it.

• In the media: Delhi High Court considers Caravan and Ken for evaluating the ANI vs. WMF case
  

Plus, the dangers of editing, Morrissey's page gets marred, COVID coverage critique, Kimchi consultation, kids' connectivity curtailed, centenarian Claudia, Christmas cramming, and more.

• From the archives: Where to draw the line in reporting?
  

Who's news?

• Recent research: "Wikipedia editors are quite prosocial", but those motivated by "social image" may put quantity over quality
  

And other new research findings.

• Humour: Backlash over Santa Claus' Wikipedia article intensifies
  

Good faith edits REVERTED and accounts BLOCKED.

• Gallery: A feast of holidays and carols
  

Peace on earth, goodwill to all!

• Traffic report: Was a long and dark December
  

Wicked war, martial law, killing, death and an Indian movie with a new chess champ!

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The Signpost: 15 January 2025

• From the editors: Looking back, looking forward
  

The 20th anniversary of The Signpost.

• Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2024
  

A lot of psephology!

• In the media: Will you be targeted?
  

HUMINT or humbug?

• Technology report: New Calculator template brings interactivity at last
  

Hallelujah!

• Essay: Meet the Canadian who holds the longest editing streak on Wikipedia
  

Johnny Au has edited for 17 years straight without missing a day.

• Opinion: Reflections one score hence
  

Some thoughts from the original editor-in-chief.

• News and notes: It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life for me... and I'm feeling free
  

Public Domain Day 2025, Women in Red hits 20% biography milestone, Spanish Wikipedia reaches two million articles, and other news from the Wikimedia world.

• Serendipity: What we've left behind, and where we want to go next
  

The Signpost staff on achievements of '24 and hopes for '25.

• Op-ed: Elon Musk and the right on Wikipedia
  

The latest crusade?

• In focus: Twenty years of The Signpost: What did it take?
  

Our alumni speak!

• Arbitration report: Analyzing commonalities of some contentious topics
  

Applying the scientific method to a model of conflict that leads to arbitration.

• Humour: How to make friends on Wikipedia
  

This post fact-checked by real Wikipedian patriots.

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The Signpost: 7 February 2025

• Recent research: GPT-4 writes better edit summaries than human Wikipedians
  

But an open language model is ready to help.

• News and notes: Let's talk!
  

The WMF executive team delivers a new update; plus, the latest EU policy report, good-bye to the German Wikipedia's Café, and other news from the Wikimedia world.

• Opinion: Fathoms Below, but over the moon
  

Editor Fathoms Below reminisces over their successful RfA from February 2024.

• In the media: Wikipedia is an extension of legacy media propaganda, says Elon Musk
  

Plus, reports on the ARBPIA5 case, new concerns over projects targeting Wikipedia editors, John Green gets his sponsor flowers, and other news.

• Community view: 24th Wikipedia Day in New York City
  

Wikimedians and newbies celebrate 24 years of Wikipedia in the Brooklyn Central Library. Special guests Stephen Harrison and Clay Shirky joined in conversation.

• Arbitration report: Palestine-Israel articles 5 has closed
  

Ending with some bans, and a new set of editing sanctions.

• Traffic report: A wild drive
  

The start of the year was filled with a few unfortunate losses, tragic disasters, emerging tech forces and A LOT of politics.

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The Signpost: 27 February 2025

• News and notes: Administrator elections up for reapproval and 1bil GET snagged on Commons
  

French Wikipedia defends a user against public threats, steward elections, and other news from the Wikimedia world.

• Serendipity: Guinea-Bissau Heritage from Commons to the World
  

"The only time I ever took photos in my entire life".

• Technology report: Hear that? The wikis go silent twice a year
  

From patrolling new edits to uploading photos or joining a campaign, you can count on the Wikimedia platform to be up and running — in your language, anywhere in the world. That is, except for a couple of minutes during the equinoctes.

• In the media: The end of the world
  

Or just the end of Wikipedia as we know it?

• Recent research: What's known about how readers navigate Wikipedia; Italian Wikipedia hardest to read
  

Of "hunters", "busybodies" and "dancers".

• Opinion: Sennecaster's RfA debriefing
  

User Sennecaster shares her thoughts on her recent RfA and the aspects that might have played a role in making it successful.

• Tips and tricks: One year after this article is posted, will every single article on Wikipedia have a short description?
  

What are they? Why are they important? How can we make them better? And what can you do to help?

• Community view: Open letter from French Wikipedians says "no" to intimidation of volunteer contributors
  

Liberté, liberté chérie.

• Traffic report: Temporary scars, February stars
  

Grammys, politics and the Super Bowl.

• Essay: The source, the whole source, and nothing but the source
  

Straight from the source's mouth. A source is a source, of course, of course!

• Obituary: Ümüt Çınar (Kmoksy) and Vinícius Medina Kern (Vmkern)
  

Turkish linguist wrote about languages and plants; Brazilian informaticist studied Wikimedia projects and education.

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The Signpost: 22 March 2025

• From the editor: Hanami
  

It's an ecstasy, my spring.

• Opinion: Talking about governments editing Wikipedia
  

Let them know what you think!

• News and notes: Deeper look at takedowns targeting Wikipedia
  

Read this, then forget all about it.

• In the media: The good, the bad, and the unusual
  

Life on the Wiki as usual!

• Recent research: Explaining the disappointing history of Flagged Revisions; and what's the impact of ChatGPT on Wikipedia so far?
  

And WMF invites multi-year research fund proposals

• Traffic report: All the world's a stage, we are merely players...
  

The Oscars, politics, and death elbow for the most attention.

• Gallery: WikiPortraits rule!
  

The photographers are the celebrities!

• Essay: Unusual biographical images
  

And very unusual biographical images.

• Obituary: Rest in peace
  

Send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.

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The Signpost: 9 April 2025

• Special report: Wikipedian and physician Ziyad al-Sufiani reportedly released from Saudi prison
  

Fellow doctor Osama Khalid remains behind bars for "violating public morals" by editing.

• In focus: WMF to explore "common standards" for NPOV policies; implications for project autonomy remain unclear
  

Major changes to core content policy, or still-developing plan for new initiative?

• In the media: Indian judges demand removal of content critical of Asian News International
  

Defeat, or just a setback?

• News and notes: 35,000 user accounts compromised, locked in attempted credential-stuffing attack
  

Plus: 30-year anniversary of wiki software commemorated.

• Op-ed: How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects
  

Our content is free, our infrastructure is not!

• Opinion: Crawlers, hogs and gorillas
  

What is to be done?

• Debriefing: Giraffer's RfA debriefing
  

Advice to aspirants: "Read RfA debriefs", including this one.

• Obituary: RHaworth, TomCat4680 and PawełMM
  

Rest in peace.

• Traffic report: Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho, off to report we go...
  

Snow White sinking, Adolescence soaring, spacefarers stranded, this list has it all!

• News from Diff: Strengthening Wikipedia’s neutral point of view
  

The Wikimedia Foundation's announcement from Diff.

• Comix: Thirteen
  

Gadzooks!

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The Signpost: 1 May 2025

• News and notes: India cut off from Wiki money; WMF annual plan and Wikimedia programs seek comment
  

As always, Wikimedia community governance relies on user participation; plus, more updates from the Wikimedia world

• In the media: Feds aiming for WMF's nonprofit status
  

Scrapers, an Indian lawsuit, and a crash-or-not-crash?

• Recent research: How readers use Wikipedia health content; Scholars generally happy with how their papers are cited on Wikipedia
  

And other new research findings.

• Arbitration report: Sysop Tinucherian removed and admonished by the ArbCom
  

And don't bite those newbies!

• Discussion report: Latest news from Centralized discussions
  

And don't bite those newbies!

• Traffic report: Of Wolf and Man
  

Television dramas, televised sports, film, the Pope, and ... bioengineering at the top of the list?

• Disinformation report: At WikiCredCon, Wikipedia editors and Internet Archive discuss threats to trust in media
  

Community volunteers network among themselves and use technology to counter attacks on information sharing.

• News from the WMF: Product & Tech Progress on the Annual Plan
  

A look at some product and tech highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation's Annual Plan (July–December 2024).

• Humour: Crisis erupts as furious admins, functionaries complain about crappy t-shirts
  

Hey! At least it is something!

• Comix: By territory
  

Zounds!

• In focus: Using AI on the Russian Wikipedia: opportunities or challenges?
  

Would a billion articles be a good idea?

• Community view: A deep dive into Wikimedia
  

There's a lot more to this than you think.

• Debriefing: Barkeep49's RfB debriefing
  

I wonder about having crats, but decided to become one anyway.

• Gallery: Meet the winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2024
  

Just beautiful photos!

• Obituary: JarrahTree, JohnClarknew and Yashthepunisher
  

Rest in Paradise.

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The Signpost: 14 May 2025

• News and notes: WMF to kick off new-CEO quest as Iskander preps to move on — Supreme Court nixes gag of Wiki page for other India court row on ANI — code-heads give fix-up date for Charts in lieu of long-dead Graph gizmo
  

And comment is requested on a privacy whitepaper.

• In the media: Wikimedia Foundation sues over UK government decision that might require identity verification of editors worldwide
  

And other courtroom drama.

• Disinformation report: What does Jay-Z know about Wikipedia?
  

And how he knows it: all about lawyer letters and editing logs.

• In focus: On the hunt for sources: Swedish AfD discussions
  

Why the language barrier is not the only impediment to navigating sources from another culture.

• Technology report: WMF introduces unique but privacy-preserving browser cookie
  

And QR codes for every page!

• Debriefing: Goldsztajn's RfA debriefing
  

When an editor is ready to become staff at a public library (not a brother in a fraternity).

• Obituary: Max Lum (User:ICOHBuzz)
  

Rest in peace.

• Community view: A Deep Dive Into Wikimedia (part 2)
  

The technology behind it, and the other stuff.

• Comix: Collection
  

Gadzooks!

• From the archives: Humor from the Archives
  

And more.

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The Signpost: 24 June 2025

• News and notes: Happy 7 millionth!
  

Admins arrested in Belarus.

• In the media: Playing professor pong with prosecutorial discretion
  

Pardon our alliteration!

• Disinformation report: Pardon me, Mr. President, have you seen my socks?
  

A get-out-of-jail card!

• Recent research: Wikipedia's political bias; "Ethical" LLMs accede to copyright owners' demands but ignore those of Wikipedians
  

And other new research publications.

• Traffic report: All Sinners, a future, all Saints, a past
  

Holy men and not-as-holy movies.

• News from Diff: Call for candidates is now open: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
  

Get your self-nomination in by July 2nd!

• Opinion: Russian Wiki-fork flails, failing readers and editors
  

After two years RuWiki fails to thrive.

• Debriefing: EggRoll97's RfA² debriefing
  

With some sweet-and-sour sauce!

• Community view: A Deep Dive Into Wikimedia (part 3)
  

Every thing you need to know about the Wikimedia Foundation?

• Comix: Hamburgers
  

Egad!

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The Signpost: 18 July 2025

• News and notes: Is no WikiNews good WikiNews? — Election season returns!
  

Endowment tax form, Wikimania, elections, U4C, fundraising and a duck!

• In the media: How bad (or good) is Wikipedia?
  

And how do we know?

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Medicine reaches milestone of zero unreferenced articles
  

Five-year journey comes to healthy fruition.

• In focus: Wikimania 2025: Connecting Wikimedians across the world for 20 years
  

Wikimedians from around the world will gather in person and online at the twentieth annual meeting of Wikimania.

• Recent research: Knowledge manipulation on Russia's Wikipedia fork; Marxist critique of Wikidata license; call to analyze power relations of Wikipedia
  

As well as "hermeneutic excursions" and other scientific research findings.

• News from the WMF: Form 990 released for the Wikimedia Foundation’s fiscal year 2023-2024
  

The report covers the Foundation's operations from July 2023 - June 2024

• Discussion report: Six thousand noticeboard discussions in 2025 electrically winnowed down to a hundred
  

A step towards objective and comprehensive coverage of a project nearly too big to follow.

• Comix: Divorce
  

Drawn this century!

• Opinion: Women are somewhat under-represented on the English-language Wikipedia, and other observations from analysis
  

How data from the Wikipedia "necessary articles" lists can shed new light on the gender gap

• Community view: A Deep Dive Into Wikimedia (part 4): The Future Of Wikimedia and Conclusion
  

Annual plans, external trends, infrastructure, equity, safety, and effectiveness. What does it all mean?

• Obituary: Pvmoutside, Atomicjohn, Rdmoore6, Jaknouse, Morven, Martin of Sheffield, MarnetteD, Herewhy, BabelStone
  

Rest in peace.

• Traffic report: God only knows
  

Wouldn't it be nice without billionaires, scandals, deaths, and wars?

• Humour: New forum created for people who don't care about Wikipedia
  

If you are too blasé for Mr. Blasé and don't give a FAC.

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The Signpost: 9 August 2025

• News and notes: Court order snips out part of Wikipedia article, editors debate whether to frame shreds or pulp them
  

Plus a mysterious CheckUser incident, and the news with Wikinews.

• Discussion report: News from ANI, AN, RSN, BLPN, ELN, FTN, and NPOVN
  

A review of June, July and August.

• Disinformation report: The article in the most languages
  

Who is this guy?

• Community view: News from the Villages Pump
  

Threads since June.

• In the media: Disgrace, dive bars, deceased despots, and diverse dispatches
  

And slop.

• Crossword: Accidental typography
  

It's not a conlang, it's a crossword puzzle.

• Comix: best-laid schemes o' wikis an' men
  

gang aft agley, an' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, for promis'd joy!

• Traffic report: I'm not the antichrist or the Superman
  

Everybody's Somebody's Fool.

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The Signpost: 9 September 2025

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation loses a round in court
  

UK Online Safety Act remains undefeated.

• In the media: Congress probes, mayor whitewashed, AI stinks
  

Plus Wiki rules, Wiki Spin, and physicists get street cred!

• Disinformation report: A guide for Congress
  

The price of Liberty is eternal vigilance.

• Recent research: Minority-language Wikipedias, and Wikidata for botanists
  

And other new research findings.

• Technology report: A new way to read Wikisource
  

Tis true: there's magic in the web of it.

• Traffic report: Check out some new Weapons, weapon of choice
  

With the usual mix of war, death, super heroes, a belt, and Wednesday.

• Essay: The one question
  

It's an easy one.

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