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If I sign this with 4 tildes, would I be talking to myself? ;) - Big universe (talk) 23:48, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

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No problem, happy to help. Let me know if you have any questions. And welcome to Wikipedia! Trivialist (talk) 23:32, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Hi, thanks a lot! :) ~ Big universe (talk) 04:46, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

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Hi, I see you've been changing instances of text like "number nine" to read "#9". This is not correct to do per MOS:NUMBERSIGN and MOS:NUMERAL. Thanks. Ss112 14:58, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

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Did you put Big Universe because you didn't know what to say or does it have a meaning behind it? It really is a Big Universe. :D ;D DaisyCarpenter7 (talk) 03:00, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

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My note: forgot to use piping to redirect link when I changed "Amazon.com" in article text to "Amazon" (didn't realize resulting link might go to a disambiguation page) ~ Big universe (talk) 01:20, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

Odd edit summaries

Hey there. Can I ask what's going on here? — fox 01:38, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

I concur with the above question: who are you speaking to in your edit summaries here? Nobody else the user Anomie once edited the page. Ss112 08:11, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

Big universe, why do you write edit summaries like you're writing a message on Facebook? There is no need for the smiley faces and "xx" like you're signing off with two kisses. An edit summary is not a cute sign-off, it's merely supposed to be a short description of what you did. Besides that, what does "(NS)" stand for? Also, please stop changing list styles to suit your personal preference. Not only is this pointless per WP:HLIST (they are basically the same), you are inconsistently implementing them, and it appears to be quite careless, per your most recent edit to Could I Have This Kiss Forever where you changed the list to a horizontal list and forgot about a format beneath. Ss112 22:23, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

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Hi Big U and welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your contributions to the project. There have been some concerns raised that your account may be being used by more than one person and or that it is being used as form of messaging board. At times you seem to be addressing others in some of your edits and it is not clear who. And then there is this page which I am having a hard time understanding. Could you explain this please? We have guidelines that preclude the use of Wikipedia for anything not connected to the Encyclopedia and accounts are strictly limited to one person. To be clear you are not in any trouble right now but I am asking these questions formally in my capacity as an administrator. Your prompt reply is much appreciated. -Ad Orientem (talk) 23:41, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi, Ad Orientem, and thanks for the welcome! I was going to leave a message on your talk page, where Ss112 first brought this issue up a little while ago. But when I got there, wasn't sure if I should start a new heading, or insert it into that same conversation, and didn't want to breach etiquette. Also, didn't know if you would notice it in time. So I will leave it here, instead. (Used a tag that I found other people in that thread using that I think is used to "call" people, so hope it works--my apologies if I goofed something up, though.)

To address your questions:

1) I'm the only one using this account, and there should only be one person (me) signing in. (I was, however, concerned that someone else might be trying to compromise my account, as I've experienced some difficulties with this account, as well as others.)

2) Edit summaries: I've seen some pretty odd stuff in edit summaries before, and didn't know there was a policy about them. My 'odd' summaries weren't that frequent, though they did always describe the edits I made; but I pretty much stopped once it was brought up.

3) The odd subpage: other people seem to have a lot of personal stuff on their user page and subpages, so it never occurred to me that it would be a problem.

I am very sorry if my actions have been disruptive; please let me know how you wish to proceed.

Sincerely, Big universe (talk) 01:18, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Ok. That seems fair enough. If you are concerned about your account being compromised I suggest you beef up your password and make sure you sign out when done editing if anyone else might have access to your computer. Some personal touches on your primary user page are generally tolerated. But we don't allow Wikipedia to be used as a social media platform or some kind of online diary or for posting random thoughts etc. I am going to suggest that you blank that page and tag it for deletion per WP:G7. I will post a welcome template below since you don't seem to have gotten one. If you have any questions or concerns feel free to drop me a line. Happy editing. -Ad Orientem (talk) 01:48, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Big universe, why is it you only reply when you think you're in trouble off an administrator? As Ad Orientem said, entire subpages in your user space not directly related to working on content for the encyclopedia should not be made. Per WP:NOT, Wikipedia is not here to serve as your way to communicate with others about topics that aren't about improving the encyclopedia, or as a web host for your diary entries. As recently as two days ago, you were also still leaving odd edit summaries on the article for an image. Who are you speaking to? Because to anybody else, you would appear to be speaking to yourself. Ss112 01:50, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Actually I would appreciate some explanation for that. It does look like you are trying to communicate with someone via edit summaries. Frankly I am having a hard time seeing any other explanation. -Ad Orientem (talk) 01:55, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Quick add... it's getting late where I am. I will check back tomorrow on this. If you want to save anything from that subpage I will give you the overnight as a grace period, but it really has to go. Please do not use edit summaries for anything other than concise explanations for whatever edits you are making. Thank you. -Ad Orientem (talk) 02:14, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Also, these: User:Big universe/mountains, User:Big universe/respect, User:Big universe/whiskey tango foxtrot, User:Big universe/Q. It's quite clear you're using your account in part to send messages to people outside of Wikipedia: Ss112 02:26, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

For the record, I deleted the "conversational" dummy edits on File:Whiskey tango foxtrot.jpg, File:Sorry sadface.jpg, File:Love never fails.jpg, and File:Solid red heart love.jpg. Please don't make any more. Anomie⚔ 13:46, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi Anomie, thanks for doing that; and no, I won't make anymore. Big universe (talk) 17:24, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

>>Hi, Ad Orientem, thank you for your kind reply, as well as for the advice and information you've provided.

As per your suggestion/request:

1) I have blanked the page (and removed anything else on other pages that seemed too personal, or that basically shouldn't be there, per this discussion).

2) I also added the DB:G7 tag to the page, and apparently I did it correctly since there is now a box with text in it: "This user page may meet Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion...".

3) My edit summaries will only contain information relevant to the edits I make.

Hopefully I covered everything, but please let me know if there's anything I missed, or that I did incorrectly and need to do over.

Thanks a lot for your time and your help, and I'm sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you.

Sincerely, Big universe (talk) 06:14, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

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Hi Ad Orientem, I had blanked these pages, and then later realized I could probably have just put tags on them myself. But it was very late and I had already logged out, so was going to do it later today. Thank you for doing that, and I'm sorry you had to do it instead. Also, the pages are now deleted, so I removed the nomination notices from this page since they sort of take up a lot of space. I hope that's okay; the only info I could find about this is that I'm not supposed to remove the deletion tags (which I didn't)--but there was nothing about removing the notices. In any case, for reference, the notices are still in the page history here. Thanks a lot for your help, and again, sorry about this. Big universe (talk) 17:21, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

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Hi, the majority of your edits since mid-November 2017 (something like 90% of them) have an edit summary that begins with (NS) - what does that mean? I can't find it in Wikipedia:Edit summary legend. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 15:26, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

You're still doing it. What does it mean, exactly? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 17:35, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

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Awesome, it will help a lot, thanks so much! :) Big universe (talk) 03:41, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

Rollback

Hello Big universe. Thanks for asking for rollback, which of course I'm considering carefully. I thought I'd offer some comments and get your feedback before doing anything further. You offered two edits as motivation. In reverse order, the second edit was indeed blatant vandalism of a type which is commonly rolled back. The edits were consecutive and made by the same IP address, so rollback would have been appropriate. I have a suggestion here, which is something I think is a useful prerequisite for rollback, and that is 'manual reverting', as described at Help:Reverting. Both rollback and 'undo' can occasionally result in a muddle which it's useful to know how to get out of. Knowing how to detect and revert to the 'last good version' is a useful, or perhaps fundamental, skill to have. I'd like to see that you understand how to do this.

I'm not so sure about the first example edits you provided. I'm not well versed in how we present singles charts, but this doesn't strike me as obvious vandalism. The user claimed to be correcting the format, were applying changes consistent with the rest of the table, and changed a 'chartid' to something which was not obviously wrong. You cited no edit summary as one reason for the revert, which is not really a valid reason for reverting. Instead of using rollback here, an edit summary citing legitimate complaints would have been the proper course of action. Adding a section of the talk page also works, but it's important to get some dialogue going instead of using the bland rollback summary.

Basically, though I think it's possible that you could use rollback properly, I think you'd benefit from practising manual reversions (without using the 'undo' link), and you might even benefit from getting used to WP:TWINKLE which offers a form of rollback. Honestly I don't think you'd really benefit from the rollback tool. However, based on what I've said, if you think you'd still want the rollback tool you're welcome to make the case. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 18:11, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi zzuuzz, thanks for your reply--still working on my reply, will hopefully have a response by sometime on Monday at the latest. Thanks! Big universe (talk) 00:06, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

OK, here's the TL;DR version: I enabled TWINKLE and that pretty much takes care of things. Thanks for that suggestion, had no idea rollback was in there. Clarifications and/or responses to what you wrote are below, if you have the time. Sorry this is so long, but it's fairly thorough (your post actually covered quite a few issues). It's also still barely Monday here on the East Coast (EST), so I'm going to post this now. If you don't have time to read the whole thing, you may want to check out P2:S2:2 ("responses for Paragraph 2"), in the "Note": I may have found an alternate IP account for the IP user I reverted here. In any case, I know you're very busy, so thanks a lot for your help and for taking the time to respond--I really do appreciate it! :) Big universe (talk) 03:58, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

responses for Paragraph 1 (P1)

Paragraph 1:

P1:S1 - manual reverting/last good version

"I have a suggestion here, which is something I think is a useful prerequisite for rollback, and that is 'manual reverting', as described at Help:Reverting."

1) Thanks for the link to "manual reverting", didn't know you could do that. I once accidentally hit "edit" while browsing an old revision, and the warning that appeared was so dire that it seemed unwise to ever attempt it; very glad to have the info on how to use it.

2) One caution with this method, though, appears to be that by reverting all edits made from that point on, one could unintentionally undo additional legitimate edits made while one is in the process of reverting to the "last good version". Unless there's a mechanism that prevents this, I'm assuming those edits would need to be manually restored. Rollback, on the other hand, would only roll back edits made by one user (up until that point), so if another edit is made before the rollback action is completed, an error message is returned and the rollback action is blocked. So it would probably be best if I tried this out on an article that doesn't see much editing activity.

P1:S2 - "how to do this" where "this" = ?

"Both rollback and 'undo' can occasionally result in a muddle which it's useful to know how to get out of. Knowing how to detect and revert to the 'last good version' is a useful, or perhaps fundamental, skill to have. I'd like to see that you understand how to do this."

1) Sorry, but I'm not really understanding you. If the question is about whether I can recognize good edits in a string of problematic edits, I believe I can. Most of the time it's easy to identify good faith edits, and for those I add "reverted good faith edit(s)" to the edit summary: 1, 2, 3. The sequential edits I've reverted so far haven't really had any good edits mixed in (for example, this series of 3 reverts: 1-2-3)). But I've done partial reverts of single edits when I can salvage some of the edit: 1, 2.

2) If you're asking if I can technically handle the automated methods of reverting, i.e. TWINKLE rollback or the manual revert, both are fine. Before using automation, though, I usually make sure I can perform the action without it. For example, I initially did reverts by adding/deleting via the text editor before finally using the "undo" link (which made things so much easier). I've been manually reverting sequential edits for awhile, so I'm comfortable with using an automated process.

3) ("...rollback...muddle...useful to know how to get out of") In the somewhat unlikely case that you're asking how I would deal with problems arising from rollback/undo actions, ideally one would "undo the undo". Worst case scenario, one would have to restore the good material manually, by text editor. For example, as mentioned in P1:S1:2 above, the manual revert method to restore to "last good version" could potentially undo very recent additional good edits, which would have to be restored via "undo" (if available) or via text editor.

responses for Paragraph 2 (P2)

Paragraph 2:

"I'm not so sure about the first example edits you provided. I'm not well versed in how we present singles charts, but this doesn't strike me as obvious vandalism. The user claimed to be correcting the format, were applying changes consistent with the rest of the table, and changed a 'chartid' to something which was not obviously wrong."

P2:S1 - IP inserting music chart templates with the wrong song title

"The user claimed to be correcting the format, were applying changes consistent with the rest of the table"

1) There are two main chart formats being used: a longer, full-reference format and the shorter template macro "singlechart" format. In the charts section (weekly, year-end, decade-end) for this particular article, the use of either chart is about 50/50. The IP claimed they were "correcting" the charts, but neither format is correct or incorrect, and you'll see both styles even in the charts of current song articles.

2) However my main concern was that, in the IP's first edit, two out of the three chart templates inserted were for the wrong song (the last two entries, for the song "The First Night"; the correct song/article title is "Angel of Mine"--both songs are from the same album by the same artist, Monica). It may not appear to be obvious vandalism, but it looked to me like the "change of format" was being used to disguise the subtle addition of incorrect info. Because to a casual observer, these look like legitimate edits. Please see next section.

P2:S2 - vandalism? chart macro templates, incorrect song titles, chart bot & possible alternate IP account

"...changed a 'chartid' to something which was not obviously wrong."

1) In their first edit (of 3), the IP user added three charts. The template for their first "corrected" chart entry (Canada Adult Contemporary), set the parameter |song ="Angel of Mine", which is the correct song; however, the templates for chart entries 2 (Canada Dance) and 3 (Canada Top Singles) set the parameter |song="The First Night", which is incorrect. All chart parameters other than song title were correct.

2) Indications that the edits were likely not in good faith:

+ Of the three entries submitted in the same edit (IP Edit #1), one actually had the correct title, while the other two didn't. So it's not likely the IP user was confused regarding which song they were adding info about, which might have been the case if ALL the entries they added had been for the wrong song. Their very short edit history also indicates that they've never added charts to the song "The First Night", at least not using this IP address (see Note, next).

Note: I just checked the edit history for the song "The First Night" and found this edit to one of the same charts with the wrong title (Dance chart) made on 2-24-19 by an IP editor with a similar IP address as the IP being discussed in this comment. Compare the two IP addresses side-by-side here; the first 4 blocks are the same, the last 4 blocks are different. It may be a coincidence, but these two accounts may be linked; if so, it may be why they didn't come to the talk page. Or it could still be vandalism; if it's the same editor, everything but the song title was updated and correct.

+ Using the correct song title to search both the Canadian RPM Dance and Top Singles charts (the erroneous charts added), easily pulled up the correct charts - no need for the title change.

+ In their third edit (of 3), the IP user did see and correct one error in Edit #1 where the link led to an empty page. In contrast, they never corrected the incorrect song titles in either of the two incorrect chart templates that they also added in Edit #1. So they had looked at their first edit again, and saw the empty chart; but either they still somehow didn't notice incorrect titles in the other two charts, or they added them intentionally.

+ They reverted my first two reverts (of IP's edits #3 and #2), almost immediately after they appeared, and without any edit summaries to defend why the info should be kept (two of their three original edits also didn't have edit summaries). This also prevented me from reverting IP Edit #1 which had the incorrect info. I reverted their reverts and asked them to discuss further on the talk page.

+ The IP user never came to the article's talk page, which by itself isn't necessarily an indicator of bad faith. But if they felt strongly enough to revert my reverts, and they were good faith edits and not vandalism, I'd think they would have had some explanation (unless they didn't want to reveal an alternate IP address, as mentioned above).

3) Conclusion:

Worst case, it could be very subtle vandalism. The template documentation indicates that the singlechart template is being implemented in part to allow a bot to eventually be used to revert vandalism. I don't know the specifics of the bot's operation, but if the title or other parameter(s) is/are incorrect for some entries, it's reasonable to expect that the outcome might not be good. On the other hand, the IP user may have simply tried to insert the wrong song names to see if anyone noticed; or maybe the two IP addresses I discussed above are linked, and they accidentally forgot to correct the template they had used with a different IP address this past February. In any case, it's still incorrect info. However, when I get the chance, I did want to re-check and correct the entries, and add them back if they're ok.

P2:S3 - edit summaries

"You cited no edit summary as one reason for the revert, which is not really a valid reason for reverting. Instead of using rollback here, an edit summary citing legitimate complaints would have been the proper course of action."

1) Just to explain, I generally write "no edit summary", not as a reason for reverting per se, but to note that the user hasn't given a reason for their change. If the change appears either unnecessary or unconstructive, there is no compelling reason to keep it, in the absence of the author's rationale. (Usually I don't bother with changes that seem unnecessary as long as they aren't problematic, or associated with a problematic edit.) But if I do note "no edit summary" on a revert, it is normally followed by the actual reason(s) for the revert: 1, 2, 3.

2) In this case, the summary for the reversion of IP's 1st edit (i.e. containing incorrect chart entries) contained the main rationale for all 3 reverts: unnecessary changes; incorrect info added; 2 piggyback edits reverted (2nd edit added 2 more charts; 3rd was correction to 1st edit). This last reversion, of IP's 1st/main edit, shows up on top of the other two in the article's revision history and explains the two reverts below it. Those two edits, i.e. #2 and 3, are what I call "piggyback" edits which follow the first, "main" edit: for good faith edits, they're usually minor edits made to the first/main edit (which will itself be reverted/deleted); for not-so-good faith edits, they are minor edits that follow the main edit which appear to be intended to distract or mislead. Both the reverts in this example, which you noted mentioned "no edit summary", were also marked "piggyback edit" (i.e. of Edit #1 of 3). Here's an example of piggyback edits rolled back by another user: the first/main edit contains unsourced info, and two edits that follow it are piggyback edits.

P2:S4 - rollback summaries

"Adding a section of the talk page also works, but it's important to get some dialogue going instead of using the bland rollback summary."

1) I actually use a custom template that I created instead of the autogenerated one, adding links to changes made and (usually) to applicable WP policies. My edit summaries for reverts are often pretty long; the diffs I've provided so far should give a good idea as to the level of length and detail. I've used the edit summary to invite reverted users to discuss on the talk page thread I've opened, as I did on this (music chart) edit as well as here.

2) Also, on my rollback request on your talk page, I mentioned that I had found a way to add an edit summary (at least according to the documentation) to any rollbacks made using the rollback tool (via the &summary=[edit summary text] string appended to the rollback URL). So even if I used the rollback tool, I would always add an ES because I think they're essential, especially for reverts.

responses for Paragraph 3 (P3)

Paragraph 3:

P3:S1 - manual reversions/undo

"I think you'd benefit from practising manual reversions (without using the 'undo' link)"

I agree, and will try the (automated) manual reversion method now that I know about it; TWINKLE also appears to have this feature (i.e. "restore this version" link above diffs) in addition to rollback.

P3:S2 - TWINKLE, TWINKLE, little rollback

"...you might even benefit from getting used to WP:TWINKLE which offers a form of rollback"

Have enabled TWINKLE and the rollback feature is pretty much what I was looking for. It has the option to add an edit summary, which is good. It also doesn't auto mark reverts as "minor", which is also good. It does revert intervening bot edits, so will need to watch out for that. As far as I can tell, the main difference between rollback and TWINKLE rollback is that the former is much faster, likely optimal for very experienced users who are reverting a lot of vandalism (i.e. not me, yet); whereas the TWINKLE version has features that slow things down but keep most of the conventional user interface. Right now, the TWINKLE version is most suited to my needs. So you were completely right, zzuuzz, thanks for the info!

If you've read this far, I hope this addresses your concerns. Even though I ultimately opted for TWINKLE (which is good to become familiar with anyway), you went to the trouble of writing a response so I wrote a response to your response, and I figured I might as well post it.

Thanks again! Big universe (talk) 03:58, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

Note: Oh no! I knew this was long but didn't realize it was THIS long. My apologies to anyone who tries to read this. Big universe (talk) 04:00, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the response. Just a couple of points in reply. "this" (P1:S2) relates to finding the last good version, which seems to be all in order. For the IP address(es), see WP:IPHOPPER. If the first 4 parts of the address are the same, you can normally assume that it's the same user, and usually changing address through no fault of their own. Glad it's all sorted. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 14:03, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

Awesome, thanks so much for your help, zzuuzz! Big universe (talk) 08:31, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

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  And other new research publications

• Essay: Paid editing
  We've been talking about paid editing forever

• From the archives: FORUM:Should Wikimedia modify its terms of use to require disclosure?
  A debate from 5 years ago on whether we use to prohibit undisclosed paid editing

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The June 2019 Signpost is out!

• Discussion report: A constitutional crisis hits English Wikipedia
  Could this be a new relationship between the Foundation and ArbCom, and between the Foundation and enwiki?

• News and notes: Mysterious ban, admin resignations, Wikimedia Thailand rising
  Many administrators resign related to Fram case; Wikimedia Thailand to host Wikimania 2020.

• In the media: The disinformation age
  Or is it the information error?

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
  A selection of good news and encouraging stories that are from the Wikiverse.

• Traffic report: Juneteenth, Beauty Revealed, and more nuclear disasters
  Readers look for info on what they watch, mostly Chernobyl.

• Technology report: Actors and Bots
  Database changes, new scripts, Tech News, and more.

• Gallery: Unlike the North Face, Wiki Loves Earth
  Wikimedia photographers surge to contribute to the Wiki Loves Earth campaign even while rogue clothing company The North Face replaces wiki illustrations with advertisements.

• Special report: Did Fram harass other editors?
  (DELETED ARTICLE)

• Recent research: What do editors do after being blocked?; the top mathematicians, universities and cancers according to Wikipedia
  And other recent research publications.

• From the archives: Women and Wikipedia: the world is watching
  "If you don't clean up this mess, the adults are going to come and take your toys away from you."

• Opinion: Why the Terms of Use change didn't curtail undisclosed paid editing—and what might
  To reduce the incentives driving undisclosed paid editing, Wikipedia could simplify the process and meet outsiders halfway.

• In focus: WikiJournals: A sister project proposal
  Academic peer review meets Wikimedia.

• Community view: A CEO biography, paid for with taxes
  How an Irish state-level paid editor tried to turn me into the villain.

• Op-Ed: 2019 Wikimedia Affiliate Selected Board Seats Election Results
  Wikimedia community organizations elect two members for the Wikimedia Foundation board of trustees.

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The Signpost: 31 July 2019

• News and notes: Wikimedia grants less accessible for travel, equipment, meetups, and India
  WMF grants program changes position on funding random individuals globally and 100 crore people in one region

• In the media: Politics starts getting rough
  Are we ready for the sharp elbows?

• Discussion report: New proposals in aftermath of Fram ban
  Resysop requests on the ’crat board prove controversial; plus, aftermath of Framgate.

• Arbitration report: A month of reintegration
  Arbitration begins setting new boundaries after the June blow-up

• Gallery: Classic panoramas from Heinrich Berann
  It looks nice and cool up in those mountains

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
  A selection of good news and encouraging stories that are from the Wikiverse.

• Community view: Video based summaries of Wikipedia articles. How and why?
  It's easy, education saves lives.

• News from the WMF: Designing ethically with AI: How Wikimedia can harness machine learning in a responsible and human-centered way
  Or, how to avoid Artificial Ignorance

• Recent research: Most influential medical journals; detecting pages to protect
  And other new research publications

• Special report: Administrator cadre continues to contract
  A new record set: fewer than 500 active admins.

• Traffic report: World cups, presidential candidates, and stranger things
  and don't forget the movies

• In focus: The French Wikipedia is overtaking the German
  Who is growing? Who is not?

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The Signpost: 30 August 2019

• News and notes: Documenting Wikimania and our beginnings
  The oldest surviving Wikipedia edit restored to article history, Wikimania, and the mystery of a disappearing Funds Dissemination Committee.

• In focus: Ryan Merkley joins WMF as Chief of Staff
  Working with leadership and the community, taking on both operational and strategic responsibilities

• In the media: Many layers of fake news: Fake fiction and fake news vandalism
  And the media report it all

• Discussion report: Meta proposals on partial bans and IP users
  Can we survive without IP addresses?

• Traffic report: Once upon a time in Greenland with Boris and cornflakes
  And some summer flicks with the usual heroes and villains

• Op-Ed: We couldn't have told you this, but Wikipedia was censored
  Should we break the law or publish the truth?

• Opinion: The Curious Case of Croatian Wikipedia
  Or how to make a concentration camp disappear?

• Community view: Chinese Wikipedia and the battle against extradition from Hong Kong
  From streets to Wikipedia - What are editors from Hong Kong facing?

• News from the WMF: Meet Emna Mizouni, the newly minted 2019 Wikimedian of the Year
  Emna Mizouni was named the 2019 Wikimedian of the Year.

• Recent research: Special issue on gender gap and gender bias research
  A roundup of many recent publications examining Wikpedia's gender gaps in participation and content, and their possible reasons

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
  A selection of good news and encouraging stories that are from the Wikiverse

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The Signpost: 30 September 2019

• From the editors: Where do we go from here?
  Our constitutional crisis may continue

• Special report: Post-Framgate wrapup
  Summary of actions around a formerly banned former administrator: Arbitration Committee action and withdrawn request for adminship

• In the media: A net loss: Wikipedia attacked, closing off Russia? welcoming back Turkey?
  The internet may not be as stable as it seems

• Traffic report: Varied and intriguing entries, less Luck, and some retreads
  Luck, Serena, Bianca, 9/11, bad films, mass murderers and other good stuff

• News from the WMF: How the Wikimedia Foundation is making efforts to go green
  Wikipedia's footprint is equivalent to 251 average US homes’ energy use. Yes we can go green.

• Recent research: Wikipedia's role in assessing credibility of news sources; using wikis against procrastination; OpenSym 2019 report
  And other recent research publications

• Gallery: Finding freely licensed photo collections
  Wikimedia Commons is not the only place to find freely licensed photos

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
  A selection of good news and encouraging stories that are from the Wikiverse

• In focus: Wikidata & Wikibase for national libraries: the inaugural meeting
  National libraries are planning to leverage Wikidata to interoperate and to bring information to the public

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The Signpost: 31 October 2019

• In the media: How to use or abuse Wikipedia for fun or profit
  Sweden, Poland, Armenia, Russia, the Vatican, and clueless English pubs.

• Special report: “Catch and Kill” on Wikipedia: Paid editing and the suppression of material on alleged sexual abuse
  "It's time for Wikipedia to grow up."

• In focus: The BBC looks at Chinese government editing
  But they aren't entirely sure they see it

• Interview: Carl Miller on Wikipedia Wars
  A discussion on info wars, government editing and our defences.

• Community view: Observations from the mainland
  A different point of view

• Arbitration report: October actions
  An "unblockable" is blocked; a former arb resigns.

• Traffic report: Wrestling with a couple of teenagers, a Nobelist, and a lot of jokers
  Plus a few celebrities.

• Gallery: Wiki Loves Broadcast
  The future of public broadcasting has arrived.

• Recent research: Research at Wikimania 2019: More communication doesn't make editors more productive; Tor users doing good work; harmful content rare on English Wikipedia
  And other new research publications

• Essay: Wikipedia is in the real world
  Editing can have serious consequences.

• News from the WMF: Welcome to Wikipedia! Here's what we're doing to help you stick around
  Twenty questions to get you started.

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
  A selection of good news and encouraging stories from the Wikiverse.

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The Signpost: 29 November 2019

• From the editor: Put on your birthday best
  "We get by with a little help from our friends"

• News and notes: How soon for the next million articles?
  And when will we get the second extraterrestrial edit?

• In the media: You say you want a revolution
  Everybody wants to change Wikipedia.

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
  A selection of good news and encouraging stories from the Wikiverse.

• Arbitration report: Two requests for arbitration cases
  Important or imprudent? Pondering portals. And an editor gets transported off-wiki for good.

• Traffic report: The queen and the princess meet the king and the joker
  Could this be the end of the Terminator?

• Technology report: Reference things, sister things, stranger things
  The latest tech news and updates.

• Gallery: Winter and holidays
  Some interesting and unusual winter and holiday images.

• Recent research: Bot census; discussions differ on Spanish and English Wikipedia; how nature's seasons affect pageviews
  And other new research publications.

• Essay: Adminitis
  Some humor about the otherwise serious subject of burnout.

• From the archives: WikiProject Spam, revisited
  Veteran editor: Wikipedia is losing existential battle against spam.

• In focus: An update on the Wikimedia Movement 2030 Strategy
  Coming to the end of a long road formulating the strategy.

• Special report: How many people edit in your favorite language? Where are they from?
  Only now can we say!

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The Signpost: 27 December 2019

• From the editors: Caught with their hands in the cookie jar, again
  You can buy "cleaners" but you might not come away clean.

• News and notes: What's up (and down) with administrators, articles and languages
  Active administrators and articles achieved are marking milestone metrics, but in diverging directions. Plus, the first time any court has found there exists a constitutional right to read Wikipedia.

• Special report: Are reputation management operatives scrubbing Wikipedia articles?
  Son of Wiki-PR.

• In the media: "The fulfillment of the dream of humanity" or a nightmare of PR whitewashing on behalf of one-percenters?
  Praise for possibly pansophic Wikipedia from a Nobel laureate collides head-on with real-world events in December.

• Discussion report: December discussions around the wiki
  Regarding integrity of information presented by Wikipedia, as well as the processes and people who ensure it remains trustworthy.

• Arbitration report: Announcement of 2020 Arbitration Committee
  ArbCom election results and status of open and requested cases.

• Traffic report: Queens and aliens, exactly alike, once upon a December
  We may have scrambled the headlines a bit.

• Technology report: User scripts and more
  Customise your Wikipedia experience

• Gallery: Holiday wishes
  Messages of holiday cheer from us to you.

• Recent research: Acoustics and Wikipedia; Wiki Workshop 2019 summary
  16 recent papers, and other research news

• From the archives: The 2002 Spanish fork and ads revisited (re-revisited?)
  A look at different approaches taken by Wikipedia's founders in 2002, as seen from the perspective of nine years when it was written; nearly twenty years ago now.

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
  A selection of good news and encouraging stories from the Wikiverse.

• Op-Ed: Why we need to keep talking about Wikipedia's gender gap
  There's still a long way to go.

• WikiProject report: Wikiproject Tree of Life: A Wikiproject report
  Eight years after our last interview, WikiProject Tree of Life continues to thrive.

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The Signpost: 27 January 2020

• From the editor: Reaching six million articles is great, but we need a moratorium
  How long can we ignore Wiki-PR?

• News and notes: Six million articles on the English language Wikipedia
  You ain't seen nothing yet.

• Special report: The limits of volunteerism and the gatekeepers of Team Encarta
  How to survive the asshole consensus.

• In the media: Turkey's back up, but what's happening with Dot-org and a new visual identity?
  Plus politics and other oddities.

• Arbitration report: Three cases at ArbCom
  The new arbs have a big load.

• Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2019
  As only The Signpost can describe them.

• Gallery: Wiki Loves Monuments 2019, we're all winners
  The top 15 international photos.

• News from the WMF: Capacity Building: Top 5 Themes from Community Conversations
  Growing our community and our abilities.

• Community view: Our most important new article since November 1, 2015
  Well, it's a bit subjective.

• In focus: Cryptos and bitcoins and blockchains, oh no!
  Everybody needs to make a buck somehow — just not here, thanks.

• Recent research: How useful is Wikipedia for novice programmers trying to learn computing concepts?
  And other new research publications.

• From the archives: A decade of The Signpost, 2005-2015
  The first 10 years are the hardest.

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
  A selection of good news and encouraging stories from the Wikiverse.

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Japan: a wikiProject Report
  An interview with four members of the WikiProject Japan.

• Humour: Predicting the 6,000,000th article
  I may fall in love all over again!

• Obituary: Remembering Wikipedia contributor Brian Boulton
  A mentor to us all

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The Signpost: 1 March 2020

• From the editor: The ball is in your court
  How to stop abusive commercial editing.

• News and notes: Alexa ranking down to 13th worldwide
  Falling behind Chinese websites.

• Special report: More participation, more conversation, more pageviews
  A statistical insight into the English Wikipedia's very own online community newsletter.

• In the media: Mapping IP editors, Smithsonian open-access, and coronavirus disinformation
  We're all over the map this month.

• Discussion report: Do you prefer M or P?
  Wikimedia or Wikipedia?

• Arbitration report: Two prominent administrators removed
  Arbitration Committee and the "blue wall of silence".

• By the numbers: How many actions by administrators does it take to clean up spam?
  Numbers for vandalism and sockpuppeting included at no additional charge!

• Community view: The Incredible Invisible Woman
  No more "Hidden Figures", let's work to make women visible on Wikipedia!

• In focus: History of The Signpost, 2015–2019
  Covering Wikipedia for another five years!

• Recent research: Wikipedia generates $50 billion/year consumer surplus in the US alone
  And other new research results

• From the archives: Is Wikipedia for sale?
  How long has Wikipedia been for sale? When will it stop?

• Traffic report: February articles, floating in the dark
  Kobe sets another record.

• Gallery: Feel the love
  Renewing our vows.

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
  A selection of good news and encouraging stories from the Wikiverse.

• Op-Ed: What I learned as Wikimedia UK Communications Coordinator
  Getting across the Wikipedia experience to the press.

• Opinion: Wikipedia is another country
  Or: how to best bite a newbie.

• Humour: The Wilhelm scream
  WikiWorld is back.

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The Signpost: 29 March 2020

• From the editors: The bad and the good
  Getting ready for anything.

• News and notes: 2018 Wikipedian of the year blocked
  Wheel war on Tatar Wikipedia.

• WikiProject report: WikiProject COVID-19: A WikiProject Report
  An interview with members of the COVID Project.

• Special report: Wikipedia on COVID-19: what we publish and why it matters
  Wikipedia presents solid widely-consulted information on COVID-19 and related topics.

• In the media: Blocked in Iran but still covering the big story
  COVID-19, Zika, edit-a-thons, and macrons.

• Discussion report: Rethinking draft space
  Plus: geonotices, reliable sources, and job titles.

• Arbitration report: Unfinished business
  A new case, a case returns from limbo, and an RfC being prepared.

• In focus: "I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein …"
  The twists and turns of Epstein’s portrayal on Wikipedia.

• Community view: Wikimedia community responds to COVID-19
  Individually and in organized groups, Wikimedians stand up and make a difference.

• Recent research: Disease outbreak uncertainties, AfD forecasting, auto-updating Wikipedia
  New research publications on "the fear of being erased" and other topics.

• From the archives: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own
  Five years ago with a different crisis.

• Traffic report: The only thing that matters in the world
  Going to movies and sport stadiums is history, and readers turn to Wikipedia for crucial medical information and updates.

• Gallery: Visible Women on Wikipedia
  Images from the Whose Knowlege? campaign.

• News from the WMF: Amid COVID-19, Wikimedia Foundation offers full pay for reduced hours, mobilizes all staff to work remote, and waives sick time
  The WMF responds.

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
  A selection of good news and encouraging stories from the Wikiverse.

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The Signpost: 26 April 2020

• News and notes: Unbiased information from Ukraine's government?
  The Ministry of Foreign Affairs pitches in.

• In the media: Coronavirus, again and again
  Plus the importance of language.

• Discussion report: Redesigning Wikipedia, bit by bit
  The Wikimedia community discusses modifying or hiding the sidebar on the left of every page.

• Featured content: Featured content returns
  Movies, roads, awards and more.

• Arbitration report: Two difficult cases
  Even our best editors sometimes disagree.

• Traffic report: Disease the Rhythm of the Night
  Coronavirus, coronavirus, and Joe Exotic.

• Gallery: Roy is doing fine and sending more photos
  A coronavirus cruise can't stop Roy!

• Recent research: Trending topics across languages; auto-detecting bias
  And other new research results.

• Essay: Wikipedia:An article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing
  And it could get worse!

• By the numbers: Open data and COVID-19: Wikipedia as an informational resource during the pandemic
  What COVID-19 data are available from the WMF?

• Opinion: Trusting Everybody to Work Together
  In an increasingly factious world, Wikipedia's approach to collaboration and trust-building point to a brighter future.

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
  A selection of good news and encouraging stories from the Wikiverse.

• Interview: Health and RfA's: An interview with Guy Macon
  A Wikipedia editor reflects on his recent RfA and the health issues that became part of it.

• In focus: Multilingual Wikipedia
  How to better integrate articles across language editions.

• WikiProject report: The Guild of Copy Editors
  An interview with members of the WP:GOCE

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The Signpost: 31 May 2020

• From the editor: Meltdown May?
  Or will it be meltdown June?

• News and notes: 2019 Picture of the Year, 200 French paid editing accounts blocked, 10 years of Guild Copyediting
  Many of these accounts now blocked on the English-language Wikipedia.

• In the media: CBS on COVID-19, Sanger on bias, false noses, and five prolific editors
  Worth Every Goddamn Second!

• Discussion report: WMF's Universal Code of Conduct
  It's no April Fool's joke, but we discuss those, too.

• Special report: The sum of human knowledge? Not in one Wikipedia language edition
  Cultural context, diversity, and the future of languages.

• Featured content: Weathering the storm
  Battles, bombs, wars, and more storms.

• Arbitration report: Board member likely to receive editing restriction
  Sanctions of multiple flavors, and a non-decision on the breadth of discretionary sanctions.

• Traffic report: Come on and slam, and welcome to the jam
  Time to bring on the Bulls.

• Op-Ed: Where Is Political Bias Taking Us?
  Straight down the tubes.

• Gallery: Wildlife photos by the book
  Birds, insects, elephants, a macaque and more.

• News from the WMF: WMF Board announces Community Culture Statement
  Enacting new standards to address harassment and promote inclusivity across projects.

• Recent research: Automatic detection of covert paid editing; Wiki Workshop 2020
  New results from academic research

• Community view: Transit routes and mapping during stay-at-home order downtime
  Hello Columbus.

• On video: COVID-19 spurs innovations in Wikimedia video and virtual programming
  Community harnesses new technologies for remote participation in events and gatherings

• WikiProject report: Revitalizing good articles
  Can our energy be turned into long-term change?

• On the bright side: 500,000 articles in the Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia
  A selection of good news and encouraging stories from the Wikiverse.

• Obituaries: Dmitrismirnov, Kattenkruid, Muidlatif, Ronhjones, Tsirel
  Rest in peace.

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The Signpost: 28 June 2020

• News and notes: Progress at Wikipedia Library and Wikijournal of Medicine
  Plus Swedish biographies and the big oops!

• Community view: Community open letter on renaming
  Reacting to the WMF's rebranding proposal.

• Gallery: After the killing of George Floyd
  Protests and photos from around the world...

• In the media: Part collaboration and part combat
  Racial justice, Facebook, LGBTQ+, Ryan Merkley, and a woman.

• Discussion report: Community reacts to WMF rebranding proposals
  Many Wikimedia community members are upset about the WMF's plan to rebrand. Plus, a discussion of Fox News's reliability.

• Featured content: Sports are returning, with a rainbow
  Battles, music, and animals feature prominently in this month's best content.

• Arbitration report: Anti-harassment RfC and a checkuser revocation
  The RfC should keep everybody busy.

• Traffic report: The pandemic, alleged murder, a massacre, and other deaths
  Plus Rajput, Musk, Epstein, Maxwell, Owens and Anonymous

• News from the WMF: We stand for racial justice
  On these issues, there is no neutral stance.

• Recent research: Wikipedia and COVID-19; automated Wikipedia-based fact-checking
  And other new research publications

• Interview: What is wrong with rebranding to "Wikipedia Foundation"?
  Four signers of the open letter explain.

• Humour: Cherchez une femme
  It's amazing what one can do.

• Opinion: Trying to find COI or paid editors? Just read the news
  A scientific scandal and the Ronaldo of investment banking.

• On the bright side: For what are you grateful this month?
  A selection of good news and encouraging stories from the Wikiverse.

• In focus: Edit Loud, Edit Proud: LGBTIQ+ Wikimedians and Global Information Activism
  The history and impact of LGBTIQ+ contributions to Wikimedia projects.

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Black Lives Matter
  How Wikipedia is covering racial injustice, both in the outer world and on-site

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The Signpost: 2 August 2020

• Special report: Wikipedia and the End of Open Collaboration?
  Comparing Wikipedia to similar projects.

• COI and paid editing: Some strange people edit Wikipedia for money
  And thanks for the photo, Ghislaine!

• News and notes: Abstract Wikipedia, a hoax, sex symbols, and a new admin
  Plus lots of affiliations!

• In the media: Dog days gone bad
  Pandemic, politics, and possibly paid editing.

• Discussion report: Fox News, a flight of RfAs, and banning policy
  Plus a proposed massive invasion of privacy!

• Featured content: Remembering Art, Valor, and Freedom
  soldiers, sports, and actors feature heavily this month.

• Traffic report: Now for something completely different
  Death and Alexander Hamilton.

• Gallery: Photos of threatened species from iNaturalist
  Sometimes you just have to ask.

• News from the WMF: New Chinese national security law in Hong Kong could limit the privacy of Wikipedia users
  Privacy is critical to sustaining freedom of expression and association, enabling knowledge and ideas to thrive.

• Recent research: Receiving thanks increases retention, but not the time contributed to Wikipedia
  And other new research publications

• Essay: Not compatible with a collaborative project
  Some editors aren't.

• Obituaries: Hasteur and Brian McNeil
  Rest in peace.

• In focus: WikiLoop DoubleCheck, reviewing edits made easy
  Making Wikipedia the encyclopedia that anyone can review.

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The Signpost: 30 August 2020

• News and notes: The high road and the low road
  Will the Scots language Wikipedia survive?

• In the media: Storytelling large and small
  COVID, Fox, Kamala, Scots, cryptocurrency, and more.

• Featured content: Going for the goal
  Sports, music, military and more

• Special report: Wikipedia's not so little sister is finding its own way
  Wikidata's profound impact on Wikipedia

• Op-Ed: The longest-running hoax
  Watch out for those Mustelodons!

• Traffic report: Heart, soul, umbrellas, and politics
  More politics than usual.

• News from the WMF: Fourteen things we’ve learned by moving Polish Wikimedia conference online
  Celebrating of our community in a different format.

• Recent research: Detecting spam, and pages to protect; non-anonymous editors signal their intelligence with high-quality articles
  And other new research results

• Arbitration report: A slow couple of months
  Everybody deserves a vacation!

• From the archives: Wikipedia for promotional purposes?
  A question from 2005 that we still haven't answered.

• Obituaries: Marcus Sherman, Jerome West, and Pauline van Till
  Rest in Peace.

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The Signpost: 27 September 2020

• Special report: Paid editing with political connections
  WE charity and Justin Trudeau, Bell Pottinger, Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs.

• News and notes: More large-scale errors at a "small" wiki
  With inline parenthetical citations!

• In the media: WIPO, Seigenthaler incident 15 years later
  A celebrity quiz, Scots, and a Crypto-hating Wikipedia editor

• Featured content: Life finds a Way
  Animals, sports, military, and science feature heavily in this month's best content.

• Arbitration report: Clarifications and requests
  Who is that guy JzG?

• Traffic report: Is there no justice?
  Perhaps on the tennis court.

• Recent research: Wikipedia's flood biases
  And other new research publications.

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The Signpost: 27 September 2020

• Special report: Paid editing with political connections
  WE charity and Justin Trudeau, Bell Pottinger, Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs.

• News and notes: More large-scale errors at a "small" wiki
  With inline parenthetical citations!

• In the media: WIPO, Seigenthaler incident 15 years later
  A celebrity quiz, Scots, and a Crypto-hating Wikipedia editor

• Featured content: Life finds a Way
  Animals, sports, military, and science feature heavily in this month's best content.

• Arbitration report: Clarifications and requests
  Who is that guy JzG?

• Traffic report: Is there no justice?
  Perhaps on the tennis court.

• Recent research: Wikipedia's flood biases
  And other new research publications.

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The Signpost: 1 November 2020

• News and notes: Ban on IPs on ptwiki, paid editing for Tatarstan, IP masking
  Branding pause, birthday.

• In the media: Murder, politics, religion, health and books
  A possible conspiracy and 2 infodemics!

• Book review: Review of Wikipedia @ 20
  We made it this far, but where do we go from here?

• Op-Ed: Anti-vandalism with masked IPs: the steps forward
  Getting input from editors.

• Discussion report: Proposal to change board composition, In The News dumps Trump story
  Will editors be affected?

• Featured content: The "Green Terror" is neither green nor sufficiently terrifying. Worst Hallowe'en ever.
  A hairy starfish flower might help!

• Traffic report: Jump back, what's that sound?
  Here comes the judge.

• Interview: Joseph Reagle and Jackie Koerner
  The co-editors of Wikipedia @ 20.

• News from the WMF: Meet the 2020 Wikimedian of the Year
  Sandister Tei.

• Recent research: OpenSym 2020: Deletions and gender, masses vs. elites, edit filters
  Ortega's hypothesis was right! (If you start with the right definitions and assumptions.)

• In focus: The many (reported) deaths of Wikipedia
  The grove continues to grow – despite periods of dismal predictions.

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The Signpost: 29 November 2020

• News and notes: Jimmy Wales "shouldn't be kicked out before he's ready"
  Arbitration Committee elections begin.

• Op-Ed: Re-righting Wikipedia
  Wikipedia deprecates more right-wing sources than left-wing sources ... but is it a problem?

• Opinion: How billionaires re-write Wikipedia
  Billionaires are different from you and me.

• In the media: Relying on Wikipedia: voters, scientists, and a Canadian border guard
  And yes, it does!

• Featured content: Frontonia sp. is thankful for delicious cyanobacteria
  The Réunion swamphen is a lot less thankful.

• Traffic report: 007 with Borat, the Queen, and an election
  Plus Alex Trebek and the Queen's Gambit.

• News from Wiki Education: An assignment that changed a life: Kasey Baker
  Wiki Education and changing our encyclopedia.

• GLAM plus: West Coast New Zealand's Wikipedian at Large
  Succeeding one step at a time.

• Wikicup report: Lee Vilenski wins the 2020 WikiCup
  Gog the Mild and The Rambling Man in second and third!

• Recent research: Wikipedia's Shoah coverage succeeds where libraries fail
  And other new research publications.

• Essay: Writing about women
  Male is not the default.

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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
  Congratulations to the new Arbs!

• 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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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.

• Traffic report: Does it almost feel like you've been here before?
  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

• News from the WMF: Project Rewrite: Tell the missing stories of women on Wikipedia and beyond
  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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The Signpost: 27 June 2021

• News and notes: Elections, Wikimania, masking and more
  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
  We'll be there for you!

• News from the WMF: Searching for Wikipedia
  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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The Signpost: 27 February 2022

• From the team: Selection of a new Signpost Editor-in-Chief
  Bye-bye 'bones!

• News and notes: Impacts of Russian invasion of Ukraine
  Plus, the Steward Elections, Leadership Development Task Force and a contest.

• Opinion: Why student editors are good for Wikipedia
  Who are the students and how do we assure quality?

• Special report: A presidential candidate's team takes on Wikipedia
  Vive l'encyclopédie libre!

• In the media: Wiki-drama in the UK House of Commons
  Plus, Wiki Unseen, the "Sports Wars", and much more.

• Serendipity: War photographers: from Crimea (1850s) to the Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022)
  "The first casualty when war comes is truth".

• Technology report: Community Wishlist Survey results
  Plus, DiscussionTools and dark mode.

• WikiProject report: 10 years of tea
  Coffee in Teahouse and other secrets revealed in this interview with volunteers.

• Featured content: Featured Content returns
  A fantastic diverse mix of a record-breaking amount of content.

• Deletion report: The 10 most SHOCKING deletion discussions of February
  You WON'T believe #8!

• Recent research: How editors and readers may be emotionally affected by disasters and terrorist attacks
  And other recent research publications.

• Arbitration report: Parties remonstrate, arbs contemplate, skeptics coordinate
  The report on lengthy litigation.

• By the numbers: Does birthplace affect the frequency of Wikipedia biography articles?
  Some evidence from people born in France.

• Gallery: The vintage exhibit
  Some good-ol' posters, restored to its former glory.

• Traffic report: Euphoria, Pamela Anderson, lies and Netflix
  Plus quarterbacks, half-timers, Olympians, and Hulu!

• News from Diff: The Wikimania 2022 Core Organizing Team
  Meet the folks in charge!

• Crossword: A Crossword, featuring Featured Articles
  Can you fill in the boxes with Wikipedia's best content?

• Humour: Notability of mailboxes
  Does yours pass?

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The Signpost: 27 March 2022

• From the Signpost team: How The Signpost is documenting the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  We stand in solidarity with free knowledge.

• News and notes: Of safety and anonymity
  The diff that resulted in arrest and jail time in Belarus.

• Eyewitness Wikimedian, Kharkiv, Ukraine: Countering Russian aggression with a camera
  A Ukrainian Wikipedian volunteers to document the war.

• Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary
  Reporting from on the ground in Ukraine.

• Eyewitness Wikimedian, Western Ukraine: Working with Wikipedia helps
  Holding up the elephants!

• Disinformation report: The oligarchs' socks
  For whom do the Bells toil?

• In the media: Ukraine, Russia, and even some other stuff
  Lenin did not say "Wow, check out those yachts"!

• Recent research: Top scholarly citers, lack of open access references, predicting editor departures
  And other research publications.

• Wikimedian perspective: My heroes from Russia, Ukraine & beyond
  The thought of cities being destroyed is unbearable.

• Discussion report: Athletes are less notable now
  The Discussion Report returns with a diverse mix of community proposals.

• Technology report: 2022 Wikimedia Hackathon
  Plus, Desktop Improvements and a new uploading tool for Commons.

• Arbitration report: Skeptics given heavenly judgement, whirlwind of Discord drama begins to spin for tropical cyclone editors
  Unclear whether storm will make landfall.

• Traffic report: War, what is it good for?
  Ukraine, Russia and Anna Sorokin.

• Deletion report: Ukraine, werewolves, Ukraine, YouTube pundits, and Ukraine
  Things that go "boom" in the night.

• Gallery: "All we are saying is, give peace a chance..."
  The once-seen beauty of Ukraine, in high quality.

• From the archives: Burn, baby burn
  A look at when early backups of Wikipedia were recovered.

• Essay: Yes, the sky is blue
  There is such thing as over-citing.

• Tips and tricks: Become a keyboard ninja
  And other useful Tips of the Day.

• On the bright side: The bright side of news
  Happy-er current events.

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The Signpost: 24 April 2022

• News and notes: Double trouble
  The second case of Wikipedian persecution.

• In the media: The battlegrounds outside and inside Wikipedia
  What's hot in the media this month.

• Special report: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war
  Writing Wikipedia, joining the armed forces, and volunteering.

• Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (Part 2)
  "Our proud Sparta bleeds too."

• Technology report: 8-year-old attribution issues in Media Viewer
  Plus, a new status page and Desktop Improvements.

• Featured content: Wikipedia's best content from March
  We showcase the best content that Wikipedians offered this past month.

• In focus: Editing difficulties on Russian Wikipedia
  A multi-national encyclopedia tries to move forward.

• Gallery: A voyage around the world with WLM winners
  Wiki Loves Monuments 2021 winners announced.

• Interview: On a war and a map
  How a war map predated Wikimedia's map of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

• Serendipity: Wikipedia loves photographs, but hates photographers
  Why not just link to an article to attribute famous photographers?

• Traffic report: Justice Jackson, the Smiths, and an invasion
  Plus deaths, films, and the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification.

• Recent research: Student edits as "civic engagement"; how Wikipedia readers interact with images
  And other new research findings

• News from the WMF: How Smart is the SMART Copyright Act?
  The deceptively simple Strengthening Measures to Advance Rights Technologies Copyright Act of 2022.

• Essay: The problem with elegant variation
  An elegant Wikipedia essay.

• Humour: Really huge message boxes
  A serious statement of Wikipedia policy.

• From the archives: Wales resigned WMF board chair in 2006 reorganization
  A look at when the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees was reorganized.

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The Signpost: 29 May 2022

• From the team: A changing of the guard
  Your two new Signpost Editors in Chief.

• News and notes: 2022 Wikimedia Board elections
  Plus, Form 990, fundraising, RfA and UCoC.

• Community view: Have your say in the 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections
  Community shortlisting in an affiliate-based process, and a poll for you to speak your mind.

• Opinion: The Wikimedia Endowment – a lack of transparency
  A little more information, please.

• In the media: Putin, Jimbo, Musk and more
  A varied collection of "special operations", and interviews.

• Special report: Three stories of Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war
  Tales of hope, perseverance and even a little humor.

• In focus: Measuring gender diversity in Wikipedia articles
  A new approach at the article level.

• Discussion report: Portals, April Fools, admin activity requirements and more
  We summarize the drama for you.

• WikiProject report: WikiProject COVID-19 revisited
  March 2020 WikiProject report interviewees return discussing project's evolution and future.

• Technology report: A new video player for Wikimedia wikis
  Plus, Growth Features configuration, the Hackathon, and more.

• Featured content: Featured content of April
  Showcasing the very best articles, pictures, videos, and other contributions from Wikipedians last month.

• Interview: Wikipedia's pride
  An interview with queer Wikimedians.

• Serendipity: Those thieving image farms
  Stopping them from taking your photos from Commons.

• Recent research: 35 million Twitter links analysed
  And other recent research findings.

• Tips and tricks: The reference desks of Wikipedia
  Helpful advice from Tips of the Day.

• Traffic report: Strange highs and strange lows
  Were Johnny and Amber exchanging blows?

• News from Diff: Winners of the Human rights and Environment special nomination by Wiki Loves Earth announced
  Photos raise awareness for nature protection and human impact on nature.

• News from the WMF: The EU Digital Services Act: What’s the Deal with the Deal?
  New regulations governing online censorship.

• Video: How the entire country of Qatar was blocked from editing
  A lighthearted video recalling the 2006 incident.

• Gallery: Diving under the sea for World Oceans Day
  Exploring Featured Pictures of the world's oceans.

• From the archives: The Onion and Wikipedia
  A look at when The Onion published an humorous article regarding Wikipedia.

• Essay: How not to write a Wikipedia article
  On creative works.

• Humour: A new crossword
  Test your word-puzzle skills!

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The Signpost: 26 June 2022

• News and notes: WMF inks new rules on government-ordered takedowns, blasts Russian feds' censor demands, spends big bucks
  Office actions to secretly delete stuff when told to? Well, at least not if they're Putin's.

• In the media: Editor given three-year sentence, big RfA makes news, Guy Standing takes it sitting down
  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.

• Special report: "Wikipedia's independence" or "Wikimedia's pile of dosh"?
  A review of Wikipedia's fundraising messages and financial status.

• Discussion report: MoS rules on CCP name mulled, XRV axe plea nulled, BLPPROD drafting bid pulled
  Just three for the history books this month (or not).

• Opinion: Picture of the Day – how Adam plans to ru(i)n it
  Famed FP ace steps up to run main page outfit. Millions tremble in fear, or something.

• Featured content: Articles on Scots' clash, Yank's tux, Austrian's action flick deemed brilliant prose
  And who can forget the black-breasted buttonquail.

• Essay: RfA trend line haruspicy: fact or fancy?
  Don't be dumb, says math whiz: avoid the gambler's fallacy. Illustrated for your pleasure.

• Recent research: Wikipedia versus academia (again), tables' "immortality" probed
  Tables "like to socialize" and "share genes": ooh la la!

• Serendipity: Was she really a Swiss lesbian automobile racer?
  What's the deal with Anita Forrer, redlinked woman of mystery who saved Schwarzenbach archives?

• News from the WMF: Wikimedia Enterprise signs first deals
  Google and Internet Archive sold on new product, more customers hoped to follow.

• Traffic report: Top view counts for shows, movies, and celeb lawsuit that keeps on giving
  Plus editing stampedes for cheery subjects: shootings, deaths, and virus.

• Gallery: Celebration of summer, winter
  Lest Southern Hemisphere be forgotten.

• Humour: Shortcuts, screwballers, Simon & Garfunkel
  Can we offer you a nice crossword in this trying time?

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The Signpost: 1 August 2022

• From the editors: Rise of the machines, or something
  The future of stuff? Who knows, but two articles were written by a computer this month.

• News and notes: Information considered harmful
  Wikipedia and human rights, publishers and the Internet Archive, Russia and Wikipedia.

• In the media: Censorship, medieval hoaxes, "pathetic supervillains", FB-WMF AI TL bid, dirty duchess deeds done dirt cheap
  Real news or silly season?

• Op-Ed: The "recession" affair
  IGNORANCE IS NOT STRENGTH.

• Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (part 3)
  "This year's victory was sad and dull."

• Election guide: The chosen six: 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections
  Candidate op-eds, open question spaces, and more.

• Community view: Youth culture and notability
  Was Minecraft YouTuber a GNG pass in life, or only in death?

• Opinion: Criminals among us
  Mass murderers, sex criminals, Ponzi schemers, insider traders, and business people.

• Arbitration report: Winds of change blow for cyclone editors, deletion dustup draws toward denouement
  The last three months of arbitration through the eyes of a GPT-3

• Deletion report: This is Gonzo Country
  GPT-3 whips it out.

• Discussion report: Notability for train stations, notices for mobile editors, noticeboards for the rest of us
  And when is 'today'?

• Traffic report: US TV, JP ex-PM, outer space, and politics of IN, US, UK top charts for July
  The world shows its messy complexity.

• Featured content: A little list with surprisingly few lists
  More lists expected next month.

• Tips and tricks: Cleaning up awful citations with Citation bot
  It doesn't have to be a pain in the butt!

• In focus: Wikidata insights from a handy little tool
  PAC2 explains the item documentation template.

• On the bright side: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war — three (more) stories
  Education, climate change, and journalism.

• Essay: How to research an image
  Zoom and enhance.

• Recent research: A century of rulemaking on Wikipedia analyzed
  And other new research findings.

• Serendipity: Don't cite Wikipedia
  But Commons is a treasure trove.

• Gallery: A backstage pass
  All the things about theatre that the general public misses out on.

• From the archives: 2012 Russian Wikipedia shutdown as it happened
  Ten years ago, Russian Wikipedia went dark in protest of new Russian laws. Today...

• Humour: Why did the chicken cross the road?
  Strange mysteries of our animal world.

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The Signpost: 31 August 2022

• News and notes: Admins wanted on English Wikipedia, IP editors not wanted on Farsi Wiki, donations wanted everywhere
  jimmy@wikipedia.org donate@wikimedia.org (not a typo?) wants a moment of your time.

• Special report: Wikimania 2022: no show, no show up?
  Why the 'Festival Edition' was less than perfect, and what we can do better.

• In the media: Truth or consequences? A tough month for truth
  But Annie Rauwerda is the real thing!

• Discussion report: Boarding the Trustees
  2022 elections, new page patrol, Fox News, Vector 2022, Royal Central and external links

• News from Wiki Education: 18 years a Wikipedian: what it means to me
  Change and stability.

• In focus: Thinking inside the box
  All there is to know about userboxen.

• Tips and tricks: The unexpected rabbit hole of typo fixing in citations...
  Sometimes Citation bot is not enough.

• Technology report: Vector (2022) deployment discussions happening now
  Plus, the Private Incident Reporting System, and new bots & user scripts!

• Serendipity: Two photos of every library on earth
  One exterior, one interior.

• Featured content: Our man drills are safe for work, but our Labia is Fausta.
  Also includes a campaign to "Suck for Luck".

• Recent research: The dollar value of "official" external links
  And other new research

• Traffic report: What dreams (and heavily trafficked articles) may come
  Because there really is no real theme this month you can grab onto to give a catchy title.

• Essay: Delete the junk!
  Some articles aren't worth saving

• Gallery: A Fringe Affair (but not the show by Edward W. Feery that was on this year)
  Edinburgh in August.

• Humour: CommonsComix No. 1
  Because the Signpost needs a cartoon.

• From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 years ago
  The Signpost looks back on The Signpost: New reports, conceived in a spirit of collaboration, and dedicated to the proposition of information and, uh, more information for all.

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The Signpost: 30 September 2022

• News and notes: Board vote results, bot's big GET, crat chat gives new mop, WMF seeks "sound logo" and "organizer lab"
  Candidates sign off and peel out – Sigalov is on and Peel is in.

• In focus: NPP: Still heaven or hell for new users – and for the reviewers
  Just what is NPP? Why does it need the WMF? Why does it need YOU?

• In the media: A few complaints and mild disagreements
  Was Katherine Maher a former encyclopedia salesperson?

• Special report: Decentralized Fundraising, Centralized Distribution
  The latest from the Wikimedia Deutschland Movement Strategy & Global Relations Team.

• Discussion report: Much ado about Fox News
  Source reliability, NPP, and appearance discussions.

• Interview: ScottishFinnishRadish's Request for Adminship
  Find out firsthand what our newest admin, ScottishFinnishRadish, does with a chainsaw.

• Opinion: Are we ever going to reach consensus?
  Some Articles for Deletion just drag on.

• Serendipity: Removing watermarks, copyright signs and cigarettes from photos
  Suggestion: promote removal of visible copyright signs of images under a CC-BY license.

• Recent research: How readers assess Wikipedia's trustworthiness, and how they could in the future
  And other research news.

• Traffic report: Kings and queens and VIPs
  Repeat after me: I solemnly swear not to put "oh my!" in a headline.

• Featured content: Farm-fresh content
  This month: A FACBot upgrade, a completed list of lists.

• Gallery: A Festival Descends on the City: The Edinburgh Fringe, Pt. 2
  Lo!

• CommonsComix: CommonsComix 2: Paulus Moreelse
  When Commons gives you a blank space...

• From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 Years ago: September 2022
  Yes, again.

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The Signpost: 31 October 2022

• From the team: A new goose on the roost
  Or maybe the spit -- only time will tell.

• News and notes: Wikipedians question Wikimedia fundraising ethics after "somewhat-viral" tweet
  News from Twitter, Commons and the WMF C-Suite.

• News from the WMF: Governance updates from, and for, the Wikimedia Endowment
  501(c)(3) application approved, Amazon donates another million.

• In the media: Scribing, searching, soliciting, spying, and systemic bias
  Wading into several controversies.

• Disinformation report: From Russia with WikiLove
  I can has Kremlin sockfarms?

• Recent research: Disinformatsiya: Much research, but what will actually help Wikipedia editors?
  And other new research publications.

• 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
  What tales echo in these hallowed halls.

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The Signpost: 28 November 2022

• News and notes: English Wikipedia editors: "We don't need no stinking banners"
  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.

• Opinion: Privacy on Wikipedia in the cyberpunk future
  Oh, just one more thing... AI couldn't help but notice you use that punctuation a little bit more than most people...

• Disinformation report: Missed and Dissed
  Are government goons prowling our fair encyclopedia?

• Op-Ed: Diminishing returns for article quality
  Have we gotten past the point where better articles makes us a better encyclopedia? And what comes next?

• Book review: Writing the Revolution
  Heather Ford's new volume on Wikipedia, knowledge and power in the 2011 Egyptian revolution.

• Technology report: Galactic dreams, encyclopedic reality
  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.

• Essay: The Six Million FP Man
  Okay, six hundred, but either way, the bionic editor speaks.

• Tips and tricks: (Wiki)break stuff
  Productively doing nothing

• Recent research: Study deems COVID-19 editors smart and cool, questions of clarity and utility for WMF's proposed "Knowledge Integrity Risk Observatory"
  And other research findings.

• Featured content: A great month for featured articles
  Do consider joining FPC, though: we need you.

• Obituary: A tribute to Michael Gäbler
  They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

• Concept: The relevance of legal certainty to the English Wikipedia
  A lost article from our deep annals

• Traffic report: Musical deaths, murders, Princess Di's nominative determinism, and sports
  The weeks and weeks, as reviewed by Wikipedia's readers.

• From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
  Search upgrades, lawsuits, paid editing, and personal reflection.

• CommonsComix: Joker's trick
  A toast to good health, a health to good hoax, a hoax to good toast.

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The Signpost: 1 January 2023

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation ousts, bans quarter of Arabic Wikipedia admins
  Plus admin update and cool tools for the new year.

• In the media: Odd bedfellows, Elon and Jimbo, reliable sources for divorces, and more
  Sometimes you need to read more than just the headlines!

• Interview: ComplexRational's RfA debrief
  Interview of ComplexRational about their recent request for adminship.

• Technology report: Wikimedia Foundation's Abstract Wikipedia project "at substantial risk of failure"
  Wikifunctions might drag it down.

• Essay: Mobile editing
  Frustrations and successes.

• Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee Election 2022
  Congratulations.

• Recent research: Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement in talk page disputes
  And other new research findings.

• Serendipity: Wikipedia about FIFA World Cup 2022: quick, factual and critical
  How Iranian press agencies help Wikipedia to reflect football in a better way.

• Featured content: Would you like to swing on a star?
  You head into the featured content report. Amongst the features you see astronauts, both Gilbert and Sullivan, Ursula K. Le Guin's incredibly talented mother, and Billboard charts. It is pitch black, you are likely to be eaten by a grue.

• Traffic report: Football, football, football! Wikipedia Football Club!
  It is mostly about football!

• CommonsComix: #4: The Course of WikiEmpire
  In which a couple sentences of text recontextualises an image.

• From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
  Photographers, Sandy Hook, the shocking use of Nazi symbols in articles about Nazis, and "You wouldn't recognise a fact if it bit you in the ass".

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The Signpost: 16 January 2023

• From the team: We heard zoomers liked fortnights: the biweekly Signpost rides again
  It's not just a phase! Well, maybe it is.

• Special report: Coverage of 2022 bans reveals editors serving long sentences in Saudi Arabia since 2020
  Long-time contributors imprisoned for 32 and 8 years after "swaying public opinion" and "violating public morals".

• News and notes: Revised Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines up for vote, WMF counsel departs, generative models under discussion
  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.

• Technology report: View it! A new tool for image discovery
  The depths of Commons, at your fingertips. Or eyetips.

• In focus: Busting into Grand Central
  Debunking widely-told myths about New York's grandest and centralest railway station.

• Serendipity: How I bought part of Wikipedia – for less than $100
  The economics of Wikipedia.

• Gallery: What is our responsibility when it comes to images?
  When notability conflicts with what it might be used for.

• 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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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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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

• Traffic report: And it's hard to watch some cricket, in the cold November Rain
  If you don't fancy the sport that occupies over 25% of the slots in these lists, there's always movies, celebrities, and political follies to fall back on – or an unusual fired-for-the-weekend CEO.

• Humour: Mandy Rice-Davies Applies
  This page in a nutshell: Whether or not someone has denied unsavory allegations — though such a denial may not merit being given equal weight in an article — a worthless shitpost should still be included.

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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
  And other new research publications.

• 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
  Edit summary: "Only need this page for about 30 minutes to demonstrate to a friend how easy it is to create a Wikipedia page. Then it will be deleted."

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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]"
  And other new research publications.

• 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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The Signpost: 2 October 2025

• News and notes: Larry Sanger returns with "Nine Theses on Wikipedia"; WMF publishes transparency report
  This time "not merely negative".

• In the media: Extraordinary eruption of "EVIL" explained
  Wickedpedia wrangles post-truth politics.

• Disinformation report: Emails from a paid editing client
  Unexpected news!

• Discussion report: Sourcing, conduct, policy and LLMs: another 1,339 threads analyzed
  Fifty hot topics from fourteen noticeboards.

• Community view: The pressing questions of the modern WWW, as seen from the Village Pump
  Policy, politics, icons, captchas, and LLMs.

• Recent research: Is Wikipedia a merchant of (non-)doubt for glyphosate?; eight projects awarded Wikimedia Research Fund grants
  And other recent publications.

• Opinion: Some disputes aren't worth it
  When to walk away.

• Obituary: Michael Q. Schmidt
  Rest in peace.

• Traffic report: Death, hear me call your name
  Celebrities, deaths and software.

• Comix: A grand spectacle
  All invited!

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The Signpost: 20 October 2025

• News and notes: Board shuffles, LLM blocks increase, IPs are going away
  And the "Global Resource Distribution Committee" emerges.

• Special report: The election that isn't
  Two shortlisted WMF Board candidates removed from the ballot.

• Interview: The BoT bump
  Who was bumped and why?

• In the media: An incident at WikiConference North America; WMF reports AI-related traffic drop and explains Wikipedia to US conservatives
  ...while Musk prepares to launch "Grokipedia".

• Traffic report: One click after another
  Serial-killer miniseries, deceased scientist, government shutdowns and Sandalwood hit "Kantara" crowd the tubes.

• Humour: Wikipedia pay rates
  Don't get too excited before you read this.

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The Signpost: 10 November 2025

• News and notes: Temporary accounts go live and WMF board member self-suspends
  ArbCom elections draw close, and Wikimania '27 in Santiago.

• Community view: Six Wikipedians' thoughts on Grokipedia, and the humanity of it all
  It ain't a five course meal, according to one of our interviewees.

• Wikicup report: BeanieFan11, WikiCup victor of 2025, covers the results
  Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

• In the media: Jimbo's book, an argument about genocide, and a train of shame
  Wikipedia's new rival, political controversy in Italy and other Wiki-reports.

• Recent research: Taking stock of the 2024–2025 research grants
  $400,000 USD in total funding: what did we get?

• Opinion: With Grokipedia, top-down control of knowledge is new again
  Does it shed any light on particular topics that are better suited to LLM-generation than others?

• Obituary: Struway
  Rest in peace.

• Traffic report: The documentaried, the disowned, the deceased, Diwali and the Dodgers
  You know your man is working hard, he's worth a deuce.

• Comix: Head of steam
  'Sblood!

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The Signpost: 1 December 2025

• News and notes: Election cycles come and go, and Wikimedia Foundation achieves record revenue in 2024–2025!
  Admin and ArbCom elections upcoming, BoT elects two new members, task force advises to close Wikinews and keep Wikispore, and other news from the Wikimedia world.

• In the media: Wales walk-off, antisemitism, supernatural powers, feminism turmoil, saints, and sex
  Plus mammoth mummy sex-change operation completed!

• Recent research: At least 80 million inconsistent facts on Wikipedia – can AI help find them?
  And other recent publications about contradictions and retractions.

• Disinformation report: Epstein email exchanges planned strategy, edits and reported progress
  At work on Wikipedia whitewashing. How much should they be paid?

• Traffic report: It's a family affair
  Even in these times there is something to be thankful for!

• Book review: The Seven Rules of Trust
  Jimmy Wales and Dan Gardner write a book inspired by Wikipedia. What's in it?

• From the archives: "I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein ..."
  The twists and turns of Epstein’s portrayal on Wikipedia.

• Humour: An interview with Wikipe-tan
  A conversation about being the mascot of Wikipedia.

• Opinion: AI finds errors in 90% of Wikipedia's best articles
  Using ChatGPT to fact-check a month's worth of Today's featured articles.

• Serendipity: Highlights from the itWikiCon 2025
  A recap of the latest convention of the Italian Wiki-community, held in Catania from 7–9 November.

• Comix: Madness
  It could happen to anyone.

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The Signpost: 17 December 2025

• Interview: Part 1: Bernadette Meehan
  Say hello to the new WMF CEO.

• News and notes: We're gonna have a party!
  And a new WMF CEO!

• In the media: The "bigg" bosses: Robertsky and the Pope
  Pay up, big guys!

• Traffic report: Death and stranger things
  And going for the FIFA prize!

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