User talk:Justus Nussbaum

Personal guideline (*irony*)

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Wikipedia: Authority control

Hours ago you added {{Authority control}} to an article on my watchlist. Do you have any suggestions, or can you point to a guideline, how other wikipedia editors should use those linked resources? See Wikipedia talk: Authority control#Citation. --P64 (talk) 23:50, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Well, first of all it's not my invention but a librarian project method. It provides "unique identifying" of artists/authors. As I am mainly contributer to german wikipedia I can tell you just what practical uses I have found. The Library of Congress as well as the German National Library are by law collectors of all published books etc. and very reliable. So you can frequently find out any missing dates by looking it up there. Not always they have complete data on birth years or alike but who cares. I hope that could help you out. -- Justus Nussbaum (talk) 14:49, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

Example given: Benjamin_H._D._Buchloh diff=481318753&oldid=449394441 Diff, birthyear won by VIAF. -- Justus Nussbaum (talk) 12:48, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

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	Hey. Thanks for trans-editing the page of Jakob Arjouni. Merry Christmas Stevenchan0104 (talk) 12:11, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

OOps, thank you - what a surprise! - Happy New Year to you and all fellow wikipedians! -- Just N. 13:51, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

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Hello, I'm BracketBot. I have automatically detected that your edit to Kerry Greenwood may have broken the syntax by modifying 1 "[]"s. If you have, don't worry: just edit the page again to fix it. If I misunderstood what happened, or if you have any questions, you can leave a message on my operator's talk page.

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• | SHORT DESCRIPTION =Australian crime writer]

Thanks, BracketBot (talk) 08:13, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

Corrected. -- Just N. 11:30, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

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Eric Kim (comics)

Hi. Thanks for working to improve the site with your edit to Eric Kim (comics). However, the edit had to be reverted, because Wikipedia cannot accept uncited material or original research. This includes material lacking cited sources, material obtained through personal knowledge, or which constitutes the an analysis or interpretation by the editor that is not found in cited sources. Wikipedia requires that the material in its articles be accompanied by reliable, verifiable (usually secondary) sources explicitly cited in the article text in the form of an inline citation. Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 17:29, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

Sorry for you, but I don't think that this revert is correct and acceptable. 1. You cite a whole small shot charge of general rules BUT forget completely to name the spot you are aiming at. You leave it to me to guess what you criticize in detail. This is not at all careful wikipedia work! 2. The year of birth '1977' is indeed backed by a very good reliable source: the VIAF. I just hesitated to put it into the input form. 3. For all this reasons it will be allright to redo your action. I hope you can consent after having investigated the given facts. -- Just N. 18:59, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

"...BUT forget completely to name the spot you are aiming at. You leave it to me to guess what you criticize in detail."

Only if you don't bother looking at the diff I linked to above. The "spot" in question was the information you added to the article, which is not a lot of information, and which the diff I linked to above clearly shows. You could also look at the diff showing my removal of it. Or even asked me about it. So your statement that there was no indication as to which information I was referring to was demonstrably false, as is your statement that my message above wasn't "careful".

If his birth year and being from Toronto are supported by a reliable source, then you have to cite that source in the article. You've been editing here since 2006, so you should know that by now. I have no idea what you mean by "input form". Wikipedia requires that the material in its articles be accompanied by reliable, verifiable (usually secondary) sources explicitly cited in the article text in the form of an inline citation, which you can learn to make here. You stated in your first edit summary that you were "improving references". But in fact, you added no references at all to the article, either for his year of birth, or for his being from Toronto.

As for what would've been "allright", it would've been all right to have adhered to the Verifiability policy, and if necessary, to have discussed it with me if you didn't understand my edit. Not simply revert it because you neglected to click on the diff links above and see which information I was talking about. Nightscream (talk) 23:12, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

Okay, I see the VIAF link on the bottom of the article. It needs to be placed near the supported passages, per WP:PAIC and WP:CS. I've restored the info, and with the proper citation. Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 23:17, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Wikimania: Promised the moon, settled for the stars
• Op-ed: Red links, blue links, and erythrophobia
• Special report: Twitter bots catalogue government edits to Wikipedia
• News and notes: Media Viewer controversy spreads to German Wikipedia
• Wikimedia in education: Wikimedia Global Education: WMF's Perspective
• In the media: Monkey selfie, net neutrality, and hoaxes
• Featured content: Cambridge got a lot of attention this week
• Traffic report: Disease, decimation and distraction

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The Signpost: 20 August 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Interview: Improving the visibility of digital archival assets using Wikipedia
• Traffic report: Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero
• WikiProject report: Bats and gloves
• Featured content: English Wikipedia departs for Japan
• Op-ed: A new metric for Wikimedia

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The Signpost: 27 August 2014

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• Featured content: Cheats at Featured Pictures!
• In the media: Plagiarism and vandalism dominate Wikipedia news
• News and notes: Media Viewer—Wikimedia's emotional roller-coaster
• Traffic report: Viral

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The Signpost: 03 September 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Arbitration report: Media viewer case is suspended
• Featured content: 1882 × 5 in gold, and thruppence more
• Op-ed: Automated copy-and-paste detection under trial
• Recent research: A Wikipedia-based Pantheon; new Wikipedia analysis tool suite; how AfC hamstrings newbies
• Traffic report: Holding Pattern
• WikiProject report: Gray's Anatomy (v. 2)

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The Signpost: 10 September 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: Media Viewer software is not ready
• Featured content: The louse and the fish's tongue
• WikiProject report: Checking that everything's all right
• Traffic report: Refuge in celebrity

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The Signpost: 17 September 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Wikipedia's traffic statistics are off by nearly one-third
• In the media: Turkish Twitter outrage, medical translation, audience metrics
• WikiProject report: A trip up north to Scotland
• Featured content: Which is not like the others?
• Traffic report: Tolstoy leads a varied pack

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The Signpost: 24 September 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• In the media: Indian political editing, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Congressional chelonii
• Featured content: Oil paintings galore
• Traffic report: Wikipedia watches the election in Scotland
• WikiProject report: GAN reviewers take note: competition time
• Arbitration report: Banning Policy, Gender Gap, and Waldorf education
• Recent research: 99.25% of Wikipedia birthdates accurate; focused Wikipedians live longer; merging WordNet, Wikipedia and Wiktionary

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The Signpost: 01 October 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: The Signpost needs your help
• News and notes: Wikipedia article published in peer-reviewed journal; Wikipedia in education
• Dispatches: Let's get serious about plagiarism
• Featured content: Brothers at War
• Traffic report: Shanah Tovah
• WikiProject report: Animals, farms, forests, USDA? It must be WikiProject Agriculture

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The Signpost: 08 October 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• In the media: Opposition research firm blocked; Australian brushfire
• Featured content: From a wordless novel to a coat of arms via New York City
• Traffic report: Panic and denial
• Technology report: HHVM is the greatest thing since sliced bread

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The Signpost: 15 October 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Arbitration report: One case closed and two opened
• Featured content: Bells ring out at the Temple of the Dragon at Peace
• In the media: College player falsely linked to sports scandal by Wikipedia; the Nobel Prizes
• Op-ed: Ships—sexist or sexy?
• Technology report: Attempting to parse wikitext
• Traffic report: Now introducing ... mobile data
• WikiProject report: Signpost reaches the Midwest

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The Signpost: 22 October 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• In the media: The story of Wikipedia; Wikipedia reanimated and republished; UK government social media rules; death of Italian Wikipedia administrator
• Featured content: Admiral on deck: a modern Ada Lovelace
• Op-ed: Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution—a wiki-protest
• WikiProject report: De-orphanning articles - a huge task but with a huge team of volunteers to help
• Traffic report: Death, War, Pestilence... Movies and TV

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The Signpost: 29 October 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Featured content: Go West, young man (By the way, there is a monster at the end of this article)
• In the media: Wikipedia a trusted source on Ebola; Wikipedia study labeled government waste; football biography goes viral
• Maps tagathon: Find 10,000 digitised maps this weekend
• Recent research: Informed consent and privacy; newsmaking on Wikipedia; Wikipedia and organizational theories
• Traffic report: Ebola, Ultron, and Creepy Articles

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The Signpost: 05 November 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• In the media: Predicting the flu; MH17 conspiracy theories
• Traffic report: Sweet dreams on Halloween

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The Signpost: 12 November 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• In the media: Amazon Echo; EU freedom of panorama; Bluebeard's Castle
• Featured content: Wikipedia goes to church in Lithuania
• WikiProject report: Talking hospitals
• Traffic report: Holidays, anyone?

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The Signpost: 26 November 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Featured content: Orbital Science: Now you're thinking with explosions
• In the media: A Russian alternative Wikipedia; Who's your grandfather?; ArtAndFeminism
• Recent research: Gender gap and skills gap; academic citations on the rise; European food cultures
• Traffic report: Big in Japan
• WikiProject report: Back with the military historians

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The Signpost: 03 December 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: Who edits health-related content on Wikipedia and why?
• In the media: Embroidery and cheese
• Featured content: ABCD: Any Body Can Dance!
• Traffic report: Turkey and a movie
• WikiProject report: Today on the island

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The Signpost: 10 December 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: It's GLAM up North!
• In the media: Wikipedia is "a rancorous, sexist, elitist, stupidly bureaucratic mess"
• Traffic report: Dead Black Men and Science Fiction
• Featured content: Honour him, love and obey? Good idea with military leaders.

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The Signpost: 17 December 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• In the media: Wikipedia's year in review video; Checking in with Wikipedia's founders
• Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee election results
• Featured content: Tripping hither, tripping thither, Nobody knows why or whither; We must dance and we must sing, Round about our fairy ring!
• Traffic report: A December Lull

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The Signpost: 24 December 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: Looking for new editors-in-chief
• In the media: Wales on GamerGate
• Featured content: Still quoting Iolanthe, apparently.
• WikiProject report: Microsoft does The Signpost
• Traffic report: North Korea is not pleased

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The Signpost: 31 December 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: The next big step for Wikidata—forming a hub for researchers
• In the media: Study tour controversy; class tackles the gender gap
• Op-ed: My issues with the Wiki Education Foundation
• Featured content: A bit fruity
• Traffic report: Surfin' the Yuletide
• Recent research: Wikipedia in higher education; gender-driven talk page conflicts; disease forecasting

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The Signpost: 07 January 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Interview: Interview with Jakob, one of Wikipedia's more prolific waterway contributors
• In the media: ISIL propaganda video; AirAsia complaints
• Featured content: Kock up
• Traffic report: Auld Lang Syne

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The Signpost: 14 January 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Featured content: Citations are needed
• In the media: Wikipedia's birthday brings tributes, app, award; Castro death rumors
• News and notes: Erasmus Prize recognizes the global Wikipedia community
• Op-ed: Articles for creation needs you
• Traffic report: Wikipédia sommes Charlie
• WikiProject report: Articles for Creation: the Inside Story

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The Signpost: 21 January 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: Introducing your new editors-in-chief
• Anniversary: A decade of the Signpost
• Interview: WWII veteran honors shipmates through Wikipedia editing
• Op-ed: Let's make WikiProjects better
• News and notes: Annual report released; Wikimania; steward elections
• In the media: Johann Hari; bandishes and delicate flowers
• Featured content: Yachts, marmots, boat races, and a rocket engineer who attempted to birth a goddess
• Arbitration report: As one door closes, a (Gamer)Gate opens
• Technology report: The future of MediaWiki

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The Signpost: 28 January 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: An editorial board that includes you

• Special report: Traffic in the fog—2014's most popular articles include death, Facebook, and Ebola

• In focus: Thirteen editors sanctioned in mammoth GamerGate arbitration case

• Forum: Evaluating the Arbitration Committee's handling of GamerGate

• In the media: A murderous week for Wikipedia

• Featured content: Like Jack Kerouac's On The Road, this week's issue was written on amphetamines

• Traffic report: A sea of faces

• Recent research: Bot writes about theatre plays; "Renaissance editors" create better content

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The Signpost: 04 February 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: No men beyond this point: the proposal to create a no-men space on Wikipedia
• Op-ed: Is Wikipedia for sale?
• In the media: Gamergate and Muhammad controversies continue
• Traffic report: The American Heartland
• Featured content: It's raining men!
• Arbitration report: Slamming shut the GamerGate
• WikiProject report: Dicing with death – on Wikipedia?
• Technology report: Security issue fixed; VisualEditor changes
• Gallery: Langston Hughes

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The Signpost: 11 February 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editors: We want to know what you think!
• News and notes: One editor faces likely ban for work on Wikipedia; another awarded $1 million
• In the media: Is Wikipedia eating itself?
• Traffic report: Bowled over
• WikiProject report: Brand new WikiProjects profiled
• Featured content: A grizzly bear, Operation Mascot, Freedom Planet & Liberty Island, cosmic dust clouds, a cricket five-wicket list, more fine art, & a terrible, terrible opera...
• Gallery: Feel the love

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The Signpost: 18 February 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Editorial: Recent retirements typify problem of admin attrition
• In the media: Students' use and perception of Wikipedia
• Special report: Revision scoring as a service
• Traffic report: February is for lovers
• Gallery: Darwin Day
• Featured content: A load of bull-sized breakfast behind the restaurant, Koi feeding, a moray eel, Spaghetti Nebula and other fishy, fishy fish
• Arbitration report: We've built the nuclear reactor; now what colour should we paint the bikeshed?

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The Signpost: 25 February 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Did WMF "participate" in nefarious activity?
• Op-ed: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own
• In the media: WikiGnomes and Bigfoot
• Gallery: Far from home
• Traffic report: Fifty Shades of... self-denial?
• Featured content: The Moon, Mars, Venus, and Saturn, in no particular order. Also, Kaiser Kong.
• Recent research: Gender bias, SOPA blackout, and a student assignment that backfired
• WikiProject report: Be prepared... Scouts in the spotlight
• Blog: Join the Wikimedia strategy consultation

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The Signpost: 25 February 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Did WMF "participate" in nefarious activity?
• Op-ed: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own
• In the media: WikiGnomes and Bigfoot
• Traffic report: Fifty Shades of... self-denial?
• Featured content: The Moon, Mars, Venus, and Saturn, in no particular order. Also, Kaiser Kong.
• Recent research: Gender bias, SOPA blackout, and a student assignment that backfired
• Gallery: Far from home
• WikiProject report: Be prepared... Scouts in the spotlight
• Blog: Join the Wikimedia strategy consultation

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The Signpost: 04 March 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: A sign of the times—the Signpost revamps its internal structure to make contributing easier
• Editorial: Conspiracy theories distract from real questions about grantmaking report
• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation and OTRS team both publish quarterly reports, indicate operating changes
• Interview: Meet a paid editor
• Traffic report: Attack of the movies
• In the media: Kanye West rebranded; Wikipedia in court; editors for hire
• Blog: Black History Month edit-a-thons tackle Wikipedia’s multicultural gaps
• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
• Featured content: Ploughing fields and trading horses with Rosa Bonheur
• Arbitration report: Bradspeaks—impact, regrets, and advice; current cases hinge on sex, religion, and ... infoboxes

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The Signpost: 11 March 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: An advance look at the WMF's fundraising survey

• In focus: WMF to NSA: "stop spying on Wikipedia users"

• News and notes: WikiWomen's History Month—meetups, blog posts, and "Inspire" grant-making campaign

• In the media: Gamergate; a Wiki hoax; Kanye West

• Traffic report: Wikipedia: handing knowledge to the world, one prank at a time

• Featured content: Here they come, the couple plighted –

• Op-ed: Why the Core Contest matters

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The Signpost: 18 March 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: A salute to Pine

• Op-ed: Does the Wikimedia fundraising survey address community concerns?

• News and notes: SUL finalization imminent; executive office shake-ups at the Foundation

• In the media: NYPD editing articles regarding allegations of police brutality and misconduct

• Featured content: A woman who loved kings, a king who loved angels ...

• Traffic report: It's not cricket

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The Signpost: 25 March 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation adopts open-access research policy

• Op-ed: How my father's railroad image collection now benefits the world: the value of digitization

• Featured content: A carnival of animals, a river of dung, a wasteland of uncles, and some people with attitude

• Special report: Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2014

• Traffic report: Oddly familiar

• Recent research: Most important people; respiratory reliability; academic attitudes

• Blog: The Wikipedia Library Team reflects on its new Visiting Scholars program

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The Signpost: 01 April 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• In focus: WMF's latest strategy document shows successes, vagueness, and the need for better data
• In the media: Wiki-PR duo bulldoze a piñata store; Wifione arbitration case; French parliamentary plagiarism
• Traffic report: All over the place
• Featured content: Stop Press. Marie Celeste Mystery Solved. Crew Found Hiding In Wardrobe.

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The Signpost: 08 April 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: We are drowning in promotional artspam
• News and notes: Advancement department to be created at the Foundation, milestone fixes
• In the media: Wikipedia on 60 Minutes, Kickstarter, and in the classroom
• WikiProject report: WikiProject Christianity
• Featured content: Partisan arrangements, dodgy dollars, a mysterious union of strings, and a hole that became a monument
• Traffic report: Resurrection week
• Arbitration report: New Functionary appointments
• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 15 April 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Erik Möller leaving Foundation; annual plan grants under community review
• In the media: Saving Wikipedia; Internet regulation; Thoreau quote hoax
• Featured content: Au-delà de les Alpes, le chien lit de Sainte Bernard. Sous les pavés, les trimes d'argent! Mes enfants, suivez-moi!
• Traffic report: Furious domination
• Blog: Single-User Login provides access to all wikis

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The Signpost: 22 April 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: Sony emails reveal corporate practices and undisclosed advocacy editing
• News and notes: Call for candidates as the movement approaches the Wikimedia Board elections
• In the media: UK political editing; hoaxes; net neutrality
• In focus: 2015 Wikimedia Foundation election preparations underway
• Featured content: Vanguard on guard
• Traffic report: A harvest of couch potatoes
• Gallery: The bitter end

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The Signpost: 29 April 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Wikimania: Choice of small village for Wikimania 2016 ruffles feathers
• News and notes: Wiki Loves Monuments evaluation sees diminishing returns and increasing cost
• In the media: Scottish MEP blocked for edit warring; ranking articles by importance
• Featured content: Apartheid and related topics, awards and accolades, and a bunch of tough journeys
• Recent research: Popularity vs. quality, Wikipedia images show how copyright damages economy, bots as servants or policemen
• Traffic report: Bruce, Nessie, and genocide
• Technology report: VisualEditor and MediaWiki updates

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The Signpost: 06 May 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: FDC candidates respond to key issues
• News and notes: "Inspire" grant-making campaign concludes, grantees announced
• In the media: Guggenheim image donation; Wiki campaign gets advertising award
• Featured content: The amorous android and the horsebreeder; WikiCup round two concludes
• Traffic report: The grim ship reality
• Blog: How many women edit Wikipedia?

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The Signpost: 13 May 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Foundation elections: WMF Board candidates share their views with the Signpost
• Op-ed: What made Wikipedia lose its reputation?
• In the media: Grant Shapps story continues; Wikipedia's "leftist ties"
• News and notes: Swedish Wikimedia chapter organizes simultaneous Wikidata contests
• Featured content: Four first-time featured article writers lead the way
• Traffic report: Round Two

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The Signpost: 20 May 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: The dark side of comedy: Wikipedia volunteers cleaning up behind John Oliver's fowl jokes
• In focus: The awful truth about Wikimedia's article counts
• From the editor: Your voice is needed: strategic voting in the WMF election
• In the media: Jimmy Wales accepts Dan David Prize
• WikiProject report: Cell-ebrating Molecular Biology
• Arbitration report: Editor conduct the subject of multiple cases
• Featured content: Puppets, fungi, and waterfalls
• Traffic report: Inner Core

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The Signpost: 27 May 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: WMF releases quarterly reports, annual plans
• In the media: Scrubbing Parliamentary biographies; Wikipedia's invisible history
• Recent research: Drug articles accurate and largely complete; women "slightly overrepresented"; talking like an admin
• Traffic report: Summer, summer, summertime
• Discussion report: A relic from the past that needs to be updated
• Featured content: When music was confined to a ribbon of rust
• Technology report: MediaWiki blows up printers

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The Signpost: 03 June 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Three new community-elected trustees announced, incumbents out
• Blog: How Wikipedia covered Caitlyn Jenner’s transition
• Discussion report: The deprecation of Persondata; RfA – A broken process; Complaints from users on Swedish Wikipedia
• Special report: Towards "Health Information for All": Medical content on Wikipedia received 6.5 billion page views in 2013
• In the media: Anonymous Australian editing targets football player, shooting victim
• Traffic report: A rather ordinary week
• Featured content: It's not over till the fat man sings
• Technology report: Things are getting SPDYier

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The Signpost: 10 June 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Chapter financial trends analyzed, news in brief
• Traffic report: Two households, both alike in dignity
• In the media: Arbitration case attracts media coverage; Wikipedia in Israel
• Featured content: Just the bear facts, ma'am
• Technology report: Wikimedia sites are going HTTPS only
• Blog: Making Wikipedia’s medical articles accessible in Chinese

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The Signpost: 17 June 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Arbitration report: An election has consequences
• Discussion report: A quick way of becoming an admin
• Featured content: Great Dane hits 150
• In focus: Three weeks to save freedom of panorama in Europe
• In the media: Wikipedia wins Asturias Prize; printing out Wikipedia; HTTPS switch
• Interview: A veteran’s Wikipedia edits help him understand the brutality behind Yugoslavia’s wars
• News and notes: Labs outage kills tools, self; news in brief
• Op-ed: Making a difference in Wikipedia, one GA at a time
• Technology report: HTTPS-only rollout completed, proposal to enable VisualEditor for new accounts
• WikiProject report: We are back - Western Australia speaks

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The Signpost: 24 June 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: The Signpost tagging initiative
• Op-ed: Content Translation beta is coming to the English Wikipedia
• News and notes: Board of Trustees propose bylaw amendments
• In the media: Turkish Wikipedia censorship; "Can Wikipedia survive?"; PR editing
• Special report: Small impact of the large Google Translation Project on Telugu Wikipedia
• Recent research: How Wikipedia built governance capability; readability of plastic surgery articles
• Featured content: One eye when begun, two when it's done
• Blog: 7,473 volumes at 700 pages each: meet Print Wikipedia
• Arbitration report: Politics by other means: The American politics 2 arbitration
• Technology report: 2015 MediaWiki architecture focus and Multimedia roadmap announced

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The Signpost: 01 July 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Training the Trainers; VP of Engineering leaves WMF
• In the media: EU freedom of panorama; Nehru outrage; BBC apology
• WikiProject report: Able to make a stand
• Featured content: Viva V.E.R.D.I.
• Traffic report: We're Baaaaack
• Technology report: Technical updates and improvements
• Blog: These Texans are on a quest to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of their state’s revolution

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The Signpost: 08 July 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Editorial: So you want to get your message out. Where do you turn?
• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation annual plan released, news in brief
• In the media: Wikimania warning; Wikipedia "mystery" easily solved
• Traffic report: The Empire lobs back
• Featured content: Pyrénées, Playmates, parliament and a prison...
• Technology report: Tech news in brief

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The Signpost: 15 July 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: On paid editing and advocacy: when the Bright Line fails to shine, and what we can do about it
• News and notes: The Wikimedia Conference and Wikimania
• In the media: Shapps requests WMUK data; professor's plagiarism demotion
• Blog: Wikimedia Foundation releases third transparency report
• Traffic report: Belles of the ball
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• WikiProject report: Why should the Devil have all the good music? An interview with WikiProject Christian music
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• News and notes: Wikimedia Switzerland's board and paid-editing firm; passing of Ed Dravecky
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  More reports surface of pirates' new favorite database: Wikimedia Commons

• Traffic report: Purple
  Prince's death breaks traffic report records

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The Signpost: 28 May 2016

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• Special report: Compensation paid to Sue Gardner increased by almost 50 percent after she stepped down as executive director
  Sue Gardner appears to be earning more money as the WMF's special advisor than she did as its executive director

• In the media: The perils of Wikipedia's monopoly; Wikipedians' fragility; Street Sharks hoax
  Not everything you read online is fact

• Featured content: Eight articles, three lists and five pictures
  Another eight featured articles, three featured lists and five featured pictures

• Op-ed: Journey of a Wikipedian
  Mental health carries a powerful stigma. The more we are open about it, the less that weighs all of us down

• Arbitration report: Gamaliel resigns from the arbitration committee
  Gamaliel and others case nears its end, and there are new 30/500 rules

• Recent research: English as Wikipedia's Lingua Franca; deletion rationales; schizophrenia controversies
  Round-up of recent Wikipedia research

• Traffic report: Splitting (musical) airs / Slow Ride
  We've recently come into possession of a new tool.

• Blog: Freely licensed magic at Eurovision
  Albin Olsson has been right there with them, capturing dramatic images of singers from around the world.

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The Signpost: 05 June 2016

• News and notes: WMF cuts budget for 2016-17 as scope tightens
  The Signpost analyzes the WMF's revised annual plan

• In the media: Jimmy Wales on net neutrality—"It's complicated"—and his $100m fundraising challenge
  Recent press interviews

• Featured content: Overwhelmed ... by pictures
  One article, one list, and seven images were featured this week

• Traffic report: Pop goes the culture, again.
  Film and television maintain a strong grasp on Wikipedia's readership

• Arbitration report: ArbCom case "Gamaliel and others" concludes
  The final results of the heated case

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Video Games
  We sat down with the writers of some of the most vistied Wikipedia articles

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The Signpost: 15 June 2016

• News and notes: Clarifications on status and compensation of outgoing executive directors Sue Gardner and Lila Tretikov
  WMF board chair Patricio Lorente answers questions

• Special report: Wikiversity Journal—A new user group
  Wikimedia enters academic publishing

• Featured content: From the crème de la crème
  Eleven featured articles, nine featured lists and fourteen featured pictures

• In the media: Biography disputes; Craig Newmark donation; PR editing
  Recent media coverage of Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: Commons Picture of the Year; Wikidata licensing
  Two for the price of one—do the popular Commons image contest and Wikidata licensing serve the community as well as they should?

• Traffic report: Another one with sports; Knockout, brief candle
  Wikipedia's most read articles in the last two weeks

• Blog: Why I proofread poetry at Wikisource
  Poetry: “it is the stuff of the soul; it speaks to the body, the mind, and the spirit alike.” Sonja Bohm worked for years to get all of Florence Earle Coates’ poetry online, and now proofreads poetry on the English Wikisource, the free library. We asked why.

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The Signpost: 04 July 2016

• News and notes: Board unanimously appoints Katherine Maher as new WMF executive director; Wikimedia lawsuits in France and Germany
  News from Wikimania and the courts

• Op-ed: Two policies in conflict?
  Paid-contributions disclosure vs. outing

• In the media: Terrorism database cites Wikipedia as a source
  Reliability worries

• Featured content: Triple fun of featured content
  Six articles, nine lists, one topic and thirteen pictures promoted

• Traffic report: Goalposts; Oy vexit
  European football and politics dominate the top-10

• Blog: Jimmy Wales names Emily Temple-Wood and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight as Wikipedians of the Year
  From the Wikimedia Foundation blog

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The Signpost: 21 July 2016

• News and notes: Board faces diversity and skill-base issues in new FDC appointments
  Four seats to be filled in top WMF grantmaking body; General Counsel and Secretary Geoff Brigham leaves Wikimedia

• Discussion report: Busy month for discussions
  New ArbCom restrictions; genetically modified food safety

• In the media: Women in science editathon gets national press; Wikipedia "shockingly biased"
  Female scientists in India; Cracked.com probes Wikipedia's weaknesses

• Featured content: A wide variety from the best
  Promotions in four featured-content forums

• Traffic report: Sports and esports
  Northern summer makes sport the winner

• Arbitration report: Script writers appointed for clerks
  Plus a clerk appointment and two motions

• Recent research: Using deep learning to predict article quality
  Plus navigating the Chinese Wikipedia, and talkpage sentiment

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The Signpost: 04 August 2016

• Editorial: Wikipedia policy suppresses sharing of information
  And the Signpost loses and gains a co-editor-in-chief

• News and notes: Foundation presents results of harassment research, plans for automated identification; Wikiconference submissions open
  WMF and Alphabet are developing an algorithm designed to detect personal attacks

• In the media: Paid editing service announced; Commercial exploitation of free images; Wikipedia as a crystal ball; Librarians to counter systemic bias
  Plus Android and Taylor Swift

• Obituary: Kevin Gorman, who took on Wikipedia's gender gap and undisclosed paid advocacy, dies at 24
  Condolences are being left on his English Wikipedia talk page

• Traffic report: Summer of Pokémon, Trump, and Hillary
  Pokémon Go led the chart for two weeks running

• Featured content: Women and Hawaii
  Eight articles, two lists and fourteen pictures were promoted

• Recent research: Easier navigation via better wikilinks
  Plus: new Wiki Studies journal, Wikipedia usage on Twitter and more

• Blog: All-new notifications page helps Wikimedians focus on what matters most
  WMF announces enhancements to the notifications system

• Technology report: User script report (January to July 2016, part 1)
  New user scripts and other tech news

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The Signpost: 18 August 2016

• News and notes: Focus on India—WikiConference produces new apps; state government adopts free licenses
  Conference draws highly diverse and productive participation, and several years' advocacy pays off in a new government policy

• Special report: Engaging diverse communities to profile women of Antarctica
  Guest post recaps in-depth engagement of experts to address Wikipedia gender gap while improving coverage of their field

• In the media: The ugly, the bad, the playful, and the promising
  Wikipedia coverage ranged from sobering to playful in this issue's roundup

• Featured content: Simply the best ... from the last two weeks
  Eight articles, eleven lists, one topic and five pictures were promoted

• Traffic report: Olympic views
  Politics gives way to sports, TV and film

• Technology report: User script report (January–July 2016, part 2)
  A review of numerous useful Wikipedia customizations

• Arbitration report: The Michael Hardy case
  New case opened, and a reminder to administrators not to impose blocks based on private information

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The Signpost: 06 September 2016

• News and notes: AffCom still grappling with WMF Board's criteria for new chapters
  The Board’s two-year moratorium on new chapters and thematic organisations has expired; presentation of new criteria is reigniting smoldering controversies and introducing new ones

• Special report: Olympics readership depended on language
  A comparison of the 15 most-read articles related to the Olympics, in seven language editions of Wikipedia

• In the media: Librarians, Wikipedians, and a library of Wikipedia coverage
  Wikipedia gaining ground in credibility among librarians; and a healthy helping of media coverage

• WikiProject report: Watching Wikipedia
  An interview with WikiProject TV member CAWylie

• Featured content: Entertainment, sport, and something else in-between
  Twelve articles, eight lists and four pictures were promoted

• Traffic report: From Phelps to Bolt to Reddit
  An update on two weeks of Wikipedia traffic, based on a new and improved tracking tool

• Technology report: Wikimedia mobile sites now don't load images if the user doesn't see them
  New scripts and technical news

• Recent research: Ethics of machine-created articles and fighting vandalism
  One study encounters critique of its ethics from Wikipedians; another critiques the ethics employed by Wikipedia

• Blog: Upload of free photos from Swiss library underway
  Switzerland's largest public science library is uploading 134k photos

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The Signpost: 29 September 2016

• News and notes: Wikipedia Education Program case study published; and a longtime Wikimedian has made his final edit
  Medical school class's Wikipedia contributions profiled as case study; and a remembrance of Ray Saintonge, Wikimedian since 2002

• In the media: Wikipedia in the news
  This edition's roundup of media coverage

• Featured content: Three weeks in the land of featured content
  Nineteen articles, eleven lists, one portal and twelve pictures were promoted

• Arbitration report: Arbcom looking for new checkusers and oversight appointees while another case opens
  TRM, CUOS '16, R&I, RfC

• Traffic report: From Gene Wilder to JonBenét
  Four weeks of Wikipedia's most popular articles examined

• Technology report: Category sorting and template parameters
  Titles with numbers now sort numerically, and a new tool to check how template parameters are used

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The Signpost: 14 October 2016

• News and notes: Fundraising, flora and fauna
  Wikimedia Foundation reports on fundraising challenges and new initiatives; Indian botanists rally to build Wikimedia Commons' photo collection

• Discussion report: Cultivating leadership: Wikimedia Foundation seeks input
  A new "peer academy" is proposed to find and support leadership in volunteer communities

• In the media: A news columnist on the frustrations of tweaking his Wikipedia bio
  And this edition's roundup of media coverage

• Technology report: Upcoming tech projects for 2017
  A new editor, a new parsing algorithm, and another server switch

• Featured content: Variety is the spice of life
  Twelve articles, twelve lists and twenty-one pictures were promoted

• Traffic report: Debates and escapes
  Donald Trump remains a view-magnet, others change their channel

• Recent research: A 2011 study resurfaces in a media report
  We explore the study, which sought insights from Wikipedia metadata into global events

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The Signpost: 4 November 2016

• News and notes: Finally, a new CTO; trustee joins Quora; copyright upgrade impending
  Victoria Coleman to fill long-vacant CTO role; Trustee Kelly Battles joins Quora executive team; last week for community input on Creative Commons 4.0 license

• In the media: Washington Post continues in-depth Wikipedia coverage
  Plus our roundup of recent media stories

• Wikicup: WikiCup winners
  Winners of the tenth annual WikiCup competition announced and profiled

• Discussion report: What's on your tech wishlist for the coming year?
  Progress on the 2015 Community Wishlist for tech features; and plans for a new Wishlist

• Technology report: New guideline for technical collaboration; citation templates now flag open access content
  Proposed best practices for communication and community involvement, and an improvement to Wikipedia's citation infrastructure

• Featured content: Cream of the crop
  Fourteen articles, six lists and fourteen pictures were promoted

• Traffic report: Un-presidential politics
  Two weeks of insights into the mind of the mob

• Arbitration report: Recapping October's activities
  Two cases closed, and an administrator loses editing rights

• Recent research: Why women edit less, and where they are overrepresented; article importance and quality; predicting elections from Wikipedia
  A recap of recent research in our realm

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ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Justus Nussbaum. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 4 November 2016

• News and notes: Arbitration Committee elections commence
  An overview of the English Wikipedia ArbCom election; brief notes as Asian and African initiatives wind down

• In the media: Roundup of news related to U.S. presidential election and more
  Election prompts media to explore themes important to Wikipedians, including news literacy, privacy, and data security

• Blog: The top fifteen winning photos from Wiki Loves Earth
  115,000 images were submitted as part of the annual competition.

• Gallery: Around the world with Wiki Loves Monuments 2016
  A sampling of photo submissions to the annual photography campaign

• Featured content: Featured mix
  Eight articles, two lists and nine pictures were promoted

• Special report: Taking stock of the Good Article backlog
  A close examination of the efficacy of the GA Cup contest, a longstanding effort to reduce the backlog of articles awaiting review

• Op-ed: Fundraising data should be more transparent
  Empowering volunteers and local chapters to engage with fundraising would yield varied benefits

• Traffic report: President-elect Trump
  Someone is likely to dominate traffic for a long time

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The Signpost: 22 December 2016

• Year in review: Looking back on 2016
  Roundup of the year's news from the Wikimedia world, featuring Wikipedia's 15th anniversary and organizational disarray at the Wikimedia Foundation

• News and notes: Strategic planning update; English ArbCom election results
  WMF reflects, to some degree, on its past approaches to strategic planning

• Special report: German ArbCom implodes
  The German Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee loses more than half its members amid political feud

• In focus: Active user page filter prevents vandalism and harassment
  A proposal from the Inspire Campaign to address harassment was recently implemented to prevent unconstructive and malicious editing on user pages

• Op-ed: Operation successful, patient dead: Outreach workshops in Namibia
  Even a well executed outreach event can yield disappointing results

• In the media: In brief: Coverage of gender gap initiatives, banner fundraising, and more
  Wikipedia women in the news, and media reacts to 2016 ad banner campaign

• Featured content: The Christmas edition
  Twenty-three articles, ten lists and twenty-one pictures were promoted

• Technology report: Labs improvements impact 2016 Tool Labs survey results
  And a roundup of recently-added tools

• Traffic report: Post-election traffic blues
  Four weeks of popular article analysis

• Blog: Wiki Loves Monuments contest winners announced
  Winning photos in world's largest photography contest reveal a world of monuments—and the volunteers who love them

• Recent research: One study and several abstracts
  Privacy and Tor, and several other studies

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The Signpost: 17 January 2017

• From the editor: Next steps for the Signpost
  Building toward better recruitment and retention

• News and notes: Surge in RFA promotions—a sign of lasting change?
  A close look at the history of approving administrators on English Wikipedia, and a roundup of news

• Interview: What is it like to edit Wikipedia when you're blind?
  The wiki environment can appear deceptively uniform, but it masks strikingly different editorial experiences

• In the media: Year-end roundups, Wikipedia's 16th birthday, and more
  The latest media reports

• Featured content: One year ends, and another begins
  Twelve articles, thirteen lists and twelve pictures were promoted

• Arbitration report: Concluding 2016 and covering 2017's first two cases
  Various minor developments

• Traffic report: Out with the old, in with the new
  If you're reading this, you escaped 2016 alive

• Technology report: Tech present, past, and future
  Data sets now available on Commons, wishes to be worked on in 2017, and a recap of the Wikimedia Developer Summit

• Recent research: Female Wikipedians aren't more likely to edit women biographies; Black Lives Matter in Wikipedia
  And several other research papers reviewed and summarized

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The Signpost: 6 February 2017

• Arbitration report: WMF Legal and ArbCom weigh in on tension between disclosure requirements and user privacy
  The two statements prompt extensive community discussion; plus, our updates on recent ArbCom decisions

• Special report: Wolves nip at Wikipedia's heels: A perspective on the cost of paid editing
  Undisclosed paid editing by a financial broker mired in scandal spans years, impacting Wikipedia's editors and readers

• News and notes: Official WMF rebuke to Trump policy; WMF secures restricted funds
  Foundation's latest foray into political waters, and grants funding structured data and anti-harassment measures, met with enthusiasm and concern

• In focus: WMF strategy consultant brings background in crisis reputation management; Team behind popular WMF software put "on pause"
  Several developments in the $2.5 million strategic planning process explored, and a team within the software production department is sidelined

• WikiProject report: For the birds!
  Our second interview with the productive WikiProject Birds crew

• Op-ed: How to make editing workshops useful, even if participants don't stick around
  Veteran editing workshop leader responds to a previous Signpost op-ed

• In the media: Presidential politics, periodic table, and our periodic roundup of updates
  Wikipedia's response to Trump inauguration and a fruitful, public "edit war" lead our media updates

• Technology report: Better PDFs, backup plans, and birthday wishes
  Plus the latest scripts, bots, and tech news

• Traffic report: Cool It Now
  Three weeks of the most popular Wikipedia articles

• Featured content: Three weeks dominated by articles
  Twenty-eight articles, seven lists, two topics and four pictures were promoted

• Forum: Productive collaboration around coordinated protest marches; Media and political personalities comment on Wikipedia at its 16th birthday celebration
  Women's marches on seven continents attracted strong Wikipedia engagement; Media luminaries and a presidential candidate joined WMF boss Katherine Maher at a New York gathering

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The Signpost: 27 February 2017

• From the editors: Results from our poll on subscription and delivery, and a new RSS feed
  The Signpost's poll suggests we should take a cautious approach to the Newsletter Extension, under development; and our RSS feed is functional once again

• Recent research: Special issue: Wikipedia in education
  This month's edition focuses on research about the role of Wikipedia in education

• Technology report: Responsive content on desktop; Offline content in Android app
  Demonstrations of developers' experiments and works in progress

• In the media: The Daily Mail does not run Wikipedia
  Is the Daily Mail fake news and your media roundup

• Gallery: A Met montage
  A selection of CC0 images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Special report: Peer review – a history and call for reviewers
  An overview of English Wikipedia's peer review process

• Op-ed: Wikipedia has cancer
  Increased WMF spending every year is not sustainable

• Featured content: The dominance of articles continues
  Fifteen articles, two lists, and six pictures were promoted

• Traffic report: Love, football, and politics
  They may not mix in life, but they do in popularity

• Blog: WikiIndaba 2017: A continent gathers to chart a path forward
  Republished from the Wikimedia blog

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The Signpost: 9 June 2017

• From the editors: Signpost status: On reserve power, help wanted!
  Inviting new writers, editors, and ideas

• News and notes: Global Elections
  WMF Board election results, and FDC elections begin

• Arbitration report: Cases closed in the Pacific and with Magioladitis
  Two cases were closed from 19 February to 27 March.

• Op-ed: Wikipedia's lead sentence problem
  Lead sentence metadata is out of control and a serious impediment to readability

• Featured content: Three months in the land of the featured
  Eighty-eight articles, forty-three lists, five topics and twenty-two pictures were promoted

• In the media: Did Wikipedia just assume Garfield's gender?
  Garfield is male, and other places Wikipedia made the news

• Recent research: Wikipedia bot wars capture the imagination of the popular press
  ...but are they real?; personality and attitudes to Wikipedia; large expert review experiment

• Technology report: Tech news catch-up
  Bots, scripts, tools, and changes from February to June 2017

• Traffic report: Film on Top: Sampling the weekly top 10
  Two weeks of film dominance: Baahubali and the Academy Awards

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The Signpost: 23 June 2017

• News and notes: Departments reorganized at Wikimedia Foundation, and a month without new RfAs (so far)
  While the English Wikipedia community produces no new requests for adminhood in June, the Wikimedia Foundation makes changes to the Product and Technology departments.

• In the media: Kalanick's nipples; Episode #138 of Drama on the Hill
  The anatomy of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick's chest area has been the talk of the month. But so have high-profile edits, hacked articles, and one particular newborn growing up.

• Op-ed: Facto Post: a fresh take
  Exploring sourcing issues in Wikimedia projects, a solution in Wikidata and fact mining, and a newsletter to continue the conversation.

• Featured content: Will there ever be a break? The slew of featured content continues
  22 featured articles, 17 featured lists, 7 featured pictures

• Traffic report: Wonder Woman beats Batman, The Mummy, Darth Vader and the Earth
  Summer blockbusters and sports, Trump and world events.

• Recent research: Utopian bubbles: Can Wikipedians create value outside of the capitalist system?
  A researcher applies Marxist critiques of political economy to investigate whether gamification, a culture of altruism, and other anti-corporatist influences on peer production can create a sustainable gift economy in a project like Wikipedia.

• Technology report: Improved search, and WMF data scientist tells all
  Search now can include sister projects; EpochFail

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The Signpost: 15 July 2017

• News and notes: French chapter woes, new affiliates and more WMF team changes
  The English Wikipedia sees its first new admin of the season, discord rocks Wikimedia France, some tweaks to the WMF reorg, and a new WMF annual plan mark this issue's community news.

• Featured content: Spectacular animals, Pine Trees screens, and more
  Recently promoted articles, lists, and pictures.

• In the media: Concern about access and fairness, Foundation expenditures, and relationship to real-world politics and commerce
  A grab bag of alt-right speech, classical scholars, the dark web, elicited European tourism, $500,000 golden parachutes, forgery, the Great Firewall, net neutrality, nukes, paid editing, porn, and terrorism.

• Recent research: The chilling effect of surveillance on Wikipedia readers
  A closer look at the research that found that the 2013 Snowden revelations coincided with a significant drop of pageviews for privacy-sensitive Wikipedia articles

• Op-ed: Why Task Forces are Dying in 2017
  ...and is there anything we can do to stop it? Opinions and examples from across the project.

• Gallery: A mix of patterns
  An interesting mix of patterns and colors to brighten your day...

• Humour: The Infobox Game
  Enjoy the Parameters: The Infobox Game can be enjoyed by everyone, not just those interested in water buffalo breeds, volcanic hotspots or the mysterious heteroisoform, and some day just might spawn an important facet of the financial derivatives industry.

• Traffic report: Film, television and Internet phenomena reign with some room left over for America's birthday
  Popular interest in celebrities, blockbusters and an upcoming season of a popular television show drive traffic, with a smattering of world events, holidays and a Reddit storm around – surprise – free porn for the U.S. Congress.

• Technology report: New features in development; more breaking changes for scripts
  Syntax highlighting, changes to Recent Changes, Wikidata on the enhance watchlist, accessible editing buttons and jQuery upgrade may break scripts.

• Wikicup: 2017 WikiCup round 3 wrap-up
  The heat turns up on the 32 contestants who entered round three: 13 featured articles, 82 good articles, 167 DYKs, but we had to pick just eight of them to advance.

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The Signpost: 5 August 2017

• News and notes: Non-English special edition! 99% no news about English-based wiki communities!
  Wikimania in Montreal, lawsuit in Sweden, challenges in France

• Recent research: Wikipedia can increase local tourism by +9%; predicting article quality with deep learning; recent behavior predicts quality
  Local tourism gains +9% when Wikipedia articles are improved; significant improvements in predicting article quality with deep learning; recent editor behavior is a strong predictor of content quality

• WikiProject report: Comic relief
  An interview with a project that is centered around comics.

• In the media: Wikipedia used to judge death penalty, arms smuggling, Indonesian governance, and HOTTEST celebrity
  Wikipedia and reliable sources of information continue to define each other

• Traffic report: Swedish countess tops the list
  Plus plenty of sports, film, and television

• Blog: Canadian Supreme Court rules against Google in favor of worldwide court orders
  The Canadian Supreme Court ruled that Google must remove search results worldwide, dismissing concerns that this may impede freedom of expression for people outside of Canada or inspire other countries to censor speech.

• Special report: Sharing Wikipedia offline medical information in the Dominican Republic
  Wikimedia contributors support each other's projects in many unexpected ways

• Featured content: Everywhere in the lead
  Recently promoted articles, lists and pictures – with a very heavy one in the mix

• Technology report: Introducing TechCom
  The Architecture Committee adopts a new charter and name; and the latest in script, bot, and tech news

• Humour: WWASOHs and ETCSSs
  An elite squad of highly insightful editors can lead the way for other editors who may need to retrain their faces into forming a smile.

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The Signpost: 6 September 2017

• From the editors: What happened at Wikimania?
  Please share your Wikimania 2017 experiences!

• News and notes: Basselpedia; WMF Board of Trustees appointments
  Some of the goings-on from Wikimania 2017.

• Featured content: Warfighters and their tools or trees and butterflies
  Take your pick of the best of Wikipedia.

• Traffic report: A fortnight of conflicts
  White supremacists v. anti-fascism groups, Mayweather v. McGregor, Moon v. Sun.

• Special report: Biomedical content, and some thoughts on its future
  Wikipedia's medical and scientific content has come a long way since 2001. Here are some thoughts on how it may continue to evolve.

• Recent research: Discussion summarization; Twitter bots tracking government edits; extracting trivia from Wikipedia
  A list of recent research publications on various topics.

• In the media: Google's Ideological Echo Chamber; What makes someone successful?
  Plus the latest reports of vandalism and mistakes in Wikipedia.

• WikiProject report: WikiProject YouTube
  WikiProject YouTube is a new project on both English and Simple English Wikipedia.

• Technology report: Latest tech news
  Syntax highlighting, failed login notifications, watchlist filters, and more.

• Wikicup: 2017 WikiCup round 4 wrap-up
  Ships, typhoons, birds, and more!

• Humour: Bots
  They do the things you don't want to do (and sometimes things you don't want done).

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The Signpost: 25 September 2017

• News and notes: Chapter updates; ACTRIAL
  News from Wikimedia France, Wikimedia Macedonia, and Wikimedia Israel's; Autoconfirmed article creation trial begins

• In the media: Monkey settlement; Wikipedia used to give AI context clues
  Also: Jeopedia, Dubaipedia, shaping science, fake quote reused by scholarly sources

• Humour: Chickenz
  The best that poultry has to offer

• Recent research: Wikipedia articles vs. concepts; Wikipedia usage in Europe
  Plus the latest research publications.

• Technology report: Flow restarted; Wikidata connection notifications
  Plus more tech news, and the latest scripts and bots

• Gallery: Chicken mania
  Complimenting this issue's Humour about chickens...

• Special report: Two steps forward, one step backward: The Sustainability Initiative
  Finally we're seeing some initial successes, but the Wikimedia movement is still far from being environmentally sustainable.

• Traffic report: Fights and frights
  Boxing, hurricanes, clowns, and more!

• Featured content: Flying high
  Newly featured birds, planes, and high achievers

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The Signpost: 23 October 2017

• News and notes: Money! WMF fundraising, Wikimedia strategy, WMF new office!
  The Wikimedia Foundation publishes the latest fundraising report, convenes over the close of the strategic plan discussion, and moves into a new space.

• Featured content: Don, Marcel, Emily, Jessica and other notables
  A variety of topics promoted.

• Humour: Guys named Ralph
  If your name is Ralph, well sorry.

• In focus: Offline Wikipedia developed at OFF.NETWORK Content Hackathon
  Advocates for sharing offline information gather to make content, software, hardware, and social decisions.

• Blog: The future of offline access to Wikipedia: The Kiwix example
  A chat with a developer of open source software which allows users to download web content for offline reading, and the future of offline access to Wikipedia.

• In the media: Facebook and poetry
  Fighting fake news and plagiarism.

• Special report: Working with GLAMs in the UK
  Wikimedia UK's partnerships and achievements working with GLAM institutions.

• Traffic report: Death, disaster, and entertainment
  Readers interested in the the death of Hef, Puerto Rico, films and television.

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The Signpost: 24 November 2017

• News and notes: Cons, cons, cons
  The first ever Wikidata conference was a con we wanted. Problematic paid editing while in a position of trust: not so much.

• Arbitration report: Administrator desysoped; How to deal with crosswiki issues; Mister Wiki case likely
  Arbitration matters from October and November.

• Technology report: Searching and surveying
  A new advanced search interface; the Community Wishlist Survey is back.

• Interview: A featured article centurion
  Brianboulton talks about featured articles on his 100th promotion.

• WikiProject report: Recommendations for WikiProjects
  A novel approach to recruit members for your project!

• In the media: Open knowledge platform as a media institution
  Wikipedia seen as flawed but important; conservative think-tank fellow wants his say; volunteer in Madison wants to close the gender gap.

• Traffic report: Strange and inappropriate
  Readers intrigued by the Netflix show Stranger Things, and by sexual assault allegations.

• Featured content: We will remember them
  War memorials, soldiers, extinct species, and devastating hurricanes are some of the most recently promoted featured content.

• Recent research: Who wrote this? New dataset on the provenance of Wikipedia text
  And other new research publications.

• Humour: Good faith (but still incomprehensible)
  The entertainment value of Wikipedia.

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The Signpost: 18 December 2017

• Special report: Women in Red World Contest wrap-up
  Global article creation contest/editathon exceeds expectations.

• Blog: Close encounters of the Wikipedia kind
  Astronaut is first to specifically contribute to Wikipedia from space.

• Featured content: Featured content to finish 2017
  Seventeen articles, twenty-nine lists, three pictures and one featured topic were promoted.

• In the media: Stolen seagulls, public domain primates and more
  The media discuss online copyright issues, Wikipedia's coverage of the capital of Israel and creation of a "reasonably clean, honest and reliable" work on Earth and in space.

• Arbitration report: Last case of 2017: Mister Wiki editors
  Evidence phase in Mister Wiki editors case is complete; the community is proposing remedies and the Arbitration committee is slated to make a decision by end of year. Meanwhile, voting has closed on 2017 elections.

• Gallery: Wiki loving
  Winners of the international photo competitions Wiki Loves Earth and Wiki Loves Monuments.

• Interview: Interview with Charlesjsharp, regular contributor of Wikipedia's Featured Pictures
  Looking back on a decade of contributions including over 1,000 images and over three dozen Featured Pictures, Charles shares his wildlife photography experience and tips.

• Recent research: French medical articles have "high rate of veracity"
  And other recent research publications.

• Technology report: Your wish lists and more Wikimedia tech
  Including improved blocking tools, new user scripts, and the latest technical news.

• Traffic report: Notable heroes and bad guys
  We like our heroes and bad guys.

• Humour: On their way to the WMF Incubator
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The Signpost: 16 January 2018

• News and notes: Communication is key
  Two new WMF Communications department leadership appointments; a new way for Wikimedia communities to communicate their capacities.

• In the media: The Paris Review, British Crown and British Media
  Wikipedia manipulated and copied – again

• Featured content: History, gaming and multifarious topics
  Historical and pop culture articles promoted.

• Interview: Interview with Ser Amantio di Nicolao, the top contributor to English Wikipedia by edit count
  How do you make an average of 3,600 edits a week for over a decade? And what do you learn when you've done it?

• Technology report: Dedicated Wikidata database servers
  Plus the latest technology upgrades, tools and news.

• Humour: Why don't we have an article about _________?
  Notable missing articles.

• Arbitration report: Mister Wiki is first arbitration committee decision of 2018
  In deciding to de-sysop an admin for efforts to evade discussion and review of paid edits made on behalf of a PR firm, Arbitration Committee doesn't significantly change the rules around paid editing, and leaves it up to the community whether to apply special restrictions to administrators.

• Traffic report: The best and worst of 2017
  A look back at the most popular articles in a tumultuous and intriguing year.

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The Signpost: 5 February 2018

• Op-ed: Do editors have the right to be forgotten?
  Should an editor's block history be a permanent "rap sheet", or does Wikipedia forgive and forget? A reform initiative has begun.

• Featured content: Wars, sieges, disasters and everything black possible
  Exemplary content recognized between January 12 and January 20, 2018

• Recent research: Automated Q&A from Wikipedia articles; Who succeeds in talk page discussions?
  Also: Polish quality, Russian political mythologization, and multilingual analyses

• Blog: New monthly dataset shows where people fall into Wikipedia rabbit holes
  The Wikimedia Foundation's Analytics team compiles a clickstream dataset, now available as a series of monthly data dumps for English, Russian, German, Spanish, and Japanese Wikipedias.

• Interview: Interview with The Rambling Man, Wikipedia's top contributor of Featured Lists
  Lessons on Creating a Featured List

• Traffic report: TV, death, sports, and doodles
  The most popular articles for January 14 to 27

• Special report: Cochrane–Wikipedia Initiative
  A partnership to improve and update Wikipedia's medical content

• Arbitration report: New cases requested for inter-editor hostility and other collaboration issues
  Politeness and collegial behavior about to be taken up by Arbcom, and perhaps a revisit of the infobox question.

• In the media: Solving crime; editing out violence allegations
  Also, did UCF really win?

• Humour: You really are in Wonderland
  Enjoy the humour of another contributor

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The Signpost: 20 February 2018

• News and notes: The future is Swedish with a lack of administrators
  Sweden selected for Wikimania 2019; research report on shaping the future; a scarcity of RfAs.

• Recent research: Politically diverse editors write better articles; Reddit and Stack Overflow benefit from Wikipedia but don't give back
  There might be good things about an edit war.

• Arbitration report: Arbitration committee prepares to examine two new cases
  Editor in self-imposed exile and infobox wars a thorn in the side of arbitration committee.

• Traffic report: Addicted to sports and pain
  The Superbowl, the Winter Olympics, death, and accusations of unspeakable things.

• Featured content: Entertainment, sports and history
  An eclectic mix of promotions.

• Technology report: Paragraph-based edit conflict screen; broken thanks
  And other recent tech news.

• Humour: Impossible and unexplained traffic report
  Stubs get a lot of pageviews.

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Signpost issue 4 – 29 March 2018

• Op-ed: Death knell for The Signpost?
  Is The Signpost on its last legs?

• News and notes: Wiki Conference roundup and new appointments.
  Wikimedia events, group recognition, and individual appointments are ongoing.

• Arbitration report: Ironing out issues in infoboxes; not sure yet about New Jersey; and an administrator who probably wasn't uncivil to a sockpuppet.
  Arbcom considers new discretionary sanctions for infoboxes and an extension of 1RR.

• In the media: The media on Wikipedia's workings: the good and not-so-good
  Diplomats join Wikipedia for International Women's Day, the perfect "Human", how fringe theories are sustained, and perennial plagiarism from our pages.

• Traffic report: Real sports, real women and an imaginary country: what's on top for Wikipedia readers
  Wakanda still fascinates; the Oscars happened; Winter Olympics come to a close; and International Women's Day gets over a million page views.

• Featured content: Animals, Ships, and Songs
  A plethora of content.

• Technology report: Timeless skin review by Force Radical.
  Reviewing a browser skin providing equal emphasis on both content and editing tools simultaneously.

• Special report: ACTRIAL wrap-up.
  Retrospective on article creation trial.

• Humour: WikiWorld Reruns
  Nostalgia and trips down Memory Lane.

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The Signpost: 26 April 2018

• From the editors: The Signpost's presses roll again
  Following Kudpung's op-ed "Death knell sounding for The Signpost?" in the 29 March issue, user comments encouraged a burst of enthusiasm to keep the newspaper in print.

• Signpost: Future directions for The Signpost
  How to revive and evolve The Signpost? Big blue-sky proposals and small concrete proposals from the community and from two regular Signpost contributors.

• News and notes: Photo of Kim Jong-un. Stephen Hawking death tops hits on many Wikipedias.
  Finally a free image Kim Jong-un. WMF wins legal battle. Stephen Hawking death tops all Wikipedia hits.

• In the media: The rise of Wikipedia as a disinformation mop
  Internet companies use Wikipedia to police truth; Citogenesis proven yet again; early birthday greetings; and trains

• In focus: Admin reports board under criticism
  A recent Community Health Initiative survey found only 27% of respondents are happy with the way reports of conflicts between Editors are handled on the Administrators' Incident Noticeboard (ANI).

• Special report: ACTRIAL results adopted by landslide
  New major editing policy starting immediately: creation of articles in mainspace is to be limited to users with confirmed accounts

• Opinion: Guideline for Organization Notability revised
  The standards have been raised for sources used in judging the notability of nonprofit and for-profit organizations.

• Op-ed: World War II Myth-making and Wikipedia
  Wikipedia's myth of the clean Wehrmacht and what you can do about it. Or, how not to be one of "the worst distributors of pro-Nazi perspectives and the Wehrmacht myth".

• Community view: It's time we look past Women in Red to counter systemic bias
  Can Wikipedia mobilize the same energy to fill other gaps in coverage?

• Discussion report: The future of portals
  What should we do about Portals? Keep them, delete them, or mark them as historical? Or should they be more closely connected with their WikiProject(s)?

• Arbitration report: No new cases, and one motion on administrative misconduct
  Quiet month for the Arbitration Committee

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Military History
  Combat, weapons, monuments and personalities.

• Blog: Why the world reads Wikipedia
  What we learned about reader motivation from a recent research study

• Humour: Our Favorite Places to Whine About Stuff
  You might not get all excersized about essays but they can be as fun as talk pages

• Traffic report: A quiet place to wrestle with the articles of March
  The most popular articles from March 25 to April 14.

• Technology report: Coming soon: Books-to-PDF, interactive maps, rollback confirmation
  Plus the latest tech news and userscripts.

• Featured content: Featured content selected by the community
  Material promoted from March 2 through April 20.

• Gallery: A look at some famous and not as well-known border tripoints
  Honoring a day in military history, as well as peaceful borders

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The Signpost: 24 May 2018

• From the editor: Another issue meets the deadline
  A busy office with minimal staff.

• Op-ed: Has the wind gone out of the AdminShip's sails?
  Kudpung has some thoughts on the reasons for becalmed forums and the reluctance of candidates to (wo)man the rigging.

• Opinion: Integrating my many lives on Wikipedia
  Thoughts on how looking for the truth on Wikipedia brings out unexpected things in the real world.

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Portals
  After a recent Village Pump discussion, the Signpost looks at WikiProject Portals.

• Discussion report: User rights, infoboxes, and more discussion on portals
  A busy month for discussions on major topics.

• Featured content: Featured content selected by the community
  Science, sportspeople, video games, and history feature heavily in the community's picks this month.

• Arbitration report: Managing difficult topics
  Has an attempt to prevent historical revisionism become a content battleground?

• News and notes: Lots of Wikimedia
  De-recognition of Brazil user groups; brute-force attack on Wikipedia; Wikimedia Conference 2018; and assorted other silly things.

• In the media: Wikipedia in Turkish politics; COI politics in Wikipedia; most cited work
  And the burning question of the day, is the monkey selfie going to space with the rest of Wikipedia?

• Traffic report: We love our superheroes
  No surprises here as the summer movie season begins.

• Technology report: A trove of contributor and developer goodies
  Improved mobile app, searching, citations, inline maps, voting, and more.

• Blog: Why I write about women on Wikipedia
  Editor SusunW delves into reasons why she has created hundreds of articles about women.

• Recent research: Why people don't contribute to Wikipedia; using Wikipedia to teach statistics, technical writing, and controversial issues
  Too many women still don't know that Wikipedia is editable.

• Humour: Play with your food
  Down the rabbit hole into the realm of third-grade mind.

• Gallery: Wine not?
  May 25 is National Wine Day in the United States.

• From the archives: The Signpost scoops The Signpost
  The dark and twisted world of Wikipedia's most powerful media institution: The Signpost.

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The Signpost: 29 June 2018

• From the editor: The Admin Ship is still barely afloat, while a Foundation project risks sinking
  A Wiki not so Simple, a mayor motivating an editathon, a Marshall Plan, and a Wikimania under a cloud of criticism

• Special report: NPR and AfC – The Marshall Plan: an engagement and a marriage?
  Further developments on New Page Review and Articles for Creation work sharing

• Op-ed: What do admins do?
  Admins volunteer to be abused – or so it seems

• Opinion: Google isn't responsible for Wikipedia's mistakes
  So it shouldn't get credit for our work, either.

• News and notes: Money, milestones, and Wikimania
  Major grants announced, a new milestone for Afrikaans Wikipedia, a new WMF technical engagement team, an effort to start up a new library, two new admins – or maybe three fewer depending on your math.

• In the media: Much wikilove from the Mayor of London, less from Paekākāriki or a certain candidate for U.S. Congress
  Several online battles are juxtaposed with stories about cooperation and good deeds, Arbcom hovering over it all; notwithstanding, a good action movie script is not necessarily found here.

• Discussion report: Deletion, page moves, and an update to the main page
  Community discussions include style updates to project-wide icons and the main page, procedural questions on royal names and jettisoning unsuitable drafts, and deeper questions of compliance with European privacy laws and the perennial issue of shrinking admin corps.

• Featured content: New promotions
  Enjoy the superb content

• Arbitration report: WWII, UK politics, and a user deCrat'ed
  British politics case enters workshop phase and German war effort closes workshop, goes to Arbcom for proposals.

• Traffic report: Endgame
  Two celebrities hang themselves, and the FIFA World Cup is underway

• Technology report: Improvements piled on more improvements
  An AI assistant comes to watchlists; better mobile compatibility; new bots, tools and scripts; and more

• Gallery: Wiki Loves Africa
  Colorful and moving.

• Blog: Wikipedia should be open for editors in Turkey
  WMF appeals to Turkish Minister of Transport, Maritime, and Communications Ahmet Arslan to lift the block of all language versions of Wikipedia for over a year.

• Recent research: How censorship can backfire and conversations can go awry
  Studying ourselves: 'driven by a sense of mission' according to researchers.

• Humour: Television plot lines
  In our next episode...

• Wikipedia essays: This month's pick by The Signpost editors
  Some essays are funny, some are serious; some are just, well what exactly?

• From the archives: Wolves nip at Wikipedia's heels: A perspective on the cost of paid editing
  Revisiting an editor's warning to count our kidneys and keep the wolves at bay

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The Signpost: 31 July 2018

• From the editor: If only if
  Ships and shoes – and if you don't like it here, just go away!

• Op-ed: The last leg of the Admin Ship's current cruise
  How admin would-bes run the gauntlet.

• Opinion: Wrestling with Wikipedia reality
  Wikipedia referees wag a finger at Professional Wrestling editors.

• News and notes: Another newspaper for Wikipedia; Wikimania 2018 ends; changes at NPR
  New admins and Kudpung finally leaves NPP after 7 years.

• In the media: Blackouts in Europe; Wikipedia and capitalists; WMF Jet Set
  One secret cabal that watches out for conspiracy theories, and another one out to stymie venture capitalists?

• Discussion report: Wikipedias take action against EU copyright proposal, plus new user right proposals
  And more: a new user group for editing code, Women in Red, and arbitrator articles.

• Featured content: Wikipedia's best content in images and prose
  Spanning the gamut from warfare and destruction to pop culture to celebrations of nature and humanity's achievements.

• Arbitration report: Status quo processes retained in two disputes
  We don't have "state agents" in a political debate, but couldn't talk about it if there were.

• Traffic report: Soccer, football, call it what you like – that and summer movies leave room for little else
  Finding the mathematician and Supreme Court nominee in this list is like playing Where's Waldo?.

• Technology report: New bots, new prefs
  Useful new gadgets.

• Gallery: Independence days, national holidays, and football – all in July
  Depictions of July events in several countries.

• Blog: Motivation of two editors
  Those who study ancient Egypt.

• Recent research: Different Wikipedias use different images; editing contests more successful than edit-a-thons
  And other recent findings, plus a roundup of research presentations at Wikimania.

• Humour: It's all the same
  Merge WikiProject Professional wrestling and ANI.

• Essay: Wikipedia does not need you
  Get over it!

• From the archives: The pending changes fiasco: how an attempt to answer one question turned into a quagmire
  They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

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The Signpost: 30 August 2018

• From the editor: Today's young adults don't know a world without Wikipedia
  Keep straight on – there are trolls in the hedgerows.

• Interview: 2018 Wikimedian of the Year, Farkhad Fatkullin
  "Imagine a world in which every single human being is a Wikimedian. That's my commitment!"

• News and notes: Flying high; low practice from Wikipedia 'cleansing' agency; where do our donations go? RfA sees a new trend
  WMF pays possible Orangemoody ring for user research, and ditches MediaWiki for publishing its own blog. Knife-edge closures at RfA.

• In the media: Quicksilver AI writes articles
  But unfortunately its output is incompatible with open licensing.

• Discussion report: Drafting an interface administrator policy
  Plus: Simple English Wikipedia stays open, a discussion on draft header templates, bias blind spot by admins offered cash?

• Featured content: Featured content selected by the community
  Astronauts named Armstrong, babes of the Brits, Cortinarius caperatus and all that.

• Special report: Wikimania 2018
  "Bridging knowledge gaps, the ubuntu way forward".

• Traffic report: Aretha dies – getting just 2,000 short of 5 million hits
  Very high and very low hits; love and loss.

• Technology report: Technical enhancements and a request to prioritize upcoming work
  Citation bot and mapframe enhancements; new licenses for Data space; possible hiccup on 12 September; per-user page, namespace, and upload blocking; and miscellaneous new bots and tools.

• Gallery: Leapfrog, historic Thai cave, and a rhythmic beat
  Some of the best pictures of 2017.

• Recent research: Wehrmacht on Wikipedia, neural networks writing biographies
  Readers prefer the AI's version 40% of the time – but it still suffers from hallucinations.

• Humour: Signpost editor censors herself
  Nothing funny about it.

• Essay: Principle of Some Astonishment
  Remind you of any Wikipedia articles?

• From the archives: Playing with Wikipedia words
  The Wikipedia Plays.

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The Signpost: 1 October 2018

• From the editor: Is this the new normal?
  We keep on publishing as long as you keep on reading.

• News and notes: European copyright law moves forward
  Wikipedia dodges a bullet in Brussels... maybe.

• In the media: Knowledge under fire
  Can Wikipedians help save the world's knowledge and shine a light on current events?

• Discussion report: Interface Admin policy proposal, part 2
  Plus: signatures, shortcuts, and reliable sources.

• Arbitration report: A quiet month for Arbcom
  No valid new requests for arbitration, no new cases.

• Traffic report: John McCain's death generates over 7 million hits, followed by historical low
  Fourth highest view count of the year; lowest view count since 2014; death, sports, and movies ever constant.

• Technology report: Paying attention to your mobile
  Plus the latest scripts, bots, and tech news.

• Gallery: A pat on the back
  A pictorial ode to the end of summer.

• Blog: After a catastrophic fire at the National Museum of Brazil, a drive to preserve what knowledge remains
  As the global community of volunteer Wikimedia editors mourns the destruction of this amazing museum, this post pays tribute to all editors who have contributed restlessly to tell the story of the National Museum, our history.

• Recent research: How talk page use has changed since 2005; censorship shocks lead to centralization; is vandalism caused by workplace boredom?
  And other recent research papers.

• Humour: Signpost Crossword Puzzle
  What is a four-letter word for...

• Essay: Expressing thanks
  You know you should...

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The Signpost: 28 October 2018

• From the editors: The Signpost is still afloat, just barely
  A slightly thinner issue, but out on time.

• Op-ed: Wikipedia's Strickland affair
  Is a missing article on a Nobel laureate a fail? What if her draft biography was declined as non-notable?

• News and notes: WMF gets a million bucks
  And it's richer than ever.

• In the media: Bans, celebs, and bias
  Breitbart begone; rescued by archivists; celebrating trolls?

• Discussion report: Mediation Committee and proposed deletion reform
  Plus: two pending changes-related discussions, notability, and naming conventions.

• Traffic report: Unsurprisingly, sport leads the field – or the ring
  Who's reading what?

• Technology report: Bots galore!
  Bots can do anything you want – well, almost.

• Special report: NPP needs you
  WMF continues to stonewall development; NPP wishes again relegated to stocking fillers.

• Special report 2: Now Wikidata is six
  SPARQL adds sparkle to WMF projects.

• In focus: Alexa
  We are all writing for Amazon.

• Gallery: Out of this world!
  No special effects here, just beautiful celestial images.

• Recent research: Wikimedia Commons worth $28.9 billion
  If it weren't free, of course.

• Humour: Talk page humour
  Wikipedia has a long history of talk page tomfoolery.

• Opinion: Strickland incident
  The reviewer who declined the article gives his perspective.

• From the archives: The Gardner Interview
  The "holy-shit" slide.

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The Signpost: 1 December 2018

• From the editor: Time for a truce
  Lay down your verbal weapons.

• Op-ed: Looking back, looking forward: A beginner's experience on Wikipedia
  The experiences of a new user on Wikipedia, told in their own words.

• Special report: The Christmas wishlist
  What do the WMF devs have in store for the community?

• Opinion: The blogosphere migrates to Galaxy WMF
  Suppose they gave a blog and nobody came?

• News and notes: Reviewer of the year, WikiCup winner, and the 2019 Wikimedia Summit
  Looking both backward and forward to events concerning the community.

• Reflections: Wikipedia, history, and the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day
  A personal reflection on Wikipedia's role as a repository of history.

• In the media: Court-ordered article redaction, paid editing, and rock stars
  Real-world news competes with the usual celeb fascination for Wikipedia's commentators.

• Discussion report: Farewell, Mediation Committee
  It was a good 15 years. Plus: admins, notability, substubs, and new padlocks.

• Arbitration report: A long break ends
  Arbcom takes its first new case since June.

• Traffic report: Queen reigns for four weeks straight
  The "Queen" of stage and screen, that is. Is there another?

• Gallery: Intersections
  Biology or technology? Form follows function in nature and the constructed world.

• Recent research: Why do the most active Wikipedians burn out?; only 4% of students vandalize
  And other new research results.

• Essay: No one cares about your garage band
  Nope, don't care!

• Humour: The dark side of our favorite root vegetable
  Wonky carrots invoke terror.

• From the archives: Ars longa, vita brevis
  ARS might continue, but some Wikipedians might not.

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The Signpost: 24 December 2018

• From the editors: Where to draw the line in reporting?
  Tell us what you think!

• Op-ed: Wikipedia not trumped by Trump appointee
  Did World Patent Marketing pay to get Wikipedia to include flattering information on their board member, now the Acting United States Attorney General?

• Special report: The Signpost got 380,000+ views in 2018, sounds reasonable enough, right?
  A statistical insight into the English Wikipedia's very own online community newsletter.

• News and notes: Some wishes do come true
  NPP wins the wish list poll; Wikipedia editors will be able to work better at night; new WMF appointments and new arbitrators; and who wants to be an admin?

• In the media: Political hijinks
  Wikipedia says 'ta' to British M.P. and 'buh-bye' to U.S. President's image vandals.

• Discussion report: A new record low for RfA
  Plus: reliable sources, notability, and fallout from the self-blocking software changes.

• WikiProject report: Articlegenesis
  Discovering how new and unregistered users make articles with the members of WikiProject Articles for Creation.

• Arbitration report: Year ends with one active case
  GiantSnowman asked to chill, and other disputes addressed by Arbcom (or not).

• Traffic report: Queen dethroned by U.S. presidents
  The band relinquishes its first place hold; Aquaman is swimming into view for late December.

• Gallery: Sun and Moon, water and stone
  Happy solstice, and happy New Year!

• Blog: News from the WMF
  In and around the WMF and its projects from the WMF's web site.

• Humour: I believe in Bigfoot
  Are you a believer?

• Essay: Requests for medication
  When the desire to continue to have the privilege of editing Wikipedia overrides the body's innate desire to choke the living shit out of some bastard who really has it coming.

• From the archives: Compromised admin accounts – again
  Compromised accounts – especially those of inactive admins.

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The Signpost: 31 January 2019

• Op-ed: Random Rewards Rejected
  Lab rats deflate research to be performed on the Wikipedia community.

• In focus: The Collective Consciousness of Admin Userpages
  Did you know that there was an admin who thought that the metaphor of the mop was a joke, and now they know it's not?

• News and notes: WMF staff turntable continues to spin; Endowment gets more cash; RfA continues to be a pit of steely knives
  Rude or just forgetful? Eight-year WMF manager has disappeared; Facebook gives a million bucks, gets no love.

• In the media: The Signpost's investigative story recognized, Wikipedia turns 18 and gets a birthday gift from Google, and more editors are recognized
  Heroes and unsung heroes: many good news stories about the work we are all doing together.

• Discussion report: The future of the reference desk
  Plus: plagiarism from Wikipedia, user categories, and admin activity requirements.

• Featured content: Don't miss your great opportunity
  Get yourself lost in 1730's Paris, and a wide range of other recently promoted content.

• Arbitration report: An admin under the microscope
  Snowman flames newbies? Or just oversensitive snowflakes?

• Traffic report: Death, royals and superheroes: Avengers, Black Panther
  The most popular articles of 2018 include a cornucopia of superheroes (Avengers: Infinity War)

• Technology report: When broken is easily fixed
  Emergency server switch goes smoothly; technical glitches resolved; a new way to transfer files to Commons.

• Gallery: Let us build a memorial fit for such pain and suffering
  A tour of some of the world's greatest memorials courtesy the Prime Minister of India.

• News from the WMF: News from WMF
  The world’s largest photo contest, a $1 million gift, Wikipedia’s birthday, WF appoints Valerie D'Costa.

• Recent research: Ad revenue from reused Wikipedia articles; are Wikipedia researchers asking the right questions?
  And other new research publications.

• Essay: How
  A narrative to get you oriented to how this place works, and to the key policies and guidelines.

• Humour: Village pump
  More talk pages you don't want to miss.

• From the archives: An editorial board that includes you
  Four years - and nothing changed?

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The Signpost: 28 February 2019

• From the editors: Help wanted (still)
  This may be too wordy, verbose and loquacious – and possibly redundant – but as you know, it takes others to check our work, and if there were more people in the Newsroom, we'd be able to double check ourselves and produce a better product for our readership; if you think you are up to it, you are welcome to join us and even copyedit the Editor-in-Chief's article intros.

• News and notes: Front-page issues for the community
  Encyclopedias for Deletion; Corinne; scholarships; partial blocks; and administrators headcount.

• In focus: Wikimedia affiliate organizations seek community participation in 2019 board election
  This election will select 2 of 10 seats on the board. All Wikimedia users are stakeholders in the election outcome and should participate.

• Discussion report: Talking about talk pages
  This month's major discussions include a WMF talk page consultation and a proposed current events noticeboard.

• Featured content: Conquest, War, Famine, Death, and more!
  Horsemen of the apocalypse all represented in recently promoted content, alongside new life, pretty birds, great music, and other miscellaneous topics.

• Arbitration report: A quiet month for Arbitration Committee
  Snowed in, maybe.

• Traffic report: Binge-watching
  Netflix shows and TV sports dominate. A US politician breaks into the top 10.

• Technology report: Tool labs casters-up
  Tool labs goes kaput, bots running wild (not really), interface administrators step into the breach, new gadgets and other tech happenings.

• Gallery: Signed with pride
  A gallery of user signatures created by Wikipedians themselves.

• Recent research: Research finds signs of cultural diversity and recreational habits of readers
  When watchers want the whole truth, they wind up with the wiki! And Cultural Context Content comes out of a complete cartography.

• Essay: Optimist's guide to Wikipedia
  Assume good faith even if it kills you.

• From the archives: New group aims to promote Wiki-Love
  The creation of the Esperanza group.

• Humour: Pesky Pronouns
  Not feeling blurbish right now.

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The Signpost: 31 March 2019

• From the editors: Getting serious about humor
  .

• News and notes: Blackouts fail to stop EU Copyright Directive
  .

• In the media: Women's history month
  .

• Discussion report: Portal debates continue, Prespa agreement aftermath, WMF seeks a rebranding
  .

• Featured content: Out of this world
  .

• Arbitration report: The Tides of March at ARBCOM
  .

• Traffic report: Exultations and tribulations
  .

• Technology report: New section suggestions and sitewide styles
  .

• News from the WMF: The WMF's take on the new EU Copyright Directive
  .

• Recent research: Barnstar-like awards increase new editor retention
  .

• From the archives: Esperanza organization disbanded after deletion discussion
  .

• Humour: The Epistolary of Arthur 37
  .

• Op-Ed: Pro and Con: Has gun violence been improperly excluded from gun articles?
  .

• In focus: The Wikipedia SourceWatch
  .

• Special report: Wiki Loves (50 Years of) Pride
  .

• Community view: Wikipedia's response to the New Zealand mosque shootings
  .

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The Signpost: 30 April 2019

• News and notes: An Action Packed April
  New Administrators, April Fools, our competitors, and other associated updates

• In the media: Is Wikipedia just another social media site?
  Harassment, a black hole, the Mueller Report, and Mötley Crüe - just another social media site?

• Discussion report: English Wikipedia community's conclusions on talk pages
  Plus: another round of paid editing discussion.

• Featured content: Anguish, accolades, animals, and art
  April's admirable additions.

• Arbitration report: An Active Arbitration Committee
  Policies and procedures, cases and controversies, and other ArbCom updates

• Traffic report: Mötley Crüe, Notre-Dame, a black hole, and Bonnie and Clyde
  Round up the unusual suspects

• Technology report: A new special page, and other news
  Welcoming English Wikipedia's newest admin (bot)

• Gallery: Notre-Dame de Paris burns
  Photos and videos show the damage

• News from the WMF: Can machine learning uncover Wikipedia’s missing “citation needed” tags?
  Wikimedia Foundation data scientists are using machine learning to predict whether—and why—any given sentence on Wikipedia may need a citation in order to help editors identify areas of content violating the verifiability policy.

• Recent research: Female scholars underrepresented; whitepaper on Wikidata and libraries; undo patterns reveal editor hierarchy
  And other recent research results

• From the archives: Portals revisited
  "The future of portals", a year later

• Humour: Jimbo and Larry walk into a bar ...
  Some editors will do anything to get a laugh

• Opinion: The gaps in our knowledge of our gaps
  What we know we don't know, and why it might matter more than you might think

• Interview: Katherine Maher marks 3 years as executive director
  Maher discusses her tenure as ED, the editing community, harassment and diversity, the WMF's 3-5 year plan, airplane travel, books, and her future.

• Community view: 2019 Wikimedia Summit gathers movement affiliate representatives to discuss movement strategy
  An overview of Wikimedia Summit 2019, a working conference to discuss the Wikimedia 2030 Movement Strategy Process, preparing draft recommendations for Wikimania 2019 in August.

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The Signpost: 31 May 2019

• From the editors: Picture that
  The North Face sneaks in advertisements, apologizes after being caught

• News and notes: Wikimania and trustee elections
  Get ready to go to Wikimania in Stockholm where you might meet two new trustees

• In the media: Politics, lawsuits and baseball
  Wikipedia finds itself up against China, Pennsylvania politicians and the Detroit Tigers

• Discussion report: Admin abuse leads to mass-desysop proposal on Azerbaijani Wikipedia
  Neutrality and copyright concerns lead and part 2 of the talk pages consultation.

• Arbitration report: ArbCom forges ahead
  Resignations, new cases, administrator security, and more

• Traffic report: Dark marvels, thrones, a vile serial killer biopic, that's entertainment!
  Who will be next to fill the throne at the top of the list?

• Technology report: Lots of Bots
  Admin bots, approved bots, bots on trial, lots and lots of bots

• News from the WMF: Wikimedia Foundation petitions the European Court of Human Rights to lift the block of Wikipedia in Turkey
  The WMF keeps working to stop Turkey from blocking Wikipedia.

• Recent research: Wikipedia more useful than academic journals, but is it stealing the news?
  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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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Heads Up Records albums

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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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Category:Metronome Records artists has been nominated for discussion

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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.

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Secundar

I thanked you for setting up a new section for the Fenwick book I added to Tim Parks' entry. But why "Secundar"? I assume that you mean "Secondary." But Google Translate says that "Secundar" means "second" in Spanish, and that "secondary" is "secundaria" or "secundario." I don't know any Spanish.Maurice Magnus (talk) 01:25, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

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I see you're adding labels to the infoboxes of musician articles. Some of these are good, but I ask that you look at Template:Infobox_musical_artist#label, which states that this is for "The record label or labels to which the act has been signed". So, it's not for every label that the person ever appeared on – I interpret "signed" as excluding recordings not made as a leader, and probably posthumously released ones made as a leader (because the person probably hadn't been signed by that label). EddieHugh (talk) 16:48, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

Of course, I do agree that not every label that the person ever appeared on is suitable for the infoboxes. I usually sort out any album reissues (if distinguishable). And I concentrate on albums as leader or co-leader. But your last point does not convince me at all. No album will rightfully ever be published without being signed by the holder of rights, which can be the artist or his heirs. Mulgrew Miller died aged 57, so the posthumous release of his Live duo concert with Kenny Barron (both co-leaders) is certainly his will, while by mischance he did not live out the years to see the resulting album himself. You wrote "probably" and "I interpret" which is correct and cautious as should be. I state your interpretation of that citated sentence is actually too narrow. Yes, the artist (or his wife in his name) have signed the album release of Live - The Art Of Piano Duo which is not a reissue but an original contribution to the jazz world history. I am confident that we can consent on that basis of facts.

And I don't appreciate that you canceled Enja and Storyville as both have album release years much earlier (1987 Enja, 1999 Storyville) so an ugly lack of accuracy seems matter of fact. You should have studied the album details on Discogs more carefully. There is no leader named so Miller as the pianist is co-leader or on an equal footing. I suppose your action wasn't well thought out, Enja and Storyville should be added again. -- Just N. (talk) 18:54, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for the reply. I suppose I'm anti-clutter, so if I'm not sure, I leave it out of the infobox. There's no entry in Miller's discography as a leader for Enja, so I conclude that he wasn't signed to them. Similarly for Storyville – the only other release was as a sideman, so I don't view that as enough for inclusion in the infobox or the category. On the posthumous release with NHOP, I don't see anything at discogs or the Storyville website to indicate that Miller approved of the release or was signed to the label. He and NHOP recorded for another company, Bang & Olufsen, at around the time of the concert recording, and that seems to be a contracted release. And none of these reach close to the number of releases of the others in Miller's infobox: Landmark, Novus, Maxjazz. EddieHugh (talk) 21:58, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

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Pending changed on Sal Vulcano

Can you explain why you accepted this edit? That's the reason the article is PC-protected in the first place. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 16:57, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

Of course I can. I checked it online and found a serious source: The Tenderloins Made Sal Vulcano Change His Name to Prince Herb, (theglobalherald.com February 5, 2021). I have to admit that I'm not at all familiar with this comedian group (never ever saw them) and actually made an error as I finally saw when scrolling the whole article. Sorry, just an error in good faith. --Just N. (talk) 17:14, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

Perfectly understandable. On reflection, probably easier to switch this back to semi-protection for a few months until fans tire of adding that joke back in (until the next in-joke becomes popular). Cheers, OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 17:30, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

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Thank you Fayenatic for your clarification. I assure you that my peace of mind doesn't depend on such a little thing as a deleted Category:Wendy (singer). My statements in CfD are just votes among other votes, and as a democracy supporter I respect normally if other contributions outvote me. --Just N. (talk) 09:34, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

OK, thanks. As I understood some of your comments, they seemed to imply that you thought a whole group of categories would be deleted, whereas it was only one unnecessary layer that had been nominated. – Fayenatic London 09:51, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 26 September 2021

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  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
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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
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• 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
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• 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
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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
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• Featured content: Eden, lost.
  But much else to be found.

• Gallery: Love is in the air
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• Traffic report: Superbowl? Pfft. Give me some Bollywood! Yours sincerely, the world
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• From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 years ago: Let's (not) delete the Main Page!
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• Cobwebs: Editorial: The loss of the moral high ground
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• Humour: The RfA Candidate's Song
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The Signpost: 9 March 2023

• News and notes: What's going on with the Wikimedia Endowment?
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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Hi, I pinged you a few days ago regarding the CFD for Category:Black British psychologists and psychotherapists. You had posted "Merge per nom (unless it gets quickly more populated)." The Category now has 9 articles. So I thought you might want to update your position. Regards, Anomalous+0 (talk) 06:43, 18 August 2025 (UTC)

Okay, I've done that. It's indeed populated now. Sucessful intervention. -- Just N. (talk) 13:10, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

Okay, that's great. Now I want to ask you to have another look at the A-Bomb crew CFD. A few weeks back you gave a thumbs up to my original rename proposal ( which was "Category:Crews that dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki"). But now (after a long, exhausting discussion) there's a revamped formulation under discussion. Please have a look and see if you approve of the the current proposal, which is Category:Aircrew members involved in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Regards, Anomalous+0 (talk) 06:30, 22 August 2025 (UTC)

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I have noticed that you have treated CfD as a pure WP:VOTE multiple times now. I am highly confused as to why a Wikipedian touting their at least 15 year experience would be making irrelevant, disruptive comments in discussions, as such a thing is far more typical of a new user. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 18:14, 10 November 2025 (UTC)