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Jeanne Bot

You can't assume a birth date based on the publication date of the article. It said she was born in January 1905 and that she had just celebrated it which does not mean it was on that day.--Dorglorg (talk) 02:44, 3 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that the situation with Jeanne Bot is not perfect as the article doesn't explicitly state her date of birth, but either we go with the implied January 18, find a reliable source showing it's the 14 or remove her. Using the implied 18th since another reliable source doesn't seem to exist seemed the best option to me, but which do you prefer? For my part, a reasonable editor could believe the article is saying she was born on the 18, but I obviously wasn't there myself 112 years ago to know for certain. Newshunter12 (talk) 02:52, 3 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I set up a conversation on the talk page about it.--Dorglorg (talk) 02:55, 3 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Longevity

I know it's frustrating, believe me. I was a peripheral part of the ArbCom case all that time ago, and the issues go back before my time to at least 2006. My work on this has earned me a lot of off-wiki vitriol from the 110 Club, the way they talk about me you'd think I actually go around murdering these people or desecrating their remains. It's just not worth taking personally or letting it get to you. The long game, such as it is, will work out, it just takes time; lest you be discouraged, look at WP:Articles for deletion/Jan Goossenaerts and WP:Articles for deletion/Jan Goossenaerts (2nd nomination). Your contributions in the area are enormously helpful and valued, don't get discouraged. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 22:02, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) Thank you so much for your words of encouragement and for sharing the trials you have faced for many years while editing in this topic. This wiki topic is a tough realm to be in for sure, but I agree that the long game is in our favor as demonstrated by the links you provided, which I read. No worries, I will stay strong and keep editing in the topic, while letting the insults and slander against me go. I clearly have had it easy compared to you! Thank you for your compliments about my editing in the longevity topic. Newshunter12 (talk) 00:58, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Absolutely. And thank you for getting involved. It is an interesting subject, after all, and Wikipedia's coverage of it can be the sum of all the best sources. Definitely keep at it, and I'll help out as much as I can. WP:WikiProject Longevity is looking good, and strengthening it will be a huge asset. Thanks for all your hard work, and don't ever hesitate to reach out to me for anything. (And as an aside, it is strangely amusing to see the way the longevity types portray me; insert "longevity fanboy" for "vandal" here and do the same for "troll" here and it's a huge weight off your shoulders) The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 02:27, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Edit warring across multiple articles

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Gabrielle Valentine des Robert

Is this a source? http://centenaires-francais.fo...e-personnes-de-110-ans-et-plus Ignoto2 (talk) 08:15, 4 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Ignoto2 That "source" is a forum, and forums are not considered reliable sources on Wikipedia. You must also provide the reliable source (a newspaper article or obituary for example) when you make a death removal; its existence somewhere else is not enough. I don't think you had bad faith in your removal, but this is not the first time you have failed to adhere to policy and I have warned you before in edit summaries, so I felt an official warning was needed this time. Please adhere to policy going forward. Newshunter12 (talk) 10:33, 4 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. Next time i will provide a reliable sources before changing Ignoto2 (talk) 10:51, 4 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Edit War

Hi, I really don't want to start an edit war between us. Is there any compromise version of the page we could agree on? Rockstonetalk to me! 06:26, 5 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Rockstone Hey, I really appreciate you defending me at the edit warring notice board. I'm going to continue this discussion at the approprotate article talk page so that other editors have a chance to see it. Newshunter12 (talk) 22:04, 5 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome!

Sounds good. --Rockstonetalk to me! 23:07, 5 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Lepetit should not be removed

Edith Lepetit is apparently 112 and alive

http://centenaires-francais.forumactif.org/t18-preuves-de-vie-sur-les-personnes-de-110-ans-et-plus#9270 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:E35:2FBA:7F90:A98F:BD74:38C:28D2 (talk) 22:39, 7 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia does not consider forums to be reliable sources. That citation is of no use to us. What list were you referring to by the way? Newshunter12 (talk) 03:41, 8 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

AfD

It's getting hot there, I know. I'm trying my very best to keep things from boiling over, this still is nothing like the blowups that went on in 2010 and no one who was around then wants a repeat. I hope this is the last of the contentious AfDs in this topic area (I have 2 merge ideas, but that should be much less contentious). You've been extremely helpful in this topic area, and I want you to stick around, so do your best to stay above the fray. It can be extremely taxing, but it's only one discussion; if, in fact, the article is kept and there are some sources, rewriting it a bit can be beneficial in a couple different ways. I'll do my part to keep on keeping on, there's certainly enough good existing content in this topic area to improve on. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 02:46, 18 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@The Blade of the Northern Lights I tried to resolve at least part of the situation with BHG, but I'll sum that effort up as a train wreck. As far as that one AfD goes, I'm done with my involvement, now. We'll both keep up the good fight elsewhere for sure, mate. Newshunter12 (talk) 17:05, 18 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good. Never hurts to step back sometimes, there's always somewhere else in need of some kind of work. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 17:41, 18 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

FYI

Since our secret admirer seems insistent on sticking around for a while, I've semiprotected your talkpage for a month. Let me know if you want me to modify that. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 16:25, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@The Blade of the Northern Lights Thanks so much, mate, for all the good work you've done on my talkpage today. A month of semi-protection sounds great - it's been very rare that an IP address has constructively edited my talkpage, so I'm not really missing anything good. If it ever came to it in the future, I'd be fine with permanent or very long semi-protection. Newshunter12 (talk) 21:46, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. I'll definitely keep an eye on things. If someone wants to bother me, well, I work with disabled adults, so dealing with long profane rants is part of the deal; at least on Wikipedia I don't (as happened to me once) have to restrain someone for 4 1/2 hours in full Halloween costume! The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 22:14, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

LOL! Newshunter12 (talk) 22:39, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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An overdue barnstar

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		For your excellent hard work of conducting in-depth scrutiny of so many portals, and your well-reasoned nominations for deletion of those which do not meet established guidelines. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:54, 20 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you BrownHairedGirl for giving me my first Barnstar! I saw it much earlier but didn't have time to respond then. It really made my day! I'm going to add it to my user page right now. It's really sweet of you - thanks again! :) Newshunter12 (talk) 02:29, 21 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You're very welcome. It has been hard-earned!

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Portal MFDs

Please take no offense, but it sometimes looks like you are just copying and pasting the same thing across recent portal deletion discussions. I don't have substantial arguments against yours, but they sound pretty similar in general and don't really add much to the discussions. You might as well create a user subpage titled something like User:Newshunter12/Standard portal deletion argument and subst it. Geolodus (talk) 18:52, 17 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page watcher) I have to say I kind of disagree with that analysis. My perception is that cut-and-paste !votes are very common in certain areas of XfDs. For example, at WP:DELSORT/Football, it's common to see "Delete, fails GNG and NFOOTBALL" over and over again, even largely from the same editors, even for years. There's just not a lot of ways to say "lack of in-depth coverage in multiple independent, reliable secondary sources". That may be true for 9 out of 10 articles that are nominated, so everybody ends up saying "fails GNG" over and over and over again. I don't agree that this doesn't really add much to the discussion–not every XfD really needs a lot of discussion, after all. With the football AfDs, noms basically say "I searched and can't find GNG sources" ("fails GNG"), and three or four editors say, "Yup, I also can't find GNG sources" ("fails GNG"), and so having three or four editors all say "fails GNG" is useful insofar as it indicates that multiple editors have searched and have been unable to find in-depth coverage in multiple independent, reliable secondary sources. So it is with WP:POG. It's no secret that the overwhelming majority of portals fail POG–they're not broad enough, don't have enough readers and maintainers, etc., and when they "fail POG" there's really little else to say other than that. Now, you may say, "if the overwhelming majority of portals fail POG, why don't we find a more efficient way to process them?" The answer, I think, is: because a group of editors insisted that we go through them one-by-one. So, there's 1,000+ portals that fail POG, we're going to go through them one by one, and that means 1,000 "fails POG" !votes. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Sometimes I try to break up that monotony by making a joke, that's basically the best solution I've been able to come up with to this problem. – Levivich 20:57, 17 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Leviv Thank you for defending me in this matter. You captured my perspective on portals perfectly, so there's very little that I can add. @Geolodus, it's not my fault that a seemingly endless stream of portals have the same exact failures of WP:POG, so that my MfD votes often sound similar, especially when I am responding to @BrownHairedGirl's exceedingly comprehensive noms. If that upsets you, then you should take it up with the people who made these heaps of abandoned portals and those editors that are forcing a one by one cleanup effort. I assure you, I've done a considerable amount of examination and research on these portals. Newshunter12 (talk) 03:26, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Geolodus, I recommend that you look at a wider selection of NH12's MFD !votes. They are more varied than your comments suggest.

Where the nomination is well-researched and detailed, NH12 does indeed post a fairly standard shortish reply. But when the nomination is skimpier, they often provide a lot more detail. And NH12's research is v thorough. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 03:46, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Well, this certainly caused quite a discussion. I wasn't really upset, just a bit ... concerned, for lack of a better word. As stated in my original comment, I wasn't directly arguing against NH12 or for useless portals. Geolodus (talk) 05:44, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

thanks for your ideas

		The Civility Barnstar
		for making a concerted effort to tag multiple editors when proposing a new idea on portals, including some editors who held some opposing views.Sm8900 (talk) 13:19, 23 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I highly appreciated your effort to tag all participating editors when you posted your recent idea, on how to handle the namespace for portals. I may have disagreed with it, but your willingness to make sure to include others in the discussion shows what Wikipedia is really all about. thanks! --Sm8900 (talk) 13:19, 23 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Sm8900 Thank you so much for this barnstar! Glad something came out of that attempt at consensus. I have to disagree with your take though that "Lack of page views is not a reason to discard portals". Though its status as a guideline is in question, WP:POG has long stated portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers". Roughly 900 abandoned portals have been deleted in the past six months for those and other quality/broadness reasons. Portals don't have their own content, so their only value is their utility. Take Portal:Monaco for instance. From January 1 to June 30 2019, it had 4 views per day, while the head article Monaco (which has many rich and versatile navboxes) had 7,048 views per day. This means the portal only had 0.06% of the daily page views of the head article and it would take nearly five years for the portal to have the total number of views the head article has in a single day.

The portal only serves as a distraction from the head article, and given how many bots scour the web and the swarms of bots Wikipedia itself uses, are any of those 4 views even usually real people? About 900 portals (over 50% of the pre-TTH spam portals) have already been deleted for being abandoned failures. My experience at hundreds of portal MfD's that closed as delete is that nearly all portals are abandoned relics of past editors' momentary enthusiasm, and that there is 15 years of hard evidence that by any sane metric, the Portals Project has been a complete disaster. Head articles, with vastly higher readership and quality then their associated portals, and their very common rich and versatile navboxes are all we need on Wikipedia. There are plenty of junk portals currently at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion if you want to see for yourself the truth about portal space at large. Voting is your own business, I'm just trying to help you understand this topic. Feel free to let me know if you have any questions about portals. Newshunter12 (talk) 03:22, 24 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

you make some interesting points. I will try to give that some real thought. thanks!! Sm8900 (talk) 01:07, 25 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A cup of coffee for you!

Welcome back. Not much has changed. Robert McClenon (talk) 04:42, 2 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Compared to the longevity editors, the portal platoon illustrate sanity. Robert McClenon (talk) 20:39, 8 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Robert McClenon I know right! Appreciate the coffee and support. Newshunter12 (talk) 02:13, 9 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't expect that I was going to say that, as in giving the portal platoon faint praise or in praising the longevity editors with faint dammns, or something. Yuck. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:55, 9 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

When will it end

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Good luck

豊かな十年へようこそ/WELCOME TO THE D20s

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Evidence copyedit

Many thanks for your copyedit[1] of my Portals ArbCom evidence. It was a helpful and neutral cleanup, and I do hope that you aren't rebuked for it.

After spending a day examining the piles of counter-factual absurdity elsewhere in that page, I was well fed up, and had to pace myself with breaks to keep going through it. So I ended up posting right on the deadline, and was too close to it all to proof-read properly without a few hours break. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 04:51, 7 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@BrownHairedGirl You are very welcome! I figured as much and fear not, as copy-editing your evidence so much made me feel very productive and helpful. Unfortunately, I've been rebuked, and it's been reverted by a new Arb and they will not let me reinstate it, but say you may request to change your own evidence at Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Portals/Evidence.

I thought you did a great job illustrating the main points of the issues surrounding portal fan conduct and portal space at large, as well as your growing disillusionment with Wikipedia. You raised many of the same issues that I did, and this rebuke of my copyedit rather dovetails with what you said about the decline of Wikipedia's environment. It's heading in the same direction, with startling accuracy, as your work with portals. Ignoring the substance of what I did and focusing only on the process, just as your intelligent evidence and facts about portals were ignored because you... you... after many months of putting up with it, weren't polite calling nonsense out for what it was. As I said before, this whole set up speaks very poorly about Wikipedia as an organization beholden to the lowest common denominator. We shouldn't even be having this conversation because portal space should never have been created in the first place, let alone sustained when from the very beginning it was clearly a playground creating an ever growing abandoned trash-heap.

But when an organization lacks both common sense and central planning, that's what happens. Stupidity. And it doesn't help that playground-editors don't care about wasting the time of people like you and I cleaning up their mess, and quite possibly get a thrill from it. Why else would someone demand meticulous week+ one by one cleanup of spam portals created at a rate of one every two minutes?

I'm in a bit of a conundrum as I enjoy helping you and talking with you, but want to leave Wikipedia, the only place we interact at. I'll watch the ArbCom case to its end, but I'm not giving Wikipedia more of my time. It clearly doesn't deserve it. Consequently, I'll save goodbyes for later. Newshunter12 (talk) 16:50, 7 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Newshunter12

Many thanks for all that you have written there. I am v sorry to hear that you feel minded to give up, but I am unsurprised.

Please will you consider sending me an email (via Special:EmailUser/BrownHairedGirl) so that we can keep in touch? --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 00:11, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That is very kind of you, @BrownHairedGirl, but for years I have maintained a hard line between my personal life and Wikipedia, and I'm hesitant to ever cross that threshold. If you don't mind, I'd rather prefer to fade into the mist with the understanding I'm welcome to knock on your wiki-door in the future (ex. I might have questions about Ireland). Farewell for now, though I won't be leaving until the ArbCom case is finished. Newshunter12 (talk) 13:11, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough. I understand that desire for privacy, and operate a similar approach myself. I was ready to make an exception in your case, but I well understand your desire to keep a hard line.

You are of course v welcome to keep in touch whenever you pop back here. I'd like that. However, I am personally so disillusioned that I may pull the plug myself. As noted in my evidence, I now have little faith in the ability of Wikipedia's processes to sustain the principle that we are here to build an encyclopedia, and that skill and honesty are baseline requirements. I am withholding final judgement until the arb case is over, but I fear that we have reached a tipping point. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:48, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Addition to oldest living persons list

I would like to suggest that Nina Willis be added to the oldest living persons list. Her date of birth is January 14, 1909 making her currently 111 years 88 days old. You seem to be a very active editor on the oldest persons list so I thought you might be interested in this particular case. Citation: fox5atlanta.com/news/georgia-woman-celebrating-111th-birthday. Thanks for all you do editing. I for one appreciate it very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bromleychuck (talk • contribs) 18:26, 12 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Bromleychuck I have since boldly reduced the size of that article's list to 50 entries due to systemic maintenance and quality issues, so at 111, Nina Willis is not presently relevant to that article. Newshunter12 (talk) 19:26, 12 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Longevity Troll

Hi I'm a member of The 110 Club and an editor on the Gerontology Wiki and I just wanted you to know that a user named Timothy McGuire has been vandalizing longevity pages on Gerontology Wiki and making death threats towards users. Robert Young has reported McGuire to the FBI but I was thinking this could be the same person that has vandalized longevity related articles on this site and threatened you and other editors. Anyway I'll just leave these links here so you can look into it yourself https://the110club.com/troll-alert-t23363.html?sid=a837b37f59df5e40d0645daea1fdcc1c#p40089958 https://gerontology.wikia.org/wiki/Message_Wall:TheGalaxies567 . 103.236.151.4 (talk) 12:28, 6 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for this information. The behavior seems strikingly similar to me, and it would explain why the troll here on Wikipedia comes, vandalizes/threatens, and "goes away for a while" (typically when lengthy page protections have been put in place, hampering their activities). They just move between sites, it would seem. Goodness, this really explains a lot about the prolonged psychotic abuse I and others have been subjected to here, the numerous attempts to get me blocked, and the vandalism.... @The Blade of the Northern Lights and @zzuuzz Please read this thread. Is there any way information (ex. IP addresses) can be gathered or shared from the numerous examples of often violent-themed abuse we received to see if this is the same individual as on the Gerontology Wiki? It seems likely that it is the same perpetrator, and if so, the FBI has been involved in the past and apparently is likely to get involved again. Newshunter12 (talk) 03:08, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Probably the same person, who incidentally hit my talkpage last night. Not really sure the FBI will do a whole lot about that, although genuine death threats should be forwarded to local law enforcement. Recent checkuser data and the IP addresses used could potentially help as well (and I have an eye on this page in case things start up again). The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 03:21, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@The Blade of the Northern Lights Thank you for the update. My thinking is that if the incidents can be linked using hard evidence, that hypothetically both helps us better understand what has been happening here on Wikipedia and adds to the body of evidence against the individual. If it is the same person, more evidence could prompt law enforcement to finally act, if an even small crime were committed at some point in all this (ex. someone just threatened to assassinate the head of the GRG, who reported it to the FBI, seems a good place to start). Newshunter12 (talk) 03:52, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Addition of Hazel Plummer to Oldest Living Supercentenarians List

I would suggest that Hazel Plummer (born June 19, 1908) be added to the oldest living persons list. I am unsure of exactly what constitutes a "Reliable Source" but there are 2 reports about her 112th birthday that I consider credible: A Facebook post from the Congregational Church of Littleton, MA dated June 13, 2020 and a YouTube video of a parade in front of her nursing home to celebrate her 112th birthday during the COVID-19 crisis dated June 19, 2020. Would these be considered "Reliable Sources"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bromleychuck (talk • contribs) 15:39, 15 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Bromleychuck Hello, and thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately, neither of the two above sources are considered reliable by Wikipedia, since they are social media. Neither is this, since it's a blog. Only newspaper articles, media reports, government reports, and GRG/GWR validation are considered reliable sources by Wikipedia for inclusion. I have actually already looked into trying to add Hazel Plummer (or rather re-add, since I once added her to list's hidden addendum, but later removed her as she no longer qualified for inclusion) before, but all her recent coverage, while extensive, falls into the crack of being considered unreliable. I don't doubt she is alive, but article quality standards must be upheld. Newshunter12 (talk) 03:32, 16 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Lucy Hannah Longevity Dispute

Hello. I'm interested in tracking longevity, and I noticed that Lucy Hannah had been removed due to a dispute in a scientific research book. When I reviewed their references, the latest one was from 2014 which is 6 years ago. Is there any way you can provide me with a secondary source that also disputes her longevity claim with more recent references? Validation of age is important but I just want to make sure the removal of her from the list is supported by more than one source. Thank you. 2600:8805:0:E65:5844:6001:5212:BFC8 (talk) 18:46, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Most of the research presented about Lucy Hannah in this book is being published for the first time, so you are mistaken it's all from six or more years ago or requires past corroboration. This fairly obscure topic moves at a glacial pace and since it involves personal information, document info and negative judgements on most age cases are typically kept private. This is a comprehensive, scientific de-construction of the Lucy Hannah case by top Gerontologists whose work we cite hundreds of times in the various supercentenarian articles. When reading this book section, one learns the Lucy Hannah validation was basically a mistake others in 2003 took at face value as true, but enough information was finally gathered to pass an official public judgement on the case, which was to debunk it. No claim was ever submitted for her and there was no media coverage of her whatsoever while alive; the only body that ever "backed" her case as true from their own research was one old general study by the Social Security Administration that goofed up.

This isn't like the "takedown" of Jeanne Calment that fell apart when it received its own scrutiny. Newshunter12 (talk) 03:22, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for addressing my concern. I just wanted to ensure history is protected and that validation of her age indeed had no legitimate standing. 2600:8805:0:E65:5844:6001:5212:BFC8 (talk) 01:27, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Addition of Juliette Bilde to the Oldest Living People List

I came across an article that I believe confirms that Juliette Bilde is alive and has celebrated her 112th birthday. The article is from La Nouvelle Republique dated 20 October 2021. It can be found at: https://www.lanouvellerepublique.fr/deux-sevres/commune/saint-loup-lamaire/les-112-ans-de-juliette-bilde-a-la-maison-de-retraite I was going to attempt an edit on the page but do not feel confident that I would be able to do it correctly. Thanks for the great job you are doing with this page.Bromleychuck (talk) 21:56, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for this information and your kind words. I have just added her to the article with the source you provided. I do my best to keep the article updated, and your help is much appreciated. Feel free to make more suggestions any time. Newshunter12 (talk) 02:57, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Unused Templates Task Force

Since I've seen you active at Tfd's lately, in case you're interested in joining the task fore I started, Unused Templates Task Force, feel free to join and contribute. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 01:44, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the invitation, I just signed up. I don't have a lot of time at the moment, but would like to learn how to evaluate templates so that I could contribute nominations, and not just participate at others' TfD's. Using Template:Are Parish as an example, which is 490 on User:Jonesey95/unused templates list, no article links to it according to a What links here search and it was last edited by a human in 2013. Heck, the parish itself ceased to exist in 2017. Would this be a good template to nominate for TfD with a nom of: Abandoned and unused template for parish that ceased to exist in 2017.? Am I understanding the topic of templates correctly? Thank you for any guidance you can provide. Newshunter12 (talk) 05:08, 12 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Has now been nominated for deletion. Newshunter12 (talk) 14:56, 12 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, it's been a while since you've stepped down from the task force. Posting in case you aren't aware. All those Estonian Parish templates have been taken care of and we've made significant progress in reducing the backlog. On the main unused templates database report, redirects are now on the first page. You've played a helpful part with your due diligence. You're welcome to come back when you have time. Thank you for all you've done. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 02:06, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Barbara Barton

You removed my grandmother from the 50 oldest living people in the US three days ago - but she is still alive! She resides at Hattie Ide Chaffee nursing home in East Providence RI and she is very much still alive at 113 and one month old.

Best regards, Her granddaughter, Beth Barton Rondeau 2600:8805:A000:4E00:B80B:3A9D:71B9:3602 (talk) 16:32, 12 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I am the one who originally added Barbara Barton in 2020. I recently removed her from the same article, List of the oldest living people, a list of the 50 oldest known people in the world. It was because her most recent reliable source was now over a year old. To be included in that article, there is a blanket requirement that individuals need to have a recent independent reliable source (newspaper article, media report, Japanese prefecture reports, GRG validation, etc) proving they are alive. Social media, blogs, forums, other wikis, and self-published sources are Never considered reliable sources for supercentenarians. Her most recent source was from mid-October 2020. If you provide a recent reliable source, I would be happy to re-add her. As for how you can acquire sourcing, since we already have reliable sourcing for her full name and date of birth, even just a little mention in a minor reliable source like, "Barbra Barton had a sprightly game of bingo Saturday at age 113 at..." would do, if that helps.

Please keep in mind that for many, reliable death coverage is never found; they just "fall off" the list like Barbra Barton just did, hence the mandatory rule.

On a related side note, please know that the topic of extreme longevity on Wikipedia has over the years been plagued by death hoaxes and hoaxes/vandalism of all kinds (most often from anonymous accounts like yours, which is why IP editors can no longer edit that article), so while I don't doubt your sincerity, please understand that private requests or private information will never be used to edit an article. For better or worse, on Wikipedia, we go only by what the reliable sources say. Newshunter12 (talk) 05:05, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Death Date of Alfred Smith

Why is the Death Date of Alfred Smith in "List of British supercentenarians" showing as 3 August 2019 when his obituary in The Herald shows it as 4 August 2019. They also state that he had lived "111 years, 128 days", so their date is not a typo. Please refer to https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/17841188.obituary-alf-smith-scotlands-oldest-man/. Thank you. Rklingmann (talk) 08:40, 15 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@TFBCT1 @Rklingmann So we are all on the same page, this is the first time I have seen the above source (which was created 12 days after I looked into this matter in 2019). It is in contradiction to the BBC, and Herald Scotland itself from August 4. These two articles stated he died on Saturday night, which would be August 3, 2019. They quoted a local official's tweet that he lived 111 years and 128 days, but as any calendar will tell you, he would need to have died on Sunday August 4 for that to be true. At the time, it seemed far more likely the local official was 1 day off in a tweet than multiple major sources wrong on "Saturday night vs. Sunday morning" for his death, and we don't use info from social media anyway. I thought that was what your post was alluding to and so ignored it.

Given your source came 12 days after the others, it likely had a better chance to get the facts right. I would support changing his death date to August 4, but I would note for the record sloppy journalism caused this issue, not any mistake of mine. Newshunter12 (talk) 16:25, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Newshunter12 Can you make the changes since you are more qualified than I am? Rklingmann (talk) 07:47, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Rklingmann List of British supercentenarians has been updated accordingly, including using the source you provided above. Thank you for your contributions to this topic on Wikipedia. Newshunter12 (talk) 15:44, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Catherine Abate

I found an article about Catherine Abate that lists her date of birth as 15 November 1909. https://wyrk.com/112-year-old-in-hamburg-shares-secret-to-a-long-life/ This makes her older than Asta Hasse who is #50 on the List of the Oldest Living People. My editing skills are limited so I thought I would send the information to you as you seem to be a seasoned editor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bromleychuck (talk • contribs) 16:33, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your valuable contribution @Bromleychuck. I haven't had much time to edit or research in recent months, but just seeing this now I have promptly added her to List of the oldest living people and List of Italian supercentenarians. You are correct that I am seasoned editor in this topic area, and your contributions are always welcome here. Newshunter12 (talk) 20:55, 13 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (part 3)
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Recent research: A century of rulemaking on Wikipedia analyzed
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Serendipity: Don't cite Wikipedia
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From the archives: 2012 Russian Wikipedia shutdown as it happened
Ten years ago, Russian Wikipedia went dark in protest of new Russian laws. Today...

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

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The Signpost: 31 August 2022

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Signpost: 30 September 2022

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Signpost: 31 October 2022

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

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

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

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

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

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

Interview: Isabelle Belato on their Request for Adminship
The newest sysop speaks on the process that got them there.

Featured content: Topics, lists, submarines and Gurl.com
Featured content from October.

Serendipity: We all make mistakes – don’t we?
The strength of Wikipedia is the peer review afterwards.

Traffic report: Mama, they're in love with a criminal
More serial killers than you can shake a stick at!

From the archives: Paid advocacy, a lawsuit over spelling mistakes, deleting Jimbo's article, and the death of Toolserver
What tales echo in these hallowed halls.

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The Signpost: 28 November 2022

News and notes: English Wikipedia editors: "We don't need no stinking banners"
Joe Roe's close sows dough woes, manifestos... vetoes? overthrows?

In the media: "The most beautiful story on the Internet"
Ineffective altruism, return of the toaster, Jess Wade keeps wading through it, Russia censors searches, schools embrace Wikipedia.

Interview: Lisa Seitz-Gruwell on WMF fundraising in the wake of big banner ad RfC
An interview with Wikimedia's Chief Advancement Officer.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Signpost: 1 January 2023

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

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

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

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

Essay: Mobile editing
Frustrations and successes.

Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee Election 2022
Congratulations.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Signpost: 16 January 2023

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

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

News and notes: Revised Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines up for vote, WMF counsel departs, generative models under discussion
UCoC draws nearer, alongside the rise of the machines, in mainspace this time.

In the media: Court orders user data in libel case, Saudi Wikipedia in the crosshairs, Larry Sanger at it again
Wikipedia's birthday, a cute dog, and nipplefruit.

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

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

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

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

Humour: New geologically speedy deletion criteria introduced
7,000,000-year Landmasses for Subduction discussions considered "too long".

Opinion: Good old days, in which fifth-symbol-lacking lipograms roam'd our librarious litany
Allow us to bring you back, back, back, to days of Wikifun rampant.

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

Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2022
War, sports, and all types of chaos.

From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
The editor with five million edits, the death of Aaron Swartz, and rollback.

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The Signpost: 4 February 2023

From the editor: New for the Signpost: Author pages, tag pages, and a decent article search function
Last issue's vow for "something to show for these efforts" revisited.

News and notes: Foundation update on fundraising, new page patrol, Tides, and Wikipedia blocked in Pakistan
As well as the continued rise of the machines, and Amanda Keton's WMF departure.

Section 230: Twenty-six words that created the internet, and the future of an encyclopedia
Section 230 before the Supreme Court in two cases, with broad implications for the web.

Disinformation report: Wikipedia on Santos
Or Santos on Wikipedia?

Special report: Legal status of Wikimedia projects "unclear" under potential European legislation
WMF issues salvo in latest battles of the Posting Wars

In the media: Furor over new Wikipedia skin, followup on Saudi bans, and legislative debate
The good, the bad, and the ugly.

Op-Ed: Estonian businessman and political donor brings lawsuit against head of national Wikimedia chapter
Isamaa party sponsor Parvel Pruunsild files claim in Tartu County Court against WMEE head Ivo Kruusamägi and Reform Party politicians.

Opinion: Study examines cultural leanings of Wikimedia projects' visual art coverage
English Wikipedia among most "global" and Thai Wikipedia's among most "Western", but non-Western works neglected overall.

Recent research: Wikipedia's "moderate yet systematic" liberal citation bias
And other new research publications.

WikiProject report: WikiProject Organized Labour
An interview with those who pitch in together

Tips and tricks: XTools: Data analytics for your list of created articles
Letting you find out about yourself (and others).

Featured content: 20,000 Featureds under the Sea
An exceptionally good period for featured articles.

Traffic report: Films, deaths and ChatGPT
Can we have a chat?

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The Signpost: 20 February 2023

News and notes: Terms of Use update, Steward elections, and Wikipedia back in Pakistan
UCoC Enforcement Guidelines pass, Wikimedia Enterprise financials, GPTs gone wild, and a speedy deletion criterion removed.

In the media: Arbitrators open case after article alleges Wikipedia "intentionally distorts" Holocaust coverage
Also: Russ Baker's BLP, the digital commons, the NSA, and more on Pakistan.

Disinformation report: The "largest con in corporate history"?
Gautam Adani and his companies possibly behind scheme featuring scores of socks, infiltration of articles for creation process.

Essay: Machine-written articles: a new challenge for Wikipedia
GPT: friend or foe?

Tips and tricks: All about writing at DYK
Your one-stop hooker's handbook.

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

Gallery: Love is in the air
Lovey-dovey stuff for Valentine's.

Traffic report: Superbowl? Pfft. Give me some Bollywood! Yours sincerely, the world
And maybe a side of AI.

From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 years ago: Let's (not) delete the Main Page!
Also: let's delete images of Muhammed! Let's delete portals!

Cobwebs: Editorial: The loss of the moral high ground
Yesterday's controversies, reported on today.

Humour: The RfA Candidate's Song
A musical interlude.

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The Signpost: 9 March 2023

News and notes: What's going on with the Wikimedia Endowment?
A lack of transparency.

Technology report: Second flight of the Soviet space bears: Testing ChatGPT's accuracy
Using failed AI Galactica's worst mistakes to test a new AI.

In the media: What should Wikipedia do? Publish Russian propaganda? Be less woke? Cover the Holocaust in Poland differently?
Probable answers: No, no, maybe?

Featured content: In which over two-thirds of the featured articles section needs to be copied over to WikiProject Military History's newsletter
Seriously, even the chef has a major military history connection.

Recent research: "Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the Holocaust" in Poland and "self-focus bias" in coverage of global events
And other new research publications.

From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
Wikizine, Wikipedia Zero, Single User Login, and Wales allegedly editing his girlfriend's article.

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The Signpost: 20 March 2023

News and notes: Wikimania submissions deadline looms, Russian government after our lucky charms, AI woes nix CNET from RS slate
Be part of the Wikimania 2023 program!

Eyewitness: Three more stories from Ukrainian Wikimedians
One year in: volunteering, science, art, and candlelight.

In the media: Paid editing, plagiarism payouts, proponents of a ploy, and people peeved at perceived preferences
Everything is broken, again.

Featured content: Way too many featured articles
Seriously, it's only a fortnight's worth!

Interview: 228/2/1: the inside scoop on Aoidh's RfA
An interview with Wikipedia's newest admin.

Traffic report: Who died? Who won? Who lost?
All the pop culture that's fit to print, with a sprinkling of cocaine (bear).

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The Signpost: 03 April 2023

From the editor: Some long-overdue retractions
Errata regretted.

News and notes: Sounding out, a universal code of conduct, and dealing with AI
Skynet believed to be in violation of the new Universal Code of Conduct.

In the media: Twiddling Wikipedia during an online contest, and other news
Taking the phrase "gaming the system" to the next level.

Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" case is ongoing
Desysop case request still in accept/decline phase.

Featured content: Hail, poetry! Thou heav'n-born maid
Thou gildest e'en the Signpost's trade.

Recent research: Language bias: Wikipedia captures at least the "silhouette of the elephant", unlike ChatGPT
And a dataset of article revisions to provide a corpus for promotional content.

From the archives: April Fools' through the ages
A retrospective of the best and worst pranks.

Disinformation report: Sus socks support suits, seems systemic
Do important banks sock? Maybe – but don't grab your money and run just yet!

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The Signpost: 26 April 2023

News and notes: Staff departures at Wikimedia Foundation, Jimbo hands in the bits, and graphs' zeppelin burns
Plus: Wikipedians get own Mastodon account, and Wikiprojects move to uniform quality assessment.

In the media: Contested truth claims in Wikipedia
Covering Russia, Poland, the Vatican, the U.S., and the "perilously thin" boundary between real life and Wikipedia.

Obituary: Remembering David "DGG" Goodman
The prolific editor, former Arbitration Committee member and co-founder of Wikimedia New York City died in April.

Arbitration report: Holocaust in Poland, Jimbo in the hot seat, and a desysopping
No news is good news, and this isn't no news.

Opinion: What Jimbo's question revealed about scamming
The problem we haven't solved.

Op-Ed: Wikipedia as an anchor of truth
Can Wikipedia help keep AI agents honest?

Special report: Signpost statistics between years 2005 and 2022
In this article, we will look at The Signpost statistics. More precisely: Signpost article statistics by year, TOP 20 titles of Signpost articles, TOP 20 article authors, and the home wikis of article authors.

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

Featured content: In which we described the featured articles in rhyme again
And somehow made it more readable than when it's not rhyming.

From the archives: April Fools' through the ages, part two
2011 and on.

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

Traffic report: Long live machine, the future supreme
Wrestling bumps world-changing technology from the #1 spot, imagine that.

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The Signpost: 8 May 2023

News and notes: New legal "deVLOPments" in the EU
... and at WP:Mastodon.

In the media: Vivek's smelly socks, online safety, and politics
Fake fines, false alarms and faux headlines!

Recent research: Gender, race and notability in deletion discussions
And other new research publications.

Featured content: I wrote a poem for each article, I found rhymes for all the lists; My first featured picture of this year now finally exists!
...Layout lovers will hate this featured content's title.

Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" approaches conclusion
There will likely be more to say next issue.

News from the WMF: Planning together with the Wikimedia Foundation
The second article in a series describing the priorities and work of the Wikimedia Foundation. The article invites Wikimedians to collaborate with the Foundation.

Special report: There Shall Be Seasons Refreshing – Stories from WikiConference India 2023
First national-level conference in the Indian subcontinent in seven years.

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The Signpost: 22 May 2023

News and notes: Golden parachutes: Record severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation
... and a referendum on Jimmy Wales' traditional role as a final court of appeal in arbitration policy.

In the media: History, propaganda and censorship
Opposing scholars on ArbCom case.

Arbitration report: Final decision in "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland"
Includes stronger sourcing restriction, and a nod to the UCoC.

Recent research: Create or curate, cooperate or compete? Game theory for Wikipedia editors
And other new research results.

Featured content: A very musical week for featured articles
Bird is the word for featured pictures.

Traffic report: Coronation, chatbot, celebs
Celebs and Bollywood film dominated reader interest, as usual, but with a new persistent presence on the lists of a certain AI.

WikiProject report: Wikipedians Convene for Queering Wikipedia 2023: The First International LGBT+ Wikipedia Conference
An online conference with 12 distributed trans-local in-person meetup "Nodes" on 5 continents.

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The Signpost: 5 June 2023

News and notes: WMRU director forks new 'pedia, birds flap in top '22 piccy, WMF weighs in on Indian gov's map axe plea
Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Building Committee Commences Command By Convening.

In the media: Section 230 stands tall, WP vs. UK bill, Miss Information dissed again
Also: Goog gets delist ask for en-wp yt-dl ar-ticle, wacky football fails.

Featured content: Poetry under pressure
Now is not this ridiculous, and is not this preposterous? A thorough-paced absurdity - explain it if you can.

Traffic report: Celebs, controversies and a chatbot in the public eye
Plus mortalities, and movies about mermaids.

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The Signpost: 19 June 2023

News and notes: WMF Terms of Use now in force, new Creative Commons licensing
Problems with emergency emails sent to WMF.

In the media: English WP editor glocked after BLP row on Italian 'pedia
... and an AI writer explains why he just bought a paper encyc.

Featured content: Content, featured
Poetry still present.

Recent research: Hoaxers prefer currently-popular topics
And other new research findings.

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The Signpost: 3 July 2023

News and notes: Online Safety Bill: Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia UK launch open letter
... and a new Elections Committee.

Disinformation report: Imploded submersible outfit foiled trying to sing own praises on Wikipedia
A few editors who fought many times to keep advertisements out.

In the media: Journo proposes mass Wiki dox, sponsored articles on Fandom, Section 230 discussed
Are you now, or have you ever been, a Wikipedia editor?

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

Traffic report: Are you afraid of spiders? Arnold? The Idol? ChatGPT?
Don't worry, they are mostly harmless.

Humour: United Nations dispatches peacekeeping force to Wikipedia policy discussions
Mission to ensure stability in conflict-ridden area.

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The Signpost: 17 July 2023

News and notes: Big bux hidden beneath wine-dark sea as we wait for the Tides to go out?
Gitz666 unglocked, Wikimania scholarships given and a new admin anointed.

In the media: Tentacles of Emirates plot attempt to ensnare Wikipedia
Ruwiki on the Ruinternet, Rauwerda on TEDx, and Jimbo on Fridman.

Obituary: David Thomsen (Dthomsen8) and Ingo Koll (Kipala)
Philadelphians and Tanzanians say goodbye.

News from the WMF: ABC for Fundraising: Advancing Banner Collaboration for fundraising campaigns
The collaboration process for the 2023 English fundraising campaign is kicking off now, right from the start of the fiscal year.

In focus: Are the children of celebrities over-represented in French cinema?
Wikidata queries investigate nepo babies.

Tips and tricks: What automation can do for you (and your WikiProject)
A summary of various tools designed over the years.

Recent research: Wikipedia-grounded chatbot "outperforms all baselines" on factual accuracy
And various other research on large language models and Wikipedia.

Humour: New fringe theories to be introduced
Bold move intended to "get some variety" into Wikipedia arguments.

Cobwebs: If you're reading this, you're probably on a desktop
The annual report that tries to understand the Signpost through data, written in 2020, which never saw the light of day until now.

Featured content: Scrollin', scrollin', scrollin', keep those readers scrollin', got to keep on scrollin', Rawhide!
In which choices have been made™.

Traffic report: The Idol becomes the Master
Sex, drugs and violence, English, math and science.

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The Signpost: 1 August 2023

News and notes: City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians, Ruwiki founder banned, WMF launches Mastodon server
And French gov't proposes legislation to slam Wikipedia, others.

In the media: Truth, AI, bull from politicians, and climate change
Or just another brouhaha?

Disinformation report: Hot climate, hot hit, hot money, hot news hot off the presses!
Hot damn, it's damned hot!

Obituary: Donald Cram, Peter McCawley, and Eagleash
Three editors have departed.

Tips and tricks: Citation tools for dummies!
You don't really want to do this stuff by yourself, do you?

Humour: Does Wikipedia present neutral perspectives?
A serious visual investigation.

In focus: Journals cited by Wikipedia
A compilation of over 3M citations.

Opinion: Are global bans the last step?
Possible solutions after being re-harassed.

Featured content: Featured Content, 1 to 15 July
Due to unfortunate events, this issue is published as is, in its unfinished state.

Traffic report: Come on Oppie, let's go party
Oppenheimer, Barbie, and a couple other scandals.

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The Signpost: 15 August 2023

News and notes: Dude, Where's My Donations? Wikimedia Foundation announces another million in grants for non-Wikimedia-related projects
Jimbo promises more transparency, Wikimania in Singapore, move away from Tides still planned, and Wikifunctions rolls out.

In the media: An accusation of bias from Brazil, a lawsuit from Portugal, plagiarism from Florida
Harsh words from problematic fave Glenn Greenwald.

In focus: 2023 Good Article Nomination drive is underway: get your barnstars here!
Rigorous Review of Content for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Wikipedia.

Special report: Thirteen years later, why are most administrators still from 2005?
Damn kids need to get off our lawn and onto RfA.

Tips and tricks: How to find images for your articles, check their copyright, upload them, and restore them
Because one gets some secondary skills when one has 645 featured pictures.

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

Opinion: Copyright trolls, or the last beautiful free souls on this planet?
For whom does the Creative Commons enforcement clause toll?

Serendipity: Why I stopped taking photographs almost altogether
An announcement of 335,000 new images on Wikimedia Commons.

Featured content: Barbenheimer confirmed
Some improvement on last week.

Humour: Arbitration Committee to accept case against Right Honorable Frimbley Cantingham, 15th Viscount Bellington-upon-Porkshire
Case request cited misuse of tools by administrator who last used tools in 1661.

Traffic report: 'Cause today it just goes with the fashion
Barbenheimer, Pee-Wee Herman and the Women's World Cup.

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The Signpost: 31 August 2023

From the editor: Beta version of signpost.news now online
News for the editoriat. Stuff that matters.

News and notes: You like RecentChanges?
Wikipedia really comes into its own, editorially and artistically.

In the media: Taking it sleazy
"Poli", which means "many", and "tics", which means "under-the-table Wikipedia article whitewashing campaigns".

Recent research: The five barriers that impede "stitching" collaboration between Commons and Wikipedia
And other recent research publications.

Draftspace: Bad Jokes and Other Draftspace Novelties
The good, the bad, and the nonsense.

Humour: The Dehumourification Plan
A message from the Counter-Fun Unit.

Traffic report: Raise your drinking glass, here's to yesterday
I just poured HOT GRITS down my pants ohh yeah

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The Signpost: 16 September 2023

News and notes: Wikimedia power sharing – just an advisory role for the volunteer community?
Plus: Africa news, funding report, U4C draft, roads fork and another ChatGPT block.

In the media: "Just flirting", going Dutch and Shapps for the defence?
Plus a new judge, an "unimportant" record, and staying in the swim!

Obituary: Nosebagbear
A Wikipedian and a friend.

Serendipity: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no paywall, for thou, Wikipedia Library, art with me
Non-flammable, BPA-free, and really whips the llama's ass.

Featured content: Catching up
Covering all of August. Pretty much.

Concept: Strange portal opened by CERN researchers brings Wikipedia articles from "other worlds"
The Signpost brings you the latest from the source.

Traffic report: Some of it's magic, some of it's tragic
Sports, film and singers. We've got it all!

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The Signpost: 3 October 2023

News and notes: Wikimedia Endowment financial statement published
Finances during Tides Foundation management of the endowment are shown for the first time.

In the media: History is written by whoever can harness the most editors
Plus Harvard, Yale, Lords and Commons, partners and trolls!

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

Featured content: By your logic,
The first issue to feature two poetry article

Concept: Wikipedia policies from other worlds: WP:NOANTLERS
Material must be written with the greatest care and attention; the level of detail and commentary regarding the antlers of living persons is to be kept to a minimum.

Poetry: "The Sight"
Tamzin reflects on the hunt.

Traffic report: There shall be no slaves in the land of lands, it's a Bollywood jam
Taylor Swift with an NFL tight end and Lauren Boebert with a Democrat?

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The Signpost: 23 October 2023

News and notes: Where have all the administrators gone?
Long time passing

In the media: Thirst traps, the fastest loading sites on the web, and the original collaborative writing
Also: High fives, Wikipedia as a guide for counterfeiters and crossword makers, and Iskander at the UN.

Gallery: Before and After: Why you don't need to know how to restore images to make massive improvements
The benefits of research.

Featured content: Yo, ho! Blow the man down!
These titles never make much sense even at the best of times, so why not be random?

Traffic report: The calm and the storm
They are still fighting.

News from Diff: Sawtpedia: Giving a Voice to Wikipedia Using QR Codes
Sounds good!

Humour: New citation template introduced for divine revelations, drug use, and really thinking about it
"Cite altered state" to join the distinguished ranks of CS1 templates

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The Signpost: 6 November 2023

Arbitration report: Admin bewilderingly unmasks self as sockpuppet of other admin who was extremely banned in 2015
"Is this an ArbCom case request or an M. Night Shyamalan movie?"

In the media: UK shadow chancellor accused of ripping off WP articles for book, Wikipedians accused of being dicks by a rich man
Plus Gaza bias, Speaker Johnson, Maher, the music of websites, and antisemitism.

News and notes: Board candidacy process posted, editors protest WMF privacy measure, sweet meetups
And three new admins!

Opinion: An open letter to Elon Musk
You should learn some of our rules!

WikiCup report: The WikiCup 2023
The winner is...

News from Wiki Ed: Equity lists on Wikipedia
Do you ever wonder where Wikipedia articles come from?

Recent research: How English Wikipedia drove out fringe editors over two decades
And other new research findings.

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

Wikidata: Evaluating qualitative systemic bias in large article sets on Wikipedia
A systematic approach.

Traffic report: Cricket jumpscare
Plus Kollywood, Killers of the Flower Moon, and ongoing war.

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The Signpost: 20 November 2023

In the media: Propaganda and photos, lunatics and a lunar backup
Comic-con, Media summit, and a classic!

News and notes: Update on Wikimedia's financial health
Plus: Sockpuppet investigators asking for help.

Traffic report: If it bleeds, it leads
Or if it's Indian sport or cinema.

Recent research: Canceling disputes as the real function of ArbCom
And other new research findings.

Wikimania: Wikimania 2024 scholarships
Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2024 are now open!

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The Signpost: 4 December 2023

News and notes: Beeblebrox ejected from Arbitration Committee following posts on Wikipediocracy
Just as his term was ending!

In the media: Turmoil on Hebrew Wikipedia, grave dancing, Olga's impact and inspiring Bhutanese nuns
Plus Apple Pay, fiction, registration, expulsion, and elimination!

Disinformation report: "Wikipedia and the assault on history"
An analysis of a literary mystery.

In focus: Tens of thousands of freely available sources flagged
Continuing years of efforts to improve free-to-read access.

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

Essay: I am going to die
And so are you.

Featured content: Real gangsters move in silence
Quite literally, and other fascinating featured articles, pictures and lists

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

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

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The Signpost: 24 December 2023

Special report: Did the Chinese Communist Party send astroturfers to sabotage a hacktivist's Wikipedia article?
Wikipedia article histories are public records that can be easily examined, so unlike other websites, we can answer this question thoroughly.

News and notes: The Italian Public Domain wars continue, Wikimedia RU set to dissolve, and a recap of WLM 2023
Not the best of times for Wikipedians across the world, but there are still glimpses of hope...

In the media: Consider the humble fork
Forky on forky on forky, plus a strange donation scheme and other interesting bits of news.

Discussion report: Arabic Wikipedia blackout; Wikimedians discuss SpongeBob, copyrights, and AI
Wiki goes dark and adopts Palestine flag logo; intellectual property rumblings from the bowels of the law.

In focus: Liquidation of Wikimedia RU
Wikimedia Russia closes after founder is declared a "foreign agent".

Technology report: Dark mode is coming
No more must Wikipedia always be a lightbulb in the dark — except metaphorically of course.

Recent research: "LLMs Know More, Hallucinate Less" with Wikidata
And other new research publications.

Gallery: A feast of holidays and carols
Peace on earth, goodwill to all!

Comix: Lollus lmaois 200C tincture
the dilution makes it stronger.

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

Traffic report: What's the big deal? I'm an animal!
Bollywood, Hollywood, and both kinds of football to close out December.

From the editor: A piccy iz worth OVAR 9000!!!11oneone! wordz ^_^
The debugging will continue until performance improves.

Apocrypha: Local editor discovered 1,380 lost subheadings in ancient Signpost scrolls. And what he found was shocking.
Heartwarming — MUST READ — You Won't BELIEVE #4!!!!!

Humour: Guess the joke contest
Winner receives a special prize!

BJAODN: Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense
Edit summary: "Only need this page for about 30 minutes to demonstrate to a friend how easy it is to create a Wikipedia page. Then it will be deleted."

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The Signpost: 10 January 2024

From the editor: NINETEEN MORE YEARS! NINETEEN MORE YEARS!
The Signpost can now drink beer and chant slogans in Canada. What slogans should we chant for the next nineteen years?

Special report: Public Domain Day 2024
Mickey & You: What can you do?

Technology report: Wikipedia: A Multigenerational Pursuit
A techie looks at the big questions.

News and notes: In other news ... see ya in court!
Let the games begin! The 2024 WikiCup is off to a strong start. With copyright enforcement, AI training and freedom of expression, it's another typical week in the wiki-sphere!

In focus: The long road of a featured article candidate
The first of two installments, regarding a process of many installments.

In the media: What is plagiarism? Oklahoma Disneyland? Reaching a human being at Wikipedia?
Watch out for those space ships!

WikiProject report: WikiProjects Israel and Palestine
What are the editorial processes behind covering some of the most politically polarizing and contentious topics on English Wikipedia?

Obituary: Anthony Bradbury
Rest in peace.

Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2023
Around the world in 365 days (with many stops in India).

Crossword: everybody gangsta till the style sheets start cascading
The good news is that I've perfected the templates that allow other people to make actually good crosswords.

Comix: Conflict resolution
Getting down to brass tacks &c.

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The Signpost: 31 January 2024

News and notes: Wikipedian Osama Khalid celebrated his 30th birthday in jail
Plus WMF child rights impact assessment, Chinese Wikipedia changes admin rules

Opinion: Until it happens to you
A stream of consciousness about plagiarism on Wikipedia from the perspective of a user who directly witnessed it.

Disinformation report: How paid editors squeeze you dry
And how you can stop them!

In the media: Katherine Maher new NPR CEO, go check Wikipedia, race in the race
Another wobble, more Ackman, our usual pathological optimist, and football in dirty pants!

In focus: The long road of a featured article candidate, part 2
Everything you really wanted to know about writing featured articles.

Recent research: Croatian takeover was enabled by "lack of bureaucratic openness and rules constraining [admins]"
And other new research publications.

Comix: We've all got to start somewhere
Writing a good subheading for a one-sentence joke is basically like writing an entire second joke so I'm not going to do it.

Traffic report: DJ, gonna burn this goddamn house right down
Job changes, death, sex, murder, suicide and a vacation!

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The Signpost: 13 February 2024

News and notes: Wikimedia Russia director declared "foreign agent" by Russian gov; EU prepares to pile on the papers
"the exact extent of the obligations" unclear... many such cases!

Disinformation report: How low can the scammers go?
Lower, trust me!

Gallery: Before and After: Why you don't need to touch grass to dramatically improve images of flora and fauna
Finding the right bumblebee among all the bumblebees!

In the media: Speaking in tongues, toeing the line, and dressing the part
The usual odd articles about Wikipedia.

Serendipity: Is this guy the same as the one who was a Nazi?
The hunt for Bertil Ragnar Anzén.

Traffic report: Griselda, Nikki, Carl, Jannik and two types of football
Plus films, Grammys and a rumble!

Crossword: Our crossword to bear
&c.

Comix: Strongly
That's more than weakly!

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The Signpost: 2 March 2024

News and notes: Wikimedia enters US Supreme court hearings as "the dolphin inadvertently caught in the net"
Plus, the U4C Charter keeps planting seeds, the RfA process is set to become more sustainable, and more news from the Wikimedia ecosystem.

Recent research: Images on Wikipedia "amplify gender bias"
And other new findings

In the media: The Scottish Parliament gets involved, a wikirace on live TV, and the Foundation's CTO goes on record
Plus, naughty politicians, Federal judge not a fan, UFOs and beavers.

Obituary: Vami_IV
Rest in peace.

Traffic report: Supervalentinefilmbowlday
If you say it loud enough the views will come your way!

WikiCup report: High-scoring WikiCup first round comes to a close
135 battle it out; 67 advance

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The Signpost: 29 March 2024

Technology report: Millions of readers still seeing broken pages as "temporary" disabling of graph extension nears its second year
Much effort was spent drafting a movement charter about becoming "essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge". How much is spent maintaining it?

Interview: Interview on Wikimedia Foundation fundraising and finance strategy
Signpost interviews Wikimedia Foundation leadership on fundraising banners

Special report: 19-page PDF accuses Wikipedia of bias against Israel, suggests editors be forced to reveal their real names, and demands a new feature allowing people to view the history of Wikipedia articles
And does it have anything to do with the unusual decision to let a zero-edit user open an arbitration request?

Op-Ed: Wikipedia in the age of personality-driven knowledge
Can we compete with social media? Will aoomers forget Wikipedia?

Recent research: "Newcomer Homepage" feature mostly fails to boost new editors
And several papers look at climate change on Wikipedia

News and notes: Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Charter ratified
WLM winners announced, Wikimania 2024, a new Wikimedia movement affiliate, and active enwp admins reach a record low.

In the media: "For me it’s the autism": AARoad editors on the fork more traveled
Worldwide women turned blue and controversies on Serbian & French Wikipedia.

Traffic report: He rules over everything, on the land called planet Dune
Let me take you to the movies.

Humour: Letters from the editors
The only worthwhile grievance is the one that prompts satire.

Comix: Layout issue
margin: 0 auto !important;

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The Signpost: 25 April 2024

In the media: Censorship and wikiwashing looming over RuWiki, edit wars over San Francisco politics, and another wikirace on live TV
Plus, tribute songs and shout-outs outweighing vandalism and hoaxes, a dispute about the real king of the platform and other bits of news.

News and notes: A sigh of relief for open access as Italy makes a slight U-turn on their cultural heritage reproduction law
Plus, new updates on the privacy and research ethics whitepaper and the graphs outage situation, and an Iranian former steward is globally banned from Wikimedia projects

WikiConference report: WikiConference North America 2023 in Toronto recap
Outcomes of the event including newly published videos and photos, the archived conference website and program, and some attendee reflections on its significance.

WikiProject report: WikiProject Newspapers (Not WP:NOTNEWS)
A WikiProject report on the 📰🌍 globe's finest news source!

Recent research: New survey of over 100,000 Wikipedia users
And other recent research publications

Traffic report: O.J., cricket and a three body problem
Plus Godzilla meets Francis Scott Key!

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The Signpost: 16 May 2024

News and notes: Democracy in action: multiple elections
WMF trustee elections, U4C results, Italian ArbCom, WMF and Endowment annual reports.

Special report: Will the new RfA reform come to the rescue of administrators?
We don't know yet, but there is some encouraging news, nevertheless.

Arbitration report: Ruined temples for posterity to ponder over – arbitration from '22 to '24
Some go out with a bang, some with a whimper, few with much of a comprehensible explanation.

In the media: Deadnames on the French Wikipedia, and a duel between Russian wikis
Plus, the WMF joins the Unicode Consortium, Chris Albon talks about AI tools on Wikipedia, communities address under-representation on the site.

Op-Ed: Wikidata to split as sheer volume of information overloads infrastructure
More queries are failing, and more frequently, so what is to be done?

Comix: Generations
It do be like that sometimes.

Traffic report: Crawl out through the fallout, baby
With cricket and some cute baby reindeer!

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The Signpost: 8 June 2024

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation publishes its Form 990 for fiscal year 2022-2023
The Form 990, as well as highlights and FAQs, are now available for review.

Technology report: New Page Patrol receives a much-needed software upgrade
A new model for collaboration between the WMF and the community?

Deletion report: The lore of Kalloor
Hoaxes and the genesis of information.

In the media: National cable networks get in on the action arguing about what the first sentence of a Wikipedia article ought to say
First line, sixth paragraph, body text or unified Reich?

News from the WMF: Progress on the plan — how the Wikimedia Foundation advanced on its Annual Plan goals during the first half of fiscal year 2023-2024
Outlining progress against the four key goals

Opinion: Public response to the editors of Settler Colonial Studies
A letter.

Recent research: ChatGPT did not kill Wikipedia, but might have reduced its growth
And various research findings about Wikidata and knowledge graphs.

Featured content: We didn't start the wiki
No we didn't write it, but we tried to cite it

Essay: No queerphobia
An essay.

Special report: RetractionBot is back to life!
... and flagging your articles with big ugly red notices! (This is a good thing.)

Traffic report: Chimps, Eurovision, and the return of the Baby Reindeer
Movies, deaths, elections (but no cricket).

Comix: The Wikipediholic Family
Some stuff's only okay in the privacy of the home.

Humour: Wikipedia rattled by sophisticated cyberattack of schoolboy typing "balls" in infobox
Project in shambles – "it had never occurred to us that this was possible".

Concept: Palimpsestuous
Hypertext.

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The Signpost: 4 July 2024

News and notes: WMF board elections and fundraising updates
Three new admins, but overall numbers still shrinking.

Special report: Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification vote underway, new Council may surpass power of Board
Will we weather the storm?

In focus: How the Russian Wikipedia keeps it clean despite having just a couple dozen administrators
Unbundling, automation, fighting spirit, and a bot named Reimu Hakurei.

Discussion report: Wikipedians are hung up on the meaning of Madonna
Debate unsettled after seventeen years.

In the media: War and information in war and politics
Advocacy organizations, a journalist, mycophobes, conservatives, leftists, photographers, and a disinformation task force imagine themselves in Wikipedia.

Sister projects: On editing Wikisource
A journey to a sister project.

Obituary: Hanif Al Husaini, Salazarov, Hyacinth, and PirjanovNurlan
Rest in peace.

Opinion: Etika: a Pop Culture Champion
An article about Etika's appeal and legacy in pop culture.

Gallery: Spokane Willy's photos
A virtual visit to the Inland Northwest.

Op-Ed: Why you should not vote in the 2024 WMF BoT elections
"Simply not good enough".

Crossword: On a day of independence, beat crosswords into crossploughshares
How well do you know the main page (no peeking)?

Humour: A joke
...!

Cobwebs: Counting to a billion — manuscripts don't burn
Special:Diff/1 and related techno-trivia more complicated than you'd think.

Recent research: Is Wikipedia Politically Biased? Perhaps
And other new publications on systemic bias and other topics.

Traffic report: Talking about you and me, and the games people play
Elections, movies, sports.

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The Signpost: 22 July 2024

Discussion report: Internet users flock to Wikipedia to debate its image policy over Trump raised-fist photo
Iconic photograph, invalid fair use exemption criterion #3a claimant, or both?

News and notes: Wikimedia community votes to ratify Movement Charter; Wikimedia Foundation opposes ratification
Establishment of power-sharing agreement between WMF corporation and volunteer user community in limbo.

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

Essay: Reflections on editing and obsession
A lost Signpost submission from fifteen years ago brought into the light, as good and true now as it was then.

In the media: What's on Putin's fork, the court's docket, and in Harrison's book?
Failing forks, smart and well-researched stories, LGBT rights, and oral sex!

Obituary: JamesR
Rest in peace.

Crossword: Vaguely bird-shaped crossword
Do you know these Wikipedia quotes?

Humour: Joe Biden withdraws RfA, Donald Trump selects co-nom
Dems in disarray, GOP in chaos — analysts say news expected, but few can predict how race will shape up from here.

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The Signpost: 14 August 2024

In the media: Portland pol profile paid for from public purse
A STORM over an AI that writes articles. And other notes of interest.

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

In focus: Twitter marks the spot
Musk's Twitter acquisition and rebranding have caused long debates on Wikipedia.

News and notes: Another Wikimania has concluded.
And Movement Charter ratification vote comments have been published

Special report: Nano or just nothing: Will nano go nuclear?
Possibly paid articles.

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

Traffic report: Ball games, movies, elections, but nothing really weird
Just normally weird!

Humour: I'm proud to be a template
Come in, you whippersnapper, have a cup of tea.

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The Signpost: 4 September 2024

News and notes: WikiCup enters final round, MCDC wraps up activities, 17-year-old hoax article unmasked
JCW compilation now tracks free DOIs, Wiki Loves Monuments getting started, WMF's status as UN observer stymied by China for fourth time.

In the media: AI is not playing games anymore. Is Wikipedia ready?
Updates from the Portland pol's case, the war in Gaza, and other Wiki-related reports.

Recent research: Simulated Wikipedia seen as less credible than ChatGPT and Alexa in experiment
And other new research findings

News from the WMF: Meet the 12 candidates running in the WMF Board of Trustees election
Who are they, why are they running and what are they bringing to the Board?

Wikimania: A month after Wikimania 2024
What all happened in Katowice?

Serendipity: What it's like to be Wikimedian of the Year
Hannah Clover shares her fondest memories of her first Wikimania.

Traffic report: After the gold rush
The Olympics (yay!) and the American election (oh no).

Humour: Local man halfway through rude reply no longer able to recall why he hates other editor
"I can't remember whether he is an incompetent moron, or an incorrigible POV warrior, or some other thing, but either way, to hell with him."

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The Signpost: 26 September 2024

In the media: Courts order Wikipedia to give up names of editors, legal strain anticipated from "online safety laws"
ANI (but probably not the one you're thinking of), bias and bans, crisis and Clover, Engelhorn's euros, and will the zoomers inherit the project?

Community view: Indian courts order Wikipedia to take down name of crime victim, editors strive towards consensus
In response to a takedown request, Wikipedia editors reached a consensus on how to handle it appropriately.

Serendipity: A Wikipedian at the 2024 Paralympics
User Hawkeye7 opens up on his experience as a media representative following the Australian team at the latest Summer Paralympics in Paris.

Opinion: asilvering's RfA debriefing
User asilvering reflects on their recent successful request for adminship.

News and notes: Are you ready for admin elections?
More changes to RfA on the way in October, final results for the U4C elections revealed, and other news from the Wikimedia world.

Gallery: Are Luddaites defending the English Wikipedia?
Picture this: medicine, drugs, JFK, Cleopatra, anachronism, and global catastrophe.

Recent research: Article-writing AI is less "prone to reasoning errors (or hallucinations)" than human Wikipedia editors
And other recent research publications.

Traffic report: Jump in the line, rock your body in time
Band reunions and Beetlejuice!

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The Signpost: 19 October 2024

News and notes: One election's end, another election's beginning
Find more about the new Trustees, the first election cycle for admins, and other news from the Wikimedia world.

Recent research: "As many as 5%" of new English Wikipedia articles "contain significant AI-generated content", says paper
And other searchings and findings.

In the media: Off to the races! Wikipedia wins!
Perplexing persistence, pay to play, potential president's possible plagiarism, crossword crossover to culture, and a wish come true!

Contest: A WikiCup for the Global South
Can it be fun to address systemic bias? Eighty participants say yes, it can!

Traffic report: A scream breaks the still of the night
Help me make it through the night!

Book review: The Editors
A novel about us, from the point of view of three of us.

Humour: The Newspaper Editors
Where do I even start?

Crossword: Spilled Coffee Mug
Pasta, acronyms, and one computer-crashing talk page.

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The Signpost: 6 November 2024

From the editors: Editing Wikipedia should not be a crime
But not everybody is able to legally read Wikipedia, and not everybody is able to legally edit Wikipedia.

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

In the media: An old scrimmage, politics and purported libel
Plus human knowledge and Ozzie places!

Special report: Wikipedia editors face litigation, censorship
Asian News International, the Delhi High Court, and the encyclopedia.

Gallery: Why you should take more photos and upload them
Your photos are more valuable than you may realize.

In focus: Questions and answers about the court case
What is going on?

Traffic report: Twisted tricks or tempting treats?
And Tata too!

Technology report: Wikimedia tech, the Asian News International case, and the ultra-rare BLACKLOCK
IP address privacy tools, and mysterious archive sites.

Humour: Man quietly slinks away from talk page argument after realizing his argument dumb, wrong
Many such cases.

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The Signpost: 18 November 2024

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

In the media: Summons issued for Wikipedia editors by Indian court, "Gaza genocide" RfC close in news, old admin Gwern now big AI guy, and a "spectrum of reluctance" over Australian place names
Publisher versus intermediary, bias versus verifiability, and probing questions about Gwern's personal finances.

Recent research: SPINACH: AI help for asking Wikidata "challenging real-world questions"
And other recent publications.

News from the WMF: Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Endowment audit reports: FY 2023–2024
An overview of the finances and an explanation of what the numbers mean.

Traffic report: Well, let us share with you our knowledge, about the electoral college
It's so over.

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The Signpost: 12 December 2024

News and notes: Arbitrator election concludes
New arbs to be seated in January.

Arbitration report: Palestine-Israel articles 5
Will the fifth try at achieving peace be a mudfight, or something better?

Disinformation report: Sex, power, and money revisited
Should old acquaintance be forgot?

Op-ed: On the backrooms
An editor's reflection on social capital and their changing relationship with Wikipedia culture. by Tamzin

In focus: Are Wikipedia articles representative of Western or world knowledge?
Wikipedia aims to represent the sum of all knowledge. Is there an imbalance between Western countries and the rest of the world.

In the media: Like the BBC, often useful but not impartial
Ballooning British bias bombast!

Traffic report: Something Wicked for almost everybody
Fighting and killing – on screen, in politics, and in the ring – competes for attention with Disney.

Opinion: Worm That Turned's reconfirmation RfA debriefing
The importance of feedback.

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The Signpost: 24 December 2024

News and notes: Responsibilities and liabilities as a "Very Large Online Platform"
What the VLOP – findings of an outside auditor for "responsibilization" of Wikipedia. Plus, new EU Commissioners for tech policy, WLE 2024 winners, and a few other bits of news from the Wikipedia world.

Op-ed: Beeblebrox on Wikipediocracy, the Committee, and everything
A personal essay.

Opinion: Graham87 on being the first-ever administrator recall subject
Explanations for what led to it and what it was like to undergo it.

In the media: Delhi High Court considers Caravan and Ken for evaluating the ANI vs. WMF case
Plus, the dangers of editing, Morrissey's page gets marred, COVID coverage critique, Kimchi consultation, kids' connectivity curtailed, centenarian Claudia, Christmas cramming, and more.

From the archives: Where to draw the line in reporting?
Who's news?

Recent research: "Wikipedia editors are quite prosocial", but those motivated by "social image" may put quantity over quality
And other new research findings.

Humour: Backlash over Santa Claus' Wikipedia article intensifies
Good faith edits REVERTED and accounts BLOCKED.

Gallery: A feast of holidays and carols
Peace on earth, goodwill to all!

Traffic report: Was a long and dark December
Wicked war, martial law, killing, death and an Indian movie with a new chess champ!

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The Signpost: 15 January 2025

From the editors: Looking back, looking forward
The 20th anniversary of The Signpost.

Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2024
A lot of psephology!

In the media: Will you be targeted?
HUMINT or humbug?

Technology report: New Calculator template brings interactivity at last
Hallelujah!

Essay: Meet the Canadian who holds the longest editing streak on Wikipedia
Johnny Au has edited for 17 years straight without missing a day.

Opinion: Reflections one score hence
Some thoughts from the original editor-in-chief.

News and notes: It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life for me... and I'm feeling free
Public Domain Day 2025, Women in Red hits 20% biography milestone, Spanish Wikipedia reaches two million articles, and other news from the Wikimedia world.

Serendipity: What we've left behind, and where we want to go next
The Signpost staff on achievements of '24 and hopes for '25.

Op-ed: Elon Musk and the right on Wikipedia
The latest crusade?

In focus: Twenty years of The Signpost: What did it take?
Our alumni speak!

Arbitration report: Analyzing commonalities of some contentious topics
Applying the scientific method to a model of conflict that leads to arbitration.

Humour: How to make friends on Wikipedia
This post fact-checked by real Wikipedian patriots.

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The Signpost: 7 February 2025

Recent research: GPT-4 writes better edit summaries than human Wikipedians
But an open language model is ready to help.

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

Opinion: Fathoms Below, but over the moon
Editor Fathoms Below reminisces over their successful RfA from February 2024.

In the media: Wikipedia is an extension of legacy media propaganda, says Elon Musk
Plus, reports on the ARBPIA5 case, new concerns over projects targeting Wikipedia editors, John Green gets his sponsor flowers, and other news.

Community view: 24th Wikipedia Day in New York City
Wikimedians and newbies celebrate 24 years of Wikipedia in the Brooklyn Central Library. Special guests Stephen Harrison and Clay Shirky joined in conversation.

Arbitration report: Palestine-Israel articles 5 has closed
Ending with some bans, and a new set of editing sanctions.

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

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The Signpost: 27 February 2025

News and notes: Administrator elections up for reapproval and 1bil GET snagged on Commons
French Wikipedia defends a user against public threats, steward elections, and other news from the Wikimedia world.

Serendipity: Guinea-Bissau Heritage from Commons to the World
"The only time I ever took photos in my entire life".

Technology report: Hear that? The wikis go silent twice a year
From patrolling new edits to uploading photos or joining a campaign, you can count on the Wikimedia platform to be up and running — in your language, anywhere in the world. That is, except for a couple of minutes during the equinoctes.

In the media: The end of the world
Or just the end of Wikipedia as we know it?

Recent research: What's known about how readers navigate Wikipedia; Italian Wikipedia hardest to read
Of "hunters", "busybodies" and "dancers".

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

Tips and tricks: One year after this article is posted, will every single article on Wikipedia have a short description?
What are they? Why are they important? How can we make them better? And what can you do to help?

Community view: Open letter from French Wikipedians says "no" to intimidation of volunteer contributors
Liberté, liberté chérie.

Traffic report: Temporary scars, February stars
Grammys, politics and the Super Bowl.

Essay: The source, the whole source, and nothing but the source
Straight from the source's mouth. A source is a source, of course, of course!

Obituary: Ümüt Çınar (Kmoksy) and Vinícius Medina Kern (Vmkern)
Turkish linguist wrote about languages and plants; Brazilian informaticist studied Wikimedia projects and education.

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The Signpost: 22 March 2025

From the editor: Hanami
It's an ecstasy, my spring.

Opinion: Talking about governments editing Wikipedia
Let them know what you think!

News and notes: Deeper look at takedowns targeting Wikipedia
Read this, then forget all about it.

In the media: The good, the bad, and the unusual
Life on the Wiki as usual!

Recent research: Explaining the disappointing history of Flagged Revisions; and what's the impact of ChatGPT on Wikipedia so far?
And WMF invites multi-year research fund proposals

Traffic report: All the world's a stage, we are merely players...
The Oscars, politics, and death elbow for the most attention.

Gallery: WikiPortraits rule!
The photographers are the celebrities!

Essay: Unusual biographical images
And very unusual biographical images.

Obituary: Rest in peace
Send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.

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The Signpost: 9 April 2025

Special report: Wikipedian and physician Ziyad al-Sufiani reportedly released from Saudi prison
Fellow doctor Osama Khalid remains behind bars for "violating public morals" by editing.

In focus: WMF to explore "common standards" for NPOV policies; implications for project autonomy remain unclear
Major changes to core content policy, or still-developing plan for new initiative?

In the media: Indian judges demand removal of content critical of Asian News International
Defeat, or just a setback?

News and notes: 35,000 user accounts compromised, locked in attempted credential-stuffing attack
Plus: 30-year anniversary of wiki software commemorated.

Op-ed: How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects
Our content is free, our infrastructure is not!

Opinion: Crawlers, hogs and gorillas
What is to be done?

Debriefing: Giraffer's RfA debriefing
Advice to aspirants: "Read RfA debriefs", including this one.

Obituary: RHaworth, TomCat4680 and PawełMM
Rest in peace.

Traffic report: Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho, off to report we go...
Snow White sinking, Adolescence soaring, spacefarers stranded, this list has it all!

News from Diff: Strengthening Wikipedia’s neutral point of view
The Wikimedia Foundation's announcement from Diff.

Comix: Thirteen
Gadzooks!

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The Signpost: 1 May 2025

News and notes: India cut off from Wiki money; WMF annual plan and Wikimedia programs seek comment
As always, Wikimedia community governance relies on user participation; plus, more updates from the Wikimedia world

In the media: Feds aiming for WMF's nonprofit status
Scrapers, an Indian lawsuit, and a crash-or-not-crash?

Recent research: How readers use Wikipedia health content; Scholars generally happy with how their papers are cited on Wikipedia
And other new research findings.

Arbitration report: Sysop Tinucherian removed and admonished by the ArbCom
And don't bite those newbies!

Discussion report: Latest news from Centralized discussions
And don't bite those newbies!

Traffic report: Of Wolf and Man
Television dramas, televised sports, film, the Pope, and ... bioengineering at the top of the list?

Disinformation report: At WikiCredCon, Wikipedia editors and Internet Archive discuss threats to trust in media
Community volunteers network among themselves and use technology to counter attacks on information sharing.

News from the WMF: Product & Tech Progress on the Annual Plan
A look at some product and tech highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation's Annual Plan (July–December 2024).

Humour: Crisis erupts as furious admins, functionaries complain about crappy t-shirts
Hey! At least it is something!

Comix: By territory
Zounds!

In focus: Using AI on the Russian Wikipedia: opportunities or challenges?
Would a billion articles be a good idea?

Community view: A deep dive into Wikimedia
There's a lot more to this than you think.

Debriefing: Barkeep49's RfB debriefing
I wonder about having crats, but decided to become one anyway.

Gallery: Meet the winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2024
Just beautiful photos!

Obituary: JarrahTree, JohnClarknew and Yashthepunisher
Rest in Paradise.

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The Signpost: 14 May 2025

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

In the media: Wikimedia Foundation sues over UK government decision that might require identity verification of editors worldwide
And other courtroom drama.

Disinformation report: What does Jay-Z know about Wikipedia?
And how he knows it: all about lawyer letters and editing logs.

In focus: On the hunt for sources: Swedish AfD discussions
Why the language barrier is not the only impediment to navigating sources from another culture.

Technology report: WMF introduces unique but privacy-preserving browser cookie
And QR codes for every page!

Debriefing: Goldsztajn's RfA debriefing
When an editor is ready to become staff at a public library (not a brother in a fraternity).

Obituary: Max Lum (User:ICOHBuzz)
Rest in peace.

Community view: A Deep Dive Into Wikimedia (part 2)
The technology behind it, and the other stuff.

Comix: Collection
Gadzooks!

From the archives: Humor from the Archives
And more.

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The Signpost: 24 June 2025

News and notes: Happy 7 millionth!
Admins arrested in Belarus.

In the media: Playing professor pong with prosecutorial discretion
Pardon our alliteration!

Disinformation report: Pardon me, Mr. President, have you seen my socks?
A get-out-of-jail card!

Recent research: Wikipedia's political bias; "Ethical" LLMs accede to copyright owners' demands but ignore those of Wikipedians
And other new research publications.

Traffic report: All Sinners, a future, all Saints, a past
Holy men and not-as-holy movies.

News from Diff: Call for candidates is now open: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
Get your self-nomination in by July 2nd!

Opinion: Russian Wiki-fork flails, failing readers and editors
After two years RuWiki fails to thrive.

Debriefing: EggRoll97's RfA² debriefing
With some sweet-and-sour sauce!

Community view: A Deep Dive Into Wikimedia (part 3)
Every thing you need to know about the Wikimedia Foundation?

Comix: Hamburgers
Egad!

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The Signpost: 18 July 2025

News and notes: Is no WikiNews good WikiNews? — Election season returns!
Endowment tax form, Wikimania, elections, U4C, fundraising and a duck!

In the media: How bad (or good) is Wikipedia?
And how do we know?

WikiProject report: WikiProject Medicine reaches milestone of zero unreferenced articles
Five-year journey comes to healthy fruition.

In focus: Wikimania 2025: Connecting Wikimedians across the world for 20 years
Wikimedians from around the world will gather in person and online at the twentieth annual meeting of Wikimania.

Recent research: Knowledge manipulation on Russia's Wikipedia fork; Marxist critique of Wikidata license; call to analyze power relations of Wikipedia
As well as "hermeneutic excursions" and other scientific research findings.

News from the WMF: Form 990 released for the Wikimedia Foundation’s fiscal year 2023-2024
The report covers the Foundation's operations from July 2023 - June 2024

Discussion report: Six thousand noticeboard discussions in 2025 electrically winnowed down to a hundred
A step towards objective and comprehensive coverage of a project nearly too big to follow.

Comix: Divorce
Drawn this century!

Opinion: Women are somewhat under-represented on the English-language Wikipedia, and other observations from analysis
How data from the Wikipedia "necessary articles" lists can shed new light on the gender gap

Community view: A Deep Dive Into Wikimedia (part 4): The Future Of Wikimedia and Conclusion
Annual plans, external trends, infrastructure, equity, safety, and effectiveness. What does it all mean?

Obituary: Pvmoutside, Atomicjohn, Rdmoore6, Jaknouse, Morven, Martin of Sheffield, MarnetteD, Herewhy, BabelStone
Rest in peace.

Traffic report: God only knows
Wouldn't it be nice without billionaires, scandals, deaths, and wars?

Humour: New forum created for people who don't care about Wikipedia
If you are too blasé for Mr. Blasé and don't give a FAC.

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The Signpost: 9 August 2025

News and notes: Court order snips out part of Wikipedia article, editors debate whether to frame shreds or pulp them
Plus a mysterious CheckUser incident, and the news with Wikinews.

Discussion report: News from ANI, AN, RSN, BLPN, ELN, FTN, and NPOVN
A review of June, July and August.

Disinformation report: The article in the most languages
Who is this guy?

Community view: News from the Villages Pump
Threads since June.

In the media: Disgrace, dive bars, deceased despots, and diverse dispatches
And slop.

Crossword: Accidental typography
It's not a conlang, it's a crossword puzzle.

Comix: best-laid schemes o' wikis an' men
gang aft agley, an' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, for promis'd joy!

Traffic report: I'm not the antichrist or the Superman
Everybody's Somebody's Fool.

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The Signpost: 9 September 2025

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation loses a round in court
UK Online Safety Act remains undefeated.

In the media: Congress probes, mayor whitewashed, AI stinks
Plus Wiki rules, Wiki Spin, and physicists get street cred!

Disinformation report: A guide for Congress
The price of Liberty is eternal vigilance.

Recent research: Minority-language Wikipedias, and Wikidata for botanists
And other new research findings.

Technology report: A new way to read Wikisource
Tis true: there's magic in the web of it.

Traffic report: Check out some new Weapons, weapon of choice
With the usual mix of war, death, super heroes, a belt, and Wednesday.

Essay: The one question
It's an easy one.

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The Signpost: 2 October 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Obituary: Michael Q. Schmidt
Rest in peace.

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

Comix: A grand spectacle
All invited!

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The Signpost: 20 October 2025

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

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

Interview: The BoT bump
Who was bumped and why?

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

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

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

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The Signpost: 10 November 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

Obituary: Struway
Rest in peace.

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

Comix: Head of steam
'Sblood!

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