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The Signpost
: 3 October 2023
News and notes:
Wikimedia Endowment financial statement published
In the media:
History is written by whoever can harness the most editors
Recent research:
Readers prefer ChatGPT over Wikipedia; concerns about limiting "anyone can edit" principle "may be overstated"
Featured content:
By your logic,
Concept:
Wikipedia policies from other worlds: WP:NOANTLERS
Poetry:
"The Sight"
Traffic report:
There shall be no slaves in the land of lands, it's a Bollywood jam
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The Signpost
: 23 October 2023
News and notes:
Where have all the administrators gone?
In the media:
Thirst traps, the fastest loading sites on the web, and the original collaborative writing
Gallery:
Before and After: Why you don't need to know how to restore images to make massive improvements
Featured content:
Yo, ho! Blow the man down!
Traffic report:
The calm and the storm
News from Diff:
Sawtpedia: Giving a Voice to Wikipedia Using QR Codes
Humour:
New citation template introduced for divine revelations, drug use, and really thinking about it
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The Signpost
: 6 November 2023
Arbitration report:
Admin bewilderingly unmasks self as sockpuppet of other admin who was extremely banned in 2015
In the media:
UK shadow chancellor accused of ripping off WP articles for book, Wikipedians accused of being dicks by a rich man
News and notes:
Board candidacy process posted, editors protest WMF privacy measure, sweet meetups
Opinion:
An open letter to Elon Musk
WikiCup report:
The WikiCup 2023
News from Wiki Ed:
Equity lists on Wikipedia
Recent research:
How English Wikipedia drove out fringe editors over two decades
Featured content:
Like putting a golf course in a historic site.
Wikidata:
Evaluating qualitative systemic bias in large article sets on Wikipedia
Traffic report:
Cricket jumpscare
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The Signpost
: 20 November 2023
In the media:
Propaganda and photos, lunatics and a lunar backup
News and notes:
Update on Wikimedia's financial health
Traffic report:
If it bleeds, it leads
Recent research:
Canceling disputes as the real function of ArbCom
Wikimania:
Wikimania 2024 scholarships
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The Signpost
: 4 December 2023
News and notes:
Beeblebrox ejected from Arbitration Committee following posts on Wikipediocracy
In the media:
Turmoil on Hebrew Wikipedia, grave dancing, Olga's impact and inspiring Bhutanese nuns
Disinformation report:
"Wikipedia and the assault on history"
In focus:
Tens of thousands of freely available sources flagged
Comix:
Bold comics for a new age
Essay:
I am going to die
Featured content:
Real gangsters move in silence
Traffic report:
And it's hard to watch some cricket, in the cold November Rain
Humour:
Mandy Rice-Davies Applies
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The Signpost
: 24 December 2023
Special report:
Did the Chinese Communist Party send astroturfers to sabotage a hacktivist's Wikipedia article?
News and notes:
The Italian Public Domain wars continue, Wikimedia RU set to dissolve, and a recap of WLM 2023
In the media:
Consider the humble fork
Discussion report:
Arabic Wikipedia blackout; Wikimedians discuss SpongeBob, copyrights, and AI
In focus:
Liquidation of Wikimedia RU
Technology report:
Dark mode is coming
Recent research:
"LLMs Know More, Hallucinate Less" with Wikidata
Gallery:
A feast of holidays and carols
Comix:
Lollus lmaois 200C tincture
Crossword:
when the crossword is sus
Traffic report:
What's the big deal? I'm an animal!
From the editor:
A piccy iz worth OVAR 9000!!!11oneone! wordz ^_^
Apocrypha:
Local editor discovered 1,380 lost subheadings in ancient Signpost scrolls. And what he found was shocking.
Humour:
Guess the joke contest
BJAODN:
Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense
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The Signpost
: 10 January 2024
From the editor:
NINETEEN MORE YEARS! NINETEEN MORE YEARS!
Special report:
Public Domain Day 2024
Technology report:
Wikipedia: A Multigenerational Pursuit
News and notes:
In other news ... see ya in court!
In focus:
The long road of a featured article candidate
In the media:
What is plagiarism? Oklahoma Disneyland? Reaching a human being at Wikipedia?
WikiProject report:
WikiProjects Israel and Palestine
Obituary:
Anthony Bradbury
Traffic report:
The most viewed articles of 2023
Crossword:
everybody gangsta till the style sheets start cascading
Comix:
Conflict resolution
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The Signpost
: 31 January 2024
News and notes:
Wikipedian Osama Khalid celebrated his 30th birthday in jail
Opinion:
Until it happens to you
Disinformation report:
How paid editors squeeze you dry
In the media:
Katherine Maher new NPR CEO, go check Wikipedia, race in the race
In focus:
The long road of a featured article candidate, part 2
Recent research:
Croatian takeover was enabled by "lack of bureaucratic openness and rules constraining [admins]"
Comix:
We've all got to start somewhere
Traffic report:
DJ, gonna burn this goddamn house right down
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The Signpost
: 13 February 2024
News and notes:
Wikimedia Russia director declared "foreign agent" by Russian gov; EU prepares to pile on the papers
Disinformation report:
How low can the scammers go?
Gallery:
Before and After: Why you don't need to touch grass to dramatically improve images of flora and fauna
In the media:
Speaking in tongues, toeing the line, and dressing the part
Serendipity:
Is this guy the same as the one who was a Nazi?
Traffic report:
Griselda, Nikki, Carl, Jannik and two types of football
Crossword:
Our crossword to bear
Comix:
Strongly
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The Signpost
: 2 March 2024
News and notes:
Wikimedia enters US Supreme court hearings as "the dolphin inadvertently caught in the net"
Recent research:
Images on Wikipedia "amplify gender bias"
In the media:
The Scottish Parliament gets involved, a wikirace on live TV, and the Foundation's CTO goes on record
Obituary:
Vami_IV
Traffic report:
Supervalentinefilmbowlday
WikiCup report:
High-scoring WikiCup first round comes to a close
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The Signpost
: 29 March 2024
Technology report:
Millions of readers still seeing broken pages as "temporary" disabling of graph extension nears its second year
Interview:
Interview on Wikimedia Foundation fundraising and finance strategy
Special report:
19-page PDF accuses Wikipedia of bias against Israel, suggests editors be forced to reveal their real names, and demands a new feature allowing people to view the history of Wikipedia articles
Op-Ed:
Wikipedia in the age of personality-driven knowledge
Recent research:
"Newcomer Homepage" feature mostly fails to boost new editors
News and notes:
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Charter ratified
In the media:
"For me it’s the autism": AARoad editors on the fork more traveled
Traffic report:
He rules over everything, on the land called planet Dune
Humour:
Letters from the editors
Comix:
Layout issue
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The Signpost
: 25 April 2024
In the media:
Censorship and wikiwashing looming over RuWiki, edit wars over San Francisco politics and another wikirace on live TV
News and notes:
A sigh of relief for open access as Italy makes a slight U-turn on their cultural heritage reproduction law
WikiConference report:
WikiConference North America 2023 in Toronto recap
WikiProject report:
WikiProject Newspapers (Not WP:NOTNEWS)
Recent research:
New survey of over 100,000 Wikipedia users
Traffic report:
O.J., cricket and a three body problem
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The Signpost
: 16 May 2024
News and notes:
Democracy in action: multiple elections
Special report:
Will the new RfA reform come to the rescue of administrators?
Arbitration report:
Ruined temples for posterity to ponder over – arbitration from '22 to '24
In the media:
Deadnames on the French Wikipedia, and a duel between Russian wikis
Op-Ed:
Wikidata to split as sheer volume of information overloads infrastructure
Comix:
Generations
Traffic report:
Crawl out through the fallout, baby
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The Signpost
: 8 June 2024
News and notes:
Wikimedia Foundation publishes its Form 990 for fiscal year 2022-2023
Technology report:
New Page Patrol receives a much-needed software upgrade
Deletion report:
The lore of Kalloor
In the media:
National cable networks get in on the action arguing about what the first sentence of a Wikipedia article ought to say
News from the WMF:
Progress on the plan — how the Wikimedia Foundation advanced on its Annual Plan goals during the first half of fiscal year 2023-2024
Opinion:
Public response to the editors of
Settler Colonial Studies
Recent research:
ChatGPT did not kill Wikipedia, but might have reduced its growth
Featured content:
We didn't start the wiki
Essay:
No queerphobia
Special report:
RetractionBot is back to life!
Traffic report:
Chimps, Eurovision, and the return of the Baby Reindeer
Comix:
The Wikipediholic Family
Humour:
Wikipedia rattled by sophisticated cyberattack of schoolboy typing "balls" in infobox
Concept:
Palimpsestuous
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