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

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

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

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

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

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

Odd edit summaries

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

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

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

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

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

To address your questions:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As per your suggestion/request:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rollback

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

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

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

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

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

responses for Paragraph 1 (P1)

Paragraph 1:

P1:S1 - manual reverting/last good version

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

responses for Paragraph 2 (P2)

Paragraph 2:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

3) Conclusion:

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

P2:S3 - edit summaries

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

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

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

P2:S4 - rollback summaries

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

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

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

responses for Paragraph 3 (P3)

Paragraph 3:

P3:S1 - manual reversions/undo

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

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

P3:S2 - TWINKLE, TWINKLE, little rollback

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Signpost: 30 August 2019

• News and notes: Documenting Wikimania and our beginnings

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• Opinion: The Curious Case of Croatian Wikipedia

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The Signpost: 30 September 2019

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The Signpost: 31 October 2019

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The Signpost: 29 November 2019

• From the editor: Put on your birthday best

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The Signpost: 27 December 2019

• From the editors: Caught with their hands in the cookie jar, again

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• Special report: Are reputation management operatives scrubbing Wikipedia articles?

• In the media: "The fulfillment of the dream of humanity" or a nightmare of PR whitewashing on behalf of one-percenters?

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• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

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The Signpost: 27 January 2020

• From the editor: Reaching six million articles is great, but we need a moratorium

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• Special report: The limits of volunteerism and the gatekeepers of Team Encarta

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

• Arbitration report: Three cases at ArbCom

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The Signpost: 1 March 2020

• From the editor: The ball is in your court

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The Signpost: 29 March 2020

• From the editors: The bad and the good

• News and notes: 2018 Wikipedian of the year blocked

• WikiProject report: WikiProject COVID-19: A WikiProject Report

• Special report: Wikipedia on COVID-19: what we publish and why it matters

• In the media: Blocked in Iran but still covering the big story

• Discussion report: Rethinking draft space

• Arbitration report: Unfinished business

• In focus: "I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein …"

• Community view: Wikimedia community responds to COVID-19

• Recent research: Disease outbreak uncertainties, AfD forecasting, auto-updating Wikipedia

• From the archives: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own

• Traffic report: The only thing that matters in the world

• Gallery: Visible Women on Wikipedia

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

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The Signpost: 26 April 2020

• News and notes: Unbiased information from Ukraine's government?

• In the media: Coronavirus, again and again

• Discussion report: Redesigning Wikipedia, bit by bit

• Featured content: Featured content returns

• Arbitration report: Two difficult cases

• Traffic report: Disease the Rhythm of the Night

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• Recent research: Trending topics across languages; auto-detecting bias

• Essay: Wikipedia:An article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing

• By the numbers: Open data and COVID-19: Wikipedia as an informational resource during the pandemic

• Opinion: Trusting Everybody to Work Together

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

• Interview: Health and RfA's: An interview with Guy Macon

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The Signpost: 31 May 2020

• From the editor: Meltdown May?

• News and notes: 2019 Picture of the Year, 200 French paid editing accounts blocked, 10 years of Guild Copyediting

• In the media: CBS on COVID-19, Sanger on bias, false noses, and five prolific editors

• Discussion report: WMF's Universal Code of Conduct

• Special report: The sum of human knowledge? Not in one Wikipedia language edition

• Featured content: Weathering the storm

• Arbitration report: Board member likely to receive editing restriction

• Traffic report: Come on and slam, and welcome to the jam

• Op-Ed: Where Is Political Bias Taking Us?

• Gallery: Wildlife photos by the book

• News from the WMF: WMF Board announces Community Culture Statement

• Recent research: Automatic detection of covert paid editing; Wiki Workshop 2020

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

• On video: COVID-19 spurs innovations in Wikimedia video and virtual programming

• WikiProject report: Revitalizing good articles

• On the bright side: 500,000 articles in the Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia

• Obituaries: Dmitrismirnov, Kattenkruid, Muidlatif, Ronhjones, Tsirel

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The Signpost: 28 June 2020

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• In the media: Part collaboration and part combat

• Discussion report: Community reacts to WMF rebranding proposals

• Featured content: Sports are returning, with a rainbow

• Arbitration report: Anti-harassment RfC and a checkuser revocation

• Traffic report: The pandemic, alleged murder, a massacre, and other deaths

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• Interview: What is wrong with rebranding to "Wikipedia Foundation"?

• Humour: Cherchez une femme

• Opinion: Trying to find COI or paid editors? Just read the news

• On the bright side: For what are you grateful this month?

• In focus: Edit Loud, Edit Proud: LGBTIQ+ Wikimedians and Global Information Activism

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The Signpost: 2 August 2020

• Special report: Wikipedia and the End of Open Collaboration?

• COI and paid editing: Some strange people edit Wikipedia for money

• News and notes: Abstract Wikipedia, a hoax, sex symbols, and a new admin

• In the media: Dog days gone bad

• Discussion report: Fox News, a flight of RfAs, and banning policy

• Featured content: Remembering Art, Valor, and Freedom

• Traffic report: Now for something completely different

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• News from the WMF: New Chinese national security law in Hong Kong could limit the privacy of Wikipedia users

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

• Essay: Not compatible with a collaborative project

• Obituaries: Hasteur and Brian McNeil

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The Signpost: 30 August 2020

• News and notes: The high road and the low road

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

• Op-Ed: The longest-running hoax

• Traffic report: Heart, soul, umbrellas, and politics

• News from the WMF: Fourteen things we’ve learned by moving Polish Wikimedia conference online

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

• Arbitration report: A slow couple of months

• From the archives: Wikipedia for promotional purposes?

• Obituaries: Marcus Sherman, Jerome West, and Pauline van Till

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The Signpost: 27 September 2020

• Special report: Paid editing with political connections

• News and notes: More large-scale errors at a "small" wiki

• In the media: WIPO, Seigenthaler incident 15 years later

• Featured content: Life finds a Way

• Arbitration report: Clarifications and requests

• Traffic report: Is there no justice?

• Recent research: Wikipedia's flood biases

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The Signpost: 27 September 2020

• Special report: Paid editing with political connections

• News and notes: More large-scale errors at a "small" wiki

• In the media: WIPO, Seigenthaler incident 15 years later

• Featured content: Life finds a Way

• Arbitration report: Clarifications and requests

• Traffic report: Is there no justice?

• Recent research: Wikipedia's flood biases

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The Signpost: 1 November 2020

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

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• Book review: Review of Wikipedia @ 20

• Op-Ed: Anti-vandalism with masked IPs: the steps forward

• Discussion report: Proposal to change board composition, In The News dumps Trump story

• Featured content: The "Green Terror" is neither green nor sufficiently terrifying. Worst Hallowe'en ever.

• Traffic report: Jump back, what's that sound?

• Interview: Joseph Reagle and Jackie Koerner

• News from the WMF: Meet the 2020 Wikimedian of the Year

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The Signpost: 29 November 2020

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• Op-Ed: Re-righting Wikipedia

• Opinion: How billionaires re-write Wikipedia

• In the media: Relying on Wikipedia: voters, scientists, and a Canadian border guard

• Featured content: Frontonia sp. is thankful for delicious cyanobacteria

• Traffic report: 007 with Borat, the Queen, and an election

• News from Wiki Education: An assignment that changed a life: Kasey Baker

• GLAM plus: West Coast New Zealand's Wikipedian at Large

• Wikicup report: Lee Vilenski wins the 2020 WikiCup

• Recent research: Wikipedia's Shoah coverage succeeds where libraries fail

• Essay: Writing about women

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The Signpost: 28 December 2020

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

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• Arbitration report: 2020 election results

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

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

• Traffic report: 2020 wraps up

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

• Recent research: Predicting the next move in Wikipedia discussions

• Essay: Subjective importance

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

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• Humour: 'Twas the Night Before Wikimas

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The Signpost: 31 January 2021

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

• Special report: Wiki reporting on the United States insurrection

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

• Opinion: Wikipedia's war against scientific disinformation

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

• Technology report: The people who built Wikipedia, technically

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

• Humour: Dr. Seuss's Guide to Wikipedia

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

• Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2020

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The Signpost: 28 February 2021

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Gallery: What is Black history and culture?

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The Signpost: 28 March 2021

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• Gallery: Wiki Loves Monuments

• In the media: Wikimedia LLC and disinformation in Japan

• News from the WMF: Project Rewrite: Tell the missing stories of women on Wikipedia and beyond

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

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

• Essay: Wikipedia:The Free Encyclopedia

• Obituary: Yoninah

• From the editor: What else can we say?

• Arbitration report: Open letter to the Board of Trustees

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

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The Signpost: 25 April 2021

• From the editor: A change is gonna come

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

• In the media: Fernando, governance, and rugby

• Opinion: The (Universal) Code of Conduct

• Op-Ed: A Little Fun Goes A Long Way

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

• Recent research: Quality of aquatic and anatomical articles

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

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

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The Signpost: 25 April 2021

• From the editor: A change is gonna come

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

• In the media: Fernando, governance, and rugby

• Opinion: The (Universal) Code of Conduct

• Op-Ed: A Little Fun Goes A Long Way

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

• Recent research: Quality of aquatic and anatomical articles

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

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The Signpost: 27 June 2021

• News and notes: Elections, Wikimania, masking and more

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• Disinformation report: Croatian Wikipedia: capture and release

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

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

• News from the WMF: Searching for Wikipedia

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

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The Signpost: 25 July 2021

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

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

• Traffic report: Football, tennis and marveling at Loki

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The Signpost: 29 August 2021

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

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• Wikimedians of the year: Seven Wikimedians of the year

• Gallery: Our community in 20 graphs

• News from Wiki Education: Changing the face of Wikipedia

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

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Days of the Year Interview

• Traffic report: Olympics, movies, and Afghanistan

• Community view: Making Olympic history on Wikipedia

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The Signpost: 26 September 2021

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

• In the media: The future of Wikipedia

• Opinion: Wikimedians of Mainland China were warned

• Op-Ed: I've been desysopped

• Disinformation report: Paid promotional paragraphs in German parliamentary pages

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

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

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

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

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

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The Signpost: 31 October 2021

• From the editor: Different stories, same place

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

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

• Opinion: A photo on Wikipedia can ruin your life

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

• Recent research: Welcome messages fail to improve newbie retention

• Community view: Reflections on the Chinese Wikipedia

• Traffic report: James Bond and the Giant Squid Game

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

• Serendipity: How Wikipedia helped create a Serbian stamp

• Book review: Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality

• WikiProject report: Redirection

• Humour: A very Wiki crossword

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The Signpost: 29 November 2021

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

• WikiCup report: The WikiCup 2021

• Deletion report: What we lost, what we gained

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

• Arbitration report: ArbCom in 2021

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Recent research: Vandalizing Wikipedia as rational behavior

• Humour: A very new very Wiki crossword

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The Signpost: 28 December 2021

• From the editor: Here is the news

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• Serendipity: Born three months before her brother?

• In the media: The past is not even past

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

• Arbitration report: A new crew for '22

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

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

• Gallery: Wikicommons presents: 2021

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

• Crossword: Another Wiki crossword for one and all

• Humour: Buying Wikipedia

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The Signpost: 30 January 2022

• Special report: WikiEd course leads to Twitter harassment

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

• WikiProject report: The Forgotten Featured

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• Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2021

• Gallery: No Spanish municipality without a photograph

• Obituary: Twofingered Typist

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

• Essay: The prime directive

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

• In the media: Fuzzy-headed government editing

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

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

• Crossword: Cross swords with a crossword

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The Signpost: 27 February 2022

• From the team: Selection of a new Signpost Editor-in-Chief

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• Opinion: Why student editors are good for Wikipedia

• Special report: A presidential candidate's team takes on Wikipedia

• In the media: Wiki-drama in the UK House of Commons

• Serendipity: War photographers: from Crimea (1850s) to the Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022)

• Technology report: Community Wishlist Survey results

• WikiProject report: 10 years of tea

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The Signpost: 27 March 2022

• From the Signpost team: How The Signpost is documenting the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

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• Eyewitness Wikimedian, Kharkiv, Ukraine: Countering Russian aggression with a camera

• Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary

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• Disinformation report: The oligarchs' socks

• In the media: Ukraine, Russia, and even some other stuff

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

• Wikimedian perspective: My heroes from Russia, Ukraine & beyond

• Discussion report: Athletes are less notable now

• Technology report: 2022 Wikimedia Hackathon

• Arbitration report: Skeptics given heavenly judgement, whirlwind of Discord drama begins to spin for tropical cyclone editors

• Traffic report: War, what is it good for?

• Deletion report: Ukraine, werewolves, Ukraine, YouTube pundits, and Ukraine

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The Signpost: 24 April 2022

• News and notes: Double trouble

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• Special report: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war

• Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (Part 2)

• Technology report: 8-year-old attribution issues in Media Viewer

• Featured content: Wikipedia's best content from March

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• Gallery: A voyage around the world with WLM winners

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The Signpost: 29 May 2022

• From the team: A changing of the guard

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• Opinion: The Wikimedia Endowment – a lack of transparency

• In the media: Putin, Jimbo, Musk and more

• Special report: Three stories of Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war

• In focus: Measuring gender diversity in Wikipedia articles

• Discussion report: Portals, April Fools, admin activity requirements and more

• WikiProject report: WikiProject COVID-19 revisited

• Technology report: A new video player for Wikimedia wikis

• Featured content: Featured content of April

• Interview: Wikipedia's pride

• Serendipity: Those thieving image farms

• Recent research: 35 million Twitter links analysed

• Tips and tricks: The reference desks of Wikipedia

• Traffic report: Strange highs and strange lows

• News from Diff: Winners of the Human rights and Environment special nomination by Wiki Loves Earth announced

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• Video: How the entire country of Qatar was blocked from editing

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The Signpost: 26 June 2022

• News and notes: WMF inks new rules on government-ordered takedowns, blasts Russian feds' censor demands, spends big bucks

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

• Special report: "Wikipedia's independence" or "Wikimedia's pile of dosh"?

• Discussion report: MoS rules on CCP name mulled, XRV axe plea nulled, BLPPROD drafting bid pulled

• Opinion: Picture of the Day – how Adam plans to ru(i)n it

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• News from the WMF: Wikimedia Enterprise signs first deals

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The Signpost: 1 August 2022

• From the editors: Rise of the machines, or something

• News and notes: Information considered harmful

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• Op-Ed: The "recession" affair

• Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (part 3)

• Election guide: The chosen six: 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

• Community view: Youth culture and notability

• Opinion: Criminals among us

• Arbitration report: Winds of change blow for cyclone editors, deletion dustup draws toward denouement

• Deletion report: This is Gonzo Country

• Discussion report: Notability for train stations, notices for mobile editors, noticeboards for the rest of us

• Traffic report: US TV, JP ex-PM, outer space, and politics of IN, US, UK top charts for July

• Featured content: A little list with surprisingly few lists

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• On the bright side: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war — three (more) stories

• Essay: How to research an image

• Recent research: A century of rulemaking on Wikipedia analyzed

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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

• Special report: Wikimania 2022: no show, no show up?

• In the media: Truth or consequences? A tough month for truth

• Discussion report: Boarding the Trustees

• News from Wiki Education: 18 years a Wikipedian: what it means to me

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• Traffic report: What dreams (and heavily trafficked articles) may come

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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"

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• In the media: A few complaints and mild disagreements

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The Signpost: 31 October 2022

• From the team: A new goose on the roost

• News and notes: Wikipedians question Wikimedia fundraising ethics after "somewhat-viral" tweet

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• Disinformation report: From Russia with WikiLove

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• Interview: Isabelle Belato on their Request for Adminship

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The Signpost: 28 November 2022

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

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

• Opinion: Privacy on Wikipedia in the cyberpunk future

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

• Featured content: A great month for featured articles

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• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation ousts, bans quarter of Arabic Wikipedia admins

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• Interview: ComplexRational's RfA debrief

• Technology report: Wikimedia Foundation's Abstract Wikipedia project "at substantial risk of failure"

• Essay: Mobile editing

• Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee Election 2022

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• Serendipity: Wikipedia about FIFA World Cup 2022: quick, factual and critical

• Featured content: Would you like to swing on a star?

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• CommonsComix: #4: The Course of WikiEmpire

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The Signpost: 16 January 2023

• From the team: We heard zoomers liked fortnights: the biweekly Signpost rides again

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

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

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

• Technology report: View it! A new tool for image discovery

• In focus: Busting into Grand Central

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

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

• Humour: New geologically speedy deletion criteria introduced

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

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

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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

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

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

• Disinformation report: Wikipedia on Santos

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

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

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

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

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

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Organized Labour

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

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

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

• Tips and tricks: All about writing at DYK

• Featured content: Eden, lost.

• Gallery: Love is in the air

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

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

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The Signpost: 9 March 2023

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

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

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

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

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

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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

• Eyewitness: Three more stories from Ukrainian Wikimedians

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

• Featured content: Way too many featured articles

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

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The Signpost: 03 April 2023

• From the editor: Some long-overdue retractions

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

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

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

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

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

• From the archives: April Fools' through the ages

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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

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• Obituary: Remembering David "DGG" Goodman

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

• Opinion: What Jimbo's question revealed about scamming

• Op-Ed: Wikipedia as an anchor of truth

• Special report: Signpost statistics between years 2005 and 2022

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

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

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

• Humour: The law of hats

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The Signpost: 8 May 2023

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

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

• 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!

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

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

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The Signpost: 22 May 2023

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

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

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

• Featured content: A very musical week for featured articles

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

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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

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

• Featured content: Poetry under pressure

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

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• Featured content: Content, featured

• Recent research: Hoaxers prefer currently-popular topics

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The Signpost: 3 July 2023

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

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

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

• Featured content: Incensed

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

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

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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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Humour: New fringe theories to be introduced

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

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• Traffic report: The Idol becomes the Master

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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

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

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

• Obituary: Donald Cram, Peter McCawley, and Eagleash

• Tips and tricks: Citation tools for dummies!

• Humour: Does Wikipedia present neutral perspectives?

• In focus: Journals cited by Wikipedia

• Opinion: Are global bans the last step?

• Featured content: Featured Content, 1 to 15 July

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

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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

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

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

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

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

• Cobwebs: Getting serious about writing

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

• Serendipity: Why I stopped taking photographs almost altogether

• Featured content: Barbenheimer confirmed

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

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The Signpost: 31 August 2023

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

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• In the media: Taking it sleazy

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

• Draftspace: Bad Jokes and Other Draftspace Novelties

• Humour: The Dehumourification Plan

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

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The Signpost: 16 September 2023

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

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

• Obituary: Nosebagbear

• 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

• Featured content: Catching up

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

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

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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"

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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

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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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The Signpost: 4 July 2024

• News and notes: WMF board elections and fundraising updates

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

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

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

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

• Sister projects: On editing Wikisource

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

• Opinion: Etika: a Pop Culture Champion

• Gallery: Spokane Willy's photos

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

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

• Humour: A joke

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

• Recent research: Is Wikipedia Politically Biased? Perhaps

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

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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

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

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

• Essay: Reflections on editing and obsession

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

• Obituary: JamesR

• Crossword: Vaguely bird-shaped crossword

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

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The Signpost: 14 August 2024

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

• 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

• In focus: Twitter marks the spot

• News and notes: Another Wikimania has concluded.

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

• Opinion: HouseBlaster's RfA debriefing

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

• Humour: I'm proud to be a template

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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

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

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

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

• Wikimania: A month after Wikimania 2024

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

• Traffic report: After the gold rush

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

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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"

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

• Serendipity: A Wikipedian at the 2024 Paralympics

• Opinion: asilvering's RfA debriefing

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

• Gallery: Are Luddaites defending the English Wikipedia?

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

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

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The Signpost: 19 October 2024

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

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

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

• Contest: A WikiCup for the Global South

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

• Book review: The Editors

• Humour: The Newspaper Editors

• Crossword: Spilled Coffee Mug

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The Signpost: 6 November 2024

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

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

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

• Special report: Wikipedia editors face litigation, censorship

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

• In focus: Questions and answers about the court case

• Traffic report: Twisted tricks or tempting treats?

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

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

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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

• 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

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

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

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

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The Signpost: 12 December 2024

• News and notes: Arbitrator election concludes

• Arbitration report: Palestine-Israel articles 5

• Disinformation report: Sex, power, and money revisited

• Op-ed: On the backrooms by Tamzin

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

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

• Traffic report: Something Wicked for almost everybody

• Opinion: Worm That Turned's reconfirmation RfA debriefing

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