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The Signpost: 05 March 2012[edit]

News and notes: Chapter-selected Board seats, an invite to the Teahouse, patrol becomes triage, and this week in history

In the news: Heights reached in search rankings, privacy and mental health info; clouds remain over content policing

Discussion report: COI and NOTCENSORED: policies under discussion

WikiProject report: We don't bite: WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles

Featured content: Best of the week

Arbitration report: AUSC appointments announced, one case remains open

Technology report: With the 1.19 deployment now (mostly) complete, developers consider possible "mini" deployment later in the month

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EdwardsBot (talk) 16:04, 6 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 12 March 2012[edit]

Interview: Liaising with the Education Program

Women and Wikipedia: Women's history, what we're missing, and why it matters

Arbitration analysis: A look at new arbitrators

News and notes: Sue Gardner tackles the funds, and the terms of use update nears implementation

In the news: Britannica runs out of print as Jimmy Wales anointed UK transparency tsar

Discussion report: Nothing changes as long discussions continue

WikiProject report: WikiProject Women's History

Featured content: Extinct humans, birds, and Birdman

Arbitration report: Proposed decision in 'Article titles', only one open case

Education report: Diverse approaches to Wikipedia in Education

Technology report: Git learning curve steep but not insurmountable, plus a diff style we can all agree on?

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The Signpost: 19 March 2012[edit]

News and notes: Chapters Council proposals take form as research applications invited for Wikipedia Academy and HighBeam accounts

Discussion report: Article Rescue Squadron in need of rescue yet again

WikiProject report: Lessons from another Wikipedia: Czech WikiProject Protected Areas

Featured content: Featured content on the upswing!

Arbitration report: Race and intelligence 'review' opened, Article titles at voting

Technology report: Bugmeister to leave at end of May, but developers keen to "chart" a path ahead

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The Signpost: 26 March 2012[edit]

News and notes: Controversial content saga continues, while the Foundation tries to engage editors with merchandising and restructuring

WikiProject report: WikiProject Rock Music

Featured content: Malfunctioning sharks, toothcombs and a famous mother: featured content for the week

Arbitration report: Race and intelligence review at evidence, article titles closed

Recent research: Predicting admin elections; studying flagged revision debates; classifying editor interactions; and collecting the Wikipedia literature

Education report: Universities unite for GLAM; and High Schools get their due.

Technology report: A busy week: Git switchover, mobile site upgraded, and still time for three security releases

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The Signpost: 02 April 2012[edit]

Interview: An introduction to movement roles

Arbitration analysis: Case review: TimidGuy ban appeal

News and notes: Berlin reforms to movement structures, Wikidata launches with fanfare, and Wikipedia's day of mischief

WikiProject report: The Signpost scoops The Signpost

Featured content: Snakes, misnamed chapels, and emptiness: featured content this week

Arbitration report: Race and intelligence review in third week, one open case

Technology report: Somewhere amongst the endless discussions about Gerrit lie details of hackathons, performance blips explained and more

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The Signpost: 09 April 2012[edit]

Wikidata: The next big thing? An interview with Wikidata

Interview: Funds, fiduciaries, and the Foundation: the complex dynamics of scaling

News and notes: Projects launched in Brazil and the Middle East as advisors sought for funds committee

WikiProject report: The Land of Steady Habits: WikiProject Connecticut

Featured content: Assassination, genocide, internment, murder, and crucifixion: the bloodiest of the week

Arbitration report: Arbitration evidence-limit motions, two open cases

Technology report: Next Wikimedia deployment already in the pipeline and details of recent performance improvements

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The Signpost: 16 April 2012[edit]

Arbitration analysis: Inside the Arbitration Committee Mailing List

Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Facilitator: Silver seren

News and notes: French language outreach, WikiTravel debate, and HighBeam reloaded

Discussion report: The future of pending changes

WikiProject report: The Butterflies and Moths of WikiProject Lepidoptera

Featured content: A few good sports: association football, rugby league, and the Olympics vie for medals

Arbitration report: Evidence submissions begin in Rich Farmbrough case, proposed decision in R&I Review

Technology report: MediaWiki 1.20wmf01 hits first WMF wiki, understanding 20% time, and why this report cannot yet be a draft

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The Signpost: 23 April 2012[edit]

Investigative report: Spin doctors spin Jimmy's "bright line"

News and notes: Help-space revamp, WikiTravel RfC, and Justin Knapp scores a million edits

WikiProject report: Skeptics and Believers: WikiProject The X-Files

Featured content: A mirror (or seventeen) on this week's featured content

Arbitration report: Evidence submissions close in Rich Farmbrough case, vote on proposed decision in R&I Review

Technology report: Wikimedia Labs: soon to be at the cutting edge of MediaWiki development?

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The Signpost: 30 April 2012[edit]

Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Consultant: Pete Forsyth

News and notes: Showdown as featured article writer openly solicits commercial opportunities

Recent research: Barnstars work; Wiktionary assessed; cleanup tags counted; finding expert admins; discussion peaks; Wikipedia citations in academic publications; and more

Discussion report: 'ReferenceTooltips' by default

WikiProject report: The Cartographers of WikiProject Maps

Featured content: Featured content spreads its wings

Arbitration report: R&I Review remains in voting, two open cases

Technology report: What Git means for end users, design controversies and pertinent poll results

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The Signpost: 07 May 2012[edit]

Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Communicator: Phil Gomes

News and notes: Hong Kong to host Wikimania 2013

In the news: What does Wikipedia call an expert; and untruths in biographies ... again.

WikiProject report: Say What?: WikiProject Languages

Featured content: This week at featured content: How much wood would a Wood Duck chuck if a Wood Duck could chuck wood?

Arbitration report: Proposed decision in Rich Farmbrough, two open cases

Technology report: Search gets faster, GSoC gets more detail and 1.20wmf2 gets deployed

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The Signpost: 14 May 2012[edit]

Special report: Wikimedia and the "seismic shift" towards open-access research publication

News and notes: Finance debate drags on as editor survey finds Wikipedia too bureaucratic

WikiProject report: Welcome to Wikipedia with a cup of tea and all your questions answered - at the Teahouse

Featured content: Featured content is red hot this week

Arbitration report: R&I Review closed, Rich Farmbrough near closure

Technology report: Cross-wiki watchlist controversy; and is "go file a bug" really a useful response?

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The Signpost: 21 May 2012[edit]

From the editor: New editor-in-chief

News and notes: Two new Wikimedia fellows to boost strategies for tackling major issues

WikiProject report: Trouble in a Galaxy Far, Far Away....

Featured content: Lemurbaby moves it with Madagascar: Featured content for the week

Arbitration report: No open arbitration cases pending

Technology report: On the indestructibility of Wikimedia content

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The Signpost: 28 May 2012[edit]

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation endorses open-access petition to the White House; pending changes RfC ends

Recent research: Supporting interlanguage collaboration; detecting reverts; Wikipedia's discourse, semantic and leadership networks, and Google's Knowledge Graph

WikiProject report: Experts and enthusiasts at WikiProject Geology

Featured content: Featured content cuts the cheese

Arbitration report: Fæ and GoodDay requests for arbitration, changes to evidence word limits

Technology report: Developer divide wrangles; plus Wikimedia Zero, MediaWiki 1.20wmf4, and IPv6

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The Signpost: 04 June 2012[edit]

Special report: WikiWomenCamp: From women, for women

News and notes: Editors want most funding for technical areas, while widespread ignorance of WMF board elections and chapters persists; voting still live on Commons best picture

Discussion report: Watching Wikipedia change

WikiProject report: Views of WikiProject Visual Arts

Featured content: On the lochs

Arbitration report: Two motions for procedural reform, three open cases, Rich Farmbrough risks block and ban

Technology report: Report from the Berlin Hackathon

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The Signpost: 11 June 2012[edit]

Special report: Springer's misappropriation of Wikimedia content "the tip of the iceberg"

News and notes: Foundation finance reformers wrestle with CoI

WikiProject report: Counter-Vandalism Unit

Featured content: The cake is a pi

Arbitration report: Procedural reform enacted, Rich Farmbrough blocked, three open cases

Technology report: To support or not to support IPv6, and why knowing when this report was last updated might be getting easier

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The Signpost: 18 June 2012[edit]

Investigative report: Is the requests for adminship process 'broken'?

News and notes: Ground shifts while chapters dither over new Association

Discussion report: Discussion Reports And Miscellaneous Articulations

WikiProject report: The Punks of Wikipedia

Featured content: Taken with a pinch of "salt"

Arbitration report: Three open cases, GoodDay case closed

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 25 June 2012[edit]

Op-ed: A call for editorial input in developing new Creative Commons licensing

News and notes: "Mystical" Picture of the Year; run-up to Wikimania DC; RfA reform 2012

In the news: Wales enters extradition battle; Wikipedia's political bias

Recent research: Edit war patterns, deleters vs. the 1%, never used cleanup tags, authorship inequality, higher quality from central users, and mapping the wikimediasphere

WikiProject report: Summer Sports Series: WikiProject Athletics

Featured content: A good week for the Williams

Arbitration report: Three open cases

Technology report: Second Visual Editor prototype launches

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The Signpost: 02 July 2012[edit]

Analysis: Uncovering scientific plagiarism

Op-ed: Representing knowledge – metadata, data and linked data

News and notes: RfC on joining lobby group; JSTOR accounts for Wikipedians and the article feedback tool

In the news: Public relations on Wikipedia: friend or foe?

Discussion report: Discussion reports and miscellaneous articulations

WikiProject report: Summer sports series: Burning rubber with WikiProject Motorsport

Featured content: Heads up

Arbitration report: Three open cases, motion for the removal of Carnildo's administrative tools

Technology report: Initialisms abound: QA and HTML5

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The Signpost: 09 July 2012[edit]

Special report: Reforming the education programs: lessons from Cairo

News and notes: Russian Wikipedia blackout; WMF tools; Wikitravel proposal revisited

WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Football

Featured content: Keeps on chuggin'

Arbitration report: Three requests for arbitration

Technology report: Optimism over LastModified and MoodBar, but change in clock time causes downtime

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The Signpost: 16 July 2012[edit]

Special report: Chapters Association mired in controversy over new chair

News and notes: WMF enacts reforms at Wikimania; main page redesign; 4 millionth article milestone

WikiProject report: Summer sports series: French WikiProject Cycling

Discussion report: Discussion reports and miscellaneous articulations

Wikimania: Young chapter shows experience beyond its years

Featured content: Taking flight

Technology report: Tech talks at Wikimania amid news of a mixed June

Arbitration report: Fæ faces site-ban, proposed decisions posted

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EdwardsBot (talk) 11:18, 17 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 23 July 2012[edit]

Paid editing: Does Wikipedia pay? The skeptic: Orange Mike

From the editor: Signpost developments

News and notes: Chapter head speaks about the aftermath of Russian Wikipedia shutdown

WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Olympics

Arbitration report: Fæ and Michaeldsuarez banned; Kwamikagami desysopped; Falun Gong closes with mandated external reviews and topic bans

Op-ed: The future of PR on Wikipedia

Featured content: When is an island not an island?

Technology report: Translating SVGs and making history bugs history

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EdwardsBot (talk) 11:27, 24 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 30 July 2012[edit]

Recent research: Conflict dynamics, collaboration and emotions; digitization vs. copyright; WikiProject field notes; quality of medical articles; role of readers; Best Wiki Paper Award

News and notes: Wikimedians and London 2012; WMF budget – staffing, engineering, editor retention effort, and the global South; Telegraph's cheap shot at WP

WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Horse Racing

Featured content: One of a kind

Technology report: Talking performance with CT Woo and Green Semantic MediaWiki with Nischay Nahata

Arbitration report: No pending or open arbitration cases

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The Signpost: 06 August 2012[edit]

Op-ed: The Athena Project: being bold

News and notes: FDC portal launched

Arbitration report: No pending or open arbitration cases

Featured content: Casliber's words take root

Technology report: Wikidata nears first deployment but wikis go down in fibre cut calamity

WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Martial Arts

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The Signpost: 13 August 2012[edit]

Op-ed: Small Wikipedias' burden

News and notes: Bangla-language survey suggests the challenges for small Wikipedias

Arbitration report: You really can request for arbitration

Featured content: On the road again

Technology report: "Phabricating" a serious alternative to Gerrit

WikiProject report: Dispute Resolution

Discussion report: Image placeholders, machine translations, Mediation Committee, de-adminship

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The Signpost: 20 August 2012[edit]

Op-ed: Wikimedians are rightfully wary

News and notes: Core content competition in full swing; Wikinews fork taken offline

In the news: American judges on citing Wikipedia

Featured content: Enough for a week – but I'm damned if I see how the helican.

Technology report: Lua onto test2wiki and news of a convention-al extension

WikiProject report: Land of Calm and Contrast: Korea

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The Signpost: 27 August 2012[edit]

News and notes: Tough journey for new travel guide

Recent research: New influence graph visualizations; NPOV and history; 'low-hanging fruit'

Technology report: Just how bad is the code review backlog?

Featured content: Wikipedia rivals The New Yorker: Mark Arsten

WikiProject report: From sonic screwdrivers to jelly babies: Doctor Who

Discussion report: Sidebar and main page alterations; Recent Deaths; Education Program extension

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The Signpost: 03 September 2012[edit]

News and notes: World's largest photo competition kicks off; WMF legal fees proposal

Technology report: Time for a MediaWiki Foundation?

Featured content: Wikipedia's Seven Days of Terror

Op-ed: Dispute resolution – where we're at, what we're doing well, and what needs fixing

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EdwardsBot (talk) 11:16, 4 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 10 September 2012[edit]

From the editor: Signpost adapts as news consumption changes

Op-ed: Fixing Wikipedia's help pages one key to editor retention

In the media: Author criticizes Wikipedia article; Wales attacks UK government proposal

Featured content: Not a "Gangsta's Paradise", but still rappin'

WikiProject report: WikiProject Fungi

Special report: Two Wikipedians set to face jury trial

News and notes: Researchers find that Simple English Wikipedia has "lost its focus"

Technology report: Mmmm, milkshake...

Discussion report: Closing Wikiquette; Image Filter; Education Program and Momento extensions

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The Signpost: 17 September 2012[edit]

From the editor: Signpost expands to Facebook

WikiProject report: Action! — The Indian Cinema Task Force

Featured content: Go into the light

News and notes: Tens of thousands of monuments loved; members of new funding body announced

Technology report: Future-proofing: HTML5 and IPv6

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The Signpost: 24 September 2012[edit]

In the media: Editor's response to Roth draws internet attention

Recent research: "Rise and decline" of Wikipedia participation, new literature overviews, a look back at WikiSym 2012

WikiProject report: 01010010 01101111 01100010 01101111 01110100 01101001 01100011 01110011

News and notes: UK chapter rocked by Gibraltar scandal

Technology report: Signpost investigation: code review times

Featured content: Dead as...

Discussion report: Image filter; HotCat; Syntax highlighting; and more

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The Signpost: 01 October 2012[edit]

Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Founder: Jimmy Wales

News and notes: Independent review of UK chapter governance; editor files motion against Wikitravel owners

Featured content: Mooned

Technology report: WMF and the German chapter face up to Toolserver uncertainty

WikiProject report: The Name's Bond... WikiProject James Bond

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The Signpost: 08 October 2012[edit]

News and notes: Education Program faces community resistance

WikiProject report: Ten years and one million articles: WikiProject Biography

Featured content: A dash of Arsenikk

Technology report: The ups and downs of September and October, plus extension code review analysis

Discussion report: Closing RfAs: Stewards or Bureaucrats?; Redesign of Help:Contents

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The Signpost: 15 October 2012[edit]

Op-ed: AdminCom: A proposal for changing the way we select admins

In the media: Wikipedia's language nerds hit the front page

Featured content: Second star to the left

News and notes: Chapters ask for big bucks

Technology report: Wikidata is a go: well, almost

WikiProject report: WikiProject Chemicals

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The Signpost: 22 October 2012[edit]

Special report: Examining adminship from the German perspective

Arbitration report: Malleus Fatuorum accused of circumventing topic ban; motion to change "net four votes" rule

Technology report: Wikivoyage migration: technical strategy announced

Discussion report: Good articles on the main page?; reforming dispute resolution

News and notes: Wikimedians get serious about women in science

WikiProject report: Where in the world is Wikipedia?

Featured content: Is RfA Kafkaesque?

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The Signpost: 29 October 2012[edit]

News and notes: First chickens come home to roost for FDC funding applicants; WMF board discusses governance issues and scope of programs

WikiProject report: In recognition of... WikiProject Military History

Technology report: Improved video support imminent and Wikidata.org live

Featured content: On the road again

Recent research: WP governance informal; community as social network; efficiency of recruitment and content production; Rorschach news

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The Signpost: 05 November 2012[edit]

Op-ed: 2012 WikiCup comes to an end

News and notes: Wikimedian photographic talent on display in national submissions to Wiki Loves Monuments

In the media: Was climate change a factor in Hurricane Sandy?

Discussion report: Protected Page Editor right; Gibraltar hooks

Featured content: Jack-O'-Lanterns and Toads

Technology report: Hue, Sqoop, Oozie, Zookeeper, Hive, Pig and Kafka

WikiProject report: Listening to WikiProject Songs

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The Signpost: 12 November 2012[edit]

News and notes: Court ruling complicates the paid-editing debate

Featured content: The table has turned

Technology report: MediaWiki 1.20 and the prospects for getting 1.21 code reviewed promptly

WikiProject report: Land of parrots, palm trees, and the Holy Cross: WikiProject Brazil

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The Signpost: 19 November 2012[edit]

News and notes: FDC's financial muscle kicks in

WikiProject report: No teenagers, mutants, or ninjas: WikiProject Turtles

Technology report: Structural reorganisation "not a done deal"

Featured content: Wikipedia hit by the Streisand effect

Discussion report: GOOG, MSFT, WMT: the ticker symbol placement question

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The Signpost: 26 November 2012[edit]

News and notes: Toolserver finance remains uncertain

Recent research: Movie success predictions, readability, credentials and authority, geographical comparisons

Featured content: Panoramic views, history, and a celestial constellation

Technology report: Wikidata reaches 100,000 entries

WikiProject report: Directing Discussion: WikiProject Deletion Sorting

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The Signpost: 03 December 2012[edit]

News and notes: Wiki Loves Monuments announces 2012 winner

Featured content: The play's the thing

Discussion report: Concise Wikipedia; standardize version history tables

Technology report: MediaWiki problems but good news for Toolserver stability

WikiProject report: The White Rose: WikiProject Yorkshire

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The Signpost: 10 December 2012[edit]

News and notes: Wobbly start to ArbCom election, but turnout beats last year's

Featured content: Wikipedia goes to Hell

Technology report: The new Visual Editor gets a bit more visual

WikiProject report: WikiProject Human Rights

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The Signpost: 17 December 2012[edit]

News and notes: Arbitrator election: stewards release the results

WikiProject report: WikiProjekt Computerspiel: Covering Computer Games in Germany

Discussion report: Concise Wikipedia; section headings for navboxes

Op-ed: Finding truth in Sandy Hook

Featured content: Wikipedia's cute ass

Technology report: MediaWiki groups and why you might want to start snuggling newbie editors

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The Signpost: 24 December 2012[edit]

News and notes: Debates on Meta sparking along—grants, new entities, and conflicts of interest

WikiProject report: A Song of Ice and Fire

Featured content: Battlecruiser operational

Technology report: Efforts to "normalise" Toolserver relations stepped up

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The Signpost: 31 December 2012[edit]

From the editor: Wikipedia, our Colosseum

In the media: Is the Wikimedia movement too 'cash rich'?

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation fundraiser a success; Czech parliament releases photographs to chapter

Technology report: Looking back on a year of incremental changes

Discussion report: Image policy and guidelines; resysopping policy

Interview: Interview with Brion Vibber, the WMF's first employee

Featured content: Whoa Nelly! Featured content in review

WikiProject report: New Year, New York

Recent research: Wikipedia and Sandy Hook; SOPA blackout reexamined

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The Signpost: 07 January 2013[edit]

Op-ed: Meta, where innovative ideas die

WikiProject report: Where Are They Now? Episode IV: A New Year

News and notes: 2012—the big year

Featured content: Featured content in review

Technology report: Looking ahead to 2013

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The Signpost: 14 January 2013[edit]

Investigative report: Ship ahoy! New travel site finally afloat

News and notes: Launch of annual picture competition, new grant scheme

WikiProject report: Reach for the Stars: WikiProject Astronomy

Discussion report: Flag Manual of Style; accessibility and equality

Special report: Loss of an Internet genius

Featured content: Featured articles: Quality of reviews, quality of writing in 2012

Arbitration report: First arbitration case in almost six months

Technology report: Intermittent outages planned, first Wikidata client deployment

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WikiProject Hotels[edit]

I've been making some efforts to rejuvenate WikiProject Hotels, and since you're a member of the project, please feel free to contribute there if anything comes to mind. Also, please feel free to discuss matters at the project's talk page. Northamerica1000^(talk) 08:57, 22 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 21 January 2013[edit]

News and notes: Requests for adminship reform moves forward

WikiProject report: Say What? — WikiProject Linguistics

Featured content: Wazzup, G? Delegates and featured topics in review

Arbitration report: Doncram case continues

Technology report: Data centre switchover a tentative success

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The Signpost: 28 January 2013[edit]

In the media: Hoaxes draw media attention

Recent research: Lessons from the research literature on open collaboration; clicks on featured articles; credibility heuristics

WikiProject report: Checkmate! — WikiProject Chess

Discussion report: Administrator conduct and requests

News and notes: Khan Academy's Smarthistory and Wikipedia collaborate

Featured content: Listing off progress from 2012

Arbitration report: Doncram continues

Technology report: Developers get ready for FOSDEM amid caching problems

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The Signpost: 04 February 2013[edit]

Special report: Examining the popularity of Wikipedia articles

News and notes: Article Feedback Tool faces community resistance

WikiProject report: Land of the Midnight Sun

Featured content: Portal people on potent potables and portable potholes

In the media: Star Trek Into Pedantry

Technology report: Wikidata team targets English Wikipedia deployment

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The Signpost: 11 February 2013[edit]

Op-ed: An article is a construct – hoaxes and Wikipedia

Featured content: A lousy week

WikiProject report: Just the Facts

In the media: Wikipedia mirroring life in island ownership dispute

News and notes: UK chapter governance review marks the end of a controversial year

Discussion report: WebCite proposal

Technology report: Wikidata client rollout stutters

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The Signpost: 18 February 2013[edit]

WikiProject report: Thank you for flying WikiProject Airlines

Technology report: Better templates and 3D buildings

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation declares 'victory' in Wikivoyage lawsuit

In the media: Sue Gardner interviewed by the Australian press

Featured content: Featured content gets schooled

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The Signpost: 25 February 2013[edit]

In the media: Ex-WMF trustee creates "Wikipedia Corporate Index" for PR agency

Recent research: Wikipedia not so novel after all, except to UK university lecturers

News and notes: "Very lucky" Picture of the Year

Discussion report: Wikivoyage links; overcategorization

Featured content: Blue birds be bouncin'

WikiProject report: How to measure a WikiProject's workload

Technology report: Wikidata development to be continued indefinitely

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The Signpost: 04 March 2013[edit]

Op-ed: We must do more to turn readers into editors

News and notes: Outing of editor causes firestorm

Featured content: Slow week for featured content

WikiProject report: WikiProject Television Stations

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The Signpost: 11 March 2013[edit]

From the editor: Signpost–Wikizine merger

News and notes: Finance committee updates

Featured content: Batman, three birds and a Mercedes

Arbitration report: Doncram case closes; arbitrator resigns

WikiProject report: Setting a precedent

Technology report: Article Feedback reversal

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The Signpost: 18 March 2013[edit]

News and notes: Resigning arbitrator slams Committee

WikiProject report: Making music

Interview: Meeting in the middle: Wikipedia and libraries

Featured content: Wikipedia stays warm

Arbitration report: Richard case closes

Technology report: Visual Editor "on schedule"

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The Signpost: 25 March 2013[edit]

WikiProject report: The 'Burgh: WikiProject Pittsburgh

Featured content: One and a half soursops

Arbitration report: Two open cases

News and notes: Sue Gardner to leave WMF; German Wikipedians spearhead another effort to close Wikinews

Technology report: The Visual Editor: Where are we now, and where are we headed?

Recent research: "Ignore all rules" in deletions; anonymity and groupthink; how readers react when shown talk pages

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The Signpost: 01 April 2013[edit]

Special report: Who reads which Wikipedia?

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Featured content: What the ?

News and notes: Grants given for Wikipedia Library, six others; April Fool's Day ructions

Arbitration report: Three open cases

Technology report: Wikidata phase 2 deployment timetable in doubt

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The Signpost: 08 April 2013[edit]

Wikizine: WMF scales back feature after outcry

WikiProject report: Earthshattering WikiProject Earthquakes

News and notes: French intelligence agents threaten Wikimedia volunteer

Arbitration report: Subject experts needed for Argentine History

Featured content: Wikipedia loves poetry

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The Signpost: 15 April 2013[edit]

Op-ed: How do we fix RfA inactivity?

WikiProject report: Unity in Diversity: South Africa

News and notes: Another admin reform attempt flops

Featured content: The featured process swings into high gear

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The Signpost: 22 April 2013[edit]

In the media: Wikipedia inaccurate, says Florence; New Wikipedia app for breaking news

WikiProject report: WikiProject Editor Retention

News and notes: Milan conference a mixed bag

Featured content: Batfish in the Red Sea

Arbitration report: Sexology case nears closure after stalling over topic ban

Technology report: A flurry of deployments

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The Signpost: 29 April 2013[edit]

News and notes: Chapter furore over FDC knockbacks; First DC GLAM boot-camp

In the media: Wikipedia's sexism; Yuri Gadyukin hoax

Featured content: Wiki loves video games

WikiProject report: Japanese WikiProject Baseball

Traffic report: Most popular Wikipedia articles

Arbitration report: Sexology closed; two open cases

Recent research: Sentiment monitoring; UNESCO and systemic bias; and more

Technology report: New notifications system deployed across Wikipedia

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The Signpost: 06 May 2013[edit]

News and notes: Candidates nominating for Foundation elections; Looking ahead to Wikimania 2014

Technology report: Foundation successful in bid for larger Google subsidy

Featured content: WikiCup update: full speed ahead!

In the media: New Wikipedia for Schools edition; Anders Behring Breivik's Wikipedia contributions

WikiProject report: Earn $100 in cash... and a button!

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The Signpost: 13 May 2013[edit]

News and notes: WMF–community ruckus on Wikimedia mailing list

WikiProject report: Knock Out: WikiProject Mixed Martial Arts

Featured content: A mushroom, a motorway, a Munich gallery, and a map

In the media: PR firm accused of editing Wikipedia for government clients; can Wikipedia predict the stock market?

Arbitration report: Race and politics opened; three open cases

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The Signpost: 20 May 2013[edit]

Foundation elections: Trustee candidates speak about Board structure, China, gender, global south, endowment

WikiProject report: Classical Greece and Rome

News and notes: Spanish Wikipedia leaps past one million articles

In the media: Qworty incident continues

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The Signpost: 27 May 2013[edit]

News and notes: First-ever community election for FDC positions

In the media: Pagans complain about Qworty's anti-Pagan editing

Foundation elections: Candidates talk about the Meta problem, the nation-based chapter model, world languages, and value for money

WikiProject report: WikiProject Geographical Coordinates

Featured content: Life of 2π

Recent research: Motivations on the Persian Wikipedia; is science eight times more popular on the Spanish Wikipedia than the English Wikipedia?

Technology report: Amsterdam hackathon: continuity, change, and stroopwafels

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The Signpost: 05 June 2013[edit]

From the editor: Signpost developments

Featured content: A week of portraits

Discussion report: Return of the Discussion report

News and notes: "Cease and desist", World Trade Organization says to Wikivoyage; Could WikiLang be the next WMF project?

In the media: China blocks secure version of Wikipedia

WikiProject report: Operation Normandy

Technology report: Developers accused of making Toolserver fight 'pointless'

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The Signpost: 12 June 2013[edit]

News and notes: How Wikimedia affiliates are spending $8.4 million; PRISM scandal

Featured content: Mixing Bowl Interchange

In the media: VisualEditor will "change world history"

Op-ed: The tragedy of Wikipedia's commons

Discussion report: VisualEditor, elections, bots, and more

Traffic report: Who holds the throne?

Arbitration report: Two cases suspended; proposed decision posted in Argentine History

WikiProject report: Processing WikiProject Computing

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The Signpost: 19 June 2013[edit]

Op-ed: Two responses to the 'Tragedy of Wikipedia's Commons'

Traffic report: Most popular Wikipedia articles of the last week

In the media: South African learners want Wikipedia; Editing of Israel topics

WikiProject report: The Volunteer State: WikiProject Tennessee

News and notes: Swedish Wikipedia's millionth article leads to protests; WMF elections—where are all the voters?

Featured content: Cheaper by the dozen

Discussion report: Citations, non-free content, and a MediaWiki meeting

Technology report: May engineering report published

Arbitration report: The Farmbrough amendment request—automation and arbitration enforcement

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The Signpost: 26 June 2013[edit]

Traffic report: Most-viewed articles of the week

In the media: Daily Dot on Commons and porn; Jimmy Wales accused of breaking Wikipedia rules in hunt for Snowden

Recent research: Most controversial Wikipedia topics, automatic detection of sockpuppets

News and notes: Election results released

Discussion report: Privacy policy, X!'s edit counter, old rangeblocks, and the Article Incubator

Featured content: Wikipedia in black + Adam Cuerden

WikiProject report: WikiProject Fashion

Arbitration report: Argentine History closed; two cases remain suspended

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The Signpost: 03 July 2013[edit]

In the media: Jimmy Wales is not an Internet billionaire; a mass shooter's alleged Wikipedia editing

Featured content: Queen of France

WikiProject report: Puppies!

News and notes: Wikipedia's medical collaborations gathering pace

Discussion report: Snuggle, mainpage link to Wikinews, 3RR, and more

Technology report: VisualEditor in midst of game-changing deployment series

Traffic report: Yahoo! crushes the competition ... in Wikipedia views

Arbitration report: Tea Party movement reopened, new AUSC appointments

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The Signpost: 10 July 2013[edit]

Op-ed: It's time to stop pretending the English-language Wikinews is a viable project

WikiProject report: Not Jimbo: WikiProject Wales

Traffic report: Inflated view counts here, there, and everywhere

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation Board appoints world expert in women's issues, global south

Dispatches: Infoboxes: time for a fresh look?

Featured content: The week of the birds

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The Signpost: 17 July 2013[edit]

WikiProject report: WikiProject Square Enix

Traffic report: Most-viewed articles of the week

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation's new plans announced

Featured content: Documents and sports

Arbitration report: Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds case opens; July 22 deadline for checkuser and oversight applications

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The Signpost: 24 July 2013[edit]

In the media: Wikipedia flamewars

WikiProject report: WikiProject Religion

Discussion report: Partially disambiguated page names, page protection policy, and more

News and notes: Wikivoyage turns ten, but where to now?; Wikipedia Zero expands into India

Traffic report: Gleeless

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Arbitration report: Infoboxes case opens

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The Signpost: 31 July 2013[edit]

Op-ed: The VisualEditor Beta and the path to change

Recent research: Napoleon, Michael Jackson and Srebrenica across cultures, 90% of Wikipedia better than Britannica, WikiSym preview

Traffic report: Bouncing Baby Brouhaha

WikiProject report: Babel Series: Politics on the Turkish Wikipedia

News and notes: Gearing up for Wikimania 2013

Arbitration report: Race and politics case closes

Featured content: Caterpillars, warblers, and frogs—oh my!

Discussion report: Defining consensus; VisualEditor default state; expert and layperson terms in article titles

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The Signpost: 07 August 2013[edit]

Arbitration report: Fourteen editors proposed for ban in Tea Party movement case

Traffic report: Greetings from the graveyard

News and notes: Chapters Association self-destructs

WikiProject report: WikiProject Freedom of Speech

Featured content: Mysterious case of the grand duchess

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News and notes: "Beautifully smooth" Wikimania with few hitches

In the media: Chinese censorship

Featured content: Wikipedia takes the cities

Special report: Jimmy Wales: media favors entertainment over raising public awareness

Discussion report: Wikivoyage, reliable sources, music bands, account creators, and OTRS

WikiProject report: For the love of stamps

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The Signpost: 21 August 2013[edit]

In the media: Chelsea Manning, Box-office predictors, and 'Storming Wikipedia'

Recent research: WikiSym 2013 retrospective

WikiProject report: Loop-the-loop: Amusement Parks

Traffic report: Reddit creep

Featured content: WikiCup update, and the gardens of Finland

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Technology report: Gallery improvements launch on Wikipedia

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The Signpost: 28 August 2013[edit]

In the media: Chelsea Manning, Box-office predictors, and 'Storming Wikipedia'

Recent research: WikiSym 2013 retrospective

WikiProject report: Loop-the-loop: Amusement Parks

Traffic report: Reddit creep

Featured content: WikiCup update, and the gardens of Finland

News and notes: Looking ahead to Wiki Loves Monuments

Technology report: Gallery improvements launch on Wikipedia

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The Signpost: 04 September 2013[edit]

In the media: Manning "put back in the closet"; State involvement in Azerbaijani Wikipedia

News and notes: Privacy policy debate gears up

Traffic report: No accounting for the wisdom of crowds

Discussion report: Arbcom election procedures, Wiki Loves Monuments, Privacy policy, FDC, and more

Featured content: Bridging the way to a Peasants' Revolt

WikiProject report: Writing on the frontier: Psychology on Wikipedia

Arbitration report: Manning naming dispute case opens; Tea Party case closes ; Infoboxes nears completion

Technology report: Making Wikipedia more accessible

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The Signpost: 11 September 2013[edit]

In the media: Lawyer goes to court to discover Wikipedian's identity; Storming Wikipedia; Wikimedia UK Secretary in conflict-of-interest controversy; Does Wikipedia need a "right to reply" box?

WikiProject report: WikiProject Indonesia

Featured content: Tintin goes featured

News and notes: As deadline approaches, Individual Engagement Grants looks for ideas

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Arbitration report: Workshop phase opens in Manning naming dispute ; Infoboxes case closes

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The Signpost: 18 September 2013[edit]

News and notes: Third time's the charm: the FDC's newest round of funding requests

WikiProject report: 18,464 Good Articles on the wall

Featured content: Hurricane Diane and Van Gogh

Technology report: What can Wikidata do for Wikipedia?

Traffic report: Twerking, tragedy and TV

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The Signpost: 25 September 2013[edit]

Op-ed: Q&A on Public Relations and Wikipedia

Traffic report: Look on Walter's works

In the media: Fox News: Wikipedia abandons efforts to purge porn from online encyclopedia

News and notes: Last call for Wiki Loves Monuments; Community–WMF tension over VisualEditor

WikiProject report: Babel Series: GOOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLLL!!!!!

Featured content: Wikipedia takes the stage

Recent research: Automatic detection of "infiltrating" Wikipedia admins; Wiki, or 'pedia?

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The Signpost: 02 October 2013[edit]

Op-ed: Commons medical diagnostic images under threat from unresolved ownership

Discussion report: References to individuals and groups, merging wikiprojects, portals on the Main page, and more

News and notes: WMF signals new grantmaking priorities

Featured content: Bobby, Ben, Roger and a fantasia

Arbitration report: Infoboxes: After the war

WikiProject report: U2 Too

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The Signpost: 09 October 2013[edit]

Traffic report: Shutdown shenanigans

WikiProject report: Australian Roads

Featured content: Under the sea

News and notes: Extensive network of clandestine paid advocacy exposed

In the media: College credit for editing Wikipedia

Arbitration report: Manning naming dispute and Ebionites 3 cases continue; third arbitrator resigns

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The Signpost: 16 October 2013[edit]

News and notes: Vice on Wiki-PR's paid advocacy; Featured list elections begin

Traffic report: Peaceful potpourri

WikiProject report: Heraldry and Vexillology

Featured content: That's a lot of pictures

Arbitration report: Manning naming dispute case closes

Discussion report: Ada Lovelace Day, paid advocacy on Wikipedia, sidebar update, and more

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The Signpost: 23 October 2013[edit]

News and notes: Grantmaking season—rumblings in the German-language community

Traffic report: Your average week ... and a fish

Featured content: Your worst nightmare as a child is now featured on Wikipedia

Discussion report: More discussion of paid advocacy, upcoming arbitrator elections, research hackathon, and more

In the media: The decline of Wikipedia; Sue Gardner releases statement on Wiki-PR; Australian minister relies on Wikipedia

WikiProject report: Elements of the world

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The Signpost: 30 October 2013[edit]

Traffic report: 200 miles in 200 years

In the media: Rand Paul plagiarizes Wikipedia?

News and notes: Sex and drug tourism—Wikivoyage's soft underbelly?

Featured content: Wrestling with featured content

Recent research: User influence on site policies: Wikipedia vs. Facebook vs. Youtube

WikiProject report: Special: Lessons from the dead and dying

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The Signpost: 06 November 2013[edit]

News and notes: Alleged "outing" of editor's personal information leads to Wikipedia ban

Traffic report: Danse Macabre

Featured content: Five years of work leads to 63-article featured topic

WikiProject report: WikiProject Accessibility

Arbitration report: Ebionites 3 case closed

Discussion report: Sockpuppet investigations, VisualEditor, Wikidata's birthday, and more

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The Signpost: 13 November 2013[edit]

Traffic report: Google Doodlebugs bust the block

Featured content: 1244 Chinese handscroll leads nine-strong picture contingent

Special report: FDC staff raise the benchmarks for activities, impact, planning, and governance

News and notes: Trademark at issue again with the Italian Wikipedia and wikipedia.it

WikiProject report: The world of soap operas

Discussion report: Commas, Draft namespace proposal, education updates, and more

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The Signpost: 13 November 2013[edit]

Traffic report: Google Doodlebugs bust the block

Featured content: 1244 Chinese handscroll leads nine-strong picture contingent

Special report: FDC staff raise the benchmarks for activities, impact, planning, and governance

News and notes: Trademark at issue again with the Italian Wikipedia and wikipedia.it

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Discussion report: Commas, Draft namespace proposal, education updates, and more

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Disambiguation link fixing one-day contest[edit]

I have decided to put on a mini-contest within the November 2013 monthly disambiguation contest, on Saturday, November 23 (UTC). I will personally give a $20 Amazon.com gift card to the disambiguator who fixes the most links on that server-day (see the project page for details on scoring points). Since we are not geared up to do an automated count for that day, at 00:00, 23 November 2013 (UTC) (which is 7:00 PM on November 22, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the project page leaderboard. I will presume that anyone who is not already listed on the leaderboard has precisely nine edits. At 01:00, 24 November 2013 (UTC) (8:00 PM on November 23, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the leaderboard at that time (the extra hour is to give the board time to update), and I will determine from that who our winner is. I will credit links fixed by turning a WP:DABCONCEPT page into an article, but you'll have to let me know me that you did so. Here's to a fun contest. Note that according to the Daily Disambig, we currently have under 256,000 disambiguation links to be fixed. If everyone in the disambiguation link fixers category were to fix 500 links, we would have them all done - so aim high! Cheers! bd2412 T 02:24, 18 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 20 November 2013[edit]

From the editor: The Signpost needs your help

Book review: Peter Burke's Social History of Knowledge—ambitious, fascinating, and exhaustive

Featured content: Rockin' the featured pictures

WikiProject report: Score! American football on Wikipedia

News and notes: Foundation to Wiki-PR: cease and desist; Arbitration Committee elections starting

Traffic report: Ill Winds

Arbitration report: WMF opens the door for non-admin arbitrators

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The Signpost: 20 November 2013[edit]

From the editor: The Signpost needs your help

Book review: Peter Burke's Social History of Knowledge—ambitious, fascinating, and exhaustive

Featured content: Rockin' the featured pictures

WikiProject report: Score! American football on Wikipedia

News and notes: Foundation to Wiki-PR: cease and desist; Arbitration Committee elections starting

Traffic report: Ill Winds

Arbitration report: WMF opens the door for non-admin arbitrators

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The Signpost: 04 December 2013[edit]

Traffic report: Kennedy shot Who

Recent research: Reciprocity and reputation motivate contributions to Wikipedia; indigenous knowledge and "cultural imperialism"; how PR people see Wikipedia

Discussion report: Musical scores, diversity conference, Module:Convert, and more

News and notes: One decade of Wikisource; FDC recommendations raise serious questions

WikiProject report: Electronic Apple Pie

Featured content: F*&!

Arbitration report: Ottoman Empire–Turkey naming dispute case opens; New discretionary sanctions draft proposal available for review

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The Signpost: 11 December 2013[edit]

Traffic report: Deaths of Mandela, Walker top the list

In the media: Edward Snowden a "hero"; German Wikipedia court ruling

News and notes: Wiki Loves Monuments—winners announced

WikiProject report: WikiProject Wine

Interview: Wikipedia's first Featured Article centurion

Featured content: Viewer discretion advised

Technology report: MediaWiki 1.22 released

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The Signpost: 18 December 2013[edit]

WikiProject report: Babel Series: Tunisia on the French Wikipedia

Traffic report: Hopper to the top

Discussion report: Usernames, template data and documentation, Main page, and more

News and notes: Nine new arbitrators announced

Featured content: Triangulum, the most boring constellation in the universe

Technology report: Introducing the GLAMWikiToolset

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The Signpost: 25 December 2013[edit]

Recent research: Cross-language editors, election predictions, vandalism experiments

Featured content: Drunken birds and treasonous kings

Discussion report: Draft namespace, VisualEditor meetings

WikiProject report: More Great WikiProject Logos

News and notes: IEG round 2 funding rewards diverse ambitions

Technology report: OAuth: future of user designed tools

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The Signpost: 01 January 2014[edit]

Traffic report: A year stuck in traffic

Arbitration report: Examining the Committee's year

In the media: Does Wikipedia need a medical disclaimer?

Book review: Common Knowledge: An Ethnography of Wikipedia

News and notes: The year in review

Discussion report: Article incubator, dates and fractions, medical disclaimer

WikiProject report: Where Are They Now? Fifth Edition

Featured content: 2013—the trends

Technology report: Looking back on 2013

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The Signpost: 08 January 2014[edit]

Public Domain Day: Why the year 2019 is so significant

Traffic report: Tragedy and television

Technology report: Gearing up for the Architecture Summit

News and notes: WMF employee forced out over "paid advocacy editing"

Op-ed: WikiCup competition beginning a new year

WikiProject report: Jumping into the television universe

Featured content: A portal to the wonderful world of technology

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The Signpost: 15 January 2014[edit]

News and notes: German chapter asks for "reworking" of Funds Dissemination Committee; should MP4 be allowed on Wikimedia sites?

Technology report: Architecture Summit schedule published

Op-ed: Licensed for reuse? Citing open-access sources in Wikipedia articles

In the media: Is Google hurting Wikipedia traffic?; "Wikipedia-Mania" in the New York Times

Traffic report: The Hours are Ours

WikiProject report: WikiProject Sociology

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The Signpost: 22 January 2014[edit]

Book review: Missing Links and Secret Histories: A Selection of Wikipedia Entries from Across the Known Multiverse

News and notes: Modification of WMF protection brought to Arbcom

Featured content: Dr. Watson, I presume

Special report: The few who write Wikipedia

Technology report: Architecting the future of MediaWiki

In the media: Wikipedia for robots; Wikipedia—a temperamental teenager

Traffic report: No show for the Globes

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The Signpost: 29 January 2014[edit]

Traffic report: Six strikes out

WikiProject report: Special report: Contesting contests

News and notes: Wiki-PR defends itself, condemns Wikipedia's actions

Arbitration report: Kafziel case closed; Kww admonished by motion

Recent research: Translation assignments, weasel words, and Wikipedia's content in its later years

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The Signpost: 29 January 2014[edit]

Traffic report: Six strikes out

WikiProject report: Special report: Contesting contests

News and notes: Wiki-PR defends itself, condemns Wikipedia's actions

Arbitration report: Kafziel case closed; Kww admonished by motion

Recent research: Translation assignments, weasel words, and Wikipedia's content in its later years

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The Signpost: 12 February 2014[edit]

In the media: WikiVIP; Art Feminism; Medical articles; PR manipulation; Azerbaijani Wikipedia

Technology report: Left with no choice

News and notes: WMF bites the bullet on affiliation and FDC funding, elevates Wikimedia user groups

Featured content: Space selfie

Traffic report: Sports Day

WikiProject report: Game Time in Russia

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News and notes: Foundation takes aim at undisclosed paid editing; Greek Wikipedia editor faces down legal challenge

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Forum: Should Wikimedia modify its terms of use to require disclosure?

Featured content: Odin salutes you

WikiProject report: Racking brains with neuroscience

Special report: Diary of a protester: Wikimedian perishes in Ukrainian unrest

News and notes: Wikimedia chapters and communities challenge Commons' URAA policy

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Traffic report: Brinksmen on the brink

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News and notes: Wikipedia Library finding success in matching contributors with sources

Featured content: Full speed ahead for the WikiCup

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The Signpost: 12 March 2014[edit]

News and notes: Wikimedians celebrate International Women's Day, Women's History Month

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Forum: Wikimedia Commons mission: free media for the world or only Wikimedia projects?

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Interview: Nate Ott: the writer behind 71 articles in the largest-ever good topic

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The Signpost: 26 March 2014[edit]

Comment: A foolish request

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News and notes: Commons Picture of the Year—winners announced

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Special report: On the cusp of the Wikimedia Conference

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Special report: Community mourns passing of Adrianne Wadewitz

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Special report: 2014 Wikimedia Conference—what is the impact?

Op-ed: Five things a Wikipedian in residence can do

News and notes: Wikimedian passes away

WikiProject_report: To the altar—Catholicism

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News and notes: WMF's draft annual plan turns indigestible as an FDC proposal

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Breaking: The Foundation's new executive director

WikiProject report: Genetics

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In focus: Foundation announces long-awaited new executive director

WikiCup: 2014 WikiCup enters round three

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Investigative report: Hong Kong's Wikimania 2013—failure to produce financial statement raises questions of probity

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News and notes: 'Ask a librarian'—connecting Wikimedians with the National Library of Australia

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News and notes: "Crisis" over Wikimedia Germany's palace revolution

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News and notes: The English Wikipedia's second featured-article centurion; wiki inventor interviewed on video

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The Signpost: 04 June 2014[edit]

Special report: IEG funding for women's stories: a new approach to the gender gap

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Op-ed: "Hospitality, jerks, and what I learned"—the amazing keynote at WikiConference USA

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In the media: Reliable or not, doctors use Wikipedia

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The Signpost: 11 June 2014[edit]

News and notes: PR agencies commit to ethical interactions with Wikipedia

Traffic report: The week the wired went weird

Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Moderator: William Beutler

Special report: Questions raised over secret voting for WMF trustees

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News and notes: With paid advocacy in its sights, the Wikimedia Foundation amends their terms of use

Featured content: Worming our way to featured picture

Special report: Wikimedia Bangladesh: a chapter's five-year journey

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News and notes: US National Archives enshrines Wikipedia in Open Government Plan

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Exclusive: "We need to be true to who we are": Foundation's new executive director speaks to the Signpost

Discussion report: Media Viewer, old HTML tags

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The Signpost: 02 July 2014[edit]

In the media: Wiki Education; medical content; PR firms

Traffic report: The Cup runneth over... and over.

News and notes: Wikimedia Israel receives Roaring Lion award

Featured content: Ship-shape

WikiProject report: Indigenous Peoples of North America

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The Signpost: 09 July 2014[edit]

Special report: Wikimania 2014—what will it cost?

Wikicup: Wikicup's third round sees money, space, battleships and more

Wikimedia in education: Exploring the United States and Canada with LiAnna Davis

Featured content: Three cheers for featured pictures!

News and notes: Echoes of the past haunt new conflict over tech initiative

Traffic report: World Cup, Tim Howard rule the week

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The Signpost: 16 July 2014[edit]

Special report: $10 million lawsuit against Wikipedia editors withdrawn, but plaintiff intends to refile

Traffic report: World Cup dominates for another week

Wikimedia in education: Serbia takes the stage with Filip Maljkovic

Featured content: The Island with the Golden Gun

News and notes: Bot-created Wikipedia articles covered in the Wall Street Journal, push Cebuano over one million articles

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The Signpost: 23 July 2014[edit]

Wikimedia in education: Education program gaining momentum in Israel

Traffic report: The World Cup hangs on, though tragedies seek to replace it

News and notes: Institutional media uploads to Commons get a bit easier

Forum: Did you know?—good idea, needs reform

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Book review: Knowledge or unreality?

Recent research: Shifting values in the paid content debate

News and notes: How many more hoaxes will Wikipedia find?

Wikimedia in education: Success in Egypt and the Arab World

Traffic report: Doom and gloom vs. the power of Reddit

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The Signpost: 06 August 2014[edit]

Technology report: A technologist's Wikimania preview

Traffic report: Ebola

Featured content: Bottoms, asses, and the fairies that love them

Wikimedia in education: Leading universities educate with Wikipedia in Mexico

News and notes: "History is a human right"—first-ever transparency report released as Europe begins hiding Wikipedia in search results

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The Signpost: 13 August 2014[edit]

Special report: Twitter bots catalogue government edits to Wikipedia

Traffic report: Disease, decimation and distraction

Wikimedia in education: Global Education: WMF's Perspective

Wikimania: Promised the moon, settled for the stars

News and notes: Media Viewer controversy spreads to German Wikipedia

Op-ed: Red links, blue links, and erythrophobia

In the media: Monkey selfie, net neutrality, and hoaxes

Featured content: Cambridge got a lot of attention this week

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The Signpost: 20 August 2014[edit]

Interview: Improving the visibility of digital archival assets using Wikipedia

Traffic report: Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero

WikiProject report: Bats and gloves

Op-ed: A new metric for Wikimedia

Featured content: English Wikipedia departs for Japan

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The Signpost: 27 August 2014[edit]

In the media: Plagiarism and vandalism dominate Wikipedia news

News and notes: Media Viewer—Wikimedia's emotional roller-coaster

Traffic report: Viral

Featured content: Cheats at Featured Pictures!

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The Signpost: 03 September 2014[edit]

Arbitration report: Media viewer case is suspended

Featured content: 1882 × 5 in gold, and thruppence more

Op-ed: Automated copy-and-paste detection under trial

Traffic report: Holding Pattern

WikiProject report: Gray's Anatomy (v. 2)

Recent research: A Wikipedia-based Pantheon; new Wikipedia analysis tool suite; how AfC hamstrings newbies

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The Signpost: 10 September 2014[edit]

Op-ed: Media Viewer software is not ready

Traffic report: Refuge in celebrity

Featured content: The louse and the fish's tongue

WikiProject report: Checking that everything's all right

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The Signpost: 17 September 2014[edit]

In the media: Turkish Twitter outrage, medical translation, audience metrics

WikiProject report: A trip up north to Scotland

News and notes: Wikipedia's traffic statistics are off by nearly one-third

Traffic report: Tolstoy leads a varied pack

Featured content: Which is not like the others?

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The Signpost: 24 September 2014[edit]

Featured content: Oil paintings galore

In the media: Indian political editing, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Congressional chelonii

Recent research: 99.25% of Wikipedia birthdates accurate; focused Wikipedians live longer; merging WordNet, Wikipedia and Wiktionary

Traffic report: Wikipedia watches the referendum in Scotland

WikiProject report: GAN reviewers take note: competition time

Arbitration report: Banning Policy, Gender Gap, and Waldorf education

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The Signpost: 01 October 2014[edit]

From the editor: The Signpost needs your help

Dispatches: Let's get serious about plagiarism

News and notes: Wikipedia article published in peer-reviewed journal; Wikipedia in education

WikiProject report: Animals, farms, forests, USDA? It must be WikiProject Agriculture

Traffic report: Shanah Tovah

Featured content: Brothers at War

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The Signpost: 08 October 2014[edit]

In the media: Opposition research firm blocked; Australian bushfires

Featured content: From a wordless novel to a coat of arms via New York City

Traffic report: Panic and denial

Technology report: HHVM is the greatest thing since sliced bread

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The Signpost: 15 October 2014[edit]

Op-ed: Ships—sexist or sexy?

In the media: College player falsely linked to sports scandal by Wikipedia; the Nobel Prizes

Arbitration report: One case closed and two opened

Featured content: Bells ring out at the Temple of the Dragon at Peace

Technology report: Attempting to parse wikitext

Traffic report: Now introducing ... mobile data

WikiProject report: Signpost reaches the Midwest

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The Signpost: 22 October 2014[edit]

Featured content: Admiral on deck: a modern Ada Lovelace

Op-ed: Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution—a wiki-protest

In the media: The story of Wikipedia; Wikipedia reanimated and republished; New UK government social media rules; death of Italian Wikipedia administrator

Traffic report: Death, War, Pestilence... Movies and TV

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The Signpost: 29 October 2014[edit]

Featured content: Go West, young man

In the media: Wikipedia a trusted source on Ebola; Wikipedia study labeled government waste; football biography goes viral

Maps tagathon: Find 10,000 digitised maps this weekend

Traffic report: Ebola, Ultron, and Creepy Articles

Recent research: Informed consent and privacy; newsmaking on Wikipedia; Wikipedia and organizational theories

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The Signpost: 05 November 2014[edit]

In the media: Predicting the flu, MH17 conspiracy theories

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The Signpost: 12 November 2014[edit]

In the media: Amazon Echo; EU freedom of panorama; Bluebeard's Castle

Traffic report: Holidays, anyone?

Featured content: Wikipedia goes to church in Lithuania

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The Signpost: 26 November 2014[edit]

Featured content: Orbital Science: Now you're thinking with explosions

In the media: A Russian alternative Wikipedia; Who's your grandfather?; ArtAndFeminism

Recent research: Gender gap and skills gap; academic citations on the rise; European food cultures

WikiProject report: Back with the military historians

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The Signpost: 03 December 2014[edit]

Op-ed: Who edits health-related content on Wikipedia and why?

In the media: Embroidery and cheese

Featured content: ABCD: Any Body Can Dance!

Traffic report: Turkey and a movie

WikiProject report: Today on the island

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The Signpost: 10 December 2014[edit]

Op-ed: It's GLAM up North!

In the media: Wikipedia is "a rancorous, sexist, elitist, stupidly bureaucratic mess"

Traffic report: Dead Black Men and Science Fiction

Featured content: Honour him, love and obey? Good idea with military leaders.

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The Signpost: 17 December 2014[edit]

Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee election results

Featured content: Tripping hither, tripping thither, Nobody knows why or whither; We must dance and we must sing, Round about our fairy ring!

In the media: Wikipedia's year in review video; Checking in with Wikipedia's founders

Traffic report: A December Lull

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The Signpost: 24 December 2014[edit]

From the editor: Looking for new editors-in-chief

In the media: Wales on GamerGate

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WikiProject report: Microsoft does The Signpost

Traffic report: North Korea is not pleased

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The Signpost: 31 December 2014[edit]

News and notes: The next big step for Wikidata—forming a hub for researchers

In the media: Study tour controversy; class tackles the gender gap

Traffic report: Surfin' the Yuletide

Op-ed: My issues with the Wiki Education Foundation

Featured content: A bit fruity

Recent research: Wikipedia in higher education; gender-driven talk page conflicts; disease forecasting

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The Signpost: 07 January 2015[edit]

In the media: ISIL propaganda video; AirAsia complaints

Interview: Interview with Jakob, one of Wikipedia's more prolific waterway contributors

Featured content: Kock up

Traffic report: Auld Lang Syne

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The Signpost: 14 January 2015[edit]

Op-ed: Articles for creation needs you

WikiProject report: Articles for creation: the inside story

News and notes: Erasmus Prize recognizes the global Wikipedia community

In the media: Wikipedia's birthday brings tributes, app, award; Castro death rumors

Featured content: Citations are needed

Traffic report: Wikipédia sommes Charlie

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The Signpost: 21 January 2015[edit]

From the editor: Introducing your new editors-in-chief

Anniversary: A decade of the Signpost

Interview: WWII veteran honors shipmates through Wikipedia editing

News and notes: Annual report released; Wikimania; steward elections

Op-ed: Let's make WikiProjects better

In the media: Johann Hari; bandishes and delicate flowers

Featured content: Yachts, marmots, boat races, and a rocket engineer who attempted to birth a goddess

Arbitration report: As one door closes, a (Gamer)Gate opens

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The Signpost: 28 January 2015[edit]

From the editor: An editorial board that includes you

In focus: Thirteen editors sanctioned in mammoth GamerGate arbitration case

In the media: A murderous week for Wikipedia

Forum: Evaluating the Arbitration Committee's handling of GamerGate

Traffic report: A sea of faces

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

Special report: Traffic in the fog—most-viewed articles of 2014 include death, Facebook, and Ebola

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

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The Signpost: 04 February 2015[edit]

News and notes: No men beyond this point: the proposal to create a no-men space on Wikipedia

Op-ed: Is Wikipedia for sale?

In the media: Gamergate and Muhammad controversies continue

Traffic report: The American Heartland

Featured content: It's raining men!

Arbitration report: Slamming shut the GamerGate

WikiProject report: Dicing with death – on Wikipedia?

Technology report: Security issue fixed; VisualEditor changes

Gallery: Langston Hughes

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The Signpost: 11 February 2015[edit]

From the editors: We want to know what you think!

News and notes: One editor faces likely ban for work on Wikipedia; Jimmy Wales awarded $1 million

In the media: Is Wikipedia eating itself?

Featured content: A grizzly bear, Operation Mascot, Freedom Planet & Liberty Island, cosmic dust clouds, a cricket five-wicket list, more fine art, & a terrible, terrible opera...

Traffic report: Bowled over

WikiProject report: Brand new WikiProjects profiled

Gallery: Feel the love

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The Signpost: 18 February 2015[edit]

Editorial: Recent retirements typify problem of admin attrition

In the media: Students' use and perception of Wikipedia

Special report: Revision scoring as a service

Gallery: Darwin Day

Traffic report: February is for lovers

Featured content: A load of bull-sized breakfast behind the restaurant, Koi feeding, a moray eel, Spaghetti Nebula and other fishy, fishy fish

Arbitration report: We've built the nuclear reactor; now what colour should we paint the bikeshed?

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The Signpost: 25 February 2015[edit]

News and notes: Questions raised over WMF partnership with research firm

Op-ed: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own

In the media: WikiGnomes and Bigfoot

Featured content: The Moon, Mars, Venus, and Saturn, in no particular order. Also, Kaiser Kong.

Gallery: Far from home

Traffic report: Fifty Shades of... self-denial?

Recent research: Gender bias, SOPA blackout, and a student assignment that backfired

WikiProject report: Be prepared... Scouts in the spotlight

Blog: Join the Wikimedia strategy consultation

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The Signpost: 25 February 2015[edit]

News and notes: Questions raised over WMF partnership with research firm

Op-ed: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own

In the media: WikiGnomes and Bigfoot

Featured content: The Moon, Mars, Venus, and Saturn, in no particular order. Also, Kaiser Kong.

Gallery: Far from home

Traffic report: Fifty Shades of... self-denial?

Recent research: Gender bias, SOPA blackout, and a student assignment that backfired

WikiProject report: Be prepared... Scouts in the spotlight

Blog: Join the Wikimedia strategy consultation

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The Signpost: 04 March 2015[edit]

From the editor: A sign of the times: the Signpost revamps its internal structure to make contributing easier

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation and OTRS team both publish reports, indicate operating changes

Editorial: Conspiracy theories distract from real questions about grantmaking report

Traffic report: Attack of the movies

Arbitration report: Bradspeaks—impact, regrets, and advice; current cases hinge on sex, religion, and ... infoboxes

Interview: Meet a paid editor

In the media: Kanye West rebranded; Wikipedia in court; editors for hire

Featured content: Ploughing fields and trading horses with Rosa Bonheur

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

Blog: Black History Month edit-a-thons tackle Wikipedia’s multicultural gaps

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The Signpost: 11 March 2015[edit]

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

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

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

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

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

Featured content: Here they come, the couple plighted –

Op-ed: Why the Core Contest matters

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The Signpost: 18 March 2015[edit]

From the editor: A salute to Pine

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

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

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

Featured content: A woman who loved kings

Traffic report: It's not cricket

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The Signpost – Volume 11, Issue 12 – 25 March 2015[edit]

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

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

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

Special report: Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2014

Traffic report: Oddly familiar

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

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

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The Signpost, 1 April 2015[edit]

In focus: WMF's latest strategy document shows successes, vagueness, and the need for better data

In the media: Wiki-PR duo bulldoze a piñata store; Wifione arbitration case; French parliamentary plagiarism

Featured content: Stop Press. Marie Celeste Mystery Solved. Crew Found Hiding In Wardrobe.

Traffic report: All over the place

News and notes: New edits-by-mail option will "revolutionize" Wikipedia and its editor base

Special report: Pictures of the Year 2015

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The Signpost: 01 April 2015[edit]

In focus: WMF's latest strategy document shows successes, vagueness, and the need for better data

In the media: Wiki-PR duo bulldoze a piñata store; Wifione arbitration case; French parliamentary plagiarism

Featured content: Stop Press. Marie Celeste Mystery Solved. Crew Found Hiding In Wardrobe.

Traffic report: All over the place

News and notes: New edits-by-mail option will "revolutionize" Wikipedia and its editor base

Special report: Pictures of the Year 2015

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The Signpost: 08 April 2015[edit]

Op-ed: We are drowning in promotional artspam

News and notes: Advancement department to be created at the Foundation, milestone fixes

In the media: Wikipedia on 60 Minutes, Kickstarter, and in the classroom

Traffic report: Resurrection week

Featured content: Partisan arrangements, dodgy dollars, a mysterious union of strings, and a hole that became a monument

WikiProject report: WikiProject Christianity

Arbitration report: New Functionary appointments

Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 15 April 2015[edit]

News and notes: Erik Möller leaving Foundation; annual plan grants under community review

In the media: Saving Wikipedia; Internet regulation; Thoreau quote hoax

Blog: Single-User Login provides access to all wikis

Traffic report: Furious domination

Featured content: Au-delà de les Alpes, le chien lit de Sainte Bernard. Sous les pavés, les trimes d'argent! Mes enfants, suivez-moi!

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The Signpost: 22 April 2015[edit]

Special report: Sony emails reveal corporate practices and undisclosed advocacy editing

In the media: UK political editing; hoaxes; net neutrality

News and notes: Call for candidates as the movement approaches the Wikimedia Board elections

In focus: 2015 Wikimedia Foundation election preparations underway

Featured content: Vanguard on guard

Traffic report: A harvest of couch potatoes

Gallery: The bitter end

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The Signpost: 29 April 2015[edit]

Wikimania: Choice of small village for Wikimania 2016 ruffles feathers

News and notes: Wiki Loves Monuments evaluation sees diminishing returns and increasing cost

In the media: Scottish MEP blocked for edit warring; ranking articles by importance

Featured content: Another day, another dollar

Traffic report: Bruce, Nessie, and genocide

Recent research: Military history, cricket, and Australia targeted in Wikipedia articles' popularity vs. quality; how copyright damages economy

Technology report: VisualEditor and MediaWiki updates

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The Signpost: 06 May 2015[edit]

News and notes: "Inspire" grant-making campaign concludes, grantees announced

Featured content: The amorous android and the horsebreeder; WikiCup round two concludes

In the media: Guggenheim image donation; Wiki campaign gets advertising award

Special report: FDC candidates respond to key issues

Traffic report: The grim ship reality

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The Signpost: 13 May 2015[edit]

Foundation elections: Board candidates share their views with the Signpost

News and notes: Swedish Wikimedia chapter organizes simultaneous Wikidata contests

Traffic report: Round Two

In the media: Grant Shapps story continues

Op-ed: What made Wikipedia lose its reputation?

Featured content: Four first-time featured article writers lead the way

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The Signpost: 20 May 2015[edit]

From the editor: Your voice is needed: strategic voting in the WMF election

In focus: The awful truth about Wikimedia's article counts

Traffic report: Inner Core

News and notes: A dark side of comedy: the Wikipedia volunteers cleaning up behind John Oliver's fowl jokes

Featured content: Puppets, fungi, and waterfalls

In the media: Jimmy Wales accepts Dan David Prize

WikiProject report: Cell-ebrating Molecular Biology

Arbitration report: Editor conduct the subject of multiple cases

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The Signpost: 27 May 2015[edit]

News and notes: WMF releases quarterly reports, annual plans

In the media: Scrubbing Parliamentary biographies; Wikipedia's invisible history

Discussion report: A relic from the past that needs to be updated

Featured content: When music was confined to a ribbon of rust

Recent research: Drug articles accurate and largely complete; women "slightly overrepresented"; talking like an admin

Traffic report: Summer, summer, summertime

Technology report: MediaWiki blows up printers

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The Signpost: 03 June 2015[edit]

News and notes: Three new community-elected trustees announced, incumbents out

Blog: How Wikipedia covered Caitlyn Jenner’s transition

Discussion report: The deprecation of Persondata; RfA – A broken process; Complaints from users on Swedish Wikipedia

Featured content: It's not over till the fat man sings

Technology report: Things are getting SPDYier

Special report: Towards "Health Information for All": Medical content on Wikipedia received 6.5 billion page views in 2013

In the media: Anonymous Australian editing targets football player, shooting victim

Traffic report: A rather ordinary week

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The Signpost: 10 June 2015[edit]

News and notes: Chapter financial trends analyzed, news in brief

Traffic report: Two households, both alike in dignity

In the media: Arbitration case attracts media coverage; Wikipedia in Israel

Featured content: Just the bear facts, ma'am

Technology report: Wikimedia sites are going HTTPS only

Blog: Making Wikipedia’s medical articles accessible in Chinese

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The Signpost: 17 June 2015[edit]

In the media: Wikipedia wins Asturias Prize; printing out Wikipedia; HTTPS switch

Arbitration report: An election has consequences

In focus: Three weeks to save freedom of panorama in Europe

Op-ed: Making a difference in Wikipedia, one GA at a time

Technology report: HTTPS-only rollout completed; proposal to enable VisualEditor for new accounts

Interview: A veteran’s Wikipedia edits help him understand the brutality behind Yugoslavia’s wars

News and notes: Labs outage kills tools, self; news in brief

Featured content: Great Dane hits 150

Discussion report: A quick way of becoming an admin

WikiProject report: Western Australia speaks – we are back

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The Signpost: 24 June 2015[edit]

From the editor: The Signpost tagging initiative

Op-ed: Content Translation beta is coming to the English Wikipedia

Special report: Small impact of the large Google Translation Project on Telugu Wikipedia

Featured content: One eye when begun, two when it's done

Recent research: How Wikipedia built governance capability; readability of plastic surgery articles

Technology report: 2015 MediaWiki architecture focus and Multimedia roadmap announced

News and notes: Board of Trustees propose bylaw amendments

In the media: Turkish Wikipedia censorship; "Can Wikipedia survive?"; PR editing

Blog: 7,473 volumes at 700 pages each: meet Print Wikipedia

Arbitration report: Politics by other means: The American politics 2 arbitration

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The Signpost: 01 July 2015[edit]

News and notes: Training the Trainers; VP of Engineering leaves WMF

In the media: EU freedom of panorama; Nehru outrage; BBC apology

WikiProject report: Able to make a stand

Featured content: Viva V.E.R.D.I.

Traffic report: We're Baaaaack

Technology report: Technical updates and improvements

Blog: These Texans are on a quest to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of their state’s revolution

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The Signpost: 08 July 2015[edit]

Editorial: So you want to get your message out. Where do you turn?

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation annual plan released, news in brief

In the media: Wikimania warning; Wikipedia "mystery" easily solved

Traffic report: The Empire lobs back

Featured content: Pyrénées, Playmates, parliament and a prison...

Technology report: Tech news in brief

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The Signpost: 15 July 2015[edit]

Op-ed: On paid editing and advocacy: when the Bright Line fails to shine, and what we can do about it

Traffic report: Belles of the ball

WikiProject report: What happens when a country is no longer a country?

In the media: Shapps requests WMUK data; professor's plagiarism demotion

Blog: Wikimedia Foundation releases third transparency report

News and notes: The Wikimedia Conference and Wikimania

Featured content: When angels and daemons interrupt the vicious and intemperate

Technology report: Tech news in brief

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The Signpost: 22 July 2015[edit]

From the editor: Change the world

News and notes: Wikimanía 2016; Lightbreather ArbCom case

Wikimanía report: Wikimanía 2015 report, part 1, the plenaries

In the media: Novelists annotate Wikipedia; Wales promotes TPO; Working for free

Traffic report: The Nerds, They Are A-Changin'

WikiProject report: Some more politics

Featured content: The sleep of reason produces monsters

Gallery: "One small step..."

Technology report: Tech news in brief

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The Signpost: 29 July 2015[edit]

News and notes: BARC de-adminship proposal; Wikimania recordings debate

Op-ed: My life as an autistic Wikipedian

Recent research: Wikipedia and collective intelligence; how Wikipedia is tweeted

In the media: Is Wikipedia a battleground in the culture wars?

Featured content: Even mammoths get the Blues

Traffic report: Namaste again, Reddit

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The Signpost: 05 August 2015[edit]

Editorial: Wikipedia better equipped to deal with systemic bias than traditional publishers

Op-ed: Je ne suis pas Google

News and notes: VisualEditor, endowment, science, and news in brief

WikiProject report: Meet the boilerplate makers

In the media: Probe into Nehru edits launched; dangers of the right to be forgotten

Traffic report: Mrityorma amritam gamaya...

Featured content: Maya, Michigan, Medici, Médée, and Moul n'ga

Blog: Get help editing Wikipedia with the new “Co-op” mentorship program

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The Signpost: 12 August 2015[edit]

News and notes: Superprotect, one year later; a contentious RfA

In the media: Paid editing; traffic drop; Nicki Minaj

Forum: Community voices on paid editing

Wikimanía report: Wikimanía 2015, part 2, a community event

Traffic report: Fighting from top to bottom

Featured content: Fused lizards, giant mice, and Scottish demons

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Blog: The Hunt for Tirpitz

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The Signpost: 19 August 2015[edit]

Op-ed: WP:THREATENING2MEN: The English Wikipedia's misogynist infopolitics and the hegemony of the asshole consensus

In the media: Politically controversial science; "Wikipedia hates women"

Featured content: Dead parrots, live frogs, a symbolic kiss and what do we get? Enrique Iglesias!

Travelogue: Seeing is believing

Traffic report: Straight Outta Connecticut

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Blog: How Wikipedia responds to breaking news

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The Signpost: 26 August 2015[edit]

In focus: An increase in active Wikipedia editors

In the media: Russia temporarily blocks Wikipedia

Op-ed: Wikimania—can volunteers organize conferences?

News and notes: Re-imagining grants

Featured content: Out to stud, please call later

Arbitration report: Reinforcing Arbitration

Recent research: OpenSym 2015 report

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The Signpost: 02 September 2015[edit]

Special report: Massive paid editing network unearthed on the English Wikipedia

News and notes: Flow placed on ice

Discussion report: WMF's sudden reversal on Wiki Loves Monuments

Featured content: Brawny

In the media: Orangemoody sockpuppet case sparks widespread coverage

Traffic report: You didn't miss much

Technology report: Tech news in brief

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The Signpost: 09 September 2015[edit]

Gallery: Being Welsh

Featured content: Killed by flying debris

Op-ed: DYK, or proudly displaying incorrect information on the Main Page with alarming regularity

News and notes: The Swedish Wikipedia's controversial two-millionth article

Traffic report: Mass media production traffic

Technology report: Tech news in brief

In the media: Calling all scientists!; More Wikipedia editors in the Netherlands than all of Africa combined

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The Signpost: 16 September 2015[edit]

Editorial: No access is no answer to closed access

News and notes: Byrd and notifications leave, but page views stay; was a terror suspect editing Wikipedia?

In the media: Is there life on Mars?

Featured content: Why did the emu cross the road?

Traffic report: Another week

Technology report: Tech news in brief

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The Signpost: 23 September 2015[edit]

In the media: PETA makes "monkey selfie" a three-way copyright battle; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Op-ed: Can we please stop bashing Wikipedia?

Featured content: Inside Duke Humfrey's Library

WikiProject report: Dancing to the beat of a... wikiproject?

Traffic report: ¡Viva la Revolución! Kinda.

Technology report: Tech news in brief

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The Signpost: 30 September 2015[edit]

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation fundraising report, Montreal to host 2017 Wikimania

In the media: Irish legislative editing; coffee quarrel; more sports vandalism

Op-ed: Wikipedia needs more administrators

Recent research: Wiktionary special; newbies, conflict and tolerance; Is Wikipedia's search function inferior?

Tech news: Tech news in brief

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The Signpost: 07 October 2015[edit]

Op-ed: Walled gardens of corruption

Traffic report: Reality is for losers

Featured content: This Week's Featured Content

Gallery: Winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 in Pakistan

Arbitration report: Warning: Contains GMOs

Technology report: Tech news in brief

In the media: Jailed Saudi blogger wins award; PR editing and Wiki-embarassment; Pakistan's third-richest person?

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The Signpost: 14 October 2015[edit]

Op-ed: WikiConference USA 2015: built on good faith

WikiConference report: US gathering sees speeches from Andrew Lih, AfroCrowd, and the Archivist of the United States

Editorial: Why the news media needs a Wikipedian in residence

News and notes: 2015–2016 Q1 fundraising update sparks mailing list debate

Traffic report: Screens, Sport, Reddit, and Death

Featured content: A fistful of dollars

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Blog: Third Wikimedia Spain conference takes place in Madrid

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The Signpost: 21 October 2015[edit]

Editorial: Women and Wikipedia: the world is watching

News and notes: Wikimedia lawsuit against NSA dismissed; Affiliates mailing list launched

In the media: "Wikipedia's hostility to women"

Special report: One year of GamerGate, or how I learned to stop worrying and love bare rule-level consensus

Featured content: A more balanced week

Op-ed: Wikipedia is significantly amplifying the impact of Open Access publications

Arbitration report: Four ArbCom cases ongoing

Traffic report: Hiding under the covers of the Internet

Technology report: Tech news in brief

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The Signpost: 28 October 2015[edit]

From the editor: The Signpost's reorganization plan—we need your help

News and notes: English Wikipedia reaches five million articles

In the media: The world's Wikipedia gaps; Google and Wikipedia accused of tying Ben Carson to NAMBLA

Op-ed: It’s time to stop the bullying

Arbitration report: A second attempt at Arbitration enforcement

Traffic report: Canada, the most popular nation on Earth

Recent research: Student attitudes towards Wikipedia; Jesus, Napoleon and Obama top "Wikipedia social network"; featured article editing patterns in 12 languages

Featured content: Birds, turtles, and other things

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Community letter: Five million articles

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The Signpost: 04 November 2015[edit]

Op-ed: You are invited to participate in the Community Wishlist Survey

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation finances; Superprotect is gone

In the media: Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov: propaganda myth or history?

Traffic report: Death, the Dead, and Spectres are abroad

Featured content: Christianity, music, and cricket

Gallery: Princess of Asturias Awards 2015 ceremony

Technology report: Tech news in brief

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The Signpost: 11 November 2015[edit]

Op-ed: As one thousand of us requested, Superprotect has been removed

Arbitration report: Elections, redirections, and a resignation from the Committee

Discussion report: Compromise of two administrator accounts prompts security review

Featured content: Texas, film, and cycling

In the media: Sanger on Wikipedia; Silver on Vox; lawyers on monkeys

Traffic report: Doodles of popularity

Gallery: Paris

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The Signpost: 18 November 2015[edit]

Special report: ArbCom election—candidates’ opinions analysed

In the media: Icelandic milestone; apolitical editing

Discussion report: BASC disbanded; other developments in the discussion world

Arbitration report: Ban Appeals Subcommittee goes up in smoke; 21 candidates running

Featured content: Fantasia on a Theme by Jimbo Wales

Traffic report: Darkness and light

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ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

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You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:39, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 25 November 2015[edit]

Op-ed: Wikidata: the new Rosetta Stone

News and notes: Fundraising update; FDC recommendations

In the media: Erasmus Prize awarded to Wikipedia; trouble on the Russian Wikipedia

Recent research: Do Wikipedia citations mirror scholarly impact?; co-star networks in silent films

Featured content: Caves and stuff

Traffic report: J'en ai ras le bol

Arbitration report: Third Palestine-Israel case closes; Voting begins

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Blog: Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland urge Reiss Engelhorn Museum to reconsider suit over public domain works of art

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The Signpost: 02 December 2015[edit]

Op-ed: Whither Wikidata?

News and notes: Online harassment consultation; High voter turnout at ArbCom elections

In the media: Is Wikidata as transparent as it seems?; Wikimedia Fund-raising drive launches

Traffic report: Jonesing for episodes

Featured content: This Week's Featured Content

Technology report: Tech news in brief

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The Signpost: 09 December 2015[edit]

News and notes: ArbCom election results announced

Op-ed: Wikidata: Knowledge from different points of view

In the media: Political editing in the context of the US presidential primaries

Gallery: Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 winners

Traffic report: So do you laugh, or does it cry?

Featured content: Sports, ships, arts... and some other things

Technology report: Tech news in brief

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The Signpost: 16 December 2015[edit]

In focus: Drone photography: New possibilities and new challenges

In the media: Wales in China; #Edit2015

Arbitration report: GMO case decided

Featured content: An unusually slow week

WikiProject report: Women in Red—using teamwork and partnerships to elevate online and offline collaborations

Traffic report: A feast of Spam

Gallery: WikiConference USA 2015: images, slide decks, and videos

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The Signpost: 30 December 2015[edit]

News and notes: WMF Board dismisses community-elected trustee

Arbitration report: Second Arbitration Enforcement case concludes as another case is suspended

Featured content: The post-Christmas edition

Traffic report: The Force we expected

Year in review: The top ten Wikipedia stories of 2015

In the media: Wikipedia plagued by a "Basket of Deception"

Gallery: It's that time of year again

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The Signpost: 06 January 2016[edit]

News and notes: The WMF's age of discontent

In the media: Impenetrable science; Jimmy Wales back in the UAE

Arbitration report: Catflap08 and Hijiri88 case been decided

Featured content: Featured menagerie

Recent research: Teaching Wikipedia, Does advertising the gender gap help or hurt Wikipedia?

WikiProject report: Try-ing to become informed - WikiProject Rugby League

Technology report: Tech news in brief

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The Signpost: 13 January 2016[edit]

In the media: War and peace; WMF board changes; Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedias

Community view: Battle for the soul of the WMF

Editorial: We need a culture of verification

In focus: The Crisis at New Montgomery Street

Op-ed: Transparency

Traffic report: Pattern recognition: Third annual Traffic Report

Special report: Wikipedia community celebrates Public Domain Day 2016

News and notes: Community objections to new Board trustee

Blog: Inside the game of sports vandalism on Wikipedia

Featured content: This Week's Featured Content

Arbitration report: Interview: outgoing and incumbent arbitrators 2016

Technology report: Tech news in brief

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The Signpost: 20 January 2016[edit]

News and notes: Vote of no confidence; WMF trustee speaks out

Op-ed: Not a pretty picture: Thoughts on the "monkey selfie" debacle

In the media: 15th anniversary news round-up

Traffic report: Danse Macabre

Featured content: This week's featured content

Blog: Fifteen years ago, Wikipedia was a very different place

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The Signpost: 27 January 2016[edit]

Op-ed: Lila Tretikov: the WMF needs your input in developing our strategy

News and notes: Geshuri steps down from the Board

In the media: Media coverage of the Arnnon Geshuri no-confidence vote

Recent research: Bursty edits; how politics beat religion but then lost to sports; notability as a glass ceiling

Traffic report: Death and taxes

Featured content: This week's featured content

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The Signpost: 03 February 2016[edit]

From the editors: Help wanted

Special report: Board chair and new trustee speak with the Signpost

In focus: The Knight Foundation grant: a timeline and an email to the board

Op-ed: So, what’s a knowledge engine anyway?

News and notes: Harassment survey 2015; Luis Villa to leave WMF; knowledge engine background

Arbitration report: Catching up on arbitration

Traffic report: Bowled

Featured content: This week's featured content

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The Signpost: 10 February 2016[edit]

Special report: New internal documents raise questions about the origins of the Knowledge Engine

In focus: An in-depth look at the special report's newly revealed documents

News and notes: Another WMF departure

In the media: Jeb Bush swings at Wikipedia and connects

Featured content: This week's featured content

Traffic report: A river of revilement

Blog: Wikimedia Foundation removes The Diary of Anne Frank due to copyright law requirements

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The Signpost: 17 February 2016[edit]

Special report: Search and destroy: the Knowledge Engine and the undoing of Lila Tretikov

Op-ed: Shit I cannot believe we had to fucking write this month

Featured content: This week's featured content

Traffic report: Super Bowling

Technology report: Tech news in brief

Blog: Antonin Scalia and the editor tracking his legacy

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The Signpost: 24 February 2016[edit]

Special report: WMF in limbo as decision on Tretikov nears

Op-ed: Backward the Foundation

Traffic report: Of Dead Pools and Dead Judges

Blog: Wiki Loves Africa brings the continent’s fashion to the world

Arbitration report: Arbitration motion regarding CheckUser & Oversight inactivity

Featured content: This week's featured content

Technology report: Tech news in brief

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The Signpost: 02 March 2016[edit]

News and notes: Tretikov resigns, WMF in transition

Featured content: This week's featured content

Traffic report: Brawling

Recent research: Wikipedia and paid labour; Swedish gender gap; how verifiable is "verifiable"?

Blog: Wikimedia Foundation details requests to alter or remove content in new transparency report

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The Signpost: 09 March 2016[edit]

News and notes: Katherine Maher named interim head of WMF; Wales email re-sparks Heilman controversy; draft WMF strategy posted

In the media: Wikipedian is break-out star of International Women's Day; dinosaur art; Wikipedia's new iOS app and its fight for market share

Op-ed: A modest proposal for Wikimedia’s future

Featured content: Five articles, four lists, a topic, and five images were promoted this week.

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Op-ed: Hard work needed to address Wikimedia’s leadership challenges

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The Signpost: 15 June 2016[edit]

News and notes: Clarifications on status and compensation of outgoing executive directors Sue Gardner and Lila Tretikov

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Editorial: Wikipedia policy suppresses sharing of information

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In the media: The ugly, the bad, the playful, and the promising

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The Signpost: 06 September 2016[edit]

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The Signpost: 29 September 2016[edit]

News and notes: Wikipedia Education Program case study published; and a longtime Wikimedian has made his final edit

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News and notes: Fundraising, flora and fauna

Discussion report: Cultivating leadership: Wikimedia Foundation seeks input

In the media: A news columnist on the frustrations of tweaking his Wikipedia bio

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Featured content: Variety is the spice of life

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The Signpost: 4 November 2016[edit]

News and notes: Finally, a new CTO; trustee joins Quora; copyright upgrade impending

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Technology report: New guideline for technical collaboration; citation templates now flag open access content

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The Signpost: 4 November 2016[edit]

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Year in review: Looking back on 2016

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Op-ed: Operation successful, patient dead: Outreach workshops in Namibia

In the media: In brief: Coverage of gender gap initiatives, banner fundraising, and more

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The Signpost: 17 January 2017[edit]

From the editor: Next steps for the Signpost

News and notes: Surge in RFA promotions—a sign of lasting change?

Interview: What is it like to edit Wikipedia when you're blind?

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

Featured content: One year ends, and another begins

Arbitration report: Concluding 2016 and covering 2017's first two cases

Traffic report: Out with the old, in with the new

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Recent research: Female Wikipedians aren't more likely to edit women biographies; Black Lives Matter in Wikipedia

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The Signpost: 6 February 2017[edit]

Arbitration report: WMF Legal and ArbCom weigh in on tension between disclosure requirements and user privacy

Special report: Wolves nip at Wikipedia's heels: A perspective on the cost of paid editing

News and notes: Official WMF rebuke to Trump policy; WMF secures restricted funds

In focus: WMF strategy consultant brings background in crisis reputation management; Team behind popular WMF software put "on pause"

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Special report: Peer review – a history and call for reviewers

Op-ed: Wikipedia has cancer

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The Signpost: 9 June 2017[edit]

From the editors: Signpost status: On reserve power, help wanted!

News and notes: Global Elections

Arbitration report: Cases closed in the Pacific and with Magioladitis

Op-ed: Wikipedia's lead sentence problem

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In the media: Did Wikipedia just assume Garfield's gender?

Recent research: Wikipedia bot wars capture the imagination of the popular press

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The Signpost: 23 June 2017[edit]

News and notes: Departments reorganized at Wikimedia Foundation, and a month without new RfAs (so far)

In the media: Kalanick's nipples; Episode #138 of Drama on the Hill

Op-ed: Facto Post: a fresh take

Featured content: Will there ever be a break? The slew of featured content continues

Traffic report: Wonder Woman beats Batman, The Mummy, Darth Vader and the Earth

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The Signpost: 15 July 2017[edit]

News and notes: French chapter woes, new affiliates and more WMF team changes

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In the media: Concern about access and fairness, Foundation expenditures, and relationship to real-world politics and commerce

Recent research: The chilling effect of surveillance on Wikipedia readers

Op-ed: Why Task Forces are Dying in 2017

Gallery: A mix of patterns

Humour: The Infobox Game

Traffic report: Film, television and Internet phenomena reign with some room left over for America's birthday

Technology report: New features in development; more breaking changes for scripts

Wikicup: 2017 WikiCup round 3 wrap-up

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The Signpost: 5 August 2017[edit]

News and notes: Non-English special edition! 99% no news about English-based wiki communities!

Recent research: Wikipedia can increase local tourism by +9%; predicting article quality with deep learning; recent behavior predicts quality

WikiProject report: Comic relief

In the media: Wikipedia used to judge death penalty, arms smuggling, Indonesian governance, and HOTTEST celebrity

Traffic report: Swedish countess tops the list

Blog: Canadian Supreme Court rules against Google in favor of worldwide court orders

Special report: Sharing Wikipedia offline medical information in the Dominican Republic

Featured content: Everywhere in the lead

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The Signpost: 6 September 2017[edit]

From the editors: What happened at Wikimania?

News and notes: Basselpedia; WMF Board of Trustees appointments

Featured content: Warfighters and their tools or trees and butterflies

Traffic report: A fortnight of conflicts

Special report: Biomedical content, and some thoughts on its future

Recent research: Discussion summarization; Twitter bots tracking government edits; extracting trivia from Wikipedia

In the media: Google's Ideological Echo Chamber; What makes someone successful?

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The Signpost: 25 September 2017[edit]

News and notes: Chapter updates; ACTRIAL

In the media: Monkey settlement; Wikipedia used to give AI context clues

Humour: Chickenz

Recent research: Wikipedia articles vs. concepts; Wikipedia usage in Europe

Technology report: Flow restarted; Wikidata connection notifications

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Special report: Two steps forward, one step backward: The Sustainability Initiative

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The Signpost: 23 October 2017[edit]

News and notes: Money! WMF fundraising, Wikimedia strategy, WMF new office!

Featured content: Don, Marcel, Emily, Jessica and other notables

Humour: Guys named Ralph

In focus: Offline Wikipedia developed at OFF.NETWORK Content Hackathon

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In the media: Facebook and poetry

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News and notes: Cons, cons, cons

Arbitration report: Administrator desysoped; How to deal with crosswiki issues; Mister Wiki case likely

Technology report: Searching and surveying

Interview: A featured article centurion

WikiProject report: Recommendations for WikiProjects

In the media: Open knowledge platform as a media institution

Traffic report: Strange and inappropriate

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Recent research: Who wrote this? New dataset on the provenance of Wikipedia text

Humour: Good faith (but still incomprehensible)

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The Signpost: 18 December 2017[edit]

Special report: Women in Red World Contest wrap-up

Blog: Close encounters of the Wikipedia kind

Featured content: Featured content to finish 2017

In the media: Stolen seagulls, public domain primates and more

Arbitration report: Last case of 2017: Mister Wiki editors

Gallery: Wiki loving

Interview: Interview with Charlesjsharp, regular contributor of Wikipedia's Featured Pictures

Recent research: French medical articles have "high rate of veracity"

Technology report: Your wish lists and more Wikimedia tech

Traffic report: Notable heroes and bad guys

Humour: On their way to the WMF Incubator

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The Signpost: 16 January 2018[edit]

News and notes: Communication is key

In the media: The Paris Review, British Crown and British Media

Featured content: History, gaming and multifarious topics

Interview: Interview with Ser Amantio di Nicolao, the top contributor to English Wikipedia by edit count

Technology report: Dedicated Wikidata database servers

Humour: Why don't we have an article about _________?

Arbitration report: Mister Wiki is first arbitration committee decision of 2018

Traffic report: The best and worst of 2017

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The Signpost: 5 February 2018[edit]

Op-ed: Do editors have the right to be forgotten?

Featured content: Wars, sieges, disasters and everything black possible

Recent research: Automated Q&A from Wikipedia articles; Who succeeds in talk page discussions?

Blog: New monthly dataset shows where people fall into Wikipedia rabbit holes

Interview: Interview with The Rambling Man, Wikipedia's top contributor of Featured Lists

Traffic report: TV, death, sports, and doodles

Special report: Cochrane–Wikipedia Initiative

Arbitration report: New cases requested for inter-editor hostility and other collaboration issues

In the media: Solving crime; editing out violence allegations

Humour: You really are in Wonderland

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The Signpost: 20 February 2018[edit]

News and notes: The future is Swedish with a lack of administrators

Recent research: Politically diverse editors write better articles; Reddit and Stack Overflow benefit from Wikipedia but don't give back

Arbitration report: Arbitration committee prepares to examine two new cases

Traffic report: Addicted to sports and pain

Featured content: Entertainment, sports and history

Technology report: Paragraph-based edit conflict screen; broken thanks

Humour: Impossible and unexplained traffic report

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Signpost issue 4 – 29 March 2018[edit]

Op-ed: Death knell for The Signpost?

News and notes: Wiki Conference roundup and new appointments.

Arbitration report: Ironing out issues in infoboxes; not sure yet about New Jersey; and an administrator who probably wasn't uncivil to a sockpuppet.

In the media: The media on Wikipedia's workings: the good and not-so-good

Traffic report: Real sports, real women and an imaginary country: what's on top for Wikipedia readers

Featured content: Animals, Ships, and Songs

Technology report: Timeless skin review by Force Radical.

Special report: ACTRIAL wrap-up.

Humour: WikiWorld Reruns

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The Signpost: 26 April 2018[edit]

From the editors: The Signpost's presses roll again

Signpost: Future directions for The Signpost

News and notes: Photo of Kim Jong-un. Stephen Hawking death tops hits on many Wikipedias.

In the media: The rise of Wikipedia as a disinformation mop

In focus: Admin reports board under criticism

Special report: ACTRIAL results adopted by landslide

Opinion: Guideline for Organization Notability revised

Op-ed: World War II Myth-making and Wikipedia

Community view: It's time we look past Women in Red to counter systemic bias

Discussion report: The future of portals

Arbitration report: No new cases, and one motion on administrative misconduct

WikiProject report: WikiProject Military History

Blog: Why the world reads Wikipedia

Humour: Our Favorite Places to Whine About Stuff

Traffic report: A quiet place to wrestle with the articles of March

Technology report: Coming soon: Books-to-PDF, interactive maps, rollback confirmation

Featured content: Featured content selected by the community

Gallery: A look at some famous and not as well-known border tripoints

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The Signpost: 24 May 2018[edit]

From the editor: Another issue meets the deadline

Op-ed: Has the wind gone out of the AdminShip's sails?

Opinion: Integrating my many lives on Wikipedia

WikiProject report: WikiProject Portals

Discussion report: User rights, infoboxes, and more discussion on portals

Featured content: Featured content selected by the community

Arbitration report: Managing difficult topics

News and notes: Lots of Wikimedia

In the media: Wikipedia in Turkish politics; COI politics in Wikipedia; most cited work

Traffic report: We love our superheroes

Technology report: A trove of contributor and developer goodies

Blog: Why I write about women on Wikipedia

Recent research: Why people don't contribute to Wikipedia; using Wikipedia to teach statistics, technical writing, and controversial issues

Humour: Play with your food

Gallery: Wine not?

From the archives: The Signpost scoops The Signpost

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The Signpost: 24 May 2018[edit]

From the editor: Another issue meets the deadline

Op-ed: Has the wind gone out of the AdminShip's sails?

Opinion: Integrating my many lives on Wikipedia

WikiProject report: WikiProject Portals

Discussion report: User rights, infoboxes, and more discussion on portals

Featured content: Featured content selected by the community

Arbitration report: Managing difficult topics

News and notes: Lots of Wikimedia

In the media: Wikipedia in Turkish politics; COI politics in Wikipedia; most cited work

Traffic report: We love our superheroes

Technology report: A trove of contributor and developer goodies

Blog: Why I write about women on Wikipedia

Recent research: Why people don't contribute to Wikipedia; using Wikipedia to teach statistics, technical writing, and controversial issues

Humour: Play with your food

Gallery: Wine not?

From the archives: The Signpost scoops The Signpost

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The Signpost: 29 June 2018[edit]

From the editor: The Admin Ship is still barely afloat, while a Foundation project risks sinking

Special report: NPR and AfC – The Marshall Plan: an engagement and a marriage?

Op-ed: What do admins do?

Opinion: Google isn't responsible for Wikipedia's mistakes

News and notes: Money, milestones, and Wikimania

In the media: Much wikilove from the Mayor of London, less from Paekākāriki or a certain candidate for U.S. Congress

Discussion report: Deletion, page moves, and an update to the main page

Featured content: New promotions

Arbitration report: WWII, UK politics, and a user deCrat'ed

Traffic report: Endgame

Technology report: Improvements piled on more improvements

Gallery: Wiki Loves Africa

Blog: Wikipedia should be open for editors in Turkey

Recent research: How censorship can backfire and conversations can go awry

Humour: Television plot lines

Wikipedia essays: This month's pick by The Signpost editors

From the archives: Wolves nip at Wikipedia's heels: A perspective on the cost of paid editing

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The Signpost: 31 July 2018[edit]

From the editor: If only if

Op-ed: The last leg of the Admin Ship's current cruise

Opinion: Wrestling with Wikipedia reality

News and notes: Another newspaper for Wikipedia; Wikimania 2018 ends; changes at NPR

In the media: Blackouts in Europe; Wikipedia and capitalists; WMF Jet Set

Discussion report: Wikipedias take action against EU copyright proposal, plus new user right proposals

Featured content: Wikipedia's best content in images and prose

Arbitration report: Status quo processes retained in two disputes

Traffic report: Soccer, football, call it what you like – that and summer movies leave room for little else

Technology report: New bots, new prefs

Gallery: Independence days, national holidays, and football – all in July

Blog: Motivation of two editors

Recent research: Different Wikipedias use different images; editing contests more successful than edit-a-thons

Humour: It's all the same

Essay: Wikipedia does not need you

From the archives: The pending changes fiasco: how an attempt to answer one question turned into a quagmire

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The Signpost: 30 August 2018[edit]

From the editor: Today's young adults don't know a world without Wikipedia

Interview: 2018 Wikimedian of the Year, Farkhad Fatkullin

News and notes: Flying high; low practice from Wikipedia 'cleansing' agency; where do our donations go? RfA sees a new trend

In the media: Quicksilver AI writes articles

Discussion report: Drafting an interface administrator policy

Featured content: Featured content selected by the community

Special report: Wikimania 2018

Traffic report: Aretha dies – getting just 2,000 short of 5 million hits

Technology report: Technical enhancements and a request to prioritize upcoming work

Gallery: Leapfrog, historic Thai cave, and a rhythmic beat

Recent research: Wehrmacht on Wikipedia, neural networks writing biographies

Humour: Signpost editor censors herself

Essay: Principle of Some Astonishment

From the archives: Playing with Wikipedia words

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The Signpost: 1 October 2018[edit]

From the editor: Is this the new normal?

News and notes: European copyright law moves forward

In the media: Knowledge under fire

Discussion report: Interface Admin policy proposal, part 2

Arbitration report: A quiet month for Arbcom

Traffic report: John McCain's death generates over 7 million hits, followed by historical low

Technology report: Paying attention to your mobile

Gallery: A pat on the back

Blog: After a catastrophic fire at the National Museum of Brazil, a drive to preserve what knowledge remains

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

Humour: Signpost Crossword Puzzle

Essay: Expressing thanks

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The Signpost: 28 October 2018[edit]

From the editors: The Signpost is still afloat, just barely

Op-ed: Wikipedia's Strickland affair

News and notes: WMF gets a million bucks

In the media: Bans, celebs, and bias

Discussion report: Mediation Committee and proposed deletion reform

Traffic report: Unsurprisingly, sport leads the field – or the ring

Technology report: Bots galore!

Special report: NPP needs you

Special report 2: Now Wikidata is six

In focus: Alexa

Gallery: Out of this world!

Recent research: Wikimedia Commons worth $28.9 billion

Humour: Talk page humour

Opinion: Strickland incident

From the archives: The Gardner Interview

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The Signpost: 1 December 2018[edit]

From the editor: Time for a truce

Op-ed: Looking back, looking forward: A beginner's experience on Wikipedia

Special report: The Christmas wishlist

Opinion: The blogosphere migrates to Galaxy WMF

News and notes: Reviewer of the year, WikiCup winner, and the 2019 Wikimedia Summit

Reflections: Wikipedia, history, and the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day

In the media: Court-ordered article redaction, paid editing, and rock stars

Discussion report: Farewell, Mediation Committee

Arbitration report: A long break ends

Traffic report: Queen reigns for four weeks straight

Gallery: Intersections

Recent research: Why do the most active Wikipedians burn out?; only 4% of students vandalize

Essay: No one cares about your garage band

Humour: The dark side of our favorite root vegetable

From the archives: Ars longa, vita brevis

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The Signpost: 24 December 2018[edit]

From the editors: Where to draw the line in reporting?

Op-ed: Wikipedia not trumped by Trump appointee

Special report: The Signpost got 380,000+ views in 2018, sounds reasonable enough, right?

News and notes: Some wishes do come true

In the media: Political hijinks

Discussion report: A new record low for RfA

WikiProject report: Articlegenesis

Arbitration report: Year ends with one active case

Traffic report: Queen dethroned by U.S. presidents

Gallery: Sun and Moon, water and stone

Blog: News from the WMF

Humour: I believe in Bigfoot

Essay: Requests for medication

From the archives: Compromised admin accounts – again

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The Signpost: 31 January 2019[edit]

Op-Ed: Random Rewards Rejected

In focus: The Collective Consciousness of Admin Userpages

News and notes: WMF staff turntable continues to spin; Endowment gets more cash; RfA continues to be a pit of steely knives

In the media: The Signpost's investigative story recognized, Wikipedia turns 18 and gets a birthday gift from Google, and more editors are recognized

Discussion report: The future of the reference desk

Featured content: Don't miss your great opportunity

Arbitration report: An admin under the microscope

Traffic report: Death, royals and superheroes: Avengers, Black Panther

Technology report: When broken is easily fixed

Gallery: Let us build a memorial fit for such pain and suffering

News from the WMF: News from WMF

Recent research: Ad revenue from reused Wikipedia articles; are Wikipedia researchers asking the right questions?

Essay: How

Humour: Village pump

From the archives: An editorial board that includes you

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The Signpost: 28 February 2019[edit]

From the editors: Help wanted (still)

News and notes: Front-page issues for the community

In focus: Wikimedia affiliate organizations seek community participation in 2019 board election

Discussion report: Talking about talk pages

Featured content: Conquest, War, Famine, Death, and more!

Arbitration report: A quiet month for Arbitration Committee

Traffic report: Binge-watching

Technology report: Tool labs casters-up

Gallery: Signed with pride

Recent research: Research finds signs of cultural diversity and recreational habits of readers

Essay: Optimist's guide to Wikipedia

From the archives: New group aims to promote Wiki-Love

Humour: Pesky Pronouns

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The Signpost: 31 March 2019[edit]

From the editors: Getting serious about humor

News and notes: Blackouts fail to stop EU Copyright Directive

In the media: Women's history month

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

Featured content: Out of this world

Arbitration report: The Tides of March at ARBCOM

Traffic report: Exultations and tribulations

Technology report: New section suggestions and sitewide styles

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

Recent research: Barnstar-like awards increase new editor retention

From the archives: Esperanza organization disbanded after deletion discussion

Humour: The Epistolary of Arthur 37

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

In focus: The Wikipedia SourceWatch

Special report: Wiki Loves (50 Years of) Pride

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

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The Signpost: 30 April 2019[edit]

News and notes: An Action Packed April

In the media: Is Wikipedia just another social media site?

Discussion report: English Wikipedia community's conclusions on talk pages

Featured content: Anguish, accolades, animals, and art

Arbitration report: An Active Arbitration Committee

Traffic report: Mötley Crüe, Notre-Dame, a black hole, and Bonnie and Clyde

Technology report: A new special page, and other news

Gallery: Notre-Dame de Paris burns

News from the WMF: Can machine learning uncover Wikipedia’s missing “citation needed” tags?

Recent research: Female scholars underrepresented; whitepaper on Wikidata and libraries; undo patterns reveal editor hierarchy

From the archives: Portals revisited

Humour: Jimbo and Larry walk into a bar ...

Opinion: The gaps in our knowledge of our gaps

Interview: Katherine Maher marks 3 years as executive director

Community view: 2019 Wikimedia Summit gathers movement affiliate representatives to discuss movement strategy

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The Signpost: 31 May 2019[edit]

From the editors: Picture that

News and notes: Wikimania and trustee elections

In the media: Politics, lawsuits and baseball

Discussion report: Admin abuse leads to mass-desysop proposal on Azerbaijani Wikipedia

Arbitration report: ArbCom forges ahead

Traffic report: Dark marvels, thrones, a vile serial killer biopic, that's entertainment!

Technology report: Lots of Bots

News from the WMF: Wikimedia Foundation petitions the European Court of Human Rights to lift the block of Wikipedia in Turkey

Recent research: Wikipedia more useful than academic journals, but is it stealing the news?

Essay: Paid editing

From the archives: FORUM:Should Wikimedia modify its terms of use to require disclosure?

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The June 2019 Signpost is out![edit]

Discussion report: A constitutional crisis hits English Wikipedia

News and notes: Mysterious ban, admin resignations, Wikimedia Thailand rising

In the media: The disinformation age

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

Traffic report: Juneteenth, Beauty Revealed, and more nuclear disasters

Technology report: Actors and Bots

Gallery: Unlike the North Face, Wiki Loves Earth

Special report: Did Fram harass other editors?

Recent research: What do editors do after being blocked?; the top mathematicians, universities and cancers according to Wikipedia

From the archives: Women and Wikipedia: the world is watching

Opinion: Why the Terms of Use change didn't curtail undisclosed paid editing—and what might

In focus: WikiJournals: A sister project proposal

Community view: A CEO biography, paid for with taxes

Op-Ed: 2019 Wikimedia Affiliate Selected Board Seats Election Results

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The Signpost: 31 July 2019[edit]

News and notes: Wikimedia grants less accessible for travel, equipment, meetups, and India

In the media: Politics starts getting rough

Discussion report: New proposals in aftermath of Fram ban

Arbitration report: A month of reintegration

Gallery: Classic panoramas from Heinrich Berann

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

Community view: Video based summaries of Wikipedia articles. How and why?

News from the WMF: Designing ethically with AI: How Wikimedia can harness machine learning in a responsible and human-centered way

Recent research: Most influential medical journals; detecting pages to protect

Special report: Administrator cadre continues to contract

Traffic report: World cups, presidential candidates, and stranger things

In focus: The French Wikipedia is overtaking the German

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The Signpost: 30 August 2019[edit]

News and notes: Documenting Wikimania and our beginnings

In focus: Ryan Merkley joins WMF as Chief of Staff

In the media: Many layers of fake news: Fake fiction and fake news vandalism

Discussion report: Meta proposals on partial bans and IP users

Traffic report: Once upon a time in Greenland with Boris and cornflakes

Op-Ed: We couldn't have told you this, but Wikipedia was censored

Opinion: The Curious Case of Croatian Wikipedia

Community view: Chinese Wikipedia and the battle against extradition from Hong Kong

News from the WMF: Meet Emna Mizouni, the newly minted 2019 Wikimedian of the Year

Recent research: Special issue on gender gap and gender bias research

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

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The Signpost: 30 September 2019[edit]

From the editors: Where do we go from here?

Special report: Post-Framgate wrapup

In the media: A net loss: Wikipedia attacked, closing off Russia? welcoming back Turkey?

Traffic report: Varied and intriguing entries, less Luck, and some retreads

News from the WMF: How the Wikimedia Foundation is making efforts to go green

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

Gallery: Finding freely licensed photo collections

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

In focus: Wikidata & Wikibase for national libraries: the inaugural meeting

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The Signpost: 31 October 2019[edit]

In the media: How to use or abuse Wikipedia for fun or profit

Special report: “Catch and Kill” on Wikipedia: Paid editing and the suppression of material on alleged sexual abuse

In focus: The BBC looks at Chinese government editing

Interview: Carl Miller on Wikipedia Wars

Community view: Observations from the mainland

Arbitration report: October actions

Traffic report: Wrestling with a couple of teenagers, a Nobelist, and a lot of jokers

Gallery: Wiki Loves Broadcast

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

Essay: Wikipedia is in the real world

News from the WMF: Welcome to Wikipedia! Here's what we're doing to help you stick around

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

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The Signpost: 29 November 2019[edit]

From the editor: Put on your birthday best

News and notes: How soon for the next million articles?

In the media: You say you want a revolution

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

Arbitration report: Two requests for arbitration cases

Traffic report: The queen and the princess meet the king and the joker

Technology report: Reference things, sister things, stranger things

Gallery: Winter and holidays

Recent research: Bot census; discussions differ on Spanish and English Wikipedia; how nature's seasons affect pageviews

Essay: Adminitis

From the archives: WikiProject Spam, revisited

In focus: An update on the Wikimedia Movement 2030 Strategy

Special report: How many people edit in your favorite language? Where are they from?

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The Signpost: 27 December 2019[edit]

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

News and notes: What's up (and down) with administrators, articles and languages

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?

Discussion report: December discussions around the wiki

Arbitration report: Announcement of 2020 Arbitration Committee

Traffic report: Queens and aliens, exactly alike, once upon a December

Technology report: User scripts and more

Gallery: Holiday wishes

Recent research: Acoustics and Wikipedia; Wiki Workshop 2019 summary

From the archives: The 2002 Spanish fork and ads revisited (re-revisited?)

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

Op-Ed: Why we need to keep talking about Wikipedia's gender gap

WikiProject report: Wikiproject Tree of Life: A Wikiproject report

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The Signpost: 27 January 2020[edit]

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

News and notes: Six million articles on the English language Wikipedia

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

Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2019

Gallery: Wiki Loves Monuments 2019, we're all winners

News from the WMF: Capacity Building: Top 5 Themes from Community Conversations

Community view: Our most important new article since November 1, 2015

In focus: Cryptos and bitcoins and blockchains, oh no!

Recent research: How useful is Wikipedia for novice programmers trying to learn computing concepts?

From the archives: A decade of The Signpost, 2005-2015

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

WikiProject report: WikiProject Japan: a wikiProject Report

Humour: Predicting the 6,000,000th article

Obituary: Remembering Wikipedia contributor Brian Boulton

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The Signpost: 1 March 2020[edit]

From the editor: The ball is in your court

News and notes: Alexa ranking down to 13th worldwide

Special report: More participation, more conversation, more pageviews

In the media: Mapping IP editors, Smithsonian open-access, and coronavirus disinformation

Discussion report: Do you prefer M or P?

Arbitration report: Two prominent administrators removed

By the numbers: How many actions by administrators does it take to clean up spam?

Community view: The Incredible Invisible Woman

In focus: History of The Signpost, 2015–2019

Recent research: Wikipedia generates $50 billion/year consumer surplus in the US alone

From the archives: Is Wikipedia for sale?

Traffic report: February articles, floating in the dark

Gallery: Feel the love

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

Op-Ed: What I learned as Wikimedia UK Communications Coordinator

Opinion: Wikipedia is another country

Humour: The Wilhelm scream

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The Signpost: 29 March 2020[edit]

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

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

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The Signpost: 26 April 2020[edit]

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

Gallery: Roy is doing fine and sending more photos

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

In focus: Multilingual Wikipedia

WikiProject report: The Guild of Copy Editors

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Invite to Join WikiProject for Spoken Wikipedia[edit]

Hi GavinTing! I am Galendalia and I have revived the WikiProject for Spoken Wikipedia. I noticed that you signed up at some point to be a participant and as I am reviving this project, one of my tasks is to get the participant list in order. Would you please go to the Participants List and add your name and language(s) you speak? If you are already there and do not want to be, please remove yourself. If you want to remain, please put remain next to your name. If I do not see anything, I will move you to the inactive participant list. I am putting a timeline of 7 days on this action to help keep things moving along. It would also be great if you would be willing to join the task force for Pronunciation that would be awesome, as there are troublesome words we run into.

Thank you for considering joining us. If you decide to leave, I will be sad to see you leave as so many people have done a great job on the recordings and any work you have done makes a significant difference.

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The Signpost: 31 May 2020[edit]

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[edit]

News and notes: Progress at Wikipedia Library and Wikijournal of Medicine

Community view: Community open letter on renaming

Gallery: After the killing of George Floyd

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

News from the WMF: We stand for racial justice

Recent research: Wikipedia and COVID-19; automated Wikipedia-based fact-checking

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

WikiProject report: WikiProject Black Lives Matter

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The Signpost: 2 August 2020[edit]

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

Gallery: Photos of threatened species from iNaturalist

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

In focus: WikiLoop DoubleCheck, reviewing edits made easy

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The Signpost: 30 August 2020[edit]

News and notes: The high road and the low road

In the media: Storytelling large and small

Featured content: Going for the goal

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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Please help with usability testing[edit]

Hello! The mw:Anti-Harassment Tools team is running a usability test to find out how and where IP addresses are used when patrolling wikis, particularly when patrolling RecentChanges. This could include New Pages or RecentChanges patrol. We want to see your patrolling process and get your views on some prototypes. Getting your perspective would be really helpful to us at this stage of the process. If you’d like to help, and have 30 minutes to spare, please fill out this Google form with your details: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfjYyRNGMkO4_TdNOgG4qmK9cp9YOKzM4GFO5pTd_bEcu23YQ/viewform

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The Signpost: 27 September 2020[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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

In the media: Murder, politics, religion, health and books

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

Recent research: OpenSym 2020: Deletions and gender, masses vs. elites, edit filters

In focus: The many (reported) deaths of Wikipedia

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