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The Signpost: 17 July 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Big bux hidden beneath wine-dark sea as we wait for the Tides to go out?

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Humour: New fringe theories to be introduced

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

• Featured content: Scrollin', scrollin', scrollin', keep those readers scrollin', got to keep on scrollin', Rawhide!

• Traffic report: The Idol becomes the Master

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The Signpost: 1 August 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians, Ruwiki founder banned, WMF launches Mastodon server

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

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

• Obituary: Donald Cram, Peter McCawley, and Eagleash

• Tips and tricks: Citation tools for dummies!

• Humour: Does Wikipedia present neutral perspectives?

• In focus: Journals cited by Wikipedia

• Opinion: Are global bans the last step?

• Featured content: Featured Content, 1 to 15 July

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

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This Month in GLAM: July 2023

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIII, Issue VII, July 2023 Headlines Albania report: Wiki Photowalk Albania and Kosovo, 2023 Argentina report: First batch of a big upload Australia report: Where's The Source? Adding Citations to Wikipedia Brazil report: Two new GLAM-wiki partnerships and Three large uploads France report: New milestone reached: already 500 portraits of geographers uploaded on Commons India report: Open Knowledge Fellowship by Heritage Lab and Wikibase set foot in India Netherlands report: Videos and filmmakers of Africa, Open Churches Photochallenge and Wiki goes Caribbean meet-up in Dutch National Archive Poland report: EU GLAM Coordinators; WikiMatejko; Polona; internship program Serbia report: Wikipedian in residence raises the standards UK report: Roads, Kingdoms and Assassins USA report: WikiWednesday Salon; New York Botanical Garden; Meetup San Diego Wiki Loves Living Heritage report: Join Wiki Loves Living Heritage at Wikimania! WMF GLAM report: WiLMa updates Calendar: August's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 15 August 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Dude, Where's My Donations? Wikimedia Foundation announces another million in grants for non-Wikimedia-related projects

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

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

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

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

• Cobwebs: Getting serious about writing

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

• Serendipity: Why I stopped taking photographs almost altogether

• Featured content: Barbenheimer confirmed

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

• Traffic report: Come on in, and pull yourself up a chair

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The Signpost: 31 August 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

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

• News and notes: You like RecentChanges?

• In the media: Taking it sleazy

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

• Draftspace: Bad Jokes and Other Draftspace Novelties

• Humour: The Dehumourification Plan

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

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This Month in GLAM: August 2023

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIII, Issue VIII, August 2023 Headlines Albania report: Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos in Albania and Kosovo Argentina report: Highlights on Wikimania 2023 Armenia report: Wikimedia Armenia GLAM projects in August Belgium report: Activities in Belgium September-December 2023 Brazil report: 4 new GLAM-Wiki partnerships and uploads from several institutions Canada report: Wiki-Wednesdays: Digital Literacy for GLAM workers Italy report: Summer does not stop the wiki collaborations Kosovo report: The Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos in Albania and Kosovo; Wiki Loves Earth in Albania and Kosovo New Zealand report: Public sculpture photo trail: documenting Auckland sculptures in Wikidata; Aotearoa's Wikimedia Laureate Poland report: Presentation for school librarians at Wikiteka, Ongoing projects Serbia report: A month in the shine of Wikidata and new cooperation Sweden report: Showcasing collaboration with the Nordic Museum at Wikimania 2023; Working with Swedish folk high schools Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Programm UK report: Islamic art exhibitions and heritage innovation USA report: Great North American Wiknic AvoinGLAM report: Wikidocumentaries to import images from the web to Structured Data on Commons – a Google Summer of Code project Content Partnerships Hub report: Hub updates at Wikimania 2023; Supporting Wiki Loves Monuments teams Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: Open call: OpenRefine-Wikimedia train-the-trainer course, November 2023-April 2024 Wiki Loves Living Heritage report: Looking back, looking ahead WREN at Wikimania report: Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network at Wikimania Singapore Calendar: September's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 16 September 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

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

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

• Obituary: Nosebagbear

• Serendipity: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no paywall, for thou, Wikipedia Library, art with me

• Featured content: Catching up

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

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

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The Signpost: 3 October 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Wikimedia Endowment financial statement published

• In the media: History is written by whoever can harness the most editors

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

• Featured content: By your logic,

• Concept: Wikipedia policies from other worlds: WP:NOANTLERS

• Poetry: "The Sight"

• Traffic report: There shall be no slaves in the land of lands, it's a Bollywood jam

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This Month in GLAM: September 2023

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIII, Issue IX, September 2023 Headlines Argentina report: Disseminating open culture Brazil report: Amazonia on Wiki Colombia report: Wikidata and the editing of Ibero-American scientific journals France report: Celebrating Rugby Herstory and History in Toulouse; Les Lorraines sans pages India report: Wikimedia Commons Contest connects Pune citizens with the rivers Mula & Mutha Italy report: 10,000 institutions on the Wikimedia projects New Zealand report: West Coast Wikipedian at Large Poland report: GLAM-Wiki educational activities Portugal report: With multiple events, September was a busy month for Wikimedia Portugal Sweden report: Wikipedia in education; Continuation at Swedish folk high schools; Wikipedians at the Bookfair UK report: A new WIR and a very old book USA report: Wikimedia New York City Election 2023; San Diego/September 2023; Climate Change and Food Safety Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: OpenRefine and Wikimedia Commons: train the trainer course participants and two surveys Wiki Loves Living Heritage report: European photo contest finalists, Local Contexts Wikiproject at GLAMhack WMF GLAM report: Wikisource Loves Manuscripts, ICOM outreach, Flickr Foundation partnership, OpenRefine adoption, new sources in The Wikipedia Library, Image Description Month events, and the GLAM Wiki Conference Calendar: October's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 23 October 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Where have all the administrators gone?

• In the media: Thirst traps, the fastest loading sites on the web, and the original collaborative writing

• Gallery: Before and After: Why you don't need to know how to restore images to make massive improvements

• Featured content: Yo, ho! Blow the man down!

• Traffic report: The calm and the storm

• News from Diff: Sawtpedia: Giving a Voice to Wikipedia Using QR Codes

• Humour: New citation template introduced for divine revelations, drug use, and really thinking about it

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The Signpost: 6 November 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• Arbitration report: Admin bewilderingly unmasks self as sockpuppet of other admin who was extremely banned in 2015

• In the media: UK gov bigwig accused of ripping off WP articles for book, Wikipedians accused of being dicks by a rich man

• News and notes: Board candidacy process posted, editors protest WMF privacy measure, sweet meetups

• Opinion: An open letter to Elon Musk

• WikiCup report: The WikiCup 2023

• News from Wiki Ed: Equity lists on Wikipedia

• Recent research: How English Wikipedia drove out fringe editors over two decades

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

• Wikidata: Evaluating qualitative systemic bias in large article sets on Wikipedia

• Traffic report: Cricket jumpscare

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This Month in GLAM: October 2023

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIII, Issue X, October 2023 Headlines Albania report: Celebrating Wikipedia's 20th Birthday in Albanian Language Argentina report: Content, resources and platforms for open access! Australia report: October Report Brazil report: Wiki Loves Monuments Brasil 2023 and Open Midiateca Colombia report: Open Access Week and Wikidata; Opening Culture and Heritage training Côte d'Ivoire report: Wikimedia Côte d'Ivoire and Apsid-ci collaboration for Glam Croatia report: Looong summer is over Czech Republic report: Great first results in State Regional Archives and Wikiresident Group coworking Ireland report: Wikimedia Community Ireland Host WikiWomen Partner Meeting at Dublin's historical Port Italy report: Results of funded projects within Call GLAM 2023 Netherlands report: Wiki Loves Fashion in the Netherlands New Zealand report: Biodiversity Information Standards Conference 2023 (TDWG2023) and the Entomological Collection Network Meeting (ECN2023) Poland report: WikiMatejko, Internships, Open Heritage, folk costumes Portugal report: Open Access Week celebrations and an edit-a-thon to increase the visibility of black lusophone communities Serbia report: Dynamic October in Serbia South Africa report: Edit-a-thon for Librarians at the annual Library and Information Association of South Africa 2023 Conference Sweden report: Wikipedia for all of Sweden; Museums and Wikidata – why and how?; Photo memories from Stockholm and Rome; Negotiating Knowledge on Wikipedia Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Programm UK report: Good omens for a rosy future USA report: Women in Environmental Justice; October WikiSalon AvoinGLAM report: AvoinGLAM joins the long-awaited GLAM Wiki 2023 Content Partnerships Hub report: Let's Connect Wiki Loves Living Heritage report: Learning and sharing Wikimedia and Libraries User Group report: The Wikimedia and Libraries AI Salons Calendar: November's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 20 November 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• In the media: Propaganda and photos, lunatics and a lunar backup

• News and notes: Update on Wikimedia's financial health

• Traffic report: If it bleeds, it leads

• Recent research: Canceling disputes as the real function of ArbCom

• Wikimania: Wikimania 2024 scholarships

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The Signpost: 4 December 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Beeblebrox ejected from Arbitration Committee following posts on Wikipediocracy

• In the media: Turmoil on Hebrew Wikipedia, grave dancing, Olga's impact and inspiring Bhutanese nuns

• Disinformation report: "Wikipedia and the assault on history"

• In focus: Tens of thousands of freely available sources flagged

• Comix: Bold comics for a new age

• Essay: I am going to die

• Featured content: Real gangsters move in silence

• Traffic report: And it's hard to watch some cricket, in the cold November Rain

• Humour: Mandy Rice-Davis Applies

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This Month in GLAM: November 2023

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIII, Issue XI, November 2023 Headlines Albania report: Three-months of Wikimedian in Residence at the Qemal Baholli Public Library in Albania Brazil report: New partners in Rio and GLAM WikiCon Canada report: WCNA 2023: an key event for North American users Colombia report: Wiki GLAM Conf and Bogotá Libraries Meeting France report: Edit-a-thon Le retour de la momie Italy report: Record edition of Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy Netherlands report: Share your Data course, history month, REBOOT! and Dutch Public Domain Day event New Zealand report: Summer students at Auckland Museum Poland report: GLAM-Wiki Conference, WikiMatejko Portugal report: Catalan culture and showcasing Wikimedia on both side of the Atlantic Serbia report: Wikipedians in Residence, GLAM Wiki Conference Sweden report: National Historical Museums of Sweden contributions; Photo memories from all over the world engage the community; Museum of medieval photo safari UK report: Fifty article milestone AvoinGLAM report: AvoinGLAM at GLAM Wiki 2023 Content Partnerships Hub report: 3,000 medical images on Wikimedia Commons through the Helpdesk Wiki Loves Living Heritage report: 2023 Living Heritage elements are added to Wiki Loves Living Heritage Calendar: December's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 24 December 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• Special report: Did the Chinese Communist Party send astroturfers to sabotage a hacktivist's Wikipedia article?

• News and notes: The Italian Public Domain wars continue, Wikimedia RU set to dissolve, and a recap of WLM 2023

• In the media: Consider the humble fork

• Discussion report: Arabic Wikipedia blackout; Wikimedians discuss SpongeBob, copyrights, and AI

• In focus: Liquidation of Wikimedia RU

• Technology report: Dark mode is coming

• Recent research: "LLMs Know More, Hallucinate Less" with Wikidata

• Gallery: A feast of holidays and carols

• Comix: Lollus lmaois 200C tincture

• Crossword: when the crossword is sus

• Traffic report: What's the big deal? I'm an animal!

• From the editor: A piccy iz worth OVAR 9000!!!11oneone! wordz ^_^

• Apocrypha: Local editor discovered 1,380 lost subheadings in ancient Signpost scrolls. And what he found was shocking.

• Humour: Guess the joke contest

• BJAODN: Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense

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The Signpost: 10 January 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• From the editor: NINETEEN MORE YEARS! NINETEEN MORE YEARS!

• Special report: Public Domain Day 2024

• Technology report: Wikipedia: A Multigenerational Pursuit

• News and notes: In other news ... see ya in court!

• In focus: The long road of a featured article candidate

• In the media: What is plagiarism? Oklahoma Disneyland? Reaching a human being at Wikipedia?

• WikiProject report: WikiProjects Israel and Palestine

• Obituary: Anthony Bradbury

• Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2023

• Crossword: everybody gangsta till the style sheets start cascading

• Comix: Conflict resolution

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This Month in GLAM: December 2023

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIII, Issue XII, December 2023 Headlines Albania report: Wiki Loves EuroPride in Albania 2023 Bosnia & Herzegovina report: A year in review ... Croatia report: 2023 in review Czech Republic report: Wiki-residents establishing meeting took place in December Germany report: Go-ahead for Wikidata Project of GLAM institutions from Baden-Württemberg Italy report: WLM Local winners and funds for 2024 GLAM projects New Zealand report: Auckland Museum summer updates Poland report: Intense end to a year of GLAM-Wiki activities in Poland Sweden report: Photo memories project concludes; Sörmlands museum passes 1000 uploads to Wikimedia Commons; Wikimedian in Residence supports an upload of music content; Subject terms from Queerlit; Wikidata for authority control: 3 years of work Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Program UK report: 2023 in Review USA report: WikiConference North America 2023; TSU and USF; Philadelphia WikiSalon; Wikimedia DC Annual Membership Meeting; Wikipedia Editing 101 for All; NYC Hacking Night; Upstate NY workshop; Wikiquote She Said Project Wiki Loves Living Heritage report: Thank you for making Wiki Loves Living Heritage happen! WMF GLAM report: Updates and invitation to test the Commons Impact Metrics prototype Calendar: January's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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