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

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

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

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

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

Featured content: Articles on Scots' clash, Yank's tux, Austrian's action flick deemed brilliant prose

Essay: RfA trend line haruspicy: fact or fancy?

Recent research: Wikipedia versus academia (again), tables' "immortality" probed

Serendipity: Was she really a Swiss lesbian automobile racer?

News from the WMF: Wikimedia Enterprise signs first deals

Traffic report: Top view counts for shows, movies, and celeb lawsuit that keeps on giving

Gallery: Celebration of summer, winter

Humour: Shortcuts, screwballers, Simon & Garfunkel

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From the editors: Rise of the machines, or something

News and notes: Information considered harmful

In the media: Censorship, medieval hoaxes, "pathetic supervillains", FB-WMF AI TL bid, dirty duchess deeds done dirt cheap

Op-Ed: The "recession" affair

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

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

Community view: Youth culture and notability

Opinion: Criminals among us

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

Deletion report: This is Gonzo Country

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

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

Featured content: A little list with surprisingly few lists

Tips and tricks: Cleaning up awful citations with Citation bot

In focus: Wikidata insights from a handy little tool

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

Essay: How to research an image

Recent research: A century of rulemaking on Wikipedia analyzed

Serendipity: Don't cite Wikipedia

Gallery: A backstage pass

From the archives: 2012 Russian Wikipedia shutdown as it happened

Humour: Why did the chicken cross the road?

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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

News and notes: Admins wanted on English Wikipedia, IP editors not wanted on Farsi Wiki, donations wanted everywhere

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

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

Discussion report: Boarding the Trustees

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

In focus: Thinking inside the box

Tips and tricks: The unexpected rabbit hole of typo fixing in citations

Technology report: Vector (2022) deployment discussions happening now

Serendipity: Two photos of every library on earth

Featured content: Our man drills are safe for work, but our Labia is Fausta.

Recent research: The dollar value of "official" external links

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

Essay: Delete the junk!

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

Humour: CommonsComix No. 1

From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 years ago

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

News and notes: Board vote results, bot's big GET, crat chat gives new mop, WMF seeks "sound logo" and "organizer lab"

In focus: NPP: Still heaven or hell for new users – and for the reviewers

In the media: A few complaints and mild disagreements

Special report: Decentralized Fundraising, Centralized Distribution

Discussion report: Much ado about Fox News

Interview: ScottishFinnishRadish's Request for Adminship

Opinion: Are we ever going to reach consensus?

Serendipity: Removing watermarks, copyright signs and cigarettes from photos

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

Traffic report: Kings and queens and VIPs

Featured content: Farm-fresh content

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

CommonsComix: CommonsComix 2: Paulus Moreelse

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

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

From the team: A new goose on the roost

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

News from the WMF: Governance updates from, and for, the Wikimedia Endowment

In the media: Scribing, searching, soliciting, spying, and systemic bias

Disinformation report: From Russia with WikiLove

Recent research: Disinformatsiya: Much research, but what will actually help Wikipedia editors?

Interview: Isabelle Belato on their Request for Adminship

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

Serendipity: We all make mistakes – don’t we?

Traffic report: Mama, they're in love with a criminal

From the archives: Paid advocacy, a lawsuit over spelling mistakes, deleting Jimbo's article, and the death of Toolserver

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

In the media: "The most beautiful story on the Internet"

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

Opinion: Privacy on Wikipedia in the cyberpunk future

Disinformation report: Missed and Dissed

Op-Ed: Diminishing returns for article quality

Book review: Writing the Revolution

Technology report: Galactic dreams, encyclopedic reality

Essay: The Six Million FP Man

Tips and tricks: (Wiki)break stuff

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

Featured content: A great month for featured articles

Obituary: A tribute to Michael Gäbler

Concept: The relevance of legal certainty to the English Wikipedia

Traffic report: Musical deaths, murders, Princess Di's nominative determinism, and sports

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

CommonsComix: Joker's trick

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

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

In the media: Odd bedfellows, Elon and Jimbo, reliable sources for divorces, and more

Interview: ComplexRational's RfA debrief

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

Essay: Mobile editing

Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee Election 2022

Recent research: Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement in talk page disputes

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

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

Traffic report: Football, football, football! Wikipedia Football Club!

CommonsComix: #4: The Course of WikiEmpire

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - December 2022 Newsletter edit

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This is our twentysecond newsletter, covering December 2022. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 5, 13, 15 and 16.

Meetings

January 15: Online user group meeting (SDG all)

Activities

Wiki Loves Plants (SDG 15)
365 climate edits (SDG 13)
Women in Climate Change 2022 (SDG 5 & 13)

News

Museology, Myosotis, and metadata oh my! Sharing sustainably in Wikipedia (SDG 15)

Resources

New Book: Open Mapping Towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDG all)

Videos

Margaret Donald - Wikidata, OpenRefine & Biota (SDG 15)

Featured content

English Wikipedia: List of alismatid families (SDG 15)

New Wikidata properties

has biological vector (SDG 15)
Bureau of Meteorology location ID (SDG 13)
CIViC gene ID (SDG 3)
Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate ID (SDG 16)
Tanzania Parliament member ID (SDG 16)
Lygaeoidea Species File ID (SDG 15)

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

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

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

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

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

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

In focus: Busting into Grand Central

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

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

Humour: New geologically speedy deletion criteria introduced

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

Featured content: Flip your lid

Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2022

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

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2023 Newsletter edit

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This is our twentythird newsletter, covering January 2023. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 5, 10, 11, 13, 14 and 16.

Meetings

Upcoming: 19 February - User group meeting (SDG all)
Past: 15 January - User group meeting (SDG all)

Activities

Ongoing: Wiki Loves Plants (SDG 14)
Ongoing: 365 climate edits (SDG 13)
Upcoming: The 2023 Bug of the Year Edit-a-thon (SDG 14)
Past: Lexeme challenge Urology (SDG 3)
Past: Swedish Wikipedia weekly challenge - Frogs versus lizards (SDG 14)
Past: Three hundred episodes of Critter of the Week (SDG 14)
Past: Wikidata Queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and pandemic (SDG 3)
Past: Women in Climate Change 2022 (SDG 5 & 13)

News

Resources

a Life Sciences Knowledge Graph with a Data Lake (SDG 3)

Videos

Featured content

English Wikipedia: List of birds of Tuvalu (SDG 14)
English Wikipedia: List of World Heritage Sites in Laos (SDG 11)
English Wikipedia: List of World Heritage Sites in Bangladesh (SDG 11)

New Wikidata properties

NIP (SDG 16)
NSR doctor ID (SDG 3)
UniProt disease ID (SDG 3)
Strazha ID (SDG 16)
United States House of Representatives ID (SDG 16)

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

From the editor: New for the Signpost: Author pages, tag pages, and a decent article search function

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

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

Disinformation report: Wikipedia on Santos

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

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

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

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

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

WikiProject report: WikiProject Organized Labour

Tips and tricks: XTools: Data analytics for your list of created articles

Featured content: 20,000 Featureds under the Sea

Traffic report: Films, deaths and ChatGPT

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

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

In the media: Arbitrators open case after article alleges Wikipedia "intentionally distorts" Holocaust coverage

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

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

Tips and tricks: All about writing at DYK

Featured content: Eden, lost.

Gallery: Love is in the air

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

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

Cobwebs: Editorial: The loss of the moral high ground

Humour: The RfA Candidate's Song

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This newsletter includes two key updates about the Editing team's work:

The Editing team will finish adding new features to the Talk pages project and deploy it.
They are beginning a new project, Edit check.

Talk pages project

Some of the upcoming changes

The Editing team is nearly finished with this first phase of the Talk pages project. Nearly all new features are available now in the Beta Feature for Discussion tools.

It will show information about how active a discussion is, such as the date of the most recent comment. There will soon be a new "Add topic" button. You will be able to turn them off at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion. Please tell them what you think.

Daily edit completion rate by test group: DiscussionTools (test group) and MobileFrontend overlay (control group)

An A/B test for Discussion tools on the mobile site has finished. Editors were more successful with Discussion tools. The Editing team is enabling these features for all editors on the mobile site.

New Project: Edit Check

The Editing team is beginning a project to help new editors of Wikipedia. It will help people identify some problems before they click "Publish changes". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Please watch that page for more information. You can join a conference call on 3 March 2023 to learn more.

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This is our twentyfourth newsletter, covering February 2023. This issue has news related to SDGs 2, 3, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15 and 16.

Meetings

2023-03-05 User group meeting (SDG all)
Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting (SDG all)

Activities

Ongoing: 365 climate edits (SDG 13)
Ongoing: Suggest "Environmental sustainability and climate crisis" topics for Wikimania (SDG all)
Ongoing: Africa Environment WikiFocus (SDG 13)
Past: Edit for Climate Change: Wikipedia Editathon (SDG 13)
Past: WikiForHumanRights 2023 Campaign: Capacity Building Sessions on "Tools for Finding the Right Articles" and "Building Article List with Petscan" (SDG 10 & 13)
Past: WikiForHumanRights 2023 Campaign: Regional Office Hours for Africa and Maghreb Regions (SDG 10 & 13)

News

NCBI breakdown of common garden foods with photographs by Phytotheca (SDG 2)

Resources

3000 Arctic images (SDG 13)
SMART-Servier Medical Art upload (SDG 3)

Research

Open Source in Environmental Sustainability (SDG 13)

New Wikidata properties

Norwegian war prisoner detention camp ID (SDG 16)
Iowa legislator ID (SDG 16)
National Grid Balancing Mechanism unit ID (SDG 7)

Wikidata query examples

Map of disasters by type (SDG 11)

Featured articles

English Wikipedia: South Asian river dolphin (SDG 14)
English Wikipedia: List of World Heritage Sites in Sri Lanka (SDG 11)
English Wikipedia: List of lamiid families (SDG 15)

Featured images
Three horses (SDG 15)
Hunter baby chameleon (SDG 15)
Rice paper butterfly (SDG 15)
Lasiocampa quercus 4th instar caterpillar Keila (top view) (SDG 15)
Lasiocampa quercus 4th instar caterpillar Keila (side view).jpg (SDG 15)
Mockingbird on the North Lake Trail (SDG 15)
Striated Pardalote (SDG 15)
Wiesenvögelchen (SDG 15)
Herring gull (SDG 15)
Northern shoveler (SDG 15)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

News and notes: Wikimania submissions deadline looms, Russian government after our lucky charms, AI woes nix CNET from RS slate

Eyewitness: Three more stories from Ukrainian Wikimedians

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

Featured content: Way too many featured articles

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

Traffic report: Who died? Who won? Who lost?

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

News and notes: Wikimania submissions deadline looms, Russian government after our lucky charms, AI woes nix CNET from RS slate

Eyewitness: Three more stories from Ukrainian Wikimedians

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

Featured content: Way too many featured articles

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

Traffic report: Who died? Who won? Who lost?

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - March 2023 Newsletter edit

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This is our twentyfifth newsletter, covering March 2023. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 5, 10, 13, 15 and 16.

Meetings

Upcoming: User group meeting 2023-04-02 (SDG all)
Past: User group meeting 2023-03-05 (SDG all)

Activities

Ongoing: 365 climate edits (SDG 13)
Upcoming: WikiForHumanRights (SDG 10 & 13)
Upcoming: April 19 - LaGuardia Community College Earth Day Translatathon with Casa de las Américas NYC (SDG 13)
Upcoming: April 22 - Earth Day 2023 Edit-a-thon Environment of Brooklyn Focus with Sure We Can (SDG 13)
Upcoming: April 23 - Earth Day Wiknic NYC (SDG 13)
Past: Gender and culture related event to test image suggestions on Wikipedia (SDG 5)
Past: Feminism and Folklore 2023 (SDG 5)
Past: Art+Feminism edit-a-thon for Nigerian female artists (SDG 5)

News

Putting our energy into Wikipedia as climate action (SDG 13)
How Art+Feminism is using Wikipedia to promote equity in the art world (SDG 5)
Biodiversity Heritage Library and Wikidata (SDG 15)
Black history month and more (SDG 10)
Women Do News: Tackling the Gender Divide in Journalism Through Wikipedia (SDG 5)
Wiki Loves Earth 2023 is starting! (SDG 15)
The Quest to Close the Gender Gap on Wikipedia Continues; Five-Year Anniversary with Feminism & Folklore (SDG 5)
WikiGap Malaysia 2023: Empowering women in indigenous languages (SDG 5)
Wikipedia has a climatetech problem (SDG 13)

New Wikidata properties

NCI Drug Dictionary ID (SDG 3)
Malaysia Federal Legislation act ID (SDG 16)
Moscow University Herbarium ID (SDG 15)
Norwegian Petroleum Directorate field ID (SDG 13)

Featured content

English Wikipedia: List of Saxifragales families (SDG 15)
English Wikipedia: Red-throated wryneck (SDG 15)

Featured images
Ourapteryx yerburii ssp. specimens and male genitalia (SDG 15)
Pterophorus pentadactyla (SDG 15)
Wood duck drake (SDG 15)
Cardinal (SDG 15)
Bunten Kronwicke (Securigera varia) (SDG 15)
Sympetrum sanguineum (SDG 15)
Crocus tommasinianus (SDG 15)
Papaya - longitudinal section close-up view (SDG 15)
Aphantopus hyperantus (SDG 15)
Australian Zebra Finch (SDG 15)
Melospiza melodia (SDG 15)
Roadside hawk (Rupornis magnirostris griseocauda) eating speckled racer (Drymobius margaritiferus) (SDG 15)
Black iguana (Ctenosaura similis) (SDG 15)
Cerastis rubricosa caterpillar (side view) (SDG 15)
Cerastis rubricosa caterpillar (dorsal view) (SDG 15)
Frühlings-Knotenblume (Leucojum vernum) (SDG 15)
Ocellated turkey (Meleagris ocellata) male (SDG 15)
Geoffroy's spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi yucatanensis) (SDG 15)
Ophiopogon planiscapus (SDG 15)
Protaetic cuprea ignicollis (SDG 15)
Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus plexippus) (SDG 15)
Cepaea nemoralis (SDG 15)
Crepis biennis (SDG 15)
Keel-billed toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus sulfuratus) on foxtail palm (Wodyetia bifurcata) (SDG 15)
Trifolium spadiceum (SDG 15)

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

From the editor: Some long-overdue retractions
News and notes: Sounding out, a universal code of conduct, and dealing with AI
In the media: Twiddling Wikipedia during an online contest, and other news
Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" case is ongoing
Featured content: Hail, poetry! Thou heav'n-born maid
Recent research: Language bias: Wikipedia captures at least the "silhouette of the elephant", unlike ChatGPT
From the archives: April Fools' through the ages
Disinformation report: Sus socks support suits, seems systemic

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

News and notes: Staff departures at Wikimedia Foundation, Jimbo hands in the bits, and graphs' zeppelin burns

In the media: Contested truth claims in Wikipedia

Obituary: Remembering David "DGG" Goodman

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

Opinion: What Jimbo's question revealed about scamming

Op-Ed: Wikipedia as an anchor of truth

Special report: Signpost statistics between years 2005 and 2022

News from the WMF: Collective planning with the Wikimedia Foundation

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

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

Humour: The law of hats

Traffic report: Long live machine, the future supreme

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - April 2023 Newsletter edit

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This is our twenty-sixth newsletter, covering April 2023. This issue has news related to SDGs 2, 4, 5, 6, 11, 13, 14, 15 and 16.

Meetings

Upcoming: User group meeting 2023-05-07 (SDG all)
Past: User group meeting 2023-04-02 (SDG all)

Activities

Ongoing: 365 climate edits (SDG 13)
Ongoing: WikiForHumanRights 2023 International Writing Contest (SDG 13, 14, 6)
Ongoing: WikiForHumanRights 2023 local community events (SDG 13, 15, 14, 6)
Ongoing: WikiCampusTourNigeria Project (SDG 6, 13, 14, 15)
Upcoming (and past): Women, architecture and design (SDG 5)
Past: WikiGap Tirana 2023, Albania (SDG 5)
Past: BBC 100 women editathon (SDG 5)
Past: WikiGAP in Prishtina (SDG 5)
Past: 15 Days of French women writers (SDG 5)
Past: TSU USF Women's History Month Wikipedia Edit-a-thon (SDG 5)
Past: Crafting a Better Wikipedia: Women of Color in the Renwick Gallery (SDG 5)

News

TUSWUG S2E2: Women in Wiki (SDG 5)
Inaugural edition of the organizer lab awards – 6 community grants (SDG 5 & SDG 13)
Bolstering women’s voices and histories on Wikipedia (SDG 5)
A huge upload for biologists (SDG 15)
WikiForHumanRights 2023 Launch Webinar (SDG 13, 14, 6)
WikiForHumanRights 2023 and WMF Human Rights Team Online Safety Capacity Building for Organizers (SDG 13)
WikiForHummanRights 2023 and Let's Connect Capacity building on good practices for retention (SDG 13)
Living through a Triple Planetary Emergency: Capturing the Most Impactful Knowledge to Weather the Storm (SDG 10 & SDG 13)
Wikimedia Foundation Environmental Sustainability Report for 2022 (SDG 13)
Wikimedia Sverige sustainability report 2022 (in Swedish) (SDG 13)

Research

Hypotheses in urban ecology: building a common knowledge base (SDG 15)

New Wikidata properties

Featured content

English Wikipedia: List of afrosoricids (SDG 15)

Featured images
Ara macao cyanopterus (SDG 15)
Leptura quadrifasciata (SDG 15)
Bursa lamarckii (SDG 15)
Ara macao cyanopterus (SDG 15)
Chlamydera guttata (SDG 15)
Sitta carolinensis (SDG 15)
Pumpkin field (SDG 2)
Diglossa baritula & Canna indica (SDG 15)
Acer platanoides (SDG 15)
Amazilia rutila (SDG 15)
Passiflora edulis (SDG 15)
Melanerpes aurifrons (SDG 15)
Argiope versicolor (SDG 15)
Allium ursinum (SDG 15)
Platanus x hispanica (SDG 15)
Thymelicus lineola (SDG 15)
Acer palmatum (SDG 15) [38]
Falco tinnunculus (SDG 15) [39]
Zalophus californianus (SDG 15) [40]
Acer pseudoplatanus (SDG 15)
Tamarindus indica (SDG 15)
Sciurus carolinensis (SDG 15) [43]
Tyrannus savana monachus (SDG 15)
Rapa incurva (SDG 15)
Trigona sp. (SDG 15)

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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

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

In the media: Vivek's smelly socks, online safety, and politics

Recent research: Gender, race and notability in deletion discussions

Featured content: I wrote a poem for each article, I found rhymes for all the lists;
My first featured picture of this year now finally exists!

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

News from the WMF: Planning together with the Wikimedia Foundation

Special report: There Shall Be Seasons Refreshing – Stories from WikiConference India 2023

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Queering Wikipedia 2023 conference edit

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Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group and the organizing team of Queering Wikipedia is delivering the Queering Wikipedia 2023 Conference for LGBT+ Wikimedians and allies, as a hybrid, bilingual and trans-local event. It is online on 12, 14 and 17 May, the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia #IDAHOBIT, with offline events at around 10 locations on 5 continents in the 5-day span as QW2023 Nodes.

The online program is delivered as a series of keynotes, panels, presentations, workshops, lightning talks and creative interventions, starting on Friday noon (UTC) with the first keynote of Dr Nishant Shah entitled: I spy, with my little AI — Wikiway as a means to disrupt the ‘dirty queer’ impulses of emergent AI platforms. Second keynote is at Sunday’s closure by Esra’a Al Shafei, Wikimedia Foundation’s Board of Trustees vice chair, entitled: Digital Public Spaces for Queer Communities.

If you have been an active Wikimedian or enthusiast, supporting LGBT+ activities or if you identify as part of the larger LGBT+ community and allies in Wikimedia, please join us in advancing this thematic work. We encourage you to join online or in person with fellow Wikimedians if it is easy and safe to do so. Our working languages are English and Spanish, with possible local language support at sites of Nodes.

Registration for the online event is free and is open until Wednesday May 10th at 18:00 UTC, for safety protocol. Late event registration approval and event access denial is at the discretion of organizers.

More information, and registration details, may be found on Meta at QW2023

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

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

In the media: History, propaganda and censorship

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

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

Featured content: A very musical week for featured articles

Traffic report: Coronation, chatbot, celebs

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

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This Month in Education

Volume 12 • Issue 4 • April 2023

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

News and notes: WMRU director forks new 'pedia, birds flap in top '22 piccy, WMF weighs in on Indian gov's map axe plea

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

Featured content: Poetry under pressure

Traffic report: Celebs, controversies and a chatbot in the public eye

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

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

In the media: English WP editor glocked after BLP row on Italian 'pedia

Featured content: Content, featured

Recent research: Hoaxers prefer currently-popular topics

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

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

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

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

Featured content: Incensed

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

Humour: United Nations dispatches peacekeeping force to Wikipedia policy discussions

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Volume 12 • Issue 5 • June 2023

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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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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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Volume 12 • Issue 7 • July 2023

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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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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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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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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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Invitation to participate in the photo contest Unpacking Body Plurality in Sports 2023 edit

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English Dear Dick Bos,

We’re excited to share with you our first-ever art and photo contest for this year’s #VisibleWikiWomen, on Unpacking Body Plurality in Sports!

We’re inviting submissions of photos, illustrations, and other forms of art depicting womxn and non-binary people in sports — as athletes, fans, cheerleaders, referees, journalists, and much more. Our #VisibleWikiWomxn contest celebrates the bodies of womxn in sports by centering their voices, images, stories, and experiences in all their diversity, plurality, and glory.

You can find all the information on our landing page: Unpacking Body Plurality in Sports

Spanish Hola Dick Bos,

Queremos invitarte a participar de nuestro primer concurso de arte y fotografía "Cuerpos plurales en el deporte" en el marco de la campaña #VisibleWikiWomen de este año.

Estamos convocando a presentar fotos, ilustraciones y otras formas de arte que representen a mujeres y personas no binarias en el deporte - atletas, personas aficionadas, animadoras, árbitras, periodistas y personas ligadas al deporte en todos los aspectos. Nuestro concurso #VisibleWikiWomxn celebra los cuerpos de las mujeres en el deporte centrándose en sus voces, imágenes, historias y experiencias en toda su diversidad, pluralidad y gloria.

Puedes encontrar toda la información en la página del concurso.

Portuguese Olá Dick Bos,

Ficamos felizes em convidar você a participar de nossa primeira Wiki-competição de arte e fotografia, como parte da campanha #VisibleWikiWomen deste ano, sobre "Corpos plurais no esporte"!

Estamos recebendo fotos, ilustrações, e outras formas de arte que retratem mulheres e pessoas não-binárias nos esportes — como atletas, torcedoras, juízas, jornalistas, e muito mais. Nossa competição #VisibleWikiWomxn celebra os corpors de mulheres e pessoas não-binárias e coloca ao centro suas vozes, imagens, histórias, e experiências em toda sua pluralidade e glória.

Você pode encontrar todas as informações necessárias em nossa página: Unpacking Body Plurality in Sports.

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