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The Signpost: 29 April 2015[edit]

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

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: Apartheid and related topics, awards and accolades, and a bunch of tough journeys
Recent research: Popularity vs. quality, Wikipedia images show how copyright damages economy, bots as servants or policemen
Traffic report: Bruce, Nessie, and genocide
Technology report: VisualEditor and MediaWiki updates

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The Signpost: 06 May 2015[edit]

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

Special report: FDC candidates respond to key issues
News and notes: "Inspire" grant-making campaign concludes, grantees announced
In the media: Guggenheim image donation; Wiki campaign gets advertising award
Featured content: The amorous android and the horsebreeder; WikiCup round two concludes
Traffic report: The grim ship reality
Blog: How many women edit Wikipedia?

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The Signpost: 13 May 2015[edit]

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

Foundation elections: WMF Board candidates share their views with the Signpost
Op-ed: What made Wikipedia lose its reputation?
In the media: Grant Shapps story continues; Wikipedia's "leftist ties"
News and notes: Swedish Wikimedia chapter organizes simultaneous Wikidata contests
Featured content: Four first-time featured article writers lead the way
Traffic report: Round Two

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The Signpost: 20 May 2015[edit]

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

News and notes: The dark side of comedy: Wikipedia volunteers cleaning up behind John Oliver's fowl jokes
In focus: The awful truth about Wikimedia's article counts
From the editor: Your voice is needed: strategic voting in the WMF election
In the media: Jimmy Wales accepts Dan David Prize
WikiProject report: Cell-ebrating Molecular Biology
Arbitration report: Editor conduct the subject of multiple cases
Featured content: Puppets, fungi, and waterfalls
Traffic report: Inner Core

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The Signpost: 27 May 2015[edit]

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

News and notes: WMF releases quarterly reports, annual plans
In the media: Scrubbing Parliamentary biographies; Wikipedia's invisible history
Recent research: Drug articles accurate and largely complete; women "slightly overrepresented"; talking like an admin
Traffic report: Summer, summer, summertime
Discussion report: A relic from the past that needs to be updated
Featured content: When music was confined to a ribbon of rust
Technology report: MediaWiki blows up printers

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The Signpost: 03 June 2015[edit]

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

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
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
Featured content: It's not over till the fat man sings
Technology report: Things are getting SPDYier

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The Signpost: 10 June 2015[edit]

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

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]

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

Arbitration report: An election has consequences
Discussion report: A quick way of becoming an admin
Featured content: Great Dane hits 150
In focus: Three weeks to save freedom of panorama in Europe
In the media: Wikipedia wins Asturias Prize; printing out Wikipedia; HTTPS switch
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
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
WikiProject report: We are back - Western Australia speaks

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The Signpost: 24 June 2015[edit]

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

From the editor: The Signpost tagging initiative
Op-ed: Content Translation beta is coming to the English Wikipedia
News and notes: Board of Trustees propose bylaw amendments
In the media: Turkish Wikipedia censorship; "Can Wikipedia survive?"; PR editing
Special report: Small impact of the large Google Translation Project on Telugu Wikipedia
Recent research: How Wikipedia built governance capability; readability of plastic surgery articles
Featured content: One eye when begun, two when it's done
Blog: 7,473 volumes at 700 pages each: meet Print Wikipedia
Arbitration report: Politics by other means: The American politics 2 arbitration
Technology report: 2015 MediaWiki architecture focus and Multimedia roadmap announced

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The Signpost: 01 July 2015[edit]

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

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]

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

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]

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

Op-ed: On paid editing and advocacy: when the Bright Line fails to shine, and what we can do about it
News and notes: The Wikimedia Conference and Wikimania
In the media: Shapps requests WMUK data; professor's plagiarism demotion
Blog: Wikimedia Foundation releases third transparency report
Traffic report: Belles of the ball
WikiProject report: What happens when a country is no longer a country?
Technology report: Tech news in brief
Featured content: When angels and daemons interrupt the vicious and intemperate

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The Signpost: 22 July 2015[edit]

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

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

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]

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

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

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]

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

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]

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

In focus: An increase in active Wikipedia editors
Op-ed: Wikimania – can volunteers organize conferences?
News and notes: Re-imagining grants
In the media: Russia temporarily blocks Wikipedia
Recent research: OpenSym 2015 report; PageRank and wiki quality; news suggestions; the impact of open access
Featured content: Out to stud, please call later
Arbitration report: Reinforcing Arbitration

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The Signpost: 02 September 2015[edit]

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

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]

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

Gallery: Being Welsh
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
In the media: Calling all scientists!; More Wikipedia editors in the Netherlands than all of Africa combined
Featured content: Killed by flying debris
Traffic report: Mass media production traffic
Technology report: Tech news in brief

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The Signpost: 16 September 2015[edit]

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

Editorial: No access is no answer to closed access
Traffic report: Another week
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?
Technology report: Tech news in brief

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The Signpost: 23 September 2015[edit]

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

Featured content: Inside Duke Humfrey's Library
In the media: PETA makes "monkey selfie" a three-way copyright battle; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Op-ed: Can we please stop bashing Wikipedia?
Technology report: Tech news in brief
Traffic report: ¡Viva la Revolución! Kinda.
WikiProject report: Dancing to the beat of a... wikiproject?

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The Signpost: 30 September 2015[edit]

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

In the media: Irish legislative editing; coffee quarrel; more sports vandalism
News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation fundraising report, Montreal to host 2017 Wikimania
Op-ed: Wikipedia needs more administrators
Recent research: Wiktionary special; Is Wikipedia's search function inferior?; newbies, conflict and tolerance
Tech news: Tech news in brief

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The Signpost: 07 October 2015[edit]

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

Op-ed: Walled gardens of corruption
In the media: Jailed Saudi blogger wins award; PR editing and Wiki-embarassment; Pakistan's third-richest person?
Traffic report: Reality is for losers
Featured content: This Week's Featured Content
Arbitration report: Warning: Contains GMOs
Technology report: Tech news in brief
Gallery: Winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 in Pakistan

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The Signpost: 14 October 2015[edit]

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

Blog: Third Wikimedia Spain conference takes place in Madrid
Editorial: Why the news media needs a Wikipedian in residence
Op-ed: WikiConference USA 2015: Built on good faith
Traffic report: Screens, Sport, Reddit, and Death
WikiConference Report: WikiConference USA 2015
News and notes: Fundraising: 2015–2016 Q1 Update sparks mailing list debate
Featured content: A fistful of dollars
Technology report: Tech news in brief

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The Signpost: 21 October 2015[edit]

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

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]

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

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]

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

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]

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

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]

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

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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The Signpost: 25 November 2015[edit]

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

Blog: Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland urge Reiss Engelhorn Museum to reconsider suit over public domain works of art
Op-ed: Wikidata: the new Rosetta Stone
Traffic report: J'en ai ras le bol
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
Arbitration report: Third Palestine-Israel case closes; Voting begins
Technology report: Tech news in brief

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The Signpost: 02 December 2015[edit]

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

Op-ed: Whither Wikidata?
Traffic report: Jonesing for episodes
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
Featured content: This Week's Featured Content
Technology report: Tech news in brief

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The Signpost: 09 December 2015[edit]

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

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
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
Gallery: Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 winners

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The Signpost: 16 December 2015[edit]

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

In the media: Wales in China; #Edit2015
In focus: Drone photography: New possibilities and new challenges
Arbitration report: GMO case decided
WikiProject report: Women in Red—using teamwork and partnerships to elevate online and offline collaborations
Traffic report: A feast of Spam
Featured content: An unusually slow week
Gallery: WikiConference USA 2015: images, slide decks, and videos

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The Signpost: 30 December 2015[edit]

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

News and notes: WMF Board dismisses community-elected trustee
Year in review: The top ten Wikipedia stories of 2015
Arbitration report: Second Arbitration Enforcement case concludes as another case is suspended
In the media: Wikipedia plagued by a "Basket of Deception"
Traffic report: The Force we expected
Featured content: The post-Christmas edition
Gallery: It's that time of year again

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The Signpost: 06 January 2016[edit]

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

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]

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

News and notes: Community objections to new Board trustee
In focus: The Crisis at New Montgomery Street
Editorial: We need a culture of verification
Op-ed: Transparency (by James Heilman)
Blog: Inside the game of sports vandalism on Wikipedia
Community view: Strategy and controversy
In the media: War and peace; WMF board changes; Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedias
Traffic report: Pattern recognition: Third annual Traffic Report
Special report: Wikipedia community celebrates Public Domain Day 2016
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, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

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: Magnus Manske

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The Signpost: 03 February 2016[edit]

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

From the editors: Help wanted
In focus: The Knight Foundation grant: a timeline and an email to the board
Op-ed: So, what’s a knowledge engine anyway?
Special report: Board chair and new trustee speak with the Signpost
Traffic report: Bowled
News and notes: Harassment survey 2015; Luis Villa to leave WMF; knowledge engine background
Featured content: This week's featured content
Arbitration report: Catching up on arbitration

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The Signpost: 10 February 2016[edit]

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

Special report: New leaked 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 takes a swing 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]

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

Blog: Antonin Scalia and the editor tracking his legacy
Featured content: This week's featured content
Op-ed: Shit I cannot believe we had to fucking write this month
Special report: Search and destroy: the Knowledge Engine and the undoing of Lila Tretikov
Technology report: Tech news in brief
Traffic report: Super Bowling

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The Signpost: 24 February 2016[edit]

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

Special report: WMF in limbo as decision on Tretikov nears

Op-ed: Backward the Foundation

Featured content: This week's featured content

Traffic report: Of Dead Pools and Dead Judges

Arbitration report: Motion on CheckUser and Oversight inactivity

Technology report: Tech news in brief

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

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The Signpost: 2 March 2016[edit]

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

News and notes: Tretikov resigns, WMF in transition

Featured content: This week's featured content

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

Traffic report: Brawling

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

Blog: The new alchemy: turning online harassment into Wikipedia articles on women scientists
Featured content: This week's featured content
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
News and notes: Katherine Maher named interim head of WMF; Wales email re-sparks Heilman controversy; draft WMF strategy posted
Op-ed: A modest proposal for Wikimedia’s future
Systemic bias: Revenge of "I can’t believe we didn’t have an article on ..."
Technology report: Wikimedia wikis will temporarily go into read-only mode on several occasions in the coming weeks
Traffic report: All business like show business
WikiCup report: First round of the WikiCup finishes

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The Signpost: 16 March 2016[edit]

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

News and notes: Wikipedia Zero: Orange mobile partnership in Africa ends; the evolution of privacy loss in Wikipedia

In the media: Wales at SXSW; lawsuit over Wikipedia PR editing

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

Discussion report: Is an interim WMF executive director inherently notable?

Featured content: This week's featured content

Traffic report: Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States

Technology report: Watchlists, watchlists, watchlists!

Wikipedia Weekly: Podcast #119: The Foundation and the departure of Lila Tretikov

Blog: It “revolutionized the way German-speaking people inform themselves about the world”: Fifteen years of the German Wikipedia

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The Signpost: 23 March 2016[edit]

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

Interview: Exclusive: interview with interim ED Katherine Maher

News_and_notes: Lila Tretikov a Young Global Leader; Wikipediocracy blog post sparks indefinite blocks

In_the_media: Angolan file sharers cause trouble for Wikipedia Zero; the 3D printer edit war; a culture based on change and turmoil

Editorial: "God damn it, you've got to be kind."

Traffic report: Be weary on the Ides of March

Featured content: Watch out! A slave trader, a live mascot and a crested serpent awaits!

Arbitration report: Palestine-Israel article 3 case amended

Wikipedia_Weekly: Podcast #120: Status of Wikimania 2016

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The Signpost: 1 April 2016[edit]

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

News and notes: Trump/Wales 2016

In the media: Saskatoon police delete Wikipedia content about police brutality

WikiProject report: Why should the Devil have all the good music? An interview with WikiProject Christian music

Traffic report: Donald v Daredevil

Featured content: A slow, slow week

Technology report: Browse Wikipedia in safety? Use Telnet!

Recent research: "Employing Wikipedia for good not evil" in education, useing eyetracking to find out how readers read articles

Wikipedia Weekly: Podcast #121: How April fools went down

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Op-ed: Should prison inmates be permitted to edit Wikipedia?

News and notes: Denny Vrandečić resigns from Wikimedia Foundation board

In the media: Wikimedia Sweden loses copyright case; Tex Watson; AI assistants; David Jolly biography

Featured content: This week's featured content

Traffic report: A welcome return to pop culture and death

Arbitration report: The first case of 2016—Wikicology

Gallery: A history lesson

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News and notes: Lunar project; steering group formed to search for next executive director

Op-ed: Knowledge Engine and the Wales–Heilman emails

Special report: Update on EranBot, our new copyright violation detection bot

Featured content: The double-sized edition

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Arbitration report: Amendments made to the Race and intelligence case

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News and notes: Wikimedia Switzerland's board and paid-editing firm; passing of Ed Dravecky

In the media: Wikipedia Zero piracy in Bangladesh; bureaucracy; chilling effects; too few cooks; translation gaps

Traffic report: Purple

Featured content: The best... from the past two weeks

Arbitration report: Two editors unbanned; Wikicology case enters workshop phase; Gamaliel restricted from Gamergate at his own request

Recent research: The eight roles of Wikipedians; do edit histories expose social relations among editors?

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News and notes: Affiliates' nomination of WMF trustees announced; FDC's straight talking to WMF

Op-ed: Swiss chapter in turmoil

In the media: Wikimedia's Dario Taraborelli quoted on Google's Knowledge Graph in The Washington Post

Featured content: Two weeks for the prize of one

Traffic report: Oh behave, Beyhive / Underdogss

Arbitration report: "Wikicology" ends in site ban; evidence and workshop phases concluded for "Gamaliel and others"

Wikicup: That's it for WikiCup Round 2!

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Special report: Compensation paid to Sue Gardner increased by almost 50 percent after she stepped down as executive director

News and notes: Upcoming Wikimedia conferences in the US and India; May Metrics and Activities Meeting

Op-ed: Journey of a Wikipedian

In the media: The perils of Wikipedia's monopoly; Wikipedians' fragility; Street Sharks hoax

Featured content: Eight articles, three lists and five pictures

Traffic report: Splitting (musical) airs / Slow Ride

Arbitration report: Gamaliel resigns from the committee

Blog: Freely licensed magic at Eurovision

Recent research: English as Wikipedia's Lingua Franca; deletion rationales; schizophrenia controversies

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News and notes: WMF cuts budget for 2016-17 as scope tightens

In the media: Jimmy Wales on net neutrality—"It's complicated"—and his $100m fundraising challenge

Featured content: Overwhelmed ... by pictures

Traffic report: Pop goes the culture, again.

Arbitration report: ArbCom case "Gamaliel and others" concludes

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

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

Special report: Wikiversity Journal—A new user group

Op-ed: Commons Picture of the Year; Wikidata licensing

In the media: Biography disputes; Craig Newmark donation; PR editing

Featured content: From the crème de la crème

Traffic report: Another one with sports; Knockout, brief candle

Blog: Why I proofread poetry at Wikisource

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

News and notes: Board faces diversity and skill-base issues in new FDC appointments

Discussion report: Busy month for discussions

In the media: Women-in-science editathon gets national press; Wikipedia "shockingly biased"

Featured content: A wide variety from the best

Traffic report: Sports and esports

Arbitration report: Script writers appointed for clerks

Recent research: Using deep learning to predict article quality; search engine helps schoolkids navigate Chinese Wikipedia; talk page sentiment

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

Editorial: Wikipedia policy suppresses sharing of information

News and notes: Foundation presents results of harassment research, plans for automated identification; Wikiconference submissions open

In the media: Paid editing service announced; Commercial exploitation of free images; Wikipedia as a crystal ball; Librarians to counter systemic bias

Obituary: Kevin Gorman, who took on Wikipedia's gender gap and undisclosed paid advocacy, dies at 24

Traffic report: Summer of Pokémon, Trump, and Hillary

Featured content: Woman and Hawaii

Recent research: Easier navigation via better wikilinks

Blog: All-new notifications page helps Wikimedians focus on what matters most

Technology report: User script report (January to July 2016, part 1)

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The Signpost: 29 September 2016[edit]

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News and notes: Case study of Wikimedia Education Program published; remembrance of departed colleague Ray Saintonge (Eclecticology)

In the media: This edition's roundup of media coverage

Featured content: Three weeks in the land of featured content

Arbitration report: Arbcom looking for new checkusers and oversight appointees while another case opens

Traffic report: From Gene Wilder to JonBenét: Four weeks of traffic

Technology report: Category sorting and template parameters

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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

Technology report: Upcoming tech projects for 2017

Traffic report: Debates and escapes

Recent research: A 2011 study resurfaces in a media report

Featured content: Variety is the spice of life

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The Signpost: 4 November 2016[edit]

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

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

In the media: Washington Post continues in-depth Wikipedia coverage

Wikicup: Winners announced

Discussion report: What's on your tech wishlist for the coming year?

Featured content: Cream of the crop

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

Arbitration report: Recapping October's activities

Traffic report: Un-presidential politics

Recent research: Why women edit less, and where they are overrepresented; article importance and quality; predicting elections from Wikipedia

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The Signpost: 26 November 2016[edit]

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

Special report: Taking stock of the Good Article backlog

News and notes: Arbitration Committee elections commence

In the media: Roundup of news related to U.S. presidential election and more

Op-ed: Fundraising data should be more transparent

Traffic report: President-elect Trump

Blog: The top fifteen winning photos from Wiki Loves Earth

Gallery: Around the world with Wiki Loves Monuments 2016

Featured content: Featured mix

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The Signpost: 22 December 2016[edit]

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

Year in review: Looking back on Wikimedia's 2016

Special report: German Wikipedia ArbCom implodes amid revelation of member's far-right political role

In focus: Active user page filter prevents vandalism and harassment

News and notes: English Wikipedia ArbCom election results; strategic planning update

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

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

Traffic report: Post-election traffic blues

Featured content: The pre-Christmas edition

Blog: Wiki Loves Monuments contest winners announced

Technology report: Labs improvements impact 2016 Tool Labs survey results

Recent research: One study and several abstracts

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The Signpost: 17 January 2017[edit]

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

From the editor: Next steps for the Signpost

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

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

Technology report: Tech present, past, and future

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

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

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The Signpost: 6 February 2017[edit]

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

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"

WikiProject report: For the birds!

Op-ed: How to make editing workshops useful, even if participants don't stick around

In the media: Presidential politics, periodic table, and our periodic roundup of updates

Technology report: Better PDFs, backup plans, and birthday wishes

Traffic report: Cool It Now

Featured content: Three weeks dominated by articles

Forum: Productive collaboration around coordinated protest marches; Media and political personalities comment on Wikipedia at its 16th birthday celebration

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The Signpost: 6 February 2017[edit]

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

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"

WikiProject report: For the birds!

Op-ed: How to make editing workshops useful, even if participants don't stick around

In the media: Presidential politics, periodic table, and our periodic roundup of updates

Technology report: Better PDFs, backup plans, and birthday wishes

Traffic report: Cool It Now

Featured content: Three weeks dominated by articles

Forum: Productive collaboration around coordinated protest marches; Media and political personalities comment on Wikipedia at its 16th birthday celebration

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The Signpost: 27 February 2017[edit]

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

From the editors: Results from our poll on subscription and delivery, and a new RSS feed

Recent research: Special issue: Wikipedia in education

Technology report: Responsive content on desktop; Offline content in Android app

In the media: The Daily Mail does not run Wikipedia

Gallery: A Met montage

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

Op-ed: Wikipedia has cancer

Featured content: The dominance of articles continues

Traffic report: Love, football, and politics

Blog: WikiIndaba 2017: A continent gathers to chart a path forward

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The Signpost: 9 June 2017[edit]

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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

Featured content: Three months in the land of the featured

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

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

Technology report: Tech news catch-up

Traffic report: Film on Top: Sampling the weekly top 10

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The Signpost: 23 June 2017[edit]

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

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

Recent research: Utopian bubbles: Can Wikipedians create value outside of the capitalist system?

Technology report: Improved search, and WMF data scientist tells all

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The Signpost: 15 July 2017[edit]

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

Featured content: Spectacular animals, Pine Trees screens, and more

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

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

Technology report: Introducing TechCom

Humour: WWASOHs and ETCSSs

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The Signpost: 6 September 2017[edit]

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

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?

WikiProject report: WikiProject YouTube

Technology report: Latest tech news

Wikicup: 2017 WikiCup round 4 wrap-up

Humour: Bots

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The Signpost: 25 September 2017[edit]

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

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

Gallery: Chicken mania

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

Traffic report: Fights and frights

Featured content: Flying high

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The Signpost: 23 October 2017[edit]

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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

Blog: The future of offline access to Wikipedia: The Kiwix example

In the media: Facebook and poetry

Special report: Working with GLAMs in the UK

Traffic report: Death, disaster, and entertainment

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The Signpost: 24 November 2017[edit]

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

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

Featured content: We will remember them

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]

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

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

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]

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

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

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

Recent research: Political 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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The Signpost: 29 March 2018[edit]

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

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]

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

From the editors: The Signpost's presses are rolling 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: 29 June 2018[edit]

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

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]

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

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]

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

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]

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

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]

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

From the editors October original: 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]

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

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]

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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]

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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

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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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

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

Arbitration report: ArbCom forges ahead

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

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

Technology report: Lots of Bots

Essay: Paid editing

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

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The Signpost: 30 June 2019[edit]

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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?

Special report: Did Fram harass other editors?

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

Technology report: Actors and Bots

Gallery: Unlike the North Face, Wiki Loves Earth

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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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: [[w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2020-04-26/WikiProject report|The Guild of Copy Editors]]

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The Signpost: 31 May 2020[edit]

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

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 receives 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]

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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]

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

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]

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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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The Signpost: 27 September 2020[edit]

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

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: 28 December 2020[edit]

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

In the media: Concealment, data journalism, a non-pig farmer, and some Bluetick Hounds

Arbitration report: 2020 election results

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

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

Traffic report: 2020 wraps up

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

Recent research: Predicting the next move in Wikipedia discussions

Essay: Subjective importance

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

Gallery: Angels in the architecture

Humour: 'Twas the Night Before Wikimas

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The Signpost: 31 January 2021[edit]

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

Special report: Wiki reporting on the insurrection

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

Opinion: Wikipedia's war against scientific disinformation

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

Technology report: The people who built Wikipedia, technically

Videos and podcasts: Celebrating 20 years

News from the WMF: Wikipedia celebrates 20 years of free, trusted information for the world

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

Humour: Dr. Seuss's Guide to Wikipedia

Featured content: New Year, same Featured Content report!

Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2020

Obituary: Flyer22 Frozen

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The Signpost: 28 February 2021[edit]

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News and notes: Maher stepping down

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

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

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

News from the WMF: Who tells your story on Wikipedia

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

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

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

Gallery: What is Black history and culture?

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The Signpost: 28 March 2021[edit]

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News and notes: A future with a for-profit subsidiary?

Gallery: Wiki Loves Monuments

In the media: Wikimedia LLC and disinformation in Japan

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

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

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

Essay: Wikipedia:The Free Encyclopedia

Obituary: Yoninah

From the editor: What else can we say?

Arbitration report: Open letter to the Board of Trustees

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

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The Signpost: 25 April 2021[edit]

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From the editor: A change is gonna come

Disinformation report: The Trump Organization's paid editors

In the media: Fernando, governance, and rugby

Opinion: The (Universal) Code of Conduct

Op-Ed: A Little Fun Goes A Long Way

Changing the world: The reach of protest images on Wikipedia

Recent research: Quality of aquatic and anatomical articles

Traffic report: The verdict is guilty, guilty, guilty

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

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The Signpost: 27 June 2021[edit]

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News and notes: Elections, Wikimania, masking and more

In the media: Boris and Joe, reliability, love, and money

Disinformation report: Croatian Wikipedia: capture and release

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

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

News from the WMF: Searching for Wikipedia

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

WikiProject report: WikiProject on open proxies interview

Forum: Is WMF fundraising abusive?

Discussion report: Reliability of WikiLeaks discussed

Obituary: SarahSV

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The Signpost: 25 July 2021[edit]

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News and notes: Wikimania and a million other news stories

Special report: Hardball in Hong Kong

In the media: Larry is at it again

Board of Trustees candidates: See the candidates

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

Traffic report: Football, tennis and marveling at Loki

News from the WMF: Uncapping our growth potential – interview with James Baldwin, Finance and Administration Department

Humour: A little verse

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The Signpost: 29 August 2021[edit]

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

In the media: Vive la différence!

Wikimedians of the year: Seven Wikimedians of the year

Gallery: Our community in 20 graphs

News from Wiki Education: Changing the face of Wikipedia

Recent research: IP editors, inclusiveness and empathy, cycles, and world heritage

WikiProject report: WikiProject Days of the Year Interview

Traffic report: Olympics, movies, and Afghanistan

Community view: Making Olympic history on Wikipedia

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The Signpost: 26 September 2021[edit]

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

In the media: The future of Wikipedia

Opinion: Wikimedians of Mainland China were warned

Op-Ed: I've been desysopped

Disinformation report: Paid promotional paragraphs in German parliamentary pages

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

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

Community view: Is writing Wikipedia like making a quilt?

Traffic report: Kanye, Emma Raducanu and 9/11

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

WikiProject report: The Random and the Beautiful

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The Signpost: 31 October 2021[edit]

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From the editor: Different stories, same place

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

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

Opinion: A photo on Wikipedia can ruin your life

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

Recent research: Welcome messages fail to improve newbie retention

Community view: Reflections on the Chinese Wikipedia

Traffic report: James Bond and the Giant Squid Game

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

Serendipity: How Wikipedia helped create a Serbian stamp

Book review: Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality

WikiProject report: Redirection

Humour: A very Wiki crossword

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The Signpost: 29 November 2021[edit]

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

In the media: Denial: climate change, mass killings and pornography
WikiCup report: The WikiCup 2021
Deletion report: What we lost, what we gained
From a Wikipedia reader: What's Matt Amodio?
Arbitration report: ArbCom in 2021
Discussion report: On the brink of change – RFA reforms appear imminent
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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[edit]

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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The Signpost: 23 October 2023[edit]

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[edit]

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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The Signpost: 20 November 2023[edit]

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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[edit]

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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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The Signpost: 24 December 2023[edit]

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[edit]

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

Special report: Public Domain Day 2024

Technology report: Wikipedia: A Multigenerational Pursuit

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

In focus: The long road of a featured article candidate

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

WikiProject report: WikiProjects Israel and Palestine

Obituary: Anthony Bradbury

Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2023

Crossword: everybody gangsta till the style sheets start cascading

Comix: Conflict resolution

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The Signpost: 31 January 2024[edit]

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News and notes: Wikipedian Osama Khalid celebrated his 30th birthday in jail

Opinion: Until it happens to you

Disinformation report: How paid editors squeeze you dry

In the media: Katherine Maher new NPR CEO, go check Wikipedia, race in the race

In focus: The long road of a featured article candidate, part 2

Recent research: Croatian takeover was enabled by "lack of bureaucratic openness and rules constraining [admins]"

Comix: We've all got to start somewhere

Traffic report: DJ, gonna burn this goddamn house right down

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The Signpost: 13 February 2024[edit]

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

News and notes: Wikimedia Russia director declared "foreign agent" by Russian gov; EU prepares to pile on the papers

Disinformation report: How low can the scammers go?

Gallery: Before and After: Why you don't need to touch grass to dramatically improve images of flora and fauna

In the media: Speaking in tongues, toeing the line, and dressing the part

Serendipity: Is this guy the same as the one who was a Nazi?

Traffic report: Griselda, Nikki, Carl, Jannik and two types of football

Crossword: Our crossword to bear

Comix: Strongly

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The Signpost: 2 March 2024[edit]

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

News and notes: Wikimedia enters US Supreme court hearings as "the dolphin inadvertently caught in the net"

Recent research: Images on Wikipedia "amplify gender bias"

In the media: The Scottish Parliament gets involved, a wikirace on live TV, and the Foundation's CTO goes on record

Obituary: Vami_IV

Traffic report: Supervalentinefilmbowlday

WikiCup report: High-scoring WikiCup first round comes to a close

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The Signpost: 29 March 2024[edit]

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

Technology report: Millions of readers still seeing broken pages as "temporary" disabling of graph extension nears its second year

Interview: Interview on Wikimedia Foundation fundraising and finance strategy

Special report: 19-page PDF accuses Wikipedia of bias against Israel, suggests editors be forced to reveal their real names, and demands a new feature allowing people to view the history of Wikipedia articles

Op-Ed: Wikipedia in the age of personality-driven knowledge

Recent research: "Newcomer Homepage" feature mostly fails to boost new editors

News and notes: Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Charter ratified

In the media: "For me it’s the autism": AARoard editors on the fork more traveled

Traffic report: He rules over everything, on the land called planet Dune

Humour: Letters from the editors

Comix: Layout issue

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The Signpost: 25 April 2024[edit]

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

In the media: Censorship and wikiwashing looming over RuWiki, edit wars over San Francisco politics and another wikirace on live TV

News and notes: A sigh of relief for open access as Italy makes a slight U-turn on their cultural heritage reproduction law

WikiConference report: WikiConference North America 2023 in Toronto recap

WikiProject report: WikiProject Newspapers (Not WP:NOTNEWS)

Recent research: New survey of over 100,000 Wikipedia users

Traffic report: O.J., cricket and a three body problem

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The Signpost: 16 May 2024[edit]

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News and notes: Democracy in action: multiple elections

Special report: Will the new RfA reform come to the rescue of administrators?

Arbitration report: Ruined temples for posterity to ponder over – arbitration from '22 to '24

In the media: Deadnames on the French Wikipedia, and a duel between Russian wikis

Op-Ed: Wikidata to split as sheer volume of information overloads infrastructure

Comix: Generations

Traffic report: Crawl out through the fallout, baby

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