The Signpost
Volume 21
Issue 5
9 April 2025


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Ziyad al-Sufiani – CC BY-SA 4.0
Special report
Wikipedian and physician Ziyad al-Sufiani reportedly released from Saudi prison
Fellow doctor Osama Khalid remains behind bars for "violating public morals" by editing.
Matthias A. K. Zimmermann, Schweiz/Switzerland – CC BY-SA 3.0
In focus
WMF to explore "common standards" for NPOV policies; implications for project autonomy remain unclear
Major changes to core content policy, or still-developing plan for new initiative?
Sandro Botticelli – PD
In the media
Indian judges demand removal of content critical of Asian News International
Defeat, or just a setback?
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News and notes
35,000 user accounts compromised, locked in attempted credential-stuffing attack
Plus: 30-year anniversary of wiki software commemorated.
Treysam – CC-BY-SA 4.0
Op-ed
How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects
Our content is free, our infrastructure is not!
Moses ter Borch – PD
Opinion
Crawlers, hogs and gorillas
What is to be done?
Byrdyak – cc-by-sa-4.0
Debriefing
Giraffer's RfA debriefing
Advice to aspirants: "Read RfA debriefs", including this one.
Naphisharity Syiem – CC BY-SA 4.0
Obituary
RHaworth, TomCat4680 and PawełMM
Rest in peace.
Curt Teich – PD
Traffic report
Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho, off to report we go...
Snow White sinking, Adolescence soaring, spacefarers stranded, this list has it all!
Olmec and Mrmw – cc-by-sa-3.0
News from Diff
Strengthening Wikipedia’s neutral point of view
The Wikimedia Foundation's announcement from Diff.
Punch Magazine – PD
Comix
Thirteen
Gadzooks!
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