News and notes:
AELECT5 concludes, a Wikimedian arrested for treason, and updates to GANs and FARs
Nine new admins, three arrests, and a
lot
of GAN RFCs.
Recent research:
How Wikipedians use (or don't use) LLMs; experienced editors contribute more to "underproduced" articles than newbies
And other new research findings.
Disinformation report:
Better bots or bothersome baby borgs?
Have the Borg landed on Wikipedia?
In the media:
Stop the internet, I was deleted
Can toeing the line stop the apocalypse?
News from Diff:
Why Wikimedia Is Speaking Up in a Major AI Copyright Case
When AI companies use copyrighted information, does it qualify as fair use?
By the numbers:
Wikipedian Nobel Prize 2026
Which language versions of Wikipedia had biographies of laureates before Nobel announcements?
On the bright side:
Gone fishing
Touring Thailand, exploring iridescence, and translating prairie dog.
Traffic report:
October, and the articles are stripped bare
Lots of deaths, Indian movies, and monsters. Happy Halloween!
In focus:
Two Roles, One Wikimedia Education Ecosystem
What happens when different approaches to Wikimedia education connect?
Comix:
Inactivity
Zounds!
The Signpost
· written by
many
· served by
Sinepost V0.9
· 🄯
CC-BY-SA 4.0