News and notes French chapter woes, new affiliates and more WMF team changes The English Wikipedia sees its first new admin of the season, discord rocks Wikimedia France, some tweaks to the WMF reorg, and a new WMF annual plan mark this issue's community news.
Recent research The chilling effect of surveillance on Wikipedia readers A closer look at the research that found that the 2013 Snowden revelations coincided with a significant drop of pageviews for privacy-sensitive Wikipedia articles
Op-ed Why Task Forces are Dying in 2017 ...and is there anything we can do to stop it? Opinions and examples from across the project.
Gallery A mix of patterns An interesting mix of patterns and colors to brighten your day...
Humour The Infobox Game Enjoy the Parameters: The Infobox Game can be enjoyed by everyone, not just those interested in water buffalo breeds, volcanic hotspots or the mysterious heteroisoform, and some day just might spawn an important facet of the financial derivatives industry.
Wikicup 2017 WikiCup round 3 wrap-up The heat turns up on the 32 contestants who entered round three: 13 featured articles, 82 good articles, 167 DYKs, but we had to pick just eight of them to advance.
