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January
Volume 18, Issue 01
, 30 January 2022
Special report:
WikiEd course leads to Twitter harassment
News and notes:
Feedback for Board of Trustees election
Interview:
CEO Maryana Iskander "four weeks in"
Black History Month:
What are you doing for Black History Month?
Deletion report:
Ringing in the new year: Subject notability guideline under discussion
WikiProject report:
The Forgotten Featured
Arbitration report:
New arbitrators look at new case and antediluvian sanctions
Traffic report:
The most viewed articles of 2021
Gallery:
No Spanish municipality without a photograph
Obituary:
Twofingered Typist
Op-Ed:
Identifying and rooting out climate change denial
Essay:
The prime directive
Opinion:
Should the Wikimedia Foundation continue to accept cryptocurrency donations?
In the media:
Fuzzy-headed government editing
Recent research:
Articles with higher quality ratings have fewer "knowledge gaps"
Serendipity:
Pooh entered the Public Domain – but Tigger has to wait two more years
Crossword:
Cross swords with a crossword
February
Volume 18, Issue 02
, 27 February 2022
From the team:
Selection of a new
Signpost
Editor-in-Chief
News and notes:
Impacts of Russian invasion of Ukraine
Opinion:
Why student editors are good for Wikipedia
Special report:
A presidential candidate's team takes on Wikipedia
In the media:
Wiki-drama in the UK House of Commons
Serendipity:
War photographers: from Crimea (1850s) to the Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022)
Technology report:
Community Wishlist Survey results
WikiProject report:
10 years of tea
Featured content:
Featured Content returns
Deletion report:
The 10 most SHOCKING deletion discussions of February
Recent research:
How editors and readers may be emotionally affected by disasters and terrorist attacks
Arbitration report:
Parties remonstrate, arbs contemplate, skeptics coordinate
By the numbers:
Does birthplace affect the frequency of Wikipedia biography articles?
Gallery:
The vintage exhibit
Traffic report:
Euphoria, Pamela Anderson, lies and Netflix
News from Diff:
The Wikimania 2022 Core Organizing Team
Crossword:
A Crossword, featuring Featured Articles
Humour:
Notability of mailboxes
March
Volume 18, Issue 03
, 27 March 2022
From the Signpost team:
How
The Signpost
is documenting the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
News and notes:
Of safety and anonymity
Eyewitness Wikimedian, Kharkiv, Ukraine:
Countering Russian aggression with a camera
Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine:
War diary
Eyewitness Wikimedian, Western Ukraine:
Working with Wikipedia helps
Disinformation report:
The oligarchs' socks
In the media:
Ukraine, Russia, and even some other stuff
Recent research:
Top scholarly citers, lack of open access references, predicting editor departures
Wikimedian perspective:
My heroes from Russia, Ukraine & beyond
Discussion report:
Athletes are less notable now
Technology report:
2022 Wikimedia Hackathon
Arbitration report:
Skeptics given heavenly judgement, whirlwind of Discord drama begins to spin for tropical cyclone editors
Traffic report:
War, what is it good for?
Deletion report:
Ukraine, werewolves, Ukraine, YouTube pundits, and Ukraine
Gallery:
"All we are saying is, give peace a chance..."
From the archives:
Burn, baby burn
Essay:
Yes, the sky is blue
Tips and tricks:
Become a keyboard ninja
On the bright side:
The bright side of news
April
Volume 18, Issue 04
, 24 April 2022
News and notes:
Double trouble
In the media:
The battlegrounds outside and inside Wikipedia
Special report:
Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war
Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine:
War diary (Part 2)
Technology report:
8-year-old attribution issues in Media Viewer
Featured content:
Wikipedia's best content from March
In focus:
Editing difficulties on Russian Wikipedia
Gallery:
A voyage around the world with WLM winners
Interview:
On a war and a map
Serendipity:
Wikipedia loves photographs, but hates photographers
Traffic report:
Justice Jackson, the Smiths, and an invasion
Recent research:
Student edits as "civic engagement"; how Wikipedia readers interact with images
News from the WMF:
How Smart is the SMART Copyright Act?
Essay:
The problem with elegant variation
Humour:
Really huge message boxes
From the archives:
Wales resigned WMF board chair in 2006 reorganization
May
Volume 18, Issue 05
, 29 May 2022
From the team:
A changing of the guard
News and notes:
2022 Wikimedia Board elections
Community view:
Have your say in the 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections
Opinion:
The Wikimedia Endowment – a lack of transparency
In the media:
Putin, Jimbo, Musk and more
Special report:
Three stories of Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war
In focus:
Measuring gender diversity in Wikipedia articles
Discussion report:
Portals, April Fools, admin activity requirements and more
WikiProject report:
WikiProject COVID-19 revisited
Technology report:
A new video player for Wikimedia wikis
Featured content:
Featured Content of April
Interview:
Wikipedia's pride
Serendipity:
Those thieving image farms
Recent research:
35 million Twitter links analysed
Tips and tricks:
The reference desks of Wikipedia
Traffic report:
Strange highs and strange lows
News from Diff:
Winners of the Human rights and Environment special nomination by Wiki Loves Earth announced
News from the WMF:
The EU Digital Services Act: What’s the Deal with the Deal?
Video:
How the entire country of Qatar was blocked from editing
Gallery:
Diving under the sea for World Oceans Day
From the archives:
The Onion
and Wikipedia
Essay:
How not to write a Wikipedia article
Humour:
A new crossword
June
Volume 18, Issue 06
, 26 June 2022
News and notes:
WMF inks new rules on government-ordered takedowns, blasts Russian feds' censor demands, spends big bucks
In the media:
Editor given three-year sentence, big RfA makes news, Guy Standing takes it sitting down
Special report:
"Wikipedia's independence" or "Wikimedia's pile of dosh"?
Discussion report:
MoS rules on CCP name mulled, XRV axe plea nulled, mass drafting bid pulled
Opinion:
Picture of the Day – how Adam plans to ru(i)n it
Featured content:
Articles on Scots' clash, Yank's tux, Austrian's action flick deemed brilliant prose
Essay:
RfA trend line haruspicy: fact or fancy?
Recent research:
Wikipedia versus academia (again), tables' "immortality" probed
Serendipity:
Was she really a Swiss lesbian automobile racer?
News from the WMF:
Wikimedia Enterprise signs first deals
Traffic report:
Top view counts for shows, movies, and celeb lawsuit that keeps on giving
Gallery:
Celebration of summer, winter
Humour:
Shortcuts, screwballers, Simon & Garfunkel
August
Volume 18, Issue 07
, 1 August 2022
From the editors:
Rise of the machines, or something
News and notes:
Information considered harmful
In the media:
Censorship, medieval hoaxes, "pathetic supervillains", FB-WMF AI TL bid, dirty duchess deeds done dirt cheap
Op-Ed:
The "recession" affair
Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine:
War diary (part 3)
Election guide:
The chosen six: 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections
Community view:
Youth culture and notability
Opinion:
Criminals among us
Arbitration report:
Winds of change blow for cyclone editors, deletion dustup draws toward denouement
Deletion report:
This is Gonzo Country
Discussion report:
Notability for train stations, notices for mobile editors, noticeboards for the rest of us
Traffic report:
US TV, JP ex-PM, outer space, and politics of IN, US, UK top charts for July
Featured content:
A little list with surprisingly few lists
Tips and tricks:
Cleaning up awful citations with Citation bot
In focus:
Wikidata insights from a handy little tool
On the bright side:
Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war — three (more) stories
Essay:
How to research an image
Recent research:
A century of rulemaking on Wikipedia analyzed
Serendipity:
Don't cite Wikipedia
Gallery:
A backstage pass
From the archives:
2012 Russian Wikipedia shutdown as it happened
Humour:
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Volume 18, Issue 08
, 31 August 2022
News and notes:
Admins wanted on English Wikipedia, IP editors not wanted on Farsi Wiki, donations wanted everywhere
Special report:
Wikimania 2022: no show, no show up?
In the media:
Truth or consequences? A tough month for truth
Discussion report:
Boarding the Trustees
News from Wiki Education:
18 years a Wikipedian: what it means to me
In focus:
Thinking inside the box
Tips and tricks:
The unexpected rabbit hole of typo fixing in citations...
Technology report:
Vector (2022) deployment discussions happening now
Serendipity:
Two photos of every library on earth
Featured content:
Our man drills are safe for work, but our Labia is Fausta.
Recent research:
The dollar value of "official" external links
Traffic report:
What dreams (and heavily trafficked articles) may come
Essay:
Delete the junk!
Gallery:
A Fringe Affair (but not the show by Edward W. Feery that was on this year)
Humour:
CommonsComix No. 1
From the archives:
5, 10, and 15 years ago
September
Volume 18, Issue 09
, 30 September 2022
News and notes:
Board vote results, bot's big GET, crat chat gives new mop, WMF seeks "sound logo" and "organizer lab"
In focus:
NPP: Still heaven or hell for new users – and for the reviewers
In the media:
A few complaints and mild disagreements
Special report:
Decentralized Fundraising, Centralized Distribution
Discussion report:
Much ado about Fox News
Interview:
ScottishFinnishRadish's Request for Adminship
Opinion:
Are we ever going to reach consensus?
Serendipity:
Removing watermarks, copyright signs and cigarettes from photos
Recent research:
How readers assess Wikipedia's trustworthiness, and how they could in the future
Traffic report:
Kings and queens and VIPs
Featured content:
Farm-fresh content
Gallery:
A Festival Descends on the City: The Edinburgh Fringe, Pt. 2
CommonsComix:
CommonsComix 2: Paulus Moreelse
From the archives:
5, 10, and 15 Years ago: September 2022
October
Volume 18, Issue 10
, 31 October 2022
From the team:
A new goose on the roost
News and notes:
Wikipedians question Wikimedia fundraising ethics after "somewhat-viral" tweet
News from the WMF:
Governance updates from, and for, the Wikimedia Endowment
In the media:
Scribing, searching, soliciting, spying, and systemic bias
Disinformation report:
From Russia with WikiLove
Recent research:
Disinformatsiya: Much research, but what will actually help Wikipedia editors?
Interview:
Isabelle Belato on their Request for Adminship
Featured content:
Topics, lists, submarines and Gurl.com
Serendipity:
We all make mistakes – don’t we?
Traffic report:
Mama, they're in love with a criminal
From the archives:
Paid advocacy, a lawsuit over spelling mistakes, deleting Jimbo's article, and the death of Toolserver
November
Volume 18, Issue 11
, 28 November 2022
News and notes:
English Wikipedia editors: "We don't need no stinking banners"
In the media:
"The most beautiful story on the Internet"
Interview:
Lisa Seitz-Gruwell on WMF fundraising in the wake of big banner ad RfC
Opinion:
Privacy on Wikipedia in the cyberpunk future
Disinformation report:
Missed and Dissed
Op-Ed:
Diminishing returns for article quality
Book review:
Writing the Revolution
Technology report:
Galactic dreams, encyclopedic reality
Essay:
The Six Million FP Man
Tips and tricks:
(Wiki)break stuff
Recent research:
Study deems COVID-19 editors smart and cool, questions of clarity and utility for WMF's proposed "Knowledge Integrity Risk Observatory"
Featured content:
A great month for featured articles
Obituary:
A tribute to Michael Gäbler
Concept:
The relevance of legal certainty to the English Wikipedia
Traffic report:
Musical deaths, murders, Princess Di's nominative determinism, and sports
From the archives:
Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
CommonsComix:
Joker's trick
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