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Volume 19, Issue 01
, 1 January 2023
News and notes:
Wikimedia Foundation ousts, bans quarter of Arabic Wikipedia admins
In the media:
Odd bedfellows, Elon and Jimbo, reliable sources for divorces, and more
Interview:
ComplexRational's RfA debrief
Technology report:
Wikimedia Foundation's Abstract Wikipedia project "at substantial risk of failure"
Essay:
Mobile editing
Arbitration report:
Arbitration Committee Election 2022
Recent research:
Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement in talk page disputes
Serendipity:
Wikipedia about FIFA World Cup 2022: quick, factual and critical
Featured content:
Would you like to swing on a star?
Traffic report:
Football, football, football! Wikipedia Football Club!
CommonsComix:
#4: The Course of WikiEmpire
From the archives:
Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
Volume 19, Issue 02
, 16 January 2023
From the team:
We heard zoomers liked fortnights: the biweekly Signpost rides again
Special report:
Coverage of 2022 bans reveals editors serving long sentences in Saudi Arabia since 2020
News and notes:
Revised Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines up for vote, WMF counsel departs, generative models under discussion
In the media:
Court orders user data in libel case, Saudi Wikipedia in the crosshairs, Larry Sanger at it again
Technology report:
View it! A new tool for image discovery
In focus:
Busting into Grand Central
Serendipity:
How I bought part of Wikipedia – for less than $100
Gallery:
What is our responsibility when it comes to images?
Humour:
New geologically speedy deletion criteria introduced
Opinion:
Good old days, in which fifth-symbol-lacking lipograms roam'd our librarious litany
Featured content:
Flip your lid
Traffic report:
The most viewed articles of 2022
From the archives:
Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
February
Volume 19, Issue 03
, 4 February 2023
From the editor:
New for the Signpost: Author pages, tag pages, and a decent article search function
News and notes:
Foundation update on fundraising, new page patrol, Tides, and Wikipedia blocked in Pakistan
Section 230:
Twenty-six words that created the internet, and the future of an encyclopedia
Disinformation report:
Wikipedia on Santos
Special report:
Legal status of Wikimedia projects "unclear" under potential European legislation
In the media:
Furor over new Wikipedia skin, followup on Saudi bans, and legislative debate
Op-Ed:
Estonian businessman and political donor brings lawsuit against head of national Wikimedia chapter
Opinion:
Study examines cultural leanings of Wikimedia projects' visual art coverage
Recent research:
Wikipedia's "moderate yet systematic" liberal citation bias
WikiProject report:
WikiProject Organized Labour
Tips and tricks:
XTools: Data analytics for your list of created articles
Featured content:
20,000 Featureds under the Sea
Traffic report:
Films, deaths and ChatGPT
Volume 19, Issue 04
, 20 February 2023
News and notes:
Terms of Use update, Steward elections, and Wikipedia back in Pakistan
In the media:
Arbitrators open case after article alleges Wikipedia "intentionally distorts" Holocaust coverage
Disinformation report:
The "largest con in corporate history"?
Essay:
Machine-written articles: a new challenge for Wikipedia
Tips and tricks:
All about writing at DYK
Featured content:
Eden, lost.
Gallery:
Love is in the air
Traffic report:
Superbowl? Pfft. Give me some Bollywood! Yours sincerely, the world
From the archives:
5, 10, and 15 years ago: Let's (not) delete the Main Page!
Cobwebs:
Editorial: The loss of the moral high ground
Humour:
The RfA Candidate's Song
March
Volume 19, Issue 05
, 9 March 2023
News and notes:
What's going on with the Wikimedia Endowment?
Technology report:
Second flight of the Soviet space bears: Testing ChatGPT's accuracy
In the media:
What should Wikipedia do? Publish Russian propaganda? Be less woke? Cover the Holocaust in Poland differently?
Featured content:
In which over two-thirds of the featured articles section needs to be copied over to WikiProject Military History's newsletter
Recent research:
"Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the Holocaust" in Poland and "self-focus bias" in coverage of global events
From the archives:
Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
Volume 19, Issue 06
, 20 March 2023
News and notes:
Wikimania submissions deadline looms, Russian government after our lucky charms, AI woes nix CNET from RS slate
Eyewitness:
Three more stories from Ukrainian Wikimedians
In the media:
Paid editing, plagiarism payouts, proponents of a ploy, and people peeved at perceived preferences
Featured content:
Way too many featured articles
Interview:
228/2/1: the inside scoop on Aoidh's RfA
Traffic report:
Who died? Who won? Who lost?
April
Volume 19, Issue 07
, 3 April 2023
From the editor:
Some long-overdue retractions
News and notes:
Sounding out, a universal code of conduct, and dealing with AI
In the media:
Twiddling Wikipedia during an online contest, and other news
Arbitration report:
"World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" case is ongoing
Featured content:
Hail, poetry! Thou heav'n-born maid
Recent research:
Language bias: Wikipedia captures at least the "silhouette of the elephant", unlike ChatGPT
From the archives:
April Fools' through the ages
Disinformation report:
Sus socks support suits, seems systemic
Volume 19, Issue 08
, 26 April 2023
News and notes:
Staff departures at Wikimedia Foundation, Jimbo hands in the bits, and graphs' zeppelin burns
In the media:
Contested truth claims in Wikipedia
Obituary:
Remembering David "DGG" Goodman
Arbitration report:
Holocaust in Poland, Jimbo in the hot seat, and a desysopping
Opinion:
What Jimbo's question revealed about scamming
Op-Ed:
Wikipedia as an anchor of truth
Special report:
Signpost
statistics between years 2005 and 2022
News from the WMF:
Collective planning with the Wikimedia Foundation
Featured content:
In which we described the featured articles in rhyme again
From the archives:
April Fools' through the ages, part two
Humour:
The law of hats
Traffic report:
Long live machine, the future supreme
May
Volume 19, Issue 09
, 8 May 2023
News and notes:
New legal "deVLOPments" in the EU
In the media:
Vivek's smelly socks, online safety, and politics
Recent research:
Gender, race and notability in deletion discussions
Featured content:
I wrote a poem for each article, I found rhymes for all the lists; My first featured picture of this year now finally exists!
Arbitration report:
"World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" approaches conclusion
News from the WMF:
Planning together with the Wikimedia Foundation
Special report:
There Shall Be Seasons Refreshing – Stories from WikiConference India 2023
Volume 19, Issue 10
, 22 May 2023
News and notes:
Golden parachutes: Record severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation
In the media:
History, propaganda and censorship
Arbitration report:
Final decision in "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland"
Recent research:
Create or curate, cooperate or compete? Game theory for Wikipedia editors
Featured content:
A very musical week for featured articles
Traffic report:
Coronation, chatbot, celebs
WikiProject report:
Wikipedians Convene for Queering Wikipedia 2023: The First International LGBT+ Wikipedia Conference
June
Volume 19, Issue 11
, 5 June 2023
News and notes:
WMRU director forks new 'pedia, birds flap in top '22 piccy, WMF weighs in on Indian gov's map axe plea
In the media:
Section 230 stands tall, WP vs. UK bill, Miss Information dissed again
Featured content:
Poetry under pressure
Traffic report:
Celebs, controversies and a chatbot in the public eye
Volume 19, Issue 12
, 19 June 2023
News and notes:
WMF Terms of Use now in force, new Creative Commons licensing
In the media:
English WP editor glocked after BLP row on Italian 'pedia
Featured content:
Content, featured
Recent research:
Hoaxers prefer currently-popular topics
July
Volume 19, Issue 13
, 3 July 2023
News and notes:
Online Safety Bill: Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia UK launch open letter
Disinformation report:
Imploded submersible outfit foiled trying to sing own praises on Wikipedia
In the media:
Journo proposes mass Wiki dox, sponsored articles on Fandom, Section 230 discussed
Featured content:
Incensed
Traffic report:
Are you afraid of spiders? Arnold? The Idol? ChatGPT?
Humour:
United Nations dispatches peacekeeping force to Wikipedia policy discussions
Volume 19, Issue 14
, 17 July 2023
News and notes:
Big bux hidden beneath wine-dark sea as we wait for the Tides to go out?
In the media:
Tentacles of Emirates plot attempt to ensnare Wikipedia
Obituary:
David Thomsen (Dthomsen8) and Ingo Koll (Kipala)
News from the WMF:
ABC for Fundraising: Advancing Banner Collaboration for fundraising campaigns
In focus:
Are the children of celebrities over-represented in French cinema?
Tips and tricks:
What automation can do for you (and your WikiProject)
Recent research:
Wikipedia-grounded chatbot "outperforms all baselines" on factual accuracy
Humour:
New fringe theories to be introduced
Cobwebs:
If you're reading this, you're probably on a desktop
Featured content:
Scrollin', scrollin', scrollin', keep those readers scrollin', got to keep on scrollin', Rawhide!
Traffic report:
The Idol becomes the Master
August
Volume 19, Issue 15
, 1 August 2023
News and notes:
City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians, Ruwiki founder banned, WMF launches Mastodon server
In the media:
Truth, AI, bull from politicians, and climate change
Disinformation report:
Hot climate, hot hit, hot money, hot news hot off the presses!
Obituary:
Donald Cram, Peter McCawley, and Eagleash
Tips and tricks:
Citation tools for dummies!
Humour:
Does Wikipedia present neutral perspectives?
In focus:
Journals cited by Wikipedia
Opinion:
Are global bans the last step?
Featured content:
Featured Content, 1 to 15 July
Traffic report:
Come on Oppie, let's go party
Volume 19, Issue 16
, 15 August 2023
News and notes:
Dude, Where's My Donations? Wikimedia Foundation announces another million in grants for non-Wikimedia-related projects
In the media:
An accusation of bias from Brazil, a lawsuit from Portugal, plagiarism from Florida
In focus:
2023 Good Article Nomination drive is underway: get your barnstars here!
Special report:
Thirteen years later, why are most administrators still from 2005?
Tips and tricks:
How to find images for your articles, check their copyright, upload them, and restore them
Cobwebs:
Getting serious about writing
Opinion:
Copyright trolls, or the last beautiful free souls on this planet?
Serendipity:
Why I stopped taking photographs almost altogether
Featured content:
Barbenheimer confirmed
Humour:
Arbitration Committee to accept case against Right Honorable Frimbley Cantingham, 15th Viscount Bellington-upon-Porkshire
Traffic report:
'Cause today it just goes with the fashion
Volume 19, Issue 17
, 31 August 2023
From the editor:
Beta version of signpost.news now online
News and notes:
You like RecentChanges?
In the media:
Taking it sleazy
Recent research:
The five barriers that impede "stitching" collaboration between Commons and Wikipedia
Draftspace:
Bad Jokes and Other Draftspace Novelties
Humour:
The Dehumourification Plan
Traffic report:
Raise your drinking glass, here's to yesterday
September
Volume 19, Issue 18
, 16 September 2023
News and notes:
Wikimedia power sharing – just an advisory role for the volunteer community?
In the media:
"Just flirting", going Dutch and Shapps for the defence?
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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