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Special report The election that isn't

2025-10-20

Two shortlisted WMF Board candidates removed from the ballot.

News and notes Board shuffles, LLM blocks increase, IPs are going away

2025-10-20

And the "Global Resource Distribution Committee" emerges.

Interview The BoT bump

2025-10-20

Who was bumped and why?

News and notes Court order snips out part of Wikipedia article, editors debate whether to frame shreds or pulp them

2025-08-09

Plus a mysterious CheckUser incident, and the news with Wikinews.

News and notes Is no WikiNews good WikiNews? — Election season returns!

2025-07-18

Endowment tax form, Wikimania, elections, U4C, fundraising and a duck!

News and notes Happy 7 millionth!

2025-06-24

Admins arrested in Belarus.

News and notes India cut off from Wiki money; WMF annual plan and Wikimedia programs seek comment

2025-05-01

As always, Wikimedia community governance relies on user participation; plus, more updates from the Wikimedia world

Discussion report Latest news from Centralized discussions: And don't bite those newbies!

2025-05-01

Arbitration report Sysop Tinucherian removed and admonished by the ArbCom

2025-05-01

And don't bite those newbies!

News and notes 35,000 user accounts compromised, locked in attempted credential-stuffing attack

2025-04-09

Plus: 30-year anniversary of wiki software commemorated.

News and notes Administrator elections up for reapproval and 1bil GET snagged on Commons

2025-02-27

French Wikipedia defends a user against public threats, steward elections, and other news from the Wikimedia world.

Serendipity What we've left behind, and where we want to go next

2025-01-15

The Signpost staff on achievements of '24 and hopes for '25.

News and notes Responsibilities and liabilities as a "Very Large Online Platform"

2024-12-24

What the VLOP – findings of an outside auditor for "responsibilization" of Wikipedia. Plus, new EU Commissioners for tech policy, WLE 2024 winners, and a few other bits of news from the Wikipedia world.

News and notes Wikimedia Foundation shares ANI lawsuit updates; first admin elections appoint eleven sysops; first admin recalls opened; temporary accounts coming soon?

2024-11-06

Defamation, privacy, censorship, and elections.

News and notes One election's end, another election's beginning

2024-10-19

Find more about the new Trustees, the first election cycle for admins, and other news from the Wikimedia world.

News and notes Are you ready for admin elections?

2024-09-26

More changes to RfA on the way in October, final results for the U4C elections revealed, and other news from the Wikimedia world.

News and notes Another Wikimania has concluded

2024-08-14

And Movement Charter ratification vote comments have been published.