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WMF English banner fundraising campaign 2025 - community collaboration starting now

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Hi,

We just launched the community collaboration process for the 2025 English banner fundraising campaign. More in the VP and the collaboration page. @Jayen466 maybe this can be added to the next N&N section? Let me know if you need more information or have questions. Cheers, JBrungs (WMF) (talk) 12:16, 1 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the suggestion, it is included in the draft News and notes. ☆ Bri (talk) 03:10, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Suggestion by Nemoralis (2025-07-03)

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The Signpost should write about... User:Grnrchst/David Woodard report. Nemoralis (talk) 12:23, 3 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think this is a fantastic story about self-promotion and sockfarm operation, amd support running it in The Signpost. ☆ Bri (talk) 05:06, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Pitch a topic WikiLoop Galaxy by Xinbenlv (2025-07-18)

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Hi Signpost editors,

I’d like to propose a short feature or blurb about WikiLoop Galaxy (COI: I am the developer of it) — an open-sourced experimental visual interface for exploring the link relationships among Wikipedia articles as an interactive constellation.

WikiLoop Galaxy offers an intuitive way to navigate and make sense of the web of article connections. With a few clicks, editors can visualize how concepts cluster and relate across the encyclopedia, sparking insights about category completeness, navigation gaps, or conceptual silos.

We’d love for Wikipedians to:

The tool itself is here: https://galaxy.wikiloop.org/

If a brief mention or shoutout in The Signpost is possible, it could help bring in new perspectives and energy from across the community. Happy to provide more info or answer questions if helpful. Thanks and warm regards,

xinbenlv Talk, Remember to "ping" me 01:58, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion by ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (2025-07-19)

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For the next Comix, I would like to suggest this image I made about the death of Wikinews. It is inspired by Of Mice and Men. commons:File:Tell me about the headlines, Wikinews.png

ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (talk) 17:58, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@ArtemisiaGentileschiFan: Thanks, I formatted it as a Comix page at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue/Comix. ☆ Bri (talk) 21:14, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Suggestion by Polygnotus (2025-07-20)

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The Signpost should write about...

Did you know that AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude believe that Simple Wikipedia is a reliable source? And that the community is much smaller which makes it far easier to fly under the radar if you are being naughty? Talk:Antisemitism_on_Wikipedia#WTF and simple:User:Polygnotus/tmp.

Polygnotus (talk) 18:49, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Instead of just posting two wikilinks, maybe you could tell us right here what your suggestion is. ☆ Bri (talk) 00:41, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Bri The fact that it is pretty easy to feed AI misinformation because they consider simple.wikipedia.org a reliable source and there is far less oversight over here than there is here. Polygnotus (talk) 05:41, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion by ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (2025-07-29)

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The Signpost should write about... the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail wrote an article about the Wikipedia editor community. It highlights two editors, Andy Filipowich and Hannah Clover (2024 Wikimedian of the Year).

ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (talk) 23:38, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (AGF?) - it will be included in the issue due for publication real soon now (RSN). You are credited at the In the media byline. ☆ Bri (talk) 20:59, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Suggestion by Ham II (2025-07-30)

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The Signpost should write about... How Wikipedia Whitewashes Mao: The Anatomy of Ideological Capture, a Substack post about bias in the Legacy section of the article Mao Zedong. This comment at Talk:Mao Zedong § "Legacy" section alludes to some context about the author which I'm not aware of: "Obviously the article comes from a past critic of Wikipedia..." Ham II (talk) 05:56, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe another editor will disagree, but I think it's going to be hard to address criticism from a pseudonymous, non notable Substack account. ☆ Bri (talk) 14:30, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Tracegrains is a well-known guy on the computer, I think. jp×g🗯️ 12:23, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion by Kosboot (2025-08-04)

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The Signpost should write about...

Like many libraries, The New York Public Library has a site for digitized material. And like many libraries, each digitized item comes with templates for citing the item based on various citation styles (MLA, APA, Chicago/Turabian). But where The New York Public Library is different is that they also provide wikitext in case you want to post to Wikipedia (or other Wikimedia projects). See the example on their website:: Original order suspending the writ of habeas corpus between New York and Washington. Signed by Abraham Lincoln.Countersigned by William Henry Seward

kosboot (talk) 17:19, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion by Gråbergs Gråa Sång (2025-08-05)

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Caesar DePaço, apparently there is a "en-WP article content was removed by court-order" case again. Wikipedia:Village_pump_(WMF)#Office_action:_Removals_on_the_article_Caesar_DePaço Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 05:33, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I put in a very brief note at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue/News and notes as we are up against our publishing deadline. ☆ Bri (talk) 17:36, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion by Ixtal (2025-08-09)

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The Signpost should write about... I finally finished User:Ixtal/Analysis on administrators' activity. I recall some time ago talking about sharing it through the Signpost, but it's been a while since then so I'm not aware of the current stance on it in the newsroom. — ♠ Ixtal ( T / C ) Non nobis solum 13:59, 9 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion by JMWt (2025-08-11)

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The Signpost should write about WP:BIAS specifically with reference to WP:NOTNEWS and WP:NEVENT. Recently a page on an event which happened days before in the USA was !kept at AfD on the basis of IAR and an accident that killed more than 30 in Pakistan was !deleted on the basis of NOTNEWS and NEVENT. It is clear that "news events" are not being consistently !kept or !deleted at AfD and this leads to long-standing BIAS.

JMWt (talk) 13:54, 11 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This sounds like an op-ed that would be written by someone with strong interest in the topic. Are you interested in doing one? ☆ Bri (talk) 15:25, 11 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
well I'm heavily biased and invested in the issue, I'm not sure I can write a balanced dispassionate piece. I can tell people what I think and why, I'm not sure I can do anything more than that JMWt (talk) 15:30, 11 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Op-eds don't have to be objective or dispassionate. It's in the title: opinion/editorial. ☆ Bri (talk) 17:22, 11 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'll think about it. JMWt (talk) 17:26, 11 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion by Gnomingstuff (2025-08-18)

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The Signpost should write about... the sharp rise in identified AI-generated content in August 2025, much of which has been undetected since 2023-2024, and the increased attention to combating it.

Disclaimer: I am involved in this WikiProject and most of the efforts above. But given the mainstream media attention and the number of developments in the past two weeks alone, it feels important to cover. Gnomingstuff (talk) 15:20, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion by Bruce1ee (2025-08-24)

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The Signpost should write about Boing Boing's article on Wikipedia and AI, "Wikipedia publishes list of AI writing tells".

Bruce1eetalk 09:03, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Congress

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Seems like big news The Hill. Liz Read! Talk! 23:50, 27 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'll be blunt, I'm kind of surprised to see no response here. Liz Read! Talk! 04:07, 28 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion by Gråbergs Gråa Sång (2025-08-28)

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The Signpost should write about... Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing has some press-coverage, as can be seen in the press-template on the talkpage.

And then there is Wikipedia:Village_pump_(WMF)#Wikipedia_under_US_House_of_Reps_Oversight_Committee, but I'm fairly sure you guys noticed that one anyway. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 14:17, 28 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion by Bruce1ee (2025-08-29)

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The Signpost should write about... HackerNoon's article entitled "Wikipedia Rules Everything Around Me".

Bruce1eetalk 13:08, 29 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"Wikipedia is the only digital strategy that matters in the next few years. Everything else is nice to have or simple noise." Interesting (if true). ☆ Bri (talk) 01:35, 30 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Suggestion by Inter-rede (2025-09-02)

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The Signpost should write about Caesar DePaço's intention to sue some of the editors responsible for adding content to the page on DePaço. According to him, "the information, although limited, was sufficient to proceed with identification" of the Wikipedians.

Inter-rede (talk) 03:27, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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--Another Believer (Talk) 18:24, 4 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's long but worth reading. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:37, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Also mentioned in the Cory Doctorow piece I just suggested below. Funcrunch (talk) 18:55, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion by Gråbergs Gråa Sång (2025-09-05)

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According to Trust and Safety Product/Temporary Accounts (IP masking), that thing is supposed to deploy this month. Wikipedians might voice opinions. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:37, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion by Funcrunch (2025-09-05)

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New article just published by Cory Doctorow on "Why Wikipedia Works". Among other things, highlights the importance of "Verifiability, not truth". Funcrunch (talk) 18:54, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion by TestUser345 (2025-10-06)

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The Signpost should write about the fact that the number of edits made by users blocked for inappropriate use of LLMs is doubling every 100 days.

English Wikipedia non-IP Accounts Blocked as LLMs
English Wikipedia non-IP Accounts Blocked as LLMs

Data source: Quarry. I suggest that this trend is not sustainable. TestUser345 (talk) 18:33, 6 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]




       

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