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The Independent reports Elon Musk furious after Wikipedia page calls his controversial gesture a 'Nazi salute' The newspaper states

(Musk) called out the online encyclopedia site on X after the gesticulation he made at a rally at the Capital One Arena was referred to as "a Nazi salute or fascist salute" on his Wikipedia page – something the Tesla/X CEO vehemently denies.

But the link to the "denial" is less than it first seemed. Vanity Fair's article says Elon Musk Sure Isn’t Denying That His Inaugural Gesture Was a Nazi Salute.

At the Wikipedia article Elon Musk a long paragraph (still stands?) with a discussion at Talk:Elon Musk (going nowhere?) rewrite before publication Link to other Wikipedia articles. AfD for Elon Musk's arm gesture Link to Musk "endorsement" of AFD?

Jimbo's tweet was a response on January 21. Musk's humorous tweet. ADL's 2nd tweet decrying holocaust humor. Don't worry there will be more. How to cover this objectively? Just give a list and summarize of all the relevant tweets without trying to make any sense of it?

France 24 gives a detailed video analysis. DW News (Deutsche Welle) states what may be the last word on the meaning of the gesture. According to analyst Matthew Moore, "Really ultimately no one can know the intent of this moment of this gesture what was behind it apart from Elon Musk."

Forward (The Forward formerly Forverts when it was published in Yiddish) quoted the Anti-Defamation League who said it was "an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute". The ADL statement is discussed in the Wikipedia article.

On the other hand, as reported by The Guardian, the head of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, Amy Spitalnick, expressed more concern over the gesture, saying that "there was nothing ambiguous" about the salutes, and that they "should be enough to warrant condemnation and attention".

[1] (Economic Times) reprint of Independent article.

A Newsweek piece says in the title Wikipedia "fires back" what? how? who?

The Swedish national public broadcaster Sveriges Television adds more details about Musk’s criticism of Wikipedia, highlighting his claim that the site relies on "legacy media propaganda" for sourcing. It also includes a direct response from Jimmy Wales, who defended Wikipedia’s neutrality, stating that the article simply reports verifiable facts: Musk made the gesture, it was widely compared to a Nazi salute, and he denied any intent. Wales also took the opportunity to remind Musk of his failed bid to buy Wikipedia. Adding this here to get more global coverage - feel free to place where appropritate

A second piece in The Independent... [2]

Lots of time on this for us to get it right, but let's just report what others think.

infinite in faculties?don't even think about using this one! Almost useable

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Anti-Defamation League (ADL) report on Arbitration Committee's Palestine-Israel Articles 5 decision was the core of stories in The Times of Israel and The Jerusalem Post (Israeli media) and The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles (American).

• The Times of Israel: "ADL: Wikipedia bans several editors for spreading antisemitic rhetoric, misinformation on Gaza war"
• The Jerusalem Post: "Anti-Israel Wikipedia editors face bans after spreading hate, misinformation"
• The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles: "Wikipedia's Supreme Court On the Verge of Topic Banning 8 Editors from Israel-Palestine Area – Group would include two editors who are pro-Israel"

Several Wikipedians provided a mix of anonymous and attributed responses to Jewish Journal. They expressed a range of opinions from optimistic: "I like the idea of something like the article titles restriction...the vacuum [caused by bans of individuals] will be filled by experienced editors who have heretofore been afraid to edit in the topic area" to ascerbic: "[it is] flabby and insufficient ... the arbs in general were lazy, robotic, and are utterly unsuited to provide 'adult supervision' of Wikipedia."

The decision was also covered by Jewish Telegraphic Agency, with less emphasis on the ADL commentary.

• Jewish Telegraphic Agency "Edit wars over Israel spur rare ban of 8 Wikipedia editors — from both sides"

See related Signpost coverage at this issue's Arbitration report.

In a recent video for the vlogbrothers YouTube channel, author and philantropist John Green recently shared more details about "something ridiculous", that is, the latest achievement of his charity community, Nerdfighteria: the completion of a real-life soccer transfer. Green, together with his wife and about 1.100 members of Nerdfighteria, helped English League Two club AFC Wimbledon pay for the transfer of Marcus Browne, having collected most of the money through donations on several livestreams hosted at Green's solo channel.

AFC Wimbledon was founded in 2002 by former fans of Wimbledon F.C., in dissent to the controversial relocation of the club to Milton Keynes, which eventually led to the foundation of MK Dons. The phoenix club is majority-owned by a fan association, the Dons Trust, and Green – despite being a life-long fan of Liverpool F.C. – has sponsored them since July 2014, when Nerdfighteria was first announced as a back-of-shorts sponsor.

In his video about the Browne transfer, Green stated that supporting AFC Wimbledon was "one of my great achievements of my life", and that he had "no idea why it's not on my Wikipedia page". As reported by several users in the comment section, the author's call-to-action (of sorts) prompted user Hameltion to add new information to the Personal life section of his Wikipedia article, so that the "ridiculous" milestone could be celebrated properly. In the words of Green himself, "The ridiculous is perilously close to the sublime!" – O

• "In a minefield of glitchy AI search and social media, Wikipedia becomes one of the most reliable places on the internet" (CNN): how Wikipedia has not just resisted the platform decay that hit its 2000s-era peers, but it's actually gotten better and even maintains a sort of truth-in-advertising list of hoaxes that have been perpetrated against it
• Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, former Belarusian presidential candidate who is now exiled, met with Jimmy Wales at Davos.
• https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/14/facebook-instagram-wikipedia-politics-truth Wokepedia, part 72 ... see prior Signpost coverage
• Wikipedia's birthday noted: [3] (Associated Press via Chicago Tribune)
• That time when the Prime Minister used his Wikipedia page as ID: A viral video purports to show the Prime Minister of Poland at Capital One Arena in connection with the U.S. presidential transition, showing the National Guard his cellphone so they can check his identity on his Wikipedia page before granting him entry. Too bad, it probably wasn't so; according to AOL fact check he was just getting directions.
• It's 'Easy' to get rich with Wikipedia: Actually, not, court tells Stelios Haji-Ioannou (The Times, UK)
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This page is a draft for the next issue of the Signpost. Below is some helpful code that will help you write and format a Signpost draft. If it's blank, you can fill out a template by copy-pasting this in and pressing 'publish changes': {{subst:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Story-preload}}

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Sidebar images To put an image in your article, use the following template (link): I understand the primacy of pure feeling in creative art. {{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Filler image-v2 |size = 300px |fullwidth = no |alt = TKTK |caption = |image = }} This will create the file on the right. Keep the 300px in most cases. If writing a 'full width' article, change |fullwidth=no to |fullwidth=yes. Inline images Placing {{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Inline image |size = 300px |align = center |alt = TKTK |caption = |image = }} (link) will instead create an inline image like below The significant thing is feeling, as such, quite apart from the environment in which it is called forth. Galleries To create a gallery, use the following <gallery style="float:right;" mode=packed | heights=200px> |TKTK |TKTK </gallery> Each line inside the tags should be formatted like File:Whatever.jpg|Caption). This creates: Art no longer cares to serve the state and religion, it no longer wishes to illustrate the history of manners. It wants to have nothing further to do with the object as such, and believes that it can exist in and for itself. If you want it centered, remove tstyle="float:right;" from the first line.

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Article series

To add a series of 'related articles' your article, use the following code Related articles Visual Editor Five, ten, and fifteen years ago 1 January 2023 VisualEditor, endowment, science, and news in brief 5 August 2015 HTTPS-only rollout completed, proposal to enable VisualEditor for new accounts 17 June 2015 VisualEditor and MediaWiki updates 29 April 2015 Security issue fixed; VisualEditor changes 4 February 2015 More articles Draft namespace, VisualEditor meetings 25 December 2013 Sockpuppet investigations, VisualEditor, Wikidata's birthday, and more 6 November 2013 Last call for Wiki Loves Monuments; Community–WMF tension over VisualEditor 25 September 2013 Making Wikipedia more accessible 4 September 2013 Gallery improvements launch on Wikipedia 28 August 2013 The VisualEditor Beta and the path to change 31 July 2013 Defining consensus; VisualEditor default state; expert and layperson terms in article titles 31 July 2013 VisualEditor in midst of game-changing deployment series 3 July 2013 VisualEditor will "change world history" 12 June 2013 VisualEditor, elections, bots, and more 12 June 2013 The Visual Editor: Where are we now, and where are we headed? 25 March 2013 Visual Editor "on schedule" for July rollout 18 March 2013 Looking ahead to 2013 7 January 2013 The new Visual Editor gets a bit more visual 10 December 2012 Second Visual Editor prototype launches 25 June 2012 Visual editor demo launched, hailed as "most important change to our user experience ... ever"; but elsewhere over-hasty deployments criticised 19 December 2011 Full steam ahead on Visual Editor, the avoidance of lock-breaking and 1.18b1 release 7 November 2011 {{Signpost series |type = sidebar-v2 |tag = VisualEditor |seriestitle = Visual Editor |fullwidth = no }} or {{Signpost series |type = sidebar-v2 |tag = VisualEditor |seriestitle = Visual Editor |fullwidth = yes }} will create the sidebar on the right. If writing a 'full width' article, change |fullwidth=no to |fullwidth=yes. A partial list of valid |tag= parameters can be found at here and will decide the list of articles presented. |seriestitle= is the title that will appear below 'Related articles' in the box. Alternatively, you can use {{Signpost series |type = inline |tag = VisualEditor |tag_name = visual editor |tag_pretext = the }} at the end of an article to create For more Signpost coverage on the visual editor see our visual editor series. If you think a topic would make a good series, but you don't see a tag for it, or that all the articles in a series seem 'old', ask for help at the WT:NEWSROOM. Many more tags exist, but they haven't been documented yet.