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Wikidata weekly summary #486
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Bionomia and maintaining Wikidata synchrony with David Shorthouse (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada). [1], Sep 21st.
- Lightning Talk: Wikidata in your Civic Tech project | Summit 2021 - YouTube
- Ongoing:
- The Creative Commons Global Summit and Hack4OpenGLAM hackathon take place from September 20 until 24 (fully online). Several sessions and projects are related to Wikidata and/or Wikibase (see schedule search).
- Past:
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Videos
- Mapping the Scottish Reformation - using Wikidata, Wikipedia's sister project - YouTube
- OpenSym 2021: WDProp: Web Application to Analyse Multilingual Aspects of Wikidata Properties - YouTube
- Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #53 (user scripts and gadgets that can help you edit) - YouTube
- Videos
- Tool of the week
- User:Inductiveload/scripts/ShowQsAndPs shows the Q and P IDs on Items.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- OpenRefine has started development of features for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. Sign up here if you want to receive occasional updates on a Wikimedia talk page of your choice.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: created for, Candomblé nation, NZTCS conservation status, Mexican video game rating category
- External identifiers: INAPP author ID, TBDB ID, Enciclopedia dello Sport ID, INAPP work ID, Fondation du patrimoine ID, Endemia.nc animal taxon ID, Gry-Online game ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (first edition) ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (third edition) ID, Festivaletteratura person ID, Every Noise at Once ID, Spotify show episode ID, Online Begraafplaatsen cemetery ID, Bing entity ID, TermCymru ID, NZTCS ID, Online Begraafplaatsen person ID, UK Renewable Energy Planning Database ID, ICCD ID - Santuari Cristiani, Naver Post member ID, Swedish Food Agency food ID, Dictionary of Old Norse Prose ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: relevant date for copyright, issuing agency, Hardy's Guide to Marine Gastropods ID, main subject for, type host taxon, has thematic relation, location of lexeme usage, ODOT county code, illustrative content
- External identifiers: e-Maapõu locality ID, Grand dictionnaire terminologique ID, Google Fonts ID, Kallías, Owler company ID, Vietherb species ID, Vietherb metabolite ID, Allrugby, SLSP editions ID, Issuu ID, XXI Secolo ID, Journées européennes du patrimoine ID, Peoples.ru ID, musik-sammler.de artist ID, HJP ID, NVE reservoir ID, Biografija.ru ID, Madrean Discovery Expeditions Flora Database ID, Madrean Discovery Expeditions Fauna Database ID, IRIS Tuscany IDs, Joshua Project people group ID, Flipboard ID, Washington Rare Plant Field Guide (2021- Version) ID, Gente di Tuscia ID, Poetsgate poem ID, AdoroCinema person ID, Zenodo Communities ID, National Union Catalog ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- The new Streaming Updater for Wikidata Query Service will be in production 18 Oct 2021
- Working on changing the way sitelinks to Wikimedia Commons are created from Item data; now using topic's main category (P910) and category related to list (P1754) before Commons category (P373) (T232927)
- Continuing the work on the Mismatch Finder. This week we focused on the remaining groundwork for showing the first mismatches for review.
- Continuing to work on improvements to the underlying system of how edits are propagated from Wikidata to the other Wikimedia projects.
- Implemented two improvements for constraints: the “distinct values” constraint type now supports the “separator” parameter (phab:T277855) and we no longer check qualifiers on some unusual™ properties (phab:T235292)
- Adding tags to some of the remaining UI edits that didn't get them yet for edits on Lexemes (phab:T290950)
- Making it possible to add tags to some remaining Lexeme API modules (phab:T290951)
- Fixed a bug in the Query Builder where it didn't show labels when opening an existing visual query from a shared link (phab:T280684)
- Made the Query Builder more visible in the Query Service UI (phab:T280229)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
The Signpost: 26 September 2021
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: New CEO, new board members, China bans
- In the media: The future of Wikipedia
- Op-Ed: I've been desysopped
- Disinformation report: Paid promotional paragraphs in German parliamentary pages
- Discussion report: Editors discuss Wikipedia's vetting process for administrators
- Recent research: Wikipedia images for machine learning; Experiment justifies Wikipedia's high search rankings
- Community view: Is writing Wikipedia like making a quilt?
- Traffic report: Kanye, Emma Raducanu and 9/11
- News from Diff: Welcome to the first grantees of the Knowledge Equity Fund
- WikiProject report: The Random and the Beautiful
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Wikidata weekly summary #487
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: BrokenSegue (RfP scheduled to end after 27 September 2021 14:36 UTC)
- Events
- Upcoming:
- We’re celebrating the 9th birthday of Wikidata on October 29 during the WikidataCon 🎂 Did you know that you can participate in the celebration by preparing a birthday present or attending events? Here’s how you can get involved!
- The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 GMT on Thursday 30th September 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). All are welcome!
- LIVE Wikidata editing #55 (with OpenRefine) - YouTube, Facebook, October 2 at 18:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #81, October 3
- COVIWD: COVID-19 Wikidata Dashboard, 30 Sep 2021, Time: 13.00-14.00 WIB (join details)
- Past:
- Data Quality Days: You can find slides, videos and notes for many of the sessions on the event page.
- Wiki Movimento Brasil. The universe of libraries:
- Wikidata and the multiplication of knowledge potencies (in Portuguese)
- Wikidata and the multiplication of knowledge powers (in Portuguese)
- LIVE Wikidata editing #54 - YouTube, Facebook
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- WDProp: Web Application to Analyse Multilingual Aspects of Wikidata Properties, OpenSym 2021, 15-17 September 2021 (Slides, source code, Short Video)
- WDProp: Web Application to Analyse Multilingual Aspects of Wikidata Properties, OpenSym 2021, 15-17 September 2021 (Slides, source code, Short Video)
- Videos
- How to work with Wikidata in the library (in Italian) - YouTube
- Demo: create Wikidata lexemes from Goethe's "Der Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären" - YouTube
- Demo of adding a string to Wikidata as a lexeme and linking it to the corresponding Wikidata item - YouTube
- Wikidata Query Service assistance (in French) - YouTube
- Experiences of Using WDumper to Create Topical Subsets from Wikidata - YouTube
- Other
- Chirpanalytica: "Give me your Twitter name and I'll tell you which party you choose". "What if you could automatically determine the political orientation of a person using just a Twitter account? This is exactly what I have been doing for the past two years".
- That Wikidata Buzz - Siobhan Leachman talks about Wikidata in the The World According to Wikipedia podcast.
- Tool of the week
- User-level gender statistics for Wikipedia an Observable notebook which computes the share of articles created on fr.wikipedia.org by gender using P21 property through Wikidata's API.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- You can nominate your favorite Wikidata projects (tools, community initiatives, WikiProjects...) until October 10th for the WikidataCon community awards.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: App Store age rating, music created for, issuing agent of work, FLOSS development policy URL, relevant date for copyright, inscription image, Hardy's Guide to Marine Gastropods URL
- External identifiers: Australian Research Council Grant ID, Grand dictionnaire terminologique ID, Materials Project material ID, All.Rugby player ID, swisscovery edition ID, e-Maapõu locality ID, Online Begraafplaatsen memorial ID, PoetsGate poem ID, NVE reservoir ID, FLORE author ID, USiena air author ID, IRIS IMT author ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: WikiProject importance scale rating, predicate for, eHive ID
- External identifiers: Database of Czech amateur theater ID, National Gallery Prague work ID, George Eastman Museum artist ID, All.Rugby club ID, Sachsens-Schlösser-Kennung, Dizionario di Economia e Finanza ID, Densho Encyclopedia ID, AsianWiki ID, Channel One Russia show ID, DWDS lemma ID, WDG lemma ID, company code (RICS)
- Query examples:
- Given name "Filaret" ranked within similar names (source: talk page of item)
- Start time of open access journals known to Wikidata (Source)
- Mouths of rivers flowing into the Arctic (Source)
- What chocolate mousse is called in different languages (Source)
- Women in Wikidata whose husbands are economists with articles on the English Wikipedia, but they themselves lack articles (adapted from Source)
- Same with husbands (adapted from Source)
- People employed by the ZDF with an image on Commons and a link to the German language Wikipedia (Source)
- Coordinates of the birth places of people named Antoine (Source)
- Place of birth of people named Antoine, Tony, Antonio, etc
- UK MPs who had the most identified descendants who were themselves MPs (Source)
- Newest database reports: top missing properties by number of sitelinks/P26 (works again)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Changed the formatting of low year numbers so that they now show as e.g. “5 CE” instead of “5” to reduce ambiugity in dates like “March 5 (CE)” (phab:T104750)
- Working on fixing an issue where two Properties could have the same label in a given language (phab:T289473)
- Working on preventing a few more cases where two Items could have the same sitelink (phab:T291377)
- Mismatch Finder: Continuing to work on showing mismatches on the results page so that they can be reviewed
- Continuing to work on technical improvements to how changes on Wikidata are propagated to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
The Signpost: 31 October 2021
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- From the editor: Different stories, same place
- News and notes: The sockpuppet who ran for adminship and almost succeeded
- Discussion report: Editors brainstorm and propose changes to the Requests for adminship process
- Recent research: Welcome messages fail to improve newbie retention
- Community view: Reflections on the Chinese Wikipedia
- Traffic report: James Bond and the Giant Squid Game
- Technology report: Wikimedia Toolhub, winners of the Coolest Tool Award, and more
- Serendipity: How Wikipedia helped create a Serbian stamp
- Book review: Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality
- WikiProject report: Redirection
- Humour: A very Wiki crossword
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The Signpost: 29 November 2021
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- In the media: Denial: climate change, mass killings and pornography
- WikiCup report: The WikiCup 2021
- Deletion report: What we lost, what we gained
- From a Wikipedia reader: What's Matt Amodio?
- Arbitration report: ArbCom in 2021
- Discussion report: On the brink of change – RFA reforms appear imminent
- Technology report: What does it take to upload a file?
- WikiProject report: Interview with contributors to WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers
- Serendipity: "Did You Know ..." featured a photo of the wrong female WWII pilot
- News from Diff: Content translation tool helps create one million Wikipedia articles
- Traffic report: Reporting ticket sales on the edge of the Wiki, if Eternals should fail
- Recent research: Vandalizing Wikipedia as rational behavior
- Humour: A very new very Wiki crossword
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The Signpost: 28 December 2021
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- From the editor: Here is the news
- News and notes: Jimbo's NFT, new arbs, fixing RfA, and financial statements
- Serendipity: Born three months before her brother?
- In the media: The past is not even past
- Arbitration report: A new crew for '22
- By the numbers: Four billion words and a few numbers
- Deletion report: We laughed, we cried, we closed as "no consensus"
- Gallery: Wikicommons presents: 2021
- Traffic report: Spider-Man, football and the departed
- Crossword: Another Wiki crossword for one and all
- Humour: Buying Wikipedia
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The Signpost: 30 January 2022
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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
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The Signpost: 27 February 2022
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- From the team: Selection of a new Signpost Editor-in-Chief
- News and notes: Impacts of Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Special report: A presidential candidate's team takes on Wikipedia
- In the media: Wiki-drama in the UK House of Commons
- 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
- 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
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The Signpost: 27 March 2022
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- From the team: We stand in solidarity with 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
- 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
- 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
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The Signpost: 24 April 2022
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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
- Interview: On a war and a map
- Serendipity: Wikipedia loves photographs, but hates photographers
- Traffic report: Justice Jackson, the Smiths, and an invasion
- News from the WMF: How Smart is the SMART Copyright Act?
- Humour: Really huge message boxes
- From the archives: Wales resigned WMF board chair in 2006 reorganization
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The Signpost: 29 May 2022
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- From the team: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/From the team
- News and notes: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/News and notes
- Community view: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Community view
- In the media: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/In the media
- Special report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Special report
- Discussion report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Discussion report
- WikiProject report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/WikiProject report
- Technology report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Technology report
- Featured content: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Featured content
- Recent research: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Recent research
- Tips and tricks: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Tips and tricks
- Traffic report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Traffic report
- News from Diff: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/News from Diff
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- From the archives: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/From the archives
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The Signpost: 26 June 2022
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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"?
- Featured content: Articles on Scots' clash, Yank's tux, Austrian's action flick deemed brilliant prose
- 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
- Gallery: Celebration of summer, winter
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The Signpost: 1 August 2022
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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)
- 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
- Featured content: A little list with surprisingly few lists
- Tips and tricks: Cleaning up awful citations with Citation bot
- 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
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The Signpost: 31 August 2022
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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!
- Humour: CommonsComix No. 1
- From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 years ago
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The Signpost: 30 September 2022
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper
- News and notes: Board vote results, bot's big GET, crat chat gives new mop, WMF seeks "sound logo" and "organizer lab"
- In the media: A few complaints and mild disagreements
- Special report: Decentralized Fundraising, Centralized Distribution
- Discussion report: Much ado about Fox News
- Traffic report: Kings and queens and VIPs
- Featured content: Farm-fresh content
- CommonsComix: CommonsComix 2: Paulus Moreelse
- From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 Years ago: September 2022
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The Signpost: 31 October 2022
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper
- From the team: A new goose on the roost
- News from the WMF: Governance updates from, and for, the Wikimedia Endowment
- Disinformation report: From Russia with WikiLove
- 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
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The Signpost: 28 November 2022
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper
- News and notes: English Wikipedia editors: "We don't need no stinking banners"
- In the media: "The most beautiful story on the Internet"
- Disinformation report: Missed and Dissed
- 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
- From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
- CommonsComix: Joker's trick
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The Signpost: 1 January 2023
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper
- 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
- 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
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The Signpost: 16 January 2023
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper
- 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
- Featured content: Flip your lid
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2022
- From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
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The Signpost: 4 February 2023
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper
- 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
- Disinformation report: Wikipedia on Santos
- Op-Ed: Estonian businessman and political donor brings lawsuit against head of national Wikimedia chapter
- 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
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The Signpost: 20 February 2023
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper
- In the media: Arbitrators open case after article alleges Wikipedia "intentionally distorts" Holocaust coverage
- Disinformation report: The "largest con in corporate history"?
- Tips and tricks: All about writing at DYK
- Featured content: Eden, lost.
- Gallery: Love is in the air
- From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 years ago: Let's (not) delete the Main Page!
- Humour: The RfA Candidate's Song
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The Signpost: 9 March 2023
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- 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 propoganda? 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
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The Signpost: 20 March 2023
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper
- 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?
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The Signpost: 20 March 2023
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper
- 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
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The Signpost: 3 April 2023
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- 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
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The Signpost: 26 April 2023
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- Obituary: Remembering David "DGG" Goodman
- Arbitration report: Holocaust in Poland, Jimbo in the hot seat, and a desysopping
- 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
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The Signpost: 8 May 2023
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- 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
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The Signpost: 22 May 2023
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- In the media: History, propaganda and censorship
- Arbitration report: Final decision in "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland"
- Featured content: A very musical week for featured articles
- Traffic report: Coronation, chatbot, celebs
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The Signpost: 5 June 2023
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- News and notes: WMRU director forks new 'pedia, birds flap in top '22 piccy, WMF weighs in on Indian gov's map axe plea
- Featured content: Poetry under pressure
- Traffic report: Celebs, controversies and a chatbot in the public eye
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The Signpost: 19 June 2023
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- News and notes: WMF Terms of Use now in force, new Creative Commons licensing
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- Recent research: Hoaxers prefer currently-popular topics
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The Signpost: 3 July 2023
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- Disinformation report: Imploded submersible outfit foiled trying to sing own praises on Wikipedia
- Featured content: Incensed
- Traffic report: Are you afraid of spiders? Arnold? The Idol? ChatGPT?
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The Signpost: 17 July 2023
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- In the media: Tentacles of Emirates plot attempt to ensnare Wikipedia
- Tips and tricks: What automation can do for you (and your WikiProject)
- Featured content: Scrollin', scrollin', scrollin', keep those readers scrollin', got to keep on scrollin', Rawhide!
- Traffic report: The Idol becomes the Master
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The Signpost: 1 August 2023
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- 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!
- Tips and tricks: Citation tools for dummies!
- In focus: Journals cited by Wikipedia
- Opinion: Are global bans the last step?
- Featured content: Featured Content, 1 to 15 July
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