User talk:JGHowes/Archive 6

The Signpost: 24 December 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• Special report: Did the Chinese Communist Party send astroturfers to sabotage a hacktivist's Wikipedia article?

• News and notes: The Italian Public Domain wars continue, Wikimedia RU set to dissolve, and a recap of WLM 2023

• In the media: Consider the humble fork

• Discussion report: Arabic Wikipedia blackout; Wikimedians discuss SpongeBob, copyrights, and AI

• In focus: Liquidation of Wikimedia RU

• Technology report: Dark mode is coming

• Recent research: "LLMs Know More, Hallucinate Less" with Wikidata

• Gallery: A feast of holidays and carols

• Comix: Lollus lmaois 200C tincture

• Crossword: when the crossword is sus

• Traffic report: What's the big deal? I'm an animal!

• From the editor: A piccy iz worth OVAR 9000!!!11oneone! wordz ^_^

• Apocrypha: Local editor discovered 1,380 lost subheadings in ancient Signpost scrolls. And what he found was shocking.

• Humour: Guess the joke contest

• BJAODN: Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense

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The Signpost: 10 January 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• From the editor: NINETEEN MORE YEARS! NINETEEN MORE YEARS!

• Special report: Public Domain Day 2024

• Technology report: Wikipedia: A Multigenerational Pursuit

• News and notes: In other news ... see ya in court!

• In focus: The long road of a featured article candidate

• In the media: What is plagiarism? Oklahoma Disneyland? Reaching a human being at Wikipedia?

• WikiProject report: WikiProjects Israel and Palestine

• Obituary: Anthony Bradbury

• Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2023

• Crossword: everybody gangsta till the style sheets start cascading

• Comix: Conflict resolution

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The Signpost: 31 January 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Wikipedian Osama Khalid celebrated his 30th birthday in jail

• Opinion: Until it happens to you

• Disinformation report: How paid editors squeeze you dry

• In the media: Katherine Maher new NPR CEO, go check Wikipedia, race in the race

• In focus: The long road of a featured article candidate, part 2

• Recent research: Croatian takeover was enabled by "lack of bureaucratic openness and rules constraining [admins]"

• Comix: We've all got to start somewhere

• Traffic report: DJ, gonna burn this goddamn house right down

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The Signpost: 13 February 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Wikimedia Russia director declared "foreign agent" by Russian gov; EU prepares to pile on the papers

• Disinformation report: How low can the scammers go?

• Gallery: Before and After: Why you don't need to touch grass to dramatically improve images of flora and fauna

• In the media: Speaking in tongues, toeing the line, and dressing the part

• Serendipity: Is this guy the same as the one who was a Nazi?

• Traffic report: Griselda, Nikki, Carl, Jannik and two types of football

• Crossword: Our crossword to bear

• Comix: Strongly

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The Signpost: 2 March 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Wikimedia enters US Supreme court hearings as "the dolphin inadvertently caught in the net"

• Recent research: Images on Wikipedia "amplify gender bias"

• In the media: The Scottish Parliament gets involved, a wikirace on live TV, and the Foundation's CTO goes on record

• Obituary: Vami_IV

• Traffic report: Supervalentinefilmbowlday

• WikiCup report: High-scoring WikiCup first round comes to a close

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The Signpost: 29 March 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• Technology report: Millions of readers still seeing broken pages as "temporary" disabling of graph extension nears its second year

• Interview: Interview on Wikimedia Foundation fundraising and finance strategy

• Special report: 19-page PDF accuses Wikipedia of bias against Israel, suggests editors be forced to reveal their real names, and demands a new feature allowing people to view the history of Wikipedia articles

• Op-Ed: Wikipedia in the age of personality-driven knowledge

• Recent research: "Newcomer Homepage" feature mostly fails to boost new editors

• News and notes: Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Charter ratified

• In the media: "For me it’s the autism": AARoard editors on the fork more traveled

• Traffic report: He rules over everything, on the land called planet Dune

• Humour: Letters from the editors

• Comix: Layout issue

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The Signpost: 25 April 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• In the media: Censorship and wikiwashing looming over RuWiki, edit wars over San Francisco politics and another wikirace on live TV

• News and notes: A sigh of relief for open access as Italy makes a slight U-turn on their cultural heritage reproduction law

• WikiConference report: WikiConference North America 2023 in Toronto recap

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Newspapers (Not WP:NOTNEWS)

• Recent research: New survey of over 100,000 Wikipedia users

• Traffic report: O.J., cricket and a three body problem

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The Signpost: 16 May 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Democracy in action: multiple elections

• Special report: Will the new RfA reform come to the rescue of administrators?

• Arbitration report: Ruined temples for posterity to ponder over – arbitration from '22 to '24

• In the media: Deadnames on the French Wikipedia, and a duel between Russian wikis

• Op-Ed: Wikidata to split as sheer volume of information overloads infrastructure

• Comix: Generations

• Traffic report: Crawl out through the fallout, baby

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The Signpost: 8 June 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation publishes its Form 990 for fiscal year 2022-2023

• Technology report: New Page Patrol receives a much-needed software upgrade

• Deletion report: The lore of Kalloor

• In the media: National cable networks get in on the action arguing about what the first sentence of a Wikipedia article ought to say

• News from the WMF: Progress on the plan — how the Wikimedia Foundation advanced on its Annual Plan goals during the first half of fiscal year 2023-2024

• Opinion: Public response to the editors of Settler Colonial Studies

• Recent research: ChatGPT did not kill Wikipedia, but might have reduced its growth

• Featured content: We didn't start the wiki

• Essay: No queerphobia

• Special report: RetractionBot is back to life!

• Traffic report: Chimps, Eurovision, and the return of the Baby Reindeer

• Comix: The Wikipediholic Family

• Humour: Wikipedia rattled by sophisticated cyberattack of schoolboy typing "balls" in infobox

• Concept: Palimpsestuous

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The Signpost: 4 July 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: WMF board elections and fundraising updates

• Special report: Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification vote underway, new Council may surpass power of Board

• In focus: How the Russian Wikipedia keeps it clean despite having just a couple dozen administatrors

• Discussion report: Wikipedians are hung up on the meaning of Madonna

• In the media: War and information in war and politics

• Sister projects: On editing Wikisource

• Obituary: Hanif Al Husaini, Salazarov and Hyacinth

• Opinion: Etika: a Pop Culture Champion

• Gallery: Spokane Willy's photos

• Op-Ed: Why you should not vote in the 2024 WMF BoT elections

• Crossword: On a day of independence, beat crosswords into crossploughshares

• Humour: A joke

• Cobwebs: Counting to a billion — manuscripts don't burn

• Recent research: Is Wikipedia Politically Biased? Perhaps

• Traffic report: Talking about you and me, and the games people play

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The Signpost: 22 July 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• Discussion report: Internet users flock to Wikipedia to debate its image policy over Trump raised-fist photo

• News and notes: Wikimedia community votes to ratify Movement Charter; Wikimedia Foundation opposes ratification

• News from the WMF: Wikimedia Foundation Board resolution and vote on the proposed Movement Charter

• Essay: Reflections on editing and obsession

• In the media: What's on Putin's fork, the court's docket, and in Harrison's book?

• Obituary: JamesR

• Crossword: Vaguely bird-shaped crossword

• Humour: Joe Biden withdraws RfA, Donald Trump selects co-nom

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The Signpost: 14 August 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• In the media: Portland pol profile paid for from public purse

• Recent research: STORM: AI agents role-play as "Wikipedia editors" and "experts" to create Wikipedia-like articles, a more sophisticated effort than previous auto-generation systems

• Discussion report: Twitter marks the spot

• News and notes: Another Wikimania has concluded

• Special report: Nano or just nothing: Will nano go nuclear?

• Opinion: HouseBlaster's RfA debriefing

• Traffic report: Ball games, movies, elections, but nothing really weird

• Humour: I'm proud to be a template

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The Signpost: 4 September 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: WikiCup enters final round, MCDC wraps up activities, 17-year-old hoax article unmasked

• In the media: AI is not playing games anymore. Is Wikipedia ready?

• Recent research: Simulated Wikipedia seen as less credible than ChatGPT and Alexa in experiment

• News from the WMF: Meet the 12 candidates running in the WMF Board of Trustees election

• Wikimania: A month after Wikimania 2024

• Serendipity: What it's like to be Wikimedian of the Year

• Traffic report: After the gold rush

• Humour: Local man halfway through rude reply no longer able to recall why he hates other editor

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The Signpost: 26 September 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• In the media: Indian courts order Wikipedia to take down name of crime victim, and give up names of editors

• Serendipity: A Wikipedian at the 2024 Paralympics

• Opinion: asilvering's RfA debriefing

• News and notes: Are you ready for admin elections?

• Gallery: Are Luddaites defending the English Wikipedia?

• Recent research: Article-writing AI is less "prone to reasoning errors (or hallucinations)" than human Wikipedia editors

• Traffic report: Jump in the line, rock your body in time

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The Signpost: 19 October 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

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

• Recent research: "As many as 5%" of new English Wikipedia articles "contain significant AI-generated content", says paper

• In the media: Off to the races! Wikipedia wins!

• Contest: A WikiCup for the underdeveloped world

• Traffic report: A scream breaks the still of the night

• Book review: The Editors

• Humour: The Newspaper Editors

• Crossword: Spilled Coffee Mug

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The Signpost: 6 November 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• From the editors: Editing Wikipedia should not be a crime

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

• In the media: An old scrimmage, politics and purported libel

• Special report: Wikipedia editors face litigation, censorship

• Gallery: Why you should take more photos and upload them

• In focus: Questions and answers about the court case

• Traffic report: Twisted tricks or tempting treats?

• Technology report: Wikimedia tech, the Asian News International case, and the ultra-rare BLACKLOCK

• Humour: Man quietly slinks away from talk page argument after realizing his argument dumb, wrong

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The Signpost: 18 November 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Open letter to WMF about court case breaks one thousand signatures, big arb case declined, U4C begins accepting cases

• In the media: Summons issued for Wikipedia editors by Indian court, "Gaza genocide" RfC close in news, old admin Gwern now big AI guy, and a "spectrum of reluctance" over Australian place names

• Recent research: SPINACH: AI help for asking Wikidata "challenging real-world questions"

• News from the WMF: Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Endowment audit reports: FY 2023–2024

• Traffic report: Well, let us share with you our knowledge, about the electoral college

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The Signpost: 24 December 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

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

• Op-ed: Beeblebrox on Wikipediocracy, the Committee, and everything

• Opinion: Graham87 on being the first-ever administrator recall subject

• In the media: Delhi High Court considers Caravan and Ken for evaluating the ANI vs. WMF case

• From the archives: Where to draw the line in reporting?

• Recent research: "Wikipedia editors are quite prosocial", but those motivated by "social image" may put quantity over quality

• Humour: Backlash over Santa Claus' Wikipedia article intensifies

• Gallery: A feast of holidays and carols

• Traffic report: Was a long and dark December

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The Signpost: 15 January 2025

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• From the editors: Looking back, looking forward

• Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2024

• In the media: Will you be targeted?

• Technology report: New Calculator template brings interactivity at last

• Essay: Meet the Canadian who holds the longest editing streak on Wikipedia

• Opinion: Reflections one score hence

• News and notes: It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life for me... and I'm feeling free

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

• Op-ed: Elon Musk and the right on Wikipedia

• In focus: Twenty years of The Signpost: What did it take?

• Arbitration report: Analyzing commonalities of some contentious topics

• Humour: How to make friends on Wikipedia

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The Signpost: 7 February 2025

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• Recent research: GPT-4 writes better edit summaries than human Wikipedians

• News and notes: Let's talk!

• Opinion: Fathoms Below, but over the moon

• In the media: Wikipedia is an extension of legacy media propaganda, says Elon Musk

• Community view: 24th Wikipedia Day in New York City

• Arbitration report: Palestine-Israel articles 5 has closed

• Traffic report: A wild drive

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The Signpost: 27 February 2025

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

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

• Serendipity: Guinea-Bissau Heritage from Commons to the World

• Technology report: Hear that? The wikis go silent twice a year

• In the media: The end of the world

• Recent research: What's known about how readers navigate Wikipedia; Italian Wikipedia hardest to read

• Opinion: Sennecaster's RfA debriefing

• Tips and tricks: One year after this article is posted, will every single article on Wikipedia have a short description?

• Community view: Open letter from French Wikipedians says "no" to intimidation of volunteer contributors

• Traffic report: Temporary scars, February stars

• Essay: The source, the whole source, and nothing but the source

• Obituary: Ümüt Çınar (Kmoksy) and Vinícius Medina Kern (Vmkern)

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The Signpost: 22 March 2025

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• From the editor: Hanami

• News and notes: Deeper look at takedowns targeting Wikipedia

• In the media: The good, the bad, and the unusual

• Recent research: Explaining the disappointing history of Flagged Revisions; and what's the impact of ChatGPT on Wikipedia so far?

• Traffic report: All the world's a stage, we are merely players...

• Gallery: WikiPortraits rule!

• Essay: Unusual biographical images

• Obituary: Rest in peace

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The Signpost: 9 April 2025

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• Special report: Wikipedian and physician Ziyad al-Sufiani reportedly released from Saudi prison

• In focus: WMF to explore "common standards" for NPOV policies; implications for project autonomy remain unclear

• In the media: Indian judges demand removal of content critical of Asian News International

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

• Op-ed: How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects

• Opinion: Crawlers, hogs and gorillas

• Debriefing: Giraffer's RfA debriefing

• Obituary: RHaworth, TomCat4680 and PawełMM

• Traffic report: Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho, off to report we go...

• News from Diff: Strengthening Wikipedia’s neutral point of view

• Comix: Thirteen

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The Signpost: 1 May 2025

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-05-01/News and notes

• In the media: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-05-01/In the media

• Recent research: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-05-01/Recent research

• Arbitration report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-05-01/Arbitration report

• Discussion report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-05-01/Discussion report

• Traffic report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-05-01/Traffic report

• Disinformation report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-05-01/Disinformation report

• News from the WMF: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-05-01/News from the WMF

• Humour: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-05-01/Humour

• Comix: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-05-01/Comix

• In focus: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-05-01/In focus

• Community view: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-05-01/Community view

• Debriefing: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-05-01/Debriefing

• Gallery: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-05-01/Gallery

• Obituary: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-05-01/Obituary

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The Signpost: 14 May 2025

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: WMF to kick off new-CEO quest as Iskandar preps to move on — Supreme Court nixes gag of Wiki page for other India court row on ANI — code-heads give fix-up date for Charts in lieu of long-dead Graph gizmo

• In the media: Wikimedia Foundation sues over UK government decision that might require identity verification of editors worldwide

• Disinformation report: What does Jay-Z know about Wikipedia?

• In focus: On the hunt for sources: Swedish AfD discussions

• Technology report: WMF introduces unique but privacy-preserving browser cookie

• Debriefing: Goldsztajn's RfA debriefing

• Obituary: Max Lum (User:ICOHBuzz)

• Community view: A Deep Dive Into Wikimedia (part 2)

• Comix: Collection

• From the archives: Humor from the Archives

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The Signpost: 24 June 2025

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Happy 7 millionth!

• In the media: Playing professor pong with prosecutorial discretion

• Disinformation report: Pardon me, Mr. President, have you seen my socks?

• Recent research: Wikipedia's political bias; "Ethical" LLMs accede to copyright owners' demands but ignore those of Wikipedians

• Traffic report: All Sinners, a future, all Saints, a past

• News from Diff: Call for candidates is now open: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

• Opinion: Russian Wiki-fork flails, failing readers and editors

• Debriefing: EggRoll97's RfA² debriefing

• Community view: A Deep Dive Into Wikimedia (part 3)

• Comix: Hamburgers

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The Signpost: 18 July 2025

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

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

• In the media: How bad (or good) is Wikipedia?

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Medicine reaches milestone of zero unreferenced articles

• In focus: Wikimania 2025: Connecting Wikimedians across the world for 20 years

• Recent research: Knowledge manipulation on Russia's Wikipedia fork; Marxist critique of Wikidata license; call to analyze power relations of Wikipedia

• News from the WMF: Form 990 released for the Wikimedia Foundation’s fiscal year 2023-2024

• Discussion report: Six thousand noticeboard discussions in 2025 electrically winnowed down to a hundred

• Comix: Divorce

• Opinion: Women are somewhat under-represented on the English-language Wikipedia, and other observations from analysis

• Community view: A Deep Dive Into Wikimedia (part 4): The Future Of Wikimedia and Conclusion

• Obituary: Pvmoutside, Atomicjohn, Rdmoore6, Jaknouse, Morven, Martin of Sheffield, MarnetteD, Herewhy, BabelStone

• Traffic report: God only knows

• Humour: New forum created for people who don't care about Wikipedia

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The Signpost: 9 August 2025

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

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

• Discussion report: News from ANI, AN, RSN, BLPN, ELN, FTN, and NPOVN

• Disinformation report: The article in the most languages

• Community view: News from the Villages Pump

• In the media: Disgrace, dive bars, deceased despots, and diverse dispatches

• Crossword: Accidental typography

• Comix: best-laid schemes o' wikis an' men

• Traffic report: I'm not the antichrist or the Superman

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The Signpost: 9 September 2025

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation loses a round in court

• In the media: Congress probes, mayor whitewashed, AI stinks

• Disinformation report: A guide for Congress

• Recent research: Minority-language Wikipedias, and Wikidata for botanists

• Technology report: A new way to read Wikisource

• Traffic report: Check out some new Weapons, weapon of choice

• Essay: The one question

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The Signpost: 2 October 2025

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Larry Sanger returns with "Nine Theses on Wikipedia"; WMF publishes transparency report

• In the media: Extraordinary eruption of "EVIL" explained

• Disinformation report: Emails from a paid editing client

• Discussion report: Sourcing, conduct, policy and LLMs: another 1,339 threads analyzed

• Community view: The pressing questions of the modern WWW, as seen from the Village Pump

• Recent research: Is Wikipedia a merchant of (non-)doubt for glyphosate?; eight projects awarded Wikimedia Research Fund grants

• Opinion: Some disputes aren't worth it

• Obituary: Michael Q. Schmidt

• Traffic report: Death, hear me call your name

• Comix: A grand spectacle

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The Signpost: 20 October 2025

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

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

• Special report: The election that isn't

• Interview: The BoT bump

• In the media: An incident at WikiConference North America; WMF reports AI-related traffic drop and explains Wikipedia to US conservatives

• Traffic report: One click after another

• Humour: Wikipedia pay rates

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The Signpost: 10 November 2025

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Temporary accounts go live and WMF board member self-suspends

• Community view: Six Wikipedians' thoughts on Grokipedia, and the humanity of it all

• Wikicup report: BeanieFan11, WikiCup victor of 2025, covers the results

• In the media: Jimbo's book, an argument about genocide, and a train of shame

• Recent research: Taking stock of the 2024–2025 research grants

• Opinion: With Grokipedia, top-down control of knowledge is new again

• Obituary: Struway

• Traffic report: The documentaried, the disowned, the deceased, Diwali and the Dodgers

• Comix: Head of steam

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→ Join our Telegram community chat: CapX Telegram Group

If your community, usergroup or affiliate would like to have a CapX organization profile, please reach out at capx@wmnobrasil.org, and we’d be delighted to support you.

With warm regards,
Joris Darlington Quarshie
Outreach Facilitator,
Capacity Exchange Project – Wikimedia Brasil

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