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Volume 22, Issue 9 — 2026-07-13 News and notes: An exclusive club Wikipedia Co-Founder Larry Sanger gets a community ban for canvassing. In the media: Battle for a soul – who won? Commissars, winners and losers, blocks or bans, a Wiki red card, social engineering on wikis, and Swift action! Opinion: We need to innovate with Wikimedia decision-making Rules we can actually read, trust and change! Recent research: LLMs and NPOV, 20 years of user blocks, Esperanto and Volapük Wikipedias And other research findings. News from Diff: How to host Wikicurious in your own community The Wikicurious team shares their approach to Wiki-event organizing. Community view: CUNY Newmark Wikimedian-in-Residence Quarterly Brief – April to June 2026 Quarterly update on the activities of the City University of New York's Wikimedian-in-Residence, Richard Knipel. Special report: Wikipedia escapes Category 1 designation under the UK Online Safety Act – for now A possible future recategorization by the UK Government remains an existential threat to Wikipedia. On the bright side: Fatherhood, weather, and diplomacy Father's Day, Canada Day, and the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence. Op-ed: A Layup Easy Proposal for Wikimedia at 25: Spend 25% of Donations on the Community If strategy priority 1.1 is supporting the community, can we not increase the support to the community? Increasing grantmaking to 25% of the budget would be a move toward equality in the movement. Traffic report: The grass was greener, the light was brighter We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed of World Cup. Comix: schnozzed on lollerskates

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Andy Burnham Andy Burnham (pictured) succeeds Keir Starmer as Leader of the Labour Party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following a leadership election. In association football, the FIFA World Cup concludes with Spain defeating Argentina in the final. British runner Josh Kerr breaks the world record for the mile run. Barbadian cricketer Garfield Sobers dies at the age of 89. Ongoing: Flamingo Revolution Iran war (Lebanon war) Russo-Ukrainian war timeline Recent deaths: Duane Ward Brenda Fricker Enrique Bacigalupo David Willey Bohumil Vacík Sam Neill

Featured picture for November 9, 2007

Picture of the day A 3D projection of a tesseract performing a simple rotation about a plane which bisects the figure from front-left to back-right and top to bottom. Also called 8-cell or octachoron, a tesseract is the four-dimensional analog of the cube, where motion along the fourth dimension is often a representation for bounded transformations of the cube through time. The tesseract is to the cube as the cube is to the square. The tesseract is the four-dimensional hypercube, or 4-cube.Image credit: Jason Hise