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The Signpost: 24 December 2024

• News and notes: Responsibilities and liabilities as a "Very Large Online Platform"
  What the VLOP – findings of an outside auditor for "responsibilization" of Wikipedia. Plus, new EU Commissioners for tech policy, WLE 2024 winners, and a few other bits of news from the Wikipedia world.

• Op-ed: Beeblebrox on Wikipediocracy, the Committee, and everything
  A personal essay.

• Opinion: Graham87 on being the first-ever administrator recall subject
  Explanations for what led to it and what it was like to undergo it.

• In the media: Delhi High Court considers Caravan and Ken for evaluating the ANI vs. WMF case
  Plus, the dangers of editing, Morrissey's page gets marred, COVID coverage critique, Kimchi consultation, kids' connectivity curtailed, centenarian Claudia, Christmas cramming, and more.

• From the archives: Where to draw the line in reporting?
  Who's news?

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

• Humour: Backlash over Santa Claus' Wikipedia article intensifies
  Good faith edits REVERTED and accounts BLOCKED.

• Gallery: A feast of holidays and carols
  Peace on earth, goodwill to all!

• Traffic report: Was a long and dark December
  Wicked war, martial law, killing, death and an Indian movie with a new chess champ!

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - December 2024 Newsletter

This is our thirty-eighth newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 3, 10, 13 and 15.

User group news

• User group meeting in December (minutes)
• We have adopted an annual plan for 2025!

Other news

• Lightning talk by Adam Harangzo - National Institute for Health and Care Research on Wikipedia (SDG 3&13)
• Top photos of the special nomination “Human Rights and Environment” from Wiki Loves Earth 2024! (SDG 10&15)
• Two days, 15 editors, 750 edits (SDG 15)
• A Peekaboo Into Our Butterflying Trip from the Amazon of the East (SDG 15)
• Brooklyn College students bring ecology course content to Wikipedia (SDG 13&15
• Declaring crisis? Temporal constructions of climate change on WikipediaDeclaring crisis? Temporal constructions of climate change on Wikipedia (SDG 13)

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The Signpost: 15 January 2025

• From the editors: Looking back, looking forward
  The 20th anniversary of The Signpost.

• Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2024
  A lot of psephology!

• In the media: Will you be targeted?
  HUMINT or humbug?

• Technology report: New Calculator template brings interactivity at last
  Hallelujah!

• Essay: Meet the Canadian who holds the longest editing streak on Wikipedia
  Johnny Au has edited for 17 years straight without missing a day.

• Opinion: Reflections one score hence
  Some thoughts from the original editor-in-chief.

• 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
  Public Domain Day 2025, Women in Red hits 20% biography milestone, Spanish Wikipedia reaches two million articles, and other news from the Wikimedia world.

• Serendipity: What we've left behind, and where we want to go next
  The Signpost staff on achievements of '24 and hopes for '25.

• Op-ed: Elon Musk and the right on Wikipedia
  The latest crusade?

• In focus: Twenty years of The Signpost: What did it take?
  Our alumni speak!

• Arbitration report: Analyzing commonalities of some contentious topics
  Applying the scientific method to a model of conflict that leads to arbitration.

• Humour: How to make friends on Wikipedia
  This post fact-checked by real Wikipedian patriots.

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2025 Newsletter

This is our thirty-ninth newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 3, 11, 13 and 15.

User group news

• User group meeting 23 February
• User group meeting in January (minutes).
• The user group submitted an annual report in the new affiliate health criteria format, and as an activity report.
• The 2030 strategy for the user group was adopted.

Other news

• Swiss server helped optimise Wikidata in the field of medicine (SDG 3)
• Photographers from Türkiye tell the story of award wining photos in Wiki Loves Earth 2024 (SDG 15)
• OpenStreetMap and Wikidata in Disaster Times - CEE Meeting 2024 Istanbul (SDG 11)

Events

• 1-28 February: Wiki Loves Africa: Climate & Weather ISA campaign (SDG 13)

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The Signpost: 7 February 2025

• Recent research: GPT-4 writes better edit summaries than human Wikipedians
  But an open language model is ready to help.

• News and notes: Let's talk!
  The WMF executive team delivers a new update; plus, the latest EU policy report, good-bye to the German Wikipedia's Café, and other news from the Wikimedia world.

• Opinion: Fathoms Below, but over the moon
  Editor Fathoms Below reminisces over their successful RfA from February 2024.

• In the media: Wikipedia is an extension of legacy media propaganda, says Elon Musk
  Plus, reports on the ARBPIA5 case, new concerns over projects targeting Wikipedia editors, John Green gets his sponsor flowers, and other news.

• Community view: 24th Wikipedia Day in New York City
  Wikimedians and newbies celebrate 24 years of Wikipedia in the Brooklyn Central Library. Special guests Stephen Harrison and Clay Shirky joined in conversation.

• Arbitration report: Palestine-Israel articles 5 has closed
  Ending with some bans, and a new set of editing sanctions.

• Traffic report: A wild drive
  The start of the year was filled with a few unfortunate losses, tragic disasters, emerging tech forces and A LOT of politics.

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The Signpost: 27 February 2025

• News and notes: Administrator elections up for reapproval and 1bil GET snagged on Commons
  French Wikipedia defends a user against public threats, steward elections, and other news from the Wikimedia world.

• Serendipity: Guinea-Bissau Heritage from Commons to the World
  "The only time I ever took photos in my entire life".

• Technology report: Hear that? The wikis go silent twice a year
  From patrolling new edits to uploading photos or joining a campaign, you can count on the Wikimedia platform to be up and running — in your language, anywhere in the world. That is, except for a couple of minutes during the equinoctes.

• In the media: The end of the world
  Or just the end of Wikipedia as we know it?

• Recent research: What's known about how readers navigate Wikipedia; Italian Wikipedia hardest to read
  Of "hunters", "busybodies" and "dancers".

• Opinion: Sennecaster's RfA debriefing
  User Sennecaster shares her thoughts on her recent RfA and the aspects that might have played a role in making it successful.

• Tips and tricks: One year after this article is posted, will every single article on Wikipedia have a short description?
  What are they? Why are they important? How can we make them better? And what can you do to help?

• Community view: Open letter from French Wikipedians says "no" to intimidation of volunteer contributors
  Liberté, liberté chérie.

• Traffic report: Temporary scars, February stars
  Grammys, politics and the Super Bowl.

• Essay: The source, the whole source, and nothing but the source
  Straight from the source's mouth. A source is a source, of course, of course!

• Obituary: Ümüt Çınar (Kmoksy) and Vinícius Medina Kern (Vmkern)
  Turkish linguist wrote about languages and plants; Brazilian informaticist studied Wikimedia projects and education.

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - February 2025 Newsletter

This is our fortieth newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 3, 5, 8, 11, 13, 15 and 16.

User group news

• User group meeting in February (minutes).

Other news

• Time to get ready to organize Wiki Loves Earth (SDG 15)
• ‘Women of the Future’ – International Women’s Day 2025 (SDG 5)
• The Experts Behind the Edits: Expanding public understanding of healthcare (SDG 3)
• Wikimedia Enterprise and Ecosia Partner to Drive Sustainable Search Innovation (SDG 13)
• A subproject to WikiProject Climate Change about Climate Change Policies has just started on Wikidata (SDG 13)

Events

• 1 March: Open Data Day 2025 in Côte d'Ivoire (SDG 8)
• 7 March Govdirectory Collab Hour - Open Data Day 2025 (SDG 16)
• 8 March–1 April: Shine Her Light Writing Contest 2025 (SDG 5)

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Proposed deletion of File:Galvanize logo.svg

The file File:Galvanize logo.svg has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Unused file. Image uploaded to support Galvanize (software company) which was deleted via PROD in January. No realistic encyclopedic use.

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The Signpost: 22 March 2025

• From the editor: Hanami
  It's an ecstasy, my spring.

• Opinion: Talking about governments editing Wikipedia
  Let them know what you think!

• News and notes: Deeper look at takedowns targeting Wikipedia
  Read this, then forget all about it.

• In the media: The good, the bad, and the unusual
  Life on the Wiki as usual!

• Recent research: Explaining the disappointing history of Flagged Revisions; and what's the impact of ChatGPT on Wikipedia so far?
  And WMF invites multi-year research fund proposals

• Traffic report: All the world's a stage, we are merely players...
  The Oscars, politics, and death elbow for the most attention.

• Gallery: WikiPortraits rule!
  The photographers are the celebrities!

• Essay: Unusual biographical images
  And very unusual biographical images.

• Obituary: Rest in peace
  Send not to know
  For whom the bell tolls,
  It tolls for thee.

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - March 2025 Newsletter

This is our forty first newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 13, 15 and 17.

News

• Organise your local Wiki Loves Earth in 2025! (SDG 15)
• Wikidata property proposal for the Climate Policy Radar (SDG 13)
• Biologists encourage other biologists to edit Wikipedia (in Swedish) (SDG 15)
• A presentation on long-term collaborations between museums and the Wikimedia universe was given on March 10 at a symposium on long-term collaborations with museums in Germany(SDG 17)
• A presentation on existing and potential collaborations between the Wikimedia community and other volunteer communities was given on March 29 at a national volunteering convention in Germany (SDG 17)

Events

• Next user group meeting: 20 April

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The Signpost: 9 April 2025

• Special report: Wikipedian and physician Ziyad al-Sufiani reportedly released from Saudi prison
  Fellow doctor Osama Khalid remains behind bars for "violating public morals" by editing.

• In focus: WMF to explore "common standards" for NPOV policies; implications for project autonomy remain unclear
  Major changes to core content policy, or still-developing plan for new initiative?

• In the media: Indian judges demand removal of content critical of Asian News International
  Defeat, or just a setback?

• News and notes: 35,000 user accounts compromised, locked in attempted credential-stuffing attack
  Plus: 30-year anniversary of wiki software commemorated.

• Op-ed: How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects
  Our content is free, our infrastructure is not!

• Opinion: Crawlers, hogs and gorillas
  What is to be done?

• Debriefing: Giraffer's RfA debriefing
  Advice to aspirants: "Read RfA debriefs", including this one.

• Obituary: RHaworth, TomCat4680 and PawełMM
  Rest in peace.

• Traffic report: Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho, off to report we go...
  Snow White sinking, Adolescence soaring, spacefarers stranded, this list has it all!

• News from Diff: Strengthening Wikipedia’s neutral point of view
  The Wikimedia Foundation's announcement from Diff.

• Comix: Thirteen
  Gadzooks!

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Seeking input on edit request for 2 articles on tech companies

Hi@Daylen! I’m a paid editor (CIO tags are on both talk pages) with edit requests pending for Cloudinary and Commvault. I found you through WikiProject Companies, where you mentioned an interest in tech company articles, and I’d really appreciate your input on the quality of my requests—both have been waiting in the queue for a while.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cloudinary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Commvault

Thanks so much for considering! SBCornelius (talk) 17:17, 22 April 2025 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 1 May 2025

• News and notes: India cut off from Wiki money; WMF annual plan and Wikimedia programs seek comment
  As always, Wikimedia community governance relies on user participation; plus, more updates from the Wikimedia world

• In the media: Feds aiming for WMF's nonprofit status
  Scrapers, an Indian lawsuit, and a crash-or-not-crash?

• Recent research: How readers use Wikipedia health content; Scholars generally happy with how their papers are cited on Wikipedia
  And other new research findings.

• Arbitration report: Sysop Tinucherian removed and admonished by the ArbCom
  And don't bite those newbies!

• Discussion report: Latest news from Centralized discussions
  And don't bite those newbies!

• Traffic report: Of Wolf and Man
  Television dramas, televised sports, film, the Pope, and ... bioengineering at the top of the list?

• Disinformation report: At WikiCredCon, Wikipedia editors and Internet Archive discuss threats to trust in media
  Community volunteers network among themselves and use technology to counter attacks on information sharing.

• News from the WMF: Product & Tech Progress on the Annual Plan
  A look at some product and tech highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation's Annual Plan (July–December 2024).

• Humour: Crisis erupts as furious admins, functionaries complain about crappy t-shirts
  Hey! At least it is something!

• Comix: By territory
  Zounds!

• In focus: Using AI on the Russian Wikipedia: opportunities or challenges?
  Would a billion articles be a good idea?

• Community view: A deep dive into Wikimedia
  There's a lot more to this than you think.

• Debriefing: Barkeep49's RfB debriefing
  I wonder about having crats, but decided to become one anyway.

• Gallery: Meet the winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2024
  Just beautiful photos!

• Obituary: JarrahTree, JohnClarknew and Yashthepunisher
  Rest in Paradise.

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - April 2025 Newsletter

This is our forty second newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 3, 5, 13 and 15.

User group news

• User group meeting (minutes)

Other news

• Zombie ants to bioremediation: The world of entomopathogenic fungi (SDG 15)
• WITH Foundation increases support to expand disability healthcare information on Wikipedia (SDG 3)
• Women and Health Project: Improving the representation of women’s health on Wikipedia (SDG 3&5)

Events

• May 19: Habilidades Digitales Verdes en Wikimedia 2025 (SDG 13)

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The Signpost: 14 May 2025

• News and notes: WMF to kick off new-CEO quest as Iskander 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
  And comment is requested on a privacy whitepaper.

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

• Disinformation report: What does Jay-Z know about Wikipedia?
  And how he knows it: all about lawyer letters and editing logs.

• In focus: On the hunt for sources: Swedish AfD discussions
  Why the language barrier is not the only impediment to navigating sources from another culture.

• Technology report: WMF introduces unique but privacy-preserving browser cookie
  And QR codes for every page!

• Debriefing: Goldsztajn's RfA debriefing
  When an editor is ready to become staff at a public library (not a brother in a fraternity).

• Obituary: Max Lum (User:ICOHBuzz)
  Rest in peace.

• Community view: A Deep Dive Into Wikimedia (part 2)
  The technology behind it, and the other stuff.

• Comix: Collection
  Gadzooks!

• From the archives: Humor from the Archives
  And more.

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Nomination for merger of Template:Online remittance

Template:Online remittance has been nominated for merging with Template:Digital payment providers. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Gonnym (talk) 11:21, 22 May 2025 (UTC)

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - May 2025 Newsletter

This is our forty third newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 3, 5, 10, 15 and 16.

User group news

• 22 June: User group meeting

Other news

• Several papers presented at WikiWorkshop:
  • EcoWikiRS: Using Species Descriptions in Wikipedia and Remote Sensing to Learn about the Ecological Properties of a Place (SDG 15)
  • Data Extraction Methods for Analyzing Gender Bias on Wikipedia's Front Page (SDG 5)
  • Measuring Cross-Lingual Information Gaps in English Wikipedia: A Case Study of LGBT People Portrayals (SDG 10)
  • Exploring Wikipedia community practices during the 2024 European Parliament election (SDG 16)
  • Wikipedia as a Tool for Tracking Mass Migration Flows: Insights from the Russian Invasion of Ukraine (SDG 10)
  • Regulations in Wikidata: The case of PFAS-related regulations (SDG 3 & 16)
• Podcast about the minimal viable species stub (SDG 15)
• Wikimedia UK and the Royal Society host workshop on information literacy and future health emergencies (SDG 3)

Events

• 16 June: Wikimedia NYC and United Nations Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon

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The Signpost: 24 June 2025

• News and notes: Happy 7 millionth!
  Admins arrested in Belarus.

• In the media: Playing professor pong with prosecutorial discretion
  Pardon our alliteration!

• Disinformation report: Pardon me, Mr. President, have you seen my socks?
  A get-out-of-jail card!

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

• Traffic report: All Sinners, a future, all Saints, a past
  Holy men and not-as-holy movies.

• News from Diff: Call for candidates is now open: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
  Get your self-nomination in by July 2nd!

• Opinion: Russian Wiki-fork flails, failing readers and editors
  After two years RuWiki fails to thrive.

• Debriefing: EggRoll97's RfA² debriefing
  With some sweet-and-sour sauce!

• Community view: A Deep Dive Into Wikimedia (part 3)
  Every thing you need to know about the Wikimedia Foundation?

• Comix: Hamburgers
  Egad!

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - June 2025 Newsletter

This is our forty fourth newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 3, 5, and 15.

User group news

• 6 July: User group meeting

Other news

• Biodiversidade na Wiki (in Portuguese) (SDG 15)
• The women honoured in flowering plant genera: From myth to reality (SDG 5&15)
• Rethinking Wiki engagement in medical research: insights from a residency at NIHR (SDG 3)

Events

• 24 July: Editing for Equity: Closing the Wikipedia Gender Gap (SDG 5)
• 2 & 9 August: New Zealand Species Edit-a-thon (SDG 15)

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The Signpost: 18 July 2025

• News and notes: Is no WikiNews good WikiNews? — Election season returns!
  Endowment tax form, Wikimania, elections, U4C, fundraising and a duck!

• In the media: How bad (or good) is Wikipedia?
  And how do we know?

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Medicine reaches milestone of zero unreferenced articles
  Five-year journey comes to healthy fruition.

• In focus: Wikimania 2025: Connecting Wikimedians across the world for 20 years
  Wikimedians from around the world will gather in person and online at the twentieth annual meeting of Wikimania.

• Recent research: Knowledge manipulation on Russia's Wikipedia fork; Marxist critique of Wikidata license; call to analyze power relations of Wikipedia
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• News from the WMF: Form 990 released for the Wikimedia Foundation’s fiscal year 2023-2024
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• Discussion report: Six thousand noticeboard discussions in 2025 electrically winnowed down to a hundred
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• Comix: Divorce
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• Opinion: Women are somewhat under-represented on the English-language Wikipedia, and other observations from analysis
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• Traffic report: God only knows
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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - July 2025 Newsletter

This is our forty fifth newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 5, 10, 13 and 15.

User group news

• 6 July: User group meeting (minutes)
• We are trying to establish better governance for the user group and have some inspiration on which your comments are requested.

Other news

• To promote sustainability and increase the visibility of the Sustainable Development Goals, the "Sustainable Development Wikiproject" was launched on the Turkish Wikipedia
• Wiki Loves Butterfly: Community-Led Contributions in Dzongu Valley, North Sikkim, India (SDG 15)
• Gender, Climate and Sustainability: My Journey with the AWA Fellowship 2025 (SDG 5 & 13)
• The power and potential of Wikidata for botany (SDG 15)
• Amplifying Inclusion and Climate Justice Through Open Knowledge: My Journey as a Fellow under AWA Fellowship 2025 (SDG 13)
• Justice through Open Knowledge: Training Human Rights Advocate to Document Human Rights Incident with Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons (SDG 10)
• Wings of Bengal: The Winners of Wiki Loves Bangla 2025 (SDG 15)
• Connecting Knowledge with Wikidata: A Practical Project with the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (SDG 15)
• When Time Slows Down: Documenting Butterflies in the North Eastern Himalayas (SDG 15)
• Wiki Loves Earth celebrates 1,000,000 images of the natural heritage worldwide! (SDG 15)
• Closing Content Gaps: Highlights from my July as an AWA Inclusion and Climate Justice Fellow (SDG 13)
• Thrilling Two-Day Butterfly Expedition in Central Odisha (SDG 15)

Events

• 6-9 August: Wikimania is coming up, and you can easily join remotely. Find all sessions related to the Sustainable Development Goals.

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• News and notes: Court order snips out part of Wikipedia article, editors debate whether to frame shreds or pulp them
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• Community view: News from the Villages Pump
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• In the media: Disgrace, dive bars, deceased despots, and diverse dispatches
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• Crossword: Accidental typography
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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - August 2025 Newsletter

This is our forty sixth newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 13 and 15.

User group news

• 21 September: User Group Meeting

Other news

• When Butterflies Took Over a Classroom (SDG 15)
• A Walk with Butterflies That Healed the Heart (SDG 15)
• Wikimania 2025: Information Integrity on Climate Change on Wikimedia projects (SDG 13)
• Botanical Perspective of WikiTutuwuhan Project (SDG 15)
• Past, present and future: a Wikimedian-in-Residence at the Biodiversity Heritage Library (SDG 15)
• All SDG related sessions at Wikimania

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The Signpost: 9 September 2025

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation loses a round in court
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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - September 2025 Newsletter

This is our forty seventh newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 4, 7 and 13.

User group news

• User group meeting (minutes)

Other news

• The OpenStreetMap community has an initiative called "MapYourGrid" focused on energy infrastructure on Wikidata and Open Streetmap. (SDG 7)
• Bridging Climate Science and the Public: How the Austrian Climate Report Found a Home on Wikipedia (SDG 13)
• Microworld: a Wikimedia-fueled microbial exhibition in northern Argentina (SDG 4)
• Wiki-Green Conference 2025

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• News and notes: Larry Sanger returns with "Nine Theses on Wikipedia"; WMF publishes transparency report
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• In the media: Extraordinary eruption of "EVIL" explained
  Wickedpedia wrangles post-truth politics.

• Disinformation report: Emails from a paid editing client
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• Discussion report: Sourcing, conduct, policy and LLMs: another 1,339 threads analyzed
  Fifty hot topics from fourteen noticeboards.

• Community view: The pressing questions of the modern WWW, as seen from the Village Pump
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• Recent research: Is Wikipedia a merchant of (non-)doubt for glyphosate?; eight projects awarded Wikimedia Research Fund grants
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• Opinion: Some disputes aren't worth it
  When to walk away.

• Obituary: Michael Q. Schmidt
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• Traffic report: Death, hear me call your name
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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - October 2025 Newsletter

This is our forty eighth newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 4, 5, 10 and 13.

News

• Ewe Language Activists Trained to Translate the Sustainable Development Goals Online
• How Wikimedia Commons is making microbiology open: lessons from Wikimedistas de Jujuy, Argentina (SDG 4)
• The Swedish Wikipedia company infobox now shows carbon emissions data retreived from Wikidata for over 200 companies. (SDG 13)

Events

• 6 November–3 December: Visible Wiki Women Campaign 2025 (SDG 5)
• 11 November: First steps in Wikidata for the Wikimedia LGBT Community (SDG 10)
• 1–30 November: Bulan Asia Wikipedia 2025 (SDG 10)

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The Signpost: 10 November 2025

• News and notes: Temporary accounts go live and WMF board member self-suspends
  ArbCom elections draw close, and Wikimania '27 in Santiago.

• Community view: Six Wikipedians' thoughts on Grokipedia, and the humanity of it all
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• Wikicup report: BeanieFan11, WikiCup victor of 2025, covers the results
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• Recent research: Taking stock of the 2024–2025 research grants
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• Obituary: Struway
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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - November 2025 Newsletter

This is our forty ninth newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 5, 13 and 15.

User group news

• 11 December: User group call
• As are ending the year and will be wrapping up on the current annual plan we are doing a few sprints. If every member of the user group makes just one contribution, we will finish these easily and have a great resource for the entire community. Please check out these and see if you can help out:
  • Videos with translatable subtitles
    • Help by identifying which videos need translation
  • Charts
    • Help by identifying charts that should be used in SDG topics

Other news

• Wikimedia Project from South America Selected by the UNESCO Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change Fund (SDG 13)
• Northern Argentine Wikimedians recognized in regional OpenStreetMap Contest (SDG 15)
• Garbo gräver fram siffror på utsläpp av koldioxid news in Swedish about carbon emissions data being added to the company infoboxes (SDG 13)
• Der Klimabericht und die Wikipedia Teil 3: Wissenschaftskommunikation (SDG 13)

Events

• SheSaid campaign on Wikiquote. From 1 September until 31 December 2025. (SDG 5)

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - December 2025 Newsletter

This is our fiftieth newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 7, 13 and 15.

User group news

• User group call, 11 December (minutes)

Other news

• WikiForHumanRights 2025: Documenting Ghana’s Just Energy Transition Through the Lens (SDG 7)
• Update on the Bioeconomy Science Institute Wikimedian in Residence (SDG 15)
• WikiForHumanRights 2025 campaign in Ghana (SDG 7&13)
• Topics for impact by Wikimedia UK
• Project Gayatri: A Year of Building Knowledge, Closing with Heart (SDG 13)

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• In the media: Fake Acting President Trump and a Wikipedia infobox
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• Community view: The inbox behind Wikipedia
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• Recent research: Art museums on Wikidata; comparing three comparisons of Grokipedia and Wikipedia
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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2026 Newsletter

This is our fifty first newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 15.

User group news

• The annual report for 2025 was published.
• Next user group meeting is 22 February.
• The drafting of the 2026 annual plan is under way, please help.

Other news

• Winning images of the special category “Human Rights and Environment” from Wiki Loves Earth 2025🤝 (SDG 15)

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• In the media: Global powers see Wikipedia as fundamental target for manipulation
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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - February 2026 Newsletter

This is our fifty second newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 4, 5, 10, 13, 15, 16 and 17.

User group news

• A proposal for a climate and sustainability meetup at Wikimania has been submitted. Keep your fingers crossed it gets accepted!

Other news

• Metabase, a project to create a movement-wide knowledgebase for activities and initiatives, now has the property relates to sustainable development goal, target or indicator and all the Sustainable Development Goals, Targets and Indicators. This makes it possible to make sure that your projects and initiative that supports these are marked as doing so and also find previous efforts related to them.
• Wiki for Botanists: Why thematic engagement matters (SDG 15)
• Influence of Seasonal and Eco-climatic Factors on Butterfly Diversity: Insights from Wiki Loves Butterfly (SDG 15)
• African Women in Climate Action: A Continued Editing Journey through the EditHer Africa Contest 2026 (SDG 5 & 13)

Events

• March is Women's History Month and also has the Internaltional Women's day, so there are plenty of related events. Check out Special:AllEvents to find some near you. (SDG 5)
• Wiki Loves Ramadan 2026 (SDG 16)
• International Mother Language Day 2026 Datathon (SDG 4, 10 &17)

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The Signpost: 10 March 2026

• Interview: Bernadette Meehan, new Wikimedia Foundation CEO
  Part 2.

• News and notes: Security testing unleashes computer worm on Meta-wiki
  Dormant worm awakes; a sketchy archiving site struck; ether burns.

• Special report: What actually happened during the Wikimedia security incident?
  A horrifying exploit took place, which could have had catastrophic and far-reaching consequences if used maliciously; instead, it seems to have happened by accident and was used for childish vandalism. How did this happen, and what did the script actually do?

• In the media: Indonesian government blocks Wikimedia logins; archive site scoured from Wikipedia after owner runs malware
  As well as controversy over LLM translations.

• Recent research: To wiki, perchance to groki
  Comparisons continue.

• Obituary: Madhav Gadgil, Fredrick Brennan, Mark Miller, Chip Berlet
  Rest in peace.

• Opinion: Interface administrators and trusting trust
  Potential attacks are the logical consequence of giving a group of users unlimited control over JavaScript.

• Technology report: English Wikipedia deprecates archive.today after DDoS against blog, altered content
  After the archive site launched a DDoS campaign against a small blog in January 2026, a request for comment was started, with consensus to deprecate the site used almost 700 thousand times.

• Op-ed: Why is "Trypsin-sensitive photosynthetic activities in chloroplast membranes" cited in "List of tallest buildings in Chicago"?
  The answer is slop.

• Essay: The pursuit of a button click
  Volunteering for Wikipedia has its rewards. The thank-button, for example.

• In focus: Short descriptions: One year later
  A discussion of the challenge set forth to the Wikipedia community one year ago!

• WikiProject report: Unreferenced articles backlog drive
  Unreferenced articles in English Wikipedia - help us in the backlog drive!

• Community view: Speaking of planning ...
  The WMF planning process is underway.

• Traffic report: Over the mountain, kissing silver inlaid clouds
  Death and the Winter Olympics.

• Crossword: "It will never happen"
  Want to take a break?

• Comix: BRIEn't
  Or is it.

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The Signpost: 31 March 2026

• News and notes: Entirety of Wikinews to be shut down
  All languages to be shut down in May; first AI agent blocked; new name for AfD?

• In the media: AI ban, newspapers disrupt archiving; and antisemitism complaints
  Perennial challenges with AI, demographic representation, and attacks from people buying media influence.

• Community view: Videos from WikiConference North America 2025 in NYC
  In attendees' own words.

• Disinformation report: Cleaning up after Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Nygard, and Mohamed Al-Fayed
  Countering the edits of the rich and dangerous.

• WikiConference report: WikiConference North America 2025 in NYC review
  About the conference series, and this conference particularly.

• Obituary: Dr. Subas Chandra Rout
  Rest in peace.

• Traffic report: Call in the dogs of war, soldier of fortune
  Though of course the picture needs to be Chuck Norris...

• Gallery: Canadian Rangers participate in Operation Enduring Encyclopedia
  Analogies between how Wikipedia works and how Canada works.

• Comix: n00bsitting
  ...!

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - March 2026 Newsletter

This is our fifty third newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 15.

User group news

• There is now a user box template on Wikimedia Commons that you can use to show that you are participant of the user group. There were already user boxes on Meta, Wikidata, English and Swedish Wikipedia. If your home wiki uses user boxes but lacks one, feel free to copy any of these to it.

Other news

• “Cinematic intensity”: The winners of Wiki Loves Earth 2025 (SDG 15)
• Scientists should join collaborative online editing communities for biodiversity (SDG 15)

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The Signpost: 21 April 2026

• News and notes: Six Serbian Wikipedia editors banned following controversy about political bias
  Plus, new bans for AI-generated content in place, a new drop in active admins, pranks on pranks, May admin election, and other news from the Wikimedia world.

• In the media: Could Wikipedia be involved in Massachusetts' proposed social media ban for minors?
  Another regulate-the-internet attempt casts a wide net.

• Gallery: March equinox
  The progression of seasons in March.

• Traffic report: Time to change my galaxy in case, we outta space!
  What catches the reader's eye? Death and film, per usual, and a loop around the moon per unusual.

• Comix: Of skirts and articles
  When significant coverage is only skin deep.

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - April 2026 Newsletter

This is our fifty fourth newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 2, 5, 6, 7, 13 and 15.

News

• From Lens to Knowledge: Citizen Science through Wiki Loves Butterfly (SDG 15)
• Wikidata type specimen data model (SDG 15)
• Edit-a-thon "Women Botanists" and “Plants Around Us: Veles” workshop (SDG 5 & 15)

Events

• Ongoing: 100 Days 100 Edits (SDG 13)
• Ongoing: Wiki for Sustainable Futures 2026 (SDG 2, 6 & 7)
• May 9-10: Bird photography trip in south Sweden (SDG 15)
• May 30: Editathon about biodiversity in Stockholm (SDG 15)

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The Signpost: 22 May 2026

• News and notes: Offline: Osama Khalid still in prison
  He has been imprisoned since 2020 for his Wikipedia edits. A fresh campaign is calling for his release.

• In the media: Indonesian editors, you shall return!
  And lawspam, may you be away.

• Disinformation report: Who is a typical paid editor? Who are their typical clients?
  Remember the golden rule!

• Recent research: WikiLambda the Ultimate
  Does Abstract Wikipedia help fight "One ring to rule them all" solutions for knowledge access - or does it implement one itself?

• Traffic report: This is where I'll be, so heavenly, so come and dance with me Michael!
  A real off the wall thriller, invincible, can't beat it, or is it dangerous and just bad?

• Forum: WikiAnnotate: help us build a dataset of article quality evaluations
  A research project to build better automated article assessment tools.

• In focus: Demystifying the 2026-27 Annual Plan
  A guide to WMF's Tech Annual Plan for the next year.

• Opinion: Wikipedia isn't a battleground. So why does it feel like one?
  Do we really have to fight?

• Serendipity: Wikinews: Into the Wikiverse
  The early suggestions for what the wiki could have been.

• Special report: Wikimedia Foundation closes Wikinews after 21 years
  Displaces 700 active editors among 31 language editions.

• Community view: Wikipedia's traffic drop: more on languages and freshness
  Which topics are dropping, and is the pattern the same everywhere?

• Gallery: Earth Day and Mother's Day
  Earth Day was on 22 April, and Mother's Day was on 10 May (in the US and many other countries).

• Comix: Brother, can you spare a page?
  What would you say?

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - May 2026 Newsletter

This is our fifty fifth newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 2, 6, 7, 13 and 15.

News

• Wikimedia Projects and the Climate Crisis: How Wiki for Sustainable Futures 2026 Is Being BuiltWikimedia Projects and the Climate Crisis: How Wiki for Sustainable Futures 2026 Is Being Built (SDG 2 & 6 & 7 & 13)
• Earth Day, Every Day: Preserving Biodiversity on Wikipedia (SDG 15)
• Launch of the Arabic Environmental Contest 2026: an ambitious initiative to enrich environmental content (SDG 2 & 6 & 7)
• From the field to the free web (SDG 15)

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