User talk:Mary Mark Ockerbloom/Archive 13
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Women in Red January 2025
 
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DYK for Murad Al-Katib
On 1 January 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Murad Al-Katib, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Murad Al-Katib provided 700 million meals of Saskatchewan-grown chickpeas, lentils and wheat to a United Nations program for Syrian refugees? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Murad Al-Katib. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Murad Al-Katib), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Happy New Year to you, Mary Mark Ockerbloom!
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Happy New Year! |
Hello Mary Mark Ockerbloom: Did you know ... that back in 1885, Wikipedia editors wrote Good Articles with axes, hammers and chisels? Thank you for your contributions to this encyclopedia using 21st century technology. I hope you don't get any unnecessary blisters. |
- Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Happy New Year elves}} to send this messageWil540 art (talk) 14:54, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
Update: New Event-Organizer Tools for You on English Wikipedia!
Hello,
I hope you're doing well! As an event coordinator on English Wikipedia, I’m happy to share some news with you. You now have the event-organizer right! This gives you access to the CampaignEvents extension, a powerful set of tools to help you organize and promote events and WikiProjects more easily. With the CampaignEvents extension, you can:
- Manage event registration directly on English Wikipedia.
- Use the Invitation List tool to find potential participants for your events/WikiProjects
- Receive automatic promotion of your events via the Collaboration List
Learn more on mw:Help:Extension:CampaignEvents
Now that I have your attention, I’d also like to share some updates to the extension:
- The Collaboration List can now be transcluded, meaning you can easily embed it on other wiki pages to share event details with more people by adding {{Special:AllEvents}}. Learn more.
- Admins can now determine which namespaces are permitted for Event Registration on English Wikipedia, via Special:CommunityConfiguration. Right now, the Event namespace is permitted by default for Event Registration. However, other namespaces (such as Wikipedia, WikiProject, etc) can now be added as permitted namespaces by admins too. This can help other types of organized activities, such as WikiProjects, use Event Registration.For details, please visit: Permitted_namespaces
If you need help using these new tools, I’m here to support you. Feel free to reach out for guidance. You can also find some useful video guides on Commons.
We’re excited to see how you use these tools for WikiProjects or events! If you have any questions, please let me know.
Udehb-WMF (talk) 11:28, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Did you know nomination
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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DYK for Bea Hines
On 6 January 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Bea Hines, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Bea Hines, the first African-American woman to become a reporter at the Miami Herald, was sent to report on a riot on her first day at work? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Bea Hines. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Bea Hines), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
This Month in GLAM: December 2024
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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.
Women in Red February 2025
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Re: Anderson Ruffin Abbott
Hello Mary Mark Ockerbloom/Archive 13, This is to let you know that one of your recent edits at Anderson Ruffin Abbott caused a citation error.
Do not add invalid URLs and use preview before saving your edit. Happy editing.––kemel49(connect)(contri) 01:14, 4 February 2025 (UTC)
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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This Month in GLAM: January 2025
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Misinformation Template Updates
I have published some changes in my sandbox for your feedback. There are variations of the Who's Who section for you to pick. Additionally, let me know when you'd be happy for the changes to go live. I'll make the initial update to the existing template to ensure everything appears right on the pages. Afterwards, I'm sure you'll be comfortable to tinker and maintain the titles. Thanks for this collaboration! Matthew Yeager (talk) 07:30, 17 February 2025 (UTC)
Women in Red March 2025
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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.
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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This Month in GLAM: February 2025
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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.
Women in Red April 2025
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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
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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!
Women in Red May 2025
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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.
A cup of tea for you!
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For combining all the refs on Sambhaji, a task I'd been dreading and which had long been put off! Have a cuppa to keep up the good work. CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 05:39, 2 May 2025 (UTC) |
Update: New Event-Organizer Tools for You on English Wikipedia!
Hello,
I hope you're doing well! As an event coordinator on English Wikipedia, I’m happy to share some news with you. You now have the event-organizer right! This gives you access to the CampaignEvents extension, a powerful set of tools to help you organize and promote events and WikiProjects more easily. With the CampaignEvents extension, you can:
- Manage event registration directly on English Wikipedia.
- Use the Invitation List tool to find potential participants for your events/WikiProjects
- Receive automatic promotion of your events via the Collaboration List
Learn more on mw:Help:Extension:CampaignEvents
Now that I have your attention, I’d also like to share some updates to the extension:
- The Collaboration List can now be transcluded, meaning you can easily embed it on other wiki pages to share event details with more people by adding {{Special:AllEvents}}. Learn more.
- Admins can now determine which namespaces are permitted for Event Registration on English Wikipedia, via Special:CommunityConfiguration. Right now, the Event namespace is permitted by default for Event Registration. However, other namespaces (such as Wikipedia, WikiProject, etc) can now be added as permitted namespaces by admins too. This can help other types of organized activities, such as WikiProjects, use Event Registration.For details, please visit: Permitted_namespaces
If you need help using these new tools, I’m here to support you. Feel free to reach out for guidance. You can also find some useful video guides on Commons.
We’re excited to see how you use these tools for WikiProjects or events! If you have any questions, please let me know.
Your submission at Articles for creation: Sylvia Soumah has been accepted
Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.
The article has been assessed as C-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. This is a great rating for a new article, and places it among the top 23% of accepted submissions — kudos to you! You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.
Since you have made at least 10 edits over more than four days, you can now create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for creation if you prefer.
If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk. Once you have made at least 10 edits and had an account for at least four days, you will have the option to create articles yourself without posting a request to Articles for creation.
If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider .
Thanks again, and happy editing!
Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 14:36, 7 May 2025 (UTC)Your submission at Articles for creation: Sally Coulthard has been accepted
Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.
The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. Most new articles start out as Stub-Class or Start-Class and then attain higher grades as they develop over time. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.
Since you have made at least 10 edits over more than four days, you can now create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for creation if you prefer.
If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk. Once you have made at least 10 edits and had an account for at least four days, you will have the option to create articles yourself without posting a request to Articles for creation.
If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider .
Thanks again, and happy editing!
Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 23:26, 7 May 2025 (UTC)Editor experience invitation
Hi Mary Mark Ockerbloom. I'm looking for experienced editors to interview here. Feel free to pass if you're not interested. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 23:17, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
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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This Month in GLAM: April 2025
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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.
Women in Red June 2025
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This Month in GLAM: May 2025
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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
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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!
Women in Red July 2025
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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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This Month in GLAM: June 2025
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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
As well as "hermeneutic excursions" and other scientific research findings.
- News from the WMF: Form 990 released for the Wikimedia Foundation’s fiscal year 2023-2024
The report covers the Foundation's operations from July 2023 - June 2024
- Discussion report: Six thousand noticeboard discussions in 2025 electrically winnowed down to a hundred
A step towards objective and comprehensive coverage of a project nearly too big to follow.
- Comix: Divorce
Drawn this century!
- Opinion: Women are somewhat under-represented on the English-language Wikipedia, and other observations from analysis
How data from the Wikipedia "necessary articles" lists can shed new light on the gender gap
- Community view: A Deep Dive Into Wikimedia (part 4): The Future Of Wikimedia and Conclusion
Annual plans, external trends, infrastructure, equity, safety, and effectiveness. What does it all mean?
- Obituary: Pvmoutside, Atomicjohn, Rdmoore6, Jaknouse, Morven, Martin of Sheffield, MarnetteD, Herewhy, BabelStone
Rest in peace.
- Traffic report: God only knows
Wouldn't it be nice without billionaires, scandals, deaths, and wars?
- Humour: New forum created for people who don't care about Wikipedia
If you are too blasé for Mr. Blasé and don't give a FAC.
Women in Red August 2025
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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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The Signpost: 9 August 2025
- News and notes: Court order snips out part of Wikipedia article, editors debate whether to frame shreds or pulp them
Plus a mysterious CheckUser incident, and the news with Wikinews.
- Discussion report: News from ANI, AN, RSN, BLPN, ELN, FTN, and NPOVN
A review of June, July and August.
- Disinformation report: The article in the most languages
Who is this guy?
- Community view: News from the Villages Pump
Threads since June.
- In the media: Disgrace, dive bars, deceased despots, and diverse dispatches
And slop.
- Crossword: Accidental typography
It's not a conlang, it's a crossword puzzle.
- Comix: best-laid schemes o' wikis an' men
gang aft agley, an' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, for promis'd joy!
- Traffic report: I'm not the antichrist or the Superman
Everybody's Somebody's Fool.
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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
UK Online Safety Act remains undefeated.
- In the media: Congress probes, mayor whitewashed, AI stinks
Plus Wiki rules, Wiki Spin, and physicists get street cred!
- Disinformation report: A guide for Congress
The price of Liberty is eternal vigilance.
- Recent research: Minority-language Wikipedias, and Wikidata for botanists
And other new research findings.
- Technology report: A new way to read Wikisource
Tis true: there's magic in the web of it.
- Traffic report: Check out some new Weapons, weapon of choice
With the usual mix of war, death, super heroes, a belt, and Wednesday.
- Essay: The one question
It's an easy one.
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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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The Signpost: 2 October 2025
- News and notes: Larry Sanger returns with "Nine Theses on Wikipedia"; WMF publishes transparency report
This time "not merely negative".
- In the media: Extraordinary eruption of "EVIL" explained
Wickedpedia wrangles post-truth politics.
- Disinformation report: Emails from a paid editing client
Unexpected news!
- 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
Policy, politics, icons, captchas, and LLMs.
- Recent research: Is Wikipedia a merchant of (non-)doubt for glyphosate?; eight projects awarded Wikimedia Research Fund grants
And other recent publications.
- Opinion: Some disputes aren't worth it
When to walk away.
- Obituary: Michael Q. Schmidt
Rest in peace.
- Traffic report: Death, hear me call your name
Celebrities, deaths and software.
- Comix: A grand spectacle
All invited!
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The Signpost: 20 October 2025
- News and notes: Board shuffles, LLM blocks increase, IPs are going away
And the "Global Resource Distribution Committee" emerges.
- Special report: The election that isn't
Two shortlisted WMF Board candidates removed from the ballot.
- Interview: The BoT bump
Who was bumped and why?
- In the media: An incident at WikiConference North America; WMF reports AI-related traffic drop and explains Wikipedia to US conservatives
...while Musk prepares to launch "Grokipedia".
- Traffic report: One click after another
Serial-killer miniseries, deceased scientist, government shutdowns and Sandalwood hit "Kantara" crowd the tubes.
- Humour: Wikipedia pay rates
Don't get too excited before you read this.
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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
It ain't a five course meal, according to one of our interviewees.
- Wikicup report: BeanieFan11, WikiCup victor of 2025, covers the results
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
- In the media: Jimbo's book, an argument about genocide, and a train of shame
Wikipedia's new rival, political controversy in Italy and other Wiki-reports.
- Recent research: Taking stock of the 2024–2025 research grants
$400,000 USD in total funding: what did we get?
- Opinion: With Grokipedia, top-down control of knowledge is new again
Does it shed any light on particular topics that are better suited to LLM-generation than others?
- Obituary: Struway
Rest in peace.
- Traffic report: The documentaried, the disowned, the deceased, Diwali and the Dodgers
You know your man is working hard, he's worth a deuce.
- Comix: Head of steam
'Sblood!
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The Signpost: 1 December 2025
- News and notes: Election cycles come and go, and Wikimedia Foundation achieves record revenue in 2024–2025!
Admin and ArbCom elections upcoming, BoT elects two new members, task force advises to close Wikinews and keep Wikispore, and other news from the Wikimedia world.
- In the media: Wales walk-off, antisemitism, supernatural powers, feminism turmoil, saints, and sex
Plus mammoth mummy sex-change operation completed!
- Recent research: At least 80 million inconsistent facts on Wikipedia – can AI help find them?
And other recent publications about contradictions and retractions.
- Disinformation report: Epstein email exchanges planned strategy, edits and reported progress
At work on Wikipedia whitewashing. How much should they be paid?
- Traffic report: It's a family affair
Even in these times there is something to be thankful for!
- Book review: The Seven Rules of Trust
Jimmy Wales and Dan Gardner write a book inspired by Wikipedia. What's in it?
- From the archives: "I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein ..."
The twists and turns of Epstein’s portrayal on Wikipedia.
- Humour: An interview with Wikipe-tan
A conversation about being the mascot of Wikipedia.
- Opinion: AI finds errors in 90% of Wikipedia's best articles
Using ChatGPT to fact-check a month's worth of Today's featured articles.
- Serendipity: Highlights from the itWikiCon 2025
A recap of the latest convention of the Italian Wiki-community, held in Catania from 7–9 November.
- Comix: Madness
It could happen to anyone.
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
- Videos with translatable subtitles
- Other news
- Wikimedia Project from South America Selected by the UNESCO Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change Fund
- Northern Argentine Wikimedians recognized in regional OpenStreetMap Contest
- Garbo gräver fram siffror på utsläpp av koldioxid news in Swedish about carbon emissions data being added to the company infoboxes
- Der Klimabericht und die Wikipedia Teil 3: Wissenschaftskommunikation
- Events
- SheSaid campaign on Wikiquote. From 1 September until 31 December 2025.
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The Signpost: 17 December 2025
- Interview: Part 1: Bernadette Meehan
Say hello to the new WMF CEO.
- News and notes: We're gonna have a party!
And a new WMF CEO!
- In the media: The "bigg" bosses: Robertsky and the Pope
Pay up, big guys!
- Traffic report: Death and stranger things
And going for the FIFA prize!
- Gallery: A feast of holidays and carols
Something old and something new!
- Obituary: Michal Lewi (Iwelam) and Alan R. King (A R King)
Rest in peace.
- Concept: List of xxtreme sports (redirected from Electrojousting)
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