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Thanks for your review! I will rephrase those content which was removed by you shortly. In almost all cases, i have rephrased the content which i have been adding with proper citations but there are very least cases like the one you just encountered. Mr.Sarcastic (talk) 14:13, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

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@Diannaa: The names have been copied from the older version of this page Thanjavur Marathi people which i have recently edited. I haven't copied anything outside of this page Thanjavur Marathi people. You can check it here. You have just misunderstood as some of the names were also present in this page also List of Marathi people which i was not aware of at that time. Well regarding attributions, i will keep that in mind in my future edits and also Thank you for explaining about the attributions again.(Mr.Sarcastic (talk) 15:45, 20 January 2020 (UTC))

Stop leaving messages on my talk page

You are insisting on retaining *unsourced*, patently false information in Madras bashai, and yet presume to leave a message on my talk page claiming that *I* am violating WP:Verifiability? Hölderlin2019 (talk) 18:57, 23 January 2020 (UTC)

Before deleting anything from a page you have to talk through in their talk page which you clearly did not do in this case. Mr.Sarcastic (talk) 19:00, 23 January 2020 (UTC)

Would you mind linking me to the policy that says that? I’ve never heard of that particular policy, and I’m rather sure that most Wikipedia editors haven’t, since it doesn’t exist. You should now revert your own revert, since your reinstatement of challenged unsourced material itself violates WP:Verifiability.

While you’re at it, I’d appreciate an explanation of how my edit violated WP:NPOV or WP:Verifiability? Have you even read the latter of the two? My edits are mandated by it, whereas yours flatly contravene it. Hölderlin2019 (talk) 19:03, 23 January 2020 (UTC)

I notice you’ve recently reverted unsourced material without discussing it on the talk page here. Would you further care to explain why you don’t follow your own rules? Hölderlin2019 (talk) 09:54, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

@Hölderlin2019: Well, I have sourced the content which you previously stated "crap" "non-sense" which is not a good way to address someones content. You should learn some manners and use proper sentences in narrations which you clearly lack your edit history says a lot about yourself. And also, if what i did is wrong there are several editors over here who might have gone through that page Madras bashai and could have reverted my edit but no one seems to have did that. Further You are hiding my messages and warnings from your talk page by blanking the whole warning which is also not a good practice and clearly states your about transparency . I think your whole agenda here is something else and you are harassing my edits and pushing your point of view of in words like "crap" "non-sense" "nonsense from incompetent editor" instead of explaining your point by adding sources and if is to be removed you must add citations verifying the same which you clearly did not. And Regarding Policies read this and familiarize yourself with Wikipedia:Vandalism.

I’ve asked you several questions above, none of which you’ve answered. I’ve also removed your edits from my talk page, since I don’t consider you competent to be making them, and I control what’s on my talk page, not you. You generally seem unfamiliar with Wikipedia policy and how to apply it. Hölderlin2019 (talk) 21:58, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

Unknown User

Do you have the abilitiy to block user 2001:18C0:61C:700:A96A:AAA7:3688:1448 or know another user who can. He has been making a lot of excessive and unnecessary edits to the Dragon 2 article and numerous other articles. He also has been ignoring our warnings when his edits are undid or reverted and seems to be editing the articles based on his personal preferences or like long running documentaries. Also how do you gain the ability to "revert" edits?--Killamin7 (talk) 13:45, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

@Killamin7: Well, I have reported him to an admin for his edits on the page Discoverer 17. We just have to wait until someone responds to our cause. And regarding reverts its called "Twinkle" gadget which is a popular JavaScript Wikipedia gadget that gives autoconfirmed registered users many extra options to assist them in common Wikipedia maintenance tasks and to help them deal with acts of vandalism or unconstructive edits. It provides users with three types of rollback functions and includes a full library of speedy deletion functions, user warnings and welcomes, maintenance tags, semi-automatic reporting of vandals, and more. In addition, it gives administrators more tools to help them carry out their duties. Thanks (Mr.Sarcastic (talk) 14:49, 26 January 2020 (UTC))

@Mr.Sarcastic: Thanks! I actually contacted Ferret about the IP's edits and he went ahead and blocked him for 72 hours (for now). I'll give Twinkle a try.--Killamin7 (talk) 15:11, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

Please move the page Saurahtra people to Saurashtra Brahmin

I had added information about Gher Navs/Family Names in the community. Also, I made some changes in other places. Please don't delete it. I added citation from Karnataka United Sourashtra Organization on the Brahminical status further even this article has a line saying Saurashtras are Brahmins who are homogeneous. This time I will make the changes and add this citation near the name itself you can see it from there itself. I think even you might know about Gher Navs and Gotras, I checked for my family name and some of my relatives using wedding cards they all matched. I saw even you are from the Palkar community so you may know about it. Anyway please don't change it. Please leave a message on my talk page if you have any queries. Also, I would be happy to work with you on improving this article. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lokeshwaran V R (talk • contribs) 07:04, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

@Lokeshwaran V R:I agree that you have added content but that too without proper citations. Caste based websites like you cited are not reliable and also the family names you added doesn't have proper sources it's like you have copied it from some matrimonial websites and as such sites are also not reliable. If you want to add content cite with proper academic sources like google books and trusted newspaper articles. As the content you added doesn't include those, i have removed those for now. Also don't make major changes like this without taking consensus from various editors in the talk page. As of now there are very few sources for the Saurashtra Brahmins and most sources cite them as Saurashtrians or Sourashtras. So until proper sources comes the name sticks the same. If you have any doubts feel free to drop a message in my talk page.

Also if you revert back those thrice in a 24 hours stretch you may be blocked from editing and most of your recent actions may appear to others as you are vandalizing the article and pushing your POV without any valid sources. Mr.Sarcastic (talk) 10:03, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

How can you allow hatred ?

I have been observing Wikipedia is promoting hatred towards a particular community i.e khatri community. You are approving inappropriate content which has no connection with the ancestors of this community being silk weavers. This is sheer misuse of your position as an editor. Rishabkapania77 (talk) 19:38, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

@Rishabkapania7: It isn't hatred as long as content comes with a reliable citations i revert them at most. Also the Khatris have varied occupations which changes from region to region The Khatris of Gujarat are Silk Weavers and the article includes the regions of Gujarat in it not only Punjabi Khatris. So there is nothing wrong about it. Thanks Mr.Sarcastic (talk) 07:47, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

Reversion at Sankethi people

Dear Mr. Sarcastic, I'm not sure of your background or your credentials as you seem to have a wide variety of interests. To your question of my editing the contents of the Sankethi people page, it is because I myself am a Kaushika Sankethi and what I added is an accurate representation of our community, and the content that I removed is not sourced and against the tradition as handed down in our community. If you are a Sankethi or have wide knowledge of our community, I could discuss things with you, otherwise I'm not sure on what basis you are editing the content of the page that I had updated.NShashishekhar (talk) 02:21, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

@NShashishekhar: As an editor myself i edit lot of stuffs, and i rely on proper sources be from an academic sources or news from a reliable publisher. As far as i concern elders are not a part of reliable source and Wikipedia also doesn't condemn the hearsay content. Since you removed a part of the Sankethi people without explaining why, i have reverted those. As such i have added tags and added citations for what you have added. You before editing or removing anything from Wikipedia have to discuss those in the respective talk page and if you add something cite them from reliable sources. Thanks Mr.Sarcastic (talk) 07:39, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

Mr. Sarcastic, your points about citations and providing reasons for editing and removing content are taken. However I would like to point out that almost all of our community's (indeed also of India's) past is preserved as an oral history, and so there is importance in tradition and the information bequeathed to us by our elders and ancestors.NShashishekhar (talk) 14:34, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

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Senaithalaivar

Senaithalivar page contain many unreliable sources so review this page. Many British Raj ear source are found in that page which is unreliable source. Tirukodimadachengunrur (talk) 08:08, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

@Tirukodimadachengunrur: Well, I have reverted to the last best version of the article. Hope that helps!Mr.Sarcastic (talk) 08:28, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

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Teohari Georgescu

Hi. I wanted to add an audio file of Teohari Georgescu's name pronunciation, but it didn't work, so I deleted it. Please, undo the file. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Masha2801 (talk • contribs) 14:07, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

@Masha2801: Done Mr.Sarcastic (talk) 14:18, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

April 23, 2020

Hello you left a message on my page about my edition on the page Love Poem (EP) but your justification for reverting my edition was invalid because I didn't remove any content, just reformulated the table within the definitions MOS: TABLECAPTION to facilitate the accessibility of wikipedia :) Jennienini (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 14:27, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

@Jennienini: It was reverted as you did not explained what you did in your edit summaries. But you have explained correctly now. Do like this in your future edits to avoid confusion. Thanks Mr.Sarcastic (talk) 14:38, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Reporting Vandalism made by an IP user

Hello, I just found out a IP user who vandalised your talk page. Ghost finders (talk) 05:04, 25 April 2020 (UTC) Ghost Finders (Ghost Finders)

Reversion about Kumbakonam wikipage

You had reverted my edits about Kumbakonam. It's very pathetic that you don't even know the necessary details before reverting. Kumbakonam falls under Mayiladuthurai Lok Sabha constituency and the current member for the constituency is Shri.S. Ramalingam. Please be knowledgeable when you do these kind of work. And also as per Indian civic laws any place or locality governed by a local body with a population of over 1 lakh can be called a city. It is not that it should be governed by a municipal corporation only. Antovicto (talk) 08:42, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

@Antovicto: It was reverted as you did not explained what you did in your edit summaries and also you did't even provided any sources for your claim. As per Wikipedia policies and Guidelines Yourself is not knowledgeable and there are no chance what you edit is reliable unless you provide proper sources. It really annoys me that without even reading polices people like you come here to push your pathetic POV on this encyclopedia. So before editing anywhere at least familiarize yourself about these policies

• WP:VERIFY
• WP:RS

If you would have read your welcome page correctly and come here there would be some use to you. Thanks Mr.Sarcastic (talk) 11:34, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

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I need help of writing a article Dmy1948 (talk) 12:36, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

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Edit wars in List of Mudaliars and List of Sengunthars pages

User: Kavin Mudaliyar has been adding Thuluva Vellala caste personalities like Thiru Vi Ka and Mu. Varadarajan in these wiki pages claiming them as Sengunthars without references. I have added the references that Tamil scholar Thir Vi Ka was from Vellalar community in the List of Mudaliars umpteen times. User: Kavin Mudaliar and their suspected sock accounts have been pushing their POVs thereby creating edit warring saying these 2 personalities belong to Sengunthar without an iota of reference.Srivatsarcot1 (talk) 14:34, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

Museum of Sologne

Hi,
thanks for being so vigilant. In fact my change was relevant as the article was no more orphan. So I re-do the change and will justify it now. Thanks a lot
--Davric (talk) 08:06, 8 May 2020 (UTC): thanks for the tips. By the way I started on WP 13 years ago and created 500+ articles. Even if I'm always learning, I know a few rules. But as I'm a bit lazzy, yes, sometimes I move too quickly. In the current case, in fact I justified my change in the previous modification but realized that I forgot to remove the "Multiple issues" mention. So did it in the same minute.
Anyway, that's now compliant with WP rules.
Have a nice day. --Davric (talk) 08:17, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

@Davric: Its good you are familiar with stuffs going on here. Almost all of us are learning, I didn't knew you were on Wikipedia that long as your edit count were less so i welcomed you. ThanksMr.Sarcastic (talk) 06:23, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

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Hello sir, please check the page Maratha (caste) which is edits by a anonymous user with any source and i reverted these edits but latter Kleuske reverted my edits to anonymous without any enquiry. Rakshit Rathod (talk) 11:34, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

Vandalism

Do you even understand the meaning of vandalism? My edits are accurately explained here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:COVID-19_pandemic_lockdown_in_India#Dependence_on_unreliable_sources — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.170.18.17 (talk) 07:05, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

@122.170.18.17: You are clearly POV-pushing without even backing out with sources. That clearly is a vandalism. Also The Wire is reliable source. So here you are the one who is POV pushing without even attaining consensus. So Get Lost Mr.Sarcastic (talk) 07:26, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

Greek Exonyms

The edits you undid weren't me deleting much, but just me reformatting 95% of the article into tables, and the deleting the non-exonymous/ non-encyclopedian 5%. Is there a way I can undo your reversions without having to manually redo the tables? Starbeam2 (talk) 08:18, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

@Starbeam2: Yeah, Thank you for clearing that out. I have fixed that for you. Please explain in clear about your edits in future in edit summaries to avoid such a revert. Mr.Sarcastic (talk) 08:33, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

Cueto, Cuba

I take on board that I need to explain every single change. However, you removed all of my edits, including the ones I had summarised. Basically, I had updated the population figures of my hometown, as of 2018. The current article refers to 2004 figures. I also had removed a link to a page in Spanish that is the Cuban government version of Wikipedia. The website, called Ecured, distorts historical facts, omits others to suit their political aims and is not impartial. I had replaced this particular link with another one which is Wikipedia based. Any chance of restoring my edits? Beowulf2016 (talk) 21:22, 14 May 2020 (UTC)Thanks.

@Beowulf2016: Thank you for your constructive edits. I have retained your edits regarding population figures of 2018 without removing references that has been there since very long time in the infobox and other places as well. Please explain in clear about your edits in future in edit summaries when you are removing massive references. Regards Mr.Sarcastic (talk) 06:15, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

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About my edits

I don't blame you for your anti-vandalism work. In fact, I truly appreciate them. But I hope you can really distinguish between disruptive and good faith edits. Please don't revert edits arbitrarily for no apparent reason, and don't judge things too quick. The message you sent wasn't really necessary to be sent either. So please be careful in the future. Thank you. 182.30.133.131 (talk) 01:06, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

@182.30.133.131: I haven't reverted abruptly for any apparent reason. I have been doing this for quite a long time and I know what am doing. You clearly replaced name with nameplate with no edit summaries, any editor would have reverted those who is not familiar with the work, also i have checked the source there's not a single mention of what you actually edited. So, don't assume what i did was wrong, i was extremely correct on my part, you should have edited with a proper edit summaries which you still don't follow in your recent edit also try to add sources for what you have edited, it's easy for us to cross-check whether what you added is reliable or not as such edits made by you can't be trusted as long as you provide reliable sources for those. "We go by sources, not on editor's knowledge". I request you to follow simple Wikipedia Guidelines from your welcome page. Also don't be so quick to judge on other editors about their work, from your edit history, i can see lot of editors have told the same to you, but you instead removed those warnings without even realizing what went wrong on your part, which is not a good practice either. Regards Mr.Sarcastic (talk) 02:42, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Well, it's not like I don't want to be corrected or something like that. But some editors can also make edits that in my mind don't need to be reverted. As an example in the Toyota Etios article, where I only added the term "facelift" to distinguish which models have been updated and which have not, and immediately the edits were reverted because the editor think it had an "comedic" element that I could not understand at all. Does that show some competency? Though the term "facelift" has long been used in many automotive articles, the editor thinks that the term is referring to another meaning, but without further look, the edits were immediately reverted and I was given a warning template. To be honest at that time I was very annoyed. I have also explained the actual term to the editor. It is true that in Wikipedia we must always refer to facts with reliable sources. But for automotive terms like "facelift", it is sufficient to explain that we can see the difference in the appearance of the vehicle before and after a change. Not everything must be accompanied by sources, literally, but it must still be guided by the guidelines on Wikipedia.

Regarding sources, I also always try as much as possible to add reliable sources if there are some new information, and add the "citation needed" template if there is a doubtful statement. I can judge whether a statement can be justified or not. I am not adding information haphazardly. But if you please, pay attention to the future edits if I make a mistake again. As per the guidelines, I will add the edit summaries as much as possible if I make another edits. I just hope that every editor can collaborate and support each other in doing better things in Wikipedia; good faith is one of the most important principle in this case. Regards. 182.30.133.131 (talk) 05:16, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

NB: The fact that I removed the warnings is entirely different thing. Not everyone wants their messages to be seen, regardless whatever the topic it is. 182.30.133.131 (talk) 06:27, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

@182.30.133.131:Well, I Agree to most of your points, but the term "facelift" is an comedic element if you use those outside of automotive articles but if you would have explained in the edit summaries such a revert could have been avoided and when a word like that appears in any other article its most likely a vandalism case. I have seen several such humor based words on other articles and upon checking the facts it would always end up in vandalism only as almost all of them who do such such edits will be random IPs so its hard to trust the edit when its an IP. This all could have been avoided if you would have had a Wikipedia account in the first place also we on general basis check the edit histories and if many of them are good faith then we won't even revert those edits in the first place. If you are going to do more good edits I request you to join Wikipedia and you can do topic specific edits and no one will send you warning templates if its totally good faiths. And also about removal of messages, I agree its a personal matter but it also leads to have a proper transparency about the editors as in Wikipedia, everything you do is totally visible to others regardless of your removal and it also helps us to know about the behavior of their replies on their talk page so that we can come into a conclusion that your edit is indeed a good faith. After-all we are here just to help and improve the quality of articles. Regards Mr.Sarcastic (talk) 07:16, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Unreliable source and wrong information

Thuluva Vellala page contain many unreliable sources and wrong information so review this page. British Raj ear source, Google blogger and wordpress source are found in that page which is unreliable source. Tirukodimadachengunrur (talk) 08:49, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

Unreliable sources and wrong information

Tuluva Vellala page contain many unreliable sources and wrong information so review this page. British Raj ear source, Google blogger and wordpress source are found in that page which is unreliable source. Tirukodimadachengunrur (talk) 08:51, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

@Mr.Sarcastic: Tirukodimadachengunrur (talk) 10:30, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

@Tirukodimadachengunrur: Done. @Periyarist: I have added tags for now, will remove if the reliable sources are not found soon. Thanks Mr.Sarcastic (talk) 16:28, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Thank you sir Tirukodimadachengunrur (talk) 08:08, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

Regarding Tamil Nadu Assembly..

Ok.. Sorry..i made it by mistake... Nk TheWikipedian (talk) 11:16, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

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Hi, you did a move here that is wrong. We do not capitalise caste in article titles. Can you fix? - Sitush (talk) 09:10, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

football

I add formatting of new mongolia league name, club years etc, as in other afc leagues, stop reverting or will be reported! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.2.86.98 (talk) 17:37, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

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Hello Mr. Sarcastic, The article content for wikipedia page was translated from https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%8E%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D._%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%87._%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%B3%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D Why did you remove it? I was editting it into prose.

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Can you clarify why you see as disruptive? This appears to be the standard practice throughout the rest of the page, and indeed on all other similar UK constituency and election pages. Thanks. --Oravrattas (talk) 16:28, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

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Saurashtra people

Sakthivel Kettal Kumaran (talk) 19:06, 1 April 2021 (UTC) i request you to add below details in Saurashtra people page, because i'm one among the Saurashtra people. So i know better than others. I have also attached the reference link

All Sourashtrians will have Gothram(Gothru) and Family name(Ghernav) associated. Here is the full list of 64 gotra's with their respective 1129 family names below:

1. No. #Gothru #Ghernav #No. #Gothru #Ghernav #No. #Gothru #Ghernav #No. #Gothru #Ghernav #No. #Gothru #Ghernav

1 Agasthiya Aathin 251 Haritha Geethavaan 501 Mandabala Alagumannaan 751 Pippala Dongarun 1001 Upamanyu Rengappaan 2 Agasthiya Alakathin 252 Haritha Kithuvaan 502 Mandabala Bachaan 752 Pippala Khumbaan 1002 Upamanyu Saayin 3 Agasthiya Bheemun 253 Haritha Kolisyaan 503 Mandabala Daalaan 753 Pippala Kombun 1003 Upamanyu Sooryaan 4 Agasthiya Boruttaan 254 Haritha Nelin 504 Mandabala Daasun 754 Pippala Meddalun 1004 Usena Nagavaan 5 Agasthiya Devendrun 255 Haritha Pachcherikerin 505 Mandabala Dallaan 755 Pippala Mruthangamun 1005 Ushneesha Saarngavaan 6 Agasthiya Gaamdan 256 Haritha Pilpaan 506 Mandabala Hamsavaan 756 Pippala Pappullaan 1006 Uthanga Allun 7 Agasthiya Gundudhipaan 257 Haritha Vaithun 507 Mandabala Malaen 757 Pippala Soopiyaan 1007 Uthanga Annaan 8 Agasthiya Gunniyaan 258 Haritha Vaithyamun 508 Mandabala Mukulaan 758 Pippala Soorathanuvaan 1008 Uthanga Dhonnen 9 Agasthiya Kesavun 259 Hothra Aanvaan 509 Mandabala Pedaan 759 Pippala Soppallun 1009 Uthanga Hallun 10 Agasthiya Kommaan 260 Hothra Chebbun 510 Mandabala Pidulun 760 Pippala Thapaan 1010 Uthanga Jamukkaalamun 11 Agasthiya Kurunjirengaan 261 Hothra Daaruvaan 511 Mandabala Pullin 761 Pramathi Saarasavaan 1011 Uthanga Kaapikoudan 12 Agasthiya Login 262 Hothra Geddin 512 Mandabala Sarvaan 762 Saaliga Aachalun 1012 Uthanga Kandallun 13 Agasthiya Molavun 263 Hothra Kondiyaan 513 Mandabala Sivalingaan 763 Saaliga Aadhiyaan 1013 Uthanga Koochun 14 Agasthiya Moola 264 Hothra Kuppalun 514 Mandabala Sivandin 764 Saaliga Anandun 1014 Uthanga Koosun 15 Agasthiya Peesaan 265 Hothra Sevnaan 515 Mandabala Vanthavaasin 765 Saaliga Angiyaan 1015 Uthanga Kouvndaan 16 Agasthiya Pisaan 266 Idhmavaaha Pasuvaan 516 Mandabala Veeranaan 766 Saaliga Bojjaalun 1016 Uthanga Kudisen 17 Agasthiya Podin 267 Jabali Adhukennin 517 Mareesi Adakodan 767 Saaliga Bommayin 1017 Uthanga Kuppaan 18 Agasthiya Pommalaatamun 268 Jabali Ambalmun 518 Mareesi Adhukasun 768 Saaliga Bosudhuvaan 1018 Uthanga Kuppalun 19 Agasthiya Purohithamun 269 Jabali Appan 519 Mareesi Allaan 769 Saaliga Bungaan 1019 Uthanga Mahdin 20 Agasthiya Saathun 270 Jabali Bajjin 520 Mareesi Anjalin 770 Saaliga Chinna sarangaan 1020 Uthanga Munnaan 21 Agasthiya Suchhulun 271 Jabali Billukeestukondan 521 Mareesi Appachin 771 Saaliga Dhathrun 1021 Uthanga Muppin 22 Agasthiya Sugudun 272 Jabali Bolekondan 522 Mareesi Baden 772 Saaliga Dhoodaan 1022 Uthanga Muthumannaan 23 Agasthiya Thaadan 273 Jabali Bommadin 523 Mareesi Bajen 773 Saaliga Dhoraalin 1023 Uthanga Naakgoundaan 24 Agasthiya Thiguluvaan 274 Jabali Buttaan 524 Mareesi Bhaden 774 Saaliga Dumkolun 1024 Uthanga Nakun 25 Agasthiya Thoguluvaan 275 Jabali ChinnaKondan 525 Mareesi Bollun 775 Saaliga Getting 1025 Uthanga Nakunaan 26 Agasthiya Undalun 276 Jabali Dhadalaavun 526 Mareesi Girin 776 Saaliga Gonetin 1026 Uthanga Nanaan 27 Agasthiya Vitalavaan 277 Jabali Dhalupanin 527 Mareesi Gujilin 777 Saaliga Gundin 1027 Uthanga Nangiyaan 28 Agasthiya Vittalvaan 278 Jabali Dhandamun 528 Mareesi Gujuluvan 778 Saaliga Gundumanin 1028 Uthanga Narasaan 29 Angeerasa Ghedamun 279 Jabali Dhimmukondaan 529 Mareesi Kacherin 779 Saaliga Handin 1029 Uthanga Nattamain 30 Angeerasa Kaaden 280 Jabali Dhoppen/Thoppen 530 Mareesi Kallanten 780 Saaliga Jembun 1030 Uthanga Oblaan 31 Angeerasa Kaden 281 Jabali Ghettaan 531 Mareesi Kanthaan 781 Saaliga Kaalan 1031 Uthanga Oosikoundaan 32 Angeerasa Kandaan 282 Jabali Girin 532 Mareesi Kastaan 782 Saaliga Kholaan 1032 Uthanga Pinsin 33 Angeerasa Kanumavaan 283 Jabali Goosukondan 533 Mareesi Kattiyamun 783 Saaliga Kholan 1033 Uthanga Ravanthun 34 Angeerasa Regupathin 284 Jabali Gottun 534 Mareesi Kechalun 784 Saaliga Kondiyaan 1034 Uthanga Sevnaan 35 Angeerasa Ruppaan 285 Jabali Gowlaan 535 Mareesi Kochalun 785 Saaliga Kuppaan 1035 Uthanga Sounaan 36 Aruni Hoothavaan 286 Jabali Gowntaan 536 Mareesi Kucherin 786 Saaliga Kurisin 1036 Uthanga Sravanaan 37 Asitha Meruvaan 287 Jabali Hundhirun 537 Mareesi Kumarasamin 787 Saaliga Lottalun 1037 Uthanga Thandukoudaan 38 Athreya Devanaan 288 Jabali Hunnun 538 Mareesi Login 788 Saaliga Nambin 1038 Uthanga Thengun 39 Athreya Durvaasun 289 Jabali Jabalin 539 Mareesi Mallin 789 Saaliga Nimmalun 1039 Uthanga Thilakavaan 40 Athreya Kachin 290 Jabali Jabannaan 540 Mareesi Modo Kumarasamin 790 Saaliga Oppamaan 1040 Uthanga Thimmaan 41 Athreya Kainaan 291 Jabali Jabin 541 Mareesi Murarin 791 Saaliga Peechen 1041 Uthanga Varadakouvndaan 42 Athreya Kheeladyaan 292 Jabali Katiyaan 542 Mareesi Musolun 792 Saaliga Poduthaan 1042 Vaathsaayana Angiyan 43 Athreya KunjuKutin 293 Jabali Kenthapadin 543 Mareesi Naalin 793 Saaliga Poguduvaan 1043 Vaathsaayana Jaathruvaan 44 Athreya Maakaayin 294 Jabali Kingiyaan 544 Mareesi Nhana 794 Saaliga Prohithamun 1044 Vaathsaayana Kundalavaan 45 Athreya Makayin 295 Jabali Kondaan 545 Mareesi Nyaniyan 795 Saaliga Rama govindamun 1045 Vaisampayana Ranavaan 46 Athreya Pottulun 296 Jabali Koppan 546 Mareesi Pandan 796 Saaliga Ramapaan 1046 Valmiki Jawaharuvaan 47 Athreya Shambangin 297 Jabali Kottaan 547 Mareesi Rengan 797 Saaliga Sembun 1047 Valmiki Kunnaan 48 Athreya Tathraan 298 Jabali Kottaiveedun 548 Mareesi Rudhran 798 Saaliga Senaathin 1048 Valmiki Kuppiyaan 49 Athreya Thaaravaan 299 Jabali Kulithbaathun 549 Mareesi Samsalin 799 Saaliga Sevunaan 1049 Vamadeva Bhandaarin 50 Athreya Thondaan 300 Jabali Kundun 550 Mareesi Semmin 800 Saaliga Sinthalavaan 1050 Vamadeva Bhandaarivaan 51 Athreya Thurvaasun 301 Jabali Kuppiliyaan 551 Mareesi Senan 801 Saaliga Vaidyalingamun 1051 Vamadeva Desun 52 Athreya Vaithyaan 302 Jabali Lamben 552 Mareesi Singirin 802 Saaliga Vendin 1052 Vamadeva Govundaan 53 Athreya Vaithyamun 303 Jabali Manden 553 Mareesi Sinnan 803 Sakthi Seemanthavaan 1053 Vamadeva Khodin 54 Bhageeratha Badrivaan 304 Jabali Mappilen 554 Mareesi Sonnin 804 Sandialya Kongadivaan 1054 Vamadeva Kothivin 55 Bhageeratha Naappaan 305 Jabali Monden 555 Mareesi Theivadinamun 805 Sarabhanga Ajulvaan 1055 Vasista Kuppiyaan 56 Bhageeratha Pennadamun 306 Jabali Morkondaan 556 Mareesi Thipun 806 Sarabhanga Arjunaan 1056 Vasista Meluvaan 57 Bhageeratha Uduthoonun 307 Jabali Mudin 557 Mareesi Urukun 807 Sarabhanga Bherin 1057 Vathsa Bhallathuvaan 58 Bharadwaja Bhajjin 308 Jabali Murthiyammaan 558 Markandeya Agasthun 808 Sarabhanga Gopulaan 1058 Viswamithra Ariyan 59 Bharadwaja Bovnaan 309 Jabali Muttin 559 Markandeya Ambalamun 809 Sarabhanga Jilaarin 1059 Viswamithra Edhun 60 Bharadwaja Bunjoon 310 Jabali Nandiyaan 560 Markandeya Ambasamuthramun 810 Sarabhanga Kunthaan 1060 Viswamithra Geddhun 61 Bharadwaja Chinnakavedin 311 Jabali Neelamin 561 Markandeya Bala Gowndan 811 Sarabhanga Nanappaan 1061 Viswamithra Gowndan 62 Bharadwaja DhimmuKondaan 312 Jabali Nellukondaan 562 Markandeya Bala Veeryaan 812 Sarabhanga Nandiyaan 1062 Viswamithra Hariyan 63 Bharadwaja Doiraan 313 Jabali Nimmalun 563 Markandeya Balriyan 813 Sarabhanga Pinjin 1063 Viswamithra Jamuduvan 64 Bharadwaja Ellun 314 Jabali Palanin 564 Markandeya Bathun 814 Sarabhanga Pothin 1064 Viswamithra Kaspannan 65 Bharadwaja Genjeen 315 Jabali Pattanamun 565 Markandeya Bhathru Gowndan 815 Sarabhanga Puchunaan 1065 Viswamithra Kistan 66 Bharadwaja Gerudamun 316 Jabali Perken 566 Markandeya Bhemun 816 Sarabhanga Puliyaan 1066 Viswamithra Kownan 67 Bharadwaja Ghankaan 317 Jabali Pillin 567 Markandeya Chelkaan 817 Sarabhanga Punnayin 1067 Viswamithra Muthun 68 Bharadwaja Gojjoon 318 Jabali Pindhilin 568 Markandeya Dharmiyaan 818 Sarabhanga Purohithamun 1068 Viswamithra Pittan 69 Bharadwaja Gulbajjin 319 Jabali Pinnagun 569 Markandeya Dharmyaan 819 Sarabhanga Sampengin 1069 Viswamithra Posadin 70 Bharadwaja Janakin 320 Jabali PuLin 570 Markandeya Dhollen 820 Sarabhanga Sangun 1070 Viswamithra Rangan 71 Bharadwaja Jekkaan 321 Jabali Pulin 571 Markandeya Diwakaramun 821 Soomantha Bhandaan 1071 Viswamithra Sikkan 72 Bharadwaja Jogin 322 Jabali Purohithun 572 Markandeya Giri Ambalamun 822 Soomantha Lotkyaan 1072 Viswamithra Thambarun 73 Bharadwaja Kaanin 323 Jabali Puttaan 573 Markandeya Girin 823 Soomantha Mysorun 1073 Viswamithra Vaithun 74 Bharadwaja Kaasi Purohithamun 324 Jabali Rajapaalyaan 574 Markandeya Gowdun 824 Soomantha Poosaan 1074 Viswamithra Vaithyamun 75 Bharadwaja Kanaachchin 325 Jabali Rengadamun 575 Markandeya Gowndan 825 Soomantha Poriyaan 1075 Viswamithra Voithun 76 Bharadwaja Kanayin 326 Jabali Seekondaan 576 Markandeya Gurukotun 826 Soomantha Selukkaan 1076 Vyasa Agasthun 77 Bharadwaja Kannivaadin 327 Jabali Selamkondan 577 Markandeya Gurumurthin 827 Soomantha Selukuvaan 1077 Vyasa Ambilun 78 Bharadwaja Kasthurin 328 Jabali Sembun 578 Markandeya Jagunin 828 Soomantha Silukuvaan 1078 Vyasa Basaan 79 Bharadwaja Kaththaasun 329 Jabali Sinthamalaan 579 Markandeya Jedalun 829 Soomantha Vaithyamun 1079 Vyasa Buskaan 80 Bharadwaja Kenvaadin 330 Jabali Sonnin 580 Markandeya Jekkun 830 Soubari Gelliyaan 1080 Vyasa Chinna Alagirin 81 Bharadwaja Kothin 331 Jabali Thappalin 581 Markandeya Jogin 831 Soubari Sabalavaan 1081 Vyasa Chithun 82 Bharadwaja Kubendrun 332 Jabali Thirukkondaan 582 Markandeya Judun 832 Soubari Samsalavaan 1082 Vyasa Garudamun 83 Bharadwaja Kullin 333 Jabali Valaikondaan 583 Markandeya Kavinatamen 833 Sounaka Aagulun 1083 Vyasa Ghanapadavaan 84 Bharadwaja Kunjin 334 Jabali Velaipesin 584 Markandeya KoliGowndan 834 Sounaka Aemaathin 1084 Vyasa Jamukkalamun 85 Bharadwaja Laguduvaan 335 Jabali Veluvesin 585 Markandeya Komaaruseratun 835 Sounaka Ambaddhuvanun 1085 Vyasa Kaapun 86 Bharadwaja Mathalun 336 Jabali Venuvaan 586 Markandeya Kothin 836 Sounaka Aranthaangin 1086 Vyasa Kaasin 87 Bharadwaja MelaNaattamein 337 Jabali nagajin 587 Markandeya Kullo Gowndan 837 Sounaka Arumuttin 1087 Vyasa Kaavun 88 Bharadwaja Mukunthun 338 Jaimuni Posangivaan 588 Markandeya Lamba 838 Sounaka Baalun 1088 Vyasa Kandalin 89 Bharadwaja Murarin 339 Jamadagni Boththalun 589 Markandeya Lingamun 839 Sounaka Bhagavathamun 1089 Vyasa Keerin 90 Bharadwaja Nattamein 340 Jamadagni Goundavaan 590 Markandeya Malli Nattanmein 840 Sounaka Bhagavatharun 1090 Vyasa Kesavan 91 Bharadwaja Puthidi Naayin 341 Jamadagni Hariyaan 591 Markandeya Mankiyaan 841 Sounaka Bhoothun 1091 Vyasa Kithaan 92 Bharadwaja Puttangaarun 342 Jamadagni Nanniyaan 592 Markandeya Markandeyan 842 Sounaka Bongun 1092 Vyasa Komarun 93 Bharadwaja RamaChandiraan 343 Jamadagni Neelamegamun 593 Markandeya Mattaan 843 Sounaka Cheelin 1093 Vyasa Kudisithaan 94 Bharadwaja RamaChandriyaan 344 Jamadagni Salakaan 594 Markandeya Muraharin 844 Sounaka Chithaan 1094 Vyasa Kundun 95 Bharadwaja Seelin 345 Jamadagni Selkaan 595 Markandeya Murarin 845 Sounaka Chithumaan 1095 Vyasa Kunjaan 96 Bharadwaja Sidin 346 Jamadagni Settin 596 Markandeya Murarnu 846 Sounaka Chittun 1096 Vyasa Kunjin 97 Bharadwaja Sokkalingamun 347 Jamadagni Sottalun 597 Markandeya Naagun 847 Sounaka Depun 1097 Vyasa Kuruchin 98 Bharadwaja Somangilin 348 Jamadagni Sugudun 598 Markandeya Naatamen 848 Sounaka Dharmyaan 1098 Vyasa Kurukkun 99 Bharadwaja Sonniyaan 349 Jannhu Agasthun 599 Markandeya Palinjin 849 Sounaka Dharumiyaan 1099 Vyasa Kuttin 100 Bharadwaja Thakkun 350 Jannhu Aiyaan 600 Markandeya Pambu 850 Sounaka Dindugalun 1100 Vyasa Maanthesvaan 101 Bharadwaja Thakulaguduvaan 351 Jannhu Aiyaavun 601 Markandeya Penun 851 Sounaka Eswarin 1101 Vyasa Marattin 102 Bharadwaja Thakun 352 Jannhu Angaan 602 Markandeya Poolu Gowndan 852 Sounaka Geddalun 1102 Vyasa Mollaen 103 Bharadwaja Thennamaramun 353 Jannhu Appannaan 603 Markandeya Pulaiyar Gowndan 853 Sounaka Genaathun 1103 Vyasa Motteen 104 Bharadwaja Thimmakondun 354 Jannhu Bajjin 604 Markandeya Raja Natamein 854 Sounaka Gendaen 1104 Vyasa Muddaan 105 Bharadwaja Thokkiamun 355 Jannhu Bovannun 605 Markandeya Salakavan 855 Sounaka Ghannannun 1105 Vyasa Neelamun 106 Bharadwaja Thoppun 356 Jannhu Dhoskaan 606 Markandeya Sangun 856 Sounaka Ghedi Oythun 1106 Vyasa Ontin 107 Bharadwaja Vaithyamun 357 Jannhu Gettalin 607 Markandeya Sembun 857 Sounaka Gurukaajin 1107 Vyasa Paddouraan 108 Bhargava Addapanin 358 Jannhu Gundun 608 Markandeya Siraat Kowndan 858 Sounaka Gyanin 1108 Vyasa Pallaan 109 Bhargava Agasthun 359 Jannhu Gutkaan 609 Markandeya Sokanin 859 Sounaka Handaan 1109 Vyasa Pannathaen 110 Bhargava Boguluvaan 360 Jannhu Jembun 610 Markandeya Soluguvan 860 Sounaka Hatkaan 1110 Vyasa Paramakudin 111 Bhargava Girin 361 Jannhu Joodun 611 Markandeya Somalingamun 861 Sounaka Hoorrun 1111 Vyasa Pathingaan 112 Bhargava Jedin 362 Jannhu Juttin 612 Markandeya Somin 862 Sounaka Janaan 1112 Vyasa Periya Alagirin 113 Bhargava Kasthuriyaan 363 Jannhu Kanniyaan 613 Markandeya Sonkaan 863 Sounaka Javulin 1113 Vyasa Pithaan 114 Bhargava Kenken 364 Jannhu Kanupaan 614 Markandeya Sownin 864 Sounaka Jolin 1114 Vyasa Puchin 115 Bhargava Kuchun 365 Jannhu Koden 615 Markandeya Sundaramun 865 Sounaka Joukaan 1115 Vyasa Sengun 116 Bhargava Kullaan 366 Jannhu Kuduvaan 616 Markandeya Veerasekun 866 Sounaka Kaalaan 1116 Vyasa Senthaan 117 Bhargava Kumlaan 367 Jannhu Kundaan 617 Markandeya Velan 867 Sounaka Kaalidasun 1117 Vyasa Sonnanin 118 Bhargava Moradun 368 Jannhu Kuttuvaan 618 Markandeya Visekun 868 Sounaka Kaashin 1118 Vyasa Sooppaan 119 Bhargava Namanjin 369 Jannhu Papulaan 619 Mathanga Addabuddaan 869 Sounaka Kaasiliyaan 1119 Vyasa Thasavaan 120 Bhargava Nannalun 370 Jannhu Pattin 620 Mathanga Buddaan 870 Sounaka Kachampaan 1120 Vyasa Thavlaan 121 Bhargava Pelvaan 371 Jannhu Pillaan 621 Mathanga Dhandaen 871 Sounaka Kalapaan 1121 Vyasa Thesthaan 122 Bhargava Pidugun 372 Jannhu Pillamannaan 622 Mathanga Dudukuchin 872 Sounaka Kalin 1122 Vyasa Thesvaan 123 Bhargava Pollaan 373 Jannhu Sembaan 623 Mathanga Gunuvaan 873 Sounaka Kalriyaan 1123 Vyasa Thobaalun 124 Bhargava Poluvaan 374 Jannhu Sonnakravun 624 Mathanga Kreedin 874 Sounaka Kandaan 1124 Vyasa Thonaen 125 Bhargava Purohidamun 375 Jannhu Sontin 625 Mathanga Krunumavaan 875 Sounaka Kannin 1125 Vyasa Thoobun 126 Bhargava Ramanjin 376 Jannhu Thappan 626 Mathanga Nombun 876 Sounaka Kasilyaan 1126 Vyasa Thumbin 127 Bhargava Ramdan 377 Jannhu Vajjiramun 627 Mathanga Nomun 877 Sounaka Kasin 1127 Vyasa Umapathin 128 Bhargava Sampangin 378 Jannhu Velaan 628 Mathanga Panaayin 878 Sounaka Kasnaan 1128 Vyasa Vaandun 129 Bhargava Sennin 379 Jannhu Vellamun 629 Mathanga Pullaan 879 Sounaka Kaspannaan 1129 Vyasa Vaannun 130 Bhargava Thekken 380 Kanva Baalun 630 Mathanga Ramanaan 880 Sounaka Kennin 131 Bhargava Thillaan 381 Kanva Balamurthin 631 Mathanga Sachin 881 Sounaka Kettallun 132 Chyavana Beddaan 382 Kanva Balun 632 Mathanga Srirangadhamun 882 Sounaka Kettalun 133 Chyavana Buddaan 383 Kanva Dasoon 633 Mathanga Thimmaan 883 Sounaka Kommiyaan 134 Chyavana Dasun 384 Kanva Devendiran 634 Medhatithi Kaanthivaan 884 Sounaka Kondallun 135 Chyavana Dhorahallaan 385 Kanva HariChendurun 635 Moudgalya Appandaan 885 Sounaka Kondeen 136 Chyavana Dushtun 386 Kanva JhedhaBouvunaan 636 Moudgalya Arasadin 886 Sounaka Konduveeriyaan 137 Chyavana Elayn 387 Kanva Kadidamun 637 Moudgalya Ayyampedaan 887 Sounaka Koodalun 138 Chyavana Giyanin 388 Kanva Kaeshshaan 638 Moudgalya Bhaamavaan 888 Sounaka Koosun 139 Chyavana Javulin 389 Kanva Kasraan 639 Moudgalya Bhaavaan 889 Sounaka Kopulan 140 Chyavana Jellaan 390 Kanva Kavin 640 Moudgalya Bhaendaan 890 Sounaka Kungaan 141 Chyavana Kaalidaasun 391 Kanva Khottaan 641 Moudgalya Bhavaan 891 Sounaka Kuppan 142 Chyavana Kaasin 392 Kanva Kinnarivaan 642 Moudgalya Bommaan 892 Sounaka Kutkirin 143 Chyavana Kanin 393 Kanva Kottain 643 Moudgalya Buddin 893 Sounaka Kuttin 144 Chyavana Kannin 394 Kanva Kummaan 644 Moudgalya Busnaan 894 Sounaka Lakshmin 145 Chyavana Kasin 395 Kanva Manappallin 645 Moudgalya Dhanden 895 Sounaka Lessoon 146 Chyavana Kasmunnaan 396 Kanva Manjirin 646 Moudgalya Gejavun 896 Sounaka Lingun 147 Chyavana Kovin 397 Kanva Pambaattin 647 Moudgalya Getin 897 Sounaka Loganthaan 148 Chyavana Kungaan 398 Kanva Parasuraavun 648 Moudgalya Handin 898 Sounaka Lolleykuppun 149 Chyavana Kuppaan 399 Kanva Pathallun 649 Moudgalya Kambarun 899 Sounaka Lottiyaan 150 Chyavana Madalavaan 400 Kanva Seshun 650 Moudgalya Kaverin 900 Sounaka Maluvathun 151 Chyavana Mathalamun 401 Kanva Thovandoon 651 Moudgalya Kooriyaan 901 Sounaka Manamun 152 Chyavana MattaMannaan 402 Kavasa Somapuvaan 652 Moudgalya Kuruvin 902 Sounaka Mannaarin 153 Chyavana Moolaan 403 Khasyaba Aedun 653 Moudgalya Nagalun 903 Sounaka Maraseen 154 Chyavana Munnemun 404 Khasyaba Andiyaan 654 Moudgalya Pisaan 904 Sounaka Mattamannan 155 Chyavana Neelagirin 405 Khasyaba Ayyalun 655 Moudgalya Polvaan 905 Sounaka Merthaayin 156 Chyavana Parisin 406 Khasyaba Bawanin 656 Moudgalya Rajun 906 Sounaka Molkavaan 157 Chyavana Piskalaan 407 Khasyaba Bawathin 657 Moudgalya Singaaramun 907 Sounaka Monthdaen 158 Chyavana Pollaan 408 Khasyaba Bhaliyan 658 Moudgalya Singun 908 Sounaka Moorthin 159 Chyavana Pothin 409 Khasyaba Bhalun 659 Moudgalya Sukkaan 909 Sounaka Mudhdhigirin 160 Chyavana Puliyaan 410 Khasyaba Dewan 660 Moudgalya Vittalun 910 Sounaka Musuwadin 161 Chyavana Putkileen 411 Khasyaba Gowindun 661 Mounjanya Angabuddaan 911 Sounaka Muthulaayin 162 Chyavana Ragupathin 412 Khasyaba Gowmarun 662 Mounjanya Bhaddurun 912 Sounaka Muthun 163 Chyavana Rajaan 413 Khasyaba Gowndan 663 Mounjanya Bhagavathin 913 Sounaka Naagiyaan 164 Chyavana Ramdaan 414 Khasyaba Gurumurthin 664 Mounjanya Bhavathin 914 Sounaka Nandaan 165 Chyavana Senikkaan 415 Khasyaba Jekkan 665 Mounjanya Bhoddun 915 Sounaka Nannaan 166 Chyavana Sounaan 416 Khasyaba Jootun 666 Mounjanya Dhankistaan 916 Sounaka Nanyamun 167 Chyavana Tippaan 417 Khasyaba Kaakiyaan 667 Mounjanya Dhourahollaan 917 Sounaka Navuthun 168 Chyavana Vaithyamun 418 Khasyaba Kalyanin 668 Mounjanya Doirahollaan 918 Sounaka Nellun 169 Chyavana Vidin 419 Khasyaba Kenjin 669 Mounjanya Doirakholaan 919 Sounaka Ontivillun 170 Dadheecha Aadeen 420 Khasyaba Keshlan 670 Mounjanya Dondaravun 920 Sounaka Oththun 171 Dadheecha AadiGovundaan 421 Khasyaba Kisulvan 671 Mounjanya Durugun 921 Sounaka Outhaan 172 Dadheecha Addaan 422 Khasyaba Kumanun 672 Mounjanya Goonadaan 922 Sounaka Paalun 173 Dadheecha Baaliyaan 423 Khasyaba Lambiyan 673 Mounjanya Goonidaan 923 Sounaka Paaraan 174 Dadheecha BajjiKondaan 424 Khasyaba Mhata 674 Mounjanya Jeenin 924 Sounaka Pachakaden 175 Dadheecha Bellamun 425 Khasyaba Muthukistan 675 Mounjanya Jenjemun 925 Sounaka Pacharisin 176 Dadheecha Bouvnaan 426 Khasyaba Natanmain 676 Mounjanya Jhotaan 926 Sounaka Pallaan 177 Dadheecha Bouvnyaan 427 Khasyaba Nethin 677 Mounjanya Jogin 927 Sounaka Parasumannaan 178 Dadheecha Bussoon 428 Khasyaba Palanjin 678 Mounjanya Jookun 928 Sounaka Parasuraamun 179 Dadheecha Geddaan 429 Khasyaba Paragirin 679 Mounjanya Jootramayyaan 929 Sounaka Pattabin 180 Dadheecha Girin 430 Khasyaba Pidigun 680 Mounjanya Jootun 930 Sounaka Peddin 181 Dadheecha Handin 431 Khasyaba Pungolun 681 Mounjanya Kasthurun 931 Sounaka Ponkun 182 Dadheecha Honnun 432 Khasyaba Ramayin 682 Mounjanya Kilin 932 Sounaka Poppalaen 183 Dadheecha Illaan 433 Khasyaba Samulun 683 Mounjanya Kondiyaan 933 Sounaka Pothi Kistaan 184 Dadheecha Jaguvaan 434 Khasyaba Savlan 684 Mounjanya Manikkaan 934 Sounaka Pottaen 185 Dadheecha Jogin 435 Khasyaba Senniveran 685 Mounjanya Mankyaan 935 Sounaka Puliyaan 186 Dadheecha Kaalkaasun 436 Khasyaba Sevulan 686 Mounjanya Murannun 936 Sounaka Puliyadin 187 Dadheecha Kanappaan 437 Khasyaba Sundilin 687 Mounjanya Murarin 937 Sounaka Pulyadin 188 Dadheecha Kanthaallun 438 Khasyaba Suppan 688 Mounjanya Musunghaan 938 Sounaka Purohithamun 189 Dadheecha Konaapaanun 439 Khasyaba Thadan 689 Mounjanya Muttun 939 Sounaka Puttaan 190 Dadheecha Kundumanin 440 Khasyaba Thamaramun 690 Mounjanya Nenthin 940 Sounaka Raamun 191 Dadheecha Kuppayaan 441 Khasyaba Thenen 691 Mounjanya Pettain 941 Sounaka Ramiyaan 192 Dadheecha Lappasin 442 Khasyaba Thollen 692 Mounjanya Purohithamun 942 Sounaka Ramyaan 193 Dadheecha Lappathin 443 Khasyaba Vaigundamun 693 Mounjanya Saarangun 943 Sounaka Ranin 194 Dadheecha Muththaan 444 Khasyaba Verannan 694 Mounjanya Sandirasekaraan 944 Sounaka Rayalun 195 Dadheecha Naatamein 445 Khasyaba Viswanathan 695 Mounjanya Sappalun 945 Sounaka Regunaan 196 Dadheecha Nakaan 446 Khasyaba Yogin 696 Mounjanya Sarangun 946 Sounaka Rengin 197 Dadheecha Nannulun 447 Khasyaba Yusurun 697 Mounjanya Serpathin 947 Sounaka Sallin 198 Dadheecha Nonin 448 Koumanda Sooradivaan 698 Mounjanya Sethupathin 948 Sounaka Sangeethamun 199 Dadheecha Olaen 449 Koundinya Ammanin 699 Mounjanya Silunkaan 949 Sounaka Sanjeevin 200 Dadheecha Pathamaden 450 Koundinya Anandun 700 Mounjanya Somanjjotun 950 Sounaka SelRengaan 201 Dadheecha PellaeN 451 Koundinya Aramanain 701 Mounjanya Srungarivaan 951 Sounaka Seruvaan 202 Dadheecha Pellaen 452 Koundinya Ayyalun 702 Mounjanya Sunnambun 952 Sounaka Sithaan 203 Dadheecha Peyirun 453 Koundinya Badaraan 703 Mounjanya Thapaan 953 Sounaka Solaen 204 Dadheecha Pildin 454 Koundinya Bajjin 704 Mounjanya Thondin 954 Sounaka Solain 205 Dadheecha Pottalun 455 Koundinya Chinna 705 Mounjanya Usthukailaan 955 Sounaka Somaan 206 Dadheecha Purohithamun 456 Koundinya Dadavinayin 706 Mounjanya Vasaadun 956 Sounaka Sonikkaan 207 Dadheecha Ramun 457 Koundinya Dhadhaan 707 Mounjanya Vellamun 957 Sounaka Soorin 208 Dadheecha Shamin 458 Koundinya Dhasarin 708 Mythreya Govnaan 958 Sounaka Sothakun 209 Dadheecha Shavaan 459 Koundinya Goulaan 709 Mythreya Hadalaan 959 Sounaka Srirangamun 210 Dadheecha Sokkiyaan 460 Koundinya Jaganathun 710 Mythreya Jogin 960 Sounaka Thakkunin 211 Dadheecha Thakun 461 Koundinya Jhathaan 711 Mythreya Kalavaan 961 Sounaka Thamaan 212 Dadheecha ThyaguNaatamein 462 Koundinya Kithuvaan 712 Mythreya Kholaan 962 Sounaka Thandulun 213 Dadheecha Udithun 463 Koundinya Kuberin 713 Mythreya Kondaan 963 Sounaka Thandun 214 Dadheecha Vaalaan 464 Koundinya Kummonun 714 Mythreya Mandalun 964 Sounaka Thanjavurun 215 Dadheecha Vaalun 465 Koundinya Monnin 715 Mythreya Naataanmein 965 Sounaka Thimmaan 216 Dadheecha Vadakaren 466 Koundinya Mulaan 716 Ourva Vamanavaan 966 Sounaka Thippaan 217 Dadheecha Varathun 467 Koundinya Muthukumaarun 717 Pailava Thalavaan 967 Sounaka Thommalun 218 Dadheecha Vashtin 468 Koundinya Nanaan 718 Parasara Anakaan 968 Sounaka Thustun 219 Dadheecha Vennaen 469 Koundinya Nandhamun 719 Parasara Banalun 969 Sounaka Vaithun 220 Devala Sambharavaan 470 Koundinya Nilamanun 720 Parasara Banyaan 970 Sounaka Varadaan 221 Durvasa Ambadun 471 Koundinya Pallamun 721 Parasara Bawanin 971 Sounaka Viswamun 222 Durvasa Dindukalun 472 Koundinya Pethrasun 722 Parasara Bhawlaan 972 Srivathsa Alashingun 223 Durvasa Kaarivaan 473 Koundinya Pilrengaan 723 Parasara Boguluvaam 973 Srivathsa Angiya 224 Durvasa Kadusangun 474 Koundinya Piludhun 724 Parasara Bogunuvaan 974 Srivathsa Ayyangaarun 225 Durvasa Kadusingun 475 Koundinya Pottin 725 Parasara Bovlaan 975 Srivathsa Bollun 226 Durvasa Kavnaan 476 Koundinya Rengiyaan 726 Parasara Devendriyaan 976 Srivathsa Kullin 227 Durvasa Kouvnaan 477 Koundinya Sedithipaan 727 Parasara Dhasmaan 977 Srivathsa Kunthalavaan 228 Durvasa 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Padmashalis caste is misrepresented.

Padmashalis are not shudras. They are brahmins who go into textile business who are classified as vysyas business class . Shudras are farmers and labours . Padmashalis descended from markandeya is not a myth . They are born in the markandeya lineage. Some things are written disrespectfully about this community .please kindly solve this problem as you deleted my edits . KnowledgeHunter9090 (talk) 22:38, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 26 June 2022

• News and notes: WMF inks new rules on government-ordered takedowns, blasts Russian feds' censor demands, spends big bucks
  Office actions to secretly delete stuff when told to? Well, at least not if they're Putin's.

• In the media: Editor given three-year sentence, big RfA makes news, Guy Standing takes it sitting down
  Belarusian Mark Bernstein to serve 36 months of "home chemistry" for unapproved posting, Slate covers historically large adminship bid, UBI economist with goofy infobox caption thinks it's funny.

• Special report: "Wikipedia's independence" or "Wikimedia's pile of dosh"?
  A review of Wikipedia's fundraising messages and financial status.

• Discussion report: MoS rules on CCP name mulled, XRV axe plea nulled, BLPPROD drafting bid pulled
  Just three for the history books this month (or not).

• Opinion: Picture of the Day – how Adam plans to ru(i)n it
  Famed FP ace steps up to run main page outfit. Millions tremble in fear, or something.

• Featured content: Articles on Scots' clash, Yank's tux, Austrian's action flick deemed brilliant prose
  And who can forget the black-breasted buttonquail.

• Essay: RfA trend line haruspicy: fact or fancy?
  Don't be dumb, says math whiz: avoid the gambler's fallacy. Illustrated for your pleasure.

• Recent research: Wikipedia versus academia (again), tables' "immortality" probed
  Tables "like to socialize" and "share genes": ooh la la!

• Serendipity: Was she really a Swiss lesbian automobile racer?
  What's the deal with Anita Forrer, redlinked woman of mystery who saved Schwarzenbach archives?

• News from the WMF: Wikimedia Enterprise signs first deals
  Google and Internet Archive sold on new product, more customers hoped to follow.

• Traffic report: Top view counts for shows, movies, and celeb lawsuit that keeps on giving
  Plus editing stampedes for cheery subjects: shootings, deaths, and virus.

• Gallery: Celebration of summer, winter
  Lest Southern Hemisphere be forgotten.

• Humour: Shortcuts, screwballers, Simon & Garfunkel
  Can we offer you a nice crossword in this trying time?

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The Signpost: 1 August 2022

• From the editors: Rise of the machines, or something
  The future of stuff? Who knows, but two articles were written by a computer this month.

• News and notes: Information considered harmful
  Wikipedia and human rights, publishers and the Internet Archive, Russia and Wikipedia.

• In the media: Censorship, medieval hoaxes, "pathetic supervillains", FB-WMF AI TL bid, dirty duchess deeds done dirt cheap
  Real news or silly season?

• Op-Ed: The "recession" affair
  IGNORANCE IS NOT STRENGTH.

• Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (part 3)
  "This year's victory was sad and dull."

• Election guide: The chosen six: 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections
  Candidate op-eds, open question spaces, and more.

• Community view: Youth culture and notability
  Was Minecraft YouTuber a GNG pass in life, or only in death?

• Opinion: Criminals among us
  Mass murderers, sex criminals, Ponzi schemers, insider traders, and business people.

• Arbitration report: Winds of change blow for cyclone editors, deletion dustup draws toward denouement
  The last three months of arbitration through the eyes of a GPT-3

• Deletion report: This is Gonzo Country
  GPT-3 whips it out.

• Discussion report: Notability for train stations, notices for mobile editors, noticeboards for the rest of us
  And when is 'today'?

• Traffic report: US TV, JP ex-PM, outer space, and politics of IN, US, UK top charts for July
  The world shows its messy complexity.

• Featured content: A little list with surprisingly few lists
  More lists expected next month.

• Tips and tricks: Cleaning up awful citations with Citation bot
  It doesn't have to be a pain in the butt!

• In focus: Wikidata insights from a handy little tool
  PAC2 explains the item documentation template.

• On the bright side: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war — three (more) stories
  Education, climate change, and journalism.

• Essay: How to research an image
  Zoom and enhance.

• Recent research: A century of rulemaking on Wikipedia analyzed
  And other new research findings.

• Serendipity: Don't cite Wikipedia
  But Commons is a treasure trove.

• Gallery: A backstage pass
  All the things about theatre that the general public misses out on.

• From the archives: 2012 Russian Wikipedia shutdown as it happened
  Ten years ago, Russian Wikipedia went dark in protest of new Russian laws. Today...

• Humour: Why did the chicken cross the road?
  Strange mysteries of our animal world.

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The Signpost: 31 August 2022

• News and notes: Admins wanted on English Wikipedia, IP editors not wanted on Farsi Wiki, donations wanted everywhere
  jimmy@wikipedia.org donate@wikimedia.org (not a typo?) wants a moment of your time.

• Special report: Wikimania 2022: no show, no show up?
  Why the 'Festival Edition' was less than perfect, and what we can do better.

• In the media: Truth or consequences? A tough month for truth
  But Annie Rauwerda is the real thing!

• Discussion report: Boarding the Trustees
  2022 elections, new page patrol, Fox News, Vector 2022, Royal Central and external links

• News from Wiki Education: 18 years a Wikipedian: what it means to me
  Change and stability.

• In focus: Thinking inside the box
  All there is to know about userboxen.

• Tips and tricks: The unexpected rabbit hole of typo fixing in citations...
  Sometimes Citation bot is not enough.

• Technology report: Vector (2022) deployment discussions happening now
  Plus, the Private Incident Reporting System, and new bots & user scripts!

• Serendipity: Two photos of every library on earth
  One exterior, one interior.

• Featured content: Our man drills are safe for work, but our Labia is Fausta.
  Also includes a campaign to "Suck for Luck".

• Recent research: The dollar value of "official" external links
  And other new research

• Traffic report: What dreams (and heavily trafficked articles) may come
  Because there really is no real theme this month you can grab onto to give a catchy title.

• Essay: Delete the junk!
  Some articles aren't worth saving

• Gallery: A Fringe Affair (but not the show by Edward W. Feery that was on this year)
  Edinburgh in August.

• Humour: CommonsComix No. 1
  Because the Signpost needs a cartoon.

• From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 years ago
  The Signpost looks back on The Signpost: New reports, conceived in a spirit of collaboration, and dedicated to the proposition of information and, uh, more information for all.

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The Signpost: 30 September 2022

• News and notes: Board vote results, bot's big GET, crat chat gives new mop, WMF seeks "sound logo" and "organizer lab"
  Candidates sign off and peel out – Sigalov is on and Peel is in.

• In focus: NPP: Still heaven or hell for new users – and for the reviewers
  Just what is NPP? Why does it need the WMF? Why does it need YOU?

• In the media: A few complaints and mild disagreements
  Was Katherine Maher a former encyclopedia salesperson?

• Special report: Decentralized Fundraising, Centralized Distribution
  The latest from the Wikimedia Deutschland Movement Strategy & Global Relations Team.

• Discussion report: Much ado about Fox News
  Source reliability, NPP, and appearance discussions.

• Interview: ScottishFinnishRadish's Request for Adminship
  Find out firsthand what our newest admin, ScottishFinnishRadish, does with a chainsaw.

• Opinion: Are we ever going to reach consensus?
  Some Articles for Deletion just drag on.

• Serendipity: Removing watermarks, copyright signs and cigarettes from photos
  Suggestion: promote removal of visible copyright signs of images under a CC-BY license.

• Recent research: How readers assess Wikipedia's trustworthiness, and how they could in the future
  And other research news.

• Traffic report: Kings and queens and VIPs
  Repeat after me: I solemnly swear not to put "oh my!" in a headline.

• Featured content: Farm-fresh content
  This month: A FACBot upgrade, a completed list of lists.

• Gallery: A Festival Descends on the City: The Edinburgh Fringe, Pt. 2
  Lo!

• CommonsComix: CommonsComix 2: Paulus Moreelse
  When Commons gives you a blank space...

• From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 Years ago: September 2022
  Yes, again.

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The Signpost: 31 October 2022

• From the team: A new goose on the roost
  Or maybe the spit -- only time will tell.

• News and notes: Wikipedians question Wikimedia fundraising ethics after "somewhat-viral" tweet
  News from Twitter, Commons and the WMF C-Suite.

• News from the WMF: Governance updates from, and for, the Wikimedia Endowment
  501(c)(3) application approved, Amazon donates another million.

• In the media: Scribing, searching, soliciting, spying, and systemic bias
  Wading into several controversies.

• Disinformation report: From Russia with WikiLove
  I can has Kremlin sockfarms?

• Recent research: Disinformatsiya: Much research, but what will actually help Wikipedia editors?
  And other new research publications.

• Interview: Isabelle Belato on their Request for Adminship
  The newest sysop speaks on the process that got them there.

• Featured content: Topics, lists, submarines and Gurl.com
  Featured content from October.

• Serendipity: We all make mistakes – don’t we?
  The strength of Wikipedia is the peer review afterwards.

• Traffic report: Mama, they're in love with a criminal
  More serial killers than you can shake a stick at!

• From the archives: Paid advocacy, a lawsuit over spelling mistakes, deleting Jimbo's article, and the death of Toolserver
  What tales echo in these hallowed halls.

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References

Saurashtra people

Hi, could you find a source that supports the claim of two million people? The current source says At least two lakh people in the most predominant region. DareshMohan (talk) 00:56, 19 November 2022 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 November 2022

• News and notes: English Wikipedia editors: "We don't need no stinking banners"
  Joe Roe's close sows dough woes, manifestos... vetoes? overthrows?

• In the media: "The most beautiful story on the Internet"
  Ineffective altruism, return of the toaster, Jess Wade keeps wading through it, Russia censors searches, schools embrace Wikipedia.

• Interview: Lisa Seitz-Gruwell on WMF fundraising in the wake of big banner ad RfC
  An interview with Wikimedia's Chief Advancement Officer.

• Opinion: Privacy on Wikipedia in the cyberpunk future
  Oh, just one more thing... AI couldn't help but notice you use that punctuation a little bit more than most people...

• Disinformation report: Missed and Dissed
  Are government goons prowling our fair encyclopedia?

• Op-Ed: Diminishing returns for article quality
  Have we gotten past the point where better articles makes us a better encyclopedia? And what comes next?

• Book review: Writing the Revolution
  Heather Ford's new volume on Wikipedia, knowledge and power in the 2011 Egyptian revolution.

• Technology report: Galactic dreams, encyclopedic reality
  Facebook's Galactica demo provides a case study in large language models for text generation at scale: this one was silly, but we cannot ignore them forever.

• Essay: The Six Million FP Man
  Okay, six hundred, but either way, the bionic editor speaks.

• Tips and tricks: (Wiki)break stuff
  Productively doing nothing

• Recent research: Study deems COVID-19 editors smart and cool, questions of clarity and utility for WMF's proposed "Knowledge Integrity Risk Observatory"
  And other research findings.

• Featured content: A great month for featured articles
  Do consider joining FPC, though: we need you.

• Obituary: A tribute to Michael Gäbler
  They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

• Concept: The relevance of legal certainty to the English Wikipedia
  A lost article from our deep annals

• Traffic report: Musical deaths, murders, Princess Di's nominative determinism, and sports
  The weeks and weeks, as reviewed by Wikipedia's readers.

• From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
  Search upgrades, lawsuits, paid editing, and personal reflection.

• CommonsComix: Joker's trick
  A toast to good health, a health to good hoax, a hoax to good toast.

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The Signpost: 1 January 2023

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation ousts, bans quarter of Arabic Wikipedia admins
  Plus admin update and cool tools for the new year.

• In the media: Odd bedfellows, Elon and Jimbo, reliable sources for divorces, and more
  Sometimes you need to read more than just the headlines!

• Interview: ComplexRational's RfA debrief
  Interview of ComplexRational about their recent request for adminship.

• Technology report: Wikimedia Foundation's Abstract Wikipedia project "at substantial risk of failure"
  Wikifunctions might drag it down.

• Essay: Mobile editing
  Frustrations and successes.

• Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee Election 2022
  Congratulations.

• Recent research: Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement in talk page disputes
  And other new research findings.

• Serendipity: Wikipedia about FIFA World Cup 2022: quick, factual and critical
  How Iranian press agencies help Wikipedia to reflect football in a better way.

• Featured content: Would you like to swing on a star?
  You head into the featured content report. Amongst the features you see astronauts, both Gilbert and Sullivan, Ursula K. Le Guin's incredibly talented mother, and Billboard charts. It is pitch black, you are likely to be eaten by a grue.

• Traffic report: Football, football, football! Wikipedia Football Club!
  It is mostly about football!

• CommonsComix: #4: The Course of WikiEmpire
  In which a couple sentences of text recontextualises an image.

• From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
  Photographers, Sandy Hook, the shocking use of Nazi symbols in articles about Nazis, and "You wouldn't recognise a fact if it bit you in the ass".

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The Signpost: 16 January 2023

• From the team: We heard zoomers liked fortnights: the biweekly Signpost rides again
  It's not just a phase! Well, maybe it is.

• Special report: Coverage of 2022 bans reveals editors serving long sentences in Saudi Arabia since 2020
  Long-time contributors imprisoned for 32 and 8 years after "swaying public opinion" and "violating public morals".

• News and notes: Revised Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines up for vote, WMF counsel departs, generative models under discussion
  UCoC draws nearer, alongside the rise of the machines, in mainspace this time.

• In the media: Court orders user data in libel case, Saudi Wikipedia in the crosshairs, Larry Sanger at it again
  Wikipedia's birthday, a cute dog, and nipplefruit.

• Technology report: View it! A new tool for image discovery
  The depths of Commons, at your fingertips. Or eyetips.

• In focus: Busting into Grand Central
  Debunking widely-told myths about New York's grandest and centralest railway station.

• Serendipity: How I bought part of Wikipedia – for less than $100
  The economics of Wikipedia.

• Gallery: What is our responsibility when it comes to images?
  When notability conflicts with what it might be used for.

• Humour: New geologically speedy deletion criteria introduced
  7,000,000-year Landmasses for Subduction discussions considered "too long".

• Opinion: Good old days, in which fifth-symbol-lacking lipograms roam'd our librarious litany
  Allow us to bring you back, back, back, to days of Wikifun rampant.

• Featured content: Flip your lid
  ...and your ambigram. Also: Boring lava fields, birds of Tuvalu, and commelinid family names with etymologies.

• Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2022
  War, sports, and all types of chaos.

• From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
  The editor with five million edits, the death of Aaron Swartz, and rollback.

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The Signpost: 4 February 2023

• From the editor: New for the Signpost: Author pages, tag pages, and a decent article search function
  Last issue's vow for "something to show for these efforts" revisited.

• News and notes: Foundation update on fundraising, new page patrol, Tides, and Wikipedia blocked in Pakistan
  As well as the continued rise of the machines, and Amanda Keton's WMF departure.

• Section 230: Twenty-six words that created the internet, and the future of an encyclopedia
  Section 230 before the Supreme Court in two cases, with broad implications for the web.

• Disinformation report: Wikipedia on Santos
  Or Santos on Wikipedia?

• Special report: Legal status of Wikimedia projects "unclear" under potential European legislation
  WMF issues salvo in latest battles of the Posting Wars

• In the media: Furor over new Wikipedia skin, followup on Saudi bans, and legislative debate
  The good, the bad, and the ugly.

• Op-Ed: Estonian businessman and political donor brings lawsuit against head of national Wikimedia chapter
  Isamaa party sponsor Parvel Pruunsild files claim in Tartu County Court against WMEE head Ivo Kruusamägi and Reform Party politicians.

• Opinion: Study examines cultural leanings of Wikimedia projects' visual art coverage
  English Wikipedia among most "global" and Thai Wikipedia's among most "Western", but non-Western works neglected overall.

• Recent research: Wikipedia's "moderate yet systematic" liberal citation bias
  And other new research publications.

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Organized Labour
  An interview with those who pitch in together

• Tips and tricks: XTools: Data analytics for your list of created articles
  Letting you find out about yourself (and others).

• Featured content: 20,000 Featureds under the Sea
  An exceptionally good period for featured articles.

• Traffic report: Films, deaths and ChatGPT
  Can we have a chat?

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The Signpost: 20 February 2023

• News and notes: Terms of Use update, Steward elections, and Wikipedia back in Pakistan
  UCoC Enforcement Guidelines pass, Wikimedia Enterprise financials, GPTs gone wild, and a speedy deletion criterion removed.

• In the media: Arbitrators open case after article alleges Wikipedia "intentionally distorts" Holocaust coverage
  Also: Russ Baker's BLP, the digital commons, the NSA, and more on Pakistan.

• Disinformation report: The "largest con in corporate history"?
  Gautam Adani and his companies possibly behind scheme featuring scores of socks, infiltration of articles for creation process.

• Essay: Machine-written articles: a new challenge for Wikipedia
  GPT: friend or foe?

• Tips and tricks: All about writing at DYK
  Your one-stop hooker's handbook.

• Featured content: Eden, lost.
  But much else to be found.

• Gallery: Love is in the air
  Lovey-dovey stuff for Valentine's.

• Traffic report: Superbowl? Pfft. Give me some Bollywood! Yours sincerely, the world
  And maybe a side of AI.

• From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 years ago: Let's (not) delete the Main Page!
  Also: let's delete images of Muhammed! Let's delete portals!

• Cobwebs: Editorial: The loss of the moral high ground
  Yesterday's controversies, reported on today.

• Humour: The RfA Candidate's Song
  A musical interlude.

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The Signpost: 9 March 2023

• News and notes: What's going on with the Wikimedia Endowment?
  A lack of transparency.

• Technology report: Second flight of the Soviet space bears: Testing ChatGPT's accuracy
  Using failed AI Galactica's worst mistakes to test a new AI.

• In the media: What should Wikipedia do? Publish Russian propaganda? Be less woke? Cover the Holocaust in Poland differently?
  Probable answers: No, no, maybe?

• Featured content: In which over two-thirds of the featured articles section needs to be copied over to WikiProject Military History's newsletter
  Seriously, even the chef has a major military history connection.

• Recent research: "Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the Holocaust" in Poland and "self-focus bias" in coverage of global events
  And other new research publications.

• From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
  Wikizine, Wikipedia Zero, Single User Login, and Wales allegedly editing his girlfriend's article.

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The Signpost: 20 March 2023

• News and notes: Wikimania submissions deadline looms, Russian government after our lucky charms, AI woes nix CNET from RS slate
  Be part of the Wikimania 2023 program!

• Eyewitness: Three more stories from Ukrainian Wikimedians
  One year in: volunteering, science, art, and candlelight.

• In the media: Paid editing, plagiarism payouts, proponents of a ploy, and people peeved at perceived preferences
  Everything is broken, again.

• Featured content: Way too many featured articles
  Seriously, it's only a fortnight's worth!

• Interview: 228/2/1: the inside scoop on Aoidh's RfA
  An interview with Wikipedia's newest admin.

• Traffic report: Who died? Who won? Who lost?
  All the pop culture that's fit to print, with a sprinkling of cocaine (bear).

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The Signpost: 03 April 2023

• From the editor: Some long-overdue retractions
  Errata regretted.

• News and notes: Sounding out, a universal code of conduct, and dealing with AI
  Skynet believed to be in violation of the new Universal Code of Conduct.

• In the media: Twiddling Wikipedia during an online contest, and other news
  Taking the phrase "gaming the system" to the next level.

• Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" case is ongoing
  Desysop case request still in accept/decline phase.

• Featured content: Hail, poetry! Thou heav'n-born maid
  Thou gildest e'en the Signpost's trade.

• Recent research: Language bias: Wikipedia captures at least the "silhouette of the elephant", unlike ChatGPT
  And a dataset of article revisions to provide a corpus for promotional content.

• From the archives: April Fools' through the ages
  A retrospective of the best and worst pranks.

• Disinformation report: Sus socks support suits, seems systemic
  Do important banks sock? Maybe – but don't grab your money and run just yet!

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The Signpost: 26 April 2023

• News and notes: Staff departures at Wikimedia Foundation, Jimbo hands in the bits, and graphs' zeppelin burns
  Plus: Wikipedians get own Mastodon account, and Wikiprojects move to uniform quality assessment.

• In the media: Contested truth claims in Wikipedia
  Covering Russia, Poland, the Vatican, the U.S., and the "perilously thin" boundary between real life and Wikipedia.

• Obituary: Remembering David "DGG" Goodman
  The prolific editor, former Arbitration Committee member and co-founder of Wikimedia New York City died in April.

• Arbitration report: Holocaust in Poland, Jimbo in the hot seat, and a desysopping
  No news is good news, and this isn't no news.

• Opinion: What Jimbo's question revealed about scamming
  The problem we haven't solved.

• Op-Ed: Wikipedia as an anchor of truth
  Can Wikipedia help keep AI agents honest?

• Special report: Signpost statistics between years 2005 and 2022
  In this article, we will look at The Signpost statistics. More precisely: Signpost article statistics by year, TOP 20 titles of Signpost articles, TOP 20 article authors, and the home wikis of article authors.

• News from the WMF: Collective planning with the Wikimedia Foundation
  First of a two part series summarising the priorities for the Wikimedia Foundation's next fiscal year (July 2022–June 2023) including staffing, budget and other changes, and how to provide your feedback.

• Featured content: In which we described the featured articles in rhyme again
  And somehow made it more readable than when it's not rhyming.

• From the archives: April Fools' through the ages, part two
  2011 and on.

• Humour: The law of hats
  The Selfish Hatnote, the Disambiguation Singularity, and other information-theoretic conundra of encyclopedic note.

• Traffic report: Long live machine, the future supreme
  Wrestling bumps world-changing technology from the #1 spot, imagine that.

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The Signpost: 8 May 2023

• News and notes: New legal "deVLOPments" in the EU
  ... and at WP:Mastodon.

• In the media: Vivek's smelly socks, online safety, and politics
  Fake fines, false alarms and faux headlines!

• Recent research: Gender, race and notability in deletion discussions
  And other new research publications.

• Featured content: I wrote a poem for each article, I found rhymes for all the lists; My first featured picture of this year now finally exists!
  ...Layout lovers will hate this featured content's title.

• Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" approaches conclusion
  There will likely be more to say next issue.

• News from the WMF: Planning together with the Wikimedia Foundation
  The second article in a series describing the priorities and work of the Wikimedia Foundation. The article invites Wikimedians to collaborate with the Foundation.

• Special report: There Shall Be Seasons Refreshing – Stories from WikiConference India 2023
  First national-level conference in the Indian subcontinent in seven years.

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The Signpost: 22 May 2023

• News and notes: Golden parachutes: Record severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation
  ... and a referendum on Jimmy Wales' traditional role as a final court of appeal in arbitration policy.

• In the media: History, propaganda and censorship
  Opposing scholars on ArbCom case.

• Arbitration report: Final decision in "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland"
  Includes stronger sourcing restriction, and a nod to the UCoC.

• Recent research: Create or curate, cooperate or compete? Game theory for Wikipedia editors
  And other new research results.

• Featured content: A very musical week for featured articles
  Bird is the word for featured pictures.

• Traffic report: Coronation, chatbot, celebs
  Celebs and Bollywood film dominated reader interest, as usual, but with a new persistent presence on the lists of a certain AI.

• WikiProject report: Wikipedians Convene for Queering Wikipedia 2023: The First International LGBT+ Wikipedia Conference
  An online conference with 12 distributed trans-local in-person meetup "Nodes" on 5 continents.

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The Signpost: 5 June 2023

• News and notes: WMRU director forks new 'pedia, birds flap in top '22 piccy, WMF weighs in on Indian gov's map axe plea
  Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Building Committee Commences Command By Convening.

• In the media: Section 230 stands tall, WP vs. UK bill, Miss Information dissed again
  Also: Goog gets delist ask for en-wp yt-dl ar-ticle, wacky football fails.

• Featured content: Poetry under pressure
  Now is not this ridiculous, and is not this preposterous? A thorough-paced absurdity - explain it if you can.

• Traffic report: Celebs, controversies and a chatbot in the public eye
  Plus mortalities, and movies about mermaids.

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The Signpost: 19 June 2023

• News and notes: WMF Terms of Use now in force, new Creative Commons licensing
  Problems with emergency emails sent to WMF.

• In the media: English WP editor glocked after BLP row on Italian 'pedia
  ... and an AI writer explains why he just bought a paper encyc.

• Featured content: Content, featured
  Poetry still present.

• Recent research: Hoaxers prefer currently-popular topics
  And other new research findings.

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The Signpost: 3 July 2023

• News and notes: Online Safety Bill: Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia UK launch open letter
  ... and a new Elections Committee.

• Disinformation report: Imploded submersible outfit foiled trying to sing own praises on Wikipedia
  A few editors who fought many times to keep advertisements out.

• In the media: Journo proposes mass Wiki dox, sponsored articles on Fandom, Section 230 discussed
  Are you now, or have you ever been, a Wikipedia editor?

• Featured content: Incensed
  In which featured pictures have a pleasing orange/blue colour scheme for some reason.

• Traffic report: Are you afraid of spiders? Arnold? The Idol? ChatGPT?
  Don't worry, they are mostly harmless.

• Humour: United Nations dispatches peacekeeping force to Wikipedia policy discussions
  Mission to ensure stability in conflict-ridden area.

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The Signpost: 17 July 2023

• News and notes: Big bux hidden beneath wine-dark sea as we wait for the Tides to go out?
  Gitz666 unglocked, Wikimania scholarships given and a new admin anointed.

• In the media: Tentacles of Emirates plot attempt to ensnare Wikipedia
  Ruwiki on the Ruinternet, Rauwerda on TEDx, and Jimbo on Fridman.

• Obituary: David Thomsen (Dthomsen8) and Ingo Koll (Kipala)
  Philadelphians and Tanzanians say goodbye.

• News from the WMF: ABC for Fundraising: Advancing Banner Collaboration for fundraising campaigns
  The collaboration process for the 2023 English fundraising campaign is kicking off now, right from the start of the fiscal year.

• In focus: Are the children of celebrities over-represented in French cinema?
  Wikidata queries investigate nepo babies.

• Tips and tricks: What automation can do for you (and your WikiProject)
  A summary of various tools designed over the years.

• Recent research: Wikipedia-grounded chatbot "outperforms all baselines" on factual accuracy
  And various other research on large language models and Wikipedia.

• Humour: New fringe theories to be introduced
  Bold move intended to "get some variety" into Wikipedia arguments.

• Cobwebs: If you're reading this, you're probably on a desktop
  The annual report that tries to understand the Signpost through data, written in 2020, which never saw the light of day until now.

• Featured content: Scrollin', scrollin', scrollin', keep those readers scrollin', got to keep on scrollin', Rawhide!
  In which choices have been made™.

• Traffic report: The Idol becomes the Master
  Sex, drugs and violence, English, math and science.

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The Signpost: 1 August 2023

• News and notes: City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians, Ruwiki founder banned, WMF launches Mastodon server
  And French gov't proposes legislation to slam Wikipedia, others.

• In the media: Truth, AI, bull from politicians, and climate change
  Or just another brouhaha?

• Disinformation report: Hot climate, hot hit, hot money, hot news hot off the presses!
  Hot damn, it's damned hot!

• Obituary: Donald Cram, Peter McCawley, and Eagleash
  Three editors have departed.

• Tips and tricks: Citation tools for dummies!
  You don't really want to do this stuff by yourself, do you?

• Humour: Does Wikipedia present neutral perspectives?
  A serious visual investigation.

• In focus: Journals cited by Wikipedia
  A compilation of over 3M citations.

• Opinion: Are global bans the last step?
  Possible solutions after being re-harassed.

• Featured content: Featured Content, 1 to 15 July
  Due to unfortunate events, this issue is published as is, in its unfinished state.

• Traffic report: Come on Oppie, let's go party
  Oppenheimer, Barbie, and a couple other scandals.

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The Signpost: 15 August 2023

• News and notes: Dude, Where's My Donations? Wikimedia Foundation announces another million in grants for non-Wikimedia-related projects
  Jimbo promises more transparency, Wikimania in Singapore, move away from Tides still planned, and Wikifunctions rolls out.

• In the media: An accusation of bias from Brazil, a lawsuit from Portugal, plagiarism from Florida
  Harsh words from problematic fave Glenn Greenwald.

• In focus: 2023 Good Article Nomination drive is underway: get your barnstars here!
  Rigorous Review of Content for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Wikipedia.

• Special report: Thirteen years later, why are most administrators still from 2005?
  Damn kids need to get off our lawn and onto RfA.

• Tips and tricks: How to find images for your articles, check their copyright, upload them, and restore them
  Because one gets some secondary skills when one has 645 featured pictures.

• Cobwebs: Getting serious about writing
  The innards of the Signpost received a major overhaul in March/April 2019. Here's how we reduced behind-the-scenes busywork and improved writers resources.

• Opinion: Copyright trolls, or the last beautiful free souls on this planet?
  For whom does the Creative Commons enforcement clause toll?

• Serendipity: Why I stopped taking photographs almost altogether
  An announcement of 335,000 new images on Wikimedia Commons.

• Featured content: Barbenheimer confirmed
  Some improvement on last week.

• Humour: Arbitration Committee to accept case against Right Honorable Frimbley Cantingham, 15th Viscount Bellington-upon-Porkshire
  Case request cited misuse of tools by administrator who last used tools in 1661.

• Traffic report: 'Cause today it just goes with the fashion
  Barbenheimer, Pee-Wee Herman and the Women's World Cup.

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The Signpost: 31 August 2023

• From the editor: Beta version of signpost.news now online
  News for the editoriat. Stuff that matters.

• News and notes: You like RecentChanges?
  Wikipedia really comes into its own, editorially and artistically.

• In the media: Taking it sleazy
  "Poli", which means "many", and "tics", which means "under-the-table Wikipedia article whitewashing campaigns".

• Recent research: The five barriers that impede "stitching" collaboration between Commons and Wikipedia
  And other recent research publications.

• Draftspace: Bad Jokes and Other Draftspace Novelties
  The good, the bad, and the nonsense.

• Humour: The Dehumourification Plan
  A message from the Counter-Fun Unit.

• Traffic report: Raise your drinking glass, here's to yesterday
  I just poured HOT GRITS down my pants ohh yeah

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The Signpost: 16 September 2023

• News and notes: Wikimedia power sharing – just an advisory role for the volunteer community?
  Plus: Africa news, funding report, U4C draft, roads fork and another ChatGPT block.

• In the media: "Just flirting", going Dutch and Shapps for the defence?
  Plus a new judge, an "unimportant" record, and staying in the swim!

• Obituary: Nosebagbear
  A Wikipedian and a friend.

• Serendipity: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no paywall, for thou, Wikipedia Library, art with me
  Non-flammable, BPA-free, and really whips the llama's ass.

• Featured content: Catching up
  Covering all of August. Pretty much.

• Concept: Strange portal opened by CERN researchers brings Wikipedia articles from "other worlds"
  The Signpost brings you the latest from the source.

• Traffic report: Some of it's magic, some of it's tragic
  Sports, film and singers. We've got it all!

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The Signpost: 3 October 2023

• News and notes: Wikimedia Endowment financial statement published
  Finances during Tides Foundation management of the endowment are shown for the first time.

• In the media: History is written by whoever can harness the most editors
  Plus Harvard, Yale, Lords and Commons, partners and trolls!

• Recent research: Readers prefer ChatGPT over Wikipedia; concerns about limiting "anyone can edit" principle "may be overstated"
  And other new research publications

• Featured content: By your logic,
  The first issue to feature two poetry article

• Concept: Wikipedia policies from other worlds: WP:NOANTLERS
  Material must be written with the greatest care and attention; the level of detail and commentary regarding the antlers of living persons is to be kept to a minimum.

• Poetry: "The Sight"
  Tamzin reflects on the hunt.

• Traffic report: There shall be no slaves in the land of lands, it's a Bollywood jam
  Taylor Swift with an NFL tight end and Lauren Boebert with a Democrat?

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The Signpost: 23 October 2023

• News and notes: Where have all the administrators gone?
  Long time passing

• In the media: Thirst traps, the fastest loading sites on the web, and the original collaborative writing
  Also: High fives, Wikipedia as a guide for counterfeiters and crossword makers, and Iskander at the UN.

• Gallery: Before and After: Why you don't need to know how to restore images to make massive improvements
  The benefits of research.

• Featured content: Yo, ho! Blow the man down!
  These titles never make much sense even at the best of times, so why not be random?

• Traffic report: The calm and the storm
  They are still fighting.

• News from Diff: Sawtpedia: Giving a Voice to Wikipedia Using QR Codes
  Sounds good!

• Humour: New citation template introduced for divine revelations, drug use, and really thinking about it
  "Cite altered state" to join the distinguished ranks of CS1 templates

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The Signpost: 6 November 2023

• Arbitration report: Admin bewilderingly unmasks self as sockpuppet of other admin who was extremely banned in 2015
  "Is this an ArbCom case request or an M. Night Shyamalan movie?"

• In the media: UK shadow chancellor accused of ripping off WP articles for book, Wikipedians accused of being dicks by a rich man
  Plus Gaza bias, Speaker Johnson, Maher, the music of websites, and antisemitism.

• News and notes: Board candidacy process posted, editors protest WMF privacy measure, sweet meetups
  And three new admins!

• Opinion: An open letter to Elon Musk
  You should learn some of our rules!

• WikiCup report: The WikiCup 2023
  The winner is...

• News from Wiki Ed: Equity lists on Wikipedia
  Do you ever wonder where Wikipedia articles come from?

• Recent research: How English Wikipedia drove out fringe editors over two decades
  And other new research findings.

• Featured content: Like putting a golf course in a historic site.
  Only literally.

• Wikidata: Evaluating qualitative systemic bias in large article sets on Wikipedia
  A systematic approach.

• Traffic report: Cricket jumpscare
  Plus Kollywood, Killers of the Flower Moon, and ongoing war.

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The Signpost: 20 November 2023

• In the media: Propaganda and photos, lunatics and a lunar backup
  Comic-con, Media summit, and a classic!

• News and notes: Update on Wikimedia's financial health
  Plus: Sockpuppet investigators asking for help.

• Traffic report: If it bleeds, it leads
  Or if it's Indian sport or cinema.

• Recent research: Canceling disputes as the real function of ArbCom
  And other new research findings.

• Wikimania: Wikimania 2024 scholarships
  Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2024 are now open!

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The Signpost: 4 December 2023

• News and notes: Beeblebrox ejected from Arbitration Committee following posts on Wikipediocracy
  Just as his term was ending!

• In the media: Turmoil on Hebrew Wikipedia, grave dancing, Olga's impact and inspiring Bhutanese nuns
  Plus Apple Pay, fiction, registration, expulsion, and elimination!

• Disinformation report: "Wikipedia and the assault on history"
  An analysis of a literary mystery.

• In focus: Tens of thousands of freely available sources flagged
  Continuing years of efforts to improve free-to-read access.

• Comix: Bold comics for a new age
  "I think we ought to read only the kind of comics that wound or stab us. If the comic we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for?" — Franz Kafka

• Essay: I am going to die
  And so are you.

• Featured content: Real gangsters move in silence
  Quite literally, and other fascinating featured articles, pictures and lists

• Traffic report: And it's hard to watch some cricket, in the cold November Rain
  If you don't fancy the sport that occupies over 25% of the slots in these lists, there's always movies, celebrities, and political follies to fall back on – or an unusual fired-for-the-weekend CEO.

• Humour: Mandy Rice-Davies Applies
  This page in a nutshell: Whether or not someone has denied unsavory allegations — though such a denial may not merit being given equal weight in an article — a worthless shitpost should still be included.

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The Signpost: 24 December 2023

• Special report: Did the Chinese Communist Party send astroturfers to sabotage a hacktivist's Wikipedia article?
  Wikipedia article histories are public records that can be easily examined, so unlike other websites, we can answer this question thoroughly.

• News and notes: The Italian Public Domain wars continue, Wikimedia RU set to dissolve, and a recap of WLM 2023
  Not the best of times for Wikipedians across the world, but there are still glimpses of hope...

• In the media: Consider the humble fork
  Forky on forky on forky, plus a strange donation scheme and other interesting bits of news.

• Discussion report: Arabic Wikipedia blackout; Wikimedians discuss SpongeBob, copyrights, and AI
  Wiki goes dark and adopts Palestine flag logo; intellectual property rumblings from the bowels of the law.

• In focus: Liquidation of Wikimedia RU
  Wikimedia Russia closes after founder is declared a "foreign agent".

• Technology report: Dark mode is coming
  No more must Wikipedia always be a lightbulb in the dark — except metaphorically of course.

• Recent research: "LLMs Know More, Hallucinate Less" with Wikidata
  And other new research publications.

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

• Comix: Lollus lmaois 200C tincture
  the dilution makes it stronger.

• Crossword: when the crossword is sus
  The Signpost Crossword is a 2018 online multiplayer social deduction game that takes place in space-themed settings where players are colorful, armless cartoon astronauts.

• Traffic report: What's the big deal? I'm an animal!
  Bollywood, Hollywood, and both kinds of football to close out December.

• From the editor: A piccy iz worth OVAR 9000!!!11oneone! wordz ^_^
  The debugging will continue until performance improves.

• Apocrypha: Local editor discovered 1,380 lost subheadings in ancient Signpost scrolls. And what he found was shocking.
  Heartwarming — MUST READ — You Won't BELIEVE #4!!!!!

• Humour: Guess the joke contest
  Winner receives a special prize!

• BJAODN: Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense
  Edit summary: "Only need this page for about 30 minutes to demonstrate to a friend how easy it is to create a Wikipedia page. Then it will be deleted."

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The Signpost: 10 January 2024

• From the editor: NINETEEN MORE YEARS! NINETEEN MORE YEARS!
  The Signpost can now drink beer and chant slogans in Canada. What slogans should we chant for the next nineteen years?

• Special report: Public Domain Day 2024
  Mickey & You: What can you do?

• Technology report: Wikipedia: A Multigenerational Pursuit
  A techie looks at the big questions.

• News and notes: In other news ... see ya in court!
  Let the games begin! The 2024 WikiCup is off to a strong start. With copyright enforcement, AI training and freedom of expression, it's another typical week in the wiki-sphere!

• In focus: The long road of a featured article candidate
  The first of two installments, regarding a process of many installments.

• In the media: What is plagiarism? Oklahoma Disneyland? Reaching a human being at Wikipedia?
  Watch out for those space ships!

• WikiProject report: WikiProjects Israel and Palestine
  What are the editorial processes behind covering some of the most politically polarizing and contentious topics on English Wikipedia?

• Obituary: Anthony Bradbury
  Rest in peace.

• Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2023
  Around the world in 365 days (with many stops in India).

• Crossword: everybody gangsta till the style sheets start cascading
  The good news is that I've perfected the templates that allow other people to make actually good crosswords.

• Comix: Conflict resolution
  Getting down to brass tacks &c.

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The Signpost: 31 January 2024

• News and notes: Wikipedian Osama Khalid celebrated his 30th birthday in jail
  Plus WMF child rights impact assessment, Chinese Wikipedia changes admin rules

• Opinion: Until it happens to you
  A stream of consciousness about plagiarism on Wikipedia from the perspective of a user who directly witnessed it.

• Disinformation report: How paid editors squeeze you dry
  And how you can stop them!

• In the media: Katherine Maher new NPR CEO, go check Wikipedia, race in the race
  Another wobble, more Ackman, our usual pathological optimist, and football in dirty pants!

• In focus: The long road of a featured article candidate, part 2
  Everything you really wanted to know about writing featured articles.

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

• Comix: We've all got to start somewhere
  Writing a good subheading for a one-sentence joke is basically like writing an entire second joke so I'm not going to do it.

• Traffic report: DJ, gonna burn this goddamn house right down
  Job changes, death, sex, murder, suicide and a vacation!

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The Signpost: 13 February 2024

• News and notes: Wikimedia Russia director declared "foreign agent" by Russian gov; EU prepares to pile on the papers
  "the exact extent of the obligations" unclear... many such cases!

• Disinformation report: How low can the scammers go?
  Lower, trust me!

• Gallery: Before and After: Why you don't need to touch grass to dramatically improve images of flora and fauna
  Finding the right bumblebee among all the bumblebees!

• In the media: Speaking in tongues, toeing the line, and dressing the part
  The usual odd articles about Wikipedia.

• Serendipity: Is this guy the same as the one who was a Nazi?
  The hunt for Bertil Ragnar Anzén.

• Traffic report: Griselda, Nikki, Carl, Jannik and two types of football
  Plus films, Grammys and a rumble!

• Crossword: Our crossword to bear
  &c.

• Comix: Strongly
  That's more than weakly!

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The Signpost: 2 March 2024

• News and notes: Wikimedia enters US Supreme court hearings as "the dolphin inadvertently caught in the net"
  Plus, the U4C Charter keeps planting seeds, the RfA process is set to become more sustainable, and more news from the Wikimedia ecosystem.

• Recent research: Images on Wikipedia "amplify gender bias"
  And other new findings

• In the media: The Scottish Parliament gets involved, a wikirace on live TV, and the Foundation's CTO goes on record
  Plus, naughty politicians, Federal judge not a fan, UFOs and beavers.

• Obituary: Vami_IV
  Rest in peace.

• Traffic report: Supervalentinefilmbowlday
  If you say it loud enough the views will come your way!

• WikiCup report: High-scoring WikiCup first round comes to a close
  135 battle it out; 67 advance

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The Signpost: 29 March 2024

• Technology report: Millions of readers still seeing broken pages as "temporary" disabling of graph extension nears its second year
  Much effort was spent drafting a movement charter about becoming "essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge". How much is spent maintaining it?

• Interview: Interview on Wikimedia Foundation fundraising and finance strategy
  Signpost interviews Wikimedia Foundation leadership on fundraising banners

• 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
  And does it have anything to do with the unusual decision to let a zero-edit user open an arbitration request?

• Op-Ed: Wikipedia in the age of personality-driven knowledge
  Can we compete with social media? Will aoomers forget Wikipedia?

• Recent research: "Newcomer Homepage" feature mostly fails to boost new editors
  And several papers look at climate change on Wikipedia

• News and notes: Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Charter ratified
  WLM winners announced, Wikimania 2024, a new Wikimedia movement affiliate, and active enwp admins reach a record low.

• In the media: "For me it’s the autism": AARoad editors on the fork more traveled
  Worldwide women turned blue and controversies on Serbian & French Wikipedia.

• Traffic report: He rules over everything, on the land called planet Dune
  Let me take you to the movies.

• Humour: Letters from the editors
  The only worthwhile grievance is the one that prompts satire.

• Comix: Layout issue
  margin: 0 auto !important;

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The Signpost: 25 April 2024

• In the media: Censorship and wikiwashing looming over RuWiki, edit wars over San Francisco politics, and another wikirace on live TV
  Plus, tribute songs and shout-outs outweighing vandalism and hoaxes, a dispute about the real king of the platform and other bits of news.

• News and notes: A sigh of relief for open access as Italy makes a slight U-turn on their cultural heritage reproduction law
  Plus, new updates on the privacy and research ethics whitepaper and the graphs outage situation, and an Iranian former steward is globally banned from Wikimedia projects

• WikiConference report: WikiConference North America 2023 in Toronto recap
  Outcomes of the event including newly published videos and photos, the archived conference website and program, and some attendee reflections on its significance.

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Newspapers (Not WP:NOTNEWS)
  A WikiProject report on the 📰🌍 globe's finest news source!

• Recent research: New survey of over 100,000 Wikipedia users
  And other recent research publications

• Traffic report: O.J., cricket and a three body problem
  Plus Godzilla meets Francis Scott Key!

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The Signpost: 16 May 2024

• News and notes: Democracy in action: multiple elections
  WMF trustee elections, U4C results, Italian ArbCom, WMF and Endowment annual reports.

• Special report: Will the new RfA reform come to the rescue of administrators?
  We don't know yet, but there is some encouraging news, nevertheless.

• Arbitration report: Ruined temples for posterity to ponder over – arbitration from '22 to '24
  Some go out with a bang, some with a whimper, few with much of a comprehensible explanation.

• In the media: Deadnames on the French Wikipedia, and a duel between Russian wikis
  Plus, the WMF joins the Unicode Consortium, Chris Albon talks about AI tools on Wikipedia, communities address under-representation on the site.

• Op-Ed: Wikidata to split as sheer volume of information overloads infrastructure
  More queries are failing, and more frequently, so what is to be done?

• Comix: Generations
  It do be like that sometimes.

• Traffic report: Crawl out through the fallout, baby
  With cricket and some cute baby reindeer!

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The Signpost: 8 June 2024

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation publishes its Form 990 for fiscal year 2022-2023
  The Form 990, as well as highlights and FAQs, are now available for review.

• Technology report: New Page Patrol receives a much-needed software upgrade
  A new model for collaboration between the WMF and the community?

• Deletion report: The lore of Kalloor
  Hoaxes and the genesis of information.

• In the media: National cable networks get in on the action arguing about what the first sentence of a Wikipedia article ought to say
  First line, sixth paragraph, body text or unified Reich?

• 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
  Outlining progress against the four key goals

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

• Recent research: ChatGPT did not kill Wikipedia, but might have reduced its growth
  And various research findings about Wikidata and knowledge graphs.

• Featured content: We didn't start the wiki
  No we didn't write it, but we tried to cite it

• Essay: No queerphobia
  An essay.

• Special report: RetractionBot is back to life!
  ... and flagging your articles with big ugly red notices! (This is a good thing.)

• Traffic report: Chimps, Eurovision, and the return of the Baby Reindeer
  Movies, deaths, elections (but no cricket).

• Comix: The Wikipediholic Family
  Some stuff's only okay in the privacy of the home.

• Humour: Wikipedia rattled by sophisticated cyberattack of schoolboy typing "balls" in infobox
  Project in shambles – "it had never occurred to us that this was possible".

• Concept: Palimpsestuous
  Hypertext.

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The Signpost: 4 July 2024

• News and notes: WMF board elections and fundraising updates
  Three new admins, but overall numbers still shrinking.

• Special report: Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification vote underway, new Council may surpass power of Board
  Will we weather the storm?

• In focus: How the Russian Wikipedia keeps it clean despite having just a couple dozen administrators
  Unbundling, automation, fighting spirit, and a bot named Reimu Hakurei.

• Discussion report: Wikipedians are hung up on the meaning of Madonna
  Debate unsettled after seventeen years.

• In the media: War and information in war and politics
  Advocacy organizations, a journalist, mycophobes, conservatives, leftists, photographers, and a disinformation task force imagine themselves in Wikipedia.

• Sister projects: On editing Wikisource
  A journey to a sister project.

• Obituary: Hanif Al Husaini, Salazarov, Hyacinth, and PirjanovNurlan
  Rest in peace.

• Opinion: Etika: a Pop Culture Champion
  An article about Etika's appeal and legacy in pop culture.

• Gallery: Spokane Willy's photos
  A virtual visit to the Inland Northwest.

• Op-Ed: Why you should not vote in the 2024 WMF BoT elections
  "Simply not good enough".

• Crossword: On a day of independence, beat crosswords into crossploughshares
  How well do you know the main page (no peeking)?

• Humour: A joke
  ...!

• Cobwebs: Counting to a billion — manuscripts don't burn
  Special:Diff/1 and related techno-trivia more complicated than you'd think.

• Recent research: Is Wikipedia Politically Biased? Perhaps
  And other new publications on systemic bias and other topics.

• Traffic report: Talking about you and me, and the games people play
  Elections, movies, sports.

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The Signpost: 22 July 2024

• Discussion report: Internet users flock to Wikipedia to debate its image policy over Trump raised-fist photo
  Iconic photograph, invalid fair use exemption criterion #3a claimant, or both?

• News and notes: Wikimedia community votes to ratify Movement Charter; Wikimedia Foundation opposes ratification
  Establishment of power-sharing agreement between WMF corporation and volunteer user community in limbo.

• News from the WMF: Wikimedia Foundation Board resolution and vote on the proposed Movement Charter
  Natalia Tymkiv, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, on the Charter vote results, the resolution, meeting minutes, and proposed next steps.

• Essay: Reflections on editing and obsession
  A lost Signpost submission from fifteen years ago brought into the light, as good and true now as it was then.

• In the media: What's on Putin's fork, the court's docket, and in Harrison's book?
  Failing forks, smart and well-researched stories, LGBT rights, and oral sex!

• Obituary: JamesR
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• Crossword: Vaguely bird-shaped crossword
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Saurashtra Brahmins

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Sourashtra language & Sourashtra people

Hello

You have reverted my recent edit to Sourashtra language and Sourashtra people from Saurashtra to Sourashtra. I did leave a comment explaining my rationale before making this update on the Talk:Sourashtra_language page, but I'm happy to discuss further. Calling Sourashtra Saurashtra is akin to calling English as Anglish because the English language was brought into Britain by the Angles! It's my belief that a language or people should be called by what the people want it or them to be known as, and as a Sourashtra speaker, I can confirm this is our preferred spelling.

For context, I had originally created the Sourashtra language page but then went into hibernation. Elviajero (talk) 08:21, 19 July 2025 (UTC)

I've just realised that you are native Sourashtra speaker too - nice to meet you! Much of what I said above was preaching to the choir, but would you not agree that Sourashtra is the more common spelling that we use to refer ourselves in English be it our language, community, or any bodies/institutions that the community runs? After my initial edits back in 2005/6 and after I stepped back from Wikipedia, another editor had updated the spelling which became the 'Wikipedia spelling' from that point on. The other sister articles - people, script, unicode block - were written up later and they seemed to have followed the Wikipedia spelling of Sourashtra!

If you're wondering why I care now, it's because media/social media appears to be moving away from Sourashtra to Saurashtra over the last few years following this update and this is made worse by the fact that AI tools are also using this as the primary spelling. Better late than never! Elviajero (talk) 10:00, 19 July 2025 (UTC)

Hello, I see that you've also reverted my spelling update for Saurashtra (Unicode block) page too, however you haven't explained your rationale for keeping the spelling as 'Saurashtra' instead of 'Sourashtra'? It would be good to have a chat.

Cheers Elviajero (talk) 20:30, 21 July 2025 (UTC)

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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
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• Traffic report: Death, hear me call your name
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• Comix: A grand spectacle
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The Signpost: 20 October 2025

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

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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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• Comix: display: flex-inline;
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The Signpost: 15 January 2026

• News and notes: Wikipedia's 25th anniversary is here!
  Where does the time go?

• Special report: Wikipedia at 25: A Wake-Up Call
  The internet is booming. We are not.

• Serendipity: The WMF wants to buy you books!
  Really! A major triumph.

• WikiProject report: Time for a health check: the Vital Signs 2026 campaign
  The campaign to get all of our top-importance medical articles up to B-class or above.

• In the media: Fake Acting President Trump and a Wikipedia infobox
  D.J.T. assumes a new position.

• Community view: The inbox behind Wikipedia
  What the Volunteer Response Team actually does!

• Recent research: Art museums on Wikidata; comparing three comparisons of Grokipedia and Wikipedia
  And other research.

• Traffic report: Tonight I'm gonna rock you tonight
  A world in white gets underway.

• Comix: Oh come on man.
  Really?

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The Signpost: 29 January 2026

• Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2025
  Everybody had a hard year, everybody had a good time.

• News and notes: Good news... but also bad news for the Public Domain
  Benvenuto Betty Boop, arrivederci Italian Photos.

• News from Diff: Solving puzzles together
  Maryana Iskander says farewell.

• In the media: Every view on the 25th anniversary of everything
  Media about hard-core nerds, a place with paragraphs, baby globes, and wikipedes.

• Comix: Perspectives
  Everybody has one.

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The Signpost: 17 February 2026

• In the media: Global powers see Wikipedia as fundamental target for manipulation
  Attempted Wikipedia shenanigans apparent from Epstein, AI, various governments.

• News and notes: Discussions open for the next WMF Annual Plan
  Plus, WikiFlix going places, steady progress on older FAs and other news from the Wikimedia world.

• Serendipity: Maintenance crews continue to slog through Wikipedia's oldest Featured Articles
  Hundreds of old FAs have been triaged since project began, but thousands remain — and they need reviewers.

• Disinformation report: Epstein's obsessions
  The sex offender's attempts to whitewash Wikipedia run deeper than we first thought.

• Technology report: Wikidata Graph Split and how we address major challenges
  A personal perspective on a major update to the Wikimedia social machine.

• Traffic report: Deaths, killings, films, and the Olympics
  I'll have the usual!

• Opinion: Incoming Incurables
  A poem for Wikipedia Day 2026.

• Crossword: Pop quiz
  Sharpen your pencil. How well do you really know Wikipedia?

• Comix: herculean
  efforts.

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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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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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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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