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The Signpost: 02 April 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: On the cusp of the Wikimedia Conference
• News and notes: Wikimedia conferences—soul-searching about costs, attendance, and future
• Traffic report: Regressing to the mean
• WikiProject report: Deutschland in English
• Featured content: April Fools

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The Signpost: 09 April 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: Community mourns passing of Adrianne Wadewitz
• News and notes: Round 2 of FDC funding open to public comments
• Traffic report: Conquest of the Couch Potatoes
• WikiProject report: Law
• Featured content: Snow heater and Ash sweep

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The Signpost: 23 April 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: 2014 Wikimedia Conference—what is the impact?
• Wikimania: Winning bid announced for 2015
• News and notes: Wikimedian passes away
• WikiProject report: To the altar—Catholicism
• Featured content: There was I, waiting at the church
• Traffic report: Reflecting in Gethsemane

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The Signpost: 30 April 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: WMF's draft annual plan turns indigestible as an FDC proposal
• Interview: Wikipedia in the Peabody Essex Museum
• Featured content: Browsing behaviours
• WikiProject report: Genetics
• Traffic report: Going to the Doggs
• Recent research: Wikipedia predicts flu more accurately than Google; 43% of academics have edited Wikipedia

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The Signpost: 07 May 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• In focus: Foundation announces long-awaited new executive director
• News and notes: New system of discretionary sanctions; Buchenwald; is Pirelli 'Cracking Wikipedia'?
• WikiCup: 2014 WikiCup enters round three
• In the media: Google and the flu; Adrianne
• WikiProject report: Singing with Eurovision
• Featured content: Wikipedia at the Rijksmuseum
• Traffic report: TMZedia

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The Signpost: 14 May 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Investigative report: Hong Kong's Wikimania 2013—failure to produce financial statement raises questions of probity
• News and notes: 'Ask a librarian': connecting Wikimedians with the National Library of Australia
• Featured content: On the rocks
• Traffic report: Eurovision, Google Doodles, Mothers, and May 5th
• WikiProject report: Relaxing in Puerto Rico
• Technology report: Technology report needs editor, Media Viewer offers a new look

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The Signpost: 21 May 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: "Crisis" over Wikimedia Germany's palace revolution
• Traffic report: Doodles' dawn
• Featured content: Staggering number of featured articles

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The Signpost: 28 May 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Interview: Casliber reaches one hundred featured articles
  Wikipedia's second featured article centurion
• News and notes: The English Wikipedia's second featured-article centurion; wiki inventor interviewed on video
• Recent research: Overview of research on Wikipedia's readers; predicting which article you will edit next
• Featured content: Zombie fight in the saloon
• Traffic report: Get fitted for flipflops and floppy hats

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The Signpost: 04 June 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: IEG funding for women's stories—a new approach to the gender gap
• Op-ed: "Hospitality, jerks, and what I learned"—the amazing keynote at WikiConference USA
• News and notes: Two new affiliate-selected trustees
• In the media: Reliable or not, doctors use Wikipedia
• Traffic report: Autumn in summer
• Featured content: Ye stately homes of England

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The Signpost: 11 June 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Moderator: William Beutler
• Special report: Questions raised over secret voting for WMF trustees
• News and notes: PR agencies commit to ethical interactions with Wikipedia
• Traffic report: The week the wired went weird
• Featured content: Politics, Ships, Art, and Cyclones

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The Signpost: 18 June 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: With paid advocacy in its sights, the Wikimedia Foundation amends their terms of use
• Special report: Wikimedia Bangladesh: a chapter's five-year journey
• Traffic report: You can't dethrone Thrones
• WikiProject report: Visiting the city
• Featured content: Worming our way to featured picture

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The Signpost: 25 June 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Exclusive: Foundation's new executive director speaks to the Signpost
• News and notes: US National Archives enshrines Wikipedia in Open Government Plan, plans to upload all holdings to Commons
• Featured content: Showing our Wörth
• WikiProject report: The world where dreams come true
• Discussion report: Media Viewer, old HTML tags
• Traffic report: Fake war, or real sport?
• Recent research: Power users and diversity in WikiProjects, the "network of cultures" in multilingual Wikipedia biographies

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The Signpost: 02 July 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Wikimedia Israel receives Roaring Lion award
• In the media: Wiki Education; medical content; PR firms
• WikiProject report: Indigenous peoples of North America
• Traffic report: The Cup runneth over... and over.
• Featured content: Ship-shape
• Technology report: In memoriam: the Toolserver (2005–14)

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The Signpost: 09 July 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: Wikimania 2014—what will it cost?
• Wikimedia in education: Exploring the United States and Canada with LiAnna Davis
• News and notes: With echoes of the VisualEditor, conflict breaks out again over tech initiative
• Wikicup: Wikicup's third round sees money, space, battleships and more
• Featured content: Three cheers for featured pictures!
• Traffic report: World Cup, Tim Howard rule the week

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The Signpost: 16 July 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: $10 million lawsuit against Wikipedia editors dismissed with help from WMF, but plaintiff intends to refile
• Wikimedia in education: Serbia takes the stage with Filip Maljkovic
• News and notes: Bot-created Wikipedia articles covered in the Wall Street Journal, push Cebuano over one million articles
• Traffic report: World Cup dominates for another week
• Featured content: The Island with the Golden Gun

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The Signpost: 23 July 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Forum: Did you know?—good idea, needs reform
• Wikimedia in education: Education program gaining momentum in Israel
• News and notes: Institutional media uploads to Commons get a bit easier
• Traffic report: The World Cup hangs on, though tragedies seek to replace it
• Featured content: Why, they're plum identical!

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The Signpost: 30 July 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: How many more hoaxes will Wikipedia find?
• Book review: Knowledge or unreality?
• Wikimedia in education: Success in Egypt and the Arab world
• Featured content: Skeletons and Skeltons
• Traffic report: Doom and gloom vs. the power of Reddit
• Recent research: Shifting values in the paid content debate; cross-language bot detection

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The Signpost: 06 August 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Wikimedia in education: Leading universities educate with Wikipedia in Mexico
• News and notes: "History is a human right"—first-ever transparency report released as Europe begins hiding Wikipedia in search results
• Traffic report: Ebola drives reader interest* Featured content: Bottoms, asses, and the fairies that love them
• Technology report: A technologist's Wikimania preview

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The Signpost: 13 August 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Wikimania: Promised the moon, settled for the stars
• Op-ed: Red links, blue links, and erythrophobia
• Special report: Twitter bots catalogue government edits to Wikipedia
• News and notes: Media Viewer controversy spreads to German Wikipedia
• Wikimedia in education: Wikimedia Global Education: WMF's Perspective
• In the media: Monkey selfie, net neutrality, and hoaxes
• Featured content: Cambridge got a lot of attention this week
• Traffic report: Disease, decimation and distraction

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The Signpost: 20 August 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Interview: Improving the visibility of digital archival assets using Wikipedia
• Traffic report: Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero
• WikiProject report: Bats and gloves
• Featured content: English Wikipedia departs for Japan
• Op-ed: A new metric for Wikimedia

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The Signpost: 27 August 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Featured content: Cheats at Featured Pictures!
• In the media: Plagiarism and vandalism dominate Wikipedia news
• News and notes: Media Viewer—Wikimedia's emotional roller-coaster
• Traffic report: Viral

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The Signpost: 03 September 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Arbitration report: Media viewer case is suspended
• Featured content: 1882 × 5 in gold, and thruppence more
• Op-ed: Automated copy-and-paste detection under trial
• Recent research: A Wikipedia-based Pantheon; new Wikipedia analysis tool suite; how AfC hamstrings newbies
• Traffic report: Holding Pattern
• WikiProject report: Gray's Anatomy (v. 2)

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The Signpost: 10 September 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: Media Viewer software is not ready
• Featured content: The louse and the fish's tongue
• WikiProject report: Checking that everything's all right
• Traffic report: Refuge in celebrity

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The Signpost: 17 September 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Wikipedia's traffic statistics are off by nearly one-third
• In the media: Turkish Twitter outrage, medical translation, audience metrics
• WikiProject report: A trip up north to Scotland
• Featured content: Which is not like the others?
• Traffic report: Tolstoy leads a varied pack

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The Signpost: 24 September 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• In the media: Indian political editing, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Congressional chelonii
• Featured content: Oil paintings galore
• Traffic report: Wikipedia watches the election in Scotland
• WikiProject report: GAN reviewers take note: competition time
• Arbitration report: Banning Policy, Gender Gap, and Waldorf education
• Recent research: 99.25% of Wikipedia birthdates accurate; focused Wikipedians live longer; merging WordNet, Wikipedia and Wiktionary

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The Signpost: 01 October 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: The Signpost needs your help
• News and notes: Wikipedia article published in peer-reviewed journal; Wikipedia in education
• Dispatches: Let's get serious about plagiarism
• Featured content: Brothers at War
• Traffic report: Shanah Tovah
• WikiProject report: Animals, farms, forests, USDA? It must be WikiProject Agriculture

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The Signpost: 08 October 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• In the media: Opposition research firm blocked; Australian brushfire
• Featured content: From a wordless novel to a coat of arms via New York City
• Traffic report: Panic and denial
• Technology report: HHVM is the greatest thing since sliced bread

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The Signpost: 15 October 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Arbitration report: One case closed and two opened
• Discussion report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2014-10-15/Discussion report
• Featured content: Bells ring out at the Temple of the Dragon at Peace
• In the media: College player falsely linked to sports scandal by Wikipedia; the Nobel Prizes
• Op-ed: Ships—sexist or sexy?
• Technology report: Attempting to parse wikitext
• Traffic report: Now introducing ... mobile data
• WikiProject report: Signpost reaches the Midwest

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The Signpost: 22 October 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• In the media: The story of Wikipedia; Wikipedia reanimated and republished; UK government social media rules; death of Italian Wikipedia administrator
• Featured content: Admiral on deck: a modern Ada Lovelace
• Op-ed: Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution—a wiki-protest
• WikiProject report: De-orphanning articles - a huge task but with a huge team of volunteers to help
• Traffic report: Death, War, Pestilence... Movies and TV

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The Signpost: 29 October 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Featured content: Go West, young man (By the way, there is a monster at the end of this article)
• In the media: Wikipedia a trusted source on Ebola; Wikipedia study labeled government waste; football biography goes viral
• Maps tagathon: Find 10,000 digitised maps this weekend
• Recent research: Informed consent and privacy; newsmaking on Wikipedia; Wikipedia and organizational theories
• Traffic report: Ebola, Ultron, and Creepy Articles

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The Signpost: 05 November 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• In the media: Predicting the flu; MH17 conspiracy theories
• Traffic report: Sweet dreams on Halloween

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The Signpost: 12 November 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• In the media: Amazon Echo; EU freedom of panorama; Bluebeard's Castle
• Featured content: Wikipedia goes to church in Lithuania
• WikiProject report: Talking hospitals
• Traffic report: Holidays, anyone?

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The Signpost: 26 November 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Featured content: Orbital Science: Now you're thinking with explosions
• In the media: A Russian alternative Wikipedia; Who's your grandfather?; ArtAndFeminism
• Recent research: Gender gap and skills gap; academic citations on the rise; European food cultures
• Traffic report: Big in Japan
• WikiProject report: Back with the military historians

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The Signpost: 03 December 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: Who edits health-related content on Wikipedia and why?
• In the media: Embroidery and cheese
• Featured content: ABCD: Any Body Can Dance!
• Traffic report: Turkey and a movie
• WikiProject report: Today on the island

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The Signpost: 10 December 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: It's GLAM up North!
• In the media: Wikipedia is "a rancorous, sexist, elitist, stupidly bureaucratic mess"
• Traffic report: Dead Black Men and Science Fiction
• Featured content: Honour him, love and obey? Good idea with military leaders.

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The Signpost: 17 December 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• In the media: Wikipedia's year in review video; Checking in with Wikipedia's founders
• Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee election results
• Featured content: Tripping hither, tripping thither, Nobody knows why or whither; We must dance and we must sing, Round about our fairy ring!
• Traffic report: A December Lull

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The Signpost: 24 December 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: Looking for new editors-in-chief
• In the media: Wales on GamerGate
• Featured content: Still quoting Iolanthe, apparently.
• WikiProject report: Microsoft does The Signpost
• Traffic report: North Korea is not pleased

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The Signpost: 31 December 2014

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: The next big step for Wikidata—forming a hub for researchers
• In the media: Study tour controversy; class tackles the gender gap
• Op-ed: My issues with the Wiki Education Foundation
• Featured content: A bit fruity
• Traffic report: Surfin' the Yuletide
• Recent research: Wikipedia in higher education; gender-driven talk page conflicts; disease forecasting

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The Signpost: 07 January 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Interview: Interview with Jakob, one of Wikipedia's more prolific waterway contributors
• In the media: ISIL propaganda video; AirAsia complaints
• Featured content: Kock up
• Traffic report: Auld Lang Syne

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The Signpost: 14 January 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Featured content: Citations are needed
• In the media: Wikipedia's birthday brings tributes, app, award; Castro death rumors
• News and notes: Erasmus Prize recognizes the global Wikipedia community
• Op-ed: Articles for creation needs you
• Traffic report: Wikipédia sommes Charlie
• WikiProject report: Articles for Creation: the Inside Story

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The Signpost: 21 January 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: Introducing your new editors-in-chief
• Anniversary: A decade of the Signpost
• Interview: WWII veteran honors shipmates through Wikipedia editing
• Op-ed: Let's make WikiProjects better
• News and notes: Annual report released; Wikimania; steward elections
• In the media: Johann Hari; bandishes and delicate flowers
• Featured content: Yachts, marmots, boat races, and a rocket engineer who attempted to birth a goddess
• Arbitration report: As one door closes, a (Gamer)Gate opens
• Technology report: The future of MediaWiki

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The Signpost: 28 January 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: An editorial board that includes you

• Special report: Traffic in the fog—2014's most popular articles include death, Facebook, and Ebola

• In focus: Thirteen editors sanctioned in mammoth GamerGate arbitration case

• Forum: Evaluating the Arbitration Committee's handling of GamerGate

• In the media: A murderous week for Wikipedia

• Featured content: Like Jack Kerouac's On The Road, this week's issue was written on amphetamines

• Traffic report: A sea of faces

• Recent research: Bot writes about theatre plays; "Renaissance editors" create better content

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The Signpost: 04 February 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: No men beyond this point: the proposal to create a no-men space on Wikipedia
• Op-ed: Is Wikipedia for sale?
• In the media: Gamergate and Muhammad controversies continue
• Traffic report: The American Heartland
• Featured content: It's raining men!
• Arbitration report: Slamming shut the GamerGate
• WikiProject report: Dicing with death – on Wikipedia?
• Technology report: Security issue fixed; VisualEditor changes
• Gallery: Langston Hughes

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The Signpost: 11 February 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editors: We want to know what you think!
• News and notes: One editor faces likely ban for work on Wikipedia; another awarded $1 million
• In the media: Is Wikipedia eating itself?
• Traffic report: Bowled over
• WikiProject report: Brand new WikiProjects profiled
• Featured content: A grizzly bear, Operation Mascot, Freedom Planet & Liberty Island, cosmic dust clouds, a cricket five-wicket list, more fine art, & a terrible, terrible opera...
• Gallery: Feel the love

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The Signpost: 18 February 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Editorial: Recent retirements typify problem of admin attrition
• In the media: Students' use and perception of Wikipedia
• Special report: Revision scoring as a service
• Traffic report: February is for lovers
• Gallery: Darwin Day
• Featured content: A load of bull-sized breakfast behind the restaurant, Koi feeding, a moray eel, Spaghetti Nebula and other fishy, fishy fish
• Arbitration report: We've built the nuclear reactor; now what colour should we paint the bikeshed?

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The Signpost: 25 February 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Did WMF "participate" in nefarious activity?
• Op-ed: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own
• In the media: WikiGnomes and Bigfoot
• Gallery: Far from home
• Traffic report: Fifty Shades of... self-denial?
• Featured content: The Moon, Mars, Venus, and Saturn, in no particular order. Also, Kaiser Kong.
• Recent research: Gender bias, SOPA blackout, and a student assignment that backfired
• WikiProject report: Be prepared... Scouts in the spotlight
• Blog: Join the Wikimedia strategy consultation

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The Signpost: 25 February 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Did WMF "participate" in nefarious activity?
• Op-ed: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own
• In the media: WikiGnomes and Bigfoot
• Traffic report: Fifty Shades of... self-denial?
• Featured content: The Moon, Mars, Venus, and Saturn, in no particular order. Also, Kaiser Kong.
• Recent research: Gender bias, SOPA blackout, and a student assignment that backfired
• Gallery: Far from home
• WikiProject report: Be prepared... Scouts in the spotlight
• Blog: Join the Wikimedia strategy consultation

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The Signpost: 04 March 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: A sign of the times—the Signpost revamps its internal structure to make contributing easier
• Editorial: Conspiracy theories distract from real questions about grantmaking report
• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation and OTRS team both publish quarterly reports, indicate operating changes
• Interview: Meet a paid editor
• Traffic report: Attack of the movies
• In the media: Kanye West rebranded; Wikipedia in court; editors for hire
• Blog: Black History Month edit-a-thons tackle Wikipedia’s multicultural gaps
• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
• Featured content: Ploughing fields and trading horses with Rosa Bonheur
• Arbitration report: Bradspeaks—impact, regrets, and advice; current cases hinge on sex, religion, and ... infoboxes

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The Signpost: 11 March 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: An advance look at the WMF's fundraising survey

• In focus: WMF to NSA: "stop spying on Wikipedia users"

• News and notes: WikiWomen's History Month—meetups, blog posts, and "Inspire" grant-making campaign

• In the media: Gamergate; a Wiki hoax; Kanye West

• Traffic report: Wikipedia: handing knowledge to the world, one prank at a time

• Featured content: Here they come, the couple plighted –

• Op-ed: Why the Core Contest matters

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The Signpost: 18 March 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: A salute to Pine

• Op-ed: Does the Wikimedia fundraising survey address community concerns?

• News and notes: SUL finalization imminent; executive office shake-ups at the Foundation

• In the media: NYPD editing articles regarding allegations of police brutality and misconduct

• Featured content: A woman who loved kings, a king who loved angels ...

• Traffic report: It's not cricket

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The Signpost: 25 March 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation adopts open-access research policy

• Op-ed: How my father's railroad image collection now benefits the world: the value of digitization

• Featured content: A carnival of animals, a river of dung, a wasteland of uncles, and some people with attitude

• Special report: Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2014

• Traffic report: Oddly familiar

• Recent research: Most important people; respiratory reliability; academic attitudes

• Blog: The Wikipedia Library Team reflects on its new Visiting Scholars program

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The Signpost, 1 April 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: New edits-by-mail option will "revolutionize" Wikipedia and its editor base

• Special report: Pictures of the Year 2015

• Featured content: Stop Press. Marie Celeste Mystery Solved. Crew Found Hiding In Wardrobe.

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The Signpost: 01 April 2015

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• In focus: WMF's latest strategy document shows successes, vagueness, and the need for better data
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The Signpost: 08 April 2015

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The Signpost: 15 April 2015

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The Signpost: 20 May 2015

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The Signpost: 27 May 2015

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The Signpost: 03 June 2015

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The Signpost: 17 June 2015

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The Signpost: 24 June 2015

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The Signpost: 01 July 2015

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The Signpost: 08 July 2015

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The Signpost: 15 July 2015

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The Signpost: 22 July 2015

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• Traffic report: The Nerds, They Are A-Changin'
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The Signpost: 29 July 2015

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The Signpost: 05 August 2015

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• Op-ed: Je ne suis pas Google
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The Signpost: 12 August 2015

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• Wikimanía report: Wikimanía 2015, part 2, a community event
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The Signpost: 19 August 2015

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The Signpost: 26 August 2015

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The Signpost: 02 September 2015

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• Special report: Massive paid editing network unearthed on the English Wikipedia
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• Discussion report: WMF's sudden reversal on Wiki Loves Monuments
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The Signpost: 09 September 2015

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• News and notes: The Swedish Wikipedia's controversial two-millionth article
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The Signpost: 16 September 2015

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• News and notes: Byrd and notifications leave, but page views stay; was a terror suspect editing Wikipedia?
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The Signpost: 23 September 2015

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• Op-ed: Can we please stop bashing Wikipedia?
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The Signpost: 30 September 2015

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• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation fundraising report, Montreal to host 2017 Wikimania
• Op-ed: Wikipedia needs more administrators
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The Signpost: 07 October 2015

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• Traffic report: Reality is for losers
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The Signpost: 14 October 2015

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• Traffic report: Screens, Sport, Reddit, and Death
• WikiConference Report: WikiConference USA 2015
• News and notes: Fundraising: 2015–2016 Q1 Update sparks mailing list debate
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The Signpost: 21 October 2015

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• News and notes: Wikimedia lawsuit against NSA dismissed; Affiliates mailing list launched
• In the media: "Wikipedia's hostility to women"
• Special report: One year of GamerGate, or how I learned to stop worrying and love bare rule-level consensus
• Featured content: A more balanced week
• Op-ed: Wikipedia is significantly amplifying the impact of Open Access publications
• Arbitration report: Four ArbCom cases ongoing
• Traffic report: Hiding under the covers of the Internet
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The Signpost: 28 October 2015

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• News and notes: English Wikipedia reaches five million articles
• In the media: The world's Wikipedia gaps; Google and Wikipedia accused of tying Ben Carson to NAMBLA
• Op-ed: It’s time to stop the bullying
• Arbitration report: A second attempt at Arbitration enforcement
• Traffic report: Canada, the most popular nation on Earth
• Recent research: Student attitudes towards Wikipedia; Jesus, Napoleon and Obama top "Wikipedia social network"; featured article editing patterns in 12 languages
• Featured content: Birds, turtles, and other things
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• Community letter: Five million articles

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The Signpost: 04 November 2015

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• Op-ed: You are invited to participate in the Community Wishlist Survey
• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation finances; Superprotect is gone
• In the media: Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov: propaganda myth or history?
• Traffic report: Death, the Dead, and Spectres are abroad
• Featured content: Christianity, music, and cricket
• Gallery: Princess of Asturias Awards 2015 ceremony
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The Signpost: 11 November 2015

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• Op-ed: As one thousand of us requested, Superprotect has been removed
• Arbitration report: Elections, redirections, and a resignation from the Committee
• Discussion report: Compromise of two administrator accounts prompts security review
• Featured content: Texas, film, and cycling
• In the media: Sanger on Wikipedia; Silver on Vox; lawyers on monkeys
• Traffic report: Doodles of popularity
• Gallery: Paris

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The Signpost: 18 November 2015

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• Discussion report: BASC disbanded; other developments in the discussion world
• Arbitration report: Ban Appeals Subcommittee goes up in smoke; 21 candidates running
• Featured content: Fantasia on a Theme by Jimbo Wales
• Traffic report: Darkness and light

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The Signpost: 25 November 2015

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• Op-ed: Wikidata: the new Rosetta Stone
• Traffic report: J'en ai ras le bol
• News and notes: Fundraising update; FDC recommendations
• In the media: Erasmus Prize awarded to Wikipedia; trouble on the Russian Wikipedia
• Recent research: Do Wikipedia citations mirror scholarly impact?; co-star networks in silent films
• Featured content: Caves and stuff
• Arbitration report: Third Palestine-Israel case closes; Voting begins
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The Signpost: 02 December 2015

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• Op-ed: Whither Wikidata?
• Traffic report: Jonesing for episodes
• News and notes: Online harassment consultation; High voter turnout at ArbCom elections
• In the media: Is Wikidata as transparent as it seems?; Wikimedia Fund-raising drive launches
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• Technology report: Tech news in brief

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The Signpost: 09 December 2015

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• Op-ed: Wikidata: Knowledge from different points of view
• In the media: Political editing in the context of the US presidential primaries
• Traffic report: So do you laugh, or does it cry?
• Featured content: Sports, ships, arts... and some other things
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• Gallery: Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 winners

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The Signpost: 16 December 2015

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• In focus: Drone photography: New possibilities and new challenges
• Arbitration report: GMO case decided
• WikiProject report: Women in Red—using teamwork and partnerships to elevate online and offline collaborations
• Traffic report: A feast of Spam
• Featured content: An unusually slow week
• Gallery: WikiConference USA 2015: images, slide decks, and videos

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The Signpost: 30 December 2015

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• News and notes: WMF Board dismisses community-elected trustee
• Year in review: The top ten Wikipedia stories of 2015
• Arbitration report: Second Arbitration Enforcement case concludes as another case is suspended
• In the media: Wikipedia plagued by a "Basket of Deception"
• Traffic report: The Force we expected
• Featured content: The post-Christmas edition
• Gallery: It's that time of year again

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The Signpost: 06 January 2016

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• In the media: Impenetrable science; Jimmy Wales back in the UAE
• Arbitration report: Catflap08 and Hijiri88 case been decided
• Featured content: Featured menagerie
• Recent research: Teaching Wikipedia, Does advertising the gender gap help or hurt Wikipedia?
• WikiProject report: Try-ing to become informed - WikiProject Rugby League
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The Signpost: 13 January 2016

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• News and notes: Community objections to new Board trustee
• In focus: The Crisis at New Montgomery Street
• Editorial: We need a culture of verification
• Op-ed: Transparency (by James Heilman)
• Blog: Inside the game of sports vandalism on Wikipedia
• Community view: Strategy and controversy
• In the media: War and peace; WMF board changes; Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedias
• Traffic report: Pattern recognition: Third annual Traffic Report
• Special report: Wikipedia community celebrates Public Domain Day 2016
• Featured content: This Week's Featured Content
• Arbitration report: Interview: outgoing and incumbent arbitrators 2016
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The Signpost: 20 January 2016

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• Op-ed: Not a pretty picture: Thoughts on the "monkey selfie" debacle
• In the media: 15th anniversary news round-up
• Traffic report: Danse Macabre
• Featured content: This week's featured content
• Blog: Fifteen years ago, Wikipedia was a very different place: Magnus Manske

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The Signpost: 03 February 2016

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• In focus: The Knight Foundation grant: a timeline and an email to the board
• Op-ed: So, what’s a knowledge engine anyway?
• Special report: Board chair and new trustee speak with the Signpost
• Traffic report: Bowled
• News and notes: Harassment survey 2015; Luis Villa to leave WMF; knowledge engine background
• Featured content: This week's featured content
• Arbitration report: Catching up on arbitration

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The Signpost: 10 February 2016

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• Special report: New leaked internal documents raise questions about the origins of the Knowledge Engine

• In focus: An in-depth look at the special report's newly revealed documents

• News and notes: Another WMF departure

• In the media: Jeb Bush takes a swing at Wikipedia, and connects

• Featured content: This week's featured content

• Traffic report: A river of revilement

• Blog: Wikimedia Foundation removes The Diary of Anne Frank due to copyright law requirements

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The Signpost: 17 February 2016

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• Blog: Antonin Scalia and the editor tracking his legacy
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• Op-ed: Shit I cannot believe we had to fucking write this month
• Special report: Search and destroy: the Knowledge Engine and the undoing of Lila Tretikov
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• Traffic report: Super Bowling

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The Signpost: 24 February 2016

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• Op-ed: Backward the Foundation

• Featured content: This week's featured content

• Traffic report: Of Dead Pools and Dead Judges

• Arbitration report: Motion on CheckUser and Oversight inactivity

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• Blog: Wiki Loves Africa brings the continent's fashion to the world

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The Signpost: 2 March 2016

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• News and notes: Tretikov resigns, WMF in transition

• Featured content: This week's featured content

• Recent research: Wikipedia and paid labour; Swedish gender gap; how verifiable is "verifiable"?

• Traffic report: Brawling

• Blog: Wikimedia Foundation details requests to alter or remove content in new transparency report

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The Signpost: 09 March 2016

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• News and notes: Katherine Maher named interim head of WMF; Wales email re-sparks Heilman controversy; draft WMF strategy posted
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The Signpost: 16 March 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

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• Op-ed: Hard work needed to address Wikimedia’s leadership challenges

• Discussion report: Is an interim WMF executive director inherently notable?

• Featured content: This week's featured content

• Traffic report: Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States

• Technology report: Watchlists, watchlists, watchlists!

• Wikipedia Weekly: Podcast #119: The Foundation and the departure of Lila Tretikov

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The Signpost: 23 March 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Interview: Exclusive: interview with interim ED Katherine Maher

• News_and_notes: Lila Tretikov a Young Global Leader; Wikipediocracy blog post sparks indefinite blocks

• In_the_media: Angolan file sharers cause trouble for Wikipedia Zero; the 3D printer edit war; a culture based on change and turmoil

• Editorial: "God damn it, you've got to be kind."

• Traffic report: Be weary on the Ides of March

• Featured content: Watch out! A slave trader, a live mascot and a crested serpent awaits!

• Arbitration report: Palestine-Israel article 3 case amended

• Wikipedia_Weekly: Podcast #120: Status of Wikimania 2016

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The Signpost: 1 April 2016

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• In the media: Saskatoon police delete Wikipedia content about police brutality

• WikiProject report: Why should the Devil have all the good music? An interview with WikiProject Christian music

• Traffic report: Donald v Daredevil

• Featured content: A slow, slow week

• Technology report: Browse Wikipedia in safety? Use Telnet!

• Recent research: "Employing Wikipedia for good not evil" in education, useing eyetracking to find out how readers read articles

• Wikipedia Weekly: Podcast #121: How April fools went down

• Blog: Growing hashtags: Expanding outreach on Wikipedia

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The Signpost: 14 April 2016

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• Op-ed: Should prison inmates be permitted to edit Wikipedia?

• News and notes: Denny Vrandečić resigns from Wikimedia Foundation board

• In the media: Wikimedia Sweden loses copyright case; Tex Watson; AI assistants; David Jolly biography

• Featured content: This week's featured content

• Traffic report: A welcome return to pop culture and death

• Arbitration report: The first case of 2016—Wikicology

• Gallery: A history lesson

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The Signpost: 24 April 2016

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• Op-ed: Knowledge Engine and the Wales–Heilman emails

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• Featured content: The double-sized edition

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• Arbitration report: Amendments made to the Race and intelligence case

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The Signpost: 2 May 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

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• Traffic report: Purple

• Featured content: The best... from the past two weeks

• Arbitration report: Two editors unbanned; Wikicology case enters workshop phase; Gamaliel restricted from Gamergate at his own request

• Recent research: The eight roles of Wikipedians; do edit histories expose social relations among editors?

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The Signpost: 17 May 2016

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• Op-ed: Swiss chapter in turmoil

• In the media: Wikimedia's Dario Taraborelli quoted on Google's Knowledge Graph in The Washington Post

• Featured content: Two weeks for the prize of one

• Traffic report: Oh behave, Beyhive / Underdogss

• Arbitration report: "Wikicology" ends in site ban; evidence and workshop phases concluded for "Gamaliel and others"

• Wikicup: That's it for WikiCup Round 2!

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The Signpost: 28 May 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: Compensation paid to Sue Gardner increased by almost 50 percent after she stepped down as executive director

• News and notes: Upcoming Wikimedia conferences in the US and India; May Metrics and Activities Meeting

• Op-ed: Journey of a Wikipedian

• In the media: The perils of Wikipedia's monopoly; Wikipedians' fragility; Street Sharks hoax

• Featured content: Eight articles, three lists and five pictures

• Traffic report: Splitting (musical) airs / Slow Ride

• Arbitration report: Gamaliel resigns from the committee

• Blog: Freely licensed magic at Eurovision

• Recent research: English as Wikipedia's Lingua Franca; deletion rationales; schizophrenia controversies

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The Signpost: 05 June 2016

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• News and notes: WMF cuts budget for 2016-17 as scope tightens

• In the media: Jimmy Wales on net neutrality—"It's complicated"—and his $100m fundraising challenge

• Featured content: Overwhelmed ... by pictures

• Traffic report: Pop goes the culture, again.

• Arbitration report: ArbCom case "Gamaliel and others" concludes

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Video Games

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The Signpost: 15 June 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Clarifications on status and compensation of outgoing executive directors Sue Gardner and Lila Tretikov

• Special report: Wikiversity Journal—A new user group

• Op-ed: Commons Picture of the Year; Wikidata licensing

• In the media: Biography disputes; Craig Newmark donation; PR editing

• Featured content: From the crème de la crème

• Traffic report: Another one with sports; Knockout, brief candle

• Blog: Why I proofread poetry at Wikisource

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The Signpost: 21 July 2016

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• Discussion report: Busy month for discussions

• In the media: Women-in-science editathon gets national press; Wikipedia "shockingly biased"

• Featured content: A wide variety from the best

• Traffic report: Sports and esports

• Arbitration report: Script writers appointed for clerks

• Recent research: Using deep learning to predict article quality; search engine helps schoolkids navigate Chinese Wikipedia; talk page sentiment

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The Signpost: 4 August 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Editorial: Wikipedia policy suppresses sharing of information

• News and notes: Foundation presents results of harassment research, plans for automated identification; Wikiconference submissions open

• In the media: Paid editing service announced; Commercial exploitation of free images; Wikipedia as a crystal ball; Librarians to counter systemic bias

• Obituary: Kevin Gorman, who took on Wikipedia's gender gap and undisclosed paid advocacy, dies at 24

• Traffic report: Summer of Pokémon, Trump, and Hillary

• Featured content: Woman and Hawaii

• Recent research: Easier navigation via better wikilinks

• Blog: All-new notifications page helps Wikimedians focus on what matters most

• Technology report: User script report (January to July 2016, part 1)

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The Signpost: 29 September 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Case study of Wikimedia Education Program published; remembrance of departed colleague Ray Saintonge (Eclecticology)

• In the media: This edition's roundup of media coverage

• Featured content: Three weeks in the land of featured content

• Arbitration report: Arbcom looking for new checkusers and oversight appointees while another case opens

• Traffic report: From Gene Wilder to JonBenét: Four weeks of traffic

• Technology report: Category sorting and template parameters

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The Signpost: 14 October 2016

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• News and notes: Fundraising, flora and fauna

• Discussion report: Cultivating leadership: Wikimedia Foundation seeks input

• In the media: A news columnist on the frustrations of tweaking his Wikipedia bio

• Technology report: Upcoming tech projects for 2017

• Traffic report: Debates and escapes

• Recent research: A 2011 study resurfaces in a media report

• Featured content: Variety is the spice of life

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The Signpost: 4 November 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Finally, a new CTO; trustee joins Quora; copyright upgrade impending

• In the media: Washington Post continues in-depth Wikipedia coverage

• Wikicup: Winners announced

• Discussion report: What's on your tech wishlist for the coming year?

• Featured content: Cream of the crop

• Technology report: New guideline for technical collaboration; citation templates now flag open access content

• Arbitration report: Recapping October's activities

• Traffic report: Un-presidential politics

• Recent research: Why women edit less, and where they are overrepresented; article importance and quality; predicting elections from Wikipedia

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The Signpost: 26 November 2016

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• Special report: Taking stock of the Good Article backlog

• News and notes: Arbitration Committee elections commence

• In the media: Roundup of news related to U.S. presidential election and more

• Op-ed: Fundraising data should be more transparent

• Traffic report: President-elect Trump

• Blog: The top fifteen winning photos from Wiki Loves Earth

• Gallery: Around the world with Wiki Loves Monuments 2016

• Featured content: Featured mix

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The Signpost: 22 December 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Year in review: Looking back on Wikimedia's 2016

• Special report: German Wikipedia ArbCom implodes amid revelation of member's far-right political role

• In focus: Active user page filter prevents vandalism and harassment

• News and notes: English Wikipedia ArbCom election results; strategic planning update

• Op-ed: Operation successful, patient dead: Outreach workshops in Namibia

• In the media: In brief: Coverage of gender gap initiatives, banner fundraising, and more

• Traffic report: Post-election traffic blues

• Featured content: The pre-Christmas edition

• Blog: Wiki Loves Monuments contest winners announced

• Technology report: Labs improvements impact 2016 Tool Labs survey results

• Recent research: One study and several abstracts

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The Signpost: 17 January 2017

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: Next steps for the Signpost

• News and notes: Surge in RFA promotions—a sign of lasting change?

• In the media: Year-end roundups, Wikipedia's 16th birthday, and more

• Featured content: One year ends, and another begins

• Arbitration report: Concluding 2016 and covering 2017's first two cases

• Traffic report: Out with the old, in with the new

• Technology report: Tech present, past, and future

• Recent research: Female Wikipedians aren't more likely to edit women biographies; Black Lives Matter in Wikipedia

• Interview: What is it like to edit Wikipedia when you're blind?

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The Signpost: 6 February 2017

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Arbitration report: WMF Legal and ArbCom weigh in on tension between disclosure requirements and user privacy

• Special report: Wolves nip at Wikipedia's heels: A perspective on the cost of paid editing

• News and notes: Official WMF rebuke to Trump policy; WMF secures restricted funds

• In focus: WMF strategy consultant brings background in crisis reputation management; Team behind popular WMF software put "on pause"

• WikiProject report: For the birds!

• Op-ed: How to make editing workshops useful, even if participants don't stick around

• In the media: Presidential politics, periodic table, and our periodic roundup of updates

• Technology report: Better PDFs, backup plans, and birthday wishes

• Traffic report: Cool It Now

• Featured content: Three weeks dominated by articles

• Forum: Productive collaboration around coordinated protest marches; Media and political personalities comment on Wikipedia at its 16th birthday celebration

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The Signpost: 6 February 2017

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Arbitration report: WMF Legal and ArbCom weigh in on tension between disclosure requirements and user privacy

• Special report: Wolves nip at Wikipedia's heels: A perspective on the cost of paid editing

• News and notes: Official WMF rebuke to Trump policy; WMF secures restricted funds

• In focus: WMF strategy consultant brings background in crisis reputation management; Team behind popular WMF software put "on pause"

• WikiProject report: For the birds!

• Op-ed: How to make editing workshops useful, even if participants don't stick around

• In the media: Presidential politics, periodic table, and our periodic roundup of updates

• Technology report: Better PDFs, backup plans, and birthday wishes

• Traffic report: Cool It Now

• Featured content: Three weeks dominated by articles

• Forum: Productive collaboration around coordinated protest marches; Media and political personalities comment on Wikipedia at its 16th birthday celebration

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The Signpost: 27 February 2017

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

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• Recent research: Special issue: Wikipedia in education

• Technology report: Responsive content on desktop; Offline content in Android app

• In the media: The Daily Mail does not run Wikipedia

• Gallery: A Met montage

• Special report: Peer review – a history and call for reviewers

• Op-ed: Wikipedia has cancer

• Featured content: The dominance of articles continues

• Traffic report: Love, football, and politics

• Blog: WikiIndaba 2017: A continent gathers to chart a path forward

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The Signpost: 9 June 2017

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editors: Signpost status: On reserve power, Help wanted!

• News and notes: Global Elections

• Arbitration report: Cases closed in the Pacific and with Magioladitis

• Op-ed: Wikipedia's lead sentence problem

• Featured content: Three months in the land of the featured

• In the media: Did Wikipedia just assume Garfield's gender?

• Recent research: Wikipedia bot wars capture the imagination of the popular press

• Technology report: Tech news catch-up

• Traffic report: Film on Top: Sampling the weekly top 10

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The Signpost: 23 June 2017

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Departments reorganized at Wikimedia Foundation, and a month without new RfAs (so far)

• In the media: Kalanick's nipples; Episode #138 of Drama on the Hill

• Op-ed: Facto Post: a fresh take

• Featured content: Will there ever be a break? The slew of featured content continues

• Traffic report: Wonder Woman beats Batman, The Mummy, Darth Vader and the Earth

• Recent research: Utopian bubbles: Can Wikipedians create value outside of the capitalist system?

• Technology report: Improved search, and WMF data scientist tells all

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The Signpost: 15 July 2017

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: French chapter woes, new affiliates and more WMF team changes

• Featured content: Spectacular animals, Pine Trees screens, and more

• In the media: Concern about access and fairness, Foundation expenditures, and relationship to real-world politics and commerce

• Recent research: The chilling effect of surveillance on Wikipedia readers

• Op-ed: Why Task Forces are Dying in 2017

• Gallery: A mix of patterns

• Humour: The Infobox Game

• Traffic report: Film, television and Internet phenomena reign with some room left over for America's birthday

• Technology report: New features in development; more breaking changes for scripts

• Wikicup: 2017 WikiCup round 3 wrap-up

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The Signpost: 5 August 2017

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Non-English special edition! 99% no news about English-based wiki communities!

• Recent research: Wikipedia can increase local tourism by +9%; predicting article quality with deep learning; recent behavior predicts quality

• WikiProject report: Comic relief

• In the media: Wikipedia used to judge death penalty, arms smuggling, Indonesian governance, and HOTTEST celebrity

• Traffic report: Swedish countess tops the list

• Blog: Canadian Supreme Court rules against Google in favor of worldwide court orders

• Special report: Sharing Wikipedia offline medical information in the Dominican Republic

• Featured content: Everywhere in the lead

• Technology report: Introducing TechCom

• Humour: WWASOHs and ETCSSs

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The Signpost: 6 September 2017

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editors: What happened at Wikimania?

• News and notes: Basselpedia; WMF Board of Trustees appointments

• Featured content: Warfighters and their tools or trees and butterflies

• Traffic report: A fortnight of conflicts

• Special report: Biomedical content, and some thoughts on its future

• Recent research: Discussion summarization; Twitter bots tracking government edits; extracting trivia from Wikipedia

• In the media: Google's Ideological Echo Chamber; What makes someone successful?

• WikiProject report: WikiProject YouTube

• Technology report: Latest tech news

• Wikicup: 2017 WikiCup round 4 wrap-up

• Humour: Bots

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The Signpost: 25 September 2017

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Chapter updates; ACTRIAL

• In the media: Monkey settlement; Wikipedia used to give AI context clues

• Humour: Chickenz

• Recent research: Wikipedia articles vs. concepts; Wikipedia usage in Europe

• Technology report: Flow restarted; Wikidata connection notifications

• Gallery: Chicken mania

• Special report: Two steps forward, one step backward: The Sustainability Initiative

• Traffic report: Fights and frights

• Featured content: Flying high

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The Signpost: 23 October 2017

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Money! WMF fundraising, Wikimedia strategy, WMF new office!

• Featured content: Don, Marcel, Emily, Jessica and other notables

• Humour: Guys named Ralph

• In focus: Offline Wikipedia developed at OFF.NETWORK Content Hackathon

• Blog: The future of offline access to Wikipedia: The Kiwix example

• In the media: Facebook and poetry

• Special report: Working with GLAMs in the UK

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The Signpost: 24 November 2017

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Cons, cons, cons

• Arbitration report: Administrator desysoped; How to deal with crosswiki issues; Mister Wiki case likely

• Technology report: Searching and surveying

• Interview: A featured article centurion

• WikiProject report: Recommendations for WikiProjects

• In the media: Open knowledge platform as a media institution

• Traffic report: Strange and inappropriate

• Featured content: We will remember them

• Recent research: Who wrote this? New dataset on the provenance of Wikipedia text

• Humour: Good faith (but still incomprehensible)

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The Signpost: 18 December 2017

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: Women in Red World Contest wrap-up

• Blog: Close encounters of the Wikipedia kind

• Featured content: Featured content to finish 2017

• In the media: Stolen seagulls, public domain primates and more

• Arbitration report: Last case of 2017: Mister Wiki editors

• Gallery: Wiki loving

• Interview: Interview with Charlesjsharp, regular contributor of Wikipedia's Featured Pictures.

• Recent research: French medical articles have "high rate of veracity"

• Technology report: Your wish lists and more Wikimedia tech

• Traffic report: Notable heroes and bad guys

• Humour: On their way to the WMF Incubator

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The Signpost: 16 January 2018

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

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• In the media: The Paris Review, British Crown and British Media

• Featured content: History, gaming and multifarious topics

• Interview: Interview with Ser Amantio di Nicolao, the top contributor to English Wikipedia by edit count

• Technology report: Dedicated Wikidata database servers

• Humour: Why don't we have an article about _________?

• Arbitration report: Mister Wiki is first arbitration committee decision of 2018

• Traffic report: The best and worst of 2017

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The Signpost: 5 February 2018

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: Do editors have the right to be forgotten?

• Featured content: Wars, sieges, disasters and everything black possible

• Recent research: Automated Q&A from Wikipedia articles; Who succeeds in talk page discussions?

• Blog: New monthly dataset shows where people fall into Wikipedia rabbit holes

• Interview: Interview with The Rambling Man, Wikipedia's top contributor of Featured Lists

• Traffic report: TV, death, sports, and doodles

• Special report: Cochrane–Wikipedia Initiative

• Arbitration report: New cases requested for inter-editor hostility and other collaboration issues

• In the media: Solving crime; editing out violence allegations

• Humour: You really are in Wonderland

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The Signpost: 20 February 2018

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: The future is Swedish with a lack of administrators

• Recent research: Political diverse editors write better articles; Reddit and Stack Overflow benefit from Wikipedia but don't give back

• Arbitration report: Arbitration committee prepares to examine two new cases

• Traffic report: Addicted to sports and pain

• Featured content: Entertainment, sports and history

• Technology report: Paragraph-based edit conflict screen; broken thanks

• Humour: Impossible and unexplained traffic report

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The Signpost: 29 March 2018

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: Death knell for The Signpost?

• News and notes: Wiki Conference roundup and new appointments

• Arbitration report: Ironing out issues in infoboxes; not sure yet about New Jersey; and an administrator who probably wasn't uncivil to a sockpuppet.

• In the media: The media on Wikipedia's workings: the good and not-so-good

• Traffic report: Real sports, real women and an imaginary country: what's on top for Wikipedia readers

• Featured content: Animals, Ships, and Songs

• Technology report: Timeless skin review by Force Radical

• Special report: ACTRIAL wrap-up

• Humour: WikiWorld Reruns

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The Signpost: 26 April 2018

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editors: The Signpost's presses are rolling again...

• Signpost: Future directions for The Signpost

• News and notes: Photo of Kim Jong-un. Stephen Hawking death tops hits on many Wikipedias.

• In the media: The rise of Wikipedia as a disinformation mop

• In focus: Admin reports board under criticism

• Special report: ACTRIAL results adopted by landslide

• Opinion: Guideline for Organization Notability revised

• Op-ed: World War II Myth-making and Wikipedia

• Community view: It's time we look past Women in Red to counter systemic bias

• Discussion report: The future of portals

• Arbitration report: No new cases, and one motion on administrative misconduct

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Military History

• Blog: Why the world reads Wikipedia

• Humour: Our Favorite Places to Whine About Stuff

• Traffic report: A quiet place to wrestle with the articles of March

• Technology report: Coming soon: Books-to-PDF, interactive maps, rollback confirmation

• Featured content: Featured content selected by the community

• Gallery: A look at some famous and not as well-known border tripoints

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The Signpost: 29 June 2018

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: The Admin Ship is still barely afloat, while a Foundation project risks sinking

• Special report: NPR and AfC – The Marshall Plan: an engagement and a marriage?

• Op-ed: What do admins do?

• Opinion: Google isn't responsible for Wikipedia's mistakes

• News and notes: Money, milestones, and Wikimania

• In the media: Much wikilove from the Mayor of London, less from Paekākāriki or a certain candidate for U.S. Congress

• Discussion report: Deletion, page moves, and an update to the main page

• Featured content: New promotions

• Arbitration report: WWII, UK politics, and a user deCrat'ed

• Traffic report: Endgame

• Technology report: Improvements piled on more improvements

• Gallery: Wiki Loves Africa

• Blog: Wikipedia should be open for editors in Turkey

• Recent research: How censorship can backfire and conversations can go awry

• Humour: Television plot lines

• Wikipedia essays: This month's pick by The Signpost editors

• From the archives: Wolves nip at Wikipedia's heels: A perspective on the cost of paid editing

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The Signpost: 31 July 2018

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: If only if

• Op-ed: The last leg of the Admin Ship's current cruise

• Opinion: Wrestling with Wikipedia reality

• News and notes: Another newspaper for Wikipedia; Wikimania 2018 ends; changes at NPR

• In the media: Blackouts in Europe; Wikipedia and capitalists; WMF Jet Set

• Discussion report: Wikipedias take action against EU copyright proposal, plus new user right proposals

• Featured content: Wikipedia's best content in images and prose

• Arbitration report: Status quo processes retained in two disputes

• Traffic report: Soccer, football, call it what you like – that and summer movies leave room for little else

• Technology report: New bots, new prefs

• Gallery: Independence days, national holidays, and football – all in July

• Blog: Motivation of two editors

• Recent research: Different Wikipedias use different images; editing contests more successful than edit-a-thons

• Humour: It's all the same

• Essay: Wikipedia does not need you

• From the archives: The pending changes fiasco: how an attempt to answer one question turned into a quagmire

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The Signpost: 30 August 2018

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: Today's young adults don't know a world without Wikipedia

• Interview: 2018 Wikimedian of the Year, Farkhad Fatkullin

• News and notes: Flying high; low practice from Wikipedia 'cleansing' agency; where do our donations go? RfA sees a new trend

• In the media: Quicksilver AI writes articles

• Discussion report: Drafting an interface administrator policy

• Featured content: Featured content selected by the community

• Special report: Wikimania 2018

• Traffic report: Aretha dies – getting just 2,000 short of 5 million hits

• Technology report: Technical enhancements and a request to prioritize upcoming work

• Gallery: Leapfrog, historic Thai cave, and a rhythmic beat

• Recent research: Wehrmacht on Wikipedia, neural networks writing biographies

• Humour: Signpost editor censors herself

• Essay: Principle of Some Astonishment

• From the archives: Playing with Wikipedia words

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The Signpost: 1 October 2018

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: Is this the new normal?

• News and notes: European copyright law moves forward

• In the media: Knowledge under fire

• Discussion report: Interface Admin policy proposal, part 2

• Arbitration report: A quiet month for Arbcom

• Traffic report: John McCain's death generates over 7 million hits, followed by historical low

• Technology report: Paying attention to your mobile

• Gallery: A pat on the back

• Blog: After a catastrophic fire at the National Museum of Brazil, a drive to preserve what knowledge remains

• Recent research: How talk page use has changed since 2005; censorship shocks lead to centralization; is vandalism caused by workplace boredom?

• Humour: Signpost Crossword Puzzle

• Essay: Expressing thanks

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The Signpost: 28 October 2018

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editors October original: The Signpost is still afloat, just barely

• Op-ed: Wikipedia's Strickland affair

• News and notes: WMF gets a million bucks

• In the media: Bans, celebs, and bias

• Discussion report: Mediation Committee and proposed deletion reform

• Traffic report: Unsurprisingly, sport leads the field – or the ring

• Technology report: Bots galore!

• Special report: NPP needs you

• Special report 2: Now Wikidata is six

• In focus: Alexa

• Gallery: Out of this world!

• Recent research: Wikimedia Commons worth $28.9 billion

• Humour: Talk page humour

• Opinion: Strickland incident

• From the archives: The Gardner Interview

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The Signpost: 1 December 2018

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: Time for a truce

• Op-ed: Looking back, looking forward: A beginner's experience on Wikipedia

• Special report: The Christmas wishlist

• Opinion: The blogosphere migrates to Galaxy WMF

• News and notes: Reviewer of the year, WikiCup winner, and the 2019 Wikimedia Summit

• Reflections: Wikipedia, history, and the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day

• In the media: Court-ordered article redaction, paid editing, and rock stars

• Discussion report: Farewell, Mediation Committee

• Arbitration report: A long break ends

• Traffic report: Queen reigns for four weeks straight

• Gallery: Intersections

• Recent research: Why do the most active Wikipedians burn out?; only 4% of students vandalize

• Essay: No one cares about your garage band

• Humour: The dark side of our favorite root vegetable

• From the archives: Ars longa,vita brevis

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The Signpost: 24 December 2018

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

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

• Op-ed: Wikipedia not trumped by Trump appointee

• Special report: The Signpost got 380,000+ views in 2018, sounds reasonable enough, right?

• News and notes: Some wishes do come true

• In the media: Political hijinks

• Discussion report: A new record low for RfA

• WikiProject report: Articlegenesis

• Arbitration report: Year ends with one active case

• Traffic report: Queen dethroned by U.S. presidents

• Gallery: Sun and moon, water and stone

• Blog: News from the WMF

• Humour: I believe in Bigfoot

• Essay: Requests for medication

• From the archives: Compromised admin accounts – again

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The Signpost: 31 January 2019

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: Random Rewards Rejected

• In focus: The Collective Consciousness of Admin Userpages

• News and notes: WMF staff turntable continues to spin; Endowment gets more cash; RfA continues to be a pit of steely knives

• In the media: The Signpost's investigative story recognized, Wikipedia turns 18 and gets a birthday gift from Google, and more editors are recognized

• Discussion report: The future of the reference desk

• Featured content: Don't miss your great opportunity

• Arbitration report: An admin under the microscope

• Traffic report: Death, royals and superheroes

• Technology report: When broken is easily fixed

• Gallery: Let us build a memorial fit for such pain and suffering

• News from the WMF: News from WMF

• Recent research: Ad revenue from reused Wikipedia articles; are Wikipedia researchers asking the right questions?

• Essay: How

• Humour: Village pump

• From the archives: An editorial board that includes you

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The Signpost: 28 February 2019

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editors: Help wanted (still)

• News and notes: Front-page issues for the community

• In focus: Wikimedia affiliate organizations seek community participation in 2019 board election

• Discussion report: Talking about talk pages

• Featured content: Conquest, War, Famine, Death, and more!

• Arbitration report: A quiet month for Arbitration Committee

• Traffic report: Binge-watching

• Technology report: Tool labs casters-up

• Gallery: Signed with pride

• Recent research: Research finds signs of cultural diversity and recreational habits of readers

• Essay: Optimist's guide to Wikipedia

• From the archives: New group aims to promote Wiki-Love

• Humour: Pesky Pronouns

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The Signpost: 31 March 2019

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editors: Getting serious about humor

• News and notes: Blackouts fail to stop EU Copyright Directive

• In the media: Women's history month

• Discussion report: Portal debates continue, Prespa agreement aftermath, WMF seeks a rebranding

• Featured content: Out of this world

• Arbitration report: The Tides of March at ARBCOM

• Traffic report: Exultations and tribulations

• Technology report: New section suggestions and sitewide styles

• News from the WMF: The WMF's take on the new EU Copyright Directive

• Recent research: Barnstar-like awards increase new editor retention

• From the archives: Esperanza organization disbanded after deletion discussion

• Humour: The Epistolary of Arthur 37

• Op-Ed: Pro and Con: Has gun violence been improperly excluded from gun articles?

• In focus: The Wikipedia SourceWatch

• Special report: Wiki Loves (50 Years of) Pride

• Community view: Wikipedia's response to the New Zealand mosque shootings

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The Signpost: 30 April 2019

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: An Action Packed April

• In the media: Is Wikipedia just another social media site?

• Discussion report: English Wikipedia community's conclusions on talk pages

• Featured content: Anguish, accolades, animals, and art

• Arbitration report: An Active Arbitration Committee

• Traffic report: Mötley Crüe, Notre-Dame, a black hole, and Bonnie and Clyde

• Technology report: A new special page, and other news

• Gallery: Notre-Dame de Paris burns

• News from the WMF: Can machine learning uncover Wikipedia’s missing “citation needed” tags?

• Recent research: Female scholars underrepresented; whitepaper on Wikidata and libraries; undo patterns reveal editor hierarchy

• From the archives: Portals revisited

• Humour: Jimbo and Larry walk into a bar ...

• Opinion: The gaps in our knowledge of our gaps

• Interview: Katherine Maher marks 3 years as executive director

• Community view: 2019 Wikimedia Summit gathers movement affiliate representatives to discuss movement strategy

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The Signpost: 31 May 2019

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editors: Picture that

• News and notes: Wikimania and trustee elections

• In the media: Politics, lawsuits and baseball

• Discussion report: Admin abuse leads to mass-desysop proposal on Azerbaijani Wikipedia

• Recent research: Wikipedia more useful than academic journals, but is it stealing the news?

• Arbitration report: ArbCom forges ahead

• News from the WMF: Wikimedia Foundation petitions the European Court of Human Rights to lift the block of Wikipedia in Turkey

• Traffic report: Dark marvels, thrones, a vile serial killer biopic, that's entertainment!

• Technology report: Lots of Bots

• Essay: Paid editing

• From the archives: FORUM:Should Wikimedia modify its terms of use to require disclosure?

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The Signpost: 30 June 2019

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Discussion report: A constitutional crisis hits English Wikipedia

• News and notes: Mysterious ban, admin resignations, Wikimedia Thailand rising

• In the media: The disinformation age

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

• Special report: Did Fram harass other editors?

• Traffic report: Juneteenth, Beauty Revealed, and more nuclear disasters

• Technology report: Actors and Bots

• Gallery: Unlike the North Face, Wiki Loves Earth

• Recent research: What do editors do after being blocked?; the top mathematicians, universities and cancers according to Wikipedia

• From the archives: Women and Wikipedia: the world is watching

• Opinion: Why the Terms of Use change didn't curtail undisclosed paid editing—and what might

• In focus: WikiJournals: A sister project proposal

• Community view: A CEO biography, paid for with taxes

• Op-Ed: 2019 Wikimedia Affiliate Selected Board Seats Election Results

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The Signpost: 31 July 2019

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Wikimedia grants less accessible for travel, equipment, meetups, and India

• In the media: Politics starts getting rough

• Discussion report: New proposals in aftermath of Fram ban

• Arbitration report: A month of reintegration

• Gallery: Classic panoramas from Heinrich Berann

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

• Community view: Video based summaries of Wikipedia articles. How and why?

• News from the WMF: Designing ethically with AI: How Wikimedia can harness machine learning in a responsible and human-centered way

• Recent research: Most influential medical journals; detecting pages to protect

• Special report: Administrator cadre continues to contract

• Traffic report: World cups, presidential candidates, and stranger things

• In focus: The French Wikipedia is overtaking the German

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The Signpost: 30 August 2019

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Documenting Wikimania and our beginnings

• In focus: Ryan Merkley joins WMF as Chief of Staff

• In the media: Many layers of fake news: Fake fiction and fake news vandalism

• Discussion report: Meta proposals on partial bans and IP users

• Traffic report: Once upon a time in Greenland with Boris and cornflakes

• Op-Ed: We couldn't have told you this, but Wikipedia was censored

• Opinion: The Curious Case of Croatian Wikipedia

• Community view: Chinese Wikipedia and the battle against extradition from Hong Kong

• News from the WMF: Meet Emna Mizouni, the newly minted 2019 Wikimedian of the Year

• Recent research: Special issue on gender gap and gender bias research

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

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The Signpost: 30 September 2019

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editors: Where do we go from here?

• Special report: Post-Framgate wrapup

• In the media: A net loss: Wikipedia attacked, closing off Russia? welcoming back Turkey?

• Traffic report: Varied and intriguing entries, less Luck, and some retreads

• News from the WMF: How the Wikimedia Foundation is making efforts to go green

• Recent research: Wikipedia's role in assessing credibility of news sources; using wikis against procrastination; OpenSym 2019 report

• Gallery: Finding freely licensed photo collections

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

• In focus: Wikidata & Wikibase for national libraries: the inaugural meeting

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The Signpost: 31 October 2019

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• In the media: How to use or abuse Wikipedia for fun or profit

• Special report: “Catch and Kill” on Wikipedia: Paid editing and the suppression of material on alleged sexual abuse

• In focus: The BBC looks at Chinese government editing

• Interview: Carl Miller on Wikipedia Wars

• Community view: Observations from the mainland

• Arbitration report: October actions

• Traffic report: Wrestling with a couple of teenagers, a Nobelist, and a lot of jokers

• Gallery: Wiki Loves Broadcast

• Recent research: Research at Wikimania 2019: More communication doesn't make editors more productive; Tor users doing good work; harmful content rare on English Wikipedia

• Essay: Wikipedia is in the real world

• News from the WMF: Welcome to Wikipedia! Here's what we're doing to help you stick around

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

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The Signpost: 29 November 2019

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: Put on your birthday best

• News and notes: How soon for the next million articles?

• In the media: You say you want a revolution

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

• Arbitration report: Two requests for arbitration cases

• Traffic report: The queen and the princess meet the king and the joker

• Technology report: Reference things, sister things, stranger things

• Gallery: Winter and holidays

• Recent research: Bot census; discussions differ on Spanish and English Wikipedia; how nature's seasons affect pageviews

• Essay: Adminitis

• From the archives: WikiProject Spam, revisited

• In focus: An update on the Wikimedia Movement 2030 Strategy

• Special report: How many people edit in your favorite language? Where are they from?

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The Signpost: 27 December 2019

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editors: Caught with their hands in the cookie jar, again

• News and notes: What's up (and down) with administrators, articles and languages

• Special report: Are reputation management operatives scrubbing Wikipedia articles?

• In the media: "The fulfillment of the dream of humanity" or a nightmare of PR whitewashing on behalf of one-percenters?

• Discussion report: December discussions around the wiki

• Arbitration report: Announcement of 2020 Arbitration Committee

• Traffic report: Queens and aliens, exactly alike, once upon a December

• Technology report: User scripts and more

• Gallery: Holiday wishes

• Recent research: Acoustics and Wikipedia; Wiki Workshop 2019 summary

• From the archives: The 2002 Spanish fork and ads revisited (re-revisited?)

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

• Op-Ed: Why we need to keep talking about Wikipedia's gender gap

• WikiProject report: Wikiproject Tree of Life: A Wikiproject report

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The Signpost: 27 January 2020

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: Reaching six million articles is great, but we need a moratorium

• News and notes: Six million articles on the English language Wikipedia

• Special report: The limits of volunteerism and the gatekeepers of Team Encarta

• In the media: Turkey's back up, but what's happening with Dot-org and a new visual identity?

• Arbitration report: Three cases at ArbCom

• Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2019

• Gallery: Wiki Loves Monuments 2019, we're all winners

• News from the WMF: Capacity Building: Top 5 Themes from Community Conversations

• Community view: Our most important new article since November 1, 2015

• In focus: Cryptos and bitcoins and blockchains, oh no!

• Recent research: How useful is Wikipedia for novice programmers trying to learn computing concepts?

• From the archives: A decade of The Signpost, 2005-2015

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Japan: a wikiProject Report

• Humour: Predicting the 6,000,000th article

• Obituary: Remembering Wikipedia contributor Brian Boulton

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The Signpost: 1 March 2020

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: The ball is in your court

• News and notes: Alexa ranking down to 13th worldwide

• Special report: More participation, more conversation, more pageviews

• In the media: Mapping IP editors, Smithsonian open-access, and coronavirus disinformation

• Discussion report: Do you prefer M or P?

• Arbitration report: Two prominent administrators removed

• By the numbers: How many actions by administrators does it take to clean up spam?

• Community view: The Incredible Invisible Woman

• In focus: History of The Signpost, 2015–2019

• Recent research: Wikipedia generates $50 billion/year consumer surplus in the US alone

• From the archives: Is Wikipedia for sale?

• Traffic report: February articles, floating in the dark

• Gallery: Feel the love

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

• Op-Ed: What I learned as Wikimedia UK Communications Coordinator

• Opinion: Wikipedia is another country

• Humour: The Wilhelm scream

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The Signpost: 29 March 2020

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editors: The bad and the good

• News and notes: 2018 Wikipedian of the year blocked

• WikiProject report: WikiProject COVID-19: A WikiProject Report

• Special report: Wikipedia on COVID-19: what we publish and why it matters

• In the media: Blocked in Iran but still covering the big story

• Discussion report: Rethinking draft space

• Arbitration report: Unfinished business

• In focus: "I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein …"

• Community view: Wikimedia community responds to COVID-19

• Recent research: Disease outbreak uncertainties, AfD forecasting, auto-updating Wikipedia

• From the archives: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own

• Traffic report: The only thing that matters in the world

• Gallery: Visible Women on Wikipedia

• News from the WMF: Amid COVID-19, Wikimedia Foundation offers full pay for reduced hours, mobilizes all staff to work remote, and waives sick time

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

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The Signpost: 26 April 2020

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Unbiased information from Ukraine's government?

• In the media: Coronavirus, again and again

• Discussion report: Redesigning Wikipedia, bit by bit

• Featured content: Featured content returns

• Arbitration report: Two difficult cases

• Traffic report: Disease the Rhythm of the Night

• Gallery: Roy is doing fine and sending more photos

• Recent research: Trending topics across languages; auto-detecting bias

• Essay: Wikipedia:An article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing

• By the numbers: Open data and COVID-19: Wikipedia as an informational resource during the pandemic

• Opinion: Trusting Everybody to Work Together

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

• Interview: Health and RfA's: An interview with Guy Macon

• In focus: Multilingual Wikipedia

• WikiProject report: [[w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2020-04-26/WikiProject report|The Guild of Copy Editors]]

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The Signpost: 31 May 2020

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: Meltdown May?

• News and notes: 2019 Picture of the Year, 200 French paid editing accounts blocked, 10 years of Guild Copyediting

• In the media: CBS on COVID-19, Sanger on bias, false noses, and five prolific editors

• Discussion report: WMF's Universal Code of Conduct

• Special report: The sum of human knowledge? Not in one Wikipedia language edition

• Featured content: Weathering the storm

• Arbitration report: Board member receives editing restriction

• Traffic report: Come on and slam, and welcome to the jam

• Op-Ed: Where Is Political Bias Taking Us?

• Gallery: Wildlife photos by the book

• News from the WMF: WMF Board announces Community Culture Statement

• Recent research: Automatic detection of covert paid editing; Wiki Workshop 2020

• Community view: Transit routes and mapping during stay-at-home order downtime

• On video: COVID-19 spurs innovations in Wikimedia video and virtual programming

• WikiProject report: Revitalizing good articles

• On the bright side: 500,000 articles in the Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia

• Obituaries: Dmitrismirnov, Kattenkruid, Muidlatif, Ronhjones, Tsirel

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The Signpost: 28 June 2020

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Progress at Wikipedia Library and Wikijournal of Medicine

• Community view: Community open letter on renaming

• Gallery: After the killing of George Floyd

• In the media: Part collaboration and part combat

• Discussion report: Community reacts to WMF rebranding proposals

• Featured content: Sports are returning, with a rainbow

• Arbitration report: Anti-harassment RfC and a checkuser revocation

• Traffic report: The pandemic, alleged murder, a massacre, and other deaths

• News from the WMF: We stand for racial justice

• Recent research: Wikipedia and COVID-19; automated Wikipedia-based fact-checking

• Interview: What is wrong with rebranding to "Wikipedia Foundation"?

• Humour: Cherchez une femme

• Opinion: Trying to find COI or paid editors? Just read the news

• On the bright side: For what are you grateful this month?

• In focus: Edit Loud, Edit Proud: LGBTIQ+ Wikimedians and Global Information Activism

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Black Lives Matter

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The Signpost: 2 August 2020

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: Wikipedia and the End of Open Collaboration?

• COI and paid editing: Some strange people edit Wikipedia for money

• News and notes: Abstract Wikipedia, a hoax, sex symbols, and a new admin

• In the media: Dog days gone bad

• Discussion report: Fox News, a flight of RfAs, and banning policy

• Featured content: Remembering Art, Valor, and Freedom

• Traffic report: Now for something completely different

• Gallery: Photos of threatened species from iNaturalist

• News from the WMF: New Chinese national security law in Hong Kong could limit the privacy of Wikipedia users

• Recent research: Receiving thanks increases retention, but not the time contributed to Wikipedia

• Essay: Not compatible with a collaborative project

• Obituaries: Hasteur and Brian McNeil

• In focus: WikiLoop DoubleCheck, reviewing edits made easy

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The Signpost: 30 August 2020

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: The high road and the low road

• In the media: Storytelling large and small

• Featured content: Going for the goal

• Special report: Wikipedia's not so little sister is finding its own way

• Op-Ed: The longest-running hoax

• Traffic report: Heart, soul, umbrellas, and politics

• News from the WMF: Fourteen things we’ve learned by moving Polish Wikimedia conference online

• Recent research: Detecting spam, and pages to protect; non-anonymous editors signal their intelligence with high-quality articles

• Arbitration report: A slow couple of months

• From the archives: Wikipedia for promotional purposes?

• Obituaries: Marcus Sherman, Jerome West, and Pauline van Till

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The Signpost: 27 September 2020

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: Paid editing with political connections

• News and notes: More large-scale errors at a "small" wiki

• In the media: WIPO, Seigenthaler incident 15 years later

• Featured content: Life finds a Way

• Arbitration report: Clarifications and requests

• Traffic report: Is there no justice?

• Recent research: Wikipedia's flood biases

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The Signpost: 28 December 2020

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Year-end legal surprises cause concern, but Public Domain Day is imminent

• In the media: Concealment, data journalism, a non-pig farmer, and some Bluetick Hounds

• Arbitration report: 2020 election results

• Opinion: How to make your factory's safety and labor issues disappear

• Featured content: Very nearly ringing in the New Year with "Blank Space" – but we got there in time.

• Traffic report: 2020 wraps up

• News from the WMF: What Wikipedia saw during election week in the U.S., and what we’re doing next

• Recent research: Predicting the next move in Wikipedia discussions

• Essay: Subjective importance

• Op-Ed: An unforgettable year we might wish to forget

• Gallery: Angels in the architecture

• Humour: 'Twas the Night Before Wikimas

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The Signpost: 31 January 2021

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: 1,000,000,000 edits, board elections, virtual Wikimania 2021

• Special report: Wiki reporting on the insurrection

• In focus: From Anarchy to Wikiality, Glaring Bias to Good Cop: Press Coverage of Wikipedia's First Two Decades

• Opinion: Wikipedia's war against scientific disinformation

• In the media: The world's press says "Happy Birthday!" with a few twists

• Technology report: The people who built Wikipedia, technically

• Videos and podcasts: Celebrating 20 years

• News from the WMF: Wikipedia celebrates 20 years of free, trusted information for the world

• Recent research: Students still have a better opinion of Wikipedia than teachers

• Humour: Dr. Seuss's Guide to Wikipedia

• Featured content: New Year, same Featured Content report!

• Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2020

• Obituary: Flyer22 Frozen

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The Signpost: 28 February 2021

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Maher stepping down

• Disinformation report: A "billionaire battle" on Wikipedia: Sex, lies, and video

• Opinion: The call for feedback on community seats is a distraction

• In the media: Corporate influence at OSM, Fox watching the hen house

• News from the WMF: Who tells your story on Wikipedia

• Recent research: Take an AI-generated flashcard quiz about Wikipedia; Wikipedia's anti-feudalism

• Featured content: A Love of Knowledge, for Valentine's Day

• Traffic report: Does it almost feel like you've been here before?

• Gallery: What is Black history and culture?

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The Signpost: 28 March 2021

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: A future with a for-profit subsidiary?

• Gallery: Wiki Loves Monuments

• In the media: Wikimedia LLC and disinformation in Japan

• News from the WMF: Project Rewrite: Tell the missing stories of women on Wikipedia and beyond

• Recent research: 10%-30% of Wikipedia’s contributors have subject-matter expertise

• From the archives: Google isn't responsible for Wikipedia's mistakes

• Essay: Wikipedia:The Free Encyclopedia

• Obituary: Yoninah

• From the editor: What else can we say?

• Arbitration report: Open letter to the Board of Trustees

• Traffic report: Wanda, Meghan, Liz, Phil and Zack

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The Signpost: 25 April 2021

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: A change is gonna come

• Disinformation report: The Trump Organization's paid editors

• In the media: Fernando, governance, and rugby

• Opinion: The (Universal) Code of Conduct

• Op-Ed: A Little Fun Goes A Long Way

• Changing the world: The reach of protest images on Wikipedia

• Recent research: Quality of aquatic and anatomical articles

• Traffic report: The verdict is guilty, guilty, guilty

• News from Wiki Education: Encouraging professional physicists to engage in outreach on Wikipedia

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The Signpost: 27 June 2021

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Elections, Wikimania, masking and more

• In the media: Boris and Joe, reliability, love, and money

• Disinformation report: Croatian Wikipedia: capture and release

• Recent research: Feminist critique of Wikipedia's epistemology, Black Americans vastly underrepresented among editors, Wiki Workshop report

• Traffic report: So no one told you life was gonna be this way

• News from the WMF: Searching for Wikipedia

• Humour: Wikipedia's best articles on the world's strangest things

• WikiProject report: WikiProject on open proxies interview

• Forum: Is WMF fundraising abusive?

• Discussion report: Reliability of WikiLeaks discussed

• Obituary: SarahSV

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The Signpost: 25 July 2021

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Wikimania and a million other news stories

• Special report: Hardball in Hong Kong

• In the media: Larry is at it again

• Board of Trustees candidates: See the candidates

• Recent research: Gender bias and statistical fallacies, disinformation and mutual intelligibility

• Traffic report: Football, tennis and marveling at Loki

• News from the WMF: Uncapping our growth potential – interview with James Baldwin, Finance and Administration Department

• Humour: A little verse

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The Signpost: 29 August 2021

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Enough time left to vote! IP ban

• In the media: Vive la différence!

• Wikimedians of the year: Seven Wikimedians of the year

• Gallery: Our community in 20 graphs

• News from Wiki Education: Changing the face of Wikipedia

• Recent research: IP editors, inclusiveness and empathy, cycles, and world heritage

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Days of the Year Interview

• Traffic report: Olympics, movies, and Afghanistan

• Community view: Making Olympic history on Wikipedia

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The Signpost: 26 September 2021

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: New CEO, new board members, China bans

• In the media: The future of Wikipedia

• Opinion: Wikimedians of Mainland China were warned

• Op-Ed: I've been desysopped

• Disinformation report: Paid promotional paragraphs in German parliamentary pages

• Discussion report: Editors discuss Wikipedia's vetting process for administrators

• Recent research: Wikipedia images for machine learning; Experiment justifies Wikipedia's high search rankings

• Community view: Is writing Wikipedia like making a quilt?

• Traffic report: Kanye, Emma Raducanu and 9/11

• News from Diff: Welcome to the first grantees of the Knowledge Equity Fund

• WikiProject report: The Random and the Beautiful

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The Signpost: 31 October 2021

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: Different stories, same place

• News and notes: The sockpuppet who ran for adminship and almost succeeded

• In the media: China bans, and is there intelligent life on this planet?

• Opinion: A photo on Wikipedia can ruin your life

• Discussion report: Editors brainstorm and propose changes to the Requests for adminship process

• Recent research: Welcome messages fail to improve newbie retention

• Community view: Reflections on the Chinese Wikipedia

• Traffic report: James Bond and the Giant Squid Game

• Technology report: Wikimedia Toolhub, winners of the Coolest Tool Award, and more

• Serendipity: How Wikipedia helped create a Serbian stamp

• Book review: Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality

• WikiProject report: Redirection

• Humour: A very Wiki crossword

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The Signpost: 29 November 2021

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• In the media: Denial: climate change, mass killings and pornography
• WikiCup report: The WikiCup 2021
• Deletion report: What we lost, what we gained
• From a Wikipedia reader: What's Matt Amodio?
• Arbitration report: ArbCom in 2021
• Discussion report: On the brink of change – RFA reforms appear imminent
• Technology report: What does it take to upload a file?
• WikiProject report: Interview with contributors to WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers
• Serendipity: "Did You Know ..." featured a photo of the wrong female WWII pilot
• News from Diff: Content translation tool helps create one million Wikipedia articles
• Traffic report: Reporting ticket sales on the edge of the Wiki, if Eternals should fail
• Recent research: Vandalizing Wikipedia as rational behavior
• Humour: A very new very Wiki crossword

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The Signpost: 28 December 2021

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: Here is the news

• News and notes: Jimbo's NFT, new arbs, fixing RfA, and financial statements

• Serendipity: Born three months before her brother?

• In the media: The past is not even past

• Recent research: STEM articles judged unsuitable for undergraduates below the first paragraph

• Arbitration report: A new crew for '22

• By the numbers: Four billion words and a few numbers

• Deletion report: We laughed, we cried, we closed as "no consensus"

• Gallery: Wikicommons presents: 2021

• Traffic report: Spider-Man, football and the departed

• Crossword: Another Wiki crossword for one and all

• Humour: Buying Wikipedia

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The Signpost: 30 January 2022

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Special report: WikiEd course leads to Twitter harassment
• News and notes: Feedback for Board of Trustees election
• Interview: CEO Maryana Iskander "four weeks in"
• Black History Month: What are you doing for Black History Month?
• Deletion report: Ringing in the new year: Subject notability guideline under discussion
• WikiProject report: The Forgotten Featured
• Arbitration report: New arbitrators look at new case and antediluvian sanctions
• Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2021
• Gallery: No Spanish municipality without a photograph
• Obituary: Twofingered Typist
• Op-Ed: Identifying and rooting out climate change denial
• Essay: The prime directive
• Opinion: Should the Wikimedia Foundation continue to accept cryptocurrency donations?
• In the media: Fuzzy-headed government editing
• Recent research: Articles with higher quality ratings have fewer "knowledge gaps"
• Serendipity: Pooh entered the Public Domain – but Tigger has to wait two more years
• Crossword: Cross swords with a crossword

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The Signpost: 27 February 2022

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the team: Selection of a new Signpost Editor-in-Chief

• News and notes: Impacts of Russian invasion of Ukraine

• Opinion: Why student editors are good for Wikipedia

• Special report: A presidential candidate's team takes on Wikipedia

• In the media: Wiki-drama in the UK House of Commons

• Serendipity: War photographers: from Crimea (1850s) to the Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022)

• Technology report: Community Wishlist Survey results

• WikiProject report: 10 years of tea

• Featured content: Featured Content returns

• Deletion report: The 10 most SHOCKING deletion discussions of February

• Recent research: How editors and readers may be emotionally affected by disasters and terrorist attacks

• Arbitration report: Parties remonstrate, arbs contemplate, skeptics coordinate

• By the numbers: Does birthplace affect the frequency of Wikipedia biography articles?

• Gallery: The vintage exhibit

• Traffic report: Euphoria, Pamela Anderson, lies and Netflix

• News from Diff: The Wikimania 2022 Core Organizing Team

• Crossword: A Crossword, featuring Featured Articles

• Humour: Notability of mailboxes

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The Signpost: 27 March 2022

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the team: We stand in solidarity with Ukraine

• News and notes: Of safety and anonymity

• Eyewitness Wikimedian – Kharkiv, Ukraine: Countering Russian aggression with a camera

• Eyewitness Wikimedian – Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary

• Eyewitness Wikimedian – Western Ukraine: Working with Wikipedia helps

• Disinformation report: The oligarchs' socks

• In the media: Ukraine, Russia, and even some other stuff

• Recent research: Top scholarly citers, lack of open access references, predicting editor departures

• Wikimedian perspective: My heroes from Russia, Ukraine & beyond

• Discussion report: Athletes are less notable now

• Technology report: 2022 Wikimedia Hackathon

• Arbitration report: Skeptics given heavenly judgement, whirlwind of Discord drama begins to spin for tropical cyclone editors

• Traffic report: War, what is it good for?

• Deletion report: Ukraine, werewolves, Ukraine, YouTube pundits, and Ukraine

• Gallery: "All we are saying is, give peace a chance..."

• From the archives: Burn, baby burn

• Essay: Yes, the sky is blue

• Tips and tricks: Become a keyboard ninja

• On the bright side: The bright side of news

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The Signpost: 24 April 2022

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Double trouble

• In the media: The battlegrounds outside and inside Wikipedia

• Special report: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war

• Eyewitness Wikimedian – Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (Part 2)

• Technology report: 8-year-old attribution issues in Media Viewer

• Featured content: Wikipedia's best content from March

• In focus: Editing difficulties on Russian Wikipedia

• Gallery: A voyage around the world with WLM winners

• Interview: On a war and a map

• Serendipity: Wikipedia loves photographs, but hates photographers

• Traffic report: Justice Jackson, the Smiths, and an invasion

• Recent research: Student edits as "civic engagement"; how Wikipedia readers interact with images

• News from the WMF: How Smart is the SMART Copyright Act?

• Essay: The problem with elegant variation

• Humour: Really huge message boxes

• From the archives: Wales resigned WMF board chair in 2006 reorganization

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The Signpost: 29 May 2022

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the team: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/From the team

• News and notes: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/News and notes

• Community view: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Community view

• Opinion: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Opinion

• In the media: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/In the media

• Special report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Special report

• In focus: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/In focus

• Discussion report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Discussion report

• WikiProject report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/WikiProject report

• Technology report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Technology report

• Featured content: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Featured content

• Interview: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Interview

• Serendipity: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Serendipity

• Recent research: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Recent research

• Tips and tricks: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Tips and tricks

• Traffic report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Traffic report

• News from Diff: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/News from Diff

• News from the WMF: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/News from the WMF

• Video: How the entire country of Qatar was blocked from editing

• Gallery: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Gallery

• From the archives: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/From the archives

• Essay: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Essay

• Humour: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Humour

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The Signpost: 26 June 2022

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: WMF inks new rules on government-ordered takedowns, blasts Russian feds' censor demands, spends big bucks

• In the media: Editor given three-year sentence, big RfA makes news, Guy Standing takes it sitting down

• Special report: "Wikipedia's independence" or "Wikimedia's pile of dosh"?

• Discussion report: MoS rules on CCP name mulled, XRV axe plea nulled, BLPPROD drafting bid pulled

• Opinion: Picture of the Day – how Adam plans to ru(i)n it

• Featured content: Articles on Scots' clash, Yank's tux, Austrian's action flick deemed brilliant prose

• Essay: RfA trend line haruspicy: fact or fancy?

• Recent research: Wikipedia versus academia (again), tables' "immortality" probed

• Serendipity: Was she really a Swiss lesbian automobile racer?

• News from the WMF: Wikimedia Enterprise signs first deals

• Traffic report: Top view counts for shows, movies, and celeb lawsuit that keeps on giving

• Gallery: Celebration of summer, winter

• Humour: Shortcuts, screwballers, Simon & Garfunkel

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The Signpost: 1 August 2022

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editors: Rise of the machines, or something

• News and notes: Information considered harmful

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

• Op-Ed: The "recession" affair

• Eyewitness Wikimedian – Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (part 3)

• Election guide: The chosen six: 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

• Community view: Youth culture and notability

• Opinion: Criminals among us

• Arbitration report: Winds of change blow for cyclone editors, deletion dustup draws toward denouement

• Deletion report: This is Gonzo Country

• Discussion report: Notability for train stations, notices for mobile editors, noticeboards for the rest of us

• Traffic report: US TV, JP ex-PM, outer space, and politics of IN, US, UK top charts for July

• Featured content: A little list with surprisingly few lists

• Tips and tricks: Cleaning up awful citations with Citation bot

• In focus: Wikidata insights from a handy little tool

• On the bright side: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war — three (more) stories

• Essay: How to research an image

• Recent research: A century of rulemaking on Wikipedia analyzed

• Serendipity: Don't cite Wikipedia

• Gallery: A backstage pass

• From the archives: 2012 Russian Wikipedia shutdown as it happened

• Humour: Why did the chicken cross the road?

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The Signpost: 31 August 2022

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Admins wanted on English Wikipedia, IP editors not wanted on Farsi Wiki, donations wanted everywhere

• Special report: Wikimania 2022: no show, no show up?

• In the media: Truth or consequences? A tough month for truth

• Discussion report: Boarding the Trustees

• News from Wiki Education: 18 years a Wikipedian: what it means to me

• In focus: Thinking inside the box

• Tips and tricks: The unexpected rabbit hole of typo fixing in citations

• Technology report: Vector (2022) deployment discussions happening now

• Serendipity: Two photos of every library on earth

• Featured content: Our man drills are safe for work, but our Labia is Fausta.

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

• Traffic report: What dreams (and heavily trafficked articles) may come

• Essay: Delete the junk!

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

• Humour: CommonsComix No. 1

• From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 years ago

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The Signpost: 30 September 2022

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

• News and notes: Board vote results, bot's big GET, crat chat gives new mop, WMF seeks "sound logo" and "organizer lab"

• In focus: NPP: Still heaven or hell for new users – and for the reviewers

• In the media: A few complaints and mild disagreements

• Special report: Decentralized Fundraising, Centralized Distribution

• Discussion report: Much ado about Fox News

• Interview: ScottishFinnishRadish's Request for Adminship

• Opinion: Are we ever going to reach consensus?

• Serendipity: Removing watermarks, copyright signs and cigarettes from photos

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

• Traffic report: Kings and queens and VIPs

• Featured content: Farm-fresh content

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

• CommonsComix: CommonsComix 2: Paulus Moreelse

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

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