Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost
Newspaper covering Wikimedia projects
Volume 20
Issue 5
29 March 2024
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– PD
Technology report
Millions of readers still seeing broken pages as "temporary" disabling of graph extension nears its second year
Much effort was spent drafting a movement charter about becoming "essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge". How much is spent maintaining it?
Lane Rasberry
– CC 4.0 BY-SA
Interview
Interview on Wikimedia Foundation fundraising and finance strategy
Signpost
interviews Wikimedia Foundation leadership on fundraising banners
David Berkowitz
– CC 2.0 BY
Special report
19-page PDF accuses Wikipedia of bias against Israel, suggests editors be forced to reveal their real names, and demands a new feature allowing people to view the history of Wikipedia articles
And does it have anything to do with the unusual decision to let a zero-edit user open an arbitration request?
WMF
– CC 3.0 BY-SA
Op-Ed
Wikipedia in the age of personality-driven knowledge
Can we compete with social media? Will aoomers forget Wikipedia?
Benjakob et al
– CC 4.0 BY-SA
Recent research
"Newcomer Homepage" feature mostly fails to boost new editors
And several papers look at climate change on Wikipedia.
Mona Hassan Abo-Abda
– CC 4.0 BY-SA
News and notes
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Charter ratified
WLM winners announced, Wikimania 2024, a new Wikimedia movement affiliate, and active enwp admins reach a record low.
Jonathan Billinger
– CC 2.0 BY-SA
In the media
"For me it’s the autism": AARoad editors on the fork more traveled
Worldwide women turned blue and controversies on Serbian & French Wikipedia.
Astronimation
– CC-BY
Traffic report
He rules over everything, on the land called planet Dune
Let me take you to the movies.
Albert Anker
– PD
Humour
Letters from the editors
The only worthwhile grievance is the one that prompts satire.
Punch
– PD
Comix
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