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The Signpost: 8 May 2023
 News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
 * News and notes: New legal "deVLOPments" in the EU


 * In the media: Vivek's smelly socks, online safety, and politics


 * Recent research: Gender, race and notability in deletion discussions

My first featured picture of this year now finally exists!]]
 * Featured content: [[w:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2023-05-08/Featured content|I wrote a poem for each article, I found rhymes for all the lists;


 * Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" approaches conclusion


 * News from the WMF: Planning together with the Wikimedia Foundation


 * Special report: There Shall Be Seasons Refreshing – Stories from WikiConference India 2023

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The Signpost: 22 May 2023
 News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper
 * News and notes: Golden parachutes: Record severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation


 * In the media: History, propaganda and censorship


 * Arbitration report: Final decision in "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland"


 * Recent research: Create or curate, cooperate or compete? Game theory for Wikipedia editors


 * Featured content: A very musical week for featured articles


 * Traffic report: Coronation, chatbot, celebs


 * WikiProject report: Wikipedians Convene for Queering Wikipedia 2023: The First International LGBT+ Wikipedia Conference

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TheWikiWizard - May 2023
Hey, MJL! Here is the May 2023 edition for the TheWikiWizard!

Humor

 * Now is the time to start writing those Christmas cards and do the Christmas shopping! Come December, you can sit back and edit Wikipedia! ;)
 * When it snows in December/Winter, stock up the snow in your freezer, so when it gets hot you can do a snowball fight in the summer!

Wiki(P/M)edia News

 * A conversation with trustees event took place on the 18th of May. You can read more details on the event here!
 * On the English Wikipedia some RFAs which took place the past few months. You can see the full details at the RFA main page.
 * There is a event (Conference) that is taking place in city of Belgrade. More details on the event can be found by clicking on the link!

Editor's Notes

 * I apologies for the delay in the issues, however I can guarantee you that I am always thinking of TWW and haven't forgotten about it :)  School's so busy!
 * If you want to help out TWW, let me know!


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Women in Red - June 2023
--Lajmmoore (talk) 09:16, 28 May 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging

The Signpost: 5 June 2023
 News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper
 * News and notes: WMRU director forks new 'pedia, birds flap in top '22 piccy, WMF weighs in on Indian gov's map axe plea


 * In the media: Section 230 stands tall, WP vs. UK bill, Miss Information dissed again


 * Featured content: Poetry under pressure


 * Traffic report: Celebs, controversies and a chatbot in the public eye

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New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023
Hello , Backlog

Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by  and  with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.

Redirect autopatrol: All administrators without autopatrol have now been added to the redirect autopatrol list. If you see any users who consistently create significant amounts of good quality redirects, consider requesting redirect autopatrol for them here.

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team, consisting of, and also some patches from , has been hard at work updating PageTriage. They are focusing their efforts on modernising the extension's code rather than on bug fixes or new features, though some user-facing work will be prioritised. This will help make sure that this extension is not deprecated, and is easier to work on in the future. In the next month or so, we will have an opt-in beta test where new page patrollers can help test the rewrite of Special:NewPagesFeed, to help find bugs. We will post more details at WT:NPPR when we are ready for beta testers.

Articles for Creation (AFC): All new page reviewers are now automatically approved for Articles for Creation draft reviewing (you do not need to apply at WT:AFCP like was required previously). To install the AFC helper script, visit Special:Preferences, visit the Gadgets tab, tick "Yet Another AFC Helper Script", then click "Save". To find drafts to review, visit Special:NewPagesFeed, and at the top left, tick "Articles for Creation". To review a draft, visit a submitted draft, click on the "More" menu, then click "Review (AFCH)". You can also comment on and submit drafts that are unsubmitted using the script.

You can review the AFC workflow at WP:AFCR. It is up to you if you also want to mark your AFC accepts as NPP reviewed (this is allowed but optional, depends if you would like a second set of eyes on your accept). Don't forget that draftspace is optional, so moves of drafts to mainspace (even if they are not ready) should not be reverted, except possibly if there is conflict of interest.

Pro tip: Did you know that visual artists such as painters have their own SNG? The most common part of this "creative professionals" criteria that applies to artists is WP:ARTIST 4b (solo exhibition, not group exhibition, at a major museum) or 4d (being represented within the permanent collections of two museums).

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The Signpost: 19 June 2023
 News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper
 * News and notes: WMF Terms of Use now in force, new Creative Commons licensing


 * In the media: English WP editor glocked after BLP row on Italian 'pedia


 * Featured content: Content, featured


 * Recent research: Hoaxers prefer currently-popular topics

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Women in Red July 2023
--Lajmmoore (talk) 07:43, 27 June 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging

New pages patrol needs your help!
Hello , The New Page Patrol team is sending you this impromptu message to inform you of a steeply rising backlog of articles needing review. If you have any extra time to spare, please consider reviewing one or two articles each day to help lower the backlog. You can start reviewing by visiting Special:NewPagesFeed. Thank you very much for your help.

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The Signpost: 3 July 2023
 News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper
 * News and notes: Online Safety Bill: Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia UK launch open letter


 * Disinformation report: Imploded submersible outfit foiled trying to sing own praises on Wikipedia


 * In the media: Journo proposes mass Wiki dox, sponsored articles on Fandom, Section 230 discussed


 * Featured content: Incensed


 * Traffic report: Are you afraid of spiders? Arnold? The Idol? ChatGPT?


 * Humour: United Nations dispatches peacekeeping force to Wikipedia policy discussions

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The Signpost: 17 July 2023
 News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper
 * News and notes: Big bux hidden beneath wine-dark sea as we wait for the Tides to go out?


 * In the media: Tentacles of Emirates plot attempt to ensnare Wikipedia


 * Obituary: David Thomsen (Dthomsen8) and Ingo Koll (Kipala)


 * News from the WMF: ABC for Fundraising: Advancing Banner Collaboration for fundraising campaigns


 * In focus: Are the children of celebrities over-represented in French cinema?


 * Tips and tricks: What automation can do for you (and your WikiProject)


 * Recent research: Wikipedia-grounded chatbot "outperforms all baselines" on factual accuracy


 * Humour: New fringe theories to be introduced


 * Cobwebs: If you're reading this, you're probably on a desktop


 * Featured content: Scrollin', scrollin', scrollin', keep those readers scrollin', got to keep on scrollin', Rawhide!


 * Traffic report: The Idol becomes the Master

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Women in Red 8th Anniversary
--Lajmmoore (talk) 11:01, 18 July 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Women in Red August 2023
--Lajmmoore (talk) 19:25, 28 July 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging

The Signpost: 1 August 2023
 News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper
 * News and notes: City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians, Ruwiki founder banned, WMF launches Mastodon server


 * In the media: Truth, AI, bull from politicians, and climate change


 * Disinformation report: Hot climate, hot hit, hot money, hot news hot off the presses!


 * Obituary: Donald Cram, Peter McCawley, and Eagleash


 * Tips and tricks: Citation tools for dummies!


 * Humour: Does Wikipedia present neutral perspectives?


 * In focus: Journals cited by Wikipedia


 * Opinion: Are global bans the last step?


 * Featured content: Featured Content, 1 to 15 July


 * Traffic report: Come on Oppie, let's go party

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The Signpost: 15 August 2023
 News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper
 * News and notes: Dude, Where's My Donations? Wikimedia Foundation announces another million in grants for non-Wikimedia-related projects


 * In the media: An accusation of bias from Brazil, a lawsuit from Portugal, plagiarism from Florida


 * In focus: 2023 Good Article Nomination drive is underway: get your barnstars here!


 * Special report: Thirteen years later, why are most administrators still from 2005?


 * Tips and tricks: How to find images for your articles, check their copyright, upload them, and restore them


 * Cobwebs: Getting serious about writing


 * Opinion: Copyright trolls, or the last beautiful free souls on this planet?


 * Serendipity: Why I stopped taking photographs almost altogether


 * Featured content: Barbenheimer confirmed


 * Humour: Arbitration Committee to accept case against Right Honorable Frimbley Cantingham, 15th Viscount Bellington-upon-Porkshire


 * Traffic report: Come on in, and pull yourself up a chair

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September 2023 at Women in Red
--Victuallers (talk) 16:54, 25 August 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging

The Signpost: 31 August 2023
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 * From the editor: Beta version of signpost.news now online


 * News and notes: You like RecentChanges?


 * In the media: Taking it sleazy


 * Recent research: The five barriers that impede "stitching" collaboration between Commons and Wikipedia


 * Draftspace: Bad Jokes and Other Draftspace Novelties


 * Humour: The Dehumourification Plan


 * Traffic report: Raise your drinking glass, here's to yesterday

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New page patrol October 2023 Backlog drive
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:13, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 September 2023
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 * News and notes: Wikimedia power sharing – just an advisory role for the volunteer community?


 * In the media: "Just flirting", going Dutch and Shapps for the defence?


 * Obituary: Nosebagbear


 * Serendipity: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no paywall, for thou, Wikipedia Library, art with me


 * Featured content: Catching up


 * Concept: Strange portal opened by CERN researchers brings Wikipedia articles from "other worlds"


 * Traffic report: Some of it's magic, some of it's tragic

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New pages patrol newsletter
Hello ,

Backlog update: At the time of this message, there are 11,300 articles and 15,600 redirects awaiting review. This is the highest backlog in a long time. Please help out by doing additional reviews!

October backlog elimination drive: A one-month backlog drive for October will start in one week! Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled. Articles will earn 4x as many points compared to redirects. You can sign up here.

PageTriage code upgrades: Upgrades to the PageTriage code, initiated by the NPP open letter in 2022 and actioned by the WMF Moderator Tools Team in 2023, are ongoing. More information can be found here. As part of this work, the Special:NewPagesFeed now has a new version in beta! The update leaves the NewPagesFeed appearance and function mostly identical to the old one, but updates the underlying code, making it easier to maintain and helping make sure the extension is not decommissioned due to maintenance issues in the future. You can try out the new Special:NewPagesFeed here - it will replace the current version soon.

Notability tip: Professors can meet WP:PROF #1 by having their academic papers be widely cited by their peers. When reviewing professor articles, it is a good idea to find their Google Scholar or Scopus profile and take a look at their h-index and number of citations. As a very rough rule of thumb, for most fields, articles on people with a h-index of twenty or more, a first-authored paper with more than a thousand citations, or multiple papers each with more than a hundred citations are likely to be kept at AfD.

Reviewing tip: If you would like like a second opinion on your reviews or simply want another new page reviewer by your side when patrolling, we recommend pair reviewing! This is where two reviewers use Discord voice chat and screen sharing to communicate with each other while reviewing the same article simultaneously. This is a great way to learn and transfer knowledge.

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Women in Red October 2023
--Lajmmoore (talk) 10:53, 29 September 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging

TheWikiWizard - September 2023
Hello, MJL! Here is the September 2023 for the TheWikiWizard!

Wiki(p/m)edia News

 * On the EN Wikipedia, there were 4 successful RFAs between the period of July and September! Congrats to the candidates! Also on Simple English Wikipedia, they had 1 successful RFA in August!
 * For those wondering why you were unable to edit for a period of time on 20th September, there was a server testing going on. You can follow the link to read more. We will always inform you here if one of these kinds of tests is going to take place, or has taken place. You can also head on over to the Meta Wiki main page, information on these kinds of tests will always be displayed there.
 * Did you know you that Wikimedia Commons has monthly photo challenges? You can check out more here!
 * The USA has viewed Wikipedia 4 Billion times in August!
 * The Talysh Wikipedia was recently created!

Humor

 * It's almost fall again! (or is it already?) Don't fall on fallen leaves!
 * One moment it's raining, the next its too hot. Welcome to fall!

Editor's Notes

 * Quite a bit has happened since our last issue! Thanks for your patience during our gap of inactivity between issues!
 * Thank you for reading TWW!


 * Like this Issue? Got Feedback? Spot a mistake? Discuss this issue here

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See you again in the next issue! -- つがる  Talk to つがる:)  🍁 15:54, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 3 October 2023
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 * News and notes: Wikimedia Endowment financial statement published


 * In the media: History is written by whoever can harness the most editors


 * Recent research: Readers prefer ChatGPT over Wikipedia; concerns about limiting "anyone can edit" principle "may be overstated"


 * Featured content: By your logic,


 * Concept: Wikipedia policies from other worlds: WP:NOANTLERS


 * Poetry: "The Sight"


 * Traffic report: There shall be no slaves in the land of lands, it's a Bollywood jam

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The Signpost: 23 October 2023
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 * News and notes: Where have all the administrators gone?


 * In the media: Thirst traps, the fastest loading sites on the web, and the original collaborative writing


 * Gallery: Before and After: Why you don't need to know how to restore images to make massive improvements


 * Featured content: Yo, ho! Blow the man down!


 * Traffic report: The calm and the storm


 * News from Diff: Sawtpedia: Giving a Voice to Wikipedia Using QR Codes


 * Humour: New citation template introduced for divine revelations, drug use, and really thinking about it

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Women in Red - November 2023
--Lajmmoore (talk) 08:22, 26 October 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging

November Articles for creation backlog drive
<div style="border: 2px solid #484898; background: #FFF; background-color:#98FB98; padding: 1ex 1ex 1ex 1.5ex; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1em; font-size: 99%"> Hello MJL:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!

The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.

You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.

There is a backlog of over pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:24, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 6 November 2023
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 * Arbitration report: Admin bewilderingly unmasks self as sockpuppet of other admin who was extremely banned in 2015


 * In the media: UK gov bigwig accused of ripping off WP articles for book, Wikipedians accused of being dicks by a rich man


 * News and notes: Board candidacy process posted, editors protest WMF privacy measure, sweet meetups


 * Opinion: An open letter to Elon Musk


 * WikiCup report: The WikiCup 2023


 * News from Wiki Ed: Equity lists on Wikipedia


 * Recent research: How English Wikipedia drove out fringe editors over two decades


 * Featured content: Like putting a golf course in a historic site.


 * Wikidata: Evaluating qualitative systemic bias in large article sets on Wikipedia


 * Traffic report: Cricket jumpscare

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The Signpost: 20 November 2023
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 * In the media: Propaganda and photos, lunatics and a lunar backup


 * News and notes: Update on Wikimedia's financial health


 * Traffic report: If it bleeds, it leads


 * Recent research: Canceling disputes as the real function of ArbCom


 * Wikimania: Wikimania 2024 scholarships

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Women in Red December 2023
--Lajmmoore (talk) 20:24, 27 November 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging

The Signpost: 4 December 2023
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 * News and notes: Beeblebrox ejected from Arbitration Committee following posts on Wikipediocracy


 * In the media: Turmoil on Hebrew Wikipedia, grave dancing, Olga's impact and inspiring Bhutanese nuns


 * Disinformation report: "Wikipedia and the assault on history"


 * In focus: Tens of thousands of freely available sources flagged


 * Comix: Bold comics for a new age


 * Essay: I am going to die


 * Featured content: Real gangsters move in silence


 * Traffic report: And it's hard to watch some cricket, in the cold November Rain


 * Humour: Mandy Rice-Davis Applies

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New pages patrol January 2024 Backlog drive
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:10, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 December 2023
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 * Special report: Did the Chinese Communist Party send astroturfers to sabotage a hacktivist's Wikipedia article?


 * News and notes: The Italian Public Domain wars continue, Wikimedia RU set to dissolve, and a recap of WLM 2023


 * In the media: Consider the humble fork


 * Discussion report: Arabic Wikipedia blackout; Wikimedians discuss SpongeBob, copyrights, and AI


 * In focus: Liquidation of Wikimedia RU


 * Technology report: Dark mode is coming


 * Recent research: "LLMs Know More, Hallucinate Less" with Wikidata


 * Gallery: A feast of holidays and carols


 * Comix: Lollus lmaois 200C tincture


 * Crossword: when the crossword is sus


 * Traffic report: What's the big deal? I'm an animal!


 * From the editor: A piccy iz worth OVAR 9000!!!11oneone! wordz ^_^


 * Apocrypha: Local editor discovered 1,380 lost subheadings in ancient Signpost scrolls. And what he found was shocking.


 * Humour: Guess the joke contest


 * BJAODN: Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense

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Women in Red January 2024
--Lajmmoore (talk) 20:17, 28 December 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging

The Signpost: 10 January 2024
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 * From the editor: NINETEEN MORE YEARS! NINETEEN MORE YEARS!


 * Special report: Public Domain Day 2024


 * Technology report: Wikipedia: A Multigenerational Pursuit


 * News and notes: In other news ... see ya in court!


 * In focus: The long road of a featured article candidate


 * In the media: What is plagiarism? Oklahoma Disneyland? Reaching a human being at Wikipedia?


 * WikiProject report: WikiProjects Israel and Palestine


 * Obituary: Anthony Bradbury


 * Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2023


 * Crossword: everybody gangsta till the style sheets start cascading


 * Comix: Conflict resolution

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Humour

 * Does editing Wikipedia burn calories? If it does, does it count as exercise? ;)
 * TWW is back from being long dormant. It was a nice "Hibernation" lol.

Wiki(P/M)edia news

 * Voting regarding the Universal Code of Conduct is taking place on Meta Wiki. More information can be found via the link
 * EN Wikipedia has a few new Administrators following their successful RFA!
 * Information on the upcoming Steward Election on Meta can be found here
 * A new feature called Reference Previews has been created. More information: here

Editor's Notes

 * I apologise for the delay, I was not able to edit until recently.
 * I hope to have TWW published more frequently from this issue onwards. Ideally at least every 2 months. Since its near the end of the month, I decided to name this issue February.
 * We are always looking for help! If you would like to help out, please let us know!
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 * Hope you enjoyed this issue! -- つがる  Talk to つがる:)  🍁 04:25, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

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Women in Red February 2024
--Lajmmoore (talk 20:09, 28 January 2024 (UTC) via MassMessaging

The Signpost: 31 January 2024
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 * News and notes: Wikipedian Osama Khalid celebrated his 30th birthday in jail


 * Opinion: Until it happens to you


 * Disinformation report: How paid editors squeeze you dry


 * In the media: Katherine Maher new NPR CEO, go check Wikipedia, race in the race


 * In focus: The long road of a featured article candidate, part 2


 * Recent research: Croatian takeover was enabled by "lack of bureaucratic openness and rules constraining [admins]"


 * Comix: We've all got to start somewhere


 * Traffic report: DJ, gonna burn this goddamn house right down

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The Signpost: 13 February 2024
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 * News and notes: Wikimedia Russia director declared "foreign agent" by Russian gov; EU prepares to pile on the papers


 * Disinformation report: How low can the scammers go?


 * Gallery: Before and After: Why you don't need to touch grass to dramatically improve images of flora and fauna


 * In the media: Speaking in tongues, toeing the line, and dressing the part


 * Serendipity: Is this guy the same as the one who was a Nazi?


 * Traffic report: Griselda, Nikki, Carl, Jannik and two types of football


 * Crossword: Our crossword to bear


 * Comix: Strongly

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Women in Red March 2024
--Lajmmoore (talk 20:23, 25 February 2024 (UTC) via MassMessaging

The Signpost: 2 March 2024
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 * News and notes: Wikimedia enters US Supreme court hearings as "the dolphin inadvertently caught in the net"


 * Recent research: Images on Wikipedia "amplify gender bias"


 * In the media: The Scottish Parliament gets involved, a wikirace on live TV, and the Foundation's CTO goes on record


 * Obituary: Vami_IV


 * Traffic report: Supervalentinefilmbowlday


 * WikiCup report: High-scoring WikiCup first round comes to a close

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 * Interview: Interview on Wikimedia Foundation fundraising and finance strategy


 * 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


 * Op-Ed: Wikipedia in the age of personality-driven knowledge


 * Recent research: "Newcomer Homepage" feature mostly fails to boost new editors


 * News and notes: Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Charter ratified


 * In the media: "For me it’s the autism": AARoard editors on the fork more traveled


 * Traffic report: He rules over everything, on the land called planet Dune


 * Humour: Letters from the editors


 * Comix: Layout issue

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Women in Red April 2024
--Lajmmoore (talk 19:42, 30 March 2024 (UTC) via MassMessaging

New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024
Hello ,

Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to, who led with over 2,300 points.

Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.

Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.

It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!

2023 Awards won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.

Recruitment: A couple of the coordinators have been inviting editors to become reviewers, via mass-messages to their talk pages. If you know someone who you'd think would make a good reviewer, then a personal invitation to them would be great. Additionally, if there are Wikiprojects that you are active on, then you can add a post there asking participants to join NPP. Please be careful not to double invite folks that have already been invited.

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The Signpost: 25 April 2024
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 * News and notes: A sigh of relief for open access as Italy makes a slight U-turn on their cultural heritage reproduction law


 * WikiConference report: WikiConference North America 2023 in Toronto recap


 * WikiProject report: WikiProject Newspapers (Not WP:NOTNEWS)


 * Recent research: New survey of over 100,000 Wikipedia users


 * Traffic report: O.J., cricket and a three body problem

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Women in Red May 2024
--Lajmmoore (talk 06:17, 28 April 2024 (UTC) via MassMessaging

The Signpost: 16 May 2024
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 * News and notes: Democracy in action: multiple elections


 * Special report: Will the new RfA reform come to the rescue of administrators?


 * Arbitration report: Ruined temples for posterity to ponder over – arbitration from '22 to '24


 * In the media: Deadnames on the French Wikipedia, and a duel between Russian wikis


 * Op-Ed: Wikidata to split as sheer volume of information overloads infrastructure


 * Comix: Generations


 * Traffic report: Crawl out through the fallout, baby

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Women in Red June 2024
--Lajmmoore (talk 07:05, 23 May 2024 (UTC) via MassMessaging

The Signpost: 8 June 2024
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 * News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation publishes its Form 990 for fiscal year 2022-2023


 * Technology report: New Page Patrol receives a much-needed software upgrade


 * Deletion report: The lore of Kalloor


 * In the media: National cable networks get in on the action arguing about what the first sentence of a Wikipedia article ought to say


 * News from the WMF: Progress on the plan — how the Wikimedia Foundation advanced on its Annual Plan goals during the first half of fiscal year 2023-2024


 * Opinion: Public response to the editors of Settler Colonial Studies


 * Recent research: ChatGPT did not kill Wikipedia, but might have reduced its growth


 * Featured content: We didn't start the wiki


 * Essay: No queerphobia


 * Special report: RetractionBot is back to life!


 * Traffic report: Chimps, Eurovision, and the return of the Baby Reindeer


 * Comix: The Wikipediholic Family


 * Humour: Wikipedia rattled by sophisticated cyberattack of schoolboy typing "balls" in infobox


 * Concept: Palimpsestuous

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Women in Red August 2024
--Lajmmoore (talk 14:28, 30 June 2024 (UTC) via MassMessaging

The Signpost: 4 July 2024
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 * Special report: Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification vote underway, new Council may surpass power of Board


 * In focus: How the Russian Wikipedia keeps it clean despite having just a couple dozen administrators


 * Discussion report: Wikipedians are hung up on the meaning of Madonna


 * In the media: War and information in war and politics


 * Sister projects: On editing Wikisource


 * Obituary: Hanif Al Husaini, Salazarov and Hyacinth


 * Opinion: Etika: a Pop Culture Champion


 * Gallery: Spokane Willy's photos


 * Op-Ed: Why you should not vote in the 2024 WMF BoT elections


 * Crossword: On a day of independence, beat crosswords into crossploughshares


 * Humour: A joke


 * Cobwebs: Counting to a billion — manuscripts don't burn


 * Recent research: Is Wikipedia Politically Biased? Perhaps


 * Traffic report: Talking about you and me, and the games people play

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