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naming conventions for Wikipedia articles, and discusses use of "The", "A", and "An" at the start of an article title. There are some situations where they...

WP:TFPWP:TFP Purge page cache The picture of the day (POTD), also known as "Today's featured picture" (TFP), is a section on the English Wikipedia's Main Page...

The Adventure Learn to edit Wikipedia in under an hour! Come on a journey full of real skills, tips, helpers, rewards, and support. Start the adventure...

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WikiProjects Tip of the day Tip of the day... Sorting in categories When linking an article to a category, you can tell the category how to sort the article alphabetically...

"Gaming the system" means deliberately misusing Wikipedia's policy or process for personal advantage at the expense of other editors or the Wikipedia...

Motto of the day... Nominate one! Motto of the Day Participants Discussion (Nominations) Guidelines Nominations (New mottos go here) In review + Specials...

Twenty20 cricket, the Indian Premier League concludes with Royal Challengers Bengaluru defeating Gujarat Titans in the final (player of the match Virat Kohli...

New to Wikipedia? See the contributing to Wikipedia page or our tutorial for everything you need to get started. An article striving for perfection.....

WP:LIBRARYWP:LIBRARY WP:LIBWP:LIB WP:TWLWP:TWL WP:WIKILIBWP:WIKILIB The Wikipedia Library The Wikipedia Library is an online library open to active Wikipedia...

that is run-of-the-mill is a common, everyday, ordinary item that does not stand out from the rest. Something or someone that is "run-of-the-mill" is probably...

Shortcuts WP:COTWWP:COTW WP:COTMWP:COTM Collaboration of the Week (COTW; also Collaboration of the Month, etc.) is a type of program intended to encourage...

Shortcut WP:US20WP:US20 The 20,000 Challenge Improve/create any article related to the United States whenever you feel like it! 60.93% We started on November...

exist, the result is a red link like this one. When the editor goes on to create the new article, the red link in the list turns blue, and assuming the article...

Shortcut WP:TADWP:TAD The Africa Destubathon a stub improvement contest/editathon for October 15 – November 27 2016......

Shortcut WP:TBAWP:TBA The Beatles WikiProject manages over 5,000 articles related to the Beatles, with a broad and nested hierarchy of categories covering...

user's sandbox or the more frequently edited Wikipedia:Sandbox, are pages designed for testing and experimenting with wiki syntax and the VisualEditor. They...

be independent from the subject of the article. Nothing written by the subject, paid for by the subject, or affiliated with the subject. Not their website...

Wikipedia is improved through the work of both regular editors and newcomers. All of us were new editors once, and in some areas, the most experienced are still...

refresh the templates on this page, click here: Purge Each month a Science Collaboration of the Month (SCOTM) is chosen using this page. The goal is to...

WikiProject The Beatles Several Wikipedians have formed a WikiProject to better organize information in articles related to the Beatles, their work, and...

Politics of the United Kingdom WikiProject Improving the coverage of British politics. Discuss...

({{uw-vandalism}}), the three-revert rule ({{uw-3rr}}), and other policies and guidelines. You should use these templates carefully. These templates explain the various...

from their own. Typically, this means making the same argument over and over and to different people in the same discussion or across related discussions...

preceding the beginning of the body of the text. The "publisher" means any person or entity that distributes copies of the Document to the public. A section...

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The 2500 Challenge (Nordic) Improve/create any article related to the Nordic countries whenever you feel like it! 80.12%...

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The Truth is a unique force in the universe. The Truth is true. However, despite its inarguable power, acceptance of The Truth is not yet universal. Indeed...

The Good article criteria are the requirements that an article should meet in order to be listed as a Good article (GA). Any articles that have been reviewed...

focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do...

The 20,000 Challenge 78.1% Improve/create any article related to the United Kingdom and Ireland whenever you feel like it!...

Welcome to the Mountains of the Alps WikiProject! We are a very small group of editors who care about the Alps and the innumerable features within it...

life, getting The Last Word in a debate is crucial, as it is the only proof of your argumentative success over competing editors. The following is a...

The European 20,000 Challenge Improve/create any article on anywhere in Europe whenever you feel like it and list it!... 76.97%...

see new articles coming in on Asian topics, please invite the editors to participate here! The Asian 10,000 Challenge Improve/create any article on anywhere...

please remember that we are all here for more or less the same reason and that there is a person at the other end of your conversation. Flame wars are counter-productive...

Special:Log/delete and enter the name of the page in the "Target" field. It only works if the exact name is entered, so be mindful of the original capitalization...

the day archives These featured pictures, as scheduled below, appeared as the picture of the day (POTD) on the English Wikipedia's Main Page in the last...

The African 10,000 Challenge Improve/create any article on anywhere in Africa whenever you feel like it and list it!... 70.63% Since September 2016, we...

Motto of the Day Participants Discussion (Nominations) Guidelines Nominations (New mottos go here) In review + Specials + Decisions Frequently Used Ideas...

The Heymann Standard has two meanings: It is invoked during deletion discussions to point out that an article has been significantly improved since it...

The duck test—"If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck"—suggests that something can be identified...

WP:LOTMWP:LOTM The following lists have been chosen as lists of the month. In December there will be monthlong voting among the twelve List of the Month chosen...

Shortcut WP:TBMWP:TBM Redlinks which need to be turned blue at the earliest opportunity need to be listed here. If you can help by creating a stub (or...

Welcome to the WikiProject Democratic Republic of the Congo! This group was formed to better organize articles on the Democratic Republic of the Congo in...

Picture of the day archives These featured pictures, as scheduled below, appeared as the picture of the day (POTD) on the English Wikipedia's Main Page...

This is the assessment page for the Politics of the United Kingdom WikiProject. WikiProject content quality grading scheme v t e The importance criteria...

Main page WikiProject The Core Contest #team-b-vital Shortcut WP:TCCWP:TCC The 2026 Core Contest has finished! It started at April 15 and ended on May...

it in, fix it, or inline-tag it so the newbie can fix. Biting the newcomers convinces them that Wikipedia is not the place for them. However, we must go...

Welcome to the WikiProject Republic of the Congo! This group was formed to better organize articles on the Republic of the Congo in a spirit of cooperation...

The Wikipedia Library Library Coordination TWL works because of the amazing volunteer resources in our community. You can help with managing and expanding...

be done in the context of the principles supporting them and the improvement of the encyclopedia. Also the policy page only specifies the community standards...

the top of the list, just below the "Open cases" header. If there's only a red link, check that the spelling of the username and the number match the...

weight in the article relative to its significance. The concept is similar to that of playing the devil's advocate. The point is to satisfy the proponents...

Picture of the day archives These featured pictures, as scheduled below, appeared as the picture of the day (POTD) on the English Wikipedia's Main Page...

Welcome to the assessment department of the WikiProject Indigenous peoples of the Americas! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's...

when the cause that the group advocates is noble, the usual Wikipedia principles about the acceptability of an article apply. The group must be "notable"...

lot of things, and, if the people who found 87 blog and online forum sources using the University of Google really cared about the subject, they'd find...

Welcome to the assessment section of WikiProject The Simpsons. The assessment department of WikiProject The Simpsons focuses on assessing the quality of...

with the necessary information, aligning prose with the manual of style, or improving the quality of the prose through copy-editing (such as making the text...

You are invited to join the Wikipedia:Destubathon of the Americas which will take place from May 1-31, and include Canada. Up to £2000 (around $2687) in...

non-rendering change to the page, fill out the edit summary with your short message including this tag: [[WP:dummy edit]] (include the four square brackets)...

WP:DOH/TOPICWP:DOH/TOPIC WikiProject The Simpsons' Featured topic Drive is a concentrated effort to get various topics about The Simpsons to good or featured...

describe the painting in more detail and elaborate on the style of the painting, for example, the girl looking out at the viewer. The structure of the painting...

protection on the Wrong Version by a passing administrator. Where the issues are of paramount importance, editors may be tempted to climb the Reichstag building...

learn how to find what you are looking for, and introduce you to a few of the most important pages. Prior tip – Tips library – Next tip Read more: Wikipedia:Tutorial  ...

WP:AtdragWP:Atdrag The Anglesey-Gwynedd Challenge was won by User:Cwmhiraeth by a clear margin. Several core articles were improved by her and others in the process...

The Oceania 10,000 Challenge Improve/create any article on anywhere in Oceania whenever you feel like it and list it!... 39.56%...

Do not insult the vandals. Most "vandals" fall into one of two categories: newbies who do not know any better, and true vandals or trolls. Getting angry...

improve it over the course of the month, ideally to the level of a featured article. Please nominate articles in the nominations page. The articles will...

Welcome to the WikiProject Cape Cod & The Islands! Do you love the peninsula of Cape Cod, or are you an admirer of the Islands to the south? Do you want...

to read the source first, before discussing the credibility and/or application of a given source to an article in WP:AFD. Failure to read the source can...

Wikipedia, it is possible, indeed common, to find people shooting themselves in the foot or being hit by a boomerang after complaining about someone else. Wikipedia...

Collaboration of the Month will be selected using this page. The article may or may not yet exist. The topics can be related to the history of science...

related to the topic of days of the year. It serves as a style guide for date pages, such as January 1, January 2, January 3, and so on. The primary goal...

the one question: Does it make Wikipedia better or not? Yes → Do it, support the policy, keep the article, unblock, etc. No → Don't do it, oppose the...

WikiProject Saint Vincent and the Grenadines! This group was formed to better organize articles on Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in a spirit of cooperation...

innocently suggest that we "teach the controversy" when presented with a real-world conflict in reliable sources. "Teach the controversy" is not a general...

Follow the leader occurs during a deletion discussion (such as an AfD), when the first editor to comment on the board, or in some cases, the nom, gives...

Committee decisions, and the ArbCom will consider each participant's role in the dispute.) Comments are very welcome on the Talk page, and will be read...

Brendon-John Crook Daniel McLauchlan Errol Peart Finley Brooker Francis Nkuna Jimmy Kgamadi Kanishka Alvitigala Vanessa Lord Wendale White...

The Wikipedia Library This page is for collecting applications for volunteers to help coordinate various elements of The Wikipedia Library. Coordinators...

by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs) Sign up for monthly delivery Greetings Wikipedia Library participants. Welcome to the inaugural...

humorous. It is not meant to be used intentionally or unintentionally to bite the newbies. If you are new to Wikipedia and have been referred here, then please...

moving away from one will cause you to be in danger from the other. This is the grey zone the twilight zone that evening time when things lose their distinction...

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Bongo Comics Group, The Heartbroke Kid, World of Springfield Expand: The Simpsons Theme, Bongo Comics, Mark Kirkland, Jim Reardon, The Simpsons: Tapped Out...

Welcome to WikiProject The Rolling Stones, a WikiProject to help organize all the information in Wikipedia related to the the Rolling Stones. This project's...

WP:TWASWP:TWAS The following first appeared at The Teahouse in 2017, and was later modified in accordance with the spirit of Wikimas: 'Twas the night before...

Picture of the day archives These featured pictures, as scheduled below, appeared as the picture of the day (POTD) on the English Wikipedia's Main Page...

The English Wikipedia is read in locations around the world, so the days of the year articles (such as January 1, January 2, January 3, and so on) should...

Congratulations to everybody who participated it's been an amazing thing! The Wikipedia:The 50,000 Destubbing Challenge is now open for a long term global-scale...

up the wall. We must be extremely hostile to them and always assume that they want to destroy our precious wiki in order to have them understand the true...

To paraphrase Brooks Hatlen: the world has got itself in a big damn hurry. But no matter how quickly you can make a million, order a pizza through your...

Sometimes you need to read more than just the headlines! ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 1 January 2023 In the media Contribute   —   Share this  PDF...

Don't call the kettle black. The kettle may or may not be black, but attacking it for its blackness will only draw attention to your own blackness, which...

of the problems we have with civility, the interpretations of the policy, and probably about 90% of the disputes, are due to people overreacting. The world...

Disruptive, agenda-driven, or disturbed editors may egg you on in the subtlest of ways, may come at you as a victim, as someone who cares or someone who's...

The Wikipedia Library Best practices for Librarians, Archivists and Cultural Professionals who want to link to collections on Wikipedia. Shortcuts...

The Adventure Learn to edit Wikipedia in under an hour! Come on a journey full of real skills, tips, helpers, rewards, and support. Start the adventure...

The contest is now closed. Thank you to everybody who contributed and together produced a whopping 2890 articles, covering every country of the world...

The following was posted by William Pietri to welcome back a banned editor on a hotly disputed article. Several people have praised it as embodying perfectly...

November in the central library; could the following item be added to a WLL section? I don’t know if the newsletter will be issued before the date, but...

The Latin American 10,000 Challenge Improve/create any article on anywhere in Latin America whenever you feel like it and list it!... 30.31%...

minor vandalism) seek recognition and infamy by interrupting and frustrating the Wikipedia project and community. This is particularly true for those prolific...

Photographers, Sandy Hook, the shocking use of Nazi symbols in articles about Nazis, and "You wouldn't recognise a fact if it bit you in the ass". ← Back to Contents...

section. At the end of each month, the article with the most votes is normally selected as the new collaboration. In the case of a tie, the article nominated...

Editing under the influence (EUI) refers to editing while not in one's usual state of mind, unless under the influence is the editor's usual state of...

Masking the lack of notability consists of taking steps to cover up the fact that a subject is really not notable. To do so in itself is not a violation...

the quality of the articles pertaining to the football leagues of the United States and Canada Improve the quality of articles for the players of the...

help point to sources. Please feel free to add new resources with a URL to the site, and a brief description. Don't worry too much about presentation or...

The difference between policies, guidelines, and essays on Wikipedia is obscure. There is no bright line between what the community chooses to call a...

The following discussions are requested to have community-wide attention: You can sign up to receive a user talk page invitation to participate in discussions...

Meta:The Wikipedia Library/Newsletter/Recipients This page is a soft redirect....

The Spanish Translation of the Week or SPATRA is a collaborative effort to translate worthy Spanish articles on subjects which may not otherwise have been...

permitted on the English Wikipedia, misuse of two or more accounts by the one individual—"abusive sock puppetry"—is in violation of the project's communal...

The 10,000 Indian Challenge 31.00%...

needed to show that the presentation of material on Wikipedia is consistent with the views that are presented in scholarly discourse or the world at large...

at Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge. Feel free to continue to contribute entries for Turkey for the main European list.♦ Dr. Blofeld...

Shortcut WP:ACOTFWP:ACOTF The Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight (ACOTF) is an ongoing collaborative effort to raise the quality of a selected article...

leave the {{WikiProject Magic: The Gathering}} banner on the talk page of the article. Visit our member page Add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Magic: The Gathering/Userbox}}...

Wikipedia is one of the first sources many people check when doing research. As a result, any misinformation found here could quickly spread, and should...

you must “patrol” your own thoughts and strike down any interpretation of the behavior of others that could construe bad faith. Because believe it or not...

THE WORK (AS DEFINED BELOW) IS PROVIDED UNDER THE TERMS OF THIS CREATIVE COMMONS PUBLIC LICENSE ("CCPL" OR "LICENSE"). THE WORK IS PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT...

activity of moving freely licensed files from Wikipedia to the Wikimedia Commons, which serves as the central file repository for all Wikimedia Foundation projects...

Purge the main page cache Hurricane Joaquin was a powerful tropical cyclone in 2015 and one of the strongest hurricanes on record to affect the Bahamas...

for cataloguing every free-use image related to The Simpsons and is principally maintained by Gran2. The photographer, source and uploader of all of these...

The Wikipedia Library Wikipedia Cultural Professional Interns A self-guided curriculum for student and professional editors working to profile library...

of Women's History Month, the National Museum of Women in the Arts is organizing and hosting the second annual Women in the Arts workshop and edit-a-thon...

This essay is about the appropriate use of WP:BEFORE in WP:Articles for Deletion discussions based in relevant policies. The core synopsis of which can...

How the Signpost is documenting the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: We stand in solidarity with free knowledge. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue...

The Wikipedia Library Supporting Open Access The Open Access Button will retire on 18 November 2025. See the timeline and alternatives on the OA.Works...

text in your own words (without plagiarizing the source), preparing the inline citation, adding the text to the article, and then engaging in discussion with...

Motto of the Day Participants Discussion (Nominations) Guidelines Nominations (New mottos go here) In review + Specials + Decisions Frequently Used Ideas...

Harrias (talk · contribs): Mostly the battles and personnel relating to the south-west of England, but wider if the fancy takes me. Maxcapacity5 (talk ·...

The holy-shit slide ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 28 October 2018 From the archives Contribute   —   Share this  PDF download  E-mail  Mastodon...

The inspector ignores the builder. "This house is no good, builder. It must be torn down." The next day the inspector sends someone to demolish the house...

of Wikipedia. Internal links bind the project together into an interconnected whole. Interwikimedia links bind the project to sister projects such as...

is the place where the content of the article is supposed to be discussed. Again, the template is only stating the obvious — that is, whenever the person...

good faith" (AGF) whom they perceive to be doing the contrary. However, like bad faith itself, the assumption of bad faith should not be assumed merely...

from the outset, but most start as stubs and ideally grow into well-written, comprehensive articles with time. This page describes the stages in the life...

let us get started. The goal of templates is to help the article and make things clear. But to make things clear, who will make the templates clear? You...

Wiki-drama in the UK House of Commons: Plus, Wiki Unseen, the "Sports Wars", and much more. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 27 February 2022 In the media...

their toys that were in the pram out onto the floor in the process. By extension, the British phrase "to throw one's toys out of the pram" is used when we...

WP:POTD/GWP:POTD/G These are the guidelines for scheduling and maintaining the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD), a section on the Main Page that is...

radio "Wikilove" from the press, selected comments In academic studies In books In conference In court cases In judicial opinions In the press On TV and radio...

Month and the ArtAndFeminism Wikipedia Project, the National Museum of Women in the Arts is organizing and hosting the third annual Women in the Arts workshop...

practices. The primary goal of the project is to improve all articles related to The Clash. The first major challenge is to improve the most important...

Blocks the Wikipedia Amid Coronavirus Crisis, Says Net Group from the AP via the March 3 Haaretz. Only the Farsi Wikipedia was involved according to the group...

The Wikipedia Library Academic Research Libraries and Wikipedia are natural allies. Really. Shortcuts WP:TWL/UNILIBWP:TWL/UNILIB WP:UNILIBWP:UNILIB 5th...

fresh campaign is calling for his release. freezelight – CC-BY-SA 2.0 In the media Indonesian editors, you shall return! And lawspam, may you be away...

The Signpost scoops The Signpost: The dark and twisted world of Wikipedia's most powerful media institution: The Signpost. ← Back to Contents View Latest...

The Dutch Wikipedians' notice board. Add yourself to the category of Wikipedians located in the Netherlands. Recent Netherlands-related articles The Netherlands...

The bad and the good: Getting ready for anything. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 29 March 2020 From the editors Contribute   —   Share this  PDF...

afterwards. Members of the Supreme Cabal Regime of the English Wikipedia (S.C.R.E.W.) do not want such bad press (press of any type on The Cabal is seriously...

summarised with the full text placed on Wikisource, or given as an external link. If the work is in copyright, then be careful to limit the amount quoted...

Ending the system of portals  – Hi everybody. Because this discussion has become so lengthy (400,000+ bytes), I have moved it to a subpage of the village...

Join us for the... Color History with the Smithsonian! #ColorOurHistory - a Wikipedia edit-a-thon to increase Wikipedia articles about notable minority...

The Onion and Wikipedia: A look at when The Onion published an humorous article regarding Wikipedia. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 29 May 2022...

The Wikipedia Library About The Wikipedia Library The Wikipedia Library is an open research hub, a place for active Wikipedia editors to gain access to...

a page written in Wikipedia project namespace describing the processes on Wikipedia at the point-of-view of one or more users. Essays can be written...

exactly the same, the author had not consistently used the same references. The references used on the Wikipedia article supported the text, but the references...

Wikipedia ultimately exists for our readers. The prime responsibility of the editing community is to make our content useful and interesting for those...

A new goose on the roost: Or maybe the spit -- only time will tell. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 31 October 2022 From the team Contribute   —  ...

watching the hen house: Wikidata, Turkey, Valentine's Day and all sorts of bias! ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 28 February 2021 In the media Contribute...

A changing of the guard: Your two new Signpost Editors in Chief. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 29 May 2022 From the team Contribute   —   Share...

about the source, and give a unique name for it in the "Name" field. Then click the "Insert" button and it will add the required wikitext in the edit window...

resource during the pandemic: What COVID-19 data are available from the WMF? ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 26 April 2020 By the numbers Contribute...

Shortcuts WP:5WP:5 WP:5PWP:5P WP:PILLARSWP:PILLARS The fundamental principles of Wikipedia may be summarized in five "pillars": Wikipedia combines many...

WikiProject Months in the 1900s is a WikiProject for improving articles relating to months from January 1900 to December 1999. This WikiProject is for...

on Wikipedia. Comment on content, not on the contributor. Personal attacks harm the Wikipedia community and the collaborative atmosphere needed to create...

Does birthplace affect the frequency of Wikipedia biography articles?: Some evidence from people born in France. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue...

Rise of the machines, or something: The future of stuff? Who knows, but two articles were written by a computer this month. ← Back to Contents View Latest...

"The fulfillment of the dream of humanity" or a nightmare of PR whitewashing on behalf of one-percenters?: Praise for possibly pansophic Wikipedia from...

All The Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia. He thinks that "Wikipedia is one of the greatest things on the internet"...

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

The ball is in your court: How to stop abusive commercial editing. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 1 March 2020 From the editor Contribute   —  ...

against China, Turkey, the NSA, Pennsylvania politicians and the Detroit Tigers ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 31 May 2019 In the media Contribute   —  ...

Welcome to the WikiProject Czech Republic, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of the Czech Republic...

The EU Digital Services Act: What’s the Deal with the Deal?: New regulations governing online censorship ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 29 May 2022...

several controversies. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 31 October 2022 In the media Contribute   —   Share this  PDF download  E-mail  Mastodon  LinkedIn...

The battlegrounds outside and inside Wikipedia: What's hot in the media this month. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 24 April 2022 In the media Contribute...

rain!" The inspector ignores him. "This house is no good, builder. it must be torn down." Instead of fixing the problems, the builder then spends the next...

The future of Wikipedia: And a bit about the past. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 26 September 2021 In the media Contribute   —   Share this  PDF...

The 2002 Spanish fork and ads revisited (re-revisited?): A look at different approaches taken by Wikipedia's founders in 2002, as seen from the perspective...

The reach of protest images on Wikipedia: Wikiepedia's retweet and share buttons ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 25 April 2021 Changing the world...

available in the mw:2010 wikitext editor. In that light-blue toolbar, bring up the template wizard by clicking on the Cite dropdown and the Templates dropdown...

A decade of The Signpost, 2005–2015: The first 10 years are the hardest. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 27 January 2020 From the archives Contribute...

See the log for the latest changes. List of the 500 most popular physics pages, updated monthly. Recent changes to those pages watch Assess the quality...

Wikipedia's heels: A perspective on the cost of paid editing: Revisiting an editor's warning to count our kidneys and keep the wolves at bay. ← Back to Contents...

variation on the theme. That's the way the media often works. No reporter wants to be left behind on the big story. This month nobody could agree on the big story...

article, and the death of Toolserver: What tales echo in these hallowed halls. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 31 October 2022 From the archives Contribute...

on the planet free access to the sum of all human knowledge. We should celebrate all of our achievements. The English language Wikipedia marked the creation...

The disinformation age: or is it the information error? ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 30 June 2019 In the media Contribute   —   Share this  PDF...

coverage is up to the discretion of the editor(s) involved. The general notability guideline is extremely vague on this matter. The only thing it states...

seagulls, public domain primates and more: The media discuss online copyright issues, Wikipedia's coverage of the capital of Israel and creation of a "reasonably...

The past is not even past: Even for Wikipedia critics in nappies! ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 28 December 2021 In the media Contribute   —   Share...

month for truth: But Annie Rauwerda is the real thing! ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 31 August 2022 In the media Contribute   —   Share this  PDF...

the article, and how the article survived the attempted deletion. In The Atlantic, "The Dark Saga of Katie Bouman" follows the ups and downs of the internet...

The 5Fs is an acronym for further fodder for future filings which also doubles as the Hawaiian good luck sign under certain circumstances, although it...

come to an end. The Wikimedia Foundation agreed that the English-language Arbitration Committee would have full power to review the one-year ban against...

(WP:CREATELEAD) summarising the most important points of the topic. The lead section is the first part of the article; it comes above the first header, and may...

time again! Two of the most recurring themes in The Signpost over the past six or so years have been paid editing and RfA. Over the next few issues we'll...

and has approved the content of much of the December issue. Smallbones approved the content of this column. In the latest addition to the long series of...

consider the changing seasons as a reminder that nothing remains the same (even the dear old Signpost). If you can spare some time to help in the Newsroom...

Shortcut WP:EotW/NWP:EotW/N This is the place to nominate someone for Editor of the Week recognition: an unsung hero who has been doing great work. To...

The rise of Wikipedia as a disinformation mop: Internet companies use Wikipedia to police truth; Citogenesis proven yet again; early birthday greetings;...

Categories The X-Files (franchise) The X-Files characters The X-Files episodes The X-Files (franchise) images The X-Files lists Millennium (TV series) The X-Files...

connections to the secret service", recommends the presiding judge. Whether the claims were justified or not was not taken into account by the court. The Wikimedia...

operations", and interviews. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 29 May 2022 In the media Contribute   —   Share this  PDF download  E-mail  Mastodon  LinkedIn...

than the classic randomized control trial – is the key to the chapter. The authors' interpretations and many reactions to the chapter focus on the perceived...

media covered the story as well. A sample of the publications who reported the story after WSJ includes The Hill, Newsweek and Newser in the States; Daily...

month, from the serious (WMF's ban on some Chinese Wikipedia contributors) to the silly (the "Depths of Wikipedia" Instagram account). Dig in! The long-running...

Here is the news: And wishing our readers a healthy, fortunate and bountiful 2022. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 28 December 2021 From the editor...

How the Wikimedia Foundation is making efforts to go green: Wikipedia's footprint is equivalent to 251 average US homes’ energy use. Yes we can go green...

not soon enough. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 25 April 2021 From the editor Contribute   —   Share this  PDF download  E-mail  Mastodon  LinkedIn...

obsession with chickens, the only things of note in the second issue was the conclusion of the monkey selfie lawsuits and the start of a sustainability...

Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war — three (more) stories: Education, climate change, and journalism. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 1 August...

Governance updates from, and for, the Wikimedia Endowment: 501(c)(3) application approved, Amazon donates another million. ← Back to Contents View Latest...

viewing a past edition of The Tea Leaf. Please don't edit it. It serves an archival purpose It's been a full year since the Teahouse opened, and as we're...

emerges. During the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution, the Tricoteuses were women who worked as knitters, and who vocally supported the Jacobins. They...

Women and Wikipedia: the world is watching. "If you don't clean up this mess, the adults are going to come and take your toys away from you." ← Back to...

task force of the Television WikiProject and the Nickelodeon WikiProject to better organize information in articles related to Avatar: The Last Airbender...

Much wikilove from the Mayor of London, less from Paekakariki or a certain candidate for U.S. Congress: Several online battles are juxtaposed with stories...

but Bosman resisted the change, as at the time Hughes was not listed on the masthead of the Review at all. The correction to the article was issued in...

the rally. The answer: 8,000 is the seating capacity; 20,000 also includes people on the floor of the arena, those standing outside the arena, at the...

18:00 UTC on 10 June 2019, the English Wikipedia administrator Fram was banned by the Wikimedia Foundation from editing the English Wikipedia for a period...

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involving the policy on outing. An editor was topic-banned based on an article published in The Daily Dot which apparently outed the long time editor. The unusual...

support Wikipedia uses the Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and WAV formats for audio, as they are not encumbered by patents (an issue that prompted the decision that MP3...

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to Zerkalo. The charges arose because Bernstein edited the Russian Wikipedia, giving information that appeared to violate a new law of the Russian Federation...

The media on Wikipedia's workings: the good and not-so-good: And the ugly. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 29 March 2018 In the media Contribute   —  ...

Shortcut WP:WRONGWP:WRONG m:The Wrong Version This page is a soft redirect....

The pending changes fiasco: how an attempt to answer one question turned into a quagmire: They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. ← Back...

against spam. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 29 November 2019 From the archives Contribute   —   Share this  PDF download  E-mail  Mastodon  LinkedIn...

Per the Manual of Style, the stub template is placed at the end of the article, after the External links section, any navigation templates, and the category...

see it. The best response to this would be to revert, block, ignore, but less experienced users may instead engage with the troll, giving them the emotional...

debate the issue. The full debate with the original introduction follows. - S About a week ago, the Wikimedia Foundation proposed to modify the Wikimedia...

will happen: They will rot you from the inside out. Express your feelings and thoughts – How can you expect the other person to understand if you don't...

The first rule of Wikipedia is: You do not talk about Wikipedia. The second rule of Wikipedia is: You do not talk about Wikipedia. The third rule of Wikipedia...

The Signpost's new editor-in-chief, presents a retrospective on last month's humour article in the aftermath of the community's response. From the editors...

2018 From the editor Contribute   —   Share this  PDF download  E-mail  Mastodon  LinkedIn  Facebook  X (Twitter)  Bluesky  Reddit By Kudpung The UK Houses...

ones like Adobe Photoshop that provide a variety of processing filters. The preferred formats are Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) for drawings, and Portable...

The Signpost is still afloat, just barely: A slightly thinner issue, but out on time. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 28 October 2018 From the editors...

How Smart is the SMART Copyright Act?: The deceptively simple Strengthening Measures to Advance Rights Technologies Copyright Act of 2022. ← Back to Contents...

the archives Contribute   —   Share this  PDF download  E-mail  Mastodon  LinkedIn  Facebook  X (Twitter)  Bluesky  Reddit By Kudpung This month The Signpost...

that if the source (the "tree") of the evidence or evidence itself is tainted, then anything gained (the "fruit") from it is tainted as well. The metaphor...

The Signpost's presses are rolling again: A burst of enthusiasm to keep the newspaper in print. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 26 April 2018 From...

Seven Wikimedians of the year: With two musical celebrations! ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 29 August 2021 Wikimedians of the year Contribute   —  ...

The creation of a work, such as an image or a piece of writing, generally automatically creates certain rights to control the use of that work. The original...

Playing with Wikipedia words: The Wikipedia Plays. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 30 August 2018 From the archives Contribute   —   Share this  PDF...

website has been splattered all over the headlines. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 28 December 2020 In the media Contribute   —   Share this  PDF...

revisions to the article in time, and disputes as to the veracity of the claims to it being an extermination camp, the misinformation persisted from the creation...

Meet Emna Mizouni, the newly minted 2019 Wikimedian of the Year: Emna Mizouni was named the 2019 Wikimedian of the Year. ← Back to Contents View Latest...

Keep straight on – there are trolls in the hedgerows. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 30 August 2018 From the editor Contribute   —   Share this  PDF...

finalized by the end of the year. The editing community quickly reacted with a discussion on the Village pump. The Verge gives more details of the board resolution...

Where to draw the line in reporting?: Tell us what you think! ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 24 December 2018 From the editors Contribute   —   Share...

Wikipedia to build the world’s largest online Chinese encyclopaedia. The South China Morning Post, based in Hong Kong, reports on the on-going controversy...

disrupt the discussion and, if left to fester, ultimately undermine confidence in the result. The longer the problems go unaddressed, the messier the situation...

The world's press says "Happy Birthday!" with a few twists: Even the world's richest man is happy we exist! ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 31 January...

Wikimedia Foundation petitions the European Court of Human Rights to lift the block of Wikipedia in Turkey: The WMF keeps working to stop Turkey from blocking...

there is the Task Center. For a listing of ongoing discussions, see the dashboard. Editors are entrusted with the responsibility of upholding the integrity...

Disambiguation pages with links is a project that patrols the incoming links to disambiguation pages. These non-article pages exist to clarify and ease...

contrast to the reactions of the delegations from the US and the UK. As noted by Quartz, the Chinese government's action should be seen in the context of...

Meet the 2020 Wikimedian of the Year: Sandister Tei. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 1 November 2020 News from the WMF Contribute   —   Share this...

improve articles relating to Education in the United Kingdom. Our main aim is to bring all articles within the scope of this project up to a minimum standard...

"The future of portals", a year later ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 30 April 2019 From the archives Contribute   —   Share this  PDF download  E-mail...

recovered, and reflect on the importance of keeping data safe. The following Signpost article, by Jarry1250, originally appeared in the 20 December 2010 edition...

Is this the new normal?: We keep on publishing as long as you keep on reading. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 1 October 2018 From the editor Contribute...

The WMF's take on the new EU Copyright Directive: The Wikimedia Foundation reacts to the passing of the new EU Copyright Directive. ← Back to Contents...

What Wikipedia saw during election week in the U.S., and what we’re doing next: No evidence of large-scale state-sponsored disinformation. ← Back to Contents...

Pete Forsyth Please note the subscription/notification poll described at the end. Since joining the Signpost team and assuming the role of editor in chief...

Welcome to the Netherlands task force of WikiProject Football. The Netherlands taskforce covers: All Dutch clubs, leagues and competitions and associated...

features the story of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) appearing on the TV news show Meet the Press with a sticker or campaign button in the background...

from the position and resume being a regular member of the writing and editorial staff. As Smallbones put it then, the Editor-in-Chief carries out the following...

The bright side of news: Happy-er current events. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 27 March 2022 On the bright side Contribute   —   Share this  PDF...

The Daily Mail does not run Wikipedia: The recent closing of an English Wikipedia Request for Comment on the reliability of the Daily Mail, a British...

and 15 years ago: The Signpost looks back on The Signpost: New reports, conceived in a spirit of collaboration, and dedicated to the proposition of information...

readers find us? ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 27 June 2021 News from the WMF Contribute   —   Share this  PDF download  E-mail  Mastodon  LinkedIn...

focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do...

The snowball clause is one way that editors are encouraged to exercise common sense and avoid pointy, bureaucratic behavior. The snowball clause states:...

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work remote, and waives sick time: The WMF responds. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 29 March 2020 News from the WMF Contribute   —   Share this  PDF...

much worse. The program looks like Wikipedia, "the cornerstone of the free web.... It is the blueprint for restoring public trust in the web again." Wales...

welcoming back Turkey?: The internet may not be as stable as it seems ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 30 September 2019 In the media Contribute   —  ...

Of the over seven million articles in the English Wikipedia, there are some articles that Wikipedians have identified as being somewhat unusual. These...

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serves to advance a position not clearly advanced by the sources. These policies determine the type and quality of material that is acceptable in Wikipedia...

free, trusted information for the world: Happy birthday! ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 31 January 2021 News from the WMF Contribute   —   Share this...

Project Rewrite: Tell the missing stories of women on Wikipedia and beyond: Telling women’s stories is a radical act. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue...

website to find a list of the 100 released notables. In a blog post, the people behind the technology described how it works: [The software can] read 500...

discussions that have blossomed across the three wikis since the invasion began. The article also provides some backdrop on the endless discussions about whether...

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aims to promote Wiki-Love: The creation of the Esperanza group. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 28 February 2019 From the archives Contribute   —  ...

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The Wikipedia Library Discovery happens elsewhere. Elsewhere is Wikipedia. Shortcut WP:TWL/PublishersWP:TWL/Publishers 5th most visited website on the...

in Wikipedia; most cited work: And the burning question of the day, is the the monkey selfie going to space with the rest of Wikipedia? ← Back to Contents...

personal reflection. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 28 November 2022 From the archives Contribute   —   Share this  PDF download  E-mail  Mastodon  LinkedIn...

Smallbones In some months all the stories in the media about Wikipedia seem to be related to one bigger story. This month the bigger story is that Larry...

discuss the project itself should not be directly listed here. Instead note on the talk page of the referenced Wikipedia article in question the mention...

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the closure of access to the Russian Wikipedia. The Russian community's action was the third protest of its kind, after the SOPA/PIPA shutdown on the...

change. The deletion nominations of the Black Lives Matter Meta-Wiki page and the article Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman are closely examined, including the intervention...

organize articles on the Bahamas in a spirit of cooperation. Please note: The Bahamas are not located in the Caribbean Sea, but rather in the Atlantic Ocean...

within the scope of the project. To serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to the history of the United States in Wikipedia. The project...

up the messes left by other editors. The time and effort spent by admins is a key to building and maintaining quality of the encyclopedia. Among the actions...

A look at when the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees was reorganized. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 24 April 2022 From the archives Contribute...

Wikipedia's policies and guidelines are developed by the community to describe best practices, clarify principles, resolve conflicts, and otherwise further...

eight months after The Signpost was founded. It may be the first Signpost article about paid editing, but certainly hasn't been the last. An earlier article...

Capital, to sell the Public Interest Registry and thus its control of the .org web domain. Dot-org has been under the stewardship of the Internet Society...

Closed Requests (1, 2) This is a list of the active users on the Motto of the day project To add yourself to the list, add *{{user|(your username)}} Optionally...

500,000 articles in the Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia: A selection of good news and encouraging stories from the Wikiverse. ← Back to Contents View Latest...

Jimmy does OK too! ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 25 April 2021 In the media Contribute   —   Share this  PDF download  E-mail  Mastodon  LinkedIn...

The ugly, the bad, the playful, and the promising: Wikipedia coverage ranged from sobering to playful in this issue's roundup ← Back to Contents View...

and present it as "the truth" or "the best view". All articles must have as many {{citation needed}}s as possible, especially when the topic is controversial...

not to be the final point of reference. Wikipedia, like other encyclopedias, is a tertiary source and provides overviews of a topic. The goal of a Wikipedia...

The Wikipedia Library Research Desk Finding the right sources to improve an article Ask a Research Question Shortcut WP:TWL/RDWP:TWL/RD How this works:...

challenges ever. Here’s how the site is handling it." The Washington Post examines Wikipedia's response to the pandemic focusing on the contributions of individual...

which relate to the United Kingdom. We are dedicated to improving these articles and if you would like to help, please add your name to the participants...

were also interested in the dynamics that bring readers to us in the first place; we believed that readers typically learn about the Signpost by finding it...

complement to Wikipedia:Avoid using wikilinks. Show preview The preview button. Don’t click! The preview button (shown above) is sometimes used to preview...

Wikipedia:"Ignore all rules" essays and related topics Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not § Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy Ignore all rules Letter and spirit of the law...

Shortcuts WP:NODRAMAWP:NODRAMA WP:GDOWP:GDO In the Great Wikipedia Dramaout, similar to the Great American Smokeout, editors are asked to engage in a five-day...

of editing that disrupts progress toward improving an article or building the encyclopedia. This may extend over a long time on many articles. Disruptive...

and encouraging stories that are from the Wikiverse ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 30 September 2019 On the bright side Contribute   —   Share this...

Michael Snow, in the 16 July 2007 edition of The Signpost on the creation of the Article Rescue Squadron (ARS). Snow is the founder of The Signpost, is an...

a jury's acquittal of the "Colston Four" who tore down the statue of eighteenth-century slave trader Edward Colston during the Black Lives Matter protests...

and a table comparing the English Wikipedia to the other English-language Wikimedia projects. The old Wikistats-1 has records of the total number of words...

alt-right speech, classical scholars, the dark web, elicited European tourism, $500,000 golden parachutes, forgery, the Great Firewall, net neutrality, nukes...

quality encyclopedia. The question is, how? In the early years of Wikipedia there was no real answer to this question for the obvious reason that there...

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The Department of Fun is dedicated to providing the Wikipedia community, both young and old editors, with humour to encourage them to stay at Wikipedia...

Uzzell Katherine Maher is the CEO, and Janeen Uzzell, the COO, of the Wikimedia Foundation. This article was first published on the Wikimedia Foundation website...

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wisdom at all levels to enhance the product and enrich the greater good. With the goal of increasing new users' engagement, the Wikimedia Foundation Research...

here: The Office The Office (US) The Office This category is not specifically for The Office (US) but for all the versions of The Office around the globe...

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nipples; Episode #138 of Drama on the Hill: The anatomy of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick's chest area has been the talk of the month. But so have high-profile...

Welcome to The X Factor task force of WikiProject Television! Improve Wikipedia's coverage of The X Factor. Create guidelines for articles about The X Factor...

good news and encouraging stories from the Wikiverse. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 28 June 2020 On the bright side Contribute   —   Share this...

An edit war occurs when editors who disagree about the content of a page repeatedly override each other's contributions. Editors engaged in a dispute...

branches of knowledge, in an atmosphere of mutual respect and cooperation. The goal of a Wikipedia article is to create a comprehensive and neutrally written...

Wikipedia in the news ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 28 October 2018 In the media Contribute   —   Share this  PDF download  E-mail  Mastodon  LinkedIn...

photos of the same sites featuring models wearing clothing from The North Face, complete with the company's logo. The employees who replaced the photos did...

is short for History of the Paralympic movement in Australia and is a GLAM project organised by Paralympics Australia and the National Sport Information...

solve a crime. A bicyclist was hit. The driver fled the scene. Left in critical condition, a Reddit user by the name of YoungSalt desperately posted...

thinks that the town of about 24,000 residents needs to improve the town's image on the internet. He even campaigned on the issue in the election. He...

precisely because of the way the site is structured...". Meanwhile, writer Adrianne Jeffries for The Outline says that The whitehouse.gov reset broke Wikipedia...

2020. Kelsi Stine-Rowe is the Community Relations Specialist for the Movement Strategy Core Team, at the Wikimedia Foundation. The movement strategy recommendations...

discussion: The destruction of the Esperanza group. A follow up to its creation. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 31 March 2019 From the archives Contribute...

hoped to follow. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 26 June 2022 News from the WMF Contribute   —   Share this  PDF download  E-mail  Mastodon  LinkedIn...

would help the encyclopedia by keeping editors happy, productive, and on the project. The name is derived from the Spanish word for "hope" and the original...

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New Chinese national security law in Hong Kong could limit the privacy of Wikipedia users: Privacy is critical to sustaining freedom of expression and...

articles Maintain the Animation portal Scope The project covers all articles about animation. However, we acknowledge and are grateful for the work of other...

story in The Register highlighted the perceived "cash rich" status of the Wikimedia movement. The author of the piece, Andrew Orlowski, opened the piece...

fiction and fake news vandalism: And the media report it all ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 30 August 2019 In the media Contribute   —   Share this...

same vein, The Week reported on a new $250,000 grant by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to link library resources to Wikipedia. The project aims...

predates those proposals. The views expressed in this article are the author's alone and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of The Signpost or its staff...

The perils of Wikipedia's monopoly; Wikipedians' fragility; Street Sharks hoax: Not everything you read online is fact ← Back to Contents View Latest...

Wikipedians help save the world's knowledge and shine a light on current events? ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 1 October 2018 In the media Contribute...

concurrently with the main campaign, the expansion follows Aloy" "Development of The Frozen Wilds focused on exploring the culture of the enigmatic Banuk...

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In the media Contribute  —   Share this  E-mail  Facebook  Twitter  LinkedIn  Reddit  Digg By Pete Forsyth and Milowent The Washington Post, the most...

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our friends" ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 29 November 2019 From the editor Contribute   —   Share this  PDF download  E-mail  Mastodon  LinkedIn...

specifically the RfC on whether the "the" in the band's name should be capitalized or not. This isn't the first time The Beatles (or is it "the" Beatles?)...

Wikipedia, the lead section is an introduction to an article and a summary of its most important contents. It is located at the beginning of the article...

successful?: Plus the latest reports of vandalism and mistakes in Wikipedia ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 6 September 2017 In the media Contribute...

Rasberry The Huntsville Unit houses the Texas execution chamber where TaiChin Preyor received lethal injection following his lawyer's examination of the article...

avenues). Directions: Go towards the back of the plaza, around to the right of the Met opera house and just left of the Vivian Beaumont Theatre. Phone:...

Manual of Style for biographies states that the opening paragraph of a biographical article should state the person's "nationality", which it suggests will...

exploded in the press. We can only give a sample: Fighting against gender bias The magazine Smithsonian highlighted prosopographies (the "study of the individuals...

← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 6 December 2010 In the news Contribute  —   Share this  E-mail  Facebook  Twitter  LinkedIn  Reddit  Digg By Aude...

focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do...

and encouraging stories that are from the Wikiverse. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 31 July 2019 On the bright side Contribute   —   Share this...

good news and encouraging stories from the Wikiverse. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 29 November 2019 On the bright side Contribute   —   Share this...

Wikipedia engages the ‘nuclear option’ after Trump penis hack: reported in The Verge on 4 December, Russel Brandom's article discusses the recent spate of...

may also involve repeated attempts to insert or delete content in the face of the objections of several other editors, or behavior that tends to frustrate...

never saw myself in the shoes of E-in-C. I just missed the paper very much, and if anyone had suggested it to me, it would have been the last thing I would...

Islam Wikiproject The mission of WikiProject Islam is to ensure that Islam-related articles on Wikipedia are written in an encyclopedic style, in a neutral...

Edit with VisualEditor The Australian 5000 Challenge 74.0% Improve/create any article related to Australia whenever you feel like it!...

← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 1 November 2010 In the news Contribute  —   Share this  E-mail  Facebook  Twitter  LinkedIn  Reddit  Digg By Lumos3...

Glossaries Categories Indices Academic disciplines Anniversaries (days of the year) today Sovereign states and dependent territories Timelines decades...

inactive admins. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 24 December 2018 From the archives Contribute   —   Share this  PDF download  E-mail  Mastodon  LinkedIn...

Researcher at the Wikimedia Foundation. This article was originally published on the Wikimedia Foundation website on July 18, 2019. The past few years...

practices. Feel free to add your name to the list of WikiProject China participants. You may also want to add one of the following userboxes to your user page:...

categorize all the media produced at the conference and publish all the lasting ideas which people had there. Over the next few weeks the professional videographers...

and plagiarism. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 23 October 2017 In the media Contribute   —   Share this  PDF download  E-mail  Mastodon  LinkedIn...

Naruto, as he took the image. PETA filed suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, starting the long, arduous tale...

October 8/9, the 3rd Free Culture Research Conference took place at the Free University of Berlin, Germany, with Wikimedia Deutschland as one of the supporting...

November 2010 In the news Contribute  —   Share this  E-mail  Facebook  Twitter  LinkedIn  Reddit  Digg By Tilman Bayer Boing Boing [1] and The Atlantic [2]...

entire pages. You could also leave a note on the talk page asking for a source, or move the material to the talk page and ask for a source there. There...

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Smallbones "Hail to the Chief" has been associated with both the U.S. President and the President of the Confederacy (Hail to the Chief#History) Media...

op-ed in the New York Times; illuminating the unusual background of the Yuri Gadyukin hoax. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 29 April 2013 In the media...

Political editing in the context of the US presidential primaries: Another election, another series of edit wars. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue...

2010 In the news Contribute  —   Share this  E-mail  Facebook  Twitter  LinkedIn  Reddit  Digg By Lumos3, Tilman Bayer and Ohconfucius See also The Signpost's...

the top of the list. Replace "PageName" with the relevant article name, i.e. the one on the existing AFD discussion. Also, indicate the title of the article...

Morris in the Daily Dot summarised the bitter debates in Wikipedia around capitalisation or non-capitalisation of the word "into" in the title of the upcoming...

New Year's Day, the Daily Dot reported that a "massive Wikipedia hoax" had been exposed after more than five years. The article on the Bicholim conflict...

2020 In the media Contribute   —   Share this  PDF download  E-mail  Mastodon  LinkedIn  Facebook  X (Twitter)  Bluesky  Reddit By Smallbones In the dog days...

accused of editing Wikipedia for government clients; can Wikipedia predict the stock market?: An article published on May 10 on Odwyerpr.com written by...

WP:NINWP:NIN Wikipedia ads file info – #158 Welcome to the Nintendo task force of WikiProject Video games on the English Wikipedia. We are a group that creates...

to the Music of the United Kingdom WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Music of the United...

2010 From the editor Contribute  —   Share this  E-mail  Facebook  Twitter  LinkedIn  Reddit  Digg By Tilman Bayer Apart from reporting on the English Wikipedia...

separated with a "/" (a slash) from their 'parent' page. The subpage feature has been disabled in the English Wikipedia's main namespace (article namespace)...

Meta:The Wikipedia Library/Newsletter This page is a soft redirect....

establishing the basis of the content and its significance is a bad idea. There really are no points for being first; being the author of the best and most...

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of ongoing discussions, provided that it be done with the intent to improve the quality of the discussion by broadening participation to more fully achieve...

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In the news Contribute  —   Share this  E-mail  Facebook  Twitter  LinkedIn  Reddit  Digg By S8333631 and Tilman Bayer In her tech column for The New...

Zero; the 3D printer edit war; a culture based on change and turmoil: Piracy and controversy. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 23 March 2016 In the media...

the Arnnon Geshuri no-confidence vote: Board turmoil gets the attention of journalists. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 27 January 2016 In the media...

old. The Honda Civic is 2016’s best car. Taipei is the capital of—ahem—the "small island nation" of Taiwan. The problem, Dewey argues, is that the information...

Finance, is always among the best dressed people at the Wikimedia Foundation offices in San Francisco. Often the first to arrive and the last to leave, he somehow...

Manning "put back in the closet"; State involvement in Azerbaijani Wikipedia: After media praise for Wikipedia's decision to move the Bradley Manning article...

words the model considered the most when it classified the sentences. In the case of “opinion” statements, for example, the model assigned the highest...

Sue Gardner interviewed by the Australian press: Sue Gardner's visit to Australia sparked a number of interviews in the Australian press, and she commented...

News from WMF: The world’s largest photo contest, a $1 million gift, Wikipedia’s birthday, WF appoints Valerie D'Costa. ← Back to Contents View Latest...

Sanger on Wikipedia; Silver on Vox; lawyers on monkeys: Are the inmates running the asylum? Are journalists copying Wikipedia? Are monkeys filing lawsuits...

anticipation of the imminent resumption of the Wikipedia Foundation's fundraising efforts this month, The Economist profiled the unusual donation drive of what it...

decide whether a given topic warrants its own article. For people, the person who is the topic of a biographical article should be "worthy of notice" or...

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coverage in the mainstream media, led by the BBC, The Guardian and The Independent in the UK, and the Wall Street Journal, Time, Slate and the Washington...

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Gizmodo advertorial for the Hormel meat company asked about the invention of the BLT: What Hero Invented the BLT? The author quoted the Wikipedia article and...

puns from the sidelines, please join us. ← Previous "From the editors" Next "From the editors" → In this issue 9 June 2017 (all comments) From the editors...

back in the UAE: Wikipedia's science articles are "effectively incomprehensible" ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 6 January 2016 In the media Contribute  —  ...

The world's Wikipedia gaps; Google and Wikipedia accused of tying Ben Carson to NAMBLA: The week's news coverage about the encyclopedia. ← Back to Contents...

WikiProject United States on the English Wikipedia! We are a project dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the United States, with an...

notability requirements in the present, but could potentially become notable in the future. In these cases, the best solution is to move the articles out of article...

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effort dedicated to: Improving and organizing coverage of the natural environment, including the complex human impacts upon it. Standardizing content within...

of only the Bible—told The Independent On Sunday that they are disappointed that the Wikipedia article on the play reveals the twist ending. The play has...

file enforcement requests. Comments must address only the conduct of the user being reported or the filer. Enforcement against other users must be requested...

Welcome to the Arab world WikiProject on the English Wikipedia! We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the Arab world...

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November 2009 In the news Contribute  —   Share this  E-mail  Facebook  Twitter  LinkedIn  Reddit  Digg By Saqib Qayyum and Phoebe The Wall Street Journal...

2010 In the news Contribute  —   Share this  E-mail  Facebook  Twitter  LinkedIn  Reddit  Digg By Wackywace and Tilman Bayer Noam Cohen of The New York...

volunteer in Madison wants to close the gender gap. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 24 November 2017 In the media Contribute   —   Share this  PDF...

This Manual of Style (MoS or MOS) is the style manual for all English Wikipedia articles. This primary page is supported by further detailed subpages...

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WP:WIKIPEDIAWP:WIKIPEDIA "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing." —...

to the Movies was an edit-a-thon, Wikipedia meet-up and workshop that was held on Saturday, December 1, 2012, at the New York Public Library for the Performing...

In the news Contribute  —   Share this  E-mail  Facebook  Twitter  LinkedIn  Reddit  Digg By SL93 Wikipedia raised $20 million thanks to Wikipedia donators...

and the work behind the scenes of people like Tony1, Resident Mario, and others. When people look at the quality of the issue we published and the number...

Wikipedia women in the news, and media reacts to 2016 ad banner campaign ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 22 December 2016 In the media Contribute  —  ...

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and expand upon topics by introducing the reader to key articles, images, and categories that further describe the subject and its related topics. Portals...

the subject of the picture, without detailing the obvious; is succinct; establishes the picture's relevance to the article; provides context for the picture;...

and Mail recently interviewed Sue Gardner, the Foundation's executive director, in the Wikimedia office. In the piece, Wikipedians do it for love. Really...

battleground in the culture wars?: "Editors representing rival political tribes are frequently attempting to impose their respective narratives as the official...

enhance the acceptability of a topic that meets the guidelines explained below. A topic is presumed to merit an article if: It meets either the general...

awarded to Wikipedia; trouble on the Russian Wikipedia: The worldwide community wins a prestigious award while the Russian community struggles with government...

A sign of the times: the Signpost revamps its internal structure to make contributing easier: We received a large amount of feedback in our survey indicating...

article on the editathon, The New York Times writer Amanda Petrusich explored how "Doug Reside, the digital curator for the performing arts at the New York...

but it needs your help. With the ensuing Wikimedia Board elections and the recent events like the Wikipedia Academy at the National Institutes of Health...

In the news Contribute  —   Share this  E-mail  Facebook  Twitter  LinkedIn  Reddit  Digg By Tilman Bayer and J.delanoy In a study presented at the annual...

The Signpost tagging initiative: Over more than a decade of weekly publication, The Signpost has accumulated an incredibly lengthy and detailed record...

idealizing America's fortunes at the time the Star Spangled Banner was penned. Myers contends that the US essentially lost the War of 1812 to Canada, but "Wikipedia's...

contribution based on two specific benchmarks: the number of contributions that the editor has made to Wikipedia and the length of time registered. One academic...

the Netherlands than all of Africa combined: A recap of Wikipedia in the media this week ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 9 September 2015 In the...

60 Minutes, Kickstarter, and in the classroom: The venerable CBS news program 60 Minutes profiled Wikipedia and the Wikimedia community. ← Back to Contents...

May 2012 In the news Contribute  —   Share this  E-mail  Facebook  Twitter  LinkedIn  Reddit  Digg By Rcsprinter123 In an article by the Atlantic, Wikipedia's...

coverage of topics related to the Catholic Church, including the Latin Church and the Eastern Catholic Churches in communion with the Pope in Rome. Feel free...

An editorial board that includes you: The editorial board is not complete without you. We are looking for Wikipedians with all kinds of experience levels...

Zeitung, at the beginning of the last century the length was still stated correctly to be around 1230 km by the major encyclopedias (the Brockhaus encyclopedia...

turns five, but the Wikipedia fork is dead in the water" was the grim headline given to the interview. Last month, shortly after the anniversary of Citizendium's...

July 2011 In the news Contribute  —   Share this  E-mail  Facebook  Twitter  LinkedIn  Reddit  Digg By Skomorokh and Jarry1250 This week, the Foundation's...

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One major story that came out of Wikimania was Jimmy Wales' statements at the conference that he would prefer to have Wikipedia banned entirely in mainland...

Wikipedia survive?"; PR editing: The Hürriyet Daily News reports that the Turkish Wikipedia has posted banners on the top of the encyclopedia to warn users...

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This page is referenced in the Wikipedia Glossary. Civility is part of Wikipedia's code of conduct and one of its five pillars. Stated simply, editors...

steps: first, the problem needs to be identified, then a solution agreed upon, then that solution implemented. Sometimes, an editor will have the technical...

A news columnist on the frustrations of tweaking his Wikipedia bio: And this edition's roundup of media coverage ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue...

tackles the gender gap: A "study tour" by the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation for the purpose of researching development projects has been the subject...

The Signpost needs your help: As I said in August, contributing to the Signpost can be one of the most rewarding things an editor can do. The genre is...

Predicting the flu, MH17 conspiracy theories: "Rachel Feltman, in The Washington Post (November 4), examined research in which a team, mostly from Los...

clichéd, or endorsing of a particular viewpoint. The advice in this guideline is not limited to the examples provided and should not be applied rigidly...

the phrase "Gilgo Beach Killer" to the name of a person. The IP address in the edit history was that of the Suffolk County Police. Personnel from the...

the world: We want to take a moment to ask you to consider contributing to the Signpost. ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 22 July 2015 From the editor...

Help: The "1" on the sample template means to paste in the old page on the code, and the "2" means to paste in the new page on the code. The middle ground...

a version of the Spanish Wikipedia for distribution to remote schools. The project, "CDPedia," can be fit onto either a CD or DVD. The DVD contains all...

strategic voting in the WMF election: The Wikimedia Foundation's bi-annual Board of Trustees election is open for voting. Of the ten seats on the board, three...

Wikipedia in the news: This edition's roundup of media coverage ← Back to Contents View Latest Issue 29 September 2016 In the media Contribute  —   Share...

This is a WikiProject on elements of the Latter Day Saint movement, Mormonism, Latter Day Saint history, doctrine, practices, and other cultural effects...