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Photo Of The Day For 05/14/2025

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Current Events for 05/14/2025 @ 01:49 UTC

Topics in the news

Pope Leo XIV

• Robert Francis Prevost is elected as Pope Leo XIV (pictured), becoming the first Catholic pope born in the United States.
• Friedrich Merz is elected Chancellor of Germany and sworn in alongside his coalition government.
• Zhao Xintong defeats Mark Williams to win the World Snooker Championship.
• In horse racing, Sovereignty, ridden by Junior Alvarado, wins the Kentucky Derby.
• The Australian Labor Party increases its majority in the federal election.

Ongoing:

• Gaza war
• M23 campaign
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • timeline
• Sudanese civil war
  • timeline

Recent deaths:

• Vakhtang Machavariani
• Ghulam Mohammad Vastanvi
• May Abrahamse
• Julia Alexander
• Margot Friedländer
• David Souter

Current Edition Of Wikipedia Signpost For 2025

Subhashish Panigrahi – CC BY-SA 4.0

News and notes

India cut off from Wiki money; WMF annual plan and Wikimedia programs seek comment

As always, Wikimedia community governance relies on user participation; plus, more updates from the Wikimedia world.

Sandro Botticelli – PD

In the media

Feds aiming for WMF's nonprofit status

Scrapers, an Indian lawsuit, and a crash-or-not-crash?

MorgueFile (author unknown) – CC-BY-SA-3.0

Recent research

How readers use Wikipedia health content; scholars generally happy with how their papers are cited on Wikipedia

And other new research findings.

Jason White – CC-BY 2.0

Arbitration report

Sysop Tinucherian removed and admonished by the ArbCom

Community volunteers network among themselves and use technology to counter attacks on information sharing.

Smallbones – CC-BY SA

Discussion report

Latest news from Centralized discussions

And don't bite those newbies!

Clément Bardot – CC BY-SA 4.0

Traffic report

Of Wolf and Man

Television dramas, televised sports, film, the Pope, and ... bioengineering at the top of the list?

Vlasta x – CC-By-SA 4.

Disinformation report

At WikiCredCon, Wikipedia editors and Internet Archive discuss threats to trust in media

Community volunteers network among themselves and use technology to counter attacks on information sharing.

CLAUDIOLD – CC BY-SA 4.0

News from the WMF

Product & Tech Progress on the Annual Plan

A look at some product and tech highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation's Annual Plan (July–December 2024).

Extraordinary Machine – PD

Humour

Crisis erupts as furious admins, functionaries complain about crappy t-shirts

Hey! At least it is something!

Punch – PD

Comix

By territory

Zounds!

Mr vili – CC BY-SA 4.0

In focus

Using AI on the Russian Wikipedia: opportunities or challenges?

Would a billion articles be a good idea?

Noraym – cc-by-sa-3.0

Community view

A deep dive into Wikimedia

There's a lot more to this than you think.

– PD

Debriefing

Barkeep49's RfB debriefing

I wonder about having crats, but decided to become one anyway.

Donatas Dabravolskas – CC-By SA 4.0

Gallery

Meet the winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2024

Just beautiful photos!

JarrahTree – CC-BY 2.5 AU

Obituary

JarrahTree, JohnClarknew and Yashthepunisher

Rest in Paradise.

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