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The Signpost: 24 June 2025

• News and notes: Happy 7 millionth!
  

Admins arrested in Belarus.

• In the media: Playing professor pong with prosecutorial discretion
  

Pardon our alliteration!

• Disinformation report: Pardon me, Mr. President, have you seen my socks?
  

A get-out-of-jail card!

• Recent research: Wikipedia's political bias; "Ethical" LLMs accede to copyright owners' demands but ignore those of Wikipedians
  

And other new research publications.

• Traffic report: All Sinners, a future, all Saints, a past
  

Holy men and not-as-holy movies.

• News from Diff: Call for candidates is now open: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
  

Get your self-nomination in by July 2nd!

• Opinion: Russian Wiki-fork flails, failing readers and editors
  

After two years RuWiki fails to thrive.

• Debriefing: EggRoll97's RfA² debriefing
  

With some sweet-and-sour sauce!

• Community view: A Deep Dive Into Wikimedia (part 3)
  

Every thing you need to know about the Wikimedia Foundation?

• Comix: Hamburgers
  

Egad!

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The Signpost: 18 July 2025

• News and notes: Is no WikiNews good WikiNews? — Election season returns!
  

Endowment tax form, Wikimania, elections, U4C, fundraising and a duck!

• In the media: How bad (or good) is Wikipedia?
  

And how do we know?

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Medicine reaches milestone of zero unreferenced articles
  

Five-year journey comes to healthy fruition.

• In focus: Wikimania 2025: Connecting Wikimedians across the world for 20 years
  

Wikimedians from around the world will gather in person and online at the twentieth annual meeting of Wikimania.

• Recent research: Knowledge manipulation on Russia's Wikipedia fork; Marxist critique of Wikidata license; call to analyze power relations of Wikipedia
  

As well as "hermeneutic excursions" and other scientific research findings.

• News from the WMF: Form 990 released for the Wikimedia Foundation’s fiscal year 2023-2024
  

The report covers the Foundation's operations from July 2023 - June 2024

• Discussion report: Six thousand noticeboard discussions in 2025 electrically winnowed down to a hundred
  

A step towards objective and comprehensive coverage of a project nearly too big to follow.

• Comix: Divorce
  

Drawn this century!

• Opinion: Women are somewhat under-represented on the English-language Wikipedia, and other observations from analysis
  

How data from the Wikipedia "necessary articles" lists can shed new light on the gender gap

• Community view: A Deep Dive Into Wikimedia (part 4): The Future Of Wikimedia and Conclusion
  

Annual plans, external trends, infrastructure, equity, safety, and effectiveness. What does it all mean?

• Obituary: Pvmoutside, Atomicjohn, Rdmoore6, Jaknouse, Morven, Martin of Sheffield, MarnetteD, Herewhy, BabelStone
  

Rest in peace.

• Traffic report: God only knows
  

Wouldn't it be nice without billionaires, scandals, deaths, and wars?

• Humour: New forum created for people who don't care about Wikipedia
  

If you are too blasé for Mr. Blasé and don't give a FAC.

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"Deaths from the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Deaths from the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 July 21 § Deaths from the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic until a consensus is reached. Thepharoah17 (talk) 23:36, 21 July 2025 (UTC)