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Update: New Event-Organizer Tools for You on English Wikipedia!

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Hello,

I hope you're doing well! As an event coordinator on English Wikipedia, I’m happy to share some news with you. You now have the event-organizer right! This gives you access to the CampaignEvents extension, a powerful set of tools to help you organize and promote events and WikiProjects more easily. With the CampaignEvents extension, you can:

  • Manage event registration directly on English Wikipedia.
  • Use the Invitation List tool to find potential participants for your events/WikiProjects
  • Receive automatic promotion of your events via the Collaboration List

Learn more on mw:Help:Extension:CampaignEvents

Now that I have your attention, I’d also like to share some updates to the extension:

  • The Collaboration List can now be transcluded, meaning you can easily embed it on other wiki pages to share event details with more people by adding {{Special:AllEvents}}. Learn more.
  • Admins can now determine which namespaces are permitted for Event Registration on English Wikipedia, via Special:CommunityConfiguration. Right now, the Event namespace is permitted by default for Event Registration. However, other namespaces (such as Wikipedia, WikiProject, etc) can now be added as permitted namespaces by admins too. This can help other types of organized activities, such as WikiProjects, use Event Registration.For details, please visit: Permitted_namespaces

If you need help using these new tools, I’m here to support you. Feel free to reach out for guidance. You can also find some useful video guides on Commons.

We’re excited to see how you use these tools for WikiProjects or events! If you have any questions, please let me know.


Udehb-WMF (talk) 11:28, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]


DYK for Murad Al-Katib

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On 1 January 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Murad Al-Katib, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Murad Al-Katib provided 700 million meals of Saskatchewan-grown chickpeas, lentils and wheat to a United Nations program for Syrian refugees? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Murad Al-Katib. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Murad Al-Katib), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

RoySmith (talk) 00:17, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year to you, Mary Mark Ockerbloom!

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Happy New Year!
Hello Mary Mark Ockerbloom:


Did you know ... that back in 1885, Wikipedia editors wrote Good Articles with axes, hammers and chisels?

Thank you for your contributions to this encyclopedia using 21st century technology. I hope you don't get any unnecessary blisters.

Wil540 art (talk) 14:54, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Happy New Year elves}} to send this message
Wil540 art (talk) 14:54, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]


Women in Red January 2025

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Women in Red | January 2025, Vol 11, Issue 1, Nos 324, 326, 327, 328, 329


Online events:

Announcements from other communities

Tip of the month:

  • Celebrate WiR's 20% achievement by adding {{User:ForsythiaJo/20%Userbox}} to your user page.

Other ways to participate:

Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter/X

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Did you know nomination

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - December 2024 Newsletter

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This is our thirty-eighth newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 3, 10, 13 and 15.
User group news
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DYK for Bea Hines

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On 6 January 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Bea Hines, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Bea Hines, the first African-American woman to become a reporter at the Miami Herald, was sent to report on a riot on her first day at work? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Bea Hines. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Bea Hines), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:02, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This Month in GLAM: December 2024

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The Signpost: 15 January 2025

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The 20th anniversary of The Signpost.
A lot of psephology!
HUMINT or humbug?
Hallelujah!
Johnny Au has edited for 17 years straight without missing a day.
Some thoughts from the original editor-in-chief.
Public Domain Day 2025, Women in Red hits 20% biography milestone, Spanish Wikipedia reaches two million articles, and other news from the Wikimedia world.
The Signpost staff on achievements of '24 and hopes for '25.
The latest crusade?
Our alumni speak!
Applying the scientific method to a model of conflict that leads to arbitration.
This post fact-checked by real Wikipedian patriots.
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Women in Red February 2025

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Women in Red | February 2025, Vol 11, Issue 2, Nos. 326, 327, 330, 331


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  • Wiki Loves Ramadan begins on 25 February - a great opportunity to focus on women from Islamic history

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Suggestion:

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Re: Anderson Ruffin Abbott

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Hello Mary Mark Ockerbloom, This is to let you know that one of your recent edits at Anderson Ruffin Abbott caused a citation error.

Do not add invalid URLs and use preview before saving your edit. Happy editing.––kemel49(connect)(contri) 01:14, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2025 Newsletter

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This is our thirty-ninth newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 3, 11, 13 and 15.

The Signpost: 7 February 2025

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But an open language model is ready to help.
The WMF executive team delivers a new update; plus, the latest EU policy report, good-bye to the German Wikipedia's Café, and other news from the Wikimedia world.
Editor Fathoms Below reminisces over their successful RfA from February 2024.
Plus, reports on the ARBPIA5 case, new concerns over projects targeting Wikipedia editors, John Green gets his sponsor flowers, and other news.
Wikimedians and newbies celebrate 24 years of Wikipedia in the Brooklyn Central Library. Special guests Stephen Harrison and Clay Shirky joined in conversation.
Ending with some bans, and a new set of editing sanctions.
The start of the year was filled with a few unfortunate losses, tragic disasters, emerging tech forces and A LOT of politics.
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This Month in GLAM: January 2025

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Misinformation Template Updates

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I have published some changes in my sandbox for your feedback. There are variations of the Who's Who section for you to pick. Additionally, let me know when you'd be happy for the changes to go live. I'll make the initial update to the existing template to ensure everything appears right on the pages. Afterwards, I'm sure you'll be comfortable to tinker and maintain the titles. Thanks for this collaboration! Matthew Yeager (talk) 07:30, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Red March 2025

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Women in Red | March 2025, Vol 11, Issue 3, Nos. 326, 327, 332, 333, 334


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Announcements from other communities:

Tip of the month:

  • You can access the Wikipedia Library if you have made 500+ edits, and 6+ months editing,
    and 10+ edits in the last 30 days, and No active blocks

Moving the needle:[1]

  • 27 Jan 2025: 20.031% of biographies on EN-WP are about women (2,047,793 bios, 410,200 women)
  • 23 Dec 2024: 20.009% (2,041,741 bios, 408,531 women)

Thank you if you contributed one or more of the 1,669 articles during this period!

Other ways to participate:

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References

  1. ^ "Humaniki".

The Signpost: 27 February 2025

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French Wikipedia defends a user against public threats, steward elections, and other news from the Wikimedia world.
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Of "hunters", "busybodies" and "dancers".
User Sennecaster shares her thoughts on her recent RfA and the aspects that might have played a role in making it successful.
What are they? Why are they important? How can we make them better? And what can you do to help?
Liberté, liberté chérie.
Grammys, politics and the Super Bowl.
Straight from the source's mouth. A source is a source, of course, of course!
Turkish linguist wrote about languages and plants; Brazilian informaticist studied Wikimedia projects and education.
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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - February 2025 Newsletter

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This is our fortieth newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 3, 5, 8, 11, 13, 15 and 16.
User group news
  • User group meeting in February (minutes).
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Events

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This Month in GLAM: February 2025

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The Signpost: 22 March 2025

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It's an ecstasy, my spring.
Let them know what you think!
Read this, then forget all about it.
Life on the Wiki as usual!
And WMF invites multi-year research fund proposals
The Oscars, politics, and death elbow for the most attention.
The photographers are the celebrities!
And very unusual biographical images.
Send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.
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Women in Red April 2025

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Women in Red | April 2025, Vol 11, Issue 4, Nos. 326, 327, 335, 336


Online events:

Announcements (Events facilitated by others):

Tip of the month:

  • When creating biographies, don't forget to use Template:DEFAULTSORT.
    Accessible from "Wiki markup" at the foot of the page being edited,
    it allows categories to be listed under the subject's family name rather than their first or given name.

Moving the needle: (statistics available via Humaniki tool)

  • 24 Mar 2025: 20.070% of biographies on EN-WP are about women (2,057,083, 412,857 women)
  • 27 Jan 2025: 20.031% (2,047,793 bios, 410,200 women)

Thank you if you contributed one or more of the 2,657 articles during this period!

Other ways to participate:

Instagram | Pinterest

--Rosiestep (talk) 13:19, 30 March 2025 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - March 2025 Newsletter

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This is our forty first newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 13, 15 and 17.
News
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This Month in GLAM: March 2025

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The Signpost: 9 April 2025

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Fellow doctor Osama Khalid remains behind bars for "violating public morals" by editing.
Major changes to core content policy, or still-developing plan for new initiative?
Defeat, or just a setback?
Plus: 30-year anniversary of wiki software commemorated.
Our content is free, our infrastructure is not!
What is to be done?
Advice to aspirants: "Read RfA debriefs", including this one.
Rest in peace.
Snow White sinking, Adolescence soaring, spacefarers stranded, this list has it all!
The Wikimedia Foundation's announcement from Diff.
Gadzooks!
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Women in Red May 2025

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Women in Red | May 2025, Vol 11, Issue 5, Nos. 326, 327, 337, 338


Online events:

Announcements (events facilitated by others):

Progress ("moving the needle"):

  • Statistics available via Humaniki tool. Thank you if you contributed one or more of the 1,269 articles during this period!
  • 21 Apr 2025: 20.090% of EN-WP biographies are about women (2,061,363; 414,126 women)
  • 24 Mar 2025: 20.070% (2,057,083 bios; 412,857 women)

Tip of the month:

  • Those of you who experience harassment while trying to create or improve articles about women
    are welcome to bring your problems to our attention on the Women in Red talk page.

Other ways to participate:

--Lajmmoore (talk 09:21, 29 April 2025 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]

The Signpost: 1 May 2025

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As always, Wikimedia community governance relies on user participation; plus, more updates from the Wikimedia world
Scrapers, an Indian lawsuit, and a crash-or-not-crash?
And other new research findings.
And don't bite those newbies!
And don't bite those newbies!
Television dramas, televised sports, film, the Pope, and ... bioengineering at the top of the list?
Community volunteers network among themselves and use technology to counter attacks on information sharing.
A look at some product and tech highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation's Annual Plan (July–December 2024).
Hey! At least it is something!
Zounds!
Would a billion articles be a good idea?
There's a lot more to this than you think.
I wonder about having crats, but decided to become one anyway.
Just beautiful photos!
Rest in Paradise.
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A cup of tea for you!

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For combining all the refs on Sambhaji, a task I'd been dreading and which had long been put off! Have a cuppa to keep up the good work. CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 05:39, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]


Update: New Event-Organizer Tools for You on English Wikipedia!

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Hello,

I hope you're doing well! As an event coordinator on English Wikipedia, I’m happy to share some news with you. You now have the event-organizer right! This gives you access to the CampaignEvents extension, a powerful set of tools to help you organize and promote events and WikiProjects more easily. With the CampaignEvents extension, you can:

  • Manage event registration directly on English Wikipedia.
  • Use the Invitation List tool to find potential participants for your events/WikiProjects
  • Receive automatic promotion of your events via the Collaboration List

Learn more on mw:Help:Extension:CampaignEvents

Now that I have your attention, I’d also like to share some updates to the extension:

  • The Collaboration List can now be transcluded, meaning you can easily embed it on other wiki pages to share event details with more people by adding {{Special:AllEvents}}. Learn more.
  • Admins can now determine which namespaces are permitted for Event Registration on English Wikipedia, via Special:CommunityConfiguration. Right now, the Event namespace is permitted by default for Event Registration. However, other namespaces (such as Wikipedia, WikiProject, etc) can now be added as permitted namespaces by admins too. This can help other types of organized activities, such as WikiProjects, use Event Registration.For details, please visit: Permitted_namespaces

If you need help using these new tools, I’m here to support you. Feel free to reach out for guidance. You can also find some useful video guides on Commons.

We’re excited to see how you use these tools for WikiProjects or events! If you have any questions, please let me know.


Udehb-WMF (talk) 11:28, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Sylvia Soumah has been accepted

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Sylvia Soumah, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

The article has been assessed as C-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. This is a great rating for a new article, and places it among the top 22% of accepted submissions — kudos to you! You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

Since you have made at least 10 edits over more than four days, you can now create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for creation if you prefer.

If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk. Once you have made at least 10 edits and had an account for at least four days, you will have the option to create articles yourself without posting a request to Articles for creation.

If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider leaving us some feedback.

Thanks again, and happy editing!

Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 14:36, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Sally Coulthard has been accepted

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Sally Coulthard, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. Most new articles start out as Stub-Class or Start-Class and then attain higher grades as they develop over time. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

Since you have made at least 10 edits over more than four days, you can now create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for creation if you prefer.

If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk. Once you have made at least 10 edits and had an account for at least four days, you will have the option to create articles yourself without posting a request to Articles for creation.

If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider leaving us some feedback.

Thanks again, and happy editing!

Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 23:26, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Editor experience invitation

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Hi Mary Mark Ockerbloom. I'm looking for experienced editors to interview here. Feel free to pass if you're not interested. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 23:17, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - April 2025 Newsletter

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This Month in GLAM: April 2025

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The Signpost: 14 May 2025

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And comment is requested on a privacy whitepaper.
And other courtroom drama.
And how he knows it: all about lawyer letters and editing logs.
Why the language barrier is not the only impediment to navigating sources from another culture.
And QR codes for every page!
When an editor is ready to become staff at a public library (not a brother in a fraternity).
Rest in peace.
The technology behind it, and the other stuff.
Gadzooks!
And more.
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Women in Red June 2025

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Women in Red | June 2025, Vol 11, Issue 6, Nos. 326, 327, 339, 340


Online events:

Announcements:

  • Who are the most overlooked and interesting Women in Red? We've no idea,
    but we're putting together our list of the 100 most interesting ex-Women in Red.
    We are creating the list to celebrate 10 years of Women in Red and we hope to present it at Wikimania.
    We are ignoring the obvious, so do you have a name or subject we should consider?
    Can you suggest a DYK style hook?
    If you are shy about editing that page, you are welcome to add ideas and comments on the talk page.
  • The World Destubathon, 16 June - 13 July, 2025

Progress ("moving the needle"):

  • Statistics available via Humaniki tool. Thank you if you contributed one or more of the 1,492 articles during this period!
  • 19 May 2025: 20.114% of EN-WP biographies are about women (2,066,280; 415,618 women)
  • 21 Apr 2025: 20.090% (2,061,363 bios; 414,126 women)

Tip of the month:

  • Every language Wikipedia has its own policies regarding notability and reliable sources.
    Before translating an article from one language Wikipedia into English Wikipedia, research
    the subject and verify that the translated article will meet English Wikipedia's policy requirements.

Other ways to participate:

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This Month in GLAM: May 2025

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - May 2025 Newsletter

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This is our forty third newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 3, 5, 10, 15 and 16.
User group news
Other news
Events

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The Signpost: 24 June 2025

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Admins arrested in Belarus.
Pardon our alliteration!
A get-out-of-jail card!
And other new research publications.
Holy men and not-as-holy movies.
Get your self-nomination in by July 2nd!
After two years RuWiki fails to thrive.
With some sweet-and-sour sauce!
Every thing you need to know about the Wikimedia Foundation?
Egad!
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Women in Red July 2025

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Women in Red | July 2025, Vol 11, Issue 7, Nos. 326, 327, 341, 342, 343


Online events:

Announcements:

Progress ("moving the needle"):

  • Statistics available via Humaniki tool. Thank you if you contributed one or more of the 1,514 articles during this period!
  • 19 May 2025: 20.114% of EN-WP biographies are about women (2,066,280 bios; 415,618 women)
  • 23 Jun 2025: 20.130% (2,072,236 bios; 417,132 women)

Tip of the month:

  • A nuanced article is more useful than a shiny pedestal. Readers can find hope in your subject's survival or achievements,
    but they can also learn from your subject's mistakes and limitations.

Other ways to participate:

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - June 2025 Newsletter

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This is our forty fourth newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 3, 5, and 15.

This Month in GLAM: June 2025

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The Signpost: 18 July 2025

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Endowment tax form, Wikimania, elections, U4C, fundraising and a duck!
And how do we know?
Five-year journey comes to healthy fruition.
Wikimedians from around the world will gather in person and online at the twentieth annual meeting of Wikimania.
As well as "hermeneutic excursions" and other scientific research findings.
The report covers the Foundation's operations from July 2023 - June 2024
A step towards objective and comprehensive coverage of a project nearly too big to follow.
Drawn this century!
How data from the Wikipedia "necessary articles" lists can shed new light on the gender gap
Annual plans, external trends, infrastructure, equity, safety, and effectiveness. What does it all mean?
Rest in peace.
Wouldn't it be nice without billionaires, scandals, deaths, and wars?
If you are too blasé for Mr. Blasé and don't give a FAC.
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Women in Red August 2025

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Women in Red | August 2025, Vol 11, Issue 8, Nos. 326, 327, 344, 345, 346


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