Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2024-07-04

• News and notes: WMF board elections and fundraising updates
  

Three new admins, but overall numbers still shrinking.

• Special report: Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification vote underway, new Council may surpass power of Board
  

Will we weather the storm?

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

Unbundling, automation, fighting spirit, and a bot named Reimu Hakurei.

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

Debate unsettled after seventeen years.

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

Advocacy organizations, a journalist, mycophobes, conservatives, leftists, photographers, and a disinformation task force imagine themselves in Wikipedia.

• Sister projects: On editing Wikisource
  

A journey to a sister project.

• Obituary: Hanif Al Husaini, Salazarov, Hyacinth, and PirjanovNurlan
  

Rest in peace.

• Opinion: Etika: a Pop Culture Champion
  

An article about Etika's appeal and legacy in pop culture.

• Gallery: Spokane Willy's photos
  

A virtual visit to the Inland Northwest.

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

"Simply not good enough".

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

How well do you know the main page (no peeking)?

• Humour: A joke
  

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

Special:Diff/1 and related techno-trivia more complicated than you'd think.

• Recent research: Is Wikipedia Politically Biased? Perhaps
  

And other new publications on systemic bias and other topics.

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

Elections, movies, sports.