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News and notes

English Wikipedia editors: "We don't need no stinking banners"

Joe Roe's close sows dough woes, manifestos... vetoes? overthrows?

In the media

"The most beautiful story on the Internet"

Ineffective altruism, return of the toaster, Jess Wade keeps wading through it, Russia censors searches, schools embrace Wikipedia.

Interview

Lisa Seitz-Gruwell on WMF fundraising in the wake of big banner ad RfC

An interview with Wikimedia's Chief Advancement Officer.

Opinion

Privacy on Wikipedia in the cyberpunk future

Oh, just one more thing... AI couldn't help but notice you use that punctuation a little bit more than most people...

Disinformation report

Missed and Dissed

Are government goons prowling our fair encyclopedia?

Op-Ed

Diminishing returns for article quality

Have we gotten past the point where better articles makes us a better encyclopedia? And what comes next?

Book review

Writing the Revolution

Heather Ford's new volume on Wikipedia, knowledge and power in the 2011 Egyptian revolution.

Technology report

Galactic dreams, encyclopedic reality

Facebook's Galactica demo provides a case study in large language models for text generation at scale: this one was silly, but we cannot ignore them forever.

Essay

The Six Million FP Man

Okay, six hundred, but either way, the bionic editor speaks.

Tips and tricks

(Wiki)break stuff

Productively doing nothing

Recent research

Study deems COVID-19 editors smart and cool, questions of clarity and utility for WMF's proposed "Knowledge Integrity Risk Observatory"

And other research findings.

Featured content

A great month for featured articles

Do consider joining FPC, though: we need you.

Obituary

A tribute to Michael Gäbler

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

Concept

The relevance of legal certainty to the English Wikipedia

A lost article from our deep annals

Traffic report

Musical deaths, murders, Princess Di's nominative determinism, and sports

The weeks and weeks, as reviewed by Wikipedia's readers.

From the archives

Five, ten, and fifteen years ago

Search upgrades, lawsuits, paid editing, and personal reflection.

CommonsComix

Joker's trick

A toast to good health, a health to good hoax, a hoax to good toast.

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