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JPxG – PD

Technology report

Millions of readers still seeing broken pages as "temporary" disabling of graph extension nears its second year

Much effort was spent drafting a movement charter about becoming "essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge". How much is spent maintaining it?

Lane Rasberry – CC 4.0 BY-SA

Interview

Interview on Wikimedia Foundation fundraising and finance strategy

Signpost interviews Wikimedia Foundation leadership on fundraising banners

David Berkowitz – CC 2.0 BY

Special report

19-page PDF accuses Wikipedia of bias against Israel, suggests editors be forced to reveal their real names, and demands a new feature allowing people to view the history of Wikipedia articles

And does it have anything to do with the unusual decision to let a zero-edit user open an arbitration request?

WMF – CC 3.0 BY-SA

Op-Ed

Wikipedia in the age of personality-driven knowledge

Can we compete with social media? Will aoomers forget Wikipedia?

Benjakob et al – CC 4.0 BY-SA

Recent research

"Newcomer Homepage" feature mostly fails to boost new editors

And several papers look at climate change on Wikipedia

Mona Hassan Abo-Abda – CC 4.0 BY-SA

News and notes

Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Charter ratified

WLM winners announced, Wikimania 2024, a new Wikimedia movement affiliate, and active enwp admins reach a record low.

Jonathan Billinger – CC 2.0 BY-SA

In the media

"For me it’s the autism": AARoad editors on the fork more traveled

Worldwide women turned blue and controversies on Serbian & French Wikipedia.

Astronimation – CC-BY

Traffic report

He rules over everything, on the land called planet Dune

Let me take you to the movies.

Albert Anker – PD

Humour

Letters from the editors

The only worthwhile grievance is the one that prompts satire.

Punch – PD

Comix

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