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* 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.
