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• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation ousts, bans quarter of Arabic Wikipedia admins
  

Plus admin update and cool tools for the new year.

• In the media: Odd bedfellows, Elon and Jimbo, reliable sources for divorces, and more
  

Sometimes you need to read more than just the headlines!

• Interview: ComplexRational's RfA debrief
  

Interview of ComplexRational about their recent request for adminship.

• Technology report: Wikimedia Foundation's Abstract Wikipedia project "at substantial risk of failure"
  

Wikifunctions might drag it down.

• Essay: Mobile editing
  

Frustrations and successes.

• Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee Election 2022
  

Congratulations.

• Recent research: Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement in talk page disputes
  

And other new research findings.

• Serendipity: Wikipedia about FIFA World Cup 2022: quick, factual and critical
  

How Iranian press agencies help Wikipedia to reflect football in a better way.

• Featured content: Would you like to swing on a star?
  

You head into the featured content report. Amongst the features you see astronauts, both Gilbert and Sullivan, Ursula K. Le Guin's incredibly talented mother, and Billboard charts. It is pitch black, you are likely to be eaten by a grue.

• Traffic report: Football, football, football! Wikipedia Football Club!
  

It is mostly about football!

• CommonsComix: #4: The Course of WikiEmpire
  

In which a couple sentences of text recontextualises an image.

• From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
  

Photographers, Sandy Hook, the shocking use of Nazi symbols in articles about Nazis, and "You wouldn't recognise a fact if it bit you in the ass".