Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2024-01-31

• News and notes: Wikipedian Osama Khalid celebrated his 30th birthday in jail
  

Plus WMF child rights impact assessment, Chinese Wikipedia changes admin rules

• Opinion: Until it happens to you
  

A stream of consciousness about plagiarism on Wikipedia from the perspective of a user who directly witnessed it.

• Disinformation report: How paid editors squeeze you dry
  

And how you can stop them!

• In the media: Katherine Maher new NPR CEO, go check Wikipedia, race in the race
  

Another wobble, more Ackman, our usual pathological optimist, and football in dirty pants!

• In focus: The long road of a featured article candidate, part 2
  

Everything you really wanted to know about writing featured articles.

• Recent research: Croatian takeover was enabled by "lack of bureaucratic openness and rules constraining [admins]"
  

And other new research publications.

• Comix: We've all got to start somewhere
  

Writing a good subheading for a one-sentence joke is basically like writing an entire second joke so I'm not going to do it.

• Traffic report: DJ, gonna burn this goddamn house right down
  

Job changes, death, sex, murder, suicide and a vacation!