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Op-ed

Do editors have the right to be forgotten?

Should an editor's block history be a permanent "rap sheet", or does Wikipedia forgive and forget? A reform initiative has begun.

Featured content

Wars, sieges, disasters and everything black possible

Exemplary content recognized between January 12 and January 20, 2018

Recent research

Automated Q&A from Wikipedia articles; Who succeeds in talk page discussions?

Also: Polish quality, Russian political mythologization, and multilingual analyses

Blog

New monthly dataset shows where people fall into Wikipedia rabbit holes

The Wikimedia Foundation's Analytics team compiles a clickstream dataset, now available as a series of monthly data dumps for English, Russian, German, Spanish, and Japanese Wikipedias.

Interview

Interview with The Rambling Man, Wikipedia's top contributor of Featured Lists

Lessons on Creating a Featured List

Traffic report

TV, death, sports, and doodles

The most popular articles for January 14 to 27

Special report

Cochrane–Wikipedia Initiative

A partnership to improve and update Wikipedia's medical content

Arbitration report

New cases requested for inter-editor hostility and other collaboration issues

Politeness and collegial behavior about to be taken up by Arbcom, and perhaps a revisit of the infobox question.

In the media

Solving crime; editing out violence allegations

Also, did UCF really win?

Humour

You really are in Wonderland

Enjoy the humour of another contributor

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