Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Archives/2018-04-26

From the editors

The Signpost's presses roll again

Following Kudpung's op-ed "Death knell sounding for The Signpost?" in the 29 March issue, user comments encouraged a burst of enthusiasm to keep the newspaper in print.

Signpost

Future directions for The Signpost

How to revive and evolve The Signpost? Big blue-sky proposals and small concrete proposals from the community and from two regular Signpost contributors.

News and notes

Photo of Kim Jong-un. Stephen Hawking death tops hits on many Wikipedias.

Finally a free image Kim Jong-un. WMF wins legal battle. Stephen Hawking death tops all Wikipedia hits.

In the media

The rise of Wikipedia as a disinformation mop

Internet companies use Wikipedia to police truth; Citogenesis proven yet again; early birthday greetings; and trains

In focus

Admin reports board under criticism

A recent Community Health Initiative survey found only 27% of respondents are happy with the way reports of conflicts between Editors are handled on the Administrators' Incident Noticeboard (ANI).

Special report

ACTRIAL results adopted by landslide

New major editing policy starting immediately: creation of articles in mainspace is to be limited to users with confirmed accounts

Opinion

Guideline for Organization Notability revised

The standards have been raised for sources used in judging the notability of nonprofit and for-profit organizations.

Op-ed

World War II Myth-making and Wikipedia

Wikipedia's myth of the clean Wehrmacht and what you can do about it. Or, how not to be one of "the worst distributors of pro-Nazi perspectives and the Wehrmacht myth".

Community view

It's time we look past Women in Red to counter systemic bias

Can Wikipedia mobilize the same energy to fill other gaps in coverage?

Discussion report

The future of portals

What should we do about Portals? Keep them, delete them, or mark them as historical? Or should they be more closely connected with their WikiProject(s)?

Arbitration report

No new cases, and one motion on administrative misconduct

Quiet month for the Arbitration Committee

WikiProject report

WikiProject Military History

Combat, weapons, monuments and personalities.

Blog

Why the world reads Wikipedia

What we learned about reader motivation from a recent research study

Humour

Our Favorite Places to Whine About Stuff

You might not get all excersized about essays but they can be as fun as talk pages

Traffic report

A quiet place to wrestle with the articles of March

The most popular articles from March 25 to April 14.

Technology report

Coming soon: Books-to-PDF, interactive maps, rollback confirmation

Plus the latest tech news and userscripts.

Featured content

Featured content selected by the community

Material promoted from March 2 through April 20.

Gallery

A look at some famous and not as well-known border tripoints

Honoring a day in military history, as well as peaceful borders

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