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An Action Packed April

New Administrators, April Fools, our competitors, and other associated updates

In the media

Is Wikipedia just another social media site?

Harassment, a black hole, the Mueller Report, and Mötley Crüe - just another social media site?

Discussion report

English Wikipedia community's conclusions on talk pages

Plus: another round of paid editing discussion.

Featured content

Anguish, accolades, animals, and art

April's admirable additions.

Arbitration report

An Active Arbitration Committee

Policies and procedures, cases and controversies, and other ArbCom updates

Traffic report

Mötley Crüe, Notre-Dame, a black hole, and Bonnie and Clyde

Round up the unusual suspects

Technology report

A new special page, and other news

Welcoming English Wikipedia's newest admin (bot)

Gallery

Notre-Dame de Paris burns

Photos and videos show the damage

News from the WMF

Can machine learning uncover Wikipedia’s missing “citation needed” tags?

Wikimedia Foundation data scientists are using machine learning to predict whether—and why—any given sentence on Wikipedia may need a citation in order to help editors identify areas of content violating the verifiability policy.

Recent research

Female scholars underrepresented; whitepaper on Wikidata and libraries; undo patterns reveal editor hierarchy

And other recent research results

From the archives

Portals revisited

"The future of portals", a year later

Humour

Jimbo and Larry walk into a bar ...

Some editors will do anything to get a laugh

Opinion

The gaps in our knowledge of our gaps

What we know we don't know, and why it might matter more than you might think

Interview

Katherine Maher marks 3 years as executive director

Maher discusses her tenure as ED, the editing community, harassment and diversity, the WMF's 3-5 year plan, airplane travel, books, and her future.

Community view

2019 Wikimedia Summit gathers movement affiliate representatives to discuss movement strategy

An overview of Wikimedia Summit 2019, a working conference to discuss the Wikimedia 2030 Movement Strategy Process, preparing draft recommendations for Wikimania 2019 in August.

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