Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Archives/2023-04-26

News and notes

Staff departures at Wikimedia Foundation, Jimbo hands in the bits, and graphs' zeppelin burns

Plus: Wikipedians get own Mastodon account, and Wikiprojects move to uniform quality assessment.

In the media

Contested truth claims in Wikipedia

Covering Russia, Poland, the Vatican, the U.S., and the "perilously thin" boundary between real life and Wikipedia.

Obituary

Remembering David "DGG" Goodman

The prolific editor, former Arbitration Committee member and co-founder of Wikimedia New York City died in April.

Arbitration report

Holocaust in Poland, Jimbo in the hot seat, and a desysopping

No news is good news, and this isn't no news.

Opinion

What Jimbo's question revealed about scamming

The problem we haven't solved.

Op-Ed

Wikipedia as an anchor of truth

Can Wikipedia help keep AI agents honest?

Special report

Signpost statistics between years 2005 and 2022

In this article, we will look at The Signpost statistics. More precisely: Signpost article statistics by year, TOP 20 titles of Signpost articles, TOP 20 article authors, and the home wikis of article authors.

News from the WMF

Collective planning with the Wikimedia Foundation

First of a two part series summarising the priorities for the Wikimedia Foundation's next fiscal year (July 2022–June 2023) including staffing, budget and other changes, and how to provide your feedback.

Featured content

In which we described the featured articles in rhyme again

And somehow made it more readable than when it's not rhyming.

From the archives

April Fools' through the ages, part two

2011 and on.

Humour

The law of hats

The Selfish Hatnote, the Disambiguation Singularity, and other information-theoretic conundra of encyclopedic note.

Traffic report

Long live machine, the future supreme

Wrestling bumps world-changing technology from the #1 spot, imagine that.

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