Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Archives/2023-08-15

News and notes

Dude, Where's My Donations? Wikimedia Foundation announces another million in grants for non-Wikimedia-related projects

Jimbo promises more transparency, Wikimania in Singapore, move away from Tides still planned, and Wikifunctions rolls out.

In the media

An accusation of bias from Brazil, a lawsuit from Portugal, plagiarism from Florida

Harsh words from problematic fave Glenn Greenwald.

In focus

2023 Good Article Nomination drive is underway: get your barnstars here!

Rigorous Review of Content for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Wikipedia.

Special report

Thirteen years later, why are most administrators still from 2005?

Damn kids need to get off our lawn and onto RfA.

Tips and tricks

How to find images for your articles, check their copyright, upload them, and restore them

Because one gets some secondary skills when one has 645 featured pictures.

Cobwebs

Getting serious about writing

The innards of the Signpost received a major overhaul in March/April 2019. Here's how we reduced behind-the-scenes busywork and improved writers resources.

Opinion

Copyright trolls, or the last beautiful free souls on this planet?

For whom does the Creative Commons enforcement clause toll?

Serendipity

Why I stopped taking photographs almost altogether

An announcement of 335,000 new images on Wikimedia Commons.

Featured content

Barbenheimer confirmed

Some improvement on last week.

Humour

Arbitration Committee to accept case against Right Honorable Frimbley Cantingham, 15th Viscount Bellington-upon-Porkshire

Case request cited misuse of tools by administrator who last used tools in 1661.

Traffic report

'Cause today it just goes with the fashion

Barbenheimer, Pee-Wee Herman and the Women's World Cup.

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