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News and notes

Wikipedian Osama Khalid celebrated his 30th birthday in jail

Plus WMF child rights impact assessment, Chinese Wikipedia changes admin rules

Bri – PD

Opinion

Until it happens to you

A stream of consciousness about plagiarism on Wikipedia from the perspective of a user who directly witnessed it.

Cory Doctorow – CC-BY-SA-2.0

Disinformation report

How paid editors squeeze you dry

And how you can stop them!

Daniel M Horowitz – CC-BY-SA-4.0

In the media

Katherine Maher new NPR CEO, go check Wikipedia, race in the race

Another wobble, more Ackman, our usual pathological optimist, and football in dirty pants!

The Horseman – PD

In focus

The long road of a featured article candidate, part 2

Everything you really wanted to know about writing featured articles.

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Recent research

Croatian takeover was enabled by "lack of bureaucratic openness and rules constraining [admins]"

And other new research publications.

Punch – PD

Comix

We've all got to start somewhere

Writing a good subheading for a one-sentence joke is basically like writing an entire second joke so I'm not going to do it.

John Sutton – CC BY-SA 2.0

Traffic report

DJ, gonna burn this goddamn house right down

Job changes, death, sex, murder, suicide and a vacation!

The Signpost is looking for new talent.

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