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Mona Hassan Abo-Abda – CC BY-SA 4.0

News and notes

WikiCup enters final round, MCDC wraps up activities, 17-year-old hoax article unmasked

JCW compilation now tracks free DOIs, Wiki Loves Monuments getting started, WMF's status as UN observer stymied by China for fourth time.

DPS-fan Magyar – CC BY-SA 3.0

In the media

AI is not playing games anymore. Is Wikipedia ready?

Updates from the Portland pol's case, the war in Gaza, and other Wiki-related reports.

Anderl et al. – CC BY 4.0

Recent research

Simulated Wikipedia seen as less credible than ChatGPT and Alexa in experiment

And other new research findings

Neolux – PD

News from the WMF

Meet the 12 candidates running in the WMF Board of Trustees election

Who are they, why are they running and what are they bringing to the Board?

24klatkifilmy – CC BY-SA 4.0

Wikimania

A month after Wikimania 2024

What all happened in Katowice?

Ahmad Ali Karim – CC0 1.0

Serendipity

What it's like to be Wikimedian of the Year

Hannah Clover shares her fondest memories of her first Wikimania.

Alex Ibañez – CC

Traffic report

After the gold rush

The Olympics (yay!) and the American election (oh no).

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Humour

Local man halfway through rude reply no longer able to recall why he hates other editor

"I can't remember whether he is an incompetent moron, or an incorrigible POV warrior, or some other thing, but either way, to hell with him."

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