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U4C2 Electric Boogaloo

TKTK meta:Universal Code of Conduct/Annual review/2025 - All proposals pass(?) - No announcement made on meta:Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Coordinating_Committee/Announcements, current status unclear.

meta:Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Coordinating_Committee/Election/2025 - New election

Wikipedia administrators arrested in Belarus

In May 2025, it was reported that Belarusian Wikipedia sysop and only bureaucrat Maksim Lepushenka was arrested, becoming the latest Wikipedian to be arrested in Belarus. With his arrest, granting sysop right in Belarusian Wikipedia is currently not possible without Stewards' intervention. Lepushenka's account is currently locked globally as a compromised account. Alongside Lepushenka, another sysop, Olga Sitnik, was also recently arrested in the country in April 2025. Sitnik's account is also similarly globally locked, leaving the project with eight sysops to work on administrative tasks. – RS

7 million articles on English Wikipedia

On May 28, 2025, 02:26 UTC, English Wikipedia reached another milestone of having seven million articles. As there were a number of articles created around the same time, after a discussion, Operators and Things created by User:Therapyisgood was selected to represent this milestone. Among some of the articles created at the same time were 1955 Yuba–Sutter floods, British American Hospital, Khorastava rural council, Nikolay Alyokhin, and Taraxacum angustisectum. – RS

Cf. Signpost coverage of preceding milestones:

"Six million articles on the English language Wikipedia" (2020)
"English Wikipedia reaches five million articles"/Community letter: "Five million articles" (2015)
"Three million articles"/In the news: "3 millionth article" (2009)
"English Wikipedia hits one million articles" (2006)
"Wikipedia reaches milestone with half-million English articles" (2005)

Tesla demands logo removal

Tesla demands takedown of this image, claiming it passes threshold of originality of copyrightable art.

The Wikimedia Foundation requested the attention of Wikimedia reviewers regarding the DMCA media takedown demand which Tesla, Inc. made to Wikimedia. As is usual for the Wikimedia Foundation, they are sharing the demand letter and inviting community conversation at the Wikimedia Foundation office action discussion board on Wikimedia Commons.

While DMCA takedown demands are serious, they are also routine, already for years many Wikimedia community volunteers regularly enjoy processing these orders. As with all Wikimedia community processes, everyone is invited to join and engage, and everyone is invited to visit and observe the review process.

This is a standard DMCA request, but it might be seen as different to outsiders due to the current political climate surrounding Elon Musk. Current popular thought interconnects Tesla as a corporation, its CEO Elon Musk, and the United States Department of Government Efficiency where Musk has been director. Along with that, Musk has been criticizing Wikipedia as The Signpost previously reported in January and February. The United States government has expressed intent to remove Wikipedia's nonprofit status as previously reported in May, the same month that United States National Agricultural Library Wikimedian in Residence Jamie Flood reported that DOGE ended their role.

The logos to be removed are

The conventional Wikimedia reviewer consensus of these images till now is that they are not eligible for copyright and are instead in the public domain due to being simple geometric shapes which are below the threshold of originality which makes a work eligible to gain copyright protection. The text rationales which the Wikipedia community uses to explain this are in Commons:Template:TOO-US and Commons:Template:PD-textlogo.

Of the four files above, the shield logo was deleted by the Foundation upon further review as the uploader had provided inaccurate information about the shield logo and it was the exact file registered with the copyright office. – BR

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Articles for Improvement: This week's Article for Improvement is Classificatory disputes about art (beginning 9 June) followed by Modern Pagan views on LGBT people (beginning 16 June). Please be bold in helping improve these articles!

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