The Signpost
Volume 22
Issue 14
1 November 2026

Lewis Hine – PD
News and notes
AELECT5 concludes, a Wikimedian arrested for treason, and updates to GANs and FARs
Nine new admins, three arrests, and a lot of GAN RFCs.
DarTar – cc-by-sa-3.0
Recent research
How Wikipedians use (or don't use) LLMs; experienced editors contribute more to "underproduced" articles than newbies
And other new research findings.
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Disinformation report
Better bots or bothersome baby borgs?
Have the Borg landed on Wikipedia?
U.S. Army, 1912 – public domain
In the media
Stop the internet, I was deleted
Can toeing the line stop the apocalypse?
Mabel Amber – Public Domain
News from Diff
Why Wikimedia Is Speaking Up in a Major AI Copyright Case
When AI companies use copyrighted information, does it qualify as fair use?
Marsupilami – pd
By the numbers
Wikipedian Nobel Prize 2026
Which language versions of Wikipedia had biographies of laureates before Nobel announcements?
MrOmykiss – CC-BY-3.0
On the bright side
Gone fishing
Touring Thailand, exploring iridescence, and translating prairie dog.
William Tung – cc-by-sa-2.0
Traffic report
October, and the articles are stripped bare
Lots of deaths, Indian movies, and monsters. Happy Halloween!
User:Bukky658 – CC-BY-SA-4.0
In focus
Two Roles, One Wikimedia Education Ecosystem
What happens when different approaches to Wikimedia education connect?
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Comix
Inactivity
Zounds!
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