Newspaper covering Wikimedia projects
Volume 21
Issue 9
18 July 2025
Ben Shahn
– PD
News and notes
Is no WikiNews good WikiNews? — Election season returns!
Endowment tax form, Wikimania, elections, U4C, fundraising and a duck!
Retrogamepapa
– CC BY-SA 4.0
In the media
How bad (or good) is Wikipedia?
And how do we know?
National Museum of the U.S. Navy
– PD
WikiProject report
WikiProject Medicine reaches milestone of zero unreferenced articles
Five-year journey comes to healthy fruition.
Antony Trivet
– CC BY-SA 4.0
In focus
Wikimania 2025: Connecting Wikimedians across the world for 20 years
Wikimedians from around the world will gather in person and online at the twentieth annual meeting of Wikimania.
Mykola Trokhymovych, Oleksandr Kosovan, Nathan Forrester, Pablo Aragón, Diego Saez-Trumper, Ricardo Baeza-Yates in the academic paper preprint of "Characterizing Knowledge Manipulation in a Russian Wikipedia Fork"
– CC BY 4.0
Recent research
Knowledge manipulation on Russia's Wikipedia fork; Marxist critique of Wikidata license; call to analyze power relations of Wikipedia
As well as "hermeneutic excursions" and other scientific research findings.
Максат79
– CC BY-SA 4.0
News from the WMF
Form 990 released for the Wikimedia Foundation’s fiscal year 2023-2024
The report covers the Foundation's operations from July 2023 - June 2024
Eastman Johnson
– PD
Discussion report
Six thousand noticeboard discussions in 2025 electrically winnowed down to a hundred
A step towards objective and comprehensive coverage of a project nearly too big to follow.
Neo Purgatorio
– CC0
Comix
Divorce
Drawn this century!
LaserGuided
– CC BY 2.0
Opinion
Women are somewhat under-represented on the English-language Wikipedia, and other observations from analysis
How data from the Wikipedia "necessary articles" lists can shed new light on the gender gap
– CC BY 3.0
Community view
A Deep Dive Into Wikimedia (part 4): The Future Of Wikimedia and Conclusion
Annual plans, external trends, infrastructure, equity, safety, and effectiveness. What does it all mean?
Sharon Mollerus
– CC BY 2.0
Obituary
Pvmoutside, Atomicjohn, Rdmoore6, Jaknouse, Morven, Martin of Sheffield, MarnetteD, Herewhy, BabelStone
Rest in peace.
Pieter Brueghel the Elder
– public domain
Traffic report
God only knows
Wouldn't it be nice without billionaires, scandals, deaths, and wars?
Lasha Tskhondia
– CC BY-SA 3.0
Humour
New forum created for people who don't care about Wikipedia
If you are too blasé for Mr. Blasé and don't give a FAC.
Single-page edition
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