The Signpost

Volume 22

Issue 9

13 July 2026

Finlay McWalter – CC BY SA 3.0

An exclusive club

Wikipedia Co-Founder Larry Sanger gets a community ban for canvassing.

Brian Berlin – CC BY-SA 4.0

Battle for a soul – who won?

Commissars, winners and losers, blocks or bans, a Wiki red card, social engineering on wikis, and Swift action!

Freddy2001, 2017 – CC BY-SA

We need to innovate with Wikimedia decision-making

Rules we can actually read, trust and change!

Colin Smith – cc-sa 2.0

Recent research

LLMs and NPOV, 20 years of user blocks, Esperanto and Volapük Wikipedias

And other research findings.

Wil540 art – CC BY 4.0

How to host Wikicurious in your own community

The Wikicurious team shares their approach to Wiki-event organizing.

Solowomanwalks – CC BY-SA 3.0

CUNY Newmark Wikimedian-in-Residence Quarterly Brief – April to June 2026

Quarterly update on the activities of the City University of New York's Wikimedian-in-Residence, Richard Knipel.

DCastor – CC0

Wikipedia escapes Category 1 designation under the UK Online Safety Act – for now

A possible future recategorization by the UK Government remains an existential threat to Wikipedia.

Adam Jones from Kelowna, British Columbia – CC-BY-SA-2.0

On the bright side

Fatherhood, weather, and diplomacy

Father's Day, Canada Day, and the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence.

Wikimedia Foundation –

A Layup Easy Proposal for Wikimedia at 25: Spend 25% of Donations on the Community

If strategy priority 1.1 is supporting the community, can we not increase the support to the community? Increasing grantmaking to 25% of the budget would be a move toward equality in the movement.

YantsImages – cc-by-sa-4.0

The grass was greener, the light was brighter

We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed of World Cup.

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