Newspaper covering Wikimedia projects
Volume 22
Issue 13
13 October 2026
Natalia Ortega for MAPR and Wikicurious
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News and notes
AELECT returns, Jimbo gives a union update, VisualEditor is now default
Plus a survey for North Americans, proposed changes to BoT elections, and developments in the Puerto Rican editing community.
Robert Cooper (c. 1800)
– PD
Serendipity
From a rare portrait of a female millionaire in Nancy to a Japanese painter in Lyon
Images from Leuven Libraries popular on Wiki.
Doug Weller
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Obituary
Doug Weller
Twenty-year editor, long-term admin, dearly missed.
Ferfive
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In the media
A(I)pocalypses afoot
Cannibals, freeloaders, rogue agents, scams ... the usual.
Nataev
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WikiConference Report
WikiConference 2026 and the importance of in-person community
Celebrating 12 years of WikiConference North America.
PAC2
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By the numbers
Does the country of birth affect the likelihood of having a Wikipedia biography?
A cross-country and cross-wikipedia comparison of the likelihood of having a biography in Wikipedia.
Hari Adivarekar
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News from Diff
OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
CPO/CTO Selena Deckelmann explains the recent detection of AI agent activities on Wikimedia projects.
Lance Cpl. Isaac De Leon
– US Government public domain
On the bright side
Good people
Nice comments and real-life rescuers.
Ralf Roletschek
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Op-ed
Who are our readers?
The movement makes progress when we know what our scope is.
Simon A. Eugster
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Traffic report
This world is big and wild and half insane
Criminals, 9/11 25 years later, artists expelled for politics... we lived in troubled times.
Unknown
Punch
artist via Wellcome Collection
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Comix
Fudging the numbers
Take 'em away, officers!
Single-page edition
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