• News and notes: BARC de-adminship proposal; Wikimania recordings debate
  An RFC proposes to create a "Bureaucrats' Admin Review Committee" (BARC) composed of bureaucrats empowered to remove adminship rights.

• Op-ed: My life as an autistic Wikipedian
  Two years ago, I discovered that I was on the autism spectrum.

• Recent research: Wikipedia and collective intelligence; how Wikipedia is tweeted
  An article argues that Wikipedia displays some key characteristics of a collective intelligence process.

• In the media: Is Wikipedia a battleground in the culture wars?
  "Editors representing rival political tribes [are] frequently attempting to impose their respective narratives as the official version of one or another cultural controversy."

• Featured content: Even mammoths get the Blues
  Five featured articles, five featured lists, and sixteen featured pictures were promoted this week.

• Traffic report: Namaste again, Reddit
  For the first time since this list began, India-related topics have claimed both the top two slots.