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2010 issues
January	February	March	April
January 4 January 11 January 18 January 25	February 1 February 8 February 15 February 22	March 1 March 8 March 15 March 22 March 29	April 5 April 12 April 19 April 26
May	June	July	August
May 3 May 10 May 17 May 24 May 31	June 7 June 14 June 21 June 28	July 5 July 12 July 19 July 26	August 2 August 9 August 16 August 23 August 30
September	October	November	December
September 6 September 13 September 20 September 27	October 4 October 11 October 18 October 25	November 1 November 8 November 15 November 22 November 29	December 6 December 13 December 20 December 27

• News and notes: Fundraiser ends, content contests, image donation, and more
  

• In the news: Financial Times, death rumors, Google maps and more
  

• Features and admins: Approved this week
  

• Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
  

• From the editor: Call for writers
  

• 2009 in review: 2009 in Review
  

• Books: New Book namespace created
  

• News and notes: Wikimania 2011, Flaggedrevs, Global sysops and more
  

• In the news: Wikipedia in British schools, Hitler's Downfall meme, and more
  

• Features and admins: Approved this week
  

• News and notes: Statistics, disasters, Wikipedia's birthday and more
  

• In the news: Wikipedia on the road, and more
  

• WikiProject report: Where are they now?
  

• Features and admins: Approved this week
  

• Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
  

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
  

• BLP madness: BLP deletions cause uproar
  

• Births and deaths: Wikipedia biographies in the 20th century
  

• News and notes: Biographies galore, Wikinews competition, and more
  

• In the news: Wikipedia the disruptor?
  

• WikiProject report: Writers wanted! The Wikiproject Novels interviews
  

• Features and admins: Approved this week
  

• Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
  

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
  

• From the editor: Writers wanted to cover strategy, public policy
  

• Strategic planning: The challenges of strategic planning in a volunteer community
  

• News and notes: New CTO, Britain Loves Wikipedia, Telefónica partnership, Multimedia and more
  

• In the news: Wikipedia on CDs, BBC uses Wikipedia content, and more
  

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Dinosaurs
  

• Sister projects: Sister project roundup
  

• Features and admins: Approved this week
  

• Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
  

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
  

• News and notes: Commons at 6 million, BLP taskforce, milestones and more
  

• In the news: Robson Revisions, Rumble in the Knesset, and more
  

• Dispatches: Fewer reviewers in 2009
  

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Olympics
  

• Features and admins: Approved this week
  

• Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
  

• News and notes: New Georgia Encyclopedia, BLPs, Ombudsmen, and more
  

• In the news: Labor squeeze revisited, journalist consultations, philosophy bungles, and more
  

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Singapore
  

• Features and admins: Approved this week
  

• Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
  

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
  

• News and notes: $2 Million donation, cybersquatting, comScore statistics and more
  

• In the news: Macmillan's Wiki-textbooks and more
  

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Mammals
  

• Features and admins: Approved this week
  

• Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
  

• Reference desk: Wikipedia Reference Desk quality analyzed
  

• News and notes: Usability, 15M articles, Vandalism research award, and more
  

• In the news: Idealizing the Star Spangled Banner, Curious Announcement, and more
  

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Severe Weather
  

• Features and admins: Approved this week
  

• Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
  

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
  

• News and notes: Financial statements, discussions, milestones
  

• In the news: Pentagon shooter used Wikipedia, soon iPhone OS will too
  

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Java
  

• Features and admins: Approved this week
  

• Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
  

• News and notes: A Wikiversity controversy, Wikimedian-in-Residence, image donation, editing contest, WMF jobs
  

• In the news: Studies on collaboration and student usage, Main Page drives traffic to Time.com
  

• Dispatches: GA Sweeps end
  

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Ireland
  

• Features and admins: Approved this week
  

• Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
  

• Wikipedia-Books: Wikipedia-Books: Proposed deletion process extended, cleanup efforts
  

• News and notes: Explicit image featured on Wikipedia's main page
  

• In the news: Campaign for video, costs of crowdsourcing, iPhone app, brief headlines
  

• WikiProject report: Percy Jackson Task Force
  

• Features and admins: Approved this week
  

• Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
  

• News and notes: Usability rollout, downtime, admin phishing, Wikimania scholarships and more
  

• In the news: Overdue correction, Critical Point of View conference, brief headlines
  

• Sister projects: A handful of happenings
  

• WikiProject report: The WikiProject Bulletin: news roundup and WikiProject Chicago feature
  

• Features and admins: Approved this week
  

• Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
  

• News and notes: New board member, rights elections, April 1st activities, videos
  

• In the news: Wikipedia influences drug terminology, brief headlines
  

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Baseball and news roundup
  

• Features and admins: This week in approvals
  

• Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
  

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
  

• Sanger allegations: Larry Sanger accuses Wikimedia of hosting illegal images
  

• News and notes: Studying German flagged revisions, French library agreement, German court case
  

• In the news: SCOTUS hopeful edited bio, criticism from article subject
  

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Motorcycling
  

• Features and admins: Approved this week
  

• Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
  

• News and notes: Berlin WikiConference, Brooklyn Museum & Google.org collaborations, review backlog removed, 1 billion edits
  

• In the news: Study of featured article quality, Facebook's integration of Wikipedia, and more!
  

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Environment
  

• Features and admins: Approved this week
  

• Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
  

• From the team: Introducing Signpost Sidebars
  

• Museums conference: Wikimedians meet with museum leaders
  

• News and notes: Wikimedia announcements, Wikipedia advertising, and more!
  

• In the news: Making sausage, Jimmy Wales on TV, and more!
  

• Sister projects: Milestones, Openings, and Wikinews contest
  

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Gastropods
  

• Features and admins: Approved this week
  

• Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
  

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
  

• Book review: Review of The World and Wikipedia
  

• News and notes: iPhone app update, Vector rollout for May 13, brief news
  

• In the news: Government promotes Tamil Wikipedia, and more
  

• WikiProject report: WikiProject U.S. Roads
  

• Features and admins: Approved this week
  

• Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
  

• From the editor: Reviewers and reporters wanted
  

• Commons deletions: Porn madness
  

• Book review: Dan O'Sullivan's Wikipedia: a new community of practice?
  

• Wikipedia books launched: Wikipedia books launched worldwide
  

• News and notes: Public Policy and Books for All
  

• In the news: Commons pornography purge, and more
  

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Birds
  

• Features and admins: Approved this week
  

• Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
  

• News and notes: Backstage at the British Museum
  

• In the news: In the news
  

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Essays
  

• Features and admins: Approved this week
  

• Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
  

• News and notes: New puzzle globe, feature for admins, Israel's "Wikipedia Bill", unsourced bios declining
  

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Saints
  

• Features and admins: Approved this week
  

• Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
  

• Photography: Making money with free photos
  

• News and notes: Wikimedians at Maker Faire, brief news
  

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Zoo
  

• Features and admins: Approved this week
  

• Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
  

• From the team: Changes to the Signpost
  

• News and notes: "Pending changes" trial, Chief hires, British Museum prizes, Interwiki debate, and more
  

• In the news: Cancer coverage, cognitive surplus, Wikipedia monarchy, and more
  

• Free Travel-Shirts: "Free Travel-Shirts" signed by Jimmy Wales and others purchasable
  

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Comedy
  

• Features and admins: Approved this week
  

• Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
  

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
  

• News and notes: Pending changes goes live, first state-funded Wikipedia project concludes, brief news
  

• In the news: Hoaxes in France and at university, Wikipedia used in Indian court, Is Wikipedia a cult?, and more
  

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors
  

• Features and admins: Approved this week
  

• Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
  

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
  

• Sister projects: Picture of the Year results declared on Wikimedia Commons
  

• News and notes: Collaboration with the British Museum and in Serbia, Interaction with researchers, and more
  

• In the news: Wikipedia better than Britannica, Pending changes as a victory of tradition, and more
  

• WikiProject report: WikiProject U2
  

• Features and admins: Approved this week
  

• Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
  

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
  

• Objectionable material: Board resolution on offensive content
  

• News and notes: 2010–15 plan, Smithsonian outreach, Teaching Wikipedia, brief news
  

• In the news: Wikipedia controlled by pedophiles, left-wing trolls, Islamofascists and Communist commandos?
  

• Public Policy Initiative: Introducing the Public Policy Initiative
  

• WikiProject report: Talking with WikiProject Ships
  

• Features and admins: Approved this week
  

• Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
  

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
  

• News and notes: WMF expansion, community hires, award for MediaWiki, admin recall
  

• In the news: Accidentally anonymized donation, democratized learning and more
  

• Wikimania preview: Gearing up for Wikimania in Gdańsk
  

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Children's Literature
  

• Features and admins: This week's highlights
  

• Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
  

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
  

• UK COI edits: British politicians accused of WP cover-ups
  

• News and notes: Board changes, Wikimania, Public Policy Initiative
  

• In the news: Foundation plans, David Barton, dangerous occasional glitches
  

• Discussion report: Article ownership, WikiProjects vs. Manual of Style, Unverifiable village
  

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Apple Inc.
  

• Features and admins: The best of the week
  

• Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
  

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
  

• News and notes: Politician defends editing own article, Google translation, Row about a small Wikipedia
  

• In the news: Wikimania, Former Wikimedia employee looks back, Editing controversial articles
  

• Vandalism: Vandalism edits fool media and a government, become object of bets
  

• WikiProject report: Up close with WikiProject Animals
  

• Features and admins: The best of the week
  

• Arbitration report: ArbCom to appoint CU/OS positions after dumping election results
  

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
  

• News and notes: New interwiki project improves biographies, and other news
  

• In the news: Wikipedia leads in customer satisfaction, Google Translate and India, Citizendium transition, Jimbo's media accolade
  

• WikiProject report: These Are the Voyages of WikiProject Star Trek
  

• Features and admins: The best of the week
  

• Discussion report: Controversial e-mail proposal, Invalid AfD
  

• Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
  

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
  

• News and notes: Canadian political edits, Swedish royal wedding, Italian "right of reply" bill, Chapter reports
  

• In the news: Gardner and Sanger on why people edit Wikipedia, Fancy and frugal reading devices, Medical article assessed
  

• WikiProject report: Always Expanding: WikiProject Images and Media
  

• Features and admins: The best of the week
  

• Arbitration report: Tricky and Lengthy Dispute Resolution
  

• Technology report: Major MediaWiki release, password security, vulnerable MediaWiki installations, and more
  

• News and notes: FBI requests takedown of seal, Public Policy advisors and ambassadors, Cary Bass leaving, new Research Committee
  

• In the news: Wikinews interviews Umberto Eco, and more
  

• Admin stats: RfA drought worsens in 2010—wikigeneration gulf emerging
  

• Sister projects: Strategic Planning update
  

• WikiProject report: Chocks away for WikiProject Aviation
  

• Features and admins: The best of the week
  

• Arbitration report: Tricky and Lengthy Dispute Resolution
  

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
  

• News and notes: Book publisher apologizes for plagiarizing photos by Wikipedians, brief news
  

• Spam attacks: Large scale vandalism revealed to be "study" by university researcher
  

• In the news: Supportive communication and missing incentives on Wikipedia, and more
  

• WikiProject report: A Pit Stop with WikiProject NASCAR
  

• Features and admins: The best of the week
  

• Arbitration report: ArbCom releases names of CU/OS applicants after delay
  

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
  

• News and notes: Pending changes poll, Public policy classes, Payment schemes debate, and more
  

• In the news: Zionist editing courses, newspaper denies editing candidate, net neutrality
  

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Cryptozoology
  

• Features and admins: The best of the week
  

• Arbitration report: Proposed decision of climate change case posted
  

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
  

• News and notes: Most linked websites on Wikipedia, New York Wiki-Conference, and more
  

• In the news: Agatha Christie spoiled, Wales on Wikileaks, University students improve Wikipedia, and more
  

• WikiProject report: Studying WikiProject Universities
  

• Features and admins: Featured article milestone: 3,000
  

• Arbitration report: What does the Race and intelligence case tell us?
  

• Technology report: Reusability of MediaWiki code, Google Summer of Code: Interwiki transclusion, and more
  

• News and notes: Pending changes analyzed, Foundation report, Main page bias, brief news
  

• In the news: WikiLeaks and Wikipedia; Google–WP collaboration to translate health information
  

• Book review: Cognitive Surplus, by Clay Shirky
  

• Dispatches: Tools, part 1: References, external links, categories and size
  

• WikiProject report: Putting articles in their place: the Uncategorized Task Force
  

• Features and admins: Bumper crop of admins; Obama featured portal marks our 150th
  

• Arbitration report: Interim desysopping, CU/OS appointments, and more
  

• Technology report: Development transparency, resource loading, GSoC: extension management
  

• News and notes: Page-edit stats, French National Library partnership, Mass page blanking, Jimbo on Pending changes
  

• In the news: Public Policy Initiative, Houellebecq plagiarism?, Article revisions as book
  

• Public Policy Initiative: Experiments with article assessment
  

• Sister projects: Biography bloopers – update on the Death Anomalies collaboration
  

• WikiProject report: Getting the picture – an interview with the Graphic lab
  

• Features and admins: "Magnificent" warthog not so cute, says featured picture judge
  

• Arbitration report: Tricky and Lengthy Dispute Resolution
  

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
  

• From the editor: New ways to read and share the Signpost
  

• News and notes: Dutch National Archives donation, French photo raid, brief notes
  

• In the news: Rush Limbaugh falls for Wikipedia hoax, Public Policy Initiative, Nature cites Wikipedia
  

• WikiProject report: All Aboard WikiProject Trains
  

• Features and admins: The best of the week
  

• Dispatches: Tools, part 2: Internal links and page histories
  

• Arbitration report: Discretionary sanctions clarification and more
  

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
  

• News and notes: French million, controversial content, Citizendium charter, Pending changes, and more
  

• In the news: Wikimedia moves into India, critical conference, Vandalism detection contest
  

• WikiProject report: Designing WikiProject Architecture
  

• Features and admins: The best of the week
  

• Arbitration report: EEML amendment requests & more
  

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
  

• News and notes: German chapter remodeled to meet Foundation requirements, and more
  

• In the news: Spanish police pursues BLP vandals, Jimbo interviewed, advice for experts and spammers
  

• Book review: Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia, by Joseph Reagle
  

• WikiProject report: Hot topics with WikiProject Volcanoes
  

• Features and admins: Milestone: 2,500th featured picture
  

• Arbitration report: Tricky and Lengthy Dispute Resolution
  

• Technology report: Code reviewers, October Engineering update, brief news
  

• News and notes: Board resolutions, fundraiser challenge, traffic report, ten thousand good articles, and more
  

• In the news: Free culture conference, "The Register" retracts accusations, students blog about Wikipedia, and more
  

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Smithsonian Institution
  

• Features and admins: Big week for ships and music
  

• Dispatches: Tools, part 3: Style tools and wikEd
  

• Arbitration report: Tricky and Lengthy Dispute Resolution
  

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
  

• News and notes: Wikipedia fundraiser event, Frankfurt book fair, news in brief
  

• WikiProject report: Show Me the Money: WikiProject Numismatics
  

• Features and admins: A week for marine creatures
  

• Dispatches: Common issues seen in Peer review
  

• Arbitration report: Climate change case closes after 4 months
  

• Technology report: Video subtitling tool, staff vs. volunteer developers, brief news
  

• News and notes: Mike Godwin leaves the Foundation, ArbCom election announced
  

• In the news: Good faith vs. bad faith, climate change, court citations, weirdest medieval fact, brief news
  

• WikiProject report: Nightmare on Wiki Street: WikiProject Horror
  

• Features and admins: The best of the week
  

• ArbCom interview: So what is being an arbitrator actually like?
  

• Arbitration report: Case closes within 1 month
  

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
  

• News and notes: Foundation's finances, geodata milestone, interim counsel, museum conference
  

• In the news: Airplane construction with Wikipedia, lessons from the strategy project, logic over rhetoric
  

• WikiProject report: Scoring with WikiProject Ice Hockey
  

• Features and admins: Good-lookin' slugs and snails
  

• Arbitration report: Arb resignation during plagiarism discussion; election RfC closing in 2 days
  

• Technology report: Foundation office switches to closed source, secure browsing, brief news
  

• Fundraiser: November 15 launch, emphasis on banner optimization and community involvement
  

• News and notes: Second Wikipedian in Residence, {{citation needed}} for sanity
  

• In the news: WP prose praised, Public Policy update, education debate, WP documentary
  

• WikiProject report: WikiProject California
  

• Features and admins: No, not science fiction—real science
  

• Election report: The countdown begins
  

• Arbitration report: No cases this week; Date delinking sanctions reduced for one party; History ban extended
  

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
  

• News and notes: Fundraisers start for Wikipedia and Citizendium; controversial content and leadership
  

• In the news: How big can Wikipedia pictures get?; fundraising season
  

• WikiProject report: Sizzling: WikiProject Bacon
  

• Features and admins: Of lakes and mountains
  

• Dispatches: A guide to the Good Article Review Process
  

• Arbitration report: No cases this week; Amendments filed on Climate Change and Date Delinking; Motion passed on EEML
  

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
  

• News and notes: No further Bundesarchiv image donations; Dutch and German awards; anniversary preparations
  

• In the news: Jimbo Wales interviewed and parodied; Wikipedia in politics
  

• Book review: The Myth of the Britannica, by Harvey Einbinder
  

• WikiProject report: WikiProject College Football
  

• Features and admins: The best of the week
  

• Election report: Candidates still stepping forward
  

• Arbitration report: Brews ohare site-banned; climate change topic-ban broadened
  

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
  

• News and notes: Backlog drive; youth and confidence among Wikipedians, brief news
  

• In the news: Fundraising banners continue to provoke; plagiarism charges against congressional climate change report
  

• Interview: Interview with Johanna Niesyto and Nathaniel Tkacz from "Critical Point of View"
  

• WikiProject report: Celebrate WikiProject Holidays
  

• Features and admins: The best of the week
  

• Election report: Voting in full swing
  

• Arbitration report: New case: Longevity; Biophys topic ban likely to stay in place
  

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
  

• News and notes: ArbCom tally pending; Pediapress renderer; fundraiser update; unreferenced BLP drive
  

• In the news: Amazon "shopping-enabling" Wikipedia; Al Jazeera interview; be like Wikipedia
  

• GLAM-WIKI London: British Museum hosts two days of talks between Wikimedia and the cultural sector
  

• WikiLeaks: Repercussions of the WikiLeaks cable leak
  

• WikiProject report: Talking copyright with WikiProject Copyright Cleanup
  

• Features and admins: Birds and insects
  

• Arbitration report: New case: World War II
  

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
  

• News and notes: Wikipedia articles expert-reviewed by Encyclopedia of Life, and more
  

• In the news: Confusion about Wikileaks continues, Wikipedia vs. Britannica in India, and more
  

• Rencontres Wikimédia: Wikimedia and the cultural sector: two days of talks in Paris.
  

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Algae
  

• Features and admins: The best of the week
  

• Election report: The community has spoken
  

• Arbitration report: Requested amendment re Pseudoscience case
  

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
  

• News and notes: Article Alerts back from the dead, plus news in brief
  

• In the news: Faulty story urges for advertising on Wikipedia; brief news
  

• Image donation: Christmas gift to Commons from the State Library of Queensland
  

• Discussion report: Should leaked documents be cited on Wikipedia?
  

• WikiProject report: Majestic Titans
  

• Features and admins: The best of the week
  

• Arbitration report: Motion passed in R&I case; ban appeals, amendment requests, and more
  

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
  

• Ambassadors: Wikipedia Ambassador Program growing, adjusting
  

• News and notes: Director of Technical Operations hired; South Korean mayor sues; brief news
  

• In the news: Designing Wikipedia and the origin of page histories; brief news
  

• WikiProject report: WikiProject National Basketball Association (NBA)
  

• Features and admins: The best of the week
  

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News