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• News and notes: The WMF's age of discontent
  Trouble with the Board of Trustees

• In the media: Impenetrable science; Jimmy Wales back in the UAE
  Wikipedia's science articles are "effectively incomprehensible"

• Arbitration report: Catflap08 and Hijiri88 case been decided
  Current Committee decisions

• Featured content: Featured menagerie
  Featured content

• Recent research: Teaching Wikipedia, Does advertising the gender gap help or hurt Wikipedia?
  Current academic research on Wikipedia and related projects

• WikiProject report: Try-ing to become informed - WikiProject Rugby League
  Sports!

• Technology report: Tech news in brief
  Community technical news

• In the media: War and peace; WMF board changes; Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedias
  A look at movement coverage "in the media"

• Community view: Battle for the soul of the WMF
  Liam Wyatt shares his thoughts in "community view"

• Editorial: We need a culture of verification
  Our co-editor-in-chief, Gamaliel, shares his thoughts on the 15th anniversary of Wikipedia

• In focus: The Crisis at New Montgomery Street
  William Beutler discusses problems inside the WMF.

• Op-ed: Transparency
  James Heilman talks about why he was removed from the WMF board.

• Traffic report: Pattern recognition: Third annual Traffic Report
  What was the most-viewed article of 2015? Read to find out!

• Special report: Wikipedia community celebrates Public Domain Day 2016
  WE LOVE PUBLIC DOMAIN DAY!

• News and notes: Community objections to new Board trustee
  A look at community objections to a new Board trustee

• Blog: Inside the game of sports vandalism on Wikipedia
  Jeff Elder talks sports vandalism on the Wikimedia blog

• Featured content: This Week's Featured Content
  A review of the featured content promoted this week

• Arbitration report: Interview: outgoing and incumbent arbitrators 2016
  We sat down with both incoming and outgoing arbitrators to get their thoughts on the committee.

• Technology report: Tech news in brief
  Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community.

• News and notes: Vote of no confidence; WMF trustee speaks out
  The continuing controversy over a new Board appointment.

• Op-ed: Not a pretty picture: Thoughts on the "monkey selfie" debacle
  Is Wikimedia taking the right approach?

• In the media: 15th anniversary news round-up
  The news media remembers we're still around.

• Traffic report: Danse Macabre
  A cheery week.

• Featured content: This week's featured content
  Newly promoted content.

• Blog: Fifteen years ago, Wikipedia was a very different place
  A talk with MediaWiki developer : Magnus Manske.

• Op-ed: Lila Tretikov: the WMF needs your input in developing our strategy
  Participate in the new strategy initiative.

• News and notes: Geshuri steps down from the Board
  Newly appointed trustee leaves following a community outcry.

• In the media: Media coverage of the Arnnon Geshuri no-confidence vote
  Board turmoil gets the attention of journalists.

• Recent research: Bursty edits; how politics beat religion but then lost to sports; notability as a glass ceiling
  Current research involving Wikipedia.

• Traffic report: Death and taxes
  Some things never change.

• Featured content: This week's featured content
  Newly promoted content.

• From the editors: Help wanted
  Help us continue to publish on a weekly (-ish) basis.

• Special report: Board chair and new trustee speak with the Signpost
  New member María Sefidari joins the Board of Trustees.

• In focus: The Knight Foundation grant: a timeline and an email to the board
  James Heilman speaks out about the events leading up to his dismissal from the Board.

• Op-ed: So, what’s a knowledge engine anyway?
  Examining the issues at the heart of recent Board disputes.

• News and notes: Harassment survey 2015; Luis Villa to leave WMF; knowledge engine background
  A survey released, another major departure from the Foundation.

• Arbitration report: Catching up on arbitration
  More cases, more problems.

• Traffic report: Bowled
  Some sort of sporting contest tops this week's traffic.

• Featured content: This week's featured content
  Newly promoted content.

• Special report: New internal documents raise questions about the origins of the Knowledge Engine
  .

• In focus: An in-depth look at the special report's newly revealed documents
  .

• News and notes: Another WMF departure
  .

• In the media: Jeb Bush swings at Wikipedia and connects
  .

• Featured content: This week's featured content
  .

• Traffic report: A river of revilement
  .

• Blog: Wikimedia Foundation removes The Diary of Anne Frank due to copyright law requirements
  .

• Special report: Search and destroy: the Knowledge Engine and the undoing of Lila Tretikov
  Examining the impact of the knowledge engine

• Op-ed: Shit I cannot believe we had to fucking write this month
  A new column that examines the articles that are helping to fight systemic bias

• Featured content: This week's featured content
  One article, three lists, and five images attained featured status this past week

• Traffic report: Super Bowling
  The biggest annual event in America takes over Wikipedia viewership

• Technology report: Tech news in brief
  The news for the nerd inside of us

• Blog: Antonin Scalia and the editor tracking his legacy
  The American Supreme Court justice's impact on the life of a Wikipedia editor

• Special report: WMF in limbo as decision on Tretikov nears
  The Board of Trustees may be deciding the direction of the Foundation.

• Op-ed: Backward the Foundation
  Parting words from a WMF employee,

• Traffic report: Of Dead Pools and Dead Judges
  Another grim week in traffic statistics.

• Blog: Wiki Loves Africa brings the continent’s fashion to the world
  Wiki Loves Africa photo competition focuses on continent’s varied fashion traditions from north, south, east, and west.

• Arbitration report: Arbitration motion regarding CheckUser & Oversight inactivity
  Committee motions and business.

• Featured content: This week's featured content
  Newly promoted featured content.

• Technology report: Tech news in brief
  Community technical news.

• News and notes: Tretikov resigns, WMF in transition
  A tumultuous time at the Wikimedia Foundation

• Featured content: This week's featured content
  Newly promoted articles and images.

• Traffic report: Brawling
  Politics and wrestling top the traffic statistics.

• Recent research: Wikipedia and paid labour; Swedish gender gap; how verifiable is "verifiable"?
  Current academic research about the encyclopedia and related projects.

• Blog: Wikimedia Foundation details requests to alter or remove content in new transparency report
  The WMF reports on incoming requests.

• News and notes: Katherine Maher named interim head of WMF; Wales email re-sparks Heilman controversy; draft WMF strategy posted
  Controversy, change, and everything between.

• In the media: Wikipedian is break-out star of International Women's Day; dinosaur art; Wikipedia's new iOS app and its fight for market share
  Perhaps we're turning over a new leaf as a front-runner in the fight for equality?

• Op-ed: A modest proposal for Wikimedia’s future
  A look at the future of our parent foundation.

• Featured content: Five articles, four lists, a topic, and five images were promoted this week.
  This week's featured content

• Technology report: Wikimedia wikis will temporarily go into read-only mode on several occasions in the coming weeks
  Finally, a break for the vandalism fighters!

• WikiCup report: First round of the WikiCup finishes
  Your detailed look at one of Wikipedia's largest contests.

• Blog: The new alchemy: turning online harassment into Wikipedia articles on women scientists
  By night, she smites trolls on the Internet with positive punishment: for each harassing email she receives, one Wikipedia article on a woman in science is created.

• Systemic bias: Revenge of "I can’t believe we didn’t have an article on ..."
  Wherein I am STILL fucking angry about systemic bias and am highlighting kick-ass articles we created and improved this month in our never-ending quest to fix it.

• Traffic report: All business like show business
  The Oscars, Super Tuesday, and Super Saturday"

• News and notes: Wikipedia Zero: Orange mobile partnership in Africa ends; the evolution of privacy loss in Wikipedia
  Parties could not agree on extending the 2009 agreement.

• In the media: Wales at SXSW; lawsuit over Wikipedia PR editing
  Two board members on stage at the popular yearly event.

• Op-ed: Hard work needed to address Wikimedia’s leadership challenges
  The road ahead for the WMF.

• Discussion report: Is an interim WMF executive director inherently notable?
  Wikipedia news sparks editing disagreements.

• Featured content: This week's featured content
  Featured content

• Technology report: Watchlists, watchlists, watchlists!
  An interview with a MediaWiki developer.

• Traffic report: Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States
  Time to move abroad.

• Wikipedia Weekly: Podcast #119: The Foundation and the departure of Lila Tretikov
  The popular podcast returns.

• Blog: It “revolutionized the way German-speaking people inform themselves about the world”: Fifteen years of the German Wikipedia
  A Deutschland anniversary.

• Interview: Exclusive: interview with interim ED Katherine Maher
  The Signpost speaks with the incoming WMF interim executive director.

• News and notes: Lila Tretikov a Young Global Leader; Wikipediocracy blog post sparks indefinite blocks
  The outgoing ED to be honored at Davos.

• In the media: Angolan file sharers cause trouble for Wikipedia Zero; the 3D printer edit war; a culture based on change and turmoil
  Piracy and controversy.

• Traffic report: Be weary on the Ides of March
  Are readers exhausted?

• Editorial: "God damn it, you've got to be kind."
  All of us can do better.

• Featured content: Watch out! A slave trader, a live mascot and a crested serpent awaits!
  The week in newly promoted content.

• Arbitration report: Palestine-Israel article 3 case amended
  Motions from the Committee.

• Wikipedia Weekly: Podcast #120: Status of Wikimania 2016
  Discussing the upcoming Italian Wikimania.

• News and notes: Trump/Wales 2016
  A surprise political announcement.

• In the media: Saskatoon police delete Wikipedia content about police brutality
  Police haul away some article content.

• WikiProject report: Why should the Devil have all the good music? An interview with WikiProject Christian music
  Rock out to this interview with project editors.

• Traffic report: Donald v Daredevil
  ¿Quién es más macho?

• Featured content: A slow, slow week
  .

• Technology report: Browse Wikipedia in safety? Use Telnet!
  Set your Wayback Machine.

• Recent research: "Employing Wikipedia for good not evil" in education; using eyetracking to find out how readers read articles
  Current research about Wikimedia projects.

• Wikipedia Weekly: Podcast #121: How April Fools went down
  A roundtable discussion about current Wikimedia issues.

• Blog: Growing hashtags: Expanding outreach on Wikipedia
  Using hashtags to track the results of Wikimedia outreach.

• Op-ed: Should prison inmates be permitted to edit Wikipedia?
  They do have plenty of time on their hands

• News and notes: Denny Vrandečić resigns from Wikimedia Foundation board
  More turnover in the foundation

• In the media: Wikimedia Sweden loses copyright case; Tex Watson; AI assistants; David Jolly biography
  Copyright laws, prisoners, and the future of technology

• Featured content: This week's featured content
  Featured content

• Traffic report: A welcome return to pop culture and death
  American politics seem to have finally bored people

• Arbitration report: The first case of 2016—Wikicology
  The drought is finally over!

• Gallery: A history lesson
  A look at political satire, brought to you by Wikipedia and Commons

• News and notes: Lunar project; steering group formed to search for next executive director
  Maybe the rover could find an ED on the moon...

• Op-ed: Knowledge Engine and the Wales–Heilman emails
  When is competing with Google not competing with Google?

• Special report: Update on EranBot, our new copyright violation detection bot
  Help wanted!

• Traffic report: Two for the price of one
  What's better than one traffic report? Two!

• Featured content: The double-sized edition
  10 articles, 6 lists, and 11 pictures have been promoted in this cycle

• Arbitration report: Amendments made to the Race and intelligence case
  When it rains, it pours

• News and notes: Wikimedia Switzerland's board and paid-editing firm; passing of Ed Dravecky
  Wikimedia Switzerland board members involved in paid-editing firm

• In the media: Wikipedia Zero piracy in Bangladesh; bureaucracy; chilling effects; too few cooks; translation gaps
  More reports surface of pirates' new favorite database: Wikimedia Commons

• Traffic report: Purple
  Prince's death breaks traffic report records

• Featured content: The best ... from the past two weeks
  Seven articles, six lists, and four pictures were promoted these weeks

• Arbitration report: Two editors unbanned; Wikicology case enters workshop phase; Gamaliel restricted from Gamergate at his own request
  Arbitration news

• Recent research: The eight roles of Wikipedians; do edit histories expose social relations among editors?
  Making sense of Wikipedia's social network

• News and notes: Affiliates' nomination of WMF trustees announced; FDC's straight talking to WMF
  Christophe Henner and Nataliia Tymkiv respond to the Signpost's questions

• Op-ed: Swiss chapter in turmoil
  Paid-editing controversy

• In the media: Wikimedia's Dario Taraborelli quoted on Google's Knowledge Graph in The Washington Post
  Citations needed

• Featured content: Two weeks for the prize of one
  Nine featured articles, eight featured lists, and six featured pictures

• Traffic report: Oh behave, Beyhive / Underdogs
  Prince gives way to Captain America

• Arbitration report: "Wikicology" ends in site ban; evidence and workshop phases concluded for "Gamaliel and others"
  News from two arbitration cases

• Wikicup: That's it for WikiCup Round 2!
  35 competitors move on to round 3

• News and notes: Upcoming Wikimedia conferences in the US and India; May Metrics and Activities Meeting
  Dates and venues for WikiCon USA 2016, WikiCon India 2016, 2016 Glam Boot Camp and 2016 Wikimedia Diversity Conference

• Special report: Compensation paid to Sue Gardner increased by almost 50 percent after she stepped down as executive director
  Sue Gardner appears to be earning more money as the WMF's special advisor than she did as its executive director

• In the media: The perils of Wikipedia's monopoly; Wikipedians' fragility; Street Sharks hoax
  Not everything you read online is fact

• Featured content: Eight articles, three lists and five pictures
  Another eight featured articles, three featured lists and five featured pictures

• Op-ed: Journey of a Wikipedian
  Mental health carries a powerful stigma. The more we are open about it, the less that weighs all of us down

• Arbitration report: Gamaliel resigns from the arbitration committee
  Gamaliel and others case nears its end, and there are new 30/500 rules

• Recent research: English as Wikipedia's Lingua Franca; deletion rationales; schizophrenia controversies
  Round-up of recent Wikipedia research

• Traffic report: Splitting (musical) airs / Slow Ride
  We've recently come into possession of a new tool.

• Blog: Freely licensed magic at Eurovision
  Albin Olsson has been right there with them, capturing dramatic images of singers from around the world.

• News and notes: WMF cuts budget for 2016-17 as scope tightens
  The Signpost analyzes the WMF's revised annual plan

• In the media: Jimmy Wales on net neutrality—"It's complicated"—and his $100m fundraising challenge
  Recent press interviews

• Featured content: Overwhelmed ... by pictures
  One article, one list, and seven images were featured this week

• Traffic report: Pop goes the culture, again.
  Film and television maintain a strong grasp on Wikipedia's readership

• Arbitration report: ArbCom case "Gamaliel and others" concludes
  The final results of the heated case

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Video Games
  We sat down with the writers of some of the most vistied Wikipedia articles

• News and notes: Clarifications on status and compensation of outgoing executive directors Sue Gardner and Lila Tretikov
  WMF board chair Patricio Lorente answers questions

• Special report: Wikiversity Journal—A new user group
  Wikimedia enters academic publishing

• Featured content: From the crème de la crème
  Eleven featured articles, nine featured lists and fourteen featured pictures

• In the media: Biography disputes; Craig Newmark donation; PR editing
  Recent media coverage of Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: Commons Picture of the Year; Wikidata licensing
  Two for the price of one—do the popular Commons image contest and Wikidata licensing serve the community as well as they should?

• Traffic report: Another one with sports; Knockout, brief candle
  Wikipedia's most read articles in the last two weeks

• Blog: Why I proofread poetry at Wikisource
  Poetry: “it is the stuff of the soul; it speaks to the body, the mind, and the spirit alike.” Sonja Bohm worked for years to get all of Florence Earle Coates’ poetry online, and now proofreads poetry on the English Wikisource, the free library. We asked why.

Note: Starting with the 2016-07-04 issue, the official schedule is now every two weeks.

• News and notes: Board unanimously appoints Katherine Maher as new WMF executive director; Wikimedia lawsuits in France and Germany
  News from Wikimania and the courts

• Op-ed: Two policies in conflict?
  Paid-contributions disclosure vs. outing

• In the media: Terrorism database cites Wikipedia as a source
  Reliability worries

• Featured content: Triple fun of featured content
  Six articles, nine lists, one topic and thirteen pictures promoted

• Traffic report: Goalposts; Oy vexit
  European football and politics dominate the top-10

• Blog: Jimmy Wales names Emily Temple-Wood and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight as Wikipedians of the Year
  From the Wikimedia Foundation blog

• News and notes: Board faces diversity and skill-base issues in new FDC appointments
  Four seats to be filled in top WMF grantmaking body; General Counsel and Secretary Geoff Brigham leaves Wikimedia

• Discussion report: Busy month for discussions
  New ArbCom restrictions; genetically modified food safety

• In the media: Women in science editathon gets national press; Wikipedia "shockingly biased"
  Female scientists in India; Cracked.com probes Wikipedia's weaknesses

• Featured content: A wide variety from the best
  Promotions in four featured-content forums

• Traffic report: Sports and esports
  Northern summer makes sport the winner

• Arbitration report: Script writers appointed for clerks
  Plus a clerk appointment and two motions

• Recent research: Using deep learning to predict article quality
  Plus navigating the Chinese Wikipedia, and talkpage sentiment

• Editorial: Wikipedia policy suppresses sharing of information
  And the Signpost loses and gains a co-editor-in-chief

• News and notes: Foundation presents results of harassment research, plans for automated identification; Wikiconference submissions open
  WMF and Alphabet are developing an algorithm designed to detect personal attacks

• In the media: Paid editing service announced; Commercial exploitation of free images; Wikipedia as a crystal ball; Librarians to counter systemic bias
  Plus Android and Taylor Swift

• Obituary: Kevin Gorman, who took on Wikipedia's gender gap and undisclosed paid advocacy, dies at 24
  Condolences are being left on his English Wikipedia talk page

• Traffic report: Summer of Pokémon, Trump, and Hillary
  Pokémon Go led the chart for two weeks running

• Featured content: Women and Hawaii
  Eight articles, two lists and fourteen pictures were promoted

• Recent research: Easier navigation via better wikilinks
  Plus: new Wiki Studies journal, Wikipedia usage on Twitter and more

• Blog: All-new notifications page helps Wikimedians focus on what matters most
  WMF announces enhancements to the notifications system

• Technology report: User script report (January to July 2016, part 1)
  New user scripts and other tech news

• News and notes: Focus on India—WikiConference produces new apps; state government adopts free licenses
  Conference draws highly diverse and productive participation, and several years' advocacy pays off in a new government policy

• Special report: Engaging diverse communities to profile women of Antarctica
  Guest post recaps in-depth engagement of experts to address Wikipedia gender gap while improving coverage of their field

• In the media: The ugly, the bad, the playful, and the promising
  Wikipedia coverage ranged from sobering to playful in this issue's roundup

• Featured content: Simply the best ... from the last two weeks
  Eight articles, eleven lists, one topic and five pictures were promoted

• Traffic report: Olympic views
  Politics gives way to sports, TV and film

• Technology report: User script report (January–July 2016, part 2)
  A review of numerous useful Wikipedia customizations

• Arbitration report: The Michael Hardy case
  New case opened, and a reminder to administrators not to impose blocks based on private information

• News and notes: AffCom still grappling with WMF Board's criteria for new chapters
  The Board’s two-year moratorium on new chapters and thematic organisations has expired; presentation of new criteria is reigniting smoldering controversies and introducing new ones

• Special report: Olympics readership depended on language
  A comparison of the 15 most-read articles related to the Olympics, in seven language editions of Wikipedia

• In the media: Librarians, Wikipedians, and a library of Wikipedia coverage
  Wikipedia gaining ground in credibility among librarians; and a healthy helping of media coverage

• WikiProject report: Watching Wikipedia
  An interview with WikiProject TV member CAWylie

• Featured content: Entertainment, sport, and something else in-between
  Twelve articles, eight lists and four pictures were promoted

• Traffic report: From Phelps to Bolt to Reddit
  An update on two weeks of Wikipedia traffic, based on a new and improved tracking tool

• Technology report: Wikimedia mobile sites now don't load images if the user doesn't see them
  New scripts and technical news

• Recent research: Ethics of machine-created articles and fighting vandalism
  One study encounters critique of its ethics from Wikipedians; another critiques the ethics employed by Wikipedia

• Blog: Upload of free photos from Swiss library underway
  Switzerland's largest public science library is uploading 134k photos

• News and notes: Wikipedia Education Program case study published; and a longtime Wikimedian has made his final edit
  Medical school class's Wikipedia contributions profiled as case study; and a remembrance of Ray Saintonge, Wikimedian since 2002

• In the media: Wikipedia in the news
  This edition's roundup of media coverage

• Featured content: Three weeks in the land of featured content
  Nineteen articles, eleven lists, one portal and twelve pictures were promoted

• Arbitration report: Arbcom looking for new checkusers and oversight appointees while another case opens
  TRM, CUOS '16, R&I, RfC

• Traffic report: From Gene Wilder to JonBenét
  Four weeks of Wikipedia's most popular articles examined

• Technology report: Category sorting and template parameters
  Titles with numbers now sort numerically, and a new tool to check how template parameters are used

• News and notes: Fundraising, flora and fauna
  Wikimedia Foundation reports on fundraising challenges and new initiatives; Indian botanists rally to build Wikimedia Commons' photo collection

• Discussion report: Cultivating leadership: Wikimedia Foundation seeks input
  A new "peer academy" is proposed to find and support leadership in volunteer communities

• In the media: A news columnist on the frustrations of tweaking his Wikipedia bio
  And this edition's roundup of media coverage

• Technology report: Upcoming tech projects for 2017
  A new editor, a new parsing algorithm, and another server switch

• Featured content: Variety is the spice of life
  Twelve articles, twelve lists and twenty-one pictures were promoted

• Traffic report: Debates and escapes
  Donald Trump remains a view-magnet, others change their channel

• Recent research: A 2011 study resurfaces in a media report
  We explore the study, which sought insights from Wikipedia metadata into global events

• News and notes: Finally, a new CTO; trustee joins Quora; copyright upgrade impending
  Victoria Coleman to fill long-vacant CTO role; Trustee Kelly Battles joins Quora executive team; last week for community input on Creative Commons 4.0 license

• In the media: Washington Post continues in-depth Wikipedia coverage
  Plus our roundup of recent media stories

• Wikicup: WikiCup winners
  Winners of the tenth annual WikiCup competition announced and profiled

• Discussion report: What's on your tech wishlist for the coming year?
  Progress on the 2015 Community Wishlist for tech features; and plans for a new Wishlist

• Technology report: New guideline for technical collaboration; citation templates now flag open access content
  Proposed best practices for communication and community involvement, and an improvement to Wikipedia's citation infrastructure

• Featured content: Cream of the crop
  Fourteen articles, six lists and fourteen pictures were promoted

• Traffic report: Un-presidential politics
  Two weeks of insights into the mind of the mob

• Arbitration report: Recapping October's activities
  Two cases closed, and an administrator loses editing rights

• Recent research: Why women edit less, and where they are overrepresented; article importance and quality; predicting elections from Wikipedia
  A recap of recent research in our realm

• News and notes: Arbitration Committee elections commence
  An overview of the English Wikipedia ArbCom election; brief notes as Asian and African initiatives wind down

• In the media: Roundup of news related to U.S. presidential election and more
  Election prompts media to explore themes important to Wikipedians, including news literacy, privacy, and data security

• Blog: The top fifteen winning photos from Wiki Loves Earth
  115,000 images were submitted as part of the annual competition.

• Gallery: Around the world with Wiki Loves Monuments 2016
  A sampling of photo submissions to the annual photography campaign

• Featured content: Featured mix
  Eight articles, two lists and nine pictures were promoted

• Special report: Taking stock of the Good Article backlog
  A close examination of the efficacy of the GA Cup contest, a longstanding effort to reduce the backlog of articles awaiting review

• Op-ed: Fundraising data should be more transparent
  Empowering volunteers and local chapters to engage with fundraising would yield varied benefits

• Traffic report: President-elect Trump
  Someone is likely to dominate traffic for a long time

• Year in review: Looking back on 2016
  Roundup of the year's news from the Wikimedia world, featuring Wikipedia's 15th anniversary and organizational disarray at the Wikimedia Foundation

• News and notes: Strategic planning update; English ArbCom election results
  WMF reflects, to some degree, on its past approaches to strategic planning

• Special report: German ArbCom implodes
  The German Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee loses more than half its members amid political feud

• In focus: Active user page filter prevents vandalism and harassment
  A proposal from the Inspire Campaign to address harassment was recently implemented to prevent unconstructive and malicious editing on user pages

• Op-ed: Operation successful, patient dead: Outreach workshops in Namibia
  Even a well executed outreach event can yield disappointing results

• In the media: In brief: Coverage of gender gap initiatives, banner fundraising, and more
  Wikipedia women in the news, and media reacts to 2016 ad banner campaign

• Featured content: The Christmas edition
  Twenty-three articles, ten lists and twenty-one pictures were promoted

• Technology report: Labs improvements impact 2016 Tool Labs survey results
  And a roundup of recently-added tools

• Traffic report: Post-election traffic blues
  Four weeks of popular article analysis

• Blog: Wiki Loves Monuments contest winners announced
  Winning photos in world's largest photography contest reveal a world of monuments—and the volunteers who love them

• Recent research: One study and several abstracts
  Privacy and Tor, and several other studies