The Signpost

28 October 2018

From the editors — The Signpost is still afloat, just barely
A slightly thinner issue, but out on time.

Op-ed
Wikipedia's Strickland affair
Is a missing article on a Nobel laureate a fail? What if her draft biography was declined as non-notable?

News and notes
WMF gets a million bucks
And it's richer than ever.

In the media
Bans, celebs, and bias
Breitbart begone; rescued by archivists; celebrating trolls?

Discussion report
Mediation Committee and proposed deletion reform
Plus: two pending changes-related discussions, notability, and naming conventions.

Technology report
Bots galore!
Bots can do anything you want – well, almost.

Special report
NPP needs you
WMF continues to stonewall development; NPP wishes again relegated to stocking fillers.

Special report 2
Now Wikidata is six
SPARQL adds sparkle to WMF projects.

In focus
Alexa
We are all writing for Amazon.

Gallery
Out of this world!
No special effects here, just beautiful celestial images.

Recent research
Wikimedia Commons worth $28.9 billion
If it weren't free, of course.

Humour
Talk page humour
Wikipedia has a long history of talk page tomfoolery.

Opinion
Strickland incident
The reviewer who declined the article gives his perspective.

From the archives
The Gardner Interview
The "holy-shit" slide.

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