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8 June 2024

Wikimedia Foundation – CC BY-SA 4.0
News and notes
Wikimedia Foundation publishes its Form 990 for fiscal year 2022-2023
The Form 990, as well as highlights and FAQs, are now available for review.
Paramedics Worldwide – CC 3.0 BY-SA NL
Technology report
New Page Patrol receives a much-needed software upgrade
A new model for collaboration between the WMF and the community?
India Illustrated – PD
Deletion report
The lore of Kalloor
Hoaxes and the genesis of information.
Teacher61 – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International
In the media
National cable networks get in on the action arguing about what the first sentence of a Wikipedia article ought to say
First line, sixth paragraph, body text or unified Reich?
Wikimedia Foundation – CC BY-SA 4.0
News from the WMF
Progress on the plan — how the Wikimedia Foundation advanced on its Annual Plan goals during the first half of fiscal year 2023-2024
Outlining progress against the four key goals
? – PD
Opinion
Public response to the editors of Settler Colonial Studies
A letter.
Bagnoli et al. – CC BY 4.0
Recent research
ChatGPT did not kill Wikipedia, but might have reduced its growth
And various research findings about Wikidata and knowledge graphs.
Fred Kruger – PD
Featured content
We didn't start the wiki
No we didn't write it, but we tried to cite it
Wiki thành viên Liên minh hội (WTL) – CC BY-SA 4.0
Essay
No queerphobia
An essay.
Pi.1415926535 – CC BY-SA 4.0
Special report
RetractionBot is back to life!
... and flagging your articles with big ugly red notices! (This is a good thing.)
? – PD
Traffic report
Chimps, Eurovision, and the return of the Baby Reindeer
Movies, deaths, elections (but no cricket).
Relativity – CC0
Comix
The Wikipediholic Family
Some stuff's only okay in the privacy of the home.
Sapphireasa – CC BY-SA 3.0
Humour
Wikipedia rattled by sophisticated cyberattack of schoolboy typing "balls" in infobox
Project in shambles – "it had never occurred to us that this was possible".
USNA – PD
Concept
Palimpsestuous
Hypertext.
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