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Hi JPxG, I have boldly written content for this issue's essay's section. I am fine with moving my essay to a different section or postponing this if there are other needs to use this essay section. If my essay needs to be postponed then I would be fine with you copying my content to a new page in my user space, then replacing my content on the Signpost page. Thanks, ༄ᨒ𖠰 Pine (✉) 22:58, 17 October 2026 (UTC)reply

Note to the person who is acting EIC for the upcoming publication: unless I change this draft to say that copyediting is complete, please assume that this is not ready for publication. I may not have time to improve this essay before the upcoming publication deadline, and I may want to postpone this to a later Signpost issue. ༄ᨒ𖠰 Pine (✉) 04:54, 27 October 2026 (UTC)reply

Thanks. This is now targeted to issue 15. Meeting optimization is an evergreen topic, and I may move this essay to a page in my userspace if the essay doesn't get published in issue in 15. ༄ᨒ𖠰 Pine (✉) 05:59, 3 November 2026 (UTC)reply

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1. WikiProject United States' 20,000 Challenge just passed the ten year mark and is going strong. Since I'm a participant I would prefer someone else to evaluate whether it is newsworthy. ☆ Bri (talk) 20:36, 2 November 2026 (UTC)reply
   1. FYI Bri I have boldly retitled and reformatted this section to align it with the upcoming N&N. ༄ᨒ𖠰 Pine (✉) 05:32, 3 November 2026 (UTC)reply
2. Wikidata's birthday may be worth covering, as mentioned above by Oltrepier. ༄ᨒ𖠰 Pine (✉) 05:32, 3 November 2026 (UTC)reply
3. I'll also throw in a brief article about a recent controversy over at the Italian Wikipedia, which includes a couple of new bans (for different reasons) and has needed intervention from the local ArbCom. More to come soon. Oltrepier (talk) 21:12, 6 November 2026 (UTC)reply
4. @Oltrepier and Bri: would one of you please mention the upcoming Wikimedia Café session in the Notes section of N&N? A description provided by me is in this diff. Thanks, ༄ᨒ𖠰 Pine (✉)

1. Perhaps Oltrepier could cover the United States 20,000 challenge if Oltrepier thinks that it's newsworthy, and Bri could cover Wikidata's birthday. What do you both think? ༄ᨒ𖠰 Pine (✉) 05:32, 3 November 2026 (UTC)reply

   @Pine Sounds good to me! Oltrepier (talk) 12:42, 3 November 2026 (UTC)reply

 Done got the Wikidata birthday item ☆ Bri (talk) 22:41, 3 November 2026 (UTC)reply

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@Mitchsavl, thank you for covering the Wishlist! As I work on this project, may I provide some further details?

The submission period ends quite soon, on November 8. Any wish posted after this date will be considered for the next round, next year.

This year, triage will occur over 2 weeks this November (not 4), through a cooperation between volunteers and WMF staff. This working group will gather again early February for 2 weeks to think about the post-vote plan. The total is 4 weeks indeed, but for separated inputs. Thanks to your report, I updated the Wishlist documentation to make this point clearer.

"The first voting period is currently expected to be in January", actually between January 8 and 24.

Project families are defined at the submission step, by the submitter. It could be reviewed during the triage process, but not during the post-vote process. Again, this is the first time this workflow is implemented and we will learn while walking it. :)

During the triage period, the working group will provide a first evaluation of the quantity of work, the "wish size", a key driver. The selection of wishes will be a combination of "Project families", wish size and votes.

The Lead Program Manager for the Wishlist was announced in September. It is BGustafson-WMF.

If you have any question, please let me know! Trizek_(WMF) (talk) 11:21, 4 November 2026 (UTC)reply

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