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Just noting for the sake of my fellow contributors that I plan to use this slot for the upcoming issue. I'll draft something up offline and post it here if I get it ready in time. QuicoleJR (talk|edits) 18:37, 22 July 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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• July 17, 2026: Welcome to the high-stakes universe of World Cup Wikipedia editing - NYT/The Athletic article on a FIFA World Cup focused event hosted by Wikimedia NYC and WikiLatinos

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• July 14, 2026: In the age of AI slop and misinformation, we need Wikipedia more than ever - SF Chronicle opinion piece -

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@Wil540 art: I encourage you to add your findings to the draft ITM, add yourself to the byline too if you want – we need contributors. ☆ Bri (talk) 15:47, 23 July 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I added the NYT article summary. This is my first attempt at writing in this column, so please review my work and give me feedback, if needed. I will get to the SF Chronicle article. I wish I had a gift link for that one. Is there any signpost policy around using gift links? For example, in the summary I just wrote, I swapped the NYT link with a gift article link. - Wil540 art (talk) 19:06, 23 July 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not aware of a policy against gift links; however, NYT gift links only last for 30 days, so ... not a panacea. ☆ Bri (talk) 22:43, 23 July 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Does anyone have access to https://www.law360.com/employment-authority/articles/2504577/wikipedia-host-faces-union-recognition-demand ? Andreas JN466 21:11, 25 July 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Jayen466: Sent – Doc Taxon • Talk • 18:28, 26 July 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Doc Taxon Cool. Thank you. Andreas JN466 18:44, 26 July 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Started a Meet the Wikimedians of the Year 2026! News from Diff from this article: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/07/22/meet-the-wikimedians-of-the-year-2026/ I added some images and captions. I also slightly re-ordered the article because they had Hijiri last, while the Wikimedian of the Year article pairs him with Mari Avetisyan. That is how I structured it. -Wil540 art (talk) 21:46, 25 July 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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An article from the Jewish News Syndicate was written about this publication from the University of Haifa.

Drawing on in-depth interviews with 19 Jewish veteran editors of the English Wikipedia, this study outlines a four-phase model of editorial engagement: idealistic entry, emergent friction, emotional erosion, and adaptive coping or emerging silences.

I found the JNS article link on the "In the media" draft page, but I think a academic analysis of this is warranted.

It does include references to several sources considered marginally reliable or generally unreliable on WP:RS/P, such as the Anti Defamation League (WP:ADLAS) and Pirate Wires (WP:PIRATEWIRES), though considering that this article is centred around the Wikipedia community, I think deferring judgement to the community compiled list should be avoided. Mitchsavl (talk) 10:13, 21 July 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The link to the paper is here. I don't really understand what you mean by "I think deferring judgement to the community compiled list should be avoided."

There is something that has to be said about the academic article. It is absolutely one-sided, in the sense that no Palestinian or Arab editors are interviewed. It might even be implied by the paper (or just inferred by this reader) that the author thinks the Palestinian/Arab/Muslim side is not worth considering. Stating this outright, the idea might be "How could Palestinians/Arabs/Muslims know anything about anti-Semitism?" Actually, I'd think they would know a lot about discrimination, hate, and even genocide. It could be essentially the same story, just with the ethnic/religious labels switched. In short, if we're not careful we could be stepping in some deep shit here. Let User:HaeB decide, maybe with the help of User:Bri and User:Piotrus and others. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 14:51, 21 July 2026 (UTC)[reply]

forgot to ping @Mitchsavl: Smallbones_(smalltalk) 15:24, 21 July 2026 (UTC)[reply]

About "deferring judgement should be avoided": I think the op meant that the deprecated sources list should not be applied in this case. If followed blindly, it could lead to a sort of trapdoor where any critique of the community's decision-making process would be off limits to consider in order to re-evaluate the community's decision-making process. I'm not sure I follow it to that conclusion, but I do appreciate the thought that we should be extra receptive to criticism in our internal discussions, especially when coming from an academic source. To put it bluntly, I don't think WP:RSPS was ever intended to be prescriptive in terms of winnowing what we choose to present in the Recent research column. ☆ Bri (talk) 15:39, 21 July 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I have never been active in the modern Isreali politics, and I am trying my best to avoid historical too. I fully agree with the 4-step trajectory described, but if the article tries to argue it affects only Isreali editors, it's obviously is quite biased (and frankly that pattern can be generalized to most contentious topics). So in essence the research is finding that "some editors burned out after editing a contentious area for some time". Riiiight. News. Let's move on to the next paper about "Wikipedia articles about US politics can be edited by anyone", "Fooian propaganda actors are trying to edit Wikipedia" or "Zooian companies are spamming Wikipedia". Sigh. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 19:02, 21 July 2026 (UTC)[reply]

This article and related study appears interesting:

1. https://www.psypost.org/female-biology-professors-are-now-more-likely-to-have-a-wikipedia-page-than-their-male-peers/
2. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.2566

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You should mention the effectiveness of previous drives briefly within the article. Mitchsavl (talk) 03:50, 23 July 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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@Smallbones, @Bri: I just wanted to check in to wee what will be happening with this piece. It looks like it has a lot of content, but hasn't been edited in ~2 weeks. Is there anything else that needs to be done with it? Mitchsavl (talk) 07:32, 26 July 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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I'm considering covering this presentation: Kurier, Signpost, wikipress: You can be a Wikimedia journalist / Commons:File:Actualités, Kurier, Signpost…wikijournals, wikizines, wikiletters, wikipress?.pdf from Wikimania on Wikimedia journalism. Recording can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKOImdtm9jg&t=885s Are there plans to cover this elsewhere? Wil540 art (talk) 19:36, 26 July 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• @Wil540 art: I mention this in Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue/On the bright side but don't go into detail, so more coverage in a separate Signpost piece should be fine. Please also note Clovermoss' plan mentioned above on this talk page. Thanks for volunteering to write about the presentation. ↠Pine (✉) 22:48, 26 July 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  @Pine: Will do, thanks. I'm aiming for a deep dive here that includes quotes and a selection of the Q&A. - Wil540 art (talk) 17:46, 27 July 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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