Optional: write a lede — not necessarily a WP:LEAD. Interesting > encyclopedic.

Swedish singer Zara Larsson ordered millions of followers on TikTok to change her bio photo to remove microphones or something (People, Rolling Stone, The Independent). The resulting chaos led to page protection which quickly escalated from semi to extended-confirmed. The Daily Dot kind of nailed it when they said "The utopian open-source ethos of Wikipedia can become an enemy to a public figure trying to control their image."

Pitchfork followed up with what appear to be pretty straightforward directions to other artists on how to upload their favored photo and make an edit request. – B

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"Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links" and "If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots", said Ars Technica on Feb 20. The blacklisting was also described at Times of India; TechCrunch; Boing Boing; PC Magazine; Tom's Hardware, and others. – B

Open-source analyst Andrew S. Erickson's blog had an entry about the Chinese Maritime Militia, which he notes other analysts calling "little blue men"^[a] and invited more people to do their own analysis and contribute to Wikipedia. He says:

Folks outside government looking for a way to enhance public understanding may wish of their own accord to update and enhance Wikipedia’s entries on "Maritime Militia" (now in English, Chinese, Japanese, and Czech)—which have improved significantly yet remain far from comprehensive or complete. It's easy to become a Wikipedia editor, by the platform's very design...

In sum, rarely is a topic so little recognized and so little understood (even now), yet so important and so amenable to research using Chinese-language open sources.

– B

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• Subtitle: "German Wikipedia bans AI-generated content while other language editions take a softer approach" (The Decoder, Heise Group)
• Subtitle: "Hamas-linked org. trains Gazans to edit Wikipedia pages about Israel, Palestine" (Jerusalem Post), "Hamas-Linked Nonprofit Launches Wikipedia Training Program to Smear Israel" (Algemeiner (New York)), "Wikipedia's Information Intifada" (Algemeiner)
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• Is the "power 62" another name for The Cabal? Reason explores.: Reason magazine talks about Wikipedia's power 62, Justapedia, and other things ... [1] (video and transcript)
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This page is a draft for the next issue of the Signpost. Below is some helpful code that will help you write and format a Signpost draft. If it's blank, you can fill out a template by copy-pasting this in and pressing 'publish changes': {{subst:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Story-preload}}

Images and Galleries

Sidebar images To put an image in your article, use the following template (link): I understand the primacy of pure feeling in creative art. {{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Filler image-v2 |size = 300px |fullwidth = no |alt = TKTK |caption = |image = }} This will create the file on the right. Keep the 300px in most cases. If writing a 'full width' article, change |fullwidth=no to |fullwidth=yes. Inline images Placing {{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Inline image |size = 300px |align = center |alt = TKTK |caption = |image = }} (link) will instead create an inline image like below The significant thing is feeling, as such, quite apart from the environment in which it is called forth. Galleries To create a gallery, use the following <gallery style="float:right;" mode=packed | heights=200px> |TKTK |TKTK </gallery> Each line inside the tags should be formatted like File:Whatever.jpg|Caption). This creates: Art no longer cares to serve the state and religion, it no longer wishes to illustrate the history of manners. It wants to have nothing further to do with the object as such, and believes that it can exist in and for itself. If you want it centered, remove tstyle="float:right;" from the first line.

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Article series

To add a series of 'related articles' your article, use the following code Related articles Visual Editor Five, ten, and fifteen years ago 1 January 2023 VisualEditor, endowment, science, and news in brief 5 August 2015 HTTPS-only rollout completed, proposal to enable VisualEditor for new accounts 17 June 2015 VisualEditor and MediaWiki updates 29 April 2015 Security issue fixed; VisualEditor changes 4 February 2015 More articles Draft namespace, VisualEditor meetings 25 December 2013 Sockpuppet investigations, VisualEditor, Wikidata's birthday, and more 6 November 2013 Last call for Wiki Loves Monuments; Community–WMF tension over VisualEditor 25 September 2013 Making Wikipedia more accessible 4 September 2013 Gallery improvements launch on Wikipedia 28 August 2013 The VisualEditor Beta and the path to change 31 July 2013 Defining consensus; VisualEditor default state; expert and layperson terms in article titles 31 July 2013 VisualEditor in midst of game-changing deployment series 3 July 2013 VisualEditor will "change world history" 12 June 2013 VisualEditor, elections, bots, and more 12 June 2013 The Visual Editor: Where are we now, and where are we headed? 25 March 2013 Visual Editor "on schedule" for July rollout 18 March 2013 Looking ahead to 2013 7 January 2013 The new Visual Editor gets a bit more visual 10 December 2012 Second Visual Editor prototype launches 25 June 2012 Visual editor demo launched, hailed as "most important change to our user experience ... ever"; but elsewhere over-hasty deployments criticised 19 December 2011 Full steam ahead on Visual Editor, the avoidance of lock-breaking and 1.18b1 release 7 November 2011 {{Signpost series |type = sidebar-v2 |tag = VisualEditor |seriestitle = Visual Editor |fullwidth = no }} or {{Signpost series |type = sidebar-v2 |tag = VisualEditor |seriestitle = Visual Editor |fullwidth = yes }} will create the sidebar on the right. If writing a 'full width' article, change |fullwidth=no to |fullwidth=yes. A partial list of valid |tag= parameters can be found at here and will decide the list of articles presented. |seriestitle= is the title that will appear below 'Related articles' in the box. Alternatively, you can use {{Signpost series |type = inline |tag = VisualEditor |tag_name = visual editor |tag_pretext = the }} at the end of an article to create For more Signpost coverage on the visual editor see our visual editor series. If you think a topic would make a good series, but you don't see a tag for it, or that all the articles in a series seem 'old', ask for help at the WT:NEWSROOM. Many more tags exist, but they haven't been documented yet.