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

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Jimmy Wales, in Germany to promote his book The Seven Rules of Trust, answered the same question four times in one minute in a Jung & Naiv video interview hosted by Tilo Jung – before walking out of the interview. The question posed by Jung, known for a faux-naïve interview style inspired by Stephen Colbert, was: "Are you the founder or co-founder of Wikipedia?" Wales's answer was: "It doesn't matter."

The incident attracted press coverage in Germany –

• Berliner Zeitung: "„Dümmste Frage der Welt“: Co-Gründer von Wikipedia verlässt Interview mit Tilo Jung nach Sekunden"
• Der Spiegel: "Wikipedia-Gründer Jimmy Wales nennt Tilo Jungs Fragen »dumm«"

– and further afield, including British tabloids:

• The Daily Mail: "Furious Wikipedia co-founder storms out of interview after refusing to answer basic question")
• The Daily Express: "Moment guest storms out of huge interview and leaves host speechless: 'I'm done''

The Times of India noted that the incident has widely circulated on social media (see e.g. Reddit thread with over 6,700 comments). - S, AK

The Intelligencer finds that Elon Musk's "Wikipedia clone is ridiculous" but "also a glimpse of the future":

Grokipedia, and Musk's AI projects in general, invite us to see LLMs as powerful and intrinsically biased ideological tools, which, whatever you make of Grok's example, they always are.

A somewhat similar argument is made in a London School of Economics blog post, which argues that Grokipedia has essentially fallen flat, with little Google visibility and dwindling traffic. But the author notes that Wikipedia is operating in an ever more hostile political environment, and while Grokipedia may be little more than a sideshow, there are "deeper battles underway in the digital knowledge ecosystem".

An article in The Atlantic by disinformation scholar Renée DiResta states:

The free internet encyclopedia is widely used to train AI. That's why conservatives are trying to dethrone it.

As for the Grokipedia concept, she says:

It's pure algorithmic output with no community, no transparency, no clear process for dispute resolution. The irony is striking: Even as Musk and his friends attack Wikipedia for supposed bias, he is building something far more opaque and unaccountable.

Journalist Stephen Harrison discusses Wikipedia and the role of an editor community in a Slate podcast titled "Wikipedia Enters the Culture Wars" (transcript). – AK

"Scandals Erased, Editors Paid: How Big Law Firms Try to Control Their Wikipedia Pages" – that's the headline of a law.com article (published back in September, archive) that told its readers:

A deep analysis by Law.com shows how some law firms pay editors, flout the rules, whether consciously or not, and remove controversies to curate their image on one of the world's most popular websites.

The article looks at the editing history of several law firm articles. It gives examples of firms using PR consultants who openly disclosed their work in line with Wikipedia's rules and quotes a commercial editor who makes undisclosed edits. It also covers the politicisation of law firms:

Law firms with connections to U.S. President Donald Trump or his executive orders often show evidence of this on their Wikipedia pages.

The Verge published an article on Jeffrey Epstein-related Wikipedia editing. The article mentions and indeed quotes from a March 2020 Signpost piece by User:Smallbones. – AK

• Stop scraping me, bro: https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/10/wikipedia-urges-ai-companies-to-use-its-paid-api-and-stop-scraping/ (TechCrunch), https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/wikipedia-asks-ai-companies-to-stop-scraping-data-and-to-start-paying-up/ (CNET)
• Q: Where do babies come from? A: Nazis.: "Priest horrified to learn he is Himmler's grandson after recognising Nazi's mistress on Wikipedia" (The Independent)
• Mammoth mummy sex-change: 404 Media reported on a paper just published in the journal Cell, "Ancient RNA expression profiles from the extinct woolly mammoth". The main result of the paper was that 39,000 year old RNA can now be examined by scientists. An interesting sidebar is that the mummified wooly mammoth Yuka has been reclassified from female to male. 404 mentioned that this news is so new that even Wikipedia hadn't reported it yet. This oversight has now been corrected. -S
• Annual rankings start coming in:
  • https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-most-viewed-wikipedia-pages-of-2025-so-far/ (Visual Capitalist)
• "How to save Wikipedia from AI" (Chicago Tribune, widely syndicated)
• https://mycharisma.com/most-recent/wikipedias-take-on-jesus-stirs-backlash-and-accusations-of-bias/ (Charisma magazine); questions article Sexuality of Jesus, saying Wikipedia community "allow[s] activist contributors to insert unorthodox views under the guise of academic balance".
• Saintly Wikimedia donors: Canadian news satire site The Beaverton pokes fun at Wikimedia's ongoing banner campaign, imagining a reader who achieves sainthood by responding "not with apathy, but with a one-time contribution of the minimum listed amount ($2.75)". But with fame comes scrutiny, and a fictitious journalist calls her "a fake and a phony! ... My sources have shared that she didn't even mean to donate to Wikipedia, she just accidentally clicked on 'Payment Method' and her Google Chrome extension already had the credit card info filled out. And it wasn't even her credit card, it was her dad's!"
• "Wikipedia's Antisemitism": An article published by Orthodox Jewish outreach group Aish HaTorah welcomed Jimmy Wales' call to action regarding the Gaza genocide article, and said additional bias, antisemitism, and falsehoods could be found in the articles Jewish Supremacy, Well poisoning, Palestinian genocide accusation, Al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion, and Jews.
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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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Side frames

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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.