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

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"A generous explanation is that the Wikipedia system is so hobbled by internal dysfunction that, even with the best of intentions, it can no longer maintain even basic editorial integrity on the most contentious of topics. At worst, Wikipedia has been captured by ideological factions who know how to game the system and weaponize its rules."

So says Ashley Rindsberg writing in Tablet magazine [1] about what he says is a struggle to seize control of the article Zionism.

The Tablet article is headlined "a group of radical editors is succeeding in redefining Zionism as racism on the world's leading online encyclopedia. Congress is investigating if it's a foreign op.", and it explicitly links forthcoming Congressional inquiry to the lede paragraph of the article Zionism and Arbcom's 2024 PIA decision which Rindsberg says locked in the current wording related to Rindsberg's 10/2024 reporting on Wikipedia; do we have previous Signpost coverage on it? National Review has an article commenting on Rindsberg's article, written by online editor Philip Klein. – B

• "Wikipedia accused of censoring page on murder of Ukrainian refugee..." New York Post [2] contained screen shot of Killing of Iryna Zarutska implying that it was going to be deleted & similar story at The Free Press, headline says "Wikipedia Wants to Erase Her Story"; Fox News also has a story on the article. Not to worry, the community ended up neither 'censoring' nor 'erasing'; the deletion debate ended up "keep" with a mention of WP:SNOW in the closing comments.
• All Things Considered, it's bunk: "Recent attacks on Wikipedia may have more to do with politics than accuracy" says NPR's All Things Considered could weave into New York Post coverage
• May we (not) live in 'interesting' times: AI cleanup offered ... on aisle 420? Elon Musk mused about inventing "Grokipedia or whatever. It'd be interesting": The Economic Times
• Evil twin will get new "facts" on demand: XDA tells about a sort of evil twin of Wikipedia, a "A self-hosted Wikipedia that is wrong about everything", "vibe coded experiment in hallucination" called Endless Wiki [3]. The software is called a "LLM of lies [that] will confidently write wiki pages almost faster than I can type in new prompts". The project's GitHub page promises "if you don't like the facts you've been stuck with you can always refresh to get new ones".
• Rotten luck: Boing Boing covered a 2024 Pew Research study that found 54% of Wikipedia pages contain at least one link in their "References" section that points to a page that no longer exists. It's part of a larger phenomenon of link rot on the World Wide Web – over a third of web pages from 2013 are no longer accessible not counting web archives, presumably. [4]
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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.