Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2024 are now open!

Plus: Sockpuppet investigators asking for help.

Finances during Tides Foundation management of the endowment are shown for the first time.

A lack of transparency.

UCoC draws nearer, alongside the rise of the machines, in mainspace this time.

Wikifunctions might drag it down.

And other research findings.

An interview with Wikimedia's Chief Advancement Officer.

Ineffective altruism, return of the toaster, Jess Wade keeps wading through it, Russia censors searches, schools embrace Wikipedia.

Candidates sign off and peel out – Sigalov is on and Peel is in.

Just what is NPP? Why does it need the WMF? Why does it need YOU?

The Signpost looks back on The Signpost: New reports, conceived in a spirit of collaboration, and dedicated to the proposition of information and, uh, more information for all.

Wikipedia and human rights, publishers and the Internet Archive, Russia and Wikipedia.

A review of Wikipedia's fundraising messages and financial status.

Google and Internet Archive sold on new product, more customers hoped to follow.

Office actions to secretly delete stuff when told to? Well, at least not if they're Putin's.

New regulations governing online censorship

Plus, a new status page and Desktop Improvements.

The second case of Wikipedian persecution.

Plus, Desktop Improvements and a new uploading tool for Commons.

Plus, DiscussionTools and dark mode.

Meet the folks in charge!

Plus, Wiki Unseen, the "Sports Wars", and much more.

One editor doesn't think so.

Plus, the incredible shrinking admin cadre.

"Impossible ideas can be created, not just imagined."

Wrapping up 2021 with a pair of auctions, activity surrounding administrators, and an audit.

Sharing the wealth of information!

Section 230 in practice – this Black life should matter to us.

And will the last person to leave the C-Suite please turn off the lights?

Beam me up, Scotty – Matt Amodio for sure, and maybe just a few VIPs, billionaires, and Tucker Carlson.

$4.5 million for equity.

With two musical celebrations!

We just look at the pictures!

Money, money, money.

A calm discussion.

Explicit behavioral expectations are better than unwritten social norms

Plus CPAC misinformation

Free as in Liberty.

Starting with trust, expanding, controversy, and opportunities.

Happy birthday!

Who else but Ser Amantio di Nicolao?

No evidence of large-scale state-sponsored disinformation.

New laws in the US and Europe might enable trolls; sad admin milestone for English Wikipedia, or not?

Arbitration Committee elections begin.

Sandister Tei.

Branding pause, birthday.

We made it this far, but where do we go from here?

Celebrating of our community in a different format.

Will the Scots language Wikipedia survive?

Privacy is critical to sustaining freedom of expression and association, enabling knowledge and ideas to thrive.

On these issues, there is no neutral stance.

Four signers of the open letter explain.

Many Wikimedia community members are upset about the WMF's plan to rebrand. Plus, a discussion of Fox News's reliability.

Reacting to the WMF's rebranding proposal.

Worth Every Goddamn Second!

It's no April Fool's joke, but we discuss those, too.

The WMF responds.

Growing our community and our abilities.

Plus politics and other oddities.

Wikimedia community organizations elect two members for the Wikimedia Foundation board of trustees

Could this be a new relationship between the Foundation and ArbCom, and between the Foundation and enwiki?

The WMF keeps working to stop Turkey from blocking Wikipedia

Maher discusses her tenure as ED, the editing community, harassment and diversity, the WMF's 3-5 year plan, airplane travel, books, and her future.

The WMF's take on the new EU Copyright Directive: The Wikimedia Foundation reacts to the passing of the new EU Copyright Directive.

From MFD to CSD, debates are continuing across Wikipedia about which portals should stay and which portals should go. Plus: Wikimedia rebranding and Macedonia naming conventions.

This election will select 2 of 10 seats on the board. All Wikimedia users are stakeholders in the election outcome and should participate.

The world’s largest photo contest, a $1 million gift, Wikipedia’s birthday, WF appoints Valerie D'Costa.

Venezuelan woes, and Arbitrator GorillaWarfare explains WMF tumult in post on Wikipediocracy

In and around the WMF and its projects from the WMF's web site

Two new WMF Communications department leadership appointments; a new way for Wikimedia communities to communicate their capacities.

The Wikimedia Foundation publishes the latest fundraising report, convenes over the close of the strategic plan discussion, and moves into a new space.

While the English Wikipedia community produces no new requests for adminhood in June, the Wikimedia Foundation makes changes to the Product and Technology departments.

In biology, the hallmarks of an aggressive cancer include limitless and exponential multiplication of ordinarily beneficial cells, even when the body signals that further multiplication is no longer needed. The Wikipedia page on the wheat and chessboard problem explains that nothing can keep growing exponentially forever. In biology, the unwanted growth usually terminates with the death of the host. Exponential spending increases can often lead to the same undesirable result in organizations. The Wikimedia Foundation's expenses have grown aggressively every year; Wikipedian Guy Macon offers his analysis.

A report from the second WikiIndaba conference, with summaries of several presentations.

Foundation's latest foray into political waters, and grants funding structured data and anti-harassment measures, met with enthusiasm and concern

Several developments in the $2.5 million strategic planning process explored, and a team within the software production department is sidelined

News from Wikimania and the courts

The outgoing ED to be honored at Davos.

The Signpost speaks with the incoming WMF interim executive director.

The popular podcast returns.

The road ahead for the WMF.

Wikipedia news sparks editing disagreements.

A look at the future of our parent foundation.

Controversy, change, and everything between.

A tumultuous time at the Wikimedia Foundation

WMF in limbo as decision on Tretikov nears: The Board of Trustees may be deciding the direction of the Foundation.

Parting words from a WMF employee,

Examining the impact of the knowledge engine

Numerous questions remain about the grant.

Bouterse out.

Three internal communications from the Wikimedia Foundation that shed light on the history of the Knowledge Engine project.

New member María Sefidari joins the Board of Trustees.

Examining the issues at the heart of recent Board disputes.

A survey released, another major departure from the Foundation.

James Heilman speaks out about the events leading up to his dismissal from the Board.

Newly appointed trustee leaves following a community outcry.

Board turmoil gets the attention of journalists.

Vote of no confidence; WMF trustee speaks out: The continuing controversy over a new Board appointment.

James Heilman talks about why he was removed from the WMF board.

A look at community objections to a new Board trustee

The Crisis at New Montgomery Street: William Beutler discusses problems inside the WMF.

Liam Wyatt shares his thoughts in "community view"

Trouble with the Board of Trustees

In a monumental move, the Board ousted one of its own

The suit concerns copyright claims related to 17 images of the museum’s public domain works of art.

The WMF wants your ideas for technical improvements.

District court judge decrees that the WMF lacks standing.

Everyone's talking about money.

The Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to announce the release of our latest transparency report.

Lila Tretikov this week posted an email to the wikimedia-l mailing list announcing the final publication of the Wikimedia Foundation's 2015 annual plan.

Training the Trainers; VP of Engineering leaves WMF: This week The Center for Internet and Society published a promotional blog post highlighting the heritage of the center's creation of the Train the Trainer program.

Board candidates share their views with the Signpost: Three community-elected seats on the Board of Trustees—the ultimate governing authority of the Wikimedia Foundation—will be decided by Wikimedians in the election to be held 17–31 May.

The Affiliates Committee this week announced the organization of a community referral for comment, currently open on the meta-wiki, to address upcoming changes to the way that the Affiliations Committee will review movement-affiliated user-groups in the future.

2015 will see through the biennial community election for the three community-elected seats on the Board of Trustees—the "ultimate corporate authority" of the Wikimedia Foundation and the level at which the strategic decisions regarding the Wikimedia movement are made.

The Wikimedia Foundation's vice president for engineering, Erik Möller, will leave the WMF on April 30.

March saw a number of high-level hirings and executive reorganizations in the Wikimedia Foundation.

Last week the WMF announced the release of its long-awaited open-access policy.

This process is now entering its long-awaited final phase with the upcoming SUL finalization, scheduled for April 15, less than a month away. ... Wikimedia Foundation chief talent and culture officer Gayle Karen Young announced her retirement from the Foundation this week. Young will be replaced in that role by interim chief operating officer Terry Gilbey. According to the Foundation's job description for the title as it was applied in the past, Gilbey will be in charge of "overall administration and business operations of the Wikimedia Foundation."

In an effort to protect and maintain the privacy of Wikipedia's thousands of editors, the Wikimedia Foundation has filed a lawsuit against the United States' National Security Agency, Department of Justice, and the Attorney General.

The Wikimedia Foundation released their Quarterly Report last week covering the three months October to December of 2014.

Chris Troutman has been a campus ambassador for six classes in the Los Angeles area over the past four consecutive semesters. He is currently a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar at University of California, Riverside.

The Los Angeles Times highlighted a recent Wiki Education Foundation (WEF) course at Pomona College in their article "Wikipedia pops up in bibliographies, and even college curricula". We interviewed Char Booth, the campus ambassador for the course, for additional details.

In her first interview since taking office, Lila Tretikov, the Wikimedia Foundation's new executive director, speaks about grantmaking, the global south, and the gender gap.

In a live video stream on 1 May, the Wikimedia Foundation announced that Lila Tretikov will be replacing Sue Gardner, its executive director. Gardner, who has been in the position since 2007, declared her intention to leave more than a year ago.

The Foundation's new executive director: The Wikimedia Foundation has announced that its new executive director will be Lila Tretikov, until now a chief product officer in Silicon Valley.

One of the first university Wikipedian in residence positions, hosted at Harvard University in 2012, has jumped back into the spotlight amid questions about its ethical integrity.

The Wikimedia Foundation has proposed to modify the Wikimedia projects' Terms of use to specifically ban undisclosed paid editing. ... Dimitris Liourdis, a lawyer in training who moonlights as an administrator on the Greek Wikipedia, is embroiled in a legal dispute with a Greek politician over alleged edits made to his Wikipedia article.

In apparent acknowledgment of the urgency of two issues facing the Wikimedia movement—the need to engage both women and the global south—the WMF Board has appointed Ana Toni as one of its four expert members. Toni will bring rare expertise to the movement, and the Signpost understands that her skills in advocacy and her key roles in international NGOs are likely to be a natural match with the WMF as the hub of disseminating free knowledge around the world.

Late last year, the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) awarded $8.4 million in donors' money to 11 Wikimedia entities, including the Wikimedia Foundation and 10 nationally defined chapters. Under this arrangement, these organisations are required to issue quarterly reports on how far they have progressed towards their declared programmatic and financial goals. The FDC has now announced that all 11 completed and submitted their reports by the 1 April deadline, and have responded to each.

Nominations closed last Friday for the three community-elected seats on the Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) ten-member Board of Trustees—the ultimate corporate authority of the worldwide WMF. The Board has influential roles and responsibilities over one of the most powerful global information sources on the Internet.

WMF scales back feature after outcry: Numerous Wikimedia Commons editors have chimed in on the Wikimedia Foundation's deployment of a new feature to its mobile website. Allowing anonymous users to register and upload pictures for use in an article, the feature was placed prominently at the top of Wikipedia articles in multiple languages.

Sue Gardner to leave WMF; German Wikipedians spearhead another effort to close Wikinews: Ranked as one of the most powerful women in the world by Forbes, Gardner is widely associated with the rise of the Wikimedia movement as a major custodian of human knowledge and cultural products.

Wikimedia Foundation declares 'victory' in Wikivoyage lawsuit: On February 15, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) declared 'victory' in its counter-lawsuit against Internet Brands (IB), the owner of Wikitravel and the operator of several online media, community, and e-commerce sites in vertical markets. The lawsuit clears the last remaining hurdles for the WMF's new travel guide project, Wikivoyage.

The movement, now in its second decade, is growing apace in its international reach, cultural and linguistic diversity, technical development, and financial complexity.

On 27 December the Wikimedia Foundation announced the conclusion of their ninth annual fundraiser, which attracted more than 1.2 million donors. The appeal reached its goal of US$25 million, even though fundraising banners ran for only nine days.