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Special report Wiki Loves (50 Years of) Pride

2019-03-31

Commemorate the 50th anniversary of the modern LGBT+ rights movement by editing wiki projects!

Special report The Signpost got 380,000+ views in 2018; sounds reasonable enough, right?

2018-12-24

A statistical insight into the English Wikipedia's very own online community newspaper.

Special report The Christmas wishlist

2018-12-01

The race for the winning Top 10. What do the WMF devs have in store for the community?

Special report NPP: This could be heaven or this could be hell for new users – and for the reviewers

2018-10-28

WMF continues to stonewall development – NPP wishes again relegated to stocking fillers

Special report NPR and AfC – The Marshall Plan: an engagement, or a marriage?

2018-06-29

NPR and AfC – The Marshall Plan: an engagement and a marriage?: Further developments on New Page Review and Articles for Creation work sharing.

Special report ACTRIAL results adopted by landslide

2018-04-26

New major editing policy starting immediately: creation of articles in mainspace is to be limited to users with confirmed accounts

Special report ACTRIAL wrap-up

2018-03-29

"Information gathered during the trial period will be reported to the English Wikipedia community, and the community will decide if any additional steps should be taken based on the results".

Special report Taking stock of the Good Article backlog

2016-11-26

A close examination of the efficacy of the GA Cup contest, a longstanding effort to reduce the backlog of articles awaiting review

Special report Wikiversity Journal: A new user group

2016-06-15

Wikiversity Journal—A new user group: Wikimedia enters academic publishing

Special report [UPDATED] WMF in limbo as decision on Tretikov nears

2016-02-24

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

Special report Search and destroy: the Knowledge Engine and the undoing of Lila Tretikov

2016-02-17

Examining the impact of the knowledge engine

Special report New internal documents raise questions about the origins of the Knowledge Engine

2016-02-10

Numerous questions remain about the grant.

Special report Board chair and new trustee speak with the Signpost

2016-02-03

New member María Sefidari joins the Board of Trustees.

Special report Wikipedia community celebrates Public Domain Day 2016

2016-01-13

WE LOVE PUBLIC DOMAIN DAY!

Special report ArbCom election—candidates’ opinions analysed

2015-11-18

Our annual election coverage.

Special report One year of GamerGate, or how I learned to stop worrying and love bare rule-level consensus

2015-10-21

Examining the conflict and its participants.

Special report Massive paid editing network unearthed on the English Wikipedia

2015-09-02

Nearly 400 accounts blocked in largest paid-editing bust ever.

Gallery "One small step..."

2015-07-22

46 years ago this week, humanity set foot on the Moon.

Blog These Texans are on a quest to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of their state’s revolution

2015-07-01

Like many editors of the world's largest encyclopedia, Karanacs was browsing the site's articles and found that they were of relatively poor quality—and that the traditional narrative she'd learned was not necessarily accurate.

Special report Small impact of the large Google Translation Project on Telugu Wikipedia

2015-06-24

During 2009–2011 Google ran the Google Translation Project (GTP), a program utilising paid translators to translate most popular English Wikipedia articles to various Indian language Wikipedias.

Blog 7,473 volumes at 700 pages each: meet Print Wikipedia

2015-06-24

After six years of work, a residency in the Canadian Rockies, endless debugging, and more than a little help from my friends, I have made Print Wikipedia.

Interview A veteran’s Wikipedia edits help him understand the brutality behind Yugoslavia’s wars

2015-06-17

We interviewed an Australian veteran who deployed to the region as a peacekeeper and now writes articles on the region's history to help him understand what he encountered there.

Special report Towards "Health Information for All": Medical content on Wikipedia received 6.5 billion page views in 2013

2015-06-03

Wikipedia appears to be the single most used website for health information globally, exceeding traffic observed at the NIH, WebMD, WHO et al..

Blog How Wikipedia covered Caitlyn Jenner’s transition

2015-06-03

Caitlyn Jenner—the American hero of the 1976 Olympics, a film actor, and prominent member of Keeping Up with the Kardashians—may now be the most famous openly transgender person in the world.

Special report FDC candidates respond to key issues

2015-05-06

Elections have begun for five community members of the Funds Dissemination Committee, the Foundation's volunteer body for judging and recommending millions of dollars worth of annual grants to affiliates in the movement. The election lasts just eight days, from Sunday 3 May until 23:59 UTC on Sunday 10 May, so at the time of publication, voters will need to act promptly.

Special report Sony emails reveal corporate practices and undisclosed advocacy editing

2015-04-22

A Signpost investigation of the released data has revealed Sony's corporate practices regarding Wikipedia and uncovered what appears to be undisclosed advocacy editing of Wikipedia by Sony employees and possibly by others.

Special report Pictures of the Year 2015

2015-04-01

The Wikimedia Commons' annual Picture of the Year contest has concluded. The first 53 top-voted entries were disqualified because they were all nude.

Special report Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2014

2015-03-25

The Wikipedia Commons annual Picture of the Year contest has concluded, with 6,698 people voting, its largest participation yet.

Special report An advance look at the WMF's fundraising survey

2015-03-11

The Wikimedia Foundation gave the Signpost an advance copy of the results of a survey of English Wikipedia readers regarding Wikimedia fundraising, due for official release today.

Blog Black History Month edit-a-thons tackle Wikipedia’s multicultural gaps

2015-03-04

Black History Month is celebrated annually in the United States in February, to commemorate the history of the African diaspora. For this occasion, Wikipedians worked together to honor black history and to address Wikipedia's multicultural gaps in the encyclopedia, hosting Wikipedia edit-a-thons throughout the United States, from February 1 to 28, 2015.

Special report Revision scoring as a service

2015-02-18

The authors of this report inform us that the "goal in the Revision Scoring project is to do the hard work of constructing and maintaining powerful AI so that tool developers don't have to. This cross-lingual, machine learning classifier service for edits will support new wiki tools that require edit quality measures."

Gallery Langston Hughes

2015-02-04

A new Signpost feature.

Special report Traffic in the fog—2014's most popular articles include death, Facebook, and Ebola

2015-01-28

Traffic in the fog—most-viewed articles of 2014 include death, Facebook, and Ebola: As with last year, music stars were the majority of celebrities on the list, as their frequent concerts and media appearances keep their flames alight longer than others of their stripe.

Special report Twitter bots catalogue government edits to Wikipedia

2014-08-13

Slate reports that Tom Scott, co-creator of the emoji social network Emojli, created a Twitter bot called Parliament WikiEdits to automatically tweet a link to any Wikipedia edits made from an IP address belonging to the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Scott's bot initially did not tweet any links to edits made from Parliament and, according to Scott, an "insider" reports that their IP addresses changed. Despite this, Scott's Twitter bot has inspired similar creations in numerous other countries.

Forum Did you know?—good idea, needs reform

2014-07-23

The English Wikipedia's did you know (DYK) section has been a feature of the site's main page since February 2004. From the beginning, the section has served as a place to highlight Wikipedia's newest articles. But over the last few years, the did you know section has gotten steadily larger and more complex, and non-notable or plagiarized articles have occasionally slipped through the reviewing process, leading numerous editors to call for reforms to the system. We asked two editors to share their views.

Special report $10 million lawsuit against Wikipedia editors withdrawn, but plaintiff intends to refile

2014-07-16

On the same day the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) announced it would offer assistance to English Wikipedia editors embroiled in a legal dispute with Yank Barry, the lawsuit has been withdrawn without prejudice at the request of Barry's legal team—but this action is being described as "strategic" so that they can refile the lawsuit with a "new, more comprehensive complaint."

Wikicup Wikicup's third round sees money, space, battleships and more

2014-07-09

After an extremely close race, round three is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years—321 was required in 2013, and 243 points in 2012.

Special report Wikimania 2014—what will it cost?

2014-07-09

Last May, James Forrester announced to the world that London had been awarded the 2014 Wikimania conference. Functioning as the Wikimedia movement's annual conference, it is separate from the chapter-focused Wikimedia Conference. The first, located in Frankfurt, took place in 2005 and had 380 attendees. London, the tenth, is now expected to attract 1500. With Wikimania ambition, attention, and attendance rising significantly over the last nine years, how have this year's monetary costs come to be?

Special report Wikimedia Bangladesh—a chapter's five-year journey

2014-06-18

The Bangladesh chapter of the Wikimedia movement was formed in 2009. They received official local registration from the national authorities on 10 June 2014. The long road in between was subject to much persistence, patience, and luck—along with a good deal of worry.

Special report Questions raised over secret voting for WMF trustees

2014-06-11

Last week we reported the announcement of two new affiliate-selected WMF trustees. The board of trustees is the most powerful and influential body in the movement, and chapters have been permitted to select two of the 10 seats since 2008, for two-year terms that start in even-numbered years.

Special report IEG funding for women's stories—a new approach to the gender gap

2014-06-04

Individual engagement grants (IEGs) are announced twice yearly by a volunteer WMF committee, the most recent of which we covered last December. The scheme, launched at the start of last year, awards funds to individuals or teams of up to four to produce high-impact outcomes for the WMF's online projects. It favours innovative approaches to solving critical issues in the movement.

WikiCup 2014 WikiCup enters round three

2014-05-07

Round 3 of the 2014 WikiCup has just begun; 32 competitors remain.

Special report 2014 Wikimedia Conference—what is the impact?

2014-04-23

The annual Wikimedia Conference wound up last Sunday, 13 April—a four-day meeting costing several hundred thousand dollars, hosted in Berlin by Wikimedia Germany and attended by more than 100 Wikimedians.

Special report Community mourns passing of Adrianne Wadewitz

2014-04-09

"I remember laughing and talking and laughing and talking at Wikimania 2012. I took this picture of her that she used for a long while as a profile pic. Someone on Facebook said it looked 'skepchickal', which she loved."

Special report On the cusp of the Wikimedia Conference

2014-04-02

The annual Wikimedia Conference is about to start in Berlin, hosted by Wikimedia Germany, which won the bid to hold the event over three others. This will be the fifth time the chapter has hosted the Wikimedia Conference—it did so from 2009 to 2012, with attendance ranging from 100 to 180 Wikimedians. This year 160 people are expected at the four-day event, which is mainly for representatives of affiliated Wikimedia organisations. The conference has been built around two themes: Organisation, structures, and grants and Success and impact.

Forum Wikimedia Commons mission: free media for the world or only Wikimedia projects?

2014-03-19

Non-US editors and chapters have taken issue with a multitude of image deletions done on the Wikimedia Commons to comply with the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, a US law that brought the country into compliance with the Berne Convention.

Special report Diary of a protester—Wikimedian perishes in Ukrainian unrest

2014-02-26

Ukraine has been gripped by widespread protests over the past three months. Due to a decision by former president Viktor Yanukovych—at Russia's urging—to abandon integration with the European Union, the country was (and in many ways still is) split between the Europe-favoring Ukrainian-speaking western half and the Russian-speaking east and south. Hundreds have died during the unrest, leaving thousands of family members and friends to bury their loved ones. This week our Wikimedian colleagues in Ukraine are facing that challenge after the death of one of their own.

Forum Should Wikimedia modify its terms of use to require disclosure?

2014-02-26

About a week ago, the Wikimedia Foundation proposed to modify the Wikimedia projects' terms of use to specifically ban paid editing, by adding a new clause titled "Paid contributions without disclosure". We have asked two users, one in favor of the measure (Smallbones) and one opposed (Pete Forsyth), to contribute their opinions on the matter.

WikiProject report Special report: Contesting contests

2014-01-29

Contests have existed almost as long as the English Wikipedia. Contestants have expanded hundreds of articles and made tens of thousands of edits. Although it may seem as though there aren't any negatives to contests, they have occasionally become a divisive topic on the English Wikipedia.

Special report The few who write Wikipedia

2014-01-22

On 15 January, Wikipedia turned thirteen years old. In that time, this site has grown from a small site that was known to only a select few to one of the most popular websites on the internet. At the same time, recent data suggests that there is a power curve among users, where the comparative few who are writing most of Wikipedia have most of the edits. The result of this is that there is going to be bias in what is created, and how we deal with it as Wikipedians is indicative of the future of the site. Furthermore, this brings up what we have to do in order to combat this bias, as there are many ideas, but the question is whether they will work or not.

Public Domain Day Why the year 2019 is so significant

2014-01-08

Public Domain Day—January 1, 2014—gives me an opportunity to reflect on this important asset, mandated by the Constitution of the United States.

Special report FDC staff raise the benchmarks for activities, impact, planning, and governance

2013-11-13

The supporting staff of the Wikimedia Foundation’s powerful volunteer Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) have released their assessments for the third half-yearly round of funding applications. The applications for the newly named annual plan grants were submitted by affiliated entities on 1 October, and comprise a total of more than US$5M in bids.

Special report Jimmy Wales: media favors entertainment over raising public awareness

2013-08-14

Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia and its public face to most of the media, has declared that media organizations are missing out on the "opportunity of the century" by not conducting true investigative reporting into American surveillance practices, a debate kindled by information leaked by Edward Snowden.

Special report Who reads which Wikipedia? The WMF's surprising stats

2013-04-01

Who reads which Wikipedia?: Dutch-born Erik Zachte is the driver of the WMF's statistical output, and he writes that the "report card" and accompanying traffic statistics comprise "enough tables, bar charts and plots to keep you busy for a while".

Special report Examining the popularity of Wikipedia articles: catalysts, trends, and applications

2013-02-04

Examining the popularity of Wikipedia articles: On February 12, 2012, news of Whitney Houston's death brought 425 hits per second to her Wikipedia article, the highest peak traffic on any article since at least January 2010. It is broadly known that Wikipedia is the sixth most popular website on the Internet, but the English Wikipedia now has over 4 million articles and 29 million total pages. Much less attention has been given to traffic patterns and trends in content viewed.

Special report Loss of an Internet genius

2013-01-14

Comforting those grieving after the loss of a loved one is an impossible task. How then, can an entire community be comforted? The Internet struggled to answer that question this week after the suicide of Aaron Swartz, a celebrated free-culture activist, programmer, and Wikipedian at the age of 26.

Investigative report Ship ahoy! New travel site finally afloat

2013-01-14

After six years without creating a new class of content projects, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has finally expanded into a new area — travel.

Special report Adminship from the German perspective

2012-10-22

Examining adminship from the German perspective: Unlike the long-running disputes that have characterised attempts to reform the RfA process on the English Wikipedia, the German Wikipedia's tradition of making decisions not by consensus but knife-edged 50% + 1 votes has led to a fundamentally different outcome. In 2009, the project managed to largely settle the RfA mode issue in 2009 indirectly.

Special report Lawsuit filed against two Wikipedians

2012-09-10

Two Wikipedians set to face jury trial : In dramatic events that came to light last week, two English Wikipedia volunteers—Doc James (James Heilman) and Wrh2 (Ryan Holliday)—are being sued in the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Internet Brands, the owner of Wikitravel.com. Both Wikipedians have also been volunteer Wikitravel editors (and in Holliday's case, a volunteer administrator). IB's complaints focus on both editors' encouragement of their fellow Wikitravel volunteers to migrate to a proposed non-commercial travel guidance site that would be under the umbrella of the WMF.

Special report Chapters Association mired in controversy over new chair

2012-07-16

User:Fæ was elected as the inaugural chair of the new Wikimedia Chapters Association, despite the controversies that have surrounded Fæ on the English Wikipedia and Commons, most recently aired in a live case before the Arbitration Committee. This is in marked contrast with unexciting movement, during the Wikimania meeting, on the most important issues facing the establishment of the association.

Special report Reforming the education programs: lessons from Cairo

2012-07-09

The Schools and universities program started in 2003 and evolved case by case with little system. But in 2009, as Wikimedia embarked on its formal strategic process, outreach in higher education came to be seen in terms of achieving explicit goals — especially that of increasing editor participation.

Analysis Uncovering scientific plagiarism

2012-07-02

Investigative report Is the requests for adminship process 'broken'?

2012-06-18

Special report Springer's misappropriation of Wikimedia content "the tip of the iceberg"

2012-06-11

Special report WikiWomenCamp: From women, for women

2012-06-04

Special report Wikimedia and the "seismic shift" towards open-access research publication

2012-05-14

Investigative report Spin doctors spin Jimmy's "bright line"

2012-04-23

Women and Wikipedia Women's history, what we're missing, and why it matters

2012-03-12

Special report The plight of the new page patrollers

2012-02-20

Special report Fundraising proposals spark a furore among the chapters

2012-02-13

In focus Skirmishes in the 'great sectarian war of the Internet'

2012-02-13

Special report English Wikipedia to go dark on January 18

2012-01-16

Special report A post-mortem on the Indian Education Program pilot

2011-11-07

Discussion report Special report on the ArbCom Elections steering RfC

2011-11-07

Women and Wikipedia New Research, WikiChix

2011-08-15

Deletion controversy Deletion of article about website angers gaming community

2011-03-07

Gender gap Widespread discussions about the low participation of women in Wikipedia

2011-02-07

The Science Hall of Fame Building a pantheon of scientists from Wikipedia and Google Books

2011-01-31

Rencontres Wikimédia Wikimedia and the cultural sector: two days of talks in Paris.

2010-12-13

WikiLeaks Repercussions of the WikiLeaks cable leak

2010-12-06

Spam attacks Large scale vandalism revealed to be "study" by university researcher

2010-08-16

Admin stats RfA drought worsens in 2010—wikigeneration gulf emerging

2010-08-09

Vandalism Vandalism edits fool media and a government, become object of bets

2010-07-19

UK COI edits British politicians accused of WP cover-ups

2010-07-12

Objectionable material Board resolution on offensive content

2010-06-28

Free Travel-Shirts "Free Travel-Shirts" signed by Jimmy Wales and others purchasable

2010-06-07

Wikipedia books launched Wikipedia books launched worldwide

2010-05-10

Commons deletions Porn madness

2010-05-10

Wikipedia-Books Wikipedia-Books: Proposed deletion process extended, cleanup efforts

2010-03-22

Reference desk Wikipedia Reference Desk quality analyzed

2010-03-01

BLP madness BLP deletions cause uproar

2010-01-25

Births and deaths Wikipedia biographies in the 20th century

2010-01-25

Books New Book namespace created

2010-01-11

Bulgarian award Bulgarian Wikipedia gets a prestigious award

2009-11-16

New pages experiment Wikipedians test the water at new page patrol

2009-11-09

German controversy German Wikipedia under fire from inclusionists

2009-11-09

Conference report WikiSym features research on Wikipedia

2009-11-02

Article contest Durova wins 2009 WikiCup

2009-11-02

Memorial and Collaboration Memorial and Collaboration

2009-10-12

Bing search Bing launches Wikipedia search

2009-10-12

Localisation improvements LocalisationUpdate has gone live

2009-09-28

Flagged protection background An extended look at how we got to flagged protection and patrolled revisions

2009-08-31

Flagged protection and patrolled revisions Misleading media storm over flagged revisions

2009-08-31

Radio review Review of Bigipedia radio series

2009-08-17

Wiki-Conference Wikimedians and others gather for Wiki-Conference New York

2009-07-27

Copyright dispute Further developments in copyright dispute

2009-07-20

Copyright threat UK public gallery threatens Wikimedian

2009-07-13

Vandalism Study of vandalism survival times

2009-06-22

License update results Licensing vote results announced, resolution passed

2009-05-25

Multilingual contests Embassies sponsor article-writing contests in three languages

2009-05-18

Chemistry data WikiChemists and Chemical Abstracts announce collaboration

2009-05-18

License vote Licensing vote begins

2009-04-13

License update Community weighs license update

2009-03-30

Abuse Filter Abuse Filter is enabled

2009-03-23

Books extension Books extension enabled

2009-03-02

Philosophers analyze Wikipedia Philosophers analyze Wikipedia as a knowledge source

2009-02-23

Article Alerts An automated article monitoring system for WikiProjects

2009-02-23

Commons Picture of the Year Picture of the Year 2008 begins voting

2009-02-16

Orphans Large portion of articles are orphans

2009-01-31

Mobile devices Report on accessing Wikipedia via mobile devices

2009-01-24

Flagged Revisions Jimbo requests that developers turn on Flagged Revisions

2009-01-24

Virgin Killer Virgin Killer page blocked, unblocked in UK

2009-01-03

Editing stats Editing statistics show decline in participation

2009-01-03

GFDL 1.3 GFDL 1.3 released, will allow Wikimedia migration to Creative Commons license

2008-11-17

Search engine MediaWiki search engine improved

2008-11-10

Experimental RfA Experimental request for adminship ends in failure

2008-10-13

Poetlister Wikiquote checkuser found to be sockpuppeteer

2008-09-15

Ivins' edits Anthrax suspect reportedly edit-warred on Wikipedia

2008-08-09

Taking up the mop Statistical model identifies potential RfA candidates

2008-06-30

BLP enforcement ArbCom's BLP "special enforcement" remedy proves controversial

2008-06-26

Community news Community-related news sources grow

2008-05-26

Wikilobbying Pro-Israeli group's lobbying gets press, arbitration case

2008-05-19

Sighted revisions Sighted revisions introduced on the German Wikipedia

2008-05-12

Pornography Explicit sexual content draws fire

2008-05-12

Maker Faire Two wiki events held in San Francisco Bay Area

2008-05-12

IP block exemption New feature enables users to bypass IP blocks

2008-05-12

Citizendium 2 Update on Citizendium

2008-05-12

BAG, CU nominations Bot approvals group, checkuser nominations briefly held on RfA

2008-05-02

School threat Threat made against high school on Wikipedia, student arrested

2008-04-21

BLPs BLP deletion rules discussed amidst controversial AFD

2008-04-21

Tutorial Tutorial: Editing Monobook, installing scripts

2008-03-17

Tutorial Tutorial: Summary of policies

2008-03-13

Wales' relationship with journalist Wales' relationship, breakup with journalist Rachel Marsden raises questions about possible improprieties

2008-03-03

Tutorial Tutorial: How to use an ImageMap

2008-03-03

Hidden Categories Role of hidden categories under discussion

2008-03-03

Bureaucratship candidacies Eleven users apply for bureaucratship

2008-03-03

Sockpuppeting administrator Sockpuppeting administrator desysopped, community banned

2008-02-25

Print encyclopedias Two major print encyclopedias cease production

2008-02-25

Controversial RFA Controversial RfA results in resysopping of ^demon

2008-02-25

Tutorial Tutorial: Getting an article to featured article status

2008-02-18

Tutorial Tutorial: Basic dispute resolution

2008-02-11

Pope Vatican claims out-of-context Wikipedia quote was used to attack Pope

2008-02-11

Muhammad image Petition seeks to remove images of Muhammad

2008-02-11

Tutorial Tutorial: Adding citations

2008-02-04

Newsroom use Tensions in journalistic use of Wikipedia explored

2008-02-04

Tutorial Tutorial: Reporting and dealing with vandals

2008-01-28

Tutorial Tutorial: Fundamentals of editing

2008-01-14

Roll 'em back, move 'em out Controversial non-administrator rollback process added

2008-01-14

Apple leak? Supposed advance draft of Jobs keynote surfaces on talk page

2008-01-14

WikBack New Wikipedia discussion forum gains steam

2008-01-07

Google Knol Google announces foray into user-generated knowledge

2007-12-17

German Wikipedia Wikipedia dragged into German politics over Nazi images

2007-12-10

License compatibility Possible license migration sparks debate

2007-12-03

Khobar plagiarism Author borrows from Wikipedia article without attribution

2007-11-19

Page creation redux Unregistered page creation remains on hold so far

2007-11-12

Page creation Page creation for unregistered users likely to be reenabled

2007-10-29

Living people Biographies of living people grow into "status symbol"

2007-10-22

License changes License edits under consideration to accommodate Wikipedia

2007-10-15

CSN closed Community sanction noticeboard closed

2007-10-15

Adminbot approved Bot is approved to delete redirects

2007-10-15

Vandalism study Study examines Wikipedia authorship, vandalism repair

2007-10-08

Myanmar to Burma Myanmar article renamed to Burma after unrest

2007-10-08

WikiScanner WikiScanner tool expands, poses public relations problems for Dutch royal family

2007-09-03

WikiScanner WikiScanner tool creates "minor public relations disasters" for scores of organizations

2007-08-20

BJAODN Bad Jokes, Deletion Nonsense, and an arbitration case

2007-08-20

Wikipedia Plays Review Review: The Wikipedia Plays

2007-08-06

Wikipedia Plays About: The Wikipedia Plays

2007-08-06

News from Citizendium Response: News from Citizendium

2007-07-30

Citizendium analysis Report on Citizendium

2007-07-30

Another desysopping User resigns admin status amid allegations of sock puppetry

2007-07-30

Two new bureaucrats Two new bureaucrats promoted

2007-07-16

F1 trademark British agency cites Wikipedia in denying F1 trademark

2007-07-16

Blogger rescue Wikipedian bloggers launch "article rescue" effort

2007-07-16

Japanese plagiarism Newspaper obituary plagiarizes Japanese Wikipedia

2007-07-09

Bureaucrat nominations Seven administrators request promotion to bureaucrat status

2007-07-09

Wrestler death IP unwittingly predicts death: "Awful coincidence"

2007-07-02

RFA and open proxies RfA receives attention, open proxies policy reviewed

2007-06-25

RfA withdrawn Controversial RfA withdrawn, bureaucrats fail to clarify consensus

2007-06-18

Brandt merger Wikipedia critic's article merged

2007-06-18

Account compromised Admin account apparently compromised, blocked

2007-06-18

Privacy report Privacy report lists Wikipedia among best sites, but needing improvement

2007-06-11

RFA suspended Controversial RFA suspended, results pending

2007-06-04

BLP, revisited Admin restored after desysopping; dispute centers on suitability of certain biographies

2007-06-04

Admin desysopped Sockpuppeting administrator desysopped, banned

2007-06-04

Wikipedian death Norwegian Wikipedian, journalist dies at 59

2007-05-28

BLP, DRV, ARB, IRC Controversy over biographies compounded when leading participant blocked

2007-05-28

Trafigura Corporate editing lands in Dutch media

2007-05-21

Spoilers Spoiler warnings may be tweaked

2007-05-21

Compromised accounts Administrator status restored to five accounts after emergency desysopping

2007-05-14

Committed identity User committed identities provide protection against account hijacking

2007-05-14

Wikipedian scholarship Norwegian Wikipedian awarded scholarship

2007-05-07

The key to Wikipedia Digg revolt over DVD key spills over to Wikipedia

2007-05-07

Admins desysopped Four administrator accounts desysopped after hijacking, vandalism

2007-05-07

Statistical profiles Statistics indicate breadth of Wikipedia's appeal

2007-04-30

Backlogs Backlogs continue to grow

2007-04-30

Wikidetainment Historian detained after his Wikipedia article is vandalized

2007-04-23

Virginia Tech Virginia Tech massacre articles rise to prominence

2007-04-23

Robdurbar Administrator goes rogue, is blocked

2007-04-23

RFA reform Efforts to reform Requests for Adminship spark animated discussion

2007-04-23

Pat Binns Canadian politician the subject of an edit war

2007-04-23

Brandt unblock Wales unblocks Brandt, then reverses himself

2007-04-23

Britannica Encyclopædia Britannica promoted to featured article

2007-04-16

Danny Danny Wool regains adminship in controversial RFA

2007-04-09

AMA debate Association of Members' Advocates' deletion debate yields no consensus

2007-04-09

Wikipedia poll Poll finds people think Wikipedia "somewhat reliable"

2007-04-02

Errors and publicity Wikipedia biographical errors attract more attention

2007-04-02

AMA nominated for deletion Association of Members' Advocates nominated for deletion

2007-04-02

Peppers pickle Peppers article stays deleted

2007-02-26

Fuzzy suit Pro golfer sues over libelous statements

2007-02-26

Google again In US, half of Wikipedia traffic comes from Google

2007-02-19

Failing Essay questions Wikipedia's success: Abort, Retry, Fail?

2007-02-19

More government editing US government agencies discovered editing

2007-02-12

Microsoft's Wikipedia standards Microsoft approach to improving articles opens can of worms

2007-01-29

Court citations Court decisions citing Wikipedia proliferate

2007-01-29

Nofollow Wikipedia modifies handling of "nofollow" tag

2007-01-22

Cascading protection Cascading protection feature added

2007-01-15

Press plagiarism Another newspaper columnist found to have plagiarized Wikipedia

2007-01-08

Content manipulation Blogs track attempts to manipulate articles

2007-01-08

Experanza Esperanza organization disbanded after deletion discussion

2007-01-02

GNAA Trolling organization's article deleted

2006-12-11

Seigenthaler revisited The Seigenthaler incident: One year later

2006-12-04

International split Wikipedia wins award in one country, reported blocked in another

2006-12-04

Name usage Group apologizes for using Wikipedia name in online arts fundraiser

2006-11-27

Contest winners Military history dominates writing contest

2006-11-20

Visitors outside US Report identifies Wikipedia as a leader in non-US traffic

2006-11-13

Search and Wikipedia Blogger studies Wikipedia appearance in search results

2006-11-06

Intellipedia Intelligence wiki receives media attention

2006-11-06

Wikipedia valuation Hypothetical valuation of Wikipedia scrutinized

2006-10-30

Plagiarism cleanup Work underway to purge plagiarized text from articles

2006-10-30

Landis strategy Floyd Landis adopts "the Wikipedia defense" as appeal strategy

2006-10-16

Copyright $100 million copyright fund stems discussion

2006-10-16

More CSD New speedy deletion criteria added

2006-10-02

Citizendium "Citizendium" project aims to rival Wikipedia

2006-09-18

Congress again Politician's staff criticizes Wikipedia after being caught editing it

2006-08-21

Wikiversity Wikiversity officially announced by Wales

2006-08-07

Baseball biographies False death information survives for a month in baseball biographies

2006-08-07

Atlantic Monthly Early history of Wikipedia reviewed

2006-08-07

Skutt suit School files suit against anonymous user(s)

2006-07-24

Country blocking Another country reportedly blocks Wikipedia

2006-07-24

Self-deletion Issue of article subjects requesting deletion taken up

2006-07-17

Reuters Reuters tracks evolution of Ken Lay's death on Wikipedia

2006-07-10

More stable versions Creating stable versions using existing software proposed

2006-07-10

Wikipedia cited by the England and Wales High Court Wikipedia cited by the High Court of England and Wales

2006-07-03

Unblock mailing list Unblock requests directed to new mailing list

2006-07-03

Times semi-protection NY Times notices semi-protection policy

2006-06-19

Brad Patrick Foundation hires Brad Patrick as general counsel and interim executive director

2006-06-19

Adam Carr Adam Carr's editing challenged by Australian MPs

2006-06-19

Oversight New revision-hiding feature added

2006-06-05

Indianapolis Star Paper profiles Wales, criticizes Wikipedia business coverage

2006-06-05

External tools New external tools

2006-06-05

Semi-protection Semi-protection tweaks prompt debate over ideals

2006-05-29

Muddying Sandifer Wikipedia administrator investigated after on-wiki dispute

2006-05-29

Templates for deletion Deletion of metadata icons debated

2006-05-22

Statistics Project statistics updated, except for Wikipedia

2006-05-22

Baidu Publicity surrounds Chinese site reusing Wikipedia content

2006-05-15

Rankings update New worldwide rankings show Wikipedia strength outside US

2006-05-08

Honors for Jimbo Assorted honors for Jimmy Wales

2006-05-01

Brilliant prose Campaign manager resigns over Wikipedia edit

2006-05-01

Jay Robert Nash Author threatens to sue, deemed unfit as source

2006-04-24

Persistent hoax Media coverage of Wikipedia hoax results in article

2006-04-17

Focus comparison BBC Focus renews encyclopedia comparisons

2006-04-17

Answers tool Answers.com relationship scrutinized again upon release of tool

2006-04-17

Charity CD Children's charity creates Wikipedia CD

2006-04-10

Bureaucrats Adminship processes debated, two bureaucrats resign

2006-04-03

Community portal Community Portal redesign in progress

2006-03-27

Britannica Britannica responds to Nature

2006-03-27

Politicians citing Wikipedia Politicians move from editing Wikipedia to citing it

2006-03-06

Millionth article English Wikipedia hits one million articles

2006-03-06

E-mail confirmations E-mail confirmation enabled

2006-03-06

Millionth article preparations Wikipedia preparing for millionth article this week

2006-02-27

Userbox warring Userbox arbitration case closes

2006-02-13

Userbox warring Five users de-sysopped by Jimbo Wales

2006-02-06

Politicians and Wikipedia Reactions by politicians continue

2006-02-06

Password security Blank passwords eliminated for security reasons

2006-02-06

Cartoon chaos Controversial cartoon leads to fierce debate

2006-02-06

Errors remedied Errors identified by Nature reportedly all fixed

2006-01-30

Congressional astroturfing U.S. congressional staffers' editing investigated

2006-01-30

Adminship debates Issues surrounding adminship debated

2006-01-23

Wikipedia Day Wikipedia celebrates fifth anniversary

2006-01-16

Tim Ryan dismissed Reporter who plagiarized Wikipedia gets dismissed

2006-01-16

Subjects defend Wikipedia Victims of errors defend Wikipedia

2006-01-16

Louis Braille Google homage sparks work on Braille biography

2006-01-09

Reporter plagiarizes Wikipedia Wikipedia editors expose journalist's plagiarism

2006-01-02

Wiki tools Wiki tools make editing easier

2005-12-26

Semi-protection Semi-protection policy enabled

2005-12-26

Semi-protection Semi-protection policy passes

2005-12-19

Nature study Nature study measures Wikipedia against Britannica

2005-12-19

Media circus Media flurry leads to identifying writer of Seigenthaler "prank"

2005-12-12

Seigenthaler Retired journalist complains about false biography

2005-12-05

Page creation restrictions Article creation restricted to logged-in editors

2005-12-05

DDR copyright Large-scale copyright infringement found on German Wikipedia

2005-12-05

Curry and podcasting Adam Curry challenged when podcasting edits discovered

2005-12-05

New languages Committee proposed to screen new Wikipedia languages

2005-11-28

CC compatibility Creative Commons floats move toward compatibility with GFDL

2005-11-21

Unbanning and mentorship Two users unbanned and assigned mentors

2005-11-14

CheckUser CheckUser granted to five ArbCom members

2005-11-14

Article evaluations Evaluations of articles proliferate

2005-11-14

Tim Starling Day Wikipedia celebrates Tim Starling Day

2005-10-31

Guardian rates articles Selected articles get expert ratings

2005-10-31

Take two Outside discussion of Wikipedia quality goes another round

2005-10-24

Multilingual redirects Replacing old links with multilingual pages debated

2005-10-24

Esperanza election First Esperanza Advisory Committee election concludes

2005-10-24

Checkuser controversy Checkuser proposal causes controversy

2005-10-24

Answers.com partnership Wikipedia extends partnership with Answers.com

2005-10-24

Wikipedia growth Report shows Wikipedia audience growth over past year

2005-10-17

Conflict of interest Edit warrior traced back to airline

2005-10-17

Article quality criticisms Quality of Wikipedia writing questioned

2005-10-10

Speedy copyvios New speedy deletion criteria added

2005-10-03

Esquire article Wikipedia edits Esquire

2005-09-26

Esperanza group New group aims to promote Wiki-Love

2005-09-19

CSD criteria New image CSD criterion added

2005-09-19

New user log New user log created

2005-09-12

Anti-vandal tools New vandalism-fighting tools released

2005-09-12

Vandals resurface Vandals surface again, disrupting Wikipedia

2005-08-29

Roll with the changes Procedural changes this week

2005-08-29

Portal namespace Portal namespace created

2005-08-29

Wikiproject decency vfd VfD spurs controversy, record vote count

2005-08-22

G4 and Jamie Kane Wikipedia for promotional purposes?

2005-08-22

Experimental deletion process 2 New "Experimental Deletion" process started

2005-08-22

Slate vfd watch Slate again generates VfD controversy

2005-08-15

Wales blogs for Lessig Jimmy Wales blogs for Lawrence Lessig

2005-08-08

Hype over no announcement Media hypes Wikimania announcement that wasn't

2005-08-08

Greenlighting Cyrus Farivar Hoax exposé prompts attempt to delete author

2005-08-08

Deletion deletion Deletion of Votes for Deletion shocks system

2005-08-08

Votes for deletion Deletion process gets noticed by media

2005-08-01

Theory of Wikipedia Theoretical underpinnings of Wikipedia explored

2005-07-25

Speedy deletion expansion Criteria for speedy deletion expanded

2005-07-25

Market share report Wikipedia earns top market share for reference sites

2005-07-25

Joke turned rumor Wikipedia-inspired joke turns into blog rumor

2005-07-25

Britannica editorial board Britannica announces new editorial board

2005-07-25

Harry Potter Harry Potter book boiled down for article

2005-07-18

Folksonomy and GNAA Two articles draw crowds on votes for deletion

2005-07-18

Speedy deletion changes proposed New effort to overhaul deletion being voted on

2005-07-11

Mixed blog reactions Wikipedia prompts compliments, analysis, and call to action from blogs

2005-07-11

London bombings article Bombings article tracks breaking news with record editing pace

2005-07-11

Award and press citations Even without London events, Wikipedia draws media coverage, award

2005-07-11

Access, traffic statistics Statistics indicate where Wikipedia is most popular

2005-07-11

Mailing list moderation Mailing list moderation efforts hiked

2005-07-04

Games on Wikipedia Squabble over propriety of games on Wikipedia

2005-07-04

Admin milestones, debate Admin milestones reached, process debated

2005-07-04

University Challenge Wikipedia is answer to TV quiz show question

2005-06-27

Article blocking Blocking users by article pondered after block triggers admin's departure

2005-06-27

Wikitorials and Wikipedia Abortive wikitorial project sparks more debate on Wikipedia's merits

2005-06-20

Podcasting problems Biased editing on podcasting turns into public spat

2005-06-20

100 times 100 100 Wikipedias have 100 articles

2005-06-20

ESA meeting Wikimedia representatives to meet with European Space Agency

2005-06-13

Apple and reputations Apple-Intel fallout both good and bad for Wikipedia

2005-06-13

Wales meets Brockhaus Wales and Brockhaus CEO meet the press together

2005-06-06

Password security Password security upgraded after Slashdot furor

2005-06-06

Lists and rankings Wikipedia named one of 2005's best products

2005-06-06

Vandal fighter Recent changes patrol adds new tools against vandalism

2005-05-30

Substubs and templates Substubs deprecated, templates standardized

2005-05-30

Laotian Rock Rat Rapid response to rock rat revelations

2005-05-30

Wikijunior needs you! Wikijunior project appeals for help

2005-05-23

Traffic growth Traffic growth in US second only to baseball

2005-05-23

Radio show New radio show records pilot episode about Wikipedia

2005-05-23

German scandal Political scandal engulfs German Wikipedia

2005-05-23

Dating system Debate over designation of years yields inconclusive result

2005-05-23

Skanwiki proposal New Norwegian language policy settled

2005-05-16

Other news sources Wikipedia news sources flourish

2005-05-16

Meetings and events Recent meetings and events

2005-05-09

Brockhaus plagiarism suspected Brockhaus plagiarism suspected

2005-05-09

Wikipedia in print Directmedia announces plans to print Wikipedia content

2005-05-02

Writing contest International writing contest results announced

2005-04-25

The Sanger memoirs Larry Sanger publishes memoirs

2005-04-25

Papal scoop New Pope sparks wave of edits to Wikipedia

2005-04-25

Template standardisation Template dispute leads to design contest

2005-04-18

Encarta elaborates Encarta makes subtle digs at Wikipedia

2005-04-18

Andrea Dworkin death Wikipedia breaks the news of Andrea Dworkin's death

2005-04-18

Privacy policy Privacy policy officially adopted

2005-04-11

Encarta editing Microsoft Encarta announces new editing facilities

2005-04-11

DVD releases Media covers German Wikipedia DVD, plans for English

2005-04-11

Dot-org boom Wikimedia Foundation part of "dot-org boom" festival

2005-04-11

Plagiarism and comedy Wikipedia figures in blog's story of student plagiarism

2005-04-04

Wikiwax index Outside sites build more indexes and links to Wikipedia

2005-03-28

Return of stats Wikipedia statistics updated for first time in months

2005-03-28

Prosecution and de-adminship Proposed new processes for prosecution, de-adminship provoke uproar

2005-03-28

Top admin leaves Ta bu shi da yu leaves the building

2005-03-21

Half-million articles Wikipedia reaches milestone with half-million English articles

2005-03-21

Conference and expo Wikipedia represented at tech conference and major computer expo

2005-03-21

CC-Wiki license Creative Commons unveils new license for wikis

2005-03-21

Best or worst Wikipedia described as best or worst of the Web, depending on the source

2005-03-21

Recycling Troll Suspicion of banned user's return prompts block war until Jimbo steps in

2005-03-14

Page moves Page moves restricted as part of fight against vandalism

2005-03-14

Guanaco adminship Reinstatement of adminship requested for Guanaco

2005-03-14

Dispute resolution changes Changes to dispute resolution lead to controversy

2005-03-14

Yahoo anniversary Yahoo! features Wikipedia in its anniversary celebration

2005-03-07

Wikipedia citations Student use of Wikipedia citations debated

2005-03-07

Peer review and FAC Peer review boosts featured article output to new record

2005-03-07

NY Times archive New York Times moving closer to competing on Wikipedia turf

2005-03-07

Gdansk or Danzig Vote on Gdansk/Danzig naming dispute closes

2005-03-07

FOSDEM Jimmy Wales asks for more developers at FOSDEM

2005-03-07

Block war and desysoping Block war leads to group being de-sysoped temporarily

2005-03-07

Vertical search Wikipedia seen as possible competitor in vertical search

2005-02-28

Criticism and reaction Critiques of Wikipedia remain hot topic, both outside and in

2005-02-28

Wired feature Jimmy Wales misses out on Rave Award, settles for magazine article instead

2005-02-21

NPR Significance of Wikipedia growth explored on NPR

2005-02-21

Harvard coverage Wikipedia gets double coverage at Harvard

2005-02-21

Googlepedia column Media speculation and debate about Google and Wikipedia continues

2005-02-21

Gdansk or Danzig New push to resolve Gdansk/Danzig naming dispute

2005-02-21

Wikiportals Subject Wikiportals introduced to the English Wikipedia

2005-02-14

Wikipedia portal redesign Redesign of Wikipedia portal site still being discussed after poll closes

2005-02-14

Misinformation on Wikipedia Wikipedia accused of being source for Washington Post error

2005-02-14

Google hosting Wikimedia Board considers proposal for Google to help host content

2005-02-14

Article hoax Attempt to foist false article on Wikipedia revealed

2005-02-14

Three-revert rule Three-revert rule enforcement practices debated

2005-02-07

Proxies Effort to block proxies via bot aborted

2005-02-07

Main page protection Main page locked down after major vandalism

2005-02-07

Encarta Microsoft challenges Wikipedia with Encarta giveaway

2005-02-07

Advocacy groups Outside groups targeting Wikipedia spur fears about bias

2005-02-07

Webcred conference Blogosphere reacts to Wikipedia after Harvard conference

2005-01-31

Tangshan earthquake Indian Ocean quake inspires collaboration targeting Tangshan

2005-01-31

Policy proposals Enforcement against personal attacks proposed

2005-01-31

Heavy metal umlaut Heavy metal umlaut made into blog movie

2005-01-31

Block wars Administrators fight over two controversial blocks

2005-01-31

Veja Brazilian magazine commits vandalism, writes about it

2005-01-24

Taiwan Encyclopedia Taiwan government models project after Wikipedia

2005-01-24

Speedy deletion expanded Speedy deletion criteria officially expanded

2005-01-24

Rave Awards Jimmy Wales nominated for Rave Award

2005-01-24

Nofollow tag Wikipedia ponders joining search engines in fight against spam

2005-01-24

Mediation Committee Mediation Committee adds members, new chair nominated

2005-01-24

Writing contest International Wikipedia writing contest proposed

2005-01-17

Fvw Fvw granted adminship with record support

2005-01-17

Country infoboxes Template debate engulfs country articles

2005-01-17

Celebrities Policy on celebrity impersonators revisited

2005-01-17

Top 100 Wikipedia moves into top 100 websites

2005-01-10

Speedy deletion Expansion of speedy deletion up for vote

2005-01-10

QuakeAID Wikipedians fight possible earthquake aid scam

2005-01-10

Portal Wikipedia website changed to multilingual portal

2005-01-10

Instapundit Blog sets off edit war, gets itself protected

2005-01-10

Credibility Broadsheets and blogs debate over Wikipedia

2005-01-10

AMA election AMA begins plans for new election

2005-01-10