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Women in Red - January 2026
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The Signpost: 15 January 2026
[edit]- News and notes: Wikipedia's 25th anniversary is here!
Where does the time go?
- Special report: Wikipedia at 25: A Wake-Up Call
The internet is booming. We are not.
- Serendipity: The WMF wants to buy you books!
Really! A major triumph.
- WikiProject report: Time for a health check: the Vital Signs 2026 campaign
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- In the media: Fake Acting President Trump and a Wikipedia infobox
D.J.T. assumes a new position.
- Community view: The inbox behind Wikipedia
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- Recent research: Art museums on Wikidata; comparing three comparisons of Grokipedia and Wikipedia
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- Traffic report: Tonight I'm gonna rock you tonight
A world in white gets underway.
- Comix: Oh come on man.
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The Signpost: 29 January 2026
[edit]- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2025
Everybody had a hard year, everybody had a good time.
- News and notes: Good news... but also bad news for the Public Domain
Benvenuto Betty Boop, arrivederci Italian Photos.
- News from Diff: Solving puzzles together
Maryana Iskander says farewell.
- In the media: Every view on the 25th anniversary of everything
Media about hard-core nerds, a place with paragraphs, baby globes, and wikipedes.
- Comix: Perspectives
Everybody has one.
Women in Red February 2026
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Better source request for File:Aline Meyer Liebman.jpg
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- Hi Roundtheworld. Can you provide more information about this image's provenance? Without such information, it's possible that this file could be tagged for speedy deletion per WP:F4. For non-free content in particular, some evidence of previous publication needs to be provided for the file to be considered to meet WP:NFCC#4. -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:34, 12 February 2026 (UTC)
- @talk. Done. Apologies. I also managed to make a mistake on the file name. Would you mind changing it to File:AlineMeyerLiebman.jpg ? As they say, "more haste, less speed". Rgds Roundtheworld (talk) 08:42, 12 February 2026 (UTC)
- Thank you for providing a better source for the file. As for the name change, I'm not an adminsitrator or filemover so I can't do that myself; you can, however, request a name change yourself using Template:Rename media as explained in WP:FNC. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:59, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- @talk. Done. Apologies. I also managed to make a mistake on the file name. Would you mind changing it to File:AlineMeyerLiebman.jpg ? As they say, "more haste, less speed". Rgds Roundtheworld (talk) 08:42, 12 February 2026 (UTC)
Disambiguation link notification for February 15
[edit]An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Filipa César, a link pointing to the disambiguation page Cartagena was added.
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The Signpost: 17 February 2026
[edit]- In the media: Global powers see Wikipedia as fundamental target for manipulation
Attempted Wikipedia shenanigans apparent from Epstein, AI, various governments.
- News and notes: Discussions open for the next WMF Annual Plan
Plus, WikiFlix going places, steady progress on older FAs and other news from the Wikimedia world.
- Serendipity: Maintenance crews continue to slog through Wikipedia's oldest Featured Articles
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The sex offender's attempts to whitewash Wikipedia run deeper than we first thought.
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I'll have the usual!
- Opinion: Incoming Incurables
A poem for Wikipedia Day 2026.
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Sharpen your pencil. How well do you really know Wikipedia?
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Women in Red - March 2026
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Anne Harvey
[edit]Great! I had a text all prepared to create the entry and then checked and saw you beat me to the punch. I just added some extra text and references. Best -- Sam Sam Perkins (talk) 22:03, 5 March 2026 (UTC)
- @Sam Perkins I've had the same experience. Thanks for the improvements. Roundtheworld (talk) 11:03, 6 March 2026 (UTC)
Hallo, Following your note at WiR 365 I've started this article, but I can't find a source for her being included in Les femmes artistes d'Europe. I was sure that the online copy of the catalouge in ref 8 would be helpful, but it seems to be missing the key page, as page 57 starts to list painters from "Tchecoslovaquie" but the next, and last, page seems to be numbered 32 and isn't the rest of the Czechs.
Which of the sources actually lists her name, please? Thanks.
I picked her for WiR as being both an artist and from a "C" country! PamD 18:56, 6 March 2026 (UTC)
- @D. Thanks. I'd really like to get them all blue. It is on the top of page 58 of the book, page 26 of the web site. Under Mezerova. I'll leave the Czechs to you! Roundtheworld (talk) 19:24, 6 March 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks. I'd really like to get them all blue. It is on the top of page 58 of the book, page 26 of the web site. Under Mezerova. I'll leave the Czechs to you! Roundtheworld (talk) 19:28, 6 March 2026 (UTC)
The Signpost: 10 March 2026
[edit]- Interview: Bernadette Meehan, new Wikimedia Foundation CEO
Part 2.
- News and notes: Security testing unleashes computer worm on Meta-wiki
Dormant worm awakes; a sketchy archiving site struck; ether burns.
- Special report: What actually happened during the Wikimedia security incident?
A horrifying exploit took place, which could have had catastrophic and far-reaching consequences if used maliciously; instead, it seems to have happened by accident and was used for childish vandalism. How did this happen, and what did the script actually do?
- In the media: Indonesian government blocks Wikimedia logins; archive site scoured from Wikipedia after owner runs malware
As well as controversy over LLM translations.
- Recent research: To wiki, perchance to groki
Comparisons continue.
- Obituary: Madhav Gadgil, Fredrick Brennan, Mark Miller, Chip Berlet
Rest in peace.
- Opinion: Interface administrators and trusting trust
Potential attacks are the logical consequence of giving a group of users unlimited control over JavaScript.
- Technology report: English Wikipedia deprecates archive.today after DDoS against blog, altered content
After the archive site launched a DDoS campaign against a small blog in January 2026, a request for comment was started, with consensus to deprecate the site used almost 700 thousand times.
- Op-ed: Why is "Trypsin-sensitive photosynthetic activities in chloroplast membranes" cited in "List of tallest buildings in Chicago"?
The answer is slop.
- Essay: The pursuit of a button click
Volunteering for Wikipedia has its rewards. The thank-button, for example.
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A discussion of the challenge set forth to the Wikipedia community one year ago!
- WikiProject report: Unreferenced articles backlog drive
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- Community view: Speaking of planning ...
The WMF planning process is underway.
- Traffic report: Over the mountain, kissing silver inlaid clouds
Death and the Winter Olympics.
- Crossword: "It will never happen"
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- Comix: BRIEn't
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Delighioz
[edit]We have at least five respectable sources saying 1973: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], plus a book chapter: [6]. That to me is conclusive.
As to the possible 1977 painting: who knows? Maybe she meant to write “1”. Maybe someone else wrote the 7 after she died. Maybe she had a daughter with the same name. (There’s a 1978 work on the same site.) It doesn’t really matter: our role is to record what reliable published sources have to say about the topic, not to perform original research on reproductions of artworks. — Biruitorul Talk 10:17, 22 March 2026 (UTC)
Women in Red – April 2026
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The Signpost: 31 March 2026
[edit]- News and notes: Entirety of Wikinews to be shut down
All languages to be shut down in May; first AI agent blocked; new name for AfD?
- In the media: AI ban, newspapers disrupt archiving; and antisemitism complaints
Perennial challenges with AI, demographic representation, and attacks from people buying media influence.
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| Thank you for contributing to adding articles about artworks by women! Lajmmoore (talk) 18:17, 6 April 2026 (UTC) |
You are invited to participate in the Destubathon of the Americas, a contest/editathon which will run from May 1 to May 31. The goal is to destub as many of our 475,000+ stubs for the Americas (from Alaska down to Chile) as possible. A good chance to have fun in expanding many of our old stale stubs and win up to £2000 ($2680) in Amazon vouchers for expanding stub articles. Sign up in the Contestants/participants section on the contest page if interested. Even if not interested in prizes you are still warmly welcome to participate in it as an editathon! Hopefully we can achieve something significant in the month of May together! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:30, 15 April 2026 (UTC)
The Signpost: 21 April 2026
[edit]- News and notes: Six Serbian Wikipedia editors banned following controversy about political bias
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- In the media: Could Wikipedia be involved in Massachusetts' proposed social media ban for minors?
Another regulate-the-internet attempt casts a wide net.
- Gallery: March equinox
The progression of seasons in March.
- Traffic report: Time to change my galaxy in case, we outta space!
What catches the reader's eye? Death and film, per usual, and a loop around the moon per unusual.
- Comix: Of skirts and articles
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Women in Red – May 2026
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Rufus Isaacs
[edit]Hi, which category is unreferenced? DuncanHill (talk) 19:06, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
- @User talk:DuncanHill. Apologies. I should have added the tag to his son Gerald Isaacs, 2nd Marquess of Reading. The unreferenced cat there is "English people of Portuguese-Jewish descent". There are quite a few articles about Portuguese Jews in Britain that have this category without any citation. Roundtheworld (talk) 08:48, 10 May 2026 (UTC)
The Signpost: 22 May 2026
[edit]- News and notes: Offline: Osama Khalid still in prison
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- In the media: Indonesian editors, you shall return!
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- Recent research: WikiLambda the Ultimate
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A guide to WMF's Tech Annual Plan for the next year.
- Opinion: Wikipedia isn't a battleground. So why does it feel like one?
Do we really have to fight?
- Serendipity: Wikinews: Into the Wikiverse
The early suggestions for what the wiki could have been.
- Special report: Wikimedia Foundation closes Wikinews after 21 years
Displaces 700 active editors among 31 language editions.
- Community view: Wikipedia's traffic drop: more on languages and freshness
Which topics are dropping, and is the pattern the same everywhere?
- Gallery: Earth Day and Mother's Day
Earth Day was on 22 April, and Mother's Day was on 10 May (in the US and many other countries).
- Comix: Brother, can you spare a page?
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Women in Red - June 2026
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The Signpost: 21 June 2026
[edit]- From the editors: Ways for beginners to support The Signpost community journalism
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- News and notes: Community Tech development team disbanded
And English Wikipedia reaches a milestone in number of highly active editors.
- Disinformation report: PR for the people?
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- In the media: Who won a 14th century battle and who won the 2026 Iran war?
Media take issue with portrayals of recent and medieval history on Wikipedia. Plus a team supporting Wikipedians gets dissolved, and a few other things.
- Community view: Putting the Wish into the Wishlist
A history of the Wikimedia community's request process to Foundation developers.
- In focus: A global standard for Neutral Point of View
Wikipedians are commenting on a proposed global standard for neutral point of view.
- On the bright side: Flowers, blue helmets, reefs, pride, and Juneteenth
Nice things around the world.
- Op-ed: Breathe, Don’t Panic, there is a different story about Wikimedia + AI futures
We can build a strategy about AI that doesn't just center on readers; there are still plenty of humans to write the encyclopedia and work on diverse global knowledge.
- Opinion: Wikimedia Foundation staff develop union and Wikimedia user community reacts
Why should editors support the Wiki Workers United union drive? Lessons the Wikimedia movement can learn from other labor struggles.
- Technology report: Community Tech team is disbanded, controversy erupts
WMF disbands Community Tech, sparking community backlash over the future of the Wishlist and concerns about unionization.
- Traffic report: 'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
Horror movies and Michael Jackson dominate theaters in the lead-up to the World Cup.
- WikiConference report: Report of Volunteer Supporters Network Annual Meeting 2026
Outreach staff of Wikimedia chapters host a global discussion.
- Comix: Take your turn
In a maze of twisty little edits, all alike.
- Humour: Group of banned T-shirt makers comes out of hiding to sell new Wikipedia-themed merchandise
It ain't WikiProject United Nations, but you will find some PUNs.
Speedy deletion nomination of File:Margaret Nakikus1.jpg
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Women in Red in July 2026
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The Signpost: 13 July 2026
[edit]- News and notes: An exclusive club
Wikipedia Co-Founder Larry Sanger gets a community ban for canvassing.
- In the media: Battle for a soul – who won?
Commissars, winners and losers, blocks or bans, a Wiki red card, social engineering on wikis, and Swift action!
- Opinion: We need to innovate with Wikimedia decision-making
Rules we can actually read, trust and change!
- Recent research: LLMs and NPOV, 20 years of user blocks, Esperanto and Volapük Wikipedias
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- News from Diff: How to host Wikicurious in your own community
The Wikicurious team shares their approach to Wiki-event organizing.
- Community view: CUNY Newmark Wikimedian-in-Residence Quarterly Brief – April to June 2026
Quarterly update on the activities of the City University of New York's Wikimedian-in-Residence, Richard Knipel.
- Special report: Wikipedia escapes Category 1 designation under the UK Online Safety Act – for now
A possible future recategorization by the UK Government remains an existential threat to Wikipedia.
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Father's Day, Canada Day, and the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence.
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If strategy priority 1.1 is supporting the community, can we not increase the support to the community? Increasing grantmaking to 25% of the budget would be a move toward equality in the movement.
- Traffic report: The grass was greener, the light was brighter
We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed of World Cup.
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