Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Archives/2018-10-28

From the editors

The Signpost is still afloat, just barely

A slightly thinner issue, but out on time.

Op-ed

Wikipedia's Strickland affair

Is a missing article on a Nobel laureate a fail? What if her draft biography was declined as non-notable?

News and notes

WMF gets a million bucks

And it's richer than ever.

In the media

Bans, celebs, and bias

Breitbart begone; rescued by archivists; celebrating trolls?

Discussion report

Mediation Committee and proposed deletion reform

Plus: two pending changes-related discussions, notability, and naming conventions.

Traffic report

Unsurprisingly, sport leads the field – or the ring

Who's reading what?

Technology report

Bots galore!

Bots can do anything you want – well, almost.

Special report

NPP needs you

WMF continues to stonewall development; NPP wishes again relegated to stocking fillers.

Special report 2

Now Wikidata is six

SPARQL adds sparkle to WMF projects.

In focus

Alexa

We are all writing for Amazon.

Gallery

Out of this world!

No special effects here, just beautiful celestial images.

Recent research

Wikimedia Commons worth $28.9 billion

If it weren't free, of course.

Humour

Talk page humour

Wikipedia has a long history of talk page tomfoolery.

Opinion

Strickland incident

The reviewer who declined the article gives his perspective.

From the archives

The Gardner Interview

The "holy-shit" slide.

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