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Wikimedia Foundation ousts, bans quarter of Arabic Wikipedia admins

Plus admin update and cool tools for the new year.

In the media

Odd bedfellows, Elon and Jimbo, reliable sources for divorces, and more

Sometimes you need to read more than just the headlines!

Interview

ComplexRational's RfA debrief

Interview of ComplexRational about their recent request for adminship.

Technology report

Wikimedia Foundation's Abstract Wikipedia project "at substantial risk of failure"

Wikifunctions might drag it down.

Essay

Mobile editing

Frustrations and successes.

Arbitration report

Arbitration Committee Election 2022

Congratulations.

Recent research

Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement in talk page disputes

And other new research findings.

Serendipity

Wikipedia about FIFA World Cup 2022: quick, factual and critical

How Iranian press agencies help Wikipedia to reflect football in a better way.

Featured content

Would you like to swing on a star?

You head into the featured content report. Amongst the features you see astronauts, both Gilbert and Sullivan, Ursula K. Le Guin's incredibly talented mother, and Billboard charts. It is pitch black, you are likely to be eaten by a grue.

Traffic report

Football, football, football! Wikipedia Football Club!

It is mostly about football!

CommonsComix

#4: The Course of WikiEmpire

In which a couple sentences of text recontextualises an image.

From the archives

Five, ten, and fifteen years ago

Photographers, Sandy Hook, the shocking use of Nazi symbols in articles about Nazis, and "You wouldn't recognise a fact if it bit you in the ass".

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