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Ziyad al-Sufiani – CC BY-SA 4.0

Special report

Wikipedian and physician Ziyad al-Sufiani reportedly released from Saudi prison

Fellow doctor Osama Khalid remains behind bars for "violating public morals" by editing.

Matthias A. K. Zimmermann, Schweiz/Switzerland – CC BY-SA 3.0

In focus

WMF to explore "common standards" for NPOV policies; implications for project autonomy remain unclear

Major changes to core content policy, or still-developing plan for new initiative?

Sandro Botticelli – PD

In the media

Indian judges demand removal of content critical of Asian News International

Defeat, or just a setback?

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News and notes

35,000 user accounts compromised, locked in attempted credential-stuffing attack

Plus: 30-year anniversary of wiki software commemorated.

Treysam – CC-BY-SA 4.0

Op-ed

How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects

Our content is free, our infrastructure is not!

Moses ter Borch – PD

Opinion

Crawlers, hogs and gorillas

What is to be done?

Byrdyak – cc-by-sa-4.0

Debriefing

Giraffer's RfA debriefing

Advice to aspirants: "Read RfA debriefs", including this one.

Naphisharity Syiem – CC BY-SA 4.0

Obituary

RHaworth, TomCat4680 and PawełMM

Rest in peace.

Curt Teich – PD

Traffic report

Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho, off to report we go...

Snow White sinking, Adolescence soaring, spacefarers stranded, this list has it all!

Olmec and Mrmw – cc-by-sa-3.0

News from Diff

Strengthening Wikipedia’s neutral point of view

The Wikimedia Foundation's announcement from Diff.

Punch Magazine – PD

Comix

Thirteen

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