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Ben Shahn – PD

News and notes

Is no WikiNews good WikiNews? — Election season returns!

Endowment tax form, Wikimania, elections, U4C, fundraising and a duck!

Retrogamepapa – CC BY-SA 4.0

In the media

How bad (or good) is Wikipedia?

And how do we know?

National Museum of the U.S. Navy – PD

WikiProject report

WikiProject Medicine reaches milestone of zero unreferenced articles

Five-year journey comes to healthy fruition.

Antony Trivet – CC BY-SA 4.0

In focus

Wikimania 2025: Connecting Wikimedians across the world for 20 years

Wikimedians from around the world will gather in person and online at the twentieth annual meeting of Wikimania.

Mykola Trokhymovych, Oleksandr Kosovan, Nathan Forrester, Pablo Aragón, Diego Saez-Trumper, Ricardo Baeza-Yates in the academic paper preprint of "Characterizing Knowledge Manipulation in a Russian Wikipedia Fork" – CC BY 4.0

Recent research

Knowledge manipulation on Russia's Wikipedia fork; Marxist critique of Wikidata license; call to analyze power relations of Wikipedia

As well as "hermeneutic excursions" and other scientific research findings.

Максат79 – CC BY-SA 4.0

News from the WMF

Form 990 released for the Wikimedia Foundation’s fiscal year 2023-2024

The report covers the Foundation's operations from July 2023 - June 2024

Eastman Johnson – PD

Discussion report

Six thousand noticeboard discussions in 2025 electrically winnowed down to a hundred

A step towards objective and comprehensive coverage of a project nearly too big to follow.

Neo Purgatorio – CC0

Comix

Divorce

Drawn this century!

LaserGuided – CC BY 2.0

Opinion

Women are somewhat under-represented on the English-language Wikipedia, and other observations from analysis

How data from the Wikipedia "necessary articles" lists can shed new light on the gender gap

Fabio Rodrigues Pozzebom/Agência Brasil – CC BY 3.0

Community view

A Deep Dive Into Wikimedia (part 4): The Future Of Wikimedia and Conclusion

Annual plans, external trends, infrastructure, equity, safety, and effectiveness. What does it all mean?

Sharon Mollerus – CC BY 2.0

Obituary

Pvmoutside, Atomicjohn, Rdmoore6, Jaknouse, Morven, Martin of Sheffield, MarnetteD, Herewhy, BabelStone

Rest in peace.

Pieter Brueghel the Elder – public domain

Traffic report

God only knows

Wouldn't it be nice without billionaires, scandals, deaths, and wars?

Lasha Tskhondia – CC BY-SA 3.0

Humour

New forum created for people who don't care about Wikipedia

If you are too blasé for Mr. Blasé and don't give a FAC.

The Signpost is looking for new talent.

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