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The Signpost: 16 September 2026
[edit]- News and notes: The Balance of Power
Wikimedia employees unionize, officer departs, The Signpost gains sister on Wiktionary
- In the media: Shocking photos may be changed on Wikipedia
The image gallery anyone can edit.
- Disinformation report: Have UN Secretary-General candidates manipulated Wikipedia?
Speaking diplomatically, not all of them.
- Recent research: Google's AI overviews may have reduced search engine referrals to English Wikipedia by 5%
And other research findings.
- WikiConference report: The backwater symbiosis â reflections from Wiki Conference India 2026
The fourth iteration of Wiki Conference India.
- Traffic report: Heaven let your light shine down
The recently deceased dominate while still leaving room for some entertainment.
- Serendipity: Wikipedia Family Mosh Pit
A poem by Mollystarkdean.
- Obituary: Passing of Gobonobo, community leader advocating for women and minorities
Promoter of cultural knowledge and organizer of global cooperation.
- On the bright side: Fantasy video games, hopeful science fiction, and the change of seasons
The Legend of Zelda, Star Trek, and Vivaldi's The Four Seasons.
- Comix: The Adventure of the Unknown Corpse
An elementary case for fiction's greatest detective.
August 2026 AfC backlog drive award
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| This is awarded to EvanTech10 for accumulating more than 19.5 points during the August 2026 AfC backlog drive. Thank you for sharing your time, knowledge and dedication; together, we reviewed over 12,700 drafts during the drive and brought the 3+ month backlog down to just a single week, which we couldn't have done it without you. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 12:47, 16 September 2026 (UTC) |
- Thanks! EvanTech10 (talk, contribs) ⥠13:25, 16 September 2026 (UTC)
The Signpost: 13 October 2026
[edit]- News and notes: AELECT returns, Jimbo gives a union update, VisualEditor is now default
Plus a survey for North Americans, proposed changes to BoT elections, and developments in the Puerto Rican editing community.
- Serendipity: From a rare portrait of a female millionaire in Nancy to a Japanese painter in Lyon
Images from Leuven Libraries popular on Wiki.
- Obituary: Doug Weller
Twenty-year editor, long-term admin, dearly missed.
- In the media: A(I)pocalypses afoot
Cannibals, freeloaders, rogue agents, scams ... the usual.
- WikiConference Report: WikiConference 2026 & the importance of in-person community
Celebrating 12 years of WikiConference North America.
- By the numbers: Does the country of birth affect the likelihood of having a Wikipedia biography?
A cross-country and cross-wikipedia comparison of the likelihood of having a biography in Wikipedia.
- News from Diff: OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
CPO/CTO Selena Deckelmann explains the recent detection of AI agent activities on Wikimedia projects.
- On the bright side: Good people
Nice comments and real-life rescuers.
- Op-ed: Who are our readers?
The movement makes progress when we know what our scope is.
- Traffic report: This world is big and wild and half insane
Criminals, 9/11 25 years later, artists expelled for politics... we lived in troubled times.
- Comix: Fudging the numbers
Take 'em away, officers!
DYK for IPhone Duo
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On 28 October 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article IPhone Duo, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that Apple had to redesign its operating system to accommodate the iPhone Duo's form factor? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/IPhone Duo. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (IPhone Duo), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to nominate it.
WikiCup 2026 November newsletter
[edit]The 2026 WikiCup has come to an end. Our top scorers, based on the tournament point rankings (which can be seen here), are:
Generalissima (submissions) with 1077 tournament points, will receive the 1st place award.
Bgsu98 (submissions) with 1046 tournament points, will receive the 2nd place award.
MCE89 (submissions) with 762 tournament points, will receive the 3rd place award.
A.Cython (submissions) with 606' tournament points
Vestrian24Bio (submissions) with 537 tournament points
Reconrabbit (submissions) with 349 tournament points
BeanieFan11 (submissions) with 297 tournament points
Arconning (submissions) with 183 tournament points
Our three high scorers in the final round, who each got over 1,000 points, happen to all be among the top 8 as well:
- Generalissima (submissions) with 2846 round points from 40 good articles, 4 pieces of featured content (including 2 featured articles), 11 DYK articles, and various reviews.
- Bgsu98 (submissions) with 2603 round points from 43 good articles, 5 pieces of featured content (1 featured article and 4 featuyred lists), and various reviews.
- Vestrian24Bio (submissions) with 1141 round points from 20 good articles, a good topic, a featured list, and 30 good article reviews.
The final round was very productive, and contestants had 29 featured articles, 8 featured lists, 1 featured picture, 150 good articles, 43 good topic articles, 189 article reviews, 28 did you know articles, and 4 in the news articles. Altogether, Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors all through the contest. Well done everyone!
The top eight scorers will receive awards shortly. The following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. These prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field over the course of the competition.
- Generalissima (submissions) wins the following prizes:
- The featured article prize, for 12 featured articles.
- The featured picture prize, for submitting the only featured picture for the second year in a row.
- The good article prize, for 82 good articles.
- Bgsu98 (submissions) wins the following prizes:
- The featured list prize, for 21 featured lists.
- The featured content reviewer prize, for 72 featured article reviews.
- Vestrian24Bio (submissions) wins the following prizes:
- The featured topic prize, for 8 pages in featured topics.
- The good topic prize, for 26 pages in good topics.
- The good article reviewer prize, for 84 good article reviews.
BabbaQ (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 9 ITN pages.- BeanieFan11 (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 47 DYK pages.
A special mention also goes to these users who scored the highest in a particular category in a single round:
- A.Cython (submissions), for 20 good-topic articles in round 5.
Olliefant (submissions), who withdrew during the competition but who had 38 featured-content reviews in round 2. Olliefant also had 43 good article reviews in round 1.
The Robot Parade (submissions), for 5 ITN pages in round 1.
Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate. We are also looking for an experienced editor to help write the bimonthly newsletter. If you would like to help write next year's newsletters, please contact Epicgenius at his talk page.
The WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2027 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement!
On behalf of the judges, Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email), Epicgenius (talk · contribs · email), Frostly (talk · contribs · email), Guerillero (talk · contribs · email) and Lee Vilenski (talk · contribs · email):
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:12, 1 November 2026 (UTC)
WikiCup 2026 November newsletter (update)
[edit]In our November 2026 newsletter, there was a mistake in calculating the final tournament point rankings (which have been updated here). We regret the error.
- Generalissima (submissions) with 1461 tournament points, will receive the 1st place award.
- Bgsu98 (submissions) with 1302 tournament points, will receive the 2nd place award.
- Vestrian24Bio (submissions) with 793 tournament points, will receive the 3rd place award.
- MCE89 (submissions) with 762 tournament points
- A.Cython (submissions) with 606 tournament points
- BeanieFan11 (submissions) with 425 tournament points
- Reconrabbit (submissions) with 349 tournament points
- Arconning (submissions) with 183 tournament points
On behalf of the judges, Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email), Epicgenius (talk · contribs · email), Frostly (talk · contribs · email), Guerillero (talk · contribs · email) and Lee Vilenski (talk · contribs · email):
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:42, 1 November 2026 (UTC)
The Signpost: 1 November 2026
[edit]- News and notes: AELECT5 concludes, a Wikimedian arrested for treason, and updates to GANs and FARs
Nine new admins, three arrests, and a lot of GAN RFCs.
- Recent research: How Wikipedians use (or don't use) LLMs; experienced editors contribute more to "underproduced" articles than newbies
And other new research findings.
- Disinformation report: Better bots or bothersome baby borgs?
Have the Borg landed on Wikipedia?
- In the media: Stop the internet, I was deleted
Can toeing the line stop the apocalypse?
- News from Diff: Why Wikimedia Is Speaking Up in a Major AI Copyright Case
When AI companies use copyrighted information, does it qualify as fair use?
- By the numbers: Wikipedian Nobel Prize 2026
Which language versions of Wikipedia had biographies of laureates before Nobel announcements?
- On the bright side: Gone fishing
Touring Thailand, exploring iridescence, and translating prairie dog.
- Traffic report: October, and the articles are stripped bare
Lots of deaths, Indian movies, and monsters. Happy Halloween!
- In focus: Two Roles, One Wikimedia Education Ecosystem
What happens when different approaches to Wikimedia education connect?
- Comix: Inactivity
Zounds!
Pending changes reviewer granted
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Hello. Your account has been granted the "pending changes reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on pages protected by pending changes. The list of articles awaiting review is located at Special:PendingChanges, while the list of articles that have pending changes protection turned on is located at Special:StablePages.
Being granted reviewer rights neither grants you status nor changes how you can edit articles. If you do not want this user right, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time.
See also:
- Wikipedia:Reviewing pending changes, the guideline on reviewing
- Wikipedia:Reviewing pending changes#Requirements to accept an edit, when to accept an edit
* Pppery * it has begun... 23:07, 4 November 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks! EvanTech10 (talk, contribs) ⥠23:31, 4 November 2026 (UTC)
