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Larry Sanger – CC BY-SA 2.5

News and notes

Larry Sanger returns with "Nine Theses on Wikipedia"; WMF publishes transparency report

This time "not merely negative".

Artist unknown / photo dosseman – cc-by-sa-4.0

In the media

Extraordinary eruption of "EVIL" explained

Wickedpedia wrangles post-truth politics.

Edmond Amateis & Carol M. Highsmith – public domain

Disinformation report

Emails from a paid editing client

Unexpected news!

Jorge Franganillo – cc-by-2.0

Discussion report

Sourcing, conduct, policy and LLMs: another 1,339 threads analyzed

Fifty hot topics from fourteen noticeboards.

National Counterintelligence and Security Center – PD

Community view

The pressing questions of the modern WWW, as seen from the Village Pump

Policy, politics, icons, captchas, and LLMs.

Flo Beck – CC0

Recent research

Is Wikipedia a merchant of (non-)doubt for glyphosate?; eight projects awarded Wikimedia Research Fund grants

And other recent publications.

dnak – CC BY 2.0

Opinion

Some disputes aren't worth it

When to walk away.

Mqschmidt – GFDL

Obituary

Michael Q. Schmidt

Rest in peace.

Gage Skidmore – CC BY-SA 4.0

Traffic report

Death, hear me call your name

Celebrities, deaths and software.

NuclearSpuds – CC BY-SA 4.0

Comix

A grand spectacle

All invited!

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