The Signpost

Volume 20

Issue 13

26 September 2024

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Courts order Wikipedia to give up names of editors, legal strain anticipated from "online safety laws"

ANI (but probably not the one you're thinking of), bias and bans, crisis and Clover, Engelhorn's euros, and will the zoomers inherit the project?

Legaleagle86 – CC BY-SA 3.0

Indian courts order Wikipedia to take down name of crime victim, editors strive towards consensus

In response to a takedown request, Wikipedia editors reached a consensus on how to handle it appropriately.

Hawkeye7 – CC BY-SA 4.0

A Wikipedian at the 2024 Paralympics

User Hawkeye7 opens up on his experience as a media representative following the Australian team at the latest Summer Paralympics in Paris.

Selected by HouseBlaster – Walters Art Museum – CC BY-SA 3.0

asilvering's RfA debriefing

User asilvering reflects on their recent successful request for adminship.

Hugo Sundström – CC-BY-4.0

Are you ready for admin elections?

More changes to RfA on the way in October, final results for the U4C elections revealed, and other news from the Wikimedia world.

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Are Luddaites defending the English Wikipedia?

Picture this: medicine, drugs, JFK, Cleopatra, anachronism, and global catastrophe.

HaeB – CC0

Recent research

Article-writing AI is less "prone to reasoning errors (or hallucinations)" than human Wikipedia editors

And other recent research publications.

Piotrus – CC-3.0

Jump in the line, rock your body in time

Band reunions and Beetlejuice!

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