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From my family to yours. TheSandDoctor Talk 18:14, 25 December 2022 (UTC) December music
We sang Charpentier's delightful Messe de minuit pour Noël today, which was on DYK yesterday, - a first for me, pictured, - thank you for the good wishes, and enjoy the season! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:45, 25 December 2022 (UTC) Today, pictured, the soprano of our choral concert of the year. More in the context: User talk:Gerda Arendt#DYK for Talia Or in case of interest. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:15, 26 December 2022 (UTC) Merry Christmas CAPTAIN RAJU(T) is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Don't eat yellow snow! Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{subst:User:Flaming/MC2008}} to their talk page with a friendly message. CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 00:45, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 1 January 2023Plus admin update and cool tools for the new year.
Sometimes you need to read more than just the headlines!
Interview of ComplexRational about their recent request for adminship.
Wikifunctions might drag it down.
Frustrations and successes.
Congratulations.
And other new research findings.
How Iranian press agencies help Wikipedia to reflect football in a better way.
You head into the featured content report. Amongst the features you see astronauts, both Gilbert and Sullivan, Ursula K. Le Guin's incredibly talented mother, and Billboard charts. It is pitch black, you are likely to be eaten by a grue.
It is mostly about football!
In which a couple sentences of text recontextualises an image.
Photographers, Sandy Hook, the shocking use of Nazi symbols in articles about Nazis, and "You wouldn't recognise a fact if it bit you in the ass". Administrators' newsletter – January 2023News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).
Bureaucrat chat - invitation to participateThe RfA for MB has gone to a bureaucrat chat. Please join in the discussion. Primefac (talk) 15:02, 8 January 2023 (UTC) The Signpost: 16 January 2023It's not just a phase! Well, maybe it is.
Long-time contributors imprisoned for 32 and 8 years after "swaying public opinion" and "violating public morals".
UCoC draws nearer, alongside the rise of the machines, in mainspace this time.
Wikipedia's birthday, a cute dog, and nipplefruit.
The depths of Commons, at your fingertips. Or eyetips.
Debunking widely-told myths about New York's grandest and centralest railway station.
The economics of Wikipedia.
When notability conflicts with what it might be used for.
7,000,000-year Landmasses for Subduction discussions considered "too long".
Allow us to bring you back, back, back, to days of Wikifun rampant.
...and your ambigram. Also: Boring lava fields, birds of Tuvalu, and commelinid family names with etymologies.
War, sports, and all types of chaos.
The editor with five million edits, the death of Aaron Swartz, and rollback. Administrators' newsletter – February 2023News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2023).
2023
looking forward, a new diary has begun --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:13, 2 January 2023 (UTC) today, I point at two singers I whose performance I enjoyed. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:57, 6 January 2023 (UTC) today, less pointy: a composition from a remarkable 2022 concert, the sad record of four articles about people who recently died at the same time, and singing for Epiphany --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:28, 8 January 2023 (UTC) pointy again: today's featured article is Osbert Parsley, not by me but Amitchell125 where I commented, including the beginning of my songs. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:13, 10 January 2023 (UTC) I'm on vacation, - click on songs! I tell my own stories now, instead of relying on DYK. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:03, 14 January 2023 (UTC) back from vacation - not all pics there yet but plenty ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:24, 31 January 2023 (UTC) completed now - Melitta Muszely died, RIP --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:56, 2 February 2023 (UTC) The Signpost: 4 February 2023
Last issue's vow for "something to show for these efforts" revisited.
As well as the continued rise of the machines, and Amanda Keton's WMF departure.
Section 230 before the Supreme Court in two cases, with broad implications for the web.
Or Santos on Wikipedia?
WMF issues salvo in latest battles of the Posting Wars
The good, the bad, and the ugly.
Isamaa party sponsor Parvel Pruunsild files claim in Tartu County Court against WMEE head Ivo Kruusamägi and Reform Party politicians.
English Wikipedia among most "global" and Thai Wikipedia's among most "Western", but non-Western works neglected overall.
And other new research publications.
An interview with those who pitch in together
Letting you find out about yourself (and others).
An exceptionally good period for featured articles.
Can we have a chat? The Signpost: 20 February 2023UCoC Enforcement Guidelines pass, Wikimedia Enterprise financials, GPTs gone wild, and a speedy deletion criterion removed.
Also: Russ Baker's BLP, the digital commons, the NSA, and more on Pakistan.
Gautam Adani and his companies possibly behind scheme featuring scores of socks, infiltration of articles for creation process.
GPT: friend or foe?
Your one-stop hooker's handbook.
But much else to be found.
Lovey-dovey stuff for Valentine's.
And maybe a side of AI.
Also: let's delete images of Muhammed! Let's delete portals!
Yesterday's controversies, reported on today.
A musical interlude. February stories
Thank you for improving articles in February! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:32, 21 February 2023 (UTC) My story on 24 February is about Artemy Vedel (TFA by Amitchell235), and I made a suggestion for more peace, - what do you think? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:39, 24 February 2023 (UTC) today: two women whose birthday we celebrate today, 99 and 90 --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:20, 28 February 2023 (UTC) Administrators' newsletter – March 2023News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2023).
March stories
For the first time I have no DYK on this day but remember a 2016 DYK, Hana Blažíková, a Czech who sang German music in Japan. Girls and women sang how Bach arranged Pergolesi's Stabat Mater to a new text paraphrasing Psalm 51, last Sunday. - I loved improving Mary Bauermeister - on the Main page until yesterday. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:46, 8 March 2023 (UTC) What do you think of this? I thought I asked nicely, but see what happened. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:01, 13 March 2023 (UTC) same question, still - Marek Kopelent died, and it's Saint Patrick's Day --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:53, 17 March 2023 (UTC) today we remember the 150th birthday of Max Reger, who saw the horrors of a world war right when it began in 1914, while others were still in high patriotic moods --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:08, 19 March 2023 (UTC) sharing impressions from vacation on Madeira 20-30 March, pics now at 24 Mar from the peaks - The RfC was closed, and I wonder what we can learn from it. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:20, 31 March 2023 (UTC) The Signpost: 9 March 2023
A lack of transparency.
Using failed AI Galactica's worst mistakes to test a new AI.
Probable answers: No, no, maybe?
Seriously, even the chef has a major military history connection.
And other new research publications.
Wikizine, Wikipedia Zero, Single User Login, and Wales allegedly editing his girlfriend's article. The Signpost: 20 March 2023
Be part of the Wikimania 2023 program!
One year in: volunteering, science, art, and candlelight.
Everything is broken, again.
Seriously, it's only a fortnight's worth!
An interview with Wikipedia's newest admin.
All the pop culture that's fit to print, with a sprinkling of cocaine (bear). The Signpost: 03 April 2023
Errata regretted.
Skynet believed to be in violation of the new Universal Code of Conduct.
Taking the phrase "gaming the system" to the next level.
Desysop case request still in accept/decline phase.
Thou gildest e'en the Signpost's trade.
And a dataset of article revisions to provide a corpus for promotional content.
A retrospective of the best and worst pranks.
Do important banks sock? Maybe – but don't grab your money and run just yet! Administrators' newsletter – April 2023News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023).
April songs
Today is the 80th birthday of John Eliot Gardiner, who's going to conduct on 6 May. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:36, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
Reporting problematic and biased rollbackerReporting problematic, unprofessional, disrespectful and biased rollbacker in Talk: Resident Evil 4 (2023 video game) 151.68.70.136 (talk) 19:50, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 26 April 2023
Plus: Wikipedians get own Mastodon account, and Wikiprojects move to uniform quality assessment.
Covering Russia, Poland, the Vatican, the U.S., and the "perilously thin" boundary between real life and Wikipedia.
The prolific editor, former Arbitration Committee member and co-founder of Wikimedia New York City died in April.
No news is good news, and this isn't no news.
The problem we haven't solved.
Can Wikipedia help keep AI agents honest?
In this article, we will look at The Signpost statistics. More precisely: Signpost article statistics by year, TOP 20 titles of Signpost articles, TOP 20 article authors, and the home wikis of article authors.
First of a two part series summarising the priorities for the Wikimedia Foundation's next fiscal year (July 2022–June 2023) including staffing, budget and other changes, and how to provide your feedback.
And somehow made it more readable than when it's not rhyming.
2011 and on.
The Selfish Hatnote, the Disambiguation Singularity, and other information-theoretic conundra of encyclopedic note.
Wrestling bumps world-changing technology from the #1 spot, imagine that. Semi protection edit lockHello @28bytes I am requesting you to apply semi protection edit lock in the page of current Prime Minister of Nepal Pushpa Kamal Dahal as there is many vandalizing edits so I am requesting you to do it if you think it is necessary please apply. Sulav K Xettri (talk) 02:35, 1 May 2023 (UTC) Administrators' newsletter – May 2023News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).
DYK for Richmond, Indiana facility fire On 30 April 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Richmond, Indiana facility fire, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that three years prior to last month's massive plastics fire in Indiana, a court determined that the site was a fire hazard "unsafe to people and property"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Richmond, Indiana facility fire. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Richmond, Indiana facility fire), 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 suggest it on the Did you know talk page. -- RoySmith (talk) 12:02, 30 April 2023 (UTC) The Signpost: 8 May 2023
... and at WP:Mastodon.
Fake fines, false alarms and faux headlines!
And other new research publications.
...Layout lovers will hate this featured content's title.
There will likely be more to say next issue.
The second article in a series describing the priorities and work of the Wikimedia Foundation. The article invites Wikimedians to collaborate with the Foundation.
First national-level conference in the Indian subcontinent in seven years. May songs
I had a good story on coronation day: a Te Deum we sang that day. And the following day we sang it for the composer ;) - And today we remember a composer who created music especially for us! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:51, 9 May 2023 (UTC) more pleasant music - just heard! - if you click on songs --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:06, 14 May 2023 (UTC) and now May scenery pictured, - scroll up if you missed the chamber music --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:07, 20 May 2023 (UTC) The Signpost: 22 May 2023... and a referendum on Jimmy Wales' traditional role as a final court of appeal in arbitration policy.
Opposing scholars on ArbCom case.
Includes stronger sourcing restriction, and a nod to the UCoC.
And other new research results.
Bird is the word for featured pictures.
Celebs and Bollywood film dominated reader interest, as usual, but with a new persistent presence on the lists of a certain AI.
An online conference with 12 distributed trans-local in-person meetup "Nodes" on 5 continents. Nomination for deletion of Template:Lifespan of each United States president
The Signpost: 5 June 2023
Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Building Committee Commences Command By Convening.
Also: Goog gets delist ask for en-wp yt-dl ar-ticle, wacky football fails.
Now is not this ridiculous, and is not this preposterous? A thorough-paced absurdity - explain it if you can.
Plus mortalities, and movies about mermaids. Administrators' newsletter – June 2023News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2023).
You've got mail It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template. Zephronion (talk) 22:06, 8 June 2023 (UTC) The Signpost: 19 June 2023
Problems with emergency emails sent to WMF.
... and an AI writer explains why he just bought a paper encyc.
Poetry still present.
And other new research findings. June music
plenty of music on my talk now that our festival started where I saw and heard the enchanting Diana Tishchenko -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:54, 30 June 2023 (UTC) Administrators' newsletter – July 2023News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).
The Signpost: 3 July 2023... and a new Elections Committee.
A few editors who fought many times to keep advertisements out.
Are you now, or have you ever been, a Wikipedia editor?
In which featured pictures have a pleasing orange/blue colour scheme for some reason.
Don't worry, they are mostly harmless.
Mission to ensure stability in conflict-ridden area. Thanks 28I really appreciate you staying in touch - means a lot to me. Hope all is well with you. — Ched (talk) 18:31, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 17 July 2023Gitz666 unglocked, Wikimania scholarships given and a new admin anointed.
Ruwiki on the Ruinternet, Rauwerda on TEDx, and Jimbo on Fridman.
Philadelphians and Tanzanians say goodbye.
The collaboration process for the 2023 English fundraising campaign is kicking off now, right from the start of the fiscal year.
Wikidata queries investigate nepo babies.
A summary of various tools designed over the years.
And various other research on large language models and Wikipedia.
Bold move intended to "get some variety" into Wikipedia arguments.
The annual report that tries to understand the Signpost through data, written in 2020, which never saw the light of day until now.
In which choices have been made™.
Sex, drugs and violence, English, math and science. ANI close/Tony1It's unclear whether the ARBCOM request (Sandstein) will become about Tony1 or not. Some are requesting it. It seems odd to not reference what's happening there in the close? DeCausa (talk) DeCausa (talk) 14:18, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
Concerned about Article qualityDear Wikipedia Administrator, As a dedicated Wikipedia reader, I am concerned about the quality and objectivity of one article. Unfortunately, I have found that the article , "Dadvan Yousuf" does not meet the standards of balanced reporting and has a potential bias. I respectfully request that you view the article's discussion page, where certain concerns have been detailed. I am concerned that the article be fair and factual, using facts and reliable sources to ensure a proper presentation of the issue. 94.16.115.238 (talk) 09:39, 31 July 2023 (UTC) The Signpost: 1 August 2023
And French gov't proposes legislation to slam Wikipedia, others.
Or just another brouhaha?
Hot damn, it's damned hot!
Three editors have departed.
You don't really want to do this stuff by yourself, do you?
A serious visual investigation.
A compilation of over 3M citations.
Possible solutions after being re-harassed.
Due to unfortunate events, this issue is published as is, in its unfinished state.
Oppenheimer, Barbie, and a couple other scandals. Please see Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Pppery/Bureaucrat chat and join the discussion when you have an opportunity. Maxim (talk) 18:12, 7 August 2023 (UTC) Administrators' newsletter – August 2023News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).
The Signpost: 15 August 2023
Jimbo promises more transparency, Wikimania in Singapore, move away from Tides still planned, and Wikifunctions rolls out.
Harsh words from problematic fave Glenn Greenwald.
Rigorous Review of Content for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Wikipedia.
Damn kids need to get off our lawn and onto RfA.
Because one gets some secondary skills when one has 645 featured pictures.
The innards of the Signpost received a major overhaul in March/April 2019. Here's how we reduced behind-the-scenes busywork and improved writers resources.
For whom does the Creative Commons enforcement clause toll?
An announcement of 335,000 new images on Wikimedia Commons.
Some improvement on last week.
Case request cited misuse of tools by administrator who last used tools in 1661.
Barbenheimer, Pee-Wee Herman and the Women's World Cup. August music
In my most recent images (click on songs), two wedding cakes are hidden. - Today's story is about the Inkpot Madonna who returned to "her place" 9 years ago, and also has aspects of early learning, remember? -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:18, 15 August 2023 (UTC) Today is the anniversary of the premiere of Götterdämmerung. Berit Lindholm sang its final scene in concert at the Royal Festival Hall in London, only four years after her stage debut in a Mozart opera in Stockholm. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:16, 17 August 2023 (UTC) Today, my focus is on Renata Scotto, after days of updating. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:14, 20 August 2023 (UTC) Today is Debussy's birthday. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:22, 22 August 2023 (UTC) This too shall pass. - Ten years ago on 28 August, I heard a symphony, with a heavy heart because of the pending decision in WP:ARBINFOBOX, and not worried about my future here but Andy's. - It passed, and I could write the DYK about calling to dance, not battle, and Andy could write the DYK mentioning about peace and reconciliation, - look. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:54, 28 August 2023 (UTC) WP:Bullying, and possibly WP:SockpuppetI believe User:Drmargi and User:SuperMarioMan are the same person due to both are making false claims and removing edits on Downton Abbey and The Baby-Sitters Club (1990 TV series). I believe this person goes between the accounts once they have ended up in an edit war and use their other account to try and intimidate other editors to get their way. They make false claims about the infobox, remove sourced information, such as past VHS releases because the source is Amazon. Eg. Both The Golden Girls and That '70s Show both infoboxes state when certain things accorded and both list the artist who performed the song and they are saying no infoboxes can do that per WP:MOS yet that obviously is not the case if other TV show pages do it. To me it appears to be biased editing and I think these users should be looked into to be sure they are not the same person cause neither are listening when it’s pointed out that what I have added is no different than what appears in other infoboxes and it cannot be just coincidence that two users don’t go look at other pages’ infoboxes see what I have pointed out to you and then continue to edit war with someone and then gang up and try to intimidate them to get their way. Decent people would go “Oh you’re right, I’m sorry.” leave the edit alone then go about their day. Please stop this so proper editing can be done. Thank you. 2601:806:8300:D0D0:CD6B:BFE0:532A:FD9D (talk) 18:18, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
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