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Wikimedia Foundation publishes its Form 990 for fiscal year 2022-2023

The Form 990, as well as highlights and FAQs, are now available for review.

Paramedics Worldwide – CC 3.0 BY-SA NL

Technology report

New Page Patrol receives a much-needed software upgrade

A new model for collaboration between the WMF and the community?

India Illustrated – PD

Deletion report

The lore of Kalloor

Hoaxes and the genesis of information.

Teacher61 – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International

In the media

National cable networks get in on the action arguing about what the first sentence of a Wikipedia article ought to say

First line, sixth paragraph, body text or unified Reich?

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News from the WMF

Progress on the plan — how the Wikimedia Foundation advanced on its Annual Plan goals during the first half of fiscal year 2023-2024

Outlining progress against the four key goals

? – PD

Opinion

Public response to the editors of Settler Colonial Studies

A letter.

Bagnoli et al. – CC BY 4.0

Recent research

ChatGPT did not kill Wikipedia, but might have reduced its growth

And various research findings about Wikidata and knowledge graphs.

Fred Kruger – PD

Featured content

We didn't start the wiki

No we didn't write it, but we tried to cite it

Wiki thành viên Liên minh hội (WTL) – CC BY-SA 4.0

Essay

No queerphobia

An essay.

Pi.1415926535 – CC BY-SA 4.0

Special report

RetractionBot is back to life!

... and flagging your articles with big ugly red notices! (This is a good thing.)

? – PD

Traffic report

Chimps, Eurovision, and the return of the Baby Reindeer

Movies, deaths, elections (but no cricket).

Relativity – CC0

Comix

The Wikipediholic Family

Some stuff's only okay in the privacy of the home.

Sapphireasa – CC BY-SA 3.0

Humour

Wikipedia rattled by sophisticated cyberattack of schoolboy typing "balls" in infobox

Project in shambles – "it had never occurred to us that this was possible".

USNA – PD

Concept

Palimpsestuous

Hypertext.

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