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Ildefonse – PD

From the editors

Ways for beginners to support The Signpost community journalism

Pointing the way to your contribution to The Signpost!

Familydestinationsguide.com – cc-by-2.0

News and notes

Community Tech development team disbanded

And English Wikipedia reaches a milestone in number of highly active editors.

John R. Clark, Jr – PD

Disinformation report

PR for the people?

Or, "PR using PR for PR"?

Granada and MWilliams (WMF) – cc by-sa 4.0

Recent research

Proposed tagging system for AI involvement; successful and unsuccessful AI tools for contributors

And other new research publications.

Edmund of Hadenham – PD

In the media

Who won a 14th century battle and who won the 2026 Iran war?

Media take issue with portrayals of recent and medieval history on Wikipedia. Plus a team supporting Wikipedians gets dissolved, and a few other things.

Wikimedia Foundation – CC BY 4.0

Community view

Putting the Wish into the Wishlist

A history of the Wikimedia community's request process to Foundation developers.

Metropolitan Museum of Art – CC0

In focus

A global standard for Neutral Point of View

Wikipedians are commenting on a proposed global standard for neutral point of view.

Steve Dunleavy – cc-by-2.0

On the bright side

Flowers, blue helmets, reefs, pride, and Juneteenth

Nice things around the world.

Margeigh Novotny – cc by-sa 4.0

Op-ed

Breathe, Don’t Panic, there is a different story about Wikimedia + AI futures

We can build a strategy about AI that doesn't just center on readers; there are still plenty of humans to write the encyclopedia and work on diverse global knowledge.

BryanDavis – cc-zero

Opinion

Wikimedia Foundation staff develop union and Wikimedia user community reacts

Why should editors support the Wiki Workers United union drive? Lessons the Wikimedia movement can learn from other labor struggles.

Katya Nakonechnaya – CC BY-SA 3.0

Technology report

Community Tech team is disbanded, controversy erupts

WMF disbands Community Tech, sparking community backlash over the future of the Wishlist and concerns about unionization.

daveynin – cc-by-2.0

Traffic report

'Cause this is thriller, thriller night

Horror movies and Michael Jackson dominate theaters in the lead-up to the World Cup.

King ChristLike – CC BY-SA 4.0

WikiConference report

Report of Volunteer Supporters Network Annual Meeting 2026

Outreach staff of Wikimedia chapters host a global discussion.

Artist unknown (Punch) – PD

Comix

Take your turn

In a maze of twisty little edits, all alike.

Bri and Andrew Smith – cc-by-4.0

Humour

Group of banned T-shirt makers comes out of hiding to sell new Wikipedia-themed merchandise

It ain't WikiProject United Nations, but you will find some PUNs.

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