Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost

Volume 21

Issue 3

27 February 2025

MLS Real Estate Cards – No known copyright

Administrator elections up for reapproval and 1bil GET snagged on Commons

French Wikipedia defends a user against public threats, steward elections, and other news from the Wikimedia world.

Roel Coutinho – CC-BY-SA-4.0

Guinea-Bissau Heritage from Commons to the World

"The only time I ever took photos in my entire life".

NOAA's GOES 16 Satellite – PD

Technology report

Hear that? The wikis go silent twice a year

From patrolling new edits to uploading photos or joining a campaign, you can count on the Wikimedia platform to be up and running — in your language, anywhere in the world. That is, except for a couple of minutes during the equinoctes.

State Farm – CC 2.0

The end of the world

Or just the end of Wikipedia as we know it?

골뱅이 – CC BY-SA 3.0

Recent research

What's known about how readers navigate Wikipedia; Italian Wikipedia hardest to read

Of "hunters", "busybodies" and "dancers".

Vngelrojas – CC BY-SA 4.0

Sennecaster's RfA debriefing

User Sennecaster shares her thoughts on her recent RfA and the aspects that might have played a role in making it successful.

MichaelMaggs – CC BY-SA 4.0

Tips and tricks

One year after this article is posted, will every single article on Wikipedia have a short description?

What are they? Why are they important? How can we make them better? And what can you do to help?

– PD

Open letter from French Wikipedians says "no" to intimidation of volunteer contributors

Liberté, liberté chérie.

Fæ – PD

Temporary scars, February stars

Grammys, politics and the Super Bowl.

D'Arcy Advertising – public domain

The source, the whole source, and nothing but the source

Straight from the source's mouth. A source is a source, of course, of course!

Zeynel Cebeci – CC BY-SA 4.0

Ümüt Çınar (Kmoksy) and Vinícius Medina Kern (Vmkern)

Turkish linguist wrote about languages and plants; Brazilian informaticist studied Wikimedia projects and education.

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