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Volume 20
Issue 7
16 May 2024

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Democracy in action: multiple elections
WMF trustee elections, U4C results, Italian ArbCom, WMF and Endowment annual reports.
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Special report
Will the new RfA reform come to the rescue of administrators?
We don't know yet, but there is some encouraging news, nevertheless.
Bernard Gagnon – CC BY-SA 4.0
Arbitration report
Ruined temples for posterity to ponder over – arbitration from '22 to '24
Some go out with a bang, some with a whimper, few with much of a comprehensible explanation.
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Deadnames on the French Wikipedia, and a duel between Russian wikis
Plus, the WMF joins the Unicode Consortium, Chris Albon talks about AI tools on Wikipedia, communities address under-representation on the site.
Alicia Fagerving – CC BY-SA 3.0
Op-Ed
Wikidata to split as sheer volume of information overloads infrastructure
More queries are failing, and more frequently, so what is to be done?
Generalissima – CC BY-SA 4.0
Comix
Generations
It do be like that sometimes.
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