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The Signpost: 12 December 2024

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Disinformation report: Sex, power, and money revisited

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New pages patrol January 2025 Backlog drive

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The Signpost: 24 December 2024

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Op-ed: Beeblebrox on Wikipediocracy, the Committee, and everything

Opinion: Graham87 on being the first-ever administrator recall subject

In the media: Delhi High Court considers Caravan and Ken for evaluating the ANI vs. WMF case

From the archives: Where to draw the line in reporting?

Recent research: "Wikipedia editors are quite prosocial", but those motivated by "social image" may put quantity over quality

Humour: Backlash over Santa Claus' Wikipedia article intensifies

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Traffic report: Was a long and dark December

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The Signpost: 15 January 2025

From the editors: Looking back, looking forward

Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2024

In the media: Will you be targeted?

Technology report: New Calculator template brings interactivity at last

Essay: Meet the Canadian who holds the longest editing streak on Wikipedia

Opinion: Reflections one score hence

News and notes: It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life for me... and I'm feeling free

Serendipity: What we've left behind, and where we want to go next

Op-ed: Elon Musk and the right on Wikipedia

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Arbitration report: Analyzing commonalities of some contentious topics

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Downlink special issues notice

Hello! This is an announcement that The Downlink has been revived. Rather than simply start again, I have chosen to create two special issues recapping the past three years. The first special issue spans November 2021 to December 2023, while the second special issue spans January 2024 to December 2024.

Due to the size of these pages, as well as the fact that they are non-standard issues, I have instead had this notice sent out. The following issues of volume 3 (Jan - Dec 2025) should be significantly smaller.

Please be aware that, for a variety of reasons, the issues that I create may be published late.

Here are the issues:

First special issue

Second special issue

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The Signpost: 7 February 2025

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Arbitration report: Palestine-Israel articles 5 has closed

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List of Wikipedians by number of edits - Charts

Hey there. Love the two charts you created here. As it's been more than five years since the last update, I just wanted to ask whether you are considering doing one in the near future. Thanks. NoWikiNoLife (talk) 05:45, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]