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The Signpost: 14 May 2025

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• Community view: A Deep Dive Into Wikimedia (part 2)
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• Comix: Collection
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Because you thanked me

XRozuRozu, you thanked me for one of my recent edits, so here is a heart-felt...  YOU'RE WELCOME! It's a pleasure, and I hope you have a lot of fun while you edit this inspiring encyclopedia phenomenon! MSAOM (talk)

18:48, 16 May 2025 (UTC) MSAOM (talk) 18:48, 16 May 2025 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!

A bit early, but thank you very much! :) x RozuRozu • ^tea_cups 02:41, 19 May 2025 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!

Thank you! ^_^ x RozuRozu • ^tea_cups 01:47, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

"Valea Pietrei Mici" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Valea Pietrei Mici has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 May 30 § Valea Pietrei Mici until a consensus is reached. Rusalkii (talk) 21:17, 30 May 2025 (UTC)

Stale draft

Hello, XRozuRozu, I saw that you made a draft for a new article at User:XRozuRozu/Limbus Company. Short term hosting of potentially valid articles and other reasonable content under development or in active use is usually acceptable. But in this case, you haven't edited your draft for a long time. If you wish to improve the draft yourself, please do. Otherwise, you may consider donating it to WikiProject Abandoned Drafts (a participant can help). Thank you. Legend of 14 (talk) 22:49, 30 May 2025 (UTC)

Made this account due to your fulsome praise

Hi there, thanks for the kind words on my literature editing the other day. Logged in or not, I always had more grief than positive comments on here since day one. As I am emboldened to rejoin, feel free to visit this new account for any reason. Take care. ColonelBatGuano (talk) 08:38, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

That's great, welcome back! Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Happy editing! x RozuRozu • ^tea_cups 23:26, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 June 2025

• News and notes: Happy 7 millionth!
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• In the media: Playing professor pong with prosecutorial discretion
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• Disinformation report: Pardon me, Mr. President, have you seen my socks?
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• Opinion: Russian Wiki-fork flails, failing readers and editors
  After two years RuWiki fails to thrive.

• Debriefing: EggRoll97's RfA² debriefing
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• Community view: A Deep Dive Into Wikimedia (part 3)
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• Comix: Hamburgers
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The Signpost: 18 July 2025

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• Discussion report: Six thousand noticeboard discussions in 2025 electrically winnowed down to a hundred
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• Comix: Divorce
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• Opinion: Women are somewhat under-represented on the English-language Wikipedia, and other observations from analysis
  How data from the Wikipedia "necessary articles" lists can shed new light on the gender gap

• Community view: A Deep Dive Into Wikimedia (part 4): The Future Of Wikimedia and Conclusion
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• Traffic report: God only knows
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• Humour: New forum created for people who don't care about Wikipedia
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Scanners fix

Nice catch. I can't believe that made it through FAC and no one caught it, myself included. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 07:49, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

The Signpost: 9 August 2025

• News and notes: Court order snips out part of Wikipedia article, editors debate whether to frame shreds or pulp them
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• Discussion report: News from ANI, AN, RSN, BLPN, ELN, FTN, and NPOVN
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• Disinformation report: The article in the most languages
  Who is this guy?

• Community view: News from the Villages Pump
  Threads since June.

• In the media: Disgrace, dive bars, deceased despots, and diverse dispatches
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• Crossword: Accidental typography
  It's not a conlang, it's a crossword puzzle.

• Comix: best-laid schemes o' wikis an' men
  gang aft agley, an' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, for promis'd joy!

• Traffic report: I'm not the antichrist or the Superman
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Yum Yum

Breck0530 (talk) has given you a WikiCake! WikiCakes promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a cake, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Bon appetit!

:)

Spread the tastiness of cakes by adding {{subst:GiveCake}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Breck0530 (talk) 00:52, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Also, I see that you have been archiving the talk stuff yourself. Help:Archiving a talk page shows you how to do automated archiving so you don't have to do all the hard work. Breck0530 (talk) 00:55, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you so much for the cake and advice! I do prefer to manually archive though, since it gives me more freedom of choice :) x RozuRozu • ^tea_cups 15:25, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

ok :) Breck0530 (talk) 20:06, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

The Signpost: 9 September 2025

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation loses a round in court
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• Disinformation report: A guide for Congress
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• Recent research: Minority-language Wikipedias, and Wikidata for botanists
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• Technology report: A new way to read Wikisource
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• Traffic report: Check out some new Weapons, weapon of choice
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• Essay: The one question
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The Signpost: 2 October 2025

• News and notes: Larry Sanger returns with "Nine Theses on Wikipedia"; WMF publishes transparency report
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• In the media: Extraordinary eruption of "EVIL" explained
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• Disinformation report: Emails from a paid editing client
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• Discussion report: Sourcing, conduct, policy and LLMs: another 1,339 threads analyzed
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• Community view: The pressing questions of the modern WWW, as seen from the Village Pump
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• Recent research: Is Wikipedia a merchant of (non-)doubt for glyphosate?; eight projects awarded Wikimedia Research Fund grants
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• Opinion: Some disputes aren't worth it
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• Obituary: Michael Q. Schmidt
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• Traffic report: Death, hear me call your name
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The Signpost: 20 October 2025

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• Special report: The election that isn't
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• Interview: The BoT bump
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• In the media: An incident at WikiConference North America; WMF reports AI-related traffic drop and explains Wikipedia to US conservatives
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• Traffic report: One click after another
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• Humour: Wikipedia pay rates
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The Signpost: 10 November 2025

• News and notes: Temporary accounts go live and WMF board member self-suspends
  ArbCom elections draw close, and Wikimania '27 in Santiago.

• Community view: Six Wikipedians' thoughts on Grokipedia, and the humanity of it all
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• Wikicup report: BeanieFan11, WikiCup victor of 2025, covers the results
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• In the media: Jimbo's book, an argument about genocide, and a train of shame
  Wikipedia's new rival, political controversy in Italy and other Wiki-reports.

• Recent research: Taking stock of the 2024–2025 research grants
  $400,000 USD in total funding: what did we get?

• Opinion: With Grokipedia, top-down control of knowledge is new again
  Does it shed any light on particular topics that are better suited to LLM-generation than others?

• Obituary: Struway
  Rest in peace.

• Traffic report: The documentaried, the disowned, the deceased, Diwali and the Dodgers
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The Signpost: 1 December 2025

• News and notes: Election cycles come and go, and Wikimedia Foundation achieves record revenue in 2024–2025!
  Admin and ArbCom elections upcoming, BoT elects two new members, task force advises to close Wikinews and keep Wikispore, and other news from the Wikimedia world.

• In the media: Wales walk-off, antisemitism, supernatural powers, feminism turmoil, saints, and sex
  Plus mammoth mummy sex-change operation completed!

• Recent research: At least 80 million inconsistent facts on Wikipedia – can AI help find them?
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• Disinformation report: Epstein email exchanges planned strategy, edits and reported progress
  At work on Wikipedia whitewashing. How much should they be paid?

• Traffic report: It's a family affair
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• Book review: The Seven Rules of Trust
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• From the archives: "I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein ..."
  The twists and turns of Epstein’s portrayal on Wikipedia.

• Humour: An interview with Wikipe-tan
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• Opinion: AI finds errors in 90% of Wikipedia's best articles
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• Serendipity: Highlights from the itWikiCon 2025
  A recap of the latest convention of the Italian Wiki-community, held in Catania from 7–9 November.

• Comix: Madness
  It could happen to anyone.

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