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8 June 2024
News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation publishes its Form 990 for fiscal year 2022-2023 Technology report: New Page Patrol receives a much-needed software upgrade Deletion report: The lore of Kalloor In the media: National cable networks get in on the action arguing about what the first sentence of a Wikipedia article ought to say News from the WMF: Progress on the plan — how the Wikimedia Foundation advanced on its Annual Plan goals during the first half of fiscal year 2023-2024 Opinion: Public response to the editors of Settler Colonial Studies Recent research: ChatGPT did not kill Wikipedia, but might have reduced its growth Featured content: We didn't start the wiki Essay: No queerphobia Special report: RetractionBot is back to life! Traffic report: Chimps, Eurovision, and the return of the Baby Reindeer Comix: The Wikipediholic Family Humour: Wikipedia rattled by sophisticated cyberattack of schoolboy typing "balls" in infobox Concept: Palimpsestuous
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WP:NEWS

There are various sources of news about Wikipedia, The Wikimedia Foundation that supports the project, and other related Wikimedia projects.

Wikipedia

The Signpost (Shortcut: WP:POST, RSS). The Wikipedia community newspaper that is written by volunteers and published biweekly.
Wikipedia:Goings-on (Shortcut: WP:GO). Weekly news and updates about existing or new projects or initiatives of Wikipedians.
Wikipedia:Press coverage (Shortcut: WP:PRESS). What news media say about Wikipedia
Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter (Shortcut: WP:ANEWS). Monthly newsletter containing topics of interest to Wikipedia administrators.
Wikinews:Category:Wikipedia, archives of news about Wikipedia
News aggregators: Google News · Techmeme
WP:WikiProject Newspapers for the WikiProject on improving articles about newspaper

Topic-specific newsletters

Other irregular newsletters exist. This list is limited to those which have updated at least once in the last year.

The Bugle, the Military history WikiProject's newsletter (monthly)
Books & Bytes, The Wikipedia Library's newsletter
Guild of Copy Editors
VisualEditor
WikiProject Yorkshire
WikiProject Christianity
WikiProject Tree of Life

Several Wikiproject-specific newsletters exist; however, most are inactive. As of April 2019^[update], out of 128 WikiProject newsletters, 9 could be considered active.

Wikimedia

Global message delivery/Targets (21 items) -- List of a number of individual newsletters that provide global message delivery
Tech News, news about software changes, published weekly
This Month in Education, written by Wikimedia users; contains international reports regarding Education collaborations of the past month related to Wikimedia, Wikipedia and sister projects of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Wikimedia News. Cross-project news, primarily project milestones.
Wikimedia goings-on. More cross-project news.
- Wikidata News
- MediaWiki News

Wikimedia Foundation

Other news sources

There are also places in Wikipedia and its sister projects that publish articles on current events and the latest world news using Wikimedia software.

Wikinews, sister project dedicated to news
Portal:Current events
Template:In the news

Planet Wikimedia, weblog aggregator, information about it at meta:Planet Wikimedia
Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly, irregular podcast of audio information regarding Wikipedia and our fellow projects
Wikipedia in the media. Mentions of Wikipedia as a topic unto itself and as a reference resource
m:Press clippings, daily updates of Wikimedia projects in the news.

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