User talk:Vadder

The Signpost: 2 October 2025

• News and notes: Larry Sanger returns with "Nine Theses on Wikipedia"; WMF publishes transparency report
  

This time "not merely negative".

• In the media: Extraordinary eruption of "EVIL" explained
  

Wickedpedia wrangles post-truth politics.

• Disinformation report: Emails from a paid editing client
  

Unexpected news!

• Discussion report: Sourcing, conduct, policy and LLMs: another 1,339 threads analyzed
  

Fifty hot topics from fourteen noticeboards.

• Community view: The pressing questions of the modern WWW, as seen from the Village Pump
  

Policy, politics, icons, captchas, and LLMs.

• Recent research: Is Wikipedia a merchant of (non-)doubt for glyphosate?; eight projects awarded Wikimedia Research Fund grants
  

And other recent publications.

• Opinion: Some disputes aren't worth it
  

When to walk away.

• Obituary: Michael Q. Schmidt
  

Rest in peace.

• Traffic report: Death, hear me call your name
  

Celebrities, deaths and software.

• Comix: A grand spectacle
  

All invited!

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The Signpost: 20 October 2025

• News and notes: Board shuffles, LLM blocks increase, IPs are going away
  

And the "Global Resource Distribution Committee" emerges.

• Special report: The election that isn't
  

Two shortlisted WMF Board candidates removed from the ballot.

• Interview: The BoT bump
  

Who was bumped and why?

• In the media: An incident at WikiConference North America; WMF reports AI-related traffic drop and explains Wikipedia to US conservatives
  

...while Musk prepares to launch "Grokipedia".

• Traffic report: One click after another
  

Serial-killer miniseries, deceased scientist, government shutdowns and Sandalwood hit "Kantara" crowd the tubes.

• Humour: Wikipedia pay rates
  

Don't get too excited before you read this.

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Feedback request: Maths, science, and technology request for comment

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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
  

It ain't a five course meal, according to one of our interviewees.

• Wikicup report: BeanieFan11, WikiCup victor of 2025, covers the results
  

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

• 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
  

You know your man is working hard, he's worth a deuce.

• Comix: Head of steam
  

'Sblood!

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