Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2018-10-28

• From the editors: The Signpost is still afloat, just barely
  
  A slightly thinner issue, but out on time.

• Op-ed: Wikipedia's Strickland affair
  
  Is a missing article on a Nobel laureate a fail? What if her draft biography was declined as non-notable?

• News and notes: WMF gets a million bucks
  
  And it's richer than ever.

• In the media: Bans, celebs, and bias
  
  Breitbart begone; rescued by archivists; celebrating trolls?

• Discussion report: Mediation Committee and proposed deletion reform
  
  Plus: two pending changes-related discussions, notability, and naming conventions.

• Traffic report: Unsurprisingly, sport leads the field – or the ring
  
  Who's reading what?

• Technology report: Bots galore!
  
  Bots can do anything you want – well, almost.

• Special report: NPP needs you
  
  WMF continues to stonewall development; NPP wishes again relegated to stocking fillers.

• Special report 2: Now Wikidata is six
  
  SPARQL adds sparkle to WMF projects.

• In focus: Alexa
  
  We are all writing for Amazon.

• Gallery: Out of this world!
  
  No special effects here, just beautiful celestial images.

• Recent research: Wikimedia Commons worth $28.9 billion
  
  If it weren't free, of course.

• Humour: Talk page humour
  
  Wikipedia has a long history of talk page tomfoolery.

• Opinion: Strickland incident
  
  The reviewer who declined the article gives his perspective.

• From the archives: The Gardner Interview
  
  The "holy-shit" slide.