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News and notes

AELECT returns, Jimbo gives a union update, VisualEditor is now default

Plus a survey for North Americans, proposed changes to BoT elections, and developments in the Puerto Rican editing community.

Robert Cooper (c. 1800) – PD

Serendipity

From a rare portrait of a female millionaire in Nancy to a Japanese painter in Lyon

Images from Leuven Libraries popular on Wiki.

Doug Weller – CC CC0 1.0 UP DD

Obituary

Doug Weller

Twenty-year editor, long-term admin, dearly missed.

Ferfive – cc-by-sa-4.0

In the media

A(I)pocalypses afoot

Cannibals, freeloaders, rogue agents, scams ... the usual.

Nataev – CC BY-SA 4.0

WikiConference Report

WikiConference 2026 and the importance of in-person community

Celebrating 12 years of WikiConference North America.

PAC2 – CC BY 4.0

By the numbers

Does the country of birth affect the likelihood of having a Wikipedia biography?

A cross-country and cross-wikipedia comparison of the likelihood of having a biography in Wikipedia.

Hari Adivarekar – cc-by-4.0

News from Diff

OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects

CPO/CTO Selena Deckelmann explains the recent detection of AI agent activities on Wikimedia projects.

Lance Cpl. Isaac De Leon – US Government public domain

On the bright side

Good people

Nice comments and real-life rescuers.

Ralf Roletschek – CC BY-SA 3.0 AT

Op-ed

Who are our readers?

The movement makes progress when we know what our scope is.

Simon A. Eugster – GFDL,cc-by-sa-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0

Traffic report

This world is big and wild and half insane

Criminals, 9/11 25 years later, artists expelled for politics... we lived in troubled times.

Unknown Punch artist via Wellcome Collection – CC-BY-4.0

Comix

Fudging the numbers

Take 'em away, officers!

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