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January
- Promotional photos: Effort to modify fair use policy aborted
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Thagomizer"
- News and notes: News and notes: Fundraiser continues, milestones
- In the news: Wikipedia in the news
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
- 2006 in review: Special: 2006 in Review
- Press plagiarism: Another newspaper columnist found to have plagiarized Wikipedia
- Content manipulation: Blogs track attempts to manipulate articles
- Goldacre-Holford controversy: Nutritional beef cooks PR editor
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Facial Hair"
- News and notes: News and notes: Fundraiser continues, milestones
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Volume 3, Issue 3, 15 January 2007
- 2006 in review: Special: 2006 in Review, Part II
- Arbitration series: New arbitrators interviewed
- Cascading protection: Cascading protection feature added
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Apples and Oranges"
- News and notes: News and notes: Fundraiser continues, milestones
- In the news: Wikipedia in the news
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Volume 3, Issue 4, 22 January 2007
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Truthiness"
- News and notes: News and notes: Talk page template, milestones
- In the news: Wikipedia in the news
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Volume 3, Issue 5, 29 January 2007
- Advisory board named: Foundation names advisory board, new hires
- Court citations: Court decisions citing Wikipedia proliferate
- Microsoft's Wikipedia standards: Microsoft approach to improving articles opens can of worms
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Hyperthymesia"
- News and notes: News and notes: Investigation board deleted, milestones
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
February
Volume 3, Issue 6, 5 February 2007
- Board changes: Foundation organizational changes enacted
- Arbitration and IRC: Group of arbitrators makes public statement about IRC
- Astroturfing Wikipedia: AstroTurf PR firm discovered astroturfing
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Clabbers"
- News and notes: News and notes: More legal citations, milestones
- In the news: Wikipedia in the News
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Volume 3, Issue 7, 12 February 2007
- More government editing: US government agencies discovered editing
- Financial state hullabaloo: Comment prompts discussion of Wikimedia's financial situation
- Media licensing: Board recapitulates licensing policy principles
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Extreme ironing"
- News and notes: News and notes: Picture of the Year, milestones
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Volume 3, Issue 8, 19 February 2007
- From the editor: From the editor
- Arbitrator resigns: Arbitrator Dmcdevit resigns; replacements to be appointed
- Google again: In US, half of Wikipedia traffic comes from Google
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Tony Clifton"
- News and notes: News and notes: Brief outage, milestones
- In the news: Wikipedia in the News
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Volume 3, Issue 9, 26 February 2007
- War of the Wheels: Three users temporarily desysopped after wheel war
- Peppers pickle: Peppers article stays deleted
- Fuzzy suit: Pro golfer sues over libelous statements
- Interwiki report: Report from the Norwegian (Bokmål) Wikipedia
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Pet skunk"
- News and notes: News and notes: New arbitrators appointed, milestones
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
March
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "The Rutles"
- News and notes: News and notes: Picture of the Year, milestones
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
- Paid editing: Report of diploma mill offering pay for edits
- What you don't know can't hurt you: Essay tries to clarify misconceptions about Wikipedia
- Blog aggregator: Blog aggregator launched for Wikimedia-related posts
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Cartoon Physics"
- News and notes: News and notes: Wikimania 2007, milestones
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Wilhelm Scream"
- News and notes: News and notes: Bad sin, milestones
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
- From the editor: From the editor
- Departures: Patrick and Wool resign in office shakeup
- News and notes: News and notes: Board resolutions, milestones
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
April
- Wikipedia poll: Poll finds people think Wikipedia "somewhat reliable"
- Errors and publicity: Wikipedia biographical errors attract more attention
- AMA nominated for deletion: Association of Members' Advocates nominated for deletion
- Times correction: Reference desk work leads to New York Times correction
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Charles Lane"
- News and notes: News and notes: Alexa, Version 0.5, attribution poll
- In the news: Wikipedia in the news
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Fake shemp"
- News and notes: News and notes: Donation, Version 0.5, milestones
- In the news: Wikipedia in the news
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
- A Wikipedia education: Wikipedia continues to get mixed reactions in education
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Hodag"
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
- Robdurbar: Administrator goes rogue, is blocked
- Brandt unblock: Wales unblocks Brandt, then reverses himself
- Wikidetainment: Historian detained after his Wikipedia article is vandalized
- Virginia Tech: Virginia Tech massacre articles rise to prominence
- Back in China: Wikipedia enters China one disc at a time
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Buttered cat paradox"
- In the news: Wikipedia in the news
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
- Western Civ blog: Students in Western Civilization course find editing Wikipedia frustrating, rewarding
- Statistical profiles: Statistics indicate breadth of Wikipedia's appeal
- Featured list: Featured lists reaches a milestone
- Backlogs: Backlogs continue to grow
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Calvin and Hobbes"
- News and notes: News and notes: Board resolutions, user studies, milestones
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
May
- Admins desysopped: Four administrator accounts desysopped after hijacking, vandalism
- Fair use: Debate over non-free images heats up
- Wikipedian scholarship: Norwegian Wikipedian awarded scholarship
- News and notes: News and notes: Election volunteers, admin contest, milestones
- The key to Wikipedia: Digg revolt over DVD key spills over to Wikipedia
- Wikimania2007: Update on Wikimania 2007
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Friday the 13th"
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
- Compromised accounts: Administrator status restored to five accounts after emergency desysopping
- Academic journal coverage: Academic journals multiply their analyses of Wikipedia
- Committed identity: User committed identities provide protection against account hijacking
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Ubbi dubbi"
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
- Trafigura: Corporate editing lands in Dutch media
- Spoilers: Spoiler warnings may be tweaked
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Disruptive technology"
- News and notes: News and notes: LGBT project mention, milestones
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
- BLP, DRV, ARB, IRC: Controversy over biographies compounded when leading participant blocked
- Wikipedian death: Norwegian Wikipedian, journalist dies at 59
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Five-second rule"
- News and notes: News and notes: Wikipedian dies, Alexa rank, Jimbo
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
June
- From the editor: From the editor
- Admin desysopped: Sockpuppeting administrator desysopped, banned
- BLP, revisited: Admin restored after desysopping; dispute centers on suitability of certain biographies
- RFA suspended: Controversial RFA suspended, results pending
- Dutch government: Dutch government provides freely licensed photos
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "John Hodgman"
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
- From the editor: From the editor
- Board elections: Board candidacies open, elections planned
- News and notes: News and notes: Ontario error, no consensus RFA, milestones
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
- From the editor: From the editor
- Brandt merger: Wikipedia critic's article merged
- Board elections: Board election series: Election information
- Account compromised: Admin account apparently compromised, blocked
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "They Might Be Giants"
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
- Board elections: Board election series: An interview with the candidates
- RFA and open proxies: RfA receives attention, open proxies policy reviewed
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Thagomizer"
- News and notes: News and notes: Logo error, Norwegian chapter, milestones
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
July
- Wrestler death: IP unwittingly predicts death: "Awful coincidence"
- Board elections: Board elections open
- German chapter: German chapter relaunches website, arranges government support
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Cashew"
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
- Bureaucrat nominations: Seven administrators request promotion to bureaucrat status
- Board elections: Board election series: Elections closed, results pending
- Japanese plagiarism: Newspaper obituary plagiarizes Japanese Wikipedia
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Ann Coulter"
- News and notes: News and notes: FA stats, top information site, milestones
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
- From the editor: From the editor: Filling in with a new feature
- Board elections: Möller, Walsh retain seats; Brioschi elected
- F1 trademark: British agency cites Wikipedia in denying F1 trademark
- Two new bureaucrats: Two new bureaucrats promoted
- Blogger rescue: Wikipedian bloggers launch "article rescue" effort
- Keen review: Book review: The Cult of the Amateur
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Charles Lane"
- In the news: Wikipedia in the news
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "World domination"
- News and notes: News and notes: "The Wikipedia Story", visa ruling, milestones
- In the news: Wikipedia in the news
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
- From the editor: From the editor: Another experiment and Wikimania
- Citizendium analysis: Report on Citizendium
- News from Citizendium: Response: News from Citizendium
- Another desysopping: User resigns admin status amid allegations of sock puppetry
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Mr. Bean"
- In the news: Wikipedia in the news
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
August
- US chapter: Committee makes statement on U.S. chapter
- Wikipedia Plays: About: The Wikipedia Plays
- Wikipedia Plays Review: Review: The Wikipedia Plays
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Terry Gross"
- News and notes: News and notes: Similpedia, milestones
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
- Bug review: Reviewing five software requests
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "2000s"
- News and notes: News and notes: Meetup, milestones
- In the news: Wikipedia in the news
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
- WikiScanner: WikiScanner tool creates "minor public relations disasters" for scores of organizations
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Tomcat and Bobcat"
- News and notes: News and notes: Wikimania '08, 200 x 100, milestones
- In the news: Wikipedia in the news
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Helicopter parent"
- News and notes: News and notes: Court case, BJAODN, milestones
- In the news: Wikipedia in the news
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
September
Volume 3, Issue 36, 3 September, 2007
- From the editor: From the editor: Interview with Jimbo Wales
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "George P. Burdell"
- News and notes: News and notes: Fundraiser, Wikimania 2008, milestones
- In the news: Wikipedia in the news
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Volume 3, Issue 37, 10 September, 2007
- From the editor: From the editor: Interview with Jimbo Wales
- Jimbo interview: An interview with Jimbo Wales
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Godwin's Law"
- In the news: Wikipedia in the news
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Volume 3, Issue 38, 17 September, 2007
- From the editor: From the editor: Reader survey
- Treasurer and fundraising: Wikimedia treasurer expected to depart soon
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Sarah Vowell"
- In the news: Wikipedia in the news
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Volume 3, Issue 39, 24 September, 2007
- From the editor: From the editor
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Ambigram"
- News and notes: News and notes: Times archives, conferences, milestones
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
October
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Buttered cat paradox"
- In the news: Wikipedia in the news
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
- From the editor: From the editor: New feature
- Vandalism study: Study examines Wikipedia authorship, vandalism repair
- Myanmar to Burma: Myanmar article renamed to Burma after unrest
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "W"
- News and notes: News and notes: Wikimania 2008, Flickr image tool, milestones
- In the news: Wikipedia in the news
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Report: Biography
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Volume 3, Issue 42, 15 October, 2007
- From the editor: From the editor: Brion Vibber interview
- Wikimania 2008: Wikimania 2008 awarded to Alexandria
- Board meeting: Board meeting held, budget approved
- Two-million Commons: Wikimedia Commons reaches two million media files
- Job openings: San Francisco job openings published
- CSN closed: Community sanction noticeboard closed
- Adminbot approved: Bot is approved to delete redirects
- License changes: License edits under consideration to accommodate Wikipedia
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Soramimi Kashi"
- News and notes: News and notes: Historian dies, Wiki Wednesdays, milestones
- In the news: Wikipedia in the news
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Report: Military history
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Volume 3, Issue 43, 22 October, 2007
- Fundraiser, budget: Fundraiser opens, budget released
- Living people: Biographies of living people grow into "status symbol"
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "George Stroumboulopoulos"
- News and notes: News and notes: Wikipedian Robert Braunwart dies
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Report: League of Copyeditors
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Volume 3, Issue 44, 29 October, 2007
- From the editor: From the editor: Interview with Florence Devouard
- Page creation: Page creation for unregistered users likely to be reenabled
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Human billboard"
- News and notes: News and notes: Treasurer search, fundraiser, milestones
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Report: Agriculture
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
November
Volume 3, Issue 45, 5 November, 2007
- French lawsuit: Wikimedia avoids liability in French lawsuit
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Fall Out Boy"
- News and notes: News and notes: Grant money, fundraiser, milestones
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Report: Lists of basic topics
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Volume 3, Issue 46, 12 November, 2007
- Page creation redux: Unregistered page creation remains on hold so far
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Exploding whale"
- News and notes: News and notes: Fundraiser, elections galore, milestones
- In the news: Wikipedia in the News
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Report: Missing encyclopedic articles
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Volume 3, Issue 47, 19 November, 2007
- Anthere interview: Signpost interview: Florence Devouard
- Khobar plagiarism: Author borrows from Wikipedia article without attribution
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Raining animals"
- In the news: Wikipedia in the News
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Report: History
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Volume 3, Issue 48, 26 November, 2007
- Arbitration series: Arbitration Committee elections: Candidate profiles
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Cursive"
- News and notes: News and notes: Ombudsman commission, fundraiser, milestones
- In the news: Wikipedia in the News
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Report: Education in Australia
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
December
Volume 3, Issue 49, 3 December, 2007
- Gardner interview: Signpost interview: New Executive Director Sue Gardner
- Arbitration series: Arbitration Committee elections: Elections open
- License compatibility: Possible license migration sparks debate
- Staffing features: Featured articles director names deputy
- Software issues: Software bug fixed, overuse of parser function curtailed
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Wordplay"
- News and notes: News and notes: Wikipedian honored, fundraiser, milestones
- In the news: Wikipedia in the News
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Report: LGBT studies
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Volume 3, Issue 50, 10 December, 2007
- German Wikipedia: Wikipedia dragged into German politics over Nazi images
- Citing Wikipedia: Wales’ comments on citing Wikipedia produce BBC correction
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: “Kilroy was here”
- News and notes: News and notes: Elections, Wikimania 2009, milestones
- In the news: Wikipedia in the News
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Report: Greater Manchester
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Volume 3, Issue 51, 17 December, 2007
- From the editor: From the editor: ArbCom elections, holiday publication
- Google Knol: Google announces foray into user-generated knowledge
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Tractor beam"
- News and notes: News and notes: Elections, Wikimania 2009, milestones
- In the news: Wikipedia in the News
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Report: Plants
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation
Volume 3, Issue 52, 26 December, 2007
- Arbitration series: Wales appoints six arbitrators
- Board expansion: Board approves expansion, up to 11 trustees possible
- WikiWorld: WikiWorld comic: "Molasses"
- News and notes: News and notes: Stewards, Senate testimony, milestones
- In the news: Wikipedia in the News
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Report: India
- Features and admins: Features and admins
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
- Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation