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From the editors — Picture that
The North Face sneaks in advertisements, apologizes after being caught

News and notes
Wikimania and trustee elections
Get ready to go to Wikimania in Stockholm where you might meet two new trustees

In the media
Politics, lawsuits and baseball
Wikipedia finds itself up against China, Pennsylvania politicians and the Detroit Tigers

Discussion report
Admin abuse leads to mass-desysop proposal on Azerbaijani Wikipedia
Neutrality and copyright concerns lead and part 2 of the talk pages consultation.

Arbitration report
ArbCom forges ahead
Resignations, new cases, administrator security, and more

Traffic report
Dark marvels, thrones, a vile serial killer biopic, that's entertainment!
Who will be next to fill the throne at the top of the list?

Technology report
Lots of Bots
Admin bots, approved bots, bots on trial, lots and lots of bots

News from the WMF
Wikimedia Foundation petitions the European Court of Human Rights to lift the block of Wikipedia in Turkey
The WMF keeps working to stop Turkey from blocking Wikipedia.

Recent research
Wikipedia more useful than academic journals, but is it stealing the news?
And other new research publications

Essay
Paid editing
We've been talking about paid editing forever

From the archives
FORUM:Should Wikimedia modify its terms of use to require disclosure?
A debate from 5 years ago on whether we use to prohibit undisclosed paid editing

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