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Articles by: Resident Mario

Essay Reflections on editing and obsession

2024-07-22

A lost Signpost submission from fifteen years ago brought into the light, as good and true now as it was then.

News and notes The WMF's age of discontent

2016-01-06

Trouble with the Board of Trustees

Featured content A fistful of dollars

2015-10-14

This week's featured content.

Featured content This week's featured content

2015-10-07

This Week's Featured Content: Some of Wikipedia's newest featured content.

Featured content Inside Duke Humfrey's Library

2015-09-23

This week's featured content.

Special report Massive paid editing network unearthed on the English Wikipedia

2015-09-02

Nearly 400 accounts blocked in largest paid-editing bust ever.

News and notes Flow placed on ice

2015-09-02

The WMF collaboration team announced this week that Flow will no longer be under active development.

News and notes Re-imagining grants

2015-08-26

The Wikimedia Foundation's grant structure.

Featured content Out to stud, please call later

2015-08-26

This week's featured content.

Featured content Dead parrots, live frogs, a symbolic kiss and what do we get? Enrique Iglesias!

2015-08-19

This week's featured content.

News and notes Superprotect, one year later; a contentious RfA

2015-08-12

Superprotect was a novel page protection level implemented on August 10 last year, without warning.

News and notes VisualEditor, endowment, science, and news in brief

2015-08-05

VisualEditor is now on slow roll-out on the English Wikipedia.

News and notes The Wikimedia Conference and Wikimania

2015-07-15

Wikimania 2015 is underway in Mexico City, and one of its sessions—a scheduled follow-up to the annual Wikimedia Conference that was held in Berlin in May—is good reason to provide a retrospective of that Conference.

News and notes Wikimedia Foundation annual plan released, news in brief

2015-07-08

Lila Tretikov this week posted an email to the wikimedia-l mailing list announcing the final publication of the Wikimedia Foundation's 2015 annual plan.

Featured content Pyrénées, Playmates, parliament and a prison...

2015-07-08

12 featured articles, 2 featured lists, and 15 featured pictures were promoted this week.

Editorial So you want to get your message out. Where do you turn?

2015-07-08

It seems like a good time to discuss the various communications channels available to community members.

News and notes Training the Trainers; VP of Engineering leaves WMF

2015-07-01

Training the Trainers; VP of Engineering leaves WMF: This week The Center for Internet and Society published a promotional blog post highlighting the heritage of the center's creation of the Train the Trainer program.

News and notes Board of Trustees propose bylaw amendments

2015-06-24

The Board of Trustees is the "ultimate corporate authority" of the Wikimedia Foundation and the level at which the strategic decisions regarding the Wikimedia movement are made ...

From the editor The Signpost tagging initiative

2015-06-24

Over more than a decade of weekly publication, The Signpost has accumulated an incredibly lengthy and detailed record about the issues, controversies, successes, and failures of the English Wikipedia community and the movement at large.

News and notes Labs outage kills tools, self; news in brief

2015-06-17

A more than usually severe outage Wikimedia Labs occurred after a massive database corruption implosion on June 17.

News and notes Chapter financial trends analyzed, news in brief

2015-06-10

This week saw the publication of the Chapter-wide Financial Trends Report 2013, a now-completed research project that examines the finances and outlays of the 36 movement-affiliated chapters.

News and notes Three new community-elected trustees announced, incumbents out

2015-06-03

Election results for the three vacant seats on the Board of Trustees — Dariusz Jemielnak, James Heilman, and Denny Vrandečić are set to take up their two-year terms on the Board, replacing three incumbents, all of whom stood unsuccessfully: Phoebe Ayers, Samuel Klein, and María Sefidari.

News and notes WMF releases quarterly reports, annual plans

2015-05-27

The Wikimedia Foundation recently switched to a quarterly report structure to better align reporting with the generally quarterly planning and goal-setting processes.

News and notes Swedish Wikimedia chapter organizes simultaneous Wikidata contests

2015-05-13

Swedish Wikimedia chapter organizes simultaneous Wikidata contests: This week has been a busy one for the Wikidata project, with nearly simultaneous Wikidata contests, both organized by Wikimedia Sweden, now underway.

News and notes "Inspire" grant-making campaign concludes, grantees announced

2015-05-06

The Wikimedia Foundation this week announced the winning grantees in March's "Inspire" grant-making campaign.

News and notes Wiki Loves Monuments evaluation sees diminishing returns and increasing cost

2015-04-29

The evaluations reveal that in the last three years, WLM has possibly fallen victim to its own success and seen diminishing returns.

News and notes Call for candidates as the movement approaches the Wikimedia Board elections

2015-04-22

The Affiliates Committee this week announced the organization of a community referral for comment, currently open on the meta-wiki, to address upcoming changes to the way that the Affiliations Committee will review movement-affiliated user-groups in the future.

In focus 2015 Wikimedia Foundation election preparations underway

2015-04-22

2015 will see through the biennial community election for the three community-elected seats on the Board of Trustees—the "ultimate corporate authority" of the Wikimedia Foundation and the level at which the strategic decisions regarding the Wikimedia movement are made.

News and notes Erik Möller leaving Foundation; annual plan grants under community review

2015-04-15

The Wikimedia Foundation's vice president for engineering, Erik Möller, will leave the WMF on April 30.

News and notes Advancement department to be created at the Foundation, milestone fixes

2015-04-08

March saw a number of high-level hirings and executive reorganizations in the Wikimedia Foundation.

In focus WMF's latest strategy document shows successes, vagueness, and the need for better data

2015-04-01

The Wikimedia Foundation this week released a State of the WMF report, a 38-page "snapshot" of where it is and where it wants to go in the future.

News and notes Wikimedia Foundation adopts open-access research policy

2015-03-25

Last week the WMF announced the release of its long-awaited open-access policy.

News and notes SUL finalization imminent; executive office shake-ups at the Foundation

2015-03-18

This process is now entering its long-awaited final phase with the upcoming SUL finalization, scheduled for April 15, less than a month away. ... Wikimedia Foundation chief talent and culture officer Gayle Karen Young announced her retirement from the Foundation this week. Young will be replaced in that role by interim chief operating officer Terry Gilbey. According to the Foundation's job description for the title as it was applied in the past, Gilbey will be in charge of "overall administration and business operations of the Wikimedia Foundation."

News and notes WikiWomen's History Month—meetups, blog posts, and "Inspire" grant-making campaign

2015-03-11

The community has arranged a number of commemorative initiatives focused on the gender gap, under the banner "WikiWomen's History Month".

News and notes Wikimedia Foundation and OTRS team both publish reports, indicate operating changes

2015-03-04

The Wikimedia Foundation released their Quarterly Report last week covering the three months October to December of 2014.

Op-ed An article is a construct – hoaxes and Wikipedia

2013-02-11

Wikipedia has a long, daresay storied history with hoaxes; our internal list documents 198 of the largest ones we have caught as of 4 January 2013. Why?

News and notes Projects launched in Brazil and the Middle East as advisors sought for funds committee

2012-04-09

News and notes Berlin reforms to movement structures, Wikidata launches with fanfare, and Wikipedia's day of mischief

2012-04-02

News and notes Chapters Council proposals take form as research applications invited for Wikipedia Academy and HighBeam accounts

2012-03-19

News and notes Sue Gardner tackles the funds, and the terms of use update nears implementation

2012-03-12

News and notes Chapter-selected Board seats, an invite to the Teahouse, patrol becomes triage, and this week in history

2012-03-05

Special report The plight of the new page patrollers

2012-02-20