Wikipedia:News

23 June 2017
News and notes: Departments reorganized at Wikimedia Foundation, and a month without new RfAs (so far) In the media: Kalanick's nipples; Episode #138 of Drama on the Hill Op-ed: Facto Post: a fresh take Featured content: Will there ever be a break? The slew of featured content continues Traffic report: Wonder Woman beats Batman, The Mummy, Darth Vader and the Earth Recent research: Utopian bubbles: Can Wikipedians create value outside of the capitalist system? Technology report: Improved search, and WMF data scientist tells all
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There are various sources of news about Wikipedia, The Wikimedia Foundation that supports the project and other related Wikimedia projects.

Wikipedia

• The Signpost (Shortcut: WP:POST, RSS). The Wikipedia community newspaper that is written by volunteers and published weekly.
• Wikipedia:Milestones (Shortcut: WP:ANN, RSS). Important Wikipedia milestones.
• Wikipedia:Goings-on (Shortcut: WP:GO). Weekly news and updates about existing or new projects or initiatives of Wikipedians.
• Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter (Shortcut: WP:ANEWS). Monthly newsletter containing topics of interest to administrators.
• Wikinews:Category:Wikipedia, archives of news about Wikipedia
• News aggregators: Google News · Techmeme

Topic-specific newsletters

Other irregular newsletters. This list is limited to those which have updated at least once in 2017. (There are dozens of inactive newsletter sub-projects, some of which are listed in Category:Wikipedia news and Category:Wikipedia sign-up lists for subscription delivery.)

• The Bugle, the Military history WikiProject's newsletter (monthly)
• The Centerline, the U.S. Roads WikiProject's newsletter (quarterly)
• Video Games, the Video games WikiProject's newsletter (quarterly)
• The Wikipedia Library (Books and Bytes)
• Page Curation
• Guild of Copy Editors
• Yorkshire
• Collaboration team
• VisualEditor

Wikimedia

• Global message delivery/Targets (21 items)
• Tech News, news about software changes, published weekly
• Wikimedia Highlights, published monthly
• Wikimedia Foundation reports
• Wikimedia News. Cross-project news, primarily project milestones.
• Wikimedia goings-on. More cross-project news.
  • Wiktionary:News for editors
  • Wikidata:News
  • MediaWiki News
• Wikimedia's technical blog

Wikimedia Foundation

• Wikimedia Foundation news, news about the Wikimedia Foundation, the international non-profit organisation dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of various Wikimedia Projects.
• Wikimedia blog

Other news sources

There are also places in Wikipedia and its sister projects that publish articles on current events and the latest world news using Wikimedia software.

• Wikinews, sister project dedicated to news
• Portal:Current events
• Template:In the news

See also

• Planet Wikimedia, weblog aggregator, information about it at meta:Planet Wikimedia
• Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly, irregular podcast of audio information regarding Wikipedia and our fellow projects
• Wikipedia in the media. Mentions of Wikipedia as a topic unto itself and as a reference resource
• m:Communications committee/Press clippings, daily updates of Wikimedia projects in the news.