Wikipedia:News

27 January 2020
From the editor: Reaching six million articles is great, but we need a moratorium News and notes: Six million articles on the English language Wikipedia Special report: The limits of volunteerism and the gatekeepers of Team Encarta In the media: Turkey's back up, but what's happening with Dot-org and a new visual identity? Arbitration report: Three cases at ArbCom Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2019 Gallery: Wiki Loves Monuments 2019, we're all winners News from the WMF: Capacity Building: Top 5 Themes from Community Conversations Community view: Our most important new article since November 1, 2015 In focus: Cryptos and bitcoins and blockchains, oh no! Recent research: How useful is Wikipedia for novice programmers trying to learn computing concepts? From the archives: A decade of The Signpost, 2005-2015 On the bright side: What's making you happy this month? WikiProject report: WikiProject Japan: a wikiProject Report Humour: Predicting the 6,000,000th article Obituary: Remembering Wikipedia contributor Brian Boulton
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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[edit]

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

Topic-specific newsletters[edit]

Other irregular newsletters exist. This list is limited to those which have updated at least once in the last year.

• The Bugle, the Military history WikiProject's newsletter (monthly)
• Books & Bytes, The Wikipedia Library's newsletter
• Guild of Copy Editors
• VisualEditor
• WikiProject Yorkshire
• WikiProject Christianity

Several Wikiproject-specific newsletters exist, however most are inactive. As of April 2019^[update], out of 128 WikiProject newsletters, 9 could be considered active.

Wikimedia[edit]

• Global message delivery/Targets (21 items)
• Tech News, news about software changes, published weekly
• Wikimedia News. Cross-project news, primarily project milestones.
• Wikimedia goings-on. More cross-project news.
  • Wikidata News
  • MediaWiki News

Wikimedia Foundation[edit]

• Wikimedia Foundation press releases
• Wikimedia Foundation blog

Other news sources[edit]

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[edit]

• 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.