
8 June 2024
News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation publishes its Form 990 for fiscal year 2022-2023 Technology report: New Page Patrol receives a much-needed software upgrade Deletion report: The lore of Kalloor In the media: National cable networks get in on the action arguing about what the first sentence of a Wikipedia article ought to say News from the WMF: Progress on the plan — how the Wikimedia Foundation advanced on its Annual Plan goals during the first half of fiscal year 2023-2024 Opinion: Public response to the editors of Settler Colonial Studies Recent research: ChatGPT did not kill Wikipedia, but might have reduced its growth Featured content: We didn't start the wiki Essay: No queerphobia Special report: RetractionBot is back to life! Traffic report: Chimps, Eurovision, and the return of the Baby Reindeer Comix: The Wikipediholic Family Humour: Wikipedia rattled by sophisticated cyberattack of schoolboy typing "balls" in infobox Concept: Palimpsestuous
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This user edits by hand.
Articles I started (not counting redirects).

Motto

Knowledge is useless
Unless it is properly applied

Current activities

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Mammals.

Cleaning up the Bat page (i.e. making sure every species of bat has its article}.
Editing and adding [[1]] to Pteralopex species pages.
Add ssp to Pteronotus species. Done

When editing on Wikipedia (and using Firefox) use the built in spell checker, it makes life so much easier on the other editors, plus if you're not native to a language, you can still write without spelling mistakes. (Dictionaries for Firefox can be found here: [[2]]
When writing an article about something in your neighborhood, consider taking pictures of it and uploading them free to use by everyone.

Quality over quantity, this is, after all, an encyclopedia.
It is a miracle that Wikipedia is still going strong, considering the amount of bickering and backstabbing going on.
Diff-addiction seems to be a chronic infectuous disease, caused by the Huggle virus. No known cure exists.
If not for Speedy Deletion Wikipedia would soon have more personals than LinkedIn.
Some admins seem to confuse WP:BOLD with WP:IAR.
Anything that ends with "count" (e.g. editcount) turns quite a lot of people on.
Wikipedia needs a bouncer that redirects companies to the Yellow Pages, as they seem to confuse them with Wikipedia.
Odd that the tiniest of creatures living on the bottom of the deepest ocean and only ever seen by one person operating a ROV are often considered more notable than a living person that was seen by millions of people, but nobody took the effort to publish about.