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Newsweek has been a bit flakey for awhile. The "Wikipedia hits back" in the headline might be a bit of this and a bit of that, e.g. edited articles, Jimbo's response on x on the 21st (I first thought it was recycled from Dickipedia days), but any response from the WMF should have been mentioned. I take it as a non-response. IMHO WMF should not respond to questions about a non-response - they'd let Newsweek do that. Smallbones(smalltalk)19:33, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
In other news, I'm trying to submit a short and sweet blurb about John Green and AFC Wimbledon by the deadline (it will all make sense, I promise). If I'll have enough time, I'll also help you sort out the mess over at the first lead story... Oltrepier (talk) 21:46, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Bri @Smallbones Right, my John Green blurb is (belatedly) in!
I'll try to help you deal with the other lead stories and the short blurbs as much as I can in the next few days, although I've still got such a hectic study schedule in real-life... Oltrepier (talk) 20:47, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'd like to withdraw the "Roman salute" story and resubmit it as an Op-ed. I was just storing the most relevant sources and ideas in what I intended to be a short factual blurb, but the story just hasn't turned out that way. The world exploded over that story over the last 11 days. I should be able to get the Op-ed posted tonight. I'd think that putting a 2 paragraph blurb just before the In briefs with a link to the Op-ed would work well. Smallbones(smalltalk)18:04, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I've edited down the Musk part of the article, in an attempt to remove my part of the submission (as proposed above - sorry if I've made a mess of it). I just don't think I should both write an op-ed and cover what the news media said about it. I've removed much of what I recognized as my work (hopefully the irrelevant part), and didn't mean to remove others' parts. Please just rewrite as you wish, maybe cut it down a bit. Definitely there should be an answer to the title's question (See NY Times) or change the title and the pic. Smallbones(smalltalk)16:13, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
As usual, we are preparing this regular survey on recent academic research about Wikipedia, doubling as the Wikimedia Research Newsletter (now entering its fifteenth volume). Help is welcome to review or summarize the many interesting items listed here, as are suggestions of other new research papers that haven't been covered yet. Regards, HaeB (talk) 05:45, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The phrase "the Sargodha airbase attack of Pakistan" is ambiguous and needs to be corrected. No criticism of the TOP25 folks who probably got the text from the lede of the film's article. Since the airbase is in Pakistan, and based on the plot summary, I think it was an Indian Air Force strike on the Pakistani airbase. Maybe someone who can figure out the actual history can help? ☆ Bri (talk) 15:03, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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