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Picture this: medicine, drugs, JFK, Cleopatra, anachronism, and global catastrophe.

Quite literally, and other fascinating featured articles, pictures and lists

Only literally.

The benefits of research.

These titles never make much sense even at the best of times, so why not be random?

The first issue to feature two poetry articles?

Covering all of August. Pretty much.

"Poli", which means "many", and "tics", which means "under-the-table Wikipedia article whitewashing campaigns".

Because one gets some secondary skills when one has 645 featured pictures,

Harsh words from problematic fave Glenn Greenwald.

Some improvement on last week.

Due to unfortunate events, this issue is published as is, in its unfinished state

In which choices have been made™.

In which featured pictures have a pleasing orange/blue colour scheme for some reason.

Poetry still present

Now is not this ridiculous, and is not this preposterous? A thorough-paced absurdity - explain it if you can.

Bird is the word for featured pictures

...Layout lovers will hate this featured content's title.

There will likely be more to say next issue.

Signpost statistics statistics from 2005 to 2022: In this article, we will look at The Signpost statistics. More precisely: Signpost article statistics by year, TOP 20 titles of Signpost articles, TOP 20 article authors, and the home wikis of article authors.

2011 and on.

And somehow made it more readable than when it's not rhyming.

A retrospective of the best and worst pranks.

Thou gildest e'en the Signpost's trade.

Everything is broken, again.

Seriously, it's only a fortnight's worth!

Using failed AI Galactica's worst mistakes to test a new AI.

Probable answers: No, no, maybe?

Wikizine, Wikipedia Zero, Single User Login, and Wales allegedly editing his girlfriend's article.

Thanks to the vagaries of the fortnightly schedule, I can already tell next issue's is going to be a bit overpacked

UCoC Enforcement Guidelines pass, Wikimedia Enterprise financials, GPTs gone wild, and a speedy deletion criterion removed.

Also: Russ Baker's BLP, the digital commons, the NSA, and more on Pakistan.

Lovey-dovey stuff for Valentine's.

Also: let's delete images of Muhammed! Let's delete portals!

But much else to be found.

Yesterday's controversies, reported on today.

An exceptionally good period for featured articles.

Wikipedia's birthday, a cute dog, and nipplefruit.

When notability conflicts with what it might be used for.

The editor with five million edits, the death of Aaron Swartz, and rollback.

...and your ambigram. Also: Boring lava fields, birds of Tuvalu, and commelinid family names with etymologies.

Photographers, Sandy Hook, the shocking use of Nazi symbols in articles about Nazis, and "You wouldn't recognise a fact if it bit you in the ass".

You head into the featured content report. Amongst the features you see astronauts, both Gilbert and Sullivan, Ursula K. Le Guin's incredibly talented mother, and Billboard charts. It is pitch black, you are likely to be eaten by a grue.

In which a couple sentences of text recontextualises an image.

Facebook's Galactica demo provides a case study in large language models for text generation at scale: this one was silly, but we cannot ignore them forever.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

Joe Roe's close sows dough woes, manifestos... vetoes? overthrows?

Search upgrades, lawsuits, paid editing, and personal reflection.

Do consider joining FPC, though: we need you.

Okay, six hundred, but either way, the bionic editor speaks.

Are government goons prowling our fair encyclopedia?

A toast to good health, a health to good hoax, a hoax to good toast.

What tales echo in these hallowed halls.

Featured content from October.

Lo!

Yes, again.

This month: A FACBot upgrade, a completed list of lists.

When Commons gives you a blank space...

Because the Signpost needs a cartoon.

Edinburgh in August.

The Signpost looks back on The Signpost: New reports, conceived in a spirit of collaboration, and dedicated to the proposition of information and, uh, more information for all.

Also includes a campaign to "Suck for Luck".

Some articles aren't worth saving

Real news or silly season?

Strange mysteries of our animal world.

All the things about theatre that the general public misses out on.

More lists expected next month.

Zoom and enhance.

Famed FP ace steps up to run main page outfit. Millions tremble in fear, or something.

Lest Southern Hemisphere be forgotten.

And who can forget the black-breasted buttonquail.

Featured Content of April: Showcasing the very best articles, pictures, videos, and other contributions from Wikipedians last month.

Stealing your heart, and Charles Darwin's notebooks.

...Except we changed the articles and pictures. Mostly.

Very nearly ringing in the New Year with "Blank Space" – but we got there in time: Texas amphibia, mongeese, and Normandy invasion plans grateful.

Gog the Mild and The Rambling Man in second and third!

The Réunion swamphen is a lot less thankful.

A hairy starfish flower might help!

WikiCup winners: Winners of the tenth annual WikiCup competition announced and profiled

35 competitors move on to round 3

Your detailed look at one of Wikipedia's largest contests.

One featured article, seven featured lists, and 14 featured pictures were promoted this week.

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

Four articles and nine pictures were promoted to featured status this week.

Six featured articles, seven featured lists, and seven featured pictures were promoted this week.

Four featured articles, two featured lists, one featured topic, and twenty-eight featured pictures were promoted this week.

Two featured articles and ten featured pictures were promoted this week.

Eight articles, one list, and five pictures were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia in a slow week.

Seven articles, three lists, and ten pictures were promoted to "featured" status this week. The second round of the WikiCup has ended.

Ten featured articles, nine featured lists, and twenty-eight featured pictures were promoted this week.

Six featured articles and fifteen featured pictures were promoted this week.

Au-delà de les Alpes, le chien lit de Sainte Bernard. Sous les pavés, les trimes d'argent! Mes enfants, suivez-moi!: Six featured articles, four featured lists, and fourteen featured pictures were promoted this week.

Four featured articles, seven featured lists, and 23 featured pictures were promoted this week.

Six featured articles, first featured lists, and twenty-four featured pictures were promoted this week.

Here they come, the couple plighted –: Six featured articles, three featured lists, and forty featured pictures were promoted this week.

Two featured articles, four featured lists, and 38 featured pictures were promoted this week..

Eleven articles and twenty pictures were promoted in the week covered by this report.

A load of bull-sized breakfast behind the restaurant, Koi feeding, a moray eel, Spaghetti Nebula and other fishy, fishy fish: Five pictures, six lists, and seventeen pictures were promoted

Two articles, three lists, and twenty five pictures became featured.

It's raining men!: Three featured articles, five featured lists, and thirty-nine featured images were promoted this week.

Ten featured articles, three featured lists, and 22 featured images were promoted this week.

Nine articles, one list, and ten pictures were promoted.

Citations are needed: Six featured articles, five featured lists, and sixteen featured pictures were promoted this week.

Two lists and twelve pictures were promoted.

Three articles, three lists, fifteen pictures, and one topic were promoted.

And other featured content.

And other featured content.

And other featured content.

And the feelings of a young man about to go to war! Yeh, is he not afraid?

Four articles, four lists, eleven pictures, and one topic were promoted.

Two articles, five lists, and twenty-six featured pictures are noted in this week's report, along with disclosures about many movies that our correspondent hasn't seen.

Nine articles, two lists, and 55 featured pictures were promoted during the week of 26 October.

Go West, young man: By the way, there is a monster at the end of this article

Four articles, four lists, and fifty-three pictures were promoted to featured status.

Nine articles and twenty-six pictures were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia.

2 Featured articles, 4 Featured lists, 62 Featured pictures, and 2 Featured portals were promoted.

Six articles, four lists, one topic, and 17 pictures were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.

Four articles, two lists, and 51 pictures were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.

The amazing and strange tongue-eating louse replacing a fish's tongue! Because isopods, the subject of a new featured article, are both awesome and really damn weird!

1882 × 5 in gold, and thruppence more: Two articles, one list, and ten pictures were promoted

Sixteen articles, five lists, five pictures, and one topic were promoted.

Ten articles and three pictures were promoted to featured status last week.

Cambridge got a lot of attention this week: Eight article, six lists, and two topics were promoted to featured status last week.

Bottoms, asses, and the fairies that love them: Eight articles, fifteen pictures, and two topics were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia last week.

Two articles, four lists, and seven pictures attained featured status on the English Wikipedia last week.

Ten articles, five lists, and 25 pictures were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia last week.

After an extremely close race, round three is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years—321 was required in 2013, and 243 points in 2012.

Five articles, six lists, and nine pictures were promoted to 'featured' status last week on the English Wikipedia.

Six articles, five lists, seventeen pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

Ten articles and eleven pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

Five articles, five lists, 22 pictures, and one portal were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.

Five articles, one list, twelve pictures, and one topic were promoted to 'featured' status last week on the English Wikipedia.

David Iliff, or Diliff, as he is known on here outside of the file pages for his many, many, excellent photographs, is one of Wikipedia's longest-standing professional-standard photographers. This week, the Signpost salutes him.

Wikipedia editor Sven Manguard's work is quite underappreciated a lot of the time, most likely because people haven't heard of it yet: He's developed good relationships with game companies, and is thus able to get full-resolution screenshots released under a Creative Commons license for use on Wikipedia and elsewhere. This week's trove of new featured items on the English Wikipedia comprises seven articles, three lists, and four pictures.

Thirteen articles, sixteen pictures, and one topic were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.

Six articles, seven lists, and four pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week.

Round 3 of the 2014 WikiCup has just begun; 32 competitors remain.

Four articles, two lists, and five pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.

Four articles and sixteen featured pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.

Fourteen articles, four lists, seven pictures, and one topic attained "featured" status on the English Wikipedia over the last two weeks.

Snow heater and Ash sweep: Five article, five lists, and ten pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.

The Signpost<nowiki/>'s "Featured content" writers had a bit of fun this week.

Four articles, two lists, and twelve pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

Twelve articles, fourteen lists, and six pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.

Five articles, two lists, and 52 pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

In this week's "Technology report", we look at how the growth of Wikidata can benefit Wikipedia. Gerard Meijssen is a highly active contributor and frequent blogger about Wikidata. We asked him to share his thoughts on how the new project benefits Wikipedia.

In this week's "Technology report", we explore ways of making Wikipedia more accessible to users of screen readers. Graham87 is a highly active contributor who is also blind and accesses the site through a screen reader.

Four articles, four lists, and eight pictures were promoted to 'featured' status this week on the English Wikipedia

Wikipedia's traditional image gallery format, produced by the markup, has remained largely unchanged for years. The resulting layout, seen below, does not adapt well to variations in image size, and has been characterized by some critics as aesthetically unappealing.

Thanks to a new MediaWiki extension, editors can now use the popular LilyPond format to embed musical scores in articles.

This is Wikinews' fundamental problem: it can neither do a good job providing a summary of world news, nor does it have any special focus that it does well. It's a collection of random articles, with only the occasional, passing resemblance to important current events.