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15 July 2017

French chapter woes, new affiliates and more WMF team changes

The English Wikipedia sees its first new admin of the season, discord rocks Wikimedia France, some tweaks to the WMF reorg, and a new WMF annual plan mark this issue's community news.

Featured content

Spectacular animals, Pine Trees screens, and more

Recently promoted articles, lists, and pictures.

Concern about access and fairness, Foundation expenditures, and relationship to real-world politics and commerce

A grab bag of alt-right speech, classical scholars, the dark web, elicited European tourism, 500,000ドル golden parachutes, forgery, the Great Firewall, net neutrality, nukes, paid editing, porn, and terrorism.

Recent research

The chilling effect of surveillance on Wikipedia readers

A closer look at the research that found that the 2013 Snowden revelations coincided with a significant drop of pageviews for privacy-sensitive Wikipedia articles

Why Task Forces are Dying in 2017

...and is there anything we can do to stop it? Opinions and examples from across the project.

A mix of patterns

An interesting mix of patterns and colors to brighten your day...

The Infobox Game

Enjoy the Parameters: The Infobox Game can be enjoyed by everyone, not just those interested in water buffalo breeds, volcanic hotspots or the mysterious heteroisoform, and some day just might spawn an important facet of the financial derivatives industry.

Film, television and Internet phenomena reign with some room left over for America's birthday

Popular interest in celebrities, blockbusters and an upcoming season of a popular television show drive traffic, with a smattering of world events, holidays and a Reddit storm around – surprise – free porn for the U.S. Congress.

Technology report

New features in development; more breaking changes for scripts

Syntax highlighting, changes to Recent Changes, Wikidata on the enhance watchlist, accessible editing buttons and jQuery upgrade may break scripts.

2017 WikiCup round 3 wrap-up

The heat turns up on the 32 contestants who entered round three: 13 featured articles, 82 good articles, 167 DYKs, but we had to pick just eight of them to advance.

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