• News and notes: 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.

• In the media: 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 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

• Op-ed: Why Task Forces are Dying in 2017
  ...and is there anything we can do to stop it? Opinions and examples from across the project.

• Gallery: A mix of patterns
  An interesting mix of patterns and colors to brighten your day...

• Humour: 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.

• Traffic report: 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.

• Wikicup: 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.

• News and notes: Non-English special edition! 99% no news about English-based wiki communities!
  Wikimania in Montreal, lawsuit in Sweden, challenges in France

• Recent research: Wikipedia can increase local tourism by +9%; predicting article quality with deep learning; recent behavior predicts quality
  Local tourism gains +9% when Wikipedia articles are improved; significant improvements in predicting article quality with deep learning; recent editor behavior is a strong predictor of content quality

• WikiProject report: Comic relief
  An interview with a project that is centered around comics.

• In the media: Wikipedia used to judge death penalty, arms smuggling, Indonesian governance, and HOTTEST celebrity
  Wikipedia and reliable sources of information continue to define each other

• Traffic report: Swedish countess tops the list
  Plus plenty of sports, film, and television

• Blog: Canadian Supreme Court rules against Google in favor of worldwide court orders
  The Canadian Supreme Court ruled that Google must remove search results worldwide, dismissing concerns that this may impede freedom of expression for people outside of Canada or inspire other countries to censor speech.

• Special report: Sharing Wikipedia offline medical information in the Dominican Republic
  Wikimedia contributors support each other's projects in many unexpected ways

• Featured content: Everywhere in the lead
  Recently promoted articles, lists and pictures – with a very heavy one in the mix

• Technology report: Introducing TechCom
  The Architecture Committee adopts a new charter and name; and the latest in script, bot, and tech news

• Humour: WWASOHs and ETCSSs
  An elite squad of highly insightful editors can lead the way for other editors who may need to retrain their faces into forming a smile.

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 23, June-July 2017

• Library card
• User Group update
• Global branches update
• Spotlight: Combating misinformation, fake news, and censorship
• Bytes in brief

Chinese, Arabic and Yoruba versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!

Read the full newsletter

• From the editors: What happened at Wikimania?
  Please share your Wikimania 2017 experiences!

• News and notes: Basselpedia; WMF Board of Trustees appointments
  Some of the goings-on from Wikimania 2017.

• Featured content: Warfighters and their tools or trees and butterflies
  Take your pick of the best of Wikipedia.

• Traffic report: A fortnight of conflicts
  White supremacists v. anti-fascism groups, Mayweather v. McGregor, Moon v. Sun.

• Special report: Biomedical content, and some thoughts on its future
  Wikipedia's medical and scientific content has come a long way since 2001. Here are some thoughts on how it may continue to evolve.

• Recent research: Discussion summarization; Twitter bots tracking government edits; extracting trivia from Wikipedia
  A list of recent research publications on various topics.

• In the media: Google's Ideological Echo Chamber; What makes someone successful?
  Plus the latest reports of vandalism and mistakes in Wikipedia.

• WikiProject report: WikiProject YouTube
  WikiProject YouTube is a new project on both English and Simple English Wikipedia.

• Technology report: Latest tech news
  Syntax highlighting, failed login notifications, watchlist filters, and more.

• Wikicup: 2017 WikiCup round 4 wrap-up
  Ships, typhoons, birds, and more!

• Humour: Bots
  They do the things you don't want to do (and sometimes things you don't want done).

• News and notes: Chapter updates; ACTRIAL
  News from Wikimedia France, Wikimedia Macedonia, and Wikimedia Israel's; Autoconfirmed article creation trial begins

• In the media: Monkey settlement; Wikipedia used to give AI context clues
  Also: Jeopedia, Dubaipedia, shaping science, fake quote reused by scholarly sources

• Humour: Chickenz
  The best that poultry has to offer

• Recent research: Wikipedia articles vs. concepts; Wikipedia usage in Europe
  Plus the latest research publications.

• Technology report: Flow restarted; Wikidata connection notifications
  Plus more tech news, and the latest scripts and bots

• Gallery: Chicken mania
  Complimenting this issue's Humour about chickens...

• Special report: Two steps forward, one step backward: The Sustainability Initiative
  Finally we're seeing some initial successes, but the Wikimedia movement is still far from being environmentally sustainable.

• Traffic report: Fights and frights
  Boxing, hurricanes, clowns, and more!

• Featured content: Flying high
  Newly featured birds, planes, and high achievers