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Wikimedia projects, also published as the <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter" class="extiw" title="m:Research:Newsletter">Wikimedia Research Newsletter</a>.</p></div> <p><br/> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="GPT-4_is_better_at_writing_edit_summaries_than_human_Wikipedia_editors" data-mw-thread-id="h-GPT-4_is_better_at_writing_edit_summaries_than_human_Wikipedia_editors"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-GPT-4_is_better_at_writing_edit_summaries_than_human_Wikipedia_editors"></span>GPT-4 is better at writing edit summaries than human Wikipedia editors<span data-mw-comment-end="h-GPT-4_is_better_at_writing_edit_summaries_than_human_Wikipedia_editors"></span></h2></div> <p>A preprint<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> by researchers from <a href="/wiki/EPFL" class="mw-redirect" title="EPFL">EPFL</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation" title="Wikimedia Foundation">Wikimedia Foundation</a> presents </p> <blockquote style="padding-left:1.0em; padding-right:1.0em; background-color:#eaf8f4;"> <p><i>Edisum</i>, which is, to the best of our knowledge, the first solution to automate the generation of highly-contextual Wikipedia edit summaries [given an edit diff] at large scale, [and] achieves performance similar to the human editors </p> </blockquote> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Average_aggregated_scores_of_human_evaluation_for_generated_edit_summaries_on_English_Wikipedia_(Figure_4_from_%C5%A0akota_et_al._2024).png" class="mw-file-description"><img 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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Average_aggregated_scores_of_human_evaluation_for_generated_edit_summaries_on_English_Wikipedia_%28Figure_4_from_%C5%A0akota_et_al._2024%29.png/840px-Average_aggregated_scores_of_human_evaluation_for_generated_edit_summaries_on_English_Wikipedia_%28Figure_4_from_%C5%A0akota_et_al._2024%29.png 2x" data-file-width="1411" data-file-height="941"/></a><figcaption>Average aggregated human evaluation scores for edit summaries generated by language models and by the human editors who originally made the edits</figcaption></figure> <p>This solution was designed to match the performance and <a href="/wiki/Open_source" title="Open source">open source</a> requirements for a live service deployed on Wikimedia Foundation servers. It consists of a "very small" <a href="/wiki/Language_model" title="Language model">language model</a> (ca. 220 million parameters), based on Google's LongT5 (an extension of the company's <a href="/wiki/T5_(language_model)" title="T5 (language model)">T5 model</a> from 2019, available under an <a href="/wiki/Apache-2.0" class="mw-redirect" title="Apache-2.0">Apache-2.0</a> license). </p><p>Separately, the authors also tested several contemporaneous large language models (<a href="/wiki/GPT-4" title="GPT-4">GPT-4</a>, <a href="/wiki/GPT-3.5" class="mw-redirect" title="GPT-3.5">GPT-3.5</a> and <a href="/wiki/Llama_3" class="mw-redirect" title="Llama 3">Llama 3</a> 8B). GPT-4's edit summaries in particular were rated as significantly better than those provided by the human Wikipedia editors who originally made the edits in the sample – both using an automated scoring method based on semantic similarity, and in a quality ranking by human raters (where "to ensure high-quality results, instead of relying on the crowdsourcing platforms [like <a href="/wiki/Amazon_Mechanical_Turk" title="Amazon Mechanical Turk">Mechanical Turk</a>, frequently used in similar studies], we recruited 3 MSc students to perform the annotation"). </p> <blockquote style="padding-left:1.0em; padding-right:1.0em; background-color:#eaf8f4;"> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Examples of summaries written by human editors and generated by Edisum and GPT-4 </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>edit </th> <th>human editor </th> <th>Edisum [0%] </th> <th>Edisum [100%] </th> <th>GPT-4 </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Special:Diff/1172472704" title="Special:Diff/1172472704">Special:Diff/1172472704</a> </td> <td>added the range </td> <td>added location </td> <td>Added location information </td> <td>Added information about the location and altitude of Boveys Lookout and the orientation of the Burton Range. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Special:Diff/1169223741" title="Special:Diff/1169223741">Special:Diff/1169223741</a> </td> <td>in 1982 </td> <td>Added date and citation. </td> <td>Added the year of the speech </td> <td>Added the year of Fidel Castro's speech. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Special:Diff/1169701032" title="Special:Diff/1169701032">Special:Diff/1169701032</a> </td> <td>added artist </td> <td>Added a wikilink and a link </td> <td>Added a new name to the list of artists </td> <td>Added Stefan Brüggemann to the list of artists whose works are included. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Special:Diff/1170976899" title="Special:Diff/1170976899">Special:Diff/1170976899</a> </td> <td>lede; infobox </td> <td>infobox (inapplicable); lede; -cats </td> <td>Clarified the nature of Denis- Auguste Affre's cause and added information about his title </td> <td>Updated the description of Denis-Auguste Affre's religious status and clarified the stage of his canonization process. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Special:Diff/1170699096" title="Special:Diff/1170699096">Special:Diff/1170699096</a> </td> <td>fixed link to aias awards, it was at 5th, not 7th </td> <td>5th </td> <td>Corrected the award number from 7th to 5th </td> <td>Corrected the year of the Annual Interactive Achievement Awards nomination. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Special:Diff/1169516533" title="Special:Diff/1169516533">Special:Diff/1169516533</a> </td> <td>Amended lists so they are split at 100 m </td> <td>""at least", not "at least"" </td> <td>Clarified the range of heights in the list </td> <td>Added information about two different height categories for the ranking of buildings and structures in Greater Manchester. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Special:Diff/1173169263" title="Special:Diff/1173169263">Special:Diff/1173169263</a> </td> <td>UPD Romelu Lukaku </td> <td>updated Lukaku </td> <td>Removed the end of the season </td> <td>Removed incorrect future date for Romelu Lukaku's tenure at Inter. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Special:Diff/1171641782" title="Special:Diff/1171641782">Special:Diff/1171641782</a> </td> <td>"This \"however\" doesn't make sense here" </td> <td>"rmv deprecated, ambiguous "however" per MOS:RELTIME" </td> <td>Removed unnecessary word </td> <td>Removed the word "However," from the beginning of the sentence. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Special:Diff/1168487383" title="Special:Diff/1168487383">Special:Diff/1168487383</a> </td> <td>Per feedback given in GA review, elaborated on David King Udall and Ella Stewart Udall in the lead and in Ella Udall's first mention; David Udall was already identified </td> <td>Added link; improved phrasing and punctuation </td> <td>Added additional information about the individuals' professions </td> <td>Added professional details for David King Udall, Ella Stewart Udall, and Mary Ann Linton Morgan Udall. </td></tr></tbody></table> </blockquote> <p>This outcome joins some other recent research indicating that modern <a href="/wiki/Large_language_model" title="Large language model">LLMs</a> can match or even surpass the average Wikipedia editor in certain tasks (see e.g. our coverage: <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2024/September#"Wikicrow"_AI_less_"prone_to_reasoning_errors_(or_hallucinations)"_than_human_Wikipedia_editors_when_writing_gene_articles" class="extiw" title="m:Research:Newsletter/2024/September">"'Wikicrow' AI less 'prone to reasoning errors (or hallucinations)' than human Wikipedia editors when writing gene articles</a>"). </p><p>A substantial part of the paper is devoted to showing that this particular task (generating good edit summaries) is both important and in need of improvements, motivating the use of AI to "overcome this problem and help editors write useful edit summaries": </p> <blockquote style="padding-left:1.0em; padding-right:1.0em; background-color:#eaf8f4;"> <p>"An <i>edit summary</i> is a succinct comment written by a Wikipedia editor explaining the nature of, and reasons for, an edit to a Wikipedia page. Edit summaries are crucial for maintaining the encyclopedia: they are the first thing seen by content moderators and they help them decide whether to accept or reject an edit. [...] Unfortunately, as we show, for many edits, summaries are either missing or incomplete." </p> </blockquote> <p>In more detail: </p> <blockquote style="padding-left:1.0em; padding-right:1.0em; background-color:#eaf8f4;"> <p>"Given the dearth of data on the nature and quality of edit summaries on Wikipedia, we perform qualitative coding to guide our modeling decisions. Specifically, we analyze a sample of 100 random edits made in August 2023 to English Wikipedia [removing bot edits, edits with empty summaries and edits related to reverts] stratified among a diverse set of editor expertise levels. Two of the authors each coded all 100 summaries [...] by following criteria set by the English Wikipedia community (<a class="external text" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Edit_summary">Wikimedia, 2024a</a>) [...]. The vast majority (∼80%) of current edit summaries focus on [the] “what” of the edit, with only 30–40% addressing the “why”. [...] A sizeable minority (∼35%) of edit summaries were labeled as “misleading”, generally due to overly vague summaries or summaries that only mention part of the edit. [...] Almost no edit summaries are inappropriate, likely because highly inappropriate edit summaries would be deleted (<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Revision_deletion">Wikipedia, 2024c</a>) by administrators and not appear in our dataset." </p> </blockquote> <blockquote style="padding-left:1.0em; padding-right:1.0em; background-color:#eaf8f4; overflow-x:auto;"> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Metric</th> <th>Summary (what)</th> <th>Explain (why)</th> <th>Misleading</th> <th>Inappropriate</th> <th>Generate-able (what)</th> <th>Generate-able (why) </th></tr> <tr> <td>Description</td> <td>Attempts to describe what the edit did. For example, "added links"</td> <td>Attempts to describe why the edit was made. For example, "Edited for brevity and easier reading".</td> <td>Overly vague or misleading per English Wikipedia guidance. For example, "updated" without explaining what was updated is too vague.</td> <td>Could be perceived as inappropriate or uncivil per English Wikipedia guidance.</td> <td>Could a language model feasibly describe the "what" of this edit based solely on the edit diff.</td> <td>Could a language model feasibly describe the "why" of this edit based solely on the edit diff. </td></tr> <tr> <td>% Agreement</td> <td>0.89</td> <td>0.8</td> <td>0.77</td> <td>0.98</td> <td>0.97</td> <td>0.8 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Cohen's Kappa</td> <td>0.65</td> <td>0.57</td> <td>0.50</td> <td>-0.01</td> <td>0.39</td> <td>0.32 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Overall (n=100)</td> <td>0.75 - 0.86</td> <td>0.26 - 0.46</td> <td>0.23 - 0.46</td> <td>0.00 - 0.02</td> <td>0.96 - 0.99</td> <td>0.08 - 0.28 </td></tr> <tr> <td>IP editors (n=25)</td> <td>0.76 - 0.88</td> <td>0.20 - 0.44</td> <td>0.40 - 0.64</td> <td>0.00 - 0.08</td> <td>0.92 - 0.96</td> <td>0.04 - 0.16 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Newcomers (n=25)</td> <td>0.76 - 0.84</td> <td>0.36 - 0.48</td> <td>0.24 - 0.52</td> <td>0.00 - 0.00</td> <td>0.92 - 1.00</td> <td>0.12 - 0.20 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Mid-experienced (n=25)</td> <td>0.76 - 0.88</td> <td>0.28 - 0.52</td> <td>0.16 - 0.36</td> <td>0.00 - 0.00</td> <td>1.00 - 1.00</td> <td>0.08 - 0.28 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Experienced (n=25)</td> <td>0.72 - 0.84</td> <td>0.20 - 0.40</td> <td>0.12 - 0.32</td> <td>0.00 - 0.00</td> <td>1.00 - 1.00</td> <td>0.08 - 0.48 </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>"Table 1: Statistics on agreement for qualitative coding for each facet and the proportion of how many edit summaries met each criteria. Ranges are a lower bound (both of the coders marked an edit) and an upper bound (at least one of the coders marked an edit). The majority of summaries are expressing only what was done in the edit, which we also expect a language model to do. A significant portion of edits is of low quality, i.e., misleading." </p> </blockquote> <p>The paper discusses various other nuances and special cases in interpreting these results and in deriving suitable training data for the "Edisum" model. (For example, "edit summaries should ideally explain why the edit was performed, along with what was changed, which often requires external context" that is not available to the model – or really to any human apart from the editor who made the edit.) The authors' best performing approach relies on fine-tuning the aforementioned LongT5 model on 100% synthetic data generated using a LLM (gpt-3.5-turbo) as an intermediate step. </p><p>Overall, they conclude that </p> <blockquote style="padding-left:1.0em; padding-right:1.0em; background-color:#eaf8f4;"> <p>while it should be used with caution due to a portion of unrelated summaries, the analysis confirms that Edisum is a useful option that can aid editors in writing edit summaries. </p> </blockquote> <p>The authors wisely refrain from suggesting the complete replacement of human-generated edit summaries. (It is intriguing, however, to observe that <a href="/wiki/Wikidata" title="Wikidata">Wikidata</a>, a fairly successful sister project of Wikipedia, has been content with relying <a class="external text" href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges?hidebots=1&hidecategorization=1&limit=500&days=7&urlversion=2">almost entirely</a> on auto-generated edit summaries for many years. And the present paper exclusively focuses on English Wikipedia – Wikipedias in other languages might have fairly different guidelines or quality issues regarding edit summaries.) </p><p>Still, there might be great value in deploying Edisum as an opt-in tool for editors willing to be mindful of its potential pitfalls. (While the English Wikipedia community has <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-10-23/News_and_notes#Community_rejects_proposal_to_create_policy_about_large_language_models" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2023-10-23/News and notes">rejected proposals for a policy or guideline about LLMs</a>, a popular <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Large_language_models" title="Wikipedia:Large language models">essay</a> advises that while their use for generating original content is discouraged, "LLMs can be used for certain tasks (like copyediting, summarization, and paraphrasing) if the editor has substantial prior experience in the intended task and rigorously scrutinizes the results before publishing them.") </p><p>On that matter, it is worth noting that the paper was first published (as a preprint) ten months ago already, in April 2024. (It appears to have been <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://openreview.net/forum?id=qyiU6sjNIH">submitted for review</a> at an <a href="/wiki/Association_for_Computational_Linguistics" title="Association for Computational Linguistics">ACL</a> conference, but does not seem to have been published in peer-reviewed form yet.) Given the current extremely fast-paced developments in large language models, this likely means that the paper is already quite outdated concerning several of the constraints that <i>Edisum</i> was developed for. Specifically, the authors write that </p> <blockquote style="padding-left:1.0em; padding-right:1.0em; background-color:#eaf8f4;"> <p>commercial LLMs [like GPT-4] are not well suited for [Edisum's] task, as they do not follow the open-source guidelines set by Wikipedia [referring to <a class="external text" href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Wikimedia_Foundation_Guiding_Principles">the Wikmedia Foundation's guiding principles</a>]. [...Furthermore,] the open-source LLM, Llama 3 8B, underperforms even when compared to the finetuned Edisum models.<br/> </p> </blockquote> <p>But the performance of open LLMs (at least those released under the kind of license that is regarded as open-source in the paper) has <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://epoch.ai/blog/open-models-report">greatly improved</a> over the past year, while the costs of using LLMs in general have <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://x.com/emollick/status/1887401985688662509">dropped</a>. </p><p>Besides the Foundation's licensing requirements, its hardware constraints also played a big role: </p> <blockquote style="padding-left:1.0em; padding-right:1.0em; background-color:#eaf8f4;"> <p>We intentionally use a very small model, because of limitations of Wikipedia’s infrastructure. In particular, Wikipedia [i.e. WMF] does not have access to many <a href="/wiki/GPU" class="mw-redirect" title="GPU">GPUs</a> on which we could deploy big models (<a class="external text" href="https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Machine_Learning/AMD_GPU#Do_we_have_Nvidia_GPUs?">Wikitech, 2024</a>), meaning that we have to focus on the ones that can run effectively on <a href="/wiki/CPU" class="mw-redirect" title="CPU">CPUs</a>. Note that this task requires a model running virtually in real-time, as edit summaries should be created when edit is performed, and cannot be precalculated to decrease the latency. </p> </blockquote> <p>Here too one wonders whether the situation might have improved over the past year since the paper was first published. Unlike much of the rest of the industry, the Wikimedia Foundation <a class="external text" href="https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Machine_Learning/AMD_GPU#Do_we_have_Nvidia_GPUs?">avoids NVIDIA GPUs</a> because of their proprietary <a href="/wiki/CUDA" title="CUDA">CUDA</a> software layer and uses <a href="/wiki/AMD" title="AMD">AMD</a> GPUs instead, which are known for having some challenges in running standard open LLMs – but conceivably, AMD's software support and performance optimizations for LLMs might have been improving. Also, given the size of WMF's overall budget, it seems interesting that compute budget constraints would apparently prevent the deployment of a better-performing tool for supporting editors in an important task. </p><p><br/> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Briefly" data-mw-thread-id="h-Briefly-GPT-4_is_better_at_writing_edit_summaries_than_human_Wikipedia_editors"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Briefly-GPT-4_is_better_at_writing_edit_summaries_than_human_Wikipedia_editors"></span>Briefly<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Briefly-GPT-4_is_better_at_writing_edit_summaries_than_human_Wikipedia_editors"></span></h3></div> <ul><li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Workshop_2025/Call_for_Papers" class="extiw" title="m:Wiki Workshop 2025/Call for Papers">Submissions are open</a> until March 9, 2025 for <b>Wiki Workshop 2025</b>, to take place on May 21-22, 2025. The virtual event will be the 12th in this annual series (formerly part of <a href="/wiki/The_Web_Conference" title="The Web Conference">The Web Conference</a>), and has been extended from one to two days this time. It is organized by the Wikimedia Foundation's research team with other collaborators. The call for contributions asks for 2-page <a href="/wiki/Extended_abstract" class="mw-redirect" title="Extended abstract">extended abstracts</a> which will be "non-archival, which means that they can be ongoing, completed, or already published work."</li> <li>See the <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase" class="extiw" title="mw:Wikimedia Research/Showcase">page of the monthly <b>Wikimedia Research Showcase</b></a> for videos and slides of past presentations.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_recent_publications" data-mw-thread-id="h-Other_recent_publications-GPT-4_is_better_at_writing_edit_summaries_than_human_Wikipedia_editors"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Other_recent_publications-GPT-4_is_better_at_writing_edit_summaries_than_human_Wikipedia_editors"></span>Other recent publications<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Other_recent_publications-GPT-4_is_better_at_writing_edit_summaries_than_human_Wikipedia_editors"></span></h3></div> <p><i>Other recent publications that could not be covered in time for this issue include the items listed below. Contributions, whether reviewing or summarizing newly published research, <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter#How_to_contribute" class="extiw" title="m:Research:Newsletter">are always welcome</a>.</i> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id=""Scholarly_Wikidata:_Population_and_Exploration_of_Conference_Data_in_Wikidata_using_LLMs"" data-mw-thread-id="h-"Scholarly_Wikidata:_Population_and_Exploration_of_Conference_Data_in_Wikidata_u-Other_recent_publications"><span id=".22Scholarly_Wikidata:_Population_and_Exploration_of_Conference_Data_in_Wikidata_using_LLMs.22"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-"Scholarly_Wikidata:_Population_and_Exploration_of_Conference_Data_in_Wikidata_u-Other_recent_publications"></span>"Scholarly Wikidata: Population and Exploration of Conference Data in Wikidata using LLMs"<span data-mw-comment-end="h-"Scholarly_Wikidata:_Population_and_Exploration_of_Conference_Data_in_Wikidata_u-Other_recent_publications"></span></h4></div> <p>From the abstract:<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <blockquote style="padding-left:1.0em; padding-right:1.0em; background-color:#eaf8f4;"> <p>"Several initiatives have been undertaken to conceptually model the domain of scholarly data using <a href="/wiki/Ontologies" class="mw-redirect" title="Ontologies">ontologies</a> and to create respective Knowledge Graphs. [...] Our main contributions include (a) an analysis of ontologies for representing scholarly data to identify gaps and relevant entities/properties in Wikidata, (b) semi-automated extraction – requiring (minimal) manual validation – of conference metadata (e.g., acceptance rates, organizer roles, programme committee members, best paper awards, keynotes, and sponsors) from websites and proceedings texts using LLMs. Finally, we discuss (c) extensions to visualization tools in the Wikidata context for data exploration of the generated scholarly data. Our study focuses on data from 105 <a href="/wiki/Semantic_Web" title="Semantic Web">Semantic Web</a>-related conferences and extends/adds more than 6000 entities in Wikidata. It is important to note that the method can be more generally applicable beyond Semantic Web-related conferences for enhancing Wikidata's utility as a comprehensive scholarly resource." </p> </blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id=""Migration_and_Segregated_Spaces:_Analysis_of_Qualitative_Sources_Such_as_Wikipedia_Using_Artificial_Intelligence"" data-mw-thread-id="h-"Migration_and_Segregated_Spaces:_Analysis_of_Qualitative_Sources_Such_as_Wikipe-Other_recent_publications"><span id=".22Migration_and_Segregated_Spaces:_Analysis_of_Qualitative_Sources_Such_as_Wikipedia_Using_Artificial_Intelligence.22"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-"Migration_and_Segregated_Spaces:_Analysis_of_Qualitative_Sources_Such_as_Wikipe-Other_recent_publications"></span>"Migration and Segregated Spaces: Analysis of Qualitative Sources Such as Wikipedia Using Artificial Intelligence"<span data-mw-comment-end="h-"Migration_and_Segregated_Spaces:_Analysis_of_Qualitative_Sources_Such_as_Wikipe-Other_recent_publications"></span></h4></div> <p>This study uses Wikipedia articles about neighborhoods in <a href="/wiki/Madrid" title="Madrid">Madrid</a> and <a href="/wiki/Barcelona" title="Barcelona">Barcelona</a> to predict <a href="/wiki/Immigration_to_Spain" title="Immigration to Spain">immigrant concentration</a> and <a href="/wiki/Racial_segregation" title="Racial segregation">segregation</a>. From the abstract:<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <blockquote style="padding-left:1.0em; padding-right:1.0em; background-color:#eaf8f4;"> <p>"The scientific literature on residential segregation in large metropolitan areas highlights various explanatory factors, including economic, social, political, landscape, and cultural elements related to both migrant and local populations. This paper contrasts the impact of these factors individually, such as the immigrant rate and neighborhood segregation. To achieve this, a machine learning analysis was conducted on a sample of neighborhoods in the main Spanish metropolitan areas (Madrid and Barcelona), using a database created from a combination of official statistical sources and textual sources, such as Wikipedia. These texts were transformed into indexes using <a href="/wiki/Natural_Language_Processing" class="mw-redirect" title="Natural Language Processing">Natural Language Processing</a> (NLP) and other artificial intelligence algorithms capable of interpreting images and converting them into indexes. [...] The novel application of AI and big data, particularly through <a href="/wiki/ChatGPT" title="ChatGPT">ChatGPT</a> and <a href="/wiki/Google_Street_View" title="Google Street View">Google Street View</a>, has enhanced model predictability, contributing to the scientific literature on segregated spaces." </p> </blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id=""On_the_effective_transfer_of_knowledge_from_English_to_Hindi_Wikipedia"" data-mw-thread-id="h-"On_the_effective_transfer_of_knowledge_from_English_to_Hindi_Wikipedia"-Other_recent_publications"><span id=".22On_the_effective_transfer_of_knowledge_from_English_to_Hindi_Wikipedia.22"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-"On_the_effective_transfer_of_knowledge_from_English_to_Hindi_Wikipedia"-Other_recent_publications"></span>"On the effective transfer of knowledge from English to Hindi Wikipedia"<span data-mw-comment-end="h-"On_the_effective_transfer_of_knowledge_from_English_to_Hindi_Wikipedia"-Other_recent_publications"></span></h4></div> <p>From the abstract:<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <blockquote style="padding-left:1.0em; padding-right:1.0em; background-color:#eaf8f4;"> <p>"[On Wikipedia, t]here is a significant disparity in the quality of content between high-resource languages (HRLs, e.g., English) and low-resource languages (LRLs, e.g., <a href="/wiki/Hindi" title="Hindi">Hindi</a>), with many LRL articles lacking adequate information. To bridge these content gaps, we propose a lightweight framework to enhance knowledge equity between English and Hindi. In case the English Wikipedia page is not up-to-date, our framework extracts relevant information from external resources readily available (such as English books) and adapts it to align with Wikipedia's distinctive style, including its <i>neutral point of view</i> (<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOV" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NPOV">NPOV</a>) policy, using in-context learning capabilities of large language models. The adapted content is then machine-translated into Hindi for integration into the corresponding Wikipedia articles. On the other hand, if the English version is comprehensive and up-to-date, the framework directly transfers knowledge from English to Hindi. Our framework effectively generates new content for <a href="/wiki/Hindi_Wikipedia" title="Hindi Wikipedia">Hindi Wikipedia</a> sections, enhancing Hindi Wikipedia articles respectively by 65% and 62% according to automatic and human judgment-based evaluations." </p> </blockquote> <p><br/> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="References" data-mw-thread-id="h-References-GPT-4_is_better_at_writing_edit_summaries_than_human_Wikipedia_editors"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-References-GPT-4_is_better_at_writing_edit_summaries_than_human_Wikipedia_editors"></span>References<span data-mw-comment-end="h-References-GPT-4_is_better_at_writing_edit_summaries_than_human_Wikipedia_editors"></span></h3></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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wp-signpost-block-2-narrow"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="January_2025_update_from_the_Wikimedia_Foundation" data-mw-thread-id="h-January_2025_update_from_the_Wikimedia_Foundation-signpost-article-title"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-January_2025_update_from_the_Wikimedia_Foundation-signpost-article-title"></span>January 2025 update from the Wikimedia Foundation<span data-mw-comment-end="h-January_2025_update_from_the_Wikimedia_Foundation-signpost-article-title"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1240928998"></div><div class="signpost-sidebar signpost-sidebar-fillerimage"><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wikimedia_CEO_Maryana_Iskander_gives_the_UC_Santa_Cruz_Peggy_Downes_Baskin_Ethics_Lecture.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="TKTK" 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title="Wikimedia Foundation">Wikimedia Foundation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maryana_Iskander" title="Maryana Iskander">Maryana Iskander</a>, wants your feedback!</div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248129851"><div class="wp-signpost-block-2 wp-signpost-block-2-narrow"> <p>The executive team at the <a href="/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation" title="Wikimedia Foundation">Wikimedia Foundation</a>, led by CEO <a href="/wiki/Maryana_Iskander" title="Maryana Iskander">Maryana Iskander</a>, presents periodic updates about the states of their projects. The <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation/Chief_Executive_Officer/Updates/January_2025_Update" class="extiw" title="meta:Wikimedia Foundation/Chief Executive Officer/Updates/January 2025 Update">January 2025 update</a> presents and links to narratives categorized as technological developments, legal challenges, the state of Wikimedia Movement fundraising, the budget for spending those funds, staff-organized communication into Wikimedia audiences, and the Wikimedia Foundation–developed pilot projects which are the alternative direction from the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-07-22/News_and_notes" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2024-07-22/News and notes">now deprecated Wikimedia Community Movement Charter</a>. </p><p>The Wikimedia Movement has always aspired to community governance and oversight. As such, letters such as this one are Wikimedia Foundation staff responses to Wikimedia user community requests, petitions, and calls for action. As is usual for these things, the letter is rich with links to even more documentation, and that documentation is often the present culmination of hundreds of Wikimedia user community discussions over years. Aspects of this kind of shared governance which work well include mutual good will, the intent of transparency, invitations for community inclusion, and the Wikimedia platform's history of success in inviting and collecting community conversations which often satisfy the volunteers who participate and the Wikimedia community organizations which promote and observe them. </p><p>Any Wikimedian who has participated in these process will be able to offer either criticism or suggestions for improvement, but whatever anyone says, they will want to know that the Wikimedia Movement empowers staff, volunteers, and allies of all backgrounds to grow their ability to advance Wikimedia project goals and to distribute power and resources appropriately. </p><p>Interested readers should check out the update, and are invited to post questions on the talk pages of various projects. Those with lots of questions are invited to interview Wikimedia Foundation staff for upcoming articles in <i>The Signpost</i>, and outspoken commentators are invited to submit opinion pieces for publication here. – <span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/User:Bluerasberry" title="User:Bluerasberry">Br</a></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="EU_policy_report:_Is_age_verification_coming?" data-mw-thread-id="h-EU_policy_report:_Is_age_verification_coming?-signpost-article-title"><span id="EU_policy_report:_Is_age_verification_coming.3F"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-EU_policy_report:_Is_age_verification_coming?-signpost-article-title"></span>EU policy report: Is age verification coming?<span data-mw-comment-end="h-EU_policy_report:_Is_age_verification_coming?-signpost-article-title"></span></h3></div> <p>In its <a class="external text" href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/publicpolicy@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/P2XQJ2KEMMIOGAHEQBJJWMIMUQV5OYXO/">European Policy Monitoring Report for January 2025</a>, Wikimedia Europe shared smaller updates on several legal developments in the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a>, including regarding AI liability rules, <a href="/wiki/Geoblocking" class="mw-redirect" title="Geoblocking">geoblocking</a>, anti-<a href="/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_public_participation" title="Strategic lawsuit against public participation">SLAPP</a> measures, and obligations for online platforms, including Wikipedia, under the <a href="/wiki/Digital_Services_Act" title="Digital Services Act">Digital Services Act</a> (DSA) – see prior <i>Signpost</i> coverage <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-05-08/News_and_notes#European_Commission_designates_Wikipedia_a_"Very_Large_Online_Platform"" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2023-05-08/News and notes">here</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-12-24/News_and_notes" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2024-12-24/News and notes">here</a>. </p><p>Concerning <a href="/wiki/Child_protection" title="Child protection">child protection</a>, the chapter highlights recent comments by a representative of the <a href="/wiki/European_Commission" title="European Commission">European Commission</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Directorate-General_for_Communications_Networks,_Content_and_Technology" title="Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology">Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology</a> (DG CNCT): </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237805129">.mw-parser-output .talkquote{color:var(--color-base,#202122);background-color:#eaf8f4;border-left:3px solid #008560;padding:0 .8em;margin:0}.mw-parser-output .talkquote-by,.mw-parser-output .talkquote-source{margin-left:1.6em}.mw-parser-output .skin-vector-2022 .talkquote>:last-child{padding-bottom:0}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .talkquote{background-color:#0d261f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .talkquote{background-color:#0d261f}}</style><blockquote class="talkquote" style="padding-top:1em; padding-bottom:1em;"><p>- <a href="/wiki/Age_verification" class="mw-redirect" title="Age verification">Age verification</a> is a central issue, and we [the EU] need to work towards a European solution by mid-2025. </p><p>- Other ideas than age verification can be implemented, and it's a work in progress. We want to have a public consultation on the DSA guidelines soon. </p><p>- We are in close contact with the Australian authorities [these might include the Ministers for <a href="/wiki/Minister_for_Communications_(Australia)" title="Minister for Communications (Australia)">Communications</a>, <a href="/wiki/Minister_for_Cyber_Security" title="Minister for Cyber Security">Cyber Security</a> and <a href="/wiki/Minister_for_Social_Services" title="Minister for Social Services">Social Services</a>] and with <a href="/wiki/Ofcom" title="Ofcom">Ofcom</a> in the UK [both countries have seen extended debates about <a href="/wiki/Age_verification_system#Legal_mandates" title="Age verification system">mandatory age verification systems</a> in recent years]. Banning seems effective, but it's excluding minors from useful areas. There are other means that are less intrusive. Different platforms pose different issues. Age verification is essential for adult content, but it isn't the answer for social media. </p> </blockquote> <p>– <span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/User:HaeB" title="User:HaeB">TB</a>, <a href="/wiki/User:Oltrepier" title="User:Oltrepier">O</a></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="German_Wikipedia_deletes_20-year-old_WP:Café" data-mw-thread-id="h-German_Wikipedia_deletes_20-year-old_WP:Café-signpost-article-title"><span id="German_Wikipedia_deletes_20-year-old_WP:Caf.C3.A9"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-German_Wikipedia_deletes_20-year-old_WP:Café-signpost-article-title"></span>German Wikipedia deletes 20-year-old WP:Café<span data-mw-comment-end="h-German_Wikipedia_deletes_20-year-old_WP:Café-signpost-article-title"></span></h3></div> <p>In a controversial decision, the German Wikipedia's Café (<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archiv/Caf%C3%A9" class="extiw" title="de:Wikipedia:Archiv/Café">archive</a>) was recently deleted. Unlike the English Wikipedia's <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse" title="Wikipedia:Teahouse">Teahouse</a>, the Café, opened in 2005, was a place for off-topic discussion and socialising. <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalismusmeldung/Archiv/2025/01/26#Seite_Wikipedia:Café_(erl.)" class="extiw" title="de:Wikipedia:Vandalismusmeldung/Archiv/2025/01/26">Controversial IP contributions</a> were part of the chain of events that led to the <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:L%C3%B6schkandidaten/26._Januar_2025#Wikipedia:Café_(erl.)" class="extiw" title="de:Wikipedia:Löschkandidaten/26. 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And maybe enjoy an actual ice cream social afterwards.</div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248129851"><div class="wp-signpost-block-2 wp-signpost-block-2-narrow"> <ul><li><b>Turbulent times over at he.wiki</b>: <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Severe_Problems_in_hewiki" class="extiw" title="meta:Requests for comment/Severe Problems in hewiki">Meta:Requests for comment/Severe Problems in hewiki</a> is an active discussion concerning an alleged takeover of <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_Wikipedia" title="Hebrew Wikipedia">Hebrew Wikipedia</a> (he.wiki) by <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:POV" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:POV">POV</a> editors, "<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ADMIN" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ADMIN">admins</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CHECK" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CHECK">checkusers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:BUR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BUR">bureaucrats</a>".</li> <li><b>Wiki-guests at FOSDEM</b>: Wikimedia projects were at the center of several discussions and initiatives during the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://fosdem.org/2025">2025 edition</a> of <a href="/wiki/FOSDEM" title="FOSDEM">FOSDEM</a>, a volunteer-organized European event about <a href="/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software" title="Free and open-source software">free and open-source software</a> development held yearly in <a href="/wiki/Brussels" title="Brussels">Brussels</a>, <a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a>. The related events included <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6006-creating-an-open-knowledge-graph-for-climate/">a project</a> involving the use of <a href="/wiki/Ontologies" class="mw-redirect" title="Ontologies">ontologies</a> enhanced with Wikipedia and <a href="/wiki/Wikidata" title="Wikidata">Wikidata</a> to create Open Knowledge Graphs about <a href="/wiki/Climate_change" title="Climate change">climate change</a> – see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2025-02-07/Recent_research" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-02-07/Recent research">this issue's "Recent research"</a> for more information – planned <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4867-enhancing-airflow-for-analytics-data-engineering-and-ml-at-wikimedia/">improvements</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Apache_Airflow" title="Apache Airflow">Airflow</a> data engineering platform used by the WMF, and <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:FOSDEM_2025" class="extiw" title="commons:Category:FOSDEM 2025">game stands</a> dedicated to <i><a href="/wiki/0_A.D._(video_game)" title="0 A.D. 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Enjoy!</i> </p><p>A year on from my <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship" title="Wikipedia:Requests for adminship">RfA</a>, I have some thoughts that I'm willing to share. While I won't go into heavy detail regarding what occurred there and what led to it becoming probably the closest RfA of 2024, I suggest that anyone who reads this essay just look into what happened and come to their own conclusions what I could have done differently. What I do know is that there isn't any response that will satisfy everybody, and so I'm just going to leave the matter to itself. If you were looking for an overview of my week at RfA, there isn't much to talk about and this essay won't focus much on it. But I do want to push back against the idea that "<a href="/wiki/User:Femke/RfA_debrief#Just_before_and_during" title="User:Femke/RfA debrief">RfA can be fun</a>", because that's not true at all, and frankly, it makes me upset to hear that. Usually, I'd give more restraint to that line of thinking, but I've also remembered someone saying that one of the worst RfAs in several years was just a rare fluke, as if its occurrence was akin to "<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/you_can%27t_make_an_omelette_without_breaking_eggs" class="extiw" title="wikt:you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs">in order to make an omelet, you have to break some eggs</a>". So, this essay is focused towards those people, and although there is a likelihood that there really isn't another RfA as toxic as mine with the advent of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:AELECT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:AELECT">Administrator elections</a>, and that there's probably people out there that just dismisses this essay as the ramblings of a temperamentally unfit admin, but I really don't want some up-and-coming but clueless newbie like me to go down my path. </p><p>The week of my RfA was busy for me in real life, though it was six straight days of stress from the very start. Waking up early in the morning and seeing who !voted, pacing around the streets near me to try and relax, listening to music to help cope with the intensity... it wasn't a good ride. But I didn't expect that things would be so hard, and newbie me thought in 2022 that the process wasn't nearly as traumatizing. I think they thought that it might have been "fun" in a way. In the summer of that year, after I helped promote the article <i><a href="/wiki/Elden_Ring" title="Elden Ring">Elden Ring</a></i> to good article status, I read about the RfA that the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:GA" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:GA">GA</a> reviewer, <a href="/wiki/User:Vami_IV" title="User:Vami IV">Vami IV</a>, had experienced. Now, say and think what you will about Vami, but I try to remind myself that we're all humans here. We do good and bad things, and while Vami did bad things, he also did good. A lot of good that <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Vami_IV#Condolences" title="User talk:Vami IV">was shared</a>. And newbie me was clueless about how to discuss the RfA with Vami in private. I realized what I had said then by the time it was too late, and it kind of created a "cloud" between us that I thought had gone away about a year or so later. </p><p>Fast forward to February 11, 2024, and I speak to him for the last time. That tension hadn't really gone away, and by that point I was dazed about how my RfA went that I could not concentrate on Vami, and I tried recovering from the damage to my esteem. It's weird how traumatic events get burned into your mind and phase in at odd moments. I reread my RfA many, many times over the next few months that it had hurt my mental health. I felt guilty that I passed while my friend was left with more baggage and nothing gained. I really can't describe the feeling, and I don't expect to be able to communicate it here. After all, Wikipedia articles are written in a dispassionate tone that bleeds over into our processes. And when you can't see the human on the other end, the average person doesn't care enough. </p><p>But for all of that drama and pushback, I still continued as a relatively unremarkable admin for a few months, resigned as I tried to process a difficult period in my real life, and returned last November. It seems that it's typical of Wikipedia's processes that so much volunteer time is spent on discussions and things that don't objectively matter so much. <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_Star_Trek_Into_Darkness_debate" title="Wikipedia Star Trek Into Darkness debate">This article</a> comes to mind immediately. But someone was hurt in real life, and the people around them were hurt too by RfA. That's why I'm upset to hear that RfA can be "fun". So yeah, I'm writing this to all the people out there that see RfA as cluelessly as I did in the Summer of 2022. Maybe some newbie down the line will find this essay and be a bit wiser, à-la <i><a href="/wiki/The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner" title="The Rime of the Ancient Mariner">The Rime of the Ancient Mariner</a></i>. Or, perhaps, the lessons of the debriefs written by <a href="/wiki/User:Moneytrees" title="User:Moneytrees">Moneytrees</a>, <a href="/wiki/User:Tamzin" title="User:Tamzin">Tamzin</a>, and Vami IV will fall on deaf ears. </p><p>I'd like to acknowledge the following people: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/User:Ingenuity" title="User:Ingenuity">Ingenuity</a> and Moneytrees, for being amazing nominators. If either of you are reading this, I really don't feel like I deserved your support and advice. A part of me feels ashamed that you had to watch all of that unfold, and I feel like I let you all both down in a way. I'm not a <a href="/wiki/User:ScottishFinnishRadish" title="User:ScottishFinnishRadish">ScottishFinnishRadish</a>, or <a href="/wiki/User:GorillaWarfare" title="User:GorillaWarfare">GorillaWarfare</a>, or... a Moneytrees, but I suppose I've done some good work in a way and I hope that work gives back to you both somehow. You guys are both awesome.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:Panini!" title="User:Panini!">Panini</a>, Shushugah, and the others who reached out to me on my talk page, and <a href="/wiki/User:Maliner" title="User:Maliner">Maliner</a> and a few others who reached out to me privately. I was in a really hard point of my life and everything you all said helped give some endurance I needed to reach the end. If you gave me both reasonable and constructive criticism, I really appreciate it, too. Hopefully among you all will be the people who lead Wikipedia to a better future, even in the days that I may no longer be as active as I used to be.</li> <li>Vami IV's sister, for her support and compassion. We miss your brother so much.</li> <li>An anonymous editor. Hopefully I was a source of goodness in your life as you were in mine.</li> <li>And <a href="/wiki/User:Clovermoss" title="User:Clovermoss">Clovermoss</a>, for her encouragement for me to publish this essay. I doubt my debrief would be as good as <a href="/wiki/User:Clovermoss/RfA" title="User:Clovermoss/RfA">your debrief</a>, and I still don't think it's on a comparable level, but I hope it means something to some reader out there. You had my back throughout a lot of last year, and I see how you demonstrated that big things have small beginnings. It's all because of the <a href="/wiki/Butterfly_effect" title="Butterfly effect">butterfly effect</a>, y'know? You're an amazing friend, and I would not have gotten this far without you.</li></ul> <p><br/> </p><p><i>See more RfA debriefs <a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_RfA_debriefings" title="Category:Wikipedia RfA debriefings">here</a> – eds.</i> </p> </div> <div style="clear:both"></div></div> <p><br/><br/><i><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2025-02-07/Opinion#comments" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-02-07/Opinion">Reader comments</a></b></i><br style="clear:both;"/> <span class="anchor" id="In_the_media"></span> </p> <div style="display:none;"><div class="signpost-piccyfilename">File:2.02.1 Клятва Горациев.jpg</div><div class="signpost-piccy-credits">Jacques-Louis David/Kotejan</div><div class="signpost-piccy-license">CC BY-SA 4.0</div><div class="signpost-piccy-xoffset">65</div><div class="signpost-piccy-yoffset"></div><div class="signpost-piccy-scaling">400</div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236342416"><div 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Painted in Rome for the French King <a href="/wiki/Louis_XVI" title="Louis XVI">Louis XVI</a>, by a future <a href="/wiki/French_Revolution" title="French Revolution">revolutionary</a></div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248129851"><div class="wp-signpost-block-2 wp-signpost-block-2-narrow"> <p>A gesture made on stage by Elon Musk at the <a href="/wiki/Second_inauguration_of_Donald_Trump" title="Second inauguration of Donald Trump">2025 Donald Trump presidential inauguration</a> was interpreted by some as a <a href="/wiki/Nazi_salute" title="Nazi salute">Nazi</a> or <a href="/wiki/Roman_salute" title="Roman salute">Roman salute</a>, and by others as an ambiguous wave. The Wikipedia article on the <a href="/wiki/Elon_Musk_gesture_controversy" class="mw-redirect" title="Elon Musk gesture controversy">Elon Musk gesture controversy</a> covers both possibilities, but this didn't prevent it from being the focus of attention in the media. </p> <dl><dt>Neutrality-preserving processes at work</dt></dl> <p>On <a href="/wiki/Elon_Musk" title="Elon Musk">Elon Musk</a>'s Wikipedia biography, a long paragraph about the controversy is currently included, following the closure of a <a href="/wiki/Talk:Elon_Musk/Archive_23#h-RFC,_can_we_mention_Musks_alleged_nazi_salute?-20250122115100" title="Talk:Elon Musk/Archive 23">request for comment</a> on the article's talk page as accepting that a limited mention should be included. An <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Elon_Musk%27s_arm_gesture" title="Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elon Musk's arm gesture">articles for deletion nomination</a> for <a href="/wiki/Elon_Musk%27s_arm_gesture" class="mw-redirect" title="Elon Musk's arm gesture">Elon Musk's arm gesture</a> was closed with a rough consensus to keep the article. Sarah Grevy Gotfredsen <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/wikipedia_musk_right_trump.php">wrote</a> for the <i><a href="/wiki/Columbia_Journalism_Review" title="Columbia Journalism Review">Columbia Journalism Review</a></i> that "Wikipedia's update on Musk's salute is a case in point" of the encyclopedia's <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOV" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NPOV">neutrality</a> in describing controversial events, as it "includes Musk's physical arm movement and how it was viewed by some as a Nazi gesture, <b>but also</b> notes that Musk denied such intent" <span style="font-size:85%;">(emphasis added)</span>. </p> <dl><dt>Reactions, and reactions to reactions</dt></dl> <p><i><a href="/wiki/The_Independent" title="The Independent">The Independent</a></i> reported that <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-wikipedia-nazi-salute-inauguration-b2684183.html">"Elon Musk was furious"</a> after his Wikipedia page referred to his controversial gesture as a "Nazi salute": </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237805129"><blockquote class="talkquote" style="padding-top:1em; padding-bottom:1em;"><p>(Musk) called out the online encyclopedia site on <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">X</a> after the gesticulation he made at a rally at the <a href="/wiki/Capital_One_Arena" title="Capital One Arena">Capital One Arena</a> was referred to as "a Nazi salute or fascist salute" on his Wikipedia page – something the <a href="/wiki/Tesla,_Inc." title="Tesla, Inc.">Tesla</a>/X CEO vehemently denies. </p></blockquote> <p>But the link to the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1881752812276891674">"denial"</a> is less than it first seemed. Also, <i><a href="/wiki/Vanity_Fair_(magazine)" title="Vanity Fair (magazine)">Vanity Fair</a>'</i>s article on the same matter said that <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/elon-musk-inauguration-gesture-nazi-salute">"Elon Musk Sure Isn’t Denying That His Inaugural Gesture Was a Nazi Salute"</a>. </p><p>Numerous tweets were tweeted (or X'd). A <i><a href="/wiki/Newsweek" title="Newsweek">Newsweek</a></i> piece <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-wikipedia-x-jimmy-wales-fights-back-not-woke-biased-2018724">stated</a> in its title that <i>Wikipedia</i> "fired back" at Musk, but it was actually talking about <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Wales" title="Jimmy Wales">Jimmy Wales</a>'s <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://x.com/jimmy_wales/status/1881782024476012597">response</a> to a Musk tweet – both posts were linked to in the aforementioned <i>Independent</i> article: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237805129"><blockquote class="talkquote" style="padding-top:1em; padding-bottom:1em;"><p>I think Elon is unhappy that Wikipedia is not for sale. I hope his campaign to defund us results in lots of donations from people who care about the truth. If Elon wanted to help, he'd be encouraging kind and thoughtful intellectual people he agrees with to engage. </p><p>– Jimmy Wales </p> </blockquote> <p>What is certain is that Musk's gesture caused different reactions within Jewish political organizations: <i><a href="/wiki/The_Forward" title="The Forward">The Forward</a></i> – formerly known as <i>Forverts</i> when it was published in <a href="/wiki/Yiddish" title="Yiddish">Yiddish</a> – <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://forward.com/fast-forward/690427/elon-musk-nazi-salute-trump-inauguration/">quoted</a> a "conciliatory" <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://x.com/ADL/status/1881474892022919403">statement</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Anti-Defamation_League" title="Anti-Defamation League">Anti-Defamation League</a>, who said that Musk "made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute". The ADL statement is discussed in the Wikipedia article about the controversy, which also mentions a former director of the association, <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Foxman" title="Abraham Foxman">Abraham Foxman</a>, being <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://forward.com/fast-forward/690745/adl-elon-musk-sieg-heil-hitler-salute-nazi/">at odds with their take</a>. On the other hand, as <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/26/elon-musk-far-right-antisemitism">reported</a> by <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i>, the head of the <a href="/wiki/Jewish_Council_for_Public_Affairs" title="Jewish Council for Public Affairs">Jewish Council for Public Affairs</a>, Amy Spitalnick, expressed more concern over the gesture, saying that "there was nothing ambiguous" about the salutes, and that they "should be enough to warrant condemnation and attention". </p><p>Swedish national public broadcaster <a href="/wiki/Sveriges_Television" title="Sveriges Television">Sveriges Television</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.svt.se/kultur/musk-och-wikipedia-i-brak-om-nazisthalsning">added more details</a> about Musk's criticism of Wikipedia <span style="font-size:85%;">(in Swedish)</span>, highlighting his claim that the site relies on "<a href="/wiki/Legacy_media" class="mw-redirect" title="Legacy media">legacy media</a> propaganda" for sourcing. It also includes another direct response from Jimmy Wales, who defended Wikipedia's neutrality, stating that the article simply reports verifiable facts: Musk made the gesture, it was widely compared to a Nazi salute, and he denied any intent. Wales also took the opportunity to remind Musk of the failure of his supposed bid to buy Wikipedia. </p> <dl><dt>And the truth is...</dt></dl> <p><i><a href="/wiki/France_24" title="France 24">France 24</a></i> gave a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXMlIDVENog">comprehensive video analysis</a> of Musk's gesture, while <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48gTx8MpRmI">DW News</a> (a channel of <a href="/wiki/Deutsche_Welle" title="Deutsche Welle">Deutsche Welle</a>) stated what may be the last word on the meaning of the gesture. According to analyst Matthew Moore, "there's only one person I think that really knows whether this was a fascist salute, and that is Elon Musk". </p><p>– <span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/User:Bri" title="User:Bri">B</a>, <a href="/wiki/User:Josve05a" title="User:Josve05a">JSG</a>, <a href="/wiki/User:Oltrepier" title="User:Oltrepier">O</a></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Palestine-Israel_Articles_decision" data-mw-thread-id="h-Palestine-Israel_Articles_decision-signpost-article-title"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Palestine-Israel_Articles_decision-signpost-article-title"></span>Palestine-Israel Articles decision<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Palestine-Israel_Articles_decision-signpost-article-title"></span></h3></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Anti-Defamation_League" title="Anti-Defamation League">Anti-Defamation League</a> (ADL) report on the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ARBCOM" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ARBCOM">Arbitration Committee</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ARBPIA5" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ARBPIA5">Palestine-Israel Articles 5</a> decision was the core of several stories in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times_of_Israel" title="The Times of Israel">The Times of Israel</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Jerusalem_Post" title="The Jerusalem Post">The Jerusalem Post</a></i>, both Israeli media, as well as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Jewish_Journal_of_Greater_Los_Angeles" title="The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles">The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles</a></i>. </p> <ul><li><i>The Times of Israel</i>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/adl-wikipedia-bans-several-editors-for-spreading-antisemitic-rhetoric-misinformation-on-gaza-war/">"ADL: Wikipedia bans several editors for spreading antisemitic rhetoric, misinformation on Gaza war"</a></li> <li><i>The Jerusalem Post</i>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-838298">"Anti-Israel Wikipedia editors face bans after spreading hate, misinformation"</a></li> <li><i>The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles</i>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://jewishjournal.com/news/worldwide/378546/wikipedias-supreme-court-on-the-verge-of-topic-banning-8-editors-from-israel-palestine-area/">"Wikipedia's Supreme Court On the Verge of Topic Banning 8 Editors from Israel-Palestine Area – Group would include two editors who are pro-Israel"</a></li></ul> <p>Several Wikipedians provided a mix of anonymous and attributed responses to the <i>Jewish Journal</i>, expressing a range of opinions from optimistic – "I like the idea of something like the article titles restriction...the vacuum [caused by bans of individuals] will be filled by experienced editors who have heretofore been afraid to edit in the topic area" – to ascerbic – "[it is] flabby and insufficient ... the arbs in general were lazy, robotic, and are utterly unsuited to provide 'adult supervision' of Wikipedia." </p><p>The decision was also covered by <a href="/wiki/Jewish_Telegraphic_Agency" title="Jewish Telegraphic Agency">Jewish Telegraphic Agency</a> (JTA), with less emphasis on the ADL commentary. </p> <ul><li>Jewish Telegraphic Agency <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jta.org/2025/01/23/israel/edit-wars-over-israel-spur-rare-ban-of-8-wikipedia-editors-from-both-sides">"Edit wars over Israel spur rare ban of 8 Wikipedia editors — from both sides"</a></li></ul> <p>The JTA was in turn syndicated by several US newspapers, including <a href="/wiki/Miami" title="Miami">Miami</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/South_Florida_Sun_Sentinel" class="mw-redirect" title="South Florida Sun Sentinel">South Florida Sun Sentinel</a></i> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/01/30/edit-wars-over-israel-spur-rare-ban-of-8-wikipedia-editors/">read here</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Jewish_Press" title="The Jewish Press">Jewish Press</a></i> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/antisemitism-news/wikipedia-bans-eight-editors-six-of-them-anti-israel/2025/01/28/">read here</a>). </p><p>See related <i>Signpost</i> coverage at this issue's <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2025-02-07/Arbitration_report" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-02-07/Arbitration report">Arbitration report</a>. – <span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/User:Bri" title="User:Bri">B</a></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Big_picture" data-mw-thread-id="h-Big_picture-signpost-article-title"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Big_picture-signpost-article-title"></span>Big picture<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Big_picture-signpost-article-title"></span></h3></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Stephen_Harrison" title="Wikipedia:Stephen Harrison">Stephen Harrison</a>'s <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://slate.com/technology/2025/02/wikipedia-project-2025-heritage-foundation-doxing-editors-antisemitism.html">latest piece</a> for <i><a href="/wiki/Slate_(magazine)" title="Slate (magazine)">Slate</a></i> combines topics we also discuss below, most specifically the <a href="/wiki/Heritage_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="Heritage Foundation">Heritage Foundation</a>'s plans to "identify and target" Wikipedia editors – see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2025-01-15/In_the_media#Heritage_Foundation_plans_to_identify_and_target_Wikipedia_editors?" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-01-15/In the media">prior <i>Signpost</i> coverage</a> – plus the aforementioned conclusion of an <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ARBPIA5" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ARBPIA5">ArbCom case</a> involving Israeli and Palestinian supporters. </p><p>Harrison noted how it is not encouraging that "in the long term, Wikipedians, and the rest of us, can ask for stronger privacy protections from both lawmakers and the companies", but "until then, there is not much that users can do to protect themselves from <a href="/wiki/Mass_surveillance" title="Mass surveillance">mass surveillance</a>." </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Beat_reporter" class="mw-redirect" title="Beat reporter">beat reporter</a> sees the Heritage's alleged plan to out editors as a form of harassment to force its views into <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Contentious_topics" title="Wikipedia:Contentious topics">contentious articles</a>, fearing that, if these tactics were implemented and proved to be successful, they might drive away all but the most strident editors: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237805129"><blockquote class="talkquote" style="padding-top:1em; padding-bottom:1em;"><p>Faced with the risk of harassment or real-world retaliation, many volunteer editors—especially those covering politically sensitive topics—may simply stop contributing. Those who remain are likely to be the most ideologically driven voices, further eroding Wikipedia's stated goal of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOV" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NPOV">neutrality</a>. </p><p>The free encyclopedia will become too toxic to sustain. </p> </blockquote> <p>– <span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/User:Smallbones" title="User:Smallbones">S</a></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="John_Green's_ties_to_AFC_Wimbledon_now_officially_acknowledged_on_his_Wikipedia_page" data-mw-thread-id="h-John_Green's_ties_to_AFC_Wimbledon_now_officially_acknowledged_on_his_Wikipedia-signpost-article-title"><span id="John_Green.27s_ties_to_AFC_Wimbledon_now_officially_acknowledged_on_his_Wikipedia_page"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-John_Green's_ties_to_AFC_Wimbledon_now_officially_acknowledged_on_his_Wikipedia-signpost-article-title"></span>John Green's ties to AFC Wimbledon now officially acknowledged on his Wikipedia page<span data-mw-comment-end="h-John_Green's_ties_to_AFC_Wimbledon_now_officially_acknowledged_on_his_Wikipedia-signpost-article-title"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1240928998"></div><div class="signpost-sidebar signpost-sidebar-fillerimage"><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Jack_Currie_on_vlogbrothers_01.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Jack Currie and John Green" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Jack_Currie_on_vlogbrothers_01.png/300px-Jack_Currie_on_vlogbrothers_01.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="281" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Jack_Currie_on_vlogbrothers_01.png/450px-Jack_Currie_on_vlogbrothers_01.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Jack_Currie_on_vlogbrothers_01.png/600px-Jack_Currie_on_vlogbrothers_01.png 2x" data-file-width="1540" data-file-height="1440"/></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure><div class="signpost-fillerimage"><a href="/wiki/Jack_Currie_(English_footballer)" title="Jack Currie (English footballer)">Jack Currie</a> could definitely tell how much <a href="/wiki/John_Green" title="John Green">John Green</a> loves <a href="/wiki/AFC_Wimbledon" title="AFC Wimbledon">AFC Wimbledon</a>... well, so does his Wikipedia page now!</div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248129851"><div class="wp-signpost-block-2 wp-signpost-block-2-narrow"> <p>In <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQcBldxhE1M">a recent video</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Vlogbrothers" title="Vlogbrothers">vlogbrothers</a> YouTube channel, author and philantropist <a href="/wiki/John_Green" title="John Green">John Green</a> recently shared more details about "something ridiculous", that is, the latest achievement of his charity community, <a href="/wiki/Nerdfighteria" title="Nerdfighteria">Nerdfighteria</a>: the completion of a real-life soccer transfer. Green, together with his wife and about 1,100 members of Nerdfighteria, helped English <a href="/wiki/EFL_League_Two" title="EFL League Two">League Two</a> club <a href="/wiki/AFC_Wimbledon" title="AFC Wimbledon">AFC Wimbledon</a> pay for the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.afcwimbledon.co.uk/news/2025/january/14/marcus-browne-makes-his-move--attacking-midfielder-arrives/">transfer</a> of <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Browne_(footballer)" title="Marcus Browne (footballer)">Marcus Browne</a>, having collected most of the money through donations on several livestreams hosted at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/@johnschannel1007/featured">Green's solo channel</a>. </p><p>AFC Wimbledon was founded in 2002 by former fans of <a href="/wiki/Wimbledon_F.C." title="Wimbledon F.C.">Wimbledon F.C.</a>, in dissent to the <a href="/wiki/Relocation_of_Wimbledon_F.C._to_Milton_Keynes" title="Relocation of Wimbledon F.C. to Milton Keynes">controversial relocation</a> of the club to <a href="/wiki/Milton_Keynes" title="Milton Keynes">Milton Keynes</a>, which eventually led to the foundation of <a href="/wiki/Milton_Keynes_Dons_F.C." title="Milton Keynes Dons F.C.">MK Dons</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_club_(sports)" title="Phoenix club (sports)">phoenix club</a> is <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://news.trust.org/item/20210423170734-0yzdw">majority-owned by a fan association</a>, the Dons Trust, and Green – despite being <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/01/the-fault-in-our-stars-author-john-green-reveals-t.html">a life-long fan</a> of <a href="/wiki/Liverpool_F.C." title="Liverpool F.C.">Liverpool F.C.</a> – has sponsored them since July 2014, when Nerdfighteria was <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140712231044/https://www.afcwimbledon.co.uk/news/article/john-green-deal-1731273.aspx">first announced</a> as a back-of-shorts sponsor. </p><p>In his video about the Browne transfer, Green stated that supporting AFC Wimbledon was "one of my great achievements of my life", and that he had "no idea why it's not on my Wikipedia page". As reported by several users in the comment section, the author's call-to-action (of sorts) prompted editor <span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hameltion">Hameltion</a></span> to <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Green&diff=prev&oldid=1269405501">add new information</a> to the <a href="/wiki/John_Green#Personal_life_and_interests" title="John Green">Personal life section</a> of his Wikipedia article, so that the "ridiculous" milestone could be celebrated properly. In the words of Green himself, "The ridiculous is perilously close to the sublime!" – <span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/User:Oltrepier" title="User:Oltrepier">O</a></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="In_brief" data-mw-thread-id="h-In_brief-signpost-article-title"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-In_brief-signpost-article-title"></span>In brief<span data-mw-comment-end="h-In_brief-signpost-article-title"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1240928998"></div><div class="signpost-sidebar signpost-sidebar-fillerimage"><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Francis_Ford_Coppola%27s_handwritten_casting_notes_for_The_Godfather,_at_Francis_Ford_Coppola_Winery,_near_Geyserville,_2011.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Francis_Ford_Coppola%27s_handwritten_casting_notes_for_The_Godfather%2C_at_Francis_Ford_Coppola_Winery%2C_near_Geyserville%2C_2011.jpg/225px-Francis_Ford_Coppola%27s_handwritten_casting_notes_for_The_Godfather%2C_at_Francis_Ford_Coppola_Winery%2C_near_Geyserville%2C_2011.jpg" decoding="async" width="225" height="287" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Francis_Ford_Coppola%27s_handwritten_casting_notes_for_The_Godfather%2C_at_Francis_Ford_Coppola_Winery%2C_near_Geyserville%2C_2011.jpg/338px-Francis_Ford_Coppola%27s_handwritten_casting_notes_for_The_Godfather%2C_at_Francis_Ford_Coppola_Winery%2C_near_Geyserville%2C_2011.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Francis_Ford_Coppola%27s_handwritten_casting_notes_for_The_Godfather%2C_at_Francis_Ford_Coppola_Winery%2C_near_Geyserville%2C_2011.jpg/450px-Francis_Ford_Coppola%27s_handwritten_casting_notes_for_The_Godfather%2C_at_Francis_Ford_Coppola_Winery%2C_near_Geyserville%2C_2011.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1416" data-file-height="1808"/></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure><div class="signpost-fillerimage">Wikipedia correctly provided information on <i><a href="/wiki/The_Godfather" title="The Godfather">The Godfather</a></i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s lead actor, unlike CNN's recent AI query (director's casting notes shown, with <a href="/wiki/Marlon_Brando" title="Marlon Brando">Marlon Brando</a> underlined in red)</div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248129851"><div class="wp-signpost-block-2 wp-signpost-block-2-narrow"> <ul><li><b>Actually gotten better</b>: In her analysis for <a href="/wiki/CNN" title="CNN">CNN</a>, titled <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/14/business/wikipedia-meta-x-fact-check-nightcap/index.html">"In a minefield of glitchy AI search and social media, Wikipedia becomes one of the most reliable places on the internet"</a>, Allison Morrow elaborated on how Wikipedia has not just resisted the <a href="/wiki/Platform_decay" class="mw-redirect" title="Platform decay">platform decay</a> that hit its 2000s-era peers, but it's actually gotten better and even maintains a sort of truth-in-advertising <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia">list of hoaxes</a> that have been perpetrated against it. Morrow notably interviewed editor <a href="/wiki/Molly_White_(writer)" title="Molly White (writer)">Molly White</a> (known as <a href="/wiki/User:GorillaWarfare" title="User:GorillaWarfare">GorillaWarfare</a>) for her article.</li> <li><b>Wikipedia's birthday noted</b>: <a href="/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press">Associated Press</a> and the <i><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Tribune" title="Chicago Tribune">Chicago Tribune</a></i> dedicated <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/15/today-in-history-wikipedia-makes-its-debut/">an article</a> to the 24th birthday of Wikipedia, which has been celebrated on January 15; the city of <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a> itself has hosted <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Chicago/Wikipedia_Day_2025" title="Wikipedia:Meetup/Chicago/Wikipedia Day 2025">Wikipedia Day</a> four days later, alongside other nationwide and international events previously <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2025-01-15/News_and_notes" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-01-15/News and notes">highlighted on the <i>Signpost</i></a>.</li> <li><b>Now exiled activist meets Jimbo</b>: <a href="/wiki/Sviatlana_Tsikhanouskaya" title="Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya">Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya</a>, a former candidate in the <a href="/wiki/2020_Belarusian_presidential_election" title="2020 Belarusian presidential election">2020 Belarusian presidential election</a> who is now leader of the <a href="/wiki/Coordination_Council_(Belarus)" title="Coordination Council (Belarus)">opposition forces in exile</a>, revealed that she <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://tsikhanouskaya.org/en/news/sviatlana-tsikhanouskaya-met-with-wikipedia-founder-jimmy-walessviatlana-tsikhanouskaya-met-with-the-founder-of-wikipedia-jimmy-wales-during-the-world-economic-forum-in-davos-she-presented-several.html">met</a> with Wikipedia co-founder <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Wales" title="Jimmy Wales">Jimmy Wales</a> at <a href="/wiki/World_Economic_Forum" title="World Economic Forum">Davos</a>; she reportedly presented a few proposals from the <a href="/wiki/Belarusian_Wikipedia" title="Belarusian Wikipedia">Belarusian Wikipedia</a> community.</li> <li><b>On guard (aka "Wokepedia", part 72)</b>: In <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/14/facebook-instagram-wikipedia-politics-truth">a recent edition</a> of his <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/series/techscape">TechScape</a> newsletter for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i>, Blake Montgomery reflected on the main differences in how <a href="/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook">Facebook</a>, <a href="/wiki/Instagram" title="Instagram">Instagram</a> and Wikipedia are dealing with attempts to "politicize the truth", citing a recent <i><a href="/wiki/The_Forward" title="The Forward">Forward</a></i> report on the <a href="/wiki/Heritage_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="Heritage Foundation">Heritage Foundation</a>'s plans to identify and target Wikipedia editors – see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2025-01-15/In_the_media#Heritage_Foundation_plans_to_identify_and_target_Wikipedia_editors?" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-01-15/In the media">prior <i>Signpost</i> coverage</a>.</li> <li><b>Total control? (aka "Wokepedia", part 73)</b>: In her latest piece for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Atlantic" title="The Atlantic">The Atlantic</a></i>, titled <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/elon-musk-wikipedia/681577/">"Elon Musk Wants What He Can’t Have: Wikipedia"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(paywalled)</span>, Lila Shroff reports on the recent "campaign to delegitimize the digital encyclopedia" by Elon Musk and other right-wing tech figures, and how the most concerning results of their strategy could look.</li> <li><b>That time when the Polish PM used his Wikipedia page as ID</b>: A viral video shared on X purported to show former <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Poland" title="Prime Minister of Poland">Prime Minister of Poland</a> <a href="/wiki/Mateusz_Morawiecki" title="Mateusz Morawiecki">Mateusz Morawiecki</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Capital_One_Arena" title="Capital One Arena">Capital One Arena</a> – in connection with the <a href="/wiki/Second_inauguration_of_Donald_Trump" title="Second inauguration of Donald Trump">latest U.S. presidential transition</a> – showing the <a href="/wiki/National_Guard_(United_States)" title="National Guard (United States)">National Guard</a> his cellphone so they could check his identity on his Wikipedia page before granting him entry. Too bad, it probably wasn't so; according to <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.aol.com/fact-check-video-shows-polish-162203873.html">a fact-check article</a> from <a href="/wiki/AOL" title="AOL">AOL</a>, it seems like he was just getting directions.</li> <li><b>It's 'Easy' to get rich with Wikipedia</b>: Actually, not, as the <a href="/wiki/Intellectual_Property_Office_(United_Kingdom)" title="Intellectual Property Office (United Kingdom)">UK Intellectual Property Office</a> recently told <a href="/wiki/EasyJet" title="EasyJet">EasyJet</a> founder <a href="/wiki/Stelios_Haji-Ioannou" title="Stelios Haji-Ioannou">Stelios Haji-Ioannou</a>. According to Alistair Osborne's <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/companies/article/easyjet-boss-used-youtube-and-wikipedia-in-doomed-trademark-battle-g5lfnwzq6">report</a> for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(paywalled)</span>, Haji-Ioannou had threatened various businesses with <a href="/wiki/High_Court_of_Justice" title="High Court of Justice">High Court</a> for allegedly infringing his "easy" brand, and even used a Wikipedia entry about the <a href="/wiki/London_Underground" title="London Underground">London Underground</a> as one of the proofs of the genuine use of his trademarks, which have now been revoked by the UK IPO.</li> <li><b>...or Wikipedia can just write you've got the money</b>: French magazine <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Entrevue&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Entrevue (page does not exist)">Entrevue</a> </i><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrevue_(magazine)" class="extiw" title="fr:Entrevue (magazine)">fr</a>]</span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://entrevue.fr/sv/omar-harfouch-va-porter-plainte-contre-wikipedia-qui-lui-prete-une-fortune-de-3-milliards-de-dollars/">reports that</a> businessman and musician <a href="/wiki/Omar_Harfouch" title="Omar Harfouch">Omar Harfouch</a> plans to take legal action against Wikipedia and X, accusing them of <a href="/wiki/Defamation" title="Defamation">defamation</a> and harassment. Harfouch alleges that his Wikipedia page has been repeatedly altered to remove references to his musical career while spreading misleading claims, including an exaggerated estimate of his wealth; he argues that Wikipedia enables misinformation by giving credibility to baseless claims and failing to prevent coordinated reputational attacks.</li> <li><b>"Anti-Israel Club" allegedly "exposed"</b>: A French group called <i>Urgence Palestine</i> ("Palestine Emergency"), which <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bfmtv.com/paris/paris-pres-d-un-millier-de-personnes-ont-manifeste-contre-la-guerre-a-gaza_AD-202409080356.html">had previously been involved</a> in <a href="/wiki/Gaza_war_protests#France" title="Gaza war protests">protests against the Gaza war across France</a>, conducted an off-wiki coordination campaign for biased Wikipedia editing, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lepoint.fr/societe/comment-influencer-wikipedia-nous-avons-assiste-a-une-formation-du-collectif-urgence-palestine-17-01-2025-2580164_23.php">according to</a> an investigative journalist writing for news magazine <i><a href="/wiki/Le_Point" title="Le Point">Le Point</a></i>, whose article was then <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://jewishjournal.com/news/worldwide/378774/french-journalist-exposes-anti-israel-club-training-french-wikipedia-editors/">re-reported</a> in English by the <i><a href="/wiki/Jewish_Journal_of_Greater_Los_Angeles" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles">Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles</a></i>. It is worth-noting that <i>Le Point</i> and the <a href="/wiki/French_Wikipedia" title="French Wikipedia">French Wikipedia</a> have already been at the center of controversy in the past, as reported by user <a href="/wiki/User:Jules*" title="User:Jules*">Jules*</a> in <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2025-01-15/In_focus" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-01-15/In focus">a previous <i>Signpost</i> issue</a>.</li> <li><b>You know... it's not exactly a page move</b>: In his <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Byg8VZdKK88&t=0h16m05s">January 27 monologue</a> for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Show" title="The Daily Show">The Daily Show</a></i>, host <a href="/wiki/Jon_Stewart" title="Jon Stewart">Jon Stewart</a> referred to <a href="/wiki/Executive_Order_14172" title="Executive Order 14172">the executive order</a> telling U.S. agencies to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_of_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Gulf of America">Gulf of America</a> as "Making Wikipedia-like edits to the literal globe".</li></ul> <p><br/><br/> </p> <div style="text-align:center"><small><i>Do you want to contribute to "In the media" by writing a story or even just an "in brief" item? 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Silver balloons in the shape of '24' are held up in front. Pacita Rudder is crouching right in front of them. Some people are holding up finger signs in the shape of the Wikipedia 'W'." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Wikipedia_Day_NYC_2025_-01.jpg/644px-Wikipedia_Day_NYC_2025_-01.jpg" decoding="async" width="644" height="298" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Wikipedia_Day_NYC_2025_-01.jpg/966px-Wikipedia_Day_NYC_2025_-01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Wikipedia_Day_NYC_2025_-01.jpg/1288px-Wikipedia_Day_NYC_2025_-01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5702" data-file-height="2639"/></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div><div class="signpost-inline-image-caption" style="text-align:left;">New York City Wikimedians celebrate 24 years of Wikipedia</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1240928998"></div><div class="signpost-sidebar signpost-sidebar-fillerimage"><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Day_NYC_2025_-05.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A photo of a cake. The cake has an edible laptop on top, with a DVD, a flash drive, and a mouse on top. DVDs circle the side of the cake. The laptop screen has text saying "Happy birthday Wikipedia"." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikipedia_Day_NYC_2025_-05.jpg/300px-Wikipedia_Day_NYC_2025_-05.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="534" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikipedia_Day_NYC_2025_-05.jpg/450px-Wikipedia_Day_NYC_2025_-05.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikipedia_Day_NYC_2025_-05.jpg/600px-Wikipedia_Day_NYC_2025_-05.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3368" data-file-height="6000"/></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure><div class="signpost-fillerimage">One of the cakes baked for the celebration (red velvet)</div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248129851"><div class="wp-signpost-block-2 wp-signpost-block-2-narrow"> <p>Over 350 Wikimedians and newbies celebrated 24 years of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, at Wikimedia New York City's <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wikipedia_Day_2025" title="Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wikipedia Day 2025">Wikipedia Day NYC 2025</a> celebration on January 25, at the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Central_Library" class="mw-redirect" title="Brooklyn Central Library">Brooklyn Central Library</a>. Special guests <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Harrison_(author)" class="mw-redirect" title="Stephen Harrison (author)">Stephen Harrison</a>, tech reporter and author of <i>The Editors</i>, and <a href="/wiki/Clay_Shirky" title="Clay Shirky">Clay Shirky</a>, technology writer, joined in a conversation about reliable sources. </p><p>Every year, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Day" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Day">on or around January 15th</a>, Wikimedians around the world host in-person meetups to celebrate the anniversary of the birth of the online encyclopedia. Typical at these events are <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_birthday_cakes" class="extiw" title="commons:Category:Wikipedia birthday cakes">birthday cakes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_logo" title="Wikipedia logo">Wikipedia globes</a>, and short presentations called "<a href="/wiki/Lightning_talk" title="Lightning talk">lightning talks</a>". Fifteen years have passed since <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wikipedia_Day_2010" title="Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wikipedia Day 2010">Wikimedia NYC 2010</a>, the first Wikipedia Day celebration in NYC. </p><p>The first half of Wikipedia Day NYC 2025 was <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Day_2025_BPL_NYC_attendees.jpg" class="extiw" title="commons:File:Wikipedia Day 2025 BPL NYC attendees.jpg">spent in the atrium of the Central Library</a>, with informational tables run by partner organizations, including <a href="/wiki/AfroCrowd" title="AfroCrowd">AfroCrowd</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikitongues" title="Wikitongues">Wikitongues</a>, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Day_2025_BPL_NYC_BetaNYC_table_01.jpg" class="extiw" title="commons:File:Wikipedia Day 2025 BPL NYC BetaNYC table 01.jpg">BetaNYC</a>, <a href="/wiki/Prime_Produce" title="Prime Produce">Cybernetics Library</a>, and Farming Concrete. The atrium also featured a <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Day_NYC_2025_-45.jpg" class="extiw" title="commons:File:Wikipedia Day NYC 2025 -45.jpg">photo booth backdrop</a>, an <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Day_2025_BPL_NYC_ITP.jpg" class="extiw" title="commons:File:Wikipedia Day 2025 BPL NYC ITP.jpg">art presentation by the Interactive Telecommunications program</a> at <a href="/wiki/New_York_University_Tisch_School_of_the_Arts" title="New York University Tisch School of the Arts">NYU</a>, a <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Day_2025_BPL_NYC_vinyl_shirt_table.jpg" class="extiw" title="commons:File:Wikipedia Day 2025 BPL NYC vinyl shirt table.jpg">vinyl shirt pressing station</a>, and more. Meanwhile, in the nearby <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Shelby_White_and_Leon_Levy_Information_Commons" class="extiw" title="commons:Category:Shelby White and Leon Levy Information Commons">Info Commons Training Room</a>, talks included <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Day_2025_BPL_NYC_Intro_to_Wikipedia.jpg" class="extiw" title="commons:File:Wikipedia Day 2025 BPL NYC Intro to Wikipedia.jpg">Intro to Wikipedia</a>, Your Neighborhood on Wikipedia, and the first group of lightning talks. </p><p>Lightning talks included a wide variety of presentations. <a href="/wiki/User:Pharos" title="User:Pharos">Pharos</a> discussed <a href="/wiki/Wikinews" title="Wikinews">Wikinews</a>, a project <a href="https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Times_Square_marks_New_Year%27s_Eve_2025_in_New_York_City" class="extiw" title="wikinews:Times Square marks New Year's Eve 2025 in New York City">I began participating in</a> alongside a push by the NYC chapter to do original reporting. <a href="/wiki/User:PixDeVl" title="User:PixDeVl">PixDeVl</a> presented "Wikis, beyond 'media", showcasing the wide variety of non-WMF wikis that are created for niche interests. He applauded, for instance, the work of the <a href="https://meta.weirdgloop.org/w/mcw:" class="extiw" title="weirdgloop:mcw:">Minecraft Wiki</a>, a project that forked from <a href="/wiki/Fandom.com" class="mw-redirect" title="Fandom.com">Fandom.com</a>, which <a href="https://meta.weirdgloop.org/w/mcw:User:SWinxy" class="extiw" title="weirdgloop:mcw:User:SWinxy">I also contributed to</a>. <a href="/wiki/User:Bstadt" title="User:Bstadt">bstadt</a> discussed using machine learning to create a <a href="/wiki/Latent_space" title="Latent space">latent space</a> for all articles from every language Wikipedia, mapped onto a 2D graph. </p><p><a href="/wiki/User:Bluerasberry" title="User:Bluerasberry">Lane Rasberry</a>, a <a href="/wiki/University_of_Virginia" title="University of Virginia">University of Virginia</a> School of Data Science <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://datascience.virginia.edu/people/lane-rasberry">Wikipedian-in-residence</a>, highlighted the unprecedented suppression of an English Wikipedia article by an Indian High Court. Rasberry previously wrote about it <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-11-06/Special_report" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2024-11-06/Special report">back in November</a> for <i>The Signpost</i>. His motto? "Editing Wikipedia is not a crime." <a href="/wiki/User:Public_Park" title="User:Public Park">Sharon Park</a> showed her beautifully-created, Wikipedia-inspired, animated illustrations she made for 2024's "<a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/wikipedia-year-in-review-2024/" class="extiw" title="foundationsite:wikipedia-year-in-review-2024/">Wikipedia in Review</a>". <a href="/wiki/User:Hexatekin" title="User:Hexatekin">Dorothy Howard</a> presented on <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nicholas_Payton_at_The_Blue_Note,_NYC.jpg" class="extiw" title="commons:File:Nicholas Payton at The Blue Note, NYC.jpg">contributing concert photos</a> to Wikimedia Commons. <a href="/wiki/User:Harej" title="User:Harej">James Hare</a> dove deep into explaining "Infrastructure and Tools for Source Reliability," preceded by a related talk on "reference parsing" by <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Enterprise" class="extiw" title="meta:Wikimedia Enterprise">Wikimedia Enterprise</a> employee <a href="/wiki/User:FranCapoArg" title="User:FranCapoArg">Francisco Navas</a>. <a href="/wiki/User:RoySmith" title="User:RoySmith">RoySmith</a> shared insight on "Sourcing the Big Apple". <a href="/wiki/User:Rosiestep" title="User:Rosiestep">Rosiestep</a> updated the crowd on <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Measuring_the_Gender_Gap:_Attribute-based_Class_Completeness_Estimation" class="extiw" title="meta:Research:Measuring the Gender Gap: Attribute-based Class Completeness Estimation">ongoing research into Wikimedia's Gender Gap</a>. Several others also contributed lightning talks, some of which were not taped. </p><p>Attendees spent the second half of the Wikipedia Day NYC 2025 celebration downstairs in the Dweck Cultural Center, where <a href="/wiki/User:Rhododendrites" title="User:Rhododendrites">Rhododendrites</a> kicked off the presentations with a micro-keynote on community and thinking locally. </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1240928998"></div><div class="signpost-sidebar signpost-sidebar-fillerimage"><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Day_NYC_2025_-12.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Wikipedia_Day_NYC_2025_-12.jpg/300px-Wikipedia_Day_NYC_2025_-12.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="534" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Wikipedia_Day_NYC_2025_-12.jpg/450px-Wikipedia_Day_NYC_2025_-12.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Wikipedia_Day_NYC_2025_-12.jpg/600px-Wikipedia_Day_NYC_2025_-12.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3368" data-file-height="6000"/></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure><div class="signpost-fillerimage">Pacita Rudder</div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248129851"><div class="wp-signpost-block-2 wp-signpost-block-2-narrow"> <p>Wikipedia Day NYC 2025 was the first Wikipedia Day event with the first executive director of Wikimedia NYC, <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_New_York_City/Press" class="extiw" title="meta:Wikimedia New York City/Press">Pacita Rudder</a>, who joined the organization in May of 2024. "We're really excited for this particular event because it's not often that we celebrate all of the work that we do, and all of the contributors like yourselves who are making a difference to the world's largest encyclopedia," Rudder told attendees. </p><p>2025 is also roughly the 400th anniversary of the founding of New York City. Depending on how you define "founded", <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/14/nyregion/14seal.html">there is disagreement</a> on which year the city was established, but the official <a href="/wiki/Seal_of_New_York_City" title="Seal of New York City">Seal of New York City</a> was changed in 1977 to date it at 1625. Rudder, with Wikimedia New York City founder <a href="/wiki/User:Pharos" title="User:Pharos">Pharos</a>, introduced a new initiative celebrating the quadricentennial anniversary of the city establishment. This initiative seeks to improve 400 articles on <a href="/wiki/Neighborhoods_in_New_York_City" title="Neighborhoods in New York City">neighborhoods in New York City</a> with a website, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://400nyc.org/">400nyc.org</a>, soliciting suggestions for neighborhoods and New Yorkers to improve/create articles for. </p><p>Supporting this endeavor is <a href="/wiki/Craig_Newmark" title="Craig Newmark">Craig Newmark</a>'s Newmark Philanthropies, founder of <a href="/wiki/Craigslist" title="Craigslist">Craigslist</a>, who appeared in a prerecorded message at the event. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AMUbQk2rQo">In his message</a>, Newmark reiterated his support for Wikipedia: "I'm a passionate believer in what Wikipedia does. I tell people over and over again, Wikipedia is where facts are going to live. 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Two volunteers won copies of Harrison's new book, <i>The Editors</i>. Finally, before the cakes were served, another round of lightning talks had been delivered. </p><p>Information about last year's Wikipedia Day in New York City was published on <a href="https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/01/25/wikipedia-day-nyc-redefining-innovative-celebrations-implementing-ai/" class="extiw" title="diffblog:2024/01/25/wikipedia-day-nyc-redefining-innovative-celebrations-implementing-ai/"> Wikimedia's blog, <i>Diff</i></a>. A recording of part of this year's event is <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_BwqDOPqiI">available on YouTube</a>. 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This is a summary of the summary. </p><p>Arbs agreed on the following: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ECP" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ECP">Extended confirmed protection</a> (ECP) is now the default status of all PIA articles, whether or not disruption has occurred (also, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation" title="Wikipedia:Articles for creation">Articles for creation</a> drafts by non-ECP users apparently will not be accepted, according to a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:ARBCOM#What_are_the_rules_on_article_creation_through_AfC_for_Israel/Palestine_articles?" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia talk:ARBCOM">clarification</a> issued just before we go to press<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>footnotes 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>).</li> <li>No new bans occurred – user Ïvana was <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee/Noticeboard&diff=prev&oldid=1262114028">already banned</a> in pre-case Arbcom action, but re-banned in PIA5.</li> <li>Some topic bans were adopted.</li> <li>A number of warnings and admonishments were handed out.</li> <li>A novel remedy called "Balanced editing restriction", to be enforced technically (via <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_filter" title="Wikipedia:Edit filter">edit filter</a>), was constructed by the committee as a discretionary sanction:</li></ul> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237805129"><blockquote class="talkquote" style="padding-top:1em; padding-bottom:1em;"><p>In a given 30-day period, a user sanctioned under this restriction is limited to making no more than one-third of their edits in the Article, Talk, Draft, and Draft talk namespaces to pages that are subject to the extended-confirmed restriction under Arab–Israeli conflict contentious topic procedures. </p></blockquote> <ul><li>A novel remedy called "Article title restriction" was constructed by the committee (although it failed 10–1).</li></ul> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237805129"><blockquote class="talkquote" style="padding-top:1em; padding-bottom:1em;"><p>An article on a violent engagement within the Arab–Israeli conflict, broadly construed...may not describe the engagement as a "massacre", "murder", "bombing", "genocide", or "assassination" or similarly contentious word. </p></blockquote> <ul><li>The community was encouraged to run a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Request_for_comment" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Request for comment">request for comment</a> (RFC) on <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:POV_fork" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:POV fork">POV forks</a>.</li> <li>SPI clerks may invite contributors to leave (with existing authorities).</li></ul> <p>The committee was divided on "AndreJustAndre banned". An 8–6 majority decided not to enact that remedy, but a majority did decide to levy a "suspended site ban", under which a new Clarification and Amendment (ARCA) case can result in a relatively quick ban by motion. </p> <hr/> <div style="font-size:85%;">Footnotes: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">A clerk even <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk%3AArbitration_Committee&diff=1274275565&oldid=1274272482">stated</a> that a non-ECP user <i>merely creating a draft</i> in the PIA topic area was a violation of the Arbcom ruling</span> </li> </ol></div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Community_reaction" data-mw-thread-id="h-Community_reaction-signpost-article-title"><span 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bluer than velvet was the night (January 12 to 18)<span data-mw-comment-end="h-She_wore_blue_velvet,_bluer_than_velvet_was_the_night_(January_12_to_18)-signpost-article-title"></span></h3></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Rank</th> <th>Article</th> <th>Class</th> <th>Views</th> <th>Image</th> <th>Notes/about </th></tr> <tr> <td>1</td> <td><a href="/wiki/David_Lynch" title="David Lynch">David Lynch</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Symbol_b_class.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="B-Class article"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/16px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/23px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/31px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/></a></span></td> <td>2,785,081</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:David_Lynch_at_the_1990_Emmy_Awards.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/David_Lynch_at_the_1990_Emmy_Awards.jpg/100px-David_Lynch_at_the_1990_Emmy_Awards.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="163" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/David_Lynch_at_the_1990_Emmy_Awards.jpg/150px-David_Lynch_at_the_1990_Emmy_Awards.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/David_Lynch_at_the_1990_Emmy_Awards.jpg/200px-David_Lynch_at_the_1990_Emmy_Awards.jpg 2x" data-file-width="898" data-file-height="1465"/></a></span></td> <td>A widely acclaimed filmmaker known for works full of mystery and surreal imagery such as the movies <i><a href="/wiki/Eraserhead" title="Eraserhead">Eraserhead</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Blue_Velvet_(film)" title="Blue Velvet (film)">Blue Velvet</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Mulholland_Drive_(film)" title="Mulholland Drive (film)">Mulholland Drive</a></i>, and the TV show <i><a href="/wiki/Twin_Peaks" title="Twin Peaks">Twin Peaks</a></i>, David Lynch died at 78 as his already decayed health caused by <a href="/wiki/Emphysema" title="Emphysema">emphysema</a> (consequence of decades smoking) took a dive once he was forced to leave his Los Angeles home due to <a href="/wiki/January_2025_Southern_California_wildfires" title="January 2025 Southern California wildfires">wildfires</a>. Along with the directing gigs that even landed him an <a href="/wiki/Academy_Honorary_Award" title="Academy Honorary Award">Academy Honorary Award</a>, Lynch also worked on music, photography and literature, and also acted on occasion, such as a memorable appearance as <a href="/wiki/John_Ford" title="John Ford">John Ford</a> on <i><a href="/wiki/The_Fabelmans" title="The Fabelmans">The Fabelmans</a></i>. </td></tr> <tr> <td>2</td> <td><a href="/wiki/MrBeast" title="MrBeast">MrBeast</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Symbol_b_class.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="B-Class article"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/16px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/23px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/31px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/></a></span></td> <td>1,868,297</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:MrBeast_2023_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/MrBeast_2023_%28cropped%29.jpg/100px-MrBeast_2023_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/MrBeast_2023_%28cropped%29.jpg/150px-MrBeast_2023_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/MrBeast_2023_%28cropped%29.jpg/200px-MrBeast_2023_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2136" data-file-height="2847"/></a></span></td> <td>His reality competition show <i><a href="/wiki/Beast_Games" title="Beast Games">Beast Games</a></i>, which is currently releasing weekly episodes on <a href="/wiki/Amazon_Prime_Video" title="Amazon Prime Video">Amazon Prime Video</a>, has become their most-streamed unscripted show in history. Despite its success, the show has received negative reviews from critics and some contestants alleged that they were mistreated during its production, with five of the contestants filing a <a href="/wiki/Beast_Games_lawsuit" title="Beast Games lawsuit">class action lawsuit</a> against MrBeast and his company. </td></tr> <tr> <td>3</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Game_Changer_(film)" title="Game Changer (film)"><i>Game Changer</i> (film)</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Symbol_start_class.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Start-Class article"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Symbol_start_class.svg/16px-Symbol_start_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Symbol_start_class.svg/23px-Symbol_start_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Symbol_start_class.svg/31px-Symbol_start_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/></a></span></td> <td>1,160,501</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Shankar_at_the_2.0_Trailer_Launch.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Shankar_at_the_2.0_Trailer_Launch.jpg/100px-Shankar_at_the_2.0_Trailer_Launch.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="94" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Shankar_at_the_2.0_Trailer_Launch.jpg/150px-Shankar_at_the_2.0_Trailer_Launch.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Shankar_at_the_2.0_Trailer_Launch.jpg/200px-Shankar_at_the_2.0_Trailer_Launch.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1227" data-file-height="1153"/></a></span></td> <td>Like past mainstay of this list <i><a href="/wiki/Pushpa_2:_The_Rule" title="Pushpa 2: The Rule">Pushpa 2: The Rule</a></i>, this is also from <a href="/wiki/Telugu_cinema" title="Telugu cinema">Tollywood</a>, but a <a href="/wiki/Box-office_bomb" title="Box-office bomb">box-office bomb</a>. This is the directorial debut of <a href="/wiki/S._Shankar" title="S. Shankar">S. Shankar</a> (<i>pictured</i>) in the Telugu industry but it ultimately became his fourth consecutive overall film to fail at <a href="/wiki/Box_office" title="Box office">box office</a>. Yet, what really worries me is another film (from <a href="/wiki/Tamil_cinema" title="Tamil cinema">Kollywood</a>) directed by him is releasing next week and its <a href="/wiki/Indian_3" title="Indian 3">a sequel to</a> the <a href="/wiki/Indian_2" title="Indian 2">biggest disappointment</a> of <a href="/wiki/List_of_Tamil_films_of_2024" title="List of Tamil films of 2024">2024</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td>4</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kumbh_Mela" title="Kumbh Mela">Kumbh Mela</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Symbol_c_class.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="C-Class article"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/16px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/23px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/31px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/></a></span></td> <td>1,079,008</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Kumbh6.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Kumbh6.jpg/100px-Kumbh6.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="129" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Kumbh6.jpg/150px-Kumbh6.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Kumbh6.jpg/200px-Kumbh6.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1080" data-file-height="1392"/></a></span></td> <td>An important Hindu pilgrimage that happens every 6 to 12 years, with the <a href="/wiki/2025_Prayag_Kumbh_Mela" class="mw-redirect" title="2025 Prayag Kumbh Mela">2025 Prayag Kumbh Mela</a> scheduled to take place from 13 January to 26 February at the Triveni Sangam in <a href="/wiki/Prayagraj" title="Prayagraj">Prayagraj</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td>5</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pete_Hegseth" title="Pete Hegseth">Pete Hegseth</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Symbol_c_class.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="C-Class article"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/16px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/23px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/31px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/></a></span></td> <td>1,073,626</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Pete_Hegseth_(50764030168).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Pete_Hegseth_%2850764030168%29.jpg/100px-Pete_Hegseth_%2850764030168%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="67" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Pete_Hegseth_%2850764030168%29.jpg/150px-Pete_Hegseth_%2850764030168%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Pete_Hegseth_%2850764030168%29.jpg/200px-Pete_Hegseth_%2850764030168%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6720" data-file-height="4480"/></a></span></td> <td>#8's pick for the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Defense" title="United States Secretary of Defense">United States Secretary of Defense</a> had his confirmation hearings this week. </td></tr> <tr> <td>6</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Deaths_in_2025" title="Deaths in 2025">Deaths in 2025</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span title="List-Class article"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/db/Symbol_list_class.svg/16px-Symbol_list_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" 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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Zion-Mount_Carmel_Highway%2C_Zion_National_Park%2C_Utah_%281024987309%29.jpg/200px-Zion-Mount_Carmel_Highway%2C_Zion_National_Park%2C_Utah_%281024987309%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200"/></a></span></td> <td>From <a href="/wiki/Lost_Highway_(film)" title="Lost Highway (film)">one of #1's movies</a>:<br/><i><a href="/wiki/The_Perfect_Drug" title="The Perfect Drug">Turn off the sun; pull the stars from the sky<br/>The more I give to you, the more I die!</a></i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>7</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pam_Bondi" title="Pam Bondi">Pam Bondi</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Symbol_c_class.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="C-Class article"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/16px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/23px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/31px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/></a></span></td> <td>999,773</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Pam_Bondi_2018.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Pam_Bondi_2018.jpg/100px-Pam_Bondi_2018.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Pam_Bondi_2018.jpg/150px-Pam_Bondi_2018.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Pam_Bondi_2018.jpg/200px-Pam_Bondi_2018.jpg 2x" data-file-width="369" data-file-height="492"/></a></span></td> <td>#8's pick for the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Attorney_General" title="United States Attorney General">United States Attorney General</a> had her confirmation hearings this week. </td></tr> <tr> <td>8</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Symbol_b_class.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="B-Class article"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/16px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/23px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/31px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/></a></span></td> <td>776,542</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:TrumpPortrait.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/TrumpPortrait.jpg/100px-TrumpPortrait.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="129" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/TrumpPortrait.jpg/150px-TrumpPortrait.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/TrumpPortrait.jpg/200px-TrumpPortrait.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2550" data-file-height="3300"/></a></span></td> <td>It’s been a long four years since Trump was last in the <a href="/wiki/Oval_Office" title="Oval Office">Oval Office</a>, but, starting <a href="/wiki/Second_inauguration_of_Donald_Trump" title="Second inauguration of Donald Trump">Monday</a>, he will be sitting behind the <a href="/wiki/Resolute_desk" title="Resolute desk"><i>Resolute</i> desk</a> once again. On his <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump_2024_presidential_campaign" title="Donald Trump 2024 presidential campaign">successful campaign</a> to reclaim the Presidency, the <a href="/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States" title="List of presidents of the United States">45th and 47th</a> President sustained <a href="/wiki/Indictments_against_Donald_Trump" title="Indictments against Donald Trump">four indictments</a> and <a href="/wiki/Prosecution_of_Donald_Trump_in_New_York" title="Prosecution of Donald Trump in New York">34 felony convictions</a>, narrowly survived an <a href="/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Donald_Trump_in_Pennsylvania" title="Attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Pennsylvania">assassination attempt</a> at a rally by less than an inch, and kept going despite a <a href="/wiki/Withdrawal_of_Joe_Biden_from_the_2024_United_States_presidential_election" title="Withdrawal of Joe Biden from the 2024 United States presidential election">swap</a> at the top of the Democratic ticket. He won all seven <a href="/wiki/Swing_state" title="Swing state">battleground states</a> and (narrowly) even the <a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_elections_by_popular_vote_margin" title="List of United States presidential elections by popular vote margin">popular vote</a>, robbing <a href="/wiki/Grover_Cleveland" title="Grover Cleveland">Grover Cleveland</a> of his sole claim to fame in American history (before this point he was the only President elected to nonconsecutive terms). Whether you love him, loathe him, or simply don’t care about him, it’s indisputable that Trump definitely knows something about <a href="/wiki/Trump:_The_Art_of_the_Comeback" title="Trump: The Art of the Comeback">the art of the comeback</a>! </td></tr> <tr> <td>9</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Severance_(TV_series)" title="Severance (TV series)"><i>Severance</i> (TV series)</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Symbol_c_class.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="C-Class article"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/16px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/23px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/31px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/></a></span></td> <td>749,163</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bell_Labs_Holmdel.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Bell_Labs_Holmdel.jpg/100px-Bell_Labs_Holmdel.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="66" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Bell_Labs_Holmdel.jpg/150px-Bell_Labs_Holmdel.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Bell_Labs_Holmdel.jpg/200px-Bell_Labs_Holmdel.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3008" data-file-height="2000"/></a></span></td> <td>This American science fiction psychological thriller series, filmed mostly at <a href="/wiki/Bell_Labs_Holmdel_Complex" title="Bell Labs Holmdel Complex">Bell Labs</a> (<i>pictured</i>), debuted on Apple TV+ in 2022. Its first season received 14 Emmy nominations but only won creative ones (title design and music). It was renewed for future seasons soon after the release of the first, the second of which premiered January 16. </td></tr> <tr> <td>10</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Squid_Game_season_2" title="Squid Game season 2"><i>Squid Game</i> season 2</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Symbol_c_class.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="C-Class article"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/16px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/23px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/31px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/></a></span></td> <td>699,841</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:In_a_Squid_Game_costume_on_Halloween_night_2021_in_Waikiki,_Hawaii.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/In_a_Squid_Game_costume_on_Halloween_night_2021_in_Waikiki%2C_Hawaii.jpg/100px-In_a_Squid_Game_costume_on_Halloween_night_2021_in_Waikiki%2C_Hawaii.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/In_a_Squid_Game_costume_on_Halloween_night_2021_in_Waikiki%2C_Hawaii.jpg/150px-In_a_Squid_Game_costume_on_Halloween_night_2021_in_Waikiki%2C_Hawaii.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/In_a_Squid_Game_costume_on_Halloween_night_2021_in_Waikiki%2C_Hawaii.jpg/200px-In_a_Squid_Game_costume_on_Halloween_night_2021_in_Waikiki%2C_Hawaii.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3024" data-file-height="4032"/></a></span></td> <td>Set three years after <a href="/wiki/Seong_Gi-hun" title="Seong Gi-hun">Seong Gi-hun</a> won the <i><a href="/wiki/Squid_Game" title="Squid Game">Squid Game</a></i>, he returns to the game in season 2 to stop them once and for all. Joining the cast are <a href="/wiki/Park_Sung-hoon" title="Park Sung-hoon">Park Sung-hoon</a> as a transgender woman seeking a <a href="/wiki/Gender_reassignment_surgery" class="mw-redirect" title="Gender reassignment surgery">gender reassignment surgery</a>, <a href="/wiki/Im_Si-wan" title="Im Si-wan">Im Si-wan</a> as a former <a href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</a> star who lost his fortune, <a href="/wiki/Lee_Jin-wook" title="Lee Jin-wook">Lee Jin-wook</a> as a man trying to win the money for his cancer-battling daughter, <a href="/wiki/Kang_Ae-shim" title="Kang Ae-shim">Kang Ae-shim</a> and <a href="/wiki/Yang_Dong-geun" title="Yang Dong-geun">Yang Dong-geun</a> as mother and son who enter the game individually in a desperate bid to clear his debts just to find each other there, <a href="/wiki/Choi_Seung-hyun" title="Choi Seung-hyun">Choi Seung-hyun</a> as a <a href="/wiki/Choi_Su-bong" class="mw-redirect" title="Choi Su-bong">purple-haired rapper, known by his stage name "Thanos"</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Jo_Yu-ri" title="Jo Yu-ri">Jo Yu-ri</a> as a heavily pregnant woman hoping to win enough money to support her baby as a single mother. The season garnered positive reviews and big viewership numbers, set record for highest premiere viewership for <a href="/wiki/Netflix" title="Netflix">Netflix</a> surpassing <a href="/wiki/Wednesday_season_1" class="mw-redirect" title="Wednesday season 1"><i>Wednesday</i> season 1</a>, and it is expected to be followed by the <a href="/wiki/Squid_Game_season_3" title="Squid Game season 3">third and final season</a> this year. </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248129851"><div class="wp-signpost-block-2 wp-signpost-block-2-full"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="He's_at_it_again_and_he's_gonna_win_(January_19_to_25)" data-mw-thread-id="h-He's_at_it_again_and_he's_gonna_win_(January_19_to_25)-signpost-article-title"><span id="He.27s_at_it_again_and_he.27s_gonna_win_.28January_19_to_25.29"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-He's_at_it_again_and_he's_gonna_win_(January_19_to_25)-signpost-article-title"></span>He's at it again and he's gonna win (January 19 to 25)<span data-mw-comment-end="h-He's_at_it_again_and_he's_gonna_win_(January_19_to_25)-signpost-article-title"></span></h3></div> <table class="wikitable" style="clear:both"> <tbody><tr> <th>Rank</th> <th>Article</th> <th>Class</th> <th>Views</th> <th>Image</th> <th>Notes/about </th></tr> <tr> <td>1</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Symbol_b_class.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="B-Class article"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/16px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/23px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/31px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/></a></span></td> <td>3,884,456</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:TrumpPortrait.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/TrumpPortrait.jpg/100px-TrumpPortrait.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="129" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/TrumpPortrait.jpg/150px-TrumpPortrait.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/TrumpPortrait.jpg/200px-TrumpPortrait.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2550" data-file-height="3300"/></a></span></td> <td>On January 20, he was sworn in (#8) as the 47th <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">President of the United States</a>, taking over from <a href="/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden">Joe Biden</a>. He immediately <a href="/wiki/List_of_executive_orders_in_the_second_presidency_of_Donald_Trump" title="List of executive orders in the second presidency of Donald Trump">issued a series of executive orders</a> to fulfil his agenda. They include withdrawing the United States from the <a href="/wiki/World_Health_Organization" title="World Health Organization">World Health Organization</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Paris_Agreement" title="Paris Agreement">Paris Agreement</a>, re-declaring a <a href="/wiki/National_Emergency_Concerning_the_Southern_Border_of_the_United_States" title="National Emergency Concerning the Southern Border of the United States">national emergency</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Mexico%E2%80%93United_States_border" title="Mexico–United States border">Mexico–United States border</a>, directed the federal government to <a href="/wiki/Defending_Women_from_Gender_Ideology_Extremism_and_Restoring_Biological_Truth_to_the_Federal_Government" class="mw-redirect" title="Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government">only recognize two genders</a>, estabishing the <a href="/wiki/Department_of_Government_Efficiency" title="Department of Government Efficiency">Department of Government Efficiency</a> to be headed by #6, rescinding <a href="/wiki/Executive_Order_14110" title="Executive Order 14110">artificial intelligence policy goals</a>, reversed sanctions on <a href="/wiki/Israeli_settlement" title="Israeli settlement">Israeli settlers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pardon_of_January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack_defendants" title="Pardon of January 6 United States Capitol attack defendants">pardoned around 1,200 January 6 defendants</a>, commuted sentences for members of <a href="/wiki/Oath_Keepers" title="Oath Keepers">Oath Keepers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Proud_Boys" title="Proud Boys">Proud Boys</a>, ordered the federal renaming of #9 to the "Gulf of America" and <a href="/wiki/Denali" title="Denali">Denali</a> back to Mount McKinley, and delayed a ban on <a href="/wiki/TikTok" title="TikTok">TikTok</a> by 75 days. An <a href="/wiki/Protecting_the_Meaning_and_Value_of_American_Citizenship" class="mw-redirect" title="Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship">order</a> to end <a href="/wiki/Birthright_citizenship_in_the_United_States" title="Birthright citizenship in the United States">birthright citizenship</a> was quickly blocked by a federal judge. Several <a href="/wiki/Office_of_Inspector_General_(United_States)" title="Office of Inspector General (United States)">inspectors general</a> were also <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yveml59jlo">informed of their immediate termination</a>, which may be "inconsistent with the law" and subject to court challenge. </td></tr> <tr> <td>2</td> <td><a href="/wiki/MrBeast" title="MrBeast">MrBeast</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Symbol_b_class.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="B-Class article"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/16px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/23px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/31px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/></a></span></td> <td>3,666,653</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:MrBeast_2023_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/MrBeast_2023_%28cropped%29.jpg/100px-MrBeast_2023_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/MrBeast_2023_%28cropped%29.jpg/150px-MrBeast_2023_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/MrBeast_2023_%28cropped%29.jpg/200px-MrBeast_2023_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2136" data-file-height="2847"/></a></span></td> <td>From <a href="/wiki/List_of_most-subscribed_YouTube_channels" title="List of most-subscribed YouTube channels">most-subscribed YouTube channel</a> to <a href="/wiki/Beast_Games" title="Beast Games">most viewed show</a> on <a href="/wiki/Amazon_Prime_Video" title="Amazon Prime Video">Amazon Prime Video</a> and now he's biding to buy <a href="/wiki/TikTok" title="TikTok">TikTok</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td>3</td> <td><a href="/wiki/JD_Vance" title="JD Vance">JD Vance</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Symbol_b_class.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="B-Class article"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/16px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/23px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/31px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/></a></span></td> <td>2,319,253</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:VancePortrait.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/VancePortrait.jpg/100px-VancePortrait.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="129" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/VancePortrait.jpg/150px-VancePortrait.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/VancePortrait.jpg/200px-VancePortrait.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2550" data-file-height="3300"/></a></span></td> <td>The new <a href="/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States" title="Vice President of the United States">Vice President</a>, who prior to inauguration met his Chinese equivalent <a href="/wiki/Han_Zheng" title="Han Zheng">Han Zheng</a>, and after getting in the role swore in Secretary of State <a href="/wiki/Marco_Rubio" title="Marco Rubio">Marco Rubio</a> and cast the tie-breaking vote to confirm <a href="/wiki/Pete_Hegseth" title="Pete Hegseth">Pete Hegseth</a> as Secretary of Defense. </td></tr> <tr> <td>4</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Melania_Trump" title="Melania Trump">Melania Trump</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Good article"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/94/Symbol_support_vote.svg/16px-Symbol_support_vote.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/94/Symbol_support_vote.svg/23px-Symbol_support_vote.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/94/Symbol_support_vote.svg/31px-Symbol_support_vote.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/></span></span></td> <td>2,173,494</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Melania_Trump_official_portrait.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Melania_Trump_official_portrait.jpg/100px-Melania_Trump_official_portrait.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="151" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Melania_Trump_official_portrait.jpg/150px-Melania_Trump_official_portrait.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Melania_Trump_official_portrait.jpg/200px-Melania_Trump_official_portrait.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3720" data-file-height="5600"/></a></span></td> <td rowspan="2">The Slovenian <a href="/wiki/First_Lady_of_the_United_States" title="First Lady of the United States">First Lady</a> and the Hindu American <a href="/wiki/Second_ladies_and_gentlemen_of_the_United_States" title="Second ladies and gentlemen of the United States">Second Lady</a> of the United States. </td></tr> <tr> <td>5</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Usha_Vance" title="Usha Vance">Usha Vance</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Symbol_c_class.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="C-Class article"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/16px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/23px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/31px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/></a></span></td> <td>2,139,252</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Usha_Vance,_official_portrait_(2025)_(cropped_reasonable).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Usha_Vance%2C_official_portrait_%282025%29_%28cropped_reasonable%29.jpg/100px-Usha_Vance%2C_official_portrait_%282025%29_%28cropped_reasonable%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Usha_Vance%2C_official_portrait_%282025%29_%28cropped_reasonable%29.jpg/150px-Usha_Vance%2C_official_portrait_%282025%29_%28cropped_reasonable%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Usha_Vance%2C_official_portrait_%282025%29_%28cropped_reasonable%29.jpg/200px-Usha_Vance%2C_official_portrait_%282025%29_%28cropped_reasonable%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3299" data-file-height="4382"/></a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>6</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Elon_Musk" title="Elon Musk">Elon Musk</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Good article"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/94/Symbol_support_vote.svg/16px-Symbol_support_vote.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/94/Symbol_support_vote.svg/23px-Symbol_support_vote.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/94/Symbol_support_vote.svg/31px-Symbol_support_vote.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/></span></span></td> <td>2,041,055</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Speaker_Johnson_and_Elon_Musk_2024_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Speaker_Johnson_and_Elon_Musk_2024_%28cropped%29.jpg/100px-Speaker_Johnson_and_Elon_Musk_2024_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="139" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Speaker_Johnson_and_Elon_Musk_2024_%28cropped%29.jpg/150px-Speaker_Johnson_and_Elon_Musk_2024_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Speaker_Johnson_and_Elon_Musk_2024_%28cropped%29.jpg/200px-Speaker_Johnson_and_Elon_Musk_2024_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="618" data-file-height="859"/></a></span></td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Edelweiss_(song)" title="Edelweiss (song)">Elon Musk, Elon Musk. Why you choose that to greet me?</a></i> <p>In a rally shortly after the inauguration (#8) of #1, the centibillionaire who will head <a href="/wiki/Department_of_Government_Efficiency" title="Department of Government Efficiency">DOGE</a> <a href="/wiki/Elon_Musk_straight-arm_gesture_controversy" class="mw-redirect" title="Elon Musk straight-arm gesture controversy">saluted the crowd in a way that instantly caused a ruckus</a>. His defenders and a few other organizations tried to claim it was not as it seemed, but as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Hollywood_Reporter" title="The Hollywood Reporter">The Hollywood Reporter</a></i> put it, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/musk-nazi-salute-trump-rally-1236113874/">Sometimes a Nazi Salute is a Nazi Salute</a>.” Then, on January 25, Musk made a surprise appearance via video link at a <a href="/wiki/Alternative_for_Germany" title="Alternative for Germany">Alternative for Germany</a> campaign rally, expressing his support for the far-right party. </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td>7</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht" title="Ross Ulbricht">Ross Ulbricht</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Symbol_c_class.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="C-Class article"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/16px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/23px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/31px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/></a></span></td> <td>1,840,003</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ulbricht_ID.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Ulbricht_ID.jpg/100px-Ulbricht_ID.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="77" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Ulbricht_ID.jpg/150px-Ulbricht_ID.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Ulbricht_ID.jpg/200px-Ulbricht_ID.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1650" data-file-height="1275"/></a></span></td> <td>Ulbricht created and operated <a href="/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace)" title="Silk Road (marketplace)">Silk Road</a>, a marketplace on the <a href="/wiki/Dark_web" title="Dark web">dark web</a> in which illegal products and services could be traded. In October 2013, the website was shut down by the <a href="/wiki/FBI" class="mw-redirect" title="FBI">FBI</a> and he was arrested. Ulbricht was serving a life imprisonment sentence when #1 granted him a full pardon. </td></tr> <tr> <td>8</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Second_inauguration_of_Donald_Trump" title="Second inauguration of Donald Trump">Second inauguration of Donald Trump</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Symbol_start_class.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Start-Class article"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Symbol_start_class.svg/16px-Symbol_start_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Symbol_start_class.svg/23px-Symbol_start_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Symbol_start_class.svg/31px-Symbol_start_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/></a></span></td> <td>1,073,356</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Donald_Trump_takes_the_oath_of_office_(2025)_(cropped2).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Donald_Trump_takes_the_oath_of_office_%282025%29_%28cropped2%29.jpg/100px-Donald_Trump_takes_the_oath_of_office_%282025%29_%28cropped2%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="74" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Donald_Trump_takes_the_oath_of_office_%282025%29_%28cropped2%29.jpg/150px-Donald_Trump_takes_the_oath_of_office_%282025%29_%28cropped2%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Donald_Trump_takes_the_oath_of_office_%282025%29_%28cropped2%29.jpg/200px-Donald_Trump_takes_the_oath_of_office_%282025%29_%28cropped2%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1325" data-file-height="985"/></a></span></td> <td>Due to freezing temperatures in DC, this was held inside the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Capitol_rotunda" title="United States Capitol rotunda">United States Capitol rotunda</a>, the first indoors inauguration since the one for Reagan's reelection in 1985. Among the ones in attendance were all the living U.S. presidents, and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://news.sky.com/story/net-worth-of-trump-inauguration-attendees-tops-1-trillion-with-worlds-richest-in-the-crowd-13293260">lots of rich people</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ft.com/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/https%3A%2F%2Fd1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net%2Fproduction%2Fc7c44e74-5698-4f6e-836d-9dbbf20ed6df.jpg?source=next-article&fit=scale-down&quality=highest&width=700&dpr=1">a much divulged picture</a> had tech moguls #6, <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Bezos" title="Jeff Bezos">Jeff Bezos</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg" title="Mark Zuckerberg">Mark Zuckerberg</a> and Google’s <a href="/wiki/Sundar_Pichai" title="Sundar Pichai">Sundar Pichai</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td>9</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico" title="Gulf of Mexico">Gulf of Mexico</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Symbol_b_class.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="B-Class article"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/16px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/23px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/31px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/></a></span></td> <td>1,066,060</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Gulf_of_Mexico_places.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Gulf_of_Mexico_places.png/100px-Gulf_of_Mexico_places.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="82" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Gulf_of_Mexico_places.png/150px-Gulf_of_Mexico_places.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Gulf_of_Mexico_places.png/200px-Gulf_of_Mexico_places.png 2x" data-file-width="2743" data-file-height="2242"/></a></span></td> <td>#1 signed <a href="/wiki/Restoring_Names_That_Honor_American_Greatness" class="mw-redirect" title="Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness">an executive order</a> to rename this to the "Gulf of America" for federal use. Even still, most of the world, including the majority of everyday Americans, will continue to call it the Gulf of Mexico. </td></tr> <tr> <td>10</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mariann_Budde" title="Mariann Budde">Mariann Budde</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Symbol_c_class.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="C-Class article"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/16px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/23px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/31px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/></a></span></td> <td>1,061,367</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Mariann_Budde_at_Neil_Armstrong_public_memorial_service.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Mariann_Budde_at_Neil_Armstrong_public_memorial_service.jpg/100px-Mariann_Budde_at_Neil_Armstrong_public_memorial_service.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="126" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Mariann_Budde_at_Neil_Armstrong_public_memorial_service.jpg/150px-Mariann_Budde_at_Neil_Armstrong_public_memorial_service.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Mariann_Budde_at_Neil_Armstrong_public_memorial_service.jpg/200px-Mariann_Budde_at_Neil_Armstrong_public_memorial_service.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1072" data-file-height="1350"/></a></span></td> <td>As the <a href="/wiki/Episcopal_Diocese_of_Washington" title="Episcopal Diocese of Washington">Bishop of Washington</a>, she gave a prayer service the day after #8, urging #1 to show mercy and compassion to vulnerable people, specifically citing the LGBTQ community, immigrants, and war refugees. #1 responded with insults and demanded an apology. </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248129851"><div class="wp-signpost-block-2 wp-signpost-block-2-full"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dance_little_tin_goddess,_dance_(January_26_to_February_1)" data-mw-thread-id="h-Dance_little_tin_goddess,_dance_(January_26_to_February_1)-signpost-article-title"><span id="Dance_little_tin_goddess.2C_dance_.28January_26_to_February_1.29"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Dance_little_tin_goddess,_dance_(January_26_to_February_1)-signpost-article-title"></span>Dance little tin goddess, dance (January 26 to February 1)<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Dance_little_tin_goddess,_dance_(January_26_to_February_1)-signpost-article-title"></span></h3></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Rank</th> <th>Article</th> <th>Class</th> <th>Views</th> <th>Image</th> <th>Notes/about </th></tr> <tr> <td>1</td> <td><a href="/wiki/DeepSeek" title="DeepSeek">DeepSeek</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Symbol_b_class.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="B-Class article"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/16px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/23px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/31px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/></a></span></td> <td>2,542,555</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:DeepSeek_logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/DeepSeek_logo.svg/100px-DeepSeek_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/DeepSeek_logo.svg/150px-DeepSeek_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/DeepSeek_logo.svg/200px-DeepSeek_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="109"/></a></span></td> <td><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2019/02/04/from-trade-war-tech-war/BEGs9yCDcCZMbMW5j8UhEO/story.html">Actually, I’m not sure why I bother. In the end, it too will probably be Made in China.</a></i> <p>An arms race to build the best large language model (LLM). OpenAI with <a href="/wiki/ChatGPT" title="ChatGPT">ChatGPT</a>, Google with <a href="/wiki/Gemini_(chatbot)" title="Gemini (chatbot)">Gemini</a>, Microsoft with <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Copilot" title="Microsoft Copilot">Copilot</a>, <a href="/wiki/Character.ai" title="Character.ai">character.ai</a>, and so on. Established tech giants putting everything into AI. Billions of dollars and thousands of people working on LLMs. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-ai-openai-oracle-softbank-son-altman-ellison-be261f8a8ee07a0623d4170397348c41">The U.S. president investing $500 billion in AI</a>. </p><p>An obscure Chinese company releasing DeepSeek. 20 times cheaper, 10 times less processing power, still just as good. People thinking, "Maybe we don't <i>need</i> to pump so much money into the industry?" <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fastcompany.com/91268132/deepseek-ai-stock-market-crash-today-nvidia-tsmc-gain-ground">A trillion-dollar stock market crash</a>. </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Karoline_Leavitt" title="Karoline Leavitt">Karoline Leavitt</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Symbol_c_class.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="C-Class article"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/16px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/23px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/31px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/></a></span></td> <td>1,719,534</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Karoline_Leavitt_at_her_first_Press_Conference_in_2025.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Karoline_Leavitt_at_her_first_Press_Conference_in_2025.jpg/100px-Karoline_Leavitt_at_her_first_Press_Conference_in_2025.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="87" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Karoline_Leavitt_at_her_first_Press_Conference_in_2025.jpg/150px-Karoline_Leavitt_at_her_first_Press_Conference_in_2025.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Karoline_Leavitt_at_her_first_Press_Conference_in_2025.jpg/200px-Karoline_Leavitt_at_her_first_Press_Conference_in_2025.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1068" data-file-height="931"/></a></span></td> <td>This gentlewoman is President #6's fifth <a href="/wiki/White_House_Press_Secretary" title="White House Press Secretary">White House Press Secretary</a>, when including first-term predecessors <a href="/wiki/Sean_Spicer" title="Sean Spicer">Sean Spicer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sarah_Huckabee_Sanders" title="Sarah Huckabee Sanders">Sarah Huckabee Sanders</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stephanie_Grisham" title="Stephanie Grisham">Stephanie Grisham</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Kayleigh_McEnany" title="Kayleigh McEnany">Kayleigh McEnany</a>. Raised Catholic and hailing from the Live Free or Die state <a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire" title="New Hampshire">New Hampshire</a>, she recently claimed that $50 million in taxpayer funds were to go to fund "condoms <a href="/wiki/Gaza_war" title="Gaza war">in Gaza</a>". </td></tr> <tr> <td>3</td> <td><a href="/wiki/2025_Potomac_River_mid-air_collision" title="2025 Potomac River mid-air collision">2025 Potomac River mid-air collision</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Symbol_c_class.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="C-Class article"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/16px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/23px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/Symbol_c_class.svg/31px-Symbol_c_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/></a></span></td> <td>1,585,882</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:2025_Potomac_River_mid-air_collision.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/2025_Potomac_River_mid-air_collision.png/100px-2025_Potomac_River_mid-air_collision.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="29" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/2025_Potomac_River_mid-air_collision.png/150px-2025_Potomac_River_mid-air_collision.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/2025_Potomac_River_mid-air_collision.png/200px-2025_Potomac_River_mid-air_collision.png 2x" data-file-width="1098" data-file-height="317"/></a></span></td> <td>On January 29, a <a href="/wiki/Bombardier_CRJ700_series" title="Bombardier CRJ700 series">Bombardier CRJ700</a> airliner collided mid-air with a <a href="/wiki/Sikorsky_UH-60_Black_Hawk" title="Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk">Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk</a> helicopter of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">United States Army</a> over the <a href="/wiki/Potomac_River" title="Potomac River">Potomac River</a> a half-mile (0.8 km) from <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan_Washington_National_Airport" title="Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport">Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport</a> in <a href="/wiki/Arlington,_Virginia" class="mw-redirect" title="Arlington, Virginia">Arlington, Virginia</a>. All 67 people on board the two aircraft were killed in what was the deadliest air disaster on United States soil since <a href="/wiki/Colgan_Air_Flight_3407" title="Colgan Air Flight 3407">2009</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td>4</td> <td><a href="/wiki/List_of_Super_Bowl_champions" title="List of Super Bowl champions">List of Super Bowl champions</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Featured_article_star.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Featured list"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Featured_article_star.svg/16px-Featured_article_star.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Featured_article_star.svg/24px-Featured_article_star.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Featured_article_star.svg/32px-Featured_article_star.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="180"/></a></span></td> <td>1,246,947</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Coca_Cola_and_Heineken_Display_Publix_(51804221224).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Coca_Cola_and_Heineken_Display_Publix_%2851804221224%29.jpg/100px-Coca_Cola_and_Heineken_Display_Publix_%2851804221224%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="75" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Coca_Cola_and_Heineken_Display_Publix_%2851804221224%29.jpg/150px-Coca_Cola_and_Heineken_Display_Publix_%2851804221224%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Coca_Cola_and_Heineken_Display_Publix_%2851804221224%29.jpg/200px-Coca_Cola_and_Heineken_Display_Publix_%2851804221224%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="3024"/></a></span></td> <td>As of this writing, a total of 20 franchises have won the NFL Super Bowl. The winner of each Super Bowl receives the famed <a href="/wiki/Vince_Lombardi_Trophy" title="Vince Lombardi Trophy">Vince Lombardi Trophy</a>. <a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_LIX" title="Super Bowl LIX">Super Bowl LIX</a> next Sunday will have a repeat winner between the <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City_Chiefs" title="Kansas City Chiefs">Kansas City Chiefs</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Eagles" title="Philadelphia Eagles">Philadelphia Eagles</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td>5</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr." title="Robert F. Kennedy Jr.">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Symbol_b_class.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="B-Class article"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/16px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/23px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/31px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/></a></span></td> <td>1,188,293</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Robert_F._Kennedy,_Jr._(53513232167).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Robert_F._Kennedy%2C_Jr._%2853513232167%29.jpg/100px-Robert_F._Kennedy%2C_Jr._%2853513232167%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="67" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Robert_F._Kennedy%2C_Jr._%2853513232167%29.jpg/150px-Robert_F._Kennedy%2C_Jr._%2853513232167%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Robert_F._Kennedy%2C_Jr._%2853513232167%29.jpg/200px-Robert_F._Kennedy%2C_Jr._%2853513232167%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6720" data-file-height="4480"/></a></span></td> <td>One more in the influential <a href="/wiki/Kennedy_Family" class="mw-redirect" title="Kennedy Family">Kennedy Family</a>, Mr. Robert F. K. Jr. is President #6's nominee for <a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Health_and_Human_Services" title="United States Secretary of Health and Human Services">Secretary</a> of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Health_and_Human_Services" title="United States Department of Health and Human Services">United States Department of Health and Human Services</a>, highest-spending of all Government Departments by more than double the second-placed <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense" title="United States Department of Defense">D. of Defense</a> (see <a href="/wiki/United_States_federal_executive_departments" title="United States federal executive departments">here</a>; 2023 numbers). At a spunky 71 years young, environmental law and health topics have been among his interests; while appraising efforts like the <a href="/wiki/Recognizing_the_duty_of_the_Federal_Government_to_create_a_Green_New_Deal" title="Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal">Green New Deal</a> and championing the adoption of <a href="/wiki/Photovoltaics" title="Photovoltaics">solar-cell magic</a>, he also denounces vaccines, claiming they <a href="/wiki/Vaccines_and_autism" title="Vaccines and autism">cause autism</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td>6</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Symbol_b_class.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="B-Class article"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/16px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/23px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/31px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/></a></span></td> <td>1,079,557</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:President_Donald_Trump_signing_executive_orders_(04).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/President_Donald_Trump_signing_executive_orders_%2804%29.jpg/100px-President_Donald_Trump_signing_executive_orders_%2804%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="67" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/President_Donald_Trump_signing_executive_orders_%2804%29.jpg/150px-President_Donald_Trump_signing_executive_orders_%2804%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/President_Donald_Trump_signing_executive_orders_%2804%29.jpg/200px-President_Donald_Trump_signing_executive_orders_%2804%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4096" data-file-height="2731"/></a></span></td> <td>Trump’s back (both in this report and to the presidency), and so are his <a href="/wiki/Second_Trump_tariffs" title="Second Trump tariffs">tariffs</a>. Several of his <a href="/wiki/List_of_executive_orders_in_the_second_presidency_of_Donald_Trump" title="List of executive orders in the second presidency of Donald Trump">executive orders</a> are being challenged in court such as the ones attempting to <a href="/wiki/Executive_Order_14160" title="Executive Order 14160">redefine birthright citizenship</a> guaranteed under the <a href="/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution">14th amendment to the U.S. Constitution</a> and <a href="/wiki/2025_United_States_federal_government_grant_pause" title="2025 United States federal government grant pause">freeze federal spending</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td>7</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Marianne_Faithfull" title="Marianne Faithfull">Marianne Faithfull</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Symbol_b_class.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="B-Class article"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/16px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/23px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Symbol_b_class.svg/31px-Symbol_b_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/></a></span></td> <td>1,052,186</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Marianne_Faithfull,_Women%27s_World_Awards_2009_c.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Marianne_Faithfull%2C_Women%27s_World_Awards_2009_c.jpg/100px-Marianne_Faithfull%2C_Women%27s_World_Awards_2009_c.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="103" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Marianne_Faithfull%2C_Women%27s_World_Awards_2009_c.jpg/150px-Marianne_Faithfull%2C_Women%27s_World_Awards_2009_c.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Marianne_Faithfull%2C_Women%27s_World_Awards_2009_c.jpg/200px-Marianne_Faithfull%2C_Women%27s_World_Awards_2009_c.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1667" data-file-height="1711"/></a></span></td> <td>An English singer and actress who died at the age of 78. Faithfull achieved popularity in the 1960s, with some help from <a href="/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones" title="The Rolling Stones">The Rolling Stones</a> (she dated <a href="/wiki/Mick_Jagger" title="Mick Jagger">Mick Jagger</a>, co-wrote "<a href="/wiki/Sister_Morphine" title="Sister Morphine">Sister Morphine</a>" with him, and he let Faithfull record "<a href="/wiki/As_Tears_Go_By_(song)" title="As Tears Go By (song)">As Tears Go By</a>" first, giving her a top 10 single), only for the following decade to have her face hardships, including laryngitis and drug abuse that led to what <a href="/wiki/James_Hetfield" title="James Hetfield">James Hetfield</a> described as a "weathered, smellin'-the-cigarettes-on-the-CD voice" <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug--5KAx7IU&pp=ygUlbWFyaWFubmUgZmFpdGhmdWxsIHRoZSBtZW1vcnkgcmVtYWlucw%3D%3D">hauntingly employed in one of his songs</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td>8</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Deaths_in_2025" title="Deaths in 2025">Deaths in 2025</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span title="List-Class article"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/db/Symbol_list_class.svg/16px-Symbol_list_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/db/Symbol_list_class.svg/23px-Symbol_list_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/db/Symbol_list_class.svg/31px-Symbol_list_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/></span></span></td> <td>999,735</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Florists%27_review_(microform)_(16494905380).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Florists%27_review_%28microform%29_%2816494905380%29.jpg/100px-Florists%27_review_%28microform%29_%2816494905380%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Florists%27_review_%28microform%29_%2816494905380%29.jpg/150px-Florists%27_review_%28microform%29_%2816494905380%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Florists%27_review_%28microform%29_%2816494905380%29.jpg/200px-Florists%27_review_%28microform%29_%2816494905380%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1608" data-file-height="1930"/></a></span></td> <td>Speaking of said song:<br/><i><a href="/wiki/The_Memory_Remains" title="The Memory Remains">And can't the band play on?<br/>Just listen, they play my song<br/>Ash to ash<br/>Dust to dust<br/>Fade to black...</a></i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>9</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Royal_Rumble_(2025)" title="Royal Rumble (2025)">Royal Rumble (2025)</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Symbol_start_class.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Start-Class article"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Symbol_start_class.svg/16px-Symbol_start_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Symbol_start_class.svg/23px-Symbol_start_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Symbol_start_class.svg/31px-Symbol_start_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/></a></span></td> <td>952,745</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Jey_Uso_2024_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Jey_Uso_2024_%28cropped%29.jpg/100px-Jey_Uso_2024_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="156" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Jey_Uso_2024_%28cropped%29.jpg/150px-Jey_Uso_2024_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Jey_Uso_2024_%28cropped%29.jpg/200px-Jey_Uso_2024_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1730" data-file-height="2695"/></a></span></td> <td>WWE Royal Rumble 2025 was held at <a href="/wiki/Lucas_Oil_Stadium" title="Lucas Oil Stadium">Lucas Oil Stadium</a> in <a href="/wiki/Indianapolis" title="Indianapolis">Indianapolis</a>. Fans were shocked and surprised at who returned, like <a href="/wiki/WWE_Hall_of_Fame" title="WWE Hall of Fame">WWE Hall of Famer</a> <a href="/wiki/Trish_Stratus" title="Trish Stratus">Trish Stratus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nikki_Bella" title="Nikki Bella">Nikki Bella</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alexa_Bliss" title="Alexa Bliss">Alexa Bliss</a> and many more. But, they didn't expect <a href="/wiki/AJ_Lee" title="AJ Lee">AJ Lee</a> to not return, nor did they forget <a href="/wiki/IShowSpeed" title="IShowSpeed">IShowSpeed</a> appearing like... <i>what the...?</i>, as well as <a href="/wiki/RVD" class="mw-redirect" title="RVD">RVD</a> (<i>Rob... Van... Dam!</i>) and <a href="/wiki/Ron_Simmons" title="Ron Simmons">Ron Simmons</a> (<i>Damn!</i>). In the 30-Man Royal Rumble, while Jey Uso and <a href="/wiki/John_Cena" title="John Cena">John Cena</a> are fighting, fans did not expect or <i>was not in my bingo card!</i> that Uso would eliminate Cena to become the main event on <a href="/wiki/WrestleMania_41" title="WrestleMania 41">WrestleMania 41</a>. Fans were also disappointed that, in the 30-Woman Royal Rumble, <a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Flair" title="Charlotte Flair">Charlotte Flair</a> won, fans called it "predictable" and Flair will also go on WrestleMania 41. I wonder if <a href="/wiki/Drew_Carey" title="Drew Carey">Drew Carey</a> can go again on Royal Rumble just like he did on <a href="/wiki/Royal_Rumble_(2001)" title="Royal Rumble (2001)">2001 Royal Rumble</a>. Hmm... much worse. </td></tr> <tr> <td>10</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sky_Force_(film)" title="Sky Force (film)"><i>Sky Force</i> (film)</a></td> <td><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Symbol_start_class.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Start-Class article"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Symbol_start_class.svg/16px-Symbol_start_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Symbol_start_class.svg/23px-Symbol_start_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Symbol_start_class.svg/31px-Symbol_start_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/></a></span></td> <td>920,762</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Akshay_Kumar_in_2022.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Akshay_Kumar_in_2022.jpg/100px-Akshay_Kumar_in_2022.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Akshay_Kumar_in_2022.jpg/150px-Akshay_Kumar_in_2022.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Akshay_Kumar_in_2022.jpg/200px-Akshay_Kumar_in_2022.jpg 2x" data-file-width="585" data-file-height="878"/></a></span></td> <td>This <a href="/wiki/Bollywood" class="mw-redirect" title="Bollywood">Bollywood</a> <a href="/wiki/Action_drama" class="mw-redirect" title="Action drama">action drama</a> film centred around India's first airstrike – the attack against Pakistan's <a href="/wiki/PAF_Base_Mushaf" title="PAF Base Mushaf">Sargodha airbase</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Indo-Pakistani_air_war_of_1965" title="Indo-Pakistani air war of 1965">Indo-Pakistani air war of 1965</a> – was released last week coinciding with the Indian <a href="/wiki/Republic_Day_(India)" title="Republic Day (India)">Republic Day</a> weekend. The film stars <a href="/wiki/Akshay_Kumar" title="Akshay Kumar">Akshay Kumar</a> in the lead role and is directed by <a href="/wiki/Abhishek_Anil_Kapur" title="Abhishek Anil Kapur">Abhishek Anil Kapur</a> and co-produced by Ambani's <a href="/wiki/Jio_Studios" class="mw-redirect" title="Jio Studios">Jio Studios</a>. It received positive reviews and has almost recovered its budget as of this writing. </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248129851"><div class="wp-signpost-block-2 wp-signpost-block-2-narrow"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Exclusions" data-mw-thread-id="h-Exclusions-signpost-article-title"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Exclusions-signpost-article-title"></span>Exclusions<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Exclusions-signpost-article-title"></span></h3></div> <ul><li>These lists exclude the Wikipedia main page, non-article pages (such as <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Red_link" title="Wikipedia:Red link">redlinks</a>), and anomalous entries (such as DDoS attacks or likely automated views). Since mobile view data became available to the Report in October 2014, we exclude articles that have almost no mobile views (5–6% or less) or almost all mobile views (94–95% or more) because they are very likely to be automated views based on our experience and research of the issue. 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The eighth season hosted by <a href="/wiki/Vijay_Sethupathi" title="Vijay Sethupathi">Vijay Sethupathi</a> for the first time premiered on last October and concluded with the Finale on 19 January. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Deaths_in_2025" title="Deaths in 2025">Deaths in 2025</a> </td> <td>2013 </td> <td>New year, new notable deaths, and the two biggest of January 2025 were directors, the aforementioned <a href="/wiki/David_Lynch" title="David Lynch">David Lynch</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Baena" title="Jeff Baena">Jeff Baena</a>, which aside from <a href="/wiki/Horse_Girl" title="Horse Girl">one exception</a> made a few unconventional comedies featuring his wife <a href="/wiki/Aubrey_Plaza" title="Aubrey Plaza">Aubrey Plaza</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/January_2025_Southern_California_wildfires" title="January 2025 Southern California wildfires">January 2025 Southern California wildfires</a> </td> <td>1920 </td> <td>California has been hit by extreme weather in the last decade, with <a href="/wiki/2011%E2%80%932017_California_drought" title="2011–2017 California drought">an extensive drought from 2011 to 2017</a>, <a href="/wiki/February_2024_California_atmospheric_rivers" title="February 2024 California atmospheric rivers">floods last year</a>, and now a combination of dry weather and strong winds leading to massive fires in the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_metropolitan_area" class="mw-redirect" title="Los Angeles metropolitan area">Los Angeles metropolitan area</a>. 27 people died and hundreds of thousands were forced to evacuate, many of whom wound up losing their homes as the flames destroyed lots of buildings. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2025_New_Orleans_truck_attack" title="2025 New Orleans truck attack">2025 New Orleans truck attack</a> </td> <td>1547 </td> <td>At around 3:15 a.m. on January 1, a man <a href="/wiki/Vehicle-ramming_attack" title="Vehicle-ramming attack">drove a pickup truck</a> into a crowd celebrating the <a href="/wiki/New_Year%27s_Day" title="New Year's Day">New Year</a> in <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans" title="New Orleans">New Orleans</a>, then engaged in a shootout with police before being shot dead. Fifteen people were killed, including the perpetrator (identified as Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar) and 35 more wounded. According to investigators, the perpetrator had been radicalized in 2024, and <a href="/wiki/Bay%27ah" title="Bay'ah">pledged allegiance</a> to <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State" title="Islamic State">Islamic State</a> in the minutes before the attack. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Jeju_Air_Flight_2216" title="Jeju Air Flight 2216">Jeju Air Flight 2216</a> </td> <td>1506 </td> <td>Jeju Air Flight 2216 was a scheduled passenger flight operated by <a href="/wiki/Jeju_Air" title="Jeju Air">Jeju Air</a> from <a href="/wiki/Bangkok" title="Bangkok">Bangkok</a>, Thailand to <a href="/wiki/Muan_International_Airport" title="Muan International Airport">Muan International Airport</a> in South Korea. On December 29, the aircraft operating the flight landed on its second attempt <a href="/wiki/Belly_landing" title="Belly landing">with no landing gear</a>, possibly due to damage from a <a href="/wiki/Bird_strike" title="Bird strike">bird strike</a>. It skidded down the runway, overrunning it and crashed into an embankment, where it immediately burst into flames. Out of the 181 occupants, two cabin crew survived. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Sanger" title="Margaret Sanger">Margaret Sanger</a> </td> <td>1475 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/User:Noleander" title="User:Noleander">Noleander</a> did extensive work on the page for the <a href="/wiki/Planned_Parenthood" title="Planned Parenthood">Planned Parenthood</a> founder so <a href="/wiki/Talk:Margaret_Sanger/GA3" title="Talk:Margaret Sanger/GA3">it could become a Good Article</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Bigg_Boss_(Hindi_TV_series)_season_18" title="Bigg Boss (Hindi TV series) season 18"><i>Bigg Boss</i> (Hindi TV series) season 18</a> </td> <td>1246 </td> <td>We mentioned the Kollywood <i>Big Brother</i>, here's the <a href="/wiki/Bollywood" class="mw-redirect" title="Bollywood">Bollywood</a> one. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> </td> <td>1061 </td> <td>Four more years with this guy splitting his time between <a href="/wiki/Mar-a-Lago" title="Mar-a-Lago">Mar-a-Lago</a> and the White House. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2024%E2%80%9325_NFL_playoffs" title="2024–25 NFL playoffs">2024–25 NFL playoffs</a> </td> <td>918 </td> <td>The lead-up to <a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_LIX" title="Super Bowl LIX">Super Bowl LIX</a> ended up in a slightly disappointing match-up that is also a rerun of the 2023 edition, namely the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Eagles" title="Philadelphia Eagles">Philadelphia Eagles</a> facing the two-time defending champion <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City_Chiefs" title="Kansas City Chiefs">Kansas City Chiefs</a>. At least there will be <a href="/wiki/Kendrick_Lamar" title="Kendrick Lamar">Kendrick Lamar</a> at the half-time show! </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Bigg_Boss_Kannada_season_11" title="Bigg Boss Kannada season 11"><i>Bigg Boss</i> Kannada season 11</a> </td> <td>895 </td> <td>Again, the <a href="/wiki/Sandalwood" title="Sandalwood">Sandalwood</a> <i>Big Brother</i> (there are eight Indian versions of the famed reality show). </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2025_Australian_Open_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_singles" title="2025 Australian Open – Men's singles">2025 Australian Open – Men's singles</a> </td> <td>854 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jannik_Sinner" title="Jannik Sinner">Jannik Sinner</a> successfully defended his title in Melbourne, postponing the dream <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Zverev" title="Alexander Zverev">Alexander Zverev</a> has of a first Grand Slam. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2025_Liberal_Party_of_Canada_leadership_election" title="2025 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election">2025 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election</a> </td> <td>850 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Justin_Trudeau" title="Justin Trudeau">Justin Trudeau</a>, who's been prime minister of Canada since 2015, announced on January 6 his pending resignation, to take effect once his party elects a new leader on March 9. 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His state funeral took place from January 4 to 9, starting in his home state of <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(U.S._state)" title="Georgia (U.S. state)">Georgia</a>, where his body <a href="/wiki/Lying_in_repose" title="Lying in repose">laid in repose</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Carter_Center" title="Carter Center">Carter Center</a> from January 4 to 7. His body was then flown to the capital, where it <a href="/wiki/Lying_in_state" title="Lying in state">laid in state</a> in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Capitol_rotunda" title="United States Capitol rotunda">United States Capitol rotunda</a> until January 9, when a state funeral service was conducted at <a href="/wiki/Washington_National_Cathedral" title="Washington National Cathedral">Washington National Cathedral</a>, attended by the Carter family as well as domestic and foreign dignitaries. After the service, his remains were transported to the <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Carter_House" title="Jimmy Carter House">Jimmy Carter House</a> in <a href="/wiki/Plains,_Georgia" title="Plains, Georgia">Plains, Georgia</a>, where Carter lived for decades and spent his final years, for a private burial. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Palisades_Fire" title="Palisades Fire">Palisades Fire</a> </td> <td>793 </td> <td>The most affected area of the aforementioned wildfire was <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Palisades,_Los_Angeles" title="Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles">Pacific Palisades</a>, which were basically all burned down, destroying homes of celebrities and commoners alike. </td></tr></tbody></table> <div style="clear:both"></div></div> <p><br/><br/><i><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2025-02-07/Traffic_report#comments" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-02-07/Traffic report">Reader comments</a></b></i><br style="clear:both;"/> </p> <div style="text-align:center; margin-top:30px; 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