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	Just as this K-1 cart braves the rugged hills and solemn valleys, so too shall I press onward, threading the silver wires of wisdom through the land, that light and learning may follow in my wake.
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	ꦥꦔꦁꦒꦺꦴꦲꦶꦏꦶꦏꦺꦠꦸꦫꦸꦤꦤ꧀ꦭꦁꦱꦸꦁꦱꦏꦥꦔꦺꦫꦤ꧀ꦢꦶꦥꦤꦼꦒꦫ。; This user is a direct descendant of Prince Diponegoro.
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Kaliper1, also known as K1, is a Wikipedian editor who has been editing articles since 25 June 2020. Kaliper1 began contributing to various Wikimedia sites by initially focusing on making minor improvements such as correcting grammatical errors, adding citations, fixing formatting, adding category and image tags, captions, and links. This hobby served as a pastime after half-retiring from other endeavors. However, due to the upheaval of 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic, kaliper1 found themselves with an abundance of free time, leading to feelings of boredom and a desire to make a positive impact on the world. As a result, they turned their attention towards contributing to Wikipedia and other related sites, with the aim of making meaningful contributions to the broader online community.

He is an alumnus of the University of Indonesia and the University of Melbourne, and a son of the Moh. Ilyas-Diponegoro princely line.

Contributions

To many to list them down, You can see my Wikipedia contributions here and Commons uploads, in which some are still in display, are here.

Persons of interests in China

One of the first image/texts edits I've done in Wikipedia was concerning persons of interests in China. Specifically 1920-1940s Manchukuo and Northeast China. I've initially chosen this due to the fact that I was returning back from Beijing. Visiting Museums, Universities (Jilin and Northeast), Old Buildings, and Religious sites in northeast china, that's plastered with history, intrigues me. And during my time there, I've had uploaded photos on Baidu baike (Chinese: 百度百科; pinyin: Bǎidù Bǎikē; lit. 'Baidu Encyclopedia'), A chinese version of Wikipedia per-say. Mainly about unknown and obscure old photos catalogued in museums from the 1920-40's. As of now i've only uploaded Pictures of Feng Yong (Chinese: 馮庸) and Ying Qianli (Chinese: 英千里) from my Baidu baike postings and scouring. So far also i'm planning to add all of my picture postings in Baidu baike site to wikipedia for the world to see. On 2024, I've revisited China, specifically in the Dunhuang area where I traversed the via a local bus. This visit was specifically towards interest within the Silk road, eventually reaching Xi'an. Most of my photos was corrupted due to a damaged SD drive, but thankfully some was managed to get extracted. I'll upload some here at commons.

Everything Timor-Leste

I have had the opportunity to contribute to the Wikipedia pages related to Timor-Leste, a small country situated between Indonesia and Australia. Specifically, my focus has been on editing and improving the political and geographical sections of these pages. One significant challenge I encountered was the scarcity of information on the English version of the Timor-Leste Wiki in comparison to the more extensive and detailed German Wiki pages. To address this disparity, I decided to translate relevant pages from German to English, which allowed me to make meaningful contributions to the English language wiki community. I noticed that there were far more German language Wikis about Timor-Leste than English, and the Indonesian Wiki was highly underdeveloped. Given that I had some understanding of the German language, albeit a bit rusty and not in use for a long time, I decided to contribute my skills and knowledge to this cause. Thus far, I have been able to make a meaningful contribution by translating and expanding several Wiki pages related to Timor-Leste by also joining WikiProject East Timor.

One out of many examples of the changes I made to these Wiki pages can be seen in the pages for KOTA, PUN, and PST, where I added detailed information on the geography and politics of these regions. I find Timor-Leste to be a fascinating country with a rich cultural history and also personal history! In which, motivated me to contribute to these Wiki pages. I wish to visit Timor-Leste one last time. However, that is a story for another time. In the meantime, I hope others can appreciate the work that I, and many others, have done to improve the quality and depth of information available on Timor-Leste.

ASEAN

My interest in ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) comes from a long and deep fascination with regional cooperation, diplomacy, and the cultural ties that bind Southeast Asia together. I began editing and improving ASEAN-related articles to clarify and expand historical contexts, particularly those involving the founding period in the late 1960s. Much of my work has focused on the ASEAN Declaration (Bangkok Declaration), the formation meetings in Bangkok, and the early diplomatic efforts involving Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. I was inspired to contribute after studying archival newspapers and documents from the region, including materials from national archives and various foreign ministry publications during my time in university.

My goal is to help make ASEAN articles more comprehensive and accessible, not only for Southeast Asian readers but also for the wider global community. I have a mission to make ASEAN related articles to be comparable to the standards of WikiProject European Union; as much as 1:1. As I, and many parts of the community, see the EU as our main role model; and we should follow their example. Indeed, it is a one-man band. But it is hoped that these efforts will encourage greater understanding of ASEAN’s role in regional stability, economic growth, and cultural exchange in Asia. If the EU can work, so to does ASEAN. And if a sitting Defence Secretary of the U.S. does not know what ASEAN is,^[1] then there is much more work to be done.

Pop Kreatif

If you're here from the Pop Kreatif article, I'd recommend listen to this Playlist first to get the idea of what is truly, Indonesia's City Pop. [Give it a try.]

Current drafts

Even as an established editor with the rights and requirements of autoconfirmed status to publish articles directly, I rarely make use of that route. Instead, I typically opt to create articles through the Articles for Creation (AfC) process. Both for the purposes of a better review and recheck, a second opinion is incorporated into the drafting stage. It is, in my view, a safer and more reliable method that helps refine an article to its fullest. The only exceptions are articles tied to ongoing events or matters of timeliness, where immediate publication may be warranted.

This editor is a **Veteran Editor** and is entitled to display this **Iron Editor Star**.

Here are Kaliper1's current drafts. You may see my work being done below. Feel free to contribute!

Draft:Kuomintang in Australia - Writing Phase - 39.9%
Draft:Kampung Haji - Writing Phase - 10.1%
Draft:Baguio Conference - Research Phase- 5%
Draft:Groep Irawan- Research Phase- 0%
Draft:Murbaism - Research Phase- 1%
Draft:Andaman and Nicobar Crisis - Research Phase (On Hold) - 1%
Draft:25 January Revolutionaries Movement

Archived/Unused:

Draft:Australians in Bali - Research Phase- 1%
Draft:R.M. Sidartawan - Research Phase (On Hold) - 0.5%
Draft:Sri Bintang Pamungkas - Research Phase (On Hold) - 11.5%
Draft:Malayo-Chamic languages - Research (on hold) - 15%
Draft:Galang Rambu Anarki (song) - Start - 0%

Expansions. Articles not made by me, but have the obligation to make it look better than my articles.

Indonesia and weapons of mass destruction - Research - 9%

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Important contributions and generally kind.‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎‎ ‎‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎
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	Thank you for your creation of East Timor–Brunei relations. Keep up the great work!‎‎ ‎‎‎‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ — Pangalau (talk) 04:44, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

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		Thanks for your endorsement of the candidacy of my page 2025 Indonesian protests into ITN! For now, the news about the protests is on Main Page. — DDG 9912 00:23, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

	The Writer's Barnstar
	Thank you for your work in creating articles. At this point, you really don't have to use AfC; you can just publish them. It kinda wastes reviewer's time. Anywho, thank you for your contributions! Keep it up, and I hope to see more! — veko. (user \| talk \| contribs) 21:39, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

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24 August 2026

News and notes
Union process progresses, unanswered questions about Littler Mendelson remain

In the media
Wikipedia editors save Sam Altman's life

Recent research
Women in blue? Wikipedia's gender gap reverses in some areas

Discussion report
Again and Again

Traffic report
Look out, here comes the Spider-Man!

Humour
Her tastes, her Wikimania, her upcoming tour... Baby Globe reveals everything

On the bright side
The great outdoors

Opinion
Are we embarrassed yet?

Special report
Paris Syndrome: Labor Strife, AI Anxiety, and a Leadership Test at Wikimania 2026

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Kaliper1

Union process progresses, unanswered questions about Littler Mendelson remain

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By Andreas Kolbe and HaeB

Wiki Workers United developments

The Wiki Workers United logo

Further to the events described in the previous Signpost issue, Wiki Workers United (WWU) announced on 5 August 2026 that the Wikimedia Foundation leadership had signed a stipulated agreement allowing eligible U.S. Wikimedia staffers to vote for the formation of a WWU branch within the Communications Workers of America (CWA). The WWU statement said:

According to our agreement, ballots will be mailed out to eligible U.S. workers on August 11 and will be counted on Thursday, September 3, 2026, at 2:00pm PDT at the San Francisco Regional NLRB Office. In order to be counted, ballots must be received in the regional office before the count.

We welcome management's cooperation as an example of the Foundation putting into practice their public commitment to a speedy election process and to bargaining in good faith. We will do our part to continue this collaboration with leadership, in keeping with the spirit of our movement.

WWU U.S. also expressed its thanks to the volunteer community for standing beside Wikimedia workers.

In the UK, negotiations on the precise scope of the bargaining unit – i.e., which UK workers would be represented through collective bargaining – are still ongoing. The WWU wishes to include managers; the WMF side is arguing that managers and those with access to confidential information should be excluded.

Jimmy Wales corrects his earlier statements

Jimmy Wales initially pushed back against the notion that the Wikimedia Foundation had hired union-busting lawyers. He subsequently corrected himself, explaining that he had personally been unaware of Littler Mendelson having been hired and considers the decision a mistake.

@Femke I was not aware when I said that no union busting law firms had been hired that Littler Mendelson had been hired. When I found out, I immediately emailed the WMF to say that I think it was a mistake and to recommend firing them immediately. As of today (the day after my 60th birthday, which I have been spending on vacation with my extended family) I do not know exactly when they were hired. Obviously I am unhappy about every aspect of that. Jimbo Wales (talk) 00:41, 9 August 2026 (UTC)

The following day, however, having spoken with WMF leadership, he said he saw no great problem with the actual work Littler Mendelson had been asked to do:

Hi everyone just a quick update. As I have mentioned I will be back at my desk tomorrow afternoon UK time (jetlagged) and have cleared a lot of time next week.
My initial instinct based on reading public material is much like yours. I have looked into it and spoken further with the Foundation leadership team to try to learn more about where things stand.
I am satisfied with the specific work the Foundation has asked Littler to do. My concern is with the optics of working with this firm, but I do think what matters most are our actions, and I want to be clear that I think there has been no bad faith here. I am confident the team will conduct this process according to our values.
In terms of details, the work the WMF has asked Littler to do includes understanding our global footprint - not every firm has the global expertise that we need as a global movement - and to look at the best, fairest, and most equitable pathways that will work for our global organization. We are choosing the pathways that allowed to get swiftly to a fair vote, and to bargain in good faith.

It is important to note that the WMF has made a clear commitment, to me and to all of us, to do the right things here.
As I say I will be spending the next week on this and I very much hope we can bring down the heat in the conversations. I particular I ask people to take a breather from petitions, RFCs and the like for the moment. I'd like to take the time I need to try to help everyone get on the same page. Jimbo Wales (talk) 01:17, 10 August 2026 (UTC)

Unanswered questions remain

The exact timeline and scope of Littler Mendelson's involvement remain elusive to this day. On 6 August Wikimedia Foundation board member Lorenzo Losa was asked:

Could you please say when the WMF first sought the assistance of Littler Mendelson?
When did you and other board members learn that Littler Mendelson had been contracted to work on this?
And which outside law firm, if any, provided advice for the February WMF message to employees?

On 12 August, the same questions were put to Jimmy Wales, who has said he will ask in his next meeting with the WMF whether the Littler hiring date can be released. To date no further information has been made public.

On CEO Bernadette Meehan's Meta-Wiki talk page, a call for her to resign, posted by User:Sohom Datta, has attracted around 50 supporters.

The WWU solidarity petition became the most supported proposal or petition ever on English-language Wikipedia on 21 August 2026, when the number of signatures surpassed 1375.

Raju Narisetti leaves WMF board

Raju Narisetti

As announced on Diff on August 11, Raju Narisetti, a Board-selected trustee, stepped off the WMF Board at the end of July after nine years of service. His tenure had been due to end on January 1, 2027 (after a term extension granted by the Board in August 2025; the Foundation's bylaws stipulate that trustees "may serve a maximum of three consecutive full terms (that is, nine years).").

Raju served nine years on the Board's Audit Committee. At different points he chaired the Talent & Culture committee and also (from 2025) the Governance committee responsible for the Board selection process. In that capacity, he oversaw the controversial changes to the process for electing trustees by community vote, implemented shortly before last year's board elections, and recommended the removal of two shortlisted community members as candidates (Signpost coverage). As reported in last issue's "News and notes", the governance committee just recently (on 17 July) presented its revised eligibility criteria for board candidates that the board had pledged to review after last year's community pushback. Following further community discussions, on July 31, trustee Maciej Nadzikiewicz (appointed as new chair of the Governance Committee earlier that month) posted an update acknowledging that "We realize that our proposal needs more work".

Raju's departure leaves the Board at 10 members. The Wikimedia Foundation has announced "Our 2026 Trustee search", inviting nominations or submissions for new appointed Board members. While not specifying hard eligibility criteria, it lists various "Essential Experience and Values" and "Priority Skills, Knowledge or Expertise".

Raju left a good-bye message on LinkedIn (archive.org copy), looking back at his time on the Wikimedia Foundation Board:

After nine years and the maximum three terms, I stepped down as a Trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia.
It has been an extraordinary period to have had a small part in stewarding an institution that matters deeply to the world. These years saw unprecedented growth and, in recent years, unprecedented challenges for Wikipedia, and the broader movement committed to free knowledge.
I had the privilege of serving alongside four Board Chairs: Christophe Henner, María Sefidari Huici, Nataliia Tymkiv and Lorenzo Losa, and three CEOs. I was especially fortunate, as Chair of the Board’s CEO Selection Committee, to help bring two CEOs, Maryana Iskander and Bernadette Meehan, to the Foundation. [...]
But what stays with me most isn’t the committee work or governance milestones. It's what I learned from the people who build, edit, protect and sustain this remarkable public resource. [...]
I leave with a lifetime’s worth of personal growth and ringside learning from one of the world’s largest and most complex technology platforms, reaching more than 1.5 billion devices each month, while remaining rooted in an enduring ambitious idea that every human being should be able to freely share in the sum of all knowledge. [...]
Thank you to the many Wiki volunteers, editors, staff, fellow trustees and movement leaders around the world who taught me so much over these nine years. It was a privilege to serve.

The Signpost wishes Raju well in his future endeavours.

–AK, H

Brief notes

Upcoming Wikimedia Café: Two opportunities for discussion of matters of concern to Wikimedians are scheduled in August, with a focus on the Next 25 initiative.
- 29 August 2026 15:00 UTC (timestamp converter), at a time friendly to the Americas, Africa, and Europe;
- 30 August 2026 03:00 UTC (timestamp converter), at a time friendly to Asia and the Pacific.
1–30 September WikiProject Organized Labour/2026 Online Campaign and Labour Women in Red is a month-long online Wikipedia edit-a-thon co-organised by WikiProjects Organized Labour and Women in Red to improve content related to organized labour, with a special focus on women in labor unions, and improving global WP:WORLDVIEW.
Articles for Improvement: This week's Article for Improvement is Boy beginning 24 August, followed by Archipelago (beginning 31 August 2026). Please be bold in helping improve these articles!

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Wikipedia editors save Sam Altman's life

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By Andreas Kolbe, Bri, Czarking0, and Mitchsavl

Cunningham's Law

Sam Altman is undead ... gee, hope this doesn't go viral too.

Several publications highlighted how a briefly visible vandalism edit to Open AI CEO Sam Altman's Wikipedia article led Google Search to show that he was dead.^[2] The edit falsely claimed that Altman had been assassinated, with the edit reverted 42 minutes later. Google's search overview picked up on this addition and "informed" users that he died on August 12. Shortly after the error was initially reverted, several temporary accounts briefly readded it before being reverted, and the page has now been temporarily semi protected. The Signpost thanks everyone who works hard to fight vandalism on Wikipedia. Maybe next week these publications will take the opportunity to write about all the correct information on Wikipedia. Let this also serve as a reminder of all the people who rely on our efforts for their information beyond just our direct readers. – M, C

Jimbo continues the tour

On August 16, 2026, Fortune magazine published an interview with Jimmy Wales. It began with asking how Wikipedia supports itself without ads. (Meanwhile, editors are discussing removing the donation banners from Wikipedia until the issues with meta:Wiki Workers United are resolved.) Jimbo also highlighted that regular donors are subsidizing the AI companies which use Wikipedia for their training data and discussed known issues with AI in editing. There was also a dose of book promotion. – C

In brief

Alexandra Burke on tour in 2011

Is Grokipedia a museum or an encyclopedia?: A report says that requests to update Grokipedia have been left unanswered for months and the Wikipedia-wannabe's contents have been static since April. Also in Lawfare (the original), Gizmodo, and Boing Boing
Fit for print, but not a musical: Joining critiques of a sci-fi film, a biopic, quasi-fictional biographies of historical figures, documentaries and another biopic, and corporate mass firings covered previously by The Signpost, we now have a musical headlined by Alexandra Burke that is too much like a Wikipedia article (The Telegraph).
Disunion: On the heels of earlier media coverage (see last issue's "In the media"), the International Business Times reported on August 3 that the "Wikimedia Foundation Declines Voluntary Union Recognition as Labor Dispute Grows".
That's a very weird recipe: "Toast, boners, and margarine haters all come together on Wikipedia" (The A.V. Club's "Wiki Wormhole", a feature for Wiki rabbit-holics)
Hats off to you, nerds and pedants: In a review that many Broadway artists would be just fine with, Broadway Baby finds the "nerds and pedants" here, as documented by Depths of Wikipedia, "completely hilarious" and "life-affirming – a celebration of the weird and wonderful nature of the world we live in".
Porn actors get the shaft on Ruwiki: Analysis of deletions, Moscow office hours kept by editors, and other tidbits concerning the Ruwiki state-controlled Wikipedia fork, in a study published by Centre for Economic Policy Research, "The anatomy of censorship and propaganda: What Russia's Wikipedia clone reveals about authoritarian information control".

Do you want to contribute to "In the media" by writing a story or even just an "in brief" item? Edit our next edition in the Newsroom or leave a tip on the suggestions page.

References

^ "Question on ASEAN stumped Hegseth at Senate hearing. What is it and why is it important?". AP News. 2025-01-15. Retrieved 2025-07-08.
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Multiple sources:
- Singh, Ritu (August 13, 2026). "Google Search Error Shows Sam Altman As Dead, False Claim Traced To Wikipedia". NDTV.
- Vlamis, Kelsey (August 12, 2026). "Google falsely said Sam Altman was dead — and suggested vandalized public sources could be to blame". Business Insider.

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Women in blue? Wikipedia's gender gap reverses in some areas

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By Tilman Bayer and Czarking0

A monthly overview of recent academic research about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, also published as the Wikimedia Research Newsletter.

Women in blue? "[T]he trend reversed in 2022" and female biology professors are now more likely to have a Wikipedia biography than male ones

Reviewed by Czarking0 and Tilman Bayer

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[W]omen [biologists] were 25% more likely than men to have a Wikipedia biography in 2024...

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— Alvarez-Ponce and Iyengar

Times may be changing on our project. A recent publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society highlights how representation of female tenure-track biologists has surpassed that of their male counterparts.^[1]

Using a recently generated census of 2104 female and 3721 male tenured and tenure-eligible faculty members affiliated with the biology departments of all United States R1 universities, we examined the extent to which biology faculty are covered on Wikipedia. Women in the census were significantly less likely to be featured on the platform than their male peers until 2018. However, the trend reversed in 2022, and women were 25% more likely than men to have a Wikipedia biography in 2024. In addition, women's biographies tend to be longer than those of men.

As we have noted here at various times before (not just regarding gender biases, but also e.g. regarding political biases), gaps in coverage are not necessarily due to biases on behalf of Wikipedia itself (in the sense of editors "putting the thumb on the scale"). In this case though, while trying to understand "the causes of this reversal", the authors plausibly point to changes on Wikipedia itself, namely the activities of the WikiProject Women in Red, which began counteracting the article gap in 2015, and related efforts:

Among the 163 women’s biographies created since 2015, 78 were created by Wikipedia editors that were affiliated with the Women in Red project (figure 5 [reproduced below]), 16 were created by editors affiliated with the Women Scientists project (however, 14 of these were created by individuals that were also part of the Women in Red project), and 13 were created by users registered as students enrolled in university courses that require/encourage contributing to Wikipedia.

The researchers also obtained various other variables as part of their census of professors, and analyzed their relation to the likelihood of having a Wikipedia biography:

Among faculty with Wikipedia biographies, women had significantly fewer publications and citations, lower h-indexes and shorter careers (i.e. they started publishing more recently [...]), suggesting that the research output required to be covered on Wikipedia is higher for men than for women. The university ranking was not significantly different between women and men with Wikipedia biographies

A few further statistical analyses controlling for these academic metrics indicated that

[...] gender has no effect on the number of views (p = 0.600), the number of edits (p = 0.488) or the number of edits per year (p = 0.485), indicating that women’s Wikipedia biographies are viewed and edited as often as those of men with the same academic rank and a similar affiliation, seniority and research output. However, gender does have an effect on biographies’ lengths (p = 2.66 × 10−5), and a separate linear regression analysis for women’s and men’s biographies indicates that, given any h-index, women’s biographies tend to be longer than those of men [...].

In Germany, "female professors seem to have a higher chance of having a Wikipedia biography than their male counterparts"

Predicted probabilities [for professors in Germany to have an article on German Wikipedia] differentiated by university type, gender, and discipline]", according to the authors' models (from the paper)

Reviewed by Tilman Bayer

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Female professors in STEM fields had a higher predicted probability of having a [German] Wikipedia biography than their male colleagues.

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— Spagert, İnal, and Wolf

Another recent study^[2] focused on the coverage of German scholars on the German Wikipedia and similarly found that

Surprisingly, gender had a positive and significant effect: female professors seem to have a higher chance of having a Wikipedia biography than their male counterparts (B = 0.340, p = 0.024).

This effect was determined to be concentrated in STEM disciplines:

Female professors in STEM fields had a higher predicted probability of having a Wikipedia biography than their male colleagues. Outside STEM, no gender effects were observed.

Similar to the above study of US biology professors on enwiki, the authors started with a systematic census of their target population, and also examined the (not necessarily causal) effects of other scholarly metrics on the likelihood of being covered on Wikipedia:

Our study is based on data from an online survey of 1839 professors in Germany. Four binary logistic regression models and predicted probabilities were calculated to test our hypotheses. The results indicated that the number of published articles (OR = 0.999; p = 0.110) and awards (OR = 1.007, p = 0.781) did not predict having a Wikipedia page, while press articles had a positive but small effect (OR = 1.005; p = 0.005). Among all variables aiming to capture notability, a professorship at a university of applied science (UAS) was most powerful and had a significant negative effect (OR = 0.176; p < 0.001). Individual activities, such as social media activity (OR = 1.248; p = 0.002) and networking (OR = 1.433; p = 0.012), had a positive effect.

Unlike the above US-focused Proceedings of the Royal Society paper, the authors here did not attempt to track changes in the German Wikipedia's coverage over time, or to assess the potential impact of editing campaigns that target gender gaps. Those are only mentioned in passing in a section titled: "What can scientists do to get a Wikipedia biography?":

[...] extended professional networks could also have a direct impact on Wikipedia biographies, as they increase the likelihood of being portrayed as part of Wikipedia editing campaigns (such as edit-a-thons). This may be especially helpful for female professors, as there are Wikipedia networks such as “FemNetz” and “WomenEdit” in Berlin as well as “Who writes his_tory?” in Switzerland, which are committed to writing biographies about women on Wikipedia [...].

Other recent publications

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, are always welcome.

Compiled by Tilman Bayer

"Quantifying (Mis)alignment Between Reader Focus and Editor Citation in Scholarly Biomedical Topics in Wikipedia"

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[E]ditors focus their citation work on basic science topics... leading to disproportionate citation rates of basic research publications for biomedical topics in Wikipedia.

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— Afshar et al.

From the abstract:^[3]

"we quantitatively explore both (a) how scholarly biomedical research is cited in biomedically-focused Wikipedia articles, and (b) whether this reflects the topical patterns of those articles' readership in Wikipedia. Our methods identify quantitative avenues for improved alignment between editors' limited effort and readers' focus, with respect to both the biomedical topics themselves and the caliber of biomedical research cited. In other words, readers focus on topics that are very human-focused, but editors focus their citation work on basic science topics (e.g. molecular and cellular biology), leading to disproportionate citation rates of basic research publications for biomedical topics in Wikipedia."

See also our coverage of earlier research that similarly found a "Misalignment Between Supply and Demand" of Wikipedia's content

"The most influential philosophers in Wikipedia: a multicultural analysis"

From the abstract:^[4]

"We explore the influence and interconnectivity of philosophical thinkers within the Wikipedia knowledge network. Using a dataset of 237 articles dedicated to philosophers across nine different language editions (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish), we apply the PageRank and CheiRank algorithms to analyze their relative ranking and influence in each linguistic context. Our findings suggest that while philosophers, and their associated schools of thought, do not serve as the foundational building blocks of the Wikipedia knowledge structure, they remain critical reference points within it. The top ten articles devoted to philosophers for each language edition is determined. We observe significant cultural variations in the ranking of these figures across language editions, with Western philosophers, in particular, being disproportionately represented among the most influential."

See also our earlier coverage of related research: "Wikipedia-based graphs visualize influences between thinkers, writers and musicians"

"Filling in the Blanks? A Systematic Review and Theoretical Conceptualisation for Measuring WikiData Content Gaps"

From the abstract:^[5]

"Wikidata [...] features a long-tail of items with limited data and a number of systematic gaps within the available content. In this paper, we present the results of a systematic literature review aimed to understand the state of these content gaps within Wikidata. We propose a typology of gaps based on prior research and contribute a theoretical framework intended to conceptualise gaps and support their measurement. We also describe the methods and metrics present used within the literature and classify them according to our framework to identify overlooked gaps that might occur in Wikidata. We then discuss the implications for collaboration and editor activity within Wikidata as well as future research directions. "

References

^ Alvarez-Ponce, David; Iyengar, Niveda (27 May 2026). "Monitoring the gender gap in the coverage of biology professors on Wikipedia". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 293 (2071) 20252566. doi:10.1098/rspb.2025.2566. ISSN 0962-8452. PMID 42191161.
^ Spagert, Lina; İnal, Zeynep; Wolf, Elke (2026-08-05). "Who gets a Wikipedia biography? Analysing notability criteria, actions for visibility and gender effects among professors in Germany". Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 13 (1): 1284. doi:10.1057/s41599-026-08217-5. ISSN 2662-9992.
^ Afshar, Askar Safipour; Yang, Qiyao; Thebault-Spieker, Jacob; Hutchins, B. Ian (2026-02-17). "Quantifying (Mis)alignment Between Reader Focus and Editor Citation in Scholarly Biomedical Topics in Wikipedia". Quantitative Science Studies. 7: 326–348. doi:10.1162/QSS.a.457. ISSN 2641-3337.
^ Rollin, Guillaume; Lages, José (2025-09-30). "The most influential philosophers in Wikipedia: a multicultural analysis". EPJ Data Science. 14 (1): 69. doi:10.1140/epjds/s13688-025-00570-w. ISSN 2193-1127.
^ Ripoll, Marisa; Reeves, Neal; Kurteva, Anelia; Simperl, Elena; Peñuela, Albert Meroño; Diepold, Klaus (2025-06-10). "Filling in the Blanks? A Systematic Review and Theoretical Conceptualisation for Measuring WikiData Content Gaps". arXiv:2505.16383 [cs.SI].

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Again and Again

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By Czarking0, Mitchsavl, and Barkeep49

Don't make me say it again

There is an ongoing request for comment regarding the administration of administrator elections. While a few questions are still open, many others have already been closed by Giraffer.

Previous administrator elections have had monitors who could remove personal attacks. However, in the previous election, monitors removed questions for being inappropriate rather than strictly personal attacks. There is now "consensus that blatantly inappropriate questions may be curated" by a monitor after they are posed to a candidate. Support for the status quo was maintained for all other issues raised in this discussion.

Confirmed and Re-confirmed

On August 4, discussion on whether to change the requirements for users to obtain the WP:AUTOCONFIRM and WP:EXTENDED confirmed status was closed by Mz7. The discussion involved 163 comments from 74 people. Consensus was for no change except that counters should start from a user's first edit rather than when their account is created. The closer noted a general lack of evidence to support any change to status quo.

Is Bernadette Salty?

What Sohom Datta would look like if they were a flower

Sohom Datta is currently one of our interface administrators, author of SodiumBot, a member of the Product and Technology Advisory Council, Toolforge standards committee, and the Unsupported Tools Working Group. On August 2, 2026 he wrote this request for WMF CEO Bernadette Meehan to resign. The conflict stems from the board's handling of an attempt by some WMF staff to unionize. More than 200 people have participated in the subsequent discussion with many voices supporting Datta's request. Meehan, Jimbo, and Lorenzo Losa have stated that they want to listen to the community and all the staff, cooperate, and follow all applicable law. Communication Workers of America plans to participate in a National Labor Relations Board facilitated election for which the results will be determined on September 3.

Trout for AI

Clearly an educational purpose was served. Translated title: Too Trippy

The speedy deletion criteria was amended to delete "Unambiguously LLM-generated pages". Levivich closed the discussion while noting some ambiguity in the consensus on how code contributions like Lua, Javascript, and templates will be treated. This amendment introduced additional technical indicators for what constitutes unambiguous LLM output.

Improvement to the main page

Anti-apartheid activist Alan Paton, a previous article for improvement

A village pump RFC was closed by Barkeep49, with consensus to restructure This week's article for improvement and add it to the Main Page. With 89 participants, this is a relatively local consensus in comparison to the overall visibility of the page. While consensus was reached for the overall proposal, certain aspects of how to implement this did not get a clear consensus. TAFI briefly made an appearance on the main page on May 10, 2013, but was quickly pulled.

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Look out, here comes the Spider-Man!

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By Igordebraga, CAWylie, YttriumShrew, Bkissin

This traffic report is adapted from the Top 25 Report, prepared with commentary by Igordebraga, CAWylie, YttriumShrew, and Bkissin.

Wealth and fame he's ignored, action is his reward (July 26 to August 1)

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	Spider-Man: Brand New Day	4,137,373	Marvel's most popular character brings back the Marvel Cinematic Universe to theaters, still played by Tom Holland while now directed by the same Destin Daniel Cretton of Shang-Chi. Peter Parker has been splitting his Spider-Man heroics with an anonymous, solitary life for four years because all his bad decisions during the crossover shenanigans of Spider-Man: No Way Home were only solved once the world forgot him, lest the Multiverse broke. And then complications pile up for Spidey, who confronts a mysterious, mind-controlling entity with a grudge against the Department of Damage Control, sees his arachnid mutation flare up at bad times, and tries to handle his former girlfriend and best friend returning to New York, things getting so bad both Punisher and Hulk need to enter the picture. Along with great reviews, Brand New Day had a gargantuan opening of $927 million that stands behind only Avengers: Endgame as the biggest of all time!
2	The Odyssey (2026 film)	3,249,309	La, la-la-la-la, Ulysses! I mean, Odysseus. Christopher Nolan adapts the ancient Greek epic (#6), and cementing a rise and recovery for the film industry is set to join the above, two cartoons and The King of Pop among 2026's billion dollar movies.
3	Glen Hansard	1,368,231	An Irish singer-songwriter who after appearing in 1991's The Commitments started to both act and contribute songs to films, culminating in 2007's Once, where Hansard and then-partner Markéta Irglová play two struggling musicians in Dublin and sing compositions such as "Falling Slowly", which wound up winning the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Hansard died at 56 after crashing his motorcycle, leaving behind a son and an extensive discography (solo, with the band The Frames, and with the duo he formed with Irglová, The Swell Season) and leading to many tributes.
4	2026 Commonwealth Games	1,223,713	"The Commonwealth Games. The historic display of a once mighty nation, gathering together the countries they lost and finding a way to lose to them once more." Glasgow received athletes from all over the Commonwealth of Nations between July 23 and August 2, a smaller affair that dropped 13 sports from 2022 given that the games had to be quickly organized once previous host Victoria dropped out in 2023 and Scotland stepped in. Thus it was only 16 competitions, 6 for parathletes, and in five of them India got its 39 medals, a third of them golden (weighlifting had the first, through the Olympic medalist to the left, Mirabai Chanu, while its disability edition Para powerlifting was the only out of the 5 where India didn't have a gold, only a bronze; otherwise, athletics had the most medals, boxing had the most golds, and judo had India's first titles).
5	India at the 2026 Commonwealth Games	1,176,176
6	Odyssey	1,061,327	Oh, then suddenly you know, You're never goin' home... Given once the Greek army got past the walls of Troy hiding inside a wooden horse they destroyed temples and committed all sorts of sacrilege razing the city, the gods were angry and made sure many of the troops suffered when going back. The most famous story, most recently adapted at #2, involves King Odysseus of Ithaca, the one who came up with the idea of the Trojan Horse, and ended up adding to the ten years of the war another ten being sent off-track.
7	Ceuta	954,771	In late July, an estimated 80,000 people breached and crossed the border of Morocco into this Spanish autonomous city, overwhelming city officials who called for a national emergency. Moroccan emigrants stated they were dissatisfied in their nation's economy, politics and governance, and its public services. Towards the end of the week, around 70,000 emigrants were believed to have returned to Morocco.
8	Deaths in 2026	944,173	For #3: Falling Slowly, eyes that know me And I can't go back Moods that take me and erase me And I'm painted black...
9	Zendaya	941,021	Spider-Man: Homecoming had in its final scenes the reveal that Zendaya's aloof character Michelle was actually the MCU's version of Mary Jane Watson. So life and art had to combine and she wound up together with her Spider-Man, Tom Holland, having married in secret early this year. Both appear in the two movies atop this list, as in The Odyssey Holland plays the son of Odysseus and Zendaya, the goddess Athena, and she has actually been working overtime in 2026, also acting in The Drama and the forthcoming Dune Part Three (which opens opposite a movie that might also have Holland given just about every Marvel actor appears!).
10	Tom Holland	891,050

Spins a web any size, catches thieves just like flies (August 2 to 8)

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	Spider-Man: Brand New Day	4,112,113	Borrowing the title of a comics arc that also concerned Spider-Man restarting after something that ended his relationship, the fourth movie of the Webhead in the Marvel Cinematic Universe was hailed as one of his best showings, and wrecked the box office in a level only comparable to Avengers: Endgame, standing only behind the MCU's high point regarding both biggest opening weekend and fastest time to $1 billion.
2	The Odyssey (2026 film)	2,265,465	Also earning over a billion in theaters is the latest by Christopher Nolan, with a huge ensemble cast that includes some past collaborators (protagonist Matt Damon and his on-screen wife Anne Hathaway from Interstellar, Robert Pattinson and Himesh Patel from Tenet, Elliot Page from Inception) to tell the story of Odysseus spending two decades far from home in a way that was grounded but not a full-on demythification like Troy, still featuring a giant cyclops, a sorceress turning people into pigs, and two sea monsters.
3	Abdul El-Sayed	1,539,800	This Michigan epidemiologist and Rhodes Scholar became the Democratic nominee for the 2026 United States Senate election in Michigan. The Democratic primary on Tuesday marked the end of a competitive campaign between El-Sayed and congresswoman Haley Stevens, itself a proxy competition between the centrist and left wings of the party. El-Sayed will face former Republican congressman Mike Rogers in November.
4	Perez Hilton	1,313,626	The longtime celebrity gossip blogger found himself the center of the news on August 4 after he livestreamed himself apparently self-harming during a mental health crisis. Hilton was rushed to a Florida hospital, where he has stabilized and is continuing mental health treatment. In recent years, Hilton has looked back on his career with deep regret, as much of his work involved bullying celebrities.
5	Zendaya	1,147,625	While #1 has Spider-Man finding the courage to go after a woman who can't remember him and ask "I need to know now, know now, can you love me again?", off-screen Peter Parker and Michelle Jones are married, and also have roles in #2.
6	Tom Holland	1,111,943
7	SummerSlam (2026)	1,059,539	On the second night (August 2) of this Minneapolis WWE stadium event, Kevin Owens (pictured), returning from an April 2025 injury, entered a fatal four-way match against Finn Bálor, Gunther, and Sami Zayn. Owens pinned Zayn to become top contender for the WWE Championship, which was won the previous night by CM Punk.
8	Deaths in 2026	929,611	When we Pretend We're Dead They can't hear a word we've said When we pretend that we're dead...
9	Pan Am Flight 103	847,105	The 1988 bombing of a Pan Am Boeing 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland returned to the news nearly 40 years later, as Abu Agila Masud, the Tunisian-Libyan operative who is accused of building the bomb, is due to go on trial in the United States later this month.
10	Nirmal Purja	766,060	On August 5, this Nepali-British mountaineer was confirmed to have died in the Broad Peak avalanche on July 30. "Nims" was an avid climber for 14 years, following his 15-year career in the Royal Navy, mostly in the Special Boat Service. He was 43 years old.

Spider blood, spider blood, radioactive spider blood (August 9 to 15)

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	Spider-Man: Brand New Day	2,052,639	In a revival of the comic Marvel Team-Up being mostly Spider-Man crossing paths with another Marvel character, the Marvel Cinematic Universe's movies of the Webhead all make sure to bring other superheroes to show he's in a shared universe, and the latest one does so with Punisher and Hulk. Plus an antagonist who is one of Marvel's major characters but normally isn't associated with Spidey. In any case, Brand New Day was warmly received by critics and audiences alike, in the latter's case including some impressive box office numbers of over $800 million domestically and $2 billion worldwide!
2	Jason Arday	1,830,014	Arday was the youngest black professor ever hired by the University of Cambridge when he was brought on as Professor of Sociology of Education in 2023. At the time, his hiring received media coverage from multiple angles, with some lauding the university for hiring someone with a diverse background and others complaining that Arday hadn't earned his position. Arday faced questions and accusations about his academic conduct for years, but these accusations were amplified in 2026. As the university continued their investigation, Arday resigned his position and, nine days later, was found dead in his home. The scandal, his resignation and death have re-ignited a debate on academia, race, the criticism of British news media and diversity writ large. As with any debate on these topics, it only brings out the most level-headed, kind and thoughtful takes.
3	The Odyssey (2026 film)	1,390,149	The ancient epic that inspired works as varied as Ulysses and O Brother, Where Art Thou? got a new adaptation by Christopher Nolan with Matt Damon and about a sixth of Hollywood's actors, earning much praise and box office of over a billion no matter if the runtime is close to 3 hours.
4	The Last House	969,481	Greta Lee stars in the latest Netflix sci-fi thriller about a Seattle family becoming trapped inside their home, following an unusual rainstorm. They find ways to survive in that way, until strange creatures encroach upon the house. In promoting the film this month, an actor was propped up living inside of a furnished billboard set on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. The robe-clad performer waved to drivers, monitored the street with binoculars, and communicated using a whiteboard.
5	Deaths in 2026	931,940	Some bright morning when this life is over I'll Fly Away to that home on God's celestial shore...
6	Joshua Kushner	808,473	This American venture capitalist and younger brother of Jared Kushner just bought the Los Angeles Lakers with Bob Iger, the former CEO of The Walt Disney Company for $12.5 billion USD. Hope the rest of you can afford gas!
7	2026 Clacton by-election	750,317	Another key British by-election this summer, as Nigel Farage faced off against a novelty candidate, Count Binface, and 32 other candidates in a race for the ages. Farage, looking to escape an investigation into payments he received, was hoping that he could use the by-election to increase momentum for his party, Reform UK. For Binface, his main draw was that he wasn't Nigel Farage. Farage beat Binface handily, 63.3% to 26.9%. However, that is the highest vote percentage for a novelty candidate in British history. The investigation into Farage's alleged impropriety will continue now that he is again a member of parliament. If he is suspended or recalled, we may end up seeing another by-election in Clacton before the year is through!
8	Prichard Colón	739,299	Colón was an up-and-coming welterweight boxer from Puerto Rico before a 2015 fight with Terrel Williams. Due to several blows to the back of the head, Colón collapsed in his dressing room from a brain hemorrhage. After 221 days in a coma, Colón spent the remainder of his life in a persistent vegetative state. Colón died on August 13, he was 33 years old.
9	The End of Oak Street	648,723	This weekend had two dinosaur movies, Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie and the latest by the writer-director of It Follows (with production by J. J. Abrams), where a couple in crisis played by Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor suddenly have bigger problems once their neighborhood is transported to the Mesozoic Era. Reviews were positive, finding it a good thriller with Jurassic Park-esque prehistoric thrills, and The End of Oak Street opened in third place at the box office behind #1 and #3, being halfway through its $80–92 million budget.
10	Zendaya	610,699	Quite a busy year for the former Ms. Coleman who could now be called Mrs. Holland (one could say she's the Opus of husband Tom?), who's currently in theaters with #1 and #3, also appeared in The Drama and the final season of Euphoria, and will finish the year returning to planet Arrakis in Dune Part Three.

Exclusions

These lists exclude the Wikipedia main page, non-article pages (such as redlinks), 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. Please feel free to discuss any removal on the Top 25 Report talk page if you wish.

Most edited articles

For the July 17 – August 17 period, per this database report.

Title	Revisions	About
Deaths in 2026	2330	Along with the singer, mountaineer and boxer mentioned above, the period also had the departure of Pradeep Rawat, Bill Oddie, Don Nelson, Franco Baresi, Frank Beard... and Hayden Panettiere, who for dying unexpectedly young scored one of Wikipedia's biggest single day views (but let's leave the comments on her for the next Traffic Report).
Spider-Man: Brand New Day	1519	Now one of the select few movies that earned over $2 billion, alongside James Cameron in the water, in space, and in the water in space, Avengers vs. Thanos pt. 1 and 2 (a formula they'll repeat with Doctor Doom, certainly hoping for $2 billion each again! The borderline useless post-credits scene of Brand New Day implies Spidey will be in Avengers: Doomsday, but he's still one of the few MCU heroes not confirmed), J.J. Abrams restarts (and remakes) Star Wars... and one most people didn't hear of, Chinese cartoon Ne Zha 2, which made that quantity almost entirely riding a population of over a billion.
Jason Arday	1480	In March 2023, Arday became the youngest Black professor to ever be appointed a faculty position at Cambridge. His peers at the college considered his knowledge and research to be exceptional. However, within months of his hiring, his research papers came under scrutiny as plagiarism of other works. Arday viewed this as veiled racism and sent legal threats. In July 2026, most of Arday's theses were run through detection software, and many similarities with other academic works were found. On August 5, Cambridge began its own investigation and Arday resigned his professorship and fellowship, yet maintained his stance on the racism, as did his supporters who believe the ordeal might give potential academic hopefuls of color pause about applying for university jobs. Furthermore, Arday's critics added that even his resignation letter was AI-generated. He was found dead in his London home on August 14.
Map	1324	Adam Levine followed the map that leads to you, Noleander followed the one that led to the WP:GA and now the WP:FA.
German philosophy	1208	Not needing to do the Getting to Philosophy game, one user has been tinkering with various thinking schools.
French philosophy	921
British philosophy	869
2026 Pacific typhoon season	1043	Tropical cyclones appeared a lot this year in the Pacific, with 20 storms, the strongest being Sinlaku.
The Odyssey (2026 film)	925	The latest version of Homer's Odyssey – not to be confused with "Homer's Odyssey", or the episode of The Simpsons where Homer Simpson was Odysseus (for bonus points, that Homer voiced the original Homer in the Hercules cartoon).
India at the 2026 Commonwealth Games	846	Before hosting the 2030 edition in Ahmedabad, which has also expressed an interest in getting the 2036 Summer Olympics, India was fourth in the latest edition in Glasgow, tied in golds with hosts Scotland (13) but surpassing them in silver medals.
2026 FIFA World Cup final	812	The 2010 FIFA World Cup had Spain winning an aggressive game with Fernando Torres in the roster and an overtime final goal by Andrés Iniesta, a 26 year-old playing for FC Barcelona... and 16 years later Spain won an aggressive game with the extra time final goal scored by Ferran Torres, a 26 year-old playing for Barça. This also made Spain the only of the 8 world champions to only get titles outside their continent (Africa and America, in contrast to only winning a knockout match in Europe once!), and the first country to hold the male and female World Cup title simultaneously.
Lock Upp (season 2)	780	Netflix released another season of this Indian reality show with a prison theme.
2026 Morocco–Spain border incident	768	Now called 2026 Ceuta migrant crisis, where an estimated 80,000 Moroccans illegally entered the Spanish enclave near their country, with most returning but also 111 dying in the process.
Rent control in Massachusetts	752	Mostly two editors changing this page, with reinstatement of rent control being one of the possible 2026 Massachusetts ballot measures.
SummerSlam (2026)	741	Minneapolis held its first-ever WWE stadium event of 12 matches over two nights of August 1 and 2. The first night featured Brock Lesnar (pictured) in his Hell in a Cell retirement match against Oba Femi. Femi defeated Lesnar, who then embraced him and called him the future of the industry.

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Her tastes, her Wikimania, her upcoming tour... Baby Globe reveals everything

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By Anja., Entropy Fighter, Lepticed7, Léna, Noé, Padarquetty, Poslovitch, Pronoia, and Sukkoria

This article was originally written by the French Wikipedia authors noted above and published in the French Wikipedia community newspaper Regards sur l’actualité du mouvement Wikimédia (RAW), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. The article was machine-translated, formatted for The Signpost by Wil540 art, and reviewed by Headbomb.

Baby Globe being her typical joyful self

Your arrival at Wikimania 2026 was unexpected; did you have a good trip?

Yes! Being a mascot rather than a human, I didn't need to apply for a visa. I learned that some Wikimedians couldn't see me simply because they couldn't get that piece of paper

... Sending them lots of WikiLove

.

How many Wikimedians did you pose with?

Not enough, for sure!

The Wikimedia France Core Team worked hard on accessibility for this event; what did you think of it? Is there anything that could be improved?

The work was a bit too human-centric—especially regarding doorway widths and the many staircases, which aren't well-suited for inflatable mascots! Fortunately, I had assistants to guide me—

to those folks!

What was your favorite snack or treat from the coffee break buffets?

Mini-pizzas, without hesitation

. But let's face it: as a mascot, I'm constantly in demand. I didn't get to enjoy the buffets much. But anyway, what are mini-pizzas compared to making so many people happy

?

Are you more of a coffee, tea, or hot chocolate person?

A bit of ice-coooold water with a drop of lemon or some mint. Or both! No sugar, obviously

.

Croissant, pain au chocolat, or chocolatine?

Yes! I round up all the options.

Endive or Chicon?

I'll take it 50-50.^{[note 1]}

Did you get a chance to taste the cheeses?

Yes, but my favorite wasn't there: mozzarella—which has the prettiest cheese shape, that of a big white ball!

Why did you take so long to come over for the group photo? We waited several minutes in the scorching sun!

Because I’m a star

and stars like to keep people waiting!... And also because I’d gone off to get all spruced up

.

By the way, what are the next stops on your tour? Are you already preparing to promote your new album? (As a reminder, Taylor Swift played 149 concerts for over 10 million fans during her 2023–2024 tour.)

I’ll probably head to Canada in September for the North American WikiConference. After that, I definitely plan to attend the next Wikimania in Santiago in 2027.

I’d love to get up on stage with the WikiOrchestra and the WikiChoir. I was blown away by their performance in Paris!

Is it a good position to be in—Baby Globe at Wikimania?

You know, I don’t believe there are "good" or "bad" situations. I’d say that, above all, it involves a lot of responsibility; for instance, I had to spend a long time thinking about my closing ceremony speech and getting ready to look magnificent in the group photo. But if I had to sum up my Wikimania experience, I’d say it’s primarily about meeting Wikimedians—people who reached out to me, and met me with open arms, at unexpected moments. It’s fascinating to think about how chance encounters and connections forge a community.

What’s your take on Wiki Workers United (WWU)? You appear in some of their visuals.

I called Bernadette to talk about it, but she drove into a tunnel...

Can you explain your connection to the Wikimedia Cuteness Association?

The Board of Cuties approved my membership due to my high cuteness potential and my strategic alignment—synergistic and disruptive—with key priority areas, specifically "Cuteness Equity" and "Cuteness as a Service," all within a framework of decentralization and the radical reclaiming of cuteness.

What is your favorite beret color?

I wouldn't say I have a single favorite color; it depends on the day and the situation. My goal is to be cute in every circumstance! I might have a slight preference for blue over red—probably the satisfaction of a job well done.

Can we expect to meet other mascots for the various Wikimedia projects in the future?

I certainly hope so! Word has it that the Wikidata mascot is behind bars, but the Wikisource one is fresh and ready to dive right in! That said, the next one should be for Wiktionary—Wikipedia's first "little sister"! I can't wait for you to meet that friendly little game tile!

(And in the meantime, you can learn to crochet me...)

Notes

^ This is a reference to French Wikipedia version of WP:LAME. Endive vs Chicon being the first entry in the list, similar to the pop vs soda debate in the US or the bread roll debate in the UK.

Baby Globe at Wikimania 2026

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The great outdoors

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By Pine

Week of 2 August 2026: Ano ang nagpapasaya sa iyo sa linggong ito?

Photos of the Blue Angels from multiple locations and years

Seafair 2026 happened in Seattle during the first week of August. Performances from the United States Navy's Blue Angels aerobatics squadron are a regular annual feature. The Blue Angels are scheduled to return in 2027, but environmental concerns may result in changes eventually. One proposal that I heard was to change to demonstrations of electric-powered aircraft. There are many other elements of Seafair, such as Coast Guard Search and Rescue demonstrations, visits of ships from multiple nations, and hydroplane racing. The Blue Angels routinely attract thousands of spectators.

Week of 9 August 2026: ʔəshiiɬ čəd.

First Descent: Kayaking the Klamath River

The International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples takes place annually on 9 August.

The Klamath River runs through parts of the states of Oregon and California in the United States. The indigenous peoples in this area have had a relationship with the river for centuries. However, the river was dammed starting in approximately the year 1918. Recently several dams were removed, and a group of indigenous teenagers kayaked the entire un-dammed portion of the river. Their journey was documented in an excellent 30-minute Oregon Public Broadcasting production, First Descent: Kayaking the Klamath River, which I encourage people to watch. The video includes a few ugly images of environmental damage on the river, so people may not want to watch First Descent during a meal, but overall I think viewers will like it. I appreciated the hopeful outlook.

Week of 23 August 2026: Cosa ti rende felice questa settimana?

The Perseids

The Perseids are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift–Tuttle. They are usually visible from mid-July to late August. The meteors are called the Perseids because they appear from the general direction of the constellation Perseus and in more modern times have a radiant bordering on Cassiopeia and Camelopardalis.

In 1866, after the perihelion passage of Swift–Tuttle in 1862, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli discovered the link between meteor showers and comets. The finding is contained in an exchange of letters with Angelo Secchi.

Regarding translations

Skillful translations of the sentence "What's making you happy this week?" would be very much appreciated. If you see any inaccuracies in the translations in this article, then please {{ping}} User:Pine or User:Clovermoss in the discussion section of this page, or boldly make the correction to the text of the article. Thank you to everyone who has helped with translations so far.

Your turn

What makes you happy or grateful this month? You are welcome to write a comment on the talk page of this Signpost piece.

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Are we embarrassed yet?

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By Czarking0

Background

The Signpost and others have previously reported on the Trump administration's attempts to hurt the Wikipedia project.^[a] In particular, Ed Martin, of the Department of Justice Weaponization Working Group, has vowed to shame Wikipedia or worse.^[1] A year has passed since he instigated his shame campaign, but what has he actually done to bring shame on the biggest project for free information in human history?

Freedom of Information

Unfortunately, The Signpost does not have the answer for you right now, but this draft Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request may soon illuminate matters. The author (User:Czarking0) plans to personally submit the request via MuckRock after hearing feedback from the community. Names and addresses have been redacted.

Draft

FOIA Request — DOJ Office of Information Policy Weaponization Working Group / Wikimedia Foundation

Dear FOIA Officer: I hereby request access to and copies of the records described below.

I. BACKGROUND

On April 24, 2025, then-Acting United States Attorney for the District of Columbia Edward R. Martin Jr. sent a letter to then Wikimedia Foundation CEO Maryana Iskander, which alleged that Wikipedia "allows foreign actors to manipulate information and spread propaganda" and requested documents concerning the Foundation's compliance with Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. This request was submitted on DOJ letterhead and under the auspices of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia. On February 5, 2025, Attorney General Pam Bondi established the Weaponization Working Group ("WWG") within the Office of the Attorney General, pursuant to her memorandum titled "Restoring the Integrity and Credibility of the Department of Justice." The WWG is tasked with reviewing the activities of all departments and agencies and has drawn upon resources across the Department, including the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia and other personnel. Mr. Martin subsequently became the director of the Weaponization Working Group. This request seeks to determine whether the WWG has independently taken up, reviewed, referred, continued, or expanded any inquiry, investigation, or action concerning the Wikimedia Foundation or Wikipedia. The Signpost has previously published investigative reporting on the Martin letter, the House Oversight Committee inquiry of August 2025, and the Senate Commerce Committee inquiry of October 2025. This request is made in direct furtherance of that ongoing coverage.

II. RECORDS REQUESTED I request all records created, received, transmitted, or maintained from October 1, 2025 to December 1, 2025 held by the Weaponization Working Group which include any communications between Mr. Martin and other WWG staff discussing:

The Wikimedia Foundation, including any memoranda, or meeting notes referencing the Wikimedia Foundation, its officers, its tax-exempt status, or its editorial or operational practices.
Wikipedia, including any memoranda, or meeting notes referencing Wikipedia's editorial policies, content, bias, reliability, alleged foreign influence operations, or editor identity.

III. FORMAT OF REQUESTED RECORDS Please provide responsive records in electronic format (PDF or native format) where available.

IV. FEE Category I request a full fee waiver on these grounds: Disclosure of whether and how the DOJ's Weaponization Working Group has exercised (or declined to exercise) investigative authority over the Wikimedia Foundation contributes significantly to public understanding of government operations. The WWG is a novel executive entity whose activities have been almost entirely opaque since its creation. Records showing how and if its leaders have targeted a major nonprofit directly illuminate how federal power is being exercised toward civil society organizations. The April 2025 letter from then-Acting U.S. Attorney Martin that explicitly threatened the Foundation's tax-exempt status and promised to use the office to "embarrass" the Foundation regardless of legal findings is of special public interest. This request is made solely for journalistic purposes. Neither I nor The Signpost has any commercial interest in the Wikimedia Foundation, any financial relationship with any party involved in the matters described, or any interest in the outcome of any investigation beyond accurate public reporting.

In the alternative, if a fee waiver is not granted, I request that this be processed under the news media requester fee category. I have previously been credited as an author in The Signpost, a newspaper that has covered Wikipedia, the Wikimedia Foundation, and the broader free knowledge movement continuously since December 2005. The Signpost satisfies each element of the regulatory definition of a news organization. The Signpost actively gathers, investigates, and reports on matters of public concern relating to one of the world's most widely used reference sources. This request is made in connection with active investigative reporting on the exercise of federal government authority over the Wikimedia Foundation and its volunteer editor community which is a subject of documented public interest that The Signpost has previously reported on at length. The Signpost volunteers publish original journalism. Records obtained through this request will be analyzed, contextualized, and incorporated into original reporting. They will be submitted to The Signpost for editorial review. The Signpost is published on the Wikipedia platform and is freely accessible to the public worldwide. It is among the most widely read publications directly focused on the Wikipedia community, with a documented readership and a public archive of reporting spanning two decades. The Signpost has published a draft of this request which has drawn support from the readership and the publication plans to publish additional articles on the topic herein. The Signpost operates with full editorial independence from the Wikimedia Foundation. It is not paid, directed, or editorially supervised by the Wikimedia Foundation or any affiliated entity. Its coverage regularly includes critical reporting on the Wikimedia Foundation, its leadership, and its institutional relationships — including the congressional inquiries that are the subject of this request. Courts and FOIA reviewing bodies have consistently held that news media status does not require large circulation, mainstream institutional affiliation, or commercial operation. The Signpost's two-decade publication history, independent editorial structure, and demonstrated record of original investigative journalism place it squarely within this category.

V. EXPEDITED PROCESSING REQUEST I also request expedited processing on the grounds that there is a compelling need for the records. The subject matter is of current public and journalistic significance. There is a risk that delayed disclosure could affect ongoing public discourse, editorial decision-making at Wikipedia, and chilling effects on the anonymous contributions of Wikipedia editors. I certify that my need for expedited processing is true and correct to the best of my knowledge.

Please send all correspondence and responsive records to REDACTED

If you have questions about the scope of this request or require clarification before proceeding, please contact me at the above information before making any adverse determination. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Footnotes

^ According to The New York Times, the administration official described here has said in his official capacity that he "plans to use his authority to expose and discredit those he believes to be guilty, even if he cannot find sufficient evidence to prosecute them".^[1] We believe that discrediting Wikipedia as an information source would hurt its fundamental mission to freely provide knowledge to humankind. Multiple sources add further detail to this threat.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Sources

^ ^a ^b Thrush, Glenn; Feuer, Alan (21 May 2025). "If Justice Dept. Can't Prosecute Trump's Foes, It Will 'Shame' Them, Official Says". The New York Times.
^ Signpost piece on Ed Martin, May 1, 2025
^ Signpost piece on congressional probe, September 9, 2025
^ Ropek, Lucas (28 August 2025). "MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs". Gizmodo.
^ Cervantes, Fernando (August 27, 2025). "Republicans in Congress open probe into Wikipedia for alleged bias". USA TODAY.

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Paris Syndrome: Labor Strife, AI Anxiety, and a Leadership Test at Wikimania 2026

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This article was originally published by user:WWB on 6 August, 2026 on The Wikipedian and is here licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

The first thing to know about Wikimania this year is that it convened in the middle of the worst standoff between the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) and its own employees in years. In the weeks before, one WMF staffer suggested to The Wikipedian that things could get “spicy.” It was a good prediction.

The second thing to know about Wikimania this year is that it involved more security theater than any previous Wikimania. After a scary incident at last year’s WikiConference North America—where a disturbed man brought a gun to the event and threatened to commit self-harm, only to be disarmed by plucky Wikipedians—tickets were limited and the venue was withheld until the last possible moment.

And if there is yet one more thing to know, it almost goes without saying, of course the inescapable topic was the promise and peril of generative AI, as it has been at every wikiconference The Wikipedian has attended for the past three and a half years. Each year the models get more powerful, each year the threats and opportunities expand, and each year people get more anxious and excited.

Fringe Benefits

This year, events on the periphery of Wikimania proper included an all-day pre-conference AI workshop and a friendly counter-conference, Wiki Fringe, inspired in part by the famous Edinburgh Fringe vis-à-vis the original, concurrently held in a maker space just across the canal from the science museum.

At the AI pre-conference day, a third to half of the room identified themselves as having “vibe-coded.” Speakers explained agentic harnesses and shared skill repositories; among the more interesting talks was one by a native Telugu speaker on how it costs more tokens to use AI in languages that don’t use Romanized characters. A group discussion inviting views on proper AI usage in the Wikimedia world quickly revealed a broad consensus: use it for the things we trust generative AI to do, and don’t use it for the things we don’t.

Which is not to say everyone was eager to spend more time than necessary on the subject. One developer at the main conference told The Wikipedian he was intentionally avoiding the AI sessions entirely.

But the Fringe was a blast, despite the poor AC, and it doubled as the designated after-hours party spot several nights running. The crowd included former Wikimedia staffers, the WikiPortraits crew, a representative from an open-source, open-weight, open-everything LLM project, and a Brooklyn artist with a receipt printer, printing Wikipedia articles on receipt paper.

People sometimes ask me how Wikipedia editors view generative AI, and the truest answer I have is: we’ve got both kinds. Wikipedia editors have long been early adopters by temperament, but now Wikipedia is the incumbent, as ripe for disruption as any dot-com-era mastodon.

In fact, the contradiction is best embodied by the single most influential contributor to Wikipedia’s AI response: Chaotic Enby, a twentysomething French AI PhD candidate who founded WikiProject AI Cleanup, dedicated to saving the human-curated encyclopedia from AI slop; who also founded WikiProject AI Tools, encouraging AI’s responsible use to help editors do their jobs better; and also—pause for breath—authored parts of the prohibition on LLM-generated text that passed English Wikipedia with overwhelming support in March 2026.

Liberté, Égalité, Solidarité

Weeks before Wikimania, the Wikimedia Foundation made the shock decisions first to abruptly fire Brooke Vibber—the lead developer of MediaWiki for more than 20 years, and the WMF’s first employee—and then to disband the entire Community Tech team: six people whose jobs were building tools requested by the community, with the unstated but widely understood subtext that union organizing was at the core of it.

By the time everyone landed in Paris, Wiki Workers United’s U.S. branch had formally demanded voluntary recognition, with the support of the Communications Workers of America, and set a deadline of July 24, right in the middle of the conference. More than 1,000 Wikimedians had signed a solidarity petition, and some were openly weighing an editorial strike. The executives arriving in Paris, including newly installed CEO Bernadette Meehan, were—contrary to the famous Wikipedia essay—very much on deadline.

The conference hit peak Scoville during a panel billed as a “Fireside Chat with the Wikimedia Foundation Executives”—see for yourself on YouTube—the first real opportunity for union supporters to ask for recognition in a public setting. With Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales seated in the front row, the panel opened with community-elected board trustee Bobby Shabangu asking Meehan a series of friendly questions. On the first six months of her tenure, she ultimately settled on: “It’s the start of a journey is how it has been.”

Fine, but the room had questions.

Instead, Shabangu threw to chief product and technology officer Selena Deckelmann to address the important matters raised by—no, it was to demo a new mobile editing tool. Meehan, to her partial credit, read the room well enough to hastily add that question time was coming. Meanwhile, for some reason, Deckelmann chose a French Wikipedia page to showcase the tool, despite admitting “I don’t actually speak or read French—I’m not going to submit these changes at the end.” After rushing through it, and apologizing for the rushing, she finished. And then… asked if she could do a second demonstration. At which point a former officer of Wikimedia France drew applause for saying, respectfully, this was not the time for a tech demo.

Finally, the Q&A. Even with a full battery of WMF executives onstage, every question went to Meehan, the first three all asking basically the same thing: “Are you going to honor the movement’s values and do the right thing and recognize the union today?” Meehan responded by deploying a skill for which she was almost certainly hired: saying a great many words without saying anything one could latch onto. And yet, she was not entirely successful in this. One early explanation for not addressing the union’s demands at Wikimania—“our focus is on executing and helping the core organizing team execute a great event”—fell flat, as everyone in the room knew Wikimanias are organized by the local chapter.

The follow-up question: “Why not today?”

And while she insisted, more than once, “If the decision is to have a union, we’ll have a union,” she also made the unfortunate error of playing the my-job-is-hard card, saying of those who would ask her to move faster, allegedly at the expense of proper protocol: “I don’t have that luxury as the CEO of an organization with 700 employees in 44 different countries.”

Later, responding to another question, she said, “I’m not going to litigate it in this room,” causing enough of a stir that an organizer stepped in to suggest it was time for another topic.

Yes We Can’t

On July 27, one day after Wikimania 2026 ended, the WMF announced it would not voluntarily recognize the union, despite visible support from staff and community, not to mention a growing sense of inevitability. Instead the WMF is exercising its right to a secret-ballot election overseen by the National Labor Relations Board (NRLB). WWU and its backers at CWA agreed to participate, but opined in their response that the WMF was taking the “low road.”

It was lost on no one that the NLRB—never a priority of any Republican administration—has taken an even harder anti-union turn in Trump’s second term. And worse, word trickled out that the WMF had retained the services of Littler Mendelson, a U.S. corporate law firm best known for leading anti-union campaigns at Starbucks, Apple, and Amazon.

In the week since, Jimmy Wales has clearly spent a lot of time on his talk page, gamely if not entirely successfully defending the decisions of the executives he helped put in place. He’s always Jimmy—slightly aloof but good-intentioned, if vague and imprecise, and not even expected to be effectual—trying to reassure everyone that everything will turn out all right, just trust him, after all, he wrote the book on it.

The community was not persuaded.

A recent Wikimedian of the Year went after him hard, and another editor scoffed at the notion that the union had asked the WMF to skip due diligence. At one point Wales was categorical and emphatic: “There are no ‘union-avoidance law firms’ involved here,” adding that if the WMF engaged in any union busting, “I’d be the first one on the picket lines.” GorillaWarfare, who spent years on ArbCom, wrote that this is “a fight that I do not believe the WMF will win.”

In the meantime, an anonymous ex-WMF data scientist had launched a blog called Wikifired, alleging managerial incompetence and ass-covering, and revealing the paltry sum offered (and declined) for their silence: $26,845.52.

Ultimately, Jimmy’s reputation will survive this episode; insulation is one thing a board of trustees and well-paid executive staff can buy, not to mention being the continuously involved founder of a movement still going quite strong actually, despite it all, in its third decade. But it’s hard to look at the start of Meehan’s tenure and not wonder how long she’ll be part of it.

Bernadette Peters Out

A running joke has started to coalesce, that Meehan will find a way to mention her time working for President Obama, as she awkwardly did in her keynote speech at the start of the conference. Whatever her point was, it didn’t land. And it self-consciously invokes the neoliberal era Obama defined, which hasn’t been our reality for some time. And now here is a veteran of several Democratic administrations playing the role of the union-busting corporate manager.

The question of whether a political operative is what the WMF needs is worth asking on its own. The thinking, one assumes, is: here is a savvy player, a political veteran, a survivor. But that experience is entirely on one side of the aisle, and Donald Trump may not hate Democrats quite as much as he hates RINO Republicans, but he hates them all the same. Which is not to say the board should have appointed John Yoo—can you imagine—but a wiser course might have been to look outside the realm of politics entirely.

It’s also hard not to think about the lineage. Katherine Maher—now CEO of NPR, dissuading no one of the notion that Wikipedia is more liberal than it lets on—looks like she might go down as the last Wikimedia leader who seemed to genuinely care about the project. Maher came from the same NGO world as her successors, but she had also been promoted up from communications director, and maintained a collegiality within the movement more like that of Wales, and the first WMF chief, Sue Gardner, than of any other WMF chief before or since.

When Meehan leaves, what do you suppose are the chances she goes to work at another movement-aligned organization?

Following the uneventful leadership of Maryana Iskander, and the initially quiet appointment of Meehan, it seems obvious to many in the movement that no future CEO will ever come from the community, nor even from longtime staff. From here on, the WMF will continue to be led by ambassadors, chancellors, and holders of various other honorifics. So much of what the job really involves is managing large budgets, external stakeholders, and international systems. The Wikimedia Foundation is an NGO, and one that does so many things it’s not clear, even to the community it supposedly exists to support, what it actually does.

The Wikipedian has long argued that the Wikimedia Foundation is too big for its own good—no longer able, if it ever really was, to channel the movement’s vision or support its many mechanisms. Wikipedia would be better served by a WMF reimagined as a largely grant-making body, with a handful of modestly-sized organizations each responsible for a critical piece of Wikimedia infrastructure. It would be easier to understand what they’re doing, easier to hold to account, and most of all, truer to the distributed movement that Wikimedia has always been.

Instead, WMF tries to be everything to everyone, with the expected results.

Which brings me to the last time I saw Bernadette Meehan in Paris. It was at the AI Fringe space on Thursday afternoon, where a dozen or so Wikimedians were holding their own small closing ceremony. She appeared in the back, largely unnoticed, and said to the two or three Wikimedians who actually noticed her: “I was on my walk back, and I thought, that looks like wiki people.” I said, yes, we are, then looked away for a moment, then back—and she was gone.

A friendly gesture, no doubt, but one carrying no weight. In the end, this might be how the Bernadette Meehan era goes: claiming to mean well; misaligned from the start; and perhaps departing before anything could be asked of her.

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You might have seen the infobox. Yes, you read it right. I am a direct descendant of Prince Diponegoro. My branch traces through the Sokaraja line of the Naqshbandiyah Khalidiyah Mujaddadiyah: from KH Ali Dipowongso in Makkah to KH Moh Ilyas in Sokaraja, then through the successive caretakers of that pesantren tradition. The line is named as the Moh. Ilyas great family line. The chain begins with Kanjeng Sultan Hamengkubuwono III of the Keraton Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat, followed by his son and heir in struggle, Bendara Pangeran Harya (BPA) Prince Diponegoro, the National Hero.

Prince Diponegoro first married at the age of 27. He wed Ayu Retno Madubrongto, a religious teacher and the second daughter of Kiai Gede Dadapan. From this union, he was blessed with a son, Putra Diponegoro II.^[1] From him the line continues on from Kanjeng Pangeran Adipati (KPA) Diponegoro II of Diponingrat, then to Kyai Haji Ali Dipowongso, who was active and studied deeply in Mekkah,^[2]^[3]^[4] and then to Kyai Haji Raden Mas Mohammad Ilyas bin Ali Dipowongso, the founder of the Tarekat Naqsyabandiyah Mujaddadiyah in Sokaraja.^[5]^[6]^[4] After him, the mantle passed to Kyai Haji Raden Affandi bin Ilyas, the second mursyid, who passed away on 05 January 1916, followed by Kyai Haji Raden Rifai bin Affandi, the third mursyid, who passed away on 4 August 1968 (10 Jumadil Awal 1388 H), and then to Kyai Haji Raden Abdulsalam bin Rifai, the fourth mursyid, who passed away on 12 May 2014 (12 Rajab 1388 H).^[7] The leadership then continued with Kyai Haji Raden Ir. Torik Arie Ghuzdiwan,^[8]^[9] who was appointed as the sixth mursyid in May 2014. Kyai Haji Raden Abdulsalam bin Rifai had a younger sister, who is my grandmother. She marrilied a wonderful gentleman who is a veteran of the Indonesian National Revolution and was also partly Indos decent. The lineage of this line (trah) can be attested by a Layang Kakancingan (royal decree^[10]) numbered 11553, issued on 18 September 1960 by a Yogyakarta palace official (Pangarsa) and a Serat Kekancingan (documents to residents or institutions for the use of Sultanaat Grond^[11]^[12]) from the Yogyakarta palace library archive.^[13]

Though my ancestor historically comes part of the Naqshbandiyah-Khalidiyya sufi order which follows the Tareqat of Abu Bakr,^[14]^[15] (specifically the Soekaraja Lor Order).^[4] I come from a Nahdlatul Ulama family under the Ash'ari School, though I practice Islam fairly secularly and liberally as schooled following Azharite thought under the adoption of the pluralistic and moderatic Islam Nusantara form. This does not not shape my view, I just like that piece of history. I follow WP:NPOV strictly.

Ancestors of Kaliper1

2. Father

320. B.P.A. Pangeran Diponegoro (1785–1855, National Hero)

160. K.P.A. Diponegoro II (Diponingrat)

80. K.H. Ali Dipowongso (studied/served in Makkah)

40. K.H.R. Moh. Ilyas bin Ali Dipowongso — founder of Thariqah Naqsyabandiyah Mujaddadiyah Sokaraja

20. K.H.R. Affandi bin Ilyas (Mursyid II)

10. K.H.R. Rifai bin Affandi (Mursyid IV, †1388 H)

5. Grandmother — daughter of K.H.R. Rifai bin Affandi (Mursyid IV), sister of K.H.R. Abdulsalam bin Rifai (Mursyid V)

1. Me

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[1] "Question on ASEAN stumped Hegseth at Senate hearing. What is it and why is it important?". AP News. 2025-01-15. Retrieved 2025-07-08.

[2] Multiple sources:
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Vlamis, Kelsey (August 12, 2026). "Google falsely said Sam Altman was dead — and suggested vandalized public sources could be to blame". Business Insider.

[3] Singh, Ritu (August 13, 2026). "Google Search Error Shows Sam Altman As Dead, False Claim Traced To Wikipedia". NDTV.

[4] Vlamis, Kelsey (August 12, 2026). "Google falsely said Sam Altman was dead — and suggested vandalized public sources could be to blame". Business Insider.

[3] Alvarez-Ponce, David; Iyengar, Niveda (27 May 2026). "Monitoring the gender gap in the coverage of biology professors on Wikipedia". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 293 (2071) 20252566. doi:10.1098/rspb.2025.2566. ISSN 0962-8452. PMID 42191161.

[4] Spagert, Lina; İnal, Zeynep; Wolf, Elke (2026-08-05). "Who gets a Wikipedia biography? Analysing notability criteria, actions for visibility and gender effects among professors in Germany". Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 13 (1): 1284. doi:10.1057/s41599-026-08217-5. ISSN 2662-9992.

[5] Afshar, Askar Safipour; Yang, Qiyao; Thebault-Spieker, Jacob; Hutchins, B. Ian (2026-02-17). "Quantifying (Mis)alignment Between Reader Focus and Editor Citation in Scholarly Biomedical Topics in Wikipedia". Quantitative Science Studies. 7: 326–348. doi:10.1162/QSS.a.457. ISSN 2641-3337.

[6] Rollin, Guillaume; Lages, José (2025-09-30). "The most influential philosophers in Wikipedia: a multicultural analysis". EPJ Data Science. 14 (1): 69. doi:10.1140/epjds/s13688-025-00570-w. ISSN 2193-1127.

[7] Ripoll, Marisa; Reeves, Neal; Kurteva, Anelia; Simperl, Elena; Peñuela, Albert Meroño; Diepold, Klaus (2025-06-10). "Filling in the Blanks? A Systematic Review and Theoretical Conceptualisation for Measuring WikiData Content Gaps". arXiv:2505.16383 [cs.SI].

[8] This is a reference to French Wikipedia version of WP:LAME. Endive vs Chicon being the first entry in the list, similar to the pop vs soda debate in the US or the bread roll debate in the UK.

[14] According to The New York Times, the administration official described here has said in his official capacity that he "plans to use his authority to expose and discredit those he believes to be guilty, even if he cannot find sufficient evidence to prosecute them".^[1] We believe that discrediting Wikipedia as an information source would hurt its fundamental mission to freely provide knowledge to humankind. Multiple sources add further detail to this threat.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

[ThrushFeuer2025-9] Thrush, Glenn; Feuer, Alan (21 May 2025). "If Justice Dept. Can't Prosecute Trump's Foes, It Will 'Shame' Them, Official Says". The New York Times.

[10] Signpost piece on Ed Martin, May 1, 2025

[11] Signpost piece on congressional probe, September 9, 2025

[12] Ropek, Lucas (28 August 2025). "MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs". Gizmodo.

[13] Cervantes, Fernando (August 27, 2025). "Republicans in Congress open probe into Wikipedia for alleged bias". USA TODAY.

[:8-15] "Perempuan-perempuan di Hidup Pangeran Diponegoro". Kumparan.com (in Indonesian). Retrieved 2020-03-21.

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