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In the media

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Haaretz on Gaza

Note that this is only notes for a very incomplete draft!

Haaretz reports on how Bibi is or is not responsible for ignoring intelligence on the October 7 attack. (In Hebrew -paywalled with limited free access) translations below by Google Translate. reporter Omer Benjakob (whose previous writings about Wikipedia have been frequently covered in the Signpost)

(in short somebody else needs to write this - I'm clueless, and maybe even biased).

Haaretz is Israel's oldest newspaper and considered to be Israel's newspaper of record, known for its left-wing pov. An English version of the story should be coming out (when?) Haaretz is strongly against Natanyahu's "coup" (aka supreme court "reform").

The controversy is about the responsibility for ignoring intelligence (politicians or intelligence services, and which politicians)

Story covers evidence that the IDF and governments knew about the attacks beforehand and that Hebrew Wikipedia may have been pushing related conservative political views and that English Wikipedia includes different (Gazan) point-of-view.

their headline: "Ronen Bar is responsible, Netanyahu is not: the battle over the default in Gaza is on Wikipedia"

Quote: '... claims began to be heard that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's "poison machine" had also reached Wikipedia. Many editors and citizens have found many examples - and not only of Yaakov - of trending editorials that promote the line attributed to Netanyahu and his entourage, according to which the security establishment bears responsibility for the failure that led to the Hamas terrorist attack.'

Yaakov is a Hebrew Wiki editor, nothing is written about any relation to Omer ben Yaakov, so I assume there is none. Yaakov (Jacob) is a common name in Israel, so my worry is/was approx. if "User:Jacob" is "Omer Jacobson". Apparently not, but somebody who can deal with Hebrew language better than me should check, to see what that lack of info means (e.g. it's so obvious that there is no relation that it doesn't need to be mentioned)

I may suggest more quotes but my further participation in writing is dependent on getting a proper English language version and learning more about Israeli politics Smallbones_(smalltalk) 13:46, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

Lead story 2

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In brief

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• "The Bhutanese nuns editing Wikipedia to share their culture": Bunty Avieson, writing in The Saturday Paper, profiles a group of Buddhist nuns and describes how they learned to edit both the English Wikipedia and the Dzongkha Wikipedia. (Dzongkha is the national language of Bhutan, and the Dzongkha Wikipedia contains less than 240 articles as of November 26.) –R
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America (Cattelan) America by Maurizio Cattelan

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• Famous toilets: Hindustan Times celebrates World Toilet Day (November 19): The artists and their artsy toilets with some photos from Commons.

• More on Napoleon (the movie): Annie Rauwerda.
• Jimbo on AI: do we need more?
• Derby Days: Italian sports magazine Rivista Undici encouraged their readers to look up the Wikipedia page about the story of El Clásico Peruano, the soccer derby between Alianza Lima and Universitario, in a recent article (in Italian) reporting about the latest edition of this clash, which saw Universitario win the national league title at their fierce rivals’ home stadium in great fashion… and controversy. If you’d like to know why, you should go read the derby’s page, too!
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• By my count, Asticky received 14 barnstars. Maybe I'm just being grumpy here, but I thought the point of barnstars was for notable service, not the changing of a tense by an editor who has not otherwise contributed much. In this case, what seems to be rewarded is being the fastest to make an edit that others would surely have made. Opencooper (talk) 14:29, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
• On George Santos, The Guardian could have made it clear that "Wikipedia biography" meant his user page, as the term is ambiguous. I would hope that his actual article never made the claim that he acted in Hannah Montana.-- Pawnkingthree (talk) 14:36, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

  I'm actually a little disappointed, but afaict, it didn't. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 15:09, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

  If you read Smallbones' February report, you will see that he tried to create a mainspace bio with the Hannah Montana untruth, but was stopped by an edit filter. ☆ Bri (talk) 15:13, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

  "He" being Santos, not "Smallbones"! - Smallbones_(smalltalk) 17:29, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

  I would love to hear the story on why we have a Hannah Montana edit filter ;-) Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 19:24, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

  @Gråbergs Gråa Sång: actually, it's nothing so interesting as that; the edit was blocked for shouting. —Compassionate727 ^(T·C) 23:02, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

• Just wanted to note that Avieson, the author of the Saturday Paper article about the Bhutanese nuns who helped improve Wikpedia, is an user herself, who goes by the nickname Doctor 17: thank you so much for what you've taught to them, it's incredibly inspiring! Oltrepier (talk) 21:31, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
• Hi, just to clarify: the Wikimedia Foundation has been accepting Apple Pay donations on the web since 2021 which is when the linked article was posted. What's new this year is that users of the Wikipedia App on iOS can now donate using native Apple Pay without leaving the app. Peter Coombe (WMF) (talk) 20:49, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

• Thanks for clarifying. The 2021 news story made it into my search for new items, reported by another news site in November 2023, referencing the Apple Insider 2021 story; I short-circuited the link but didn't notice the stale date. ☆ Bri (talk) 21:18, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

• Spreading culture via Wikipedia, awesome work by Avieson and the nuns.Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 22:05, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

  (Not a comment on the article itself, a general observation) Given what's going on in Bhutan, keeping a very close eye on the Dzongkha Wikipedia would be in order. The government is somehow able to get everyone to pay no attention to the man behind the curtain as they systematically imprison, torture, and ethnically cleanse the Lhotshampa. As we've seen with the Croatian Wikipedia fiasco, smaller wikis can be hijacked for pushing propaganda. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 21:14, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

  That might be difficult, inasmuch as there aren't that many Wikipedians fluent in written Dzongkha. At least to my knowledge. (And I doubt there is a translation program that supports that language.) -- llywrch (talk) 00:26, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

• Why the AI image of people arguing? Was it too hard for an editor to pretend to argue with someone else in a photo? LilianaUwU ^{(talk / contributions)} 01:10, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

  Why not? jp×g🗯️ 13:01, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

  Just my opinion but it's a silly image. I agree with LilianaUwU about using better images in the future. Viriditas (talk) 09:17, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

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