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Volume 22
Issue 13
13 October 2026

Natalia Ortega for MAPR and Wikicurious – CCA-SA 4.0
News and notes
AELECT returns, Jimbo gives a union update, VisualEditor is now default
Plus a survey for North Americans, proposed changes to BoT elections, and developments in the Puerto Rican editing community.
Robert Cooper (c. 1800) – PD
Serendipity
From a rare portrait of a female millionaire in Nancy to a Japanese painter in Lyon
Images from Leuven Libraries popular on Wiki.
Doug Weller – CC CC0 1.0 UP DD
Obituary
Doug Weller
Twenty-year editor, long-term admin, dearly missed.
Ferfive – cc-by-sa-4.0
In the media
A(I)pocalypses afoot
Cannibals, freeloaders, rogue agents, scams ... the usual.
Nataev – CC BY-SA 4.0
WikiConference Report
WikiConference 2026 and the importance of in-person community
Celebrating 12 years of WikiConference North America.
PAC2 – CC BY 4.0
By the numbers
Does the country of birth affect the likelihood of having a Wikipedia biography?
A cross-country and cross-wikipedia comparison of the likelihood of having a biography in Wikipedia.
Hari Adivarekar – cc-by-4.0
News from Diff
OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
CPO/CTO Selena Deckelmann explains the recent detection of AI agent activities on Wikimedia projects.
Lance Cpl. Isaac De Leon – US Government public domain
On the bright side
Good people
Nice comments and real-life rescuers.
Ralf Roletschek – CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
Op-ed
Who are our readers?
The movement makes progress when we know what our scope is.
Simon A. Eugster – GFDL,cc-by-sa-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0
Traffic report
This world is big and wild and half insane
Criminals, 9/11 25 years later, artists expelled for politics... we lived in troubled times.
Unknown Punch artist via Wellcome Collection – CC-BY-4.0
Comix
Fudging the numbers
Take 'em away, officers!
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