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Volume 20
Issue 6
25 April 2024

New York World-Telegram and Sun – PD
In the media
Censorship and wikiwashing looming over RuWiki, edit wars over San Francisco politics and another wikirace on live TV
Plus, tribute songs and shout-outs outweighing vandalism and hoaxes, a dispute about the real king of the platform and other bits of news.
Giotto – PD
News and notes
A sigh of relief for open access as Italy makes a slight U-turn on their cultural heritage reproduction law
Plus, new updates on the privacy and research ethics whitepaper and the graphs outage situation, and an Iranian former steward is globally banned from Wikimedia projects
Fuzheado – CC0
WikiConference report
WikiConference North America 2023 in Toronto recap
Outcomes of the event including newly published videos and photos, the archived conference website and program, and some attendee reflections on its significance.
Masketta man – PD
WikiProject report
WikiProject Newspapers (Not WP:NOTNEWS)
A WikiProject report on the 📰🌍 globe's finest news source!
Sérgio Valle Duarte – CC 3.0 BY
Recent research
New survey of over 100,000 Wikipedia users
And other recent research publications
Acabashi – CC-4.0
Traffic report
O.J., cricket and a three body problem
Plus Godzilla meets Francis Scott Key!
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Templates are a type of page that contain boilerplate text that is intended to be displayed on more than one page in Wikipedia.

This Tip of the day box is an example of a template (there are several versions actually), and besides being displayed here it is displayed on many userpages as well.

Template names start with the prefix "Template:" followed by the page name. The main version of the template you are reading right now is called "Template:totd".

To display a template on a page, go to the target page, click "edit", and add the template's name (with or without the prefix) surrounded by double curly brackets to the page's source text. (The text you see in the edit box when you click edit this page is called "source text", because it is a lot like programming code, which is called "source code").

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