User:Erin1973

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As one of the current 51,964,638 users on the English Wikipedia, I enjoy occasionally editing, updating references, and making small fixes to any of the current 7,153,216 articles on the English Wikipedia.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 14 years, 6 months and 1 day.

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This user has edited 741 of the 65,303,401 pages on the English Language Wikipedia.

This user works in Technical Support.

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Photo Of The Day For 03/17/2026

English Wikipedia picture of the day

Burst of Joy

Current Events for 03/17/2026 @ 11:46 UTC

Topics in the news

Paul Thomas Anderson in 2025

Paul Thomas Anderson

At the Academy Awards, One Battle After Another wins six Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director for Paul Thomas Anderson (pictured).
German philosopher Jürgen Habermas dies at the age of 96.
Chilean architect Smiljan Radić Clarke is awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
In cricket, the Men's T20 World Cup concludes with India defeating New Zealand in the final.
Mojtaba Khamenei is elected Supreme Leader of Iran following the assassination of his father, Ali Khamenei.

Current Edition Of Wikipedia Signpost For 2026

Jason Ekvidi – CC BY-SA 4.0

Bernadette Meehan, new Wikimedia Foundation CEO

Rob Hille – cc-by-sa-3.0

Security testing unleashes computer worm on Meta-wiki

Dormant worm awakes; a sketchy archiving site struck; ether burns.

Grj23 – CC0

What actually happened during the Wikimedia security incident?

A horrifying exploit took place, which could have had catastrophic and far-reaching consequences if used maliciously; instead, it seems to have happened by accident and was used for childish vandalism. How did this happen, and what did the script actually do?

icon by Stifle (A), Sarang, final version by Bennylin – CC BY-SA 4.0

Indonesian government blocks Wikimedia logins; archive site scoured from Wikipedia after owner runs malware

As well as controversy over LLM translations.

AKibombo – CC-BY-SA 4.0

Recent research

To wiki, perchance to groki

Comparisons continue.

Kevin M. Gill – CC BY 2.0

Madhav Gadgil, Fredrick Brennan, Mark Miller, Chip Berlet

Lgate74 – CC BY 3.0

Interface administrators and trusting trust

Potential attacks are the logical consequence of giving a group of users unlimited control over JavaScript.

Nasanbuyn – cc-sa 4.0

Technology report

English Wikipedia deprecates archive.today after DDoS against blog, altered content

After the archive site launched a DDoS campaign against a small blog in January 2026, a request for comment was started, with consensus to deprecate the site used almost 700 thousand times.

Mayopotato – CC BY-SA 4.0

Why is "Trypsin-sensitive photosynthetic activities in chloroplast membranes" cited in "List of tallest buildings in Chicago"?

The answer is slop.

Unknown/Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum – pd

The pursuit of a button click

Volunteering for Wikipedia has its rewards. The thank-button, for example.

MichaelMaggs – CC BY-SA 4.0

Short descriptions: One year later

A discussion of the challenge set forth to the Wikipedia community one year ago!

Legaat van de heer S. Emmering, Amsterdam [Bequest of Mr. S. Emmering, Amsterdam] – Public Domain

WikiProject report

Unreferenced articles backlog drive

Unreferenced articles in English Wikipedia - help us in the backlog drive!

Pedro J Pacheco – CC-BY-SA 4.0

Speaking of planning ...

The WMF planning process is underway.

Sig Michele Giammarini – CC-BY-SA 4.0

Over the mountain, kissing silver inlaid clouds

Death and the Winter Olympics.

C.E. Graham & Co. – public domain

"It will never happen"

Want to take a break?

Anon (Punch) – pd

Single-page edition

The Signpost is looking for new talent.

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