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This week's article for improvement (week 2, 2026)
Hello, ChamithN. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Outpost (military) • Telecommunications in Kazakhstan Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 5 January 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2026)
Hello, ChamithN. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Battle of Messana • Outpost (military) Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 12 January 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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The Signpost: 15 January 2026
- News and notes: Wikipedia's 25th anniversary is here!
Where does the time go?
- Special report: Wikipedia at 25: A Wake-Up Call
The internet is booming. We are not.
- Serendipity: The WMF wants to buy you books!
Really! A major triumph.
- WikiProject report: Time for a health check: the Vital Signs 2026 campaign
The campaign to get all of our top-importance medical articles up to B-class or above.
- In the media: Fake Acting President Trump and a Wikipedia infobox
D.J.T. assumes a new position.
- Community view: The inbox behind Wikipedia
What the Volunteer Response Team actually does!
- Recent research: Art museums on Wikidata; comparing three comparisons of Grokipedia and Wikipedia
And other research.
- Traffic report: Tonight I'm gonna rock you tonight
A world in white gets underway.
- Comix: Oh come on man.
Really?
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This week's article for improvement (week 4, 2026)
Hello, ChamithN. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Mormon pornography • Battle of Messana Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 19 January 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2026)
Hello, ChamithN. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Hope chest • Mormon pornography Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 26 January 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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The Signpost: 29 January 2026
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2025
Everybody had a hard year, everybody had a good time.
- News and notes: Good news... but also bad news for the Public Domain
Benvenuto Betty Boop, arrivederci Italian Photos.
- News from Diff: Solving puzzles together
Maryana Iskander says farewell.
- In the media: Every view on the 25th anniversary of everything
Media about hard-core nerds, a place with paragraphs, baby globes, and wikipedes.
- Comix: Perspectives
Everybody has one.
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This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2026)
Hello, ChamithN. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Magic 8-Ball • Hope chest Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 2 February 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2026)
Hello, ChamithN. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Hinge • Magic 8-Ball Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 9 February 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2026)
Hello, ChamithN. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Romina Pourmokhtari • Hinge Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 16 February 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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The Signpost: 17 February 2026
- In the media: Global powers see Wikipedia as fundamental target for manipulation
Attempted Wikipedia shenanigans apparent from Epstein, AI, various governments.
- News and notes: Discussions open for the next WMF Annual Plan
Plus, WikiFlix going places, steady progress on older FAs and other news from the Wikimedia world.
- Serendipity: Maintenance crews continue to slog through Wikipedia's oldest Featured Articles
Hundreds of old FAs have been triaged since project began, but thousands remain — and they need reviewers.
- Disinformation report: Epstein's obsessions
The sex offender's attempts to whitewash Wikipedia run deeper than we first thought.
- Technology report: Wikidata Graph Split and how we address major challenges
A personal perspective on a major update to the Wikimedia social machine.
- Traffic report: Deaths, killings, films, and the Olympics
I'll have the usual!
- Opinion: Incoming Incurables
A poem for Wikipedia Day 2026.
- Crossword: Pop quiz
Sharpen your pencil. How well do you really know Wikipedia?
- Comix: herculean
efforts.
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This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2026)
Hello, ChamithN. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Arabic coffee • Romina Pourmokhtari Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 23 February 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2026)
Hello, ChamithN. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Public utility • Arabic coffee Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 2 March 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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This week's article for improvement (week 11, 2026)
Hello, ChamithN. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Building information modeling • Public utility Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 9 March 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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The Signpost: 10 March 2026
- Interview: Bernadette Meehan, new Wikimedia Foundation CEO
Part 2.
- News and notes: Security testing unleashes computer worm on Meta-wiki
Dormant worm awakes; a sketchy archiving site struck; ether burns.
- Special report: 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?
- In the media: Indonesian government blocks Wikimedia logins; archive site scoured from Wikipedia after owner runs malware
As well as controversy over LLM translations.
- Recent research: To wiki, perchance to groki
Comparisons continue.
- Obituary: Madhav Gadgil, Fredrick Brennan, Mark Miller, Chip Berlet
Rest in peace.
- Opinion: Interface administrators and trusting trust
Potential attacks are the logical consequence of giving a group of users unlimited control over JavaScript.
- 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.
- Op-ed: Why is "Trypsin-sensitive photosynthetic activities in chloroplast membranes" cited in "List of tallest buildings in Chicago"?
The answer is slop.
- Essay: The pursuit of a button click
Volunteering for Wikipedia has its rewards. The thank-button, for example.
- In focus: Short descriptions: One year later
A discussion of the challenge set forth to the Wikipedia community one year ago!
- WikiProject report: Unreferenced articles backlog drive
Unreferenced articles in English Wikipedia - help us in the backlog drive!
- Community view: Speaking of planning ...
The WMF planning process is underway.
- Traffic report: Over the mountain, kissing silver inlaid clouds
Death and the Winter Olympics.
- Crossword: "It will never happen"
Want to take a break?
- Comix: BRIEn't
Or is it.
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This week's article for improvement (week 12, 2026)
Hello, ChamithN. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Reef • Building information modeling Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:10, 16 March 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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This week's article for improvement (week 13, 2026)
Hello, ChamithN. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Christmas dinner • Reef Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 23 March 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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This week's article for improvement (week 14, 2026)
Hello, ChamithN. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Port Vila • Christmas dinner Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 30 March 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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The Signpost: 31 March 2026
- News and notes: Entirety of Wikinews to be shut down
All languages to be shut down in May; first AI agent blocked; new name for AfD?
- In the media: AI ban, newspapers disrupt archiving; and antisemitism complaints
Perennial challenges with AI, demographic representation, and attacks from people buying media influence.
- Community view: Videos from WikiConference North America 2025 in NYC
In attendees' own words.
- Disinformation report: Cleaning up after Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Nygard, and Mohamed Al-Fayed
Countering the edits of the rich and dangerous.
- WikiConference report: WikiConference North America 2025 in NYC review
About the conference series, and this conference particularly.
- Obituary: Dr. Subas Chandra Rout
Rest in peace.
- Traffic report: Call in the dogs of war, soldier of fortune
Though of course the picture needs to be Chuck Norris...
- Gallery: Canadian Rangers participate in Operation Enduring Encyclopedia
Analogies between how Wikipedia works and how Canada works.
- Comix: n00bsitting
...!
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This week's article for improvement (week 15, 2026)
Hello, ChamithN. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Ancient music • Port Vila Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 6 April 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2026)
Hello, ChamithN. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Agriculture in Haiti • Ancient music Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 13 April 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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This week's article for improvement (week 17, 2026)
Hello, ChamithN. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Rainmaking (ritual) • Agriculture in Haiti Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 20 April 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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The Signpost: 21 April 2026
- News and notes: Six Serbian Wikipedia editors banned following controversy about political bias
Plus, new bans for AI-generated content in place, a new drop in active admins, pranks on pranks, May admin election, and other news from the Wikimedia world.
- In the media: Could Wikipedia be involved in Massachusetts' proposed social media ban for minors?
Another regulate-the-internet attempt casts a wide net.
- Gallery: March equinox
The progression of seasons in March.
- Traffic report: Time to change my galaxy in case, we outta space!
What catches the reader's eye? Death and film, per usual, and a loop around the moon per unusual.
- Comix: Of skirts and articles
When significant coverage is only skin deep.
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This week's article for improvement (week 18, 2026)
Hello, ChamithN. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Minibus • Rainmaking (ritual) Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 27 April 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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This week's article for improvement (week 19, 2026)
Hello, ChamithN. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Saucer • Minibus Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 4 May 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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This week's article for improvement (week 20, 2026)
Hello, ChamithN. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Work–life balance • Saucer Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 11 May 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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This week's article for improvement (week 21, 2026)
Hello, ChamithN. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Wings of Fire (novel series) • Work–life balance Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 18 May 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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The Signpost: 22 May 2026
- News and notes: Offline: Osama Khalid still in prison
He has been imprisoned since 2020 for his Wikipedia edits. A fresh campaign is calling for his release.
- In the media: Indonesian editors, you shall return!
And lawspam, may you be away.
- Disinformation report: Who is a typical paid editor? Who are their typical clients?
Remember the golden rule!
- Recent research: WikiLambda the Ultimate
Does Abstract Wikipedia help fight "One ring to rule them all" solutions for knowledge access - or does it implement one itself?
- Traffic report: This is where I'll be, so heavenly, so come and dance with me Michael!
A real off the wall thriller, invincible, can't beat it, or is it dangerous and just bad?
- Forum: WikiAnnotate: help us build a dataset of article quality evaluations
A research project to build better automated article assessment tools.
- In focus: Demystifying the 2026-27 Annual Plan
A guide to WMF's Tech Annual Plan for the next year.
- Opinion: Wikipedia isn't a battleground. So why does it feel like one?
Do we really have to fight?
- Serendipity: Wikinews: Into the Wikiverse
The early suggestions for what the wiki could have been.
- Special report: Wikimedia Foundation closes Wikinews after 21 years
Displaces 700 active editors among 31 language editions.
- Community view: Wikipedia's traffic drop: more on languages and freshness
Which topics are dropping, and is the pattern the same everywhere?
- Gallery: Earth Day and Mother's Day
Earth Day was on 22 April, and Mother's Day was on 10 May (in the US and many other countries).
- Comix: Brother, can you spare a page?
What would you say?
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This week's article for improvement (week 22, 2026)
Hello, ChamithN. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Harbor • Wings of Fire (novel series) Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 25 May 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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This week's article for improvement (week 23, 2026)
Hello, ChamithN. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Partnership for Peace • Harbor Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 1 June 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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This week's article for improvement (week 24, 2026)
Hello, ChamithN. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Articulated bus • Partnership for Peace Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 8 June 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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This week's article for improvement (week 25, 2026)
Hello, ChamithN. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Drinking water • Articulated bus Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 15 June 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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The Signpost: 21 June 2026
- From the editors: Ways for beginners to support The Signpost community journalism
Pointing the way to your contribution to The Signpost!
- News and notes: Community Tech development team disbanded
And English Wikipedia reaches a milestone in number of highly active editors.
- Disinformation report: PR for the people?
Or, "PR using PR for PR"?
- Recent research: Proposed tagging system for AI involvement; successful and unsuccessful AI tools for contributors
And other new research publications.
- In the media: Who won a 14th century battle and who won the 2026 Iran war?
Media take issue with portrayals of recent and medieval history on Wikipedia. Plus a team supporting Wikipedians gets dissolved, and a few other things.
- Community view: Putting the Wish into the Wishlist
A history of the Wikimedia community's request process to Foundation developers.
- In focus: A global standard for Neutral Point of View
Wikipedians are commenting on a proposed global standard for neutral point of view.
- On the bright side: Flowers, blue helmets, reefs, pride, and Juneteenth
Nice things around the world.
- Op-ed: Breathe, Don’t Panic, there is a different story about Wikimedia + AI futures
We can build a strategy about AI that doesn't just center on readers; there are still plenty of humans to write the encyclopedia and work on diverse global knowledge.
- Opinion: Wikimedia Foundation staff develop union and Wikimedia user community reacts
Why should editors support the Wiki Workers United union drive? Lessons the Wikimedia movement can learn from other labor struggles.
- Technology report: Community Tech team is disbanded, controversy erupts
WMF disbands Community Tech, sparking community backlash over the future of the Wishlist and concerns about unionization.
- Traffic report: 'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
Horror movies and Michael Jackson dominate theaters in the lead-up to the World Cup.
- WikiConference report: Report of Volunteer Supporters Network Annual Meeting 2026
Outreach staff of Wikimedia chapters host a global discussion.
- Comix: Take your turn
In a maze of twisty little edits, all alike.
- Humour: Group of banned T-shirt makers comes out of hiding to sell new Wikipedia-themed merchandise
It ain't WikiProject United Nations, but you will find some PUNs.
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This week's article for improvement (week 26, 2026)
_at_Camp_Taqaddum,_Iraq,_operate_on_a_Marine.jpg) Injuries to humans elicit an elaborate response including emergency medicine, trauma surgery (pictured), and pain management.
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Khoekhoe • Drinking water Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 22 June 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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This week's article for improvement (week 27, 2026)
 Akkawi cheese served with cherries
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Injury • Khoekhoe Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 29 June 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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This week's article for improvement (week 28, 2026)
Hello, ChamithN. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: List of Syrian cheeses • Injury Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 6 July 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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This week's article for improvement (week 29, 2026)
Hello, ChamithN. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Chess • List of Syrian cheeses Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 13 July 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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The Signpost: 13 July 2026
- News and notes: An exclusive club
Wikipedia Co-Founder Larry Sanger gets a community ban for canvassing.
- In the media: Battle for a soul – who won?
Commissars, winners and losers, blocks or bans, a Wiki red card, social engineering on wikis, and Swift action!
- Opinion: We need to innovate with Wikimedia decision-making
Rules we can actually read, trust and change!
- Recent research: LLMs and NPOV, 20 years of user blocks, Esperanto and Volapük Wikipedias
And other research findings.
- News from Diff: How to host Wikicurious in your own community
The Wikicurious team shares their approach to Wiki-event organizing.
- Community view: CUNY Newmark Wikimedian-in-Residence Quarterly Brief – April to June 2026
Quarterly update on the activities of the City University of New York's Wikimedian-in-Residence, Richard Knipel.
- Special report: Wikipedia escapes Category 1 designation under the UK Online Safety Act – for now
A possible future recategorization by the UK Government remains an existential threat to Wikipedia.
- On the bright side: Fatherhood, weather, and diplomacy
Father's Day, Canada Day, and the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence.
- Op-ed: A Layup Easy Proposal for Wikimedia at 25: Spend 25% of Donations on the Community
If strategy priority 1.1 is supporting the community, can we not increase the support to the community? Increasing grantmaking to 25% of the budget would be a move toward equality in the movement.
- Traffic report: The grass was greener, the light was brighter
We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed of World Cup.
- Comix: schnozzed
on lollerskates.
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