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2020-03-29

The bad and the good

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By Smallbones

We all know what the bad is. The 2019-2020 coronavirus pandemic has spread to at least 190 countries, infecting 683,000 and killing 32,100 – and these are just the numbers as of March 29. Tomorrow they will be worse. People throughout the world are being quarantined or ordered into social distancing, bringing economies to a near-standstill. The WMF has gone into work-from-home mode, and all in-person gatherings of Wikipedians have been cancelled.

While any "good" from the last month is relative, Wikipedians have responded well to the pandemic. About 500 articles have been written on aspects of the pandemic, and page views of the three most viewed articles are 1.7 million daily; check this month's Traffic report for details. Several major news sources have praised Wikipedians' response.

In the media has some details. WikiProject report has extensive views from Wikipedians on the same topics.

Wikipedia is a go-to resource for information in crisis situations. The Special report and Community view explain why this is so.

There are other stories this month. March has traditionally been a special month for stories on women. The Gallery covers this story beautifully.

In focus explores Wikipedia's coverage of the Jeffrey Epstein story.

So how has the coronavirus affected The Signpost? It has been a difficult month for some of us, but we can't complain. We'll save that for the good months. A couple of planned submissions had to be delayed or arrived at the last moment, which is to be expected in such circumstances. We'll get them published in a month or two. We're in this for the duration. Readers who have been considering submitting articles or suggestions to The Signpost should step up and let your voices be heard. Please start with a note on our suggestions page or email me here.

Stay well.



2020-03-29

The only thing that matters in the world

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By Igordebraga, Rebestalic, Serendipodous, and Soulbust
This traffic report is adapted from the Top 25 Report, prepared with commentary by Igordebraga (March 1 to 7); Serendipodous, Soulbust and Igordebraga (March 8 to 14); Rebestalic and Igordebraga (March 15 to 21); and Igordebraga (February 23 to 29).

This traffic report is brought to you by the letters "COVID", and the number 19. (Special thanks to both the WMF Tools and User:Jtmorgan for helping us compile the data while the regular tool is down)

Please note that news on COVID-19 has been rapidly developing. The descriptions of the historical articles given here may be out of date.


You Gotta Keep 'Em Separated (March 15 to 21)

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (March 15 to 21, 2020)
Rank Article Class Views Image Notes/about
1 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic 7,645,103
Early 2020 bears the burden of a multinational pandemic caused by the Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The page for the pandemic in particular is receiving so many views that WMFLabs' ever-useful Pageviews Anaylsis tool shows that all through this month there was never a day below 400k visitors... oh dear.
2 Coronavirus 2,749,576
The term 'Coronavirus' is a surprisingly broad one — it simply means any virus in a family which causes problems in mammals and birds. The Coronavirus family ranges from near-harmless common cold causers, to the one you see in the news — Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 — to the hulking (not literally), spree-slaying Middle East respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus, which, in its 2012 outbreak, presented victims with a ~35% chance of dying. The Coronaviruses are so named because of their peculiar spikes, called peplomers, which create an illusion of a stellar corona when viewed under an electron microscope.
3 Spanish flu 2,648,537
The Spanish flu was a flu pandemic that occurred from 1918 to 1920. One of the deadliest epidemics in recorded human history, the Spanish flu took place during a time when information was possibly being censored because of the war effort at the time. As for afterward, I don't know. All this censoring (which, by the way, was meant to keep morale up) left neutral country Spain as basically the only hard-hit country that took pains to accurately report infections – and so the pandemic was named after Spain (because countries thought Spain was the epicentre of the outbreak).
4 Coronavirus disease 2019 2,455,634 The illness caused by the Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.
5 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Italy 2,087,780
Attention drawn by the Coronavirus pandemic is also concentrated on specific countries (as well as the general pandemic). Italy, considering deaths from infections, is the hardest-hit country in the world; doctors there have had to triage patients – who can be treated, who can't be. It's that hard. India's high standing here is probably due to its massive English-speaking population base. Same for the United States; in addition, the US currently has the very unfortunate position as the fastest-growing country in the world in terms of new infections.
6 2020 coronavirus pandemic in India 1,923,144
7 2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United States 1,752,639
8 Kenny Rogers 1,497,434 Kenny Rogers is one of the best-selling musicians of all time, with a cool 100 million records sold during his lifetime; he was welcomed into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2013. The Texan's 60-year career was punctuated with hits such as The Gambler and his cover of Islands in the Stream. Rogers passed away of natural causes at his home on the 20th of March this year.
9 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic by country and territory 1,450,648 Another Coronavirus article; this time, dealing with the actual impact of the pandemic. Take a look at the map to the left—red all around. It's not looking good...
10 2009 flu pandemic 1,261,204 H1N1 virus This pandemic was caused by the same type of influenza that caused the Spanish Flu (H1N1; swine flu). Estimates of total infections from this pandemic range to 1.4 billion (see the infobox in that article). That's huge.

You built walls to protect you, so no one will infect you (March 8 to 14)

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (March 8 to 14, 2020)
Rank Article Class Views Image Notes/about
1 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak / pandemic 6,408,766 [a]
It seems the only thing that matters in the world is not getting infected with the strong, heavily contagious virus that since its outbreak in China last year has now reached pandemic status. All the movies that could've brought us to the theater were postponed, just about every sport (American and association football, basketball, hockey) stopped being played, and everywhere you see the words "social distancing" and "quarantine".
2 Coronavirus 2,883,888
3 Coronavirus disease 2019 1,762,421
4 Spanish flu 1,582,872
In the last 100 years, humanity has had to confront two great plagues: one was AIDS, the other was this monster, which struck a weakened world still broken by the horror of World War I, and was almost certainly speeded by it. The death toll is still debated today, and may have been as high as 100 million, though was more likely comparable to AIDS's 30 million.
5 Pandemic 1,517,718
The precise definition of this loaded word is vague, and even the World Health Organization is cautious in applying it. Even so, they declared the COVID-19 disease a pandemic this week.
6 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak / pandemic by country and territory 1,480,438 [a]
This epidemic is global, but its effects are local, and everyone will confront their own story, largely dependent on their country's response.
7 2009 flu pandemic 1,272,019
This pandemic was essentially an encore for the 1918 flu. It was the same type, though a different strain, and infected about the same percentage of the world's population, but thankfully was far less virulent. Still many people were left with permanent damage to their lungs.
8 2020 coronavirus outbreak / pandemic in Italy 1,262,160‬ [a]
Italy has been hit the worst of any country by this pandemic, with nearly 50,000 cases in a population of barely 60 million. Recently its death toll has crossed that of China, though some have suggested the data may be inflated. This may be due to Italy's greater percentage of elderly.
9 2020 coronavirus outbreak / pandemic in the United States 1,164,003 [a]
To translate how many people are feeling about the arrival and spread of the disease, let's borrow from Billy Joel by way of Patton Oswalt:
We didn't stop the virus
Could have been prevented
But our leader’s demented...
10 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries 900,406
And now for something not related to diseases, but just as unhealthy (though more for the mind): politics!
  1. ^ a b c d Combining page views for these two articles due to coronavirus-related articles being moved to more accurate main space titles in the middle of the week (on March 11) to reflect the World Health Organization's announcement of the former outbreak becoming a pandemic.

I've Got a Disease (March 1 to 7)

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (March 1 to 7, 2020
Rank Article Class Views Image About
1 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak 3.465.955
The article is now 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic, showing how widespread the disease has gotten since it originated in China.
2 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries 2.331.572
The Republicans just went for a possible Trump re-election, so the Democrats instead are having a tight race, that after Super Tuesday (#4), has only three candidates left: #5, #7, and Tulsi Gabbard.
3 Coronavirus 2.106.989
The specific strain of this type of virus currently causing panic worldwide (#1) was known as 2019-nCoV and is now Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), but people just seek the general term.
4 Super Tuesday 1.356.307
11 states held their primaries (#2) on March 3, most of which were won by Joe Biden, Barack Obama's vice president who previously served as Senator for Delaware.
5 Joe Biden 1.086.375
6 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak by country and territory 1.071.108
#1 started in China, and has gone onto over 100 countries (including the Vatican – see #10 as for why). The list also includes a cruise ship, the Diamond Princess, which had 696 cases (7 of them fatal) and is currently quarantined following an evacuation in the coast of Japan.
7 Bernie Sanders 985.977
After losing the Democratic presidential spot to Hillary Clinton in 2016, the Vermont Senator is currently trying again against #5.
8 The Invisible Man (2020 film) 964.377
Without the classic look seen to the left (that certainly would help avoid getting infected in times of our #1!) or previously attached star Johnny Depp, The Invisible Man was brought back in a cheaply made and highly effective thriller that got glowing reviews and already made over $100 million worldwide.
9 Spanish flu 773.875
Over a hundred years ago, another virus (the H1N1, which struck again in 2009) wiped out huge portions of the world population, and reportedly started in Europe – though not in Spain, that got the name because unlike other countries they didn't care if reporting on the deaths would be bad for morale. The current pandemic (#1) had its first major outbreak out of Asia in Italy, which is currently only behind disease source China.
10 2020 coronavirus outbreak in Italy 754.327

This could be The Last Time (February 23 to 29)

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (February 23 to 29, 2020
Rank Article Class Views Image About
1 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak 2.505.351
While the disease has had most cases where it originated, Asia, it is now slowly spreading to other countries which received tourists from China. The global economy has been affected, and even James Bond is afraid of the virus.
2 Tyson Fury 2.420.792
This awesomely named boxer finally had a rematch for a 2018 fight that ended in a controversial split draw, and this time had a technical knockout on adversary Deontay Wilder (#6).
3 Coronavirus 1.954.483
The specific strain of this type of virus currently causing panic worldwide (#1) was known as 2019-nCoV and is now Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), but people just seek the general term. But showing how things have gotten worse, now readers also want specifics on how and where the coronavirus is spreading.
4 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak by country and territory 1.096.182
5 Donald Trump 1.064.391
The Tweeter-in-chief visited India (and its Prime Minister who he likes a lot), and the combination of an attention-hungry person with an information-seeking nation just had to bring him views on Wikipedia.
6 Deontay Wilder 1.018.424
The previously undefeated World Boxing Council heavyweight champion lost his belt to our #2 when the two boxers finally met again.
7 The Invisible Man (2020 film) 997.915
Once the idea of starting a cinematic universe with The Mummy failed miserably, Universal Studios gave up on making a related big budget Invisible Man starring Johnny Depp and instead gave the project to Leigh Whannell and Blumhouse Productions, who reworked the project to have Elisabeth Moss being stalked by her ex who found out a way to never be seen. It worked, with heaps of critical praise about how in spite of the low $7 million budget The Invisible Man is scarier and often better made than much more expensive thrillers, and it opened atop the box office.
8 Bernie Sanders 973.889
After losing the Democratic presidential spot to Hillary Clinton in 2016, the Vermont Senator is currently leading the race for the 2020 run.
9 Harvey Weinstein 880.650
Justice is starting to be served to the film producer who harrassed, abused and even raped women in his heyday, as Weinstein was found guilty of two of five felonies in New York, which could send him to jail for up to 25 years.
10 Super ShowDown (2020) 824.654
WWE again went to Saudi Arabia, with the main card featuring "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt (pictured) losing to Bill Goldberg.


Exclusions

  • These lists exclude the Wikipedia main page, non-article pages (such as redlinks), and anomalous entries (such as DDoS attacks or likely automated views). Since mobile view data became available to the Report in October 2014, we exclude articles that have almost no mobile views (5–6% or less) or almost all mobile views (94–95% or more) because they are very likely to be automated views based on our experience and research of the issue. Please feel free to discuss any removal on the Top 25 Report talk page if you wish.


2020-03-29

Blocked in Iran but still covering the big story

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By Smallbones

Last month in this column we couldn't find a theme for February's news coverage of Wikipedia. There was a lone article on the COVID-19 outbreak, "On Wikipedia, a fight is raging over coronavirus disinformation" by Omer Benjakob in Wired on February 9. This month it's almost all COVID-19.

COVID-19 and Wikipedia

[Wikipedia] has developed a personality, a purpose, a soul. Now, as the new coronavirus outbreak plays out across its many pages, we can see that Wikipedia has also developed a conscience.

Compare this article to his 2014 article on "Wikipedia Emerges as Trusted Internet Source for Ebola Information" in The New York Times.

Zika research in the time of COVID-19

How many Wikipedians can you quote in one story?

On March 7, before COVID-19 became the only story in the news, Alex Pasternack,, who claims to be a Wikipedia editor, quotes at least nine editors in his FastCompany article, including Jimmy Wales, Ryan Merkley, DQUACK02, Cgmusselman, an arbitrator, more than one administrator, and some editors without advanced permissions. A couple of academics were also quoted. Compared to the three love letters Wikipedia received in the media last month, the article is quite realistic describing both our achievements and our challenges. It mentions vandalism, political articles, "one of the most trusted sites on the internet," debunking conspiracy theories, conflicts of interest, paid editing, thousands of small donations, the struggle to retain new editors, biting the newbies, left-wing bias, a Byzantine body of policies and guidelines, assume good faith, and ArbCom. The last several paragraphs are just as densely packed with information, until he slows down for the conclusion. There he goes into detail about his experiences with the new gamified project, WikiLoop Battlefield. He even won a prize there – something like a barnstar.

Women's biographies

March has been a time of many articles on the theme of women's biographies and edit-a-thons. This year however, many edit-a-thons were cancelled and news coverage moved to COVID-19.

In brief



For a detailed compilation of news about Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Press coverage 2020
Do you want to contribute to "In the media" by writing a story or even just an "in brief" item? Edit next month's edition in the Newsroom or leave a tip on the suggestions page.

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2020-03-29

2018 Wikipedian of the year blocked

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Farkhad Fatkullin banned, unbanned, rebanned, re-unbanned on Tatar Wikipedia

2018 Wikipedian of the year Farkhad Fatkullin was banned on the Tatar Wikipedia for a post on Phabricator on August 21, 2019. As of March 29, discussions continue in Tatar, Russian, and English on this page. The Signpost has not been able to contact all parties involved, so this report should be considered preliminary.

In 2018, Jimmy Wales said, "Farkhad is energetically community organizing among Russia's minority languages communities, going far and wide beyond his native Tatar. He is also fluent in English, a fact that has established a bridge between those communities and the wider movement after years of isolation."

Fatkullin's views in September are expressed on his Tatar user page in both Russian and English. He recently told The Signpost that he is "quite busy around Wikimedia Language Diversity (Meta), Wiki-Smart Tatarstan (Wikimedia RU) & wider Wiki-Smart Region (Meta), so I don't at all have time to feel wiki-exclusion."

According to this log Fatkulin appears to have been rebanned and re-unbanned on March 29.

Ssr contributed to this article. —S

Brief notes

References

  1. ^ m:Affiliations Committee/Resolutions/Recognition of Wikigrannies User Group
  2. ^ m:Affiliations Committee/Resolutions/Recognition of Wikimedians of Turkic Languages User Group
  3. ^ m:Affiliations Committee/Resolutions/Recognition of Wikimedians of United Arab Emirates User Group
  4. ^ m:Affiliations Committee/Resolutions/Recognition of Wikimedia Community User Group CEE Spring
  5. ^ m:Affiliations Committee/Resolutions/Recognition of Wikimedians for Sustainable Development
  6. ^ m:Affiliations Committee/Resolutions/Recognition of Myanmar Wikimedia Community User Group

Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2020-03-29/Serendipity Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2020-03-29/Op-ed

2020-03-29

"I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein …"

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By Smallbones
Edit comment by User:Stgeorge12

The life of reputed billionaire[1] Jeffrey Epstein took many strange turns. So did the articles about him on Wikipedia. In 2008, he was convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution, served 13 months in a Florida jail, and was required to register as a sex offender. He allegedly committed illicit sexual activities while he was on work release from jail,[2] and was suspected of continuing them through at least 2015.[3]

Ultimately, he was accused of additional serious offenses, including sex trafficking, resulting in his July 2019 arrest. That month, publicity about the lenient plea deal in Epstein's 2008 case resulted in the resignation of US Secretary of Labor, Alexander Acosta, who as U.S. attorney for Southern Florida had approved the deal.[4] Epstein died in jail in August 2019, his death ruled a suicide by the New York City medical examiner.[5]

Between his 2009 release from jail and his second arrest, the editing got interesting on Wikipedia. Epstein began an extensive campaign to whitewash his reputation. Most notably, he claimed large donations to well-known academics through his charitable foundations.[6] Given his heinous crimes, the probable high-level political interest in the story, and the campaign to whitewash his reputation, in retrospect Wikipedia's article on Epstein seems like an obvious potential target for conflict-of-interest or paid editing.

The New York Times on November 26, 2019, broke a story about Wikipedia editing by accounts with probable links to Epstein. The Times wrote that after his 2008 conviction, Epstein named reputation management services that he used, and a Wikipedia user account, "Turville", appeared in information Epstein provided.[6] However there is no User:Turville registered on Wikipedia, and the Times suggested that User:Turvill (without an "e"), was the account referred to.

This Signpost report investigates whether User:Turvill and other accounts were associated with Epstein and how their edits affected two articles on Epstein. It is important to note that no purely on-Wiki investigation can prove the identity of a user account. For example other people may impersonate an editor in order to embarrass them, a tactic known as Joe jobbing. We cannot conclusively determine whether Epstein himself, employees of the Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation, reputation management companies, or other types of paid editors edited the Wikipedia articles about Epstein. We can however gather evidence about how editors who associated themselves in some way with Epstein affected the articles.

The Epstein article

The Wikipedia article on Epstein was created on August 4, 2006, a week after Epstein's first indictment and two years before his conviction. Within hours a reliable source was added, citing CNN on the indictment.

Over the next two years the article grew to include 15 references, almost all of them about the sex scandal or investigation, until on June 30, 2008, when Epstein pleaded guilty and the plea was noted in Wikipedia.

However, not all was well with the article during this time. A lot of material, mostly unreferenced and complimentary to Epstein was added to the top of the article and all the referenced material on the criminal case was pushed to the bottom. From October 2007 to February 2008 one IP editor made six major deletions of material on the sexual allegations and related lawsuits.

In December 2011 there was more conflict among editors. Wikipedia editors had been keeping the article up to date, with reliable sources—until the arrival of editors favoring Epstein. Trouble began when User:Stgeorge12 reverted an administrator and removed material about the sexual offense conviction with the edit summary "I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein to describe his biography in a professional and accurate way, that does not involve any scandals or disreputable content. As a living person, this is his right." On January 7, 2012, Stgeorge12 was indefinitely blocked for this and similar edits, at exactly the same time as another new editor, User:Ottotiv, who had made similar edits. These single-purpose accounts had established a pattern of obstruction and interference that would continue with User:Turvill.

Turvill

Public domain mugshot Turvill tried to remove from Commons

Six weeks after Stgeorge12 was indefinitely blocked, User:Turvill made their first edits, with five of the first seven edits on talk pages discussing deleting the Jeffrey Epstein article or protesting the proposed deletion of Jeffrey Epstein (plastic surgeon), which they called "my article".

Turvill has associated themself with Epstein by uploading flattering photos of Epstein to Wikimedia Commons with one described "Previously published: on my website, on facebook www.jeffreyepstein.org". When these files were deleted from Commons because the copyright permission was poorly formatted, Turvill implied that Epstein's foundation would release the photos. Turvill also tried to get a public domain Florida mugshot of Epstein speedily deleted from Commons because it was a "personal attack; violation of biography of a living person."

Turvill's main topic for editing was an article they helped create on the Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation. Using the articles for creation procedure, an IP editor proposed the article on March 24, 2013, but Turvill took control of it two days later and made the vast majority of edits on it until August 20, 2013, when it was accepted as an article.

The article as first accepted claimed that the foundation funded projects worth "$200 million a year." The New York Times[6] published financial statements from the foundation showing that, in total over 18 years, the foundation funded less than $20 million in projects.[7] The article as first accepted also included a 100 word biography of Epstein which did not mention his conviction for soliciting a minor for prostitution.

IP editor signing "Turville"

Turvill was a single-purpose account devoted to articles related to Epstein. Turvill occasionally signed an edit in text as "Turville" (with an "e") or once as "Tuville" resulting in their IP address being posted on talk pages. The IP editor posted 25 of their 31 edits on the same pages where Turvill contributed. Turvill's last edit on Wikipedia was in January 2015 when they removed the words "convicted paedophile" from the foundation article.

In March 2012 and again in July 2012, Turvill was warned about editing warring on the Jeffrey Epstein article. Following the November 26 New York Times article, Carrite asked Turvill whether they would make a paid editing declaration, even though Turvill had not edited in almost five years. The next day Turvill was indefinitely blocked for "(Spam / advertising-only account WP:UPE)", where "UPE" refers to "undeclared paid editing".

Turvill's final edit

Connections with MIT Media Lab

In the same month that Turvill began editing the Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation article, Epstein met the director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, Joi Ito for the first time, with both interested in a donation to the Media Lab. On March 2, 2013, Ito requested staff members to conduct due diligence on Epstein.[8] One of them responded by email two days later:


In an independent report commissioned by MIT, the authors noted six sentences or paragraphs in the Wikipedia article that could have warned Ito that MIT should not accept Epstein's money, although the article "also included statements that could be read as undercutting the strength of some of the allegations."[8]

The MIT report noted that MIT did consider the possible risks to MIT's reputation when they accepted Epstein's money, but MIT "did not appropriately take into account the significant damage to the MIT community, particularly victims of sexual assault and abuse, from allowing Epstein to associate himself with MIT."[8]

Some staffers at the Media Lab were clearly worried about Epstein's victims. Epstein visited the MIT Media Lab in 2016, about a year after Turvill's final edit. According to an MIT staffer interviewed by Ronan Farrow in The New Yorker,[3] two young women accompanied Epstein on the visit. "They were models. Eastern European, definitely … All of us women made it a point to be super nice to them. We literally had a conversation about how, on the off chance that they're not there by choice, we could maybe help them."

Conclusion

Wikipedians reported on the Epstein investigation soon after it was announced in 2006, and they reported his conviction and many details of other allegations against him. But they were regularly opposed by single-purpose editors who removed material on Epstein's conviction or otherwise whitewashed the articles. Two of these editors associated themselves with Epstein or his foundation.

These Epstein-related accounts were not enough to prevent the Wikipedia article on Epstein from alerting MIT to Epstein's offenses, but they did soft-pedal the story enough that MIT managed to ignore the alert long enough to accept Epstein's money. Wikipedia's editors performed their work well in a difficult situation.

References

  1. ^ Voytko, Lisette (16 July 2019). "Court Documents Confirm Jeffrey Epstein Is Nowhere Near A Billionaire". Forbes. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  2. ^ Baker, Mike (17 July 2019). "Sheriff to Investigate Jeffrey Epstein 'Work Release' After Allegation of Nude Meeting". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  3. ^ a b Farrow, Ronan (7 September 2019). "How an Élite University Research Center Concealed Its Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein". The New Yorker. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  4. ^ Helmore, Edward (12 July 2019). "Alex Acosta resigns as US labor secretary following Epstein plea deal scandal". Guardian. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  5. ^ Barrett, Devlin (14 August 2019). "Jeffrey Epstein's autopsy concludes his death was a suicide by hanging". Washington Post. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  6. ^ a b c Eder, Steven; Goldstein, Matthew (26 November 2019). "Jeffrey Epstein's Charity: An Image Boost Built on Deception". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 9 December 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  7. ^ "J. Epstein Virgin Islands Foundation , Inc" (PDF). The New York Times. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  8. ^ a b c d Braceras, Roberto M.; Chunias, Jennifer L.; Martin, Kevin P. (10 March 2020). "Report Concerning Jeffrey Epstein's Interactions with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 January 2020. Retrieved 22 March 2020.



2020-03-29

Unfinished business

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Jytdog

Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Jytdog was reopened on March 9, 2020. Until now, the original 2018 case request was in an unusual state of limbo: it was accepted, but the case will not be opened at this time in light of Jytdog's statement that he is retiring from Wikipedia... on December 9, 2018.

A unanimous decision to reopen the case was reached by Arbcom on March 5 after receiving a communication from Jytdog expressing the wish to return to the community. Committee member Bradv gave the account Jytdog2 the confirmed user permission in order to initiate an Arbcom case.

The case is in its workshop phase as of our writing deadline.

Anti-harassment RfC

An anti-harassment Request for Comment (RfC) under the aegis of the Arbitration Committee was mentioned as a follow-on action during the Fram case last year (see the September 30, 2019 Special report for details). The draft RfC was posted on March 16, and was not yet open for comments as of our writing deadline.

Motorsports

Motorsports case was accepted February 28 as a content issue we cannot resolve, according to Arbitrator David Fuchs. A proposed decision was due March 27 – as of our writing deadline, it has not been posted.

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