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Does someone know 2017 honorable mention recipient Diego Gómez's principal project? The only text-based "hole" in the chart. Thanks. Randy Kryn ( talk) 14:03, 21 August 2017 (UTC)
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I see this list was just promoted to FL status (congrats!), but the description for Jess Wade seems off. --- Another Believer ( Talk) 20:59, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
Anyone good with tables know how to set consistent column widths across tables so the scroll down is a lot cleaner? --- Another Believer ( Talk) 23:29, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
Do we need both commons:Category:Wikipedian of the Year and commons:Category:Wikimedian of the Year? --- Another Believer ( Talk) 16:36, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
Randy Kryn, this article does have a lot of puffery regarding several of the winners; as examples,
Overall, the article also has a more subtle bias trying far too hard to paint all of these contributors in a very positive light and emphasize their contributions as much as possible, instead of a neutral "so-and-so won because they did this-and-that". It is also sourced mostly to WMF press releases, so the sources being positive isn't a valid defense. AryKun ( talk) 15:09, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
Would be nice if the award had "Wikipedian of the Year" and "Wikimedian of the Year" categories (it was named 'Wikipedian of the Year' until 2017). Both would be major awards, with Wikipedia and the sister projects guaranteed an awardee yearly. Another reason to ping Jimbo Wales who may have some thoughts on Another Believer's formatting suggestion below. Randy Kryn ( talk) 22:58, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
Perhaps we should merge the Image and Recipient cells, in an effort to reduce the number of cells and overall table widths? If there's interest, anyone know the best markup for formatting? --- Another Believer ( Talk) 20:44, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
Year | Recipient | Principal project | Rationale | Ref. |
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2011 |
Rauan Kenzhekhanuly |
Kazakh Wikipedia | Kenzhekhanuly recruited a stable community to improve the Kazakh Wikipedia, which in a year increased from 4 to over 200 active editors, and 7,000 to 130,000 articles. Wales was criticized by fellow Wikipedians because of Kenzhekhanuly's ties to the government of Kazakhstan. Wales stated on Reddit in 2015 that he'd been unaware of Kenzhekhanuly's prior positions in the Kazakh government and said that if he had known Kenzhekhanuly was going to go on to become deputy governor of a Kazakh region, he would have "refused to give that award". [1] |
[2] [3] |
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(or similar). Is this an improvement or not really? --- Another Believer ( Talk) 20:47, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
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Does someone know 2017 honorable mention recipient Diego Gómez's principal project? The only text-based "hole" in the chart. Thanks. Randy Kryn ( talk) 14:03, 21 August 2017 (UTC)
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I see this list was just promoted to FL status (congrats!), but the description for Jess Wade seems off. --- Another Believer ( Talk) 20:59, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
Anyone good with tables know how to set consistent column widths across tables so the scroll down is a lot cleaner? --- Another Believer ( Talk) 23:29, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
Do we need both commons:Category:Wikipedian of the Year and commons:Category:Wikimedian of the Year? --- Another Believer ( Talk) 16:36, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
Randy Kryn, this article does have a lot of puffery regarding several of the winners; as examples,
Overall, the article also has a more subtle bias trying far too hard to paint all of these contributors in a very positive light and emphasize their contributions as much as possible, instead of a neutral "so-and-so won because they did this-and-that". It is also sourced mostly to WMF press releases, so the sources being positive isn't a valid defense. AryKun ( talk) 15:09, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
Would be nice if the award had "Wikipedian of the Year" and "Wikimedian of the Year" categories (it was named 'Wikipedian of the Year' until 2017). Both would be major awards, with Wikipedia and the sister projects guaranteed an awardee yearly. Another reason to ping Jimbo Wales who may have some thoughts on Another Believer's formatting suggestion below. Randy Kryn ( talk) 22:58, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
Perhaps we should merge the Image and Recipient cells, in an effort to reduce the number of cells and overall table widths? If there's interest, anyone know the best markup for formatting? --- Another Believer ( Talk) 20:44, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
Year | Recipient | Principal project | Rationale | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2011 |
Rauan Kenzhekhanuly |
Kazakh Wikipedia | Kenzhekhanuly recruited a stable community to improve the Kazakh Wikipedia, which in a year increased from 4 to over 200 active editors, and 7,000 to 130,000 articles. Wales was criticized by fellow Wikipedians because of Kenzhekhanuly's ties to the government of Kazakhstan. Wales stated on Reddit in 2015 that he'd been unaware of Kenzhekhanuly's prior positions in the Kazakh government and said that if he had known Kenzhekhanuly was going to go on to become deputy governor of a Kazakh region, he would have "refused to give that award". [1] |
[2] [3] |
References
(or similar). Is this an improvement or not really? --- Another Believer ( Talk) 20:47, 5 September 2023 (UTC)