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Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 19:32, 2 May 2022 (UTC) WikiCup 2022 May newsletterThe second round of the 2022 WikiCup has now finished. It was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 115 points to advance to round 3. There were some very impressive efforts in round 2, with the top seven contestants all scoring more than 500 points. A large number of the points came from the 11 featured articles and the 79 good articles achieved in total by contestants. Our top scorers in round 2 were:
The rules for featured and good article reviews require the review to be of sufficient length; brief quick fails and very short reviews will generally not be awarded points. Remember also that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) and Cwmhiraeth Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 10:39, 1 May 2020 (UTC) WikiProject Scouting Newsletter: May 2022
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Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 18:56, 16 May 2022 (UTC) I think a mistake was made, I did not edit Typhoon Meranti (2016). 138.75.53.109 ( talk) 08:17, 18 May 2022 (UTC)Jayen Soh 30 May 22: Wiki-Picnic and Hackathon in Brooklyn
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New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022![]() ![]() Hello CAPTAIN RAJU, At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue. Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant. In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently 800 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 855 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP. This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear. If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself
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Precious anniversary-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 05:05, 24 May 2022 (UTC) HgmaguireSorry , you want to delete my page, only my truther utube link on it is its not allowed by wikipedia. Sorry. Wow i didnt know was like the system. Hgmaguire ( talk) 08:06, 24 May 2022 (UTC) May 25: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC
(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.) -- Wikimedia New York City Team 00:45, 25 May 2022 (UTC) Tagging User pages for speedy deletionHello, CAPTAIN RAJU, I have a favor to ask. You patrol a lot of new user pages throughout the day. If you see content on User pages that looks like the draft of an article, PLEASE move it to Draft space or to a User Sandbox rather than tagging the page for speedy deletion, CSD U5. Most of the pages I see that you have tagged are by very, very new editors and they might not be aware of the fact that their main User page is not an appropriate location to write an article. So, get the "Move to Draft" script or just use the Move feature and allow them to work on their article in Draft or User space. It must be crushing to create an account on Wikipedia, work on a draft and then have the page deleted just because it was in the wrong namespace. If it was me, well, I wouldn't come back to try a second time if that was the reception I received. Of course, my advice should not be followed if the content is autobiographical or promotional or an attack page or vandalism or any of the regular kind of content that causes us to delete pages. Thank you for considering my suggestion. I appreciate all of the work you do here. Liz Read! Talk! 06:34, 27 May 2022 (UTC) |
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This Month in Education: April 2022This Month in Education Volume 11 • Issue 4 • April 2022 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issue
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Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 22:54, 25 April 2022 (UTC) Apr 27: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC
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Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 19:32, 2 May 2022 (UTC) WikiCup 2022 May newsletterThe second round of the 2022 WikiCup has now finished. It was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 115 points to advance to round 3. There were some very impressive efforts in round 2, with the top seven contestants all scoring more than 500 points. A large number of the points came from the 11 featured articles and the 79 good articles achieved in total by contestants. Our top scorers in round 2 were:
The rules for featured and good article reviews require the review to be of sufficient length; brief quick fails and very short reviews will generally not be awarded points. Remember also that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) and Cwmhiraeth Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 10:39, 1 May 2020 (UTC) WikiProject Scouting Newsletter: May 2022
Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 15:10, 8 May 2022 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 19, 2022)
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Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 15:20, 9 May 2022 (UTC) Wikidata weekly summary #519![]() Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2022News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).
This Month in GLAM: April 2022
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Romaine
04:22, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
CIS-A2K Newsletter April 2022![]() Dear Wikimedians, I hope you are doing well. As you know CIS-A2K updated the communities every month about their previous work through the Newsletter. This message is about April 2022 Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned our conducted events, ongoing events and upcoming events.
Please find the Newsletter link here. Thank you Nitesh (CIS-A2K) ( talk) 15:47, 11 May 2022 (UTC) On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K) This week's article for improvement (week 20, 2022)
Wikidata weekly summary #520![]() Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Tech News: 2022-20Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Changes later this week
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Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 18:56, 16 May 2022 (UTC) I think a mistake was made, I did not edit Typhoon Meranti (2016). 138.75.53.109 ( talk) 08:17, 18 May 2022 (UTC)Jayen Soh 30 May 22: Wiki-Picnic and Hackathon in Brooklyn
(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.) -- Wikimedia New York City Team 02:16, 19 May 2022 (UTC) This week's article for improvement (week 21, 2022)
New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022![]() ![]() Hello CAPTAIN RAJU, At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue. Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant. In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently 800 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 855 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP. This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear. If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself
here. A kitten for you!![]() Thanks for all the work you do on deletion sorting.
Ari T. Benchaim (
talk)
13:44, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #521![]() Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Tech News: 2022-21Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes
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Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 00:19, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
Precious anniversary-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 05:05, 24 May 2022 (UTC) HgmaguireSorry , you want to delete my page, only my truther utube link on it is its not allowed by wikipedia. Sorry. Wow i didnt know was like the system. Hgmaguire ( talk) 08:06, 24 May 2022 (UTC) May 25: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC
(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.) -- Wikimedia New York City Team 00:45, 25 May 2022 (UTC) Tagging User pages for speedy deletionHello, CAPTAIN RAJU, I have a favor to ask. You patrol a lot of new user pages throughout the day. If you see content on User pages that looks like the draft of an article, PLEASE move it to Draft space or to a User Sandbox rather than tagging the page for speedy deletion, CSD U5. Most of the pages I see that you have tagged are by very, very new editors and they might not be aware of the fact that their main User page is not an appropriate location to write an article. So, get the "Move to Draft" script or just use the Move feature and allow them to work on their article in Draft or User space. It must be crushing to create an account on Wikipedia, work on a draft and then have the page deleted just because it was in the wrong namespace. If it was me, well, I wouldn't come back to try a second time if that was the reception I received. Of course, my advice should not be followed if the content is autobiographical or promotional or an attack page or vandalism or any of the regular kind of content that causes us to delete pages. Thank you for considering my suggestion. I appreciate all of the work you do here. Liz Read! Talk! 06:34, 27 May 2022 (UTC) |