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== ''This Month in GLAM'': November 2024 ==
== WikiCup 2023 September newsletter ==

The fourth round of the competition has finished, with anyone scoring less than 673 points being eliminated. It was a high scoring round with all but one of the contestants who progressed to the final having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were

*{{flagicon|New York (state)}} ], with 2173 points topping the scores, gained mainly from a featured article, 38 good articles and 9 DYKs. He was followed by
*{{flagicon image|Transgender Pride flag.svg|link=Transgender}} ], with 1575 points, gained mainly from a featured article, 28 good articles and 50 good article reviews. Close behind was
*{{flagicon image|Flag of Mars.svg|link=Mars}} ], with 1535 points mainly gained from a featured article, 15 good articles, 26 good article reviews and lots of bonus points.

Between them during round 4, contestants achieved 12 featured articles, 3 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 126 good articles, 46 DYK entries, 14 ITN entries, 67 featured article candidate reviews and 147 good article reviews. Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them and within 24 hours of the end of the final. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on ]. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on ], and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. <small>If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from ].</small>

I will be standing down as a judge after the end of the contest. I think the Cup encourages productive editors to improve their contributions to Misplaced Pages and I hope that someone else will step up to take over the running of the Cup. ] (]), and ] (])
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* ]: Wiki Loves EuroPride in Albania 2023 * ]: Minigrant and Photowalk Projects in Albania
* ]: A year in review ... * ]: Winners of WLM 2024 Brazil
* ]: 2023 in review * ]: WikiConvention francophone 2024
* ]: Wiki-residents establishing meeting took place in December * ]: deGrowth in N0vember
* ]: Go-ahead for Wikidata Project of GLAM institutions from Baden-Württemberg * ]: Visual memory presented with collections of East Bohemia Museum in Hradec Kralove
* ]: WLM Local winners and funds for 2024 GLAM projects * ]: Digitization starts at Rammohun Library and Free Reading Room
* ]: Auckland Museum summer updates * ]: Wrap up the nine projects funded by 2024 GLAM call and Italian Wikidata Days
* ]: Intense end to a year of GLAM-Wiki activities in Poland * ]: NZ Species Editathon, OEGlobal 2024 and Auckland Museum's Summer Students
* ]: Photo memories project concludes; Sörmlands museum passes 1000 uploads to Wikimedia Commons; Wikimedian in Residence supports an upload of music content; Subject terms from Queerlit; Wikidata for authority control: 3 years of work * ]: What's up in GLAM-Wiki in Poland
* ]: Swiss GLAM Program * ]: Summary of Wikidata Days 2024: Librarians don’t need hammers, they need Wikidata
* ]: 2023 in Review * ]: Swiss GLAM Programme
* ]: WikiConference North America 2023; TSU and USF; Philadelphia WikiSalon; Wikimedia DC Annual Membership Meeting; Misplaced Pages Editing 101 for All; NYC Hacking Night; Upstate NY workshop; Wikiquote She Said Project * ]: Highlighting the Impact of Wiki Loves Monuments 2024 in UAE
* ]: Thank you for making Wiki Loves Living Heritage happen! * ]: Empowering Knowledge: Librarians and Wikimedia at DILC 2024
* ]: Updates and invitation to test the Commons Impact Metrics prototype * ]: Middle-Eastern history and interfaith education
* ]: January's GLAM events * ]: November meetings
* ]: BHL-Wiki Working Group November monthly highlights
* ]: Winter Festival
* ]: Wikidata and Misplaced Pages improvements
* ]: December's GLAM events


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== Welcome to the 2025 WikiCup! ==

Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2025 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor, we hope the WikiCup will give you a chance to improve your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found ''']'''. If you have not yet signed up, you can ''']''' and the judges will set up your submissions page ready for you to take part. Any questions on the scoring, rules or anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the ].

For the 2025 WikiCup, we've implemented ] to the scoring system. The highest-ranking contestants will now receive ] at the end of each round, and final rankings are decided by the number of tournament points each contestant has. If you're busy and can't sign up in January, don't worry: Signups are now open throughout the year. To make things fairer for latecomers, the lowest-scoring contestants will no longer be eliminated at the end of each round.

The first round will end on 26 February. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: {{User4|Cwmhiraeth}}, {{User4|Epicgenius}}, {{User4|Frostly}}, {{User4|Guerillero}} and {{User4|Lee Vilenski}}. Good luck! <small>If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from ].</small> ] (]) 00:13, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
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* A ] is open to discuss whether admins should be advised to warn users rather than issue no-warning blocks to those who have posted promotional content outside of article space.

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* The Nuke feature also now ] to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.
* Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. ({{phab|T326065}})


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* Following the ], the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: {{noping|CaptainEek}}, {{noping|Daniel}}, {{noping|Elli}}, {{noping|KrakatoaKatie}}, {{noping|Liz}}, {{noping|Primefac}}, {{noping|ScottishFinnishRadish}}, {{noping|Theleekycauldron}}, {{noping|Worm That Turned}}.
* Following a ], the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
* Community feedback is ] for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at ].


] '''Miscellaneous''' ] '''Miscellaneous'''
* A ] is happening in January 2025 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the ]. ]
* Voting in the ] will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The ] of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically to vote.
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* Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the ]. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. ]
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== ''This Month in GLAM'': January 2024 ==

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* ]: Misplaced Pages Day in Albania 2024
* ]: First international public domain day celebration in Europe coming up on March 7
* ]: A legal infrastructure for sharing public collections in Brazil: the case of Midiateca Capixaba
* ]: January '24: Institute of Physics photos and Free culture discussion
* ]: Photographing at the second half of 2023
* ]: Documenting ASI (Archaeological Survey of India) Museums in Bihar
* ]: Public Domain Day & Monumental Moments
* ]: Aotearoa Wikipedian at Large, and Auckland Museum updates
* ]: An update on the Wikimatejko editing action and an invitation to the international community to join the action
* ]: Unveiling Catrapilha: A ReacTive approach to GLAM content import
* ]: Freedom of Panorama in Sweden
* ]: Indonesian praise for an Ottoman photograph of Arabia
* ]: Misplaced Pages Day 2024; edit-a-thon; meetups
* ]: Events! Events!
* ]: New OpenRefine documentation for Wikimedia Commons
* ]: WiLMa Updates, OpenRefine training, Biodiversity, and Librarians
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== WikiCup 2024 February newsletter ==

The 2024 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with 135 participants. This is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2017.

Our current leader is newcomer {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Generalissima}}, who has one FA on ] and 10 GAs and 12 DYKs mostly on New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:

* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|AirshipJungleman29}}, with one FA on ], two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, and two DYKs;
* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Vami IV}}, with one FA on ], one GA on ], and 11 reviews;
* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|MaranoFan}}, with one FA on ], a nine-article FT on ], and two DYKs;
* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Skyshifter}}, with one FA on ] and one DYK;
* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Sammi Brie}}, with five GAs and five DYKs on television and radio stations;
* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|voorts}} and {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Elli}}, both with one FA and one DYK each.

As a reminder, competitors may submit work for the first round until 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February, and the second round starts 1 March. Remember that only the top 64 scoring competitors will make it through to the second round; currently, competitors need at least 15 points to progress. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on ]. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on ] and the judges ({{User|Cwmhiraeth}}, {{User|Epicgenius}}, and {{User|Frostly}}) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! <small>If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from ].</small> ] (]) 17:58, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
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Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2025 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor, we hope the WikiCup will give you a chance to improve your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page ready for you to take part. Any questions on the scoring, rules or anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page.

For the 2025 WikiCup, we've implemented several changes to the scoring system. The highest-ranking contestants will now receive tournament points at the end of each round, and final rankings are decided by the number of tournament points each contestant has. If you're busy and can't sign up in January, don't worry: Signups are now open throughout the year. To make things fairer for latecomers, the lowest-scoring contestants will no longer be eliminated at the end of each round.

The first round will end on 26 February. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email), Epicgenius (talk · contribs · email), Frostly (talk · contribs · email), Guerillero (talk · contribs · email) and Lee Vilenski (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:13, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

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