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	:To either side along the bluff rim, the defenders' lines had collapsed and were pinching in upon the ramphead. In moments, all would be caught in a vice from which none would escape. They had to fall back at once, to reform their lines at the perimeter of the Gardens of Life where they might consolidate their strength and gain the support of the Black Watch. But they needed time to do that, and someone must give them that time.
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	:Red hair flying, the Free Corps Commander snatched the crimson and gray battle standard of his company and rammed it between the ramp stones. Here the Free Corps would make its stand. Rallying his Bordermen to him, he formed a narrow phalanx at the center of the ramphead. Then he ordered the Elves and Trolls to fall back. No one questioned the order; Stee Jans had been given command of the army. Quickly they abandoned the Elfitch, moving back toward the ranks of the Black Watch that ringed the Gardens of Life. In moments, the remnants of the Free Corps stood alone.
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	:The Demons attacked. Up the ramp they charged, howling with rage. Incredibly, the Free Corps withstood the assault and thrust it back. All the while the Elven defenders continued to slip free of the noose that threatened to snare them. Again the Demons came up the Elfitch, and again the Free Corps thrust them back. No more than two dozen Bordermen remained alive. At their head stood the tall figure of Stee Jans. Regrouping before the Gardens of Life, the defenders who had fled the Elfitch looked back, watching the tiny knot of men who still held against the Demon rush. A silence settled over their ranks. They knew how this must end.
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			== Curious about multiple reversions on a CTOPS article ==
	:Now the whole of the Carolan lay open. Stee Jans wrenched free the battle standard, lifted the gray and crimson pennant high above his head, and the Free Corps battle cry rang out. Then slowly, deliberately, the little band began to move back across the Carolan, back towards the Elven defenders who ringed the Gardens of Life. Not a single Borderman broke formation. Not a single Borderman ran.
			Hey The ed17! I had a question about why you my edit on ]. From your edit summary, you said you reverted based on previous edits. That is when I noticed reversion of the exact same thing 5 hours earlier as well as reversion of the same thing two hours before the aforementioned reversion. The article is a ] and while it is not 1RR restricted, it may be best if you self-revert, given you have reverted the same item three times within 8 hours.
	:Ander's breath escaped from his lips with a sharp hiss. It was a hopeless retreat. At his elbow, Browork's battered face shoved into view.
			I should also note there was a talk page discussion opened on this exact thing about 5 hours ago.
	:"It's too far, Bordermen!" he muttered, almost to himself.
			So, honestly, my advice to you would be to self-revert (solely due to the triple reversion on a CTOPS article) and then participate in that talk page discussion. '''The ]''' (] 05:31, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
	:A wave of Demons edged over the lip of the ramphead, snarling. North and south among the Carolan, they began to mass.
			:Hello {{u|WeatherWriter}} and thanks for writing. I also apologize as I'm only now seeing your message. I'd quibble with your characterizations above: the earliest was a regular bog-standard edit, as adding/removing material from articles is something we all do every day. The middle one reverted an IP editor who made their changes without a basis in policy + with an apparent bias (edit summary: "Re added what liberal ed got rid off" {{sic}}). That of course counts as a revert in the technical sense, but nevertheless there's more to the story. The final revert was indeed a revert, which another editor has upheld. I'll leave a comment in the opened discussion. ]&nbsp;<sup>]]&nbsp;]]</sup> 20:49, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
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	I've been adding bits to your original ] that was based on HyperWar listing of the N3-S group. This is a relatively obscure type with all the N3-S-A1 type built for the British as requested with a coal fired plant to take advantage of their domestically available coal. More of the A2 oil fired ships were built and in U.S. use, but they were still obscure and not particularly popular. The most prominent Misplaced Pages reference, and that is a little backwater, is to the N3-M-A1 diesel "Bowes Coaster" type built only at Penn-Jersey with a very different profile as well as power plant. The major reason they show is the fact they appeared, almost exclusively for construction, in Navy listings (DANFS particularly) because the MC and Navy agreed to turn all Penn-Jersey MC contracts over for Navy administration during completion of the contracts. For that reason they appear in the effectively singleton ''Enceladus'' class. Note the categories of the N3-S vessels of both variants have zero pages and probably only a handful could be notable enough to warrant even a paragraph or two. If you have a chance to look, what do you think of changing the page to just the '''Type N3 ship''' (Always leave off the MC or Maritime Commission before ''type''?) to cover all three types in one page? I doubt it will ever grow much considering the general obscurity of these vessels and it seems to make sense to cover the lot in one fairly brief page.
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	The whole lot could use reorganization to fit reality rather than the current almost exclusively Navy/DANFS centric look. Considering the swirling mess renames and such seem to bring to this place, as with João/John above, it may not be worth it. ] (]) 18:12, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
			* An ] about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.
	:Well, most renames are very uncontroversial, as I think this would be. I don't particularly care what you do with it; I only created it to stop a ] back in 2010. If you think that's the best solution, please, go ahead. :-) ]&nbsp;<sup>]] ]]</sup> 23:25, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
	::Done. It should be completely non-controversial and probably nearly invisible. What I am thinking about with respect to the ''Enceladus'' class/Port Repair Ships may be less so since that would be deleting some of the individual ship pages that started as nothing but DANFS copies for ships that were Navy for a few days or even just a day. I think it would be logical to cover the four ships that had actual naval service in individual pages and consolidate the others under port repair where several got overseas, though others just vanished even there. ] (]) 23:47, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
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			Hi Ed, and thank you for closing the TNA MRV. A couple notes that don't affect your overall assessment of consensus:
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			Hope this helps, and thanks again. ] (] / ]) 02:05, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
			:{{ping|Firefangledfeathers}} Y'know, the last word I added to that message was "neutral" and even then I wasn't sure it was necessary. And now you have correctly called that I got it backwards with RfCs. Whoops. The main intent was to emphasize that a new RM would have a proper opening statement vs. me relisting it, so I removed the word. Thank you! ]&nbsp;<sup>]]&nbsp;]]</sup> 02:15, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
			::Twas nothin. ] (] / ]) 02:18, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
			== ''The Bugle'': Issue 214, February 2024 ==
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			== WikiCup 2024 February newsletter ==
	* uncivil tone to ] "See your talk page. It's all there. Ow, I'm sorry, you ignored it. My bad."
			The 2024 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with 135 participants. This is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2017.
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	* - personal attack by Lecen on ], "At least try to pretend you know something about Portuguese/Brazilian history"
			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:
	I'm not launching the ANI yet, just making you aware of attempts to cook up a hostile atmosphere and drive away other participants. If you can, persuade Lecen to rectify the tone of that last comment. ] (]) 23:40, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
	:Prodego is already discussing it with him, I believe. I'll keep an eye on it but will probably be offline until tonight or tomorrow. ]&nbsp;<sup>]] ]]</sup> 23:43, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
			* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|AirshipJungleman29}}, with one FA on ], two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, and two DYKs;
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	No, it is the IP address of the library where I usually edit Misplaced Pages. I have had a couple incidents of other people using my account while I had stepped away from my computer for a few minutes. Just some absent-mindedness. ] (]) 13:50, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
	:From the comment on the Wikiproject MILHIST talk page, it looks like that person is leaving Misplaced Pages, so hopefully there won't be any further problems. ] (]) 13:53, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
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			== WikiCup 2024 March newsletter ==
	Hi mate, the Contest results are done and I'm just finishing off the December Article News for inclusion in this issue (actually we have to ensure the January issue uses the December Article News page, February uses January, etc, to get in sync -- will look at that shortly). I'll also do the Awards handed out in December. Do you want to look at ''From the Editors''? That can include a reminder about Military Historian of the Year, noms having opened and voting due to start on the 21st. Not sure we have an Op-Ed though, and need to check if HcHc has his book review ready yet (we at least have one from Nick)... Cheers, ] (]) 22:01, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
	:Interesting thought. I think we have to go with the December articles unless we want to delay publishing it until February. Should we note this somewhere on the page? I think Hc's review could be an op-ed, or at least that's what he was saying earlier. I need to draw up questions to interview Kirill with &ndash; I'm open to a few suggestions from you. ;-) ]&nbsp;<sup>]] ]]</sup> 22:52, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
	::Well I think our goal with skipping the "December" issue was so delivery month and issue month were in sync, i.e. "January" issue goes out in January, "February" goes out in February, etc. However we're still doing a retrospective on what actually happened the month before, e.g. we report the December writing contest results in the January issue (because of course January's context is still in progress in January), and therefore it's logical we report articles promoted to A/FA-Class in December in the January issue as well (because we don't yet know all the articles promoted in January). Same thing with Awards. As long as we get each issue out by around mid-month (i.e. around now!) then I think we'll look fine doing it this way; in fact I don't really see another way to do it... ;-) If Hchc's thingie is an op-ed, even better. If we only have one book review, that's fine. Interview questions for Kirill? Can you start off and ping me when you've got a few, and I can chime in? Gotta check on Awards from December now... Cheers, ] (]) 02:51, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
	:::Sounds good to me. I'll work on this either tomorrow night or Tuesday, when I don't have any classes. Thanks Ian! ]&nbsp;<sup>]] ]]</sup> 07:55, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
	::::How's the interview going, mate? I think we'd better get this out ASAP otherwise we may as well wait for the Historian of the Year results -- but that would take us perilously close to February, which is what we were trying to avoid by renaming the issues. Do you want to leave the interview till next month? Since Hchc's completed his piece we can use that for the op-ed, and I'm happy to run off a ''from the editors'' spiel some time tonight, mentioning Historian of the Year voting plus the review awards, in which case we'd be ready to hit the presses... Cheers, ] (]) 08:12, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
	:::::Not good, I haven't had a chance to draw up any questions yet. >< I'd like to get it out before the voting ends so we can have a last reminder to vote, so I suppose we should put it off till next month, lol. I'm in class-ish right now (] is technically a class, I suppose...), but I'll try to write up FTE now or directly after. ]&nbsp;<sup>]] ]]</sup> 14:45, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
	::::::Ed, Ed, Ed, I said I was doing ''from the editors'' -- I didn't get what you meant by FTE, to me it's "full time effort"! Anyway, I've just drafted pretty well what you've done but find you've beaten me to saving it. Oh well, I guess we're about ready to go then, can you just move the Op-Ed in and kill the Review Essay in the header? I'm hitting the sack... ;-) Cheers, ] (]) 16:57, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
	:::::::Oh damn, I thought I could get it in before you so I didn't make you do all the work. Sorry! Feel free to add whatever you like. I'm starting the interview and will have it done by tonight &ndash; hopefully Kirill will respond fast. If he doesn't, we can move it to next month. ]&nbsp;<sup>]] ]]</sup> 17:03, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
	:Okay mate, aside from any movement on the interview front, I think I'm happy with everything in this issue -- well done. I think give Kirill 24 hours for the interview before we issue it regardless, yep? Cheers, ] (]) 02:15, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
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	By using ] instead of ] as your input list at ], you hit a bunch of ] (maybe 650 or so?). I'm not sure if this was intentional or not, but it means that&mdash;with e-mail notifications now enabled by default for talk page editing&mdash;you might wake some people up. I guess that's more of a feature than a bug... --] (]) 00:06, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
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	:Well, using the main member list was intentional because it was meant to hit the whole project (rather than ''Bugle'' subscribers), but I think I need to move the inactive people to a subpage... but hey, as you say, maybe we'll wake up some of the old contributors and get them to edit again. ;-) ]&nbsp;<sup>]] ]]</sup> 00:11, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
			* {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|AirshipJungleman29}}, who has 580 points from one FA on ], two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, two DYKs, and five reviews
	:: A subpage would be fine, as long as you don't transclude it on the main page. That is, the bot looks at the (rough) equivalent of Special:WhatLinksHere, it doesn't actually look at the page text to determine its list. So transclusion will register as links on the page, while moving the content to a subpage and simply linking to that subpage will not. Or you could make multiple subpages and just use the /Active list as an input list. Depends on the group's needs. Delivering to inactive members is fine, I guess. I wouldn't have noticed, except the list of targets grew so considerably that I happened to look at how long the bot had been running and why. Its global brother at Meta-Wiki has had some hiccups today, so I've been paying far more attention than usual. --] (]) 01:51, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
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			:{{ping|Brad101}} what a blast from the past! I've been well, and I hope it's the same for you. What are you planning to take on during your campaign? ]&nbsp;<sup>]]&nbsp;]]</sup> 04:05, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
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			:{{ping|Brad101}} Love to hear it! Sounds like a hell of a trip. I haven't been on ''Badger'' since I was a kid, but I can vividly remember it because they let me, a young child, hold the ship's wheel. With hindsight I'm sure it was secured somehow, but at the time I was floored.
			:I am currently out of pasties and need to refill when I'm up again over the holidays... you should try one with jalapeño ketchup. Game-changer. ]&nbsp;<sup>]]&nbsp;]]</sup> 06:11, 24 November 2024 (UTC)
			::{{ping|The ed17}} Badger no longer allows people to visit the bridge or the engine room. I would have liked to have seen the engine room, anyway. There is also a barrier keeping people away from walking right up on the bow. The weather was great and I even got a bit sunburned. Sriracha sauce is what I use now and then. I'm down to one pastie now. It's about a 4.5 hour drive to SSM for me so a day trip to get pasties isn't out of the question. That and Haloburger in Flint. Let me know when you're up here so I can buy you a lunch. ] (]) 21:56, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
			:::{{ping|Brad101}} I suppose I'm not surprised. My experience was pre-9/11, for one. 4.5 hours would be a heck of a day trip for pasties. I like them, but maybe not ''that'' much. :-p Although perhaps that'll change once I try one with sriracha...
			::: I'm in Milwaukee these days, so don't be shy if you take another ferry trip! Where are you? ]&nbsp;<sup>]]&nbsp;]]</sup> 20:28, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
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	Hello, The ed17. Regarding the comment you made on my talk page...
	What is so questionable about nominating an article that previously? Furthermore, I encourage you to investigate all of the articles ] has created a little more in depth before ].
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	Hello, ed17. I found article that may be of interest to the ]. The article is regarding the visit of ] to ] in 1914, he took a German squadron to ] and received a military reception from the government of Sao Paulo. In the magazine there are many photos, all in the public domain, the magazine is from the on-line database of the Sao Paulo State Archives. Regards, ] (]) 20:28, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
	:Hey Paulista, thanks! I'm going to ping {{user|Parsecboy}} into this discussion, as he is our resident German warship editor (@Parsec, look at page 22 on). ]&nbsp;<sup>]] ]]</sup> 21:02, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
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	::Those are the battleships {{SMS|Kaiser|1911|6}} and {{SMS|König Albert||2}} and the light cruiser {{SMS|Strassburg||2}}. The photos are pretty interesting, especially the one of ''Strassburg'', though they're unfortunately fairly small and oddly cropped. It would be nice to be able to get the originals, but I'm sure they're lost in some archive in Brazil :) ] (]) 23:08, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
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	:::You may be able to blow it up, hit print screen, get them on GIMP, and crop (if you really want the image!) :-) ]&nbsp;<sup>]] ]]</sup> 23:10, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
	::::I've never used any image editing software - no idea how :) But on the question of images, what's the word on that NARA scan thing that was supposed to go down a couple of weeks ago? Are we going to see the uploads soon? ] (]) 23:33, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
	:::::GIMP is free and basically Photoshop-light. Just in case you ever need an image editor, that's the best you can get for free, short of pirating. ;-) There may be a few ], but I'm waiting for Dominic to let me know when they're up. ]&nbsp;<sup>]] ]]</sup> 00:53, 18 January 2012 (UTC)
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	Hey Ed, since you know boats (I'm on a boat! Take a long hard look at the MF boat!), perhaps you can add a little to ], and/or correct some of the formatting thingies that are specific to ships (it would take me hours to figure out). BTW, it's eminent DYK material if some more sources are dug up. Yes, it was prompted by an article about the ], and I was surprised to see no coverage at all in WP: not the ship, not the captain, not even the islands where it ran aground. Thanks in advance! ] (]) 16:08, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
	:Great song! I'll take a look. :-) ]&nbsp;<sup>]] ]]</sup> 20:10, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
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	In the meantime, I thought you might appreciate this: . :-) ]·] 02:22, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
	:No worries, it's fine! And thanks! Although I really can only claim credit for maybe 40% &ndash; ] was the one who did everything from "Modernization" down when I ran out of time. Is there any way to edit the blog post to reflect his contributions? :-) Also, the article received (which puts it on ]) and the image on the main page. ]&nbsp;<sup>]] ]]</sup> 03:46, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
	:I thought you'd probably have some factual corrections. That quote actually came from a personal e-mail I sent a while ago, without planning on it being published, so I didn't spend time researching or polishing it, and it was written the day of the featuring, before the stats were actually in. I can let Victoria know, but there won't be any changes over the weekend. ]·] 15:40, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
	::No worries, it was accurate for everything but that. And feel free to include those viewing statistics when you email her; hopefully she'll be impressed! :-) ]&nbsp;<sup>]] ]]</sup> 15:52, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
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	== Too many crumbs... ==		== Incomprehensible ArbCom filing ==
			I had no idea what was meant by ] or whether that was even a word. It is not only a word but a West African language. In any case, we knew that, whatever it was, it wasn't an ] conduct dispute. Oh well. ] (]) 16:47, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
	... spoil the cookie! Your concerns about cookie metaphors may be justified, especially as I have always been a fan of the cookie as a vehicle for metaphorical expression. But I will try to spare the cookie, not spoil the chide; after all, a cookie in hand is worth two in crumbs. '']'' 21:56, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
	:You're such a smart cookie. Last one to run out of metaphors will be the one caught with their hand in the cookie jar by Grandma wielding a wooden spoon? ]&nbsp;<sup>]] ]]</sup> 22:10, 21 January 2012 (UTC)		:Thanks for the note! I obviously hadn't heard of that language before either, but it makes sense now. Glad to see others have jumped in on that talk page thread. ]&nbsp;<sup>]]&nbsp;]]</sup> 20:40, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
	::A rolling cookie gathers no crumbs... '']'' 02:34, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
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	I've answered the questions ]; please let me know if you'd like comments on anything else. ]&nbsp;<sup>]]&nbsp;]]</sup> 05:50, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
	:I think that makes this issue a goer now, Ed... Cheers, ] (]) 14:16, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
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			:{{ping|Cena332}} I do worry that this veers on ]. In that case, I think that the event and the Misplaced Pages article is straightforward enough that an infobox does bring useful summary information. ]&nbsp;<sup>]]&nbsp;]]</sup> 16:01, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
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			:Thanks, {{u|Gog the Mild}}. Fast turnaround! I'll keep an eye on those pages. ]&nbsp;<sup>]]&nbsp;]]</sup> 16:07, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
			::All part of the service. <small>Gratuities are optional.</small> ] (]) 17:58, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
			== WikiCup 2024 July newsletter ==
			The third round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 June. As with Round 2, this round was competitive: each of the 16 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 256 points.
			The following editors all scored more than 400 points in Round 3:
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			Thank you for your work and congratulations getting ] from nothing to ] in a relatively short time. Could this be the first craft/microbrewery TFA? — ] 01:08, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
			:{{ping|AjaxSmack}} Thanks very much! Based on ] and ], I'm thinking it's the first brewery without a qualifier needed. :-) ]&nbsp;<sup>]]&nbsp;]]</sup> 02:38, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
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			:: Thank you today for the article , introduced: "Blackrocks is a small craft brewery in Marquette, Michigan, US, located on the south shore of Lake Superior. Over the last 14 years it has grown from a (remarkably) small operation in a former residential home to being Michigan's ninth-largest brewer. This article is a change of pace for me, as all of my previous FAs are related to warships."! --] (]) 08:45, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
			:: Today I have two "musicians" on the Main page, one is also the topic of ], watch and listen, - I like today's especially because you see him at work, hear him talk about his work and the result of his work - rare! --] (]) 14:38, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
			:: ... and ], like 22 July but with interview and the music to be played today --] (]) 14:47, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
			:: On 13 August, ], and the image one. The cantata is an extraordinary piece, using the chorale's text and famous melody more than others in ]. It's nice to have not only a recent death, but also this "birthday" on the Main page. And a rainbow in my places. - I saw that you have a FAC open, - will try to review but have neglected that, - there's a line. I also have ], DYK? --] (]) 12:40, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
			:::Thanks, Gerda! I'll try to get a look at yours as well. Been awhile since I reviewed a FAC. ]&nbsp;<sup>]]&nbsp;]]</sup> 06:44, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
			:::: Thank you for reviewing! - ] about another of Bach's chorale cantatas, listen, as I listened to ], - music by 16 composers. In the latest cloudy pictures: a hidden deer, a cat and a blaze of a sunset. --] (]) 13:46, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
			:::::Thanks for the reminder! ]&nbsp;<sup>]]&nbsp;]]</sup> 03:21, 26 August 2024 (UTC)
			:::::: Thanks for the update. As explained there, I have some urgent things today (and choir rehearsals resuming). In my reply, I boldly changed some indenting, - revert if I misread. There's an essay about it on my user page, look for "asterisk" (or RexxS). --] (]) 08:13, 26 August 2024 (UTC)
			:::::: Adding: ] died, and the article is rather a disgrace of unsourced lyrics, - no time for a Luther hymn for a while, I'm afraid. --] (]) 21:35, 26 August 2024 (UTC)
			:::::::That's understandable, but I'm sorry to hear that! ]&nbsp;<sup>]]&nbsp;]]</sup> 20:30, 27 August 2024 (UTC)
			:::::::: Goehr work is detailed on the talk. - Interesting animal pictured when you click on places. --] (]) 21:06, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
			:::::::: Thank you for your interest in Goehr. It's now even more detailed on the talk, including that I feel he needs a completely different lead, not about the father but about him. Perhaps you can write that ;) - but perhaps after the article is more in shape. The obituary is good. I will continue after real life which may be tomorrow. --] (]) 09:27, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
			:::::::::This is not my area of specialty, so I'll happily leave that to someone who works with that content all the time. :-) ]&nbsp;<sup>]]&nbsp;]]</sup> 03:52, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
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			Twelve years ago, ] were found precious. That's what you are, always. - What a nice coincidence, - a first. It happened that a TFA fell on the reminder but not yet such a high number ;) --] (]) 10:01, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
			:What a ''fun'' coincidence! Thanks so much as always, Gerda. :-) ]&nbsp;<sup>]]&nbsp;]]</sup> 16:03, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
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			] has 3 composers, I couldn't decide for the one on the Main page or the one who didn't make it on his bicentenary, so took both, and the pic has a third. Listen if you have a bit of time. The music, played by the ] in Germany in April 2022, impressed me. --] (]) 15:01, 4 September 2024 (UTC)
			Today a Bach cantata on the Main page on its 300th birthday (per calendar), ]! --] (]) 19:42, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
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			Sorry about my somewhat snarky edit summary after the revert. I see now how you were referring to PLOTCITE. It just annoys me that an utterly uncontroversial claim requires sourcing, but them's the rules, so since it's been challenged for nearly a year, I figured it's simply best to just remove it - in addition to being an uncontroversial bit of information, it's also inconsequential. cheers. ], ] 03:14, 1 November 2024 (UTC)
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			== WikiCup 2024 November newsletter ==
			The 2024 WikiCup has come to an end, with the final round being a very tight race. Our new champion is {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|AirshipJungleman29}}, who scored 2,283 points mainly through 3 high-multiplier FAs and 3 GAs on military history topics. By a 1% margin, Airship beat out last year's champion, {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|BeanieFan11}}, who scored second with 2,264 points, mainly from an impressive 58 GAs about athletes. In third place, {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Generalissima}} scored 1,528 points, primarily from two FAs on U.S. Librarians of Congress and 20 GAs about various historical topics. Our other finalists are: {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Sammi Brie}} with 879 points, {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Hey man im josh}} with 533 points, {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|BennyOnTheLoose}} with 432 points, {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|Arconning}} with 244 points, and {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant15|AryKun}} with 15 points. Congratulations to our finalists and all who participated!
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	from an admin to a disparaging post from a reviewer who is running amok at FAR: I'm disappointed that you let the attack stand, and more that you responded as you did. ] (]) 04:26, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
	:A full-on attack? He's asserting that Bishonen is having her wikifriends turn out to support her, and I replied that it would be commonplace even in the circle's we're familiar with (WP:ships, battleships). While the wording is couched in hyperbolic language, the intent is clear. Yes, it wasn't the best way to respond, particularly with the emoticon, and yes, it wasn't the best way for an editor to talk about another editor, but I didn't take it as a direct attack. In any case, I've had a long discussion on all this with Bishonen via email where I've apologized, and (I think) we've sorted most or all of this out. ]&nbsp;<sup>]] ]]</sup> 04:56, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
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	:::Bish jumped to the same conclusion too. I don't make any distinction between Milhist peeps and other editors. I didn't say anything about cabals. Most of us here run in certain social circles, and if one of the people in it gets into a difficult situation, it's only natural for one or two friends to respond. I don't condone what's going on at FAR because I haven't paid attention to it at all &ndash; commenting on one FAR does not automatically mean I am keeping an eye on the process as a whole. ]&nbsp;<sup>]] ]]</sup> 06:03, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
	:::: You are evading. You specifically defended Brad after he attacked Bish, Bish did no such thing, his attack was unwarranted, you did nothing to correct it, and when he came to your talk page with a direct (and sexist, I might add) attack, you condoned it, basically in the name of cabalism, saying you all would do the same. I'm sorry to know that's the way you think. And I'm sorry you allowed/enabled Brad to behave this way and didn't see fit to call him on it. Now this should be a classic case of the admin double standard wrt Malleus-- that someone can come to your page and call another adming the Wicked Witch of the West and you turn a blind eye, and then try to excuse it to me, by evading the point. Bah. ] (]) 10:38, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
	:::::Diffs, rather than blind accusations, can be so revealing when you use them, Sandy. My second reply ], while very poorly worded (<small>another item I discussed with Bishonen, as I wasn't intending that remark to refer to her, but rather a general level of incivility</small>), was meant as politely telling him to stop. My reply to the WWofW comment, which I didn't take as sexist, was an attempt to explain why things weren't quite the way they seemed. I wasn't aware that I was trying to evade you; I was legitimately attempting to answer your query. If the answer isn't good enough, that's fine &ndash; just don't accuse me of something I'm not doing, especially when there's absolutely no reason to ABF. Also, please don't accuse me of cabalism when I specifically stated that it was not intended as such. ]&nbsp;<sup>]] ]]</sup> 15:26, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
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	# 22:00, January 3, 2012 and Nikkimaria "drinking the kool-aid"
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	# 01:00, January 4, 2012 Appallingly, but at this point not surprisingly, with narry a warning, and then a statement that Brad shouldn't "stoop to that level", when Bish never went there. Love the deferential edit summary there.
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Curious about multiple reversions on a CTOPS article

Hey The ed17! I had a question about why you reverted my edit on Standoff at Eagle Pass. From your edit summary, you said you reverted based on previous edits. That is when I noticed this reversion of the exact same thing 5 hours earlier as well as this reversion of the same thing two hours before the aforementioned reversion. The article is a Misplaced Pages:Contentious topics and while it is not 1RR restricted, it may be best if you self-revert, given you have reverted the same item three times within 8 hours.

I should also note there was a talk page discussion opened on this exact thing about 5 hours ago.

So, honestly, my advice to you would be to self-revert (solely due to the triple reversion on a CTOPS article) and then participate in that talk page discussion. The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 05:31, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Hello WeatherWriter and thanks for writing. I also apologize as I'm only now seeing your message. I'd quibble with your characterizations above: the earliest was a regular bog-standard edit, as adding/removing material from articles is something we all do every day. The middle one reverted an IP editor who made their changes without a basis in policy + with an apparent bias (edit summary: "Re added what liberal ed got rid off" ). That of course counts as a revert in the technical sense, but nevertheless there's more to the story. The final revert was indeed a revert, which another editor has upheld. I'll leave a comment in the opened discussion. Ed  20:49, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

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• Following a motion, 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.
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MRV close

Hi Ed, and thank you for closing the TNA MRV. A couple notes that don't affect your overall assessment of consensus:

• You accidentally signed twice.
• RMs are not meant to have a neutral opening statement, unlike RfCs. This is mentioned a few paragraphs into WP:RSPM.

Hope this helps, and thanks again. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 02:05, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

@Firefangledfeathers: Y'know, the last word I added to that message was "neutral" and even then I wasn't sure it was necessary. And now you have correctly called that I got it backwards with RfCs. Whoops. The main intent was to emphasize that a new RM would have a proper opening statement vs. me relisting it, so I removed the word. Thank you! Ed  02:15, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Twas nothin. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 02:18, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue 214, February 2024

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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 Generalissima (submissions), who has one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher) and 10 GAs and 12 DYKs mostly on New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:

• AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), with one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, and two DYKs;
• Vami_IV (submissions), with one FA on Doom (2016 video game), one GA on Boundary Fire (2017), and 11 reviews;
• MaranoFan (submissions), with one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and two DYKs;
• Skyshifter (submissions), with one FA on OneShot and one DYK;
• Sammi Brie (submissions), with five GAs and five DYKs on television and radio stations;
• voorts (submissions) and Elli (submissions), 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 Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Reviews. 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 Misplaced Pages talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. 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) 17:58, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2024 March newsletter

The first round of the 2024 WikiCup ended at 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February. Everyone with at least 30 points moved on to Round 2, the highest number of points required to advance to the second round since 2014. Due to a six-way tie for the 64th-place spot, 67 contestants have qualified for Round 2.

The following scorers in Round 1 all scored more than 300 points:

• Generalissima (submissions), who has 916 points mostly from one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher), 15 GAs, and 16 DYKs on a variety of topics including New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures, in addition to seven reviews
• Vami_IV (submissions), who has 790 points from two FAs on Felix M. Warburg House and Doom (2016 video game), two GAs, one DYK, and 11 reviews
• AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), who has 580 points from one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, two DYKs, and five reviews
• Sammi Brie (submissions), who has 420 points mostly from nine GAs and seven DYKs on television and radio stations
• MaranoFan (submissions), who has 351 points from one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and three DYKs
• Skyshifter (submissions), who has 345 points from one FA on OneShot, one DYK and two reviews

In this newsletter, the judges would like to pay a special tribute to Vami_IV (submissions), who unfortunately passed away this February. At the time of his death, he was the second-highest-scoring competitor. Outside the WikiCup, he had eight other featured articles, five A-class articles, eight other good articles, and two Four Awards. Vami also wrote an essay on completionism, a philosophy in which he deeply believed. If you can, please join us in honoring his memory by improving one of the articles on his to-do list.

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Hi Ed

I'm plotting my comeback campaign. Have you been well? Brad (talk) 03:59, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

@Brad101: what a blast from the past! I've been well, and I hope it's the same for you. What are you planning to take on during your campaign? Ed  04:05, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the nice welcome back. I've been off line for several years and all I have is this phone. I need a desktop setup still. Brad (talk) 01:03, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

@Brad101: That can be difficult! You could talk with Cullen328 about how they primarily edit using a phone. Ed  17:33, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Thought to mention that I was in the UP a couple of months ago and ate myself silly on pasties! And then brought like 20 frozen ones home with me :D. Went to the tip of US 41 and a lock tour. Toured the USS LST-393 in Muskegon and took the SS Badger from Ludington MI to Manitowoc WI. It was fun! Brad (talk) 15:07, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

@Brad101: Love to hear it! Sounds like a hell of a trip. I haven't been on Badger since I was a kid, but I can vividly remember it because they let me, a young child, hold the ship's wheel. With hindsight I'm sure it was secured somehow, but at the time I was floored.

I am currently out of pasties and need to refill when I'm up again over the holidays... you should try one with jalapeño ketchup. Game-changer. Ed  06:11, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

@The ed17: Badger no longer allows people to visit the bridge or the engine room. I would have liked to have seen the engine room, anyway. There is also a barrier keeping people away from walking right up on the bow. The weather was great and I even got a bit sunburned. Sriracha sauce is what I use now and then. I'm down to one pastie now. It's about a 4.5 hour drive to SSM for me so a day trip to get pasties isn't out of the question. That and Haloburger in Flint. Let me know when you're up here so I can buy you a lunch. Brad (talk) 21:56, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

@Brad101: I suppose I'm not surprised. My experience was pre-9/11, for one. 4.5 hours would be a heck of a day trip for pasties. I like them, but maybe not that much. :-p Although perhaps that'll change once I try one with sriracha...

I'm in Milwaukee these days, so don't be shy if you take another ferry trip! Where are you? Ed  20:28, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

@The ed17: I'm in Pontiac, Michigan; lived here going on 30 years :) I was thinking about your location based on outdated info. Last I remembered you were in North Carolina or someplace south of here. Too bad I wasn't aware of your current location as I passed rather nearby. Anyway, I've looked around at the FA's I worked on and noticed they've been crapped on rather viciously. The thought of trying to restore USS Constitution and having to fight and argue with the "experts" makes me nauseous! I guess I don't have it in me any longer. Hope you had good holidays :) Brad (talk) 20:12, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).

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• Phase I of the 2024 RfA review is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to the requests for adminship process.
• Following an RfC, the inactivity requirement for the removal of the interface administrator right increased from 6 months to 12 months.

Technical news

• The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)

Miscellaneous

• The 2024 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Doǵu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, MdsShakil, Minorax, Nehaoua, Renvoy and RoySmith as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
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Books & Bytes – Issue 61

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Issue 61, January – February 2024

• Bristol University Press and British Online Archives now available
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The Bugle: Issue 215, March 2024

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Guild of Copy Editors 2023 Annual Report

Guild of Copy Editors 2023 Annual Report Our 2023 Annual Report is now ready for review. Highlights: Introduction Membership news, obituary and election results Summary of Drives, Blitzes and the Requests page Closing words – Your Guild coordinators: Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Wracking. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Happy First Edit Day! Hi The ed17! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! The Herald (Benison) (talk) 05:40, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

Boggmar

I can’t help but wonder if it isn’t a sock master and whether or not a SPI may be helpful. Noah, AA 01:41, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

@Hurricane Noah: It was definitely a sock, but I'm not sure it's worth the fishing expedition. If you feel differently, though, please go ahead and file one. If I remember right, Twinkle makes it pretty simple. :-) Ed  01:52, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).

Administrator changes

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• An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.

Technical news

• The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

Arbitration

• An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".

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• Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Misplaced Pages.

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The Bugle: Issue 216, April 2024

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7, Nick-D and Pickersgill-Cunliffe discuss six (count 'em, six!) works comprising eight volumes Op-ed: Hawkeye7 on a lecture by the Australian official historian

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Guild of Copy Editors April 2024 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors April 2024 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the April 2024 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since December. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. We extend a warm welcome to all of our new members. We wish you all happy copy-editing. Election results: In our December 2023 coordinator election, Zippybonzo stepped down as coordinator; we thank them for their service. Incumbents Dhtwiki and Miniapolis were reelected coordinators, and Wracking was newly elected coordinator, to serve through 30 June. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators will open on 1 June (UTC). Drive: 46 editors signed up for our January Backlog Elimination Drive, 32 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 289 articles totaling 626,729 words. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: 23 editors signed up for our February Copy Editing Blitz. 18 claimed at least one copy-edit and between them, they copy-edited 100,293 words in 32 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: 53 editors signed up for our March Backlog Elimination Drive, 34 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 300 articles totaling 587,828 words. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: Sign up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, which runs from 14 to 20 April. Barnstars will be awarded here. Progress report: As of 23:17, 11 April 2024 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 109 requests since 1 January 2024, and the backlog stands at 2,480 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from Baffle gab1978 and your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Wracking. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

WikiCup 2024 April newsletter

We are approaching the end of the 2024 WikiCup's second round, with a little over two weeks remaining. Currently, contestants must score at least 105 points to progress to the third round.

Our current top scorers are as follows:

• Sammi Brie (submissions) with 642 points, mostly from 11 GAs about radio and television;
• voorts (submissions) with 530 points, mostly from two FAs (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three GAs;
• Generalissima (submissions) with 523 points, mostly from 11 GAs about coinage and history;
• SounderBruce (submissions) with 497 points, mostly from a FA about the 2020 season of the soccer club Seattle Sounders FC and two GAs;
• Tamzin (submissions) with 410 points, mostly from a FA about the drink Capri-Sun and three GAs;
• Kusma (submissions) with 330 points, mostly from a FA about the English botanist Anna Blackburne and a GA.

Competitors may submit work for the second round until the end of 28 April, and the third round starts 1 May. Remember that only competitors with the top 32 scores will make it through to the third round. 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 Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Reviews. Please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs. As a reminder, competitors are strictly prohibited from gaming Misplaced Pages policies or processes to receive more points.

If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please read Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Scoring. Further questions are welcome on Misplaced Pages talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. 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) 15:06, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

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Books & Bytes – Issue 62

The Misplaced Pages Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 62, March – April 2024

• IEEE and Haaretz now available
• Let's Connect Clinics about The Misplaced Pages Library
• Spotlight and Misplaced Pages Library tips

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WikiCup 2024 May newsletter

The second round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 April. This round was particularly competitive: each of the 32 contestants who advanced to Round 3 scored at least 141 points. This is the highest number of points required to advance to Round 3 since 2014.

The following scorers in Round 2 all scored more than 500 points:

• Sammi Brie (submissions) with 707 points, mostly from 45 good article nomination reviews and 12 good articless about radio and television;
• Generalissima (submissions) with 600 points, mostly from 12 good articles and 12 did you know nominations about coinage and history;
• SounderBruce (submissions) with 552 points, mostly from a featured article about the 2020 Seattle Sounders FC season, three featured lists, and two good articles;
• BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 548 points, mostly from a featured article about the snooker player John Pulman, two featured lists, and one good article;
• voorts (submissions) with 530 points, mostly from two featured articles (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three good articles.

The full scores for Round 2 can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 18 featured articles, 22 featured lists, and 186 good articles, 76 in the news credits and at least 200 did you know credits. They have conducted 165 featured article reviews, as well as 399 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 21 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 April but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed during Round 3, which starts on 1 May at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).

Administrator changes

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Bureaucrat changes

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Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.

Technical news

• Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Misplaced Pages. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
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The Bugle: Issue 217, May 2024

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 and Nick-D look at a diverse range of works Op-ed: Hawkeye7 on the "center of gravity"

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I had no idea what was meant by Fulfulde or whether that was even a word. It is not only a word but a West African language. In any case, we knew that, whatever it was, it wasn't an English Misplaced Pages conduct dispute. Oh well. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:47, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the note! I obviously hadn't heard of that language before either, but it makes sense now. Glad to see others have jumped in on that talk page thread. Ed  20:40, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).

Administrator changes

Graham Beards

• Deskana
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• Staxringold

Bureaucrat changes

• Deskana
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Oversight changes

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Guideline and policy news

• Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.

Technical news

• The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
• The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.

Miscellaneous

• WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace {{citation needed}} tags with references! Sign up here to participate!

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Guild of Copy Editors June 2024 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2024 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the June 2024 newsletter, a quarterly-ish digest of Guild activities since April. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Election news: Wanted: new Guild coordinators! If you value and enjoy the GOCE, why not help out behind the scenes? Nominations for our mid-year coordinator election are now open until 23:59 on 15 June (UTC). Self-nominations are welcome. Voting commences at 00:01 on 16 June and continues until 23:50 on 30 June. Results will be announced at the election page. Blitz: Nine of the fourteen editors who signed up for the April 2024 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 55,853 words comprising twenty articles. Barnstars awarded are available here. Drive: 58 editors signed up for our May 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive and 33 of those completed at least one copy edit. 251 articles and 475,952 words were copy edited. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: Our June 2024 Copy Editing Blitz will begin on 16 June and finish on 22 June. Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 05:23, 8 June 2024 (UTC) , GOCE copyeditors have completed 161 requests since 1 January and the backlog stands at 2,779 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from Baffle gab1978 and your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Wracking. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

The Bugle: Issue 218, June 2024

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 looks at the Tokyo war crimes trials

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Promotion of Blackrocks Brewery

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Hi

Hi Ed, i saw your conversation on the East Coast-West Coast rivarly stating that you don't believe that page needed to have a Infobox. On the Collapse of the World Trade Center article somebody replaced the image which had been used for 15 years and added a infobox (before after ) that i don't believe is beneficial or necessary to the article. I've started a discussion on the article's talk page. What's your take. Cena332 (talk) 11:13, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

@Cena332: I do worry that this veers on canvassing. In that case, I think that the event and the Misplaced Pages article is straightforward enough that an infobox does bring useful summary information. Ed  16:01, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

Blackrocks Brewery scheduled for TFA

This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for7 August 2024. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Misplaced Pages:Today's featured article/August 2024, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Misplaced Pages talk:Today's featured article/August 2024. Please keep an eye on that page, as comments regarding the draft blurb may be left there by user:dying, who assists the coordinators by making suggestions on the blurbs, or by others. I also suggest that you watchlist Misplaced Pages:Main Page/Errors from two days before it appears on the Main Page. Thanks, and congratulations on your work! Gog the Mild (talk) 14:19, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, Gog the Mild. Fast turnaround! I'll keep an eye on those pages. Ed  16:07, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

All part of the service. Gratuities are optional. Gog the Mild (talk) 17:58, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

WikiCup 2024 July newsletter

The third round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 June. As with Round 2, this round was competitive: each of the 16 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 256 points.

The following editors all scored more than 400 points in Round 3:

• Generalissima (submissions) with 1,059 points, mostly from 1 featured article on DeLancey W. Gill, 11 good articles, 18 did you know nominations, and dozens of reviews;
• Skyshifter (submissions) with 673 points, mostly from 2 featured articles on Worlds (Porter Robinson album) and I'm God, 5 good articles, and 2 did you know nominations;
• Sammi Brie (submissions) with 557 points, mostly from 1 featured article on KNXV-TV, 5 good articles, and 8 did you know nominations; and
• AryKun (submissions) with 415 points, mostly from 1 featured article on Great cuckoo-dove, with a high number of bonus points from that article.

The full scores for round 3 can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 28 featured articles, 38 featured lists, 240 good articles, 92 in the news credits, and at least 285 did you know credits. They have conducted 279 featured article reviews, as well as 492 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 22 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 June but before the start of Round 4 can be claimed during Round 4, which starts on 1 July at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether for a good article, featured content, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2024

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• Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript. Documentation is available on MediaWiki. (T6086)

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• The Community Wishlist is re-opening on 15 July 2024. Read more

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The Bugle: Issue 219, July 2024

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Recent external reviews

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Books & Bytes – Issue 63

The Misplaced Pages Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 63, May – June 2024

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Chourio reversion

On the page Jackson Chourio, you reverted an edit that added a succession box about youngest National League player. Yesterday, when I was looking at an unrelated player, I noticed that the succession box existed going backwards but stopped at Eury Pérez (pitcher) in 2023 where it was marked current. I updated both Chourio and Jackson Merrill to continue where others had maintained this. If we're going to remove it for Chourio, it should probably be removed for all youngest players going back from there. Boilerball1 (talk) 18:31, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

I would advocate for removing it from all the articles. To me, it's a trivial fact that ought to be dealt with in a single sentence in Chourio's article, and likely not be mentioned in many of the others. Ed  02:26, 31 July 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2024

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• Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
• Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.

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• The Arbitration Committee appointed the following administrators to the conflict of interest volunteer response team: Bilby, Extraordinary Writ

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Blackrocks Brewery TFA

Thank you for your work and congratulations getting Blackrocks Brewery from nothing to TFA in a relatively short time. Could this be the first craft/microbrewery TFA? —  AjaxSmack  01:08, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

@AjaxSmack: Thanks very much! Based on WP:FA#Food and drink and WP:FFA, I'm thinking it's the first brewery without a qualifier needed. :-) Ed  02:38, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

story · music · places

Thank you today for the article , introduced: "Blackrocks is a small craft brewery in Marquette, Michigan, US, located on the south shore of Lake Superior. Over the last 14 years it has grown from a (remarkably) small operation in a former residential home to being Michigan's ninth-largest brewer. This article is a change of pace for me, as all of my previous FAs are related to warships."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:45, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

Today I have two "musicians" on the Main page, one is also the topic of my story, watch and listen, - I like today's especially because you see him at work, hear him talk about his work and the result of his work - rare! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:38, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

... and a third, like 22 July but with interview and the music to be played today --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:47, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

On 13 August, Bach's cantata was 300 years old, and the image one. The cantata is an extraordinary piece, using the chorale's text and famous melody more than others in the cycle. It's nice to have not only a recent death, but also this "birthday" on the Main page. And a rainbow in my places. - I saw that you have a FAC open, - will try to review but have neglected that, - there's a line. I also have one there, DYK? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:40, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, Gerda! I'll try to get a look at yours as well. Been awhile since I reviewed a FAC. Ed  06:44, 14 August 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for reviewing! - Sunday story about another of Bach's chorale cantatas, listen, as I listened to two impressive very different choral concerts, - music by 16 composers. In the latest cloudy pictures: a hidden deer, a cat and a blaze of a sunset. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:46, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the reminder! Ed  03:21, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the update. As explained there, I have some urgent things today (and choir rehearsals resuming). In my reply, I boldly changed some indenting, - revert if I misread. There's an essay about it on my user page, look for "asterisk" (or RexxS). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:13, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

Adding: Alexander Goehr died, and the article is rather a disgrace of unsourced lyrics, - no time for a Luther hymn for a while, I'm afraid. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:35, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

That's understandable, but I'm sorry to hear that! Ed  20:30, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Goehr work is detailed on the talk. - Interesting animal pictured when you click on places. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:06, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your interest in Goehr. It's now even more detailed on the talk, including that I feel he needs a completely different lead, not about the father but about him. Perhaps you can write that ;) - but perhaps after the article is more in shape. The obituary is good. I will continue after real life which may be tomorrow. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:27, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

This is not my area of specialty, so I'll happily leave that to someone who works with that content all the time. :-) Ed  03:52, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

Always precious

Twelve years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. - What a nice coincidence, - a first. It happened that a TFA fell on the reminder but not yet such a high number ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:01, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

What a fun coincidence! Thanks so much as always, Gerda. :-) Ed  16:03, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue 220, August 2024

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 looks at two works on logistics and one on the Battle of Arnhem

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin August Issue 1

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation over the first half of August 2024. Please help Translate.

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Special Wikimania issue This is a special Wikimania issue of the Bulletin. We'll be back to our regular format in the next issue

• Catch up on missed sessions of Wikimania Katowice or revisit your favourites directly from the program, or review the day-long streams on YouTube: Day 1 streams, Day 2 streams, Day 3 streams, Day 4 streams.
• The Wikimedian of the Year Awards at Wikimania paid tribute to amazing Wikimedians who have made significant contributions to the movement. Learn about all of this year's winners.
• Daily highlights from Wikimania: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4.
• Winners of the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award was announced at Wikimania.
• Highlights of product and tech sessions on Wikimania with links to description and recording.
• The Open Conversation with the Trustees at Wikimania hosted breakout discussions about the Movement Charter, affiliate strategy and hubs, the proposal for a Global Resource Distribution Committee (hybrid table--had streaming and is available to watch back online), the Product/Tech Advisory Council & Product/Tech priorities, building a sustainable revenue strategy for the movement: online fundraising, Wikimedia Enterprise and the Wikimedia Endowment, and responding to emerging threats to free knowledge: litigation, censorship, disinformation, and trust in an election year.
• Catch up on Foundation-led sessions from Wikimania on safety and information integrity: Protecting Children on-Wiki: a Child Rights Solutions Workshop, Information Integrity during Elections: Collective effort to address mis and disinformation, Policy Advocacy Showcase: Stories of policy advocacy work in the movement and future trends.
• Wikimania 2024 in Poland celebrates global volunteers who make Misplaced Pages and sister projects possible.

Upcoming and current events and conversations Talking: 2024 continues

• Language Community Meeting: Have topics to share or discuss? Add agenda here. (August 30 at 15:00 UTC.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Misplaced Pages · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on Mediawiki.org

• Two new parser functions and more recent changes on Tech News.
• Help us better understand WikiProjects or similar online collaboration spaces. Fill out a brief survey or share your thoughts on the talkpage.
• Parsoid deployed on first production wikis and more updates on MediaWiki Product Insights.
• Applications to join the Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) are extended until September 16.

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• The 4th edition of the Language & Internationalization newsletter (Aug 2024) is available.
• Reviving history and spreading the Spirit of Wikisource Loves Manuscripts (WILMA) in Naga City, the Philippines and Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

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• Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum, Global Digital Compact, and Anti-Disinformation Repository: Highlights from the Global Advocacy Team.

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin August Issue 2

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Upcoming and current events and conversations Talking: 2024 continues

• Language Community meeting (August 30 at 15:00 UTC).
• Cross-Regional Grantee Partner Learning Conversation Part 1 (August 31 at 07:00 UTC, in English, French, and Chinese Mandarin).
• The Wikimedia+Libraries Convention 2025 will take place in Mexico City from January 15-17, 2025. The scholarship application deadline is August 31.
• ESEAP Community Call (September 8 at 07:00 UTC).

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Misplaced Pages · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on Mediawiki.org

• Highlights of the Product & Technology department's recent work in improving the user experience.
• Editor tools related to references & categories and more tech updates on the latest Tech News.
• Outreachy (a paid, remote three-month internship to support underrepresented groups in tech) is open. Mentors should submit projects before September 11 at 16:00 UTC (more info).
• The Campaign Events extension is now available on Meta-Wiki, Arabic Misplaced Pages, Igbo Misplaced Pages, and Swahili Misplaced Pages, and can be requested in other language wikis.
• The Campaigns teams would like to learn more about how your communities do online collaboration such as WikiProjects, please take this Google Form survey or share examples of successful collaborations on Meta Wiki.
• Editors using the iOS Misplaced Pages app who have more than 50 edits can now use the Add an Image feature. This feature presents opportunities for small but useful contributions to Misplaced Pages.
• Applications for the Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) are still open until September 16.

Annual Goals Progress on Equity See also a list of all movement events: on Meta

• Central Asian community members share their thoughts on Wikimania 2024.
• Take a look at updates on new feature developments and improvements in various language-related technical projects in the July 2024 edition of the Language and internationalization newsletter.
• The Conference and Events Fund is open for submission until September 2.

Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog

• Meet the Wikimedia Foundation Global Advocacy Team.

Board and Board committee updates See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

• Some next steps on a movement charter: A message from Wikimedia Foundation CEO, Maryana Iskander, Chair of Board of Trustees, Nataliia Tymkiv, and Chair of Governance Committee, Dariusz Jemielniak.
• Elections for four community-and-affiliate elected seats on the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation will be held from September 3 to September 17. To learn more about the candidates, watch this short "Meet the Candidates" presentations.

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WikiCup 2024 August newsletter

The fourth round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 29 August. Each of the 8 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 472 points, and the following contestants scored more than 700 points:

• Generalissima (submissions) with 1,150 points, mostly from 3 featured articles, 2 featured lists, 7 good articles, and 13 did you know nominations;
• Arconning (submissions) with 791 points, mostly from 2 featured lists, 8 good articles, 4 did you know nominations, and plenty of reviews;
• AirshipJungleman29 (submissions) with 718 points, mostly from a high-multiplier featured article on Genghis Khan and 2 good articles; and
• BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 714 points, mostly from 1 featured article on Susanna Hoffs, 2 featured lists, and 3 good articles.

Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated. Contestants put in extraordinary amounts of effort during this round, and their scores can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 36 featured articles, 55 featured lists, 15 good articles, 93 in the news credits, and at least 333 did you know credits. They have conducted 357 featured content reviews, as well as 553 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 30 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Any content promoted after 29 August but before the start of Round 5 can be claimed during Round 5, which starts on 1 September at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. If two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether for a good article, featured content, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Remember to claim your points within 14 days of earning them, and importantly, before the deadline on 31 October.

If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please see this page. Further questions are welcome on Misplaced Pages talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. 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) 03:13, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

Voting for coordinators is now open!

Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election have opened. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next coordination year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting will commence on 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the current coord team. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:41, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

September music

story · music · places

What do you think of my short version of the life of Alexander Goehr? Our DYK team would probably want to mention that he worked in a training kibbutz, while I was happy to include a link to an article by Brian Boulton, - we sang the Monteverdi Vespers on 1 September 2019. - Over expanding Goehr's article I neglected Bach's cantata for yesterday, - that will be my next goal. I'll reply to the FAC but expect it to be archived, and plan a different one to follow before that one again. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:24, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Today's story has 3 composers, I couldn't decide for the one on the Main page or the one who didn't make it on his bicentenary, so took both, and the pic has a third. Listen if you have a bit of time. The music, played by the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra in Germany in April 2022, impressed me. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:01, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Today a Bach cantata on the Main page on its 300th birthday (per calendar), my story! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:42, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

Congrats on the OTD :-) Ed  15:20, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! - I had wanted DYK but that was too slow. OTD is much more flexible. I'm a bit sad, though, that we won't have the "most smiles-inducing music Bach wrote" - I'll have to make it FA to say that ;) - New story mentions Beethoven. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:27, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

OTD: Schoenberg's 150th birthday! On display, portrayed by Egon Schiele, with music from Moses und Aron, and with two DYK hooks, one from 2010 and another from 2014; the latter, about his 40th birthday, appeared on his 140th birthday, which made me happy then and now again. - See places for a stunning sunrise, on the day Bruckner's 200th birthday was celebrated (just a few days late). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:39, 13 September 2024 (UTC)

Congratulations to your latest FA! - I was too late to review, sorry. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:46, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).

Administrator changes

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• Courcelles
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Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion: C4, which applies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether Notability (species) should be adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, remedies 5.1 and 5.2 of World War II and the history of Jews in Poland (the topic and interaction bans on My very best wishes, respectively) were repealed.
• Remedy 3C of the German war effort case ("Cinderella157 German history topic ban") was suspended for a period of six months.
• The arbitration case Historical Elections is currently open. Proposed decision is expected by 3 September 2024 for this case.

Miscellaneous

• Editors can now enter into good article review circles, an alternative for informal quid pro quo arrangements, to have a GAN reviewed in return for reviewing a different editor's nomination.
• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in September 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,900 articles and 26,200 redirects awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!

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2016 Irkutsk mass methanol poisoning

Hi! Just made these edits to the article. Please let me know if you object to them in any way. BorgQueen (talk) 08:57, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

Hey BorgQueen! Thanks for those edits—they are appreciated. A thought on the {{external media}} changes... should we be worried that the new direct link to the photo will be at greater likelihood of going dead in the future? Ed  21:22, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

Actually, never mind. This is why the Internet Archive/Wayback Machine exists! Ed  21:24, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

In the end, I tracked down the original source of the images in TASS' media bank and added a few more for good measure. Ed  22:23, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors September Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors September Newsletter Hello and welcome to the September newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since June. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Election news: Project coordinators play an important role in our WikiProject. Following the mid-year Election of Coordinators, we welcomed Mox Eden to the coordinator team. Dhtwiki remains as Lead Coordinator, and Miniapolis and Wracking returned as assistant coordinators. If you'd like to help out behind the scenes, please consider taking part in our December election – watchlist our ombox for updates. Information about the role of coordinators can be found here. Blitz: 13 of the 24 editors who signed up for the June 2024 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 169,404 words comprising 41 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: 38 of the 59 editors who signed up for the July 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 482,133 words comprising 293 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: 10 of the 15 editors who signed up for the August 2024 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 71,294 words comprising 31 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: Sign up here to earn barnstars in our month-long, in-progress September Backlog Elimination Drive. Progress report: As of 05:14, 11 September 2024 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 233 requests since 1 January, and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 2,824 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we do without you! Cheers from Baffle gab1978 and your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, Mox Eden and Wracking. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Books & Bytes – Issue 64

The Misplaced Pages Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 64, July – August 2024

• The Hindu Group joins The Misplaced Pages Library
• Wikimania presentation
• New user script for easily searching The Misplaced Pages Library

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin September Issue 1

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation over the first half of September 2024. Please help Translate.

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Upcoming and current events and conversations Talking: 2024 continues

• The Voting period for the 2024 Board of Trustees election is open until September 17. Go to the SecurePoll voting page to vote.
• Scholarship application for Wikisource Conference 2025 in Bali, Indonesia is open until September 20.
• WikiConference Nigeria 2024 will be held in Abuja, Nigeria from September 12–14.
• Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2024 will take place in Istanbul, Türkiye on September 20–22.
• Celtic Knot Wikimedia Languages Conference will take place in Waterford City, Ireland on September 25–27.
• Italian WikiConference will be held in Padua, Italy on September 27–29.
• Join Wiki Loves Onam, a photo campaign dedicated to documenting the vibrant and colorful festival of Onam on Wikimedia Commons. The campaign runs until September 30.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Misplaced Pages · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on Mediawiki.org

• Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes.
• The Alternative Text suggested edits feature has now been fully deployed to production on the iOS App for Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, and French Wikipedias! This feature, part of WE1.2, is designed to enhance how newcomers add alt text to images, aiming to improve accessibility and engagement. For more details, visit the project page and explore the new feature in the app!
• Editors and volunteer developers interested in data visualization can now test the new software for charts. Its early version is available on beta Commons and beta Misplaced Pages. This is an important milestone before making charts available on regular wikis. You can read more about this project update and help test the charts.
• A new draft text of a policy discussing the use of Wikimedia’s APIs has been published on Meta-Wiki. The draft text does not reflect a change in policy around the APIs; instead, it is an attempt to codify existing API rules. Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome on the proposed update’s talk page until September 13 or until those discussions have concluded.
• More recent tech updates from Tech News.
• The latest status updates from Wikifunctions.
• Help us find WikiProjects or other online collaboration spaces!

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• Revamping Movement Strategy Grants with Hub Focus.
• Watch the recordings of Let's Connect Grantee Partner Learning Conversation: Conversation #1 with Wiki in Africa, Wiki Advocates Philippines, and Indic MediaWiki Developers UG and Conversation #2 with Wikimedia Community UG Malta, Wikimedia MA UG, and Wikimedia Canada.

Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog

• Wikimedia Foundation defeats gambling magnate’s lawsuit in Germany.
• Wikimedia Indonesia and UNESCO Jakarta Team Up Against Harmful Content Online.
• Child Rights Impact Assessment at EduWiki Knowledge Showcase and more: Latest updates from the Global Advocacy team.
• Protecting the people: Some recommendations for safety while contributing to Wikimedia projects.

Board and Board committee updates See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

• The Movement Charter Drafting Committee published their recommendations and bid farewell.
• Read updates from the July 2024 Wikimedia Endowment Board Meeting.
• Learn more about 12 candidates running for 4 seats on the Board by reading their statements and their answers to community questions.
• See the new members of the U4C following the results of the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) special election, a new decision making group that will enforce the UCoC in specific circumstances.

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The Bugle: Issue 221, September 2024

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hog Farm looks at the bayou battles for Vicksburg

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin September Issue 2

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation over the second half of September 2024. Please help Translate.

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Upcoming and current events and conversations

Talking: 2024 continues

• "Wikimania Katowice coverage travels around the world" – a curated list of community and media coverage of Wikimania 2024. Over 100 pieces so far have been published about the event.
• WikiForHumanRights will lead a conversation about the future of the campaign with the Africa region on September 25 at 15:00 UTC.
• Let’s Connect: “Technology for Language Diversity in Wikimedia” will take place on September 26 at 15:00 UTC.
• Wikisource Conference 2025, the deadline for scholarship applications  has been extended to September 29.
• Big Fat Brussels Meeting 9 will be held in Brussels, Belgium from September 29–30.
• WikiConference North America will be held in Indianapolis, USA from October 3–6.
• WikiIndaba Conference 2024 will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa from October 4–6.
• Wikimedia Technology Summit (WTS 2024): will be held in Hyderabad, India from October 4–5.
• ESEAP Community Call will be held on October 6 at 07:00 UTC.
• Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention 2025 is accepting submissions until October 6.
• The Language and Product Localisation team is hosting two office hours to discuss this year's plans and gather feedback from event organizers. The first session is October 5 at 16:00 UTC (Europe-Africa-Americas friendly), and the second is on October 6 at 03:00 UTC (Asia-Pacific friendly).

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Misplaced Pages · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on Mediawiki.org

• MediaWiki Product Insights: The latest edition includes details about: research about hook handlers to help simplify development, research about performance improvements, work to improve the REST API for end-users, and more.
• Tech News: Find out about the new automated Special:NamespaceInfo page, the latest Wishlist focus area, Template recall and discovery, and more recent tech updates.
• Wikidata Query Service: A new change to Wikidata Query Service will impact certain uses. The project will enter a transition period until the end of February 2025. For more details, visit the announcement page.
• Wikimedia Enterprise: Enhanced Free API Accounts: Recurring Credits and More Frequent Updates, early beta release of Structured Contents in Snapshot API, and early beta dataset release to Hugging Face.
• Wikifunctions: Status updates from September 20.
• Misplaced Pages Mobile Apps: Over 20,000 images have been added via the "Add an Image" feature on both iOS and Android (T372954)!
• Knowledge is Human: Read about ongoing work on the 2024 iteration of the "Knowledge is Human" public awareness campaign
• Server Switch: A server switch was completed successfully on September 25 with a read-only time of only 2 minutes 45 seconds.

Annual Goals Progress on Equity See also a list of all movement events: on Meta

• Wikimedia Research Showcase: Watch the latest showcase with the theme of Curation of Wikimedia AI Datasets.
• Conference and Event Fund: Updates and changes to the Conference and Event Fund program beginning in September 2024.

Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog

• UN Summit of the Future Action Days: Watch the Wikimedia event titled "The Power of the Commons: Digital Public Goods for a more secure, inclusive, and resilient world" at The Summit of the Future. This is expected to result in a negotiated Global Digital Compact, which represents the final phase of our movement-wide campaign to impact the text of the Global Digital Compact.
• Misplaced Pages and the Digital Services Act: Lessons on the strength of community and the future of internet regulation.

Foundation statements

• Ahead of UN General Assembly, Wikimedia Foundation calls on governments to ensure the future internet is shaped by communities for the public interest.

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2024).

Administrator changes

• Asilvering
• Significa liberdade

• Good Olfactory
• Hesperian
• I JethroBT
• TommyBoy
• Woody

CheckUser changes

• Barkeep49
• Izno

• Doug Weller
• Spicy

Guideline and policy news

• Administrator elections are a proposed new process for selecting administrators, offering an alternative to requests for adminship (RfA). The first trial election will take place in October 2024, with candidate sign-up from October 8 to 14, a discussion phase from October 22 to 24, and SecurePoll voting from October 25 to 31. For questions or to help out, please visit the talk page at Misplaced Pages talk:Administrator elections.
• Following a discussion, the speedy deletion reason "File pages without a corresponding file" has been moved from criterion G8 to F2. This does not change what can be speedily deleted.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether there is a consensus to have an administrator recall process.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Historical elections has been closed.
• An arbitration case regarding Backlash to diversity and inclusion has been opened.
• Editors are invited to nominate themselves to serve on the 2024 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission until 23:59 October 8, 2024 (UTC).

Miscellaneous

• If you are interested in stopping spammers, please put MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist and MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist on your watchlist, and help out when you can.

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin October Issue 1

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation over the first half of October 2024. Please help Translate.

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Upcoming and current events and conversations

Talking: 2024 continues

• WikiArabia Conference 2024 will be held in Muscat, Oman, from October 25 to 27.
• WikiConvention francophone 2024 will be held in Québec, Canada, from November 2 to 3.
• AffCom, Case Review Committee (CRC) and the Ombuds commission (OC) are seeking new member applications from October 14.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure

See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Misplaced Pages · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on Mediawiki.org

• Tech News: Updates on Dark Mode, Vector 2022 skin, CampaignEvents extension, and more on tech news.
• Translation suggestion: Sign up to participate in the test project, Translation suggestions: Topic-based & Community-defined lists, which will help organisers identify and add relevant content based on high-impact topics to their Misplaced Pages.
• Wikifunctions: Status updates from September 26.
• Misplaced Pages Apps: Check out the latest issue of the Apps Quarterly Newsletter!

Annual Goals Progress on Equity

See also a list of all movement events: on Meta

• WikiWomen Summit: Event summary at Wikimania 2024.
• Let's Connect: Watch recordings of the session Technology for Language Diversity in Wikimedia.
• WikiLearn: The latest online learning opportunities created by Wikimedians for Wikimedians.
• Indonesia: Training for Indonesian Misplaced Pages Administrators to Safeguard Knowledge Integrity Ahead of the Regional Elections

Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity

See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog

• Mexico: Wikimedia Foundation files amicus brief in Mexico urging continued use of intermediary liability protections for user-generated content in Richter v. Google.
• Paraguay: Wikimedia Foundation to Paraguayan Supreme Court: Do not allow people to abuse the law to suppress legitimate information
• Global: Celebrating a legal victory in Germany against censorship, reflections on Open Culture strategic workshop, and more global advocacy updates.

Board and Board committee updates

See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

• Board Governance: Update from Wikimedia Foundation Board Governance Committee, a proposal to ask for help and co-creation in Movement Charter Mapping Exercise.

Other Movement curated newsletters & news

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That was quick, thanks! It only just occurred to me that it was a pretty clear violation and I shouldn't have doubted myself. — ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · contribs · email) 05:00, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

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The Wikimedia Foundation is conducting a survey of Wikipedians to better understand what draws administrators to contribute to Misplaced Pages, and what affects administrator retention. We will use this research to improve experiences for Wikipedians, and address common problems and needs. We have identified you as a good candidate for this research, and would greatly appreciate your participation in this anonymous survey.

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin October Issue 2

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation over the second half of October 2024. Please help translate.

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Upcoming and current events and conversations
Talking: 2024 continues

• How Misplaced Pages is staying relevant in the AI era: Wikimedia Foundation CEO Maryana Iskander talks about Misplaced Pages and AI in an interview with the ‘Rapid Response’ podcast.
• Wiki for Human Rights is organizing a call for South Asia, East, Southeast Asia and the Pacific communities to discuss the Future of WikiForHumanRights on October 24 at 10 UTC.
• Campaign Events tool: a call with the Indonesian communities will be hosted on October 25.
• Translation suggestions: Topic-based & Community-defined lists project: an office hour with event/campaign organisers and contributors who use Content Translation tool will be hosted on October 26th. Visit this page for more details.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Misplaced Pages · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

• Tech News: In issue 2024/42, read about the removal of the Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow), work on making text searches easier, and more. In issue 2024/43, read about improvements to mobile app navigation, temporary accounts pilot details, the Content Discovery Experiments, and more updates.
• MediaWiki: The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available and include updates on Wikimedia’s authentication system, research to simplify feature development in the MediaWiki platform, and more.
• CampaignEvents extension: The CampaignEvents extension provides tools to create, manage, and promote collaborative activities on the wikis, such as edit-a-thons, meetups, and more. You can visit the Deployment page to learn how to get the extension on your wiki.
• Research: The Research team and collaborators are launching new research on editors with extended rights.
• New Content Translation feature: Translators using Content Translation on wikis with mobile support can now customize their article suggestions with 41 filtering options. This feature helps translators find relevant articles based on their interests for translation.
• Wikifunctions: We are collecting feedback on the "About" widget that shows more info about the functions. Also, status updates from October 11 and October 17.
• Temporary Accounts: Temporary accounts will begin rolling out on October 29 to production wikis with an aim to do a complete deployment by May 2025. You can see the deployment plan and timeline on the project page. As we rollout this change, it is likely that some tools (gadgets, user scripts, templates and bots) will be impacted by it. We have a developer FAQ to help developers with making necessary changes to their maintained tool(s). Please let us know on our talk page if you have any tool in mind that may need updating or if you need help with updating your maintained tools.
• Knowledge is Human campaign: The Communications department has just launched a public awareness campaign (landing page) to showcase how real articles are edited and highlight Misplaced Pages as a source of information ahead of the 2024 “Big English” fundraising drive.

Annual Goals Progress on Equity
See also a list of all movement events: on Meta-Wiki

• Grants: Announcing the newest round of Knowledge Equity Fund grantees.
• Wikimedia Research Showcase: Watch the latest showcase with the theme of Misplaced Pages for Political and Election Analysis.

Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog

• Latest transparency report: The latest Transparency Report, covering the period from January to June 2024, is now live on the Foundation website. View also highlights from the report.

Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

• Board Elections: Preliminary results of the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections has been announced.
• Affiliates Strategy: Implementation status of a new affiliate health criteria and changes to User Groups recognition process.

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• Regions: Central and Eastern Europe

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The Bugle: Issue 222, October 2024

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 on US Army divisions in the Pacific War, Nick-D on the First Indochina War

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Ignore my snark, please

Sorry about my somewhat snarky edit summary after the revert. I see now how you were referring to PLOTCITE. It just annoys me that an utterly uncontroversial claim requires sourcing, but them's the rules, so since it's been challenged for nearly a year, I figured it's simply best to just remove it - in addition to being an uncontroversial bit of information, it's also inconsequential. cheers. anastrophe, an editor he is. 03:14, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

@Anastrophe: All good! Certainly I've been in the same situation myself before. Fair call on the removal. Ed  18:39, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

WikiCup 2024 November newsletter

The 2024 WikiCup has come to an end, with the final round being a very tight race. Our new champion is AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), who scored 2,283 points mainly through 3 high-multiplier FAs and 3 GAs on military history topics. By a 1% margin, Airship beat out last year's champion, BeanieFan11 (submissions), who scored second with 2,264 points, mainly from an impressive 58 GAs about athletes. In third place, Generalissima (submissions) scored 1,528 points, primarily from two FAs on U.S. Librarians of Congress and 20 GAs about various historical topics. Our other finalists are: Sammi Brie (submissions) with 879 points, Hey man im josh (submissions) with 533 points, BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 432 points, Arconning (submissions) with 244 points, and AryKun (submissions) with 15 points. Congratulations to our finalists and all who participated!

The final round was very productive, and contestants had 7 FAs, 9 FLs, 94 GAs, 73 FAC reviews, and 79 GAN reviews and peer reviews. Altogether, Misplaced Pages has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors all through the contest. Well done everyone!

All those who reached the final will receive awards and the following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or in the event of a tie, to the overall leader in this field.

• Generalissima (submissions) wins the featured article prize for 3 FAs in round 4, and 7 FAs overall.
• Hey man im josh (submissions) wins the featured list prize for 23 FLs overall.
• MaranoFan (submissions) wins the featured topic prize for 9 articles in featured topics in round 1.
• Hey man im josh (submissions) wins the featured content reviewer prize for 110 FA/FL reviews overall.
• BeanieFan11 (submissions) wins the good article prize for 58 GAs in round 5, and 70 GAs overall.
• Fritzmann (submissions) wins the good topic prize for 6 articles in good topics in round 2.
• Sammi Brie (submissions) wins the good article reviewer prize for 45 GA reviews in round 2, and 78 GA reviews overall.
• BeanieFan11 (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 131 Did you know articles overall.
• Muboshgu (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 15 In the news articles in round 1, and 36 overall.

Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2025 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement!

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2024).

Administrator changes

• Crisco 1492

• Babajobu
• Daniel
• Elf
• Jayron32
• Thue
• Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

Maxim

Oversighter changes

Maxim

Guideline and policy news

• Following a discussion, the discussion-only period proposal that went for a trial to refine the requests for adminship (RfA) process has been discontinued.
• Following a request for comment, Administrator recall is adopted as a policy.

Technical news

• Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068

Arbitration

• RoySmith, Barkeep49 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections. ThadeusOfNazereth and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate from 3 November 2024 until 12 November 2024 to stand in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections.
• The Arbitration Committee is seeking volunteers for roles such as clerks, access to the COI queue, checkuser, and oversight.

Miscellaneous

• An unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in November 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin November Issue 1

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation over the first half of November 2024. Please help translate.

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Upcoming and current events and conversations
Talking: 2024 continues

• Commons Community Call: The first community call with Wikimedia Commons volunteers and stakeholders to help prioritize support efforts for 2025-2026 Fiscal Year will take place on November 21. The theme of this call will be about how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons. The call will be hosted by Chief Product and Technology Officer Selena Deckelmann.
• Conferencia Justicia climática Perú 2024: Conference on climate justice, indigenous voices and Wikimedia platform will be held in Huaraz, Peru from November 8 to 10.
• Affiliations Committee: Applications for joining the Affiliations Committee is open until November 18.
• Ombuds Commission and Case Review Committee: Applications for joining the Ombuds commission and the Case Review Committee are open until December 2.
• Language community meeting: A language community meeting will be hosted on November 29, 16:00 UTC, discussing technical updates and problem-solving.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Misplaced Pages · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

• Advisory Council: The new Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) was announced. The PTAC will try to publish a set of community-validated recommendations that can serve as a potential 2-3 year blueprint for product and technical success.
• Wikifunctions: The Abstract Misplaced Pages team is working toward a rewrite of our backend services in a different programming language, likely Rust. More status updates.
• Tech News: The Guided Tour extension, which help newcomers understand how to edit, now works with dark mode; Misplaced Pages readers can now download a browser extension to experiment with potential features that making it easier for readers to discover information on the wikis. More tech updates from tech news 44 and 43.
• Temporary accounts: Logged-out editors on 12 wikis, including Norwegian, Romanian, Serbian, Danish, and Cantonese Misplaced Pages, receive temporary accounts now. This new account type enhances the privacy of logged-out editors and makes it easier for community members to communicate with them. Read the new Diff post to learn more about temporary accounts.
• Mobile apps: The Mobile Apps team has released an update to the iOS app’s navigation, now available in the latest App store version.
• Campaign Events Extension: The Campaign Events extension is now live on two more wikis, Wikidata and the Spanish Misplaced Pages.
• Admin Retention: A survey on Misplaced Pages Administrator Recruitment, Retention, and Attrition is open until November 11. As part of the Foundation's 2024-2025 Annual Plan, the research team and collaborators are studying recruitment, retention, and attrition patterns among long-tenured community members in official moderation and administration roles.
• Knowledge is Human: The campaign web page, which educates visitors on Misplaced Pages’s model and why it’s trustworthy, has earned over 140,000 clicks. The campaign has increased pageviews on WikimediaFoundation.org by more than 50%.

Annual Goals Progress on Equity
See also a list of all movement events: on Meta-Wiki

• WikiCelebrate: From making a minor maintenance edit in 2005 to being one of the most appreciated Wikimedians in the Central Eastern European (CEE) region: this month we celebrate Mārtiņš Bruņenieks.
• Wiki Loves Earth: Mountains, Birds and Lakes – Central Asia Edition
• Future of Language Incubation: As part of a new Future of Language Incubation initiative to support language onboarding, Misplaced Pages is now live for five languages: Pannonian Rusyn, Tai Nüa, Iban, Obolo, and Southern Ndebele.

Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog

• Global Advocacy: Reflecting on the anniversary of the EU’s Digital Service Act (DSA), Wikimedians share successes and public policy priorities at digital rights Global Gathering event, and more global advocacy updates.

Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: quarterly Metrics Reports

• English Fundraising: The Road to Launch: Wikimedia’s 2024 English Fundraising Campaign.
• Fundraising Report: Our annual fundraising report for the 2023-2024 fiscal year is published. Last year, we had over 8 million donors giving an average donation of m:Fundraising/2023-24 Report0.58. We ran campaigns in 33 countries, 18 languages, and received donations from over 200 countries.

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Books & Bytes – Issue 65

The Misplaced Pages Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 65, September – October 2024

• Hindu Tamil Thisai joins The Misplaced Pages Library
• Frankfurt Book Fair 2024 report
• Tech tip: Mass downloads

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Nominations now open for the WikiProject Military history newcomer of the year and military historian of the year

Nominations now open for the WikiProject Military History newcomer of the year and military historian of the year awards for 2024! The the top editors will be awarded the coveted Gold Wiki. Nominations are open here and here respectively. The nomination period closes at 23:59 on 30 November 2024 when voting begins. On behalf of the coordinators, wishing you the very best for the festive season and the new year. MediaWiki message delivery via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:21, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

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Japanese battleship Tosa

Hi, you have listed this for TFA at pending for February. I have tentatively reserved a date for it, but if you would still like it be considered you will need to nominate it at Misplaced Pages:Today's featured article/requests, which is now open. Cheers. Gog the Mild (talk) 16:10, 23 November 2024 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin November Issue 2

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation from November 7 to November 21, 2024. Please help translate.

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Upcoming and current events and conversations
Talking: 2024 continues

• Conversation with the trustees: Speak directly with the Wikimedia Foundation trustees about their work at the next Conversation with the Trustees on 27 November from 12:00 – 13:30 UTC.
• Wikimedia Hackathon: Registration is now open for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon which will be held in Istanbul, Turkey, May 2–4, 2025.
• Language Community: The next language community meeting will be held on November 29 at 16:00 UTC.
• Wikimania 2025: Application for scholarship to attend Wikimania 2025 in Nairobi is open until the end of December 8.
• Central Asian WikiCon: The Central Asian WikiCon 2025 will take place on April 19–20, 2025, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Applications to be part of the Program and Scholarship Committee is open until November 30.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Misplaced Pages · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

• Tech News: Admins and users of the Wikimedia projects where Automoderator is enabled can now monitor and evaluate important metrics related to Automoderator's actions; Stewards can now make global account blocks cause global autoblocks. Learn about the latest tech updates from tech news 45, 46, and 47.
• Wikifunctions: Wikifunctions now has a new Type: rational numbers. They expand the ability to deal with numbers considerably, allowing us to work with fractions and decimals, and not just whole numbers anymore. More status updates.
• Temporary accounts: We are rolling out temporary accounts for unregistered (logged-out) editors for more wikis including Romanian, Serbian, Danish, and Norwegian Bokmål.

Annual Goals Progress on Equity
See also a list of all movement events: on Meta-Wiki

• Language & Internationalization: The fifth edition of the Language & Internationalization newsletter is available. Some key highlights: Mooré Misplaced Pages is live; Keyboard Layouts for Multiple Languages Added; New Projects Added to Translatewiki.net.
• Wikimedia Research Showcase: Watch the latest showcase which looked at external factors that help different language versions of Misplaced Pages thrive.
• Misplaced Pages Library: What's new in the Misplaced Pages Library?
• Tulu Wikisource: Welcoming Tulu Wikisource.
• CEE Meeting 2024: Highlights from Central Asian community members at the CEE Meeting 2024.
• Let's Connect: Let's Connect Learning clinic on Gender Sensitivity Training within Wikimedia communities was held on November 22.

Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: quarterly Metrics Reports

• Audit reports 2023-24: Highlights from the fiscal year 2023–2024 Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Endowment audit reports.
• Wikimedia Enterprise: Financial report of Wikimedia Enterprise for the fiscal year 2023–2024.

Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

• Board Updates: The Board met in Katowice, Poland on August 5 and held its quarterly business meeting before Wikimania. Learn more about the outcomes of the meeting.
• AffCom: The Affiliates Committee has resumed User Group recognition work after a pause to improve the User Group recognition process.

Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · other newsletters:

• Topics: Education · GLAM · The Misplaced Pages Library
• Wikimedia Projects: Milestones · Wikidata
• Regions: Central and Eastern Europe

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The Bugle: Issue 223, November 2024

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 looks at battles of Operation Veritable in 1945

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Voting is now open for the WikiProject Military History newcomer of the year and military historian of the year awards

Voting is now open for the WikiProject Military History newcomer of the year and military historian of the year awards for 2024! The top editors will be awarded the coveted Gold Wiki. Cast your votes here and here respectively. Voting closes at 23:59 on 30 December 2024. On behalf of the coordinators, wishing you the very best for the festive season and the new year. MediaWiki message delivery via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:00, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2024).

Administrator changes

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• Sohom Datta
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• Ajpolino
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• Pppery
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• Worm That Turned

• Aervanath
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• Dragons flight
• Fastily
• Graham87
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Interface administrator changes

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CheckUser changes

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Guideline and policy news

• Following an RFC, the policy on restoration of adminship has been updated. All former administrators may now only regain the tools following a request at the Misplaced Pages:Bureaucrats' noticeboard within 5 years of their most recent admin action. Previously this applied only to administrators deysopped for inactivity.
• Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, T5, has been enacted. This applies to template subpages that are no longer used.

Technical news

• Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10, 2024.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Yasuke (formerly titled Backlash to diversity and inclusion) has been closed.
• An arbitration case titled Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 14 December.

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Guild of Copy Editors December 2024 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors December 2024 Newsletter Hello, and welcome to the December newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since September. If you no longer want this newsletter, you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. If you'd like to be notified of upcoming drives and blitzes, and other GOCE activities, the best method is to add our announcements box to your watchlist. Election news: The Guild's coordinators play an important role in the WikiProject, making sure nearly everything runs smoothly and on time. Editors in good standing (unblocked and without sanctions) are invited to nominate themselves or another editor to be a Guild coordinator (with their permission, of course) until 23:59 on 15 December (UTC). The voting phase begins at 00:01 on 16 December and runs until 23:59 on 31 December. Questions may be asked of candidates at any stage in the process. Elected coordinators will serve a six-month term from 1 January through 30 June. Drive: In our September Backlog Elimination Drive, 67 editors signed up, 39 completed at least one copy edit, and between them they edited 682,696 words comprising 507 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: The October Copy Editing Blitz saw 16 editors sign-up, 15 of whom completed at least one copy edit. They edited 76,776 words comprising 35 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: In our November Backlog Elimination Drive, 432,320 words in 151 articles were copy edited. Of the 54 users who signed up, 33 copy edited at least one article. Barnstars awarded are posted here. Blitz: The December Blitz will begin at 00:00 on 15 December (UTC) and will end on 21 December at 23:59. Sign up here. Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 22:12, 7 December 2024 (UTC), GOCE copy editors have completed 333 requests since 1 January, and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 2,401 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, Mox Eden and Wracking. To stop receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin December Issue

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our second November issue. This will be the final bulletin for 2024 and we'll be back in late January 2025 with the next issue. Please help translate.

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Upcoming and current events and conversations
Talking: 2024 continues

• Wikimania: Open call to host Wikimania 2027 and beyond is open until end of January 27 anywhere on earth.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Misplaced Pages · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

• Tech News: Chart extension is now available on Commons and Testwiki; a new version of the standard wikitext editor-mode syntax highlighter will be available as a beta feature; Edit Check will be relocated to a sidebar on desktop. More updates from tech news 50, 49, and 48.
• Wikifunctions: WordGraph dataset is released, which is particularly useful for abstract descriptions for people in Wikidata. More status updates.
• Misplaced Pages 2024 Year in Review: Misplaced Pages 2024 Year in Review launched, showcasing the collective impact of Misplaced Pages and Misplaced Pages contributors in the last calendar year. The iOS App also released a personalized Year in Review to Italy and Mexico, with insights based on reading, editing, and donation history.
• Misplaced Pages Android App: The Android team has launched the Rabbit Holes feature in the final release of the year as part of Wiki Experiences 3.1. Currently being tested in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, this feature suggests a search term and a reading list based on the user's last two visited articles. For more details or to share feedback, visit the project page.

Annual Goals Progress on Equity
See also a list of all movement events: on Meta-Wiki

• WikiCelebrate: From Challenges to Change-Making: We Wikicelebrate Chabota Isaac Kanguya, a passionate contributor from Zambia, whose journey through the Wikimedia movement embodies resilience, collaboration, and a commitment to representing underrepresented voices.
• Conference: Announcing Central Asian WikiCon 2025 which will be hosted at Diplomat International School on April 19–20, 2025, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
• Campaigns and topical collaboration: The Campaign Product and Programs teams published research on the needs of WikiProject and other topical collaborations.
• Wikisource: The journey so far and looking ahead with Wikisource Loves Manuscripts (WiLMa).
• CEE Meeting: Experiences and Highlights by Central Asian Community Members.
• Partnership: Wikimedia Indonesia and Google Join Forces for Misplaced Pages Content Enrichment in Indonesia.
• Wikimedia Research Showcase: Watch the latest showcase which discussed AI for Misplaced Pages.

Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog

• Ongoing litigation: Update on litigation in India.

Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

• Board Elections: The Board’s Executive Committee shared some thoughts on the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections.

External media releases & coverage

• Most popular articles: Announcing English Misplaced Pages’s most popular articles of 2024.
• Interview: Jimmy Wales on Why Misplaced Pages Is Still So Good.

Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · other newsletters:

• Topics: Education · GLAM · The Misplaced Pages Library
• Wikimedia Projects: Milestones · Wikidata
• Regions: Central and Eastern Europe

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Io Saturnalia!

		Io, Saturnalia!
		Wishing you and yours a Happy Holiday Season, from the horse and bishop person. May the year ahead be productive and distraction-free. Ealdgyth (talk) 15:28, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, Ealdgyth. Hope yours is as well! Ed  04:26, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue 224, December 2024

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Nick-D on the Franco-Prussian War Op-ed: Nick-D visits the Swiss Air Force Museum

The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here.
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Japanese battleship Tosa scheduled for TFA

This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 9 February 2025. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Misplaced Pages:Today's featured article/February 2025, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Misplaced Pages talk:Today's featured article/February 2025. Please keep an eye on that page, as notifications of copy edits to or queries about the draft blurb may be left there by user:JennyOz, who assists the coordinators by reviewing the blurbs, or by others. I also suggest that you watchlist Misplaced Pages:Main Page/Errors from two days before it appears on the Main Page. Thanks, and congratulations on your work! Gog the Mild (talk) 15:00, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

Tropical Storm Gabrielle (2007) scheduled for TFA

This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 16 February 2025. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Misplaced Pages:Today's featured article/February 2025, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Misplaced Pages talk:Today's featured article/February 2025. Please keep an eye on that page, as notifications of copy edits to or queries about the draft blurb may be left there by user:JennyOz, who assists the coordinators by reviewing the blurbs, or by others. I also suggest that you watchlist Misplaced Pages:Main Page/Errors from two days before it appears on the Main Page. Thanks, and congratulations on your work! Gog the Mild (talk) 15:23, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

@Gog the Mild: I assume you meant to leave this message for Juliancolton. :-) Ed  21:28, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

Ha, I saw the section header in the edit summary and wondered when you had written an article on a hurricane! Parsecboy (talk) 22:56, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

Me, too!--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 11:16, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

@Parsecboy and Sturmvogel 66: I'm multi-talented! :-p But in case you missed the section above, Japanese battleship Tosa is the one that will actually be going up. Ed  19:19, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Drat! I did wonder about someone who subscribed to The Bugle putting a weather article through FAC, but I was on number 16 of an - evidently - brain numbingly repetitive task and not really paying attention. 9th, 16th, who's counting? Thanks Ed. Gog the Mild (talk) 17:20, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

@Gog the Mild: All good! Thanks for all the work you put into FA things. To your point, I did write 2016 Irkutsk mass methanol poisoning... which is not weather, but it's not MILHIST either. :-) Ed  19:17, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

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 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) 00:14, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2025

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2024).

Administrator changes

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• Daniel
• Hog Farm

• BozMo
• Ferret
• John M Wolfson
• MaxSem
• Panyd
• Tide rolls
• Titoxd

CheckUser changes

• Daniel
• Elli
• Liz
• ScottishFinnishRadish
• Theleekycauldron

Worm That Turned

Ferret

Oversight changes

• Daniel
• Elli
• Liz
• ScottishFinnishRadish
• Theleekycauldron

Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RFC, Misplaced Pages:Notability (species) was adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.
• A request for comment 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.

Technical news

• The Nuke feature also now provides links 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.

Arbitration

• Following the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: CaptainEek, Daniel, Elli, KrakatoaKatie, Liz, Primefac, ScottishFinnishRadish, Theleekycauldron, Worm That Turned.

Miscellaneous

• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2025 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Sign up here to participate!

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