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Talk:Azov Brigade

I am trying to understand the current status of Talk:Azov Brigade. Except for some templates at the top, the entire page follows a {{Archive top}} with no {{Archive bottom}}. Is this intentional? If so, where is one supposed to raise a question about the current state of the article? Pinging @TylerBurden, whose name is on the {{Archive top}}, as the most likely to know the intent. - Jmabel | Talk 22:00, 26 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It looks as if this edit by Lowercase sigmabot III left an archive-top behind when correctly archiving the matching archive-bottom and the content between. That may be because the closing summary was above the associated section heading rather than below. We can probably just move the closing summary to the archive page. Certes (talk) 22:27, 26 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

DONE, someone may want to verify my edits to the talk page and archive to make sure I have fulfilled the intent. - Jmabel | Talk 01:04, 27 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Jmabel My intent was just to close the discussion that had veered off into editors discussing ideologies rather than the article itself and wasn't producing anything constructive, like Certes said something seems to have gone wrong when the automated archiving kicked in causing the mess. Apologies if the way I placed the closing summary caused the issue. TylerBurden (talk) 10:38, 27 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@TylerBurden: Lowercase sigmabot III archives threads based upon the convention that a thread extends from one level 2 heading (inclusive) to the next (exclusive), or to the page end if there are no more level 2 headings - this is exactly the same extent as when you edit a single section. The bot doesn't consider {{archive top}} to be anything special, and certainly doesn't look "back" from a heading to see if it's got an {{archive top}} before it. Indeed, there shouldn't be any need for the bot to do this: Template:Archive top#Usage explicitly states Place the {{Archive top}} template below the header containing the discussion, then place {{Archive bottom}} at the end of the discussion. and you appear to have overlooked this advice in this edit. Regarding that: what was the {{Lorem ipsum}} (since removed) intended for? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 13:30, 27 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I think that's from WP:HATTING, where the example replaces the discussion by lorem ipsum text. Certes (talk) 14:45, 27 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I clarified it. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 16:09, 27 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Announcing the new Elections Committee members

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Hello there,

We are glad to announce the new members and advisors of the Elections Committee. The Elections Committee assists with the design and implementation of the process to select Community- and Affiliate-Selected trustees for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. After an open nomination process, the strongest candidates spoke with the Board and four candidates were asked to join the Elections Committee. Four other candidates were asked to participate as advisors.

Thank you to all the community members who submitted their names for consideration. We look forward to working with the Elections Committee in the near future.

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees,

RamzyM (WMF) 17:59, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Africa Growth Project Pilot: Invitation for Input

Dear Wikipedians, in response to expressed needs of the communities in sub-Saharan Africa to help achieve growth of the editing communities in the region, the Wikimedia Foundation is working on an experiment-based project dubbed the Africa Growth Project. The project seeks to enhance already existing community efforts by creating a more effective online learning component, which would allow in-person efforts to focus on already-engaged newbies who have obtained a solid foundation in Wikipedia policies and collaboration norms, maximizing the return on investment of human volunteer effort. The hypothesis guiding this experiment is that providing high-quality training to new and existing Wikipedians covering the basics of contribution to Wikipedia (including introducing the many ways to contribute beyond article writing) can double the retention rates of active editors in the region.

For the pilot, we will be developing four modules, and we are inviting you to share feedback on outlines for these training modules, which are:

We hope to benefit from your experience as Wikipedians in sharing your input on these module outlines, to ensure that they capture what is needed to support the community's understanding of those policies. We are interested to hear your thoughts on what's missing, what's good, what could be improved, and any suggestions on the modules' and sections' order and pace, great illustrative examples and helpful exercises that would be useful to incorporate.

We will take your input into consideration as we develop the full modules based on these outlines (including whatever change suggestions we accept). We will also be publishing the complete modules on the WikiLearn platform when they are ready.

See the details of the pilot and the modules in the Africa Growth Pilot Page on Meta-Wiki. Kindly share your comments on the talk page by July 21st, 2023.

Thank you, from the Africa Growth Pilot team @DNdubane (WMF), @VThamaini (WMF) and @Asaf (WMF). VThamaini (WMF) (talk) 09:54, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Scamming

I need to let Lisa Bonet know a scammer is using Jason Momoa name to scam fans and trying to pull her into it too Ellen Bohanan (talk) 15:14, 9 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know who that is, and barely know who that it, and you're probably going to have to find a better avenue other than Wikipedia. GMG ^talk 16:50, 9 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

can i get a download txt file of all entries in wikt:category:English lemmas

can i — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.188.159.190 (talk) 10:35, 12 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You can get a list using the "Download data" here. As the query has only one column, the tsv option will produce a simple text file. Certes (talk) 13:39, 12 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

WMF English banner fundraising campaign 2023 - community collaboration starting now

Dear all,

We would like to share with you the community collaboration page around the English fundraising banner campaign. This page is for en.wiki volunteers to learn about fundraising and share ideas for how we can improve the 2023 English fundraising campaign together. On this page you’ll find information to increase transparency and understanding of the fundraising program, background on improvements around community collaborations that have been made since the last campaign, new spaces for collaboration, and messaging examples to invite volunteers to share ideas for how we can improve the next campaign together.

The fundraising banner pre-tests phase on English Wikipedia starts on the 19th of July with a few technical tests, using messaging that was created with the community during the December 2022 campaign. We will regularly update the collaboration page with new messaging ideas and updates on testing and campaign plans as we prepare for the main campaign that will launch at the end of November.

Generally, during the pre-tests and the campaign, you can contact us:

On the community collaboration page
Via one the community calls (see more details on the collaboration page)
At an in-person event (see more details on the collaboration page)
On the talk page of the fundraising team
If you need to report a bug or technical issue, please create a phabricator ticket
If you see a donor on a talk page, VRT or social media having difficulties in donating, please refer them to donatewikimedia.org

Best wishes,

JBrungs (WMF) (talk) 15:57, 13 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]