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Question from Singularitywiki (02:17, 11 October 2022)

Hi mentor, I have created two drafts and I was hoping you can comment on them: style, notability, etc. I know new editors usually are not encouraged to write new articles, but drafting new articles is my passion. I appreciate if you could comment on their merit and notability verification. Thank you. --Singularitywiki (talk) 02:17, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

Hi @Singularitywiki, Draft:Elod Gyenge relies too much on non-independent sources, which cannot support claims of notability. I would advise taking a break from writing drafts for a moment and focus on other areas of Wikipedia. New editors are not encouraged to write new articles for various reasons, mainly because it is a very discouraging process without a good understanding of policies. There is no deadline here, perhaps returning in a few months to write articles would be best. Justiyaya 12:48, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
Thank you, very much appreciated. Singularitywiki (talk) 13:59, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
@Singularitywiki You're welcome :D, I've assigned myself as your mentor as EpicPupper is away, feel free to ask any additional questions via the homepage! Justiyaya 14:26, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

Question from Skab2022 (17:08, 11 October 2022)

I am about to write a research paper on muckraking journlism in the USA, and I have read in the references the books you used to write the article about the muckrakers. Could you please send me in my emil those books because I could not find them on the internet --Skab2022 (talk) 17:08, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

Hi @Skab2022, a research paper on muckraking sounds very interesting. Although EpicPupper didn't write the article or add the book references, as such, they cannot provide you with the books. The book references was added over 5 years ago and the primary authors of the page have unfortunately left the encyclopedia. I don't think I can help you, sorry and good luck on the paper. Justiyaya 12:30, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

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Guild of Copy Editors' October 2022 newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors October 2022 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to our latest newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since June. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below.

Drive: Of the 22 editors who signed up for our July Backlog Elimination Drive, 18 copy-edited, between them, 116 articles. Barnstars awarded are noted here.

Blitz: Participants in our August Copy Editing Blitz copy-edited 51,074 words in 17 articles. Of the 15 editors who signed up, 11 claimed at least one copy-edit. Barnstars awarded are noted here.

Drive: Forty-one editors took part in our September Backlog Elimination Drive; between them they copy-edited 199 articles. Barnstars awards are noted here.

Blitz: Our October Copy Editing Blitz begins on 16 October at 00:01 (UTC) and will end on 22 October at 23:59 (UTC). Barnstars awarded will be posted here.

Progress report: As of 19:57, 12 October 2022 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 303 requests for copy edit – including withdrawn and declined ones – since 1 January. At the time of writing, there are 77 requests awaiting attention and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 1,759. We always need more active, skilled copyeditors – particularly for requests – so please get involved if you can.

Election news: In our mid-year election, serving coordinators Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, Reidgreg and Tenryuu were returned for another term, and were joined by new coordinator Zippybonzo. No lead coordinator was elected for this half-year. Jonesey95, a long-serving coordinator and lead, was elected as coordinator emeritus; we thank them for their service. Thank you to everyone who took part. Our next election of coordinators takes place throughout December. If you'd like to help out at the GOCE, please consider nominating yourself or other suitable editors (with their permission, of course!). It's your Guild, after all!

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This week's article for improvement (week 42, 2022)

Since 1922, the countries of the United Kingdom comprises four constituent countries: England, Scotland, and Wales (which collectively make up Great Britain), as well as Northern Ireland (variously described as a country, province or region).
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Countries of the United Kingdom

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New Page Patrol newsletter October 2022

Hello Frostly,

Much has happened since the last newsletter over two months ago. The open letter finished with 444 signatures. The letter was sent to several dozen people at the WMF, and we have heard that it is being discussed but there has been no official reply. A related article appears in the current issue of The Signpost. If you haven't seen it, you should, including the readers' comment section.

Awards: Barnstars were given for the past several years (thanks to MPGuy2824), and we are now all caught up. The 2021 cup went to John B123 for leading with 26,525 article reviews during 2021. To encourage moderate activity, a new "Iron" level barnstar is awarded annually for reviewing 360 articles ("one-a-day"), and 100 reviews earns the "Standard" NPP barnstar. About 90 reviewers received barnstars for each of the years 2018 to 2021 (including the new awards that were given retroactively). All awards issued for every year are listed on the Awards page. Check out the new Hall of Fame also.

Software news: Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have connected with WMF developers who can review and approve patches, so they have been able to fix some bugs, and make other improvements to the Page Curation software. You can see everything that has been fixed recently here. The reviewer report has also been improved.

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Wikidata weekly summary #542

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
    • REST API:
      • Finished work on handling conditional HTTP request headers (If-Match, If-None-Match, etc)
      • Working on providing more clear error reports to PATCH route errors
    • Mismatch Finder: Implementing a new random mismatch feature (phab:T302289)
    • The text in the namespace tabs for Lexeme: and EntitySchema: pages can now be easily translated (phab:T316770) - thanks Amir!
    • Made the Wikibase error message "Malformed input" more meaningful (phab:T304943)
    • Continued working on the deployment of a patch to improve the Query Service lag integration in MediaWiki API's maxlag (phab:T315423)
    • Fixed a bug where the Kartographer map preview is erroneously closed, when clicking on zoom actions (+/-) (phab:T303103)
    • Still working on fixing a mobile termbox issue related to the "mul" language code (phab:T318137)
    • Added ircs as an allowed protocol for the URL datatype (phab:T320643) - thanks Lectrician1!

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Tech News: 2022-42

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • The recently implemented feature of article thumbnails in Special:Search will be limited to Wikipedia projects only. Further details are in T320510. [1]
  • A bug that caused problems in loading article thumbnails in Special:Search has been fixed. Further details are in T320406.

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 October. It will be on all wikis from 20 October (calendar).
  • Lua module authors can use mw.loadJsonData() to load data from JSON pages. [2]
  • Lua module authors can enable require( "strict" ) to add errors for some possible code problems. This replaces "Module:No globals" on most wikis. [3]

Future changes

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Question from AudaciousT on User:AudaciousT (15:05, 20 October 2022)

Hey Epicpupper,

Please, What is the difference between a user page and a published article? --AudaciousT (talk) 15:05, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 43, 2022)

The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator. Pictured are areas of the world with tropical climates.
Hello, EpicPupper. The article for improvement of the week is:

Tropics

Please be bold and help improve it!

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Wikidata weekly summary #543

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Wikidata passed another milestone on October 19.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Tech News: 2022-43

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • There have been some minor visual fixes in Special:Search, regarding audio player alignment and image placeholder height. Further details are in T319230.
  • On Wikipedias, a new preference has been added to hide article thumbnails in Special:Search. Full details are in T320337.

Problems

  • Last week, three wikis (French Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia, Russian Wikipedia) had read-only access for 25 minutes. This was caused by a hardware problem. [5]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 October. It will be on all wikis from 27 October (calendar).
  • Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 25 October at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 27 October at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
  • Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Assamese Wikipedia, Bashkir Wikipedia, Balinese Wikipedia, Bavarian Wikipedia, Samogitian Wikipedia, Bikol Central Wikipedia, Belarusian Wikipedia, Belarusian (Taraškievica) Wikipedia, Bulgarian Wikipedia, Bhojpuri Wikipedia, Bislama Wikipedia, Banjar Wikipedia, Bambara Wikipedia, Bishnupriya Wikipedia, Breton Wikipedia, Bosnian Wikipedia, Buginese Wikipedia, Buryat Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [6]
  • Starting on Wednesday October 26, 2022, the list of mentors will be upgraded at wikis where Growth mentorship is available. The mentorship system will continue to work as it does now. The signup process will be replaced, and a new management option will be provided. Also, this change simplifies the creation of mentorship systems at Wikipedias. [7][8][9]
  • Pages with titles that start with a lower-case letter according to Unicode 11 will be renamed or deleted. There is a list of affected pages at m:Unicode 11 case map migration. More information can be found at T292552.
  • The Vector 2022 skin will become the default across the smallest Wikipedias. Learn more.

Future changes

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Movement Charter Drafting Committee's monthly newsletter

The Movement Charter Drafting Committee at the Wikimedia Summit in September.
  • Movement Charter Drafting Committee's participation at the Wikimedia Summit: The MCDC members presented initial drafts of the three chapters of the Movement Charter: Preamble, Values and Principles, and Roles and Responsibilities. The three chapters were prioritized to lay the groundwork for the rest of the Charter. MCDC members attended breakout rooms to discuss the progress with all attendees - both online and offline. The drafts received valuable feedback from the affiliates in many sessions. The Committee also launched a survey to gather feedback and suggestions on the Movement Charter development. Report for the Wikimedia Summit can be found here.
  • Learn about Movement Charter Drafting Committee’s work in September: The Committee released its regular monthly update from September 2022. It includes highlights about the Committee's progress in creating the Movement Charter content, results of the Wikimedia Summit, and an important announcement about membership.

Coming up:

  • Community consultations. In November the MCDC will be organizing events to hear your thoughts on the first three drafts. There will be onboarding sessions for community members to learn about Movement Charter and ask their questions to the Committee members. Community members will be able to share their thoughts and feedback via open and anonymous surveys, along with Meta pages, MS Forum and email. Details to be communicated by the MSG team.
  • Conference engagement. MCDC members will be attending the following conferences in October/November:
    • WikiArabia (28 - 30 October): Anass, Ravan, Reda will facilitate a discussion about the Movement Charter. Additional sessions include a conversation about the roles & responsibilities, and a conversation about hubs. .
    • WikiIndaba (4 - 6 November): Anasss will present a Movement Charter update.
    • WikiCon francophone (17 - 20 November): Anass, Georges and Reda will present a Movement Charter session.
    • WikiConNL (19 November): Ciell will present an Movement Charter update.
  • Movement Charter Ambassadors Package. Individuals and/or groups from various communities will be able to get resources and support to help increase the engagement of community members in the Movement Charter. The details to be shared by the MSG team.


--15:24, 25 October 2022 (UTC).

Women in Red November 2022

Women in Red November 2022, Vol 8, Issue 11, Nos 214, 217, 245, 246, 247


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This week's article for improvement (week 44, 2022)

Crown Prince Moulay Hassan, the Crown Prince of Morocco, in 2018
Hello, EpicPupper. The article for improvement of the week is:

Moulay Hassan, Crown Prince of Morocco

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Tropics • Countries of the United Kingdom

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The Signpost: 31 October 2022

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Wikidata weekly summary #544

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • 🧰 Tool of the week
    • sparklis (source) : query builder in natural language that allows people to explore and query SPARQL endpoints with all the power of SPARQL and without any knowledge of SPARQL, nor of the endpoint vocabulary.
  • ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Word Finder is a tool based on Wikidata Lexemes that solves anagrams and find missing letters in crosswords.

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Tech News: 2022-44

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • When using keyboard navigation on a Kartographer map, the focus will become more visible. [11]
  • In Special:RecentChanges, you can now hide the log entries for new user creations with the filter for "⧼rcfilters-filter-newuserlogactions-label⧽". [12]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 November. It will be on all wikis from 3 November (calendar).
  • The maps dialog in VisualEditor now has some help texts. [13]
  • It is now possible to select the language of a Kartographer map in VisualEditor via a dropdown menu. [14]
  • It is now possible to add a caption to a Kartographer map in VisualEditor. [15]
  • It is now possible to hide the frame of a Kartographer map in VisualEditor. [16]

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2022).

Administrator changes

  • added
  • readded
  • removed

Interface administrator changes

CheckUser changes

Oversight changes

Guideline and policy news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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WikiProject Malaysia October 2022 newsletter

The Malaysia WikiProject
Newsletter
Issue 30 • October 2022 • About the Newsletter
WikiProject Malaysia Statistics
  • There are currently about 25,982 subject namespaces (excluding talk pages) attributed to the project, including 17,378 articles.
  • There are 18 featured articles, 91 good articles and 9,048 stub articles.
  • The project currently has 34 active members.
Past Newsletter • Newsroom • Malaysia Noticeboard • Malaysia Portal
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WikiCup 2022 November newsletter

The 2022 WikiCup has drawn to a close with the final round going down to the wire. The 2022 champion is

  • England Lee Vilenski (1752 points), who won in 2020 and was runner up in both 2019 and last year. In the final round he achieved 3 FAs and 15 GAs, mostly on cue sports. He was closely followed by
  • Kingdom of Scotland Bloom6132 (1732), who specialised in "In the news" items and DYKs, and who has reached the final round of the Cup for the past three years. Next was
  • Zulu (International Code of Signals) BennyOnTheLoose (1238), another cue sports enthusiast, also interested in songs, followed by
  • New York City Muboshgu (1082), an "In the news" contributor, a seasoned contestant who first took part in the Cup ten years ago. Other finalists were
  • Sammi Brie (930), who scored with a featured article, good articles and DYKs on TV and radio stations,
  • United Nations Kavyansh.Singh (370), who created various articles on famous Americans, including an FA on Louis H. Bean, famed for his prediction of election outcomes. Next was
  • Chicago PCN02WPS (292), who scored with good articles and DYKs on sporting and other topics and
  • Toronto Z1720 (25) who had DYKs on various topics including historic Canadians.

During the WikiCup, contestants achieved 37 featured articles, 349 good articles, 360 featured article reviews, 683 good article reviews and 480 In the news items, so Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors. Well done everyone! All those who reached the final round will receive awards and the following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. 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 the overall leader in this field.

  • England Lee Vilenski wins the featured article prize, for a total of 6 FAs during the course of the competition and 3 in the final round.
  • United Nations Kavyansh.Singh wins the featured list prize, for 3 FLs in round 2.
  • Adam Cuerden wins the featured picture prize, for 39 FPs during the competition.
  • Toronto Z1720 wins the featured article reviewer prize, for 35 FARs in round 4.
  • New York (state) Epicgenius wins the good article prize, for 32 GAs in round 1.
  • SounderBruce wins the featured topic prize, for 4 FT articles in round 1.
  • England Lee Vilenski wins the good topic prize, for 34 GT articles in round 5.
  • Sammi Brie wins the good article reviewer prize, for 71 GARs overall.
  • Sammi Brie wins the Did you know prize, for 30 DYKs in round 3 and 106 overall.
  • Kingdom of Scotland Bloom6132 wins the In the news prize, for 106 ITNs in round 5 and 289 overall.

Next year's competition will begin on 1 January and possible changes to the rules and scoring are being discussed on the discussion page. You are invited to sign up to take part in the contest; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to have a good turnout for the 2023 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners and finalists, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:28, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

WikiCup

Hi Epic, long time no speak - do you still do writings for the signpost? Would you (or no someone who might) be interested in doing up a write-up for this year's WikiCup? Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 13:54, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) From Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-10-31/From the team: EpicPupper has left Wikipedia and resigned their position with The Signpost (formatting original). You may request this topic at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom/Suggestions. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 07:50, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
Since you've decided to retire, I just wanted to give you a huge thank you for your amazing work here before you left. I hope you do great in all the future adventures you undertake. —CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 10:45, 8 November 2022 (UTC)
I just dropped by your talk page to ask what's up with you and now I find you have retired! Too soon, too soon. You will be missed, EpicPupper! Thank you for all of the many contributions you made to the project. Should you get the urge to edit in the future, we'll still be here. Liz Read! Talk! 03:23, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: October 2022



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This week's article for improvement (week 46, 2022)

Fire in Rome by Hubert Robert (1785)
Hello, EpicPupper. The article for improvement of the week is:

Great Fire of Rome

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Government • Moulay Hassan, Crown Prince of Morocco

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Books & Bytes – Issue 53

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 53, September – October 2022

  • New collections:
    • Edward Elgar
    • E-Yearbook
    • Corriere della Serra
    • Wikilala
  • Collections moved to Library Bundle:
    • Ancestry
  • New feature: Outage notification
  • Spotlight: Collections indexed in EDS

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Movement Charter Drafting Committee's monthly newsletter

Ask Me Anything session introduction (12 November), presented by a Movement Charter Drafting Committee member.
  • MCDC members attended the “Ask Me Anything about Movement Charter” sessions to provide more information about the Movement Charter, its goal, why it matters and how it impacts the communities. Recordings of the presentations in different languages can be found here.
  • The Movement Charter Ambassadors Program: Movement Charter Ambassadors (MCA) are individuals or groups interested in helping to ensure that their communities are fully engaged in community consultations. MCA are interested in supporting their communities to understand the content of the Movement Charter as well as ensuring that their communities can easily provide feedback. Anyone can become a MCA! Dedicated funds are available to support the MCA and their activities. Are you interested in becoming a Movement Charter Ambassador for your community? Sign up here!
  • The Movement Charter Drafting Committee will close membership: The  Committee decided not to add new members or replace those who step down after 1 January 2023, unless for exceptional reasons.
  • Learn about Movement Charter Drafting Committee’s work in October:  The Committee released its regular monthly update from October 2022. It includes highlights about the Committee's progress in drafting the Movement Charter content, its upcoming community consultation and participation at Wikimedia events.

Coming up:

  • Regional feedback conversations: The MCDC’s community consultations to collect feedback on the first three sections of the Movement Charter will take place between November 20 and December 18, 2022. You are invited to join one of the regional conversations planned for the eight regions (and various languages) of the Movement. Please note that interested people can share their feedback in different ways, including on the Meta talk page, on the Movement Strategy forum, filling out a survey (anonymously) and sending an email to: movementcharter@wikimedia.org.
  • Sign up here to become a Movement Charter Ambassadors from your community and help ensure that your community is aware of the conversations around the Movement Charter! 


--13:37, 20 November 2022 (UTC).

This week's article for improvement (week 47, 2022)

Culinary arts are the cuisine arts of food preparation, cooking, and presentation of food, usually in the form of meals. Pictured is a chef preparing food on a metal baking sheet topped with parchment paper.
Hello, EpicPupper. The article for improvement of the week is:

Culinary arts

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Great Fire of Rome • Government

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Your request

Hello, EpicPupper,

I'm sorry I didn't get to your request sooner but it looks like it has now been taken care of. Good luck with your future projects! You have made valuable contributions here! Liz Read! Talk! 18:42, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

Thanks @Liz :) 🥒 EpicPickle (they/them | talk) 17:02, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

Some stroopwafels for you!

I miss you already –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 07:32, 22 November 2022 (UTC)
Thanks @MJL <3 I'll be back sometime. The future is a long time :) 🥒 EpicPickle (they/them | talk) 17:03, 22 November 2022 (UTC)
I guess by "I'll be back sometime" I meant the same day....... 🥒 EpicPickle (he/him | talk) 20:51, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

Welcome back

It's nice to see you around again. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 08:17, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

  • Stay in touch with us here, I really wish that if you need a break you could do so for any length of time without it needing to be forever. Breaks are no big deal. If something is too much then talk with us. I go to video meetups sometimes including this one to be announced early December - meta:WALRUS/December_2022. It helps me stay cool. Bluerasberry (talk) 19:54, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
    Thanks @Bluerasberry and @Clovermoss! I went into my wikibreak expecting to leave the projects indefinitely. I had some other commitments that I was neglecting, and I just wanted to take a breath of fresh air and some time away from the wiki. It's ultimately drawn me back, though. My activity rate now definitely won't be as much as it was, and I'll focus on some different areas, but I'm glad to be back! 🥒 EpicPickle (he/him | talk) 20:43, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
    I took a year wikibreak once myself. Don't pressure yourself to do anything more than you can. Wikipedia will always be here. :) Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 21:46, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
    Oh, I've done that. And with my user page organising achievements by year it's very obvious. Mind, one of those wikibreaks led to me writing a one-act operetta, so...
    By the way, my retirement from the Signpost went so well that I have credit on seven articles in the next issue. Eight if you count the title joke I kind of expect to be cut but didn't want others getting blamed for if it's not Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.2% of all FPs. Currently celebrating his 600th FP! 20:51, 24 November 2022 (UTC)
    Thanks @Adam Cuerden for helping out, haha :) 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him | talk) 20:55, 24 November 2022 (UTC)

Women in Red December 2022

WiR Women who died in 2022
WiR Women who died in 2022
Women in Red December 2022, Vol 8, Issue 12, Nos 214, 217, 248, 249, 250


Online events:

See also:

Tip of the month:

  • Remember to search slight spelling variations of your subject's name,
    like Katherine/Katharine or Elizabeth/Elisabeth, especially for historical subjects.

Other ways to participate:

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A(n) (L)epic pupper for you

Ludovic Lepic's Belgian Griffon
Commons has woefully few images of puppers I would consider epic, so we'll have to make do with this Edgar Degas pastel drawing of Ludovic Lepic (mistakenly called Ludovice Epic on Commons) and his pet Belgian Griffon.

Thank you for your recent comments. If I'd realized you had returned to editing, I would have pinged you. I hope you know I bear you no ill will for past events—which I really do see as nothing more than a multifaceted miscommunication—and regret that it became necessary to dredge them up. I look forward to seeing you around the wiki again. :D -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (she|they|xe) 10:32, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

Thanks @Tamzin! Hope you're doing well, and thanks for running - it's nice to see some familiar faces. Ludovic does indeed seem quite epic! Cheers, 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him | talk) 20:28, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 48, 2022)

A depiction of Medjed based on the Greenfield papyrus
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Medjed

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Collaboration

I have some feedback regarding your response at the Signpost newsroom. As it is unsolicited, though, I understand if you aren't interested in it. I think it was unnecessary to bring in the possibility of seeking dispute resolution at one of the general community venues, as it feels slightly aggressive. The criticism being made was couched in very mild terms, and was on the degree of communication, co-ordination, and collaboration within the project, not on community policy. I think it is appropriate and desirable to be able to discuss project-related co-ordination issues among the project participants. I know it's a hard discussion to have, and I appreciate you may feel this is an old issue from the past. I feel the editor was careful to raise this point gently to provide context for their concerns, emphasizing a disinclination to dwell on it. I hope this feedback may be helpful. isaacl (talk) 18:23, 1 December 2022 (UTC)

@isaacl, thank you for the feedback. My intention was not to be aggressive and I regret that my message came across that way; I have edited my comment. I fully understand the implications today of my past actions and their continued relevance. I appreciate your ongoing contributions to the project. Best wishes, 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him | talk) 21:25, 1 December 2022 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 49, 2022)

Reconstruction of Lucy, the first Australopithecus afarensis skeleton found
Hello, EpicPupper. The article for improvement of the week is:

Human history

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Medjed • Culinary arts

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Guild of Copy Editors December 2022 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors December 2022 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to our latest newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since October. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below.

Blitz: Our October Copy Editing Blitz focused on July and August 2022 request months; and articles tagged for c/e in December 2021 and January 2022. Seventeen of those who signed up claimed at least one copy-edit, and between them copy-edited forty-six articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

Drive: In the November Backlog Elimination Drive, thirty editors signed up, twenty-two of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Both target months—December 2021 and January 2022—were cleared, and February was added to the target months. Sixteen requests were copy-edited and 239 articles were removed from the backlog. Barnstars awarded are here.

Blitz: Our seven-day-long December 2022 Copy Editing Blitz begins on 17 December at 00:01 (UTC)*. It will focus on articles tagged for copy-edit in February 2022, and pending requests from September and October. Barnstars awarded will be available here.

Progress report: As of 22:40, 8 December 2022, GOCE copyeditors have processed 357 requests since 1 January, there were seventy-four requests outstanding and the backlog stands at 1,791 articles. We always need skilled copy-editors; please help out if you can.

Election news: Nomination of candidates for the GOCE's Election of Coordinators for the first half of 2023 is open and continues until 23:59 on 15 December. Voting begins at 00:01 on 16 December and closes at 23:59 on 31 December. All editors in good standing (not under ArbCom or community sanctions) are eligible and self-nominations are welcomed. Coordinators serve a six-month term that ends at 23:59 on June 30. If you've thought about helping out at the Guild, please nominate yourself or any editor you consider suitable—with their permission, of course!. It's your Guild and it doesn't coordinate itself.

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This Month in GLAM: November 2022



Headlines
  • Africa report: Wiki Loves Africa 2022 Winners & 2022 ISA Drive
  • Albania report: An event at the National History Museum in Tirana
  • Brazil report: WLM tool, Wiki Takes, New WMB's Strategy, and 2 new GLAMs
  • India report: Two Open Culture films on India's Odia language, made with volunteer labour
  • Indonesia report: Open GLAM Conference; Sundanese Wikisource Workshop; Minangkabau books digitization
  • Italy report: Video and photo to share the beauty of Italy's heritage
  • Netherlands report: Linking heritage data at HackaLOD
  • New Zealand report: Integrating with the BHL, loading natural science specimens and data
  • Poland report: How Wiki helps to explore and enjoy art & culture; Wiki workshop for the National Museum in Krakow; GLAM online meeting on ideas for 2023; Wiki Loves Monuments 2022
  • Serbia report: Wikipedian in residence at Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade and National Museum of Zrenjanin
  • Sweden report: Wikipedian in Residence at Musikverket; Women and architecture; Gymnasiearbete; New uploads from the Swedish National Archives; WLM winners; Images of Äpplet
  • Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Program
  • UK report: Khalili Foundation
  • Uruguay report: Let's GLAM Together in Uruguay: Help us organize the GLAM Wiki Conference 2023
  • USA report: WikiConference North America 2022; Punk Wikipedia Edit-a-thon; Kensho Technologies Impact-a-thon
  • Special story: We need your opinion: GLAM Wiki Conference 2023 & Your Favorite Tools
  • Content Partnerships Hub report: Survey: your favorite tools
  • Calendar: December's GLAM events
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This week's article for improvement (week 50, 2022)

Cross section of telephone cable of 1,800 twisted pairs. Year 1922
Hello, EpicPupper. The article for improvement of the week is:

Telephone line

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Human history • Medjed

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Tech News: 2022-50

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 December. It will be on all wikis from 15 December (calendar).
  • The HTML markup used by DiscussionTools to show discussion metadata below section headings will be inserted after these headings, not inside of them. This change improves the accessibility of discussion pages for screen reader software. [19]

Events

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This week's article for improvement (week 51, 2022)

Zenica is the largest city in the Central Bosnia subregion
Hello, EpicPupper. The article for improvement of the week is:

Central Bosnia

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Telephone line • Human history

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Tech News: 2022-51

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News

  • Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 9 January 2023.

Recent changes

  • On a user's contributions page, you can filter it for edits with a tag like 'reverted'. Now, you can also filter for all edits that are not tagged like that. This was part of a Community Wishlist 2022 request. [20]
  • A new function has been used for gadget developers to add content underneath the title on article pages. This is considered a stable API that should work across all skins. Documentation is available. [21]
  • One of our test wikis is now being served from a new infrastructure powered by Kubernetes (read more). More Wikis will switch to this new infrastructure in early 2023. Please test and let us know of any issues. [22]

Problems

  • Last week, all wikis had no edit access for 9 minutes. This was caused by a database problem. [23]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
  • The word "Reply" is very short in some languages, such as Arabic ("ردّ"). This makes the Discussion tools button on talk pages difficult to use. An arrow icon will be added to those languages. This will only be visible to editors who have the Beta Feature turned on. [24] [25]

Future changes

  • Edits can be automatically "tagged" by the system software or the Edit filter configuration system. Those tags link to a help page about the tags. Soon they will also link to Recent Changes to let you see other edits tagged this way. This was a Community Wishlist 2022 request. [26]
  • The Trust & Safety tools team have shared new plans for building the Private Incident Reporting System. The system will make it easier for editors to ask for help if they are harassed or abused.
  • Realtime Preview for Wikitext is coming out of beta as an enabled feature for every user of the 2010 Wikitext editor in the week of January 9, 2023. It will be available to use via the toolbar in the 2010 Wikitext editor. The feature was the 4th most popular wish of the Community Wishlist Survey 2021.

Events

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Movement Charter Drafting Committee's monthly newsletter

Presentation about the Values & Principles chapter by MCDC member Georges Fodouop.
Presentation about the Roles and Responsibilities chapter (statement of intent) by MCDC member Manavpreet Kaur.
  • Learn about Movement Charter Drafting Committee’s work in November: As usual, the Committee released its regular monthly updates from November 2022. This month’s updates include highlights about the external facilitator hiring, next in-person meeting of the Committee and updates about the new drafting groups, among others.
  • First community consultation period: From mid November to mid December 2022 the Committee members took part in 8 regional feedback sessions. Committee members joined the sessions to provide clarifications and answer to questions that came from different language communities on the Movement Charter.
    • Recordings of the presentations shared during the regional meetings are available here for those interested.
    • A list Frequently Asked Questions that came up in the calls is available on Meta.
    • If you have not shared your feedback on the drafts of the Movement Charter yet, please do so by filling out this anonymous survey, which is open until January 2, 2023 and is available in more than 12 languages.
  • The Movement Charter Ambassador Program received over 15 proposals. The ambassadors are currently putting their initiatives into action in various local communities. The Movement Charter Ambassadors Program will once again be opened for applications in the second quarter of 2023, in preparation for the next  round of Movement Charter consultations. Both individuals and organizations will be able to apply. Those interested in becoming Movement Charter Ambassadors are encouraged to sign-up.

Coming up:

  • Community Conversations summary: The Movement Strategy and Governance team of the Wikimedia Foundation will prepare and publish the final summary report of the community feedback in January 2023. The report will be shared with the MCDC and the communities on different channels of communication.
  • Feedback on the Movement Charter: There will be additional ways to engage with the Movement Charter content, including the early feedback on the proposed ratification process and a new set of draft chapters in the second quarter of 2023.


--14:27, 22 December 2022 (UTC).

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