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I am not a computer program but a human in real life. So I have huge priorities in real life. Hence I may not be able to give swift replies in times. But I can assure, I will give my best to provide swift replies. In general cases I will not keep a query or discussion unattended for more than 24 hours unless any real life scenario arrives. So be patient for at least 24 hours.

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This week's article for improvement (week 50, 2020)[edit]

Some traditional foods in Bengali cuisine
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Bengali cuisine

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December 2020 Guild of Copy Editors Newsletter[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors December 2020 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the December GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since September 2020.

                 Current and upcoming events

Election time: our end-of-year Election of Coordinators opened for nominations on 1 December and will close on 15 December at 23:59 (UTC). Voting opens at 00:01 the following day and will continue until 31 December at 23:59, just before Auld Lang Syne. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here.

December Blitz: This will run from 13 to 19 December, and will target all Requests. Sign up now.

Drive and Blitz reports

September Drive: 67 fewer articles had copy-edit templates by this month's close. Of the 27 editors who signed up, 15 copy-edited at least one article, and 124 articles were claimed for the drive.

October Blitz: this ran from 18 to 24 October, and focused on articles tagged for copy-edit in July and August 2020, and all Requests. Of the 13 who signed up, 11 editors copy-edited at least one article. 21 articles were claimed for the blitz.

November Drive: Of the 18 editors who signed up, 15 copy-edited at least one article, and together claimed 134 articles. At the close of the drive, 67 fewer articles were in the backlog and we had dealt with 39 requests.

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Progress report: As of 09:05, 3 December 2020 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors had processed 663 requests (18 from 2019) since 1 January and there were 52 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog of articles tagged for copy-editing stood at 494 (see monthly progress graph above).

Annual Report for 2020: this roundup of the year's activity at the Guild is planned for publication in late January or early February.

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Nominations for the 2020 Military history WikiProject Newcomer and Historian of the Year awards now open[edit]

G'day all, the nominations for the 2020 Military history WikiProject newcomer and Historian of the Year are open, all editors are encouraged to nominate candidates for the awards before until 23:59 (GMT) on 15 December 2020, after which voting will occur for 14 days. There is not much time left to nominate worthy recipients, so get to it! Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 06:45, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 51, 2020)[edit]

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Christmas ham

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This week's article for improvement (week 52, 2020)[edit]

Some (hopefully) edible things
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Edible

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WikiProject BPL[edit]

Hi. Welcome back. As you are now somewhat active in Wikipedia, can you help me improve WP:BPL? I am aware of the fact that you are the founder of the project and I need help as I am the only active member for doing a huge task. I have tried hard to convert the project from inactive to active. Also your talk page is huge. You might want to clear this clutter by archiving them using bot like how I'm doing.Thanks. Human (talk) 06:10, 23 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

WP BPL[edit]

Hi. Welcome back. As you are now somewhat active in Wikipedia, can you help me improve WP:BPL? I am aware of the fact that you are the founder of the project and I need help as I am the only active member for doing a huge task. I have tried hard to convert the project from inactive to active. Also your talk page is huge. You might want to clear this clutter by archiving them using bot like how I'm doing.Thanks. Human (talk) 06:12, 23 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

WP BPL[edit]

Hi. Welcome back. As you are now somewhat active in Wikipedia, can you help me improve WP:BPL? I am aware of the fact that you are the founder of the project and I need help as I am the only active member for doing a huge task. I have tried hard to convert the project from inactive to active. Also your talk page is huge. You might want to clear this clutter by archiving them using bot like how I'm doing.Thanks. Human (talk) 06:15, 23 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @A Simple Human:, it's very nice to meet you. I saw every detail of the project. In fact I used to stalk the project even if I was inactive. So, I have the plan to look after the project, hence making it count once more. But you see, it's been merely a week since I've come here, so I need to fix and do a sufficient number of tasks which are not the tasks to be done by any Genie. The talk page is one of them. So, before moving on to new tasks, I'll first try to finish these tasks and I need that much time before taking another assignment. So, till then I'll just be watching the project. Also in the case we are the lone active members thinking about the project then we need some platform to do some RTCs which'll allow us to utilize the time with most effectiveness. Until then, for any urgency, do email me. Thanks in advance. --PratyyaG (talk) 06:53, 24 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
i am not forcing anyone. Just some things get me concerned that newer leagues like PSL and LPL, starting a lot later than BPL, have WikiProjects (both of which I am part of) and are seeming to be better maintained than this one. I joined this project around 2017 and its astonishing that I am the only active member. Another user was of much help last season but he was blocked for sockpuppetry. Also I am very bad at categorising articles, so things are messed up. But take your time, no need to rush in here. Good luck! Human (talk) 07:10, 24 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@A Simple Human:, It's not about force. As the founder of the project, this project is something very special to me. Now I got your concern. But just don't be concerned by this. Time has the answer to everything. I am a bit sad that you couldn't see WP:IPL in it's peak days, but the project is now thought to be semi-active. You are in this project since 2017. In 2013 when I founded this project, it was fair enough active (I'm not going to compare with IPL as IPL was at peak in that time). You see time will have the answer to everything. So don't be concerned, just have faith. And one more thing, improvement of these projects solely depend on the activeness of the people of that specific country. You see now-a-days you see lot from Bangladesh editing in enwiki. But still its not enough as most of the people are editing in bnwiki. Earlier in 2013 it was more barren land. You could get merely 2-3 users from Bangladesh at enwiki arena. So point is have faith even with the limited number of sources. TIA. --PratyyaG (talk) 07:28, 24 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Yep. WP:IPL is dead now. But IPL articles are nevertheless gets updated due to India's large internet population. Internet is basically free in India, thanks to a billionaire, which is why you see many Indian editors unlike BD. Also English is the second official language besides Hindi unlike ours which explains there participation in enwiki. Even now, I find it hard to find Bangladeshi pedians. I tried gathering opinions about the cause, and most of them were like, "It's too boring". This is a major problem of the country. The most active of these WikiProjects is i guess is WP:PSL surprisingly. Human ([[User talk:A Simple Human|talk]) 07:43, 24 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@A Simple Human:, I was wondering if you are still there regarding WP:BPL? --PratyyaG · Talk 10:51, 7 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas[edit]

Merry Christmas Pratyya Ghosh

Hi Pratyya Ghosh, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas
and a very happy and healthy New Year,
Thank you for all your contributions to Wikipedia,
   –Davey2010Talk 20:04, 23 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 53, 2020)[edit]

Fish processing is a significant part of the fishing industry. Pictured is frozen Tuna being cut using a band saw in the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo.
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Fishing industry

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The Signpost: 28 December 2020[edit]

Voting for "Military Historian of the Year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" closing[edit]

G'day all, voting for the WikiProject Military history "Military Historian of the Year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" is about to close, so if you haven't already, click on the links and have your say before 23:59 (GMT) on 30 December! Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 23:35, 28 December 2020 (UTC) for the coord team[reply]

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This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2021)[edit]

Cooked pork chops
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Curious your perspective[edit]

While doing RCP a few weeks ago, I stumbled upon a bunch of puffery, advertisement-like, and other edits which have been coming from a sock/meatpuppeter or two on Bangladeshi medical college pages. A lot of these edits are unsourced and a few of the socks even uploaded some stolen content on the Commons (of which you're active). Given you're much more knowledgeable in Bangladeshi content, it would help if you could help me find some sources for a lot of these pages and help watch these socks as they do their thing. They're pretty active in that. Below are pages of which they are actively targeting:

Thanks ~Gwennie🐈💬 📋⦆ 00:41, 5 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Gwennie-nyan:, I'm taking a look into these. --PratyyaG · Talk 10:54, 7 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Pratyya Ghosh: if you could also review Dhaka Medical College and Hospital, please do, because someone keeps reverting my maintenance tagging of uncited claims. ~Gwennie🐈💬 📋⦆ 18:08, 7 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 2, 2021)[edit]

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Lumbersexual

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This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2021)[edit]

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This week's article for improvement (week 4, 2021)[edit]

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This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2021)[edit]

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Lumbersexual

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This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2021)[edit]

A Television Market Area is an example of a media market. This map depicts Television Market Areas in the United States as of 2013.
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Media market

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The Maidi Road pedestrian overcrossing in Huizhou, southeast Guangdong Province, China
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Emergency management is the organization and management of the resources and responsibilities for dealing with all humanitarian aspects of emergencies (preparedness, response, mitigation, and recovery). Pictured is a mobile emergency operations center operated by the North Carolina Air National Guard.
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WikiCup 2021 March newsletter[edit]

Round 1 of the competition has finished; it was a high-scoring round with 21 contestants scoring more than 100 points. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2, with 55 contestants qualifying. You will need to finish among the top thirty-two contestants in Round 2 if you are to qualify for Round 3. Our top scorers in Round 1 were:

  • New York (state) Epicgenius led the field with a featured article, nine good articles and an assortment of other submissions, specialising on buildings and locations in New York, for a total of 945 points.
  • Republic of Venice Bloom6132 was close behind with 896 points, largely gained from 71 "In the news" items, mostly recent deaths.
  • Scotland ImaginesTigers, who has been editing Wikipedia for less than a year, was in third place with 711 points, much helped by bringing League of Legends to featured article status, exemplifying how bonus points can boost a contestant's score.
  • Rwanda Amakuru came next with 708 points, Kigali being another featured article that scored maximum bonus points.
  • Ktin, new to the WikiCup, was in fifth place with 523 points, garnered from 15 DYKs and 34 "In the news" items.
  • Botswana The Rambling Man scored 511 points, many from featured article candidate reviews and from football related DYKs.
  • Gog the Mild, last year's runner-up, came next with 498 points, from a featured article and numerous featured article candidate reviews.
  • Hog Farm, at 452, scored for a featured article, four good articles and a number of reviews.
  • United States Le Panini, another newcomer to the WikiCup, scored 438 for a featured article and three good articles.
  • England Lee Vilenski, last year's champion, scored 332 points, from a featured article and various other sport-related topics.

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start again from scratch. In Round 1, contestants achieved eight featured articles, three featured lists and one featured picture, as well as around two hundred DYKs and twenty-seven ITNs. They completed 97 good article reviews, nearly double the 52 good articles they claimed. Contestants also claimed for 135 featured article and featured list candidate reviews. There is no longer a requirement to mention your WikiCup participation when undertaking these reviews.

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A hobby is considered to be a regular activity that is done for enjoyment, typically during one's leisure time, not professionally and not for pay. An example of a hobby is rail transport modelling (pictured).
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Two charts from an Arabic copy of the Secretum Secretorum for determining whether a person will live or die based on the numerical value of the patient's name.
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Books & Bytes – Issue 42[edit]

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The Signpost: 28 March 2021[edit]

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Rich Purnell mixed climbing a route rated M9
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April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive[edit]

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A recreation room arranged as a children's play area in a Chicago home
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Thai comics are comics written and produced in Thailand.
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A street performer in New York wearing a do-rag
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The Signpost: 25 April 2021[edit]

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The Signpost: 25 April 2021[edit]

WikiCup 2021 May newsletter[edit]

The second round of the 2021 WikiCup has now finished; it was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 61 points to advance to Round 3. There were some impressive efforts in the round, with the top eight contestants all scoring more than 400 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 110 good articles achieved in total by contestants, as well as the 216 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.

Our top scorers in Round 2 were:

  • Botswana The Rambling Man, with 2963 points from three featured articles, 20 featured article reviews, 37 good articles, 73 good article reviews, as well as 22 DYKs.
  • New York (state) Epicgenius, with 1718 points from one featured article, 29 good articles, 16 DYKs and plenty of bonus points.
  • Republic of Venice Bloom6132, with 990 points from 13 DYKs and 64 "In the news" items, mostly recent deaths.
  • Hog Farm, with 834 points from two featured articles, five good articles, 14 featured article reviews and 15 good article reviews.
  • England Gog the Mild, with 524 points from two featured articles and four featured article reviews.
  • England Lee Vilenski, with 501 points from one featured article, three good articles, six featured article reviews and 25 good article reviews.
  • Sammi Brie, with 485 points from four good articles, eight good article reviews and 27 DYKs, on US radio and television stations.
  • Ktin, with 436 points from four good articles, seven DYKs and 11 "In the news" items.

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Watches are one type of fashion accessory.
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Tattooing among women of the Koita people of Papua New Guinea traditionally began at age five and was added to each year. The V-shaped marks on the chest, with certain others, indicate that the woman is marriageable. Photo taken in 1912.
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Books & Bytes – Issue 43[edit]

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Cooked pork chops on a plate
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200th Anniversary of Berlin Academy, 1900
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Editing news 2021 #2[edit]

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Junior contributors comment completion rate across all participating Wikipedias
When newcomers had the Reply tool and tried to post on a talk page, they were more successful at posting a comment. (Source)

Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.

The key results were:

  • Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were more likely to post a comment on a talk page.
  • The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also less likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.

These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.

Looking ahead

The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.

The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.

You can turn on "Discussion Tools" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

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GOCE June 2021 newsletter[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors June 2021 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the June newsletter, our first newsletter of 2021, which is a brief update of Guild activities since December 2020. To unsubscribe, follow the link at the bottom of this box.

Current events

Election time: Voting in our mid-year Election of Coordinators opened on 16 June and will conclude at the end of the month. GOCE coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Have your say and show support here.

June Blitz: Our June copy-editing blitz is underway and will conclude on 26 June.

Drive and blitz reports

January Drive: 28 editors completed 324 copy edits totalling 714,902 words. At the end of the drive, the backlog had reached a record low of 52 articles. (full results)

February Blitz: 15 editors completed 48 copy edits totalling 142,788 words. (full results)

March Drive: 29 editors completed 215 copy edits totalling 407,736 words. (full results)

April Blitz: 12 editors completed 23 copy edits totalling 56,574 words. (full results)

May Drive: 29 editors completed 356 copy edits totalling 479,013 words. (full results)

Other news

Progress report: as of 26 June, GOCE participants had completed 343 Requests since 1 January. The backlog has fluctuated but remained in control, with a low of 52 tagged articles at the end of January and a high of 620 articles in mid-June.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, Tenryuu and Twofingered Typist, and from member Reidgreg.

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The Signpost: 27 June 2021[edit]

This week's article for improvement (week 26, 2021)[edit]

A Finnish Christmas ham
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Christmas ham

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Your advice[edit]

Dear Pratyya, please take a look at Draft:upGrad. It is a properly stated WP:COI contribution about an Indian educational company. Since you have great experience of editing Wikipedia and also know Indian sources quite well, I decided to ask for your advice. Please tell what do you think of this article? What should be improved? Thanks! Peter. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 20:08, 29 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2021 July newsletter[edit]

The third round of the 2021 WikiCup has now come to an end. Each of the sixteen contestants who made it into the fourth round had at least 294 points, and our top six scorers all had over 600 points. They were:

  • Botswana The Rambling Man, with 1825 points from 3 featured articles, 44 featured article reviews, 14 good articles, 30 good article reviews and 10 DYKs. In addition, he completed a 34-article good topic on the EFL Championship play-offs.
  • New York (state) Epicgenius, a New York specialist, with 1083 points from 2 featured article reviews, 18 good articles, 30 DYKs and plenty of bonus points.
  • Republic of Venice Bloom6132, with 869 points from 11 DYKs, all with bonus points, and 54 "In the news" items, mostly covering people who had recently died.
  • England Gog the Mild, with 817 points from 3 featured articles on historic battles in Europe, 5 featured article reviews and 3 good articles.
  • Hog Farm, with 659 points from 2 featured articles and 2 good articles on American Civil War battles, 18 featured article reviews, 2 good articles, 6 good article reviews and 4 DYKs.
  • Zulu (International Code of Signals) BennyOnTheLoose, a snooker specialist and new to the Cup, with 647 points from a featured article, 2 featured article reviews, 6 good articles, 6 good article reviews and 3 DYKs.

In round three, contestants achieved 19 featured articles, 7 featured lists, 106 featured article reviews, 72 good articles, 1 good topic, 62 good article reviews, 165 DYKs and 96 ITN items. We enter the fourth round with scores reset to zero; any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (one contestant in round 3 lost out because of this). When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

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This week's article for improvement (week 27, 2021)[edit]

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Organized religion

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This week's article for improvement (week 28, 2021)[edit]

Participant countries of the 2019 International Army Games.
  Participants
  First time participants
  Previous games participants, but not this time
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International Army Games

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This week's article for improvement (week 29, 2021)[edit]

The Hittite version of the Treaty of Kadesh, among the earliest extant examples of an international agreement
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International law

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The Signpost: 25 July 2021[edit]

This week's article for improvement (week 30, 2021)[edit]

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Episode

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Books & Bytes – Issue 45[edit]

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 45, May – June 2021

  • Library design improvements continue
  • New partnerships
  • 1Lib1Ref update

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This week's article for improvement (week 31, 2021)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Organ (anatomy)

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This week's article for improvement (week 32, 2021)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Act (drama)

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Lint repairs[edit]

Can you take another look at :- https://cy.wikisource.org/wiki/Defnyddiwr:Pratyya_Ghosh to resolve some HTML nesting issues?

Namely <strong>..</strong><syntaxhighlight> cannot be wrapped around other block level elements like <syntaxhighlight lang="html" inline=yes><DIV>..</DIV><syntaxhighlight> or <syntaxhighlight lang="html" inline=yes><P>..</P><syntaxhighlight>. A better approach would be to use <syntaxhighlight lang="html"> <div style="font-weight:bold;"> <!-- Your markup --> </div>

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This week's article for improvement (week 33, 2021)[edit]

Crème brûlée a dessert consisting of a rich custard base topped with a layer of hardened caramelized sugar.
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Crème brûlée

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This week's article for improvement (week 33, 2021)[edit]

Crème brûlée a dessert consisting of a rich custard base topped with a layer of hardened caramelized sugar.
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Crème brûlée

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This week's article for improvement (week 34, 2021)[edit]

An employee and customer at a grocery store in The Netherlands, April 1, 1955
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Grocery store

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Happy First Edit Day![edit]

The Signpost: 29 August 2021[edit]

This week's article for improvement (week 35, 2021)[edit]

Mona Sahlin is a Swedish politician who was leader of the opposition and leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 2007 to 2011. Pictured is Sahlin in 2010.
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Mona Sahlin

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Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open[edit]

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WikiCup 2021 September newsletter[edit]

The fourth round of the competition has finished with over 500 points being required to qualify for the final round. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants, Botswana The Rambling Man and New York (state) Epicgenius, each scoring over 3000 points, and six contestants scoring over 1000. All but one of the finalists achieved one or more FAs during the round, the exception being Republic of Venice Bloom6132 who demonstrated that 61 "in the news" items produces an impressive number of points. Other contestants who made it to the final are Gog the Mild, England Lee Vilenski, Zulu (International Code of Signals) BennyOnTheLoose, Rwanda Amakuru and Hog Farm. However, all their points are now swept away and everyone starts afresh in the final round.

Round 4 saw the achievement of 18 featured articles and 157 good articles. George Floyd mural Bilorv scored for a 25-article good topic on Black Mirror but narrowly missed out on qualifying for the final round. There was enthusiasm for FARs, with 89 being performed, and there were 63 GARs and around 100 DYKs during the round. As we start round 5, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it to the final round; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. For other contestants, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.

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This week's article for improvement (week 36, 2021)[edit]

The past is the set of all events that occurred before a given point in time. Pictured is the oil on canvas painting Everything is in the past, painted by Vassily Maximov in 1889.
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Past

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Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nomination period closing soon[edit]

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This week's article for improvement (week 37, 2021)[edit]

The history of art focuses on objects made by humans in visual form for aesthetic purposes. Pictured ia a dun horse from the Lascaux cave paintings.
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History of art

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WikiProject Military history coordinator election voting has commenced[edit]

Hey y'all, voting for the 2021 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche is now open. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2021. Voting will be conducted at the 2021 tranche page itself. Appropriate questions for the candidates can also be asked. Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:40, 15 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 38, 2021)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Student exchange program

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Books & Bytes – Issue 46[edit]

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 46, July – August 2021

  • Library design improvements deployed
  • New collections available in English and German
  • Wikimania presentation

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Wikiproject Military history coordinator election voting period closing soon[edit]

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The Signpost: 26 September 2021[edit]

This week's article for improvement (week 39, 2021)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

No such thing as a stupid question

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September 2021 Guild of Copy Editors newsletter[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors September 2021 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the September GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since June 2021.

                 Current and upcoming events

September Drive: Our current backlog-elimination drive is open until 23:59 on 30 September (UTC) and is open to all copy editors. Sign up today!

Drive and Blitz reports

June Blitz: From 20 to 26 June, 6 participating editors claimed 16 copy edits, focusing on requests and articles tagged in March and April. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

July Drive: Almost 575,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event. Of the 24 people who signed up, 18 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here.

August Blitz: From 15 to 21 August, we copy edited articles tagged in April and May 2021 and requests. 9 participating editors completed 17 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Other news

June election: Jonesey95 was chosen to continue as lead coordinator, assisted by Dhtwiki, Tenryuu, and Miniapolis.

New maintenance template added to our project scope: After a short discussion in June, we added {{cleanup tense}} to the list of maintenance templates that adds articles to the Guild's copy editing backlog categories. This change added 198 articles, spread over 97 months of backlog, to our queue. We processed all of those articles except for those from the three or four most recent months during the July backlog elimination drive (Here's a link to a "tense" discussion during the drive).

Progress report: As of 18:26, 24 September 2021 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 468 requests since 1 January and there were 60 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog of articles tagged for copy-editing stood at 433 (see monthly progress graph above).

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Dhtwiki, Tenryuu, and Miniapolis.

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This week's article for improvement (week 40, 2021)[edit]

A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature interacts. Pictured is The Geographer (1668-69), by Johannes Vermeer.
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Geographer

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This week's article for improvement (week 41, 2021)[edit]

Fish sauce is a liquid condiment made from fish or krill that have been coated in salt and fermented for up to two years. Pictured is Cambodian sweet fish sauce mixed with chopped chili peppers and slices of garlic.
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Fish sauce

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This week's article for improvement (week 42, 2021)[edit]

The Big Five personality traits is a suggested taxonomy, or grouping, for personality traits.
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Personality

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This week's article for improvement (week 43, 2021)[edit]

The Portland Building (1982) in Portland, Oregon by architect Michael Graves is an example of Postmodern architecture.
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Postmodernism

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The Signpost: 31 October 2021[edit]

This week's article for improvement (week 44, 2021)[edit]

Isabel Adrian is a Swedish television personality, producer, author and model. Pictured is Adrian in 2013.
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Isabel Adrian

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WikiCup 2021 November newsletter[edit]

The WikiCup is over for another year and the finalists can relax! Our Champion this year is Botswana The Rambling Man (submissions), who amassed over 5000 points in the final round, achieving 8 featured articles and almost 500 reviews. It was a very competitive round; seven of the finalists achieved over 1000 points in the round (enough to win the 2019 contest), and three scored over 3000 (enough to win the 2020 event). Our 2021 finalists and their scores were:

  1. Botswana The Rambling Man (submissions) with 5072 points
  2. England Lee Vilenski (submissions) with 3276 points
  3. Rwanda Amakuru (submissions) with 3197 points
  4. New York (state) Epicgenius (submissions) with 1611 points
  5. Gog the Mild (submissions) with 1571 points
  6. Zulu (International Code of Signals) BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 1420 points
  7. Hog Farm (submissions) with 1043 points
  8. Republic of Venice Bloom6132 (submissions) with 528 points

All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition, not forgetting User:Jarry1250, who runs the scoring bot.

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This week's article for improvement (week 45, 2021)[edit]

Hang gliding is an example of an air sport.
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Books & Bytes – Issue 47[edit]

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Dettifoss, located in northeast Iceland, is the largest waterfall in Europe in terms of volume discharge, with an average water flow of 200 m3/s.
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Wholesaling or distributing is the sale of goods or merchandise to retailers; to industrial, commercial, institutional or other professional business users; or to other wholesalers (wholesale businesses) and related subordinated services. Pictured is the Birmingham Wholesale Markets at 4:00 AM.
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Proposed Lazarev Sea name (at top-middle of image) as part of the Southern Ocean
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This week's article for improvement (week 49, 2021)[edit]

Bushtits eating suet, which is usable as a bird food, from a bird feeder
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December 2021 GOCE Newsletter[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors December 2021 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the December GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since September 2021.

                 Current and upcoming events

Election time: Our end-of-year election of coordinators opened for nominations on 1 December and will close on 15 December at 23:59 (UTC). Voting opens at 00:01 the following day and will continue until 31 December at 23:59, just before "Auld Lang Syne". Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here.

December Blitz: We have scheduled a week-long copy-editing blitz for 12 to 18 December. Sign up now!

Drive and Blitz reports

September Drive: Almost 400,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event. Of the 27 people who signed up, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here.

October Blitz: From 17 to 23 October, we copy edited articles tagged in May and June 2021 and requests. 8 participating editors completed 26 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

November Drive: Over 350,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event. Of the 21 people who signed up, 14 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here.

Other news

It is with great sadness that we report the death on 19 November of Twofingered Typist, who was active with the Guild almost daily for the past several years. His contributions long exceeded the thresholds for the Guild's highest awards, and he had a hand in innumerable good and featured article promotions as a willing collaborator. Twofingered Typist also served as a Guild coordinator from July 2019 to June 2021. He is sorely missed by the Wikipedia community.

Progress report: As of 30 November, GOCE copyeditors have completed 619 requests in 2021 and there were 51 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog stood at 946 articles tagged for copy-editing (see monthly progress graph above).

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This week's article for improvement (week 50, 2021)[edit]

People experiencing an adventure (close-up view)
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Adventure

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Goat meat being roasted as part of an asado
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Goat meat

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Diagram of a prawn, with the carapace highlighted in red
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Carapace

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The Signpost: 28 December 2021[edit]

This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2022)[edit]

A man playing the didgeridoo, an indigenous instrument of Australia that was developed at least 1,500 years ago. This is one of the myriad topics within the history of music.
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History of music

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Welcome to the 2022 WikiCup![edit]

Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2022 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving 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. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:37, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to the 2022 WikiCup![edit]

Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2022 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving 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. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:02, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 2, 2022)[edit]

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Reader Rabbit

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This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2022)[edit]

A NeXTstation graphics workstation from 1990
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Workstation

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This week's article for improvement (week 4, 2022)[edit]

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Television ratings

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The Signpost: 30 January 2022[edit]

This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2022)[edit]

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Social equality

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Books & Bytes – Issue 48[edit]

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Books & Bytes
Issue 48, November – December 2021

  • 1Lib1Ref 2022
  • Wikipedia Library notifications deployed

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This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2022)[edit]

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Joseph Lelyveld

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This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2022)[edit]

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Cult of personality

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This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2022)[edit]

Isabella I of Castile in the Rimado de la Conquista de Granada, by Pedro Marcuello
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Isabella I of Castile

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The Signpost: 27 February 2022[edit]

This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2022)[edit]

Google's corporate headquarters is named Googleplex, and is also the headquarters of its parent company, Alphabet Inc.
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Google

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WikiCup 2022 March newsletter[edit]

And so ends the first round of the WikiCup. Last year anyone who scored more than zero points moved on to Round 2, but this was not the case this year, and a score of 13 or more was required to proceed. The top scorers in Round 1 were:

  • New York (state) Epicgenius, a finalist last year, who led the field with 1906 points, gained from 32 GAs and 19 DYKs, all on the topic of New York buildings.
  • Christmas Island AryKun, new to the contest, was second with 1588 points, having achieved 2 FAs, 11 GAs and various other submissions, mostly on the subject of birds.
  • Kingdom of Scotland Bloom6132, a WikiCup veteran, was in third place with 682 points, garnered from 51 In the news items and several DYKs.
  • Philadelphia GhostRiver was close behind with 679 points, gained from achieving 12 GAs, mostly on ice hockey players, and 35 GARs.
  • United Nations Kavyansh.Singh was in fifth place with 551 points, with an FA, a FL, and many reviews.
  • SounderBruce was next with 454 points, gained from an FA and various other submissions, mostly on United States highways.
  • United Nations Ktin, another WikiCup veteran, was in seventh place with 412 points, mostly gained from In the news items.

These contestants, like all the others who qualified for Round 2, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews of a large number of good articles as the contest ran concurrently with a GAN backlog drive. Well done all! To qualify for Round 3, contestants will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two participants.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Anything that should have been claimed for in Round 1 is no longer eligible for points. 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

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WikiCup 2022 March newsletter[edit]

And so ends the first round of the WikiCup. Last year anyone who scored more than zero points moved on to Round 2, but this was not the case this year, and a score of 13 or more was required to proceed. The top scorers in Round 1 were:

  • New York (state) Epicgenius, a finalist last year, who led the field with 1906 points, gained from 32 GAs and 19 DYKs, all on the topic of New York buildings.
  • Christmas Island AryKun, new to the contest, was second with 1588 points, having achieved 2 FAs, 11 GAs and various other submissions, mostly on the subject of birds.
  • Kingdom of Scotland Bloom6132, a WikiCup veteran, was in third place with 682 points, garnered from 51 In the news items and several DYKs.
  • Philadelphia GhostRiver was close behind with 679 points, gained from achieving 12 GAs, mostly on ice hockey players, and 35 GARs.
  • United Nations Kavyansh.Singh was in fifth place with 551 points, with an FA, a FL, and many reviews.
  • SounderBruce was next with 454 points, gained from an FA and various other submissions, mostly on United States highways.
  • United Nations Ktin, another WikiCup veteran, was in seventh place with 412 points, mostly gained from In the news items.

These contestants, like all the others who qualified for Round 2, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews of a large number of good articles as the contest ran concurrently with a GAN backlog drive. Well done all! To qualify for Round 3, contestants will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two participants.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Anything that should have been claimed for in Round 1 is no longer eligible for points. 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

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This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2022)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

First Sudanese Civil War

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This week's article for improvement (week 11, 2022)[edit]

A letter is a segmental symbol of a phonemic writing system. Pictured are uppercase and lowercase Z with stroke letters.
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Letter (alphabet)

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This week's article for improvement (week 12, 2022)[edit]

Tomba is a drink of Sikkimese cuisine made from fermented millet: warm water is added to the millet and the liquid is consumed.
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Sikkimese cuisine

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Books & Bytes – Issue 49[edit]

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Books & Bytes
Issue 49, January – February 2022

  • New library collections
  • Blog post published detailing technical improvements

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The Signpost: 27 March 2022[edit]

This week's article for improvement (week 13, 2022)[edit]

Pumpkin pie is a dessert pie with a spiced, pumpkin-based custard filling.
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Pumpkin pie

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This week's article for improvement (week 14, 2022)[edit]

Paddle ball is a one-person game played with a paddle and an attached ball.
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Paddle ball

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This week's article for improvement (week 15, 2022)[edit]

In telecommunications, broadband is wide bandwidth data transmission which transports multiple signals at a wide range of frequencies and Internet traffic types, that enables messages to be sent simultaneously, used in fast internet connections. Pictured is a chart of global bandwidth concentration: 3 countries have almost 50% between them; 10 countries almost 75%.
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Broadband

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GOCE April 2022 newsletter[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors April 2022 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the April newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since December 2021.

Election results: Jonesey95 retired as lead coordinator. Reidgreg was approved to fill this role after an 18-month absence from the coordinator team, and Baffle gab1978 was chosen as an assistant coordinator following a one-year break. Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Tenryuu continued on as long-standing assistant coordinators.

January Drive: Of the 22 editors who signed up, 16 editors claimed 146 copy edits including 45 requests. (details)

February Blitz: This one-week effort focused on requests and a theme of Africa and African diaspora history. Of the 12 editors who signed up, 6 editors recorded 21 copy edits, including 4 requests. (details)

March Drive: Of the 28 editors who signed up, 18 claimed 116 copy edits including 25 requests. (details)

April Blitz: This one-week copy editing event has been scheduled for 17–23 April, sign up now!

Progress report: As of 11 April, copy editors have removed approximately 500 articles from the backlog and completed 127 copy-editing requests during 2022. The backlog has been hovering at about 1,100 tagged articles for the past six months.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Reidgreg, Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Tenryuu

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This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2022)[edit]

Astrid Lindgren was a Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays who is best known for several series of children's books. Pictured is Lindgren around 1960.
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The Signpost: 24 April 2022[edit]

This week's article for improvement (week 17, 2022)[edit]

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Mountain pass

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This week's article for improvement (week 18, 2022)[edit]

A food court (in Asia-Pacific also called food hall or hawker centre) is generally an indoor plaza or common area within a facility that is contiguous with the counters of multiple food vendors and provides a common area for self-serve dinner.
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WikiCup 2022 May newsletter[edit]

The second round of the 2022 WikiCup has now finished. It was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 115 points to advance to round 3. There were some very impressive efforts in round 2, with the top seven contestants all scoring more than 500 points. A large number of the points came from the 11 featured articles and the 79 good articles achieved in total by contestants.

Our top scorers in round 2 were:

  1. New York (state) Epicgenius, with 1264 points from 2 featured article, 4 good articles and 18 DYKs. Epicgenius was a finalist last year but has now withdrawn from the contest as he pursues a new career path.
  2. Christmas Island AryKun, with 1172 points from two featured articles, one good article and a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews.
  3. Kingdom of Scotland Bloom6132, with 605 points from 44 in the news items and 4 DYKs.
  4. Sammi Brie, with 573 points from 8 GAs and 21 DYKs.
  5. Ealdgyth, with 567 points from 11 GAs and 34 good and featured article reviews.
  6. United States Panini!, with 549 points from 1 FA, 4 GAs and several other sources.
  7. England Lee Vilenski, with 545 points from 1 FA, 4 GAs and a number of reviews.

The rules for featured and good article reviews require the review to be of sufficient length; brief quick fails and very short reviews will generally not be awarded points. Remember also that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

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This week's article for improvement (week 19, 2022)[edit]

Soil profile: Darkened topsoil and reddish subsoil layers are typical of humid subtropical climate regions.
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This week's article for improvement (week 20, 2022)[edit]

A 500 dollar cheque of the Lithuanian Trade and Industry Bank with Vytis, circa 1920–1922
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Cheque

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This week's article for improvement (week 21, 2022)[edit]

A turkey in a field
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Turkey (bird)

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The Signpost: 29 May 2022[edit]

This week's article for improvement (week 22, 2022)[edit]

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Pop music

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Editing newsletter 2022 – #1[edit]

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New editors were more successful with this new tool.

The New topic tool helps editors create new ==Sections== on discussion pages. New editors are more successful with this new tool. You can read the report. Soon, the Editing team will offer this to all editors at most WMF-hosted wikis. You can join the discussion about this tool for the English Wikipedia is at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Enabling the New Topic Tool by default. You will be able to turn it off in the tool or at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

The Editing team plans to change the appearance of talk pages. These are separate from the changes made by the mw:Desktop improvements project and will appear in both Vector 2010 and Vector 2022. The goal is to add some information and make discussions look visibly different from encyclopedia articles. You can see some ideas at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project#Prototype Ready for Feedback.

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Books & Bytes – Issue 50[edit]

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 50, March – April 2022

  • New library partner - SPIE
  • 1Lib1Ref May 2022 underway

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This week's article for improvement (week 23, 2022)[edit]

Squash is a racket and ball sport played by two or four players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball. The players alternate in striking the ball with their rackets onto the playable surfaces of the four walls of the court. The objective of the game is to hit the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return.
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Squash (sport)

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Happy Birthday![edit]

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This week's article for improvement (week 24, 2022)[edit]

Bulletproof glass window of a jeweler after a burglary attempt
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Bulletproofing

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June GOCE newsletter[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors June 2022 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the June 2022 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since April 2022. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below.

Blitz: of the 16 editors who signed up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, 12 completed at least one copy-edit, and between them removed 21 articles from the copy-editing backlog. Barnstars awarded are here.

Drive: 27 editors signed up for our May Backlog Elimination Drive; of these, 20 copy-edited at least one article. 144 articles were copy-edited, and 88 articles from our target months August and September 2021 were removed from the backlog. Barnstars awarded are here.

Blitz: our June Copy Editing Blitz, starting at 00:01, 19 June and closing at 00:59, 25 June (UTC), will focus on articles tagged for copy edit in September and October 2021, and requests from March, April and May 2022. Barnstars awarded will be posted here.

Progress report: As of 07:12, 14 June 2022 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have completed 209 requests since 1 January and the backlog stands at 1,404 articles.

Election news: Nominations for our half-yearly Election of Coordinators continues until 23:50 on 15 June (UTC), after which, voting will commence until 23:59, 30 June (UTC). All Wikipedians in good standing (active and not blocked, banned, or under ArbCom or community sanctions) are eligible and self-nominations are welcomed.

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This week's article for improvement (week 25, 2022)[edit]

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Pork tenderloin

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The Signpost: 26 June 2022[edit]

This week's article for improvement (week 26, 2022)[edit]

These flaming cocktails illustrate that some liquors can readily catch fire and burn.
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Liquor

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WikiCup 2022 July newsletter[edit]

The third round of the 2022 WikiCup has now come to an end. Each of the sixteen contestants who made it into the fourth round had at least 180 points, which is a lower figure than last year when 294 points were needed to progress to round 4. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

  • Zulu (International Code of Signals) BennyOnTheLoose, with 746 points, a tally built both on snooker and other sports topics, and on more general subjects.
  • Kingdom of Scotland Bloom6132, with 683 points, garnered mostly from "In the news" items and related DYKs.
  • Sammi Brie, with 527, from a variety of submissions related to radio and television stations.

Between them contestants achieved 5 featured articles, 4 featured lists, 51 good articles, 149 DYK entries, 68 ITN entries, and 109 good article reviews. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is a good article nomination, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. WikiCup judges: Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:51, 3 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 27, 2022)[edit]

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Sexual abuse

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This week's article for improvement (week 28, 2022)[edit]

Temperature map of the United States during the Great Blizzard of 1899
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Great Blizzard of 1899

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This week's article for improvement (week 29, 2022)[edit]

The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles rapidly gained nationwide popularity in the United States. Pictured above are four patrons and a flapper in 1921 awaiting the opening of the Krazy Kat Klub, a speakeasy.
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This week's article for improvement (week 30, 2022)[edit]

A retractable pen is a type of ink pen that has a spring-loaded ink cartridge which retracts and extends outside a protective housing.
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Retractable pen

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This week's article for improvement (week 31, 2022)[edit]

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Diego

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The Signpost: 1 August 2022[edit]

Books & Bytes – Issue 51[edit]

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Books & Bytes
Issue 51, May – June 2022

  • New library partners
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    • Elsevier ScienceDirect
    • University of Chicago Press
    • Information Processing Society of Japan
  • Feedback requested on this newsletter
  • 1Lib1Ref May 2022

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This week's article for improvement (week 32, 2022)[edit]

A home page of Wikipedia (in 2014) displayed in a web browser.
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Home page

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This week's article for improvement (week 33, 2022)[edit]

Christmas market in Red Square in 2017
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Christmas in Russia

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This week's article for improvement (week 34, 2022)[edit]

Kyushu, literally "Nine Provinces", is the third-largest island of Japan's five main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands (i.e. excluding Okinawa).
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Kyushu

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Editing news 2022 #2[edit]

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The [subscribe] button shortens response times.

The new [subscribe] button notifies people when someone replies to their comments. It helps newcomers get answers to their questions. People reply sooner. You can read the report. The Editing team is turning this tool on for everyone. You will be able to turn it off in your preferences.

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This week's article for improvement (week 35, 2022)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Cartoonist

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Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations opening soon[edit]

Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are opening in a few hours (00:01 UTC on 1 September). 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 doesn't commence until 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the current coord team. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:52, 31 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 31 August 2022[edit]

WikiCup 2022 September newsletter[edit]

WikiCup 2022 September newsletter[edit]

The fourth round of the WikiCup has now finished. 383 points were required to reach the final, and the new round has got off to a flying start with all finalists already scoring. In round 4, Bloom6132 with 939 points was the highest points-scorer, with a combination of DYKs and In the news items, followed by BennyOnTheLoose, Sammi Brie and Lee Vilenski. The points of all contestants are swept away as we start afresh for the final round.

At this stage, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. For the remaining competitors, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them, and importantly, before the deadline on October 31st!

If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. The judges are Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:44, 3 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 36, 2022)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Gender studies

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This week's article for improvement (week 37, 2022)[edit]

Quercus geminata, commonly called sand live oak, is an evergreen oak tree native to the coastal regions of the subtropical southeastern United States, along the Atlantic Coast from southern Florida northward to southeastern Virginia and along the Gulf Coast westward to southern Mississippi, on seacoast dunes and on white sands in evergreen oak scrubs.
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Evergreen

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Wikiproject Military history coordinator election voting opening soon![edit]

Voting for the upcoming project coordinator election opens in a few hours (00:01 UTC on 15 September) and will last through 23:59 on 28 September. 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. Voting is conducted using simple approval voting and questions for the candidates are welcome. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the current coord team. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:27, 14 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Correction to previous election announcement[edit]

Just a quick correction to the prior message about the 2022 MILHIST coordinator election! I (Hog Farm) didn't proofread the message well enough and left out a link to the election page itself in this message. The voting will occur here; sorry about the need for a second message and the inadvertent omission from the prior one. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:41, 15 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 38, 2022)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Heather Dubrow

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This week's article for improvement (week 39, 2022)[edit]

An early view of the convent in Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia
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Convent

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Wikiproject Military history coordinator election voting closing soon[edit]

Voting for the upcoming project coordinator election closes soon, at 23:59 on 28 September. 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. Voting is conducted using simple approval voting and questions for the candidates are welcome. The voting itself is occurring here If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the current coord team. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:14, 26 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Books & Bytes – Issue 52[edit]

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 52, July – August 2022

  • New instant-access collections:
    • SpringerLink and Springer Nature
    • Project MUSE
    • Taylor & Francis
    • ASHA
    • Loeb
  • Feedback requested on this newsletter

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The Signpost: 30 September 2022[edit]

This week's article for improvement (week 40, 2022)[edit]

Sexuality in Islam: An icon depicting the treaty signing between Muhammad and Saint Catherine's Monastery allowing interfaith marriage between Muslims and Christians, as discussed in the Ashtiname of Muhammad.
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Islamic sexual jurisprudence

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This week's article for improvement (week 41, 2022)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

School voucher

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Guild of Copy Editors' October 2022 newsletter[edit]

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!

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, Reidgreg, Tenryuu and Zippybonzo.

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

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

The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator. Pictured are areas of the world with tropical climates.
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Tropics

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Previous selections: Countries of the United Kingdom • School voucher


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

Crown Prince Moulay Hassan, the Crown Prince of Morocco, in 2018
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Moulay Hassan, Crown Prince of Morocco

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Previous selections: Tropics • Countries of the United Kingdom


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The Signpost: 31 October 2022[edit]

WikiCup 2022 November newsletter[edit]

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)[reply]

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

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

Great Fire of Rome

Please be bold and help improve it!


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You have been pruned from the Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Members list.[edit]

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Your access to AWB may be temporarily removed[edit]

Hello Pratyya Ghosh! This message is to inform you that due to editing inactivity, your access to AutoWikiBrowser may be temporarily removed. If you do not resume editing within the next week, your username will be removed from the CheckPage. This is purely for routine maintenance and is not indicative of wrongdoing on your part. You may regain access at any time by simply requesting it at WP:PERM/AWB. Thank you! MusikBot II talk 17:20, 15 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Books & Bytes – Issue 53[edit]

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

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, Pratyya Ghosh. 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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This week's article for improvement (week 48, 2022)[edit]

A depiction of Medjed based on the Greenfield papyrus
Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Medjed

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Culinary arts • Great Fire of Rome


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The Signpost: 28 November 2022[edit]

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

Reconstruction of Lucy, the first Australopithecus afarensis skeleton found
Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. 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[edit]

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.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers and best seasonal wishes from your GOCE coordinators, Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, Tenryuu, and Zippybonzo.

*All times and dates on this newsletter are UTC.
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Guild of Copy Editors December 2022 Newsletter error[edit]

The GOCE December 2022 newsletter, as sent on 9 December, contains an erroneous start date for our December Blitz. The Blitz will start on 11 December rather than on 17 December, as stated in the newsletter. I'm sorry for the mistake and for disrupting your talk page; thanks for your understanding. Sent by Baffle gab1978 via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:30, 9 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 50, 2022)[edit]

Cross section of telephone cable of 1,800 twisted pairs. Year 1922
Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. 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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This week's article for improvement (week 51, 2022)[edit]

Zenica is the largest city in the Central Bosnia subregion
Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. 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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This week's article for improvement (week 52, 2022)[edit]

The Summer Palace of Peter the Great as seen from across the Fontanka River from a small Prachechniy ("Laundry") Bridge in August 2007
Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Summer Palace of Peter the Great

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Central Bosnia • Telephone line


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The Signpost: 1 January 2023[edit]

Welcome to the 2023 WikiCup![edit]

Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2023 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving 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. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:16, 1 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2023)[edit]

Scarves in the Armenian Quarter, Jerusalem
Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Scarf

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Summer Palace of Peter the Great • Central Bosnia


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This week's article for improvement (week 2, 2023)[edit]

The start line of the Canberra Marathon in 2006
Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Canberra Marathon

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Scarf • Summer Palace of Peter the Great


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This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2023)[edit]

A kiddie ride is a coin-operated amusement ride for young children.
Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Kiddie ride

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Canberra Marathon • Scarf


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The Signpost: 16 January 2023[edit]

This week's article for improvement (week 4, 2023)[edit]

Side one of a 1930 brochure for the Ambassador Hotel in San Francisco
Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Brochure

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Kiddie ride • Canberra Marathon


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Books & Bytes – Issue 54[edit]

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 54, November – December 2022

  • New collections:
    • British Newspaper Archive
    • Findmypast
    • University of Michigan Press
    • ACLS
    • Duke University Press
  • 1Lib1Ref 2023
  • Spotlight: EDS Refine Results

Read the full newsletter

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This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2023)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

The Sims (video game)

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Brochure • Kiddie ride


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The Signpost: 4 February 2023[edit]

This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2023)[edit]

Belgian waffles cooked in a Krampouz cast-iron waffle iron, in a Montreal restaurant during the gastronomy competition of the Montreal Highlights Festival
Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Waffle iron

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: The Sims (video game) • Brochure


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Guild of Copy Editors 2022 Annual Report[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors 2022 Annual Report

Our 2022 Annual Report is now ready for review.

Highlights:

  • Overview of Backlog-reduction progress
  • Summary of Drives, Blitzes, and the Requests page
  • Membership news and results of elections
  • Closing words
– Your Guild coordinators: Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybonzo
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This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2023)[edit]

Campaign for the Norwegian Centre Party at Nærbø: like its Finnish and Swedish counterparts, the party has a strong focus on decentralisation, rural and agrarian issues. Ideologically, the Centre Party is positioned in the centre on the political spectrum.
Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Centrism

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Waffle iron • The Sims (video game)


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This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2023)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Textbook

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Centrism • Waffle iron


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The Signpost: 20 February 2023[edit]

Editing news 2023 #1[edit]

Read this in another languageSubscription list for this newsletter

This newsletter includes two key updates about the Editing team's work:

  1. The Editing team will finish adding new features to the Talk pages project and deploy it.
  2. They are beginning a new project, Edit check.

Talk pages project

Screenshot showing the talk page design changes that are currently available as beta features at all Wikimedia wikis. These features include information about the number of people and comments within each discussion.
Some of the upcoming changes

The Editing team is nearly finished with this first phase of the Talk pages project. Nearly all new features are available now in the Beta Feature for Discussion tools.

It will show information about how active a discussion is, such as the date of the most recent comment. There will soon be a new "Add topic" button. You will be able to turn them off at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion. Please tell them what you think.

Daily edit completion rate by test group: DiscussionTools (test group) and MobileFrontend overlay (control group)

An A/B test for Discussion tools on the mobile site has finished. Editors were more successful with Discussion tools. The Editing team is enabling these features for all editors on the mobile site.

New Project: Edit Check

The Editing team is beginning a project to help new editors of Wikipedia. It will help people identify some problems before they click "Publish changes". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Please watch that page for more information. You can join a conference call on 3 March 2023 to learn more.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:19, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2023)[edit]

Greenland is the world's largest island.
Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Island

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Textbook • Centrism


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WikiCup 2023 March newsletter[edit]

So ends the first round of the 2023 WikiCup. Everyone with a positive score moved on to Round 2, with 54 contestants qualifying. The top scorers in Round 1 were:

  • Unlimitedlead with 1205 points, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with two featured articles on historical figures and several featured article candidate reviews.
  • New York (state) Epicgenius was in second place with 789 points; a seasoned WikiCup competitor he specialises in buildings and locations in New York.
  • Germany FrB.TG was in third place with 625 points, garnered from a featured article on a filmmaker which qualified for an impressive number of bonus points.
  • United States TheJoebro64, another WikiCup newcomer, came next with 600 points gained from two featured articles on video games.
  • Byzantine Empire Iazyges was in fifth place with 532 points, from two featured articles on classical history.

The top sixteen contestants at the end of Round 1 had all scored over 300 points; these included Berkelland LunaEatsTuna, Thebiguglyalien, Sammi Brie, New England Trainsandotherthings, England Lee Vilenski, Indonesia Juxlos, Unexpectedlydian, Washington (state) SounderBruce, Wales Kosack, BennyOnTheLoose and Chicago PCN02WPS. It was a high-scoring start to the competition.

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start again from scratch. The first round finished on February 26. Remember that any content promoted after that date but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Some contestants made claims before the new submissions pages were set up, and they will need to resubmit them. 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:36, 2 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2023)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Manufacturing

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Island • Textbook


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The Signpost: 9 March 2023[edit]

This week's article for improvement (week 11, 2023)[edit]

An assortment of various foods
Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Food

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Manufacturing • Island


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Books & Bytes – Issue 55[edit]

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 55, January – February 2023

  • New bundle partners:
    • Newspapers.com
    • Fold3
  • 1Lib1Ref January report
  • Spotlight: EDS SmartText Searching

Read the full newsletter

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Guild of Copy Editors March 2023 Newsletter[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors March 2023 Newsletter


Hello and welcome to the March 2023 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since December and our Annual Report for 2022. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. We extend a warm welcome to all of our new members, including those who have signed up for our current March Backlog Elimination Drive. We wish you all happy copy-editing.

Election results: In our December 2022 coordinator election, Reidgreg and Tenryuu stepped down as coordinators; we thank them for their service. Incumbents Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybonzo were returned as coordinators until 1 July. For the second time, no lead coordinator was chosen. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators open on 1 June (UTC).

Drive: 21 editors signed up for our January Backlog Elimination Drive, 14 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 170 articles totaling 389,737 words. Barnstars awarded are here.

Blitz: Our February Copy Editing Blitz focused on October and November 2022 requests, and the March and April 2022 backlogs. Of the 14 editors who signed up, nine claimed at least one copy-edit; and between them, they copy-edited 39,150 words in 22 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

Drive: Sign up now for our month-long March Backlog Elimination Drive. Barnstars awarded will be posted here after the drive closes.

Progress report: As of 12:08, 19 March 2023 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 73 requests since 1 January 2023, all but five of them from 2022, and the backlog stands at 1,872 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 Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybonzo.

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This week's article for improvement (week 12, 2023)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Voting

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Food • Manufacturing


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The Signpost: 20 March 2023[edit]

This week's article for improvement (week 13, 2023)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Offensive backfield

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Voting • Food


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The Signpost: 03 April 2023[edit]

This week's article for improvement (week 15, 2023)[edit]

Kayakers on the St. Lawrence River near Les Bergeronnes, Quebec, Canada
Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

St. Lawrence River

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Zechariah (Hebrew prophet) • Offensive backfield


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This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2023)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Sankebetsu brown bear incident

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: St. Lawrence River • Zechariah (Hebrew prophet)


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This week's article for improvement (week 17, 2023)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Nike sweatshops

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Sankebetsu brown bear incident • St. Lawrence River


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The Signpost: 26 April 2023[edit]

This week's article for improvement (week 18, 2023)[edit]

Conifers encroaching on a meadow in Washington state, United States
Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Meadow

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Nike sweatshops • Sankebetsu brown bear incident


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WikiCup 2023 May newsletter[edit]

The second round of the 2023 WikiCup has now finished. Contestants needed to have scored 60 points to advance into round 3. Our top five scorers in round 2 all included a featured article among their submissions and each scored over 500 points. They were:

Other notable performances were put in by Sammi Brie, Thebiguglyalien, MyCatIsAChonk, Chicago PCN02WPS, and London AirshipJungleman29.

So far contestants have achieved thirteen featured articles between them, one being a joint effort, and forty-nine good articles. The judges are pleased with the thorough reviews that are being performed, and have hardly had to reject any. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:15, 2 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 19, 2023)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Tableau vivant

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The Signpost: 8 May 2023[edit]

This week's article for improvement (week 20, 2023)[edit]

An audio production facility
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Audio editing software

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This week's article for improvement (week 21, 2023)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Vandal Kingdom

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The Signpost: 22 May 2023[edit]

Books & Bytes – Issue 56[edit]

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 56, March – April 2023

  • New partner:
    • Perlego
  • Library access tips and tricks
  • Spotlight: EveryBookItsReader

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This week's article for improvement (week 22, 2023)[edit]

Popillia japonica, commonly known as the Japanese Beetle
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Japanese beetle

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This week's article for improvement (week 23, 2023)[edit]

The Gutenberg Bible, the first printed Bible (mid-15th century)
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Bible

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The Signpost: 5 June 2023[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors June 2023 Newsletter[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors June 2023 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the June 2023 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since March. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below.

Election news: Fancy helping out at the Guild? Nominations for our half-yearly Election of Coordinators are open until 23:59 on 15 June (UTC)*. Starting immediately after, the voting phase will run until 23:59 on 30 June. All Wikipedians in good standing are eligible and self-nominations are welcomed; it's your Guild and it doesn't organize itself!

Blitz: Of the 17 editors who signed up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, nine editors completed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 24 articles totaling 53,393 words. Barnstars awarded are here.

Drive: 51 editors signed up for the month-long May Backlog Elimination Drive, and 31 copy-edited at least one article. 180 articles were copy-edited. Barnstars awarded are posted here.

Blitz: Sign up here for our week-long June Copy Editing Blitz, which runs from 11 to 17 June. Barnstars awarded will be posted here.

Progress report: As of 03:09 on 6 June 2023, GOCE copyeditors have processed 91 requests since 1 January and the backlog stands at 1,887 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 Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybongo.

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Happy Birthday![edit]

This week's article for improvement (week 24, 2023)[edit]

Four T-72B tanks of the participants, 2013
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Tank biathlon

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Nomination for deletion of Template:2009 ICC World Twenty20[edit]

Template:2009 ICC World Twenty20 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Joseph2302 (talk) 10:48, 12 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Bangladesh ODI cricket records by opponent has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 08:29, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Bangladesh Women's ODI cricket records by opponent has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 08:29, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Bangladesh Women's T20I cricket records by opponent has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 08:29, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 25, 2023)[edit]

Epileptic spike and wave discharges monitored EEG
Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Electroencephalography

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Tank biathlon • Bible


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The Signpost: 19 June 2023[edit]

This week's article for improvement (week 26, 2023)[edit]

The water frame is a spinning frame that is powered by a water-wheel.
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Water frame

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Previous selections: Electroencephalography • Tank biathlon


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This week's article for improvement (week 27, 2023)[edit]

Outdoor Tai chi practice in Beijing's Temple of Heaven
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Tai chi

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Previous selections: Water frame • Electroencephalography


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The Signpost: 3 July 2023[edit]

WikiCup 2023 July newsletter[edit]

The third round of the 2023 WikiCup has come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round had at least 175 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

Contestants achieved 11 featured articles, 2 featured lists, 47 good articles, 72 featured or good article reviews, over 100 DYKs and 40 ITN appearances. As always, any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:18, 8 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 28, 2023)[edit]

Literal translation is a translation of a text done by translating each word separately.
Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Literal translation

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Previous selections: Tai chi • Water frame


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This week's article for improvement (week 29, 2023)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Religious philosophy

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Previous selections: Literal translation • Tai chi


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The Signpost: 17 July 2023[edit]

Books & Bytes – Issue 57[edit]

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 57, May – June 2023

  • Suggestion improvements
  • Favorite collections tips
  • Spotlight: Promoting Nigerian Books and Authors

Read the full newsletter

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This week's article for improvement (week 30, 2023)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Act (drama)

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Previous selections: Religious philosophy • Literal translation


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This week's article for improvement (week 31, 2023)[edit]

Michelangelo's David is the classical image of youthful male beauty in Western art.
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Man

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The Signpost: 1 August 2023[edit]

This week's article for improvement (week 32, 2023)[edit]

A goalkeeper in action
Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Goalkeeper

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Previous selections: Man • Act (drama)


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This week's article for improvement (week 33, 2023)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Miss

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Previous selections: Goalkeeper • Man


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The Signpost: 15 August 2023[edit]

This week's article for improvement (week 34, 2023)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Physiology

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Previous selections: Miss • Goalkeeper


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This week's article for improvement (week 35, 2023)[edit]

Industrial cooking of mashed potatoes in a steam-jacketed combi kettle
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Mashed potato

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Previous selections: Physiology • Miss


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The Signpost: 31 August 2023[edit]

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open[edit]

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) 02:05, 2 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 36, 2023)[edit]

Double-rigged shrimp trawler hauling in the nets
Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Fishing industry

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Previous selections: Mashed potato • Physiology


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WikiCup 2023 September newsletter[edit]

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

  • New York (state) Epicgenius, with 2173 points topping the scores, gained mainly from a featured article, 38 good articles and 9 DYKs. He was followed by
  • Sammi Brie, with 1575 points, gained mainly from a featured article, 28 good articles and 50 good article reviews. Close behind was
  • Thebiguglyalien, with 1535 points mainly gained from a featured article, 15 good articles, 26 good article reviews and lots of bonus points.

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

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

I will be standing down as a judge after the end of the contest. I think the Cup encourages productive editors to improve their contributions to Wikipedia and I hope that someone else will step up to take over the running of the Cup. Sturmvogel 66 (talk), and Cwmhiraeth (talk)

Septermber GOCE newsletter[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors September 2023 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the September 2023 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since June. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below.

David Thomsen: Prolific Wikipedian and Guild member David Thomsen (Dthomsen8) died in November 2022. He was a regular copy editor who took part in many of our Drives and Blitzes. An obituary was published in the mid-July issue of The Signpost. Tributes can be left on David's talk page.

Election news: In our mid-year Election of Coordinators, Dhtwiki was chosen as lead coordinator, Miniapolis and Zippybonzo continue as assistant coordinators, and Baffle gab1978 stepped down from the role. If you're interested in helping out at the GOCE, please consider nominating yourself for our next election in December; it's your WikiProject and it doesn't organize itself!

June Blitz: Of the 17 editors who signed up for our June Copy Editing Blitz, 12 copy-edited at least one article. 70,035 words comprising 26 articles were copy-edited. Barnstars awarded are here.

July Drive: 34 of the 51 editors who took part in our July Backlog Elimination Drive copy-edited at least one article. They edited 276 articles and 683,633 words between them. Barnstars awarded are here.

August Blitz: In our August Copy Editing Blitz, 13 of the 16 editors who signed up worked on at least one article. Between them, they copy-edited 79,608 words comprising 57 articles. Barnstars awarded are available here.

September Drive: Sign up here for our month-long September Backlog Elimination Drive, which is now underway. Barnstars awarded will be posted here.

Progress report: As of 14:29, 9 September 2023 (UTC), GOCE copy editors have processed 245 requests since 1 January. The backlog of tagged articles stands at 2,066.

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 and Zippybonzo.

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This week's article for improvement (week 37, 2023)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Antebellum South

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Fishing industry • Mashed potato


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Books & Bytes – Issue 58[edit]

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 58, July – August 2023

  • New partners - De Standaard and Duncker & Humblot
  • Tech tip: Filters
  • Wikimania presentation

Read the full newsletter

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The Signpost: 16 September 2023[edit]

This week's article for improvement (week 38, 2023)[edit]

Juice for public consumption
Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Juice

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Antebellum South • Fishing industry


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This week's article for improvement (week 39, 2023)[edit]

vs graph for a moving particle under a non-uniform acceleration .
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Motion

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This week's article for improvement (week 40, 2023)[edit]

Chinese blue and white porcelain jar, Ming dynasty, 15th century
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The arts

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Previous selections: Motion • Juice


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The Signpost: 3 October 2023[edit]

This week's article for improvement (week 41, 2023)[edit]

Witch-hunting is commonly motivated by religious superstition.
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Superstition

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Previous selections: The arts • Motion


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This week's article for improvement (week 42, 2023)[edit]

An IT8.7 Target by LaserSoft Imaging
Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Color calibration

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Previous selections: Superstition • The arts


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This week's article for improvement (week 43, 2023)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Power (social and political)

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Color calibration • Superstition


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The Signpost: 23 October 2023[edit]

This week's article for improvement (week 44, 2023)[edit]

Various forms of severe weather
Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Severe weather

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Power (social and political) • Color calibration


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WikiCup 2023 November newsletter[edit]

The WikiCup is a marathon rather than a sprint and all those reaching the final round have been involved in the competition for the last ten months, improving Wikipedia vastly during the process. After all this hard work, Delaware BeanieFan11 has emerged as the 2023 winner and the WikiCup Champion. The finalists this year were:-

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the competition, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.

  • Unlimitedlead wins the featured article prize, for 7 FAs in total including 3 in round 2.
  • MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured list prize, for 5 FLs in total.
  • England Lee Vilenski wins the featured topic prize, for a 6-article featured topic in round 4.
  • MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured picture prize, for 6 FPs in total.
  • Delaware BeanieFan11 wins the good article prize, for 75 GAs in total, including 61 in the final round.
  • New York (state) Epicgenius wins the good topic prize, for a 41-article good topic in the final round.
  • Berkelland LunaEatsTuna wins the GA reviewer prize, for 70 GA reviews in round 1.
  • MyCatIsAChonk wins the FA reviewer prize, for 66 FA reviews in the final round.
  • New York (state) Epicgenius wins the DYK prize, for 49 did you know articles in total.
  • Ukraine Muboshgu wins the ITN prize, for 46 in the news articles in total.

The WikiCup has run every year since 2007. With the 2023 contest now concluded, I will be standing down as a judge due to real life commitments, so I hope that another editor will take over running the competition. Please get in touch if you are interested. Next year's competition will hopefully begin on 1 January 2024. You are invited to sign up to participate in the contest; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors. It only remains to congratulate our worthy winners once again and thank all participants for their involvement! (If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.) Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:52, 5 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 45, 2023)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Play (theatre)

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Severe weather • Power (social and political)


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The Signpost: 6 November 2023[edit]

Template:WikiProject Bangladesh Premier League Member/Semiactive has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:37, 6 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 46, 2023)[edit]

Logo for 3dfx
Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

3dfx

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Play (theatre) • Severe weather


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This week's article for improvement (week 47, 2023)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Human-centered design

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: 3dfx • Play (theatre)


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The Signpost: 20 November 2023[edit]

This week's article for improvement (week 48, 2023)[edit]

Institute for sports science in Japan
Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Sports science

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Human-centered design • 3dfx


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Books & Bytes – Issue 59[edit]

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 59, September – October 2023

  • Spotlight: Introducing a repository of anti-disinformation projects
  • Tech tip: Library access methods

Read the full newsletter

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This week's article for improvement (week 49, 2023)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

East Sussex

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Sports science • Human-centered design


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The Signpost: 4 December 2023[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors December 2023 Newsletter[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors December 2023 Newsletter

Hello, and welcome to the December 2023 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since September. Don't forget that you can unsubscribe at any time; see below.

Election news: The Guild needs coordinators! If you'd like to help out, you may nominate yourself or any suitable editor—with their permission—for the Election of Coordinators for the first half of 2024. Nominations will close at 23:59 on 15 December (UTC). Voting begins immediately after the close of nominations and closes at 23:59 on 31 December. All editors in good standing (not under current sanctions) are eligible, and self-nominations are welcome. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term that ends at 23:59 on 30 June.

Drive: Of the 69 editors who signed up for the September Backlog Elimination Drive, 40 copy-edited at least one article. Between them, they copy-edited 661,214 words in 290 articles. Barnstars awarded are listed here.

Blitz: Of the 22 editors who signed up for the October Copy Editing Blitz, 13 copy-edited at least one article. Between them, they copy-edited 109,327 words in 52 articles. Barnstars awarded are listed here.

Drive: During the November Backlog Elimination Drive, 38 of the 58 editors who signed up copy-edited at least one article. Between them, they copy-edited 458,620 words in 234 articles. Barnstars awarded are listed here.

Blitz: Our December Copy Editing Blitz will run from 10 to 16 December. Barnstars awarded will be posted here.

Progress report: As of 20:33, 10 December 2023 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 344 requests since 1 January, and the backlog stands at 2,191 articles.

Other news: Our Annual Report for 2023 is planned for release in the new year.

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 and Zippybonzo.

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This week's article for improvement (week 50, 2023)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

International trade law

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: East Sussex • Sports science


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This week's article for improvement (week 51, 2023)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Online encyclopedia

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: International trade law • East Sussex


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The Signpost: 24 December 2023[edit]

This week's article for improvement (week 52, 2023)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Carbon source (biology)

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Online encyclopedia • International trade law


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Season's greetings[edit]

CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 22:34, 28 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year, Pratyya Ghosh![edit]

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This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2024)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Fish slice

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Carbon source (biology) • Online encyclopedia


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Welcome to the 2024 WikiCup![edit]

Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2024 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving 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. Signups will close on 31 January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email), Epicgenius (talk · contribs · email), and Frostly (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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:21, 1 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 2, 2024)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Antacid

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Fish slice • Carbon source (biology)


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The Signpost: 10 January 2024[edit]

This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2024)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Shovel

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Antacid • Fish slice


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This week's article for improvement (week 4, 2024)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Newton (unit)

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Shovel • Antacid


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Books & Bytes – Issue 60[edit]

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 60, November – December 2023

  • Three new partners
  • Google Scholar integration
  • How to track partner suggestions

Read the full newsletter

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This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2024)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Hunger strike

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Newton (unit) • Shovel


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The Signpost: 31 January 2024[edit]

This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2024)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Pâté

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Hunger strike • Newton (unit)


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WikiCup 2024 February newsletter[edit]

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:

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 Wikipedia: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 Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:58, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2024)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Rigatoni

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Pâté • Hunger strike


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The Signpost: 13 February 2024[edit]

This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2024)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Foreign policy

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Rigatoni • Pâté


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This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2024)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Economy of South America

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Foreign policy • Rigatoni


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WikiCup 2024 March newsletter[edit]

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:

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.

Remember that any content promoted after 27 February but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:41, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 2 March 2024[edit]

This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2024)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Community service

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Economy of South America • Foreign policy


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Books & Bytes – Issue 61[edit]

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 61, January – February 2024

  • Bristol University Press and British Online Archives now available
  • 1Lib1Ref results

Read the full newsletter

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This week's article for improvement (week 11, 2024)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Religious music

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Community service • Economy of South America


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Guild of Copy Editors 2023 Annual Report[edit]

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.
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This week's article for improvement (week 13, 2024)[edit]

Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The article for improvement of the week is:

Abdalá Bucaram

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Natural resource • Religious music


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