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September 2021 at Women in Red
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Your submission at Articles for creation: History of Slovenes in Cleveland has been accepted
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Bkissin (talk) 20:24, 8 September 2021 (UTC)Mir/Japan side tour
Since your Userpage mentions Wikiproject Japan, I thought you might be interested in looking into the East Asia travels of Mir Yeshiva (Brooklyn) during the World War II years. Thanks for your push re improving Flatbush Jewish Journal. Pi314m (talk) 15:55, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
@Pi314m: thanks for the tip, I'll check it out! Kazamzam (talk) 16:14, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
Your submission at Articles for creation: Bolboschoenus planiculmis has been accepted
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Bada Kaji (talk • श्रीमान् गम्भीर) 10:28, 18 September 2021 (UTC)Your submission at Articles for creation: Antonia Lloyd-Jones has been accepted
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scope_creepTalk 21:29, 20 September 2021 (UTC)October 2021 at Women in Red
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Natascha Bruce has been accepted
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The Living love talk 12:09, 2 October 2021 (UTC)AfC notification: Draft:Sora Kim-Russell has a new comment
Hello, Kazamzam (talk) I have removed the content which was copied. Please let me know if there is any other mistake.Allenweiber (talk) 14:35, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
Kazamzam (talk) Sir, I have removed: (https://kitschmix.com/first-woman-come-publicly-egypt-faces-death-threats-says-no-regrets/). Let me know please how to fix so the notice can be removed. Thank You.Allenweiber (talk) 17:44, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
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December 2021 at Women in Red
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January 2022 with Women in Red
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Wikipedia Asian Month 2021 Postcard
Dear Participants,
Congratulations!
It's Wikipedia Asian Month's honor to have you all participated in Wikipedia Asian Month 2021, the seventh Wikipedia Asian Month. Your achievements were fabulous, and all the articles you created make the world can know more about Asia in different languages! Here we, the Wikipedia Asian Month International team, would like to say thank you for your contribution also cheer for you that you are eligible for the postcard of Wikipedia Asian Month 2021. Please kindly fill the form, let the postcard can send to you asap!
- This form will be closed at March 15.
Cheers!
Thank you and best regards,
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Your draft article, Draft:Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO)
Hello, Kazamzam. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology".
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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 22:47, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
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A barnstar for you!
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| You are making great progress on Category:Articles lacking sources from December 2006! Keep it up Meanderingbartender (talk) 17:36, 16 March 2022 (UTC) |
April Editathons from Women in Red
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Concern regarding Draft:Alison Strayer
Hello, Kazamzam. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Alison Strayer, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.
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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 22:35, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
Your draft article, Draft:Mitja Čander
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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 16:26, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
Your draft article, Draft:Alison Strayer
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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 20:35, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
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Your draft article, Draft:Ina Rousseau
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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 15:47, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
May Women in Red events
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June 2022
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.– The Grid (talk) 01:52, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
Women in Red in July 2022
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Unreferenced article project
Hi Kazamzam,
You left an invite to the unreferenced article project on my page, thanks. How can I help? Chagropango (talk) 05:59, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
- Hi @Chagropango:! Thanks so much for responding! Basically the URA is trying to get through the backlog of completely unreferenced articles that dates back to February 2007, roughly 141,500 articles. The backlog is divided into categories by month (February 2007, March 2007, and so on) that were categorized by a bot with the date they were tagged as unreferenced. The bot also tagged +100,000 articles in December 2009 so that category is HUGE - you can definitely find a topic you are interested in to cite to your heart's content.
- The project page has a how-to guide for finding sources and the format for including them in an article so I won't bore you by repeating all that. I will stress that it's imperative that our citations be relevant, reliable, and verifiable, almost more so than other editors, because poor sources attached to this project undermine our credibility. Google Scholar/Books and JSTOR are definitely your friends and if you are ever having trouble finding sources, feel free to ask me as I have some extra library accesses through my own connections.
- The other big thing is to be sure to remove the unreferenced tag, for tracking purposes, and I use this edit summary to drum up awareness for the project: "Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles; you can help!". I like to put at least 2, ideally 3+, references on a given article. If you are unable to find more, the 'more citations' tag is helpful. Also some of these older articles don't have any WikiProject linked to their talk page so adding those, based on subject/area/other criteria, can be a good way to alert the relevant people that it is in need of rescue.
- If you're still interested, we'd be very happy to have you! Best, Kazamzam (talk) 13:57, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
- Wow, that is a lot. I'm not sure how much I could help, but I could definitely do some.
- So all I would need to do is go to the unreferenced article category and select a page? Chagropango (talk) 07:05, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Chagropango, pretty much! Any article tagged as unreferenced falls under our purview. The main concern is having high quality sources but if you have something good, let it rip. Kazamzam (talk) 15:00, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
- Alright, thanks. What do you mean by "something good" though? I would think if a source is not high quality it would not be good. Chagropango (talk) 15:06, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
- Oh also I just saw on your page you have a translation contest for women's biographies, is it too late to get in on that? Chagropango (talk) 15:08, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Chagropango the translation contest is open, go for it!
- As for reliable sources, this is a great how-to guide with information on Wikipedia's reliable source policy. Basically making sure we're not getting info from uncited Wordpress/Blogspot blogs that are full of personal opinions and no facts. So the New York Times, Cochrane reviews, JAMA, the Lancet, the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, etc. would all be considered reliable sources. The other big thing is to make sure that we're not citing sources that are citing Wikipedia as their source. There is also the Wikipedia Reference Search which is a modified version of Google that only returns results from sites (some) editors consider generally reliable. Does that make sense? Kazamzam (talk) 15:33, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
- Yes, got it. Chagropango (talk) 15:46, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Chagropango, pretty much! Any article tagged as unreferenced falls under our purview. The main concern is having high quality sources but if you have something good, let it rip. Kazamzam (talk) 15:00, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
Please look at the AfD
Hi. Apart from Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Muthurua Farm please look at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Makere ya Gwano also. The user MIDI is really tricky as I found this. Regards - Signed by NeverTry4Me Talk 03:07, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
Help request
@Kazamzam: can you please help me with the Draft:Sajid Mir and Draft:G Bidai. Notability is widely established and I am confident of NOTABILITY. Regards - Signed by NeverTry4Me Talk 07:06, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
- Hi @NeverTry4Me - I will try to get to these but I'm working on the Kenya stubs so I'm not sure I can. My suggestions would be to polish the language more so than the references, i.e. removing terms like 'a.k.a.', cleaning up some grammar points, etc. I'm not an AfC reviewer but I think these probably meet notability criteria so just try to be patient! It will happen! Kazamzam (talk) 14:06, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
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Why did you revert an edit I was stil working one and uploading more images? SULNOUR (talk) 18:22, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
- Because the photo you tried to upload did not actually appear as an imagine on the page, just a box of dead pixels. Try uploading it to Wikimedia and then using the visual editor to add it to the page. Kazamzam (talk) 18:26, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
- I was doing just that when you cut me short. They are there nowSULNOUR (talk) 18:36, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
- Okay? It was unclear what you were doing as you didn't leave a clear edit summary. If you make an edit that is flawed, it is the prerogative of other users to revert it. Kazamzam (talk) 18:39, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
- I was doing just that when you cut me short. They are there nowSULNOUR (talk) 18:36, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
The Warriors 2
No objection to your PROD on this album, but just for info, and in reference to the question you posed in your PROD summary... the answer is yes: https://www.discogs.com/release/13622775-Black-Presenta-The-Warriors. Richard3120 (talk) 15:52, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
Women in Red August 2022
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Please look at the AfD
@Kazamzam: please look at these AfD too Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/D. B. S. Jeyaraj, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aashir Wajahat, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wajahat Rauf, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shazia Wajahat (2nd nomination) also. - Signed by NeverTry4Me Talk 03:41, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
DYK for Wagner Natural Area
On 31 July 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Wagner Natural Area, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that half a square mile (130 ha) in Alberta contains an estimated 6,000 arthropod species and is one of the most biodiverse areas in the province for its size? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Wagner Natural Area. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Wagner Natural Area), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:02, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
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Zoom and enhance.
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Strange mysteries of our animal world.
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Sometimes Citation bot is not enough.
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Some articles aren't worth saving
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Edinburgh in August.
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Unreferenced article
Hi, in this edit you added a reference to "Edmundson 1911" but did not define the reference. This makes the article appear in Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors, and means it is impossible for anyone to look the reference up. If you could fix this that would be great. DuncanHill (talk) 22:05, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
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October lichen task force newsletter
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Buryatia
Buryatia's men are exterminated by Russia. If it is not history, it may be politics, demography and many others. Why don't you cooperate but impose your opinions. There is the Talk:Buryatia page to discuss. Xx236 (talk) 06:17, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
• You are the one imposing your opinions. None of the people on the talk page have agreed with the edits you are making, some of which have been reverted. My edits are directly relevant as part of the imperial and Soviet history of Buryatia. Comments about the effects of the war on the Buryat people would like be better on Buryats. Alternatively, make a separate page of, for example, Buryats in the Russo-Ukrainian War. There is a lot of information that needs to be collected and sorted, but it does not belong in the history of the Republic of Buryatia section. Do not attempt to scold me about this again. Kazamzam (talk) 11:54, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 30 September 2022
- News and notes: Board vote results, bot's big GET, crat chat gives new mop, WMF seeks "sound logo" and "organizer lab"
Candidates sign off and peel out – Sigalov is on and Peel is in.
- In focus: NPP: Still heaven or hell for new users – and for the reviewers
Just what is NPP? Why does it need the WMF? Why does it need YOU?
- In the media: A few complaints and mild disagreements
Was Katherine Maher a former encyclopedia salesperson?
- Special report: Decentralized Fundraising, Centralized Distribution
The latest from the Wikimedia Deutschland Movement Strategy & Global Relations Team.
- Discussion report: Much ado about Fox News
Source reliability, NPP, and appearance discussions.
- Interview: ScottishFinnishRadish's Request for Adminship
Find out firsthand what our newest admin, ScottishFinnishRadish, does with a chainsaw.
- Opinion: Are we ever going to reach consensus?
Some Articles for Deletion just drag on.
- Serendipity: Removing watermarks, copyright signs and cigarettes from photos
Suggestion: promote removal of visible copyright signs of images under a CC-BY license.
- Recent research: How readers assess Wikipedia's trustworthiness, and how they could in the future
And other research news.
- Traffic report: Kings and queens and VIPs
Repeat after me: I solemnly swear not to put "oh my!" in a headline.
- Featured content: Farm-fresh content
This month: A FACBot upgrade, a completed list of lists.
- CommonsComix: CommonsComix 2: Paulus Moreelse
When Commons gives you a blank space...
- From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 Years ago: September 2022
Yes, again.
October lichen task force newsletter
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As a subset of WP:FUNGI, the lichen task force is working to improve coverage of the world's lichens – unique organisms composed of one or more fungal partners with one or more photosynthetic partners. A growing body of evidence suggests that some of the roughly 1000 secondary metabolites produced by various lichens may prove instrumental in our ongoing battle against harmful pathogens. Want to learn more? Join us! |
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Buryatia
Buryatia's men are exterminated by Russia. If it is not history, it may be politics, demography and many others. Why don't you cooperate but impose your opinions. There is the Talk:Buryatia page to discuss. Xx236 (talk) 06:17, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
• You are the one imposing your opinions. None of the people on the talk page have agreed with the edits you are making, some of which have been reverted. My edits are directly relevant as part of the imperial and Soviet history of Buryatia. Comments about the effects of the war on the Buryat people would like be better on Buryats. Alternatively, make a separate page of, for example, Buryats in the Russo-Ukrainian War. There is a lot of information that needs to be collected and sorted, but it does not belong in the history of the Republic of Buryatia section. Do not attempt to scold me about this again. Kazamzam (talk) 11:54, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
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News from Twitter, Commons and the WMF C-Suite.
- News from the WMF: Governance updates from, and for, the Wikimedia Endowment
501(c)(3) application approved, Amazon donates another million.
- In the media: Scribing, searching, soliciting, spying, and systemic bias
Wading into several controversies.
- Disinformation report: From Russia with WikiLove
I can has Kremlin sockfarms?
- Recent research: Disinformatsiya: Much research, but what will actually help Wikipedia editors?
And other new research publications.
- Interview: Isabelle Belato on their Request for Adminship
The newest sysop speaks on the process that got them there.
- Featured content: Topics, lists, submarines and Gurl.com
Featured content from October.
- Serendipity: We all make mistakes – don’t we?
The strength of Wikipedia is the peer review afterwards.
- Traffic report: Mama, they're in love with a criminal
More serial killers than you can shake a stick at!
- From the archives: Paid advocacy, a lawsuit over spelling mistakes, deleting Jimbo's article, and the death of Toolserver
What tales echo in these hallowed halls.
November lichen task force newsletter
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As a subset of WP:FUNGI, the lichen task force is working to improve coverage of the world's lichens – unique organisms composed of one or more fungal partners with one or more photosynthetic partners. Want to learn more? Join us! |
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Our efforts to improve the coverage of lichens and lichenology on Wikipedia continue. Among this month's accomplishments:
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 If you're looking for a reason to get an article onto Wikipedia's main page, look no further than this screenshot. It shows the views for the three project articles that were featured in the DYK section in October. Of particular interest is the corresponding spike in views of our lichen article (shown by the blue line), as people clicked through to learn more. We're educating the general public, a few thousand people at a time! | ||
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The Signpost: 28 November 2022
- News and notes: English Wikipedia editors: "We don't need no stinking banners"
Joe Roe's close sows dough woes, manifestos... vetoes? overthrows?
- In the media: "The most beautiful story on the Internet"
Ineffective altruism, return of the toaster, Jess Wade keeps wading through it, Russia censors searches, schools embrace Wikipedia.
- Interview: Lisa Seitz-Gruwell on WMF fundraising in the wake of big banner ad RfC
An interview with Wikimedia's Chief Advancement Officer.
- Opinion: Privacy on Wikipedia in the cyberpunk future
Oh, just one more thing... AI couldn't help but notice you use that punctuation a little bit more than most people...
- Disinformation report: Missed and Dissed
Are government goons prowling our fair encyclopedia?
- Op-Ed: Diminishing returns for article quality
Have we gotten past the point where better articles makes us a better encyclopedia? And what comes next?
- Book review: Writing the Revolution
Heather Ford's new volume on Wikipedia, knowledge and power in the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
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- Essay: The Six Million FP Man
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December newsletter
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Happy holidays! Regardless of which holidays you choose to celebrate, here's hoping they're enjoyable. As we reach the end of our first six months, we can be proud of the progress we've made to date – particularly considering the tiny size of our task force. We now have more than 4,100 articles, categories, templates and redirects under our watch. We've created a sizeable glossary (with more entries being added every day), whittled down the project's cleanup listing, and added biographies about a number of prominent lichenologists. To date, we have one Featured Article and 23 Good Articles. Clearly, there's plenty more to do, but we're off to a solid start. Here's to a productive new year! |
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A sentence in our Cladonia squamosa article was challenged back in 2014(!!) when a reader discovered that the supplied source did not corroborate the information. The editor who finds a valid source for the sentence (or corrects the information as necessary) and, in addition, replaces any redlinks with appropriate links to our new glossary of lichen terms will get public kudos in the next newsletter. | |
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- Hey @Meegs:! Hope you are doing well. Can you confirm the note about the Cladonia squamosa article - the article wasn't created until 2021 so I'm a little confused how anything could have been challenged in 2014. Nevertheless I did update the location with improve sources so a plus all around. Kazamzam (talk) 21:14, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 1 January 2023
- News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation ousts, bans quarter of Arabic Wikipedia admins
Plus admin update and cool tools for the new year.
- In the media: Odd bedfellows, Elon and Jimbo, reliable sources for divorces, and more
Sometimes you need to read more than just the headlines!
- Interview: ComplexRational's RfA debrief
Interview of ComplexRational about their recent request for adminship.
- Technology report: Wikimedia Foundation's Abstract Wikipedia project "at substantial risk of failure"
Wikifunctions might drag it down.
- Essay: Mobile editing
Frustrations and successes.
- Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee Election 2022
Congratulations.
- Recent research: Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement in talk page disputes
And other new research findings.
- Serendipity: Wikipedia about FIFA World Cup 2022: quick, factual and critical
How Iranian press agencies help Wikipedia to reflect football in a better way.
- Featured content: Would you like to swing on a star?
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- Traffic report: Football, football, football! Wikipedia Football Club!
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- CommonsComix: #4: The Course of WikiEmpire
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Photographers, Sandy Hook, the shocking use of Nazi symbols in articles about Nazis, and "You wouldn't recognise a fact if it bit you in the ass".
January newsletter
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Happy new year! We head into 2023 with plenty of work to do. We're missing articles on a handful of lichen families, scores of lichen genera and thousands of lichen species. Dozens of important lichenologists are "missing" too. We need to check or update the taxonomy of hundreds of existing taxa articles. Many articles about basic lichen structures and functions are either tiny stubs or badly in need of referencing or updating. There's certainly enough to keep us busy for a good long while! Here's to a productive year ahead. |
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Kazamzam met last month's challenge and provided an updated reference for the Cladonia squamosa article – which indicated a significantly larger world range for the species than had been previously listed. Nice job! This month, we're looking for someone to replace the dead reference in Ramalina fraxinea (defunct since April 2018!) with one (or more) which corroborates the information that the old reference did. The editor who meets this challenge will get public kudos in the next newsletter. | ||
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- From the team: We heard zoomers liked fortnights: the biweekly Signpost rides again
It's not just a phase! Well, maybe it is.
- Special report: Coverage of 2022 bans reveals editors serving long sentences in Saudi Arabia since 2020
Long-time contributors imprisoned for 32 and 8 years after "swaying public opinion" and "violating public morals".
- News and notes: Revised Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines up for vote, WMF counsel departs, generative models under discussion
UCoC draws nearer, alongside the rise of the machines, in mainspace this time.
- In the media: Court orders user data in libel case, Saudi Wikipedia in the crosshairs, Larry Sanger at it again
Wikipedia's birthday, a cute dog, and nipplefruit.
- Technology report: View it! A new tool for image discovery
The depths of Commons, at your fingertips. Or eyetips.
- In focus: Busting into Grand Central
Debunking widely-told myths about New York's grandest and centralest railway station.
- Serendipity: How I bought part of Wikipedia – for less than $100
The economics of Wikipedia.
- Gallery: What is our responsibility when it comes to images?
When notability conflicts with what it might be used for.
- Humour: New geologically speedy deletion criteria introduced
7,000,000-year Landmasses for Subduction discussions considered "too long".
- Opinion: Good old days, in which fifth-symbol-lacking lipograms roam'd our librarious litany
Allow us to bring you back, back, back, to days of Wikifun rampant.
- Featured content: Flip your lid
...and your ambigram. Also: Boring lava fields, birds of Tuvalu, and commelinid family names with etymologies.
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2022
War, sports, and all types of chaos.
- From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
The editor with five million edits, the death of Aaron Swartz, and rollback.
list of Asteraceae genera
Thank you! I'm not done yet (in the S-es, going backwards), but I'm getting there! :) Thank you for noticing. It will still need citations until I get finished, and I'm up in the air about keeping the common names that are already in there. Cited some of them, and if they are kept, will have to cite the rest. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 03:34, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
Translation tool - not so slick, or is it me?
Dear Kazamzam! Thanks so much for your helpful intervention on the page I started, Jewish Association for Protection of Girls and Women. Using the translation tool in he:en presumably will handle the reference citations (of which there are many in English!) and images, but numerous chaotic attempts failed to produce the desired results while I concentrated on producing chunks of text and section headings. Admittedly I only glanced over the tool's FAQ and relied on my general skill set. The "Under construction" template you added is the one I sought and hadn't found, so I'll add it to my tool kit for future use. Much appreciated! Cheers -- Deborahjay (talk) 14:42, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
- Oh, the translation tool is awful. You're doing great, just keep going. You can translate some of the Hebrew references and add it to the en-page if you want to incorporate that into the citation but strictly speaking using non-English language references without translation is fine (if a little frustrating to readers). Happy to help if you need a hand! @Gilabrand and @Gidonb recently helped out with rescuing Yoel Drubin and might have more experience navigating Hebrew sources than me and might be good resources if you get stuck in the future. All the best! - Kazamzam (talk) 15:02, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
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- Kazamzam is busy as an unreferenced article patroller. She has started 49 diverse articles; from Hananoiwaya Shrine, a Japanese shrine, to Katja Perat, a Slovenian novelist. In her short career as an editor she has become a member in good standing at Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan, Wikipedia:WikiProject Mongolia, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red and has over 10,000 edits, 82% of which are to Mainspace.
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| A busy unreferenced article patroller, Kaazamzam has started 49 diverse articles ranging from Hananoiwaya Shrine, a Japanese shrine, to Katja Perat, a Slovenian novelist. In her short career as an editor she has become a member in good standing at Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan, Wikipedia:WikiProject Mongolia, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red and has over 10000 edits, 82% of which are to Mainspace. |
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- @Buster7 thank you so much for this!! I really appreciate it :) Kazamzam (talk) 14:44, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 4 February 2023
- From the editor: New for the Signpost: Author pages, tag pages, and a decent article search function
Last issue's vow for "something to show for these efforts" revisited.
- News and notes: Foundation update on fundraising, new page patrol, Tides, and Wikipedia blocked in Pakistan
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- Section 230: Twenty-six words that created the internet, and the future of an encyclopedia
Section 230 before the Supreme Court in two cases, with broad implications for the web.
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- Special report: Legal status of Wikimedia projects "unclear" under potential European legislation
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- Op-Ed: Estonian businessman and political donor brings lawsuit against head of national Wikimedia chapter
Isamaa party sponsor Parvel Pruunsild files claim in Tartu County Court against WMEE head Ivo Kruusamägi and Reform Party politicians.
- Opinion: Study examines cultural leanings of Wikimedia projects' visual art coverage
English Wikipedia among most "global" and Thai Wikipedia's among most "Western", but non-Western works neglected overall.
- Recent research: Wikipedia's "moderate yet systematic" liberal citation bias
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- WikiProject report: WikiProject Organized Labour
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- Featured content: 20,000 Featureds under the Sea
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- Traffic report: Films, deaths and ChatGPT
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February lichen task force newsletter
The February edition of the lichen task force newsletter is now available. MeegsC (talk) 20:25, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 20 February 2023
- News and notes: Terms of Use update, Steward elections, and Wikipedia back in Pakistan
UCoC Enforcement Guidelines pass, Wikimedia Enterprise financials, GPTs gone wild, and a speedy deletion criterion removed.
- In the media: Arbitrators open case after article alleges Wikipedia "intentionally distorts" Holocaust coverage
Also: Russ Baker's BLP, the digital commons, the NSA, and more on Pakistan.
- Disinformation report: The "largest con in corporate history"?
Gautam Adani and his companies possibly behind scheme featuring scores of socks, infiltration of articles for creation process.
- Essay: Machine-written articles: a new challenge for Wikipedia
GPT: friend or foe?
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- Featured content: Eden, lost.
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Lovey-dovey stuff for Valentine's.
- Traffic report: Superbowl? Pfft. Give me some Bollywood! Yours sincerely, the world
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The Signpost: 9 March 2023
- News and notes: What's going on with the Wikimedia Endowment?
A lack of transparency.
- Technology report: Second flight of the Soviet space bears: Testing ChatGPT's accuracy
Using failed AI Galactica's worst mistakes to test a new AI.
- In the media: What should Wikipedia do? Publish Russian propaganda? Be less woke? Cover the Holocaust in Poland differently?
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- Featured content: In which over two-thirds of the featured articles section needs to be copied over to WikiProject Military History's newsletter
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- Recent research: "Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the Holocaust" in Poland and "self-focus bias" in coverage of global events
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- Eyewitness: Three more stories from Ukrainian Wikimedians
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- In the media: Paid editing, plagiarism payouts, proponents of a ploy, and people peeved at perceived preferences
Everything is broken, again.
- Featured content: Way too many featured articles
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- Interview: 228/2/1: the inside scoop on Aoidh's RfA
An interview with Wikipedia's newest admin.
- Traffic report: Who died? Who won? Who lost?
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The Signpost: 03 April 2023
- From the editor: Some long-overdue retractions
Errata regretted.
- News and notes: Sounding out, a universal code of conduct, and dealing with AI
Skynet believed to be in violation of the new Universal Code of Conduct.
- In the media: Twiddling Wikipedia during an online contest, and other news
Taking the phrase "gaming the system" to the next level.
- Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" case is ongoing
Desysop case request still in accept/decline phase.
- Featured content: Hail, poetry! Thou heav'n-born maid
Thou gildest e'en the Signpost's trade.
- Recent research: Language bias: Wikipedia captures at least the "silhouette of the elephant", unlike ChatGPT
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- From the archives: April Fools' through the ages
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- Disinformation report: Sus socks support suits, seems systemic
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The Signpost: 26 April 2023
- News and notes: Staff departures at Wikimedia Foundation, Jimbo hands in the bits, and graphs' zeppelin burns
Plus: Wikipedians get own Mastodon account, and Wikiprojects move to uniform quality assessment.
- In the media: Contested truth claims in Wikipedia
Covering Russia, Poland, the Vatican, the U.S., and the "perilously thin" boundary between real life and Wikipedia.
- Obituary: Remembering David "DGG" Goodman
The prolific editor, former Arbitration Committee member and co-founder of Wikimedia New York City died in April.
- Arbitration report: Holocaust in Poland, Jimbo in the hot seat, and a desysopping
No news is good news, and this isn't no news.
- Opinion: What Jimbo's question revealed about scamming
The problem we haven't solved.
- Op-Ed: Wikipedia as an anchor of truth
Can Wikipedia help keep AI agents honest?
- Special report: Signpost statistics between years 2005 and 2022
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- News from the WMF: Collective planning with the Wikimedia Foundation
First of a two part series summarising the priorities for the Wikimedia Foundation's next fiscal year (July 2022–June 2023) including staffing, budget and other changes, and how to provide your feedback.
- Featured content: In which we described the featured articles in rhyme again
And somehow made it more readable than when it's not rhyming.
- From the archives: April Fools' through the ages, part two
2011 and on.
- Humour: The law of hats
The Selfish Hatnote, the Disambiguation Singularity, and other information-theoretic conundra of encyclopedic note.
- Traffic report: Long live machine, the future supreme
Wrestling bumps world-changing technology from the #1 spot, imagine that.
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The Signpost: 8 May 2023
- News and notes: New legal "deVLOPments" in the EU
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- In the media: Vivek's smelly socks, online safety, and politics
Fake fines, false alarms and faux headlines!
- Recent research: Gender, race and notability in deletion discussions
And other new research publications.
- Featured content: I wrote a poem for each article, I found rhymes for all the lists; My first featured picture of this year now finally exists!
...Layout lovers will hate this featured content's title.
- Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" approaches conclusion
There will likely be more to say next issue.
- News from the WMF: Planning together with the Wikimedia Foundation
The second article in a series describing the priorities and work of the Wikimedia Foundation. The article invites Wikimedians to collaborate with the Foundation.
- Special report: There Shall Be Seasons Refreshing – Stories from WikiConference India 2023
First national-level conference in the Indian subcontinent in seven years.
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The Signpost: 22 May 2023
- News and notes: Golden parachutes: Record severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation
... and a referendum on Jimmy Wales' traditional role as a final court of appeal in arbitration policy.
- In the media: History, propaganda and censorship
Opposing scholars on ArbCom case.
- Arbitration report: Final decision in "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland"
Includes stronger sourcing restriction, and a nod to the UCoC.
- Recent research: Create or curate, cooperate or compete? Game theory for Wikipedia editors
And other new research results.
- Featured content: A very musical week for featured articles
Bird is the word for featured pictures.
- Traffic report: Coronation, chatbot, celebs
Celebs and Bollywood film dominated reader interest, as usual, but with a new persistent presence on the lists of a certain AI.
- WikiProject report: Wikipedians Convene for Queering Wikipedia 2023: The First International LGBT+ Wikipedia Conference
An online conference with 12 distributed trans-local in-person meetup "Nodes" on 5 continents.
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The Signpost: 5 June 2023
- News and notes: WMRU director forks new 'pedia, birds flap in top '22 piccy, WMF weighs in on Indian gov's map axe plea
Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Building Committee Commences Command By Convening.
- In the media: Section 230 stands tall, WP vs. UK bill, Miss Information dissed again
Also: Goog gets delist ask for en-wp yt-dl ar-ticle, wacky football fails.
- Featured content: Poetry under pressure
Now is not this ridiculous, and is not this preposterous? A thorough-paced absurdity - explain it if you can.
- Traffic report: Celebs, controversies and a chatbot in the public eye
Plus mortalities, and movies about mermaids.
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The Signpost: 19 June 2023
- News and notes: WMF Terms of Use now in force, new Creative Commons licensing
Problems with emergency emails sent to WMF.
- In the media: English WP editor glocked after BLP row on Italian 'pedia
... and an AI writer explains why he just bought a paper encyc.
- Featured content: Content, featured
Poetry still present.
- Recent research: Hoaxers prefer currently-popular topics
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The Signpost: 3 July 2023
- News and notes: Online Safety Bill: Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia UK launch open letter
... and a new Elections Committee.
- Disinformation report: Imploded submersible outfit foiled trying to sing own praises on Wikipedia
A few editors who fought many times to keep advertisements out.
- In the media: Journo proposes mass Wiki dox, sponsored articles on Fandom, Section 230 discussed
Are you now, or have you ever been, a Wikipedia editor?
- Featured content: Incensed
In which featured pictures have a pleasing orange/blue colour scheme for some reason.
- Traffic report: Are you afraid of spiders? Arnold? The Idol? ChatGPT?
Don't worry, they are mostly harmless.
- Humour: United Nations dispatches peacekeeping force to Wikipedia policy discussions
Mission to ensure stability in conflict-ridden area.
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July 19 WikiWednesday + New York Botanical Garden Edit-a-thon (July 29)
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The Signpost: 17 July 2023
- News and notes: Big bux hidden beneath wine-dark sea as we wait for the Tides to go out?
Gitz666 unglocked, Wikimania scholarships given and a new admin anointed.
- In the media: Tentacles of Emirates plot attempt to ensnare Wikipedia
Ruwiki on the Ruinternet, Rauwerda on TEDx, and Jimbo on Fridman.
- Obituary: David Thomsen (Dthomsen8) and Ingo Koll (Kipala)
Philadelphians and Tanzanians say goodbye.
- News from the WMF: ABC for Fundraising: Advancing Banner Collaboration for fundraising campaigns
The collaboration process for the 2023 English fundraising campaign is kicking off now, right from the start of the fiscal year.
- In focus: Are the children of celebrities over-represented in French cinema?
Wikidata queries investigate nepo babies.
- Tips and tricks: What automation can do for you (and your WikiProject)
A summary of various tools designed over the years.
- Recent research: Wikipedia-grounded chatbot "outperforms all baselines" on factual accuracy
And various other research on large language models and Wikipedia.
- Humour: New fringe theories to be introduced
Bold move intended to "get some variety" into Wikipedia arguments.
- Cobwebs: If you're reading this, you're probably on a desktop
The annual report that tries to understand the Signpost through data, written in 2020, which never saw the light of day until now.
- Featured content: Scrollin', scrollin', scrollin', keep those readers scrollin', got to keep on scrollin', Rawhide!
In which choices have been made™.
- Traffic report: The Idol becomes the Master
Sex, drugs and violence, English, math and science.
Women in Red 8th Anniversary
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The Signpost: 1 August 2023
- News and notes: City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians, Ruwiki founder banned, WMF launches Mastodon server
And French gov't proposes legislation to slam Wikipedia, others.
- In the media: Truth, AI, bull from politicians, and climate change
Or just another brouhaha?
- Disinformation report: Hot climate, hot hit, hot money, hot news hot off the presses!
Hot damn, it's damned hot!
- Obituary: Donald Cram, Peter McCawley, and Eagleash
Three editors have departed.
- Tips and tricks: Citation tools for dummies!
You don't really want to do this stuff by yourself, do you?
- Humour: Does Wikipedia present neutral perspectives?
A serious visual investigation.
- In focus: Journals cited by Wikipedia
A compilation of over 3M citations.
- Opinion: Are global bans the last step?
Possible solutions after being re-harassed.
- Featured content: Featured Content, 1 to 15 July
Due to unfortunate events, this issue is published as is, in its unfinished state.
- Traffic report: Come on Oppie, let's go party
Oppenheimer, Barbie, and a couple other scandals.
This Month in GLAM: July 2023
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WikiWednesday (Aug 23) and Governors Island Wiki-Picnic (Sun Aug 27)
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The Signpost: 15 August 2023
- News and notes: Dude, Where's My Donations? Wikimedia Foundation announces another million in grants for non-Wikimedia-related projects
Jimbo promises more transparency, Wikimania in Singapore, move away from Tides still planned, and Wikifunctions rolls out.
- In the media: An accusation of bias from Brazil, a lawsuit from Portugal, plagiarism from Florida
Harsh words from problematic fave Glenn Greenwald.
- In focus: 2023 Good Article Nomination drive is underway: get your barnstars here!
Rigorous Review of Content for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Wikipedia.
- Special report: Thirteen years later, why are most administrators still from 2005?
Damn kids need to get off our lawn and onto RfA.
- Tips and tricks: How to find images for your articles, check their copyright, upload them, and restore them
Because one gets some secondary skills when one has 645 featured pictures.
- Cobwebs: Getting serious about writing
The innards of the Signpost received a major overhaul in March/April 2019. Here's how we reduced behind-the-scenes busywork and improved writers resources.
- Opinion: Copyright trolls, or the last beautiful free souls on this planet?
For whom does the Creative Commons enforcement clause toll?
- Serendipity: Why I stopped taking photographs almost altogether
An announcement of 335,000 new images on Wikimedia Commons.
- Featured content: Barbenheimer confirmed
Some improvement on last week.
- Humour: Arbitration Committee to accept case against Right Honorable Frimbley Cantingham, 15th Viscount Bellington-upon-Porkshire
Case request cited misuse of tools by administrator who last used tools in 1661.
- Traffic report: 'Cause today it just goes with the fashion
Barbenheimer, Pee-Wee Herman and the Women's World Cup.
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Sunday: NYC Wiki-Picnic @ Gov Island
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The Signpost: 31 August 2023
- From the editor: Beta version of signpost.news now online
News for the editoriat. Stuff that matters.
- News and notes: You like RecentChanges?
Wikipedia really comes into its own, editorially and artistically.
- In the media: Taking it sleazy
"Poli", which means "many", and "tics", which means "under-the-table Wikipedia article whitewashing campaigns".
- Recent research: The five barriers that impede "stitching" collaboration between Commons and Wikipedia
And other recent research publications.
- Draftspace: Bad Jokes and Other Draftspace Novelties
The good, the bad, and the nonsense.
- Humour: The Dehumourification Plan
A message from the Counter-Fun Unit.
- Traffic report: Raise your drinking glass, here's to yesterday
I just poured HOT GRITS down my pants ohh yeah
Sep 20: Wikimedia NYC Annual Election Meeting
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This Month in GLAM: August 2023
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- News and notes: Wikimedia power sharing – just an advisory role for the volunteer community?
Plus: Africa news, funding report, U4C draft, roads fork and another ChatGPT block.
- In the media: "Just flirting", going Dutch and Shapps for the defence?
Plus a new judge, an "unimportant" record, and staying in the swim!
- Obituary: Nosebagbear
A Wikipedian and a friend.
- Serendipity: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no paywall, for thou, Wikipedia Library, art with me
Non-flammable, BPA-free, and really whips the llama's ass.
- Featured content: Catching up
Covering all of August. Pretty much.
- Concept: Strange portal opened by CERN researchers brings Wikipedia articles from "other worlds"
The Signpost brings you the latest from the source.
- Traffic report: Some of it's magic, some of it's tragic
Sports, film and singers. We've got it all!
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Sun Oct 1: NYC Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month 2023
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Women in Red October 2023
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Question about Template - Backlog progress bar
While working on Category:Articles lacking sources from August 2007 I saw your progress update (09:36, 4 September 2023). Question: how to find number for "Initial"? Before asking here, I did read the template docs and searched at WP:VPT, without finding an answer. Regards, JoeNMLC (talk) 23:11, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
- Hi! There's two answers to the this question. If you check out the edit history, you'll see that most of those categories, including August 2007, didn't have a progress bar before I started on them back in July 2022. That's not the "initial" number as in the number of articles ever tagged as unreferenced in August 2007 but it's the number the tracking began at.
- The better answer, and probably the one I should have used but didn't know about when I made it, is the historical count data from here that was scraped from Wayback Machine captures by @Altamel. That tracking started in August 2009, so it's also not totally accurate. However because they are much earlier, numbers are closer to the true number that each category started with and much larger than what we had in July 2022 (August 2007 was 3061, for example). Really shows how much progress has been made even though there's so much left. Let me know if you have any other questions or would like any help. Best, Kazamzam (talk) 23:38, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
- Indeed, and I am very pleased to see that somebody has found my tracking to be useful. The WayBack Machine captures only have useable data as far back as August 2009. I have been updating the numbers on February 11 of each year for the past nine years, so that, even though the initial counts have been lost to the sands of time, we still have a pretty accurate understanding of the year-by-year decrease since 2015. Altamel (talk) 01:50, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 3 October 2023
- News and notes: Wikimedia Endowment financial statement published
Finances during Tides Foundation management of the endowment are shown for the first time.
- In the media: History is written by whoever can harness the most editors
Plus Harvard, Yale, Lords and Commons, partners and trolls!
- Recent research: Readers prefer ChatGPT over Wikipedia; concerns about limiting "anyone can edit" principle "may be overstated"
And other new research publications
- Featured content: By your logic,
The first issue to feature two poetry article
- Concept: Wikipedia policies from other worlds: WP:NOANTLERS
Material must be written with the greatest care and attention; the level of detail and commentary regarding the antlers of living persons is to be kept to a minimum.
- Poetry: "The Sight"
Tamzin reflects on the hunt.
- Traffic report: There shall be no slaves in the land of lands, it's a Bollywood jam
Taylor Swift with an NFL tight end and Lauren Boebert with a Democrat?
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Wiki.NYC Pavilion for Open House New York (Oct 21–22) and Wikidata Day (Oct 29)
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The Signpost: 23 October 2023
- News and notes: Where have all the administrators gone?
Long time passing
- In the media: Thirst traps, the fastest loading sites on the web, and the original collaborative writing
Also: High fives, Wikipedia as a guide for counterfeiters and crossword makers, and Iskander at the UN.
- Gallery: Before and After: Why you don't need to know how to restore images to make massive improvements
The benefits of research.
- Featured content: Yo, ho! Blow the man down!
These titles never make much sense even at the best of times, so why not be random?
- Traffic report: The calm and the storm
They are still fighting.
- News from Diff: Sawtpedia: Giving a Voice to Wikipedia Using QR Codes
Sounds good!
- Humour: New citation template introduced for divine revelations, drug use, and really thinking about it
"Cite altered state" to join the distinguished ranks of CS1 templates
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November lichen task force newsletter
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The Signpost: 6 November 2023
- Arbitration report: Admin bewilderingly unmasks self as sockpuppet of other admin who was extremely banned in 2015
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Greetings @Kazamzam, I apologize for the "revert/ rollback" edit that took place @Afro house ,https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Afro_house&action=history.I just realized that when I am switching from visual to source edit and vice versa espcially to navigate to the talk page which , I was intending on doing at that time, when I hit 'cancel' or refresh the browser it seems to backtrack somehow - as I had no reasons to rollback your edits and I honestly don't even know how to, your edits were also obvious improvements. ToosieJoosie (talk) 21:48, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
- P.S..Thank you for actually writing this in the edit summary because I had no idea this was happening or even how and of course this could be a major problem on other pages or for other editors, which I am/genuinely not even aware of or intentionally, doing. ToosieJoosie (talk) 21:50, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
- Hi @ToosieJoosie - thank you for your message and for clarifying. Since you're new, I wanted to let you know two things. One, when you add a reference to an article that is tagged as "unreferenced", please be sure that there is a reference section, and if not to please create one. You can use the template reflist by typing {{reflist}} in the source editor, or by clicking 'Insert Template' in the visual editor. The references section should go between (if these are present in the article) 'See also' and 'External links', per the Wikipedia Manual of Style (MOS). Two, when you add a reference, please be sure to remove the "unreferenced" tag, usually at the top of the page for tracking purposes. If you have only added one source, it's usually best to add the "refimprove" template so that readers and other editors know that the article has uncited information. The majority of my work is in WikiProject Unreferenced articles so I see a lot of these articles and I wanted to let you know before it becomes an editing habit. Thank you for your work and please keep it up! Just be sure that whatever source you are adding is reliable/independent/verifiable and truly confirms whatever is being stated in the article. A bad reference is worse than no references.
- If you have any questions about citing, finding sources, or anything else, please let me know. Best, Kazamzam (talk) 15:12, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
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Hebia cinerea
Could you please explain why you reverted the edit of this page, and give a respected citation to back your edit up? Simuliid talk 08:20, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
- @Simuliid - The reference you cited says that Hebia is a monotypic genus; if that's the case, then Hebia cinerea should be deleted. Delete it, redirect it, PROD it, put it up for AfD, but how you have left the article doesn't cut it for me. It's not even a complete sentence. I'm
putting it up for AfD myselfPRODing it now now, please feel free to comment on the deletion discussion there. Kazamzam (talk) 12:13, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College References
Can you please explain why the references for the president and the academics were removed when these were references from the college itself? I am referring to the page here. I am somewhat confused as primary sources can be reliable and this website is the most accurate on the president and degrees offered, as it is the college itself. I'm just wondering why you seen it as an unreliable source
Please see "Primary" does not mean "bad" SkylarArte (talk) 13:53, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
- Thank you for your comment. I'm more okay with primary sources for topics related to biology/chemistry, i.e. the first reporting of a new species. While I agree that primary does not mean bad, this is not an independent source. Given that this is a community college, there are other, independent/third-party sources that I think can provide similar information of equal quality without the inherently promotional nature that comes from citing a subject's own website. I would have been fine including the websites you referenced in the external links section and we could use the inline citations tag as a happy middle ground.
- Examples of sources I found from a quick search for information about the president of the college (for example) are here, here, and here. I'm happy to help with referencing - just please be sure to remove the 'unreferenced article' tag from whatever page you are providing sources for. Best, Kazamzam (talk) 14:18, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
- Okay, that is understandable to have an independent source that has similar information. However, there should be a reference to the degrees that the college is offering too. While it may be easy to find the president through news sources, I have been unable to find one listing out the degrees that are offered at this college.
- I was unaware that I should have removed the 'unreferenced article' though, so I appreciate the reminder. Thanks, SkylarArte (talk) 14:46, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
Delirium Books Citations for Books Published
Hello, thank you for your comments on the requirements for secondary sources on the Delirium Books article. I am looking at all of the other books in the article, and none of them have third-party citations either. The links to the respective years in literature go to other articles on Wikipedia that do not actually list the title referenced. So, I am trying to figure out what you're looking for here that the other books have, but my additions did not.
Thanks in advance for your help. Wordgrinder89 (talk) 19:42, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
- Hi @Wordgrinder89 - thank you for your message. The way I see it, there are two major issues with this article.
- 1) Lack of sources establishing the notability of the subject as a publishing company per the notability guidelines for organizations and companies. These need to be (I'm summarizing the guidelines here) multiple, reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject and provide significant coverage. So a review of a book that they published with the single clause 'published by Delirium Books' does not cut it; this is also why something from the founder (not independent) or the publisher's website itself (very not independent) doesn't work either. I was hopeful that I might find articles about the Bram Stoker Award from the HWA or the Shocker Award for Small Press of the Year, but I haven't come up with anything yet.
- 2) The list of books themselves should, in my opinion, be deleted or significantly revamped. First, per WP:NOTCATALOG, a Wikipedia article is not an indiscriminate catalog of products unless there is an independent source and encyclopedic significance of the mention (from mainstream media sources, books that provide commentary on these details) - just product reviews do not cut it. Second, per the guidelines on stand-alone lists, this catalog of books is not an appropriate topic for its own list article.
- So to clarify, it's not what the other books have that your additions did not; it's that I think most, if not all, of these books should be removed as well, and your edit alerted me to this and I did not want the catalog to get any bigger. The real task now is to determine what about the publisher is notable with sources that meet the above criteria and which, if any, of these books should be included on the article. If you look at other, massive articles like Lady Gaga, you can see that there's a link to the Lady Gaga discography article, but a curated selection of her albums. I think what would be best is to establish notability for the publishing house and then find the most notable books and include them with appropriate sourcing.
- If there are no sources to be found that meet these criteria, the article will likely be deleted. I really don't want this to happen as I'm a big fan of small presses but I hope my explanation clarifies why the article is not up to the WP standards in its current form. I'm very happy to work on this with you further and hopefully we can get it into decent shape! If you have any questions, please let me know. Best, Kazamzam (talk) 20:06, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
- Okay, thank you so much for the explanation. I was hoping to provide a list of publications for collectors, but I reviewed the WP:NOTCATALOG guidelines and see your point. I am new to editing Wikipedia articles, so this helps a lot. (I suspect there are many articles in violation of this, but I understand we can't possibly catch them all. Humans! :-) I will see what I can find when I have some more time to work on it. I feel certain I can find reference to the Stoker Award at least, since the results were usually published in Locus SF magazine. Wordgrinder89 (talk) 20:42, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
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I’ve been going through that list and I see what you mean about the number of ex-pats that are included, in the films and theatre industries, who left Quebec in their teens or twenties, never to return. Weird. At any rate, I’m working my way through the list. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 04:31, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Kazamzam: I'm thinking that the easiest thing to do might be to start a collaboration page from the task force project pages. That way, we could all contribute and then move the article to live space once it's got a decent start. (I prefer not to put it in draft space – otherwise we need to wait for someone to "approve" it before it can be moved.) What do you think about making "Lichens and climate change" our first collab? MeegsC (talk) 15:19, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
- Okay, I've added a collaboration page here. Once we've chosen a nomination, we can get stuck in! MeegsC (talk) 16:18, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
- @MeegsC - you’re a superstar! I’ll start looking for references for climate change and air pollution. Just a note that we don’t need someone to approve the draft, we can do it ourselves as long as we’re not putting it through the AfC process. Let me know what you think of the draft idea - I haven’t used a collaboration page but it sounds fun!
- I see a potential trio of articles are feed into each other: climate change, air pollution, and conservation (this could be the broadest one and touch on conservative status but also topics like conservation efforts, i.e. something like adaptive coral breeding for warmer temperature, if such a thing is happening). I can peruse some of the larger journals to get ideas for other topics that are broadly aligned with these but I think it’s a great start! Kazamzam (talk) 17:14, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
- I think we should probably pick one article to start with. I don't know about you, but I have a crazy few months coming up IRL; I'll be in the field with little/no access to the internet for much of Jan/Feb, for example, and have a serious pile of paperwork to finish sorting before I go. Have a look at the nomination page and vote for what you'd like to start with. Or feel free to nominate something else! ;) It'll help me focus my efforts. MeegsC (talk) 18:03, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
- Looks like nobody else has much to say about a collaboration. Do you have a preference for the first one? I'm going to be a bit hit and miss with my contributions over the next few months, so it'll be your baby to get started! :) MeegsC (talk) 22:06, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
- @MeegsC - I hope you have a fun ("fun") time in the field in Jan/Feb and take lots of pictures. I think the air pollution/lichen topic is more specific so I'm inclined to start there. I made a draft in my sandbox and poked at it a little already. My concern is how to organize the article; we could divide the body of the article by pollutant, by area, by historical statistics of the effects of air pollution on lichens and move into the present, we could give notable examples of how certain lichen populations in specific/heavily polluted areas have been impacted, etc. I think a note on how lichens in and around super polluted cities such as New Delhi, Ulaanbaatar, and Mexico City have been affected would be FASCINATING but I'm just not sure. I'll look at some other articles on [blank] and air pollution and see how they're structured. How does this sound to you? Kazamzam (talk) 00:06, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
- Sounds great! Would you mind moving your draft to a "Draft" space (call it "Lichens and air pollution"), so that we can all work on it? (I realise we could also do that in your sandbox, but I always feel weird monkeying around in someone else's "space".) Once you've done that, I'll add a link to the draft on the collaboration page, so people know where to look if they want to help. BTW, there's a new book on urban lichens in eastern North America that I'm asking for for Christmas, even though I don't live there. It will almost certainly have information about air pollution! MeegsC (talk) 09:43, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
- Draft created! Can you tell me the title of the book? I'd like to have it for my personal reference (I'm trying to drum up lichen interest in my local park group because we get some unusual flora/fauna as we have one of the few remaining salt marshes in the area) and I can probably find it from my institutional library. If I can get a PDF of it, would you like a copy? Thanks! Kazamzam (talk) 17:23, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
- It's called Urban Lichens (see info here). Published by Yale University Press. It does throw shade on the whole "Erasmus Darwin as first recorder of lichens as air pollution indicators" though. He was apparently talking about the effects of Java's poison tree! MeegsC (talk) 22:40, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
- Draft created! Can you tell me the title of the book? I'd like to have it for my personal reference (I'm trying to drum up lichen interest in my local park group because we get some unusual flora/fauna as we have one of the few remaining salt marshes in the area) and I can probably find it from my institutional library. If I can get a PDF of it, would you like a copy? Thanks! Kazamzam (talk) 17:23, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
- Sounds great! Would you mind moving your draft to a "Draft" space (call it "Lichens and air pollution"), so that we can all work on it? (I realise we could also do that in your sandbox, but I always feel weird monkeying around in someone else's "space".) Once you've done that, I'll add a link to the draft on the collaboration page, so people know where to look if they want to help. BTW, there's a new book on urban lichens in eastern North America that I'm asking for for Christmas, even though I don't live there. It will almost certainly have information about air pollution! MeegsC (talk) 09:43, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
- @MeegsC - I hope you have a fun ("fun") time in the field in Jan/Feb and take lots of pictures. I think the air pollution/lichen topic is more specific so I'm inclined to start there. I made a draft in my sandbox and poked at it a little already. My concern is how to organize the article; we could divide the body of the article by pollutant, by area, by historical statistics of the effects of air pollution on lichens and move into the present, we could give notable examples of how certain lichen populations in specific/heavily polluted areas have been impacted, etc. I think a note on how lichens in and around super polluted cities such as New Delhi, Ulaanbaatar, and Mexico City have been affected would be FASCINATING but I'm just not sure. I'll look at some other articles on [blank] and air pollution and see how they're structured. How does this sound to you? Kazamzam (talk) 00:06, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
- Looks like nobody else has much to say about a collaboration. Do you have a preference for the first one? I'm going to be a bit hit and miss with my contributions over the next few months, so it'll be your baby to get started! :) MeegsC (talk) 22:06, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
- I think we should probably pick one article to start with. I don't know about you, but I have a crazy few months coming up IRL; I'll be in the field with little/no access to the internet for much of Jan/Feb, for example, and have a serious pile of paperwork to finish sorting before I go. Have a look at the nomination page and vote for what you'd like to start with. Or feel free to nominate something else! ;) It'll help me focus my efforts. MeegsC (talk) 18:03, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
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Cerebellum (talk) 11:37, 9 December 2023 (UTC)- Hi Kazamzam, I just read your article. Fascinating! Have you considered submitting it to Did You Know? I think it would be a good candidate, as the first known labour strike. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 15:36, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
- @Mr Serjeant Buzfuz - thank you so much! It's such a big topic with so much material that I wanted the feedback of the AfC process and getting it to a B-class right out the gate is very satisfying. I had a bit of a kerfuffle with a reviewer for my last DYK submission so I will put that to rest and then submit this one. Thank you so much for the feedback and the encouragement! Kazamzam (talk) 00:47, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
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Women in Red January 2024
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January lichen task force newsletter
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Happy New Year! The colour-coded list to the right shows the status of the project as of the end of 2023; compare it with the list in last January's newsletter to see how far we've come. It's clearly an improvement, but equally, it shows how much we still have to do. There are scores of articles about lichen genera still to write, thousands of lichen species are missing, and there are reams of information still to add about the effects of climate change, air pollution and more on lichen diversity and survival. It's more than enough to keep us occupied for decades to come. Here's to a productive year! |
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Esculenta accepted last month's challenge and updated the Malmidea article with 14 additional species now recognised by Species Fungorum as being in the genus. This month, we're looking for someone to update the Gassicurtia article, last updated in January of 2021. According to Species Fungorum, there are now four additional species in the genus. The editor who updates the article will receive public kudos in the next newsletter. | |
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A barnstar for you!
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- @Levivich - that is so sweet and very much appreciated! Thank you! Kazamzam (talk) 23:19, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
Access to Google Sheets
Hey, could you share this timeline of the backlog (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dhRLbTt5ByAiaqThKZ7uATXR53BE6bmPTgRkLUQDCmA) for everybody to see? Many thanks, CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 13:47, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you so much! CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 14:10, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
- @CactiStaccingCrane - hey! Glad to see you poking around the spreadsheet, hope it is useful :) I'd rather not share it with everyone/give editing access to everyone because I have put a ton of work into it and don't want it to get messed up. Do you think making it accessible as a "commentator" would be useful? Kazamzam (talk) 14:15, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
- I think I will probably make a more accessible version of the spreadsheet in my account. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 14:19, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
- @CactiStaccingCrane - hey! Glad to see you poking around the spreadsheet, hope it is useful :) I'd rather not share it with everyone/give editing access to everyone because I have put a ton of work into it and don't want it to get messed up. Do you think making it accessible as a "commentator" would be useful? Kazamzam (talk) 14:15, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost: 10 January 2024
- From the editor: NINETEEN MORE YEARS! NINETEEN MORE YEARS!
The Signpost can now drink beer and chant slogans in Canada. What slogans should we chant for the next nineteen years?
- Special report: Public Domain Day 2024
Mickey & You: What can you do?
- Technology report: Wikipedia: A Multigenerational Pursuit
A techie looks at the big questions.
- News and notes: In other news ... see ya in court!
Let the games begin! The 2024 WikiCup is off to a strong start. With copyright enforcement, AI training and freedom of expression, it's another typical week in the wiki-sphere!
- In focus: The long road of a featured article candidate
The first of two installments, regarding a process of many installments.
- In the media: What is plagiarism? Oklahoma Disneyland? Reaching a human being at Wikipedia?
Watch out for those space ships!
- WikiProject report: WikiProjects Israel and Palestine
What are the editorial processes behind covering some of the most politically polarizing and contentious topics on English Wikipedia?
- Obituary: Anthony Bradbury
Rest in peace.
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2023
Around the world in 365 days (with many stops in India).
- Crossword: everybody gangsta till the style sheets start cascading
The good news is that I've perfected the templates that allow other people to make actually good crosswords.
- Comix: Conflict resolution
Getting down to brass tacks &c.
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- Look at Category:Articles lacking sources, we are under 113k! There's a very small chance, but still a chance, that this drive would make that category smaller than 100k. Just hoping that there's enough people joining the effort... CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 15:45, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 31 January 2024
- News and notes: Wikipedian Osama Khalid celebrated his 30th birthday in jail
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- Opinion: Until it happens to you
A stream of consciousness about plagiarism on Wikipedia from the perspective of a user who directly witnessed it.
- Disinformation report: How paid editors squeeze you dry
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- In the media: Katherine Maher new NPR CEO, go check Wikipedia, race in the race
Another wobble, more Ackman, our usual pathological optimist, and football in dirty pants!
- In focus: The long road of a featured article candidate, part 2
Everything you really wanted to know about writing featured articles.
- Recent research: Croatian takeover was enabled by "lack of bureaucratic openness and rules constraining [admins]"
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- Comix: We've all got to start somewhere
Writing a good subheading for a one-sentence joke is basically like writing an entire second joke so I'm not going to do it.
- Traffic report: DJ, gonna burn this goddamn house right down
Job changes, death, sex, murder, suicide and a vacation!
Welcome to the drive!
Welcome, welcome, welcome Kazamzam! I'm glad that you are joining the drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Archaeology of the Holocaust
Hi @Kazamzam, Courtesy ping as since the AfD process was started, the article has been significantly changed. Shazback (talk) 19:57, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: January 2024
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The Signpost: 13 February 2024
- News and notes: Wikimedia Russia director declared "foreign agent" by Russian gov; EU prepares to pile on the papers
"the exact extent of the obligations" unclear... many such cases!
- Disinformation report: How low can the scammers go?
Lower, trust me!
- Gallery: Before and After: Why you don't need to touch grass to dramatically improve images of flora and fauna
Finding the right bumblebee among all the bumblebees!
- In the media: Speaking in tongues, toeing the line, and dressing the part
The usual odd articles about Wikipedia.
- Serendipity: Is this guy the same as the one who was a Nazi?
The hunt for Bertil Ragnar Anzén.
- Traffic report: Griselda, Nikki, Carl, Jannik and two types of football
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- Crossword: Our crossword to bear
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- Comix: Strongly
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What's after FEB24
Hey, what should we do after the FEB24 drive has ended? How could we sustain the momentum and make people engaged in the goal? CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 14:54, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
- @CactiStaccingCrane - good question. I was thinking of something similar to what Women in Red (see the above post) do with online events, monthly themes, tips, etc. Getting a newsletter post out monthly to all FEB24 participants would be a great way to sustain engagement (we could aim for a March 15th deadline for tallying and releasing the metrics from FEB24) that spotlights certain areas that might be neglected, partnering with other WikiProjects as a reciprocal cleanup service for exposure (we'll reference articles related to your project in exchange for visibility), etc. There are a lot of options - I think the monthly newsletter is probably the best one just to keep the URA on editors' minds. What do you think? Kazamzam (talk) 15:03, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
- I think we should do all of these at some point in the future, and also FYI, there's a mailing list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles/Mailing list. For now, I've also outlined some of the stuff that we should do at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Unreferenced_articles#Awarding_the_barnstars. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 15:06, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
Tue March 5: Wiki Gala NYC
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The Signpost: 2 March 2024
- News and notes: Wikimedia enters US Supreme court hearings as "the dolphin inadvertently caught in the net"
Plus, the U4C Charter keeps planting seeds, the RfA process is set to become more sustainable, and more news from the Wikimedia ecosystem.
- Recent research: Images on Wikipedia "amplify gender bias"
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- WikiCup report: High-scoring WikiCup first round comes to a close
135 battle it out; 67 advance
February 2024 WikiProject Unreferenced articles backlog drive – award
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WikiNYC: 3/14 Hacking Night + 3/16 Queens Name Explorer
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- Technology report: Millions of readers still seeing broken pages as "temporary" disabling of graph extension nears its second year
Much effort was spent drafting a movement charter about becoming "essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge". How much is spent maintaining it?
- Interview: Interview on Wikimedia Foundation fundraising and finance strategy
Signpost interviews Wikimedia Foundation leadership on fundraising banners
- Special report: 19-page PDF accuses Wikipedia of bias against Israel, suggests editors be forced to reveal their real names, and demands a new feature allowing people to view the history of Wikipedia articles
And does it have anything to do with the unusual decision to let a zero-edit user open an arbitration request?
- Op-Ed: Wikipedia in the age of personality-driven knowledge
Can we compete with social media? Will aoomers forget Wikipedia?
- Recent research: "Newcomer Homepage" feature mostly fails to boost new editors
And several papers look at climate change on Wikipedia
- News and notes: Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Charter ratified
WLM winners announced, Wikimania 2024, a new Wikimedia movement affiliate, and active enwp admins reach a record low.
- In the media: "For me it’s the autism": AARoad editors on the fork more traveled
Worldwide women turned blue and controversies on Serbian & French Wikipedia.
- Traffic report: He rules over everything, on the land called planet Dune
Let me take you to the movies.
- Humour: Letters from the editors
The only worthwhile grievance is the one that prompts satire.
- Comix: Layout issue
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April lichen task force newsletter
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MariahKRogers accepted the last issue's challenge and updated our Gassicurtia article with four additional species now recognised by Species Fungorum as being in the genus. This time around, we're looking for someone willing to update the species listed in the Byssoloma article, last checked in April of 2021. Species Fungorum now shows five additional species in the genus. The editor who updates the article will receive public kudos in the next newsletter. | |
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-- Delivered by MeegsC (talk) 20:46, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024
Hello Kazamzam/Archives,
Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.
Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.
Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.
It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!
2023 Awards
Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!
WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.
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Reversion of student editor changes on sea rewilding
Reverting the entire set of improvements from the student editor seems bitey and your edit summary makes it worse. The reason given in your edit summary also doesn't seem accurate (the changes were broken up into multiple edits and the article was made more comprehensive) and the summary fails to explain any of the issues with their changes.
At the very least, you should be explaining the issues on their talk page or on the article talk page. Several edits did contain WP:UGC, specifically Wikipedia references, but those could have been fixed, temporarily changed to {{citation needed}}, or those specific edits could have been undone individually. The other issues seem like they would be relatively easy to fix (e.g., any essay-like or POV text). It's not on you to make those fixes, of course, but completely reverting the text does not seem like the best solution here.
You might consider restoring the student's version and working from it instead. Regards. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 23:58, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
- @Daniel Quinlan - I appreciate your feedback on this and as I am going through the edits of all the other students in the same course, I will keep this in mind. The issue with the sea rewilding article is that the new editor added 31,000+ bytes to an ~11,000 byte article that included, yes, UGC, but also sentences that were grammatically incorrect, misspellings of words such as "coastal" and "resource" and "environment", entirely subjective statements that did not use an encyclopedic tone, copyright violations, etc. I don't love reverting all these edits but I have a bigger problem allowing that quality and quantity of low-level information to remain on Wikipedia. Furthermore, when I addressed this particular student with the course instructor, the instructor said that the editor's work was a "trainwreck" (their word, not mine) and thanked me for reverting the edits. I disagree that these were "improvements" and I saw that someone from WikiEd had already reached out to the editor about their copying directly from their sandbox and overwriting the existing article, which was the edit summary of every single edit that they made, sans one about rearranging photos. Given this volume, the number of immediately identifiable mistakes and edit guideline/policy violations, the previous warning and continued behaviour, I think this was not bitey but bold and I don't think the edit summary made anything worse. I will be more detailed in my edit summary of the other students going forward and hopefully this will be a learning opportunity for them. Thanks, Kazamzam (talk) 04:17, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
- I'm not going to disagree about the issues. My sense that it was bitey was really a combination of those factors. With 60% of the addition being citations, it seemed like a tractable amount of prose (especially after reverting the additions that had inappropriate citations) and some of the additions would help address shortcomings in the current article. And while it's not a requirement to leave a talk page explanation, it can really help newcomers. And as WP:BITE mentions, it's non-bitey in a good way if you can
Improve, don't remove. If something doesn't meet Wikipedia's standards, try to fix the problem rather than just remove what's broken. (Nothing stops new contributors and regulars from coming back like having all their hard work end up in the bit bucket.)
Thanks for listening. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 05:41, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
- I'm not going to disagree about the issues. My sense that it was bitey was really a combination of those factors. With 60% of the addition being citations, it seemed like a tractable amount of prose (especially after reverting the additions that had inappropriate citations) and some of the additions would help address shortcomings in the current article. And while it's not a requirement to leave a talk page explanation, it can really help newcomers. And as WP:BITE mentions, it's non-bitey in a good way if you can
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The Signpost: 25 April 2024
- In the media: Censorship and wikiwashing looming over RuWiki, edit wars over San Francisco politics, and another wikirace on live TV
Plus, tribute songs and shout-outs outweighing vandalism and hoaxes, a dispute about the real king of the platform and other bits of news.
- News and notes: A sigh of relief for open access as Italy makes a slight U-turn on their cultural heritage reproduction law
Plus, new updates on the privacy and research ethics whitepaper and the graphs outage situation, and an Iranian former steward is globally banned from Wikimedia projects
- WikiConference report: WikiConference North America 2023 in Toronto recap
Outcomes of the event including newly published videos and photos, the archived conference website and program, and some attendee reflections on its significance.
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- Recent research: New survey of over 100,000 Wikipedia users
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I can't believe it
The momentum is still strong! The backlog might actually be cleared! That's amazing! CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 15:10, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
- @CactiStaccingCrane it's going amazingly well! Someone has really been hard at work on October 2012, it's dropped by over FOUR HUNDRED articles in less than a month! Super proud of everyone's effort.
- In terms of next steps, I think we should wait for a few months for the next campaign - maybe August. We can make a planning section on the WP talk page and discuss what worked well, what didn't, how and where to innovate, etc. Since there's a lot of time to plan, I think we'll be able to come up with something really great. I'm interested in making use of an automatic tool like what Asian Month does that assesses submissions under criteria automatically. Kazamzam (talk) 20:19, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
May 8: WikiWednesday Salon with new Executive Director
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The Signpost: 16 May 2024
- News and notes: Democracy in action: multiple elections
WMF trustee elections, U4C results, Italian ArbCom, WMF and Endowment annual reports.
- Special report: Will the new RfA reform come to the rescue of administrators?
We don't know yet, but there is some encouraging news, nevertheless.
- Arbitration report: Ruined temples for posterity to ponder over – arbitration from '22 to '24
Some go out with a bang, some with a whimper, few with much of a comprehensible explanation.
- In the media: Deadnames on the French Wikipedia, and a duel between Russian wikis
Plus, the WMF joins the Unicode Consortium, Chris Albon talks about AI tools on Wikipedia, communities address under-representation on the site.
- Op-Ed: Wikidata to split as sheer volume of information overloads infrastructure
More queries are failing, and more frequently, so what is to be done?
- Comix: Generations
It do be like that sometimes.
- Traffic report: Crawl out through the fallout, baby
With cricket and some cute baby reindeer!
Women in Red June 2024
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June 2: Hacking Sunday (+preview of June 8 Wiknic)
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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our Hacking Sunday at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. It is intended primarily for technical contributors, though newcomers are welcome as well! The event runs for the whole day, though you are welcome to come by for as little or as long as you'd like. All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct and Wikimedia's Technical Code of Conduct. A documentary filmmaker will be in attendance, working on Rabbit Hole, which aims to document Wikipedia's community to showcase how our network tackles important questions about how history is recorded. They will be in attendance to film snippets of this gathering for the documentary. It is completely optional to be a part of the film and there will be protocols in place if you wish to not be filmed. If there are any questions about the filming please reach out to the filmmaker, Meg Vatterott (meg.vatterott@gmail.com). Meeting info:
P.S. Next up will be Sat June 8 Wiknic on Governors Island! | |
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Sat June 8: Governors Island Wiknic
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 You are invited to the picnic anyone can edit on Governors Island, at 403 Colonels Row by the ArtCrawl Harlem house. This is a sequel event to the 2023 Governors Island Wiknic and will feature a workshop led by AfroCrowd at the ArtCrawl Harlem house. We'll also encourage collaboration for wiki-coverage of ArtCrawl Harlem's current exhibition at Governors Island. All are welcome, new and experienced! Bring a picnic blanket and some potluck, as well as some sunscreen! We'll also provide sandwiches for everyone, and maybe some NYC pizza too, but we encourage you to bring your own favorite dishes to share, especially for those food cultural topics you would like to improve on Wikipedia. We'll also do a portal thing for a bit with West Coast friends at Wikipedia:Meetup/LA/Wiknic2024. Saturday, June 8, 2024 NYC Wiknic @ Governors Island (RSVP on-wiki)
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The Signpost: 8 June 2024
- News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation publishes its Form 990 for fiscal year 2022-2023
The Form 990, as well as highlights and FAQs, are now available for review.
- Technology report: New Page Patrol receives a much-needed software upgrade
A new model for collaboration between the WMF and the community?
- Deletion report: The lore of Kalloor
Hoaxes and the genesis of information.
- In the media: National cable networks get in on the action arguing about what the first sentence of a Wikipedia article ought to say
First line, sixth paragraph, body text or unified Reich?
- News from the WMF: Progress on the plan — how the Wikimedia Foundation advanced on its Annual Plan goals during the first half of fiscal year 2023-2024
Outlining progress against the four key goals
- Opinion: Public response to the editors of Settler Colonial Studies
A letter.
- Recent research: ChatGPT did not kill Wikipedia, but might have reduced its growth
And various research findings about Wikidata and knowledge graphs.
- Featured content: We didn't start the wiki
No we didn't write it, but we tried to cite it
- Essay: No queerphobia
An essay.
- Special report: RetractionBot is back to life!
... and flagging your articles with big ugly red notices! (This is a good thing.)
- Traffic report: Chimps, Eurovision, and the return of the Baby Reindeer
Movies, deaths, elections (but no cricket).
- Comix: The Wikipediholic Family
Some stuff's only okay in the privacy of the home.
- Humour: Wikipedia rattled by sophisticated cyberattack of schoolboy typing "balls" in infobox
Project in shambles – "it had never occurred to us that this was possible".
- Concept: Palimpsestuous
Hypertext.
This Month in GLAM: May 2024
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