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Women in Red September 2025
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2025
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2025).
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- An RfC is open on whether use of emojis with no encyclopedic value in mainspace and draftspace (e.g., at the start of paragraphs or in place of bullet points) should be added as a criterion under G15.
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- Administrators can now access the Special:BlockedExternalDomains page from the Special:CommunityConfiguration list page. This makes it easier to find. T393240
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Cite Unseen September 2025 updates
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Women in Green's 9th Edit-a-thon
Hello FormalDude:
WikiProject Women in Green is holding a month-long Good Article Editathon event in October 2025!
Running from October 1 to 31, 2025, WikiProject Women in Green (WiG) is hosting a Good Article (GA) editathon event with the theme What Women Do! All experience levels welcome. Never worked on a GA project before? We'll teach you how to get started. Or maybe you're an old hand at GAs – we'd love to have you involved! Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and women's works (e.g., books, films) during the event period. We hope to collectively cover article subjects from at least 31 different occupations or professions (or broader roles in society) by month's end. GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced GA editors, and participants will have the opportunity to earn a special WiG barnstar for their efforts.
We hope to see you there!
Grnrchst (talk), Spookyaki (talk) & Alanna the Brave (talk)
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Feedback request: All RFCs request for comment
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A Barnstar for You!
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| I stumbled across your article for Shirley Chisholm, and I was very impressed! Definitely one of the best articles I've read on the project. As someone who is looking to start writing more complex GAs on Wikipedia, I am inspired by your work. Kudos, and take care. 3602kiva (💬) 22:50, 27 September 2025 (UTC) |
Women in Red | October 2025, Vol 11, Issue 10
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Unreferenced articles November 2025 backlog drive
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Women in Red - November 2025
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Articles for Creation backlog drive
Hello FormalDude:
WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive in December!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than half a month of outstanding reviews from the current 2+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 December 2025 through 31 December 2025.
You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.
Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
There is a backlog of over 3000 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:07, 23 November 2025 (UTC)
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Women in Red - December 2025
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Happy New Year, FormalDude!
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Volten001 ☎ 05:48, 1 January 2026 (UTC)I have sent you a note about a page you started
Hi FormalDude. Thank you for your work on Chavel Cunningham. Another editor, Mariamnei, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:
Thank you for your work on this article. Please establish notability as per WP:SPORTSBIO. Thanks and have a great day!
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Women in Red February 2026
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Women in Green reviewing drive
Hello FormalDude:
This month, February 2026, WikiProject Women in Green is participating in the February 2026 GAN Backlog Drive, in which we're aiming to review as many outstanding Good Article (GA) nominations about women and women's works as possible. If you want to help out, you can check out the project talk page for a list of nominations in need of review (including some WiG originals). If you haven't reviewed a GA nomination before, be sure to check out the reviewing instructions and guidelines and feel free to ask for a mentor to check your work.
We are also working together with a wikithon hosted on 5 February by Wikimedia UK, which will focus on writing and improving articles about women involved in sustainable development. If you want to join the event, feel free to sign up at the eventbrite page; or if you would be interested in providing a 20-minute assessment and/or a full GA review of the submitted articles in the weeks following, put your name down on the project talk page for updates as the event progresses.
We hope to see you there!
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I have sent you a note about a page you started
Hi FormalDude. Thank you for your work on Chavel Cunningham. Another editor, Laterthanyouthink, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:
Thanks for creating the article. The succession of clubs mentioned in the infobox are not mentioned and cited in the body, and Soccerway doesn't appear to reflect all of the moves. It would be great if you could find sources to support these moves, and also his international goals.
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