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We are approaching the end of the 2024 WikiCup's second round, with a little over two weeks remaining. Currently, contestants must score at least 105 points to progress to the third round.

Our current top scorers are as follows:

• Sammi Brie (submissions) with 642 points, mostly from 11 GAs about radio and television;
• voorts (submissions) with 530 points, mostly from two FAs (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three GAs;
• Generalissima (submissions) with 523 points, mostly from 11 GAs about coinage and history;
• SounderBruce (submissions) with 497 points, mostly from a FA about the 2020 season of the soccer club Seattle Sounders FC and two GAs;
• Tamzin (submissions) with 410 points, mostly from a FA about the drink Capri-Sun and three GAs;
• Kusma (submissions) with 330 points, mostly from a FA about the English botanist Anna Blackburne and a GA.

Competitors may submit work for the second round until the end of 28 April, and the third round starts 1 May. Remember that only competitors with the top 32 scores will make it through to the third round. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs. As a reminder, competitors are strictly prohibited from gaming Wikipedia policies or processes to receive more points.

If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please read Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring. Further questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:05, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

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The second round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 April. This round was particularly competitive: each of the 32 contestants who advanced to Round 3 scored at least 141 points. This is the highest number of points required to advance to Round 3 since 2014.

The following scorers in Round 2 all scored more than 500 points:

• Sammi Brie (submissions) with 707 points, mostly from 45 good article nomination reviews and 12 good articless about radio and television;
• Generalissima (submissions) with 600 points, mostly from 12 good articles and 12 did you know nominations about coinage and history;
• SounderBruce (submissions) with 552 points, mostly from a featured article about the 2020 Seattle Sounders FC season, three featured lists, and two good articles;
• BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 548 points, mostly from a featured article about the snooker player John Pulman, two featured lists, and one good article;
• voorts (submissions) with 530 points, mostly from two featured articles (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three good articles.

The full scores for Round 2 can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 18 featured articles, 22 featured lists, and 186 good articles, 76 in the news credits and at least 200 did you know credits. They have conducted 165 featured article reviews, as well as 399 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 21 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 April but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed during Round 3, which starts on 1 May at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).

Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.

Technical news

• Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
• Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 9 May 2024. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!

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5		Dekalb Academy of Technology and Environment (talk)	Add sources
674		Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (talk)	Add sources
42		Kakao T (talk)	Add sources
596		History of South Korea (talk)	Add sources
28		Human rights issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic (talk)	Add sources
285		Doosan Group (talk)	Cleanup
53		Pororo, The Racing Adventure (talk)	Cleanup
188		Hagwon (talk)	Cleanup
76		National Assembly (Bhutan) (talk)	Expand
23		Lee Myung-bak government (talk)	Expand
58		National responses to the COVID-19 pandemic (talk)	Expand
581		Web portal (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
56		Kung Fu Dino Posse (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
110		Internet video (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
481		Sejong City (talk)	Merge
35		Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (talk)	Merge
439		Antisemitism in the United States (talk)	Merge
14		Mega Monster (talk)	Wikify
401		Cyworld (talk)	Wikify
2,360		Manhwa (talk)	Wikify
16		Brave Inventors Platform (talk)	Orphan
21		Contextual searching (talk)	Orphan
5		Korea Land and Housing Corporation real estate scandal (talk)	Orphan
176		2024 European Parliament election in Bulgaria (talk)	Stub
20		United Liberal Democrats (talk)	Stub
3		Josa i Tuixén (talk)	Stub
105		Kakao Games (talk)	Stub
11		United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Myanmar (talk)	Stub
80		KK Super Mart (talk)	Stub

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128		Ministry of Finance (Singapore) (talk)	Add sources
258		Kakao Entertainment (talk)	Add sources
167		Java applet (talk)	Add sources
38		Multicameralism (talk)	Add sources
201		Fourth Republic of Korea (talk)	Add sources
1,336		Busan (talk)	Add sources
22		W. Ian Lipkin (talk)	Cleanup
312		Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (talk)	Cleanup
53		MERS outbreak (talk)	Cleanup
355		Politics of France (talk)	Expand
23		Guan Yi (talk)	Expand
420		Gangnam District (talk)	Expand
13		2021 South Korean by-elections (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
232		Second Hundred Years' War (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
416		Assembly of the Republic (Portugal) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,766		Rohingya genocide (talk)	Merge
894		Free software (talk)	Merge
1,510		Open-source software (talk)	Merge
46		Pan Ocean (talk)	Wikify
294		Customer to customer (talk)	Wikify
162		Robocar Poli (talk)	Wikify
26		Tabernacle Temple Church (talk)	Orphan
36		So-tteok-so-tteok (talk)	Orphan
2		Alfred de Wailly (talk)	Orphan
6		European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (talk)	Stub
40		Korea National Assembly Proceeding Hall (talk)	Stub
34		Ministry of the Interior and Safety (South Korea) (talk)	Stub
4		Ethel Delali Cofie (talk)	Stub
4		Busan–Gimhae Light Rail Transit Operation Corporation (talk)	Stub
3		Ahn Sang-soo (Changwon mayor) (talk)	Stub

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).

Guideline and policy news

• Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.

Technical news

• The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
• The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.

Miscellaneous

• WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace {{citation needed}} tags with references! Sign up here to participate!

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The third round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 June. As with Round 2, this round was competitive: each of the 16 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 256 points.

The following editors all scored more than 400 points in Round 3:

• Generalissima (submissions) with 1,059 points, mostly from 1 featured article on DeLancey W. Gill, 11 good articles, 18 did you know nominations, and dozens of reviews;
• Skyshifter (submissions) with 673 points, mostly from 2 featured articles on Worlds (Porter Robinson album) and I'm God, 5 good articles, and 2 did you know nominations;
• Sammi Brie (submissions) with 557 points, mostly from 1 featured article on KNXV-TV, 5 good articles, and 8 did you know nominations; and
• AryKun (submissions) with 415 points, mostly from 1 featured article on Great cuckoo-dove, with a high number of bonus points from that article.

The full scores for round 3 can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 28 featured articles, 38 featured lists, 240 good articles, 92 in the news credits, and at least 285 did you know credits. They have conducted 279 featured article reviews, as well as 492 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 22 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 June but before the start of Round 4 can be claimed during Round 4, which starts on 1 July at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether for a good article, featured content, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).

Administrator changes

• Elli
• HouseBlaster
• Pickersgill-Cunliffe

• Brianga
• De728631
• Georgewilliamherbert
• Hyacinth (deceased)
• ProveIt
• The Night Watch

Technical news

• Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript. Documentation is available on MediaWiki. (T6086)

Miscellaneous

• The Community Wishlist is re-opening on 15 July 2024. Read more

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80		T-money (talk)	Add sources
170		Speed Zone (talk)	Add sources
5,678		COVID-19 (talk)	Add sources
4,285		Leicester City F.C. (talk)	Add sources
408		KT Corporation (talk)	Add sources
72		Korean Wikipedia (talk)	Add sources
55		Gugyeol (talk)	Cleanup
194		Goyang (talk)	Cleanup
733		International Democracy Union (talk)	Cleanup
996		Moon Jae-in (talk)	Expand
186		Iron Lynx (talk)	Expand
158		Liberty Korea Party (talk)	Expand
250		Virtual band (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
270		Anti-Japanese sentiment (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
259		Comparison of wiki software (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
129		GlassFish (talk)	Merge
131		Persecution of Muslims in Myanmar (talk)	Merge
19		Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Australian procurement (talk)	Merge
20		Transgender personnel in the South Korean military (talk)	Wikify
406		Hamza Choudhury (talk)	Wikify
23		Microfilm reader (talk)	Wikify
3		Capriccio with Palladian buildings (talk)	Orphan
1		Bill Rogers (tackle) (talk)	Orphan
6		Avo Photonics (talk)	Orphan
116		Naver Whale (talk)	Stub
41		Hyangchal (talk)	Stub
431		Chalerm Yoovidhya (talk)	Stub
72		Idu script (talk)	Stub
17		Chuja Islands (talk)	Stub
96		GS25 (talk)	Stub

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).

Technical news

• Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
• Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee appointed the following administrators to the conflict of interest volunteer response team: Bilby, Extraordinary Writ

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Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 looks at two works on logistics and one on the Battle of Arnhem

The fourth round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 29 August. Each of the 8 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 472 points, and the following contestants scored more than 700 points:

• Generalissima (submissions) with 1,150 points, mostly from 3 featured articles, 2 featured lists, 7 good articles, and 13 did you know nominations;
• Arconning (submissions) with 791 points, mostly from 2 featured lists, 8 good articles, 4 did you know nominations, and plenty of reviews;
• AirshipJungleman29 (submissions) with 718 points, mostly from a high-multiplier featured article on Genghis Khan and 2 good articles; and
• BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 714 points, mostly from 1 featured article on Susanna Hoffs, 2 featured lists, and 3 good articles.

Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated. Contestants put in extraordinary amounts of effort during this round, and their scores can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 36 featured articles, 55 featured lists, 15 good articles, 93 in the news credits, and at least 333 did you know credits. They have conducted 357 featured content reviews, as well as 553 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 30 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Any content promoted after 29 August but before the start of Round 5 can be claimed during Round 5, which starts on 1 September at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. If two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether for a good article, featured content, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Remember to claim your points within 14 days of earning them, and importantly, before the deadline on 31 October.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion: C4, which applies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether Notability (species) should be adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, remedies 5.1 and 5.2 of World War II and the history of Jews in Poland (the topic and interaction bans on My very best wishes, respectively) were repealed.
• Remedy 3C of the German war effort case ("Cinderella157 German history topic ban") was suspended for a period of six months.
• The arbitration case Historical Elections is currently open. Proposed decision is expected by 3 September 2024 for this case.

Miscellaneous

• Editors can now enter into good article review circles, an alternative for informal quid pro quo arrangements, to have a GAN reviewed in return for reviewing a different editor's nomination.
• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in September 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,900 articles and 26,200 redirects awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2024).

Administrator changes

• Asilvering
• Significa liberdade

• Good Olfactory
• Hesperian
• I JethroBT
• TommyBoy
• Woody

CheckUser changes

• Barkeep49
• Izno

• Doug Weller
• Spicy

Guideline and policy news

• Administrator elections are a proposed new process for selecting administrators, offering an alternative to requests for adminship (RfA). The first trial election will take place in October 2024, with candidate sign-up from October 8 to 14, a discussion phase from October 22 to 24, and SecurePoll voting from October 25 to 31. For questions or to help out, please visit the talk page at Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections.
• Following a discussion, the speedy deletion reason "File pages without a corresponding file" has been moved from criterion G8 to F2. This does not change what can be speedily deleted.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether there is a consensus to have an administrator recall process.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Historical elections has been closed.
• An arbitration case regarding Backlash to diversity and inclusion has been opened.
• Editors are invited to nominate themselves to serve on the 2024 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission until 23:59 October 8, 2024 (UTC).

Miscellaneous

• If you are interested in stopping spammers, please put MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist and MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist on your watchlist, and help out when you can.

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Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 on US Army divisions in the Pacific War, Nick-D on the First Indochina War

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

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

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

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

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

Triggering archivebot. — regards, Revi 23:45, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

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300		Shinsegae (talk)	Add sources
126		Mugunghwa-ho (talk)	Add sources
10		South Korean web culture (talk)	Add sources
594		Democratic Party (South Korea, 2015) (talk)	Add sources
98		Antenna (record label) (talk)	Add sources
20		Chung Jin-suk (politician) (talk)	Cleanup
62		The Dong-A Ilbo (talk)	Cleanup
313		Lee Jae-myung (talk)	Cleanup
12		Welcome to Convenience Store (talk)	Expand
234		Seongnam (talk)	Expand
15		Gyeongjeon Line (talk)	Expand
329		RAR (file format) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
15		Hadong County (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
898		World Mission Society Church of God (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,225		Redis (talk)	Merge
195		Valkey (talk)	Merge
250		Legal status of transgender people (talk)	Merge
43		Bundang District (talk)	Wikify
177		Lempel–Ziv–Markov chain algorithm (talk)	Wikify
225		Women in the military by country (talk)	Wikify
2		Charles Patrick Mackenzie (talk)	Orphan
2		Ali Gurbanov (talk)	Orphan
3		Alliance for Consumer Education (talk)	Orphan
55		Gwangju, Gyeonggi (talk)	Stub
166		Olive Young (company) (talk)	Stub
81		Ministop (talk)	Stub
7		Hanyang University at Ansan station (talk)	Stub
5		Jeongja station (talk)	Stub
11		Sinnonhyeon station (talk)	Stub

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The 2024 WikiCup has come to an end, with the final round being a very tight race. Our new champion is AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), who scored 2,283 points mainly through 3 high-multiplier FAs and 3 GAs on military history topics. By a 1% margin, Airship beat out last year's champion, BeanieFan11 (submissions), who scored second with 2,264 points, mainly from an impressive 58 GAs about athletes. In third place, Generalissima (submissions) scored 1,528 points, primarily from two FAs on U.S. Librarians of Congress and 20 GAs about various historical topics. Our other finalists are: Sammi Brie (submissions) with 879 points, Hey man im josh (submissions) with 533 points, BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 432 points, Arconning (submissions) with 244 points, and AryKun (submissions) with 15 points. Congratulations to our finalists and all who participated!

The final round was very productive, and contestants had 7 FAs, 9 FLs, 94 GAs, 73 FAC reviews, and 79 GAN reviews and peer reviews. Altogether, Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors all through the contest. Well done everyone!

All those who reached the final will receive awards and the following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or in the event of a tie, to the overall leader in this field.

• Generalissima (submissions) wins the featured article prize for 3 FAs in round 4, and 7 FAs overall.
• Hey man im josh (submissions) wins the featured list prize for 23 FLs overall.
• MaranoFan (submissions) wins the featured topic prize for 9 articles in featured topics in round 1.
• Hey man im josh (submissions) wins the featured content reviewer prize for 110 FA/FL reviews overall.
• BeanieFan11 (submissions) wins the good article prize for 58 GAs in round 5, and 70 GAs overall.
• Fritzmann (submissions) wins the good topic prize for 6 articles in good topics in round 2.
• Sammi Brie (submissions) wins the good article reviewer prize for 45 GA reviews in round 2, and 78 GA reviews overall.
• BeanieFan11 (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 131 Did you know articles overall.
• Muboshgu (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 15 In the news articles in round 1, and 36 overall.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2024).

Administrator changes

• Crisco 1492

• Babajobu
• Daniel
• Elf
• Jayron32
• Thue
• Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

Maxim

Oversighter changes

Maxim

Guideline and policy news

• Following a discussion, the discussion-only period proposal that went for a trial to refine the requests for adminship (RfA) process has been discontinued.
• Following a request for comment, Administrator recall is adopted as a policy.

Technical news

• Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068

Arbitration

• RoySmith, Barkeep49 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections. ThadeusOfNazereth and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate from 3 November 2024 until 12 November 2024 to stand in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections.
• The Arbitration Committee is seeking volunteers for roles such as clerks, access to the COI queue, checkuser, and oversight.

Miscellaneous

• An unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in November 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

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32		Human rights issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic (talk)	Add sources
12		2021 South Korean by-elections (talk)	Add sources
10		South Korean web culture (talk)	Add sources
226		Kakao Entertainment (talk)	Add sources
21		Chung Jin-suk (politician) (talk)	Cleanup
355		Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (talk)	Cleanup
1,398		Busan (talk)	Cleanup
157		Liberty Korea Party (talk)	Expand
22		Lee Myung-bak government (talk)	Expand
59		National responses to the COVID-19 pandemic (talk)	Expand
319		RAR (file format) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
197		Lempel–Ziv–Markov chain algorithm (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
235		Virtual band (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,254		Redis (talk)	Merge
182		Valkey (talk)	Merge
250		Legal status of transgender people (talk)	Merge
1,048		Manhwa (talk)	Wikify
16		Transgender personnel in the South Korean military (talk)	Wikify
56		Microfilm reader (talk)	Wikify
38		Tabernacle Temple Church (talk)	Orphan
5		Networx-BG (talk)	Orphan
4		Korea Land and Housing Corporation real estate scandal (talk)	Orphan
9		United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Myanmar (talk)	Stub
55		Gwangju, Gyeonggi (talk)	Stub
7		Hanyang University at Ansan station (talk)	Stub
23		Chuja Islands (talk)	Stub
104		GS25 (talk)	Stub
5		Josa i Tuixén (talk)	Stub

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312		KT Corporation (talk)	Add sources
168		COVID-19 pandemic in Japan (talk)	Cleanup
23		Tony Saunders (bassist) (talk)	Cleanup
391		Lee Jae-myung (talk)	Cleanup
417		Politics of France (talk)	Expand
391		Gangnam District (talk)	Expand
1,332		Resident Evil 4 (2023 video game) (talk)	Expand
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431		Web portal (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
2,648		Hangul (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
703		Internet forum (talk)	Merge
219		Wi-Fi calling (talk)	Merge
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18		Park Heong-joon (talk)	Wikify
74		Customer to customer (talk)	Wikify
243		Anti-Japanese sentiment (talk)	Wikify
2		Hoseang Prayer Center (talk)	Orphan
4		Internet genre (talk)	Orphan
10		Conservative transposition (talk)	Orphan
66		AMD K8 (talk)	Stub
184		Olive Young (company) (talk)	Stub
5		Jeongja station (talk)	Stub
68		Rabokki (talk)	Stub
84		Idu script (talk)	Stub
872		Kurakhove (talk)	Stub

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2024).

Administrator changes

• Ahecht
• DoubleGrazing
• Dr vulpes
• FOARP
• Peaceray
• Queen of Hearts
• Rsjaffe
• SD0001
• SilverLocust
• Sohom Datta
• ThadeusOfNazereth
• Voorts

• Ajpolino
• Fathoms Below
• Pppery
• Tamzin
• Worm That Turned

• Aervanath
• Christopher Sundita
• Dank
• Dennis Brown
• Dragons flight
• Fastily
• Graham87
• JaGa
• Kbh3rd
• Marine 69-71
• Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington
• Yamamoto Ichiro

Interface administrator changes

• SD0001
• Sohom Datta

Pppery

CheckUser changes

• Spicy
• TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RFC, the policy on restoration of adminship has been updated. All former administrators may now only regain the tools following a request at the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard within 5 years of their most recent admin action. Previously this applied only to administrators deysopped for inactivity.
• Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, T5, has been enacted. This applies to template subpages that are no longer used.

Technical news

• Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10, 2024.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Yasuke (formerly titled Backlash to diversity and inclusion) has been closed.
• An arbitration case titled Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 14 December.

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49		Anim8or (talk)	Add sources
96		Faqīh (talk)	Add sources
536		Yahoo Japan (talk)	Add sources
30		EverLine (talk)	Add sources
345		Cho Kuk (talk)	Cleanup
10		Suh Chung-won (talk)	Cleanup
58		BBK stock price manipulation incident (talk)	Cleanup
292		Ithkuil (talk)	Expand
216		Token Ring (talk)	Expand
9		Cabinet of Lee Myung-bak (talk)	Expand
2,025		Zoroaster (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
15		Hadong County (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
328		Assembly of the Republic (Portugal) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,667		Open-source software (talk)	Merge
32		Black Jews in New York City (talk)	Merge
59		United Jewish Appeal (talk)	Merge
203		History of Japan–Korea relations (talk)	Wikify
46		Social security in France (talk)	Wikify
66		Dooly the Little Dinosaur (talk)	Wikify
2		Cellemetry Data Services (talk)	Orphan
3		Aldo Civico (talk)	Orphan
2		Anamarija Stibilj Šajn (talk)	Orphan
5		Byun Hee-jae (talk)	Stub
12		Gunwi County (talk)	Stub
7		Gwanggyo station (talk)	Stub
48		Green Party Korea (talk)	Stub
4,166		Choi Sang-mok (talk)	Stub
46		KK Super Mart (talk)	Stub

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2024).

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RFC, Wikipedia:Notability (species) was adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether admins should be advised to warn users rather than issue no-warning blocks to those who have posted promotional content outside of article space.

Technical news

• The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.

Arbitration

• Following the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: CaptainEek, Daniel, Elli, KrakatoaKatie, Liz, Primefac, ScottishFinnishRadish, Theleekycauldron, Worm That Turned.

Miscellaneous

• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2025 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Sign up here to participate!

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60		Mugunghwa-ho (talk)	Add sources
510		Necktie (talk)	Add sources
141		Antenna (record label) (talk)	Add sources
94		Jeolla Province (talk)	Add sources
266		Chung-Ang University (talk)	Cleanup
77		The Dong-A Ilbo (talk)	Cleanup
2,238		Sejong the Great (talk)	Cleanup
1,948		Moon Jae-in (talk)	Expand
469		Sejong City (talk)	Expand
183		2020 South Korean legislative election (talk)	Expand
115		Korean nationalism (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
84		Glossary of blogging (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
249		Zstd (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
47		Amida (Mesopotamia) (talk)	Merge
41		Alien language in science fiction (talk)	Merge
18		3D Face Morphable Model (talk)	Merge
245		Women in the military by country (talk)	Wikify
47		MERS outbreak (talk)	Wikify
78		The Des Moines Register (talk)	Wikify
3		Annette Hug (talk)	Orphan
3		Christopher Mudgett (talk)	Orphan
43		Camo (app) (talk)	Orphan
64		Polaris Entertainment (talk)	Stub
48		2019 South Korean National Assembly attack (talk)	Stub
8		Bujeon station (Korail) (talk)	Stub
282		South Korean standard language (talk)	Stub
5		European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (talk)	Stub
9		Sinnonhyeon station (talk)	Stub

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