The second round of the 2020 WikiCup has now finished. It was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 75 points to advance to round 3. There were some very impressive efforts in round 2, with the top ten contestants all scoring more than 500 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 186 good articles achieved in total by contestants, and the 355 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.

Our top scorers in round 2 were:

• Epicgenius, with 2333 points from one featured article, forty-five good articles, fourteen DYKs and plenty of bonus points
• Gog the Mild, with 1784 points from three featured articles, eight good articles, a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews and lots of bonus points
• The Rambling Man, with 1262 points from two featured articles, eight good articles and a hundred good article reviews
• Harrias, with 1141 points from two featured articles, three featured lists, ten good articles, nine DYKs and a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews
• Lee Vilenski with 869 points, Hog Farm with 801, Kingsif with 719, SounderBruce with 710, Dunkleosteus77 with 608 and MX with 515.

The rules for featured article reviews have been adjusted; reviews may cover three aspects of the article, content, images and sources, and contestants may receive points for each of these three types of review. Please also remember the requirement to mention the WikiCup when undertaking an FAR for which you intend to claim points. Remember also that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth. - MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:44, 1 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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• Discretionary sanctions have been authorized for all pages and edits related to COVID-19, to be logged at WP:GS/COVID19.
• Following a recent discussion on Meta-Wiki, the edit filter maintainer global group has been created.
• A request for comment has been proposed to create a new main page editor usergroup.
• A request for comment has been proposed to make the bureaucrat activity requirements more strict.

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• The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. You can review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page.
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Miscellaneous

• A request for comment closed with consensus to create a Village Pump-style page for communication with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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46		BZhRK Barguzin (talk)	Cleanup
9		Human trafficking in Mali (talk)	Cleanup
33		Anyi people (talk)	Expand
48		Dagaaba people (talk)	Expand
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67		Fringe theatre (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
17		Kusasi people (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
38		Moderation in Islam (talk)	Merge
21		Cassiopea andromeda (talk)	Merge
10		Formula One drivers from East Germany (talk)	Merge
46		Soninke Wangara (talk)	Wikify
140		RT en Español (talk)	Wikify
4		Shatta Rako (talk)	Wikify
9		TwinsDntBeg (talk)	Orphan
21		Kojo Jones (talk)	Orphan
3		Kwabena Amankwa Asiamah (talk)	Orphan
18		Akua Kuenyehia (talk)	Stub
55		Bono people (talk)	Stub
2		Masawud Mohammed (talk)	Stub
834		Bernard Nyarko (talk)	Stub
4		Kwaku Ampratwum-Sarpong (talk)	Stub
31		Wala people (talk)	Stub

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This Month in GLAM – Volume X, Issue IV, April 2020 Headlines Brazil report: GLAMce at Museu Paulista: making things machine-readable Czech Republic report: WikiGap 2020 in Czech Republic; International event; support for Wikimedia community; edit-a-thon run with the US embassy and the Swedish Embassy France report: Association des Archivistes Francais; Palladia, a museum collection portal based on Wikimedia resources Indonesia report: Wikisource Competition 2020 Ireland report: Hunt Museum image donation; Livesteaming and video demonstrations Italy report: Archivio Ricordi, webinars and videos Kosovo report: One Village, One Article for each village in Albania and Kosovo Netherlands report: Photo collections Afrika-Studiecentrum Leiden; meetup and media donations for Wiki goes Caribbean; first online WikiFriday Sweden report: Skrivstuga (edit-a-thon) online – Wikipedia in libraries Switzerland report: More women on Wikipedia UK report: Japanese silk and Spanish iron USA report: Earth Day Wikidata report: Seven Million People Can't Be Wrong Calendar: May's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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36		Krobo people (talk)	Add sources
109		Sultanate of Darfur (talk)	Add sources
7		Chumburu (talk)	Cleanup
371		Makar Sankranti (talk)	Cleanup
78		Mfantsipim School (talk)	Cleanup
11		Abbé people (talk)	Expand
46		Manufacturing in Ghana (talk)	Expand
252		Ewe language (talk)	Expand
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63		New Acropolis (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
12		Wenchi Municipal District (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
4,877		Buddha's Birthday (talk)	Merge
397		Ghost kitchen (talk)	Merge
115		Qatar University (talk)	Merge
22		Tammari people (talk)	Wikify
7		Kwaku Gyasi (talk)	Wikify
17		Accra Technical University (talk)	Wikify
33		Samuel Attah-Mensah (talk)	Orphan
3		Alhassan Sualihu Dandaawa (talk)	Orphan
3		Ernest Henry Norgbey (talk)	Orphan
16		Ghulam Muhammad Maneka (talk)	Stub
5		Arthur Ahmed (talk)	Stub
10		Ahafo (talk)	Stub
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3		Nyarafolo language (talk)	Stub
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Hi Masssly! I am Galendalia and I have revived the WikiProject for Spoken Wikipedia. I noticed that you signed up at some point to be a participant and as I am reviving this project, one of my tasks is to get the participant list in order. Would you please go to the Participants List and add your name and language(s) you speak? If you are already there and do not want to be, please move yourself to the inactive list at the bottom of the page. If you want to remain, please put remain next to your name (this way you are not moved). If I do not see anything from you by May 30, 2020, I will move you to the inactive participant list. It would also be great if you would be willing to join the task force for Pronunciation that would be awesome, as there are troublesome words we run into. Thank you for considering joining us. If you decide to leave, I will be sad to see you leave as so many people have done a great job on the recordings and any work you have done makes a significant difference. Galendalia (talk · contribs) (sent via Mass Message. This is a message that is one time, so no unsubscribe link is provided.)

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Hi Masssly/Archive,

You are receiving this message as you are one of the participants of WikiProject India on Wikidata and/or a subscriber of the Wikidata India newsletter.

Hope you and your loved ones are safe and sound during this ongoing COVID-19 pandemic situation.

This is for your kind information that, from 22nd May, 2020 Friday to 24th May, 2020 Sunday, a datathon will be happening on Indian scientists on Wikidata. The lack of data about Indian scientists, their works and publications on Wikidata is the reason behind conducting the datathon. Considering the ongoing pandemic, the datathon will also focus on scientists working on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19.

The tasklist of the datathon is flexible. Participants can choose their own preferred task on this topic

Hoping for your active participation.

Take care and stay safe,

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553		Camille O'Sullivan (talk)	Cleanup
287		Education in Ghana (talk)	Cleanup
10		Ashanti Protectorate (talk)	Cleanup
12		Dagbon music and dance (talk)	Expand
6		Savelugu-Nanton District (talk)	Expand
59		Ghana Oil Company (talk)	Expand
48		Dagbani language (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
51		Shilluk Kingdom (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
28		Kono people (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
39		Engineering Doctorate (talk)	Merge
4		Tamale Polytechnic (talk)	Merge
13		Ignition tube (talk)	Merge
133		Ga language (talk)	Wikify
227		Windows 8 editions (talk)	Wikify
11		Sunyani Technical University (talk)	Wikify
5		Kwaku Asante-Boateng (talk)	Orphan
8		Papa Nantwi Festival (talk)	Orphan
7		2010 Ghanaian New Patriotic Party presidential primary election (talk)	Orphan
7		Nyankpala (talk)	Stub
46		Clend Mawuko Sowu (talk)	Stub
4		Johnson Kwaku Adu (talk)	Stub
5		William Kwasi Sabi (talk)	Stub
8		Kwabena Donkor (talk)	Stub
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Hello Masssly! I hope this message finds you well and healthy! I am working this weekend on the Spoken Wikipedia project pages to get them in line with other projects. I just wanted to inform you in advance that some pages may be created. deleted, moved, or otherwise. If you have any questions, please feel free to post them on my talk page.
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Abu Nuwas drawn by Khalil Gibran in 1916 Hello, Masssly. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Abu Nuwas Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden • Human geography Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 25 May 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • [reply]

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Hi Mohammed! Hope you are well in this crazy time and staying safe as possible. We met in Cape Town for Wikimania a couple years ago. Thanks again for joining us for our Black Lunch Table edit-a-thon that week. I remember you mentioning you had experience on Wikidata and I was wondering if you'd be interested in leading a beginners workshop via videochat about editing Wikidata for us?

A few years ago we made Wikidata a priority for helping us organize by using the "on focus list of wiki project" property and querying Wikidata to generate our task lists for editathons. This, of course, opened a new world for us in thinking about representation on this platform too. We are inspired to consider that this moment provides an opportunity to appeal to a wider group of editors... folks who like to write (Wikipedia), photographers(WikiCommons), and of course people who like to organize (WikiData editors!). We want to share strategies for engaging communities in Wikimedia editing and the broader discussion of who writes history.

Black Lunch Table has always been about both in-person and digital collectivities and within this current moment will be even more digital. As artists, we are thinking about creative solutions to operating within these new constraints and are mindful of the many changes [ethical, ideological, practical, financial…] bound up in this online shift. We are hopeful that our adapted approach to operating within these spaces will remain flexible, generative, and affirming.

Your presentation + workshop would be part of a larger series of workshops, artist talks, and online edit a thons we are hosting from now through August.

Would you be interested? Would this work for you? Date: June 28 at 12ET

We will email details if you are interested.

If this seems like an adventure you can join us on, please respond by email before May 22nd and we will respond with instructions and a note of agreement.

We look forward to talking with you and wish you well.

-Heathart (talk) 15:15, 26 May 2020 (UTC) Heather Hart + the BLT Team heather@blacklunchtable.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Black_Lunch_Table/Online[reply]

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226		Peasant foods (talk)	Cleanup
119		Uruguayan cuisine (talk)	Cleanup
45		Canarian cuisine (talk)	Expand
287		Districts of Ghana (talk)	Expand
17		Klein Forest High School (talk)	Expand
139		Neapolitan cuisine (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
19		Nathaniel Attoh (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
570		Russian cuisine (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
90		Empire Today (talk)	Merge
2		William Brundage (talk)	Merge
74		Miura bull (talk)	Merge
5		Adam Ro (talk)	Wikify
41		Kabiye language (talk)	Wikify
59		Mahanubhava (talk)	Wikify
3		Christian Corleytey Otuteye (talk)	Orphan
3		Gifty Eugenia Kusi (talk)	Orphan
3		Joseph Kobla Wemakor (talk)	Orphan
9		Rose Atinga Bio (talk)	Stub
4		Kwame Asafu Adjei (talk)	Stub
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7		Kulango language (talk)	Stub
34		Hazaragi cuisine (talk)	Stub
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An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition or process, and the invention process is a process within an overall engineering and product development process. Hello, Masssly. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Invention Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Abu Nuwas • Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 1 June 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • [reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2020).

Administrator changes

CaptainEek • Creffett • Cwmhiraeth

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• A request for comment asks whether the Unblock Ticket Request System (UTRS) should allowed any unblock request or just private appeals.
• The Wikimedia Foundation announced that they will develop a universal code of conduct for all WMF projects. There is an open local discussion regarding the same.

Arbitration

• A motion was passed to enact a 500/30 restriction on articles related to the history of Jews and antisemitism in Poland during World War II (1933–45), including the Holocaust in Poland. Article talk pages where disruption occurs may also be managed with the stated restriction.