The fourth round of the competition has finished in a flurry of last minute activity, with 454 points being required to qualify for the final round. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants with over 400 points being eliminated, and all but two of the finalists having achieved an FA during the round. Casliber, our 2016 winner, was the highest point-scorer, followed by Enwebb and Lee Vilenski, who are both new to the competition. In fourth place was SounderBruce, a finalist last year. But all those points are swept away as we start afresh for the final round.

Round 4 saw the achievement of 11 featured articles. In addition, Adam Cuerden scored with 18 FPs, Lee Vilenski led the GA score with 8 GAs while Kosack performed 15 GA reviews. There were around 40 DYKs, 40 GARs and 31 GAs overall during round 4. Even though contestants performed more GARs than they achieved GAs, there was still some frustration at the length of time taken to get articles reviewed.

As we start round 5, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (some people have fallen foul of this rule and the points have been removed).

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168		Nadia (talk)	Add sources
5,998		Lok Sabha (talk)	Add sources
346		SRM Institute of Science and Technology (talk)	Cleanup
5		Ashanti Protectorate (talk)	Cleanup
9		Tjin-A-Djie family (talk)	Cleanup
1,440		Politics of the United Kingdom (talk)	Expand
23		Fishing in Ghana (talk)	Expand
83		Mining industry of Ghana (talk)	Expand
56		Baoulé people (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
138		Iyaric (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
6		Human trafficking in Togo (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,762		Chancellor of Germany (talk)	Merge
194		Netherlandish Proverbs (talk)	Merge
13		Naked Heart Foundation (talk)	Merge
61		Semantic interoperability (talk)	Wikify
21		Life in the African Union (talk)	Wikify
6		Kwaku Gyasi (talk)	Wikify
2		Theresa Amerley Tagoe (talk)	Orphan
1		William Kwasi Sabi (talk)	Orphan
6		Samuel Attah-Mensah (talk)	Orphan
10		Tema Central (Ghana parliament constituency) (talk)	Stub
7		Gifty Twum Ampofo (talk)	Stub
42		Kojo Antwi (talk)	Stub
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2019).

Administrator changes

Bradv • Chetsford • Izno

Floquenbeam • Lectonar

DESiegel • Jake Wartenberg • Rjanag • Topbanana

CheckUser changes

Callanecc • LFaraone • There'sNoTime

Oversight changes

Callanecc • Fox • HJ Mitchell • LFaraone • There'sNoTime

Technical news

• Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools.
• The advanced version of the edit review pages (recent changes, watchlist, and related changes) now includes two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces.

Arbitration

• A request for comment is open to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the 2019 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election and to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.

Miscellaneous

• A global request for comment is in progress regarding whether a user group should be created that could modify edit filters across all public Wikimedia wikis.

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This Month in GLAM – Volume IX, Issue VIII, August 2019 Headlines Côte d'Ivoire report: Strategic salon around GLAM perspectives Finland report: Continuing our work with the Saami communities Indonesia report: Digitization of banknotes and introduction to structured data on Commons (continued) Netherlands report: Wikidata map making workshop Norway report: Women in Red: collaboration with The National Library in Norway and Oslo Metropolitan University Sweden report: GLAM communities of practice; Problematic data UK report: New and old collaborations USA report: Wikimania 2019 Special story: Wikimania GLAM Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: Recent presentations, workshops and blog posts Wikidata report: Work for us, or just tell us what you think of us WMF GLAM report: Updates on OpenGLAM Calendar: September'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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Backlog

Instead of reaching a magic 300 as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.

Coordinator

A proposal is taking place here to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.

This month's refresher course

Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired Ballonman, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for making the occasional mistake while others can learn from their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.

Deletion tags

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Paid editing

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Subject-specific notability guidelines' (SNG). Alternatives to deletion

• Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves once more with notability guidelines for organisations and companies.
• Blank-and-Redirect is a solution anchored in policy. Please consider this alternative before PRODing or CSD. Note however, that users will often revert or usurp redirects to re-create deleted articles. Do regularly patrol the redirects in the feed.

Not English

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Tools

Regular reviewers will appreciate the most recent enhancements to the New Pages Feed and features in the Curation tool, and there are still more to come. Due to the wealth of information now displayed by ORES, reviewers are strongly encouraged to use the system now rather than Twinkle; it will also correctly populate the logs.

Stub sorting, by SD0001: A new script is available for adding/removing stub tags. See User:SD0001/StubSorter.js, It features a simple HotCat-style dynamic search field. Many of the reviewers who are using it are finding it an improvement upon other available tools.

Assessment: The script at User:Evad37/rater makes the addition of Wikiproject templates extremely easy. New page creators rarely do this. Reviewers are not obliged to make these edits but they only take a few seconds. They can use the Curation message system to let the creator know what they have done.

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67		Akrafena (talk)	Add sources
124		Lake Volta (talk)	Add sources
69		Lake Bosumtwi (talk)	Add sources
101		War of the Golden Stool (talk)	Add sources
906		Anansi (talk)	Add sources
7		Akim Swedru (Ghana parliament constituency) (talk)	Cleanup
58		Hiplife (talk)	Cleanup
32		Amal dynasty (talk)	Cleanup
196		Ewe language (talk)	Expand
14		Fjord City (talk)	Expand
11		Tem people (talk)	Expand
33		Dagbani language (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
465		Beetlejuice (TV series) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
9,818		Korean Broadcasting System (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
131		Carbonated drink (talk)	Merge
1,362		Soft drink (talk)	Merge
57		Alberto Nisman (talk)	Merge
42		Lydia (band) (talk)	Wikify
93		Ga language (talk)	Wikify
49		Nature–culture divide (talk)	Wikify
3		Isaac Kaledzi (talk)	Orphan
6		Joy Henrietta Mensa-Bonsu (talk)	Orphan
5		Joseph Kobla Wemakor (talk)	Orphan
5		Bomfobiri Wildlife Sanctuary (talk)	Stub
10		2004 Ghanaian general election (talk)	Stub
3		Joseph Bipoba Naabu (talk)	Stub
12		Adowa dance (talk)	Stub
3		Albert Abongo (talk)	Stub
28		Kumasi Airport (talk)	Stub

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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: Nick-D looks at the legacy of World War II

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37		Agogo, Ghana (talk)	Add sources
5		Kusi Obodom (talk)	Add sources
18		Osei Bonsu (talk)	Add sources
24		Atenteben (talk)	Add sources
26		Koforidua Technical University (talk)	Cleanup
409		Hellenic Parliament (talk)	Cleanup
2		Saviour Presby (talk)	Cleanup
79		Sidel (talk)	Expand
27		Manufacturing in Ghana (talk)	Expand
24		Social Security and National Insurance Trust (talk)	Expand
10		Nathaniel Attoh (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
52		Azonto (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
101		Austrian Americans (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
87		Reliability (computer networking) (talk)	Merge
826		Darkwing Duck (talk)	Merge
15		Roxy Hunter and the Horrific Halloween (talk)	Merge
6		Adam Ro (talk)	Wikify
23		Secretariat of the Pan-African Parliament (talk)	Wikify
34		Kabiye language (talk)	Wikify
5		Alex Adomako-Mensah (talk)	Orphan
3		Kennedy Osei Nyarko (talk)	Orphan
2		Samuel Nsowa-Djan (talk)	Orphan
12		Aburukuwa (talk)	Stub
12		Battle of Feyiase (talk)	Stub
8		Bernice Heloo (talk)	Stub
4		Youga (talk)	Stub
7		Patricia Appiagyei (talk)	Stub
7		Cynthia Mamle Morrison (talk)	Stub

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October 2019, Volume 5, Issue 10, Numbers 107, 108, 137, 138, 139, 140 Check out what's happening in October at Women in Red... Online events: New: STEM / Fashion / Geofocus: landlocked countries / Stub Contest Continuing: Suffrage / #1day1woman Editor feedback: Check out the conversation regarding: Women vice Chancellors in Top 200 universities Help us plan our future events at the Ideas Cafe Join the conversations on our talkpage Social media: Facebook / Instagram / Pinterest / Twitter Stay in touch: Join WikiProject Women in Red / Opt-out of notifications

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Guild of Copy Editors September 2019 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the September newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since June 2019. June election: Reidgreg was chosen as lead coordinator, and is being assisted by Baffle gab1978, Miniapolis, Tdslk, and first-time coordinator Twofingered Typist. Jonesey95 took a respite after serving for six years. Thanks to everyone who participated! June Blitz: From 16 to 22 June, we copy edited articles on the themes of nature and the environment along with requests. 12 participating editors completed 35 copy edits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. July Drive: The year's fourth backlog-elimination drive was a great success, clearing all articles tagged in January and February, and bringing the copy-editing backlog to a low of five months and a record low of 585 articles while also completing 48 requests. Of the 30 people who signed up, 29 copyedited at least one article, a participation level last matched in May 2015. Final results and awards are listed here. August Blitz: From 18 to 24 August, we copy edited articles tagged in March 2019 and requests. 12 participating editors completed 26 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: As of 03:00, 23 September 2019 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors had processed 413 requests since 1 January. The backlog of tagged articles stood at 599 articles, close to our record month-end low of 585. Requests page: We are experimenting with automated archiving of copy edit requests; a discussion on REQ Talk (permalinked) initiated by Bobbychan193 has resulted in Zhuyifei1999 writing a bot script for the Guild. Testing is now underway and is expected to be completed by 3 October; for this reason, no manual archiving of requests should be done until the testing period is over. We will then assess the bot's performance and discuss whether to make this arrangement permanent. September Drive: Our current backlog-elimination drive is open until 23:59 on 30 September (UTC) and is open to all copy editors. Sign up today! Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators, Baffle gab1978, Miniapolis, Reidgreg, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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52		Akan chieftaincy (talk)	Add sources
77		Tacky's War (talk)	Add sources
4		Awutu-Senya (Ghana parliament constituency) (talk)	Add sources
21		Cape Three Points (talk)	Add sources
3		Cape Coast (Ghana parliament constituency) (talk)	Add sources
45		Osei Tutu Senior High School (talk)	Add sources
3		Sunyani East (Ghana parliament constituency) (talk)	Cleanup
555		Education in Ghana (talk)	Cleanup
73		Imperial, royal, and noble styles (talk)	Cleanup
44		Ghana Oil Company (talk)	Expand
22		Anyi people (talk)	Expand
4		Ato Ulzen-Appiah (talk)	Expand
2,392		Parliamentary system (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
523		Parliament-Funkadelic (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
10		Banda Ahenkro (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
58		Kpinga (talk)	Merge
31		Aujan Group (talk)	Merge
5		Fiumans (talk)	Merge
216		Telephone numbers in Suriname (talk)	Wikify
145		African popular music (talk)	Wikify
237		Commutation (law) (talk)	Wikify
28		KillBeatz (talk)	Orphan
2		Kwasi Etu-Bonde (talk)	Orphan
3		Ernest Henry Norgbey (talk)	Orphan
82		Medikal (talk)	Stub
18		Kofi Adu (talk)	Stub
5		Mercy Adu-Gyamfi (talk)	Stub
3		Jaman South (Ghana parliament constituency) (talk)	Stub
2		1965 Ghanaian parliamentary election (talk)	Stub
24		Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem II (talk)	Stub

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The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 35, July – August 2019

• Wikimania
• We're building something great, but..
• Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
• A Wikibrarian's story
• Bytes in brief

Read the full newsletter

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A final update, for now:

The third grant-funded round of WikiProject X has been completed. Unfortunately, while this round has not resulted in a deployed product, I am not planning to resume working on the project for the foreseeable future. Please see the final report for more information.

Regards,

-— Isarra ༆ 19:24, 29 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings!

After a successful first iteration of the “Months of African Cinema” last year, we are happy to announce that it will be happening again this year, starting from October 1! In the 2018 edition of the contest, about 600 Wikipedia articles were created in at least 8 languages. There were also contributions to Wikidata and Wikimedia commons, which brought the total number of wikimedia pages created during the contest to over 1,000.

The AfroCine Project welcomes you to October, the first out of the two months which have been dedicated to creating and improving content that centre around the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora. Join us in this global edit-a-thon, by helping to create or expand articles which are connected to this scope. Also remember to list your name under the participants section.

On English Wikipedia, we would be recognizing participants in the following manner:

• Overall winner (1st, 2nd, 3rd places)
• Diversity winner
• Gender-gap fillers

For further information about the contest, the recognition categories and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. See you around :).--Jamie Tubers (talk) 00:50, 30 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

16:50, 30 September 2019 (UTC)