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{{Can't retire}}
I think I've had enough of this, y'all. So long, and thanks for all the frogs. casualdejekyll 19:36, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
Update: Replaced with {{tl|Can't retire}} because I keep coming back to this site. Do not expect me to be active. Do not expect me to edit any pages in projectspace. But I'm going to try to feel less guilty about making minor edits every now and then, and maybe someday I'll make a proper return (don't count on it, the stress of this site killed my mental health in October '23 and I'm not going to let that happen again) casualdejekyll 14:01, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
November Articles for creation backlog drive
Hello Casualdejekyll:
WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.
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 {{Rounddown|{{formatnum:{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Pending AfC submissions}}|R}}|-2}} pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:23, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
WikiCup 2023 November newsletter
The WikiCup is a marathon rather than a sprint and all those reaching the final round have been involved in the competition for the last ten months, improving Wikipedia vastly during the process. After all this hard work, {{flagicon|Delaware}} BeanieFan11 has emerged as the 2023 winner and the WikiCup Champion. The finalists this year were:-
- {{flagicon|Delaware}} BeanieFan11 with 2582 points
- {{flagicon image|Flag of Mars.svg|link=Mars}} Thebiguglyalien with 1615 points
- {{flagicon|New York (state)}} Epicgenius with 1518 points
- {{flagicon image|Cat in console.png}} MyCatIsAChonk with 1012 points
- {{flagicon image|Flag_of_Esperanto.svg|link=Esperanto}} BennyOnTheLoose with 974 points
- {{flagicon|London}} AirshipJungleman29 with 673 points
- {{flagicon image|Transgender Pride flag.svg|link=Transgender}} Sammi Brie with 520 points
- {{flagicon image|Royal standard of England (1406–1603).svg|link=Dual monarchy of England and France}} Unlimitedlead with 5 points
Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the competition, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.
- {{flagicon image|Royal standard of England (1406–1603).svg|link=Dual monarchy of England and France}} Unlimitedlead wins the featured article prize, for 7 FAs in total including 3 in round 2.
- {{flagicon image|Cat in console.png}} MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured list prize, for 5 FLs in total.
- {{flagicon|ENG}} Lee Vilenski wins the featured topic prize, for a 6-article featured topic in round 4.
- {{flagicon image|Cat in console.png}} MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured picture prize, for 6 FPs in total.
- {{flagicon|Delaware}} BeanieFan11 wins the good article prize, for 75 GAs in total, including 61 in the final round.
- {{flagicon|New York (state)}} Epicgenius wins the good topic prize, for a 41-article good topic in the final round.
- {{flagicon|Berkelland}} LunaEatsTuna wins the GA reviewer prize, for 70 GA reviews in round 1.
- {{flagicon image|Cat in console.png}} MyCatIsAChonk wins the FA reviewer prize, for 66 FA reviews in the final round.
- {{flagicon|New York (state)}} Epicgenius wins the DYK prize, for 49 did you know articles in total.
- {{flagicon|Ukraine}} Muboshgu wins the ITN prize, for 46 in the news articles in total.
The WikiCup has run every year since 2007. With the 2023 contest now concluded, I will be standing down as a judge due to real life commitments, so I hope that another editor will take over running the competition. Please get in touch if you are interested. Next year's competition will hopefully begin on 1 January 2024. You are invited to sign up to participate in the contest; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors. It only remains to congratulate our worthy winners once again and thank all participants for their involvement! (If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.) Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:51, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – November 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).
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- The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
- There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. Feedback on this proposal is requested.
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- Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
- {{noping|Xaosflux}}, {{noping|RoySmith}} and {{noping|Cyberpower678}} have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections. {{noping|BusterD}} is the reserve commissioner.
- Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
- Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
- Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
- Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
- An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.
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- The Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in November 2023, with 700+ drafts pending reviews for in the last 4 months or so. In addition to the AfC participants, all administrators and New Page Patrollers can conduct reviews using the helper script, Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).
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- Following a talk page discussion, the Administrators' accountability policy has been updated to note that while it is considered best practice for administrators to have notifications (pings) enabled, this is not mandatory. Administrators who do not use notifications are now strongly encouraged to indicate this on their user page.
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- Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
- The Arbitration Committee has announced a call for Checkusers and Oversighters, stating that it will currently be accepting applications for CheckUser and/or Oversight permissions at any point in the year.
- Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 11, 2023 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.
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Guild of Copy Editors December 2023 Newsletter
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| Guild of Copy Editors December 2023 Newsletter Hello, and welcome to the December 2023 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since September. Don't forget that you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Election news: The Guild needs coordinators! If you'd like to help out, you may nominate yourself or any suitable editor—with their permission—for the Election of Coordinators for the first half of 2024. Nominations will close at 23:59 on 15 December (UTC). Voting begins immediately after the close of nominations and closes at 23:59 on 31 December. All editors in good standing (not under current sanctions) are eligible, and self-nominations are welcome. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term that ends at 23:59 on 30 June. Drive: Of the 69 editors who signed up for the September Backlog Elimination Drive, 40 copy-edited at least one article. Between them, they copy-edited 661,214 words in 290 articles. Barnstars awarded are listed here. Blitz: Of the 22 editors who signed up for the October Copy Editing Blitz, 13 copy-edited at least one article. Between them, they copy-edited 109,327 words in 52 articles. Barnstars awarded are listed here. Drive: During the November Backlog Elimination Drive, 38 of the 58 editors who signed up copy-edited at least one article. Between them, they copy-edited 458,620 words in 234 articles. Barnstars awarded are listed here. Blitz: Our December Copy Editing Blitz will run from 10 to 16 December. Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 20:33, 10 December 2023 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 344 requests since 1 January, and the backlog stands at 2,191 articles. Other news: Our Annual Report for 2023 is planned for release in the new year. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators {{noping|Dhtwiki|Miniapolis|Zippybonzo}}. {{center | To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. }} |
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''This Month in GLAM'': November 2023
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Re-contact from Philbobison
Hello, casualdejekyll ,
How are you ? You will remember that a month ago, you kindly helped me improve my first page that had been declined. ( Draft:A Yellow Butterfly Called Sphinx )
Since then, I worked hard at it and corrected it according to your suggestions. Among them, you adviced me to have some sources checked by French speaking wikipedians, what I did : Going Batty and Jumbolino nicely helped me. I think that now this first page is much better and I hope it could be published shortly. It would be for me a great way to start the coming year with wikipedia ! So, would you accept to have a look at this new version and tell me, if the draft is OK and how to publish it ? I am looking forward to hearing from you. Sincerely. Philbobison Philbobison (talk) 07:20, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
Welcome to the 2024 WikiCup!
Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2024 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page ready for you to take part. Any questions on the scoring, rules or anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close on 31 January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: {{User4|Cwmhiraeth}}, {{User4|Epicgenius}}, and {{User4|Frostly}}. 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) 00:21, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – January 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).
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- Following the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: {{Noping|Aoidh}}, {{Noping|Cabayi}}, {{Noping|Firefly}}, {{Noping|HJ Mitchell}}, {{Noping|Maxim}}, {{Noping|Sdrqaz}}, {{Noping|ToBeFree}}, {{Noping|Z1720}}.
- Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
- The arbitration case Industrial agriculture has been closed.
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- The New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,000 unreviewed articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
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