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|style="padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | File:WIR Black History Month 2025.pngWomen in Red | February 2025, Vol 11, Issue 2, Nos. 326, 327, 330, 331

Online events:

• New: Black women | Alphabet run C & D
• Continuing, year-long initiatives: #1day1woman | Music

Announcements from other communities:

• Wiki Loves Ramadan begins on 25 February - a great opportunity to focus on women from Islamic history

Tip of the month:

• Looking for an image? Sometimes you can find openly licensed ones on [https://search.creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons search]

Suggestion:

• Consider helping to promote women under In the news and On this day on Wikipedia's main page

Other ways to participate:

• Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications.
• Join the conversations on our talkpage.
• Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project.
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WikiWednesday is back! You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, with an online-based participation option also available. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome!

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct and Photography Policy.

Meeting info:

• Wednesday, February 19 WikiWednesday @ Prime Produce (optional RSVP on-wiki).
• :6:00 pm – 7:00 pm (Open Hour)
• :7:00 pm – 9:00 pm (Wiki Salon)
• : (Prime Produce, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan)
• : Also online via [https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85212519478 Zoom]

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|style="padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | File:WiR_2025_artist.pngWomen in Red | March 2025, Vol 11, Issue 3, Nos. 326, 327, 332, 333, 334

Online events:

• New: Alphabet run E & F | Artists+Activists | Women of the Arab World
• Continuing, year-long initiatives: #1day1woman | Music

Announcements from other communities:

• March editathons around the world
• Celebrate Women 2025 office hour series

Tip of the month:

• You can access the [https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/?next_url=/users/my_library/ Wikipedia Library] if you have made 500+ edits, and 6+ months editing,
  and 10+ edits in the last 30 days, and No active blocks

Moving the needle:{{cite web |title=Humaniki |url=https://humaniki.wmcloud.org/search}}

• 27 Jan 2025: 20.031% of biographies on EN-WP are about women (2,047,793 bios, 410,200 women)
• 23 Dec 2024: 20.009% (2,041,741 bios, 408,531 women)

Thank you if you contributed one or more of the 1,669 articles during this period!

Other ways to participate:

• Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications.
• Join the conversations on our talkpage.
• Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project.
• Follow us on social media:

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| Guild of Copy Editors Annual Report

Highlights:

• Introduction
• Membership news and election results
• Summary of Drives, Blitzes and the Requests page
• Closing words

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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community and visitors from the global Wikimedia Foundation for our Wiki Gala at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. All are welcome!

This is a sequel to the March 2024 Wiki Gala at Prime Produce, the March 2023 Grand Central Salon and the March 2022 Wiki-Tent Brunch.

The event will feature thematic video art installations and our traditional Wiki-fashion show, for which you are encouraged to dress in your finest Wikimedia clothing and accessories (bags, buttons, even books), or clothing connected to the topics you edit on wiki projects.

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct and Photography Policy.

Meeting info:

• Wednesady, March 12 Wiki Gala @ Prime Produce (optional RSVP on-wiki).
• :6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
• : (Prime Produce, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan)

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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for an urban gardening-themed edit-a-thon at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. This event will be hosted in collaboration with Farming Concrete in celebration of Open Data Week in New York City. All are welcome, new and experienced!

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct and Photography Policy.

Meeting info:

• Thursday, March 27 Editing the Open Data Garden @ Prime Produce (RSVP on [https://2025.open-data.nyc/event/editing-the-open-data-garden-urban-environments-and-civic-ecologies/ NYC Open Data] and optionally on-wiki).
• :4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
• : (Prime Produce, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan)

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|style="padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | File:WiR Business 2025.pngWomen in Red | April 2025, Vol 11, Issue 4, Nos. 326, 327, 335, 336

Online events:

• New: Alphabet run G & H | Business
• Continuing, year-long initiatives: #1day1woman | Music

Announcements (Events facilitated by others):

• The European Destubathon – a stub improvement contest/editathon from 1–30 April 2025

Tip of the month:

• When creating biographies, don't forget to use Template:DEFAULTSORT.
  Accessible from "Wiki markup" at the foot of the page being edited,
  it allows categories to be listed under the subject's family name rather than their first or given name.

Moving the needle: ([https://humaniki.wmcloud.org/search statistics available via Humaniki tool])

• 24 Mar 2025: 20.070% of biographies on EN-WP are about women (2,057,083, 412,857 women)
• 27 Jan 2025: 20.031% (2,047,793 bios, 410,200 women)

Thank you if you contributed one or more of the 2,657 articles during this period!

Other ways to participate:

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You are invited to Foundation and Friends' Free Culture Friday at Prime Produce on Friday, April 11. This event will feature a reception with Wikimedia Foundation staff in the afternoon, followed by a more informal salon, hackathon, and game night, utilizing Prime Produce's vast collection of board games. This replaces WikiWednesday Salon this month. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome!

• Friday, April 11, 2025
• 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm (Wikimedia Foundation staff + community meet-and-greet)
• 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm (Open salon, hacking, and board games)
• :Prime Produce, 424 W 54th St

All attendees at Wikimedia NYC events are subject to the Wikimedia NYC Code of Conduct and Photography Policy.

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| Guild of Copy Editors April 2025 Newsletter

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Hello and welcome to the April 2025 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since December. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. We extend a warm welcome to all of our new members. We wish you all happy copy-editing.

Election results: In our December 2025 coordinator election, Wracking stepped down as coordinator; we thank them for their service. Incumbents Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, and Mox Eden were reelected coordinators, and IQR and WikiEditor5678910 were newly elected coordinator, to serve through 30 June. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators will open on 1 June (UTC).

Drive: 55 editors signed up for our January Backlog Elimination Drive 33 claimed at least one copy-edit and copy-edited 611,404 words in 237 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

Blitz: 14 editors signed up for our February Copy Editing Blitz. 10 claimed at least one copy-edit and copy-edited 46,749 words in 18 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

Drive: 47 editors signed up for our March Backlog Elimination Drive. 28 claimed at least one copy-edit and copy-edited 479,172 words in 207 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

Blitz: Sign up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, which runs from 13 to 19 April. Barnstars will be awarded here.

Progress report: As of 9:45, 12 April 2024 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 89 requests since 1 January 2024, and the backlog stands at 2,264 articles.

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|IQR|Miniapolis|Mox Eden|WikiEditor5678910}}.

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