User talk:Rhododendrites/2019c
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WikiCup 2019 May newsletter
The second round of the 2019 WikiCup has now finished. Contestants needed to scored 32 points to advance into round 3. Our top four scorers in round 2 all scored over 400 points and were:
Cas Liber (1210), our winner in 2016, with two featured articles and three DYKs. He also made good use of the bonus points available, more than doubling his score by choosing appropriate articles to work on.
Kosack (750), last year's runner up, with an FA, a GA, two FLs, and five DYKs.
Adam Cuerden (480), a WikiCup veteran, with 16 featured pictures, mostly restorations.
Zwerg Nase (461), a seasoned competitor, with a FA, a GA and an ITN item.
Other notable performances were put in by 
Barkeep49 with six GAs, 
Ceranthor, 
Lee Vilenski, and 
Canada Hky, each with seven GARs, and 
MPJ-DK with a seven item GT.
So far contestants have achieved nine featured articles between them and a splendid 80 good articles. Commendably, 227 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2019 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. The judges are pleased with the thorough GARs that are being performed, and have hardly had to reject any. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.
If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere 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 (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:46, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship
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This Month in GLAM: April 2019
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| May 22, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC | |
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We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team 17:11, 16 May 2019 (UTC) | |
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Books & Bytes, Issue 33
The Wikipedia Library
Books & Bytes
Issue 33, March – April 2019
- #1Lib1Ref
- Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
- Global branches update
- Bytes in brief
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Skifree
Hey there. Stumbled across the GAN review of Skifree and was wondering if you have plans on continuing the review. I guess the reviewer didn't ping you when he was done. GamerPro64 00:44, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
- GamerPro64, ah! Sorry about that. I'll come back to this in the next few days! — Rhododendrites talk \\ 00:51, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
- @GamerPro64: Ok. Review version 2 is live. Thanks for your patience. Oops. Sorry, confused you with the nominator of the article. I'll ping them separately for a heads up. :) — Rhododendrites talk \\ 00:54, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
LOL I did the exact same thing
You: [1], [2]. Me: [3], [4]. Weird. Softlavender (talk) 05:28, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
- @Softlavender: One thing I Definitely-Know-For-Sure about this Completely-and-Totally-Accidental system of repeated archiving and unarchiving is that it has nothing to do with those plans made at that cabal meeting That-Didn't-Happen last month. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 13:42, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
- Aside: I almost gave up rollback rights because it feels like the only time I ever click that link is once or twice a year when my thumb hits it instead of "thanks" on mobile. First time for the archive link, though... — Rhododendrites talk \\ 13:44, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
- Wink wink, R. See you at the next meeting. (This page is invisible to others, right?) Softlavender (talk) 23:46, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)
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Your GA nomination of Rossa Matilda Richter
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Rossa Matilda Richter you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. 
This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Esprit15d -- Esprit15d (talk) 02:21, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
The Signpost: 31 May 2019
- From the editors: Picture that
- News and notes: Wikimania and trustee elections
- In the media: Politics, lawsuits and baseball
- Discussion report: Admin abuse leads to mass-desysop proposal on Azerbaijani Wikipedia
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Please comment on Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard
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Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:NZ PM Jacinda Ardern - Kirk HargreavesCCC.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 07:33, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
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FYI
Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Nic Stone Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 6.6% of all FPs 00:30, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
- Indeed! Thanks for the ping! — Rhododendrites talk \\ 01:54, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: May 2019
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Please comment on Talk:Murder of Anastasiya Meshcheryakova
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DYK for Kitty O'Brien Joyner
On 10 June 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Kitty O'Brien Joyner, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Kitty O'Brien Joyner (pictured) was the first woman engineer at NACA, the predecessor to NASA? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Kitty O'Brien Joyner. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Kitty O'Brien Joyner), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Amakuru (talk) 00:01, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
WikiCup 2019 Reminder
Hi. I'm DannyS712 (talk), and I just wanted to remind you that you are a current participant in round 3 of this year's WikiCup! There are just over 2 weeks until the third round ends – if you haven't made you first submission for this round yet, there is still time to start; if you have already started, keep up the good work. See your submissions page: here. Good luck!
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Please comment on Talk:Criticism of Huawei
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Fringe theory specialists?
Hey, I was wondering if there is such a thing as a group of Wikipedians who in some sense specialize in or are experienced in investigating elaborate looking but crackpot pseudoscience "walled gardens," as I suspect educology is, and if there is a way/if it would be appropriate to draw their attention to it. Thanks. Crossroads1 (talk) 19:26, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
- @Crossroads1: In fact, there is WP:FTN, the fringe theories noticeboard. Allow me to be the one to post there, though. Someone who nominates an article for AfD posting there could be seen as WP:CANVASSING, and a neutral notice is important. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 19:30, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
- Wikipedia:Fringe_theories/Noticeboard#Educology? — Rhododendrites talk \\ 19:37, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
- I see, thanks for that. Crossroads1 (talk) 19:41, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
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An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, File:RJ Palacio at BookCon (16102).jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! Armbrust The Homunculus 04:19, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
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- Congratulations! I think a lot more of yours should have passed, but it's a start. Maybe try more in a few weeks, once they're being less... y'know... Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 6.7% of all FPs 16:32, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks, Adam Cuerden. I admit I've been rather frustrated with the FPC process on enwiki. I don't feel like I have a clear sense of what people want in terms of EV. In fact, I think the issue is that too many people have their own idiosyncratic guidelines they apply. On Commons that happens sometimes, but there are enough other people with more straightforward interpretations of the criteria to balance it out. I don't see myself nominating anything else on enwiki for a while, but I suppose we'll see if that's just temporary annoyance speaking. :) — Rhododendrites talk \\ 14:23, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
June 19: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (stay tuned for Pride on weekend!)
| June 19, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC | |
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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Metropolitan New York Library Council in Midtown Manhattan. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities.
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team 05:38, 18 June 2019 (UTC) | |
| Stay tuned for details om next event! Sunday Jun 23: Wiki Loves Pride @ Metropolitan Museum of Art | |
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If two people agree on everything - one of them is not necessary.  Lubbad85 (☎)(Edits) 20:40, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 14
Updates: I've been focusing largely on the development side of things, so we are a lot closer now to being ready to actually start discussing deploying it and testing it out here.
There's just a few things left that need to be resolved:
- A bunch of language support issues in particular, plus some other release blockers, such as the fact that currently there's no good way to find any hubs people do create.
- We also probably need some proper documentation and examples up to even reference if we want a meaningful discussion. We have the extension documentation and some test projects, but we probably need a bit more. Also I need to be able to even find the test projects! How can I possibly write reports about this stuff if I can't find any of it?!
Some other stuff that's happened in the meantime:
- Midpoint report is out for this round of the project, if you want to read in too much detail about all the problems I've been running into.
- WikiProject Molecular Biology have successfully set up using the old module system that CollaborationKit is intended to replace (eventually), and it even seems to work, so go them. Based on the issues they ran into, it looks like the members signup thing on that system has some of the same problems as we've been unable to resolve in CK, though, which is... interesting. (Need to change the content model to the right thing for the formwizard config to take. Ugh, content models.)
Until next time,
-— Isarra ༆ 21:43, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Revision deletion
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Sunday June 23: Wiki Loves Pride @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
| June 23, 12:30pm: Wiki Loves Pride @ Metropolitan Museum of Art | |
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 You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for Wiki Loves Pride @ Metropolitan Museum of Art on the Upper East Side. Togethe, we'll create new and expand existing Wikipedia articles on LGBT artists and artworks with LGBT themes in the Met collection! With refreshments, and a special museum tour in the afternoon! And there will be a wiki-cake! Open to everyone at all levels of experience, wiki instructional workshop and one-on-one support will be provided. See also the global Wiki Loves Pride photo contest, as well as the Met's online LGBT Art Writing Contest, and also the LGBT Health Writing Contest.
This is the fifth annual Wiki Loves Pride edit-a-thon supported by Wikimedia NYC! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team 16:32, 22 June 2019 (UTC) | |
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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article
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WP:CEN is now open!
To all interested parties: Now that it has a proper shortcut, the current events noticeboard has now officially opened for discussion!
WP:CEN came about as an idea I explored through a request for comment that closed last March. Recent research has re-opened the debate on Wikipedia's role in a changing faster-paced internet. Questions of WP:NOTNEWS and WP:Recentism are still floating around. That being said, there are still plenty of articles to write and hopefully this noticeboard can positively contribute to that critical process.
Thank you for your participation in the RFC, and I hope to see you at WP:CEN soon! –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 19:10, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
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The June 2019 Signpost is out!
- Discussion report: A constitutional crisis hits English Wikipedia
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- Traffic report: Juneteenth, Beauty Revealed, and more nuclear disasters
- Technology report: Actors and Bots
- Special report: Did Fram harass other editors?
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