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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.
Hi. Okay, I have begun a draft of a brief intro to editing ancient history topics. what do you think of this draft? Also, could you please add any sources you wish to the list below? And if you have any other points to add or to include, please feel free to add them as well.
this draft is transcluded from a document in my own user space. that way, if I make multiple edits, I won't cause multiple notifications to be sent to you, as they would if I wrote the draft here on your talk page. let me know what you think, and please make any and all edits that you may wish. as you can see, this is veery brief and concise; I don't feel a need to make thiss overly complex. however, if there is anything you wish to add, please feel free to do so. thanks!!! --Sm8900 (talk) 22:32, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi. I got your reply on the draft below. could you please jusst give me the name of one or two books that you like to use at Google Books, and one or two journals that you have used at JSTOR? that is all I need to know. I will finish the document from there. I appreciate it. I hope you don't mind me asking. thanks!!! --Sm8900 (talk) 11:31, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
hi. welcome back! I see that you are editing again. when you get a chance, could you please give me a title for just one published work at Google Books that is useful, and one journal or publication at JSTOR that would be useful? I can use that data, as it would be very helpful. I would greatly appreciate it. I hope that's okay? thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 01:17, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
Hello and welcome to the June newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since March 2020. You can unsubscribe from our mailings at any time; see below. All times and dates stated are in UTC.
Current events
Election time: Nomination of candidates in our mid-year Election of Coordinators opened on 1 June, and voting will take place from 00:01 on 16 June. GOCE coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought about helping out at the Guild, or you know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here.
March Drive: Self-isolation from coronavirus may have played a hand in making this one of our most successful backlog elimination drives. The copy-editing backlog was reduced from 477 to a record low of 118 articles, a 75% reduction. The last four months of 2019 were cleared, reducing the backlog to three months. Fifty requests were also completed, and the total word count of copy-edited articles was 759,945. Of the 29 editors who signed up, 22 completed at least one copy edit. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.
April Blitz: This blitz ran from 12 to 18 April with a theme of Indian military history. Of the 18 people who signed up, 14 copyedited at least one article. Participants claimed a total of 60 copyedits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.
May Drive: This event marked the 10th anniversary of the GOCE's copy-editing drives, and set a goal of diminishing the backlog to just one month of articles, as close to zero articles as possible. We achieved the goal of eliminating all articles that had been tagged prior to the start of the drive, for the first time in our history! Of the 51 editors who signed up, 43 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.
Other news
Progress report: as of 2 June, GOCE participants had processed 328 requests since 1 January, which puts us on pace to exceed any previous year's number of requests. As of the end of the May drive, the backlog stood at just 156 articles, all tagged in May 2020.
Outreach: To mark the 10th anniversary of our first Backlog Elimination Drive, The Signpost contributor and GOCE participant Puddleglum2.0 interviewed project coordinators and copy-editors for the journal's April WikiProject Report. The Drive and the current Election of Coordinators have also been covered in The Signpost'sMay News and Notes page.
Hey, thank you very much for reviewing the Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire article nomination to GA level. Just to let you know, while i have been editing Wikipedia for about 3 years, i'm quite a newbie in this kind of process (i.e. GA nomination). Just wanted to apologies in advance if i make some mistakes ... Thanks. Cheers.---Wikaviani (talk)(contribs)17:52, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi. could you please let me know if there is some method that I could use to contact some of the coordinators at WP:MILHIST? I would like to let a few of them know about my efforts, and ask them for some help, in a few specific areas.
Is there any method that you could please suggest? Shiould I simply use the talk page for WP:Milhist? Is there any online method that is used for this, such as on Discord, or Slack, or IRC, or email, etc? I appreciate any help. thanks. --Sm8900 (talk) 15:45, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020
Hello Iazyges/Archives/2020,
Your help can make a difference
NPP Sorting can be a great way to find pages needing new page patrolling that match your strengths and interests. Using ORES, it divides articles into topics such as Literature or Chemistry and on Geography. Take a look and see if you can find time to patrol a couple pages a day. With over 10,000 pages in the queue, the highest it's been since ACPERM, your help could really make a difference.
Google Adds New Languages to Google Translate
In late February, Google added 5 new languages to Google Translate: Kinyarwanda, Odia (Oriya), Tatar, Turkmen and Uyghur. This expands our ability to find and evaluate sources in those languages.
Discussions and Resources
A discussion on handling new article creation by paid editors is ongoing at the Village Pump.
Also at the Village Pump is a discussion about limiting participation at Articles for Deletion discussion.
