en User talk:Masssly Archive August 2022

This week's article for improvement (week 31, 2022)

Hello, Masssly. The article for improvement of the week is: Diego Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Retractable pen • Jazz Age Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot ^talk 00:05, 1 August 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions[reply]

The Signpost: 1 August 2022

From the editors: Rise of the machines, or something

News and notes: Information considered harmful

In the media: Censorship, medieval hoaxes, "pathetic supervillains", FB-WMF AI TL bid, dirty duchess deeds done dirt cheap

Op-Ed: The "recession" affair

Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (part 3)

Election guide: The chosen six: 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

Community view: Youth culture and notability

Opinion: Criminals among us

Arbitration report: Winds of change blow for cyclone editors, deletion dustup draws toward denouement

Deletion report: This is Gonzo Country

Discussion report: Notability for train stations, notices for mobile editors, noticeboards for the rest of us

Traffic report: US TV, JP ex-PM, outer space, and politics of IN, US, UK top charts for July

Featured content: A little list with surprisingly few lists

Tips and tricks: Cleaning up awful citations with Citation bot

In focus: Wikidata insights from a handy little tool

On the bright side: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war — three (more) stories

Essay: How to research an image

Recent research: A century of rulemaking on Wikipedia analyzed

Serendipity: Don't cite Wikipedia

Gallery: A backstage pass

From the archives: 2012 Russian Wikipedia shutdown as it happened

Humour: Why did the chicken cross the road?

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This Month in Education: July 2022

This Month in Education

Volume 11 • Issue 7 • July 2022

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).

Administrator changes

Valereee

Anthony Appleyard (deceased) • Capitalistroadster • Samsara

Guideline and policy news

An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.

Technical news

The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (T308570)

Arbitration

The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
Wikimania 2022 is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed here. There are also a number of in-person events associated with Wikimania around the world.
Tech tip: When revision-deleting on desktop, hold ⇧ Shift between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range.

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New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022

Hello Masssly/Archive,

Backlog status

After the last newsletter (No.28, June 2022), the backlog declined another 1,000 to 13,000 in the last week of June. Then the July backlog drive began, during which 9,900 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell by 4,500 to just under 8,500 (these numbers illustrate how many new articles regularly flow into the queue). Thanks go to the coordinators Buidhe and Zippybonzo, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations to Dr vulpes who led with 880 points. See this page for further details.

Unfortunately, most of the decline happened in the first half of the month, and the backlog has already risen to 9,600. Understandably, it seems many backlog drive participants are taking a break from reviewing and unfortunately, we are not even keeping up with the inflow let alone driving it lower. We need the other 600 reviewers to do more! Please try to do at least one a day.

Coordination: MB and Novem Linguae have taken on some of the coordination tasks. Please let them know if you are interested in helping out. MPGuy2824 will be handling recognition, and will be retroactively awarding the annual barnstars that have not been issued for a few years.

Open letter to the WMF: The Page Curation software needs urgent attention. There are dozens of bug fixes and enhancements that are stalled (listed at Suggested improvements). We have written a letter to be sent to the WMF and we encourage as many patrollers as possible to sign it here. We are also in negotiation with the Board of Trustees to press for assistance. Better software will make the active reviewers we have more productive.

TIP - Reviewing by subject: Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages by their most familiar subjects can do so from the regularly updated sorted topic list.

New reviewers: The NPP School is being underused. The learning curve for NPP is quite steep, but a detailed and easy-to-read tutorial exists, and the Curation Tool's many features are fully described and illustrated on the updated page here.

Reminders

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To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.

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This week's article for improvement (week 32, 2022)

A home page of Wikipedia (in 2014) displayed in a web browser.

Hello, Masssly. The article for improvement of the week is:

Home page

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Diego • Retractable pen

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This week's article for improvement (week 33, 2022)

Christmas market in Red Square in 2017

Hello, Masssly. The article for improvement of the week is:

Christmas in Russia

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Home page • Diego

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CIS-A2K Newsletter July 2022

Dear Wikimedians,

Hope everything is fine. As CIS-A2K update the communities every month about their previous work via the Newsletter. Through this message, A2K shares its July 2022 Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned A2K's conducted events.

Conducted events

Ongoing events

Partnerships with Goa University, authors and language organisations

Upcoming events

Gujarati Wikisource Community skill-building workshop

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Hi Masssly/Archive,

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For those who may have missed it in our last newsletter, here's a quick reminder to see the letter we have drafted, and if you support it, do please go ahead and sign it. If you already signed, thanks. Also, if you haven't noticed, the backlog has been trending up lately; all reviews are greatly appreciated.

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Happy Eleventh First Edit Day!

Hey, Masssly. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!
Have a great day! Chris Troutman (talk) 15:15, 21 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 34, 2022)

Kyushu, literally "Nine Provinces", is the third-largest island of Japan's five main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands (i.e. excluding Okinawa).

Hello, Masssly. The article for improvement of the week is:

Kyushu

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Christmas in Russia • Home page

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Happy Birthday!

Wishing Masssly a very happy birthday on behalf of the Birthday Committee! Chris Troutman (talk) 18:52, 23 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Editing news 2022 #2

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The new [subscribe] button notifies people when someone replies to their comments. It helps newcomers get answers to their questions. People reply sooner. You can read the report. The Editing team is turning this tool on for everyone. You will be able to turn it off in your preferences.

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This week's article for improvement (week 35, 2022)

Cartoonist Charles M. Schulz drawing Charlie Brown in 1956

Hello, Masssly. The article for improvement of the week is:

Cartoonist

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Kyushu • Christmas in Russia

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The Bugle: Issue CXCVII, August 2022

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: Hawkeye7 on the Falklands War

The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here.
If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 09:00, 29 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Flag of Saudi Arabia

Hi! I saw that you were a member of WikiProject Saudi Arabia and wanted to let you know that there's currently an RFC going on on the talk page for the flag of Saudi Arabia on Commons which you might be interested in participating in. Your input would be appreciated. Thanks! HapHaxion _{(talk / contribs)} 18:14, 29 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]