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WikiCup 2021 July newsletter

The third round of the 2021 WikiCup has now come to an end. Each of the sixteen contestants who made it into the fourth round had at least 294 points, and our top six scorers all had over 600 points. They were:

  • Botswana The Rambling Man, with 1825 points from 3 featured articles, 44 featured article reviews, 14 good articles, 30 good article reviews and 10 DYKs. In addition, he completed a 34-article good topic on the EFL Championship play-offs.
  • New York (state) Epicgenius, a New York specialist, with 1083 points from 2 featured article reviews, 18 good articles, 30 DYKs and plenty of bonus points.
  • Republic of Venice Bloom6132, with 869 points from 11 DYKs, all with bonus points, and 54 "In the news" items, mostly covering people who had recently died.
  • England Gog the Mild, with 817 points from 3 featured articles on historic battles in Europe, 5 featured article reviews and 3 good articles.
  • Hog Farm, with 659 points from 2 featured articles and 2 good articles on American Civil War battles, 18 featured article reviews, 2 good articles, 6 good article reviews and 4 DYKs.
  • Zulu (International Code of Signals) BennyOnTheLoose, a snooker specialist and new to the Cup, with 647 points from a featured article, 2 featured article reviews, 6 good articles, 6 good article reviews and 3 DYKs.

In round three, contestants achieved 19 featured articles, 7 featured lists, 106 featured article reviews, 72 good articles, 1 good topic, 62 good article reviews, 165 DYKs and 96 ITN items. We enter the fourth round with scores reset to zero; any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (one contestant in round 3 lost out because of this). When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything 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. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Judges: Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:30, 2 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2021).

Guideline and policy news

  • Consensus has been reached to delete all books in the book namespace. There was rough consensus that the deleted books should still be available on request at WP:REFUND even after the namespace is removed.
  • An RfC is open to discuss the next steps following a trial which automatically applied pending changes to TFAs.

Technical news

  • IP addresses of unregistered users are to be hidden from everyone. There is a rough draft of how IP addresses may be shown to users who need to see them. This currently details allowing administrators, checkusers, stewards and those with a new usergroup to view the full IP address of unregistered users. Editors with at least 500 edits and an account over a year old will be able to see all but the end of the IP address in the proposal. The ability to see the IP addresses hidden behind the mask would be dependent on agreeing to not share the parts of the IP address they can see with those who do not have access to the same information. Accessing part of or the full IP address of a masked editor would also be logged. Comments on the draft are being welcomed at the talk page.

Arbitration

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This week's article for improvement (week 27, 2021)

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

Organized religion

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Christmas ham • Alida Morberg

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Tech News: 2021-27

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News

  • The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 19 July.

Recent changes

  • AutoWikiBrowser is a tool to make repetitive tasks easier. It now uses JSON. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON and Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Config. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/Version has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/VersionJSON. The tool will eventually be configured on the wiki so that you don't have to wait until the new version to add templates or regular expression fixes. [1]

Problems

  • InternetArchiveBot helps saving online sources on some wikis. It adds them to Wayback Machine and links to them there. This is so they don't disappear if the page that was linked to is removed. It currently has a problem with linking to the wrong date when it moves pages from archive.is to web.archive.org. [2]

Changes later this week

  • The tool to find, add and remove templates will be updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It will come to the first wikis on 7 July. It will come to more wikis later this year. [3][4]
  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

  • Some Wikimedia wikis use Flagged Revisions or pending changes. It hides edits from new and unregistered accounts for readers until they have been patrolled. The auto review action in Flagged Revisions will no longer be logged. All old logs of auto-review will be removed. This is because it creates a lot of logs that are not very useful. [5]

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Actualités du Wiktionnaire, numéro 75, juin 2021

Le dernier numéro des Actualités du Wiktionnaire vient de paraître !

Dans ce numéro, retour sur les conférences ContribuLing et Arctic Knot, une discussion sur la neutralité dans le Wiktionnaire et la présentation d’un dictionnaire paru en temps de guerre. Des mots pour parler de bière et du monde qui vient, et les illustrations nous emmènent sur Mars !

Découvrez le numéro 75 de juin 2021 !

Brouillon du prochain numéro - Anciens numéros - Abonnement/désabonnement

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This Month in GLAM: June 2021



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This week's article for improvement (week 28, 2021)

Participant countries of the 2019 International Army Games.
  Participants
  First time participants
  Previous games participants, but not this time
Hello, Masssly. The article for improvement of the week is:

International Army Games

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This week's article for improvement (week 29, 2021)

The Hittite version of the Treaty of Kadesh, among the earliest extant examples of an international agreement
Hello, Masssly. The article for improvement of the week is:

International law

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: International Army Games • Organized religion

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Melanie Gillis

Hi, I noticed that this article was rejected in draft, but moved by you to the mainspace, because it is part of an editathon. I don't think you are doing the editors thereany favours by exposing sub-par articles to New Page Patrol immediately (and in general I don't understand why so many editathons start with "create an article" instead of "improve some existing stub"). I don't know if you were involved with the selection of the topic or not, but it looks from my search for sources as if Melanie Gillis now isn't more notable than at the time of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Melanie Gillis, and the one source in the article did nothing to even hint at notability either. The aim of an editathon is to get new editors (and to improve Wikipedia), but this must have been a rather disappointing experience for the editor. Fram (talk) 11:27, 23 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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This week's article for improvement (week 30, 2021)

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

Episode

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: International law • International Army Games

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Proposed deletion of Ahmed Bullock

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The article Ahmed Bullock has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No evidence of notability found (and not 19th-century of course), few sources about him are mostly not reliable or independent sources[6][7]

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Fram (talk) 08:49, 28 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Chakowili

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The article Chakowili has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Only source I could find is the source in the article, which is a thesis for a master's degree, not a WP:RS. Lacks notability. Most of the info in the article isn't even in that thesis, e.g. I can find not a single source that talks about Chakowili in 1886 or in Yogyakarta. Perhaps because the first line places Chakowili in West Africa, and the remainder suddenly is about Indonesia. Very strange.

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Fram (talk) 09:13, 28 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Ahmed Bullock for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Ahmed Bullock is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ahmed Bullock until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.

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Nomination of Chakowili for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Chakowili is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chakowili until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.

Fram (talk) 12:43, 28 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Books & Bytes – Issue 45

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 45, May – June 2021

  • Library design improvements continue
  • New partnerships
  • 1Lib1Ref update

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The Bugle: Issue CLXXXIII, July 2021

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