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AfroCine: Join the Months of African Cinema this October! Greetings! After a successful first iteration of the “Months of African Cinema” last year, we are happy to announce that it will be happening again this year, starting from October 1! In the 2018 edition of the contest, about 600 Wikipedia articles were created in at least 8 languages. There were also contributions to Wikidata and Wikimedia commons, which brought the total number of wikimedia pages created during the contest to over 1,000. The AfroCine Project welcomes you to October, the first out of the two months which have been dedicated to creating and improving content that centre around the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora. Join us in this global edit-a-thon, by helping to create or expand articles which are connected to this scope. Also remember to list your name under the participants section. On English Wikipedia, we would be recognizing participants in the following manner:
For further information about the contest, the recognition categories and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. See you around :).--Jamie Tubers (talk) 00:50, 30 September 2019 (UTC) September 2019 Backlog Banzai
Still has absolutely no reaction at FPC, but FPC can be weird sometimes. I have two nominations that seem stuck at four votes, which both started really slow.... Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.2% of all FPs 03:19, 26 October 2019 (UTC) November 2019 at Women in Red
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WAM 2019 PostcardDear Participants and Organizers, Congratulations! It's WAM's honor to have you all participated in Wikipedia Asian Month 2019, the fifth edition of WAM. Your achievements were fabulous, and all the articles you created make the world can know more about Asia in different languages! Here we, the WAM International team, would like to say thank you for your contribution also cheer for you that you are eligible for the postcard of Wikipedia Asian Month 2019. Please kindly fill the form, let the postcard can send to you asap! Cheers! Thank you and best regards, Wikipedia Asian Month International Team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:16, 3 January 2020 (UTC) DYK for Marilyn SaviolaOn 17 January 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Marilyn Saviola, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Marilyn Saviola, a polio survivor, attended Long Island University classes remotely by telephone from her hospital ward? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Marilyn Saviola. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Marilyn Saviola), 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. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:01, 17 January 2020 (UTC) WAM 2019 Postcard Dear Participants and Organizers, Kindly remind you that we only collect the information for WAM postcard 31/01/2019 UTC 23:59. If you haven't filled the google form, please fill it asap. If you already completed the form, please stay tun, wait for the postcard and tracking emails. Cheers! Thank you and best regards, Wikipedia Asian Month International Team 2020.01
Magda BrardDear Penny, Thanks a lot for your article about Magda Brard. I am an absolute beginner on Wikipedia (but a passionate reader and occasional financial contributor) and I would like to modestly contribute to your article by translating it into French and German which are my languages. Magda Brard is a special topic for me as she taught me to play the piano as I was a child, in Nice (in the 70‘s) in her huge apartment full of marvellous souvenirs until I was old enough to enter the Conservatoire. Anyways I don’t know how to proceed and I don’t know whether that would be useful to translate. Just let me know, Kind regards from Berlin (Germany) Lionel Baret LioPieBar (talk) 21:16, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
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--Rosiestep (talk) 15:00, 23 March 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging Hi, thanks so much for contributing to the Destubathon Penny, brilliant effort on those women bios, hope Ser Amantio's prize will allow you to buy some books once this crazy situation ends! I've started this challenge long term, I was wondering if you could copy the list of women bios and find any others which were done during the Destubathon and use them to start a sub challenge of this page with women bios destubbed. If we can get it off to a good start using entries done for the Destubathon it might pick up. Entries on women should go in the main list as well as the women list. But just so we can monitor the progress, I think it might be a good vehicle to improve quality long term. † Encyclopædius 20:19, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
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--Rosiestep (talk) 17:11, 25 May 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging Marie-Aimée Roger-MiclosThat's happened to me more often than I can recall - I look someone up (usually a severely obscure 19th-century American composer) and find out that I was the one who created the article, several years in the past. Incidentally, apropos of very little, I went grocery shopping last night, and discovered in the bottled-water aisle that they're marketing something called "Voss" water. All I could think was, what would Patrick White have to say? --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 14:21, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
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Women with disabilityHi Penny. I've just been drafting a page for July's Women and Disability. Maybe you have more suggestions on redlists or redlinks. Please feel free to work on the page as you wish and communicate it to any interested parties. I note that last time round we had about 70 new articles and improvements. With your help, we may be able to do better this year. Don't know to what extent we can draw on those who were unable to take part in the Olympics.--Ipigott (talk) 15:50, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
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--Rosiestep (talk) 18:51, 26 July 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging ImagesHey, Penny! I cleaned up the two images you suggested - couldn't get high-resolution copies, but did the highest I could grab. They're too small to pass FPC, but think they're improved enough to be worth it. Anything else you'd like me to take a look at? Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.4% of all FPs 13:53, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
Pauline Phelps - Your articleHello, I'm doing family history and came across your article on Pauline Phelps; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Phelps Pauline is a side note in my family - in 1942 she was a mail order bride for a widower.  Question = should I add this to her Wikipedia page? Thanks, Ted
Penny, Now I just got to learn about the infobox, thanks! I do most of my work on Ancestry.com and they are very good about sources and citations. Do you have an example of how to reference Ancestry.com in Wikipedia? I've done a light search. Ancestry often lists the primary source, but I don't have actual access to most of those.Tedpoppke (talk) 20:12, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
Central Business DistrictYour attention is called to the addition of this display to the article on the Central Business District, Los Angeles (1880s-1890s). Do you have any feelings, for or against? Discussion should take place on that article's Talk page. Thanks. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 05:25, 17 August 2020 (UTC) Invitation
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--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 17:53, 29 August 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging Wikipedia Asian Month 2017: Invitation to Participate Hello! Last year, you signed up to participate in Wikipedia Asian Month (WAM) 2016 on the English Wikipedia. The event was an international success, with hundreds of editors creating thousands of articles on Asian topics across dozens of different language versions of Wikipedia. I'd like to invite you to join us for Wikipedia Asian Month 2017, which once again lasts through the month of November. The goal is for users to create new articles on Asian-related content, each at least 3,000 bytes and 300 words in length. Editors who create at least four articles will receive a Wikipedia Asian Month postcard! Also be sure to check out the Wikipedia Asian Art Month affiliate event - creating articles on Asian art topics can get you a Metropolitan Museum of Art postcard! If you're interested, please sign up here for the English Wikipedia. If you are interested in also working on other language editions of Wikipedia, please visit the meta page to see other participating projects. If you have any questions, please visit our talk page. Thank you! - User:SuperHamster and User:Titodutta on behalf of The English Wikipedia WAM Team This will be the last message you receive from the English Wikipedia WAM team for being a 2016 participant. If you sign up for WAM 2017, you will continue receiving periodic updates on the 2017 event. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Titodutta (talk • contribs) 05:41, 28 October 2017 (UTC) Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ser Amantio di Nicolao (talk • contribs) 03:11, 26 November 2017 (UTC) Women in Red's April+Further with Art+Feminism 2018
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https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Ffrance3-regions.francetvinfo.fr%2Fgrand-est%2Fmeuse%2Fverdun%2Fhistoires-14-18-nelly-martyl-fee-verdun-1300913.html She was gassed twice, wounded three times, and collected the wounded from the front lines at Verdun! ....And then just... created the lead soprano role in Jules Massenet's Amadis Holy shit, she's amazing! Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.5% of all FPs 02:33, 14 September 2020 (UTC) October editathons from Women in Red
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Deborah MarrowPenny, I hope you do not mind. I have been working on a wiki bio of my wife, Deborah Marrow, for several months. I was just ready to pull the trigger when I saw the bio you did. Your bio is fine but I believe that I have created one that covers a bit more material. You may have noted that the picture you used was one that I took several years ago. Tomorrow is the first anniversary of her death. I am replacing the bio you did with the one I did. Please add some of the references you used and any of the material that I have forgotten. If you are really upset with me, please call me at 310-560-0257. You are incredibly prolific on Wikipedia and you have accomplished much. I have only written a handful of biographies. However, as her husband, I hope you will do me the courtesy of letting my bio of Deb stand. Thank you. Mike McGuire — Preceding unsigned comment added by Drinkingwaterdoc (talk • contribs) 23:26, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
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Women in RedCongratulations, Penny Richards, for finally registering as a member of Women in Red. You have been on our mailing list since early 2016 but apparently never officially registered. As one of the most active supporters of our goals, it's good to see your name on our membership list. Keep up the good work.--Ipigott (talk) 12:08, 14 October 2020 (UTC) _(5493947511)_-_Restoration.jpg) So, uh... was eyeing the Women Scientist articles, saw her, thought she had an interesting career, and the image looked nice, so I'm putting the finishing touches on the restoration now... And thought I'd see who worked on it, in case it was someone I knew. Well, you can probably guess the result. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 04:44, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
what to do with some articlesI'd like your opinion on something I've struggled with. There are people who deserve a wikipedia article but of whom there are no biographies. One can gather from diverse sources, sometimes in the hundreds, and tell their story, yet in doing so sometimes the articles get flagged as too long. But on the other hand if one has sources and chooses what to not include then one is not being a fair-minded wikipedia editor who is then picking and choosing among published references. On the other hand this amounts to writing a biography (or at least in that direction depending on how the sources cover a life,) which is sometimes flagged for length while not being able to point out the importance of some event or situation because no source perse might say so. Has there been much thought about this in circles of people writing biographical articles? Examples of things I've done:
I recently approved this from draft, and someone tagged it as needing an image. Want to poke around for one? It seems like most images are parasports competitions held in France with people who may or may not be French, and I've seen a few beggars and one person looking for a miracle at Lourdes. I wish we had a stock photo of a wheelchair user grocery shopping or using a curb cut or something. Feel like looking for a good photo to add? I assume other similar articles also lack images. Calliopejen1 (talk) 23:37, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
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--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 18:49, 28 October 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging Winner WiR October Asia contestCongratulations, Penny Richards. With 29 new articles, you are the winner of the October contributions to our Women in Red Women in Asia contest. Here is a user box award which you can add to your user page:
. We look forward to further contributions in November. Well done!--Ipigott (talk) 10:07, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
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