WikiCup 2023 September newsletter edit

The fourth round of the competition has finished, with anyone scoring less than 673 points being eliminated. It was a high scoring round with all but one of the contestants who progressed to the final having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were

  •   Epicgenius, with 2173 points topping the scores, gained mainly from a featured article, 38 good articles and 9 DYKs. He was followed by
  •   Sammi Brie, with 1575 points, gained mainly from a featured article, 28 good articles and 50 good article reviews. Close behind was
  •   Thebiguglyalien, with 1535 points mainly gained from a featured article, 15 good articles, 26 good article reviews and lots of bonus points.

Between them during round 4, contestants achieved 12 featured articles, 3 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 126 good articles, 46 DYK entries, 14 ITN entries, 67 featured article candidate reviews and 147 good article reviews. Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them and within 24 hours of the end of the final. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! 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 your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.

I will be standing down as a judge after the end of the contest. I think the Cup encourages productive editors to improve their contributions to Wikipedia and I hope that someone else will step up to take over the running of the Cup. Sturmvogel 66 (talk), and Cwmhiraeth (talk)

Guild of Copy Editors 2023 Annual Report edit

Guild of Copy Editors 2023 Annual Report
 

Our 2023 Annual Report is now ready for review.

Highlights:

  • Introduction
  • Membership news, obituary and election results
  • Summary of Drives, Blitzes and the Requests page
  • Closing words
– Your Guild coordinators: Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Wracking.
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SPI for WalterKlaus3 edit

You were involved previously so may have some more info. Can you have a look at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/WalterKlaus3? -- Whpq (talk) 15:35, 10 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Whpq: The socking is obvious, but I ran a CU based on the evident intent to deceive in their userpage content, and found a sleeper as well. Indeffed the lot. Vanamonde93 (talk) 16:58, 10 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thank you muchly. Whpq (talk) 16:58, 10 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Proposed decision in the Venezuelan politics case posted edit

The proposed decision in the open Venezuelan politics arbitration case has been posted. Comments on the proposed decision may be brought to the attention of the committee at the talk page. For the Arbitration Committee, Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 17:37, 11 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Women in Green GA Editathon June 2024 - Going Back in Time edit

 

Hello Vanamonde93:

WikiProject Women in Green is holding a month-long Good Article Edit-a-thon event in June 2024!

Running from June 1 to 30, 2024, WikiProject Women in Green (WiG) is hosting a Good Article (GA) edit-a-thon event with the theme Going Back in Time! All experience levels welcome. Never worked on a GA project before? We'll teach you how to get started. Or maybe you're an old hand at GAs – we'd love to have you involved! Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and women's works (e.g., books, films) during the event period. We hope to collectively cover article subjects from at least 20 centuries by month's end. GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced GA editors, and participants will have the opportunity to earn a special WiG barnstar for their efforts.

We hope to see you there!

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:12, 16 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hey Vanamonde! Will you be free to do some 20-minute article assessments for the June WiG editathon? Just wanted to check and see. Thanks, Alanna the Brave (talk) 18:36, 22 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Alanna the Brave: Thanks for asking...I may be, but I've been extremely busy IRL and I don't want to make promises I cannot keep. So it may be best not to list me among the willing reviewers at the moment, apologies. Vanamonde93 (talk) 19:58, 22 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
All right -- no worries! You're welcome to jump in whenever time may allow (but I'll leave you off the official list). Alanna the Brave (talk) 20:08, 22 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

The Signpost: 16 May 2024 edit

New sock of User:Unitarian9999 edit

User is already evading their block using WoodstockSnoop (talk · contribs). Skyerise (talk) 23:18, 21 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thanks, blocked. Vanamonde93 (talk) 04:43, 22 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Feedback request: Politics, government, and law request for comment edit

 

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Merci ! edit

Hello and thank you for your article The Day Before the Revolution, which I've just translated into French (at least the introduction). All the best! Sg7438 (talk) 02:38, 26 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

 
story · music · places

Thank you today for The Day Before the Revolution, "about a 1974 short story from American writer Ursula Le Guin"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:23, 26 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Sg7438 and Gerda Arendt: thank you both! Glad you enjoyed the article. Vanamonde93 (talk) 23:46, 26 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2024 edit

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).

  Administrator changes

  Graham Beards
 

  Bureaucrat changes

 
 

  Oversight changes

  Dreamy Jazz

  Guideline and policy news

  Technical news

  • The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

  Arbitration

  Miscellaneous


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Tiger FAC edit

Hello. Could you review tiger for FAC? Thank you. LittleJerry (talk) 21:22, 5 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

I will try, as it is within my areas of interest, but I cannot promise anything, RL is too busy. Vanamonde93 (talk) 22:39, 5 June 2024 (UTC)Reply