Talk:Wikimedian of the Year

Principal project

Unresolved

Does someone know 2017 honorable mention recipient Diego Gómez's principal project? The only text-based "hole" in the chart. Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 14:03, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

Not answered, so will try again. And is the honoree even an editor on Wikipedia (a Wikipedian)? Randy Kryn (talk) 15:18, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

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Wade

I see this list was just promoted to FL status (congrats!), but the description for Jess Wade seems off. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 20:59, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

Popped an 'is' in there, seems better. Randy Kryn (talk) 21:33, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

Randy Kryn, See "As of February 2020, she has written over 900 articles. began to write articles to "better represent women and people of colour". ---Another Believer _(Talk) 03:12, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

Missed that, thought you meant the first sentence. How about something like: Wade is a physicist who began a year-long effort to create Wikipedia articles about scientists and engineers which "better represent women and people of colour". As of February, 2020, she had written over 900 new titles. (EDIT: I'll add it for now, been editing a bit since writing this}

Should also mention the year she started. Spotted a wall-of-text paragraph in the lead, will check that out. Randy Kryn (talk) 03:25, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

Another Believer, can you check the source for the 2015 recipient and see if the edit I just made is accurate. From the source it reads as if the Commons uploader was mentioned as an example and not the actual awardee, who still remains secret and undescribed. Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 03:52, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

Consistent column widths

Unresolved

Anyone good with tables know how to set consistent column widths across tables so the scroll down is a lot cleaner? ---Another Believer _(Talk) 23:29, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedia Commons categories

Unresolved

Do we need both commons:Category:Wikipedian of the Year and commons:Category:Wikimedian of the Year? ---Another Believer _(Talk) 16:36, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

There's also commons:Category:Global Wikipedian of the year and commons:Category:Wikimedians of the Year Club? This seems redundant... ---Another Believer _(Talk) 14:18, 12 August 2022 (UTC)

Peacock tag

Randy Kryn, this article does have a lot of puffery regarding several of the winners; as examples,

• "for his massive contributions to the Malay Wiktionary" editorializing massive.
• "provided invaluable contributions to medical content on Wikimedia" editorializing invaluable.
• "Citrawati was instrumental in...through her valiant..."
• "Gelauff is a prolific contributor, a mentor to many Wikimedians, and a volunteer for many community groups and efforts"
• "Lih is an internationally-renowned..."
• "Lin was a prolific contributor...also a key organizer of..."
• "Väänänen has been a critical volunteer contributor..."

Overall, the article also has a more subtle bias trying far too hard to paint all of these contributors in a very positive light and emphasize their contributions as much as possible, instead of a neutral "so-and-so won because they did this-and-that". It is also sourced mostly to WMF press releases, so the sources being positive isn't a valid defense. AryKun (talk) 15:09, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

I agree some work is needed here and welcome your help to make the text more neutral. Are you interested? Would love to see some collaboration here to fill in the missing cells, too. I'll try to add some new text. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 15:19, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

Hello AryKun, I'm not sure about all of them but you may be mixing up Jimbo Wales quoted language upon awarding the individuals with language added by editors, although the quotes should be more obvious. Please have another look. Randy Kryn (talk) 15:23, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

Not really, I'm not really interested in meta-Wikipedia type articles. AryKun (talk) 15:34, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

FYI there's an article about my work and award in the Bay Area Reporter if you or another editor want to add it (I won't do it myself). Funcrunch (talk) 15:57, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

I've added as supplemental secondary coverage. Thanks! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 17:39, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

Would be nice if the award had "Wikipedian of the Year" and "Wikimedian of the Year" categories (it was named 'Wikipedian of the Year' until 2017). Both would be major awards, with Wikipedia and the sister projects guaranteed an awardee yearly. Another reason to ping Jimbo Wales who may have some thoughts on Another Believer's formatting suggestion below. Randy Kryn (talk) 22:58, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

Merge cells?

Perhaps we should merge the Image and Recipient cells, in an effort to reduce the number of cells and overall table widths? If there's interest, anyone know the best markup for formatting? ---Another Believer _(Talk) 20:44, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

Proposed format:

List of Wikimedian of the Year winners

Year	Recipient	Principal project	Rationale	Ref.
2011	Rauan Kenzhekhanuly	Kazakh Wikipedia	Kenzhekhanuly recruited a stable community to improve the Kazakh Wikipedia, which in a year increased from 4 to over 200 active editors, and 7,000 to 130,000 articles. Wales was criticized by fellow Wikipedians because of Kenzhekhanuly's ties to the government of Kazakhstan. Wales stated on Reddit in 2015 that he'd been unaware of Kenzhekhanuly's prior positions in the Kazakh government and said that if he had known Kenzhekhanuly was going to go on to become deputy governor of a Kazakh region, he would have "refused to give that award".

References

(or similar). Is this an improvement or not really? ---Another Believer _(Talk) 20:47, 5 September 2023 (UTC)