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WikiCup 2017 November newsletter: Final results
The final round of the 2017 WikiCup is over. Congratulations to the 2017 WikiCup top three finalists:
- First Place -
Adityavagarwal (submissions) - Second Place -
Vanamonde (submissions) - Third Place -
Cas Liber (submissions)
In addition to recognizing the achievements of the top finishers and everyone who worked hard to make it to the final round, we also want to recognize those participants who were most productive in each of the WikiCup scoring categories:
- Featured Article – Cas Liber (actually a two-way tie with themselves for an astonishing five FAs in R2 and R4).
- Good Article – Adityavagarwal had 14 GAs promoted in R5.
- Featured List –
Bloom6132 (submissions) and 
1989 (submissions) both produced 2 FLs in R2 - Featured Pictures –
SounderBruce (submissions) improved an image to FP status in R5, the only FP this year. - Featured Topic –
MPJ-DK (submissions) has the only FT of the Cup in R3. - Good Topic – Four different editors created a GT in R2, R3 and R4.
- Did You Know – Adityavagarwal had 22 DYKs on the main page in R5.
- In The News – MBlaze Lightning (submissions) had 14 ITN on the main page in R2.
- Good Article Review – Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (submissions) completed 31 GARs in R1.
Over the course of the 2017 WikiCup the following content was added or improved on Wikipedia: 51 Featured Articles, 292 Good Articles, 18 Featured Lists, 1 Featured Picture, 1 Featured Topics, 4 Good Topics, around 400 Did You Knows, 75 In The News, and 442 Good Article Reviews. Thank you to all the competitors for your hard work and what you have done to improve Wikipedia.
Regarding the prize vouchers - @Adityavagarwal, Vanamonde93, Casliber, Bloom6132, 1989, and SounderBruce: please send Godot13 (talk · contribs · email) an email from the email address to which you would like your Amazon voucher sent. Please include your preference of global Amazon marketplace as well. We hope to have the electronic gift cards processed and sent within a week.
We will open up a discussion for comments on process and scoring in a few days. The 2018 WikiCup is just around the corner! Many thanks from all the judges. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email), and Godot13 (talk · contribs · email) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:41, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
TFA selection
This is to let you know that the Brazilian battleship São Paulo article has been scheduled as today's featured article for December 27, 2017. Please check the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December 27, 2017.--Wehwalt (talk) 07:15, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue CXXXIX, November 2017
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Featured
I remember you in connection with the transclusion (thanks to you) of an editorialized presentation of new featured content at Portal:Featured content (which links from the navigation box on every WP page). I kinda liked it. Now it's gone. What are the chances of its return? ---Sluzzelin talk 22:49, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
- Hey Sluzzelin, that was a transclusion of the Signpost's featured content report. I removed it from the portal when the newspaper wasn't publishing. It's back now, albeit on an irregular basis, so I can't disagree with you re-adding it to the portal. :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 19:54, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: October 2017
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Facto Post – Issue 6 – 15 November 2017
Facto Post – Issue 6 – 15 November 2017
 WikidataCon Berlin 28–9 October 2017 Under the heading rerum causas cognescere, the first ever Wikidata conference got under way in the Tagesspiegel building with two keynotes, One was on YAGO, about how a knowledge base conceived ten years ago if you assume automatic compilation from Wikipedia. The other was from manager Lydia Pintscher, on the "state of the data". Interesting rumours flourished: the mix'n'match tool and its 600+ datasets, mostly in digital humanities, to be taken off the hands of its author Magnus Manske by the WMF; a Wikibase incubator site is on its way. Announcements came in talks: structured data on Wikimedia Commons is scheduled to make substantive progress by 2019. The lexeme development on Wikidata is now not expected to make the Wiktionary sites redundant, but may facilitate automated compilation of dictionaries.  And so it went, with five strands of talks and workshops, through to 11 pm on Saturday. Wikidata applies to GLAM work via metadata. It may be used in education, raises issues such as author disambiguation, and lends itself to different types of graphical display and reuse. Many millions of SPARQL queries are run on the site every day. Over the summer a large open science bibliography has come into existence there. Wikidata's fifth birthday party on the Sunday brought matters to a close. See a dozen and more reports by other hands. Links
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WikiCup 2018
So the 2017 WikiCup has come to an end. Congratulations to the winner, to the other finalists and to all those who took part. 177 contestants signed up, more than usual, but not all of them submitted entries in the first round. Were editors attracted by the cash prizes offered for the first time this year, or were these irrelevant? Do the rules and scoring need changing for the 2018 WikiCup? If you have a view on these or other matters, why not join in the WikiCup discussion about next year's contest? Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:59, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Dorothy P. Rice
The article Dorothy P. Rice you nominated as a good article has passed 
; see Talk:Dorothy P. Rice for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Casliber -- Casliber (talk) 04:21, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
Mark IV Tank "Excellent"
D. Fletcher recognised authority.
Hengistmate (talk) 11:32, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
- @Hengistmate: Thank you for that! I've added to the article so that I'm not the only one who benefits from this. :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 05:23, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
The Signpost: 24 November 2017
- News and notes: Cons, cons, cons
- Arbitration report: Administrator desysoped; How to deal with crosswiki issues; Mister Wiki case likely
- Technology report: Searching and surveying
- Interview: A featured article centurion
- WikiProject report: Recommendations for WikiProjects
- In the media: Open knowledge platform as a media institution
- Traffic report: Strange and inappropriate
- Featured content: We will remember them
- Recent research: Who wrote this? New dataset on the provenance of Wikipedia text
FAC
Hey Ed, I put Salamis up at FAC - feel free to add yourself as a co-nom. Parsecboy (talk) 12:58, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
- @Parsecboy: Thanks, I've added my name (and answered a query ;-) ). Can we qualify who M. K. Barnett is? Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 05:28, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
IP you have dealt with:November 2015
An IP you dealt with in November 2015 has reappeared. The IP that started in November 2015 with John Calvin "not being French" is back.[1]
And, with other comments(possible BLP violations) on the Crypto Judaism article talk page.[2]
The IP clearly hops around:
- 92.2.46.1
- 79.71.21.250
- 92.5.94.220
- 5.68.32.34
- 2.121.254.236
- 90.195.43.114
- 2.219.248.118
Just to list a few. --Kansas Bear (talk) 05:38, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
- Sigh. (At the person, not at you.) I've reverted the talk page posts, and given the length of this person's campaign, I've upped Calvin's protection level to semi so that we don't have to worry about an inadvertent edit getting approved. I'm not an expert in range blocking, but I'm pretty sure the remarkable breath of their IP addresses means that the tool won't be effective. :-/ Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 05:45, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
- Thank you sir.--Kansas Bear (talk) 05:59, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
- No prob! If I can help any more, please let me know. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 06:04, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
- Thank you sir.--Kansas Bear (talk) 05:59, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
ANI Experiences survey
Beginning on November 28, 2017, the Wikimedia Foundation Community health initiative (Safety and Support and Anti-Harassment Tools team) will be conducting a survey to en.wikipedia contributors on their experience and satisfaction level with the Administrator’s Noticeboard/Incidents. This survey will be integral to gathering information about how this noticeboard works - which problems it deals with well, and which problems it struggles with.
The survey should take 10-20 minutes to answer, and your individual responses will not be made public. The survey is delivered through Google Forms. The privacy policy for the survey describes how and when Wikimedia collects, uses, and shares the information we receive from survey participants and can be found here:
If you would like to take this survey, please sign up on this page, and a link for the survey will be mailed to you via Special:Emailuser.
Thank you on behalf of the Support & Safety and Anti-Harassment Tools Teams, Patrick Earley (WMF) talk 21:12, 28 November 2017 (UTC)