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WikiCup 2018 July newsletter

The third round of the 2018 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round had at least 227 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

  •   Courcelles, a first time contestant, with 1756 points, a tally built largely on 27 GAs related to the Olympics
  •   Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with two featured articles and three GAs on natural history and astronomy topics
  •   SounderBruce, a finalist last year, with a variety of submissions related to transport in the state of Washington

Contestants managed 7 featured articles, 4 featured lists, 120 good articles, 1 good topic, 124 DYK entries, 15 ITN entries, and 132 good article reviews. Over the course of the competition, contestants have completed 458 GA reviews, in comparison to 244 good articles submitted for review and promoted. As we enter the fourth round, remember that 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. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process; several submissions, particularly in abstruse or technical areas, have needed additional work to make them completely verifiable.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere 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. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk), Vanamonde (talk) 04:55, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks!

   Military history reviewers' award 
G'day Ed. On behalf of the Milhist coordinators, thank you for your review during the April to June 2018 quarter. Here is a WikiStripe for your contribution to our article quality processes. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 08:22, 7 July 2018 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Issue CXLVII, July 2018

 
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Two articles

Hello

HNLMS Walrus and HNLMS Walrus (S802). Articles about the same stuff. Should it be like this? PMG (talk) 12:04, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

PMG To me, it would make the most sense to merge everything to HNLMS Walrus, but I'm not sure if there's a basis in policy for that. Maybe try at WT:SHIPS? Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 08:37, 26 July 2018 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 14 – 21 July 2018

Facto Post – Issue 14 – 21 July 2018
 
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Plugging the gaps – Wikimania report

Officially it is "bridging the gaps in knowledge", with Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town paying tribute to the southern African concept of ubuntu to implement it. Besides face-to-face interactions, Wikimedians do need their power sources.

 
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Facto Post interviewed Jdforrester, who has attended every Wikimania, and now works as Senior Product Manager for the Wikimedia Foundation. His take on tackling the gaps in the Wikimedia movement is that "if we were an army, we could march in a column and close up all the gaps". In his view though, that is a faulty metaphor, and it leads to a completely false misunderstanding of the movement, its diversity and different aspirations, and the nature of the work as "fighting" to be done in the open sector. There are many fronts, and as an eventualist he feels the gaps experienced both by editors and by users of Wikimedia content are inevitable. He would like to see a greater emphasis on reuse of content, not simply its volume.

If that may not sound like radicalism, the Decolonizing the Internet conference here organized jointly with Whose Knowledge? can redress the picture. It comes with the claim to be "the first ever conference about centering marginalized knowledge online".

 
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Can I get your thoughts?

Hey Ed, I wanted to get your thoughts on this draft I've got set up. It's probably the single longest article I've ever written (it's roughly the length of Byzantine Navy I think). I plan on following up on it with a second article covering the battleship-era once I've got this one squared away. It was an extremely time-consuming process to write this article, but I definitely learned a lot in the process, and acquired some new sources too while doing so. I largely modeled the article after your own work at South American dreadnought race, so Parsecboy suggested I reach out to you for input.

Thanks! —White Shadows Let’s Talk 17:48, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

@White Shadows: Hey there, happy to look through it and give comments after I finish some post-Wikimania travel. :-) (cc Parsecboy) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 08:36, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
Thank you! The draft has been moved to the mainspace at Austro-Italian ironclad arms race but I would definitely still appreciate your thoughts just as before. Safe travels!—White Shadows Let’s Talk 14:32, 26 July 2018 (UTC)

Wikimania

Hi Ed, If you have capacity, would you be able to do a brief write up of any takeaways for the military history project from the recent Wikimania for the next edition of The Bugle? A paragraph or two on the project news page would be great (...or something more ambitious if you have time!). I'm not sure if any other members of the project attended this year. Regards, Nick-D (talk) 08:42, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

Hey Nick-D, sorry for the delay here. I unfortunately don't have many takeaways at hand, nor a lot of free time to write something up. (And I see that I missed the deadline. :-/ ) I believe Krishna attended as well, though, so you could ask him for the next edition? Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 17:28, 12 August 2018 (UTC)
OK, no worries. Nick-D (talk) 10:34, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

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