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Welcome to the 2019 WikiCup!
Hello and Happy New Year!
Welcome to the 2019 WikiCup, the competition begins today. If you have already joined, your submission page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and we will set up your submissions page. One important rule to remember is that only content on which you have completed significant work during 2019, and which you have nominated this year, is eligible for points in the competition, the judges will be checking! Any questions should be directed to one of the judges, or left on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will make it to round 2. Good luck! The judges for the WikiCup are Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Vanamonde93 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:14, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
2018 Year in Review
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The WikiChevrons | |
| For your work on Greek battleship Salamis and Design A-150 battleship you are hereby awarded these WikiChevrons. Congrats! TomStar81 (Talk) 19:00, 4 January 2019 (UTC) |
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WikiProject Ships Barnstar | |
| For your work on Greek battleship Salamis and Design A-150 battleship you are hereby awarded the WikiProject Ships Barnstar. Congrats! TomStar81 (Talk) 19:00, 4 January 2019 (UTC) |
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The Greek Barnstar of National Merit | |
| For your work on Greek battleship Salamis I hereby award you this Greek Barnstar of National Merit. Congrats! TomStar81 (Talk) 19:00, 4 January 2019 (UTC) | ||
| This WikiAward was given to The ed17 by TomStar81 (Talk) on 19:00, 4 January 2019 (UTC) |
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The Half Barnstar | |
| For your work on Greek battleship Salamis I hereby award you The Right Half of the Half Barnstar. Congrats! TomStar81 (Talk) 19:00, 4 January 2019 (UTC) |
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The Half Barnstar | |
| For your work on Design A-150 battleship I hereby award you The Left Half of the Half Barnstar. Congrats! TomStar81 (Talk) 19:00, 4 January 2019 (UTC) |
- Thanks, Tom, though Parsec and Sturm definitely deserve most of the credit for both of those. :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 15:26, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue CLIII, January 2019
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This Month in GLAM: December 2018
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Facto Post – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019
Facto Post – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019
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Recently Jimmy Wales has made the point that computer home assistants take much of their data from Wikipedia, one way or another. So as well as getting Spotify to play Frosty the Snowman for you, they may be able to answer the question "is the Pope Catholic?" Possibly by asking for disambiguation (Coptic?). Headlines about data breaches are now familiar, but the unannounced circulation of information raises other issues. One of those is Gresham's law stated as "bad data drives out good". Wikipedia and now Wikidata have been criticised on related grounds: what if their content, unattributed, is taken to have a higher standing than Wikimedians themselves would grant it? See Wikiquote on a misattribution to Bismarck for the usual quip about "law and sausages", and why one shouldn't watch them in the making. Wikipedia has now turned 18, so should act like as adult, as well as being treated like one. The Web itself turns 30 some time between March and November this year, per Tim Berners-Lee. If the Knowledge Graph by Google exemplifies Heraclitean Web technology gaining authority, contra GIGO, Wikimedians still have a role in its critique. But not just with the teenage skill of detecting phoniness. There is more to beating Gresham than exposing the factoid and urban myth, where WP:V does do a great job. Placeholders must be detected, and working with Wikidata is a good way to understand how having one statement as data can blind us to replacing it by a more accurate one. An example that is important to open access is that, firstly, the term itself needs considerable unpacking, because just being able to read material online is a poor relation of "open"; and secondly, trying to get Creative Commons license information into Wikidata shows up issues with classes of license (such as CC-BY) standing for the actual license in major repositories. Detailed investigation shows that "everything flows" exacerbates the issue. But Wikidata can solve it.
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GOCE 2018 Annual Report
Guild of Copy Editors 2018 Annual Report
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