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The Signpost: 26 September 2021

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

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2021

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

  • A motion has standardised the 500/30 (extended confirmed) restrictions placed by the Arbitration Committee. The standardised restriction is now listed in the Arbitration Committee's procedures.
  • Following the closure of the Iranian politics case, standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
  • The Arbitration Committee encourages uninvolved administrators to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.

Miscellaneous

  • Editors have approved expanding the trial of Growth Features from 2% of new accounts to 25%, and the share of newcomers getting mentorship from 2% to 5%. Experienced editors are invited to add themselves to the mentor list.
  • The community consultation phase of the 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process is open for editors to provide comments and ask questions to candidates.

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

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November 2021 backlog drive

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New Page Patrol | November 2021 Backlog Drive
  • On November 1, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin.
  • Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled.
  • Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive.
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(t · c) buidhe 01:58, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback request: History and geography request for comment

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The Signpost: 31 October 2021

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2021

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2021).

Guideline and policy news

  • Phase 2 of the 2021 RfA review has commenced which will discuss potential solutions to address the 8 issues found in Phase 1. Proposed solutions that achieve consensus will be implemented and you may propose solutions till 07 November 2021.

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


ARS Public School (3rd nomination)

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You were a participant in the just closed 2nd nomination for deletion.
"She breaches." Captain Ahab and his White Whale. 'They pull you back in.' – Michael Corleone 7&6=thirteen () 00:15, 10 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Why would you close Draft:Soviet Boris Yeltsin without having a discussion? Personally, I don't see how your position is "obvious" and think it would be better left as a comment instead of a close. I do agree with the nominator that I see no reason for keeping this as a redirect and would like to see it deleted, possibly as a vandalism-ish creation. -- Tavix (talk) 01:43, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi J947, I reverted your blanking of the redirect and closure of that RfD because nobody even suggested blanking as an option (hence no opposition) and because it was not even a day old. I don't see any basis for that close in policy and it reads to me as a left-field supervote of a discussion that has barely started, let alone drawn to a close. eviolite (talk) 03:43, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback request: Wikipedia proposals request for comment

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Feedback request: History and geography request for comment

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The Signpost: 29 November 2021

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2021

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).

Administrator changes

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Technical news

  • Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page. (T284642)
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Arbitration



Feedback request: Language and linguistics request for comment

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 22

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Merry Christmas

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The Signpost: 28 December 2021

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Feedback request: History and geography request for comment

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2022

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).

Guideline and policy news

  • Following consensus at the 2021 RfA review, the autopatrolled user right has been removed from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • The functionaries email list (functionaries-en@lists.wikimedia.org) will no longer accept incoming emails apart from those sent by list members and WMF staff. Private concerns, apart from those requiring oversight, should be directly sent to the Arbitration Committee.

WP:AFC Helper News

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Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.

  • AFCH will now show live previews of the comment to be left on a decline.
  • The template {{db-afc-move}} has been created - this template is similar to {{db-move}} when there is a redirect in the way of an acceptance, but specifically tells the patrolling admin to let you (the draft reviewer) take care of the actual move.

Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Birthday!

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Wishing J947 a very happy birthday on behalf of the Birthday Committee!   Chris Troutman (talk) 11:07, 6 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you all! :) J947messageedits 22:55, 6 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022

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New Page Review queue March 2022

Hello J947,

At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.

Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.

In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently 810 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 848 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.

This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.

If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}} on their talk page.

If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.

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Sent 05:17, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022

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New Page Review queue June 2022

Hello J947,

Backlog status

At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000[a] at the end of May.

Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.[b]

In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).

While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).

Backlog drive

A backlog reduction drive, coordinated by buidhe and Zippybonzo, will be held from July 1 to July 31. Sign up here. Barnstars will be awarded.

TIP – New school articles

Many new articles on schools are being created by new users in developing and/or non-English-speaking countries. The authors are probably not even aware of Wikipedia's projects and policy pages. WP:WPSCH/AG has some excellent advice and resources specifically written for these users. Reviewers could consider providing such first-time article creators with a link to it while also mentioning that not all schools pass the GNG and that elementary schools are almost certainly not notable.

Misc

There is a new template available, {{NPP backlog}}, to show the current backlog. You can place it on your user or talk page as a reminder:

Very high unreviewed pages backlog: 15284 articles, as of 18:00, 25 December 2024 (UTC), according to DatBot

There has been significant discussion at WP:VPP recently on NPP-related matters (Draftification, Deletion, Notability, Verifiability, Burden). Proposals that would somewhat ease the burden on NPP aren't gaining much traction, although there are suggestions that the role of NPP be fundamentally changed to focus only on major CSD-type issues.

Reminders
  • Consider staying informed on project issues by putting the project discussion page on your watchlist.
  • If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}} on their talk page.
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Notes
  1. ^ not including another ~6,000 redirects
  2. ^ The number of weekly reviews reported in the NPP feed includes redirects, which are not included in the backlog we primarily track.

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NPP July 2022 backlog drive is on!

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New Page Patrol | July 2022 Backlog Drive
  • On 1 July, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin.
  • Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled.
  • Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive.
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(t · c) buidhe 20:25, 1 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022

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New Page Review queue August 2022

Hello J947,

Backlog status

After the last newsletter (No.28, June 2022), the backlog declined another 1,000 to 13,000 in the last week of June. Then the July backlog drive began, during which 9,900 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell by 4,500 to just under 8,500 (these numbers illustrate how many new articles regularly flow into the queue). Thanks go to the coordinators Buidhe and Zippybonzo, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations to Dr vulpes who led with 880 points. See this page for further details.

Unfortunately, most of the decline happened in the first half of the month, and the backlog has already risen to 9,600. Understandably, it seems many backlog drive participants are taking a break from reviewing and unfortunately, we are not even keeping up with the inflow let alone driving it lower. We need the other 600 reviewers to do more! Please try to do at least one a day.

Coordination
MB and Novem Linguae have taken on some of the coordination tasks. Please let them know if you are interested in helping out. MPGuy2824 will be handling recognition, and will be retroactively awarding the annual barnstars that have not been issued for a few years.
Open letter to the WMF
The Page Curation software needs urgent attention. There are dozens of bug fixes and enhancements that are stalled (listed at Suggested improvements). We have written a letter to be sent to the WMF and we encourage as many patrollers as possible to sign it here. We are also in negotiation with the Board of Trustees to press for assistance. Better software will make the active reviewers we have more productive.
TIP - Reviewing by subject
Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages by their most familiar subjects can do so from the regularly updated sorted topic list.
New reviewers
The NPP School is being underused. The learning curve for NPP is quite steep, but a detailed and easy-to-read tutorial exists, and the Curation Tool's many features are fully described and illustrated on the updated page here.
Reminders
  • Consider staying informed on project issues by putting the project discussion page on your watchlist.
  • If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}} on their talk page.
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"Wikipedia:NECONOMIST" listed at Redirects for discussion

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An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Wikipedia:NECONOMIST and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 August 19#Wikipedia:ECONOMIST until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 20:14, 19 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

NPP message

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Hi J947,

Invitation

For those who may have missed it in our last newsletter, here's a quick reminder to see the letter we have drafted, and if you support it, do please go ahead and sign it. If you already signed, thanks. Also, if you haven't noticed, the backlog has been trending up lately; all reviews are greatly appreciated.

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October 2022 New Pages Patrol backlog drive

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New Page Patrol | October 2022 backlog drive
  • On 1 October, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin.
  • Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled and for maintaining a streak throughout the drive.
  • Barnstars will also be awarded for re-reviewing articles.
  • Redirect patrolling is not part of the drive.
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(t · c) buidhe 21:16, 23 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Patrol newsletter October 2022

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Hello J947,

Much has happened since the last newsletter over two months ago. The open letter finished with 444 signatures. The letter was sent to several dozen people at the WMF, and we have heard that it is being discussed but there has been no official reply. A related article appears in the current issue of The Signpost. If you haven't seen it, you should, including the readers' comment section.

Awards: Barnstars were given for the past several years (thanks to MPGuy2824), and we are now all caught up. The 2021 cup went to John B123 for leading with 26,525 article reviews during 2021. To encourage moderate activity, a new "Iron" level barnstar is awarded annually for reviewing 360 articles ("one-a-day"), and 100 reviews earns the "Standard" NPP barnstar. About 90 reviewers received barnstars for each of the years 2018 to 2021 (including the new awards that were given retroactively). All awards issued for every year are listed on the Awards page. Check out the new Hall of Fame also.

Software news: Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have connected with WMF developers who can review and approve patches, so they have been able to fix some bugs, and make other improvements to the Page Curation software. You can see everything that has been fixed recently here. The reviewer report has also been improved.

NPP backlog May – October 15, 2022

Suggestions:

  • There is much enthusiasm over the low backlog, but remember that the "quality and depth of patrolling are more important than speed".
  • Reminder: an article should not be tagged for any kind of deletion for a minimum of 15 minutes after creation and it is often appropriate to wait an hour or more. (from the NPP tutorial)
  • Reviewers should focus their effort where it can do the most good, reviewing articles. Other clean-up tasks that don't require advanced permissions can be left to other editors that routinely improve articles in these ways (creating Talk Pages, specifying projects and ratings, adding categories, etc.) Let's rely on others when it makes the most sense. On the other hand, if you enjoy doing these tasks while reviewing and it keeps you engaged with NPP (or are guiding a newcomer), then by all means continue.
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Backlog:

Saving the best for last: From a July low of 8,500, the backlog climbed back to 11,000 in August and then reversed in September dropping to below 6,000 and continued falling with the October backlog drive to under 1,000, a level not seen in over four years. Keep in mind that there are 2,000 new articles every week, so the number of reviews is far higher than the backlog reduction. To keep the backlog under a thousand, we have to keep reviewing at about half the recent rate!

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Happy Sixth First Edit Day!

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Hey, J947. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!
Have a great day!
Chris Troutman (talk) 14:43, 10 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Happy First Edit Day!

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Plunket Shield lowest score

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Regarding your recent edit on 2022–23 Plunket Shield season (which I'm about to overwrite with a slightly more clear explanation), I'm reasonably confident that Wellington's 167 run match aggregate is the lowest ever in the Plunket Shield. They did score lower in an 1887 first-class match, but the Plunket Shield did not exist until 1907, so it would still be a Plunket Shield record. Unfortunately I can't seem to find any actual database listing to confirm this, but many news reports (including NZC's own) refer to it as being a Plunket Shield record, so absence any evidence of a Plunket Shield match with a lower single-team aggregate it should be okay to go with. SellymeTalk 08:51, 12 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • @Sellyme: thanks for that. I was surprised the lowest would be so high, but I suppose in the distant past where double collapses like so would've been more likely, there were fairly few Plunket Shield games played (and I forgot it wasn't created until last century). Thanks for your work creating this article by the way – I've kind of observed from sidelines that it's tough for us to keep up to date with all the cricket happening, so it's solid work! J947edits 08:58, 12 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

South African cricket seasons

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Hello. You're "updating " South African cricketer biogs with en dashes for seasons rather than hyphens, but in some cases – not all – you're introducing errors. For example, with Gerald Bond, you've updated "1929-30" to read "from 1929 to 1930", when the reference is to the single South African cricket season of 1929-30, which began in autumn 1929 and concluded in spring 1930. Fine to make it "1929–30", but the other is wrong. Johnlp (talk) 12:30, 20 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Johnlp (talk) 01:03, 21 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

New Pages Patrol newsletter January 2023

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Hello J947,

New Page Review queue December 2022
Backlog

The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to WaddlesJP13 who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day.

2022 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2022 cup for 28,302 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 80/day. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. Rosguill led again for the 4th year by clearing 49,294 redirects. For the full details see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone!

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International cricket in 2024–25

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Hello. I see you have initiated a discussion for possible deletion of this page. Request you to please look into International cricket in 2024 page as well. Thanks,Vikram Maingi (talk) 14:42, 12 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I shouldn't have joined the discussion

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I've just read the big red message on the discussion. I shouldn't have joined it 3 years ago! -St3095 (?) 13:20, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Auckland

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Kia ora! I'm hoping to start up WP:AUCK again as a more active project, so I thought I'd check in with everyone on the list who still edits. Are there any Auckland-related projects that you'd like to work on/currently working on? --Prosperosity (talk) 22:02, 4 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No worries! I can take your name off the list. If you're interested in saying hi (even if you're not planning on editing Auckland articles!), we've restarted regular online and in-person meet-ups - the next one's on the 18th of March. --Prosperosity (talk) 22:18, 4 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Patrol – May 2023 Backlog Drive

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May 2023 NPP Drive Award

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The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar

This award is given to J947 for collecting more than 40 points doing redirect reviews, in the May 2023 NPP backlog reduction drive. Thank you for your help in bringing down the backlog. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 01:36, 5 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Michael King III

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I wanted it to get deleted, not speedy deleted. Should I renominate the redirect, should the discussion get reopened, or something? ErceÇamurOfficial (talk) 16:00, 9 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The redirect Michael King III has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 June 10 § Michael King III until a consensus is reached. ErceÇamurOfficial (talk) 10:59, 10 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, question for you.

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In regards to Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Rollback of Vector 2022 you stated that I really don't think this is something editors should decide; leave it to developers and more importantly ask the readers. And it is truly, IMO, too late now. Besides: I'll keep using old Vector, but is this change so horrible? How do you feel now, months after the discussion and with certain improvements added?

Before you answer this question, please read my user page to see why I am asking you this question. You do not have to answer this question at all if you wish. If you do answer this question, could you please state if you are okay with your username being used, possibly publicly? Thank you-- DisposableUser12345 (talk) 01:49, 14 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • @DisposableUser12345: Hi, happy to answer this (if only briefly). I've actually used the new skin on and off, much more than I thought I would, as much of my Wiki-work involves checking how the interface works for readers. I've found it pretty good, to be honest, in a large part due to unlimited width being enabled. In that sense, it's just a slightly modernised version of the old skin with a much improved search bar. It does disrupt with some internal workings, but that's only inevitable. The sense outside of Wikipedia seems to be that it's just a solid change, and in the end the RfC and general outrage from editors was a big kerfuffle over nothing, particularly given that the WMF were never really going to revert the change. But I am very grateful for the addition of the unlimited width option, which makes the new skin arguably a slight improvement over the old one for me. I'm fine with my username being used. Thanks, J947edits 04:02, 14 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023

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Hello J947,

New Page Review queue April to June 2023

Backlog

Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to Hey man im josh who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by Meena and Greyzxq with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.

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Pro tip: Did you know that visual artists such as painters have their own SNG? The most common part of this "creative professionals" criteria that applies to artists is WP:ARTIST 4b (solo exhibition, not group exhibition, at a major museum) or 4d (being represented within the permanent collections of two museums).

Reminders

Adult use

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You don't think Adult use is a misnomer for Legalization of non-medical cannabis in the United States?

  • There are no other things adults could use?
  • Adults only use marijuana in the US?

GMAFB! Talk about ham-fisted CSD patrol. You should do better. Toddst1 (talk) 16:25, 27 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • @Toddst1: for the purposes of R3, a misnomer is an incorrect name. This is a correct name. It is ambiguous, yes, but that doesn't suddenly qualify it for R3. Instead, it should be sent to RfD. This is not the correct use of R3, which is intended only for things like "Unuted Srates". And even if it was a misnomer, which it isn't, it would hardly be considered implausible either, as it seems like it would be a pretty common search term. It's also likely to be kept at RfD. The opposite of what qualifies for uncontroversial speedy deletion. J947edits 21:07, 27 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The redirect Adult use has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 June 27 § Adult use until a consensus is reached. Toddst1 (talk) 16:27, 27 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

New pages patrol needs your help!

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New pages awaiting review as of June 30th, 2023.

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Cricket seasons

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You're correcting hyphens to en dashes in various articles mentioning cricket seasons, which is mostly fine, but you need to watch that some of the corrections don't change the meaning. In Nummy Deane, for example, changing "From 1925–26" to "From 1925 to 1926" makes a different meaning: the first means "from the 1925–26 South African cricket season onwards for a period of several years", while the second means a shorter period covering a maximum of two calendar years. Cricket seasons outside the UK usually straddle two calendar years and the convention is to use a hyphen or en dash, rather than an oblique: northern hemisphere soccer seasons tend to be similar. I'm afraid you have to read the context, which will slow the process of correcting them up a bit. I'll change Deane back to what it should be, but there may be others. Thanks. Johnlp (talk) 07:41, 7 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • @Johnlp: good to see you've remained vigilant. Extremely foolish of me to make the same mistake a second time, but, er, I won't do it a third. To be honest, I actually reminded myself to not commit that error whilst applying the fixes – but then got distracted. At least the two you fixed were the only two, so thanks for picking it up again. Apologies. J947edits 09:13, 7 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Sorry to appear to be picking on you: I'm here so seldom these days that I'm very much a chance vigilante. I'd actually forgotten our previous encounter. For long-forgotten reasons I have several long-forgotten South African cricketers on my watchlist, and I'm always intrigued when they pop up on my notifications, because so few people take any interest in them... Thanks for the work you do, and for your serially positive response. Johnlp (talk) 11:52, 7 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    @Johnlp: I'm interested, so there's one! Under the massive dark cloud of apartheid, there was some interesting cricket being played in SA. Very thankful for the work you've done on these articles, improving many from the barest-boned stubs – don't belittle it! :) J947edits 04:59, 8 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Signpost/Issue

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I spent an entire afternoon fixing incoming links to these pages all over the project; per the incoming links, there is nothing to break. The only incoming links right now are from tracking pages that I created to enumerate all of the pages in the Signpost's space to clean up nonsense pages and misplaced directories like this one. jp×g 22:40, 22 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@JPxG: you can't fix links in edit summaries, external backlinks, bookmarks, habitual searches, etc. R3 specifically excludes {{R from page move}}s for just this reason. J947edits 22:46, 22 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I highly doubt that there are external backlinks to the Signpost's internal templates for embedding issue numbers; bookmarks and habitual searches will return a deletion summary and move log that links to the new location of the template. As for the historical integrity of the Signpost's historical structure, I can assure you that I have been spending the last eight months trying to document and preserve it. One of the major hurdles to making comprehensive documentation for the project is that it's existed for twenty years and has a very large number of pointless pages that don't do anything (or did something once, in 2008, have since been superseded, and still sit around in the namespace with no indication as to what they do or why they exist). A good example of this is the templates. Here are the prefixes used for Signpost templates:
  • Template:Signpost
  • Template:Signpost/
  • Template:Signpost-
  • Template:Signpost_
  • Wikipedia:Signpost/
  • Wikipedia:Signpost/Template
  • Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:
  • Wikipedia:Signpost/Template/
  • Wikipedia:Signpost/Templates/
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Template
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Template:
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Template/
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/
What is the reason for it being this way? I will tell you: there isn't one. People just made templates where-the-hell-ever for twenty years, and nobody ever wrote down how or where they went, and the result is a completely impenetrable jungle of bullshit. You can't write templates to parse these, you can't go through them with scripts, everything requires you to hardcode insanely complicated edge case handling for each of the 14 template prefixes -- why? To a large extent, it seems like a self-reinforcing problem: for the most part nobody bothers to try to fix the problems because they are so bad and so deeply rooted, and the ones who do (note that there were similar attempts in 2009, 2016 and 2018) abandon them because at every step of the way people will object that it's hypothetically, somehow, possible for something to be broken by fixing typos from 2008. I feel it is also condign to reference the last time someone was browsing G6 nominations and brought up this objection: it required me to spam the bajeezus out of RfD with dozens of nominations for typo redirects and preload templates that hadn't been used in decades, of course all of which reached a resounding consensus to delete, although it did manage to delay the Signpost cleanup by about a month and create a mountain of bureaucratic busywork for RfD regulars/closers. jp×g 23:12, 22 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Look, I understand – I thought myself that that string of Signpost templates having to be brought to RfD was a waste of time. But at long-term former titles for main templates that fail R3 on 3 counts, I draw the line. If you must have R from moves deleted (for unknown or purely minorconvenience-related reasons), then a big RfD bundle nom is the path forward. J947edits 23:36, 22 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Other British monarch requested move discussions currently taking place

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Since you recently participated in the Charles III requested move discussion, I thought you might like to know that there are two other discussions currently going on about other British monarch article titles here and here. Cheers. Rreagan007 (talk) 22:27, 30 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

New page patrol October 2023 Backlog drive

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New Page Patrol | October 2023 Backlog Drive
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New pages patrol newsletter

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Hello J947,

New Page Review article queue, March to September 2023

Backlog update: At the time of this message, there are 11,300 articles and 15,600 redirects awaiting review. This is the highest backlog in a long time. Please help out by doing additional reviews!

October backlog elimination drive: A one-month backlog drive for October will start in one week! Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled. Articles will earn 4x as many points compared to redirects. You can sign up here.

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National Geographic Channel HD

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In regards to the National Geographic Channel RfD which you closed as no consensus, I don't think I would've closed that with any result just yet. I !voted on it quite late (after 8 days) because it wasn't getting a lot of traction at RfD, but it ended up being closed when my comment (the only comment there) wasn't even 24 hours old, hence not enough time for others to weigh in. User:Edward-Woodrow had a pretty valid rationale for starting the discussion and I was curious if he had a response in regards to mine about the presence of "HD". Utopes (talk / cont) 04:18, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • @Utopes:, it's a particularly uncommon search term so therefore I didn't see a need for it to be discussed at length. If E–W wanted to rebut your argument he could have done so, having edited many times since. So as it stood it was "This isn't a name for it" v "This is a name for it" for an unwieldly long redirect. In the worst case scenario, it being not a name, no one would find it anyway. I thought a relist might solidify the consensus one way or another, but to not import. Feel free to revert the close if you want, as I acknowledge I'm an outlier at RfD in closing ill-attended discussions that way. J947edits 04:27, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I agree the close was a little premature; a relist would probably be more appropriate in my opinion. A note: I couldn't rebut Utopes' argument because I didn't see it. I only occasionally check through older RfDs I've started (I very rarely watch log days). Cheers, Edward-Woodrowtalk 12:15, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Notice of noticeboard discussion

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Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.

Sorry for the hassle, this is about the RfA of 0xDeadbeef. Fermiboson (talk) 08:31, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

November Articles for creation backlog drive

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Hello J947:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.

You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.

There is a backlog of over 1800 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:24, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

October 2023 NPP backlog drive – Points award

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The Working Man's Barnstar
This award is given to J947 for collecting more than 10 points during the October 2023 NPP backlog drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to the drive! Hey man im josh (talk) 02:02, 1 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

First Edit Day

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VA5

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You mentioned cover art and I nominated it with leading examples (not being sure which you wanted and having got no feedback in that discussion). Still trying to figure out what vitality is and looking for feedback in that discussion.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 04:21, 10 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@TonyTheTiger: I'll give a brief description on what vitality is, can't really commit to much else at the moment. It's obviously importance, but addressed from a more historical, more academic, less Western-centric viewpoint than we would normally envision. If Wikipedia could only have 50,000 articles, what would they be? The best way of finding out more than that is to have a look through the VA4 list and VA4 discussion archives and see what's on the list and what isn't, and why. J947edits 07:15, 10 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to an in-person meetup in Mohua / Golden Bay

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Golden Bay Air are holding some seats for us until 21 November

Thinking about your summer break? Think about joining other Wikipedians and Wikimedians in Golden Bay / Mohua! Details are on the meetup page. There's heaps of interesting stuff to work on e.g. the oldest extant waka or New Zealand's oldest ongoing legal case. Or you may spend your time taking photos and then upload them.

Golden Bay is hard to get to and the airline flying into Tākaka uses small planes, so we are holding some seats from and to Wellington and we are offering attendees a $200 travel subsidy to help with costs.

Be in touch with Schwede66 if this event interests you and you'd like to discuss logistics. Schwede66 09:14, 13 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

American politicians va removals

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Your recent comments are spot-on. I'm really frustrated btw. Grnrchst made some questionable nominations and he still gets a second and a third for everything with no scrutiny. And what really worries me is that he's coming for earlier American politicians next. We could be seeing removal proposals for Daniel Webster, William Jennings Bryan, Stephen Douglas, John Hancock (because Grnrchst might not understand why those fellas are important, Piotr will support any American politician removal, and Blue will support any proposal I oppose)...and those proposals would essentially start with three supports, meaning most of the remaining editors would have to be rallied to stop them. SMH pbp 02:28, 26 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • I think a quota discussion would have been a lot more productive than what we're seeing play out. Even if there were a consensus to reduce the number of American politicians listed, at least the right politicians would be cut. That might be a better approach in the future – food for thought. The block supports/opposes from some individual editors are infuriating. I'd appreciate your input at the passing hurdle discussion, by the way, as well as the many other meta discussions underway – they're discussions that would definitely benefit from extra eyes. J947edits 03:35, 26 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    I've voted in the hurdle thread. Also flummoxed by Piotr's comment on cities...50 for the entire U.S.? Does he understand how large the U.S. is? On the one hand, I'm tempted to ask him to propose a quota change for the U.S....but the anti-American sentiment (mostly from people completely uninformed about the country) means a quota reduction to 50 might pass and I sure don't want that. pbp 05:07, 26 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    The degree of the anti-American sentiment is really just absurd. As I said, I'm hardly one predisposed to be biased towards America; much the opposite. But bulk removals that even I think are highly unwarranted are passing. J947edits 22:20, 30 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It seems pretty obvious that we need to propose a quota increase for politicians, at the expense of pop culture and miscellaneous topics. pbp 17:44, 27 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • On this topic, I've got an idea I want to run pass you: should we create a permanent thread for quota increases and decreases? The reason why I haven't proposed many of them is because it's difficult for such a proposal as moving pop culture to politicians, although most people would support at least one half of that change, to pass. If we have a thread for quota changes then we could have increase nominations and decrease nominations and one increase and one decrease could be passed at the same time (to ensure that the overall quota remains at 50,000). Otherwise, you have to argue two changes – often in entirely different areas – in one thread, which is a pain. If you follow me. J947edits 21:57, 27 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    I've voted in one of the split threads. Now I'm wondering what will happen when the earlier American politicians are nominated for removal...which of those do you believe should be retained and which should be chucked? pbp 20:57, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    I'll probably mostly defer to you to be honest – I think I'm quite a bit less knowledgeable about pre-war American politics. P. B. S. Pinchback is one whose inclusion looks weak. J947edits 21:46, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Pinchback is another first so he may slide on that account. I'm probably going to userspace defenses of the people who need defending. Another troubling removal is the proposal of Plymouth, Mass and Salem, Mass...removal is losing 1-3 but our friends who blindly vote "remove" on anything American haven't showed yet. pbp 20:47, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It hasn't been a great last 48 hours. Interstellarity voted to remove a bunch of American politicians without any rationale. Totalabe accused me of making tit-for-tat nominations. Nobody seems to understanding my analogies. Why do I feel so alone? pbp 13:23, 30 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • I'm sure that as this lot get more experienced with VA they'll begin to understand the mistakes they're making. Right now the best you can do is try and make changes that seem to have popular support at the moment (like the jurist removals, which will surely almost all pass). We can revisit politicians later. J947edits 22:20, 30 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Adding William G. Morgan to the level 4

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Hello J947

I have question to you. I found you one of the most gentle and friendly users over the years in Vital articles project. I have question to you as my English is not very good. Could you please made in my !name nomination to add William G. Morgan to the level 4? Just as you did nomination to add Cat in the name of ios2019... I were repeating myself but I think that William G. Morgan definietly is vital as the person if we was in Volleyball Hall of Fame and if Volleyball is the only sport which at short page had globally more pageviews than Association Football. Volleyball is popular sport in many other countries than USA, for example in Indonesia is more popular than Rugby. Actually I could do that nomination by myself but I am not sure it would be ellegent from my side to fourth time nominate that during few years but I think this person is justfar more than enough vital at the level 4 and just because of sometimes we had not many active editiors to gain 66% then that does not mean this man does not deserve next chance to be added. Dawid2009 (talk) 12:42, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Dawid2009: I've done so here. Feel free to vote on it.
If this doesn't pass, it's probably best to wait a few more years before you try again. J947edits 21:47, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, thanks Dawid2009 (talk) 21:55, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

New pages patrol January 2024 Backlog drive

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New Page Patrol | January 2024 Articles Backlog Drive
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:10, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 23

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Thank you!

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Just wanted to thank you for the message even though it got reverted. I also removed the whole discussion from V5 because I'm too embarassed, hopefully nobody minds. It really sucks to be like this, but oh well, it's chronic. Thank you again! The Blue Rider 01:30, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No probs. Mental health is a pest. I was thinking you had left at first (partly why I reverted my comment), so it's a big relief that you haven't. J947edits 01:46, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Politicky politicians"

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You used this term a few weeks back in a VA discussion. Curious for a little deeper explanation pbp 14:07, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It was really just a statement that I don't think the most well-known politicians are necessarily the most vital. Those sort of politicians that are known for being controversial or outspoken figures aren't the most influential, etc. They're sort of like metapoliticians, playing the game rather than doing their job, to put it another way. J947edits 23:06, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 24

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:37, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024

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Hello J947,

New Page Review queue January to March 2024

Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.

Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.

Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.

It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!

2023 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.

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Reminders:

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:27, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Birthday!

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New page patrol May 2024 Backlog drive

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New Page Patrol | May 2024 Articles Backlog Drive
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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 25

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New pages patrol September 2024 Backlog drive

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New pages patrol | September 2024 Backlog Drive
  • On 1 September 2024, a one-month backlog drive for new pages patrol will begin.
  • Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled.
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Invitation to participate in a research

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Hello,

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BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 19:26, 23 October 2024 (UTC) [reply]

Happy First Edit Day!

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Happy First Edit Day, J947, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 02:38, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reminder to participate in Wikipedia research

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BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 00:39, 13 November 2024 (UTC) [reply]

ArbCom 2024 Elections voter message

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New pages patrol January 2025 Backlog drive

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January 2025 Backlog Drive | New pages patrol
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:53, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 26

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