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The Signpost: 27 January 2020
- From the editor: Reaching six million articles is great, but we need a moratorium
- News and notes: Six million articles on the English language Wikipedia
- Special report: The limits of volunteerism and the gatekeepers of Team Encarta
- Arbitration report: Three cases at ArbCom
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2019
- News from the WMF: Capacity Building: Top 5 Themes from Community Conversations
- Community view: Our most important new article since November 1, 2015
- From the archives: A decade of The Signpost, 2005-2015
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Japan: a wikiProject Report
Wikidata weekly summary #400
Tech News: 2020-05
18:52, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
February with Women in Red
February 2020, Volume 6, Issue 2, Numbers 150, 151, 152, 154, 155
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Global watchlist - Update 5
Books & Bytes – Issue 37
On behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:09, 1 February 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – February 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2020).
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Interface administrator changes
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- Following a request for comment, partial blocks are now enabled on the English Wikipedia. This functionality allows administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces rather than the entire site. A draft policy is being workshopped at Wikipedia:Partial blocks.
- The request for comment seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure closed with
wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input
. No proposed process received consensus.
- Twinkle now supports partial blocking. There is a small checkbox that toggles the "partial" status for both blocks and templating. There is currently one template: {{uw-pblock}}.
- When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [4]
- Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators
that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.
- Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators
- Voting in the 2020 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2020, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2020, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- The English Wikipedia has reached six million articles. Thank you everyone for your contributions!
Wikidata weekly summary #401
Tech News: 2020-06
20:04, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
List of accolades received by The Hours
On the off-chance that you pop by, I just wanted to let you know that I took List of accolades received by The Hours back to FLC and it passed! We can finally add that little star to our userpages. Thank you for all your work on that list. Maybe one day, we can take Far From Heaven there. - JuneGloom07 Talk 04:04, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
I don't normally edit this article, but I noticed you set semi-protection to indefinite in November 2018. The persistent disruptive vandalism seems to have died down. While I'm not necessarily requesting you remove the semi-protection, I'm wondering if you might apply a time limit on it (say another three months), or downgrade it to a long-term, time-limited or even indefinite pending changes protection?
Cheers,
--Doug Mehus T·C 01:33, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
Requesting undeletion
Hi Courcelles, I'm sorry to hear of your health issues.
I stumbled across NationMaster.com earlier this evening, and found it to be a fascinating chapter in the (perhaps largely-untold) history of copyleft-enforcement as well as an important source of statistics for scholars. I have rough-drafted an article on NationMaster, see below.
I hope you'll agree that my proposed article on NationMaster will address the concerns about NationMaster's copyleft infringements which were first raised in 2003. My draft article is completely original, as I was (to my surprise) unable to find any trace of the deleted Wikipedia article on NationMaster. Please note that I have *not* attempted, in my draft article, to assess the importance of NationMaster.com in the commercial sector. I suspect that a reinstated article on NationMaster will be read by many and that it will attract editorial changes -- which I reckon is what Wikipedia is all about!
Disclosure: I'm a newbie to deletion reviews and have made only a dozen or so edits to Wikipedia articles over the years -- so am not particularly adept in the Wikipedia world. I have no connection whatsoever to Luke Metcalfe, indeed as a proud NZ citizen (nevermind that I'm still holding a valid USA passport) I'm rather disposed to be dismissive of Australians ;-)
Anyway: would you be supportive of a review of the NationMaster deletion?
-- proposed new article on NationMaster --
NationMaster.com was launched in May 2003 by Luke Metcalfe, as a website with the stated purpose to provide "... a handy way to graphically compare nations... Using data from the CIA World Factbook 2002. All stats are for 2002 unless otherwise specified."[1]
Soon after its launch, NationMaster.com was accused of violating Wikipedia's copyleft policy.[2]
In February 2014, the NationMaster.com website was reorganised [3] to delete its (allegedly) copyleft-infringing Encyclopedia content[4], [5]
The Wikipedia page for NationMaster.com was deleted from Wikipedia in 2015, after a discussion that was summarised as follows: "In 2006 the [Article for Deletion verdict] was "rewrite", well, nobody did so. The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline and the more detailed Wikipedia:Notability (companies)/Wikipedia:Notability (websites) requirement. While it is occasionally cited in mass media, I don't see any articles (newspaper or scholarly), nor books, discussing it. The best I found is [6] and I don't think that suffices."[7].
In February 2020, Google Scholar reported finding "about 8,640 citations" in the scholarly literature to NationMaster.com.[8]. These citations were from sources of various levels of scholarly reputability, including a PhD thesis[9], a US Patent[10], and a scholarly monograph[11].
The decision to delete NationMaster from Wikipedia was reviewed in 2020.
This article has been reinstated to Wikipedia, because of the importance of NationMaster.com in the history of copyleft enforcement, and also because of the ongoing importance of NationMaster.com as a statistical source for the scholarly literature.
-- — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cthombor (talk • contribs) 10:37, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #402
Tech News: 2020-07
19:10, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: January 2020
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Today's Wikipedian 10 years ago
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All the best, especially for health! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:22, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
Feb 19: WikiWednesday Salon NYC
February 19, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon NYC | |
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We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team 21:00, 14 February 2020 (UTC) |
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Wikidata weekly summary #403
Tech News: 2020-08
16:17, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #404
Tech News: 2020-09
20:59, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
WikiCup 2020 March newsletter
And so ends the first round of the competition. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2, with 57 contestants qualifying. We have abolished the groups this year, so to qualify for Round 3 you will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two contestants.
Our top scorers in Round 1 were:
- Epicgenius, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with a featured article, five good articles and an assortment of other submissions, specialising on buildings and locations in New York, for a total of 895 points.
- Gog the Mild came next with 464 points, from a featured article, two good articles and a number of reviews, the main theme being naval warfare.
- Raymie was in third place with 419 points, garnered from one good article and an impressive 34 DYKs on radio and TV stations in the United States.
- Harrias came next at 414, with a featured article and three good articles, an English civil war battle specialist.
- CaptainEek was in fifth place with 405 points, mostly garnered from bringing Cactus wren to featured article status.
- The top ten contestants at the end of Round 1 all scored over 200 points; they also included L293D, Kingsif, Enwebb, Lee Vilenski and CAPTAIN MEDUSA. Seven of the top ten contestants in Round 1 are new to the WikiCup.
These contestants, like all the others, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. In Round 1 there were four featured articles, one featured list and two featured pictures, as well as around two hundred DYKs and twenty-seven ITNs. Between them, contestants completed 127 good article reviews, nearly a hundred more than the 43 good articles they claimed for, thus making a substantial dent in the review backlog. Contestants also claimed for 40 featured article / featured list reviews, and most even remembered to mention their WikiCup participation in their reviews (a requirement).
Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Some contestants made claims before the new submissions pages were set up, and they will need to resubmit them. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.
If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! 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 yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:46, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
The Signpost: 1 March 2020
- From the editor: The ball is in your court
- News and notes: Alexa ranking down to 13th worldwide
- Special report: More participation, more conversation, more pageviews
- Discussion report: Do you prefer M or P?
- Arbitration report: Two prominent administrators removed
- Community view: The Incredible Invisible Woman
- In focus: History of The Signpost, 2015–2019
- From the archives: Is Wikipedia for sale?
- Traffic report: February articles, floating in the dark
- Gallery: Feel the love
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- Opinion: Wikipedia is another country
- Humour: The Wilhelm scream
WikiCup newsletter correction
There was an error in the WikiCup 2020 March newsletter; L293D should not have been included in the list of top ten scorers in Round 1 (they led the list last year), instead, Dunkleosteus77 should have been included, having garnered 334 points from five good articles on animals, living or extinct, and various reviews. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:30, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – March 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2020).
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- Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops
must not
undo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather thanshould not
. - A request for comment confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.
- Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops
- Following a discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present. You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your Twinkle preferences.
- Following the 2020 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: BRPever, Krd, Martin Urbanec, MusikAnimal, Sakretsu, Sotiale, and Tks4Fish. There are a total of seven editors that have been appointed as stewards, the most since 2014.
- The 2020 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Ajraddatz and Uzoma Ozurumba; they will serve for one year.
Wikidata weekly summary #405
Tech News: 2020-10
00:35, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #406
Tech News: 2020-11
17:14, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: February 2020
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Wikidata weekly summary #407
Tech News: 2020-12
21:17, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
March 18, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC | |
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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. This month, as part of Wikimedia NYC's commitment to the well-being of members, we will hold WikiWednesday online via Zoom videoconferencing! To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit this link. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page. We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person! Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda.
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team 04:36, 17 March 2020 (UTC) |
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April 2020 at Women in Red
April 2020, Volume 6, Issue 4, Numbers 150, 151, 159, 160, 161, 162
Online events:
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Wikidata weekly summary #408
Tech News: 2020-13
17:07, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
The Signpost: 29 March 2020
- From the editors: The bad and the good
- News and notes: 2018 Wikipedian of the year blocked
- WikiProject report: WikiProject COVID-19: A WikiProject Report
- Special report: Wikipedia on COVID-19: what we publish and why it matters
- In the media: Blocked in Iran but still covering the big story
- Discussion report: Rethinking draft space
- Arbitration report: Unfinished business
- In focus: "I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein …"
- Community view: Wikimedia community responds to COVID-19
- From the archives: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own
- Traffic report: The only thing that matters in the world
- Gallery: Visible Women on Wikipedia
- News from the WMF: Amid COVID-19, Wikimedia Foundation offers full pay for reduced hours, mobilizes all staff to work remote, and waives sick time
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
Wikidata weekly summary #409
Tech News: 2020-14
17:25, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – April 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2020).
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- There is an ongoing request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.
- There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.
- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a
Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment
. A draft RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.
- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a
- The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.
Elements (miniseries) is being reassessed for GA status
Elements (miniseries), an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Also, I see from the header at the top of this page that you're experiencing health issues. I wish you good health and hope that you recover soon. —Matthew - (talk) 17:49, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #410
Tech News: 2020-15
19:02, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: March 2020
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Tech News: 2020-16
15:30, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
- ^ nationmaster.com, https://web.archive.org/web/20030527105539/http://www.nationmaster.com/, May 2003
- ^ Wikipedia Village Pump, Mirroring_content, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirroring_content, 2003
- ^ NationMaster, Homepage, http://web.archive.org/web/20140228202948/http://www.nationmaster.com/, 28 Feb 2014
- ^ NationMaster, Encyclopedia Main Page, https://web.archive.org/web/20140211221933/http://www.nationmaster.com:80/encyclopedia, 11 February 2014
- ^ NationMaster, Homepage, https://web.archive.org/web/20140211222450/http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php
- ^ (author unknown), Luke Metcalfe Relaunches NationMaster for Househunters, Australian Financial Review, https://www.afr.com/leadership/entrepreneur/luke-metcalfe-relaunches-nationmaster-for-househunters-20150807-k9zrf, 7 August 2015
- ^ Wikipedia, Articles for deletion/NationMaster (2nd nomination), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/NationMaster_(2nd_nomination), last modified 22 September 2015
- ^ Google Scholar, search results on "NationMaster", https://scholar.google.co.nz/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=NationMaster&btnG=, retrieved 7 Feb 2020
- ^ Joseph L. Bean, Do changing ratings of marital satisfaction after marital education correspondingly change ratings of sexual satisfaction?, U Sydney, 2015
- ^ William Boulanger, Arasteh Ari Azhir, Chlorite formulations, and methods of preparation and use thereof, US 8067035, 2011
- ^ Dimitris N. Chorafas, Education and Employment in the European Union: The Social Cost of Business, Gower Publishing 2011, reprinted by Routledge, 2016.