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WikiCup 2023 September newsletter[edit]
The fourth round of the competition has finished, with anyone scoring less than 673 points being eliminated. It was a high scoring round with all but one of the contestants who progressed to the final having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were
Epicgenius, with 2173 points topping the scores, gained mainly from a featured article, 38 good articles and 9 DYKs. He was followed by
Sammi Brie, with 1575 points, gained mainly from a featured article, 28 good articles and 50 good article reviews. Close behind was
Thebiguglyalien, with 1535 points mainly gained from a featured article, 15 good articles, 26 good article reviews and lots of bonus points.
Between them during round 4, contestants achieved 12 featured articles, 3 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 126 good articles, 46 DYK entries, 14 ITN entries, 67 featured article candidate reviews and 147 good article reviews. Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.
Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them and within 24 hours of the end of the final. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. 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. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.
I will be standing down as a judge after the end of the contest. I think the Cup encourages productive editors to improve their contributions to Wikipedia and I hope that someone else will step up to take over the running of the Cup. Sturmvogel 66 (talk), and Cwmhiraeth (talk)
Administrators' newsletter – January 2024[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversighter changes
Arbitration
- Following the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Aoidh, Cabayi, Firefly, HJ Mitchell, Maxim, Sdrqaz, ToBeFree, Z1720.
- Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
- The arbitration case Industrial agriculture has been closed.
Miscellaneous
- The New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,000 unreviewed articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
New message from Relativity[edit]
Message added 02:31, 31 January 2024 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the ((Talkback)) or ((Tb)) template.
Relativity 02:31, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
Question from Nolansfood (22:23, 31 January 2024)[edit]
I have a question regarding editing this map. It is only showing 16 out of the 46 coordinates, and when I open the "full interactive map" in the hyperlink it then says there are 62 coordinates. When you click on the map it shows 16 coordinates. The hyperlink then shows 62, which is confusing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_Bourbon_Trail#Trail_stops --Nolansfood (talk) 22:23, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
- @Nolansfood, you are right. Perhaps the editors could not find the exact coordinates for everything they wanted to put on the map? Have you thought about discussing this on the article's talk page? Relativity 22:29, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
- The coordinates are exact, I checked. The problem is the full list of 46 coordinates don't show up unless you click on the hyperlink "full interactive map". The next issue is that when you go there the numbering is off. It shows there are 62 coordinates.
- Do you have any guide or editor you know that is good with this? Nolansfood (talk) 22:34, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
- @Nolansfood The Wikipedians at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Miscellaneous will probably be more helpful in this topic than I can be due to my limited knowledge of maps on Wikipedia. You also might be interested in asking here at Wikivoyage, since they might be more experienced in working with digital maps than the editors at the Misc ref desk, although they aren't on Wikipedia, so there may be some technical limitations, I don't know. Hope this helps Relativity 22:48, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – February 2024[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).
Administrator changes
Bureaucrat changes
Guideline and policy news
- An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.
Technical news
- Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)
Arbitration
- Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
- Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.
Miscellaneous
- Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
- Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
- The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in February 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with ((Unreferenced)). You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!
Question from Nolansfood (08:09, 6 February 2024)[edit]
How do userpages get protection? I researched it and did not get the answer I wanted. I noticed some user pages cannot be edited. --Nolansfood (talk) 08:09, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
- @Nolansfood Take a look at WP:RFPP. Let me know if you have any questions Relativity 03:32, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
A message from SYNTHWAVER MAN[edit]
Hi. ForDraft:Downtown Binary i cannot find other sources. please tell me what to do. Thanks! SYNTHWAVER MAN (talk) 19:07, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
- @SYNTHWAVER MAN For your draft, if you can't find any more sources, then the artist is not notable and therefore doesn't deserve their own Wikipedia article. I would suggest helping out in other aspects of Wikipedia so you can get a feel for notability before you attempt to write an article. Writing articles is one of the hardest things that a Wikipedian can do. Relativity 03:34, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
- Ok thanks! SYNTHWAVER MAN (talk) 23:42, 7 February 2024 (UTC)