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This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2024)
[edit] Hello, John Cline. The article for improvement of the week is:
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This week's article for improvement (week 2, 2024)
[edit]An antacid is a substance which neutralizes stomach acidity and is used to relieve heartburn, indigestion or an upset stomach.
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The Signpost: 10 January 2024
[edit]- From the editor: NINETEEN MORE YEARS! NINETEEN MORE YEARS!
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This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2024)
[edit] Hello, John Cline. The article for improvement of the week is:
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This week's article for improvement (week 4, 2024)
[edit] Hello, John Cline. The article for improvement of the week is:
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Notification: Feedback request service is down
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This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2024)
[edit] Hello, John Cline. The article for improvement of the week is:
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The Signpost: 31 January 2024
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This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2024)
[edit] Hello, John Cline. The article for improvement of the week is:
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This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2024)
[edit] Hello, John Cline. The article for improvement of the week is:
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The Signpost: 13 February 2024
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This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2024)
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Feedback requests from the Feedback Request Service
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This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2024)
[edit] Hello, John Cline. The article for improvement of the week is:
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This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2024)
[edit] Hello, John Cline. The article for improvement of the week is:
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This week's article for improvement (week 11, 2024)
[edit] Hello, John Cline. The article for improvement of the week is:
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RFA2024 update: no longer accepting new proposals in phase I
[edit]Hey there! This is to let you know that phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship (RfA) review is now no longer accepting new proposals. Lots of proposals remain open for discussion, and the current round of review looks to be on a good track towards making significant progress towards improving RfA's structure and environment. I'd like to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has given us their idea for change to make RfA better, and the same to everyone who has given the necessary feedback to improve those ideas. The following proposals remain open for discussion:
- Proposal 2, initiated by HouseBlaster, provides for the addition of a text box at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship reminding all editors of our policies and enforcement mechanisms around decorum.
- Proposals 3 and 3b, initiated by Barkeep49 and Usedtobecool, respectively, provide for trials of discussion-only periods at RfA. The first would add three extra discussion-only days to the beginning, while the second would convert the first two days to discussion-only.
- Proposal 5, initiated by SilkTork, provides for a trial of RfAs without threaded discussion in the voting sections.
- Proposals 6c and 6d, initiated by BilledMammal, provide for allowing users to be selected as provisional admins for a limited time through various concrete selection criteria and smaller-scale vetting.
- Proposal 7, initiated by Lee Vilenski, provides for the "General discussion" section being broken up with section headings.
- Proposal 9b, initiated by Reaper Eternal, provides for the requirement that allegations of policy violation be substantiated with appropriate links to where the alleged misconduct occured.
- Proposals 12c, 21, and 21b, initiated by City of Silver, Ritchie333, and HouseBlaster, respectively, provide for reducing the discretionary zone, which currently extends from 65% to 75%. The first would reduce it 65%–70%, the second would reduce it to 50%–66%, and the third would reduce it to 60%–70%.
- Proposal 13, initiated by Novem Lingaue, provides for periodic, privately balloted admin elections.
- Proposal 14, initiated by Kusma, provides for the creation of some minimum suffrage requirements to cast a vote.
- Proposals 16 and 16c, initiated by Thebiguglyalien and Soni, respectively, provide for community-based admin desysop procedures. 16 would desysop where consensus is established in favor at the administrators' noticeboard; 16c would allow a petition to force reconfirmation.
- Proposal 16e, initiated by BilledMammal, would extend the recall procedures of 16 to bureaucrats.
- Proposal 17, initiated by SchroCat, provides for "on-call" admins and 'crats to monitor RfAs for decorum.
- Proposal 18, initiated by theleekycauldron, provides for lowering the RfB target from 85% to 75%.
- Proposal 24, initiated by SportingFlyer, provides for a more robust alternate version of the optional candidate poll.
- Proposal 25, initiated by Femke, provides for the requirement that nominees be extended-confirmed in addition to their nominators.
- Proposal 27, initiated by WereSpielChequers, provides for the creation of a training course for admin hopefuls, as well as periodic retraining to keep admins from drifting out of sync with community norms.
- Proposal 28, initiated by HouseBlaster, tightens restrictions on multi-part questions.
To read proposals that were closed as unsuccessful, please see Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase I/Closed proposals. You are cordially invited once again to participate in the open discussions; when phase I ends, phase II will review the outcomes of trial proposals and refine the implementation details of other proposals. Another notification will be sent out when this phase begins, likely with the first successful close of a major proposal. Happy editing! theleekycauldron (talk • she/her), via:
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This week's article for improvement (week 13, 2024)
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File:Bucaram foto.png Hello, John Cline. The article for improvement of the week is:
Abdalá Bucaram
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The Signpost: 29 March 2024
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Feedback request: Politics, government, and law request for comment
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This week's article for improvement (week 14, 2024)
[edit] Hello, John Cline. The article for improvement of the week is:
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New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024
[edit]Hello John Cline,
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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This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2024)
[edit] Hello, John Cline. The article for improvement of the week is:
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New page patrol May 2024 Backlog drive
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This week's article for improvement (week 17, 2024)
[edit] Hello, John Cline. The article for improvement of the week is:
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The Signpost: 25 April 2024
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This week's article for improvement (week 18, 2024)
[edit] Hello, John Cline. The article for improvement of the week is:
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RFA2024 update: phase I concluded, phase II begins
[edit]Hi there! Phase I of the Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review has concluded, with several impactful changes gaining community consensus and proceeding to various stages of implementation. Some proposals will be implemented in full outright; others will be discussed at phase II before being implemented; and still others will proceed on a trial basis before being brought to phase II. The following proposals have gained consensus:
- Proposals 2 and 9b (phase II discussion): Add a reminder of civility norms at RfA and Require links for claims of specific policy violations
- Proposal 3b (in trial): Make the first two days discussion-only
- Proposal 13 (in trial): Admin elections
- Proposal 14 (implemented): Suffrage requirements
- Proposals 16 and 16c (phase II discussion): Allow the community to initiate recall RfAs and Community recall process based on dewiki
- Proposal 17 (phase II discussion): Have named Admins/crats to monitor infractions
- Proposal 24 (phase II discussion): Provide better mentoring for becoming an admin and the RfA process
- Proposal 25 (implemented): Require nominees to be extended confirmed
See the project page for a full list of proposals and their outcomes. A huge thank-you to everyone who has participated so far :) looking forward to seeing lots of hard work become a reality in phase II. theleekycauldron (talk), via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:09, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 19, 2024)
[edit] Hello, John Cline. The article for improvement of the week is:
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This week's article for improvement (week 20, 2024)
[edit] Hello, John Cline. The article for improvement of the week is:
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Feedback request: Biographies request for comment
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The Signpost: 16 May 2024
[edit]- News and notes: Democracy in action: multiple elections
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This week's article for improvement (week 21, 2024)
[edit] Hello, John Cline. The article for improvement of the week is:
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This week's article for improvement (week 22, 2024)
[edit] Hello, John Cline. The article for improvement of the week is:
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This week's article for improvement (week 23, 2024)
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Nickname links
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The Signpost: 8 June 2024
[edit]- Technology report: New Page Patrol receives a much-needed software upgrade
- Deletion report: The lore of Kalloor
- In the media: National cable networks get in on the action arguing about what the first sentence of a Wikipedia article ought to say
- News from the WMF: Progress on the plan — how the Wikimedia Foundation advanced on its Annual Plan goals during the first half of fiscal year 2023-2024
- Recent research: ChatGPT did not kill Wikipedia, but might have reduced its growth
- Featured content: We didn't start the wiki
- Essay: No queerphobia
- Special report: RetractionBot is back to life!
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This week's article for improvement (week 24, 2024)
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This week's article for improvement (week 25, 2024)
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This week's article for improvement (week 26, 2024)
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Given name links
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This week's article for improvement (week 27, 2024)
[edit]Theo Jansen's Strandbeest, a group of planar walking mechanisms
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Nomination for deletion of Template:WPR cbox
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The Signpost: 4 July 2024
[edit]- News and notes: WMF board elections and fundraising updates
- Special report: Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification vote underway, new Council may surpass power of Board
- In focus: How the Russian Wikipedia keeps it clean despite having just a couple dozen administrators
- Discussion report: Wikipedians are hung up on the meaning of Madonna
- In the media: War and information in war and politics
- Sister projects: On editing Wikisource
- Opinion: Etika: a Pop Culture Champion
- Gallery: Spokane Willy's photos
- Humour: A joke
- Recent research: Is Wikipedia Politically Biased? Perhaps
- Traffic report: Talking about you and me, and the games people play
This week's article for improvement (week 28, 2024)
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Nomination of Mountmellick Athletic Club for deletion
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This week's article for improvement (week 29, 2024)
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This week's article for improvement (week 30, 2024)
[edit]Cape of Good Hope (left) and Cape Hangklip (right) in South Africa
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The Signpost: 22 July 2024
[edit]- Discussion report: Internet users flock to Wikipedia to debate its image policy over Trump raised-fist photo
- News and notes: Wikimedia community votes to ratify Movement Charter; Wikimedia Foundation opposes ratification
- Obituary: JamesR
- Crossword: Vaguely bird-shaped crossword
This week's article for improvement (week 31, 2024)
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This week's article for improvement (week 32, 2024)
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This week's article for improvement (week 33, 2024)
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The Signpost: 14 August 2024
[edit]- In the media: Portland pol profile paid for from public purse
- In focus: Twitter marks the spot
- News and notes: Another Wikimania has concluded.
- Special report: Nano or just nothing: Will nano go nuclear?
- Opinion: HouseBlaster's RfA debriefing
- Traffic report: Ball games, movies, elections, but nothing really weird
- Humour: I'm proud to be a template
This week's article for improvement (week 34, 2024)
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This week's article for improvement (week 35, 2024)
[edit]Director Sergio Leone (right) and actor Enzo Santaniello on the set of the film
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This week's article for improvement (week 36, 2024)
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[edit]- News and notes: WikiCup enters final round, MCDC wraps up activities, 17-year-old hoax article unmasked
- In the media: AI is not playing games anymore. Is Wikipedia ready?
- News from the WMF: Meet the 12 candidates running in the WMF Board of Trustees election
- Wikimania: A month after Wikimania 2024
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- Traffic report: After the gold rush
This week's article for improvement (week 37, 2024)
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This week's article for improvement (week 38, 2024)
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This week's article for improvement (week 39, 2024)
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This week's article for improvement (week 40, 2024)
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This week's article for improvement (week 41, 2024)
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Nomination for deletion of Template:DYK message
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This week's article for improvement (week 42, 2024)
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The Signpost: 19 October 2024
[edit]- News and notes: One election's end, another election's beginning
- Recent research: "As many as 5%" of new English Wikipedia articles "contain significant AI-generated content", says paper
- In the media: Off to the races! Wikipedia wins!
- Contest: A WikiCup for the Global South
- Traffic report: A scream breaks the still of the night
- Book review: The Editors
- Humour: The Newspaper Editors
- Crossword: Spilled Coffee Mug
This week's article for improvement (week 43, 2024)
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