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Punjab edit-a-thon: Write for glory

Hello friend,
A multilingual national-level edit-a-thon is being conducted at this moment with an aim to create or improve Punjab-related articles. A community that will create or expand the most number of articles during this edit-a-thon contest will be awarded a trophy during WikiConference India 2016. Best contributors' recognition may also be considered. We need your help here. Please join right now as a participant and help your community.
Thanks and regards. --WikiConference India (2016) organizing team using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:52, 3 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi can you tell me how is Bastar Iron Craft related to Punjab? --Tito Dutta (talk) 06:16, 5 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It is one of Geographical Indications in Chhattisgarh. Is it not related to Punjab? Correct me if it is wrong. --Antan O 06:35, 5 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, but for that edit-a-thon the topic is any article related to Punjab (a Punjab connection) is needed. --Tito Dutta (talk) 16:45, 5 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the information. I had a wrong interpretation. --Antan O 16:50, 5 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Oh ok Are you coming to Chandigarh? --Tito Dutta (talk) 21:30, 5 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I love to come, but I am not ready these days.

--Antan O 04:41, 6 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Rio Olympics Edit-a-thon

Dear Friends & Wikipedians, Celebrate the world's biggest sporting festival on Wikipedia. The Rio Olympics Edit-a-thon aims to pay tribute to Indian athletes and sportsperson who represent India at Olympics. Please find more details here. The Athlete who represent their country at Olympics, often fail to attain their due recognition. They bring glory to the nation. Let's write articles on them, as a mark of tribute.

For every 20 articles created collectively, a tree will be planted. Similarly, when an editor completes 20 articles, a book will be awarded to him/her. Check the main page for more details. Thank you. Abhinav619 (sent using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:54, 16 August 2016 (UTC), subscribe/unsubscribe)[reply]

Invitation from Wikipedia Asian Month 2016

Wikipedia Asian Month

Thanks for partipating Wikipedia Asian Month last year, and I hope you enjoy it. Last year, more than 7,000 articles contribute to Wikipedia in 43 languages in Wikipedia Asian Month, making us one of the largest event on Wikipedia. We will organize this event again in upcoming November, and would like to invite you join us again.

This year, we are lowering down the standards that you only need to create 4 (Four) articles to receive a postcard (new design), and articles only need to be more than 3,000 bytes and 300 words. We are also improving our postcard sending process, e.g. making the postcards right now, and collecting the address after the event ends without waiting other languges.

Wikipedians who create the most articles on each Wikipedia will be honored as "Wikipedia Asian Ambassadors". We will send you both digital copy, and a paper copy of the Ambassador certificate.

Sign up now

Thank you for considering! --AddisWang (talk)
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:47, 24 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

பதிவேற்றைய படங்கள் copy right பிரச்னை வர என்ன காரணம்?

நான் பதிவேற்றிய படங்களில் எவை எவை copy right பிரச்சனையில் உள்ளது. எந்த படம் சரியான முறையில் பதிவேற்றம் செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளது... copy ரைட் பிரச்னை உள்ள படங்களை சரி செய்வது எப்படி? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Durai.velumani (talk • contribs) 05:42, 27 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia Asian Month!

Hi there! Wikipedia Asian Month is about to start. Here is some information about participating in the event:

Please submit your articles via this tool. Click 'log in' at the top-right and OAuth will take care the rest. You can also change the interface language at the top-right.
Once you submit an article, the tool will add a template to the article and mark it as needing review by an organizer. You can check your progress using the tool, which includes how many accepted articles you have.
Participants who achieve 4 accepted articles will receive a Wikipedia Asian Month postcard. You will receive another special postcard if you achieve 15 accepted articles. The Wikipedian with the highest number of accepted articles on the English Wikipedia will be honored as a "Wikipedia Asian Ambassador", and will receive a signed certificate and additional postcard.
If you have any problems accessing or using the tool, you can submit your articles at this page next to your username.
If you have any question, you can take a look at our Q&A or post on the WAM talk page.

Best Wishes, Addis Wang
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:57, 31 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2016 November newsletter: Final results

The final round of the 2016 WikiCup is over. Congratulations to the 2016 WikiCup top three finalists:

First Place - Cas Liber (submissions)
Second Place - MPJ-DK (submissions)
Third Place - Adam Cuerden (submissions)

In addition to recognizing the achievements of the top finishers and everyone who worked hard to make it to the final round, we also want to recognize those participants who were most productive in each of the WikiCup scoring categories:

Featured Article – Cas Liber (actually a three-way tie with themselves for two FAs in each of R2, R3, and R5).
Good Article – MPJ-DK had 14 GAs promoted in R3.
Featured List – Calvin999 (submissions) produced 2 FLs in R2
Featured Pictures – Adam Cuerden restored 18 images to FP status in R4.
Featured Portal – SSTflyer (submissions) produced the only FPO of the Cup in R2.
Featured Topic – Cyclonebiskit (submissions) and Calvin were each responsible for one FT in R3 and R2, respectively.
Good Topic – MPJ-DK created a GT with 9 GAs in R5.
Did You Know – MPJ-DK put 53 DYKs on the main page in R4.
In The News – Dharmadhyaksha (submissions) and Muboshgu (submissions), each with 5 ITN, both in R4.
Good Article Review – MPJ-DK completed 61 GARs in R2.

Over the course of the 2016 WikiCup the following content was added to Wikipedia (only reporting on fixed value categories): 17 Featured Articles, 183 Good Articles, 8 Featured Lists, 87 Featured Pictures, 40 In The News, and 321 Good Article Reviews. Thank you to all the competitors for your hard work and what you have done to improve Wikipedia.--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:52, 2 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

We will open up a discussion for comments on process and scoring in a few days. The 2017 WikiCup is just around the corner! Many thanks from all the judges. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), and Godot13 (talk · contribs · email)

WikiProject Good Articles's 2016-2017 GA Cup

WikiProject Good Articles's 2016-2017 GA Cup

Greetings, all!

We would like to announce the start of the 4th GA Cup, a competition that seeks to encourage the reviewing of Good article nominations! Thus far, there have been three GA Cups, which were successful in reaching our goals of significantly reducing the traditionally long queue at GAN, so we're doing it again. Currently, there are over 400 nominations listed. We hope that we can again make an impact this time.

The 4th GA Cup will begin on November 1, 2016. Four rounds are currently scheduled (which will bring the competition to a close on February 28, 2017), but this may change based on participant numbers. We may take a break in December for the holidays, depending on the results of a poll of our participants taken shortly after the competition begins. The sign-up and submissions process will remain the same, as will the scoring.

Sign-ups for the upcoming competition are currently open and will close on November 14, 2016. Everyone is welcome to join; new and old editors, so sign-up now!

If you have any questions, take a look at the FAQ page and/or contact one of the judges.

Cheers from 3family6, Figureskatingfan, Jaguar, MrWooHoo, and Zwerg Nase. We apologize for the delay in sending out this message until after the competition has started. Thank you to Krishna Chaitanya Velaga for aiding in getting this message out.

To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletters, please add or remove your name to our mailing list. If you are a participant, you will be on the mailing list no matter what as this is the easiest way to communicate between all participants.

--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:40, 3 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, AntanO. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup December newsletter: WikiCup 2017

On 1 January 2017, WikiCup 2017 (the 10th Annual WikiCup) will begin. This year we are trying something a little different – monetary prizes.

For the WC2017 the prizes will be as follows (amounts are based in US$ and will be awarded in the form of an online Amazon gift certificate):

First place – $200
Second & Third place – $50 each
Category prizes – $25 per category (which will be limited to FA, FL, FP, GA, and DYK for 2017). Winning a category prize does not require making it to the final round.

Note: Monetary prizes are a one-year experiment for 2017 and may or may not be continued in the future. In order to be eligible to receive any of the prizes above, the competing Wikipedia account must have a valid/active email address.

After two years as a WikiCup judge, Figureskatingfan is stepping down. We thank her for her contributions as a WikiCup judge. We are pleased to announce that our newest judge is two-time WikiCup champion Cwmhiraeth.

The judges for the 2017 WikiCup are Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email).

Signups are open now and will remain open until 5 February 2017. You can sign up here.

If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:02, 14 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Good work!

		The Original Barnstar
		For your tireless work on Sri Lanka related content on both Wikipedia and Commons. I've also noticed you created the no-FOP petition, which is great! If you wish, I would be glad to help you in that in whatever way I can. Kind regards, Reh man 04:32, 17 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Rehman:, thank you for the barnstar, and specially for recognizing my contribution. Yes, I made petition for no-FOP. Unfortunately, a few supported and a few opposed and argued in facebook without proper knowledge of FOP. If you could work on the FOP issues, I welcome you. Let me know what else we can do. --Antan O 17:16, 17 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ordnance Factory Board's images deleted

Most of my own images that I uploaded to commons were deleted without nominating them for deletion. That was my 4 years worth of work. You cited copyright violation as the reason for deletion, but I'm the actual owner of all the images I upload. I serve in OFB and take the pictures myself. I have images of the same products and places from different angles. Let me know what do you want me to furnish to establish that all those images belong to me, I shall be happy to provide.--BharatRakshak (talk) 07:10, 24 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Replied at Commons. --Antan O 07:49, 24 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas 2016

"And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold,

I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord."

Luke 2:10-11 (King James Version)

Tito Dutta (talk) is wishing you a Merry Christmas.

This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove.

Spread the cheer by adding {{Subst:Xmas4}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

--Tito Dutta (talk) 10:50, 24 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Merry, merry!

From the icy Canajian north; to you and yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 03:36, 26 December 2016 (UTC) [reply]

DYK nomination of Sri Lankan Christmas tree

Hello! Your submission of Sri Lankan Christmas tree at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! DarjeelingTea (talk) 06:43, 27 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of Portuguese invasion of Jaffna kingdom (1591)

Hello! Your submission of Portuguese invasion of Jaffna kingdom (1591) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 21:37, 18 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please see new note on your DYK nomination. Yoninah (talk) 22:29, 24 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Jallikattu

Hi there, I appreciate your attempts to clean up Jallikattu. Thanks for that. I could be wrong, but I thought that I'd fixed some of the timeline issues in the Protests section, and I think some of that has been undone, and the section is a bit confusing. We go:

In May 2014, the Supreme Court of India banned the practice
On 8 January, 2016, the Government of India passed an order exempting Jallikattu...effectively reversing the ban.
However, on 14 January, 2016, the Supreme Court of India upheld its ban on the event, leading to protests
On 8 January 2016, the Ministry of Environment and Forests permitted the continuation of the tradition...effectively ending the ban
however that was overturned by the Supreme Court on 26 July 2016
the World Youth Organization on 16 January 2016 at Chennai protested against the stay on ban

As you can see, we jump around a bit, 8 January 2016 ("effectively reversing the ban"), 14 January 2016, 8 January 2016 (repeating "effectively ending the ban"), 26 July 2016, 16 January 2016. We also repeat information, or so it appears.

Also, I don't know if the Indian press is misusing the word or not, but "stay" typically means a delay or a halt or a postponement. If a prisoner is going to be executed, a "stay of execution" delays that order. So I'm unclear what is meant here, but if we say that someone protested the stay on ban that sounds like they were protesting for the ban, not against it. I think "stay" is being used to mean "uphold", but I'm not sure that's the best phrasing. Perhaps there's another way to phrase it? Also, you should probably be aware that there has been a bit of a PR campaign to change the description of the activity from "bull taming" to "bull embracing". You may have seen some of this on the talk page. I find it very suspicious. Regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 05:17, 19 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the notification. You are right. I will look some Tamil medias and some more reliable source and see what could be right. --Antan O 05:23, 19 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of Yazh Nool

Hello! Your submission of Yazh Nool at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 20:57, 21 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please report back on the nomination page after you've copyedited the article. You may wish to ask for assistance at Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors. Yoninah (talk) 22:46, 25 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please see new note on your DYK nomination. Yoninah (talk) 20:24, 28 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please see new note on your DYK nomination. Yoninah (talk) 15:08, 30 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of Portuguese invasion of Jaffna kingdom (1560)

Hello! Your submission of Portuguese invasion of Jaffna kingdom (1560) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 22:46, 25 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Sri Lankan Christmas tree

On 28 January 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sri Lankan Christmas tree, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Sri Lankan Christmas tree (pictured) is claimed to be the world’s tallest artificial Christmas tree? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sri Lankan Christmas tree. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Sri Lankan Christmas tree), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Harrias ^talk 00:31, 28 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Portuguese invasion of Jaffna kingdom (1560)

On 3 February 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Portuguese invasion of Jaffna kingdom (1560), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Jaffna kingdom lost sovereignty over Mannar Island after the first invasion by the Portuguese in 1560? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Portuguese invasion of Jaffna kingdom (1560). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Portuguese invasion of Jaffna kingdom (1560)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Schwede66 01:51, 3 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Yamuna Eri

On 3 February 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Yamuna Eri, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Yamuna Eri, a Sri Lankan monument in Jaffna, is so named for the sacred waters added to it from India's Yamuna River in the thirteenth century AD? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Yamuna Eri. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Yamuna Eri), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 13:37, 3 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Yazh Nool

On 14 February 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Yazh Nool, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Yazh Nool, an important research work on the ancient Tamil musical instrument known as yazh, describes six types of forgotten instruments? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Yazh Nool. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Yazh Nool), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Mifter (talk) 22:16, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Portuguese invasion of Jaffna kingdom (1591)

On 15 February 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Portuguese invasion of Jaffna kingdom (1591), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that after gaining a partial victory over the Jaffna kingdom in 1560, the Portuguese successfully defeated their enemy in the invasion of 1591 and installed their own king? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Portuguese invasion of Jaffna kingdom (1591). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Portuguese invasion of Jaffna kingdom (1591)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Mifter (talk) 10:31, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Mantri Manai

On 22 February 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Mantri Manai, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Mantri Manai (pictured) has a mixture of European and Dravidian architectural styles? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Mantri Manai. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Mantri Manai), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Mifter (talk) 00:01, 22 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

March 2017 WikiCup newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. It would have been 5 points, but when a late entrant was permitted to join the contest in February, a promise was made that his inclusion would not result in the exclusion of any other competitor. To achieve this, the six entrants that had the lowest positive score of 4 points have been added to the 64 people who otherwise would have qualified. As a result, some of the groups have nine contestants rather than eight. Our top four scorers in round 1 were:

Cas Liber, last year's winner, led the field with two featured articles on birds and a total score of 674.
Iry-Hor, a WikiCup newcomer, came next with a featured article, a good article and a tally of 282 bonus points for a score of 517. All these points came from the article Nyuserre Ini, an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh,
1989, another WikiCup newcomer, was in joint third place at 240. 1989 has claimed points for two featured lists and one good article relating to anime and comedy series, all of which were awarded bonus points.
Peacemaker67 shared third place with five good articles and thirteen good article reviews, mostly on naval vessels. He is also new to the competition.

The largest number of DYKs have been submitted by Vivvt and The C of E, who each claimed for seven, and MBlaze Lightning achieved eight articles at ITN. Carbrera and Peacemaker67 each claimed for five GAs and Krishna Chaitanya Velaga was well out in front for GARs, having reviewed 32. No featured pictures, featured topics or good topics yet, but we have achieved three featured articles and a splendid total of fifty good articles.

So, on to the second round. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2. 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 equally.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is a good article candidate, a featured process, or anything 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 help 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, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 13:52, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Tamil civilization

Hello! I thought you may be interested in joining WikiProject Tamil civilization. We work on creating, expanding and making general changes to Tamil related articles. If you would be interested in joining feel free to visit the Participants Page! Thank You.

Vatasura 14:00, 06 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

St Lawrence's Church

I'm struggling to find multiple sources / variety of information on this church. It appears that whilst there are various newspaper articles however they all provide the same information and there isn't much variation between them. Dan arndt (talk) 02:06, 7 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Precious two years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:16, 25 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Freedom of panorama in Sri Lanka

Hi AntanO. Wish you a Happy Sinhala and Tamil New Year! I hope you are doing well. Just want to ping you on my reply at my talkpage, in case you missed it. Maybe if we get a few more genuine supporters, we could arrange a casual offline meetup to see how we could carry this forward. Cheers, Reh man 05:11, 15 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

May 2017 WikiCup newsletter

The second round of the competition has now closed, with just under 100 points being required to qualify for round 3. YellowEvan just scraped into the next round with 98 points but we have to say goodbye to the thirty or so competitors who didn't achieve this threshold; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. Our top scorers in round 2 were:

Cas Liber, led the field with five featured articles, four on birds and one on astronomy, and a total score of 2049, half of which came from bonus points.
1989 was in second place with 826 points, 466 of which were bonus points. 1989 has claimed points mostly relating to anime and Japanese-related articles.
Peacemaker67 took third place with two FAs, one GA and seven GARs, mostly on naval vessels or military personnel, scoring 543 points.
Other contestants who scored over 400 points were Freikorp, Carbrera, and Czar. Of course all these points are now wiped out and the 32 remaining contestants start again from zero in round 3.

Vivvt submitted the largest number of DYKs (30), and MBlaze Lightning achieved 13 articles at ITN. Carbrera claimed for 11 GAs and Argento Surfer performed the most GARs, having reviewed 11. So far we have achieved 38 featured articles and a splendid 132 good articles. Commendably, 279 GARs have been achieved so far, more than double the number of GAs.

So, on to the third round. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" 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 equally.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, 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 help 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, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 13:16, 1 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

ITN recognition for 2017 Sri Lankan flood and landslide

On 2 June 2017, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article 2017 Sri Lankan flood and landslide, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Ad Orientem (talk) 22:24, 2 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2017 July newsletter

The third round of the competition has finished in a flurry of last minute activity, with 288 points being required to qualify for round 4. It was a hotly competitive round with all but four of the contestants exceeding the 106 points that was necessary to proceed to round 4 last year. Coemgenus and Freikorp tied on 288, and both have been allowed to proceed, so round 4 now has one pool of eight competitors and one of nine.

Round 3 saw the achievement of a 26-topic Featured topic by MPJ-DK as well as 5 featured lists and 13 featured articles. PanagiotisZois and SounderBruce achieved their first ever featured articles. Carbrera led the GA score with 10, Tachs achieved 17 DYKs and MBlaze Lightning 10 In the news items. There were 167 DYKs, 93 GARs and 82 GAs overall, this last figure being higher than the number of GAs in round 2, when twice as many people were taking part. Even though contestants performed more GARs than they achieved GAs, there was still some frustration at the length of time taken to get articles reviewed.

As we start round 4, we say goodbye to the fifteen or so competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them (some people have fallen foul of this rule and the points have been removed).

If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, 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. 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, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 05:37, 30 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sri Lanka Electoral Divisions Map

Hi AntanO!

I am a new user to Wikipedia, and I am doing some research on Sri Lankan Army deaths as related to the country's electoral turnout. I saw this map you created (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/4/47/20150818123305%21Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election%2C_2015_-_polling_divisions.svg) on Wikipedia, and I'm wondering if you have the original shapefile for it.

Thank you very much!

Best wishes,

Wdeng1 (talk) 22:58, 18 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2017 September newsletter

Round 4 of the WikiCup has ended and we move forward into the final round. In round 4, a total of 12 FAs, 3 FLs, 44 GAs, 3 FLs, 79 DYKs, 1 ITN and 42 GARs was achieved, with no FPs or FTs this time. Congratulations to Peacemaker67 on the Royal Yugoslav Navy Good Topic of 36 items, and the 12 featured articles achieved by Cas Liber (5), Vanamonde93 (3), Peacemaker67 (2), Adityavagarwal (1) and 12george1 (1). With a FA scoring 200 points, and bonus points available on top of this, FAs are likely to feature heavily in the final round. Meanwhile Yellow Evan, a typhoon specialist, was contributing 12 DYKs and 10 GAs, while Adityavagarwal and Freikorp topped the GAR list with 8 reviews each. As we enter the final round, we are down to eight contestants, and we would like to thank those of you who have been eliminated for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. The lowest score needed to reach round 5 was 305, and I think we can expect a highly competitive final round.

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. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. 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 reduce the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck, and let the best man (or woman) win! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 06:25, 1 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

FYI ta wiki sock that you blocked

Confirmed sock. Also, this is very likely a part of a long term sock farm here (tag on user page). You may also want to block the sock account on ta.wiki. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 03:25, 12 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@SpacemanSpiff:, Thanks for the notification, and I blocked the sock. --Antan O 19:58, 12 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Asian Month 2017: Invitation to Participate

Hello! Last year, you signed up to participate in Wikipedia Asian Month (WAM) 2016 on the English Wikipedia. The event was an international success, with hundreds of editors creating thousands of articles on Asian topics across dozens of different language versions of Wikipedia.

I'd like to invite you to join us for Wikipedia Asian Month 2017, which once again lasts through the month of November. The goal is for users to create new articles on Asian-related content, each at least 3,000 bytes and 300 words in length. Editors who create at least four articles will receive a Wikipedia Asian Month postcard!

Also be sure to check out the Wikipedia Asian Art Month affiliate event - creating articles on Asian art topics can get you a Metropolitan Museum of Art postcard!

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WikiCup 2017 November newsletter: Final results

The final round of the 2017 WikiCup is over. Congratulations to the 2017 WikiCup top three finalists:

First Place - Adityavagarwal (submissions)
Second Place - Vanamonde (submissions)
Third Place - Cas Liber (submissions)

In addition to recognizing the achievements of the top finishers and everyone who worked hard to make it to the final round, we also want to recognize those participants who were most productive in each of the WikiCup scoring categories:

Featured Article – Cas Liber (actually a two-way tie with themselves for an astonishing five FAs in R2 and R4).
Good Article – Adityavagarwal had 14 GAs promoted in R5.
Featured List – Bloom6132 (submissions) and 1989 (submissions) both produced 2 FLs in R2
Featured Pictures – SounderBruce (submissions) improved an image to FP status in R5, the only FP this year.
Featured Topic – MPJ-DK (submissions) has the only FT of the Cup in R3.
Good Topic – Four different editors created a GT in R2, R3 and R4.
Did You Know – Adityavagarwal had 22 DYKs on the main page in R5.
In The News – MBlaze Lightning (submissions) had 14 ITN on the main page in R2.
Good Article Review – Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (submissions) completed 31 GARs in R1.

Over the course of the 2017 WikiCup the following content was added or improved on Wikipedia: 51 Featured Articles, 292 Good Articles, 18 Featured Lists, 1 Featured Picture, 1 Featured Topics, 4 Good Topics, around 400 Did You Knows, 75 In The News, and 442 Good Article Reviews. Thank you to all the competitors for your hard work and what you have done to improve Wikipedia.

Regarding the prize vouchers - @Adityavagarwal, Vanamonde93, Casliber, Bloom6132, 1989, and SounderBruce: please send Godot13 (talk · contribs · email) an email from the email address to which you would like your Amazon voucher sent. Please include your preference of global Amazon marketplace as well. We hope to have the electronic gift cards processed and sent within a week.

We will open up a discussion for comments on process and scoring in a few days. The 2018 WikiCup is just around the corner! Many thanks from all the judges. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email), and Godot13 (talk · contribs · email) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:40, 2 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2018

So the 2017 WikiCup has come to an end. Congratulations to the winner, to the other finalists and to all those who took part. 177 contestants signed up, more than usual, but not all of them submitted entries in the first round. Were editors attracted by the cash prizes offered for the first time this year, or were these irrelevant? Do the rules and scoring need changing for the 2018 WikiCup? If you have a view on these or other matters, why not join in the WikiCup discussion about next year's contest? Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:59, 17 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Changes The Islam In Sri Lanka Page

Dear AntanO, The changes I made and you have reverted favor the version from Native Sri Lankan Moor Sources and NOT sources by Tamils. This is the logical way to maintain integrity. To do otherwise would be like referring to old Arabic sources to re write the Sri Lankan Tamils page, over sources from the Tamils them selves. I have re inserted my edits to highlight views of the Sri Lankan Moors over views of other ethnic groups. I would suggest unless you have a source that is from a Sri Lankan Moor, to refrain from including it without scientific evidence.

Recent Genetic studies carried out in Sri Lanka comprehensively proves that Sri Lankan Moors are not related to Tamils by a long shot, so I have made these changes. Best Regards Floating philosopher —Preceding undated comment added 12:36, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I do not want your rationalization, and discuss where it appropriate. --Antan O 13:44, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I hope you will discuss before undoing my changes. I have already discussed my motivation with many users including Xenani, and that is why I have made the edits. I have also mentioned scientific genealogical studies in my text, it is not appropriate for text containing subjective evidence to supersede scientific conclusions. I have only removed text that contradict genealogical studies which is obviously false. Best Regards, Floating philosopher