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Welcome!

Hello, Anasuyas, and welcome to Wikipedia!

I noticed that you made a helpful change to Beatrix Potter, so thank you for your contributions. Wikipedia is a community of volunteers who want to build a great free encyclopedia, and we appreciate your help. We have five simple rules, but other than that, we just need people like you to be bold and edit.

If you have questions of any kind, feel free to ask me on my Wikipedia talk page or by email.

Best regards, Steven Walling • talk 01:44, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

Beatrix Potter

You formatted the citation just fine, and thanks for adding it! Normally we prefer book sources to things like blogs or fan sites, but something is always better than nothing. Thanks again, Steven Walling • talk 02:05, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

WikiWomen's Luncheon at Wikimania 2012

WikiWomen's Luncheon at Wikimania - You are invited!
Are you a woman attending Wikimania 2012? If so, join us on Saturday, July 14, for the annual WikiWomen's Luncheon (fka WikiChix Lunch) This event is for any women attending Wikimania. Pick up your lunch, compliments of Wikimania, and join us at 1:30pm in the Grand Ballroom for a lively facilitated discussion hosted by Sue Gardner. We look forward to seeing you there. Please sign up here.
Sarah (talk) 14:24, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi

Hello Anasuyas,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Ireneshih (talk) 09:28, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

Current

International Network of Women’s Funds: scrap the word "current" from your vocabulary on main space. Current means nothing at all. When is current ? Yesterday ? Today ? Tomorrow ? If no one updates the article in the future... the info will be incorrect. Always prefer putting a fixed date. Cheers Anthere (talk)

:-) Good point, Anthere, will fix it! thanks, Anasuyas (talk) 00:43, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

Happy Ada Lovelace Day!

Thanks for signing up for the Edit-a-thon. Drop us a line on the Talk section of the Event page if you want to chat. Don't forget to add your contributions to the "Outcomes" section on the page when you're done. Fluent Flux (talk) 07:05, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, Fluent Flux! I've added my contribution to the 'Outcomes' section - looks like the event was quite successful (and continues to be). Congratulations :-) Anasuyas (talk) 07:12, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Susan Marie Frontczak

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A tag has been placed on Susan Marie Frontczak requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Seahorseruler (Talk Page) (Contribs) 06:55, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

Hooray! You created your Teahouse profile!

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Thank you for introducing yourself and continuing to contribute to Wikipedia. Happy Editing!

Thanks so much Anastasia [Missionedit] for the warm message and badge. I have always been really impressed with all the work Teahouse contributors do - thank you for all the support you offer newbies! Anasuyas (talk) 02:13, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Invitation

We would love you to join the Gender Gap task force.

There you can coordinate with editors who are addressing the effect of the gender gap on women on Wikipedia – whether as article subjects, editors or readers. If you would like to help, please sign up or visit the talk page.

Happy editing, The Vintage Feminist (talk) 21:23, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks so much, The Vintage Feminist! I'm honoured by the invitation, but as I just messaged you offline, I think I can better serve the GGTF right now from the 'outside', as the occasional volunteer I am. I don't think I am prolific enough to count myself amongst the really effective and impressive editors you have together there: you're all incredible. Thank you for everything you do... Anasuyas (talk) 02:19, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Au Revoir

There will always be a spare bed for you in London. Jon and Deborah. — Preceding unsigned comment added by YellowFratello (talk • contribs) 12:57, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks so much for the invitation, YellowFratello! We will certainly keep it in mind... and yes, the signs of rest, relaxation and peace are so seditious. :-) Anasuyas (talk) 20:21, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of Gaiti Hasan for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Gaiti Hasan is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gaiti Hasan until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Educationtemple (talk) 17:35, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of Ajit Iqbal Singh for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Ajit Iqbal Singh is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ajit Iqbal Singh until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Educationtemple (talk) 09:19, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for being here

I just wanted to write and say I appreciate your conviction and passion for the work. Wikipedia needs more editors that bring passion to editing like you do. Bryce Carmony (talk) 19:58, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Bryce Carmony, thank you so much for this message! I very much appreciate the encouragement. It can sometimes be very demotivating to find myself spending so much time fighting notability for subject areas that are the core of critical content gaps on enWP, but support from editors like you make it all worthwhile. :-) Thanks for all you do, Anasuyas (talk) 04:58, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Gaiti Hasan

Citation NO 5 that you added is dead. Did you mean this link? Please correct in article, if yes. Educationtemple (talk) 01:44, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks both, Educationtemple and AshLin! Yes, I'm not sure how that happened - sigh, late night tiredness. :-( I'll correct it now. Anasuyas (talk) 04:04, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
And Educationtemple, my appreciation for the very difficult and important work you do as a patroller. I understand it can be frustrating on both ends - as a patroller and an editor - but I know the article is improved already because of your pointing out it needs more strength in notability. May I make a suggestion though, that the next time you see an article in good faith that has similar problems, your template also suggests simple things that might help improve the article if possible? For example, mentioning awards or membership in an important society... I know all of this exists in the longer articles on notability and BLP, but for newer editors like me, and those who don't get to spend much time on creating articles, a friendly and helpful tone would go a long way in not reducing our energy and enthusiasm for the work we share as Wikimedians. Especially if we are working in difficult issue areas, like content gaps on enWP. Thanks again, Anasuyas (talk) 04:49, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
This is to acknowledge your contributions of new articles on women. Awesome work Anasuyas. :)

AshLin (talk) 09:46, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
  • Thanks so much, AshLin, you inspired me when I was feeling a little overwhelmed by WP:RULES. :-) I have such great respect for patrollers and their difficult work, but I do think we need friendlier ways to help newbie/relatively inexperienced editors who are working in good faith. Anasuyas (talk) 04:38, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of Suzette Jordan for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Suzette Jordan is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Suzette Jordan until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 23:42, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

Invitation

We would be happy if you joined us this morning for a short virtual edit-a-thon in a continued effort to raise the profile of Indian Women Scientists. Fluent Flux (talk) 04:01, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Sorry I missed this kind invitation, Fluent Flux, but I'll certainly look at the edit-a-thon, and support it, even if belatedly! thanks, Anasuyas (talk) 18:56, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

That would be great! Thanks. Fluent Flux (talk) 04:57, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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Precious

"Rest in power"

Thank you for quality articles fighting the gender gap, such as Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, Fondo Centroamericano de Mujeres, Indian Canyon, California, and Anita Avramides (written as a tribute), for "Rest in power", - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:00, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

Dear Gerda Arendt, thank you for your generous words! Coming from you, and your tireless effort to improve quality, they mean so much. Yes, la luta continua. Anasuyas (talk) 13:15, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
Gracias! - I looked up my conversations with Kevin in the archives, wish we'd had more time. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:23, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
:-( I feel the same. Anasuyas (talk) 14:04, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
A year ago, you were recipient no. 1446 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:47, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
One of my most precious Wikipedian memories (and now on my user page!). Thanks again, Gerda Arendt! Anasuyas (talk) 03:07, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for that, - two years now ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:58, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
<3 to you for the remembrance. Anasuyas (talk) 16:20, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

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Autopatrolled user right

Hi! I saw you mentioned in the "How Woke Is Wikipedia's Editorial Pool?". & your unfortunate introduction to the {{speedy deletion-significance}} template. To help avoid moments like this from over zealous new page patrollers who have deletionist tendencies, I recommend that you apply for the Wikipedia:Autopatrolled user right. As that page states, "This permission is granted only to accounts that have extensively demonstrated their knowledge of Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and create articles often enough to make it more efficient to mark them as approved automatically." Since you have met the "suggested standard (that) is the prior creation of 25 valid articles" & have over 1200 edits, I believe that you should qualify. You can apply for this at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Autopatrolled.

It may help to mention that you used to be the Chief Grantmaking Officer for WMF!

Than you for all your efforts!

Peaceray (talk) 18:36, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

Hi Peaceray, thanks so much for your support and your suggestion! I'll certainly think about it - I agree that one of the ways I could start supporting newbies on Wikipedia who might be bitten by over zealous new page patrollers might be to become a patroller myself (let me add, I think patrollers in general do yeo(wo)men service!).
I'd love to know, though, if you have ideas on how we can scale up awareness on the part of all new page patrollers, so that the first encounter is a warm and welcoming one, even as it might/should include suggestions to improve a newbie's style or substance of writing. I know it's not a new issue, but it's worth our continuing to think of possibly new ways to change the status quo. Again, much wiki<3 for your support and all _your efforts. Anasuyas (talk) 20:24, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

Please support the Sustainability Initiative!

Please support the Sustainability Initiative!

Hi, Anasuyas! Please allow me to follow up on a project that was discussed at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin a couple of weeks ago:

I am writing you to ask for your support for the Sustainability Initiative, which aims at reducing the environmental impact of the Wikimedia movement. Over the past two years, more than 250 Wikipedians from all over the world have come together to push the Wikimedia movement towards greater sustainability.

The Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation has recently passed a resolution stating that the Foundation is committed to seeking ways to reduce the impact of its activities on the environment. Now, we are working with the Wikimedia Foundation staff to have all Wikimedia servers run on renewable energy by 2019.

In order to demonstrate that this is an issue that the community really cares about, I would like to ask you to sign the project page as well. Thank you! --Gnom (talk) 16:16, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

I realised I never got back to you on this, Gnom, but  Done a few months ago! Thanks for the nudge. Anasuyas (talk) 14:52, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Dalit History Month (DHM)

Really proud of Equality Labs and Whose Knowledge for doing Wikipedia Editathon for DHM. Hemalataeditor (talk) 21:46, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

Thank you so much, Hemalataeditor we're so proud of being able to support this incredibly important effort on Dalit history and knowledge! Anasuyas (talk) 01:02, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for supporting the Sustainability Initiative!

Read about the Sustainability Initiative in the Wikipedia Signpost!

Hi Anasuyas,

Thank you for supporting the Sustainability Initiative, which aims at reducing the environmental impact of the Wikimedia movement. There are currently over 350 supporters from all over the world – please encourage other community members to sign the page as well! You can also read an update from the Sustainability Initiative in the most recent edition of the Wikipedia Signpost.

Thank you, and kind regards, --Gnom (talk) 11:49, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

ArbCom 2017 election voter message

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Facto Post – Issue 11 – 9 April 2018

Facto Post – Issue 11 – 9 April 2018

The 100 Skins of the Onion

Open Citations Month, with its eminently guessable hashtag, is upon us. We should be utterly grateful that in the past 12 months, so much data on which papers cite which other papers has been made open, and that Wikidata is playing its part in hosting it as "cites" statements. At the time of writing, there are 15.3M Wikidata items that can do that.

Pulling back to look at open access papers in the large, though, there is is less reason for celebration. Access in theory does not yet equate to practical access. A recent LSE IMPACT blogpost puts that issue down to "heterogeneity". A useful euphemism to save us from thinking that the whole concept doesn't fall into the realm of the oxymoron.

Some home truths: aggregation is not content management, if it falls short on reusability. The PDF file format is wedded to how humans read documents, not how machines ingest them. The salami-slicer is our friend in the current downloading of open access papers, but for a better metaphor, think about skinning an onion, laboriously, 100 times with diminishing returns. There are of the order of 100 major publisher sites hosting open access papers, and the predominant offer there is still a PDF.

Red onion cross section

From the discoverability angle, Wikidata's bibliographic resources combined with the SPARQL query are superior in principle, by far, to existing keyword searches run over papers. Open access content should be managed into consistent HTML, something that is currently strenuous. The good news, such as it is, would be that much of it is already in XML. The organisational problem of removing further skins from the onion, with sensible prioritisation, is certainly not insuperable. The CORE group (the bloggers in the LSE posting) has some answers, but actually not all that is needed for the text and data mining purposes they highlight. The long tail, or in other words the onion heart when it has become fiddly beyond patience to skin, does call for a pis aller. But the real knack is to do more between the XML and the heart.

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Event coordinator

Hi, the English Wikipedia recently created a new user permission for editors involved in off-wiki outreach work, event coordinator. This new permission allows users to mark accounts for confirmed for up to 10 days, and also allows them to create accounts for events without rate limits without some of the features of the account creator right that aren't used at edit-a-thons and other events. I have added the event coordinator permission to your account and removed the account creator permission, as you appear to have been using it mainly for outreach work.

This should have no noticeable impact on your ability to create accounts, and will give you the extra ability to temporarily confirm accounts if you need to. For more in formation, you can see the information page on the right, or you can ask me if you have any questions. TonyBallioni (talk) 19:58, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 12 – 28 May 2018

Facto Post – Issue 12 – 28 May 2018

ScienceSource funded

The Wikimedia Foundation announced full funding of the ScienceSource grant proposal from ContentMine on May 18. See the ScienceSource Twitter announcement and 60 second video.

A medical canon?

The proposal includes downloading 30,000 open access papers, aiming (roughly speaking) to create a baseline for medical referencing on Wikipedia. It leaves open the question of how these are to be chosen.

The basic criteria of WP:MEDRS include a concentration on secondary literature. Attention has to be given to the long tail of diseases that receive less current research. The MEDRS guideline supposes that edge cases will have to be handled, and the premature exclusion of publications that would be in those marginal positions would reduce the value of the collection. Prophylaxis misses the point that gate-keeping will be done by an algorithm.

Two well-known but rather different areas where such considerations apply are tropical diseases and alternative medicine. There are also a number of potential downloading troubles, and these were mentioned in Issue 11. There is likely to be a gap, even with the guideline, between conditions taken to be necessary but not sufficient, and conditions sufficient but not necessary, for candidate papers to be included. With around 10,000 recognised medical conditions in standard lists, being comprehensive is demanding. With all of these aspects of the task, ScienceSource will seek community help.

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Facto Post – Issue 13 – 29 May 2018

Facto Post – Issue 13 – 29 May 2018
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Respecting MEDRS

Facto Post enters its second year, with a Cambridge Blue (OK, Aquamarine) background, a new logo, but no Cambridge blues. On-topic for the ScienceSource project is a project page here. It contains some case studies on how the WP:MEDRS guideline, for the referencing of articles at all related to human health, is applied in typical discussions.

Close to home also, a template, called {{medrs}} for short, is used to express dissatisfaction with particular references. Technology can help with patrolling, and this Petscan query finds over 450 articles where there is at least one use of the template. Of course the template is merely suggesting there is a possible issue with the reliability of a reference. Deciding the truth of the allegation is another matter.

This maintenance issue is one example of where ScienceSource aims to help. Where the reference is to a scientific paper, its type of algorithm could give a pass/fail opinion on such references. It could assist patrollers of medical articles, therefore, with the templated references and more generally. There may be more to proper referencing than that, indeed: context, quite what the statement supported by the reference expresses, prominence and weight. For that kind of consideration, case studies can help. But an algorithm might help to clear the backlog.

Evidence pyramid leading up to clinical guidelines, from WP:MEDRS
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Facto Post – Issue 14 – 21 July 2018

Facto Post – Issue 14 – 21 July 2018
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Plugging the gaps – Wikimania report

Officially it is "bridging the gaps in knowledge", with Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town paying tribute to the southern African concept of ubuntu to implement it. Besides face-to-face interactions, Wikimedians do need their power sources.

Hackathon mentoring table wiring

Facto Post interviewed Jdforrester, who has attended every Wikimania, and now works as Senior Product Manager for the Wikimedia Foundation. His take on tackling the gaps in the Wikimedia movement is that "if we were an army, we could march in a column and close up all the gaps". In his view though, that is a faulty metaphor, and it leads to a completely false misunderstanding of the movement, its diversity and different aspirations, and the nature of the work as "fighting" to be done in the open sector. There are many fronts, and as an eventualist he feels the gaps experienced both by editors and by users of Wikimedia content are inevitable. He would like to see a greater emphasis on reuse of content, not simply its volume.

If that may not sound like radicalism, the Decolonizing the Internet conference here organized jointly with Whose Knowledge? can redress the picture. It comes with the claim to be "the first ever conference about centering marginalized knowledge online".

Plugbar buildup at the Hackathon
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Facto Post – Issue 15 – 21 August 2018

Facto Post – Issue 15 – 21 August 2018
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Neglected diseases
Anti-parasitic drugs being distributed in Côte d'Ivoire
What's a Neglected Disease?, ScienceSource video

To grasp the nettle, there are rare diseases, there are tropical diseases and then there are "neglected diseases". Evidently a rare enough disease is likely to be neglected, but neglected disease these days means a disease not rare, but tropical, and most often infectious or parasitic. Rare diseases as a group are dominated, in contrast, by genetic diseases.

A major aspect of neglect is found in tracking drug discovery. Orphan drugs are those developed to treat rare diseases (rare enough not to have market-driven research), but there is some overlap in practice with the WHO's neglected diseases, where snakebite, a "neglected public health issue", is on the list.

From an encyclopedic point of view, lack of research also may mean lack of high-quality references: the core medical literature differs from primary research, since it operates by aggregating trials. This bibliographic deficit clearly hinders Wikipedia's mission. The ScienceSource project is currently addressing this issue, on Wikidata. Its Wikidata focus list at WD:SSFL is trying to ensure that neglect does not turn into bias in its selection of science papers.

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AfroCine: Join us for the Months of African Cinema in October!

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This is to introduce you to a new Wikiproject called AfroCine. This new project is dedicated to improving the Wikipedia coverage of the history, works, people, places, events, etc, that are associated with the cinema, theatre and arts of Africa, African countries, the carribbean, and the diaspora. If you would love to be part of this or you're already contributing in this area, kindly list your name as a participant on the project page here.

Furthermore, In the months of October and November, the WikiProject is organizing a global on-wiki contest and edit-a-thon tagged: The Months of African Cinema. If you would love to join us for this exciting event, also list your username as a participant for this event here. In preparation for the contest, please do suggest relevant articles that need to be created or expanded in different countries, during this event!

If you have any questions, complaints, suggestions, etc., please reach out to me personally on my talkpage! Cheers!--Jamie Tubers (talk) 20:50, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 16 – 30 September 2018

Facto Post – Issue 16 – 30 September 2018
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The science publishing landscape

In an ideal world ... no, bear with your editor for just a minute ... there would be a format for scientific publishing online that was as much a standard as SI units are for the content. Likewise cataloguing publications would not be onerous, because part of the process would be to generate uniform metadata. Without claiming it could be the mythical free lunch, it might be reasonably be argued that sandwiches can be packaged much alike and have barcodes, whatever the fillings.

The best on offer, to stretch the metaphor, is the meal kit option, in the form of XML. Where scientific papers are delivered as XML downloads, you get all the ingredients ready to cook. But have to prepare the actual meal of slow food yourself. See Scholarly HTML for a recent pass at heading off XML with HTML, in other words in the native language of the Web.

The argument from real life is a traditional mixture of frictional forces, vested interests, and the classic irony of the principle of unripe time. On the other hand, discoverability actually diminishes with the prolific progress of science publishing. No, it really doesn't scale. Wikimedia as movement can do something in such cases. We know from open access, we grok the Web, we have our own horse in the HTML race, we have Wikidata and WikiJournal, and we have the chops to act.

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Welcome to the Months of African Cinema!

Greetings!

The AfroCine Project welcomes you to October, the first out of the two months which has been dedicated to improving contents that centre around the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.

This is a global online edit-a-thon, which is happening in at least 5 language editions of Wikipedia, including the English Wikipedia! Join us in this exciting venture, by helping to create or expand articles which are connected to this scope. Also remember to list your name under the participants section, if you haven't done so already.

On English Wikipedia, we would be recognizing Users who are able to achieve the following:

  • Overall winner (1st, 2nd, 3rd places)
  • Country Winners
  • Diversity winner
  • High quality contributors
  • Gender-gap fillers
  • Page improvers
  • Wikidata Translators

For further information about the contest, the recognition categories and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. See you around :).--Jamie Tubers (talk) 22:50, 03 October 2018 (UTC)

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