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Deleting information about my organization

Hi, I accidentally added some information today about my organization (Mellanox Technologies) which could be sensitive and is still there despite my revert. I was told that you could help by deleting the revision. Thanks! Jumbos (talk) 17:10, 4 February 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jumbos (talk • contribs) 17:08, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

@Jumbos: Hi, I may be able to help. Are you referring to this revision?

—Ynhockey ^(Talk) 17:14, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi, no to this one Jumbos (talk) 17:19, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

@Jumbos: OK I assume you meant the other one too, because it has the same link, so I just deleted them all. Please re-add the non-personal information you added! Cheers, Ynhockey ^(Talk) 17:29, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you! Jumbos (talk) 17:30, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Orly Levy

Hey Yan. Any idea what Orly Levy's official status is – i.e. whether she is still officially a Yisrael Beiteinu MK despite having said she's resigned from the party. My understanding is that she only becomes an official independent if she gets permission from the House Committee to form a separate parliamentary faction (and that doesn't appear to have happened). Cheers, Number 57 21:11, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

It does list single-member breakaways (see Haim Amsalem listed in the 18th Knesset – "3.12.12 MK Chaim Amsellem left Shas and began serving as a Single MK parliamentary group."). But as you say, it may just not have been updated for a while. Cheers, Number 57 14:39, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

Fixing template

Hi Yan. Just wondered what you meant by this edit. {{Infobox Israel village}} doesn't exist – it's a redirect to {{Infobox Kibbutz}}. Cheers, Number 57 13:58, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

Actually, I think moving it should be fine (after all, the redirects work at the moment). Just need to make sure there are no double redirects. Also, if you use AWB, you could do a bulk set of changes in a relatively short period of time (if not, I can have a go). Number 57 14:41, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

I've moved it, and still appears to be working fine on all the articles where it's still called Infobox Kibbutz, so no need for a rapid change. I'll fix any I see when adding {{Israel populations}}. As an aside, do you know what's happened to the 2015 populations from the CBS? I haven't seen a release yet. Cheers, Number 57 19:31, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

Just an FYI, you can use the population template in text too, which will mean that the infobox and article text always have the same figure. See the intro to Sde Boker as an example. Cheers, Number 57 19:19, 31 July 2016 (UTC)

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Map uploads

Hey. I was wondering whether you would mind if I uploaded new versions of the likes of File:Israel outline haifa.png over the top of your originals on Commons. I've worked out how to change the map of Israel in the left-hand section to match this (the sea is still the same colour as in your original, but the Palestinian territories/Golan Heights are coloured like the currently-used maps, plus the district borders are shown). If this can be sorted, it means we can restore all the maps to the infoboxes rather than having the whole country map there on every single article.

If it's an issue, I can upload them with slightly different titles. Cheers, Number 57 22:38, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

I've uploaded the new version, and also restored it to {{Location map Israel haifa}}, which means it's now being used again on articles like Kiryat Yam. If you don't like it, I'm happy to revert! If you're ok with it, I'll do the rest. Number 57 11:35, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

I've got them all ready now to upload if that's ok. Cheers, Number 57 17:27, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

All done now. Unfortunately Gila has changed loads of the map sizes to 100 or 150px, which now means they are now far too small, so plenty will have to be fixed... Number 57 19:49, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

I've been through all the places in the villages and community settlement categories and fixed the size. Number 57 20:36, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

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Russian language favour

Hi Yan. Someone has referenced the South Ossetian referendum results to the figures on this page. The "for" and "against" votes seem quite obvious (figures in rows 11 and 12 in the sheet) and they appear to have added rows 8 and 9 to get the invalid/blank total. However, the sum of these (34,324) is quite different to what appears to be the total (33,361). As you're a Russian speaker, I was wondering whether you could say what is actually going on here. Cheers, Number 57 21:05, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the response. This isn't entirely uncommon – the Bulgarian Election Commission's figures for their recent election don't add up either... Never mind. Hope you're well anyway! Number 57 18:06, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

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A cupcake for you!

Hi! dear, I am thanking you for the article Max Kyuss, you recently created. I tried to enrich the article but failed to get any reference. You are more experienced. So, I hope, you may, manage all. Keep working. I am impressed of your work. Willy-nilly (talk) 08:06, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

What level are you?

I found your name at Category:User js (probably because you posted the corresponding userbox on your user page), in the level-unspecified list of JavaScript programmers.

I was wondering how experienced you are at JavaScript, and whether you might be interested in getting involved with developing user scripts, hobnobbing with other JavaScript programmers, and organizing and improving JavaScript articles and support pages.

We do all of that and more at the JavaScript WikiProject.

Scripts undergoing development, and the state of JavaScript on Wikipedia, are discussed on the talk page.

For an overview of JavaScript coverage on Wikipedia, see Draft:Outline of JavaScript and Index of JavaScript-related articles. For everything on user scripts, see User:The Transhumanist/Outline of scripts.

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Hope to see you there! The Transhumanist 16:48, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi Transhumanist,

I am actually quite fluent in JavaScript, but time restricts me from becoming a major code contributor to MediaWiki, extensions, widgets, or for that matter non-WM-related open-source projects. However, I might be interested in helping with small tasks or writing about JavaScript. Thanks also for linking to some interesting resources.

Cheers, Ynhockey ^(Talk) 17:11, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

You are welcome. I understand about time constraints. Actually, I'm trying to become a major code contributor, of helpful user scripts. A possible small task would be sharing your expertise from time to time, to help user script writers get unstuck. I happen to be stuck on one of the scripts I'm writing. I've posted the problem at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject JavaScript#I'm stumped: How do you save a location in the viewport to reposition the viewport later?. Maybe you could comment, if it isn't too time consuming? Thank you. The Transhumanist 17:09, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

I've written some user scripts, and was wondering if you wouldn't mind taking a look at them. (To help others follow along, I've posted extensive notes on the talk pages explaining the source code.) I've only tested them in Firefox. Here they are:

• User:The Transhumanist/OutlineViewAnnotationToggler.js – this one provides a menu item to turn annotations on/off, so you can view lists bare when you want to (without annotations). When done, it will work on (the embedded lists of) all pages, not just outlines. Currently it is limited to outlines only, for testing purposes. It will support hotkey activation/deactivation of annotations, but that feature currently lacks an accurate viewport location reset for retaining the location on screen that the user was looking at. It also needs an indicator that tells the user it is still on. Otherwise, you might wonder why a bare list has annotations in edit mode, when you go in to add some. :)
• User talk:The Transhumanist/RedlinksRemover.js – strips out entries in outlines that are nothing but a redlink. It removes them right out of the tree structure. But only end nodes. It delinks redlinks that have non-redlink offspring, or that have or are embedded in an annotation. It does not yet recognize entries that lack a bullet (it treats those as embedded).

It is my objective to build a set of scripts that fully automate the process of creating outlines. This end goal is a long way off (AI-complete?). In the meantime, I hope to increase productivity as much as I can. Fifty percent automation would double an editor's productivity. I think I could reach 80% automation (a five-fold increase in productivity) within a couple years.

There's more:

• User:The Transhumanist/StripSearchInWikicode.js – another script, which strips WP search results down to a bare list of links, and inserts wikilink formatting for ease of insertion of those links into lists. This is useful for gathering links for outlines. I'd like this script to sort its results. So, if you know how, or know someone who knows how, please let me know. A more immediate problem is that the output is interlaced with CR/LFs. I can't figure out how to get rid of them. Stripping them out in WikEd via regex is a tedious extra step. It would be nice to track them down and remove them with the script.

I look forward to your observations, concerns, ideas, and suggestions. The Transhumanist 09:39, 26 October 2017 (UTC)

Перенос статьи в ОП англ. Википедии

Добрый день. Перенесите, пожалуйста, статью в ОП английской Википедии. Ранее я размещала статью на украинском языке. Ее проверили, одобрили и перенесли в ОП украинской Википедии: https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/OWOX Теперь я перевела статью на английский язык и хотела ее разместить. Проверьте, пожалуйста, и одобрите размещение статьи. Ссылка на англ. версию статьи: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B3 Буду очень вам благодарна и признательна!OWOX (talk) 13:48, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

IDF structure ORBAT

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Structure_idf.png is one of my favorite images on wikipedia. Is there a history about how you went about making it? I am interested in updating it. Can you help me go about that, both in terms of what sources to use (both in terms of reliability and making sure that bitchon meida is protected) and what program you used to make and edit it?

Thanks! Seraphya (talk) 22:36, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

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Quick question

You stopped by my talk page earlier this month with a quick intro and orientation of sorts, in which you also mentioned that I could reach out if I have questions. That day has inevitably come, but I have no idea if this is the type of question I should be asking you or if there is somewhere else that would be more appropriate, in which case if you could point me in the right direction I'd appreciate it.

As for the question, I was reading a page about this book and saw that the description of the cover image states that the copyright "is believed to belong to the publisher ... or the cover artist." It does not mention the artist ( François-Auguste_Biard ) or the title of the painting ( commons page here ). In this situation, assuming that the description of the cover image should be edited to include this information, what's the protocol for making sure I do it correctly and include all necessary information?

Any help you could provide is appreciated, and please feel free to just point me in the right direction. Thanks again for stopping by. Stopgrammartime (talk) 04:19, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

Your move..

You made use of your admin powers to delete articles before you moved 2018 Land Day massacre to 2018 Land Day incidents.

I cannot undo your edits, as I cannot delete articles to undo your move. (As, AFAIK, only admins can do that.)

From my understanding, using your admin powers in a matter where you are highly involved is ....not a good thing. Please undo your move. Thank you, Huldra (talk) 21:26, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

He reverted a controversial move, and from what I can see, any autoconfirmed editor would have been able to make that move, because it was not over an edited redirect (it appears in the log that he deleted the page, but this is automatic – your own log shows page deletions when you have moved pages despite not being an admin). Therefore he was not using his admin powers.

Also, as he was reverting a controversial move, he shouldn't be being asked to undo it. Number 57 21:51, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Yes, I can move articles (if it is to an article name which does not already exist), and No, I cannot delete articles. (The deleted redirect in my log is basically writing in a redir.) So I cannot undo Ynhockeys move, only admins can do that. (They would have to delete 2018 Land Day massacre before such a move.) Huldra (talk) 22:03, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

@Huldra: You have moved articles to redirects that already exist, hence why your log has the line:

"21:37, 19 December 2017 Huldra (talk | contribs | block) deleted redirect Huj, Gaza by overwriting (G6: Deleted to make way for move) (view/restore)"

The reason you cannot move the article back to 2018 Land Day massacre is that it has since been edited by a bot. Once that happens, only admins can move. The Huj, Gaza redirect would have only been edited once (i.e. its creation) to allow you to move over it. Number 57 22:07, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Yeah, well, the reason I cannot move it back is, that unlike Ynhockey, I am not an admin, so I (again, unlike him) cannot delete a page to make place for a move. (Hey, I am not saying that if I was an admin I would have done that!! Even I have understood the wheel war concepts...) Huldra (talk) 22:14, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

@Huldra: You do not necessarily need to be an admin to delete pages to make moves, as your own log shows that you have deleted pages to make way for moves (which happens automatically without you having to actually hit any delete button). Anyway, the point is that Ynhockey was not using admin powers, as you have repeatedly claimed. I think you need to retract/apologise. Number 57 22:19, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

@Number 57: Huh? When did I ever delete an article to make room for move? (Like Ynhockey just did) I cannot do that! I dont have a delete button.... Huldra (talk) 22:25, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

@Huldra: Compare these two log entries:

"21:37, 19 December 2017 Huldra (talk | contribs | block) deleted redirect Huj, Gaza by overwriting (G6: Deleted to make way for move) (view/restore)"

"21:46, 31 March 2018 Ynhockey (talk | contribs | block) deleted page 2018 Land Day incidents (G6: Deleted to make way for move)"

As I've tried to explain, when you move an article over a redirect, you do not get asked to delete that article if the redirect has never been edited (only created). Hence when you moved the Huj article, you did not get asked to delete the redirect that you moved it over – it was automatically deleted. This is what happened here to. Number 57 22:29, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

User:Number 57 Right, but the whole point us that I could NOT have done what Ynhockey did: I could not have deleted to make room for a move. If you look at the logs for 2018 Land Day incidents, you will see that it had been edited after being created. Hence it needed admin powers to delete it. Huldra (talk) 22:35, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

@Huldra: I believe you could have made that move because there is only a single deleted edit, which means it could have been deleted by a non-admin as part of a normal move. It was not edited after being created (otherwise there would be more than one deleted edit) and your link does not show otherwise. You also created a single deleted edit when you moved the Huj page. Number 57 22:45, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Nope, I believe you are wrong. Again, I cannot undo Ynhockey, as I am not an admin. And if you look at the history of the article, then you will see that for most of the time it had the name 2018 Land Day massacre (It was created under that name) ..and now Ynhockey has created an advantage for himself, since no non admin can undo him....and no admin will undo him, as that would be WP:WW. This is simply not fair. Huldra (talk) 23:29, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Then you really need to learn how Wikipedia works before throwing around accusations (it's sad that you are refusing to accept any of the quite clear evidence above). Ynhockey has not created any advantage for himself. The reason no-one except admins can move the article to 2018 Land Day massacre is because that redirect has been edited since it was created. If Ynhockey had made that edit to prevent the move back, then I would agree he had created the advantage, but he didn't – it was edited by a bot. You should still have the powers to move the article to Land Day massacre because that is an unedited redirect. And if you did, it would then show in your log that you had deleted that page. Number 57 23:36, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Yes, please do show me how I can do a move like Ynhockey did at, say, at 20:46, 31 March 2018, that is Deleted to make way for move? Huldra (talk) 23:50, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

It would be the same way you moved the Huj article: Use the move tab at the top of the page. The deletion of the redirect then happens automatically. Anyway, I see the AN thread has been swiftly closed by another admin. Number 57 00:15, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

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Yunna listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Yunna. Since you had some involvement with the Yunna redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Steel1943 (talk) 15:52, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Kisalon not Ksalon

Hi Yan. Please check the talk page at Moshav Kisalon ("Ksalon"). Wiki in English has its own rules, see for instance "Degania", not Dganiya. Thanks. Arminden (talk) 09:05, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Magnus (Audiomachine album)

Hello. I spoted you are an active administrator on recent changes page and I have found problem to solve. I'm the autor of Magnus (album) article, which been redirected to the Audiomachine article and almost excactly one year later someone created this article again under Magnus (Audiomachine album). What should be done? Eurohunter (talk) 09:32, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

I think my version was better and was the first. Eurohunter (talk) 09:39, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Eurohunter but is there a particular value to the older article's history? If your version is better you can put it in the article, I just don't see anything in the old revision history that's important enough to warrant a merger. —Ynhockey ^(Talk) 09:42, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Autorship should be mentioned in the history. In the current state it's kinda unclear. Eurohunter (talk) 09:50, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. Eurohunter (talk) 11:12, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

I spotted now there is the same situation with Tree of Life (album) and Tree of Life (Audiomachine album). Eurohunter (talk) 11:20, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

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Printing permit for a map of yours about the security barries to be used in a new book

Dear Ynhockey,

I would like to use your map of the security barrier in a new book entitled "100 Years Middle East Conflict - an Honorable Solution." I need a written printing permit. The address of your map: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Westbank_barrier.png. Could you please send such a permit to: gottfried.hutter@gmx.de If there are special conditions, please let me know.

Best wishes Gottfried — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:EE:BD8:FDB8:8553:4FB:697D:C259 (talk) 09:58, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

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Amud Anan maps

Hi, Do you know where the legend for the default 1:50000 maps at Amud Anan can be viewed? I'm interested in the meaning of the colors used for the background. Thanks. Zero^talk 06:19, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

WP:NPA

A reminder, as you apparently need one, but talk pages are meant for discussing article content, not for making baseless and petty personal attacks. Kindly cease doing so. nableezy - 16:15, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

It was absolutely not a violation of WP:POINT. At least two users objected to the article name you unilaterally moved the article to, making that move both out of process and without consensus. You cannot both demand the article be titled as though it only discusses things in Israel and then include things that literally no reliable sources say are in Israel. Me rectifying that error is not a POINTy edit or whatever else you want to call it, it is a NPOV one. nableezy - 20:08, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

Knesset

Any chance you can protect the article in the stable version? There's an ongoing dispute over Herzog's seat. Cheers, Number 57 07:47, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

Cool, thanks. Number 57 09:08, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

Request for comment of Israeli neighborhoods

I have opened an RFC for several of the Israeli cities that I think are un-encyclopedic. You were involved in the template's creation. Therefore, I appreciate input from you at that RFC. Thank you. --Tyw7 (🗣️ Talk) — If (reply) then (ping me) 14:08, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

Request for closure of RfC on Israel's type of governance

Could you review my request at Talk:Israel#Conclusion? 83.250.139.231 (talk) 08:07, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

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Sinking of the Freighter Attavirus in April 20, 1985

Hello, i noticed you've edited some articles about Israeli naval topics in the past and was wondering if you knew any details about the sinking of the freighter Attavirus in 1985. Apparently it was transporting Palestinian militants to attack Israel when it was intercepted by some Israeli missile boats who sunk it after a short battle. In particular i was wondering if you had access to any information regarding Israeli accounts of the battle and the names of the Israeli ships involved. Any information would be greatly appreciated. XavierGreen (talk) 19:30, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

Opinion polling for next Israeli election

I know IPs are fraustrating for some, but can you take indefinite semiprotection of the article and replace it with a one that’ll have a set expiry date, or pending changes please? It’s because there’s no fairness to set indefinite for first time offence unless arbitration applies. Thank you. 59.102.44.48 (talk) 06:09, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi anon,

@59.102.44.48: Sorry I was unable to reply earlier. The reason I protected the article/list was that it was vandalized more than once by an anonymous user, and this type of vandalism is extremely difficult to detect (in fact, it was detected completely by accident 2 weeks after the fact). The lengthy period of misinformation combined with the difficulty of detection and persistent vandalism, means that the best way forward is to block unregistered users from editing the article, at least until the election itself—after which I may re-evaluate the situation. If you would like to constructively contribute to the article, please feel free to register a user name.

—Ynhockey ^(Talk) 08:29, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

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Military Advocate General

Hi Ynhockey,

Happy New Years! You have recently reverted my edits on the Military Advocate General page. All the edits I made on that page are based on the official information available on the MAG website. I am a new editor at Wikipedia and would appreciate if you could expand on the Copyright rules over here. In particular, if I would have cited the source of the information would that make it ok?

Thanks in advance, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Avitevel (talk • contribs) 13:24, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for the detailed response. I do have authorization from the writer to use the content from the MAG website - so as I understand I can go ahead and make the changes.

Best, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Avitevel (talk • contribs) 15:58, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Leave "List of countries by average wage" alone unless you know how to fix it

You have edited "List of countries by average wage" in bad faith. Please avoid this in future. Do you understand the problem with that page? If you do, then you understand why your reversion was bad. If you don't understand, but want to learn write me a polite message. If you don't understand why your change was bad, and don't want to learn why, please avoid further sabotage.

Thank you.Jamesdowallen (talk) 18:07, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

YOU are the veteran editor. I am a novice trying to be helpful. I identify a REAL problem, waste considerable time to bring it your attention, follow the instructions as best as I can.

I don't have time to waste hours learning Wikipedia arcana. Can you understand that much? That I want to help improve content but do not have time for certain details?

So, my "Nomination for deletion" was incomplete. I'm not surprised. A nomination would get nowhere without a "second" anyway. Would you like to be the second? If not, why not just leave the delete notice attached? My impression now is that you are responding to my rudeness and only want to frustrate and foil me regardless of how correct my recommendation is. Fine. But just as a test, please tell me -- yes or no -- whether you understand that the mismatch between that article's title and the article's content is so huge as to be preposterous, as to be an insult to Wikipedia. Can you understand that?Jamesdowallen (talk) 12:06, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

I notice that you recently "deleted page List of OECD countries by average wage (A10: Recently created article that duplicates an existing topic) (thank)" No. The page you deleted is a page whose titile suggests what it is. It duplicated a nonsensical page whose title made no sense. THAT was the page that should have been deleted. HTH.Jamesdowallen (talk) 10:42, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

"If you believe that a certain page's title should be changed, you can open a move request. " Do YOU think the name should be changed? If so why don't YOU open a move request. You're obviously much more invested in Wikipedia than I am. If not, I'll defer to your "expertise."

I'm trying to be helpful. I've got much better things to do with my time than initiate a "RM" for a page YOU seem to care about, forget to dot an I or cross a T, and then waste minutes more of your time. Minutes and minutes because ... Because what? You get sadistic thrills from watching a novice make mistakes on a RM than just fixing it yourself?Jamesdowallen (talk) 15:14, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

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Template:Israel populations

There's an ongoing discussion relevant to this template that you might be interested in participating in. Cheers, Number 57 01:05, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

Heritage site in Israel

Hello Yan, you made this great "Template:Heritage site in Israel". Where can I get the Heritage-site-in-Israel-Numbers? Especially for Buildings and fountains etc. in the old city of Jerusalem? Is there any directory of this numbers and sites or any documentation for this topic? And which organisation stands behind this? Thankyou for your help. And also another question: do you know any online-directory of streetnames in old city of Jerusalem, parallel in english, hebrew and arabic? --Allexkoch (talk) 10:38, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi Yan, thankyou for your answer.

To the heritage-numbers:

This page in the Hebrew Wikipedia is very interesting, but I think it is far from complete. There must be thousands and thousands of heritage sites with their numbers in the old city of Jerusalem. Also in this page are no references, where the numbers come from, and no remark, what Institution delivers these numbers. If I would take this page for German Wikipedia, they would delete it because of the lack of references. I write usually for the German Wikipedia. In German we have Authorities, f.i. the Bavarian State Office for Monument Protection this page, which publish their numbers (online) for all officially rekognized heritage sites. Is there such an authority in Israel also? And if yes, what are their webpages? Where do they publish their numbers? What is the name of the authority or institution which delivers these numbers, where do these numbers come from?

To the street names:

I want to make a list for German Wikipedia with all the streetnames (german, hebrew, arabic and WP-article, if exists) in the Old city of Jerusalem and their Wikipedia-Articles for the sake of an easy overview. In OpenStreetMap the names are either in arabic or in hebrew.

My Hebrew and Arabic is not really good, although I have been trying to learn these languages for many years. It is enough to read and understand, but it is not enough to search the Hebrew web pages. So, if you could send me a link for a municipal website of Jerusalem which has a list of streets there, that would be very nice of you.

Thankyou very much for your help. --Allexkoch (talk) 11:34, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your help and patience. Now, following your advice, I have even found an alphabetical street directory of all streets of Jerusalem parallel English, Arabic and Hebrew in the administration of Jerusalem (here) - very informative, even with explanations where the street name historical comes from and also to the location of the street. --Allexkoch (talk) 11:09, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

Editor adding need quotation to verify to Hebrew sourced articles

User:NYC.Geek originally created an article with a conflict of interest - it seemed to be about himself - as Steven Strauss. When raised concerns and discussed in with other editors, he seemed to use a different account called User:I.new.around.here. After Steven Strauss's article was deleted, he has attacked specifically Israel-related article I created. For example, he has added a Conflict of Interest tag to Tanya Pylavets. Her notability is indeed questionable now and she can probably be deleted, although at the time of creation she had seemed notable in Israeli media. But adding Conflict of Interest to a one-time famous model's article, was strange. In the case of the Dorit Revelis article which you had also edited, it seems he has deleted a lot of content that was in the sources need quotation to verify to everything from Hebrew mainstream sources. The article needs some work and improvement, but he has simply deleted half of it because he's angry his article as Steven Strauss was deleted. Avaya1 (talk) 11:10, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Avi Nissenkorn

On 24 April 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Avi Nissenkorn, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Avi Nissenkorn, former chairman of Histadrut, Israel's largest trade union, competed in his youth in the 1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Avi Nissenkorn. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Avi Nissenkorn), 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.

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Updater

Hello Yan. It seems we are working at cross purposes. I have just corrected the updater so that the previous spellings work (and also corrected the number format). No need to go and change all the articles. Cheers, Number 57 21:45, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

Part of the issue is that the updater is used more than once in the articles and you were only updating one of them. I'm going to finish putting it all right now, but if you want to do it all at some point, go ahead. However, I think it will be quite difficult to make the change without missing somewhere... Number 57 21:49, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

I've changed Bnei Dekalim as suggested. Cheers, Number 57 21:53, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

Need help at WP:RSN

Ynhockey According to your user page you are a native speaker of Russian. Do you think you could assist in assessing four Russian language sources at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard#Russian websites gimn1567.ru , elib.biblioatom.ru , www.famhist.ru, and_www.peoples.ru? Jayjg ^(talk) 17:12, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

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DYK for Roie Galitz

On 26 January 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Roie Galitz, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Israeli wildlife photographer Roie Galitz won first place at the Siena International Photo Awards in the "Fragile Ice" category for his picture of a sleeping polar bear? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Roie Galitz. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Roie Galitz), 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.

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DYK for Alon Blue Square

On 20 February 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Alon Blue Square, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Blue Square owned the franchise rights for operating IKEA in Israel during the 1990s? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Alon Blue Square. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Alon Blue Square), 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.

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WikiCup 2020 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2, with 57 contestants qualifying. We have abolished the groups this year, so to qualify for Round 3 you will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two contestants.

Our top scorers in Round 1 were:

• Epicgenius, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with a featured article, five good articles and an assortment of other submissions, specialising on buildings and locations in New York, for a total of 895 points.
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• Essay: Wikipedia:An article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing

• By the numbers: Open data and COVID-19: Wikipedia as an informational resource during the pandemic

• Opinion: Trusting Everybody to Work Together

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

• Interview: Health and RfA's: An interview with Guy Macon

• In focus: Multilingual Wikipedia

• WikiProject report: The Guild of Copy Editors

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Issue 38, January – April 2020

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Issue 38, January – April 2020

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WikiCup 2020 May newsletter

The second round of the 2020 WikiCup has now finished. It was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 75 points to advance to round 3. There were some very impressive efforts in round 2, with the top ten contestants all scoring more than 500 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 186 good articles achieved in total by contestants, and the 355 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.

Our top scorers in round 2 were:

• Epicgenius, with 2333 points from one featured article, forty-five good articles, fourteen DYKs and plenty of bonus points
• Gog the Mild, with 1784 points from three featured articles, eight good articles, a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews and lots of bonus points
• The Rambling Man, with 1262 points from two featured articles, eight good articles and a hundred good article reviews
• Harrias, with 1141 points from two featured articles, three featured lists, ten good articles, nine DYKs and a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews
• Lee Vilenski with 869 points, Hog Farm with 801, Kingsif with 719, SounderBruce with 710, Dunkleosteus77 with 608 and MX with 515.

The rules for featured article reviews have been adjusted; reviews may cover three aspects of the article, content, images and sources, and contestants may receive points for each of these three types of review. Please also remember the requirement to mention the WikiCup when undertaking an FAR for which you intend to claim points. Remember also that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

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The Signpost: 31 May 2020

• From the editor: Meltdown May?

• News and notes: 2019 Picture of the Year, 200 French paid editing accounts blocked, 10 years of Guild Copyediting

• In the media: CBS on COVID-19, Sanger on bias, false noses, and five prolific editors

• Discussion report: WMF's Universal Code of Conduct

• Special report: The sum of human knowledge? Not in one Wikipedia language edition

• Featured content: Weathering the storm

• Arbitration report: Board member receives editing restriction

• Traffic report: Come on and slam, and welcome to the jam

• Op-Ed: Where Is Political Bias Taking Us?

• Gallery: Wildlife photos by the book

• News from the WMF: WMF Board announces Community Culture Statement

• Recent research: Automatic detection of covert paid editing; Wiki Workshop 2020

• Community view: Transit routes and mapping during stay-at-home order downtime

• On video: COVID-19 spurs innovations in Wikimedia video and virtual programming

• WikiProject report: Revitalizing good articles

• On the bright side: 500,000 articles in the Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia

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Books & Bytes – Issue 39, May – June 2020

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Issue 39, May – June 2020

• Library Card Platform
• New partnerships
  • ProQuest
  • Springer Nature
  • BioOne
  • CEEOL
  • IWA Publishing
  • ICE Publishing
• Bytes in brief

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The Signpost: 28 June 2020

• News and notes: Progress at Wikipedia Library and Wikijournal of Medicine

• Community view: Community open letter on renaming

• Gallery: After the killing of George Floyd

• In the media: Part collaboration and part combat

• Discussion report: Community reacts to WMF rebranding proposals

• Featured content: Sports are returning, with a rainbow

• Arbitration report: Anti-harassment RfC and a checkuser revocation

• Traffic report: The pandemic, alleged murder, a massacre, and other deaths

• News from the WMF: We stand for racial justice

• Recent research: Wikipedia and COVID-19; automated Wikipedia-based fact-checking

• Interview: What is wrong with rebranding to "Wikipedia Foundation"?

• Humour: Cherchez une femme

• Opinion: Trying to find COI or paid editors? Just read the news

• On the bright side: For what are you grateful this month?

• In focus: Edit Loud, Edit Proud: LGBTIQ+ Wikimedians and Global Information Activism

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Black Lives Matter

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WikiCup 2020 July newsletter

The third round of the 2020 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it into the fourth round each had at least 353 points (compared to 68 in 2019). It was a highly competitive round, and a number of contestants were eliminated who would have moved on in earlier years. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

• Epicgenius, with one featured article, 28 good articles and 17 DYKs, amassing 1836 points
• The Rambling Man , with 1672 points gained from four featured articles and seventeen good articles, plus reviews of a large number of FACs and GAs
• Gog the Mild, a first time contestant, with 1540 points, a tally built largely on 4 featured articles and related bonus points.

Between them, contestants managed 14 featured articles, 9 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 152 good articles, 136 DYK entries, 55 ITN entries, 65 featured article candidate reviews and 221 good article reviews. Additionally, MPJ-DK added 3 items to featured topics and 44 to good topics. Over the course of the competition, contestants have completed 710 good article reviews, in comparison to 387 good articles submitted for review and promoted. These large numbers are probably linked to a GAN backlog drive in April and May, and the changed patterns of editing during the COVID-19 pandemic. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process.

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The Signpost: 2 August 2020

• Special report: Wikipedia and the End of Open Collaboration?

• COI and paid editing: Some strange people edit Wikipedia for money

• News and notes: Abstract Wikipedia, a hoax, sex symbols, and a new admin

• In the media: Dog days gone bad

• Discussion report: Fox News, a flight of RfAs, and banning policy

• Featured content: Remembering Art, Valor, and Freedom

• Traffic report: Now for something completely different

• Gallery: Photos of threatened species from iNaturalist

• News from the WMF: New Chinese national security law in Hong Kong could limit the privacy of Wikipedia users

• Recent research: Receiving thanks increases retention, but not the time contributed to Wikipedia

• Essay: Not compatible with a collaborative project

• Obituaries: Hasteur and Brian McNeil

• In focus: WikiLoop DoubleCheck, reviewing edits made easy

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The Signpost: 30 August 2020

• News and notes: The high road and the low road

• In the media: Storytelling large and small

• Featured content: Going for the goal

• Special report: Wikipedia's not so little sister is finding its own way

• Op-Ed: The longest-running hoax

• Traffic report: Heart, soul, umbrellas, and politics

• News from the WMF: Fourteen things we’ve learned by moving Polish Wikimedia conference online

• Recent research: Detecting spam, and pages to protect; non-anonymous editors signal their intelligence with high-quality articles

• Arbitration report: A slow couple of months

• From the archives: Wikipedia for promotional purposes?

• Obituaries: Marcus Sherman, Jerome West, and Pauline van Till

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WikiCup 2020 September newsletter

The fourth round of the competition has finished, with 865 points being required to qualify for the final round, nearly twice as many points as last year. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants with 598 and 605 points being eliminated, and all but two of the contestants who reached the final round having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were

• Bloom6132, with 1478 points gained mainly from 5 featured lists, 12 DYKs and 63 in the news items;
• HaEr48 with 1318 points gained mainly from 2 featured articles, 5 good articles and 8 DYKs;
• Lee Vilenski with 1201 points mainly gained from 2 featured articles and 10 good articles.

Between them, contestants achieved 14 featured articles, 14 featured lists, 2 featured pictures, 87 good articles, 90 DYK entries, 75 ITN entries, 95 featured article candidate reviews and 81 good article reviews. Congratulations to 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. 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 yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:53, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 40

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Books & Bytes
Issue 40, July – August 2020

• New partnerships
  • Al Manhal
  • Ancestry
  • RILM
• #1Lib1Ref May 2020 report
• AfLIA hires a Wikipedian-in-Residence

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Books & Bytes – Issue 40

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Issue 40, July – August 2020

• New partnerships
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  • RILM
• #1Lib1Ref May 2020 report
• AfLIA hires a Wikipedian-in-Residence

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The Signpost: 27 September 2020

• Special report: Paid editing with political connections

• News and notes: More large-scale errors at a "small" wiki

• In the media: WIPO, Seigenthaler incident 15 years later

• Featured content: Life finds a Way

• Arbitration report: Clarifications and requests

• Traffic report: Is there no justice?

• Recent research: Wikipedia's flood biases

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The Signpost: 27 September 2020

• Special report: Paid editing with political connections

• News and notes: More large-scale errors at a "small" wiki

• In the media: WIPO, Seigenthaler incident 15 years later

• Featured content: Life finds a Way

• Arbitration report: Clarifications and requests

• Traffic report: Is there no justice?

• Recent research: Wikipedia's flood biases

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The Signpost: 1 November 2020

• News and notes: Ban on IPs on ptwiki, paid editing for Tatarstan, IP masking

• In the media: Murder, politics, religion, health and books

• Book review: Review of Wikipedia @ 20

• Op-Ed: Anti-vandalism with masked IPs: the steps forward

• Discussion report: Proposal to change board composition, In The News dumps Trump story

• Featured content: The "Green Terror" is neither green nor sufficiently terrifying. Worst Hallowe'en ever.

• Traffic report: Jump back, what's that sound?

• Interview: Joseph Reagle and Jackie Koerner

• News from the WMF: Meet the 2020 Wikimedian of the Year

• Recent research: OpenSym 2020: Deletions and gender, masses vs. elites, edit filters

• In focus: The many (reported) deaths of Wikipedia

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WikiCup 2020 November newsletter

The 2020 WikiCup has come to an end, with the final round going down to the wire. Our new Champion is Lee Vilenski (submissions), the runner-up last year, who was closely followed by Gog the Mild (submissions). In the final round, Lee achieved 4 FAs and 30 GAs, mostly on cue sport topics, while Gog achieved 3 FAs and 15 GAs, mostly on important battles and wars, which earned him a high number of bonus points. The Rambling Man (submissions) was in third place with 4 FAs and 8 GAs on football topics, with Epicgenius (submissions) close behind with 19 GAs and 16 DYK's, his interest being the buildings of New York.

The other finalists were Hog Farm (submissions), HaEr48 (submissions), Harrias (submissions) and Bloom6132 (submissions). The final round was very productive, and besides 15 FAs, contestants achieved 75 FAC reviews, 88 GAs and 108 GAN reviews. Altogether, Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors all through the contest. Well done everyone!

All those who reached the final will receive awards and the following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or in the event of a tie, to the overall leader in this field.

• Gog the Mild (submissions) wins the featured article prize, for a total of 14 FAs during the course of the competition.
• Bloom6132 (submissions) win the featured list prize, for 5 FLs in round 4.
• Rhododendrites (submissions) wins the featured picture prize, for 3 FPs in round 3 and 5 overall.
• Lee Vilenski (submissions) wins the featured article reviewer prize, for 23 FAC reviews in round 5.
• Epicgenius (submissions) wins the good article prize, for 45 GAs in round 2 and 113 overall.
• MPJ-DK (submissions) wins the topic prize, for 33 articles in good topics in round 2.
• The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the good article reviewer prize, for 100 good article reviews in round 2.
• Epicgenius (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 22 Did you know articles in round 4 and 94 overall.
• Bloom6132 (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 63 In the news articles in round 4 and 136 overall.

Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2021 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! 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, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:39, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 41

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Books & Bytes
Issue 41, September – October 2020

• New partnership: Taxmann
• WikiCite
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The Signpost: 29 November 2020

• News and notes: Jimmy Wales "shouldn't be kicked out before he's ready"

• Op-Ed: Re-righting Wikipedia

• Opinion: How billionaires re-write Wikipedia

• In the media: Relying on Wikipedia: voters, scientists, and a Canadian border guard

• Featured content: Frontonia sp. is thankful for delicious cyanobacteria

• Traffic report: 007 with Borat, the Queen, and an election

• News from Wiki Education: An assignment that changed a life: Kasey Baker

• GLAM plus: West Coast New Zealand's Wikipedian at Large

• Wikicup report: Lee Vilenski wins the 2020 WikiCup

• Recent research: Wikipedia's Shoah coverage succeeds where libraries fail

• Essay: Writing about women

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upload the file

Hi Ynhockey! Can you upload the file without the text for this File:Israel outline center ta.png? Moataz1997 (talk) 21:20, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

Template redirect deletion proposal which you may be interested in

Please see this Rfd discussion, where I propose to delete another Hebrew-related template: Template:Hebrew. Debresser (talk) 19:29, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 December 2020

• News and notes: Year-end legal surprises cause concern, but Public Domain Day is imminent

• In the media: Concealment, data journalism, a non-pig farmer, and some Bluetick Hounds

• Arbitration report: 2020 election results

• Opinion: How to make your factory's safety and labor issues disappear

• Featured content: Very nearly ringing in the New Year with "Blank Space" – but we got there in time.

• Traffic report: 2020 wraps up

• News from the WMF: What Wikipedia saw during election week in the U.S., and what we’re doing next

• Recent research: Predicting the next move in Wikipedia discussions

• Essay: Subjective importance

• Op-Ed: An unforgettable year we might wish to forget

• Gallery: Angels in the architecture

• Humour: 'Twas the Night Before Wikimas

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Welcome to the 2021 WikiCup!

Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The competition begins today and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. We thank Vanamonde93 and Godot13, who have retired as judges, and we thank them for their past dedication. The judges for the WikiCup this year are Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:11, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

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Books & Bytes - Issue 42

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Books & Bytes
Issue 42, November – December 2020

• New EBSCO collections now available
• 1Lib1Ref 2021 underway
• Library Card input requested
• Libraries love Wikimedia, too!

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Hi, Ynhockey. I cordially request your comment on Talk:Beit Shearim regarding how we can best improve this article. Your professional advice is needed here.Davidbena (talk) 00:43, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 January 2021

• News and notes: 1,000,000,000 edits, board elections, virtual Wikimania 2021

• Special report: Wiki reporting on the insurrection

• In focus: From Anarchy to Wikiality, Glaring Bias to Good Cop: Press Coverage of Wikipedia's First Two Decades

• Opinion: Wikipedia's war against scientific disinformation

• In the media: The world's press says "Happy Birthday!" with a few twists

• Technology report: The people who built Wikipedia, technically

• Videos and podcasts: Celebrating 20 years

• News from the WMF: Wikipedia celebrates 20 years of free, trusted information for the world

• Recent research: Students still have a better opinion of Wikipedia than teachers

• Humour: Dr. Seuss's Guide to Wikipedia

• Featured content: New Year, same Featured Content report!

• Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2020

• Obituary: Flyer22 Frozen

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The Signpost: 28 February 2021

• News and notes: Maher stepping down

• Disinformation report: A "billionaire battle" on Wikipedia: Sex, lies, and video

• Opinion: The call for feedback on community seats is a distraction

• In the media: Corporate influence at OSM, Fox watching the hen house

• News from the WMF: Who tells your story on Wikipedia

• Recent research: Take an AI-generated flashcard quiz about Wikipedia; Wikipedia's anti-feudalism

• Featured content: A Love of Knowledge, for Valentine's Day

• Traffic report: Does it almost feel like you've been here before?

• Gallery: What is Black history and culture?

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WikiCup 2021 March newsletter

Round 1 of the competition has finished; it was a high-scoring round with 21 contestants scoring more than 100 points. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2, with 55 contestants qualifying. You will need to finish among the top thirty-two contestants in Round 2 if you are to qualify for Round 3. Our top scorers in Round 1 were:

• Epicgenius led the field with a featured article, nine good articles and an assortment of other submissions, specialising on buildings and locations in New York, for a total of 945 points.
• Bloom6132 was close behind with 896 points, largely gained from 71 "In the news" items, mostly recent deaths.
• ImaginesTigers, who has been editing Wikipedia for less than a year, was in third place with 711 points, much helped by bringing League of Legends to featured article status, exemplifying how bonus points can boost a contestant's score.
• Amakuru came next with 708 points, Kigali being another featured article that scored maximum bonus points.
• Ktin, new to the WikiCup, was in fifth place with 523 points, garnered from 15 DYKs and 34 "In the news" items.
• The Rambling Man scored 511 points, many from featured article candidate reviews and from football related DYKs.
• Gog the Mild, last year's runner-up, came next with 498 points, from a featured article and numerous featured article candidate reviews.
• Hog Farm, at 452, scored for a featured article, four good articles and a number of reviews.
• Le Panini, another newcomer to the WikiCup, scored 438 for a featured article and three good articles.
• Lee Vilenski, last year's champion, scored 332 points, from a featured article and various other sport-related topics.

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start again from scratch. In Round 1, contestants achieved eight featured articles, three featured lists and one featured picture, as well as around two hundred DYKs and twenty-seven ITNs. They completed 97 good article reviews, nearly double the 52 good articles they claimed. Contestants also claimed for 135 featured article and featured list candidate reviews. There is no longer a requirement to mention your WikiCup participation when undertaking these reviews.

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. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is a good article candidate, a featured process, or something else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.

If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:27, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 42

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Books & Bytes
Issue 42, January – February 2021

• New partnerships: PNAS, De Gruyter, Nomos
• 1Lib1Ref
• Library Card

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The Signpost: 28 March 2021

• News and notes: A future with a for-profit subsidiary?

• Gallery: Wiki Loves Monuments

• In the media: Wikimedia LLC and disinformation in Japan

• News from the WMF: Project Rewrite: Tell the missing stories of women on Wikipedia and beyond

• Recent research: 10%-30% of Wikipedia’s contributors have subject-matter expertise

• From the archives: Google isn't responsible for Wikipedia's mistakes

• Essay: Wikipedia:The Free Encyclopedia

• Obituary: Yoninah

• From the editor: What else can we say?

• Arbitration report: Open letter to the Board of Trustees

• Traffic report: Wanda, Meghan, Liz, Phil and Zack

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The Signpost: 25 April 2021

• From the editor: A change is gonna come

• Disinformation report: The Trump Organization's paid editors

• In the media: Fernando, governance, and rugby

• Opinion: The (Universal) Code of Conduct

• Op-Ed: A Little Fun Goes A Long Way

• Changing the world: The reach of protest images on Wikipedia

• Recent research: Quality of aquatic and anatomical articles

• Traffic report: The verdict is guilty, guilty, guilty

• News from Wiki Education: Encouraging professional physicists to engage in outreach on Wikipedia

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The Signpost: 25 April 2021

• From the editor: A change is gonna come

• Disinformation report: The Trump Organization's paid editors

• In the media: Fernando, governance, and rugby

• Opinion: The (Universal) Code of Conduct

• Op-Ed: A Little Fun Goes A Long Way

• Changing the world: The reach of protest images on Wikipedia

• Recent research: Quality of aquatic and anatomical articles

• Traffic report: The verdict is guilty, guilty, guilty

• News from Wiki Education: Encouraging professional physicists to engage in outreach on Wikipedia

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The Signpost: 25 April 2021

• From the editor: A change is gonna come

• Disinformation report: The Trump Organization's paid editors

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• Opinion: The (Universal) Code of Conduct

• Op-Ed: A Little Fun Goes A Long Way

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WikiCup 2021 May newsletter

The second round of the 2021 WikiCup has now finished; it was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 61 points to advance to Round 3. There were some impressive efforts in the round, with the top eight contestants all scoring more than 400 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 110 good articles achieved in total by contestants, as well as the 216 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.

Our top scorers in Round 2 were:

• The Rambling Man, with 2963 points from three featured articles, 20 featured article reviews, 37 good articles, 73 good article reviews, as well as 22 DYKs.
• Epicgenius, with 1718 points from one featured article, 29 good articles, 16 DYKs and plenty of bonus points.
• Bloom6132, with 990 points from 13 DYKs and 64 "In the news" items, mostly recent deaths.
• Hog Farm, with 834 points from two featured articles, five good articles, 14 featured article reviews and 15 good article reviews.
• Gog the Mild, with 524 points from two featured articles and four featured article reviews.
• Lee Vilenski, with 501 points from one featured article, three good articles, six featured article reviews and 25 good article reviews.
• Sammi Brie, with 485 points from four good articles, eight good article reviews and 27 DYKs, on US radio and television stations.
• Ktin, with 436 points from four good articles, seven DYKs and 11 "In the news" items.

Please remember that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of Round 2 but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in Round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (except for at the end of each round, when you must claim them before the cut-off date/time). When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). 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 yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Judges: Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:28, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 43

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Books & Bytes
Issue 43, March – April 2021

• New Library Card designs
• 1Lib1Ref May

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The Signpost: 27 June 2021

• News and notes: Elections, Wikimania, masking and more

• In the media: Boris and Joe, reliability, love, and money

• Disinformation report: Croatian Wikipedia: capture and release

• Recent research: Feminist critique of Wikipedia's epistemology, Black Americans vastly underrepresented among editors, Wiki Workshop report

• Traffic report: So no one told you life was gonna be this way

• News from the WMF: Searching for Wikipedia

• Humour: Wikipedia's best articles on the world's strangest things

• WikiProject report: WikiProject on open proxies interview

• Forum: Is WMF fundraising abusive?

• Discussion report: Reliability of WikiLeaks discussed

• Obituary: SarahSV

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WikiCup 2021 July newsletter

The third round of the 2021 WikiCup has now come to an end. Each of the sixteen contestants who made it into the fourth round had at least 294 points, and our top six scorers all had over 600 points. They were:

• The Rambling Man, with 1825 points from 3 featured articles, 44 featured article reviews, 14 good articles, 30 good article reviews and 10 DYKs. In addition, he completed a 34-article good topic on the EFL Championship play-offs.
• Epicgenius, a New York specialist, with 1083 points from 2 featured article reviews, 18 good articles, 30 DYKs and plenty of bonus points.
• Bloom6132, with 869 points from 11 DYKs, all with bonus points, and 54 "In the news" items, mostly covering people who had recently died.
• Gog the Mild, with 817 points from 3 featured articles on historic battles in Europe, 5 featured article reviews and 3 good articles.
• Hog Farm, with 659 points from 2 featured articles and 2 good articles on American Civil War battles, 18 featured article reviews, 2 good articles, 6 good article reviews and 4 DYKs.
• BennyOnTheLoose, a snooker specialist and new to the Cup, with 647 points from a featured article, 2 featured article reviews, 6 good articles, 6 good article reviews and 3 DYKs.

In round three, contestants achieved 19 featured articles, 7 featured lists, 106 featured article reviews, 72 good articles, 1 good topic, 62 good article reviews, 165 DYKs and 96 ITN items. We enter the fourth round with scores reset to zero; any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (one contestant in round 3 lost out because of this). When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). 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 yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Judges: Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:30, 2 July 2021 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Israeli humor

A tag has been placed on Category:Israeli humor indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

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 "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:01, 21 July 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 July 2021

• News and notes: Wikimania and a million other news stories

• Special report: Hardball in Hong Kong

• In the media: Larry is at it again

• Board of Trustees candidates: See the candidates

• Recent research: Gender bias and statistical fallacies, disinformation and mutual intelligibility

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• News from the WMF: Uncapping our growth potential – interview with James Baldwin, Finance and Administration Department

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Wikipedia Wars and the Israel-Palestine conflict...please fill out my survey?

Hello :) I am writing my MA dissertation on Wikipedia Wars and the Israel-Palestine conflict, and I noticed that you have contributed to those pages. My dissertation will look at the process of collaborative knowledge production on the Israel-Palestine conflict, and the effect it has on bias in the articles. This will involve understanding the profiles and motivations of editors, contention/controversy and dispute resolution in the talk pages, and bias in the final article.

For more information, you can check out my meta-wiki research page or my user page, where I will be posting my findings when I am done.

I would greatly appreciate if you could take 5 minutes to fill out this quick survey before 8 August 2021.

Participation in this survey is entirely voluntary and anonymous. There are no foreseeable risks nor benefits to you associated with this project.

Thanks so much,

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Books & Bytes – Issue 45

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Books & Bytes
Issue 45, May – June 2021

• Library design improvements continue
• New partnerships
• 1Lib1Ref update

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The Signpost: 29 August 2021

• News and notes: Enough time left to vote! IP ban

• In the media: Vive la différence!

• Wikimedians of the year: Seven Wikimedians of the year

• Gallery: Our community in 20 graphs

• News from Wiki Education: Changing the face of Wikipedia

• Recent research: IP editors, inclusiveness and empathy, cyclones, and world heritage

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Days of the Year Interview

• Traffic report: Olympics, movies, and Afghanistan

• Community view: Making Olympic history on Wikipedia

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WikiCup 2021 September newsletter

The fourth round of the competition has finished with over 500 points being required to qualify for the final round. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants, The Rambling Man and Epicgenius, each scoring over 3000 points, and six contestants scoring over 1000. All but one of the finalists achieved one or more FAs during the round, the exception being Bloom6132 who demonstrated that 61 "in the news" items produces an impressive number of points. Other contestants who made it to the final are Gog the Mild, Lee Vilenski, BennyOnTheLoose, Amakuru and Hog Farm. However, all their points are now swept away and everyone starts afresh in the final round.

Round 4 saw the achievement of 18 featured articles and 157 good articles. Bilorv scored for a 25-article good topic on Black Mirror but narrowly missed out on qualifying for the final round. There was enthusiasm for FARs, with 89 being performed, and there were 63 GARs and around 100 DYKs during the round. As we start round 5, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it to the final round; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. For other contestants, 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 14 days of "earning" them.

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 Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). 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. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:02, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 46

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 46, July – August 2021

• Library design improvements deployed
• New collections available in English and German
• Wikimania presentation

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The Signpost: 26 September 2021

• News and notes: New CEO, new board members, China bans

• In the media: The future of Wikipedia

• Opinion: Wikimedians of Mainland China were warned

• Op-Ed: I've been desysopped

• Disinformation report: Paid promotional paragraphs in German parliamentary pages

• Discussion report: Editors discuss Wikipedia's vetting process for administrators

• Recent research: Wikipedia images for machine learning; Experiment justifies Wikipedia's high search rankings

• Community view: Is writing Wikipedia like making a quilt?

• Traffic report: Kanye, Emma Raducanu and 9/11

• News from Diff: Welcome to the first grantees of the Knowledge Equity Fund

• WikiProject report: The Random and the Beautiful

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The Signpost: 31 October 2021

• From the editor: Different stories, same place

• News and notes: The sockpuppet who ran for adminship and almost succeeded

• In the media: China bans, and is there intelligent life on this planet?

• Opinion: A photo on Wikipedia can ruin your life

• Discussion report: Editors brainstorm and propose changes to the Requests for adminship process

• Recent research: Welcome messages fail to improve newbie retention

• Community view: Reflections on the Chinese Wikipedia

• Traffic report: James Bond and the Giant Squid Game

• Technology report: Wikimedia Toolhub, winners of the Coolest Tool Award, and more

• Serendipity: How Wikipedia helped create a Serbian stamp

• Book review: Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality

• WikiProject report: Redirection

• Humour: A very Wiki crossword

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WikiCup 2021 November newsletter

The WikiCup is over for another year and the finalists can relax! Our Champion this year is The Rambling Man (submissions), who amassed over 5000 points in the final round, achieving 8 featured articles and almost 500 reviews. It was a very competitive round; seven of the finalists achieved over 1000 points in the round (enough to win the 2019 contest), and three scored over 3000 (enough to win the 2020 event). Our 2021 finalists and their scores were:

1. The Rambling Man (submissions) with 5072 points
2. Lee Vilenski (submissions) with 3276 points
3. Amakuru (submissions) with 3197 points
4. Epicgenius (submissions) with 1611 points
5. Gog the Mild (submissions) with 1571 points
6. BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 1420 points
7. Hog Farm (submissions) with 1043 points
8. Bloom6132 (submissions) with 528 points

All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.

• The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the featured article prize, for 8 FAs in round 5.
• Lee Vilenski (submissions) wins the featured list prize, for 3 FLs in round 5.
• Gog the Mild (submissions) wins the featured topic prize, for 13 articles in a featured topic in round 5.
• Epicgenius (submissions) wins the good article prize, for 63 GAs in round 4.
• The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the good topic prize, for 86 articles in good topics in round 5.
• The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the reviewer prize, for 68 FAC reviews and 213 GAN reviews, both in round 5.
• Epicgenius (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 30 did you know articles in round 3 and 105 overall.
• Bloom6132 (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 71 in the news articles in round 1 and 284 overall.

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition, not forgetting User:Jarry1250, who runs the scoring bot.

If you have views on whether the rules or scoring need adjustment for next year's contest, please comment on the WikiCup talk page. Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2022 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! 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 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:56, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 47

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 47, September – October 2021

• On-wiki Wikipedia Library notification rolling out
• Search tool deployed
• New My Library design improvements

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Wikiproject Israel Question

I posted a couple of questions on the talk page of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Israel and didn't get a reply so am following up with you as you're the first name listed on the active member list. Do you mind having a look at my questions and replying? If there is someone else in the active member list who is better suited to answer questions of this nature, who would it be? Thank you. A privilege to meet you :) MaskedSinger (talk) 16:55, 17 November 2021 (UTC)