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This week's article for improvement (week 27, 2018)

Hello, K6ka.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Popular culture

Please be bold and help to improve this article!


Previous selections: Survival • Civil ceremony


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Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 2 July 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Opt-out instructions[reply]

WikiCup 2018 July newsletter

The third round of the 2018 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round had at least 227 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

  • South Carolina Courcelles, a first time contestant, with 1756 points, a tally built largely on 27 GAs related to the Olympics
  • Scotland Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with two featured articles and three GAs on natural history and astronomy topics
  • Cascadia (independence movement) SounderBruce, a finalist last year, with a variety of submissions related to transport in the state of Washington

Contestants managed 7 featured articles, 4 featured lists, 120 good articles, 1 good topic, 124 DYK entries, 15 ITN entries, and 132 good article reviews. Over the course of the competition, contestants have completed 458 GA reviews, in comparison to 244 good articles submitted for review and promoted. 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; several submissions, particularly in abstruse or technical areas, have needed additional work to make them completely verifiable.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews 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. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk), Vanamonde (talk) 04:55, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

00:46, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2018).

Administrator changes

added PbsouthwoodTheSandDoctor
readded Gogo Dodo
removed AndrevanDougEVulaKaisaLTony FoxWilyD

Bureaucrat changes

removed AndrevanEVula

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC about the deletion of drafts closed with a consensus to change the wording of WP:NMFD. Specifically, a draft that has been repeatedly resubmitted and declined at AfC without any substantial improvement may be deleted at MfD if consensus determines that it is unlikely to ever meet the requirements for mainspace and it otherwise meets one of the reasons for deletion outlined in the deletion policy.
  • A request for comment closed with a consensus that the {{promising draft}} template cannot be used to indefinitely prevent a WP:G13 speedy deletion nomination.

Technical news

  • Starting on July 9, the WMF Security team, Trust & Safety, and the broader technical community will be seeking input on an upcoming change that will restrict editing of site-wide JavaScript and CSS to a new technical administrators user group. Bureaucrats and stewards will be able to grant this right per a community-defined process. The intention is to reduce the number of accounts who can edit frontend code to those who actually need to, which in turn lessens the risk of malicious code being added that compromises the security and privacy of everyone who accesses Wikipedia. For more information, please review the FAQ.
  • Syntax highlighting has been graduated from a Beta feature on the English Wikipedia. To enable this feature, click the highlighter icon () in your editing toolbar (or under the hamburger menu in the 2017 wikitext editor). This feature can help prevent you from making mistakes when editing complex templates.
  • IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in July (previously scheduled for June). This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.

Miscellaneous

  • Currently around 20% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 17% a year ago. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless if you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.

This week's article for improvement (week 28, 2018)

This cable car at Zell am See in the Austrian Alps is an example of cable transport.
Hello, K6ka.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Cable transport

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Previous selections: Popular culture • Survival


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Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 9 July 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Opt-out instructions[reply]

23:09, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
Thanks for taking care of that ipvandal eariler also I like to fight vandals do what does it take to be a a member of that unit. I’m interested in joining ARMcgrath (talk) 20:35, 10 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@ARMcgrath: You can learn more about fighting vandals at the Counter Vandalism Unit Academy. Membership in the Counter-Vandalism Unit is optional and isn't required to fight vandals, but it never hurts to join the academy and learn more about this field. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 21:20, 10 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Andy Dwyer

Hello k6ka,

You recently removed my addition on the Andy Dwyer wikipedia page because, quote "They did not appear constructive". I insist you add it back to the page because I quote "Removal of addition was not constructive." Please refer to Season 7 Episode 11 of the legal disclaimer for "The Johnny Karate Super Awesome Musical Explosion Show". I will even provide the excerpt from said disclaimer for you. "On such occasions when “April’s Animal Corner” proceeds as planned, and the animal in question remains safely in the cage or container in which it was transported, the Company hey it’s me Andy I had a dumb meeting with our dumb lawyer who was yelling at me for something I don’t even know what it was he’s so funny when he yells he looks like Beaker from the Muppets I’m in his office right now he’s on a phone call so I opened his document and clicked in the middle of this paragraph and started typing haha he’s so dumb he’ll probably never even see this I can type whatever I wan Colts rule Colts rule Johnny Karate forever Reggie Wayne forever Greg Pikitis sucks ok he’s coming back I love you April bye! retains the right to apply these limited liability conditions to the Segment as well as all other segments involving animals, now or in the future."

I look forward to visiting this page in the future with this fun and correct fact.

Sincerely, C — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.175.152.9 (talk) 03:27, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

"fun and correct fact", but is it worth mentioning? Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate source of information. The information you added may fit better on a fan wiki or fansite, but it doesn't seem notable or worthy of inclusion for an encyclopedia like Wikipedia. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 13:45, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 29, 2018)

Hello, K6ka.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Indian Slavery Act, 1843

Please be bold and help to improve this article!


Previous selections: Cable transport • Popular culture


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Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 16 July 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Opt-out instructions[reply]

16:00, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

Revoke TPA

You may want to revoke TPA for User:Gayanalfucking. Thanks. 2601:1C0:4401:24A0:35F8:B37E:35FB:8711 (talk) 04:00, 19 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

 Done SQLQuery me! 04:42, 19 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks SQL; it was precisely midnight local time when that message was made. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 12:05, 19 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 30, 2018)

Hello, K6ka.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Louis IV of France

Please be bold and help to improve this article!


Previous selections: Indian Slavery Act, 1843 • Cable transport


Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations


Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 23 July 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Opt-out instructions[reply]

thanks

Thanks for cookies K6ka. :) Your message with resources help me a lot (im starting to diggin into all this documentation, to be a good editor). I created my wiki account back in 2013 (i change mu username) and now i revisiting my few edits. I have internal problem to edit someone changes. I dont know if i have just edit it or discuss every content and formatting changes .Do you remember your beginnings on wiki, did you have this feel? And i also like your user page. Do you have any resources that can help me decide what content and how custume my page. (or do you think that's come with time?) TTbelis (talk) 14:23, 23 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@TTbelis: To answer your first question: No, you do not need to discuss every change you make, especially if it's fairly minor. Although it doesn't hurt to discuss changes to an article, in many cases it is often easier to simply be bold and make the changes yourself.
As for a pretty-looking userpage... well, that typically comes with time :).
k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 23:01, 23 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

09:44, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

Revoking talk page access

For this user, please? Thanks. LinguistunEinsuno (Linguist111) 02:41, 26 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) Done SQLQuery me! 03:25, 26 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 31, 2018)

Strawberry liqueur at a restaurant in Greece
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The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Liqueur

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Previous selections: Louis IV of France • Indian Slavery Act, 1843


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14:05, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

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