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WikiCup 2014 September newsletter

In one month's time, we will know our WikiCup 2014 champion. Newcomer Godot13 (submissions) has taken a strong lead with a featured list (historical coats of arms of the U.S. states from 1876) and a raft of featured pictures. Reigning champion Cwmhiraeth (submissions) is in second place with a number of high-importance biology articles, including new FA Isopoda and new GA least weasel. Casliber (submissions), who is in his fifth WikiCup final, is in third, with featured articles Pictor and Epacris impressa.

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Ha de

With regard to the Saturday night special, "Jews and communism" might refer to Jewish Bolshevism and I do not have any issue with the articles existance. Bat Ye'or is surely controversial, but does it mean to exclude her in that case? Btw, I easily could debunk Bat Ye'ors notion of Eurabia, if you like me to do so, as Eurabia (compare Atlantropa has been a topic and sort of technological dream in the 1920 - based on the French Maghreb and its pied noirs. Hilsen fra tyskland Serten (talk) 18:08, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

Guten Abend! As for "Jews and communism", you may not be familiar with that case; but it was a problematic article that many considered anti-Semittic and it got deleted. The Jewish Bolshevism article in some way deals with the same topic, but as a conspiracy theory, which is a totally different framing. I don't think it's a direct and good parallell to the Saturday/Sunday article, but I have been reminded of that article while thinking about the current AfD because there is some of the same concerns. I don't think Bat Ye'or is a reliable source for Wikipedia; this can be sorted out at the article's talk page; I mentioned it because I think it demonstrates how sensitive and easily controversial the topic is. My basic point was that I think the AfD discussion was too complex for a snow close. Beste Grüße, Iselilja (talk) 18:59, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

Youre welcome. Recently I have written the article about sociologist Reiner Grundmann, which did a lot about Marx and about "Framing (social sciences)" as well. I think the right framing decides wether an article should or may be kept. I was reminded of Eurabia, which is the 'conspiracy theory', and Eurafrique (redlink), which served as a major base of the 1950ies European unification policy. To quote Marx: "Hegel remarks somewhere[*] that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." Serten (talk) 21:04, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gender Gap Task Force opened

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Books and Bytes - Issue 8

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 8, August-September2014
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs)

• TWL now a Wikimedia Foundation program, moves on from grant status
• Four new donations, including large DeGruyter parntership, pilot with Elsevier
• New TWL coordinators, Wikimania news, new library platform discussions, Wiki Loves Libraries update, and more
• Spotlight: "Traveling Through History" - an editor talks about his experiences with a TWL newspaper archive, Newspapers.com

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FYI

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Request for comment on using secondary RSs at "List of scientists opposing maintream assessment of global warming"

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Freedom forum

Please take a look at my edits in the Oslo Freedom Forum article. --Lowereiker (talk) 10:07, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

If Norwegian TV2 should be mentioned, then the size or amount of the live coverage should be mentioned. (And I think it is unlikely that TV2 is the most notable TV station that has covered the event.) The article is not unclear about the local importance and support of the event, so why should one mention the live coverage of Norway's number two TV station? --Lowereiker (talk) 10:25, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup awards

Awarded to Iselilja for participating in the 2014 WikiCup. J Milburn (talk · contribs), The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 21:27, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014: The results

The 2014 WikiCup champion is Godot13 (submissions), who flew the flag of the Smithsonian Institution. This was Godot13's first WikiCup competition and, over the 10 months of the competition, he has produced (among other contributions) two featured lists and an incredible 292 featured pictures, including architectural photographs and scans of historical documents. Cwmhiraeth (submissions), 2012 and 2013 WikiCup champion, came in second, having written a large number of biology-related articles. Casliber (submissions), WikiCup finalist every year since 2010, finished in third.

A full list of our prize-winners follows:

• Godot13 (submissions) wins the prize for first place and the FP prize for 181 featured pictures in the final round.
• Cwmhiraeth (submissions) wins the prize for second place and the DYK prize for 65 did you knows in the final round.
• Casliber (submissions) wins the prize for third place and the FA prize for four featured articles in the final round.
• Czar (submissions) wins the prize for fourth place
• Sturmvogel 66 (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
• Bloom6132 (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
• 12george1 (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
• ChrisGualtieri (submissions) wins the GA prize for 27 good articles in round 2 and the review prize for 28 good article reviews in round 1.
• Caponer (submissions) wins the FL prize for three featured lists in round 2.
• Sven Manguard (submissions) wins the FPo prize his work on featured portals.
• Figureskatingfan (submissions) wins the topic prize for a nine-article featured topic in round 3.
• ThaddeusB (submissions) wins the news prize for 28 in the news articles in round 3.

Congratulations to everyone who has been successful in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and a particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have participated this year. We warmly invite all of you to sign up for next year's competition. Discussions and polls concerning potential rules changes are also open, and all are welcome to participate. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2014 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. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 22:52, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (November 2014)

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OK

Ok ...I think this is discrimination but this is the rules and I will respected. Thank's for information! — Preceding unsigned comment added by RomaniaWiki (talk • contribs) 05:23, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

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DYK for Anna Karoline

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Health in Norway

Following the MfD at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Health in Norway, the article was moved to Health in Norway. Please review the article when you get a chance and see if anything further should be done. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 00:50, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

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Nominations for the Military history Wikiproject's Historian and Newcomer of the Year Awards are now open!

The Military history Wikiproject has opened nominations for the Military historian of the year and Military history newcomer of the year. Nominations will be accepted until 13 December at 23:59 GMT, with voting to begin at 0:00 GMT 14 December. The voting will conclude on 21 December. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:36, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2015 is just around the corner...

Hello everyone, and may we wish you all a happy holiday season. As you will probably already know, the 2015 WikiCup begins in the new year; there is still time to sign up. We have a few important announcements concerning the future of the WikiCup.

• We would like to announce that Josh (J Milburn) and Ed (The ed17), who have been WikiCup judges since 2009 and 2010 respectively, are stepping down. This decision has been made for a number of reasons, but the main one is time. Both Josh and Ed have found that, over the previous year, they have been unable to devote the time necessary to the WikiCup, and it is not likely that they will be able to do this in the near future. Furthermore, new people at the helm can only help to invigorate the WikiCup and keep it dynamic. Josh and Ed will still be around, and will likely be participating in the Cup this following year as competitors, which is where both started out.
• In a similar vein, we hope you will all join us in welcoming Jason (Sturmvogel 66) and Christine (Figureskatingfan), who are joining Brian (Miyagawa) to form the 2015 WikiCup judging team. Jason is a WikiCup veteran, having won in 2010 and finishing in fifth this year. Christine has participated in two WikiCups, reaching the semi-finals in both, and is responsible for the GA Cup, which she now co-runs.
• The discussions/polls concerning the next competition's rules will be closed soon, and rules changes will be made clear on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring and talk pages. While it may be impossible to please everyone, the judges will make every effort to ensure that the new rules are both fair and in the best interests of the competition, which is, first and foremost, about improving Wikipedia.

If you have any questions or concerns, the judges can be reached on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, on their talk pages, or by email. We hope you will all join us in trying to make the 2015 WikiCup the most productive and enjoyable yet. You are receiving this message because you are listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk), The ed17 (talk), Miyagawa (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Figureskatingfan (talk) 18:54, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

RfC United States same-sex marriage map

I opened up an RfC for the U.S. same-sex marriage map due to the complicated situation of Kansas: RfC: How should we color Kansas? Prcc27 (talk) 06:04, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (December 2014)

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DYK for 2014 Swedish Cabinet crisis

Harrias ^talk 00:02, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Hi

First of all, Merry Christmas to you! Could you please take a look at the article Carolina Neurath. Thanks.--BabbaQ (talk) 00:35, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, BabbaQ. I had a little pause from Wikipedia during Christmas, so maybe/hopefully the Neurath article did fine without my input(?) I'll be back in January 2015, but I don't know if it will be in the beginning or a bit later. Regards, Iselilja (talk) 16:30, 30 December 2014 (UTC)