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151 edits Constitution Protection Region of Southern Fujian
22 edits International Anarchist School
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Women in Red's Central and Eastern Europe edit-a-thon[edit]

Hey everyone. This month, Women in Red is doing a geofocused edit-a-thon about women from Central and Eastern Europe. We have no shortage of women from this region in our redlist, so if you fancy creating some articles for this event, consider some of these ones:

Belarus
Bulgaria
Croatia
Czechia
Germany
Greece
Poland
Russia
Serbia
Switzerland
Ukraine

I'd be happy to take a look at the Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian entries, and maybe a couple of the Bulgarian ones. --Grnrchst (talk) 11:59, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Wikociewie: I notice you've been creating a lot of articles about Polish anarchists lately, excellent work on that by the way! Would you be interested in helping create articles about any of the above-listed Polish women? --Grnrchst (talk) 12:01, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Grnrchst:. Thank you for the feedback! Yes, I think I could have a go at a couple of these.Wikociewie (talk) 18:51, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Reminder to anyone reading this that if you're translating from another language wikipedia, you need to attribute the translation in an edit summary. If you're using the translation widget (WP:CXT), it will do this for you. Otherwise, see WP:HOWTRANS for a statement you can copy.
Also a sad reminder that you should always, always check for copyvio first. Copyvio is often accidentally laundered by translation, and it's a real bummer to figure this out when you do a source check after having already translated the article. I've been burned by this twice because I didn't learn my lesson the first time; I just had to CSD a huge article that was recently translated by an en-wiki editor since the original fr-wiki editor added copyvio years and years ago and it was never caught. You can use earwig to catch the obvious stuff - just make sure to set the language correctly (it defaults to English). -- asilvering (talk) 17:50, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cleanup drive[edit]

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Here is the full list of anarchism articles in need of cleanup. Below is a subset for focus during the cleanup drive. Strike out completed items with {{s}} and we'll add more sections as we go.

Biographies of living persons (10)

These articles have any cleanup tag but are high priority because we hold biographies on living people to a higher standard

Unsourced passages need footnotes {{citation needed}} (69)

Search for the passages tagged with {{citation needed}} and either (a) add a source and remove the tag, or (b) remove the passage and the tag if it cannot be verified

Our cleanup backlog has grown since the last drive, so thought we could kickoff another push for the month of May. There are currently 228 articles tagged in total with 386 tagged issues. Can we get it down to zero?

For a place to start, I thought biographies of living people (BLPs) and articles in need of citations would be good. To cross off finished items from the list, there is a link above to edit the section (so as not to bother watchers of this page). Open to any other ideas here as well to make it interesting. Perhaps we should set up a mailing list for editors who have participated in the project previously?

If this is your first time participating in a cleanup drive on Wikipedia, (1) you're invited to be bold and try your best to resolve cleanup issues, and (2) if you have any questions or need a hand, please respond below and someone will help! czar 14:36, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oof, there is a lot of work to do on some of these articles. Some should be simple enough to fix but damn, others have much deeper problems that I'm not sure simply addressing the CN tags will solve. --Grnrchst (talk) 09:42, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Addressing the {{citation needed}} tags is enough to remove it from this list but if an article needs more support, feel free to bring it to discussion so others can chip in too. czar 03:10, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Well, we can't fix everything all at once. It's a work in progress. As much as I'd like to fix everything everywhere, as long as we don't have falsehoods or policy violations hanging around... it's ok that some things are a bit crap. -- asilvering (talk) 03:38, 9 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Czar: Hey, we seem to have gone way over the limit of templates on one page, which I think has come down to both the cleanup drive transclusion and the recent literature transclusion having introduced a lot more than the page can handle. I manually archived a section and removed a bunch of templates from another, but this problem still persists. I think we may need to consider that striking every resolved entry, rather than simply removing it from the list, is causing problems of its own. --Grnrchst (talk) 08:43, 15 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ok no, after doing a bunch of archivals and changes, then just fiddling around with removing random hings, I identified the newly-added "Recent stubs" template as the source of the problem. I have temporarily removed it, just so the entire page doesn't break. We need to figure out what went wrong with it before we add it back in. --Grnrchst (talk) 09:07, 15 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Roll call?[edit]

Hi everyone. It feels like this noticeboard has never been as active as it has been these past few months, with collective drives to cleanup articles, expand stub and create new articles, as well as discussions on other parts of the project. But it's also worth noting that, while discussion is active, it's limited to only a few of us. This is in contrast to the dozens of people in our participants list and who have identified themselves as members with userboxes. I was wondering if, in light of more recent collective action, it would be useful for us to do a roll call of participants. Maybe either a mass ping of listed participants or dedicated talk page messages asking if they would be interested in more closely collaborative participation? --Grnrchst (talk) 08:16, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm in favor of sending a one-time message to editors on that participants list and to those who have received a welcome/invite message about this noticeboard. They might not know about recent activity and would want to join in. My suggestion would be that we deprecate the "Participants" list afterwards, as it quickly goes out of date and doesn't necessarily indicate activity. (There used to be a bot that would create an active participant list but it's dead.) Instead, we can create an opt-in mailing list for those who want updates about coordinated efforts, like edit drives or newsletters related to the project. I'll create Wikipedia:WikiProject Anarchism/Subscribe if that sounds good. czar 13:32, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@czar, do you know anything about why it's dead? I guess what I'm wondering here is whether it's something broken that will take a lot of work to fix, or whether it needs someone to adopt it and perform some comparatively minor fixes. Sorry if I've asked before. I have a feeling I did but can't remember the answer. -- asilvering (talk) 03:25, 9 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Asilvering, the bot's maintainer, @Harej, hasn't answered questions about it in a while. My understanding is that there was some funding for the Wikipedia:WikiProject X initiative and eventually it was mothballed. It's a shame because this bot was one of the more generally useful features and ultimately had little to do with the WikiProject X features. In any event, maintaining a mailing list is, to my eyes, even more generally useful than a participant list. czar 03:36, 9 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I've sent out a talk page message to users in the members list/category that haven't been recent participants either in the subject area or in the project. For people that have been active in the subject area, but not on the noticeboard or the project's collective efforts, I've sent a more personalised message. Also, I left off regular participants on the message board, for obvious reasons. In the category, I ended up doing some cleanup, as almost half of the users were inactive, some for over a decade, some had even been blocked.
Am hoping the messages stimulate some additional activity, but at the very least, it's nice to be able to inform people about what we've been doing. --Grnrchst (talk) 13:38, 13 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! It's a nice message. Inactive (unblocked) users might still be worth contacting even if they don't participate often, as sometimes they come back. czar 21:12, 13 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • If anyone wants to coordinate a project revival, participation drive, or reorientation, then doing an interview for The Signpost is an established media channel for that. Past interviews are listed at Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Series/WikiProject_report and other resources for doing this are at Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Newsroom/Resources#WikiProject_report. This WikiProject has never done an interview in that venue. It would be more ambitious than just a roll call, but if there were an interview, then sharing the interview at the time of the roll call could be a way to get registered but disengaged users more excited. I am an editor for The Signpost and can help with some of this but I would not submit content for any interview. Bluerasberry (talk) 15:23, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Bluerasberry, would you be open to conducting the interview? czar 03:19, 9 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I could conduct an interview. I probably need till June or July, but here is a template with some questions to get started.
Wikipedia:WikiProject_Anarchism/signpost_2024
Coordinate some basic information into this, and then I will come up with some more targeted questions. When we have some content then I will bring this into Signpost's editorial process. Bluerasberry (talk) 17:22, 9 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'll see if I can get around to answering some of these soon. I've got a busy week ahead. Thanks for doing this Lane! --Grnrchst (talk) 08:36, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Recent literature (2024 Q1/Q2)[edit]

For not-as-recent lit, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Anarchism/Recent literature

New thread for 2024 and anything we've previously missed. Feel free to add! czar 03:05, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Books

  • Johnson, Steven (May 14, 2024). The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective. New York: Crown. ISBN 978-0-593-44395-8.

Articles

Book/film reviews

Journals

Special issues

czar 03:05, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My citogenesis report[edit]

So after probably too long of this sitting in my drafts, I finally managed to put together a report on the "Free Territory" citogenesis incident and The Commoner agreed to publish it. A lot of this is old news on here, but if you're interested in reading: "We Carry a Free Territory in Our Hearts" --Grnrchst (talk) 08:38, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Very, very interesting summary. I noted the problems with the Makhno movement's flag before, but I didn't realize that even the term free territory itself was anachronistic. Nice work, Grnrchst! ときさき くるみ not because they are easy, but because they are hard 13:12, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Great story! Very readable. czar 14:58, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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