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On June 10, an update regarding Wikifunctions usability tests has been published (the full report is also available).

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Editing news 2022 #2

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On July 29, an essay regarding long typed lists and how to deal with them, written by Denny, has been published.

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Women in Red October 2022

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On September 23, an update regarding the state of Abstract Wikipedia's Natural Language Generation workstream has been published. This entry is also available as a Wikimedia Diff blog post.

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Hey, Danre! I saw you posted just before I closed, want to make sure I discussed anything. You said that's saying that a community consensus now should always override any potential community consensuses to the contrary no matter the circumstances, wasn't sure what you meant? Valereee (talk) 01:35, 14 October 2022 (UTC)

@Valereee: Thanks. With that statement, I was trying to say that if the topic ban was permanent, it could never be appealed and overturned by a future community consensus (and no possibility of successful appeals ever is something I disagree with). However, that really is more of a minor comment (about a statement in one support) that doesn't need to be captured by a close, and FWIW I would've supported if it wasn't snowing already. —Danre98(talk^contribs) 02:23, 14 October 2022 (UTC)
Gotcha, thanks! Valereee (talk) 13:23, 14 October 2022 (UTC)

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Women in Red November 2022

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WikiCup 2022 November newsletter

The 2022 WikiCup has drawn to a close with the final round going down to the wire. The 2022 champion is

  • England Lee Vilenski (1752 points), who won in 2020 and was runner up in both 2019 and last year. In the final round he achieved 3 FAs and 15 GAs, mostly on cue sports. He was closely followed by
  • Kingdom of Scotland Bloom6132 (1732), who specialised in "In the news" items and DYKs, and who has reached the final round of the Cup for the past three years. Next was
  • Zulu (International Code of Signals) BennyOnTheLoose (1238), another cue sports enthusiast, also interested in songs, followed by
  • New York City Muboshgu (1082), an "In the news" contributor, a seasoned contestant who first took part in the Cup ten years ago. Other finalists were
  • Sammi Brie (930), who scored with a featured article, good articles and DYKs on TV and radio stations,
  • United Nations Kavyansh.Singh (370), who created various articles on famous Americans, including an FA on Louis H. Bean, famed for his prediction of election outcomes. Next was
  • Chicago PCN02WPS (292), who scored with good articles and DYKs on sporting and other topics and
  • Toronto Z1720 (25) who had DYKs on various topics including historic Canadians.

During the WikiCup, contestants achieved 37 featured articles, 349 good articles, 360 featured article reviews, 683 good article reviews and 480 In the news items, so Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors. Well done everyone! All those who reached the final round will receive awards and the following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. 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 the overall leader in this field.

  • England Lee Vilenski wins the featured article prize, for a total of 6 FAs during the course of the competition and 3 in the final round.
  • United Nations Kavyansh.Singh wins the featured list prize, for 3 FLs in round 2.
  • Adam Cuerden wins the featured picture prize, for 39 FPs during the competition.
  • Toronto Z1720 wins the featured article reviewer prize, for 35 FARs in round 4.
  • New York (state) Epicgenius wins the good article prize, for 32 GAs in round 1.
  • SounderBruce wins the featured topic prize, for 4 FT articles in round 1.
  • England Lee Vilenski wins the good topic prize, for 34 GT articles in round 5.
  • Sammi Brie wins the good article reviewer prize, for 71 GARs overall.
  • Sammi Brie wins the Did you know prize, for 30 DYKs in round 3 and 106 overall.
  • Kingdom of Scotland Bloom6132 wins the In the news prize, for 106 ITNs in round 5 and 289 overall.

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On October 14, we welcomed Stef Dunlap in our team as Quality and Test Engineer.

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On October 27, we shared a summary of what we achieved thanks to the efforts of six Google Fellows, whose fellowship has come to an end.

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Women in Red January 2023

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Welcome to the 2023 WikiCup!

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On January 11, 2023, former Google Fellow Sandy Woodruff shared her thoughts and experiences as a co-owner of UX Design and Research.

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A new Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions update is out

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In this issue: we say goodbye to the Google Fellows and we thank our Senior Technical Program Manager for her work; we talk about the recent Between the Brackets podcast (you can find the notes here, courtesy of User:Waldyrious; and we discuss the latest development updates.

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Women in Red in February 2023

Women in Red Feb 2023, Vol 9, Iss 2, Nos 251, 252, 255, 256, 257, 259


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A new Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions update is out

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In this issue: the completion of Goal 4 about improving the function definition experience, a new tool to decode ZObjects, and the latest development updates.

Also, we remind you that, if you have questions or ideas to discuss, the next Volunteers' Corner will be held on Monday 6 February, at 18:30 UTC (link to the meeting)

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A new Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions update is out

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  • Stef Dunlap, a software engineer in Test Engineering embedded in the Abstract Wikipedia team, is working on running end-to-end tests on per-patch ephemeral test environments. Stef will present her work on February 21, at 17:00 UTC on Google Meet (link to the meeting, the presentation will be recorded).
  • the next Natural Language Generation workstream public meeting will be held on February 21, at 16:30 UTC on Jitsi (link to the meeting).

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Editing news 2023 #1

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Talk pages project

Screenshot showing the talk page design changes that are currently available as beta features at all Wikimedia wikis. These features include information about the number of people and comments within each discussion.
Some of the upcoming changes

The Editing team is nearly finished with this first phase of the Talk pages project. Nearly all new features are available now in the Beta Feature for Discussion tools.

It will show information about how active a discussion is, such as the date of the most recent comment. There will soon be a new "Add topic" button. You will be able to turn them off at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion. Please tell them what you think.

Daily edit completion rate by test group: DiscussionTools (test group) and MobileFrontend overlay (control group)

An A/B test for Discussion tools on the mobile site has finished. Editors were more successful with Discussion tools. The Editing team is enabling these features for all editors on the mobile site.

New Project: Edit Check

The Editing team is beginning a project to help new editors of Wikipedia. It will help people identify some problems before they click "Publish changes". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Please watch that page for more information. You can join a conference call on 3 March 2023 to learn more.

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Women in Red March 2023

Women in Red Mar 2023, Vol 9, Iss 3, Nos 251, 252, 258, 259, 260, 261


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A new Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions update is out

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue: the latest changes in our development team, info about our participation at the latest Conversation with Trustees, links to the recordings of our last week's meetings, and the latest development updates.

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WikiCup 2023 March newsletter

So ends the first round of the 2023 WikiCup. Everyone with a positive score moved on to Round 2, with 54 contestants qualifying. The top scorers in Round 1 were:

  • Unlimitedlead with 1205 points, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with two featured articles on historical figures and several featured article candidate reviews.
  • New York (state) Epicgenius was in second place with 789 points; a seasoned WikiCup competitor he specialises in buildings and locations in New York.
  • Germany FrB.TG was in third place with 625 points, garnered from a featured article on a filmmaker which qualified for an impressive number of bonus points.
  • United States TheJoebro64, another WikiCup newcomer, came next with 600 points gained from two featured articles on video games.
  • Byzantine Empire Iazyges was in fifth place with 532 points, from two featured articles on classical history.

The top sixteen contestants at the end of Round 1 had all scored over 300 points; these included Berkelland LunaEatsTuna, Thebiguglyalien, Sammi Brie, New England Trainsandotherthings, England Lee Vilenski, Indonesia Juxlos, Unexpectedlydian, Washington (state) SounderBruce, Wales Kosack, BennyOnTheLoose and Chicago PCN02WPS. It was a high-scoring start to the competition.

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start again from scratch. The first round finished on February 26. Remember that any content promoted after that date but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Some contestants made claims before the new submissions pages were set up, and they will need to resubmit them. 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 at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

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 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:36, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

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Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #106 is out

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue: an essay from Denny about deconstructing narratives around functions, links to the recordings of our last presentations, and the latest development updates.

Also, we remind you that if you have questions or ideas to discuss, the next Volunteers' Corner will be held today at 18:30 UTC (link to the meeting).

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Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #107 is out

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue: an essay from Denny about where to store objects for Abstract Wikipedia (and relative problems with such issue) and the next appointment with the community.

About the last point, we remind you that the next Natural Language Generation workstream public meeting will be held on March 21, at 16:30 UTC on Jitsi (link to the meeting).

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-- User:Sannita (WMF) 11:02, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #108 is out

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue we announce a new paper about Natural Language Generation by Aarne Ranta, member of the Abstract Wikipedia NLG Special Interest Group and professor at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The paper is also accessible as a pre-print here.

Also, we remind you that if you have questions or ideas to discuss, the next Volunteers' Corner will be held on April 3, 2023 at 17:30 UTC (link to the meeting).

Enjoy the reading!

-- User:Sannita (WMF) 10:50, 24 March 2023 (UTC)