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23:25, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Malta convoys

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Hi. Thankyou for your participation in the challenge series or/and contests. In November The Women in Red World Contest is being held to try to produce new articles for as many countries worldwide and occupations as possible. There will be over $4000 in prizes to win, including Amazon vouchers and paid subscriptions. If this would appeal to you and you think you'd be interested in contributing new articles on women during this month for your region or wherever please sign up in the participants section. The articles done may also count towards the ongoing challenge. If you're not interested in prize money yourself but are willing to participate and raise money to buy books about women for others to use, this is also fine. Help would also be appreciated in drawing up the lists of missing articles. If you think of any missing articles please add them to the sub lists by continent at Missing articles. Thankyou, and if taking part, good luck!♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:38, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXXVIII, October 2017

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This week's article for improvement (week 41, 2017)

Wikipedia is sometimes criticized for being used as a source of circular reporting.
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Circular reporting

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Previous selections: Hero • George Lazenby


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This Month in GLAM: September 2017





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This week's article for improvement (week 42, 2017)

A fire sprinkler with red liquid alcohol in the capsule
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The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Fire sprinkler

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Previous selections: Circular reporting • Hero


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Please comment on Talk:Linda Sarsour

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Books and Bytes - Issue 24

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 24, August-September 2017

  • User Group update
  • Global branches update
    • Star Coordinator Award - last quarter's star coordinator: User:Csisc
  • Wikimania Birds of a Feather session roundup
  • Spotlight: Wiki Loves Archives
  • Bytes in brief

Arabic, Kiswahili and Yoruba versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!

Read the full newsletter

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This week's article for improvement (week 43, 2017)

A 1912 illustration of Robin Hood and Little John
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Little John

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Previous selections: Fire sprinkler • Circular reporting


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The Signpost: 23 October 2017

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Please comment on Talk:2017

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Please comment on Talk:Turkey

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Wikipedia Asian Month 2017: Invitation to Participate

Hello! Last year, you signed up to participate in Wikipedia Asian Month (WAM) 2016 on the English Wikipedia. The event was an international success, with hundreds of editors creating thousands of articles on Asian topics across dozens of different language versions of Wikipedia.

I'd like to invite you to join us for Wikipedia Asian Month 2017, which once again lasts through the month of November. The goal is for users to create new articles on Asian-related content, each at least 3,000 bytes and 300 words in length. Editors who create at least four articles will receive a Wikipedia Asian Month postcard!

Also be sure to check out the Wikipedia Asian Art Month affiliate event - creating articles on Asian art topics can get you a Metropolitan Museum of Art postcard!

If you're interested, please sign up here for the English Wikipedia. If you are interested in also working on other language editions of Wikipedia, please visit the meta page to see other participating projects. If you have any questions, please visit our talk page.

Thank you!

- User:SuperHamster and User:Titodutta on behalf of The English Wikipedia WAM Team

This will be the last message you receive from the English Wikipedia WAM team for being a 2016 participant. If you sign up for WAM 2017, you will continue receiving periodic updates on the 2017 event.

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This week's article for improvement (week 44, 2017)

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

Choreography

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Previous selections: Little John • Fire sprinkler


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WikiCup 2017 November newsletter: Final results

The final round of the 2017 WikiCup is over. Congratulations to the 2017 WikiCup top three finalists:

In addition to recognizing the achievements of the top finishers and everyone who worked hard to make it to the final round, we also want to recognize those participants who were most productive in each of the WikiCup scoring categories:

  • Featured Article – Cas Liber (actually a two-way tie with themselves for an astonishing five FAs in R2 and R4).
  • Good Article – Adityavagarwal had 14 GAs promoted in R5.
  • Featured List – Canada Bloom6132 (submissions) and Japan 1989 (submissions) both produced 2 FLs in R2
  • Featured Pictures – Cascadia SounderBruce (submissions) improved an image to FP status in R5, the only FP this year.
  • Featured Topic – Denmark MPJ-DK (submissions) has the only FT of the Cup in R3.
  • Good Topic – Four different editors created a GT in R2, R3 and R4.
  • Did You Know – Adityavagarwal had 22 DYKs on the main page in R5.
  • In The News – India MBlaze Lightning (submissions) had 14 ITN on the main page in R2.
  • Good Article Review – India Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (submissions) completed 31 GARs in R1.

Over the course of the 2017 WikiCup the following content was added or improved on Wikipedia: 51 Featured Articles, 292 Good Articles, 18 Featured Lists, 1 Featured Picture, 1 Featured Topics, 4 Good Topics, around 400 Did You Knows, 75 In The News, and 442 Good Article Reviews. Thank you to all the competitors for your hard work and what you have done to improve Wikipedia.

Regarding the prize vouchers - @Adityavagarwal, Vanamonde93, Casliber, Bloom6132, 1989, and SounderBruce: please send Godot13 (talk · contribs · email) an email from the email address to which you would like your Amazon voucher sent. Please include your preference of global Amazon marketplace as well. We hope to have the electronic gift cards processed and sent within a week.

We will open up a discussion for comments on process and scoring in a few days. The 2018 WikiCup is just around the corner! Many thanks from all the judges. 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 · contribs · email), Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email), and Godot13 (talk · contribs · email) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:40, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Recent years

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WikiCup awards

Awarded to MBlaze Lightning, for the strongest contribution of news articles in the 2017 WikiCup. Sturmvogel 66, Godot13 and Cwmhiraeth

This week's article for improvement (week 45, 2017)

"Pay no more than Ceiling Prices", WWII U.S. poster
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The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Price ceiling

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Previous selections: Choreography • Little John


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Please comment on Talk:Kazakhstan

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The Bugle: Issue CXXXIX, November 2017

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Your GA nomination of Exercise TROPEX

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Exercise TROPEX you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Krishna Chaitanya Velaga -- Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk) 01:01, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: October 2017





Headlines
  • Australia and New Zealand report: Adding Australian women in research to Wikipedia
  • Brazil report: Integrating Wikimedia projects into the Brazilian National Archives GLAM
  • Bulgaria report: Botevgrad became the first wikitown in Bulgaria
  • France report: Wiki Loves Monuments; Opérations Libres
  • Germany report: GLAMorous activities in October
  • Italy report: Experts training on GLAM projects
  • Serbia report: Wikipedian in residence at Historical Archives of Subotica; Model of a grain of wheat exlusivly digitized for Wikimedia Commons; Cooperation of the Ministry of Culture and Information and Wikimedia Serbia - GLAM presentations and workshops for museums, archives and libraries
  • Spain report: Women Writers Day
  • Sweden report: Swedish Performing Arts Agency; Connected Open Heritage; Internetmuseum; More Working life museums
  • UK report: Scotland's Libraries & Hidden Gems
  • Ukraine report: Wikitraining for Librarians; Library Donation
  • USA report: trick or treat
  • Wikidata report: WikidataCon & Birthday
  • WMF GLAM report: News about Structured Commons!
  • Calendar: November's GLAM events
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Please comment on Talk:Ridgefield, Washington

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please help me to improve this article

i changed the number of casualties from 600 to 872 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Zarb-e-Azb accodring to this updated news article http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39191868 can you please read at least 5 paragraph you sended me a message in april — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mardon146 (talkcontribs) 07:47, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

Explaining your reverts

Hi there. Can I request that when you make reverts such as this, where the edit you are reverting is not obvious vandalism, you explain why you are reverting in your edit summary? The IP editor appears to be updating statistics in good faith, and it is not immediately obvious why you are reverting them. Cordless Larry (talk) 19:27, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

@Cordless Larry: I was reverting a sock of a indef blocked user.[17]MBL Talk 04:59, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for the explanation. In future, it would be good to use an edit summary such as "Reverting sock" for your first such revert to an article. Cordless Larry (talk) 12:11, 12 November 2017 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 46, 2017)

An optical illusion. Square A is exactly the same shade of grey as Square B. (See Checker shadow illusion.)
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Illusion

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Previous selections: Price ceiling • Choreography


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Please comment on Talk:Limes

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WikiCup 2018

So the 2017 WikiCup has come to an end. Congratulations to the winner, to the other finalists and to all those who took part. 177 contestants signed up, more than usual, but not all of them submitted entries in the first round. Were editors attracted by the cash prizes offered for the first time this year, or were these irrelevant? Do the rules and scoring need changing for the 2018 WikiCup? If you have a view on these or other matters, why not join in the WikiCup discussion about next year's contest? Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:59, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 47, 2017)

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Recipe

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Previous selections: Illusion • Price ceiling


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Please comment on Talk:Turkey

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The Signpost: 24 November 2017

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This week's article for improvement (week 48, 2017)

A student performing schoolwork
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Schoolwork

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