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This week's article for improvement (week 37, 2017)

A small pond hockey field
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This week's article for improvement (week 38, 2017)

A spelling error on a road sign
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Spelling

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New Page Reviewer Newsletter

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Backlog update:

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This week's article for improvement (week 39, 2017)

George Lazenby at the Supanova Pop Culture Expo in 2014
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This week's article for improvement (week 39, 2017)

George Lazenby at the Supanova Pop Culture Expo in 2014
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Please comment on Talk:Ducati Monster

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This week's article for improvement (week 40, 2017)

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Hero

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Please comment on Talk:Plasma (physics)

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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 16:32, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

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

A fire sprinkler with red liquid alcohol in the capsule
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Fire sprinkler

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Please comment on Talk:Multiverse

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

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Choreography

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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.

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

"Pay no more than Ceiling Prices", WWII U.S. poster
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Price ceiling

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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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WikiCup 2018

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Speedy deletion nomination of Lichess

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Nomination of Lichess for deletion

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

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Recipe

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

A student performing schoolwork
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This week's article for improvement (week 49, 2017)

Agriculture in Saudi Arabia: Agricultural fields in the Wadi As-Sirhan Basin, Saudi Arabia. Taken by astronauts on the International Space Station.
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This week's article for improvement (week 50, 2017)

Cover page of the Wikimedia Deutschland 2015 Impact Report
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Report

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New Page Reviewer Newsletter

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Backlog update:

  • The new page backlog is currently at 12713 pages. Please consider reviewing even just a few pages each day! If everyone helps out, it will really put a dent in the backlog.
  • Currently the backlog stretches back to March and some pages in the backlog have passed the 90 day Google index point. Please consider reviewing some of them!

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New Year New Page Review Drive

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  • Note: quality reviewing is extremely important, please do not sacrifice quality for quantity.

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  • ACTRIAL has resulted in a significant increase in the quality of new submissions, with noticeably fewer CSD, PROD, and BLPPROD candidates in the new page feed. However, the majority of the backlog still dates back to before ACTRIAL started, so consider reviewing articles from the middle or back of the backlog.
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This week's article for improvement (week 51, 2017)

A mechanic at steam pump in an electric power house, 1920, (from a photo study for the WPA).
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This week's article for improvement (week 52, 2017)

A nutrient is a component in foods that an organism uses to survive and grow.
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New Years new page backlog drive

Hello Esquivalience, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Announcing the NPP New Year Backlog Drive!

We have done amazing work so far in December to reduce the New Pages Feed backlog by over 3000 articles! Now is the time to capitalise on our momentum and help eliminate the backlog!

The backlog drive will begin on January 1st and run until January 29th. Prize tiers and other info can be found HERE.

Awards will be given in tiers in two categories:

  • The total number of reviews completed for the month.
  • The minimum weekly total maintained for all four weeks of the backlog drive.

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This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2018)

Economic recovery – a "Project funded by The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act" project sign.
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Economic recovery

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This week's article for improvement (week 2, 2018)

There are about 260 known living species of monkeys. Pictured is a common squirrel monkey.
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This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2018)

Culture of Asia – an East Asian cultural region representation
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Culture of Asia

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This week's article for improvement (week 4, 2018)

Scarab bearing the name of the Hyksos King Apepi
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Are you still genuinely offering user-adoption?

Hello. Could I ask if you still wish to be listed as an adopter at Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user/Adoptee's Area/Adopters? I ask because I notice your user page indicates you are "semi-retired", so you might not want to be approached any more, and it would just confuse people who were looking for an adopter?. Of course, if you want to re-affirm that offer that would be great. Just let me know - I'm trying to have a bit of a sort out of the place.

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This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2018)

"Welcome to Virginia" sign along northbound Interstate 81 entering Washington County, Virginia from Bristol, Tennessee
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Adopt-a-user - your availability

Hello. Could I ask you to check and, if necessary, update your availability details at Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user/Adoptee's Area/Adopters, please?

I've been updating that page, plus the list of over 100 people seeking adoption (which I've now stripped down to around 20 active editors genuinely seeking help.

I've been working to identify those Adopters who are currently available, and those who haven't been active on Wikipedia for a while. But I don't think the bot has been updating correctly, so a manual check from you would be really helpful. I've also made some suggestions and a few edits to make life easier for newcomers. I've put some of my observations down in answer to a recent post about inactivity of some Adopt-a-User Project contributors. Regards from the UK, Nick Moyes (talk) 00:40, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

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A selection of internal organs in human anatomy
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New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Esquivalience, thank you for your efforts in reviewing new pages!
The NPP backlog at the end of the drive with the number of unreviewed articles by creation date. Red is older than 90 days, orange is between 90 and 30 days old, and green is younger than 30 days.

Backlog update:

  • The new page backlog is currently at 3819 unreviewed articles, with a further 6660 unreviewed redirects.
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New Year Backlog Drive results:

  • We made massive progress during the recent four weeks of the NPP Backlog Drive, during which the backlog reduced by nearly six thousand articles and the length of the backlog by almost 3 months!

General project update:

  • ACTRIAL will end it's initial phase on the 14th of March. Our goal is to reduce the backlog significantly below the 90 day index point by the 14th of March. Please consider helping with this goal by reviewing a few additional pages a day.
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Shredded beef is common in South American cuisine and in Latin American cuisine, and is served with a variety of foods.
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A SWOT analysis, with its four elements in a 2×2 matrix
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This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2018)

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WikiCup 2018 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. With 53 contestants qualifying, the groups for round 2 are slightly smaller than usual, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining users.

Our top scorers in round 1 were:

  • United States Aoba47 led the field with a featured article, 8 good articles and 42 GARs, giving a total of 666 points.
  • Germany FrB.TG , a WikiCup newcomer, came next with 600 points, gained from a featured article and masses of bonus points.
  • India Ssven2, another WikiCup newcomer, was in third place with 403 points, garnered from a featured article, a featured list, a good article and twelve GARs.
  • United States Ceranthor, India Numerounovedant, Minnesota Carbrera, Netherlands Farang Rak Tham and Romania Cartoon network freak all had over 200 points, but like all the other contestants, now have to start again from scratch. A good achievement was the 193 GARs performed by WikiCup contestants, comparing very favourably with the 54 GAs they achieved.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2. 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.

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Bots Newsletter, March 2018

Bots Newsletter, March 2018

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Here is the 5th issue of the Bots Newsletter (formerly the BAG Newletter). You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list.

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Medieval world religions
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ACTRIAL - next steps for the Future of AfC & NPP

Hello Esquivalience, thank you for your efforts reviewing New Page and AfC submissions and your support for the ACTRIAL initiative.

The conclusion to the ACTRIAL report commissioned by the Wikimedia Foundation strongly reiterates our long-time on going requirements for the NPP and AfC processes to be improved. Within minutes of the trial being switched off, the feed was swamped with inappropriate creations and users are being blocked already.
This is now the moment to continue to collaborate with the WMF and their developers to bring the entire Curation system up to date by making a firm commitment to addressing the list of requirements to the excellent suite of tools the WMF developed for Curation. Some of these are already listed at Phabricator but may need a boost.
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The Grand Bazaar, held in Istanbul, is one of the oldest existing examples of a bazaar.
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The Signpost

Hi. The Signpost has now been published after a long delay. There are some articles in it that will interest you particularly. Don't hesitate to contribute to the comments sections. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 05:56, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

New Page Review Newsletter No.10

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ACTRIAL:

  • ACTRIAL's six month experiment restricting new page creation to (auto)confirmed users ended on 14 March. As expected, a greatly increased number of unsuitable articles and candidates for deletion are showing up in the feed again, and the backlog has since increased already by ~30%. Please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day.

Paid editing

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News

  • The next issue Wikipedia's newspaper The Signpost has now been published after a long delay. There are some articles in it, including ACTRIAL wrap-up that will be of special interest to New Page Reviewers. Don't hesitate to contribute to the comments sections. The Signpost is one of the best ways to stay up date with news and new developments - please consider subscribing to it. All editors of Wikipedia and associated projects are welcome to submit articles on any topic for consideration by the The Signpost's editorial team for the next issue.

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Camp Ciara is a military base and home to the Irish battalion in the UN Mission in Chad and the Central African Republic, MINURCAT.
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Natural sponges for sale at a market in Crete
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Spanish transition to democracy – People waiting to vote in the 1977 general election in Toledo, Spain. The 1977 general election was the first free election since February 1936.
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