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WikiCup 2019 May newsletter

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The second round of the 2019 WikiCup has now finished. Contestants needed to scored 32 points to advance into round 3. Our top four scorers in round 2 all scored over 400 points and were:

  • Scotland Cas Liber (1210), our winner in 2016, with two featured articles and three DYKs. He also made good use of the bonus points available, more than doubling his score by choosing appropriate articles to work on.
  • Wales Kosack (750), last year's runner up, with an FA, a GA, two FLs, and five DYKs.
  • Adam Cuerden (480), a WikiCup veteran, with 16 featured pictures, mostly restorations.
  • Kingdom of Prussia Zwerg Nase (461), a seasoned competitor, with a FA, a GA and an ITN item.

Other notable performances were put in by Chicago Barkeep49 with six GAs, United States Ceranthor, England Lee Vilenski, and Saskatchewan Canada Hky, each with seven GARs, and Denmark MPJ-DK with a seven item GT.

So far contestants have achieved nine featured articles between them and a splendid 80 good articles. Commendably, 227 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2019 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. The judges are pleased with the thorough GARs that are being performed, and have hardly had to reject any. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). 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 your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:46, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

Four award

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Four Award
Congratulations! You have been awarded the Four Award for your work from beginning to end on German torpedo boat Albatros. Gog the Mild (talk) 16:54, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) Congratulations! SemiHypercube 17:20, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
You are now eligible to self-nominate for a Triple Crown. Gog the Mild (talk) 17:36, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2019

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2019).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • XTools Admin Stats, a tool to list admins by administrative actions, has been revamped to support more types of log entries such as AbuseFilter changes. Two additional tools have been integrated into it as well: Steward Stats and Patroller Stats.

Arbitration

  • In response to the continuing compromise of administrator accounts, the Arbitration Committee passed a motion amending the procedures for return of permissions (diff). In such cases, the committee will review all available information to determine whether the administrator followed "appropriate personal security practices" before restoring permissions; administrators found failing to have adequately done so will not be resysopped automatically. All current administrators have been notified of this change.
  • Following a formal ratification process, the arbitration policy has been amended (diff). Specifically, the two-thirds majority required to remove or suspend an arbitrator now excludes (1) the arbitrator facing suspension or removal, and (2) any inactive arbitrator who does not respond within 30 days to attempts to solicit their feedback on the resolution through all known methods of communication.

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:37, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

German torpedo boat Albatros

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Congratulations on German torpedo boat Albatros becoming a featured article, a feat that it achieved on 27th April.

Round 2 of the WikiCup finished on April 28 so this FA was eligible to score points in Round 2 but not in Round 3, which effectively starts on 29 April. Getting an article to FA is quite tough and as a WikiCup judge I would not want to deprive you of your points unnecessarily. Was there any particular reason why you failed to submit it in time? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:54, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

Well, I'm not online much these days, so I hadn't noticed. I didn't know you couldn't claim the points in the next round. I thought you had two weeks to claim them. L293D (☎ • ✎) 01:30, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.18

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Hello L293D/Archives,

WMF at work on NPP Improvements

Niharika Kohli, a product manager for the growth team, announced that work is underway in implementing improvements to New Page Patrol as part of the 2019 Community Wishlist and suggests all who are interested watch the project page on meta. Two requested improvements have already been completed. These are:

  • Allow filtering by no citations in page curation
  • Not having CSD and PRODs automatically marked as reviewed, reflecting current consensus among reviewers and current Twinkle functionality.
Reliable Sources for NPP

Rosguill has been compiling a list of reliable sources across countries and industries that can be used by new page patrollers to help judge whether an article topic is notable or not. At this point further discussion is needed about if and how this list should be used. Please consider joining the discussion about how this potentially valuable resource should be developed and used.

Backlog drive coming soon

Look for information on the an upcoming backlog drive in our next newsletter. If you'd like to help plan this drive, join in the discussion on the New Page Patrol talk page.

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Edit request by 174.44.147.27 on 17 May 2019

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Dua Lipa (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)


I had talked bout this in MaranoFan’s talk page but they said that she wasn’t notable as a model and ethnicity (Albanian born in Great Britain mind you two days and three years after Demi Lovato) can’t be included in the leading sentences. Her IMDb page still has it though in subject’s bio. Opening sentence should be transfused from “English singer and songwriter” to “Albanian-British singer, songwriter, and retired model.” The latter career didn’t end on a high note. 174.44.147.27 (talk) 20:31, 17 May 2019 (UTC)


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