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Nomination of Pony Trouble for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Pony Trouble is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pony Trouble until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. SL93 (talk) 18:33, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Hey

Can you explain why you judged that this was spam? Thanks. DS (talk) 20:47, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you

The Original Barnstar
This is for your valuable efforts for contributing to Wikipedia especially in DELSORT. PATH SLOPU (Talk) 02:27, 9 January 2019 (UTC)


New lists in DELSORT

Hi greetings, I created some new delsort lists--Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Entertainment, Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Kerala. Please consider them when appropriate AfDs found. --PATH SLOPU (Talk) 11:57, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: December 2018





Headlines
  • Armenia report: Cooperation with Yerevan Drama Theatre Named After Hrachia Ghaplanian; Singing Wikipedia (continuation); Photographs by Vahan Kochar (continuation)
  • Australia report: 2019 Australia's Year of the Public Domain
  • Belgium report: Writing weeks German-speaking Community; End of year drink; Wiki Loves Heritage photo contest
  • Brazil report: Google Art and GLAM initiatives in Brazil
  • India report: Collaboration with RJVD Municipal Public Library
  • Italy report: Challenges and alliances with libraries, WLM and more
  • Macedonia report: Exhibition:"Poland through photographs" & Wikipedia lectures with children in social risk
  • Malaysia report: Technology Talk and Update on Wikipedia @ National Library of Malaysia
  • Portugal report: Glam Days '18 at the National Library of Portugal
  • Sweden report: Hats 🎩🧢👒🎓
  • UK report: Oxford
  • USA report: Holiday gatherings and visit to Internet Archive
  • Wikidata report: Wikidata reports
  • WMF GLAM report: Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons: pilot projects and multilingual captions
  • Calendar: January's GLAM events
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2019


Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht

Happy 2019

begin it with music and memories

Not too late, I hope ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:50, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2019)

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

Vicki Gunvalson

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Previous selections: Page orientation • Farce


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Wikidata weekly summary #347

17:54, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Remember this BLP? [8] It's back and I'm not seeing any RS that convince me it should be. It looks like the user bypassed AfC and did a copy/paste of the deleted article to get it into mainspace, and now it's at NPP. Your thoughts? Atsme✍🏻📧 10:39, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Jesus loves you

John1427 (talk) 20:22, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 4, 2019)

A view of the Quetschenfest street fair in the community of Geichlingen, Germany
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Street fair

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Previous selections: Vicki Gunvalson • Page orientation


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Invitation

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--PATH SLOPU (Talk) 13:51, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #348

20:34, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

AfroCine: Thank You!

Greetings!

The Months of African Cinema Global Edit-a-thon was concluded on 30 November 2018, and we've had amazing results. Over 570 articles were created across 8 language-Wikipedias. 7 in-person gatherings of Wikipedians were organized across different parts of the world.

All our winners have been recognized and you can check the complete list here.

For a pilot event, all our expectations were surpassed and we have you to thank for that. Thank you so much for being part of this global event! Thank you for helping to fix African content gaps on Wikipedia! We hope to see more of your participation in future AfroCine events and activities. Please remember to signup on the main WikiProject participants page, in order to get updated with these activities.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 23:50, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

February 2019 at Women in Red

February 2019, Volume 5, Issue 2, Numbers 107-111


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This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2019)

Hello, CAPTAIN RAJU.

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

Assassination attempts

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Previous selections: Street fair • Vicki Gunvalson


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Wikidata weekly summary #349

18:15, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

This Month in Education: January 2019

This Month in Education

Volume 8 • Issue 1 • January 2019


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In This Issue

The Signpost: 31 January 2019

Facto Post – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019

Facto Post – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019

The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page.
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Everything flows (and certainly data does)

Recently Jimmy Wales has made the point that computer home assistants take much of their data from Wikipedia, one way or another. So as well as getting Spotify to play Frosty the Snowman for you, they may be able to answer the question "is the Pope Catholic?" Possibly by asking for disambiguation (Coptic?).

Amazon Echo device using the Amazon Alexa service in voice search showdown with the Google rival on an Android phone

Headlines about data breaches are now familiar, but the unannounced circulation of information raises other issues. One of those is Gresham's law stated as "bad data drives out good". Wikipedia and now Wikidata have been criticised on related grounds: what if their content, unattributed, is taken to have a higher standing than Wikimedians themselves would grant it? See Wikiquote on a misattribution to Bismarck for the usual quip about "law and sausages", and why one shouldn't watch them in the making.

Wikipedia has now turned 18, so should act like as adult, as well as being treated like one. The Web itself turns 30 some time between March and November this year, per Tim Berners-Lee. If the Knowledge Graph by Google exemplifies Heraclitean Web technology gaining authority, contra GIGO, Wikimedians still have a role in its critique. But not just with the teenage skill of detecting phoniness.

There is more to beating Gresham than exposing the factoid and urban myth, where WP:V does do a great job. Placeholders must be detected, and working with Wikidata is a good way to understand how having one statement as data can blind us to replacing it by a more accurate one. An example that is important to open access is that, firstly, the term itself needs considerable unpacking, because just being able to read material online is a poor relation of "open"; and secondly, trying to get Creative Commons license information into Wikidata shows up issues with classes of license (such as CC-BY) standing for the actual license in major repositories. Detailed investigation shows that "everything flows" exacerbates the issue. But Wikidata can solve it.

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GOCE 2018 Annual Report

Guild of Copy Editors 2018 Annual Report

Our 2018 Annual Report is now ready for review.

Highlights:

  • Overview of Backlog-reduction progress;
  • Summary of Drives, Blitzes, and the Requests page;
  • Membership news and results of elections;
  • Annual leaderboard;
  • Plans for 2019.
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This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2019)

A typical Finnish school meal lunch, served free of charge to all pupils.
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The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

School meal

Please be bold and help to improve this article!


Previous selections: Assassination attempts • Street fair


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Administrators' newsletter – February 2019

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

Administrator changes

added EnterpriseyJJMC89
readded BorgQueen
removed Harro5Jenks24GraftR. Baley

Interface administrator changes

removedEnterprisey

Guideline and policy news

  • A request for comment is currently open to reevaluate the activity requirements for administrators.
  • Administrators who are blocked have the technical ability to block the administrator who blocked their own account. A recent request for comment has amended the blocking policy to clarify that this ability should only be used in exceptional circumstances, such as account compromises, where there is a clear and immediate need.
  • A request for comment closed with a consensus in favor of deprecating The Sun as a permissible reference, and creating an edit filter to warn users who attempt to cite it.

Technical news

  • A discussion regarding an overhaul of the format and appearance of Wikipedia:Requests for page protection is in progress (permalink). The proposed changes will make it easier to create requests for those who are not using Twinkle. The workflow for administrators at this venue will largely be unchanged. Additionally, there are plans to archive requests similar to how it is done at WP:PERM, where historical records are kept so that prior requests can more easily be searched for.

Miscellaneous

  • Voting in the 2019 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2019, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2019, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
  • A new IRC bot is available that allows you to subscribe to notifications when specific filters are tripped. This requires that your IRC handle be identified.

17:12, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #350

This Month in GLAM: January 2019





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This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2019)

Pondicherry is the capital and the most populous city of the Indian Union Territory of Puducherry.
Hello, CAPTAIN RAJU.

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

Pondicherry

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Previous selections: School meal • Assassination attempts


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