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CEE Newsletter Volume 3 • Issue 4 • July-August 2023

Hi everyone,

Please find latest issue of the CEE Newsletter, where you can find a variety of the articles from various communities across the CEE region, and as well a lot of articles connected with the CEE Meeting 2023.

Enjoy reading and contact us on newsletter@wmceehub.org if you have any ideas for proposals :) --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:36, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).

Administrator changes

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Tamzin

Dennis Brown

Interface administrator changes

Pppery

• Ragesoss
• TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

• The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
• There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. Feedback on this proposal is requested.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
• Xaosflux, RoySmith and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections. BusterD is the reserve commissioner.
• Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
• Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
• Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
• Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
• An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.

Miscellaneous

• The Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in November 2023, with 700+ drafts pending reviews for in the last 4 months or so. In addition to the AfC participants, all administrators and New Page Patrollers can conduct reviews using the helper script, Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:23, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from Sunandshade (08:08, 12 November 2023)

Thank you for being my mentor. I'm a newbie & thought I could help by fixing spelling & grammar errors. On my homepage, I looked for "easy" edits in biology. But they all suggested re-writes as opposed to spelling errors. Is there a way to find just spelling/grammar errors? --Sunandshade (talk) 08:08, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi, Sunandshade. I usually look through Wikipedia:Lists of common misspellings and then enter each word in the search box – if the an article has a spelling or grammar error, I'd fix it and then move on to the next article; if it's deliberate, then I move on (I don't usually do this on enwiki, but more so on other wikis). There is also another tool, Correct a typo in one click, but all errors have been handed on en.wikipedia. Hope that helps! --SHB2000 (talk) 08:32, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

I went to wiki's list of misspellings & looked at those & repeated words. For every one, it was legit (in a quote, company name, etc.) Also looked at link for 1 click correction, but as you say, they are all corrected. If they are always corrected each month, seems there are plenty of people working on that. Also, on the Wiki page that lists misspellings, under External Links, I clicked on the 1 link (for misspelled words). It went to that page (https://www.dumbtionary.com/), but the page was blank. It's ironic that a link on the Wiki page that tells you how to correct errors has an error. So at this point, I can't find an easy way to find simple errors to correct. Guess I'll just look for errors when I'm reading Wiki & correct those as needed. Thanks for your help.

P.S. does "enwiki" mean English Wiki? Sunandshade (talk) 18:02, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

I guess so – there aren't a lot of noticeable typos on this wiki, unlike Commons, per se. To your second question, yes, enwiki means the English Wikipedia – I say this because the world of Wikimedia consists of around 750+ wikis. --SHB2000 (talk) 20:16, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. Turns out I found a few things to change (added def F, italics on scientific name). So I feel a bit helpful. I'll keep my eyes peeled. Sunandshade (talk) 20:25, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

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