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April 2024 GOCE blitz award
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Women in Red
[edit]Hi there, SunTunnels, and welcome to Women in Red. Please let me know if you run into any difficulties or need assistance. Happy editing!--Ipigott (talk) 09:33, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
Women in Red May 2024
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Women in Red June 2024
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Copyediting
[edit]Thank you for continuing to copyedit even while you travel in a rural location! :) GraziePrego (talk) 06:27, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
- Hey thanks @GraziePrego for your message! Let's just hope the Wi-Fi/hotspot holds out eh? :) SunTunnels (talk) 06:39, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!
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- Hi SunTunnels! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission. I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
| Mission 1 | Mission 2 | Mission 3 | Mission 4 | Mission 5 | Mission 6 | Mission 7 |
| Say Hello to the World | An Invitation to Earth | Small Changes, Big Impact | The Neutral Point of View | The Veil of Verifiability | The Civility Code | Looking Good Together |
-- 20:21, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
May 2024 GOCE drive awards
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The (modern) Guild of Copy Editors Barnstar | |
| This barnstar is awarded to SunTunnels for copy edits totaling over 40,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE May 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 08:37, 3 June 2024 (UTC) |
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Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 2nd Place | |
| This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to SunTunnels for copyediting 21 articles during the GOCE May 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 08:37, 3 June 2024 (UTC) |
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Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 1st Place | |
| This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to SunTunnels for copyediting 21 old articles during the GOCE May 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 08:37, 3 June 2024 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors June 2024 Newsletter
[edit]Guild of Copy Editors June 2024 Newsletter
  Hello and welcome to the June 2024 newsletter, a quarterly-ish digest of Guild activities since April. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Election news: Wanted: new Guild coordinators! If you value and enjoy the GOCE, why not help out behind the scenes? Nominations for our mid-year coordinator election are now open until 23:59 on 15 June (UTC). Self-nominations are welcome. Voting commences at 00:01 on 16 June and continues until 23:50 on 30 June. Results will be announced at the election page. Blitz: Nine of the fourteen editors who signed up for the April 2024 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 55,853 words comprising twenty articles. Barnstars awarded are available here. Drive: 58 editors signed up for our May 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive and 33 of those completed at least one copy edit. 251 articles and 475,952 words were copy edited. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: Our June 2024 Copy Editing Blitz will begin on 16 June and finish on 22 June. Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 05:23, 8 June 2024 (UTC) , GOCE copyeditors have completed 161 requests since 1 January and the backlog stands at 2,779 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from Baffle gab1978 and your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Wracking. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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Philately Wikiproject
[edit]Welcome to the Philately WikiProject. Hopefully you have a good time, start many new articles and can contribute lots to the existing ones as we need that. Cheers ww2censor (talk) 10:31, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
- @Ww2censor Thanks for the welcome! If you have the time, I had a couple quick questions about philately on Wikipedia. Clearly there are a lot of things that Wikipedia is not, and Wikipedia definitely isn't meant to be Colnect. But reviewing past PRODs, AfD discussions, etc., I can't get a good sense of what the community consensus is surrounding philatelic notability. Are there any proposed guidelines for notability in stamps beyond GNG? How can writers discern which articles can justifiably be created (and which will actually benefit Wikipedia long-term)? If you have any thoughts on this kind of thing I'd appreciate hearing them. Many thanks. SunTunnels (talk) 16:19, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
- Before an editor removed several redlinks from this list, there were stamps listed for which articles could be written. The Category:Post and philately stubs lists over 500 article that are very short and I'm certain with a bit of work many could be expanded. While not sub articles, many of the individual country articles, such as Postage stamps and postal history of Nepal are quite short and lacking detail which could easily be expanded if you have access to decent references. Some have been written in other languages which could be translated but machine translation is not a good solution and is disabled but you will have to search for references and other languages seem to not care so much for verification like the enwiki. Choose topics you have knowledge of or have reference material for. Just ask if you need some other advise and good luck. ww2censor (talk) 00:50, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
June 2024 GOCE blitz award
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Women in Red August 2024
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Welcome to the DCWC!
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Welcome to the 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest, SunTunnels! The contest is now open for submissions. List your work at your submissions page to earn points. If you haven't done so already, please review the following:
- Got open nominations? List them at review requests.
- Looking for a topic to work on? Check out suggested articles and eligible reviews.
- Not sure if your article qualifies? See the guidelines for more information or contact a coordinator for verification.
- New to Wikipedia? Many experienced editors are part of this contest and willing to help; feel free to ask questions about the contest on the talk page.
- Know someone else who might be interested? Sign-ups remain open until 15 July, so don't hesitate to invite other editors!
On behalf of the coordinators, we hope you enjoy participating and wish you good luck! If you have any questions, please leave a message on the contest talk page or ask one of the coordinators: Ixtal (talk · contribs), sawyer777 (talk · contribs), or TechnoSquirrel69 (talk · contribs). (To unsubscribe from these updates, remove yourself from this list.) Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 00:01, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
Thanks!
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Thanks for participating in the June 2024 backlog drive!
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The Signpost: 22 July 2024
[edit]- Discussion report: Internet users flock to Wikipedia to debate its image policy over Trump raised-fist photo
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Women in Red August 2024
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A barnstar for you!
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DCWC August update
[edit]The 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest has now been running for a month, and we've already seen some momentous improvement in the quality of many articles about underrepresented subjects! So far, our top-scoring participants are:
Magentic Manifestations (submissions) – 338 points, mainly from nine good articles. He's a contender for the "most submissions for a single country" specialty award, with nine submissions for India.
Arconning (submissions) – 305 points, including from six seasonally-appropriate Olympics-related good articles.
Generalissima (submissions) – 290 points, the bulk from her featured article about Greenlandic interpreter Qalaherriaq and two China-related good articles.
AirshipJungleman29 (submissions) – 245 points, mostly from the achievement of bringing Genghis Khan to featured status.
Thebiguglyalien (submissions) – 144 points from three good articles, including two about Kiribati elections, and four reviews of good article nominees.
Looking for ways to climb up the leaderboard yourself? Help out your fellow participants by answering a few review requests, particularly the older entries. Several more nominations needing attention are listed at eligible reviews, and highlighed entries receive a 1.5× multiplier! The coordinators would like to extend a special thanks to 
Thebiguglyalien (submissions) for his commitment to keeping these review pages up to date.
If you have any questions, please leave a message on the contest talk page or ask one of the coordinators: Ixtal (talk · contribs), sawyer777 (talk · contribs), or TechnoSquirrel69 (talk · contribs). (To unsubscribe from these updates, remove yourself from this list.) Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 14:24, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
Assistance with Kao Ly Ilean Her's page
[edit]Hello,
Thank you for helping set up and write Ilean's page. I don't know how to add a photo of her and was wondering if you could post one that I can provide. It is not copyrighted, since it is my own personal photo I took of her. I am her sister.
There is also a lot of information about her in the 2021 Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotan's Annual Report pages 9-13:
If you could add her delegation with Betty Mccollough 2003-2005, Humanitarian Award 2006 and the creation of Maiv PAC 2016, it would be great.
Hnub Tsiab also renamed their "Live your best life" grant for her posthumously (Ilean named and helped create the grant). The grant is now funded through Ilean's endowment (it is the first endowment created by a Hmong woman--I have no citation) and is awarded annually.
https://hmongwomen.org/kaohly-ilean-her-endowment/
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=896665795840072&set=a.557440206429301
Thank you,
Sharon Sharonkher (talk) 19:55, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
- @Sharonkher Hi Sharon,
- Thanks very much for writing me, and I'm sorry for your loss. I was happy to write Ilean's page – she did a lot of important and notable work and I figured she should absolutely have an article. The 2021 CAPM report you linked to will no doubt help in adding sourced information, for sure; I'll work on improving the article sometime this month. Side question: the article currently uses 'Her' to refer to her (in the way articles use last names). Would it be more accurate to use 'Ilean' mainly instead? I'm afraid I don't have the necessary cultural awareness about Hmong names to know what's appropriate in that case.
- As for the photo, having one would be a great addition to the article. I'm pretty new to Wikimedia Commons but the two easiest (copyright-free and stable) ways I think the photo could be uploaded are:
- 1) You use the 'wizard' process outlined at this link to upload the photo yourself to Wikimedia Commons, and then either you or I can add the photo to Ilean's article, or
- 2) You can upload the photo to a site like Flickr, set it to be public domain or copyright-free, and send me the link. I can import it from Flickr into Wikimedia Commons and use it in the article.
- Feel free to go ahead and try either/both of these routes, and let me know if you have any questions at all! We can also find some way for you to send me the photo, and I could try to upload it. Thanks again. SunTunnels (talk) 02:37, 3 August 2024 (UTC)
July 2024 GOCE drive awards
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Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Long Articles, 5th Place | |
| This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to SunTunnels for copyediting 1 long article during the GOCE July 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 01:11, 4 August 2024 (UTC) |
DYK for Aniya Holder
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On 5 August 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Aniya Holder, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Aniya Holder secured a spot at the 2024 Summer Olympics by winning a speed climbing competition, for which she had started training without even knowing that it was an Olympics qualifier? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Aniya Holder. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Aniya Holder), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 00:04, 5 August 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost: 14 August 2024
[edit]- In the media: Portland pol profile paid for from public purse
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- News and notes: Another Wikimania has concluded.
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September 2024 at Women in Red
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The Signpost: 4 September 2024
[edit]- News and notes: WikiCup enters final round, MCDC wraps up activities, 17-year-old hoax article unmasked
- In the media: AI is not playing games anymore. Is Wikipedia ready?
- News from the WMF: Meet the 12 candidates running in the WMF Board of Trustees election
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DCWC September update
[edit]The Developing Countries WikiContest has now been running for two months, and we've seen tremendous improvement in the encyclopedic coverage of several underrepresented areas from a wide range of editors! The coordinators would like to highlght some of the newer faces who have been making notable contributions in the contest, including but by no means limited to:
- Arconning (submissions) – 386 points, with several good articles primarily relating to the Olympics
Vigilantcosmicpenguin (submissions) – 141 points, who created multiple articles about abortion rights and laws in African countries
TheNuggeteer (submissions) – 126 points, who has contributed to several articles associated with the Phillippines- Jaguarnik (submissions) – 125 points, with several good article reviews and an appearance in the In the news section of the Main Page
Averageuntitleduser (submissions) – 119 points, and has written about several Haitian topics and historical figures.
Only one month remains until the end of the contest, so it's time to make your remaining nominations! Please consider answering some review requests, particularly the older entries, as a way of helping out your fellow participants and moving up the leaderboard. Good luck!
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DYK for Jajaira Gonzalez
[edit]On 11 September 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Jajaira Gonzalez, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that USA Boxing's head coach said that Olympian Jajaira Gonzalez's return to boxing was "like Lazarus coming back from the dead"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jajaira Gonzalez. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Jajaira Gonzalez), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
RoySmith (talk) 00:02, 11 September 2024 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors September Newsletter
[edit]| Guild of Copy Editors September Newsletter
Hello and welcome to the September newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since June. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Election news: Project coordinators play an important role in our WikiProject. Following the mid-year Election of Coordinators, we welcomed Mox Eden to the coordinator team. Dhtwiki remains as Lead Coordinator, and Miniapolis and Wracking returned as assistant coordinators. If you'd like to help out behind the scenes, please consider taking part in our December election – watchlist our ombox for updates. Information about the role of coordinators can be found here. Blitz: 13 of the 24 editors who signed up for the June 2024 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 169,404 words comprising 41 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: 38 of the 59 editors who signed up for the July 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 482,133 words comprising 293 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: 10 of the 15 editors who signed up for the August 2024 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 71,294 words comprising 31 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: Sign up here to earn barnstars in our month-long, in-progress September Backlog Elimination Drive. Progress report: As of 05:14, 11 September 2024 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 233 requests since 1 January, and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 2,824 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we do without you! Cheers from Baffle gab1978 and your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, Mox Eden and Wracking. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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The Signpost: 26 September 2024
[edit]- In the media: Courts order Wikipedia to give up names of editors, legal strain anticipated from "online safety laws"
- Community view: Indian courts order Wikipedia to take down name of crime victim, editors strive towards consensus
- Serendipity: A Wikipedian at the 2024 Paralympics
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Women in Red October 2024
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DCWC closing update
[edit]The 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest has come to a close! After a thrilling finish to the event with a slew of submissions on the final day, we have our winners. With 608 points, 
Thebiguglyalien (submissions) comes in third with his series of Kiribati and Botswanan submissions; 
BeanieFan11 (submissions) flies into second place at the last second with 771 points after a string of good articles about sportspersons; and after leading for much of contest's three months, 
Generalissima (submissions) finishes with a whopping 798 points to take home the Gold Belt Buckle. Congratulations to our winners!
In addition to his spot in the top three, BeanieFan11 (submissions) also wins the special awards for submitting under the most countries (44 countries) and for writing the most articles about women (15 Did you know? nominations)! 
Magentic Manifestations (submissions), after making 16 submissions under the Indian flag—15 of them good articles—receives the awards for most submissions for a single country and most featured or good articles promoted. For their submission of one FAC review, five FLC reviews, and 20 GAN reviews, Simongraham (submissions) wins for most article reviews.
The results of the contest have far exceeded any expectations the coordinators had for it at the beginning: among the submissions to the event were 3 FAs, 10 FLs, 88 GAs, dozens of article reviews of every kind, and more Did you know? submissions than we can count! Regardless of your level of participation, every contestant can be proud to have contributed towards a major step in countering the systemic bias on Wikipedia. Every year, millions of readers and editors around the globe use Wikipedia to educate themselves and communicate with others about parts of the world that often receive less attention than they deserve. Thank you for participating with us in the contest and contributing to this effort. The DCWC will return next year and we look forward to seeing you contribute again! However, before that...
We need your feedback! Join the conversation on the talk page to discuss your reflections on the contest (even if you didn't participate!) and help us make it better.
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Your GA nomination of Death of Milton King
[edit]Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Death of Milton King 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 ChristieBot, on behalf of Alexeyevitch -- Alexeyevitch (talk) 02:41, 12 October 2024 (UTC)
Wiki Uff Da! Editing the Wikipedia for Absolute Beginners
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Join us at one of our three FREE workshops in Minnesota, where you can learn how to edit Wikipedia and add Minnesota's local history in a relaxed and supportive setting. Work alongside others and discover how easy editing Wikipedia can be. The workshops aim to enhance the ability of communities in Greater and rural Minnesota to edit Wikipedia and comprehend it's editing culture and guidelines, as well as to expand Wikipedia's coverage of Minnesota's history. Already good at editing the Wikipedia? You're welcome to come and work on local history Minnesota Wikipedia articles alongside others. Registration is required to be included for lunch. Event 1 @ Morris, MN
Event 2 @ Chisholm, MN
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The Signpost: 19 October 2024
[edit]- News and notes: One election's end, another election's beginning
- Recent research: "As many as 5%" of new English Wikipedia articles "contain significant AI-generated content", says paper
- In the media: Off to the races! Wikipedia wins!
- Contest: A WikiCup for the Global South
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November 2024 Minnesota User Group Meeting
[edit]In the area? You're invited to the November 2024 Minnesota User Group Meeting
 The organizer of this soiree is Joe Hoover aka Myotus feel free to drop him a message.
Okay its been a while since the Wikipedia Minnesota User Group has meet. Since the last time we meet there has been social upheaval, plague, etc... - no small thing to be sure. There has been some sad lonely discussions on the Minnesota Meetup page on getting together but little action. So here it is. Come and be seen. Talk about the future of the Minnesota User Group and see what nefarious plans we can hatch. Date: Sunday, November 3, 2024 Look forward to seeing folks!
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The Signpost: 6 November 2024
[edit]- From the editors: Editing Wikipedia should not be a crime
- In the media: An old scrimmage, politics and purported libel
- Special report: Wikipedia editors face litigation, censorship
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Your GA nomination of Death of Milton King
[edit]The article Death of Milton King you nominated as a good article has passed 
; see Talk:Death of Milton King for comments about the article, and Talk:Death of Milton King/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Alexeyevitch -- Alexeyevitch (talk) 23:24, 8 November 2024 (UTC)