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This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2022)
 A man playing the didgeridoo, an indigenous instrument of Australia that was developed at least 1,500 years ago. This is one of the myriad topics within the history of music.
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following consensus at the 2021 RfA review, the autopatrolled user right has been removed from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled.
- Additionally, consensus for proposal 6C of the 2021 RfA review has led to the creation of an administrative action review process. The purpose of this process will be to review individual administrator actions and individual actions taken by users holding advanced permissions.
Arbitration
- Following the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Cabayi, Donald Albury, Enterprisey, Izno, Opabinia regalis, Worm That Turned, Wugapodes.
Miscellaneous
- The functionaries email list (functionaries-en
lists.wikimedia.org) will no longer accept incoming emails apart from those sent by list members and WMF staff. Private concerns, apart from those requiring oversight, should be directly sent to the Arbitration Committee.
This week's article for improvement (week 2, 2022)
Hello, Calidum. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: History of music • Carapace Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 10 January 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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"Dark side of the Moon" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Dark side of the Moon and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 January 13#Dark side of the Moon until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. — BarrelProof (talk) 05:09, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2022)
 A NeXTstation graphics workstation from 1990
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Reader Rabbit • History of music Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 17 January 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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ITN recognition for Gaspard Ulliel
On 21 January 2022, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Gaspard Ulliel, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Espresso Addict (talk) 02:34, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 4, 2022)
Hello, Calidum. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Workstation • Reader Rabbit Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 24 January 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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This Month in Education: January 2022
This Month in Education
Volume 11 • Issue 1 • January 2022
Contents • Headlines • Subscribe
In This Issue
- 30-h Wikipedia Article Writing Challenge
- Announcing Wiki Workshop 2022
- Final exhibition about Cieszyn Silesia region
- Join us this February for the EduWiki Week
- Offline Education project WikiChallenge closed its third edition
- Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom ToT Experience of a Filipina Wikimedian
- Welcoming new trainers of the Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom program
- Wikimedia Israel’s education program: Students enrich Hebrew Wiktionary with Biblical expressions still in use in modern Hebrew
The Bugle: Issue CLXXVIII, January 2022
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The Signpost: 30 January 2022
- Special report: WikiEd course leads to Twitter harassment
- News and notes: Feedback for Board of Trustees election
- Interview: CEO Maryana Iskander "four weeks in"
- Black History Month: What are you doing for Black History Month?
- WikiProject report: The Forgotten Featured
- Arbitration report: New arbitrators look at new case and antediluvian sanctions
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2021
- Obituary: Twofingered Typist
- Essay: The prime directive
- In the media: Fuzzy-headed government editing
- Recent research: Articles with higher quality ratings have fewer "knowledge gaps"
- Crossword: Cross swords with a crossword
This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2022)
Hello, Calidum. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Television ratings • Workstation Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 31 January 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- The Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines have been published for consideration. Voting to ratify this guideline is planned to take place 7 March to 21 March. Comments can be made on the talk page.
Technical news
- The user group
oversightwill be renamedsuppressin around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for technical reasons. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections. - The Reply Tool feature, which is a part of Discussion Tools, will be opt-out for everyone logged in or logged out starting 7 February 2022. Editors wishing to comment on this can do so in the relevant Village Pump discussion.
- The user group
Arbitration
- Community input is requested on several motions aimed at addressing discretionary sanctions that are no longer needed or overly broad.
- The Arbitration Committee has published a generalised comment regarding successful appeals of sanctions that it can review (such as checkuser blocks).
- A motion related to the Antisemitism in Poland case was passed following a declined case request.
Miscellaneous
- Voting in the 2022 Steward elections will begin on 07 February 2022, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2022, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- Voting in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey is open until 11 February 2022.
This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2022)
Hello, Calidum. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Social equality • Television ratings Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 7 February 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2022)
Hello, Calidum. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Joseph Lelyveld • Social equality Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 14 February 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2022)
 Isabella I of Castile in the Rimado de la Conquista de Granada, by Pedro Marcuello
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Cult of personality • Joseph Lelyveld Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 21 February 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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The Signpost: 27 February 2022
- From the team: Selection of a new Signpost Editor-in-Chief
- News and notes: Impacts of Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Special report: A presidential candidate's team takes on Wikipedia
- In the media: Wiki-drama in the UK House of Commons
- Technology report: Community Wishlist Survey results
- WikiProject report: 10 years of tea
- Featured content: Featured Content returns
- Deletion report: The 10 most SHOCKING deletion discussions of February
- Recent research: How editors and readers may be emotionally affected by disasters and terrorist attacks
- Arbitration report: Parties remonstrate, arbs contemplate, skeptics coordinate
- Gallery: The vintage exhibit
- Traffic report: Euphoria, Pamela Anderson, lies and Netflix
- News from Diff: The Wikimania 2022 Core Organizing Team
- Crossword: A Crossword, featuring Featured Articles
- Humour: Notability of mailboxes
This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2022)
.jpg) Google's corporate headquarters is named Googleplex, and is also the headquarters of its parent company, Alphabet Inc.
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Isabella I of Castile • Cult of personality Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 28 February 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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This Month in Education: February 2022
This Month in Education
Volume 11 • Issue 2 • February 2022
Contents • Headlines • Subscribe
- Open Foundation West Africa Expands Open Movement With UHAS
- Celebrating the 18th anniversary of Ukrainian Wikipedia
- Integrating Wikipedia in the academic curriculum in a university in Mexico
- Results of "Reading Wikipedia" workshop in the summer school of Plan Ceibal in Uruguay
- WikiFundi, offline editing plateform : last release notes and how-tos
- Writing Wikipedia as an academic assignment in STEM fields
- The Learning and Connection – 1Lib1Ref with African Librarians
The Bugle: Issue CLXXVIV, February 2022
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- A RfC is open to change the wording of revision deletion criterion 1 to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions.
- A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.
Technical news
- The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project. (T296645)
- Special:Nuke will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request from 2022. (T25020)
- The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. (T295389)
Arbitration
- Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.
Miscellaneous
- The 2022 appointees for the Ombuds commission are Érico, Faendalimas, Galahad, Infinite0694, Mykola7, Olugold, Udehb and Zabe as regular members and Ameisenigel and JJMC89 as advisory members.
- Following the 2022 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AntiCompositeNumber, BRPever, Hasley, TheresNoTime, and Vermont.
- The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey results have been published alongside the ranking of prioritized proposals.
This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2022)
Hello, Calidum. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Google • Isabella I of Castile Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 7 March 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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This week's article for improvement (week 11, 2022)
 A letter is a segmental symbol of a phonemic writing system. Pictured are uppercase and lowercase Z with stroke letters.
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: First Sudanese Civil War • Google Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:08, 14 March 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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This week's article for improvement (week 12, 2022)
.jpg) Tomba is a drink of Sikkimese cuisine made from fermented millet: warm water is added to the millet and the liquid is consumed.
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Letter (alphabet) • First Sudanese Civil War Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 21 March 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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This Month in Education: March 2022
This Month in Education
Volume 11 • Issue 3 • March 2022
Contents • Headlines • Subscribe
In This Issue
- Arte+Feminismo Pilipinas:Advocacy on Women Empowerment
- The edit-a-thon on Serbian Wikipedia on the occasion of Edu Wiki Week
- Call for Participation: Higher Education Survey
- Collection of Good Practices in Wikipedia Education
- Conversation: Open education in the Wikimedia Movement views from Latin America
- EduWiki Week 2022, celebrations and learnings
- EduWiki Week in Armenia
- Open Education Week at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
- Wikipedia + Education Talk With Leonard Hagan
- Wikimedia Israel cooperates with Yad Vashem in developing a training course for teachers
The Signpost: 27 March 2022
- From the Signpost team: How The Signpost is documenting the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- News and notes: Of safety and anonymity
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Kharkiv, Ukraine: Countering Russian aggression with a camera
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Western Ukraine: Working with Wikipedia helps
- Disinformation report: The oligarchs' socks
- In the media: Ukraine, Russia, and even some other stuff
- Wikimedian perspective: My heroes from Russia, Ukraine & beyond
- Discussion report: Athletes are less notable now
- Technology report: 2022 Wikimedia Hackathon
- Arbitration report: Skeptics given heavenly judgement, whirlwind of Discord drama begins to spin for tropical cyclone editors
- Traffic report: War, what is it good for?
- Deletion report: Ukraine, werewolves, Ukraine, YouTube pundits, and Ukraine
- From the archives: Burn, baby burn
- Essay: Yes, the sky is blue
- Tips and tricks: Become a keyboard ninja
- On the bright side: The bright side of news
This week's article for improvement (week 13, 2022)
 Pumpkin pie is a dessert pie with a spiced, pumpkin-based custard filling.
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Sikkimese cuisine • Letter (alphabet) Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 28 March 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVII, March 2022
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This week's article for improvement (week 14, 2022)
 Paddle ball is a one-person game played with a paddle and an attached ball.
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Pumpkin pie • Sikkimese cuisine Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 4 April 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- An RfC is open proposing a change to the minimum activity requirements for administrators.
Technical news
- Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the
deletelogentryanddeletedhistoryrights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (T301928) - When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present. (T284114)
Arbitration
- Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures § Opening of proceedings has been updated to reflect current practice following a motion.
- A arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing has been closed.
- A arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been opened.
Miscellaneous
- Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines has closed, and the results were that 56.98% of voters supported the guidelines. The results of this vote mean the Wikimedia Foundation Board will now review the guidelines.
This week's article for improvement (week 15, 2022)
 In telecommunications, broadband is wide bandwidth data transmission which transports multiple signals at a wide range of frequencies and Internet traffic types, that enables messages to be sent simultaneously, used in fast internet connections. Pictured is a chart of global bandwidth concentration: 3 countries have almost 50% between them; 10 countries almost 75%.
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GOCE April 2022 newsletter
Guild of Copy Editors April 2022 Newsletter
  Hello and welcome to the April newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since December 2021. Election results: Jonesey95 retired as lead coordinator. Reidgreg was approved to fill this role after an 18-month absence from the coordinator team, and Baffle gab1978 was chosen as an assistant coordinator following a one-year break. Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Tenryuu continued on as long-standing assistant coordinators. January Drive: Of the 22 editors who signed up, 16 editors claimed 146 copy edits including 45 requests. (details) February Blitz: This one-week effort focused on requests and a theme of Africa and African diaspora history. Of the 12 editors who signed up, 6 editors recorded 21 copy edits, including 4 requests. (details) March Drive: Of the 28 editors who signed up, 18 claimed 116 copy edits including 25 requests. (details) April Blitz: This one-week copy editing event has been scheduled for 17–23 April, sign up now! Progress report: As of 11 April, copy editors have removed approximately 500 articles from the backlog and completed 127 copy-editing requests during 2022. The backlog has been hovering at about 1,100 tagged articles for the past six months. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Reidgreg, Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Tenryuu To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:42, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
Federalism in the United Kingdom
Thanks for your speedy response. However, something needs to be done to revert the changes to the talk pages as well - currently, Talk:Federalism in the United Kingdom redirects to Talk:Federal in the United Kingdom, which is empty. It's a mess, I'm afraid. Ghmyrtle (talk) 19:07, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
- You're welcome. I'm not sure why the talk page wasn't moved when I made the move, but it appears that Number 57 (talk · contribs) fixed it [1]. Calidum 19:12, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2022)
.jpg) Astrid Lindgren was a Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays who is best known for several series of children's books. Pictured is Lindgren around 1960.
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