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Feedback request: Music Good Article nomination

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Welcome to the drive!

Welcome, welcome, welcome Voorts! I'm glad that you are joining the November 2024 drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.

Fix a random page lacking sources

Cielquiparle (talk) 13:25, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2024 November newsletter

The 2024 WikiCup has come to an end, with the final round being a very tight race. Our new champion is AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), who scored 2,283 points mainly through 3 high-multiplier FAs and 3 GAs on military history topics. By a 1% margin, Airship beat out last year's champion, BeanieFan11 (submissions), who scored second with 2,264 points, mainly from an impressive 58 GAs about athletes. In third place, Generalissima (submissions) scored 1,528 points, primarily from two FAs on U.S. Librarians of Congress and 20 GAs about various historical topics. Our other finalists are: Sammi Brie (submissions) with 879 points, Hey man im josh (submissions) with 533 points, BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 432 points, Arconning (submissions) with 244 points, and AryKun (submissions) with 15 points. Congratulations to our finalists and all who participated!

The final round was very productive, and contestants had 7 FAs, 9 FLs, 94 GAs, 73 FAC reviews, and 79 GAN reviews and peer reviews. Altogether, Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors all through the contest. Well done everyone!

All those who reached the final will receive awards and the following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or in the event of a tie, to the overall leader in this field.

Generalissima (submissions) wins the featured article prize for 3 FAs in round 4, and 7 FAs overall.
Hey man im josh (submissions) wins the featured list prize for 23 FLs overall.
MaranoFan (submissions) wins the featured topic prize for 9 articles in featured topics in round 1.
Hey man im josh (submissions) wins the featured content reviewer prize for 110 FA/FL reviews overall.
BeanieFan11 (submissions) wins the good article prize for 58 GAs in round 5, and 70 GAs overall.
Fritzmann (submissions) wins the good topic prize for 6 articles in good topics in round 2.
Sammi Brie (submissions) wins the good article reviewer prize for 45 GA reviews in round 2, and 78 GA reviews overall.
BeanieFan11 (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 131 Did you know articles overall.
Muboshgu (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 15 In the news articles in round 1, and 36 overall.

Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2025 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement!

If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:49, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – November 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2024).

Administrator changes

Crisco 1492

CheckUser changes

Maxim

Oversighter changes

Maxim

Guideline and policy news

Following a discussion, the discussion-only period proposal that went for a trial to refine the requests for adminship (RfA) process has been discontinued.
Following a request for comment, Administrator recall is adopted as a policy.

Technical news

Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068

Arbitration

RoySmith, Barkeep49 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections. ThadeusOfNazereth and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate from 3 November 2024 until 12 November 2024 to stand in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections.
The Arbitration Committee is seeking volunteers for roles such as clerks, access to the COI queue, checkuser, and oversight.

Miscellaneous

An unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in November 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

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Feedback request: Social sciences and society Good Article nomination

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The Signpost: 6 November 2024

From the editors: Editing Wikipedia should not be a crime

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation shares ANI lawsuit updates; first admin elections appoint eleven sysops; first admin recalls opened; temporary accounts coming soon?

In the media: An old scrimmage, politics and purported libel

Special report: Wikipedia editors face litigation, censorship

Gallery: Why you should take more photos and upload them

In focus: Questions and answers about the court case

Traffic report: Twisted tricks or tempting treats?

Technology report: Wikimedia tech, the Asian News International case, and the ultra-rare BLACKLOCK

Humour: Man quietly slinks away from talk page argument after realizing his argument dumb, wrong

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Successful RFA

As you might have figured, your RFA was successful. Welcome to the team, and please feel free to reach out to me or another admin if you have any questions. Primefac (talk) 21:08, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations!

Congratulations on the successful RfA my friend. It was an honour to nominate you, and I look forward to seeing all the good that you'll continue to do. Hey man im josh (talk) 21:08, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for nominating me and advising me throughout the process. voorts (talk/contributions) 21:27, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your new garb! Hope this fits and congratulations. When you get bored of scrabbling down the back of the sofa for the right blockmessage, have a look at my monobook - some kind soul put a nifty script there. Ϣere SpielChequers 21:44, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My congratulations as well. Cheers - Tim O'Doherty (talk) 21:58, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats! House Blaster (talk • he/they) 22:23, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm here to add to the pile! Well done, voorts, and good luck with the rest of your time here as an administrator. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 23:30, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well done, and welcome to the mop corps! Please feel free to write to me if I can help in any way - as I often say to candidates, the learning curve remained steep for a long time. Vanamonde93 (talk) 00:45, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations, Voorts! Do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions. You are part of the admin corps now. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:35, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats! Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 11:06, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A kitten for you!

Congratulations on your successful RfA! May the kitten support you in future mop-related endeavours, I'm sure you'll do amazing! :)

Molecular Pilot 05:36, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

RFA

Thank you for your successful RfA! Kolano123 (talk) 13:38, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I thanked you because I know that being an admin can be hard and I don't bite new admins. Kolano123 (talk) 13:42, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"He who does not keep peace shall lose his hand."

	The axe of responsibility
	Shiny new tools might be used to mete out justice, mercy or a dose of reality. Let us commit to not losing our cool when using them. Our only armor is the entire community's trust. We wear it for each other, each new contributor, and each new generation to come. May you ever be the community's champion. BusterD (talk) 13:41, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]