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Question from GoldenNatureRifts (12:24, 5 October 2022)

Just say hi! --GoldenNatureRifts (talk) 12:25, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Hi! :) GeraldWL 13:31, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Question from Contoso12 (16:45, 13 October 2022)

How to I create my user page . I want to do this right.

Contoso12 (talk) 16:45, 13 October 2022 (UTC)contoso12

Question from Konaksi (16:24, 14 October 2022)

Hello,how I can change my email address because I have entered wrong email --Konaksi (talk) 16:24, 14 October 2022 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of A Sun

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article A Sun 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 Legobot, on behalf of Lee Vilenski -- Lee Vilenski (talk) 21:21, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of A Sun

The article A Sun you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:A Sun for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Lee Vilenski -- Lee Vilenski (talk) 11:41, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of A Sun

The article A Sun you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:A Sun for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Lee Vilenski -- Lee Vilenski (talk) 17:41, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

Seattle restaurants

Heyo! Thought you might like to know, I've relocated to Seattle, so you can expect plenty of new and expanded articles about Seattle restaurants soon! Sharing in case you're curious to follow along on occasion. Happy editing, ---Another Believer (Talk) 17:24, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

Question from Sweetfreeda (22:15, 28 October 2022)

Hi G, I wanted to edit the page on Michael Jacobson, PhD who was exec. director of CSPI (I know him and have a copy of some of his publications). I just wanted to add a booklet he wrote in 1999. It's been many years since I edited anything on Wikipedia, and while I copied the format from another one of the publications listed, I don't see where I can see it in the sandbox or how to see it anywhere before publishing it. I also don't see how or where to publish the page with my addition. Can you help? --Sweetfreeda (talk) 22:15, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

Re my first question

I did figure it out myself, and hopefully did it right, but will be happy for any suggestion/criticism you may have. Sweetfreeda (talk) 15:18, 29 October 2022 (UTC)

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Good article nominations

Hi Gerald Waldo Luis, thank you for your assistance in reviewing at WP:Good article nominations. When you pass a nomination, please remember to add it to the appropriate list of Wikipedia:Good articles. All steps that should be taken are listed at WP:GAN/I#PASS. Please let me know if you have any questions. Best regards, CMD (talk) 06:53, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

Apologies for the default edit summary. I have added Jesus Is King (film) to the 2015-2019 film subsection, please let me know if that is incorrect. Best, CMD (talk) 07:07, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

WikiCup 2022 November newsletter

The 2022 WikiCup has drawn to a close with the final round going down to the wire. The 2022 champion is

  • England Lee Vilenski (1752 points), who won in 2020 and was runner up in both 2019 and last year. In the final round he achieved 3 FAs and 15 GAs, mostly on cue sports. He was closely followed by
  • Kingdom of Scotland Bloom6132 (1732), who specialised in "In the news" items and DYKs, and who has reached the final round of the Cup for the past three years. Next was
  • Zulu (International Code of Signals) BennyOnTheLoose (1238), another cue sports enthusiast, also interested in songs, followed by
  • New York City Muboshgu (1082), an "In the news" contributor, a seasoned contestant who first took part in the Cup ten years ago. Other finalists were
  • Sammi Brie (930), who scored with a featured article, good articles and DYKs on TV and radio stations,
  • United Nations Kavyansh.Singh (370), who created various articles on famous Americans, including an FA on Louis H. Bean, famed for his prediction of election outcomes. Next was
  • Chicago PCN02WPS (292), who scored with good articles and DYKs on sporting and other topics and
  • Toronto Z1720 (25) who had DYKs on various topics including historic Canadians.

During the WikiCup, contestants achieved 37 featured articles, 349 good articles, 360 featured article reviews, 683 good article reviews and 480 In the news items, so Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors. Well done everyone! All those who reached the final round will receive awards and the following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. 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 the overall leader in this field.

  • England Lee Vilenski wins the featured article prize, for a total of 6 FAs during the course of the competition and 3 in the final round.
  • United Nations Kavyansh.Singh wins the featured list prize, for 3 FLs in round 2.
  • Adam Cuerden wins the featured picture prize, for 39 FPs during the competition.
  • Toronto Z1720 wins the featured article reviewer prize, for 35 FARs in round 4.
  • New York (state) Epicgenius wins the good article prize, for 32 GAs in round 1.
  • SounderBruce wins the featured topic prize, for 4 FT articles in round 1.
  • England Lee Vilenski wins the good topic prize, for 34 GT articles in round 5.
  • Sammi Brie wins the good article reviewer prize, for 71 GARs overall.
  • Sammi Brie wins the Did you know prize, for 30 DYKs in round 3 and 106 overall.
  • Kingdom of Scotland Bloom6132 wins the In the news prize, for 106 ITNs in round 5 and 289 overall.

Next year's competition will begin on 1 January and possible changes to the rules and scoring are being discussed on the discussion page. You are invited to sign up to take part in the contest; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to have a good turnout for the 2023 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners and finalists, 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. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:28, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

DYK for A Sun

On 9 November 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article A Sun, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a Taiwanese film about parental favoritism was titled A Sun in English to create a pun with "a son"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/A Sun. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, A Sun), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:02, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

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By the authority vested in me by myself it gives me great pleasure to present you with this award in recognition of the thorough, detailed and actionable reviews you have carried out at FAC. This work is very much appreciated. Gog the Mild (talk) 20:15, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

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can I call you Waldo

I wanna call you Waldo because I think that's funny. Livakno (talk) 07:17, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

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Welcome to the 2023 WikiCup!

Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2023 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page ready for you to take part. Any questions on the scoring, rules or anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:16, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Question from Younas Safi (16:06, 10 January 2023)

Hi Sir I hope you will be doing well. I am requesting you, if you could provide me some tips for editing articles. --Younas Safi (talk) 16:06, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

Question from Bkg2022 (16:21, 10 January 2023)

नमस्ते विकिपीडिया में एडिट करने से क्या फायदा होगा? --Bkg2022 (talk) 16:21, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

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Question from Lovelymelanin37 (01:30, 19 January 2023)

Please let me know if my draft was published --Candice Lowery (talk) 01:30, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

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Question from Nomodes (19:17, 31 January 2023)

Hey I would like to be given the highest position in the Wikipedia hierarchy. I am extremely qualified and am a master programmer in Smalltalk, Squeak, Newspeak, PUB, TVEDIT, and Scratch.

Please obey..

Sincerely,

Bilal Ahmed Shirwani, King --Nomodes (talk) 19:17, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious
Two years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:44, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

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Question from Roshan Thakur Artist (12:22, 19 February 2023)

Hii --Roshan Thakur Artist (talk) 12:23, 19 February 2023 (UTC)

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Question from Stefanhugos (13:02, 21 February 2023)

how do i make an artical --Stefanhugos (talk) 13:02, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

Editing news 2023 #1

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This newsletter includes two key updates about the Editing team's work:

  1. The Editing team will finish adding new features to the Talk pages project and deploy it.
  2. They are beginning a new project, Edit check.

Talk pages project

Screenshot showing the talk page design changes that are currently available as beta features at all Wikimedia wikis. These features include information about the number of people and comments within each discussion.
Some of the upcoming changes

The Editing team is nearly finished with this first phase of the Talk pages project. Nearly all new features are available now in the Beta Feature for Discussion tools.

It will show information about how active a discussion is, such as the date of the most recent comment. There will soon be a new "Add topic" button. You will be able to turn them off at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion. Please tell them what you think.

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Question from Pinakidas 27 (13:00, 26 February 2023)

Hi Gerald,

Thank you for agreeing to help me out. I published an article on Wikipedia and cited a YouTube link. It was rejected by the editor. Can you help me out here? --Pinakidas 27 (talk) 13:00, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

Question from SumaT-JessT (05:33, 2 March 2023)

Hello I'm interested in finding articles that don't have a Spanish to English translation and vice versa. Do you have any suggestions?

Besides helping the wiki I want to do this to show my skills as a translator for a future job somewhere else. --SumaT-JessT (talk) 05:33, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

WikiCup 2023 March newsletter

So ends the first round of the 2023 WikiCup. Everyone with a positive score moved on to Round 2, with 54 contestants qualifying. The top scorers in Round 1 were:

  • Unlimitedlead with 1205 points, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with two featured articles on historical figures and several featured article candidate reviews.
  • New York (state) Epicgenius was in second place with 789 points; a seasoned WikiCup competitor he specialises in buildings and locations in New York.
  • Germany FrB.TG was in third place with 625 points, garnered from a featured article on a filmmaker which qualified for an impressive number of bonus points.
  • United States TheJoebro64, another WikiCup newcomer, came next with 600 points gained from two featured articles on video games.
  • Byzantine Empire Iazyges was in fifth place with 532 points, from two featured articles on classical history.

The top sixteen contestants at the end of Round 1 had all scored over 300 points; these included Berkelland LunaEatsTuna, Thebiguglyalien, Sammi Brie, New England Trainsandotherthings, England Lee Vilenski, Indonesia Juxlos, Unexpectedlydian, Washington (state) SounderBruce, Wales Kosack, BennyOnTheLoose and Chicago PCN02WPS. It was a high-scoring start to the competition.

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start again from scratch. The first round finished on February 26. Remember that any content promoted after that date but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Some contestants made claims before the new submissions pages were set up, and they will need to resubmit them. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:36, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

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Books & Bytes – Issue 55

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Question from Muzamil im on User:Muzamil im/sandbox (06:27, 19 March 2023)

would you please help me in editing this article --Muzamil im (talk) 06:27, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

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Question from Lovelymelanin37 (00:36, 2 April 2023)

I have a question, i did my best to remove all disambiguation and update my draft, but it will not allow me to now publish and move it to Mainspace?This is harder then I thought, please help --Candice Lowery (talk) 00:36, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

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Question from Lazbown (23:00, 7 April 2023)

Hell --Lazbown (talk) 23:00, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

Question from Lazbown (23:00, 7 April 2023) (2)

Hello --Lazbown (talk) 23:00, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

Question from Mannyontheblock on Illinois Chamber of Commerce (06:05, 19 April 2023)

Hello what is it called to edit on errors in sentences for pages and website’s just like the Wikipedia, Im took ELD English classes in elementary and High-school. --Mannyontheblock (talk) 06:05, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2023 May newsletter

The second round of the 2023 WikiCup has now finished. Contestants needed to have scored 60 points to advance into round 3. Our top five scorers in round 2 all included a featured article among their submissions and each scored over 500 points. They were:

Other notable performances were put in by Sammi Brie, Thebiguglyalien, MyCatIsAChonk, Chicago PCN02WPS, and London AirshipJungleman29.

So far contestants have achieved thirteen featured articles between them, one being a joint effort, and forty-nine good articles. The judges are pleased with the thorough reviews that are being performed, and have hardly had to reject any. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:14, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

Shady stop fucken playing with r 68.193.202.10 (talk) 03:07, 3 May 2023 (UTC)

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Books & Bytes – Issue 56

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Question from Endless Apples (09:15, 1 July 2023)

Hey! Hope you are well.

I wanted to ask if it's possible for me too create my own wiki pags for some personal projects. I looked it up and had several different awnsers and how would I go about it if I can.

Thank you. --Endless Apples (talk) 09:15, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

Question from Endless Apples (09:58, 1 July 2023)

Hey! Hope your well.

I'm so sorry if you get this message twice.

But I just and a pretty embarrassing exspsions of getting myself lost on here then turning on desktop mood not know how to turn it off (I'm on a phone).

I fixed it... I don't know how but I did so again I'm so if you get some messages over.

But I wanted to ask you if it's possible for me to create my own wiki for my personal projects. I looked it up and had different awnsers to it or not at all.

Also could you point me in the right way, this plac is so big and convusing I don't even know were to begin or what to do.

I don't even know what to say if I have anything to say. Your help would be really appreciated as we now know have no clue what I'm doing. Thank you and again I'm sorry for the dubble massage. --Endless Apples (talk) 09:58, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2023 July newsletter

The third round of the 2023 WikiCup has come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round had at least 175 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

Contestants achieved 11 featured articles, 2 featured lists, 47 good articles, 72 featured or good article reviews, over 100 DYKs and 40 ITN appearances. As always, any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:18, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

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Books & Bytes – Issue 57

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Question from Noncwadi on Wikipedia:Sandbox (14:23, 24 July 2023)

Hello can I ask anything I want --Noncwadi (talk) 14:23, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

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