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The Signpost: 2 May 2016
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WikiCup 2016 May newsletter


Round 2 is over and 35 competitors have moved on to Round 3.

Round 2 saw three FAs (two by and one by ), four Featured Lists (with three by ), and 53 Good Articles (six by  and five each by, , and ). Eleven Featured Pictures were promoted (six by and five by ). One Featured Portal, Featured Topic and Good Topic were also promoted. The DYK base point total was 1,135. scored 265 base points, while and  each scored 150 base points. Eleven ITN were promoted and 131 Good Article Reviews were conducted with completing a staggering 61 reviews. Two contestants, and, broke the 700 point mark for Round 2.

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GLAM Boot Camp announced (June 14-16 in DC)
You have expressed interest in the GLAM-Wiki US Consortium, so you may be interested in attending the GLAM Boot Camp next month in Washington, DC. This is a training designed to help Wikipedians interested in guiding museums, libraries, and other cultural institutions in wiki engagement. Travel funding available for those in North America. Since the event is coming up soon, please be sure to add your name to the page if you are interested -- and please pass this announcement along. (You may want to share on Facebook or on Twitter.) Thanks for your interest! -MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:24, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

Link for GLAM Boot Camp
My apologies - here is the link for the GLAM Boot Camp mentioned above: GLAM/Boot Camp. -Pete (talk) 04:30, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

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Please delete
AN/D; I get the joke but a user typing WP:AN/ ... into the search box should not be offered that as an option. NE Ent 09:58, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
 * WP:AN/K has been then for years with no complaint, I'm pretty sure we'll all be safe. ;-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 15:21, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 17 May 2016
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Wikipedia:AN/D listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect AN/D. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia:AN/D redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Softlavender (talk) 10:35, 21 May 2016 (UTC)

Notice
There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is We need an adult. Thank you. v/r - TP 05:21, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

I think that those who opposed the opposers should feel very stupid when they see how this ended. Friendly fire, one of the worst euphemisms ever, is always bad. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 13:44, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

Today's featured article/June 13, 2016
As good an excuse to start up a conversation as any. How are things? I'll get to work on this right away. - Dank (push to talk) 23:28, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Hey ! Long time no talk. :-) Note that for North Carolina there's a date connection with NC's launch. Not sure if there's room to work that in.
 * I'm good, still in grad school as I'm working full time with the WMF and like my sanity (read: one class/semester at the moment). Job is going well, for the most part—it gets a little weird at times. How are you? Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 06:13, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
 * I admire people who don't settle for easy jobs.
 * No complaints, life is good.
 * TFA: is it okay if I revert? I did like "where it remains today", but even better would be "(pictured)", if you want to swap in a recent-ish image of the museum ship. - Dank (push to talk) 14:57, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Happy if you want to revert that wording, but most of the pictures are meh aside from File:North carolina fireworks.jpg. Glad to hear life is good! I just bought a new (used) car, so I can travel places—we should finally do that lunch we discussed eons ago. :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 19:08, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Any time, and happy to meet you halfway. Ping me sometime when you're going to be in the Triangle. - Dank (push to talk) 20:24, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Will do. Probably around the 1st of July, when I'm road-tripping to Michigan and seeing people all along the way! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 22:40, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Also —I'm not a huge fan of the lead sentence there. Can we go with something like "The two battleships of the North Carolina class were built shortly before World War II. USS North Carolina (launched on 13 June 1940) and Washington had 16-inch guns, heavy firepower for their size, but their design sacrificed some speed and armor." ? Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 22:50, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Done, + "the US entered". - Dank (push to talk) 00:09, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:24, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks, ! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 17:28, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

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