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Happy Kalends of January

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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: and. Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:16, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).

Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Speedy deletion criterion A5 (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an unopposed proposal.

Arbitration
 * Following the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee:, , , , , , ,.
 * The 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review has concluded with many changes to the discretionary sanctions procedure including a change of the name to "contentious topics". The changes are being implemented over the coming month.
 * The arbitration case Stephen has been closed.

Miscellaneous
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The Bugle: Issue 201, January 2023
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DYK for Vennture Brew Company
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Your GA nomination of Angeli Foods
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Your GA nomination of Ore Dock Brewing Company
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Your GA nomination of Ore Dock Brewing Company
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Your GA nomination of Vennture Brew Company
The article Vennture Brew Company 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:Vennture Brew Company and Talk:Vennture Brew Company/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of LunaEatsTuna -- LunaEatsTuna (talk) 18:42, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Vennture Brew Company
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Your GA nomination of Keweenaw Brewing Company
The article Keweenaw Brewing Company 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:Keweenaw Brewing Company and Talk:Keweenaw Brewing Company/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of LunaEatsTuna -- LunaEatsTuna (talk) 22:18, 20 January 2023 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 54
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Issue 54, November – December 2022 
 * New collections:
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Your GA nomination of Keweenaw Brewing Company
The article Keweenaw Brewing Company you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Keweenaw Brewing Company for comments about the article, and Talk:Keweenaw Brewing Company/GA1 for the nomination. 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 ChristieBot, on behalf of LunaEatsTuna -- LunaEatsTuna (talk) 17:41, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2023).

Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Following an RfC, the administrator policy now requires that prior written consent be gained from the Arbitration Committee to mark a block as only appealable to the committee.
 * Following a community discussion, consensus has been found to impose the extended-confirmed restriction over the topic areas of Armenia and Azerbaijan and Kurds and Kurdistan.

Technical news
 * The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Wikipedia.

Arbitration Miscellaneous
 * The arbitration case Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 24 February 2023.
 * In December, the contentious topics procedure was adopted which replaces the former discretionary sanctions system. The contentious topics procedure is now in effect following an initial implementation period. There is a detailed summary of the changes and administrator instructions for the new procedure. The arbitration clerk team are taking suggestions, concerns, and unresolved questions about this new system at their noticeboard.
 * Voting in the 2023 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
 * Voting in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey will begin on 10 February 2023 and end on 24 February 2023. You can submit, discuss and revise proposals until 6 February 2023.
 * Tech tip: Syntax highlighting is available in both the 2011 and 2017 Wikitext editors. It can help make editing paragraphs with many references or complicated templates easier.

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Guild of Copy Editors 2022 Annual Report
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The Bugle: Issue 202, February 2023
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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

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.

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 "" button. You will be able to turn them off at Special:Preferences. Please tell them what you think.



An A/B test for on the mobile site has finished. Editors were more successful with. The Editing team is enabling these features for all editors on the mobile site.

New Project: Edit Check

The Editing team is beginning a project to help new editors of Wikipedia. It will help people identify some problems before they click "". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Please watch that page for more information. You can join a conference call on 3 March 2023 to learn more.

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2023).

Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Following a request for comment, F10 (useless non-media files) has been deprecated.
 * Following a request for comment, the Portal CSD criteria (P1 (portal subject to CSD as an article) and P2 (underpopulated portal)) have been deprecated.
 * A request for comment is open to discuss making the closing instructions for the requested moves process a guideline.

Technical news
 * The results of the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey have been posted.

Arbitration
 * Remedy 11 ("Request for Comment") of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been rescinded.
 * The proposed decision for the Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case is expected 7 March 2023.
 * A case related to the Holocaust in Poland is expected to be opened soon.

Miscellaneous
 * The 2023 appointees for the Ombuds commission are AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, JJMC89, MdsShakil, Minorax and Renvoy as regular members and Zabe as advisory members.
 * Following the 2023 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Mykola7, Superpes15, and Xaosflux.
 * The Terms of Use update cycle has started, which includes a [p]roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023.

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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.
 * Epicgenius was in second place with 789 points; a seasoned WikiCup competitor he specialises in buildings and locations in New York.
 * 🇩🇪 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.
 * 🇺🇸 TheJoebro64, another WikiCup newcomer, came next with 600 points gained from two featured articles on video games.
 * 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 LunaEatsTuna,  Thebiguglyalien,  Sammi Brie,  Trainsandotherthings,  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Vilenski, 🇮🇩 Juxlos,  Unexpectedlydian,  SounderBruce, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Kosack,  BennyOnTheLoose and  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 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 WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:37, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

post-nominals discussion
Hi, do you think your proposal discussion (Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Biography) should be turned into an RfC? I don't think an open-ended discussion like that could have any real effect (especially when the result can affect thousands of biographical articles) without a formal close. Some1 (talk) 00:02, 9 March 2023 (UTC)


 * That's a good idea. I've added the RfC template and tweaked the intro to account for it. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 00:42, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue 203, March 2023
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USS Robert Smalls (CG-62)
Thank you for your renaming action here. Can you explain how one creates an italic text in a wikipedia article title? Kind regards Buckshot06 (talk) 05:57, 12 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Usually, it's italic title or DISPLAYTITLE! But for ships, I believe italicizing is automatically built into Infobox ship. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 06:01, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

World War II and the history of Jews in Poland: Arbitration case opened
Hello ,

You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Arbitration/Requests/Case/World War II and the history of Jews in Poland. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Arbitration/Requests/Case/World War II and the history of Jews in Poland/Evidence. Please add your evidence by April 04, 2023, which is when the first evidence phase closes. Submitted evidence will be summarized by Arbitrators and Clerks at Arbitration/Requests/Case/World War II and the history of Jews in Poland/Evidence/Summary. Owing to the summary style, editors are encouraged to submit evidence in small chunks sooner rather than more complete evidence later.

Details about the summary page, the two phases of evidence, a timeline and other answers to frequently asked questions can be found at the case's FAQ page.

For a guide to the arbitration process, see Arbitration/Guide to arbitration.

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Books & Bytes – Issue 55
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Issue 55, January – February 2023 
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Image of PA-Ng
hello,

I have reverted your replacement of my image of PA-Ng by a non-Free image that you have taken from Naval Group. I realise that his could come across as confrontational and self-promoting, and neither is my intention. You mention two concerns with my images: that they are derivative work, and that they could be imprecise. These are mutually exclusive, if my images were derivative work they could not be imprecise.

As it is my images are absolutely not derivative work of Naval images: they are produced from a 3D model that I have created from careful study of the images of Naval Group and description of the project from various sources. My images are no more derivatives of Naval's material than the text of the article is derivative of the sources that it cites. There is no single image from Naval that you could identify as the source for the numerous images of PA-Ng available on Commons, and indeed my images would not be accepted on Commons if they were derivative work.

As for precision, my images of one of the past versions of the carrier have been republished by official accounts of the French Navy. I would not presume to say that this commits the Navy to anything, but on the other hand I rather doubt that it would republish a fanciful representation. Furthermore, being Free, my images can be corrected if needed, and indeed I am open to editing them myself should someone have precise information to that effect. Rama (talk) 11:31, 26 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello Rama: first, thanks for all of the work that's gone into those renderings. Unfortunately, I can't see how they don't fail the tests given at commons:Commons:Derivative works. In my mind, an accurate rendering of the future aircraft carriers necessarily does not contain "sufficient new, creative content to entitle it to its own copyright" regardless of the number of copyrighted images you based them on. And even I'm wrong on that point, there's still the next sentence to contend with:
 * "A derivative work is one which is not only based on a previous work, but which also contains sufficient new, creative content to entitle it to its own copyright. However, if the underlying work is still copyright protected, the original copyright holder must also license the underlying work for reuse. (my emphasis)"


 * All that said, I'm happy to bring this to a wider forum and would genuinely hope that my thoughts here are misguided. (I am very much not a lawyer!) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 15:57, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
 * adding a ping, sorry. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 15:58, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Hello, and thank you for your time and attention, I appreciate your open-mindness.
 * I think that you are confusing copyright (which protects works of art) and industrial design (which is a different sort of intellectual property: it prevents making copies of the real thing, but not representation).
 * A derivative work would be taking the image of Naval, tracing it and changing colours, adding sailors, that sort of things. I would have injected significant work into it, and even some originality, but some of what made the initial image special would still be there, and that is what yields the double copyright.
 * Contrasting with this, I am starting from the specifications of the ship and creating completely new work. The angle is different, my model had the correct equipment month before it appeared on Naval models (early models by Naval showed PDCs resembling the Millenium Gun by Oerlikon, while I had the RapidFire by Nexter from the start).
 * I realise that these issues are confusing at first, but the fact that my images are hosted on Commons is a clue: is they were derivatives they could not be hosted there.
 * Thank you again for your consideration. Rama (talk) 06:56, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
 * PS: To illustrate the difference between derivative work and original work:
 * actually File:PANG illustration 003.jpg happens to be a derivative work — not of Naval Group images, but of File:USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) underway in the Atlantic Ocean on 11 September 2018 (180911-N-EA818-2106).JPG, which is in the Public Domain. Similarly, all my photobashed images (File:PANG illustration 009.jpg, File:PANG illustration 011.jpg, etc) are derivatives of images hosted on Commons (Free-licensed or Public Domain images, so I am entitled to making derivative).
 * iamges such as File:PANG-render 136.jpg or File:PANG-render 142.jpg only refer to the industrial design of the ship and are completely original work — just like File:Artist's impression of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier in 1968.jpg is an original work of the US Navy and not derivative work of the designs of the Newport News Shipbuilding Company.
 * Rama (talk) 07:32, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Hey, it's possible I'm confused on that point, but I feel like this representation of a specific future aircraft carrier with very unique design points qualifies as more than one "element that, physically or conceptually, can be identified as separable from the utilitarian aspects of" aircraft carriers generally.
 * So, my continued thought on your renderings is that despite changing the colors etc., they are so substantially similar to the officially released images that they are derivative. It's big things too, like the bridge design, elevator locations, flight deck shape, and more—all things that go beyond basic specifications. Now, all of this is absolutely necessary because otherwise you're publishing an inaccurate rendering... but it doesn't change the fundamental problem that the only available image sources for this ship's design are copyrighted.
 * Finally, the fact that they are on Commons currently doesn't mean they should be there.
 * But then again, I'm not invested enough in this to fight the point, and even if I am right it seems extremely unlikely that the French government would want to make legal noise about a design they themselves want to see distributed. So, carry on. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 04:22, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Butting my head in for just a minute, but Rama uploaded his original model in 2021 and the Naval Group images are from 2022, so they can't possibly be derivatives (unless there are earlier versions of the Naval Group models that I'm not aware of).
 * PS, what'd you do to your talk page, Ed? I don't get edit buttons in the individual sections. Parsecboy (talk) 12:14, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
 * The official images have been updated periodically. :-)
 * Heh, I figured that was some WMF interface change! Turns out I had a rogue noeditsection magic word in the transcluded archive index. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 01:40, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Ah, then yeah, it would depend on what sources Rama used to create the model.
 * I figured it was something like that, but couldn't see anything in those templates that looked to be the culprit. Parsecboy (talk) 14:28, 30 March 2023 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Future French aircraft carrier - 2022 rendering.jpg
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