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Editing news 2021 #1
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Reply tool
The Reply tool  is available at most other Wikipedias.


 * The Reply tool has been deployed as an opt-out preference to all editors at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
 * It is also available as a Beta Feature at almost all Wikipedias except for the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias. If it is not available at your wiki, you can request it by following these simple instructions.

Research notes:


 * As of January 2021, more than 3,500 editors have used the Reply tool to post about 70,000 comments.
 * There is preliminary data from the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedia on the Reply tool. Junior Contributors who use the Reply tool are more likely to publish the comments that they start writing than those who use full-page wikitext editing.
 * The Editing and Parsing teams have significantly reduced the number of edits that affect other parts of the page. About 0.3% of edits did this during the last month. Some of the remaining changes are automatic corrections for Special:LintErrors.
 * Венов_дијаграм.svg A large A/B test will start soon. This is part of the process to offer the Reply tool to everyone.  During this test, half of all editors at 24 Wikipedias (not including the English Wikipedia) will have the Reply tool automatically enabled, and half will not. Editors at those Wikipeedias can still turn it on or off for their own accounts in Special:Preferences.

New discussion tool
The new tool for starting new discussions (new sections) will join the Discussion tools in Special:Preferences at the end of January. You can try the tool for yourself. You can leave feedback in this thread or on the talk page.

Next: Notifications
During Talk pages consultation 2019, editors said that it should be easier to know about new activity in conversations they are interested in. The Notifications project is just beginning. What would help you become aware of new comments? What's working with the current system? Which pages at your wiki should the team look at? Please post your advice at mw:Talk:Talk pages project/Notifications.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 01:02, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

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 * The standard discretionary sanctions authorized for American Politics were amended by motion to cover post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people, replacing the 1932 cutoff.

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 * Voting in the 2021 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2021, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2021, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
 * Wikipedia has now been around for 20 years, and recently saw its billionth edit!

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Precious anniversary
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 * A request for comment is in progress to remove F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a, which covers immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
 * A request for comment seeks to grant page movers the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is at Page mover/delete-redirect.
 * A request for comment asks if sysops may place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions?
 * There is a discussion in progress concerning automatic protection of each day's featured article with Pending Changes protection.

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 * When protecting a page with Twinkle, you can now add a note if doing so was in response to a request at WP:RfPP, and even link to the specific revision.
 * There have been a number of reported issues with Pending Changes. Most problems setting protection appear to have been resolved (T273317) but other issues with autoaccepting edits persist (T275322).

Arbitration
 * By motion, the discretionary sanctions originally authorized under the GamerGate case are now authorized under a new Gender and sexuality case, with sanctions authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people. Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions.
 * The Kurds and Kurdistan case was closed, authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed.

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help me in approving my article
hi good evening Mr Bilby. i found your profile on wikipedia as a mentor and volunteer in helping new editors on wikipedia. i need help in this procedure. can you please help me finish my article. my article's title is = masoud shafaghi ( best regards neda sajedi — Preceding unsigned comment added by Neda.sajedi (talk • contribs) 15:19, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

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 * Following a request for comment, F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a has been deprecated; it covered immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
 * Following a request for comment, page movers were granted the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.

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User talk:141.138.14.136
Hi, I saw you just blocked this IP. Could you also disable their talk page access please? They've been using it for personal attacks  Asartea  Talk  undefined  Contribs  12:44, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Done. - Bilby (talk) 12:45, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
 * thanks  Asartea  Talk  undefined  Contribs  12:47, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

CCI update
This was so long ago, but thank you so much! -- Sennecaster  ( What now? ) 02:23, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia.ind.in
Hi I have been reached out by a Mumbai based freelancer telling that, Wikipedia.ind.in is a Wikimedia Foundation website. Is it true? He shared a url with me telling that, it is not a spam website rather it is a real Wikimedia Foundation website and it is not on Spam link while others are

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spam/LinkReports/wikipedia.ind.in

He told me that logo is also of Wikipedia Foundation with an Indian flag on it. I found this https://www.quora.com/Is-Wikipedia-India-a-scam-site-I-met-a-Mumbai-based-Upwork-freelancer-demanding-money-for-creating-a-page-there-and-claiming-this-site-as-a-Wikimedia-Sister-Project-Is-that-true

Can you please share is this is true?

If not, can you mark it in spam link report, so that it can be verified? Anyone when search below link he doesnt finds it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spam/LinkReports/wikipedia.ind.in 1.36.187.88 (talk) 20:39, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
 * As far as I can tell, it has nothing to do with the WMF. The WMF list their projects at meta, and they don't change their logo in quite the same way. It looks like an open mirror of Simple Wikipedia. f nothing else, the use of the logo in that manner is a violation of teh Wikipedia trademark, so I'll pass that information along.
 * There is a scam where people hire someone to create an article on WIkipedia, but instead get it created on a closed site, and are then charged more every time they wish to have changes made. It is unclear if this site is following a similar model, as it appears to be open, but it is enough to be concerned if it is passing itself off as a WMF project. - Bilby (talk) 15:22, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

Need assistance to reinstate the Appy Pie article
Respected sir, I had created an article named Appy Pie. I didn't knew that the article was previously deleted twice and as i am new i didn't know how to check whether the article was previously deleted or not. So i have created the article in my draft page. After that I had mailed Diptanshu Das (a reviewer) to review the draft and move it to the article space. He checked my draft, moved it to the article space and reviewed that. After that a reviewer named GSS claimed the article as G4. The subject has enough reliable sources from Forbes, Economy Times, Buisness Standard, India Today and many more. Now i don't know what to do. As you know I am new in WIKIPEDIA so please help me to reinstate the article or suggest me what should i do? With regards Batamore Batamore (talk) 14:32, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
 * You need to disclose your paid editing status and you must stop mailing users to review your pages. GSS &#x202F;&#128172; 17:12, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

Sir i am 15 years old. I am student.I do edit in my free time and out of my interest in Wikipedia.I do not do any kind of paid edit.I am extremely sorry for mailing. As i am new, it was not known to me that the reviewers themselves review the page and i thought that if I mail the reviewers then only they review the articles.Even it wasn't known to me that i can write messages even in the talk page. I am extremely sorry for this. Next time onwards when i will create WIKIPEDIA i will create it in draft and i will wait for the reviewers to review it automatically.Thank You. With regards Batamore Batamore (talk)

EMMA for Peace
Hi Bilby just a courtesy heads-up really.

I've had some email requests from Paolo Petrocelli concerning the EMMA for Peace article and his hopes that he would have a bit more prominence there, and perhaps even an article on himself in due course. He mentioned that he had attempted to contact you. See User talk:Musicdiplomacy if interested.

I'm happy to run with it, but obviously any help appreciated. Send me an email if there's anything you'd prefer to say off-wiki. Andrewa (talk) 17:08, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi! The problem I've had with EMMA for Peace and Paolo Petrocelli is that a series of paid editors were hired to create articles about him and his project, expand the articles, and to remove tags - including hiring editors to remove the paid editing tags. A number of these paid editors (possibly all, I'd need to check) were previously banned and were evading the blocks/bans to do the work. There's also been the addition of extensive copyright violations. Even after the [Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Paolo_Petrocelli|AFD decision] for Paolo Petrocelli it was repeatedly recreated, including by the subject.
 * I'm not opposed to expanding EMMA for Peace, although I think you need to get past the original community evaluation of Paolo Petrocelli before that could be recreated. But there is some ugly history here. - Bilby (talk) 23:05, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks and agree.
 * Yes, he's been a very bad boy and knows it. Even more important, he seems to now accept that it won't work. Whether this has flowed through to his minions... we can hope. It will eventually.
 * My agenda is of course improving Wikipedia. I'm trying to challenge him to provide relevant, reliable secondary sources. I can't see any other way forward. If he either can't or won't, that probably means that they do not exist, so end of story. I don't think he's yet convinced of that. Tough.
 * The community evaluation is valid, it shows that the system is working to protect Wikipedia from such activities.
 * Hang in there, and while I hope it's not relevant in this case, see here if you'd like a bit of a giggle. Andrewa (talk) 23:31, 23 April 2021 (UTC)

Travis Walton article
Hi. In what way does the inclusion of these links constitute a copyright violation? Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 05:28, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi. The link to debunker.com is to a page with full copies of articles from The Age, The National Enquirer, and other sources with no evidence of permission. This creates a contributory copyright infringement concern, so we can't link to such sites. - Bilby (talk) 05:33, 22 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Okay, thanks. Nightscream (talk) 20:22, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

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Ugg boot
Hi, a bit confused by your edit summary. Which source are you referring to when you say "failed verification"? --PalaceGuard008 (Talk) 23:32, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
 * The source for teh first claim,, doesn't seem to say that Deckers only refers to their boots as ugg boots. It does describe one boot as a "classic", but doesn't make any further claims. - Bilby (talk) 23:38, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Ah I see, a bit too much extrapolation there. Let me trim it. --PalaceGuard008 (Talk) 23:42, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Done - hope that sticks to the facts now. Please feel free to refine. --PalaceGuard008 (Talk) 23:45, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
 * At least iot is accurate. However, I don;t know why this is needed - there is an article about Decker's where their branding choices is much more appropriate. - Bilby (talk) 00:01, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

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Anti-vax BLPs
Hi Bilby. Thanks for all your work on the anti-vax BLP articles that I identified at Fringe_theories/Noticeboard. What do you think of the current state of them at this point? --Hipal (talk) 23:46, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
 * It is a difficult question. Generally, they are better than they could be. Mostly they abide by policy - although that takes a lot of work - and while I think you could make a case that they have NPOV issues, that would be a hard fight. I wish the editing environment was a bit more balanced, but things are as they are. - Bilby (talk) 11:51, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Looks like the infobox spamming hasn't been resolved yet... Covered by different sanctions... --Hipal (talk) 15:35, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

Editing news 2021 #2
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Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.

The key results were:


 * Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were more likely to post a comment on a talk page.
 * The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also less likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.

These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.

Looking ahead

The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.

The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.

You can turn on "Discussion Tools" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences.

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List of fatal cougar attacks in North America‎
We continue to have a non-editor vandalize List of fatal cougar attacks in North America‎. SoftwareThing (talk) 00:14, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
 * And I see that the user created a new account and altered the text again. We may need to ask an admin to block that IP, we will need a ruling. SoftwareThing (talk) 00:32, 2 July 2021 (UTC)

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 * An RfC is open to discuss the next steps following a trial which automatically applied pending changes to TFAs.

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 * The community authorised COVID-19 general sanctions have been superseded by the COVID-19 discretionary sanctions following a motion at a case request. Alerts given and sanctions placed under the community authorised general sanctions are now considered alerts for and sanctions under the new discretionary sanctions.

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 * A discussion is open to decide when, if ever, should discord logs be eligible for removal when posted onwiki (including whether to oversight them)
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 * A request for comment is in progress to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the Arbitration Committee election and resolve any issues not covered by existing rules. Comments and new proposals are welcome.

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I am a Scientist and Request Your help
I am new to editing in Wikipedia.

l Request Your help to create new pages on Important topic. Dijo Thomas Scientist (talk) 19:21, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

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 * Following a discussion at the Village Pump, there is consensus to treat discord logs the same as IRC logs. This means that discord logs will be oversighted if posted onwiki.

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 * A motion has standardised the 500/30 (extended confirmed) restrictions placed by the Arbitration Committee. The standardised restriction is now listed in the Arbitration Committee's procedures.
 * Following the closure of the Iranian politics case, standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
 * The Arbitration Committee encourages uninvolved administrators to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.

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 * The community consultation phase of the 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process is open for editors to provide comments and ask questions to candidates.

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Guideline and policy news
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Small token of appreciation
Hey! I'm going through some old BLP discussions related to GSoW and find your name pop up often trying to reason w them. Just wanted to say that even though you were often bludgeoned, you did raise some good concerns about notability and so on. If you could link me to any especially contentious debates regarding S Inquirer as a source for BLP articles or in general any discussion where the involvement of some editors with GSoW made it hard to find consensus that would be appreciated. I'm finding quite a few but want to make sure I don't miss anything especially egregious. A. C. Santacruz &#8258;  Talk  10:42, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia Article about Benjamin Gilmour
Hi. Thank you for reviewing the article [Benjamin Gilmour]. I saw that you put a tag and suggested that it might be a paid work but I can tell you that this is not a paid work. I can clean up or update the article if there is any issue in the content or structure of the Wikipedia article. Thanks again for reviewing the article and sharing feedback. Regards. Billyatthewheels (talk) 13:21, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

SPI
Hi Bilby - hope you are well. Good spot with IamJayYas. Some red flags where flying when I saw their contributions too, esp. those AfD comments. Thanks for doing the legwork with logging the case.  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 07:41, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
 * No problem. Had the master on my list to check re UPE, and the situation there was odd. :) - Bilby (talk) 09:43, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

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Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled
A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:05, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Khaitan Public School, Ghaziabad
Hi Bilby, when you're free then do have a look at UPE edits at Khaitan Public School, Ghaziabad after this hiring. Thanks mate. 122.57.18.230 (talk) 10:59, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2022
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 * 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:, , , , , , ,.

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How we will see unregistered users
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Skepticism and coordinated editing arbitration case opened
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/Skepticism and coordinated editing. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Arbitration/Requests/Case/Skepticism and coordinated editing/Evidence. Please note: per Arbitration Policy, ArbCom is accepting private evidence by email. If in doubt, please email and ArbCom can advise you whether evidence should be public or private. Please add your evidence by January 31, 2022, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Arbitration/Requests/Case/Skepticism and coordinated editing/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. You may unsubscribe from further updates by removing your name from the case notification list.

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This Month in Education: January 2022
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 * 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
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 * Wikimedia Israel’s education program: Students enrich Hebrew Wiktionary with Biblical expressions still in use in modern Hebrew

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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  will be renamed   in 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.

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.

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Why are you editing my user page?
Could you please explain why you are editing my user page? Sgerbic (talk) 06:44, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm not - I fixed an accidental revert. - Bilby (talk) 06:45, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
 * What do you mean a revert? Why were you editing on my user page at all? Sgerbic (talk) 06:48, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I hit revert by mistake. I then realised, and reverted the revert. - Bilby (talk) 06:51, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Why were you in the edit screen on my user page? Sgerbic (talk) 06:54, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I was not on the edit screen of your user page. Sorry for the error. - Bilby (talk) 06:59, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
 * That does not explain it at all? What were you doing on my user page? Sgerbic (talk) 07:01, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but I’m not at a computer at the moment and it is a bit hard writing a long reply. I didn’t open your user page. I think I must have hit rollback on my watch list by mistake - I wasn’t trying to open anything or I would have noticed straight away, so my guess is I must have been putting the phone away. I realised shortly afterwards and reverted my revert. Because I’m on my phone I went for the quickest solution I could. One again, sorry for accidentally reverting your edit, and I tried to fix it as quickly as I could. - Bilby (talk) 07:14, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
 * It just so happened to be my user page that you had been looking at when you put your phone in your pocket? Look Bilby - this is how it feels to me, let me be honest, it is not just you, if it were only you that would be fine. But I have been getting bits of hostility from people involved in that ArbCom case that can't seem to let it go. I don't know if it is because they didn't like the result, or that there is now a general feeling that GSoW are fair game. But it's not a pleasant feeling, at the moment as I write this I'm not feeling the wonderful mood I had only 40 minutes ago when I posted the great news on my user page.
 * I have rewritten four stubs in the last two weeks, I'm very busy trying to revitalize the WikiProject:Skepticism project, and it seems we are already making positive progress. The GSoW has just added it's 2,000th page and we just hit 110 million page views. This is a time for celebration. I'm trying to get work done and build other editors up, and then I see that you have my user page on your watchlist and are doing who knows what. Are you monitoring all my edits? Is my sandbox on your watchlist also? Is there really nothing better to do here on Wikipedia but to continue to monitor me?
 * Why can't you and your buddies leave us alone?
 * I am an adult, I've raised children and have a lot of experience dealing with people. I may be goofy at times, but this is really starting to weigh on my nerves. It is very unlikely I will ever report someone to whatever admin group that is for reporting people, that is not my style, I would rather talk it out. And I know enough about people who are all about the drama to not feed them with my attention. I'm aware of what is being said about GSoW and I here on Wikipedia, but I'm not responding. I'm trying to get work done. I would really appreciate it if we could just move on. I'm not leaving Wikipedia anytime soon and if people can't see that we are not the enemy and assuming that we are just waiting for the opportunity to (insert crime here) when people aren't looking, then I don't know what to do. Sgerbic (talk) 07:43, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
 * sorry, still on my phone so I’m not able to respond to all of this right now. But to be clear once more, I was not on your user page at all. I tried to explain that above. - Bilby (talk) 07:47, 18 March 2022 (UTC)

WP:AFC Helper News
Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest. Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:59, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
 * AFCH will now show live previews of the comment to be left on a decline.
 * The template db-afc-move has been created - this template is similar to db-move when there is a redirect in the way of an acceptance, but specifically tells the patrolling admin to let you (the draft reviewer) take care of the actual move.

Always precious
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:10, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Your messages like this always mean a lot to me, and I really appreciate that you do this for editors. - Bilby (talk) 05:27, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Skepticism and coordinated editing proposed decision posted
The proposed decision in the Skepticism and coordinated editing has been posted. Please review the proposed decision and draw the arbitrators' attention to any relevant material or statements. Comments may be brought to the attention of the committee on the proposed decision talk page. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:00, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

Features for new users coming soon (and mentors, like you, wanted!)
Hello. As you're currently listed as a host at the Teahouse, I wanted to make sure you're aware of the imminent rollout of new Growth  Team Features which every new account will be getting by default. Each users will soon see a new 'Homepage' tab next to their User  page. It contains two main elements which might impact on your involvement - and you'd be welcome to get  involved and help out directly with one of them. To spread the load on our current list of around 65 mentors, I'm reaching out to ask if you'd like to help out and sign up as one? The workload is relatively small; User  reports receiving four questions a month, on average, all of  which were simple ones of the type we already get at the Teahouse  and elsewhere, and I've had just the one in the last 3 weeks. To view a list of every question asked of all mentors over the last 14 days,  click here. If becoming a mentor and helping new users on their first few days here interests you - just as you already do at the Teahouse - then please consider  signing up at Growth Team  features/Mentor list. Existing users can already 'opt-in' to seeing the Newcomer Homepage features via their  Preferences. Thank you! Nick Moyes (talk) 09:54, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Firstly, they will be offered a range of 'suggested edits', and encouraged to make simple improvements to pages that interest them. (Being  aware of this feature would be helpful for all Teahouse hosts if you're  likely to offer advice on tasks for them to start out doing.)
 * There's also a 'Your impact' box to show them how many people have seen the pages they've just edited.
 * Finally, each new user is randomly assigned a 'mentor' from a list of friendly, experienced editors, like yourself. If they get stuck, they can  ask a question directly to them via a Your mentor box, and hopefully get  a swift, friendly answer from that mentor.   Currently, this feature is given to 2% of new users, but it's set to  increase to around 10% in the very near future.

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 * 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