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Tech News: 2017-23
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * You can see new files on Special:NewFiles. You can now pick which dates you want to see files from.
 * When you read Wikipedia on a mobile device the first paragraph now comes before the infobox.
 * You can now remove navigation elements from your results when you search. This could for example be part of an infobox that is only there to help you find the previous or next article.
 * New users on Wikivoyages and Wikipedias (except French, English and German) now get a notification when a page they created is connected to Wikidata. Other wikis will get it 13 June.

Problems
 * The MediaWiki version from two weeks ago was rolled back. It was fixed late last week. Changes that were planned to go out last week did not happen.

Changes this week
 * Wikimedia wikis can show fewer links to articles in other languages. This is to make it easier to find the languages likely to be useful to the reader or editor. Everyone can still click to see the full list. Logged-in users who use the compact language links will see languages they have in their Babel box on their user page in the first, shorter list. You can turn the compact language list off or on in your preferences.
 * You can choose what dates to look at when you look at a user's contributions.
 * When you click on your watchlist in the mobile view you get a list of all pages in the watchlist instead of the latest changes to them. Logged-in users with at least ten edits will now get the latest changes instead.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg String comparisons in Scribunto modules are now always done case-insensitively by byte order. Before they were sometimes in a case-sensitive US-English collation order. This could break some modules.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The 2006 wikitext editor will be removed the week of 27 June. This is the old toolbar with small square blue buttons. You can see a picture of it. 0.03% of active Wikimedia editors use this old tool. They will not see a toolbar at all.
 * Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron already works on German Wikipedia. It will be on English Wikipedia later this week so you can test it there too.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Architecture Committee will change and get a new name. You can read and comment on the draft that describes the new committee.

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Wikidata weekly summary #263
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Open request for bureaucrat: Lymantria


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, June 7th, 18:00, in the WikiBÄR local room
 * Upcoming: An introduction to Wikidata for GLAMs, Berlin, June 9th (more info in German)
 * Upcoming: Hackathon cartographie des logiciels libres in Paris on June 10th
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop during HackZurich, September 14th (registration opening on June 9th)
 * Wikidata, WikiCite, and the "bibliography of life" by Rod Page (Q7356570)
 * MySociety (Q10851773) are publishing a "five part series examining how to use Wikidata to answer the question: 'What is the gender breakdown of heads of government across the world?'".
 * Help us find the offices of heads of governments across the world!
 * Help us to show who fills the role of head of government on Wikidata
 * Linking back in the other direction
 * Check that the data is consistent
 * Wikicite 2017, and the 7 features Wikidata needs most


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Breaking change: "wb_entity_per_page" table will not be updated and replicated on ToolLabs anymore
 * Data donation: following WikiCite, our friends at DBLP (Q1224715) have begun to donate data, with >4,800 values in the first batch, including >1,300 DBLP ID (P2456) plus assorted aliases, and values for VIAF ID (P214), GND ID (P227), ORCID iD (P496), ACM Digital Library author ID (P864), zbMATH author ID (P1556), & Google Scholar ID (P1960).
 * Sitelinks of Wiktionary will be enabled on June 20th


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: reviewed by, Hungarian NGO ID, PLU Code, Latvian Protected Nature Territory ID, Google Scholar paper ID, DNCI musical work ID, Cullum number, Pinakothek artist ID, ADW taxon ID, DFB datacenter player ID, danskefilm TV series ID, danskefilm animated film ID, dimension, USL player ID, The Arabidopsis Information Resource Accession, Ustream username, SlideShare username, Vimeo username, Australian Statistical Geography 2011 ID, Giphy username, Semantic Scholar author ID, Semantic Scholar paper ID, GDP (PPP), RKY national built heritage environment ID, Early Aviators people ID, DBS ID, overrules, Bavarikon ID, shield image, official Facebook page, WFD Ecological status, Latvian Protected Nature Territory URL


 * Query examples:
 * Number of citizens with “blood type” statements per country (source)
 * Works with most citations (running time 20-45s) (source)
 * Female recipients of the Palme d'Or award (source)
 * Timeline of albums by Manu Chao and Mano Negra (source)
 * Female given names ending in "o" (source)
 * Newest external tools: Wikidata Diff (compares two items; proof-of-concept, doesn't yet include qualifiers, etc.), Wikidata Recent Changes livestream
 * Newest database reports: list of items with the property "has fruit type"


 * Development
 * Removing some config variables (T93773)
 * Fixing a conflict with Language Converter (T166429)
 * Showing badges in the sidebar (T73887)
 * Fixing a bug on Query Service (T166762)
 * Adjusting code reading from wb_terms (T162673)
 * Adding an accesskey to the undo button (T165078)
 * Fixing preferences settings for the new Echo notification (T166657)
 * Adding Rangi language (lag) to Wikidata (T161983)
 * Working on moving PropertySuggester extension from github to gerrit (T104309)
 * More work on usage tracking (T151717)
 * More work on Lexemes (T157974)
 * More work on statements (T165480)
 * More work on constraints (T167107)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:42, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 9 June 2017
 * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:18, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #264
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * Discussion: Convert UBERON ID to external-id


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Query Service workshop in Berlin, June 28th
 * Querying OSM + Wikidata from a single RDF database intro (YouTube video) by Yuri Astrakhan
 * The Role of Librarians in Wikidata and WikiCite, by Katie Mika
 * MySociety (Q10851773) have now completed publishing a "five part series examining how to use Wikidata to answer the question: 'What is the gender breakdown of heads of government across the world?'". Here is the full set:
 * Help us find the offices of heads of governments across the world!
 * Help us to show who fills the role of head of government on Wikidata
 * Linking back in the other direction
 * Check that the data is consistent
 * Conclusion: So, what is the gender breakdown of heads of government?


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The call for submissions for the WikidataCon program is now open! Submit your projects to share your experience with the community until July 31st
 * You can also apply for a scholarship for the WikidataCon
 * Breaking change: improving the schema of wb_terms table
 * Wikidata Diff, a tool to compare the basic properties (no qualifiers/ ranks, yet) of two Wikidata items
 * OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher, new tool for OpenStreetMap mappers, to match objects in OSM to Wikidata items, using the wikidata= tag in OSM
 * Announcement & guide


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: EspritBleu athlete ID, J.League manager ID, Sandbox-Geographic shape, SIMC place ID, Sandbox-Tabular data, therapeutic area, emulates, ESBL athlete ID, Rock.com.ar album ID, Rock.com.ar artist ID, Rock.com.ar biography ID, Danish List of Lights and Fog signals ID, South Australian Heritage Register Database ID, field of view, Shironet song ID, Shironet artist ID, Mastodon address, reviewed by, Hungarian NGO ID, PLU Code, Latvian Protected Nature Territory ID, Google Scholar paper ID, DNCI work ID, Cullum number, Pinakothek artist ID


 * Query examples:
 * Coordinates of parallels and meridians according to Wikidata (source)
 * Uses of the property "IPv6 routing prefix" (source)
 * Non-politician jobs that UK Prime Ministers had (source)
 * Newest external tools: matching things in OSM with Wikidata (more information)
 * Newest database reports: new people gallery


 * Development
 * Updating wording re associated Wikidata item following move (T158842)
 * More work on Forms (T163723)
 * Fixing rank icon (T85388)
 * Add monolingual code fkv (T167259)
 * Add monolingual code lag (T161983)
 * More work on property constraints (T167126)
 * Script for populating term_full_entity_id column in wb_terms table (T162533)
 * Full support for wikibase edits in enhanced changes format (T46874)
 * Adding Lua function to get Wikibase entity by site link (T74815)
 * New datatype for referencing Lexemes (T165578)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:24, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-24
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Some wikis have the larger and brighter OOjs UI edit page buttons. When you write an edit summary there you can now see how many bytes you have left before the summary is too long.
 * When you search on Wikipedia you can now find pages on other Wikimedia projects that could be relevant. You see them next to the search results.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You will soon be able to get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account. You can test this on the test wiki. This will only work if they fail to log in to your account.
 * Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron now works on all Wikimedia projects.
 * Administrators can soon search for deleted page titles and find results that are similar to what they searched for. Today the search only finds pages that are exactly the same as what you search for. This is to make it easier to find pages when you don't know the exact title. Administrators on Arabic, Catalan, English, Persian, German, Italian, Polish, and Russian Wikipedia and on mediawiki.org can test this by adding  to the end of the web address when looking at Special:Undelete.

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Sorry about that
Sorry about the copyvio. I'm used to making major changes in my sandbox before transferring to article space, but was following a different pattern because I thought a prominent "Under construction" template might signal to an admin that things are by no means in any sort of final shape. Obviously not...

One habit of mine, when I am working in my sandbox, is to transfer reference material to the page that I am working on to guide my in my writing, because it is very annoying flipping back and forth on a tiny laptop. By the time I finish my work, there is rarely any copyvio problem because I regularly check with Earwig's Copyvio Detector.

Anyhow, it won't happen again. Cheers and keep up the good work! Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 00:20, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm glad to hear it won't happen again. However, even just saving copyvio (copied materials) in a sandbox or in an "under construction draft" is against Wikipedias policies, since it will the be saved to Wikipedia's servers, against copyright laws and policies, even if it is later overwritten in a newer version. (t) Josve05a  (c) 00:47, 17 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Oh, dear. That makes my work a lot harder. Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 00:57, 17 June 2017 (UTC)

Question?
I wondered why you added tags to the editnotice I had created. The tags would be better off in the article itself. BTW, it is certainly not an orphan with almost 200 links! In fact it looks like I make some sort of mistake and did not create the editnotice correctly because it does not appear when editing the article. Do you know how to fix it? Thanks. ww2censor (talk) 09:45, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I believe you need to move it to Template:Editnotices/Page/List of twin towns and sister cities in the Republic of Ireland (using admin account or template editor account), per Wikipedia:Editnotice § Creating editnotice. (t) Josve05a  (c) 10:18, 17 June 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #265
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New requests for comments:
 * How would you state the number of (rooms, restaurants, suites) in a hotel?
 * Findagrave removed as a source for information


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Hackathon about election data in Ulm, Germany, June 23-25th
 * Upcoming: Peer-to-peer Wikidata workshop 2017, June 24th, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
 * Upcoming: Query Service workshop in Berlin, June 28th, 18:00, in WMDE's office
 * Upcoming: IRC office hour, June 28th, at 20:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), on the channel
 * Wikidata as authority linking hub (PDF). Presentation by Joachim Neubert (ZBW) and Jakob Voß (GBV) at ELAG 2017 conference in Athens
 * Facto Post newsletter, first issue and comments on Wikidata at Project chat. Contains a number of blog links, particularly about WikiCite.


 * WikidataCon
 * Registration is now open! Check the information and fill the form to register.
 * Let's build the program by proposing a project until July 31st
 * Due the necessary time for people to get visas (about 3 months), we changed the deadline for the scholarship applications. You can apply for a scholarship before July 16th. We will then make sure that the applicants receive a response on July 25th.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * We have reached 500,000,000 edits.
 * You can now query the Mediawiki API from the Query Service (documentation)
 * Your feedback is still welcome on the prototype for editing Wikidata from Wikipedia
 * beaTunes 5’s new Album Info pane is powered by Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Zemereshet song ID, Zemereshet artist ID, identifier shared with, CONI athlete ID, CIS Chinese Athletes Database ID, COSR athlete ID, MOB athlete ID, COA athlete ID, Team USA athlete ID, ČOV athlete ID, LTOK athlete ID, COB athlete ID, Irish National Monument ID, FINESS medical facility ID, Irish Sites and Monuments Record ID, NZOC athlete ID, Norwegian List of Lights ID, Team Canada athlete ID, Deutsche Olympiamannschaft athlete ID, Academia.edu institutional ID, Ukrainian regulations base ID


 * Query examples:
 * Gallery of monsters of the Japanese folklore
 * Lang by number of label (with quarry.wmflabs.org)
 * The 10 smallest countries with some kind of urban rail transit system (source)
 * Occupations with highest rate of deaths by homicide (source)
 * Software titles ranked by number of readable file formats (source)
 * Newest external tools: Causegraph, a tool to visualize and analyze cause/influence relationships using Wikidata


 * Development
 * Improvements to Wikidata Query Service UI
 * Continued work on importing property constraints from statements (T102759)
 * Started to add support for Senses of Lexeme entities (T160053)
 * More experimenting with the new front-end framework
 * Added RDF mapping for "tabular data" data type (T167951)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:30, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-25
<section begin="technews-2017-W25"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Problems
 * ORES had some problems on 13 June between 16:00 and 19:40 UTC. It has now been fixed.

Changes this week
 * has to be rebooted. This will probably happen on 21 June. It may be postponed. Some tools use this to get the recent changes feed. They will not work when it is down.
 * Octicons-tools.svg  will be an entry point for machine-readable page data.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 June. It will be on all wikis from 22 June (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. You can now see how the TemplateStyles extension works on Beta Labs.

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Next Signpost "In the media"
Hello!

I'm dipping my toe in helping out with the Signpost and decided copy-editing was a safe bet. Mistake! Where does one draw the line between copy and content-edit? I learned it's quite different from WP editing because this has a name attached to it, so there's this responsibility not to make changes that will cause misrepresentation of someone else's work. Eep.

Anyway, in the end I just went full-hog in my own userspace. Feel free to take or leave anything from User:Altercari/In the media. I caught a couple of typos, but a lot of it is more about wording and content. No worries if it's not of any use.

Great stuff by the way! — <b style="color:#3F9"> A L T E R C A R I </b> ✍ 12:11, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
 * {{Ping|Altercari Thank you for your sugestions! I've gone a head and used all of them, and welcome you to edit directly in the article if you want to.It is true that it as an official name as the writer, but if the copyedits someone makes doe snot sit well with the original writer, they are free to revert. Be bold :) <span style="background: turquoise;font-family: 'Segoe Script', 'Comic Sans MS';">(t) Josve05a  (c) 04:29, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

Request for reviewing a draft: Anita Yadav
Hey Josve05a! Hope your good ! I would like to make a request to review my draft (i.e. draft:Anita Yadav) to publish it on encyclopaedia as soon as possible. I'll be glad if you could help me out with the same. Thankyou :)

Frany90 (talk) 21:35, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 June 2017
<div class="hlist" style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:31, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #266
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 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Rennes, June 26th
 * Upcoming: Query Service workshop in Berlin, June 28th, 18:00, in WMDE's office
 * Upcoming: IRC office hour, June 28th, at 20:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), on the channel
 * Past: Hackathon about election data in Ulm, June 23-25 (some documentation in German)
 * Building communities of knowledge with Wikidata, by Benjamin Good of the 'Gene Wiki' project
 * ORCID Mania (in response to this call for a tool to automate the addition of ORCID iDs to Wikidata)
 * I use Wikidata for multilingual names, by MySociety's 'EveryPoliticianBot'
 * Resource discovery and Wikidata
 * Where the streets have known names - Academic paper on OSM & Wikidata
 * Extracting scientists from Wikipedia - Academic paper
 * ¿Sabes cómo usar la base de datos Wikidata? (es) by the Cervantes virtual library
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * What are your favorite tools using Wikidata?
 * Wiktionary sitelinks have been enabled on Wikidata
 * New Wikidata Game: Wikidata Guessr guess the locations of random Wikidata items
 * OpenRefine 2.7 has been released, including the Wikidata Reconcile service
 * Nice graphics about Wikidata and the Query Service (in German) by Bleeptrack
 * New data donation by Giphy. Some help needed to match the catalogue
 * Some help needed to map the UNESCO Atlas of World Languages in Danger and the Glottolog catalogue


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: Irish National Inventory of Architectural Heritage ID, MyAnimeList manga ID, MyAnimeList anime ID, MyAnimeList character ID, MyAnimeList people ID, HFC NPS unit ID, image captured with, Biodiversity Heritage Library creator ID, number of houses, Theatres Trust Database ID, SKIP code, Pizmonet ID, WorldSBK.com racer identifier, Czech Monument Catalogue Number, FFN swimmer ID, Wikia wiki ID


 * Query examples:
 * BubbleChart of Metal band by country (source)
 * Viennese composers and their compositions by tonality (source)
 * Most prolific authors of scientific articles on Wikidata, who are still alive, without ORCID (source)
 * Average age of members of the Landtag of Thuringia (source)
 * Newest external tools: VizQuery


 * Development
 * Creating a separate section for constraint statements (example)
 * Adding client-side hooks for saving and removing statements (T167870)
 * More work on constraints checks (T168629)
 * Enabling Wikidata edits in the enhanced recent changes and watchlist on clients (T46874)
 * Updating constraint check user script and propose to make it a gadget (T167625)
 * Creating Special:PageData as a canonical entry point for machine readable page data (T163923)
 * Working on editable Glosses on Senses (non-persistent) (T165567)
 * Setting up federation on mediainfo test system (T163119)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:00, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-26
<section begin="technews-2017-W26"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * The <inputbox> has a new  parameter. You can add values like  . It will add that to the user's search query.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 June. It will be on all wikis from 29 June (calendar).
 * Users will be able to choose whether they want to see Wikidata changes in enhanced watchlist/recent changes. Previously, this was disabled for everyone.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * You can join the next WMF Language team office hour, an open session to talk about Wikimedia Language projects. The meeting will be on 27 June at 13:00 UTC.

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WikiCup 2017 July newsletter
The third round of the competition has finished in a flurry of last minute activity, with 288 points being required to qualify for round 4. It was a hotly competitive round with all but four of the contestants exceeding the 106 points that was necessary to proceed to round 4 last year. Coemgenus and Freikorp tied on 288, and both have been allowed to proceed, so round 4 now has one pool of eight competitors and one of nine.

Round 3 saw the achievement of a 26-topic Featured topic by MPJ-DK as well as 5 featured lists and 13 featured articles. PanagiotisZois and SounderBruce achieved their first ever featured articles. Carbrera led the GA score with 10, Tachs achieved 17 DYKs and MBlaze Lightning 10 In the news items. There were 167 DYKs, 93 GARs and 82 GAs overall, this last figure being higher than the number of GAs in round 2, when twice as many people were taking part. Even though contestants performed more GARs than they achieved GAs, there was still some frustration at the length of time taken to get articles reviewed.

As we start round 4, we say goodbye to the fifteen or so competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them (some people have fallen foul of this rule and the points have been removed).

If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. 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. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 05:38, 30 June 2017 (UTC)