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The Signpost: 31 March 2019
 News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
 * From the editors: Getting serious about humor


 * News and notes: Blackouts fail to stop EU Copyright Directive


 * In the media: Women's history month


 * Discussion report: Portal debates continue, Prespa agreement aftermath, WMF seeks a rebranding


 * Featured content: Out of this world


 * Arbitration report: The Tides of March at ARBCOM


 * Traffic report: Exultations and tribulations


 * Technology report: New section suggestions and sitewide styles


 * News from the WMF: The WMF's take on the new EU Copyright Directive


 * Recent research: Barnstar-like awards increase new editor retention


 * From the archives: Esperanza organization disbanded after deletion discussion


 * Humour: The Epistolary of Arthur 37


 * Op-Ed: Pro and Con: Has gun violence been improperly excluded from gun articles?


 * In focus: The Wikipedia SourceWatch


 * Special report: Wiki Loves (50 Years of) Pride


 * Community view: Wikipedia's response to the New Zealand mosque shootings

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Please comment on Talk:Swedes
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This Month in GLAM: March 2019
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The Bugle: Issue CLVI, April 2019
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Precious anniversary
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The Signpost: 30 April 2019
 News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
 * News and notes: An Action Packed April


 * In the media: Is Wikipedia just another social media site?


 * Discussion report: English Wikipedia community's conclusions on talk pages


 * Featured content: Anguish, accolades, animals, and art


 * Arbitration report: An Active Arbitration Committee


 * Traffic report: Mötley Crüe, Notre-Dame, a black hole, and Bonnie and Clyde


 * Technology report: A new special page, and other news


 * Gallery: Notre-Dame de Paris burns


 * News from the WMF: Can machine learning uncover Wikipedia’s missing “citation needed” tags?


 * Recent research: Female scholars underrepresented; whitepaper on Wikidata and libraries; undo patterns reveal editor hierarchy


 * From the archives: Portals revisited


 * Humour: Jimbo and Larry walk into a bar ...


 * Opinion: The gaps in our knowledge of our gaps


 * Interview: Katherine Maher marks 3 years as executive director


 * Community view: 2019 Wikimedia Summit gathers movement affiliate representatives to discuss movement strategy

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WikiCup 2019 May newsletter
The second round of the 2019 WikiCup has now finished. Contestants needed to scored 32 points to advance into round 3. Our top four scorers in round 2 all scored over 400 points and were:

Other notable performances were put in by Barkeep49 with six GAs, 🇺🇸 Ceranthor, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Vilenski, and  Canada Hky, each with seven GARs, and 🇩🇰 MPJ-DK with a seven item GT.
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Cas Liber (1210), our winner in 2016, with two featured articles and three DYKs. He also made good use of the bonus points available, more than doubling his score by choosing appropriate articles to work on.
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Kosack (750), last year's runner up, with an FA, a GA, two FLs, and five DYKs.
 * Pirate_Flag_of_Henry_Every.svg (480), a WikiCup veteran, with 16 featured pictures, mostly restorations.
 * Zwerg Nase (461), a seasoned competitor, with a FA, a GA and an ITN item.

So far contestants have achieved nine featured articles between them and a splendid 80 good articles. Commendably, 227 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2019 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. The judges are pleased with the thorough GARs 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 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 WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:46, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLVII, May 2019
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Books & Bytes, Issue 33
 The Wikipedia Library Books & Bytes

Issue 33, March – April 2019 
 * # 1Lib1Ref
 * Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
 * Global branches update
 * Bytes in brief

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The Signpost: 31 May 2019
 News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
 * From the editors: Picture that


 * News and notes: Wikimania and trustee elections


 * In the media: Politics, lawsuits and baseball


 * Discussion report: Admin abuse leads to mass-desysop proposal on Azerbaijani Wikipedia


 * Recent research: Wikipedia more useful than academic journals, but is it stealing the news?


 * Arbitration report: ArbCom forges ahead


 * News from the WMF: Wikimedia Foundation petitions the European Court of Human Rights to lift the block of Wikipedia in Turkey


 * Traffic report: Dark marvels, thrones, a vile serial killer biopic, that's entertainment!


 * Technology report: Lots of Bots


 * Essay: Paid editing

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 * From the archives: FORUM:Should Wikimedia modify its terms of use to require disclosure?

Your GA nomination of Ankita Bhakat
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GOCE June newsletter
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The Bugle: Issue CLVIII, June 2019
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The Signpost: 30 June 2019
 News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
 * Discussion report: A constitutional crisis hits English Wikipedia


 * News and notes: Mysterious ban, admin resignations, Wikimedia Thailand rising


 * In the media: The disinformation age


 * On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?


 * Special report: Did Fram harass other editors?


 * Traffic report: Juneteenth, Beauty Revealed, and more nuclear disasters


 * Technology report: Actors and Bots


 * Gallery: Unlike the North Face, Wiki Loves Earth


 * Recent research: What do editors do after being blocked?; the top mathematicians, universities and cancers according to Wikipedia


 * From the archives: Women and Wikipedia: the world is watching


 * Opinion: Why the Terms of Use change didn't curtail undisclosed paid editing—and what might


 * In focus: WikiJournals: A sister project proposal


 * Community view: A CEO biography, paid for with taxes

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 * Op-Ed: 2019 Wikimedia Affiliate Selected Board Seats Election Results

WikiCup 2019 July newsletter
The third round of the 2019 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round needed to score at least 68 points, which is substantially lower than last year's 227 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:


 * 🇳🇫 Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with 500 points derived mainly from a featured article and two GAs on natural history topics
 * Adam Cuerden, with 480 points, a tally built on 16 featured pictures, the result of meticulous restoration work
 * SounderBruce, a finalist in the last two years, with 306 points from a variety of submissions, mostly related to sport or the State of Washington
 * 🇺🇸 Usernameunique, with 305 points derived from a featured article and two GAs on archaeology and related topics

Contestants managed 4 (5) featured articles, 4 featured lists, 18 featured pictures, 29 good articles, 50 DYK entries, 9 ITN entries, and 39 good article reviews. As we enter the fourth round, remember that 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, and it is imperative to claim them in the correct round; one FA claim had to be rejected because it was incorrectly submitted (claimed in Round 3 when it qualified for Round 2), so be warned! When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on 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 WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:12, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

Books & Bytes Issue 34, May – June 2019
 The Wikipedia Library Books & Bytes

Issue 34, May – June 2019  French version of Books & Bytes is now available on meta!
 * Partnerships
 * # 1Lib1Ref
 * Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
 * Global branches update
 * Bytes in brief

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The Bugle: Issue CLIX, July 2019
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The Signpost: 31 July 2019
 News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
 * News and notes: Wikimedia grants less accessible for travel, equipment, meetups, and India


 * In the media: Politics starts getting rough


 * Discussion report: New proposals in aftermath of Fram ban


 * Arbitration report: A month of reintegration


 * Gallery: Classic panoramas from Heinrich Berann


 * On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?


 * Community view: Video based summaries of Wikipedia articles. How and why?


 * News from the WMF: Designing ethically with AI: How Wikimedia can harness machine learning in a responsible and human-centered way


 * Recent research: Most influential medical journals; detecting pages to protect


 * Special report: Administrator cadre continues to contract


 * Traffic report: World cups, presidential candidates, and stranger things


 * In focus: The French Wikipedia is overtaking the German

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