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April 13: WikiWednesday Salon NYC and Mini-Video Opportunity
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Precious anniversary
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Saturday April 30: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa @ Guggenheim
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May 25: WikiWednesday Salon NYC / Enterprise MediaWiki Conference
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Sunday June 5: Women in Jewish History Edit-a-thon
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This Month in Education: [June 2016]
 Wikimedia Education Newsletter – Volume 1, Issue 3, June 2016  Headlines &middot; Highlights &middot; Single page &middot; Newsroom &middot; Archives &middot;  Unsubscribe




 * Argentina: A New Online Course in a New Virtual Campus
 * Czech Republic: How to survive the Big Bang in your education program
 * Estonia: An online elective course on Wikipedia for high school pupils in Estonia‎
 * Greece: Argostoli Evening School students and a Wikitherapy participant turn Wiktionary project into Android app
 * Israel: New training materials in Arabic by WMIL‎‎‎
 * Mexico: Luz María Silva's students and their adventure editing Spanish Wikipedia
 * Mexico: Spring semester wiki activities end at Tec de Monterrey, Mexico City‎‎
 * Netherlands: Maastricht University 40 years
 * Sweden: Students in Sweden edit Somali Wikipedia‎
 * Taiwan: Visualizations of relationships among knowledge? Try WikiSeeker!
 * Wikimania 2016: Education at Wikimania‎‎
 * Wikimedia Foundation: Education Program surveys are here!
 * Wikimedia Foundation: Vahid Masrour joins the education team at the Wikimedia Foundation
 * Global: Programs and Events Dashboard Update
 * Global: Articles of interest in other publications

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The Signpost: 05 June 2016
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Feedback requested
Hi, Ragesoss. What can I help you with? Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:54, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

June 15: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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The Signpost: 15 June 2016
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Wednesday June 29: Wiki Loves Pride Edit-a-thon @ MoMA
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Guided tour for VE
Could I ask, if we could collaborate and finish Guided tour for VE? What is the state of it at the moment? How much is missing there? How could programmers from cswiki help to make it complete? --Dvorapa (talk) 08:49, 24 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi Dvorapa! That version of the tour is part of the Wiki Ed trainings on dashboard.wikiedu.org. It's functional and working in that context, but some changes would be necessary to make it work for cs.wiki. But it should be a good starting point for a programmer to adapt it for cswiki.--ragesoss (talk) 12:58, 25 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Sure. My colleague from cswiki told me you are in the middle of its development, therefore I asked if it is done. I'll take a look and adapt it. Thank you. --Dvorapa (talk) 13:15, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 July 2016
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Sunday July 10: WikNYC Picnic @ Central Park
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A kitten for you!
A belated thank you for helping me with the lost luggage process at Malpensa. It was so much easier having you with me than trying to find that desk all by myself, and then trying to reconnect with the rest of the group. Thanks again!

Rosiestep (talk) 18:04, 15 July 2016 (UTC) 

The Signpost: 21 July 2016
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August 17: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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This Month in Education: [September 2016]
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 * Armenia: Armenian students inspire their parents to join Wikipedia
 * Brazil: Brazilian Wikimedians interview editor of academic journal Wiki Studies
 * Egypt: Cairo University students wrap up their eighth term and start their ninth term on WEP
 * Egypt: Egyptian Wikimedians celebrate eighth WEP conference
 * Greece: Online wiki training for educators in Greece
 * Israel: Outcomes report on a Wikipedia Course “Skills for Producing and Consuming Knowledge”, Tel Aviv University
 * Israel: Wikipedia as a Teaching and Learning Tool in Medical Education at IAMSE Medical Education Conference
 * Israel: "Writing a new article is a special experience that feels new every time"
 * Mexico: Video projects redefine student Wiki work and student community service
 * Russia: Wiki Workshop at Saint Petersburg Internet Conference 2016 in Russia
 * Sweden: Swedish National Agency of Education endorses Wikipedia Education Program
 * Turkey: Psychology students of Uludag University are very proud of contributing Turkish Wikipedia
 * West Africa: West African schools will test Kiwix, the offline Wikipedia reader
 * Global: Programs and Events Dashboard Update
 * Global: Articles of interest in other publications

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The Signpost: 06 September 2016
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September 14: WikiWednesday Salon / Wikimedia NYC Annual Meeting
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Maynooth University
Hello Ragesoss, Thank you so much for volunteering to help out with this project. I have created a page and will be populating/updating it over the next day or two: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Program:Maynooth_University/Critical_Skills_(Fall_2016) The short version of the assignment is this: students will create an account, complete the tutorial, and make ten small edits to improve articles. Suggested edits will be to add relevant academic sources to 'further reading' sections of articles, or to upload and use a public domain image.

Maynooth University
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The Signpost: 29 September 2016
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Sun October 16: CommonsLab / Open House NY Photo Contest + Hackathon
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The Signpost: 14 October 2016
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Saturday October 22: WikiArte Latin American Edit-a-thon @ MoMA
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The Signpost: 4 November 2016
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Saturday November 12: Women in Science Edit-a-thon @ NY Academy of Sciences (plus Sunday Indigenous People's Justice event)
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Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins
Hello,

Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:34, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

Pictures from Pittsburgh museum
Hello.

I saw on the Commons website that you uploaded pictures from Pittsburgh museum, thats's the reason why i send you this message.

I'm looking for pictures of the Nimatron, an automata built in 1940. The Nimatron (google translation) should be at the "Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science Building". Are you, in any way, able to go there and take some pictures of it and then upload them to the Commons website ?

I already asked this 2 times without answer here (Pittsburgh portal), village pump).

Regards --Archimëa (talk) 09:32, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

A new user right for New Page Patrollers
Hi.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins) .MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Saturday December 3: Contemporary Chinese Art Edit-a-thon @ Guggenheim
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The Signpost: 4 November 2016
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Please join us for our Cascadia Wikimedians annual meeting, Saturday, December 17, 2pm
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December 21: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (plus Wikipedia Day on Jan 15!)
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The Signpost: 22 December 2016
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This Month in Education: December 2016
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 * Greece: Greek schools collaborate to write on local history
 * Israel: It’s a win win project: An interview with Sivan Lerer, a teacher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
 * Germany: Open Science Fellows Program launched in Germany
 * Basque Country: Students go wikipedian in the Basque Country
 * Norway: Third term of Wikipedia editing at the University of Oslo
 * Macedonia: First Wiki Club in Macedonia
 * Global: Articles of interest in other publications

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A kitten for you!
Hey Sage, Rage! Is that your voice in the citations video? Happy new year..!

Dr Aaij (talk) 17:09, 17 January 2017 (UTC) <br style="clear: both;"/>
 * Hmm--I am watching part 2, but part 1 worked with Visual Editor, so I changed--but part 2 is the old interface. Dr Aaij (talk) 17:10, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
 * OK, I see that Visual Editor was discussed in an earlier training; still, I'd like an explicit "hey we're using the other editor". But maybe I missed it. Dr Aaij (talk) 17:22, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Dr Aaij: Thanks! Yep, that's me! Hopefully we can make some updated versions eventually. We gradually shifted to having all the article editing instructions based on VisualEditor, which on average is much easier to newbies to get going with these days.--ragesoss (talk) 17:33, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I played with VE a bit. As you know I'm an old guy so new things are difficult for me, but I got it working. At least it has the automatic fill-in for citations, which I lost on my main account, God knows why. Take care, Dr Aaij (talk) 02:03, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter - February 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13

Guideline and policy news
 * A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
 * Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
 * Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news
 * When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
 * Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
 * The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries
 * JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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February 15: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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The Signpost: 27 February 2017
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This Month in Education: [February 2017]
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March 11: Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon @ MoMA (and beyond!)
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Sunday March 26: Action=History Wiki-Hackathon @ Ace Hotel
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Nomination of Biotechnology company for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Biotechnology company is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Biotechnology company until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. South Nashua (talk) 15:03, 23 March 2017 (UTC)