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Newsletter: Indian military history work-group August 2016
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 * Improvements
 * List of destroyers of the Indian Navy was almost improved to class status (awaiting a closure of review) by.
 * Kamorta-class corvette was improved to GA status by
 * Sam Manekshaw was improved to class by  (also a present GA nominee)

Discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Noticeboard_for_India-related_topics
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Noticeboard_for_India-related_topics. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk •&#32;mail) 14:18, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

Military history WikiProject coordinator election
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User:Kautilya3
Hi Strike, could User Kautilya3 be our old comrade Chanakyathegreat? Thanks. - BilCat (talk) 18:09, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Hey. What makes you to think so? This guys seems to be more interested in India - Pakistan conflicts and similar issues while our erstwhile legend specifically focused on Indian Armed Forces and International Relations. Can't find a strong match IMO. Cheers,  ƬheStrike  Σagle   14:50, 18 October 2016 (UTC)


 * I was just wondering. Seemed to have the same know-it-all attitude, and the account was created several months after the last known Chanakyathegreat sock was blocked. Also, I was reading Kautilya3's user page, and noticed that Kautilya and Chanakya are related names in Indian mythology. Seemed a bit too coincidental, so I asked for your opinion. Thanks. - BilCat (talk) 22:36, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

Asian 10,000 Challenge invite
Hi. The WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland The 10,000 Challenge and WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like South East Asia, Japan/China or India etc, much like The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. At some stage we hope to run some contests to benefit Asian content, a destubathon perhaps, aimed at reducing the stub count would be a good place to start, based on the current WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon which has produced near 200 articles in just three days. If you would like to see this happening for Asia, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Asia, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant! Thank you. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 03:03, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

Editor of the Week [29 October 2016]
User:Krishna Chaitanya Velaga submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:
 * I nominate to be Editor of the Week for his endless contributions on English Wikipedia. He has over 16,000 edits and played a significant role in improving 6 article to GA level and 16 DYK's and 5 made it into 'In the news..'. He is well-known among the editors who work on articles related to Indian military. The user is presently autopatrolled, pending changes reviewer, rollbacker rights besiders extended confirmed.

You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week: Thanks again for your efforts! Kevin ( aka L235 ·&#32; t ·&#32; c) 16:42, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot Chaitanya and Kevin for the surprise! Very much appreciated! Cheers,   ƬheStrike  Σagle   18:29, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Congratulations Strike! Very well deserved. I will never forget that you were one of the first editors here to help me out when I was a newbie, back in 2012, along with . I often see you around doing good work. Well deserved award my friend. Simon Irondome (talk) 18:27, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Ah the good old days! Very glad to see you again around Irondome! Happy Editing! Cheers,   ƬheStrike  Σagle   18:29, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Congrats! Your service to the Wi-community is awesome. Buster Seven   Talk  02:09, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot Buster7. Very much appreciated! Happy Editing! Cheers,   ƬheStrike  Σagle   18:29, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

WikiCup 2016 November newsletter: Final results
The final round of the 2016 WikiCup is over. Congratulations to the 2016 WikiCup top three finalists:
 * First Place -
 * Second Place -
 * Third Place -

In addition to recognizing the achievements of the top finishers and everyone who worked hard to make it to the final round, we also want to recognize those participants who were most productive in each of the WikiCup scoring categories:
 * Featured Article – Cas Liber (actually a three-way tie with themselves for two FAs in each of R2, R3, and R5).
 * Good Article – MPJ-DK had 14 GAs promoted in R3.
 * Featured List – produced 2 FLs in R2
 * Featured Pictures – Adam Cuerden restored 18 images to FP status in R4.
 * Featured Portal – produced the only FPO of the Cup in R2.
 * Featured Topic – and Calvin were each responsible for one FT in R3 and R2, respectively.
 * Good Topic – MPJ-DK created a GT with 9 GAs in R5.
 * Did You Know – MPJ-DK put 53 DYKs on the main page in R4.
 * In The News – and, each with 5 ITN, both in R4.
 * Good Article Review – MPJ-DK completed 61 GARs in R2.

Over the course of the 2016 WikiCup the following content was added to Wikipedia (only reporting on fixed value categories): 17 Featured Articles, 183 Good Articles, 8 Featured Lists, 87 Featured Pictures, 40 In The News, and 321 Good Article Reviews. Thank you to all the competitors for your hard work and what you have done to improve Wikipedia.--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:52, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

We will open up a discussion for comments on process and scoring in a few days. The 2017 WikiCup is just around the corner! Many thanks from all the judges. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. ,, and

WikiProject Good Articles's 2016-2017 GA Cup
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New deal for page patrollers
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In order to better control the quality  of new pages, keep out the spam, and welcome the genuine newbies, the current system we introduced in 2011 is being updated and improved. The documentation and tutorials have also been revised and given a facelift. Most importantly a new user group New Page Reviewer has been created.

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WikiCup December newsletter: WikiCup 2017
On 1 January 2017, WikiCup 2017 (the 10th Annual WikiCup) will begin. This year we are trying something a little different – monetary prizes.

For the WC2017 the prizes will be as follows (amounts are based in US$ and will be awarded in the form of an online Amazon gift certificate):
 * First place – $200
 * Second & Third place – $50 each
 * Category prizes – $25 per category (which will be limited to FA, FL, FP, GA, and DYK for 2017). Winning a category prize does not require making it to the final round.

Note: Monetary prizes are a one-year experiment for 2017 and may or may not be continued in the future. In order to be eligible to receive any of the prizes above, the competing Wikipedia account must have a valid/active email address. After two years as a WikiCup judge, Figureskatingfan is stepping down. We thank her for her contributions as a WikiCup judge. We are pleased to announce that our newest judge is two-time WikiCup champion Cwmhiraeth.

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Merry, merry!
From the icy Canajian north; to you and yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 21:41, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

Voting for the Military history WikiProject Historian and Newcomer of the Year is ending soon!
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March Madness 2017
G'day all, please be advised that throughout March 2017 the Military history Wikiproject is running its March Madness drive. This is a backlog drive that is focused on several key areas:


 * tagging and assessing articles that fall within the project's scope
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 * creating articles that are listed as "requested" on the project's various task force pages or other lists of missing articles.

As with past Milhist drives, there are points awarded for working on articles in the targeted areas, with barnstars being awarded at the end for different levels of achievement.

The drive is open to all Wikipedians, not just members of the Military history project, although only work on articles that fall (broadly) within the military history scope will be considered eligible. More information can be found here for those that are interested, and members can sign up as participants at that page also.

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