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Invitation from WAM 2017
Hi WAM organizers!

Hope you receive your postcard successfully! Now it's a great time to sign up at the 2017 WAM, which will still take place in November. Here are some updates and improvements we will make for upcoming WAM. If you have any suggestions or thoughts, feel free to discuss on the meta talk page.

If you no longer want to receive the WAM organizer message, you can remove your username at this page.
 * 1) We want to host many onsite Edit-a-thons all over the world this year. If you would like to host one in your city, please take a look and sign up at this page.
 * 2) We will have many special prize provided by Wikimedia Affiliates and others. Take a look at here. Let me know if your organization also would like to offer a similar thing.
 * 3) Please encourage other organizers and participants to sign-up in this page to receive updates and news on Wikipedia Asian Month.

Reach out the WAM team here at the meta talk page if you have any questions.

Best Wishes,

Sailesh Patnaik

Happy birthday!
Warm regards, Mz7 (talk) 00:33, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
 * A belated thank you! :) ~ Super  Hamster  Talk Contribs 05:14, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

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WAM Reminder
Hi WAM organizers!

Thanks again for organizing Wikipedia Asian Month. There are only 4 days before it starts. If you haven't yet signed your language in WAM 2017, You can sign-up here. Below we have provided some notices and guidelines for organizing.
 * Page Setup
 * Our Sample page is ready to be translated. There are only a few adjustments if you had this page for 2016 already.
 * Article Requirement is 4
 * Article criteria are 3k bytes and 300 words. NO 2k bytes for smaller Wikipedia.
 * According to the tool's limit, IP users can not participate. Please encourage them to register an account.


 * Localization
 * Please localize this template and used on sign up page. I will update the template once the tool is ready to be used.
 * You may localize this page, but you can also just put a link towards the meta page. Wikipedia Asian Month/QA


 * Strategy
 * You may have to invite some of your Wikipedia friends or active Wikipedians from your home WIKI to help you organize.
 * You may have to send some invitation to last year participants, active Wikipedians, and Wikipedians who has a special interest.
 * Central Notice will be used. You may use the Site Notice if you don't see the CN is deployed.


 * Reward
 * We will keep sending postcards (new design) this year, and as an organizer, you will receive an additional postcard as well.
 * We will have many special prizes provided by Wikimedia Affiliates and others. Take a look at here. Let me know if your organization also would like to offer a similar thing.
 * We will send the Ambassador a regular paper copy of the certificate through the basic mail.

Please feel free to contact me or the WAM team meta talk page, send me an email by Email this User or chat with me on facebook.
 * Question

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Best Wishes,

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WikiCup 2017 November newsletter: Final results
The final round of the 2017 WikiCup is over. Congratulations to the 2017 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 two-way tie with themselves for an astonishing five FAs in R2 and R4).
 * Good Article – Adityavagarwal had 14 GAs promoted in R5.
 * Featured List – and  both produced 2 FLs in R2
 * Featured Pictures – improved an image to FP status in R5, the only FP this year.
 * Featured Topic – has the only FT of the Cup in R3.
 * Good Topic – Four different editors created a GT in R2, R3 and R4.
 * Did You Know – Adityavagarwal had 22 DYKs on the main page in R5.
 * In The News – had 14 ITN on the main page in R2.
 * Good Article Review – completed 31 GARs in R1.

Over the course of the 2017 WikiCup the following content was added or improved on Wikipedia: 51 Featured Articles, 292 Good Articles, 18 Featured Lists, 1 Featured Picture, 1 Featured Topics, 4 Good Topics, around 400 Did You Knows, 75 In The News, and 442 Good Article Reviews. Thank you to all the competitors for your hard work and what you have done to improve Wikipedia.

Regarding the prize vouchers - please send  an email from the email address to which you would like your Amazon voucher sent. Please include your preference of global Amazon marketplace as well. We hope to have the electronic gift cards processed and sent within a week.

We will open up a discussion for comments on process and scoring in a few days. The 2018 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 MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:41, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Linking
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Wikipedia Asian Month 2017: engage with audience
Dear WAM organizer,

I’m Erick, the coordinator of WAM 2017. Thanks for your effort and help at m:Wikipedia Asian Month 2017! Here are some more information about organizational matter of the event at a national level.

You are receiving this message because you have signed up as a organizer or in the list.

The event has started and will end in the November 30th 23:59 (UTC). However, we are late for some matter. So we need your help:
 * Timeline
 * Invite previous participants and your community members to join. We have a template you can use.
 * Translate Central Notice for your community (more instruction below) as well as sending a notice in village pump. Go public!
 * Become the jury member in a campaign on Fountain which is an amazing tool for you to supervise participants’ articles. If you don’t have the campaign set up, please contact us! And put a link to your community’s campaign page for participants’ navigation.
 * Organize a off-site editathon event. A coffee bar, internet and laptops. Though it’s optional. If you want to do that, please contact me.

In the following days, you should answer the questions from your community and supervise the submissions. Hope you have fun!


 * Prepare Central Notice

Central Notice shows a banner on the top of pages in your wiki project along the event timeframe. We will use this to engage with audience. Steps:


 * 1) Translate, change logo and link to event page. Find your project's Central Notice here. For example, we can change the banner for Chinese Wikipedia here.
 * 2) When you mark the 4 items (translation) as done. I'll enable the central notice in your language for this month.


 * Interesting articles

Have some interesting articles in your mind or from community? Drop us a line so that we can post that here to exchange the information to other communities.

You can find some special prizes in Event Partner page. They can be claimed by:
 * Special Prize


 * Write an article about Indigenous people in Taiwan at Wikipedia Asian Month (supported by Wikimedia Taiwan).
 * Write articles on monuments of Bhubaneswar (supported by Bhubaneswar Heritage Edit-a-thon).

The participants who joins for the special prize need to also report their conribution in the speical page. The link is shown in the Event Partner page.


 * Looking for help

At all times, please reply me back or send me an email at erick@asianmonth.wiki.--Fantasticfears (talk) 12:13, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Large number of WP:WAM entries copy-pasted
See. Basically, one of the participants has been posting the same basic article multiple times, with the names and numbers switched out each time, but almost all the running prose being identical. These are not great articles in themselves (the names and numbers come from mostly primary sources, and they need serious copy-editing), but what's worse is that it turns out that that article being copy-pasted multiple times was actually written by someone else back in 2014-2015, and no attribution was given.

I also kinda wonder whether it would even be appropriate putting those pages in for WAM even if proper attribution was present. At present the user's first WAM entry, Lingapalem mandal, contains 341 words according to the submission tool, and at least 93 words in the original submitted draft had already been present in at least one other article when this user first registered their account, meaning that even if the other 250 or so words are all original prose (and they aren't -- dozens of them are numbers and proper nouns copied from primary sources) the articles would fall well below the 300-word minimum for WAM entries. This is the case with at least 27 of their 28 current WAM entries: all have been artificially inflated from well below the minimum word count using other people's text. (I say "at least" because I haven't located a source for the majority of the text of Transport in Vizianagaram -- and I'm not interested in searching -- but at least the first sentence is near-identical to this.)

I've tried to explain how this is problematic, and been met with a degree of hostility, and am getting kinda sick of it. If this were a WP:BITE case I'd be more patient, but the user has been here since 2015 and has more than 10K edits. So I'm gonna drop out and go back to writing my own articles. I'm just leaving this here so you (and perhaps the other en-wiki-WAM organizers) are aware of the copyright concerns.

Hijiri 88 ( 聖やや ) 11:49, 6 November 2017 (UTC) (edited 00:01, 7 November 2017 (UTC))
 * Sir, those all are mandals in Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. I've worked with one of our Senior editor User:Vin09 while creating this temple. We got a good template article for Mandals and have been creating them using same template for 2 years. Demographics sections looks same for many articles under WikiProject Andhra Pradesh, so we're following the same for new articles to avoid confusion and make it easy for other Contributors and Viewers.—IM3847 (talk) 11:58, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm not going to get into a back-and-forth, but I've got some things to say about the above:
 * None of the above narrative was forthcoming until after I had already brought this up here. Not when I asked him if he thought it was appropriate to enter the same article to WAM dozens of times in a row, not when I asked him about Vin09's Eluru mandal article specifically.
 * He has also still not elaborated on where the rest of his text came from, nor where the "original" template is (I came across the Eluru article at random).
 * Even the above does not directly address the inappropriateness of submitting someone else's work, without attribution, for WAM.
 * He's still doing it even after all this.
 * If the above narrative is true, then non-native speakers have been creating ungrammatical "templates" and copying them into dozens (hundredss? thousamds?) of articles without asking someone to proof-read the text first. That was a terrible idea. I've been saying for some time that WP:INDIA articles are a mess, and I'm beginning to understand why.
 * Hijiri 88 ( 聖やや ) 21:47, 6 November 2017 (UTC)


 * , I’ve worked with User:Vin09 while creating a template article for Indian mandals. Even education secrion was developed by me and User:Vin09 for Eluru and Guntur, do you want me to get it confirmed by Vin09?—IM3847 (talk) 07:31, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
 * This is the third time I’ve had to tell you to stop pinging me, and the umpteenth time you’ve made the same non sequin it argument that if Vin09 approves of your copying his text that somehow justifies your doing so in dozens of articles you are submitting to WAM. I am beginning to think this is a CIR issue and you should consider yourself lucky I have better things to do than post this on ANI... Hijiri 88 ( 聖やや ) 08:21, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Wait, I forgot. No back and forth. I have an encyclopedia to build. Hijiri 88 ( 聖やや ) 21:51, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

about the Asian contest
i'm not been able to signup and published my work please help me — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saadkhan199729 (talk • contribs) 09:49, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Assuming you are referring to WP:WAM: on English Wikipedia, non-autoconfirmed accounts (read: accounts that are less than four days old and have less than ten edits) are not allowed create new articles, which means you need to make at least ten edits to other pages first. Since your account is more than a year old, I am not sure if you will be automatically granted autoconfirmed privileges once you hit ten edits, or if you need to wait days after you hit that mark. Hijiri 88 ( 聖やや ) 12:37, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

WikiCup 2018
So the 2017 WikiCup has come to an end. Congratulations to the winner, to the other finalists and to all those who took part. 177 contestants signed up, more than usual, but not all of them submitted entries in the first round. Were editors attracted by the cash prizes offered for the first time this year, or were these irrelevant? Do the rules and scoring need changing for the 2018 WikiCup? If you have a view on these or other matters, why not join in the WikiCup discussion about next year's contest? , and. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:59, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

Hello SuperHamster

I hope you are having a wonderful day/night. I know you must be busy so I'll try to make it quick.

I would like to participate in the Wikipedia Asian Month. I'm currently writing an English article about an anime (a type of Japanese shows) character and I plan on translating it into Arabic.

My questions for you are:

1) Does writing about an anime character count as a suitable article topic for Asian Month? 2) If I write this article then translate it into Arabic, does that count as 2 articles? 3) How do I submit my article? Do I just submit it here (https://tools.wmflabs.org/fountain/editathons/asian-month-2017-en/add)? Or do I have to join a community or something because I honestly did not understand how to do that?

Also, If you can direct me to place I can get anime pictures that I can use on Wikipedia without getting my article deleted then that would be great.

Thanks a bunch. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Langotaku (talk • contribs) 14:41, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thanks for the barnstar! What can I help you with? ~ Super  Hamster  Talk Contribs 14:26, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

I want to participate in the Asia Month Contest, but it takes 2 months to get an article approved... Is it impossible to participate?
OldTeaSeller (talk) 06:50, 21 November 2017 (UTC)OldTeaSeller
 * No idea where you get the two months figure from, but now that you've made ten edits, your account should be WP:Autoconfirmed in about two days. That'll give you close to a week to create your articles. Hijiri 88 ( 聖やや ) 03:20, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
 * They're referring to the Articles for Creation process, which is backlogged (as always) and can take up to several months for article drafts to get through.
 * I'll take a look at your submissions soon and either approve them or provide feedback. Thanks! ~ Super  Hamster  Talk Contribs 03:35, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

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What's Next (WAM)
Congratulations! The Wikipedia Asian Month is has ended and you've done amazing work of organizing. What we've got and what's next?
 * Here are some number I would like to share with you
 * Total submitted: 7429 articles; 694 users


 * Here are what will come after the end of WAM
 * Make sure you judge all articles before December 12th, and participants who can improve their contribution (not submit) before December 10th.
 * Once you finish the judging, please update this page after December 12th
 * There will be three round of address collection scheduled: December 15th, December 20th, and December 25th.
 * Please report the local Wikipedia Asian Ambassador (who has most accepted articles) on this page, if the 2nd participants have more than 30 accepted articles, you will have two ambassadors.
 * There will be a progress page for the postcards.

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User who got the top spot in WAM plagiarized much of their text
Hey!

It didn't bother me that I came in second in the WAM rankings until the user started revenge-hounding me for insinuating that they had violated the WAM rules by not copy-editing their articles or getting them copy-edited before submitting them. But things have just become more serious than copy-editing -- a bunch of their articles contain clearly plagiarized text.

Virtually every article I checked that cited English-language free online sources contained copy-pasted material that was not marked as quoted text (and even if it had been marked as quoted, its fair use rationale would have been dubious given how much of it there was). It's possible that the articles that cite offline English-language sources contain similarly plagiarized text. The user has been very evasive when asked questions about meatpuppetry and hounding in the past, claiming it's "just a coincidence" when various suspiciously-timed events occurred, so I would be extremely reluctant to simply take their word for it if they say that none of the other articles include plagiarized text. It seems likely that a significant number of the articles -- basically anything that cites an English-language source, and maybe then some -- will need to blanked, stub-ified or even deleted if an impartial third-party can't verify that they contain no copyright infringement.

I don't actually want the Wikipedia Asian Ambassador title if I get it because I myself tagged a bunch of articles submitted by the user who at the end of November was in the lead as having copyright problems. But it seems really iffy to give the honour to someone whose articles contain serious copyright problems.

Hijiri 88 ( 聖やや ) 02:47, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your investigative work and for bringing this to my attention, it's appreciated! I'll share these articles with the team and we'll take a closer look.
 * Note that for this year, if the second-place contributor has > 30 articles, they will also be considered an ambassador - so you will also have the title regardless. ~ Super  Hamster  Talk Contribs 09:11, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Huh. Thank you! I never knew that would be the case. Hijiri 88 ( 聖やや ) 09:21, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
 * For what it's worth, the number of WAM 2017 articles that have had these problems demonstrated now comes to twenty: every article linked here, plus these five. Hijiri 88 ( 聖やや ) 12:02, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Not that this is technically plagiarism, but the article Old Bank Indonesia Building, Padang also violates two of the specific rules of the editathon, in that the article's "creator" apparently did very little beyond plugging the id.wiki article into Google Translate and copying the resulting text onto en.wiki, and clearly did not check the sources independently as several of them are broken links and the access dates were not updated. And apparently no attribution was made to the authors of the id.wiki article. Hijiri 88 ( 聖やや ) 22:20, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

Request
I have submitted articles named State Bank of Pakistan Museum & Art Gallery, Archaeological Museum Umerkot and Archaeological Museum Banbhoreto Wikipedia Asian Month. Now here is a problem that I have changed my username wisalahmad523 > Wisal Ahmad. So please merge all my submitted articles to Wisal Ahmad. Thanks! Wisal Ahmad (talk) 10:23, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi! Sorry for taking a few days to get back to you. We've merged all your contributions into your username, bringing your total to 31 articles. Thank you! ~ Super  Hamster  Talk Contribs 08:47, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

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Backlog update: Outreach and Invitations:
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 * If you know other editors with a good understanding of Wikipedia policy, invite them to join NPP by dropping the invitation template on their talk page with: . Adding more qualified reviewers will help with keeping the backlog manageable.

New Year New Page Review Drive
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New Years new page backlog drive
Hello, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Announcing the NPP New Year Backlog Drive!

We have done amazing work so far in December to reduce the New Pages Feed backlog by over 3000 articles! Now is the time to capitalise on our momentum and help eliminate the backlog!

The backlog drive will begin on January 1st and run until January 29th. Prize tiers and other info can be found HERE.

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New Page Reviewer Newsletter
Hello, thank you for your efforts in reviewing new pages!

Backlog update: New Year Backlog Drive results:
 * The new page backlog is currently at 3819 unreviewed articles, with a further 6660 unreviewed redirects.
 * We are very close to eliminating the backlog completely; please help by reviewing a few extra articles each day!
 * We made massive progress during the recent four weeks of the NPP Backlog Drive, during which the backlog reduced by nearly six thousand articles and the length of the backlog by almost 3 months!

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This Month in Education: February 2018
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WikiCup 2018 March newsletter
And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. With 53 contestants qualifying, the groups for round 2 are slightly smaller than usual, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining users.

Our top scorers in round 1 were:


 * 🇺🇸 Aoba47 led the field with a featured article, 8 good articles and 42 GARs, giving a total of 666 points.
 * 🇩🇪 FrB.TG, a WikiCup newcomer, came next with 600 points, gained from a featured article and masses of bonus points.
 * 🇮🇳 Ssven2, another WikiCup newcomer, was in third place with 403 points, garnered from a featured article, a featured list, a good article and twelve GARs.
 * 🇺🇸 Ceranthor, 🇮🇳 Numerounovedant, Carbrera, 🇳🇱 Farang Rak Tham and 🇷🇴 Cartoon network freak all had over 200 points, but like all the other contestants, now have to start again from scratch. A good achievement was the 193 GARs performed by WikiCup contestants, comparing very favourably with the 54 GAs they achieved.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews.

If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help 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 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) and Vanamonde (talk) 15:27, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

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Courses Modules are being deprecated
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Wikipedia Asian Month
Would you mind providing an explanation as to when participants will receive the Wikipedia Asian Month postcards?--Catlemur (talk) 15:52, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi Yes, sorry for the wait! It's a long process as we coordinate the postcard efforts between multiple international chapters (need to organize user info, process funding, produce postcards, etc.). Some postcards have been sent out; I expect all postcards to be sent out by the end of April. ~ Super  Hamster  Talk Contribs 07:19, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

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New Page Review Newsletter No.10
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages! ACTRIAL:
 * ACTRIAL's six month experiment restricting new page creation to (auto)confirmed users ended on 14 March. As expected, a greatly increased number of unsuitable articles and candidates for deletion are showing up in the feed again, and the backlog has since increased already by ~30%. Please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day.

Paid editing
 * Now that ACTRIAL is inoperative pending discussion, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary.

Subject-specific notability guidelines
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 * Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies. A further discussion is currently taking  place at: Can a subject specific guideline invalidate the General Notability Guideline?

Nominate competent users for Autopatrolled
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The List of YouTubers is being nominated for deletion again. I don't know why. It's been nominated so many damn times. Take a look here. Mr. C.C. Hey yo!I didn't do it! 00:39, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

WikiCup 2018 May newsletter
The second round of the 2018 WikiCup has now finished. Most contestants who advanced to the next round scored upwards of 100 points, but two with just 10 points managed to scrape through into round 3. Our top scorers in the last round were:


 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with three featured articles
 * Iazyges, with nine good articles and lots of bonus points
 * 🇮🇳 Yashthepunisher, a first time contestant, with two featured lists
 * SounderBruce, a finalist last year, with seventeen good topic articles
 * 🇺🇸 Usernameunique, a first time contestant, with fourteen DYKs
 * Muboshgu, a seasoned competitor, with three ITNs and
 * Courcelles, another first time contestant, with twenty-seven GARs

So far contestants have achieved twelve featured articles between them and a splendid 124 good articles. Commendably, 326 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2018 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. 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. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met; most of the GARs are fine, but a few have been a bit skimpy.

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) 06:10, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

This Month in Education: April 2018
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Event coordinator
Hi Kevin, I've removed the account creator permission from your account and replaced it with event coordinator, as creating accounts for off-wiki events seems to be the main reason you had the account creator flag. If you're involved with ACC and need both permissions, let me know and I'll restore it. All the best! TonyBallioni (talk) 14:47, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Sounds good, thank you! Glad the proposal passed. ~ Super  Hamster  Talk Contribs 15:27, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
 * No problem! Also, on an unrelated note, you may want to archive some of your talk page. It's at over 400,000 bytes and takes a while to load on my computer. TonyBallioni (talk) 15:28, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
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NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

ACTRIAL:
 * WP:ACREQ has been implemented. The flow at the feed has dropped back to the levels during the trial. However, the backlog is on the rise again so please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day; a backlog approaching 5,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.

Deletion tags
 * Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders. They require your further verification.

Backlog drive:
 * A backlog drive will take place from 10 through 20 June. Check out our talk page at WT:NPR for more details. NOTE: It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing. Despite our goal of reducing the backlog as much as possible, please do not rush while reviewing.

Editathons
 * There will be a large increase in the number of editathons in June. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

Paid editing - new policy
 * Now that ACTRIAL is ACREQ, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. There is a new global WMF policy that requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.

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 * Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies.

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 * Development is underway by the WMF on upgrades to the New Pages Feed, in particular ORES features that will help to identify COPYVIOs, and more granular options for selecting articles to review.
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This Month in Education: May 2018
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NPP Backlog Elimination Drive
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel: there are currently 2900 unreviewed articles, and 4000 unreviewed redirects.

Announcing the Backlog Elimination Drive! Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. —  Insertcleverphrasehere (or here)  06:57, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
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 * Please do not be hasty, take your time and fully review each page. It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing.

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This Month in Education: June 2018
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WikiCup 2018 July newsletter
The third round of the 2018 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round had at least 227 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:


 * Courcelles, a first time contestant, with 1756 points, a tally built largely on 27 GAs related to the Olympics
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with two featured articles and three GAs on natural history and astronomy topics
 * SounderBruce, a finalist last year, with a variety of submissions related to transport in the state of Washington

Contestants managed 7 featured articles, 4 featured lists, 120 good articles, 1 good topic, 124 DYK entries, 15 ITN entries, and 132 good article reviews. Over the course of the competition, contestants have completed 458 GA reviews, in comparison to 244 good articles submitted for review and promoted. 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. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process; several submissions, particularly in abstruse or technical areas, have needed additional work to make them completely verifiable.

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), Cwmhiraeth (talk), Vanamonde (talk) 04:55, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

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NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers. Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.
 * June backlog drive


 * New technology, new rules
 * New features are shortly going to be added to the Special:NewPagesFeed which include a list of drafts for review, OTRS flags for COPYVIO, and more granular filter preferences. More details can be found at this page.
 * Probationary permissions: Now that PERM has been configured to allow expiry dates to all minor user rights, new NPR flag holders may sometimes be limited in the first instance to 6 months during which their work will be assessed for both quality and quantity of their reviews. This will allow admins to accord the right in borderline cases rather than make a flat out rejection.
 * Current reviewers who have had the flag for longer than 6 months but have not used the permissions since they were granted will have the flag removed, but may still request to have it granted again in the future, subject to the same probationary period, if they wish to become an active reviewer.


 * Editathons
 * Editathons will continue through August. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

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WikiCup 2018 September newsletter
The fourth round of the 2018 WikiCup has now come to an end. The eight users who made it to the final round had to score a minimum of 422 points to qualify, with the top score in the round being 4869 points. The leaders in round 4 were:


 * Courcelles scored a magnificent 4869 points, with 92 good articles on Olympics-related themes. Courcelles' bonus points alone exceeded the total score of any of the other contestants!
 * Kees08 was second with 1155 points, including a high-scoring featured article for Neil Armstrong, two good topics and some Olympics-related good articles.
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Cas Liber, with 1066 points, was in third place this round, with two featured articles and a good article, all on natural history topics.
 * Other contestants who qualified for the final round were 🇲🇭 Nova Crystallis, Iazyges,  SounderBruce,  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Kosack and 🇺🇸 Ceranthor.

During round four, 6 featured articles and 164 good articles were promoted by WikiCup contestants, 13 articles were included in good topics and 143 good article reviews were performed. There were also 10 "in the news" contributions on the main page and 53 "did you knows". Congratulations to all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. If you are concerned that your nomination 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, and let the best editor win! 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, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:31, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

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NIWA Down
I am trying to access the NIWA, it is down including Nookipedia, what is going on? Felicia (talk) 21:50, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi Both niwanetwork.org and Nookipedia appear up on my end, could you clarify? Do you mean the Nintendo Wiki? Unfortunately the latter has been down for quite a while, not sure when it will be back up.
 * Also for future reference, please user the email function to contact me about non-Wikipedia things, or find me on NIWA wikis. Thanks! ~ Super  Hamster  Talk Contribs 21:56, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

I didn't realise that, but thanks for pointing that out. Felicia (talk) 21:58, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Suicide
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NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.


 * Project news
 * The New Page Feed now has a new "Articles for Creation" option which will show drafts instead of articles in the feed, this shouldn't impact NPP activities and is part of the WMF's AfC Improvement Project.
 * As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.


 * There are a number of coordination tasks for New Page Patrol that could use some help from experienced reviewers. See New pages patrol/Coordination for more info to see if you can help out.


 * Other
 * A new summary page of reliable sources has been created; Identifying reliable sources/Perennial sources, which summarizes existing RfCs or RSN discussions about regularly used sources.


 * Moving to Draft and Page Mover
 * Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
 * If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
 * Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
 * The best tool for draftification is User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js(info). Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changed like this). Note that if you do not have the Page Mover userright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged as CSD R2, but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
 * The Page Mover userright can be useful for New Page Reviewers; occasionally page swapping is needed during NPR activities, and it helps avoid excessive R2 nominations which must be processed by admins. Note that the Page Mover userright has higher requirements than the NPR userright, and is generally given to users active at Requested Moves. Only reviewers who are very experienced and are also very active reviewers are likely to be granted it solely for NPP activities.

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Thanks for the invite to do the Input/Output presentation for the Wiki North America conference in October in Columbus. Saturday afternoon is fine. I'm looking forward to attending! Rosalina523 (talk) 19:21, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

Invitation from WAM 2018


Hi WAM organizers!

Hope you receive your postcard successfully! Now it's a great time to sign up at the 2018 WAM, which will still take place in November. Here are some updates and improvements we will make for upcoming WAM. If you have any suggestions or thoughts, feel free to discuss on the meta talk page.

If you no longer want to receive the WAM organizer message, you can remove your username at this page.
 * 1) We want to host many onsite Edit-a-thons all over the world this year. If you would like to host one in your city, please take a look and sign up at this page.
 * 2) We will have many special prize provided by Wikimedia Affiliates and others. Take a look at here. Let me know if your organization also would like to offer a similar thing.
 * 3) Please encourage other organizers and participants to sign-up in this page to receive updates and news on Wikipedia Asian Month.

Reach out the WAM team here at the meta talk page if you have any questions.

Best Wishes,

Sailesh Patnaik using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:03, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 1 October 2018
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Organizing Asian Month 2018
Will you add the English Wikipedia to the Asian Month 2018 event page? Agusbou2015 (talk) 16:11, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

27 Communities have joined WAM 2018, we're waiting for you!


Dear WAM organizers!

Wikipedia Asian Month 2018 is now 26 days away! It is time to sign up for WAM 2018,

Following are the updates on the upcoming WAM 2018:


 * Follow the organizer guidelines to host the WAM successfully.
 * We want to host many onsite Edit-a-thons all over the world this year. If you would like to host one in your city, please take a look and sign up at this page.
 * If you or your affiliate wants to organize an event partnering with WAM 2018, Please Take a look at here.
 * Please encourage other organizers and participants to sign-up in this page to receive updates and news on Wikipedia Asian Month.

If you no longer want to receive the WAM organizer message, you can remove your username at this page.

Reach out the WAM team here at the meta talk page if you have any questions.

Best Wishes,

Wikilover90 using ~

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (use English)
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This Month in Education: September 2018
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NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

, there are 3650 unreviewed articles and the backlog now stretches back 51 days.
 * Backlog


 * Community Wishlist Proposal
 * There is currently an ongoing discussion regarding the drafting of a Community Wishlist Proposal for the purpose of requesting bug fixes and missing/useful features to be added to the New Page Feed and Curation Toolbar.
 * Please join the conversation as we only have until 29 October to draft this proposal!


 * Project updates
 * ORES predictions are now built-in to the feed. These automatically predict the class of an article as well as whether it may be spam, vandalism, or an attack page, and can be filtered by these criteria now allowing reviewers to better target articles that they prefer to review.
 * There are now tools being tested to automatically detect copyright violations in the feed. This detector may not be accurate all the time, though, so it shouldn't be relied on 100% and will only start working on new revisions to pages, not older pages in the backlog.


 * New scripts
 * User:Enterprisey/cv-revdel.js(info) — A new script created for quickly placing copyvio-revdel on a page.

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The Signpost: 28 October 2018
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WikiCup 2018 November newsletter
The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is, who over the course of the competition has amassed 147 GAs, 111 GARs, 9 DYKs, 4 FLs and 1 ITN. Our finalists were as follows:



All those who reached the final win awards, and awards will also be going to the following participants:


 * wins the FA prize, for three featured articles in round 2.
 * wins the GA prize, for 92 good articles in round 3.
 * wins the FL prize, for five featured lists overall.
 * wins the topic prize, for 30 articles in good topics overall.
 * wins the DYK prize, for 24 did you know articles in round 3.
 * wins the ITN prize, for 17 in the news articles overall.
 * wins the GAR prize, for 43 good article reviews in round 1.

Awards will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved much this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition.

Next year's competition begins on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; it is open to all Wikipedians, new and old. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2019 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. ,, and.

Asian Month 2018
Your user name is missing from the Fountain tool. Please add it to become a jury member! --Agusbou2015 (talk) 14:01, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Please review articles submitted to the Fountain tool. . --Agusbou2015 (talk) 00:49, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

Asian Month 2018
Could you review articles recently submitted in Fountain for Asian Month? --Agusbou2015 (talk) 02:38, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

Related Asian Month - Fountain problems

 * Hi, Technical question: at the Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Asian Month there are at least three conversations reporting problems with submitting. your name was mentioned as someone who may help. Thanks --Golan&#39;s mom (talk) 05:33, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi Sorry for the late response, and thanks for the heads up! The international team is aware of the problems, and until there's a fix we'll direct people who have technical issues submitting articles to submit them here. Thanks, ~ Super  Hamster  Talk Contribs 06:39, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

This Month in Education: November 2018
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NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018
Hello ,
 * Community Wishlist Survey – NPP needs you – Vote NOW
 * Community Wishlist Voting takes place 16 to 30 November for the Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements, and other software requests. The NPP community is hoping for a good turnout in support of the requests to Santa for the tools we need. This is very important as we have been asking the Foundation for these upgrades for 4 years.


 * If this proposal does not make it into the top ten, it is likely that the tools will be given no support at all for the foreseeable future. So please put in a vote today.


 * We are counting on significant support not only from our own ranks, but from everyone who is concerned with maintaining a Wikipedia that is free of vandalism, promotion, flagrant financial exploitation and other pollution.


 * With all 650 reviewers voting for these urgently needed improvements, our requests would be unlikely to fail. See also The Signpost Special report: 'NPP: This could be heaven or this could be hell for new users – and for the reviewers', and if you are not sure what the wish list is all about, take a sneak peek at an article in this month's upcoming issue of The Signpost which unfortunately due to staff holidays and an impending US holiday will probably not be published until after voting has closed.

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WAM Organizers Update
Hi WAM Organizer! Hopefully, everything works just fine so far! Need Help Button, post in any language is fine
 * Here are some recent updates and clarification of rules for you, and as always, let me know if you have any idea, thought or question.
 * Additional souvenirs (e.g. postcard) will be sent to Ambassadors and active organizers.
 * A participant's article count is combined on all language Wikipedias they have contributed to
 * Only Wikipedia Asian Month on Wikipedia or Wikivoyage projects count (no WikiQuote, etc.)
 * The global top 3 article count will only be eligible on Wikipedias where the WAM article requirement is at least 3,000 bytes and 300 words.
 * If your community accepts an extension for articles, you should set up a page and allow participants to submit their contributions there.
 * In case of redirection not allowed submitting in Fountain tool, a workaround is to delete it, copy and submit again. Or a submission page can be used too.
 * Please make sure enforce the rules, such as proper references, notability, and length.
 * International organizers will double check the top 3 users' accepted articles, so if your articles are not fulfilling the rules, they might be disqualified. We don't want it happened so please don't let us make such a decision.

Please feel free to contact me and WAM team on meta talk page, send me an email by Email this User or chat with me on facebook. For some languages, the activity for WAM is very less, If you need any help please reach out to us, still, 12 more days left for WAM, Please encourage your community members to take part in it.

If you no longer want to receive the WAM organizer message, you can remove your username at this page.

Best Wishes,

Sailesh Patnaik

Asian Month 2018
Could you review new articles submitted with the Fountain tool? --Agusbou2015 (talk) 17:28, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi I'll review articles when I have time - no need to repeatedly post this on my talk page. Thanks, ~ Super  Hamster  Talk Contribs 17:34, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

WP:WAM
How do you re-submit items? I had written a lot more words to fit the requirements. Thank you. Hayholt (talk) 23:02, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi Glad to hear! It's been a long time since I used the tool myself - if it lets you simply re-submit the same article, go ahead and do that. If you are unable, please manually submit the article by adding it to Wikipedia Asian Month/Submissions. Thanks! ~ Super  Hamster  Talk Contribs 07:51, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

This Month in Education: November 2018
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The Signpost: 1 December 2018
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What's Next (WAM)!
Congratulations! The Wikipedia Asian Month has ended successfully and you've done amazing work of organizing. What we've got and what's next?
 * Tool problem
 * If you faced problem submitting articles via judging tool, use this meta page to do so. Please spread this message with local participants.


 * Here are what will come after the end of WAM
 * Make sure you judge all articles before December 7th, and participants who can improve their contribution (not submit) before December 10th.
 * Participates still can submit their contribution of November before December 5th at this page. Please let your local wiki participates know. Once you finish the judging, please update this page after December 7th
 * There will be three round of address collection scheduled: December 15th, December 20th, and December 25th.
 * Please report the local Wikipedia Asian Ambassador (who has most accepted articles) on this page, if the 2nd participants have more than 30 accepted articles, you will have two ambassadors.
 * There will be a progress page for the postcards.


 * Some Questions
 * In case you wondering how can you use the WAM tool (Fountain) in your own contest, contact the developer Le Loi for more information.

Thanks again, Regards Sailesh Patnaik using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:59, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you, I appreciate it very much! Tons of credit goes to the rest of the international team, they do the heavy lifting :) Thanks for your participation this year. ~ Super  Hamster  Talk Contribs 07:02, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018
Hello ,

This year's award for the Reviewer of the Year goes to. Around on Wikipedia since 2011, their staggering number of 26,554reviews over the past twelve months makes them, together with an additional total of 275,285edits, one of Wikipedia's most prolific users.
 * Reviewer of the Year
 * Thanks are also extended for their work to (15,059 reviews),  (12,760reviews),  (9,001reviews),  (8,440reviews),  (8,092reviews),   (5,306reviews),  (4,153 reviews),  (4,016reviews),  and  (3,615reviews)., , , and  have been New Page Reviewers for less than a year — Barkeep49 for only sevenmonths, while , with an edit count of 250,000 since she joined Wikipedia in 2008, has been a bastion of New Page Patrol for many years.

See also the list of top100 reviewers.

The backlog is now approaching 5,000, and still rising. There are around 640holders of the NPR flag, most of whom appear to be inactive. The 10% of the reviewers who do 90% of the work could do with some support especially as some of them are now taking a well deserved break.
 * Less good news, and an appeal for some help

At #1 position, the Community Wishlist poll closed on 3December with a resounding success for NPP, reminding the WMF and the volunteer communities just how critical NPP is to maintaining a clean encyclopedia and the need for improved tools to do it. A big 'thank you' to everyone who supported the NPP proposals. See the results.
 * Really good news - NPR wins the Community Wishlist Survey 2019

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 * Training video

Some questions about Asian Month
Excuse me, I and Wiroid asked a question about the postcards on the Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Asian Month, do you have time to answer it please? Thank you!:) Tokomai (talk) 14:10, 18 December 2018 (UTC) Tokomai
 * Responded! Sorry for the wait. Cheers, ~ Super  Hamster  Talk Contribs 06:58, 20 December 2018 (UTC)