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The Bugle: Issue CXXXII, April 2017
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April 19: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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The Bugle: Issue CXXXIII, May 2017
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Sunday May 21: Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon + global online challenge
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May 24: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Climb Collaboration
Template:Climb Collaboration has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 16:05, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXXIV, June 2017
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Thursday June 22: Wiki Loves Pride Edit-a-thon @ MoMA
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The Bugle: Issue CXXXV, July 2017
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Sunday July 9: WikNYC Picnic @ Governors Island
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July 19: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Sunday July 30: Action=History Wiki-Hackathon @ Ace Hotel
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The Bugle: Issue CXXXVI, August 2017
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August 30: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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The Bugle: Issue CXXXVII, September 2017
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September 27: WikiWednesday Salon / Wikimedia NYC Annual Meeting
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 * P.S. On the weekend before the annual meeting, you can join: Action=History @ Ace Hotel (Sunday, September 24, 2017)

2017 Military history WikiProject Coordinator election
Greetings from the Military history WikiProject! Elections for the Military history WikiProject Coordinators are currently underway. As a member of the WikiProject you are cordially invited to take part by casting your vote(s) for the candidates on the election page. This year's election will conclude at 23:59 UTC 29 September. Thank you for your time. For the current tranche of Coordinators, AustralianRupert (talk) 10:39, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXXVIII, October 2017
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Sunday October 15: Wikipedia @ Open House New York / Weekend Photo Competition
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October 18: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon (Nov 19) and global online Wikipedia Asian Art Month (Nov 1-30)
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The Bugle: Issue CXXXIX, November 2017
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Your signature
Please be aware that your signature uses deprecated  tags, which are causing Obsolete HTML tags lint errors.

You are encouraged to change
 * → &rArr;   SWAT Jester   Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat!

to
 * → &rArr;   SWAT Jester   Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat!

Note: This signature string is right at the character limit. To get it to fit, I had to omit the usual-but-optional spaces after the colons, the usual-but-optional semicolon at the end of the descriptions, and the usual-but-not-quite-mandatory quotes around each font description string. It would have been more typical to use this string, which exceeds the character limit:


 * → &rArr;   SWAT Jester   Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat!

Respectfully, Anomalocaris (talk) 10:40, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you, will make this change shortly. &rArr;   SWAT Jester   Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat! 12:54, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Doing so rejects the input and gives an error: Invalid raw signature. Check HTML tags. &rArr;   SWAT Jester   Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat! 12:57, 26 November 2017 (UTC)


 * You're right. I saw that my proposed signature exactly fit the character limit, but I didn't click on "Save", so I didn't know that it won't accept strings without quotes around the styles. Adding back the quotes around the styles adds 8 characters to the string. If the font name is changed from "Euclid Fraktur" to something not exceeding 6 characters, the signature fits. I didn't realize until now that Euclid Fraktur is a kind of medieval-looking Germanic font. I don't have it on my computer, so your signature displays for me in Times New Roman. A lot of people are probably seeing your signature the same way I do.


 * If you change the font from "Euclid Fraktur" to "Serif", you get this:


 * → &rArr;   SWAT Jester   Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat!


 * For me, that looks exactly the same as your current signature, but for those who have Euclid Fraktur, it won't be the same. If this is not OK, I can't think of anything else right now. —Anomalocaris (talk) 16:18, 26 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Done, thanks for the assistance and the notification. ⇒   SWAT Jester   Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat! 17:58, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

I see a way to save three characters. Black could be coded #000, saving one character, and Goldenrod could be coded #DAA520, saving 2 characters. With those changes, you could get a nine-character font name and fit within the 255-character limit. We're still 5 characters over the limit with Euclid Fraktur. But, you know what? I think whole reason that the new markup uses "font-family" is that you don't have to get the name exactly. Try this:


 * → &rArr;   SWAT Jester   Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat!

With that, I think users with any Fraktur font will see Fraktur, and users without Fraktur will get a less ornate font, Times New Roman probably for most Windows users. Even if you've decided to abandon Fraktur in your signature, please reply and let me know how my new proposed signature displays for you. —Anomalocaris (talk) 08:45, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

2017 Military Historian of the Year and Newcomer of the Year nominations and voting
As we approach the end of the year, the Military History project is looking to recognise editors who have made a real difference. Each year we do this by bestowing two awards: the Military Historian of the Year and the Military History Newcomer of the Year. The co-ordinators invite all project members to get involved by nominating any editor they feel merits recognition for their contributions to the project. Nominations for both awards are open between 00:01 on 2 December 2017 and 23:59 on 15 December 2017. After this, a 14-day voting period will follow commencing at 00:01 on 16 December 2017. Nominations and voting will take place on the main project talkpage: here and here. Thank you for your time. For the co-ordinators, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:35, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXL, December 2017
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December 13: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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User group for Military Historians
Greetings,

"Military history" is one of the most important subjects when speak of sum of all human knowledge. To support contributors interested in the area over various language Wikipedias, we intend to form a user group. It also provides a platform to share the best practices between military historians, and various military related projects on Wikipedias. An initial discussion was has been done between the coordinators and members of WikiProject Military History on English Wikipedia. Now this discussion has been taken to Meta-Wiki. Contributors intrested in the area of military history are requested to share their feedback and give suggestions at Talk:Discussion to incubate a user group for Wikipedia Military Historians.

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The Bugle: Issue CXLI, January 2018
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The Bugle: Issue CXLII, February 2018
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February 21: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Nomination of BallenIsles for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article BallenIsles 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/BallenIsles 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. Dorsetonian (talk) 20:23, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXLIII, March 2018
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April 2018 Milhist Backlog Drive
G'day all, please be advised that throughout April 2018 the Military history Wikiproject is running its annual backlog elimination drive. This will focus on several key areas:


 * tagging and assessing articles that fall within the project's scope
 * adding or improving listed resources on Milhist's task force pages
 * updating the open tasks template on Milhist's task force pages
 * creating articles that are listed as "requested" on the project's various 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 scope of military history will be considered eligible. This year, the Military history project would like to extend a specific welcome to members of WikiProject Women in Red, and we would like to encourage all participants to consider working on helping to improve our coverage of women in the military. This is not the sole focus of the edit-a-thon, though, and there are aspects that hopefully will appeal to pretty much everyone.

The drive starts at 00:01 UTC on 1 April and runs until 23:59 UTC on 30 April 2018. Those interested in participating can sign up here.

For the Milhist co-ordinators, AustralianRupert and MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:53, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXLIIV, April 2018
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The Bugle: Issue CXLIV, May 2018
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May 23: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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The Bugle: Issue CXLVI, June 2018
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== June 20: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (and Pratt Women Wikipedia Design this Saturday June 16) ==

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The Bugle: Issue CXLVII, July 2018
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Thursday July 12: Wiki Loves Pride Edit-a-thon @ Jefferson Market Library
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Sunday July 29: Annual Wiki-Picnic @ Prospect Park
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The Bugle: Issue CXLVIII, August 2018
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August 29: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open
Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are now open. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting doesn't commence until 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the coord team. Cheers, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:54, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXLIX, September 2018
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Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced
G'day everyone, voting for the 2018 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche is now open. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:35, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced
G'day everyone, voting for the 2018 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche is now open. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:22, 15 September 2018 (UTC) Note: the previous version omitted a link to the election page, therefore you are receiving this follow up message with a link to the election page to correct the previous version. We apologies for any inconvenience that this may have caused.