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The third round of the 2021 WikiCup has now come to an end. Each of the sixteen contestants who made it into the fourth round had at least 294 points, and our top six scorers all had over 600 points. They were:
In round three, contestants achieved 19 featured articles, 7 featured lists, 106 featured article reviews, 72 good articles, 1 good topic, 62 good article reviews, 165 DYKs and 96 ITN items. We enter the fourth round with scores reset to zero; 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 (one contestant in round 3 lost out because of this). When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.
If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia: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. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Judges: Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) and Cwmhiraeth Cwmhiraeth ( talk) MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 09:30, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2021).
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The fourth round of the competition has finished with over 500 points being required to qualify for the final round. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants,
The Rambling Man and
Epicgenius, each scoring over 3000 points, and six contestants scoring over 1000. All but one of the finalists achieved one or more FAs during the round, the exception being
Bloom6132 who demonstrated that 61 "in the news" items produces an impressive number of points. Other contestants who made it to the final are
Gog the Mild,
Lee Vilenski,
BennyOnTheLoose,
Amakuru and
Hog Farm. However, all their points are now swept away and everyone starts afresh in the final round.
Round 4 saw the achievement of 18 featured articles and 157 good articles.
Bilorv scored for a 25-article good topic on
Black Mirror but narrowly missed out on qualifying for the final round. There was enthusiasm for FARs, with 89 being performed, and there were 63 GARs and around 100 DYKs during the round. As we start round 5, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it to the final round; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. For other contestants, 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 14 days of "earning" them.
If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). 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. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 13:02, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).
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I assumed the account was connected to Trexin Consulting who "specializes in the implementation of business strategy to achieve targeted business goals." Notfrompedro ( talk) 14:51, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2021).
The WikiCup is over for another year and the finalists can relax! Our Champion this year is
The Rambling Man (
submissions), who amassed over 5000 points in the final round, achieving 8 featured articles and almost 500 reviews. It was a very competitive round; seven of the finalists achieved over 1000 points in the round (enough to win the 2019 contest), and three scored over 3000 (enough to win the 2020 event). Our 2021 finalists and their scores were:
All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.
Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition, not forgetting User:Jarry1250, who runs the scoring bot.
If you have views on whether the rules or scoring need adjustment for next year's contest, please comment on the WikiCup talk page. Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2022 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 19:55, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).
A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:06, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
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Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2022 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Sturmvogel 66 ( talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth ( talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 14:37, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2022 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Sturmvogel 66 ( talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth ( talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 15:02, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).
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in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for
technical reasons. You can comment
in Phabricator if you have objections.News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).
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And so ends the first round of the WikiCup. Last year anyone who scored more than zero points moved on to Round 2, but this was not the case this year, and a score of 13 or more was required to proceed. The top scorers in Round 1 were:
These contestants, like all the others who qualified for Round 2, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews of a large number of good articles as the contest ran concurrently with a GAN backlog drive. Well done all! To qualify for Round 3, contestants will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two participants.
Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Anything that should have been claimed for in Round 1 is no longer eligible for points. 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.
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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) and Cwmhiraeth ( talk) MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 12:07, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
And so ends the first round of the WikiCup. Last year anyone who scored more than zero points moved on to Round 2, but this was not the case this year, and a score of 13 or more was required to proceed. The top scorers in Round 1 were:
These contestants, like all the others who qualified for Round 2, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews of a large number of good articles as the contest ran concurrently with a GAN backlog drive. Well done all! To qualify for Round 3, contestants will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two participants.
Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Anything that should have been claimed for in Round 1 is no longer eligible for points. 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.
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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) and Cwmhiraeth ( talk) MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 13:55, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
Hello, Ks0stm,
I saw that you took care of some PROD'd files and pages. Thank you so much! Lately, there have just been two of us who regularly check on them (see User:DumbBOT/ProdSummary and Category:Proposed deletion as of 25 February 2022) and it would be great to get a few more admins to add these checks to the daily admin routine. Last week there was an ambitious editor who was clearing out a lot of personal photos that were uploaded years ago and never used so there have been at times over 100 files tagged for PROD deletion which was a lot to go through. The coming week looks manageable but you never know when an editor will go on a PRODding spree and tag a couple dozen pages a day. Thanks again for your help. Liz Read! Talk! 20:27, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
He's not someone I have heard of so I had no idea - I'd need more details than just the name in this case (especially as its not that unusual an English name). Secretlondon ( talk) 15:39, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
Hello, Ks0stm,
I saw you were correcting a bad move with a template. I wonder if that move was responsible for all of the user pages that are now filling Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as importance or significance not asserted. They don't appear to be tagged so I assume it's because of a template transclusion. But I purged the cache and they are still showing up as pages to be deleted. I was hoping you knew how to fix this. Many thanks! Liz Read! Talk! 03:46, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
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Just wanted to drop by and say hey, it's been a while! -- Dane talk 04:49, 20 March 2022 (UTC) |
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Many thanks, enjoy! Denisarona ( talk) 08:04, 27 March 2022 (UTC) |
Just to advise you, the blocked used User:Tulle23750 sent me an abusive email. Regards Denisarona ( talk) 16:19, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
I left a page behind when I moved something and you fixed it. Thanks! BantamBird ( talk) 15:44, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
Dear friend can you restore the 2010s section and the 2020s section for both articles horror film and history of horror films? DeadMendisyssisisisys ( talk) 03:10, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
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The Barnstar of Diligence |
Just spreadin' the WikiLove — also thanks for blocking the sockpuppets |
You should revoke access to their talk page as well. – Skywatcher68 ( talk) 18:28, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
Can you revert this edit as well please. You can remove this messsage after. Beshogur ( talk) 15:49, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
Hi there. I tweaked your ITNC post to be "(Post)" instead of "[Post]". [1] You might not have been aware, but at some point the convention changed to use parentheses because linking to a section with brackets didn't work propoerly without URL enconding. Regards.— Bagumba ( talk) 06:49, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).
deletelogentry
and deletedhistory
rights. This means that those in the
Researcher user group and
Checkusers who are not administrators can now access
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T301928)I was just about to start an SPI for a different IP when I saw one was just created and closed this morning. I think this 180.241.214.59 ( talk) is part of the same range the reported IP was in the SPI. Can this IP be blocked or should I start a new SPI? Singularity42 ( talk) 17:16, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
Hello! I (somehow) just noticed that I had been reporting usernames to UAA that appear promotional but haven't edited yet. Sorry about that, I've been cluttering the page and didn't even bother to follow up and notice that. My apologies, I'll keep that in mind moving forward, and thank you for your guidance! SPF121188 (talk this way) (contribs) 14:30, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
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Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:
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Hi Ks0stm, sorry to bother you. I am leaving this message as a user Jarnail zoravar singh ki jai keeps making since several days unsourced changes to the Kishtwari language page through anonymous ip addresses. Can you have a look into it and perhaps change the settings of the page like you did with kashmiri language page. I told him while he left me a quite displeasing message on my talk page few days back that all changes made need to be sourced which he seems not to understand. Imranqazi90 ( talk) 13:20, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
I proved all my evidences Sideshwar Varma has argued that kishtwari is not a kashmiri dialect ,i speak this language I know it's more familiar to western Pahari languages than kashmiri .try to research on this matter and read the article about Kishtwari by s Verma ! 117.98.103.162 ( talk) 14:02, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
Please understand that you can't just write content without academic sources and all. I have told you earlier to gather all books with page numbers and all attesting your claims. Once you are able to get all that then you can make the changes you wish. Without any publication support and all, you won't be able to just write stuff or remove stuff like that. That's the policy of wikipedia to always have sourced content. Please keep patience and gather all the material. Thanks. And next time, sign in with your account "Jarnail zoravar singh ki jai" and not just make changes and all through anonymous ip user addresses. Thanks. Imranqazi90 ( talk) 16:57, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
Following a request to the committee, the CheckUser and Oversight permissions of Ks0stm are restored.
For the Arbitration Committee, Maxim(talk) 19:50, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for blocking Dampsyuks. That was my first time fighting vandalism, and you responded extremely promptly.
Bernanke's Crossbow (
talk) 04:54, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
Hi Ks0stm. Hope you are doing well. I need your attention regarding this edit relevant to citing a religious organization's website. I think Bu Ali Shah Qalandar can be improved with the cited source from qadrishattari.xyz. It was a constructive edit and was by done me. I know it is still addable, possibly due to glitch, but since you have recently removed it from the whitelist, I am not restoring that constructive edit without hearing from you. Please let me know your opinion so that I can re-add it for the improvement of the project. Many thanks. Dove's talk ( talk) 11:29, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
The second round of the 2022 WikiCup has now finished. It was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 115 points to advance to round 3. There were some very impressive efforts in round 2, with the top seven contestants all scoring more than 500 points. A large number of the points came from the 11 featured articles and the 79 good articles achieved in total by contestants.
Our top scorers in round 2 were:
The rules for featured and good article reviews require the review to be of sufficient length; brief quick fails and very short reviews will generally not be awarded points. Remember also that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in round 2 cannot! 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.
If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia: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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) and Cwmhiraeth Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 10:39, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
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Could you please roll back the bunch of new edits on top? The article still contains vandalism. Thanks. Nythar ( talk) 08:51, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
Hi Ks0stm. You closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chris Orestis yesterday. Today, Draft:Chris Orestis has been created. Do you consider it G4able? Seems there may be socking, too, but the master will be stale. Curb Safe Charmer ( talk) 10:16, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
![]() | Happy First Edit Day! Hi Ks0stm! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! interstatefive ( talk) - just another roadgeek 00:04, 29 May 2022 (UTC) |
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![]() | Happy First Edit Day! Hi Ks0stm! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! interstatefive ( talk) - just another roadgeek 00:05, 29 May 2022 (UTC) |
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Dear Ks0stm/Archive 19,
I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more.
Best regards, Chris Troutman ( talk) 12:38, 29 May 2022 (UTC)