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This Month in Education: June 2020

This Month in Education

Volume 9 • Issue 6 • June 2020


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July 2020 at Women in Red

Women in Red / July 2020, Volume 6, Issue 7, Numbers 150, 151, 170, 171, 172, 173


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The Signpost: 28 June 2020

This week's article for improvement (week 27, 2020)

Apelles painting Campaspe, an artwork by Willem van Haecht, circa 1630, depicting people surrounded by fine art
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The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Fine art

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Previous selections: William Mariner (writer) • Ship canal


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WikiLoop Battlefield new name vote

Dear CAPTAIN RAJU,

Thank you for your interest and contributions to WikiLoop Battlefield. We are holding a voting for proposed new name. We would like to invite you to this voting. The voting is held at m:WikiProject_WikiLoop/New_name_vote and ends on July 13th 00:00 UTC.

xinbenlv Talk, Remember to "ping" me 05:16, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 16

Global watchlist - Update 7

Some typo advice please

Hi. You have been editing some of the articles I have started with changes such as ’s → 's. This is very welcome but I'd like to stop wasting your time. I draft in Word and then upload to Wikipedia and sometimes I forget to check all the punctuation. How can I continue to draft in Word and not face this problem when I upload? Is there a particular Word typeface I should be using? Thanks. Roundtheworld (talk) 07:38, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) Would it work if you saved the word file as .txt first and then copied it over? No time to experiment right now, got a Zoom in a minute. PamD 09:29, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
@PamD: Nice idea, but doesn't seem to work. Roundtheworld (talk) 10:17, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2020).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

  • Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold an RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. The RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community.
  • The Medicine case was closed, with a remedy authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles.

WikiCup 2020 July newsletter

The third round of the 2020 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it into the fourth round each had at least 353 points (compared to 68 in 2019). It was a highly competitive round, and a number of contestants were eliminated who would have moved on in earlier years. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

  • New York (state) Epicgenius, with one featured article, 28 good articles and 17 DYKs, amassing 1836 points
  • Botswana The Rambling Man , with 1672 points gained from four featured articles and seventeen good articles, plus reviews of a large number of FACs and GAs
  • England Gog the Mild, a first time contestant, with 1540 points, a tally built largely on 4 featured articles and related bonus points.

Between them, contestants managed 14 featured articles, 9 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 152 good articles, 136 DYK entries, 55 ITN entries, 65 featured article candidate reviews and 221 good article reviews. Additionally, Denmark MPJ-DK added 3 items to featured topics and 44 to good topics. Over the course of the competition, contestants have completed 710 good article reviews, in comparison to 387 good articles submitted for review and promoted. These large numbers are probably linked to a GAN backlog drive in April and May, and the changed patterns of editing during the COVID-19 pandemic. 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.

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 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. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:33, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #3

On 16 March 2020, the 50 millionth edit was made using the visual editor on desktop.

Seven years ago this week, the Editing team made the visual editor available by default to all logged-in editors using the desktop site at the English Wikipedia. Here's what happened since its introduction:

  • The 50 millionth edit using the visual editor on desktop was made this year. More than 10 million edits have been made here at the English Wikipedia.
  • More than 2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
  • Almost 5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the mobile visual editor in 2018.
  • The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has been increasing every year.
  • Editors have made more than 7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting 600,000 new articles in it. The 2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode. You can enable it in your preferences.
  • On 17 November 2019, the first edit from outer space was made in the mobile visual editor.
  • In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers, and half of their first edits, were made using the visual editor. This percentage has been increasing every year since the tool became available.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 02:05, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Justifications for English vs American linguistic style?

Is there an existing help article regarding this topic, for example, if an English/British writing style is used throughout a page and someone wants to edit a small part but it "sounds American", should that part be made to match the original style of the article as defined by the first author(s) (or vice versa for an article that "sounds English". Basically, should the default style be diaper or nappy, sidewalk or pavement, etc. Ultimately only one of these can be the name of the main article (like how Third Reich redirects to the Nazi Germany article, even though many historians might refer to The Third Reich), so at some point, one linguistic/historical style was chosen to be the default. The use of many of these (like Hitler redirecting to Adolf Hitler is obvious due to established grammar rules about writing names, but there hasn't been an obvious precedent that I've seen for separating different "forms" of English logically, or just choose one of them by default. (BOBBOBLEYBOBSON (talk) 12:07, 3 July 2020 (UTC))

Discussion at Nagpur

 You are invited to join the discussion at Nagpur. There is a discussion going on Nagpur talk page whether it is okay to promote it to Good Article or not Majun e Baqi (talk) 10:31, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

I'm leaving

See you in 2022-- Another Wiki User the 2nd (talk) 17:42, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 28, 2020)

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The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Russian Academy of Natural Sciences

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Previous selections: Fine art • William Mariner (writer)


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This Month in GLAM: June 2020





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This week's article for improvement (week 29, 2020)

The phrase "omakase" is most commonly used when dining at Japanese restaurants where the customer leaves it up to the chef to select and serve seasonal specialties. Pictured is omakase at a restaurant.
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The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Omakase

Please be bold and help to improve this article!


Previous selections: Russian Academy of Natural Sciences • Fine art


Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations


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This week's article for improvement (week 30, 2020)

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The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Teenage rebellion

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Previous selections: Omakase • Russian Academy of Natural Sciences


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August 2020 at Women in Red

Women in Red | August 2020, Volume 6, Issue 8, Numbers 150, 151, 173, 174, 175


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This week's article for improvement (week 31, 2020)

Hello, CAPTAIN RAJU.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Double standard

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Previous selections: Teenage rebellion • Omakase


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