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 Belgian waffles cooked in a Krampouz cast-iron waffle iron, in a Montreal restaurant during the gastronomy competition of the Montreal Highlights Festival
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 Campaign for the Norwegian Centre Party at Nærbø: like its Finnish and Swedish counterparts, the party has a strong focus on decentralisation, rural and agrarian issues. Ideologically, the Centre Party is positioned in the centre on the political spectrum.
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Hello, VictorTorres2002. The article for improvement of the week is:
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Hello, VictorTorres2002. The article for improvement of the week is:
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2023).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following a request for comment, F10 (useless non-media files) has been deprecated.
- Following a request for comment, the Portal CSD criteria (P1 (portal subject to CSD as an article) and P2 (underpopulated portal)) have been deprecated.
- A request for comment is open to discuss making the closing instructions for the requested moves process a guideline.
Technical news
- The results of the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey have been posted.
Arbitration
- Remedy 11 ("Request for Comment") of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been rescinded.
- The proposed decision for the Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case is expected 7 March 2023.
- A case related to the Holocaust in Poland is expected to be opened soon.
Miscellaneous
- The 2023 appointees for the Ombuds commission are AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, JJMC89, MdsShakil, Minorax and Renvoy as regular members and Zabe as advisory members.
- Following the 2023 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Mykola7, Superpes15, and Xaosflux.
- The Terms of Use update cycle has started, which includes a
[p]roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing
. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:20, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
 Manufacturing of an automobile
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The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 14, No. 1 — 1st Quarter, 2023
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The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 14, No. 1 — 1st Quarter, 2023
Previous issue | Index
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 An assortment of various foods
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 A voting line during the 2011 South Sudanese independence referendum
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Hello, VictorTorres2002. The article for improvement of the week is:
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023).
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Guideline and policy news
- A community RfC is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard.
Technical news
- Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. (T178356)
- The rollback of Vector 2022 RfC has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.
- A link to the user's Special:CentralAuth page will now appear in the subtitle links shown on Special:Contributions. This was voted #17 in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023.
Arbitration
- The Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case has been closed.
- A case about World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been opened, with the first evidence phase closing 6 April 2023.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:12, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
 Kayakers on the St. Lawrence River near Les Bergeronnes, Quebec, Canada
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Hello, VictorTorres2002. The article for improvement of the week is:
Sankebetsu brown bear incident Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: St. Lawrence River • Zechariah (Hebrew prophet) Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 17 April 2023 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Hello, VictorTorres2002. The article for improvement of the week is:
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 Conifers encroaching on a meadow in Washington state, United States
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).
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Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.
Technical news
- Progress has started on the Page Triage improvement project. This is to address the concerns raised by the community in their 2022 WMF letter that requested improvements be made to the tool.
Arbitration
- The proposed decision in the World War II and the history of Jews in Poland case is expected 11 May 2023.
Miscellaneous
- The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input through May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:23, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
Hello, VictorTorres2002. The article for improvement of the week is:
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 An audio production facility
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Hello, VictorTorres2002. The article for improvement of the week is:
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 Popillia japonica, commonly known as the Japanese Beetle
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 The Gutenberg Bible, the first printed Bible (mid-15th century)
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2023).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
- As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking project, a new policy has been created that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.
Technical news
- Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.
Arbitration
- The arbitration case World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.
Miscellaneous
- Following a community referendum, the arbitration policy has been modified to remove the ability for users to appeal remedies to Jimbo Wales.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:34, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
 Four T-72B tanks of the participants, 2013
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 Epileptic spike and wave discharges monitored EEG
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 The water frame is a spinning frame that is powered by a water-wheel.
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).
Administrator changes
Bureaucrat changes
Guideline and policy news
- Contributions to the English Wikipedia are now released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) license instead of CC BY-SA 3.0. Contributions are still also released under the GFDL license.
Technical news
- Discussion is open regarding a proposed global policy regarding third-party resources. Third-party resources are computer resources that reside outside of Wikimedia production websites.
Arbitration
- Two arbitration cases are currently open. Proposed decisions are expected 5 July 2023 for the Scottywong case and 9 July 2023 for the AlisonW case.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:59, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
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 Literal translation is a translation of a text done by translating each word separately.
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Hello, VictorTorres2002. The article for improvement of the week is:
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Hello, VictorTorres2002. The article for improvement of the week is:
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Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Act (drama) • Religious philosophy Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 31 July 2023 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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 A goalkeeper in action
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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar |
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- Thank you very much and I've appreciate on receiving a barnstar. It's my first time gaining one as I have been fighting and clearing vandalism for years. :D VictorTorres2002 (talk) 21:13, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
Technical news
- The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools. (T334338)
- Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool that allows easier blocking of plain domains (and their subdomains). This is more easily searchable and is faster for the software to use than the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. It does not support regex (for complex cases), URL path-matching, or the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. (T337431)
Arbitration
- The arbitration cases named Scottywong and AlisonW closed 10 July and 16 July respectively.
- The SmallCat dispute arbitration case is in the workshop phase.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:55, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
Hello, VictorTorres2002. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Goalkeeper • Man Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 14 August 2023 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Hello, VictorTorres2002. The article for improvement of the week is:
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 Industrial cooking of mashed potatoes in a steam-jacketed combi kettle
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2023).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, TFAs will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
- A discussion at WP:VPP about revision deletion and oversight for dead names found that
[s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment
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Technical news
- Special:Contributions now shows the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. (T324166)
Arbitration
- The SmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in XfD have been reminded to be careful about forming
local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus
. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged tonote when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful
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Miscellaneous
- Tech tip: The "Browse history interactively" banner shown at the top of Special:Diff can be used to easily look through a history, assemble composite diffs, or find out what archive something wound up in.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:22, 1 September 2023 (UTC)
 Double-rigged shrimp trawler hauling in the nets
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Hello, VictorTorres2002. The article for improvement of the week is:
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 Juice for public consumption
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 vs graph for a moving particle under a non-uniform acceleration .
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.jpg) Chinese blue and white porcelain jar, Ming dynasty, 15th century
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2023).
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Guideline and policy news
- An RfC is open regarding amending the paid-contribution disclosure policy to add the following text:
Any administrator soliciting clients for paid Wikipedia-related consulting or advising services not covered by other paid-contribution rules must disclose all clients on their userpage.
Technical news
- Administrators can now choose to add the user's user page to their watchlist when changing the usergroups for a user. This works both via Special:UserRights and via the API. (T272294)
Arbitration
Miscellaneous
- The 2023 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of one new CheckUser.
- Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections opens on 2 October and closes on 8 October.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:41, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
 Witch-hunting is commonly motivated by religious superstition.
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 An IT8.7 Target by LaserSoft Imaging
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Hello, VictorTorres2002. The article for improvement of the week is:
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 Various forms of severe weather
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Hello, VictorTorres2002. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Severe weather • Power (social and political) Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 6 November 2023 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
Technical news
- The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
- There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. Feedback on this proposal is requested.
Arbitration
- Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
- Xaosflux, RoySmith and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections. BusterD is the reserve commissioner.
- Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
- Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
- Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
- Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
- An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.
Miscellaneous
- The Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in November 2023, with 700+ drafts pending reviews for in the last 4 months or so. In addition to the AfC participants, all administrators and New Page Patrollers can conduct reviews using the helper script, Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:23, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
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Hello, VictorTorres2002. The article for improvement of the week is:
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 Institute for sports science in Japan
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The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
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.JPG) A Mountfield church in East Sussex
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).
Administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following a talk page discussion, the Administrators' accountability policy has been updated to note that while it is considered best practice for administrators to have notifications (pings) enabled, this is not mandatory. Administrators who do not use notifications are now strongly encouraged to indicate this on their user page.
Arbitration
- Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
- The Arbitration Committee has announced a call for Checkusers and Oversighters, stating that it will currently be accepting applications for CheckUser and/or Oversight permissions at any point in the year.
- Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 11, 2023 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:55, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello, VictorTorres2002. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: East Sussex • Sports science Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 11 December 2023 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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 Online encyclopedias, also called Internet encyclopedias, are digital encyclopedias accessible through the Internet.
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 Cycle between autotrophs and heterotrophs: autotrophs use light, carbon dioxide, and water to form oxygen and organic compounds, mainly through the process of photosynthesis (green arrow).
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Hello, VictorTorres2002. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Carbon source (biology) • Online encyclopedia Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 1 January 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversighter changes
Arbitration
- Following the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Aoidh, Cabayi, Firefly, HJ Mitchell, Maxim, Sdrqaz, ToBeFree, Z1720.
- Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
- The arbitration case Industrial agriculture has been closed.
Miscellaneous
- The New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,000 unreviewed articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
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 An antacid is a substance which neutralizes stomach acidity and is used to relieve heartburn, indigestion or an upset stomach.
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Hello, VictorTorres2002. The article for improvement of the week is:
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.svg) Visualization of one newton of force
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 Mahatma Gandhi with a young Indira Ghandi, during his fast in 1924
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).
Administrator changes
Bureaucrat changes
Guideline and policy news
- An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.
Technical news
- Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)
Arbitration
- Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
- Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.
Miscellaneous
- Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
- Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
- The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in February 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!
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 Various pâtés
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 Uncooked rigatoni
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Hello, VictorTorres2002. The article for improvement of the week is:
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