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This week's article for improvement (week 23, 2021)

200th Anniversary of Berlin Academy, 1900
Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is:

Learned society

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Previous selections: Trench • Pork chop


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Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 7 June 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions[reply]

20:01, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2021).

Administrator changes

added AshleyyoursmileLess Unless
removed HusondMattWadeMJCdetroitCariocaVague RantKingboykThunderboltzGwen GaleAniMateSlimVirgin (deceased)

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • Wikimedia previously used the IRC network Freenode. However, due to changes over who controlled the network with reports of a forceful takeover by several ex-staff members, the Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts decided to move to the new Libera Chat network. It has been reported that Wikimedia related channels on Freenode have been forcibly taken over if they pointed members to Libera. There is a migration guide and Wikimedia discussions about this.

Arbitration


This week's article for improvement (week 24, 2021)

Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is:

Savoriness

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Learned society • Trench


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Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 14 June 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions[reply]

20:25, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Editing news 2021 #2

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Junior contributors comment completion rate across all participating Wikipedias
When newcomers had the Reply tool and tried to post on a talk page, they were more successful at posting a comment. (Source)

Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.

The key results were:

  • Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were more likely to post a comment on a talk page.
  • The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also less likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.

These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.

Looking ahead

The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.

The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.

You can turn on "Discussion Tools" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

00:27, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!! 🤗

Yes, I am shouting intentionally this time. 😁 It is only out of sheer gratitude though. Thank you for your help with my usurpertion request, as well as for plain language process explanations. You're my Wiki-Heroine!!! 🙌🏾👏🏾😊🤗 NurseMomica (talk) 16:20, 17 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 25, 2021)

Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is:

Alida Morberg

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Savoriness • Learned society


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Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 21 June 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions[reply]

15:48, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 June 2021

This week's article for improvement (week 26, 2021)

A Finnish Christmas ham
Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is:

Christmas ham

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Previous selections: Alida Morberg • Savoriness


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Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 28 June 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions[reply]

16:31, 28 June 2021 (UTC)