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Administrators' newsletter – August 2020

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

Administrator changes

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Oversight changes

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Guideline and policy news


The Signpost: 2 August 2020

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This week's article for improvement (week 32, 2020)

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The potato (Solanum tuberosum) is an example of a New World crop, a crop native to the New World (mostly the Americas) before 1492 CE and not found anywhere else at that time.
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Wikidata weekly summary #427

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15:43, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

This Month in Education: July 2020

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This Month in Education

Volume 9 • Issue 7 • July 2020


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103 Quality: High, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: GA Kabiye language (talk) Wikify
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXII, August 2020

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This week's article for improvement (week 33, 2020)

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Abraham Ortelius's world map, from the Typus Orbis Terrarum ("Theatre of the Orb of the World") atlas, first published in 1564
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A tag has been placed on Category:Dagbani given names requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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Wikidata weekly summary #428

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This Month in GLAM: July 2020

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This week's article for improvement (week 34, 2020)

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An act is a division or unit of a theatre work, including a play, film, opera, and musical theatre. Pictured is a visual representation of the three-act structure.
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Wikidata weekly summary #429

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140 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Pottage (talk) Merge
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Happy First Edit Day!

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Thank you User:CAPTAIN RAJU. -Masssly (talk) 11:22, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Happy First Edit Day!

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This Month in Education: August 2020

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This Month in Education

Volume 9 • Issue 8 • August 2020


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This week's article for improvement (week 35, 2020)

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Delivery is the process of transporting goods from a source location to a predefined destination. Pictured is a man delivering charcoal by bicycle in Uganda.
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37 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Mamprusi people (talk) Add sources
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234 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: C Peasant foods (talk) Cleanup
417 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: B Makar Sankranti (talk) Cleanup
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249 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Nepalese cuisine (talk) Unencyclopaedic
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September Women in Red edithons

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The Signpost: 30 August 2020

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This week's article for improvement (week 36, 2020)

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Skurfing as a sport has two common forms: "water skurfing" and "street skurfing". Pictured is an example of water skurfing, water skiing on a surfboard.
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Editing news 2020 #4

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Reply tool

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The number of comments posted with the Reply Tool from March through June 2020. People used the Reply Tool to post over 7,400 comments with the tool.

The Reply tool has been available as a Beta Feature at the Arabic, Dutch, French and Hungarian Wikipedias since 31 March 2020. The first analysis showed positive results.

  • More than 300 editors used the Reply tool at these four Wikipedias. They posted more than 7,400 replies during the study period.
  • Of the people who posted a comment with the Reply tool, about 70% of them used the tool multiple times. About 60% of them used it on multiple days.
  • Comments from Wikipedia editors are positive. One said, أعتقد أن الأداة تقدم فائدة ملحوظة؛ فهي تختصر الوقت لتقديم رد بدلًا من التنقل بالفأرة إلى وصلة تعديل القسم أو الصفحة، التي تكون بعيدة عن التعليق الأخير في الغالب، ويصل المساهم لصندوق التعديل بسرعة باستخدام الأداة. ("I think the tool has a significant impact; it saves time to reply while the classic way is to move with a mouse to the Edit link to edit the section or the page which is generally far away from the comment. And the user reaches to the edit box so quickly to use the Reply tool.")[16]

The Editing team released the Reply tool as a Beta Feature at eight other Wikipedias in early August. Those Wikipedias are in the Chinese, Czech, Georgian, Serbian, Sorani Kurdish, Swedish, Catalan, and Korean languages. If you would like to use the Reply tool at your wiki, please tell User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF).

The Reply tool is still in active development. Per request from the Dutch Wikipedia and other editors, you will be able to customize the edit summary. (The default edit summary is "Reply".) A "ping" feature is available in the Reply tool's visual editing mode. This feature searches for usernames. Per request from the Arabic Wikipedia, each wiki will be able to set its own preferred symbol for pinging editors. Per request from editors at the Japanese and Hungarian Wikipedias, each wiki can define a preferred signature prefix in the page MediaWiki:Discussiontools-signature-prefix. For example, some languages omit spaces before signatures. Other communities want to add a dash or a non-breaking space.

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  • The new requirements for custom user signatures began on 6 July 2020. If you try to create a custom signature that does not meet the requirements, you will get an error message.
  • Existing custom signatures that do not meet the new requirements will be unaffected temporarily. Eventually, all custom signatures will need to meet the new requirements. You can check your signature and see lists of active editors whose custom signatures need to be corrected. Volunteers have been contacting editors who need to change their custom signatures. If you need to change your custom signature, then please read the help page.

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 17

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