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Welcome to the 2024 WikiCup!
Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2024 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 foundhere.If you have not yet signed up, you canadd your name hereand the judges will set up your submissions page ready for you to take part. Any questions on the scoring, rules or anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to theWikiCup talk page.Signups will close on 31 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:Cwmhiraeth(talk·contribs·email),Epicgenius(talk·contribs·email), andFrostly(talk·contribs·email). Good luck!If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name fromWikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.MediaWiki message delivery(talk)00:21, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 60
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Issue 60, November – December 2023
- Three new partners
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WikiCup 2024 February newsletter
The 2024 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with 135 participants. This is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2017.
Our current leader is newcomer
Generalissima(submissions), who has one FA onJohn Littlejohn (preacher)and 10 GAs and 12 DYKs mostly on New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:
AirshipJungleman29(submissions), with one FA onHö'elün,two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, and two DYKs;
Vami_IV(submissions), with one FA onDoom (2016 video game),one GA onBoundary Fire (2017),and 11 reviews;
MaranoFan(submissions), with one FA onHolidays (Meghan Trainor song),a nine-article FT on30 (album),and two DYKs;
Skyshifter(submissions), with one FA onOneShotand one DYK;
Sammi Brie(submissions), with five GAs and five DYKs on television and radio stations;
voorts(submissions) and
Elli(submissions), both with one FA and one DYK each.
As a reminder, competitors may submit work for the first round until 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February, and the second round starts 1 March. Remember that only the top 64 scoring competitors will make it through to the second round; currently, competitors need at least 15 points to progress. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it onWikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome onWikipedia talk:WikiCupand the judges (Cwmhiraeth(talk·contribs),Epicgenius(talk·contribs), andFrostly(talk·contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck!If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name fromWikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.MediaWiki message delivery(talk)17:58, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
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WikiCup 2024 March newsletter
The first round of the 2024 WikiCup ended at 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February. Everyone with at least 30 points moved on to Round 2, the highest number of points required to advance to the second round since 2014. Due to a six-way tie for the 64th-place spot, 67 contestants have qualified for Round 2.
The following scorers in Round 1 all scored more than 300 points:
- Generalissima(submissions), who has 916 points mostly from one FA onJohn Littlejohn (preacher),15 GAs, and 16 DYKs on a variety of topics including New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures, in addition to seven reviews
- Vami_IV(submissions), who has 790 points from two FAs onFelix M. Warburg HouseandDoom (2016 video game),two GAs, one DYK, and 11 reviews
- AirshipJungleman29(submissions), who has 580 points from one FA onHö'elün,two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, two DYKs, and five reviews
- Sammi Brie(submissions), who has 420 points mostly from nine GAs and seven DYKs on television and radio stations
- MaranoFan(submissions), who has 351 points from one FA onHolidays (Meghan Trainor song),a nine-article FT on30 (album),and three DYKs
- Skyshifter(submissions), who has 345 points from one FA onOneShot,one DYK and two reviews
In this newsletter, the judges would like to pay a special tribute toVami_IV(submissions), who unfortunately passed away this February. At the time of his death, he was the second-highest-scoring competitor. Outside the WikiCup, he had eight other featured articles, fiveA-classarticles, eight other good articles, and twoFour Awards.Vami also wrote an essay oncompletionism,a philosophy in which he deeply believed. If you can, please join us in honoring his memory by improving one of the articles on histo-do list.
Remember that any content promoted after 27 February but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. 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 onWikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome onWikipedia talk:WikiCup,and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck!If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name fromWikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.MediaWiki message delivery(talk)00:41, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 61
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Issue 61, January – February 2024
- Bristol University Press and British Online Archives now available
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New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024
Hello Paul2520,
Backlog update:The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations toSchminnte,who led with over 2,300 points.
Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations toJTtheOG,who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.
Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in theMay backlog drive planning discussion.
It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!
2023 Awards
Onel5969won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar.Hey man im joshled on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see theAwards pageand theHall of Fame.Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!
WMF work on PageTriage:TheWMF Moderator Tools teamand volunteer software developersdeployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October,and thengave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November.This concludes most major work toSpecial:NewPagesFeed,and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, whowrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October.The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.
Recruitment:A couple of the coordinators have been inviting editors to become reviewers, via mass-messages to their talk pages. If you know someone who you'd think would make a good reviewer, then a personal invitation to them would be great. Additionally, if there are Wikiprojects that you are active on, then you can add a post there asking participants to join NPP. Please be careful not to double invite folks that have already been invited.
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Problem in Christianity article
Hi Paul. I think the problem is in External links: too many }}s on
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...but it won't let me update it because About is on theWP:BLACKLIST.Can you update it? Thanks.Davemck(talk)20:05, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
- DavemckI tried. Same issue. We might need to remove those references or try and get the URLs allowlisted. =paul2520💬20:06, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
WikiCup 2024 April newsletter
We are approaching the end of the 2024 WikiCup's second round, with a little over two weeks remaining. Currently, contestants must score at least 105 points to progress to the third round.
Our current top scorers are as follows:
- Sammi Brie(submissions) with 642 points, mostly from 11GAsabout radio and television;
- voorts(submissions) with 530 points, mostly from two FAs (Well he would, wouldn't he?andCora Agnes Benneson) and three GAs;
- Generalissima(submissions) with 523 points, mostly from 11 GAs about coinage and history;
SounderBruce(submissions) with 497 points, mostly from aFAabout the2020 season of the soccer club Seattle Sounders FCand two GAs;
Tamzin(submissions) with 410 points, mostly from a FA about the drinkCapri-Sunand three GAs;
Kusma(submissions) with 330 points, mostly from a FA about the English botanistAnna Blackburneand a GA.
Competitors may submit work for the second round until the end of 28 April, and the third round starts 1 May. Remember that only competitors with the top 32 scores will make it through to the third round. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it onWikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.Please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs. As a reminder, competitors are strictly prohibited fromgaming Wikipedia policies or processesto receive more points.
If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please readWikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring.Further questions are welcome onWikipedia talk:WikiCupand the judges (Cwmhiraeth(talk·contribs),Epicgenius(talk·contribs), andFrostly(talk·contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck!If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name fromWikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.MediaWiki message delivery(talk)15:06, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
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Books & Bytes – Issue 62
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Issue 62, March – April 2024
- IEEE and Haaretz now available
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Growth News, April 2024
The Growth team will now send quarterly reports to keep you in the loop. Growth team weekly updatesare available on wiki(in English) if you want to know more about our day-to-day work.
If you want to receive more general updates about technical activity happening across the Wikimedia movement (including Growth work), we encourage you tosubscribe to Tech News.
Community Configuration
Growth features are currently configurable atSpecial:EditGrowthConfig.This quarter we are working on makingCommunity Configurationaccessible for other MediaWiki developers while also moving Growth feature configuration to the new CommunityConfiguration extension.
An early version of Community Configuration can be tested atSpanish Beta Wikipedia.We plan to release the new Community Configuration extension to pilot wikis (Arabic and Spanish Wikipedia) in early May, 2024. The first non-Growth team feature to utilize Community Configuration will beAutomoderator.
In parallel with the development, the Growth team will propose Community Configuration usage guidelines, Community Configuration design guidelines, and provide technical documentation.
Experiment Results
Add a Image experiment analysis results
The Growth team conducted an experiment to assess the impact of the “Add an Image”structured task on the Newcomer Homepage's "Suggested Edits" module. This analysis finds that the Add an Image structured task leads to an increase in newcomer participation on the mobile web platform, particularly by making constructive (non-reverted) article edits:
- The likelihood that mobile web newcomers make their first article edit (+17.0% over baseline)
- The likelihood that they are retained as newcomers (+24.3% over baseline)
- The number of edits they make during their first two weeks on the wiki (+21.8% over baseline)
- A lower probability of the newcomers' edits will be reverted (-3.3% over baseline).
Personalized praise experiment results
This feature was developed for Mentors as part of the Growth team'sPositive Reinforcement project.When A/B testing on Spanish Wikipedia, we foundno significant impacton retention, but we found asignificant positive impacton newcomer productivity. However, we concluded that the results weren’t positive enough to justify the time investment from Mentors. We plan to discuss this feature with our pilot wikis, and consider further improvements before scaling this feature further. Meanwhile, communities willing to test the feature can ask to have it deployed. (T361763)
English donors encouraged to try editing
As in previous years, donors were directed to a Thank you page after donation (example). However, this year we tested a new “Try editing Wikipedia,” call to action on the Thank You page. This call to action linked to aunique account creation page.From this account creation page we were able to track Registrations and Activation (editing for the first time). During the English banner campaign, the Donor Thank you page led to 4,398 new accounts, and 441 of those accounts went on to constructively edit within 24 hours. (T352900)
Future work
Annual Plan
The Growth team and the Editing team will work on theWE1.2 Key Resultin the coming fiscal year. We will start initial discussions with communities soon to help finalize our plans. (T361657)
Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module
We plan to A/B test adding a new Community Configurable module to the Newcomer Homepage that will allow communities to highlight specific events, projects, campaigns, and initiatives. We are early in the planning phase of this project that will take place first at our pilot wikis and wikis volunteering. We welcome community feedback on initial designs and plans, in any language atour project talk page.
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WikiCup 2024 May newsletter
The second round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 April. This round was particularly competitive: each of the 32 contestants who advanced to Round 3 scored at least 141 points. This is the highest number of points required to advance to Round 3 since 2014.
The following scorers in Round 2 all scored more than 500 points:
- Sammi Brie(submissions) with 707 points, mostly from 45good article nominationreviews and 12good articlessabout radio and television;
- Generalissima(submissions) with 600 points, mostly from 12 good articles and 12did you knownominations about coinage and history;
- SounderBruce(submissions) with 552 points, mostly from afeatured articleabout the2020 Seattle Sounders FC season,threefeatured lists,and two good articles;
BennyOnTheLoose(submissions) with 548 points, mostly from a featured article about the snooker playerJohn Pulman,two featured lists, and one good article;- voorts(submissions) with 530 points, mostly from two featured articles (Well he would, wouldn't he?andCora Agnes Benneson) and three good articles.
The full scores for Round 2 can be seenhere.So far this year, competitors have gotten 18 featured articles, 22 featured lists, and 186 good articles, 76in the newscredits and at least 200did you knowcredits. They have conducted 165 featured article reviews, as well as 399 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 21 articles tofeatured topicsandgood topics.
Remember that any content promoted after 28 April but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed during Round 3, which starts on 1 May at 00:00 (UTC). 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 onWikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.
If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please seethis page.Further questions are welcome onWikipedia talk:WikiCupand the judges (Cwmhiraeth(talk·contribs),Epicgenius(talk·contribs), andFrostly(talk·contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck!If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name fromWikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.MediaWiki message delivery(talk)13:38, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
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WikiCup 2024 July newsletter
The third round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 June. As with Round 2, this round was competitive: each of the 16 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 256 points.
The following editors all scored more than 400 points in Round 3:
- Generalissima(submissions) with 1,059 points, mostly from 1featured articleonDeLancey W. Gill,11good articles,18did you knownominations, and dozens of reviews;
- Skyshifter(submissions) with 673 points, mostly from 2 featured articles onWorlds (Porter Robinson album)andI'm God,5 good articles, and 2 did you know nominations;
- Sammi Brie(submissions) with 557 points, mostly from 1 featured article onKNXV-TV,5 good articles, and 8 did you know nominations; and
AryKun(submissions) with 415 points, mostly from 1 featured article onGreat cuckoo-dove,with a high number of bonus points from that article.
The full scores for round 3 can be seenhere.So far this year, competitors have gotten 28 featured articles, 38 featured lists, 240 good articles, 92in the newscredits, and at least 285did you knowcredits. They have conducted 279 featured article reviews, as well as 492 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 22 articles tofeatured topicsandgood topics.
Remember that any content promoted after 28 June but before the start of Round 4 can be claimed during Round 4, which starts on 1 July at 00:00 (UTC). 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 for a good article, featured content, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it onWikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.
If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please seethis page.Further questions are welcome onWikipedia talk:WikiCupand the judges (Cwmhiraeth(talk·contribs),Epicgenius(talk·contribs), andFrostly(talk·contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck!If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name fromWikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.MediaWiki message delivery(talk)21:30, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
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Books & Bytes – Issue 63
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Issue 63, May – June 2024
- One new partner
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- Spotlight: References check
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Growth News, July 2024
Community Configuration
The Growth team releasedCommunity Configurationat all Wikipedias. You can access it atSpecial:CommunityConfiguration.
This new special page replacesSpecial:EditGrowthConfig.For now, all Growth features can be configured using Community Configuration. Configuration forAutoModerator(T365046) and other features will be available in the future.
You can help with translations. The interface translation is doneat Translatewiki.net.You can also helptranslate the documentation.
If you attendWikimania 2024,please join us for the session aboutCommunity configuration's future!
Current work
Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module
We will add a new Community Configurable module to the Newcomer Homepage that will allow communities to highlight specific events, projects, campaigns, and initiatives. We have released a simple version available to beta wikis. We will conduct an A/B test atour pilot wikisusing the newMetrics Platform.We still welcome community feedback on initial designs and plans, in any language atour project talk page.
Future work
Increase constructive activation on mobile
As part of theGrowth team 2024/2025 Annual Plan,the Growth team will explore various ways to increase the percentage of newcomers who successfully start editing.
Editing a Wikipedia page requires too much context and patience. It means many trial and error for newcomers to contribute, meaning a steeper learning curve and potential discouraging reverts. To support a new generation of volunteers, we will increase the number and availability of smaller, structured, and more task-specific editing workflows (E.g.Edit CheckandStructured Tasks). The Growth team will primarily focus on Structured Tasks, while working closely with theEditing teamto ensure our work integrates well with Edit Check.
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