User talk:97198/Archive 8

Your GA nomination of Bad Words (film)

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Your GA nomination of Bad Words (film)

The article Bad Words (film) you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Bad Words (film) for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Mike Christie -- Mike Christie (talk) 20:21, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Begin Again (film)

The article Begin Again (film) you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Begin Again (film) for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Sock -- Sock (talk) 19:21, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

WikiCup 2015 launch newsletter

Round one of the 2015 WikiCup has begun! So far we've had around 80 signups, which close on February 5. If you have not already signed up and want to do so, then you can add your name here. There have been changes to to several of the points scores for various categories, and the addition of Peer Reviews for the first time. These will work in the same manner as Good Article Reviews, and all of the changes are summarised here.

Remember that only the top 64 scoring competitors will make it through to the second round, and one of the new changes this year is that all scores must be claimed within two weeks of an article's promotion or appearance, so don't forget to add them to your submissions pages! 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 on Wikipedia: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 on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs), Miyagawa (talk · contribs) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs)
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Your GA nomination of Bad Words (film)

The article Bad Words (film) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Bad Words (film) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Mike Christie -- Mike Christie (talk) 03:42, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

IdeaLab proposal

There is a proposal at the IdeaLab that may interest you. Lightbreather (talk) 19:21, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Big Girls Don't Cry (book)

The article Big Girls Don't Cry (book) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Big Girls Don't Cry (book) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Mike Christie -- Mike Christie (talk) 23:21, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Test Kaffeeklatsch area for women-only

Since WikiProject Women as proposed at the IdeaLab may take some time to realize, and based on a discussion on the proposal's talk page, I have started a test Kaffeeklatsch area for women only (cisgender or trans-woman, regardless of sexual orientation).

It is a place where women can go and be sure they'll be able to participate in discussions without being dominated by men's advice, criticism, and explanations. If interested, your participation would be most welcome. Lightbreather (talk) 23:05, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Hans Rosenfeldt

 — Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:26, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

DYK nomination of John Gilroy (film editor)

Hello! Your submission of John Gilroy (film editor) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Edwardx (talk) 09:26, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

DYK image question

Hi,

I saw you moved Template:Did you know nominations/Interference Archive to prep6. I don't feel like I have a great grasp of what determines which among the hooks is the one displayed with an image. Is there a discussion thread somewhere? Thanks --— Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 02:04, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi Rhododendrites, as you'll see on the main page, every set of eight DYK hooks has only one picture, which means only 1 in 8 promoted hooks runs with a picture. Since the proportion of nominations with pictures is much higher than that, some of them have to run without pictures. It's basically a judgment call when it comes to choosing which hooks should take the top "pictured" spot. There isn't a hard-and-fast rule for choosing them but personally, I try to choose hooks where the picture looks especially good at a small size and the picture is of the bolded topic itself. The hook/article you mentioned has a great picture but I didn't promote it because it isn't very clear at the size of a thumbnail. Hope that helps! 97198 (talk) 02:27, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Ok thanks for explaining. If I were comparing the one selected and the one I added, I would've probably picked the other one, too :) I just didn't know how that decision was made. It's unusual to have a relatively high-visibility selection process occur sans collaboration on Wikipedia, so I figured I must be missing something. So it's basically on the person who promotes it and assembles some hooks in a given prep area? --— Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 02:30, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

I agree with you that it's an unusual process given how things generally work on Wikipedia. It's basically the decision of the person who assembles the prep area, but it's by no means definitive or final – other users are free to (and frequently do) switch hooks around in the prep areas and there are often discussions raised at WT:DYK when someone disagrees with the way a prep has been assembled. 97198 (talk) 03:05, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Instinct (Orphan Black)

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A Dobos torte for you!

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DYK for Lucy Alibar

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 13:22, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

DYK

Hello! Your submission of Anne Rosellini at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Philafrenzy (talk) 19:16, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Masanobu Takayanagi

 — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:06, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Instinct (Orphan Black)

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DYK for Anne Rosellini

Allen3 ^talk 01:33, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

DYK question

Hey, I notice that you promoted the German Concentration Camps Factual Survey article to the prep area, and I was wondering: is it too late (or desirable) to add a photo of Alfred Hitchcock? There is one in the article that can be used. tx, Coretheapple (talk) 17:27, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

@Coretheapple: Hi, and well done on writing a very interesting article. The hook has now been moved to a queue (at T:DYK/Q) meaning that it has been approved by an admin and deemed ready to go on the front page. It's basically past the point where hooks can be edited and rearranged, unless you call for an admin's attention at WT:DYK and ask them to change it. Hope that helps. 97198 (talk) 23:28, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Oh no problem. We'll just let it proceed. Thanks very much! Coretheapple (talk) 02:46, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Bruna Papandrea

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Instinct (Orphan Black)

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:01, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Adam Arkapaw

 — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:02, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Presentation proposal for Wikimania 2015

How to pick up more women...

Hello to the members of WikiProject Women writers! Victuallers and I have developed a proposal for a talk to be presented at Wikimania 2015. It's titled, How to pick up more women -- as in more women editors and more women's biographies. The proposal review process has begun and there's no guarantee that this proposal will be accepted. That's where you come in. Please review our proposal and give us feedback. Ultimately, we hope you add your name to the signup at the bottom of the proposal which signifies you're interested in the talk (it does not signify you'll be attending the event). Thank you! Rosiestep (talk) 22:00, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Eric Gautier

 — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:01, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Sierra Leone at the 2004 Summer Olympics DYK

Thanks for promoting the Sierra Leone at the 2004 Summer Olympics DYK. However, I think that the hook that Relentlessly suggested is better than my one. Can you replace it? Thanks. good888 (talk) 09:46, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

@Good888: I must not have seen the alt hook when I was promoting it. I agree with you, and I've changed it now. :) 97198 (talk) 10:00, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Melanie Oliver

 — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:02, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

DYK for John Gilroy (film editor)

 — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:02, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

DYK nomination of John Guleserian

Hello! Your submission of John Guleserian at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Cambalachero (talk) 14:50, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Teddy Schwarzman

— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 00:02, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Benoît Debie

— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 12:07, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Mary Loveless

— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 00:02, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

WikiCup 2015 March newsletter

One of several of Godot13's quality submissions during round 1

That's it, the first round is done, sign-ups are closed and we're into round 2. 64 competitors made it into this round, and are now broken into eight groups of eight. The top two of each group will go through to round 3, and then the top scoring 16 "wildcards" across all groups. Round 1 saw some interesting work on some very important articles, with the round leader Freikorp (submissions) owing most of his 622 points scored to a Featured Article on the 2001 film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within which qualified for a times-two multiplier. This is a higher score than in previous years, as Godot13 (submissions) had 500 points in 2014 at the end of round 1, and our very own judge, Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) led round 1 with 601 points in 2013.

In addition to Freikorp's work, some other important articles and pictures were improved during round one, here's a snapshot of a few of them:

• Cwmhiraeth (submissions) took Bumblebee, a level-4 vital article, to Good Article;
• AHeneen (submissions) worked-up the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 article, also to Good Article status;
• Rodw (submissions) developed an extremely timely article to Good Article, taking Magna Carta there some 800 years after it was first sealed;
• And last but not least, Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points) worked up a number of Featured Pictures during round 1, including the 1948 one Deutsche Mark (pictured right), receiving the maximum bonus due to the number of Wikis that the related article appears in.

You may also wish to know that The Core Contest is running through the month of March. Head there for further details - they even have actual prizes!

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 on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. 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 yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), Miyagawa (talk · contribs · email) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email)

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DYK for Eleanor Winthrop Young

— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 12:03, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Eliza Ann Grier

Hello,

I have reviewed and approved the above. Congratulations and kudos on your research into this obscure nook of American history.

Georgejdorner (talk) 16:39, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

@Georgejdorner: Thanks, and kudos to you too for all your work on articles about the Laotian Civil War, which I knew nothing about before reading some of your work! 97198 (talk) 10:43, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

DYK for John Guleserian

Harrias ^talk 17:33, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Lisa Bruce

— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 09:57, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Elvy Kalep

— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 22:42, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Eliza Ann Grier

— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 10:56, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Rachel Morrison

— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 23:42, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Margaret Allen

— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 11:56, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Constance Ellis

— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 00:37, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

St. Patrick's Day

Thank you for promoting Ilse Thiele to the lead position of prep 2, - I like to see her pictured! - However, see Women in prep on the DYKTALK: that position was claimed for an Irish singer, to honour St. Patrick's Day. Also: the last women from the GDR is "on" right now, - might be a bit close. Please shuffle ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:15, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: Thanks for letting me know – I always find the timing of the queues/preps a little confusing. I have moved Ilse Thiele to prep 4 and replaced her with Margaret Kennedy. 97198 (talk) 11:47, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank you! It is confusing, especially because update day and archive day are not the same for half of the sets ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:55, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Pippa Cross

— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 12:02, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Cora Smith Eaton

Hello! Your submission of Cora Smith Eaton at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 11:38, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Quinceañera (film)

— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 00:02, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Sarah Marquis

— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 00:01, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein

— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 12:01, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Sophie, you are great! not only is the above article great, but I cant believe how many DYK articles youve been involved in per your userbox! -I am ignorant as to how to do DYK, although my article for Maria Radner was just suggested yesterday for DYK.-- Thank you !--Wuerzele (talk) 17:41, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, Wuerzele! Great work on the Maria Radner article – I actually read part of it yesterday after following a link from the Germanwings crash page and was impressed at its quality for a brand new article. The DYK process takes a bit of getting used to, and there are many users who know its ins and outs better than I do, but if you ever have any questions about it I'd be happy to help out. :) 97198 (talk) 11:37, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Elvy Kalep

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Elvy Kalep you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Rosiestep -- Rosiestep (talk) 20:01, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

This was an easy one to review. Congratulations on your newest GA! --Rosiestep (talk) 03:29, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Cora Smith Eaton

— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 00:02, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Elvy Kalep

The article Elvy Kalep you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Elvy Kalep for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Rosiestep -- Rosiestep (talk) 03:41, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Happy Easter!

File:Chocolate-Easter-Bunny.jpg

All the best! "Carry me down, carry me down; carry me down into the wiki!" (talk) 01:11, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

Precious again

climbers
Thank you, Sophie, for quality articles on film, TV and mountaineering, such as The Go-Getter, List of Dexter episodes, covering mostly people, such as Anna and Ellen Pigeon and Ralf Dujmovits, for "great work ethic and your excellent GA reviews", and for a great simple user page, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:56, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

A year ago, you were the 817th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:33, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

Danke nochmals, Gerda! 97198 (talk) 14:05, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Solveig von Schoultz

 — Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:27, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Boat Race review

		The Running Man Barnstar
		Hey 97198, just a quick barnstar to say thanks for the review of one of Boat Race articles you conducted over the past year. As of this morning, I completed my (initial) goal of ensuing that every Boat Race had, not only its own article, but one that was either of GA or FA status: we now have 158 GAs and 3 FAs that we can all be proud of! It doesn't stop here, for me at least, I'm going to keep up with improving the quality of the GAs and look for more FA opportunities. Plus, there's the small matter of 70 Women's Boat Race articles to get up and running! But thanks again, I couldn't have done it without your help. The Rambling Man (talk) 15:49, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Elvira Dolinar

Thanks from the DYK project and I Victuallers (talk) 08:03, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

Film cats

Hi. Note that all films have the primary cat of by country, per WP:FILMCAT. This is a non-difussing category. If you have any questions, please raise them at WT:FILM. Thanks. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 09:44, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

@Lugnuts: Ah, thanks. From the wording of header of the primary country categories I assumed each article was automatically placed in the primary categories by virtue of being in any subcategory. Will keep that in mind. 97198 (talk) 09:50, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

No problem. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 09:51, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

Bryan Nash Gill

Hi Sophie-- I see that you did the bulk of the work on Bryan's page. Thank you for that. He was my brother-in-law and a great friend. How do you know his work?

@Jimintheatl: I happened to pick up his book in a Sydney bookshop and thought his prints were beautiful. Googled his name, saw his other work, read a bit about him, and decided to write an article. 97198 (talk) 10:32, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

You might appreciate this. https://vimeo.com/70605265

Another lovely piece of work. Thanks for sharing. 97198 (talk) 14:30, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Annakarin Svedberg

Harrias ^talk 13:02, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss

Harrias ^talk 21:17, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Rosina Heikel

Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 14:31, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

Special request

Hi, if you happen to be building prep sets for Preps 3, 4, or 5, would you mind promoting Template:Did you know nominations/A.D. Roy and Template:Did you know nominations/Steeve Briois, per the special request notice on WT:DYK? Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 13:51, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

Just promoted both. :) 97198 (talk) 13:58, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

That was fast! Thanks! Yoninah (talk) 14:10, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2015 May newsletter

C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) is a long-period comet discovered on 17 August 2014 by Terry Lovejoy; and is one of several Featured Pictures worked up by The Herald (submissions) during the second round.

The second round one has all wrapped up, and round three has now begun! Congratulations to the 34 contestants who have made it through, but well done and thank you to all contestants who took part in our second round. Leading the way overall was Cas Liber (submissions) in Group B with a total of 777 points for a variety of contributions including Good Articles on Corona Borealis and Microscopium - both of which received the maximum bonus.

Special credit must be given to a number of high importance articles improved during the second round.

• Coemgenus (submissions) was one of several users who worked on improving Ulysses S. Grant. Remember, you do not need to work on an article on your own - as long as each person has completed significant work on the article during 2015, multiple competitors can claim the same article.
• Cwmhiraeth (submissions) took Dragonfly to Good Article for a 3x bonus - and if that wasn't enough, they also took Damselfly there as well for a 2x bonus.
• LeftAire (submissions) worked up Alexander Hamilton to Good Article for the maximum bonus. Hamilton was one of the founding fathers of the United States and is a level 4 vital article.

The points varied across groups, with the lowest score required to gain automatic qualification was 68 in Group A - meanwhile the second place score in Group H was 404, which would have been high enough to win all but one of the other Groups! As well as the top two of each group automatically going through to the third round, a minimum score of 55 was required for a wildcard competitor to go through. We had a three-way tie at 55 points and all three have qualified for the next round, in the spirit of fairness. The third round ends on June 28, with the top two in each group progressing automatically while the remaining 16 highest scorers across all four groups go through as wildcards. Good luck to all competitors for the third round! Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), Miyagawa (talk · contribs · email) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) 16:53, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Vera Lachmann

Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 19:36, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

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DYK for Heinrich Jost

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 12:15, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Ian Jacobs (academic)

Thanks for your article Victuallers (talk) 00:03, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Hedwig Kettler

Harrias ^talk 07:02, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Clementine Krämer

Every article helps - thanks Victuallers (talk) 20:17, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride!

You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!

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  3.) Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)

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If you have any questions, please leave a message on the campaign's main talk page.

Thanks, and happy editing!

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DYK for Laura Forster

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 09:32, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

Invitation to join us

Thanks for your work on Rectovestibular fistula. If you're interested in medicine-related articles, then please put WT:MED on your watchlist. WikiProject Medicine is pretty active and IMO one of the best groups of editors on the entire wiki. You'd be very welcome. WhatamIdoing (talk) 03:06, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

@WhatamIdoing: Thanks. I occasionally drop by the project talk page to have a look at the discussion, but I don't have a lot of experience/confidence in writing about medical topics in Wikipedia's style, so I'm slowly easing myself into it. 97198 (talk) 05:19, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

I'm glad that you've found the group. Feel free to drop in and say hello, or ask questions. I promise that we don't bite good editors very often. WhatamIdoing (talk) 14:41, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

@WhatamIdoing: Thanks, I'll keep that in mind! 97198 (talk) 15:12, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Adele Schreiber-Krieger

The DYK project (nominate) 19:32, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Gayby Baby

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 11:38, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Rectovestibular fistula

 — Chris Woodrich (talk) 16:16, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Die Freundschaft

 — Chris Woodrich (talk) 04:00, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Lucien von Römer

Gatoclass (talk) 14:35, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Harvie Krumpet

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Your GA nomination of Harvie Krumpet

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Incomplete DYK nomination

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DYK for Tallulah (film)

Gatoclass (talk) 13:07, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Quinceañera (film)

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Your GA nomination of Quinceañera (film)

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Your GA nomination of Quinceañera (film)

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DYK for Mathilde Wurm

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 01:02, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Women

Hi, I see you recently joined Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red. I've made a proposal to merge this project into Wikipedia:WikiProject Women at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red, so we can not only cover missing articles but focus on general quality of women's biographies. If interested please put your name down on the WP:Women page at the bottom.♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:02, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Paul Schneider-Esleben

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 01:12, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Enough Said (film)

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Your GA nomination of Enough Said (film)

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Your GA nomination of Enough Said (film)

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Women in Red

	Formal merge proposal
	There is currently a merge discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red#Formal merge proposal. As you are a member of WiR, this is a courtesy notification in case you want to join in the discussion. Thank you. Rosiestep (talk) 02:26, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Enough Said (film)

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 21:56, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

You're invited! Women in Red World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Leadership

You are invited! → World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Leadership ← Come and join us remotely!

World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Leadership Dates: 7 to 20 September 2015 The Virtual Edit-a-thon, hosted by Women in Red, will allow all those keen to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Women in Leadership to participate. As it is a two-week event, inexperienced participants will be able to draw on the assistance of more experienced editors while creating, translating or improving articles on women who are (or have been) prominent in leadership. All levels of Wikipedia editing experience are welcome. RSVP and find more details →here←--Ipigott (talk) 08:54, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

You're invited! Smithsonian APA Center & Women in Red virtual edit-a-thon on APA women

Asian Pacific American Women World Virtual Edit-a-thon

Dates: Friday-Sunday, 4 to 6 September 2015 Location: Worldwide/virtual Sponsor: Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center "The Smithsonian APA Center invites you to attend the 2nd annual Wikipedia APA an editathon for cultural presence, which will be held during the month of September 2015. We are thrilled to invite you to Wikipedia APA, an editing event for improving and increasing the presence of cultural, historic, and artistic information on Wikipedia pertaining to Asian Pacific American ("APA") experiences. The second Wikipedia editathon dedicated to APA content, this project will occur as physical events during September 2015... as well as remotely, with participants taking part from all throughout the world." Facilitator: Women in Red (WiR) Did you Know that 15% of the biographies on Wikipedia are about women? Not impressed? WiR focuses on "content gender gap". If you'd like to help contribute articles on women and women's works, we warmly welcome you! WiR will be hosting one of this world virtual edit-a-thon. The 3-day event will focus on improving Wikipedia's coverage of Asian Pacific American women and their works (books, paintings, and so on). For more information and to RSVP: → click here← --Rosiestep (talk) 03:23, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

WikiCup 2015 September newsletter

The finals for the 2015 Wikicup has now begun! Congrats to the 8 contestants who have survived to the finals, and well done and thanks to everyone who took part in rounds 3 and 4.

In round 3, we had a three-way tie for qualification among the wildcard contestants, so we had 34 competitors. The leader was by far Casliber (submissions) in Group B, who earned 1496 points. Although 913 of these points were bonus points, he submitted 15 articles in the DYK category. Second place overall was Coemgenus (submissions) at 864 points, who although submitted just 2 FAs for 400 points, earned double that amount for those articles in bonus points. Everyone who moved forward to Round 4 earned at least 100 points.

The scores required to move onto the semifinals were impressive; the lowest scorer to move onto the finals was 407, making this year's Wikicup as competitive as it's always been. Our finalists, ordered by round 4 score, are:

1. Cas Liber (submissions), who is competing in his sixth consecutive Wikicup final, again finished the round in first place, with an impressive 1666 points in Pool B. Casliber writes about the natural sciences, including ornithology, botany and astronomy. A large bulk of his points this round were bonus points.
2. Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points), second place both in Pool B and overall, earned the bulk of his points with FPs, mostly depicting currency.
3. Cwmhiraeth (submissions), first in Pool A, came in third. His specialty is natural science articles; in Round 4, he mostly submitted articles about insects and botany. Five out of the six of the GAs he submitted were level-4 vital articles.
4. Harrias (submissions), second in Pool A, took fourth overall. He tends to focus on articles about cricket and military history, specifically the 1640s First English Civil War.
5. West Virginian (submissions), from Pool A, was our highest-scoring wildcard. West Virginia tends to focus on articles about the history of (what for it!) the U.S. state of West Virginia.
6. Rodw (submissions), from Pool A, likes to work on articles about British geography and places. Most of his points this round were earned from two impressive accomplishments: a GT about Scheduled monuments in Somerset and a FT about English Heritage properties in Somerset.
7. Rationalobserver (submissions), from Pool B, came in seventh overall. RO earned the majority of her points from GARs and PRs, many of which were earned in the final hours of the round.
8. Calvin999 (submissions), also from Pool B, who was competing with RO for the final two spots in the final hours, takes the race for most GARs and PRs—48.

The intense competition between RO and Calvin999 will continue into the finals. They're both eligible for the Newcomers Trophy, given for the first time in the Wikicup; whoever makes the most points will win it.

Good luck to the finalists; the judges are sure that the competition will be fierce!

Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs), Miyagawa (talk · contribs) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs) 11:48, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Five minutes to help make WikiProjects better

Hello!

First, on behalf of WikiProject X, thank you for trying out the WikiProject X pilot projects. I would like to get some anonymous feedback from you on your experience using the new WikiProject layout and tools. This way, we will know what we did right, and if we did something horribly wrong, we can try to fix it. This feedback won't be associated with your username, so please be completely honest. We are determined to improve the experience of Wikipedians, and your feedback helps us with that. (You are also welcome to leave non-anonymous feedback at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject X.)

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Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you, Harej (talk) 17:49, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Käthe Leichter

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for your participation in the Asian Pacific American Women World Virtual Edit-a-thon, 4-6 September 2015, sponsored by the Smithsonian Institute's Asian Pacific American Center, and hosted by Women in Red. Your contributions are appreciated! --Rosiestep (talk) 01:30, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Sakaye Shigekawa

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 02:06, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Nina Yang Bongiovi

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:02, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Sophia Lin

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for participating

Thank you for your interest in Women in Red and for your participation in the virtual Women in Leadership Edit-a-thon, 7-20 September 2015. It was a resounding success with over 160 new articles. Your contributions are appreciated! We'll keep you posted on future events. --Ipigott (talk) 09:11, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Adventures in Stationery

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 02:23, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

• Thanks for expanding the article. I started it after hearing a talk by the author at a Sunday Assembly at the Conway Hall. The talk was about "boring things" in general and you can read more about his ideas on his blog. I deliberately left the body of the article as a one-liner to make it easy to 5x expand at DYK but never got around to doing that step. It's good that you picked it up as the history of the article indicates that there have been attempts to delete the article without telling me. Andrew D. (talk) 12:26, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

• @Andrew Davidson: I picked up a copy of the book a few months ago while I was in London on holiday. I just got around to reading it and thought it deserved a slightly more substantial article. I've had a look at his blog – he seems like an amusing guy! 97198 (talk) 12:47, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Stephanie Langhoff

Gatoclass (talk) 17:49, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Eric Steelberg

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 19:38, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

You're invited! Women in Red World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Architecture

You are invited! Join us remotely! World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Architecture

Dates: 15 to 25 October 2015 Location: Worldwide/virtual/online event Host/Facilitator: Women in Red (WiR): Did you know that only 15% of the biographies on Wikipedia are about women? WiR focuses on "content gender gap". If you'd like to help contribute articles on women and women's works, we warmly welcome you! Sponsor: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in association with Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, Women in Design, and Wikiproject Women Wikipedia Design Event details: This is a virtual edit-a-thon hosted by WiR in parallel with a series of "physical" Guggenheim edit-a-thons. It will allow all those keen to improve Wikipedia's coverage of women in architecture and design to participate. The campaign aims to further the goals of Ada Lovelace Day for STEM, and Art Feminism for art, in a field that by its nature combines both. As the virtual edit-a-thon stretches over a week and a half, inexperienced participants will be able to draw on the assistance of more experienced editors while creating, translating or improving articles on women who are (or have been) prominent in this field. All levels of Wikipedia editing experience are welcome. RSVP and learn more: →here←--Ipigott (talk) 07:34, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

?

You just thanked me for making an article on The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. Any specific reason? :P Silverseren^C 20:31, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

@Silver seren: I'm a longtime fan of the website and I was showing my appreciation that you'd started an article about it. :) 97198 (talk) 05:48, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Elisabeth Holm

Gatoclass (talk) 11:37, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

Preps 5 and 6

Hi, I've cleared Preps 5 and 6 for hooks from the Special Occasions holding area for October 13 (Ada Lovelace Day). I've promoted all the ones I didn't write or review. Would you be able to promote the rest? Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 09:04, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Sorry Yoninah, I only just saw your message. It looks like Cwmhiraeth has added a couple of hooks, and I just promoted one more – I couldn't see any other appropriate articles that were ready for promotion. 97198 (talk) 10:13, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks so much! Yoninah (talk) 10:14, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

		The 200 DYK Creation and Expansion Medal
		Hi Sophie from Sydney known as "97198". It is my pleasure to recognise (belatedly) that you have made over 200 contributions to DYK. Impressive to see that you also create GAs... wow. I have seen so many film related hooks and so many women. Some great contributions including the unfortunately named Mary Loveless. No relation of yours I believe. Thanks for your cheerful and helpful contributions to the project. Victuallers (talk) 15:18, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

@Victuallers: Thank you so much for the kind words. Seeing all of your contributions at DYK made me realise how many women's biographies we are missing and was one of the things that inspired me to get involved in creating more. 97198 (talk) 06:20, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Obvious Child

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Your GA nomination of Smashed (film)

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Your GA nomination of Obvious Child

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Template:Did you know nominations/Eleanore Pettersen

Review completed. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 12:24, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

@7&6=thirteen: Thanks for the review and for your improvements to the article! 97198 (talk) 12:36, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Smashed (film)

The article Smashed (film) you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Smashed (film) for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Cirt -- Cirt (talk) 17:40, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Mark Heyman

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:46, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Sigrid Lorenzen Rupp

Thanks for supporting Wikipedia and the DYK project Victuallers (talk) 13:27, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Elizabeth Cadbury-Brown

Hello! Your submission of Elizabeth Cadbury-Brown at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Note: this is my first crack at a DYK review, so please excuse any mistakes. Regards, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:03, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Gertrude Leverkus

Thanks for the contribution Victuallers (talk) 00:58, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Smashed (film)

The article Smashed (film) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Smashed (film) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Cirt -- Cirt (talk) 00:42, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Judith Edelman

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 12:14, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for participating in Women in architecture

Thank you for your participation in the Women in Architecture Virtual Edit-a-thon, 15–25 October 2015, sponsored by the Guggenheim Museum, and hosted by Women in Red. In addition to upgrades, we created about 170 new articles. Your contributions are appreciated! --Ipigott (talk) 15:05, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Deborah Saunt

Thanks Victuallers (talk) 12:02, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Eleanore Pettersen

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Kate Macintosh

Thanks for helping Victuallers (talk) 00:02, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Corinne Bennett

Thanks for helping Victuallers (talk) 00:02, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Obvious Child

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 12:01, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

You're invited! Women in Red World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Science

You are invited! Join us remotely! World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Science

Dates: 8 to 29 November 2015 Location: Worldwide/virtual/online event Host/Facilitator: Women in Red (WiR) in collaboration with Women scientists: Did you know that only 15% of the biographies on Wikipedia are about women? WiR focuses on "content gender gap". If you'd like to help contribute articles on women and women's works, we warmly welcome you! Sponsor: New York Academy of Sciences Event details: This is a virtual edit-a-thon hosted by WiR in parallel with a "phyisical" event during the afternoon of Sunday, November 22 in New York City. It will allow all those keen to improve Wikipedia's coverage of women in science to participate. As the virtual edit-a-thon stretches over three weeks, new participants will be able to draw on the assistance of more experienced editors while creating, translating or improving articles on women who are (or have been) prominent in the field. All levels of Wikipedia editing experience are welcome. RSVP and learn more: →here← --Rosiestep (talk) 01:12, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

5 million

We've reached five million!!                                                   The English Wikipedia now has over 5,000,000 articles! Woo-hoo! Feel free to pass this message on! You can never celebrate too much. Eman235/talk 17:46, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Rosemary Stjernstedt

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Eva Vecsei

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:02, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Smashed (film)

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:02, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Teresa Borsuk

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 12:02, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

A cup of tea for you!

Hi Sophie! I'm Emily, I don't think we've met, but I wanted to send you some love for all the awesome writing you're doing with women scientists. Thank you so much. We need more people like you! :) See you around the Women in Red edit-a-thon this month! Keilana (talk) 07:52, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

@Keilana: Thanks, Emily! I've seen your name around a fair bit but it's nice to meet you. Thanks for everything you've done on the women scientists WikiProject! 97198 (talk) 05:05, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Monica Pidgeon

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

DYK suggestion

97198, since you would know more about this process than me, regarding approved suggestions (mine here) I don't have to follow up on anything right? It's an automatic (and slow lol) process? Lapadite (talk) 10:58, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

@Lapadite77: No, there's nothing more for you to do except wait for someone to come along and place it in a queue to go on the main page. It is a slow process, especially for nominations with pictures since only 1 in 8 hooks can be run with a picture in the lead slot. Hopefully you won't have to wait too much longer, but let me know if you need any help. 97198 (talk) 11:16, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Ah, ok. No worries. Thanks. Lapadite (talk) 11:19, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

WikiCup 2015: The results

WikiCup 2015 is now in the books! Congrats to our finalists and winners, and to everyone who took part in this year's competition.

This year's results were an exact replica of last year's competition. For the second year in a row, the 2015 WikiCup champion is Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points). All of his points were earned for an impressive 253 featured pictures and their associated bonus points (5060 and 1695, respectively). His entries constituted scans of currency from all over the world and scans of medallions awarded to participants of the U.S. Space program. Cwmhiraeth (submissions) came in second place; she earned by far the most bonus points (4082), for 4 featured articles, 15 good articles, and 147 DYKs, mostly about in her field of expertise, natural science. Cas Liber (submissions), a finalist every year since 2010, came in third, with 2379 points.

Our newcomer award, presented to the best-performing new competitor in the WikiCup, goes to Rationalobserver (submissions). Everyone should be very proud of the work they accomplished. We will announce our other award winners soon.

A full list of our award winners are:

• Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points) wins the prize for first place and the FP prize for 330 featured pictures in the final round.
• Cwmhiraeth (submissions) wins the prize for second place and the DYK prize for 160 did you knows in the final round (310 in all rounds).
• Cas Liber (submissions) wins the prize for third place and the FA prize for 26 featured articles in all rounds.
• West Virginian (submissions) wins the prize for fourth place
• Calvin999 (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
• Rationalobserver (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
• Harrias (submissions) wins a final 8 prize and the FL prize for 11 featured lists.
• Rodw (submissions) wins the most prizes: a final 8 prize, the GA prize for 41 good articles, and the topic prize for a 13-article good topic and an 8-article featured topic, both in round 3.
• ThaddeusB (submissions) wins the news prize for the most news articles in round 3.

We warmly invite all of you to sign up for next year's competition. Discussions and polls concerning potential rules changes are also open, and all are welcome to participate. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2016 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.

Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · logs), Miyagawa (talk · contribs · logs) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · logs) 18:39, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

WikiCup Award

Awarded to 97198 for participating in the 2015 WikiCup. Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs), Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 18:59, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Eleanor Cullis-Hill

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Do you mind? I boldly nominated this Victuallers (talk) 10:19, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Judith Ledeboer

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:02, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Agathe L. van Beverwijk

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:01, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Moira Dunbar

Thanks for this article Victuallers (talk) 12:02, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Chika Kuroda

Thanks for this article Victuallers (talk) 12:03, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Mariangela Lisanti

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 00:01, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Michiyo Tsujimura

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 00:02, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Kay Tye

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 12:01, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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A barnstar for you!

	The Writer's Barnstar
	For your improvements to What Maisie Knew (film) - thanks Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 09:54, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, Ritchie333. :) 97198 (talk) 12:50, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

I think there's a GA to be had in this article if a bit more work is put into it. Excellent film, struck a very strong chord with me personally as a struggling parent. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 13:54, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Yes, I had planned to take it to GA with some more work – after an initial burst of writing after watching (and falling in love with) the film, I sort of forgot about it. 97198 (talk) 13:57, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Elizabeth Cadbury-Brown

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:01, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Kono Yasui

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Tsuruko Haraguchi

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:02, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for participating

Thank you for your participation in the Women in Science Virtual Edit-a-thon, 8 to 29 November 2015, hosted by Women in Red together with Women scientists. It was held in parallel with a meet up at the New York Academy of Sciences on 22 November. In addition to improvements, we created well over 300 new articles. Your contributions are appreciated!

Hope you will also join us for the WiR Women in Religion Virtual Edit-a-thon from 5 to 15 December.--Ipigott (talk) 10:46, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

You're invited! Women in Red World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Religion

You are invited! Join us remotely! World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Religion

Dates: 5 to 15 December 2015 Location: Worldwide/virtual/online event Host: Women in Red (WiR): Did you know that only 15% of the biographies on Wikipedia are about women? WiR focuses on "content gender gap". If you'd like to help contribute articles on women and women's works, we warmly welcome you! Event details: This is a virtual edit-a-thon hosted by WiR. It will allow all those keen to improve Wikipedia's coverage of women in religion to participate. All levels of Wikipedia editing experience are welcome. RSVP and learn more: →here← --Rosiestep (talk) 05:16, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Patricia Numann

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:01, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Hanna von Hoerner

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 12:02, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Yueh-Lin Loo

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 00:01, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Andrea Ablasser

Gatoclass (talk) 12:01, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Toshiko Yuasa

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Anne Beloff-Chain

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:03, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Asian Month Barnstar
	Thanks for your great contribution in Wikipedia Asian Month 2015! AddisWang (talk) 14:26, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for your participation

Thanks for joining the Women in Religion Virtual Edit-a-thon, 5 to 15 December 2015, hosted by Women in Red. Over 125 articles were created or expanded. Your contributions are appreciated! Hope you will also join us for the WiR Women in Music Virtual Edit-a-thon from 10 to 31 January.

--Ipigott (talk) 14:13, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Ruth Schmidt

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Sara Murray Jordan

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Janet Carr

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:01, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

WikiCup 2016 is just around the corner...

Hello everyone, and we would like to wish you all a happy holiday season. As you will probably already know, the 2016 WikiCup begins in the new year; there is still time to sign up. There are some changes we'd like to announce before the competition begins.

After two years of serving as WikiCup judge, User:Miyagawa has stepped down as judge. He deserves great thanks and recognition for his dedication and hard work, and for providing necessary transition for a new group of judges in last year's Cup. Joining Christine (User:Figureskatingfan) and Jason (User:Sturmvogel 66) is Andrew (User:Godot13), a very successful WikiCup competitor and expert in Featured Pictures; he won the two previous competitions. This is a strong judging team, and we anticipate lots of enjoyment and good work coming from our 2016 competitors.

We would also like to announce one change in how this year's WikiCup will be run. In the spirit of sportsmanship, Godot13 and Cwmhiraeth have chosen to limit their participation. See here for the announcement and a complete explanation of why. They and the judges feel that it will make for a more exciting, enjoyable, and productive competition.

The discussions/polls concerning the next competition's rules will be closed soon, and rules changes will be made clear on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring and talk pages. The judges are committed to not repeating the confusion that occurred last year and to ensuring that the new rules are both fair and in the best interests of the competition, which is, first and foremost, about improving Wikipedia.

If you have any questions or concerns, the judges can be reached on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, on their talk pages, or by email. We hope you will all join us in trying to make the 2015 WikiCup the most productive and enjoyable yet. You are receiving this message because you are listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Figureskatingfan (talk), and Godot13 (talk).--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:46, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Greetings

Season's greetings and all the best in the upcoming New Year! Brandmeister^talk 15:51, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Season's Greetings

Dear 97198: Wishing you and yours a warm and wonderful holiday season! I value your contributions to Wikipedia, and look forward to seeing more of them in 2016. Best, Yoninah (talk) 21:08, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

@Yoninah: Thank you, and all the best to you too! 97198 (talk) 09:12, 25 December 2015 (UTC)