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Tech News: 2022-30

19:25, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-31

21:20, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022

New Page Review queue August 2022

Hello Alsee,

Backlog status

After the last newsletter (No.28, June 2022), the backlog declined another 1,000 to 13,000 in the last week of June. Then the July backlog drive began, during which 9,900 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell by 4,500 to just under 8,500 (these numbers illustrate how many new articles regularly flow into the queue). Thanks go to the coordinators Buidhe and Zippybonzo, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations to Dr vulpes who led with 880 points. See this page for further details.

Unfortunately, most of the decline happened in the first half of the month, and the backlog has already risen to 9,600. Understandably, it seems many backlog drive participants are taking a break from reviewing and unfortunately, we are not even keeping up with the inflow let alone driving it lower. We need the other 600 reviewers to do more! Please try to do at least one a day.

Coordination
MB and Novem Linguae have taken on some of the coordination tasks. Please let them know if you are interested in helping out. MPGuy2824 will be handling recognition, and will be retroactively awarding the annual barnstars that have not been issued for a few years.
Open letter to the WMF
The Page Curation software needs urgent attention. There are dozens of bug fixes and enhancements that are stalled (listed at Suggested improvements). We have written a letter to be sent to the WMF and we encourage as many patrollers as possible to sign it here. We are also in negotiation with the Board of Trustees to press for assistance. Better software will make the active reviewers we have more productive.
TIP - Reviewing by subject
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New reviewers
The NPP School is being underused. The learning curve for NPP is quite steep, but a detailed and easy-to-read tutorial exists, and the Curation Tool's many features are fully described and illustrated on the updated page here.
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Tech News: 2022-32

19:48, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

Growth team updates #1

Welcome to the first newsletter for the new Growth team!  

The Growth Team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects. We will be starting with Wikipedias, but we hope these changes will benefit every community.

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A cup of coffee for you!

Thanks for organizing the discussion at special:permalink/1104392472#WMF_prohibits_community_from_voting_for_candidates_of_our_choice_in_Board_seats_election.

I have a proposal for the Wikimedia Community to organize the Election Committee more effectively at meta:Wikimedia Election Committee User Group. My position is that whatever happens, the Wikimedia community should be engaged. This committee already comes from and represents the Wikimedia community, so we need a support system around it. Thoughts? Bluerasberry (talk) 11:37, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-33

21:06, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

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Hi Alsee,

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For those who may have missed it in our last newsletter, here's a quick reminder to see the letter we have drafted, and if you support it, do please go ahead and sign it. If you already signed, thanks. Also, if you haven't noticed, the backlog has been trending up lately; all reviews are greatly appreciated.

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Tech News: 2022-34

00:09, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

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Editing news 2022 #2

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Tech News: 2022-35

23:02, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2022-36

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Tech News: 2022-37

01:47, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2022-38

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Growth team newsletter #22

17:18, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

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October 2022 New Pages Patrol backlog drive

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Tech News: 2022-39

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Tech News: 2022-40

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Tech News: 2022-41

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Please note that External links sections are not in the body of the article, per MOS:BODY. If there's some ambiguity about the RfC, then that should be clarified. ―Justin (koavf)TCM 15:13, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

Koavf Wikipedia:External_links#Handling_disputes aka WP:ELBURDEN. Once an external link has been disputed it should not be restored without consensus. I request you revert your inappropriate revert. Alsee (talk) 15:24, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
That's not how I read that, but I'm willing to revert until there's clarity on the discussion I posted and pinged you on. ―Justin (koavf)TCM 15:31, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
Koavf Thank you. We'll discuss over there. Alsee (talk) 15:42, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

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Growth team newsletter #23

20:57, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

Re: fair use images and T320661

Hello Alsee, thank you very much for your message on phab:T320661. It was very appreciated and it let us understand better what was the problem.

Our idea was indeed to start a RfC in a couple of months, to see what is the orientation of the community regarding this particular issue. Our intention is to understand if there could be community consensus about making an exemption for this particular usage or not. To be fair, we don't want to push or impose any solution, we just want to be sure to comply with what the community decides on the matter.

If you have time and if you want to start the RfC about this topic, we are ok with that. If you want, you can ping me or send me the link to the RfC, I'll be glad to clarify potential issues or to answer questions if needed.

Thanks again and hope to hear from you soon. Sannita (WMF) (talk) 10:40, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

Sannita (WMF) I'm happy to help. I opened an RFC at WT:Non-free_content#RFC:_Non-Free_images_in_search_results. Feel free to contact me regarding this or anything else in the future. Alsee (talk) 17:22, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

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Some falafel for you!

Hi,

For making me laugh with your comment that wikidata is "super-duper amazingly great that they think everyone at every Wikipedia on the entire planet should be feeding and serving their project. " I offer a bite of my virtual felafel from Melbournce Victoria - i have chosen to have Siracha Sauce, as well as Tsatsiki (Melbourne has a large Greek Community) Wakelamp d[@-@]b (talk) 09:21, 17 December 2022 (UTC)