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Women in Red March 2025

Women in Red | March 2025, Vol 11, Issue 3, Nos. 326, 327, 332, 333, 334

Online events:

New: Alphabet run E & F | Artists+Activists | Women of the Arab World
Continuing, year-long initiatives: #1day1woman | Music

Announcements from other communities:

Tip of the month:

You can access the Wikipedia Library if you have made 500+ edits, and 6+ months editing,
and 10+ edits in the last 30 days, and No active blocks

Moving the needle:^[1]

27 Jan 2025: 20.031% of biographies on EN-WP are about women (2,047,793 bios, 410,200 women)
23 Dec 2024: 20.009% (2,041,741 bios, 408,531 women)

Thank you if you contributed one or more of the 1,669 articles during this period!

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Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications.
Join the conversations on our talkpage.
Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project.
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References

^ "Humaniki".

Sunday, April 6, 2025 Minnesota User Group Meeting

In the area? You're invited to the April 2025 Minnesota User Group Meeting

The organizer of this event is Joe Hoover aka Myotus feel free to drop him a message.

Sunday, April 6, 2025 is New Beer's Eve and the Minnesota User Group is meeting to celebrate at Lake Monster Brewing Company!

When: Sunday, April 6, 2025, from 1 to 3:30 pm CDT
Where: Lake Monster Brewing Company, Taproom space
550 Vandalia St #160, St Paul, Minnesota

Please RVSP on the event page.

Transit

Metro Green Line | Raymond Ave Station
Buses: 63 & 67

Look forward to seeing folks! While there will be free snacky bits, there is a pizza restaurant next door, OG Zaza, that you can order food from.

Myotus (talk) 23:26, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 27 February 2025

News and notes: Administrator elections up for reapproval and 1bil GET snagged on Commons

Serendipity: Guinea-Bissau Heritage from Commons to the World

Technology report: Hear that? The wikis go silent twice a year

In the media: The end of the world

Recent research: What's known about how readers navigate Wikipedia; Italian Wikipedia hardest to read

Opinion: Sennecaster's RfA debriefing

Tips and tricks: One year after this article is posted, will every single article on Wikipedia have a short description?

Community view: Open letter from French Wikipedians says "no" to intimidation of volunteer contributors

Traffic report: Temporary scars, February stars

Essay: The source, the whole source, and nothing but the source

Obituary: Ümüt Çınar (Kmoksy) and Vinícius Medina Kern (Vmkern)

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WikiCup 2025 March newsletter

The first round of the 2025 WikiCup ended on 26 February. As a reminder, we are no longer disqualifying the lowest-scoring contestants; everyone who competed in round 1 will advance to round 2 unless they have withdrawn or been banned from Wikipedia. Instead, the contestants with the highest round-point totals now receive tournament points at the end of each round. Unlike the round points in the main WikiCup table, which are reset at the end of each round, tournament points are carried over between rounds and can only be earned if a competitor is among the top 16 round-point scorers. This table shows all competitors who have received tournament points so far.

Round 1 was very competitive compared with previous years; two contestants scored more than 1,000 round points, and the top 16 contestants all scored more than 500 round points. The following competitors scored more than 800 round points:

Gog the Mild (submissions) with 1,168 round points, mainly from 4 featured articles and 4 good articles on old military history, in addition to an assortment of GA and FA reviews.
Generalissima (submissions) with 1,095 round points, mainly from 2 FAs, 2 featured lists, 8 GAs, and 16 Did You Know articles mainly on historical topics.
BeanieFan11 (submissions), with 866 round points from 20 GAs, 23 DYKs, and 2 In the News articles primarily about athletes.
Sammi Brie (submissions), with 846 round points from 16 GAs about radio and TV stations, 45 GA reviews, and 3 DYKs.
Hey man im josh (submissions), with 816 round points from 5 FLs about sports and Olympic topics, 46 FL reviews, 3 ITN articles, and a large number of bonus points.
MaranoFan (submissions), with 815 round points primarily from 3 FAs and 1 GA about music, in addition to 9 article reviews.

The full scores for round 1 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 18 featured articles, 26 featured lists, 1 featured-topic article, 197 good articles, 38 good-topic articles and more than 100 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 23 In the News articles, and they have conducted nearly 550 reviews.

Remember that any content promoted after 26 February but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2, which begins on 1 March. 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 on Wikipedia: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 on Wikipedia 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 from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:12, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sunday, April 6, 2025 Minnesota User Group Meeting

In the area? You're invited to the April 2025 Minnesota User Group Meeting

The organizer of this event is Joe Hoover aka Myotus feel free to drop him a message.

Sunday, April 6, 2025 is New Beer's Eve and the Minnesota User Group is meeting to celebrate at Lake Monster Brewing Company!

When: Sunday, April 6, 2025, from 1 to 3:30 pm CDT
Where: Lake Monster Brewing Company, Taproom space
550 Vandalia St #160, St Paul, Minnesota

Please RVSP on the event page.

Transit

Metro Green Line | Raymond Ave Station
Buses: 63 & 67

Look forward to seeing folks! While there will be free snacky bits, there is a pizza restaurant next door, OG Zaza, that you can order food from.

Myotus (talk) 17:19, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - February 2025 Newsletter

This is our fortieth newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 3, 5, 8, 11, 13, 15 and 16.

User group news

User group meeting in February (minutes).

Other news

Time to get ready to organize Wiki Loves Earth (SDG 15)
‘Women of the Future’ – International Women’s Day 2025 (SDG 5)
The Experts Behind the Edits: Expanding public understanding of healthcare (SDG 3)
Wikimedia Enterprise and Ecosia Partner to Drive Sustainable Search Innovation (SDG 13)
A subproject to WikiProject Climate Change about Climate Change Policies has just started on Wikidata (SDG 13)

Events

1 March: Open Data Day 2025 in Côte d'Ivoire (SDG 8)
7 March Govdirectory Collab Hour - Open Data Day 2025 (SDG 16)
8 March–1 April: Shine Her Light Writing Contest 2025 (SDG 5)

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2025

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2025).

Administrator changes

CheckUser changes

Oversighter changes

AmandaNP

Guideline and policy news

A request for comment is open to discuss whether AI-generated images (meaning those wholly created by generative AI, not human-created images modified with AI tools) should be banned from use in articles.
A series of 22 mini-RFCs that double-checked consensus on some aspects and improved certain parts of the administrator elections process has been closed (see the summary of the changes).
A request for comment is open to gain consensus on whether future administrator elections should be held.

Technical news

A new filter has been added to the Special:Nuke tool, which allows administrators to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. T378488
Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the Special:Nuke tool. T376378

Miscellaneous

The 2025 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, Arcticocean, Ameisenigel, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, Galahad, Nehaoua, Renvoy, Revi C., RoySmith, Teles and Zafer as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
Following the 2025 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: 1234qwer1234qwer4, AramilFeraxa, Daniuu, KonstantinaG07, MdsShakil and XXBlackburnXx.

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Owen Cooper

Hello. Just a courtesy note to say I created a page for the English boxer Owen Cooper and it was linked to your to do page with a person of the same name. I have fixed the disambiguation but wanted to point it out here as well. Best wishes. Shrug02 (talk) 20:32, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Shrug02. Thank you for the disambiguation. I appreciate it. gobonobo ⁺ ^c 01:14, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to participate in research

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The Wikimedia Foundation is conducting a survey of a group of Wikipedians to better understand their experiences! We are also looking to interview some survey respondents in more detail, and you will be eligible to receive a thank-you gift for the completion of an interview. The outcomes of this research will shape future work designed to improve on-wiki experiences.

We have identified you as a good candidate for this research, and would greatly appreciate your participation in this survey, which shouldn’t take more than 2-3 minutes. You may view its privacy statement here. Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns. Kind regards, Sam Walton (talk) 16:35, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Books & Bytes – Issue 67

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 67, January – February 2025

East View Press and The Africa Report join the library
Spotlight: Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention and WikiCredCon
Tech tip: Suggest page

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