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Hello, Stussll, and welcome to Wikipedia!

Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask at the help desk, or place {{Help me}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or or by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Also, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 16:59, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Bay Area WikiSalon invitation!

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Please join us in downtown San Francisco!
A Wikipedia panel discussion about journalism

Periodically, on the last Wednesday evening of the month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to munch, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We allow time for announcements, informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Bring a friend! Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. This months focus is images!

We will have beverages (including beer and wine) plus light snacks (maybe pizza too!).


For further details and to RSVP, please see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, May 2018 (note: we are meeting at the new WMF HQ at 120 Kearny Street!)

See you soon! Ben Creasy, Nikikana, Stephen, and Wayne | (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here) | MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:22, 21 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

UPDATE! Bay Area WikiSalon moved to June 6!

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Please join us in downtown San Francisco!
A Wikipedia panel discussion about journalism

Our apologies, but we are rescheduling to Wednesday, June 6 at 6:00 p.m. due to a WMF host scheduling conflict.


For further details and to RSVP, please see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, June 2018 (note: we are meeting at the new WMF HQ at 120 Kearny Street!)

See you soon! Niki, Ben, Stephen, and Wayne | (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here) | MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:38, 25 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Testing Stussll (talk) 17:15, 7 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

REMINDER: Bay Area WikiSalon is Wednesday, June 6

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Please join us in downtown San Francisco!
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Leila (WMF) shares

When: Wednesday, June 6 at 6:00 p.m.


For details and to RSVP, please see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, June 2018 (note: we are meeting at the new WMF HQ at 120 Kearny Street!)

See you soon! Niki, Lodewijk, Ben, Stephen, and Wayne | (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here) | MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:41, 5 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ways to improve Frank Howarth (woodworker)

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Hi, I'm Domdeparis. Stussll, thanks for creating Frank Howarth (woodworker)!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. we need more than just a few sources to videos. this needs in-depth coverage to show he meets the criteria of WP:CREATIVE

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse.

Dom from Paris (talk) 13:54, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Dhxh Stussll (talk) 01:47, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Bay Area WikiSalon invitation for July 25!

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Please join us in downtown San Francisco!
Wikimedia Community logo
A Wikipedia panel discussion about journalism

Periodically, on the last Wednesday evening of the month, wiki enthusiasts gather at the Bay Area WikiSalon series to munch, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We allow time for announcements, informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Bring a friend! Kid/family friendly. Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. This months focus is reliable sources!

We will have beverages (including beer and wine) plus light snacks (maybe pizza too!).


For further details and to RSVP, please see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, July 2018 (note: we are meeting at the new WMF HQ at 120 Kearny Street!)

See you soon! Avik (User:Quantumavik), Lodewijk (User:Effeietsanders), Ben Creasy (User:Ben Creasy), Stephen (User:Slaporte), and Wayne (User:Checkingfax)
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Nomination of Topo Designs for deletion

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Topo Designs is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Topo Designs until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. power~enwiki (π, ν) 19:58, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Bay Area WikiSalon invitation for September 26!

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Please join us in downtown San Francisco!
Wikimedia Community logo
WikiSalon attendees

Periodically, on the last Wednesday evening of the month, wiki enthusiasts gather at the Bay Area WikiSalon series to munch, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.

We allow time for announcements, informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Bring a friend! Kid/family friendly. Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. This months' focus is Did you know ... ?

We will have beverages (including beer and wine) plus light snacks (maybe pizza too!).


Details and RSVP here (note: we are meeting at the new WMF HQ at 120 Kearny Street!)

See you soon! Avik (User:Quantumavik), Lodewijk (User:Effeietsanders), Ben Creasy (User:Ben Creasy), Stephen (User:Slaporte), and Wayne (User:Checkingfax)
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Last call for RSVPs for Wednesday evening

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Please join us in downtown San Francisco!
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WikiSalon attendees

Hey, folks.​ Reminder:​ Wednesday evening ​at 6 ​is the Bay Area WikiSalon series​.​


Details and RSVP here (note: we are meeting at the new WMF HQ at 120 Kearny Street!)

See you soon! Avik (User:Quantumavik), Lodewijk (User:Effeietsanders), Ben Creasy (User:Ben Creasy), Stephen (User:Slaporte), and Wayne (User:Checkingfax)
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RE: Flower Boy

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Thank you, I tend to summarise critic reviews on most album articles. And thanks for the heads up on Sheck Wes Ninjinian (talk) 22:45, 15 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Growth team updates #3

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Welcome to the third 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.

Two Growth team projects to be deployed in next two weeks

We will be deploying the "Understanding first day" and "Personalized first day" projects on Czech and Korean Wikipedias in the coming weeks. See the new project pages below for full details on the projects, and our project updates page for their progress.

  • Understanding first day: learn about the actions new editors take right after creating their accounts. We will be careful with user privacy, and we hope to share initial results in December.
  • Personalized first day: learn about new editors' objectives by adding some optional questions to the new editor’s registration process, and personalizing their onboarding. We hope to share initial results in December.

Third Growth team project begins

  • Focus on help desk: direct newcomers to the local help desks where they can ask questions to help them make their first edits. We hope to have an initial experiment running in December.

Best practices for helping newcomers

We are going to direct newcomers to help desks. But what's the best way to reply to a newcomer there? We have gathered some best practices for successful interactions, based on community experiences and some external documentation. The page has also been reviewed by some experienced community members who suggested some changes. That page is now open for translations. Comments and suggestions are still welcome!

We are still looking for volunteers

Do you want to participate to our experiments? We are looking for new communities to work with us (especially a new mid-size wiki), and people to become ambassadors to help us to communicate with the different communities. Discover how you can involve yourself or your community.

Also, please share this update with your community and interested people!

Learn more about us

You can visit our team page to find out why our team was formed and how we are thinking about new editors, and our project page for detailed updates on the projects we'll work on.

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Growth team updates #4

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Welcome to the fourth 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 need your feedback!

We have two requests for community members:

  1. Now that data is coming in for the welcome survey, we are planning how to use that data to personalize the newcomer's first day. See our current thoughts here, and join the conversation here.
  2. Try out the help panel's interactive prototype, and read about how we're planning to roll it out, and post any thoughts or reactions here.

Two Growth team projects have been deployed (detailed updates here)

  • Personalized first day (welcome survey) was deployed on November 20 on both Czech and Korean Wikipedias.
    • The survey is now being shown to half of new users (A/B test). Responses are being recorded in the database. We'll report on initial results during December.
    • We are planning to test a second version of the survey, called "Variation C", which we think will maximize the number of users who complete the survey and stay on the wiki.
    • The original objective of this project was to give newcomers the materials they need to achieve their goals, and so now we are currently planning how we will use the information collected in the welcome survey to personalize the newcomer's experience. We hope community members will read our current thinking and join the conversation here. Some of the plans we are considering include:
      • Making it easy for newcomers to see editing activity around the topic areas in which they indicated that they're interested.
      • Connecting interested newcomers to experienced editors.
      • Surfacing the help content most relevant to the reason for which the newcomers created their accounts.
  • Understanding first day (EditorJourney) was deployed on November 15 on both Czech and Korean Wikipedias. It has been done after a longer security review and final testing than expected. Data is now being recorded for all new users on those wikis, and we've been auditing the data and preparing to make initial reports during December. Stay tuned for the next newsletter!

Help panel is under construction

  • Focus on help desk (help panel) is planned to be deployed during the week of January 7 on both Czech and Korean Wikipedias.
  • This interactive prototype is the best way to see the design and wording in the feature.
  • We ran live user tests on the prototype, with results posted here.
  • In addition to giving the ability to ask a question, the help panel will also contain a set of links to existing help content. Our ambassadors on Czech and Korean Wikipedias are determining the right initial set of most helpful links in this task.
  • We encourage community members to try out the prototype and read about the rules for who will get the feature, and add any thoughts to this discussion.

We are still looking for volunteers

Do you want to participate to our experiments? We are looking for new communities to work with us (especially a new mid-size wiki), and people to become ambassadors to help us to communicate with the different communities. Discover how you can involve yourself or your community.

Also, please share this update with your community and interested people!

Learn more about us

You can visit our team page to find out why our team was formed and how we are thinking about new editors, and our project updates page for detailed updates on the projects we work on.

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You are cordially invited to Stanford University to celebrate Wikipedia's birthday

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Join us in celebrating Wikipedia's 18th birthday at Stanford University!
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I am delighted to invite you to the 2019 Wikipedia Day party at Stanford, which will be held on Tuesday, January 15, 2019, at 5:00-8:30pm.

There will be pizza, cake, and refreshments; both newcomers and experienced Wikimedians are welcome! We will have a beginner track with tutorials, and an advanced track with presentations, lightning talks, and tips and tricks. Admission is free, and you do NOT have to be a Stanford University student to attend.

Details and RSVP here • register here

See you soon! All the best, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c)
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Growth team updates #5

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Welcome to the fifth 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.

New projects for discussion

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We began the "Personalized first day" project with the welcome survey so that we could gather information about what newcomers are trying to accomplish. The next step is to use that information to create experiences that help the newcomers accomplish their goal – actually personalizing their first day. We asked for community thoughts in the previous newsletter, and after discussing with community members and amongst our team, we are now planning two projects as next steps: "engagement emails" and "newcomer homepage".

  • Engagement emails: this project was first discussed positively by community members here back in September 2018, and the team how has bandwidth to pursue it. The idea is that newcomers who leave the wiki don't get encouraged to return to the wiki and edit. We can engage them through emails that send them the specific information they need to be successful – such as contact from a mentor, the impact of their edits, or task recommendations. Please read over the project page, and comment on its discussion page with any ideas, questions, or concerns. Do you think this is a good idea? Where could we go wrong?
  • Newcomer homepage: we developed the idea for this project after analyzing the data from the welcome survey and EditorJourney datasets. We saw that many newcomers seem to be looking for a place to get started – a place that collects their past work, options for future work, and ways to learn more. We can build this place, and it can connect to the engagement emails. The content of both could be guided by what newcomers say they need during their welcome survey, and contain things like contact from a mentor, impact of their edits, or task recommendations. Please read over the project page, and comment on its discussion page with any ideas, questions, or concerns. Do you think this is a good idea? Where could we go wrong?

Initial reports on newcomer activity

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We have published initial reports on each of the team's first two projects. These reports give the basic numbers from each project, and there are many more questions we will continue to answer in future reports. We're excited about these initial findings. They have already helped us define and design parts of our future projects.

  • Welcome survey: the initial report on welcome survey responses is available here. Some of the main findings:
    • Most users respond to the survey, giving it high response rates of 67% and 62% in Czech and Korean Wikipedias, respectively.
    • The survey does not cause newcomers to be less likely to edit.
    • The most common reason for creating an account in Korean Wikipedia is to read articles—not for editing—with 29% of Korean users giving that responses.
    • Large numbers of respondents said they are interested in being contacted to get help with editing: 36% in Czech and 53% in Korean.
  • Understanding first day: the initial report on what newcomers do on their first day is available here. Some of the main findings:
    • Large numbers of users view help or policy pages on their first day: 42% in Czech and 28% in Korean.
    • Large numbers of users view their own User or User Talk page on their first day: 34% in Czech and 39% in Korean.
    • A majority of new users open an editor on their first day – but about a quarter of them do not go on to save an edit during that time.

Help panel deployment

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The help panel was deployed in Czech and Korean Wikipedias on January 10. Over the past four weeks:

  • About 400 newcomers in each wiki have seen the help panel button.
  • About 20% of them open up the help panel.
  • About 50% of those who open it up click on one of the links.
  • About 5% of Czech users ask questions, and about 1% of Korean users ask questions.

We think that the 20% open rate and 50% click rate are strong numbers, showing that a lot of people are looking for help, and many want to help themselves by looking at help pages. The somewhat lower numbers of asking questions (especially in Korean Wikipedia) has caused us to consider new features to allow people to help themselves. We're going to be adding a search bar to the help panel next, which will allow users to type a search that only looks for pages in the Help and Wikipedia namespaces.

How to create a good feedback page?

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What is the way to built a good help page? What blocks you when writing an help page? Your replies will help to create better help contents to newcomers, that would be used on Help panel.

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Growth team updates #6

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18:19, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

A test topic

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Testing is on my mind Stussll (talk) 21:29, 22 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Stussll (talk) 07:10, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Jdndb

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Nenene Stussll (talk) 21:30, 22 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Another test

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Testing some more Stussll (talk) 21:34, 22 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your editing efforts

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I have noticed that you appear to be adding a lot of Wikilinks to articles. Please read about the problems that can be caused by WP:OVERLINKING. You may also want to read the broader perspective in the rest of the article MOS:LINK.

You may find the article Help:Referencing for beginners useful in learning how to build complete and well-formatted references in Wikipedia. The methods shown in Using refToolbar are particularly handy for enabling efficient cut-and-paste construction of a proper Wikipedia reference. The refToolbar method is very useful, because it uses a simple form to cue an editor to include the most important parameters (for example, author, date, publisher), while it takes care of the formatting details automatically. For websites, books, and academic journals, many fields can be filled in automatically, and only need to reviewed for accuracy and completeness. You can skip the later section in the tutorial, on manually building references, until/unless you need to "look under the covers" to make custom modifications.

I would also like to point out a technique used in Wikipedia to show the specific page numbers in footnoted references, without triggering an absurdly large number of nearly-identical full citations. The abbreviated format is described at Template:Refpage, which was designed specifically to handle this problem. This and other useful techniques for efficiently formatting references are explained at Help:Referencing for beginners#Same reference used more than once.

It takes a while to become fluent in Wikipedia editing. Your efforts are appreciated, and I hope you can contribute effectively to this project. Cheers! Reify-tech (talk) 21:10, 6 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Reify-tech, this feedback is specific and actionable – thank you for the thought and time you put into making it so. ^ _ ^
There were a few threads mentioned...
Linking/overlinking
WP:Overlinking's guidance is great. I found it particularly helpful how the high level guidance was articulated, "A good question to ask yourself is whether reading the article you're about to link to would help someone understand the article you are linking from."
Reference + Template:Refpage
Template:Rp this is the first I'm seeing this template which makes seeing it used in a context I'm familiar with all the more helpful.
Meta
How/where did you discover that I'd been adding a lot links to articles? I ask this as a relatively novice editor, curious about the workflows someone with your experience level has developed...
- Stussll (talk) 01:11, 15 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I'm glad you took these suggestions in the helpful spirit they were intended. You seem to be eager to learn the various Wikipedia formatting techniques (which is commendable), but then you also need to be wary of overusing them. When you first learn how to use a hammer, everything might look like a nail (Law of the instrument), but you soon discover the damage you can do with a new powerful tool. The WP:MOS is the main guide for use of the powerful Wikipedia formatting tools. Keep in mind that the overarching goals of Wikipedia writing are clarity and readability, and many of the guidelines were decided with that in mind.
Wikipedia follows the recommendations of MOS:LQ. The Wikipedia Manual of Style may differ from what you have been taught in school, or are used to doing. The Wikipedia policy on "logical quotations" has been thoroughly discussed by editors, and the MOS presents the consensus that they have reached. Note that the English language Wikipedia is an international collaboration, and does not automatically follow American (or British or Canadian or Australian or South Asian, etc.) style conventions. If you encounter an unfamiliar style, please check the MOS before making wholesale changes.
Although the guidelines in MOS:SERIAL are complex and subtle, I recommend using the serial comma whenever it improves clarity, which is most of the time. There are a few odd cases where omitting a serial comma actually improves clarity; these are an "exception that proves the rule".
Another stylistic trend in Wikipedia is to reduce excessive use of periods, when they do not contribute to clarity. Examples include Ph.D./PhD, M.I.T./MIT, U.S./US, D.C./DC, p.m./pm, Jr./Jr, and Dr./Dr – this is an area where the often conservative British are actually ahead of the American writers. Excessive periods are still retained in verbatim quotations, such as "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.", but they are retained for the same nostalgic reasons as a sign that says "Ye Olde Grogge Shoppe".
Every edit to Wikipedia is recorded and publicly viewable, whether anonymous or under an identified username. The easiest way to look at other edits made by a user who has made a recent edit to an article in your WP:WATCHLIST, is to click on "contribs" in parentheses after the username. This is a way to follow the activities of a vandal, a misguided novice, or an editor whose work you want to follow and learn from. Wikipedia policy strives for openness and transparency, except when privacy or other concerns may overrule this.
When you first encounter a deliberate vandal or a badly misguided novice, you may not know what to do. There are powerful tools for undoing bad edits, but they must be tempered by good judgement and WP:DONTBITE. There are some nice tools to add polite but firm and clear warning messages on the Talkpages of wayward editors, but it takes a while to learn when to use them, and when and how to report a runaway editor who is doing major damage. In the meantime, it is best to just revert bad edits, and to always give an WP:EDITSUMMARY to explain what you're trying to do.
You will come up to speed more quickly than you might think, and soon will find yourself able to help out other novice editors. On the other hand, you will never know everything there is to learn in Wikipedia, but you should take this as an inspiration and not a restriction. We all have a lot to learn about Wikipedia and the wider universe of knowledge. Cheers! Reify-tech (talk) 21:10, 15 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Lil Nas X

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Hello Stussll, I am sorry but your edit here got caught up due to my revert of quite a bit of vandalism. I saw your talk page message on Talk: Lil Nas X, and the sentence you were referring to was indeed a part of this recent string of vandalism. Sadly I could not manually undo the edits, because a portion of your edits were fixing the vandalism. I restored the page back to how it was before the vandalism, so feel free to edit it however you want from. Again sorry I had to revert your work, it was just the much easier way to get back to the page pre-Vandalism. StaticVapor message me! 07:34, 18 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

StaticVapor, the action you took makes sense - I appreciate your edits! And by the way, you stopping by to let me know what happened is quite considerate - thank you ^ _ ^ Stussll (talk) 04:41, 20 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Same to you, thank for your edits. Yeah no problem, I didn't want you to think a random editor reverted your good edits for no reason lol. StaticVapor message me! 16:28, 20 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Growth team updates #7

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16:18, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Call for submissions for the Community Growth space at Wikimania 2019

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Welcome to a special newsletter from the Growth team! This special newsletter is not about Wikimedia Foundation Growth team projects. Instead, it is a call for submissions for the Community Growth space at Wikimania 2019. We think that many people who receive this newsletter may have something valuable to contribute to this space at Wikimania. We haven't translated the newsletter, because Wikimania's language is English.

Please see below for the message from the organizers of the Community Growth space at Wikimania.

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Wikimania 2019 is organized into 19 “spaces”, which are all accepting proposals for sessions. This message comes from the team organizing the Community Growth space.

Since you are interested b Growth team projects, and potentially involved in welcoming newcomers initiatives on your wiki, we would like to invite you to submit a proposal to the Community Growth space because of the actions you’ve done around newcomers on wikis. The deadline for submission is June 1. See below for Community Growth submission topics and session formats. Topics and sessions have to be in English.

In the Community Growth space, we will come together for discussions, presentations, and workshops that address these questions:

  • What is and is not working around attracting and retaining newcomers?
  • How should Wikimedia activities evolve to help communities grow and flourish?
  • How should our technology and culture evolve to help new populations to come online, participate and become community members?

Recommended topics: please see this link for the list for the list of recommended topics. If you do not plan to submit a proposal, you can also suggest additional topics here. If your topic does not fit into our space, remember that there are 18 other spaces that could welcome you sharing your knowledge and perspective.

Types of session. We prefer sessions that are participatory, interactive, promote conversations, and give a voice to parts of our movement that are heard less often. Please see this link for the list of recommended session formats.

Poster submissions. Posters are also a good way to introduce a topic, or show some results of an action. Please consider submitting one!

More information about the Community Growth space, topics, and submission formats is available on the proposal page.

Please submit your proposal. The reviews will happen at the beginning of June.

If you have questions about Wikimania in general, please ask them on the Wikimania wiki.

On behalf of the Community Growth leadership team, Trizek (WMF), 11:44, 16 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

June 2019

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Information icon Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. This is just a note to let you know that I've moved the draft that you were working on to Draft:Apartamento, from its old location at User:Stussll/sandbox. This has been done because the Draft namespace is the preferred location for Articles for Creation submissions. Please feel free to continue to work on it there. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to ask me on my talk page. Thank you. Jupitus Smart 15:11, 12 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Growth team updates #8

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09:02, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

Test Stussll (talk) 19:32, 26 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Growth team updates #9

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14:26, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

Editing News #1—July 2019

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18:33, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

Hello, Stussll. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, Draft:Stusslltest.

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it. — JJMC89(T·C) 04:11, 20 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@JJMC89: Got it – thank you for the heads up! I have no intention to continue working on it Stussll (talk) 20:53, 20 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Growth team updates #10

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18:49, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

Hu Stussll (talk) 23:55, 22 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages

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11:11, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

Testing

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just testing @PPelberg (talk) 05:29, 12 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Another test Stussll (talk) 17:16, 7 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Growth team updates #11

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15:02, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

ArbCom 2019 election voter message

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You are cordially invited to the SPIE Photonics West edit-a-thon on 02.02.2020

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Join us for the SPIE Photonics West edit-a-thon this Sunday, 02.02.2020!
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I am delighted to invite you to the SPIE Photonics West 2020 edit-a-thon, at Park Central Hotel (Franciscan I, 3rd Level / 50 Third Street / San Francisco, California), on Sunday, February 2, 2020, at 5:00-7:00pm.

Newcomers and experienced Wikimedians are welcome to participate alongside SPIE conference attendees. Admission is free. Training will be provided.

Details and sign-in here

See you soon! All the best, --Rosiestep (talk) 06:59, 31 January 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]

Growth team updates #12

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17:39, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

Testing

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Something Stussll (talk) 01:44, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

hello Stussll (talk) 01:46, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
hello this is peter testing 2601:646:400:4F10:70B9:1839:7049:4D32 (talk) 21:20, 7 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools

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19:05, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Growth team newsletter #13

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14:29, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #2

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20:29, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #3

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Editing news 2020 #4

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Growth team newsletter 14

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09:33, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

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A tag has been placed on Cheryl Harris requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://blackartstory.org/2020/09/22/profile-cheryl-harris/. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

If the external website or image belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text or image — which means allowing other people to use it for any reason — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. The same holds if you are not the owner but have their permission. If you are not the owner and do not have permission, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for how you may obtain it. You might want to look at Wikipedia's copyright policy for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Onel5969 TT me 11:14, 26 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

hi Onel5969 – thank you for this note. Although, there seems to be a mistake. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://blackartstory.org/2020/09/22/profile-cheryl-harris/ I'm confident the opposite of this is true. Meaning: rather than Cheryl Harris being a copy of the content included on https://blackartstory.org/2020/09/22/profile-cheryl-harris/, I think the content at the aforementioned URL is a direct copy of the content of Cheryl Harris. I think this for the following reasons:
Can you please direct me to the page where I can share this information and make the case for its inclusion? The URL linked above directs me back to the Cheryl Harris article. Thank you. Stussll (talk) 13:38, 26 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Stussll, you're most likely correct. The tag has been removed, and the page marked as reviewed. Keep up the good work. Onel5969 TT me 13:54, 26 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, okay. Wonderful. Thank you, Onel5969. A resulting question: what would you have recommended I do had there not been clear evidence that this external site had copied content from Wikipedia rather than the opposite being true? IIRC, this is the first time I’m going through this process Stussll (talk) 14:06, 26 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Stussll, well, the folks that do the heavy lifting on copyvios (I simply tag those which I feel are a good chance of copyvio), are very good at spotting "Mirrors", which is what this appears to be. However, if this somehow was still in contention, I'd simply re-write the article, using different verbiage. Onel5969 TT me 14:12, 26 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
...very good at spotting "Mirrors", which is what this appears to be. However, if this somehow was still in contention, I'd simply re-write the article, using different verbiage. this sounds like a great approach – thank you for all your help, Onel5969. See you around! Stussll (talk) 22:31, 26 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Growth team updates #15

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10:09, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

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Growth team updates #16

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14:22, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2021 #1

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18:38, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for your kind words!!

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Hey Stussl, thanks for your post on my wall. I think I'm going to start working on a page for Mavi soon, and I can let you know once it's finished. :) WhatsImportantToMe (talk) 03:54, 15 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Awesome and sounds great,@WhatsImportantToMe! Just drop me a message here when you have something ready for me to have a look. Stussll (talk) 04:17, 15 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Growth team newsletter #17

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16:02, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Testing

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hey @Stussll – I'm just testing something. PPelberg (WMF) (talk) 19:02, 12 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Growth Newsletter #18

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Editing news 2021 #2

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14:12, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

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Hi! Reply-link has officially been superseded by mw:DiscussionTools, which you can install using the "Discussion tools" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. DiscussionTools, developed by the WMF's Editing Team, is faster and has more features than reply-link, and it wouldn't make sense for me to keep developing reply-link. I think the Editing Team is doing amazing work, and look forward to what they can do in the future. Thank you for using reply-link over the years! Enterprisey (talk!) 06:11, 6 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Growth Newsletter #19

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Growth Newsletter #20

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Editing news 2022 #1

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New editors were more successful with this new tool.

The New topic tool helps editors create new ==Sections== on discussion pages. New editors are more successful with this new tool. You can read the report. Soon, the Editing team will offer this to all editors at the 20 Wikipedias that participated in the test. You will be able to turn it off at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

Whatamidoing (WMF) 18:43, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Growth team newsletter #21

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13:03, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

Invitation to Local Wikimania Event in San Francisco this Friday

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Hi!

Wikimania is happening and hopefully you're enjoying the sessions. While it's fairly last minute, you're warmly invited to participate in the local Wikimania-themed meetup in the Wikimedia Foundation office this Friday (tomorrow!). You will have to register in advance, but we would love to see more people from the WikiSalon community participate! For more information and registration, please check out meta:Wikimania 2022/San Francisco Meetup.

The event will involve hacking, teaching, learning, and celebrating and we'll have snacks. We will have the opportunity to watch live sessions at Wikimania together in the afternoon. The rest of the day we'll have opportunity to participate in the hackathon, and we may have some on-demand workshops/learning sessions.

In case we run out of space, it's first-come-first-serve so let us know soon! Hope to see you there.

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Editing news 2022 #2

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Graph showing 90-minute response time without the new tool and 39-minute response time with the tool
The [subscribe] button shortens response times.

The new [subscribe] button notifies people when someone replies to their comments. It helps newcomers get answers to their questions. People reply sooner. You can read the report. The Editing team is turning this tool on for everyone. You will be able to turn it off in your preferences.

Whatamidoing (WMF) 23:35, 29 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Growth team newsletter #22

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17:18, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

November 2022

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Information icon Hello, and thank you for removing vandalism from List of timelines. We appreciate this, but unfortunately your edit was not successful in restoring the article to its pre-vandalised state. For future reference, it is better to deal with vandalism by checking the article's page history to determine how it appeared before it was vandalised. You can then restore the whole article, or the relevant part of it, to an appropriate earlier version. If you simply delete the visible vandalism then any content removed or overwritten by the vandal is lost. See How to deal with vandalism for details. Thank you. Graham87 09:47, 20 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Understood! Thank you for helpful tip, @Graham87 ^ _ ^ Stussll (talk) 16:47, 20 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Growth team newsletter #23

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20:57, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

Oops

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This is the wrong ISBN. Where'd you get it? Can you fix it? Thanks. DS (talk) 23:01, 18 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

hi @DragonflySixtyseven – great spot. I don't recall where I got that ISBN from and I have not yet been able to locate the accurate one. Thank you for stopping by to ask. Stussll (talk) 00:53, 21 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oh and I forgot to mention, I've since removed the ISBN number until I can locate the accurate one. Stussll (talk) 17:49, 22 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Growth team newsletter #24

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14:44, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

Editing news 2023 #1

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This newsletter includes two key updates about the Editing team's work:

  1. The Editing team will finish adding new features to the Talk pages project and deploy it.
  2. They are beginning a new project, Edit check.

Talk pages project

Screenshot showing the talk page design changes that are currently available as beta features at all Wikimedia wikis. These features include information about the number of people and comments within each discussion.
Some of the upcoming changes

The Editing team is nearly finished with this first phase of the Talk pages project. Nearly all new features are available now in the Beta Feature for Discussion tools.

It will show information about how active a discussion is, such as the date of the most recent comment. There will soon be a new "Add topic" button. You will be able to turn them off at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion. Please tell them what you think.

Daily edit completion rate by test group: DiscussionTools (test group) and MobileFrontend overlay (control group)

An A/B test for Discussion tools on the mobile site has finished. Editors were more successful with Discussion tools. The Editing team is enabling these features for all editors on the mobile site.

New Project: Edit Check

The Editing team is beginning a project to help new editors of Wikipedia. It will help people identify some problems before they click "Publish changes". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Please watch that page for more information. You can join a conference call on 3 March 2023 to learn more.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 23:17, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Growth team newsletter #25

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Growth team newsletter #26

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15:14, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

Article section notifications, anchors, and permanent linking

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Hi. You worked on this project:

Topic on Talk:Talk pages project/Notifications:

Could you have a quick look at this and tell us what is technically possible:

--Timeshifter (talk) 13:45, 2 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Growth team newsletter #27

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Growth team newsletter #28

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Trizek_(WMF) Talk 23:16, 16 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Growth team newsletter #29

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Growth News, April 2024

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