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The DCWC is open!

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See a    "developing" or    "least developed" country? Write about it to earn points!

Riley1012, for the second running of the Developing Countries WikiContest, it is now open for submissions. The coordinators have addressed some of the queries at the last contest and we are hopeful that it'll turn out great! If you haven't done so already, please review the following:

On behalf of the coordinators, we hope you enjoy participating and wish you the best of luck! If you have any questions, please leave a message on the contest talk page or ask one of the coordinators: Arconning (talk · contribs), sawyer777 (talk · contribs), or TechnoSquirrel69 (talk · contribs). (To unsubscribe from these updates, remove yourself from this list.) Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 03:52, 1 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to the contest, Riley! Here's a link to your submissions page. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 02:43, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Gabby Douglas

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On 4 July 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Gabby Douglas, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that gymnast Gabby Douglas (pictured) has a Barbie doll modeled after her? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Gabby Douglas. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Gabby Douglas), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 00:02, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hook update
Your hook reached 11,060 views (3,160.1 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of July 2025 – nice work!

GalliumBot (talk • contribs) (he/it) 03:27, 6 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Marisa Dick

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On 12 July 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Marisa Dick, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Marisa Dick (pictured) has two balance-beam elements named after her – the Dick and the Dick II? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Marisa Dick. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Marisa Dick), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

SL93 (talk) 00:02, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Destubathon runs until the 16th of July

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Hi, just a courtesy message to notify you in case you haven't seen the Wikipedia:The World Destubathon contest update in the last few days that we've decided to run the full month until the 16th of July. For those who have been too busy to contribute, we would love some help in reaching 4000 articles by Wednesday night! At present we're about 480 articles short!♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:37, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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The Special Barnstar
Hi Riley! Just wanted to give you this barnstar because of your wonderful contributions to gymnastics and sport in general. :) Arconning (talk) 13:20, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Arconning: Thank you for your great contributions as well and for always being supportive! :) -Riley1012 (talk) 18:10, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:The 50,000 Destubbing Challenge

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Hi, can you do me a favour and archive that properly after adding the contest articles, I'm busy sorting out the contest prizes! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:18, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Dr. Blofeld: Looks like someone else took care of that, but I've added to the women's list -Riley1012 (talk) 18:09, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 18 July 2025

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Thanks for competing!

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World Destubathon Barnstar
Much appreciate your effort in the World Destubathon! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:04, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Red August 2025

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Women in Red | August 2025, Vol 11, Issue 8, Nos. 326, 327, 344, 345, 346


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DCWC August update

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We're a month into the 2025 Developing Countries WikiContest, with stiff competition at the top of the leaderboard already! Our current top five contestants are:

  1. Spookyaki (submissions) – 256 points, mostly from a handful of GAs about women's history in Latin America as well as the 1991 Haitian coup d'état.
  2. vigilantcosmicpenguin (submissions) – 229 points, back with a number of articles on abortion in various African countries.
  3. simongraham (submissions) – 213 points, mainly from GAs on species of jumping spiders in both Africa and Azerbaijan.
  4. El Salvador PizzaKing13 (submissions) – 200 points, with five GAs on articles relating to Salvadoran politics, history, and griddle cakes.
  5. Bosnia and Herzegovina BeanieFan11 (submissions) – 168 points from a few GAs, a few DYKs, and a few ITNs on athletes from a variety of countries.

Looking for ways to climb up the leaderboard yourself? Help out your fellow participants by answering a few review requests, particularly the older entries. Several more nominations needing attention are listed at eligible reviews, and highlighed entries receive a 1.5× multiplier!

On behalf of the coordinators, we'd like to thank all the participants for helping to combat systemic bias on Wikipedia! If you have any questions, please leave a message on the contest talk page or ask one of the coordinators: Arconning (talk · contribs), sawyer777 (talk · contribs), or TechnoSquirrel69 (talk · contribs). (To unsubscribe from these updates, remove yourself from this list.) Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 03:36, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 9 August 2025

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Plus a mysterious CheckUser incident, and the news with Wikinews.
A review of June, July and August.
Who is this guy?
Threads since June.
And slop.
It's not a conlang, it's a crossword puzzle.
gang aft agley, an' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, for promis'd joy!
Everybody's Somebody's Fool.
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August 2025

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Information icon Hello, I'm Zackmann08. Thank you for your recent contributions to Ryosuke Sakai. When you were adding content to the page, you added duplicate arguments to a template which can cause issues with how the template is rendered. In the future, please use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find these errors as they will display in red at the top of the page. Thanks. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 21:59, 29 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2025 September newsletter

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The fourth round of the 2025 WikiCup ended on 29 August. The penultimate round saw three contestants score more than 800 points:

Everyone who competed in Round 4 will advance to Round 5 unless they have withdrawn. This table shows all competitors who have received tournament points so far, while the full scores for Round 4 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 9 featured articles, 12 featured lists, 98 good articles, 9 good topic articles, more than 150 reviews, nearly 100 did you know articles, and 18 in the news articles.

In advance of the fifth and final round, the judges would like to thank every contestant for their hard work. As a reminder, any content promoted after 29 August but before the start of Round 5 can be claimed in Round 5. In addition, note that Round 5 will end on 31 October at 23:59 UTC. Awards at the end of Round 5 will be distributed based on who has the most tournament points over all five rounds, and special awards will be distributed based on high performance in particular areas of content creation (e.g., most featured articles in a single round).

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 – Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), Frostly (talk · contribs), Guerillero (talk · contribs) and Lee Vilenski (talk · contribs) – are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck!

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Women in Red September 2025

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Women in Red | September 2025, Vol 11, Issue 9, Nos. 326, 327, 347, 348, 349
Recognized as the most active, topic-based WikiProject by human changes.


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Tip of the Month:

  • Researching historical women writers who used pseudonyms requires careful investigation across multiple sources, as many women adopted pen names to avoid gender bias and judgment (e.g., being labeled a bluestocking) and, ultimately, to get published.

Progress ("moving the needle"):

Other ways to participate:

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Barnstar of European Merit

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The Barnstar of European Merit
For participation in the European 20,000 Challenge. Thanks for your gymnastics articles.
this WikiAward was given to Riley1012 by Grimes2 16:35, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 9 September 2025

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UK Online Safety Act remains undefeated.
Plus Wiki rules, Wiki Spin, and physicists get street cred!
The price of Liberty is eternal vigilance.
And other new research findings.
Tis true: there's magic in the web of it.
With the usual mix of war, death, super heroes, a belt, and Wednesday.
It's an easy one.
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Cite Unseen September 2025 updates

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Hello! Thank you for using Cite Unseen. We are excited to share details about a big update we just deployed. With grant support from Wikimedia CH, we've added several new features, including a citation filtering dashboard, settings dialog, support for localization, and the ability to easily suggest domain categorizations. Cite Unseen now also lives on Meta Wiki, as part of our effort to serve all Wikimedia projects. Our source lists are now also on Meta-Wiki, where they can be collaboratively edited by the community.

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Women in Green's 9th Edit-a-thon

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Hello Riley1012:

WikiProject Women in Green is holding a month-long Good Article Editathon event in October 2025!

Running from October 1 to 31, 2025, WikiProject Women in Green (WiG) is hosting a Good Article (GA) editathon event with the theme What Women Do! All experience levels welcome. Never worked on a GA project before? We'll teach you how to get started. Or maybe you're an old hand at GAs – we'd love to have you involved! Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and women's works (e.g., books, films) during the event period. We hope to collectively cover article subjects from at least 31 different occupations or professions (or broader roles in society) by month's end. GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced GA editors, and participants will have the opportunity to earn a special WiG barnstar for their efforts.

We hope to see you there!

Grnrchst (talk), Spookyaki (talk) & Alanna the Brave (talk)

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DYK for Gao Lei

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On 26 September 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Gao Lei, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the reigning world champion did not qualify for the men's trampoline final at the 2020 Summer Olympics? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Gao Lei. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Gao Lei), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to nominate it.

~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:02, 26 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your nomination of Marta (footballer) is under review

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Your good article nomination of the article Marta (footballer) is under review. See the review page for more information. This may take up to 7 days; feel free to contact the reviewer with any questions you might have. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of LEvalyn -- LEvalyn (talk) 21:45, 28 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Red | October 2025, Vol 11, Issue 10

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Women in Red | October 2025, Vol 11, Issue 10, Nos. 326, 327, 350, 351, 352
Recognized as the most active topic-based WikiProject by human changes.


Online events:

Announcements:

Tip of the Month:

  • Notable does not always mean admirable; you don't have to like an article's subject to make the article a useful contribution to Wikipedia.

Progress ("moving the needle"): Statistics available via various tools: previously, Humaniki tool; currently, QLever.
Thank you if you contributed one or more of the 6,283 articles during this period:

  • 19 May 2025: 20.114% of EN-WP biographies are about women (2,066,280; 415,618 women)
  • 24 September 2025: 20.20% of EN-WP biographies are about women (2,088,533 biographies; 421,901 women)

Other ways to participate:

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October 2025 GAN Backlog Drive

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October 2025 GAN Backlog Drive

  • On 1 October 2025, a one-month backlog drive for good article nomination reviews will begin in hopes of addressing the growing backlog and to reduce old nominations.
  • Barnstars will be awarded based on the number, length, and age of nominations reviewed.
  • Each article review will earn 1 point; for each 90 days an article has been in the backlog, an additional half-point is awarded; one extra point will be awarded for every 2500 total reviewed words.
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