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DCWC closing update

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Two weeks ago, the 2025 Developing Countries WikiContest came to a close! After three months of stiff competition at the top of the leaderboard, we have our winners. Bronze Belt Buckle – 3rd place vigilantcosmicpenguin (submissions), continuing his work on covering abortion in Africa, comes in third with 692 points. Silver Belt Buckle – 2nd place simongraham (submissions) comes in second with 763 points, largely from a slew of good articles about jumping spiders. And returning to the podium for the second year in a row, Gold Belt Buckle – 1st place Bosnia and Herzegovina BeanieFan11 (submissions) takes the Gold Belt Buckle with a mind-boggling 946 points from his series of articles on sportpersons. Congratulations to our winners!

Amazingly, the award for the most countries covered goes to both Bosnia and Herzegovina BeanieFan11 (submissions) and simongraham (submissions), who each submitted articles under 30 flags! Bosnia and Herzegovina BeanieFan11 (submissions) also wins for writing the most quality articles (16 good articles). For submitting 16 articles related to El Salvador, El Salvador PizzaKing13 (submissions) wins the award for most submissions under one country. The award for most submissions related to women goes to both Spookyaki (submissions) (7 biographies about women) and vigilantcosmicpenguin (submissions) (21 related articles). And for the second year, simongraham (submissions) wins for the most reviews, having submitted 21!

Among the participants' contributions were 2 FAs, 5 FLs, 124 GAs, and an uncounted number of DYKs, ITNs, and reviews of every kind! Regardless of your level of participation, every contestant can be proud to have contributed towards a major step in countering the systemic bias on Wikipedia. Every year, millions of readers and editors around the globe use Wikipedia to educate themselves and communicate with others about parts of the world that often receive less attention than they deserve. Thank you for participating with us in the contest and contributing to this effort. The DCWC will return next year, and we look forward to seeing you contribute again! However, before that...

We need your feedback! Join the conversation on the talk page to discuss your reflections on the contest (even if you didn't participate!) and help us make it better.

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) 16:43, 18 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Promotion of List of governors of Abia State

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Congratulations, Vanderwaalforces! The list you nominated, List of governors of Abia State, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.
This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, PresN (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:25, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Notification of administrators without tools

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TolBot (talk) 21:00, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note regarding an article you marked as reviewed

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Not a big deal or anything, but wanted to let you know—you had marked Angel on My Shoulder (1980 film) as reviewed, but two of the references didn't exist, while the third didn't mention the film whatsoever. (Technically the two non-existent references had names close to books by the same author, but that's beside the point.) Something that might make it easier to note stuff like that, especially for book sources, is by displaying CS1 error messages described here, as that'll yell at you whenever there's an ISBN with an invalid checksum for instance which is nearly 99% of the time a sign that it's an LLM generated and (at least partially) hallucinated reference. Perryprog (talk) 19:44, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Perryprog Good catch. Tysm. About 10 months ago. I'd try displaying the hidden CS1 errors and maintenance in the link you mentioned. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 08:22, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]