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Administrators' newsletter – April 2024[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).
Administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.
Technical news
- The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)
Arbitration
- An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".
Miscellaneous
- Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.
how to make my own wiki page for my own podcast channel? --Jovangq (talk) 12:52, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
- Hello Jovangq! Welcome to Wikipedia. While it’s not explicitly forbidden, writing articles with which you have a conflict of interest, such as your podcast, is discouraged. It’s much more difficult to adhere to Wikipedia’s policies on neutral point of view and verifiability.
- Here’s what I would do: while working on your draft, declare the COI on your user page (there is a template for that). Then have a look through Help:Your first article— it has a lot of resources to help you identify what your draft needs to contain (and not contain) to get approved.
- If you have any more questions, don’t hesitate to ask! ◇HelenDegenerate◆ 15:04, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
WikiCup 2024 April newsletter[edit]
We are approaching the end of the 2024 WikiCup's second round, with a little over two weeks remaining. Currently, contestants must score at least 105 points to progress to the third round.
Our current top scorers are as follows:
Sammi Brie (submissions) with 642 points, mostly from 11 GAs about radio and television;
voorts (submissions) with 530 points, mostly from two FAs (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three GAs;
Generalissima (submissions) with 523 points, mostly from 11 GAs about coinage and history;
SounderBruce (submissions) with 497 points, mostly from a FA about the 2020 season of the soccer club Seattle Sounders FC and two GAs;
Tamzin (submissions) with 410 points, mostly from a FA about the drink Capri-Sun and three GAs;
Kusma (submissions) with 330 points, mostly from a FA about the English botanist Anna Blackburne and a GA.
Competitors may submit work for the second round until the end of 28 April, and the third round starts 1 May. Remember that only competitors with the top 32 scores will make it through to the third round. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs. As a reminder, competitors are strictly prohibited from gaming Wikipedia policies or processes to receive more points.
If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please read Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring. Further questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) 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) 15:05, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
Question from Solar~flare~double~helix (17:05, 24 April 2024)[edit]
hi there! my name is kevin bloom and i'm a musician and artist living in vermont, usa. i'm also an anti-racist activist and i've been documenting conservative hate radio on nationally syndicated radio across the usa. for example, racist host howie carr (nationally syndicated from wrko in boston) has a long running (10+ years) segment where he plays the "mexican hat dance" song and reads off crime reports involving people with hispanic sounding names and questions their immigration status. i'd like to add this to his page, but i'm unsure the best / most accurate way to go about this. do you have any advice? my best idea so far is to create a subsection called something like "alleged racism" and then list what he said on what date only using objective statements. is this the way? thank you so much! --Solar~flare~double~helix (talk) 17:05, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Solar~flare~double~helix! Welcome to Wikipedia.
- If his segment, namely any backlash against it, has been covered in reliable, third-party sources (here is a page that may help you identify some), it may merit a subsection called ‘Public reception’. Then you can discuss the response that his segment received, and how people reacted to it, attributing their exact words to the source.
- However, if there isn’t any news coverage of how people feel, I wouldn’t bring it up in the article at all, especially not under a header such as ‘alleged racism’. Since Carr is a living person, we have to be extra cautious in how we write about him. That means avoiding coming to any conclusions in Wikipedia’s voice. I hope this helps :) ◇HelenDegenerate◆ 16:34, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost: 25 April 2024[edit]
- In the media: Censorship and wikiwashing looming over RuWiki, edit wars over San Francisco politics and another wikirace on live TV
- News and notes: A sigh of relief for open access as Italy makes a slight U-turn on their cultural heritage reproduction law
- WikiConference report: WikiConference North America 2023 in Toronto recap
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Newspapers (Not WP:NOTNEWS)
- Recent research: New survey of over 100,000 Wikipedia users
- Traffic report: O.J., cricket and a three body problem