User talk:Avalik/Archive 1

Archive 1

Renaming of Medieval Warm Period

I contest the changes — either it should actually go according to the MoS: medieval warm period (or Medieval warm period for the title), or (better) it should stay Medieval Warm Period as it is used almost consistently throughout literature. Lars T. (talk) 23:25, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

I have started a RFC about it, I hope you don't mind. Regarding your pointer to the list, I first of all see the inconsistency that most (but not all) "Era"s and "Age"s are capitalized. Furthermore, the other "... periods" could also be described as "the period of (the) ...", while the "Medieval Warm Period" doesn't fit that pattern; it would also be hard to actually fit it into the list. IMO it is a fixed scientific term with just that capitalisation. Lars T. (talk) 22:58, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

A WP:RfC is a Request for Comments. I had it set up on the Talkpages Talk:Medieval_Warm_Period#RFC:_renaming_of_article_according_to_WP:STYLE.3F, but it has already been closed with a rename to the old capitalisation. Lars T. (talk) 23:42, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

Invitation to participate in SecurePoll feedback and workshop

As you participated in the recent Audit Subcommittee election, or in one of two requests for comment that relate to the use of SecurePoll for elections on this project, you are invited to participate in the SecurePoll feedback and workshop. Your comments, suggestions and observations are welcome.

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Help Me -- How should I go forward with this user?

{{helpme}}

Hey there... I'm not too keen on policies however I've encountered in my editing a Wikipedian who while I believe intends good (mostly, except for one little thing) isn't making what I believe to be the most constructive edits, bordering on vandalism if it was bad faith.

User that I'm concerned about is User:BlueFireIceEyes (check contribution history to see) ... I placed some warnings on her talk page but I'm unsure how I should actually be handling this. Could someone help me here with who I should be taking this to / how I should handle this (if I should be reacting at all?) ...

I suppose you'll need to know what my exact concerns are to help... which are as follows:

1. Removing mainantence templates (i.e. 'weasel', 'fact', 'who', etc) without actually fixing it. Particularly persistent with doing this, article examples: Bisexuality, Bisexual chic, Bisexual erasure and articles on people.
2. Re-adding content immediantly after it's removal despite being unreliable or unsourced.
3. Marking edits that aren't minor as minor, even marking what could be considered "controversial edits" as minor. Not using edit summary enough.
4. Using edit summary to make accusations or attacks on editors such as "(adding in about her speeches and LGBT activist work-should be in the summary. homophobes need to STOP deleting this!!!!!)" , "‎ (adding some sources and cleaning it up, because the biphobes seem to be using any excuse they can to ruin this page)", "(well your opinion isn't a neutral point of view. it's called the lgbT community for a reason. stop with the transphobia)", "(adding some sources and cleaning it up, because the biphobes seem to be using any excuse they can to ruin this page)", etc.
5. Making attacks/accusations on article talk pages, i.e. Talk:Bisexual erasure "No, it was labeled that way by several GLBT and straight organizations as well as scientific ones, and the main author of it has a biased and dishonest past. Why don't you do some research?" among others.
6. Claiming/insinuating ownership over several "bisexual" related articles (even saying they are "our community pages") and asking people who are "not bisexual / bisexual allies to stop editing the articles", i.e. Talk:Bisexual_erasure#Made_some_changes and edit summary, "(everyone wanted references, I've given you many references, and I have done my best to make it as neutral as possible-it's not exactly a non controversial topic.Please leave our community page alone!)"

Again, except for the removal of maintanence tags I think they are good faith edits but that doesn't change the fact that (at least, I think - I may be wrong) that they aren't helpful edits and the way she/he is treating other editors isn't being very helpful.

I don't know policy so I need some assistance on what to do here (if anything) other than hand out some warnings. Thanks for the assistance.

You're right in saying that removing tags without actually addressing issues can be a bit disruptive, especially when edits are marked minor in that way (for example, here). A great thing to have in a dispute like this are revision diffs; basically, it lets a third party like me look at only the unbiased facts, as opposed to hearing the story from someone who can be biased.

So yeah, if you could get a few of those diffs together of what you see as problem behaviour, that would be great. I'll approach BlueFireIceEyes, though. Cheers, m.o.p 01:06, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

User talk:BlueFireIceEyes

Hey. Great thing to see new users that are against vandalism. I would just friendly point out, that as I see, you have posted several warnings to User talk:BlueFireIceEyes at once. If you want to give a so called final warning, please see WP:WARN. It has a list of warning templates in Wikipedia. Usually you must start with level one, then go for level 2 and so on, but if you see that user has several edits in short time that are only vandalism, please use only warning. For example {{subst:uw-create4im}}~~~~ if they create pages that don't belong to Wikipedia. There is no need for multiple warnings added at once. Please see WP:VAN for info about vandalism and how to deal with it. Feel free to contact me if you need help with vandalism dealing.  Ilyushka88  talk  22:41, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

To be honest I'm not completely new, just not very keen on the policies and always seem to have a hard time finding them haha. Anyways, thanks for the tip I'll contact you in future if I have any questions regarding vandalism/troublesome users. Avalik (talk) 09:55, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Every tag I removed I did fix and I put in several sources, and I can prove it. Why are you saying the tags were "not fixed"? It is quite plain I have made several changes that I did fix, unless you want the tags there for some other reason. If it says "unsourced" and I put in a lot of sources, there is no need for the tag, and I wasn't aware that the only one allowed to make that determination was you. I really do hope that this is a neutral subject for you, but given your history and what you have removed from some of our pages, I am starting to wonder. I never "claimed" ownership, I just said it was best if people who understood the subject matter did most of the editing. I wouldn't go to your community pages and start editing things because it is not something I know a lot about, and that is what I meant. I am starting to wonder if you are trying to get me banned, because you want to revert the pages back. I do not know why you would want the pages to be poorly sourced. I am starting to think that this is not a neutral subject for you. I hope that is not the case as it would be an abuse of authority. The reason I say this is because you removed several instances that talked about bisexual erasure in the gay community, and then you said there were poor sources. There was nothing wrong with the sources, they were verifiable-yet you removed them. Now you are lying and saying they are unverifiable which is not true. Please stop.

As for the tags, I did not remove anything that I did not back up. I would appreciate if you would stop accusing me of things I did not do. If this really is a neutral subject for you, then please stop removing sources and reverting any positive changes that someone makes to the bisexuality pages. I will go to wikipedia and tell my side of the story. BlueFireIceEyes (talk) 22:46, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

I'm just going to refer you to what I said to m.o.p mostly as my "proof", User_talk:Master_of_Puppets#RE:_How_should_I_go_forward_with_this_user.3F in reference to my "accusations". As for everything else,

"from some of our pages, I am starting to wonder. I never "claimed" ownership" -- I just thought I'd point out you said they were "our pages" right before you said you didn't claim ownership. And you've constantly referred to the bisexual pages as "your" or "our" (referring to bisexuals, I assume) pages and asking others (referring to non-bisexuals) to "leave OUR page alone". 'Our' is a possessive word, isn't it? In fact you even said to me on the article talk page " The only people who should be editing this are members of OUR community. Stick to the lesbian stuff and leave us alone!"... That is claiming ownership and also trying to scare off other editors. You don't own the page, there is no "community" that owns it, anyone can edit it and shouldn't be deterred.

" I wouldn't go to your community pages" -- my community pages? Sorry? There is no such thing on Wikipedia. Anyone can edit and they don't belong to anyone. They aren't owned. I shouldn't have to repeat this anymore.

"The reason I say this is because you removed several instances that talked about bisexual erasure in the gay community, and then you said there were poor sources. There was nothing wrong with the sources, they were verifiable-yet you removed them. Now you are lying and saying they are unverifiable which is not true." -- Are you referring to where I removed the single (not several) sentence that was referring to something like... victims of hate crimes being called gay by the media when they were really bisexual? That was because the cite didn't back up the text. I read every single cite and they were either referring to the victims as gay, or bisexual. The thing is that the article didn't mention that he was wrongly identified -- the articles that said he was bisexual could have just as been easily wrong as the ones that said he was gay so unless there is a citation for the citiation that says the newspapers that referred to the victims as gay were indefinitely wrong your citations did not support the text. Or are you referring to where I removed wikilinks (kept text)? That's due to the Manual of Style. One shouldn't wikilink the same word over and over and over again in the same article. In an article as short as bisexual erasure, once is enough, two is pushing it. Otherwise I'm unsure what you can possibly be referring to. Avalik (talk) 13:01, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

BlueFireIceEyes: I think Avalik is referring to things like this. As I said above, though, the best thing for you to do to help me assist you guys in the dispute is gathering diffs of the behaviour you're concerned with and putting them here so that I can get a view of the whole picture without having to dig through too much (and therefore possibly skew my view one way or another). Cheers, m.o.p 01:06, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Apologies for the reply delay! Very good job gathering all those diffs; very extensive, very helpful. The user in question hasn't been active since everything that transpired; however, I'll be leaving them a note asking for them to stop editing LGBT-related articles until we've agreed on some things. You did everything correctly, though; great job! I can respect your desire to keep copy-editing, though. Keep it all up, and know that I'm always a talk page away if you need help! :) Cheers, m.o.p 03:31, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Articles for deletion nomination of Be with You (2009 film)

I have nominated Be with You (2009 film), an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Be with You (2009 film). Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.

Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. DGG ( talk ) 18:28, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Rest In Peace Avalik

It is with great sorrow that I say goodbye to beautiful, intelligent, creative Avalik. September 19, 1990 to October 1, 2010

You are free my beautiful one.

Love Mom —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.183.59.23 (talk) 05:40, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Announcement

Hello! I'm The Arbiter, one of the coordinators for WikiProject Zoo. I am proud to announce the launch of a new portal: Portal:Zoos and Aquariums! ZooPro, ZooFari, and I worked hard to create a new portal for information on zoos, aquariums, and the associated projects and articles on Wikipedia. If you could head on over, take a look at our work, and maybe learn some more about zoos and Wikiproject Zoo, it would be great! Cheers and Happy Editing!

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WikiProject Sociology membership

You are listed in the Category:Wikipedians interested in sociology, probably due to the use of "This user is interested in sociology" userbox, but you have not added yourself to our official member list for WikiProject Sociology. This prevent you from, among other things, receiving our sociology newsletter, as that member list acts as our newsletter mailing list (you can find the latest issue of our sociology newsletter here). If you'd like to receive the newsletter and help us figure out how many members we really have, please consider joining our WikiProject and adding yourself to our official member list. Thank you, --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 12:58, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Figaro.png

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Stefan2 (talk) 01:41, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

Science lovers wanted!

Science lovers wanted!

Hi! I'm serving as the wikipedian-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution Archives until June! One of my goals as resident, is to work with Wikipedians and staff to improve content on Wikipedia about people who have collections held in the Archives - most of these are scientists who held roles within the Smithsonian and/or federal government. I thought you might like to participate since you are interested in the sciences! Sign up to participate here and dive into articles needing expansion and creation on our to-do list. Feel free to make a request for images or materials at the request page, and of course, if you share your successes at the outcomes page you will receive the SIA barnstar! Thanks for your interest, and I look forward to your participation! Sarah (talk) 19:49, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

WikiWomen's Collaborative

WikiWomen Unite!

Hi Avalik! Women around the world who edit and contribute to Wikipedia are coming together to celebrate each other's work, support one another, and engage new women to also join in on the empowering experience of shaping the sum of all the world's knowledge - through the WikiWomen's Collaborative. As a WikiWoman, we'd love to have you involved! You can do this by: Liking the WikiWomen's Collaborative on Facebook and share your tips, projects, and connect with other WikiWomen Join the conversation on our Twitter feed Reading and writing for our blog channel We can't wait to have you involved, and feel free to drop by our meta page (under construction) to see how else you can get involved! Can't wait to have you involved! SarahStierch (talk) 00:59, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

New medical organization

Hi

I'm contacting you because, as a participant at Wikiproject Medicine, you may be interested in a new multinational non-profit organization we're forming at m:Wikimedia Medicine. Even if you don't want to be actively involved, any ideas you may have about our structure and aims would be very welcome on the project's talk page.

Our purpose is to help improve the range and quality of free online medical content, and we'll be working with like-minded organizations, such as the World Health Organization, professional and scholarly societies, medical schools, governments and NGOs - including Translators Without Borders.

Hope to see you there! --Anthonyhcole (talk) 21:15, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

WikiWomen's Collaborative: Come join us (and check out our new website)!

WikiWomen - We need you!

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Hi could you help me

Hi could you give a quick check to this and give me a feedback please

http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/User:Thelmadatter/Sandboxes_Group_2/Embryogenic_germ_disc — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rorras (talk • contribs) 20:14, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Library now offering accounts from Cochrane Collaboration (sign up!)

The Wikipedia Library gets Wikipedia editors free access to reliable sources that are behind paywalls. Because you are signed on as a medical editor, I thought you'd want to know about our most recent donation from Cochrane Collaboration.

• Cochrane Collaboration is an independent medical nonprofit organization that conducts systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials of health-care interventions, which it then publishes in the Cochrane Library.
• Cochrane has generously agreed to give free, full-access accounts to 100 medical editors. Individual access would otherwise cost between $300 and $800 per account.
• If you are still active as a medical editor, come and sign up :)

Cheers, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 20:22, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Request for comment

Hello Avalik, I'm here onbehalf of WP:ORPHAN in which you are also a participant. So, we want your opinion to a WP:ORPHAN related matter. It is a proposal by Technical 13. Please have a look here. Your opinion (i.e support, oppose etc) are very much appreciated there. Thank you. By Jim Cartar through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:02, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

Backlog drive

Hello Avalik,

WikiProject Orphanage is holding a month long Backlog Elimination Drive to de-orphan articles which have orphan tags!
The goal is to eliminate the backlog of orphan articles. There are currently 52954 articles which have orphan tags. The drive is running from April 12, 2014 to May 12, 2014.

Awards will be given out for all editors participating in the drive in the form of barnstars at the end of the drive. To add your name in the participants list click here.
So start de-orphaning articles! Click here to see the list of articles need de-orphaning.
Visit Suggestions for how to de-orphan an article to know more!

Thanks. _{Opt-out Instructions} by Jim Cartar on behalf of WikiProject Orphanage through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:21, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Notification of automated file description generation

Your upload of File:Chifalle pet ferret.jpg or contribution to its description is noted, and thanks (even if belatedly) for your contribution. In order to help make better use of the media, an attempt has been made by an automated process to identify and add certain information to the media's description page.

This notification is placed on your talk page because a bot has identified you either as the uploader of the file, or as a contributor to its metadata. It would be appreciated if you could carefully review the information the bot added. To opt out of these notifications, please follow the instructions here. Thanks! Message delivered by Theo's Little Bot (opt-out) 14:29, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2014

Hi Avalik. In case you are not aware, there is an upcoming campaign to improve coverage of LGBT-related topics on Wikipedia, culminating with an international edit-a-thon on June 21. See Wiki Loves Pride 2014 for more information. If you are interested, you might consider creating a page for a major city (or cities!) near you, with a list of LGBT-related articles that need to be created or improved. This would be a tremendous help to Wikipedia and coverage of LGBT culture and history. Thanks for your consideration, and please let me know if you have any questions! --Another Believer _(Talk) 16:42, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

The Pulse (WP:MED newsletter) June 2014

The first edition of The Pulse has been released. The Pulse will be a regular newsletter documenting the goings-on at WPMED, including ongoing collaborations, discussions, articles, and each edition will have a special focus. That newsletter is here.

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BMJ offering 25 free accounts to Wikipedia medical editors

Neat news: BMJ is offering 25 free, full-access accounts to their prestigious medical journal through The Wikipedia Library and Wiki Project Med Foundation (like we did with Cochrane). Please sign up this week: Wikipedia:BMJ --Cheers, Ocaasi via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:14, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Medical Translation Newsletter

Wikiproject Medicine; Translation Taskforce

Medical Translation Newsletter
Issue 1, June/July 2014
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Spotlight - Simplified article translation

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Wikiproject Medicine started translating simplified articles in February 2014. We now have 45 simplified articles ready for translation, of which the first on African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness has been translated into 46 out of ~100 languages. This list does not include the 33 additional articles that are available in both full and simple versions.

Our goal is to eventually translate 1,000 simplified articles. This includes:

• WHO's list of Essential Medicines[1]
• Neglected tropical diseases[2]
• Key diseases for medical subspecialties like: oncology, emergency medicine (list), anatomy, internal medicine, surgery, etc.

We are looking for subject area leads to both create articles and recruit further editors. We need people with basic medical knowledge who are willing to help out. This includes to write, translate and especially integrate medical articles.

What's happening?

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IEG grant

CFCF - "IEG beneficiary" and editor of this newsletter.

I've (CFCF) taken on the role of community organizer for this project, and will be working with this until December. The goals and timeline can be found here, and are focused on getting the project on a firm footing and to enable me to work near full-time over the summer, and part-time during the rest of the year. This means I will be available for questions and ideas, and you can best reach me by mail or on my talk page.

Wikimania 2014

For those going to London in a month's time (or those already nearby) there will be at least one event for all medical editors, on Thursday August 7th. See the event page, which also summarizes medicine-related presentations in the main conference. Please pass the word on to your local medical editors.

Integration progress

There has previously been some resistance against translation into certain languages with strong Wikipedia presence, such as Dutch, Polish, and Swedish.
What was found is that thre is hardly any negative opinion about the the project itself; and any such critique has focused on the ways that articles have being integrated. For an article to be usefully translated into a target-Wiki it needs to be properly Wiki-linked, carry proper citations and use the formatting of the chosen target language as well as being properly proof-read. Certain large Wikis such as the Polish and Dutch Wikis have strong traditions of medical content, with their own editorial system, own templates and different ideas about what constitutes a good medical article. For example, there are not MEDRS (Polish,German,Romanian,Persian) guidelines present on other Wikis, and some Wikis have a stronger background of country-specific content.

• Swedish
  Translation into Swedish has been difficult in part because of the amount of free, high quality sources out there already: patient info, for professionals. The same can be said for English, but has really given us all the more reason to try and create an unbiased and free encyclopedia of medical content. We want Wikipedia to act as an alternative to commercial sources, and preferably a really good one at that.
  Through extensive collaborative work and by respecting links and Sweden specific content the last unintegrated Swedish translation went live in May.
• Dutch
  Dutch translation carries with it special difficulties, in part due to the premises in which the Dutch Wikipedia is built upon. There is great respect for what previous editors have created, and deleting or replacing old content can be frowned upon. In spite of this there are success stories: Anafylaxie.
• Polish
  Translation and integration into Polish also comes with its own unique set of challenges. The Polish Wikipedia has long been independent and works very hard to create high quality contentfor Polish audience. Previous translation trouble has lead to use of unique templates with unique formatting, not least among citations. Add to this that the Polish Wikipedia does not allow template redirects and a large body of work is required for each article.
  (This is somewhat alleviated by a commissioned Template bot - to be released). - List of articles for integration
• Arabic
  The Arabic Wikipedia community has been informed of the efforts to integrate content through both the general talk-page as well as through one of the major Arabic Wikipedia facebook-groups: مجتمع ويكيبيديا العربي, something that has been heralded with great enthusiasm.

Integration guides

Integration is the next step after any translation. Despite this it is by no means trivial, and it comes with its own hardships and challenges. Previously each new integrator has needed to dive into the fray with little help from previous integrations. Therefore we are creating guides for specific Wikis that make integration simple and straightforward, with guides for specific languages, and for integrating on small Wikis.

Instructions on how to integrate an article may be found here [3]

News in short

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To come

• Medical editor census - Medical editors on different Wikis have been without proper means of communication. A preliminary list of projects is available here.
• Proofreading drives

Further reading

• Translators Without Borders
• Healthcare information for all by 2015, a global campaign

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deOrphaning script

Hello everyone! I was just working on responding to a couple bug reports for a script that I worked up as part of a request from this project, and I noticed that only a couple people (who weren't even on this mailing list) are actually using the script. A little history on the script: In March of 2014, Jim Cartar came to my user talk page and said he needed some help in acquiring a script for a backlog drive that he was working on that could keep track of and score deOrphanings for a scored backlog drive. I took that request to the project's talk page (BackLog Drive "DO" (De-Orphaning) script proposal) and there was near unanimous support for this. I thought about the proposal and decided the best way to do it was to build a new script (which is still no where near as comprehensive as Manishearth's OrphanTabs) and build into it a mechanism that will make BLD scoring easy.

What I'm wondering at this point is, since there appears to be only two people using the script, should I continue to develop this script with a goal of using it for scoring BLDs or just debug the existing script and leave it at that. Thanks for any replies or comments.

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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Wiki Loves Pride 2016

As a participant of WikiProject LGBT studies, you are invited to participate in the third annual Wiki Loves Pride campaign, which runs through the month of June. The purpose of the campaign is to create and improve content related to LGBT culture and history. How can you help?

1. Create or improve LGBT-related Wikipedia pages and showcase the results of your work here
2. Document local LGBT culture and history by taking pictures at pride events and uploading your images to Wikimedia Commons
3. Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)

Looking for topics? The Tasks page, which you are welcome to update, offers some ideas and wanted articles.

This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. The group's mission is to develop LGBT-related content across all Wikimedia projects, in all languages. Visit the affiliate's page at Meta-Wiki for more information, or follow Wikimedia LGBT+ on Facebook. Remember, Wiki Loves Pride is about creating and improving LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects, and content should have a neutral point of view. One does not need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Wikipedia, plain and simple, and all are welcome! If you have any questions, please leave a message on the campaign's talk page.

Thanks, and happy editing! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 19:46, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

Fixed your talk page archiving

Hi! I took the liberty of fixing the auto-archiving settings at the top of this page. --rchard2scout (talk) 10:22, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

Inactive WikiProject Anatomy participant

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Queering Wikipedia 2021 User Group Working Days: May 14–16

The Wikimedia LGBTQ+ User Group is holding online working days in May. As a member of WikiProject LGBT studies, editing on LGBTQ+ issues or if you identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community, come help us set goals, develop our organisation and structures, consider how to respond to issues faced by Queer editors, and plan for the next 12 months.

We will be meeting online for 3 half-days, 14–16 May at 1400–1730 UTC. While our working language is English, we are looking to accommodate users who would prefer to participate in other languages, including translation facilities.

More information, and registration details, at QW2021.--Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group 02:36, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Rest in peace

I never knew you, but you brought light and joy to many in your own life and others here on Wikipedia. You were an amazing artist. Rest in peace, Avalik. Iscargra (talk) 04:51, 29 December 2022 (UTC)