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Nomination of Yolette Lévy for deletion

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Noticing that, even though the article has been improved since the AfD nomination on 27 Sep, it's been re-listed today for a second time. Hmm, okay. --Rosiestep (talk) 16:01, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

A goat for you!

Thank you for reviewing the Farnese Artemis! Much appreciated!

WatkynBassett (talk) 06:53, 28 September 2024 (UTC)

• You're welcome, WatkynBassett. It's a nice article! Glad to have you around here. --Rosiestep (talk) 07:21, 28 September 2024 (UTC)

Women in Red October 2024

Women in Red | October 2024, Volume 10, Issue 10, Numbers 293, 294, 318, 319, 320 Online events: New: Women in STEM | Geofocus: Islands I-P | Women in archaeology Continuing: #1day1woman | Education (year-long initiative) Announcements from other communities October is Women in Green's "Around the World in 31 Days" Good Article Edit-a-thon Tip of the month: Unsure how to expand a stub article? Take a look at this guidance Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter/X

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a barnstar for you!

• Second Place - Silver star

	Women in Red Translation Contest
	Rosiestep 19 articles Second Place September 2024 Congratulations! --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:10, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

• Thanks, WomenArtistUpdates! --Rosiestep (talk) 01:10, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

Second Place!

	Women in Red Translation Contest
	Rosiestep 40 articles Second Place 2024 Congratulations! --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 17:17, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

• Thanks, WomenArtistUpdates! I really enjoy these translation contests! --Rosiestep (talk) 01:10, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2024).

Administrator changes

• Asilvering
• Significa liberdade

• Good Olfactory
• Hesperian
• I JethroBT
• TommyBoy
• Woody

CheckUser changes

• Barkeep49
• Izno

• Doug Weller
• Spicy

Guideline and policy news

• Administrator elections are a proposed new process for selecting administrators, offering an alternative to requests for adminship (RfA). The first trial election will take place in October 2024, with candidate sign-up from October 8 to 14, a discussion phase from October 22 to 24, and SecurePoll voting from October 25 to 31. For questions or to help out, please visit the talk page at Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections.
• Following a discussion, the speedy deletion reason "File pages without a corresponding file" has been moved from criterion G8 to F2. This does not change what can be speedily deleted.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether there is a consensus to have an administrator recall process.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Historical elections has been closed.
• An arbitration case regarding Backlash to diversity and inclusion has been opened.
• Editors are invited to nominate themselves to serve on the 2024 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission until 23:59 October 8, 2024 (UTC).

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• If you are interested in stopping spammers, please put MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist and MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist on your watchlist, and help out when you can.

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October music

story · music · places

You may remember Maryvonne Le Dizès, my story today as on 28 August. Some September music was unusual: last compositions and eternal light, with Ligeti mentioned in story and music. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:28, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

• Thank you for sharing her again with me. May she RIP. --Rosiestep (talk) 10:03, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

  Now another woman, Stoika Milanova, - great man reserved for tomorrow's story. I took a special cat pic yesterday, on the choir's outing. Patience please, - I haven't updated the Bach cantata yet that is today's story. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:52, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

Striking photo of Stoika. --Rosiestep (talk) 16:24, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

Storye book finds the great photos. - Today is the birthday of Tabea Zimmermann, and you can listen to the exact concert I mentioned last year ;) - I'm fascinated by Rohan de Saram. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:48, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

Topping that today, because you can't only watch the birthday child in last year's concert (story) but also this year's ;) - rainy day pics - we call it museum weather --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:43, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

Museum weather! Never heard that expression before, but I shall use it going forward. --Rosiestep (talk) 13:26, 10 October 2024 (UTC)

;) - Today I remember an organist who was pictured on the Main page on his birthday ten years ago, and I found two recent organ concerts to match, - see top of my talk (cat to come next pic upload, a bit similar to the one on top with the big eyes) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:16, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

Today brought a timely promotion of Helmut Bauer to the Main page on the day when pieces from Mozart's Requiem were performed for him. - Finally: the jumping cat, but not watching the page ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:30, 12 October 2024 (UTC)

Wonderful article on Bauer; congrats on ITN! Of course, the cats are very cute so the jumping one is making its debut up at the top today. --Rosiestep (talk) 12:19, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for both. I began the article just feeling it was my duty to translate from German which others would have more trouble, and only then found out that ecumenical praise was his thing! I watched the Requiem (sometimes just listening): good music, especially the Mozart, and a great speech by the present bishop who really knew the other well. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:35, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

Listen to the music in my story: I put it on DYK 10 years ago (mentioning Ukraine) and heard it today for the first time. That violinist/violist was incredible! Last month someone added to her article that she died, - a year ago OTD - which is also the wedding anniversary of two people who heard her play when they were children, - so I love that she plays viola d'amore in that music ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:27, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

I made Leif Segerstam my big story today. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:54, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

Gerda Arendt, Wonderful article on Leif. Truly, enjoyed learning about his life and work. Thank you for your efforts with this. Regarding the Summer Olympics photo on his page, it made me wonder one thing about orchestras, which has been on my mind for a long time. Why do the men wear tuxedos, and women wear whatever black dress they choose, including bare arms, and some even have nude hoisery? I've seen this in many parts of the world, and it stumps me. I've also seen it otherwise, where women wear a standardized outfit, just like the men wear tuxes. Wondering if you have thoughts on this. --Rosiestep (talk) 16:09, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

Affiliations Committee News (July-September 2024)

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Affiliates Strategy Update: Implementation status of a new affiliate health criteria and changes to User Groups recognition process

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A barnstar for you!

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	Thanks for your hard work helping to organize WikiConference North America! --Another Believer (Talk) 16:50, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, Another Believer. It's a labor of love. Plus it means I get to spend time with my tribe. --Rosiestep (talk) 16:57, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: September 2024

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIV, Issue IX, September 2024 Headlines Albania report: Wikimedian in Residence at Elbasan’s Ethnographic Museum in Albania Argentina report: GLAM and communities Australia report: Artbank's edit-a-thon for gender equity in Australian visual arts Belgium report: Project 'Belgian distilleries as Linked Open Data' completed Brazil report: Photowalks for Wiki Loves Monuments 2024 at five corners of Brazil France report: 4th edition of the Label Culture Libre India report: Digitization at the Museum of Santal Culture, Federation Hall Society Library and Cultural Heritage and Literature in Meghalaya New Zealand report: Report on the Wikidata WikiProject International Botanical 2024, Conference report for SPNHC-TDWG 2024 and the upcoming New Zealand species edit-a-thon Poland report: What's up in GLAM-Wiki in Poland Spain report: Wiki Takes Rural Archaeology Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Programme UK report: Wiki content in interfaith education USA report: Banned books and more Biodiversity Heritage Library report: BHL-Wiki Working Group September monthly highlights Special story: Global GLAM calls from November: short survey, and register! Calendar: October's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin October Issue 1

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation over the first half of October 2024. Please help Translate.

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Upcoming and current events and conversations

WikiArabia 2024

Talking: 2024 continues

• WikiArabia Conference 2024 will be held in Muscat, Oman, from October 25 to 27.
• WikiConvention francophone 2024 will be held in Québec, Canada, from November 2 to 3.
• AffCom, Case Review Committee (CRC) and the Ombuds commission (OC) are seeking new member applications from October 14.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure

See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on Mediawiki.org

• Tech News: Updates on Dark Mode, Vector 2022 skin, CampaignEvents extension, and more on tech news.
• Translation suggestion: Sign up to participate in the test project, Translation suggestions: Topic-based & Community-defined lists, which will help organisers identify and add relevant content based on high-impact topics to their Wikipedia.
• Wikifunctions: Status updates from September 26.
• Wikipedia Apps: Check out the latest issue of the Apps Quarterly Newsletter!

Annual Goals Progress on Equity

See also a list of all movement events: on Meta

• WikiWomen Summit: Event summary at Wikimania 2024.
• Let's Connect: Watch recordings of the session Technology for Language Diversity in Wikimedia.
• WikiLearn: The latest online learning opportunities created by Wikimedians for Wikimedians.
• Indonesia: Training for Indonesian Wikipedia Administrators to Safeguard Knowledge Integrity Ahead of the Regional Elections

Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity

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• Mexico: Wikimedia Foundation files amicus brief in Mexico urging continued use of intermediary liability protections for user-generated content in Richter v. Google.
• Paraguay: Wikimedia Foundation to Paraguayan Supreme Court: Do not allow people to abuse the law to suppress legitimate information
• Global: Celebrating a legal victory in Germany against censorship, reflections on Open Culture strategic workshop, and more global advocacy updates.

Board and Board committee updates

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• Board Governance: Update from Wikimedia Foundation Board Governance Committee, a proposal to ask for help and co-creation in Movement Charter Mapping Exercise.

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Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #175 is out: Wikidata Lexemes in Wikifunctions are coming soon

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we present a preview of our planned support for Wikidata lexemes in Wikifunctions, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 15:54, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

Call for volunteers for the research project “Measuring the Gender Gap: Attribute-based Class Completeness Estimation”

We are a group of researchers at The University of Queensland, Australia who are working on a research project titled “Measuring the Gender Gap: Attribute-based Class Completeness Estimation” (see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Measuring_the_Gender_Gap:_Attribute-based_Class_Completeness_Estimation), supported and funded by the Wikimedia Foundation. Our goal is to understand how and to develop supporting tool for Wikipedia editors making decisions on how to address the gender gap in Wikipedia content.

We are looking for a passionate Community Engagement Manager who will play a pivotal volunteer role in this project to help us to engage with the Wikipedia editors’ communities.

About the Role: The volunteer will help us to:

·      Develop a plan to engage relevant Wikipedia communities with our project.

·      Identify individual editors willing to join an online research interview (this study was approved by the University of Queensland Human Research Ethics Committee, reference 2023/HE001795).

·      To understand how gender balance has been taken into account in the editorial process and decisions, as well as to discuss how a tool could be best designed to support this process.

Who We Are Looking For:

·      Someone with a strong commitment to promoting gender equality in Wikipedia.

·      Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

·      Experience in community management (desirable).

Benefits:

·      Opportunity to make a significant impact in reducing the gender gap in Wikipedia.

·      Expand your network within the Wikipedia communities and professionals.

·      Develop skills in community management, and project coordination.

For further information and expression of interests, please contact Gianluca Demartini (Special:EmailUser/Eglu81). Eglu81 (talk). Eglu81 (talk) 23:18, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #176 is out: What could abstract content look like?

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we present some thoughts by User:Mahir256 about how abstract content could look like in the future, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 14:12, 17 October 2024 (UTC)