User talk:Oltrepier

Archives (Index)

1 2 3 4

This page is archived by ClueBot III.

The article What a Devastating Turn of Events you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:What a Devastating Turn of Events for comments about the article, and Talk:What a Devastating Turn of Events/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of OlifanofmrTennant -- OlifanofmrTennant (talk) 21:45, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On 20 March 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Los Angeles Rising, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Los Angeles Rising was put together by two musicians who had been forced to evacuate their homes due to the January 2025 wildfires in Los Angeles? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Los Angeles Rising. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Los Angeles Rising), 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) 00:03, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, you wrote about the Sambhaji story in previous issues, here's an update on the situation. Maharashtra cyber after being frustrated with WMF not taking down the "objectionable" content and not disclosing the identity of editor has requested the Indian government to block Wikipedia in India. [1] Also pinging Smallbones.Abhishek0831996 (talk) 10:40, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Abhishek0831996 Dang, that escalated quickly! Thank you for reporting this.

@Smallbones and @Bri should find this pretty interesting, since they worked on the original report. Oltrepier (talk) 17:17, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The second round of the 2025 WikiCup ended on 28 April at 23:59 UTC. To reiterate what we said in the previous newsletter, we are no longer disqualifying contestants based on how many points (now known as round points) they received. Instead, the contestants with the highest round-point totals now receive tournament points at the end of each round. These tournament points are carried over between rounds, and can only be earned if a competitor is among the top 16 round-point scorers at the end of each round. This table shows all competitors who have received tournament points so far. Everyone who competed in round 2 will advance to round 3 unless they have withdrawn or been banned.

Round 2 was quite competitive. Four contestants scored more than 1,000 round points, and eight scored more than 500 points (including one who has withdrawn). The following competitors scored at least 800 points:

• BeanieFan11 (submissions) with 1,233 round points from 24 good articles, 28 Did you know articles, and one In the news nomination, mainly about athletes and politicians
• Thebiguglyalien (submissions) with 1,127 round points, almost entirely from two high-multiplier featured articles on Black Widow (Natasha Romanova) and Grace Coolidge, in addition to two GAs and two reviews
• History6042 (submissions) with 1,088 round points from four featured lists about Michelin-starred restaurants, nine good articles and a good topic mostly on Olympic-related subjects, seven ITN articles, and dozens of reviews
• Gog the Mild (submissions) with 1,085 round points from three FAs, one GA, and four DYKs on military history, as well as 18 reviews
• Arconning (submissions) with 887 round points, mostly from four FLs, six GAs, and seven DYKs on Olympic topics, along with more than two dozen reviews

In addition, we would like to recognize Generalissima (submissions) for her efforts; she scored 801 round points but withdrew before the end of the round.

The full scores for round 2 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 13 featured articles, 20 featured lists, 4 featured-topic articles, 138 good articles, 7 good-topic articles, and more than 100 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 19 In the News articles, and they have conducted nearly 300 reviews.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 April but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed in Round 3. 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 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) 01:03, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. You are invited to participate in The World Destubathon. We're aiming to destub a lot of articles and also improve longer stale articles. It's currently planned for June 16-July 13. There is currently $3338 going into it, with $500 the top prize. As 250 countries and entities is too much to patrol, entries will be by user, but there is $500 going into prizes for editors covering the most countries. Sign up if interested! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:10, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Dr. Blofeld Hello, nice to hear from you again!

To be honest, I don't know how much spare time I'll have in the next few weeks, but if I do have the occasion to throw my hat in the ring, I'll definitely do that. Thank you for reporting this! Oltrepier (talk) 18:05, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]