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Hi and thanks for your recent participation in AfD. I would like to hear your thoughts about the process. Please check this survey if you are willing to respond. FYI I found your participation via XTools.Czarking0 (talk) 02:25, 6 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

DCWC closing update

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. vigilantcosmicpenguin (submissions), continuing his work on covering abortion in Africa, comes in third with 692 points. 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, 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 BeanieFan11 (submissions) and simongraham (submissions), who each submitted articles under 30 flags! BeanieFan11 (submissions) also wins for writing the most quality articles (16 good articles). For submitting 16 articles related to 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]

No Kings Day October 18th 2025

So I added in the Nevada section sense that was excluded. If you looked at the No Kings website the day before you would’ve seen several events in Nevada planned. You have deleted crucial information for the understanding of how widespread the movement is. Nevada did not just sit it out. It did participate. The Nevada section must be restored. Stardust1259 (talk) 02:16, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please read Wikipedia:Verifiability and Wikipedia:Reliable sources (while isn't necessary, reading it would further explain our policies). I understand your concern, but no sources were cited. Also, the No Kings Day website isn't a reliable source. If you want to readd the section, you can make a proposed edit at Talk:No Kings protests (October 2025). Mikeycdiamond (talk) 02:23, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 20 October 2025

News and notes: Board shuffles, LLM blocks increase, IPs are going away

And the "Global Resource Distribution Committee" emerges.

Special report: The election that isn't

Two shortlisted WMF Board candidates removed from the ballot.

Interview: The BoT bump

Who was bumped and why?

In the media: An incident at WikiConference North America; WMF reports AI-related traffic drop and explains Wikipedia to US conservatives

...while Musk prepares to launch "Grokipedia".

Traffic report: One click after another

Serial-killer miniseries, deceased scientist, government shutdowns and Sandalwood hit "Kantara" crowd the tubes.

Humour: Wikipedia pay rates

Don't get too excited before you read this.

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:42, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Sergeant Siwash

On 29 October 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sergeant Siwash, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a duck named Sergeant Siwash fought the Japanese in World War II? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sergeant Siwash. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Sergeant Siwash), 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 nominate it.

--Laun chba ller 00:04, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

		Hook update
		Your hook reached 20,234 views (843.1 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of October 2025 – nice work!

GalliumBot (talk • contribs) (he/it) 03:28, 30 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Red - November 2025

Women in Red | November 2025, Vol 11, Issue 11, Nos. 326, 327, 353, 354

Recognized as the most active topic-based WikiProject by human changes.

Online events:

New: Alphabet run: U, V, W | Asian women
Continuing, year-long initiatives: #1day1woman | Music

Announcements:

Women in Red's Asian women event is part of the global Wikipedia Asian Month 2025 campaign.
You are welcome to add your contributions to both event pages.

Tip of the Month:

Verifiability is increasingly important as AI evolves. You should ensure that every statement made
is adequately sourced. There should be no less than three independent reliable sources for each
biography, including at least one source for each paragraph.

Progress ("moving the needle"):

Statistics available via various tools: previously, Humaniki tool; currently, QLever. Thank you if
you contributed one or more of the 20,473 articles created in the past year.

21 Oct 2024, 19.963% of biographies on EN-WP were about women (2,030,245 biographies; 405,305 women)
28 Oct 2025: 20.23% of biographies on EN-WP were about women (2,094,677 biographies; 423,778 women)

Other ways to participate:

Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications.
Join the conversations on our talkpage.
Help wanted! Want to apply your skills or learn new ones? Help us plan monthly events, design event logos,
come up with a tip-of-the-month, and/or provide any general ideas on developing the project.
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--Rosiestep (talk) 17:06, 30 October 2025 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]