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Welcome to the 2025 WikiCup!
Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2025 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor, we hope the WikiCup will give you a chance to improve your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page ready for you to take part. Any questions on the scoring, rules or anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page.
For the 2025 WikiCup, we've implemented several changes to the scoring system. The highest-ranking contestants will now receive tournament points at the end of each round, and final rankings are decided by the number of tournament points each contestant has. If you're busy and can't sign up in January, don't worry: Signups are now open throughout the year. To make things fairer for latecomers, the lowest-scoring contestants will no longer be eliminated at the end of each round.
The first round will end on 26 February. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email), Epicgenius (talk · contribs · email), Frostly (talk · contribs · email), Guerillero (talk · contribs · email) and Lee Vilenski (talk · contribs · email). 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) 00:14, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
Question from MaximStatus96 (03:44, 3 January 2025)
Hello, I am editing movie short clips please support me I don't understand copyright --MaximStatus96 (talk) 03:44, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
- Hello @MaximStatus96, I hope you're doing well. Regarding your question: all creative works are protected by copyright under international agreements unless they are in the public domain or their copyright has been explicitly disclaimed. Typically, Wikipedia requires permission to use copyrighted materials, but in some cases, copyrighted works can be used legally without permission. For more information, you can refer to Wikipedia:Copyrights. Could you clarify which articles you're trying to edit? I'd be happy to assist further if needed. The AP (talk) 08:12, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
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Editing shorts movie clips MaximStatus96 (talk) 03:47, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – January 2025
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2024).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following an RFC, Wikipedia:Notability (species) was adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.
- A request for comment is open to discuss whether admins should be advised to warn users rather than issue no-warning blocks to those who have posted promotional content outside of article space.
Technical news
- The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.
Arbitration
- Following the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: CaptainEek, Daniel, Elli, KrakatoaKatie, Liz, Primefac, ScottishFinnishRadish, Theleekycauldron, Worm That Turned.
Miscellaneous
- A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2025 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Sign up here to participate!
ITN recognition for Wayne Osmond
On 7 January 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Wayne Osmond, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. PFHLai (talk) 00:14, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
ITN recognition for 2025 Xizang earthquake
On 7 January 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article 2025 Xizang earthquake, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. – robertsky (talk) 07:49, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
Pending changes reviewer granted
Hello. Your account has been granted the "pending changes reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on pages protected by pending changes. The list of articles awaiting review is located at Special:PendingChanges, while the list of articles that have pending changes protection turned on is located at Special:StablePages.
Being granted reviewer rights neither grants you status nor changes how you can edit articles. If you do not want this user right, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time.
See also:
- Wikipedia:Reviewing pending changes, the guideline on reviewing
- Wikipedia:Reviewing pending changes#Requirements to accept an edit, when to accept an edit
Beeblebrox Beebletalks 22:09, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
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Serial (speculates here) 15:48, 30 January 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you very much @Serial Number 54129: The AP (talk) 15:50, 30 January 2025 (UTC)
DYK for List of things named after Julius Caesar
On 1 February 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article List of things named after Julius Caesar, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the month of July is named after the Roman dictator Julius Caesar? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/List of things named after Julius Caesar. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, List of things named after Julius Caesar), 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, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
Nice work at List of things named after Julius Caesar
A nice surprise to find your list on the main page today! I remember working on it with you via the Discord, and it's great to see what became of it. Renerpho (talk) 01:38, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you very much! As of now I am working on User:TheAstorPastor/Draft/List of things named after Augustus - your help would be appreciated. The AP (talk) 16:10, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – February 2025
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2025).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversighter changes
Technical news
- Administrators can now nuke pages created by a user or IP address from the last 90 days, up from the initial 30 days. T380846
- A '
Recreated' tag will now be added to pages that were created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted and it can be used as a filter in Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages. T56145
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been closed.