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Women in Red | April 2024, Volume 10, Issue 4, Numbers 293, 294, 302, 303, 304 Online events: New: Alphabet run S & T | Gender studies | Health Continuing: #1day1woman | Education (year-long initiative) Announcements The second round of "One biography a week" begins in April as part of #1day1woman. Tip of the month: If you run into technical problems, you might find help on our Tools and technical support page 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

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<--- Previous issue | Tip Line SYMBIOSIS: The lichen task force newsletter — April 2024 A look at what we've accomplished, working together
It's been a busy first quarter for the project, with a staggering 12 new good articles added since the beginning of the year. Esculenta has led the charge, with assistance from an editor who is thus far unaffiliated with the project. Many thanks to them and to the reviewers who worked with them to help improve the articles. As ever, there's still plenty to do...	Articles of note New good articles: Punctelia – 18 January Chrysothrix chlorina – 22 January Ramalina peruviana – 24 February Spot test (lichen) – 27 February Melanohalea – 29 February Gustaf Einar Du Rietz – 1 March Hydropunctaria amphibia – 6 March Lecideaceae – 17 March Allocalicium - 20 March Confluentic acid – 22 March Enchylium conglomeratum – 23 March Multiclavula mucida – 24 March
Project news Teloschistaceae appeared on Wikipedia's main page as the featured article on 19 February. Kudos to Esculenta, who shepherded the article to its FA star at the end of last year. MerielGJones has expanded her list of contributions featuring important lichenologists, adding a trio of articles in January about British experts: Frank Hatton Brightman, Brian William Fox and William Mudd. Esculenta added an article for American Reginald Heber Howe, Jr. All articles (plus lists, categories, redirects, etc.) currently listed under the project's purview have been assessed for their importance and quality. That's nearly 6,000 in total! We're still working on the outline for the updated lichen article. Once the bare bones have been established and the references collected, we'll start a complete rewrite of this keystone article. Feel free to contribute your ideas!
Newsletter challenge MariahKRogers accepted the last issue's challenge and updated our Gassicurtia article with four additional species now recognised by Species Fungorum as being in the genus. This time around, we're looking for someone willing to update the species listed in the Byssoloma article, last checked in April of 2021. Species Fungorum now shows five additional species in the genus. The editor who updates the article will receive public kudos in the next newsletter.
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-- Delivered by MeegsC (talk) 20:46, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Kazamzam,

Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.

Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.

Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.

It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!

2023 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.

Recruitment: A couple of the coordinators have been inviting editors to become reviewers, via mass-messages to their talk pages. If you know someone who you'd think would make a good reviewer, then a personal invitation to them would be great. Additionally, if there are Wikiprojects that you are active on, then you can add a post there asking participants to join NPP. Please be careful not to double invite folks that have already been invited.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:28, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy First Edit Day! Hi Kazamzam! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! The Herald (Benison) (talk) 02:35, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

April 10: WikiWednesday @ Prime Produce
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon, with in-person at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, as well as an online-based participation option. Among the topics, we'll be covering the newly-released drafts of the Movement Charter for Wikimedia global governance. All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. Wednesday, April 10 WikiWednesday @ Prime Produce (RSVP on-wiki). 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm (Open Hour) 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm (Wiki Salon) (Prime Produce, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan) Also online via Zoom
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:14, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reverting the entire set of improvements from the student editor seems bitey and your edit summary makes it worse. The reason given in your edit summary also doesn't seem accurate (the changes were broken up into multiple edits and the article was made more comprehensive) and the summary fails to explain any of the issues with their changes.

At the very least, you should be explaining the issues on their talk page or on the article talk page. Several edits did contain WP:UGC, specifically Wikipedia references, but those could have been fixed, temporarily changed to {{citation needed}}, or those specific edits could have been undone individually. The other issues seem like they would be relatively easy to fix (e.g., any essay-like or POV text). It's not on you to make those fixes, of course, but completely reverting the text does not seem like the best solution here.

You might consider restoring the student's version and working from it instead. Regards. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 23:58, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Daniel Quinlan - I appreciate your feedback on this and as I am going through the edits of all the other students in the same course, I will keep this in mind. The issue with the sea rewilding article is that the new editor added 31,000+ bytes to an ~11,000 byte article that included, yes, UGC, but also sentences that were grammatically incorrect, misspellings of words such as "coastal" and "resource" and "environment", entirely subjective statements that did not use an encyclopedic tone, copyright violations, etc. I don't love reverting all these edits but I have a bigger problem allowing that quality and quantity of low-level information to remain on Wikipedia. Furthermore, when I addressed this particular student with the course instructor, the instructor said that the editor's work was a "trainwreck" (their word, not mine) and thanked me for reverting the edits. I disagree that these were "improvements" and I saw that someone from WikiEd had already reached out to the editor about their copying directly from their sandbox and overwriting the existing article, which was the edit summary of every single edit that they made, sans one about rearranging photos. Given this volume, the number of immediately identifiable mistakes and edit guideline/policy violations, the previous warning and continued behaviour, I think this was not bitey but bold and I don't think the edit summary made anything worse. I will be more detailed in my edit summary of the other students going forward and hopefully this will be a learning opportunity for them. Thanks, Kazamzam (talk) 04:17, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not going to disagree about the issues. My sense that it was bitey was really a combination of those factors. With 60% of the addition being citations, it seemed like a tractable amount of prose (especially after reverting the additions that had inappropriate citations) and some of the additions would help address shortcomings in the current article. And while it's not a requirement to leave a talk page explanation, it can really help newcomers. And as WP:BITE mentions, it's non-bitey in a good way if you can Improve, don't remove. If something doesn't meet Wikipedia's standards, try to fix the problem rather than just remove what's broken. (Nothing stops new contributors and regulars from coming back like having all their hard work end up in the bit bucket.) Thanks for listening. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 05:41, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]