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Volume 20Issue 1824 December 2024 Mister rf – cc-by-sa-4.0News and notesResponsibilities and liabilities as a "Very Large Online Platform"What the VLOP – findings of an outside auditor for "responsibilization" of Misplaced Pages. Plus, new EU Commissioners for tech policy, WLE 2024 winners, and a few other bits of news from the Misplaced Pages world. Harrison Keely – CC4.0Op-edBeeblebrox on Wikipediocracy, the Committee, and everythingA personal essay. Gerda Arendt – CC0OpinionGraham87 on being the first-ever administrator recall subjectExplanations for what led to it and what it was like to undergo it. Bijay Chaurasia – CC BY-SA 4.0In the mediaDelhi High Court considers Caravan and Ken for evaluating the ANI vs. WMF casePlus, the dangers of editing, Morrissey's page gets marred, COVID coverage critique, Kimchi consultation, kids' connectivity curtailed, centenarian Claudia, Christmas cramming, and more. Mihály Munkácsy – PDFrom the archivesWhere to draw the line in reporting?Who's news? Andrea Claire L. Adajar – CC BY-SA 4.0Recent research"Misplaced Pages editors are quite prosocial", but those motivated by "social image" may put quantity over qualityAnd other new research findings. Schmidt Litho. Co./Boston Public Library – PDHumourBacklash over Santa Claus' Misplaced Pages article intensifiesGood faith edits REVERTED and accounts BLOCKED. Tucker Corp./Alden Jewell – PDGalleryA feast of holidays and carolsPeace on earth, goodwill to all! Spesh531 – CC0 1.0Traffic reportWas a long and dark DecemberWicked war, martial law, killing, death and an Indian movie with a new chess champ! Single-page edition ← Previous issue It's your Signpost. You can help us. Home About Archives Newsroom Subscribe Suggestions

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New Page Patrol survey

New page patrol – Survey Invitation Hello Moogwrench! The WMF is currently developing new tools to make new page patrolling much easier. Whether you have patrolled many pages or only a few, we now need to know about your experience. The survey takes only 6 minutes, and the information you provide will not be shared with third parties other than to assist us in analyzing the results of the survey; the WMF will not use the information to identify you. If this invitation also appears on other accounts you may have, please complete the survey once only. If this has been sent to you in error and you have never patrolled new pages, please ignore it. Please click HERE to take part. Many thanks in advance for providing this essential feedback. You are receiving this invitation because you have patrolled new pages. For more information, please see NPP Survey

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Misplaced Pages arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:33, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Latin American 10,000 Challenge invite

Hi. The Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Latin America/The 10,000 Challenge ‎ has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Misplaced Pages:The 10,000 Challenge and Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Argentina etc, much like Misplaced Pages:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. At some stage we hope to run some contests to benefit Latin American content, a destubathon perhaps, aimed at reducing the stub count would be a good place to start, based on the current Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon. If you would like to see this happening for Latin America, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Latin America, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant!♦ --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 00:43, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

New deal for page patrollers

Hi Moogwrench,

In order to better control the quality of new pages, keep out the spam, and welcome the genuine newbies, the current system we introduced in 2011 is being updated and improved. The documentation and tutorials have also been revised and given a facelift. Most importantly a new user group New Page Reviewer has been created.

Under the new rule, you may find that you are temporarily unable to mark new pages as reviewed. However, this is nothing to worry about - most current experienced patrollers are being accorded the the new right without the need to apply, and if you have significant previous experience of patrolling new pages, we strongly encourage you to apply for the new right as soon as possible - we need all the help we can get, and we are now providing a dynamic, supportive environment for your work.

Find out more about this exiting new user right now at New Page Reviewers and be sure to read the new tutorial before applying. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:29, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Moogwrench. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Misplaced Pages arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)