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Contents
1 Virtual Asia-Pacific Wikipedia 20 CentralNotice for regional editors
2 Sorry for disturbing...
3 Stanford Article About Inauthentic Editing on Wikipedia
4 Want to ask NASA a question?
5 Category of G7 nominations
6 Looking for examples of good feedback on bad and mediocre articles
7 Login attemps

Virtual Asia-Pacific Wikipedia 20 CentralNotice for regional editors

I have put in a request for a geo-targeted CentralNotice for a virtual Asia-Pacific
Wikipedia 20 event on January 16. See the request on meta at
m:CentralNotice/Request/WP20 Asia-Pacific.--Pharos (talk) 20:05, 2 January 2021
(UTC)

Sorry for disturbing...

Hello, can you help me at this article? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment
added by Prof.Bilmiş (talk • contribs) 13:25, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Stanford Article About Inauthentic Editing on Wikipedia

A Stanford Internet Observatory article titled "Inauthentic Editing: Changing
Wikipedia to Win Elections and Influence People" discusses "one case of
'inauthentic editing'—where individuals targeted the Wikipedia pages of two
contending politicians during the 2020 British Columbia (BC) general provincial
election." (John Horgan and Andrew Wilkinson.) I thought I would share it here in
case anyone else finds the perspective to be helpful. Best, Tony Tan · talk 17:58,
7 January 2021 (UTC)

Want to ask NASA a question?

Hello! I'm Ed Erhart, part of the Wikimedia Foundation's Communications department.
(You might know me better as The ed17.)
Have you ever wanted to ask an astronaut a question about living in space or the
science that's done on the International Space Station (ISS)? Or perhaps you're
expanding an article on human spaceflight and can't find a citation for an
important bit of information? We're looking for community input on questions to ask
a NASA astronaut.

For Wikipedia's 20th birthday, coming up on 15 January, and 20 years of continuous

occupation of the ISS, we're working with Modest Genius to broadcast an interview
with that NASA astronaut. Suitable topics would include Wikipedia's coverage of
astronautics, scientific contributions made by crewed spaceflight over the last
twenty years, and plans for the next two decades of spaceflight. We'll select the
best questions to put to the astronaut.

If you have questions to submit, please respond below or send them to me via email
by Sunday, 10 January (UTC). Thank you! Ed Erhart (WMF) (talk) 22:51, 7 January
2021 (UTC)

Please do post any questions you have ASAP - I'm finalising the list this weekend
and welcome community input. Modest Genius talk 12:24, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
Category of G7 nominations
This category is exclusively comprised of transclusions of the main AfD log, which
by definition is not supposed to be deleted, and it does not even transclude the G7
template, nor even mention G7. JJP...MASTER![talk to] JJP... master? 13:27, 8
January 2021 (UTC)

That category looks empty to me? Majavah (talk!) 13:30, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
Majavah, it was not empty when I saw it for some reason, but it now is.
JJP...MASTER![talk to] JJP... master? 13:37, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
Looking for examples of good feedback on bad and mediocre articles
I'm working on a revamp of some of the instructions for student editors in Wiki
Education courses, specifically for when they are assigned to either evaluate an
article (as an early assignment to learn about Wikipedia article quality standards
and think critically about content and sources) or to peer review a classmate's
draft work. I want to include links to a collection of examples of the kinds of
useful and substantive feedback they should be aiming for, and I want to cover a
range of quality levels and article topics. It's easy to find good examples for
really well-deleveloped articles (for example, in GA and FA reviews), but I'm
having trouble finding a diverse range of examples of good feedback for articles in
the Start to B range.

If you have examples of critical, substantive, useful feedback on articles that

have a long way to go, please share some!--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:09, 8 January
2021 (UTC)

@Sage (Wiki Ed): The permanent revisions at WP:VG/A#Quality scale are some nice
sets (I do not know what the present quality is on those). I can also offer some of
the articles I've worked on: Master_X_Master (needs updating both for time passage
and for the reception from other sources even from the time that I wrote it),
Call_to_Arms_(video_game) (similar), Quality_function_deployment for significantly
lacking coverage (and indeed you could probably pick out several engineering topics
that are lacking citations or sufficient coverage or both). --Izno (talk) 21:26, 8
January 2021 (UTC)
Login attemps
There have been over 2000 attempts to log in to my account in the last day.
Usually, it is just a couple a week. Wondering if anyone else is seeing activity
like this... --SamuelWantman 21:50, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

Sam, See WP:VPT#Obvious attempts at bruteforcing my password not being prevented --

RoySmith (talk) 21:57, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
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