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Happy New Year, Cwmhiraeth!

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Happy New Year!

Cwmhiraeth,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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March music

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Of the four topics I helped to bring to the main page, I'm most proud of a woman's work, so made it my story. As it happens, last year's story OTD was about the woman. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:47, 16 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

on Bach's birthday, a story about my joy --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:24, 21 March 2026 (UTC) Thanks, Gerda. The peacock butterfly emerged from hibernation, I imagine, as I am doing too, now that our weather has started improving. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:19, 22 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

more Bach in story and music on Palm Sunday, imagine: four Easter cantatas in today's concert, and more places in Cyprus! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:42, 29 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The Core Contest returns

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The Core Contest—Wikipedia's most exciting contest—returns again this year from April 15 to May 31. The goal: to improve vital or other core articles, with a focus on those in the worst state of disrepair. Editing can be done individually, but in the past groups have also successfully competed. There is £300 of prize money divided among editors who provide the "best additive encyclopedic value". Signups are open now. Cheers from the judges, Femke, Casliber, Aza24.

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A barnstar for you!

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The Original Barnstar
Thank you for being such great admins for this site! (Talk) PHLOGISTON ENTHUSIAST 17:39, 26 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 31 March 2026

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April music

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Happy Easter! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:11, 5 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Today's FA is Bridge, - a broad topic by many. My father loved bridges, and I wrote a few articles with that in mind (Empress Elisabeth Bridge, adding to Chain bridge and Müngsten Bridge, the latter for childhood memory), and also thinking of bridges between people. - I brought two bios to the same page, Christian Schwarz-Schilling and Bill Ramsey whose regular Swingtime I used to hear in the car driving to choir rehearsals. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:02, 17 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Do you know this plant Claytonia sibirica? I went yesterday to visit the only location near here where it grows, and nearly got bogged down in extensive pools and areas of wet clay caused by heavy machinery being used to clear areas of scrubland. I probed with my walking stick before each step! The plant grew beyond the devastation and I returned by another, much longer route. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:09, 18 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]
No, didn't see that plant before, thank you for pointing it out. The way of carpet-like growing looks similar to wood anemone. We have paths turning to mud baths as well, and also paths "plowed" by wild boars. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:45, 18 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]
No wild boars here, unfortunately. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:33, 22 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]
We'd happily give you a few, we have too many. - Thank you for DYK work! I have a nom approved that promoters refuse to bring in full length, how about you? Die Stechardin. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:54, 22 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Today's story is about one of three bios I brought to today's main page: look and listen, an extraordinary woman in many respects. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:30, 30 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Destubathon of the Americas

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You are invited to participate in the Destubathon of the Americas, a contest/editathon which will run from May 1 to May 31. The goal is to destub as many of our 475,000+ stubs for the Americas (from Alaska down to Chile) as possible. A good chance to have fun in expanding many of our old stale stubs and win up to £2000 ($2680) in Amazon vouchers for expanding stub articles. Sign up in the Contestants/participants section on the contest page if interested. Even if not interested in prizes you are still warmly welcome to participate in it as an editathon! Hopefully we can achieve something significant in the month of May together! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:50, 15 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I miss the old you! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:36, 1 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 21 April 2026

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WikiCup 2026 May newsletter

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The second round of the 2026 WikiCup ended on 28 April. As a reminder for contestants who just joined or are unaware of recent changes to our round-points system, good article nomination reviews now receive 10 points, an increase from 5 points in the previous year, as per a consensus at WT:CUP. Peer reviews, which continue to be worth 5 points, are now listed in the same section as featured article candidate reviews, rather than with good article reviews. Everyone who competed in round 2 will advance to round 3 unless they have withdrawn or been banned. No other changes to the round-point system have been made for this year.

Round 2 was competitive. Three contestants scored more than 1,000 round points; nine scored over 500; and fourteen scored over 300. The top seven contestants had at least one featured article (two of them with two apiece). The following competitors scored more than 800 round points:

The full scores for round 2 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 12 featured articles, 13 featured lists, 2 featured-topic articles, 106 good articles, 22 good-topic articles and more than 40 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 3 In the News articles, and they have conducted over 200 reviews. The tournament points table has been updated.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 April but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed in Round 3. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. 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) 14:49, 29 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Re: protecting Alexandre Carrier

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I really must encourage that you extend it to indefinite protection, or at least longer than a week; virtually every edit from an IP/TA going back past the last year is WP:LTA/HABS, as are the edits from confirmed sock Ramen&OJ (talk · contribs). A week's worth of protection will not even remotely stop the disruption. The Kip (contribs) 16:30, 1 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

If the vandalism resumes when my protection expires, further measures may need to be taken. If the problem is with a sock, that should be dealt with rather than indefinitely protecting the article. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:54, 2 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@Cwmhiraeth Problem is it's an LTA that churns through TAs like nothing - simply blocking their socks is a game of whack-a-mole, they almost immediately reappear with a new one. The Kip (contribs) 08:05, 2 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]
It's a problem. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 19:22, 2 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

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Wishing Cwmhiraeth a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! ☘︎☘︎☘︎ALEXHammeke (talk | guestbook | sandbox) 02:10, 15 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

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May music

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Thank you! - Today: Felicity Lott. If you have little time, just give me a click ;) - If you have more, see her story. If you have more, listen to her singing Friendly Vision. If you have more, listen until she sings the word "peace" (Frieden), floating up high, serenely. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:31, 20 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 22 May 2026

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    Earth Day was on 22 April, and Mother's Day was on 10 May (in the US and many other countries).
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TFA

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Thank you today for Rodent, introduced (in 2014) as "about an important order of mammals, the rodents. Three of us (assisted by DrChrissy and others) have been beavering away at it for months and have recently brought it successfully through GAN. We think rodents are fascinating animals and hope you think that too, so please don't rat on us but start burrowing in."! - I have a FAC open, in case of interest. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:42, 9 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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