User talk:Dantheanimator

Would you mind avoiding {{conv}} and writing {{convert}} instead. The saving in the amount of typing is inconsequential so conv has no benefit. The downside is that it causes confusion for other editors who know what convert is (or at least, could guess), but who may not know what conv is. There are over 3.2 million {{convert}} templates in articles but hardly any {{conv}}. A complication is that {{cvt}} is a useful abbreviation for convert and cvt has an extra property, namely that it sets |abbr=on so unit symbols are shown, not names. Some editors assume {{conv}} does the same, but it doesn't. Johnuniq (talk) 04:04, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Johnuniq: thanks for the message! :) I didn't realize {{conv}} was undesirable so many thanks for letting me know (and for switching it out in my past article creations too). I'll make sure to stick with the {{convert}} template (or {{cvt}} when appropriate) instead and sorry for the mistake in the first place. Cheers, Dan the Animator 22:44, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Dantheanimator, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the autopatrolled user right to your account. This means that pages you create will automatically be marked as 'reviewed', and no longer appear in the new pages feed. Autopatrolled is assigned to prolific creators of articles, where those articles do not require further review, and may have been requested on your behalf by someone else. It doesn't affect how you edit; it is used only to manage the workload of new page patrollers.

Since the articles you create will no longer be systematically reviewed by other editors, it is important that you maintain the high standard you have achieved so far in all your future creations. Please also try to remember to add relevant WikiProject templates, stub tags, categories, and incoming links to them, if you aren't already in the habit; user scripts such as Rater and StubSorter can help with this. As you have already shown that you have a strong grasp of Wikipedia's core content policies, you might also consider volunteering to become a new page patroller yourself, helping to uphold the project's standards and encourage other good faith article writers.

Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! Hey man im josh (talk) 16:18, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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I have recently updated and expanded the article on the Lady R incident as your banner requested. Thank you for doing that. I think it adds a lot to the article and I needed the prompted to get onto it. Please take a look at the article to see if the banner requesting the article expansion is still needed. Discott (talk) 14:26, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks @Discott: for adding in the background! :) I've done some minor reorganizing so that it flows better (and doesn't feel too excessively sectioned) but the background itself is great! In case you're interested in further improving the article, I'd recommend rewording and expanding the lead to fully/better cover the content in the Background, "2023 accusation...", and Inquiry findings sections. If it helps, some questions to consider that the lead should be able to answer: what was South Africa's de jure & de facto position on the Russian invasion at the time of the incident (e.g. the docking was controversial because South Africa had publicly declared its "neutrality" to the invasion so the alleged arms transfer would've violated this "neutrality")? How were Russia-South Africa relations prior to the incident (briefly mention ANC/Vekselberg)? Briefly mention other causes for US-South Africa tensions (e.g. Mosi II exercises) and some more specific domestic reactions by South African officials/journalists (briefly). Briefly mention Russian and Ukraine reactions and mention the inquiry and what it found and reactions to the findings of the inquiry. Aside from that, I think once the lead is expanded this article'll be ready for a GAN. Many thanks for improving it and feel free to reach out if you want any additional prompts/guidance with it. Cheers, Dan the Animator 21:05, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello - I just finished off the copy editing of Jamie Doran as part of the GOCE drive; you did most of the work and should claim credit for the effort on the drive page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Guild_of_Copy_Editors/Backlog_elimination_drives Chaiten1 (talk) 22:36, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Chaiten1! :) I think you improved the article more than me honestly so feel free to take credit for it. Cheers, Dan the Animator 21:09, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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		This barnstar is awarded to Dantheanimator for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE March 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 08:32, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Dhtwiki!!! :) Dan the Animator 02:05, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I have noticed that you often perform minor edits while leaving an edit summary of mnr edit. Given that you also check the minor edit box (which leaves an m icon next to the edit summary), this is effectively the same as leaving no edit summary. While some editors—including myself (and likely you)—review changes by looking at the diff, some do so simply by reading the edit summary and likely find it annoying when the edit summary does not provide information about what or why the edit was performed (e.g. "/* Section */ changed url status to dead" or "/* Section */ url is dead", respectively). Thanks, and happy editing!

—Daℤyzzos (✉️ • 📤) 13:32, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey @DaZyzzogetonsGotDaLastWord:, thanks for the message! About edit summaries, like you said, they're mostly to help other contributors review/give oversight to edits (although there are other reasons too ofc). I have usually used "mnr edit" and "mnr fix" for miscellaneous, quick edits that have essentially no need of review/oversight imo (some examples include removing excess whitespaces, adding in minor bits of markup/code to fix/improve previous edits, straightforward copyediting, adding in 1-2 links (if I add more, I'd usually say so), and standard content/text rearrangements (like putting stub templates on the bottom)). I also use it often when editing my user pages (which is completely legitimate per WP:USERPAGE) plus also occasionally when updating article talk page classifications/templates. That said, I've recently been adopting some more varied, specific edit summaries where it makes sense (like with copyediting, where I usually say "ce" and links additions with "+links"). Looking forward, I'll probably be limiting my use of the "mnr fix" edit summary for small, quick immediate followup corrections to previous edits given there's very little need to or practical other way of describing it (I don't think saying "added in hyphen with en-dash on Line 17" has any meaningful value over "mnr fix", for example). Feel free to let me know if there's anything else I can do to improve yk and thanks for everything! :) Dan the Animator 22:45, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"added hyphen [per [insert MOS wikilink here] (optional)]" or "added hyphen to fix [wikilinked problem]". Thank you for increacing the specificity of your edit summaries! – Daℤyzzos (✉️ • 📤) 20:45, 4 July 2024 (UTC) Please do not ping on reply. I will still be notified.[reply]

Welcome to the 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest, Dantheanimator! The contest is now open for submissions. List your work at your submissions page to earn points. If you haven't done so already, please review the following:

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Congratulations, Dantheanimator! The list you nominated, List of cities in Luhansk Oblast, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, PresN (talk) via FACBot (talk) 12:25, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Congratulations, Dantheanimator! The list you nominated, List of cities in Donetsk Oblast, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

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Hi, Dantheanimator. I'm just posting to let you know that List of cities in Luhansk Oblast – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for September 9. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 21:23, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Congratulations, Dantheanimator! The list you nominated, List of cities in Crimea, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

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Hi, I see you're interested in Pre-Columbian history, would you possibly be interested in a taskforce on oral tradition? Kowal2701 (talk) 21:02, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey Dantheanimator, and thanks for your participation in the Developing Countries WikiContest. You recently made a large number of article submissions, some of which were done well beyond the seven-day window allowed for submissions by the contest rules. After discussing with another coordinator, I've decided to accept your submissions this once, assuming good faith in case you were unaware of that limitation. I'd ask that you review the rules carefully and make sure that future submissions are made on time, as we will not be able to provide that leniency again. Please let me or another coordinator know if you have any questions. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 23:04, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi TechnoSquirrel69! :) Thanks for the message and sorry about the mistake! I completely didn't know about the individual seven-day windows (which is completely my fault... sorry!!) so I thought since the contest submission phase would close at the end of September, it wouldn't be an issue to submit them later all at once. That said, if it helps, I'm okay with the nominations being rejected too. I would've done the FLNs regardless of the contest and still will be doing them for quiet a while so its alright with me tbh. I'll definitely make sure to be more careful in the future contests (also hopefully will get some GAs next time around). In any case tho, many thanks to you and the other coordinators for organizing DCWC, it's been really helpful and quiet fun too! ;) Dan the Animator 23:37, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Dantheanimator, I hope to encourage you to collect all the research you have scattered around the lists about Russian administration and collate it somewhere. The obvious place is likely Russian temporary administrative agencies in occupied Ukraine, a very poor article which has very little information about the administration, that provides far less insight than your tucked away footnotes. It's an important topic that can be tricky to cover, and the Kherson summary is well written. I have a memory of Russia also adjusting their borders for either Donestk or Luhansk by shuffling some raions around but can't find exactly what that was right now. The article could probably use something about passportisation, although that's a separate topic from local administrative boundaries.

Also saw your conversation above, I too was completely unaware of the seven day rule until a couple days ago. Seems odd! CMD (talk) 07:58, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for the post and FLN review CMD! :) About Russian occupation administrations, I agree with consolidating the content into the article you linked though I wouldn't say its all my research. In the case of the Kherson note, I got most of that info & the sources from the Russian occupation of Kherson Oblast article, which is quiet good with its coverage imo. Some of the other Russian occupation articles also aren't too terrible with the coverage too. About the temporary agencies article you linked, I'll definitely take a shot at it after I finish my current projects (right now I've been trying to make some headway with lists for Ukraine's villages and occasionally with some other lists).

In my experience, a lot of relevant content is already on wiki but scattered across articles like you said and also among different languages. About Donetsk & Luhansk, I did a quick on-wiki search and for Luhansk I found some info here (under Административно-территориальное устройство) which might be what you're thinking of? Also recommend checking the Russian language LPR and DPR articles if you're particularly curious about those two oblasts' occupation subdivisions (Google Chrome's translate feature does a solid translation of the content imo). Content about passportization is probably better placed in Passportization for now since that article's very stub-ish tho a short bit about how local community resources/administrative structures are used to facilitate/promote passportization/Russification in the occupied territories makes sense. A lot of the issue with expanding articles about occupation administrations is the difficulty in accessing some of the sources: I remember when I worked on List of cities in Crimea, which I plan on working on more to add additional details with more footnotes, some occupation websites were only available through Wayback Machine or just not available at all (like sev.gov.ru, which based on the error message I assumed had restricted access to American IPs). Then there's also the issue of having PDF files instead of webpages, which makes it a lot tougher to translate and use the content.

Although not exactly your expertise, I think this might be something you might be interested/could help with HappyWith? I remember you working on articles about Ukrainian subdivisions and topics on occupied territories and having a lot of knowledge about post-invasion happenings so thought you might be interested (also I know it's been a long while so hope all's well :) Dan the Animator 06:58, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No, I have a memory of some border change, perhaps a raion changing or villages moving to a new raion. I tried another round of fruitless searching, so who knows, I could be making it up. I wouldn't not put passportization information in that article, but it seems a key part of administration, mentioned in the more detailed news reports (eg).

For PDFs I highly recommend just screenshotting them and dumping those screenshots into an image to text site. I believe generative AI sites have such features built in too, although you may need a paid version to do it multiple times there. I was having a look at your Odesa nomination as well, but my comments were much the same as Kherson so I decided not to duplicate them. CMD (talk) 14:08, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, it doesn't sound too far fetched. Maybe this is similar to the Russian occupation officials moving the capital to Henichesk where they'll say it briefly and then quickly walk back on it. In any case, hope the articles I linked were helpful. About passportization, seems you're right. Don't have an economist subscription unfortunately so didn't read the full article but the preview is great. And thanks for the suggestion! I think I'll try it out. About the Odesa nom, no worries. I'd recommend waiting until I resolve your suggestions on the Kherson nom (which I'll apply to the other lists including Odesa too) and then, if you want, you could add your support (although reviews are more helpful, its perfectably acceptable and still helpful to get a simple one-line support with no suggestions). I'll send a ping on the Kherson nom when its ready. Thanks, Dan the Animator 15:23, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I want to make a comment on the inclusion of Kyiv in the List of cities in Kyiv Oblast. While I see why Kyiv should be mentioned (it's the administrative centre after all), it is technically not a part of Kyiv Oblast so I think it shouldn't be on the list itself (in its current state, the page implies that Kyiv is a part of Kyiv Oblast, just not a part of any raion). This situation is not equivalent to Sevastopol in Crimea as the List of cities in Crimea lists the cities in, well, Crimea (the Crimean Peninsula - a geographic region, not an administrative division), a concept that covers the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol. Meanwhile Kyiv Oblast is exclusively an administrative division, not a geographic region like the page suggests ("the city of Kyiv... is the most populous city in the geographic area"). Shwabb1 ⟨taco⟩ 11:32, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Shwabb1, thanks for bringing this up! The Kyiv Oblast list is definitely in need of a lot of work and the lead/rest of the article is far from ready (content about Chernobyl/Pripyat/Slavutych still needs to be added/vetted and, as you brought up, lots of rewording/reworking is needed to explain the relationship between Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast). I did some relatively quick edits to the article to make it more clear (including in the table, where Kyiv stands out from the rest now) but I'll be working on it more eventually! I've been somewhat procrastinating from this list since this and the List of cities in Ukraine both are in need of a lot more background research and content generation than the other lists but I'll make sure to get around to it eventually! :) Feel free to make any rewording/additions/other edits that you think would help in the meantime tho. Thanks, Dan the Animator 05:53, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah no worries, no need to rush when you're working on so many things at once. Even this quick fix I think makes a difference, so thank you. Shwabb1 ⟨taco⟩ 12:19, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest has come to a close! After a thrilling finish to the event with a slew of submissions on the final day, we have our winners. With 608 points, Thebiguglyalien (submissions) comes in third with his series of Kiribati and Botswanan submissions; BeanieFan11 (submissions) flies into second place at the last second with 771 points after a string of good articles about sportspersons; and after leading for much of contest's three months, Generalissima (submissions) finishes with a whopping 798 points to take home the Gold Belt Buckle. Congratulations to our winners!

In addition to his spot in the top three, BeanieFan11 (submissions) also wins the special awards for submitting under the most countries (44 countries) and for writing the most articles about women (15 Did you know? nominations)! Magentic Manifestations (submissions), after making 16 submissions under the Indian flag—15 of them good articles—receives the awards for most submissions for a single country and most featured or good articles promoted. For their submission of one FAC review, five FLC reviews, and 20 GAN reviews, Simongraham (submissions) wins for most article reviews.

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Thanks! :) Dan the Animator 19:42, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Congratulations, Dantheanimator! The list you nominated, List of cities in Odesa Oblast, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, PresN (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:25, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations, Dantheanimator! The list you nominated, List of cities in Kherson Oblast, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

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Hi, thanks for your work on many pages relating to Ukraine. Specifically, thanks for creating many of the Ukrainian hromada pages, which I know takes a quite a bit of time. I do though notice some uncertainty regarding the hromada names, especially for ones which are not named after their respective admin. centers (quite rare though).

For example, the Kamianka settlement hromada is named after the admin. center town Kamianka, instead of named "Bilmak" like the Ukrainian version of the hromada page. But, in Poliske settlement hromada, the name follows the Ukrainian name, and not the town center of Krasiatychi.

Similar questions also arise in the following hromadas (that I have found so far): Sofiivka rural hromada, Suvorove settlement hromada, Zolochivska rural hromada, Prystolychna rural hromada, and Feodosiivka rural hromada.

I don't know if editors have already discussed this question, but it certainly deserves some attention, at least a general consensus on which to follow would be helpful. Any previous consensus or personal thoughts about this? Thanks! TeddyRoosevelt1912 (talk) 19:39, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Theo thanks for the post and many thanks for your work on Ukraine articles too! :) About the names, the hromada articles are named after the legal name of the hromadas, which I based on the Ukrainian government's decentralization database (which is also where I got the other stats/info about each hromada when making those articles). The 2020 administrative reform law creating most of the new hromadas also shows the names as they were in 2020 though there's quite a few raions/hromadas with outdated names (mostly those affected by derussification).

About the inconsistency in naming though, there is no legal requirement that hromadas be named after their admin. centers, at least as far as I know. Local officials/populations within a hromada can technically choose any name for their hromada within reason and send it to the Verkhovna Rada for official recognition. A different but similar example that comes to mind for me is Volyn Oblast, which is administratively centered in Lutsk but isn't named after it. Sometimes it's also just an issue of a delay in figuring out what the name of the hromada is going to be after the admin. center is renamed (I didn't look into it too much but it would make sense for a case like Suvorove settlement hromada, where the admin. center was renamed Katlabuh in September but probably not everyone in the neighboring villages/settlements wants the hromada to be called Katlabuh settlement hromada or just might still feel attached to the former name Suvorove). For Kamianka, I originally created that article as Bilmak settlement hromada before it was moved by another editor HappyWith per the hromada's website (which uses the name Kamianka instead of Bilmak).

The only general consensus as far as hromadas titles go is the title name structure (e.g. "rural hromada", "settlement hromada", & "urban hromada", with raion/oblast disambiguators appended when needed). Also with Wikipedia:Romanization of Ukrainian for questions of spelling/punctuation/etc. If there's any doubt in what the name of a hromada is, just search for the most recent official Ukrainian government source that mentions it and that's the name that should be used (I think I agree with HappyWith too in giving precedence to the hromada websites themselves but only in cases where those websites are more recent than other alternative gov. sources). Sorry for being a little long-winded but hope this helps and feel free to let me know if you have any other Ukraine-related questions... always a pleasure talking or editing about Ukraine! ;) Dan the Animator 23:25, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Dan, thanks so much for the explanation, it really clears up the situation. I guess it make sense that there isn't a particular consensus on these names (after all, it's not like the gov't doesn't like renaming places). I'll try to research the most recent official name for the hromadas when necessary, but considering all the renaming going on, I'll probably wait a bit and see what happens for now.

I do though have another question about the romanization, since some hromadas (mainly ones named after admin centers) don't include the Ukrainian adjective endings (ex: Kamianka instead of Kamianska), but those named differently (i.e. not after the admin centers, like the ones we were discussing) would include this adjective ending (ex: Zolochivska instead of just Zolochiv). I know this is likely because without having the town name, it's much harder to tell what the word originally is, so most editors just transliterate the whole word with the adjective endings. But is there any consensus on what to or not to do in these situations? TeddyRoosevelt1912 (talk) 03:24, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, no worries! I wouldn't stress about researching each name since it's only a relatively small number of hromadas (about a dozen or two out of the 1000+ total), with the rest sticking to the name of their admin. center. If you accidentally use an outdated name, it's also okay since it's good to have redirects in place for those cases.

About romanization, yup, Ukrainian adjective endings should generally be avoided unless its part of the actual town name. Like you said tho, it can be tough when the namesake of the hromada is unclear and I remember having a bit of a hard time with it when making some of the articles. The best way to handle it is to see what the namesake is and, if possible, see comparable names/examples. Basically a case-by-case approach where there is substantial doubt.

For Zolochivska, turns out I originally created that article as Zolochiv rural hromada before it was moved/edited by some other editor. From a cursory look through, I think the decision to move the article was a mistake and probably it should be brought back to Zolochiv, although I would start a move discussion involving other editors just in case. Let me know if there's other cases where you're not sure. Also, in case you're thinking/planning on creating en.wiki articles for the rest of the hromadas that are missing them, please let me know since there's some past conversations/resources that would be important to have when mass-creating any additional hromadas. Dan the Animator 04:48, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Good Morning! I have two Featured List candidates – U.S. Figure Skating Championships and World Figure Skating Championships – both of which seem to have stalled. If you have any free time and would be willing to look at either or both of them, it would be greatly appreciated!

Also, feel free to check out Ukrainian Figure Skating Championships, which was promoted to Featured List earlier this year since I know you edit articles related to Ukraine. Bgsu98 (Talk) 12:36, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Dantheanimator. I'm just posting to let you know that List of cities in Donetsk Oblast – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for April 28. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 17:56, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Is everything alright? It's been almost a month since your last edit. Shwabb1 ⟨taco⟩ 11:59, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Shwabb, yup everything's alright don't worry. I really wanted to get back to editing sooner but this time of the year is always the busiest for me with off-wiki work and I've just had to prioritize that work first to get it all finished. That said, my months-long vacation starts this weekend so very soon I'll get back to editing and as my first priority finishing where I left off with the footnotes and other FLN edits. Fair warning though I'm very, very exhausted after these long past few weeks so I might need the weekend a little bit more to rest a bit before fully editing but I'm sure I'll have all/most of the remaining footnotes done before end of next week. Thanks for checking in and also for the footnotes/new edit (might be a bit tough but try not to finish everything too quickly) ;) Dan the Animator 18:51, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, take your time. I just got slightly concerned when you suddenly stopped editing for a relatively long period of time after saying that you've been sick, and I didn't want the FLN to get too dragged out. Glad to know everything is good. Shwabb1 ⟨taco⟩ 05:51, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Dantheanimator, the Developing Countries WikiContest will be returning for a second year, and sign-ups are now open! The contest will run from 1 July to 30 September, and the objective remains the same: improve as many articles relating to developing countries as you can to help fight systemic bias on Wikipedia.

In other news, we have a new face on the coordinator team this year: last year's sixth-place finisher, Arconning (talk · contribs)! The coordinators would like to extend a sincere thanks to Ixtal (talk · contribs), who is leaving the team, without whom the contest would not exist. After feedback from contestants last year, the scoring rules are undergoing some modifications; the new rules and a summary of the changes made will be posted to the contest talk page shortly.

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the contest talk page or contact one of the coordinators: Arconning (talk · contribs), sawyer777 (talk · contribs), or TechnoSquirrel69 (talk · contribs). (To unsubscribe from these updates, remove yourself from this list.) Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 09:33, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations, Dantheanimator! The list you nominated, List of Ukrainian placenames affected by derussification, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, PresN (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:26, 18 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Dantheanimator, for the second running of the Developing Countries WikiContest, it is now open for submissions. The coordinators have addressed some of the queries at the last contest and we are hopeful that it'll turn out great! If you haven't done so already, please review the following:

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On behalf of the coordinators, we hope you enjoy participating and wish you the best of luck! If you have any questions, please leave a message on the contest talk page or ask one of the coordinators: Arconning (talk · contribs), sawyer777 (talk · contribs), or TechnoSquirrel69 (talk · contribs). (To unsubscribe from these updates, remove yourself from this list.) Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 03:52, 1 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

We're a month into the 2025 Developing Countries WikiContest, with stiff competition at the top of the leaderboard already! Our current top five contestants are:

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On behalf of the coordinators, we'd like to thank all the participants for helping to combat systemic bias on Wikipedia! If you have any questions, please leave a message on the contest talk page or ask one of the coordinators: Arconning (talk · contribs), sawyer777 (talk · contribs), or TechnoSquirrel69 (talk · contribs). (To unsubscribe from these updates, remove yourself from this list.) Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 03:36, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]