User talk:LukeSurl/archive5Thank you=Thank you for all your help with "The Pete Holmes Show" and the cookies. Cheers, 108.60.63.183 (talk) 06:57, 12 November 2013 (UTC) ITN for 2013 Houphouët-Boigny stampede
--SpencerT♦C 19:03, 1 January 2013 (UTC) ITN/C - January 3In the Wikipedia, you thank! Formerip (talk) 23:45, 3 January 2013 (UTC) ITN for 2013 Uribana prison riot
--SpencerT♦C 23:17, 26 January 2013 (UTC) ITN for 2013 Australian Open
--SpencerT♦C 05:36, 31 January 2013 (UTC) ITN noteI'd overlooked "==ITN==" in the example. Thanks for removing it. :) —David Levy 01:29, 8 February 2013 (UTC) Training the TrainersHi Luke, we're looking to finalise numbers and I just wanted to confirm that you're still interested in attending the event on 23-24th February? Thanks, Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 20:15, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi Luke, the details of the venue are now on the UK wiki. Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 13:57, 12 February 2013 (UTC) After whittling down the people who didn't respond we still had 14 people interested in 12 places. Unfortunately this means two people miss out. We've decided to put you on the reserve list should anyone drop out. I hope this is ok. The suggested training session you want to run at your university sounds very interesting, so please do keep in contact about that, and I'll let you know when we arrange future events. Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 15:40, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
Mo YanI've begun the Good Article review for Mo Yan; your thoughts would be welcome on the review page. And thanks for the work you've already invested in this one! -- Khazar2 (talk) 03:28, 26 February 2013 (UTC) ITN for 2013 Six Nations Championship
--SpencerT♦C 03:28, 18 March 2013 (UTC) DYK for 274301 Wikipedia
The DYK project (nominate) 00:03, 1 April 2013 (UTC) ITN credit
ThaddeusB (talk) 16:30, 10 April 2013 (UTC) ITN credit
NW (Talk) 16:30, 19 April 2013 (UTC) ITN for Great Mosque of Aleppo
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DYK for A Boy and His Atom
— Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:23, 6 May 2013 (UTC) ITN credit
ThaddeusB (talk) 02:17, 15 May 2013 (UTC) ITN talk
ThaddeusB (talk) 23:56, 23 May 2013 (UTC) Gibraltar closeNo problem with the close, it's probably a good idea. I knew it wouldn't be posted, or I'd've nominated it myself. As someone else did I bothered enough to support it. Tricky case as the notability was not sports related; I hope my comments show that I don't think UEFA or FIFA membership is inherently postable. 85.167.109.26 (talk) 23:25, 24 May 2013 (UTC) ITN/CaymansThe article has been updated, so I wasn't sure if you might want to revise your vote to support? - Nbpolitico (talk) 16:32, 26 May 2013 (UTC) Monaco GPGood work on that. The Rambling Man (talk) 15:18, 27 May 2013 (UTC) ITN credit
Thanks a bunch, I appreciated the timely update! Jusdafax 01:23, 1 June 2013 (UTC) Disambiguation link notification for June 4Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Jack Vance, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Steve Gould (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject. It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 13:30, 4 June 2013 (UTC) Wikipedia:Teahouse![]() Dear LukeSurl,
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Some links you may find helpful as a Host: Helpful scripts you can install to make Teahouse responding easier, templates to use, and the question forum. Technical 13 (talk) 22:22, 6 June 2013 (UTC) City of BohaneHi, City of Bohane has been nominated as an In the News item. However, it needs to be further updated to meet the criteria (essentially, five sentences). Would you be able to add further to the article? Thanks, --RA (talk) 22:06, 8 June 2013 (UTC) ITN for City of Bohane
--SpencerT♦C 14:30, 11 June 2013 (UTC) TeahouseHey, LukeSurl, I'm Theonesean, the maitre d' for the Teahouse this week. I wanted to welcome you and say thanks for the helpful work you're doing there. If there's anything you ever need, don't hesitate to drop me a line. Thanks for being awesome, TheOneSean [ U | T | C ] 23:35, 13 June 2013 (UTC) Dean Anthony GrattonThank you for your feedback. I have now removed the 'dubious' reference to 'bestselling' despite it being listed in a third-party source. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iconovate (talk • contribs) 10:11, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
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QuestionHello and thank you for your help. I modified the redirect Ashina Helu. Did I do this properly?--Taiping Tulip (talk) 20:16, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
Thank youThank you for the gift.--Taiping Tulip (talk) 14:56, 27 June 2013 (UTC) Bank Interest Rate SwapsLukeSurl, you rejected my article on the above today. I'm lost. Could you please be more specific regardng your issues? Kind regards Peteravel — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peteravel (talk • contribs) 11:19, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
Very useful - thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peteravel (talk • contribs) 12:18, 28 June 2013 (UTC) Zsolt FelcsutiDear LukeSurl,
Josef.smith1222 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Josef.smith1222 (talk • contribs) 21:34, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
Dear LukeSurl, I believe that the main international scientific journals cited for my publications are not at all dependent on me. Please comment with a colleague more familiar with Wikipedia entries of international scientists. The only think I can do is to add one more public secondary reference (http://elpais.com/diario/1980/03/18/sociedad/322182003_850215.html) Other international press notes about my work in cancer reversal appeared in The Times of London, The Herald Tribune of USA, Mainichi of Japan and People’s Daily of Pekin from January 10th of 1980 onwards. I seem unable to enclose these secondary references in my Wikipedia entry because to find in the archives of these newspapers those notices on me it is required to be subscribed. Regards, Mario1109 (talk) 17:03, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
Bioscale article rejectionI have made the changes requested by the original reviewer (User talk:Techatology#Decline at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Bioscale), which met with Techatology's approval. RadioFan is way off base. The Boston Globe (daily circulation 240K) does not have its reporters print press releases, nor I suspect do the Boston Business Journal, Xconomy or ProteoMonitor. 70.79.73.253 (talk) 22:45, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
![]() IRC office hours for wiki-mentors and Snuggle usersHi. We're organizing an office hours session with the Teahouse to bring in mentors from across the wiki to try out Snuggle and discuss it's potential to support mentorship broadly. The Snuggle team would appreciate it if you would come and participate in the discussion. We'll be having it in #wikimedia-office connect on Wed. July 17th @ 1600 UTC. See the agenda for more info. --EpochFail(talk • work), Technical 13 (talk), TheOriginalSoni (talk) 18:28, 12 July 2013 (UTC) Teahouse talkback: you've got messages!![]() Please note that all old questions are archived after 2-3 days of inactivity. Message added by Miss Bono [zootalk] 15:37, 1 August 2013 (UTC). (You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{teahouse talkback}} template. LukeSurl. Thank you for your contributaions to this article like grouping references. However, I'm going to have to undo your latest revision where you removed an image of Peter Capaldi. Please leave this image. It's good if we have at least one image of him. Thank you again, Crazyboy279. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Crazyboy279 (talk • contribs) 21:28, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks again for your contributation, Crazyboy279 t c 22:42, 4 August 2013 (UTC) Add news, plsHello! Could you help to add news with this source or with the other sources? [1] Sorry my English isn't perfect. i'm studying it --Many baks (talk) 15:36, 7 August 2013 (UTC) A Barnstar for You!
Thank youThanks for the brownie Luke - it made my day! And thanks for your help with the article - I'm sorry I hadn't done the references properly but it was past midnight here in New Zealand by the time I finished with the article and I find some of the technical stuff confusing even when I'm not falling asleep! (I'll try that reflinks thing next time though!) It's always good to see someone that's not well-known in the English-speaking world get posted. I just wanted to say as well how impressed I've been with you. ITN, though I enjoy it, can be a bit prone to wiki-drama, but you're always so sensible and do great work updating items that provide some more diversity in what we post. I was just thinking the other day what a great administrator you would make. Neljack (talk) 01:35, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
Congrats... You gave an awesome answer in the Teahouse!
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Interview request: Your interactions with new editorsI'm contacting you about a study that I'm running with TheOriginalSoni exploring newcomer mentorship activities in Wikipedia. I'd like to ask you a few questions about your interactions with newcomers and to explore how a tool like WP:Snuggle might make your work easier. The interview and demo session will take 30 minutes to an hour depending on how much time we spend discussing things. If you're interested, let me know. If not, disregard this message and I won't bother you again.
Thanks for your consideration. --EpochFail (talk • contribs) 15:42, 28 August 2013 (UTC) ShareMap mappingHi Luke, I saw that you use ShareMap maps in some articles. If you need any assistance with ShareMap please let me know. Meanwhile if you can I will be very happy if you can add your support in this discussion: meta:Talk:Interwiki_map#ShareMap We opened request of adding ShareMap to list of sites that are available using Interwiki links, and any support voice is warmly welcome (you can add your comment or just I support or +1). We believe that adding ShareMap to interwiki will make linking easier. I will be also very happy if you can add yourself to the list of ShareMap users here : commons:User_talk:ShareMap/ShareMap_users We are applying for Wikimedia Foundation grant and we need to prove that people are really using ShareMap to enrich their articles. Thanks --Jkan997 (talk) 22:22, 10 September 2013 (UTC) I declined the move of Words with Friends to Words With Friends because the lower-case "with" is more usual for English capitalization; see WP:NCCAPS. Furthermore, although the game's publisher Zynga often uses a capital "With" in the game's title, it doesn't always do so; see http://company.zynga.com/games/words-friends for an example. "Words with Friends is a leading social mobile game challenging players to create the highest-scoring words while playing against family and friends. Players can be engaged in up to 20 games at once and are able to chat with each other in game. In Apple’s App Store for iPhone, Words with Friends has regularly been the leading game in the word category since 2010 until Hanging with Friends became the leading game in June 2011. Words with Friends was acquired through our purchase of Newtoy, Inc. By leveraging our scale, technology infrastructure and deep knowledge of social game mechanics, we were able to double the DAUs for Words with Friends within approximately 120 days after the acquisition." --Metropolitan90 (talk) 05:17, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
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--NW (Talk) 14:21, 27 September 2013 (UTC) FYIRe your note at Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates: Just so you'll know, laughingstock is one word; otherwise, you'd have a stock that was laughing. Sca (talk) 14:14, 5 October 2013 (UTC) Help to review my Afc SubmissionI am sorry for troubling you but I wish to highlight that one of my submissions at Articles for Creation is pending review and has yet to be reviewed despite such a long period of time. It is Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Zhang_Zetian. I submitted the page three times and from the day I started the Afc talk page to 29 September 2013 (third submission), it is almost one month. Till now, no reviewers seem to have reviewed the page. Please help to review if you have the time. Thanks! 124.197.123.242 (talk) 07:25, 6 October 2013 (UTC) List of incidents of animal sexual abuseList of incidents of animal sexual abuse no more breaches the policy of WP:BLPCRIME anymore. So what you think? OccultZone (talk) 12:02, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
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Block message: Autoblocked because your IP address was recently used by "NoahS24fgtp". The reason given for NoahS24fgtp's block is: "Spambot". Accept reason: I've cleared the autoblock. There appears to be a glitch in the system. See Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 119#Wikimedia Foundation IP addresses causing autoblocks. Elockid (Talk) 19:55, 6 November 2013 (UTC) The Signpost: 06 November 2013As part of the second major "outing" controversy to hit the English Wikipedia in less than a year, the Chelsea/Bradley Manning naming dispute was dragged into the spotlight yet again when the English Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee ruled by motion to remove the administrator tools from and ban long-time Wikipedia contributor Phil Sandifer.
It's fair to say that commemorating death was a strong theme this week, with Lou Reed's passing generating interest, as well as a Google Doodle celebrating the costume designer Edith Head. And of course, the world's greatest celebrations of the dead, Halloween and the Day of the Dead, were also popular this week.
HMS Hood, one of the most famous warships of the Second World War, was a battlecruiser and therefore part of what is now the largest featured topic on Wikipedia: "Battlecruisers of the world". The topic was promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week alongside eleven articles, three lists, four pictures, and two other topics.
This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Accessibility, a project that strives to make Wikipedia accessible for users with disabilities. The project improves Wikipedia's guidelines and Manual of Style, collects useful templates and scripts, and provides support to impaired Wikipedians.
The Ebionites 3 case has closed with an interaction ban for the two editors involved in the dispute.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
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my article submissionHi Luke, Thank you very much for taking the time to have a look at my submission and provide feedback and links on how to improve my article. I have been reading your guidelines for reference which you linked and I seem to be abiding by the guidelines on sites... It says to use independent websites like magazines and blogs rather than youtube or soundcloud. I have now removed the one reference that doesn't come under that category and the information connected with it. RapReviews.com and Rago Magazine are prominent online sources of news about the hip hop community. I am confused about the 'verifiability' link. "A musician or ensemble (note that this includes a band, singer, rapper, orchestra, DJ, musical theatre group, instrumentalist, etc.) may be notable if it meets at least one of the following criteria: Has been the subject of multiple, non-trivial, published works appearing in sources that are reliable, not self-published, and are independent from the musician or ensemble itself.[note 1] This criterion includes published works in all forms, such as newspaper articles, books, magazine articles, online versions of print media, and television documentaries" The link from Rago Magazine which is a lengthy interview should surely meet the criteria as that is a UK Magazine in print and that was an online version of an official version — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robertjeffries29 (talk • contribs) 01:00, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
Review of the project of article "Billy Monk (criminal)"The notability of this article (Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Billy Monk (criminal)) resides in the fact he is the last person in the US to die for a non-lethal kidnapping This fact make this article remains among the articles about James Coburn (last robber and non-murderer to be executed), Ronald Wolfe (last rapist to die), Leonard Shockley (last juvenile), James French (last pre-Furman electrocution) and other articles whose subjects were the last to be executed in their categories (yes, I know about Wikipedia:Other stuff exists but these precedents establishe the notability of this article). --Jean Po (talk) 14:30, 14 November 2013 (UTC) You are receiving this notice because you have commented or contributed to the article previously. Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl is currently undergoing a Featured Article Candidate review at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl/archive1. I would invite anyone interested in going by, looking at the article, and if inclined, adding your comments. Regards. GregJackP Boomer! 19:52, 15 November 2013 (UTC) Brownie for the Special *UNofficial* 1-week mini-drive
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The Signpost: 13 November 2013
The numbers this week are beyond anything that has been seen since this report began. The top view count beats the average by an order of magnitude. Usually the appearance of numbers this big on the list is due to spamming, but in this case it seems they are due to honest interest; more specifically, Google Doodles, which for the first time claimed all five top slots. This column has raised numerous times the power of a Google Doodle to shine light on Wikipedia, but the wattage has never been as high as this.
Five articles, two lists, one topic, and nine pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.
The supporting staff of the Wikimedia Foundation’s powerful volunteer Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) have released their assessments for the third half-yearly round of funding applications. The applications for the newly named annual plan grants were submitted by affiliated entities on 1 October, and comprise a total of more than US$5M in bids.
The Italian-language Wikipedia community has overwhelmingly voted to request the Wikimedia Foundation's assistance in recovering wikipedia.it, a website that has been frequently confused with the Italian Wikipedia.
This week, we followed the intricate storylines of WikiProject Soap Operas.
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BlocksHi Luke, just a note about why sometimes there isn't a lot of obvious information about particular blocks. The blocks you referred to were marked as "checkuserblock-account", which is explained in more detail here. Hope this clears things up a little. Blackberry Sorbet (talk • contribs) 16:24, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 20 November 2013
As I said in August, contributing to the Signpost can be one of the most rewarding things an editor can do. The genre is refreshingly different from that of Wikipedia articles, and can allow writers to use a different range of skills. The need for an independent, volunteer-run Signpost continues to grow, given the increasing complexity and financial expenditures of the global Wikimedia movement, not to mention the English Wikipedia.
Peter Burke's A Social History of Knowledge: Volume II: From the Encyclopédie to Wikipedia is a broad and wide-ranging look at how knowledge has been created, acquired, organized, disseminated, and sometimes lost in the Western world over the last two and a half centuries, a sequel to his 2000 book covering the prior three centuries, A Social History of Knowledge: From Gutenberg to Diderot.
Four articles, five lists, and thirty-four pictures were promoted to 'featured status' this week, including an image of a small fraction of the 18,000 taxis that serve Hong Kong.
This week, we headed over to WikiProject National Football League. With 10 Featured Articles, 61 Featured Lists, and 142 Good Articles (as of publication), this WikiProject has done a lot of work improving American football articles.
The Wikimedia Foundation has sent a formal cease and desist letter to Wiki-PR—the public relations agency accused of breaking Wikipedia policies and guidelines by creating, editing, and maintaining several thousand articles for paying clients through a sophisticated array of accounts. The Foundation's attorneys, Cooley LLP, have demanded that Wiki-PR's employees abide by the site's Terms of Use and the language of a community ban from the English Wikipedia.
It's not hard to guess which event is leading interest in the top 25 this week. The sheer scale of Typhoon Haiyan is staggering; estimates place its maximum windspeed upon first landfall in the Philippines on November 6 at 315 km/h, which would make it the most powerful tropical cyclone ever to reach land. To date, the storm has killed nearly 4000 people and damaged or destroyed nearly 4 million homes.
Back in March, when the March 25 Arbitration Report covered the Audit Subcommittee appointment discussion, a statement from the WMF legal division clarified its position that access to deleted revisions required an RFA or RFA-identical process; therefore AUSC committee appointments were not open to non-admins. The WMF legal team has now further clarified its position, saying that running for and winning an election for arbitrator would qualify as the type of rigorous community selection process required for the checkuser and oversight rights held by arbitrators.
The Signpost: 04 December 2013
Summary:Doctor Who nearly got cancelled in its first week because its premiere was swamped by coverage of the JFK assassination, which happened the same day. Thankfully, producers saw fit to rerun it the next day, which is now its official anniversary date.
Wikipedia works on the efforts of unpaid volunteers who choose to donate their time to advance the cause of free knowledge. This phenomenon, as trivial as it may sound to those acquainted with Wikipedia inner workings, has always puzzled economists and social scientists alike, in that standard Economic theory would not predict that such enterprises would thrive without any form of remuneration.
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The sister project Wikisource, the digital library that hosts free-content primary sources, is now a decade old. Wikisource, which now has versions in 63 languages, is the sixth type of project to reach ten-year milestone and will be the last until 2016. The Wikimedia Foundation's volunteer Funds Dissemination Committee has published its recommendations to the Board of Trustees on 11 new applications for annual grants by 11 WMF-affiliated organisations. The maximum total budget for the current and upcoming March rounds is US$6M.
This week, we returned to WikiProject Apple Inc. for a peek at their newest articles about the latest in gadgets and software. The last time we took a bite out of WikiProject Apple, they had just finished merging WikiProject Macintosh and WikiProject iPhone OS. Today, the project is hard at work rewriting their primary article, improving the subject's outline, and adding to the project's list of 25 Good Articles and 6 Featured Articles.
Seventeen articles, four lists, and twenty-eight pictures were promoted to "featured" status in the last two weeks.
The Ottoman Empire–Turkey naming dispute case has opened. The second draft of the discretionary sanctions proposal is now open for review.
The Signpost: 11 December 2013
When one edits this page for too long, one is tempted to appoint oneself as the psychoanalyst for the human race, or at least the English-speaking portion thereof. Since nearly everyone uses Wikipedia, the constant stream of TV updates, pointless celebrity scandals, and inquiries after who has died can seem like a dreary peek into humanity's surprisingly banal collective consciousness.
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales caught headlines last week when he referred to former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden ... Loek Essers of the International Data Group, (IDG) News Service is reporting that a German court has held Wikipedia liable for its content, but still does not have to fact check the information in advance.
Amid great anticipation the international prize winners have just been announced for the fourth annual Wiki Loves Monuments, now the world's largest photographic competition and one of the biggest events on the Wikimedia movement's calendar. ... The first prize has gone to David Gubler's photograph of a Swiss train crossing a viaduct.
This week, the Signpost interviewed the Wine WikiProject.
On 7 December, Wikipedia editor Wehwalt reached the momentous milestone of 100 featured articles with History of Chincoteague, Virginia. Quite apart from the reading and research, that's around three-quarters of a million words of finalised text, not counting footnotes, image captions and the rest.
Three articles, one list, and eight pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.
On 6 December, the latest version of the MediaWiki software was released. In development from March 2013 through October 2013, the release featured anti-spam and counter-vandalism improvements.
The Signpost: 18 December 2013
This week, the Signpost interviewed the Tunisia WikiProject on the French Wikipedia.
An animated Google Doodle for computer programmer and naval rear admiral Grace Hopper generated another record-breaking hit count for the year, though the count for the list overall was lower than for that of the previous holder.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
A little more than six days after the close of voting, the results of the annual Arbitration Committee (ArbCom) elections have been announced. Of the 22 candidates, 13 managed to gain more supports than opposes, though only one gained the support of more than half of the voters. Eight were elected to two-year terms, and a ninth will serve for one year.
Seven articles, three lists, and eight pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week.
This week, the GLAMWikiToolset, or GWToolset, is being deployed to the Wikimedia Commons. It allows for GLAM organizations to batch upload content based on various metadata stored in an XML schema. In the past this has been done by various bots, but now it will be easier for GLAMs to do it directly.
The Signpost: 25 December 2013
Analyzing edits to the-then 46 largest Wikipedias between July 9 and August 8, 2013, a study identified a set of about 8,000 contributors with a global user account who have edited more than one of these language versions in that time frame.
Five articles, two lists, and five pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
We saved one last special report for 2013. After our well-received review of great WikiProject logos a couple years ago, it was only a matter of time before we collected a new batch of interesting iconography that showcases the creativity of the Wikipedia community. Hopefully, these logos will also inspire other projects to liven up their drab pages.
A significant move by the Wikimedia Foundation has been to broaden the types of activities it funds to develop several different programs for judging and allocating that funding, and to set up volunteer committees that initially assess applications for funding.
Last month, the OAuth extension was deployed to all Wikimedia wikis. OAuth is a standard used for allowing users to authenticate third-party applications, also known as consumers, to take actions on their behalf.
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