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This week's article for improvement (week 27, 2021)

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Organized religion

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This week's article for improvement (week 28, 2021)

 
Participant countries of the 2019 International Army Games.
  Participants
  First time participants
  Previous games participants, but not this time
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International Army Games

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This week's article for improvement (week 29, 2021)

 
The Hittite version of the Treaty of Kadesh, among the earliest extant examples of an international agreement
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International law

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This week's article for improvement (week 30, 2021)

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Episode

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2021).

  Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC is open to add a delay of one week from nomination to deletion for G13 speedy deletions.

  Technical news

  • Last week all wikis were very slow or not accessible for 30 minutes. This was due to server lag caused by regenerating dynamic lists on the Russian Wikinews after a large bulk import. (T287380)

  Arbitration

  Miscellaneous


This week's article for improvement (week 31, 2021)

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Organ (anatomy)

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Previous selections: Episode • International law


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This week's article for improvement (week 32, 2021)

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Act (drama)

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This week's article for improvement (week 33, 2021)

 
Crème brûlée a dessert consisting of a rich custard base topped with a layer of hardened caramelized sugar.
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Crème brûlée

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This week's article for improvement (week 33, 2021)

 
Crème brûlée a dessert consisting of a rich custard base topped with a layer of hardened caramelized sugar.
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Crème brûlée

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This week's article for improvement (week 34, 2021)

 
An employee and customer at a grocery store in The Netherlands, April 1, 1955
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Grocery store

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This week's article for improvement (week 35, 2021)

 
Mona Sahlin is a Swedish politician who was leader of the opposition and leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 2007 to 2011. Pictured is Sahlin in 2010.
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Mona Sahlin

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).

 

  Administrator changes

  Jake Wartenberg
  EmperorViridian Bovary
  AshleyyoursmileViridian Bovary

  Guideline and policy news

  Technical news

  • The Score extension has been re-enabled on public wikis. It has been updated, but has been placed in safe mode to address unresolved security issues. Further information on the security issues can be found on the mediawiki page.

  Arbitration

  Miscellaneous


This week's article for improvement (week 36, 2021)

 
The past is the set of all events that occurred before a given point in time. Pictured is the oil on canvas painting Everything is in the past, painted by Vassily Maximov in 1889.
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Past

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This week's article for improvement (week 37, 2021)

 
The history of art focuses on objects made by humans in visual form for aesthetic purposes. Pictured ia a dun horse from the Lascaux cave paintings.
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History of art

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This week's article for improvement (week 38, 2021)

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Student exchange program

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This week's article for improvement (week 39, 2021)

Hello, NorthwestPassage. The article for improvement of the week is:

No such thing as a stupid question

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Peer review for Federal Building (Edmonton)

Hi, are you still interested in the peer review for Federal Building (Edmonton)? Happy to leave feedback if you still want to work on it. Zetana (talk) 21:34, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

22:20, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).

  Guideline and policy news

  Technical news

  Arbitration

  • A motion has standardised the 500/30 (extended confirmed) restrictions placed by the Arbitration Committee. The standardised restriction is now listed in the Arbitration Committee's procedures.
  • Following the closure of the Iranian politics case, standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
  • The Arbitration Committee encourages uninvolved administrators to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.

  Miscellaneous

  • Editors have approved expanding the trial of Growth Features from 2% of new accounts to 25%, and the share of newcomers getting mentorship from 2% to 5%. Experienced editors are invited to add themselves to the mentor list.
  • The community consultation phase of the 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process is open for editors to provide comments and ask questions to candidates.

This week's article for improvement (week 40, 2021)

 
A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature interacts. Pictured is The Geographer (1668-69), by Johannes Vermeer.
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Geographer

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Previous selections: No such thing as a stupid question • Student exchange program


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This week's article for improvement (week 41, 2021)

 
Fish sauce is a liquid condiment made from fish or krill that have been coated in salt and fermented for up to two years. Pictured is Cambodian sweet fish sauce mixed with chopped chili peppers and slices of garlic.
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Fish sauce

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This week's article for improvement (week 42, 2021)

 
The Big Five personality traits is a suggested taxonomy, or grouping, for personality traits.
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Personality

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This week's article for improvement (week 43, 2021)

 
The Portland Building (1982) in Portland, Oregon by architect Michael Graves is an example of Postmodern architecture.
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Postmodernism

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