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• By my count, Asticky received 14 barnstars. Maybe I'm just being grumpy here, but I thought the point of barnstars was for notable service, not the changing of a tense by an editor who has not otherwise contributed much. In this case, what seems to be rewarded is being the fastest to make an edit that others would surely have made. Opencooper (talk) 14:29, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
• On George Santos, The Guardian could have made it clear that "Wikipedia biography" meant his user page, as the term is ambiguous. I would hope that his actual article never made the claim that he acted in Hannah Montana.-- Pawnkingthree (talk) 14:36, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

  I'm actually a little disappointed, but afaict, it didn't. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 15:09, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

  If you read Smallbones' February report, you will see that he tried to create a mainspace bio with the Hannah Montana untruth, but was stopped by an edit filter. ☆ Bri (talk) 15:13, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

  "He" being Santos, not "Smallbones"! - Smallbones_(smalltalk) 17:29, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

  I would love to hear the story on why we have a Hannah Montana edit filter ;-) Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 19:24, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

  @Gråbergs Gråa Sång: actually, it's nothing so interesting as that; the edit was blocked for shouting. —Compassionate727 ^(T·C) 23:02, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

• Just wanted to note that Avieson, the author of the Saturday Paper article about the Bhutanese nuns who helped improve Wikpedia, is an user herself, who goes by the nickname Doctor 17: thank you so much for what you've taught to them, it's incredibly inspiring! Oltrepier (talk) 21:31, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
• Hi, just to clarify: the Wikimedia Foundation has been accepting Apple Pay donations on the web since 2021 which is when the linked article was posted. What's new this year is that users of the Wikipedia App on iOS can now donate using native Apple Pay without leaving the app. Peter Coombe (WMF) (talk) 20:49, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

• Thanks for clarifying. The 2021 news story made it into my search for new items, reported by another news site in November 2023, referencing the Apple Insider 2021 story; I short-circuited the link but didn't notice the stale date. ☆ Bri (talk) 21:18, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

• Spreading culture via Wikipedia, awesome work by Avieson and the nuns.Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 22:05, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

  (Not a comment on the article itself, a general observation) Given what's going on in Bhutan, keeping a very close eye on the Dzongkha Wikipedia would be in order. The government is somehow able to get everyone to pay no attention to the man behind the curtain as they systematically imprison, torture, and ethnically cleanse the Lhotshampa. As we've seen with the Croatian Wikipedia fiasco, smaller wikis can be hijacked for pushing propaganda. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 21:14, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

  That might be difficult, inasmuch as there aren't that many Wikipedians fluent in written Dzongkha. At least to my knowledge. (And I doubt there is a translation program that supports that language.) -- llywrch (talk) 00:26, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

• Why the AI image of people arguing? Was it too hard for an editor to pretend to argue with someone else in a photo? LilianaUwU ^{(talk / contributions)} 01:10, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

  Why not? jp×g🗯️ 13:01, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

  Just my opinion but it's a silly image. I agree with LilianaUwU about using better images in the future. Viriditas (talk) 09:17, 22 January 2024 (UTC)