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Gourmand Cookbook Award

I came across this award reviewing a draft and it appears to be a notable award mentioned in several articles. Thought you might be interested in creating an article. See also es:Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. S0091 (talk) 16:09, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Hm, it has an entry in 8 language wikis. Definitely seems worth investigating, thanks! Valereee (talk) 17:37, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 23, 2024)

Hello, Valereee. The article for improvement of the week is: State of emergency Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Sun Management Center • News program Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 3 June 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

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• It is now possible for local administrators to add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without JavaScript. Documentation is available. [1]
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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 June. It will be on all wikis from 6 June (calendar). [4][5]

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Question

Would you please ove these to the SOHA for me?

• June 28 - Template:Did you know nominations/Xenophon of Robeika
• July 1 - Template:Did you know nominations/Leontius of Autun

Thanks. --evrik ^(talk) 14:37, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

I'll go take a look, but in future it's best to make a request at WT:DYK. Valereee (talk) 14:53, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).

Administrator changes

Graham Beards

• Deskana
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Bureaucrat changes

• Deskana
• Warofdreams

Oversight changes

Dreamy Jazz

Guideline and policy news

• Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.

Technical news

• The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
• The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.

Miscellaneous

• WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace {{citation needed}} tags with references! Sign up here to participate!

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Google Scholar

Google Scholar links expire after about 60 minutes by design to become unfixable link rot. WP:AWSURL more info and solutions. -- GreenC 19:05, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

@GreenC, remind me what I did? :D Valereee (talk) 19:37, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Special:Diff/1227411398/1227411906 --> Special:Diff/1227428590/1227442565 -- GreenC 21:47, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Barnstar

	The Admin's Barnstar
	For helping me a lot. JacktheBrown (talk) 09:15, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, Jack! I'm glad it's helpful rather than otherwise! :) Valereee (talk) 11:54, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 8 June 2024

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation publishes its Form 990 for fiscal year 2022-2023

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Extended confirmed restriction clarification request has been archived

A clarification request you were involved in has been archived, you can view it at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment/Archive 127#Clarification request: Extended confirmed restriction. For the Arbitration Committee, HouseBlaster (talk · he/they) 18:37, 8 June 2024 (UTC)