Good Article Gazette, Special issue

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:04, 28 July 2026 (UTC)

DCWC August update

The 2026 Developing Countries WikiContest has been running for a month now, so let's check in with the competition so far!

As of the time of writing, our top contestants are:

1. Vanderwaalforces (submissions) ahead of the pack with 715 points, with two FAs and many GAs on the monarchs of the Kingdom of Benin;
2. Simongraham (submissions) with 291 points, mostly with GAs on jumping spiders, alongside various GAN and FAC reviews;
3. Jaguarnik (submissions) with 240 points, mostly from an FA on the 1945 film Ivan the Terrible;
4. Grnrchst (submissions) with 215 points, mostly from GAs on anarchist history in various countries, alongside many GA reviews, and;
6. Vestrian24Bio (submissions) tied for 4th with 215 points, with an FL and four GAs on Indian cricket!

These competitors are in the lead, but if past experience is any indication, big shake-ups might still await us in the contest. If you're looking for a way to boost your position, we got a table of review requests from fellow participants—you can rack up a lot of points through reviews, and it might just convince others to review your own nominations! You can also look through the eligible reviews page to find other articles to review, with highlights for articles eligible for the 1.5× multiplier. The coordinators would like to thank Jaguarnik (submissions) for his work to keep this page up to date.

Thank you so much for all your work in the contest so far, dear participants, and keep on the good fight against systemic bias on our wiki! Have any questions? Leave a message on the contest talk page or send it to one of our wonderful coordinators: Arconning (talk · contribs), Generalissima (talk · contribs), Magentic Manifestations (talk · contribs), sawyer777 (talk · contribs), and TechnoSquirrel69 (talk · contribs). (To unsubscribe from these updates, remove yourself from this list. Sent via MediaWiki message delivery.) Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 05:25, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

The Signpost: 2 August 2026

Good article nominations RfC

Hi Pineapple Storage,

There is an ongoing Request for Comment (RfC) at Wikipedia:Good article nominations/August 2026 RfC, which you may be interested in because in the past year, you have nominated or reviewed more than one good article nomination. This message has also been sent to all subscribers to the Good Article Gazette. The RfC contains many proposals (33 at the time of writing), which are split into the following categories: nominators, reviewers, reviews, volunteer roles, reviewing initiatives, and others. However, you are more than welcome to add any proposals of your own that you wish to put to the community.

By the end of September, all the proposals will have been closed by an uninvolved editor, either as a consensus for one of the options or with no consensus. At this point, editors will be invited again to develop these proposals into coherent policy and implement them.

Thank you for your contributions to the good articles project, and I look forward to your input! (in solidarity), JacobTheRox^{(talk|contributions)} 16:03, 11 August 2026 (UTC)

Quick n easy linguistics q

Hi! looks like you're away rn, but in case you come back: since you like linguistics and if you've got some time to spare, mind looking over these claims to see if you can think of any counterexamples/see if they're wrong? No worries if you can't rn :)

1. Every English dialect has a non-standard variety.
2. Every English dialect has an informal register.
3. Linguists may/sometimes do say an English dialect has a standard variety even when not fully, explicitly codified by prescriptive authorities (dictionaries, style guides, etc).
4. If an English dialect is often used/preferred in formal settings, then it has a formal register.
5. Every anglophone country has a national English dialect with a formal register.
6. Every English dialect has novel/unique vocabulary (new forms or new meanings, eg for local culture, flora, fauna, etc).

Ps did look through sources, but I'm not really well-versed in this topic :/ Pps and if you're able, wanna review WP:ENGPG/7 to see if it's right/sound? Np if not :) - Asdfjrjjj (talk) 03:02, 12 August 2026 (UTC)

Nomination of Template:Diacritic for discussion

Template:Diacritic has been listed for discussion, which may result in the template being merged or deleted by consensus. You are invited to comment on the proposed action at the nomination on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:01, 13 August 2026 (UTC)

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