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Women in Red - January 2026

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'''Online events:'''

''New'': Sports ↗ (year-long initiative) <big>|</big> Alphabet run - countries starting with A ↗

''Continuing'': #1day1woman ↗ ( year-long initiative) <big>|</big> Women who died in 2025 ↗

'''Announcements from other communities'''

Wikipedia turns 25! Celebrate Wikipedia Day ↗ on Jan 15, 2026.

'''Tip of the month:'''

''Consider becoming a new page reviewer ↗ to help reduce the huge backlog of women's biographies.''

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Welcome to the 2026 WikiCup!

Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2026 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor, we hope the WikiCup will give you a chance to improve your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found '''here ↗'''. If you have not yet signed up, you can '''add your name here ↗''', and a bot will set up your submissions page within one day, ready for you to take part. Any questions on the scoring, rules or anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page ↗.

For the 2026 WikiCup, the highest-ranking contestants will receive tournament points ↗ at the end of each round, and final rankings are decided by the number of tournament points each contestant has. This is the same scoring system that we had last year. If you're busy and can't sign up in January, don't worry: Signups are open throughout the year. To make things fairer for latecomers, the lowest-scoring contestants are no longer eliminated at the end of each round.

The first round will end on 26 February. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: {{User4|Cwmhiraeth}}, {{User4|Epicgenius}}, {{User4|Frostly}}, {{User4|Guerillero}} and {{User4|Lee Vilenski}}. Good luck! <small>If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send ↗.</small> MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:38, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Oriana Skylar Mastro ↗

Oriana Skylar Mastro ↗ has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page ↗. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. <span style="color:#ff00ff">monkey</span><sub style="color:#aa22aa">smashing</sub><sup style="color:#aa66aa">keyboards</sup> (talk) 23:20, 6 January 2026 (UTC)

2025 U.S. Figure Skating Championships ↗

If you have a free minute, any support you can provide at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/2025 U.S. Figure Skating Championships/archive2 ↗ would be appreciated! 😃 <span style="color:darkorange;">'''Bgsu98'''</span> <span style="color:darkorange;">(Talk)</span> 22:41, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

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Women in Red February 2026

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''New'': Alphabet run: countries starting with B ↗ <big>|</big> Black Women ↗ <big>|</big> Works by women: theatre, opera, music ↗

''Continuing'': #1day1woman ↗ ( year-long initiative) <big>|</big> Sports ↗ (year-long initiative)

'''Announcements from other communities'''

Join Wikipedia:26 for '26 ↗ and create or substantially improve twenty-six Wikipedia<br>articles during the year 2026, at least one for each letter of the English alphabet.

'''Tip of the month:'''

Our redlists ↗ are a great resource, but not every redlinked subject is notable. Be sure to research before starting a new article.

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February 2026 GAN Backlog Drive

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On 1 February, a one-month backlog drive for good article nominations will begin.

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Women in Green reviewing drive

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This month, February 2026, '''WikiProject Women in Green ↗''' is participating in the February 2026 GAN Backlog Drive ↗, in which we're aiming to review as many outstanding Good Article (GA) nominations about women and women's works as possible. If you want to help out, you can check out the project talk page ↗ for a list of nominations in need of review (including some WiG originals). If you haven't reviewed a GA nomination before, be sure to check out the reviewing instructions ↗ and guidelines ↗ and feel free to ask for a mentor ↗ to check your work.

We are also working together with a wikithon hosted on 5 February by Wikimedia UK, which will focus on writing and improving articles about women involved in sustainable development. If you want to join the event, feel free to sign up at the eventbrite page ↗; or if you would be interested in providing a 20-minute assessment and/or a full GA review of the submitted articles in the weeks following, put your name down on the project talk page ↗ for updates as the event progresses.

We hope to see you there!

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Unreferenced articles March 2026 backlog drive

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Precious anniversary

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Women in Red - March 2026

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''March 1-31'': Artists & Activists ↗ <big>|</big> Artworks by women ↗ <big>|</big> Alphabet run: countries starting with C ↗

''Continuing (year-long initiatives)'': #1day1woman ↗ <big>|</big> Sports ↗

'''Announcements from other communities:'''

Celebrate Women ↗

Unreferenced articles backlog drive ↗

Wiki Loves Ramadan ↗

'''Tip of the month:'''

''Those experiencing difficulties with new articles can follow the guidance in our essays ↗,{{br}} perhaps starting with our Ten Simple Rules ↗.''

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WikiCup 2026 March newsletter

The first round of the 2026 WikiCup ended on 26 February. As some of you may have noticed, good article nomination reviews ↗ now receive 10 points, an increase from 5 points in the previous year, as per a consensus at WT:CUP ↗. This point increase has been retroactively applied to all good article reviews for which competitors have claimed points in this round. Peer reviews ↗, which continue to be worth 5 points, are now listed in the same section as featured article candidate reviews ↗, rather than with good article reviews. Everyone who competed in round 1 will advance to round 2 unless they have withdrawn or been banned. No other changes to the round-point system have been made for this year.

Round 1 was competitive. Three contestants scored more than 1,000 round points, and the top 16 contestants all scored more than 300 round points. The following competitors scored more than 800 round points:

{{Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant17|Bgsu98}} with 1,467 round points, largely gained from 1 featured article ↗, 5 featured lists ↗, 15 good articles ↗, and 42 FAC and GAN reviews;

{{Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant17|Olliefant}} with 1,246 round points, largely from 4 featured lists, 9 good articles, 2 featured topic ↗ articles, 4 did you know ↗ articles, and 75 FAC and GAN reviews;

{{Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant17|Generalissima}} with 1,095 round points, largely from 3 featured articles, 6 good articles, and 5 did you know articles;

{{Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant17|MCE89}} with 848 round points, largely from 1 featured article, 8 good articles, 1 did you know article, and 32 FAC and GAN reviews; and

{{Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant17|Rollinginhisgrave}} with 838 round points, largely from 1 featured article, 8 good articles, 1 did you know article, and 14 FAC, GAN, and peer reviews.

The full scores for round 1 can be seen here ↗. During this round, contestants have claimed 7 featured articles, 16 featured lists, 2 featured-topic articles, 168 good articles, 13 good-topic articles and more than 50 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 14 In the News ↗ articles, and they have conducted nearly 700 reviews. The tournament points table ↗ will be updated within the next few days.

Remember that any content promoted after 26 February but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed ↗. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup ↗, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! <small>If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send ↗.</small> MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:57, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

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Women in Red – April 2026

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''New'': Countries starting with D, E and F ↗ <big>|</big> Women's Works: Written works ↗ <big>|</big> Cascading Women ↗

''Continuing (year-long initiatives)'': #1day1woman ↗ <big>|</big> Sports ↗

'''Announcements from other communities:'''

CEE women ↗

'''Tip of the month:'''

When creating a new article, take a moment to ensure any notable woman is redlinked.{{br}} Someone might be inspired to create an article for her.

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WikiCup 2026 May newsletter

The second round of the 2026 WikiCup ended on 28 April. As a reminder for contestants who just joined or are unaware of recent changes to our round-points system, good article nomination reviews ↗ now receive 10 points, an increase from 5 points in the previous year, as per a consensus at WT:CUP ↗. Peer reviews ↗, which continue to be worth 5 points, are now listed in the same section as featured article candidate reviews ↗, rather than with good article reviews. Everyone who competed in round 2 will advance to round 3 unless they have withdrawn or been banned. No other changes to the round-point system have been made for this year.

Round 2 was competitive. Three contestants scored more than 1,000 round points; nine scored over 500; and fourteen scored over 300. The top seven contestants had at least one featured article ↗ (two of them with two apiece). The following competitors scored more than 800 round points:

{{Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant17|MCE89}} with 1,333 points, mainly from good and featured articles about Australian people and geography

{{Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant17|Generalissima}} with 1,169 points, mainly from good and featured articles related to shipping ethics controversy in fanfiction ↗, waterways, and Gu Yanwu ↗

{{Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant17|Bgsu98}} with 1,149 points, mainly from good articles, featured articles, and featured lists about figure skating, along with many article reviews and two good topics

{{Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant17|Olliefant}} with 830 points, mainly from good and featured articles about television shows, episodes and media, along with nearly four dozen good and featured article reviews

{{Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant17|Gommeh}} with 827 points, mainly from good and featured articles related to ''Genshin Impact ↗'' and ''Honkai: Star Rail''

The full scores for round 2 can be seen here ↗. During this round, contestants have claimed 12 featured articles, 13 featured lists, 2 featured-topic articles, 106 good articles, 22 good-topic articles and more than 40 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 3 In the News ↗ articles, and they have conducted over 200 reviews. The tournament points table ↗ has been updated.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 April but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed in Round 3. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed ↗. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup ↗, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! <small>If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send ↗.</small> MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:49, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

Women in Red – May 2026

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''Continuing (year-long initiatives)'': #1day1woman ↗ <big>|</big> Sports ↗

'''Announcements from other communities:'''

''Contest'': Destubathon of the Americas ↗

'''Tip of the month:'''

Struggling to find scientific works to write about? Start with review articles or textbooks,{{br}} which may highlight influential studies, theories or methods by women.

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June 2026 GAN Backlog Drive

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Women in Red - June 2026

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''New'': LGBTQ+ women ↗ <big>|</big> Alphabet run: Countries starting with I, J, K and L ↗

''Article improvement campaign'': Orphaned women ↗

''Continuing (year-long initiatives)'': #1day1woman ↗ <big>|</big> Sports ↗

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'''Announcements from other communities:'''

Eiffel women ↗

'''Tip of the month:'''

Consider contributing to two of our monthly events at once, and improve coverage <br/>of LGBTQ+ women by de-orphaning their articles.

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Destubathon Barnstar

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DCWC call for coordinators

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Hey Riley1012, it's almost that time again! The Developing Countries WikiContest ↗ will be returning for its third year, and the coordinator team is looking for experienced content contributors willing to volunteer. The coordinators are responsible for keeping the contest running and its pages{{mdashb}}including participants' submissions, the points leaderboard, and the list of eligible articles{{mdashb}}updated.

If you would like to apply, please contact one of the coordinators; you may choose to do so privately if you wish: {{user-multi|user=Arconning|t|e}}, {{user-multi|user=sawyer777|t|e}}, or {{user-multi|user=TechnoSquirrel69|t|e}}. <small>(To unsubscribe from these updates, remove yourself from this list ↗.) Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (talk)</small> <span class="nowrap">—<span style="color: #0b541f;">'''TechnoSquirrel69'''</span></span> <small>(<span style="color: #0b541f;">'''sigh'''</span>)</small> 22:25, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

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June 2026 GAN Backlog Drive notice

Hi there! Thanks for signing up for the June 2026 GAN backlog drive ↗! We have noticed that you have made little to no reviews during the drive. We, the coordinators, would appreciate if you'd pick up at least one GAN to review until the end of the month! Thank you. <span style="color:#5E9A4A;font-weight:bold">Vacant</span><span style="color:#A24B4B;font-weight:bold">0</span> <span style="font-size:small">(talk • contribs ↗)</span> 12:23, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

The DCWC is back!

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Hey Riley1012, the Developing Countries WikiContest ↗ is back for a third year, and '''sign-ups are now open ↗'''! The contest will run from 1{{nbsp}}July to 30{{nbsp}}September, and the objective remains the same: improve as many articles relating to developing countries as you can to help fight systemic bias on Wikipedia ↗.

Thanks to everyone who answered the call for coordinators, and please welcome the new faces on the coordinator team: the 2024 Gold Belt Buckle winner {{user|Generalissima}}; and the record-holder for most India-related submissions in 2024, {{user|Magentic Manifestations}}! Following feedback from last year, adjustments have been made to the scoring rules ↗; discussion can be found on the contest talk page ↗.

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the contest talk page or contact one of the coordinators: {{user|Arconning}}, {{user|Generalissima}}, {{user|Magentic Manifestations}}, {{user|sawyer777}}, or {{user|TechnoSquirrel69}}. <small>(To unsubscribe from these updates, remove yourself from this list ↗. Sent via MediaWiki message delivery.)</small> <span class="nowrap">—<span style="color: #0b541f;">'''TechnoSquirrel69'''</span></span> <small>(<span style="color: #0b541f;">'''talk'''</span>)</small> 16:00, 20 June 2026 (UTC)
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''The Signpost'': 21 June 2026

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Women in Red in July 2026

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'''Events:'''

''New'': Crime & law ↗ <big>|</big> Alphabet run: Countries starting with M ↗

''Continuing (year-long initiatives)'': #1day1woman ↗ <big>|</big> Sports ↗

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Women in Red celebrates its 11 Year Anniversary on July 18!

Eiffel women ↗

Developing Countries WikiContest ↗

'''Tip of the month:'''

Working on a group of linked articles? Have you thought about creating a navigation box ↗ for the footer of those pages?

'''Other ways to participate:'''

Become a member ↗. You can always opt-out of notifications ↗.

Join the conversations on our talkpage ↗.

Help us plan future events ↗ and add any general ideas on developing the project.

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--MSGJ (talk 22:15, 28 June 2026 (UTC) via MassMessaging

WikiCup 2026 July newsletter

The third round of the 2026 WikiCup ended on 28 June at 23:59 (UTC). As a reminder, good article nomination reviews ↗ now receive 10 points, while peer reviews ↗, which continue to be worth 5 points, are now listed in the same section as featured article candidate reviews ↗, rather than with good article reviews. Everyone who competed in round 3 will advance to round 4 unless they have withdrawn or been banned. No other changes to the round-point system have been made for this year.

Round 3 was competitive. Three contestants scored more than 1,000 round points; eight scored over 500; and thirteen scored over 300. The top three contestants had at least one featured article ↗ (two of them with two apiece). The following competitors scored more than 800 round points:

{{Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant17|MCE89}} with 1567 points, mainly from good and featured articles about Australian people and geography, as well as some article reviews

{{Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant17|Bgsu98}} with 1547 points, mainly from good articles, featured articles, featured lists, and a good topic about figure skating, along with 20 article reviews

{{Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant17|Reconrabbit}} with 1004 points, mainly from a high-multiplier featured article on European rabbit ↗ and several good articles, DYKs, and reviews

{{Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant17|A.Cython}} with 1004 points, mainly from good articles about warfare, along with 22 article reviews

{{Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant17|Generalissima}} with 859 points, mainly from good and featured articles about rivers and East Asian topics

The full scores for round 3 can be seen here ↗. During this round, contestants have claimed 12 featured articles, 12 featured lists, 7 featured-topic articles, 117 good articles, 74 good-topic articles and more than 30 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 13 In the News ↗ articles, and they have conducted nearly 180 reviews. The tournament points table ↗ has been updated.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 June but before the start of Round 4 can be claimed in Round 4. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed ↗. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup ↗, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! <small>If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send ↗.</small> MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:49, 29 June 2026 (UTC)

The DCWC is open!

thumb|upright=1.2|See a {{nowrap|{{legend inline|ffb219}} "developing"}} or {{nowrap|{{legend inline|ff562f}} "least}} developed" country? Write about it to earn points! ↗

Hey Riley1012, the third annual Developing Countries WikiContest ↗ is now '''open for submissions'''. Welcome to the contest! You can now list your work at '''your submissions page''' ↗ to earn points ↗. We hope that you enjoy participating in this drive to fight Wikipedia's systemic bias ↗. If you haven't done so already, please review the following:

New to Wikipedia? Many experienced editors are part of this contest and willing to help; feel free to ask questions on the talk page ↗.

Got open nominations? List them at the review requests sidebar ↗.

Looking for a topic to work on? Check out suggested articles ↗ and eligible reviews ↗.

Not sure if your article qualifies? See the scoring rules ↗ for more information or contact a coordinator ↗.

Know someone else who might be interested? Sign-ups remain open ↗ throughout the contest, so don't hesitate to invite other editors!

On behalf of the coordinators, we hope you enjoy participating and wish you the best of luck! If you have any questions, please leave a message on the contest talk page ↗ or ask one of the coordinators: {{noping2|Arconning}}, {{noping2|Generalissima}}, {{noping2|Magentic Manifestations}}, {{noping2|sawyer777}}, or {{noping2|TechnoSquirrel69}}. <small>(To unsubscribe from these updates, remove yourself from this list ↗. Sent via MediaWiki message delivery.)</small> <span class="nowrap">—<span style="color: #0b541f;">'''TechnoSquirrel69'''</span></span> <small>(<span style="color: #0b541f;">'''talk'''</span>)</small> 00:00, 1 July 2026 (UTC)
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June 2026 Good Article Backlog Drive

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