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Masoud Pezeshkian

• The New Popular Front wins the most seats in the National Assembly in the French legislative election but does not achieve a majority.
• In Iran, the reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian (pictured) is elected president in the second round of the presidential election.
• The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election and Keir Starmer becomes prime minister.
• Hurricane Beryl, the earliest-recorded Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in a calendar year, leaves at least 15 people dead in the Caribbean, Venezuela, and the United States.

Toe used in the Sourtoe Cocktail

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• ... that a novel about Madagascar's colonization, which the author was aware was impossible to publish under colonial rule, was finally published decades after his suicide?
• ... that working broadcast journalists were used as extras for the portions of the Doctor Who episode " 73 Yards" that were filmed at the BBC Cymru Wales New Broadcasting House?
• ... that plans to shoot the Beijing-set portions of the 1989 Japanese film Beijing Watermelon on location were cancelled after the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre occurred mid-production?
• ... that the Radcliffe Telescope was the largest telescope in the Southern Hemisphere when it was completed in 1948?
• ... that the marine fungal species Parengyodontium album only breaks down polyethylene plastics that have been exposed to ultraviolet light?
• ... that author Ron Chernow was reluctant to write a biography of John D. Rockefeller until being shown a 1,700-page transcript of three years' worth of private interviews with him?
• ... that the Green Bay Packers once defeated a team of all-stars chosen from the rest of the league?
• ... that on February 3, 1986, African Independence Party leaders Adama Touré and Adama Touré were released from detention?

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The community bulletin board has 2 sections that can be used by Wikipedians for announcements: "Events and projects" and "WikiProject notices". In general, keep it concise (under 2 lines), refrain from fancy formatting, and new entries should be placed at the top of their section. Before editing, make sure you are on Wikipedia:Community bulletin board, not Wikipedia:Community portal, where the board is transcluded. Events and projects: In this section, only organized events, projects, and/or competitions should be listed. These are organized by how often they occur: The Yearly section is for uncommon events, like events that only occur every year, once, or irregularly. The Monthly section is for events that occur each month, or are always ongoing. WikiProject notices: In this section, any announcement, request for help or other notice from a WikiProject should be listed here. Entries should be signed, and ordered from newest to oldest. Entries are to be removed after a period of 6 months.

Welcome to the community bulletin board, which is a page used for announcements from WikiProjects and other groups. Included here are coordinated efforts, events, projects, and other general announcements.

Events and projects [add]

Yearly or infrequent events

• The 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest is an editing competition with a focus towards developing countries. It will begin on July 1st and signups will close on July 15th. Sign up now!
• Want to help good articles get better? Sign up for the July Good Article backlog drive! New and experienced reviewers welcome.

Monthly or continuous events

• Monthly contest, WikiProject Military history. The contest department of the Military history WikiProject aims to motivate increased quality in military history articles by offering a form of friendly competition for project members making improvements to them. The primary contest available is a simple rolling competition that awards points for improving articles. The contest runs from the first to last day of each month.
• Guild of Copy Editors' editing drive. The July 2024 backlog drive is a one-month-long effort by the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy editing: those carrying the {{ copy edit}} tag (also {{ awkward}}, {{ copy edit section}}, {{ inappropriate person}}, and {{ copy edit inline}}, and their redirects) or are listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 1 July, 00:00 (UTC), and will end on 31 July, 23:59 (UTC).
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2024 Events:

Recently completed:	LGBTQ+ women | Wiki Loves Pride Women in Music Alphabet run: X–Z
New this month:	Translation Science Fiction and Fantasy Women in Sports
Ongoing initiatives:	#1day1woman Education
Upcoming events:	Ideas

Meetups for July 2024 +/-

WikiClub Toronto Meetup	July 7, 2024 (2024-07-07)
London 206	July 14, 2024 (2024-07-14)
BLT Office Hours	July 28, 2024 (2024-07-28)
Perth 82	July 28, 2024 (2024-07-28)
San Diego 111	July 29, 2024 (2024-07-29)

Meetups for August 2024 +/-

NC Triangle Wiknic	August 6, 2024 (2024-08-06)
San Diego 112 Wiknic	August 17, 2024 (2024-08-17)
BLT Office Hours	August 25, 2024 (2024-08-25)

WikiProject notices [add]

Also consider posting WikiProject, Task Force, and Collaboration news at The Signpost's WikiProject Report page. Please include your signature when adding a listing here.

• WP Unreferenced articles is trying to clear the decades-long backlog of unreferenced articles. The backlog recently reached under 90,000. Come contribute! — PerfectSoundWhatever ( t; c) 17:04, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
• WikiProject Outlines news:
  • Outline drafts nearing completion include:
    • Draft:Outline of dogs
    • Draft:Outline of God
    • Draft:Outline of JavaScript
  • The Outline of the week is Outline of ancient China.
  • Please help improve them. — The Transhumanist 12:23, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

• WikiProject Bendigo is currently seeking interested editors to join the project. Lotsw73 ( talk) 05:03, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• At the Wikimedia Foundation a new task force was formed to replace the disabled Graph with more secure, easy to use, and extensible Chart. You can subscribe to the newsletter to get notified about new project updates and other news about Chart.
• The CampaignEvents extension is now available on Meta-wiki, Igbo Wikipedia, and Swahili Wikipedia, and can be requested on your wiki. This extension helps in managing and making events more visible, giving Event organizers the ability to use tools like the Event registration tool. To learn more about the deployment status and how to request this extension for your wiki, visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-wiki.
• Editors using the iOS Wikipedia app who have more than 50 edits can now use the Add an Image feature. This feature presents opportunities for small but useful contributions to Wikipedia.
• Thank you to all of the authors who have contributed to MediaWiki Core. As a result of these contributions, the percentage of authors contributing more than 5 patches has increased by 25% since last year, which helps ensure the sustainability of the platform for the Wikimedia projects.

Problems

• A problem with the color of the talkpage tabs always showing as blue, even for non-existent pages which should have been red, affecting the Vector 2022 skin, has been fixed.

Future changes

• The Trust and Safety Product team wants to introduce temporary accounts with as little disruption to tools and workflows as possible. Volunteer developers, including gadget and user-script maintainers, are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. The team has created documentation explaining how to do the update. Learn more.

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4 July 2024
News and notes: WMF board elections and fundraising updates Special report: Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification vote underway, new Council may surpass power of Board In focus: How the Russian Wikipedia keeps it clean despite having just a couple dozen administrators Discussion report: Wikipedians are hung up on the meaning of Madonna In the media: War and information in war and politics Sister projects: On editing Wikisource Obituary: Hanif Al Husaini, Salazarov, Hyacinth, and PirjanovNurlan Opinion: Etika: a Pop Culture Champion Gallery: Spokane Willy's photos Op-Ed: Why you should not vote in the 2024 WMF BoT elections Crossword: On a day of independence, beat crosswords into crossploughshares Humour: A joke Cobwebs: Counting to a billion — manuscripts don't burn Recent research: Is Wikipedia Politically Biased? Perhaps Traffic report: Talking about you and me, and the games people play
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