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January 2025 GAN Backlog Drive

January 2025 GAN Backlog Drive
On 1 January 2025, a one-month backlog drive for good article nomination reviews will begin in hopes of addressing the growing backlog. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number, length, and age of nominations reviewed. Each article review will earn 1 point; for each 90 days an article has been in the backlog, an additional half-point is awarded; one extra point will be awarded for every 2500 total reviewed words. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:25, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for History of education in Wales (1939–present)

On 2 January 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article History of education in Wales (1939–present), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that schools in Wales during the Second World War were held in village halls? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/History of education in Wales (1939–present). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, History of education in Wales (1939–present)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Z1720 (talk) 12:03, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of History of education in Wales

The article History of education in Wales you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:History of education in Wales for comments about the article, and Talk:History of education in Wales/GA2 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of It is a wonderful world -- It is a wonderful world (talk) 06:23, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Promotion of History of infant schools in Great Britain

Congratulations, Llewee! The article you nominated, History of infant schools in Great Britain, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Gog the Mild (talk) via FACBot (talk) 12:06, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations! Happy new year 2025, opened with trumpet fanfares that first sounded OTD in 1725 (as the Main page had). My story today is about a composer who influenced music history also by writing. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:05, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today a violinist from Turkey, Ayla Erduran, whom you can watch playing Schubert chamber music --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:46, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

... and today, pictured on the Main page, Tosca, in memory of her first appearance on stage OTD in 1900, and of principal author Brian Boulton. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:40, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today I had a composer (trumpeter, conductor) on the main page who worked closely with another who just became GA, - small world! To celebrate: mostly flowers pics from vacation ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:17, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Precious anniversary

also ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:07, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]