No maps for these territories

If you are now or have ever been a contributor to a Wikimedia project — Wikipedia, Wiktionary, etc. — did you get a welcome message on your talk page when you started? Do you remember it? What was it like? And did it make you want to stick around as a contributor? If so, or [...]

Since the last time I wrote an omnibus update on my life was  just about three months ago, and it also covered three months, I thought it was about time for another. I’ll try to make this a quarterly tradition!

Sage Ross of the campus ambassadors program has proposed a revival of  editing Fridays! The proposal is to meet tomorrow evening around 23:30 UTC — so for my time zone more like editing happy hour, really. At least that is how I plan to approach the situation. The plan is to work on the article [...]