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United Kingdom Special Forces has an RfC

United Kingdom Special Forces has an RfC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Melbguy05 (talk) 11:48, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

Call for volunteers: Wiki Loves Earth 2025

Wiki Loves Earth, the photography competition themed around the natural world, gets underway in a couple of months. We've been involved previously and this year we are looking to have all four constituent countries of the UK take part.

To help with that Wikimedia UK are looking for volunteers to lead or help with the competition in England and Scotland. The Wales competition will be led by our Wales Coordinator, and we are working with Wikimedia Community Ireland on the Northern Ireland competition. We have prepared an outline of what is involved (the link is to a Google Doc - you don't need a Google account to view).

If you are interested in organising the competition, you can message the WMUK programmes team at programmeswikimedia.org.uk Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 09:46, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

British English and WP:GOCE

If an editor were to write an article in British English or Oxford spelling, the article is not necessarily about the United Kingdom (examples include onion, orangutan, Germany, Norway, Paris, PlayStation (console), Toshiba, and Malaysia-related articles), have the WP:GOCE copyedit the article, and ask for assistance from someone knowledgeable in British English or Oxford spelling, would it be sufficient for the editor to post here to ask that person to help the GOCE? If not, what would be a better option? Z. Patterson (talk) 22:25, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

Do you have an example? I would expect WP:GOCE could deal with WP:ENVAR without outside assistance. I do not know what our policy on Oxford spelling is, however. Secretlondon (talk) 12:27, 3 May 2025 (UTC)

@Secretlondon: A recent example is Ochaco Uraraka. Z. Patterson (talk) 14:01, 3 May 2025 (UTC)

Comment - I would like to add that two members from the WP:GOCE copyedited this article, as noted in Talk:Ochaco Uraraka. Z. Patterson (talk) 14:03, 3 May 2025 (UTC)

And what are we looking at? What's the issue? Secretlondon (talk) 20:20, 3 May 2025 (UTC)

@Secretlondon: When I originally was going to submit Ochaco Uraraka's article as an WP:FAC, I had engaged the Guild of Copy Editors and sought assistance from User:HJ Mitchell, but he told me he was busy, and I was understanding towards his statement. For some time, I have thought about what might happen if I were to do additional work on the article before potentially submitting for peer review to eventually get an FAC and engage someone in this group or in Wikipedia:WikiProject United Kingdom, if it is appropriate, because of the article using British English. If I were to do such a thing, posting in this group would be more appropriate to ask for assistance. However, I understand your reasoning on that the Guild of Copy Editors should be able to correct an article in British English without additional assistance.

As for articles that use Oxford spelling, I would imagine the Guild of Copy Editors would refer to the Oxford English Dictionary to check the spellings. I would imagine they would know to spell words such as "modernise", "rationalise", and "realise" as "modernize", "rationalize", and "realize", respectively. I do not know of any recent Oxford spelling article submissions as examples, but this is what I imagine the Guild of Copy Editors would do.

Thank you for your assistance.

Z. Patterson (talk) 23:12, 3 May 2025 (UTC)