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[[File:Ambox notice.svg|link=|25px|alt=Information icon]] There is currently a discussion at [[Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents]] regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is [[Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Violation of topic ban by Barbara (WVS)|Violation of topic ban by Barbara (WVS)]]. <!--Template:ANI-notice--> <span style="font-weight:bold;color:darkblue">[[User_talk:Bradv|Brad''v'']]</span>[[Special:Contributions/Bradv|<span style="color:red">🍁</span>]] 15:18, 1 March 2019 (UTC) |
[[File:Ambox notice.svg|link=|25px|alt=Information icon]] There is currently a discussion at [[Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents]] regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is [[Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Violation of topic ban by Barbara (WVS)|Violation of topic ban by Barbara (WVS)]]. <!--Template:ANI-notice--> <span style="font-weight:bold;color:darkblue">[[User_talk:Bradv|Brad''v'']]</span>[[Special:Contributions/Bradv|<span style="color:red">🍁</span>]] 15:18, 1 March 2019 (UTC) |
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:Could you be a little more specific? Best Regards, [[User:Barbara (WVS)|<span style="border:1px solid black;color:black; padding:1px;background:#CEE6F2"><small>'' Barbara ''</small></span>]][[User talk:Barbara (WVS)|<small>✐</small>]][[Special:Emailuser/Barbara (WVS)|<small>✉</small>]] 16:24, 1 March 2019 (UTC) |
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Screenshots
If you need to illustrate an article about software or a website, a good tip is to take screenshots. In Microsoft Windows, a screenshot of the entire monitor, complete with taskbar, can be copied to the system clipboard by pressing the Prt Sc key. Alternatively, pressing Alt+Prt Sc will copy just the active window to the clipboard. You can then paste the clipboard into a program like MS Paint or Paint.NET using Ctrl+V, and then save it as an image file (for uploading to Wikipedia, for instance). In Mac OS X, simply prepare your screen to how you want it to look, then hit ⌘ Cmd+⇧ Shift+3 (not the number pad 3) simultaneously. The new image will appear as a PNG on your desktop. Additionally, if you only want to capture part of the screen, you can hit ⌘ Cmd+⇧ Shift+4, click and drag over the part of the screen you would like to capture and release, also saving it as a PNG on your desktop. When uploading, be sure to use an appropriate copyright tag, such as web-screenshot. – – Read more: To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd3}}
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MfD nomination of Wikipedia:Exhaustive list of Puffery
Wikipedia:Exhaustive list of Puffery, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Exhaustive list of Puffery and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:Exhaustive list of Puffery during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. PrussianOwl (talk) 01:11, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
- Hello! I forgot this page, I have moved its content to my userspace so as not to clutter-up things. Best Regards, Barbara ✐✉ 19:05, 13 January 2019 (UTC)
- Ohh, that's fine then! PrussianOwl (talk) 18:36, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
February 2019 at Women in Red
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In 2018 you were one of the top ~250 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med Foundation for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a user group whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs. |
Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 17:41, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019
Facto Post – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019
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Recently Jimmy Wales has made the point that computer home assistants take much of their data from Wikipedia, one way or another. So as well as getting Spotify to play Frosty the Snowman for you, they may be able to answer the question "is the Pope Catholic?" Possibly by asking for disambiguation (Coptic?). Headlines about data breaches are now familiar, but the unannounced circulation of information raises other issues. One of those is Gresham's law stated as "bad data drives out good". Wikipedia and now Wikidata have been criticised on related grounds: what if their content, unattributed, is taken to have a higher standing than Wikimedians themselves would grant it? See Wikiquote on a misattribution to Bismarck for the usual quip about "law and sausages", and why one shouldn't watch them in the making. Wikipedia has now turned 18, so should act like as adult, as well as being treated like one. The Web itself turns 30 some time between March and November this year, per Tim Berners-Lee. If the Knowledge Graph by Google exemplifies Heraclitean Web technology gaining authority, contra GIGO, Wikimedians still have a role in its critique. But not just with the teenage skill of detecting phoniness. There is more to beating Gresham than exposing the factoid and urban myth, where WP:V does do a great job. Placeholders must be detected, and working with Wikidata is a good way to understand how having one statement as data can blind us to replacing it by a more accurate one. An example that is important to open access is that, firstly, the term itself needs considerable unpacking, because just being able to read material online is a poor relation of "open"; and secondly, trying to get Creative Commons license information into Wikidata shows up issues with classes of license (such as CC-BY) standing for the actual license in major repositories. Detailed investigation shows that "everything flows" exacerbates the issue. But Wikidata can solve it.
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Signpost
Late response (but you replied late to me anyway) to this: SashiRolls brought up in that same page, including a collapsible, some weird comparisons that he felt were worthy of being highlighted in a traffic report. I thought it fit more the Humor page. Re-read it and see if you agree. igordebraga ≠ 01:37, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
- This is not a problem and any help with writing a humour article is welcome.Best Regards, Barbara ✐✉ 12:58, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – February 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2019).
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Interface administrator changes
- A request for comment is currently open to reevaluate the activity requirements for administrators.
- Administrators who are blocked have the technical ability to block the administrator who blocked their own account. A recent request for comment has amended the blocking policy to clarify that this ability should only be used in exceptional circumstances, such as account compromises, where there is a clear and immediate need.
- A request for comment closed with a consensus in favor of deprecating The Sun as a permissible reference, and creating an edit filter to warn users who attempt to cite it.
- A discussion regarding an overhaul of the format and appearance of Wikipedia:Requests for page protection is in progress (permalink). The proposed changes will make it easier to create requests for those who are not using Twinkle. The workflow for administrators at this venue will largely be unchanged. Additionally, there are plans to archive requests similar to how it is done at WP:PERM, where historical records are kept so that prior requests can more easily be searched for.
- Voting in the 2019 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2019, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2019, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
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Is this a typo?
Did you mean to say "blurbish" [1]? ☆ Bri (talk) 04:39, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
- Yes! Blurbish is the thing that makes you like a blurb. For example: He talks too much with his blurbs. OF COURSE it is a totally fictional word! In the article, you could could strike the word and add your own. That would be funny. Best Regards, Barbara ✐✉ 02:02, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
Books & Bytes, Issue 32
Books & Bytes
Issue 32, January – February 2019
- #1Lib1Ref
- New and expanded partners
- Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
- Global branches update
- Bytes in brief
French version of Books & Bytes is now available on meta!
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Feb 27 WikiWednesday Salon + Mar 2 MoMA Art+Feminism and beyond
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We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team 08:59, 27 February 2019 (UTC) | |
Saturday March 2: MoMA Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon | |
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Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019
Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019
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Systematic reviews are basic building blocks of evidence-based medicine, surveys of existing literature devoted typically to a definite question that aim to bring out scientific conclusions. They are principled in a way Wikipedians can appreciate, taking a critical view of their sources. ![]() Ben Goldacre in 2014 wrote (link below) "[...] : the "information architecture" of evidence based medicine (if you can tolerate such a phrase) is a chaotic, ad hoc, poorly connected ecosystem of legacy projects. In some respects the whole show is still run on paper, like it's the 19th century." Is there a Wikidatan in the house? Wouldn't some machine-readable content that is structured data help? Most likely it would, but the arcana of systematic reviews and how they add value would still need formal handling. The PRISMA standard dates from 2009, with an update started in 2018. The concerns there include the corpus of papers used: how selected and filtered? Now that Wikidata has a 20.9 million item bibliography, one can at least pose questions. Each systematic review is a tagging opportunity for a bibliography. Could that tagging be reproduced by a query, in principle? Can it even be second-guessed by a query (i.e. simulated by a protocol which translates into SPARQL)? Homing in on the arcana, do the inclusion and filtering criteria translate into metadata? At some level they must, but are these metadata explicitly expressed in the articles themselves? The answer to that is surely "no" at this point, but can TDM find them? Again "no", right now. Automatic identification doesn't just happen. Actually these questions lack originality. It should be noted though that WP:MEDRS, the reliable sources guideline used here for health information, hinges on the assumption that the usefully systematic reviews of biomedical literature can be recognised. Its nutshell summary, normally the part of a guideline with the highest density of common sense, allows literature reviews in general validity, but WP:MEDASSESS qualifies that indication heavily. Process wonkery about systematic reviews definitely has merit.
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MfD nomination of Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2019-02-28/Humour
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Urologic procedures in women
Template:Urologic procedures in women has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 22:13, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
ANI Notice
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Violation of topic ban by Barbara (WVS). Bradv🍁 15:18, 1 March 2019 (UTC)