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Emma Mashinini almost ready to go?
Added a lead. What do you think? I wish there was more info about her doings after 1990 but I don't find much. Also do you think there's any special reason the title of her book (Strikes have followed me all my life) is not fully capitalized? It doesn't bother me terribly but I also don't think this is a South African convention or a particular choice for this book. Happy new year!! groupuscule (talk) 19:08, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
- Happy New Year to you too! Sure, let's move the titles to caps (the small letters are a habit from work ... :) Looks ready to me.
- Shall we go for a DYK? Djembayz (talk) 03:45, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
- Yes, let's do it. Please go ahead and take the article to mainspace if you think it's ready; I'll begin a "QPQ" review shortly. Thank you for introducing me to the life of such an amazing person. groupuscule (talk) 05:00, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
- Moved. There are probably a zillion great people in places like Africa, India and China we haven't heard of yet ... makes you realize how big the world is! Djembayz (talk) 05:59, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
- Amen. Now, here's a DYK nomination for Ms. Mashinini. Please feel free to change around the hook(s). Wish we could find an appropriately licensed picture of her, but I haven't seen anything on Commons or Flickr. salaam groupuscule (talk) 19:44, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
- Moved. There are probably a zillion great people in places like Africa, India and China we haven't heard of yet ... makes you realize how big the world is! Djembayz (talk) 05:59, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
- Yes, let's do it. Please go ahead and take the article to mainspace if you think it's ready; I'll begin a "QPQ" review shortly. Thank you for introducing me to the life of such an amazing person. groupuscule (talk) 05:00, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: December 2013
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Meetups coming up in DC!
Hey!
You are invited to two upcoming events in DC:
- Meetup at Capitol City Brewery on Saturday, January 25 at 6 PM. Please join us for dinner, drinks, socializing, and discussing Wikimedia DC activities and events. All are welcome! RSVP on the linked page or through Meetup.
- Art and Feminism Edit-a-Thon on Saturday, February 1 from Noon – 5 PM. Join us as we improve articles on notable women in history! All are welcome, regardless of age or level of editing experience. RSVP on the linked page or through Meetup.
I hope to see you there!
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Harej (talk) 00:06, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Surveillance awareness day
You were supportive of the idea that Jehochman proposed: "A message is most effective when it matches the format of the media. We're an encyclopedia. On Feb 11, I suggest we fill our front page with articles, blurbs and news about mass spying and privacy. That will send a strong message, and help educate people. It's sort of like what we do on April 1, except serious instead of foolish."
Since this proposal received so much support, I and several others have done our best to begin the process of implementation. That said, the proposal is very controversial with Main Page insiders who have, understandably, objections that boil down to WP:NOTADVOCATE.
It's valuable to have feedback from people who oppose any deviation from the status quo, but we really need feedback from people who understood Jehochman idea, supported it, and could tell us whether we're succeeding in "implementing the vision" that Jehochman laid out and how to improve the proposal.
If you have the time, would you lend your view over at Wikipedia:Surveillance awareness day. If you want to see a list of custom content that could be available, we have a Arbitrary mockup #2, that shows lots of proposed content on one page.
Your feedback is most appreciated. --HectorMoffet (talk) 09:55, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
Thanks!
In spite of a bumpy start, USS Mahan (DD-364) article is now a GA. Thank you for your help along the way. Pendright (talk) 23:39, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
Proposed deletion of List of endangered languages with mobile apps
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Coming up in February!
Hello there!
Our February WikiSalon is coming up on Sunday, February 23. Join us at our gathering of Wikipedia enthusiasts at the Kogod Courtyard of the National Portrait Gallery with an optional dinner after. As usual, all are welcome. Care to join us?
Also, if you are available, there is an American Art Edit-a-thon being held at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Professor Andrew Lih's COMM-535 class at American University on Tuesday, February 11 from 2 to 5 PM. Please RSVP on the linked page if you are interested.
If you have any ideas or preferences for meetups, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/DC.
Thank you, and hope to see you at our upcoming events! Harej (talk) 18:41, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
New Category
Added Category:Wikipedians who edit Wikipedia to your User Page, for your approval. A little humor! If you don't like, you can of course remove.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:00, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
Joan Semmel
Thank you for the boost on the Joan Semmel page! I've been too busy this week to give it any more love, but it's really gratifying to see it up. Even more amazing--our page got a mention in ARTnews online: 101 Women Artists Who Got Wikipedia Pages This Week. Hitnoyellow (talk) 05:14, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: January 2014
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Wrong namespace
Did you mean to userfy Djembayz/Participation in Wikimedia projects? Right now it is in the article namespace. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 01:12, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
A Dobos torte for you!
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Feedback needed on using special characters
Hello. Thank you for using VisualEditor! Having editors use it is the best way for the Wikimedia Foundation to develop it into the best tool it can be.
While we always welcome general feedback (please report any issues in Bugzilla in the "VisualEditor" product or drop your feedback on the central feedback page on MediaWiki.org), the developers are especially interested right now in feedback on the special character inserter. This new tool is used for inserting special characters (including symbols like ₥, IPA pronunciation symbols, mathematics symbols, and characters with diacritics). It is intended to help people whose computers do not have good character inserters. For example, many Mac users prefer to use the extensive "Special Characters..." tool present at the bottom of the Edit menu in all applications or to learn the keyboard shortcuts for characters like ñ and ü.
The current version of the special characters tool in VisualEditor is very simple and very basic. It will be getting a lot of work in the coming weeks and months. It does not contain very many character sets at this time. (The specific character sets can be customized at each Wikipedia, so that each project could have a local version with the characters it wants.) But the developers want your ideas at this early stage about ways that the overall concept could be improved. I would appreciate your input on this question, so please try out the character inserter and tell me what changes to the design would (or would not!) best work for you.
Issues you might consider:
- How often do you normally use Wikipedia's character inserters?
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- How should the sections be split up? Should they be nested? Ordered?
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- The wikitext editor has never included many symbols and characters, like ℗ and ♀. Do you find that you need these missing characters? If the character inserter in VisualEditor includes hundreds or thousands of special characters, will it be overwhelming? How will you find the character you want? What should be done for users without enough space to display more than a few dozen characters?
- Should the character inserter be statically available until dismissed? Should it hover near the mouse? Should it go away on every selection or 10 seconds after a selection with no subsequent ones?
- Some people believe that the toolbar already has too many options—how would you simplify it?
The developers are open to any thoughts on how the special character inserter can best be developed, even if this requires significant changes. Please leave your views on the central feedback page, or, if you'd prefer, you can contact me directly on my talk page. It would be really helpful if you can tell me how frequently you need to use special characters in your typical editing and what languages or other special characters are important to you.
Thank you again for your work with VisualEditor and for any feedback you can provide. I really do appreciate it.
P.S. You might be interested in the current ideas about improving citations, too. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 00:20, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Category:Zotero
Category:Zotero, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Codename Lisa (talk) 01:21, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
An idea
Hi Dyembayz... I saw your edits to Orick, California and the older native town. I am getting ready to propose merging those two articles as neither is likely to ever grow huge, and the early settlement is only a part of the later one. What do you think? Ellin Beltz (talk) 23:05, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
- Thank you for your reply. I understand about the ghost towns, but for Humboldt County at least, please understand that one former user typed in the name of every crossroads, giving us a huge list, sometimes with a CDP and a ghost town in 99% the same location and nearly the same name. I am in the process of ticking through that list and trying to write whatever is possible about it (e.g. Bracut, California but as these were not particularly notable little crossroads it's hard to do much more than location - even for some of the Euro/American ghost towns. I will check with the project you suggested. Thanks for the tips. Ellin Beltz (talk) 02:29, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
- My husband pointed something out about Orick in particular and others of these "ghost towns". They have had continuous human habitation, but they changed their names. He says the reason not to worry about artifacts in Orick (and elsewhere around the area) is that the original towns were on one or both sides of the only trailways, as the roads widened and then when Caltrans widened everything out to 150 feet, the sites were lost completely. But for Orek, Orick... it's the same town, even the lede in Orick says it is just another name. He explained it so nicely I thought I'd mention it to you. His example was to take his tablet and go look for the Wikipedia page on the Lenepe village at Battery Park, Manhattan Island, New York where the Dutch bought the island for the proverbial 23 dollars worth of stuff (1960s dollars). He couldn't find one because the city of Manhattan grew up and covered it and all the other villages which once dotted the island. Good example. Thanks for reply, I will check with the project people before doing anything but at least I'm more organized on this one. Cheers! Ellin Beltz (talk) 04:47, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
Did meetup happen?
I was at the Kogod Courtyard for the DC meetup to day promptly at 3:00pm. I didn't see any group that seemed to be the Wikipedians. One group had a sign "meetup" but it was the DC Philosophy Club. Anbothe was a photographer's group. Where was everyone? was this canceled? DES (talk) 23:59, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
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DC Meetups in March
Happy March!
Though we have a massive snowstorm coming up, spring is just around the corner! Personally, I am looking forward to warmer weather.
Wikimedia DC is looking forward to a spring full of cool and exciting activities. In March, we have coming up:
- Evening WikiSalon on Wednesday, March 12 from 7 PM – 9 PM. Meet up with Wikipedians for coffee at the Cove co-working space in Dupont Circle! If you cannot make it in the evening, join us at our...
- March Meetup on Sunday, March 23 from 3 PM – 6 PM. Our monthly weekend meetup, same place as last month. Meet really cool and interesting people!
- Women in the Arts 2014 meetup and edit-a-thon on Sunday, March 30 from 10 AM – 5 PM. Our second annual Women in the Arts edit-a-thon, held at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Free lunch will be served!
We hope to see you at our upcoming events! If you have any questions, feel free to ask on my talk page.
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