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Please I do not have any connection at Ohio State.Regrads--Rberchie (talk) 21:27, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
- @Rberchie: Thanks for the reply! The course is currently set up mainly for university students, so I'll go ahead and remove you from the course. If you ever do need help, however, feel free to reach out to me. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 01:04, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
No problem sorry for the inconvenience regards.--Rberchie (talk) 10:54, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
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Note that I declined the CSD on User:Jenniferrubin7. Users are allowed to say a little about themselves in their user page. All it needed was a removal of the spam links, which I did. User already has a note about spam. -- Alexf(talk) 15:30, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
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Finding Book
Thanks for the quick response. I either missed that instruction or it is missing from help. Would certainly help if you could add it to help page. I've made a copy of your response and put it in several places so I won't have to ask again. You saved me a ton of work by not having to re-create the book. Again my thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GLipsig (talk • contribs) 16:11, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
- @GLipsig: No problem! Could you tell me which particular help page you'd like me to help improve? Thanks! ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 13:52, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
Error
Super hamster,
Any idea what happened here and how I fix: Generation of the document file has failed. Status: Rendering process died with non zero code: 1 Return to Special:Book
My book has 34 topics and I am sure several hundred pages long.
Thanks in advance for your assistance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.37.58.116 (talk) 17:44, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
- Hi there! Just a note that you're logged out, so remember to log back in before editing. I'm not too familiar with Wikipedia books, but it looks like the error you describe is a known bug. It doesn't look like there's one single fix unfortunately, but it has been noticed and will hopefully be fixed eventually...though the bug has existed for several months already.
- It might be strenuous, but you may end up having to remove articles one-by-one until you find which article is the one causing the error. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 13:56, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
The Last Door
The Last Door. I didn't change much. But I added all the quotes. Too many quotes?
Wonderfl (reply) 11:24, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
- Hey @Wonderfl: Yea, I'd say so! It's usually best to integrate quotations within paragraphs, and to give context for each quotation. Ideally you'd give a mix of summarizing, paraphrasing and quotations, and I wouldn't expect more than one or two block quotes per article. The rule I like to go by is that each section should not just be a list of quotations; it should have its own text, which is supported by quotes. Check out Super_Mario_Galaxy_2#Reception_and_legacy for an example of how a review section should be laid out: a summary of each review, with short quotations here and there that support what's stated about each review. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 13:53, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
- I could use some help with the rationale of File:The-Last-Door-Header.jpg. Its released by the authors with CC-BY-4.0 and so I tried to find a suitable tag. I'm sure I messed up the rationale though. What rationale is needed for CC images? -- Wonderfl (reply) 19:41, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
- @Wonderfl: Rationale is used to describe how we're using a copyrighted image under our fair use standards. If an image is freely licensed (by our standards), there's no need for rational since we're free to use it. You should replace the non-free data and rationale templates with Template:Information, and fill it in like you would other free images (a summary, author, source, etc.). Note that the source of the image needs to show that the image is freely licensed as you describe. If permission was emailed to OTRS for the image, let me know and I can help with that. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 19:45, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
- I could use some help with the rationale of File:The-Last-Door-Header.jpg. Its released by the authors with CC-BY-4.0 and so I tried to find a suitable tag. I'm sure I messed up the rationale though. What rationale is needed for CC images? -- Wonderfl (reply) 19:41, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
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Hi! Thanks again for accepting my draft for XenMobile last week. I was hoping you might have a few moments to help me address the orphan tag on the article. I found two places to link to the entry.
The first is the main Citrix Systems article. XenMobile can be linked in either:
- The sixth paragraph of the Expansion section
- The Desktops and apps product section
The second is in the HP Networking entry, which mentions XenMobile in the third paragraph of the Mobility/BYOD/WLAN section.
While I realize these are pretty minor, uncontroversial edits, I'm a stickler about not making any edits myself because of my COI. Would you be able to create these links? Thanks! Heatherer (talk) 17:58, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
- @Heatherer: Done Thanks for bringing this up! I've added the links to both articles, and have removed the orphan tag. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 00:47, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
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hi
-- Aryan hindustan (talk) ,Aryan from Hindustan 11:07, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
- @Aryan hindustan: Thanks for the invite, though I don't have the time or interest right now to join. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 18:21, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
Begging for help
can you pls help me editind the picture at this page. -- Aryan hindustan (talk) ,Aryan from Hindustan 11:10, 30 August 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aryan hindustan (talk • contribs)
- Hi @Aryan hindustan: I've removed the picture for now. A new section of an article should have some text to it, too, not just an image. That being said, you can add an image in the future with the following syntax:
[[File:FILENAME|thumb|CAPTION]]
. Just replace "FILENAME" with the name of the file, and "CAPTION" with the image caption. - Also: Did you take the picture yourself? I ask because the file does not have proper information about its source or authorship. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 18:25, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
- Ok @SuperHamster: thanks-- Aryan hindustan (talk) ,Aryan from Hindustan 09:31, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
- AnD ,I want to know what sanbox are-- Aryan hindustan (talk) ,Aryan from Hindustan 09:31, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
- and @SuperHamster: I almost foget to get you that the image is clicked by me.-- Aryan hindustan (talk) ,Aryan from Hindustan 09:37, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
- AnD ,I want to know what sanbox are-- Aryan hindustan (talk) ,Aryan from Hindustan 09:31, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
- Ok @SuperHamster: thanks-- Aryan hindustan (talk) ,Aryan from Hindustan 09:31, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
fyi
You tagged File:Quarterbacks_Angela_Rypien_and_Mark_Rypien.png with a {{di-replaceable fair use}} I left a {{di-replaceable fair use disputed}}.
I also tagged the instances where the image was used: [1], [2] -- a step I think you forgot.
Do you mind if I ask -- before you tagged the image, did you read the articles where it was used? Geo Swan (talk) 16:04, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
- Hey @Geo Swan: Sorry for the late response, been busy these last few days. I've never actually seen the caption template before, and am surprised it isn't documented at WP:CSD. I figure it's not required, but thanks for tagging them! I'll also do so in the future.
- I did read the articles. I suppose that, yes, that exact scene could not be easily duplicated. It looks like the disagreements comes in with our takeaway of WP:NFCCP, and the fact that I don't see how the image is necessary to help our readers' understanding of the subject. Is the image valuable? I'd say so, and it certainly fits some of the themes you take from the article. I don't see how the image needed, however, as readers can entirely grasp the relationship between the Rypiens through text. The primary purpose of biographical portraits is for identification, and for that, there's still the possibility that it can be done with a free alternative.
- That beings said, just a note that it looks like the image was deleted earlier by an admin. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 01:51, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
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WikiCup 2015 September newsletter
The finals for the 2015 Wikicup has now begun! Congrats to the 8 contestants who have survived to the finals, and well done and thanks to everyone who took part in rounds 3 and 4.
In round 3, we had a three-way tie for qualification among the wildcard contestants, so we had 34 competitors. The leader was by far Casliber (submissions) in Group B, who earned 1496 points. Although 913 of these points were bonus points, he submitted 15 articles in the DYK category. Second place overall was Coemgenus (submissions) at 864 points, who although submitted just 2 FAs for 400 points, earned double that amount for those articles in bonus points. Everyone who moved forward to Round 4 earned at least 100 points.
The scores required to move onto the semifinals were impressive; the lowest scorer to move onto the finals was 407, making this year's Wikicup as competitive as it's always been. Our finalists, ordered by round 4 score, are:
- Cas Liber (submissions), who is competing in his sixth consecutive Wikicup final, again finished the round in first place, with an impressive 1666 points in Pool B. Casliber writes about the natural sciences, including ornithology, botany and astronomy. A large bulk of his points this round were bonus points.
- Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points), second place both in Pool B and overall, earned the bulk of his points with FPs, mostly depicting currency.
- Cwmhiraeth (submissions), first in Pool A, came in third. His specialty is natural science articles; in Round 4, he mostly submitted articles about insects and botany. Five out of the six of the GAs he submitted were level-4 vital articles.
- Harrias (submissions), second in Pool A, took fourth overall. He tends to focus on articles about cricket and military history, specifically the 1640s First English Civil War.
- West Virginian (submissions), from Pool A, was our highest-scoring wildcard. West Virginia tends to focus on articles about the history of (what for it!) the U.S. state of West Virginia.
- Rodw (submissions), from Pool A, likes to work on articles about British geography and places. Most of his points this round were earned from two impressive accomplishments: a GT about Scheduled monuments in Somerset and a FT about English Heritage properties in Somerset.
- Rationalobserver (submissions), from Pool B, came in seventh overall. RO earned the majority of her points from GARs and PRs, many of which were earned in the final hours of the round.
- Calvin999 (submissions), also from Pool B, who was competing with RO for the final two spots in the final hours, takes the race for most GARs and PRs—48.
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Hello SuperHamster -- I found your message just now. Thank you for your word of welcome -- I am trying to get my bearings, working my way through a jungle of links containing directions and rules and admonishments and definitions. Initially I just wanted to add some information to my later father's Wiki page, but I now gather that this is no child's play, haha. Mabel Amber (talk) 21:59, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
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Honestly, I would never ever have thought of scrolling ALL the way down to the bottom of that very long page, never. I don't think I can ever accomplish anything on this website. This is too complicated for a simple IQ like I have. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mabel Amber (talk • contribs) 00:31, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
- @Mabel Amber: For future reference, new messages go at the bottom of pages. I did have a very long talk page, but I've now archives a few of them so the page is shorter. Don't get too discouraged - Wikipedia's site is definitely be harder to use than most. Takes some getting used to. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 01:43, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
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Wikipedia Asian Month
Hi Kevin. I just set up the Wikipedia Asian Month page on English Wikipedia, and want to invite you to be a organizer of this event.--AddisWang (talk) 20:50, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
- Hey @AddisWang: Thanks for the invite! What sort of responsibilities does an organizer have? Sounds like a great opportunity, but I've got a lot on my plate and I'd hate to sign up for something I don't have the time to put towards! ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 05:09, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
- A few things, check the articles if fulfill the criteria. I will do this job as well, as well as other organizers. No need to do it until the ending of event. And also try to spread the information about the event and get more people involves. I'm not familiar with enwp and where could be great place for having more people interested.--AddisWang (talk) 05:28, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for the grammar check btw, just updated those improvement on meta sample page.--AddisWang (talk) 05:33, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
- @AddisWang: No problem re. the copyedits. That all sounds good to me, I'll be happy to help! I've got a few places in mind to help promote the event in the meantime. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 05:37, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
Helping out
Hey, I added myself as a volunteer for your fall course. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help, as this sounds pretty darn cool. Makes me wish that I was an Ohio State student, to have a Wikipedia-themed student organization nearby. But alas, I'm in Virginia and no such luck, as the closest group that does edit-a-thons is about 1-2 hours away in any given direction. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 06:29, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
- Hey @Tokyogirl79: Thanks so much! It's awesome to have some extra help when needed - I'll let our members know you're an available resource :) Things are pretty quiet for now, but we've got a few events we'll be planning for next year that I'll keep you updated on.
- On a sidenote, I attended your COI speech at WikiConference USA. Great presentation! ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 05:18, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
- Really? (blushes) Thanks! That really was a Murphy's Law kind of speech (since my computer didn't want to work and somewhere along the line the computer ate my last two slides), but I had a great crowd there! Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 05:46, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
A cup of tea for you!
With this ever dramatic world and winter coming, here's a cup of tea to alleviate your day! This e-tea's remains have been e-composted SwisterTwister talk 05:39, 22 October 2015 (UTC) |
- Thanks @SwisterTwister: great end to my day as I head to sleep :) ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 05:41, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
Re
Thank you! It looks nice! I'm thinking the WP:GN instead of CentralNotice, what you think is the best message we can put on that Notice? We use "November 2015 will be Wikipedia Asian Month, will welcome your participation!" currently on CentralNotice--AddisWang (talk) 22:40, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
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Demo video for judging tool
Hi, here is the demo video that you can see how the tool works and how to judge the articles during the Wikipedia Asian Month. The template we use is here en:Template:WAM user. -- m:User:AddisWang
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WikiCup 2015: The results
WikiCup 2015 is now in the books! Congrats to our finalists and winners, and to everyone who took part in this year's competition.
This year's results were an exact replica of last year's competition. For the second year in a row, the 2015 WikiCup champion is Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points). All of his points were earned for an impressive 253 featured pictures and their associated bonus points (5060 and 1695, respectively). His entries constituted scans of currency from all over the world and scans of medallions awarded to participants of the U.S. Space program. Cwmhiraeth (submissions) came in second place; she earned by far the most bonus points (4082), for 4 featured articles, 15 good articles, and 147 DYKs, mostly about in her field of expertise, natural science. Cas Liber (submissions), a finalist every year since 2010, came in third, with 2379 points.
Our newcomer award, presented to the best-performing new competitor in the WikiCup, goes to Rationalobserver (submissions). Everyone should be very proud of the work they accomplished. We will announce our other award winners soon.
A full list of our award winners are:
- Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points) wins the prize for first place and the FP prize for 330 featured pictures in the final round.
- Cwmhiraeth (submissions) wins the prize for second place and the DYK prize for 160 did you knows in the final round (310 in all rounds).
- Cas Liber (submissions) wins the prize for third place and the FA prize for 26 featured articles in all rounds.
- West Virginian (submissions) wins the prize for fourth place
- Calvin999 (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
- Rationalobserver (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
- Harrias (submissions) wins a final 8 prize and the FL prize for 11 featured lists.
- Rodw (submissions) wins the most prizes: a final 8 prize, the GA prize for 41 good articles, and the topic prize for a 13-article good topic and an 8-article featured topic, both in round 3.
- ThaddeusB (submissions) wins the news prize for the most news articles in round 3.
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1st week of WAM
Hi
I'm very excited that Wikipedia Asian Month has many great articles already in the first ten days. To better help us understand how we are we doing on Wikipedia Asian Month, here are some small tasks:
- Please update the data of your Wikipedia at m:Wikipedia Asian Month/Data, it does not need to be accurate.
- A few Wikipedia has join the WAM, you can update it on the local page. Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Bulgarian Wikipedia, Cantonese Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, Latvian Wikipedia, Sindhi Wikipedia, Spanish Wikipedia and Vietnamese Wikipedia.
- Try to get some media coverage on your local medias. Report the media coverage and find resources at here.
- There is a user box that you can encourage participants to put on their user page. m:Template:User Asian Month
— Addis Wang via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:11, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
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One Week Left!
Hi there!
Thank you for volunteering to organize Wikipedia Asian Month - we are doing something amazing! We are expecting to have 1,000 participants improving over 1,500 articles, possibly making Wikipedia Asian Month the largest long-term edit-a-thon ever. Here are a few tasks that need to be completed at the end of the event, as well as some tips you can take to achieve greater success.
Requirements:
- Check all submitted articles before 15th December, 2015, and send me a data set that includes: total number of submitted articles, number of qualified articles, total number of participants, and articles selected for DYK. For the few Wikipedias that allow article expansions, please also send me the number of new articles vs. improved articles. Use this page to submit results.
- List all qualified organizers, up to five on each Wikipedia. Qualified organizers are ones who work actively; those who only have their name on the page or just made a few constructive edits for the event (less than, say, 5-10 edits) will not be counted. Due 20th December, 2015. Use this page to submit organizers.
- List all qualified editors who can receive a postcard on here at meta. Also, please determine the Wikipedia Asian Ambassador of this year. For some Wikipedias, we are also honoring the second greatest contributor as an ambassador, as long as they have created at least 30 articles. Please talk with me about these potential additional Ambassadors. Due 25th December, 2015. Use this page to submit Ambassadors.
- Create a local results page. A sample page will be provided soon. Due 30th December, 2015.
Tips and Extras:
- Place {{WAM talk 2015}} on talk pages of qualified articles to record that it was created as a part of Wikipedia Asian Month. If your Wikipedia does not have an equivalent template, make one! See this talk page example to see the template in action.
- Translate the message at this page. This message will be sent to all participants on your local Wikipedia to encourage their participation. Let me know when you finish the translation. For some Wikipedias that have fewer editors, you can send it by yourself.
- If you haven't started to check articles, try to give at least one result to each participant to let them know their contribution are qualified, or why they do not qualify.
- If you find out that some editors on your local Wikipedia are editing Asian Content but haven't sign up yet, send them a short invitation to ask them join. All edits made in November will be counted regardless of when the editor signed up.
Rules Clarification:
- Since it is hard for organizers to keep the checking process very quickly, and may cause some editors who submit five articles being told one of their article does not qualified after the end November. We will still send postcards to those who submit five articles but one of those does not qualified with a minor problem. Minor problems include:
- Needs a few words to reach 300 words.
- Has a less-important issue tag.
- Needs to count one or two edits in the end of October or beginning of December to be qualified.
Best Wishes,
Addis Wang
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WAM
Hi there Kevin. I'm going to be direct here. I have 2 queries.
- How do I know that my article fulfills the requirements. (There hasn't been any review from 24 November). Is there any way I can check that?
- Is this in Simple English Wikipedia alive?
Thanks in advance and please, notify me/use a talkback message after you reply this.--Pratyya (Hello!) 13:33, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
Notifying @Titodutta: here. --Pratyya (Hello!) 13:43, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
- Hi @Pratyya Ghosh: Thanks for your questions. I use Dr pda's prosesize tool to calculate page sizes and word counts. I recommend that you install it and use the tool yourself to easily see if your contributions meet WAM's requirements. It's a useful gadget to have for general use after WAM, too. As for WAM on the Simple English Wikipedia: I didn't even know that was going on! I didn't sing up as an organizer there (it looks like the page was simply copied over from the English Wikipedia), and I've removed myself from the list there. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like it's active there either. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 01:42, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
- Pratyya, I have checked your lone article. Your article is tagged with copyvio template, it might be a Wikipedia>>Mirror>>Wikipedia's sub article issue. Please check it. --Tito Dutta (talk) 11:49, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
- Tito da, that copyvio is not actually my creation but it was previously at 2014 ICC World Twenty20 Finals. I moved that to 2014 ICC World Twenty20 Knockouts to create a free space for 2014 ICC World Twenty20 Final. Rather than this I don't know if there's a problem with my other works. Though the 2007, 2014 and 2013 CT is not my creation but it was under 4K bytes and didn't have 300 words. I actually increased these articles to 4K+ bytes and 300+ words.
- PS: what did you mean by "lone article"? --Pratyya (Hello!) 14:29, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
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Wrap-up
Hi there!
We made it! The first edition of Wikipedia Asian Month has successfully ended! While your efforts are still needed since the wrap up stage is another big challenge for us. I understand everyone is busy in December, I will trying to cover everything we need in this message, hopefully can make this easier.
Guideline
- Check all submitted articles before 15th December, 2015.
- When you do so, please make a category that includes all articles of WAM. My approach is using the {{WAM talk 2015}} on the talk page of all articles, and generate a category for talk page.
- If you already submitted result on this page, please take a look that I add another column for articles selected for DYK. It could take a while for DYK process, you can fill that column later.
- You don't need to provide bytes column since I'm looking for a easy way to not brother us too much.
- When you checking articles, if you ever find an article submitted about Bashkortostan, Russia, please list them out. Bashkortostan community would like to send a postcard to whoever create that article.
- List all qualified organizers, up to five on each Wikipedia. Qualified organizers are ones who work actively; those who only have their name on the page or just made a few constructive edits for the event (less than, say, 5-10 edits) will not be counted. Due 20th December, 2015. Use this page to submit organizers.
- As you submit the qualified participants on this page, please also use P, O and A to mark them so I can know how many postcards should they receive. P(Participant), O(Organizers), A(Ambassadors). Please review the page if you submitted already. This is due 25th December, 2015 as previously mentioned.
- We will make a barnstar for whoever contribute to Wikipedia Asian Month, a user box for whoever accomplish the mission, and a ribbon bar for Ambassadors. It will be distribute after we have all qualified editors.
- You can find me on Facebook as Addis Wang, easiest way to talk with me for any questions or need my assistance. Leaving a message on meta is another option.
Further Actions
- You are welcome to submit an blog post draft for Wikimedia Blog at here about Wikipedia Asian Month in your local community, a specific story is more welcomed. I will help on that, and maybe integrate stories from different communities together to make a enough length articles. So don't hesitate to submit a short paragraph.
- A specific story about WAM. Like how some volunteers contribute in the event makes them special.
- A one sentence statement from you or participants about how you feel about Wikipedia Asian Month; why you like the event; what do you think we need to improve next year
- A short introduction about your community if it has not been introduced yet on Wikimedia Blog. Goals, current problems, why your community special etc.
- Sorry for the rough pages on meta. I will make a more beautiful page for all organizers and Ambassadors to honor their great contribution for Wikipedia.
- Next year: Many communities show their interest to hold this event again next year. We want to plan it in advance. If you represent a Wikimedia affiliate in Asia, please considering to include around 100 U.S. dollars in your annual grant application or similar. So Wikipedians around world can have a taste on your country or region next year! A mail list will be set up and inform you in next update. We will definitely make this event easier to participant next year, and improve our tool to give a better experience for both organizers and participants.
My Best Wishes and appreciation,
Addis Wang
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That IP
Can't really do a rangeblock with the two IPs, one of which an IPv6. Do you have a list of IPs that have been used? Did we ever have an SPI, or a registered account? I don't think so but I could be wrong. If there are frequently targeted articles, we can semi-protect, of course. To put it another way, sorry, there's really nothing I can do right now; there's no point in blocking that IP. If you have more (articles, IPs), ping me and we'll see what we can do. Take it easy, Drmies (talk) 03:19, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
- @Drmies: Thanks for the quick response! SPI investigations from months ago are here; past ANI reports (that include IPs) are here and here. I'm busy ATM with last minute school things, but I'll keep an eye out for the next few days and will see if page protections are necessary. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 03:43, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
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WikiCup 2016 is just around the corner...
Hello everyone, and we would like to wish you all a happy holiday season. As you will probably already know, the 2016 WikiCup begins in the new year; there is still time to sign up. There are some changes we'd like to announce before the competition begins.
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Merry Christmas
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Happy New Year, SuperHamster!
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HAVE THE BEST 2016 YEAR EVER wait.......... never mind there is only one 2016 well....... HAVE THE BEST YEAR EVER !
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Can you please check my page and tell me what is wrong with it as someone has requested it for speedy deletion while it does NOT contain anything which will break any legal conditions! Abhinay Banker (talk) 18:43, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
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And good luck with your Ohio State Wikipedia 15 celebrations!--Pharos (talk) 21:19, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
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Editnotice about TTR content in the TTO article
Hey there. This is just a heads up about an editnotice request that I've put up here: Template_talk:Editnotices/Page/Toontown_Online#Template-protected_edit_request_on_8_January_2016. Please feel free to revise this if you have any improvements to make. Also, thanks for contributing to the article over such a long period of time as well - you're doing a great job NottNott talk|contrib 20:48, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
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Final Stage
Happy New Year!
We are now at the final stage of the Wikipedia Asian Month, which means, we are collecting the address and ready to send postcards. There are basically three things left.
- The survey of address collecting is ready, please consider to translate the survey at this page if you are not sure all qualified participants have capability to finish this English survey.
- After you translate it, or not, please distribute the survey link with, or without, the page of tranlsation to qualifeid particpants on your Wikipedia. Please make sure the list are also in this page so we can know who is the qualified participants who are organizers. Please update this page once you finish the distribution.
- We have a barnstar for whoever submit one article in the event. Please consider to distribute this on your Wikipedia if it haven't done yet. And please update this page as well.
Sorry for all the delays and thank you for being part of it. Please subscribe the mail list for future collaboration in Asia, and for Wikipedia Asian Month in 2016.
Best Wishes,
Addis Wang
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Hi, thank you for participation in Wikipedia Asian Month. Please fill out the survey that we use to collect the mailing address. All personal information will be only used for postcard sending and will be deleted immediately after the postcard is sent. If you have any question, you may contact me at Meta. Hope to see you in 2016 edition of Wikipedia Asian Month.--AddisWang (talk) 14:53, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
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WikiCup 2015 March newsletter
That's it, the first round is done, sign-ups are closed and we're into round 2. Forty-seven competitors move into this round (a bit shy of the expected 64), and we are roughly broken into eight groups of six. The top two of each group will go through to round 3, and then the top scoring 16 "wildcards" across all groups.
Twenty-two Good Articles were submitted, including three by Cyclonebiskit (submissions), and two each by MPJ-DK (submissions), Hurricanehink (submissions), 12george1 (submissions), and Cas Liber (submissions). Twenty-one Featured Pictures were claimed, including 17 by Adam Cuerden (submissions) (the Round 1 high scorer). Thirty-one contestants saw their DYKs appear on the main page, with a commanding lead (28) by Cwmhiraeth (submissions). Twenty-nine participants conducted GA reviews with J Milburn (submissions) completing nine.
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WikiCup 2016 March newsletter (update)
Along with getting the year wrong in the newsletter that went out earlier this week, we did not mention (as the bot did not report) that Cas Liber (submissions) claimed the first Featured Article Persoonia terminalis of the 2016 Wikicup. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), and Godot13 (talk · contribs · email).--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:05, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
This Month in Education: [March 2016]
- Argentina: Educational hackathon about digital sources, big data, and Wikipedia
- Argentina and Mexico: First mentoring program between the Argentine and Mexican chapters
- Czech Republic: Czech education program turns professional with a new education manager
- Egypt: Egyptian Wikimedians celebrate the seventh conference of WEP
- Nigeria: Wikipedia workshop for students of Fountain University
- Sverige: Teacher celebrated for excellent pedagogy with Wikipedia
- Taiwan: Taiwanese students use Spoken Wikipedia as their service learning
- Global: Education Program Historic Data Campaign
- Global: Articles of interest in other publications
We apologize for an earlier distribution that mistakenly took on the older content. We hope you enjoy the newest issue of the newsletter we are sharing now.--Sailesh Patnaik (Distribution leader) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:44, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
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Organizer feedback for WAM
Hi WAM organizers!
Please help us improve our judging tool of the Wikipedia Asian Month, and make it better to use in 2016 Edition. It may take around 5 minutes to Fill The Survey, and you will get an additional postcard if you submit your mailing address already. BTW, if you receive question regarding the postcard questions, here is a small updating page for your reference.
Best Wishes,
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What?
Vandalize? This Account's User (talk) 06:53, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
Some stroopwafels for you!
Have fun! Shftin2gear (talk) 21:28, 5 March 2016 (UTC) |
- @Shftin2gear: Thanks, squirrel. Though I much prefer celery. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 21:33, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
Good Job
Here's some Celery | |
Love this Shftin2gear (talk) 21:35, 5 March 2016 (UTC) |
The Signpost: 02 March 2016
- News and notes: Tretikov resigns, WMF in transition
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The Signpost: 09 March 2016
- News and notes: Katherine Maher named interim head of WMF; Wales email re-sparks Heilman controversy; draft WMF strategy posted
- Technology report: Wikimedia wikis will temporarily go into read-only mode on several occasions in the coming weeks
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The Signpost: 16 March 2016
- News and notes: Wikipedia Zero: Orange mobile partnership in Africa ends; the evolution of privacy loss in Wikipedia
- In the media: Wales at SXSW; lawsuit over Wikipedia PR editing
- Discussion report: Is an interim WMF executive director inherently notable?
- Featured content: This week's featured content
- Technology report: Watchlists, watchlists, watchlists!
- Traffic report: Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States
- Wikipedia Weekly: Podcast #119: The Foundation and the departure of Lila Tretikov
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Could you catch the list here and integrated into this page? Thanks--AddisWang (talk) 22:12, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
Thanks!
Cheers mate! Chrisw80 (talk) 05:50, 26 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Chrisw80: Same to you! Keep up the good work. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 05:52, 26 March 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 23 March 2016
- News and notes: Lila Tretikov a Young Global Leader; Wikipediocracy blog post sparks indefinite blocks
- In the media: Angolan file sharers cause trouble for Wikipedia Zero; the 3D printer edit war; a culture based on change and turmoil
- Traffic report: Be weary on the Ides of March
- Editorial: "God damn it, you've got to be kind."
- Featured content: Watch out! A slave trader, a live mascot and a crested serpent awaits!
- Arbitration report: Palestine-Israel article 3 case amended
- Wikipedia Weekly: Podcast #120: Status of Wikimania 2016
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Speedy deletion nomination of Milgram obedience study
Hello SuperHamster,
I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Milgram obedience study for deletion, because it doesn't appear to contain any encyclopedic content. Take a look at our suggestions for essential content in short articles to learn what should be included.
If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can , but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.
You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Vinod 08:59, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Vinodtiwari2608: The page I created was a valid redirect to another article. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 09:01, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
Cites and sources for Count of Mayalde
I´ve placed cites and sources for the page Count of Mayalde, could you eliminate the notes or advices you put to the respect? ....Can I eliminate them?. I think so.
Thank you. --Siredejoinville (talk) 16:56, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Siredejoinville: Done, thanks! In cases where you've obviously met the requirements of the tag, you're free to remove them yourself, too. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 16:58, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 1 April 2016
- News and notes: Trump/Wales 2016
- WikiProject report: Why should the Devil have all the good music? An interview with WikiProject Christian music
- Traffic report: Donald v Daredevil
- Featured content: A slow, slow week
- Technology report: Browse Wikipedia in safety? Use Telnet!
- Recent research: "Employing Wikipedia for good not evil" in education; using eyetracking to find out how readers read articles
- Wikipedia Weekly: Podcast #121: How April Fools went down
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Wikimedia Highlights from March 2016
- The new alchemy: turning online harassment into Wikipedia articles on women scientists
- New completion suggester helps you find what you need on Wikimedia sites
- Jimmy Wales tells South by Southwest that community is key to Wikipedia’s future
- In brief
The Signpost: 14 April 2016
- News and notes: Denny Vrandečić resigns from Wikimedia Foundation board
- In the media: Wikimedia Sweden loses copyright case; Tex Watson; AI assistants; David Jolly biography
- Featured content: This week's featured content
- Traffic report: A welcome return to pop culture and death
- Arbitration report: The first case of 2016—Wikicology
- Gallery: A history lesson
The Signpost: 24 April 2016
- Special report: Update on EranBot, our new copyright violation detection bot
- Traffic report: Two for the price of one
- Featured content: The double-sized edition
- Arbitration report: Amendments made to the Race and intelligence case
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The Signpost: 2 May 2016
- In the media: Wikipedia Zero piracy in Bangladesh; bureaucracy; chilling effects; too few cooks; translation gaps
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WikiCup 2016 May newsletter
Round 2 is over and 35 competitors have moved on to Round 3.
Round 2 saw three FAs (two by Cas Liber (submissions) and one by Montanabw (submissions)), four Featured Lists (with three by Calvin999 (submissions)), and 53 Good Articles (six by Worm That Turned (submissions) and five each by Hurricanehink (submissions), Cwmhiraeth (submissions), and MPJ-DK (submissions)). Eleven Featured Pictures were promoted (six by Adam Cuerden (submissions) and five by Godot13 (submissions)). One Featured Portal, Featured Topic and Good Topic were also promoted. The DYK base point total was 1,135. Cwmhiraeth (submissions) scored 265 base points, while The C of E (submissions) and MPJ-DK (submissions) each scored 150 base points. Eleven ITN were promoted and 131 Good Article Reviews were conducted with MPJ-DK (submissions) completing a staggering 61 reviews. Two contestants, Cwmhiraeth (submissions) and Cas Liber (submissions), broke the 700 point mark for Round 2.
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The Signpost: 17 May 2016
- Op-ed: Swiss chapter in turmoil
- In the media: Wikimedia's Dario Taraborelli quoted on Google's Knowledge Graph in The Washington Post
- Featured content: Two weeks for the prize of one
- Traffic report: Oh behave, Beyhive / Underdogs
- Arbitration report: "Wikicology" ends in site ban; evidence and workshop phases concluded for "Gamaliel and others"
- Wikicup: That's it for WikiCup Round 2!
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The Signpost: 28 May 2016
- News and notes: Upcoming Wikimedia conferences in the US and India; May Metrics and Activities Meeting
- Special report: Compensation paid to Sue Gardner increased by almost 50 percent after she stepped down as executive director
- Featured content: Eight articles, three lists and five pictures
- Op-ed: Journey of a Wikipedian
- Arbitration report: Gamaliel resigns from the arbitration committee
- Recent research: English as Wikipedia's Lingua Franca; deletion rationales; schizophrenia controversies
- Traffic report: Splitting (musical) airs / Slow Ride
This Month in Education: [June 2016]
- Argentina: A New Online Course in a New Virtual Campus
- Czech Republic: How to survive the Big Bang in your education program
- Estonia: An online elective course on Wikipedia for high school pupils in Estonia
- Greece: Argostoli Evening School students and a Wikitherapy participant turn Wiktionary project into Android app
- Israel: New training materials in Arabic by WMIL
- Mexico: Luz María Silva's students and their adventure editing Spanish Wikipedia
- Mexico: Spring semester wiki activities end at Tec de Monterrey, Mexico City
- Netherlands: Maastricht University 40 years
- Sweden: Students in Sweden edit Somali Wikipedia
- Taiwan: Visualizations of relationships among knowledge? Try WikiSeeker!
- Wikimania 2016: Education at Wikimania
- Wikimedia Foundation: Education Program surveys are here!
- Wikimedia Foundation: Vahid Masrour joins the education team at the Wikimedia Foundation
- Global: Programs and Events Dashboard Update
- Global: Articles of interest in other publications
We hope you enjoy the newest issue of the Education Newsletter.--Sailesh Patnaik (Distribution leader) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:53, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 05 June 2016
- News and notes: WMF cuts budget for 2016-17 as scope tightens
- Featured content: Overwhelmed ... by pictures
- Traffic report: Pop goes the culture, again.
- Arbitration report: ArbCom case "Gamaliel and others" concludes
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Video Games
The Signpost: 15 June 2016
- News and notes: Clarifications on status and compensation of outgoing executive directors Sue Gardner and Lila Tretikov
- Special report: Wikiversity Journal—A new user group
- Featured content: From the crème de la crème
- In the media: Biography disputes; Craig Newmark donation; PR editing
- Traffic report: Another one with sports; Knockout, brief candle
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Hi WAM organizers!
Hope you receive your postcard successfully! Now it's a great time to sign up at the 2016 WAM, which will still take place in November. Here are some updates and improvements we will make for upcoming WAM. If you have any suggestions or thoughts, feel free to discuss on the meta talk page.
- We will launch a pre-event, which is new-user exclusive training event, that will help new users get involved in the Wikipedia community and contribute more in the Asian Month.
- We want to host many onsite Edit-a-thons all over the world this year. If you would like to host one in your city, please take a look and sign up at this page.
- We will largely improve the tool, that participants can directly report their contribution on the tool, and will be easier for judges to use.
- We will try to send Ambassador certificate physically this year, as well as awarding second and third participants with a WAM button.
- We will pre-made all postcards and souvenirs, so we can send them all immediately after the event.
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As always, reach me at meta talk page if you have any questions.
Best Wishes,
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You're invited! Great Buckeye Wiknic 2016
Hello there! You are invited to attend the Great Buckeye Wiknic in Columbus, Ohio on Sunday, July 10th from 1:00 to 5:00 PM! Join us for a day in the park for food and socializing with others from the Wikimedia movement. We'll be meeting up at Fred Beekman Park, a park on Ohio State University's campus.
If you're interested, please take a look at our events page for more information, including parking info, food options, and available activities. If you plan on attending, please add your name to the attendees list. We look forward to seeing you!
If you have any questions, feel free to leave one on my talk page. Thanks! ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 05:39, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
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Since there's nowhere on the meetup page to say this — I won't be able to attend, as attendance at the event would prevent me from being at church. Please keep me updated on future meetups, though. Nyttend (talk) 12:32, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
- Trust me... a chance to visit hollowed ground (OSU) would be a great opportunity. Unfortunately, this little thing called real life prevents me from making the trek to C-Bus on that date (pesky responsibilities and what not). But I do appreciate the invite. Vjmlhds (talk) 14:59, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 04 July 2016
- News and notes: Board unanimously appoints Katherine Maher as new WMF executive director; Wikimedia lawsuits in France and Germany
- Op-ed: Two policies in conflict?
- In the media: Terrorism database cites Wikipedia as a source
- Featured content: Triple fun of featured content
- Traffic report: Goalposts; Oy vexit
Inkscape feature table
Recently a user deleted a feature list from Inkscape, citing WP:CHANGELOG. I improved the format, restricting the content to notable features, and re-added it into the article. The editor insists on deleting it. However the exact kind of table is present in Illustrator, a very similar software. What should be done? Can you add your opinion to the talk page? -- Wonderfl (reply)
- Hey @Wonderfl: Nice to hear from you! And I'm glad to see your continuing work on software articles. Let me think on this; WP:CHANGELOG is a valid concern, but limited change logs can still be valuable depending on the case.
- On another note, as a tip: pointing to another article and stating bias against something can start fires. It all comes down to discussing the content :) ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 04:26, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
Invitation to participate in Wikipedia mini summer program
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You can read more about our project here.
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The Signpost: 21 July 2016
- Discussion report: Busy month for discussions
- Featured content: A wide variety from the best
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The Signpost: 04 August 2016
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- Obituary: Kevin Gorman, who took on Wikipedia's gender gap and undisclosed paid advocacy, dies at 24
- Traffic report: Summer of Pokémon, Trump, and Hillary
- Featured content: Women and Hawaii
- Recent research: Easier navigation via better wikilinks
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The Signpost: 18 August 2016
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- Featured content: Simply the best ... from the last two weeks
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Someone pointed me to the project you're working on. Good idea! But seeing that I've personally photographed 95% of Ohio's National Register sites, including most of the ones with on-wiki pictures uploaded by other people, I guess I should apologize for leaving less stuff for the WLM group to do :-) More seriously, would you consider trying to point the project toward illustrating individual municipalities and townships? See User:Nyttend/Ohio, where I'm tracking municipalities and townships that don't have any representative pictures; more than 90% of townships and municipalities statewide have photos, but nearly 200 locations in 29 counties have no photos yet, and any assistance would be quite helpful. Nyttend (talk) 02:27, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
- @Nyttend: Glad you caught wind of it! I've seen the awesome work you've done photographing historic sites across Ohio (which is also one of my personal inspirations for going along with the project), and I hope you can join us in September! I'm planning to send out a mass-invite to Ohio-area Wikimedians soon.
- I did notice our great coverage of our NRHP sites (thanks to you and others!). Nonetheless, I've compiled a list of all the NRHP sites that we're still missing here. If you have any insights as to why some may not have photos beyond no one getting around to them (e.g. demolishing, restricted, etc.), feel free to add notes.
- I love the idea of illustrating individual municipalities/townships. That's an awesome list you've generated. Alongside creating articles, I think tackling that list can be one of the "side goals" of WLM in Ohio. I'll see how to best fit it into the event page over the next couple days.
- As you may have seen, I'm also trying to push our WLM scope to include historic sites that are documented by state and local groups (assuming this is all right with WLM's organizers). This not only gets around the issue of our federal NRHP sites being well-covered, but it also encourages exploring and documenting important historical sites that have been identified on the local level. This includes our Remarkable Ohio sites, as well as sites designated by local historical societies. See this list for some specific examples.
- All of this is a first to me, so if you have any ideas or suggestions with your knowledge of Ohio and its history, feel free to provide them and make changes to the event page yourself :) Any additional lists of local historical sites are very welcome. Likewise, depending on how involved you wish to be on the organizing-side of things, absolutely feel free to add yourself to the list of organizers. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 07:16, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
- I'm on the road today, heading to West Virginia and beyond [see how early in the morning the timestamp is], so I'm hoping to get a few images out of Meigs County at some point in the morning. The southeast and the northeast are by far the biggest areas of need, as far as the municipalities/townships are concerned; if anyone in your group is from those regions (even metro Cleveland has lots of unillustrated places!), it would be quite helpful. Yes, I saw how you're interested in state/local landmarks; that's an interesting idea. I did my grad work at IU Bloomington, so I did a good deal of work on Indiana historic sites (I photographed every National Register site in the state, except for six on a military reservation), including creating list of Indiana state historical markers and a subpage for each of the 89 counties with at least one marker; it was patterned after a similar setup in Pennsylvania. I initially considered doing such a thing for Ohio, but with far more markers than Indiana, it was more than I had time to do, but it sounds like a good group project. Just one note: pre-1978 historical markers are virtually always {{PD-US-no notice}} (I've never seen a marker with a copyright notice), but anything later is still under copyright, so it's virtually always better to get images of the subject being commemorated (if the marker's commemorating something nearby), or a distant shot of the marker with its main inscription not legible, instead of getting a closeup of the marker itself; see what I did with the "Rhodes Family Incident" marker at List of Indiana state historical markers in Hamilton County. Copyright to marker texts has been an issue for at least one list of historical markers: see Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2009 May 17 and the history of List of New York State Historic Markers in Cortland County, New York. Nyttend (talk) 09:25, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
- @Nyttend: Great note regarding copyright, I'll add it to the event page. And thanks for expanding on the list of missing NRHP sites. Safe travels! ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 12:49, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks, and Commons:Commons:Deletion requests/PAHMC is also relevant. And you're quite welcome! There may be a few unillustrated sites not on the list; I took this from my directory, and I know there have been a few new listings (two or three in Dayton, among others) that I've not yet put into my directory. Nyttend (talk) 13:33, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
- @Nyttend: Fascinating stuff - always interested in learning about new interesting copyright cases :) And thanks for your directory, too - a "side goal" of ours will also be to create and expand articles related to historical monuments, and your list of missing articles is . ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 18:03, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
- You're welcome! You'll note that sites are separated between "in the book" and "not in the book", with the "in" places having numbers; those refer to places that appear in [3], and the numbers are the pages on which the sites appear. By the way, if you point people to my directory, please ask them not to modify it; I'd rather decide for myself whether an article's long enough to be removed from the "short stubs" sections :-) Nyttend (talk) 23:24, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
- @Nyttend: Fascinating stuff - always interested in learning about new interesting copyright cases :) And thanks for your directory, too - a "side goal" of ours will also be to create and expand articles related to historical monuments, and your list of missing articles is . ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 18:03, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks, and Commons:Commons:Deletion requests/PAHMC is also relevant. And you're quite welcome! There may be a few unillustrated sites not on the list; I took this from my directory, and I know there have been a few new listings (two or three in Dayton, among others) that I've not yet put into my directory. Nyttend (talk) 13:33, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
- @Nyttend: Great note regarding copyright, I'll add it to the event page. And thanks for expanding on the list of missing NRHP sites. Safe travels! ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 12:49, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
- I'm on the road today, heading to West Virginia and beyond [see how early in the morning the timestamp is], so I'm hoping to get a few images out of Meigs County at some point in the morning. The southeast and the northeast are by far the biggest areas of need, as far as the municipalities/townships are concerned; if anyone in your group is from those regions (even metro Cleveland has lots of unillustrated places!), it would be quite helpful. Yes, I saw how you're interested in state/local landmarks; that's an interesting idea. I did my grad work at IU Bloomington, so I did a good deal of work on Indiana historic sites (I photographed every National Register site in the state, except for six on a military reservation), including creating list of Indiana state historical markers and a subpage for each of the 89 counties with at least one marker; it was patterned after a similar setup in Pennsylvania. I initially considered doing such a thing for Ohio, but with far more markers than Indiana, it was more than I had time to do, but it sounds like a good group project. Just one note: pre-1978 historical markers are virtually always {{PD-US-no notice}} (I've never seen a marker with a copyright notice), but anything later is still under copyright, so it's virtually always better to get images of the subject being commemorated (if the marker's commemorating something nearby), or a distant shot of the marker with its main inscription not legible, instead of getting a closeup of the marker itself; see what I did with the "Rhodes Family Incident" marker at List of Indiana state historical markers in Hamilton County. Copyright to marker texts has been an issue for at least one list of historical markers: see Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2009 May 17 and the history of List of New York State Historic Markers in Cortland County, New York. Nyttend (talk) 09:25, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
This Month in Education: [September 2016]
- Armenia: Armenian students inspire their parents to join Wikipedia
- Brazil: Brazilian Wikimedians interview editor of academic journal Wiki Studies
- Egypt: Cairo University students wrap up their eighth term and start their ninth term on WEP
- Egypt: Egyptian Wikimedians celebrate eighth WEP conference
- Greece: Online wiki training for educators in Greece
- Israel: Outcomes report on a Wikipedia Course “Skills for Producing and Consuming Knowledge”, Tel Aviv University
- Israel: Wikipedia as a Teaching and Learning Tool in Medical Education at IAMSE Medical Education Conference
- Israel: "Writing a new article is a special experience that feels new every time"
- Mexico: Video projects redefine student Wiki work and student community service
- Russia: Wiki Workshop at Saint Petersburg Internet Conference 2016 in Russia
- Sweden: Swedish National Agency of Education endorses Wikipedia Education Program
- Turkey: Psychology students of Uludag University are very proud of contributing Turkish Wikipedia
- West Africa: West African schools will test Kiwix, the offline Wikipedia reader
- Global: Programs and Events Dashboard Update
- Global: Articles of interest in other publications
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The Signpost: 06 September 2016
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- WikiProject report: Watching Wikipedia
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The Signpost: 29 September 2016
- News and notes: Wikipedia Education Program case study published; and a longtime Wikimedian has made his final edit
- In the media: Wikipedia in the news
- Featured content: Three weeks in the land of featured content
- Arbitration report: Arbcom looking for new checkusers and oversight appointees while another case opens
- Traffic report: From Gene Wilder to JonBenét
- Technology report: Category sorting and template parameters
Nice picture
at Pioneer Woman. Are you aware that the USA does not have freedom of panorama? Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 18:42, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
- Hi @Carptrash: Not my picture actually, someone else uploaded it for Wiki Loves Monuments :) I'm aware - do you have and knowledge of whether or not the sculpture was published with a visible copyright registration? I (perhaps wrongly) assumed not. Probably should err on the side of caution until it can be verified. Thanks, ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 19:19, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
- The issue that I have run into is not about the photographer but the sculptor. All sculpture in the USA created after 1923 is potentially copyrighted. Now there are loop holes, something as old as this, though created after 1923 needs to have been renewed. Checking for renewals is a messy job that I rarely do any more - choosing mostly to not post sculpture pictures anymore. I assumed (and we all know what a black hole that can be) that is was your picture and I thought I'd just mention the no freedom-of-panorama thing just so that you were aware. So much for the "Land of the Free." Anyway I'd just leave it alone but there is a chance that looking at the history of that article you might find that I had a very similar picture removed, either by someone else or by me as a precautionary measure. It appears to me that "wiki Loves Monuments" might turn out to be a copyright nightmare, but that's someone else's tar baby, unless you think it sounds like a good time, in which case, go for it. Carptrash (talk) 19:42, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 14 October 2016
- News and notes: Fundraising, flora and fauna
- Discussion report: Cultivating leadership: Wikimedia Foundation seeks input
- Technology report: Upcoming tech projects for 2017
- Featured content: Variety is the spice of life
- Traffic report: Debates and escapes
- Recent research: A 2011 study resurfaces in a media report
One Week Notice[edit | edit source]
Hi WAM organizers!
Thanks again for organizing Wikipedia Asian Month. There are only 7 days before it starts. Here are some notices and guidelines for organizing.
Page Set up
- Our Sample page with the new logo is ready to be translated. There are only a few adjust if you had this page for 2015 already.
- Article Requirement is 4
- Article criteria is 3k bytes and 300 words. NO 2k bytes for smaller Wikipedia.
- According to the tool's limit, IP users can not participate. Please encourage them register an account.
Localization
- Please localize this template and used on sign up page. I will update the template once the tool is ready to be used.
- You can also localize this template and use as an invitation letter. en:Template:WAM Welcome
- You may localize this Q&A page, but you can also just put a link towards the meta page. m:Wikipedia Asian Month/QA
Stragety
- You may want to invite some of your Wikipedia friends or active Wikipedians from your home WIKI to help you organize.
- You may want to send some invitation to last year participants, active Wikipedians, and Wikipedians who has a special interest.
- Central Notice will be used but the effect could be limited due to the active Wikimedia Fundraising Campaign. You may use the Site Notice if you don't see the CN is deployed.
Reward
- We will keep sending postcards (new design) this year, and as an organizer you will receive an additional postcard as well.
- We will send the Ambassador a regular paper copy of the certificate through the basic mail.
Question
Please feel free to contact me on my meta talk page, send me an email by Email this User or chat with me on facebook.
Best Wishes,
Addis Wang
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:12, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
Central Notice of Wikipedia Asian Month
Only four days left before we enter November, the Wikipedia Asian Month!
We are going to set up the Central Notice, which will help you achieve more sucess in upcoming WAM event and attract more people join your home Wikipedia.
- Step 1, make sure your event page is fully set up and translated. Link to the Sample page (You need to localize This template)
- Step 2, translate the banner at here, make sure tranlsate the link to the event page of your home wiki.
- Step 3, when you finish the two steps, update this page. When both "Main Page" and "CN"(tranlsation) marked as done, I will enbale the CN in your language all the way to the end of November.
- You can find me on facebook by searching Addis Wang, and feel free to add me as well as chat with me for any question. Feel free to contact me with other language, I will try to understand it by google translate.
Best Wishes,
Addis Wang
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:32, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
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WikiCup 2016 November newsletter: Final results
The final round of the 2016 WikiCup is over. Congratulations to the 2016 WikiCup top three finalists:
- First Place - Cas Liber (submissions)
- Second Place - MPJ-DK (submissions)
- Third Place - Adam Cuerden (submissions)
In addition to recognizing the achievements of the top finishers and everyone who worked hard to make it to the final round, we also want to recognize those participants who were most productive in each of the WikiCup scoring categories:
- Featured Article – Cas Liber (actually a three-way tie with themselves for two FAs in each of R2, R3, and R5).
- Good Article – MPJ-DK had 14 GAs promoted in R3.
- Featured List – Calvin999 (submissions) produced 2 FLs in R2
- Featured Pictures – Adam Cuerden restored 18 images to FP status in R4.
- Featured Portal – SSTflyer (submissions) produced the only FPO of the Cup in R2.
- Featured Topic – Cyclonebiskit (submissions) and Calvin were each responsible for one FT in R3 and R2, respectively.
- Good Topic – MPJ-DK created a GT with 9 GAs in R5.
- Did You Know – MPJ-DK put 53 DYKs on the main page in R4.
- In The News – Dharmadhyaksha (submissions) and Muboshgu (submissions), each with 5 ITN, both in R4.
- Good Article Review – MPJ-DK completed 61 GARs in R2.
Over the course of the 2016 WikiCup the following content was added to Wikipedia (only reporting on fixed value categories): 17 Featured Articles, 183 Good Articles, 8 Featured Lists, 87 Featured Pictures, 40 In The News, and 321 Good Article Reviews. Thank you to all the competitors for your hard work and what you have done to improve Wikipedia.--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:52, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
We will open up a discussion for comments on process and scoring in a few days. The 2017 WikiCup is just around the corner! Many thanks from all the judges. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), and Godot13 (talk · contribs · email)
WikiProject Good Articles's 2016-2017 GA Cup
Greetings, all! We would like to announce the start of the 4th GA Cup, a competition that seeks to encourage the reviewing of Good article nominations! Thus far, there have been three GA Cups, which were successful in reaching our goals of significantly reducing the traditionally long queue at GAN, so we're doing it again. Currently, there are over 400 nominations listed. We hope that we can again make an impact this time. The 4th GA Cup will begin on November 1, 2016. Four rounds are currently scheduled (which will bring the competition to a close on February 28, 2017), but this may change based on participant numbers. We may take a break in December for the holidays, depending on the results of a poll of our participants taken shortly after the competition begins. The sign-up and submissions process will remain the same, as will the scoring. Sign-ups for the upcoming competition are currently open and will close on November 14, 2016. Everyone is welcome to join; new and old editors, so sign-up now! If you have any questions, take a look at the FAQ page and/or contact one of the judges. Cheers from 3family6, Figureskatingfan, Jaguar, MrWooHoo, and Zwerg Nase. We apologize for the delay in sending out this message until after the competition has started. Thank you to Krishna Chaitanya Velaga for aiding in getting this message out. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletters, please add or remove your name to our mailing list. If you are a participant, you will be on the mailing list no matter what as this is the easiest way to communicate between all participants.
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--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:40, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 4 November 2016
- In the media: Washington Post continues in-depth Wikipedia coverage
- Wikicup: WikiCup winners
- Discussion report: What's on your tech wishlist for the coming year?
- Technology report: New guideline for technical collaboration; citation templates now flag open access content
- Featured content: Cream of the crop
- Traffic report: Un-presidential politics
- Arbitration report: Recapping October's activities
WAM Organizers Update (Nov.5)
Hi WAM Organizer! Hopefully everything works just fine so far! Need Help Button, post in any language is fine
- Here are some recent updates for you, and as always, let me know if you have any idea, thought or question.
- IMPORTANT: Asian Language Wikipedia will exclude the language speaking country from the Asian Month so we can encourage editors write something about other part of Asia. E.g., Chinese Wikipedia will exclude Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau. Indian language Wikipedia will exclude India. If you have problems with that, please let me know.
- I've posted the tool instruction and newest postcard rules on each Wiki' event page. Make sure you translate it. In short: 4 articles get one card, 15 get another one (Special one), and the Ambassador gets another one.
- We will still allow two Ambassadors if top and second contributors have more than 30 accepted articles, just like last year. Please send this information to high-quantity participant to encourage them.
- Please create this talk page template and linked in Wikidata. Judging tool will add this template to submitted articles automatically.
- The judging tool should work fine. If not, talk to me.
- You may put this template on your user page if you like it. en:Template:User WAM organizer
- Optional: Judging Tool Interface may not available in your language. If you feel needed, you can translate the interface at here.
- Invite some active contributors from your wiki to participate. And please encourage editors who can speak more than one language participate to other WAM edition.
- Indic Community: CIS-A2K will provide fund if you would like to organize an offline event of Wikipedia Asian Month. Apply at here.
Best Wishes,
Addis Wang
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:55, 5 November 2016 (UTC)
Joining WAM
Greetings of the day
I had a few queries regarding WAM. I enrolled to Wikipedia editing for first time, when I saw the WAM November notice on the Wiki Pages. I intend being a participant in the WAM. Please guide me with the necessary registrations and sign-ups. Thank you.
Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Randomlyexisting (talk • contribs) 04:47, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
- Hi @Randomlyexisting: Thanks for your question, and welcome to Wikipedia! I have left you a welcome message on your talk page that links to some basics of Wikipedia editing. You can sign up for Wikipedia Asian Month by heading to Wikipedia:Wikipedia Asian Month and clicking the blue "Sign up now" button. Here, you can edit the section your name belongs to and place
#{{WAM user 2016|Randomlyexisting}}
there to sign up. After that, you should read the rules of the event, and submit any articles you create to this tool. If you have any questions along the way, feel free to ask. Since you are just joining Wikipedia, I recommend giving the Wikipedia Adventure a runthrough to learn some of the basics of editing. Cheers! ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 04:53, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
WAM Organizers Update (Nov.12)
Hi WAM Organizer! Hopefully everything works just fine so far! Need Help Button, post in any language is fine
- Here are some recent updates for you, and as always, let me know if you have any idea, thought or question.
- Additional souvenirs (e.g. Stickers, bookmarks) will sent to Ambassadors and active organizers.
- I'm doing some basic statistics at Result page every week, in case you are interested.
- I've already sent noticfication to global top 20 users that WMF will give global top 3 contributors a free Wikimedia T-shirt. Here are the rules:
- A participant's article count is combined on all language Wikipedias they have contributed to
- Only Wikipedia Asian Month on Wikipedia projects will count (no WikiQuote, etc.)
- The global top 3 article count will only be eligible on Wikipedias where the WAM article requirement is at least 3,000 Bytes and 300 words.
- Please make sure enforce the rules, such as proper references, notability, and length.
- International organizers will double check the top 3 users' accepted articles, so if your articles are not fulfilling the rules, you might be disqualified. We don't want it happened so please don't let us make such a decision.
- Rest of Global top 10 users will also get some WAM souvenirs.
Best Wishes,
Addis Wang
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:01, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
WAM Tool Update
Hi WAM organizers, due to unexpected maintenance on wmfLabs, which host our judging tool, the tool is currently down and can not be used in around next 48 hours or less. Please inform local participants for such problem, and tell them they can submit their contribution after the maintenance. I will send another update when the tool comes back. If you have further questions regarding the tool, please feel free to reach me or the tool developer Le Loi. Best, Addis Wang/ sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:07, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
New Page Review needs your help
Hi SuperHamster/Archive,
As an AfC reviewer you're probably aware that a new user right has been created for patrolling new pages (you might even have been granted the right already, and admins have it automatically).
Since July there has been a very serious backlog at Special:NewPagesFeed of over 14,000 pages, by far the worst since 2011, and we need an all out drive to get this back down to just a few hundred that can be easily maintained in the future. Unlike AfC, these pages are already in mainspace, and the thought of what might be there is quite scary. There are also many good faith article creators who need a simple, gentle push to the Tea House or their pages converted to Draft rather than being deleted.
Although New Page Reviewing can occasionally be somewhat more challenging than AfC, the criteria for obtaining the right are roughly the same. The Page Curation tool is even easier to use than the Helper Script, so it's likely that most AfC reviewers already have more than enough knowledge for the task of New Page Review.
It is hoped that AfC reviewers will apply for this right at WP:PERM and lend a hand. You'll need to have read the page at WP:NPR and the new tutorial.
(Sent to all active AfC reviewers) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:33, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
Update (Nov. 16)
Hi WAM organizers! It's now half way! Good job! Here are some updates:
- As many of you may notice, that the judging tool has came back to normal.
- I've set up a result page with some numbers in it. It may not accurate, just as a reference at this time.
- WAM should get more media coverage. If you can help (either locally or internationally), please let me know!
- Please considering start judging articles if you have not yet. it's really important to give feedbacks to participants so they can improve articles or get motivated.
- With your help, I may start the first round of address collection before WAM ends for who already have four accepted articles and organizers, as I promised to improve the postcard sending process this year.
- Feel free to reach out to me for any question! At my meta talk page.
Best Wishes,
Adds Wang
sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:31, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!
Hello, SuperHamster. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 4 November 2016
- News and notes: Arbitration Committee elections commence
- Featured content: Featured mix
- Special report: Taking stock of the Good Article backlog
- Traffic report: President-elect Trump
Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Biographies
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A barnstar for you!
WikiConference North America Barnstar | |
Thank you for the role you played at WikiConference North America 2016. This year's conference could not have been a success without your contributions and we hope you will continue to be involved in 2017. On behalf of WikiConference North America - Gamaliel (talk) 22:00, 29 November 2016 (UTC) |
What's Next (WAM)
Congratulations! The Wikipedia Asian Month is almost ending and you've done amazing work of organizing. What we've got and what's next?
- Here are some number I would like to share with you (by UTC Nov. 30 2am)
- Total submitted: 7289; 669 unique users
- Tool problem
- If you can not submit articles via judging tool, use this meta page to do so. Please spread this message with local participants.
- Here are what will come after the end of WAM
- Make sure you judge all articles before December 5th, and participants who can improve their contribution (not submit) before December 10th.
- Participates still can submit their contribution in November before December 2nd at this page. Please let your local wiki participates know. Once you finish the judging, please update this page after December 5th
- There will be three round of address collection scheduled: December 2nd, December 7th, and December 20th.
- Please report the local Wikipedia Asian Ambassador (who has most accepted articles) on this page, if the 2nd participants has more than 30 accepted articles, you will have two ambassadors.
- I will announce the name of Wikipedians who will able to pick a Wikimedia T-shirt from Wikimedia Store for free after I re-check their contributions.
- There will be a progress page for the postcards.
- Some Questions
- It could be a case that local organizer does not agree on an article if shall accept it or not. In this situation, the judging tool will highlight the conflict articles in the "article's list". Please review other's opinion, and resolve the conflict by changing your decision or discuss with other judges.
- In case you wondering how can you use the WAM tool (Fountain) in your own contest, contact the developer Le Loi for more information.
Best Wishes,
Addis Wang; Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:19, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
Address Collection
We are starting collecting address! Please fill this form to receive an additional postcard as being a WAM organizer. You may receive this message because you on the receipt list. You don't have to fill the form if you are not organizing this year. This form is only accessed by me and your username will not distribute to the local community to send postcards. All personal data will be destroyed immediately after postcards and other souvenirs are sent. Please help your local participants in case they have any problem understanding the survey. If you have any question, feel free contact me on my meta talk page. You can remove yourself from the list at this page.
- Some deadline:
- Dec. 5th: Finish Judging
- Dec.10th: Last day to improve the content and change the judge
Best, Addis Wang; Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:04, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
Hello, thanks for the invitation (6 months ago), and thanks for the photos I used!
I just created the article for the church I spent until about age 11 going to, St. John's Episcopal Church (Worthington, Ohio). In perusing the Wikimedia Commons for photos (c:St. John's Episcopal Church (Worthington, Ohio)), I noticed that several of them had your name (well, your Wikimedia Commons and real name, that is) attached to them, so was going to say "nice work/photos." But when I went to that user page and saw "SuperHamster" I started racking my brain to remember where I had seen it before. It's because I liked your signature (~SuperHamster) from when you invited me in June or July to the Wiknic (that I almost went to because I work on west campus anyway, but was busy that day :-( ), so I copied it and put it on my Sandbox for future reference/customization learning.
Well anyway, having just put all the pieces together of who you are and such, I just wanted to say nice photos (even though I went with Nyttend's photo for the main image), and that, now that I realize where I recognize the name ~SuperHamster from, just a simple "thank you" for any and all of your contributions so far! PolymathGirl (talk) 06:46, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
- @Bush6984: Hey there! Sorry for the late reply, and thank you for the kind words! :) Great job with the article. I actually snapped a couple pics of it, alongside several other sites, while exploring the Columbus area for Wiki Loves Monuments - unfortunately the lighting wasn't the best when I visited the church. Nyttend has done a fantastic job of photographing historic sites all around Ohio and beyond over the years.
- On another note, I noticed you joined the course page for Wikipedia Connection - if you're interested, you are welcome to attend any of our weekly workshops or edit-a-thons throughout the semester! In particular, next semester we will be hosting an Art+Feminism edit-a-thon on March 1. If you'd like to be kept up to date on our events and happenings, you're welcome to join our mailing list here. Cheers, ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 02:50, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
BBC 12-hour Editathon - large influx of new pages & drafts expected
AfC Reviewers are asked to be especially on the look out 08:00-20:00 UTC (that's local London time - check your USA and AUS times) on Thursday 8 December for new pages. The BBC together with Wikimedia UK is holding a large 12-hour editathon. Many new articles and drafts are expected. See BBC 100 Women 2016: How to join our edit-a-thon. Follow also on #100womenwiki, and please, don't bite the newbies :) (user:Kudpung for NPR. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:02, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
WikiCup December newsletter: WikiCup 2017
On 1 January 2017, WikiCup 2017 (the 10th Annual WikiCup) will begin. This year we are trying something a little different – monetary prizes.
For the WC2017 the prizes will be as follows (amounts are based in US$ and will be awarded in the form of an online Amazon gift certificate):
- First place – $200
- Second & Third place – $50 each
- Category prizes – $25 per category (which will be limited to FA, FL, FP, GA, and DYK for 2017). Winning a category prize does not require making it to the final round.
Note: Monetary prizes are a one-year experiment for 2017 and may or may not be continued in the future. In order to be eligible to receive any of the prizes above, the competing Wikipedia account must have a valid/active email address.
After two years as a WikiCup judge, Figureskatingfan is stepping down. We thank her for her contributions as a WikiCup judge. We are pleased to announce that our newest judge is two-time WikiCup champion Cwmhiraeth.
The judges for the 2017 WikiCup are Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email).
Signups are open now and will remain open until 5 February 2017. You can sign up here.
If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:03, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 22 December 2016
- Year in review: Looking back on 2016
- News and notes: Strategic planning update; English ArbCom election results
- Special report: German ArbCom implodes
- Featured content: The Christmas edition
- Technology report: Labs improvements impact 2016 Tool Labs survey results
- Traffic report: Post-election traffic blues
- Recent research: One study and several abstracts
This Month in Education: December 2016
- Greece: Greek schools collaborate to write on local history
- Israel: It’s a win win project: An interview with Sivan Lerer, a teacher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Germany: Open Science Fellows Program launched in Germany
- Basque Country: Students go wikipedian in the Basque Country
- Norway: Third term of Wikipedia editing at the University of Oslo
- Macedonia: First Wiki Club in Macedonia
- Global: Articles of interest in other publications
To get involved with the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. To browse past issues, please visit the archives.
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Merry Christmas
- @Rubbish computer: Thank you very much! I hope you had a very merry Christmas and a happy new year :) ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 05:04, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks, and the same to you. Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 10:16, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
Merry Christmas
Thanks for all your help on the 'pedia! |
- @Davey2010: Thank you very much! I hope you had a great Christmas and a happy new year :) ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 05:05, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
Holiday card
Wishing you a Charlie Russell Christmas, SuperHamster/Archive! |
"Here's hoping that the worst end of your trail is behind you That Dad Time be your friend from here to the end And sickness nor sorrow don't find you." —C.M. Russell, Christmas greeting 1926. Montanabw(talk) 23 December 2016 (UTC) |
- @Montanabw: Thank you very much - merry Christmas to you as well! Cheers, ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 05:06, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Template talk:Infobox officeholder
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New Page Reviewer granted
Hello SuperHamster. Your account has been added to the "New page reviewers
" user group, allowing you to review new pages and mark them as patrolled, tag them for maintenance issues, or in some cases, tag them for deletion. The list of articles awaiting review is located at the New Pages Feed. New page reviewing is a vital function for policing the quality of the encylopedia, if you have not already done so, you must read the new tutorial at New Pages Review, the linked guides and essays, and fully understand the various deletion criteria. If you need more help or wish to discuss the process, please join or start a thread at page reviewer talk.
- URGENT: Please consider helping get the huge backlog (around 13,500 pages) down to a manageable number of pages as soon as possible.
- Be nice to new users - they are often not aware of doing anything wrong.
- You will frequently be asked by users to explain why their page is being deleted - be formal and polite in your approach to them too, even if they are not.
- Don't review a page if you are not sure what to do. Just leave it for another reviewer.
- Remember that quality is quintessential to good patrolling. Take your time to patrol each article, there is no rush. Use the message feature and offer basic advice.
The reviewer right does not change your status or how you can edit articles. If you no longer want this user right, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. In case of abuse or persistent inaccuracy of reviewing, the right can be revoked at any time by an administrator. — xaosflux Talk 23:07, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
Happy New Year, SuperHamster!
Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.
- @Davey2010: Thank you once again! A great 2016 to you, too. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 04:21, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year, SuperHamster! | |
Thanks for the greeting, and I hope your holiday season was good too. All the best for 2017, Miniapolis 15:35, 2 January 2017 (UTC) |
Please join in
Hey there. I'm having some issues with senior editor User:Iryna_Harpy on the article Andre Vltchek. Specifically, this user has been reverting my edits for no reason since Oct 2016. She has been adding false "issue" tags to the article and when I remove it my edits are reverted. I then started improving the article by adding citations, removing uncited statements, and so on, but she reverted 12 of my edits in one go. Can you please add your voice to Talk:Andre Vltchek#Suspicious edits on this article? Thank you. Wonderfl (reply) 07:20, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
- @Wonderfl: You do understand that this is WP:Votestacking, don't you... --Iryna Harpy (talk) 20:35, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
The Signpost: 17 January 2017
- From the editor: Next steps for the Signpost
- News and notes: Surge in RFA promotions—a sign of lasting change?
- In the media: Year-end roundups, Wikipedia's 16th birthday, and more
- Featured content: One year ends, and another begins
- Arbitration report: Concluding 2016 and covering 2017's first two cases
- Traffic report: Out with the old, in with the new
- Technology report: Tech present, past, and future
Please comment on Template talk:Infobox country at games
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Editor of the Week
Editor of the Week | ||
Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week for your dedicated on-wiki and off-wiki efforts. Thank you for the great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project) |
User:Mz7 submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:
- I nominate SuperHamster to be Editor of the Week. SuperHamster is the founder and current president of Wikipedia Connection, a student organization at The Ohio State University. In this role, he has coordinated off-wiki events that have benefited the Wikimedia projects and the Wikimedia community. These include "wiknics", workshops, edit-a-thons (about topics like art and feminism and women and computing), photography competitions. Beyond his outreach work, SuperHamster has written one good article, has had two DYK credits, and is a member of the OTRS team. He was also one of the organizers of last November's Wikipedia Asian Month. I feel that the kind of work that SuperHamster dedicates so much time and passion towards is occasionally overlooked by the community, especially since it is off-wiki, and for this reason, I recommend him without reservation to be the next Editor of the Week. Mz7 (talk) 21:57, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week:
{{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/Editor of the Week/Recipient user box}}
Thanks again for your efforts! Lepricavark (talk) 02:51, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
- Congratulations, SuperHamster! Thank you for everything that you do for the Wikimedia projects, and I wish you the best of luck in all your future endeavors. Mz7 (talk) 02:55, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
- Well done. Thanks for your efforts. Buster Seven Talk 08:51, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
@Lepricavark, Mz7, and Buster7: Thank you all very much for the pleasant surprise, and a special thanks to Mz7 for the nomination + write-up! This made my day - it's always great to receive recognition, and I appreciate all the work you all do with Editor of the Week. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 08:44, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
New Page Review - newsletter No.2
- A HUGE backlog
We now have 813 New Page Reviewers!
Most of us requested the user right at PERM, expressing a wish to be able to do something about the huge backlog, but the chart on the right does not demonstrate any changes to the pre-user-right levels of October.
The backlog is still steadily growing at a rate of 150 a day or 4,650 a month. Only 20 reviews a day by each reviewer over the next few days would bring the backlog down to a managable level and the daily input can then be processed by each reviewer doing only 2 or 3 reviews a day - that's about 5 minutes work!
It didn't work in time to relax for the Xmas/New Year holidays. Let's see if we can achieve our goal before Easter, otherwise by Thanksgiving it will be closer to 70,000.
- Second set of eyes
Remember that we are the only guardians of quality of new articles, we alone have to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged by non-Reviewer patrollers and that new authors are not being bitten.
- Abuse
This is even more important and extra vigilance is required considering Orangemoody, and
- this very recent case of paid advertising by a Reviewer resulting in a community ban.
- this case in January of paid advertising by a Reviewer, also resulting in a community ban.
- This Reviewer is indefinitely blocked for sockpuppetry.
Coordinator election
Kudpung is stepping down after 6 years as unofficial coordinator of New Page Patrolling/Reviewing. There is enough work for two people and two coords are now required. Details are at NPR Coordinators; nominate someone or nominate yourself. Date for the actual suffrage will be published later.
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The Signpost: 6 February 2017
- Arbitration report: WMF Legal and ArbCom weigh in on tension between disclosure requirements and user privacy
- WikiProject report: For the birds!
- Technology report: Better PDFs, backup plans, and birthday wishes
- Traffic report: Cool It Now
- Featured content: Three weeks dominated by articles
WikiProject Genealogy - newsletter No.1
Newsletter Nr 1 for WikiProject Genealogy (and Wikimedia genealogy project on Meta)
Participation: This is the very first newsletter sent by mass mail to members in Wikipedia:WikiProject Genealogy, to everyone who voted a support for establishing a potential Wikimedia genealogy project on meta, and anyone who during the years showed an interest in genealogy on talk pages and likewise. (To discontinue receiving Project Genealogy newsletters, see below) Progress report: Since the Projects very first edit 9 december 2002 by User:Dan Koehl, which eventually became the WikiProject Genealogy, different templates were developed, and the portal Portal:Genealogy was founded by User:Michael A. White in 2008. Over the years a number of articles has been written, with more or less association to genealogy. And, very exciting, there is a proposal made on Meta by User:Another Believer to found a new Wikimedia Genealogy Project, read more at Meta; Wikimedia genealogy project where you also can support the creation with your vote, in case you havnt done so already. Future: The future of the Genealogy project on the English Wikipedia, and a potential creation of a new Wikimedia Genealogy Project, is something where you can make a an input. You can
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New Page Review-Patrolling: Coordinator elections
Your last chance to nominate yourself or any New Page Reviewer, See Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Coordination. Elections begin Monday 20 February 23:59 UTC. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:17, 19 February 2017 (UTC)
New Page Review - newsletter No.3
Voting for coordinators has now begun HERE and will continue through/to 23:59 UTC Monday 06 March. Please be sure to vote. Any registered, confirmed editor can vote. Nominations are now closed.
- Still a MASSIVE backlog
We now have 813 New Page Reviewers but despite numerous appeals for help, the backlog has NOT been significantly reduced.
If you asked for the New Page Reviewer right, please consider investing a bit of time - every little helps preventing spam and trash entering the mainspace and Google when the 'NO_INDEX' tags expire.
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The Signpost: 27 February 2017
- From the editors: Results from our poll on subscription and delivery, and a new RSS feed
- Recent research: Special issue: Wikipedia in education
- Technology report: Responsive content on desktop; Offline content in Android app
- In the media: The Daily Mail does not run Wikipedia
- Gallery: A Met montage
- Special report: Peer review – a history and call for reviewers
- Op-ed: Wikipedia has cancer
- Featured content: The dominance of articles continues
- Traffic report: Love, football, and politics
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This Month in Education: [February 2017]
Volume 6 | Issue 1 | February 2017
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March 2017 WikiCup newsletter
And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. It would have been 5 points, but when a late entrant was permitted to join the contest in February, a promise was made that his inclusion would not result in the exclusion of any other competitor. To achieve this, the six entrants that had the lowest positive score of 4 points have been added to the 64 people who otherwise would have qualified. As a result, some of the groups have nine contestants rather than eight. Our top four scorers in round 1 were:
- Cas Liber, last year's winner, led the field with two featured articles on birds and a total score of 674.
- Iry-Hor, a WikiCup newcomer, came next with a featured article, a good article and a tally of 282 bonus points for a score of 517. All these points came from the article Nyuserre Ini, an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh,
- 1989, another WikiCup newcomer, was in joint third place at 240. 1989 has claimed points for two featured lists and one good article relating to anime and comedy series, all of which were awarded bonus points.
- Peacemaker67 shared third place with five good articles and thirteen good article reviews, mostly on naval vessels. He is also new to the competition.
The largest number of DYKs have been submitted by Vivvt and The C of E, who each claimed for seven, and MBlaze Lightning achieved eight articles at ITN. Carbrera and Peacemaker67 each claimed for five GAs and Krishna Chaitanya Velaga was well out in front for GARs, having reviewed 32. No featured pictures, featured topics or good topics yet, but we have achieved three featured articles and a splendid total of fifty good articles.
So, on to the second round. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally.
If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is a good article candidate, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 13:52, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
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WikiProject Genealogy - newsletter No.2
Newsletter Nr 2 for WikiProject Genealogy (and Wikimedia genealogy project on Meta)
Participation: This is the second newsletter sent by mass mail to members in Wikipedia:WikiProject Genealogy, to everyone who voted a support for establishing a potential Wikimedia genealogy project on meta, and anyone who during the years showed an interest in genealogy on talk pages and likewise. (To discontinue receiving Project Genealogy newsletters, please see below) Progress report: In order to improve communication between genealogy interested wikipedians, as well talking in chat mode about the potential new wiki, a new irc channel has been setup, and you are welcome to visit and try it out at: #wikimedia-genealogy connect (In case you are not familiar with IRC, or would prefer some info and intro, please see Wikipedias IRC tutorial) At m:Talk:Wikimedia_genealogy_project#Wikimedia_user_group is discussed the possibility of creating a genealogy-related Wikimedia user group: please submit comments and suggestions, and whether you would like to be a member in such a group. Prime goal for the group is the creation of a new, free, genealogy wiki, but there is also a discussion weather we should propose a new project or support the adoption of an existing project? Read more at Meta; Wikimedia genealogy project where you also can support the creation with your vote, in case you haven't done so already. Future: The future of the Genealogy project, and creation of a new Wikimedia Genealogy Project, is something where you can make a an input. You can
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Newsletter Nr 3 for WikiProject Genealogy (and Wikimedia genealogy project on Meta)
Participation: This is the third newsletter sent by mass mail to members in Wikipedia:WikiProject Genealogy, to everyone who voted a support for establishing a potential Wikimedia genealogy project on meta, and anyone who during the years showed an interest in genealogy on talk pages and likewise. (To discontinue receiving Project Genealogy newsletters, please see below) Request: In order to improve communication between genealogy interested wikipedians, as well as taking new, important steps towards a creation of a new project site, we need to make communication between the users easier and more effective. At Mail list on meta is discussed the possibility of creating a genealogy-related Wikimedia email list. In order to request the creation of such a list, we need your voice and your vote. In order to create a new list, we need to put a request it in Phabricator, and add a link to reasoning/explanation of purpose, and link to community consensus. Therefore we need your vote for this now, so we can request the creation of the mail list. Read more about this email list at Meta; Wikimedia genealogy project mail list where you can support the creation of the mail list with your vote, in case you haven't done so already. Future:
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WikiProject Genealogy - newsletter No.4: Mail list created!
Newsletter Nr 4, 2017-03-24, for WikiProject Genealogy (and Wikimedia genealogy project on Meta)
Participation: This is the fourth newsletter sent by mass mail to members in Wikipedia:WikiProject Genealogy, to everyone who voted a support for establishing a potential Wikimedia genealogy project on meta, and anyone who during the years showed an interest in genealogy on talk pages and likewise. (To discontinue receiving Project Genealogy newsletters, please see below) Mail list is created: The project email list is now created and ready to use! Please feel free to subscribe at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-genealogy Future:
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This Month in Education: [March 2017]
Volume 6 | Issue 2 |March 2017
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May 2017 WikiCup newsletter
The second round of the competition has now closed, with just under 100 points being required to qualify for round 3. YellowEvan just scraped into the next round with 98 points but we have to say goodbye to the thirty or so competitors who didn't achieve this threshold; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. Our top scorers in round 2 were:
- Cas Liber, led the field with five featured articles, four on birds and one on astronomy, and a total score of 2049, half of which came from bonus points.
- 1989 was in second place with 826 points, 466 of which were bonus points. 1989 has claimed points mostly relating to anime and Japanese-related articles.
- Peacemaker67 took third place with two FAs, one GA and seven GARs, mostly on naval vessels or military personnel, scoring 543 points.
- Other contestants who scored over 400 points were Freikorp, Carbrera, and Czar. Of course all these points are now wiped out and the 32 remaining contestants start again from zero in round 3.
Vivvt submitted the largest number of DYKs (30), and MBlaze Lightning achieved 13 articles at ITN. Carbrera claimed for 11 GAs and Argento Surfer performed the most GARs, having reviewed 11. So far we have achieved 38 featured articles and a splendid 132 good articles. Commendably, 279 GARs have been achieved so far, more than double the number of GAs.
So, on to the third round. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally.
If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 13:16, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
This Month in Education: [April 2017]
Volume 6 | Issue 3 | April 2017
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The new issue of the newsletter is out! Thanks to everyone who submitted stories and helped with the publication. We hope you enjoy this issue of the Education Newsletter.-- Sailesh Patnaik using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:18, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
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New Page Review - Newsletter No.4
Since rolling out the right in November, just 6 months ago, we now have 813 reviewers, but the backlog is still mysteriously growing fast. If every reviewer did just 55 reviews, the 22,000 backlog would be gone, in a flash, schwoop, just like that!
But do remember: Rather than speed, quality and depth of patrolling and the use of correct CSD criteria are essential to good reviewing. Do not over-tag. Make use of the message feature to let the creator know about your maintenance tags. See the tutorial again HERE. Get help HERE.
Stay up to date with recent new page developments and have your say, read THIS PAGE.
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The Signpost: 9 June 2017
- From the editors: Signpost status: On reserve power, help wanted!
- News and notes: Global Elections
- Arbitration report: Cases closed in the Pacific and with Magioladitis
- Featured content: Three months in the land of the featured
- In the media: Did Wikipedia just assume Garfield's gender?
- Recent research: Wikipedia bot wars capture the imagination of the popular press
- Technology report: Tech news catch-up
- Traffic report: Film on Top: Sampling the weekly top 10
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The Signpost: 23 June 2017
- News and notes: Departments reorganized at Wikimedia Foundation, and a month without new RfAs (so far)
- In the media: Kalanick's nipples; Episode #138 of Drama on the Hill
- Op-ed: Facto Post: a fresh take
- Featured content: Will there ever be a break? The slew of featured content continues
- Traffic report: Wonder Woman beats Batman, The Mummy, Darth Vader and the Earth
- Technology report: Improved search, and WMF data scientist tells all
WikiCup 2017 July newsletter
The third round of the competition has finished in a flurry of last minute activity, with 288 points being required to qualify for round 4. It was a hotly competitive round with all but four of the contestants exceeding the 106 points that was necessary to proceed to round 4 last year. Coemgenus and Freikorp tied on 288, and both have been allowed to proceed, so round 4 now has one pool of eight competitors and one of nine.
Round 3 saw the achievement of a 26-topic Featured topic by MPJ-DK as well as 5 featured lists and 13 featured articles. PanagiotisZois and SounderBruce achieved their first ever featured articles. Carbrera led the GA score with 10, Tachs achieved 17 DYKs and MBlaze Lightning 10 In the news items. There were 167 DYKs, 93 GARs and 82 GAs overall, this last figure being higher than the number of GAs in round 2, when twice as many people were taking part. Even though contestants performed more GARs than they achieved GAs, there was still some frustration at the length of time taken to get articles reviewed.
As we start round 4, we say goodbye to the fifteen or so competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them (some people have fallen foul of this rule and the points have been removed).
If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 05:38, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
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no idea how that happened = please apply trout, nuke or wooden implement depending on your disposition in life - I do not think I can explain that at all, my apology !!! JarrahTree 02:02, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
- @JarrahTree: aha, no problem - just wanted to make sure. Cheers, ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 04:50, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
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New Page Reviewer Newsletter
Backlog update:
- The new page backlog is currently at 18,511 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a a day.
- Some editors are committing to work specifically on patrolling new pages on 15 July. If you have not reviewed new pages in a while, this might be a good time to be involved. Please remember that quality of patrolling is more important than quantity, that the speedy deletion criteria should be followed strictly, and that ovetagging for minor issues should be avoided.
Technology update:
- Several requests have been put into Phabractor to increase usability of the New Pages Feed and the Page Curation toolbar. For more details or to suggest improvements go to Wikipedia:Page Curation/Suggested improvements
- The tutorial has been updated to include links to the following useful userscripts. If you were not aware of them, they could be useful in your efforts reviewing new pages:
- User:Lourdes/PageCuration.js adds a link to the new pages feed and page curation toolbar to your top toolbar on Wikipedia
- User:The Earwig/copyvios.js adds a link in your side toolbox that will run the current page through
General project update:
- Following discussion at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers, Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Noticeboard has been marked as historical. Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers is currently the most active central discussion forum for the New Page Patrol project. To keep up to date on the most recent discussions you can add it to your watchlist or visit it periodically.
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The Signpost: 15 July 2017
- News and notes: French chapter woes, new affiliates and more WMF team changes
- Featured content: Spectacular animals, Pine Trees screens, and more
- In the media: Concern about access and fairness, Foundation expenditures, and relationship to real-world politics and commerce
- Recent research: The chilling effect of surveillance on Wikipedia readers
- Gallery: A mix of patterns
- Humour: The Infobox Game
- Traffic report: Film, television and Internet phenomena reign with some room left over for America's birthday
- Technology report: New features in development; more breaking changes for scripts
- Wikicup: 2017 WikiCup round 3 wrap-up
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The Signpost: 5 August 2017
- Recent research: Wikipedia can increase local tourism by +9%; predicting article quality with deep learning; recent behavior predicts quality
- WikiProject report: Comic relief
- In the media: Wikipedia used to judge death penalty, arms smuggling, Indonesian governance, and HOTTEST celebrity
- Traffic report: Swedish countess tops the list
- Featured content: Everywhere in the lead
- Technology report: Introducing TechCom
- Humour: WWASOHs and ETCSSs
Proposal for a Category:Wikipedia stub templates by topic
Hi SuperHamster. I have just proposed a new category for organizing stub templates, what do you say? Regards, --Fadesga (talk) 13:15, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
WLM NYC template
Hey I'm at Wikimania today and tomorrow, if you want to meet and talk! ɱ (talk) · vbm · coi) 19:39, 12 August 2017 (UTC) ɱ (talk) · vbm · coi) 19:39, 12 August 2017 (UTC)
- @Ɱ: Great! Maybe we can meet during lunch? Shoot me an e-mail at kevinpayravi gmail.com and we can find a place/time to meet? ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 16:00, 13 August 2017 (UTC)
New Page Reviewer Newsletter
Backlog update:
- The new page backlog is currently at 16,991 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a a day.
Technology update:
- Rentier has created a NPP browser in WMF Labs that allows you to search new unreviewed pages using keywords and categories.
General project update:
- The Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech team is working with the community to implement the autoconfirmed article creation trial. The trial is currently set to start on 7 September 2017, pending final approval of the technical features.
- Please remember to focus on the quality of review: correct tagging of articles and not tagbombing are important. Searching for potential copyright violations is also important, and it can be aided by Earwig's Copyvio Detector, which can be added to your toolbar for ease of use with this user script.
- To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.
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WikiCup 2017 September newsletter
Round 4 of the WikiCup has ended and we move forward into the final round. In round 4, a total of 12 FAs, 3 FLs, 44 GAs, 3 FLs, 79 DYKs, 1 ITN and 42 GARs was achieved, with no FPs or FTs this time. Congratulations to Peacemaker67 on the Royal Yugoslav Navy Good Topic of 36 items, and the 12 featured articles achieved by Cas Liber (5), Vanamonde93 (3), Peacemaker67 (2), Adityavagarwal (1) and 12george1 (1). With a FA scoring 200 points, and bonus points available on top of this, FAs are likely to feature heavily in the final round. Meanwhile Yellow Evan, a typhoon specialist, was contributing 12 DYKs and 10 GAs, while Adityavagarwal and Freikorp topped the GAR list with 8 reviews each. As we enter the final round, we are down to eight contestants, and we would like to thank those of you who have been eliminated for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. The lowest score needed to reach round 5 was 305, and I think we can expect a highly competitive final round.
Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck, and let the best man (or woman) win! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 06:26, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
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Yes, both pics are from our camera.68.202.42.34 (talk) 14:07, 4 September 2017 (UTC) Joan C.
The Signpost: 6 September 2017
- From the editors: What happened at Wikimania?
- News and notes: Basselpedia; WMF Board of Trustees appointments
- Featured content: Warfighters and their tools or trees and butterflies
- Traffic report: A fortnight of conflicts
- Special report: Biomedical content, and some thoughts on its future
- Recent research: Discussion summarization; Twitter bots tracking government edits; extracting trivia from Wikipedia
- WikiProject report: WikiProject YouTube
- Technology report: Latest tech news
- Wikicup: 2017 WikiCup round 4 wrap-up
- Humour: Bots
New Page Reviewer Newsletter
Backlog update:
- The new page backlog is currently at 14304 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a day.
- Currently there are 532 pages in the backlog that were created by non-autoconfirmed users before WP:ACTRIAL. The NPP project is undertaking a drive to clear these pages from the backlog before they hit the 90 day Google index point. Please consider reviewing a few today!
Technology update:
- The Wikimedia Foundation is currently working on creating a new filter for page curation that will allow new page patrollers to filter by extended confirmed status. For more information see: T175225
General project update:
- On 14 September 2017 the English Wikipedia began the autoconfirmed article creation trial. For a six month period, creation of articles in the mainspace of the English Wikipedia will be restricted to users with autoconfirmed status. New users who attempt article creation will now be redirected to a newly designed landing page.
- Before clicking on a reference or external link while reviewing a page, please be careful that the site looks trustworthy. If you have a question about the safety of clicking on a link, it is better not to click on it.
- To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.
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The Signpost: 25 September 2017
- News and notes: Chapter updates; ACTRIAL
- Humour: Chickenz
- Recent research: Wikipedia articles vs. concepts; Wikipedia usage in Europe
- Technology report: Flow restarted; Wikidata connection notifications
- Gallery: Chicken mania
- Traffic report: Fights and frights
- Featured content: Flying high
This Month in Education: September 2017
Volume 6 | Issue 8 | September 2017
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Invitation from WAM 2017
Hi WAM organizers!
Hope you receive your postcard successfully! Now it's a great time to sign up at the 2017 WAM, which will still take place in November. Here are some updates and improvements we will make for upcoming WAM. If you have any suggestions or thoughts, feel free to discuss on the meta talk page.
- We want to host many onsite Edit-a-thons all over the world this year. If you would like to host one in your city, please take a look and sign up at this page.
- We will have many special prize provided by Wikimedia Affiliates and others. Take a look at here. Let me know if your organization also would like to offer a similar thing.
- Please encourage other organizers and participants to sign-up in this page to receive updates and news on Wikipedia Asian Month.
If you no longer want to receive the WAM organizer message, you can remove your username at this page.
Reach out the WAM team here at the meta talk page if you have any questions.
Best Wishes,
Sailesh Patnaik
Happy birthday!
Warm regards, Mz7 (talk) 00:33, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
New Page Reviewer Newsletter
Backlog update:
- The new page backlog is currently at 12,878 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a day.
- We have successfully cleared the backlog of pages created by non-confirmed accounts before ACTRIAL. Thank you to everyone who participated in that drive.
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- Primefac has created a script that will assist in requesting revision deletion for copyright violations that are often found in new pages. For more information see User:Primefac/revdel.
General project update:
- The Article Wizard has been updated and simplified to match the layout style of the new user landing page. If you have not yet seen it, take a look.
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WAM Reminder
Hi WAM organizers!
Thanks again for organizing Wikipedia Asian Month. There are only 4 days before it starts. If you haven't yet signed your language in WAM 2017, You can sign-up here. Below we have provided some notices and guidelines for organizing.
- Page Setup
- Our Sample page is ready to be translated. There are only a few adjustments if you had this page for 2016 already.
- Article Requirement is 4
- Article criteria are 3k bytes and 300 words. NO 2k bytes for smaller Wikipedia.
- According to the tool's limit, IP users can not participate. Please encourage them to register an account.
- Localization
- Please localize this template and used on sign up page. I will update the template once the tool is ready to be used.
- You may localize this page, but you can also just put a link towards the meta page. m:Wikipedia Asian Month/QA
- Strategy
- You may have to invite some of your Wikipedia friends or active Wikipedians from your home WIKI to help you organize.
- You may have to send some invitation to last year participants, active Wikipedians, and Wikipedians who has a special interest.
- Central Notice will be used. You may use the Site Notice if you don't see the CN is deployed.
- Reward
- We will keep sending postcards (new design) this year, and as an organizer, you will receive an additional postcard as well.
- We will have many special prizes provided by Wikimedia Affiliates and others. Take a look at here. Let me know if your organization also would like to offer a similar thing.
- We will send the Ambassador a regular paper copy of the certificate through the basic mail.
- Question
Please feel free to contact me or the WAM team meta talk page, send me an email by Email this User or chat with me on facebook.
If you no longer want to receive the WAM organizer message, you can remove your username at this page.
Best Wishes,
Sailesh Patnaik using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:38, 27 October 2017 (UTC)
This Month in Education: October 2017
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WikiCup 2017 November newsletter: Final results
The final round of the 2017 WikiCup is over. Congratulations to the 2017 WikiCup top three finalists:
- First Place - Adityavagarwal (submissions)
- Second Place - Vanamonde (submissions)
- Third Place - Cas Liber (submissions)
In addition to recognizing the achievements of the top finishers and everyone who worked hard to make it to the final round, we also want to recognize those participants who were most productive in each of the WikiCup scoring categories:
- Featured Article – Cas Liber (actually a two-way tie with themselves for an astonishing five FAs in R2 and R4).
- Good Article – Adityavagarwal had 14 GAs promoted in R5.
- Featured List – Bloom6132 (submissions) and 1989 (submissions) both produced 2 FLs in R2
- Featured Pictures – SounderBruce (submissions) improved an image to FP status in R5, the only FP this year.
- Featured Topic – MPJ-DK (submissions) has the only FT of the Cup in R3.
- Good Topic – Four different editors created a GT in R2, R3 and R4.
- Did You Know – Adityavagarwal had 22 DYKs on the main page in R5.
- In The News – MBlaze Lightning (submissions) had 14 ITN on the main page in R2.
- Good Article Review – Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (submissions) completed 31 GARs in R1.
Over the course of the 2017 WikiCup the following content was added or improved on Wikipedia: 51 Featured Articles, 292 Good Articles, 18 Featured Lists, 1 Featured Picture, 1 Featured Topics, 4 Good Topics, around 400 Did You Knows, 75 In The News, and 442 Good Article Reviews. Thank you to all the competitors for your hard work and what you have done to improve Wikipedia.
Regarding the prize vouchers - @Adityavagarwal, Vanamonde93, Casliber, Bloom6132, 1989, and SounderBruce: please send Godot13 (talk · contribs · email) an email from the email address to which you would like your Amazon voucher sent. Please include your preference of global Amazon marketplace as well. We hope to have the electronic gift cards processed and sent within a week.
We will open up a discussion for comments on process and scoring in a few days. The 2018 WikiCup is just around the corner! Many thanks from all the judges. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email), and Godot13 (talk · contribs · email) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:41, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
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Wikipedia Asian Month 2017: engage with audience
Dear WAM organizer,
I’m Erick, the coordinator of WAM 2017. Thanks for your effort and help at m:Wikipedia Asian Month 2017! Here are some more information about organizational matter of the event at a national level.
You are receiving this message because you have signed up as a organizer or in the list.
- Timeline
The event has started and will end in the November 30th 23:59 (UTC). However, we are late for some matter. So we need your help:
- Invite previous participants and your community members to join. We have a template you can use.
- Translate Central Notice for your community (more instruction below) as well as sending a notice in village pump. Go public!
- Become the jury member in a campaign on Fountain which is an amazing tool for you to supervise participants’ articles. If you don’t have the campaign set up, please contact us! And put a link to your community’s campaign page for participants’ navigation.
- Organize a off-site editathon event. A coffee bar, internet and laptops. Though it’s optional. If you want to do that, please contact me.
In the following days, you should answer the questions from your community and supervise the submissions. Hope you have fun!
- Prepare Central Notice
Central Notice shows a banner on the top of pages in your wiki project along the event timeframe. We will use this to engage with audience. Steps:
- Translate, change logo and link to event page. Find your project's Central Notice here. For example, we can change the banner for Chinese Wikipedia here.
- When you mark the 4 items (translation) as done. I'll enable the central notice in your language for this month.
- Interesting articles
Have some interesting articles in your mind or from community? Drop us a line so that we can post that here to exchange the information to other communities.
- Special Prize
You can find some special prizes in Event Partner page. They can be claimed by:
- Write an article about Indigenous people in Taiwan at Wikipedia Asian Month (supported by Wikimedia Taiwan).
- Write articles on monuments of Bhubaneswar (supported by Bhubaneswar Heritage Edit-a-thon).
The participants who joins for the special prize need to also report their conribution in the speical page. The link is shown in the Event Partner page.
- Looking for help
At all times, please reply me back or send me an email at erick@asianmonth.wiki.--Fantasticfears (talk) 12:13, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
Large number of WP:WAM entries copy-pasted
See [4]. Basically, one of the participants has been posting the same basic article multiple times, with the names and numbers switched out each time, but almost all the running prose being identical. These are not great articles in themselves (the names and numbers come from mostly primary sources, and they need serious copy-editing), but what's worse is that it turns out that that article being copy-pasted multiple times was actually written by someone else back in 2014-2015, and no attribution was given.
I also kinda wonder whether it would even be appropriate putting those pages in for WAM even if proper attribution was present. At present the user's first WAM entry, Lingapalem mandal, contains 341 words according to the submission tool, and at least 93 words in the original submitted draft had already been present in at least one other article when this user first registered their account, meaning that even if the other 250 or so words are all original prose (and they aren't -- dozens of them are numbers and proper nouns copied from primary sources) the articles would fall well below the 300-word minimum for WAM entries. This is the case with at least 27 of their 28 current WAM entries: all have been artificially inflated from well below the minimum word count using other people's text. (I say "at least" because I haven't located a source for the majority of the text of Transport in Vizianagaram -- and I'm not interested in searching -- but at least the first sentence is near-identical to this.)
I've tried to explain how this is problematic, and been met with a degree of hostility, and am getting kinda sick of it. If this were a WP:BITE case I'd be more patient, but the user has been here since 2015 and has more than 10K edits. So I'm gonna drop out and go back to writing my own articles. I'm just leaving this here so you (and perhaps the other en-wiki-WAM organizers) are aware of the copyright concerns.
Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 11:49, 6 November 2017 (UTC) (edited 00:01, 7 November 2017 (UTC))
- @SuperHamster: Sir, those all are mandals in Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. I've worked with one of our Senior editor User:Vin09 while creating this temple. We got a good template article for Mandals and have been creating them using same template for 2 years. Demographics sections looks same for many articles under WikiProject Andhra Pradesh, so we're following the same for new articles to avoid confusion and make it easy for other Contributors and Viewers.—IM3847 (talk) 11:58, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
- I'm not going to get into a back-and-forth, but I've got some things to say about the above:
- None of the above narrative was forthcoming until after I had already brought this up here. Not when I asked him if he thought it was appropriate to enter the same article to WAM dozens of times in a row, not when I asked him about Vin09's Eluru mandal article specifically.
- He has also still not elaborated on where the rest of his text came from, nor where the "original" template is (I came across the Eluru article at random).
- Even the above does not directly address the inappropriateness of submitting someone else's work, without attribution, for WAM.
- He's still doing it even after all this.
- If the above narrative is true, then non-native speakers have been creating ungrammatical "templates" and copying them into dozens (hundredss?[5] thousamds?[6]) of articles without asking someone to proof-read the text first. That was a terrible idea. I've been saying for some time that WP:INDIA articles are a mess, and I'm beginning to understand why.
- Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 21:47, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
- I'm not going to get into a back-and-forth, but I've got some things to say about the above:
- @Hijiri88:, @SuperHamster: I’ve worked with User:Vin09 while creating a template article for Indian mandals. Even education secrion was developed by me and User:Vin09 for Eluru and Guntur, do you want me to get it confirmed by Vin09?—IM3847 (talk) 07:31, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
This is the third time I’ve had to tell you to stop pinging me, and the umpteenth time you’ve made the same non sequin it argument that if Vin09 approves of your copying his text that somehow justifies your doing so in dozens of articles you are submitting to WAM. I am beginning to think this is a CIR issue and you should consider yourself lucky I have better things to do than post this on ANI...Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 08:21, 7 November 2017 (UTC)- Wait, I forgot. No back and forth. I have an encyclopedia to build. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 21:51, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
- @Hijiri88:, @SuperHamster: I’ve worked with User:Vin09 while creating a template article for Indian mandals. Even education secrion was developed by me and User:Vin09 for Eluru and Guntur, do you want me to get it confirmed by Vin09?—IM3847 (talk) 07:31, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
about the Asian contest
i'm not been able to signup and published my work please help me — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saadkhan199729 (talk • contribs) 09:49, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
- @Saadkhan199729: Assuming you are referring to WP:WAM: on English Wikipedia, non-autoconfirmed accounts (read: accounts that are less than four days old and have less than ten edits) are not allowed create new articles, which means you need to make at least ten edits to other pages first. Since your account is more than a year old, I am not sure if you will be automatically granted autoconfirmed privileges once you hit ten edits, or if you need to wait days after you hit that mark. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 12:37, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
WikiCup 2018
So the 2017 WikiCup has come to an end. Congratulations to the winner, to the other finalists and to all those who took part. 177 contestants signed up, more than usual, but not all of them submitted entries in the first round. Were editors attracted by the cash prizes offered for the first time this year, or were these irrelevant? Do the rules and scoring need changing for the 2018 WikiCup? If you have a view on these or other matters, why not join in the WikiCup discussion about next year's contest? Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:59, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
Hello SuperHamster
I hope you are having a wonderful day/night. I know you must be busy so I'll try to make it quick.
I would like to participate in the Wikipedia Asian Month. I'm currently writing an English article about an anime (a type of Japanese shows) character and I plan on translating it into Arabic.
My questions for you are:
1) Does writing about an anime character count as a suitable article topic for Asian Month? 2) If I write this article then translate it into Arabic, does that count as 2 articles? 3) How do I submit my article? Do I just submit it here (https://tools.wmflabs.org/fountain/editathons/asian-month-2017-en/add)? Or do I have to join a community or something because I honestly did not understand how to do that?
Also, If you can direct me to place I can get anime pictures that I can use on Wikipedia without getting my article deleted then that would be great.
Thanks a bunch. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Langotaku (talk • contribs) 14:41, 18 November 2017 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
The Original Barnstar | |
WOW!
can you help me too??? Salwa lund (talk) 16:42, 18 November 2017 (UTC) |
- @Salwa lund: Thanks for the barnstar! What can I help you with? ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 14:26, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
I want to participate in the Asia Month Contest, but it takes 2 months to get an article approved... Is it impossible to participate?
OldTeaSeller (talk) 06:50, 21 November 2017 (UTC)OldTeaSeller
- @OldTeaSeller: No idea where you get the two months figure from, but now that you've made ten edits, your account should be WP:Autoconfirmed in about two days. That'll give you close to a week to create your articles. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 03:20, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
- @Hijiri88: They're referring to the Articles for Creation process, which is backlogged (as always) and can take up to several months for article drafts to get through.
- @OldTeaSeller: I'll take a look at your submissions soon and either approve them or provide feedback. Thanks! ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 03:35, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
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This Month in Education: November 2017
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What's Next (WAM)
Congratulations! The Wikipedia Asian Month is has ended and you've done amazing work of organizing. What we've got and what's next?
- Here are some number I would like to share with you
- Total submitted: 7429 articles; 694 users
- Here are what will come after the end of WAM
- Make sure you judge all articles before December 12th, and participants who can improve their contribution (not submit) before December 10th.
- Once you finish the judging, please update this page after December 12th
- There will be three round of address collection scheduled: December 15th, December 20th, and December 25th.
- Please report the local Wikipedia Asian Ambassador (who has most accepted articles) on this page, if the 2nd participants have more than 30 accepted articles, you will have two ambassadors.
- There will be a progress page for the postcards.
If you no longer want to receive the WAM organizer message, you can remove your username at this page.
Best Wishes,
Sailesh Patnaik using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:37, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
User who got the top spot in WAM plagiarized much of their text
Hey!
It didn't bother me that I came in second in the WAM rankings until the user started revenge-hounding me for insinuating that they had violated the WAM rules by not copy-editing their articles or getting them copy-edited before submitting them. But things have just become more serious than copy-editing -- a bunch of their articles contain clearly plagiarized text.[7][8]
Virtually every article I checked that cited English-language free online sources contained copy-pasted material that was not marked as quoted text (and even if it had been marked as quoted, its fair use rationale would have been dubious given how much of it there was). It's possible that the articles that cite offline English-language sources contain similarly plagiarized text. The user has been very evasive when asked questions about meatpuppetry and hounding in the past, claiming it's "just a coincidence" when various suspiciously-timed events occurred, so I would be extremely reluctant to simply take their word for it if they say that none of the other articles include plagiarized text. It seems likely that a significant number of the articles -- basically anything that cites an English-language source, and maybe then some -- will need to blanked, stub-ified or even deleted if an impartial third-party can't verify that they contain no copyright infringement.
I don't actually want the Wikipedia Asian Ambassador title if I get it because I myself tagged a bunch of articles submitted by the user who at the end of November was in the lead as having copyright problems. But it seems really iffy to give the honour to someone whose articles contain serious copyright problems.
Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 02:47, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
- @Hijiri88: Thanks for your investigative work and for bringing this to my attention, it's appreciated! I'll share these articles with the team and we'll take a closer look.
- Note that for this year, if the second-place contributor has > 30 articles, they will also be considered an ambassador - so you will also have the title regardless. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 09:11, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
- Huh. Thank you! I never knew that would be the case. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 09:21, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
- For what it's worth, the number of WAM 2017 articles that have had these problems demonstrated now comes to twenty: every article linked here, plus these five[9][10][11][12][13]. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 12:02, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
- Not that this is technically plagiarism, but the article Old Bank Indonesia Building, Padang also violates two of the specific rules of the editathon, in that the article's "creator" apparently did very little beyond plugging the id.wiki article into Google Translate and copying the resulting text onto en.wiki, and clearly did not check the sources independently as several of them are broken links and the access dates were not updated. And apparently no attribution was made to the authors of the id.wiki article. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 22:20, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
Request
I have submitted articles named State Bank of Pakistan Museum & Art Gallery, Archaeological Museum Umerkot and Archaeological Museum Banbhoreto Wikipedia Asian Month. Now here is a problem that I have changed my username wisalahmad523 > Wisal Ahmad. So please merge all my submitted articles to Wisal Ahmad. Thanks! Wisal Ahmad (talk) 10:23, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
- @Wisal Ahmad: Hi! Sorry for taking a few days to get back to you. We've merged all your contributions into your username, bringing your total to 31 articles. Thank you! ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 08:47, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
New Page Reviewer Newsletter
Backlog update:
- The new page backlog is currently at 12713 pages. Please consider reviewing even just a few pages each day! If everyone helps out, it will really put a dent in the backlog.
- Currently the backlog stretches back to March and some pages in the backlog have passed the 90 day Google index point. Please consider reviewing some of them!
Outreach and Invitations:
- If you know other editors with a good understanding of Wikipedia policy, invite them to join NPP by dropping the invitation template on their talk page with:
{{subst:NPR invite}}
. Adding more qualified reviewers will help with keeping the backlog manageable.
New Year New Page Review Drive
- A backlog drive is planned for the start of the year, beginning on January 1st and running until the end of the month. Unique prizes will be given in tiers for both the total number of reviews made, as well as the longest 'streak' maintained.
- Note: quality reviewing is extremely important, please do not sacrifice quality for quantity.
General project update:
- ACTRIAL has resulted in a significant increase in the quality of new submissions, with noticeably fewer CSD, PROD, and BLPPROD candidates in the new page feed. However, the majority of the backlog still dates back to before ACTRIAL started, so consider reviewing articles from the middle or back of the backlog.
- The NPP Browser can help you quickly find articles with topics that you prefer to review from within the backlog.
- To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.
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WikiProject Genealogy - newsletter No.5 -2017
Newsletter Nr 5, 2017-12-30, for WikiProject Genealogy (and Wikimedia genealogy project on Meta)
Participation: This is the fifth newsletter sent by mass mail to members in Wikipedia:WikiProject Genealogy, to everyone who voted a support for establishing a potential Wikimedia genealogy project on meta, and anyone who during the years showed an interest in genealogy on talk pages and likewise. (To discontinue receiving Project Genealogy newsletters, please see below) A demo wiki is up and running! Dear members of WikiProject Genealogy, this will be the last newsletter for 2017, but maybe the most important one! You can already now try out the demo for a genealogy wiki at https://tools.wmflabs.org/genealogy/wiki/Main_Page and try out the functions. You will find parts of the 18th Pharao dynasty and other records submitted by the 7 first users, and it would be great if you would add some records. And with those great news we want to wish you a creative New Year 2018!
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New Years new page backlog drive
Announcing the NPP New Year Backlog Drive!
We have done amazing work so far in December to reduce the New Pages Feed backlog by over 3000 articles! Now is the time to capitalise on our momentum and help eliminate the backlog!
The backlog drive will begin on January 1st and run until January 29th. Prize tiers and other info can be found HERE.
Awards will be given in tiers in two categories:
- The total number of reviews completed for the month.
- The minimum weekly total maintained for all four weeks of the backlog drive.
NOTE: It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing. Despite our goal of reducing the backlog as much as possible, please do not rush while reviewing.
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New Page Reviewer Newsletter
Backlog update:
- The new page backlog is currently at 3819 unreviewed articles, with a further 6660 unreviewed redirects.
- We are very close to eliminating the backlog completely; please help by reviewing a few extra articles each day!
New Year Backlog Drive results:
- We made massive progress during the recent four weeks of the NPP Backlog Drive, during which the backlog reduced by nearly six thousand articles and the length of the backlog by almost 3 months!
General project update:
- ACTRIAL will end it's initial phase on the 14th of March. Our goal is to reduce the backlog significantly below the 90 day index point by the 14th of March. Please consider helping with this goal by reviewing a few additional pages a day.
- Reviewing redirects is an important and necessary part of New Page Patrol. Please read the guideline on appropriate redirects for advice on reviewing redirects. Inappropriate redirects can be re-targeted or nominated for deletion at RfD.
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The Signpost: 20 February 2018
- News and notes: The future is Swedish with a lack of administrators
- Recent research: Politically diverse editors write better articles; Reddit and Stack Overflow benefit from Wikipedia but don't give back
- Arbitration report: Arbitration committee prepares to examine two new cases
- Traffic report: Addicted to sports and pain
- Featured content: Entertainment, sports and history
- Technology report: Paragraph-based edit conflict screen; broken thanks
This Month in Education: February 2018
Volume 7 | Issue 2 | February 2018
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WikiCup 2018 March newsletter
And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. With 53 contestants qualifying, the groups for round 2 are slightly smaller than usual, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining users.
Our top scorers in round 1 were:
- Aoba47 led the field with a featured article, 8 good articles and 42 GARs, giving a total of 666 points.
- FrB.TG , a WikiCup newcomer, came next with 600 points, gained from a featured article and masses of bonus points.
- Ssven2, another WikiCup newcomer, was in third place with 403 points, garnered from a featured article, a featured list, a good article and twelve GARs.
- Ceranthor, Numerounovedant, Carbrera, Farang Rak Tham and Cartoon network freak all had over 200 points, but like all the other contestants, now have to start again from scratch. A good achievement was the 193 GARs performed by WikiCup contestants, comparing very favourably with the 54 GAs they achieved.
Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.
If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) and Vanamonde (talk) 15:27, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
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Wikipedia Asian Month
Would you mind providing an explanation as to when participants will receive the Wikipedia Asian Month postcards?--Catlemur (talk) 15:52, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
- Hi @Catlemur: Yes, sorry for the wait! It's a long process as we coordinate the postcard efforts between multiple international chapters (need to organize user info, process funding, produce postcards, etc.). Some postcards have been sent out; I expect all postcards to be sent out by the end of April. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 07:19, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
Signpost issue 4 – 29 March 2018
- News and notes: Wiki Conference roundup and new appointments.
- Arbitration report: Ironing out issues in infoboxes; not sure yet about New Jersey; and an administrator who probably wasn't uncivil to a sockpuppet.
- Traffic report: Real sports, real women and an imaginary country: what's on top for Wikipedia readers
- Featured content: Animals, Ships, and Songs
- Technology report: Timeless skin review by Force Radical.
- Special report: ACTRIAL wrap-up.
- Humour: WikiWorld Reruns
New Page Review Newsletter No.10
ACTRIAL:
- ACTRIAL's six month experiment restricting new page creation to (auto)confirmed users ended on 14 March. As expected, a greatly increased number of unsuitable articles and candidates for deletion are showing up in the feed again, and the backlog has since increased already by ~30%. Please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day.
Paid editing
- Now that ACTRIAL is inoperative pending discussion, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary.
Subject-specific notability guidelines
- The box at the right contains each of the subject-specific notability guidelines, please review any that are relevant BEFORE nominating an article for deletion.
- Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies. A further discussion is currently taking place at: Can a subject specific guideline invalidate the General Notability Guideline?
Nominate competent users for Autopatrolled
- While patrolling articles, if you find an editor that is particularly competent at creating quality new articles, and that user has created more than 25 articles (rather than stubs), consider nominating them for the 'Autopatrolled' user right HERE.
News
- The next issue Wikipedia's newspaper The Signpost has now been published after a long delay. There are some articles in it, including ACTRIAL wrap-up that will be of special interest to New Page Reviewers. Don't hesitate to contribute to the comments sections. The Signpost is one of the best ways to stay up date with news and new developments - please consider subscribing to it. All editors of Wikipedia and associated projects are welcome to submit articles on any topic for consideration by the The Signpost's editorial team for the next issue.
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This Month in Education: March 2018
Volume 7 | Issue 3 | March 2018
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The Signpost: 26 April 2018
- From the editors: The Signpost's presses roll again
- Signpost: Future directions for The Signpost
- In the media: The rise of Wikipedia as a disinformation mop
- In focus: Admin reports board under criticism
- Special report: ACTRIAL results adopted by landslide
- Community view: It's time we look past Women in Red to counter systemic bias
- Discussion report: The future of portals
- Arbitration report: No new cases, and one motion on administrative misconduct
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Military History
- Traffic report: A quiet place to wrestle with the articles of March
- Technology report: Coming soon: Books-to-PDF, interactive maps, rollback confirmation
- Featured content: Featured content selected by the community
List of YouTubers
The List of YouTubers is being nominated for deletion again. I don't know why. It's been nominated so many damn times. Take a look here. Mr. C.C.Hey yo!I didn't do it! 00:39, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
WikiCup 2018 May newsletter
The second round of the 2018 WikiCup has now finished. Most contestants who advanced to the next round scored upwards of 100 points, but two with just 10 points managed to scrape through into round 3. Our top scorers in the last round were:
- Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with three featured articles
- Iazyges, with nine good articles and lots of bonus points
- Yashthepunisher, a first time contestant, with two featured lists
- SounderBruce, a finalist last year, with seventeen good topic articles
- Usernameunique, a first time contestant, with fourteen DYKs
- Muboshgu, a seasoned competitor, with three ITNs and
- Courcelles, another first time contestant, with twenty-seven GARs
So far contestants have achieved twelve featured articles between them and a splendid 124 good articles. Commendably, 326 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2018 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met; most of the GARs are fine, but a few have been a bit skimpy.
If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:10, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
This Month in Education: April 2018
Volume 7 | Issue 4 | April 2018
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