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[[Wikipedia:WikiCup/2015 signups|Signups for the 2015 WikiCup are open]]. All Wikipedians, new and experienced, are warmly invited to sign up for the competition. Wikipedians interested in friendly competition may also like to [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/GA Cup/Sign-up|sign up]] for the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/GA Cup|GA Cup]], a new WikiCup-inspired competition which revolves around completing good article reviews. As ever, questions are welcome on [[Wikipedia talk:WikiCup]], and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! <small>If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from [[Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send]].</small> {{user|J Milburn}} {{user|The ed17}} and {{user|Miyagawa}} 22:11, 30 September 2014 (UTC) |
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Hi, I am Wamiq and you can talk with me here. To post a new section, just enter the heading in the box below and click/tap on the Go button next to it. You will be taken to a new page where you can enter your comment in the edit window. To finally post it on my talk page, you will have to click/tap on the Save page button there at the bottom. —ШαмıQ✍ @ 13:31, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
Thank you
Hey thanks for wishing me a national day! .. and haha yeah its difficult finding Emirati people who edit wikipedia! Thanks for the nice gesture! Inspironss (talk) 18:50, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
- Ooooh you have no idea, our celebration this year is more than just the national day, we're celebrating our wining for expo 2020 as well as the national day. So you can only imagine... and haha our 50's celebration would be beyond imagination. We love to celebrate! Inspironss (talk) 20:04, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Wamiq! could you please let me know the reason of removing, Arabic Typesetting fonts. --سمرقندی (talk) 05:37, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
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DYK for Ada Jafri
Your revert on Dihydrogen Monoxide hoax
- Greetings. I wanted to comment on your revert on the DHMO hoax page. The IP editor's contribution was clearly not notable, not sourced, not appropriate for the encyclopedia; reverting the content was 100% ok. When you did so, you tagged the revert as (vandal), which I wanted to comment about. There is a range of edit quality, from "good" to "not great" to "problematic" to "needs to be undone" to "vandalism", with a lot of flavors in between.
- Reading that IP's contribution, I would say it needed to be undone, but was not intentional (or unintentional) vandalism. They weren't trying to damage the encyclopedia, it was on topic for the hoax, etc. It wasn't rude or damaging. It was just not appropriate to be there.
- My concern is that we're poking new editors, or at least that new editor, a bit hard at times, discouraging things we just need to correct them on. This isn't a serious problem, I don't see a pattern on quick review, but I wanted to note it and let you know.
- I appreciate your efforts overall and wish you good editing. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 22:14, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
- @Georgewilliamherbert: Thank you for informing me... Well, Twinkle has not been working properly for me for sometime, and when I reverted those two edits, I had to use the undo button which doesn't generate any summary when reverting more than one edit. Had my Twinkle been ok, I would have used the [AGF] button... I wasn't creative enough then, and I simply wrote out vandal there. But thank you, once again, for letting me know this. I'll be careful next time in leaving edit summaries. —ШαмıQ✍ @ 06:43, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
Cherry Credits
Hi there, I noticed the Cherry Credits page has been deleted even though more information and external sources were provided. As I'm new to Wikipedia, are there other ways to improve the content to prevent deletion? BlasphemyGG (talk) 07:56, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
- Hello, thanks for the advise! The article has been created here. --BlasphemyGG (talk) 08:58, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
December 2013
Please do not add or change content, as you did to Punjabi language, without verifying it by citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Thomas.W talk to me 13:23, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
Please do not add or change content, as you did to Punjabi language, without verifying it by citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Warning for repeated unsourced edits. Thomas.W talk to me 13:26, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
@Thomas.W: Are you blind? What needs a source there?
- You could start by explaining why you repeatedly remove Devanagari... Thomas.W talk to me 13:32, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
- It is not me who is removing Devanagari. Kwamikagami removed it and I made the image consistent with what the article said. —ШαмıQ✍ @ 13:34, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
- Nope. Under "Etymology" the article says that Punjabi is written in both Gurmukhi and Devanagari in India, yet you repeatedly remove the name in Devanagari from the infobox. Which is what I'm reverting. If you wanted to make the infobox reflect what the article says (which is what infoboxes should do), you should add Devanagari to the infobox under "writing systems" instead of removing all mention of it from there. Thomas.W talk to me 13:45, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
- It is not me who is removing Devanagari. Kwamikagami removed it and I made the image consistent with what the article said. —ШαмıQ✍ @ 13:34, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
- I was talking of the lede. If there are only two scripts in the lede, why include it in the image (and why in the caption, too)? This was all I had done. And you comment out the file, saying, “Not Nagari”?! When you want nagari there, why in the image and the caption only? —ШαмıQ✍ @ 13:50, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
- I merely restored the previous version to what it looked like before your unexplained/unsourced edits. If you want to change the article I suggest you start a discussion on the talk page. Especially since everything that relates to Punjab/Punjabi has a tendency to increase adrenaline levels in most people editing the articles (me excluded, though, since I have no personal connection whatsoever to South Asia and the religious and/or political conflicts there...). Thomas.W talk to me 13:54, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
- Unconvincing... What you say and what you do is entirely different. You say you reverted me because I removed Devanagari from the infobox; instead, you have added it now, after the revert. You reverted my removal of Devanagari from the caption of the image which doesn't have Devanagari. By the way, I have no personal connection with either Punjabi, or Shahmukhi, or Gurmukhi, or Devanagari; or with any religious and/or political conflicts regarding Punjabi... I don't even understand what Punjabis speak... —ШαмıQ✍ @ 14:07, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
- I merely restored the previous version to what it looked like before your unexplained/unsourced edits. If you want to change the article I suggest you start a discussion on the talk page. Especially since everything that relates to Punjab/Punjabi has a tendency to increase adrenaline levels in most people editing the articles (me excluded, though, since I have no personal connection whatsoever to South Asia and the religious and/or political conflicts there...). Thomas.W talk to me 13:54, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
- I was talking of the lede. If there are only two scripts in the lede, why include it in the image (and why in the caption, too)? This was all I had done. And you comment out the file, saying, “Not Nagari”?! When you want nagari there, why in the image and the caption only? —ШαмıQ✍ @ 13:50, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
I don't know myself. If Punjabi is written in Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi, then we shouldn't have Nagari. If it's written in Nagari, we shouldn't claim it's written in just the other two. — kwami (talk) 18:43, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
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-محترم! اردو ایسے نہیں لکھی جاتی
؎ ریختہ کے تمہی استاد نہیں ہو غاؔلب
کہتے ہیں اگلے زمانہ میں کوئی میرؔ بهی تها
"؎" kya he? --███▓▒░░ Asad Warraich ░░▒▓███ (talk) 11:55, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
شعر کا نشان۔۔۔! —ШαмıQ✍ @ 13:44, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
- To tareekay se edit karen na. --███▓▒░░ Asad Warraich ░░▒▓███ (talk) 14:37, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I'm Shovon76. An edit that you recently made to Bengali alphabet seemed to be a test and has been removed. If you want more practice editing, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks! Shovon (talk) 16:21, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
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Shukriya Miyajan
Thanks bro, how is the article? Soham 09:55, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
- @Soham: Nice and interesting article... Saw it at DYK... Should be successful. My best wishes. —ШαмıQ✍ @ 10:02, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I'm Shovon76. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions to Bengali alphabet because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks! Shovon (talk) 17:17, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
Logo image 'Sindhi' for article on Sindhi language
Dear Syed Wamiq Ahmed Hashmi,
Thanks for contributing to Sindhi language page. Sindhi uses the Nasakh script, not the Nastaleeq. May I request you not to use Nastaleeq script as logo word for Sindhi?
Thanks
Rasool — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rasool Sarang (talk • contribs) 09:49, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
Removing 2009 tags from Sindhi language article
Hi. I am removing tags added in 2009 as I do not see the purported problem with the article now. I have also said this on the article talk page.
Wikipedia guidelines on removing the tags: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tagging_pages_for_problems#Removing_tags — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rasool Sarang (talk • contribs) 11:16, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
Zia and Bangladesh
I've stated my points on the Bangladesh talk page, we can resolve the matter there.--Bazaan (talk) 20:10, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
Happy New Year, Wamiq
Rollback and reviewer granted
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- Wikipedia:Protection policy#Pending changes protection, the policy determining which pages can be given pending changes protection by administrators.
Feel free to leave a message on my talk page if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of reviewer or rollback. If you no longer want either of these user rights, contact me and I'll remove it, alternatively you can leave a request on the administrators' noticeboard. Happy editing! Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 13:36, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
DYK for Begum Akhtar Riazuddin
Welcome to the 2014 WikiCup!
Hello Wamiq, and welcome to the 2014 WikiCup! Your submission page can be found here. The competition began on 1 January. There have been a few small changes from last year; the rules can be read in full at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring, and the page also includes a summary of changes. One important rule to remember is that only content on which you have completed significant work, and nominated, in 2014 is eligible for points in the competition- the judges will be checking! As ever, this year's competition includes some younger editors. If you are a younger editor, you are certainly welcome, but we have written an advice page at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Advice for younger editors for you. Please do take a look. Any questions should be directed to one of the judges, or left on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will make it to round 2. Good luck! J Milburn (talk · contribs), The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 17:12, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
DYK for Nasreddin Murat-Khan
Adding couplets in a poet's page
Salam,
Noticed that you have removed the couplet that I added to the page Ghalib ki Haveli. Wanted to know if wikipedia does not allow quoting a poet?
Thanks Anwaraj (talk) 10:32, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
- @Anwaraj: Wa alaikum assalam;
- First of all, this is an English encyclopaedia. Adding substandard romanised Urdu is of no use to an English speaker. There is no specific Wikipedia policy regarding this, but the irrelevancy of the quotation in the context and the substandard usage along with substandard formatting prompted me to do this. Quotations are permitted, but there are standard ways to do it, as I did here. You may also like to read these Wikipedia instructions. Hope this helps. —ШαмıQ✍ @ 13:00, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
Thank You, The link you provided was helpful. Will soon add the couplet in Urdu and will provide the Translation under it. It will be fine then. Won't it be? Anwaraj (talk) 13:08, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
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Please do not make any redirect on File:FBISE Islamabad (logo).png as your upload contains transparency within logo, and it's not in official logo, see it on Official site UBStalk 12:52, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
- @Umais Bin Sajjad: What nonsense! Who is making a redirect there? ALL the documents I have from FBISE have the logo TRANSPARENT on the inside (coloured the same inside as outside). That was the reason for me making it transparent. You may also check this out in this newsletter. —ШαмıQ✍ @ 10:00, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
- Sorry I didn't saw the newsletter, you are right about the logo but there is still something wrong with the boundary i.e it is not well cropped, can you do it or should I? UBStalk 03:09, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
- @Umais Bin Sajjad: Doing... —ШαмıQ✍ @ 09:55, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
- Sorry I didn't saw the newsletter, you are right about the logo but there is still something wrong with the boundary i.e it is not well cropped, can you do it or should I? UBStalk 03:09, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
WikiCup 2014 January newsletter
The 2014 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with, at time of writing, 138 participants. The is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2010. If you are yet to join the competition, don't worry- the judges have agreed to keep the signups open for a few more days. By a wide margin, our current leader is newcomer Godot13 (submissions), whose set of 14 featured pictures, the first FPs of the competition, was worth 490 points. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:
- 12george1 (submissions) and TropicalAnalystwx13 (submissions) were the first people to score, for the good article Tropical Storm Bret (1981) and its good article review respectively. 12george1 was also the first person to score in 2012 and 2013.
- Sven Manguard (submissions) scored the first ITN points for 2014 North American polar vortex.
- WonderBoy1998 (submissions) scored points for an early good topic, finishing off Wikipedia:Featured topics/She Wolf.
- TheAustinMan (submissions) scored the first bonus points of the competition, for his work on Typhoon Vera.
- Igordebraga (submissions) has scored the highest number of bonus points for a single article, for the high-importance Jurassic Park (film).
Featured articles, featured lists, featured topics and featured portals are yet to play a part in the competition. The judges have removed a number of submissions which were deemed ineligible. Typically, we aim to see work on a project, followed by a nomination, followed by promotion, this year. We apologise for any disappointment caused by our strict enforcement this year; we're aiming to keep the competition as fair as possible.
Wikipedians interested in friendly competition may be interested to take part in The Core Contest; unlike the WikiCup, The Core Contest is not about audited content, but, like the WikiCup, it is about article improvement; specifically, The Core Contest is about contribution to some of Wikipedia's most important article. Of course, any work done for The Core Contest, if it leads to a DYK, GA or FA, can earn WikiCup 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. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 19:54, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
February 2014
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Religion field in infobox of BLPs
AOA. In reference to this, WP:BLPCAT asks religious beliefs of living persons should be included in the infobox only if the subject has self identified the belief and that can be found in a reliable source. Moreover after confirming the above policy, religious beliefs of a person are usually included in the article if the person is known for his/her religious beliefs. Hope it clears why and what kind of citation is needed for such an info to be included in BLPs. -- SMS Talk 15:00, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
Could you please help me a bit?
Salamunalaik,
Brother I have gone through the urdu verses on the page Ghalib ki Haveli and was awed by the transliterations of the verses that you have rendered. Can you please help me with some links as I am very eager to learn all this transliteration stuff.
Thanks in advance. Anwaraj (talk) 10:48, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
- @Anwaraj: Walaikumassalam,
- To start learning about transliterations, wiki articles transliteration and romanisation are good. Unfortunately, most Urdu-speaking people are unaware of specific and accurate transliteration schemes for romanisation. Instead they simply romanise Urdu according to how they see it fit with the spelling and pronunciation rules of English. One such standard scheme for a consistent and accurate Urdu to Latin conversion is the ALA-LC Romanization method for Urdu (2012), which has its wiki article ALA-LC. The wiki guideline for romanising Urdu is WP:MOSUR. The wiki article Roman Urdu throws no light on the matter, though. —ШαмıQ✍ @ 16:01, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
- Thank You very much. That was helpful! ~ A n w a r a j Urdu: انوراج 14:16, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
WikiCup 2014 February newsletter
And so ends the most competitive first round we have ever seen, with 38 points required to qualify for round 2. Last year, 19 points secured a place; before that, 11 (2012) or 8 (2011) were enough. This is both a blessing and a curse. While it shows the vigourous good health of the competition, it also means that we have already lost many worthy competitors. Our top three scorers were:
- Godot13 (submissions), a WikiCup newcomer whose high-quality scans of rare banknotes represent an unusual, interesting and valuable contribution to Wikipedia. Most of Godot's points this round have come from a large set of pictures used in Treasury Note (1890–91).
- Adam Cuerden (submissions), a WikiCup veteran and a finalist last year, Adam is also a featured picture specialist, focusing on the restoration of historical images. This month's promotions have included a carefully restored set of artist William Russell Flint's work.
- WikiRedactor (submissions), another WikiCup newcomer. WikiRedactor has claimed points for good article reviews and good articles relating to pop music, many of which were awarded bonus points. Articles include Sky Ferreira, Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus and "Wrecking Ball" (Miley Cyrus song).
Other competitors of note include:
- Hahc21 (submissions), who helped take Thirty Flights of Loving through good article candidates and featured article candidates, claiming the first first featured article of the competition.
- Prism (submissions), who claimed the first featured list of the competition with Natalia Kills discography.
- Cwmhiraeth (submissions), who takes the title of the contributor awarded the highest bonus point multiplier (resulting in the highest scoring article) of the competition so far. Her high-importance salamander, now a good article, scored 108 points.
After such a competitive first round, expect the second round to also be fiercely fought. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2, but please do not update your submission page until March (UTC). 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 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. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 00:01, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
WikiCup 2014 March newsletter
A quick update as we are half way through round two of this year's competition. WikiCup newcomer Godot13 (submissions) (Pool E) leads, having produced a massive set of featured pictures for Silver certificate (United States), an article also brought to featured list status. Former finalist Adam Cuerden (submissions) (Pool G) is in second, which he owes mostly to his work with historical images, including a number of images from Urania's Mirror, an article also brought to good status. 2010 champion (Pool C) is third overall, thanks to contributions relating to naval history, including the newly featured Japanese battleship Nagato. Cliftonian (submissions), who currently leads Pool A and is sixth overall, takes the title for the highest scoring individual article of the competition so far, with the top importance featured article Ian Smith.
With 26 people having already scored over 100 points, it is likely that well over 100 points will be needed to secure a place in round 3. Recent years have required 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) and 100 (2010). Remember that only 64 will progress to round 3 at the end of April. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page; 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 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. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 22:55, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
WikiCup 2014 April newsletter
Round 3 of the 2014 WikiCup has just begun; 32 competitors remain. Pool G's Adam Cuerden (submissions) was Round 2's highest scorer, with a large number of featured picture credits. In March/April, he restored star charts from Urania's Mirror, lithographs of various warships (such as SMS Gefion) and assorted other historical media. Second overall was Pool E's Godot13 (submissions), whose featured list Silver certificate (United States) contains dozens of scans of banknotes recently promoted to featured picture status. Third was Pool G's ChrisGualtieri (submissions) who has produced a large number of good articles, many, including Falkner Island, on Connecticut-related topics. Other successful participants included Cliftonian (submissions), who saw three articles (including the top-importance Ian Smith) through featured article candidacies, and Caponer (submissions), who saw three lists (including the beautifully-illustrated list of plantations in West Virginia) through featured list candidacies. High-importance good articles promoted this round include narwhal from Reid,iain james (submissions), tiger from Cwmhiraeth (submissions) and The Lion King from Igordebraga (submissions). We also saw our first featured topic points of the competition, awarded to Czar (submissions) and Red Phoenix (submissions) for their work on the Sega Genesis topic. No points have been claimed so far for good topics or featured portals.
192 was our lowest qualifying score, again showing that this WikiCup is the most competitive ever. In previous years, 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) or 100 (2010) secured a place in Round 3. Pool H was the strongest performer, with all but one of its members advancing, while only the two highest scorers in Pools G and F advanced. At the end of June, 16 users will advance into the semi-finals. 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. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 17:56, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
Wiki Loves Monuments - Pakistan
Hi Wamiq!
Wiki Loves Monuments, the world's largest photography competition, will be taking place in Pakistan this September. The competition is all about capturing the cultural monuments and heritage sites of Pakistan and uploading these images on Commons to create an online repository which will be freely available to all.
Start taking photos of the sites enlisted here and upload them in September to be eligible for national and international prizes.
Email: contact@wikilovesmonuments.pk
Official website: wikilovesmonuments.pk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WikiLovesMonumentsPK
Posted by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:07, 8 June 2014 (UTC) on behalf of WikiProject Pakistan
Wiki Loves Monuments - Pakistan
Hi Wamiq!
Wiki Loves Monuments, the world's largest photography competition, will be taking place in Pakistan this September. The competition is all about capturing the cultural monuments and heritage sites of Pakistan and uploading these images on Commons to create an online repository which will be freely available to all.
Start taking photos of the sites enlisted here and upload them in September to be eligible for national and international prizes.
Email: contact@wikilovesmonuments.pk
Official website: wikilovesmonuments.pk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WikiLovesMonumentsPK
Posted by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:10, 8 June 2014 (UTC) on behalf of WikiProject Pakistan
WikiCup 2014 June newsletter
After an extremely close race, Round 3 is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years- 321 was required in 2013, while 243 points were needed in 2012. Pool C's Godot13 (submissions) was the round's highest scorer, mostly due to a 32 featured pictures, including both scans and photographs. Also from Pool C, Casliber (submissions) finished second overall, claiming three featured articles, including the high-importance Grus (constellation). Third place was Pool B's , whose contributions included featured articles Russian battleship Poltava (1894) and Russian battleship Peresvet. Pool C saw the highest number of participants advance, with six out of eight making it to the next round.
The round saw this year's first featured portal, with Sven Manguard (submissions) taking Portal:Literature to featured status. The round also saw the first good topic points, thanks to 12george1 (submissions) and the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season. This means that all content types have been claimed this year. Other contributions of note this round include a featured topic on Maya Angelou's autobiographies from Figureskatingfan (submissions), a good article on the noted Czech footballer Tomáš Rosický from Cloudz679 (submissions) and a now-featured video game screenshot, freely released due to the efforts of Sven Manguard (submissions).
The judges would like to remind participants to update submission pages promptly. This means that content can be checked, and allows those following the competition (including those participating) to keep track of scores effectively. This round has seen discussion about various aspects of the WikiCup's rules and procedures. Those interested in the competition can be assured that formal discussions about how next year's competition will work will be opened shortly, and all are welcome to voice their views then. 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. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 18:48, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi Wamiq!
Wikimedia Community User Group Pakistan is organizing an edit drive for Pakistani Wikipedians on Pakistani Cultural Heritage throughout the month of July.
Top three contributors will be given a gift pack containing Wikipedia merchandise.
You can read the event details here. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:14, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
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Wamiq please Create page Pakistani Children Writer Prof Mujeeb Zafar Anwaar Hameedi
ماہنامہ انوکھی کہانیاں کراچی کا پہلا شمارہ 10 اگست 1991 ءمیں منظر عام پر آیا۔ ابتدائی تین پرچوں کی ادارت میں مصطفےٰ ہاشمی، رؤف اسلم آرائیں، شاہد علی سحر اور محبوب الٰہی مخمور شامل تھے۔ دسمبر 1991ءمیں رسالے کی مکمل ذمہ داری الٰہی بخش چشتی، نور محمد ہاشمی اور محبوب الٰہی مخمور کے ذمے آگئی۔ محترم الٰہی بخش چشتی نے رسالے کے انتظامی امور میں محبوب الٰہی مخمور کی مکمل رہنمائی کی اور رسالے کو جاری و ساری رکھا۔ رسالہ کچھ عرصہ مالی بحران کا شکار ہوا تو الٰہی بخش چشتی نے اپنی جانب سے مکمل تعاون جاری رکھا۔ انوکھی کہانیاں آج بچوں اور طلبہ کا سب سے مقبول رسالہ ہے اور اپنے ہم عمر رسائل میں سب سے زیادہ باقاعدہ ہے۔ یونی سیف پاکستان اور بین الاقوامی اسلامی یونی ورسٹی، اسلام آباد (شعبہ بچوں کا ادب) کی جانب سے انوکھی کہانیاں نے چار مرتبہ بہترین رسالے کا ایوارڈ حاصل کیا۔ متعدد رائٹرز نے شعبہ بچوں کے ادب کے ورکشاپس میں شرکت کی۔ انوکھی کہانیاں نے لاتعداد بچوں کے ادیبوں کو روشناس کرایا ہے۔ ماہنامہ انوکھی کہانیاں کراچی نے رسالے میں لکھنے والے بے شمار ادیبوں کی کتابیں اور مسودے نیشنل بک فاﺅنڈیشن کو روانہ کیئے جنھوں نے انعامات بھی حاصل کئے۔ ماہنامہ انوکھی کہانیاں کراچی کے مدیر محبوب الٰہی مخمور کو یہ اعزاز حاصل ہے کہ انھیں نیشنل بک فاﺅنڈیشن نے تین مرتبہ دس دس ہزار روپے اور تعریفی اسناد سے نوازا ہے۔ علاوہ ازیں محبوب الٰہی مخمور کے روانہ کردہ مسودے مسلسل تین سال منظور کئے اور انھیں حکومتی تعلیمی اداروں کے لیے خریدا۔ انوکھی کہانیاں کے وقیع لکھنے والے[ترمیم] بچوں کے معروف ماہنامہ ’’انوکھی کہانیاں‘‘ کراچی کے اعزازی لکھنے والوں میں پروفیسر ڈاکٹر مجیب ظفر انوار حمیدی صاحب ، یاسمین حفیظ صاحبہ ، ابنِ آس صاحب ، نوشاد عادل ، محبوب الٰہی مخمور صاحب ، ضیا احمد ضیا ، انوار احمد ، امان اللہ نیر شوکت صاحب ، مرحوم پروفیسر محمد ظریف خان صاحب ، مسعود احمد برکاتی صاحب و دیگر وقیع بچوں کے ادیب اور شاعر شامل ہیں ۔ http://prof-dr-mujeeb-zafar-anwaar-hameedi.wikia.com/wiki/Prof_Dr_Mujeeb_Zafar_Anwaar_Hameedi_Wiki Thanks Wamiq Shahana Urooj --118.103.231.45 (talk) 03:34, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
WikiCup 2014 August newsletter
The final of the 2014 WikiCup begins in a few short minutes! Our eight finalists are listed below, along with their placement in Round 4:
- Godot13 (submissions), a WikiCup newcomer, finished top of Pool A and was the round's highest scorer. Godot is a featured picture specialist, claiming large numbers of points due to high-quality scans of historical documents, especially banknotes.
- Casliber (submissions) is a WikiCup veteran, having been a finalist every year since 2010. In the semi-final, he was Pool B's highest scorer. Cas's points primarily come from articles on the natural sciences.
- Czar (submissions) was Pool A's runner-up. Czar's points come mostly from content related to independent video games, including both articles and topics.
- Adam Cuerden (submissions) was Pool B's runner-up. Another featured picture specialist, many of Adam's points come from the restoration of historical media. He has been a WikiCup finalist twice before.
- Cwmhiraeth (submissions) won the WikiCup in 2012 and 2013, and enters this final as the first wildcard. She focuses on biology-related articles, and has worked on several high-importance articles.
- 12george1 (submissions) is the second wildcard. George's points come primarily from meteorology-related articles. This year and last year, George was the first person in the competition to score.
- Sturmvogel 66 (submissions), the third wildcard, was the 2010 champion and a finalist last year. His writes mostly on military history, especially naval history.
- Bloom6132 (submissions), the fourth and final wildcard, has participated in previous WikiCups, but not reached any finals. Bloom's points are mostly thanks to did you knows, featured lists and good articles related to sport and national symbols.
We say goodbye to this year's semi-finalists. Matty.007 (submissions), ThaddeusB (submissions), WikiRedactor (submissions), Figureskatingfan (submissions), Yellow Evan (submissions), Prism (submissions) and Cloudz679 (submissions) have all performed well to reach this stage of the competition, and we hope they will all be joining us again next year.
There are two upcoming competitions unrelated to the WikiCup which may be of interest to those who receive this newsletter. The Stub Contest will run through September, and revolves around expanding stub articles, especially high-importance or old stubs. In addition, a proposal has been made for a new competition, the GA Cup, which the organisers plan to run next year. This competition is based on the WikiCup and aims to reduce the good article review backlog.
There is now a thread for brainstorming on how next year's WikiCup competition should work. Please come along and share your thoughts- What works? What doesn't work? What needs changing? Signups for next year's competition will be open soon; we will be in touch. If, at this stage of the competition, you are keen to help the with the WikiCup, please do what you can to participate in review processes. Our finalists will find things much easier if the backlogs at good article candidates, featured article candidates, featured picture candidates and the rest are kept at a minimum. As ever, 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. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 22:09, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
Salaam,
Wanted a little help. Can you please check the page Kacho Sikander Khan. I am in a dilemma, Sikander Khan wrote in Urdu as well as English. Can you help me transliterate the Urdu titles? Thank You ~ A n w a r a j Urdu: انوراج 19:29, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
WikiCup 2014 September newsletter
In one month's time, we will know our WikiCup 2014 champion. Newcomer Godot13 (submissions) has taken a strong lead with a featured list (historical coats of arms of the U.S. states from 1876) and a raft of featured pictures. Reigning champion Cwmhiraeth (submissions) is in second place with a number of high-importance biology articles, including new FA Isopoda and new GA least weasel. Casliber (submissions), who is in his fifth WikiCup final, is in third, with featured articles Pictor and Epacris impressa.
Signups for the 2015 WikiCup are open. All Wikipedians, new and experienced, are warmly invited to sign up for the competition. Wikipedians interested in friendly competition may also like to sign up for the GA Cup, a new WikiCup-inspired competition which revolves around completing good article reviews. As ever, 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. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 22:11, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar | |
For improving the Pakistan related topics as well as anti-vandalism efforts on wikipedia. lTopGunl (talk) 16:23, 24 October 2014 (UTC) |