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NY Times op-ed
There's a really nice op-ed in today's NY Times: To Learn the Truth, Read My Wikipedia Entry on Sichuan Peppers, by Mary Mann. Per policy, I won't identify the author by wiki user, but it's easy enough to figure out :-) -- RoySmith (talk) 22:55, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
- Yup, that was nice. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 15:39, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
- She linked another article, and look at what happened to its page views. WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:50, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
- Power of the press. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:33, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
- She linked another article, and look at what happened to its page views. WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:50, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
Unable to find copyright for a photo
I'm a university student and as part of one of my subjects I am hoping to expand on the wikipedia article for Rolf Muuss. I am having difficulty finding a photo of him with clear any clear copyright information. I have found one photograph that was used in an article and emailed the author who told me that the photo was given to him as a handout. This photo appears in several places online and none of them give any copyright information What can I do to find out whether I can use this image? Aoujwt (talk) 01:52, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
- Assume it is copyrighted unless proven differently. Check out the links here for more info. The page here could probably give you more specific advice. Matt Deres (talk) 16:47, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
Wikipedia @ 20 - Stories of an Incomplete Revolution
It's a book. For the interested, it can be read here. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 19:59, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
mainspace pages vs. project namespace
Hello,
I'm wondering if anyone could point me to data/statistics on the number of pages in the project namespace (Wikipedia:) - I am working on a project and would like to be able to compare the amount of pages in mainspace with project namespace. Thanks Dr. Vetter (talk) 14:59, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
- The {{PAGESINNAMESPACE}} magic word is disabled in this wiki, so it cannot display a live count. Using a search for an invalid string in different namespaces gave me 6,182,098 pages in mainspace and 1,118,425 pages in the project namespace. BTW: There are general statistics at Special:Statistics (which says 6,182,065 mainspace pages), Wikipedia:Statistics and an overview at stats.wikimedia.org. — GhostInTheMachine talk to me 19:56, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
- There are ~1,253,885 pages in ns:4 (Project: a/k/a Wikipedia) according to this recent query on the replica: quarry:query/49448. — xaosflux Talk 20:36, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
- Oh no. 6,182,098 vs. 6,182,065 is fine by me – the two systems will have a minor time difference. However, 1,118,425 vs. 1,253,885 is another matter. I am now doomed to fretting about the reason behind the anomaly. Any thoughts? — GhostInTheMachine talk to me 21:13, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
- @GhostInTheMachine: one was relying on the internal search engine and was was relying on replica data which can lag --- but I'd trust the replica data a bit more. Also there are more like ~8,230,049 "pages in mainspace" - the smaller number above is closer to "articles" in mainspace, which is excluding redirect pages - which are "pages" - but that is what you literally asked for, even if it isn't what you really wanted? (The replicate count also included redirects above). — xaosflux Talk 01:38, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
- Oh no. 6,182,098 vs. 6,182,065 is fine by me – the two systems will have a minor time difference. However, 1,118,425 vs. 1,253,885 is another matter. I am now doomed to fretting about the reason behind the anomaly. Any thoughts? — GhostInTheMachine talk to me 21:13, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
- There's a database report for page count by namespace. Graham87 08:20, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks Graham87. With a million other pages, no wonder I missed it. Endless options for my ToDo list! — GhostInTheMachine talk to me 12:10, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks everyone. This is excellent and will be really helpful. Dr. Vetter (talk) 23:10, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
Local copies of files uploaded by User:Renamed user 995577823Xyn with no apparent reason
Hi. I was looking at the uploads of User:Renamed user 995577823Xyn (formerly User:We hope) and found there are a bunch of files that are definitely public domain in the US, but are marked with {{Keeplocal}}. I do not see any point in keeping the ones that are safe for Commons in two places — is there any real reason to not export all of them and delete the local copies? DemonDays64 (talk) 06:25, 30 October 2020 (UTC) (please ping on reply)
- The drawings seem to be by various British architects but the authorship is often uncertain. Have you checked to be sure who the artists are and whether they died more than 70 years ago? If not they are unsuitable on Commons because they will still be in UK copyright. If they were published (not just created) before 1925 they are public domain in the US and so OK here. If they have not been published with the artist's consent they are likely to be still be in copyright in the US. Thincat (talk) 17:17, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
- @Thincat: no not those ones, which are in copyright — go forwards a page or two and there are a ton of American movie posters and stills and stuff that are definitely out of copyright, like File:Hands Up lobby card 2.jpg — either due to age or because they did not have a copyright notice. DemonDays64 (talk) 20:22, 1 November 2020 (UTC) (please ping on reply)
- @DemonDays64: Well, that one could be beneficially exported to Commons but it should not be deleted from here. The "real reason" for not deleting it here without WP:FFD is that we aim to respect community consensus. See Template talk:Keep local. Thincat (talk) 09:47, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
- @Thincat: no not those ones, which are in copyright — go forwards a page or two and there are a ton of American movie posters and stills and stuff that are definitely out of copyright, like File:Hands Up lobby card 2.jpg — either due to age or because they did not have a copyright notice. DemonDays64 (talk) 20:22, 1 November 2020 (UTC) (please ping on reply)
Potential influx of attention to Toby Young
This article in The Spectator could be driving a lot of people with, shall we say, a certain political interest, to Toby Young. Young is practically begging his readers to censor his past comments about eugenics from the article. More eyes on the article over the coming days would be very helpful, to make sure the article is broadly inline with our policies and standards. (As a sidenote, the Spectator piece is very funny given that he is the most or second-most significant contributor to the Wikipedia article. Also, feel free to point me to any other appropriate noticeboards to gather more attention on the subject.) — Bilorv (talk) 18:10, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
- mw:Who Wrote That? indicates that he's written only about 7% of the current article, and much of that was more than 10 years ago, when we operated under different rules. WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:15, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
Korea
I apologise if this is the wrong forum. In December last year I made a proposal that Korean peninsula be merged to Korea. There were no objections so I performed the merge. Then this merge was reverted. In August I proposed a discussion on the merits of the merge. So far, there has been one response against (without reasons) and one for. Given that this has been going on for a year, has anyone got any suggestions for a way forward?--Jack Upland (talk) 00:05, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
Wiki Loves - goats?
Hi all, there is a discussion open at MediaWiki talk:WikiLove.js regarding removing goats from the localized wikilove utility, any feedback would be welcome there. — xaosflux Talk 16:49, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
Fake Wikipedia article in the "real world"
What are the rules on something like this?— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:58, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
- @Vchimpanzee: ? what's the question? DemonDays64 (talk) 21:07, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
- @Vchimpanzee: This is probably the relevant policy: [1] It says "You may use the marks in satire or jokes. To avoid confusing users that your work is affiliated with the Wikimedia sites, it may be helpful to mark your work as "satire" or "parody." If you're concerned, you can file a report there. RudolfRed (talk) 22:10, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
Do we really need navboxes of US presidential & vice presidential candidate's spouses? See example at Eunice Kennedy Shriver article. GoodDay (talk) 22:33, 1 November 2020 (UTC)