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Help Project newsletter : Issue 4
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Hi, and welcome to the fourth issue of the Help Project newsletter. It's been another busy month in the world of Wikipedia help. The results from the in-person usability tests conducted as part of the help pages fellowship have been released. There are no great surprises here, the tests confirmed that people have trouble with the existing help system, and people looking for help on the same topic often end up at wildly different pages. Editors who experienced a tutorial and/or edited a sandbox as part of their learning were noticeably more confident when editing a real article. Drawing on that, three new "Introduction to" tutorials for new users have been created: referencing, uploading images and navigating Wikipedia. These join the popular existing introductions to policies and guidelines and talk pages. Feel free to edit them, but please do remember that the idea is to keep them simple and as free from extraneous details as possible. All three have been added to Help:Getting started, which is intended to be the new focal point for new editors, and will also be seeing a redesign soon. In other news, the Article Feedback Tool (AFT) can now be used to collect feedback on help pages. By default it has been deployed to all pages in the Help: namespace. It can be disabled on any page by adding Category:Article Feedback Blacklist, or enabled for pages in other namespaces by adding Category:Article Feedback 5 Additional Articles. Once a page has AFT applied, you can add feedback using the form which appears at the bottom of it. Feedback can be reviewed by clicking "View feedback" in the sidebar, or the "Feedback from my watched pages" link at the top of your watchlist. I'm now entering the final month of my fellowship, and will be focusing my efforts on making much needed improvements to Help:Contents, the main entrance point to our help system. It's been a pleasure working as a fellow, and I just want to thank all the people who have helped me or offered advice over the past months. That definitely won't be the end of my involvement in the Help Project though, I'll be sticking around as a volunteer and continuing to write this newsletter. Any comments or suggestions for future issues are welcome at Wikipedia:Help Project/Newsletter. If you don't wish to receive this newsletter on your talk page in future then just edit the participants page and add "no newsletter" next to your name. |
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Help Project newsletter : Issue 5
The Help Project Newsletter Issue V - January 2013 | |
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Hello again from the Help Project! In the last newsletter (which was quite a while ago sorry!) I talked about my fellowship and the plans for improving the main portal page, Help:Contents. Well I'm sad to say that my fellowship is now over, but very happy to say that the proposed improvements to that page have been completed and implemented. Do check it out if you haven't already. Another important and frequently used help page, Wikipedia:Contact us, has also seen a significant revamp. You may recognise the design inspiration from the new tutorial pages. In project news, we now have a subscription to the "article alerts" service. Any deletion nominations, move discussions, or requests for comments on pages within the Help Project's scope will now show up at Wikipedia:Help Project/Article alerts. So that's definitely a page which project members might want to watch. Any comments or suggestions for future issues are welcome at Wikipedia:Help Project/Newsletter. If you don't wish to receive this newsletter on your talk page in future then just edit the participants page and add "no newsletter" next to your name. |
WikiProject:REHAB update
You signed up for WikiProject User Rehab
Hi there, I'm RDN1F. It's come to my attention that you've signed up for WikiProject Rehab, but since that time the project has retired. I've decided to take it upon myself to rejuvenate the project - but I could do with your help. If you are still willing to help mentor (or even give me a hand in bringing this project back!) leave a message on my talk page
RDN1F TALK 16:32, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
Help Project newsletter : Issue 6
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Open Help Conference The Open Help Conference will be taking place June 15-19 in Cincinnati Ohio, USA. The conference includes two days of presentations and open discussions, followed by team "sprints" - collaborative efforts to write and improve documentation. It has been suggested to send a team from Wikipedia/Wikimedia: to share our own knowledge about help, learn from others in the open source community working on similar problems, and to carry out a sprint to improve some aspect of Wikipedia's help. There may be support available for volunteers to attend from the Participation Support program (and your editor is certainly hoping to be there!) Please join the discussion in Meta's IdeaLab if you're interested, and/or have suggestions about what we could work on. |
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Check this out: Wikipedia talk:Wikimedia Strategy 2017#Wikimedia data is at the heart of AI research, but the Wikimedia community is not
Draft:Vladislav Sviblov
Could you see a draft of this article? Валерий Пасько (talk) 18:27, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Brett_Perlmutter
Hello User:SmokeyJoe. Thank you so much for you admin work! I am new to Wikipedia, and created my first article Brett Perlmutter. It was nominated by for deletion by a user called user:SadHaas, who seemed a wp:SPA and has since deactivated his/her account. Sadly, I think this was because SadHaas is the same user as Ksoze1 who is pushing adamantly for the deletion of the article. In fact, the last edit of SadHaas (which we can no longer see because the account has been deleted) was the same day that Ksoze1 reactivate his/her account since it was dormant since 2017 [[1]] in order to keep editing the AfD. I am not an expert at these forensics, but this seems evident that they are the same person. Now the nominator of the AfD no longer exists on Wikipedia!
Furthermore, Ksoze1 revealed a certain bias against the subject of the article on the talk page of ExtraordinaryWrit [[2]]; it seems to take the form of a grudge because they went to the same high school as the subject, according to what Ksoze1 wrote. Not sure how that plays into the concept of neutrality (again, I am new here!)
Finally, a note on me: I made the mistake of voting multiple time on the AfD, and I am very sorry; it was truly because I am new to Wikipedia and did not know the rules! I learned my lesson (the hard way!) I could not leave this comment on the AfD page because I am temporarily banned (it expires tomorrow). Lobsteroll (talk) 16:37, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
- Hi User: SmokeyJoe: It looks like this article was deleted by the closer User:Black Kite. [[3]] It seems they have overlooked that the AfD was created by a SPA that no longer exists. User: Black Kite allows other admins to reverse this decision, per their talk page. Is this something you could look into Lobsteroll (talk) 00:10, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
- I support User:Black Kite's close. If you want to try to recover the article, talk to him. Pay close attention to Extraordinary Writ's !vote of 03:28, 21 March 2022. I suggest that you get more experience improving existing content before committing to work on something that has already been deleted. Rescuing a flawed and deleted article is hard. SmokeyJoe (talk) 00:20, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
- Ok thanksLobsteroll (talk) 00:33, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
- I support User:Black Kite's close. If you want to try to recover the article, talk to him. Pay close attention to Extraordinary Writ's !vote of 03:28, 21 March 2022. I suggest that you get more experience improving existing content before committing to work on something that has already been deleted. Rescuing a flawed and deleted article is hard. SmokeyJoe (talk) 00:20, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
Merger discussion for University of Windsor Students' Alliance
An article that you have been involved in editing—University of Windsor Students' Alliance—has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. RoyalObserver (talk) 12:16, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
seeking clarification
Hello SmokeyJoe, thank you for your thoughtful participation at the move review. I don't want to clog the discussion there and further make it about me, but I wanted to respond to your characterization of me, which I feel is unfair: Has issues communicating, tends to alienate the audience, yes.
Aside from the admittedly contentious opening question of the move request, which I contextualized, was there something else I did to warrant this characterization? إيان (talk) 13:45, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
- The brevity and emotion of the nomination doomed it. The previous RM, Talk:Berbers/Archive 7#Requested move 25 July 2020, included reasoned opposition. A fresh RM nomination should summarise the reason for failure of the prior RM, and preemptively answer the same objections coming again.
- Nomination super brief and emotional invites knee jerk opposition, exactly as happened.
- For better or worse (worse, in my opinion), RM responders aren’t expected to have any interest in the topic, and it is up to the nominator to put topic content into the discussion.
- The prior RM was very long. I advise trying to be concise and detailed. SmokeyJoe (talk) 00:00, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
That’s sound advice. I’ll wait and see how the move review plays out and go from there. إيان (talk) 02:09, 14 May 2022 (UTC) إيان (talk) 02:09, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
Afghanistan ethno-lingustic map page
Hello, There is a map made by CIA about afghanistan ethno-lingustic topic, wich is Completely wrong and it's Clear that it's because of political strategies. Why???? For example according to wikipedia/balkh province, the major inhabitants of balkh are tajiks, but according to cia the uzbeks are the major one!!!!!! So my map wich has been deleted by some users was english version of Al-Jazeera report about afghanistan. According to wikipedia reliable sources page, al-Jazeera is an independent organization, while cia has political agenda. You can visit the page, i want to know why my map wich is more accurate and doesn't have any political agenda is the one which deleted while cia provincal ethnic distribution is wrong according to wikipedia itself???? 5644Khorasani (talk) 14:27, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022
Hello SmokeyJoe,
At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.
Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.
In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently 729 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 1034 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.
This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.
If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}}
on their talk page.
If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.
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5 June
Hi Sir/ma, I’m contacting you in regards of Snazzy the Optimist it was nominated 7 days ago for deletion and according to the nominator a consensus must be reached to decide if the article would remain or be deleted and consensus for keep has reached but the discussion is yet to be closed and it’s 7 days now. LynRuch (talk) 04:40, 5 June 2022 (UTC)