User talk:AmandaNP/Archives/2012/December
The Signpost: 03 December 2012
The global jury of Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM), the world’s largest photo contest, announced its results on 3 December.
Three articles, two lists, and four images were promoted to 'featured' status this week.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
Deployments of MediaWiki 1.21wmf5 cause widespread problems for users across wikis when HTML and CSS updates came temporarily out of sync. On the first wikis targeted for deployment, this was caused by the different cache invalidation rates for HTML (typically one month) and CSS (typically five minutes). The retrospective on the problem highlighted the fact that that the test wiki – the WMF's answer to a production environment that individual developers can no longer practically emulate themselves – actually demonstrated the exact problem that would later manifest itself on production wikis. It went unnoticed.
This week, we went searching for white roses in the lands of WikiProject Yorkshire. The project began in May 2007 as a way to improve articles about the historic English county of Yorkshire and its modern-day administrative divisions and cities. Since then, the project has accumulated 31 Featured Articles, 14 Featured Lists, 91 Good Articles, and a monstrous list of Did You Know entries. Despite all of the effort improving Yorkshire articles, the project has experienced waning participation in the last few years. The project still publishes a newsletter each month, monitors the popularity of and recent changes to its articles, maintains a portal, and collects resources for contributors to use.
OpenVPN access blocked discussion - please participateI've asked about the block here: User talk:Vituzzu#OpenVPN_Private_Tunnel_is_not_an_.22open_proxy.22. Since you're also listed in the block warning text, and Vituzzu has not replied, and in the interest of discussion in one place, I'm asking you, too, to participate there. Thanks in advance. --Lexein (talk) 15:14, 8 December 2012 (UTC) Jacob.hustedAre you familiar enough with Jacob.husted that you'd be able to recognise his style? You blocked the account, and now a very new account is complaining at ANI that the block was unjust; it definitely looks like this account is someone's sock. You didn't get notified because Reaper Eternal shut down Jacob's talk page access and the very new account thinks that Reaper is the one who's horribly horribly unfair and unjust. The section in question is "Misconduct by Reaper Eternal". Nyttend (talk) 14:04, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the cleanups to the guide! :) Tiggerjay (talk) 20:20, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your work
The Signpost: 10 December 2012
At the time of writing, this year's election has just closed after a two-week voting period. The eight seats were contested by 21 candidates. Of these, 15 have not been arbitrators (Beeblebrox, Count Iblis, Guerillero, Jc37, Keilana, Ks0stm, Kww, NuclearWarfare, Pgallert, RegentsPark, Richwales, Salvio giuliano, Timotheus Canens, Worm That Turned, and YOLO Swag); four candidates are sitting arbitrators (David Fuchs, Elen of the Roads, Jclemens, and Newyorkbrad); and two have previously served on the committee (Carcharoth and Coren). Four Wikimedia stewards from outside the English Wikipedia stepped forward as election scrutineers: Pundit, from the Polish Wikipedia; Teles, from the Portuguese Wikipedia; Quentinv57, from the French Wikipedia; and Mardetanha, from the Persian Wikipedia. The scrutineers' task is to ensure that the election is free of multiple votes from the same person, to tally the results, and to announce them. The full results are expected to be released within the next few days and will be reported in next week's edition of the Signpost.
Eight articles, four images, six lists, and one topic were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week.
The Visual Editor project – an attempt to create the first WMF-deployable WYSIWYG editor – will go live on its first Wikipedias imminently following nearly six months of testing on MediaWiki.org. A full explanatory blog post accompanied the news, explaining the project and its setup. Once a user has opted-in, the editor can handle basic formatting, headings and lists, while safely ignoring elements it is yet to understand, including references, categories, templates, tables and images. At the last count, approximately 2% of pages would break in some way if a user tried the Visual Editor on them; it is unclear whether any specific protection will be put in place beyond relying on editors to spot problems.
In celebration of Human Rights Day, we checked out WikiProject Human Rights. Started in February 2006, the project has grown to include over 3,000 articles, including 12 Featured Articles, 3 Featured Lists, 66 Good Articles, a large collection of Did You Know entries, and a few mentions "in the news". The project monitors listings of popular pages and cleanup tags. We interviewed Khazar2, Cirt, and Boud.
ACC Account Creation Interface - AppealDeltaQuad, in December last year I tried to register an account for the ACC Account Creation interface. However, you declined my account request. I would like to now appeal the decision to not register my account; I have made many more contributions in the past year and am interested in helping out with the account creation process. Thanks, —Entropy (T/C) 04:11, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
poop patrolHi DQ, some of the queries seem to be running multiple times and others not at all....... ϢereSpielChequers 20:34, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
Yo ho hoThanks for all your help this year.  .jpg) ϢereSpielChequers is wishing you Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's Solstice or Xmas, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus or even the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone! Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{subst:User:WereSpielChequers/Dec12}} to your friends' talk pages. Wikipedia:Request an account/GuideDQ -- I was talking with Riley regarding updating the guide to clarify how the policy works regarding off-English accounts. I see there is a workflow/diagram which shows the information but it isn't reflected in the policy itself. It seems to focus only on on-English-wiki usernames that are similar. This came up when an ACC came in for a user with a similar, off-English, but active account request came in... I was going to boldly edit the page to synchronize the text with the diagram, but he suggest I contact you first. Tiggerjay (talk) 00:51, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
ArkRe's unblock requestI just wanted to let you know that I have procedurally declined ArkRe's unblock request that has been on hold for two months. If the user files another unblock request, then we can deal with it anew, otherwise we can just leave it. Cheers, Bovlb (talk) 23:31, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
Poor Man's Talk BackI responded to your post on the Zimmermanh1997 SPI here. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 08:23, 19 December 2012 (UTC) REGEX questionHi. I had a look at this edit to User:DeltaQuad/UAA/Blacklist and was wondering whether arguments like '
The Signpost: 17 December 2012
Seven days after the close of voting, the results of the recent Arbitration Committee (ArbCom) elections have been announced by two of the four stewards overseeing the election, Mardetanha and Pundit. Of the 21 candidates, 13 managed to gain positive support-to-oppose ratios, and the top eight will be appointed to two-year terms on the committee by Jimbo Wales, exercising one of his traditional responsibilities.
In the past year, we've tried to expand our horizons by looking at how WikiProjects work in other languages of Wikipedia. Following in the footsteps of our previously interviewed Czech and French projects, we visited the German Wikipedia to explore WikiProjekt Computerspiel (WikiProject Computer Games). The project dates back to November 2004 and has become the back-end of the Computer Games Portal, which covers all video games regardless of platform. Editors writing about computer games at the German Wikipedia deal with unique cultural and legal challenges, ranging from a lack of fair use precedents to the limited availability of games deemed harmful for youths to strong standards for the inclusion of material on the German Wikipedia.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include ...
This week's big story on the English Wikipedia is obviously the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting (which, by the time you read this, may be renamed 2012 Connecticut school shooting). Quickly created and nominated for deletion not once but twice, and both times speedily kept, the article saw the expected flurry of edits (a look at the history suggests an average of at least one a minute over the first day and a half) and more than half a million page views on the first full day.
Four articles, three lists, and five images were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week, including a picture of a three-week old donkey (also known as an 'ass').
MediaWiki users (including Wikimedians) can now organise themselves into groups, receiving recognition and support-in-kind from the Wikimedia Foundation. The project, backed by new Wikimedia technical contributor coordinator Quim Gil, has seen five proposals lodged in its first week of operation. The idea of MediaWiki groups mimics that of Wikimedia User Groups.
IPBE grantsThanks very much for your message on my talk page. I have replied there. JamesBWatson (talk) 20:36, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
Merry Christmas!
Spread the cheer by adding {{subst:Xmas2}} to their talk page with a friendly message. Hello DeltaQuad! Wishing you a very Happy Merry Christmas :) TheGeneralUser (talk) 14:08, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
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Merry Christmas -- Cheers, Riley is wishing you Happy Christmas! Whether you celebrate Christmas, Yuletide, Litha, Eid, Mōdraniht, Diwali, Hogmanay, Wren's Day, Hannukkah, Kwanzaa, Lenaia, Festivus, Jonkonnu, or even the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone! "The greatest gift they'll get this year is life." ~ Bob Geldof & Midge Ure
Spread the hugs & cheer by adding {{subst:User:Deliriousandlost/happy christmas}} to your friends' talk pages. Merry Christmas to my favourite admin! Thank you for all the hard work you do! -- Cheers, Riley 21:04, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
Feliz NavidadY un buen Año Nuevo. (Vamos, en 2013 a estudiar un poco de castellano... :-) Best. --E4024 (talk) 22:22, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
This multi-socking long-term vandal is using their talk page to argue their POV, without addressing their socking or vandalism or requesting an unblock. Would you consider removing their talk page access - and perhaps that of the other socks of Gullucum1956? Beyond My Ken (talk) 00:28, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
Confusing CU resultFirst of all, thank you for running CU at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Enverbius and Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ebolaboy. I'm a little confused with the CU result at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Enverbius. I'm involved via BLPN, and was under the impression there were two sockmasters who socked mostly at each other. Maybe my involvement has biased me to that impression. Were your CU results as I read them, indicating they're all related to each other? I might need another beer if that's the case. But if they're really two more or less distinct individuals, could you explain that a little more, for templating socks to masters, etc.? JFHJr (㊟) 01:47, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 24 December 2012As part of its new focus on core responsibilities, the Wikimedia Foundation is reforming its grant schemes so that they are more accessible to individual volunteers. The community is invited to look at proposals for a new scheme—for now called Individual engagement grants (IEGs)—which is due to kick off on January 15. On Meta, the community is once again debating the two new offline participation models—user groups (open membership groups designed to be easy to form) and thematic organizations (incorporated non-profits representing the Wikimedia movement and supporting work on a specific theme within or across countries). In a consultation process on Meta that will last until January 15, the community will be discussing WMF proposals for a new guideline on conflicts of interests concerning Wikimedia resources. The draft covers COI issues for both volunteers and organizations across the movement.
This week, we spent some time with WikiProject A Song of Ice and Fire, which focuses on the eponymous series of high fantasy literature, the television series Game of Thrones, and related works by George R. R. Martin. The project was started in July 2006 and has grown to include 11 Good Articles maintained by a small yet enthusiastic band of editors.
Seven articles and two lists were promoted to 'featured' status this week, including List of battlecruisers. The article covers all of the battlecruisers—which were a type of warship similar in size to a battleship but with several defining characteristics—ever planned or constructed. The last British battlecruiser built, HMS Hood, is pictured at right.
Efforts were stepped up this week to sow a feeling of trust between the major parties with an interest in the future of the Toolserver. The tool- and bot-hosting server – more accurately servers – are currently operated by German chapter, Wikimedia Germany, with assistance from the Foundation and numerous volunteers, including long-time system administrator Daniel Baur (more commonly known by his pseudonym DaB). However, those parties have more recently failed to see eye-to-eye on the trajectory for the Toolserver, which is scheduled to be replaced by Wikimedia Labs in late 2013, with increasing concern about the tone of discussions.
To all who actually read this pageTo those who actually read this page, Ever since a few weeks ago, when things turned south in real life and I been dealing with some things, I've been constantly demotivated time after time to actually do things people would like me to do, and to clear insane SPI backlogs, etc. I'm also finding that I'm getting more and more irritated at basic things people say and ranting at some points (my rants usually aren't insane tl;dr but they happen), including offwiki. Also seeing the wiki-politic mess of the Toolserver and it's future and the strain it's going to cause people has me really wondering what were doing here when the tools depended on are for people who actually edit and fix this encyclopedia are looking to be out of commission, and it's just a squabble over politics and funding of *critical* tools. For those of you who work in a 24-7 operational environment, you know that if you don't have your critical tools, you will fail your mission. Also, some other offwiki venues have left me in a bit of a shock at how disconnected, unmaintained and/or hostile environments can be, even if no one intends it to be. Anyway, enough ranting about that. Over the next while, until my juices are restored back to normal (which I have no clue when it will be), I will either be offwiki or trying to hide in an quiet corner and do some content work (like this), or even contributing to another language Wikipedia or sister project. I will be trying to leave my watchlist and my talkpage alone, so if the question or inquiry can go somewhere else, please take it there instead. If your looking to have a disagreement with me, I'm not in the mood, so I'll likely ignore you after the first few responses. If I don't respond to you, this is all why. If your wondering if I'm doing ok, ya I'm doing fine, those who are my closer friends can ask questions offwiki, but I'm fine, just tired. To my IRC friends, yes this also means I won't be around or responding to IRC pings, as once someone pings me on IRC to do x, I have to do y and z, and the snowball starts. Happy editing to you all while I'm on break. -- DQ (ʞlɐʇ) 21:20, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
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