User talk:AutomaticStrikeout/Archive 4
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NPPIf you add the following to your common.js page, you'll get a link to the new pages feed in your toolbox. Ryan Vesey 21:37, 22 October 2012 (UTC) importScript('User:Ryan Vesey/sidebar.js');
importScript('User:Kephir/gadgets/rater.js'); // [[User:Kephir/gadgets/rater]]
The Signpost: 22 October 2012
Unlike the long-running disputes that have characterised attempts to reform the RfA process on the English Wikipedia, the German Wikipedia's tradition of making decisions not by consensus but knife-edged 50% + 1 votes has led to a fundamentally different outcome. In 2009, the project managed to largely settle the RfA mode issue in 2009 indirectly.
One clarification request concerns the civility enforcement case – specifically, Malleus Fatuorum's perceived circumvention of his topic ban. It has resulted in thousands of bytes spent in vitriolic discussions, multiple blocks, and "no confidence" motions against the Arbitration Committee and one arbitrator, among other ramifications.
Planning for Wikivoyage's migration into the WMF fold built up steam this week following a statement by WMF Deputy Director Erik Möller about what the technical side of the migration will involve. Wikivoyage, which split from sister site Wikitravel in 2006, is hoping to migrate its own not-inconsiderable user base to Wikimedia, as well as much of its content, presenting novel challenges for Wikimedia developers
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
It is well known that women are underrepresented in the sciences, and that high-achieving female scientists have often been excluded from authorship lists and passed over for awards and honours solely on the basis of gender. Also significant has been the underplaying in the academic literature, news reporting, and online, of women's current and historical contributions to science.
The WikiProject Report normally brings tidings from Wikipedia's most active, inventive, and unique WikiProjects. This week, we're trying something new by focusing on Wikipedia's dark side: the various regional and national WikiProjects that are dead or dying. How can some tiny municipalities and exclaves generate highly active, cross-language, multimedia platforms be successful while the projects representing many sovereign countries and entire continents wallow in obscurity? Today, we'll search for answers among geographic projects large and small, highly active and barely functioning, enthusiastic about the future and mired in past conflicts.
Eleven articles, including one on Franz Kafka, three lists, one image, and one portal were promoted to 'featured' status this week.
We all hate vandalism and incivilitybut although I know you mean well, this kind of comment is precisely the the kind of thing that eggs them on even more. The editor has been reported to ANI, and that should suffice. Besides which, you are aware that we can't block IPs for very long anyway. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 18:36, 24 October 2012 (UTC) Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 18:34, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
Miguel CabreraRegarding this warning you left, it is entirely possible that the user was misinformed about Triple Crown re: AL vs MLB. Also, Cabrera did in fact win Sporting News POY [1]. You should look over WP:VANDNOT, or refresh if you have in the past. Also, I usually revert edits as unsourced in such cases, for the very reason that it might actually be true. Keep up the vigilant monitoring, but try to assume good faith in intent (unless it really is obvious).—Bagumba (talk) 23:36, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
A little question.Hi! Thanks for the kind welcome! I will try to help work on TAFI! Well, I have a small question. How does a article move up on the quality scale? You can reply on my page! --Horai 551 (talk) 01:48, 27 October 2012 (UTC) One year broadly construed?You certainly don't have to agree with me on this, but how is a one year broadly construed ban on anything related to Gibraltar constructive? Gibraltarpedia has helped with the creation of a large amount of great articles. I feel that being too editors are being far too concerned about how other people are affected by the articles. I doubt anybody decides to make a trip to Gibraltar based on a DYK hook. Even if they did, that doesn't affect Wikipedia at all. Ryan Vesey 05:19, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template. --Go Phightins! 19:18, 29 October 2012 (UTC) A bunch of hypeNothing really happened. I never even lost power. Thanks anyway. Go Phightins! 15:31, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 29 October 2012
The first round of the Wikimedia Foundation's new financial arrangements has proceeded as planned, with the publication of scores and feedback by Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) staff on applications for funding by 11 entities—10 chapters, independent membership organisations supporting the WMF's mission in different countries, and the foundation itself. The results are preliminary assessments that will soon be put to the FDC's seven voting members and two non-voting board representatives. The FDC in turn will send its recommendations to the board of trustees on 15 November, which will announce its decision by 15 December. Funding applications have been on-wiki since 1 October, and the talk pages of applications were open for community comment and discussion from 2 to 22 October, though apart from queries by FDC staff, there was little activity.
This week, we're checking out ways to motivate editors and recognize valuable contributions by focusing on the awards and rewards of WikiProject Military History. Anyone unfamiliar with WikiProject Military History is encouraged to start at the report's first article about the project and make your way forward. While many WikiProjects provide a barnstar that can be awarded to helpful contributors, WikiProject Military History has gone a step further by creating a variety of awards with different criteria ranging from the all-purpose WikiChevrons to rewards for participating in drives and improving special topics to medals for improving articles up to A-class status to the coveted "Military Historian of the Year" award.
The TimedMediaHandler extension (TMH), which brings dramatic improvements to MediaWiki's video handling capabilities, will go live to the English Wikipedia this week following a long and turbulent development, WMF Director of Platform Engineering Rob Lanphier announced on Monday ... Wikidata.org, a new repository designed to host interwiki links, launched this week and will begin accepting links shortly. The site, which is one half of the forthcoming Wikidata trial (the other half being the Wikidata client, which will be deployed to the Hungarian Wikipedia shortly) will also act as a testing area for phase 2 of Wikidata (centralised data storage). The longer term plan is for Wikidata.org to become a "Wikimedia Commons for data" as phases 2 and 3 (dynamic lists) are developed, project managers say.
Thirteen articles, ten lists, nine images, one topic, and one portal were promoted to featured after peer reviews.
A paper in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, coming from the social control perspective and employing the repertory grid technique, has contributed interesting observations about the governance of Wikipedia.
HOFIs tomorrow the day? If you want, I can make sure he's willing with a quick email, unless you already have or want to. Just to make sure you don't have an embarrassing situation of him rejecting, not that I think he will. Let me know. At your service. And Happy Halloween. Go Phightins! 23:29, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
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Regards, CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 06:43, 1 November 2012 (UTC) A Hodgepodge of different thingsHey AutomaticStrikeout, I've got a number of things I was going to bring up. First, what nicknames if any do you find acceptable? Auto, automatic? Or should I always type out AutomaticStrikeout? Second, sorry about not responding in regards to the userbox for TAFI. I am challenged when it comes to the concept of design so when you said I could pick the colors I had no idea what to do. Do you have any idea what type of colors to use? Third, I'd be more than happy to help with your hall of fame. I know a number of editors who are deserving of it and would say Worm That Turned is the most deserving. As you saw, he received the Director's barnstar. Finally, I thought I'd give you a list of other useful javascript tools you might want to add. You can add any, all, or none of these to Special:MyPage/common.js. Ryan Vesey 18:41, 1 November 2012 (UTC) importScript('User:Lupin/recent2.js'); //Allows you to use Lupin's anti-vandal tool (for when you don't have access to Huggle)
importScript('User:Lupin/popups.js'); //Ads Popups, I encourage you to test this out for a week or so. It takes some getting used to but it's great
importScript('User:Ucucha/duplinks.js'); // [[User:Ucucha/duplinks]] Allows you to check for duplicate links
importScript("User:GregU/dashes.js"); // Fixes dashes in an article
importScript('User:Kangaroopower/ajaxMove.js'); // Allows you to move an article without using the new lame dropdown menu that always messes things up
importScript('User:Ohconfucius/script/MOSNUM dates.js'); //[[User:Ohconfucius/script/MOSNUM dates.js]] allows you to convert all dates to DMY or MDY (among other things)
importScript('User:Equazcion/ActiveWatchers.js'); //shows a count of the number of watchers who are actively editing
importScript("User:PleaseStand/userinfo.js"); // Puts information about user rights, edit count, gender, and activity time on the top of someone's user page
importScript('User:קיפודנחש/TemplateParamWizard.js'); //Template Parameter Wizard (Amazing script, it puts a button on the edit toolbar that allows you to choose any template and it pulls up all of the parameters for that template for you to fill out)
importScript('User:NuclearWarfare/Mark-blocked script.js'); //Puts a strikethough in blocked users' signatures
Talkback You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. CURTAINTOAD! TALK! 04:57, 2 November 2012 (UTC) Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBotWe are currently running a study on the effects of adding additional information to SuggestBot’s recommendations. Participation in the study is voluntary. Should you wish to not participate in the study, or have questions or concerns, you can find contact information in the consent information sheet. We have added information about the quality of the suggested articles using a Low/Medium/High scale which goes from Low SuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun! SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping! If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom (talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot (talk) 12:31, 3 November 2012 (UTC) Hey!What a new! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Luulla352 (talk • contribs) 14:12, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
A3Hi AutomaticStrikeout, just a reminder that A3 tags like A1 are not to be applied in the first few minutes after an article has been created. Judging from their subsequent edits the creator of Loleto was unlikely to have come back after a couple of minutes and turned it into something useful, but apparently enough other A1 and A3 creators would for it to be worth leaving such articles untagged for rather more than two minutes. Remember it is only the clearly badfaith stuff such as attack pages where we are in a race to delete things as quickly as we can. Cheers ϢereSpielChequers 14:43, 3 November 2012 (UTC) Reply at my talk pageMessage added 00:50, 6 November 2012 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. EssayNo problem! That's what happens when you take a break from homework to write an essay in one shot... If you had any other comments on it, I'd love to hear them. Thanks again! gwickwire | Leave a message 03:32, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 05 November 2012
J Milburn is a British editor who has been on the site since 2006. He is one of two judges of the WikiCup. Here, he uses an op-ed to explain the way the WikiCup works and to review this year's competition, which ended recently.
The results of most of the national heats for Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) have been published on Commons. A maximum of 10 images have been submitted by all but eight of the 34 participating countries, and the international jury for what is the largest competition of its type in the world is set to announce the global winner in four weeks' time.
Hurricane Sandy was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record and has caused millions of dollars in damage. Naturally, Wikipedia covered it. But was Wikipedia's coverage unbiased?
The Signpost's weekly roundup of topics for discussion on the English Wikipedia.
This week, the Signpost interviewed two editors. The first, PumpkinSky, collaborated with Gerda Arendt in writing the recently featured article on Franz Kafka and won second prize in the Core contest last August. The second, Cwmhiraeth, collaborated with Thompsma in promoting the article Frog, which was featured last week. We asked them about the special challenges faced while writing Core content and things to watch out for.
The Wikimedia Foundation's engineering report for October 2012 was published this week on the Wikimedia Techblog and on the MediaWiki wiki, giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month. TimedMediaHandler also went live.
This week, The Signpost sings along with WikiProject Songs which focuses on articles about songs of every generation and genre. The project initially began as a rough outline in October 2002 and was reimagined in March 2004 using its parent WikiProject Albums as a template.
Questions completedMessage added 23:41, 6 November 2012 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template. Go Phightins! 02:41, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Northamerica1000Excellent nomination statement. Very concise, yet thoroughly encapsulates all the reasons why Northamerica1000 should become an administrator. Kurtis (talk) 07:52, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
sidebarHi; we crossed paths at a certain editors talk page whose name I will not mention out of deference to his desire that I stop (from his perspective) picking at the scab. You posted a reply to something I said and I just wanted to clarify that I never thought YOU were suggesting behind the back civility was OK. You simply stated some facts to keep the record clear and took that at face value. my comment was directed at the author of the behind the back remarks in the hopes they would back off of article editing to take time self-educating about consensus and AGF and etiquette etc. Judging from his wikibashing remarks a few hours ago on off wiki sites that did not work out as well as I had hoped. Anyway, nice to meet you and I was not in word or thought applying anything to your words but the face value of what you wrote. Cheerio NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 19:42, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
You've got mailIt may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.— Northamerica1000(talk) 09:28, 8 November 2012 (UTC) TFD/merge for Infobox NFL coach and Infobox NFL playerASO, how come you didn't put a notice on the WP:NFL talk page regarding this TfD: Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 October 30#Template:Infobox NFL coach? We should never permit random editors to alter WP:CFB and WP:NFL templates without consulting first with the CFB and NFL Wikiprojects . . . . When you find out about something like this, you've got to let the other project editors know. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 23:36, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
Here's a barnstar for you!
Head's up regrading dash codingHey, ASO. I like the new spiffy graphics on your user page. Quick bit of business about dashes. Please be aware that some articles (and WikiProjects) use HTML ndash coding intentionally and uniformly. WikiProject University of Florida and WikiProject Florida Gators are among those that do. Contrary to the random semi-automated editing by AWB/script users you may see on your watch list, the HTML dash coding is not some primitive throwback that needs to be wiped off the face of the Wiki planet. Consistent use of the HTML characters for ndashes and mdashes allows them to be easily distinguished from hyphens in the edit dialog window and simplifies the editing of sports article that use lots of dashes and hyphens. Feel free to replace the HTML characters with the ASCII dash characters in articles that do not use the HTML code consistently, but try to avoid doing so in articles where the HTML code is consistent and appears to be intentional. Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 21:53, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
TubervilleYou took out my Tuberville comment. It was perfectly accurate. We should put it back in.Mwinog2777 (talk) 04:33, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
Talk backMessage added 10:26, 14 November 2012 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. The Signpost: 12 November 2012
Last week, media outlets reported a ruling by a German court on the problem of businesses using Wikipedia for marketing purposes. The issue goes beyond the direct management of marketing-related edits by Wikipedians; it involves cross-monitoring and interacting among market competitors themselves on Wikipedia. A company that sells dietary supplements made from frankincense had taken a competitor to court. The recently published judgment by the Higher Regional Court of Munich, in dealing with the German Wikipedia article on frankincense products, was handed down in May and is based on European competition law.
Thirteen articles, six lists, and five images were promoted to 'featured' status last week.
In late September, the Technology report published its findings about (particularly median) code review times. To the 23,900 changesets analysed the first time (the data for which has been updated), the Signpost added data from the 9,000 or so changesets contributed between September 17 and November 9 to a total of 93,000 reviews across 45,000 patchsets. Bots and self-reviews were also discarded, but reviews made by a different user in the form of a superseding patch were retained. Finally, users were categorised by hand according to whether they would be best regarded as staff or volunteers. The new analyses were consistent with the predictions of the previous analysis.
As promised, we're expanding our horizons by featuring projects that cover underrepresented areas of the globe. This week, we headed to WikiProject Brazil which keeps track of articles about the world's largest Portuguese-speaking country. The project has shown spurts of activity and continues to serve as a hub for discussions, despite the project's collaborations, peer reviews, and outreach activities being largely inactive.
A barnstar for you!
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My UsernameHi! I have a pretty ordinary looking username and I would like to add color and stuff to it. You have a pretty nice looking username so I thought I'd ask you about helping me with making my username look better. I know how to go into my contributions, and I see the space to edit it, but I don't know enough about the code on Wikipedia to do much. Thanks, B. Jakob T. (talk) 21:46, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) Sorry for interjecting and being a kill joy, but I'd recommend you go over to the Accessibility Wiki-Project to ensure that those with vision impairments can read it, the green on blue is kind of hard for me anyway, and I have decent eyesight. Thanks. Go Phightins! 01:48, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 19 November 2012
The WMF's Funds Dissemination Committee has published its recommendations for the inaugural round 1 of funding. Requests totalled US$10.4M, nearly all of the FDC's budget for both first and second rounds. The seven-member committee of community volunteers appointed in September advises the WMF board on the distribution of grant funds among applying Wikimedia organizations. The committee, which has a separate operating budget of $276k for salaries and expenses, considered 12 applications for funds, from 11 chapters and from the WMF itself for its non-core activities. The decision-making process included community and FDC staff input after October 1, the closing date for submissions. Taken together, the volunteers decided to endorse an average of 81% of the funding sought—a total of $8.43M, which went to 11 of the 12 applicants. This leaves $2.71M to be distributed in round 2, for which applications are due in little more than three months' time.
This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Turtles. The young project started in January 2011 and has accumulated 5 Featured Articles, 3 Featured Lists, and 6 Featured Pictures. The project maintains a combined to-do list and hot articles meter, a popular pages ranking, and a collection of resources for turtle articles. We interviewed Faendalimas and NYMFan69-86.
WMF Executive Director Sue Gardner was forced to clarify this week that proposed structural changes to the Foundation's Engineering and Product Development Department were not a "done deal" and that it was "important that you [particularly affected staff] realise that ... your input is wanted". The reorganisation, announced on November 5 and planned for the middle of next year, will see its two components split off into their own departments.
Seven featured articles, four featured lists and ten featured pictures – including the photograph that spawned the Streisand effect – were promoted this week.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include the question of ticker symbol placement and the notability of various types of creative performer.
Here's a Turkey for you!
You enjoy your Thanksgiving too! Jakob 02:39, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
Happy Thanksgiving
IMPORTANT NOTICE!Did I hear that you wanted to be an administrator? Read Jakkinx's userpage and BECOME AN ADMINISTRATOR INSTANTLY!! Jakob 23:22, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
Teahouse talkback: you've got messages! Please note that all old questions are archived after 2-3 days of inactivity. Message added by Go Phightins! 02:35, 24 November 2012 (UTC). (You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{teahouse talkback}} template. TalkbackMessage added 03:01, 24 November 2012 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. TBrandley 03:01, 24 November 2012 (UTC) Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael MastroYou can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. thanks for taking the time Ottawahitech (talk) 14:05, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 26 November 2012
On November 24, a general assembly of Wikimedia Germany (WMDE) voted on the fate of the Wikimedia Toolserver, a central external piece of technical infrastructure supporting the editing communities with volunteer-developed scripts and webpages of various kinds that are assisting in performing mostly menial tasks.
An open-access preprint presents the results from a study attempting to predict early box office revenues from Wikipedia traffic and activity data. The authors – a team of computational social scientists from Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Aalto University and the Central European University – submit that behavioral patterns on Wikipedia can be used for accurate forecasting, matching and in some cases outperforming the use of social media data for predictive modeling. The results, based on a corpus of 312 English Wikipedia articles on movies released in 2010, indicate that the joint editing activity and traffic measures on Wikipedia are strong predictors of box office revenue for highly successful movies.
Six articles, one list, and six images were promoted to 'featured' status this week.
Wikidata, the new "Wikimedia Commons for data" and the first new Wikimedia project since 2006, reached 100,000 entries this week. The project aims to be a single, human- and machine-readable database for common data, spanning across all Wikipedia projects, which will "lead to a higher consistency and quality within Wikipedia articles, as well as increased availability of information in the smaller language editions" while lowering the burden on Wikipedia's volunteer editors—whose numbers have stalled overall, and continue to dwindle on the English Wikipedia.
This week, we uncovered WikiProject Deletion Sorting, Wikipedia's most active project by number of edits to all the project's pages. This special project seeks to increase participation in Articles for Deletion nominations by categorizing the AfD discussions by various topic areas that may draw the attention of editors. The project was started in August 2005 with manual processes that are continued today by a bevy of bots, categories, and transclusions. The project took inspiration from WikiProject Stub Sorting and some historical discussions on deletion reform. As the sheer number of AfDs continues to grow, the project is seeking better tools to manage the deletion sorting process and attract editors to comment on these deletion discussions.
Just a MessageWant to solve a puzzle and hear a joke? Click here! This is not a joke, promise. :) Jakob 17:51, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
Okay, I'll try to be more careful next time. About the word puzzle, you can ask me yes or no questions in my shoutbox Jakob 21:07, 28 November 2012 (UTC) Quick questionAs you know, I am signed up in this. I added an article in the list of candidates. Is there anything more I need to do? Thank you very much, Jakob 23:58, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
ThanksThanks for my barnstar! I've always wanted to be a writer so I am very pleased with this! Whiteghost.ink (talk) 03:07, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
ReviewerWhat is the reviewer? What is the purpose RevieWer on the English Wikipedia. Greeting! --Kolega2357 (talk) 21:01, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your help :)re: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Mastro
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