User talk:Invertzoo/Archive 59
Extract from Ganesh note about old gastropod stubs
Thanks for the copy edit. I was trying hard to avoid WP:copyvio, whilst creating a lot of content, and it needed help. It also needs review by someone like you, who is into the subject matter. Nice job. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 14:23, 1 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.
stubshello Invertzoo! Hope the storm wasn't too bad in your neck of the woods. i'm writing to you because an editor is impeding me from creating any stubs, and is subsequently tagging them for speedy deletion. i am obviously unable to continue working for the gastropods project in that regard until this editor is told off by someone. would you mind taking a look at my talk page? cheers! FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 11:19, 8 November 2012 (UTC) Uploading images from journal articles - (c) issuesHi Invertzoo. I am confused about the Wikipedia (c) issues. I know that we can't just upload anything out there on the internet, unless it has a Creative Commons license or is legitimately public domain. So then, how is it people can upload SEM images from journal articles? See, e.g. the images in protoconch. I am confused and would like to be able to upload similar images for prodissoconch that I have found on the internet - but are from published journal articles. I do not have my very own Scanning Electron Microscope in my shell-cave! Shellnut (talk) 05:50, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
Disambiguation link notification for November 10Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Alfred Eisenack, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Baltic (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject. It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 11:58, 10 November 2012 (UTC) thanks for your edits on A. Eisenack - it really improved the page! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kmertens (talk • contribs) 14:37, 11 November 2012 (UTC) Juliidae mollusk and shell imagesHi Invertzoo! I found some really neat images of Juliidae on the internet and contacted the author/photographer via e-mail. He is not interested in joining Wikipedia as an editor (too much time involved he thinks), but I have asked him whether he would be willing to sign a Creative Commons copyright release. Where can I get one if he agrees? Do you need one for each image, or would a blanked one for a website be sufficient? His images of these fascinating gastropods are are incredible (see site at http://seaslugsofhawaii.com/ ). Please let me know what you think. Shellnut (talk) 19:47, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
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.
Disambiguation link notification for November 17Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that you've added some links pointing to disambiguation pages. Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.
It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 12:28, 17 November 2012 (UTC) Trimusculidae and Siphonariidae images and articlesHi Invertzoo! Pursuant to your expressed wishes, today I uploaded images for Trimusculidae and Siphonariidae and created stub species articles on: Trimusculus reticulatus, Siphonaria diemenensis, Siphonaria gigas, Siphonaria hispida, Siphonaria lessoni, and Siphonaria normalis. I will move on to other little white cap shells, Hipponicidae and Calyptraeidae as time permits. Enjoy!!! Shellnut (talk) 18:31, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
Christopher Cattle articleThanks for improving on my writing. Blackash have a chat 14:07, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
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.
Sarasomia AfDInvertzoo, you might want to have a look here. Regards, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 13:43, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
Disambiguation link notification for November 24Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Abductin, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Pecten (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject. It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 17:20, 24 November 2012 (UTC) My picturesHallo Invertzoo, thank you for your comment and the complimemts. I'll insert also pictures in genus descriptions. It is a good idea. Some minutes ago, I added one to the "Actinella" article. --Llez (talk) 18:24, 26 November 2012 (UTC) WikiProject gastropodsHiInvertZoo, I have been impressed by your work, and I'm often looking for places to put some underwater photographs which might be useful to others. I've a lifelong interest in Nudibranchs, SCUBA, UW photography. I'm a marine biologist, based in Ireland. Not sure about details of protocols with wikipedia - I use facebook a lot, so uncomfortable with anonymity! I do get it when it comes to wikipedia though, as I can't stand narcissistic people. Hard to get it just right. I'll try and get myself a bit more organised and add more to Wikipedia. BernardP (talk) 14:14, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
Sourcing imagesHi, If I wanted to get a picture from someone - eg here http://www.fishbase.org/photos/thumbnailssummary.php?ID=5574# and it was CC-BY-NC (the Jim Greenfield one) how should I do that? (He is a contact of mine from years ago). Can I just take it and upload it to Commons, then add it to a page? BernardP (talk) 17:11, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
Thanks!Thank you, Invertzoo. Your compliment is much appreciated. That was a fun article to put together...made all the better by nice photogaphs in the Wikimedia library. Enviromet (talk) 21:41, 27 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.
Wikipedia Goes to the Movies in NYC this Saturday Dec 1 You are invited to Wikipedia Goes to the Movies in NYC, an editathon, Wikipedia meet-up and workshops focused on film and the performing arts that will be held on Saturday, December 1, 2012, at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (at Lincoln Center), as part of the Wikipedia Loves Libraries events being held across the USA. All are welcome, sign up on the wiki and at meetup.com!--Pharos (talk) 07:17, 30 November 2012 (UTC) |
