User talk:Josve05a/Archives/2015/May
The Signpost: 29 April 2015Esino Lario is set to host Wikimania 2016, but volunteers and others have raised a host of concerns that raise serious questions about the town's suitability for hosting such a large conference.
The evaluations reveal that in the last three years, WLM has possibly fallen victim to its own success and seen diminishing returns.
David Coburn, a Member of the European Parliament for the Scotland region for the UK Independence Party, was blocked from editing Wikipedia on April 6.
Ten featured articles, nine featured lists, and twenty-eight featured pictures were promoted this week.
Though the continued predominance of movies, TV, and sports noted in last week's report largely continues, three additional topics joined the Top 10 this week.
Reader demand for some topics (e.g. LGBT topics or pages about countries) is poorly satisfied, whereas there is over-abundance of quality on topics of comparatively little interest, such as military history.
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Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 15:06, 4 May 2015 (UTC) WikiCup 2015 May newsletter  The Herald (submissions) during the second round.The second round one has all wrapped up, and round three has now begun! Congratulations to the 34 contestants who have made it through, but well done and thank you to all contestants who took part in our second round. Leading the way overall was Special credit must be given to a number of high importance articles improved during the second round.
The points varied across groups, with the lowest score required to gain automatic qualification was 68 in Group A - meanwhile the second place score in Group H was 404, which would have been high enough to win all but one of the other Groups! As well as the top two of each group automatically going through to the third round, a minimum score of 55 was required for a wildcard competitor to go through. We had a three-way tie at 55 points and all three have qualified for the next round, in the spirit of fairness. The third round ends on June 28, with the top two in each group progressing automatically while the remaining 16 highest scorers across all four groups go through as wildcards. Good luck to all competitors for the third round! Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), Miyagawa (talk · contribs · email) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) 16:35, 4 May 2015 (UTC) Your speedy delete was contested Wikipedia:Advocacy ducksAn admin was working with me on getting that page moved and I advise you to undo your delete based on my contested delete. Atsme☎️📧 21:01, 13 May 2015 (UTC) The Signpost: 13 May 2015
Three community-elected seats on the Board of Trustees—the ultimate governing authority of the Wikimedia Foundation—will be decided by Wikimedians in the election to be held 17–31 May.
This week has been a busy one for the Wikidata project, with nearly simultaneous Wikidata contests, both organized by Wikimedia Sweden, now underway.
Casual viewers may think I've posted the same list twice. But no, readers just happen to be really interested in May 2's Big Fight. In fact, last week was just the weigh-in and the trash talk. This week, the numbers actually increased.
Grant Shapps, who was the co-chairman of the UK's Conservative Party until this week, has been accused of maliciously editing the Wikipedia biographies of his party's rivals.
There is a public misconception of Wikipedia: that any anonymous editor can edit Wikipedia at any time, and cannot be tracked or identified.
Eight articles, one list, and five pictures were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia in a slow week.
A kitten for you! Thanks for migrating all the open AWB bugs to phabricator! :D Reedy (talk) 03:50, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
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Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 15:18, 18 May 2015 (UTC) PhabricatorHi, Josve05a. Great work in migrating all those AWB bugs to Phabricator. I would like to ask you a favor. When creating my account on Phabricator, I used my old email address (that I closed months ago) instead of the new one. Now, the account is created but I can't confirm it because I don't have access to the old email account. And if I created another account, it won't have the same name as my Wikimedia username. I would like you to report a bug similar to phab:T87608 for me; i.e. I would like you to request that my account on Phabricator be deleted by a developer, so that, I can create it again. I can't report this myself because I don't currently have an account on Phabricator. This is the account I mean. Thank you. --Meno25 (talk) 17:03, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 20 May 2015
The Wikimedia Foundation's bi-annual Board of Trustees election is open for voting. Of the ten seats on the board, three are elected representatives of the global Wikimedia community—you.
The article counts of many Wikimedia wikis suddenly changed on 29 March 2015: as the Signpost reported at the time, sixty-five wikis fell below milestones tracked at the Wikimedia News Meta page, and three increased to new milestones.
The list is topped this week by Danish scientist Inge Lehmann, thanks to a Google Doodle celebrating her 127th birthday. Lehmann discovered in 1936 that the Earth has a solid inner core. It is sometimes surprising to realize how recently such basic scientific knowledge of the Earth, which we now take for granted, was discovered.
Wikipedia editors logging in on May 19 found themselves walking into an unexpected amount of anti-vandal work to keep the site in line with its extensive biographies of living persons policy. A plethora of Wikipedia articles related to the United States House Committee on Appropriations, and the fifty-one representatives serving on it, have been hit by a raft of anonymous editors making often vulgar edits referencing "chicken fucker," or more creative combinations: "sexual conduct", "sexual congress", "fornicator", "intimate relations", or "trysts with chickens."
Three articles, seven lists, and seven pictures were featured on the English Wikipedia.
Jimmy Wales and five others accepted the 2015 Dan David Prize at Tel Aviv University on May 17. The prize comes with US$1 million, ten percent of which goes to doctoral and postdoctoral scholarships.
This week, we had the pleasure of interviewing WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology, which has come a long way since our last interview in 2008. Like most projects, it has a long member list, but only a small subset of that group regularly contributes. With 28 featured articles and 58 top-importance start class ones, the project has clearly had some success, but has a ways to go. We talked to three regular project contributors.
The Arbitration Committee has an unusually large case load at present. Although perhaps not on a par with the high-profile, multi-party cases seen towards the end of last year and the beginning of this year, with five open cases the arbitrators are likely to be kept busy for the next several weeks.
The SignpostWe were a bit rushed yesterday, so I didn't get the chance to properly thank you for your contributions to "In the media". I hope you enjoyed it and continue to contribute. Gamaliel (talk) 14:58, 21 May 2015 (UTC) I love Cats and hopefully you do too!_by_Ron.jpg) Srry my sister vandalized an article and i saw that you converted it thank you very much! SomeoneWhoKnowsThings (talk) 21:30, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
SPAMMING WITH CATS!!!!!!!!!!! KITTTTTEEEEEEENNNNNSSS!!!!!!! SomeoneWhoKnowsThings (talk) 21:32, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
SPAMMING WITH CATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! KITTTTTEEEEEEENNNNNSSS!!!!!!! SomeoneWhoKnowsThings (talk) 21:33, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
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Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 16:12, 25 May 2015 (UTC) Wikidata weekly summary #159Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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