User talk:Miniapolis/Archives/2015/April

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Hello Miniapolis, You were mentioned and quoted at ani. The discussion can be found here. [1]. Cheers! WordSeventeen (talk) 00:27, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

I'd like to invite you to join the WikiProject R&B and Soul Music. We are currently on demand for new members, the project was dying, but with your help we can revive it and make it one of the best WikiProjects. Make me sure that you'll think about this and remember cooperative works can do amazing things. Regards Dfrr (talk) 21:38, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

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Greetings User:Miniapolis,

This message is to notify you that you have been mentioned, and the following quotation from you was noted in the second nomination for the article CollXtion I whose second deletion discussion is here: [2]

User:Miniapolis said, "Although the song has charted, I don't see it meeting WP:GNG (which trumps WP:NALBUMS) yet. This seems to be a trend with marginally-notable musicians: creating individual articles about them and all their recordings, in the apparent hope that something will survive AfD. I hope it's nipped in the bud."

Cheers! WordSeventeen (talk) 04:38, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	Thanks for copy-editing List of people influenced by Selena. It really needed some help and you came in and did great! Thanks a lot, jona(talk) 21:53, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Glad to help! Good luck and all the best, Miniapolis 22:03, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks very much for joint credit. Twofingered Typist (talk) 22:07, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

No problem; Biblioworm's criticism was non-specific and they didn't fix anything, so fair is fair :-). Have fun and all the best, Miniapolis 22:09, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors April 2015 Newsletter March drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's backlog-reduction drive. Of the 38 people who signed up, 18 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. April blitz: The one-week April blitz, again targeting our long requests list, will run from April 19–25. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the requests page. Sign up here! May drive: The month-long May backlog-reduction drive, with extra credit for articles tagged in December 2013, January and February 2014 and all request articles, begins soon. Sign up now! Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Miniapolis, Jonesey95, Biblioworm and Philg88. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:29, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

Greetings! For this month's issue...

We have demos!

After a lengthy research and design process, we decided for WikiProject X to focus on two things:

• A WikiProject workflow that focuses on action items: discussions you can participate in and tasks you can perform to improve the encyclopedia; and
• An automatically updating WikiProject directory that gives you lists of users participating in the WikiProject and editing in that subject area.

We have a live demonstration of the new WikiProject workflow at WikiProject Women in Technology, a brand new WikiProject that was set up as an adjunct to a related edit-a-thon in Washington, DC. The goal is to surface action items for editors, and we intend on doing that through automatically updated working lists. We are looking into using SuggestBot to generate lists of outstanding tasks, and we are looking into additional options for automatic worklist generation. This takes the burden off of WikiProject editors to generate these worklists, though there is also a "requests" section for Wikipedians to make individual requests. (As of writing, these automated lists are not yet live, so you will see a blank space under "edit articles" on the demo WikiProject. Sorry about that!) I invite you to check out the WikiProject and leave feedback on WikiProject X's talk page.

Once the demo is sufficiently developed, we will be working on a limited deployment on our pilot WikiProjects. We have selected five for the first round of testing based on the highest potential for impact and will scale up from there.

While a re-designed WikiProject experience is much needed, that alone isn't enough. A WikiProject isn't any good if people have no way of discovering it. This is why we are also developing an automatically updated WikiProject directory. This directory will surface project-related metrics, including a count of active WikiProject participants and of active editors in that project's subject area. The purpose of these metrics is to highlight how active the WikiProject is at the given point of time, but also to highlight that project's potential for success. The directory is not yet live but there is a demonstration featuring a sampling of WikiProjects.

Each directory entry will link to a WikiProject description page which automatically list the active WikiProject participants and subject-area article editors. This allows Wikipedians to find each other based on the areas they are interested in, and this information can be used to revive a WikiProject, start a new one, or even for some other purpose. These description pages are not online yet, but they will use this template, if you want to get a feel of what they will look like.

We need volunteers!

WikiProject X is a huge undertaking, and we need volunteers to support our efforts, including testers and coders. Check out our volunteer portal and see what you can do to help us!

As an aside...

Wouldn't it be cool if lists of requested articles could not only be integrated directly with WikiProjects, but also shared between WikiProjects? Well, we got the crazy idea of having experimental software feature Flow deployed (on a totally experimental basis) on the new Article Request Workshop, which seeks to be a place where editors can "workshop" article ideas before they get created. It uses Flow because Flow allows, essentially, section-level categorization, and in the future will allow "sections" (known as "topics" within Flow) to be included across different pages. What this means is that you have a recommendation for a new article tagged by multiple WikiProjects, allowing for the recommendation to appear on lists for each WikiProject. This will facilitate inter-WikiProject collaboration and will help to reduce duplicated work. The Article Request Workshop is not entirely ready yet due to some bugs with Flow, but we hope to integrate it into our pilot WikiProjects at some point.

Harej (talk) 00:57, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

		The Copyeditor's Barnstar
		Miniapolis, I hereby award you The Copyeditor's Barnstar for your outstanding review of and copyedits to William Beverley. Your continued service to the overall quality of Wikipedia is exemplary and greatly appreciated by your colleagues and our readership. Thank you for all you do! -- West Virginian (talk) 17:27, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks very much! I always learn something from the articles I copyedit. Good luck and all the best, Miniapolis 17:41, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

	The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
	You deserve a barnstar for your over-all contribution to Wikipedia -- Tito Dutta (talk) 23:09, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

Aw thanks, but I do no more than lots of other editors (including you :-)). All the best, Miniapolis 23:17, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

	The Copyeditor's Barnstar
	This is to let you know that the article you copy-edited (Romance (Luis Miguel album)) has been promoted to featured article. Thank you so much for improving the prose on the article considerably! In regards, Erick (talk) 14:19, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

Great news! Thanks for letting me know. Congratulations and all the best, Miniapolis 15:38, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for all your hard work copy editing Bristol. It has definitely helped to make the article better.— Rod ^talk 05:52, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

Glad to help; I always learn things from the articles I copyedit :-). Good luck and all the best, Miniapolis 13:30, 29 April 2015 (UTC)