User talk:Philosopher/Archive 23
Request for help to use AutoWikiBrowserDear Philosopher, Thank for giving permission for using AutoWikiBrowser. This is the first time I'm going to use a semi automatic editor. I've downloaded the program and run it to my pc. I want to use 'Find and replace' feature of this editor. But I can't understand how to use it. I've already read the Find and replace guide, but it just describes all the options, not the step by step instruction to perform 'Find and replace'. I want to replace this file link (File:5th usaaf.png) with (File:5th usaaf.svg). Could you please help me by giving step step instructions? Thank you.--Freemesm (talk) 13:42, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
userpage redirectHi, I was patrolling new pages and found a user who has both their userpage and user talkpage redirected to mainspace articles (User talk:Iamkumarabhishek) I have no idea what the wikipedia rules are about this or if I should remove the redirects, I've already tagged the userpage CSD A7. PhantomTech (talk) 22:32, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
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TalkbackMessage added 06:39, 30 January 2013 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. Thanks for alerting me, Philosopher. - J-Mo Talk to Me Email Me 06:39, 30 January 2013 (UTC) The Signpost: 28 January 2013
On New Year's Day, the Daily Dot reported that a "massive Wikipedia hoax" had been exposed after more than five years. The article on the Bicholim conflict had been listed as a "Good Article" for the past half-decade, yet turned out to be an ingenious hoax. Created in July 2007 by User:A-b-a-a-a-a-a-a-b-a, the meticulously detailed piece was approved as a GA in October 2007. A subsequent submission for FA was unsuccessful, but failed to discover that the article's key sources were made up. While the User:A-b-a-a-a-a-a-a-b-a account then stopped editing, the hoax remained listed as a Good Article for five years, receiving in the region of 150 to 250 page views a month in 2012. It was finally nominated for deletion on 29 December 2012 by ShelfSkewed—who had discovered the hoax while doing work on Category:Articles with invalid ISBNs—and deleted the same day.
A special issue of the American Behavioral Scientist is devoted to "open collaboration".
When we challenged the masters of WikiProject Chess to an interview, Sjakkalle answered our call. WikiProject Chess dates back to December 2003 and has grown to include 4 Featured Articles and 15 Good Articles maintained by over 100 members. The project typically operates independently of other WikiProjects, although the project would theoretically be a child of WikiProject Board and Table Games (interviewed in 2011). WikiProject Chess provides a collection of resources, seeks missing photographs of chess players, and helps determine ways that Wikipedia's coverage of chess can be expanded.
New discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
To many Wikimedians, the Khan Academy would seem like a close cousin: the academy is a non-profit educational website and a development of the massive open online course concept that has delivered over 227 million lessons in 22 different languages. Its mission is to give "a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere." This complements Wikipedia's stated goal to "imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge", then go and create that world. It should come as no surprise, then, that the highly successful GLAM-Wiki (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) initiative has partnered with the Khan Academy's Smarthistory project to further both its and Wikipedia's goals.
This week, the Signpost featured content section continues its recap of 2012 by looking at featured lists. We interviewed FLC directors Giants2008 and The Rambling Man as well as active reviewer and writer PresN.
The Doncram case has continued into its third week.
As reported in last week's "Technology Report", the WMF's data centre in Ashburn, Virginia took over responsibility for almost all of the remaining functions that had previously been handled by their old facility in Tampa, Florida on 22 January. The Signpost reported then that few problems had arisen since handover. Unfortunately that was not to remain the case, with reports of caching problems (which typically only affect anonymous users) starting to come in.
Wikidata weekly summary #43 Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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On February 12, 2012, news of Whitney Houston's death brought 425 hits per second to her Wikipedia article, the highest peak traffic on any article since at least January 2010. It is broadly known that Wikipedia is the sixth most popular website on the Internet, but the English Wikipedia now has over 4 million articles and 29 million total pages. Much less attention has been given to traffic patterns and trends in content viewed.
Article feedback, at least through talk pages, has been a part of Wikipedia since its inception in 2001. The use of these pages, though, has typically been limited to experienced editors who know how to use them.
This week, we took a trip to WikiProject Norway. Started in February 2005, WikiProject Norway has become the home for almost 34,000 articles about the world's best place to live, including 16 Featured Articles, 19 Featured Lists, and nearly 250 Good Articles. The project works on a to do list, maintains a categorization system, watches article alerts, and serves as a discussion forum.
This week, the Signpost's featured content section continues its recap of 2012 by looking at featured portals, a small yet active part of the project. We interviewed FPOC directors Cirt and OhanaUnited.
On 30 January 2013, Kevin Morris in the Daily Dot summarised the bitter debates in Wikipedia around capitalisation or non-capitalisation of the word "into" in the title of the upcoming Star Trek film, Star Trek Into Darkness.
Following the deployment of the Wikidata client to the Hungarian Wikipedia last month, the client was also deployed to the Italian and Hebrew Wikipedias on Wednesday. The next target for the client, which automatically provides phase 1 functionality, is the English Wikipedia, with a deployment date of 11 February already set.
Wikidata weekly summary #44Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
The Tea Leaf - Issue Seven Hello again! We have some neat updates about the Teahouse:
Thanks again! Ocaasi 02:02, 9 February 2013 (UTC) Thanks for the replyI don't see how someone thinks I attacked you over at the MfD discussion for WP:WMFN (and I hope you don't either), but thanks for your reply to my comment anyhow. Best wishes. Biosthmors (talk)
Sesame Street influence GACHere's the mail! [6] Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 21:12, 10 February 2013 (UTC) Hey Phil, I've finished addressing your concerns and feedback at this article, Influence of Sesame Street. Thanks for the input; it was very valuable. Hope you're satisfied. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 18:12, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
RfC input neededHi. You've been selected at random from WP:FRS, where you are listed as an editor willing to help with RfCs related to biographical articles. If you have time, could you provide your input to an RfC here involving issues of libel and defmation in relation to author Jared Diamond. Cheers. --Noleander (talk) 03:28, 11 February 2013 (UTC) copy of pageI would like a copy of Userpage that was up on my page please on the page. JoeCool950 (talk) 04:43, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
I wasn't ignoring you, I just wasn't online. (I had forgotten to set my status to "offline", but in the future, you can peek at the user's contributions to guess.) You requested deletion here, so it was hardly deleted without permission. Anyway, it's restored now. – Philosopher Let us reason together. 06:00, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
Re:AWBThanks very much! I'll have a read of the guidelines over the next few days before I begin regular use. JamesA >talk 12:23, 12 February 2013 (UTC) WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter - February 2013
The Signpost: 11 February 2013Wikipedia has a long, daresay storied history with hoaxes; our internal list documents 198 of the largest ones we have caught as of 4 January 2013. Why?
Six articles, one list, and fourteen pictures were promoted to "featured" states this week on the English Wikipedia.
This week, we got the details on WikiProject Infoboxes.
Foreign Policy has published a report on editing of the Wikipedia articles on the Senkaku Islands and Senkaku Islands dispute. The uninhabited islands are under the control of Japan, but China and Taiwan are asserting rival territorial claims. Tensions have risen of late—and not just in the waters surrounding the actual islands.
Wikimedia UK, the non-profit organization devoted to furthering the goals of the Wikimedia movement in the United Kingdom, has published the findings of a governance review conducted by Compass Partnership.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
The WMF's engineering report for January was published this week.
Restrictive FirewallsHi I'd like to request that you grant me the IP Block Exempt flag (IPBE). as the College I attend uses highly restrictive firewalls. And also I will be traveling overseas in ASIA and the Middle East with my school as part of a study abroad program, SO (IPBE) would be helpful. I have never been blocked and I know (IPBE) is not a license to edit via proxy, as that is forbidden. Thanks. TucsonDavidU.S.A. 20:33, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
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