We are half way through the penultimate round of this year's WikiCup; there is less than a month to go before we have our final 8. Our pool leaders are
Adabow (
submissions) (Pool A, 189 points) and
PresN (
submissions) (Pool B, 165 points). The number of points required to reach the next round is not clear at this time; there are some users who still do not have any recorded points. Please remember to update your submissions' pages promptly. In addition, congratulations to PresN, who scored the first featured topic points in the competition for his work on
Thatgamecompany related articles. Most points this round generally have, so far, come from good articles, with only one featured article (
White-bellied Sea Eagle, from
Casliber (
submissions)) and two featured lists (
Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story, from PresN and
Grammy Award for Best Native American Music Album, from
Another Believer (
submissions)). Points for Did You Know and good article reviews round out the scoring. No points have been awarded for In the News, good topics or featured pictures this round, and no points for featured sounds or portals have been awarded in the entire competition. On an unrelated note, preparation will be beginning soon for next year's WikiCup- watch this space!
There is little else to be said beyond the usual. Please list anything you need reviewing on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, so others following the WikiCup can help, and please do help if you can by providing reviews for the articles listed there. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews generally at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup- points are, of course, offered for reviews at GAC. Two final notes: Firstly, please remember to state your participation in the WikiCup when nominating articles at FAC. Finally, some WikiCup-related statistics can be seen here and here. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 11:45, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
You are off my christmas card list. -- Surturz ( talk) 08:29, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
Ed, can I ask you to reconsider this deletion? There was nothing in the page that could be construed as an attack, and it certainly doesn't fit the criteria at WP:G10. If you feel this userpage is inappropriate, I think an MfD would be the appropriate forum to seek deletion. -- Lear's Fool 08:48, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
There isn't nearly as big of a "power imbalance issue" when you remember that those are perennial proposals, i.e. they have been shot down many times by a consensus of community members. No, a majority vote is not consensus, but a majority opinion is (sorry for not being more clear). Like Nick says, administrators are under quite a lot of scrutiny, and I dare say many of our actions are reversed at ANI and other places. Your assertion of a power imbalance is quite wrong, I'm afraid. Avanu, you're not allowed to keep a list of enemies, period. You're allowed to have a page to gather evidence for an upcoming dispute resolution, and that's about it. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 18:55, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Deletion_of_a_page_in_my_userspace_without_warning.2C_cause_or_consensus -- Surturz ( talk) 12:38, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
Drmies ( talk) 21:03, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
As you were the one that started this whole shitstorm [1] (and if the list is a shitlist as you claim, what you started (in DRV and MFD) certainly qualifies as a shitstorm), I thought I would solicit your opinion on an experiment of mine. I'm not sure I have it all right, but I think I avoid COI and any apparent partiality by my methods. On a related note, since you CSD'd Surturz's page, how is that a shitlist but this not (auto generated by twinkle)?
Regards- Crazynas t 17:49, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
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- Dank ( push to talk) 19:39, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi Ed!
Thanks for the reminder about the OA apps... I'd been meaning to get them closed the other week, and then it slipped my mind. Would you be willing to close them? I'd like to set the precedent of a volunteer-run acceptance process, since that's how it will need to be going forward. If you'd rather not, I'll wrangle someone else into it.-- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 14:13, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi Ed. Would you be able to close any of the RfCs at WP:AN? Thanks, Cunard ( talk) 23:08, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks Macedoniarulez ( talk) 06:33, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
I have no problems merging WikiProject Espionage into another one. That was my proposition in the first place then I decided to take it over and revive it. Then I had 10 overseas weeks and come back and thing's changed. I'm already known to Ian Rose, AustralianRupert in The WikiProject Military History. AustralianRupert has helped me in the past with articles and I've helped him. I started out doing the Z Special Unit and 6th Division (Australia) because my grandfather was with them, my other grandfather was with the 2/7th Armoured Regiment tanks, but went back to driving buses here for essential services. As you can see I've done alot of edits and I'm currently doing two updates on articles. I've tried my best to get things going on Wikipedia even though I don't have that much experience so I rely on more experienced people who know the coding of Wikipedia. I've tried to stay out of trouble and do the right thing and ask for advice where needed. Adamdaley ( talk) 10:32, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
Hello! If you're planning to be an active Online Ambassador for the upcoming academic term, now is the time to join one or more pods. (A pod consists of the instructor, the Campus Ambassadors, and the Online Ambassadors for single class.) The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) explains the expectations for being part of a pod as an Online Ambassador. (The MOU for pods in Canada is essentially the same.) In short, the role of Online Ambassadors this term consists of:
This replaces the 1-on-1 mentoring role for Online Ambassadors that we had in previous terms; rather than being responsible for individual students (some of whom don't want or help or are unresponsive), Online Ambassadors will be there to help whichever students in their class(es) ask for help.
You can browse the upcoming courses here: United States; Canada. More are being added as new pods become active and create their course pages.
Once you've found a class that you want to work with—especially if you some interest or expertise in the topic area—you should sign the MOU listing for that class and get in touch with the instructor. We're hoping to have at least two Online Ambassadors per pod, and more for the larger classes.
If you're up for supporting any kind of class and would like me to assign you to a pod in need of more Online Ambassadors, just let me know.
-- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 16:37, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
PS: There are still a lot of student articles from the last term that haven't been rated. Please rate a few and update the list!
OpenInfoForAll ( talk) 05:31, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
Hello
I want thank you for your work on Amagi class battlecruiser, Japanese battleship Tosa. I translated them to pl.wiki and get GA. They are probably best source of information in Polish language.
Thanks for your work.
PMG ( talk) 11:18, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
![]() | On 24 August 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Scott Lutrus, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that despite being a two-star recruit in 2006, American football player Scott Lutrus was a 2007 Freshman All-American at Connecticut? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Scott Lutrus.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist ( talk) 16:03, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
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Congratulations! |
Thanks for all the work you did in making Brazilian battleship São Paulo a Featured Article! Your work is much appreciated. – Quadell ( talk) |
If you felt yesterdays shaker go to: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/se/082311a/us/index.html and follow the Did You Feel It? — Tell Us ! link. I'm downstate from you and it was noticeable here. People in Wisconsin reported shakes. Nice map here. Brad ( talk) 20:31, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
Hello and thanks for accepting my application to be an Online Ambassador. I noticed the mentoring system has been changed to include entire classes. Is it too late for me to become an OA for any of the Fall 2011 classes? Thanks! — Yk Yk Yk talk ~ contrib 05:47, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi Ed, the book reviews for next month's Bugle are now good to go at: User:Nick-D/reviews Nick-D ( talk) 01:40, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi Ed. As an uninvolved administrator, would you formally close Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion#Rewrite of WP:BEFORE; what we really expect before nominating per the enacted changes so there is a record of the changes to WP:BEFORE. (Please also include a diff to the enacted changes and a link to the further discussion, something like "Discussion continues [[#BEFORE updated - what further improvements?|here]]." The diff is here.) See also the active discussion at Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion#BEFORE updated - what further improvements?.
Also, if you could close any of the discussions listed at AN, I would be grateful.
List of discussions:
If you don't have the time or inclination though, please don't close any of the discussions. Thank you again for your hard work. Cunard ( talk) 08:32, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
Since you're busy with the start of college, don't worry about the RfC discussions. I hope the admins on AN will be willing to close them. By the way, I apologize for dragging you into this mess. The heat you've taken from some editors for your correct assessment of the consensus is unwarranted. That you are still willing to close RfCs I bring to your attention is a testament to either your insanity or your courage. I trust it's the latter but will not rule out the former. ;) Cunard ( talk) 05:52, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi Ed, your RfC closure in July at Wikipedia talk:Non-free content ( here) is simply being ignored. Can you help out? Discussion here. SlimVirgin TALK| CONTRIBS 21:45, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi Ed. You were very helpful about 10 days ago when my "Mark Satin" biography was going through an FAC review. Since then I have done nearly 100 mostly small edits on it, most of them suggested or inspired by my reviewers, and today I put it up for A-Class review at the Military History project. I hope you'll take a look at it. - Babel41 ( talk) 04:49, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
uhhh, there is a user, named User:DeathToEnemies who keeps trying to frame me, is there anyway to report him. he changed his name to Macedoniarulez and tries to frame him, could you stop him?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Macedoniarulez ( talk • contribs) 04:42, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
The format and topic certainly look good (and thanks also to you for organising it). I haven't yet got the time to read it through in detail, but I will do that ahead of a scheduled publication in a week's time. How does that sound? Thanks, - Jarry1250 Weasel? Discuss. 07:01, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
Hey Ed, I think we talked about this before, and decided that they shouldn't, but in writing the pocket battleship articles, I'm wondering if they shouldn't be included with the large cruisers? Parsecboy ( talk) 19:36, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
We are half way through the penultimate round of this year's WikiCup; there is less than a month to go before we have our final 8. Our pool leaders are
Adabow (
submissions) (Pool A, 189 points) and
PresN (
submissions) (Pool B, 165 points). The number of points required to reach the next round is not clear at this time; there are some users who still do not have any recorded points. Please remember to update your submissions' pages promptly. In addition, congratulations to PresN, who scored the first featured topic points in the competition for his work on
Thatgamecompany related articles. Most points this round generally have, so far, come from good articles, with only one featured article (
White-bellied Sea Eagle, from
Casliber (
submissions)) and two featured lists (
Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story, from PresN and
Grammy Award for Best Native American Music Album, from
Another Believer (
submissions)). Points for Did You Know and good article reviews round out the scoring. No points have been awarded for In the News, good topics or featured pictures this round, and no points for featured sounds or portals have been awarded in the entire competition. On an unrelated note, preparation will be beginning soon for next year's WikiCup- watch this space!
There is little else to be said beyond the usual. Please list anything you need reviewing on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, so others following the WikiCup can help, and please do help if you can by providing reviews for the articles listed there. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews generally at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup- points are, of course, offered for reviews at GAC. Two final notes: Firstly, please remember to state your participation in the WikiCup when nominating articles at FAC. Finally, some WikiCup-related statistics can be seen here and here. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 11:45, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
You are off my christmas card list. -- Surturz ( talk) 08:29, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
Ed, can I ask you to reconsider this deletion? There was nothing in the page that could be construed as an attack, and it certainly doesn't fit the criteria at WP:G10. If you feel this userpage is inappropriate, I think an MfD would be the appropriate forum to seek deletion. -- Lear's Fool 08:48, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
There isn't nearly as big of a "power imbalance issue" when you remember that those are perennial proposals, i.e. they have been shot down many times by a consensus of community members. No, a majority vote is not consensus, but a majority opinion is (sorry for not being more clear). Like Nick says, administrators are under quite a lot of scrutiny, and I dare say many of our actions are reversed at ANI and other places. Your assertion of a power imbalance is quite wrong, I'm afraid. Avanu, you're not allowed to keep a list of enemies, period. You're allowed to have a page to gather evidence for an upcoming dispute resolution, and that's about it. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 18:55, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Deletion_of_a_page_in_my_userspace_without_warning.2C_cause_or_consensus -- Surturz ( talk) 12:38, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
Drmies ( talk) 21:03, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
As you were the one that started this whole shitstorm [1] (and if the list is a shitlist as you claim, what you started (in DRV and MFD) certainly qualifies as a shitstorm), I thought I would solicit your opinion on an experiment of mine. I'm not sure I have it all right, but I think I avoid COI and any apparent partiality by my methods. On a related note, since you CSD'd Surturz's page, how is that a shitlist but this not (auto generated by twinkle)?
Regards- Crazynas t 17:49, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
|
- Dank ( push to talk) 19:39, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi Ed!
Thanks for the reminder about the OA apps... I'd been meaning to get them closed the other week, and then it slipped my mind. Would you be willing to close them? I'd like to set the precedent of a volunteer-run acceptance process, since that's how it will need to be going forward. If you'd rather not, I'll wrangle someone else into it.-- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 14:13, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi Ed. Would you be able to close any of the RfCs at WP:AN? Thanks, Cunard ( talk) 23:08, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks Macedoniarulez ( talk) 06:33, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
I have no problems merging WikiProject Espionage into another one. That was my proposition in the first place then I decided to take it over and revive it. Then I had 10 overseas weeks and come back and thing's changed. I'm already known to Ian Rose, AustralianRupert in The WikiProject Military History. AustralianRupert has helped me in the past with articles and I've helped him. I started out doing the Z Special Unit and 6th Division (Australia) because my grandfather was with them, my other grandfather was with the 2/7th Armoured Regiment tanks, but went back to driving buses here for essential services. As you can see I've done alot of edits and I'm currently doing two updates on articles. I've tried my best to get things going on Wikipedia even though I don't have that much experience so I rely on more experienced people who know the coding of Wikipedia. I've tried to stay out of trouble and do the right thing and ask for advice where needed. Adamdaley ( talk) 10:32, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
Hello! If you're planning to be an active Online Ambassador for the upcoming academic term, now is the time to join one or more pods. (A pod consists of the instructor, the Campus Ambassadors, and the Online Ambassadors for single class.) The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) explains the expectations for being part of a pod as an Online Ambassador. (The MOU for pods in Canada is essentially the same.) In short, the role of Online Ambassadors this term consists of:
This replaces the 1-on-1 mentoring role for Online Ambassadors that we had in previous terms; rather than being responsible for individual students (some of whom don't want or help or are unresponsive), Online Ambassadors will be there to help whichever students in their class(es) ask for help.
You can browse the upcoming courses here: United States; Canada. More are being added as new pods become active and create their course pages.
Once you've found a class that you want to work with—especially if you some interest or expertise in the topic area—you should sign the MOU listing for that class and get in touch with the instructor. We're hoping to have at least two Online Ambassadors per pod, and more for the larger classes.
If you're up for supporting any kind of class and would like me to assign you to a pod in need of more Online Ambassadors, just let me know.
-- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 16:37, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
PS: There are still a lot of student articles from the last term that haven't been rated. Please rate a few and update the list!
OpenInfoForAll ( talk) 05:31, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
Hello
I want thank you for your work on Amagi class battlecruiser, Japanese battleship Tosa. I translated them to pl.wiki and get GA. They are probably best source of information in Polish language.
Thanks for your work.
PMG ( talk) 11:18, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
![]() | On 24 August 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Scott Lutrus, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that despite being a two-star recruit in 2006, American football player Scott Lutrus was a 2007 Freshman All-American at Connecticut? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Scott Lutrus.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist ( talk) 16:03, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
![]() |
Congratulations! |
Thanks for all the work you did in making Brazilian battleship São Paulo a Featured Article! Your work is much appreciated. – Quadell ( talk) |
If you felt yesterdays shaker go to: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/se/082311a/us/index.html and follow the Did You Feel It? — Tell Us ! link. I'm downstate from you and it was noticeable here. People in Wisconsin reported shakes. Nice map here. Brad ( talk) 20:31, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
Hello and thanks for accepting my application to be an Online Ambassador. I noticed the mentoring system has been changed to include entire classes. Is it too late for me to become an OA for any of the Fall 2011 classes? Thanks! — Yk Yk Yk talk ~ contrib 05:47, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi Ed, the book reviews for next month's Bugle are now good to go at: User:Nick-D/reviews Nick-D ( talk) 01:40, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi Ed. As an uninvolved administrator, would you formally close Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion#Rewrite of WP:BEFORE; what we really expect before nominating per the enacted changes so there is a record of the changes to WP:BEFORE. (Please also include a diff to the enacted changes and a link to the further discussion, something like "Discussion continues [[#BEFORE updated - what further improvements?|here]]." The diff is here.) See also the active discussion at Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion#BEFORE updated - what further improvements?.
Also, if you could close any of the discussions listed at AN, I would be grateful.
List of discussions:
If you don't have the time or inclination though, please don't close any of the discussions. Thank you again for your hard work. Cunard ( talk) 08:32, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
Since you're busy with the start of college, don't worry about the RfC discussions. I hope the admins on AN will be willing to close them. By the way, I apologize for dragging you into this mess. The heat you've taken from some editors for your correct assessment of the consensus is unwarranted. That you are still willing to close RfCs I bring to your attention is a testament to either your insanity or your courage. I trust it's the latter but will not rule out the former. ;) Cunard ( talk) 05:52, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi Ed, your RfC closure in July at Wikipedia talk:Non-free content ( here) is simply being ignored. Can you help out? Discussion here. SlimVirgin TALK| CONTRIBS 21:45, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi Ed. You were very helpful about 10 days ago when my "Mark Satin" biography was going through an FAC review. Since then I have done nearly 100 mostly small edits on it, most of them suggested or inspired by my reviewers, and today I put it up for A-Class review at the Military History project. I hope you'll take a look at it. - Babel41 ( talk) 04:49, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
uhhh, there is a user, named User:DeathToEnemies who keeps trying to frame me, is there anyway to report him. he changed his name to Macedoniarulez and tries to frame him, could you stop him?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Macedoniarulez ( talk • contribs) 04:42, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
The format and topic certainly look good (and thanks also to you for organising it). I haven't yet got the time to read it through in detail, but I will do that ahead of a scheduled publication in a week's time. How does that sound? Thanks, - Jarry1250 Weasel? Discuss. 07:01, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
Hey Ed, I think we talked about this before, and decided that they shouldn't, but in writing the pocket battleship articles, I'm wondering if they shouldn't be included with the large cruisers? Parsecboy ( talk) 19:36, 30 August 2011 (UTC)