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Issue 7, June-July 2014
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MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 22:20, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
This is not easy. In the best case scenario, you can check the history of Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates for the last week or two and that may get you the nom and nominator. However, they can also be automatically promoted. In that case, check the talk page of the candidate, and, if that fails, guess based on the structure of other candidates, e.g. Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/NOMNAME/archive1. Note that Good topics use that structure for candidate pages too. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 01:57, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
Something like you'd have at Template:Temporary FT setup:
{{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>#ifexist:Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/{{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>BASEPAGENAME}}/archive5|{{featured topic|nom=Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/{{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>BASEPAGENAME}}/archive5| [Repeat for 4, 3, 2, 1, in order, as nested ifexist checks here.] }}
Hi, Ed:
Thank you for that; I'm glad you found my work useful. Argentina is a fascinating country, and their politics certainly never want for drama.
I must admit this was quite a blast from the past for me, as I haven't done any large-scale editing for a couple of years now. Of course, I do still contribute here and there, but rarely bother to log in anymore. If there's anything you've noticed missing or mistaken in any of those articles, or anything else I've contributed substantially to, please let me know.
Thanks again for that kind note.
Sherlock4000 ( talk) 00:57, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
I can't do much more than I've done this week; I do hope the people you have are going to step in soon. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 10:45, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
I think I can do next week, week after that is my second August show, though. P.S. Any WWI images to restore? Adam Cuerden ( talk) 23:04, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
Let's start with 1915 anniversaries. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 05:28, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
Hello again, Ed.
I wish I could be of more help there, but my knowledge of Argentine history is probably a little too general to be able to really contribute to your work. My guess is that Congressman Juan B. Justo probably led the unsuccessful charge to stop such earmarks. The outbreak of World War I caused a severe recession in Argentina, pushing already high unemployment to 20% and eroding already poor wages by 30%, so Justo and fellow Socialist Congressman Alfredo Palacios were as you know none too pleased to see boondoggles like that on the budget.
Pointless wartime hysteria, of course, led to increases in already excessive defense budgets during the world wars despite Argentina's neutrality in both; and until the Perón era (when social spending and economic subsidies took center stage), the military remained the biggest item in the national budget at about 40% of the total. The right-wing nature of most Argentine presidencies probably had less to do with that as the fact that the military had just been too much of a gravy train for too many contractors (and well-greased politicians) to be curbed in any real way.
Some things never really change, do they.
Thank you for those links, by the way. Even if my heavy-duty editing days on Wikipedia are behind me, I look forward to what must surely be interesting reading.
All the best, Ed. Let's keep in touch.
Sherlock4000 ( talk) 01:35, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
precision
Thank you for your constant flow of featured content on
battleships (planning 2021), for editing the Signpost, and for your diligence in
language questions without a battle, - repeating: you are an
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Two years ago, you were the 206th recipient of my Pumpkin Sky Prize, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:08, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
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Hello:
I asked User:Mabeenot on 19 July if I could conduct a WikiProject interview for The Signpost about WikiProject Baseball, described in the above diff. It's been a couple of weeks, and I haven't heard back. Thus, I would like to proceed with the interview for a WikiProject report in an upcoming edition of the paper, but I'd like to have permission from a Signpost editor first. Thank you for your time. Seattle ( talk) 18:52, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
I know it's a little longer than you were ideally looking for, but what do you think? J Milburn ( talk) 16:43, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
Hey Ed, I don't know what the timetable is but I had a thought. You might be aware that Pendright's Mahan-class destroyer article has passed FAC - it occurred to me that this is the kind of thing that should get top billing in the next edition of the Signpost. You don't see too many WWII veterans writing high-quality articles about the things in which they were involved 70+ years ago, you know. It might even be something interview-worthy (and perhaps especially once his USS Mahan (DD-364) article makes it to FAC). Parsecboy ( talk) 12:13, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
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Hey Ed, got a nice little war stub for you. This came out of a BLPN note about Edwin Hunt (waterman)--if you can do anything for that article, that'd be great. Thanks pal, Drmies ( talk) 15:27, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
Replied on my talk page - sorry for my inability to help this week. But seren has done the new top25.-- Milowent • has spoken 03:22, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
I'm preparing to drive to my new home on Monday (halfway across the US) and will be mostly out of contact. For the same reason, writing "News and notes" at the Signpost isn't going to happen. Anyone interested in pitching in? :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 19:00, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
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Well, after the giant FC last week, a very short one this week. This shouldn't be too hard. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 17:37, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
Hi Ed, I saw your news. I hope that you're OK, and are looking after yourself. Regards, Nick-D ( talk) 10:57, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
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Can you make User:The ed17/Good articles by prose size, User:The ed17/Good articles by wiki text, User:The ed17/Featured articles by prose size, User:The ed17/Featured articles by wiki text, and User:Dr pda/Featured article statistics, monthly or quarterly updated resources?-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 21:25, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
Sorry to hear about your car being totaled. Had a somewhat similar incident that happened with family just yesterday. But anyway, I've been getting messages involving questions about Featured Topics and what people have to do to get their GTs to FTs and whatnot. It occurred to me that the Featured Topic project hasn't exactly been understood compared to the bigger Featured Content projects. So, I was thinking if an article about the history of Featured Topics and the process of getting one works is made, maybe people can get a better understanding on the process and makes people who want to nominate topics of their own feel much easier knowing how it all works. If that can happen, I can write it up myself. GamerPro64 01:22, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style#.22courtesy_of.22_in_photo_captions.3F CombatWombat42 ( talk) 17:28, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
Time for the standard Signpost contract again? — Neotarf ( talk) 21:05, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
You say you can check in more often - does this mean you're at least somewhat sorted? Adam Cuerden ( talk) 02:08, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
The final of the 2014 WikiCup begins in a few short minutes! Our eight finalists are listed below, along with their placement in Round 4:
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There is now a thread for brainstorming on how next year's WikiCup competition should work. Please come along and share your thoughts- What works? What doesn't work? What needs changing? Signups for next year's competition will be open soon; we will be in touch. If, at this stage of the competition, you are keen to help the with the WikiCup, please do what you can to participate in review processes. Our finalists will find things much easier if the backlogs at good article candidates, featured article candidates, featured picture candidates and the rest are kept at a minimum. 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 or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk · contribs) The ed17 ( talk · contribs) and Miyagawa ( talk · contribs) 22:09, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
Books & Bytes
Issue 7, June-July 2014
by
The Interior (
talk ·
contribs),
Ocaasi (
talk ·
contribs),
Sadads (
talk ·
contribs)
MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 22:20, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
This is not easy. In the best case scenario, you can check the history of Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates for the last week or two and that may get you the nom and nominator. However, they can also be automatically promoted. In that case, check the talk page of the candidate, and, if that fails, guess based on the structure of other candidates, e.g. Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/NOMNAME/archive1. Note that Good topics use that structure for candidate pages too. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 01:57, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
Something like you'd have at Template:Temporary FT setup:
{{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>#ifexist:Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/{{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>BASEPAGENAME}}/archive5|{{featured topic|nom=Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/{{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>BASEPAGENAME}}/archive5| [Repeat for 4, 3, 2, 1, in order, as nested ifexist checks here.] }}
Hi, Ed:
Thank you for that; I'm glad you found my work useful. Argentina is a fascinating country, and their politics certainly never want for drama.
I must admit this was quite a blast from the past for me, as I haven't done any large-scale editing for a couple of years now. Of course, I do still contribute here and there, but rarely bother to log in anymore. If there's anything you've noticed missing or mistaken in any of those articles, or anything else I've contributed substantially to, please let me know.
Thanks again for that kind note.
Sherlock4000 ( talk) 00:57, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
I can't do much more than I've done this week; I do hope the people you have are going to step in soon. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 10:45, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
I think I can do next week, week after that is my second August show, though. P.S. Any WWI images to restore? Adam Cuerden ( talk) 23:04, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
Let's start with 1915 anniversaries. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 05:28, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
Hello again, Ed.
I wish I could be of more help there, but my knowledge of Argentine history is probably a little too general to be able to really contribute to your work. My guess is that Congressman Juan B. Justo probably led the unsuccessful charge to stop such earmarks. The outbreak of World War I caused a severe recession in Argentina, pushing already high unemployment to 20% and eroding already poor wages by 30%, so Justo and fellow Socialist Congressman Alfredo Palacios were as you know none too pleased to see boondoggles like that on the budget.
Pointless wartime hysteria, of course, led to increases in already excessive defense budgets during the world wars despite Argentina's neutrality in both; and until the Perón era (when social spending and economic subsidies took center stage), the military remained the biggest item in the national budget at about 40% of the total. The right-wing nature of most Argentine presidencies probably had less to do with that as the fact that the military had just been too much of a gravy train for too many contractors (and well-greased politicians) to be curbed in any real way.
Some things never really change, do they.
Thank you for those links, by the way. Even if my heavy-duty editing days on Wikipedia are behind me, I look forward to what must surely be interesting reading.
All the best, Ed. Let's keep in touch.
Sherlock4000 ( talk) 01:35, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
precision
Thank you for your constant flow of featured content on
battleships (planning 2021), for editing the Signpost, and for your diligence in
language questions without a battle, - repeating: you are an
awesome Wikipedian (5 and 6 April 2009 - what did you do then to be noticed by two?)!
-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:57, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
Two years ago, you were the 206th recipient of my Pumpkin Sky Prize, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:08, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
The VisualEditor team is currently working mostly to fix bugs, improve performance, reduce technical debt, and other infrastructure needs. You can find on Mediawiki.org weekly updates detailing recent work.
The biggest visible change since the last newsletter was to the dialog boxes. The design for each dialog box and window was simplified. The most commonly needed buttons are now at the top. Based on user feedback, the buttons are now labeled with simple words (like "Cancel" or "Done") instead of potentially confusing icons (like "<" or "X"). Many of the buttons to edit links, images, and other items now also show the linked page, image name, or other useful information when you click on them.
<ref>
tags) are now made through the "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" menu, including the "⧼visualeditor-dialogbutton-reference-tooltip⧽" (manual formatting) footnotes and the ability to re-use an existing citation, both of which were previously accessible only through the "Insert" menu. The "⧼visualeditor-dialogbutton-referencelist-tooltip⧽" is still added via the "Insert" menu.The team posts details about planned work on the VisualEditor roadmap. The VisualEditor team plans to add auto-fill features for citations soon. Your ideas about making referencing quick and easy are still wanted. Support for upright image sizes is being developed. The designers are also working on support for adding rows and columns to tables. Work to support Internet Explorer is ongoing.
The Editing team will be making two presentations this weekend at Wikimania in London. The first is with product manager James Forrester and developer Trevor Parscal on Saturday at 16:30. The second is with developers Roan Kattouw and Trevor Parscal on Sunday at 12:30.
Please share your questions, suggestions, or problems by posting a note at the VisualEditor feedback page or by joining the office hours discussion on Thursday, 14 August 2014 at 09:00 UTC (daytime for Europe, Middle East and Asia) or on Thursday, 18 September 2014 at 16:00 UTC (daytime for the Americas; evening for Europe).
If you'd like to get this newsletter on your own page (about once a month), please subscribe at w:en:Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Newsletter for English Wikipedia only or at Meta for any project. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 18:14, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
Hello:
I asked User:Mabeenot on 19 July if I could conduct a WikiProject interview for The Signpost about WikiProject Baseball, described in the above diff. It's been a couple of weeks, and I haven't heard back. Thus, I would like to proceed with the interview for a WikiProject report in an upcoming edition of the paper, but I'd like to have permission from a Signpost editor first. Thank you for your time. Seattle ( talk) 18:52, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
I know it's a little longer than you were ideally looking for, but what do you think? J Milburn ( talk) 16:43, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
Hey Ed, I don't know what the timetable is but I had a thought. You might be aware that Pendright's Mahan-class destroyer article has passed FAC - it occurred to me that this is the kind of thing that should get top billing in the next edition of the Signpost. You don't see too many WWII veterans writing high-quality articles about the things in which they were involved 70+ years ago, you know. It might even be something interview-worthy (and perhaps especially once his USS Mahan (DD-364) article makes it to FAC). Parsecboy ( talk) 12:13, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
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Hey Ed, got a nice little war stub for you. This came out of a BLPN note about Edwin Hunt (waterman)--if you can do anything for that article, that'd be great. Thanks pal, Drmies ( talk) 15:27, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
Replied on my talk page - sorry for my inability to help this week. But seren has done the new top25.-- Milowent • has spoken 03:22, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
I'm preparing to drive to my new home on Monday (halfway across the US) and will be mostly out of contact. For the same reason, writing "News and notes" at the Signpost isn't going to happen. Anyone interested in pitching in? :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 19:00, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
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Well, after the giant FC last week, a very short one this week. This shouldn't be too hard. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 17:37, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
Hi Ed, I saw your news. I hope that you're OK, and are looking after yourself. Regards, Nick-D ( talk) 10:57, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors
July 2014 backlog elimination drive wrap-up
Participation: Thanks to everyone who participated in the July drive. Of the 40 people who signed up this drive, 22 copy edited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: We reduced our article backlog from 2400 articles to 2199 articles in July. This is a new month-end record low for the backlog. Nice work, everyone! Blitz: The August blitz will run from August 24–30. The blitz will focus on articles from the GOCE's Requests page. Awards will be given out to everyone who copy edits at least one of the target articles. The blitz will run from August 24–30. Sign up here! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from
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talk) 15:11, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
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Can you make User:The ed17/Good articles by prose size, User:The ed17/Good articles by wiki text, User:The ed17/Featured articles by prose size, User:The ed17/Featured articles by wiki text, and User:Dr pda/Featured article statistics, monthly or quarterly updated resources?-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 21:25, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
Sorry to hear about your car being totaled. Had a somewhat similar incident that happened with family just yesterday. But anyway, I've been getting messages involving questions about Featured Topics and what people have to do to get their GTs to FTs and whatnot. It occurred to me that the Featured Topic project hasn't exactly been understood compared to the bigger Featured Content projects. So, I was thinking if an article about the history of Featured Topics and the process of getting one works is made, maybe people can get a better understanding on the process and makes people who want to nominate topics of their own feel much easier knowing how it all works. If that can happen, I can write it up myself. GamerPro64 01:22, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style#.22courtesy_of.22_in_photo_captions.3F CombatWombat42 ( talk) 17:28, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
Time for the standard Signpost contract again? — Neotarf ( talk) 21:05, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
You say you can check in more often - does this mean you're at least somewhat sorted? Adam Cuerden ( talk) 02:08, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
The final of the 2014 WikiCup begins in a few short minutes! Our eight finalists are listed below, along with their placement in Round 4:
We say goodbye to this year's semi-finalists.
Matty.007 (
submissions),
ThaddeusB (
submissions),
WikiRedactor (
submissions),
Figureskatingfan (
submissions),
Yellow Evan (
submissions),
Prism (
submissions) and
Cloudz679 (
submissions) have all performed well to reach this stage of the competition, and we hope they will all be joining us again next year.
There are two upcoming competitions unrelated to the WikiCup which may be of interest to those who receive this newsletter. The Stub Contest will run through September, and revolves around expanding stub articles, especially high-importance or old stubs. In addition, a proposal has been made for a new competition, the GA Cup, which the organisers plan to run next year. This competition is based on the WikiCup and aims to reduce the good article review backlog.
There is now a thread for brainstorming on how next year's WikiCup competition should work. Please come along and share your thoughts- What works? What doesn't work? What needs changing? Signups for next year's competition will be open soon; we will be in touch. If, at this stage of the competition, you are keen to help the with the WikiCup, please do what you can to participate in review processes. Our finalists will find things much easier if the backlogs at good article candidates, featured article candidates, featured picture candidates and the rest are kept at a minimum. 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 or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk · contribs) The ed17 ( talk · contribs) and Miyagawa ( talk · contribs) 22:09, 31 August 2014 (UTC)