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Hi, and welcome to the fourth issue of the Help Project newsletter. It's been another busy month in the world of Wikipedia help. The results from the in-person usability tests conducted as part of the help pages fellowship have been released. There are no great surprises here, the tests confirmed that people have trouble with the existing help system, and people looking for help on the same topic often end up at wildly different pages. Editors who experienced a tutorial and/or edited a sandbox as part of their learning were noticeably more confident when editing a real article. Drawing on that, three new "Introduction to" tutorials for new users have been created: referencing, uploading images and navigating Wikipedia. These join the popular existing introductions to policies and guidelines and talk pages. Feel free to edit them, but please do remember that the idea is to keep them simple and as free from extraneous details as possible. All three have been added to Help:Getting started, which is intended to be the new focal point for new editors, and will also be seeing a redesign soon. In other news, the Article Feedback Tool (AFT) can now be used to collect feedback on help pages. By default it has been deployed to all pages in the Help: namespace. It can be disabled on any page by adding Category:Article Feedback Blacklist, or enabled for pages in other namespaces by adding Category:Article Feedback 5 Additional Articles. Once a page has AFT applied, you can add feedback using the form which appears at the bottom of it. Feedback can be reviewed by clicking "View feedback" in the sidebar, or the "Feedback from my watched pages" link at the top of your watchlist. I'm now entering the final month of my fellowship, and will be focusing my efforts on making much needed improvements to Help:Contents, the main entrance point to our help system. It's been a pleasure working as a fellow, and I just want to thank all the people who have helped me or offered advice over the past months. That definitely won't be the end of my involvement in the Help Project though, I'll be sticking around as a volunteer and continuing to write this newsletter. Any comments or suggestions for future issues are welcome at Wikipedia:Help Project/Newsletter. If you don't wish to receive this newsletter on your talk page in future then just edit the participants page and add "no newsletter" next to your name. |
You commented in the RfD discussion about Criticism of Wikipedia at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2012 August 5#Criticism of Wikipedia. That discussion was closed as "moot" due it having been unilaterally converted to an article during the discussion. I chose to boldly implement the apparent consensus of that discussion and the previous discussions linked from it, and reverted it to a disambiguation page. That action has been reverted due to a perceived lack of discussion. I would welcome your comments at Talk:Criticism of Wikipedia to see if consensus can be reached again for an dab page, article or redirect. Thryduulf ( talk) 00:40, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
The article 1-2-3 (game) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
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I dream of horses If you reply here, please leave me a {{
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my talk page. @ 18:21, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
Hey all :). We've just deployed another set of features for Page Curation. They include flyouts from the icons in Special:NewPagesFeed, showing who reviewed an article and when, a listing of this in the "info" flyout, and a general re-jigging of the info flyout - we've also fixed the weird bug with page_titles_having_underscores_instead_of_spaces in messages sent to talkpages, and introduced CSD logging! As always, these features will need some work - but any feedback would be most welcome. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 18:20, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi. The Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon? article's plot section has been suspected to be a copyright violation here.
Text is copied verbatim from the show's official Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/arnavkushibestjodi/info and from a number of other sources on the web. Googling for snippets of text from this plot summary returns a variety of pages which predate the insertion of text into the Wikipedia article, though some other cases are less clear-cut. For example, there's a lot of duplication of text with a plot summary in a blog post at http://watchonlineweeklyserial.blogspot.de/2012/08/iss-pyaar-ko-kya-naam-doon-14th.html but it was posted on the same day as the material on Wikipedia.
— User:Psychonaut
There seems to be a shortage in the amount of administrators who clear these situations. I made a rewrite of the Copyrighted section (plot)- Talk:Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon?/Temp. Think you could help clear the problem? Therealdeepi ( talk) 20:09, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi! apologies but questions from a real noob, I had something about the listing for the org i work with, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Voice_Project. it redirects from here http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=The_Voice_Project&redirect=no and appears we're the only one with that name now. Can we lose the (charity) parenthetical and just be The Voice Project without breaking links around wikipedia? Houseop ( talk) 20:18, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
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Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 12:15, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
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Hi! Welcome to the sixth edition of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter of the Teahouse!
As always, thanks for supporting the Teahouse project! Stop by and visit us today!
You are receiving The Tea Leaf after expressing interest or participating in the Teahouse! To remove yourself from receiving future newsletters, please remove your username here. EdwardsBot ( talk) 00:05, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
SarahStierch ( talk) 22:40, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
The
Help Project Newsletter Issue IV - September 2012 | |
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Hi, and welcome to the fourth issue of the Help Project newsletter. It's been another busy month in the world of Wikipedia help. The results from the in-person usability tests conducted as part of the help pages fellowship have been released. There are no great surprises here, the tests confirmed that people have trouble with the existing help system, and people looking for help on the same topic often end up at wildly different pages. Editors who experienced a tutorial and/or edited a sandbox as part of their learning were noticeably more confident when editing a real article. Drawing on that, three new "Introduction to" tutorials for new users have been created: referencing, uploading images and navigating Wikipedia. These join the popular existing introductions to policies and guidelines and talk pages. Feel free to edit them, but please do remember that the idea is to keep them simple and as free from extraneous details as possible. All three have been added to Help:Getting started, which is intended to be the new focal point for new editors, and will also be seeing a redesign soon. In other news, the Article Feedback Tool (AFT) can now be used to collect feedback on help pages. By default it has been deployed to all pages in the Help: namespace. It can be disabled on any page by adding Category:Article Feedback Blacklist, or enabled for pages in other namespaces by adding Category:Article Feedback 5 Additional Articles. Once a page has AFT applied, you can add feedback using the form which appears at the bottom of it. Feedback can be reviewed by clicking "View feedback" in the sidebar, or the "Feedback from my watched pages" link at the top of your watchlist. I'm now entering the final month of my fellowship, and will be focusing my efforts on making much needed improvements to Help:Contents, the main entrance point to our help system. It's been a pleasure working as a fellow, and I just want to thank all the people who have helped me or offered advice over the past months. That definitely won't be the end of my involvement in the Help Project though, I'll be sticking around as a volunteer and continuing to write this newsletter. Any comments or suggestions for future issues are welcome at Wikipedia:Help Project/Newsletter. If you don't wish to receive this newsletter on your talk page in future then just edit the participants page and add "no newsletter" next to your name. |
You commented in the RfD discussion about Criticism of Wikipedia at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2012 August 5#Criticism of Wikipedia. That discussion was closed as "moot" due it having been unilaterally converted to an article during the discussion. I chose to boldly implement the apparent consensus of that discussion and the previous discussions linked from it, and reverted it to a disambiguation page. That action has been reverted due to a perceived lack of discussion. I would welcome your comments at Talk:Criticism of Wikipedia to see if consensus can be reached again for an dab page, article or redirect. Thryduulf ( talk) 00:40, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
The article 1-2-3 (game) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}}
notice, but please explain why in your
edit summary or on
the article's talk page.
Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}}
will stop the
proposed deletion process, but other
deletion processes exist. In particular, the
speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and
articles for deletion allows discussion to reach
consensus for deletion.
I dream of horses If you reply here, please leave me a {{
Talkback}} message on
my talk page. @ 18:21, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
Hey all :). We've just deployed another set of features for Page Curation. They include flyouts from the icons in Special:NewPagesFeed, showing who reviewed an article and when, a listing of this in the "info" flyout, and a general re-jigging of the info flyout - we've also fixed the weird bug with page_titles_having_underscores_instead_of_spaces in messages sent to talkpages, and introduced CSD logging! As always, these features will need some work - but any feedback would be most welcome. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 18:20, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi. The Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon? article's plot section has been suspected to be a copyright violation here.
Text is copied verbatim from the show's official Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/arnavkushibestjodi/info and from a number of other sources on the web. Googling for snippets of text from this plot summary returns a variety of pages which predate the insertion of text into the Wikipedia article, though some other cases are less clear-cut. For example, there's a lot of duplication of text with a plot summary in a blog post at http://watchonlineweeklyserial.blogspot.de/2012/08/iss-pyaar-ko-kya-naam-doon-14th.html but it was posted on the same day as the material on Wikipedia.
— User:Psychonaut
There seems to be a shortage in the amount of administrators who clear these situations. I made a rewrite of the Copyrighted section (plot)- Talk:Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon?/Temp. Think you could help clear the problem? Therealdeepi ( talk) 20:09, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi! apologies but questions from a real noob, I had something about the listing for the org i work with, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Voice_Project. it redirects from here http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=The_Voice_Project&redirect=no and appears we're the only one with that name now. Can we lose the (charity) parenthetical and just be The Voice Project without breaking links around wikipedia? Houseop ( talk) 20:18, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
Good news! You are approved for access to 77,000 full-text books and 4 million journal, magazine, newspaper articles, and encyclopedia entries. Check your Wikipedia email!
If you need help, please first ask Ocaasi at wikiocaasi@yahoo.com and, second, email QuestiaHelp@cengage.com along with your Offer ID and Promotional Code (subject: Wikipedia).
Thanks for helping make Wikipedia better. Enjoy your research! Cheers, Ocaasi EdwardsBot ( talk) 05:01, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
Articles for Creation is desperately short of reviewers! We are looking for urgent help, from experienced editors, in reviewing submissions in the pending submissions queue. Currently there are 3339 submissions waiting to be reviewed and many help requests at our Help Desk.
If the answer to these questions is yes, then please read the reviewing instructions and donate a little of your time to helping tackle the backlog. You might wish to add {{ AFC status}} or {{ AfC Defcon}} to your userpage, which will alert you to the number of open submissions.
News
|
Sent on behalf of
WikiProject Articles for creation. If you do not wish to receive anymore messages from this WikiProject, please remove your username from
this page.
Happy reviewing!
TheSpecialUser
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Hey Benzband/Archives. This will be, if not our final newsletter, one of the final ones :). After months of churning away at this project, our final version (apart from a few tweaks and bugfixes) is now live. Changes between this and the last release include deletion tag logging, a centralised log, and fixes to things like edit summaries.
Hopefully you like what we've done with the place; suggestions for future work on it, complaints and bugs to the usual address :). We'll be holding a couple of office hours sessions, which I hope you'll all attend. Many thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 11:25, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
We are currently running a study on the effects of adding additional information to SuggestBot’s recommendations. Participation in the study is voluntary. Should you wish to not participate in the study, or have questions or concerns, you can find contact information in the consent information sheet.
We have added information about the quality of the suggested articles using a Low/Medium/High scale which goes from Low to High .
SuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun!
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SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!
If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom ( talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot ( talk) 00:48, 26 September 2012 (UTC)