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Please see WP:WAF. The article is ~75% plot summary. Rather than the plot summary being a nominal portion of the topic, it is nearly the entire thing. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 23:07, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
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Hey Ciridae! Saw that you were doing a lot of assessment for WP:Novels. I would recommend using the assessment tool at User:Kephir/gadgets/rater, which should help a lot with making assessment quicker. Let me know if you ever have any questions/thoughts, Sadads ( talk) 16:33, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
Great work on the navboxes like Template:Robin Hobb. Those are really important tools for connecting the more well known works by authors with less well known works :) Its an awesome project to be doing with Fantasy novels. I would highly recommend continuing to think about the Orphaned article backlog in the Novels project more generally, which can also be solved with navigational boxes. For a list of articles that need this work and fall in the novels scope, see this listing. The tool also lays out the various other WP:Backlog items that would be great to work on. Let me know if you ever need more help working on articles: I would be happy to mentor you if, you need help: we need more curators of WP:Novels content :) Sadads ( talk) 15:07, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
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Issue 14, October-November 2015
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Hi Ciridae, just wondering why you reverted my addition of the category:Pigs in literature? I added it as (some of) the books have a character, Fener, a god of war who appears in the form of a boar, and is also known as the Boar of Summer, and Tusked Sower of War. .
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Hello there! Happy to be writing this newsletter once more. This month:
Some good news: the Wikimedia Foundation has renewed WikiProject X. This means we can continue focusing on making WikiProjects better.
During our first round of work, we created a prototype WikiProject based on two ideas: (1) WikiProjects should clearly present things for people to do, and (2) The content of WikiProjects should be automated as much as possible. We launched pilots, and for the most part it works. But this approach will not work for the long term. While it makes certain aspects of running a WikiProject easier, it makes the maintenance aspects harder.
We are working on a major overhaul that will address these issues. New features will include:
The end goal is a collaboration tool that can be used by WikiProjects but also by any edit-a-thon or group of people that want to coordinate on improving articles. Though implemented as an extension, the underlying content will be wikitext, meaning that you can continue to use categories, templates, and other features as you normally would.
This will take a lot of work, and we are just getting started. What would you like to see? I invite you to discuss on our talk page.
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This month:
Development of the extension for setting up WikiProjects, as described in the last issue of this newsletter, is currently underway. No terribly exciting news on this front.
In the meantime, we are working on a prototype for a new service we hope to announce soon. The problem: there are requests scattered all across Wikipedia, including requests for new articles and requests for improvements to existing articles. We Wikipedians are very good at coming up with lists of things to do. But once we write these lists, where do they end up? How can we make them useful for all editors—even those who do not browse the missing articles lists, or the particular WikiProjects that have lists?
Introducing Wikipedia Requests, a new tool to centralize the various lists of requests around Wikipedia. Requests will be tagged by category and WikiProject, making it easier to find requests based on what your interests are. Accompanying this service will be a bot that will let you generate reports from this database on any wiki page, including WikiProjects. This means that once a request is filed centrally, it can syndicated all throughout Wikipedia, and once it is fulfilled, it will be marked as "complete" throughout Wikipedia. The idea for this service came about when I saw that it was easy to put together to-do lists based on database queries, but it was harder to do this for human-generated requests when those requests are scattered throughout the wiki, siloed throughout several pages. This should especially be useful for WikiProjects that have overlapping interests.
The newsletter this month is fairly brief; not a lot of news, just checking in to say that we are hard at work and hope to have more for you soon.
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Issue 16, February-March 2016
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This month:
In the last issue of the WikiProject X Newsletter, I discussed the upcoming Wikipedia Requests system: a central database for outstanding work on Wikipedia. I am pleased to announce Wikipedia Requests is live! Its purpose is to supplement automatically generated lists, such as those from SuggestBot, Reports bot, or Wikidata. It is currently being demonstrated on WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health (which I work on as part of my NIOSH duties) and WikiProject Women scientists.
Adding a request is as simple as filling out a form. Just go to the Add form to add your request. Adding sources will help ensure that your request is fulfilled more quickly. And when a request is fulfilled, simply click "mark as complete" and it will be removed from all the lists it's on. All at the click of a button! (If anyone is concerned, all actions are logged.)
With this new service is a template to transclude these requests: {{
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The value of Wikipedia Requests comes from being a centralized database. The long work to migrating individual lists into this combined list is slowly underway. As of writing, we have 883 open tasks logged in Wikipedia Requests. We need your help building this list.
If you know of a list of missing articles, or of outstanding tasks for existing articles, that you would like to migrate to this new system, head on over to Wikipedia:Wikipedia Requests#Transition project and help out. Doing this will help put your list in front of more eyes—more than just your own WikiProject.
WikiProject X maintains a database that associates article talk pages (and draft talk pages) with WikiProjects. This database powers many of the reports that Reports bot generates. However, until very recently, this database was not made available to others who might find its data useful. It's only common sense to open up the database and let others build tools with it.
And indeed: Citation Hunt, the game to add citations to Wikipedia, now lets you filter by WikiProject, using the data from our database.
Are you a tool developer interested in using this? Here are some details: the database resides on Tool Labs with the name s52475__wpx_p
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Issue 17, April-May 2016
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The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 02:36, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
Check out this month's issue of the WikiProject X newsletter, featuring the first screenshot of our new CollaborationKit software!
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Issue 18, June–July 2016
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Issue 19, September–October 2016
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Hi.
I got your warning regarding Ian Cameron Esslemont's image and was wondering how the usage of the image was a copyright violation, since it's an image used by nearly every other website mentioning the author (which does imply fair use)?
Fair use provisions of U.S. copyright law allow use of copyrighted materials on a limited basis for specific purposes without the permission of the copyright holder. [1]
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The usage on Wikipedia is only for the subject's article, which also coincides with CC License 4.0.
Look at this comment as nothing more than genuine curiosity from someone who has little experience with wikimedia and would like to know more in order to prevent such missteps in the future.
Thanks in advance.
Never mind. After reading up a bit, I see where I went wrong.
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On 7 March 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Light that Failed, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Rudyard Kipling's first novel, The Light that Failed, was published in at least four different versions over a two-year period? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Light that Failed. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, The Light that Failed), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Issue 22, April-May 2017
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Issue 23, June-July 2017
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Issue 24, August-September 2017
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Issue 25, October – November 2017
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Issue 26, December – January 2018
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Issue 30, August – Septmeber 2018
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This month: A general update.
The current status of the project is as follows:
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Issue 31, October – Novemeber 2018
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Issue 38, January – April 2020
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On 21 May 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article James Strachan-Davidson, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that James Strachan-Davidson, Master of Balliol College, Oxford, believed that the college should be as "wife and children" to its fellows? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/James Strachan-Davidson. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, James Strachan-Davidson), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Issue 39, May – June 2020
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On 16 November 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Trimeresurus salazar, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a newly discovered species of green pit viper, Trimeresurus salazar, was named after Salazar Slytherin from the Harry Potter series? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Trimeresurus salazar. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Trimeresurus salazar), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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On 9 February 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Frank Avery Hutchins, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Frank Avery Hutchins has been called the "father of Wisconsin public libraries"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Frank Avery Hutchins. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Frank Avery Hutchins), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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On 25 February 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Rakaŭ Ghetto, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that an estimated 1,050 Jews were killed in the Rakaŭ Ghetto between its creation and liquidation? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Rakaŭ Ghetto. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Rakaŭ Ghetto), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Please see WP:WAF. The article is ~75% plot summary. Rather than the plot summary being a nominal portion of the topic, it is nearly the entire thing. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 23:07, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
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Hey Ciridae! Saw that you were doing a lot of assessment for WP:Novels. I would recommend using the assessment tool at User:Kephir/gadgets/rater, which should help a lot with making assessment quicker. Let me know if you ever have any questions/thoughts, Sadads ( talk) 16:33, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
Great work on the navboxes like Template:Robin Hobb. Those are really important tools for connecting the more well known works by authors with less well known works :) Its an awesome project to be doing with Fantasy novels. I would highly recommend continuing to think about the Orphaned article backlog in the Novels project more generally, which can also be solved with navigational boxes. For a list of articles that need this work and fall in the novels scope, see this listing. The tool also lays out the various other WP:Backlog items that would be great to work on. Let me know if you ever need more help working on articles: I would be happy to mentor you if, you need help: we need more curators of WP:Novels content :) Sadads ( talk) 15:07, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
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Issue 14, October-November 2015
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Hi Ciridae, just wondering why you reverted my addition of the category:Pigs in literature? I added it as (some of) the books have a character, Fener, a god of war who appears in the form of a boar, and is also known as the Boar of Summer, and Tusked Sower of War. .
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During our first round of work, we created a prototype WikiProject based on two ideas: (1) WikiProjects should clearly present things for people to do, and (2) The content of WikiProjects should be automated as much as possible. We launched pilots, and for the most part it works. But this approach will not work for the long term. While it makes certain aspects of running a WikiProject easier, it makes the maintenance aspects harder.
We are working on a major overhaul that will address these issues. New features will include:
The end goal is a collaboration tool that can be used by WikiProjects but also by any edit-a-thon or group of people that want to coordinate on improving articles. Though implemented as an extension, the underlying content will be wikitext, meaning that you can continue to use categories, templates, and other features as you normally would.
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This month:
Development of the extension for setting up WikiProjects, as described in the last issue of this newsletter, is currently underway. No terribly exciting news on this front.
In the meantime, we are working on a prototype for a new service we hope to announce soon. The problem: there are requests scattered all across Wikipedia, including requests for new articles and requests for improvements to existing articles. We Wikipedians are very good at coming up with lists of things to do. But once we write these lists, where do they end up? How can we make them useful for all editors—even those who do not browse the missing articles lists, or the particular WikiProjects that have lists?
Introducing Wikipedia Requests, a new tool to centralize the various lists of requests around Wikipedia. Requests will be tagged by category and WikiProject, making it easier to find requests based on what your interests are. Accompanying this service will be a bot that will let you generate reports from this database on any wiki page, including WikiProjects. This means that once a request is filed centrally, it can syndicated all throughout Wikipedia, and once it is fulfilled, it will be marked as "complete" throughout Wikipedia. The idea for this service came about when I saw that it was easy to put together to-do lists based on database queries, but it was harder to do this for human-generated requests when those requests are scattered throughout the wiki, siloed throughout several pages. This should especially be useful for WikiProjects that have overlapping interests.
The newsletter this month is fairly brief; not a lot of news, just checking in to say that we are hard at work and hope to have more for you soon.
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This month:
In the last issue of the WikiProject X Newsletter, I discussed the upcoming Wikipedia Requests system: a central database for outstanding work on Wikipedia. I am pleased to announce Wikipedia Requests is live! Its purpose is to supplement automatically generated lists, such as those from SuggestBot, Reports bot, or Wikidata. It is currently being demonstrated on WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health (which I work on as part of my NIOSH duties) and WikiProject Women scientists.
Adding a request is as simple as filling out a form. Just go to the Add form to add your request. Adding sources will help ensure that your request is fulfilled more quickly. And when a request is fulfilled, simply click "mark as complete" and it will be removed from all the lists it's on. All at the click of a button! (If anyone is concerned, all actions are logged.)
With this new service is a template to transclude these requests: {{
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The value of Wikipedia Requests comes from being a centralized database. The long work to migrating individual lists into this combined list is slowly underway. As of writing, we have 883 open tasks logged in Wikipedia Requests. We need your help building this list.
If you know of a list of missing articles, or of outstanding tasks for existing articles, that you would like to migrate to this new system, head on over to Wikipedia:Wikipedia Requests#Transition project and help out. Doing this will help put your list in front of more eyes—more than just your own WikiProject.
WikiProject X maintains a database that associates article talk pages (and draft talk pages) with WikiProjects. This database powers many of the reports that Reports bot generates. However, until very recently, this database was not made available to others who might find its data useful. It's only common sense to open up the database and let others build tools with it.
And indeed: Citation Hunt, the game to add citations to Wikipedia, now lets you filter by WikiProject, using the data from our database.
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Issue 17, April-May 2016
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Issue 18, June–July 2016
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Issue 19, September–October 2016
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Hi.
I got your warning regarding Ian Cameron Esslemont's image and was wondering how the usage of the image was a copyright violation, since it's an image used by nearly every other website mentioning the author (which does imply fair use)?
Fair use provisions of U.S. copyright law allow use of copyrighted materials on a limited basis for specific purposes without the permission of the copyright holder. [1]
(Also:
WP:NFC)
The usage on Wikipedia is only for the subject's article, which also coincides with CC License 4.0.
Look at this comment as nothing more than genuine curiosity from someone who has little experience with wikimedia and would like to know more in order to prevent such missteps in the future.
Thanks in advance.
Never mind. After reading up a bit, I see where I went wrong.
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On 7 March 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Light that Failed, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Rudyard Kipling's first novel, The Light that Failed, was published in at least four different versions over a two-year period? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Light that Failed. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, The Light that Failed), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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On 21 May 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article James Strachan-Davidson, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that James Strachan-Davidson, Master of Balliol College, Oxford, believed that the college should be as "wife and children" to its fellows? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/James Strachan-Davidson. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, James Strachan-Davidson), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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On 16 November 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Trimeresurus salazar, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a newly discovered species of green pit viper, Trimeresurus salazar, was named after Salazar Slytherin from the Harry Potter series? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Trimeresurus salazar. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Trimeresurus salazar), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Issue 45, May – June 2021
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Issue 46, July – August 2021
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Issue 47, September – October 2021
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Issue 48, November – December 2021
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On 9 February 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Frank Avery Hutchins, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Frank Avery Hutchins has been called the "father of Wisconsin public libraries"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Frank Avery Hutchins. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Frank Avery Hutchins), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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On 25 February 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Rakaŭ Ghetto, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that an estimated 1,050 Jews were killed in the Rakaŭ Ghetto between its creation and liquidation? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Rakaŭ Ghetto. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Rakaŭ Ghetto), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Issue 49, January – February 2022
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Issue 50, March – April 2022
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Issue 51, May – June 2022
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I am /info/en/?search=User:Anil1956. I have been unable to access the Wikipedia library since 8th September. I see that besides me, you are the only other who has the same problem. Have you found some solution? Thanks
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Issue 52, July – August 2022
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Issue 53, September – October 2022
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