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Hi Dank,
Thanks very much for your earlier help on the FAC review of Fortress of Mimoyecques and my other related FACs. I wonder if I could ask you to look at my most recent FAC, Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/History of Gibraltar/archive1? It has a very heavy military history slant to it (not surprising given the history involved) so it might be something that you would be interested in. If you have any comments, they would be most welcome. Prioryman ( talk) 21:54, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi! Would you mind doing me a favor? So in short, a lot of our GAs and FAs say whether the road is a part of the National Highway System (United States) and briefly explain in a sentence what the NHS actually is to provide context to the reader.
However, someone, encouraged by the Help Desk, is concerned that this violates WP:SYNC as 1) the definition of the NHS could change and make all those articles invalid or 2) some of the articles say "a system of routes determined to be the most important for the nation's economy, mobility and defense" versus "a network of roadways important to the country's economy, defense, and mobility", the latter of which I purposefully rephrased to avoid any sort of attribution or plagiarism issues in my own articles. The editor does seem to take concern at "most" being missing from the second sentence.
As a prolific FA writer not associated with the U.S. Roads project, would you mind commenting at WT:USRD? The editor refuses to listen to "Road editors with some overarching agenda." Thanks! -- Rs chen 7754 09:56, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
Round 1 is now over. The top 64 scorers have progressed to round 2, where they have been randomly split into eight pools of eight. At the end of April, the top two from each pool, as well as the 16 highest scorers from those remaining, will progress to round 3. Commiserations to those eliminated; if you're interested in still being involved in the WikiCup, able and willing reviewers will always be needed, and if you're interested in getting involved with other collaborative projects, take a look at the WikiWomen's Month discussed below.
Round 1 saw 21 competitors with over 100 points, which is fantastic; that suggests that this year's competition is going to be highly competative. Our lower scores indicate this, too: A score of 19 was required to reach round 2, which was significantly higher than the 11 points required in 2012 and 8 points required in 2011. The score needed to reach round 3 will be higher, and may depend on pool groupings. In 2011, 41 points secured a round 3 place, while in 2012, 65 was needed. Our top three scorers in round 1 were:
Other contributors of note include:
Featured topics have still played no part in this year's competition, but once again, a
curious contribution has been offered by
The C of E (
submissions): did you know that there is a
Shit Brook in Shropshire? With April Fools' Day during the next round, there will probably be a good chance of more unusual articles...
March sees the WikiWomen's History Month, a series of collaborative efforts to aid the women's history WikiProject to coincide with Women's History Month and International Women's Day. A number of WikiCup participants have already started to take part. The project has a to-do list of articles needing work on the topic of women's history. Those interested in helping out with the project can find articles in need of attention there, or, alternatively, add articles to the list. Those interested in collaborating on articles on women's history are also welcome to use the WikiCup talk page to find others willing to lend a helping hand. Another collaboration currently running is an an effort from WikiCup participants to coordinate a number of Easter-themed did you know articles. Contributions are welcome!
A few final administrative issues. From now on, submission pages will need only a link to the article and a link to the nomination page, or, in the case of good article reviews, a link to the review only. See your submissions' page for details. This will hopefully make updating submission pages a little less tedious. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. 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 • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) J Milburn ( talk) 11:40, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi Dank, since you are interested in meetups in DC, I'd like to invite you to attend the Cato Institute's "Wikipedia and Legislative Data" events on March 14. (There's also an all day workshop on March 15; let me know if you are interested, we may be able to add more people.)
There will be an introduction to Wikipedia and open edit-a-thon in the afternoon, and a Sunshine Week Reception in the evening. I hope you can make it!
Hope to see you there! - Pete ( talk) 19:04, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
![]() | On 3 March 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Japanese battleship Yamashiro, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Vice Admiral Shōji Nishimura refused to abandon ship when his flagship, the battleship Yamashiro, was capsizing during the Battle of Surigao Strait in 1944? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Japanese battleship Yamashiro. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added 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. |
Graeme Bartlett ( talk) 00:03, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Guapo's at Tenleytown-AU on Saturday, March 9 at 5 PM All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!
For more information and to sign up, please see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 35. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 13:57, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi! Thanks for the offer. I plan to submit the Operation Flash and Operation Winter '94 to the WP:MILHIST A-class review at some point, but I plan to wait until the Operation Storm A-class review is out of the way. Any help is most welcome, and I suspect prose will require copyediting since English is not my native language.-- Tomobe03 ( talk) 17:17, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi Dank, just trying to see if I can find a GAN reviewer for American Saddlebred, which has been languishing in the GAN queue for a while. I'm not in the wikicup, but my co-editor, Dana boomer, is, and I'd like to help her get this one in the can, so to speak. Any chance you could pop by there or get someone you respect to do so? Thanks! Montanabw (talk) 20:03, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
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A tag has been placed on MiniHostels, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.
If you think that your page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, you can place a request here. Unforgettableid ( talk) 01:18, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi! I got a warning in the GAN template that "Warfare" is not a recognized topic when I tried to make a new nom - I pressed the "show preview" button (it might as well sit there in the queue). I'm not sure if something else should be used - I never got such a message before. What should I do? Thanks.-- Tomobe03 ( talk) 22:13, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
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You don't get nearly enough credit for the work you do on WP:UPDATE, and I just wanted to acknowledge that. — Ched : ? 23:35, 11 March 2013 (UTC) |
[1] The issue at my second RfA was not multiple accounts. It was that Deskana had found a few IP edits I had made while logged out. There were no other accounts. Enigma msg 17:58, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
I placed comments on the page, thanks for including me. Tiggerjay ( talk) 02:03, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
In honor of Women's History Month, the Smithsonian and the National Museum of Women in the Arts are teaming up to organize a Women in the Arts Meetup & Edit-a-thon on Friday, March 29, 2013 from 10:00am - 5:00pm. The event is focused on encouraging women editors while improving Wikipedia entries about women artists and art world figures. This event is free of charge, but participation is limited to 20 volunteers, so RSVP today! Sarasays ( talk) 23:12, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi Dank, I saw your featured article submission for the Fuso class so I thought i'd try and help as the non milhist person, let me know if you need anything else regarding your noms. Thanks! ★ ★ Retro Lord ★★ 12:54, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Finally got the comments done there is you want to take a look. Wizardman 16:41, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi! You were kind enough to look over my FAC of Dudley Clarke a little while ago, and I wondered if I could interest you in the FAC of Operation Hardboiled :) Your insight before was really helpful, so I thought I would be cheeky and solicit your comments :D -- Errant ( chat!) 23:36, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
Think Middle Ages should be part of the project? I lean that way but am not sure. I'd love to take it through an A class review before I brave FAC with it... I think we're getting really close on FAC status for the thing. I just put it up for PR also... Ealdgyth - Talk 23:41, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
I wonder if you'd be willing to take a look at the article again, and see if there's anything we can do to bring it to FA? At this point it's all ready is in copyediting, and several editors, including you, have spend quite a lot of time on that already. I think it would be a shame to forget your efforts and let it slide from the FA... it's so close. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:00, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
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Impressive work on Fusō-class battleship. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 11:14, 24 March 2013 (UTC) |
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Hi, Dank. Could you, if possible, review Uruguayan War? If you're not interested, don't worry. Regards, -- Lecen ( talk) 14:08, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
Just returned from a wikibreak, I will look at it now... thanks Tiggerjay ( talk) 05:37, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi Dank– was wondering, could you take a quick look through this article? Need a pair of eyes on this one. If you're not interested don't worry. Mikecf10 ( talk) 16:53, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
We are halfway through round two. Pool A sees the strongest competition, with five out of eight of its competitors scoring over 100, and Pool H is lagging, with half of its competitors yet to score. WikiCup veterans lead overall; Pool A's
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Today has seen a number of Easter-themed did you knows from WikiCup participants, and March has seen collaboration from contestants with
WikiWomen's History Month. It's great to see the WikiCup being used as a locus of collaboration; if you know of any collaborative efforts going on, or want to start anything up, please feel free to use the WikiCup talk page to help find interested editors. As well as fostering collaboration, we're also seeing the Cup encouraging the improvement of high-importance articles through the bonus point system. Highlights from the last month include GAs on physicist
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European hare (
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Circinus (
Keilana (
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Third Epistle of John (
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submissions)). All of these subjects were covered on at least 50 Wikipedias at the beginning of the year and, subsequently, each contribution was awarded at least three times as many points as normal.
Wikipedians who enjoy friendly competition may be interested in participating in April's wikification drive. While wikifying an article is typically not considered "significant work" such that it can be claimed for WikiCup points, such gnomish work is often invaluable in keeping articles in shape, and is typically very helpful for new writers who may not be familiar with formatting norms.
A quick reminder: now, submission pages will need only a link to the article and a link to the nomination page, or, in the case of good article reviews, a link to the review only. See your submissions' page for details. This will hopefully make updating submission pages a little less tedious. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. 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 • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) J Milburn ( talk) 22:33, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
Aye there, 'Dank', I'm a member of WikiProject Ships. To help naval historians here at Wikipedia in the effort of writing and citing naval history articles sometime ago I created the List of ships captured in the 19th century and Bibliography of early American naval history pages. Over the last year(+) I have been tracking down and including names of captured ships and naval history texts for inclusion in either of these articles. I like to think that I have included most captured ships (19th century) and most naval history texts (covering the 1700s-1800s) for inclusion in these articles, so if you know of any captured ships or naval history texts that are not included would you kindly include them, either on the page or the talk page of the appropriate article? Any help would be a big help and feedback is always welcomed. Thanx! -- Gwillhickers ( talk) 21:42, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
Can you figure out how to explain Template:Campaign to me so I can make a box about the Norman Conquest? I can figure out the parameters, but do I make a NEW page such as Campaignbox: Norman Conquest or do I just slap {{campaign}} on a page within to start or what? Ealdgyth - Talk 00:16, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, April 13 at 5:30 PM All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!
For more information and to sign up, please see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 36. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 19:02, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
Does it need to be a crat to be the second closer of this proposal or can it be any regular user/administrator. I'm willing to be the second closer in that discussion as an independent administrator with no opinion on this and considering early May is when I got my two week break from school thus I could read the entire debate carefully with Wizardman. Secret account 04:36, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for two exciting events this weekend:
On the evening of Friday, April 19, we're hosting our first-ever WikiSalon at our K Street office. The WikiSalon will be a twice-monthly informal meetup and collaborative editing event to help build the community of Wikimedia enthusiasts here in DC; please join us for its inaugural session. Light refreshments will be provided.
On Saturday, April 20, we've partnered with the George Washington University to host the All Things GW Edit-a-Thon at the Teamsters Labor History Research Center. Please join us for behind-the-scenes tours of the University Archives and help edit articles about GWU history.
We look forward to seeing you at one or both of these events! Kirill [talk] 20:07, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi! If you have time, could you take a look at
Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/California State Route 67/archive1 that needs a copyedit? If not, do you know of anyone who would be interested? (Out of the three articles I've sent to FAC the last few months this is the shortest
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G'day Dan. Good to go. Regards, Peacemaker67 ( send... over) 04:58, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Dank,
Thanks very much for your earlier help on the FAC review of Fortress of Mimoyecques and my other related FACs. I wonder if I could ask you to look at my most recent FAC, Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/History of Gibraltar/archive1? It has a very heavy military history slant to it (not surprising given the history involved) so it might be something that you would be interested in. If you have any comments, they would be most welcome. Prioryman ( talk) 21:54, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi! Would you mind doing me a favor? So in short, a lot of our GAs and FAs say whether the road is a part of the National Highway System (United States) and briefly explain in a sentence what the NHS actually is to provide context to the reader.
However, someone, encouraged by the Help Desk, is concerned that this violates WP:SYNC as 1) the definition of the NHS could change and make all those articles invalid or 2) some of the articles say "a system of routes determined to be the most important for the nation's economy, mobility and defense" versus "a network of roadways important to the country's economy, defense, and mobility", the latter of which I purposefully rephrased to avoid any sort of attribution or plagiarism issues in my own articles. The editor does seem to take concern at "most" being missing from the second sentence.
As a prolific FA writer not associated with the U.S. Roads project, would you mind commenting at WT:USRD? The editor refuses to listen to "Road editors with some overarching agenda." Thanks! -- Rs chen 7754 09:56, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
Round 1 is now over. The top 64 scorers have progressed to round 2, where they have been randomly split into eight pools of eight. At the end of April, the top two from each pool, as well as the 16 highest scorers from those remaining, will progress to round 3. Commiserations to those eliminated; if you're interested in still being involved in the WikiCup, able and willing reviewers will always be needed, and if you're interested in getting involved with other collaborative projects, take a look at the WikiWomen's Month discussed below.
Round 1 saw 21 competitors with over 100 points, which is fantastic; that suggests that this year's competition is going to be highly competative. Our lower scores indicate this, too: A score of 19 was required to reach round 2, which was significantly higher than the 11 points required in 2012 and 8 points required in 2011. The score needed to reach round 3 will be higher, and may depend on pool groupings. In 2011, 41 points secured a round 3 place, while in 2012, 65 was needed. Our top three scorers in round 1 were:
Other contributors of note include:
Featured topics have still played no part in this year's competition, but once again, a
curious contribution has been offered by
The C of E (
submissions): did you know that there is a
Shit Brook in Shropshire? With April Fools' Day during the next round, there will probably be a good chance of more unusual articles...
March sees the WikiWomen's History Month, a series of collaborative efforts to aid the women's history WikiProject to coincide with Women's History Month and International Women's Day. A number of WikiCup participants have already started to take part. The project has a to-do list of articles needing work on the topic of women's history. Those interested in helping out with the project can find articles in need of attention there, or, alternatively, add articles to the list. Those interested in collaborating on articles on women's history are also welcome to use the WikiCup talk page to find others willing to lend a helping hand. Another collaboration currently running is an an effort from WikiCup participants to coordinate a number of Easter-themed did you know articles. Contributions are welcome!
A few final administrative issues. From now on, submission pages will need only a link to the article and a link to the nomination page, or, in the case of good article reviews, a link to the review only. See your submissions' page for details. This will hopefully make updating submission pages a little less tedious. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. 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 • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) J Milburn ( talk) 11:40, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi Dank, since you are interested in meetups in DC, I'd like to invite you to attend the Cato Institute's "Wikipedia and Legislative Data" events on March 14. (There's also an all day workshop on March 15; let me know if you are interested, we may be able to add more people.)
There will be an introduction to Wikipedia and open edit-a-thon in the afternoon, and a Sunshine Week Reception in the evening. I hope you can make it!
Hope to see you there! - Pete ( talk) 19:04, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
![]() | On 3 March 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Japanese battleship Yamashiro, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Vice Admiral Shōji Nishimura refused to abandon ship when his flagship, the battleship Yamashiro, was capsizing during the Battle of Surigao Strait in 1944? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Japanese battleship Yamashiro. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added 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. |
Graeme Bartlett ( talk) 00:03, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Guapo's at Tenleytown-AU on Saturday, March 9 at 5 PM All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!
For more information and to sign up, please see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 35. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 13:57, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi! Thanks for the offer. I plan to submit the Operation Flash and Operation Winter '94 to the WP:MILHIST A-class review at some point, but I plan to wait until the Operation Storm A-class review is out of the way. Any help is most welcome, and I suspect prose will require copyediting since English is not my native language.-- Tomobe03 ( talk) 17:17, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi Dank, just trying to see if I can find a GAN reviewer for American Saddlebred, which has been languishing in the GAN queue for a while. I'm not in the wikicup, but my co-editor, Dana boomer, is, and I'd like to help her get this one in the can, so to speak. Any chance you could pop by there or get someone you respect to do so? Thanks! Montanabw (talk) 20:03, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
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A tag has been placed on MiniHostels, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.
If you think that your page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, you can place a request here. Unforgettableid ( talk) 01:18, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi! I got a warning in the GAN template that "Warfare" is not a recognized topic when I tried to make a new nom - I pressed the "show preview" button (it might as well sit there in the queue). I'm not sure if something else should be used - I never got such a message before. What should I do? Thanks.-- Tomobe03 ( talk) 22:13, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
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You don't get nearly enough credit for the work you do on WP:UPDATE, and I just wanted to acknowledge that. — Ched : ? 23:35, 11 March 2013 (UTC) |
[1] The issue at my second RfA was not multiple accounts. It was that Deskana had found a few IP edits I had made while logged out. There were no other accounts. Enigma msg 17:58, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
I placed comments on the page, thanks for including me. Tiggerjay ( talk) 02:03, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
In honor of Women's History Month, the Smithsonian and the National Museum of Women in the Arts are teaming up to organize a Women in the Arts Meetup & Edit-a-thon on Friday, March 29, 2013 from 10:00am - 5:00pm. The event is focused on encouraging women editors while improving Wikipedia entries about women artists and art world figures. This event is free of charge, but participation is limited to 20 volunteers, so RSVP today! Sarasays ( talk) 23:12, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi Dank, I saw your featured article submission for the Fuso class so I thought i'd try and help as the non milhist person, let me know if you need anything else regarding your noms. Thanks! ★ ★ Retro Lord ★★ 12:54, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Finally got the comments done there is you want to take a look. Wizardman 16:41, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi! You were kind enough to look over my FAC of Dudley Clarke a little while ago, and I wondered if I could interest you in the FAC of Operation Hardboiled :) Your insight before was really helpful, so I thought I would be cheeky and solicit your comments :D -- Errant ( chat!) 23:36, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
Think Middle Ages should be part of the project? I lean that way but am not sure. I'd love to take it through an A class review before I brave FAC with it... I think we're getting really close on FAC status for the thing. I just put it up for PR also... Ealdgyth - Talk 23:41, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
I wonder if you'd be willing to take a look at the article again, and see if there's anything we can do to bring it to FA? At this point it's all ready is in copyediting, and several editors, including you, have spend quite a lot of time on that already. I think it would be a shame to forget your efforts and let it slide from the FA... it's so close. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:00, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
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Impressive work on Fusō-class battleship. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 11:14, 24 March 2013 (UTC) |
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Hi, Dank. Could you, if possible, review Uruguayan War? If you're not interested, don't worry. Regards, -- Lecen ( talk) 14:08, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
Just returned from a wikibreak, I will look at it now... thanks Tiggerjay ( talk) 05:37, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi Dank– was wondering, could you take a quick look through this article? Need a pair of eyes on this one. If you're not interested don't worry. Mikecf10 ( talk) 16:53, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
We are halfway through round two. Pool A sees the strongest competition, with five out of eight of its competitors scoring over 100, and Pool H is lagging, with half of its competitors yet to score. WikiCup veterans lead overall; Pool A's
Sturmvogel_66 (
submissions) (2010's winner) leads overall, with poolmate
Miyagawa (
submissions) (a finalist in 2011 and 2012) not far behind. Pool F's
Casliber (
submissions) (a finalist in 2010, 2011 and 2012) is in third. The top two scorers in each pool, as well as the next highest 16 scorers overall, will progress to round three at the end of April.
Today has seen a number of Easter-themed did you knows from WikiCup participants, and March has seen collaboration from contestants with
WikiWomen's History Month. It's great to see the WikiCup being used as a locus of collaboration; if you know of any collaborative efforts going on, or want to start anything up, please feel free to use the WikiCup talk page to help find interested editors. As well as fostering collaboration, we're also seeing the Cup encouraging the improvement of high-importance articles through the bonus point system. Highlights from the last month include GAs on physicist
Niels Bohr (
Hawkeye7 (
submissions)), on the
European hare (
Cwmhiraeth (
submissions)), on the constellation
Circinus (
Keilana (
submissions) and
Casliber (
submissions)) and on the
Third Epistle of John (
Cerebellum (
submissions)). All of these subjects were covered on at least 50 Wikipedias at the beginning of the year and, subsequently, each contribution was awarded at least three times as many points as normal.
Wikipedians who enjoy friendly competition may be interested in participating in April's wikification drive. While wikifying an article is typically not considered "significant work" such that it can be claimed for WikiCup points, such gnomish work is often invaluable in keeping articles in shape, and is typically very helpful for new writers who may not be familiar with formatting norms.
A quick reminder: now, submission pages will need only a link to the article and a link to the nomination page, or, in the case of good article reviews, a link to the review only. See your submissions' page for details. This will hopefully make updating submission pages a little less tedious. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. 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 • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) J Milburn ( talk) 22:33, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
Aye there, 'Dank', I'm a member of WikiProject Ships. To help naval historians here at Wikipedia in the effort of writing and citing naval history articles sometime ago I created the List of ships captured in the 19th century and Bibliography of early American naval history pages. Over the last year(+) I have been tracking down and including names of captured ships and naval history texts for inclusion in either of these articles. I like to think that I have included most captured ships (19th century) and most naval history texts (covering the 1700s-1800s) for inclusion in these articles, so if you know of any captured ships or naval history texts that are not included would you kindly include them, either on the page or the talk page of the appropriate article? Any help would be a big help and feedback is always welcomed. Thanx! -- Gwillhickers ( talk) 21:42, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
Can you figure out how to explain Template:Campaign to me so I can make a box about the Norman Conquest? I can figure out the parameters, but do I make a NEW page such as Campaignbox: Norman Conquest or do I just slap {{campaign}} on a page within to start or what? Ealdgyth - Talk 00:16, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, April 13 at 5:30 PM All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!
For more information and to sign up, please see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 36. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 19:02, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
Does it need to be a crat to be the second closer of this proposal or can it be any regular user/administrator. I'm willing to be the second closer in that discussion as an independent administrator with no opinion on this and considering early May is when I got my two week break from school thus I could read the entire debate carefully with Wizardman. Secret account 04:36, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for two exciting events this weekend:
On the evening of Friday, April 19, we're hosting our first-ever WikiSalon at our K Street office. The WikiSalon will be a twice-monthly informal meetup and collaborative editing event to help build the community of Wikimedia enthusiasts here in DC; please join us for its inaugural session. Light refreshments will be provided.
On Saturday, April 20, we've partnered with the George Washington University to host the All Things GW Edit-a-Thon at the Teamsters Labor History Research Center. Please join us for behind-the-scenes tours of the University Archives and help edit articles about GWU history.
We look forward to seeing you at one or both of these events! Kirill [talk] 20:07, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi! If you have time, could you take a look at
Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/California State Route 67/archive1 that needs a copyedit? If not, do you know of anyone who would be interested? (Out of the three articles I've sent to FAC the last few months this is the shortest
) --
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20:18, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
G'day Dan. Good to go. Regards, Peacemaker67 ( send... over) 04:58, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
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