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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar | ||
Thanks for helping me out with this article. You definitely deserve this, considering you were kind enough to take time off from your Wikibreak to help out. The Utahraptor Talk/ Contribs 13:46, 24 August 2011 (UTC) |
You're welcome. We will need to keep going on the references until they all have been converted to the new style. I just got bored and moved onto sonething else, but will return and finish up later. -- Ninja Dianna ( Talk) 15:30, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi
It seems I have caused a problem with an editor and they have posted on the coordinators talk page. I have replied but it has hit me a little personally and I cannot continue discussion. I already had a great feeling of guilt about the mistaken edits on the Ducie article when they were reverted, hence my lol on their talk page (meant as a "wow how could I have done that, must have been an off day"). As something else seems to be driving the editor on to reverse their seemingly cordial discussion and strike out their previous comments I feel others should comment as I am too close to the matter.
The conversations that brought this about are [ [1]] User_talk:Stfg/Archive_1#Boldface (used to be one but were later split) and User_talk:Chaosdruid#Boldface. Discussion on coordinators talk - Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Guild_of_Copy_Editors/Coordinators#GOCE_culture
(copied to all coordinators pages) Chaosdruid ( talk) 18:07, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
Welcome back! I hope you enjoyed your vacation! The Utahraptor Talk/ Contribs 04:37, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, it is my first time here in Wikipedia, would you mind if you can give me some tip/rules about this site? Thank you for your consideration Hamham31 ( talk) 06:46, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
It may interest you to know that I have created a peer review for Silver Reef, Utah here. Feel free to leave comments. The Utahraptor Talk/ Contribs 21:10, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Wikid77 ( talk) here. We need more people for the Sept. backlog drive, perhaps 80(?) people would be great. I have asked questions at new talk-page:
If that is the wrong page for these issues, then let me know, here, and I will redo those talk-page topics wherever you would prefer them to be listed. Thanks. - Wikid77 21:13, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
I never knew how to do that myself. -- Againme ( talk) 17:55, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi
Hope you enjoyed your break. Unfortunately one of my nieces was taken very ill and admitted to hospital in NY during the hurricane and that plus a matter here had me AWOL. I am back again as of tonight (hopefully) now I know she is out of danger and recovering.
In the meantime I wondered if you would take a look at these two partial edits which are being claimed as 3x 5k+ articles, and probably as word count totals as well. In light of recent events, and my absence, I though it better that I defer to someone else until I am back properly and caught up with everything. The two edits are [2] and [3]
Thanks Chaosdruid ( talk) 15:08, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi! I have recently added the A1 (Croatia) article to GOCE requests page before its FAC, and assumed it was copyedited as it disappeared from the request list. A review pointed out shortcomings with article suggesting a copyedit, and only then did I check if the copyedit was actually performed or not. Apparently you removed the request as duplicate two days ago, so would it be possible to restore the request in its original place in the queue in order to avoid one more wait? Thanks.-- Tomobe03 ( talk) 00:10, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
This is a really cool idea. Mind if I steal it? — Status { talk contribs 15:43, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
sigh. Dr.K. λogos πraxis 00:35, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
The WikiProject Wikify Badge | ||
This Wikification badge is given to Diannaa for her ninth-place appearance on the leaderboard in the August 2011 Wikification drive. Congratulations! Nolelover Talk· Contribs 21:00, 8 September 2011 (UTC) |
The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar | |
This Working Wikipedian's Barnstar is also given to Diannaa for completing 32 articles in the August 2011 Wikification drive. Thanks, and keep up the great work! Nolelover Talk· Contribs 21:00, 8 September 2011 (UTC) |
Thanks -- Dianna ( talk) 00:33, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Just to be perfectly clear: Getting an article on the list prodded doesn't count, even if it deserved it, right? Lagrange613 ( talk) 06:30, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, thank you for the c/e on " Rehab" article. I really appreciate it, but could you also do copy-editing on the video section and it's three sub-sections, I personally think that there it is most needed. Thank You Tomica1111 • Question Existing? 11:55, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello, just wanted to ask you if you would be O.K to copy edit the Canada's Wonderland article. After what you did to the WindSeeker article, I think you'll improve this article a lot as well.-- Dom497 ( talk) 22:55, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
Would you mind taking a look at my work over at Cajun Fiddle? I tried to dive into a copyedit......but it's a mess. Did I convey that? Did I use the right template? I wish I'd been a bit more polite.....seeing how I totally "missed" ref name!! Do I just delete it from my "working" list?? Bddmagic ( talk) 04:18, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
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Hi. I am Jivesh. Will you be able to copy-edit an article please? I have asked may people but they are all busy. Please reply. Jivesh • Talk2Me 17:56, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
I just finished copy editing Digital journalism; however, I would like a second copy editor to take a look at it, since it was a particularly difficult article to copy edit. Could you take a look at it? Thanks, The Utahraptor Talk/ Contribs 00:14, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi
Sorry about that, my previous "I'm back" notice was shat on from a great height! The owner of the company I work for decided he was going to sell up and run away (well, that's my interpretation of it lol!). As a consequence I have been away from home much of the last week and only available for ten minutes here and there before falling asleep with my face in my food lol.
Anyway - things are calming down sort of and I have the rest of today off, though am back at work again till the weekend, so should be able to get some real work done (copyediting on Wiki lmao). Hope all is well - I aim to catch up on the September new additions project User:Chaosdruid/currentgoingson/Other (not touched for a week though) before getting down to some drive work.
Anything going on I need to know about? Chaosdruid ( talk) 16:21, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
Hey, Diannaa. I've signed up to review copyedits in the drive. Several of the "copyedits" I've come across have simply been tag removals. Nothing done in bad faith; the articles simply didn't need copyediting. However, when they're added to a user's "completed" list, it obviously seems like they're taking credit for something they simply did not do. I was wondering if this is considered acceptable or not. Thanks, Swarm u / t 18:11, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your recent copy edit of WP:ADMAN. Your efforts have increased the readability by considerable margin. I hope your edit serves also as an endorsement of viability for the essay as well. And that perhaps you can find use for it in notifying some fine prospects that you have likely encountered. Again, thanks for bringing a rather in demand skill to bear on this essay, fine grammar and punctuation. My76Strat ( talk) 05:10, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa! Can you delete the 3 minutes 36 seconds long version of this file (that's the whole song uploaded!) Thanks, Novice7 ( talk) 05:31, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
I wish that you had not changed the navbox colors on the steamboat and ferries navboxes without prior consultation with other editors. I'm not going go all wikilawyer here, but it was my understanding that navbox colors, once selected by an editor, were not to be changed. I don't have time to find this guideline now, but I know that it exists. IMHO the standard colors make these navboxes less readable. While certainly I am open to discussion about this, it seems that you should have discussed the matter first. Mtsmallwood ( talk) 21:01, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
Is it too late to write a mid-drive newsletter? If not I'll get to work on it immediately. The Utahraptor Talk/ Contribs 13:28, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
I don't know if it's okay to talk about, I usually keep my nose out of these things. What happened to JM - know who I mean? I can't make it out from the diffs. He seemed like a nice guy, helped me with stuff. Slight Smile 01:22, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
-- The Utahraptor Talk/ Contribs 16:26, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors September 2011 backlog elimination drive update
Greetings from the
Guild of Copy Editors
September 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Here's the mid-drive newsletter.
We have had 55 people sign up for this drive so far, and 31 have participated. If you have signed up but have not yet copy edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! It's not too late to join the drive if you have not already done so. Another great way to help out is to watch-list the Coordinators talk page and participate in the ongoing development of the Guild.
So far, we have reduced the backlog by 75 articles, or about 19% of our goal. We have also cleared January 2010 off of the queue and are close to clearing off February and March. If each participant were to copy edit two articles from February and March 2010, they would be completely eliminated from the queue.
Several concerns have been brought up this drive about the usage of rollover words. Rollover words only count if they're from the previous drive. For example, if you received 1,000 rollover words in March and didn't participate in May, your rollover words return to zero. This is to encourage participation in multiple consecutive drives. Your drive coordinators – Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02 and SMasters |
Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 05:29, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
The Special Barnstar | |
For lending a helping hand in copy-editing Jagadguru Rambhadracharya which was a required work to get the article to GA status. ♛♚★Vaibhav Jain★♚♛ Talk Email 07:56, 21 September 2011 (UTC) |
Good morning (as your clock shows above :))! Could you copy-edit the article Jovan Vladimir? I've listed it for peer review, but I would really appreciate a quality copy-editing. I think that after that the article could be given a try at FAC. Vladimir ( talk) 16:29, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, I hope you're well. My name is Aaron and I'm one of the Storytellers working on the 2011 fundraiser for the Wikimedia Foundation. For this year's campaign, we're interviewing as many of the very active and productive Wikipedians as we can to broaden the range of appeals we run come November. I wonder if you would want to tell me more about your experiences editing and writing here? If so, I'll ask you your personal story and I'll ask you some general questions about Wikipedia. Please let me know if you're interesting by emailing amuszalskiwikimedia.org. Thanks! Aaron (WMF) ( talk) 01:01, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
The second most recent edit to Praful Bidwai seems to satisfy criterion 2 of WP:CRD. Thanks. Lagrange613 ( talk) 19:37, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your help. I've got another one for you: the last four edits to Washington and Lee University. Lagrange613 ( talk) 03:58, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for copyediting the Debra article! (BTW, do you think it could be a GA with a few tweaks?) And also, at the end of the meteorological history section, I added a string of refs for the tornadoes. Is there a way I could make it look less crazy? HurricaneFan 25 20:38, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, that will be most helpful. The usual way I check in an article of that size is to move all the general references into further reading and then systematically go through the each inline citation and move the general reference back up if it is used. I don't think Bibliography is an appropriate heading for two reasons the OED has four definitions for Bibliography (one is archaic) the closes fit to your usage is "4. A list of the books of a particular author, printer, or country, or of those dealing with any particular theme; the literature of a subject." but a general reference section is likely to include bullets points for journals, websites and newspapers all of which are not books so titling a section thus is confusing for readers, and, if the list does not to date include anything but books, may be seen by new editors as restricting. The second reason -- which does not apply in this case is -- is for biography articles. If the subject of the biography wrote books, it is not uncommon to call the section that list them a biography (which does fit the fourth definition in the OED) so naming the general reference section bibliography in biography articles is confusing. -- PBS ( talk) 21:51, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
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Hi. I've copy edited a few articles for the Sept drive. My first time. Would you mind checking one or two of them to see if my work is up to the expected standards. My articles are listed here. I'm pretty familiar with the MOS, and I read the copy-editing instructions, so I think I've got a good grasp of the expectations. But it is always good to have another pair of eyes. Thanks. -- Noleander ( talk) 21:38, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello Dianaa. Regarding your changes to the Edmonton elections template, I have a few problems. Firstly the flatlist produces an error in the template, i.e. it produces dot separators after the end of the last link in each group, which shouldn't appear. Secondly, it makes the templates look awkward as the dots are not centrered between the links, but rather very close to the right-hand link, making it unbalanced. Thirdly, this change is not in line with the accessibility policy, which suggests that it is to be used only for lists in articles (Despite having hundreds of templates on my watchlist and editing hundreds more, I've never seen this before). I don't believe in applying it to only one or two templates unless you are going to do all of them, and for this you will need consensus to implement it accross Wikipedia. I suggest first trying to resolve problems 1 and 2, and then bringing up the subject at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility or the Village Pump. Cheers, Number 5 7 19:45, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
This is how the template displays in different browsers. I find your assertion that "it is totally misaligned" to be wholly unconvincing, and you either need to demonstrate your problem or retract that unhelpful rhetoric. Numerous people spent a lot of time trying to make a horizontal list that actually was a list and didn't make a screen-reader say things like "1892, dot, 1893, dot ...". It is a simple truth that Internet Explorer does not meet the standards that other browsers do. The relevant definition in MediaWiki:Common.css is .hlist li:last-child { background: none; } and IE8 is unable to understand that no background image is to be used for the last element in the list. All other browsers can. Sighted visitors to Wikipedia almost always have the choice to use a standards-compatible browser, while blind visitors have no choice other than using a screen-reader. Your reversions of the use of flatlist makes the experience for visually-impaired readers significantly worse at the price of 3 extra dots among over 80 - and only for those visitors who choose to use a non-standards-compliant browser. Frankly, you really ought to be thinking hard about what you're asking for. -- RexxS ( talk) 01:16, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
I appreciate the fact that you both see what the problem is. However [to RexxS), questioning why I choose to use the wrong browser is the least helpful answer possible. Regardless of your opinions on it, IE is the most popular browser - you can't expect everyone using it to stop doing so because you have solved a problem in Firefox and Chrome. To Diannaa - switching compatibility view on may solve the problem, but why should users have to click an additional button to see something displayed properly? This feature isn't available to older versions of IE (I'd guess IE7 is possibly still the most widespread. Anyway, it seems we are getting nowhere here so I will ask someone else for help instead. Number 5 7 08:46, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
MEeeow FURgot to give a kitty 2 u 4 ur help on Debra (itz a GA nowz) mrow ;)
HurricaneFan
25 17:37, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 10 | Archive 11 | Archive 12 | Archive 13 | Archive 14 | Archive 15 | → | Archive 20 |
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar | ||
Thanks for helping me out with this article. You definitely deserve this, considering you were kind enough to take time off from your Wikibreak to help out. The Utahraptor Talk/ Contribs 13:46, 24 August 2011 (UTC) |
You're welcome. We will need to keep going on the references until they all have been converted to the new style. I just got bored and moved onto sonething else, but will return and finish up later. -- Ninja Dianna ( Talk) 15:30, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi
It seems I have caused a problem with an editor and they have posted on the coordinators talk page. I have replied but it has hit me a little personally and I cannot continue discussion. I already had a great feeling of guilt about the mistaken edits on the Ducie article when they were reverted, hence my lol on their talk page (meant as a "wow how could I have done that, must have been an off day"). As something else seems to be driving the editor on to reverse their seemingly cordial discussion and strike out their previous comments I feel others should comment as I am too close to the matter.
The conversations that brought this about are [ [1]] User_talk:Stfg/Archive_1#Boldface (used to be one but were later split) and User_talk:Chaosdruid#Boldface. Discussion on coordinators talk - Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Guild_of_Copy_Editors/Coordinators#GOCE_culture
(copied to all coordinators pages) Chaosdruid ( talk) 18:07, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
Welcome back! I hope you enjoyed your vacation! The Utahraptor Talk/ Contribs 04:37, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, it is my first time here in Wikipedia, would you mind if you can give me some tip/rules about this site? Thank you for your consideration Hamham31 ( talk) 06:46, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
It may interest you to know that I have created a peer review for Silver Reef, Utah here. Feel free to leave comments. The Utahraptor Talk/ Contribs 21:10, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Wikid77 ( talk) here. We need more people for the Sept. backlog drive, perhaps 80(?) people would be great. I have asked questions at new talk-page:
If that is the wrong page for these issues, then let me know, here, and I will redo those talk-page topics wherever you would prefer them to be listed. Thanks. - Wikid77 21:13, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
I never knew how to do that myself. -- Againme ( talk) 17:55, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi
Hope you enjoyed your break. Unfortunately one of my nieces was taken very ill and admitted to hospital in NY during the hurricane and that plus a matter here had me AWOL. I am back again as of tonight (hopefully) now I know she is out of danger and recovering.
In the meantime I wondered if you would take a look at these two partial edits which are being claimed as 3x 5k+ articles, and probably as word count totals as well. In light of recent events, and my absence, I though it better that I defer to someone else until I am back properly and caught up with everything. The two edits are [2] and [3]
Thanks Chaosdruid ( talk) 15:08, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi! I have recently added the A1 (Croatia) article to GOCE requests page before its FAC, and assumed it was copyedited as it disappeared from the request list. A review pointed out shortcomings with article suggesting a copyedit, and only then did I check if the copyedit was actually performed or not. Apparently you removed the request as duplicate two days ago, so would it be possible to restore the request in its original place in the queue in order to avoid one more wait? Thanks.-- Tomobe03 ( talk) 00:10, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
This is a really cool idea. Mind if I steal it? — Status { talk contribs 15:43, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
sigh. Dr.K. λogos πraxis 00:35, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
The WikiProject Wikify Badge | ||
This Wikification badge is given to Diannaa for her ninth-place appearance on the leaderboard in the August 2011 Wikification drive. Congratulations! Nolelover Talk· Contribs 21:00, 8 September 2011 (UTC) |
The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar | |
This Working Wikipedian's Barnstar is also given to Diannaa for completing 32 articles in the August 2011 Wikification drive. Thanks, and keep up the great work! Nolelover Talk· Contribs 21:00, 8 September 2011 (UTC) |
Thanks -- Dianna ( talk) 00:33, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Just to be perfectly clear: Getting an article on the list prodded doesn't count, even if it deserved it, right? Lagrange613 ( talk) 06:30, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, thank you for the c/e on " Rehab" article. I really appreciate it, but could you also do copy-editing on the video section and it's three sub-sections, I personally think that there it is most needed. Thank You Tomica1111 • Question Existing? 11:55, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello, just wanted to ask you if you would be O.K to copy edit the Canada's Wonderland article. After what you did to the WindSeeker article, I think you'll improve this article a lot as well.-- Dom497 ( talk) 22:55, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
Would you mind taking a look at my work over at Cajun Fiddle? I tried to dive into a copyedit......but it's a mess. Did I convey that? Did I use the right template? I wish I'd been a bit more polite.....seeing how I totally "missed" ref name!! Do I just delete it from my "working" list?? Bddmagic ( talk) 04:18, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
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Hi. I am Jivesh. Will you be able to copy-edit an article please? I have asked may people but they are all busy. Please reply. Jivesh • Talk2Me 17:56, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
I just finished copy editing Digital journalism; however, I would like a second copy editor to take a look at it, since it was a particularly difficult article to copy edit. Could you take a look at it? Thanks, The Utahraptor Talk/ Contribs 00:14, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi
Sorry about that, my previous "I'm back" notice was shat on from a great height! The owner of the company I work for decided he was going to sell up and run away (well, that's my interpretation of it lol!). As a consequence I have been away from home much of the last week and only available for ten minutes here and there before falling asleep with my face in my food lol.
Anyway - things are calming down sort of and I have the rest of today off, though am back at work again till the weekend, so should be able to get some real work done (copyediting on Wiki lmao). Hope all is well - I aim to catch up on the September new additions project User:Chaosdruid/currentgoingson/Other (not touched for a week though) before getting down to some drive work.
Anything going on I need to know about? Chaosdruid ( talk) 16:21, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
Hey, Diannaa. I've signed up to review copyedits in the drive. Several of the "copyedits" I've come across have simply been tag removals. Nothing done in bad faith; the articles simply didn't need copyediting. However, when they're added to a user's "completed" list, it obviously seems like they're taking credit for something they simply did not do. I was wondering if this is considered acceptable or not. Thanks, Swarm u / t 18:11, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your recent copy edit of WP:ADMAN. Your efforts have increased the readability by considerable margin. I hope your edit serves also as an endorsement of viability for the essay as well. And that perhaps you can find use for it in notifying some fine prospects that you have likely encountered. Again, thanks for bringing a rather in demand skill to bear on this essay, fine grammar and punctuation. My76Strat ( talk) 05:10, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa! Can you delete the 3 minutes 36 seconds long version of this file (that's the whole song uploaded!) Thanks, Novice7 ( talk) 05:31, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
I wish that you had not changed the navbox colors on the steamboat and ferries navboxes without prior consultation with other editors. I'm not going go all wikilawyer here, but it was my understanding that navbox colors, once selected by an editor, were not to be changed. I don't have time to find this guideline now, but I know that it exists. IMHO the standard colors make these navboxes less readable. While certainly I am open to discussion about this, it seems that you should have discussed the matter first. Mtsmallwood ( talk) 21:01, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
Is it too late to write a mid-drive newsletter? If not I'll get to work on it immediately. The Utahraptor Talk/ Contribs 13:28, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
I don't know if it's okay to talk about, I usually keep my nose out of these things. What happened to JM - know who I mean? I can't make it out from the diffs. He seemed like a nice guy, helped me with stuff. Slight Smile 01:22, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
-- The Utahraptor Talk/ Contribs 16:26, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors September 2011 backlog elimination drive update
Greetings from the
Guild of Copy Editors
September 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Here's the mid-drive newsletter.
We have had 55 people sign up for this drive so far, and 31 have participated. If you have signed up but have not yet copy edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! It's not too late to join the drive if you have not already done so. Another great way to help out is to watch-list the Coordinators talk page and participate in the ongoing development of the Guild.
So far, we have reduced the backlog by 75 articles, or about 19% of our goal. We have also cleared January 2010 off of the queue and are close to clearing off February and March. If each participant were to copy edit two articles from February and March 2010, they would be completely eliminated from the queue.
Several concerns have been brought up this drive about the usage of rollover words. Rollover words only count if they're from the previous drive. For example, if you received 1,000 rollover words in March and didn't participate in May, your rollover words return to zero. This is to encourage participation in multiple consecutive drives. Your drive coordinators – Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02 and SMasters |
Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 05:29, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
The Special Barnstar | |
For lending a helping hand in copy-editing Jagadguru Rambhadracharya which was a required work to get the article to GA status. ♛♚★Vaibhav Jain★♚♛ Talk Email 07:56, 21 September 2011 (UTC) |
Good morning (as your clock shows above :))! Could you copy-edit the article Jovan Vladimir? I've listed it for peer review, but I would really appreciate a quality copy-editing. I think that after that the article could be given a try at FAC. Vladimir ( talk) 16:29, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi Diannaa, I hope you're well. My name is Aaron and I'm one of the Storytellers working on the 2011 fundraiser for the Wikimedia Foundation. For this year's campaign, we're interviewing as many of the very active and productive Wikipedians as we can to broaden the range of appeals we run come November. I wonder if you would want to tell me more about your experiences editing and writing here? If so, I'll ask you your personal story and I'll ask you some general questions about Wikipedia. Please let me know if you're interesting by emailing amuszalskiwikimedia.org. Thanks! Aaron (WMF) ( talk) 01:01, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
The second most recent edit to Praful Bidwai seems to satisfy criterion 2 of WP:CRD. Thanks. Lagrange613 ( talk) 19:37, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your help. I've got another one for you: the last four edits to Washington and Lee University. Lagrange613 ( talk) 03:58, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for copyediting the Debra article! (BTW, do you think it could be a GA with a few tweaks?) And also, at the end of the meteorological history section, I added a string of refs for the tornadoes. Is there a way I could make it look less crazy? HurricaneFan 25 20:38, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, that will be most helpful. The usual way I check in an article of that size is to move all the general references into further reading and then systematically go through the each inline citation and move the general reference back up if it is used. I don't think Bibliography is an appropriate heading for two reasons the OED has four definitions for Bibliography (one is archaic) the closes fit to your usage is "4. A list of the books of a particular author, printer, or country, or of those dealing with any particular theme; the literature of a subject." but a general reference section is likely to include bullets points for journals, websites and newspapers all of which are not books so titling a section thus is confusing for readers, and, if the list does not to date include anything but books, may be seen by new editors as restricting. The second reason -- which does not apply in this case is -- is for biography articles. If the subject of the biography wrote books, it is not uncommon to call the section that list them a biography (which does fit the fourth definition in the OED) so naming the general reference section bibliography in biography articles is confusing. -- PBS ( talk) 21:51, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi there! I thought you might be interested in WikiProject Wikify's
October Wikification Backlog Elimination Drive. We'll be trying to reduce the backlog size by over 1,000 articles and we need your help! Hard-working participants in the drive will receive
awards for their contributions, including a brand new one for the single largest wikified article! If you have a spare moment, please join and wikify an article or tell your friends. Thanks! Note: The drive starts October 1, but you can still
sign up! |
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Hi. I've copy edited a few articles for the Sept drive. My first time. Would you mind checking one or two of them to see if my work is up to the expected standards. My articles are listed here. I'm pretty familiar with the MOS, and I read the copy-editing instructions, so I think I've got a good grasp of the expectations. But it is always good to have another pair of eyes. Thanks. -- Noleander ( talk) 21:38, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello Dianaa. Regarding your changes to the Edmonton elections template, I have a few problems. Firstly the flatlist produces an error in the template, i.e. it produces dot separators after the end of the last link in each group, which shouldn't appear. Secondly, it makes the templates look awkward as the dots are not centrered between the links, but rather very close to the right-hand link, making it unbalanced. Thirdly, this change is not in line with the accessibility policy, which suggests that it is to be used only for lists in articles (Despite having hundreds of templates on my watchlist and editing hundreds more, I've never seen this before). I don't believe in applying it to only one or two templates unless you are going to do all of them, and for this you will need consensus to implement it accross Wikipedia. I suggest first trying to resolve problems 1 and 2, and then bringing up the subject at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility or the Village Pump. Cheers, Number 5 7 19:45, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
This is how the template displays in different browsers. I find your assertion that "it is totally misaligned" to be wholly unconvincing, and you either need to demonstrate your problem or retract that unhelpful rhetoric. Numerous people spent a lot of time trying to make a horizontal list that actually was a list and didn't make a screen-reader say things like "1892, dot, 1893, dot ...". It is a simple truth that Internet Explorer does not meet the standards that other browsers do. The relevant definition in MediaWiki:Common.css is .hlist li:last-child { background: none; } and IE8 is unable to understand that no background image is to be used for the last element in the list. All other browsers can. Sighted visitors to Wikipedia almost always have the choice to use a standards-compatible browser, while blind visitors have no choice other than using a screen-reader. Your reversions of the use of flatlist makes the experience for visually-impaired readers significantly worse at the price of 3 extra dots among over 80 - and only for those visitors who choose to use a non-standards-compliant browser. Frankly, you really ought to be thinking hard about what you're asking for. -- RexxS ( talk) 01:16, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
I appreciate the fact that you both see what the problem is. However [to RexxS), questioning why I choose to use the wrong browser is the least helpful answer possible. Regardless of your opinions on it, IE is the most popular browser - you can't expect everyone using it to stop doing so because you have solved a problem in Firefox and Chrome. To Diannaa - switching compatibility view on may solve the problem, but why should users have to click an additional button to see something displayed properly? This feature isn't available to older versions of IE (I'd guess IE7 is possibly still the most widespread. Anyway, it seems we are getting nowhere here so I will ask someone else for help instead. Number 5 7 08:46, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
MEeeow FURgot to give a kitty 2 u 4 ur help on Debra (itz a GA nowz) mrow ;)
HurricaneFan
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