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Dear Mr Thomas Shafee
I am interested to improve and publish article "Immune systems" to WikiScience Journal. I have added on Nomination Page. Please kindly to evaluate it. Thank you Helito ( talk) 04:33, 26 January 2019 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019
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Yes, I did not notice regulation section was continuation of glycolysis. Thanx for fixing! As for what is more common, I maybe have more info later AlexM202020 ( talk) 10:11, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
Hello TS - just to note that your recent merge tag for Parasitic life cycle does not bring up an area for discussion - it needs to be tagged using Twinkle. Would do this myself but then it would be my request - i would support this proposal. Best -- Iztwoz ( talk) 12:57, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
Hello, Evolution and evolvability,
Thanks for creating Small protein! I edit here too, under the username Boleyn and it's nice to meet you :-)
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Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019
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Template:Share templates has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Dirk Beetstra T C 07:43, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019
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Three years! |
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-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:36, 2 April 2019 (UTC) @ Gerda Arendt: Thank you - By coincidence, it also comes whilst I'm at the WikiMedia Summit in Berlin! T.Shafee(Evo&Evo) talk 12:18, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019
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I had an alert that you had emailed me, but I don't seem to have actually received anything (and I've checked the spam folder too). Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:37, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi Thomas. Thanks for the email. I have no objections in principle to submitting an article as you suggest. I have been rather casually considering this for one of the areas I am currently working on. (But have shelved the idea on the basis of ignorance of the procedure.) However, I was a little confused by the topic you suggested. It is not an area where I could usefully contribute at this level. I suspect that you may have been misled by the "Authorship" stats, which include my contributions to ensuring that web links and similar are secured against link rot. This inflates my character count considerably, without necessarily demonstrating that I have an advanced grasp of the subject matter.
So, sadly, I shall decline; but await a similar email in any area in which I may be adequately equipped .
Gog the Mild ( talk) 14:56, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 24 – 17 May 2019
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Thanks very much for those edits to Rosetta Stone. I was intending to do it, but I had a rush of work connected with other forthcoming publications -- things somehow have to happen at the same moment -- and hadn't yet been able to give the time to it. Andrew Dalby 08:38, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi Thomas, thank you for bringing this excellent project to my attention. It is exactly the direction that I believe Wikipedia/Wikimedia should be going, driving further convergence with the academic world.
I have one question regarding WikiJournal_User_Group/Ethics_statement#Confidentiality_2: can I avoid disclosing my identity post publication? The Balfour Declaration article, which I believe would be a good fit for WikiJournal Humanities, is in a contested topic area in which most editors consider confidentiality a prerequisite to editing. Onceinawhile ( talk) 16:42, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
"Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved."
Masked booby by
Casliber and
Aa77zz, reviewed by
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Fisheries and fishing | 4.9
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Dogs | 4.91
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Viruses | 4.91
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ToL | 4.94
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Cetaceans | 4.97
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Primates | 4.98
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Sharks | 5.04
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Dinosaurs | 5.12
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Equine | 5.15
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Bats | 5.25
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Mammals | 5.32
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Aquarium fishes | 5.35
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Hypericaceae | 5.38
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Turtles | 5.4
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Birds | 5.46
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Australian biota | 5.5
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Marine life | 5.54
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Animals | 5.56
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Paleontology | 5.57
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Rodents | 5.58
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Amphibians and Reptiles | 5.64
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Fungi | 5.65
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Bivalves | 5.66
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Plants | 5.67
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Algae | 5.68
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Arthropods | 5.69
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Hymenoptera | 5.72
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Microbiology | 5.72
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Cephalopods | 5.74
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Fishes | 5.76
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Ants | 5.79
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Gastropods | 5.8
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Spiders | 5.86
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Insects | 5.9
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Beetles | 5.98
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Within the Tree of Life and its many subprojects, there is an abundance of stubs. Welcome to Wikipedia, what's new, right? However, based on all wikiprojects listed (just over two thousand), the Tree of Life project is worse off in average article quality than most. Based on the concept of relative WikiWork (the average number of "steps" needed to have a project consisting of all featured articles (FAs), where stub status → FA consists of six steps), only seven projects within the ToL have an average rating of "start class" or better. Many projects, particularly those involving invertebrates, hover at an average article quality slightly better than a stub. With relative WikiWorks of 5.98 each, WikiProject Lepidoptera and WikiProject Beetles have the highest relative WikiWork of any project. Given that invertebrates are incredibly speciose, it may not surprise you that many articles about them are lower quality. WikiProject Beetles, for example, has over 20 times more articles than WikiProject Cats. Wikipedia will always be incomplete, so we should take our relatively low WikiWork as motivation to write more articles that are also better in quality.
We're joined for this month's Editor Spotlight by NessieVL, a long-time contributor who lists themselves as a member of WikiProject Fungus, WikiProject Algae, and WikiProject Cephalopods.
1) Enwebb: How did you come to edit articles about organisms and taxonomic groups?
2) Enwebb: Many editors in the ToL are highly specialized on a group of taxa. A look at your recently created articles includes much diversity, though, with viruses, bacteria, algae, and cnidarians all represented—are there any commonalities for the articles you work on? Would you say you're particularly interested in certain groups?
3) Enwebb: I noticed that many of your recent edits utilize the script Rater, which aids in quickly reassessing the quality and importance of an article. Why is it important to update talk page assessments of articles? I also noticed that the quality rating you assign often aligns with ORES, a script that uses machine-learning to predict article quality. Coincidence?
4) Enwebb: What, if anything, can ToL and its subprojects do to better support collaboration and coordination among editors? How can we improve?
5) Enwebb: What would surprise the ToL community to learn about your life off-Wikipedia?
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Yes, the open access article has been cut very heavily by moving rather important parts elsewhere, while large chunks of texts were incorporated from a valid but outdated source. I was considering whether to integrate it with the text of https://peerj.com/preprints/27580/ , whose references would enrich the article significantly as well. Nemo 07:48, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
On 12 July 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article De novo gene birth, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that de novo gene birth was once thought to be impossible but has now been observed in every species that has been systematically examined? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/De novo gene birth. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, De novo gene birth), 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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Welcome back to the Editing newsletter.
Since the last newsletter, the team has released two new features for the mobile visual editor and has started developing three more. All of this work is part of the team's goal to make editing on mobile web simpler.
Before talking about the team's recent releases, we have a question for you:
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The mobile visual editor is a simpler editing tool, for smartphones and tablets using the mobile site. The Editing team has recently launched two new features to improve the mobile visual editor:
Section editing and the new loading overlay are now available to everyone using the mobile visual editor.
This is a list of our most active projects. Watch these pages to learn about project updates and to share your input on new designs, prototypes and research findings.
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PPelberg (WMF) ( talk) and Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 21:25, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for your email about image credits in WikiJournal Preprints/Hepatitis E, but I think I'm probably the wrong person to be credited with the map in question. The map in question is a replacement for one I created (still around at File:LocationNamibia.png), and I guess the mention of me in the file information for the newer map is to acknowledge the earlier one. However, I don't think any of the newer map is my work -- it seems to have been made by User: Rei-artur. (In the event that I need to be mentioned anyway, though, I'm fine with just my username.) -- Vardion ( talk) 01:21, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello! IP editor 95.224.95.166 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) has been very, very keen to remove Template:Space station size comparison from articles because Tiangong-2 has been approaching the end of its orbital life; now that that station has actually been deorbited, I wanted to humbly ask you to update the template in the way that seems most fitting to you; once it's back up to date, I think it should probably be added to the articles of all the stations it depicts, as well as Space station, where this issue has been playing out. Thank you for your work! - Bryanrutherford0 ( talk) 18:19, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
List of felids by
PresN |
Letter-winged kite by
Casliber |
The WikiCup, an annual editing competition, is now in its fourth round. Casliber, consistent participant since 2010 and winner in 2016, is currently dominating Group A with 601 points. Largely responsible is the successful Featured Article nomination of Masked booby. The other remaining Tree of Life participant, Enwebb, is participating in her first ever WikiCup. In this round, she has a grand total of...5 points. But with the recent Featured Article nomination of Megabat, she stands to gain 600 points if successful. As it stands, though, it appears that at least one ToL editor is headed to the fifth and final round of 8 contestants, which begins September 1. Thus far, all participants in the WikiCup have generated 17 Featured Articles, 116 Good Articles, 16 Featured Lists, and 57 Featured Pictures. The Good Article Nominations backlog has been reduced as well, with 286 Good Article Reviews. |
For this month's editor spotlight we're joined by
Charlesjsharp, a longtime contributor to Wikimedia Commons with a plethora of featured pictures on English Wikipedia. 1) Starsandwhales: How long have you been editing Wikipedia, and how did you get interested? How did you begin your journey of photographing wildlife?
2) S&W: Over the years, you've taken photos of many different organisms from birds to insects to big cats; you have an
extensive list of favorite images. Which animals have been the most exciting for you to photograph?
3) S&W: Many articles under ToL have requests for people to add images that can go unanswered. What can the community do to improve the coverage of different organisms on Wikipedia, especially when it comes to images?
4) S&W: What advice would you give to people new to photographing wildlife?
5) S&W: What would the Tree of Life community be surprised to learn about your life off-wiki?
* An example of cumbersome code: getting the layout of my responses to your questions. So dated, and no online spellchecker. |
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Hi Thomas, I see the Myxomatosis article has just joined the list. I passed it at GAN this morning, and was startled to see it jumping straight to WJS. I suppose there is nihil obstat but I'd have thought there was an a priori assumption that more development or review might be advisable before this step. It's nom's first GA and indeed his sole article to date. On the plus side, his username does imply a certain expertise in the matter! All the best, Ian Chiswick Chap ( talk) 12:47, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading File:RSCB PDB logo.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. -- B-bot ( talk) 17:46, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
On 12 August 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Teladorsagia circumcincta, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that sheep infected with the parasitic nematode Teladorsagia circumcincta may suffer from protein deficiency? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Teladorsagia circumcincta. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Teladorsagia circumcincta), 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.
— Maile ( talk) 00:01, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
The Psychology Barnstar | ||
For your invited address at the American Psychological Association and for welcoming one of those wacky psychologists to the WikiJournals enterprise! - Mark D Worthen PsyD (talk) (I am a man. The traditional male pronouns are fine.) 23:44, 12 August 2019 (UTC) |
A tag has been placed on Category:Gene Wiki articles by importance requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "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 deleted 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. UnitedStatesian ( talk) 16:25, 17 August 2019 (UTC)
Hi Evolution and evolvability, as you may know, I recently created the Tree of Life Newsletter. With the recent proposal about whether WikiJournal should be its own project, I was wondering if you would be interested in writing a piece for this month's newsletter. Basically, why should Tree of Life editors care about WikiJournal of Science? What do they and the public gain from submitting articles through this process? Let me know if you'd be interested. Enwebb ( talk) 15:30, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
Letter-winged kite by
Casliber |
Kosmoceratops by
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Guest column by Thomas Shafee ( Evolution and evolvability), Editor in Chief of WikiJournal of Science
Firstly, WikiJSci can be a complementary system for FA review (getting external review, input, and validity). When an Wikipedia article is nominated (via WP:JAN), journal editors go out to non-Wikipedian academics and researchers who have published on the subject on the last five years and invite them to give feedback comments (e.g. Peripatric speciation and Baryonyx). The resulting changes can then be integrated back into the Wikipedia article.
Getting more editors involved in Wikipedia is always a high priority. WikiJSci can also be a way to encourage new people to contribute articles (especially on missing/stub/start topics). An example of an article that was written from scratch by a group of non-Wikipedians is Teladorsagia circumcincta. This not only resulted in a new Wikipedia page on an underdeveloped topic, but introduced the idea of Wikimedia contribution to a group of people who had previously never considered it.
The journal can be a way to get multimedia content reviewed or encourage contribution. The same approach could be easily adapted to sounds (e.g. frog mating calls) or videos (e.g. starfish feet motion). It also allows for tracking of those images in new articles via Altmetric ( this example has >200, which is bananas). There aren't any biology examples in WikiJSci yet, but the sister medical journal has published a few summary diagrams, photography, and image galleries. Examples include this gallery by Blausen Medical or the diagram of cell disassembly during apoptosis.
For those interested in other Wikimedia sister projects, there's also broad scope for interactions with the WikiJournals. Perhaps peer reviewed teaching resources could be useful to sit alongside sets of Wikipedia articles and be integrated into Wikiversity courses (like this or this)? Can sections of Wikidata & Wikispecies be peer reviewed? What are the potential avenues for integration with WikiCite, WikiFactMine, Scholia, etc.? Currently, WikiJSci is aiming to be very flexible and try out different formats so long as they can be externally peer reviewed. For more info, see the 2019-06-30 Signpost article and the current sister project proposal. |
1) Enwebb: You're very prolific with DYKs, with over 2,000 nominations credited (in fact, I'll highlight which DYK nominations this month were yours below). What made you become so involved in this part of Wikipedia? Why should Tree of Life editors nominate articles for DYK?
2) Enwebb: I noticed that your DYK nominations reflect a diverse array of flora and fauna, from trees, marine invertebrates, birds, fishes, and mammals. How do you decide what to work on?
3) Enwebb: Which of your Wikipedia accomplishments are you most proud of?
4) Enwebb: What motivates you to keep contributing? What's your 10,000 ft view (pardon the non-SI) of the community and Tree of Life?
6) Enwebb: How did you first become interested in natural history?
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Sent by ZLEA via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) at 15:43, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
Hey! I am working on a piece of documentation in my day job and stumbled upon you creating Template:Preloaddraft in 2015! What instigated that originally? What was the origin story? I know that @ Pharos: adopted it pretty early on for the met, by you appear to have been building it before then. Sadads ( talk) 17:20, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
{{
User sandbox+}}
template (by
ManosHacker) which also some some similar stuff to {{
preloaddraft}}
. Much of them should be folded together into a single system (e.g. their page templates).
T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)
talk 05:54, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
Hi. I see in a recent addition to Origin of replication you included material from a webpage that is available under a compatible Creative Commons Licence. That's okay, but you have to give attribution so that our readers are made aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself. I've added the attribution for this particular instance. Please make sure that you follow this licensing requirement when copying from compatibly-licensed material in the future. — Diannaa 🍁 ( talk) 13:46, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
{{
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but looking back I must have lost it in an edit conflict. I've added this now for completeness.
T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)
talk 23:48, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
{{
Academic peer reviewed}}
template (originally called {{
Pubmed indexed}}
) was intended as a combination of page-wide attribution license (similar to {tlx|InterPro content}}) crossed with content-quality notices (like {{
Expert needed}}
).
T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)
talk 02:54, 16 September 2019 (UTC)You've sent me an email, but I didn't receive it.
Please write to my talk page or mail directly to porton@narod.ru -- VictorPorton ( talk) 15:47, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
In answer to your question about qid - no I don't have one. Whiteghost.ink ( talk) 03:08, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for the work you've been doing, and for bringing me such good memories :) Here you have the websites that better describe the work I did at the Music Museum of Barcelona: This is the official Auditori website (The Music Museum is part of the Auditori), here you have the post at the Amical Wikimedia website, and here you have the Europa Press piece of news. You can also find some more links in my user's page. Moltes gràcies! -- Marionaaragay ( talk) 21:36, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
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This month saw a vanishingly rare occurrence for the Tree of Life: a new WikiProject joined the fold. WikiProject Diptera, however, is also unusual in being a classroom project. Whether or not this project will stay active once the semester ends remains to be seen. It does not bode well, however, that WP:WikiProject Vespidae—a creation from the same instructor at St. Louis University—faded to obscurity shortly after the fall semester concluded in 2014. WikiProject Vespidae is defunct and now redirects to the Hymenoptera task force of WikiProject Insects. Since 2014, the Tree of Life has seen a string of years where one or zero projects or task forces were created. The only projects and task forces created since then are WikiProject Animal anatomy (2014), Hymenoptera task force (2016), Bats task force (2017), WikiProject Hypericaceae (2018), and now WikiProject Diptera (2019). The year 2006 saw the greatest creation of WikiProjects and task forces, with fourteen still active and the remaining six as "semiactive", "inactive", or "defunct". |
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Hello, Evolution and evolvability. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, " Helen Barchilon Redman".
In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia
mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}
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If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.
Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! CptViraj ( 📧) 09:18, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
Dear Evolution and evolvability,
Please remove my wikidata item. I am sorry, but i told you i was still pondering this matter. We have privacy laws in Europe, so i should be able to get this unwanted WD item removed. I trust you can remove it, thank you, Hansmuller ( talk) 16:55, 13 October 2019 (UTC) PS I never create WD items for living and not very public persons before getting their permission.
so what's the background on - or where are you going with - https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Template:WiR_table_row - it would be interesting as there are so many dimensions to the different versions of it all... JarrahTree 01:56, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
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What talk page interactions do you remember? Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else? Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!
Please tell us a story about how you used a talk page. Please share a link to a memorable discussion, or describe it on the talk page for this project. The team would value your examples. These examples will help everyone develop a shared understanding of what this project should support and encourage.
The Talk Pages Consultation was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools. The Phase 2 Report of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here: Talk Page Project project page.
The team needs and wants your help at this early stage. They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the "Getting involved" section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.
The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices. The team is changing the visual editor on mobile. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.
The Editing Team attended Wikimania 2019 in Sweden. They led a session on the mobile visual editor and a session on the new talk pages project. They tested two new features in the mobile visual editor with contributors. You can read more about what the team did and learned in the team's report on Wikimania 2019.
– PPelberg (WMF) ( talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 16:51, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
Hello. I was also a WiR in Muzeum Miasta Łodzi (Museum of the City of Łódź) from October to December 2017 ( Wikiproject page). For other WiR in Poland, the best person to contact is our GLAM coordinator Celina Strzelecka ( pl:user:Celina Strzelecka (WMPL)). Regards. Gytha ( talk) 13:02, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
I was reading B chromosome and came across this prose stumble under "Function":
where
shows at XXXXX where apparently the trailing part of a sentence was intended to be. This happened in this April edit by you which was generally a quite good improvement of the article. The problem sentence was in the middle of a move and revision of an existing paragraph. That earlier paragraph had a sentence I'm guessing corresponded to this one; it said "In general it seems unlikely that supernumeraries would persist in a species unless there was some positive adaptive advantage". I'm not knowledgeable enough to concoct something good for XXXXX, so perhaps you could revisit that sentence and fix it up. Thanks. -- R. S. Shaw ( talk) 18:20, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
Meinhard Michael Moser by
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King brown snake by
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By request from another editor, this month I wrote an overview of ways that content is featured on Wikipedia. Below I have outlined some of the processes for getting content featured: Did You Know (DYK)What is it: A way for articles to appear on the main page of Wikipedia. A short hook in the format of "Did you know...that ___" presents unusual and interesting facts to the reader, hopefully making the reader want to click through to the article How it works: The DYK process has fairly low barriers for participation. The eligibility criteria are few and relatively easy to meet. Some important guidelines:
The process for creating the nomination is somewhat tedious. Instructions can be found here (official instructions) and here ("quick and nice" guide to DYK). Experience is the best teacher here, so don't be afraid to try and fail a few times. The last few DYK nominations I've done, however, have been with the help of SD0001's DYK-helper script, which makes the process a bit more streamlined (you create the template from a popup box on the article; created template is automatically transcluded to nominations page and article talk page) Once your nomination is created and transcluded, it will need to be reviewed. The reviewer will check that the article meets the eligibility criteria, that the hook is short enough, cited, and interesting, and that other requirements are met, such as for images. If you've been credited with more than 5 DYKs, the reviewer will also check that you've reviewed someone else's nomination for each article that you nominate. This is called QPQ (quid pro quo). You can check how many credited DYKs you've had here to see if QPQ is required for you to nominate an article for DYK. Good Article (GA)What it is: A peer review process to determine that an article meets a set of criteria. This adds a symbol to the top of the article. About 1 in 200 articles on Wikipedia is a GA. How it works: You follow the instructions to nominate an article, placing a template on its talk page. Anyone can nominate an article—you don't have to be a major contributor, though it is considered polite to inform the major contributors that you are nominating the article. The article is added to a queue to await a review. In the ToL, it seems that reviews happen pretty quickly, thanks to our dedicated members. Once the review begins, the reviewer will offer suggestions to help the article meet the 6 GA criteria. Upon addressing all concerns, the reviewer will pass the article, and voilà! Good Article! Advice to a first-time nominator: Look at other Good Articles in related areas before nominating. If you're unsure about nominating, consider posting to the talk page of your project to see what other editors think. You can also have a more experienced editor co-nominate the article with you. Featured Article (FA)What it is: An exhaustive peer review to determine that an articles meets the criteria. This adds a to the top of the article. About 1 in 1,000 articles on Wikipedia is a FA. How it works: You follow the instructions to nominate an article, placing a template on its talk page. Nominated articles are usually GAs already. Uninvolved editors can nominate, though the article's regular editors should be consulted first. Several editors will come by offering feedback, eventually supporting or opposing promotion to FA. A coordinator will determine if there is consensus to promote the article to FA. For an editor's first FA, spot checks to verify that the sources support the text are conducted. Advice to a first-time nominator: The Featured Article Candidate (FAC) process is a bit intimidating, but several steps can make your first one easier (speaking as someone who has exactly one). If you also did the GA nomination of the article, you can ask the reviewer for "extra" feedback beyond the GA criteria. You can also formally request a peer review and/or a copy edit from the Guild of Copy Editors to check for content and mechanics. First-time nominators are encouraged to seek the help of a mentor for a higher likelihood of passing their first FAC. Good and Featured Topics (GT and FT)What it is: It took me a while to realize we even had GT and FT on Wikipedia, as they are not very common relative to GA and FA. Both GT and FT are collections of related articles of high quality (all articles at GA or FA, all lists at Featured List). GT/FT have to be at least 3 articles with no obvious gaps in coverage of the topic, along with other criteria. For GT, all articles have to be GA quality and all lists must be FL. For FT, at least half the articles must be FA or FL, with the remaining articles at GA. How it works: Follow the nomination procedures for creating a new topic or adding an article to an existing topic. Other editors weigh in to support or oppose the proposal. Coordinators determine if there is consensus to promote to GT/FT. Advice to a first-time nominator: There are very few GT/FT in Tree of Life ( 5 GT and 11 FT). Most of the legwork appears to be improving a cohesive set of articles to GA/FA. |
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In an interesting turn of events, this month's guest column is by my alter-ego, Elysia (Wiki Ed): *Puts on Wiki Education hat* Hi everyone, I'm Elysia and I work for Wiki Education. You may know me as Enwebb. I got a request last month to let you know how Wiki Education is intersecting with the Tree of Life subprojects. As one of Wiki Education's major goals is to improve topics related to the sciences, leading to our Communicating Science initiative, we end up supporting quite a few in the biological sciences. Here are the TOL-related courses active this term: What is the impact of student editors in Tree of Life? Altogether, these 16 courses have 347 student participants. As the end of the semester hasn't come yet, these numbers are still growing, but these students have:
Some of our best student work this semester (of any kind, not just biodiversity) has come from Agelaia's Behavioural Ecology course—you may remember this as the course that created WikiProject Diptera. The students have several Good Article nominations, including Dryomyza anilis, Anastrepha ludens, Aedes taeniorhynchus, Drosophila silvestris, Drosophila subobscura, and Ceratitis capitata. And while long-term participation from students is low, there's always the chance that we'll discover a Wikipedian. I had never edited before my Wikipedia assignment in 2017 and I'm still here nearly 20,000 edits later! After I poked around in the beginning of the semester, I had the realization that not many people write Wikipedia, and very few of those have a special interest in bats. If I didn't stick around to write the content, there was no guarantee that it would ever get done. Why are species articles suitable for students? Writing about taxonomic groups is a great fit for students, as it keeps them away from areas where new editors traditionally struggle. The notability policy is generous towards taxa, and there is little danger of a student's work getting removed for lack of notability; this is to be expected when students write biographies. Students may struggle with encyclopedic tone for biographies and stray towards promotional writing, but this is much less common when writing about a shrew or algae! Additionally, we're never going to run out of species to write about. Students have a bounty of stubs and redlinks to pick from. Creating a new article or expanding an existing one also takes a fairly predictable structure, with plenty of articles that students can model after. Don't students just create messes for volunteers to clean up? Our sincere hope is that, no, they don't, and we take several steps to try to minimize the burden on volunteer labor. With automatic plagiarism detection, alerts when students edit a Good or Featured Article, and notifications when students edit an article subject to discretionary sanctions, we try to stay ahead of problems as much as possible. We also review all student work at the end of each term. Ian, Shalor, and I are always happy to receive pings alerting us to student issues that need to be addressed. |
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Hi E&E.
Six months ago you suggested that I submit an article to the WikiJournal of Humanities and flagged up several possibles from "my" FAs. I replied "not now, but I will get back to you". This is me getting back. I would like to submit Razing of Friesoythe, an article I created and which should be coming out of FAC soon. I believe that it adds a modest something to the sum of human knowledge.
I wonder if you could direct me to someone at the WikiJournal of Humanities for me to ask a couple of questions? (Around the mechanics of the submission process; and the extent to which I could, should or may tweak the article prior to submission.)
Thanks
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Apororhynchus by
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We're joined this month by long-time editor Plantdrew, who's currently engaged in streamlining the taxonomic structure of Wikipedia articles via the automated taxobox system. How did you become a Wikipedian? What are your particular interests (besides the obvious of "plants")?
What projects are keeping you busy around the 'pedia at present?
What's your favorite plant?
What's your background like? How did you come to have a special interest in biology?
What's something that would surprised TOL editors about your life off-wiki?
Anything else you'd like us to know?
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Dear Mr Thomas Shafee
I am interested to improve and publish article "Immune systems" to WikiScience Journal. I have added on Nomination Page. Please kindly to evaluate it. Thank you Helito ( talk) 04:33, 26 January 2019 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019
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Yes, I did not notice regulation section was continuation of glycolysis. Thanx for fixing! As for what is more common, I maybe have more info later AlexM202020 ( talk) 10:11, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
Hello TS - just to note that your recent merge tag for Parasitic life cycle does not bring up an area for discussion - it needs to be tagged using Twinkle. Would do this myself but then it would be my request - i would support this proposal. Best -- Iztwoz ( talk) 12:57, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
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Thanks for creating Small protein! I edit here too, under the username Boleyn and it's nice to meet you :-)
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Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019
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Facto Post – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019
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Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019
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I had an alert that you had emailed me, but I don't seem to have actually received anything (and I've checked the spam folder too). Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:37, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi Thomas. Thanks for the email. I have no objections in principle to submitting an article as you suggest. I have been rather casually considering this for one of the areas I am currently working on. (But have shelved the idea on the basis of ignorance of the procedure.) However, I was a little confused by the topic you suggested. It is not an area where I could usefully contribute at this level. I suspect that you may have been misled by the "Authorship" stats, which include my contributions to ensuring that web links and similar are secured against link rot. This inflates my character count considerably, without necessarily demonstrating that I have an advanced grasp of the subject matter.
So, sadly, I shall decline; but await a similar email in any area in which I may be adequately equipped .
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Facto Post – Issue 24 – 17 May 2019
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Thanks very much for those edits to Rosetta Stone. I was intending to do it, but I had a rush of work connected with other forthcoming publications -- things somehow have to happen at the same moment -- and hadn't yet been able to give the time to it. Andrew Dalby 08:38, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi Thomas, thank you for bringing this excellent project to my attention. It is exactly the direction that I believe Wikipedia/Wikimedia should be going, driving further convergence with the academic world.
I have one question regarding WikiJournal_User_Group/Ethics_statement#Confidentiality_2: can I avoid disclosing my identity post publication? The Balfour Declaration article, which I believe would be a good fit for WikiJournal Humanities, is in a contested topic area in which most editors consider confidentiality a prerequisite to editing. Onceinawhile ( talk) 16:42, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
"Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved."
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Within the Tree of Life and its many subprojects, there is an abundance of stubs. Welcome to Wikipedia, what's new, right? However, based on all wikiprojects listed (just over two thousand), the Tree of Life project is worse off in average article quality than most. Based on the concept of relative WikiWork (the average number of "steps" needed to have a project consisting of all featured articles (FAs), where stub status → FA consists of six steps), only seven projects within the ToL have an average rating of "start class" or better. Many projects, particularly those involving invertebrates, hover at an average article quality slightly better than a stub. With relative WikiWorks of 5.98 each, WikiProject Lepidoptera and WikiProject Beetles have the highest relative WikiWork of any project. Given that invertebrates are incredibly speciose, it may not surprise you that many articles about them are lower quality. WikiProject Beetles, for example, has over 20 times more articles than WikiProject Cats. Wikipedia will always be incomplete, so we should take our relatively low WikiWork as motivation to write more articles that are also better in quality.
We're joined for this month's Editor Spotlight by NessieVL, a long-time contributor who lists themselves as a member of WikiProject Fungus, WikiProject Algae, and WikiProject Cephalopods.
1) Enwebb: How did you come to edit articles about organisms and taxonomic groups?
2) Enwebb: Many editors in the ToL are highly specialized on a group of taxa. A look at your recently created articles includes much diversity, though, with viruses, bacteria, algae, and cnidarians all represented—are there any commonalities for the articles you work on? Would you say you're particularly interested in certain groups?
3) Enwebb: I noticed that many of your recent edits utilize the script Rater, which aids in quickly reassessing the quality and importance of an article. Why is it important to update talk page assessments of articles? I also noticed that the quality rating you assign often aligns with ORES, a script that uses machine-learning to predict article quality. Coincidence?
4) Enwebb: What, if anything, can ToL and its subprojects do to better support collaboration and coordination among editors? How can we improve?
5) Enwebb: What would surprise the ToL community to learn about your life off-Wikipedia?
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Yes, the open access article has been cut very heavily by moving rather important parts elsewhere, while large chunks of texts were incorporated from a valid but outdated source. I was considering whether to integrate it with the text of https://peerj.com/preprints/27580/ , whose references would enrich the article significantly as well. Nemo 07:48, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
On 12 July 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article De novo gene birth, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that de novo gene birth was once thought to be impossible but has now been observed in every species that has been systematically examined? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/De novo gene birth. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, De novo gene birth), 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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PPelberg (WMF) ( talk) and Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 21:25, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for your email about image credits in WikiJournal Preprints/Hepatitis E, but I think I'm probably the wrong person to be credited with the map in question. The map in question is a replacement for one I created (still around at File:LocationNamibia.png), and I guess the mention of me in the file information for the newer map is to acknowledge the earlier one. However, I don't think any of the newer map is my work -- it seems to have been made by User: Rei-artur. (In the event that I need to be mentioned anyway, though, I'm fine with just my username.) -- Vardion ( talk) 01:21, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello! IP editor 95.224.95.166 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS) has been very, very keen to remove Template:Space station size comparison from articles because Tiangong-2 has been approaching the end of its orbital life; now that that station has actually been deorbited, I wanted to humbly ask you to update the template in the way that seems most fitting to you; once it's back up to date, I think it should probably be added to the articles of all the stations it depicts, as well as Space station, where this issue has been playing out. Thank you for your work! - Bryanrutherford0 ( talk) 18:19, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
List of felids by
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Letter-winged kite by
Casliber |
The WikiCup, an annual editing competition, is now in its fourth round. Casliber, consistent participant since 2010 and winner in 2016, is currently dominating Group A with 601 points. Largely responsible is the successful Featured Article nomination of Masked booby. The other remaining Tree of Life participant, Enwebb, is participating in her first ever WikiCup. In this round, she has a grand total of...5 points. But with the recent Featured Article nomination of Megabat, she stands to gain 600 points if successful. As it stands, though, it appears that at least one ToL editor is headed to the fifth and final round of 8 contestants, which begins September 1. Thus far, all participants in the WikiCup have generated 17 Featured Articles, 116 Good Articles, 16 Featured Lists, and 57 Featured Pictures. The Good Article Nominations backlog has been reduced as well, with 286 Good Article Reviews. |
For this month's editor spotlight we're joined by
Charlesjsharp, a longtime contributor to Wikimedia Commons with a plethora of featured pictures on English Wikipedia. 1) Starsandwhales: How long have you been editing Wikipedia, and how did you get interested? How did you begin your journey of photographing wildlife?
2) S&W: Over the years, you've taken photos of many different organisms from birds to insects to big cats; you have an
extensive list of favorite images. Which animals have been the most exciting for you to photograph?
3) S&W: Many articles under ToL have requests for people to add images that can go unanswered. What can the community do to improve the coverage of different organisms on Wikipedia, especially when it comes to images?
4) S&W: What advice would you give to people new to photographing wildlife?
5) S&W: What would the Tree of Life community be surprised to learn about your life off-wiki?
* An example of cumbersome code: getting the layout of my responses to your questions. So dated, and no online spellchecker. |
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Hi Thomas, I see the Myxomatosis article has just joined the list. I passed it at GAN this morning, and was startled to see it jumping straight to WJS. I suppose there is nihil obstat but I'd have thought there was an a priori assumption that more development or review might be advisable before this step. It's nom's first GA and indeed his sole article to date. On the plus side, his username does imply a certain expertise in the matter! All the best, Ian Chiswick Chap ( talk) 12:47, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
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On 12 August 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Teladorsagia circumcincta, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that sheep infected with the parasitic nematode Teladorsagia circumcincta may suffer from protein deficiency? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Teladorsagia circumcincta. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Teladorsagia circumcincta), 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.
— Maile ( talk) 00:01, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
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For your invited address at the American Psychological Association and for welcoming one of those wacky psychologists to the WikiJournals enterprise! - Mark D Worthen PsyD (talk) (I am a man. The traditional male pronouns are fine.) 23:44, 12 August 2019 (UTC) |
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Hi Evolution and evolvability, as you may know, I recently created the Tree of Life Newsletter. With the recent proposal about whether WikiJournal should be its own project, I was wondering if you would be interested in writing a piece for this month's newsletter. Basically, why should Tree of Life editors care about WikiJournal of Science? What do they and the public gain from submitting articles through this process? Let me know if you'd be interested. Enwebb ( talk) 15:30, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
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Guest column by Thomas Shafee ( Evolution and evolvability), Editor in Chief of WikiJournal of Science
Firstly, WikiJSci can be a complementary system for FA review (getting external review, input, and validity). When an Wikipedia article is nominated (via WP:JAN), journal editors go out to non-Wikipedian academics and researchers who have published on the subject on the last five years and invite them to give feedback comments (e.g. Peripatric speciation and Baryonyx). The resulting changes can then be integrated back into the Wikipedia article.
Getting more editors involved in Wikipedia is always a high priority. WikiJSci can also be a way to encourage new people to contribute articles (especially on missing/stub/start topics). An example of an article that was written from scratch by a group of non-Wikipedians is Teladorsagia circumcincta. This not only resulted in a new Wikipedia page on an underdeveloped topic, but introduced the idea of Wikimedia contribution to a group of people who had previously never considered it.
The journal can be a way to get multimedia content reviewed or encourage contribution. The same approach could be easily adapted to sounds (e.g. frog mating calls) or videos (e.g. starfish feet motion). It also allows for tracking of those images in new articles via Altmetric ( this example has >200, which is bananas). There aren't any biology examples in WikiJSci yet, but the sister medical journal has published a few summary diagrams, photography, and image galleries. Examples include this gallery by Blausen Medical or the diagram of cell disassembly during apoptosis.
For those interested in other Wikimedia sister projects, there's also broad scope for interactions with the WikiJournals. Perhaps peer reviewed teaching resources could be useful to sit alongside sets of Wikipedia articles and be integrated into Wikiversity courses (like this or this)? Can sections of Wikidata & Wikispecies be peer reviewed? What are the potential avenues for integration with WikiCite, WikiFactMine, Scholia, etc.? Currently, WikiJSci is aiming to be very flexible and try out different formats so long as they can be externally peer reviewed. For more info, see the 2019-06-30 Signpost article and the current sister project proposal. |
1) Enwebb: You're very prolific with DYKs, with over 2,000 nominations credited (in fact, I'll highlight which DYK nominations this month were yours below). What made you become so involved in this part of Wikipedia? Why should Tree of Life editors nominate articles for DYK?
2) Enwebb: I noticed that your DYK nominations reflect a diverse array of flora and fauna, from trees, marine invertebrates, birds, fishes, and mammals. How do you decide what to work on?
3) Enwebb: Which of your Wikipedia accomplishments are you most proud of?
4) Enwebb: What motivates you to keep contributing? What's your 10,000 ft view (pardon the non-SI) of the community and Tree of Life?
6) Enwebb: How did you first become interested in natural history?
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Sent by ZLEA via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) at 15:43, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
Hey! I am working on a piece of documentation in my day job and stumbled upon you creating Template:Preloaddraft in 2015! What instigated that originally? What was the origin story? I know that @ Pharos: adopted it pretty early on for the met, by you appear to have been building it before then. Sadads ( talk) 17:20, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
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ManosHacker) which also some some similar stuff to {{
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Hi. I see in a recent addition to Origin of replication you included material from a webpage that is available under a compatible Creative Commons Licence. That's okay, but you have to give attribution so that our readers are made aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself. I've added the attribution for this particular instance. Please make sure that you follow this licensing requirement when copying from compatibly-licensed material in the future. — Diannaa 🍁 ( talk) 13:46, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
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Please write to my talk page or mail directly to porton@narod.ru -- VictorPorton ( talk) 15:47, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
In answer to your question about qid - no I don't have one. Whiteghost.ink ( talk) 03:08, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for the work you've been doing, and for bringing me such good memories :) Here you have the websites that better describe the work I did at the Music Museum of Barcelona: This is the official Auditori website (The Music Museum is part of the Auditori), here you have the post at the Amical Wikimedia website, and here you have the Europa Press piece of news. You can also find some more links in my user's page. Moltes gràcies! -- Marionaaragay ( talk) 21:36, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
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This month saw a vanishingly rare occurrence for the Tree of Life: a new WikiProject joined the fold. WikiProject Diptera, however, is also unusual in being a classroom project. Whether or not this project will stay active once the semester ends remains to be seen. It does not bode well, however, that WP:WikiProject Vespidae—a creation from the same instructor at St. Louis University—faded to obscurity shortly after the fall semester concluded in 2014. WikiProject Vespidae is defunct and now redirects to the Hymenoptera task force of WikiProject Insects. Since 2014, the Tree of Life has seen a string of years where one or zero projects or task forces were created. The only projects and task forces created since then are WikiProject Animal anatomy (2014), Hymenoptera task force (2016), Bats task force (2017), WikiProject Hypericaceae (2018), and now WikiProject Diptera (2019). The year 2006 saw the greatest creation of WikiProjects and task forces, with fourteen still active and the remaining six as "semiactive", "inactive", or "defunct". |
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Dear Evolution and evolvability,
Please remove my wikidata item. I am sorry, but i told you i was still pondering this matter. We have privacy laws in Europe, so i should be able to get this unwanted WD item removed. I trust you can remove it, thank you, Hansmuller ( talk) 16:55, 13 October 2019 (UTC) PS I never create WD items for living and not very public persons before getting their permission.
so what's the background on - or where are you going with - https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Template:WiR_table_row - it would be interesting as there are so many dimensions to the different versions of it all... JarrahTree 01:56, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
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– PPelberg (WMF) ( talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 16:51, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
Hello. I was also a WiR in Muzeum Miasta Łodzi (Museum of the City of Łódź) from October to December 2017 ( Wikiproject page). For other WiR in Poland, the best person to contact is our GLAM coordinator Celina Strzelecka ( pl:user:Celina Strzelecka (WMPL)). Regards. Gytha ( talk) 13:02, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
I was reading B chromosome and came across this prose stumble under "Function":
where
shows at XXXXX where apparently the trailing part of a sentence was intended to be. This happened in this April edit by you which was generally a quite good improvement of the article. The problem sentence was in the middle of a move and revision of an existing paragraph. That earlier paragraph had a sentence I'm guessing corresponded to this one; it said "In general it seems unlikely that supernumeraries would persist in a species unless there was some positive adaptive advantage". I'm not knowledgeable enough to concoct something good for XXXXX, so perhaps you could revisit that sentence and fix it up. Thanks. -- R. S. Shaw ( talk) 18:20, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
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By request from another editor, this month I wrote an overview of ways that content is featured on Wikipedia. Below I have outlined some of the processes for getting content featured: Did You Know (DYK)What is it: A way for articles to appear on the main page of Wikipedia. A short hook in the format of "Did you know...that ___" presents unusual and interesting facts to the reader, hopefully making the reader want to click through to the article How it works: The DYK process has fairly low barriers for participation. The eligibility criteria are few and relatively easy to meet. Some important guidelines:
The process for creating the nomination is somewhat tedious. Instructions can be found here (official instructions) and here ("quick and nice" guide to DYK). Experience is the best teacher here, so don't be afraid to try and fail a few times. The last few DYK nominations I've done, however, have been with the help of SD0001's DYK-helper script, which makes the process a bit more streamlined (you create the template from a popup box on the article; created template is automatically transcluded to nominations page and article talk page) Once your nomination is created and transcluded, it will need to be reviewed. The reviewer will check that the article meets the eligibility criteria, that the hook is short enough, cited, and interesting, and that other requirements are met, such as for images. If you've been credited with more than 5 DYKs, the reviewer will also check that you've reviewed someone else's nomination for each article that you nominate. This is called QPQ (quid pro quo). You can check how many credited DYKs you've had here to see if QPQ is required for you to nominate an article for DYK. Good Article (GA)What it is: A peer review process to determine that an article meets a set of criteria. This adds a symbol to the top of the article. About 1 in 200 articles on Wikipedia is a GA. How it works: You follow the instructions to nominate an article, placing a template on its talk page. Anyone can nominate an article—you don't have to be a major contributor, though it is considered polite to inform the major contributors that you are nominating the article. The article is added to a queue to await a review. In the ToL, it seems that reviews happen pretty quickly, thanks to our dedicated members. Once the review begins, the reviewer will offer suggestions to help the article meet the 6 GA criteria. Upon addressing all concerns, the reviewer will pass the article, and voilà! Good Article! Advice to a first-time nominator: Look at other Good Articles in related areas before nominating. If you're unsure about nominating, consider posting to the talk page of your project to see what other editors think. You can also have a more experienced editor co-nominate the article with you. Featured Article (FA)What it is: An exhaustive peer review to determine that an articles meets the criteria. This adds a to the top of the article. About 1 in 1,000 articles on Wikipedia is a FA. How it works: You follow the instructions to nominate an article, placing a template on its talk page. Nominated articles are usually GAs already. Uninvolved editors can nominate, though the article's regular editors should be consulted first. Several editors will come by offering feedback, eventually supporting or opposing promotion to FA. A coordinator will determine if there is consensus to promote the article to FA. For an editor's first FA, spot checks to verify that the sources support the text are conducted. Advice to a first-time nominator: The Featured Article Candidate (FAC) process is a bit intimidating, but several steps can make your first one easier (speaking as someone who has exactly one). If you also did the GA nomination of the article, you can ask the reviewer for "extra" feedback beyond the GA criteria. You can also formally request a peer review and/or a copy edit from the Guild of Copy Editors to check for content and mechanics. First-time nominators are encouraged to seek the help of a mentor for a higher likelihood of passing their first FAC. Good and Featured Topics (GT and FT)What it is: It took me a while to realize we even had GT and FT on Wikipedia, as they are not very common relative to GA and FA. Both GT and FT are collections of related articles of high quality (all articles at GA or FA, all lists at Featured List). GT/FT have to be at least 3 articles with no obvious gaps in coverage of the topic, along with other criteria. For GT, all articles have to be GA quality and all lists must be FL. For FT, at least half the articles must be FA or FL, with the remaining articles at GA. How it works: Follow the nomination procedures for creating a new topic or adding an article to an existing topic. Other editors weigh in to support or oppose the proposal. Coordinators determine if there is consensus to promote to GT/FT. Advice to a first-time nominator: There are very few GT/FT in Tree of Life ( 5 GT and 11 FT). Most of the legwork appears to be improving a cohesive set of articles to GA/FA. |
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Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.
I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!
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In an interesting turn of events, this month's guest column is by my alter-ego, Elysia (Wiki Ed): *Puts on Wiki Education hat* Hi everyone, I'm Elysia and I work for Wiki Education. You may know me as Enwebb. I got a request last month to let you know how Wiki Education is intersecting with the Tree of Life subprojects. As one of Wiki Education's major goals is to improve topics related to the sciences, leading to our Communicating Science initiative, we end up supporting quite a few in the biological sciences. Here are the TOL-related courses active this term: What is the impact of student editors in Tree of Life? Altogether, these 16 courses have 347 student participants. As the end of the semester hasn't come yet, these numbers are still growing, but these students have:
Some of our best student work this semester (of any kind, not just biodiversity) has come from Agelaia's Behavioural Ecology course—you may remember this as the course that created WikiProject Diptera. The students have several Good Article nominations, including Dryomyza anilis, Anastrepha ludens, Aedes taeniorhynchus, Drosophila silvestris, Drosophila subobscura, and Ceratitis capitata. And while long-term participation from students is low, there's always the chance that we'll discover a Wikipedian. I had never edited before my Wikipedia assignment in 2017 and I'm still here nearly 20,000 edits later! After I poked around in the beginning of the semester, I had the realization that not many people write Wikipedia, and very few of those have a special interest in bats. If I didn't stick around to write the content, there was no guarantee that it would ever get done. Why are species articles suitable for students? Writing about taxonomic groups is a great fit for students, as it keeps them away from areas where new editors traditionally struggle. The notability policy is generous towards taxa, and there is little danger of a student's work getting removed for lack of notability; this is to be expected when students write biographies. Students may struggle with encyclopedic tone for biographies and stray towards promotional writing, but this is much less common when writing about a shrew or algae! Additionally, we're never going to run out of species to write about. Students have a bounty of stubs and redlinks to pick from. Creating a new article or expanding an existing one also takes a fairly predictable structure, with plenty of articles that students can model after. Don't students just create messes for volunteers to clean up? Our sincere hope is that, no, they don't, and we take several steps to try to minimize the burden on volunteer labor. With automatic plagiarism detection, alerts when students edit a Good or Featured Article, and notifications when students edit an article subject to discretionary sanctions, we try to stay ahead of problems as much as possible. We also review all student work at the end of each term. Ian, Shalor, and I are always happy to receive pings alerting us to student issues that need to be addressed. |
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Hi E&E.
Six months ago you suggested that I submit an article to the WikiJournal of Humanities and flagged up several possibles from "my" FAs. I replied "not now, but I will get back to you". This is me getting back. I would like to submit Razing of Friesoythe, an article I created and which should be coming out of FAC soon. I believe that it adds a modest something to the sum of human knowledge.
I wonder if you could direct me to someone at the WikiJournal of Humanities for me to ask a couple of questions? (Around the mechanics of the submission process; and the extent to which I could, should or may tweak the article prior to submission.)
Thanks
Gog the Mild ( talk) 17:28, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
"And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold,
I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord."
Luke 2:10-11 (King James Version)
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We're joined this month by long-time editor Plantdrew, who's currently engaged in streamlining the taxonomic structure of Wikipedia articles via the automated taxobox system. How did you become a Wikipedian? What are your particular interests (besides the obvious of "plants")?
What projects are keeping you busy around the 'pedia at present?
What's your favorite plant?
What's your background like? How did you come to have a special interest in biology?
What's something that would surprised TOL editors about your life off-wiki?
Anything else you'd like us to know?
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