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Gary- We need an interview for the next issue of the VG project newletter, set to be delivered next week. Care to take up the offer this time? You are one of the project's most productive members, and I think our readers would like to learn more about you. ( Guyinblack25 talk 06:22, 30 December 2011 (UTC))
Wondered if you could help me with this FAC (the only comment so far complained about MoS issues, but didn't ellaborate on it...). Also, wanted to know if you support (or could help) with a Retro Studios GT/FT (which will require to push Retro, Donkey Kong Country Returns and Mario Kart 7 to GA level). igordebraga ≠ 18:13, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
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WikiCup 2012 is off to a flying start. At the time of writing, we have 112 contestants; comparable to last year, but slightly fewer than 2010.
Signups will remain open for another week, after which time they will be closed for this year. Our currrent far-away leader is
Grapple X (
submissions), due mostly to his work on a slew of good articles about
The X-Files; there remain many such articles waiting to be reviewed at
good article candidates. Second place is currently held by
Ruby2010 (
submissions), whose points come mostly from good articles about television episodes, although good article reviews, did you knows and an article about a baroness round out the score. In third place is
Jivesh boodhun (
submissions), who has scored 200 points for his work on a single featured article, as well as points for work on others, mostly in the area of pop music. In all, nine users have 100 or more points. However, at the other end of the scale, there are still dozens of participants who are yet to score. Please remember to update your submission pages promptly!
The 64 highest scoring participants will advance to round 2 in a month's time. There, they will be split into eight random groups of eight. The score needed to reach the next round is not at all clear; last year, 8 points guaranteed a place. The year before, 20.
A few participants and their work warrant a mention for achieving "firsts" in this competition.
We are yet to see any featured lists, featured topics or good topics, but this is unsurprising; firstly, the nomination processes with each of these can take some time, and, secondly, it can take a considerable amount of time to work content to this level. In a similar vein, we have seen only one featured article. The requirement that content must have been worked on this year to be eligible means that we did not expect to see these at the start of the competition. No points have been claimed for featured portals or pictures, but these are not content types which are often claimed; the former has never made a big impact on the WikiCup, while the latter has not done so since 2009's competition.
A quick rules clarification before the regular notices: If you are concerned that another user is claiming points inappropriately, please contact a judge to take a look at the article. Competitors policing one another can create a bad atmosphere, and may lead to inconsistencies and mistakes. Rest assured that we, the judges, are making an effort to check submissions, but it is possible that we will miss something. On a loosely related note: If you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 00:05, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Gary! I would like to know if you want to improve the article. It's in pretty awful shape and I think that it could use some improvement. Electroguv ( talk) 09:40, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Could you please review Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror for GA? :) All the Best -- Khanassassin ( talk) 19:14, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
The article
Donkey Kong Country Returns, which you have nominated for
WP:GA, has
! Nice Work! See
Talk:Donkey Kong Country Returns for comments about the article. All the Best
So, here you go - another barnstar! :):
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Gary, I followed your instructions here: Wikipedia:Expand Hidden Templates. However, I can't get it to work in either Firefox or IE. I am using the vector skin? thanks for any help you can give me. This is a useful template, especially when trying to find something on some of the wikipedia talk pages where half the discussions are hatted. stmrlbs| talk 19:15, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Gary. Would you kindly try it out again? The code was rewritten. For me, using this Image Siblings works in English Wikipedia, too. -- Leyo 17:25, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
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Round 1 is already over! The 64 highest scorers have progressed to round 2. Our highest scorer was
Grapple X (
submissions), again thanks mostly to a swathe of good articles on The X-Files. In second place was
Tigerboy1966 (
submissions), thanks an impressive list of did you knows about racehorses. Both scored over 400 points. Following behind with over 300 points were
Ruby2010 (
submissions),
Cwmhiraeth (
submissions),
Miyagawa (
submissions) and
Casliber (
submissions). February also saw the competition's first featured list:
List of colleges and universities in North Dakota, from
Ruby2010 (
submissions). At the other end of the scale, 11 points was enough to secure a place in this round, and some contestants with 10 points made it into the round on a tiebreaker. This is higher than the 8 points that were needed last year, but lower than the 20 points required the year before. The number of points required to progress to round 3 will be significantly higher.
The remaining contestants have been split into 8 pools of 8, named A through H. Round two will finish in two months time on 28 April, when the two highest scorers in each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers, will progress to round 3. The pools were entirely random, so while some pools may end up being more competitive than others, this is by chance rather than design.
The judges would like to point out two quick rules reminders. First, any content promoted during the interim period (that is, on or after 27 February) is eligible for points in round 2. Second, any content worked on significantly this year is eligible for points if promoted in this round. On a related note, if you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which would otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 23:57, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Gary, hi. I know that I may be asking you for that at a wrong time, but could you help me to get some info on how Mass Effect's universe was created? I have found a GameSpy interview and a Daily Telegraph article detailing the game's origins, but even if combined, they don't have enough info on that essential moment. Electroguv ( talk) 16:22, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello! This is a note to let the main editors of the List of mergers and acquisitions by Microsoft know that it will be appearing as the main page featured list on April 2, 2012. You can view the TFL blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured list/April 2, 2012. If you think it is necessary to change the main date, you can request it with the featured list directors The Rambling Man ( talk · contribs), Dabomb87 ( talk · contribs) or Giants2008 ( talk · contribs), or at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured list. If the previous blurb needs tweaking, you might change it—following the instructions of the suggested formatting. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :D Thanks! Tbhotch. ™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 04:43, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
Microsoft's portfolio of mergers and acquisitions includes the acquisition of 146 companies, the purchase of stakes in 61 companies, and a history of 25 divestments. Microsoft is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Of the companies that Microsoft has acquired, 107 were based in the United States. Since Microsoft's first acquisition in 1987, it has purchased an average of six companies a year. The company has purchased more than ten companies a year since 2005, and it acquired 18 firms in 2006, the most in a single year, including Onfolio, Lionhead Studios, Massive Incorporated, ProClarity, Winternals Software, and Colloquis. Microsoft has made five acquisitions worth over one billion dollars: Skype, aQuantive, Fast Search & Transfer, Navision, and Visio Corporation. Microsoft has also obtained an 11.5% stake in Comcast for $1 billion, a 22.98% stake in Telewest Communications for $2.263 billion, and a 3% stake in AT&T for $5 billion.
We are over half way through the second round of this year's WikiCup and things are going well!
Grapple X (
submissions), of Pool B, is our highest overall scorer thanks to his prolific writings on television and film. In second place is Pool H's
Cwmhiraeth (
submissions), thanks primarily to work on biological articles, especially in
marine biology and
herpetology. Third place goes to Pool E's
Casliber (
submissions), who also writes primarily on biology (including
ornithology and
botany) and has already submitted two featured articles this round. Of the 63 contestants remaining, 15 (just under a quarter) have over 100 points this round. However, 25 are yet to score. Please remember to update your submission pages promptly. 32 contestants, the top two from each pool and the 16 next-highest scorers, will advance to round 3.
Congratulations to
Matthewedwards (
submissions), whose impressive
File:Wacht am Rhein map (Opaque).svg became the competition's first featured picture. Also, congratulations to
12george1 (
submissions), who claimed good topic points, our first contestant this year to do so, for his work on
Wikipedia:Featured topics/1982 Atlantic hurricane season. This leaves featured topics and featured portals as the only sources of points not yet utilised. However, as
recent statistics from
Miyagawa (
submissions) show, no source has yet been utilised this competition to the same extent it has been previously!
It has been observed that the backlogs at good article candidates are building up again. While the points for good article reviews will be remaining constant, any help that can be offered keeping the backlog down would be appreciated. On a related note, if you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 23:17, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
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Round 2 of this year's WikiCup is over, and so we are down to our final 32, in what could be called our quarter-finals. The two highest scorers from each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers overall, have entered round 3, while 30 participants have been eliminated. Pool B's
Grapple X (
submissions) remains our top scorer with over 700 points; he continues to gain high numbers of points for his good articles on
The X-Files, but also
Millennium and other subjects. He has also gained points for a good topic, a featured list, multiple good article reviews and several did you knows. Pool E's
Casliber (
submissions) was second, thanks primarily to his biology articles, with Pool H's
Muboshgu (
submissions) coming in third, with an impressive 46 did you knows, mostly on the subject of baseball. Casliber and Cwmhiraeth both scored over 600 points. Pools E and H proved our most successful, with each seeing 5 members qualify for round 3, while Pools C and D were the least, with each seeing only 3 reach round 3. However, it was Pool G which saw the lowest scoring, with a little under 400 points combined; Pool H, the highest scoring group, saw over triple that score.
65 points was the lowest qualifying score for round 3; significantly higher than the 11 required to enter round 2, and also higher than the 41 required to reach round 3 last year. However, in 2010, 100 points were needed to secure a place in round 3. 16 will progress to round 4. In round 3, 150 points was the 16th highest score, though, statistically, people tend to up their game a little in later rounds. Last year, 76 points secured a place, while in 2010, a massive 250 points were needed. Guessing how many points will be required is not easy. We still have not seen any featured portals or topics this year, but, on the subject of less common content types, a small correction needs to be made to the previous newsletter:
File:Wacht am Rhein map (Opaque).svg, our first featured picture, was the work of both
Matthewedwards (
submissions) and
Grandiose (
submissions), the latter of whom has also gone on to score with
File:Map of the Battle of Guam, 1944.svg. Bonus points also continue to roll in; this round,
Ealdgyth (
submissions) earned triple points for her good articles on
William the Conqueror and the
Middle Ages, Casliber and Cwmhiraeth both earned triple points for their work on
Western Jackdaw, now a good article,
Dana Boomer (
submissions) earned triple points for her work on
lettuce and work by
Stone (
submissions) to ready
antimony for good article status earned him triple points.
Jarry1250 (
submissions) managed to expand
Vitus Bering far enough for a did you know, which was also worth triple points. All of these highly important topics featured on 50 or more Wikipedias at the start of the year.
An article on the WikiCup in the Wikimedia Blog, "
Improving Wikipedia with friendly competition", was posted at the end of April. This may be of interest to those who are signed up to this newsletter, as well as serving as another way to draw attention to our project. Also, we would again like to thank
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Why did you create the redirect? it was fine as two separate articles, if you disagree please participate in the talk page. TheChampionMan1234 ( talk) 02:14, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
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Great job with the Kelly O'Donnell article clean-up. I just tagged the article for fixing yesterday and am amazed that you got on it so quickly! Chevsapher ( talk) 18:40, 19 May 2012 (UTC) |
Where did you find this date? Vanobamo ( talk) 21:07, 25 May 2012 (UTC).
I have requested a re-assessment on this article because it was listed as Good Article in 2008 without further re-assessments. -- George Ho ( talk) 14:59, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
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Hi there, I'm notifying you as I noticed your impressive work on the GA Quality article, The New York Times. I've recently gone ahead and created WP:WikiProject Freedom of speech. If you're interested, here are some easy things you can do:
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I want import this gadget into Spanish Wikipedia. Do I change something besides this?
language = { // relative terms 'Today' : 'hoy', 'Yesterday' : 'ayer', 'Tomorrow' : 'mañana', 'last' : 'último', 'this' : 'este', // days of the week 'Monday' : 'Lunes', 'Tuesday' : 'Martes', 'Wednesday' : 'Miércoles', 'Thursday' : 'Jueves', 'Friday' : 'Viernes', 'Saturday' : 'Sábado', 'Sunday' : 'Domingo', // months of the year 'January' : 'Enero', 'February' : 'Febrero', 'March' : 'Marzo', 'April' : 'Abril', 'May' : 'Mayo', 'June' : 'Junio', 'July' : 'Julio', 'August' : 'Agosto', 'September' : 'Septiembre', 'October' : 'Octubre', 'November' : 'Noviembre', 'December' : 'Diciembre', // difference words 'ago' : 'hace', 'from now' : 'from now', // date phrases 'year' : 'año', 'years' : 'años', 'month' : 'mes', 'months' : 'meses', 'day' : 'día', 'days' : 'días' };
The format of the English Wikipedia is 01:24, 6 December 2010 (UTC) and of the Spanish is 21:09 3 may 2012 (UTC). The month are always abbreviated with 3 letters.-- Vivaelcelta { discussion · contributions} 21:07, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
/(\d\d):(\d\d), (\d{1,2}) ([A-Z][a-z]+) (\d{4}) \(UTC\)/
which essentially means it will find timestamps in the format "12:34, 1 January 2012", so this needs to be modified for the Spanish Wikipedia. Try the following instead (replace that code with this one): /(\d\d):(\d\d) (\d{1,2}) ([a-z]+) (\d{4}) \(UTC\)
It should match the format: 18:36 5 nov 2012 (UTC)
The ([a-z]+)
part will have to include accents, like ([a-zé]+)
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I'd like to update you about the status of an article you created. The article God of War (series) which you created (which was a redirect before you created it) on February 14, 2009 was promoted to GA-Class on July 31, 2012 and after a Peer Review, it will be nominated for FAC. -- JDC808 ♫ 15:15, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
You might have been asked this earlier; have you ever thought of becoming an administrator? The additional tools might assist you in making this project better. Just thought I'll stop by and ask. Thanks. Wifione Message 14:37, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
Hey all :).
I'm dropping you a note because you've been involved in dealing with feedback from the Article Feedback Tool. To get a better handle on the overall quality of comments now that the tool has become a more established part of the reader experience, we're undertaking a round of hand coding - basically, taking a sample of feedback and marking each piece as inappropriate, helpful, so on - and would like anyone interested in improving the tool to participate :).
You can code as many or as few pieces of feedback as you want:
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If you'd like to chat with us about the research, or want live tutoring on the software, there will be an office hours session on Monday 17 December at 23:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office connect. Hope to see some of you there! Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 23:17, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
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Gary- We need an interview for the next issue of the VG project newletter, set to be delivered next week. Care to take up the offer this time? You are one of the project's most productive members, and I think our readers would like to learn more about you. ( Guyinblack25 talk 06:22, 30 December 2011 (UTC))
Wondered if you could help me with this FAC (the only comment so far complained about MoS issues, but didn't ellaborate on it...). Also, wanted to know if you support (or could help) with a Retro Studios GT/FT (which will require to push Retro, Donkey Kong Country Returns and Mario Kart 7 to GA level). igordebraga ≠ 18:13, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
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ralphamale ( talk) 22:10, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
WikiCup 2012 is off to a flying start. At the time of writing, we have 112 contestants; comparable to last year, but slightly fewer than 2010.
Signups will remain open for another week, after which time they will be closed for this year. Our currrent far-away leader is
Grapple X (
submissions), due mostly to his work on a slew of good articles about
The X-Files; there remain many such articles waiting to be reviewed at
good article candidates. Second place is currently held by
Ruby2010 (
submissions), whose points come mostly from good articles about television episodes, although good article reviews, did you knows and an article about a baroness round out the score. In third place is
Jivesh boodhun (
submissions), who has scored 200 points for his work on a single featured article, as well as points for work on others, mostly in the area of pop music. In all, nine users have 100 or more points. However, at the other end of the scale, there are still dozens of participants who are yet to score. Please remember to update your submission pages promptly!
The 64 highest scoring participants will advance to round 2 in a month's time. There, they will be split into eight random groups of eight. The score needed to reach the next round is not at all clear; last year, 8 points guaranteed a place. The year before, 20.
A few participants and their work warrant a mention for achieving "firsts" in this competition.
We are yet to see any featured lists, featured topics or good topics, but this is unsurprising; firstly, the nomination processes with each of these can take some time, and, secondly, it can take a considerable amount of time to work content to this level. In a similar vein, we have seen only one featured article. The requirement that content must have been worked on this year to be eligible means that we did not expect to see these at the start of the competition. No points have been claimed for featured portals or pictures, but these are not content types which are often claimed; the former has never made a big impact on the WikiCup, while the latter has not done so since 2009's competition.
A quick rules clarification before the regular notices: If you are concerned that another user is claiming points inappropriately, please contact a judge to take a look at the article. Competitors policing one another can create a bad atmosphere, and may lead to inconsistencies and mistakes. Rest assured that we, the judges, are making an effort to check submissions, but it is possible that we will miss something. On a loosely related note: If you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 00:05, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Gary! I would like to know if you want to improve the article. It's in pretty awful shape and I think that it could use some improvement. Electroguv ( talk) 09:40, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Could you please review Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror for GA? :) All the Best -- Khanassassin ( talk) 19:14, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
The article
Donkey Kong Country Returns, which you have nominated for
WP:GA, has
! Nice Work! See
Talk:Donkey Kong Country Returns for comments about the article. All the Best
So, here you go - another barnstar! :):
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The Good Article Barnstar | |
For...being an awesome editor?
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Best --
Khanassassin (
talk) 11:10, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Gary, I followed your instructions here: Wikipedia:Expand Hidden Templates. However, I can't get it to work in either Firefox or IE. I am using the vector skin? thanks for any help you can give me. This is a useful template, especially when trying to find something on some of the wikipedia talk pages where half the discussions are hatted. stmrlbs| talk 19:15, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Gary. Would you kindly try it out again? The code was rewritten. For me, using this Image Siblings works in English Wikipedia, too. -- Leyo 17:25, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
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Round 1 is already over! The 64 highest scorers have progressed to round 2. Our highest scorer was
Grapple X (
submissions), again thanks mostly to a swathe of good articles on The X-Files. In second place was
Tigerboy1966 (
submissions), thanks an impressive list of did you knows about racehorses. Both scored over 400 points. Following behind with over 300 points were
Ruby2010 (
submissions),
Cwmhiraeth (
submissions),
Miyagawa (
submissions) and
Casliber (
submissions). February also saw the competition's first featured list:
List of colleges and universities in North Dakota, from
Ruby2010 (
submissions). At the other end of the scale, 11 points was enough to secure a place in this round, and some contestants with 10 points made it into the round on a tiebreaker. This is higher than the 8 points that were needed last year, but lower than the 20 points required the year before. The number of points required to progress to round 3 will be significantly higher.
The remaining contestants have been split into 8 pools of 8, named A through H. Round two will finish in two months time on 28 April, when the two highest scorers in each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers, will progress to round 3. The pools were entirely random, so while some pools may end up being more competitive than others, this is by chance rather than design.
The judges would like to point out two quick rules reminders. First, any content promoted during the interim period (that is, on or after 27 February) is eligible for points in round 2. Second, any content worked on significantly this year is eligible for points if promoted in this round. On a related note, if you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which would otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 23:57, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Gary, hi. I know that I may be asking you for that at a wrong time, but could you help me to get some info on how Mass Effect's universe was created? I have found a GameSpy interview and a Daily Telegraph article detailing the game's origins, but even if combined, they don't have enough info on that essential moment. Electroguv ( talk) 16:22, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello! This is a note to let the main editors of the List of mergers and acquisitions by Microsoft know that it will be appearing as the main page featured list on April 2, 2012. You can view the TFL blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured list/April 2, 2012. If you think it is necessary to change the main date, you can request it with the featured list directors The Rambling Man ( talk · contribs), Dabomb87 ( talk · contribs) or Giants2008 ( talk · contribs), or at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured list. If the previous blurb needs tweaking, you might change it—following the instructions of the suggested formatting. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :D Thanks! Tbhotch. ™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 04:43, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
Microsoft's portfolio of mergers and acquisitions includes the acquisition of 146 companies, the purchase of stakes in 61 companies, and a history of 25 divestments. Microsoft is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Of the companies that Microsoft has acquired, 107 were based in the United States. Since Microsoft's first acquisition in 1987, it has purchased an average of six companies a year. The company has purchased more than ten companies a year since 2005, and it acquired 18 firms in 2006, the most in a single year, including Onfolio, Lionhead Studios, Massive Incorporated, ProClarity, Winternals Software, and Colloquis. Microsoft has made five acquisitions worth over one billion dollars: Skype, aQuantive, Fast Search & Transfer, Navision, and Visio Corporation. Microsoft has also obtained an 11.5% stake in Comcast for $1 billion, a 22.98% stake in Telewest Communications for $2.263 billion, and a 3% stake in AT&T for $5 billion.
We are over half way through the second round of this year's WikiCup and things are going well!
Grapple X (
submissions), of Pool B, is our highest overall scorer thanks to his prolific writings on television and film. In second place is Pool H's
Cwmhiraeth (
submissions), thanks primarily to work on biological articles, especially in
marine biology and
herpetology. Third place goes to Pool E's
Casliber (
submissions), who also writes primarily on biology (including
ornithology and
botany) and has already submitted two featured articles this round. Of the 63 contestants remaining, 15 (just under a quarter) have over 100 points this round. However, 25 are yet to score. Please remember to update your submission pages promptly. 32 contestants, the top two from each pool and the 16 next-highest scorers, will advance to round 3.
Congratulations to
Matthewedwards (
submissions), whose impressive
File:Wacht am Rhein map (Opaque).svg became the competition's first featured picture. Also, congratulations to
12george1 (
submissions), who claimed good topic points, our first contestant this year to do so, for his work on
Wikipedia:Featured topics/1982 Atlantic hurricane season. This leaves featured topics and featured portals as the only sources of points not yet utilised. However, as
recent statistics from
Miyagawa (
submissions) show, no source has yet been utilised this competition to the same extent it has been previously!
It has been observed that the backlogs at good article candidates are building up again. While the points for good article reviews will be remaining constant, any help that can be offered keeping the backlog down would be appreciated. On a related note, if you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 23:17, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello. I'm having issues with using QuickEdit in the Arabic Wikipedia; I keep having this "Loading data..." message but nothing shows up.. -- Zack ( talk) 13:00, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
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Round 2 of this year's WikiCup is over, and so we are down to our final 32, in what could be called our quarter-finals. The two highest scorers from each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers overall, have entered round 3, while 30 participants have been eliminated. Pool B's
Grapple X (
submissions) remains our top scorer with over 700 points; he continues to gain high numbers of points for his good articles on
The X-Files, but also
Millennium and other subjects. He has also gained points for a good topic, a featured list, multiple good article reviews and several did you knows. Pool E's
Casliber (
submissions) was second, thanks primarily to his biology articles, with Pool H's
Muboshgu (
submissions) coming in third, with an impressive 46 did you knows, mostly on the subject of baseball. Casliber and Cwmhiraeth both scored over 600 points. Pools E and H proved our most successful, with each seeing 5 members qualify for round 3, while Pools C and D were the least, with each seeing only 3 reach round 3. However, it was Pool G which saw the lowest scoring, with a little under 400 points combined; Pool H, the highest scoring group, saw over triple that score.
65 points was the lowest qualifying score for round 3; significantly higher than the 11 required to enter round 2, and also higher than the 41 required to reach round 3 last year. However, in 2010, 100 points were needed to secure a place in round 3. 16 will progress to round 4. In round 3, 150 points was the 16th highest score, though, statistically, people tend to up their game a little in later rounds. Last year, 76 points secured a place, while in 2010, a massive 250 points were needed. Guessing how many points will be required is not easy. We still have not seen any featured portals or topics this year, but, on the subject of less common content types, a small correction needs to be made to the previous newsletter:
File:Wacht am Rhein map (Opaque).svg, our first featured picture, was the work of both
Matthewedwards (
submissions) and
Grandiose (
submissions), the latter of whom has also gone on to score with
File:Map of the Battle of Guam, 1944.svg. Bonus points also continue to roll in; this round,
Ealdgyth (
submissions) earned triple points for her good articles on
William the Conqueror and the
Middle Ages, Casliber and Cwmhiraeth both earned triple points for their work on
Western Jackdaw, now a good article,
Dana Boomer (
submissions) earned triple points for her work on
lettuce and work by
Stone (
submissions) to ready
antimony for good article status earned him triple points.
Jarry1250 (
submissions) managed to expand
Vitus Bering far enough for a did you know, which was also worth triple points. All of these highly important topics featured on 50 or more Wikipedias at the start of the year.
An article on the WikiCup in the Wikimedia Blog, "
Improving Wikipedia with friendly competition", was posted at the end of April. This may be of interest to those who are signed up to this newsletter, as well as serving as another way to draw attention to our project. Also, we would again like to thank
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Why did you create the redirect? it was fine as two separate articles, if you disagree please participate in the talk page. TheChampionMan1234 ( talk) 02:14, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
This script currently only returns a maximum of 10 revisions, because that's the default "revisions" query limit. You can override this limit by specifying "rvlimit" with the query. You can see the change here: User:Equazcion/link intermediate revisions.js. This corrects the intermediate revisions link so they're all shown. I thought you might like to tweak your script accordingly. PS. I'm a big fan of your scripts :) Equazcion (talk) 17:58, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
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Great job with the Kelly O'Donnell article clean-up. I just tagged the article for fixing yesterday and am amazed that you got on it so quickly! Chevsapher ( talk) 18:40, 19 May 2012 (UTC) |
Where did you find this date? Vanobamo ( talk) 21:07, 25 May 2012 (UTC).
I have requested a re-assessment on this article because it was listed as Good Article in 2008 without further re-assessments. -- George Ho ( talk) 14:59, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
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Hi there, I'm notifying you as I noticed your impressive work on the GA Quality article, The New York Times. I've recently gone ahead and created WP:WikiProject Freedom of speech. If you're interested, here are some easy things you can do:
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I want import this gadget into Spanish Wikipedia. Do I change something besides this?
language = { // relative terms 'Today' : 'hoy', 'Yesterday' : 'ayer', 'Tomorrow' : 'mañana', 'last' : 'último', 'this' : 'este', // days of the week 'Monday' : 'Lunes', 'Tuesday' : 'Martes', 'Wednesday' : 'Miércoles', 'Thursday' : 'Jueves', 'Friday' : 'Viernes', 'Saturday' : 'Sábado', 'Sunday' : 'Domingo', // months of the year 'January' : 'Enero', 'February' : 'Febrero', 'March' : 'Marzo', 'April' : 'Abril', 'May' : 'Mayo', 'June' : 'Junio', 'July' : 'Julio', 'August' : 'Agosto', 'September' : 'Septiembre', 'October' : 'Octubre', 'November' : 'Noviembre', 'December' : 'Diciembre', // difference words 'ago' : 'hace', 'from now' : 'from now', // date phrases 'year' : 'año', 'years' : 'años', 'month' : 'mes', 'months' : 'meses', 'day' : 'día', 'days' : 'días' };
The format of the English Wikipedia is 01:24, 6 December 2010 (UTC) and of the Spanish is 21:09 3 may 2012 (UTC). The month are always abbreviated with 3 letters.-- Vivaelcelta { discussion · contributions} 21:07, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
/(\d\d):(\d\d), (\d{1,2}) ([A-Z][a-z]+) (\d{4}) \(UTC\)/
which essentially means it will find timestamps in the format "12:34, 1 January 2012", so this needs to be modified for the Spanish Wikipedia. Try the following instead (replace that code with this one): /(\d\d):(\d\d) (\d{1,2}) ([a-z]+) (\d{4}) \(UTC\)
It should match the format: 18:36 5 nov 2012 (UTC)
The ([a-z]+)
part will have to include accents, like ([a-zé]+)
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I'd like to update you about the status of an article you created. The article God of War (series) which you created (which was a redirect before you created it) on February 14, 2009 was promoted to GA-Class on July 31, 2012 and after a Peer Review, it will be nominated for FAC. -- JDC808 ♫ 15:15, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
You might have been asked this earlier; have you ever thought of becoming an administrator? The additional tools might assist you in making this project better. Just thought I'll stop by and ask. Thanks. Wifione Message 14:37, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
Hey all :).
I'm dropping you a note because you've been involved in dealing with feedback from the Article Feedback Tool. To get a better handle on the overall quality of comments now that the tool has become a more established part of the reader experience, we're undertaking a round of hand coding - basically, taking a sample of feedback and marking each piece as inappropriate, helpful, so on - and would like anyone interested in improving the tool to participate :).
You can code as many or as few pieces of feedback as you want:
this page should explain how to use the system, and there is a demo
here. Once you're comfortable with the task, just drop me an email at okeyeswikimedia.org and I'll set you up with an account :).
If you'd like to chat with us about the research, or want live tutoring on the software, there will be an office hours session on Monday 17 December at 23:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office connect. Hope to see some of you there! Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 23:17, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
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