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Hello, happy new year and welcome to the 2011 WikiCup! Your submissions' page can be found here and instructions of how to update the page can be found here and on the submissions' page itself. From the submissions' page, a bot will update the main scoresheet. Our rules have been very slightly updated from last year; the full rules can be found here. Please remember that you can only receive points for content on which you have done significant work in 2011; nominations of work from last year and "drive-by" nominations will not be awarded points. Signups are going to remain open through January, so if you know of anyone who would like to take part, please direct them to Wikipedia:WikiCup/2011 signups. The judges can be contacted on the WikiCup talk page, on their respective talk pages, or by email. Other than that, we will be in contact at the end of every month with the newsletter. If you want to stop or start receiving newsletters, please remove your name from or add your name to this list. Good luck! J Milburn and The ed17 12:57, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
When do you figure you'll be able to start the collaboration, if at all :P NativeForeigner Talk/ Contribs 02:38, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
Although it is not immediately apparent your smaller templates.js page is categorised in
Category:Wikipedia pages needing cleanup, can you please remove it form the category. If you need help to do this, just ask.
Rich
Farmbrough,
20:42, 8 January 2011 (UTC).
Thanks for figuring out the problem over there, despite the lack of technical information provided by me. Cheers! --- RepublicanJacobite The'FortyFive' 22:13, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
I recently split this article out, and noticed that you expressed interest in GAing it a couple years back. Might you still be interested? - The New Age Retro Hippie used Ruler! Now, he can figure out the length of things easily. 20:42, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
Since you helped the Slipknot articles, and even considered an overall topic for the band, I think this might interest you. ( this too, though another editor expressed interest in keeping the topic alive) igordebraga ≠ 16:18, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
I'm Steve Sands sound engineer for Felony. Every time I try to add my name to the page it gets reverted. Can you tell me why? And how do I add my name and resume to the page? 66.74.31.219 ( talk) 18:08, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for creating the Angelfire disambiguation page. -- James26 ( talk) 07:13, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
Honest question: is "keeping it linear" a good reason not to add more info to the template? It sounds sort of arbitrary. I believe it would add to the template to show the early growth numbers before 100 million. 71.202.48.127 ( talk) 08:12, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi! Since you've been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, I wanted to let you know about the Wikipedia Ambassador Program, and specifically the role of Online Ambassador. We're looking for friendly Wikipedians who are good at reviewing articles and giving feedback to serve as mentors for students who are assigned to write for Wikipedia in their classes.
If that sounds like you and you're interested, I encourage you to take a look at the Online Ambassador guidelines; the "mentorship process" describes roughly what will be expected of mentors during the current term, which started in January and goes through early May. If that's something you want to do, please apply!
You can find instructions for applying at WP:ONLINE. The main things we're looking for in Online Ambassadors are friendliness, regular activity (since mentorship is a commitment that spans several months), and the ability to give detailed, substantive feedback on articles (both short new articles, and longer, more mature ones).
I hope to hear from you soon.-- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 21:48, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
We are half way through round one of the WikiCup. Signups are now closed, and we have 129 listed competitors, 64 of whom will make it to round two. Congratulations to
The Bushranger (
submissions), who, at the time of writing, has a comfortable lead with 228 points, followed by
Hurricanehink (
submissions), with 144 points. Four others have over 100 points. Congratulations also go to
Yellow Evan (
submissions), who scored the first points in the competition, claiming for
Talk:Hurricane King/GA1,
Miyagawa (
submissions), who scored the first non-review points in the competition, claiming for
Dognapping, and
Jarry1250 (
submissions) who was the first in the competition to use our new "multiplier" mechanic (
explanation), claiming for
Grigory Potemkin, a subject covered on numerous Wikipedias. Thanks must also go to Jarry1250 for dealing with all bot work- without you, the competition wouldn't be happening!
A running total of claims can be seen here. However, numerous competitors are yet to score at all- please remember to submit content soon after it is promoted, so that the judges are able to review entries. The number of points that will be needed to reach round two is not clear- everyone needs to get their entries in now to guarantee their places! If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, 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 22:33, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi Gary. Thank you for your advice here. Martin is not confident enough with his Java to implement your suggestion, would you be willing to? -- Anthonyhcole ( talk) 09:25, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
You might want to add User:Manishearth/editns.js to User:Gary King/namespace redirect.js. Editns gives the user an Edit: namespace shortcut. If you do so, I suggest that you rewrite the script with regexes. Cheers! ManishEarth Talk • Stalk 14:17, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
Weird, I swear my starting point *was* the code from last year. Maybe the cupnom stuff got thrown out accidentally when I overhauled it; no matter though, I'd added it back in. Let me know if you have any trouble with it, pretty sure it's working ATM though. Regards, - Jarry1250 Who? Discuss. 20:24, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
I have made some contributions to the discussion on this template on ways to improve it rather than replace it. My idea is that instead of having a specific field for every award (there are numerous not listed), or having custom fields (there are limits to how many you can have), why not have a field in which you can input a limitless amount of other functions to add whatever awards you want? I'm pretty good at coding, but I've never done any of the IFs and templates-within-templates, so I'm not sure if everything went together properly, which is one of the reasons I haven't actually fully implemented it already, but it's tested successfully. Let me know what you think.
See also:
~ [ Scott M. Howard ] ~ [ Talk ]:[ Contribs ] ~ 22:27, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
{{custom award row}}
or something. But a move would be easy, I suppose.Hi, back in 2010 you recreated Ctrl+Alt+Del (webcomic) with many sources ( diff). This AFD is looking at its sources. This is a long shot but there are two print-only sources you added for which we cannot find online sources for (this is not unusual, I also add print-only sources). Can you recall how much coverage they had?
I have added links and brief details to the newspaper search archives that show text snippets at the AFD linked above. - 84user ( talk) 13:22, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
WikiProject Good Articles will be running a GAN backlog elimination drive for the entire month of March. The goal of this drive is to bring the number of outstanding Good Article nominations down to below 50. This will help editors in restoring confidence to the GAN process as well as actively improving, polishing, and rewarding good content. If you are interested in participating in the drive, please place your name here. Awards will be given out to those who review certain numbers of GANs as well as to those who review the most. On behalf of my co-coordinator Wizardman, we hope we can see you in March. MuZemike delivered by MuZebot 00:22, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
Gary, the table is not working anymore. For some reason, the bot stopped the updates on Dec 28 2010. I am requesting your help in restoring it (i don't know how to do it) -- Forich ( talk) 21:54, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Hello. You have
a new message at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Suppressing_day_of_the_week_with_comments_in_local_time_gadget's talk page. —
UncleDouggie (
talk)
18:13, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
Gary, I saw your changes to the Spread of Islam in Indonesia and The Coming and Spread of Islam in Southeast Asia articles. I agree that the SE Asia article is not very good, and also that even if it was good that there is an inherent overlap in topic matter (ie, as Indonesia is the biggest country in SE Asia and the biggest Muslim majority country in the world). I presume duplication is why you merged by redirect. However, the solution is not to unilaterally (ie, on your own) redirect one article and dump info of dubious quality into the other. I suggest the following:
By the way, there were some odd edits in Nov 2010 to the Indonesia article which removed the lead. I restored the lead to that version. What do you think? Cheers -- Merbabu ( talk) 23:11, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
So begins round two of the WikiCup! We now have eight pools, each with eight random contestants. This round will continue until the end of April, when the top two of each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers of those remaining, will make it to round three. Congratulations to
The Bushranger (
submissions) (first, with 487 points) and
Hurricanehink (
submissions) (second, with 459), who stormed the first round.
Casliber (
submissions) finished third with 223. Twelve others finished with over 100 points- well done to all of you! The final standings in round one can be seen
here. A mere 8 points were required to reach round two; competition will no doubt be much more fierce this round, so be ready for a challenge! A special thanks goes, again, to
Jarry1250 (
submissions) for dealing with all bot work. This year's bot, as well as running smoothly, is doing some very helpful things that last year's did not. Also, thanks to
Stone (
submissions) for some helpful behind-the-scenes updating and number crunching.
Some news for those who are interested- March will see a GAN backlog elimination drive, which you are still free to join. Organised by WikiProject Good articles, the drive aims to minimise the GAN backlog and offers prizes to those who help out. Of course, you may well be able to claim WikiCup points for the articles you review as part of the drive. Also ongoing is the Great Backlog Drive, looking to work on clearing all of the backlogs on Wikipedia; again, incentives are offered, and the spirit of friendly competition is alive, while helping the encyclopedia is the ultimate aim. Though unrelated to the WikiCup, these may well be of interest to some of you.
Just a reminder of the rules; if you have done significant work on content this year and it is promoted in this round, you may claim for it. Also, anything that was promoted after the end of round one but before the beginning of round two may be claimed for in round two. Details of the rules can be found on this page. For those interested in statistics, a running total of claims can be seen here, and a very interesting table of that information (along with the highest scorers in each category) can be seen here. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, 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 23:41, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for all your hard work. May you wear the crowns well, and may the gamepad crown motivate you to press on with more outstanding articles. – SMasters ( talk) 09:15, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, E-mail Surveillance has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments good article reassessment page . If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Fences& Windows 17:39, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, your page User:Gary King/smaller templates.js appears in the maintenance category Category:Wikipedia pages needing cleanup, due to the way the MediaWiki software appears to parse the page as wikitext, despite presenting it as js - this appears to transclude clean-up templates in js comments.
Thanks,
Rich
Farmbrough,
14:22, 10 March 2011 (UTC).
Hello Gary, please see my response at Wikipedia:Gadget/proposals#WikiLove. Thanks! Kaldari ( talk) 22:26, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
Gary, I tried out the new version of Reviewer Summary on my sandbox; any chance it can also ignore secondary nominators such as AlexJ in the second transclusion there? If not, I think it's still very useful, but it would be even better if it could. Thanks -- Mike Christie ( talk – library) 01:11, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi there. Any progress with the usergroups javascript stuff which would allow us to control content based on usergroup? I mentioned you at Wikipedia talk:Article wizard. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 15:19, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
importScript('User:Gary King/user groups.js'); // [[User:Gary King/user groups.js]]
I am messaging to get your opinion on the possible creation of a Featured topic which consists of Metroid Prime: Trilogy, Metroid Prime, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, as you have participated in the editing of one or more of these articles. - The New Age Retro Hippie used Ruler! Now, he can figure out the length of things easily. 06:47, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
Our project of a Metroid titles topic is almost there - the above user is reviewing Metroid: Other M, and said all it needs to pass is prose fixing. Can you take a look? Thanks. igordebraga ≠ 20:09, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
Here we go! igordebraga ≠ 00:05, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
Hey Gary, long time no talk. Two editors disagree with how you wrote the characters section in Independence Day (film). See [2]. Could you take a look? Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 07:25, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
We are half way through round two of the WikiCup, which will end on 28 April. Of the 64 current contestants, 32 will make it through to the next round; the two highest in each pool, and the 16 next highest scorers. At the time of writing, our current overall leader is
Hurricanehink (
submissions) with 231 points, who leads Pool H.
Piotrus (
submissions) (Pool G) also has over 200 points, while 9 others (three of whom are in Pool D) have over 100 points. Remember that certain content (specifically, articles/portals included in at least 20 Wikipedias as of 31 December 2010 or articles which are considered "
vital") is worth double points if promoted to good or featured status, or if it appears on the main page in the Did You Know column. There were some articles last round which were eligible for double points, but which were not claimed for. For more details, see
Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring.
A running total of claims can be seen here. However, numerous competitors are yet to score at all- please remember to submit content soon after it is promoted, so that the judges are able to review entries. The number of points that will be needed to reach round three is not clear- everyone needs to get their entries in now to guarantee their places! If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, 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 00:56, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi Gary King,
AoS does not mean Age of Steam in that context.
Your edit at [3] remained in the article for 63 days. I have corrected it today.
However, the Aeon of Strife article is just a redirect to a now unrelated page (Species of StarCraft#Protoss), which does not contain any information about AoS itself. (Besides the assumption that AoS is a Protoss-related something.)
So if you feel like it, you can do some research (read this) and then create the appropriate page.
Sincerely,
-- •ː• 3ICE •ː• 18:00, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
Notice: An RFC is being conducted here at Talk:Hard diskdrive#RFC on the use of the IEC prefixes. The debate concerns this table which includes columns comparing SI and Binary prefixes to describe storage capacity. We welcome your input
You are receiving this message because you are a member of WikiProject Computing -- RaptorHunter ( talk) 18:33, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
I've found that a lot of good articles and probably a lot of featured articles (I haven't check them yet) are abusing the use of copyrighted images on Wikipedia (for example, I've seen several articles that use three images to visualize content in the article even though the first image demonstrates everything that the other two images are trying to do). Would you be interested in helping fix this problem? - The New Age Retro Hippie used Ruler! Now, he can figure out the length of things easily. 18:40, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for this script, it's a great boon. Do you think it's advisable to add underlining for adjacent links with no space between them, so that things like t h i s get underlined also? If so, that would help a lot.— msh210℠ 18:27, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
perhaps you could take a look at the articles on various companies acquired by Cisco: M.I. Secure Corporation, MaxComm Technologies, JetCell, Actona Technologies, AQuantive. NeoPath. Netiverse, SyPixx Networks , Akwan Information Technologies, DMarc Broadcasting==all of them with almost no information--they've been nominated (by someone else) for deletion via Prod; I'd suggest either expanding them, or adding the basic info to the Cisco article & making them redirects. either way would be helpful. DGG ( talk ) 06:12, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
Round 2 of the
2011 WikiCup is over, and the new round will begin on 1 May. Note that any points scored in the interim (that is, for content promoted or reviews completed on 29-30 April) can be claimed in the next round, but please do not start updating your submissions' pages until the next round has begun. Fewer than a quarter of our original contestants remain; 32 enter round 3, and, in two months' time, only 16 will progress to our penultimate round.
Casliber (
submissions), who led Pool F, was our round champion, with 411 points, while 7 contestants scored between 200 and 300 points. At the other end of the scale, a score of 41 was high enough to reach round 3; more than five times the score required to reach round 2, and competition will no doubt become tighter now we're approaching the later rounds. Those progressing to round 3 were spread fairly evenly across the pools; 4 progressed from each of pools A, B, E and H, while 3 progressed from both pools C and F. Pools D and G were the most successful; each had 5 contestants advancing.
This round saw our first good topic points this year; congratulations to
Hurricanehink (
submissions) and
Nergaal (
submissions) who also led pool H and pool B respectively. However, there remain content types for which no points have yet been scored;
featured sounds,
featured portals and
featured topics. In addition to prizes for leaderboard positions, the WikiCup awards other prizes; for instance, last year, a prize was awarded to
Candlewicke (
submissions) (who has been eliminated) for his work on
In The News. For this reason, working on more unusual content could be even more rewarding than usual!
Sorry this newsletter is going out a little earlier than expected- there is a busy weekend coming up! A running total of claims can be seen here. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, 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 19:17, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your formatting help, with the talkpage of Santorum (neologism). Much appreciated. ;) Cheers, -- Cirt ( talk) 15:09, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I was talking about this issue (as a stopgap until r82285 - see here) and MSGJ pointed out your work on this. Does User:Gary King/user groups.js actually work? I'm looking at it and can't see how it works, and I'm not immediately sure how to test it. Rd232 talk 14:36, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
We're half way through round 3 of the
2011 WikiCup. There are currently 32 remaining in the competition, but only 16 will progress to our penultimate round.
Casliber (
submissions), of pool D, is our overall leader with nearly 200 points, while pools A, B and C are led by
Racepacket (
submissions),
Hurricanehink (
submissions) and
Canada Hky (
submissions) respectively. The score required to reach the next round is 35, though this will no doubt go up significantly as the round progresses. We have a good number of high scorers, but also a considerable number who are yet to score. Please remember to submit content soon after it is promoted, so that the judges are able to review entries. Also, an important note concerning nominations at
featured article candidates: if you are nominating content for which you intend to claim WikiCup points, please make this clear in the nomination statement so that the FAC director and his delegates are aware of the fact.
A running total of claims can be seen here. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, 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 23:27, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
Could you pop to Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)#Block_log_annotation and give an opinion on feasibility in JavaScipt? Thanks. Rd232 talk 02:08, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
We are half way through 2011, and entering the penultimate round of this year's WikiCup; the semi-finals are upon us! Points scored in the interim (29/30 June) may be counted towards next round, but please do not update your submissions' pages until the next round has begun. 16 contestants remain, and all have shown dedication to the project to reach this far. Our round leader was
Casliber (
submissions) who, among other things, successfully passed three articles through featured article candidates and claimed an impressive 29 articles at Did You Know, scoring 555 points. Casliber led pool D. Pool A was led by
Wizardman (
submissions), claiming points for a featured article, a featured list and seven good article reviews, while pool C was led by
Eisfbnore (
submissions), who claimed for two good articles, ten articles at Did You Know and four good article reviews. They scored 154 and 118 respectively. Pool B was by far our most competitive pool; six of the eight competitors made it through to round 4, with all of them scoring over 100 points. The pool was led by
Hurricanehink (
submissions), who claimed for, among other things, three featured articles and five good articles. In addition to the four pool leaders, 12 others (the four second places, and the 8 next highest overall) make up our final 16. The lowest scorer who reached round 4 scored 76 points; a significant increase on the 41 needed to reach round 3. Eight of our semi-finalists scored at least twice as much as this.
No points were awarded this round for featured pictures, good topics or In the News, and no points have been awarded in the whole competition for featured topics, featured portals or featured sounds. Instead, the highest percentage of points has come from good articles. Featured articles, despite their high point cost, are low in number, and so, overall, share a comparable number of points with Did You Know, which are high in number but low in cost. A comparatively small but still considerable number of points come from featured lists and good article reviews, rounding out this round's overall scores.
We would again like to thank
Jarry1250 (
submissions) and
Stone (
submissions) for invaluable background work, as well as all of those helping to provide reviews for the articles listed on
Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Please do keep using it, and please do help by providing reviews for the articles listed there. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews generally at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup.
Two final notes: Firstly, please remember to state your participation in the WikiCup when nominating articles at FAC. Finally, some WikiCup-related statistics can be seen here and here, for those interested, though it appears that neither are completely accurate at this time. 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 23:31, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
I have a question about your watchlist script. Did by "bold" you mean you turned unread diffs red? -- Nathan2055 talk 18:06, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
a.watchlist-diff { font-weight: bold; color: #9d11b3; }
I have an account since 12. April 2011 and I'm still not autoconfirmed! What can I do? -- Robert Krueger 2 ( talk) 14:21, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
It has been suggested that "Republic of Texas (group)" and "Legal status of Texas" be merged with Texas Secession Movement; an article that you have been involved in editing. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Otr500 ( talk) 06:24, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi Gary, I have reviewed your DYK nomination of Free-to-play at Template talk:Did you know/Free-to-play and there are still some issues with sourcing. Could you take a look at my review and reply there after addressing the comments? Thanks. Crisco 1492 ( talk) 05:22, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
Not really picking on you, though it probably looks that way. Been a number of your articles turn up at AfD today. Looking at all of them, they all seem to be about tech businesses that were bought out by Cisco. I don't think that's enough of an assertion of minimal importance to survice WP:CSD#A7, so I tagged them all for speedy deletion. I seldom delete tech business articles myself; the world knows I have an axe to grind there. But if these businesses were important for some reason other than being absorbed into Cisco, go ahead and make them over with that claim included.
I also see that the AfD nominator didn't leave word here. Off to have a word with him. - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 16:32, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
![]() | On 26 August 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Free-to-play, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that a survey found women in free-to-play massively multiplayer online games spent, on average, 50% more money than men? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template talk:Did you know/Free-to-play.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Casliber ( talk · contribs) 00:02, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I am Jivesh. I edit Beyonce-related articles on Wikipedia. I noticed you have done some of her GAs. Do you want to work on this? Please reply. Jivesh 1205 ( talk / Make sure you give 4 a try!!!) 12:28, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
Hey! I saw you have a script for controlling random article results. I haven't really played with scripting through Wikipedia itself. How hard do you think it would be to throw together a function to control the results based on the number of 'what links here' links to the page. The main goal would be to reduce the amount of uninteresting sports or small municipality stuff in results. Craig Pemberton ( talk) 05:10, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
Given how much experience you have with Featured Lists, I wondered if you could help with this Peer Review (that'll help become possible one of the topics you list here). Thanks. igordebraga ≠ 00:51, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Gary - Beginning last night, on two different computers using two different browsers (Firefox and Chrome), your nominations viewer script is not working at FAC and FAR for me. Not sure if this is something on my end (AFAIK, nothing changed on either of my computers/browsers) or if perhaps there was an update to the WP code that caused this, but I can't figure out how to resolve the issue. Any suggestions would be welcome. Thanks, Dana boomer ( talk) 12:23, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Sven Manguard Wha? 08:33, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Gary,
Great job with all of those featured lists! I have nominated List of mergers and acquisitions by Microsoft at WP:TFLS to go up on the main page and it has been pointed out that the "Value" column in the "Divestitures" table doesn't sort. I have gone through the history of the article and it would appear that the sort function has never worked on this column. I haven't been able to figure out why, however; the column looks like it is formatted exactly the same way as the value columns in the other tables. If you are able to fix this problem or determine what the problem is, it would be greatly appreciated.
Neelix ( talk) 21:33, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Maximal Innovative Intelligence. Since you had some involvement with the Maximal Innovative Intelligence redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Fleet Command ( talk) 07:40, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
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Here. In short: start IE8, visit Help:Sorting, look at the soring code working, enable your gadget in preferences, visit Help:Sorting again, see sorting not working. — AlexSm 21:11, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
Could you please remove that line from your gadget? It takes one a minute. — AlexSm 02:42, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
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Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is a 2007 first-person shooter video game, developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision for PC, Macintosh, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii. A separate handheld game was made separately for the Nintendo DS. The game was released in North America, Australia, and Europe in November 2007 for video game consoles and Windows. It was released for the Mac in September 2008, then released for the Wii in November 2009, given the name Reflex Edition. It is the fourth installment in the Call of Duty video game series, excluding expansion packs, and is the first in the Modern Warfare line of the franchise, followed by a direct sequel, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 as well as the first game in the series to have a Mature rating. The game breaks away from the World War II setting of previous games in the series and is instead set in modern times. Call of Duty 4 was in development for two years, and it uses a proprietary game engine. On September 10, 2009, it was re-released in Japan by Square-Enix. ( more...)
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It was good to have you on board this time around- we hope you enjoyed the competition! In case you are interested, signups for next year are open. Thanks, J Milburn and The ed17 20:51, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
Given you helped with the Peer Review, and ultimately I'm dealing with only image complaints, if possible, can you look at the Bond films FLC? Thanks. igordebraga ≠ 23:58, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 21:23, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi Gary, I'm leaving you this message because it seems you're somewhat of a scripts guru here on Wikipedia. I posted the following message to the Help Desk a day or two ago and I didn't get an answer. I was hoping maybe you could help. Also, it would be preferable if you could respond on my talk page. Thanks.
Given your help with Lost articles (you even nominated one to GA status) can you take a look at The Constant, which I've put on the FAC? Thanks. igordebraga ≠ 12:32, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
The WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject Economics for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. - Mabeenot ( talk) 07:09, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
Quick question: will comment_highlighter.js work on meta? — danhash ( talk) 17:30, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
importScriptURI('http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User:Gary_King/comment_highlighter.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');
Who's decision was it to not document the patch history similar to other PC game articles such as World of Warcraft. Did you get a community consensus? Or was this decision made on your own? Actions such as arbitrarily removing contributions can be discouraging and anti wikepedian. 10:45, 9 December 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 0pen$0urce ( talk • contribs)
Two things about this script. One, it works in chrome and two, could you add a little plus button ( maybe like this one, that would show the script installer interface only when you click it?. Thanks, -- Kangaroo powah 01:10, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
Hello, and welcome to the 2012 WikiCup! The competition officially begins at the start of 2012 (UTC) after which time you may begin to claim points. Your submission page, where you must note any content for which you wish to claim points, can be found here, and formatting instructions can be found in hidden comments on the page. A bot will then update the main table, which can be seen on the WikiCup page. The full rules for what will and will not be awarded points can be found at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring. There's also a section on that page listing the changes that have been made to the rules this year, so that experienced participants can get up-to-date in a few seconds. One point of which we must remind everyone; you may only claim points for content upon which you have done significant work, and which you have nominated, in 2012. For instance, articles written or good article reviews started in 2011 are not eligible for points.
This round will last until late February, and signups will remain open until the middle of February. If you know of anyone who may like to take part, please let them know about the comeptition; the more the merrier! At the end of this round, the top 64 scorers will progress to the next round, where their scores will reset, and they will be split into pools. Note that, by default, you have been added to our newsletter list; we will be in contact at the end of every month with news. You're welcome to remove yourself from this list if you do not wish to hear from us. Conversely, those interested in following the competition are more than welcome to add themselves to the list. Please direct any questions towards the judges, or on the WikiCup talk page. Good luck! J Milburn ( talk) and The ed17 ( talk) 17:53, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
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Hello, happy new year and welcome to the 2011 WikiCup! Your submissions' page can be found here and instructions of how to update the page can be found here and on the submissions' page itself. From the submissions' page, a bot will update the main scoresheet. Our rules have been very slightly updated from last year; the full rules can be found here. Please remember that you can only receive points for content on which you have done significant work in 2011; nominations of work from last year and "drive-by" nominations will not be awarded points. Signups are going to remain open through January, so if you know of anyone who would like to take part, please direct them to Wikipedia:WikiCup/2011 signups. The judges can be contacted on the WikiCup talk page, on their respective talk pages, or by email. Other than that, we will be in contact at the end of every month with the newsletter. If you want to stop or start receiving newsletters, please remove your name from or add your name to this list. Good luck! J Milburn and The ed17 12:57, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
When do you figure you'll be able to start the collaboration, if at all :P NativeForeigner Talk/ Contribs 02:38, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
Although it is not immediately apparent your smaller templates.js page is categorised in
Category:Wikipedia pages needing cleanup, can you please remove it form the category. If you need help to do this, just ask.
Rich
Farmbrough,
20:42, 8 January 2011 (UTC).
Thanks for figuring out the problem over there, despite the lack of technical information provided by me. Cheers! --- RepublicanJacobite The'FortyFive' 22:13, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
I recently split this article out, and noticed that you expressed interest in GAing it a couple years back. Might you still be interested? - The New Age Retro Hippie used Ruler! Now, he can figure out the length of things easily. 20:42, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
Since you helped the Slipknot articles, and even considered an overall topic for the band, I think this might interest you. ( this too, though another editor expressed interest in keeping the topic alive) igordebraga ≠ 16:18, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
I'm Steve Sands sound engineer for Felony. Every time I try to add my name to the page it gets reverted. Can you tell me why? And how do I add my name and resume to the page? 66.74.31.219 ( talk) 18:08, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for creating the Angelfire disambiguation page. -- James26 ( talk) 07:13, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
Honest question: is "keeping it linear" a good reason not to add more info to the template? It sounds sort of arbitrary. I believe it would add to the template to show the early growth numbers before 100 million. 71.202.48.127 ( talk) 08:12, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi! Since you've been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, I wanted to let you know about the Wikipedia Ambassador Program, and specifically the role of Online Ambassador. We're looking for friendly Wikipedians who are good at reviewing articles and giving feedback to serve as mentors for students who are assigned to write for Wikipedia in their classes.
If that sounds like you and you're interested, I encourage you to take a look at the Online Ambassador guidelines; the "mentorship process" describes roughly what will be expected of mentors during the current term, which started in January and goes through early May. If that's something you want to do, please apply!
You can find instructions for applying at WP:ONLINE. The main things we're looking for in Online Ambassadors are friendliness, regular activity (since mentorship is a commitment that spans several months), and the ability to give detailed, substantive feedback on articles (both short new articles, and longer, more mature ones).
I hope to hear from you soon.-- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 21:48, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
We are half way through round one of the WikiCup. Signups are now closed, and we have 129 listed competitors, 64 of whom will make it to round two. Congratulations to
The Bushranger (
submissions), who, at the time of writing, has a comfortable lead with 228 points, followed by
Hurricanehink (
submissions), with 144 points. Four others have over 100 points. Congratulations also go to
Yellow Evan (
submissions), who scored the first points in the competition, claiming for
Talk:Hurricane King/GA1,
Miyagawa (
submissions), who scored the first non-review points in the competition, claiming for
Dognapping, and
Jarry1250 (
submissions) who was the first in the competition to use our new "multiplier" mechanic (
explanation), claiming for
Grigory Potemkin, a subject covered on numerous Wikipedias. Thanks must also go to Jarry1250 for dealing with all bot work- without you, the competition wouldn't be happening!
A running total of claims can be seen here. However, numerous competitors are yet to score at all- please remember to submit content soon after it is promoted, so that the judges are able to review entries. The number of points that will be needed to reach round two is not clear- everyone needs to get their entries in now to guarantee their places! If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, 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 22:33, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi Gary. Thank you for your advice here. Martin is not confident enough with his Java to implement your suggestion, would you be willing to? -- Anthonyhcole ( talk) 09:25, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
You might want to add User:Manishearth/editns.js to User:Gary King/namespace redirect.js. Editns gives the user an Edit: namespace shortcut. If you do so, I suggest that you rewrite the script with regexes. Cheers! ManishEarth Talk • Stalk 14:17, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
Weird, I swear my starting point *was* the code from last year. Maybe the cupnom stuff got thrown out accidentally when I overhauled it; no matter though, I'd added it back in. Let me know if you have any trouble with it, pretty sure it's working ATM though. Regards, - Jarry1250 Who? Discuss. 20:24, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
I have made some contributions to the discussion on this template on ways to improve it rather than replace it. My idea is that instead of having a specific field for every award (there are numerous not listed), or having custom fields (there are limits to how many you can have), why not have a field in which you can input a limitless amount of other functions to add whatever awards you want? I'm pretty good at coding, but I've never done any of the IFs and templates-within-templates, so I'm not sure if everything went together properly, which is one of the reasons I haven't actually fully implemented it already, but it's tested successfully. Let me know what you think.
See also:
~ [ Scott M. Howard ] ~ [ Talk ]:[ Contribs ] ~ 22:27, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
{{custom award row}}
or something. But a move would be easy, I suppose.Hi, back in 2010 you recreated Ctrl+Alt+Del (webcomic) with many sources ( diff). This AFD is looking at its sources. This is a long shot but there are two print-only sources you added for which we cannot find online sources for (this is not unusual, I also add print-only sources). Can you recall how much coverage they had?
I have added links and brief details to the newspaper search archives that show text snippets at the AFD linked above. - 84user ( talk) 13:22, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
WikiProject Good Articles will be running a GAN backlog elimination drive for the entire month of March. The goal of this drive is to bring the number of outstanding Good Article nominations down to below 50. This will help editors in restoring confidence to the GAN process as well as actively improving, polishing, and rewarding good content. If you are interested in participating in the drive, please place your name here. Awards will be given out to those who review certain numbers of GANs as well as to those who review the most. On behalf of my co-coordinator Wizardman, we hope we can see you in March. MuZemike delivered by MuZebot 00:22, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
Gary, the table is not working anymore. For some reason, the bot stopped the updates on Dec 28 2010. I am requesting your help in restoring it (i don't know how to do it) -- Forich ( talk) 21:54, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Hello. You have
a new message at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Suppressing_day_of_the_week_with_comments_in_local_time_gadget's talk page. —
UncleDouggie (
talk)
18:13, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
Gary, I saw your changes to the Spread of Islam in Indonesia and The Coming and Spread of Islam in Southeast Asia articles. I agree that the SE Asia article is not very good, and also that even if it was good that there is an inherent overlap in topic matter (ie, as Indonesia is the biggest country in SE Asia and the biggest Muslim majority country in the world). I presume duplication is why you merged by redirect. However, the solution is not to unilaterally (ie, on your own) redirect one article and dump info of dubious quality into the other. I suggest the following:
By the way, there were some odd edits in Nov 2010 to the Indonesia article which removed the lead. I restored the lead to that version. What do you think? Cheers -- Merbabu ( talk) 23:11, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
So begins round two of the WikiCup! We now have eight pools, each with eight random contestants. This round will continue until the end of April, when the top two of each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers of those remaining, will make it to round three. Congratulations to
The Bushranger (
submissions) (first, with 487 points) and
Hurricanehink (
submissions) (second, with 459), who stormed the first round.
Casliber (
submissions) finished third with 223. Twelve others finished with over 100 points- well done to all of you! The final standings in round one can be seen
here. A mere 8 points were required to reach round two; competition will no doubt be much more fierce this round, so be ready for a challenge! A special thanks goes, again, to
Jarry1250 (
submissions) for dealing with all bot work. This year's bot, as well as running smoothly, is doing some very helpful things that last year's did not. Also, thanks to
Stone (
submissions) for some helpful behind-the-scenes updating and number crunching.
Some news for those who are interested- March will see a GAN backlog elimination drive, which you are still free to join. Organised by WikiProject Good articles, the drive aims to minimise the GAN backlog and offers prizes to those who help out. Of course, you may well be able to claim WikiCup points for the articles you review as part of the drive. Also ongoing is the Great Backlog Drive, looking to work on clearing all of the backlogs on Wikipedia; again, incentives are offered, and the spirit of friendly competition is alive, while helping the encyclopedia is the ultimate aim. Though unrelated to the WikiCup, these may well be of interest to some of you.
Just a reminder of the rules; if you have done significant work on content this year and it is promoted in this round, you may claim for it. Also, anything that was promoted after the end of round one but before the beginning of round two may be claimed for in round two. Details of the rules can be found on this page. For those interested in statistics, a running total of claims can be seen here, and a very interesting table of that information (along with the highest scorers in each category) can be seen here. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, 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 23:41, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for all your hard work. May you wear the crowns well, and may the gamepad crown motivate you to press on with more outstanding articles. – SMasters ( talk) 09:15, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, E-mail Surveillance has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments good article reassessment page . If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Fences& Windows 17:39, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, your page User:Gary King/smaller templates.js appears in the maintenance category Category:Wikipedia pages needing cleanup, due to the way the MediaWiki software appears to parse the page as wikitext, despite presenting it as js - this appears to transclude clean-up templates in js comments.
Thanks,
Rich
Farmbrough,
14:22, 10 March 2011 (UTC).
Hello Gary, please see my response at Wikipedia:Gadget/proposals#WikiLove. Thanks! Kaldari ( talk) 22:26, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
Gary, I tried out the new version of Reviewer Summary on my sandbox; any chance it can also ignore secondary nominators such as AlexJ in the second transclusion there? If not, I think it's still very useful, but it would be even better if it could. Thanks -- Mike Christie ( talk – library) 01:11, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi there. Any progress with the usergroups javascript stuff which would allow us to control content based on usergroup? I mentioned you at Wikipedia talk:Article wizard. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 15:19, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
importScript('User:Gary King/user groups.js'); // [[User:Gary King/user groups.js]]
I am messaging to get your opinion on the possible creation of a Featured topic which consists of Metroid Prime: Trilogy, Metroid Prime, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, as you have participated in the editing of one or more of these articles. - The New Age Retro Hippie used Ruler! Now, he can figure out the length of things easily. 06:47, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
Our project of a Metroid titles topic is almost there - the above user is reviewing Metroid: Other M, and said all it needs to pass is prose fixing. Can you take a look? Thanks. igordebraga ≠ 20:09, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
Here we go! igordebraga ≠ 00:05, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
Hey Gary, long time no talk. Two editors disagree with how you wrote the characters section in Independence Day (film). See [2]. Could you take a look? Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 07:25, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
We are half way through round two of the WikiCup, which will end on 28 April. Of the 64 current contestants, 32 will make it through to the next round; the two highest in each pool, and the 16 next highest scorers. At the time of writing, our current overall leader is
Hurricanehink (
submissions) with 231 points, who leads Pool H.
Piotrus (
submissions) (Pool G) also has over 200 points, while 9 others (three of whom are in Pool D) have over 100 points. Remember that certain content (specifically, articles/portals included in at least 20 Wikipedias as of 31 December 2010 or articles which are considered "
vital") is worth double points if promoted to good or featured status, or if it appears on the main page in the Did You Know column. There were some articles last round which were eligible for double points, but which were not claimed for. For more details, see
Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring.
A running total of claims can be seen here. However, numerous competitors are yet to score at all- please remember to submit content soon after it is promoted, so that the judges are able to review entries. The number of points that will be needed to reach round three is not clear- everyone needs to get their entries in now to guarantee their places! If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, 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 00:56, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi Gary King,
AoS does not mean Age of Steam in that context.
Your edit at [3] remained in the article for 63 days. I have corrected it today.
However, the Aeon of Strife article is just a redirect to a now unrelated page (Species of StarCraft#Protoss), which does not contain any information about AoS itself. (Besides the assumption that AoS is a Protoss-related something.)
So if you feel like it, you can do some research (read this) and then create the appropriate page.
Sincerely,
-- •ː• 3ICE •ː• 18:00, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
Notice: An RFC is being conducted here at Talk:Hard diskdrive#RFC on the use of the IEC prefixes. The debate concerns this table which includes columns comparing SI and Binary prefixes to describe storage capacity. We welcome your input
You are receiving this message because you are a member of WikiProject Computing -- RaptorHunter ( talk) 18:33, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
I've found that a lot of good articles and probably a lot of featured articles (I haven't check them yet) are abusing the use of copyrighted images on Wikipedia (for example, I've seen several articles that use three images to visualize content in the article even though the first image demonstrates everything that the other two images are trying to do). Would you be interested in helping fix this problem? - The New Age Retro Hippie used Ruler! Now, he can figure out the length of things easily. 18:40, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for this script, it's a great boon. Do you think it's advisable to add underlining for adjacent links with no space between them, so that things like t h i s get underlined also? If so, that would help a lot.— msh210℠ 18:27, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
perhaps you could take a look at the articles on various companies acquired by Cisco: M.I. Secure Corporation, MaxComm Technologies, JetCell, Actona Technologies, AQuantive. NeoPath. Netiverse, SyPixx Networks , Akwan Information Technologies, DMarc Broadcasting==all of them with almost no information--they've been nominated (by someone else) for deletion via Prod; I'd suggest either expanding them, or adding the basic info to the Cisco article & making them redirects. either way would be helpful. DGG ( talk ) 06:12, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
Round 2 of the
2011 WikiCup is over, and the new round will begin on 1 May. Note that any points scored in the interim (that is, for content promoted or reviews completed on 29-30 April) can be claimed in the next round, but please do not start updating your submissions' pages until the next round has begun. Fewer than a quarter of our original contestants remain; 32 enter round 3, and, in two months' time, only 16 will progress to our penultimate round.
Casliber (
submissions), who led Pool F, was our round champion, with 411 points, while 7 contestants scored between 200 and 300 points. At the other end of the scale, a score of 41 was high enough to reach round 3; more than five times the score required to reach round 2, and competition will no doubt become tighter now we're approaching the later rounds. Those progressing to round 3 were spread fairly evenly across the pools; 4 progressed from each of pools A, B, E and H, while 3 progressed from both pools C and F. Pools D and G were the most successful; each had 5 contestants advancing.
This round saw our first good topic points this year; congratulations to
Hurricanehink (
submissions) and
Nergaal (
submissions) who also led pool H and pool B respectively. However, there remain content types for which no points have yet been scored;
featured sounds,
featured portals and
featured topics. In addition to prizes for leaderboard positions, the WikiCup awards other prizes; for instance, last year, a prize was awarded to
Candlewicke (
submissions) (who has been eliminated) for his work on
In The News. For this reason, working on more unusual content could be even more rewarding than usual!
Sorry this newsletter is going out a little earlier than expected- there is a busy weekend coming up! A running total of claims can be seen here. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, 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 19:17, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your formatting help, with the talkpage of Santorum (neologism). Much appreciated. ;) Cheers, -- Cirt ( talk) 15:09, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I was talking about this issue (as a stopgap until r82285 - see here) and MSGJ pointed out your work on this. Does User:Gary King/user groups.js actually work? I'm looking at it and can't see how it works, and I'm not immediately sure how to test it. Rd232 talk 14:36, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
We're half way through round 3 of the
2011 WikiCup. There are currently 32 remaining in the competition, but only 16 will progress to our penultimate round.
Casliber (
submissions), of pool D, is our overall leader with nearly 200 points, while pools A, B and C are led by
Racepacket (
submissions),
Hurricanehink (
submissions) and
Canada Hky (
submissions) respectively. The score required to reach the next round is 35, though this will no doubt go up significantly as the round progresses. We have a good number of high scorers, but also a considerable number who are yet to score. Please remember to submit content soon after it is promoted, so that the judges are able to review entries. Also, an important note concerning nominations at
featured article candidates: if you are nominating content for which you intend to claim WikiCup points, please make this clear in the nomination statement so that the FAC director and his delegates are aware of the fact.
A running total of claims can be seen here. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, 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 23:27, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
Could you pop to Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)#Block_log_annotation and give an opinion on feasibility in JavaScipt? Thanks. Rd232 talk 02:08, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
We are half way through 2011, and entering the penultimate round of this year's WikiCup; the semi-finals are upon us! Points scored in the interim (29/30 June) may be counted towards next round, but please do not update your submissions' pages until the next round has begun. 16 contestants remain, and all have shown dedication to the project to reach this far. Our round leader was
Casliber (
submissions) who, among other things, successfully passed three articles through featured article candidates and claimed an impressive 29 articles at Did You Know, scoring 555 points. Casliber led pool D. Pool A was led by
Wizardman (
submissions), claiming points for a featured article, a featured list and seven good article reviews, while pool C was led by
Eisfbnore (
submissions), who claimed for two good articles, ten articles at Did You Know and four good article reviews. They scored 154 and 118 respectively. Pool B was by far our most competitive pool; six of the eight competitors made it through to round 4, with all of them scoring over 100 points. The pool was led by
Hurricanehink (
submissions), who claimed for, among other things, three featured articles and five good articles. In addition to the four pool leaders, 12 others (the four second places, and the 8 next highest overall) make up our final 16. The lowest scorer who reached round 4 scored 76 points; a significant increase on the 41 needed to reach round 3. Eight of our semi-finalists scored at least twice as much as this.
No points were awarded this round for featured pictures, good topics or In the News, and no points have been awarded in the whole competition for featured topics, featured portals or featured sounds. Instead, the highest percentage of points has come from good articles. Featured articles, despite their high point cost, are low in number, and so, overall, share a comparable number of points with Did You Know, which are high in number but low in cost. A comparatively small but still considerable number of points come from featured lists and good article reviews, rounding out this round's overall scores.
We would again like to thank
Jarry1250 (
submissions) and
Stone (
submissions) for invaluable background work, as well as all of those helping to provide reviews for the articles listed on
Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Please do keep using it, and please do help by providing reviews for the articles listed there. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews generally at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup.
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I have a question about your watchlist script. Did by "bold" you mean you turned unread diffs red? -- Nathan2055 talk 18:06, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
a.watchlist-diff { font-weight: bold; color: #9d11b3; }
I have an account since 12. April 2011 and I'm still not autoconfirmed! What can I do? -- Robert Krueger 2 ( talk) 14:21, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
It has been suggested that "Republic of Texas (group)" and "Legal status of Texas" be merged with Texas Secession Movement; an article that you have been involved in editing. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Otr500 ( talk) 06:24, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi Gary, I have reviewed your DYK nomination of Free-to-play at Template talk:Did you know/Free-to-play and there are still some issues with sourcing. Could you take a look at my review and reply there after addressing the comments? Thanks. Crisco 1492 ( talk) 05:22, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
Not really picking on you, though it probably looks that way. Been a number of your articles turn up at AfD today. Looking at all of them, they all seem to be about tech businesses that were bought out by Cisco. I don't think that's enough of an assertion of minimal importance to survice WP:CSD#A7, so I tagged them all for speedy deletion. I seldom delete tech business articles myself; the world knows I have an axe to grind there. But if these businesses were important for some reason other than being absorbed into Cisco, go ahead and make them over with that claim included.
I also see that the AfD nominator didn't leave word here. Off to have a word with him. - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 16:32, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
![]() | On 26 August 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Free-to-play, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that a survey found women in free-to-play massively multiplayer online games spent, on average, 50% more money than men? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template talk:Did you know/Free-to-play.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Casliber ( talk · contribs) 00:02, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I am Jivesh. I edit Beyonce-related articles on Wikipedia. I noticed you have done some of her GAs. Do you want to work on this? Please reply. Jivesh 1205 ( talk / Make sure you give 4 a try!!!) 12:28, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
Hey! I saw you have a script for controlling random article results. I haven't really played with scripting through Wikipedia itself. How hard do you think it would be to throw together a function to control the results based on the number of 'what links here' links to the page. The main goal would be to reduce the amount of uninteresting sports or small municipality stuff in results. Craig Pemberton ( talk) 05:10, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
Given how much experience you have with Featured Lists, I wondered if you could help with this Peer Review (that'll help become possible one of the topics you list here). Thanks. igordebraga ≠ 00:51, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Gary - Beginning last night, on two different computers using two different browsers (Firefox and Chrome), your nominations viewer script is not working at FAC and FAR for me. Not sure if this is something on my end (AFAIK, nothing changed on either of my computers/browsers) or if perhaps there was an update to the WP code that caused this, but I can't figure out how to resolve the issue. Any suggestions would be welcome. Thanks, Dana boomer ( talk) 12:23, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Sven Manguard Wha? 08:33, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Gary,
Great job with all of those featured lists! I have nominated List of mergers and acquisitions by Microsoft at WP:TFLS to go up on the main page and it has been pointed out that the "Value" column in the "Divestitures" table doesn't sort. I have gone through the history of the article and it would appear that the sort function has never worked on this column. I haven't been able to figure out why, however; the column looks like it is formatted exactly the same way as the value columns in the other tables. If you are able to fix this problem or determine what the problem is, it would be greatly appreciated.
Neelix ( talk) 21:33, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Maximal Innovative Intelligence. Since you had some involvement with the Maximal Innovative Intelligence redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Fleet Command ( talk) 07:40, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
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Could you please remove that line from your gadget? It takes one a minute. — AlexSm 02:42, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
This is a note to let the main editors of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare know that the article will be appearing as today's featured article on November 5, 2011. You can view the TFA blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November 5, 2011. If you prefer that the article appear as TFA on a different date, or not at all, please ask featured article director Raul654 ( talk · contribs) or his delegate Dabomb87 ( talk · contribs), or start a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests. If the previous blurb needs tweaking, you might change it—following the instructions at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/instructions. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. The blurb as it stands now is below:
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is a 2007 first-person shooter video game, developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision for PC, Macintosh, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii. A separate handheld game was made separately for the Nintendo DS. The game was released in North America, Australia, and Europe in November 2007 for video game consoles and Windows. It was released for the Mac in September 2008, then released for the Wii in November 2009, given the name Reflex Edition. It is the fourth installment in the Call of Duty video game series, excluding expansion packs, and is the first in the Modern Warfare line of the franchise, followed by a direct sequel, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 as well as the first game in the series to have a Mature rating. The game breaks away from the World War II setting of previous games in the series and is instead set in modern times. Call of Duty 4 was in development for two years, and it uses a proprietary game engine. On September 10, 2009, it was re-released in Japan by Square-Enix. ( more...)
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It was good to have you on board this time around- we hope you enjoyed the competition! In case you are interested, signups for next year are open. Thanks, J Milburn and The ed17 20:51, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
Given you helped with the Peer Review, and ultimately I'm dealing with only image complaints, if possible, can you look at the Bond films FLC? Thanks. igordebraga ≠ 23:58, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
Ten Pound Hammer • ( What did I screw up now?) 21:23, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi Gary, I'm leaving you this message because it seems you're somewhat of a scripts guru here on Wikipedia. I posted the following message to the Help Desk a day or two ago and I didn't get an answer. I was hoping maybe you could help. Also, it would be preferable if you could respond on my talk page. Thanks.
Given your help with Lost articles (you even nominated one to GA status) can you take a look at The Constant, which I've put on the FAC? Thanks. igordebraga ≠ 12:32, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
The WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject Economics for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. - Mabeenot ( talk) 07:09, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
Quick question: will comment_highlighter.js work on meta? — danhash ( talk) 17:30, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
importScriptURI('http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User:Gary_King/comment_highlighter.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');
Who's decision was it to not document the patch history similar to other PC game articles such as World of Warcraft. Did you get a community consensus? Or was this decision made on your own? Actions such as arbitrarily removing contributions can be discouraging and anti wikepedian. 10:45, 9 December 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 0pen$0urce ( talk • contribs)
Two things about this script. One, it works in chrome and two, could you add a little plus button ( maybe like this one, that would show the script installer interface only when you click it?. Thanks, -- Kangaroo powah 01:10, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
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