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Hi! I just sent you an email with some questions, but I thought I'd draw your attention to it here just in case. Do you have any thoughts on the possibility of doing a training for Hill staffers on Wikipedia editing? It seems especially relevant in light of the new twitter account that is tracking their existing editing. Thanks! HistoricMN44 ( talk) 17:57, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
The Capitol Hill training is up! An open to the public lunch event will be on August 18, 2014 at Noon in the Rayburn House Office Building. You can RSVP here! HistoricMN44 ( talk) 13:23, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
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I've proposed discontinuing the RfC request board you created in 2010 and thought you might like to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment. Thanks. G. C. Hood ( talk) 05:30, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
Hey James, this is Alleycat80 ( talk), formerly NLIGuy, from the GAC. I've spoken shortly with Asaf and he suggested I reach out to you to talk about the GAC submission. If you like that, ping me here or on my userpage. You can always reach me at ido[at]wikimedia.org.il, if you want an off wiki chat. Alleycat80 ( talk) 09:50, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Harej. Sorry to have to post directly on your talk page, but you may have noticed (on the WP:Elections and referendums talk page) that I am trying to get all the election and referendum articles tagged for the project. Unfortunately this is not making any progress, as people are claiming there is no consensus to do this, as no-one has responded on the Project talk page. Could you possibly comment on the proposal at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Elections and Referendums#Bot to tag articles for the WikiProject, as I'm getting rather frustrated by the attitude of the people at WP:BTR. Cheers, Number 5 7 12:34, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
Come one and come all. To a presentation at the Laurel Historical Society about how you can help verify, validate, and edit the information that is on the front line of local history.
Geraldshields11 (
talk) 02:08, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
See you at the Laurel Pool Room, 9th and Main Street, Laurel, MD on Thursday, September 11, 2014 at 7:00 PM EST. See http://www.meetup.com/Wikimedia-DC/events/205494212/ for more information. Geraldshields11 ( talk) 02:13, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
The WikiSalon is a special meetup usually held during the first and third full weeks of every month, from 7 PM to 9 PM. It's an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss Wikimedia wikis and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own.
If you're coming by Metro, the closest station is Dupont Circle (on the Red Line). If you're driving, a lot of parking opens up downtown after 6:30 PM, so finding a parking space (even a free one) should be easy. Once you've found the building, go to Cove on the second floor. We will be in the conference room.
When: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 at 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Where: The Cove, Dupont Circle, 1730 Connecticut Avenue NW, 2nd floor, 20009, DC
For more information, see
http://www.meetup.com/Wikimedia-DC/events/205500822/
My best regards,
Geraldshields11 (
talk) 02:26, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
Wikimedia DC's Upcoming meetups
My best regards, Geraldshields11 ( talk) 22:50, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Harej! One of my co-workers at Cato has recently realized that her boss's wikipedia entry is very wrong, to the point that it says he doesn't even work there anymore. They'd like the intro updated to give his current title at Cato and say that he formerly worked where it (wrongly) says he currently works. We both have a clear COI (since she works for him directly), but we think this is a fairly simple change. She's posted a request on his talk page, but hasn't gotten any replies. Can you help us out here? We want to be completely above board on this. Thanks! HistoricMN44 ( talk) 14:11, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
Your bot is delivering directly to project pages, and not talk pages. Some of them will definitely be removed. It is very non-standard. Please, fix it. Aditya( talk • contribs) 15:38, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
This mass message delivery is being posted on project, rather than project talk pages. Was this a mistake? Rcsprinter123 (witter) @ 15:22, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
I hope your day gets better :) -- Hammersoft ( talk) 15:50, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
Please post the Project X Proposal on my talk page.-- DThomsen8 ( talk) 20:51, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi there, over the past few years I have seen many discussions about WikiProjects being active or not, based primarily on how much discussion their is on the project's talk page or noticeboard. I hope that you don't stop at that to determine how active a project is. Personally, I rarely post to talk pages/notice boards, but constantly use WikiProject related items. Whether it is the cleanup lists (ie https://tools.wmflabs.org/bambots/cwb/bycat/Australian_rules_football.html), the WP:1.0 article logs and counts (I watch Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Australia articles by quality log to see moved, new and deleted pages) or even the popular pages logs ( Wikipedia:WikiProject Western Australia/Popular pages, most of the useful tracking systems are WikiProject based. It is probably the best way to sort articles into topics, and whilst isn't a "automatic" as a recursive category system, it can allows for the precise allocation of articles into related topics better than a cat based system. It will be very difficult to measure the quantity and/or usefulness of project for these purpose, but I think that it is something that is overlooked by many editors here. The-Pope ( talk) 04:18, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
I was wondering if you were also going to mass message Project Task Forces / Work Groups? I've seen that for some projects, the subproject TF/WGs seem more active than the main project (or atleast their talk pages) -- 65.94.171.225 ( talk) 03:03, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
You might also want to examine the effect of deleting project banners. Both WPUSA and WPCANADA have preivously aggressively deleted the project banners of regional projects located within the confines of those countries and replaced those banners with their own. Anecdotally, it appears that this leads to a drastic decrease in participation at the local wikiproject; and at the general project, not everyone migrates over; and much less knowledgable participation occurs about local-area topics, with some incorrect assumptions about how things function from analogous situations in other regions of the country leading to incorrect article "corrections" also occurring. There's also the incorrect assignment of importance by national editors for regional importance; which may lead to editors assuming the local wikiproject doesn't know the local topics, thus aren't a good area to discuss local topics. -- 65.94.171.225 ( talk) 04:05, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
Hello, fellow Wikipedian!
I am excited to announce our upcoming Annual Meeting at the National Archives! We'll have free lunch, an introduction by Archivist of the United States David Ferriero, and a discussion featuring Ed Summers, the creator of CongressEdits. Join your fellow DC-area Wikipedians on Saturday, October 18 from 12 to 4:30 PM. RSVP today!
Also coming up we have the Human Origins edit-a-thon on October 17 and the WikiSalon on October 22. Hope to see you at our upcoming events!
Best,
(To unsubscribe, remove your username here.) 21:20, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
I just wanted to thank you for making your way out to New York City last week. I think the edit-a-thon went well, and we are eager to have more support from the Wikipedia community. If you have any comments or suggestions for future events, let me know!
Thanks, Mjbailey ( talk) 21:13, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
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That's a nice idea. In fact I proposed a somewhat similar research piece two years ago ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships/Project_Ideas/Wikiprojects_Success,_Failure_and_Impact_on_Content_and_Community) through I didn't have enough pull to get it through. Let me know if you'd be interesting in collaborating on this; I'd be happy to help out. As you may know, I am an active researcher of Wikipedia; my newest paper got published just now ( [1]) and I have a piece about why editors burn out and retire in review (I'd be happy to share a copy with you as it seems related to the wikiproject research somewhat). You can find more papers of mine on Google Scholar. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:58, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
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Hi James, I've mentioned an amusing set of deletion summaries that you accidentaly entered a very long time ago at a thread at Jimmy Wales' talk page. Would you mind if it were added to the Village stocks? It would fit perfectly there! Graham 87 08:38, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
You have been sentenced to the Village Stocks | ||
for trying to promote one of the worst films ever made in the deletion log! |
Graham 87 03:47, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
hi, i happened upon Draft:Matthew Gavin Frank, and noticed that the page Matthew Gavin Frank is salted from 2009. would you agree that his reviews in NYTimes, WSJ, make him notable? if so, would you please create. needs some cleanup, so i will. Duckduckstop ( talk) 20:39, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
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Hi! I just sent you an email with some questions, but I thought I'd draw your attention to it here just in case. Do you have any thoughts on the possibility of doing a training for Hill staffers on Wikipedia editing? It seems especially relevant in light of the new twitter account that is tracking their existing editing. Thanks! HistoricMN44 ( talk) 17:57, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
The Capitol Hill training is up! An open to the public lunch event will be on August 18, 2014 at Noon in the Rayburn House Office Building. You can RSVP here! HistoricMN44 ( talk) 13:23, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
L&E Newsletter / Volume 1 / Issue 1 / July 2014
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MCruz (WMF) ( talk) 15:34, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
Sunday August 17: NYC Wiki-Salon and Skill Share | |
---|---|
You are invited to join the the Wikimedia NYC community for our upcoming wiki-salon and knowledge-sharing workshop on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Afterwards at 5pm, we'll walk to a social wiki-dinner together at a neighborhood restaurant ( to be decided). We hope to see you there!-- Pharos ( talk) 15:58, 4 August 2014 (UTC) |
(You can unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by removing your name from this list.)
I've proposed discontinuing the RfC request board you created in 2010 and thought you might like to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment. Thanks. G. C. Hood ( talk) 05:30, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
Hey James, this is Alleycat80 ( talk), formerly NLIGuy, from the GAC. I've spoken shortly with Asaf and he suggested I reach out to you to talk about the GAC submission. If you like that, ping me here or on my userpage. You can always reach me at ido[at]wikimedia.org.il, if you want an off wiki chat. Alleycat80 ( talk) 09:50, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
|
Hi Harej. Sorry to have to post directly on your talk page, but you may have noticed (on the WP:Elections and referendums talk page) that I am trying to get all the election and referendum articles tagged for the project. Unfortunately this is not making any progress, as people are claiming there is no consensus to do this, as no-one has responded on the Project talk page. Could you possibly comment on the proposal at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Elections and Referendums#Bot to tag articles for the WikiProject, as I'm getting rather frustrated by the attitude of the people at WP:BTR. Cheers, Number 5 7 12:34, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
Come one and come all. To a presentation at the Laurel Historical Society about how you can help verify, validate, and edit the information that is on the front line of local history.
Geraldshields11 (
talk) 02:08, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
See you at the Laurel Pool Room, 9th and Main Street, Laurel, MD on Thursday, September 11, 2014 at 7:00 PM EST. See http://www.meetup.com/Wikimedia-DC/events/205494212/ for more information. Geraldshields11 ( talk) 02:13, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
The WikiSalon is a special meetup usually held during the first and third full weeks of every month, from 7 PM to 9 PM. It's an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss Wikimedia wikis and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own.
If you're coming by Metro, the closest station is Dupont Circle (on the Red Line). If you're driving, a lot of parking opens up downtown after 6:30 PM, so finding a parking space (even a free one) should be easy. Once you've found the building, go to Cove on the second floor. We will be in the conference room.
When: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 at 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Where: The Cove, Dupont Circle, 1730 Connecticut Avenue NW, 2nd floor, 20009, DC
For more information, see
http://www.meetup.com/Wikimedia-DC/events/205500822/
My best regards,
Geraldshields11 (
talk) 02:26, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
Wikimedia DC's Upcoming meetups
My best regards, Geraldshields11 ( talk) 22:50, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
|
Hi Harej! One of my co-workers at Cato has recently realized that her boss's wikipedia entry is very wrong, to the point that it says he doesn't even work there anymore. They'd like the intro updated to give his current title at Cato and say that he formerly worked where it (wrongly) says he currently works. We both have a clear COI (since she works for him directly), but we think this is a fairly simple change. She's posted a request on his talk page, but hasn't gotten any replies. Can you help us out here? We want to be completely above board on this. Thanks! HistoricMN44 ( talk) 14:11, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
Your bot is delivering directly to project pages, and not talk pages. Some of them will definitely be removed. It is very non-standard. Please, fix it. Aditya( talk • contribs) 15:38, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
This mass message delivery is being posted on project, rather than project talk pages. Was this a mistake? Rcsprinter123 (witter) @ 15:22, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
I hope your day gets better :) -- Hammersoft ( talk) 15:50, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
Please post the Project X Proposal on my talk page.-- DThomsen8 ( talk) 20:51, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi there, over the past few years I have seen many discussions about WikiProjects being active or not, based primarily on how much discussion their is on the project's talk page or noticeboard. I hope that you don't stop at that to determine how active a project is. Personally, I rarely post to talk pages/notice boards, but constantly use WikiProject related items. Whether it is the cleanup lists (ie https://tools.wmflabs.org/bambots/cwb/bycat/Australian_rules_football.html), the WP:1.0 article logs and counts (I watch Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Australia articles by quality log to see moved, new and deleted pages) or even the popular pages logs ( Wikipedia:WikiProject Western Australia/Popular pages, most of the useful tracking systems are WikiProject based. It is probably the best way to sort articles into topics, and whilst isn't a "automatic" as a recursive category system, it can allows for the precise allocation of articles into related topics better than a cat based system. It will be very difficult to measure the quantity and/or usefulness of project for these purpose, but I think that it is something that is overlooked by many editors here. The-Pope ( talk) 04:18, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
I was wondering if you were also going to mass message Project Task Forces / Work Groups? I've seen that for some projects, the subproject TF/WGs seem more active than the main project (or atleast their talk pages) -- 65.94.171.225 ( talk) 03:03, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
You might also want to examine the effect of deleting project banners. Both WPUSA and WPCANADA have preivously aggressively deleted the project banners of regional projects located within the confines of those countries and replaced those banners with their own. Anecdotally, it appears that this leads to a drastic decrease in participation at the local wikiproject; and at the general project, not everyone migrates over; and much less knowledgable participation occurs about local-area topics, with some incorrect assumptions about how things function from analogous situations in other regions of the country leading to incorrect article "corrections" also occurring. There's also the incorrect assignment of importance by national editors for regional importance; which may lead to editors assuming the local wikiproject doesn't know the local topics, thus aren't a good area to discuss local topics. -- 65.94.171.225 ( talk) 04:05, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
Hello, fellow Wikipedian!
I am excited to announce our upcoming Annual Meeting at the National Archives! We'll have free lunch, an introduction by Archivist of the United States David Ferriero, and a discussion featuring Ed Summers, the creator of CongressEdits. Join your fellow DC-area Wikipedians on Saturday, October 18 from 12 to 4:30 PM. RSVP today!
Also coming up we have the Human Origins edit-a-thon on October 17 and the WikiSalon on October 22. Hope to see you at our upcoming events!
Best,
(To unsubscribe, remove your username here.) 21:20, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
I just wanted to thank you for making your way out to New York City last week. I think the edit-a-thon went well, and we are eager to have more support from the Wikipedia community. If you have any comments or suggestions for future events, let me know!
Thanks, Mjbailey ( talk) 21:13, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
|
That's a nice idea. In fact I proposed a somewhat similar research piece two years ago ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships/Project_Ideas/Wikiprojects_Success,_Failure_and_Impact_on_Content_and_Community) through I didn't have enough pull to get it through. Let me know if you'd be interesting in collaborating on this; I'd be happy to help out. As you may know, I am an active researcher of Wikipedia; my newest paper got published just now ( [1]) and I have a piece about why editors burn out and retire in review (I'd be happy to share a copy with you as it seems related to the wikiproject research somewhat). You can find more papers of mine on Google Scholar. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:58, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
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Clean-up. More text in the links now than in the article itself. Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 21:58, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi James, I've mentioned an amusing set of deletion summaries that you accidentaly entered a very long time ago at a thread at Jimmy Wales' talk page. Would you mind if it were added to the Village stocks? It would fit perfectly there! Graham 87 08:38, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
You have been sentenced to the Village Stocks | ||
for trying to promote one of the worst films ever made in the deletion log! |
Graham 87 03:47, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
hi, i happened upon Draft:Matthew Gavin Frank, and noticed that the page Matthew Gavin Frank is salted from 2009. would you agree that his reviews in NYTimes, WSJ, make him notable? if so, would you please create. needs some cleanup, so i will. Duckduckstop ( talk) 20:39, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Clair Mills Callan, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page St. Francis Hospital. Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.
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