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Hello there! Happy to be writing this newsletter once more. This month:
In July, we launched five pilot WikiProjects: WikiProjects Cannabis, Evolutionary Biology, Ghana, Hampshire, and Women's Health. We also use the new design, named "WPX UI," on WikiProject Women in Technology, Women in Red, WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health. We are currently looking for projects for the next round of testing. If you are interested, please sign up on the Pilots page.
Shortly after our launch we presented at Wikimania 2015. Our slides are on Wikimedia Commons.
Then after all that work, we went through the process of figuring out whether we accomplished our goal. We reached out to participants on the redesigned WikiProjects, and we asked them to complete a survey. (If you filled out your survey—thank you!) While there are still some issues with the WikiProject tools and the new design, there appears to be general satisfaction (at least among those who responded). The results of the survey and more are documented in our grant report filed with the Wikimedia Foundation.
There is more work that needs to be done, so we have applied for a renewal of our grant. Comments on the proposal are welcome. We would like to improve what we have already started on the English Wikipedia and to also expand to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. Why those? Because they are multilingual projects and because there needs to be better coordination across Wikimedia projects. More details are available in the renewal proposal.
The Wikimedia Developer Summit will be held in San Francisco in January 2016. The recently established Community Tech team at the Wikimedia Foundation is interested in investigating what technical support they can provide for WikiProjects, i.e., support beyond just templates and bots. I have plenty of opinions myself, but I want to hear what you think. The session is being planned on Phabricator, the Wikimedia bug tracker. If you are not familiar with Phabricator, you can log in with your Wikipedia username and password through the "Login or Register: MediaWiki" button on the login page. Your feedback can help make editing Wikipedia a better experience.
Until next time,
L&E Newsletter / Volume 2 / Issue 6 / October 2015
Learning Quarterly
Frontpage:
#LearningTogether
#ProgramResources
Stay tuned
blogs, events
& more!
Leave your mark on Meta!
Inspiring ideas and learning patterns
you can contribute to.
MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 00:31, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
There are currently 6,829,844 articles on Wikipedia. |
for all your contributions, thank you.
Smallbones( smalltalk) 13:27, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
You are invited! Join us remotely! | |
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Two options for this Sunday: Soviet Jewry Edit-a-thon & Women In Science Edit-a-thon | |
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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for one of two edit-a-thons this Sunday, just bring your laptop and an interest in participating! No special knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia knowledge is required, and there will be Wikipedia training workshops for new folks. Soviet Jewry Edit-a-thon @ Center for Jewish History
Join at the Center for Jewish History (drop-in any time!), during which we will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the American Soviet Jewry movement. Women In Science Edit-a-thon @ NY Academy of Sciences
Join at the NY Academy of Sciences, during which we will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives and works of women scientists. Note that seating is limited for the Women in Science event, as well as signing up on-wiki, please RSVP by email. Bonus event:
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-- MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 07:32, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
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Hi,
I know you are busy, and this is not urgent. just wanted to remind you that your response would be appreciated at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Ottawa#WikiProject_X_is_live.21. Ottawahitech ( talk) 19:34, 20 November 2015 (UTC)please ping me
Wikidata weekly summary #114
Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current
Arbitration Committee election. The
Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia
arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose
site bans,
topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The
arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to
review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on
the voting page. For the Election committee,
MediaWiki message delivery (
talk) 12:53, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Myspace.coom. Since you had some involvement with the Myspace.coom redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. -- Tavix ( talk) 02:43, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Myspace video codes. Since you had some involvement with the Myspace video codes redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. -- Tavix ( talk) 18:09, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
You are invited! Join us remotely! | |
---|---|
|
Wednesday December 9, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC | |
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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our evening "WikiWednesday" salon and knowledge-sharing workshop by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. This month, we will also host a Newcomer's Wiki Workshop for those getting started on the encyclopedia project! We will also include a look at our annual plan and budget ideas, and welcome input from community members on the sorts of projects the chapter should support through both volunteer and budgetary efforts. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming editathons, and other outreach activities. After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! (One talk this month will be on use of Wikipedia press passes for photographers.) Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! -- Pharos ( talk) 13:38, 4 December 2015 (UTC) Bonus events, RSVP now for our upcoming editathons:
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An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Myspace quizzes. Since you had some involvement with the Myspace quizzes redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. -- Tavix ( talk) 16:08, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
At your service. @Rob talk 17:23, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
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Hello Harej, please see Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Article request workshop. This has resulted in a deletion - at it appears to have successfully deleted this time (recurring issue in the past deleting FLOW related pages). Please note, this is completely without prejudice to the content or idea of working on ways to create or improve articles - the community response is just that it should not be done via a flow experiment. Happy editing, — xaosflux Talk 16:45, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Hello there! Happy to be writing this newsletter once more. This month:
In July, we launched five pilot WikiProjects: WikiProjects Cannabis, Evolutionary Biology, Ghana, Hampshire, and Women's Health. We also use the new design, named "WPX UI," on WikiProject Women in Technology, Women in Red, WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health. We are currently looking for projects for the next round of testing. If you are interested, please sign up on the Pilots page.
Shortly after our launch we presented at Wikimania 2015. Our slides are on Wikimedia Commons.
Then after all that work, we went through the process of figuring out whether we accomplished our goal. We reached out to participants on the redesigned WikiProjects, and we asked them to complete a survey. (If you filled out your survey—thank you!) While there are still some issues with the WikiProject tools and the new design, there appears to be general satisfaction (at least among those who responded). The results of the survey and more are documented in our grant report filed with the Wikimedia Foundation.
There is more work that needs to be done, so we have applied for a renewal of our grant. Comments on the proposal are welcome. We would like to improve what we have already started on the English Wikipedia and to also expand to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. Why those? Because they are multilingual projects and because there needs to be better coordination across Wikimedia projects. More details are available in the renewal proposal.
The Wikimedia Developer Summit will be held in San Francisco in January 2016. The recently established Community Tech team at the Wikimedia Foundation is interested in investigating what technical support they can provide for WikiProjects, i.e., support beyond just templates and bots. I have plenty of opinions myself, but I want to hear what you think. The session is being planned on Phabricator, the Wikimedia bug tracker. If you are not familiar with Phabricator, you can log in with your Wikipedia username and password through the "Login or Register: MediaWiki" button on the login page. Your feedback can help make editing Wikipedia a better experience.
Until next time,
L&E Newsletter / Volume 2 / Issue 6 / October 2015
Learning Quarterly
Frontpage:
#LearningTogether
#ProgramResources
Stay tuned
blogs, events
& more!
Leave your mark on Meta!
Inspiring ideas and learning patterns
you can contribute to.
MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 00:31, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
There are currently 6,829,844 articles on Wikipedia. |
for all your contributions, thank you.
Smallbones( smalltalk) 13:27, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
You are invited! Join us remotely! | |
---|---|
|
|
Two options for this Sunday: Soviet Jewry Edit-a-thon & Women In Science Edit-a-thon | |
---|---|
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for one of two edit-a-thons this Sunday, just bring your laptop and an interest in participating! No special knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia knowledge is required, and there will be Wikipedia training workshops for new folks. Soviet Jewry Edit-a-thon @ Center for Jewish History
Join at the Center for Jewish History (drop-in any time!), during which we will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the American Soviet Jewry movement. Women In Science Edit-a-thon @ NY Academy of Sciences
Join at the NY Academy of Sciences, during which we will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives and works of women scientists. Note that seating is limited for the Women in Science event, as well as signing up on-wiki, please RSVP by email. Bonus event:
|
-- MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 07:32, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.)
Hi,
I know you are busy, and this is not urgent. just wanted to remind you that your response would be appreciated at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Ottawa#WikiProject_X_is_live.21. Ottawahitech ( talk) 19:34, 20 November 2015 (UTC)please ping me
Wikidata weekly summary #114
Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current
Arbitration Committee election. The
Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia
arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose
site bans,
topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The
arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to
review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on
the voting page. For the Election committee,
MediaWiki message delivery (
talk) 12:53, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Myspace.coom. Since you had some involvement with the Myspace.coom redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. -- Tavix ( talk) 02:43, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Myspace video codes. Since you had some involvement with the Myspace video codes redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. -- Tavix ( talk) 18:09, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
You are invited! Join us remotely! | |
---|---|
|
Wednesday December 9, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC | |
---|---|
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our evening "WikiWednesday" salon and knowledge-sharing workshop by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. This month, we will also host a Newcomer's Wiki Workshop for those getting started on the encyclopedia project! We will also include a look at our annual plan and budget ideas, and welcome input from community members on the sorts of projects the chapter should support through both volunteer and budgetary efforts. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming editathons, and other outreach activities. After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! (One talk this month will be on use of Wikipedia press passes for photographers.) Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! -- Pharos ( talk) 13:38, 4 December 2015 (UTC) Bonus events, RSVP now for our upcoming editathons:
|
(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Myspace quizzes. Since you had some involvement with the Myspace quizzes redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. -- Tavix ( talk) 16:08, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
At your service. @Rob talk 17:23, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
|
Hello Harej, please see Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Article request workshop. This has resulted in a deletion - at it appears to have successfully deleted this time (recurring issue in the past deleting FLOW related pages). Please note, this is completely without prejudice to the content or idea of working on ways to create or improve articles - the community response is just that it should not be done via a flow experiment. Happy editing, — xaosflux Talk 16:45, 12 December 2015 (UTC)