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The WikiCup, an annual editing competition, is now in its fourth round. Casliber, consistent participant since 2010 and winner in 2016, is currently dominating Group A with 601 points. Largely responsible is the successful Featured Article nomination of Masked booby. The other remaining Tree of Life participant, Enwebb, is participating in her first ever WikiCup. In this round, she has a grand total of...5 points. But with the recent Featured Article nomination of Megabat, she stands to gain 600 points if successful. As it stands, though, it appears that at least one ToL editor is headed to the fifth and final round of 8 contestants, which begins September 1. Thus far, all participants in the WikiCup have generated 17 Featured Articles, 116 Good Articles, 16 Featured Lists, and 57 Featured Pictures. The Good Article Nominations backlog has been reduced as well, with 286 Good Article Reviews. |
For this month's editor spotlight we're joined by
Charlesjsharp, a longtime contributor to Wikimedia Commons with a plethora of featured pictures on English Wikipedia. 1) Starsandwhales: How long have you been editing Wikipedia, and how did you get interested? How did you begin your journey of photographing wildlife?
![]() 2) S&W: Over the years, you've taken photos of many different organisms from birds to insects to big cats; you have an
extensive list of favorite images. Which animals have been the most exciting for you to photograph?
3) S&W: Many articles under ToL have requests for people to add images that can go unanswered. What can the community do to improve the coverage of different organisms on Wikipedia, especially when it comes to images?
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4) S&W: What advice would you give to people new to photographing wildlife?
5) S&W: What would the Tree of Life community be surprised to learn about your life off-wiki?
* An example of cumbersome code: getting the layout of my responses to your questions. So dated, and no online spellchecker. |
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One butterfly may flap its wings to create a tornado, but one editor does not a WP:SNOWstorm make. Mitch Ames ( talk) 06:41, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
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What a weird article ... and a weird topic for an article ... but it is probably notable enough. Per Google Maps it's in Siesta Park, which is yet another of the localities around here that doesn't have an article ... I've tried to fix the estate article up a bit. Graham 87 09:05, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
Hi - my mistake, thought I had pressed publish on that page already - is done now! Ta for bringing up Jay4283 ( talk) 10:36, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
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Consistent indentation here would make the wandering less exhausting, and the discussion easier to follow... Please pay some heed to WP:THREAD. Mitch Ames ( talk) 12:33, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
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If you want to find spiders not yet tagged for Australia, try this search. It may take some time to run, so be patient. Plantdrew ( talk) 17:42, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
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Firstly, WikiJSci can be a complementary system for FA review (getting external review, input, and validity). When an Wikipedia article is nominated (via WP:JAN), journal editors go out to non-Wikipedian academics and researchers who have published on the subject on the last five years and invite them to give feedback comments (e.g. Peripatric speciation and Baryonyx). The resulting changes can then be integrated back into the Wikipedia article.
Getting more editors involved in Wikipedia is always a high priority. WikiJSci can also be a way to encourage new people to contribute articles (especially on missing/stub/start topics). An example of an article that was written from scratch by a group of non-Wikipedians is Teladorsagia circumcincta. This not only resulted in a new Wikipedia page on an underdeveloped topic, but introduced the idea of Wikimedia contribution to a group of people who had previously never considered it.
The journal can be a way to get multimedia content reviewed or encourage contribution. The same approach could be easily adapted to sounds (e.g. frog mating calls) or videos (e.g. starfish feet motion). It also allows for tracking of those images in new articles via Altmetric ( this example has >200, which is bananas). There aren't any biology examples in WikiJSci yet, but the sister medical journal has published a few summary diagrams, photography, and image galleries. Examples include this gallery by Blausen Medical or the diagram of cell disassembly during apoptosis.
For those interested in other Wikimedia sister projects, there's also broad scope for interactions with the WikiJournals. Perhaps peer reviewed teaching resources could be useful to sit alongside sets of Wikipedia articles and be integrated into Wikiversity courses (like this or this)? Can sections of Wikidata & Wikispecies be peer reviewed? What are the potential avenues for integration with WikiCite, WikiFactMine, Scholia, etc.? Currently, WikiJSci is aiming to be very flexible and try out different formats so long as they can be externally peer reviewed. For more info, see the 2019-06-30 Signpost article and the current sister project proposal. |
1) Enwebb: You're very prolific with DYKs, with over 2,000 nominations credited (in fact, I'll highlight which DYK nominations this month were yours below). What made you become so involved in this part of Wikipedia? Why should Tree of Life editors nominate articles for DYK?
2) Enwebb: I noticed that your DYK nominations reflect a diverse array of flora and fauna, from trees, marine invertebrates, birds, fishes, and mammals. How do you decide what to work on?
3) Enwebb: Which of your Wikipedia accomplishments are you most proud of?
4) Enwebb: What motivates you to keep contributing? What's your 10,000 ft view (pardon the non-SI) of the community and Tree of Life?
6) Enwebb: How did you first become interested in natural history?
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Hello JarrahTree,
Instead of reaching a magic 300 as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.
A proposal is taking place here to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.
Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired Ballonman, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for making the occasional mistake while others can learn from their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.
Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon (you will need to have 'Nominated for deletion' enabled for this in your filters) may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders using Twinkle. They require your further verification.
Please be sure to look for the tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. WMF policy requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.
Regular reviewers will appreciate the most recent enhancements to the New Pages Feed and features in the Curation tool, and there are still more to come. Due to the wealth of information now displayed by ORES, reviewers are strongly encouraged to use the system now rather than Twinkle; it will also correctly populate the logs.
Stub sorting, by SD0001: A new script is available for adding/removing stub tags. See User:SD0001/StubSorter.js, It features a simple HotCat-style dynamic search field. Many of the reviewers who are using it are finding it an improvement upon other available tools.
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Hi JarrahTree! I just happened to see the new article Wawasan Nusantara. Does WP really need this article? Poor sources, doubtful notabilty. Even most Indonesians would scratch their head seeing this. Bring it to AfD? – Austronesier ( talk) 09:27, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
Rather than filling up Justlettersandnumbers' talk page, I left the following for you there:
I've now found another article - Teutsind - where the IP address and Stub maker 2000 appear together (series of edits on 2 September), which would be quite a coincidence if they were not the same editor when compared to Roman Catholic Diocese of Bayeux as above, but I leave it to you to take forward more formally if you wish - I don't involve myself in this sort of thing. Ingratis ( talk) 23:06, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
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Hi JarrahTree, My apologies. I got so involved in further correcting the article after I saw your corrections I forgot to thank you. My key original error was to put W in the coords, not E, moving the locus into the Pacific Ocean, rather than just off WA. Once I got that sorted out everything else was clear. Cheers, Acad Ronin ( talk) 12:02, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
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Books & Bytes
Issue 35, July – August 2019
On behalf of The Wikipedia Library team -- MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 06:58, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
A final update, for now:
The third grant-funded round of
WikiProject X has been completed. Unfortunately, while this round has not resulted in a deployed product, I am not planning to resume working on the project for the foreseeable future. Please see the
final report for more information.
Regards,
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A tag has been placed on Category:Boats designed by Bruce Farr requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Liz Read! Talk! 02:55, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
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Tree of Life subprojects and task forces by start year and whether currently considered active or not This month saw a vanishingly rare occurrence for the Tree of Life: a new WikiProject joined the fold. WikiProject Diptera, however, is also unusual in being a classroom project. Whether or not this project will stay active once the semester ends remains to be seen. It does not bode well, however, that WP:WikiProject Vespidae—a creation from the same instructor at St. Louis University—faded to obscurity shortly after the fall semester concluded in 2014. WikiProject Vespidae is defunct and now redirects to the Hymenoptera task force of WikiProject Insects. Since 2014, the Tree of Life has seen a string of years where one or zero projects or task forces were created. The only projects and task forces created since then are WikiProject Animal anatomy (2014), Hymenoptera task force (2016), Bats task force (2017), WikiProject Hypericaceae (2018), and now WikiProject Diptera (2019). The year 2006 saw the greatest creation of WikiProjects and task forces, with fourteen still active and the remaining six as "semiactive", "inactive", or "defunct". |
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...I did some more of the necessary. Cheers and happy editing. Lectonar ( talk) 08:04, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
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If you no longer require the right, let me know, or ask any other administrator. Drop a note on my talk page if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of the event coordinator right. Happy editing! — xaosflux Talk 11:44, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
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I was just updating {{ Australian Post Offices}} which divides the post office articles in each state into current post offices and former post offices. The WA ones were all listed as current but two are definitely former POs and, while the Toodyay Post Office article doesn't say either way, photos show no Australia Post signage and there is a modern building in Toodyay that claims to be the post office so I put it into the "former" list. But I just thought you might know for certain what the status is. Thanks Kerry ( talk) 05:09, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
Hi Jarrah Tree, I just finished fixing up some aspects of the above article (i.e. infobox and categories). I then looked at the Talk Page and discovered that it had been nominated for deletion in 2016, the discussion agreed to deletion and the order to execute the article had not been carried out! Can you arrange for its disposal? Regards Cowdy001 ( talk) 09:46, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
You mean that, right? I just couldn't help myself ... I went along there on the train today. Now I can finally say I've done it ... Graham 87 10:34, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
A new wikimedian in residence table should soon be implemented based on data from outreach:Wikimedian_in_residence ( draft table). If there are any WiRs you know that are missing, please add them. In the meantime, see the map! T.Shafee(Evo&Evo) talk 08:48, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
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By request from another editor, this month I wrote an overview of ways that content is featured on Wikipedia. Below I have outlined some of the processes for getting content featured: Did You Know (DYK)What is it: A way for articles to appear on the main page of Wikipedia. A short hook in the format of "Did you know...that ___" presents unusual and interesting facts to the reader, hopefully making the reader want to click through to the article How it works: The DYK process has fairly low barriers for participation. The eligibility criteria are few and relatively easy to meet. Some important guidelines:
The process for creating the nomination is somewhat tedious. Instructions can be found here (official instructions) and here ("quick and nice" guide to DYK). Experience is the best teacher here, so don't be afraid to try and fail a few times. The last few DYK nominations I've done, however, have been with the help of SD0001's DYK-helper script, which makes the process a bit more streamlined (you create the template from a popup box on the article; created template is automatically transcluded to nominations page and article talk page) Once your nomination is created and transcluded, it will need to be reviewed. The reviewer will check that the article meets the eligibility criteria, that the hook is short enough, cited, and interesting, and that other requirements are met, such as for images. If you've been credited with more than 5 DYKs, the reviewer will also check that you've reviewed someone else's nomination for each article that you nominate. This is called QPQ (quid pro quo). You can check how many credited DYKs you've had here to see if QPQ is required for you to nominate an article for DYK. Good Article (GA)What it is: A peer review process to determine that an article meets
a set of criteria. This adds a How it works: You follow the instructions to nominate an article, placing a template on its talk page. Anyone can nominate an article—you don't have to be a major contributor, though it is considered polite to inform the major contributors that you are nominating the article. The article is added to a queue to await a review. In the ToL, it seems that reviews happen pretty quickly, thanks to our dedicated members. Once the review begins, the reviewer will offer suggestions to help the article meet the 6 GA criteria. Upon addressing all concerns, the reviewer will pass the article, and voilà! Good Article! Advice to a first-time nominator: Look at other Good Articles in related areas before nominating. If you're unsure about nominating, consider posting to the talk page of your project to see what other editors think. You can also have a more experienced editor co-nominate the article with you. Featured Article (FA)What it is: An exhaustive peer review to determine that an articles meets the
criteria. This adds a
How it works: You follow the instructions to nominate an article, placing a template on its talk page. Nominated articles are usually GAs already. Uninvolved editors can nominate, though the article's regular editors should be consulted first. Several editors will come by offering feedback, eventually supporting or opposing promotion to FA. A coordinator will determine if there is consensus to promote the article to FA. For an editor's first FA, spot checks to verify that the sources support the text are conducted. Advice to a first-time nominator: The Featured Article Candidate (FAC) process is a bit intimidating, but several steps can make your first one easier (speaking as someone who has exactly one). If you also did the GA nomination of the article, you can ask the reviewer for "extra" feedback beyond the GA criteria. You can also formally request a peer review and/or a copy edit from the Guild of Copy Editors to check for content and mechanics. First-time nominators are encouraged to seek the help of a mentor for a higher likelihood of passing their first FAC. Good and Featured Topics (GT and FT)What it is: It took me a while to realize we even had GT and FT on Wikipedia, as they are not very common relative to GA and FA. Both GT and FT are collections of related articles of high quality (all articles at GA or FA, all lists at Featured List). GT/FT have to be at least 3 articles with no obvious gaps in coverage of the topic, along with other criteria. For GT, all articles have to be GA quality and all lists must be FL. For FT, at least half the articles must be FA or FL, with the remaining articles at GA. How it works: Follow the nomination procedures for creating a new topic or adding an article to an existing topic. Other editors weigh in to support or oppose the proposal. Coordinators determine if there is consensus to promote to GT/FT. Advice to a first-time nominator: There are very few GT/FT in Tree of Life ( 5 GT and 11 FT). Most of the legwork appears to be improving a cohesive set of articles to GA/FA. |
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Hello JarrahTree,
This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon.
There are now 800 holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action.
Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.
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Admin Barkeep49 has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers.
Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources.
Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13.
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Thanks mate. Wikipedia still just has too many dickheads for it to be a regular timesink - there really is a point at which if I'm going to deal with the hassle of that I need to get paid for my time - but I've been enjoying fiddling around the edges once in a while when in the mood. The Drover's Wife ( talk) 08:47, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
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Hi JarrahTree, you're listed as the creator of Category:Family businesses back in 2017, which had been deleted previously in a 2011 CfD. The new category still has the problems that led to the initial deletion, but since there's clearly an interest in the topic, I've opened a discussion at WP:Business as to how to proceed.-- choster ( talk) 23:10, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
There's a new version of Rater you may want to try, see WT:RATER#New version of Rater! Beta tester wanted! - Evad37 [ talk 08:43, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
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Books & Bytes
Issue 36, September – October 2019
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team -- MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 05:21, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
It's fine to have strong views, but you've got to be able to articulate why if you want other people to heed them. Our coverage of heritage sites in Queensland and New South Wales is objectively vastly better in breadth, depth and quality than on those in states where there hasn't been a CC-BY project, with South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania being particularly bad. WA is a bit of an exception due to the extensive local projects in some areas, which surpass the CC-BY efforts in at least breadth, but the breadth is very much concentrated in those areas, with even metropolitan National Trust museums still lacking articles. Even in places where the breadth of articles is okay, the user-created articles are heavily lacking in depth compared to the articles we've been able to get through CC-BY material. This is why an argument that is just "I don't like CC-BY material" is not something people are going to care very much about, or why calls for an evaluation are going to fall on deaf ears: the CC-BY material just holds up extremely well by any comparison.
Now, if there are things that can be fixed beyond "I don't like CC-BY content", they're things we can talk out and possibly walk through - but that requires that people explain what those issues actually are. The Drover's Wife ( talk) 07:02, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
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Hi JarrahTree - just wanted to thank you for your very kind message! You've explained things really clearly and i will definitely take up your offer of reviewing content before it is published so as not to cause any issues. Thanks for making me feel part of the community. Msquidnunc ( talk) 14:14, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Category:Transport ministries in Australia requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. UnitedStatesian ( talk) 22:48, 29 November 2019 (UTC)
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In an interesting turn of events, this month's guest column is by my alter-ego, Elysia (Wiki Ed): *Puts on Wiki Education hat* Hi everyone, I'm Elysia and I work for Wiki Education. You may know me as Enwebb. I got a request last month to let you know how Wiki Education is intersecting with the Tree of Life subprojects. As one of Wiki Education's major goals is to improve topics related to the sciences, leading to our Communicating Science initiative, we end up supporting quite a few in the biological sciences. Here are the TOL-related courses active this term: What is the impact of student editors in Tree of Life? ![]() Altogether, these 16 courses have 347 student participants. As the end of the semester hasn't come yet, these numbers are still growing, but these students have:
Some of our best student work this semester (of any kind, not just biodiversity) has come from Agelaia's Behavioural Ecology course—you may remember this as the course that created WikiProject Diptera. The students have several Good Article nominations, including Dryomyza anilis, Anastrepha ludens, Aedes taeniorhynchus, Drosophila silvestris, Drosophila subobscura, and Ceratitis capitata. And while long-term participation from students is low, there's always the chance that we'll discover a Wikipedian. I had never edited before my Wikipedia assignment in 2017 and I'm still here nearly 20,000 edits later! After I poked around in the beginning of the semester, I had the realization that not many people write Wikipedia, and very few of those have a special interest in bats. If I didn't stick around to write the content, there was no guarantee that it would ever get done. Why are species articles suitable for students? Writing about taxonomic groups is a great fit for students, as it keeps them away from areas where new editors traditionally struggle. The notability policy is generous towards taxa, and there is little danger of a student's work getting removed for lack of notability; this is to be expected when students write biographies. Students may struggle with encyclopedic tone for biographies and stray towards promotional writing, but this is much less common when writing about a shrew or algae! Additionally, we're never going to run out of species to write about. Students have a bounty of stubs and redlinks to pick from. Creating a new article or expanding an existing one also takes a fairly predictable structure, with plenty of articles that students can model after. Don't students just create messes for volunteers to clean up? Our sincere hope is that, no, they don't, and we take several steps to try to minimize the burden on volunteer labor. With automatic plagiarism detection, alerts when students edit a Good or Featured Article, and notifications when students edit an article subject to discretionary sanctions, we try to stay ahead of problems as much as possible. We also review all student work at the end of each term. Ian, Shalor, and I are always happy to receive pings alerting us to student issues that need to be addressed. |
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Rename a catetory.
From Category:Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the White Elephant
To Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the White Elephant,
please, thank you.-- G.B.T. (Boonparit Thuanthai) (cn:Dr.Man) ( talk) 12:53, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
Hi JarrahTree, as discussed a few weeks ago, I'm trying to have the company that I work for's page edited as it's very out of date. No one responded to my Talk page request so I've followed your advice and done a userspace draft. As I wanted to make edits rather than rewrite the whole article I'm not sure that's the way to go. Is there a better way for me to do this? Also, separate topic, I would like to start editing some non-conflict of interest pages, ideally starting with some simple language tidy-up type activities, any advice on where to start? thanks and happy Monday! Msquidnunc ( talk) 15:02, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
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This year's Reviewer of the Year is Rosguill. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.
Special commendation again goes to Onel5969 who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to Boleyn and JTtheOG who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.
Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.
Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.
Rank | Username | Num reviews | Log |
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1 | Rosguill ( talk) | 47,395 | Patrol Page Curation |
2 | Onel5969 ( talk) | 41,883 | Patrol Page Curation |
3 | JTtheOG ( talk) | 11,493 | Patrol Page Curation |
4 | Arthistorian1977 ( talk) | 5,562 | Patrol Page Curation |
5 | DannyS712 ( talk) | 4,866 | Patrol Page Curation |
6 | CAPTAIN MEDUSA ( talk) | 3,995 | Patrol Page Curation |
7 | DragonflySixtyseven ( talk) | 3,812 | Patrol Page Curation |
8 | Boleyn ( talk) | 3,655 | Patrol Page Curation |
9 | Ymblanter ( talk) | 3,553 | Patrol Page Curation |
10 | Cwmhiraeth ( talk) | 3,522 | Patrol Page Curation |
(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)
A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by DannyS712 bot III.
Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.
While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag.
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There's a non-paywalled article out that you could cannibalise to expand the Wikipedia article - https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/why-the-murders-of-mother-and-daughter-margaret-and-seana-tapp-remain-unsolved/news-story/e119219dfada953cc2c60560123ffc53 PAustin4thApril1980 ( talk) 12:20, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
2020 already...
Not sure what you mean? The Drover's Wife ( talk) 05:41, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
Best wishes for the festive season for you and your family. Hoping to be more active in the new year. Cheers. -- Longhair\ talk 09:05, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
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Hi JT! All the warmest wishes for this seasonal occasion, whichever you celebrate - or don't, while I swelter at 27℃ (80.6℉), and peace and prosperity for 2020. Seriously hoping that you'll join me for a cool beer in Bangkok in August when it will be even hotter! Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 10:55, 24 December 2019 (UTC) |
PS: Don't get much chance since my expensive E-grand fell apart 2 years ago, but we'll find a pianner somewhere in BKK... Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 10:58, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2020! |
Hello JarrahTree, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this
seasonal occasion. Spread the
WikiLove by wishing another user a
Merry Christmas and a
Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2020. Spread the love by adding {{ subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages. |
Hey JarrahTree Just wondering can you please send me the template for wiki project birds thanks Tramfan1203 ( talk) 14:05, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
My best wishes echo to everyone I've had a good relationship with. I don't feel benevolent enough yet to extend the same towards those I dislike. I'm mean spirited, so I reserve the right to wish good health and blissful days to you and yours, JarrahTree... Iryna Harpy ( talk) 09:40, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
Gah, I don't wanna know ... the real world is complicated enough as it is! Graham 87 14:31, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
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The WikiCup, an annual editing competition, is now in its fourth round. Casliber, consistent participant since 2010 and winner in 2016, is currently dominating Group A with 601 points. Largely responsible is the successful Featured Article nomination of Masked booby. The other remaining Tree of Life participant, Enwebb, is participating in her first ever WikiCup. In this round, she has a grand total of...5 points. But with the recent Featured Article nomination of Megabat, she stands to gain 600 points if successful. As it stands, though, it appears that at least one ToL editor is headed to the fifth and final round of 8 contestants, which begins September 1. Thus far, all participants in the WikiCup have generated 17 Featured Articles, 116 Good Articles, 16 Featured Lists, and 57 Featured Pictures. The Good Article Nominations backlog has been reduced as well, with 286 Good Article Reviews. |
For this month's editor spotlight we're joined by
Charlesjsharp, a longtime contributor to Wikimedia Commons with a plethora of featured pictures on English Wikipedia. 1) Starsandwhales: How long have you been editing Wikipedia, and how did you get interested? How did you begin your journey of photographing wildlife?
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extensive list of favorite images. Which animals have been the most exciting for you to photograph?
3) S&W: Many articles under ToL have requests for people to add images that can go unanswered. What can the community do to improve the coverage of different organisms on Wikipedia, especially when it comes to images?
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4) S&W: What advice would you give to people new to photographing wildlife?
5) S&W: What would the Tree of Life community be surprised to learn about your life off-wiki?
* An example of cumbersome code: getting the layout of my responses to your questions. So dated, and no online spellchecker. |
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One butterfly may flap its wings to create a tornado, but one editor does not a WP:SNOWstorm make. Mitch Ames ( talk) 06:41, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
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What a weird article ... and a weird topic for an article ... but it is probably notable enough. Per Google Maps it's in Siesta Park, which is yet another of the localities around here that doesn't have an article ... I've tried to fix the estate article up a bit. Graham 87 09:05, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
Hi - my mistake, thought I had pressed publish on that page already - is done now! Ta for bringing up Jay4283 ( talk) 10:36, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
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Consistent indentation here would make the wandering less exhausting, and the discussion easier to follow... Please pay some heed to WP:THREAD. Mitch Ames ( talk) 12:33, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
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Portal:Death, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for
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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Sesquicentenary Celebrations Series is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
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Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Willbb234 Talk (please {{ ping}} me in replies) 15:36, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
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If you want to find spiders not yet tagged for Australia, try this search. It may take some time to run, so be patient. Plantdrew ( talk) 17:42, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
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Firstly, WikiJSci can be a complementary system for FA review (getting external review, input, and validity). When an Wikipedia article is nominated (via WP:JAN), journal editors go out to non-Wikipedian academics and researchers who have published on the subject on the last five years and invite them to give feedback comments (e.g. Peripatric speciation and Baryonyx). The resulting changes can then be integrated back into the Wikipedia article.
Getting more editors involved in Wikipedia is always a high priority. WikiJSci can also be a way to encourage new people to contribute articles (especially on missing/stub/start topics). An example of an article that was written from scratch by a group of non-Wikipedians is Teladorsagia circumcincta. This not only resulted in a new Wikipedia page on an underdeveloped topic, but introduced the idea of Wikimedia contribution to a group of people who had previously never considered it.
The journal can be a way to get multimedia content reviewed or encourage contribution. The same approach could be easily adapted to sounds (e.g. frog mating calls) or videos (e.g. starfish feet motion). It also allows for tracking of those images in new articles via Altmetric ( this example has >200, which is bananas). There aren't any biology examples in WikiJSci yet, but the sister medical journal has published a few summary diagrams, photography, and image galleries. Examples include this gallery by Blausen Medical or the diagram of cell disassembly during apoptosis.
For those interested in other Wikimedia sister projects, there's also broad scope for interactions with the WikiJournals. Perhaps peer reviewed teaching resources could be useful to sit alongside sets of Wikipedia articles and be integrated into Wikiversity courses (like this or this)? Can sections of Wikidata & Wikispecies be peer reviewed? What are the potential avenues for integration with WikiCite, WikiFactMine, Scholia, etc.? Currently, WikiJSci is aiming to be very flexible and try out different formats so long as they can be externally peer reviewed. For more info, see the 2019-06-30 Signpost article and the current sister project proposal. |
1) Enwebb: You're very prolific with DYKs, with over 2,000 nominations credited (in fact, I'll highlight which DYK nominations this month were yours below). What made you become so involved in this part of Wikipedia? Why should Tree of Life editors nominate articles for DYK?
2) Enwebb: I noticed that your DYK nominations reflect a diverse array of flora and fauna, from trees, marine invertebrates, birds, fishes, and mammals. How do you decide what to work on?
3) Enwebb: Which of your Wikipedia accomplishments are you most proud of?
4) Enwebb: What motivates you to keep contributing? What's your 10,000 ft view (pardon the non-SI) of the community and Tree of Life?
6) Enwebb: How did you first become interested in natural history?
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Hello JarrahTree,
Instead of reaching a magic 300 as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.
A proposal is taking place here to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.
Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired Ballonman, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for making the occasional mistake while others can learn from their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.
Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon (you will need to have 'Nominated for deletion' enabled for this in your filters) may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders using Twinkle. They require your further verification.
Please be sure to look for the tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. WMF policy requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.
Regular reviewers will appreciate the most recent enhancements to the New Pages Feed and features in the Curation tool, and there are still more to come. Due to the wealth of information now displayed by ORES, reviewers are strongly encouraged to use the system now rather than Twinkle; it will also correctly populate the logs.
Stub sorting, by SD0001: A new script is available for adding/removing stub tags. See User:SD0001/StubSorter.js, It features a simple HotCat-style dynamic search field. Many of the reviewers who are using it are finding it an improvement upon other available tools.
Assessment: The script at User:Evad37/rater makes the addition of Wikiproject templates extremely easy. New page creators rarely do this. Reviewers are not obliged to make these edits but they only take a few seconds. They can use the Curation message system to let the creator know what they have done.
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Hi JarrahTree! I just happened to see the new article Wawasan Nusantara. Does WP really need this article? Poor sources, doubtful notabilty. Even most Indonesians would scratch their head seeing this. Bring it to AfD? – Austronesier ( talk) 09:27, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
Rather than filling up Justlettersandnumbers' talk page, I left the following for you there:
I've now found another article - Teutsind - where the IP address and Stub maker 2000 appear together (series of edits on 2 September), which would be quite a coincidence if they were not the same editor when compared to Roman Catholic Diocese of Bayeux as above, but I leave it to you to take forward more formally if you wish - I don't involve myself in this sort of thing. Ingratis ( talk) 23:06, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
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Category:Fishing companies in Australia, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Marcocapelle ( talk) 16:31, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
Hi JarrahTree, My apologies. I got so involved in further correcting the article after I saw your corrections I forgot to thank you. My key original error was to put W in the coords, not E, moving the locus into the Pacific Ocean, rather than just off WA. Once I got that sorted out everything else was clear. Cheers, Acad Ronin ( talk) 12:02, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
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Books & Bytes
Issue 35, July – August 2019
On behalf of The Wikipedia Library team -- MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 06:58, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
A final update, for now:
The third grant-funded round of
WikiProject X has been completed. Unfortunately, while this round has not resulted in a deployed product, I am not planning to resume working on the project for the foreseeable future. Please see the
final report for more information.
Regards,
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A tag has been placed on Category:Boats designed by Bruce Farr requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Liz Read! Talk! 02:55, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
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Tree of Life subprojects and task forces by start year and whether currently considered active or not This month saw a vanishingly rare occurrence for the Tree of Life: a new WikiProject joined the fold. WikiProject Diptera, however, is also unusual in being a classroom project. Whether or not this project will stay active once the semester ends remains to be seen. It does not bode well, however, that WP:WikiProject Vespidae—a creation from the same instructor at St. Louis University—faded to obscurity shortly after the fall semester concluded in 2014. WikiProject Vespidae is defunct and now redirects to the Hymenoptera task force of WikiProject Insects. Since 2014, the Tree of Life has seen a string of years where one or zero projects or task forces were created. The only projects and task forces created since then are WikiProject Animal anatomy (2014), Hymenoptera task force (2016), Bats task force (2017), WikiProject Hypericaceae (2018), and now WikiProject Diptera (2019). The year 2006 saw the greatest creation of WikiProjects and task forces, with fourteen still active and the remaining six as "semiactive", "inactive", or "defunct". |
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...I did some more of the necessary. Cheers and happy editing. Lectonar ( talk) 08:04, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
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I was just updating {{ Australian Post Offices}} which divides the post office articles in each state into current post offices and former post offices. The WA ones were all listed as current but two are definitely former POs and, while the Toodyay Post Office article doesn't say either way, photos show no Australia Post signage and there is a modern building in Toodyay that claims to be the post office so I put it into the "former" list. But I just thought you might know for certain what the status is. Thanks Kerry ( talk) 05:09, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
Hi Jarrah Tree, I just finished fixing up some aspects of the above article (i.e. infobox and categories). I then looked at the Talk Page and discovered that it had been nominated for deletion in 2016, the discussion agreed to deletion and the order to execute the article had not been carried out! Can you arrange for its disposal? Regards Cowdy001 ( talk) 09:46, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
You mean that, right? I just couldn't help myself ... I went along there on the train today. Now I can finally say I've done it ... Graham 87 10:34, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
A new wikimedian in residence table should soon be implemented based on data from outreach:Wikimedian_in_residence ( draft table). If there are any WiRs you know that are missing, please add them. In the meantime, see the map! T.Shafee(Evo&Evo) talk 08:48, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
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By request from another editor, this month I wrote an overview of ways that content is featured on Wikipedia. Below I have outlined some of the processes for getting content featured: Did You Know (DYK)What is it: A way for articles to appear on the main page of Wikipedia. A short hook in the format of "Did you know...that ___" presents unusual and interesting facts to the reader, hopefully making the reader want to click through to the article How it works: The DYK process has fairly low barriers for participation. The eligibility criteria are few and relatively easy to meet. Some important guidelines:
The process for creating the nomination is somewhat tedious. Instructions can be found here (official instructions) and here ("quick and nice" guide to DYK). Experience is the best teacher here, so don't be afraid to try and fail a few times. The last few DYK nominations I've done, however, have been with the help of SD0001's DYK-helper script, which makes the process a bit more streamlined (you create the template from a popup box on the article; created template is automatically transcluded to nominations page and article talk page) Once your nomination is created and transcluded, it will need to be reviewed. The reviewer will check that the article meets the eligibility criteria, that the hook is short enough, cited, and interesting, and that other requirements are met, such as for images. If you've been credited with more than 5 DYKs, the reviewer will also check that you've reviewed someone else's nomination for each article that you nominate. This is called QPQ (quid pro quo). You can check how many credited DYKs you've had here to see if QPQ is required for you to nominate an article for DYK. Good Article (GA)What it is: A peer review process to determine that an article meets
a set of criteria. This adds a How it works: You follow the instructions to nominate an article, placing a template on its talk page. Anyone can nominate an article—you don't have to be a major contributor, though it is considered polite to inform the major contributors that you are nominating the article. The article is added to a queue to await a review. In the ToL, it seems that reviews happen pretty quickly, thanks to our dedicated members. Once the review begins, the reviewer will offer suggestions to help the article meet the 6 GA criteria. Upon addressing all concerns, the reviewer will pass the article, and voilà! Good Article! Advice to a first-time nominator: Look at other Good Articles in related areas before nominating. If you're unsure about nominating, consider posting to the talk page of your project to see what other editors think. You can also have a more experienced editor co-nominate the article with you. Featured Article (FA)What it is: An exhaustive peer review to determine that an articles meets the
criteria. This adds a
How it works: You follow the instructions to nominate an article, placing a template on its talk page. Nominated articles are usually GAs already. Uninvolved editors can nominate, though the article's regular editors should be consulted first. Several editors will come by offering feedback, eventually supporting or opposing promotion to FA. A coordinator will determine if there is consensus to promote the article to FA. For an editor's first FA, spot checks to verify that the sources support the text are conducted. Advice to a first-time nominator: The Featured Article Candidate (FAC) process is a bit intimidating, but several steps can make your first one easier (speaking as someone who has exactly one). If you also did the GA nomination of the article, you can ask the reviewer for "extra" feedback beyond the GA criteria. You can also formally request a peer review and/or a copy edit from the Guild of Copy Editors to check for content and mechanics. First-time nominators are encouraged to seek the help of a mentor for a higher likelihood of passing their first FAC. Good and Featured Topics (GT and FT)What it is: It took me a while to realize we even had GT and FT on Wikipedia, as they are not very common relative to GA and FA. Both GT and FT are collections of related articles of high quality (all articles at GA or FA, all lists at Featured List). GT/FT have to be at least 3 articles with no obvious gaps in coverage of the topic, along with other criteria. For GT, all articles have to be GA quality and all lists must be FL. For FT, at least half the articles must be FA or FL, with the remaining articles at GA. How it works: Follow the nomination procedures for creating a new topic or adding an article to an existing topic. Other editors weigh in to support or oppose the proposal. Coordinators determine if there is consensus to promote to GT/FT. Advice to a first-time nominator: There are very few GT/FT in Tree of Life ( 5 GT and 11 FT). Most of the legwork appears to be improving a cohesive set of articles to GA/FA. |
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Hello JarrahTree,
This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon.
There are now 800 holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action.
Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.
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Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some
really cool awards.
Admin Barkeep49 has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers.
Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources.
Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13.
The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights.
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Thanks mate. Wikipedia still just has too many dickheads for it to be a regular timesink - there really is a point at which if I'm going to deal with the hassle of that I need to get paid for my time - but I've been enjoying fiddling around the edges once in a while when in the mood. The Drover's Wife ( talk) 08:47, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
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Hi JarrahTree, you're listed as the creator of Category:Family businesses back in 2017, which had been deleted previously in a 2011 CfD. The new category still has the problems that led to the initial deletion, but since there's clearly an interest in the topic, I've opened a discussion at WP:Business as to how to proceed.-- choster ( talk) 23:10, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
There's a new version of Rater you may want to try, see WT:RATER#New version of Rater! Beta tester wanted! - Evad37 [ talk 08:43, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
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Why is my edit a conflict of interest The edits to the page I have made are common knowledge and can be confirmed through the Battye Library
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Books & Bytes
Issue 36, September – October 2019
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team -- MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 05:21, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
It's fine to have strong views, but you've got to be able to articulate why if you want other people to heed them. Our coverage of heritage sites in Queensland and New South Wales is objectively vastly better in breadth, depth and quality than on those in states where there hasn't been a CC-BY project, with South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania being particularly bad. WA is a bit of an exception due to the extensive local projects in some areas, which surpass the CC-BY efforts in at least breadth, but the breadth is very much concentrated in those areas, with even metropolitan National Trust museums still lacking articles. Even in places where the breadth of articles is okay, the user-created articles are heavily lacking in depth compared to the articles we've been able to get through CC-BY material. This is why an argument that is just "I don't like CC-BY material" is not something people are going to care very much about, or why calls for an evaluation are going to fall on deaf ears: the CC-BY material just holds up extremely well by any comparison.
Now, if there are things that can be fixed beyond "I don't like CC-BY content", they're things we can talk out and possibly walk through - but that requires that people explain what those issues actually are. The Drover's Wife ( talk) 07:02, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
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Hi JarrahTree - just wanted to thank you for your very kind message! You've explained things really clearly and i will definitely take up your offer of reviewing content before it is published so as not to cause any issues. Thanks for making me feel part of the community. Msquidnunc ( talk) 14:14, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Category:Transport ministries in Australia requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. UnitedStatesian ( talk) 22:48, 29 November 2019 (UTC)
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Class is in Session in the Tree of Life |
In an interesting turn of events, this month's guest column is by my alter-ego, Elysia (Wiki Ed): *Puts on Wiki Education hat* Hi everyone, I'm Elysia and I work for Wiki Education. You may know me as Enwebb. I got a request last month to let you know how Wiki Education is intersecting with the Tree of Life subprojects. As one of Wiki Education's major goals is to improve topics related to the sciences, leading to our Communicating Science initiative, we end up supporting quite a few in the biological sciences. Here are the TOL-related courses active this term: What is the impact of student editors in Tree of Life? ![]() Altogether, these 16 courses have 347 student participants. As the end of the semester hasn't come yet, these numbers are still growing, but these students have:
Some of our best student work this semester (of any kind, not just biodiversity) has come from Agelaia's Behavioural Ecology course—you may remember this as the course that created WikiProject Diptera. The students have several Good Article nominations, including Dryomyza anilis, Anastrepha ludens, Aedes taeniorhynchus, Drosophila silvestris, Drosophila subobscura, and Ceratitis capitata. And while long-term participation from students is low, there's always the chance that we'll discover a Wikipedian. I had never edited before my Wikipedia assignment in 2017 and I'm still here nearly 20,000 edits later! After I poked around in the beginning of the semester, I had the realization that not many people write Wikipedia, and very few of those have a special interest in bats. If I didn't stick around to write the content, there was no guarantee that it would ever get done. Why are species articles suitable for students? Writing about taxonomic groups is a great fit for students, as it keeps them away from areas where new editors traditionally struggle. The notability policy is generous towards taxa, and there is little danger of a student's work getting removed for lack of notability; this is to be expected when students write biographies. Students may struggle with encyclopedic tone for biographies and stray towards promotional writing, but this is much less common when writing about a shrew or algae! Additionally, we're never going to run out of species to write about. Students have a bounty of stubs and redlinks to pick from. Creating a new article or expanding an existing one also takes a fairly predictable structure, with plenty of articles that students can model after. Don't students just create messes for volunteers to clean up? Our sincere hope is that, no, they don't, and we take several steps to try to minimize the burden on volunteer labor. With automatic plagiarism detection, alerts when students edit a Good or Featured Article, and notifications when students edit an article subject to discretionary sanctions, we try to stay ahead of problems as much as possible. We also review all student work at the end of each term. Ian, Shalor, and I are always happy to receive pings alerting us to student issues that need to be addressed. |
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Rename a catetory.
From Category:Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the White Elephant
To Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the White Elephant,
please, thank you.-- G.B.T. (Boonparit Thuanthai) (cn:Dr.Man) ( talk) 12:53, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
Hi JarrahTree, as discussed a few weeks ago, I'm trying to have the company that I work for's page edited as it's very out of date. No one responded to my Talk page request so I've followed your advice and done a userspace draft. As I wanted to make edits rather than rewrite the whole article I'm not sure that's the way to go. Is there a better way for me to do this? Also, separate topic, I would like to start editing some non-conflict of interest pages, ideally starting with some simple language tidy-up type activities, any advice on where to start? thanks and happy Monday! Msquidnunc ( talk) 15:02, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
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This year's Reviewer of the Year is Rosguill. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.
Special commendation again goes to Onel5969 who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to Boleyn and JTtheOG who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.
Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.
Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.
Rank | Username | Num reviews | Log |
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1 | Rosguill ( talk) | 47,395 | Patrol Page Curation |
2 | Onel5969 ( talk) | 41,883 | Patrol Page Curation |
3 | JTtheOG ( talk) | 11,493 | Patrol Page Curation |
4 | Arthistorian1977 ( talk) | 5,562 | Patrol Page Curation |
5 | DannyS712 ( talk) | 4,866 | Patrol Page Curation |
6 | CAPTAIN MEDUSA ( talk) | 3,995 | Patrol Page Curation |
7 | DragonflySixtyseven ( talk) | 3,812 | Patrol Page Curation |
8 | Boleyn ( talk) | 3,655 | Patrol Page Curation |
9 | Ymblanter ( talk) | 3,553 | Patrol Page Curation |
10 | Cwmhiraeth ( talk) | 3,522 | Patrol Page Curation |
(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)
A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by DannyS712 bot III.
Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.
While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag.
Delivered by MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) at 16:10, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
There's a non-paywalled article out that you could cannibalise to expand the Wikipedia article - https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/why-the-murders-of-mother-and-daughter-margaret-and-seana-tapp-remain-unsolved/news-story/e119219dfada953cc2c60560123ffc53 PAustin4thApril1980 ( talk) 12:20, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
2020 already...
Not sure what you mean? The Drover's Wife ( talk) 05:41, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
Best wishes for the festive season for you and your family. Hoping to be more active in the new year. Cheers. -- Longhair\ talk 09:05, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
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Hi JT! All the warmest wishes for this seasonal occasion, whichever you celebrate - or don't, while I swelter at 27℃ (80.6℉), and peace and prosperity for 2020. Seriously hoping that you'll join me for a cool beer in Bangkok in August when it will be even hotter! Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 10:55, 24 December 2019 (UTC) |
PS: Don't get much chance since my expensive E-grand fell apart 2 years ago, but we'll find a pianner somewhere in BKK... Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 10:58, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2020! |
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Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2020. Spread the love by adding {{ subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages. |
Hey JarrahTree Just wondering can you please send me the template for wiki project birds thanks Tramfan1203 ( talk) 14:05, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
My best wishes echo to everyone I've had a good relationship with. I don't feel benevolent enough yet to extend the same towards those I dislike. I'm mean spirited, so I reserve the right to wish good health and blissful days to you and yours, JarrahTree... Iryna Harpy ( talk) 09:40, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
Gah, I don't wanna know ... the real world is complicated enough as it is! Graham 87 14:31, 2 January 2020 (UTC)