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18:37, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
Jim Carter, Thank you for your contributions to the Frances Abington page. I had one question regarding a line you placed in her bio in 2012 "She was also rumored that she would recite Shakespeare in Taverns at the age of 12 and for a short period of time was a prostitute to help her family in the hard times." I am trying to find the source of this information. I thought it might be in the Encyclopedia Britannica referenced later in the paragraph, but the version of Encyclopedia Britannica I have access to makes no mention of the prostitution (albeit it is a later edition than the one referenced). I realize this was from a few years back but any information that points me where you found that information would be helpful.
Best Wishes, Rickcurtiss ( talk) 02:55, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
Hello, most probably you have noticed that Environment of India has been selected as the article of the month. In March we'll collaboratively attempt to improve article. Please spend some time and help to improve this article. Regards. -- Tito Dutta ( talk) 17:39, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
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There is an important discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Editor Retention about possibly finding a way to salvage Single-purpose editors and transforming them into positive WP collaborators in the general mainspace. I'm sure you run in to many of them as you wander around WP. I'm also sure that every now and then one of the SPA editors rises above the crowd and seems worthy of more of your time and effort. Your personal insight and experience would be appreciated. WP:WER has become a relative ghost town (and I may be one of the few ghosts left in town) and User:Robert's idea may be just the boost the Project needs to revitalize. It's an opportunity for the Project to actually do something beyond handing out awards. I think Dennis Brown would like it. Please comment. Buster Seven Talk 14:26, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
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20:40, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
The Editor of the Week initiative has been recognizing editors since 2013 for their hard work and dedication. Editing Wikipedia can be disheartening and tedious at times; the weekly Editor of the Week award lets its recipients know that their positive behaviour and collaborative spirit is appreciated. The response from the honorees has been enthusiastic and thankful.
The list of nominees is running short, and so new nominations are needed for consideration. Have you come across someone in your editing circle who deserves a pat on the back for improving article prose regularly, making it easier to understand? Or perhaps someone has stepped in to mediate a contentious dispute, and did an excellent job. Do you know someone who hasn't received many accolades and is deserving of greater renown? Is there an editor who does lots of little tasks well, such as cleaning up citations?
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20:09, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
Round 2 is over and 35 competitors have moved on to Round 3.
Round 2 saw three FAs (two by
Cas Liber (
submissions) and one by
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submissions)), four Featured Lists (with three by
Calvin999 (
submissions)), and 53 Good Articles (six by
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Cwmhiraeth (
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MPJ-DK (
submissions)). Eleven Featured Pictures were promoted (six by
Adam Cuerden (
submissions) and five by
Godot13 (
submissions)). One Featured Portal, Featured Topic and Good Topic were also promoted. The DYK base point total was 1,135.
Cwmhiraeth (
submissions) scored 265 base points, while
The C of E (
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MPJ-DK (
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MPJ-DK (
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Phabricator ticket T134423 is fixed these tags will parse as <div>
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18:41, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
I have left you a question at m:CentralNotice/Request/WikiConference_India_2016_Survey :) Jseddon (WMF) ( talk) 23:22, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
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15:42, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
Hello friend,
A multilingual national-level edit-a-thon is being conducted at this moment with an aim to create or improve Punjab-related articles. A community that will create or expand the most number of articles during this edit-a-thon contest will be awarded a trophy during WikiConference India 2016. Best contributors' recognition may also be considered. We need your help here. Please
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19:54, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.
You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on Akal Academy requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.
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 removed 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. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. — Constanstin 14:59, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
The
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07:17, 30 July 2016 (UTC)
I have created and cited the article Bagh Hussain Kamal for Punjab Edit Thon. Please add in list. Thanks.
--M J Adil 10:12, 30 July 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mjadil ( talk • contribs)
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21:48, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
Have created a page Dilbag Singh (boxer) can this be added in the Punjab edit-a-thon please advise. Thank you FITINDIA (talk) 10:59, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
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15:41, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
Hello dearest user, A very Happy Independence Day to you. 70 years and on let us pray for our country today! I too am an Indian! Varun FEB2003 I am Online 13:25, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
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19:37, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
Dear Friends & Wikipedians, Celebrate the world's biggest sporting festival on Wikipedia. The Rio Olympics Edit-a-thon aims to pay tribute to Indian athletes and sportsperson who represent India at Olympics. Please find more details here. The Athlete who represent their country at Olympics, often fail to attain their due recognition. They bring glory to the nation. Let's write articles on them, as a mark of tribute.
For every 20 articles created collectively, a tree will be planted. Similarly, when an editor completes 20 articles, a book will be awarded to him/her. Check the main page for more details. Thank you. Abhinav619 (sent using MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 16:54, 16 August 2016 (UTC), subscribe/unsubscribe)
Thanks a lot for being a co-ordinator. Please share your opinion here Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_India/Events/Punjab_Edit-a-thon#Result. -- Tito Dutta ( talk) 17:07, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
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18:07, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
Hi, it might not be the best idea to do the parameter replacement with AWB, because it'd take forever and the BRFA is in the works. In any case, you seem to have missed |iso_region=
, so we'll probably have to go over all of them again.
Jc86035 (
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re|Jc86035}}
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13:25, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
The BRFA is
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Thank you for joining the The future of NPP and AfC Work Group
There have been been recent discussions and some special task pages have been created. for your attention and input. Please visit the following pages to get up to speed and add your comments, particularly the straw polls and priority lists. Please also add these pages to your watchlist.
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Hi. Thank you for your participation. Please complete your list of 10 priorities. The sooner all work group members have completed this task, the sooner the WMF will start doing something about it (or so they tell us). -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 04:12, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
This is a new page and you claim it's undergoing a major edit? Xx236 ( talk) 09:44, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
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21:30, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
Following up from the consensus reached here, the community will now establish the user right criteria. You may wish to participate in this discussion. -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 13:13, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
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16:42, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi Jim,
Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Yellow billed shrike with prey.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on November 1, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-11-01. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich ( talk) 14:09, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi, It's now been three weeks since we created the NPP Work Group and we are hoping for a dynamic push forward for the urgent updates and required improvements to the quality control of new pages.
We now have the attention of the WMF and their development team has made page patrolling a top priority. They are already working hard to address some of the major issues.
The success of this depends on our team being able to keep the developers supplied with the feedback they need - if we relax on this they will move on.
If you have not already done so, please complete your list of 10 preferences here as soon as possible from the list at [^[Wikipedia talk:The future of NPP and AfC/To do|To do]] - the WMF is waiting for our shortlist. Please note that No.8 (NOINDEX) has already been addressed.
Thanks for all your help. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 03:29, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi, I’ve just been having another look at your entry at WP:ORCP. It may well be time for you to take a serious decision now. Let me know what you think. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 07:08, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Jim Carter,
The future of NPP and AfC:
Thanks. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 06:50, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
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The final round of the 2016 WikiCup is over. Congratulations to the 2016 WikiCup top three finalists:
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Over the course of the 2016 WikiCup the following content was added to Wikipedia (only reporting on fixed value categories): 17 Featured Articles, 183 Good Articles, 8 Featured Lists, 87 Featured Pictures, 40 In The News, and 321 Good Article Reviews. Thank you to all the competitors for your hard work and what you have done to improve Wikipedia.-- MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 01:53, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
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The Challenge Series is a current drive on English Wikipedia to encourage article improvements and creations globally through a series of 50,000/10,000/1000 Challenges for different regions, countries and topics. All Wikipedia editors in good standing are invited to participate.
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Hello, Jim Carter. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority 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 in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
Hello Jim Carter. Your account has been added to the "New page reviewers
" user group, allowing you to review new pages and mark them as
patrolled, tag them for maintenance issues, or in some cases, tag them for deletion. The list of articles awaiting review is located at the
New Pages Feed. New page reviewing is a vital function for policing the quality of the encylopedia, if you have not already done so, you must read the new tutorial at
New Pages Review, the linked guides and essays, and fully understand the various
deletion criteria. If you need more help or wish to discuss the process, please join or start a thread at
page reviewer talk.
The reviewer right does not change your status or how you can edit articles. If you no longer want this user right, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. In case of abuse or persistent inaccuracy of reviewing, the right can be revoked at any time by an administrator. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 01:19, 26 November 2016 (UTC)
If each reviewer does only 10 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by each reviewer doing only 2 or 3 reviews a day - that's about 5 minutes work!
Let's get that over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.
Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work. Read about it at the new Monitoring the system section in the tutorial.
With some tweaks to their look, and some additional features, Page Curation and New Pages Feed could easily be the best tools for patrollers and reviewers. We've listed most of what what we need at the 2016 WMF Wishlist Survey. Voting starts on 28 November - please turn out to make our bid the Foundation's top priority. Please help also by improving or commenting on our Wishlist entry at the Community Wishlist Survey. Many other important user suggestions are listed at at Page Curation.
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Hi Jim,
Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Mainz Theodor-Heuss-Bruecke blaue Stunde Panorama.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on December 20, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-12-21. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich ( talk) 04:13, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
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New Page Reviewers are asked to be especially on the look out 08:00-20:00 UTC (that's local London time - check your USA and AUS times) on Thursday 8 December for new pages. The BBC together with Wikimedia UK is holding a large 12-hour editathon. Many new articles and drafts are expected. See BBC 100 Women 2016: How to join our edit-a-thon. Follow also on #100womenwiki, and please, don't bite the newbies :) ( user:Kudpung for NPR. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 23:55, 7 December 2016 (UTC))
This is our second request. The backlog is still growing. Your help is needed now - just a few minutes each day.
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নমস্কার রুদ্র! আগামী বছরের প্রথম দিকে (৭ ও ৮ই জানুয়ারী, ২০১৭ তারিখে) কলকাতা শহরে সকল বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়ানদের নিয়ে একটা মিনি মিডিয়া উইকি ট্রেনিং ও ট্রেন-দ্য-ট্রেনার কর্মশালা আয়োজনের পরিকল্পনা করা হয়েছে, যেখানে উপস্থিত সকল অংশগ্রহণকারীদের উইকিপিডিয়া ও উইকিমিডিয়া ফাউন্ডেশনের অন্যান্য প্রকল্পগুলিতে অবদান রাখা ও সম্পাদনা সংক্রান্ত বিভীন্ন বিষয়বস্তু নিয়ে আলোচনায় এনগেজ করা হবে। সম্মিলনের প্রসঙ্গে সেন্টার ফর ইন্টারনেট অ্যান্ড সোসাইটির কাছে প্রয়োজনীয় ফান্ডিঙের জন্য শীঘ্রই আবেদনও জানানো হবে। আগ্রহী থাকলে আপনাকে
এখানে সমর্থন জানাতে অনুরোধ করছি। এই কর্মশালা আপনার উপস্থিতি একান্তভাবেই কামনা করি। ধন্যবাদ। --
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On 1 January 2017, WikiCup 2017 (the 10th Annual WikiCup) will begin. This year we are trying something a little different – monetary prizes.
For the WC2017 the prizes will be as follows (amounts are based in US$ and will be awarded in the form of an online Amazon gift certificate):
Note: Monetary prizes are a one-year experiment for 2017 and may or may not be continued in the future. In order to be eligible to receive any of the prizes above, the competing Wikipedia account must have a valid/active email address.
After two years as a WikiCup judge, Figureskatingfan is stepping down. We thank her for her contributions as a WikiCup judge. We are pleased to announce that our newest judge is two-time WikiCup champion Cwmhiraeth.
The judges for the 2017 WikiCup are Godot13 ( talk · contribs · email), Cwmhiraeth ( talk · contribs), and Sturmvogel 66 ( talk · contribs · email).
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Hi Jim, can you please look into Lua error on this page? -- Muzammil ( talk) 19:09, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
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"And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold,
I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord."
Luke 2:10-11 (King James Version)
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Hello Jim Carter: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, GSS ( talk) 16:05, 24 December 2016 (UTC)
The Editor of the Week initiative has been recognizing editors since 2013 for their hard work and dedication. Editing Wikipedia can be disheartening and tedious at times; the weekly Editor of the Week award lets its recipients know that their positive behaviour and collaborative spirit is appreciated. The response from the honorees has been enthusiastic and thankful.
The list of nominees is running short, and so new nominations are needed for consideration. Have you come across someone in your editing circle who deserves a pat on the back for improving article prose regularly, making it easier to understand? Or perhaps someone has stepped in to mediate a contentious dispute, and did an excellent job. Do you know someone who hasn't received many accolades and is deserving of greater renown? Is there an editor who does lots of little tasks well, such as cleaning up citations?
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Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Taj Mahal (Edited).jpeg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on January 15, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-01-15. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich ( talk) 05:10, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
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Hi Jim,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Bubo bubo sibiricus - 01.JPG is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on February 1, 2017. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-02-01. — howcheng { chat} 01:41, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
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18:45, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
We now have 811 New Page Reviewers!
Most of us requested the user right at
PERM, expressing a wish to be able to do something about the huge backlog, but the chart on the right does not demonstrate any changes to the pre-user-right levels of October.
The backlog is still steadily growing at a rate of 150 a day or 4,650 a month. Only 20 reviews a day by each reviewer over the next few days would bring the backlog down to a managable level and the daily input can then be processed by each reviewer doing only 2 or 3 reviews a day - that's about 5 minutes work!
It didn't work in time to relax for the Xmas/New Year holidays. Let's see if we can achieve our goal before Easter, otherwise by Thanksgiving it will be closer to 70,000.
Remember that we are the only guardians of quality of new articles, we alone have to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged by non-Reviewer patrollers and that new authors are not being bitten.
This is even more important and extra vigilance is required considering Orangemoody, and
Kudpung is stepping down after 6 years as unofficial coordinator of New Page Patrolling/Reviewing. There is enough work for two people and two coords are now required. Details are at NPR Coordinators; nominate someone or nominate yourself. Date for the actual suffrage will be published later.
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Hi Jim,
Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Öxarárfoss, Parque Nacional de Þingvellir, Suðurland, Islandia, 2014-08-16, DD 029.JPG is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on February 20, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-02-20. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich ( talk) 23:56, 17 February 2017 (UTC)
Your last chance to nominate yourself or any New Page Reviewer, See Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Coordination. Elections begin Monday 20 February 23:59 UTC. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 08:17, 19 February 2017 (UTC)
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19:25, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
Voting for coordinators has now begun HERE and will continue through/to 23:59 UTC Monday 06 March. Please be sure to vote. Any registered, confirmed editor can vote. Nominations are now closed.
We now have 811 New Page Reviewers but despite numerous appeals for help, the backlog has NOT been significantly reduced.
If you asked for the New Page Reviewer right, please consider investing a bit of time - every little helps preventing spam and trash entering the mainspace and Google when the 'NO_INDEX' tags expire.
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Jim Carter, Thank you for your contributions to the Frances Abington page. I had one question regarding a line you placed in her bio in 2012 "She was also rumored that she would recite Shakespeare in Taverns at the age of 12 and for a short period of time was a prostitute to help her family in the hard times." I am trying to find the source of this information. I thought it might be in the Encyclopedia Britannica referenced later in the paragraph, but the version of Encyclopedia Britannica I have access to makes no mention of the prostitution (albeit it is a later edition than the one referenced). I realize this was from a few years back but any information that points me where you found that information would be helpful.
Best Wishes, Rickcurtiss ( talk) 02:55, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
Hello, most probably you have noticed that Environment of India has been selected as the article of the month. In March we'll collaboratively attempt to improve article. Please spend some time and help to improve this article. Regards. -- Tito Dutta ( talk) 17:39, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
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There is an important discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Editor Retention about possibly finding a way to salvage Single-purpose editors and transforming them into positive WP collaborators in the general mainspace. I'm sure you run in to many of them as you wander around WP. I'm also sure that every now and then one of the SPA editors rises above the crowd and seems worthy of more of your time and effort. Your personal insight and experience would be appreciated. WP:WER has become a relative ghost town (and I may be one of the few ghosts left in town) and User:Robert's idea may be just the boost the Project needs to revitalize. It's an opportunity for the Project to actually do something beyond handing out awards. I think Dennis Brown would like it. Please comment. Buster Seven Talk 14:26, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
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The Editor of the Week initiative has been recognizing editors since 2013 for their hard work and dedication. Editing Wikipedia can be disheartening and tedious at times; the weekly Editor of the Week award lets its recipients know that their positive behaviour and collaborative spirit is appreciated. The response from the honorees has been enthusiastic and thankful.
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20:09, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
Round 2 is over and 35 competitors have moved on to Round 3.
Round 2 saw three FAs (two by
Cas Liber (
submissions) and one by
Montanabw (
submissions)), four Featured Lists (with three by
Calvin999 (
submissions)), and 53 Good Articles (six by
Worm That Turned (
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Cwmhiraeth (
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MPJ-DK (
submissions)). Eleven Featured Pictures were promoted (six by
Adam Cuerden (
submissions) and five by
Godot13 (
submissions)). One Featured Portal, Featured Topic and Good Topic were also promoted. The DYK base point total was 1,135.
Cwmhiraeth (
submissions) scored 265 base points, while
The C of E (
submissions) and
MPJ-DK (
submissions) each scored 150 base points. Eleven ITN were promoted and 131 Good Article Reviews were conducted with
MPJ-DK (
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Cas Liber (
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I have left you a question at m:CentralNotice/Request/WikiConference_India_2016_Survey :) Jseddon (WMF) ( talk) 23:22, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
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15:42, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
Hello friend,
A multilingual national-level edit-a-thon is being conducted at this moment with an aim to create or improve Punjab-related articles. A community that will create or expand the most number of articles during this edit-a-thon contest will be awarded a trophy during WikiConference India 2016. Best contributors' recognition may also be considered. We need your help here. Please
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19:54, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.
You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on Akal Academy requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.
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 removed 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. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. — Constanstin 14:59, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
The
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I have created and cited the article Bagh Hussain Kamal for Punjab Edit Thon. Please add in list. Thanks.
--M J Adil 10:12, 30 July 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mjadil ( talk • contribs)
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21:48, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
Have created a page Dilbag Singh (boxer) can this be added in the Punjab edit-a-thon please advise. Thank you FITINDIA (talk) 10:59, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
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15:41, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
Hello dearest user, A very Happy Independence Day to you. 70 years and on let us pray for our country today! I too am an Indian! Varun FEB2003 I am Online 13:25, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
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Dear Friends & Wikipedians, Celebrate the world's biggest sporting festival on Wikipedia. The Rio Olympics Edit-a-thon aims to pay tribute to Indian athletes and sportsperson who represent India at Olympics. Please find more details here. The Athlete who represent their country at Olympics, often fail to attain their due recognition. They bring glory to the nation. Let's write articles on them, as a mark of tribute.
For every 20 articles created collectively, a tree will be planted. Similarly, when an editor completes 20 articles, a book will be awarded to him/her. Check the main page for more details. Thank you. Abhinav619 (sent using MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 16:54, 16 August 2016 (UTC), subscribe/unsubscribe)
Thanks a lot for being a co-ordinator. Please share your opinion here Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_India/Events/Punjab_Edit-a-thon#Result. -- Tito Dutta ( talk) 17:07, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
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18:07, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
Hi, it might not be the best idea to do the parameter replacement with AWB, because it'd take forever and the BRFA is in the works. In any case, you seem to have missed |iso_region=
, so we'll probably have to go over all of them again.
Jc86035 (
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re|Jc86035}}
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13:25, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
The BRFA is
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Thank you for joining the The future of NPP and AfC Work Group
There have been been recent discussions and some special task pages have been created. for your attention and input. Please visit the following pages to get up to speed and add your comments, particularly the straw polls and priority lists. Please also add these pages to your watchlist.
Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 10:39, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi. Thank you for your participation. Please complete your list of 10 priorities. The sooner all work group members have completed this task, the sooner the WMF will start doing something about it (or so they tell us). -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 04:12, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
This is a new page and you claim it's undergoing a major edit? Xx236 ( talk) 09:44, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
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Following up from the consensus reached here, the community will now establish the user right criteria. You may wish to participate in this discussion. -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 13:13, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
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16:42, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi Jim,
Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Yellow billed shrike with prey.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on November 1, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-11-01. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich ( talk) 14:09, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi, It's now been three weeks since we created the NPP Work Group and we are hoping for a dynamic push forward for the urgent updates and required improvements to the quality control of new pages.
We now have the attention of the WMF and their development team has made page patrolling a top priority. They are already working hard to address some of the major issues.
The success of this depends on our team being able to keep the developers supplied with the feedback they need - if we relax on this they will move on.
If you have not already done so, please complete your list of 10 preferences here as soon as possible from the list at [^[Wikipedia talk:The future of NPP and AfC/To do|To do]] - the WMF is waiting for our shortlist. Please note that No.8 (NOINDEX) has already been addressed.
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Hi, I’ve just been having another look at your entry at WP:ORCP. It may well be time for you to take a serious decision now. Let me know what you think. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 07:08, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
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17:39, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi Jim Carter,
The future of NPP and AfC:
Thanks. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 06:50, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
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16:18, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
The final round of the 2016 WikiCup is over. Congratulations to the 2016 WikiCup top three finalists:
In addition to recognizing the achievements of the top finishers and everyone who worked hard to make it to the final round, we also want to recognize those participants who were most productive in each of the WikiCup scoring categories:
Over the course of the 2016 WikiCup the following content was added to Wikipedia (only reporting on fixed value categories): 17 Featured Articles, 183 Good Articles, 8 Featured Lists, 87 Featured Pictures, 40 In The News, and 321 Good Article Reviews. Thank you to all the competitors for your hard work and what you have done to improve Wikipedia.-- MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 01:53, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
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The Challenge Series is a current drive on English Wikipedia to encourage article improvements and creations globally through a series of 50,000/10,000/1000 Challenges for different regions, countries and topics. All Wikipedia editors in good standing are invited to participate.
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15:33, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Jim Carter. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority 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 in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
Hello Jim Carter. Your account has been added to the "New page reviewers
" user group, allowing you to review new pages and mark them as
patrolled, tag them for maintenance issues, or in some cases, tag them for deletion. The list of articles awaiting review is located at the
New Pages Feed. New page reviewing is a vital function for policing the quality of the encylopedia, if you have not already done so, you must read the new tutorial at
New Pages Review, the linked guides and essays, and fully understand the various
deletion criteria. If you need more help or wish to discuss the process, please join or start a thread at
page reviewer talk.
The reviewer right does not change your status or how you can edit articles. If you no longer want this user right, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. In case of abuse or persistent inaccuracy of reviewing, the right can be revoked at any time by an administrator. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 01:19, 26 November 2016 (UTC)
If each reviewer does only 10 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by each reviewer doing only 2 or 3 reviews a day - that's about 5 minutes work!
Let's get that over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.
Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work. Read about it at the new Monitoring the system section in the tutorial.
With some tweaks to their look, and some additional features, Page Curation and New Pages Feed could easily be the best tools for patrollers and reviewers. We've listed most of what what we need at the 2016 WMF Wishlist Survey. Voting starts on 28 November - please turn out to make our bid the Foundation's top priority. Please help also by improving or commenting on our Wishlist entry at the Community Wishlist Survey. Many other important user suggestions are listed at at Page Curation.
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Hi Jim,
Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Mainz Theodor-Heuss-Bruecke blaue Stunde Panorama.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on December 20, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-12-21. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich ( talk) 04:13, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
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18:07, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
New Page Reviewers are asked to be especially on the look out 08:00-20:00 UTC (that's local London time - check your USA and AUS times) on Thursday 8 December for new pages. The BBC together with Wikimedia UK is holding a large 12-hour editathon. Many new articles and drafts are expected. See BBC 100 Women 2016: How to join our edit-a-thon. Follow also on #100womenwiki, and please, don't bite the newbies :) ( user:Kudpung for NPR. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 23:55, 7 December 2016 (UTC))
This is our second request. The backlog is still growing. Your help is needed now - just a few minutes each day.
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নমস্কার রুদ্র! আগামী বছরের প্রথম দিকে (৭ ও ৮ই জানুয়ারী, ২০১৭ তারিখে) কলকাতা শহরে সকল বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়ানদের নিয়ে একটা মিনি মিডিয়া উইকি ট্রেনিং ও ট্রেন-দ্য-ট্রেনার কর্মশালা আয়োজনের পরিকল্পনা করা হয়েছে, যেখানে উপস্থিত সকল অংশগ্রহণকারীদের উইকিপিডিয়া ও উইকিমিডিয়া ফাউন্ডেশনের অন্যান্য প্রকল্পগুলিতে অবদান রাখা ও সম্পাদনা সংক্রান্ত বিভীন্ন বিষয়বস্তু নিয়ে আলোচনায় এনগেজ করা হবে। সম্মিলনের প্রসঙ্গে সেন্টার ফর ইন্টারনেট অ্যান্ড সোসাইটির কাছে প্রয়োজনীয় ফান্ডিঙের জন্য শীঘ্রই আবেদনও জানানো হবে। আগ্রহী থাকলে আপনাকে
এখানে সমর্থন জানাতে অনুরোধ করছি। এই কর্মশালা আপনার উপস্থিতি একান্তভাবেই কামনা করি। ধন্যবাদ। --
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On 1 January 2017, WikiCup 2017 (the 10th Annual WikiCup) will begin. This year we are trying something a little different – monetary prizes.
For the WC2017 the prizes will be as follows (amounts are based in US$ and will be awarded in the form of an online Amazon gift certificate):
Note: Monetary prizes are a one-year experiment for 2017 and may or may not be continued in the future. In order to be eligible to receive any of the prizes above, the competing Wikipedia account must have a valid/active email address.
After two years as a WikiCup judge, Figureskatingfan is stepping down. We thank her for her contributions as a WikiCup judge. We are pleased to announce that our newest judge is two-time WikiCup champion Cwmhiraeth.
The judges for the 2017 WikiCup are Godot13 ( talk · contribs · email), Cwmhiraeth ( talk · contribs), and Sturmvogel 66 ( talk · contribs · email).
Signups are open now and will remain open until 5 February 2017. You can sign up here.
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Hello Jim Carter: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, North America 1000 15:30, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
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20:33, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
"And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold,
I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord."
Luke 2:10-11 (King James Version)
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Hello Jim Carter: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, GSS ( talk) 16:05, 24 December 2016 (UTC)
The Editor of the Week initiative has been recognizing editors since 2013 for their hard work and dedication. Editing Wikipedia can be disheartening and tedious at times; the weekly Editor of the Week award lets its recipients know that their positive behaviour and collaborative spirit is appreciated. The response from the honorees has been enthusiastic and thankful.
The list of nominees is running short, and so new nominations are needed for consideration. Have you come across someone in your editing circle who deserves a pat on the back for improving article prose regularly, making it easier to understand? Or perhaps someone has stepped in to mediate a contentious dispute, and did an excellent job. Do you know someone who hasn't received many accolades and is deserving of greater renown? Is there an editor who does lots of little tasks well, such as cleaning up citations?
Please help us thank editors who display sustained patterns of excellence, working tirelessly in the background out of the spotlight, by submitting your nomination for Editor of the Week today!
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Hi Jim,
Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Taj Mahal (Edited).jpeg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on January 15, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-01-15. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich ( talk) 05:10, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
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Hi Jim,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Bubo bubo sibiricus - 01.JPG is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on February 1, 2017. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-02-01. — howcheng { chat} 01:41, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
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18:45, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
We now have 811 New Page Reviewers!
Most of us requested the user right at
PERM, expressing a wish to be able to do something about the huge backlog, but the chart on the right does not demonstrate any changes to the pre-user-right levels of October.
The backlog is still steadily growing at a rate of 150 a day or 4,650 a month. Only 20 reviews a day by each reviewer over the next few days would bring the backlog down to a managable level and the daily input can then be processed by each reviewer doing only 2 or 3 reviews a day - that's about 5 minutes work!
It didn't work in time to relax for the Xmas/New Year holidays. Let's see if we can achieve our goal before Easter, otherwise by Thanksgiving it will be closer to 70,000.
Remember that we are the only guardians of quality of new articles, we alone have to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged by non-Reviewer patrollers and that new authors are not being bitten.
This is even more important and extra vigilance is required considering Orangemoody, and
Kudpung is stepping down after 6 years as unofficial coordinator of New Page Patrolling/Reviewing. There is enough work for two people and two coords are now required. Details are at NPR Coordinators; nominate someone or nominate yourself. Date for the actual suffrage will be published later.
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18:06, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi Jim,
Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Öxarárfoss, Parque Nacional de Þingvellir, Suðurland, Islandia, 2014-08-16, DD 029.JPG is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on February 20, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-02-20. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich ( talk) 23:56, 17 February 2017 (UTC)
Your last chance to nominate yourself or any New Page Reviewer, See Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Coordination. Elections begin Monday 20 February 23:59 UTC. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 08:17, 19 February 2017 (UTC)
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19:25, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
Voting for coordinators has now begun HERE and will continue through/to 23:59 UTC Monday 06 March. Please be sure to vote. Any registered, confirmed editor can vote. Nominations are now closed.
We now have 811 New Page Reviewers but despite numerous appeals for help, the backlog has NOT been significantly reduced.
If you asked for the New Page Reviewer right, please consider investing a bit of time - every little helps preventing spam and trash entering the mainspace and Google when the 'NO_INDEX' tags expire.
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Voting for coordinators has now begun HERE and will continue through/to 23:59 UTC Monday 06 March. The coordinators will do their best for for the advancement of the improvement of NPP and AfC and generally keep tracks on the development of those things. Coordinators have no additional or special user benefits, but they will be 'go to' people and will try to keep discussions in the right places. This very much involves this project too, especially with growing renewed interest around the site about what WP:ACTRIAL was all about.
Please be sure to vote. Any registered, confirmed editor can vote. Nominations are now closed.
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