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Welcome to the sixth newsletter from the Growth team!
The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.
The Growth team has been working on features to increase new editor retention for the last seven months. We have made a lot of progress and learned a lot, and we've just finished planning for our next three months. During the next three months, we're going to focus on iterations of the help panel and the newcomer homepage. We have decided not to start the engagement emails project, because we think that we will be able to do better work by improving the projects we have already started. Specifically, these are our team goals:
We have recently decided on the specifications for an initial version that we can deploy and iterate on:
We're currently running live user tests on this configuration. Future work will include adapting the homepage for mobile, working on a task recommendation module, and considering how to encourage newcomers to visit their homepage.
During the last month, the help panel was deployed on Vietnamese Wikipedia, adding it to Czech and Korean Wikipedias.As of 2019-03-14:
We have been analyzing the data around usage, and we'll be publishing numbers in the coming weeks. At a high level, we see at least some users are being helped by the panel, with many clicking on links, running searches, and asking questions. We do not yet see any problems that have arisen from the help panel. Therefore, we think that the help panel is generally a positive feature – though data is still coming that will allow us to see its numerical impact. If other wikis are interested in using the help panel, please contact us on our team's talk page, in the language of your choice.
Over the past month, we have iterated on the help panel to take into account the usage patterns we are seeing. You can see in the accompanying image how the help panel currently looks.
We want to see whether users find the "search" useful. If so, we may spend time on improving search results. We're also looking forward to learning whether exposing the help panel in "read" mode in more namespaces will increase usage.
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Palerang Council is now part of Queanbeyan–Palerang Regional Council.-- Grahame ( talk) 06:23, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Australian_historic_places - the big problem is assessment against a project - the talk pages of NSW are in general still a real mess. As much as you may wish to ignore that part of the process - Grahamec and a few others try to to keep up with you - and really deserve some comment as well JarrahTree 07:31, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
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You have led, coded, categorised, and provided outstanding coordination that resulted in the development of thousands of articles across multiple Australian states and territories and in good humour and with much diligence! Thank you! Rangasyd ( talk) 15:03, 21 March 2019 (UTC) |
Thanks for pointing out the 'request for photos' page. I will take a look. I am more interested in getting out and about than actually taking photos but the photos give me a sense of purpose. I still have lots of heritage photos to do. Col Collywolly ( talk) 21:31, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
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Marrangaroo, really ? Is there another to confuse ? Dave Rave ( talk)
You are hereby proclaimed "World Grand Master of Lists" by one who knows a bit about list making and who knows some prolific list makers. If the alleged "heart" icon appeared anywhere on my user page, as suggested at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WikiLove, a fitting tangible memento would have been minted to mark the occasion. Collywolly ( talk) 21:36, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
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Thanks for your help and advice. As you see, there was a Wikilove tab on your user page on my PC. Collywolly ( talk) 05:18, 25 March 2019 (UTC) |
I noticed that you are scheduled to conduct a Wikipedia Hack-a-Thon here at the ANU in Canberra on 3-4 April. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:00, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
Back in 2015 you started a new article on Maryborough School of Arts, but might have missed that there was an older article on the same topic at Maryborough School of Arts building which was started in 2013. Given your expertise in the area, I wonder if you might be in a position to merge those articles? Klbrain ( talk) 16:35, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
for your really great cleanup of the Australian welcome lamington shemozzle - your effort in the cleanup is much appreciated. as for those of us using it (the oz welcome image of lamington) and not realising that it was a dubious image, well goes to show... JarrahTree 02:48, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
Hi Kerry,
Congrats on your good work on Jupiter Mosman.
His article led me to Duncan McIntyre (explorer), where I discovered an anomaly in the Cooper Creek Camp section, which I have marked with strikeout and Who? tag. I thought you might like to rise to the challenge of fixing it. Cheers, John. Downsize43 ( talk) 03:29, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
"LEICHHARDT SEARCH EXPEDITION".
Illustrated Sydney News. Vol. II, , no. 25. New South Wales, Australia. 16 June 1866. p. 14. Retrieved 10 April 2019 – via National Library of Australia.{{
cite news}}
: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (
link)
Enjoy! Kerry ( talk) 05:54, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
@ Collywolly: This is a demonstration of me pinging you. Kerry ( talk) 01:28, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
Category:Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame inductees, which you created, has been nominated for conversion into a list. 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. RevelationDirect ( talk) 02:16, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
hi Kerry Raymond, thanks for your recent thanks involving Julian Hooper, i created the article after buying a Hooper Dunedin Public Art Gallery art catalogue from a local charity shop and confirming that WP didnt have an entry, its funny where an article can start from...
Coolabahapple (
talk) 04:25, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
Did VEFriendly quit working last Thursday? Doc Taxon has reported that the German Wikipedia's sandbox page stopped being editable in the visual mode, and it looks like that's when it happened. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 18:49, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
Welcome to the seventh newsletter from the Growth team!
The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.
Like the other Growth team features, this will be deployed in a controlled experiment, in which half of newcomers will have access to their homepage and half will not. Users with the feature will be able to access it by clicking their username at the top of their browser, and it will only be available on desktop -- not mobile. Experienced users who want to see their homepage will be able to turn it on in their preferences.
Wikis receiving the newcomer homepage can expect these things:
The most important piece developed for the homepage over the last month is the "start module", which gives newcomers clear actions to take when they are new: add/confirm their email, go through a tutorial, start their user page. We learned about the need for this module from user tests last month. The next priorities for the newcomer homepage are:
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16:19, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
I see there was some discussion about where the cement for Sydney Harbour Bridge came from and whether the University of Tasmania is a reliable source. Of course it is. There is a follow-up blog post on www.kandoshistory.com called "Fake History". It explains how an error came about (that Railton provided the cement for SHB) and how it was corrected (Kandos provided the cement for SHB). I hope this satisfies. Colleen
You've submitted an excellent analysis regarding the commonscat proposal. Thank you. - Sitush ( talk) 08:11, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for the tip about Trove citations. It is almost too easy to use. Makes one want to cite, cite, cite.
Coincidentally, I was just going to contact you to mention that the articles on The Gunnery, Woolloomooloo and HMAS Mindari are about the same building. I found the Trove article when looking for something more to say about The Gunnery, for which I took a photo yesterday. It was interesting going to Woolloomooloo as I have never been there before, and then walking up a long flight of steps to Potts Point to take another photo. see Category:55_Victoria_Street,_Potts_Point.
Collywolly ( talk) 02:06, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
Wikimapia has a nice map of the spiral http://wikimapia.org/4786050/Bethungra-rail-spiral though it omits the gravel road (to Bethungra dam) from where some of the Trip Advisor pics were taken. What's the proper way to appropriate this image? Doug butler ( talk) 04:36, 12 May 2019 (UTC) P.S. familiar image?
[http://wikimapia.org/4786050/Bethungra-rail-spiral Bethungra rail spiral] from Wikimapia with [http://wikimapia.org/terms_reference.html CC-BY-SA-3.0 licence]
I find it's easy to get images knocked back at Commons on the grounds of copyright when the source URL doesn't mention the licence, so hence the explicit inclusion of the site-wide licence. As for TripAdvisor, there is nothing I can see that suggests there is any Creative Commons licensing (or similar), so no joy there. Kerry ( talk) 05:17, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi Kerry, thanks for noticing my edits in rolling out the Template:cite NSW Parliament - not only does it fix link rot now, but it should make it easier to fix when they change the url again as did in Victoria. As the Queensland former members has a similar url structure https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/members/former/bio?id=#### I will implement a similar template for Queensland once I have figured out how to automate the process.
Like you I love Trove, it is amazing to have access to historical records that means research that would have involved vast time pouring through old papers can now be done quickly and easily. It is similarly brilliant in being able to copy & paste a well formatted & complete wikipedia citation. On that note, I have just noticed that there are a few errors in the way it generates the links to the newspapers. Some are as simple as a miscapitalisation which is easily fixed by a redirect. Others however are more problematc, notably the Daily Telegraph, which links the half dozen or so Australian papers to the British paper & the Australian which links the 1824 paper to the current paper. My watchlist showed that User:Certes has an automated process for fixing the links to The Daily Telegraph so I have reached out to them to see if they can help fix the Australian as well. I am sure there are issues arising from wikipedia's end too, such as people creating pages under unexpected names, moving articles & disambiguation pages etc.
Do you know how we can work with people at Trove to keep things together ? Cheers Find bruce ( talk) 02:47, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
I think I am getting the hang of AWB, through an iterative process better targeting my list and reducing the extent of manual changes. One thing that occurs to me for Trove is that categorising existing pages & redirects should make them easier to find and refer to. I'm thinking something like Category:Newspapers on Trove
, and for the redirects sub-categories Category:Redirects from alternative names of newspapers on Trove
and Category:Redirects from miscapitalisations of newspapers on Trove
The latter 2 whilst descriptive are a bit clunky, so happy to hear if you have any better suggestions.
Find bruce (
talk) 02:26, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi Kerry, I noticed that you do a lot of good work in Queensland-related articles! I thought you might be interested in this ANI report about the user who's been creating a lot of empty "History" sections, copyright violations, and other problems. I guess you're fairly familiar with them, as I can see you've been helping to clean up after them. Not asking you to do anything, just thought I'd let you know... -- IamNotU ( talk) 21:43, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
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Welcome to a special newsletter from the Growth team! This special newsletter is not about Wikimedia Foundation Growth team projects. Instead, it is a call for submissions for the Community Growth space at Wikimania 2019. We think that many people who receive this newsletter may have something valuable to contribute to this space at Wikimania. We haven't translated the newsletter, because Wikimania's language is English.
Please see below for the message from the organizers of the Community Growth space at Wikimania.
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Wikimania 2019 is organized into 19 “ spaces”, which are all accepting proposals for sessions. This message comes from the team organizing the Community Growth space.
Since you are interested b Growth team projects, and potentially involved in welcoming newcomers initiatives on your wiki, we would like to invite you to submit a proposal to the Community Growth space because of the actions you’ve done around newcomers on wikis. The deadline for submission is June 1. See below for Community Growth submission topics and session formats. Topics and sessions have to be in English.
In the Community Growth space, we will come together for discussions, presentations, and workshops that address these questions:
Recommended topics: please see this link for the list for the list of recommended topics. If you do not plan to submit a proposal, you can also suggest additional topics here. If your topic does not fit into our space, remember that there are 18 other spaces that could welcome you sharing your knowledge and perspective.
Types of session. We prefer sessions that are participatory, interactive, promote conversations, and give a voice to parts of our movement that are heard less often. Please see this link for the list of recommended session formats.
Poster submissions. Posters are also a good way to introduce a topic, or show some results of an action. Please consider submitting one!
More information about the Community Growth space, topics, and submission formats is available on the proposal page.
Please submit your proposal. The reviews will happen at the beginning of June.
If you have questions about Wikimania in general, please ask them on the Wikimania wiki.
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They were delicious. At this stage I'm struggling on with the html about which I know little; but it's coming to me. When I'm in trouble I'll try help but hopefully if that fails I can contact you. I'm impressed by your work on heritage databases. Sarimarais ( talk) 01:00, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
incomplete tags at all? JarrahTree 13:53, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I have visited 3 heritage houses where I could only photograph the entrance driveway as I did not want to encroach on private property. Would you use the photos in these circumstances, or do you think it is better to leave the articles without a photo. Perhaps I could just make a not on the talk page regarding the situation. Collywolly ( talk) 07:28, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
Ta for the advice re referencing my Hugh Scott submission. I'm pleased the reviewer is keeping me honest - a second look at the references I have has lead to a new, and exciting, discovery. Sarimarais ( talk) 00:03, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
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Hi Kerry, I'm looking forward to meeting you next month at the Wikimedia conferences. Our paths frequently cross here on Wikipedia, it will be good to say hello in person. Oronsay ( talk) 05:21, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
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Hello, I'm glad to see you found a source for the name of Kuluin. I noticed I've been working on quite a few of the same articles you do in the last few days. It may seem I'm removing content left and right, and I wanted to explain. There's an IP editor who's been block-evading, adding (and re-adding!) copyright violations, empty sections with expand tags, and unsourced material to articles. Unsurprisingly for someone who edits this way, they've refused to communicate, ignoring the messages on their talk pages asking them to stop. It's one thing to initially add copyrighted text. It's quite another to remove a large pink template explaining the problem.
This has been going on for over six months, and I'm one of many people trying to clean up the mess. You may see the effects of this more than most editors as you and the IP are both interested in Australia. With luck, they'll eventually get bored and find something not-Wikipedia to do, and we'll be done with all this. Cheers, BlackcurrantTea ( talk) 14:39, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
Hello, I am
Beliknol. I would like to explain my edits to the page
Alexander Prokhorov. I agree that he was born in Australia, however this information in accordance with wikipedia guidelines, shouldn't be mentioned in the first paragraph. "Ethnicity, religion, or sexuality should generally not be in the lead unless it is relevant to the subject's notability. Similarly, previous nationalities or the place of birth should not be mentioned in the lead unless they are relevant to the subject's notability." -
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Biography —Preceding
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Welcome to the eighth newsletter from the Growth team!
The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.
May was a busy month, and we apologize for a slightly late newsletter.
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Hello Kerry Raymond, mcnuggets is the right name for silver? Regards -- Serols ( talk) 11:23, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
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Just discovered {{ VEFriendly}}. Many thanks for building it. Solves a critical issue we at WP:Videowiki have been trying to address. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 15:54, 5 July 2019 (UTC) |
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Archive 5 | ← | Archive 9 | Archive 10 | Archive 11 | Archive 12 | Archive 13 | → | Archive 15 |
Welcome to the sixth newsletter from the Growth team!
The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.
The Growth team has been working on features to increase new editor retention for the last seven months. We have made a lot of progress and learned a lot, and we've just finished planning for our next three months. During the next three months, we're going to focus on iterations of the help panel and the newcomer homepage. We have decided not to start the engagement emails project, because we think that we will be able to do better work by improving the projects we have already started. Specifically, these are our team goals:
We have recently decided on the specifications for an initial version that we can deploy and iterate on:
We're currently running live user tests on this configuration. Future work will include adapting the homepage for mobile, working on a task recommendation module, and considering how to encourage newcomers to visit their homepage.
During the last month, the help panel was deployed on Vietnamese Wikipedia, adding it to Czech and Korean Wikipedias.As of 2019-03-14:
We have been analyzing the data around usage, and we'll be publishing numbers in the coming weeks. At a high level, we see at least some users are being helped by the panel, with many clicking on links, running searches, and asking questions. We do not yet see any problems that have arisen from the help panel. Therefore, we think that the help panel is generally a positive feature – though data is still coming that will allow us to see its numerical impact. If other wikis are interested in using the help panel, please contact us on our team's talk page, in the language of your choice.
Over the past month, we have iterated on the help panel to take into account the usage patterns we are seeing. You can see in the accompanying image how the help panel currently looks.
We want to see whether users find the "search" useful. If so, we may spend time on improving search results. We're also looking forward to learning whether exposing the help panel in "read" mode in more namespaces will increase usage.
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18:19, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
Palerang Council is now part of Queanbeyan–Palerang Regional Council.-- Grahame ( talk) 06:23, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Australian_historic_places - the big problem is assessment against a project - the talk pages of NSW are in general still a real mess. As much as you may wish to ignore that part of the process - Grahamec and a few others try to to keep up with you - and really deserve some comment as well JarrahTree 07:31, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
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Barnstar of National Merit |
You have led, coded, categorised, and provided outstanding coordination that resulted in the development of thousands of articles across multiple Australian states and territories and in good humour and with much diligence! Thank you! Rangasyd ( talk) 15:03, 21 March 2019 (UTC) |
Thanks for pointing out the 'request for photos' page. I will take a look. I am more interested in getting out and about than actually taking photos but the photos give me a sense of purpose. I still have lots of heritage photos to do. Col Collywolly ( talk) 21:31, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
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-- Megalibrarygirl ( talk) 20:33, 22 March 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Marrangaroo, really ? Is there another to confuse ? Dave Rave ( talk)
You are hereby proclaimed "World Grand Master of Lists" by one who knows a bit about list making and who knows some prolific list makers. If the alleged "heart" icon appeared anywhere on my user page, as suggested at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WikiLove, a fitting tangible memento would have been minted to mark the occasion. Collywolly ( talk) 21:36, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
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Thanks for your help and advice. As you see, there was a Wikilove tab on your user page on my PC. Collywolly ( talk) 05:18, 25 March 2019 (UTC) |
I noticed that you are scheduled to conduct a Wikipedia Hack-a-Thon here at the ANU in Canberra on 3-4 April. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:00, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
Back in 2015 you started a new article on Maryborough School of Arts, but might have missed that there was an older article on the same topic at Maryborough School of Arts building which was started in 2013. Given your expertise in the area, I wonder if you might be in a position to merge those articles? Klbrain ( talk) 16:35, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
for your really great cleanup of the Australian welcome lamington shemozzle - your effort in the cleanup is much appreciated. as for those of us using it (the oz welcome image of lamington) and not realising that it was a dubious image, well goes to show... JarrahTree 02:48, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
Hi Kerry,
Congrats on your good work on Jupiter Mosman.
His article led me to Duncan McIntyre (explorer), where I discovered an anomaly in the Cooper Creek Camp section, which I have marked with strikeout and Who? tag. I thought you might like to rise to the challenge of fixing it. Cheers, John. Downsize43 ( talk) 03:29, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
"LEICHHARDT SEARCH EXPEDITION".
Illustrated Sydney News. Vol. II, , no. 25. New South Wales, Australia. 16 June 1866. p. 14. Retrieved 10 April 2019 – via National Library of Australia.{{
cite news}}
: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (
link)
Enjoy! Kerry ( talk) 05:54, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
@ Collywolly: This is a demonstration of me pinging you. Kerry ( talk) 01:28, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
Category:Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame inductees, which you created, has been nominated for conversion into a list. 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. RevelationDirect ( talk) 02:16, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
hi Kerry Raymond, thanks for your recent thanks involving Julian Hooper, i created the article after buying a Hooper Dunedin Public Art Gallery art catalogue from a local charity shop and confirming that WP didnt have an entry, its funny where an article can start from...
Coolabahapple (
talk) 04:25, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
Did VEFriendly quit working last Thursday? Doc Taxon has reported that the German Wikipedia's sandbox page stopped being editable in the visual mode, and it looks like that's when it happened. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 18:49, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
Welcome to the seventh newsletter from the Growth team!
The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.
Like the other Growth team features, this will be deployed in a controlled experiment, in which half of newcomers will have access to their homepage and half will not. Users with the feature will be able to access it by clicking their username at the top of their browser, and it will only be available on desktop -- not mobile. Experienced users who want to see their homepage will be able to turn it on in their preferences.
Wikis receiving the newcomer homepage can expect these things:
The most important piece developed for the homepage over the last month is the "start module", which gives newcomers clear actions to take when they are new: add/confirm their email, go through a tutorial, start their user page. We learned about the need for this module from user tests last month. The next priorities for the newcomer homepage are:
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16:19, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
I see there was some discussion about where the cement for Sydney Harbour Bridge came from and whether the University of Tasmania is a reliable source. Of course it is. There is a follow-up blog post on www.kandoshistory.com called "Fake History". It explains how an error came about (that Railton provided the cement for SHB) and how it was corrected (Kandos provided the cement for SHB). I hope this satisfies. Colleen
You've submitted an excellent analysis regarding the commonscat proposal. Thank you. - Sitush ( talk) 08:11, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for the tip about Trove citations. It is almost too easy to use. Makes one want to cite, cite, cite.
Coincidentally, I was just going to contact you to mention that the articles on The Gunnery, Woolloomooloo and HMAS Mindari are about the same building. I found the Trove article when looking for something more to say about The Gunnery, for which I took a photo yesterday. It was interesting going to Woolloomooloo as I have never been there before, and then walking up a long flight of steps to Potts Point to take another photo. see Category:55_Victoria_Street,_Potts_Point.
Collywolly ( talk) 02:06, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
Wikimapia has a nice map of the spiral http://wikimapia.org/4786050/Bethungra-rail-spiral though it omits the gravel road (to Bethungra dam) from where some of the Trip Advisor pics were taken. What's the proper way to appropriate this image? Doug butler ( talk) 04:36, 12 May 2019 (UTC) P.S. familiar image?
[http://wikimapia.org/4786050/Bethungra-rail-spiral Bethungra rail spiral] from Wikimapia with [http://wikimapia.org/terms_reference.html CC-BY-SA-3.0 licence]
I find it's easy to get images knocked back at Commons on the grounds of copyright when the source URL doesn't mention the licence, so hence the explicit inclusion of the site-wide licence. As for TripAdvisor, there is nothing I can see that suggests there is any Creative Commons licensing (or similar), so no joy there. Kerry ( talk) 05:17, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi Kerry, thanks for noticing my edits in rolling out the Template:cite NSW Parliament - not only does it fix link rot now, but it should make it easier to fix when they change the url again as did in Victoria. As the Queensland former members has a similar url structure https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/members/former/bio?id=#### I will implement a similar template for Queensland once I have figured out how to automate the process.
Like you I love Trove, it is amazing to have access to historical records that means research that would have involved vast time pouring through old papers can now be done quickly and easily. It is similarly brilliant in being able to copy & paste a well formatted & complete wikipedia citation. On that note, I have just noticed that there are a few errors in the way it generates the links to the newspapers. Some are as simple as a miscapitalisation which is easily fixed by a redirect. Others however are more problematc, notably the Daily Telegraph, which links the half dozen or so Australian papers to the British paper & the Australian which links the 1824 paper to the current paper. My watchlist showed that User:Certes has an automated process for fixing the links to The Daily Telegraph so I have reached out to them to see if they can help fix the Australian as well. I am sure there are issues arising from wikipedia's end too, such as people creating pages under unexpected names, moving articles & disambiguation pages etc.
Do you know how we can work with people at Trove to keep things together ? Cheers Find bruce ( talk) 02:47, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
I think I am getting the hang of AWB, through an iterative process better targeting my list and reducing the extent of manual changes. One thing that occurs to me for Trove is that categorising existing pages & redirects should make them easier to find and refer to. I'm thinking something like Category:Newspapers on Trove
, and for the redirects sub-categories Category:Redirects from alternative names of newspapers on Trove
and Category:Redirects from miscapitalisations of newspapers on Trove
The latter 2 whilst descriptive are a bit clunky, so happy to hear if you have any better suggestions.
Find bruce (
talk) 02:26, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi Kerry, I noticed that you do a lot of good work in Queensland-related articles! I thought you might be interested in this ANI report about the user who's been creating a lot of empty "History" sections, copyright violations, and other problems. I guess you're fairly familiar with them, as I can see you've been helping to clean up after them. Not asking you to do anything, just thought I'd let you know... -- IamNotU ( talk) 21:43, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
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Since you are interested b Growth team projects, and potentially involved in welcoming newcomers initiatives on your wiki, we would like to invite you to submit a proposal to the Community Growth space because of the actions you’ve done around newcomers on wikis. The deadline for submission is June 1. See below for Community Growth submission topics and session formats. Topics and sessions have to be in English.
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They were delicious. At this stage I'm struggling on with the html about which I know little; but it's coming to me. When I'm in trouble I'll try help but hopefully if that fails I can contact you. I'm impressed by your work on heritage databases. Sarimarais ( talk) 01:00, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
incomplete tags at all? JarrahTree 13:53, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I have visited 3 heritage houses where I could only photograph the entrance driveway as I did not want to encroach on private property. Would you use the photos in these circumstances, or do you think it is better to leave the articles without a photo. Perhaps I could just make a not on the talk page regarding the situation. Collywolly ( talk) 07:28, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
Ta for the advice re referencing my Hugh Scott submission. I'm pleased the reviewer is keeping me honest - a second look at the references I have has lead to a new, and exciting, discovery. Sarimarais ( talk) 00:03, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
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Hi Kerry, I'm looking forward to meeting you next month at the Wikimedia conferences. Our paths frequently cross here on Wikipedia, it will be good to say hello in person. Oronsay ( talk) 05:21, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
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Hello, I'm glad to see you found a source for the name of Kuluin. I noticed I've been working on quite a few of the same articles you do in the last few days. It may seem I'm removing content left and right, and I wanted to explain. There's an IP editor who's been block-evading, adding (and re-adding!) copyright violations, empty sections with expand tags, and unsourced material to articles. Unsurprisingly for someone who edits this way, they've refused to communicate, ignoring the messages on their talk pages asking them to stop. It's one thing to initially add copyrighted text. It's quite another to remove a large pink template explaining the problem.
This has been going on for over six months, and I'm one of many people trying to clean up the mess. You may see the effects of this more than most editors as you and the IP are both interested in Australia. With luck, they'll eventually get bored and find something not-Wikipedia to do, and we'll be done with all this. Cheers, BlackcurrantTea ( talk) 14:39, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
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Beliknol. I would like to explain my edits to the page
Alexander Prokhorov. I agree that he was born in Australia, however this information in accordance with wikipedia guidelines, shouldn't be mentioned in the first paragraph. "Ethnicity, religion, or sexuality should generally not be in the lead unless it is relevant to the subject's notability. Similarly, previous nationalities or the place of birth should not be mentioned in the lead unless they are relevant to the subject's notability." -
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Hello Kerry Raymond, mcnuggets is the right name for silver? Regards -- Serols ( talk) 11:23, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
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Just discovered {{ VEFriendly}}. Many thanks for building it. Solves a critical issue we at WP:Videowiki have been trying to address. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 15:54, 5 July 2019 (UTC) |
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Hi Kerry, I put up a new message on Brisbane talk page regarding changing the skyline image which dates from 2012 to one from 2019 which I think is much better. Your thoughts are welcome there-- Caltraser55 ( talk) 05:01, 14 July 2019 (UTC)