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Do you have any sources that say Imperial is the official word? Given the empire's renaming and it not being the only imperial power, I thought German would be more appropriate. -- Droyselich ( talk) 03:45, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Kirill Lokshin, did you and the rest of the Arbcom mailing list receive my email of April 24? I asked to be unblocked. I was a contributor of solid content for five or six years before I was perma-blocked without warning with a button click falsely labeling me a sockpuppet by an administrator that didn't explain anything.
I was proud of my contributions to Wikipedia and would like to do so again. As you look into my case (as I expect you to, given your position as arbitrator) do not accept as fact any accusation against me without allowing me to respond. I have endured many many lies and WP:AN/ANI mob attacks in which I was muted and my defenses erased, resulting in damage to my reputation as an editor. Further, do not accept the assertion of Thryduulf at my talkpage that I am on an "appeal timer," because he has no authority to do any such thing and there is nothing in policy that allows him this, as well his purporting timing is unevidenced and suspect.
Answer my email or unblock my talkpage and we'll be able to communicate about this important matter. Colton Cosmic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.195.207.162 ( talk) 11:09, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
Given the seriousness of this Rfc at User talk:The Wordsmith/GMORFC the ongoing threats to sanction participating editors seem to ring hollow in light of supervising admin The Wordsmith's astonishing comments regarding ArbCom members. The comment, which by any definition "casts aspersions," raises a number of questions that call for immediate answers, given the self-created deadline for comments.
The questions, which I hereby put directly to The Wordsmith, are as follows:
To all concerned: I will post the above subsection on the Talk pages of current ArbCom members, per The Wordsmith's declaration, despite substantial objections, that they will be locking down the page a few hours from this posting, making further timely discussion on this page impossible. Jus da fax 11:30, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
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I saw you create the Meetup about Safe and Healthy at Work. I thought it was super interesting and I wanted to propose 3 topics that are part of the articles needing to be improved in the Wikipedia:WikiProject South Africa/Wikipedia Primary School/Articles list. I was thinking of Fire safety, hand washing and home safety. The first is an obvious one. The second makes sense for all the medical profession and is a basic. The third is less obvious... but ... as an independent worker working from home... well... for many workers, home is actually their workplace.
But when I tried to add them to the request system (first time I use it...), only Fire safety appears on this list. I can't have the others appear in the list of topics that could be worked upon during that edit-a-thon. Help !!! thanks Anthere ( talk)
Hi. All right. I go ask him for support :)
By the way... we had a meeting about the Primary School project during Wikimania, during which I expressed my wish to find solutions so that a bunch of articles considered of prime importance to primary school in South Africa, be improved in the next few months. Discott suggested that I contact editors involved in the various meetings, either in UK, or in New York or in Washington to see if some articles in my list could be the object of attention during locally held edit-a-thons. About half of the articles are pretty specific to South Africa but the other half are very generic articles (well, such as Youth culture or Fiber or Bullying. Various topics are covered, sometimes very well, sometimes not. Do you think you could help us to improve some of the articles on the list as part of some edit-a-thons organised by Wikimedia in DC ? Thanks Anthere ( talk)
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I have followed your suggestion and invited 4 or 5 more members, i know not if they will join. Additionally is editing the template to add parameters as easy as it looks? just adding a |Roman= ? Iazyges ( talk) 17:16, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
|Roman= ?
syntax is for when the template is used on article talk pages; for example, if the talk page currently has {{WikiProject Military history|class=B|European=yes}}
, you'll be able to tag the article for the Roman military history task force by changing it to {{WikiProject Military history|class=B|European=yes|Roman=yes}}
.|Roman= ?
parameter, that's considerably more complicated; however, it isn't something you'd need to deal with directly, as the project coordinators can make those changes once the task force has graduated from the incubator.
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Hello Kirill, I was keeping an eye on today's WikiSalon scheduled for 7pm in DuPont Circle in DC because I happen to be in the area. Based on your recent changes, is it no longer happening? Best, Airplaneman ✈ 15:44, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
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Hi! I just noticed this edit. No more salons? :-( -- MZMcBride ( talk) 01:42, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Michael Hardy/Evidence#Please enforce the word limits in the interest of fairness -- Guy Macon ( talk) 02:50, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
Hi Kirill, I emailed you, did you get it?♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:06, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
Thanks. I'm currently planning Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Golden Hollywood Contest for December/Christmas period. I don't know if one of the US chapters would be interested in funding that one. It should be an enjoyable one to do!♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:42, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
During a recent lengthy discussion on the WP:FAC talkpage, several ideas were put forward as to how this procedure could be improved, particularly in making it more user-friendly towards first-time nominees. The promotion rate for first-timers at FAC is depressingly low – around 16 percent – which is a cause for concern. To help remedy this, Mike Christie and I, with the co-operation of the FAC coordinators, have devised a voluntary mentoring scheme, in which newcomers will guided by more experienced editors through the stages of preparation and submission of their articles. The general format of the scheme is explained in more detail on Wikipedia: Mentoring for FAC, which also includes a list of editors who have indicated that they are prepared to act as mentors.
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Kirill, you seem to be a quite experienced Wiki user so I was wondering if you had some tips for improving my articles. I have a Start-, C- and B-class article in Patrick D. Fleming, Cecil E. Harris and Albert O. Vorse Jr.. The B-class was rated higher seemingly because standards are more lax in the Aviation Portal than Military History, but I'd definitely like to hear what I can do to improve e.g. referencing for the Harris article—or really just any aspect that could use some shining. Thanks for any help you can render! Cheers, Finktron ( talk) 11:20, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
As an incubator tier task force, we reached 4 active members and 1 sporadic, with one that is retired but may return, I followed the instructions of Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators and made all of the necessary categories, an infobox and the templates, I was wondering who I should ask to include us in the talk page template, I have already added the baseline of |Roman= to the template, but have not touched the underlying code to make it work. Thanks. Iazyges ( talk) 00:02, 26 August 2016 (UTC)
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Hey I just wanted to ask how adding the background code for the MILHIST/doc template was going because it's been a while. Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 21:37, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
Hi, I wondered if the DC chapter would be interested in helping finance this and setting up a US equivalent to reach 10,000 article improvements for the US, with WM funded state contests to reinforce production? If you see the list of 1527 articles to date in just 6-7 weeks, can you see this working for the US too? I think it's just what wikipedia needs, some sort of central motivation on here to make each and every basic article edit count.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:08, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
I don't know how much I can contribute as it's really time consuming running and planning these sorts of things but I could certainly help towards setting up something for the US, but we'd need people to commit to running it in the US I think. I think the way to do this would be to set a 10,000 article target. Create a series of contests/editathons on DC/NYC and then California, Texas, Virginia, Florida or whatever and those fuel the drive, but something which is going to motivate people to produce more content for the US long term between contests. It all would need careful planning and promotion but I really do think this is exactly the sort of thing wikipedia needs, as it gives editors more focus even for the most basic of edits and that their work really counts towards some end. Based on the British scope you could probably run a contest for American history in with it too to generate more interest.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:33, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
If Kirill, Rosie and Ser are interested I can set up a page for launching the US series in January, starting with a Washington D.C and Virginia contest combined? I think perhaps it's a little early to think about a 10,000 target for the US until we have more contributors on board. I also don't want to keep asking UK contributors to contribute to every contest haha. So I would just set up a page for now, a grant proposal can be made, it can be discussed, and then we can try to attract some American contributors to the cause. If some of the institutions in DC could be contacted and physical editathons organized for January during the contest that would be great. I would say, organize some state contests for a few months first, start with DC and Virginia, followed by perhaps New York/City and see how much content gets produced. If it's decent then the 10,000 project could be started for the US.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:41, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
Hi Kirill, yes, those states and prize fund should be manageable. Rather than full months though I would suggest two week maybe three week contests, with one or two week breaks in between to allow contestants to recover and stay enthuasiastic. I think 5 months straight would be less productive and result in burn out of most, I know how hard going just a month is haha! I would suggest commencing with DC on January 1 with a two week contest. Then a break for a week and Virginia on Jan 21 or February 1st for 2-3 weeks and so on. I think that would be easier to run, you could split the prize fund into amounts for each sub contest and then for winning overall. To really cover the full area fairly though I think each state contest would have to be designed so editors must work on given counties on one or a few days, much like the current West Country Challenge which allocates three days to each country. Producing good articles in short periods of time is trickier though, but work on them can caryr over, providing that they nominate entries withint the timeframe for each, but something roughly based on the West Country model I can really see working. I would have to see how many counties there are first though to really see if that way would be possible. I'll look more into this later in the month and set up an initial page and look into how many counties we're dealing with.♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:34, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
Kirill, I've proposed the 10,000 Challenge at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United States for the US and the DC area contest. Is it possible you/ Ser Amantio di Nicolao could notify a few people of the discussion who might be interested?♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:01, 11 September 2016 (UTC)
Kirill, perhaps a good place to start might be with a city contest, literally a contest between some major cities. If we could get a team of editors from DC, team from NYC and team from London we could host a destubathon/core improvement drive and the winner gets books/vouchers to hand out to their wiki project. Potentially you could include any team which wants to represent a city, we might get people willing to represent cities like Paris, Copenhagen, Tokyo and Delhi too. I would suggest running something like that over Christmas and January. What do you think? That way we'd tackle three major cities in one as a start. Funding for that could always be supplemented by the main foundation. But a partnership would have to be formed first I think and something set up. If you or page stalkers would be interested let me know. If you're more keen on starting with the DC area one first I can set something up in a week or two.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:02, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
Well there is that of course, but then there's the chance of seeing a few thousand article improvements to multiple cities at once! Perhaps a single simple focus on DC would be better for your chapter then to start with. DC can then be the first major city to have a general contest on wikipedia. What do you think needs the most work on DC topics on wikipedia? Are there a large number of stubs, or are there a larger number of articles with a fair amount of text which might need cleanup or sourcing and core articles which badly need proper research? If it was high quality you wanted the most rather than basic cleanuup a sort of "Core Contest" could be devised for DC and editors work on getting core topics to GA. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:45, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, would WMDC or any stalker/somebody you know be interested in putting up a prize for whoever creates the most articles on African women during the contest? A prize for that might spur on a lot more articles than normal, and it badly needs it, some countries it's under 5% women bios. Prize could be some books about African women or something, needn't be hundreds of dollars, but just something which might benefit the cause at a later date.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:36, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
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Hello, TomStar recommended you for helping me with creating a task force page for "Garage rock". I would prefer if the page emulates it's parent project "Rock music", while also including talk, proposed articles, and articles expansion/improvement sections. I tried reading the steps required, but I simply am not comfortable starting it without someone who knows what they are doing. I already have a group of editors ready to participate so your help would be appreciated. TheGracefulSlick ( talk) 18:42, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
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TheGracefulSlick and I have been working together to create a WikiProjcet task force (as part of the WikiProject Rock Music). We have been working on preliminary designs for the page (see User:Garagepunk66/sandbox12) and its userbox (see User:TheGracefulSlick/Userbox). We have a group of editors who have indicated that they would like to join the task force. Can we go a head and submit the page or do we need help/approval first? I realize that your focus is more on military history topics, but I was wondering if you could help us or know someone who can? We could use assistance from a WikiProject coordinator. Garagepunk66 ( talk) 18:40, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
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G'day all, please be advised that throughout March 2017 the Military history Wikiproject is running its March Madness drive. This is a backlog drive that is focused on several key areas:
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2017).
User:Kirill Lokshin, it has been pointed out to me the New Guidelines (in the section "Motion: ARBPIA" near the bottom of the page). The key part is the sentence underlined in black. Question: Is this to imply that all new edits made since 26 December 2016 in Palestine-Israel articles can be deleted by editors, and they can challenge the editors who put them there in the first place, without the first editors restoring their edits until a new consensus has been reached? If so, you open the door for "abusive editing," that is to say, the new guidelines allow editors to freely delete areas in articles based on their sole judgment and conviction and which edits had earlier been agreed upon by consensus, and that such changes will remain in force until such a time that a new consensus can be reached. As you see, this can be problematic. Second Question: Do the new guidelines also apply to reverts made in articles where a consensus had already been reached before 26 December 2016, or do they only apply to reverts made after 26 December 2016? To avoid future problems arising from this new edict, can I make this one suggestion, namely, that the new guidelines in Palestine-Israel articles be amended to read with this addition: "Editors who violate this restriction may be blocked without warning by any uninvolved administrator, even on a first offense, or where abuses arise over reverts made in an article where a consensus had already been reached before or after the edict of 26 December 2016 took effect, such editors make themselves liable to disciplinary actions, including blocking." Davidbena ( talk) 14:28, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
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Коллега, подскажите, если несложно, практику английской Википедии. Тут один коллега написал статью о страшной "коньячной дипломатии" - [1]. Собственно, в исходном обзоре ESISC говорится о мировом заговоре против Азербайджана с участием Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Human Rights House Foundation, Open Dialog, European Stability Initiative, и Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, который финансируется ужасным Джорджем Соросом (кто б сомневался!), с целью дискредитации демократических процессов в Азербайджане. Я переписал статью в соответствующем ключе, приведя источники, которые прямо говорят, что этот доклад - пропаганда и часть азербайджанской стратегии лоббирования - [2]. Коллега Coneyislandqueentobe возвращает преамбулу обратно, мол, " term cognac diplomacy is used to describe the lobbyist strategy of Armenia of sending cognac bottles to the representatives of international organizations and foreign politicians, in exchange for performing or refraining from any action in favor of Armenia.". Я уже не говорю, что он приводит ссылки, например, " The term is mentioned periodically in the bribery case of Venice Commission by the Armenians and Nazarbayev's former Press Secretary Ajdosa Sarymova", при том, что в указанном источнике нет слова о Venice Commission или Ajdosa Sarymova (во всяком случае поиск не находит в документе этих слов).
Какая практика английской Википедии в таких случаях? В русской, например, такое определение в преамбуле не допустили бы по причине правила WP:FRINGE, а за возврат ложных ссылок следовал бы однозначный блок. Какие должны быть мои действия? Divot ( talk) 20:25, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
P.S. Тут коллега вернул текст, обвиняющий английского парламентария в получении взятки от Армении ( "journalists managed to catch on to bribe Mark Pritchard"), при том, что по ссылке написано только "The parliamentarian who sits on the most APPGs is Mark Pritchard, the Tory MP for the Wrekin, a member of 41 including the country groups for Armenia, Bosnia and Bulgaria. He has also declared an interest as an consultant on the strategic security group Soufan, for which he is paid £2,074 a month". Divot ( talk) 21:11, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
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Hope you are doing well. I don't see you took any action on the previous recommendations I sent. Currently, I am preparing for the next batch of the recommendations, and will be sending it out in the next couple days. I wonder if you are still interested in receiving them? Please let me know. Thank you! Bobo.03 ( talk) 16:34, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
This article is at AfD Tamara_Barykova. As all of the sources are in Russian and no one can find any in English, we cannot assess notability. This jumped out at me as a person born in 1914, so there might be something there. Can you provide any info? Montanabw (talk) 18:33, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
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" raion" is translated as "district", except for the rural ones in Ukraine. Where it is translated and even where not the articles about individual entities are named "X District"/"X Raion" - except for South Ossetia-Alania. Also everywhere else -except India- it is "X Type" not "X type": Bochnia County, Masovian Voivodeship, Buenos Aires Province, Moscow Oblast, Washington County, Eastern Division (New South Wales), Cariboo Land District, ... 1 item out of 100000 not named with uppercase was proposed for renaming to keep the naming in enWP consistent https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Talk:Dzau_district&oldid=809879398 78.55.178.210 ( talk) 03:14, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
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"Military history" is one of the most important subjects when speak of sum of all human knowledge. To support contributors interested in the area over various language Wikipedias, we intend to form a user group. It also provides a platform to share the best practices between military historians, and various military related projects on Wikipedias. An initial discussion was has been done between the coordinators and members of WikiProject Military History on English Wikipedia. Now this discussion has been taken to Meta-Wiki. Contributors intrested in the area of military history are requested to share their feedback and give suggestions at Talk:Discussion to incubate a user group for Wikipedia Military Historians.
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G'day Kirill, I hope you are well. Not sure if you have been following it, but there has been some discussion about creating a Post-Cold War task force here: Draft talk:WikiProject Military history/Post-Cold War task force. Based on several conversations there and on the main talk page, I think there is a consensus to create the task force. I can do most of the work, but I was hoping that you might be able to make the required changes to the {{ MILHIST}} template. Would you mind taking a look at this? Thanks for your time. I will then work on creating the peripheral categories and logs etc. Regards, AustralianRupert ( talk) 11:29, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
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Do you have any sources that say Imperial is the official word? Given the empire's renaming and it not being the only imperial power, I thought German would be more appropriate. -- Droyselich ( talk) 03:45, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Kirill Lokshin, did you and the rest of the Arbcom mailing list receive my email of April 24? I asked to be unblocked. I was a contributor of solid content for five or six years before I was perma-blocked without warning with a button click falsely labeling me a sockpuppet by an administrator that didn't explain anything.
I was proud of my contributions to Wikipedia and would like to do so again. As you look into my case (as I expect you to, given your position as arbitrator) do not accept as fact any accusation against me without allowing me to respond. I have endured many many lies and WP:AN/ANI mob attacks in which I was muted and my defenses erased, resulting in damage to my reputation as an editor. Further, do not accept the assertion of Thryduulf at my talkpage that I am on an "appeal timer," because he has no authority to do any such thing and there is nothing in policy that allows him this, as well his purporting timing is unevidenced and suspect.
Answer my email or unblock my talkpage and we'll be able to communicate about this important matter. Colton Cosmic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.195.207.162 ( talk) 11:09, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
Given the seriousness of this Rfc at User talk:The Wordsmith/GMORFC the ongoing threats to sanction participating editors seem to ring hollow in light of supervising admin The Wordsmith's astonishing comments regarding ArbCom members. The comment, which by any definition "casts aspersions," raises a number of questions that call for immediate answers, given the self-created deadline for comments.
The questions, which I hereby put directly to The Wordsmith, are as follows:
To all concerned: I will post the above subsection on the Talk pages of current ArbCom members, per The Wordsmith's declaration, despite substantial objections, that they will be locking down the page a few hours from this posting, making further timely discussion on this page impossible. Jus da fax 11:30, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
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I saw you create the Meetup about Safe and Healthy at Work. I thought it was super interesting and I wanted to propose 3 topics that are part of the articles needing to be improved in the Wikipedia:WikiProject South Africa/Wikipedia Primary School/Articles list. I was thinking of Fire safety, hand washing and home safety. The first is an obvious one. The second makes sense for all the medical profession and is a basic. The third is less obvious... but ... as an independent worker working from home... well... for many workers, home is actually their workplace.
But when I tried to add them to the request system (first time I use it...), only Fire safety appears on this list. I can't have the others appear in the list of topics that could be worked upon during that edit-a-thon. Help !!! thanks Anthere ( talk)
Hi. All right. I go ask him for support :)
By the way... we had a meeting about the Primary School project during Wikimania, during which I expressed my wish to find solutions so that a bunch of articles considered of prime importance to primary school in South Africa, be improved in the next few months. Discott suggested that I contact editors involved in the various meetings, either in UK, or in New York or in Washington to see if some articles in my list could be the object of attention during locally held edit-a-thons. About half of the articles are pretty specific to South Africa but the other half are very generic articles (well, such as Youth culture or Fiber or Bullying. Various topics are covered, sometimes very well, sometimes not. Do you think you could help us to improve some of the articles on the list as part of some edit-a-thons organised by Wikimedia in DC ? Thanks Anthere ( talk)
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I have followed your suggestion and invited 4 or 5 more members, i know not if they will join. Additionally is editing the template to add parameters as easy as it looks? just adding a |Roman= ? Iazyges ( talk) 17:16, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
|Roman= ?
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, you'll be able to tag the article for the Roman military history task force by changing it to {{WikiProject Military history|class=B|European=yes|Roman=yes}}
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parameter, that's considerably more complicated; however, it isn't something you'd need to deal with directly, as the project coordinators can make those changes once the task force has graduated from the incubator.
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Hello Kirill, I was keeping an eye on today's WikiSalon scheduled for 7pm in DuPont Circle in DC because I happen to be in the area. Based on your recent changes, is it no longer happening? Best, Airplaneman ✈ 15:44, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
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Hi! I just noticed this edit. No more salons? :-( -- MZMcBride ( talk) 01:42, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Michael Hardy/Evidence#Please enforce the word limits in the interest of fairness -- Guy Macon ( talk) 02:50, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
Hi Kirill, I emailed you, did you get it?♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:06, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
Thanks. I'm currently planning Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Golden Hollywood Contest for December/Christmas period. I don't know if one of the US chapters would be interested in funding that one. It should be an enjoyable one to do!♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:42, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
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Kirill, you seem to be a quite experienced Wiki user so I was wondering if you had some tips for improving my articles. I have a Start-, C- and B-class article in Patrick D. Fleming, Cecil E. Harris and Albert O. Vorse Jr.. The B-class was rated higher seemingly because standards are more lax in the Aviation Portal than Military History, but I'd definitely like to hear what I can do to improve e.g. referencing for the Harris article—or really just any aspect that could use some shining. Thanks for any help you can render! Cheers, Finktron ( talk) 11:20, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
As an incubator tier task force, we reached 4 active members and 1 sporadic, with one that is retired but may return, I followed the instructions of Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators and made all of the necessary categories, an infobox and the templates, I was wondering who I should ask to include us in the talk page template, I have already added the baseline of |Roman= to the template, but have not touched the underlying code to make it work. Thanks. Iazyges ( talk) 00:02, 26 August 2016 (UTC)
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Hey I just wanted to ask how adding the background code for the MILHIST/doc template was going because it's been a while. Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 21:37, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
Hi, I wondered if the DC chapter would be interested in helping finance this and setting up a US equivalent to reach 10,000 article improvements for the US, with WM funded state contests to reinforce production? If you see the list of 1527 articles to date in just 6-7 weeks, can you see this working for the US too? I think it's just what wikipedia needs, some sort of central motivation on here to make each and every basic article edit count.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:08, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
I don't know how much I can contribute as it's really time consuming running and planning these sorts of things but I could certainly help towards setting up something for the US, but we'd need people to commit to running it in the US I think. I think the way to do this would be to set a 10,000 article target. Create a series of contests/editathons on DC/NYC and then California, Texas, Virginia, Florida or whatever and those fuel the drive, but something which is going to motivate people to produce more content for the US long term between contests. It all would need careful planning and promotion but I really do think this is exactly the sort of thing wikipedia needs, as it gives editors more focus even for the most basic of edits and that their work really counts towards some end. Based on the British scope you could probably run a contest for American history in with it too to generate more interest.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:33, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
If Kirill, Rosie and Ser are interested I can set up a page for launching the US series in January, starting with a Washington D.C and Virginia contest combined? I think perhaps it's a little early to think about a 10,000 target for the US until we have more contributors on board. I also don't want to keep asking UK contributors to contribute to every contest haha. So I would just set up a page for now, a grant proposal can be made, it can be discussed, and then we can try to attract some American contributors to the cause. If some of the institutions in DC could be contacted and physical editathons organized for January during the contest that would be great. I would say, organize some state contests for a few months first, start with DC and Virginia, followed by perhaps New York/City and see how much content gets produced. If it's decent then the 10,000 project could be started for the US.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:41, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
Hi Kirill, yes, those states and prize fund should be manageable. Rather than full months though I would suggest two week maybe three week contests, with one or two week breaks in between to allow contestants to recover and stay enthuasiastic. I think 5 months straight would be less productive and result in burn out of most, I know how hard going just a month is haha! I would suggest commencing with DC on January 1 with a two week contest. Then a break for a week and Virginia on Jan 21 or February 1st for 2-3 weeks and so on. I think that would be easier to run, you could split the prize fund into amounts for each sub contest and then for winning overall. To really cover the full area fairly though I think each state contest would have to be designed so editors must work on given counties on one or a few days, much like the current West Country Challenge which allocates three days to each country. Producing good articles in short periods of time is trickier though, but work on them can caryr over, providing that they nominate entries withint the timeframe for each, but something roughly based on the West Country model I can really see working. I would have to see how many counties there are first though to really see if that way would be possible. I'll look more into this later in the month and set up an initial page and look into how many counties we're dealing with.♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:34, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
Kirill, I've proposed the 10,000 Challenge at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United States for the US and the DC area contest. Is it possible you/ Ser Amantio di Nicolao could notify a few people of the discussion who might be interested?♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:01, 11 September 2016 (UTC)
Kirill, perhaps a good place to start might be with a city contest, literally a contest between some major cities. If we could get a team of editors from DC, team from NYC and team from London we could host a destubathon/core improvement drive and the winner gets books/vouchers to hand out to their wiki project. Potentially you could include any team which wants to represent a city, we might get people willing to represent cities like Paris, Copenhagen, Tokyo and Delhi too. I would suggest running something like that over Christmas and January. What do you think? That way we'd tackle three major cities in one as a start. Funding for that could always be supplemented by the main foundation. But a partnership would have to be formed first I think and something set up. If you or page stalkers would be interested let me know. If you're more keen on starting with the DC area one first I can set something up in a week or two.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:02, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
Well there is that of course, but then there's the chance of seeing a few thousand article improvements to multiple cities at once! Perhaps a single simple focus on DC would be better for your chapter then to start with. DC can then be the first major city to have a general contest on wikipedia. What do you think needs the most work on DC topics on wikipedia? Are there a large number of stubs, or are there a larger number of articles with a fair amount of text which might need cleanup or sourcing and core articles which badly need proper research? If it was high quality you wanted the most rather than basic cleanuup a sort of "Core Contest" could be devised for DC and editors work on getting core topics to GA. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:45, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, would WMDC or any stalker/somebody you know be interested in putting up a prize for whoever creates the most articles on African women during the contest? A prize for that might spur on a lot more articles than normal, and it badly needs it, some countries it's under 5% women bios. Prize could be some books about African women or something, needn't be hundreds of dollars, but just something which might benefit the cause at a later date.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:36, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
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Hello! We are leaving you this message because you have previously indicated that you interested in helping the Wikimedia Foundation Support & Safety team in developing our training modules this year.
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I am Bowen Yu, a Ph.D. student from GroupLens Research at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. Currently, we are undertaking a study about turnover (editors leaving and joining) in WikiProjects within Wikipedia. We are trying to understand the effects of member turnovers in the WikiProject group, in terms of the group performance and member interaction, with a purpose of learning how to build successful online communities in future. More details about our project can be found on this meta-wiki page.
I would like to invite you for an interview if you are interested in our study and willing to share your experience with us. The interview will be about 30 - 45 minutes via phone, Skype or Google Hangout. You will receive a $10 gift card as compensation afterwards.
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A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.
It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.
If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins). MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 13:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
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Hello, TomStar recommended you for helping me with creating a task force page for "Garage rock". I would prefer if the page emulates it's parent project "Rock music", while also including talk, proposed articles, and articles expansion/improvement sections. I tried reading the steps required, but I simply am not comfortable starting it without someone who knows what they are doing. I already have a group of editors ready to participate so your help would be appreciated. TheGracefulSlick ( talk) 18:42, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
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From the icy Canajian north; to you and yours! FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 21:52, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
TheGracefulSlick and I have been working together to create a WikiProjcet task force (as part of the WikiProject Rock Music). We have been working on preliminary designs for the page (see User:Garagepunk66/sandbox12) and its userbox (see User:TheGracefulSlick/Userbox). We have a group of editors who have indicated that they would like to join the task force. Can we go a head and submit the page or do we need help/approval first? I realize that your focus is more on military history topics, but I was wondering if you could help us or know someone who can? We could use assistance from a WikiProject coordinator. Garagepunk66 ( talk) 18:40, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
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Just a happy birthday message to you, Kirill Lokshin, from the
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G'day all, please be advised that throughout March 2017 the Military history Wikiproject is running its March Madness drive. This is a backlog drive that is focused on several key areas:
As with past Milhist drives, there are points awarded for working on articles in the targeted areas, with barnstars being awarded at the end for different levels of achievement.
The drive is open to all Wikipedians, not just members of the Military history project, although only work on articles that fall (broadly) within the military history scope will be considered eligible. More information can be found here for those that are interested, and members can sign up as participants at that page also.
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User:Kirill Lokshin, it has been pointed out to me the New Guidelines (in the section "Motion: ARBPIA" near the bottom of the page). The key part is the sentence underlined in black. Question: Is this to imply that all new edits made since 26 December 2016 in Palestine-Israel articles can be deleted by editors, and they can challenge the editors who put them there in the first place, without the first editors restoring their edits until a new consensus has been reached? If so, you open the door for "abusive editing," that is to say, the new guidelines allow editors to freely delete areas in articles based on their sole judgment and conviction and which edits had earlier been agreed upon by consensus, and that such changes will remain in force until such a time that a new consensus can be reached. As you see, this can be problematic. Second Question: Do the new guidelines also apply to reverts made in articles where a consensus had already been reached before 26 December 2016, or do they only apply to reverts made after 26 December 2016? To avoid future problems arising from this new edict, can I make this one suggestion, namely, that the new guidelines in Palestine-Israel articles be amended to read with this addition: "Editors who violate this restriction may be blocked without warning by any uninvolved administrator, even on a first offense, or where abuses arise over reverts made in an article where a consensus had already been reached before or after the edict of 26 December 2016 took effect, such editors make themselves liable to disciplinary actions, including blocking." Davidbena ( talk) 14:28, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
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Hi, Kirill Lokshin! Please allow me to follow up on a project that was discussed at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin a couple of weeks ago:
I am writing you to ask for your support for the Sustainability Initiative, which aims at reducing the environmental impact of the Wikimedia movement. Over the past two years, more than 250 Wikipedians from all over the world have come together to push the Wikimedia movement towards greater sustainability.
The Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation has recently passed a resolution stating that the Foundation is committed to seeking ways to reduce the impact of its activities on the environment. Now, we are working with the Wikimedia Foundation staff to have all Wikimedia servers run on renewable energy by 2019.
In order to demonstrate that this is an issue that the community really cares about, I would like to ask you to sign the project page as well. Thank you! -- Gnom ( talk) 19:00, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
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Special:Undelete?fuzzy=1. Currently the search only finds pages that exactly match the search term.I have nominated Tahirih Justice Center for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. TheDragonFire ( talk) 06:16, 21 July 2017 (UTC)
Коллега, подскажите, если несложно, практику английской Википедии. Тут один коллега написал статью о страшной "коньячной дипломатии" - [1]. Собственно, в исходном обзоре ESISC говорится о мировом заговоре против Азербайджана с участием Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Human Rights House Foundation, Open Dialog, European Stability Initiative, и Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, который финансируется ужасным Джорджем Соросом (кто б сомневался!), с целью дискредитации демократических процессов в Азербайджане. Я переписал статью в соответствующем ключе, приведя источники, которые прямо говорят, что этот доклад - пропаганда и часть азербайджанской стратегии лоббирования - [2]. Коллега Coneyislandqueentobe возвращает преамбулу обратно, мол, " term cognac diplomacy is used to describe the lobbyist strategy of Armenia of sending cognac bottles to the representatives of international organizations and foreign politicians, in exchange for performing or refraining from any action in favor of Armenia.". Я уже не говорю, что он приводит ссылки, например, " The term is mentioned periodically in the bribery case of Venice Commission by the Armenians and Nazarbayev's former Press Secretary Ajdosa Sarymova", при том, что в указанном источнике нет слова о Venice Commission или Ajdosa Sarymova (во всяком случае поиск не находит в документе этих слов).
Какая практика английской Википедии в таких случаях? В русской, например, такое определение в преамбуле не допустили бы по причине правила WP:FRINGE, а за возврат ложных ссылок следовал бы однозначный блок. Какие должны быть мои действия? Divot ( talk) 20:25, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
P.S. Тут коллега вернул текст, обвиняющий английского парламентария в получении взятки от Армении ( "journalists managed to catch on to bribe Mark Pritchard"), при том, что по ссылке написано только "The parliamentarian who sits on the most APPGs is Mark Pritchard, the Tory MP for the Wrekin, a member of 41 including the country groups for Armenia, Bosnia and Bulgaria. He has also declared an interest as an consultant on the strategic security group Soufan, for which he is paid £2,074 a month". Divot ( talk) 21:11, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
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Hi Kirill Lokshin,
Our system generated a list of potential new editors for your project. They may be interested in collaborating with your project members to on your project's articles. As you will notice, the list contains both experienced editors and newcomers. Both are valuable for Wikipedia and your project. Please go ahead and introduce your project to them, and point them to some project tasks to start with. We also provide a template invitation message to make it easier to contact the potential new editors. Just click the invite link to write the invitation message.
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Hi Kirill Lokshin,
Hope you are doing well. I don't see you took any action on the previous recommendations I sent. Currently, I am preparing for the next batch of the recommendations, and will be sending it out in the next couple days. I wonder if you are still interested in receiving them? Please let me know. Thank you! Bobo.03 ( talk) 16:34, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
This article is at AfD Tamara_Barykova. As all of the sources are in Russian and no one can find any in English, we cannot assess notability. This jumped out at me as a person born in 1914, so there might be something there. Can you provide any info? Montanabw (talk) 18:33, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
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" raion" is translated as "district", except for the rural ones in Ukraine. Where it is translated and even where not the articles about individual entities are named "X District"/"X Raion" - except for South Ossetia-Alania. Also everywhere else -except India- it is "X Type" not "X type": Bochnia County, Masovian Voivodeship, Buenos Aires Province, Moscow Oblast, Washington County, Eastern Division (New South Wales), Cariboo Land District, ... 1 item out of 100000 not named with uppercase was proposed for renaming to keep the naming in enWP consistent https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Talk:Dzau_district&oldid=809879398 78.55.178.210 ( talk) 03:14, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
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As we approach the end of the year, the Military History project is looking to recognise editors who have made a real difference. Each year we do this by bestowing two awards: the Military Historian of the Year and the Military History Newcomer of the Year. The co-ordinators invite all project members to get involved by nominating any editor they feel merits recognition for their contributions to the project. Nominations for both awards are open between 00:01 on 2 December 2017 and 23:59 on 15 December 2017. After this, a 14-day voting period will follow commencing at 00:01 on 16 December 2017. Nominations and voting will take place on the main project talkpage: here and here. Thank you for your time. For the co-ordinators, MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 08:35, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
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"Military history" is one of the most important subjects when speak of sum of all human knowledge. To support contributors interested in the area over various language Wikipedias, we intend to form a user group. It also provides a platform to share the best practices between military historians, and various military related projects on Wikipedias. An initial discussion was has been done between the coordinators and members of WikiProject Military History on English Wikipedia. Now this discussion has been taken to Meta-Wiki. Contributors intrested in the area of military history are requested to share their feedback and give suggestions at Talk:Discussion to incubate a user group for Wikipedia Military Historians.
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...to you and yours, from the Great White North! FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 23:37, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
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G'day Kirill, I hope you are well. Not sure if you have been following it, but there has been some discussion about creating a Post-Cold War task force here: Draft talk:WikiProject Military history/Post-Cold War task force. Based on several conversations there and on the main talk page, I think there is a consensus to create the task force. I can do most of the work, but I was hoping that you might be able to make the required changes to the {{ MILHIST}} template. Would you mind taking a look at this? Thanks for your time. I will then work on creating the peripheral categories and logs etc. Regards, AustralianRupert ( talk) 11:29, 27 January 2018 (UTC)