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Hi Nick I am repharsing as you requested. I i.e. AMAN TUGNAWAT to create new Artificial Intelligence products inspired by the Google search engine. Which is the best AI in the world in my opinion. The reason for my last message not making sense is because I am trying to be cryptic here. AND THE THING IS YOU CAN'T EVEN VERIFY IF ITS AMAN TUGNAWAT talking you right now.
MangoX0XA ( talk) 01:24, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
Hi there. I saw you marked Tashtego as reviewed. I had come across the page earlier on NPP and restored the redirect. Most minor characters even in major literary works don't have their own pages. The particular reasoning for an exception in this case (categories) could apply to others as well. Asking you to reconsider the decision. Happy patrolling and Best, Barkeep49 ( talk) 01:35, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
[[|left|150px]] I'm here to return the favor! :)
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Development of design continues, full speed ahead...
Can you say " paradigm shift"?
Now, in addition to picture slideshows, we have slideshows that can display excerpts. Portals are not just for topic tasting anymore. Now they can be made useful for surveying Wikipedia's coverage of entire subjects. This gives a deeper meaning to their name. Hmmm. "Portals"... Doorways to knowledge.
Portal:Lithuania was redesigned using excerpt slideshows. Check it out.
For those of you who cannot wait to test out these new toys...
We have not one, but three excerpt slideshow components to pick from:
{{ Transclude excerpts as random slideshow}}
{{ Transclude list item excerpts as random slideshow}}
{{ Transclude linked excerpts as random slideshow}}
{{ Portal image banner}} displays a panoramic picture the width of the page, and adjusts its size, so it stays that way even if the user changes page view size. And it accepts multiple file names, so that the picture displayed randomizes between them each time the page is visited/purged.
Give resizing the page a try:
Before:
After:
Notice how the box bottoms line up. That readjusts even if you click the slideshow buttons.
The template used for this is {{ Flex columns}}.
By the way, when you include more than one box in a column, any left over whitespace in that column is divided between them.
You may have noticed the new {{ Box-header colour}} template used above. It lets you pick the color locally (right on the same page). Before, this was handled on a subpage somewhere.
Now that we have lots of toys to play with for making cool portals...
Don't forget, that the majority of views of Wikipedia these days are from mobile devices. We need to make certain that portals display well on those. So, remember to check your work on portals in mobile view mode...
To see a portal in mobile view mode, insert a ".m" into a portal's url, after "en", like this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Reptile
If you discover problems in a portal you can't fix, report them on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Design.
Have fun. — The Transhumanist 00:44, 27 July 2018 (UTC)
I Have change Draft:Yu Qiuyu, can you move this draft to article about Yu Qiuyu? Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 39.162.2.107 ( talk) 11:31, 28 July 2018 (UTC)
It was meant to be cookies but it changed into a goat because of a glitch. ^_^ You are noot ( talk) 17:25, 29 July 2018 (UTC)
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Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers.
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14:05, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
Now that we have lots of toys to play with, it's play time!
Here are some fun activities to use our new toys on...
Would you like to travel around the world? Well, this may be the next best thing...
Here's another fun toy to play with: {{ Portal image banner}}
To see what it looks like, check out the panoramas at the tops of the following portals:
The task: There are many geography portals that lack panoramas. Please add some. Please keep the file size down below 2 megabytes, and keep in mind that you may find quality banners at commons: at less than 200K (.2 megabytes). Good search terms to include with the place name are "banner", "cityscape", "skyline", "panorama", "landscape", etc.
Related task: There are also lots of geography portals that have panoramas used as gaudy banners (with print or icons splattered across them) or that display them in some random location on the page. In many cases, those pages would be improved by displaying the panorama as a clean picture at the top of the intro section, like on the examples above. This works best with banner-like panoramas. Please fix such pages when you come across them, if you believe it would improve the look of the page.
Taller images might be better suited displayed further down the page, or in the "Selected images" section.
Note that {{ Portal image banner}} supports multiple images, and displays one at random upon the first visit, and each time the page is purged.
That is, image slideshows!
Over 200 have been installed so far. Just 1200 to go. (Be sure not to install them on portals with active maintainers, unless they want you to).
The title "Selected images" reflects the fact that not all images on Wikipedia are pictures, and encompasses maps, graphs, diagrams, sketches, paintings, pictures, and so on.
The toys we have to work with for this are:
{{ Random slideshow}}
and
{{ Transclude files as random slideshow}}
The task: Using one of the above templates directly on a portal's base page, replace static "Selected picture" sections, with a section like one of these:
The one on the left uses {{ Random slideshow}} (which accepts file names), and the one on the right uses {{ Transclude files as random slideshow}} (which accepts source pages from which the filenames are gathered).
The above section formatting is used on many of the pages you will come across, but not all. In those cases, use whatever section formatting matches the rest of the page.
Note that you may come across "Selected picture" sections done with {{ Random portal component}} templates. That template call is the entire section. Replace it with a section that matches the other sections on the page, and put the new slideshow inside that.
For example, in Portal:California, this code:
{{Random portal component|max=21|seed=27|header=Selected picture|subpage=Selected picture}}
was replaced with this code:
{{/box-header|Selected images|noedit=yes}}
{{Transclude files as random slideshow
| {{PAGENAME}}
| Culture of {{PAGENAME}}
}}
{{Box-footer}}
And the new section blended right in with the formatting of the rest of the page. Note the use of the {{PAGENAME}}
magic word. Plain article titles also work. Don't feel limited to one or two page names. But be sure to test each slideshow before installing the next one. (Or if you prefer, in batches - just don't leave them hanging). Report technical problems at the
Portal design talk page.
These sections, where unmaintained, have gone stale. That's because 1) the excerpts are static, having been manually copied and pasted, and 2) because they lack automatic addition of new entries.
They can be upgraded with:
{{ Transclude random excerpt}}
or
{{ Transclude list item excerpt}}
or
{{ Transclude linked excerpt}}
All three of these will provide excerpts that won't go stale. The latter two can provide excerpt collections that won't go stale, by providing new entries over time. The key is to select source pages or source sections that are frequently updated, such as root article sections, mainstream lists, or navigation templates.
When the above tasks are completed for the entire collection of portals (except the ones with specific maintainers), we'll be more than half-way done with the portal system upgrade.
Keep up the great work. — The Transhumanist 19:14, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
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19:39, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
Hello. I have read your explanation for deleted article in my page. Only source from many revolutions history of Kievan Rus' is story of past years. This does not mean that corrections referring to it should be deleted. I also took description from one source. However, this is supported by many facts - campaign shifts the fact that Islam Gerei was often thrown out of throne and that, after year (1676), Turkish sultan had conflict with Cossacks ( Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks). The Shaolin Monk 20:04, 4 aug 2018 (UTC)
Hello to all! I do not intend to write a regular peer review newsletter but there does occasionally come a time when those interested in contributing to peer review should be contacted, and now is one. I've mailed this out to everyone on the peer review volunteers list, and some editors that have contributed to past discussions. Apologies if I've left you off or contacted you and you didn't want it. Next time there is a newsletter / mass message it will be opt in ( here), I'll talk about this below - but first:
The list is here in case you've forgotten: WP:PRV. Kadane has kindly offered to create a bot that will ping editors on the volunteers list with unanswered reviews in their chosen subject areas every so often. You can choose the time interval by changing the "contact" parameter. Options are "never", "monthly", "quarterly", "halfyearly", and "annually". For example:
{{PRV|JohnSmith|History of engineering|contact=monthly}}
- if placed in the "History" section, JohnSmith will receive an automatic update every month about unanswered peer reviews relating to history.{{PRV|JaneSmith|Mesopotamian geography, Norwegian fjords|contact=annually}}
- if placed in the "Geography" section, JaneSmith will receive an automatic update every yearly about unanswered peer reviews in the geography area.We can at this stage only use the broad peer review section titles to guide what reviews you'd like, but that's better than nothing! You can also set an interest in multiple separate subject areas that will be updated at different times.
I don't think we need a WikiProject with a giant bureaucracy nor all sorts of whiz-bang features. However over the last few years I've found there are times when it would have been useful to have a list of editors that would like to contribute to discussions about the peer review process (e.g. instructions, layout, automation, simplification etc.). Also, it can get kind of lonely on the talk page as I am (correct me if I'm wrong) the only regular contributor, with most editors moving on after 6 - 12 months.
So, I've decided to create " WikiProject Peer review". If you'd like to contribute to the WikiProject, or make yourself available for future newsletters or contact, please add yourself to the list of members.
We plan to do some advertising of peer review, to let editors know about it and how to volunteer to help, at a couple of different venues (Signpost, Village pump, Teahouse etc.) - but have been waiting until we get this bot + WikiProject set up so we have a way to help interested editors make more enduring contributions. So consider yourself forewarned!
And... that's it!
I wish you all well on your Wikivoyages, Tom (LT) ( talk) 00:31, 11 August 2018 (UTC)
You wrote: "As a retired museum curator, it's really great to see new articles being written about art and art history (and not the usual run of footballers, dull CEOs and minor companies that want to promote themselves here)." Yes. At least with the footballers we only have to verify whether they have played in a league that is considered fully professional. The minor companies are also easy: They are almost always good targets for G11. The dull CEOs are hard cases, because we have to determine whether the references are independent or just press releases and whether they meet general notability, which is not always a clear guideline. I also like to see articles on species (of insects or whatever), because if the species is properly documented, it is notable. Robert McClenon ( talk) 20:48, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
Since you asked, here are my thoughts on Articles for Creation. First, there are several editors who either talk about how the review process is broken and should be replaced by something else or merged into WP:NPP, or who talk, sometimes grandiosely, about improving the review process. Most of the big-talkers are not reviewers and are engaged in the usual Wikipedia custom of selecting a group of volunteers to whom you do not belong and dumping on them. The AFC process does have a considerable amount of brokenness. There is a backlog of 2000 articles so that submissions may wait as long as two months for review. Also, most of the submissions are crud, such as the minor companies that want to promote themselves, and people who think that Wikipedia is Facebook. However, I have not seen a plausible way to reduce that backlog. We could discontinue AFC, and let the submitters become auto-confirmed and then go directly to article space, but that would put the burden on NPP and speedy deletion and AFD to get rid of the crud. We could simply let the submitters go into article space, but that would go against WP:ACPERM and would be worse than the backlog. There are many claims that some reviewers are arbitrary and have unreasonable standards. That is true of any volunteer process, but we try to ensure quality of reviews. I don't expect there to be any significant changes to the review process in the near future, because the talk about changes consists mostly of wind. It is as good a time as many to get involved in the process. However, I will caution you, as mentioned, that there are two problems. First, most of the submissions are crud, and many of the submitters are clueless. Second, there is a lot of empty talk and of dumping on the reviewers. If you want to help out anyway, you are welcome. Robert McClenon ( talk) 20:40, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for the advice in your review of the Hypericum punctatum article. I've made the suggested changes and I'll try to keep the measurement advice in mind in the future as I tend to use many different units in one article. You suggested that I nominate the article for DYK and I'm willing to do any work involved but I'm quite unfamiliar with the DYK process. Thanks, Pagliaccious ( talk) 15:08, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
Discussions are underway on the design of a portal tool (user script) that will hopefully have features for modifying portals at the click of a menu item, to make editing them easier. It might do things like change the color for you, add to a selection, add a new section, move a section, and so on.
If you'd like to be involved and suggest features for the tool, please join us at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Design#What would you want a portal tool to be able to do?.
As new portal components are built by our Lua gurus, those components are being used to upgrade portals. Each component automates a section of a portal in a particular way.
The sections that are mostly upgraded so far are the Intro, and the Associated Wikimedia section.
The sections currently undergoing upgrade are: Selected image, Categories, and the Intro.
The Intro? Isn't that done already?
Yes, and no.
The upgrade of the excerpt in intros is mostly complete (there are about 70 non-standard portals that still need it).
Now we are doing another upgrade of intros in the form of adding a panoramic picture at the top of the intro, on portals for which such a picture is available on Commons:. Dozens of panoramas have been added so far, and they are really starting to affect the look of portals — the portals that have them look really good.
Regions are the most likely subjects to have panoramas, but a surprising number of other subjects have banner-shaped pictures too. Some examples of non-geographic portals that they have been added to are:
Speaking of pictures, several hundred Selected image sections have been upgraded to include image slideshows.
The push for automation continues, with new components under continuous testing in the field. As problems are spotted, they are reported to our programmers, who have done a fantastic job of keeping up with bug reports and fixing the relevant Lua modules fast. I am highly impressed.
Construction time on new portals is now down to as little as a minute or less. Though not in general. If you are lucky enough to spot portals that fit the profile of the new tools (their strengths), then a portal can be complete almost as soon as it is created, with the added time it takes to find and add a panorama. Source page titles are not generally standardized, and so it source pages in many cases must be entered manually. Where source page titles follow a standard naming convention, portal creation for those subjects goes quickly.
So, we still have some hurdles, but the outlook on portals is very good. New features, and many improvements to features are on the horizon. I'll be sure to report them when they become available.
What will the portal of the future look like? That is up to you!
See you on the project's talk pages.
Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 21:08, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
I talked to the author of Shipley Hall about moving the article to the namespace Shipley Country Park, but he didn't want that. I think the problem is that Shipley Hall is defunct and Shipley Country Park is alive. Obviously I still think that move is the best option, what do you think? Szzuk ( talk) 12:46, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
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16:46, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
Besides being dangerously close to being a case of
WP:Bite the newbies
WP:BITE, if you feel that there is "No evidence that a solitary bus [streetcar] stop is sufficiently notable to warrant its own page", then you need to prune
Category:Muni Metro stations.
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This issue is about portal creation...
Myself and others have been testing and experimenting with the new components in upgrading existing portals and in building new portals. They have now been applied in hundreds of portals.
The templates are ready for general use for portal creation.
They are still a bit buggy, but the only way we are going to work the rest of the bugs out is by using them and reporting the bugs as we come across them.
I look forward to seeing what new portals you create!
Be sure to report bugs at WT:WPPORTD.
The main portal creation template is {{ box portal skeleton}}.
After starting a portal using {{ box portal skeleton}}...
Check out the Did you know? section on Portal:Determinism. — The Transhumanist 02:22, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
I've tidied the refs but never added a google maps link. Szzuk ( talk) 21:58, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
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Hi Nick,
Thank you for your comment on my Talk page. I have made some improvements to the article, including species authorizations. Regards, Mill 1 ( talk) 07:13, 26 August 2018 (UTC) Regards, Mill 1 ( talk) 07:13, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
Hi Nick, Thanks so much for your comment on my talk page about Jessica Rosemary Shepherd and for reviewing the page. I totally agree, I think I went overboard with citations simply because I found so many... but yes it makes sense to be a bit more economical. I've already cut it back a bit and will get it looking a bit less overflowing later today. Goblin Roger House ( talk) 11:30, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
I noticed over at the Portals WikiProject that you have or use AWB (or JWB).
There are some tasks that have turned up that are perfect for AWB.
We have many new portals, and they need:
The new portals can be found on Category:Single-page portals along with some revamped ones. You'll need to use the skip feature of AWB.
If you have any questions, please {{ ping}} me, and ask them below. — The Transhumanist 01:59, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
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The one I declined is even closer to the deleted article than I expected. Thank you. Robert McClenon ( talk) 16:01, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
Many thanks for reviewing the page Podosphaera filipendulae. Much appreciated.-- MerielGJones ( talk) 08:49, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
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16:06, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
Thank you Nick Moyesfor a wonderful edit. But,I really need the source. Please add the source in this edit. Have a wonderful day. Nihaal The Wikipedian ( talk) 07:39, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
It is already a stub class article . Nihaal The Wikipedian ( talk) 05:24, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
@ Graeme Bartlett and Nick Moyes: It is an article now. Help expand it. Nihaal The Wikipedian ( talk) 05:26, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
@ Graeme Bartlett: Messed it again. Help please. Nihaal The Wikipedian ( talk) 08:31, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
hi. it has now been over three months since our colloquy a while back, re editing practices. I just wanted to write briefly to make sure we will be able to start from this point on with a clean slate? in other words, that I have fully met the terms of any prior arrangements and restrictions?
with respect, I would like to think we could try to keep any future interactions to a minimum. also, with respect, now that we have reached this point in time, I would like to think that a clean slate could mean that any future interactions should not refer to any supposed past restrictions on my ability to edit, or to make proposals, or ideas, etc, at any venue,
i.e., I hope that I would now be able now be able to interact fully, without restrictions, in the same manner as any existing editor here at Wikipedia?
I am not planning to present any such proposals in the immediate future. however, I just wanted to confirm here that I have met the conditions of the arrangements that we agreed to above. based upon that, I would like to proceed from this point forward with, again, a clean slate, and no further reference to past actions, etc. I hope that sounds okay. I appreciate your understanding. thanks very much. cheers!
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Hi there, I noticed that you are one of the only active admins online right now, but I was wondering if you could look into Goatse.cx and provide urgent semi-protection to the page. It is being vandalized by a large number of new user accounts (likely sock puppets of each other) making the same edit and adding inappropriate images onto the page, causing a high level of disruption for the past half hour. Thanks, TribunalMan ( talk) 19:18, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi. Could please semi-protect Goatse.cx? Unfortunately, the request has gone unanswered, while the severe disruption continues. Thanks. M.Bitton ( talk) 19:22, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
Could you take a look at this draft please? It's by the same user (now soft blocked) who created Draft:Anime2012Mii , which you deleted, and several other deleted articles/drafts ( Hedgehox (Upcoming IP), Hedgehox Developer. Draft:Hedgehox). This one is never going to be an article either, and I'm concerned about leaving the personal information (names, ages, medical conditions) extant until a six-month G13 can be applied. One's a teen, and one's a kid. I can't see the content of the deleted articles, but I suspect it was just more of the same. I don't think we're doing the editor/s any favours by leaving this draft around in case they come back with a different account. Meters ( talk) 22:55, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
Nick, thanks for your help a while back at Talk:Blockbuster LLC. Looking for some additional insight on a recent post there. Aside from being uncivil, there is a clear UNDUE concern, and I wasn't sure if it would be appropriate to bring this up at WP:NPOVN as a next step of dispute resolution. Perhaps you have an alternate suggestion I should follow at this point? Thanks in advance. -- GoneIn60 ( talk) 17:50, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
There is only real achievements and not the way you labeled them as: “random achievements” But I will not bother anymore trying to prove anything. Radspeed ( talk) 09:04, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
Thanks, Nick, for pointing out the similar pages in other languages. I was looking all over for flags of different countries to indicated availability in different languages and overlooked the obvious list. I was able to the read the other page in Italian, a language I am not quite fluent but stumble with. It has similarities to mine but I think not as complete. I think I left a message on it's discussion or talk page as you indicated but when I submitted the message, I got an error message stating that I should leave my message on the talk page of the user or include a Ping command to the user in message on the discussion page of the Wikipedia page. I grabbed the name of the last user to edit the page and resubmitted it. I hope they see it. I will wait to see if I receive a reply before sending messages to the other languages, which will have to be in English. JiminiVecchio ( talk) 23:21, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi Nick, Profound greetings, Thanks for endowing me with such a decent information. SHISHIR DUA 17:59, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
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Hi Nick I am repharsing as you requested. I i.e. AMAN TUGNAWAT to create new Artificial Intelligence products inspired by the Google search engine. Which is the best AI in the world in my opinion. The reason for my last message not making sense is because I am trying to be cryptic here. AND THE THING IS YOU CAN'T EVEN VERIFY IF ITS AMAN TUGNAWAT talking you right now.
MangoX0XA ( talk) 01:24, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
Hi there. I saw you marked Tashtego as reviewed. I had come across the page earlier on NPP and restored the redirect. Most minor characters even in major literary works don't have their own pages. The particular reasoning for an exception in this case (categories) could apply to others as well. Asking you to reconsider the decision. Happy patrolling and Best, Barkeep49 ( talk) 01:35, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
[[|left|150px]] I'm here to return the favor! :)
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Development of design continues, full speed ahead...
Can you say " paradigm shift"?
Now, in addition to picture slideshows, we have slideshows that can display excerpts. Portals are not just for topic tasting anymore. Now they can be made useful for surveying Wikipedia's coverage of entire subjects. This gives a deeper meaning to their name. Hmmm. "Portals"... Doorways to knowledge.
Portal:Lithuania was redesigned using excerpt slideshows. Check it out.
For those of you who cannot wait to test out these new toys...
We have not one, but three excerpt slideshow components to pick from:
{{ Transclude excerpts as random slideshow}}
{{ Transclude list item excerpts as random slideshow}}
{{ Transclude linked excerpts as random slideshow}}
{{ Portal image banner}} displays a panoramic picture the width of the page, and adjusts its size, so it stays that way even if the user changes page view size. And it accepts multiple file names, so that the picture displayed randomizes between them each time the page is visited/purged.
Give resizing the page a try:
Before:
After:
Notice how the box bottoms line up. That readjusts even if you click the slideshow buttons.
The template used for this is {{ Flex columns}}.
By the way, when you include more than one box in a column, any left over whitespace in that column is divided between them.
You may have noticed the new {{ Box-header colour}} template used above. It lets you pick the color locally (right on the same page). Before, this was handled on a subpage somewhere.
Now that we have lots of toys to play with for making cool portals...
Don't forget, that the majority of views of Wikipedia these days are from mobile devices. We need to make certain that portals display well on those. So, remember to check your work on portals in mobile view mode...
To see a portal in mobile view mode, insert a ".m" into a portal's url, after "en", like this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Reptile
If you discover problems in a portal you can't fix, report them on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Design.
Have fun. — The Transhumanist 00:44, 27 July 2018 (UTC)
I Have change Draft:Yu Qiuyu, can you move this draft to article about Yu Qiuyu? Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 39.162.2.107 ( talk) 11:31, 28 July 2018 (UTC)
It was meant to be cookies but it changed into a goat because of a glitch. ^_^ You are noot ( talk) 17:25, 29 July 2018 (UTC)
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Now that we have lots of toys to play with, it's play time!
Here are some fun activities to use our new toys on...
Would you like to travel around the world? Well, this may be the next best thing...
Here's another fun toy to play with: {{ Portal image banner}}
To see what it looks like, check out the panoramas at the tops of the following portals:
The task: There are many geography portals that lack panoramas. Please add some. Please keep the file size down below 2 megabytes, and keep in mind that you may find quality banners at commons: at less than 200K (.2 megabytes). Good search terms to include with the place name are "banner", "cityscape", "skyline", "panorama", "landscape", etc.
Related task: There are also lots of geography portals that have panoramas used as gaudy banners (with print or icons splattered across them) or that display them in some random location on the page. In many cases, those pages would be improved by displaying the panorama as a clean picture at the top of the intro section, like on the examples above. This works best with banner-like panoramas. Please fix such pages when you come across them, if you believe it would improve the look of the page.
Taller images might be better suited displayed further down the page, or in the "Selected images" section.
Note that {{ Portal image banner}} supports multiple images, and displays one at random upon the first visit, and each time the page is purged.
That is, image slideshows!
Over 200 have been installed so far. Just 1200 to go. (Be sure not to install them on portals with active maintainers, unless they want you to).
The title "Selected images" reflects the fact that not all images on Wikipedia are pictures, and encompasses maps, graphs, diagrams, sketches, paintings, pictures, and so on.
The toys we have to work with for this are:
{{ Random slideshow}}
and
{{ Transclude files as random slideshow}}
The task: Using one of the above templates directly on a portal's base page, replace static "Selected picture" sections, with a section like one of these:
The one on the left uses {{ Random slideshow}} (which accepts file names), and the one on the right uses {{ Transclude files as random slideshow}} (which accepts source pages from which the filenames are gathered).
The above section formatting is used on many of the pages you will come across, but not all. In those cases, use whatever section formatting matches the rest of the page.
Note that you may come across "Selected picture" sections done with {{ Random portal component}} templates. That template call is the entire section. Replace it with a section that matches the other sections on the page, and put the new slideshow inside that.
For example, in Portal:California, this code:
{{Random portal component|max=21|seed=27|header=Selected picture|subpage=Selected picture}}
was replaced with this code:
{{/box-header|Selected images|noedit=yes}}
{{Transclude files as random slideshow
| {{PAGENAME}}
| Culture of {{PAGENAME}}
}}
{{Box-footer}}
And the new section blended right in with the formatting of the rest of the page. Note the use of the {{PAGENAME}}
magic word. Plain article titles also work. Don't feel limited to one or two page names. But be sure to test each slideshow before installing the next one. (Or if you prefer, in batches - just don't leave them hanging). Report technical problems at the
Portal design talk page.
These sections, where unmaintained, have gone stale. That's because 1) the excerpts are static, having been manually copied and pasted, and 2) because they lack automatic addition of new entries.
They can be upgraded with:
{{ Transclude random excerpt}}
or
{{ Transclude list item excerpt}}
or
{{ Transclude linked excerpt}}
All three of these will provide excerpts that won't go stale. The latter two can provide excerpt collections that won't go stale, by providing new entries over time. The key is to select source pages or source sections that are frequently updated, such as root article sections, mainstream lists, or navigation templates.
When the above tasks are completed for the entire collection of portals (except the ones with specific maintainers), we'll be more than half-way done with the portal system upgrade.
Keep up the great work. — The Transhumanist 19:14, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
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19:39, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
Hello. I have read your explanation for deleted article in my page. Only source from many revolutions history of Kievan Rus' is story of past years. This does not mean that corrections referring to it should be deleted. I also took description from one source. However, this is supported by many facts - campaign shifts the fact that Islam Gerei was often thrown out of throne and that, after year (1676), Turkish sultan had conflict with Cossacks ( Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks). The Shaolin Monk 20:04, 4 aug 2018 (UTC)
Hello to all! I do not intend to write a regular peer review newsletter but there does occasionally come a time when those interested in contributing to peer review should be contacted, and now is one. I've mailed this out to everyone on the peer review volunteers list, and some editors that have contributed to past discussions. Apologies if I've left you off or contacted you and you didn't want it. Next time there is a newsletter / mass message it will be opt in ( here), I'll talk about this below - but first:
The list is here in case you've forgotten: WP:PRV. Kadane has kindly offered to create a bot that will ping editors on the volunteers list with unanswered reviews in their chosen subject areas every so often. You can choose the time interval by changing the "contact" parameter. Options are "never", "monthly", "quarterly", "halfyearly", and "annually". For example:
{{PRV|JohnSmith|History of engineering|contact=monthly}}
- if placed in the "History" section, JohnSmith will receive an automatic update every month about unanswered peer reviews relating to history.{{PRV|JaneSmith|Mesopotamian geography, Norwegian fjords|contact=annually}}
- if placed in the "Geography" section, JaneSmith will receive an automatic update every yearly about unanswered peer reviews in the geography area.We can at this stage only use the broad peer review section titles to guide what reviews you'd like, but that's better than nothing! You can also set an interest in multiple separate subject areas that will be updated at different times.
I don't think we need a WikiProject with a giant bureaucracy nor all sorts of whiz-bang features. However over the last few years I've found there are times when it would have been useful to have a list of editors that would like to contribute to discussions about the peer review process (e.g. instructions, layout, automation, simplification etc.). Also, it can get kind of lonely on the talk page as I am (correct me if I'm wrong) the only regular contributor, with most editors moving on after 6 - 12 months.
So, I've decided to create " WikiProject Peer review". If you'd like to contribute to the WikiProject, or make yourself available for future newsletters or contact, please add yourself to the list of members.
We plan to do some advertising of peer review, to let editors know about it and how to volunteer to help, at a couple of different venues (Signpost, Village pump, Teahouse etc.) - but have been waiting until we get this bot + WikiProject set up so we have a way to help interested editors make more enduring contributions. So consider yourself forewarned!
And... that's it!
I wish you all well on your Wikivoyages, Tom (LT) ( talk) 00:31, 11 August 2018 (UTC)
You wrote: "As a retired museum curator, it's really great to see new articles being written about art and art history (and not the usual run of footballers, dull CEOs and minor companies that want to promote themselves here)." Yes. At least with the footballers we only have to verify whether they have played in a league that is considered fully professional. The minor companies are also easy: They are almost always good targets for G11. The dull CEOs are hard cases, because we have to determine whether the references are independent or just press releases and whether they meet general notability, which is not always a clear guideline. I also like to see articles on species (of insects or whatever), because if the species is properly documented, it is notable. Robert McClenon ( talk) 20:48, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
Since you asked, here are my thoughts on Articles for Creation. First, there are several editors who either talk about how the review process is broken and should be replaced by something else or merged into WP:NPP, or who talk, sometimes grandiosely, about improving the review process. Most of the big-talkers are not reviewers and are engaged in the usual Wikipedia custom of selecting a group of volunteers to whom you do not belong and dumping on them. The AFC process does have a considerable amount of brokenness. There is a backlog of 2000 articles so that submissions may wait as long as two months for review. Also, most of the submissions are crud, such as the minor companies that want to promote themselves, and people who think that Wikipedia is Facebook. However, I have not seen a plausible way to reduce that backlog. We could discontinue AFC, and let the submitters become auto-confirmed and then go directly to article space, but that would put the burden on NPP and speedy deletion and AFD to get rid of the crud. We could simply let the submitters go into article space, but that would go against WP:ACPERM and would be worse than the backlog. There are many claims that some reviewers are arbitrary and have unreasonable standards. That is true of any volunteer process, but we try to ensure quality of reviews. I don't expect there to be any significant changes to the review process in the near future, because the talk about changes consists mostly of wind. It is as good a time as many to get involved in the process. However, I will caution you, as mentioned, that there are two problems. First, most of the submissions are crud, and many of the submitters are clueless. Second, there is a lot of empty talk and of dumping on the reviewers. If you want to help out anyway, you are welcome. Robert McClenon ( talk) 20:40, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for the advice in your review of the Hypericum punctatum article. I've made the suggested changes and I'll try to keep the measurement advice in mind in the future as I tend to use many different units in one article. You suggested that I nominate the article for DYK and I'm willing to do any work involved but I'm quite unfamiliar with the DYK process. Thanks, Pagliaccious ( talk) 15:08, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
Discussions are underway on the design of a portal tool (user script) that will hopefully have features for modifying portals at the click of a menu item, to make editing them easier. It might do things like change the color for you, add to a selection, add a new section, move a section, and so on.
If you'd like to be involved and suggest features for the tool, please join us at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Design#What would you want a portal tool to be able to do?.
As new portal components are built by our Lua gurus, those components are being used to upgrade portals. Each component automates a section of a portal in a particular way.
The sections that are mostly upgraded so far are the Intro, and the Associated Wikimedia section.
The sections currently undergoing upgrade are: Selected image, Categories, and the Intro.
The Intro? Isn't that done already?
Yes, and no.
The upgrade of the excerpt in intros is mostly complete (there are about 70 non-standard portals that still need it).
Now we are doing another upgrade of intros in the form of adding a panoramic picture at the top of the intro, on portals for which such a picture is available on Commons:. Dozens of panoramas have been added so far, and they are really starting to affect the look of portals — the portals that have them look really good.
Regions are the most likely subjects to have panoramas, but a surprising number of other subjects have banner-shaped pictures too. Some examples of non-geographic portals that they have been added to are:
Speaking of pictures, several hundred Selected image sections have been upgraded to include image slideshows.
The push for automation continues, with new components under continuous testing in the field. As problems are spotted, they are reported to our programmers, who have done a fantastic job of keeping up with bug reports and fixing the relevant Lua modules fast. I am highly impressed.
Construction time on new portals is now down to as little as a minute or less. Though not in general. If you are lucky enough to spot portals that fit the profile of the new tools (their strengths), then a portal can be complete almost as soon as it is created, with the added time it takes to find and add a panorama. Source page titles are not generally standardized, and so it source pages in many cases must be entered manually. Where source page titles follow a standard naming convention, portal creation for those subjects goes quickly.
So, we still have some hurdles, but the outlook on portals is very good. New features, and many improvements to features are on the horizon. I'll be sure to report them when they become available.
What will the portal of the future look like? That is up to you!
See you on the project's talk pages.
Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 21:08, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
I talked to the author of Shipley Hall about moving the article to the namespace Shipley Country Park, but he didn't want that. I think the problem is that Shipley Hall is defunct and Shipley Country Park is alive. Obviously I still think that move is the best option, what do you think? Szzuk ( talk) 12:46, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
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Besides being dangerously close to being a case of
WP:Bite the newbies
WP:BITE, if you feel that there is "No evidence that a solitary bus [streetcar] stop is sufficiently notable to warrant its own page", then you need to prune
Category:Muni Metro stations.
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This issue is about portal creation...
Myself and others have been testing and experimenting with the new components in upgrading existing portals and in building new portals. They have now been applied in hundreds of portals.
The templates are ready for general use for portal creation.
They are still a bit buggy, but the only way we are going to work the rest of the bugs out is by using them and reporting the bugs as we come across them.
I look forward to seeing what new portals you create!
Be sure to report bugs at WT:WPPORTD.
The main portal creation template is {{ box portal skeleton}}.
After starting a portal using {{ box portal skeleton}}...
Check out the Did you know? section on Portal:Determinism. — The Transhumanist 02:22, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
I've tidied the refs but never added a google maps link. Szzuk ( talk) 21:58, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
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Hi Nick,
Thank you for your comment on my Talk page. I have made some improvements to the article, including species authorizations. Regards, Mill 1 ( talk) 07:13, 26 August 2018 (UTC) Regards, Mill 1 ( talk) 07:13, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
Hi Nick, Thanks so much for your comment on my talk page about Jessica Rosemary Shepherd and for reviewing the page. I totally agree, I think I went overboard with citations simply because I found so many... but yes it makes sense to be a bit more economical. I've already cut it back a bit and will get it looking a bit less overflowing later today. Goblin Roger House ( talk) 11:30, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
I noticed over at the Portals WikiProject that you have or use AWB (or JWB).
There are some tasks that have turned up that are perfect for AWB.
We have many new portals, and they need:
The new portals can be found on Category:Single-page portals along with some revamped ones. You'll need to use the skip feature of AWB.
If you have any questions, please {{ ping}} me, and ask them below. — The Transhumanist 01:59, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
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The one I declined is even closer to the deleted article than I expected. Thank you. Robert McClenon ( talk) 16:01, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
Many thanks for reviewing the page Podosphaera filipendulae. Much appreciated.-- MerielGJones ( talk) 08:49, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you Nick Moyesfor a wonderful edit. But,I really need the source. Please add the source in this edit. Have a wonderful day. Nihaal The Wikipedian ( talk) 07:39, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
It is already a stub class article . Nihaal The Wikipedian ( talk) 05:24, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
@ Graeme Bartlett and Nick Moyes: It is an article now. Help expand it. Nihaal The Wikipedian ( talk) 05:26, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
@ Graeme Bartlett: Messed it again. Help please. Nihaal The Wikipedian ( talk) 08:31, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
hi. it has now been over three months since our colloquy a while back, re editing practices. I just wanted to write briefly to make sure we will be able to start from this point on with a clean slate? in other words, that I have fully met the terms of any prior arrangements and restrictions?
with respect, I would like to think we could try to keep any future interactions to a minimum. also, with respect, now that we have reached this point in time, I would like to think that a clean slate could mean that any future interactions should not refer to any supposed past restrictions on my ability to edit, or to make proposals, or ideas, etc, at any venue,
i.e., I hope that I would now be able now be able to interact fully, without restrictions, in the same manner as any existing editor here at Wikipedia?
I am not planning to present any such proposals in the immediate future. however, I just wanted to confirm here that I have met the conditions of the arrangements that we agreed to above. based upon that, I would like to proceed from this point forward with, again, a clean slate, and no further reference to past actions, etc. I hope that sounds okay. I appreciate your understanding. thanks very much. cheers!
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Hi there, I noticed that you are one of the only active admins online right now, but I was wondering if you could look into Goatse.cx and provide urgent semi-protection to the page. It is being vandalized by a large number of new user accounts (likely sock puppets of each other) making the same edit and adding inappropriate images onto the page, causing a high level of disruption for the past half hour. Thanks, TribunalMan ( talk) 19:18, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi. Could please semi-protect Goatse.cx? Unfortunately, the request has gone unanswered, while the severe disruption continues. Thanks. M.Bitton ( talk) 19:22, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
Could you take a look at this draft please? It's by the same user (now soft blocked) who created Draft:Anime2012Mii , which you deleted, and several other deleted articles/drafts ( Hedgehox (Upcoming IP), Hedgehox Developer. Draft:Hedgehox). This one is never going to be an article either, and I'm concerned about leaving the personal information (names, ages, medical conditions) extant until a six-month G13 can be applied. One's a teen, and one's a kid. I can't see the content of the deleted articles, but I suspect it was just more of the same. I don't think we're doing the editor/s any favours by leaving this draft around in case they come back with a different account. Meters ( talk) 22:55, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
Nick, thanks for your help a while back at Talk:Blockbuster LLC. Looking for some additional insight on a recent post there. Aside from being uncivil, there is a clear UNDUE concern, and I wasn't sure if it would be appropriate to bring this up at WP:NPOVN as a next step of dispute resolution. Perhaps you have an alternate suggestion I should follow at this point? Thanks in advance. -- GoneIn60 ( talk) 17:50, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
There is only real achievements and not the way you labeled them as: “random achievements” But I will not bother anymore trying to prove anything. Radspeed ( talk) 09:04, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
Thanks, Nick, for pointing out the similar pages in other languages. I was looking all over for flags of different countries to indicated availability in different languages and overlooked the obvious list. I was able to the read the other page in Italian, a language I am not quite fluent but stumble with. It has similarities to mine but I think not as complete. I think I left a message on it's discussion or talk page as you indicated but when I submitted the message, I got an error message stating that I should leave my message on the talk page of the user or include a Ping command to the user in message on the discussion page of the Wikipedia page. I grabbed the name of the last user to edit the page and resubmitted it. I hope they see it. I will wait to see if I receive a reply before sending messages to the other languages, which will have to be in English. JiminiVecchio ( talk) 23:21, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi Nick, Profound greetings, Thanks for endowing me with such a decent information. SHISHIR DUA 17:59, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
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