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Dear Rosie,
I hope you are keeping well? On 26 September 2015, we exchanged
a few messages in which you kindly suggested:
If you ever want to collaborate on some article, pop by and let me know, i.e. know of any women musicians, singers, entertainers who are notable but aren't covered yet on Wikipedia?
Well, I have now drafted something about Emily Stipes Watts in
one of my sandboxes and I was wondering if I could impose on you with a gentle request to have a quick look at this very advanced draft, whenever convenient to you, and then kindly to advise me about the best course of action, please?
As you will notice if you scroll up to the previous section in that same sandbox, I am in the process of preparing a new section in the
Ernest Hemingway article, to cover the subject of Hemingway and the Arts (or some such section title). So, as I was looking for sources, I very quickly found her book and bought it straight away, so I could learn and develop the required encyclopedic prose.
Then, it occurred to me that it would be nice if our encyclopedia had a stub or article on her, and I then remembered your
Wikipedia:WikiProject Women activities and thought I'd seek your advice, as I don't often create articles from scratch.
Essentially, my project has now split into two sub-projects: first create a new article/stub on Emily Stipes Watts (if desirable), then update the Hemingway article with the new section on the Arts, for which I now have a handwritten draft. Obviously, the new Hemingway section would rely on ESW's book as its main source, and so I thought it'd be nice to have an article on her too.
There is no rush at all, Rosie, and I am very happy to wait as long as it takes for you to find the time required for this, in your very busy schedule.
Questions going through my mind right now are:
Very many thanks, in advance, for any advice you may offer, Rosie.
With kind regards;
Patrick. ツ
Pdebee.
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P.S.: I have now realized that you're away until 27 June, at which time I will be unavailable until 9 July. I can only apologize for my exceedingly bad timing (!), and hope that you will forgive me...
As I said above: there is no rush whatsoever, and we'll work on this together if you wish and whenever you feel like it. Until then, enjoy your conference and I wish you the greatest success with it.
With kindest regards;
Patrick. ツ
Pdebee.
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Smallbones( smalltalk) 14:38, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
I too thought you gave an excellent overview, clearly presenting all the key facts and the growing spirit of motivation and participation. I also found the cat, sitting exactly where one of ours also looks out on the world at our home in Luxembourg.-- Ipigott ( talk) 09:34, 18 June 2016 (UTC)
I'll check it out tomorrow, well done Rosie!!!♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:58, 18 June 2016 (UTC)
Save it for tomorrow morning and think of me! Safe travels to Italy! :-) Katie talk 20:24, 18 June 2016 (UTC) |
Best of luck dearest Rosie!♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:56, 18 June 2016 (UTC)
Haha, I'm sure it would never reach FA quality!! It would be good to have a GA on Papua New Guinea topic though!♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:32, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
There you go. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 11:30, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi Rosie. If you find the time, it would be great if you could send the invitation out by mass messaging. I'll try to follow up with a few additions although I'll be on the road all day tomorrow.-- Ipigott ( talk) 08:51, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
You are invited... | |
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Women in Halls of Fame worldwide online edit-a-thon
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-- Rosiestep ( talk) 09:01, 23 June 2016 (UTC) via MassMessage (To subscribe, Women in Red/Invite list. Unsubscribe, Women in Red/Opt-out list)
Done. -— Isarra ༆ 11:02, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
Oh famous one, thought you or a wikimania page stalker might feel like adding to this as it's local ;-) Time permitting of course! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:25, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
LOL!!! Honestly I didn't check your contributions at all!! I wouldn't have created a double! That's just spooky!! I saw it in the article and it wasn't linked! The Esino Lario one might be better than in Ortanella as that's only a frazione I think.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:19, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
@ Materialscientist: Can you sort out the editing history and merge Church of St. Pietro in Ortanella to Church of St. Pietro, Esino Lario so Rosie is credited?♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:46, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
Yeah I asked @ Materialscientist: to merge the histories, I took for granted he had done it!♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:50, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
Congrats on being honored " Wikipedian of the year" -- Tito Dutta ( talk) 19:29, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
You're officially mentioned in an encyclopedia article now!. I didn't create it!♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:42, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
All my love to you, dear Wiki-mom! <3 Keilana ( talk) 21:02, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
*Ok, I have made a good start; the official heritage entry was rather useless. Ideas for further work:
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Congrats, co-Wikimedian of the year! Well deserved, to both of you. Drmies ( talk) 00:13, 25 June 2016 (UTC) |
Wikipedia Ambassador Barnstar | ||
Dear Rosie;
Warmest congratulations on being named Wikipedian of the Year! This is a richly deserved accolade, in recognition of your extraordinary service to our encyclopedia and to your fellow editors. I could not be more delighted for you, and I wish you continued success in all your current and future projects, which I am sure will continue to have a profound, positive impact on Wikipedia. With kindest regards; Patrick. ツ Pdebee. (talk)( guestbook) 14:51, 25 June 2016 (UTC) |
This is indeed a great award, Rosie. And you really deserve it. Congratulations!-- Ipigott ( talk) 15:39, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
Yes, thoroughly deserved. I'd also argue that Ipigott deserves it!♦ Dr. Blofeld 06:29, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
Congratulations! I sign every single word written by Pdebee.-- Antidiskriminator ( talk) 11:11, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
Today is the first day I am back from my month-long journey and I was thrilled to see this! Congratulations! Well deserved and so happy that your dedication has been acknowledged. SusunW ( talk) 18:56, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
Wow! All the best! Smallbones( smalltalk) 02:35, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
Indeed, I think I offered congratulations somewhere, but can't recall where, so CONGRATULATIONS (again)! Montanabw (talk) 04:34, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
I want you to link and tag the talk page on the Martha Peterson article to wherever it needs to be placed. The Cross Bearer ( talk | contribs) 03:57, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi Rosie, It has been my pleasure meeting you! Wish you have made it home safe
May Hachem93 (
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21:20, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
Someone else has created an article about you (see here.) Just thought you should know. Everymorning (talk) 16:33, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
I thought this new article I just started may interest you: Jahna Lindemuth. I'd love to collaborate with you on it, as I know womens issues are close to your heart. Enjoy, and thanks! Juneau Mike ( talk) 01:24, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
I said I'd try to help with the documenting of new pages, and such. Could you link me to the sample data again? Adam Cuerden ( talk) 03:20, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
Alanna Shaikh. Montanabw (talk) 01:56, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
Hello friend,
A multilingual national-level edit-a-thon is being conducted at this moment with an aim to create or improve Punjab-related articles. A community that will create or expand the most number of articles during this edit-a-thon contest will be awarded a trophy during WikiConference India 2016. Best contributors' recognition may also be considered. We need your help here. Please
join right now as a participant and help your community.
Thanks and regards. --
Tito Dutta (
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I don't know how you created the template on the other halls of fame, but I just created North Carolina Women's Hall of Fame. Can you make the template so I can add it to the few articles which have already been created? As always, thanks so much for your expertise! SusunW ( talk) 18:02, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
Please see:
https://thegymter.net/gymnast-database/
The entire website (and I believe several others) concentrates on women's gymnastics and apparently has many fans. Remember the huge difference between male and female athlete BLP numbers. How do we get a few of their fans to write some articles over here? Smallbones( smalltalk) 21:56, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Rosie. I've spent the last two or three days trying to list the participants in June. Here's the result. I tried to start with the entertainers but then noticed that most people had participated in several areas. I have therefore tried to list the overall involvement of each editor. I was surprised to see how many had addressed other interests (especially art and writing) which were not a priority for the month. And I not sure how we should send out thank-yous. I think it will be far too complicated to send out separate thank-yous for enterainers, Jewish women, LGBT, scientists and other. Any ideas? (I also have a list of at least 30 more editors who probably accidentally became involved by writing just one article which happened to be about women.) While I was researching the list, I also added many more articles to the lists on the editathon pages. I think the listings now are more or less complete: 348 articles on Women in Entertainment, 55 on Women in Jewish History, 51 on LGBTQ Women, 93 on Women Scientists and around 300 more on women in other spheres. That means there were at least 800 new articles in June (and probably several hundred more on sports).-- Ipigott ( talk) 15:02, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
Greetings Rosiestep:
It appears you have participated in an editathon in the past. We are doing a mini research study involving past editathon participants to transform and improve Wikipedia.
If this sounds like something quick you would want to do this summer, please
sign up to our mini summer research program.
You can read more about our project here.
Together we can revolutionize Wikipedia!
Thanks & Cheers
Wiki crowdresearch ( talk) 15:22, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
Though most of its inductees are women, this one is not strictly a woman's hall of fame. Do we still want to create a template and if so, do you care to do it? There are pictures on each of the links if someone wanted to do fair use for each of the ones we have an article on that does not have a photo, but it took me three days just to create the list. Added to the September nurses' editathon redlist, maybe someone will be interested then. SusunW ( talk) 22:53, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
A barnstar for your contributions to our June 2016 editathons
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-- Ipigott ( talk) 14:05, 9 July 2016 (UTC)
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Don't look now, but you are on the Main page. I knew the DYK nomination had been checked, but wasn't aware when it was going to hit - to be frank there have been more interesting things on the internet today! [1] Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 12:56, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
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I am so proud of you, Rosie. You are an inspiration. Keep being awesome!!!!! Megalibrarygirl ( talk) 21:53, 11 July 2016 (UTC) |
Like --- Another Believer ( Talk) 22:03, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
You might find this rather satisfying just now. My #10wikicommonsdays, combined with Chris trying to promote notable Indonesians, has resulted in a likely Women-in-Red approved situation there. =) Adam Cuerden ( talk) 07:18, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
I've added an alternative here. Could you look it over? Thanks! Adam Cuerden ( talk) 08:45, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
Added what I could though most sources are in French. It would probably benefit from a fluent speaker working on it!♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:10, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
Just wondering if you have a few minutes and could take a look at Rosemarie Kuptana and fix whatever needs fixing. I don't usually create biographies. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 23:41, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
Everything from 2013 on, at least, is documented at User:Adam Cuerden#2016. And as you go back, you'll see why I'm making a conscious effort to do more restorations of women: I was very clearly part of the problem. I mean, I didn't mean to be, but I can do a lot better. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 01:25, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
Just checking whether you've still got the same email address as back in 2011. Schwede 66 08:49, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
Scan the lists of new content and see if you can spot what's different about July. ;) Adam Cuerden ( talk) 03:55, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
http://www.cisd.soas.ac.uk/research/women-and-the-un-charter,7990664
I'm just going to put this picture and that link here. I was working on this before you even told me about the United Nations editathon... Adam Cuerden ( talk) 04:18, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
Please join us... | |
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(To subscribe, Women in Red/Invite list. Unsubscribe, Women in Red/Opt-out list) Delivered by Rosiestep ( talk) via MassMessage 04:27, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
Hello Rosie. I have created a draft for WikiProject Women Writers at Wikipedia:WikiProject Women writers/sandbox. Please let me know what you think. Harej ( talk) 19:36, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
I have posted at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women writers#Proposed project design. Harej ( talk) 20:17, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
Since we are about a week out from the start of this editathon in August, I posted a note on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of Australia, about the upcoming event. When we do the invitations, can we make sure that one goes to each of these projects + Africa? Can I do anything to help? Create the sign-up sheet (what number are we on), maybe? SusunW ( talk) 17:13, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
Adam Cuerden ( talk) 11:14, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
You are invited... | |
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Indigenous women editathon &
Polar women editathon |
(To subscribe, Women in Red/Invite list. Unsubscribe, Women in Red/Opt-out list) -- Rosiestep ( talk) 21:08, 24 July 2016 (UTC) via MassMessage
On 28 July 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Palais de la Méditerranée, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Palais de la Méditerranée (pictured) was originally built for American millionaire Frank Jay Gould? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Palais de la Méditerranée. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Palais de la Méditerranée), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 12:16, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
Hi Roseistep, I don't want to clutter the current AN thread but notice you've commented there. I've often wondered this: do you think many people who translate articles from other WMF projects to en-WP actually check the sources etc. I worry about perpetuating rubbish across a multitude of projects and definitely did find some examples of that a few years ago. - Sitush ( talk) 13:53, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
The idea is to use a foreign wiki article as an initial template I think, translate material which is perfectly appropriate and encyclopedic and most importantly ensure that it is verifiable and properly sourced. The Intertranswiki project is supposed to be aimed more at identifying missing articles from other wikis and ensuring that they have an article in English. Most articles on other wikis are not well sourced, so it's rarely a good idea to fully copy. I know when I translate anything I always ensure that the information copied is checked externally to google web/book sources and that there is no original research. I am aware though that quite a few people do translate entirely from other wikis and sourcing might not always be up to scratch.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:54, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
Rosiestep, I assume you studied Spanish (I never did, and my Italian gets in the way). Did you plan to come back to the acting credits at teh end of this article? Have a look at the edit I just made; the translation tool rendered "Radio" as "Irradiate", translated someone's family name as "Monkey", and so on ... please check my work and see if I missed anything! I decided to simply omit 99% of the listings of others involved in the films, yadda yadda, which simplified the task somewhat, but I may well have mucked up. Yngvadottir ( talk) 17:12, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
Hello Rosiestep, My name is Stephanie Barker and I am a student at the University of Colorado Boulder. I am currently enrolled in a Digital Anthropology class, which attempts to answer how the digital world affects culture and how culture affects the digital world. For my final project I am doing an ethnography on women Wikipedia users and as a member of the WikiProject Women page I was hoping I could ask you some questions about your experiences editing Wikipedia pages. 1. Have you ever been locked into an intense editing war? If yes, please explain the situation to me. 2. How did you become interested in editing Wikipedia pages and did you have any initial fears/hesitations when you started editing pages? 3. Have you ever been a victim of a mass deletion or other vandalism on Wikipedia? If yes, please explain the situation to me. 4. How would you describe your gender? 5. Is there anything else you would like to share with me about your experiences as a Wikipedia editor? Thank you for taking the time to read this email. I would like you to know that I am only sharing my research with my professor and the other students in my class. If you would like me to send you a copy of my final project, I would be more than happy to! Sincerely, Stelba90 ( talk) 00:23, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
On 2 August 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Henri Negresco, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Henri Negresco founded the Hotel Negresco, which was used to aid victims of the 2016 Nice attack? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Henri Negresco. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Henri Negresco), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 01:41, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Rosiestep. 500 Club (Atlantic City, New Jersey), an article you either created or to which you significantly contributed,has been nominated to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page as part of Did you know . You can see the hook and the discussion here. You are welcome to participate! Thank you. APersonBot ( talk!) 12:01, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
As you can see, it's been featured. This means your article will be on the main page (eventually, think there's a two year delay) Adam Cuerden ( talk) 14:41, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
On 5 August 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 500 Club (Atlantic City, New Jersey), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that while top-name talent like Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Martin and Lewis performed at Atlantic City's 500 Club, an illegal casino operated behind the scenes? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/500 Club (Atlantic City, New Jersey). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, 500 Club (Atlantic City, New Jersey)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk, contributions) 13:07, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
This is just a reminder that Wikipedia:WikiProject England/The West Country Challenge kicks off today, with the first subject being Bristol. Please remember to post entries under your name at Wikipedia:WikiProject England/The West Country Challenge/Bristol. You are receiving this message because you are listed as a participant in the challenge.
Happy editing! -- MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 08:46, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
The first leg is Bristol. Names are to be added at the bottom of the Bristol page and articles listed. Please also make sure that you add entries you improve/start to the main list on the main page. There will be £10 to win each day for the most points accumulated and then the winner of the county crowned after three days. The overall winner will be decided from the points accumulated from each county round. If you're not interested in winning anything and want to contribute anything you want from the West Country this is fine too though. Best of luck!♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:58, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
Dear Rosie,
(By copy:
SusunW)
I hope you are keeping well and that you recovered fully from the sniffles of a few weeks ago?
Here is another article I have been improving recently, about the late musicologist
Hally Wood. I feel I've now achieved pretty much all I could on this one; so, when you have the time and inclination, please would you (and our friend SusunW) kindly look at it and sprinkle your customary magic upon it?
Thank you very much in advance.
In continued gratitude and with kindest regards;
Patrick. ツ
Pdebee.
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22:08, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
mediaWiki.loader.load( '//ru.wikipedia.org/?title=MediaWiki:WEF_AllEditors.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript' );
Dear
SusunW,
Thank you so much for taking the time and trouble to provide your detailed guidance (immediately above); you're so nice and thoughtful!
Thank you also for pointing out that Hally Wood's name had already been entered on Wikidata (I had never been there before and need to learn about it...). At least, we won't have to do it this time.
One question though, and please excuse my innocence of such things: when I look at the Authority control field at the bottom of the
Emily Stipes Watts article that you and Rosie completed recently, I can see it has three fields with links: "WorldCat Identities", "VIAF: 92845424" and "ISNI: 0000 0001 0998 3945". However, the
Hally Wood article only has the first two you kindly added yesterday, and is missing the 'ISNI' link; this is what prompted me to ask Rosie the initial query above, because that was the action she took for the Watts article. So, how do we add this 'ISNI' link into the Wood article, please? Or is it not needed? Thank you for your continued patience with me, and please only reply if/when convenient; no rush at all.
With kind regards; Patrick. ツ
Pdebee.
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16:27, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
Hi Rosiestep! I don't recall if we've interacted before on here. You're the only one with a WP username listed on the
WikiConference scholarships page, though, so here's my question: are scholarships intended to cover all round-trip travel, accommodations, and some daily living expenses
? Given travel from Midwestern US, do you think, say, US$1500 is a reasonable requested amount with return of unused funds and a grant-style breakdown/report of expenditures? (I don't need an "official" answer, just rough guidelines.) Thanks,
Kevin (aka
L235 ·
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Thanks for all the work you do in Wikipedia! Raystorm (¿Sí?) 13:41, 12 August 2016 (UTC) |
Greetings Rosiestep,
I saw the Signpost article concerning contacting you for more information about joining the team. I have been an avid reader of Wikipedia for around a decade now and a contributor (many of my edits minor and related to improving readability or removing graffiti) for almost as long. If you would be interested in talking more, please contact me via my talk page.
Hope to hear from you soon!
-Historic 66 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.98.101.2 ( talk) 21:21, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
Hey! Yes, that was me. Sorry I didn't sign the message properly. Would you prefer to talk here or via email? -- Historic 66 ( talk) 13:24, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
Hi Rosie. I though I should first seek you advice on drastically cutting back the length of the main WiR page. Although it consists of several separately editable sections, the whole page as displayed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red is now enormous. I would suggest cutting back the Events section to not more than the past three months with a link or collapse to the remainder. The Requests section contains a template to Women scientists but most of the articles to be created are already blue links. Can these not be deleted? The Showcase section is now far too long, particularly the DYK lists which run to 37 KB with listings running back to September 2015. Can these not be summarized, archived and/or collapsed? It's good to have the Featured Pictures but perhaps their size could be reduced, possibly with a link to a separate page. Perhaps you also have some suggestions on how to present the project more efficiently and attractively. Harej may also be able to come up with automatic archiving features. I await your response before acting too boldly but one solution might simply be to delete most of the dated info.-- Ipigott ( talk) 08:43, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
I'd get rid of the big DYK list, it just doesn't need to appear on the main page. Nor does the big list of past events. They're gone now. I'd fix it but the page is all controlled externally. That's the problem when you have a set up that you can't just simply edit... Things like a list of past events and DYKs belong on sub pages I think, a sub section of the main page and then a link to a subpage. You shouldn't have to ask somebody whenever you want to make changes, but this whole thing was designed by Harej in a way which most baffles me and most users it seems.♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:49, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
@ Rosiestep, Ipigott, Montanabw, Harej, and Dr. Blofeld: Looking at the present page, I'm not sure that archiving is necessarily the best option.
First, in this case, it's not straightforward process that it can be done by a bot. As it's not a talk page, you don't have chunks of text with a regular timestamp for a bot to examine and decide to archive, so you're going to have to do most of it manually. Second, I'm not exactly sure of the problem you're trying to solve. A large page is not in itself a problem: the problems are usually either difficulty in finding required content or slow response when editing. Is anybody having difficulty actually loading the parent page?
I've had a good look at the setup for Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red. The parent page transcludes 8 sub-pages:
Of these, Metrics has something built in that resembles an archive, but isn't. The content in the "archive" never appears on the page, so you have to follow a link to see what the metrics are based on. That's a good idea when hardly anybody wants to look at the content, but is not what you'd want for other content.
All but one of the other sub-pages are not large, namely: Events, Tasks, Press, Research, Resources and External links. Even if they grew, I'd still recommend using a collapsed section for convenience of the reader, just as you've done for "Prior months" in the Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Tasks #Redlink rounds section.
That leaves Showcase, which I agree would benefit from trimming. if there are no performance issues with loading and editing, then I'd recommend using a collapsed section for "Earlier Images" for the and "Prior months" for the DYKs. I've just made exemplar edits to do that for those two sections for you. To update, simply move the {{ collapse top}} further up when needed. However, if you are finding performance issues, then ping me and I'll set up some manual archiving for you. -- RexxS ( talk) 15:37, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
I've mocked up a scheme to show how you can separate out the large pages at Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/sandbox - the navigation could be customised and the landing pages for the large sub-pages changed to taste while keeping James' Project X scheme. See what you think of that, just as a first draft of what is possible. Cheers -- RexxS ( talk) 21:29, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
Doc's just started up this contest about topics and articles covering Classical Hollywood cinema. Do express if you are interested or not by signing up under the "Editors Interested" section. Thanks. — Ssven2 Speak 2 me 10:18, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
Hi Rosie. I've made a start on Women in Nursing but I'm still a bit confused about Meetup 22. Is it Women Labor Activists (which I prefer) or Blue-Collar Women as was also suggested? (I think both present minor problems for users outside North America but given the spelling of Labor, rather than Labour, I think we can go along with that. I'm not sure whether we are working with sponsors for either. Maybe you can handle the invitations via mass messaging, adding suitable illustrations if necessary. If you pressed for time, just let me know. You also mentioned not too long ago that you were thinking of re-initiating editathons on the popular topics of writers, artists, etc. Any further developments on this?-- Ipigott ( talk) 10:49, 26 August 2016 (UTC)
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Women in Nursing editathon &
Women Labor Activists editathon |
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Hi there. I've started a new initiative, the Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. It's a long term goal to bring about 10,000 article improvements to the UK and Ireland. Through two contests involving just six or seven weeks of editing so far we've produced over 1500 improvements. Long term if we have more people chipping it and adding articles they've edited independently as well from all areas of the UK then reaching that target is all possible. I think it would be an amazing achievement to see 10,000 article improvements by editors chipping in. If you support this and think you might want to contribute towards this long term please sign up in the Contributors section. No obligations, just post work on anything you feel like whenever you want, though try to avoid basic stubs if possible as we're trying to reduce the overall stub count and improve general comprehension and quality. So if you're doing work on British women or castles or something such add them to the list. Thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:30, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
Bay Area WikiSalon, Wednesday, August 31:
If you cannot join us in person tonight, we are streaming (and later archiving) the presentation by former EFF intern Marta Belcher. We expect her to be live starting between 6:30 or 6:45 p.m. PDT and talking and taking questions for about 30 minutes thereafter.
Here is the YouTube stream link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t8V79s2-og
Here is the link to join the Hangout on Air:
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You can search for it on the Commons and YouTube later too.
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Did you ever identify the town with multiple campaniles? I think I took photos of the town on the way back, which should give a name, but I haven't had time to go through my pictures yet. (Indeed I add more to my unprocessed collection every day.) I'm currently working on African female scientist stubs. I always hope stubs will encourage new editors, but I have no evidence for this eminently researchable hypothesis. All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough,
20:14, 3 September 2016 (UTC).
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to simpify this? Did that never happen? All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough,
11:31, 5 September 2016 (UTC).If you feel like a few minutes adding to Trewithen House and Hemmick Beach nomming, go for it! If too busy, no worries!♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:41, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
Hi Rosie. I'm really sorry to bother you on your talk page but as you have not responded to any of yesterday's discussions on this, I thought I should address you directly. I feel very guilty about bringing the Nigerian preliminary plans to the attention of WiR before they had clearly defined the arrangement for their contests. It now turns out that their first contest, Nigerian women entertainers, is planned very specifically to take place from 20 September to 19 October. Your encouragement for us to support Nigerian women with a wider mandate extending to the end of October led Megalibrarygirl immediately to publish a WiR23 editathon page at a time when I was trying to establish further details of the contest with the Nigerians. The initial work on the contest page came shortly afterwards. Understandably, Olaniyan Olushola is now upset that our efforts are moving attention away from the Nigerian efforts to WiR. To straighten things out, I think we should delete WiR23, or failing this fully adapt it to a notice announcing the Nigerian contest, clarifying the dates (20 September to 19 October) and the coverage (Nigerian entertainers). We should also build on the Nigerian list of red links rather than our own. I have invited Olaniyan to provide the text of an announcement we could post on our main page but have not yet had any response. I could draft something myself and send it to him for approval if I do not hear anything. I think we need to be very careful about our relations on Africa. Dr. Blofeld does not seem to be receiving very much support from Anthere (see here). Please try to get back to me as soon as you can on this.-- Ipigott ( talk) 09:12, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
I am speechless. So... the way you think our current disagreements will be solved is by resorting to fallacies and personal attacks on a fellow wikipedian ?!? Look, we have a honest disagreement on Challenge. Nothing wrong about that. In a normal world, this is done by honest talking. But here... I believe your behaviour is not acceptable ( Wikipedia:No personal attacks)
So, my suggestion will be that you apology to him now. Shola is a great person and one that rarely (if ever) get upset. He has a pleasant character easy to live with. You simply need to stop interfering and be a bit more respectful.
We are at a loss of what you are really trying to achieve here.
Anthere ( talk) 11:06, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
Hey Rosiestep, if you have a moment, or if your army of edits has a moment, Miriyam Aouragh needs a bit more material to flesh this out, esp. her biographical background. I'll go through the databases for reviews of her work, but whatever y'all can do to improve the article is greatly appreciated, including categories and links to the new article... Thanks! Drmies ( talk) 16:05, 15 September 2016 (UTC)
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Question - I came across the following Category:American female alpine skiers, and am having trouble determining where the bar is regarding notability. Some of these bios don't meet GNG such as this one Wendy Allen or does it? There are others in that category as well. Atsme 📞 📧 12:00, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
.... and if you look at the reference given or the versions in other languages then I would be very surprised if being the 2nd best skier in USA does not get you notability. The best way to test notability is to try and expand the article - which Ive started. Victuallers ( talk) 13:42, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
Thank you all for your prompt responses - much appreciated! Atsme 📞 📧 00:52, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
Ipigott, it appears the creator of the Wendy Allen bio I first mentioned was a dedicated stub creator, now retired User:Doma-w. I'm still of the mind that lists would serve a better purpose than 10,000 stubs about questionable notables, & then we can build from those lists. How are these stubs getting past AfC reviews? I was advised in a prior AfD discussion that being a purple heart recipient wasn't notable. I guess it's not a big deal to lose a limb saving lives which is why I was curious about where the sports bar was set for notability. I've seen multiple articles of relatively unknown fish species consisting of nothing more than a taxobox-style lead which I thought were better suited for Wikispecies but that didn't fly, either. I'm not that familiar with bot patrols or if we even have such a thing to sift through stubs with a single cited reference. I stumbled across the following AfD a while ago so it appears stubs are an issue: Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Mit_einem_Bein_im_Grab. Ironically, I've spent far more time than I thought necessary arguing at AfD over clearly notable women bios while all these stubs go unnoticed. Atsme 📞 📧 20:23, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
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Highly recommended film if you've not seen it, it's really quite an emotional experience! I had a tear in my eye near the end!♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:32, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
How to upload an LOGO by fair use? I did it yesterday, but apparently I did not do it right, so then remove the logo. Assaf ♦ talk 20:26, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
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Dear Rosie,
I hope you are keeping well? On 26 September 2015, we exchanged
a few messages in which you kindly suggested:
If you ever want to collaborate on some article, pop by and let me know, i.e. know of any women musicians, singers, entertainers who are notable but aren't covered yet on Wikipedia?
Well, I have now drafted something about Emily Stipes Watts in
one of my sandboxes and I was wondering if I could impose on you with a gentle request to have a quick look at this very advanced draft, whenever convenient to you, and then kindly to advise me about the best course of action, please?
As you will notice if you scroll up to the previous section in that same sandbox, I am in the process of preparing a new section in the
Ernest Hemingway article, to cover the subject of Hemingway and the Arts (or some such section title). So, as I was looking for sources, I very quickly found her book and bought it straight away, so I could learn and develop the required encyclopedic prose.
Then, it occurred to me that it would be nice if our encyclopedia had a stub or article on her, and I then remembered your
Wikipedia:WikiProject Women activities and thought I'd seek your advice, as I don't often create articles from scratch.
Essentially, my project has now split into two sub-projects: first create a new article/stub on Emily Stipes Watts (if desirable), then update the Hemingway article with the new section on the Arts, for which I now have a handwritten draft. Obviously, the new Hemingway section would rely on ESW's book as its main source, and so I thought it'd be nice to have an article on her too.
There is no rush at all, Rosie, and I am very happy to wait as long as it takes for you to find the time required for this, in your very busy schedule.
Questions going through my mind right now are:
Very many thanks, in advance, for any advice you may offer, Rosie.
With kind regards;
Patrick. ツ
Pdebee.
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guestbook)
19:33, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
P.S.: I have now realized that you're away until 27 June, at which time I will be unavailable until 9 July. I can only apologize for my exceedingly bad timing (!), and hope that you will forgive me...
As I said above: there is no rush whatsoever, and we'll work on this together if you wish and whenever you feel like it. Until then, enjoy your conference and I wish you the greatest success with it.
With kindest regards;
Patrick. ツ
Pdebee.
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20:04, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
Smallbones( smalltalk) 14:38, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
I too thought you gave an excellent overview, clearly presenting all the key facts and the growing spirit of motivation and participation. I also found the cat, sitting exactly where one of ours also looks out on the world at our home in Luxembourg.-- Ipigott ( talk) 09:34, 18 June 2016 (UTC)
I'll check it out tomorrow, well done Rosie!!!♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:58, 18 June 2016 (UTC)
Save it for tomorrow morning and think of me! Safe travels to Italy! :-) Katie talk 20:24, 18 June 2016 (UTC) |
Best of luck dearest Rosie!♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:56, 18 June 2016 (UTC)
Haha, I'm sure it would never reach FA quality!! It would be good to have a GA on Papua New Guinea topic though!♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:32, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
There you go. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 11:30, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi Rosie. If you find the time, it would be great if you could send the invitation out by mass messaging. I'll try to follow up with a few additions although I'll be on the road all day tomorrow.-- Ipigott ( talk) 08:51, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
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Done. -— Isarra ༆ 11:02, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
Oh famous one, thought you or a wikimania page stalker might feel like adding to this as it's local ;-) Time permitting of course! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:25, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
LOL!!! Honestly I didn't check your contributions at all!! I wouldn't have created a double! That's just spooky!! I saw it in the article and it wasn't linked! The Esino Lario one might be better than in Ortanella as that's only a frazione I think.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:19, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
@ Materialscientist: Can you sort out the editing history and merge Church of St. Pietro in Ortanella to Church of St. Pietro, Esino Lario so Rosie is credited?♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:46, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
Yeah I asked @ Materialscientist: to merge the histories, I took for granted he had done it!♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:50, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
Congrats on being honored " Wikipedian of the year" -- Tito Dutta ( talk) 19:29, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
You're officially mentioned in an encyclopedia article now!. I didn't create it!♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:42, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
All my love to you, dear Wiki-mom! <3 Keilana ( talk) 21:02, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
*Ok, I have made a good start; the official heritage entry was rather useless. Ideas for further work:
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Congrats, co-Wikimedian of the year! Well deserved, to both of you. Drmies ( talk) 00:13, 25 June 2016 (UTC) |
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Dear Rosie;
Warmest congratulations on being named Wikipedian of the Year! This is a richly deserved accolade, in recognition of your extraordinary service to our encyclopedia and to your fellow editors. I could not be more delighted for you, and I wish you continued success in all your current and future projects, which I am sure will continue to have a profound, positive impact on Wikipedia. With kindest regards; Patrick. ツ Pdebee. (talk)( guestbook) 14:51, 25 June 2016 (UTC) |
This is indeed a great award, Rosie. And you really deserve it. Congratulations!-- Ipigott ( talk) 15:39, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
Yes, thoroughly deserved. I'd also argue that Ipigott deserves it!♦ Dr. Blofeld 06:29, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
Congratulations! I sign every single word written by Pdebee.-- Antidiskriminator ( talk) 11:11, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
Today is the first day I am back from my month-long journey and I was thrilled to see this! Congratulations! Well deserved and so happy that your dedication has been acknowledged. SusunW ( talk) 18:56, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
Wow! All the best! Smallbones( smalltalk) 02:35, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
Indeed, I think I offered congratulations somewhere, but can't recall where, so CONGRATULATIONS (again)! Montanabw (talk) 04:34, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
I want you to link and tag the talk page on the Martha Peterson article to wherever it needs to be placed. The Cross Bearer ( talk | contribs) 03:57, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi Rosie, It has been my pleasure meeting you! Wish you have made it home safe
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Someone else has created an article about you (see here.) Just thought you should know. Everymorning (talk) 16:33, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
I thought this new article I just started may interest you: Jahna Lindemuth. I'd love to collaborate with you on it, as I know womens issues are close to your heart. Enjoy, and thanks! Juneau Mike ( talk) 01:24, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
I said I'd try to help with the documenting of new pages, and such. Could you link me to the sample data again? Adam Cuerden ( talk) 03:20, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
Alanna Shaikh. Montanabw (talk) 01:56, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
Hello friend,
A multilingual national-level edit-a-thon is being conducted at this moment with an aim to create or improve Punjab-related articles. A community that will create or expand the most number of articles during this edit-a-thon contest will be awarded a trophy during WikiConference India 2016. Best contributors' recognition may also be considered. We need your help here. Please
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I don't know how you created the template on the other halls of fame, but I just created North Carolina Women's Hall of Fame. Can you make the template so I can add it to the few articles which have already been created? As always, thanks so much for your expertise! SusunW ( talk) 18:02, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
Please see:
https://thegymter.net/gymnast-database/
The entire website (and I believe several others) concentrates on women's gymnastics and apparently has many fans. Remember the huge difference between male and female athlete BLP numbers. How do we get a few of their fans to write some articles over here? Smallbones( smalltalk) 21:56, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Rosie. I've spent the last two or three days trying to list the participants in June. Here's the result. I tried to start with the entertainers but then noticed that most people had participated in several areas. I have therefore tried to list the overall involvement of each editor. I was surprised to see how many had addressed other interests (especially art and writing) which were not a priority for the month. And I not sure how we should send out thank-yous. I think it will be far too complicated to send out separate thank-yous for enterainers, Jewish women, LGBT, scientists and other. Any ideas? (I also have a list of at least 30 more editors who probably accidentally became involved by writing just one article which happened to be about women.) While I was researching the list, I also added many more articles to the lists on the editathon pages. I think the listings now are more or less complete: 348 articles on Women in Entertainment, 55 on Women in Jewish History, 51 on LGBTQ Women, 93 on Women Scientists and around 300 more on women in other spheres. That means there were at least 800 new articles in June (and probably several hundred more on sports).-- Ipigott ( talk) 15:02, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
Greetings Rosiestep:
It appears you have participated in an editathon in the past. We are doing a mini research study involving past editathon participants to transform and improve Wikipedia.
If this sounds like something quick you would want to do this summer, please
sign up to our mini summer research program.
You can read more about our project here.
Together we can revolutionize Wikipedia!
Thanks & Cheers
Wiki crowdresearch ( talk) 15:22, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
Though most of its inductees are women, this one is not strictly a woman's hall of fame. Do we still want to create a template and if so, do you care to do it? There are pictures on each of the links if someone wanted to do fair use for each of the ones we have an article on that does not have a photo, but it took me three days just to create the list. Added to the September nurses' editathon redlist, maybe someone will be interested then. SusunW ( talk) 22:53, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
A barnstar for your contributions to our June 2016 editathons
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Don't look now, but you are on the Main page. I knew the DYK nomination had been checked, but wasn't aware when it was going to hit - to be frank there have been more interesting things on the internet today! [1] Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 12:56, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
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I am so proud of you, Rosie. You are an inspiration. Keep being awesome!!!!! Megalibrarygirl ( talk) 21:53, 11 July 2016 (UTC) |
Like --- Another Believer ( Talk) 22:03, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
You might find this rather satisfying just now. My #10wikicommonsdays, combined with Chris trying to promote notable Indonesians, has resulted in a likely Women-in-Red approved situation there. =) Adam Cuerden ( talk) 07:18, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
I've added an alternative here. Could you look it over? Thanks! Adam Cuerden ( talk) 08:45, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
Added what I could though most sources are in French. It would probably benefit from a fluent speaker working on it!♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:10, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
Just wondering if you have a few minutes and could take a look at Rosemarie Kuptana and fix whatever needs fixing. I don't usually create biographies. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 23:41, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
Everything from 2013 on, at least, is documented at User:Adam Cuerden#2016. And as you go back, you'll see why I'm making a conscious effort to do more restorations of women: I was very clearly part of the problem. I mean, I didn't mean to be, but I can do a lot better. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 01:25, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
Just checking whether you've still got the same email address as back in 2011. Schwede 66 08:49, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
Scan the lists of new content and see if you can spot what's different about July. ;) Adam Cuerden ( talk) 03:55, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
http://www.cisd.soas.ac.uk/research/women-and-the-un-charter,7990664
I'm just going to put this picture and that link here. I was working on this before you even told me about the United Nations editathon... Adam Cuerden ( talk) 04:18, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
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Hello Rosie. I have created a draft for WikiProject Women Writers at Wikipedia:WikiProject Women writers/sandbox. Please let me know what you think. Harej ( talk) 19:36, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
I have posted at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women writers#Proposed project design. Harej ( talk) 20:17, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
Since we are about a week out from the start of this editathon in August, I posted a note on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of Australia, about the upcoming event. When we do the invitations, can we make sure that one goes to each of these projects + Africa? Can I do anything to help? Create the sign-up sheet (what number are we on), maybe? SusunW ( talk) 17:13, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
Adam Cuerden ( talk) 11:14, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
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On 28 July 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Palais de la Méditerranée, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Palais de la Méditerranée (pictured) was originally built for American millionaire Frank Jay Gould? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Palais de la Méditerranée. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Palais de la Méditerranée), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 12:16, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
Hi Roseistep, I don't want to clutter the current AN thread but notice you've commented there. I've often wondered this: do you think many people who translate articles from other WMF projects to en-WP actually check the sources etc. I worry about perpetuating rubbish across a multitude of projects and definitely did find some examples of that a few years ago. - Sitush ( talk) 13:53, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
The idea is to use a foreign wiki article as an initial template I think, translate material which is perfectly appropriate and encyclopedic and most importantly ensure that it is verifiable and properly sourced. The Intertranswiki project is supposed to be aimed more at identifying missing articles from other wikis and ensuring that they have an article in English. Most articles on other wikis are not well sourced, so it's rarely a good idea to fully copy. I know when I translate anything I always ensure that the information copied is checked externally to google web/book sources and that there is no original research. I am aware though that quite a few people do translate entirely from other wikis and sourcing might not always be up to scratch.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:54, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
Rosiestep, I assume you studied Spanish (I never did, and my Italian gets in the way). Did you plan to come back to the acting credits at teh end of this article? Have a look at the edit I just made; the translation tool rendered "Radio" as "Irradiate", translated someone's family name as "Monkey", and so on ... please check my work and see if I missed anything! I decided to simply omit 99% of the listings of others involved in the films, yadda yadda, which simplified the task somewhat, but I may well have mucked up. Yngvadottir ( talk) 17:12, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
Hello Rosiestep, My name is Stephanie Barker and I am a student at the University of Colorado Boulder. I am currently enrolled in a Digital Anthropology class, which attempts to answer how the digital world affects culture and how culture affects the digital world. For my final project I am doing an ethnography on women Wikipedia users and as a member of the WikiProject Women page I was hoping I could ask you some questions about your experiences editing Wikipedia pages. 1. Have you ever been locked into an intense editing war? If yes, please explain the situation to me. 2. How did you become interested in editing Wikipedia pages and did you have any initial fears/hesitations when you started editing pages? 3. Have you ever been a victim of a mass deletion or other vandalism on Wikipedia? If yes, please explain the situation to me. 4. How would you describe your gender? 5. Is there anything else you would like to share with me about your experiences as a Wikipedia editor? Thank you for taking the time to read this email. I would like you to know that I am only sharing my research with my professor and the other students in my class. If you would like me to send you a copy of my final project, I would be more than happy to! Sincerely, Stelba90 ( talk) 00:23, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
On 2 August 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Henri Negresco, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Henri Negresco founded the Hotel Negresco, which was used to aid victims of the 2016 Nice attack? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Henri Negresco. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Henri Negresco), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 01:41, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Rosiestep. 500 Club (Atlantic City, New Jersey), an article you either created or to which you significantly contributed,has been nominated to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page as part of Did you know . You can see the hook and the discussion here. You are welcome to participate! Thank you. APersonBot ( talk!) 12:01, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
As you can see, it's been featured. This means your article will be on the main page (eventually, think there's a two year delay) Adam Cuerden ( talk) 14:41, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
On 5 August 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 500 Club (Atlantic City, New Jersey), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that while top-name talent like Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Martin and Lewis performed at Atlantic City's 500 Club, an illegal casino operated behind the scenes? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/500 Club (Atlantic City, New Jersey). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, 500 Club (Atlantic City, New Jersey)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk, contributions) 13:07, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
This is just a reminder that Wikipedia:WikiProject England/The West Country Challenge kicks off today, with the first subject being Bristol. Please remember to post entries under your name at Wikipedia:WikiProject England/The West Country Challenge/Bristol. You are receiving this message because you are listed as a participant in the challenge.
Happy editing! -- MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 08:46, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
The first leg is Bristol. Names are to be added at the bottom of the Bristol page and articles listed. Please also make sure that you add entries you improve/start to the main list on the main page. There will be £10 to win each day for the most points accumulated and then the winner of the county crowned after three days. The overall winner will be decided from the points accumulated from each county round. If you're not interested in winning anything and want to contribute anything you want from the West Country this is fine too though. Best of luck!♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:58, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
Dear Rosie,
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SusunW)
I hope you are keeping well and that you recovered fully from the sniffles of a few weeks ago?
Here is another article I have been improving recently, about the late musicologist
Hally Wood. I feel I've now achieved pretty much all I could on this one; so, when you have the time and inclination, please would you (and our friend SusunW) kindly look at it and sprinkle your customary magic upon it?
Thank you very much in advance.
In continued gratitude and with kindest regards;
Patrick. ツ
Pdebee.
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Dear
SusunW,
Thank you so much for taking the time and trouble to provide your detailed guidance (immediately above); you're so nice and thoughtful!
Thank you also for pointing out that Hally Wood's name had already been entered on Wikidata (I had never been there before and need to learn about it...). At least, we won't have to do it this time.
One question though, and please excuse my innocence of such things: when I look at the Authority control field at the bottom of the
Emily Stipes Watts article that you and Rosie completed recently, I can see it has three fields with links: "WorldCat Identities", "VIAF: 92845424" and "ISNI: 0000 0001 0998 3945". However, the
Hally Wood article only has the first two you kindly added yesterday, and is missing the 'ISNI' link; this is what prompted me to ask Rosie the initial query above, because that was the action she took for the Watts article. So, how do we add this 'ISNI' link into the Wood article, please? Or is it not needed? Thank you for your continued patience with me, and please only reply if/when convenient; no rush at all.
With kind regards; Patrick. ツ
Pdebee.
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Hi Rosiestep! I don't recall if we've interacted before on here. You're the only one with a WP username listed on the
WikiConference scholarships page, though, so here's my question: are scholarships intended to cover all round-trip travel, accommodations, and some daily living expenses
? Given travel from Midwestern US, do you think, say, US$1500 is a reasonable requested amount with return of unused funds and a grant-style breakdown/report of expenditures? (I don't need an "official" answer, just rough guidelines.) Thanks,
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Thanks for all the work you do in Wikipedia! Raystorm (¿Sí?) 13:41, 12 August 2016 (UTC) |
Greetings Rosiestep,
I saw the Signpost article concerning contacting you for more information about joining the team. I have been an avid reader of Wikipedia for around a decade now and a contributor (many of my edits minor and related to improving readability or removing graffiti) for almost as long. If you would be interested in talking more, please contact me via my talk page.
Hope to hear from you soon!
-Historic 66 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.98.101.2 ( talk) 21:21, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
Hey! Yes, that was me. Sorry I didn't sign the message properly. Would you prefer to talk here or via email? -- Historic 66 ( talk) 13:24, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
Hi Rosie. I though I should first seek you advice on drastically cutting back the length of the main WiR page. Although it consists of several separately editable sections, the whole page as displayed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red is now enormous. I would suggest cutting back the Events section to not more than the past three months with a link or collapse to the remainder. The Requests section contains a template to Women scientists but most of the articles to be created are already blue links. Can these not be deleted? The Showcase section is now far too long, particularly the DYK lists which run to 37 KB with listings running back to September 2015. Can these not be summarized, archived and/or collapsed? It's good to have the Featured Pictures but perhaps their size could be reduced, possibly with a link to a separate page. Perhaps you also have some suggestions on how to present the project more efficiently and attractively. Harej may also be able to come up with automatic archiving features. I await your response before acting too boldly but one solution might simply be to delete most of the dated info.-- Ipigott ( talk) 08:43, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
I'd get rid of the big DYK list, it just doesn't need to appear on the main page. Nor does the big list of past events. They're gone now. I'd fix it but the page is all controlled externally. That's the problem when you have a set up that you can't just simply edit... Things like a list of past events and DYKs belong on sub pages I think, a sub section of the main page and then a link to a subpage. You shouldn't have to ask somebody whenever you want to make changes, but this whole thing was designed by Harej in a way which most baffles me and most users it seems.♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:49, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
@ Rosiestep, Ipigott, Montanabw, Harej, and Dr. Blofeld: Looking at the present page, I'm not sure that archiving is necessarily the best option.
First, in this case, it's not straightforward process that it can be done by a bot. As it's not a talk page, you don't have chunks of text with a regular timestamp for a bot to examine and decide to archive, so you're going to have to do most of it manually. Second, I'm not exactly sure of the problem you're trying to solve. A large page is not in itself a problem: the problems are usually either difficulty in finding required content or slow response when editing. Is anybody having difficulty actually loading the parent page?
I've had a good look at the setup for Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red. The parent page transcludes 8 sub-pages:
Of these, Metrics has something built in that resembles an archive, but isn't. The content in the "archive" never appears on the page, so you have to follow a link to see what the metrics are based on. That's a good idea when hardly anybody wants to look at the content, but is not what you'd want for other content.
All but one of the other sub-pages are not large, namely: Events, Tasks, Press, Research, Resources and External links. Even if they grew, I'd still recommend using a collapsed section for convenience of the reader, just as you've done for "Prior months" in the Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Tasks #Redlink rounds section.
That leaves Showcase, which I agree would benefit from trimming. if there are no performance issues with loading and editing, then I'd recommend using a collapsed section for "Earlier Images" for the and "Prior months" for the DYKs. I've just made exemplar edits to do that for those two sections for you. To update, simply move the {{ collapse top}} further up when needed. However, if you are finding performance issues, then ping me and I'll set up some manual archiving for you. -- RexxS ( talk) 15:37, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
I've mocked up a scheme to show how you can separate out the large pages at Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/sandbox - the navigation could be customised and the landing pages for the large sub-pages changed to taste while keeping James' Project X scheme. See what you think of that, just as a first draft of what is possible. Cheers -- RexxS ( talk) 21:29, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
Doc's just started up this contest about topics and articles covering Classical Hollywood cinema. Do express if you are interested or not by signing up under the "Editors Interested" section. Thanks. — Ssven2 Speak 2 me 10:18, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
Hi Rosie. I've made a start on Women in Nursing but I'm still a bit confused about Meetup 22. Is it Women Labor Activists (which I prefer) or Blue-Collar Women as was also suggested? (I think both present minor problems for users outside North America but given the spelling of Labor, rather than Labour, I think we can go along with that. I'm not sure whether we are working with sponsors for either. Maybe you can handle the invitations via mass messaging, adding suitable illustrations if necessary. If you pressed for time, just let me know. You also mentioned not too long ago that you were thinking of re-initiating editathons on the popular topics of writers, artists, etc. Any further developments on this?-- Ipigott ( talk) 10:49, 26 August 2016 (UTC)
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Hi there. I've started a new initiative, the Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. It's a long term goal to bring about 10,000 article improvements to the UK and Ireland. Through two contests involving just six or seven weeks of editing so far we've produced over 1500 improvements. Long term if we have more people chipping it and adding articles they've edited independently as well from all areas of the UK then reaching that target is all possible. I think it would be an amazing achievement to see 10,000 article improvements by editors chipping in. If you support this and think you might want to contribute towards this long term please sign up in the Contributors section. No obligations, just post work on anything you feel like whenever you want, though try to avoid basic stubs if possible as we're trying to reduce the overall stub count and improve general comprehension and quality. So if you're doing work on British women or castles or something such add them to the list. Thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:30, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
Bay Area WikiSalon, Wednesday, August 31:
If you cannot join us in person tonight, we are streaming (and later archiving) the presentation by former EFF intern Marta Belcher. We expect her to be live starting between 6:30 or 6:45 p.m. PDT and talking and taking questions for about 30 minutes thereafter.
Here is the YouTube stream link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t8V79s2-og
Here is the link to join the Hangout on Air:
https://hangouts.google.com/call/ezrol7dafjfwxfh2ilpkjyxoaue
You can search for it on the Commons and YouTube later too.
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Did you ever identify the town with multiple campaniles? I think I took photos of the town on the way back, which should give a name, but I haven't had time to go through my pictures yet. (Indeed I add more to my unprocessed collection every day.) I'm currently working on African female scientist stubs. I always hope stubs will encourage new editors, but I have no evidence for this eminently researchable hypothesis. All the best:
Rich
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20:14, 3 September 2016 (UTC).
{{
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to simpify this? Did that never happen? All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough,
11:31, 5 September 2016 (UTC).If you feel like a few minutes adding to Trewithen House and Hemmick Beach nomming, go for it! If too busy, no worries!♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:41, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
Hi Rosie. I'm really sorry to bother you on your talk page but as you have not responded to any of yesterday's discussions on this, I thought I should address you directly. I feel very guilty about bringing the Nigerian preliminary plans to the attention of WiR before they had clearly defined the arrangement for their contests. It now turns out that their first contest, Nigerian women entertainers, is planned very specifically to take place from 20 September to 19 October. Your encouragement for us to support Nigerian women with a wider mandate extending to the end of October led Megalibrarygirl immediately to publish a WiR23 editathon page at a time when I was trying to establish further details of the contest with the Nigerians. The initial work on the contest page came shortly afterwards. Understandably, Olaniyan Olushola is now upset that our efforts are moving attention away from the Nigerian efforts to WiR. To straighten things out, I think we should delete WiR23, or failing this fully adapt it to a notice announcing the Nigerian contest, clarifying the dates (20 September to 19 October) and the coverage (Nigerian entertainers). We should also build on the Nigerian list of red links rather than our own. I have invited Olaniyan to provide the text of an announcement we could post on our main page but have not yet had any response. I could draft something myself and send it to him for approval if I do not hear anything. I think we need to be very careful about our relations on Africa. Dr. Blofeld does not seem to be receiving very much support from Anthere (see here). Please try to get back to me as soon as you can on this.-- Ipigott ( talk) 09:12, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
I am speechless. So... the way you think our current disagreements will be solved is by resorting to fallacies and personal attacks on a fellow wikipedian ?!? Look, we have a honest disagreement on Challenge. Nothing wrong about that. In a normal world, this is done by honest talking. But here... I believe your behaviour is not acceptable ( Wikipedia:No personal attacks)
So, my suggestion will be that you apology to him now. Shola is a great person and one that rarely (if ever) get upset. He has a pleasant character easy to live with. You simply need to stop interfering and be a bit more respectful.
We are at a loss of what you are really trying to achieve here.
Anthere ( talk) 11:06, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
Hey Rosiestep, if you have a moment, or if your army of edits has a moment, Miriyam Aouragh needs a bit more material to flesh this out, esp. her biographical background. I'll go through the databases for reviews of her work, but whatever y'all can do to improve the article is greatly appreciated, including categories and links to the new article... Thanks! Drmies ( talk) 16:05, 15 September 2016 (UTC)
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Question - I came across the following Category:American female alpine skiers, and am having trouble determining where the bar is regarding notability. Some of these bios don't meet GNG such as this one Wendy Allen or does it? There are others in that category as well. Atsme 📞 📧 12:00, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
.... and if you look at the reference given or the versions in other languages then I would be very surprised if being the 2nd best skier in USA does not get you notability. The best way to test notability is to try and expand the article - which Ive started. Victuallers ( talk) 13:42, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
Thank you all for your prompt responses - much appreciated! Atsme 📞 📧 00:52, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
Ipigott, it appears the creator of the Wendy Allen bio I first mentioned was a dedicated stub creator, now retired User:Doma-w. I'm still of the mind that lists would serve a better purpose than 10,000 stubs about questionable notables, & then we can build from those lists. How are these stubs getting past AfC reviews? I was advised in a prior AfD discussion that being a purple heart recipient wasn't notable. I guess it's not a big deal to lose a limb saving lives which is why I was curious about where the sports bar was set for notability. I've seen multiple articles of relatively unknown fish species consisting of nothing more than a taxobox-style lead which I thought were better suited for Wikispecies but that didn't fly, either. I'm not that familiar with bot patrols or if we even have such a thing to sift through stubs with a single cited reference. I stumbled across the following AfD a while ago so it appears stubs are an issue: Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Mit_einem_Bein_im_Grab. Ironically, I've spent far more time than I thought necessary arguing at AfD over clearly notable women bios while all these stubs go unnoticed. Atsme 📞 📧 20:23, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Rosie. I've created editathon pages for our two October editathons. If you have a moment over the next day or two, you could send the Invitation out by mass messaging.-- Ipigott ( talk) 14:41, 24 September 2016 (UTC)
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Highly recommended film if you've not seen it, it's really quite an emotional experience! I had a tear in my eye near the end!♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:32, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
How to upload an LOGO by fair use? I did it yesterday, but apparently I did not do it right, so then remove the logo. Assaf ♦ talk 20:26, 28 September 2016 (UTC)