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Thanks for adding your user boxes to the list! Could you please categorize them?
Just add the following on the end:
<noinclude> [[Category:Food user templates| ]] </noinclude>
<noinclude> [[Category:xxx user templates| ]] </noinclude>
Replace the xxx with they type it is, eg law, business etc...
-- Jeremy ( blah blah) 18:12, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
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I just collected it under
Animation. But I do like it.--
Editor510
drop us a line, mate 18:34, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
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The Original Barnstar | |
I give you a barnie, and an honourary autograph. Editor510 drop us a line, mate |
I was just watching at the so many and creative userboxes that you have made, and I wanted to ask you: How many flavours are you intend to have in the flavoured userbox? (just in case that many could cause some kind of problem). I ask you this, because I read the message of [If you wish to use another flavour, either create a new userbox or request it be added here on the Talk page] and I thought that since I can make my owns, your Flavour-shifting userbox is much more creative and more of my like.
By the way, which is your top-favorite most beloved fruit? (if you don´t remember, I sugested the dragon fruit flavour) - Damërung ...ÏìíÏ... _ΞΞΞ_ . -- 22:53, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
Hey! Getting back to your message: "Some comments on your userpage (mostly the ones by Scott) have inspired me to make a the userbox below. You might be interested in adding it to your page/telling your friend Scott about it, so I thought I'd let you know." It got a good laugh out of me. Keep up the good work. Let me go find the template for the userbox barnstar and give it to you. Lukefan3 ( talk) 02:57, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
Absolutely yes! I would love for you to adopt me. Right now, I need help on Wikitext editing. With the kind assistance of another user I was able to create an article stub Valle de Chalco, but now I need to expand it. I have been referring to the Wikipedia Tutorial, as well as using editing sections of some existing articles as templates. But I am still having problems, e.g. editing code, even when pasted in from another article, does not yield the desired result. Thanks so much for any assistance you can give me, now and in the future. By the way, should I fill in an Edit Summary for my response to your offer? Not sure of the etiquette here. Escuincla ( talk) 16:14, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for offering to adopt me. I'm in much the same situation as Escuincla in that I love Wikipedia but am a complete novice at editing it. I have used Wikipedia for ages but am only now feeling that I am able to 'give back', and I don't want to mess anything up. I have considered where to start and find that I am spending all my time reading and very little time editing. I am thinging that I might start a new article on a Minneapolis Theater company that I am quite familiar with, but I don't know if it's too small to be included. The founder is a nationally known playwright who is in need of an entry, but again I'm wondering how 'famous' someone must be to have an enty. How do I know if a person warrants a new entry of their own? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sabiona ( talk • contribs) 15:27, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi,
I need help from an experienced Wikipedian, and I saw your name over at WP:ADOPT.
I need your advice concerning WP:WPOOK, which I've been coordinating. The set of pages the project concerns is listed at Portal:Contents/Outline of knowledge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Outline of knowledge#Projected outline, and has grown to about 500 articles in the encyclopedia.
The goals of the WikiProject are:
I'm very interested in your comments on how to achieve these goals.
Also I'm interested in every possible way of reaching readers and editors of Wikipedia. How can I get the most eyes and typing fingers on Wikipedia's outlines? Contacting editors directly without a reason relevant to them is spam, which I'd like to avoid. There are 75,000 regular editors on Wikipedia, and I want to contact all of them. So how do I do it? Directly or indirectly, I don't care which, piecemeal or all-at-once, all methods are fine with me. But I've got to find ways. I need your help.
I would also like to know how to find or attract editors to create new outlines. And I need advice on finding editors to help write the new outline article mentioned above (it needs to be fleshed out, completely referenced, and brought to featured article status).
Please recommend anyone you know who might be interested in sinking their teeth into a project like this. Or ways to reach groups of editors. Or ways to reach all editors. I welcome any and all recommendations and advice you might have.
And any thoughts on attaining the WikiProject goals above.
I look forward to your reply on my talk page.
The Transhumanist 03:47, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
I've passed your suggestions on as tasks for our graphics guy. He's very good. He created these for some contests we're planning to host for the development of the country outlines:
I've posted a proposal for a contest at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countries#Country outline contest proposal.
If you have time, please take a look. I'd sure love to read any ideas you might have.
The Transhumanist 02:58, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
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WikiUserboxer Award | |
For achievement in creating new humorous usersboxes, especially Knows too much, pointless and Mandelbrot . - Ahunt ( talk) 12:29, 9 June 2009 (UTC) |
Thank you for your advice. We're putting it to good use.
I've run into a situation, and need your valuable insight.
One thing I've tried to do with respect to the outlines is place a hatnote on subject articles leading to that subject's corresponding outline.
Two people complained, and form the basis of consensus not to do it.
The main concern was quality: a hatnote shouldn't be placed unless the outline is of at least the same or higher quality than the article the hatnote is being placed on. That sets up a catch-22, since we need the best linking we can to attract readers and editors in the first place. The more traffic, the more feedback and changes.
So quality is the focus.
Please have a look at the outlines.
What are the biggest quality issues? What do the outlines need done to them in order to improve their quality?
I look forward to your reply on my talk page.
The Transhumanist 22:37, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
If you're having troubles with a hatnote at the tope of the page, why don't you add it further down, in the See Also section, as with Exercise. This doesn't draw quite as much attention, but does help improve awareness of the outline system, and will probably be noticed by most editors interested in the topic. Also, since the link is less prominent, there should be fewer concerns over quality. I would also suggest adding a note on the Talk page - or perhaps a template to be placed with the Project boxes - to advertise the article's relevant outline and suggest editors contribute. For example:
Creating a template with this (or similar) text and a variable link would make it easy for Project members to tag articles, and since many highly important topics would be included, awareness should rapidly improve. Making a template shouldn't be hard if you study some existing project boxes first - in fact, I would be happy to make one for you if you want.
I hope these suggestions help! If you need any more suggestions, let me know at my Talk page. strdst_grl (call me Stardust) 10:05, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
Is it perfect? Can it be improved?
Penubag loves feedback. Please let him know if it can be further improved.
Thank you.
The Transhumanist 23:01, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
Several members of the WikiProject have been hard at work.
Buaidh has been building and refining the outlines on the U.S. States, the states' historical outlines, and the Historical outline of the United States. Lately, his edits have dominated the project's watchlist readout. (I think he's overdue for a barnstar or two. hint hint)
Penubag has been working on medals for all the main branches of the OOK, and has completed the OOK WikiProject's animated advert banner (see below).
Highfields has been filling in the currencies for each country on their respective outlines.
NuclearWarfare and Thehelpfulone have been busy with WP:AWB, posting banners and notices, and helping our sister project, the Index WikiProject, get established. Indexes work hand-in-hand with the outlines and are prominently linked to from the top of most of them. And the outlines, which serve as tables of contents, are only as good as the pages they link to.
Since we started integrating (linking) the OOK and its support pages into the encyclopedia and into the Wikipedia community, activity on outlines has been increasing. Though there's still much left to do.
But I digress. There are a couple more...
Stefan is building the Outline of sharks.
MacMed has joined our advanced wiki-tools team, and is currently adding links to outlines in the corresponding subject articles' see also sections.
Be sure to stop by their talk pages and say "hi".
Penubag has finished this WikiProject's animated advert banner, and it is now being displayed on the Wikipedia ads template which in turn is displayed on about 2000 user pages. Each time someone access one of those pages, there is a 1 in 184 chance of them viewing this:
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Wikipedia ads | file info – #184 |
If you'd like to display the banner on your userpage locked-on to the ad as above, use the following code:
{{Wikipedia ads|ad=184}}
(By the way, it's been awhile since we've barnstarred Penubag).
If you haven't already, please add the entire project's watchlist to your watchlist. Here's how:
I forgot to mention this step above. :)
I can't make heads or tails of 'em, but these links were on Portal:Contents/Outline of knowledge:
I discovered an AfD discussion on possibly the first article named "Outline of", which was called Outline of Islamic and Muslim related topics, and which was created 4 years ago. Of course they deleted it. But now it has many friends, and so it has risen from the dead. :)
See the DRV discussion at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2009 June 7#Outline of Islamic and Muslim related topics.
Recruiters needed. Drop me a note if you are interested.
I'm impressed with the level of enthusiasm and work going into the outlines. I'm proud to be working with each of you.
The Transhumanist 21:57, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
Hey, are you interested in creating another "super-userbox"? I'd like to clean out some old boxes from my userspace. They could also use some touch-ups (colours and the like) if you're interested. – xeno talk 04:31, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
This outline is approaching completion.
I added a bunch more links, finding them with the following Google site-specific searches of Wikipedia:
(You can use the wikicode for the links above as the basis for new searches - just replace "Gibraltar" with any other country or region name).
The redlinks need to be bluelinked where possible. The most useful way is to create redirects leading to the material (which is usually included in a section of an article - see Wikipedia:Redirect#Redirects to page sections. That way, when the redirect pages are replaced by the actual articles, the links will already point to the right places.
Please take a crack at it, and bluelink a few.
Thank you.
Good luck.
Have fun.
The Transhumanist 00:51, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
That was fun. :)
The Transhumanist 23:49, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
Work is proceeding apace...
The current consensus is that we can't place a hatnote leading to an outline at the top of a subject articles unless the outline being presented is of at least the same quality-level as the article.
Improve outline quality by completing them.
Place hatnotes for the outlines of high enough quality.
Guidelines pertaining to outlines need to be updated. Outlines emerged as a class of pages only a few months ago, and most of the relevant guidelines don't cover them specifically. For example, Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists is incredibly out of date.
Invite wikignomes, wikielves, and wikifairies (all 2500+ of them) to help on the outlines .
Identify 600 more subjects with coverage extensive enough to justify outlines, create rudimentary drafts for them, and post notices to the corresponding WikiProjects and subject talk pages to help build them.
Convert outlines titled "List of" to outline articles, and add them to the OOK. There are a few hundred of these. Conversion instructions are needed.
Add a description of outlines to About Wikipedia and Wikipedia:Basic navigation, and add tips about outlines to the WP:TOTD and Tips library.
The Transhumanist 20:27, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
Minnecologies has done an incredible amount of work on Outline of forestry and posted a note to me on my talk page requesting feedback.
I've posted my observations at Talk:Outline of forestry#Finished outline review.
Please take a look at the outline and let Minnecologies know what you think of it on the outline's talk page.
Thank you.
The Transhumanist 19:37, 29 June 2009 (UTC) Delivered by JCbot ( talk) at 20:17, 29 June 2009 (UTC).
Thank you for your previous advice.
We've been integrating the OOK into the encyclopedia. Hatnotes were rejected (until outline quality improves), but we've been adding links to see also sections.
As a result of the increased exposure due to these internal links and to banners placed on WikiProject talk and subject talk pages, contribution to outlines and participation in WP:WPOOK has increased a lot.
Unfortunately, a fair amount of opposition has risen as well. I expected some of this.
But, one of the opposers is getting very devious, using tricks like venue shopping WP:AN and WP:ANI - he has over 123,456 edits, so he has to know those were not the appropriate place to post notices of this type. It was a backhanded tactic. But not as bad as the way he presents his case - I'm finding his rhetoric very difficult to deal with.
Here's a list of the incidents and discussions regarding outlines.
What I need is advice on improving outline support pages (instructions, descriptions, etc., and how they are organized) so that editors who come into the middle of this chaos can make quick sense of outlines and how they fit into the big picture (and how they relate to the other parts of Wikipedia). There's a lot of confusion between outlines and portals, for instance.
Here's a directory of outline-related pages.
I very much look forward to your insights.
The Transhumanist 17:16, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
I'm sorry that I haven't been available to assign tasks lately. For the past 3 days (not including today) I've been almost totally consumed in discussions concerning the location and very existence of outlines. Today I finally broke free and got back to work on outlines. Felt good.
A great deal has been happening with outlines and behind the scenes. I just don't have time to tell you all about it this time around. Here's the best I can do...
If you'd like a bird's eye view of everything that's happening with respect to outlines, see this page:
Or go to these pages (and click on "Related changes" in the sidebar's toolbox menu):
These outline articles, which were named "List of...", have been converted to an OOK format:
There are a lot of "List of" articles that are outlines. Some of them are on the same subjects as the "Outline of" articles. The following one have been recently merged:
The Transhumanist 01:14, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
I'm sorry that I haven't been available to assign tasks lately. For the past 3 days (not including today) I've been almost totally consumed in discussions concerning the location and very existence of outlines. Today I finally broke free and got back to work on outlines. Felt good.
A great deal has been happening with outlines and behind the scenes. I just don't have time to tell you all about it this time around. Here's the best I can do...
If you'd like a bird's eye view of everything that's happening with respect to outlines, see this page:
Or go to these pages (and click on "Related changes" in the sidebar's toolbox menu):
These outline articles, which were named "List of...", have been converted to an OOK format:
There are a lot of "List of" articles that are outlines. Some of them are on the same subjects as the "Outline of" articles. The following one have been recently merged:
The Transhumanist 01:14, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Phase two of outline integration (de-orphanizing outlines by adding links leading to them into article see also sections) is nearly complete. The better that outlines are integrated into the encyclopedia, the more use they will be to readers.
Due to greater exposure through outline integration, and with most of the OOK team on school summer vacation, development activity on outlines has increased a lot...
Thank you.
Here's what else has been going on...
There are a lot of contradictions in guidelines related to outlines. I'll be turning my attention to fixing those.
The number of "Outline of" articles is rapidly catching up to portals, and will probably pass them by the end of the summer!
Keep up the excellent work.
The Transhumanist 01:01, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
...to award Buaidh for all his hard work.
It's at User:Penubag/Sandbox3.
But it's not done yet. Feel free to help improve it.
I'm hoping that everyone involved with the WP:WPOOK will sign it (please sign without a timestamp).
Thank you.
The Transhumanist 22:56, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello, Strdst. Lemme start by saying that I admire your work as an editor, and everything I've seen you doing through and for the project. My contributions in the field were mostly incidental, and I'm guessing peripheral to its scope - I enjoy working on such articles, but don't know if I'll still be doing it in a month. It's not a question of me not wanting to join, it's more that I can't really commit myself to it. But do think of me as a traveling companion.
I'm not really a stickler for assessment, and, as I've said, I mainly enjoy getting the articles rated because it shows what others think of my work (I only objected to some being labeled stubs when it was not the case, and without ever assuming that it was more than an honest mistake). So I'm not really gonna pressure editors into rating them, and trust that they can be picked up from the "unassessed" category (unless there's some practical reason why I shouldn't, in which case I can change my habits).
Thank you, Dahn ( talk) 16:39, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi Strdst grl, thanks for the assessment on maniac magee. I'm interested in improving the article further - what do you think needs to be done? Thanks! Maniacmagee ( talk) 19:05, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi! Sorry it took me so long to respond, I can definitly go over the summaries of the books, if you still need it. I had tried doing it before, but it had been so long since I had read them that I forgot some of the plot, and I couldn't find any real detailed plot summaries online to work from, so I had pretty much forgot about it. :D I'll look it over, though. Thanks! -- VioletShadow ( talk) 19:56, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
Use it. Go crazy.-- Editor510 drop us a line, mate 18:12, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
I have made several edits on the Maximum Ride page. Do you think you could check it out and maybe point to what we should kee working on? Also, I have noticed almost every article related to that series has no citations at all. But to me, they make sense, should we work on these also? ChaosMaster16 ( talk) 02:13, 31 December 2009 (UTC)ChaosMaster16
I was thinking something like what they do with the Academy Awards. I'm guessing there is an even more elegant solution, but I don't know it. I don't, however, think that is absolutely necessary. Barkeep49 ( talk) 02:45, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi Strdst_grl and thank you for your kind adoption offer. I am not entirely sure how this all works so please bear with me, haha, but I would love it if you could show me around the Wiki Community! Marxmorley ( talk) 18:19, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
Hey. I would enjoy being adopted. I really hope you can help! Deadlyops ( talk) 20:19, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
Thanks so much for your assessments and comments regarding Dark Guardian and Need (novel series). -- James26 ( talk) 13:14, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
Hello, Strdst Grl!! I love your userbox with the various shades of green. Although, I don't know what shades go ino the userbox, nor do I know the codes. Can you help?? Graci, -- Belugaboy535136 talk 22:27, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
Hey, how did you send out the message about active members for the WikiProject Children's Literature Roll Call. I need to perform the same thing for the Tennis Project. - Mjquinn_id ( talk) 05:55, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
Hey thanks for the barnstar, its greatly appreciated. Salavat ( talk) 14:39, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi Stardust, could you do some article assesment for the task force please? Many thanks. Rock drum ( talk· contribs· guestbook) 16:34, 1 February 2010 (UTC) {{ tb}} Replied again. Rock drum ( talk· contribs· guestbook) 17:34, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi there! As an assessment wiz, could you help me by giving your view on this question, please?[ [2]]-- Plad2 ( talk) 17:56, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
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Thanks for adding your user boxes to the list! Could you please categorize them?
Just add the following on the end:
<noinclude> [[Category:Food user templates| ]] </noinclude>
<noinclude> [[Category:xxx user templates| ]] </noinclude>
Replace the xxx with they type it is, eg law, business etc...
-- Jeremy ( blah blah) 18:12, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
![]() | This user has been awarded the Userbox Barnstar Award for creating a particularly notable userbox. |
I just collected it under
Animation. But I do like it.--
Editor510
drop us a line, mate 18:34, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
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The Original Barnstar | |
I give you a barnie, and an honourary autograph. Editor510 drop us a line, mate |
I was just watching at the so many and creative userboxes that you have made, and I wanted to ask you: How many flavours are you intend to have in the flavoured userbox? (just in case that many could cause some kind of problem). I ask you this, because I read the message of [If you wish to use another flavour, either create a new userbox or request it be added here on the Talk page] and I thought that since I can make my owns, your Flavour-shifting userbox is much more creative and more of my like.
By the way, which is your top-favorite most beloved fruit? (if you don´t remember, I sugested the dragon fruit flavour) - Damërung ...ÏìíÏ... _ΞΞΞ_ . -- 22:53, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
Hey! Getting back to your message: "Some comments on your userpage (mostly the ones by Scott) have inspired me to make a the userbox below. You might be interested in adding it to your page/telling your friend Scott about it, so I thought I'd let you know." It got a good laugh out of me. Keep up the good work. Let me go find the template for the userbox barnstar and give it to you. Lukefan3 ( talk) 02:57, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
Absolutely yes! I would love for you to adopt me. Right now, I need help on Wikitext editing. With the kind assistance of another user I was able to create an article stub Valle de Chalco, but now I need to expand it. I have been referring to the Wikipedia Tutorial, as well as using editing sections of some existing articles as templates. But I am still having problems, e.g. editing code, even when pasted in from another article, does not yield the desired result. Thanks so much for any assistance you can give me, now and in the future. By the way, should I fill in an Edit Summary for my response to your offer? Not sure of the etiquette here. Escuincla ( talk) 16:14, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for offering to adopt me. I'm in much the same situation as Escuincla in that I love Wikipedia but am a complete novice at editing it. I have used Wikipedia for ages but am only now feeling that I am able to 'give back', and I don't want to mess anything up. I have considered where to start and find that I am spending all my time reading and very little time editing. I am thinging that I might start a new article on a Minneapolis Theater company that I am quite familiar with, but I don't know if it's too small to be included. The founder is a nationally known playwright who is in need of an entry, but again I'm wondering how 'famous' someone must be to have an enty. How do I know if a person warrants a new entry of their own? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sabiona ( talk • contribs) 15:27, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi,
I need help from an experienced Wikipedian, and I saw your name over at WP:ADOPT.
I need your advice concerning WP:WPOOK, which I've been coordinating. The set of pages the project concerns is listed at Portal:Contents/Outline of knowledge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Outline of knowledge#Projected outline, and has grown to about 500 articles in the encyclopedia.
The goals of the WikiProject are:
I'm very interested in your comments on how to achieve these goals.
Also I'm interested in every possible way of reaching readers and editors of Wikipedia. How can I get the most eyes and typing fingers on Wikipedia's outlines? Contacting editors directly without a reason relevant to them is spam, which I'd like to avoid. There are 75,000 regular editors on Wikipedia, and I want to contact all of them. So how do I do it? Directly or indirectly, I don't care which, piecemeal or all-at-once, all methods are fine with me. But I've got to find ways. I need your help.
I would also like to know how to find or attract editors to create new outlines. And I need advice on finding editors to help write the new outline article mentioned above (it needs to be fleshed out, completely referenced, and brought to featured article status).
Please recommend anyone you know who might be interested in sinking their teeth into a project like this. Or ways to reach groups of editors. Or ways to reach all editors. I welcome any and all recommendations and advice you might have.
And any thoughts on attaining the WikiProject goals above.
I look forward to your reply on my talk page.
The Transhumanist 03:47, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
I've passed your suggestions on as tasks for our graphics guy. He's very good. He created these for some contests we're planning to host for the development of the country outlines:
I've posted a proposal for a contest at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countries#Country outline contest proposal.
If you have time, please take a look. I'd sure love to read any ideas you might have.
The Transhumanist 02:58, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
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WikiUserboxer Award | |
For achievement in creating new humorous usersboxes, especially Knows too much, pointless and Mandelbrot . - Ahunt ( talk) 12:29, 9 June 2009 (UTC) |
Thank you for your advice. We're putting it to good use.
I've run into a situation, and need your valuable insight.
One thing I've tried to do with respect to the outlines is place a hatnote on subject articles leading to that subject's corresponding outline.
Two people complained, and form the basis of consensus not to do it.
The main concern was quality: a hatnote shouldn't be placed unless the outline is of at least the same or higher quality than the article the hatnote is being placed on. That sets up a catch-22, since we need the best linking we can to attract readers and editors in the first place. The more traffic, the more feedback and changes.
So quality is the focus.
Please have a look at the outlines.
What are the biggest quality issues? What do the outlines need done to them in order to improve their quality?
I look forward to your reply on my talk page.
The Transhumanist 22:37, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
If you're having troubles with a hatnote at the tope of the page, why don't you add it further down, in the See Also section, as with Exercise. This doesn't draw quite as much attention, but does help improve awareness of the outline system, and will probably be noticed by most editors interested in the topic. Also, since the link is less prominent, there should be fewer concerns over quality. I would also suggest adding a note on the Talk page - or perhaps a template to be placed with the Project boxes - to advertise the article's relevant outline and suggest editors contribute. For example:
Creating a template with this (or similar) text and a variable link would make it easy for Project members to tag articles, and since many highly important topics would be included, awareness should rapidly improve. Making a template shouldn't be hard if you study some existing project boxes first - in fact, I would be happy to make one for you if you want.
I hope these suggestions help! If you need any more suggestions, let me know at my Talk page. strdst_grl (call me Stardust) 10:05, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
Is it perfect? Can it be improved?
Penubag loves feedback. Please let him know if it can be further improved.
Thank you.
The Transhumanist 23:01, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
Several members of the WikiProject have been hard at work.
Buaidh has been building and refining the outlines on the U.S. States, the states' historical outlines, and the Historical outline of the United States. Lately, his edits have dominated the project's watchlist readout. (I think he's overdue for a barnstar or two. hint hint)
Penubag has been working on medals for all the main branches of the OOK, and has completed the OOK WikiProject's animated advert banner (see below).
Highfields has been filling in the currencies for each country on their respective outlines.
NuclearWarfare and Thehelpfulone have been busy with WP:AWB, posting banners and notices, and helping our sister project, the Index WikiProject, get established. Indexes work hand-in-hand with the outlines and are prominently linked to from the top of most of them. And the outlines, which serve as tables of contents, are only as good as the pages they link to.
Since we started integrating (linking) the OOK and its support pages into the encyclopedia and into the Wikipedia community, activity on outlines has been increasing. Though there's still much left to do.
But I digress. There are a couple more...
Stefan is building the Outline of sharks.
MacMed has joined our advanced wiki-tools team, and is currently adding links to outlines in the corresponding subject articles' see also sections.
Be sure to stop by their talk pages and say "hi".
Penubag has finished this WikiProject's animated advert banner, and it is now being displayed on the Wikipedia ads template which in turn is displayed on about 2000 user pages. Each time someone access one of those pages, there is a 1 in 184 chance of them viewing this:
![]() | |
Wikipedia ads | file info – #184 |
If you'd like to display the banner on your userpage locked-on to the ad as above, use the following code:
{{Wikipedia ads|ad=184}}
(By the way, it's been awhile since we've barnstarred Penubag).
If you haven't already, please add the entire project's watchlist to your watchlist. Here's how:
I forgot to mention this step above. :)
I can't make heads or tails of 'em, but these links were on Portal:Contents/Outline of knowledge:
I discovered an AfD discussion on possibly the first article named "Outline of", which was called Outline of Islamic and Muslim related topics, and which was created 4 years ago. Of course they deleted it. But now it has many friends, and so it has risen from the dead. :)
See the DRV discussion at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2009 June 7#Outline of Islamic and Muslim related topics.
Recruiters needed. Drop me a note if you are interested.
I'm impressed with the level of enthusiasm and work going into the outlines. I'm proud to be working with each of you.
The Transhumanist 21:57, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
Hey, are you interested in creating another "super-userbox"? I'd like to clean out some old boxes from my userspace. They could also use some touch-ups (colours and the like) if you're interested. – xeno talk 04:31, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
This outline is approaching completion.
I added a bunch more links, finding them with the following Google site-specific searches of Wikipedia:
(You can use the wikicode for the links above as the basis for new searches - just replace "Gibraltar" with any other country or region name).
The redlinks need to be bluelinked where possible. The most useful way is to create redirects leading to the material (which is usually included in a section of an article - see Wikipedia:Redirect#Redirects to page sections. That way, when the redirect pages are replaced by the actual articles, the links will already point to the right places.
Please take a crack at it, and bluelink a few.
Thank you.
Good luck.
Have fun.
The Transhumanist 00:51, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
That was fun. :)
The Transhumanist 23:49, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
Work is proceeding apace...
The current consensus is that we can't place a hatnote leading to an outline at the top of a subject articles unless the outline being presented is of at least the same quality-level as the article.
Improve outline quality by completing them.
Place hatnotes for the outlines of high enough quality.
Guidelines pertaining to outlines need to be updated. Outlines emerged as a class of pages only a few months ago, and most of the relevant guidelines don't cover them specifically. For example, Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists is incredibly out of date.
Invite wikignomes, wikielves, and wikifairies (all 2500+ of them) to help on the outlines .
Identify 600 more subjects with coverage extensive enough to justify outlines, create rudimentary drafts for them, and post notices to the corresponding WikiProjects and subject talk pages to help build them.
Convert outlines titled "List of" to outline articles, and add them to the OOK. There are a few hundred of these. Conversion instructions are needed.
Add a description of outlines to About Wikipedia and Wikipedia:Basic navigation, and add tips about outlines to the WP:TOTD and Tips library.
The Transhumanist 20:27, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
Minnecologies has done an incredible amount of work on Outline of forestry and posted a note to me on my talk page requesting feedback.
I've posted my observations at Talk:Outline of forestry#Finished outline review.
Please take a look at the outline and let Minnecologies know what you think of it on the outline's talk page.
Thank you.
The Transhumanist 19:37, 29 June 2009 (UTC) Delivered by JCbot ( talk) at 20:17, 29 June 2009 (UTC).
Thank you for your previous advice.
We've been integrating the OOK into the encyclopedia. Hatnotes were rejected (until outline quality improves), but we've been adding links to see also sections.
As a result of the increased exposure due to these internal links and to banners placed on WikiProject talk and subject talk pages, contribution to outlines and participation in WP:WPOOK has increased a lot.
Unfortunately, a fair amount of opposition has risen as well. I expected some of this.
But, one of the opposers is getting very devious, using tricks like venue shopping WP:AN and WP:ANI - he has over 123,456 edits, so he has to know those were not the appropriate place to post notices of this type. It was a backhanded tactic. But not as bad as the way he presents his case - I'm finding his rhetoric very difficult to deal with.
Here's a list of the incidents and discussions regarding outlines.
What I need is advice on improving outline support pages (instructions, descriptions, etc., and how they are organized) so that editors who come into the middle of this chaos can make quick sense of outlines and how they fit into the big picture (and how they relate to the other parts of Wikipedia). There's a lot of confusion between outlines and portals, for instance.
Here's a directory of outline-related pages.
I very much look forward to your insights.
The Transhumanist 17:16, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
I'm sorry that I haven't been available to assign tasks lately. For the past 3 days (not including today) I've been almost totally consumed in discussions concerning the location and very existence of outlines. Today I finally broke free and got back to work on outlines. Felt good.
A great deal has been happening with outlines and behind the scenes. I just don't have time to tell you all about it this time around. Here's the best I can do...
If you'd like a bird's eye view of everything that's happening with respect to outlines, see this page:
Or go to these pages (and click on "Related changes" in the sidebar's toolbox menu):
These outline articles, which were named "List of...", have been converted to an OOK format:
There are a lot of "List of" articles that are outlines. Some of them are on the same subjects as the "Outline of" articles. The following one have been recently merged:
The Transhumanist 01:14, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
I'm sorry that I haven't been available to assign tasks lately. For the past 3 days (not including today) I've been almost totally consumed in discussions concerning the location and very existence of outlines. Today I finally broke free and got back to work on outlines. Felt good.
A great deal has been happening with outlines and behind the scenes. I just don't have time to tell you all about it this time around. Here's the best I can do...
If you'd like a bird's eye view of everything that's happening with respect to outlines, see this page:
Or go to these pages (and click on "Related changes" in the sidebar's toolbox menu):
These outline articles, which were named "List of...", have been converted to an OOK format:
There are a lot of "List of" articles that are outlines. Some of them are on the same subjects as the "Outline of" articles. The following one have been recently merged:
The Transhumanist 01:14, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Phase two of outline integration (de-orphanizing outlines by adding links leading to them into article see also sections) is nearly complete. The better that outlines are integrated into the encyclopedia, the more use they will be to readers.
Due to greater exposure through outline integration, and with most of the OOK team on school summer vacation, development activity on outlines has increased a lot...
Thank you.
Here's what else has been going on...
There are a lot of contradictions in guidelines related to outlines. I'll be turning my attention to fixing those.
The number of "Outline of" articles is rapidly catching up to portals, and will probably pass them by the end of the summer!
Keep up the excellent work.
The Transhumanist 01:01, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
...to award Buaidh for all his hard work.
It's at User:Penubag/Sandbox3.
But it's not done yet. Feel free to help improve it.
I'm hoping that everyone involved with the WP:WPOOK will sign it (please sign without a timestamp).
Thank you.
The Transhumanist 22:56, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello, Strdst. Lemme start by saying that I admire your work as an editor, and everything I've seen you doing through and for the project. My contributions in the field were mostly incidental, and I'm guessing peripheral to its scope - I enjoy working on such articles, but don't know if I'll still be doing it in a month. It's not a question of me not wanting to join, it's more that I can't really commit myself to it. But do think of me as a traveling companion.
I'm not really a stickler for assessment, and, as I've said, I mainly enjoy getting the articles rated because it shows what others think of my work (I only objected to some being labeled stubs when it was not the case, and without ever assuming that it was more than an honest mistake). So I'm not really gonna pressure editors into rating them, and trust that they can be picked up from the "unassessed" category (unless there's some practical reason why I shouldn't, in which case I can change my habits).
Thank you, Dahn ( talk) 16:39, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi Strdst grl, thanks for the assessment on maniac magee. I'm interested in improving the article further - what do you think needs to be done? Thanks! Maniacmagee ( talk) 19:05, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi! Sorry it took me so long to respond, I can definitly go over the summaries of the books, if you still need it. I had tried doing it before, but it had been so long since I had read them that I forgot some of the plot, and I couldn't find any real detailed plot summaries online to work from, so I had pretty much forgot about it. :D I'll look it over, though. Thanks! -- VioletShadow ( talk) 19:56, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
Use it. Go crazy.-- Editor510 drop us a line, mate 18:12, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
I have made several edits on the Maximum Ride page. Do you think you could check it out and maybe point to what we should kee working on? Also, I have noticed almost every article related to that series has no citations at all. But to me, they make sense, should we work on these also? ChaosMaster16 ( talk) 02:13, 31 December 2009 (UTC)ChaosMaster16
I was thinking something like what they do with the Academy Awards. I'm guessing there is an even more elegant solution, but I don't know it. I don't, however, think that is absolutely necessary. Barkeep49 ( talk) 02:45, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi Strdst_grl and thank you for your kind adoption offer. I am not entirely sure how this all works so please bear with me, haha, but I would love it if you could show me around the Wiki Community! Marxmorley ( talk) 18:19, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
Hey. I would enjoy being adopted. I really hope you can help! Deadlyops ( talk) 20:19, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
Thanks so much for your assessments and comments regarding Dark Guardian and Need (novel series). -- James26 ( talk) 13:14, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
Hello, Strdst Grl!! I love your userbox with the various shades of green. Although, I don't know what shades go ino the userbox, nor do I know the codes. Can you help?? Graci, -- Belugaboy535136 talk 22:27, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
Hey, how did you send out the message about active members for the WikiProject Children's Literature Roll Call. I need to perform the same thing for the Tennis Project. - Mjquinn_id ( talk) 05:55, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
Hey thanks for the barnstar, its greatly appreciated. Salavat ( talk) 14:39, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi Stardust, could you do some article assesment for the task force please? Many thanks. Rock drum ( talk· contribs· guestbook) 16:34, 1 February 2010 (UTC) {{ tb}} Replied again. Rock drum ( talk· contribs· guestbook) 17:34, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi there! As an assessment wiz, could you help me by giving your view on this question, please?[ [2]]-- Plad2 ( talk) 17:56, 3 February 2010 (UTC)