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The Guild of Copy Editors – May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive The Guild of Copy Editors invite you to participate in the May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive, a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy-editing. The drive began on May 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on May 31 at 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this backlog elimination drive are to eliminate as many articles as possible from the 2009 backlog and to reduce the overall backlog by 15%. ! NEW ! In an effort to encourage the final elimination of all 2009 articles, we will be tracking them on the leaderboard for this drive. Awards and barnstars We look forward to meeting you on the drive! Your GOCE coordinators: SMasters, Diannaa, Tea with toast, Chaosdruid, and Torchiest |
You are receiving a copy of this newsletter as you are a member of the Guild of Copy Editors, or have participated in one of our drives. If you do not wish to receive future newsletters, please add you name here. Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 09:00, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi Ambassador,
We are at a pivotal point in the development of the Wikipedia Ambassador Program. Your feedback will help shape the program and role of Ambassadors in the future. Please take this 10 minute survey to help inform and improve the Wikipedia Ambassadors.
WMF will de-identify results and make them available to you. According to KwikSurveys' privacy policy: "Data and email addresses will not be sold, rented, leased or disclosed to 3rd parties." This link takes you to the online survey: http://kwiksurveys.com?u=WPAmbassador_talk
Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments, Thank You!
Amy Roth (Research Analyst, Public Policy Initiative) ( talk) 20:46, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive! We have now passed the halfway point, so here's an update. Progress Report - Progress toward the targets has been good. 751 articles out of the approximately 1,600 we would like to get completed by the end of the month were done by July 15, so we will be very close to meeting the target for volume. However, we would like to clear all of the 2008 articles from the backlog, and there are still 892 left to do. Please consider choosing one of these older articles when looking for something to copy edit. If we focus our firepower we can completely wipe out 2008 from the queue. Participation Report - 95 people signed up for the July drive. This is a great result compared to May, when we had 36. However, in May only one person that signed up didn't do any copy edits, and in July only 59 of the 95 have posted any copy edits on the big board. The task may seem insurmountable but please remember that if all 95 participants copy edit just one article a day from now until the end of the month, we will eliminate 1,300 more articles from the backlog. So please consider participating at whatever level you can! All contributions are appreciated. This newsletter was prepared for the GOCE by Diannaa ( Talk), S Masters ( talk), and The Raptor Let's talk. |
The Spotlight Newsletter, Issue VII : September 2010 |
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Wikiproject: We are attempting to revive this project (yet again) after nearly a year of inactivity and we want some help. Please do come by out IRC channel. |
About the articles: Current article is Trauma (medicine), started at a C-class, hoping for at least GA-class. |
Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors
Backlog Elimination Drive!
The Wikipedia Guild of Copy-Editors invites you to participate in the November 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive, a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy-editing. The drive will begin on 1 November at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 30 November at 23:59 (UTC). The goal for this drive is to reduce the backlog by 10% (approximately 500 articles). We hope to focus our efforts on the oldest three months (January, February, and March 2009) and the newest three months (September, October, and November 2010) of articles in the queue. Sign-up has already begun at the November drive page, and will be open throughout the drive. If you have any questions or concerns, please leave a message on the drive's talk page. Before you begin copy-editing, please carefully read the instructions on the main drive page. Please make sure that you know how to copy-edit, and be familiar with the Wikipedia Manual of Style. Awards and barnstars A range of barnstars will be awarded to active participants, some of which are exclusive to GOCE drives. More information on awards can be found on the main drive page. Thank you; we look forward to meeting you on the drive! |
Greetings from the
Guild of Copy Editors
The latest GOCE backlog elimination drive is under way! It began on 1 July and so far 18 people have signed up to help us reduce the number of articles in need of copyediting. This drive will give a 50% bonus for articles edited from the GOCE requests page. Although we have cleared the backlog of 2009 articles there are still 3,935 articles needing copyediting and any help, no matter how small, would be appreciated. We are appealing to all GOCE members, and any other editors who wish to participate, to come and help us reduce the number of articles needing copyediting, as well as the backlog of requests. If you have not signed up yet, why not take a look at the current signatories and help us by adding your name and copyediting a few articles. Barnstars will be given to anyone who edits more than 4,000 words, with special awards for the top 5 in the categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". |
Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 09:29, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi. :) Realizing you haven't been all that active lately, if you should happen by in the next day or two would you mind weighing in on our copyright tools and bots at User talk:Moonriddengirl#Bot on CCI? There's a question there about how our copyright bots work, and with VernoWhitney MIA since the middle of the last month I was hoping you could shed some light. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:20, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
The Special Barnstar | |
Thanks for your help with the Subversion thing. I know we didn't get it solved, but you helped to rule out a number of causes, which is certainly more than I was able to figure out. Thanks very much! Hersfold ( t/ a/ c) 01:58, 26 July 2011 (UTC) |
Even though it's been quiet on-wiki, the Wikipedia Ambassador Program has been busy over the last few months getting ready for the next term. We're heading toward over 80 classes in the US, across all disciplines. You'll see courses start popping up here, and this time we want to match one or more Online Ambassadors to each class based on interest or expertise in the subject matter. If you see a class that you're interested, please contact the professor and/or me; the sooner the Ambassadors and professors get in communication, the better things go. Look for more in the coming weeks about next term.
In the meantime, with a little help I've identified all the articles students did significant work on in the last term. Many of the articles have never been assessed, or have ratings that are out of date from before the students improved them. Please help assess them! Pick a class, or just a few articles, and give them a rating (and add a relevant WikiProject banner if there isn't one), and then update the list of articles.
Once we have updated assessments for all these articles, we can get a better idea of how quality varied from course to course, and which approaches to running Wikipedia assignments and managing courses are most effective.
-- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 17:30, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
{{ YGM}}
Re bots. Also see here. Rcsprinter (talk) 09:55, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
Right. Have a good vacation! I suppose the primary task would be to update bus pages. My main interest on WP is documenting lists of bus routes in the UK, so I suppose it could update them and format them (there are an awful lot on this page which need formatting correctly.) It'd also do help with my projects and with adding symbols to UK stations. I'm sure we can add any other tasks later. Shame about AWB, would be easier. Also, once you've written the code, where do you put it to make the bot run? Rcsprinter (talk) 15:05, 19 July 2011 (UTC) Hello? Are you back yet now? Rcsprinter (talk) 14:52, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
|symbol=
in the infobox to add a symbol too it. Look through my recent contribs to rail and tube stations to get the idea. For more info, look at
the project page. OK? Also, once you've written the code, where do you put it to make the bot run?
Rcsprinter
(talk)
07:54, 26 July 2011 (UTC)Hey, Earwig, it's me RocketmanTan! Just thought I'd drop in to say hi and show you that I finally made an actual wikipedia account! Dr.Whooves ( talk) 02:19, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
—Assassin'S Creed (talk) 05:16, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
Hello! I hope you enjoy this yummy treat as a friendly greeting from a fellow Wikipedian, SwisterTwister talk 05:45, 12 August 2011 (UTC) |
I see your tool [1] which can evaluate an arbitrary article for copyvio.
Hello The Earwig. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Earwig, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.
All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about following the reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.
If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:
Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.
For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Heh. -- Σ talk contribs 00:48, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
{{ AFC statistics}} not showing submissions. Not sure why. Has the AfC template been changed or something? sonia♫ 21:17, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
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Hi,
I have created an userdraft article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shadow7777/Kismat_%281968_film%29
Have some queries wrt the article:
Also, can you give feedback on the article?
Thanks, Shadow7777 ( talk) 20:22, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi,
Can you give any feedback? Because I will be moving it to make it a mainspace article very shortly.
Regards,
Shadow7777 (
talk) —Preceding
undated comment added
17:36, 11 September 2011 (UTC).
I am looking for the words of his poem which contain the words "When the days are growing shorter and the nights are getting long .......robin ...sadness ... leaves — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.77.25.177 ( talk) 19:48, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
So you moved an article back from article to article for revision. No reasons were given, but it has 4 sources, an is better cited than many 2 line entries into Wikipedia, so what did you see as being needed to be changed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by DSoup ( talk • contribs) 00:15, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
I just wanted to give you a heads up that one of your scripts is broken and causes a massload of other scripts to crash. This diff actually fixes everything back to normal. Just thought I would let you know. -- DQ (t) (e) 05:16, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
please consider his work and look into adding him to a list of avant garde poets . he is a very special soul — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.53.112.155 ( talk • contribs) 22:51, August 8, 2011 UTC
Hi. Snottywong tells me that you may be able to provide some stats for a project we're working on with the WMF. If possible, could you provide us with:
Graphs (perhaps line graphs on just one single chart) that show:
and
Many thanks, -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 06:01, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
New page patrol – Survey Invitation Hello The Earwig! The WMF is currently developing new tools to make new page patrolling much easier. Whether you have patrolled many pages or only a few, we now need to know about your experience. The survey takes only 6 minutes, and the information you provide will not be shared with third parties other than to assist us in analyzing the results of the survey; the WMF will not use the information to identify you.
Please click
HERE to take part. You are receiving this invitation because you have patrolled new pages. For more information, please see NPP Survey. Global message delivery 13:32, 26 October 2011 (UTC) |
Hello, Earwig! Remember me, from [2]? Well, I'm back with exactly the same question. This time, however, as AWB has helped me with the stations project, it doesn't need to do that. So, I have another list of tasks:
So if you can help me write code for all the above I would be very grateful and then take it to the bot requests for approval page. Please reply soon; yours, Rcsprinter (chat) 19:27, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Template:AFC statistics is currently extremely large, and as a result is using too many templates. Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Submissions is blank as the template include limit has been exceeded. Is there a way to cap the number of templates Earwigbot uses in the statistics template or subst them? Monty 845 15:55, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello The Earwig, I happened to see you are a member of WP:BAG who has been recently active. I'm trying to experiment with the pywikipediabot framework, and deduce that I might be able to try it out at http://test.wikipedia.org. Do you have any idea whether that would work? I only want to work in my own user space, but I don't think that would be legal on the English wikipedia, since anything with 'Bot' in the name would have to be approved first. My plan was to write a program based on archivebot.py that would provide diagnostics to someone whose page was having trouble being archived with MiszaBot. The intention was not to actually run a bot, but just give information. Thanks for any testing advice you might have, EdJohnston ( talk) 21:48, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi Earwug,
Thanks for your advise, but I'm still a little bit confuse on which part of my article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/George_Hirst has unreliable source~Could you give me some more specific information on that?
Looking forward for your reply Best LCY — Preceding unsigned comment added by HomoSapienLCY ( talk • contribs) 07:33, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
There is a discussion about the future and the growth of the US education program along with the future of the Wikipedia Ambassador Project here. Voceditenore ( talk) 08:15, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi Earwig. I've CSD'd this page as db-attack and blanked it. I'm not sure if this is a recommended procedure, but in view of the comments in the block notice and others, I felt it was the best think to do. It's the first time I've come across anything quite like this, so feel free to revert if you feel it was inappropriate.-- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 05:48, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
We have a class of 1500 psych students that need reviewing [4] and there might be some help from U of T for getting this tool up and running again.-- Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 17:34, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
Hello Earwig, you might be interested in this. It appears that the Wikimedia Foundation is now paying to use the Yahoo API. Now that we have this, maybe EarwigBot can go back to spotting copyvios. Best, Alpha_Quadrant (talk) 02:50, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I'm not sure if you're the right person to ask about this, however unsure where else to go to actually get a response! {{ AFC statistics}} can be sorted by "Time" for both submitted time and last modified time. Unfortunately, this orders by *time* only, not datetime. I've had a look at the template but can't ascertain where it is this sorting is even defined, so I'm kind of stuck. Do you have any idea how this could be fixed? Cheers, Nik the stoned 12:04, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi again mate. For some reason the
Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Submissions page is now not properly including your stats table.
When I amend the page it tells me "Warning: Template include size is too large. Some templates will not be included.
"... Any chance you could address this? Many thanks,
Nik
the
stoned
11:14, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
Greetings-
My name is Randall Livingstone, and I am a graduate student at the University of Oregon, currently collecting data for my dissertation on Wikipedia editors who create and use bots and assisted editing tools, as well as editors involved in the initial and/or ongoing creation of bot policies on Wikipedia. As a member of BAG and the bot community, I would very much like to interview you for the project at a time and in a method that is most convenient for you (Gchat, another IM client, Skype, email, telephone, etc.). I am completely flexible and can work with your schedule. The interview will take approximately 30-45 minutes.
My dissertation project has been approved both by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at the University of Oregon, and by the Research Committee at the Wikimedia Foundation. You can find more information on the project on my meta page.
Please let me know if you have any questions, and I look forward to hearing from you to set up a time to chat. Thank you very much.
Randall Livingstone, School of Journalism & Communication, University of Oregon
UOJComm ( talk) 00:57, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
i have family from bychawa,poland (this is the psrish) but the town is Kosarzew where several Batyras came from and migrated to USA--i have a grandfather,Albert (Wojchiech) who came to americaa in the early 1900s--there are still people-desendants of his living in bychawa -Halina Batyra, Jozef Batyra and Karolina Batyra that i wish to have contact me for information on the batyra family ancestry--my name is AMy and i can be reached at azeches@triad.rr.com(my personal email)--I thank you in advance for your help — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.106.186.121 ( talk) 22:01, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
I just became aware of WP:CPAA, which contains a link to your tool. I'm not sure whether you are aware that CSBot has been resuscitated. I don't know enough about your tool to know whether the solution for Coren works for you, but I thought I'd bring it up, just in case.-- SPhilbrick (Talk) 21:37, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
Articles for Creation urgently needs your help!
Articles for Creation is desperately short of reviewers! We are looking for urgent help, from experienced editors, in reviewing submissions in the pending submissions queue. Currently there are 3095 submissions waiting to be reviewed.
If the answer to these questions is yes, then please read the reviewing instructions and donate a little of your time to helping tackle the backlog. |
Sent on behalf of WikiProject Articles for creation using AWB on 20:23, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
Hello from the new guy. I am doing my best to spin up fast. I am wanting to put up a page on a topic called GENSO Global Educational Network for Satellite Operations. It was originally declined because of no references. I thought I put those up after the page when online. My bad. I have now added references and believe I have done what is needed to get his baby resubmitted. Please help me if you know how. Thank you. Kiefc ( talk) 16:40, 24 January 2012 (UTC)kiefc
Hi Earwig,
Hey I was just thinking(I do a lot), when you have nothing to do, it might be good to have the last updated time for submissions at the top somewhere, not the very bottom. This would be helpful when things get slow or crazy, like last week.
Thanks, :- ) DCS 02:39, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
Dear Sir/Madam,
There are articles with a list of names without references (e.g.: "Nattukkottai Nagarathars"). People concerned with such lists of names can verify them. It is not practical to provide references for names in big lists. Is it not that they are credible if they are not deleted or significantly edited by other users?
Please advise what exactly needs to be done for my article to be accepted given my point above.
Ponni13 ( talk) 01:01, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Could you help me understand why the source thtat I cited isn't acceptable. It is a published history of the town of Reading, MA and it is cited on another Wikipedia page (see Joshua Eaton (the person) page). I would like to get this page published, but need your guidance as to how. Thank you Erikson6 ( talk) 01:11, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Earwig,
I am admittedly new to this, but try as I might...I am unable to find an AFC submitted on Feb 01, 2012. I checked [ (AFC statistics)] and searched by name...but found nothing.
I understand that this page updates hourly, and there may be some lag in my submission being formally assessed...but it has been about 24 hours since I posted under Musicians: Raised By Machines.
Am I being too eager and need to wait a few days before checking?
Best, Inga Jensen
71.240.2.71 ( talk) 21:46, 2 February 2012 (UTC)February 02, 2012 16:45 EST
Thank you for your quick response! I shall indeed attempt another post...later this weekend pehaps... Best, Inga
Cyberinga ( talk) 07:59, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
Greetings.
Please let me know the aspects to cover in order to make my article ready for submission.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Kiran_Mehta
Regards, Satish Bhatt — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scb3108 ( talk • contribs) 06:48, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
Dear The Earwig, After reading your review comment on my Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/State Insignias of Kerala I merged it with the article Kerala now I want know how to delete the existing article request. Please help me because I am new to Wikipedia. H. sudev ( talk) 16:53, 8 February 2012 (UTC) H. sudev ( talk) 16:47, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
You have 10 minutes. :- ) DCS 06:12, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
Dear The Earwig,
My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name
HERE instead.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Obar -- Jaobar ( talk) 07:26, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
Young June Sah -- Yjune.sah ( talk) 21:43, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
Articles for Creation urgently needs your help!
Articles for Creation is desperately short of reviewers! We are looking for urgent help, from experienced editors, in reviewing submissions in the pending submissions queue. Currently the are 3095 submissions waiting to be reviewed.
If the answer to these questions is yes, then please read the reviewing instructions and donate a little of your time to helping tackle the backlog. |
-- B music ian 12:25, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 | ← | Archive 4 | Archive 5 | Archive 6 | Archive 7 | Archive 8 | → | Archive 10 |
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Three Nocturnes, No. 1.ogg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the file's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the file description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Cambalachero ( talk) 17:13, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
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Delivered by EdwardsBot ( talk) 16:37, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
The Guild of Copy Editors – May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive The Guild of Copy Editors invite you to participate in the May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive, a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy-editing. The drive began on May 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on May 31 at 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this backlog elimination drive are to eliminate as many articles as possible from the 2009 backlog and to reduce the overall backlog by 15%. ! NEW ! In an effort to encourage the final elimination of all 2009 articles, we will be tracking them on the leaderboard for this drive. Awards and barnstars We look forward to meeting you on the drive! Your GOCE coordinators: SMasters, Diannaa, Tea with toast, Chaosdruid, and Torchiest |
You are receiving a copy of this newsletter as you are a member of the Guild of Copy Editors, or have participated in one of our drives. If you do not wish to receive future newsletters, please add you name here. Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 09:00, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi Ambassador,
We are at a pivotal point in the development of the Wikipedia Ambassador Program. Your feedback will help shape the program and role of Ambassadors in the future. Please take this 10 minute survey to help inform and improve the Wikipedia Ambassadors.
WMF will de-identify results and make them available to you. According to KwikSurveys' privacy policy: "Data and email addresses will not be sold, rented, leased or disclosed to 3rd parties." This link takes you to the online survey: http://kwiksurveys.com?u=WPAmbassador_talk
Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments, Thank You!
Amy Roth (Research Analyst, Public Policy Initiative) ( talk) 20:46, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive! We have now passed the halfway point, so here's an update. Progress Report - Progress toward the targets has been good. 751 articles out of the approximately 1,600 we would like to get completed by the end of the month were done by July 15, so we will be very close to meeting the target for volume. However, we would like to clear all of the 2008 articles from the backlog, and there are still 892 left to do. Please consider choosing one of these older articles when looking for something to copy edit. If we focus our firepower we can completely wipe out 2008 from the queue. Participation Report - 95 people signed up for the July drive. This is a great result compared to May, when we had 36. However, in May only one person that signed up didn't do any copy edits, and in July only 59 of the 95 have posted any copy edits on the big board. The task may seem insurmountable but please remember that if all 95 participants copy edit just one article a day from now until the end of the month, we will eliminate 1,300 more articles from the backlog. So please consider participating at whatever level you can! All contributions are appreciated. This newsletter was prepared for the GOCE by Diannaa ( Talk), S Masters ( talk), and The Raptor Let's talk. |
The Spotlight Newsletter, Issue VII : September 2010 |
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Wikiproject: We are attempting to revive this project (yet again) after nearly a year of inactivity and we want some help. Please do come by out IRC channel. |
About the articles: Current article is Trauma (medicine), started at a C-class, hoping for at least GA-class. |
Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors
Backlog Elimination Drive!
The Wikipedia Guild of Copy-Editors invites you to participate in the November 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive, a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy-editing. The drive will begin on 1 November at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 30 November at 23:59 (UTC). The goal for this drive is to reduce the backlog by 10% (approximately 500 articles). We hope to focus our efforts on the oldest three months (January, February, and March 2009) and the newest three months (September, October, and November 2010) of articles in the queue. Sign-up has already begun at the November drive page, and will be open throughout the drive. If you have any questions or concerns, please leave a message on the drive's talk page. Before you begin copy-editing, please carefully read the instructions on the main drive page. Please make sure that you know how to copy-edit, and be familiar with the Wikipedia Manual of Style. Awards and barnstars A range of barnstars will be awarded to active participants, some of which are exclusive to GOCE drives. More information on awards can be found on the main drive page. Thank you; we look forward to meeting you on the drive! |
Greetings from the
Guild of Copy Editors
The latest GOCE backlog elimination drive is under way! It began on 1 July and so far 18 people have signed up to help us reduce the number of articles in need of copyediting. This drive will give a 50% bonus for articles edited from the GOCE requests page. Although we have cleared the backlog of 2009 articles there are still 3,935 articles needing copyediting and any help, no matter how small, would be appreciated. We are appealing to all GOCE members, and any other editors who wish to participate, to come and help us reduce the number of articles needing copyediting, as well as the backlog of requests. If you have not signed up yet, why not take a look at the current signatories and help us by adding your name and copyediting a few articles. Barnstars will be given to anyone who edits more than 4,000 words, with special awards for the top 5 in the categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". |
Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 09:29, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi. :) Realizing you haven't been all that active lately, if you should happen by in the next day or two would you mind weighing in on our copyright tools and bots at User talk:Moonriddengirl#Bot on CCI? There's a question there about how our copyright bots work, and with VernoWhitney MIA since the middle of the last month I was hoping you could shed some light. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:20, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks for your help with the Subversion thing. I know we didn't get it solved, but you helped to rule out a number of causes, which is certainly more than I was able to figure out. Thanks very much! Hersfold ( t/ a/ c) 01:58, 26 July 2011 (UTC) |
Even though it's been quiet on-wiki, the Wikipedia Ambassador Program has been busy over the last few months getting ready for the next term. We're heading toward over 80 classes in the US, across all disciplines. You'll see courses start popping up here, and this time we want to match one or more Online Ambassadors to each class based on interest or expertise in the subject matter. If you see a class that you're interested, please contact the professor and/or me; the sooner the Ambassadors and professors get in communication, the better things go. Look for more in the coming weeks about next term.
In the meantime, with a little help I've identified all the articles students did significant work on in the last term. Many of the articles have never been assessed, or have ratings that are out of date from before the students improved them. Please help assess them! Pick a class, or just a few articles, and give them a rating (and add a relevant WikiProject banner if there isn't one), and then update the list of articles.
Once we have updated assessments for all these articles, we can get a better idea of how quality varied from course to course, and which approaches to running Wikipedia assignments and managing courses are most effective.
-- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 17:30, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
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Re bots. Also see here. Rcsprinter (talk) 09:55, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
Right. Have a good vacation! I suppose the primary task would be to update bus pages. My main interest on WP is documenting lists of bus routes in the UK, so I suppose it could update them and format them (there are an awful lot on this page which need formatting correctly.) It'd also do help with my projects and with adding symbols to UK stations. I'm sure we can add any other tasks later. Shame about AWB, would be easier. Also, once you've written the code, where do you put it to make the bot run? Rcsprinter (talk) 15:05, 19 July 2011 (UTC) Hello? Are you back yet now? Rcsprinter (talk) 14:52, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
|symbol=
in the infobox to add a symbol too it. Look through my recent contribs to rail and tube stations to get the idea. For more info, look at
the project page. OK? Also, once you've written the code, where do you put it to make the bot run?
Rcsprinter
(talk)
07:54, 26 July 2011 (UTC)Hey, Earwig, it's me RocketmanTan! Just thought I'd drop in to say hi and show you that I finally made an actual wikipedia account! Dr.Whooves ( talk) 02:19, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
—Assassin'S Creed (talk) 05:16, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
Hello! I hope you enjoy this yummy treat as a friendly greeting from a fellow Wikipedian, SwisterTwister talk 05:45, 12 August 2011 (UTC) |
I see your tool [1] which can evaluate an arbitrary article for copyvio.
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All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about following the reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.
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{{ AFC statistics}} not showing submissions. Not sure why. Has the AfC template been changed or something? sonia♫ 21:17, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
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Hi,
I have created an userdraft article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shadow7777/Kismat_%281968_film%29
Have some queries wrt the article:
Also, can you give feedback on the article?
Thanks, Shadow7777 ( talk) 20:22, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi,
Can you give any feedback? Because I will be moving it to make it a mainspace article very shortly.
Regards,
Shadow7777 (
talk) —Preceding
undated comment added
17:36, 11 September 2011 (UTC).
I am looking for the words of his poem which contain the words "When the days are growing shorter and the nights are getting long .......robin ...sadness ... leaves — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.77.25.177 ( talk) 19:48, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
So you moved an article back from article to article for revision. No reasons were given, but it has 4 sources, an is better cited than many 2 line entries into Wikipedia, so what did you see as being needed to be changed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by DSoup ( talk • contribs) 00:15, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
I just wanted to give you a heads up that one of your scripts is broken and causes a massload of other scripts to crash. This diff actually fixes everything back to normal. Just thought I would let you know. -- DQ (t) (e) 05:16, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
please consider his work and look into adding him to a list of avant garde poets . he is a very special soul — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.53.112.155 ( talk • contribs) 22:51, August 8, 2011 UTC
Hi. Snottywong tells me that you may be able to provide some stats for a project we're working on with the WMF. If possible, could you provide us with:
Graphs (perhaps line graphs on just one single chart) that show:
and
Many thanks, -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 06:01, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
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Hello, Earwig! Remember me, from [2]? Well, I'm back with exactly the same question. This time, however, as AWB has helped me with the stations project, it doesn't need to do that. So, I have another list of tasks:
So if you can help me write code for all the above I would be very grateful and then take it to the bot requests for approval page. Please reply soon; yours, Rcsprinter (chat) 19:27, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Template:AFC statistics is currently extremely large, and as a result is using too many templates. Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Submissions is blank as the template include limit has been exceeded. Is there a way to cap the number of templates Earwigbot uses in the statistics template or subst them? Monty 845 15:55, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello The Earwig, I happened to see you are a member of WP:BAG who has been recently active. I'm trying to experiment with the pywikipediabot framework, and deduce that I might be able to try it out at http://test.wikipedia.org. Do you have any idea whether that would work? I only want to work in my own user space, but I don't think that would be legal on the English wikipedia, since anything with 'Bot' in the name would have to be approved first. My plan was to write a program based on archivebot.py that would provide diagnostics to someone whose page was having trouble being archived with MiszaBot. The intention was not to actually run a bot, but just give information. Thanks for any testing advice you might have, EdJohnston ( talk) 21:48, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi Earwug,
Thanks for your advise, but I'm still a little bit confuse on which part of my article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/George_Hirst has unreliable source~Could you give me some more specific information on that?
Looking forward for your reply Best LCY — Preceding unsigned comment added by HomoSapienLCY ( talk • contribs) 07:33, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
There is a discussion about the future and the growth of the US education program along with the future of the Wikipedia Ambassador Project here. Voceditenore ( talk) 08:15, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi Earwig. I've CSD'd this page as db-attack and blanked it. I'm not sure if this is a recommended procedure, but in view of the comments in the block notice and others, I felt it was the best think to do. It's the first time I've come across anything quite like this, so feel free to revert if you feel it was inappropriate.-- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 05:48, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
We have a class of 1500 psych students that need reviewing [4] and there might be some help from U of T for getting this tool up and running again.-- Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 17:34, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
Hello Earwig, you might be interested in this. It appears that the Wikimedia Foundation is now paying to use the Yahoo API. Now that we have this, maybe EarwigBot can go back to spotting copyvios. Best, Alpha_Quadrant (talk) 02:50, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I'm not sure if you're the right person to ask about this, however unsure where else to go to actually get a response! {{ AFC statistics}} can be sorted by "Time" for both submitted time and last modified time. Unfortunately, this orders by *time* only, not datetime. I've had a look at the template but can't ascertain where it is this sorting is even defined, so I'm kind of stuck. Do you have any idea how this could be fixed? Cheers, Nik the stoned 12:04, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi again mate. For some reason the
Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Submissions page is now not properly including your stats table.
When I amend the page it tells me "Warning: Template include size is too large. Some templates will not be included.
"... Any chance you could address this? Many thanks,
Nik
the
stoned
11:14, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
Greetings-
My name is Randall Livingstone, and I am a graduate student at the University of Oregon, currently collecting data for my dissertation on Wikipedia editors who create and use bots and assisted editing tools, as well as editors involved in the initial and/or ongoing creation of bot policies on Wikipedia. As a member of BAG and the bot community, I would very much like to interview you for the project at a time and in a method that is most convenient for you (Gchat, another IM client, Skype, email, telephone, etc.). I am completely flexible and can work with your schedule. The interview will take approximately 30-45 minutes.
My dissertation project has been approved both by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at the University of Oregon, and by the Research Committee at the Wikimedia Foundation. You can find more information on the project on my meta page.
Please let me know if you have any questions, and I look forward to hearing from you to set up a time to chat. Thank you very much.
Randall Livingstone, School of Journalism & Communication, University of Oregon
UOJComm ( talk) 00:57, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
i have family from bychawa,poland (this is the psrish) but the town is Kosarzew where several Batyras came from and migrated to USA--i have a grandfather,Albert (Wojchiech) who came to americaa in the early 1900s--there are still people-desendants of his living in bychawa -Halina Batyra, Jozef Batyra and Karolina Batyra that i wish to have contact me for information on the batyra family ancestry--my name is AMy and i can be reached at azeches@triad.rr.com(my personal email)--I thank you in advance for your help — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.106.186.121 ( talk) 22:01, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
I just became aware of WP:CPAA, which contains a link to your tool. I'm not sure whether you are aware that CSBot has been resuscitated. I don't know enough about your tool to know whether the solution for Coren works for you, but I thought I'd bring it up, just in case.-- SPhilbrick (Talk) 21:37, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
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Hello from the new guy. I am doing my best to spin up fast. I am wanting to put up a page on a topic called GENSO Global Educational Network for Satellite Operations. It was originally declined because of no references. I thought I put those up after the page when online. My bad. I have now added references and believe I have done what is needed to get his baby resubmitted. Please help me if you know how. Thank you. Kiefc ( talk) 16:40, 24 January 2012 (UTC)kiefc
Hi Earwig,
Hey I was just thinking(I do a lot), when you have nothing to do, it might be good to have the last updated time for submissions at the top somewhere, not the very bottom. This would be helpful when things get slow or crazy, like last week.
Thanks, :- ) DCS 02:39, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
Dear Sir/Madam,
There are articles with a list of names without references (e.g.: "Nattukkottai Nagarathars"). People concerned with such lists of names can verify them. It is not practical to provide references for names in big lists. Is it not that they are credible if they are not deleted or significantly edited by other users?
Please advise what exactly needs to be done for my article to be accepted given my point above.
Ponni13 ( talk) 01:01, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Could you help me understand why the source thtat I cited isn't acceptable. It is a published history of the town of Reading, MA and it is cited on another Wikipedia page (see Joshua Eaton (the person) page). I would like to get this page published, but need your guidance as to how. Thank you Erikson6 ( talk) 01:11, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Earwig,
I am admittedly new to this, but try as I might...I am unable to find an AFC submitted on Feb 01, 2012. I checked [ (AFC statistics)] and searched by name...but found nothing.
I understand that this page updates hourly, and there may be some lag in my submission being formally assessed...but it has been about 24 hours since I posted under Musicians: Raised By Machines.
Am I being too eager and need to wait a few days before checking?
Best, Inga Jensen
71.240.2.71 ( talk) 21:46, 2 February 2012 (UTC)February 02, 2012 16:45 EST
Thank you for your quick response! I shall indeed attempt another post...later this weekend pehaps... Best, Inga
Cyberinga ( talk) 07:59, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
Greetings.
Please let me know the aspects to cover in order to make my article ready for submission.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Kiran_Mehta
Regards, Satish Bhatt — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scb3108 ( talk • contribs) 06:48, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
Dear The Earwig, After reading your review comment on my Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/State Insignias of Kerala I merged it with the article Kerala now I want know how to delete the existing article request. Please help me because I am new to Wikipedia. H. sudev ( talk) 16:53, 8 February 2012 (UTC) H. sudev ( talk) 16:47, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
You have 10 minutes. :- ) DCS 06:12, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
Dear The Earwig,
My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name
HERE instead.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Obar -- Jaobar ( talk) 07:26, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
Young June Sah -- Yjune.sah ( talk) 21:43, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
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