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There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.14.25.33 ( talk) 19:38, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Bilby! Thank you for your clarification on the Paolo Petrocelli article. Your proposition for the article to be independently checked sounds right to me, the issue is that the COI notice has been there since August 2015, and nobody has checked it since! Can you please advice on how we may get the article reviewed by other editors now that I've tried to abide it to Wikipedia's requirements? - Japancolours ( talk) 07:10, 27 January 2016
I noticed you deleted the Alexia Parks article under WP:G5. As you know, G5 applies to pages created by banned or blocked users in violation of their ban or block, and "that have no substantial edits by others". I had no idea this article had been created by a banned user, and made significant improvements to the article yesterday. Also, the article's creator, Coreyeymmote ( talk · contribs), doesn't appear to be banned? Are you in error? Thank you. Magnolia677 ( talk) 02:26, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi I would like to draw your attention to the user contributions - NihartouJasonyu. I think he's one of the side of previous wars in article Frederick Achom. he sent the same messages to 14 users to discussion page. I worry about that, because I'm a little upgrated Achom's page, and it's was deleted. by the way, page was nominated for the deletion today (19.01). it's like vandalism: contributions only about Frederick and deletion section in AppyParking: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=AppyParking&diff=700414338&oldid=693803491 thanks.-- 27century ( talk) 16:37, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
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Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Indic, and Han scripts, and improving the single edit tab interface.
You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing. This function is available to nearly all editors at most wikis except the Wiktionaries and Wikisources.
Many local feedback pages for the visual editor have been redirected to mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
You can now re-arrange columns and rows in tables, as well as copying a row, column or any other selection of cells and pasting it in a new location.
The formula editor has two options: you can choose "Quick edit" to see and change only the LaTeX code, or "Edit" to use the full tool. The full tool offers immediate preview and an extensive list of symbols.
The single edit tab project will combine the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab. This is similar to the system already used on the mobile website. ( T102398) Initially, the "Edit" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as an account preference for logged-in editors, and as a cookie for logged-out users. Logged-in editors will have these options in the Editing tab of Special:Preferences:
The visual editor uses the same search engine as Special:Search to find links and files. This search will get better at detecting typos and spelling mistakes soon. These improvements to search will appear in the visual editor as well.
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at most "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. The developers would like to know how well the visual editor works in your language. They particularly want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect the following languages: Japanese, Korean, Urdu, Persian, Arabic, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Hindi, Bengali, Assamese, Thai, Aramaic and others.
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Hi Bilby! I know you are technically savvy and watch a large number of articles, so maybe you have a neat solution to this problem: if an article I'm watching is edited by someone and shortly afterwards by a bot (quite frequent at the moment), the fact of the human edit is masked — I get no notification. Unless I also watch for bot edits and check each occurrence; soul-destroying and usually fruitless. Doug butler ( talk) 22:12, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
By Walaa Abdel Manaem (Wikipedia Education Program Egypt) & (Egypt Wikimedians user group)
Snippet: Education Leaders at WISE Doha 2015 introducing Wikipedia Education Program in Egypt to WISE Conference attendees, as an example of a program in the Arab World, to share their experience to inspire other universities and institutions starting new programs in the area.
WISE 2015 Sessions and Plenaries were designed around three main pillars such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals; education and the economy; fostering innovation in education systems. Each pillar examined a variety of key topics including: the linkages between education, employment, and entrepreneurship; education reform and innovation in the MENA region and Qatar; emerging models of education financing, attracting, rewarding and retaining quality teachers; and the importance of investing in early childhood development.
Representatives of Wikipedia Education Program Walaa Abdel Manaem and Reem Al-Kashif participated in WISE Doha 2015 in Qatar, the annual World Innovation Summit for Education is the premier international platform dedicated to innovation and creative action in education where top decision-makers share insights with on-the-ground practitioners and collaborate to rethink education. Also, WISE 2015 was the first global education conference following the ratification of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September 2015. Contributions ranged from Arabic Brochure of Editing Wikipedia for students in WEP in Egypt and everybody who would like to edit Wikipedia without problems, The Arabic version of Welcome to Wikipedia reference guideline, PDF of brochure handed out during Arabic Wikipedia Convening, Doha, Qatar, 2011 and Introduction to Wikipedia. These contributions are related to show a case study of Wikipedia Education program in Egypt and how it worked since February 2012 till the November 2015, as the seventh edition ended last October. All discussions were about the program's mechanism and what were the motivations keeping it going. The program helped increasing gender diversity and supported the featured content on Arabic Wikipedia. Wikipedia Education Program, like any other initiative, has achievements and dark sides, for that reason, the representatives had to locate both of them and how they influence the Arabic community and how the community interact with this phenomenon.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Egypt here.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education program in the Arab World here (in Arabic).
Snippet: A first-of-its-kind, for-credit, elective course that focuses on contributing to Wikipedia has opened at Tel Aviv University and is now available to all B.A. students on campus
On October 19th a new for-credit elective course called "Wikipedia: Skills for producing and consuming knowledge" [1] has opened at Tel Aviv University (TAU). The semester-long course (13 weeks) is available to all B.A. students on campus and this semester about 50 students from various disciplines are taking part in this first-of-its-kind course in Israel.
The course draws from "flipped classroom" concepts and uses "blended learning" methods, which practically means combining in-class lectures, workshops and small-group activities, as well as online individual learning. Both the Moodle learning management system (LMS) and the Wikipedia Education Extension are used to monitor the students' work and progress throughout the course.
The course has 2 main assignments - expanding an existing stub, as well as writing a new article, in the hopes that the content added during the course will assist not only the students themselves, but also future generations of learners as well as the general public. Though the course focuses on adding quality content to Wikipedia, it also aims to help students sharpen their academic skills and their 21st century skills, highlighting collaborative learning, joint online research and interdisciplinary collaborations in the process of constructing knowledge.
This course was initiated and is led by Shani Evenstein, an educator, Wikimedian and member of the Wikipedia Education Collaborative, in collaboration with the Orange Institute for Internet Studies, as well as the School of Education at TAU. The syllabus for the new course builds on the success of Wiki-Med, a for-credit elective course, which was designed in 2013 and is led by Evenstein at the Sackler school of Medicine for the third consecutive year. While Wiki-med is focused on contributing medical content to Wikipedia and is only available to Medical Students on campus, the new course is designed to accommodate students from different academic disciplines and varying backgrounds.
The course was chosen to be part of TAU's cross-discipline elective courses system ("Kelim Shluvim") and was approved by the Vice-Rector, who heads the program. In that, the course marks an important precedent in the collaboration between Academia and the Wikipedia Education Program, as it is the first time a higher institution acknowledges the importance of a course focusing on Wikipedia on a university level, offering it to all students, rather than a faculty level or individual lecturers as mostly practiced. It is our hope that other higher education institutions will follow this example and offer similar courses to students both in Israel and around the world.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Israel here.
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By Melina Masnatta, Wikimedia Argentina
Snippet: University professors become Wikipedians in an online course during just a week.
Educators with different profiles and from different latin america countries, but most of them professors at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) from different faculties, have just participated in the online training and free course "Educational scenarios with technology. Among the real and the possible" organized by the Center for Innovation in Technology and Pedagogy (CITEP) of this university.
Different educational activities were carried out simultaneously. During the week and under the topic “Open movement”, Wikimedia Argentina participated with three different proposals: starting with an interview of Patricio Lorente accompanied with a short text to know more about the movement. To make an immersive experience we designed " Knowing Wikipedia by first-hand or Wikipedia in the first person" to work directly on the platform translating articles from english to spanish from a list created especially for that purpose. Along with this specific proposal, educators participated in a videoconference with Galileo Vidoni (available in Spanish), where participants could talk and learn more about how are the first steps to become a Wikipedian and the importance of the movement at the local and regional level.
With only seven days and without being mandatory, different educators discovered how to edit on Wikipedia, indeed many of them mentioned that they had it as a pending to learn and participate on the free encyclopedia, but never had the time or the real chance. The enthusiasm was also present on social networks, where they shared the experience with the hashtag #escenariostec.
The result
More than 100 educators got involved and exchanged their experience in an online forum with more of 280 messages that reflected their learning process while experiencing with the activity. 80 of them were new users, and they created 61 new articles in spanish. An important fact: 78 of them were women, which means that working with educators is a key issue to continue closing the digital gender gap.
Finally from CITEP, they shared the following insights regarding the question that ran through all the activities that took place during the week dedicated to the open movement. Some thoughts can be sum up as follows:
The collaborative production in open environments: chaos or construction? (...) For the teacher also means accepting new challenges: encourage students to produce knowledge in an environment of divergent nature, it requires permanent operations and convergence. In a space that fosters interventions unmarked, the teacher needs to frame depending on the purpose of education and teaching purposes. (…) Wikipedia is the best example of the challenges posed by the digital era in the educational field, it forces us to rethink the relationship between technology and the production of knowledge and allows us to confirm that the collaborative work does not lead to chaos, if not to the construction. (. ..) [Authors: Angeles Solectic and Miri Latorre]
We share some of the voices of the protagonists in social networks with storify (available in Spanish). Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Argentina here.
By Vojtěch Dostál (Wikimedia Czech Republic)
Snippet: The second largest university in the Czech Republic has employed a Wikipedian in residence, leading to a boom of Wikimedia activities in the city of Brno.
Collaboration between Wikipedia and Czech institutions has always been a priority for Wikimedia Czech Republic, but the year 2015 has taken this to another level. First, an official memorandum of collaboration with the National Heritage Institute (NPÚ) was signed in May 2015, to be followed by official collaboration with Masaryk University in Brno (the second largest city and university in the Czech Republic), which was contracted in November 2015. In fact, Wikimedia activities in Brno have been blooming for several years now, mainly as a result of the community's own development, but aided substantially by the external interest in Wikipedia by Masaryk University alumni society, demonstrated as early as March 2013.
In February 2015, the university employed one of the most experienced Czech Wikipedians – Marek Blahuš ( Blahma) – who was appointed to become the university's first " Wikipedian in residence". Marek Blahuš has been in the center of the Wikimedia community in Brno for about two years, organizing regular Wikipedia meetups, the 2014 edition of the annual WikiConference ( more in English here) and creating the Czech-Slovak Wikipedia translation tool, which has famously led to the creation of >9000 articles on Czech and Slovak Wikipedias ( more in English here). His current work as Wikipedian in residence is funded by Masaryk University and runs under the patronage of Wikimedia Czech Republic as well as Masaryk University's rector Mikuláš Bek.
Since February, Wikipedia has taken a prominent role within Masaryk University. Marek Blahuš started a "Masaryk University Wikipedians team", gathering local Wikipedians and facilitating contacts with the university, aided by his status of a graduate and current employee in its language center. Articles about Masaryk University alumni and faculties have been identified and improved after consultations with Masaryk University archives and libraries which provided helpful resources. Wikipedia citation templates can now be directly generated from the university's on-line archive of theses. In September, a public conference called " Masaryk University Is Getting High on Wikipedia" took place on university grounds, featuring the experienced Wikipedian Jan Sokol ( Sokoljan), who is a philosopher, university teacher and a former presidential candidate. The talks focused on the use of Wikipedia in university education, in line with the successful Czech " Students Write Wikipedia" program. One of the teachers, Jiří Rambousek, expressed his desire to organize a Wikipedia Club as a regular meetup where articles would be improved in a collaborative effort and new editors introduced to Wikipedia.
The program is actively preparing for 2016 when we expect Wikimedia Czech Republic to take a more active role in overseeing the initiatives as well as the creation of a position of a "Wikipedian in Brno" – person officially in charge of the wide array of Wikimedia activities happening in the city. The chapter's annual plan includes initiatives to increase the number of university courses which incorporate Wikipedia into the curriculum, public presentations of Wikipedia at various events, scanning and uploading of images from institutional and personal archives, and much more. Let's wish that our plans come true!
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in the Czech Republic here.
By Leigh Thelmadatter (Wiki Learning-Tec de Monterrey)
Snippet: Student participation is more than just text!
For the Fall 2015 Wiki Learning-Tec de Monterrey held two wiki expeditions in Mexico City and began a collaboration with the Museo de Arte Popular. We also received our first grant!
The 32-campus Tec de Monterrey system has each semester an event called "Semana i" (i Week), when students forego normal classes for an entire week to work on challenging projects called "retos." For the Mexico City and Santa Fe campuses, one option for students was to work with Wikimedia, with the aptly named projects " Reto Wikimedia." Both campuses opted to do wiki-expeditions to different parts of Mexico City. The Mexico City campus had the larger group with almost 90 students registered, who covered the two southern boroughs of Xochimilco and Tlalpan. The Santa Fe group had 35 participants, and covered the San Ángel neighborhood found not far from this campus.
Both campus took photos of landmarks with the Mexico City campus also focusing on photos of everyday life in the south of the city. The Mexico City campus tallied 5264 photos, 8 videos and 36 articles, including articles related to the area into French, Swedish and Danish. The Santa Fe group tallied 605 photos, and ten articles in Spanish on landmarks in San Ángel.
In addition, the Mexico City campus had a special speaker the borough chronicler of Xochmilco, Sebastián Flores Farfán. A short montage video of the event is in the works.
Some student photos:
Some video clips of the event:
Wikiservicio, students working with Wikimedia for their community service requirement, added a new component. To attract more students and encourage more students to do all of their community service hours with Wikimedia, a collaboration was set up with the Museo de Arte Popular (MAP)... the first of many we hope! Six students from the digital art and animation major (see last newsletter) have continued working with Wikimedia, but focusing their efforts in creating short animation clips in relation to the mission of promoting and preserving Mexican folk art. One clip has been completed and can be see to the right of this text. So far, the video has subtitles in English, German, French and Punjabi. A second clip is nearing completion at the time of this writing.
Fifteen students completed work with Wikiservicio doing translations, writing new articles and doing photography projects. As of this date, 7 have indicated interest in working with Wikiservicio on campus and another six with MAP.
Five university level classes and one high school class on the Mexico City (South) campus have had projects, all in writing and translation, with some video work.
Wikimetrics for the semester are:
According to Wikimetrics tool....
Manual count
First grant Wiki Learning received its first grant from the Wikimedia Foundation. The long-term goal of this grant is to establish a system for financing Wiki Learning. The grant, which totals a modest 12,500 Mexican pesos, will be used for swag, such as t shirts, stickers, buttons, etc, especially for Semana i activities and promotion of wiki activities to other campus. The money will also be used for incidental travel expenses, especially for projects needing to move expensive camera equipment.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Mexico here.
By Christian Cariño (Wikimedia México) and Melina Masnatta (Wikimedia Argentina)
Snippet: Aprender para Educar writes about Wikipedia Education Program in Argentina.
The digital free magazine Aprender para Educar (Learning to educate) of the National Technological University (UTN) is recognized in the community of education and technology in Argentina to write about innovation issues in Spanish, which is not common in the academic dissemination and teacher training field.
Cristina Velazquez, general editor of the magazine invited Wikimedia Argentina to write an article that generally describes their activities in the Education Program, after reading the proposal she decided to publish it as the main article of the 12th edition.
To describe the education program, WMAR wrote two notes completing one another, as doing a zoom: from the local to the global and from the global to the local, showing how a movement of this magnitude does not stand alone, it is part of a huge network.
Melina Masnatta, education manager in WMAR and Patricio Lorente, chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees wrote those two notes.The first one focuses on the Education Program, implementation, challenges and obstacles that they had at the beginning, plans to integrate it into the classrooms in Argentina and how different Wikimedia Projects are also relevant in education. The most important thing, Melina adds, is to strengthen the values that inspire them, show how the free culture give meaning to education in general and digital culture in particular.
Meanwhile in the second part, Lorente focuses on the global movement, the community pillars, the agenda of today's challenges and the effort of their volunteers as protagonists. It is not easy show the world what drives us and why we work as volunteers in different countries. In education very few people understand the value of building free knowledge. There is still a great prejudice or negative perceptions of Wikipedia in the classroom because teachers ignore how Wikipedia is built.
Everybody reads Wikipedia, but few people edit it. We can change this fact by spreading in spaces such as the Journal of the UTN and inviting more people to collaborate and be the protagonist of this huge collective work for humanity.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Argentina here.
By Walaa Abdel Manaem (Wikipedia Education Program Egypt) & (Egypt Wikimedians user group)
Snippet: Online ambassador helped spanish students course in Cairo University to nominate their articles, scoring an exceptional record of WEP excellent content.
Bassem Fleifel, an online ambassador of Cairo university spanish course, played a prominent role to help all students to encourage them to nominate their excellent content to be a featured and good articles in Arabic Wikipedia. Those articles are History of bread (Featured article); Walt Disney; Daniel Radcliffe; Al- Andalus; Poet in New York; and Popol Vuh.
The seventh term, the program started in Cairo University with promoting posts on Wikipedia and social media websites to help new participants understand the general idea of the program as well as holding meetings with professors from the departments of History, chinese, English language and Spanish language. Walaa Abdel Manaem (program leader in Cairo University) and Bassem Fleifel (online ambassador) have held some workshops in campus and online for the whole students to teach them "How to edit Wikipedia". On the other hand, Prof. Abeer Abdel-Hafiz has exerted great efforts with her students in addition to introducing Walaa to new classes of senior students for whom she has organized general seminars about Wikipedia and the education program. At the same time Walaa was assigning her Spanish department students of the first and second year to edit Wikipedia.
This term, Prof. Abeer let the chance to her students to choose any articles they would like to translate from the Spanish Wikipedia to the Arabic Wikipedia or working on articles about history. They already have chosen some articles to translate with the target of nominating them to be a featured and good articles.
Most of students worked on articles about different topics like history, writers, actors, history of food and drink, mayan literature, islam and politics, etc. This course itself achieved an exceptional record of Wikipedia Education program excellent content and the best term ever in the history of WEP in Egypt in general and in the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University in specific. Walaa has held 2 online webinars to follow up with her students in addition to the workshops held at the campus. Regarding numbers, 38 students joined this course, of which 35 are female and 3 are male students. They worked on 1748 articles adding more than 12,282,943 million bytes to the article namespace on the Arabic Wikipedia, with the help of the online ambassador, who also participated as a student.
See the course page of this group on the Arabic Wikipedia here.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Egypt here.
By Jorid Martinsen (Wikimedia Norge)
Snippet: This fall masters students in History and Archeology at the University of Oslo take on the task of Wikipedia editing as one of the main parts in a subject on communication of History.
The University of Oslo is Norway’s largest higher education institution, and it is the first time Wikimedia Norway collaborates with this University in forming and using Wikipedia editing as a integrated part of higher education. The collaboration started by Wikimedia Norway contacting assistant professor John McNicol, who already had gotten some media attention on his eagerness to make students skilled in knowledge sharing.
Starting off with a two hour lecture on the secret world of Wikipedia and a two hour editing workshop in mid-September, and in October the students will evaluate the life of their articles. Has there been many additional edits on their articles? Discussions? Request to delete everything? For Wikimedia Norge it is fun to see the students both engaging in Wikipedia editing and using the ways of Wikipedia to discuss how knowledge is formed.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Norway here.
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We apologize for an earlier distribution that mistakenly took on the older content. We hope you enjoy the newest issue of the newsletter we are sharing now.-- Sailesh Patnaik (Distribution leader) using MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 18:44, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi, There is an AN/I in which my attempts to get admin involvement at [WP:Brian Martin (social scientist)] are being portrayed as disruption. I see that you edited at Brian Martin. [1] Well actually I see you've edited a lot more than that one.
Will you please post your evaluation of the article to the ANI/I https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&action=edit§ion=32 AN/I:WP:Brian Martin (social scientist) : other editor is feeling stalked/harassed. And is also attacking me. SmithBlue ( talk) 10:36, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar | |
For The Dresden Files ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views). Good job. Guy ( Help!) 10:03, 11 April 2016 (UTC) |
The editing interface will be changed soon. When that happens, editors who currently see two editing tabs – "Edit" and "Edit source" – will start seeing one edit tab instead. The single edit tab has been popular at other Wikipedias. When this is deployed here, you may be offered the opportunity to choose your preferred appearance and behavior the next time you click the Edit button. You will also be able to change your settings in the Editing section of Special:Preferences.
You can choose one or two edit tabs. If you chose one edit tab, then you can switch between the two editing environments by clicking the buttons in the toolbar (shown in the screenshots). See Help:VisualEditor/User guide#Switching between the visual and wikitext editors for more information and screenshots.
There is more information about this interface change at mw:VisualEditor/Single edit tab. If you have questions, suggestions, or problems to report, then please leave a note at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback.
Whatamidoing (WMF) 19:22, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
I think that I know the answer to this, and we are both experienced neutral editors (although you have the mop and I don't), but I am asking anyway. It appears that you twice deleted William J. Kelly as the creation of a blocked or banned user. User Lauraglaw has said at the Teahouse (not pinging her on purpose because I have pinged her on her own page), essentially, that it was very important to her to get the above article and to make sure it was neutral and well-sourced, so she hired a paid editor for the purpose. What I am assuming, based on the deletion history (and I can't see the deleted articles), is that the paid editor was already blocked for being a paid editor, and that they created the article twice, each time using a sockpuppet, and each time it was deleted. (We know that articles can only be created by registered users, so it wasn't created logged out, so an article is only created by a blocked or banned user (already blocked or banned) if it was created by a sockpuppet.) Is that correct? Robert McClenon ( talk) 17:36, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
Now the only missing piece, looking at it from my side, is why Lauraglaw found it so important to get the article created that she was willing to pay a paid editor to write it. (You and I know that paying someone to write an article so that it will be neutral and well-sourced is nonsense. Paid editors write non-neutral articles, either obviously non-neutral, or, if they are smart, subtly non-neutral.) I have asked her to make the conflict of interest disclosure. Robert McClenon ( talk) 17:36, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
Is there any simple way to find the number of visibility changes that have been made to a page? Thanks! MarkBernstein ( talk) 17:05, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
Thanks. I'd like to know whether this includes or excludes Oversight actions, MarkBernstein ( talk) 13:22, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
Hello,
you have been mentioned on a ticket in phabricator as a person who might be able to help fixing the RSS feeds on blog.wikimedia.org.au. Would you mind taking a look if that's true? Best regards, Mutante ( talk) 04:07, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
Do you have a copy of the issue? [3] The Master ---)Vote Saxon(--- 13:52, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of role-playing game software is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of role-playing game software until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Ravenswing 20:28, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
Shawn McNulty has been recreated. As you previously deleted it only 10 days ago, I thought you might like to be informed. Insert CleverPhrase Here 04:57, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
Hello Bilby, I have just hit undo on a vandal edit on Peter Dutton (again). I noticed you had protected the page so had a look at the help page User access levels but I can't understand how that IP's edit was allowed through. The IP has only made 3 edits, all vandalism. Did the protection not work or am I missing something? Thanks JennyOz ( talk) 00:23, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
Hello, What's the first thing an editor is supposed to do when they suspect sockpuppets? I don't want to be UNCIVIL by falsely accusing anyone of anything, but I'm getting sick and tired of the absurd personal attacks you're getting at the Wilyman article. I don't even remember when or why I started following that article, but it's driving me up the wall! Anyway, I've never personally initiated a sockpuppet investigation, so I wanted to make sure all my I's are dotted and T's are crossed before moving forward. Thoughts/advice? —PermStrump (talk) 05:35, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi Bilby ! Thanks for taking time to review two of my newest articles on living people. Saw the signs "The neutrality of this article is disputed" and "article appears to have a close connection with its subject". Need your advice on how to improve them. Have no connection, except the general interest in these areas, and hearing about those subjects in news, so used the information from Google to create the articles. Could you please guide me on what needs to be rewritten/restated/removed/added? Didn't have those issues before, so need help. Thanks-- L7starlight ( talk) 00:56, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
We hope you enjoy the newest issue of the Education Newsletter.-- Sailesh Patnaik (Distribution leader) using MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 16:53, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
I am working on removing promotional content on the pages tagged with COI. Can you please review Patrick Maher (writer) and check if there is still COI? Kavdiamanju ( talk) 20:03, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
Editing News #2—2016 Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter
Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for Arabic and Indic scripts, and adapting the visual editor to the needs of the Wikivoyages and Wikisources.
The visual editor is now available to all users at most Wikivoyages. It was also enabled for all contributors at the French Wikinews.
The single edit tab feature combines the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab. It has been deployed to several Wikipedias, including Hungarian, Polish, English and Japanese Wikipedias, as well as to all Wikivoyages. At these wikis, you can change your settings for this feature in the "Editing" tab of Special:Preferences. The team is now reviewing the feedback and considering ways to improve the design before rolling it out to more people.
The "Save page" button will say "Publish page". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including: Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Urdu, Persian, Bengali, Assamese, Aramaic and others.
The team is working with the volunteer developers who power Wikisource to provide the visual editor there, for opt-in testing right now and eventually for all users. ( T138966)
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You might get less heat if every single edit you made was not sympathetic to Wilyman's fraudulent "science". Drip, drip, drip, constantly watering down criticism and beefing up her special pleading. In as much as Wikipedia has a position on this, it should echo the scientific view, which is that her PhD is drivel. It does not even include an attempt to review the literature to examine whether he her claims of lack of safety are addressed in research within the field. Genuinely, it claims risk, but not only does it not include any reference to papers that directly address the question and find the risk not to exist, it doesn't even acknowledge that such papers might exist. Guy ( Help!) 08:52, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
You have recently deleted the page because it was created by a blocked or banner user. However, the subject of the page is notable as per Wikipedia guidelines. If edited with the right case examples and information, the law consultancy firm can have a page of its own. Becktea ( talk) 14:33, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
Yes the article was deleted under G5 and the creator was also blocked. I don't understand why. The law firm can have a page, if written properly. Gayatri0704 ( talk) 09:22, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
Hi. You previously deleted this article under G5 and also blocked the article's creator. I can't figure out why. A new user (presumably the same person as the one you blocked) created the article again. Can you explain what's going on? Brianga ( talk) 19:15, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
Sorry, mate. I confused your reversion with the edit summary from Dumuzid's later re-reversion. :( - Ryk72 'c.s.n.s.' 14:09, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
could you email me please? thanks - need to re-contact JarrahTree 01:35, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
Would you elaborate on why you moved Svetha Venkatesh to User:Bilby/Svetha Venkatesh? It is highly unusual for someone to userfy a page, not authored by themselves, edited by multiple others, and not as a result of a deletion process. The page needs work, but it can survive in article space, and because it was already there, that is surely the best place for the work to be done. -- Worldbruce ( talk) 18:29, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
They aren't scare quotes, they are quote marks clarifying that this is attribution to Wilyman and not a statement of fact. It's necessary because, as the article makes out, the PhD is not a work of science, and the "suppression" simply amounts to challenging the quality of the work, which is a perfectly legitimate part of academic discourse. Guy ( Help!) 13:00, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
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I saw your tag and re-read the article and I must say that I see your point. I have re-edited the article and feel that its much better now. /info/en/?search=Paolo_Petrocelli Jbmalone ( talk) 16:28, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
@ JzG: An individual contacted Wikimedia to inquire about some material that had been removed. I checked to see that it was removed by Bilby and suggested that they leave the query on their talk page, which was done but you removed it. What's going on?-- S Philbrick (Talk) 19:33, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
Hi there! I'm a non-admin SPI clerk, and doing cleanup on Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/27century just now I noticed your comment about blocking "other accounts" on their talk page. I assume that you ended up there from COIN, based on your note that you were not going to block 27century, but via SPI they have been blocked (by Vanjagenije) for a week for violations of the sockpuppetry and copyright policies. I'm just leaving a note here to make sure everyone involved is on the same page. Also, can you disclose the other accounts you blocked so that we can add them to the SPI case? Thanks. Ivanvector ( Talk/ Edits) 21:44, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Bilby, I noticed that you deleted the article for a documentary film entitled The Kids Menu because it was created by a user who was blocked. I'm interested in recreating the article as it does seem to have quite a few verifiable sources but I wanted to ask whether there were any other issues with the article before I can go ahead and re-draft (and re-publish) it to avoid any conflict later on. Davykamanzi → talk • contribs • alter ego 06:48, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
I don't understand the most recent rewording. The NYT source specifically states one reason for his vote was the missionary expansion. Why did you separate the two concepts when the source does not? Please help me understand. Tripleahg ( talk) 05:50, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
Hello Bilby, I read the biography of Raj Raghunathan and am wondering if the COI and NPOV tags placed by you in May 2016 are still valid. Please review. Thank you. -- Roshni Kanchan ( talk) 03:42, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
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I noticed that you marked my page for speedy deletion. The company was involved in a controversey but it has gone far beyond a single event. ERA has partnered witb companies, law enforcement, community groups to fight fraud. It has multiple secondy soucres that are both reliable and indepedent of the subject. I beleive that it meets the criteria, if not. do you have ideas for improvement
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Hi. You've seemed to have reverted the sources I added to the Black Book (company) page; can you explain why? Tate 2009 ( talk) 19:27, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, I saw that you deleted the article Maestrano. But I think it is a notable company as you can find lots of news references on the web. Search. Can you help me to make it published again? How can I make it neutral and encyclopedic? Can you guide me? I want to work on the draft and request you to publish it when you think it is okay for Wikipedia. Thanks - ActiveTransport ( talk) 17:54, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
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Yesterday, I patrolled a new page Fractal Analytics, the article seemed okay to me and I searched on google news to find out whether it is notable. I found numerous secondary citations for the article. Why did you delete it? After watching the log I am now seeing that it was previously deleted with around 215 revisions. What was the problem with that article? - Mar11 ( talk) 06:02, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
I see. As an Inclusionist, I am creating a clean version of the article myself. Thanks - Mar11 ( talk) 14:20, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
You deleted his claim to be the 1st medico to administer a legal, voluntary, lethal injection. It's in the source, so where is the alternative proof and why not put it in the edit summary, or on the talk page? Ratel ( talk) 04:23, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
Why did you delete the Heat Not Burn section? This is very relevant to current developments in tobacco industry, in terms of public health related issues, technology and commercial sales. For example, see: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-08/big-tobacco-has-caught-startup-fever — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:3760:26E0:B170:E323:CB3F:858A ( talk) 08:50, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
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Thank you for the help. After 2 of my articles getting deleted on wiki, I had lost the confidence to create or edit new ones. I will now try again.Truth Prevails 21:23, 28 March 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rahulshahx99 ( talk • contribs)
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AVN has been found by multiple courts to be deceitful. We absolutely should not use its propaganda as a source even for its own beliefs and claims. When an organisation launches a bogus lawsuit with absolutely no chance of success, and the complaint is packed with falsehoods, to cite that organisation's own rpess release as a source - as the sole source, in virtually every case - for the existence of te bogus lawsuit, is a serious failure of NPOV.
And this comes on top of your long-term advocacy for anti-vaccinationist Judith Wilyman. I think this is looking very bad. Guy ( Help!) 23:40, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
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Have you reported any users to upwork? I'm trying to persuade them to take down some accounts that I know are used by blocked users. I know it's probably a bit futile, but I figure if we can remove users with plenty of jobs it at least disrupts them. Surprisingly it only a little complaining to the CEO of peopleperhour for them to remove all their Wikipedia jobs, so I live in hope!
I just came across MissAdalie ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) who you blocked in Feb - do you know if they were CU'd? There are presumably many other articles that they've written. And who's the master in that case? Did you notice that WP:HARASS now permits posting of links to freelancers? I'm still slightly hesitant to do do unless it's really necessary, but I wonder if we could coordinate our efforts better by listing who's who (or perhaps you already have this off-wiki?). Cheers SmartSE ( talk) 12:47, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
Hi Bilby. I don't have much experience in the COI/PAID area of Wikipedia but am interested in following up on the Ravish K Upwork case. To what degree can we link Upwork jobs to Wikipedians and/or Wikipedia articles? I get the impression that if a completed upwork job says "Write an article on X" and there's an article on X created at the same time that it's a pretty open and shut case, but what about if you have to do a little digging to find out who the client is from their other publicly listed jobs? Does that veer into OUTING, too-off-wiki evidence, territory? Thanks, Sam Walton ( talk) 08:39, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
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Hi Bilby! Thank you for your clarification on the Paolo Petrocelli article. Your proposition for the article to be independently checked sounds right to me, the issue is that the COI notice has been there since August 2015, and nobody has checked it since! Can you please advice on how we may get the article reviewed by other editors now that I've tried to abide it to Wikipedia's requirements? - Japancolours ( talk) 07:10, 27 January 2016
I noticed you deleted the Alexia Parks article under WP:G5. As you know, G5 applies to pages created by banned or blocked users in violation of their ban or block, and "that have no substantial edits by others". I had no idea this article had been created by a banned user, and made significant improvements to the article yesterday. Also, the article's creator, Coreyeymmote ( talk · contribs), doesn't appear to be banned? Are you in error? Thank you. Magnolia677 ( talk) 02:26, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi I would like to draw your attention to the user contributions - NihartouJasonyu. I think he's one of the side of previous wars in article Frederick Achom. he sent the same messages to 14 users to discussion page. I worry about that, because I'm a little upgrated Achom's page, and it's was deleted. by the way, page was nominated for the deletion today (19.01). it's like vandalism: contributions only about Frederick and deletion section in AppyParking: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=AppyParking&diff=700414338&oldid=693803491 thanks.-- 27century ( talk) 16:37, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Bilby! I know you are technically savvy and watch a large number of articles, so maybe you have a neat solution to this problem: if an article I'm watching is edited by someone and shortly afterwards by a bot (quite frequent at the moment), the fact of the human edit is masked — I get no notification. Unless I also watch for bot edits and check each occurrence; soul-destroying and usually fruitless. Doug butler ( talk) 22:12, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
By Walaa Abdel Manaem (Wikipedia Education Program Egypt) & (Egypt Wikimedians user group)
Snippet: Education Leaders at WISE Doha 2015 introducing Wikipedia Education Program in Egypt to WISE Conference attendees, as an example of a program in the Arab World, to share their experience to inspire other universities and institutions starting new programs in the area.
WISE 2015 Sessions and Plenaries were designed around three main pillars such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals; education and the economy; fostering innovation in education systems. Each pillar examined a variety of key topics including: the linkages between education, employment, and entrepreneurship; education reform and innovation in the MENA region and Qatar; emerging models of education financing, attracting, rewarding and retaining quality teachers; and the importance of investing in early childhood development.
Representatives of Wikipedia Education Program Walaa Abdel Manaem and Reem Al-Kashif participated in WISE Doha 2015 in Qatar, the annual World Innovation Summit for Education is the premier international platform dedicated to innovation and creative action in education where top decision-makers share insights with on-the-ground practitioners and collaborate to rethink education. Also, WISE 2015 was the first global education conference following the ratification of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September 2015. Contributions ranged from Arabic Brochure of Editing Wikipedia for students in WEP in Egypt and everybody who would like to edit Wikipedia without problems, The Arabic version of Welcome to Wikipedia reference guideline, PDF of brochure handed out during Arabic Wikipedia Convening, Doha, Qatar, 2011 and Introduction to Wikipedia. These contributions are related to show a case study of Wikipedia Education program in Egypt and how it worked since February 2012 till the November 2015, as the seventh edition ended last October. All discussions were about the program's mechanism and what were the motivations keeping it going. The program helped increasing gender diversity and supported the featured content on Arabic Wikipedia. Wikipedia Education Program, like any other initiative, has achievements and dark sides, for that reason, the representatives had to locate both of them and how they influence the Arabic community and how the community interact with this phenomenon.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Egypt here.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education program in the Arab World here (in Arabic).
Snippet: A first-of-its-kind, for-credit, elective course that focuses on contributing to Wikipedia has opened at Tel Aviv University and is now available to all B.A. students on campus
On October 19th a new for-credit elective course called "Wikipedia: Skills for producing and consuming knowledge" [1] has opened at Tel Aviv University (TAU). The semester-long course (13 weeks) is available to all B.A. students on campus and this semester about 50 students from various disciplines are taking part in this first-of-its-kind course in Israel.
The course draws from "flipped classroom" concepts and uses "blended learning" methods, which practically means combining in-class lectures, workshops and small-group activities, as well as online individual learning. Both the Moodle learning management system (LMS) and the Wikipedia Education Extension are used to monitor the students' work and progress throughout the course.
The course has 2 main assignments - expanding an existing stub, as well as writing a new article, in the hopes that the content added during the course will assist not only the students themselves, but also future generations of learners as well as the general public. Though the course focuses on adding quality content to Wikipedia, it also aims to help students sharpen their academic skills and their 21st century skills, highlighting collaborative learning, joint online research and interdisciplinary collaborations in the process of constructing knowledge.
This course was initiated and is led by Shani Evenstein, an educator, Wikimedian and member of the Wikipedia Education Collaborative, in collaboration with the Orange Institute for Internet Studies, as well as the School of Education at TAU. The syllabus for the new course builds on the success of Wiki-Med, a for-credit elective course, which was designed in 2013 and is led by Evenstein at the Sackler school of Medicine for the third consecutive year. While Wiki-med is focused on contributing medical content to Wikipedia and is only available to Medical Students on campus, the new course is designed to accommodate students from different academic disciplines and varying backgrounds.
The course was chosen to be part of TAU's cross-discipline elective courses system ("Kelim Shluvim") and was approved by the Vice-Rector, who heads the program. In that, the course marks an important precedent in the collaboration between Academia and the Wikipedia Education Program, as it is the first time a higher institution acknowledges the importance of a course focusing on Wikipedia on a university level, offering it to all students, rather than a faculty level or individual lecturers as mostly practiced. It is our hope that other higher education institutions will follow this example and offer similar courses to students both in Israel and around the world.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Israel here.
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By Melina Masnatta, Wikimedia Argentina
Snippet: University professors become Wikipedians in an online course during just a week.
Educators with different profiles and from different latin america countries, but most of them professors at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) from different faculties, have just participated in the online training and free course "Educational scenarios with technology. Among the real and the possible" organized by the Center for Innovation in Technology and Pedagogy (CITEP) of this university.
Different educational activities were carried out simultaneously. During the week and under the topic “Open movement”, Wikimedia Argentina participated with three different proposals: starting with an interview of Patricio Lorente accompanied with a short text to know more about the movement. To make an immersive experience we designed " Knowing Wikipedia by first-hand or Wikipedia in the first person" to work directly on the platform translating articles from english to spanish from a list created especially for that purpose. Along with this specific proposal, educators participated in a videoconference with Galileo Vidoni (available in Spanish), where participants could talk and learn more about how are the first steps to become a Wikipedian and the importance of the movement at the local and regional level.
With only seven days and without being mandatory, different educators discovered how to edit on Wikipedia, indeed many of them mentioned that they had it as a pending to learn and participate on the free encyclopedia, but never had the time or the real chance. The enthusiasm was also present on social networks, where they shared the experience with the hashtag #escenariostec.
The result
More than 100 educators got involved and exchanged their experience in an online forum with more of 280 messages that reflected their learning process while experiencing with the activity. 80 of them were new users, and they created 61 new articles in spanish. An important fact: 78 of them were women, which means that working with educators is a key issue to continue closing the digital gender gap.
Finally from CITEP, they shared the following insights regarding the question that ran through all the activities that took place during the week dedicated to the open movement. Some thoughts can be sum up as follows:
The collaborative production in open environments: chaos or construction? (...) For the teacher also means accepting new challenges: encourage students to produce knowledge in an environment of divergent nature, it requires permanent operations and convergence. In a space that fosters interventions unmarked, the teacher needs to frame depending on the purpose of education and teaching purposes. (…) Wikipedia is the best example of the challenges posed by the digital era in the educational field, it forces us to rethink the relationship between technology and the production of knowledge and allows us to confirm that the collaborative work does not lead to chaos, if not to the construction. (. ..) [Authors: Angeles Solectic and Miri Latorre]
We share some of the voices of the protagonists in social networks with storify (available in Spanish). Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Argentina here.
By Vojtěch Dostál (Wikimedia Czech Republic)
Snippet: The second largest university in the Czech Republic has employed a Wikipedian in residence, leading to a boom of Wikimedia activities in the city of Brno.
Collaboration between Wikipedia and Czech institutions has always been a priority for Wikimedia Czech Republic, but the year 2015 has taken this to another level. First, an official memorandum of collaboration with the National Heritage Institute (NPÚ) was signed in May 2015, to be followed by official collaboration with Masaryk University in Brno (the second largest city and university in the Czech Republic), which was contracted in November 2015. In fact, Wikimedia activities in Brno have been blooming for several years now, mainly as a result of the community's own development, but aided substantially by the external interest in Wikipedia by Masaryk University alumni society, demonstrated as early as March 2013.
In February 2015, the university employed one of the most experienced Czech Wikipedians – Marek Blahuš ( Blahma) – who was appointed to become the university's first " Wikipedian in residence". Marek Blahuš has been in the center of the Wikimedia community in Brno for about two years, organizing regular Wikipedia meetups, the 2014 edition of the annual WikiConference ( more in English here) and creating the Czech-Slovak Wikipedia translation tool, which has famously led to the creation of >9000 articles on Czech and Slovak Wikipedias ( more in English here). His current work as Wikipedian in residence is funded by Masaryk University and runs under the patronage of Wikimedia Czech Republic as well as Masaryk University's rector Mikuláš Bek.
Since February, Wikipedia has taken a prominent role within Masaryk University. Marek Blahuš started a "Masaryk University Wikipedians team", gathering local Wikipedians and facilitating contacts with the university, aided by his status of a graduate and current employee in its language center. Articles about Masaryk University alumni and faculties have been identified and improved after consultations with Masaryk University archives and libraries which provided helpful resources. Wikipedia citation templates can now be directly generated from the university's on-line archive of theses. In September, a public conference called " Masaryk University Is Getting High on Wikipedia" took place on university grounds, featuring the experienced Wikipedian Jan Sokol ( Sokoljan), who is a philosopher, university teacher and a former presidential candidate. The talks focused on the use of Wikipedia in university education, in line with the successful Czech " Students Write Wikipedia" program. One of the teachers, Jiří Rambousek, expressed his desire to organize a Wikipedia Club as a regular meetup where articles would be improved in a collaborative effort and new editors introduced to Wikipedia.
The program is actively preparing for 2016 when we expect Wikimedia Czech Republic to take a more active role in overseeing the initiatives as well as the creation of a position of a "Wikipedian in Brno" – person officially in charge of the wide array of Wikimedia activities happening in the city. The chapter's annual plan includes initiatives to increase the number of university courses which incorporate Wikipedia into the curriculum, public presentations of Wikipedia at various events, scanning and uploading of images from institutional and personal archives, and much more. Let's wish that our plans come true!
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in the Czech Republic here.
By Leigh Thelmadatter (Wiki Learning-Tec de Monterrey)
Snippet: Student participation is more than just text!
For the Fall 2015 Wiki Learning-Tec de Monterrey held two wiki expeditions in Mexico City and began a collaboration with the Museo de Arte Popular. We also received our first grant!
The 32-campus Tec de Monterrey system has each semester an event called "Semana i" (i Week), when students forego normal classes for an entire week to work on challenging projects called "retos." For the Mexico City and Santa Fe campuses, one option for students was to work with Wikimedia, with the aptly named projects " Reto Wikimedia." Both campuses opted to do wiki-expeditions to different parts of Mexico City. The Mexico City campus had the larger group with almost 90 students registered, who covered the two southern boroughs of Xochimilco and Tlalpan. The Santa Fe group had 35 participants, and covered the San Ángel neighborhood found not far from this campus.
Both campus took photos of landmarks with the Mexico City campus also focusing on photos of everyday life in the south of the city. The Mexico City campus tallied 5264 photos, 8 videos and 36 articles, including articles related to the area into French, Swedish and Danish. The Santa Fe group tallied 605 photos, and ten articles in Spanish on landmarks in San Ángel.
In addition, the Mexico City campus had a special speaker the borough chronicler of Xochmilco, Sebastián Flores Farfán. A short montage video of the event is in the works.
Some student photos:
Some video clips of the event:
Wikiservicio, students working with Wikimedia for their community service requirement, added a new component. To attract more students and encourage more students to do all of their community service hours with Wikimedia, a collaboration was set up with the Museo de Arte Popular (MAP)... the first of many we hope! Six students from the digital art and animation major (see last newsletter) have continued working with Wikimedia, but focusing their efforts in creating short animation clips in relation to the mission of promoting and preserving Mexican folk art. One clip has been completed and can be see to the right of this text. So far, the video has subtitles in English, German, French and Punjabi. A second clip is nearing completion at the time of this writing.
Fifteen students completed work with Wikiservicio doing translations, writing new articles and doing photography projects. As of this date, 7 have indicated interest in working with Wikiservicio on campus and another six with MAP.
Five university level classes and one high school class on the Mexico City (South) campus have had projects, all in writing and translation, with some video work.
Wikimetrics for the semester are:
According to Wikimetrics tool....
Manual count
First grant Wiki Learning received its first grant from the Wikimedia Foundation. The long-term goal of this grant is to establish a system for financing Wiki Learning. The grant, which totals a modest 12,500 Mexican pesos, will be used for swag, such as t shirts, stickers, buttons, etc, especially for Semana i activities and promotion of wiki activities to other campus. The money will also be used for incidental travel expenses, especially for projects needing to move expensive camera equipment.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Mexico here.
By Christian Cariño (Wikimedia México) and Melina Masnatta (Wikimedia Argentina)
Snippet: Aprender para Educar writes about Wikipedia Education Program in Argentina.
The digital free magazine Aprender para Educar (Learning to educate) of the National Technological University (UTN) is recognized in the community of education and technology in Argentina to write about innovation issues in Spanish, which is not common in the academic dissemination and teacher training field.
Cristina Velazquez, general editor of the magazine invited Wikimedia Argentina to write an article that generally describes their activities in the Education Program, after reading the proposal she decided to publish it as the main article of the 12th edition.
To describe the education program, WMAR wrote two notes completing one another, as doing a zoom: from the local to the global and from the global to the local, showing how a movement of this magnitude does not stand alone, it is part of a huge network.
Melina Masnatta, education manager in WMAR and Patricio Lorente, chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees wrote those two notes.The first one focuses on the Education Program, implementation, challenges and obstacles that they had at the beginning, plans to integrate it into the classrooms in Argentina and how different Wikimedia Projects are also relevant in education. The most important thing, Melina adds, is to strengthen the values that inspire them, show how the free culture give meaning to education in general and digital culture in particular.
Meanwhile in the second part, Lorente focuses on the global movement, the community pillars, the agenda of today's challenges and the effort of their volunteers as protagonists. It is not easy show the world what drives us and why we work as volunteers in different countries. In education very few people understand the value of building free knowledge. There is still a great prejudice or negative perceptions of Wikipedia in the classroom because teachers ignore how Wikipedia is built.
Everybody reads Wikipedia, but few people edit it. We can change this fact by spreading in spaces such as the Journal of the UTN and inviting more people to collaborate and be the protagonist of this huge collective work for humanity.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Argentina here.
By Walaa Abdel Manaem (Wikipedia Education Program Egypt) & (Egypt Wikimedians user group)
Snippet: Online ambassador helped spanish students course in Cairo University to nominate their articles, scoring an exceptional record of WEP excellent content.
Bassem Fleifel, an online ambassador of Cairo university spanish course, played a prominent role to help all students to encourage them to nominate their excellent content to be a featured and good articles in Arabic Wikipedia. Those articles are History of bread (Featured article); Walt Disney; Daniel Radcliffe; Al- Andalus; Poet in New York; and Popol Vuh.
The seventh term, the program started in Cairo University with promoting posts on Wikipedia and social media websites to help new participants understand the general idea of the program as well as holding meetings with professors from the departments of History, chinese, English language and Spanish language. Walaa Abdel Manaem (program leader in Cairo University) and Bassem Fleifel (online ambassador) have held some workshops in campus and online for the whole students to teach them "How to edit Wikipedia". On the other hand, Prof. Abeer Abdel-Hafiz has exerted great efforts with her students in addition to introducing Walaa to new classes of senior students for whom she has organized general seminars about Wikipedia and the education program. At the same time Walaa was assigning her Spanish department students of the first and second year to edit Wikipedia.
This term, Prof. Abeer let the chance to her students to choose any articles they would like to translate from the Spanish Wikipedia to the Arabic Wikipedia or working on articles about history. They already have chosen some articles to translate with the target of nominating them to be a featured and good articles.
Most of students worked on articles about different topics like history, writers, actors, history of food and drink, mayan literature, islam and politics, etc. This course itself achieved an exceptional record of Wikipedia Education program excellent content and the best term ever in the history of WEP in Egypt in general and in the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University in specific. Walaa has held 2 online webinars to follow up with her students in addition to the workshops held at the campus. Regarding numbers, 38 students joined this course, of which 35 are female and 3 are male students. They worked on 1748 articles adding more than 12,282,943 million bytes to the article namespace on the Arabic Wikipedia, with the help of the online ambassador, who also participated as a student.
See the course page of this group on the Arabic Wikipedia here.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Egypt here.
By Jorid Martinsen (Wikimedia Norge)
Snippet: This fall masters students in History and Archeology at the University of Oslo take on the task of Wikipedia editing as one of the main parts in a subject on communication of History.
The University of Oslo is Norway’s largest higher education institution, and it is the first time Wikimedia Norway collaborates with this University in forming and using Wikipedia editing as a integrated part of higher education. The collaboration started by Wikimedia Norway contacting assistant professor John McNicol, who already had gotten some media attention on his eagerness to make students skilled in knowledge sharing.
Starting off with a two hour lecture on the secret world of Wikipedia and a two hour editing workshop in mid-September, and in October the students will evaluate the life of their articles. Has there been many additional edits on their articles? Discussions? Request to delete everything? For Wikimedia Norge it is fun to see the students both engaging in Wikipedia editing and using the ways of Wikipedia to discuss how knowledge is formed.
Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Norway here.
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Hi, There is an AN/I in which my attempts to get admin involvement at [WP:Brian Martin (social scientist)] are being portrayed as disruption. I see that you edited at Brian Martin. [1] Well actually I see you've edited a lot more than that one.
Will you please post your evaluation of the article to the ANI/I https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&action=edit§ion=32 AN/I:WP:Brian Martin (social scientist) : other editor is feeling stalked/harassed. And is also attacking me. SmithBlue ( talk) 10:36, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar | |
For The Dresden Files ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views). Good job. Guy ( Help!) 10:03, 11 April 2016 (UTC) |
The editing interface will be changed soon. When that happens, editors who currently see two editing tabs – "Edit" and "Edit source" – will start seeing one edit tab instead. The single edit tab has been popular at other Wikipedias. When this is deployed here, you may be offered the opportunity to choose your preferred appearance and behavior the next time you click the Edit button. You will also be able to change your settings in the Editing section of Special:Preferences.
You can choose one or two edit tabs. If you chose one edit tab, then you can switch between the two editing environments by clicking the buttons in the toolbar (shown in the screenshots). See Help:VisualEditor/User guide#Switching between the visual and wikitext editors for more information and screenshots.
There is more information about this interface change at mw:VisualEditor/Single edit tab. If you have questions, suggestions, or problems to report, then please leave a note at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback.
Whatamidoing (WMF) 19:22, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
I think that I know the answer to this, and we are both experienced neutral editors (although you have the mop and I don't), but I am asking anyway. It appears that you twice deleted William J. Kelly as the creation of a blocked or banned user. User Lauraglaw has said at the Teahouse (not pinging her on purpose because I have pinged her on her own page), essentially, that it was very important to her to get the above article and to make sure it was neutral and well-sourced, so she hired a paid editor for the purpose. What I am assuming, based on the deletion history (and I can't see the deleted articles), is that the paid editor was already blocked for being a paid editor, and that they created the article twice, each time using a sockpuppet, and each time it was deleted. (We know that articles can only be created by registered users, so it wasn't created logged out, so an article is only created by a blocked or banned user (already blocked or banned) if it was created by a sockpuppet.) Is that correct? Robert McClenon ( talk) 17:36, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
Now the only missing piece, looking at it from my side, is why Lauraglaw found it so important to get the article created that she was willing to pay a paid editor to write it. (You and I know that paying someone to write an article so that it will be neutral and well-sourced is nonsense. Paid editors write non-neutral articles, either obviously non-neutral, or, if they are smart, subtly non-neutral.) I have asked her to make the conflict of interest disclosure. Robert McClenon ( talk) 17:36, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
Is there any simple way to find the number of visibility changes that have been made to a page? Thanks! MarkBernstein ( talk) 17:05, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
Thanks. I'd like to know whether this includes or excludes Oversight actions, MarkBernstein ( talk) 13:22, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
Hello,
you have been mentioned on a ticket in phabricator as a person who might be able to help fixing the RSS feeds on blog.wikimedia.org.au. Would you mind taking a look if that's true? Best regards, Mutante ( talk) 04:07, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
Do you have a copy of the issue? [3] The Master ---)Vote Saxon(--- 13:52, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of role-playing game software is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of role-playing game software until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Ravenswing 20:28, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
Shawn McNulty has been recreated. As you previously deleted it only 10 days ago, I thought you might like to be informed. Insert CleverPhrase Here 04:57, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
Hello Bilby, I have just hit undo on a vandal edit on Peter Dutton (again). I noticed you had protected the page so had a look at the help page User access levels but I can't understand how that IP's edit was allowed through. The IP has only made 3 edits, all vandalism. Did the protection not work or am I missing something? Thanks JennyOz ( talk) 00:23, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
Hello, What's the first thing an editor is supposed to do when they suspect sockpuppets? I don't want to be UNCIVIL by falsely accusing anyone of anything, but I'm getting sick and tired of the absurd personal attacks you're getting at the Wilyman article. I don't even remember when or why I started following that article, but it's driving me up the wall! Anyway, I've never personally initiated a sockpuppet investigation, so I wanted to make sure all my I's are dotted and T's are crossed before moving forward. Thoughts/advice? —PermStrump (talk) 05:35, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi Bilby ! Thanks for taking time to review two of my newest articles on living people. Saw the signs "The neutrality of this article is disputed" and "article appears to have a close connection with its subject". Need your advice on how to improve them. Have no connection, except the general interest in these areas, and hearing about those subjects in news, so used the information from Google to create the articles. Could you please guide me on what needs to be rewritten/restated/removed/added? Didn't have those issues before, so need help. Thanks-- L7starlight ( talk) 00:56, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
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I am working on removing promotional content on the pages tagged with COI. Can you please review Patrick Maher (writer) and check if there is still COI? Kavdiamanju ( talk) 20:03, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
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Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for Arabic and Indic scripts, and adapting the visual editor to the needs of the Wikivoyages and Wikisources.
The visual editor is now available to all users at most Wikivoyages. It was also enabled for all contributors at the French Wikinews.
The single edit tab feature combines the "Edit" and "Edit source" tabs into a single "Edit" tab. It has been deployed to several Wikipedias, including Hungarian, Polish, English and Japanese Wikipedias, as well as to all Wikivoyages. At these wikis, you can change your settings for this feature in the "Editing" tab of Special:Preferences. The team is now reviewing the feedback and considering ways to improve the design before rolling it out to more people.
The "Save page" button will say "Publish page". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including: Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Urdu, Persian, Bengali, Assamese, Aramaic and others.
The team is working with the volunteer developers who power Wikisource to provide the visual editor there, for opt-in testing right now and eventually for all users. ( T138966)
The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. It will look like the visual editor, and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices around September 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.
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Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk), 21:09, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
You currently appear to be engaged in an
edit war according to the reverts you have made on
Jesse Waugh. Users are expected to
collaborate with others, to avoid editing
disruptively, and to
try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.
Please be particularly aware that Wikipedia's policy on edit warring states:
If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes; work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing. The Master ---)Vote Saxon(--- 00:43, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
You might get less heat if every single edit you made was not sympathetic to Wilyman's fraudulent "science". Drip, drip, drip, constantly watering down criticism and beefing up her special pleading. In as much as Wikipedia has a position on this, it should echo the scientific view, which is that her PhD is drivel. It does not even include an attempt to review the literature to examine whether he her claims of lack of safety are addressed in research within the field. Genuinely, it claims risk, but not only does it not include any reference to papers that directly address the question and find the risk not to exist, it doesn't even acknowledge that such papers might exist. Guy ( Help!) 08:52, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
You have recently deleted the page because it was created by a blocked or banner user. However, the subject of the page is notable as per Wikipedia guidelines. If edited with the right case examples and information, the law consultancy firm can have a page of its own. Becktea ( talk) 14:33, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
Yes the article was deleted under G5 and the creator was also blocked. I don't understand why. The law firm can have a page, if written properly. Gayatri0704 ( talk) 09:22, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
Hi. You previously deleted this article under G5 and also blocked the article's creator. I can't figure out why. A new user (presumably the same person as the one you blocked) created the article again. Can you explain what's going on? Brianga ( talk) 19:15, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
Sorry, mate. I confused your reversion with the edit summary from Dumuzid's later re-reversion. :( - Ryk72 'c.s.n.s.' 14:09, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
could you email me please? thanks - need to re-contact JarrahTree 01:35, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
Would you elaborate on why you moved Svetha Venkatesh to User:Bilby/Svetha Venkatesh? It is highly unusual for someone to userfy a page, not authored by themselves, edited by multiple others, and not as a result of a deletion process. The page needs work, but it can survive in article space, and because it was already there, that is surely the best place for the work to be done. -- Worldbruce ( talk) 18:29, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
They aren't scare quotes, they are quote marks clarifying that this is attribution to Wilyman and not a statement of fact. It's necessary because, as the article makes out, the PhD is not a work of science, and the "suppression" simply amounts to challenging the quality of the work, which is a perfectly legitimate part of academic discourse. Guy ( Help!) 13:00, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
We hope you enjoy the newest issue of the Education Newsletter.-- Sailesh Patnaik using MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 13:00, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
I saw your tag and re-read the article and I must say that I see your point. I have re-edited the article and feel that its much better now. /info/en/?search=Paolo_Petrocelli Jbmalone ( talk) 16:28, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
@ JzG: An individual contacted Wikimedia to inquire about some material that had been removed. I checked to see that it was removed by Bilby and suggested that they leave the query on their talk page, which was done but you removed it. What's going on?-- S Philbrick (Talk) 19:33, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
Hi there! I'm a non-admin SPI clerk, and doing cleanup on Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/27century just now I noticed your comment about blocking "other accounts" on their talk page. I assume that you ended up there from COIN, based on your note that you were not going to block 27century, but via SPI they have been blocked (by Vanjagenije) for a week for violations of the sockpuppetry and copyright policies. I'm just leaving a note here to make sure everyone involved is on the same page. Also, can you disclose the other accounts you blocked so that we can add them to the SPI case? Thanks. Ivanvector ( Talk/ Edits) 21:44, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Bilby. This message is intended to notify administrators of important changes to the protection policy.
Extended confirmed protection (also known as "30/500 protection") is a new level of page protection that only allows edits from accounts at least 30 days old and with 500 edits. The automatically assigned "extended confirmed" user right was created for this purpose. The protection level was created following this community discussion with the primary intention of enforcing various arbitration remedies that prohibited editors under the "30 days/500 edits" threshold to edit certain topic areas.
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Hi Bilby, I noticed that you deleted the article for a documentary film entitled The Kids Menu because it was created by a user who was blocked. I'm interested in recreating the article as it does seem to have quite a few verifiable sources but I wanted to ask whether there were any other issues with the article before I can go ahead and re-draft (and re-publish) it to avoid any conflict later on. Davykamanzi → talk • contribs • alter ego 06:48, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
I don't understand the most recent rewording. The NYT source specifically states one reason for his vote was the missionary expansion. Why did you separate the two concepts when the source does not? Please help me understand. Tripleahg ( talk) 05:50, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
Hello Bilby, I read the biography of Raj Raghunathan and am wondering if the COI and NPOV tags placed by you in May 2016 are still valid. Please review. Thank you. -- Roshni Kanchan ( talk) 03:42, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
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Apologies for the edit conflicts. I'd like to read your thoughts, so will keep my hands off to give you a chance to respond. I'm not averse to including something in the article, just concerned to see that it's supported by the sources. - Ryk72 'c.s.n.s.' 21:39, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
I noticed that you marked my page for speedy deletion. The company was involved in a controversey but it has gone far beyond a single event. ERA has partnered witb companies, law enforcement, community groups to fight fraud. It has multiple secondy soucres that are both reliable and indepedent of the subject. I beleive that it meets the criteria, if not. do you have ideas for improvement
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Hi. You've seemed to have reverted the sources I added to the Black Book (company) page; can you explain why? Tate 2009 ( talk) 19:27, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Bilby.
A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.
It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.
If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins). MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 13:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Bilby, Looking into a request and making edits without any other sources than a tweet are two different things. Cheers. -- SVTCobra ( talk) 22:33, 26 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi, I saw that you deleted the article Maestrano. But I think it is a notable company as you can find lots of news references on the web. Search. Can you help me to make it published again? How can I make it neutral and encyclopedic? Can you guide me? I want to work on the draft and request you to publish it when you think it is okay for Wikipedia. Thanks - ActiveTransport ( talk) 17:54, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, Bilby. I see that most of the material you trimmed from Commercial policy in 2011 was restored by the same student editor in 2012. Was it determined not to be a copyvio, or does it need to be trimmed again? — Patrug ( talk) 04:42, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
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Yesterday, I patrolled a new page Fractal Analytics, the article seemed okay to me and I searched on google news to find out whether it is notable. I found numerous secondary citations for the article. Why did you delete it? After watching the log I am now seeing that it was previously deleted with around 215 revisions. What was the problem with that article? - Mar11 ( talk) 06:02, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
I see. As an Inclusionist, I am creating a clean version of the article myself. Thanks - Mar11 ( talk) 14:20, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
You deleted his claim to be the 1st medico to administer a legal, voluntary, lethal injection. It's in the source, so where is the alternative proof and why not put it in the edit summary, or on the talk page? Ratel ( talk) 04:23, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
Why did you delete the Heat Not Burn section? This is very relevant to current developments in tobacco industry, in terms of public health related issues, technology and commercial sales. For example, see: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-08/big-tobacco-has-caught-startup-fever — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:3760:26E0:B170:E323:CB3F:858A ( talk) 08:50, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
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Thank you for the help. After 2 of my articles getting deleted on wiki, I had lost the confidence to create or edit new ones. I will now try again.Truth Prevails 21:23, 28 March 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rahulshahx99 ( talk • contribs)
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AVN has been found by multiple courts to be deceitful. We absolutely should not use its propaganda as a source even for its own beliefs and claims. When an organisation launches a bogus lawsuit with absolutely no chance of success, and the complaint is packed with falsehoods, to cite that organisation's own rpess release as a source - as the sole source, in virtually every case - for the existence of te bogus lawsuit, is a serious failure of NPOV.
And this comes on top of your long-term advocacy for anti-vaccinationist Judith Wilyman. I think this is looking very bad. Guy ( Help!) 23:40, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
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Have you reported any users to upwork? I'm trying to persuade them to take down some accounts that I know are used by blocked users. I know it's probably a bit futile, but I figure if we can remove users with plenty of jobs it at least disrupts them. Surprisingly it only a little complaining to the CEO of peopleperhour for them to remove all their Wikipedia jobs, so I live in hope!
I just came across MissAdalie ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) who you blocked in Feb - do you know if they were CU'd? There are presumably many other articles that they've written. And who's the master in that case? Did you notice that WP:HARASS now permits posting of links to freelancers? I'm still slightly hesitant to do do unless it's really necessary, but I wonder if we could coordinate our efforts better by listing who's who (or perhaps you already have this off-wiki?). Cheers SmartSE ( talk) 12:47, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
Hi Bilby. I don't have much experience in the COI/PAID area of Wikipedia but am interested in following up on the Ravish K Upwork case. To what degree can we link Upwork jobs to Wikipedians and/or Wikipedia articles? I get the impression that if a completed upwork job says "Write an article on X" and there's an article on X created at the same time that it's a pretty open and shut case, but what about if you have to do a little digging to find out who the client is from their other publicly listed jobs? Does that veer into OUTING, too-off-wiki evidence, territory? Thanks, Sam Walton ( talk) 08:39, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
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You deleted Copenhagen Ultracontemporary Biennale under WP:CSD#G5 (blocked user). Can you say which blocked user you believe is responsible? I ask because a new article has been created at Copenhagen ultracontemporary biennale by the same user, who does not appear to have been blocked for sock puppetry. WikiDan61 ChatMe! ReadMe!! 13:42, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
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