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A new user right for New Page Patrollers
Hi Dominic.
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 However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less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) 13:46, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!
Hello, Dominic. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
Saturday December 3: Contemporary Chinese Art Edit-a-thon @ Guggenheim
| Saturday December 3: Contemporary Chinese Art Edit-a-thon @ Guggenheim | |
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 On Saturday December 3, 2016, in conjunction with a global campaign, the Guggenheim will host its fifth Wikipedia edit-a-thon—or, #guggathon—to enhance Wikipedia's coverage of modern and contemporary artists from Greater China. The event will cap off Wikipedia Asian Month, an online campaign dedicated to augmenting Asian content on Wikipedia throughout November. New and experienced editors are welcome. The event will include a training session for participants who are new to Wikipedia, and Wikipedia specialists will be on hand to provide basic instruction and editing support. Editors are invited to view the exhibition Tales of Our Time following the event. The Guggenheim aims to raise awareness of the artists featured in the Tales of Our Time exhibition supported by The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Chinese Art Initiative, and build on the model of campaigns like the Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the Guggenheim: Women in Architecture, Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the Guggenheim: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa, and Art+Feminism.
Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! -- Pharos ( talk) 09:45, 23 November 2016 (UTC) | |
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Wikipedia:GLAM/National Archives and Records Administration
Hi Dominic, You wouldn't happened to know who is running the above. I dumped some document requests up there this morning, and I noticed that most of the posts are dated 2011ish. Is it still operating? I read you had created the project, hence... scope_creep ( talk) 14:19, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
- Hi, @
Scope creep:. Thanks for notifying me; I admit I am not watching that page closely. I am responsible for that project, and the Wikipedia–NARA partnership is very active—even though the WikiProject is not. I am looking at your request, and I will ask around. Right now, we don't have an internal process in place for requests from Wikipedia (it's experimental). Basically, when I get a request, I do the best I can to get it to the right unit within NARA and see if we can work out a way to get the images. In your case, it looks like a pretty long list that might be hundreds of pages of unscanned documents (scans aren't just lying around offline), so this may be a big ask. Do you have a few top priorities? Thanks!
Dominic·
t 18:51, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
- Hi Dominic, thanks for getting back to me so quickly. Is it only for images. It's only documents I'm looking for. There is quite a few of them, I think there is about 20-30 of them requested. 19:08, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
- Yes, these are textual documents. By "images", I just meant the scans of the documents. There are 41 documents here that you listed. They are all contained in 6 boxes, but that could still be a lot of pages.
Dominic·
t 19:10, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
- Coolio, You found them already. They must be well indexed! That will enable me to get on with this monster article: General der Nachrichtenaufklärung. scope_creep ( talk) 11:39, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
- Yes, these are textual documents. By "images", I just meant the scans of the documents. There are 41 documents here that you listed. They are all contained in 6 boxes, but that could still be a lot of pages.
Dominic·
t 19:10, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
- Hi Dominic, thanks for getting back to me so quickly. Is it only for images. It's only documents I'm looking for. There is quite a few of them, I think there is about 20-30 of them requested. 19:08, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
Soda
FYI, Dominic is a soda addict. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.168.59.134 ( talk) 18:48, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
| Wednesday December 21, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC | |
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  You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. This will be the holiday party! Celebrate a December holiday with us, or in wiki-fashion, edit the calendar itself and join us to celebrate any holiday of your choice regardless of when it usually happens. Featuring special guest presentations on structure data, university library meetups, metrics and reporting, and other topics. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, and other outreach activities. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. After the main meeting, savory and sweet pies and refreshments and video games in the gallery!
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Happy Holidays!
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Drinking
Dominic, please don't drink and drive. 205.168.59.134 ( talk) 03:31, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
NARA Document Request
Hi Dominic, I was wondering whats happening with my NARA document request. I sent it in on the 6th Dec, and I think a month has passed, what with Christmas it is really only 3(ish) weeks. I am keen to start work on the General der Nachrichtenaufklärung article. scope_creep ( talk) 17:31, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
Sunday January 15: Wikipedia Day NYC Celebration and Mini-Conference
| Sunday January 15: Wikipedia Day NYC 2017 | |
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  You are invited to join us at Ace Hotel for Wikipedia Day NYC 2017, a Wikipedia celebration and mini-conference as part of the project's global 16th birthday festivities. In addition to the party, the event will be a participatory unconference, with plenary panels, lightning talks, and of course open space sessions. With special guests Katherine Maher of the Wikimedia Foundation and Tim Wu of Columbia Law School speaking on our Post-truth panel! Also featuring an International/Multilingual panel, a Documenting Activism panel, a Multimedia/Tech Panel, a Science panel, an Art panel, and more. And there will be cake. We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! -- Pharos ( talk) 14:56, 8 January 2017 (UTC) | |
Administrators' newsletter - February 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.
Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
- A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
- Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
- Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.
Technical news
- When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. ( T34950)
- Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. ( T156448)
- The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.
Arbitration
- The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.
Obituaries
- JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.
13:36, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
NARA Request
Hi Dominic, I was wondering what is happening with my Nara request. It was that big list of perhaps 20+ TICOM docs. Thanks scope_creep ( talk) 22:42, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
| Wednesday February 15, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC | |
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 You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. Featuring special guest presentations on WikiProject La Guardia and Wagner Archives, WikiProject Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wiki Loves the Dominican Republic, and more. We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, and other outreach activities. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! -- Pharos ( talk) 22:17, 9 February 2017 (UTC) P.S. Get ready now for Black WikiHistory Month Weekend:
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De-admin vote at Wiktionary
Please see wikt:Wiktionary:Votes/2017-01/Dominic for de-admin.
If that vote passes, your admin rights on Wiktionary are going to be removed because you have been inactive there since 2013. I believe that is without prejudice, just to keep only active admins in the list. Also as of now two people opposed the vote because they would apparently prefer to wait five years before taking admin rights from someone.
Feel free to respond there, if you are interested.
I don't know if you were aware of the vote yet, but according to the vote talk page, you were notified by e-mail.
Cheers! -- Daniel Carrero ( talk) 05:46, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
March 11: Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon @ MoMA (and beyond!)
| Saturday March 11: Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon @ MoMA | |
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  Join us at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Education and Research Building at the Museum of Modern Art, 4 West 54th Street, on Saturday, March 11, 2017 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. for an all-day communal updating of Wikipedia entries on subjects related to art and feminism. There will be childcare, snacks, multiple trainings and panel discussions. People of all gender identities and expressions welcomed and encouraged to attend. This year’s edit-a-thon kicks off at 10:00 a.m. with a conversation about information activism with writer Joanne McNeil and Data & Society Research Institute Fellow Zara Rahman, moderated by Kimberly Drew, the social media manager for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, creator of the Tumblr “Black Contemporary Art,” and the person behind @museummammy on Instagram. Afternoon breakout groups will engage in focused discussions about related issues, including intersectionality and librarianship, power structures in notability guidelines on Wikipedia, and radical archives. -- Pharos ( talk) 18:46, 7 March 2017 (UTC) And a broader calendar of events on the theme this week/weekend, and the next:
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Sunday March 26: Action=History Wiki-Hackathon @ Ace Hotel
| Sunday March 26: Action=History Wiki-Hackathon @ Ace Hotel | |
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 On the last Sunday of every month, the Boardroom at Ace Hotel New York hosts Action Equals History — a unique opportunity for New Yorkers to learn hands-on in a technology training/workshop session about the mechanics, practices and benefits of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects. This is an opportunity for all to gather, share and work collectively towards a more robust account of history. For this month, and following on the recent Art+Feminism campaign, we'll focus on building better edit-a-thon tools for a variety of different thematic campaigns, and user-testing them with the community. Towards a goal of advancing these tools for wider use with diverse local groups.
Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! -- Pharos ( talk) 05:13, 21 March 2017 (UTC) | |
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It's time.
I think today's the day for you to stop drinking soda. 73.109.61.43 ( talk) 01:28, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
Wikimedian in Residence BoF at Wikimania 2017
Hello!
My name is David Alves (
User:Horadrim~usurped), and I'm an Wikipedian in Residence at
RIDC NeuroMat (
User:Horadrim). I've reach your contact through the
Wikimedian in residence page in Outreach. As you may know,
Wikimania 2017 is coming! I am here because, as a fellow WiR, I believe this would be a great opportunity for us to share experiences, discuss difficulties and exchange solutions, creating a community among us capable of supporting in other projects that would benefit from residents.
In that sense, I have submitted a proposal of a Birds of a Feather activity to Wikimania that you can check out
here. I hope to count with your support in this project and would like to invite you to join us if you participate in Wikimania. In case of any doubts, please feel free to contact me, either in my talk pages or by e-mail at david.alves
outlook.com.
Thank you very much! Horadrim~usurped ( talk) 00:33, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
| Wednesday April 19, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC | |
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We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! -- Pharos ( talk) 18:30, 15 April 2017 (UTC) | |
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Sunday May 21: Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon + global online challenge
| Sunday May 21, 10:30 am - 4:30pm: Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon | |
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 The Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon: Met Open Access Initiative is the Metropolitan Museum of Art's first edit-a-thon, being hosted on Sunday May 21, 2017 in Thomas J. Watson Library at The Met Fifth Avenue in New York City. The Met is excited to make available over 375,000 images of public domain artworks for contribution to Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons from the museum’s collection spanning 5,000 years of art. The event is an opportunity for Wikimedia communities to engage The Met's diverse collection onsite and remotely. The event is a key marker too of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's first Wikimedian-in-Residence program, with resident Richard Knipel ( User:Pharos), along with Wikimedia NYC. We invite you to help enhance Wikimedia communities and platforms with open access images from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The event requires pre-registration. To register, 1) please sign-up with Eventbrite via The Met's website and 2) add your Wikipedia username to the #Participants on the wikimeetup page. Please check-in with museum staff when you arrive at the Thomas J. Watson Library within the museum. We also welcome remote participation for the global Met Open Access Artworks Challenge (15 May - 30 June, 2017), you can sign up there at Met Open Access Artworks Challenge/Participants. -- Pharos ( talk) 16:23, 16 May 2017 (UTC) | |
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| Wednesday May 24, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC | |
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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. Topics this month include the TED wikiproject, the Met wikiproject, and encouraging free video on Wikimedia Commons! We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! -- Pharos ( talk) 19:30, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
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Oval Office grandfather clock
Ciao Dominic :-)
Inspired by Comey's testimony today, I created the article Oval Office grandfather clock - and built a gallery of pics, one for each president. They're not ideal some of them, and I've not found any on Commons as yet for Bush Snr. I've looked through quite a lot of NARA images in Commons Category:Oval Office clock in the process of illustrating this article, but perhaps you can help me find one of Bush Snr, and any improvements to the others? Witty lama 14:44, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
- followup -
Fuzheado has found a good one :-)
[1]
Witty
lama 15:43, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
- We should tweet the link to Ferriero ... --
Fuzheado |
Talk 15:46, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
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Wittylama: That's great. Interestingly, it seems there was a different grandfather clock in place prior to this one being installed in the '70s. Here is one you can see from 1968 with Johnson:
File:Senator Robert F. Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson - NARA - 192487.tif.
Dominic·
t 16:58, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
- Yeah - I found that clock with this picture of Lady Byrd Johnson in '69
, and the earliest pic of it I can find that's on Commons is this one from '65
. I've since seen - but now cannot find again! - a pic on Commons of that specific clock being used in another room in the West Wing in the 80s. But I know nothing about that clock - what it is, when it was first used in the building, where it is now... What I'd really like to know is more about the current clock's provenance - currently there's a gap between 1800 and 1972 - but I guess that's not really something NARA can help with!
Witty
lama 19:34, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
- Yeah - I found that clock with this picture of Lady Byrd Johnson in '69
-
Wittylama: That's great. Interestingly, it seems there was a different grandfather clock in place prior to this one being installed in the '70s. Here is one you can see from 1968 with Johnson:
File:Senator Robert F. Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson - NARA - 192487.tif.
Dominic·
t 16:58, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
- We should tweet the link to Ferriero ... --
Fuzheado |
Talk 15:46, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
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A new user right for New Page Patrollers
Hi Dominic.
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) 13:46, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!
Hello, Dominic. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
Saturday December 3: Contemporary Chinese Art Edit-a-thon @ Guggenheim
| Saturday December 3: Contemporary Chinese Art Edit-a-thon @ Guggenheim | |
|---|---|
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On Saturday December 3, 2016, in conjunction with a global campaign, the Guggenheim will host its fifth Wikipedia edit-a-thon—or, #guggathon—to enhance Wikipedia's coverage of modern and contemporary artists from Greater China. The event will cap off Wikipedia Asian Month, an online campaign dedicated to augmenting Asian content on Wikipedia throughout November. New and experienced editors are welcome. The event will include a training session for participants who are new to Wikipedia, and Wikipedia specialists will be on hand to provide basic instruction and editing support. Editors are invited to view the exhibition Tales of Our Time following the event. The Guggenheim aims to raise awareness of the artists featured in the Tales of Our Time exhibition supported by The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Chinese Art Initiative, and build on the model of campaigns like the Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the Guggenheim: Women in Architecture, Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the Guggenheim: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa, and Art+Feminism.
Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! -- Pharos ( talk) 09:45, 23 November 2016 (UTC) | |
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Wikipedia:GLAM/National Archives and Records Administration
Hi Dominic, You wouldn't happened to know who is running the above. I dumped some document requests up there this morning, and I noticed that most of the posts are dated 2011ish. Is it still operating? I read you had created the project, hence... scope_creep ( talk) 14:19, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
- Hi, @
Scope creep:. Thanks for notifying me; I admit I am not watching that page closely. I am responsible for that project, and the Wikipedia–NARA partnership is very active—even though the WikiProject is not. I am looking at your request, and I will ask around. Right now, we don't have an internal process in place for requests from Wikipedia (it's experimental). Basically, when I get a request, I do the best I can to get it to the right unit within NARA and see if we can work out a way to get the images. In your case, it looks like a pretty long list that might be hundreds of pages of unscanned documents (scans aren't just lying around offline), so this may be a big ask. Do you have a few top priorities? Thanks!
Dominic·
t 18:51, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
- Hi Dominic, thanks for getting back to me so quickly. Is it only for images. It's only documents I'm looking for. There is quite a few of them, I think there is about 20-30 of them requested. 19:08, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
- Yes, these are textual documents. By "images", I just meant the scans of the documents. There are 41 documents here that you listed. They are all contained in 6 boxes, but that could still be a lot of pages.
Dominic·
t 19:10, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
- Coolio, You found them already. They must be well indexed! That will enable me to get on with this monster article: General der Nachrichtenaufklärung. scope_creep ( talk) 11:39, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
- Yes, these are textual documents. By "images", I just meant the scans of the documents. There are 41 documents here that you listed. They are all contained in 6 boxes, but that could still be a lot of pages.
Dominic·
t 19:10, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
- Hi Dominic, thanks for getting back to me so quickly. Is it only for images. It's only documents I'm looking for. There is quite a few of them, I think there is about 20-30 of them requested. 19:08, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
Soda
FYI, Dominic is a soda addict. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.168.59.134 ( talk) 18:48, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
| Wednesday December 21, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC | |
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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. This will be the holiday party! Celebrate a December holiday with us, or in wiki-fashion, edit the calendar itself and join us to celebrate any holiday of your choice regardless of when it usually happens. Featuring special guest presentations on structure data, university library meetups, metrics and reporting, and other topics. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, and other outreach activities. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. After the main meeting, savory and sweet pies and refreshments and video games in the gallery!
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! -- Pharos ( talk) 21:43, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
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Happy Holidays!
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Drinking
Dominic, please don't drink and drive. 205.168.59.134 ( talk) 03:31, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
NARA Document Request
Hi Dominic, I was wondering whats happening with my NARA document request. I sent it in on the 6th Dec, and I think a month has passed, what with Christmas it is really only 3(ish) weeks. I am keen to start work on the General der Nachrichtenaufklärung article. scope_creep ( talk) 17:31, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
Sunday January 15: Wikipedia Day NYC Celebration and Mini-Conference
| Sunday January 15: Wikipedia Day NYC 2017 | |
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You are invited to join us at Ace Hotel for Wikipedia Day NYC 2017, a Wikipedia celebration and mini-conference as part of the project's global 16th birthday festivities. In addition to the party, the event will be a participatory unconference, with plenary panels, lightning talks, and of course open space sessions. With special guests Katherine Maher of the Wikimedia Foundation and Tim Wu of Columbia Law School speaking on our Post-truth panel! Also featuring an International/Multilingual panel, a Documenting Activism panel, a Multimedia/Tech Panel, a Science panel, an Art panel, and more. And there will be cake. We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! -- Pharos ( talk) 14:56, 8 January 2017 (UTC) | |
Administrators' newsletter - February 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.
Administrator changes
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NinjaRobotPirate •
Schwede66 •
K6ka •
Ealdgyth •
Ferret •
Cyberpower678 •
Mz7 •
Primefac •
Dodger67
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Briangotts •
JeremyA •
BU Rob13
Guideline and policy news
- A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
- Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
- Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.
Technical news
- When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. ( T34950)
- Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. ( T156448)
- The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.
Arbitration
- The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.
Obituaries
- JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.
13:36, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
NARA Request
Hi Dominic, I was wondering what is happening with my Nara request. It was that big list of perhaps 20+ TICOM docs. Thanks scope_creep ( talk) 22:42, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
| Wednesday February 15, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC | |
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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. Featuring special guest presentations on WikiProject La Guardia and Wagner Archives, WikiProject Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wiki Loves the Dominican Republic, and more. We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, and other outreach activities. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! -- Pharos ( talk) 22:17, 9 February 2017 (UTC) P.S. Get ready now for Black WikiHistory Month Weekend:
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De-admin vote at Wiktionary
Please see wikt:Wiktionary:Votes/2017-01/Dominic for de-admin.
If that vote passes, your admin rights on Wiktionary are going to be removed because you have been inactive there since 2013. I believe that is without prejudice, just to keep only active admins in the list. Also as of now two people opposed the vote because they would apparently prefer to wait five years before taking admin rights from someone.
Feel free to respond there, if you are interested.
I don't know if you were aware of the vote yet, but according to the vote talk page, you were notified by e-mail.
Cheers! -- Daniel Carrero ( talk) 05:46, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
March 11: Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon @ MoMA (and beyond!)
| Saturday March 11: Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon @ MoMA | |
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Join us at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Education and Research Building at the Museum of Modern Art, 4 West 54th Street, on Saturday, March 11, 2017 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. for an all-day communal updating of Wikipedia entries on subjects related to art and feminism. There will be childcare, snacks, multiple trainings and panel discussions. People of all gender identities and expressions welcomed and encouraged to attend. This year’s edit-a-thon kicks off at 10:00 a.m. with a conversation about information activism with writer Joanne McNeil and Data & Society Research Institute Fellow Zara Rahman, moderated by Kimberly Drew, the social media manager for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, creator of the Tumblr “Black Contemporary Art,” and the person behind @museummammy on Instagram. Afternoon breakout groups will engage in focused discussions about related issues, including intersectionality and librarianship, power structures in notability guidelines on Wikipedia, and radical archives. -- Pharos ( talk) 18:46, 7 March 2017 (UTC) And a broader calendar of events on the theme this week/weekend, and the next:
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Sunday March 26: Action=History Wiki-Hackathon @ Ace Hotel
| Sunday March 26: Action=History Wiki-Hackathon @ Ace Hotel | |
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On the last Sunday of every month, the Boardroom at Ace Hotel New York hosts Action Equals History — a unique opportunity for New Yorkers to learn hands-on in a technology training/workshop session about the mechanics, practices and benefits of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects. This is an opportunity for all to gather, share and work collectively towards a more robust account of history. For this month, and following on the recent Art+Feminism campaign, we'll focus on building better edit-a-thon tools for a variety of different thematic campaigns, and user-testing them with the community. Towards a goal of advancing these tools for wider use with diverse local groups.
Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! -- Pharos ( talk) 05:13, 21 March 2017 (UTC) | |
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It's time.
I think today's the day for you to stop drinking soda. 73.109.61.43 ( talk) 01:28, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
Wikimedian in Residence BoF at Wikimania 2017
Hello!
My name is David Alves (
User:Horadrim~usurped), and I'm an Wikipedian in Residence at
RIDC NeuroMat (
User:Horadrim). I've reach your contact through the
Wikimedian in residence page in Outreach. As you may know,
Wikimania 2017 is coming! I am here because, as a fellow WiR, I believe this would be a great opportunity for us to share experiences, discuss difficulties and exchange solutions, creating a community among us capable of supporting in other projects that would benefit from residents.
In that sense, I have submitted a proposal of a Birds of a Feather activity to Wikimania that you can check out
here. I hope to count with your support in this project and would like to invite you to join us if you participate in Wikimania. In case of any doubts, please feel free to contact me, either in my talk pages or by e-mail at david.alvesoutlook.com.
Thank you very much! Horadrim~usurped ( talk) 00:33, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
| Wednesday April 19, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC | |
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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! -- Pharos ( talk) 18:30, 15 April 2017 (UTC) | |
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Sunday May 21: Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon + global online challenge
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon: Met Open Access Initiative is the Metropolitan Museum of Art's first edit-a-thon, being hosted on Sunday May 21, 2017 in Thomas J. Watson Library at The Met Fifth Avenue in New York City. The Met is excited to make available over 375,000 images of public domain artworks for contribution to Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons from the museum’s collection spanning 5,000 years of art. The event is an opportunity for Wikimedia communities to engage The Met's diverse collection onsite and remotely. The event is a key marker too of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's first Wikimedian-in-Residence program, with resident Richard Knipel ( User:Pharos), along with Wikimedia NYC. We invite you to help enhance Wikimedia communities and platforms with open access images from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The event requires pre-registration. To register, 1) please sign-up with Eventbrite via The Met's website and 2) add your Wikipedia username to the #Participants on the wikimeetup page. Please check-in with museum staff when you arrive at the Thomas J. Watson Library within the museum. We also welcome remote participation for the global Met Open Access Artworks Challenge (15 May - 30 June, 2017), you can sign up there at Met Open Access Artworks Challenge/Participants. -- Pharos ( talk) 16:23, 16 May 2017 (UTC) | |
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| Wednesday May 24, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC | |
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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. Topics this month include the TED wikiproject, the Met wikiproject, and encouraging free video on Wikimedia Commons! We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! -- Pharos ( talk) 19:30, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
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Oval Office grandfather clock
Ciao Dominic :-)
Inspired by Comey's testimony today, I created the article Oval Office grandfather clock - and built a gallery of pics, one for each president. They're not ideal some of them, and I've not found any on Commons as yet for Bush Snr. I've looked through quite a lot of NARA images in Commons Category:Oval Office clock in the process of illustrating this article, but perhaps you can help me find one of Bush Snr, and any improvements to the others? Witty lama 14:44, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
- followup -
Fuzheado has found a good one :-)
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Witty
lama 15:43, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
- We should tweet the link to Ferriero ... --
Fuzheado |
Talk 15:46, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
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Wittylama: That's great. Interestingly, it seems there was a different grandfather clock in place prior to this one being installed in the '70s. Here is one you can see from 1968 with Johnson:
File:Senator Robert F. Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson - NARA - 192487.tif.
Dominic·
t 16:58, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
- Yeah - I found that clock with this picture of Lady Byrd Johnson in '69
, and the earliest pic of it I can find that's on Commons is this one from '65
. I've since seen - but now cannot find again! - a pic on Commons of that specific clock being used in another room in the West Wing in the 80s. But I know nothing about that clock - what it is, when it was first used in the building, where it is now... What I'd really like to know is more about the current clock's provenance - currently there's a gap between 1800 and 1972 - but I guess that's not really something NARA can help with!
Witty
lama 19:34, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
- Yeah - I found that clock with this picture of Lady Byrd Johnson in '69
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Wittylama: That's great. Interestingly, it seems there was a different grandfather clock in place prior to this one being installed in the '70s. Here is one you can see from 1968 with Johnson:
File:Senator Robert F. Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson - NARA - 192487.tif.
Dominic·
t 16:58, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
- We should tweet the link to Ferriero ... --
Fuzheado |
Talk 15:46, 8 June 2017 (UTC)