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Hello The Interior, I see we've reverted the same edits by an IP user on this page. He is continually adding back the same promotional terms and when I revert he's restoring them. Could you have a look and see what you think is the best course of action rather than letting this turn into what might be seen as an edit war. Thanks Fraggle81 ( talk) 01:46, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
On 26 September 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Clarke, Irwin & Company, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that John Irwin, one of the founders of Toronto book publisher Clarke, Irwin & Company, left the company in 1943, only to have it purchased more than forty years later by a company run by his son? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Clarke, Irwin & Company. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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Greetings Wikipedia Library members! Welcome to the inaugural edition of Books and Bytes, TWL’s monthly newsletter. We're sending you the first edition of this opt-in newsletter, because you signed up, or applied for a free research account: HighBeam, Credo, Questia, JSTOR, or Cochrane. To receive future updates of Books and Bytes, please add your name to the subscriber's list. There's lots of news this month for the Wikipedia Library, including new accounts, upcoming events, and new ways to get involved...
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Wikipedia Loves Libraries: Off to a roaring start this fall in the United States: 29 events are planned or have been hosted.
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News from the library world: Wikipedian joins the National Archives full time; the Getty Museum releases 4,500 images; CERN goes CC-BY
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Thanks for reading! All future newsletters will be opt-in only. Have an item for the next issue? Leave a note for the editor on the Suggestions page. -- The Interior 20:16, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi The Interior, I hope you are well! I just wanted to bring Wikimedia LGBT, a proposed user group and thematic organization that promotes the development of content on Wikimedia projects which is of interest to LGBT communities, to your attention. I am sure you are so busy with your current projects, but I hope you might be able to direct people to this group if they are interested in LGBT content in any way. Of course, you are also more than welcome to indicate your interest/support, if you wish. Hopefully we can get some LGBT-related GLAM/Education projects up and running in the near future. Best, -- Another Believer ( Talk) 20:06, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
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Hi there. I'm following up the thread (now in my talk page archives) where we discussed that cathedral tablet and booklet in the Vancouver Archives. Were you ever able to do anything with that? No worries if you weren't able to, as I may be able to try other contacts, but I wanted to check. Best to reply here or in a new thread. Carcharoth ( talk) 03:08, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
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Hi there, and Happy New Year! You might remember that you kindly got in touch last year when I was running the first iteration of a course on approaches to research for second year undergraduate students in Film Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, and helped out as an online ambassador.
Here's a reminder of what the course is like: over the course of 6 weeks, students in small groups adopt, evaluate and edit an existing Wikipedia page on a single film topic. I was wondering if you still might be interested in being an online ambassador for the course this year? You can find out more on the Course page [ [13]].
In terms of time commitment, I hope it wouldn't take up too much. About 20 students are working on their small group Wikipedia project (in groups of about four students each) for around six weeks, and the course began at a gentle pace on 10 January 2014. If you'd like to know more, feel free to send me a message - or if you would like to sign up, that would be wonderful! Thanks very much for your time, best wishes, DrJennyCee ( talk) 16:01, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for all your work on the Books and Bytes newsletter. As a fellow librarian at a GLAM institution, I truly appreciate all that you do for both the Wikipedia and Library communities!
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Cheers again for helping me sort out my Highbeam subscription ( 2007 citation tag removed!). In return I have fed your new kitty a few times, though I've been remiss in keeping the litter clean. I call him "Little Aguirre" as he's all sharp little claws and teeth...-- Jezebel'sPonyo bons mots 21:36, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
RE this, there's scads of them out there that need fixing; if that change is uniform across the board, seems bot-able. Do you know where to take that to get it to happen? I don't, though I've asked about it on CANTALK a few times. Skookum1 ( talk) 22:05, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
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10:22, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
Next time you decide to revert an edit on a major news story like Rob Ford, why don't you use Google News to check for other sources instead of take a deletionist attitude? Despite your claim that BlogTO isn't "reliable" (which it is more than a lot of press in Toronto), they broke the story. And don't forget the entire page is because of infamous blog Gawker. CaffeinAddict ( talk) 22:09, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
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09:47, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
The Interior: I trust all is well with you. I've been doing a lot of work on various salmonid articles trying to get them to GA and FA status. In doing so, I've accessed a lot of Canadian government pubs--COSEWIC, SARA and Fisheries and Oceans Canada. What if any can be extracted from these publications--images, charts, graphs, etc. and used in the commons? US copyright law is pretty clear, but I've yet to find anything concrete about the status of stuff in Canadian government publications. Since you are a BC guy, maybe you can give me some pointers. Thanks -- Mike Cline ( talk) 15:12, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
Thanks. Looks like a minefield. -- Mike Cline ( talk) 15:04, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
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Hi! Nice to hear from you at the GLAM-Out today. I'd be interested in talking more with you about your Wikipedia Library Project and some potential collaborations in New York. I've been doing some interviews with Wikipedians for METRO Library Council such as this and I'm wondering if you would like to do one and answer a few written questions about you work. Can you tell me the best email to contact you at again? I accidentally missed copying it from the GLAM chat. Cheers! OR drohowa ( talk) 21:27, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
There have been reverts lately. Extend PC time? -- George Ho ( talk) 05:01, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
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Yo, I'm back on Samui but still fussing hereabouts...... something to do between bouts of househunting and TEFL studies...... note the pending bulk CfD on power stations/generating stations......I'm guessing a speedy would get nixed and referred to regular CfD anyway but I hate inviting the naysayers especially those who don't know the material but...nm....suffice to say Canadian "votes" are gonna be needed..... anyways noting this on Boundary Country, as with a lot of the traditional regions there's a need for maps.....in this case a map of the Kettle basin isn't relevant.....I would consider Beaverdell or places that far up from Highway 3 to be Boundary Country, maybe I'm wrong....at one time the term also included Osoyoos and the Similkameen....I'm wondering if a map of the Osoyoos Division of the Yale Land District would cover it.....some reckon the Boundary to be part of the West Kootenay on the one hand, or of the Okanagan on the other; it's neither, and at one time was t wo whole electoral districts (or more?). Another region that i don't have a precise definition of is the Monashee Country....Highway 6 isn't enough..... the upper Shuswap basin falls into that right? To me it's everything north of the Boundary proper. I'm not a good mapmaker or would try to have a got at these, it just occurred to me you might have more precise thoughts on where "the Boundary Country" is and, when not referring to the range, what "the Monashee Country" means...the map on Kootenays needs to be redone......of course latter-day governments have screwed up t he traditional nomenclature with terms like "Central Kootenay" for what used to be the heart of the West Kootenay..... Nechako is another one that has indeterminate boundaries, likewise Omineca and Cassiar, though in their heyday the meaning were obvious.08:10, 16 February 2014 (UTC) And re this, the Sanpoil and Kettles and Okanagans and others could be mentioned, I don't have time to search out the cites, but suffice to say t he Sinixt folks like anywhere they claim as their own to not mention any other native groups....the Okanagans consider them a subgroup of themselves, or rather than Sinixt territory is also Okanagan, teh Sinixt are hostile to that etc.....also to the shuswap and Ktunaxa especially. Why can't we all just get along? LOL.....about the map, maybe there's an old map of the mining division that would suffice.....some of the province's largest industries and also the richest gold mine ( Camp McKinney) were in this area....in a time when most of hte Okanagan was just orchards, the Boundary had cities. Skookum1 ( talk) 08:17, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
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Hello. Thank you for using VisualEditor! Having editors use it is the best way for the Wikimedia Foundation to develop it into the best tool it can be.
While we always welcome general feedback (please report any issues in Bugzilla in the "VisualEditor" product or drop your feedback on the central feedback page on MediaWiki.org), the developers are especially interested right now in feedback on the special character inserter. This new tool is used for inserting special characters (including symbols like ₥, IPA pronunciation symbols, mathematics symbols, and characters with diacritics). It is intended to help people whose computers do not have good character inserters. For example, many Mac users prefer to use the extensive "Special Characters..." tool present at the bottom of the Edit menu in all applications or to learn the keyboard shortcuts for characters like ñ and ü.
The current version of the special characters tool in VisualEditor is very simple and very basic. It will be getting a lot of work in the coming weeks and months. It does not contain very many character sets at this time. (The specific character sets can be customized at each Wikipedia, so that each project could have a local version with the characters it wants.) But the developers want your ideas at this early stage about ways that the overall concept could be improved. I would appreciate your input on this question, so please try out the character inserter and tell me what changes to the design would (or would not!) best work for you.
Issues you might consider:
The developers are open to any thoughts on how the special character inserter can best be developed, even if this requires significant changes. Please leave your views on the central feedback page, or, if you'd prefer, you can contact me directly on my talk page. It would be really helpful if you can tell me how frequently you need to use special characters in your typical editing and what languages or other special characters are important to you.
Thank you again for your work with VisualEditor and for any feedback you can provide. I really do appreciate it.
P.S. You might be interested in the current ideas about improving citations, too. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 00:20, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
We've started working on " editor campaigns", a system that we expect will eventually be able to replace our current Education Program extension (and be useful for many other purposes as well). The early work with that project will focus on a system for signup up new editors for editing campaigns (such as courses, but also edit-a-thons, Wiki Loves Monuments, etc.). Because of that, progress will be slow on the current course page system. However, we have several improvements that should be available within the next few weeks.
As part of the effort to make course pages behave more like regular wiki pages, we've enabled editing of course pages by anyone. Users who currently have the right to edit courses will have access to all the fields (so that they can change the start/end dates, and change the enrollment token). Users who currently cannot edit courses will be able to edit only the "page text" portion. This change should take effect on 2014-02-27.
We've considerably simplified the interface for editing course pages, removing the options to rename courses. Changing the title of a course would also move the course page, creating confusion and leading to a number of bugs. Several other parts of the course editing interface were not very useful, so we've removed them to make it easier on newcomers. This change should take effect on 2014-02-27.
Two students participating in the Facebook Open Academy mentorship program are currently working on additional Notifications for course pages. For the first of these, users will be notified whenever someone else adds them to a course.
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10:18, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
Hiya. Hope you're doing well. I just wanted to get a little clarification on why the page move/corrections from "Old Masset" to "Old Massett" were reverted. Perhaps I did something wrong, but I'm a little confused. Thanks!
Scrapco ( talk) 05:48, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
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"Old Massett (community)". BC Names/GeoBC - it is technically recognized. Masset 1] should redirect to Old Massett and, for the record, it is believed to be a Spanishh loan-name from Masseta or Massetta. The double-t spelling preferred by the Haida has been official since the 1950s, as you'll see in the BC Names citation; because it's there it should also be in CGNDB. Skookum1 ( talk) 05:05, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
I've been fixing up entries in Category:Indian reserves in British Columbia and came across Sun Rivers, British Columbia, which is for the golf course community/development on Kamloops Indian Reserve No. 1, and am wondering if it's not sufficient (and I doubt it is) to redirect the latter to the Sun Rivers article, or if it's better to create the IR article, write about its size and terrain, and have the Sun Rivers article linked from it see listings on Kamloops Indian Band; and whether a category such as Category:Communities on Indian Reserves in British Columbia should be created to cover stuff like this, and the various things like Park Royal (on Capilano IR 5) or the Westbank IR lands (tsepinktum IR no. whatevers) and Tsawout Shores on the Tsawwassen Reserve and so on..... you're in Vernon, I think, but probably are more familiar with the Kamloops Reserve(s) than I am, and probably there are similar situations with the Okanagan Band as there are with the Tsawwassen and Westbanks and Kamloops - ?? Why I did this all day instead of continue scouting for a cheaper monthly here in Ko Samui is largely fatigue from looking and looking and looking; and that insistent "things need to be fixed up" wikipedian-who-just-can't-let-go problem. I see you've kept your nose out of the Squamish CfD btw....but what are we going to do when somebody wants to change Category:Syilx to [[:Category:Okanagan FOO]]? i.e. sincve Category:Okanagan people is taken...or if it's not, should be what Category:People from the Okanagan is now, if that's where t hat is....the Squamish people/Okanagan people comparison should make you shudder if it comes about t hat another non-BCer starts wading into BC's FN categories and starts invoking guidelines out of context as has happened too often. Skookum1 ( talk) 17:06, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
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09:10, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on File:FilsonLogo.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the image is an unused redundant copy (all pixels the same or scaled down) of an image in the same file format, which is on Wikipedia (not on Commons), and all inward links have been updated.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Stefan2 ( talk) 14:58, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
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08:00, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
Of interest to readers? Oxford University Press online products are free April 13-19th, 2014, in USA and Canada.
Not sure about this, but would it be reasonable to suggest to Wikipedia editors who use the free Oxford online sources during April 13-19 to add a "credit" for National Library Week? e.g., < ref>{ {citation |title=Berg Fashion Library |publisher=Oxford University Press |oclc=660814549 |via = U.S. National Library Week |accessdate=April 13, 2014 } }</ref > M2545 ( talk) 17:47, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
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07:18, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
The second "div style" in your "Books and Bytes" noticeis not closed by a "/div". As a result, following text on the page appears in too large a font. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 22:04, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing the library release ... it was a little squiffy :¬)
Hope you don't have to do too many more, looks like you've been at it all day! Chaosdruid ( talk) 08:40, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
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08:34, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
Since the last update, development of the editor campaigns project has been continuing, and it's almost at the point that it will be useful to users running edit-a-thons and other non-course outreach events. (If you are planning such an event soon and would like to beta test it for tracking the contributions of newcomers, get it touch.) In the meantime, we've made a few small improvements and bug fixes to the Education Program extension:
The default end date for courses is now approximately six months in the future, instead of immediately. This will prevent the common problem where a user creates a new course page but does change the default dates, resulting in a course that is immediately considered "ended" and thus cannot be enrolled in.
Whenever a user gets added to a course by someone else, they will now receive a Notification.
The student profile special page (Special:Student/Username, not to be confused with Special:Students) is a page that lists the courses a student editor is enrolled in, and is also supposed to list the articles that user is working on. However, the list of articles can include incorrect data in cases where an instructor or volunteer assigned the articles to the student editor. These profiles are being removed from the extension altogether. This change should go into effect Thursday, May 1. (Logs are still available to find out which courses a user is enrolled in.)
A nearly complete patch from Facebook Open Academy student Jeff Lloyd will add a new type of Notification: students will be alerted to edits made by others to the article(s) they are assigned (as well as the corresponding talk pages). Expect to see this feature within the next several weeks.
Bugs in the course page creation process (now fixed) led in some cases to duplicate listings for the same course at Special:Courses. This happens when the same course page had two (or more) different course ID numbers. It is possible to clean up such duplicate entries using by making calls to the API. I've documented this process and written a Python script for it.
If you have feedback about these changes, or other questions or ideas related to course pages, please let Anna Koval or me know!-- Sage Ross (WMF) ( talk) 19:23, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
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FYI, Massmessage-sender userright is included by your sysop flag. (See also Special:ListGroupRights) — Revicomplaint? 03:57, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
Dear The Interior: Thanks so much for taking time to co-nominate me for adminship. It came as quite a surprise when Mr. Stradivarius suggested that I apply and when you offered to help. I intended to write this right after the message on his page, but at that point I traveled out of range of my Internet connection (don't worry, I was in the passenger seat!). I will do my best to make good use of the admin tools. — Anne Delong ( talk) 22:42, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
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06:00, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
thanks for the feedback. I've stretched the intro to 10sec and ramped up the db on the first 8sec of the guitar to set the mood. What's your opinion on the length and speed of the video? Ian Furst ( talk) 00:08, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
Hey you - have a great long weekend eh. I had to flip the heat pump to "summer" on Wednesday; God bless the West Coast!-- Jezebel'sPonyo bons mots 21:06, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
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07:18, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
Dear Wikipedia Ambassador,
I am seeking input on your experience as a mentor to new Wikipedians. This survey is designed to provide insight for the development of a new mentorship support tool on Wikipedia. If you have a moment, please take this survey, it should not take more than 10 minutes of your time to complete.
https://syracuseuniversity.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_4V2SSrhU2NFOVAV
Also, if you are able to, I would greatly appreciate it if you would send the following survey to the mentee you worked with:
https://syracuseuniversity.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_4V1quUdMZ1By3Ah
Thank you in advance for your participation, Gabriel Mugar 13:33, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
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Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 06:47, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
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07:39, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
Heya there! Hope all's well. 1) Long time no talk; let's get together one of these days. 2) You should sign up here. This is also something we can chat about. -- jbmurray ( talk • contribs) 04:23, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
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07:13, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Cory Doctorow#Cory Doctorow and Creative Commons. Thanks. Xb2u7Zjzc32 ( talk) 01:27, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
Many thanks for your response. JSTOR will be an immensely useful source for my opera work, so I look forward to further info. Viva-Verdi ( talk) 18:45, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
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Hello The Interior, I see we've reverted the same edits by an IP user on this page. He is continually adding back the same promotional terms and when I revert he's restoring them. Could you have a look and see what you think is the best course of action rather than letting this turn into what might be seen as an edit war. Thanks Fraggle81 ( talk) 01:46, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
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Greetings Wikipedia Library members! Welcome to the inaugural edition of Books and Bytes, TWL’s monthly newsletter. We're sending you the first edition of this opt-in newsletter, because you signed up, or applied for a free research account: HighBeam, Credo, Questia, JSTOR, or Cochrane. To receive future updates of Books and Bytes, please add your name to the subscriber's list. There's lots of news this month for the Wikipedia Library, including new accounts, upcoming events, and new ways to get involved...
New positions: Sign up to be a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar, or a Volunteer Wikipedia Librarian
Wikipedia Loves Libraries: Off to a roaring start this fall in the United States: 29 events are planned or have been hosted.
New subscription donations: Cochrane round 2; HighBeam round 8; Questia round 4... Can we partner with NY Times and Lexis-Nexis??
New ideas: OCLC innovations in the works; VisualEditor Reference Dialog Workshop; a photo contest idea emerges
News from the library world: Wikipedian joins the National Archives full time; the Getty Museum releases 4,500 images; CERN goes CC-BY
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Thanks for reading! All future newsletters will be opt-in only. Have an item for the next issue? Leave a note for the editor on the Suggestions page. -- The Interior 20:16, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi The Interior, I hope you are well! I just wanted to bring Wikimedia LGBT, a proposed user group and thematic organization that promotes the development of content on Wikimedia projects which is of interest to LGBT communities, to your attention. I am sure you are so busy with your current projects, but I hope you might be able to direct people to this group if they are interested in LGBT content in any way. Of course, you are also more than welcome to indicate your interest/support, if you wish. Hopefully we can get some LGBT-related GLAM/Education projects up and running in the near future. Best, -- Another Believer ( Talk) 20:06, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
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Hi there. I'm following up the thread (now in my talk page archives) where we discussed that cathedral tablet and booklet in the Vancouver Archives. Were you ever able to do anything with that? No worries if you weren't able to, as I may be able to try other contacts, but I wanted to check. Best to reply here or in a new thread. Carcharoth ( talk) 03:08, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
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09:33, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi there, and Happy New Year! You might remember that you kindly got in touch last year when I was running the first iteration of a course on approaches to research for second year undergraduate students in Film Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, and helped out as an online ambassador.
Here's a reminder of what the course is like: over the course of 6 weeks, students in small groups adopt, evaluate and edit an existing Wikipedia page on a single film topic. I was wondering if you still might be interested in being an online ambassador for the course this year? You can find out more on the Course page [ [13]].
In terms of time commitment, I hope it wouldn't take up too much. About 20 students are working on their small group Wikipedia project (in groups of about four students each) for around six weeks, and the course began at a gentle pace on 10 January 2014. If you'd like to know more, feel free to send me a message - or if you would like to sign up, that would be wonderful! Thanks very much for your time, best wishes, DrJennyCee ( talk) 16:01, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for all your work on the Books and Bytes newsletter. As a fellow librarian at a GLAM institution, I truly appreciate all that you do for both the Wikipedia and Library communities!
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Cheers again for helping me sort out my Highbeam subscription ( 2007 citation tag removed!). In return I have fed your new kitty a few times, though I've been remiss in keeping the litter clean. I call him "Little Aguirre" as he's all sharp little claws and teeth...-- Jezebel'sPonyo bons mots 21:36, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
RE this, there's scads of them out there that need fixing; if that change is uniform across the board, seems bot-able. Do you know where to take that to get it to happen? I don't, though I've asked about it on CANTALK a few times. Skookum1 ( talk) 22:05, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
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10:22, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
Next time you decide to revert an edit on a major news story like Rob Ford, why don't you use Google News to check for other sources instead of take a deletionist attitude? Despite your claim that BlogTO isn't "reliable" (which it is more than a lot of press in Toronto), they broke the story. And don't forget the entire page is because of infamous blog Gawker. CaffeinAddict ( talk) 22:09, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
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09:47, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
The Interior: I trust all is well with you. I've been doing a lot of work on various salmonid articles trying to get them to GA and FA status. In doing so, I've accessed a lot of Canadian government pubs--COSEWIC, SARA and Fisheries and Oceans Canada. What if any can be extracted from these publications--images, charts, graphs, etc. and used in the commons? US copyright law is pretty clear, but I've yet to find anything concrete about the status of stuff in Canadian government publications. Since you are a BC guy, maybe you can give me some pointers. Thanks -- Mike Cline ( talk) 15:12, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
Thanks. Looks like a minefield. -- Mike Cline ( talk) 15:04, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
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Hi! Nice to hear from you at the GLAM-Out today. I'd be interested in talking more with you about your Wikipedia Library Project and some potential collaborations in New York. I've been doing some interviews with Wikipedians for METRO Library Council such as this and I'm wondering if you would like to do one and answer a few written questions about you work. Can you tell me the best email to contact you at again? I accidentally missed copying it from the GLAM chat. Cheers! OR drohowa ( talk) 21:27, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
There have been reverts lately. Extend PC time? -- George Ho ( talk) 05:01, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
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09:30, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
Yo, I'm back on Samui but still fussing hereabouts...... something to do between bouts of househunting and TEFL studies...... note the pending bulk CfD on power stations/generating stations......I'm guessing a speedy would get nixed and referred to regular CfD anyway but I hate inviting the naysayers especially those who don't know the material but...nm....suffice to say Canadian "votes" are gonna be needed..... anyways noting this on Boundary Country, as with a lot of the traditional regions there's a need for maps.....in this case a map of the Kettle basin isn't relevant.....I would consider Beaverdell or places that far up from Highway 3 to be Boundary Country, maybe I'm wrong....at one time the term also included Osoyoos and the Similkameen....I'm wondering if a map of the Osoyoos Division of the Yale Land District would cover it.....some reckon the Boundary to be part of the West Kootenay on the one hand, or of the Okanagan on the other; it's neither, and at one time was t wo whole electoral districts (or more?). Another region that i don't have a precise definition of is the Monashee Country....Highway 6 isn't enough..... the upper Shuswap basin falls into that right? To me it's everything north of the Boundary proper. I'm not a good mapmaker or would try to have a got at these, it just occurred to me you might have more precise thoughts on where "the Boundary Country" is and, when not referring to the range, what "the Monashee Country" means...the map on Kootenays needs to be redone......of course latter-day governments have screwed up t he traditional nomenclature with terms like "Central Kootenay" for what used to be the heart of the West Kootenay..... Nechako is another one that has indeterminate boundaries, likewise Omineca and Cassiar, though in their heyday the meaning were obvious.08:10, 16 February 2014 (UTC) And re this, the Sanpoil and Kettles and Okanagans and others could be mentioned, I don't have time to search out the cites, but suffice to say t he Sinixt folks like anywhere they claim as their own to not mention any other native groups....the Okanagans consider them a subgroup of themselves, or rather than Sinixt territory is also Okanagan, teh Sinixt are hostile to that etc.....also to the shuswap and Ktunaxa especially. Why can't we all just get along? LOL.....about the map, maybe there's an old map of the mining division that would suffice.....some of the province's largest industries and also the richest gold mine ( Camp McKinney) were in this area....in a time when most of hte Okanagan was just orchards, the Boundary had cities. Skookum1 ( talk) 08:17, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
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Hello. Thank you for using VisualEditor! Having editors use it is the best way for the Wikimedia Foundation to develop it into the best tool it can be.
While we always welcome general feedback (please report any issues in Bugzilla in the "VisualEditor" product or drop your feedback on the central feedback page on MediaWiki.org), the developers are especially interested right now in feedback on the special character inserter. This new tool is used for inserting special characters (including symbols like ₥, IPA pronunciation symbols, mathematics symbols, and characters with diacritics). It is intended to help people whose computers do not have good character inserters. For example, many Mac users prefer to use the extensive "Special Characters..." tool present at the bottom of the Edit menu in all applications or to learn the keyboard shortcuts for characters like ñ and ü.
The current version of the special characters tool in VisualEditor is very simple and very basic. It will be getting a lot of work in the coming weeks and months. It does not contain very many character sets at this time. (The specific character sets can be customized at each Wikipedia, so that each project could have a local version with the characters it wants.) But the developers want your ideas at this early stage about ways that the overall concept could be improved. I would appreciate your input on this question, so please try out the character inserter and tell me what changes to the design would (or would not!) best work for you.
Issues you might consider:
The developers are open to any thoughts on how the special character inserter can best be developed, even if this requires significant changes. Please leave your views on the central feedback page, or, if you'd prefer, you can contact me directly on my talk page. It would be really helpful if you can tell me how frequently you need to use special characters in your typical editing and what languages or other special characters are important to you.
Thank you again for your work with VisualEditor and for any feedback you can provide. I really do appreciate it.
P.S. You might be interested in the current ideas about improving citations, too. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 00:20, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
We've started working on " editor campaigns", a system that we expect will eventually be able to replace our current Education Program extension (and be useful for many other purposes as well). The early work with that project will focus on a system for signup up new editors for editing campaigns (such as courses, but also edit-a-thons, Wiki Loves Monuments, etc.). Because of that, progress will be slow on the current course page system. However, we have several improvements that should be available within the next few weeks.
As part of the effort to make course pages behave more like regular wiki pages, we've enabled editing of course pages by anyone. Users who currently have the right to edit courses will have access to all the fields (so that they can change the start/end dates, and change the enrollment token). Users who currently cannot edit courses will be able to edit only the "page text" portion. This change should take effect on 2014-02-27.
We've considerably simplified the interface for editing course pages, removing the options to rename courses. Changing the title of a course would also move the course page, creating confusion and leading to a number of bugs. Several other parts of the course editing interface were not very useful, so we've removed them to make it easier on newcomers. This change should take effect on 2014-02-27.
Two students participating in the Facebook Open Academy mentorship program are currently working on additional Notifications for course pages. For the first of these, users will be notified whenever someone else adds them to a course.
Once again, if you have feedback about these new features, or other questions or ideas related to course pages, please let me know!-- Sage Ross (WMF) ( talk) 17:38, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
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10:18, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
Hiya. Hope you're doing well. I just wanted to get a little clarification on why the page move/corrections from "Old Masset" to "Old Massett" were reverted. Perhaps I did something wrong, but I'm a little confused. Thanks!
Scrapco ( talk) 05:48, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
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"Old Massett (community)". BC Names/GeoBC
"Old Massett (community)". BC Names/GeoBC - it is technically recognized. Masset 1] should redirect to Old Massett and, for the record, it is believed to be a Spanishh loan-name from Masseta or Massetta. The double-t spelling preferred by the Haida has been official since the 1950s, as you'll see in the BC Names citation; because it's there it should also be in CGNDB. Skookum1 ( talk) 05:05, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
I've been fixing up entries in Category:Indian reserves in British Columbia and came across Sun Rivers, British Columbia, which is for the golf course community/development on Kamloops Indian Reserve No. 1, and am wondering if it's not sufficient (and I doubt it is) to redirect the latter to the Sun Rivers article, or if it's better to create the IR article, write about its size and terrain, and have the Sun Rivers article linked from it see listings on Kamloops Indian Band; and whether a category such as Category:Communities on Indian Reserves in British Columbia should be created to cover stuff like this, and the various things like Park Royal (on Capilano IR 5) or the Westbank IR lands (tsepinktum IR no. whatevers) and Tsawout Shores on the Tsawwassen Reserve and so on..... you're in Vernon, I think, but probably are more familiar with the Kamloops Reserve(s) than I am, and probably there are similar situations with the Okanagan Band as there are with the Tsawwassen and Westbanks and Kamloops - ?? Why I did this all day instead of continue scouting for a cheaper monthly here in Ko Samui is largely fatigue from looking and looking and looking; and that insistent "things need to be fixed up" wikipedian-who-just-can't-let-go problem. I see you've kept your nose out of the Squamish CfD btw....but what are we going to do when somebody wants to change Category:Syilx to [[:Category:Okanagan FOO]]? i.e. sincve Category:Okanagan people is taken...or if it's not, should be what Category:People from the Okanagan is now, if that's where t hat is....the Squamish people/Okanagan people comparison should make you shudder if it comes about t hat another non-BCer starts wading into BC's FN categories and starts invoking guidelines out of context as has happened too often. Skookum1 ( talk) 17:06, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
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09:10, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
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08:00, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
Of interest to readers? Oxford University Press online products are free April 13-19th, 2014, in USA and Canada.
Not sure about this, but would it be reasonable to suggest to Wikipedia editors who use the free Oxford online sources during April 13-19 to add a "credit" for National Library Week? e.g., < ref>{ {citation |title=Berg Fashion Library |publisher=Oxford University Press |oclc=660814549 |via = U.S. National Library Week |accessdate=April 13, 2014 } }</ref > M2545 ( talk) 17:47, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
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07:18, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
The second "div style" in your "Books and Bytes" noticeis not closed by a "/div". As a result, following text on the page appears in too large a font. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 22:04, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing the library release ... it was a little squiffy :¬)
Hope you don't have to do too many more, looks like you've been at it all day! Chaosdruid ( talk) 08:40, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
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08:34, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
Since the last update, development of the editor campaigns project has been continuing, and it's almost at the point that it will be useful to users running edit-a-thons and other non-course outreach events. (If you are planning such an event soon and would like to beta test it for tracking the contributions of newcomers, get it touch.) In the meantime, we've made a few small improvements and bug fixes to the Education Program extension:
The default end date for courses is now approximately six months in the future, instead of immediately. This will prevent the common problem where a user creates a new course page but does change the default dates, resulting in a course that is immediately considered "ended" and thus cannot be enrolled in.
Whenever a user gets added to a course by someone else, they will now receive a Notification.
The student profile special page (Special:Student/Username, not to be confused with Special:Students) is a page that lists the courses a student editor is enrolled in, and is also supposed to list the articles that user is working on. However, the list of articles can include incorrect data in cases where an instructor or volunteer assigned the articles to the student editor. These profiles are being removed from the extension altogether. This change should go into effect Thursday, May 1. (Logs are still available to find out which courses a user is enrolled in.)
A nearly complete patch from Facebook Open Academy student Jeff Lloyd will add a new type of Notification: students will be alerted to edits made by others to the article(s) they are assigned (as well as the corresponding talk pages). Expect to see this feature within the next several weeks.
Bugs in the course page creation process (now fixed) led in some cases to duplicate listings for the same course at Special:Courses. This happens when the same course page had two (or more) different course ID numbers. It is possible to clean up such duplicate entries using by making calls to the API. I've documented this process and written a Python script for it.
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Thank you for expanding our knowledge about the interior of libraries and books, and for silent support and
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Two years ago, you were the 105th recipient of my Pumpkin Sky Prize, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:20, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
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FYI, Massmessage-sender userright is included by your sysop flag. (See also Special:ListGroupRights) — Revicomplaint? 03:57, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
Dear The Interior: Thanks so much for taking time to co-nominate me for adminship. It came as quite a surprise when Mr. Stradivarius suggested that I apply and when you offered to help. I intended to write this right after the message on his page, but at that point I traveled out of range of my Internet connection (don't worry, I was in the passenger seat!). I will do my best to make good use of the admin tools. — Anne Delong ( talk) 22:42, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
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thanks for the feedback. I've stretched the intro to 10sec and ramped up the db on the first 8sec of the guitar to set the mood. What's your opinion on the length and speed of the video? Ian Furst ( talk) 00:08, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
Hey you - have a great long weekend eh. I had to flip the heat pump to "summer" on Wednesday; God bless the West Coast!-- Jezebel'sPonyo bons mots 21:06, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
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Dear Wikipedia Ambassador,
I am seeking input on your experience as a mentor to new Wikipedians. This survey is designed to provide insight for the development of a new mentorship support tool on Wikipedia. If you have a moment, please take this survey, it should not take more than 10 minutes of your time to complete.
https://syracuseuniversity.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_4V2SSrhU2NFOVAV
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https://syracuseuniversity.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_4V1quUdMZ1By3Ah
Thank you in advance for your participation, Gabriel Mugar 13:33, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
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Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 06:47, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
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07:39, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
Heya there! Hope all's well. 1) Long time no talk; let's get together one of these days. 2) You should sign up here. This is also something we can chat about. -- jbmurray ( talk • contribs) 04:23, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
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07:13, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Cory Doctorow#Cory Doctorow and Creative Commons. Thanks. Xb2u7Zjzc32 ( talk) 01:27, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
Many thanks for your response. JSTOR will be an immensely useful source for my opera work, so I look forward to further info. Viva-Verdi ( talk) 18:45, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
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