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I've noticed that page views listed at stats.grok.se seem to report separately for multi-word article titles with spaces versus underscores, e.g. "Article title" versus "Article_title". Seems to make counting page views a little more complicated than they would seem. Can anyone elucidate? ENeville ( talk) 01:03, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello, I hope this is the right spot for my request, basically... To sum it up: Someone has edited dozens of articles in the past years to include false information about persons who, as I assume, don't exist. In the process, he has used several IPs and different fake names. I first came across those fake entries in 2009, when reading about a German player of the (defunct) American Basketball Association. Anyone possessing a little knowledge about international basketball immediately realizes this cannot be true. However, I only became aware of the hoaxes' spread some months later. In the end, I found the following names to have been added to several articles:
Some of these edits had been reverted, but no one had checked the IP's other edits. In one case, a newspaper, the St. Petersburg Times, had taken over the fake information, of course without mentioning their source at all. I didn't tell them, however. So today I wanted to check if the information had stayed in their article. Not surprisingly, it's still there. I routinely checked the related Wikipedia article as well, and guess what - the infomation had been restored, citing the newspaper article. So I started another reverting session. This time, however, I know the vandal won't stop adding that fake information, and it may become impossible to stop those hoaxes' spread if it's transferred to Wikipedias of different languages or to other media sources. I'm still unsure if I have found all fake names, so for now, I'm just listing all IPs involved in that vandalism, including the diff link of the last edit undoubtedly related to that editor:
So what I'm basically asking for is assistance in finding fake names I hadn't identified so far. Of cource, I'd also approve some kind of ban, but what makes this case really remarkable isn't the total number of fake entries, but the spread over a long period of time and range of topics (though it's mainly sports, especially American football, and popular culture), and the amount of proper edits (but also more obvious kind of vandalism) apparently done by the same person(s), partly within the same articles and/or within a few minutes. This may read like the description of several persons's edits being accidently mistaken for a single person's ones, but I'm sure anyone closely examining those IP's edits will come to the same conclusion.
Thanks, -- Axolotl Nr.733 ( talk) 16:10, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
Note: I've added another two IPs. -- Axolotl Nr.733 ( talk) 18:12, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
I didn't check all of these but it appears they are from Citigroup. They should be relatively easy to trace. The three that are obviously different are from Jacksonville FL and nearby Macclenny FL. Joja lozzo 13:45, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
This template has been discussed, especially in User talk:George Ho/Mentorship discussions#Template:very long. I proposed for "deletion", but my mentor convinced me to discuss it. As you see, sometimes "very long" is confused with (mentioned or not) Template:restructure, Template:overly detailed, and Template:cleanup (proposal to mandate "reason" is discussed). I'm still analyzing the transclusion of this template. So far, I have removed this template from 100 pages, and I bet I can remove a hundred more. -- George Ho ( talk) 15:20, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
My message cut from Template talk:very long:
This template is becoming more abused and misused. Also, it is vague and problematic, as it may encourage bad editing. The "either split into sub-articles or subsections" thing is good for Template:very long section. However, even if there are suggestions to either split up long page, skim down long page, or restructure long page into subsections, this template is not very good to use, as there are already
{{ split}}
,{{ plot}}
,{{ restructure}}
, and{{ overly detailed}}
. Also, this template is transcluded down from 400 time to 300 times.
-- George Ho ( talk) 19:41, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
See: the announcement and WP:E3. Thanks! Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 19:01, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
As of this writing, the backlog stands at 43 pages, which is more than double its official "backlogged" count of 15. Since this is a category in which any autoconfirmed editor can assist in clearing, I figured I'd post here. I'm currently working at getting it down to a manageable count, and I'm hoping others can help out too. Thanks, everyone! elektrik SHOOS ( talk) 00:27, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
About once a week, the mobile site seems to change slightly. The most recent makes it look like a wikia article. Are these permanent changes or a/b testing? EcheletteLopper ( talk) 02:12, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
WikiProject talk page moves for archiving purposes is not the done think I suspect. If so this needs to be sorted out. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 04:11, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
A discussion is in progress about deleting Hector Berlioz. His adherents, (me included) have always been very vociferous in defending him and although I am not particularly concerned over this issue, they think it means deletion of the main article, which clearly it does not. I've tried to quell the disquiet.
Due to a need to understand Category I've tried to follow the labyrinthine ways via the links but it's now beyond my mental powers, alas so I've failed to get to grips with exactly what is proposed for deletion.
Can someone please give a simple plain English explanation. No need maybe, to refer to this particular proposal, a simple fictional example of what this is all about will suffice. With apologies. Segilla ( talk) 06:44, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
The Talk:Night of the Living Dead says that it is a Former Featured Article, and all the templates say "class=" without any class rating. This means that the Pennsylvania articles by quality and importance table and the Pittsburgh articles by quality and importance table and several others show this article as unassessed. Is there some way to assign a quality rating for this article, and others like it? -- DThomsen8 ( talk) 13:09, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
May the fourth be with you. A Quest For Knowledge ( talk) 15:17, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
A few minutes ago I loaded an article about a Baroque composer and was startled to see that the subject of the article appeared to be illustrated by a modern color photo of someone who looked awfully familiar. Oops! I wonder if it might be a good idea for the fundraising banner to be reconfigured so that its poster child's image doesn't loom large directly over article titles. Try logging out and then clicking on the dictator, wild animal, extraterrestrial species, abstract concept, deity, or disambiguation page of your choice, and perhaps you'll see what I mean. Rivertorch ( talk) 16:36, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
Well, yesterday I received my copy of the 2010 edition of EB. While reviewing a few articles therein, it became quite clear to me that Wikipedia is vastly superior as an encyclopedia. As such, it occurs to me that an analysis of a well selected set of corresponding articles will be a sound mechanism for showing the superiority of Wikipedia. William R. Buckley ( talk) 14:31, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the suggestions. I will look at the level 2 articles, and report on how they compare with the 2010 ECB. William R. Buckley ( talk) 18:53, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
Can somebody help me with the index of Wikipedia, and especially with the best view to take when comparing the Wikipedia index with that of EB? Also, where is best to describe the observations made during my review of WP and EB? William R. Buckley ( talk) 15:08, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
For example, WP has articles Automaton and Automation, but EB has only Automation; the next EB article is about Francis Bacon. Further regarding automata, WP has Automata Theory and Automata Construction, while EB has only an Automata Theory article. William R. Buckley ( talk) 15:15, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
Editors working in genre fiction topics may be interested in a Kickstarter project to commission "a free library of art representing heroes of all backgrounds" from professional artists, to be made available under the Wikipedia-compatible CC-BY license. I suppose this could be useful for illustrating articles about the standard fantasy tropes. The project's URL is http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sarahdarkmagic/prismatic-art-collection. (I note in passing that the fantasy art on Commons is a rather mixed bag in terms of quality or usefulness.) Sandstein ( talk) 16:43, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
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There is a discussion at Wikipedia:Ambassadors/Research and the associated talk page about what kind of data gathering should be done to determine the value of the education program. Please comment there if you are interested. My own opinion is that the education program has the ability to have a far bigger impact (positive or negative) on the encyclopedia than almost any other factor over the next few years, since we are seeing hundreds of classes and thousands of students editing Wikipedia as a part of that program. Getting this right is very high value, and getting it wrong could be a first-class mess, so I encourage everyone to contribute to that conversation. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 12:45, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
Facebook#Impact on philanthropy is about a number of companies, mainly Kiva, Wokai, and Zidisha, but not at all about Facebook. The article gets 80,000 page views per day, and seems to be permanently semiprotected. I made a request to remove the section on the talk page, but it was immediately resolved as "not done" because the request did not have consensus.
On one hand, I imagine that raising consciousness about these charities on one of the most popular articles in the encyclopedia probably does objective good. On the other hand, what the heck? 71.215.84.127 ( talk) 08:19, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
Saw this and poked about a bit! Agree that the section is not valid, but it is salvageable. Also noted that a number of other sections need attention to address WP:WORLDVIEW - lack of! Media-Hound 'D 3rd P^) ( talk) 21:14, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
Must I propose turning this guideline into an essay? Seriously, with guidelines of how to verify notability of a topic, write a great article, reach of conclusion to whether split or keep content, be concise on plot abstracts, and more, must we follow this guideline for the sake of messy articles about non-notable subtopics of a topic? -- George Ho ( talk) 19:36, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
Back on topic, it could be useful.... in many ways. However, some portions may be misleading and could lead to something worse than List of Codename: Kids Next Door episodes. -- George Ho ( talk) 14:20, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
(Please feel free to move this if this is in the wrong section.)
Frequently while browsing Wikipedia I will come across articles about something—whether a place, person, location, or institution—outside of the English-speaking world and which has been written by somebody who has commendable knowledge of the subject but who often lacks a complete command of English. I always correct spelling, grammatical, phrasing, and flow errors in articles like these when I see them. However, sometimes they still exist in ways in which I cannot figure out how to fix.
I am all for having natives of non-English-speaking countries edit Wikipedia to help improve coverage of articles in the non-English speaking world. I believe that their contributions should be embraced and welcomed. However, to perfect the article, it is often necessary for a native English speaker to clean up the article afterward.
To make this task easier, I believe that there should be a template similar to Cleanup, Refimprove, Wikify, etc., that would alert native speakers to some errors in the article's use of English and invite them to improve it. If there is such a template, I do not know of it, and I would highly encourage the creation of such a template.
Anyone have any comments?
Thanks!
RedSoxFan274
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05:41, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
I am seeking a list of Wikipedia's most important articles (the ones that are most essential to be quality). I saw WP:VA, but was wondering if there are any more updated or better lists before I get started. Thanks. Voyaging ( talk) 23:20, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
I would like help in creating the category Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania as a subcategory of Category:Pennsylvania state courts, and then the following articles can be added to the category:
Please help me by creating the subcategory. (Pardon my ignorance on not doing it myself.) I can add the three articles to the category. -- DThomsen8 ( talk) 16:32, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
[[Category:Pennsylvania state courts]]
to the new cat page and save the page.Please see: Wikipedia talk:Bot requests#RFC: Deploying 'Start date' template in infoboxes. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:18, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
It's not that I don't know what a green star is in my watch-list. Its just: why cannot I find an explanation? - DePiep ( talk)
Hi. Can someone please help by pointing me at any policy or projects in this area? I am assuming that we must have something on this (yes, I have read WP:COMPETENCE) but I really want to know what is supposed to happen when someone shows up and makes bad edits which may be well-meant but cause problems, even if they are not vandalism. Where do you go for help with an issue like this? Thanks and best wishes DBaK ( talk) 08:53, 10 May 2012 (UTC)... PS As they say in the films, "it's not for me". I am an incompetent but old user - different kettle of fish entirely .... :)
The really annoying thing is that it only took about 10 minutes of research and reading for me to come up with a reasonable article rescue plan for this article, dovetailing the subject in with Aftermath of the September 11 attacks. But I'd really like to learn the happy news that somebody else also knows how to do this. It would be really saddening to conclude that the only way that we collectively know how to write articles on jokes and humour is to make a big joke collection, call for other editors to pile on even more jokes, and sit around waiting for actual encyclopaedic analysis and knowledge to arise by magic once the critical mass of jokes has accrued. Or even not write at all. Consider this a challenge, if you need that for encouragement. ☺ Uncle G ( talk) 17:47, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
It sounds like WP:ADAM style of writing isn't just a BLP problem. Perhaps those two pages should link to each other. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 01:56, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
Excellent essay, Uncle G. J N 466 07:23, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
I've noticed that sandboxed articles that I've tagged with "NOINDEX" are being copied over to http://www.territorioscuola.com and then appearing in Google searches. Can anything be done about this? — SMUconlaw ( talk) 20:44, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
Please stop fiddling with the watchlist format. -- SmokeyJoe ( talk) 23:49, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
I am looking for an online support group. My mother died of lung cancer on March 5th of this year. I desparately need someone to talk to. My mother was my best friend. I'm 51 years old,She was 69. I slept in the room with her and cared for her,along with hospice,and watching this beautiful woman go from mom,to someone I hardly recognized,(in just 2 months after diagnosis she was gone,)well I need to talk with others who have experienced the same thing. Thank you,Kelley — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iamkelley ( talk • contribs) 19:19, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
A short while ago, Wikipedia introduced a thing where whenever you tried to create a new page it pushed you to do it in your userspace first and them move it into the articlespace. Then it pushed you to do it via an AfC request. Now, predictable as anything, we have a backlog at AfC of 818 articles. The template says anything more than 120 is a "severe backlog" so I'm not sure what 818 qualifies.
Wanted to flag this up somewhere prominent as I suggest that the poor people at AfC are being overwhelmed. I suggest we need to either:
Or, of course:
What do you think? AndrewRT( Talk) 22:11, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, the articel stands in the Main Page. At 2011–12 Premier League#footer-info stands QuickiWiki Look Up QuickiWiki Look Up. Do you like it? -- 217.246.223.188 ( talk) 23:32, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
Can "article" please be spelt correctly? ACEOREVIVED ( talk) 20:25, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
On May 15, 2012, it became apparent that a vandal, suspected to be a sockpuppet of Pé de Chinelo, has performed some 2500 edits of mostly film-related articles from hundreds of different IP addresses in the range 201.19/16, inserting generally plausible but false information in over 750 Wikipedia articles.
Your help in cleaning up this mess is appreciated. For coordinating the effort, I've set up a page at Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Vandalism by 201.19.*.*. The progress can be recorded there. -- Lambiam 21:39, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
I just finished interviewing with my local news station about Wikipedia. I want to tell them how many active contributors their are on the English Wikipedia. The only thing I found was Special:Statistics which only tells me how many editors have contributed at least once in the past thirty days. I only want the count of actual active veteran contributors. Does anybody know of a tool like that? Marcus Qwertyus 18:45, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
Does any one know why it is that if you click on the "History" of an article and click on the link that tells you how many times the article has been viewed, you get the figure for the past so many days, but if you click on "Number of watchers" there does not appear to be a time limit like that? ACEOREVIVED ( talk) 20:21, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
This news story in The Atlantic suggests that some degree of article ownership by the editing community may actually be beneficial. I do know that a certain sense of article responsibility, if only as an illusion of such, is useful for maintaining FA articles at a high level of quality. Regards, RJH ( talk) 19:09, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
It depends on how you interpret "and most users feel little ownership of the content". If he interprets "most users" as the editing community, then that is a bad thing. If he means that individual editors don't feel that they own their articles, then that is an even worse thing. In either case, straight-up ownership is against any wiki principles out there (while the same cannot be said with stewardship). -- MuZemike 07:13, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks to whoever thought of using the green text on the watchlist instead of that awful bolding. A Quest For Knowledge ( talk) 17:16, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
Please take a moment to weigh in on the discussion at the talk page in regards to inclusion or exclusion of disputed material. More eyes on the page could help collaboration form a consensus in either direction. Thanks!-- Amadscientist ( talk) 18:20, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
Is there a way to determine the identity of the user who marked a page as patrolled? JoelWhy ( talk) 14:13, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
Where can i find a list the most visited articles for the month April 2012? Pass a Method talk 21:02, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
Just noticed some sort of error in the Underwater hockey article, can't bring up the page, but can't get into to it fix whatever is happening. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.129.35.214 ( talk) 10:30, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
What happened to the essay about the "Megalomaniac Point Of View"? I thought WP:MPOV used to link to it through a disamb. page, but now I can't find it at all. If it was deleted, could you direct me to the discussion? Thanks, Postpostmod ( talk) 12:55, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
This is a thought experiment.
I saw this page recently. The page was originally written as a 2009 April fools, but I thought what if the case described does happen, for example like 2038 problem, or the breakdown of society? What should we do to preserve the knowledge of humans in case the whole internet network is no more? Perhaps preserving a dump in a vault like Crypt of Civilization along with the necessary equipment to retrieve it?
This is a serious discussion. Perhaps we should remove the fun template on that page. SYSS Mouse ( talk) 17:47, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
Hey all
The Wikimedia Foundation has decided to endorse Access2Research and its petition to make research funded by the US government publicly accessible. This will be done by way of a blog post on Friday morning PST; as noted, we are not trying to speak on behalf of the community, but just the Foundation itself. You can read more in the FAQ, and leave any comments or questions you might have on its talkpage.
Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 19:21, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
Not sure where to bring this up; please advise if this should be asked elsewhere, or just move this question it and tell me where it went.
There is something strange going on with [ File:Corroded DUF6 cylinder.jpg ]. [3]
It is used at Depleted uranium with the caption "DUF6 cylinders: painted (left) and corroded (right)"
I noticed that the file did not match the description (no painted left and corroded right) and does not match the links that show it to be sourced from a government site. So where did the image of the "skirted ends of depleted uranium hexafluoride cylinders after being painted to arrest corrosion" image come from and how do I confirm that we have permission to use it?
To try to fix this, I tried clicking the revert button next to to the 19:13, 19 January 2006 image shown in the history. No luck. The revert left me with the same image. I then reverted my revert, and suddenly I have the correct image! One revert does nothing, two reverts make a change instead of canceling?
In the end, the Depleted uranium article ended up with the correct image -- an image that I can confirm that we have permission for -- but still, that was strange. Could someone who knows the image system well please check [ File:Corroded DUF6 cylinder.jpg ] and see if there is something wonky about it? Thanks! -- Guy Macon ( talk) 21:41, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
[[:File:Corroded DUF6 cylinder.jpg]]
which looks like this
File:Corroded DUF6 cylinder.jpg. Cheers.
64.40.54.216 (
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08:44, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
Editors might find it interesting to look at http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/domains/wikipedia.org/ , which lists copy-holder requests to remove wikipedia pages from the Google Search index. WP is rarely a target; here's a BBC article about Google's new Transparency Report. 67.101.7.3 ( talk) 17:43, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
Does the AWB Requests page usually remain back-logged most of the time like it is right now? -- Tow Trucker talk 09:04, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
The number of articles suddenly seemed to drop by some 10,000. What happened, was there a mass deletion of some sort? Lampman ( talk) 15:44, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}
which produced 6,857,123 when this page was last rendered. It was deletion of problematic Chinese township articles which were apparently created by a single editor. See
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents/User:Jaguar.
PrimeHunter (
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01:48, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
Maybe I've missed it, but usually en-wiki puts up a (watchlist?) notice when Commons' Picture of the Year voting is open. Now is that time. -- 99of9 ( talk) 06:03, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
I would like to inform you that the Hindi Wikipedia has much more than 50,000 articles due to which I think that it should be included on the main page through this template -- Tow Trucker talk 20:48, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
Look at Talk:Trollhunter, WT:RM, and WT:requested moves/Closure review. Shall we use available translations, which might cause eruption between editors over spelling and such? "The" is optional, yet it is used in some countries. "Troll Hunter" and "Trollhunter" may vary by sources. However, I have done the botched proposal to move it to "Trolljegeren", which is against all policies and guidelines of translations on foreign works.
I don't do translations on Dan dan you qing, bu liao qing, and zai shui yi fang. Nevertheless, even available translations are preferred over original non-English titles in favor of English readers. I don't get it.
Also, the closer of my botched proposal said that the closure of other proposal might have violated WP:consensus. I don't know, but my thoughts were on translations. What do you think it happened? What do you think I should have done? -- George Ho ( talk) 19:28, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
Are you an experienced wikipedian from Europe and interested in the World War I? We would love to see you in Leuven, Belgium on the 13-15 of June for a Edit-a-thon organized by Wikimedia Sweden and the Europeana Foundation ( www.europeana.eu). To make it possible for you to participate and contribute to English or Dutch Wikipedia articles about WWI we will pay you back for your basic costs for travel back and forth and accommodation in Leuven!
Of course you can also participate in the Edit-a-thon online, without actually being in Leuven, but we strongly encourage you to be there as we will have experts in WWI present during the Edit-a-thon and we have organized interesting side activities such as a guided tour of Leuven's historical WWI sites and you can also attend a couple of dinners - all to give you inspiration for writing excellent articles. In addition, through Europeana's portal we will have access to great digitized material about WWI that we will try to make the best use of. We will also give prizes for the best articles written by the participants in Leuven.
You are of course welcome to join us for only one or two of the days in Leuven if you so prefer. The places are limited so please sign up here as soon as possible! For more information about the event and practical details, please see the project page (a shorter summary is also available in Dutch here) or contact John Andersson on his talk page.
We look forward meeting you there!
John Andersson, a.k.a. John Andersson (WMSE), Lennart Guldbrandsson, a.k.a. Hannibal (WMSE), Anne Marie van Gerwen (Europeana) and Thijs van Exel (Europeana) —Preceding undated comment added 23:20, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
I read an essay about schoolchildren and legos and online communities. Does anyone have an URL please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.126.106.214 ( talk) 23:37, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
I proposed a separate article about Arthur Fowler and Pauline Fowler as a couple in Talk:Pauline Fowler. Nevertheless, many opposed my idea as a "fansite". I don't get it. Is there something notable or non-notable about Sam and Diane and "Arthur and Pauline"? I proposed it because I figure there could be critical commentary about the couple themselves. -- George Ho ( talk) 18:52, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
македонски • norsk • polski
Dear Wikimedians,
Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2011 Picture of the Year competition is now open. We are interested in your opinion as to which images qualify to be the Picture of the Year 2011. Any user registered at Commons or a Wikimedia wiki SUL-related to Commons with more than 75 edits before 1 April 2012 (UTC) is welcome to vote and, of course everyone is welcome to view!
Detailed information about the contest can be found at the introductory page.
About 600 of the best of Wikimedia Common's photos, animations, movies and graphics were chosen –by the international Wikimedia Commons community– out of 12 million files during 2011 and are now called Featured Pictures.
From professional animal and plant shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps, emblems, diagrams created with the most modern technology, and impressive human portraits, Commons Features Pictures of all flavors.
For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topic categories.
We regret that you receive this message in English; we intended to use banners to notify you in your native language but there was both, human and technical resistance.
See you on Commons! -- Picture of the Year 2011 Committee 18:13, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
Distributed via Global message delivery. (Wrong page? Fix here.)
I have opened a discussion/complaint at MediaWiki talk:Watchlist-details#Complaint regarding POTY notice regarding the Picture of the Year notice. Please feel free to give your thoughts on this issue. Hasteur ( talk) 19:13, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
The Arbitration Committee is seeking to appoint additional users to the CheckUser and Oversight teams. Experienced editors are invited to apply for either or both of the permissions, and current holders of either permission are also invited to apply for the other. There is a particular need for Oversight candidates in this round of appointments.
Successful candidates are likely to be regularly available and already familiar with local and global processes, policies, and guidelines especially those concerning CheckUser and Oversight. CheckUser candidates are expected to be technically proficient, and previous experience with OTRS is beneficial for Oversight candidates. Trusted users who frequent IRC are also encouraged to apply for either permission. All candidates must at least 18 years of age; have attained legal majority in their jurisdiction of residence; and be willing to identify to the Wikimedia Foundation prior to receiving permissions.
If you think you may be suitably qualified, please see the appointments page for further information. The application period is scheduled to close 15 June 2012.
For the Arbitration Committee, Risker ( talk) 02:41, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia initial website page for selecting your country needs to be centered further down without having to scroll it down to be able to click on the option for the United States/English. Perhaps, however, it would be better to simply change the options to be a list instead of a circular image/list of countries, but a list that is also centered further down. The circular image is innovative, but innovation is not always what is preferred or most efficient. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.216.82.8 ( talk) 04:52, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
The discussion has degenerated quite a bit, which is not leading to anything. Can someone take a look at comment there? Aditya( talk • contribs) 05:37, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
It should be easy to figure out how to see photo requests for a particular place, but it is not. How do I see a list of photo requests for New Castle County, Delaware, for example?.-- DThomsen8 ( talk) 14:00, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
Anybody please comment on this discussion. I think it's quite an important issue but unfortunately not much conversation is going yet. Rcsprinter (yak) 15:59, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Anyone have a clue what this is about? I don't know what to make of it.
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It's obvious to me what relation it has to me.
Some of my past edits to baler:
I get lots of weird spammy email like this that refer to Wikipedia article subjects that I've contributed to.
The question is why spammers would even do this.
It is such obvious and pointless spam, and in a way I feel bad marking a message as spam from some small-time chinese marketing company asking about prices for my LED fixtures. But they never respond if I try to ask why they are sending me this request at all.
Some of my past edits to light-emitting diode:
What are these spammers trying to accomplish?
DMahalko ( talk) 14:21, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
Right now, Wikipedia articles on trans women have an HTML comment written at the top saying:
<!--Per Wikipedia:Manual of style, use she/her to refer to (trans woman's name) throughout her life.-->
However, please notice that sometimes, even Wikipedians who see this comment edit the article to break WP:MOS, and even sometimes edit the comment. I suggest we create a template for trans women that the article should have instead, similar to the already-existent Template:BLP.
The trans woman template should parallel the BLP template with respect to the message it gives. Georgia guy ( talk) 17:27, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
Hello everyone, I'm sure you'll agree this is also important, as Wikipedia boasts masses of fantastic content that should be read by as many people as possible, and the more pristine the text is, the better! I'm currently looking at articles about Russian cities and Russian history to weed out typos, spelling, word order and punctuation errors. Hope that's greeted at Wiki. And if anyone has input or comments, I'll be happy to hear them.
EngGerm12 ( talk) 09:25, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
You can help by:
Thanks Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 21:21, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Sorry about my english. I´m admin in es:WP. Some days ago I deleted an article, Veritas Language Solutions. Seeing contribs and iw I found what I think it´s a possible case of crosswiki spam, because:
I understand your roules are different from ours, so I give you this information to do with it what you think is best. Chears. -- Andreateletrabajo ( talk) 20:07, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
First of all I apologise if this is not the right place to put this in but Hullalloo Wolfowitz has been removing an edit I made at the Fraternity Vacation article. He keeps on disputing why it should be included and it is quite clear he does not know anything about this film otherwise he would understand why it should be included. On his last removal of my edit he was extremely abusive to me with the following comment: "drivel posted by an obsessed adolescent". In addition to me he has sent me an unwanted message to me even I made it clear on my page that I did not wish to receive any messages. Hullallo Wolfowitz is therefore harassing me and I request that he be removed as an editor of Wikipedia.
The Shadow Treasurer (
talk)
05:12, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
Here it is...Can someone tell me which one is really Solar energy?
Hi. Can someone check at this article? It looks like someone copy the intro from an add or something. Include things like: "Lionsgate and Mandate Pictures present a Double Features Films production of a Lisa Azuelos film." Thanks. -- Andreateletrabajo ( talk) 16:23, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
In casual conversation, can I refer to my Wikipedia editing as "volunteer work?" I don't mean on a resume but just in casual conversation. If people try to laugh me out of the galaxy I can always explain that I spend hours and hours each day editing wikipedia and learning how to do it better, and take my activities here very seriously. How do people feel about that? Also, has this question ever come up in your life, and what happened? Guyovski ( talk) 20:16, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
I just need to whine to people who might understand; and, since nobody I know IRL edits Wikipedia, this is the only possible place I can do it. I created my very first article. It looked encyclopedic to me, even though it was just a stub and relied on only one source. Seconds later it was being proposed for deletion under "wikipedia is not for reporting news." I went to the article talk page and made a spirited argument against deletion. Then I contacted five more experienced editors who had previously helped me and begged them to join the deletion discussion on the article talk page. Then I looked at the article...and I didn't recognize it. It had been totally rewritten so that it was indeed no more than a bare news report of someone's recent death. That was the form in which it was found by the editor who proposed deletion. Given what the rewritten version looked like, I fully agreed with her that it should be deleted, and was somewhat embarrassed that I had defended a version of the article that no longer exists. Since then the article has been edited several more times so that it's starting to look encyclopedic, but it has absolutely no connection to the article I originally created. I'm forced to accept that I am no longer that article's creator, and I've made my position clear on my talk page and on the article's talk page. It frankly feels, in a minor way, like someone snuck into the hospital nursery and abducted my newborn baby and raised it as their own child, and I never saw the child again before I died of old age. Thank you for listening. Guyovski ( talk) 04:19, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
Please see this note: [6] Illia Connell ( talk) 01:37, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
Hello Wikipedians, I got a really nice and welcoming response to my last post and had to look for a while before I figured out how to post again... I'd be honoured to be a WikiGnome. Would it be possile to eventually graduate to being a WikiFairy?:-) Thank you for the kind welcome, I look forward to working here! EngGerm12 ( talk) 09:23, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
Just wanted to inform you that we have put up a post about the India Education Program here. Please fell free to initiate, advance or follow the conversation on the same page. Thanks Nitika.t ( talk) 10:11, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
As I'm writing this now, the English-language Wikipedia currently has 3,968,543 articles in its main namespace, growing at a rate of just under 1000 articles per day. At this rate of growth, we can expect the enwiki four-millionth article in a month and a bit. A small celebration might be in order. Perhaps with cake.
And a press release? -- The Anome ( talk) 22:53, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
Is anyone else seeing advertisements within Wikipedia articles? Is there some way to make this stop? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Michael Cockrell ( talk • contribs) 05:59, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
Has Wikipedia got a template that is a centred em dash, so that the effect in the empty table cells below can be achieved?
Year | Title | Platform(s) | |||||
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BB | Mac | PS3 | Vista | Win | X360 | ||
1999 | System Shock 2 | – | – | – | – | Yes | – |
2002 | Freedom Force | – | Yes | – | – | Yes | – |
2004 | Tribes: Vengeance | – | – | – | – | Yes | – |
2005 | Freedom Force vs the 3rd Reich | – | – | – | – | Yes | – |
2005 | SWAT 4 | – | – | – | – | Yes | – |
2006 | SWAT 4: The Stetchkov Syndicate | – | – | – | – | Yes | – |
2006 | BioShock | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
2013 | BioShock Infinite | – | – | Yes | – | Yes | Yes |
- X201 ( talk) 09:09, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
New proposal. - jc37 17:08, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
Dynamics of Conflicts in Wikipedia I ran across it by accident while trying to find a different study. That is all, carry on. - Tenebris 12:52, 24 June 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.112.29.188 ( talk)
An earlier requested-move survey generated lots of controversy and an arbitration case. Therefore, this one is being posted here and in many other places, to gather a very wide range of opinions outside of the Scotland and Australia WikiProjects. |
A requested move survey was started at Talk:Perth_(disambiguation)#Requested_move, which proposes to move:
Background: There was a previous requested-move survey which ran from late May to mid June. There was a great deal of controversy surrounding the closure and subsequent events, which involved a number of reverts and re-reverts which are the subject of an ongoing arbitration case. There was a move review process, which was closed with a finding that the original requested-move closure was endorsed; however, the move review process is relatively new and untried. — P.T. Aufrette ( talk) 03:22, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
2012 Core Contest | ||
Let it be known that the third incarnation of the Wikipedia Core Contest will take place from August 1 to 31 2012 CE/AD..... Casliber ( talk · contribs) 03:31, 26 June 2012 (UTC) |
I've noticed User:Wavelength has added
{{shortcut|U:Wavelength}}
to their userpage. I was just wondering, is U: an accepted shortcut? Simply south.... .. always punctual, no matter how late for just 6 years 17:31, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
This ʻOkina is a Hawaiian and Tongan languages. I think that there is a Romanised version. Should this appear in the Latin characters in the editing aids at the bottom of the editing screen? Snowman ( talk) 08:41, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
I placed an RfC on the H. G. Wells talk page. This is the first time I have used the template. The text stated that it would be added to the Biographies list, and later that it has been added, but I don't see it on the list, nor has the talk received any attention as far as I can tell. Am I missing something? Regards, nagualdesign ( talk) 00:36, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
Apologies for only posting in English. The deployment team here at Wikimedia Foundation has decided to shift the deployment time of MediaWiki 1.20wmf6 from it's usual time on Wednesday, July 4 to an earlier time on Monday, July 2, due to the upcoming U.S. holiday. Full timeline and status updates are available on the MediaWiki 1.20 roadmap page. -- mw:User:RobLa-WMF ( talk) 22:07, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
The articles Shrimp and Prawn do not appear to follow common usage, and I've started an RfC to address this. In particular, according to Wikipedia, Whiteleg shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) is in fact not a shrimp. I think that's ridiculous; but my (overwhelming) evidence based on google hits has been rejected as original research. Due to the desire to restrict the scope of the "shrimp" article to a well-defined biological concept, across Wikipedia the term "shrimp" is now reserved for Caridea, which is much more restrictive than most of the world uses. Comments and help with the RfC would be welcome; thanks. 24.84.4.202 ( talk) 23:06, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
Berofe reading see those diddly discussions on my talk page and Leftorium's talk page.
I've been reading many articles of the episodes of the TV series (like the Simpsons, How I Met Your Mother, the Office), and found some articles that have a guest pic of the episode, which is little bit like those Showbiz news sites (like E!, TV Guide and TMZ) to me. Some articles are not mentioning reference to another thing, or have a specific section for the references. And some said that "No Guest Pic Articles" is boring? I don't think so, cause it's more informative without the pic.
So: Is "Guest Pic" Excessive? - Mr a ( talk) ( contrib) 03:17, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
Believe it or not, right now there is a 20 minute watchable cartoon on the main page from this article!!! Check it out! – Lionel ( talk) 09:32, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
I have attempted to rename Category:WikiProject Harry Potter into Category:Harry Potter task force. Unfortunately, people just oppose renaming without "Wikipedia" included. Same thing for WP:SEINFELD and WP:HEROES. This may affect all Projects that have task forces. Also, it would be time-consuming to propose renaming of all categories of task forces, such as of Television Project and of Korea Project. -- George Ho ( talk) 18:27, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
For some reason, I can't seem to find the revision history stats page for an article. Last month I was on a page that showed a graph of the size of the article over time, a graph of its edits, and many other useful things. For the sake of being generic, say the history of the Wikipedia article. There used to be a link on this page, but now I can't find it. Was it removed? Jesse V. ( talk) 23:39, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
I have created an article in Persian Wikipedia for which I don't know the English equivalent. It refers to an educational method in which some students who have extra abilities pass two educational grades in one educational year. Do you know English equivalent? Ali Pirhayati ( talk) 12:06, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Thanks a world! Ali Pirhayati ( talk) 15:49, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
See what I wrote at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bart Ramsey. Uncle G ( talk) 18:56, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
> I would like to suggest the following improvement. > > When I typed "TEP" in the search button, the thing I am looking for > didn't show up. Later I found that TEP meant: Trust and Estate > Practioner. This falls under: financial/tax matters. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.65.38.65 ( talk) 20:03, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
OK, I already asked this question at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Userboxes, but I got no response there. This Userbox creator thingy, which is linked from the main userbox navbox, is in the userspace of a permanently blocked user. I think it should it be moved elsewhere. I think it should probably be moved to the UBX ( talk · contribs) userspace, which I will ask Mets501 ( talk · contribs) about. I will even volunteer to put it in my own userspace if necessary. Any comments from the people here would be appreciated. Eastlaw talk ⁄ contribs 08:28, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
I suggest to create a page about Alexander Garievich Gordon (born 20 february 1964) from russian wikipedia Scymso ( talk) 16:54, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
I just removed Category:Trombonists from Trombone. In a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Musical Instruments/Archive 1#Instrumentalist categories at instrument articles, it was explained that this allowed easy linking to lists of musicians when there wasn't a separate list article, such as with Category:Bass clarinetists. However, it seems to me that using cats this way breaks the categorization system. Is there a standard way to say "For a list of bass clarinet players, see Category:Bass clarinetists"? -- SarekOfVulcan (talk) 17:21, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
It would seem that despite an overwhelming vote in the European Parliament against the provisions of ACTA the European Commission together with the Canadian government are now trying to bring the very same provisions in through the back door: a trade agreement between Canada and the EU.
See: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6580/135/
Jcwf ( talk) 23:21, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi, guys. :) As you are very likely aware, we are at 3,986,676 articles and should be reaching 4 million pretty soon. (Updated tally: 6,857,123) This is a massive milestone that the Wikimedia Foundation wants to be sure is celebrated in its blog, as it did the 3 millionth ( [7]). Since it's an English Wikipedia specific accomplishment, they felt like it might be appropriate to bring the community in on writing up the event. I've invited people from the Signpost, but since no specific Signpost writer raised their hands Matthew Roth has started up a very bare bones outline at meta:Wikimedia_Blog/Drafts/EnWP_4_Million_Article_Milestone. We've invited anyone at the Signpost who'd like to help out, but of course it's open to others as well. This is open for editing in the usual manner of our work, but anybody with an interest in contributing who doesn't want to edit directly is also welcome to add suggestions or comments at the talk page there. By-lines, of course, for all major contributors...unless you'd rather opt out. -- Maggie Dennis (WMF) ( talk) 00:26, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
4 million total articles, but only about 21,000 are WP:FA or WP:GA. That's a pretty poor ratio of decency to garbage. Congrats, Wikipedia! WTF? ( talk) 21:57, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
Does anybody know if there is a Wikipedia technique for setting the height of an inline image to match the scale of the surrounding span of text? I.e. give it a proportionate size like 1em or 100%. Perhaps a template that applies some sort of CSS fiddliness? Thank you. Regards, RJH ( talk) 23:58, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia has two 5M pools. Which one will be used to decide who will win the prize when Wikipedia reaches 5M articles?? Georgia guy ( talk) 15:02, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
Created in September 2002, nominated for deletion almost ten years later. This probably isn't the record for Proposed Deletion, but I suspect that it's close. Uncle G ( talk) 20:23, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
I'm celebrating the 4 million article milestone by thanking the generous people who help make Wikipedia what it is. I'd like to encourage others to join in the celebration at Wikipedia:Thanks for 4 million articles. Thanks everybody. 64.40.54.141 ( talk) 23:21, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
Background: ReferenceTooltips is a gadget that allows users to roll over any inline citation to see reference information. A discussion on whether to enable the gadget for all users by default went on for about two months before being archived about two weeks ago. (This discussion was mentioned in the Signpost.) The discussion resulted in a some changes to the gadget, such as the addition of a delay to the tooltip, support for touchscreen devices, and an easily accessible settings menu that includes a button to disable RT, as well and options to modify/eliminate the delay, or set the tooltip to only pop up upon clicking the reference link.
The discussion seemed to show consensus in support of enabling ReferenceTooltips by default, though it was never formally "closed" as such before it was archived. Does this matter? Would further discussion be necessary for it to be enabled? Another point: During the discussion, a comment by User:R'n'B suggested users be "informed about the change (maybe by a watchlist notice) before it happens, and given instructions on how to turn it off if they wish". (Turning it off is accomplished by pressing the gear icon at the top-right corner of any tooltip and then pressing the large "Disable Reference Tooltips" button, or alternatively, deselecting the gadget in Special:Preferences.) Does anyone have opinions on whether this would be necessary, and how best to accomplish it if it is? -- Yair rand ( talk) 19:51, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
Great, thanks! David 1217 What I've done 05:58, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
Note: ReferenceTooltips is working properly on my iPad now. David 1217 What I've done 05:59, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
Does anyone else have a comment on whether to enable ReferenceTooltips by default? David 1217 What I've done 05:44, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
I hope this isn't yelling, but I started seeing the reference tooltips today, and I find them quite annoying. IMO, adding a feature that causes unexpected motion (or "appearing out of the blue") adds distraction in a medium (web pages) that is already crammed with distractions. I'm sad to see this, because one of Wikipedia's great strengths has always been its text-heavy, literate and thoughtful orientation. I think making windows appear in front of text harms readability, and I don't think readers get anything of value out of these little pop-ups that mention sources they've never heard of and mostly don't care about. However, that's JMO, and I think WhatamIdoing's 90/5/5 prediction above is insightful and probably right. Nevertheless, I would like to ask: Is there some way that we can tell what effects the reference tooltips are having on readability? If I'm wrong, and the tooltips don't interfere with readability, that's fine; I'm glad my opinion did not prevail if it was mistaken. However, if the tooltips do distract readers and make articles harder to read, I hope we have some way to find this out and consequently roll back the change. — Ben Kovitz ( talk) 03:07, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Dr. Blofeld ( talk · contribs) has been threatening to launch 15,000 articles about British settlements consisting of no more than "xxx is a village in Cumbria. ref =google maps". See user talk:RHaworth#Stubs. He seems to have modified this proposal somewhat but I would be interested to hear other editors views on how large a settlement needs to be before it qualifies for its own article here. — RHaworth ( talk · contribs) 21:39, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
As a courtesy, I've left a note at Dr. Blofeld's talk page informing him of this discussion. 64.40.54.162 ( talk) 00:34, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
Google maps isn't a reliable source of English place-names. If he was citing Ordnance Survey he might have a case.© Geni 13:22, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
I'd like to find out how YOU are going to celebrate the 4,000,000 article so I can include something about it in the report. See #Article 4 million approaching above. Thanks. 64.40.54.45 ( talk) 02:23, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
As I count using article counting method used in Indonesian Wikipedia, I think the 4,000,000th article is:
Is it right? Kenrick Talk 14:16, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
Happy 4 million everybody. 64.40.54.88 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 14:23, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
Whew! I wrote an article and clicked the Save button when there were 3,999,995 articles. Then instantly I took a look at new pages and saw another article related to my country which was created nearly at the same moment. Such an excitement! Reminds me those GET posts. Abdullais4u ( talk) 14:20, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
Does anyone here edit those red dot maps that appear on every US city/county article? The one for Williamsburg, Virginia has been incorrect, indicating York County instead, since 2006. Asking on the article's talk page, the talk page of the user who made the map, and have not been fruitful. I haven't found any sort of centralized red-dot-map task force to complain to and lack the know-how to do it myself, so does anyone here edit the things or know how they're made? Thanks! Hiyayaywhopee ( talk) 03:14, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
how does christine get hympnotized in the Andrew Lloyd Webber's edition — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.87.57.159 ( talk) 05:52, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
In Wikipedia:Disambiguation dos and don'ts, there seems to be two paradoxical sentences. In the part "don't", it is written "Don't add entries without a blue link." It means we cannot add red links at all. On the other hand, the fourth sentence is "Don't add red links that aren't used in any articles." So we can add particular red links. Isn't it a paradox? Ali Pirhayati ( talk) 19:56, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
This is completely anecdotal, but one of the things I've gleaned from AFT5 is that a lot of readers come here looking for the wrong things. While many of these can't be changed (i.e. What is Barack Obama's phone number?), there are a number that are easily solved by our other projects. I've found many that asked for quotes of a person and similar things. Imagine someone wanted to read the text of The Raven. You need to scroll all the way under the sources to find the links. This might not be a problem for those who know other projects exist, but it is for those who don't. Maybe we should find a new location for those templates, the infobox might be appropriate. Otherwise, we need to do a better job of advertising our sister projects. Ryan Vesey Review me! 19:26, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
Birth control is easy and very important to improve. Please see Talk:Birth control#Reviews on the topic in the Lancet this month through Talk:Birth control#Comparison. 75.166.200.250 ( talk) 23:28, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
(Apologies if this message isn't in your language. Please consider translating it)
Hi,
As many of you are aware, the Wikimedia Board of Trustees recently initiated important changes in the way that money is being distributed within the Wikimedia movement. As part of this, a new community-led " Funds Dissemination Committee" (FDC) is currently being set up. Already in 2012-13, its recommendations will guide the decisions about the distribution of over 10 million US dollars among the Foundation, chapters and other eligible entities.
Now, seven capable, knowledgeable and trustworthy community members are sought to volunteer on the initial Funds Dissemination Committee. It is expected to take up its work in September. In addition, a community member is sought to be the Ombudsperson for the FDC process. If you are interested in joining the committee, read the call for volunteers. Nominations are planned to close on August 15.
-- Anasuya Sengupta, Director of Global Learning and Grantmaking, Wikimedia Foundation 20:00, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
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Hi all,
Wikimédia France, a non-profit organization supporting Wikimedia projects in France, is launching an international research prize to reward the most influential research work on Wikimedia projects and free knowledge projects in general.
What is quite new about this award is that everyone can participate:
Regarding the latter, we are now in the process of proposing papers and we'd appreciate if some of you can lend a hand.
If you consider a paper has been particularly important in the field of free knowledge/Wikipedia studies and must be taken into account, do not hesitate to submit it now! Please use this form
Deadline for paper suggestion is August 1st.
After that, the next phase is shortlisting nominated papers. The Wikimedia Award Jury will study all proposed papers to submit 5 papers to the final vote in September. The announcement of the winner is planned in November.
Please find all details here: m:Research:Wikimedia_France_Research_Award
If you have any questions, please use the project talk page m:Research_talk:Wikimedia_France_Research_Award
Thanks! -- Rémi Bachelet ( talk) 18:04, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
Intriguing question here we need opinions on - see Talk:Double-crested_Cormorant#Inclusion_of_colloquial_name_.22nigger_goose.22 (i.e. "nigger goose" wasa historical name - do we include or not, please discuss there) Casliber ( talk · contribs) 00:57, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
This is going to need a bit of WP:OR but having recently obtained an Android tablet to replace the aging laptop, I have been disappointed in the wikipedia editing experience on the tablet. I'm not sure how much is due to Android and how much is browser related but has anyone else found a good wikipedia editing browser? I like opera on my desktop, but opera mobile 12 seems to crash too often and lose text from edit boxes if I switch windows/multi task and then return ( it reloads the page rather than keep it in memory). I'm trialling maxthon at the moment but it seems slow and also seems to lose text easily. Finally, is there a skin/set of preferences that improves the mobile/tablet editing experience? The-Pope ( talk) 02:37, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
I read the blood alcohol level chart and it didnt make sense to me.In many times in my life i have had .5 alcohol blood level or higher,knew this from arrests in the past.And i didnt die, i think the chart needs to be a bit higher.Not here to brag or cause problems.Just a thought.I have quit drinking for the most part these days. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chucksteak60 ( talk • contribs) 11:23, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
... that there are too many templates in the english wikipedia. The german version is much better, they don't have the stupid stub templates. -- 93.82.2.91 ( talk) 17:42, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
...in the form of the Intellectual Property Attaché Act (page does not exist yet). 68.173.113.106 ( talk) 23:42, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
I've read through Wikipedia essays and policies, including WP:BANNER, WP:ADVERT, and I want to ask a question. If I submitted an AfC, and I add a link to this, Village Pump, that leads to the AfC submission page in order to get a faster review from Wikipedians, is that considered advertising? If no, then please look at this: Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Wonderfl; if yes, please tell me why and how it is. Greek Fellows ( talk) 08:47, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
I'm not sure whether this is the right place to bring it up, but I received an email an email with a time stamp of about 9:30 p.m. US CDT (02:36 UTC) last night purporting to be from Wikimedia saying a password request for my account was requested from the Main Page at the English Wikipedia. The IP listed in the email (24.111.88.58) seems to belong to an ISP in the Dakotas and Minnesota, multiple states away. At the time of the email, the IP was in between edits regarding the the Penn State sex abuse scandal, for which the editor was blocked less than 15 minutes after the email was sent. [8] My only edit in that area was to Penn State Nittany Lions football, a day earlier, to fix dashes and the like. That article was not one the IP editor touched, and I don't know why the editor would have chosen my account since I don't appear to have crossed paths with that IP. Anyway, I'm not sure what if anything I should do; I doubt even changing my password would make much difference. Is there someone who should know about this? Is there any chance IP isn't involved? - Rrius ( talk) 22:08, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
I recently had an interest in donating my old camera to a contributor who will use it to produce free content. I've set up a new forum, commons:Commons:Equipment exchange, to facilitate requesting, donating, selling (at reduced cost), and bartering of items for free content production, including camera equipment, computer equipment, art supplies, and software. If you have any items you'd like to contribute, please add them, or just watchlist it if you're hoping to get access to some good equipment in the future. Thanks! Dcoetzee 23:52, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi. OK, I know this is a rather unusual topic request for the village pump, and I wouldn't want to pollute all your water supply, but...can somebody here do a userpage review for my userpage? I feel that the content is getting extremely cluttered, or perhaps unreadable, so I need other editors to determine whether my page is readable or presents a good view of Wikipedia editing. Overall, I'd like to attract new editors to edit Wikipedia, and soon I plan to refractor some parts of the pre-section into a box or user subpage, as well as provide new interfaces, such as user-generated examples on how NOT to edit a Wikipedia article, which I have been planning for over four months, possibly more than a year, but which I never got to. Thanks! ~ AH1 ( discuss!) 18:05, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
The BBC has run a new article on Wikipedia: Meet the 'bots' that edit Wikipedia. Although it perhaps treats admins a bit too highly, I think this may be the article with the fewest errors about us that I have ever read. And a nice shout-out to all the poor forgotten bots that keep us running so smoothly. Rmhermen ( talk) 21:40, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
Trying to confirm the YouTube "sources" (and my suspicion that they've counted all external links, not just ones from <ref> tags), I started with an External links search from Special pages, but it includes all namespaces :-( Is there an option to limit the results to the main namespace? Mark Hurd ( talk) 08:29, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
I have a vision for a new social site designed to streamline dialogue so that thousands of people can come together to draft their own legislation. I have no technical training or experience in designing webtools, nor any funding to contribute to people who do have these skills, but I do have a 12-page description of exactly how I see it working that I am willing to share with anyone who wants to make it work and will email to anyone who wants a copy. I'm not sure whether it's appropriate to post the entire description as a proposal for a Wickimedia project or not, and because I have no idea how to build it myself I'm a little afraid of my vision being lost and of not being part of the final project. I don't mind if other projects pop up however similar or different using parts of the idea, but I really want an intact version of the vision to come to life; I really believe it can change the world (and I really want it to). Any advice for an un-technical person with an idea like this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shielding C ( talk • contribs) 10:34, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
It is a suggestion for global democracy - or rather, an internet-based direct-democracy tool that people around the world could use in almost any scenario requiring group collaboration. The vision is for the website to be governed by its own efficient direct-democracy system, allowing members to weigh in on any and all decision-making of interest to them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shielding C ( talk • contribs) 16:15, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi
Is there any policy/set of procedures about websites that use Wikipedia material and do not say it came from us?
For example the site rtbot.net uses pages and changes the links to almost mirror Wikipedia (including saying "© 2012 RTBot.net"), but there is no mention that their info comes from us, nor can I find any mention of attribution, or even a thank you!
There are other places I have encountered this sort of thing, but after leaving a post and no-one answering it ( Originl post about YouTube), and then finding this rtbot site, I thought maybe a wider audience might know.
How should we deal with this? Do we mention it to them and ask them to include something, do we take it somewhere on wiki, is there an agreement with them, do we even care?
Thanks Chaosdruid ( talk) 04:23, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
Background information:
So, in order to discourage spambots this little trick is used so that copy/pasting certain email addresses doesn't work. Taking the functionaries as an example,
It was suggested at the oversight talk page that we make it more clear that copy/pasting will not work, but I am more in favor of the suggestion made in the discussion at Commons that we just stop doing this altogether. Spam gets into the queues already anyway, and it is extremely simple to remove it by clicking the "one click spam" button. If we get inundated by spambots to the extent where we can't click that button fast enough to delete it all we can reconsider. Thoughts? Beeblebrox ( talk) 21:15, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
I've notified the functionaries, the arbcom, and OTRS of this discussion. If anyone knows of any other uses of this please notify them as well. Beeblebrox ( talk) 21:29, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
I need help with Category:Biography articles without living parameter. I did more than 40,000 pages using a bot but the rest need human attention. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:23, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
Our research team has just launched a new tool that recommends Wikipedia articles to edit based on news that you're interested in. Most news sites have Twitter or RSS feeds that update as new articles are published. wikiFeed (our tool) invites editors to put in their preferred news sources' Twitter or RSS feeds --- from politics to pop culture, or whatever --- and finds the most relevant Wikipedia articles to edit based on that content.
We're trying to conduct a study on how well wikiFeed works, and so we'd encourage anyone to sign up and try it. Discussion and feedback is welcome, and if the tool is useful for editing, please feel free to use it as you like.
Here's our website, where you can sign up and use wikiFeed:
http://wikistudy.mathcs.carleton.edu
Thanks for your help. WorldsApart ( talk) 19:20, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
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Hi guys, if any of you play Kingdom Hearts, please help us edit the Keyhole, (kingdomhearts.wikia.com), one of the largest databases of KingdomHearts materials. We're dying, and could use help. Thanks! Subzeroflames ( talk) 21:56, 1 August 2012 (UTC) |
In Category:Proposed deletion-related templates, a see templates to de-prod or to endorse a prod, but none to comment neutrally on a prod and add information. Am I missing something? - Jmabel | Talk 05:48, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
Have no idea where else can I ask this question.
Thanks in advance :-)
95.167.125.206 ( talk) 07:02, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
With 250 quid (my damn Aussie keyboard lacks a "pound"symbol...) in amazon vouchers for prizes, get out yer library books... Wikipedia:The Core Contest is a-coming, and have a very literal, verbose, syntactic and referential August, starting on the Horses' Birthday....cheers, Casliber ( talk · contribs) 14:13, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
I don't get this movie at all. How would the brother know who or how many people caused the other brothers death. At the very beginning the one who is supposedly dead points out one who did it. How is that possible?! He points out who caused his death?!? Hes dead!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.116.146.62 ( talk) 10:42, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
I hope this is the proper place to post about this problem. Lately, it appears that the homepage has been loading out of alignment and it is getting worse. It now shows the main logo with surrounding wiki links all pushed to the left side of the page. Everything below that is fine (for now!). NorthernThunder ( talk) 01:31, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
The Enderta disambiguation page consists of two definitions of Mugulat, places in Ethiopia. This seems to be wrong, but I am unsure what should be done. Please help. -- DThomsen8 ( talk) 00:31, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
In June, I noticed the usefulness of WP:PSCOI and decided to replicate it in the field of non-free content. I created WP:PSNFCG, which is somewhat bare-bones right now, but IMHO good enough to be useful. I initially tagged it with {{ essay}} since I didn't feel qualified to use {{ information page}}. But now I'd like to "upgrade" it to an information page, and I'm wondering what the process consists of... if any such process even exists. Does anyone have any advice on this? Can I just tag it, or is that presumptuous of me? -- N Y Kevin 05:22, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
For future reference, the documentation at Template:Draft proposal explains how to go about proposing new guidelines and such. -- œ ™ 06:13, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
Almost certainly, there were several cases of gross misconduct of an administrator which did not result in his/her demotion or personal sanctions, at least did not result in a reasonable time. I am not interested in recent conflicts (of 2012), because it is impossible to assert that sanctions never followed. Please, email me such links, both Wikipedia links and off-site. Conflicts in English Wikipedia only, and a misconduct only by sysops or higher. And I call for a correspondence from established users only, not anonymous nor sockpuppets. I promise not to reveal sources of such hints. Thank you, historians. Incnis Mrsi ( talk) 18:55, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
I recently noticed that the facebook Wikipedia mirrors contain a link to edit Wikipedia. Is it possible to encourage more sites to do that? Ryan Vesey 12:41, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
See [12]. Can we hook these guys up with the usability team? -- N Y Kevin 18:45, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
Considering this is a fairly common occurrence both for Wikipedia and for any popular website, I thought I would provide some of the context in an essay on unsolicited redesigns. I think this helps explain why hooking these guys up with designers is kind of a fruitless idea, and why Jorm expresses doubts above. Steven Walling • talk 22:24, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
Posted here to get as wide participation as possible for a potentially controversial title change. |
A requested move survey has been started (by Marcus Qwertyus ( talk)) at Talk:Burma, which proposes to move:
Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. — P.T. Aufrette ( talk) 23:29, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
A template in Charles Harris (cricketer) is seriously bad, but I do not know how to fix it. Please help. -- DThomsen8 ( talk) 12:22, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
Look at this page:
Right at the top it says in a pretty pink box that
But look down the page and you will find a set of links to all US presidents — including Barack Obama, who in July 2007 was merely a senator and a candidate for the Democratic Party nomination. Likewise there are links to Democratic Party tickets including Obama/Biden, and links to Democratic party conventions including Charlotte in 2012. An actual copy of the page as it existed in July 2007 would not — could not possibly — have included these.
The explanation, of course, is that these links all come from Wikipedia templates that are transcluded onto the page. The function of "oldid" is to select an older version of the main body of the page, but it doesn't affect what version of the templates gets selected.
For many purposes this may be good enough: in this case I suppose all those templates are only growing by accreting new entries at the end of each set of links. (But I don't know that, without checking their own history.) But with other templates this may not be the case; for example, the behavior of some options might have changed, or some explanatory text may have been removed. If Wikipedia's policy is that older versions of a page as it actually was should be available, then it's not being satisfied. At the least, the text in the pink notice box is misleading.
A second reason why an older version of the page might not match what an oldid link actually provides is if it accesses an image file that has been removed or edited. For example:
The way the page actually appeared on the indicated date of December 26, 2007, was that there was a second photo on the right. Now there's just a caption and a red link.
Now, I am not suggesting that Wikipedia needs to keep old versions of images available indefinitely, especially when (as in this case) they were removed due to possible copyright violation. I am not suggesting that Wikipedia needs to automatically access old versions of templates when accessing an old version of a page.
But I am suggesting that the wording of the "This is an old revision" notice should be reviewed, and that — if technically feasible — a way should be provided that makes it possible to access the page with old templates if that is what the user wants.
In addition, if a photo is no longer available when accessing an old version, perhaps a small generic notice could be placed at the position rather than just showing a plain red link.
Please think about it and do what seems sensible.
-- 142.205.241.254 ( talk) 22:05, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
How do i stop a continous harriasement by this guy?????
from my talk page, "You are being offered another opportunity to engage in discussion about your disruptive editing.Novangelis (talk) 16:25, 23 July 2012 (UTC) After having ignored another discussion of your inappropriate talk page edits, there should be no reason for you to resume your advocacy. Please do not edit article talk pages if you are not attempting to participate in constructive discussions about improving that article. Complaining about policies is not article improvement and should be restricted to policy talk pages. (This is not an invitation for you to disrupt policy talk pages with non-constructive complaints in order to make a point.)Novangelis (talk) 03:33, 1 August 2012 (UTC)"
I am as constructive as i can be. he has a attitude that I am at odds with but i do believe that a page titled "controversy" should tell both sides. I am very busy and find little time for this but when I do I would like to be treated with respect. Is there anything i can do or is it a lost cause. Are the rumors that there are Wikipedia Gods that cannot be contested true?
If this is the wrong place where do i go? Quione ( talk) 17:55, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
Quione, please read Wikipedia:Dispute resolution in detail. You will want to follow the steps outlined therein. -- œ ™ 06:42, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
I went there and tried to register a Wikiquette Assistance but it did not work. It went nowhere. Quione ( talk) 19:15, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
The page The Knowhere Guide was deleted in 2006 as it "does not meet the notability criteria of WP:WEB" at the time.
Now that its absence from Wikipedia has specifically been cited in this article in The Register critical about Wikipedia itself, has it now gained enough notability to warrant undeletion? Since 2006, it has also been mentioned in other news sources.
Not being an admin, I cannot tell what state it is in, though I'm willing to contribute content based on these news reports. cmɢʟee ☎ ✉ 19:00, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
BBC has published it: "The Wikipedia pages of US presidential candidate Mitt Romney and other members of the Republican party who may run alongside him have been locked down." Let's see if the remaining semi-protected pages get the same coverage :) Have fun! -- NaBUru38 ( talk) 00:06, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
To cap off the story, Micah Sifry acknowledges that the notion basically didn't work at all this season :-) - David Gerard ( talk) 11:09, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
Please see: commons:Commons:Deletion requests/File:David Allen Frazee.jpg
User:Dashfrazee is an userpage that can be seen as promotional and might be against userpages policy in this Wikipedia. The author has no other contributions out of his own userpage.
Please check if this issue needs to be addressed according to local policies.-- Pere prlpz ( talk) 12:43, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
Expect an uptick in vanity bios. From Klout's blog post:
- David Gerard ( talk) 10:51, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
See this Blog post. The Arabic Wikipedia drove up editor rates with a new pilot program m:Editor Growth and Contribution Program/Contribution portal - Phase 0. Ryan Vesey 00:34, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
The quest to get editors free access to the sources they need is gaining momentum.
You might also be interested in the idea to create a central Wikipedia Library where approved editors would have access to all participating resource donors. Add your feedback to the Community Fellowship proposal. Apologies for the English message ( translate here). Go sign up :) -- Ocaasi ( talk) 02:13, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
Asking administrators for help. Need to rename user Barrister on smth else (0 edition) because I want to create global account. TIA-- 95.69.206.48 ( talk) 16:03, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
Currently, " Big N" redirects to the variety store. Is there any hard/good/scholarly source that shows that a variety store was commonly referred to as such? Internet search shows mostly links back to Wikipedia. hbdragon88 ( talk) 01:13, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
I found this article, to be precise, this version today on the back of NPP queue. I am not exactly an unexperienced user, but this article survived for 30 days. (I made a brief attempt to reference it, but it was unsuccessfull, since I could not find any reasonable sources in five minutes). Not that I want to blame anybody, but (1) does it qualify as the record shortest article which made it for a month; (2) is this normal; (3) what I am expected to do with it provided I can not invest an hour in research in a topic I have no competence? Leave it in peace, PROD it, bring it to the attention of a Wikiproject? Sorry for trivial questions, this is indeed a kind of new experience for me.-- Ymblanter ( talk) 20:56, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
The source is Yatchingworld.com Elaine bunting 20 things About Ben anslie which has no sources to state any of it is true 88.104.135.120 ( talk) 12:47, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
after taking a look at Ben ainslie wiki I realised their were mistakes in their and unreliable sourcing this is the case with most pages to do with sport I go on but I thought I must speak up about it now. So I changed the errors on his page and told the owner of the unreliable source it was partially wrong what she was saying. So can we have some sort of protection or someone to watch over like that robot bug thing thanks. 88.104.135.120 ( talk) 11:09, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
It was in his personal life saying he's dating marit bouwmeester but I can't find any official source to say they are 88.104.135.120 ( talk) 11:38, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
I won't rest till something is done to stop this happening again 88.104.135.120 ( talk) 12:47, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
Ok I will do you think my case is enough to get it protected 88.104.135.120 ( talk) 14:02, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
Sorted this the Ben ainslie page has been protected and other actions have been taken by me for false info 88.104.135.120 ( talk) 19:36, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
It's my first time to post in the English Wikipedia's Village Pump in the seven years that I've been here, so I hope I'm doing this right. :P
Anyway, I was randomly browsing around when I saw Wikipedia talk:Meetup. Around two weeks ago, an anonymous user posted there, suggesting that the community stage a " traveling meetup" or caravan of sorts. While the idea is indeed interesting (though I'm currently not in Europe), I wonder how other people here might feel about this? -- Sky Harbor ( talk) 16:34, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
I wonder what our policy is about the wholesale copying of Wikipedia text by other wiki encyclopaedias without attribution? I recently came across this article at Mises Wiki and noticed that it appeared to be largely lifted from our own article on Full reserve banking. I looked for attribution to Wikipedia, and could not find it anywhere. Browsing through the other articles there, it appears to be a pretty general practice; they copy large amounts of text from our articles, and then apply a POV spin to it. Is this use allowed, or should we be doing something about it? LK ( talk) 03:54, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
There are valid reasons for copying content from Wikipedia into other wikis, and I'll admit that I'm "guilty" of doing that more than a few times myself. Most of the situations where I've done that is for things like Wikia fansites where I've usually gone through the process of dewikifying the article (aka removing hyperlinks that are irrelevant) and sometimes adding things that may seem like fancruft to editors on Wikipedia (usually well justified I might add). Furthermore, many of those articles I put in hyperlinks that are proper in the context of that wiki and its database where adding those hyperlinks would be inappropriate here on Wikipedia. Generally it is just a small handful of articles that get copied over from Wikipedia and in the case of those fansite wikis such copied content is a stark minority of the site content, but it still can be very useful. A couple of those Wikia sites where this has happened are actually more popular than most of the Wikimedia sister projects, so it is not just a marginal activity either.
In the cases where I find such articles on wikis that I'm participating in (and sometimes acting as administrator) I go out of my way to include usually a hatnote or some other markup on those pages that clearly notes the content is derived from a Wikipedia article, and that is a practice I would encourage for other sites that perform a similar kind of content duplication. Even if you have added original content, it is still useful to note where the content originally came from.
I'll also note that in the early days of Wikipedia, a substantial amount of content was originally seeded from the public domain (aka no copyright) version of the 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Yes, it was horribly out of date and the articles desperately needed to be cleaned up in terms of POV tone and other huge issues, but it did provide a basis for development of what we have today. On a rare occasion, I still do trip across such article that were created at that time, a few of which still haven't been fixed up I might add as well (mostly obscure topics that a 21st century reader isn't actively seeking on a regular basis). If you go into the back history of some of even the popular articles on Wikipedia, you may come across some of that original 1911 content as well (sort of fun to see how the articles have changed to do a massive page diff from 1911 to 2012).
I have no doubt that eventually Wikipedia will die as a project in the future, but I also think that in the 25th Century (or whenever it becomes an issue) what everybody is working on today will very likely seed such future compendiums of human knowledge just like Wikipedia has been gifted from a great many other sources to make what we have today. That many people are using Wikipedia to spread human knowledge should be viewed as a good thing. Failure to attribute and plagiarism in violation of the terms of the Wikipedia licenses is bad form, but conforming to Wikipedia licenses are pretty easy to do (since you don't need formal written permission to copy). -- Robert Horning ( talk) 21:36, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
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I've noticed that page views listed at stats.grok.se seem to report separately for multi-word article titles with spaces versus underscores, e.g. "Article title" versus "Article_title". Seems to make counting page views a little more complicated than they would seem. Can anyone elucidate? ENeville ( talk) 01:03, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello, I hope this is the right spot for my request, basically... To sum it up: Someone has edited dozens of articles in the past years to include false information about persons who, as I assume, don't exist. In the process, he has used several IPs and different fake names. I first came across those fake entries in 2009, when reading about a German player of the (defunct) American Basketball Association. Anyone possessing a little knowledge about international basketball immediately realizes this cannot be true. However, I only became aware of the hoaxes' spread some months later. In the end, I found the following names to have been added to several articles:
Some of these edits had been reverted, but no one had checked the IP's other edits. In one case, a newspaper, the St. Petersburg Times, had taken over the fake information, of course without mentioning their source at all. I didn't tell them, however. So today I wanted to check if the information had stayed in their article. Not surprisingly, it's still there. I routinely checked the related Wikipedia article as well, and guess what - the infomation had been restored, citing the newspaper article. So I started another reverting session. This time, however, I know the vandal won't stop adding that fake information, and it may become impossible to stop those hoaxes' spread if it's transferred to Wikipedias of different languages or to other media sources. I'm still unsure if I have found all fake names, so for now, I'm just listing all IPs involved in that vandalism, including the diff link of the last edit undoubtedly related to that editor:
So what I'm basically asking for is assistance in finding fake names I hadn't identified so far. Of cource, I'd also approve some kind of ban, but what makes this case really remarkable isn't the total number of fake entries, but the spread over a long period of time and range of topics (though it's mainly sports, especially American football, and popular culture), and the amount of proper edits (but also more obvious kind of vandalism) apparently done by the same person(s), partly within the same articles and/or within a few minutes. This may read like the description of several persons's edits being accidently mistaken for a single person's ones, but I'm sure anyone closely examining those IP's edits will come to the same conclusion.
Thanks, -- Axolotl Nr.733 ( talk) 16:10, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
Note: I've added another two IPs. -- Axolotl Nr.733 ( talk) 18:12, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
I didn't check all of these but it appears they are from Citigroup. They should be relatively easy to trace. The three that are obviously different are from Jacksonville FL and nearby Macclenny FL. Joja lozzo 13:45, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
This template has been discussed, especially in User talk:George Ho/Mentorship discussions#Template:very long. I proposed for "deletion", but my mentor convinced me to discuss it. As you see, sometimes "very long" is confused with (mentioned or not) Template:restructure, Template:overly detailed, and Template:cleanup (proposal to mandate "reason" is discussed). I'm still analyzing the transclusion of this template. So far, I have removed this template from 100 pages, and I bet I can remove a hundred more. -- George Ho ( talk) 15:20, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
My message cut from Template talk:very long:
This template is becoming more abused and misused. Also, it is vague and problematic, as it may encourage bad editing. The "either split into sub-articles or subsections" thing is good for Template:very long section. However, even if there are suggestions to either split up long page, skim down long page, or restructure long page into subsections, this template is not very good to use, as there are already
{{ split}}
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,{{ restructure}}
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. Also, this template is transcluded down from 400 time to 300 times.
-- George Ho ( talk) 19:41, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
See: the announcement and WP:E3. Thanks! Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 19:01, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
As of this writing, the backlog stands at 43 pages, which is more than double its official "backlogged" count of 15. Since this is a category in which any autoconfirmed editor can assist in clearing, I figured I'd post here. I'm currently working at getting it down to a manageable count, and I'm hoping others can help out too. Thanks, everyone! elektrik SHOOS ( talk) 00:27, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
About once a week, the mobile site seems to change slightly. The most recent makes it look like a wikia article. Are these permanent changes or a/b testing? EcheletteLopper ( talk) 02:12, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
WikiProject talk page moves for archiving purposes is not the done think I suspect. If so this needs to be sorted out. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 04:11, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
A discussion is in progress about deleting Hector Berlioz. His adherents, (me included) have always been very vociferous in defending him and although I am not particularly concerned over this issue, they think it means deletion of the main article, which clearly it does not. I've tried to quell the disquiet.
Due to a need to understand Category I've tried to follow the labyrinthine ways via the links but it's now beyond my mental powers, alas so I've failed to get to grips with exactly what is proposed for deletion.
Can someone please give a simple plain English explanation. No need maybe, to refer to this particular proposal, a simple fictional example of what this is all about will suffice. With apologies. Segilla ( talk) 06:44, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
The Talk:Night of the Living Dead says that it is a Former Featured Article, and all the templates say "class=" without any class rating. This means that the Pennsylvania articles by quality and importance table and the Pittsburgh articles by quality and importance table and several others show this article as unassessed. Is there some way to assign a quality rating for this article, and others like it? -- DThomsen8 ( talk) 13:09, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
May the fourth be with you. A Quest For Knowledge ( talk) 15:17, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
A few minutes ago I loaded an article about a Baroque composer and was startled to see that the subject of the article appeared to be illustrated by a modern color photo of someone who looked awfully familiar. Oops! I wonder if it might be a good idea for the fundraising banner to be reconfigured so that its poster child's image doesn't loom large directly over article titles. Try logging out and then clicking on the dictator, wild animal, extraterrestrial species, abstract concept, deity, or disambiguation page of your choice, and perhaps you'll see what I mean. Rivertorch ( talk) 16:36, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
Well, yesterday I received my copy of the 2010 edition of EB. While reviewing a few articles therein, it became quite clear to me that Wikipedia is vastly superior as an encyclopedia. As such, it occurs to me that an analysis of a well selected set of corresponding articles will be a sound mechanism for showing the superiority of Wikipedia. William R. Buckley ( talk) 14:31, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the suggestions. I will look at the level 2 articles, and report on how they compare with the 2010 ECB. William R. Buckley ( talk) 18:53, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
Can somebody help me with the index of Wikipedia, and especially with the best view to take when comparing the Wikipedia index with that of EB? Also, where is best to describe the observations made during my review of WP and EB? William R. Buckley ( talk) 15:08, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
For example, WP has articles Automaton and Automation, but EB has only Automation; the next EB article is about Francis Bacon. Further regarding automata, WP has Automata Theory and Automata Construction, while EB has only an Automata Theory article. William R. Buckley ( talk) 15:15, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
Editors working in genre fiction topics may be interested in a Kickstarter project to commission "a free library of art representing heroes of all backgrounds" from professional artists, to be made available under the Wikipedia-compatible CC-BY license. I suppose this could be useful for illustrating articles about the standard fantasy tropes. The project's URL is http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sarahdarkmagic/prismatic-art-collection. (I note in passing that the fantasy art on Commons is a rather mixed bag in terms of quality or usefulness.) Sandstein ( talk) 16:43, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
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There is a discussion at Wikipedia:Ambassadors/Research and the associated talk page about what kind of data gathering should be done to determine the value of the education program. Please comment there if you are interested. My own opinion is that the education program has the ability to have a far bigger impact (positive or negative) on the encyclopedia than almost any other factor over the next few years, since we are seeing hundreds of classes and thousands of students editing Wikipedia as a part of that program. Getting this right is very high value, and getting it wrong could be a first-class mess, so I encourage everyone to contribute to that conversation. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 12:45, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
Facebook#Impact on philanthropy is about a number of companies, mainly Kiva, Wokai, and Zidisha, but not at all about Facebook. The article gets 80,000 page views per day, and seems to be permanently semiprotected. I made a request to remove the section on the talk page, but it was immediately resolved as "not done" because the request did not have consensus.
On one hand, I imagine that raising consciousness about these charities on one of the most popular articles in the encyclopedia probably does objective good. On the other hand, what the heck? 71.215.84.127 ( talk) 08:19, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
Saw this and poked about a bit! Agree that the section is not valid, but it is salvageable. Also noted that a number of other sections need attention to address WP:WORLDVIEW - lack of! Media-Hound 'D 3rd P^) ( talk) 21:14, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
Must I propose turning this guideline into an essay? Seriously, with guidelines of how to verify notability of a topic, write a great article, reach of conclusion to whether split or keep content, be concise on plot abstracts, and more, must we follow this guideline for the sake of messy articles about non-notable subtopics of a topic? -- George Ho ( talk) 19:36, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
Back on topic, it could be useful.... in many ways. However, some portions may be misleading and could lead to something worse than List of Codename: Kids Next Door episodes. -- George Ho ( talk) 14:20, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
(Please feel free to move this if this is in the wrong section.)
Frequently while browsing Wikipedia I will come across articles about something—whether a place, person, location, or institution—outside of the English-speaking world and which has been written by somebody who has commendable knowledge of the subject but who often lacks a complete command of English. I always correct spelling, grammatical, phrasing, and flow errors in articles like these when I see them. However, sometimes they still exist in ways in which I cannot figure out how to fix.
I am all for having natives of non-English-speaking countries edit Wikipedia to help improve coverage of articles in the non-English speaking world. I believe that their contributions should be embraced and welcomed. However, to perfect the article, it is often necessary for a native English speaker to clean up the article afterward.
To make this task easier, I believe that there should be a template similar to Cleanup, Refimprove, Wikify, etc., that would alert native speakers to some errors in the article's use of English and invite them to improve it. If there is such a template, I do not know of it, and I would highly encourage the creation of such a template.
Anyone have any comments?
Thanks!
RedSoxFan274
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05:41, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
I am seeking a list of Wikipedia's most important articles (the ones that are most essential to be quality). I saw WP:VA, but was wondering if there are any more updated or better lists before I get started. Thanks. Voyaging ( talk) 23:20, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
I would like help in creating the category Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania as a subcategory of Category:Pennsylvania state courts, and then the following articles can be added to the category:
Please help me by creating the subcategory. (Pardon my ignorance on not doing it myself.) I can add the three articles to the category. -- DThomsen8 ( talk) 16:32, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
[[Category:Pennsylvania state courts]]
to the new cat page and save the page.Please see: Wikipedia talk:Bot requests#RFC: Deploying 'Start date' template in infoboxes. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:18, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
It's not that I don't know what a green star is in my watch-list. Its just: why cannot I find an explanation? - DePiep ( talk)
Hi. Can someone please help by pointing me at any policy or projects in this area? I am assuming that we must have something on this (yes, I have read WP:COMPETENCE) but I really want to know what is supposed to happen when someone shows up and makes bad edits which may be well-meant but cause problems, even if they are not vandalism. Where do you go for help with an issue like this? Thanks and best wishes DBaK ( talk) 08:53, 10 May 2012 (UTC)... PS As they say in the films, "it's not for me". I am an incompetent but old user - different kettle of fish entirely .... :)
The really annoying thing is that it only took about 10 minutes of research and reading for me to come up with a reasonable article rescue plan for this article, dovetailing the subject in with Aftermath of the September 11 attacks. But I'd really like to learn the happy news that somebody else also knows how to do this. It would be really saddening to conclude that the only way that we collectively know how to write articles on jokes and humour is to make a big joke collection, call for other editors to pile on even more jokes, and sit around waiting for actual encyclopaedic analysis and knowledge to arise by magic once the critical mass of jokes has accrued. Or even not write at all. Consider this a challenge, if you need that for encouragement. ☺ Uncle G ( talk) 17:47, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
It sounds like WP:ADAM style of writing isn't just a BLP problem. Perhaps those two pages should link to each other. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 01:56, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
Excellent essay, Uncle G. J N 466 07:23, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
I've noticed that sandboxed articles that I've tagged with "NOINDEX" are being copied over to http://www.territorioscuola.com and then appearing in Google searches. Can anything be done about this? — SMUconlaw ( talk) 20:44, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
Please stop fiddling with the watchlist format. -- SmokeyJoe ( talk) 23:49, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
I am looking for an online support group. My mother died of lung cancer on March 5th of this year. I desparately need someone to talk to. My mother was my best friend. I'm 51 years old,She was 69. I slept in the room with her and cared for her,along with hospice,and watching this beautiful woman go from mom,to someone I hardly recognized,(in just 2 months after diagnosis she was gone,)well I need to talk with others who have experienced the same thing. Thank you,Kelley — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iamkelley ( talk • contribs) 19:19, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
A short while ago, Wikipedia introduced a thing where whenever you tried to create a new page it pushed you to do it in your userspace first and them move it into the articlespace. Then it pushed you to do it via an AfC request. Now, predictable as anything, we have a backlog at AfC of 818 articles. The template says anything more than 120 is a "severe backlog" so I'm not sure what 818 qualifies.
Wanted to flag this up somewhere prominent as I suggest that the poor people at AfC are being overwhelmed. I suggest we need to either:
Or, of course:
What do you think? AndrewRT( Talk) 22:11, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, the articel stands in the Main Page. At 2011–12 Premier League#footer-info stands QuickiWiki Look Up QuickiWiki Look Up. Do you like it? -- 217.246.223.188 ( talk) 23:32, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
Can "article" please be spelt correctly? ACEOREVIVED ( talk) 20:25, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
On May 15, 2012, it became apparent that a vandal, suspected to be a sockpuppet of Pé de Chinelo, has performed some 2500 edits of mostly film-related articles from hundreds of different IP addresses in the range 201.19/16, inserting generally plausible but false information in over 750 Wikipedia articles.
Your help in cleaning up this mess is appreciated. For coordinating the effort, I've set up a page at Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Vandalism by 201.19.*.*. The progress can be recorded there. -- Lambiam 21:39, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
I just finished interviewing with my local news station about Wikipedia. I want to tell them how many active contributors their are on the English Wikipedia. The only thing I found was Special:Statistics which only tells me how many editors have contributed at least once in the past thirty days. I only want the count of actual active veteran contributors. Does anybody know of a tool like that? Marcus Qwertyus 18:45, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
Does any one know why it is that if you click on the "History" of an article and click on the link that tells you how many times the article has been viewed, you get the figure for the past so many days, but if you click on "Number of watchers" there does not appear to be a time limit like that? ACEOREVIVED ( talk) 20:21, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
This news story in The Atlantic suggests that some degree of article ownership by the editing community may actually be beneficial. I do know that a certain sense of article responsibility, if only as an illusion of such, is useful for maintaining FA articles at a high level of quality. Regards, RJH ( talk) 19:09, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
It depends on how you interpret "and most users feel little ownership of the content". If he interprets "most users" as the editing community, then that is a bad thing. If he means that individual editors don't feel that they own their articles, then that is an even worse thing. In either case, straight-up ownership is against any wiki principles out there (while the same cannot be said with stewardship). -- MuZemike 07:13, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks to whoever thought of using the green text on the watchlist instead of that awful bolding. A Quest For Knowledge ( talk) 17:16, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
Please take a moment to weigh in on the discussion at the talk page in regards to inclusion or exclusion of disputed material. More eyes on the page could help collaboration form a consensus in either direction. Thanks!-- Amadscientist ( talk) 18:20, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
Is there a way to determine the identity of the user who marked a page as patrolled? JoelWhy ( talk) 14:13, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
Where can i find a list the most visited articles for the month April 2012? Pass a Method talk 21:02, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
Just noticed some sort of error in the Underwater hockey article, can't bring up the page, but can't get into to it fix whatever is happening. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.129.35.214 ( talk) 10:30, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
What happened to the essay about the "Megalomaniac Point Of View"? I thought WP:MPOV used to link to it through a disamb. page, but now I can't find it at all. If it was deleted, could you direct me to the discussion? Thanks, Postpostmod ( talk) 12:55, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
This is a thought experiment.
I saw this page recently. The page was originally written as a 2009 April fools, but I thought what if the case described does happen, for example like 2038 problem, or the breakdown of society? What should we do to preserve the knowledge of humans in case the whole internet network is no more? Perhaps preserving a dump in a vault like Crypt of Civilization along with the necessary equipment to retrieve it?
This is a serious discussion. Perhaps we should remove the fun template on that page. SYSS Mouse ( talk) 17:47, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
Hey all
The Wikimedia Foundation has decided to endorse Access2Research and its petition to make research funded by the US government publicly accessible. This will be done by way of a blog post on Friday morning PST; as noted, we are not trying to speak on behalf of the community, but just the Foundation itself. You can read more in the FAQ, and leave any comments or questions you might have on its talkpage.
Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 19:21, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
Not sure where to bring this up; please advise if this should be asked elsewhere, or just move this question it and tell me where it went.
There is something strange going on with [ File:Corroded DUF6 cylinder.jpg ]. [3]
It is used at Depleted uranium with the caption "DUF6 cylinders: painted (left) and corroded (right)"
I noticed that the file did not match the description (no painted left and corroded right) and does not match the links that show it to be sourced from a government site. So where did the image of the "skirted ends of depleted uranium hexafluoride cylinders after being painted to arrest corrosion" image come from and how do I confirm that we have permission to use it?
To try to fix this, I tried clicking the revert button next to to the 19:13, 19 January 2006 image shown in the history. No luck. The revert left me with the same image. I then reverted my revert, and suddenly I have the correct image! One revert does nothing, two reverts make a change instead of canceling?
In the end, the Depleted uranium article ended up with the correct image -- an image that I can confirm that we have permission for -- but still, that was strange. Could someone who knows the image system well please check [ File:Corroded DUF6 cylinder.jpg ] and see if there is something wonky about it? Thanks! -- Guy Macon ( talk) 21:41, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
[[:File:Corroded DUF6 cylinder.jpg]]
which looks like this
File:Corroded DUF6 cylinder.jpg. Cheers.
64.40.54.216 (
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08:44, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
Editors might find it interesting to look at http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/domains/wikipedia.org/ , which lists copy-holder requests to remove wikipedia pages from the Google Search index. WP is rarely a target; here's a BBC article about Google's new Transparency Report. 67.101.7.3 ( talk) 17:43, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
Does the AWB Requests page usually remain back-logged most of the time like it is right now? -- Tow Trucker talk 09:04, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
The number of articles suddenly seemed to drop by some 10,000. What happened, was there a mass deletion of some sort? Lampman ( talk) 15:44, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}
which produced 6,857,123 when this page was last rendered. It was deletion of problematic Chinese township articles which were apparently created by a single editor. See
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents/User:Jaguar.
PrimeHunter (
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01:48, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
Maybe I've missed it, but usually en-wiki puts up a (watchlist?) notice when Commons' Picture of the Year voting is open. Now is that time. -- 99of9 ( talk) 06:03, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
I would like to inform you that the Hindi Wikipedia has much more than 50,000 articles due to which I think that it should be included on the main page through this template -- Tow Trucker talk 20:48, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
Look at Talk:Trollhunter, WT:RM, and WT:requested moves/Closure review. Shall we use available translations, which might cause eruption between editors over spelling and such? "The" is optional, yet it is used in some countries. "Troll Hunter" and "Trollhunter" may vary by sources. However, I have done the botched proposal to move it to "Trolljegeren", which is against all policies and guidelines of translations on foreign works.
I don't do translations on Dan dan you qing, bu liao qing, and zai shui yi fang. Nevertheless, even available translations are preferred over original non-English titles in favor of English readers. I don't get it.
Also, the closer of my botched proposal said that the closure of other proposal might have violated WP:consensus. I don't know, but my thoughts were on translations. What do you think it happened? What do you think I should have done? -- George Ho ( talk) 19:28, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
Are you an experienced wikipedian from Europe and interested in the World War I? We would love to see you in Leuven, Belgium on the 13-15 of June for a Edit-a-thon organized by Wikimedia Sweden and the Europeana Foundation ( www.europeana.eu). To make it possible for you to participate and contribute to English or Dutch Wikipedia articles about WWI we will pay you back for your basic costs for travel back and forth and accommodation in Leuven!
Of course you can also participate in the Edit-a-thon online, without actually being in Leuven, but we strongly encourage you to be there as we will have experts in WWI present during the Edit-a-thon and we have organized interesting side activities such as a guided tour of Leuven's historical WWI sites and you can also attend a couple of dinners - all to give you inspiration for writing excellent articles. In addition, through Europeana's portal we will have access to great digitized material about WWI that we will try to make the best use of. We will also give prizes for the best articles written by the participants in Leuven.
You are of course welcome to join us for only one or two of the days in Leuven if you so prefer. The places are limited so please sign up here as soon as possible! For more information about the event and practical details, please see the project page (a shorter summary is also available in Dutch here) or contact John Andersson on his talk page.
We look forward meeting you there!
John Andersson, a.k.a. John Andersson (WMSE), Lennart Guldbrandsson, a.k.a. Hannibal (WMSE), Anne Marie van Gerwen (Europeana) and Thijs van Exel (Europeana) —Preceding undated comment added 23:20, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
I read an essay about schoolchildren and legos and online communities. Does anyone have an URL please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.126.106.214 ( talk) 23:37, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
I proposed a separate article about Arthur Fowler and Pauline Fowler as a couple in Talk:Pauline Fowler. Nevertheless, many opposed my idea as a "fansite". I don't get it. Is there something notable or non-notable about Sam and Diane and "Arthur and Pauline"? I proposed it because I figure there could be critical commentary about the couple themselves. -- George Ho ( talk) 18:52, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
македонски • norsk • polski
Dear Wikimedians,
Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2011 Picture of the Year competition is now open. We are interested in your opinion as to which images qualify to be the Picture of the Year 2011. Any user registered at Commons or a Wikimedia wiki SUL-related to Commons with more than 75 edits before 1 April 2012 (UTC) is welcome to vote and, of course everyone is welcome to view!
Detailed information about the contest can be found at the introductory page.
About 600 of the best of Wikimedia Common's photos, animations, movies and graphics were chosen –by the international Wikimedia Commons community– out of 12 million files during 2011 and are now called Featured Pictures.
From professional animal and plant shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps, emblems, diagrams created with the most modern technology, and impressive human portraits, Commons Features Pictures of all flavors.
For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topic categories.
We regret that you receive this message in English; we intended to use banners to notify you in your native language but there was both, human and technical resistance.
See you on Commons! -- Picture of the Year 2011 Committee 18:13, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
Distributed via Global message delivery. (Wrong page? Fix here.)
I have opened a discussion/complaint at MediaWiki talk:Watchlist-details#Complaint regarding POTY notice regarding the Picture of the Year notice. Please feel free to give your thoughts on this issue. Hasteur ( talk) 19:13, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
The Arbitration Committee is seeking to appoint additional users to the CheckUser and Oversight teams. Experienced editors are invited to apply for either or both of the permissions, and current holders of either permission are also invited to apply for the other. There is a particular need for Oversight candidates in this round of appointments.
Successful candidates are likely to be regularly available and already familiar with local and global processes, policies, and guidelines especially those concerning CheckUser and Oversight. CheckUser candidates are expected to be technically proficient, and previous experience with OTRS is beneficial for Oversight candidates. Trusted users who frequent IRC are also encouraged to apply for either permission. All candidates must at least 18 years of age; have attained legal majority in their jurisdiction of residence; and be willing to identify to the Wikimedia Foundation prior to receiving permissions.
If you think you may be suitably qualified, please see the appointments page for further information. The application period is scheduled to close 15 June 2012.
For the Arbitration Committee, Risker ( talk) 02:41, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia initial website page for selecting your country needs to be centered further down without having to scroll it down to be able to click on the option for the United States/English. Perhaps, however, it would be better to simply change the options to be a list instead of a circular image/list of countries, but a list that is also centered further down. The circular image is innovative, but innovation is not always what is preferred or most efficient. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.216.82.8 ( talk) 04:52, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
The discussion has degenerated quite a bit, which is not leading to anything. Can someone take a look at comment there? Aditya( talk • contribs) 05:37, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
It should be easy to figure out how to see photo requests for a particular place, but it is not. How do I see a list of photo requests for New Castle County, Delaware, for example?.-- DThomsen8 ( talk) 14:00, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
Anybody please comment on this discussion. I think it's quite an important issue but unfortunately not much conversation is going yet. Rcsprinter (yak) 15:59, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Anyone have a clue what this is about? I don't know what to make of it.
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It's obvious to me what relation it has to me.
Some of my past edits to baler:
I get lots of weird spammy email like this that refer to Wikipedia article subjects that I've contributed to.
The question is why spammers would even do this.
It is such obvious and pointless spam, and in a way I feel bad marking a message as spam from some small-time chinese marketing company asking about prices for my LED fixtures. But they never respond if I try to ask why they are sending me this request at all.
Some of my past edits to light-emitting diode:
What are these spammers trying to accomplish?
DMahalko ( talk) 14:21, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
Right now, Wikipedia articles on trans women have an HTML comment written at the top saying:
<!--Per Wikipedia:Manual of style, use she/her to refer to (trans woman's name) throughout her life.-->
However, please notice that sometimes, even Wikipedians who see this comment edit the article to break WP:MOS, and even sometimes edit the comment. I suggest we create a template for trans women that the article should have instead, similar to the already-existent Template:BLP.
The trans woman template should parallel the BLP template with respect to the message it gives. Georgia guy ( talk) 17:27, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
Hello everyone, I'm sure you'll agree this is also important, as Wikipedia boasts masses of fantastic content that should be read by as many people as possible, and the more pristine the text is, the better! I'm currently looking at articles about Russian cities and Russian history to weed out typos, spelling, word order and punctuation errors. Hope that's greeted at Wiki. And if anyone has input or comments, I'll be happy to hear them.
EngGerm12 ( talk) 09:25, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
You can help by:
Thanks Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 21:21, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Sorry about my english. I´m admin in es:WP. Some days ago I deleted an article, Veritas Language Solutions. Seeing contribs and iw I found what I think it´s a possible case of crosswiki spam, because:
I understand your roules are different from ours, so I give you this information to do with it what you think is best. Chears. -- Andreateletrabajo ( talk) 20:07, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
First of all I apologise if this is not the right place to put this in but Hullalloo Wolfowitz has been removing an edit I made at the Fraternity Vacation article. He keeps on disputing why it should be included and it is quite clear he does not know anything about this film otherwise he would understand why it should be included. On his last removal of my edit he was extremely abusive to me with the following comment: "drivel posted by an obsessed adolescent". In addition to me he has sent me an unwanted message to me even I made it clear on my page that I did not wish to receive any messages. Hullallo Wolfowitz is therefore harassing me and I request that he be removed as an editor of Wikipedia.
The Shadow Treasurer (
talk)
05:12, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
Here it is...Can someone tell me which one is really Solar energy?
Hi. Can someone check at this article? It looks like someone copy the intro from an add or something. Include things like: "Lionsgate and Mandate Pictures present a Double Features Films production of a Lisa Azuelos film." Thanks. -- Andreateletrabajo ( talk) 16:23, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
In casual conversation, can I refer to my Wikipedia editing as "volunteer work?" I don't mean on a resume but just in casual conversation. If people try to laugh me out of the galaxy I can always explain that I spend hours and hours each day editing wikipedia and learning how to do it better, and take my activities here very seriously. How do people feel about that? Also, has this question ever come up in your life, and what happened? Guyovski ( talk) 20:16, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
I just need to whine to people who might understand; and, since nobody I know IRL edits Wikipedia, this is the only possible place I can do it. I created my very first article. It looked encyclopedic to me, even though it was just a stub and relied on only one source. Seconds later it was being proposed for deletion under "wikipedia is not for reporting news." I went to the article talk page and made a spirited argument against deletion. Then I contacted five more experienced editors who had previously helped me and begged them to join the deletion discussion on the article talk page. Then I looked at the article...and I didn't recognize it. It had been totally rewritten so that it was indeed no more than a bare news report of someone's recent death. That was the form in which it was found by the editor who proposed deletion. Given what the rewritten version looked like, I fully agreed with her that it should be deleted, and was somewhat embarrassed that I had defended a version of the article that no longer exists. Since then the article has been edited several more times so that it's starting to look encyclopedic, but it has absolutely no connection to the article I originally created. I'm forced to accept that I am no longer that article's creator, and I've made my position clear on my talk page and on the article's talk page. It frankly feels, in a minor way, like someone snuck into the hospital nursery and abducted my newborn baby and raised it as their own child, and I never saw the child again before I died of old age. Thank you for listening. Guyovski ( talk) 04:19, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
Please see this note: [6] Illia Connell ( talk) 01:37, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
Hello Wikipedians, I got a really nice and welcoming response to my last post and had to look for a while before I figured out how to post again... I'd be honoured to be a WikiGnome. Would it be possile to eventually graduate to being a WikiFairy?:-) Thank you for the kind welcome, I look forward to working here! EngGerm12 ( talk) 09:23, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
Just wanted to inform you that we have put up a post about the India Education Program here. Please fell free to initiate, advance or follow the conversation on the same page. Thanks Nitika.t ( talk) 10:11, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
As I'm writing this now, the English-language Wikipedia currently has 3,968,543 articles in its main namespace, growing at a rate of just under 1000 articles per day. At this rate of growth, we can expect the enwiki four-millionth article in a month and a bit. A small celebration might be in order. Perhaps with cake.
And a press release? -- The Anome ( talk) 22:53, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
Is anyone else seeing advertisements within Wikipedia articles? Is there some way to make this stop? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Michael Cockrell ( talk • contribs) 05:59, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
Has Wikipedia got a template that is a centred em dash, so that the effect in the empty table cells below can be achieved?
Year | Title | Platform(s) | |||||
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BB | Mac | PS3 | Vista | Win | X360 | ||
1999 | System Shock 2 | – | – | – | – | Yes | – |
2002 | Freedom Force | – | Yes | – | – | Yes | – |
2004 | Tribes: Vengeance | – | – | – | – | Yes | – |
2005 | Freedom Force vs the 3rd Reich | – | – | – | – | Yes | – |
2005 | SWAT 4 | – | – | – | – | Yes | – |
2006 | SWAT 4: The Stetchkov Syndicate | – | – | – | – | Yes | – |
2006 | BioShock | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
2013 | BioShock Infinite | – | – | Yes | – | Yes | Yes |
- X201 ( talk) 09:09, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
New proposal. - jc37 17:08, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
Dynamics of Conflicts in Wikipedia I ran across it by accident while trying to find a different study. That is all, carry on. - Tenebris 12:52, 24 June 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.112.29.188 ( talk)
An earlier requested-move survey generated lots of controversy and an arbitration case. Therefore, this one is being posted here and in many other places, to gather a very wide range of opinions outside of the Scotland and Australia WikiProjects. |
A requested move survey was started at Talk:Perth_(disambiguation)#Requested_move, which proposes to move:
Background: There was a previous requested-move survey which ran from late May to mid June. There was a great deal of controversy surrounding the closure and subsequent events, which involved a number of reverts and re-reverts which are the subject of an ongoing arbitration case. There was a move review process, which was closed with a finding that the original requested-move closure was endorsed; however, the move review process is relatively new and untried. — P.T. Aufrette ( talk) 03:22, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
2012 Core Contest | ||
Let it be known that the third incarnation of the Wikipedia Core Contest will take place from August 1 to 31 2012 CE/AD..... Casliber ( talk · contribs) 03:31, 26 June 2012 (UTC) |
I've noticed User:Wavelength has added
{{shortcut|U:Wavelength}}
to their userpage. I was just wondering, is U: an accepted shortcut? Simply south.... .. always punctual, no matter how late for just 6 years 17:31, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
This ʻOkina is a Hawaiian and Tongan languages. I think that there is a Romanised version. Should this appear in the Latin characters in the editing aids at the bottom of the editing screen? Snowman ( talk) 08:41, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
I placed an RfC on the H. G. Wells talk page. This is the first time I have used the template. The text stated that it would be added to the Biographies list, and later that it has been added, but I don't see it on the list, nor has the talk received any attention as far as I can tell. Am I missing something? Regards, nagualdesign ( talk) 00:36, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
Apologies for only posting in English. The deployment team here at Wikimedia Foundation has decided to shift the deployment time of MediaWiki 1.20wmf6 from it's usual time on Wednesday, July 4 to an earlier time on Monday, July 2, due to the upcoming U.S. holiday. Full timeline and status updates are available on the MediaWiki 1.20 roadmap page. -- mw:User:RobLa-WMF ( talk) 22:07, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
The articles Shrimp and Prawn do not appear to follow common usage, and I've started an RfC to address this. In particular, according to Wikipedia, Whiteleg shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) is in fact not a shrimp. I think that's ridiculous; but my (overwhelming) evidence based on google hits has been rejected as original research. Due to the desire to restrict the scope of the "shrimp" article to a well-defined biological concept, across Wikipedia the term "shrimp" is now reserved for Caridea, which is much more restrictive than most of the world uses. Comments and help with the RfC would be welcome; thanks. 24.84.4.202 ( talk) 23:06, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
Berofe reading see those diddly discussions on my talk page and Leftorium's talk page.
I've been reading many articles of the episodes of the TV series (like the Simpsons, How I Met Your Mother, the Office), and found some articles that have a guest pic of the episode, which is little bit like those Showbiz news sites (like E!, TV Guide and TMZ) to me. Some articles are not mentioning reference to another thing, or have a specific section for the references. And some said that "No Guest Pic Articles" is boring? I don't think so, cause it's more informative without the pic.
So: Is "Guest Pic" Excessive? - Mr a ( talk) ( contrib) 03:17, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
Believe it or not, right now there is a 20 minute watchable cartoon on the main page from this article!!! Check it out! – Lionel ( talk) 09:32, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
I have attempted to rename Category:WikiProject Harry Potter into Category:Harry Potter task force. Unfortunately, people just oppose renaming without "Wikipedia" included. Same thing for WP:SEINFELD and WP:HEROES. This may affect all Projects that have task forces. Also, it would be time-consuming to propose renaming of all categories of task forces, such as of Television Project and of Korea Project. -- George Ho ( talk) 18:27, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
For some reason, I can't seem to find the revision history stats page for an article. Last month I was on a page that showed a graph of the size of the article over time, a graph of its edits, and many other useful things. For the sake of being generic, say the history of the Wikipedia article. There used to be a link on this page, but now I can't find it. Was it removed? Jesse V. ( talk) 23:39, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
I have created an article in Persian Wikipedia for which I don't know the English equivalent. It refers to an educational method in which some students who have extra abilities pass two educational grades in one educational year. Do you know English equivalent? Ali Pirhayati ( talk) 12:06, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Thanks a world! Ali Pirhayati ( talk) 15:49, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
See what I wrote at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bart Ramsey. Uncle G ( talk) 18:56, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
> I would like to suggest the following improvement. > > When I typed "TEP" in the search button, the thing I am looking for > didn't show up. Later I found that TEP meant: Trust and Estate > Practioner. This falls under: financial/tax matters. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.65.38.65 ( talk) 20:03, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
OK, I already asked this question at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Userboxes, but I got no response there. This Userbox creator thingy, which is linked from the main userbox navbox, is in the userspace of a permanently blocked user. I think it should it be moved elsewhere. I think it should probably be moved to the UBX ( talk · contribs) userspace, which I will ask Mets501 ( talk · contribs) about. I will even volunteer to put it in my own userspace if necessary. Any comments from the people here would be appreciated. Eastlaw talk ⁄ contribs 08:28, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
I suggest to create a page about Alexander Garievich Gordon (born 20 february 1964) from russian wikipedia Scymso ( talk) 16:54, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
I just removed Category:Trombonists from Trombone. In a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Musical Instruments/Archive 1#Instrumentalist categories at instrument articles, it was explained that this allowed easy linking to lists of musicians when there wasn't a separate list article, such as with Category:Bass clarinetists. However, it seems to me that using cats this way breaks the categorization system. Is there a standard way to say "For a list of bass clarinet players, see Category:Bass clarinetists"? -- SarekOfVulcan (talk) 17:21, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
It would seem that despite an overwhelming vote in the European Parliament against the provisions of ACTA the European Commission together with the Canadian government are now trying to bring the very same provisions in through the back door: a trade agreement between Canada and the EU.
See: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6580/135/
Jcwf ( talk) 23:21, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi, guys. :) As you are very likely aware, we are at 3,986,676 articles and should be reaching 4 million pretty soon. (Updated tally: 6,857,123) This is a massive milestone that the Wikimedia Foundation wants to be sure is celebrated in its blog, as it did the 3 millionth ( [7]). Since it's an English Wikipedia specific accomplishment, they felt like it might be appropriate to bring the community in on writing up the event. I've invited people from the Signpost, but since no specific Signpost writer raised their hands Matthew Roth has started up a very bare bones outline at meta:Wikimedia_Blog/Drafts/EnWP_4_Million_Article_Milestone. We've invited anyone at the Signpost who'd like to help out, but of course it's open to others as well. This is open for editing in the usual manner of our work, but anybody with an interest in contributing who doesn't want to edit directly is also welcome to add suggestions or comments at the talk page there. By-lines, of course, for all major contributors...unless you'd rather opt out. -- Maggie Dennis (WMF) ( talk) 00:26, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
4 million total articles, but only about 21,000 are WP:FA or WP:GA. That's a pretty poor ratio of decency to garbage. Congrats, Wikipedia! WTF? ( talk) 21:57, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
Does anybody know if there is a Wikipedia technique for setting the height of an inline image to match the scale of the surrounding span of text? I.e. give it a proportionate size like 1em or 100%. Perhaps a template that applies some sort of CSS fiddliness? Thank you. Regards, RJH ( talk) 23:58, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia has two 5M pools. Which one will be used to decide who will win the prize when Wikipedia reaches 5M articles?? Georgia guy ( talk) 15:02, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
Created in September 2002, nominated for deletion almost ten years later. This probably isn't the record for Proposed Deletion, but I suspect that it's close. Uncle G ( talk) 20:23, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
I'm celebrating the 4 million article milestone by thanking the generous people who help make Wikipedia what it is. I'd like to encourage others to join in the celebration at Wikipedia:Thanks for 4 million articles. Thanks everybody. 64.40.54.141 ( talk) 23:21, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
Background: ReferenceTooltips is a gadget that allows users to roll over any inline citation to see reference information. A discussion on whether to enable the gadget for all users by default went on for about two months before being archived about two weeks ago. (This discussion was mentioned in the Signpost.) The discussion resulted in a some changes to the gadget, such as the addition of a delay to the tooltip, support for touchscreen devices, and an easily accessible settings menu that includes a button to disable RT, as well and options to modify/eliminate the delay, or set the tooltip to only pop up upon clicking the reference link.
The discussion seemed to show consensus in support of enabling ReferenceTooltips by default, though it was never formally "closed" as such before it was archived. Does this matter? Would further discussion be necessary for it to be enabled? Another point: During the discussion, a comment by User:R'n'B suggested users be "informed about the change (maybe by a watchlist notice) before it happens, and given instructions on how to turn it off if they wish". (Turning it off is accomplished by pressing the gear icon at the top-right corner of any tooltip and then pressing the large "Disable Reference Tooltips" button, or alternatively, deselecting the gadget in Special:Preferences.) Does anyone have opinions on whether this would be necessary, and how best to accomplish it if it is? -- Yair rand ( talk) 19:51, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
Great, thanks! David 1217 What I've done 05:58, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
Note: ReferenceTooltips is working properly on my iPad now. David 1217 What I've done 05:59, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
Does anyone else have a comment on whether to enable ReferenceTooltips by default? David 1217 What I've done 05:44, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
I hope this isn't yelling, but I started seeing the reference tooltips today, and I find them quite annoying. IMO, adding a feature that causes unexpected motion (or "appearing out of the blue") adds distraction in a medium (web pages) that is already crammed with distractions. I'm sad to see this, because one of Wikipedia's great strengths has always been its text-heavy, literate and thoughtful orientation. I think making windows appear in front of text harms readability, and I don't think readers get anything of value out of these little pop-ups that mention sources they've never heard of and mostly don't care about. However, that's JMO, and I think WhatamIdoing's 90/5/5 prediction above is insightful and probably right. Nevertheless, I would like to ask: Is there some way that we can tell what effects the reference tooltips are having on readability? If I'm wrong, and the tooltips don't interfere with readability, that's fine; I'm glad my opinion did not prevail if it was mistaken. However, if the tooltips do distract readers and make articles harder to read, I hope we have some way to find this out and consequently roll back the change. — Ben Kovitz ( talk) 03:07, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Dr. Blofeld ( talk · contribs) has been threatening to launch 15,000 articles about British settlements consisting of no more than "xxx is a village in Cumbria. ref =google maps". See user talk:RHaworth#Stubs. He seems to have modified this proposal somewhat but I would be interested to hear other editors views on how large a settlement needs to be before it qualifies for its own article here. — RHaworth ( talk · contribs) 21:39, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
As a courtesy, I've left a note at Dr. Blofeld's talk page informing him of this discussion. 64.40.54.162 ( talk) 00:34, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
Google maps isn't a reliable source of English place-names. If he was citing Ordnance Survey he might have a case.© Geni 13:22, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
I'd like to find out how YOU are going to celebrate the 4,000,000 article so I can include something about it in the report. See #Article 4 million approaching above. Thanks. 64.40.54.45 ( talk) 02:23, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
As I count using article counting method used in Indonesian Wikipedia, I think the 4,000,000th article is:
Is it right? Kenrick Talk 14:16, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
Happy 4 million everybody. 64.40.54.88 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 14:23, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
Whew! I wrote an article and clicked the Save button when there were 3,999,995 articles. Then instantly I took a look at new pages and saw another article related to my country which was created nearly at the same moment. Such an excitement! Reminds me those GET posts. Abdullais4u ( talk) 14:20, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
Does anyone here edit those red dot maps that appear on every US city/county article? The one for Williamsburg, Virginia has been incorrect, indicating York County instead, since 2006. Asking on the article's talk page, the talk page of the user who made the map, and have not been fruitful. I haven't found any sort of centralized red-dot-map task force to complain to and lack the know-how to do it myself, so does anyone here edit the things or know how they're made? Thanks! Hiyayaywhopee ( talk) 03:14, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
how does christine get hympnotized in the Andrew Lloyd Webber's edition — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.87.57.159 ( talk) 05:52, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
In Wikipedia:Disambiguation dos and don'ts, there seems to be two paradoxical sentences. In the part "don't", it is written "Don't add entries without a blue link." It means we cannot add red links at all. On the other hand, the fourth sentence is "Don't add red links that aren't used in any articles." So we can add particular red links. Isn't it a paradox? Ali Pirhayati ( talk) 19:56, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
This is completely anecdotal, but one of the things I've gleaned from AFT5 is that a lot of readers come here looking for the wrong things. While many of these can't be changed (i.e. What is Barack Obama's phone number?), there are a number that are easily solved by our other projects. I've found many that asked for quotes of a person and similar things. Imagine someone wanted to read the text of The Raven. You need to scroll all the way under the sources to find the links. This might not be a problem for those who know other projects exist, but it is for those who don't. Maybe we should find a new location for those templates, the infobox might be appropriate. Otherwise, we need to do a better job of advertising our sister projects. Ryan Vesey Review me! 19:26, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
Birth control is easy and very important to improve. Please see Talk:Birth control#Reviews on the topic in the Lancet this month through Talk:Birth control#Comparison. 75.166.200.250 ( talk) 23:28, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
(Apologies if this message isn't in your language. Please consider translating it)
Hi,
As many of you are aware, the Wikimedia Board of Trustees recently initiated important changes in the way that money is being distributed within the Wikimedia movement. As part of this, a new community-led " Funds Dissemination Committee" (FDC) is currently being set up. Already in 2012-13, its recommendations will guide the decisions about the distribution of over 10 million US dollars among the Foundation, chapters and other eligible entities.
Now, seven capable, knowledgeable and trustworthy community members are sought to volunteer on the initial Funds Dissemination Committee. It is expected to take up its work in September. In addition, a community member is sought to be the Ombudsperson for the FDC process. If you are interested in joining the committee, read the call for volunteers. Nominations are planned to close on August 15.
-- Anasuya Sengupta, Director of Global Learning and Grantmaking, Wikimedia Foundation 20:00, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
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Hi all,
Wikimédia France, a non-profit organization supporting Wikimedia projects in France, is launching an international research prize to reward the most influential research work on Wikimedia projects and free knowledge projects in general.
What is quite new about this award is that everyone can participate:
Regarding the latter, we are now in the process of proposing papers and we'd appreciate if some of you can lend a hand.
If you consider a paper has been particularly important in the field of free knowledge/Wikipedia studies and must be taken into account, do not hesitate to submit it now! Please use this form
Deadline for paper suggestion is August 1st.
After that, the next phase is shortlisting nominated papers. The Wikimedia Award Jury will study all proposed papers to submit 5 papers to the final vote in September. The announcement of the winner is planned in November.
Please find all details here: m:Research:Wikimedia_France_Research_Award
If you have any questions, please use the project talk page m:Research_talk:Wikimedia_France_Research_Award
Thanks! -- Rémi Bachelet ( talk) 18:04, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
Intriguing question here we need opinions on - see Talk:Double-crested_Cormorant#Inclusion_of_colloquial_name_.22nigger_goose.22 (i.e. "nigger goose" wasa historical name - do we include or not, please discuss there) Casliber ( talk · contribs) 00:57, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
This is going to need a bit of WP:OR but having recently obtained an Android tablet to replace the aging laptop, I have been disappointed in the wikipedia editing experience on the tablet. I'm not sure how much is due to Android and how much is browser related but has anyone else found a good wikipedia editing browser? I like opera on my desktop, but opera mobile 12 seems to crash too often and lose text from edit boxes if I switch windows/multi task and then return ( it reloads the page rather than keep it in memory). I'm trialling maxthon at the moment but it seems slow and also seems to lose text easily. Finally, is there a skin/set of preferences that improves the mobile/tablet editing experience? The-Pope ( talk) 02:37, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
I read the blood alcohol level chart and it didnt make sense to me.In many times in my life i have had .5 alcohol blood level or higher,knew this from arrests in the past.And i didnt die, i think the chart needs to be a bit higher.Not here to brag or cause problems.Just a thought.I have quit drinking for the most part these days. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chucksteak60 ( talk • contribs) 11:23, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
... that there are too many templates in the english wikipedia. The german version is much better, they don't have the stupid stub templates. -- 93.82.2.91 ( talk) 17:42, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
...in the form of the Intellectual Property Attaché Act (page does not exist yet). 68.173.113.106 ( talk) 23:42, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
I've read through Wikipedia essays and policies, including WP:BANNER, WP:ADVERT, and I want to ask a question. If I submitted an AfC, and I add a link to this, Village Pump, that leads to the AfC submission page in order to get a faster review from Wikipedians, is that considered advertising? If no, then please look at this: Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Wonderfl; if yes, please tell me why and how it is. Greek Fellows ( talk) 08:47, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
I'm not sure whether this is the right place to bring it up, but I received an email an email with a time stamp of about 9:30 p.m. US CDT (02:36 UTC) last night purporting to be from Wikimedia saying a password request for my account was requested from the Main Page at the English Wikipedia. The IP listed in the email (24.111.88.58) seems to belong to an ISP in the Dakotas and Minnesota, multiple states away. At the time of the email, the IP was in between edits regarding the the Penn State sex abuse scandal, for which the editor was blocked less than 15 minutes after the email was sent. [8] My only edit in that area was to Penn State Nittany Lions football, a day earlier, to fix dashes and the like. That article was not one the IP editor touched, and I don't know why the editor would have chosen my account since I don't appear to have crossed paths with that IP. Anyway, I'm not sure what if anything I should do; I doubt even changing my password would make much difference. Is there someone who should know about this? Is there any chance IP isn't involved? - Rrius ( talk) 22:08, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
I recently had an interest in donating my old camera to a contributor who will use it to produce free content. I've set up a new forum, commons:Commons:Equipment exchange, to facilitate requesting, donating, selling (at reduced cost), and bartering of items for free content production, including camera equipment, computer equipment, art supplies, and software. If you have any items you'd like to contribute, please add them, or just watchlist it if you're hoping to get access to some good equipment in the future. Thanks! Dcoetzee 23:52, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi. OK, I know this is a rather unusual topic request for the village pump, and I wouldn't want to pollute all your water supply, but...can somebody here do a userpage review for my userpage? I feel that the content is getting extremely cluttered, or perhaps unreadable, so I need other editors to determine whether my page is readable or presents a good view of Wikipedia editing. Overall, I'd like to attract new editors to edit Wikipedia, and soon I plan to refractor some parts of the pre-section into a box or user subpage, as well as provide new interfaces, such as user-generated examples on how NOT to edit a Wikipedia article, which I have been planning for over four months, possibly more than a year, but which I never got to. Thanks! ~ AH1 ( discuss!) 18:05, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
The BBC has run a new article on Wikipedia: Meet the 'bots' that edit Wikipedia. Although it perhaps treats admins a bit too highly, I think this may be the article with the fewest errors about us that I have ever read. And a nice shout-out to all the poor forgotten bots that keep us running so smoothly. Rmhermen ( talk) 21:40, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
Trying to confirm the YouTube "sources" (and my suspicion that they've counted all external links, not just ones from <ref> tags), I started with an External links search from Special pages, but it includes all namespaces :-( Is there an option to limit the results to the main namespace? Mark Hurd ( talk) 08:29, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
I have a vision for a new social site designed to streamline dialogue so that thousands of people can come together to draft their own legislation. I have no technical training or experience in designing webtools, nor any funding to contribute to people who do have these skills, but I do have a 12-page description of exactly how I see it working that I am willing to share with anyone who wants to make it work and will email to anyone who wants a copy. I'm not sure whether it's appropriate to post the entire description as a proposal for a Wickimedia project or not, and because I have no idea how to build it myself I'm a little afraid of my vision being lost and of not being part of the final project. I don't mind if other projects pop up however similar or different using parts of the idea, but I really want an intact version of the vision to come to life; I really believe it can change the world (and I really want it to). Any advice for an un-technical person with an idea like this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shielding C ( talk • contribs) 10:34, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
It is a suggestion for global democracy - or rather, an internet-based direct-democracy tool that people around the world could use in almost any scenario requiring group collaboration. The vision is for the website to be governed by its own efficient direct-democracy system, allowing members to weigh in on any and all decision-making of interest to them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shielding C ( talk • contribs) 16:15, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi
Is there any policy/set of procedures about websites that use Wikipedia material and do not say it came from us?
For example the site rtbot.net uses pages and changes the links to almost mirror Wikipedia (including saying "© 2012 RTBot.net"), but there is no mention that their info comes from us, nor can I find any mention of attribution, or even a thank you!
There are other places I have encountered this sort of thing, but after leaving a post and no-one answering it ( Originl post about YouTube), and then finding this rtbot site, I thought maybe a wider audience might know.
How should we deal with this? Do we mention it to them and ask them to include something, do we take it somewhere on wiki, is there an agreement with them, do we even care?
Thanks Chaosdruid ( talk) 04:23, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
Background information:
So, in order to discourage spambots this little trick is used so that copy/pasting certain email addresses doesn't work. Taking the functionaries as an example,
It was suggested at the oversight talk page that we make it more clear that copy/pasting will not work, but I am more in favor of the suggestion made in the discussion at Commons that we just stop doing this altogether. Spam gets into the queues already anyway, and it is extremely simple to remove it by clicking the "one click spam" button. If we get inundated by spambots to the extent where we can't click that button fast enough to delete it all we can reconsider. Thoughts? Beeblebrox ( talk) 21:15, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
I've notified the functionaries, the arbcom, and OTRS of this discussion. If anyone knows of any other uses of this please notify them as well. Beeblebrox ( talk) 21:29, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
I need help with Category:Biography articles without living parameter. I did more than 40,000 pages using a bot but the rest need human attention. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:23, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
Our research team has just launched a new tool that recommends Wikipedia articles to edit based on news that you're interested in. Most news sites have Twitter or RSS feeds that update as new articles are published. wikiFeed (our tool) invites editors to put in their preferred news sources' Twitter or RSS feeds --- from politics to pop culture, or whatever --- and finds the most relevant Wikipedia articles to edit based on that content.
We're trying to conduct a study on how well wikiFeed works, and so we'd encourage anyone to sign up and try it. Discussion and feedback is welcome, and if the tool is useful for editing, please feel free to use it as you like.
Here's our website, where you can sign up and use wikiFeed:
http://wikistudy.mathcs.carleton.edu
Thanks for your help. WorldsApart ( talk) 19:20, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
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Hi guys, if any of you play Kingdom Hearts, please help us edit the Keyhole, (kingdomhearts.wikia.com), one of the largest databases of KingdomHearts materials. We're dying, and could use help. Thanks! Subzeroflames ( talk) 21:56, 1 August 2012 (UTC) |
In Category:Proposed deletion-related templates, a see templates to de-prod or to endorse a prod, but none to comment neutrally on a prod and add information. Am I missing something? - Jmabel | Talk 05:48, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
Have no idea where else can I ask this question.
Thanks in advance :-)
95.167.125.206 ( talk) 07:02, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
With 250 quid (my damn Aussie keyboard lacks a "pound"symbol...) in amazon vouchers for prizes, get out yer library books... Wikipedia:The Core Contest is a-coming, and have a very literal, verbose, syntactic and referential August, starting on the Horses' Birthday....cheers, Casliber ( talk · contribs) 14:13, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
I don't get this movie at all. How would the brother know who or how many people caused the other brothers death. At the very beginning the one who is supposedly dead points out one who did it. How is that possible?! He points out who caused his death?!? Hes dead!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.116.146.62 ( talk) 10:42, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
I hope this is the proper place to post about this problem. Lately, it appears that the homepage has been loading out of alignment and it is getting worse. It now shows the main logo with surrounding wiki links all pushed to the left side of the page. Everything below that is fine (for now!). NorthernThunder ( talk) 01:31, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
The Enderta disambiguation page consists of two definitions of Mugulat, places in Ethiopia. This seems to be wrong, but I am unsure what should be done. Please help. -- DThomsen8 ( talk) 00:31, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
In June, I noticed the usefulness of WP:PSCOI and decided to replicate it in the field of non-free content. I created WP:PSNFCG, which is somewhat bare-bones right now, but IMHO good enough to be useful. I initially tagged it with {{ essay}} since I didn't feel qualified to use {{ information page}}. But now I'd like to "upgrade" it to an information page, and I'm wondering what the process consists of... if any such process even exists. Does anyone have any advice on this? Can I just tag it, or is that presumptuous of me? -- N Y Kevin 05:22, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
For future reference, the documentation at Template:Draft proposal explains how to go about proposing new guidelines and such. -- œ ™ 06:13, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
Almost certainly, there were several cases of gross misconduct of an administrator which did not result in his/her demotion or personal sanctions, at least did not result in a reasonable time. I am not interested in recent conflicts (of 2012), because it is impossible to assert that sanctions never followed. Please, email me such links, both Wikipedia links and off-site. Conflicts in English Wikipedia only, and a misconduct only by sysops or higher. And I call for a correspondence from established users only, not anonymous nor sockpuppets. I promise not to reveal sources of such hints. Thank you, historians. Incnis Mrsi ( talk) 18:55, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
I recently noticed that the facebook Wikipedia mirrors contain a link to edit Wikipedia. Is it possible to encourage more sites to do that? Ryan Vesey 12:41, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
See [12]. Can we hook these guys up with the usability team? -- N Y Kevin 18:45, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
Considering this is a fairly common occurrence both for Wikipedia and for any popular website, I thought I would provide some of the context in an essay on unsolicited redesigns. I think this helps explain why hooking these guys up with designers is kind of a fruitless idea, and why Jorm expresses doubts above. Steven Walling • talk 22:24, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
Posted here to get as wide participation as possible for a potentially controversial title change. |
A requested move survey has been started (by Marcus Qwertyus ( talk)) at Talk:Burma, which proposes to move:
Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. — P.T. Aufrette ( talk) 23:29, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
A template in Charles Harris (cricketer) is seriously bad, but I do not know how to fix it. Please help. -- DThomsen8 ( talk) 12:22, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
Look at this page:
Right at the top it says in a pretty pink box that
But look down the page and you will find a set of links to all US presidents — including Barack Obama, who in July 2007 was merely a senator and a candidate for the Democratic Party nomination. Likewise there are links to Democratic Party tickets including Obama/Biden, and links to Democratic party conventions including Charlotte in 2012. An actual copy of the page as it existed in July 2007 would not — could not possibly — have included these.
The explanation, of course, is that these links all come from Wikipedia templates that are transcluded onto the page. The function of "oldid" is to select an older version of the main body of the page, but it doesn't affect what version of the templates gets selected.
For many purposes this may be good enough: in this case I suppose all those templates are only growing by accreting new entries at the end of each set of links. (But I don't know that, without checking their own history.) But with other templates this may not be the case; for example, the behavior of some options might have changed, or some explanatory text may have been removed. If Wikipedia's policy is that older versions of a page as it actually was should be available, then it's not being satisfied. At the least, the text in the pink notice box is misleading.
A second reason why an older version of the page might not match what an oldid link actually provides is if it accesses an image file that has been removed or edited. For example:
The way the page actually appeared on the indicated date of December 26, 2007, was that there was a second photo on the right. Now there's just a caption and a red link.
Now, I am not suggesting that Wikipedia needs to keep old versions of images available indefinitely, especially when (as in this case) they were removed due to possible copyright violation. I am not suggesting that Wikipedia needs to automatically access old versions of templates when accessing an old version of a page.
But I am suggesting that the wording of the "This is an old revision" notice should be reviewed, and that — if technically feasible — a way should be provided that makes it possible to access the page with old templates if that is what the user wants.
In addition, if a photo is no longer available when accessing an old version, perhaps a small generic notice could be placed at the position rather than just showing a plain red link.
Please think about it and do what seems sensible.
-- 142.205.241.254 ( talk) 22:05, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
How do i stop a continous harriasement by this guy?????
from my talk page, "You are being offered another opportunity to engage in discussion about your disruptive editing.Novangelis (talk) 16:25, 23 July 2012 (UTC) After having ignored another discussion of your inappropriate talk page edits, there should be no reason for you to resume your advocacy. Please do not edit article talk pages if you are not attempting to participate in constructive discussions about improving that article. Complaining about policies is not article improvement and should be restricted to policy talk pages. (This is not an invitation for you to disrupt policy talk pages with non-constructive complaints in order to make a point.)Novangelis (talk) 03:33, 1 August 2012 (UTC)"
I am as constructive as i can be. he has a attitude that I am at odds with but i do believe that a page titled "controversy" should tell both sides. I am very busy and find little time for this but when I do I would like to be treated with respect. Is there anything i can do or is it a lost cause. Are the rumors that there are Wikipedia Gods that cannot be contested true?
If this is the wrong place where do i go? Quione ( talk) 17:55, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
Quione, please read Wikipedia:Dispute resolution in detail. You will want to follow the steps outlined therein. -- œ ™ 06:42, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
I went there and tried to register a Wikiquette Assistance but it did not work. It went nowhere. Quione ( talk) 19:15, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
The page The Knowhere Guide was deleted in 2006 as it "does not meet the notability criteria of WP:WEB" at the time.
Now that its absence from Wikipedia has specifically been cited in this article in The Register critical about Wikipedia itself, has it now gained enough notability to warrant undeletion? Since 2006, it has also been mentioned in other news sources.
Not being an admin, I cannot tell what state it is in, though I'm willing to contribute content based on these news reports. cmɢʟee ☎ ✉ 19:00, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
BBC has published it: "The Wikipedia pages of US presidential candidate Mitt Romney and other members of the Republican party who may run alongside him have been locked down." Let's see if the remaining semi-protected pages get the same coverage :) Have fun! -- NaBUru38 ( talk) 00:06, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
To cap off the story, Micah Sifry acknowledges that the notion basically didn't work at all this season :-) - David Gerard ( talk) 11:09, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
Please see: commons:Commons:Deletion requests/File:David Allen Frazee.jpg
User:Dashfrazee is an userpage that can be seen as promotional and might be against userpages policy in this Wikipedia. The author has no other contributions out of his own userpage.
Please check if this issue needs to be addressed according to local policies.-- Pere prlpz ( talk) 12:43, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
Expect an uptick in vanity bios. From Klout's blog post:
- David Gerard ( talk) 10:51, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
See this Blog post. The Arabic Wikipedia drove up editor rates with a new pilot program m:Editor Growth and Contribution Program/Contribution portal - Phase 0. Ryan Vesey 00:34, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
The quest to get editors free access to the sources they need is gaining momentum.
You might also be interested in the idea to create a central Wikipedia Library where approved editors would have access to all participating resource donors. Add your feedback to the Community Fellowship proposal. Apologies for the English message ( translate here). Go sign up :) -- Ocaasi ( talk) 02:13, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
Asking administrators for help. Need to rename user Barrister on smth else (0 edition) because I want to create global account. TIA-- 95.69.206.48 ( talk) 16:03, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
Currently, " Big N" redirects to the variety store. Is there any hard/good/scholarly source that shows that a variety store was commonly referred to as such? Internet search shows mostly links back to Wikipedia. hbdragon88 ( talk) 01:13, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
I found this article, to be precise, this version today on the back of NPP queue. I am not exactly an unexperienced user, but this article survived for 30 days. (I made a brief attempt to reference it, but it was unsuccessfull, since I could not find any reasonable sources in five minutes). Not that I want to blame anybody, but (1) does it qualify as the record shortest article which made it for a month; (2) is this normal; (3) what I am expected to do with it provided I can not invest an hour in research in a topic I have no competence? Leave it in peace, PROD it, bring it to the attention of a Wikiproject? Sorry for trivial questions, this is indeed a kind of new experience for me.-- Ymblanter ( talk) 20:56, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
The source is Yatchingworld.com Elaine bunting 20 things About Ben anslie which has no sources to state any of it is true 88.104.135.120 ( talk) 12:47, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
after taking a look at Ben ainslie wiki I realised their were mistakes in their and unreliable sourcing this is the case with most pages to do with sport I go on but I thought I must speak up about it now. So I changed the errors on his page and told the owner of the unreliable source it was partially wrong what she was saying. So can we have some sort of protection or someone to watch over like that robot bug thing thanks. 88.104.135.120 ( talk) 11:09, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
It was in his personal life saying he's dating marit bouwmeester but I can't find any official source to say they are 88.104.135.120 ( talk) 11:38, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
I won't rest till something is done to stop this happening again 88.104.135.120 ( talk) 12:47, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
Ok I will do you think my case is enough to get it protected 88.104.135.120 ( talk) 14:02, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
Sorted this the Ben ainslie page has been protected and other actions have been taken by me for false info 88.104.135.120 ( talk) 19:36, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
It's my first time to post in the English Wikipedia's Village Pump in the seven years that I've been here, so I hope I'm doing this right. :P
Anyway, I was randomly browsing around when I saw Wikipedia talk:Meetup. Around two weeks ago, an anonymous user posted there, suggesting that the community stage a " traveling meetup" or caravan of sorts. While the idea is indeed interesting (though I'm currently not in Europe), I wonder how other people here might feel about this? -- Sky Harbor ( talk) 16:34, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
I wonder what our policy is about the wholesale copying of Wikipedia text by other wiki encyclopaedias without attribution? I recently came across this article at Mises Wiki and noticed that it appeared to be largely lifted from our own article on Full reserve banking. I looked for attribution to Wikipedia, and could not find it anywhere. Browsing through the other articles there, it appears to be a pretty general practice; they copy large amounts of text from our articles, and then apply a POV spin to it. Is this use allowed, or should we be doing something about it? LK ( talk) 03:54, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
There are valid reasons for copying content from Wikipedia into other wikis, and I'll admit that I'm "guilty" of doing that more than a few times myself. Most of the situations where I've done that is for things like Wikia fansites where I've usually gone through the process of dewikifying the article (aka removing hyperlinks that are irrelevant) and sometimes adding things that may seem like fancruft to editors on Wikipedia (usually well justified I might add). Furthermore, many of those articles I put in hyperlinks that are proper in the context of that wiki and its database where adding those hyperlinks would be inappropriate here on Wikipedia. Generally it is just a small handful of articles that get copied over from Wikipedia and in the case of those fansite wikis such copied content is a stark minority of the site content, but it still can be very useful. A couple of those Wikia sites where this has happened are actually more popular than most of the Wikimedia sister projects, so it is not just a marginal activity either.
In the cases where I find such articles on wikis that I'm participating in (and sometimes acting as administrator) I go out of my way to include usually a hatnote or some other markup on those pages that clearly notes the content is derived from a Wikipedia article, and that is a practice I would encourage for other sites that perform a similar kind of content duplication. Even if you have added original content, it is still useful to note where the content originally came from.
I'll also note that in the early days of Wikipedia, a substantial amount of content was originally seeded from the public domain (aka no copyright) version of the 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Yes, it was horribly out of date and the articles desperately needed to be cleaned up in terms of POV tone and other huge issues, but it did provide a basis for development of what we have today. On a rare occasion, I still do trip across such article that were created at that time, a few of which still haven't been fixed up I might add as well (mostly obscure topics that a 21st century reader isn't actively seeking on a regular basis). If you go into the back history of some of even the popular articles on Wikipedia, you may come across some of that original 1911 content as well (sort of fun to see how the articles have changed to do a massive page diff from 1911 to 2012).
I have no doubt that eventually Wikipedia will die as a project in the future, but I also think that in the 25th Century (or whenever it becomes an issue) what everybody is working on today will very likely seed such future compendiums of human knowledge just like Wikipedia has been gifted from a great many other sources to make what we have today. That many people are using Wikipedia to spread human knowledge should be viewed as a good thing. Failure to attribute and plagiarism in violation of the terms of the Wikipedia licenses is bad form, but conforming to Wikipedia licenses are pretty easy to do (since you don't need formal written permission to copy). -- Robert Horning ( talk) 21:36, 16 August 2012 (UTC)