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The images above are described as copyrighted and fair-use materials, but I don't think so. The images are simple combinations of national and regional flags/arms, so I think their statuses must be changed into "public domains."
How do you think about it? -- Wikipean ( talk) 15:28, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi all. While gnoming around at WP:NPP, I noticed that a number of incoming articles about western fine arts paintings included external links to a purely commercial website, wahooart.com. See:
At present, there are... well, I can't count them, but a
large number of articles that include an "en.wahooart.com/x..." external link. I'm in the process of removing them all.
Your thoughts? --
Shirt58 (
talk)
11:51, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
There's a discussion going on at WikiProject Spaceflight regarding whether logos are recognisable to casual readers. If anyone has time (particularly users with no expertise in this field), please could you have a look at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spaceflight\RTest and see if you can identify any of the logos. Thanks -- W. D. Graham 10:51, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
The Iron Lady M. Thatcher has died aged 87 due to a stroke. -- Borvo ( talk) 12:05, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
WebCite is threatening to close down if they don't meet fundraising goals. See their front page for details. Should we start looking for a replacement or... what? -- N Y Kevin 03:24, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
A new WikiProject for Admin Nominators has been created, to support all editors interested in acting as nominators for potential administrators via the Requests for Adminship process. The project is an outcome of a successful proposal in round 2 of the recent RfC on reforming RfA. Anyone interested in nominating, whether or not they have any experience, is very welcome to join. Espresso Addict ( talk) 18:41, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
The TOC at Help:Redirect is being confused by the HTML markup used to emulate what a redirect page looks like. I've tried
But nothing fixes it.— Cpiral Cpiral 01:14, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
Ahhh. John of Reading mentioned {{ fake heading}} on the talk page, and it worked. — Cpiral Cpiral 17:10, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
Here are my recommendations to make Wikipedia a better environment: 1) I think anyone who commits slander, libel or makes false accusations in a deletion discussion should be suspended for 30 days. As I read through comments during the deletion discussions. As I read through other various article entries but what was more shocking was in deletion review. I saw a lot of acidic commentary that was in clear violation of wikiettiquette. However, just calling them on it and reminding them of this policy doesn't see to take affect.
2) In the deletion review, administrators should know the policies: IP address entries do have a say in a deletion discussions.
3) realize that the wiki-environment skews "negative" and because of this, in deletion discussions someone giving two word answers like "Delete - self-promotion" versus someone who writes entire paragraphs to "keep with justified cause" put in more effort should have weighted value.
4) I got a pvt message from an LGBT Wiki-contributor that was rather upsetting. They stated that the environment was too toxic for them to remain and they were part of the review process for LGBT materials. Who do I share this email with? I am finding that what the general wiki-public sites for deletion by a majority might be very significant to a minory group. You are claiming fairness by opening discussion to the LGBT group but that group is hollow if people are leaving it because they are tired of constantly being attacked.
5)You should appoint "wiki-mentors" for new contributors because right now you throw them in with the lions and they get beaten down by rather harsh wording. There should be two mentors assigned for a month to each new contributor to guide them through the maze. Wikipedia contribution is a very overwhelming and arduous task.
Desaderal
Desaderal (
talk)
05:09, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
Excuse me, could someone, who have got rights for blocking, block this user? It has been vandalized Skylanders: Swap Force despite I've been warned It about vandalism and looks like It is not gonna stop that without blocking. -- Santtu37 ( talk) 05:57, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
Is Wikipedia aware that "town pump" or "village pump" is a slang term for a slut? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.66.14.72 ( talk) 15:30, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
The "W" logo that Wikipedia uses when a browser tab is open looks slightly different now than it did about 30 minutes ago. Is it just my browser or did Wikipedia make some changes to their text/font? 24.90.152.15 ( talk) 02:35, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
I like the pop-up windows that show up when I click on a bibliographic reference call [n], but I'm not good enough with CSS to duplicate the process. I can get in-line material to show up in this manner, but not things stored neatly at a distance. Is it possible to read your CSS files? Ferren ( talk) 08:05, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
There is a request for comment how much weight should be given to the Clean Water Act Trial in the BP article. Your input is appreciated. Beagel ( talk) 08:17, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
I am conducting a survey at the link above to accomplish two things. First, I hope to gather a list of some potential future candidates interested in cratship. Second, I hope to be able to use the results of the survey as solid evidence of how admins view the RfB process and what factors cause the very low amount of activity. Anyone is welcome to comment, but the input of admins is particularly desired. Regards, AutomaticStrikeout ( T • C • Sign AAPT) 14:58, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
This question came up in conversation. So, I've made Wikipedia:Articles with the most references, with a few items to start off. Please expand it, and we'll see what patterns, if any, emerge. — Hex (❝?!❞) 17:07, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
We would appreciate a couple more reviews about a "Did You Know" nomination for the Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar. Thank you - Nabla ( talk) 10:43, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
Should a photo gallery be removed? See Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Request_board#List_of_sopranos_in_non-classical_music GeorgeLouis ( talk) 17:35, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
The Wikipedia:Most missed articles -- often searched for, nonexistent articles -- has not been updated since a batch run in 2008. The German Wikipedia person, Melancholie ( de:Benutzer:Melancholie) who did the batch run has not been active since 2009. Where would be a good place to ask for someone with expertise to do another run? It does not seem to fit the requirements of Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) since it is not a technical issue about Wikipedia. It is not a new proposal, and not a new idea. It is not about help using Wikipedia, and it is not a factual WP:Reference Desk question. I didn't find a WikiProject that looked promising. So I am asking for direction here. -- Bejnar ( talk) 22:33, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
Can I blog & discuss about my WP experieces here at WP? I expect it to be a page at my userspace. - DePiep ( talk) 20:46, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
Why are people placed into categories at the bottom of pages such as "People from Brooklyn" when they were only born in that location and that's it? For example I myself am "from Brooklyn". I grew up here my entire life and if someone asks me where I'm from I say Brooklyn NY. I was born however in San Diego and moved to Brooklyn when I was a few weeks old. Apparently under Wikipedia's logic I would be a person "from San Diego" even though that makes no sense and I never would tell a person I'm from San Diego.
Another thing I've noticed regarding this issue is a celebrity who grew up say in Texas from 1-25 years old then moves to Brooklyn and has lived there for 2 years. They also get put into the "People from Brooklyn" category even though they're clearly from Texas. Can someone please answer these 2 questions? Thank you very much.
24.193.127.141 ( talk) 04:52, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
Can someone please answer my questions regarding this Wikipedia category placement issue? Thanks. 24.193.127.141 ( talk) 16:19, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
Naburu38 didn't answer either of my questions. He/she only commented. I'd appreciate if someone who's more knowledgable about Wikipedia policies could help me out.. 24.193.127.141 ( talk) 19:11, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
"Because we believe this is more helpful to readers than the alternative" - so what is the alternative then? Notice how you didn't address either of my questions with your vague response.
Also who exactly is "we"? What high-IQ Wikipedia people are deciding that a person should be placed into a "people from" location category when they were solely born there but have nothing to do with that geographic location and were raised somewhere else? 24.193.127.141 ( talk) 02:21, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
A lot more discretion could be used however when placing a person into a "people from" category. Many times I have read Wikipedia articles where the location category the person is placed in doesn't match where they were raised or grew up, but does match the particular location the person was born in. 24.193.127.141 ( talk) 03:28, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
You can add musical notation through the use <score></score>
.
Like this
<score>\relative c' { f d f a d f e d cis a cis e a g f e }</score>
gives
See more details : [3] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xmlizer ( talk • contribs) 22:06, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
{{
xtag}}
updated: {{
xtag|score}}
gives <
score>
which links to the extension page. --
Gadget850 (Ed)
talk
22:17, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
WhatamIdoing ( talk) 22:35, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
Test:
Cool! BTW, what is the legal situation for small excerpts of contemporary music?-- Atlasowa ( talk) 12:42, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
I tried to figure out how to use userboxes and went to Wikipedia:Userboxes. The first section there, Wikipedia:Userboxes#Using existing userboxes, begins with
so I went to look at that page, figuring I'd get more info. But I didn't, because the content is identical.
This is not a new situation, I found. There's just one entry on the talk page, Wikipedia talk:Userboxes/Using existing#Delete?; note the date:
I tried to fix it, but
I gave up and undid my edits. It's too big a mess, and it's too late in the evening for me. I'm also not prepared to deal with the bureaucratic tangles of trying to propose an article for deletion that's already been PRODded and rejected. But this is really, really bad practice in too many ways, and should be fixed. Thnidu ( talk) 02:55, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
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Hello!
There is a new request for comment on Meta-Wiki concerning the removal of administrative rights from long-term inactive Wikimedians. Generally, this proposal from stewards would apply to wikis without an administrators' review process.
We are also compiling a list of projects with procedures for removing inactive administrators on the talk page of the request for comment. Feel free to add your project(s) to the list if you have a policy on administrator inactivity.
All input is appreciated. The discussion may close as soon as 21 May 2013 (2013-05-21), but this will be extended if needed.
Thanks, Billinghurst (thanks to all the translators!) 04:33, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
It seems to me some editors confuse ancestors and descedants, ancestry and descendance: take a look at Magnus_Barefoot#Ancestry which in fact lists descendants of Magnus III. What do you think? (And it seems to me this is not the first time I've seen something like this on WP). Signed: Basemetal (write to me here) 18:03, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
There is currently a Request for Comment on Meta here about links to sister projects, currently accomplished by means of a template at the bottom of each page. Integration with Wikidata is also being discussed there. – Ypnypn ( talk) 18:12, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
I was going to go to Wikipedia:Wikiquette assistance, but I found out that that page is obsolete. Where should I go instead?? Georgia guy ( talk) 15:49, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
(copied from Talk:Bengali language#Spoken and literary varieties: spellings, articles, sections)
The spellings "Choltibhasha" and "Shadhubhasha" seem to be in more common use in English than the spellings (and pronunciation) "Cholito bhasha" and "Shadhu-bhasha". I've changed them accordingly at the heads of the bullet points in Bengali language#Spoken and literary varieties, mentioning alternate forms in parens. I've also added a redirect page Shadhubhasha → Shadhu-bhasha.
In general, the spellings are chaotic and should be cleaned up. Further, the beginning text of Bengali dialects#Spoken and literary variants is almost identical to that of Bengali language#Spoken and literary varieties (in this article), but diverges a lot after the bullets, and this article's section has far more references. ISTM that the two sections should be merged, and one transcluded into the other. -- Thnidu ( talk) 17:46, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
Someone just put a warning comment notice on my Talk page that I am engaged in an edit war, reverting without comment.
I am not engaged in an edit war. I have not reverted anything.
I did edit the article for Books LLC to add a note that it was a "controversial" press whose main methodology was copying and binding Wikipedia articles, which is completely true and is even cited in the refences which are already there (which was why I felt little need to add more references, besides which the formatting on that article is so eye-blurring I would be hard pressed to insert a new reference properly).
I am being threatened with being blocked from editing "if I persist."
Please look at my editing history and the history of the Books LLC page.
I believe these charges to be inaccurate, and I am seriously concerned that my good name as a Wikipedia editor is being unjustly threatened.
Artemis-Arethusa ( talk) 21:37, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
The issue of these two Categories is being discussed on the WP:Categorization/Noticeboard at American novelists vs. American women novelists. The matter has received quite a bit of notice recently in the news off-Wiki, with Tweets from Amy Tan & other authors plus columns in the New York Times, The New Stateman, NPR, The Independent, etc. Just Google "Wikipedia American women novelists" and see what you come up with. I think this issue should be discussed by the Wikipedia editorial community at large so have posted this courtesy notice here at the Village pump. The Cat. Noticeboard does seem to be the appropriate forum and there doesn't seem to be any other place within the encyclopedia where the matter has been brought up. Thanks, Shearonink ( talk) 19:59, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
Pardon my ignorance here, but is there a way to send web crawlers a 'disallow' message when they are searching an editor's Wikipedia user space? I don't particularly want search engines posting results from my draft work. Thank you. Praemonitus ( talk) 00:41, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
{{
NOINDEX}}
. Signed:
Basemetal (write to me
here)
04:39, 28 April 2013 (UTC){{
Userspace draft}}
, which does a NOINDEX and also informs readers that they are looking at a draft.
EdJohnston (
talk)
03:42, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
The page view stats on Depression (mood) started declining in a very peculiar way on the 15th. [4] Is this happening on other articles? -- Anthonyhcole ( talk · contribs · email) 13:37, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
Some accounts will soon be renamed due to a technical change that the developer team at Wikimedia are making. More details on Meta.
(Distributed via global message delivery 03:30, 30 April 2013 (UTC). Wrong page? Correct it here.)
The default position of the "edit" link in page section headers is going to change soon. The "edit" link will be positioned adjacent to the page header text rather than floating opposite it.
Section edit links will be to the immediate right of section titles, instead of on the far right. If you're an editor of one of the wikis which already implemented this change, nothing will substantially change for you; however, scripts and gadgets depending on the previous implementation of section edit links will have to be adjusted to continue working; however, nothing else should break even if they are not updated in time.
Detailed information and a timeline is available on meta.
Ideas to do this all the way to 2009 at least. It is often difficult to track which of several potential section edit links on the far right is associated with the correct section, and many readers and anonymous or new editors may even be failing to notice section edit links at all, since they read section titles, which are far away from the links.
(Distributed via global message delivery 18:20, 30 April 2013 (UTC). Wrong page? Correct it here.)
The (unused) {{ Criticism title}} cleanup template message suggests the use of the word 'Criticism' in an article title is non-neutral. There are a number of articles that use 'Criticism' in their title, including Criticism of religion, Criticism of Islam, Criticism of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Criticism of capitalism, Criticism of Apple Inc., Criticism of government response to Hurricane Katrina, Criticism of Google, and Criticism of the Israeli government. I am unclear whether the template is standard policy or not. WP:POVNAMING suggests renaming "Criticism..." to something like "Society's view of...". What should be the proper approach here? Thanks. Praemonitus ( talk) 23:57, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
There's nothing inherently non-neutral about "criticism of xxx" as long as the article is a description of criticism of the subject based on reliable secondary sources that describe such criticism, rather than our article itself consisting of such criticism based on primary sources that criticise the subject. I'm sure that many of our criticism articles don't live up to this ideal. Phil Bridger ( talk) 18:46, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
There's nothing inherently non-neutral about "criticism of xxx", just as there is no reason you can't stand a knife in its tip. As we, Wikipedia, reflect the sources, and we do not engage in any critical commentary ourselves, I think we should try to title such sections as "[So and so's] criticism of xxx" to emphasize to editors and potential editors alike that the criticism is not from us. -- SmokeyJoe ( talk) 02:17, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
On Jimbo's talk page, User Rd232 said they'd like to put something to our readership. I've got something I'd like to ask them, too, so I've started Wikipedia:Requests for comment/English Wikipedia readership survey 2013. -- Anthonyhcole ( talk · contribs · email) 17:19, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
Recently citation templates like {{
cite web}}, {{
cite journal}} and {{
cite book}} have been rewritten in Lua, and have more options. The number of authors is unlimited (was: 9). While all authors can be entered, we can set |displayauthors=n
to limit the number that is shown on the page (all still are available for metadata like
COinS). All very good. My question is: what is a good number to show? Is there a rule of thumb? Some publications have 30 to 40 authors (see
Ununoctium with
this citation: 30 authors), and having them on the page is a bit too much. any suggestions? -
DePiep (
talk)
13:25, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
|displayauthors={{{displayauthors|}}}
in the template. We should also be recording the author full first names, and using |authorformat=vanc
to truncate if desired. This allows full population into the COinS metadata. --
Gadget850
talk
13:40, 28 April 2013 (UTC)|displayauthors={{{displayauthors|n}}}
, n being the number I am looking for here.|displayauthors={{{displayauthors|{{template other||n}}}}}
, to show the full list in template space. -
DePiep (
talk)
15:13, 28 April 2013 (UTC)|type=
instead of |format=
, for example.|displayauthors=
/|displayeditors=
. As things are now, the reader has to find the citation in the article source text or, as in the case of DePiep's citation, know to look at the template. This, of course, is probably not the right place to discuss this idea.|displayauthors=m
. -
DePiep (
talk)
16:37, 28 April 2013 (UTC)|displayauthors=
, then shalt thou specify three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number of authors thou shalt specify, and the number of the authors displayed shall be three. Four shalt thou not use, neither use thou two, excepting that thou then change to three. Five and more is right out. (An adaptation of Monty Python's
Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch apologies to them.)What happened to Special:ActiveUsers? It seems to have gone defunct, but why? -- Theurgist ( talk) 12:16, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
When placing double brackets around a word what would be an appropriate or useful edit summary? I searched Wikipedia for an answer but could not find one. All I could find was something about "red links" aka WP:RED but what I'm inquiring about is creating "blue links" when placing brackets around a specific word/words. 24.90.154.201 ( talk) 04:19, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
I just removed a use of Template:smallcaps at the beginning of Brumalia because it wasn't giving the desired result.
The first sentence included
"V" for capital u in Latin is perfectly reasonable, as they were forms of the same letter. But in modern lowercase it's ridiculous.
The wikicode was
{{lang-la|{{smallcaps|''Brvmalia''}}}}
which should have worked. The template documentation warns to use it sparingly, and that it will not work right in certain circumstances. It looks as if I've found another such. But I don't want to modify the documentation; I'd rather leave that to someone who knows more (than zero!) about how the template works. Further, I haven't tested this problem beyond my own laptop (a MacBook Air running Lion), with Firefox 20.0, Safari 6.0.4, and Chrome 26.0.1410.65. -- Thnidu ( talk) 02:25, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
<span class="smallcaps" style="font-variant:small-caps;">Test</span>
produces Test{{lang-la|{{smallcaps|Brvmalia}}}}
gives
Latin: Brvmalia.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
02:43, 5 May 2013 (UTC)While editing Nocturnal Neurosis (band) I was quite startled when one of the external links that I clicked on played a loud and harsh screeching sound (one of the artist's songs). We have icons that show up if an EL is a PDF, icons to label foreign language ELs, and other templates that label possibly troublesome aspects of external links. But I didn't find any that notify the reader "Hey, if you visit this external link, that page is going to automatically play some audio". Is there any template like that?-- Atlantima ~✿~ ( talk) 15:49, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
-- Atlantima ~✿~ ( talk) 17:33, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
There are two disambiguation pages for Clinton Park:
There is also something wrong with the entries for the section on the neighborhood park in Clinton Park, Houston.
I would appreciate it if some clever editor would straighten out this situation. There should be only one disambiguation page, and there should be a link to the neighborhood park in Houston. -- DThomsen8 ( talk) 01:42, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
IRC office hours about Flow on 9 May
In #wikimedia-office on 9 May, 1800-1900 UTC, Brandon Harris (senior designer at WMF) will lead a discussion of Flow, an upcoming change in the wiki discussion interface.Flow involves replacing user talk pages.
He will be showing an interactive prototype so you can try it out, and we want to hear your feedback. Please come! If that time doesn't work, please let us know what times will work.
Please spread the word to your communities! Thanks. Sharihareswara (WMF) ( talk) 21:52, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
Discussing this here, because the template talk page in question hasn't seen any activity since 2006....
The image for {{ User wikipedia/NP Patrol}} is terrible.
People who do new page patrolling aren't police officers. This grumpy cop (even worse when viewed at full size) making a "HALT!" gesture is not friendly or encouraging, which is how we should be to new editors; even if they've made a new page that isn't very good. How would you feel if, as a new user, totally unfamiliar with Wikipedia culture, you received a message from someone, and went to their user page — only to see this? Can we please, together, find a better image to represent this activity. — Scott • talk 11:21, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Sample template using the icon embedded above:
Praemonitus ( talk) 23:20, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
Hey! It must be a problem with {{ Infobox Olympic bid}}. As you can see in Medellín bid for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics, it says XXIII Olympic Winter Games, can someone fix it, please? Sorry if this is not the right place to post this. Thanks, --· × α£đ· es 02:08, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
If so, please correct this abominable translation that I got off Google in a time of desperate need. Thanks! — TORTOISE WRATH 03:17, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I'm not really sure if this is the right place for this (Or if there is a right place anywhere for it), but I am trying to conduct a brief survey of Wikipedia users for a sociology class. If anyone could take a few minutes to take it, then it would be much appreciated. The Survey is only 8 questions and is confidential. If I shouldn't be posting this here, I'm sorry. Is there another place for general purpose discussion? Thanks.
-- Passerby30 ( talk) 03:39, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
I took the survey. Let us know how your class assignment turns out! -- Atlantima ~✿~ ( talk) 15:45, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
I typed an impossible word to generate the template text when trying to create another article. Just to show the text where the full stop at the end after the question mark should be deleted. I cannot find the template name (or the automatic text) on my own, so I can't edit the text. So, don't create the article Beletirxkh of course.
This is the jpg of the text (internetlink)
Dartelaar [write me!] 09:39, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
Sorry to post this here, but I'm not computer-literate and have given up on figuring out what all these cute link names mean.
Somebody who knows how to do it should put some kind of disambiguation notice on the "Eastern Congo Initiative" page to distinguish that NGO from the Congo Initiative ( http://www.congoinitiative.org/), a similar but unrelated NGO based in Wisconsin and affiliated in some fashion with the Université Chrétien Bilingue du Congo, in Beni, Kivu-Nord, DR Congo. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.155.175.147 ( talk) 15:05, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
Here's an interesting PhysOrg article about correlations between numbers of Wikipedia article reads and fluctuations in the stock market.
The study suggests that significant profit margins could be produced from the data. The implications for Wikipedia may be concerning. Praemonitus ( talk) 00:53, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
Once you transclude or substitute something, nothing attributes the content to the original authors as required by cc-by-sa. Everytime we click save, it says that we agree a link is enough attribution, however, transclusion doesn't even do that. We are violating our own copyrights. Ramaksoud2000 ( Talk to me) 00:00, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
There is an RfC at List of gymnasts which is not attracting any opinions so far. The discussion is about the future look and feel of this list, and I commend it to you. The list is currently good. It could be better. Your opinion will help that. Fiddle Faddle ( talk) 08:51, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
For the very first time, the UK community will be competing in the annual Wiki Loves Monuments competition in September. This is a community-led effort, with support from the UK chapter, Wikimedia UK. A number of volunteers have already expressed interest in helping to organize the contest, but there is much to be done and many more volunteers are needed, both now and over the coming few months.
If you would like to contribute towards making our first ever competition the great success we expect it to be, please visit Commons:Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in the United Kingdom and leave your name there. Even if you are only able to offer us moral support, or want to take part as photographer in September, please leave your details anyway. You need not be based in the UK to help. -- MichaelMaggs ( talk) 15:31, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
Do we have a project or noticeboard where we can ask for help with adding IPA characters? I looked at Help:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(pronunciation)#Entering_IPA_characters, and I don't see such a place mentioned. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:59, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
In File:Journal de Bruxelles nr 167 1800 (614, 615).png (colom 1) I read that French prisoners where mistreated in Portchester. I suspect they where held in Portchester castle. Strangely there is talk of a French commissioner being responsible for the mistreatment. Was it usual that the responsibility of the treatment of prisoners was by the country of the prisoners? This seams strange to me. Smiley.toerist ( talk) 10:20, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
zh:Wikipedia:首页, it's a new homepage. -- Qiyue2001 ( talk) 09:19, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
I just came across pilkipedia. I wonder if anyone on the Wiki thinks that there may be copyright implications here. Does Wikipedia have copyright on its presentation style. I think it does. Anyone looking at this site would surely agree that it is a blatant rip-off of the Wikipedia style. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jodosma ( talk • contribs) 02:54, 18 May 2013
I just came across a category that has different issues with many of the articles in it. It may be too much for the photography project to handle. Details are in my new post at Category talk:Photography by genre. We probably don't need to discuss it here but I thought I would add the link so others can provide input or put it on watch lists. I also posted similar at the photography project. If it needs to be linked elsewhere or moved then feel free to do so or discuss a move there.-- Canoe1967 ( talk) 16:20, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
This is a general question best illustrated by an example; should music group The Dead Lay Waiting be in
It started in the first, I moved it to the second, and it has now been moved to the third. I'm sure musical groups do not count as organisations; but do they count as people... GrahamHardy ( talk) 22:46, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
We have a new tool, Forward to Libraries, which helps readers find books at their local library related to the articles they are reading. There is an RfC at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Linking subjects to books at your local library (Forward to Libraries) to determine how this tool should be used on Wikipedia. Users that are interested may wish to comment there. 64.40.54.57 ( talk) 01:27, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
In 2007 an editor created a page Samblanay based on material from the 1911 Britannica. The article he used was titled "Samblançay" but that editor, being from Singapore, thought probably that the French "cé cédille" (ç) was some sort of unimportant decoration. Check the first version of the page for more creative spellings, which you can compare with its source the article "Samblançay" in the 1911 Britannica. Ok, mistakes do happen. But for 6 years that page has been around without anyone noticing. I did because I followed today's DYK Gibbet of Montfaucon and one thing led to another. So the completely spurious "Samblanay" form has had time to spread through the Internet. A Google search today returned 1230 hits. I did not check all of them, but all of them that I did check go back to that original 2007 Wikipedia blunder, including stuff on Facebook and in Wikipedia material repackaged and resold by outfits of the kind you are probably familiar with. Another collateral damage of "Wikipedia the encyclopedia that anyone can edit". I wonder how many other good stories like this one are out there. If there are enough we may even write a Wikipedia article about them! Contact Basemetal here 20:23, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello. We have a discussion on surveys and opinion polls in this article. Any comment will be helpful. Thanks. Farhikht ( talk) 11:14, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
Please comment on the ongoing replacement of {{ Infobox musical artist}} with {{ Infobox orchestra}} at Template talk:Infobox orchestra#Use of this infobox. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:27, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
The nl:WP will soon be the second-largest wikipedia. Why? The use bots to create articles about animals. What do you think when you hear that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.82.13.65 ( talk) 13:36, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
Hey guys how are you doing? While getting involved with Brazilian Wikipedia community, I got access to some very interesting data. According to Wkimedia stats, whereas there are 22 English-speaker-editors per million, there are only 5 Portuguese-speaker-editors. That said, I was thinking of good strategies to improve editors' participation, to increase the number of editors and to convert more readers into editors (only 3% of Wikipedia Portuguese readers are also editors).
I know that Wikipedia in Enlish is a huge community and that you might face or have faced that very same problem. That said, I would very much appreciate if you could share some strategies/projects that have worked in English-speaking countries, in terms of tackling the aforementioned challenges.
I believe that cross-country collaboration among wikipedist has the potential of spreading good solutions! Phelps246 ( talk) 06:10, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
On Saturday 29 June there are European edit-a-thon planned in several countries with the subject World War I. This World War had Belgium as chess board so it would be great and a good idea to organize a an edit-a-thon in Belgium.
An edit-a-thon is a (small) event where people come together and work on articles on a particular topic. Often such edit-a-thon is organized for people relatively new to Wikipedia and held at an organization.
Conclusion: the only work is in finding an organization.
I am not aware of other museums/etc, anyone? Another possibility is a university with a history faculty. Which universities have such?
For this purpose I have created the page:
meta:World War I edit-a-thons/Belgium
Be welcome!
Romaine ( talk) 16:20, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi.
Just to ask a question, but why are the text in a lot of SVG images written in Segoe UI font?
Worst regards, Greek Fellows". Visit ma talk page and ma contributions. 13:37, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello! My name is Constance and I am personally committed to increasing visibility and overall accessibility to dance. I feel that this can be achieved primarily by making sure that specific dance artists/organizations have a page and by adding have links to their works.
Since I am new to this site, I've already taken the time to browse through the Help and Tutorial pages. However, I am hoping for additional advice from anyone on how I can be more effective with making this happen. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Harrisco1122 ( talk • contribs) 20:01, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
Not sure if there is somewhere better to post this other than the template talk page [where no one else has commented]; if so, feel free to point out, and apologies.
I'm proposing a modified version of the template/menu that appears at the top of (most) noticeboards, and of many other pages. The proposed new version is here: Template talk:Noticeboard links/Draft. Comments are welcomed at Template talk:Noticeboard links. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 00:17, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
I was editing an article on the Edinburgh International Festival and created a link to the Renaissance poet Sir David Lyndsay. I then noticed that the link was bringing up the David Lyndsay disambiguation page. I then moved the David Lyndsay page I was interested in targeting to David Lyndsay (poet) (to differentiate it) and amended existing redirects. I then discovered that entering 'David Lyndsay' in the Wikipedia general search box was skipping the disambiguation page entirely and leading directly to the David Lyndsay, the poet. This is hardly satisfactory for those seeking other David Lyndsays. I've tried some reverts but they're not working; so I conclude I am doing something wrong, hence clueless. Can anyone advise me on how to resolve this issue? Kim Traynor | Talk 14:35, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
How can a user remove his "email me" action without loggin in?? Is it possible?? Miss Bono (zootalk) 13:39, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
I've got a very long list of several thousand stale AfC drafts marked as "promotional" that I'm sorting through. Some help tagging for deletion them where appropriate would be welcome. All of them are eligible for CSD G13 (stale AfC Draft), but a third-to-a-half are also long-running G12s (that is, blatant copyright violations), and more than half of them are G11's (blatant ads). The vast majority of this material is in fact a problem and really should go.
Similarly, editors scanning through the list for material that should, within policy, be saved from deletion would be helpful. It's a big project, more eyes will produce better results.
If you would like to help, please start by dropping me a note on my talk page. I'm trying to work through the list in a coherent order so as to work constructively with other editors who are looking for items to salvage, and I've also intentionally left a small number of these articles that I've scanned undeleted for possible recovery as well. It will be easier not to step on each other's toes if we work together. Thanks! -- j⚛e decker talk 15:48, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
At the top of my page there is a star logo and a heart logo. I finally figured out what they are for, but what about newcomers? Why can't we use words instead? Unfamiliar logos are not friendly at all. Same for the mosh of abbreviations. I mean, what does TW, CSD, XFD, etc., mean to the average person? Please comment. GeorgeLouis ( talk) 13:35, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello! My name is Kathleen Dalton and I am a college student studying dance history and education. I would like to add some dance videos and information on new artists to Wikipedia. If anyone has any advice on how to best go about doing this just let me know! Thank you so much! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kathleenelizabethdalton ( talk • contribs) 19:00, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello, note that Abdoulaye Sekou Sow has died. Thank you. Scymso ( talk) 14:44, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
Which is the article containing the highest numbers of categories? -- Marce79 ( talk) 15:30, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi, when I view a Wikipedia page I've noticed that the links are coloured blue. When I print that page the blue becomes black. How do I make the page print with the links in blue as per the page on viewed screen using both Firefox and IE? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Q41019573 ( talk • contribs) 03:02, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
The White House's use of CAPTCHAs is giving trouble to blind and visually impaired people. Would it be reasonable to assume that Wikipedia's use of CAPTCHAs does the same? CAPTCHAs are intended to prove users are human, therefore blind and visually impaired people are ...? As an aside, in posting this I encounter a CAPTCHA because of the link. For anyone interested it was "grabssian". Luckily I am not sufficiently visually impaired - yet anyway. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.40.100.126 ( talk) 01:17, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
Is there an article on criticism of the modern evolutionary synthesis? — goethean 15:58, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
There is a Trademark practices discussion on Meta at the moment.
The main proposal from the WMF legal team is the creation of a new "community' logo which will have a more liberal licensing arrangements so it can be used for community projects.
I am opposed to this as, for me the jigsaw globe is the wikipedia community logo and that is the logo they should be making easier to use. Creating a new 'community' logo will, I believe, just serve as an excuse to tighten the licensing arrangements for the jigsaw globe logo.
If you have comments please go to the meta page and comment there. filceolaire ( talk) 14:49, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
History of Gibraltar has been nominated for an appearance as Today's Featured Article on 13 July to mark the 300th anniversary of the Treaty of Utrecht. If you have any views, please comment at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests. Thank you. Bencherlite Talk 10:26, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
I came upon this person whose contributions appear to almost exclusively consist of adding links to his podcast promoting pseudoscience. Can I just remove these links, citing policy on self-promotion or pseudoscience or both? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Variantseven ( talk • contribs) 14:40, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
You know how some talk pages have a box that the top that says "This is the talk page for this; if you want to post about that, please use that other talk page"? Well, I came across a pair of talk pages where the instructions partially contradict each other. I was going to tag them with <code>{{contradict-other}}</code>, but it's not designed for that. It says "this article" rather than "this page", and when it tries to link to the talk page corresponding to one of the contradictory pages, it can't construct the link correctly.
I guess this is a rare enough situation that it may not be worth making any changes for, but I thought I'd mention it all the same.
(As to the conflict on the talk pages, I'll just post a regular new section to each of them. Yes, I could just WP:SOFIXIT myself, but I don't think I'm involved enough with the subject matter to do that appropriately.)
-- 50.100.192.246 ( talk) 06:05, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
. Consider it a barnstar. Kleuske ( talk) 15:09, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
I'm an IP editor and cannot view the history of Jeff V. Merkey ( WP:Viewdelete). After reading an old (12 March 2008) BBC article, I'm now curious which changes were made by Wales to aforementioned article around March 2008. According to the BBC article, the 'edit history of the page does show changes made by Jimmy Wales and that the page was "protected"' (emphasis mine). Can anyone tell me how Wales changed the article? By the way, not yet mentioned in the Criticism of Wikipedia article is the criticisms that Wikipedia allows featured articles to be about businesses. I don't have an external, reliable source; I was simply reading Talk:Elderly Instruments/Archive 1 and Talk:Scene7. On these Talk pages, aforementioned criticism appears to be voiced primarily by IP and novice editors, but I also read some fairly emotional comments from disappointed Wikipedia veterans. It's probably not noteworthy enough to mention in this Criticism of Wikipedia article. Just something I noticed while reading through these pages that I thought I could mention here. -- 82.170.113.123 ( talk) 14:44, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
Do we need to edit WP:TALK to /specifically/ say not to create talk pages that only contain WikiProject banners for every Template, Category, and redirect on Wikipedia?
It spams the 'assesment' categories with thousands of 'useless' pages (among other things), they're all 'Empty talk pages for future use' against policy, and they're all G8 deletion candidates....this is pointless and disruptive, but, unfortunately, not /technically/ against a 'rule' I can point to.
The 'consensus' about 'incomplete redirects' seems to be that they should be 'kept' if they actually have old talk, if it's a 'tracked' redirect from a WikiProject, or if the redirect is a 'redirect with possibilites'....just running through the categories and making tens of thousands of talk pages is WP:DUMB. Revent ( talk) 21:10, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
I even find those template tags extremely annoying on article talk pages. In my time...:)..when it was a blue link, the article was discussed, a red link meant no discussion. Now it's always blue and usually only Wikiproject templates. Garion96 (talk) 23:06, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
class=Redirect
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02:13, 31 May 2013 (UTC){{
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(the fact that the banner has |class=cat
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Wikipedia:WikiProject Doctor Who/Article alerts#TfD, those two templates are listed because their talk pages have {{
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; and again, at
Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Article alerts#RfD, the redirect's talk page has {{
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, but here, the |class=Redirect
is important. There are plenty more examples in
Category:Article alert reports via banner subscription. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
08:25, 31 May 2013 (UTC)If an article is redirected then the talk page should either be redirected (if there's been previous discussion on the page), or deleted. I'm not sure it matters too much, but either way - there's no need to keep blank talk pages hanging around for redirects. Ryan Postlethwaite 8:04 am, 24 June 2008, Tuesday (4 years, 11 months, 8 days ago) (UTC−5)
I agree that deletion or redirection is more appropriate than a project tag for a redirect page. –xenocidic (talk) 8:08 am, 24 June 2008, Tuesday (4 years, 11 months, 8 days ago) (UTC−5)
My reasoning for deletion or redirect is as follows: a project tag on the talk page of a redirect will artifically inflate the number of articles under the project's care. Since these talk pages have virtually no history except for the project tag, they should qualify as a "non-controversial deletion". While a redirect would also be appropriate, I don't think it's particularly necessary. –xenocidic (talk) 8:36 am, 24 June 2008, Tuesday (4 years, 11 months, 8 days ago) (UTC−5)
Yup, the project tag should be on the target talk page so it doesn't need to be on the redirect. Ryan Postlethwaite 8:11 am, 24 June 2008, Tuesday (4 years, 11 months, 8 days ago) (UTC−5)
I decided to create the user script mentioned above, to change the color of the talk tab link if the talk page seems to have only templates: User:Anomie/talklink. Anomie ⚔ 14:01, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
At the Report of Van Fleet Mission to Far East, I wrote the cited description [10], however, it has been repeatedly revert by User:Qwyrxian [11] [12]. And at the Liancourt Rocks dispute, he is doing same thing [13] [14]. Although he has stated some reason to do that, in fact, it is only a pretext for not let me edit. Maybe he is a korean, and he's going to prevent the editing of all disadvantageous to Korea... Both of my editing are cited from Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affaires [15] [16] and it are believed to be well was conformity to the rules of Wikipedia.
And most of Korea relations articles has received such interference by some Koreans. Obviously, it is vandalism of Wikipedia. There're too many korean editors(including administrator) who do not follow the rules, to maintain Wikipedia as good quality and neutral.
Is there anyone who has a good idea?-- BlueSkyWhiteSun ( talk) 09:21, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
Am I the only one being nice and all? To me, I see self-important, vain, pompous people, including administrators, patronizing everybody, like me, for not doing things right. Whenever I screw up in talk:Thriller (album), I get patronized or berated by some guy, who thinks he can inspire people. At this moment, I have made several friends and seemed to never accomplish having many more. After all hard work non-stop, I wonder if I should be committed to Wikipedia forever. To make matters worse, minor grammar is not a small deal to me. "than" vs. "that"? Whatever happen to good grammar? Also, whenever I make a lot (or too many) rename requests, I get mocked. Whenever I made so-called absurd rationales, I "inspired" people to oppose the proposal. Maybe if I could meet members of Wikipedia in person, I would gain personal connection toward others rather than stick my current perspectives to others based on mere context. If I must stay here, where can I find nice people? -- George Ho ( talk) 03:27, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
I noticed that the page views for Refrigerator death are close to 4,000 for today. Since before that, views seem to have ranged in the low double digits, and since I haven't heard about any-thing happening concerning this relatively historic subject and the only edit was simply a de-linking, I am curious if this number isn't in error. Does any-one have any ideas? Kdammers ( talk) 11:41, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
What are your thoughts on CwoodGames.jimdo.com? Comments and edits welcome — Preceding unsigned comment added by Techbrewson ( talk • contribs) 03:39, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
I remember a month or two ago being advised that there was a fairly new template I could use to facilitate discussion, but I can't remember the name and I can't find it. The idea is
Can someone please point me to it? And is there a simple way I've overlooked to find such things, or is there really a problem with proliferation without adequate indexing? TIA.
Thnidu ( talk) 03:40, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
In the dottle article is a malformed reference to an entry in the Oxford English Dictionary online version [17]. Could I get someone who has a subscription to that site to take a look at this malformed reference, check it against the dictionary, and repair the reference? -- Frotz( talk) 08:46, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi! You might be interested to know that now there's yet another Wikipedia version above the million article mark. It happened late last evening (European time). See article Swedish Wikipedia for update and links to sources. More links and talk are available here and here. The best of wishes.-- Paracel63 ( talk) 12:38, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
The Wikipedia Library gets Wikipedia editors free access to reliable sources that are behind paywalls. I want to alert you to our latest donation.
Cheers, Ocaasi 21:02, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
My apologies for the incorrect link: You can sign up for Cochrane Collaboration accounts at the COCHRANE sign-up page. Cheers, Ocaasi 21:37, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi
I'm the Wikimedian in Residence for the Natural History Museum and Science Museum in London. The Science Museum have agreed to release 50 of it's images (at a medium resolution) under a Wikimedia compatible license. The 2 websites that the images would be available from are:
I'm hoping this is the start of something larger but could just be a one off so am trying to come up with a most wanted list.
I've started a list of images to release on my talk page, please feel free to add to it, I'd like to get over 50 so if there are any problems we still have a good list.
Mrjohncummings ( talk) 12:47, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
As there seems to be a small but growing number of people choosing to use their real names to edit, I've created {{ User real name}} to indicate it on your user page if you so wish. — Scott • talk 15:08, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
How do you expect adding sources etc if you lock up an article? Olmav ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 09:12, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
On Saturday 29 June there are several edit-a-thons organized in several countries in Europe with the subject World War I. This World War had Belgium as chess board so it is great to announce an edit-a-thon in Belgium. This event where new and existing users can write and expand articles is held in Leuven (Louvain). The location is KU Leuven - AGORA Leercentrum and is located at the E. Van Evenstraat 4 on 15 minutes walking from Leuven railway station.
An edit-a-thon is a (small) event where people come together and work on articles on a particular topic. Often such edit-a-thon is organized for people relatively new to Wikipedia and held at an organization.
Signing up is needed at wmbewikimedia.org
Be welcome! Romaine ( talk) 02:31, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
At the same time there will be an edit-a-thon in the Netherlands about the same subject, between 12:00 tot 17:00 in Doorn (near the city of Utrecht). More information at wmnl:WOI editathon. Romaine ( talk) 20:50, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
Are there any photographers who take pictures at Sheremetyevo airport? Edward Snowden's plane is landing at Sheremetyevo at 5:15PM Moscow time: http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1267261/snowden-leaves-hong-kong-commercial-flight-moscow - I'm not sure if that would be helpful to articles about Edward Snowden, but anyone thinks so, there's the hint: you can photograph Snowden's airplane as it lands
It's Aeroflot Flight#213 (as stated by the Hong Kong news article) - Aeroflot's website says
The aircraft should be an Airbus A330-300 as that is the equipment Flight 213 usually uses.
WhisperToMe ( talk) 12:34, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
As I understand it, Wikipedia is supposed to be ad-free. But in the last few days, I get large ads that slide onto close to a half of the content of what I am trying to read or edit on Wikipedia. I assume these are not condoned by Wikipedia, much less coming from it; how-ever, the only site where I get them is Wikipedia (right now, covering the top half of my screen is an ad that starts out "Dermatologist Hate Her." Can any-one clear this up (and away. preferably)? Do I have a worm or is this common to other computers?
When I just clicked on it, it went away only to immediately shortly pop up on the bottom right corner in a smaller version that slid away on its own. Kdammers ( talk) 09:48, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
hi!i do have a question regarding how the uk universities admit students.for highlight,i study in tanzania which is in africa,currently i am in my advanced level hoping to finish next year by GODS grace.i would like to join one of the universities in the united kingdom.so will there be any contradictions.or what are the processes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.73.220.26 ( talk) 06:58, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
I do believe that once I read somethre in the en-wiki that an IP editor (unregistered editor) received an admin flag. Now I cannot find it again. Is it true or is it my false memory? -- NeoLexx ( talk) 16:26, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
This bit of vandalism a year ago blanked a lot of content. It can't be quickly undone due to intervening edits. If someone has time to go unwind this, that would be great. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 20:22, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
See Talk:Sousveillance for an RFC which needs outside comment. Any additional comments would be useful to prevent an edit war and help provide resolution. Thanks. -- Jayron 32 23:47, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
Please note that Valentin Mandacanu has died on 29 october 2012. Scymso ( talk) 06:59, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
This week and the last ones, several students participating in the wikiArS initiative are publishing their works in Commons. Therefore we've new illustrations, infographies and animations that can be used in Wikipedia articles. We have also graphics useful for Wikispecies and two wikibooks for wikijunior. Look some of them below. And if you have ideas about image gaps in Wikipedia that could be wikiArS assignments next Academic Year, please ask for images. -- Dvdgmz ( talk) 16:58, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
Infographies about Naica Mine by Albertvila1 and Andreu
Scientific illustrations of extinct or in dangerous mammals
Animations by Damek, FedericaBri, C.calvo, Cristobalsanchezruiz, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Vázquez, Manuarteaga and Danitor1
Spanish writers portaits by Nuria nml and Hakima El Kaddouri
Catalan politicians portraits by Di.Francitorra
Tales for Children about Naica Mine in Catalan Wikijunior by Laia Sabán and CarolGC
This is incredibly late notice and I apologize for that. I put it on the central notice calendar (Meta) earlier but that isn't incredibly helpful for everyone here. For those that don't know I have been running the new Wikimedia Shop for the past year or so as it was slowly brought online and I'm now transitioning away from it to move into the Legal and Community Advocacy department because of needs there. The shop itself, and the Editor Giveaways will be moving into the fundraising team where they have a lot more bandwidth to keep it moving forward and to do the giveaways more consistently (rather then me doing it as I had rare time). That transition is expected to happen around the 1st of July. Sadly I was shanghaied into doing much of the technical setup for the current Wikimedia Elections and other LCA tasks and so some of the pieces of the end of my shop time (like this announcement) got away from me. I apologize profusely for that.
The public side of the shop, which does not make much money yet because we want to keep costs low and we don't advertise much, was always intended to subsidize the Editor Giveaways program. We did a push for Wikipedia Day in January with a flash sale for editors (10% off all products, 24 hours with a logged in banner worldwide) which basically brings it down to close to cost after the shipping subsidy we give (max $15 shipping for most orders up to 5-6 lbs anywhere in the world). This was followed the next day by a logged out (Anonymous) banner, for north americans (where the shipping is easiest) to help fund the giveaways.
Before I officially handed the shop off I wanted to go with one last hurrah:
The current plan (which may change a bit) is:
I'll be keeping an eye on this section, and am reachable by email. Please let me know if there are 'any' questions. Most of the feedback I got the only other time we tested this (it worked well) was very positive, so I'm hopeful it will go well with lessons learnt about banner size etc. However, if there is one thing I've learnt as a member of the community for 7+ years, I'm always learning more. Jalexander-- WMF 07:30, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
Friends, an RFC has been started to settle issues of punctuation around text in quotation marks. Keep WP:LQ as it is, or allow alternatives? Tony (talk) 09:19, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
does Frank Pick Warrant a Front Page ? ......
why do I care ? no historical social cultural or even political significance
Badly need to improve CHOICE of articles on Front Page ... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.179.39.251 ( talk) 00:46, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
I just noticed that there are now 2 ways to edit an article, the "edit source" way uses the familiar theme; the new theme now called "edit" is different. I have a problem with it. If you use the "edit source" option, there's an HTML comment at the top of Christine Jorgensen saying to use she/her to refer to Christine Jorgensen throughout her life. But with the new "edit" way of editing the article, no one will notice this HTML comment. People who prefer to edit with the new "edit" way of editing the article will change pronouns in this article the way they want to. Any thoughts?? Georgia guy ( talk) 23:26, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:94.193.68.7&action=history says it all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.193.68.7 ( talk) 11:21, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
There's a discussion of this at Talk:Sun Myung Moon. Specifically if the lede is based on newspaper stories should it use their wording? Or is it okay to use more "encyclopedic" wording? It would not make a really big difference for this article, but join in the discussion if you like. Steve Dufour ( talk) 00:12, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
Recently I came across an editor who was creating talk pages for redirects, and noting that most of our articles do not have talk pages, questioned the practice, and was directed to a discussion on a user talk page. I would recommend following the advice on the talkpage header template, do not create a talk page just to place this header here. As an editor, it is annoying to click on a talk page only to find that there is nothing there other than the headers. I know that we put project headers on talk pages, but I would recommend not doing that if that is the only content on the talk page. Talk pages should not be used to categorize articles, and certainly not used to categorize redirects. Apteva ( talk) 16:31, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
A friend has brought to my attention the following advertisement for a book called Pipil grammar, edited by Jesse Russell and Ronald Cohn (whoever they are), which has a circle on the cover that says "High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles!". It is published by "Bookvika publishing". The book is stated to be available from Barnes & Noble; its announced price is $19.95, it is a paperback, and there is a 3% discount for ordering online, giving a final price of $19.26. There are four lines of "descriptive text" on the page. The text corresponds exactly to the opening lines of the Wikipedia article titled "Pipil grammar". It is a longish article which was substantially written by me single-handed a few years ago and naturally has since been improved through (as far as I know, only occasional) edits by fellow-Wikipedians. I think it is fair to say that in a moral sense I am the author of the work (or main co-author if you like). Now I am aware that Wikipedia is a collective product and editors of articles do not hold a legal copyright in a strict sense. On the other hand, I did not know that writing in Wikipedia gave other individuals the right to publish commercially the free content of the articles one has written with the intention of making it available free of charge to everyone! Is this in order? What is happening here? This seems to raise a number of questions. First of all I'd like to know what Wikipedia's policy is on this and what connection, if any, there is between Wikipedia itself and such commercial enterprises. E.g. is this happening with Wikipedia's knowledge and permission, or is it a rogue action, or is this even Wikipedia's own doing? What is the copyright status of the resulting publication, what rights do the so-called "editors" (the ones named on the cover of the commercial book, I mean) hold, and what (competing?) rights might I have as the actual source of the material? As it happens I am very active in the Pipil language and Pipil grammar, and there is a real possibility that I might want to publish a proper book titled "Pipil grammar" in the foreseeable future containing my own work. Am I now going to have to compete against a compilation of (ultimately) my own writing produced by a third party and also called "Pipil grammar"? Or even be accused of plagiarizing myself?? I'd appreciate anybody's clarifications, advice or comments. Thanks. A R King ( talk) 07:38, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for your answers. Not totally reassuring perhaps, but I do understand the viewpoints involved, though some of the imaginable results do still seem a bit ludicrous, but maybe I just need to get my head around it... Being all for freely sharing knowledge myself (which is why I contribute to Wikipedia), I am not averse to this, just wary of being a victim of a genuine rip-off that would damage my bonafide (and non-commercial) interests. -- A R King ( talk) 17:50, 7 July 2013 (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.
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 22 July 2013.
For the Arbitration Committee, — ΛΧΣ 21 22:03, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
WebCite is going to close. if we would be able to save dead internet links anymore => we have to cancel Wikipedia:Verifiability as completely meanles and stupid! ( Idot ( talk) 13:29, 8 July 2013 (UTC))
Please connect the english article of Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko to the russian one. Thank you Scymso ( talk) 17:47, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
Moonraker ( talk · contribs) ( notified) makes a mass replacement of “likely” with “probably”. I think it is a silly stylistic tweak making texts to sound more scientifically but without actual sense, and shall be stopped and reverted. Incnis Mrsi ( talk) 07:14, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
They seem like synonyms to me, so there's no reason to replace them. Likely or probably things must be sourced, remember. -- NaBUru38 ( talk) 15:30, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
There is presently a banner popping up requesting donations. It advises that Wikipedia does not use ads (which is fine) but it also states that Wikipedia does not use/receive and government funding. My question is (if I may ask it here) is; Why Not? If there were any kind of government funds (ie: grants, etc.) that were available, with no strings attached, why would Wikipedia not pursue this means of income? Nobody wants ad banners blinking across the pages, but I know I wouldn't mind a small notation somewhere that read something like "Sponsored in part by the U.S. Dept. of Education", instead of these huge pop-ups asking for money every few months. Anybody? - thewolfchild 00:02, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
I'm seeing this in Australia when I log out. It says
“ | Dear Wikipedia readers: We are the small non-profit that runs the #5 website in the world. We have only 150 staff but serve 450 million users, and have costs like any other top site: servers, power, programs, and staff. Wikipedia is something special. It is like a library or a public park. It is like a temple for the mind, a place we can all go to think and learn. To protect our independence, we'll never run ads. We take no government funds. We survive on donations averaging about $30. Now is the time we ask. If everyone reading this gave $3, our fundraiser would be done within an hour. If Wikipedia is useful to you, take one minute to keep it online and ad-free another year. Please help us forget fundraising and get back to Wikipedia. Thank you. | ” |
It has mixed messages, saying "To protect our independence, we'll never run ads" but then "If Wikipedia is useful to you, take one minute to keep it online and ad-free another year" (emphasis added), and Jimmy says "I could have made it into a for-profit company with advertising banners, but decided to do something different.". Being ad-free is non-negotiable according to the Jimmy mantra; it isnt a year by year decision, right..? (worried look). But what is more annoying is that in many countries Wikipedia is funded by government grants, subsidies, etc. Those government funds don't go towards the servers and the WMF staff, but they do go towards programs and staff in those countries. e.g. just last week in Australia, 'Wikipedia' has just won a government research grant (its more complicated than than: see the bottom of Signpost NaN), and there are quite a few US academics also being funded to research Wikipedia, but in some countries the relationship between the government funding and Wikipedia is much more direct. John Vandenberg ( chat) 12:21, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi, guys. :) The Fundraising team has discussed their reasoning here at meta:Fundraising 2013. July is the start of the fiscal year at the WMF, and as they explain there they are experimenting with spreading donations out more throughout the year. Just one banner is being deployed to ~5% of readers. They explain some of their main goals there:
- We're aiming to reach more readers throughout the year (not just people who visit in the few weeks that we run banners at the end of the year).
- We can get into the fun part of the fundraiser (A/B testing, finding issues, testing tech improvements live, learning about our readers, etc).
- Instead of being a mad scramble at the end of the year, we get to ramp up consistently and make improvements year-round.
- The fundraising team can work & improve with more consistent roles throughout the year.
-- Maggie Dennis (WMF) ( talk) 01:59, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
Clear as mud. Thanks for all the replies everybody. - thewolfchild 16:54, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
There is an RFC that may be of interest to this group at Talk:Gun_control#RFC. Subject of the RFC is "Is the use of gun restriction legislation or other confiscations by totalitarian governments (Nazi, Communist etc) accurately described as "Gun Control". Are such instances appropriate for inclusion in the Gun Control article. (Details at RFC in article)" Gaijin42 ( talk) 15:59, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
See for yourself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BuddyBixby419 ( talk • contribs) 11:24, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
OK, thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BuddyBixby419 ( talk • contribs) 17:33, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Let's say the author is Kimberly Dillon Summers, last=Summers|first=Kimberly; then we just drop Dillon? Since there is no middle=, I think maybe the instructions are lacking in the 'what to do with the middle' department? -- 82.170.113.123 ( talk) 22:25, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
I'm a close friend of his mother and I don't feel comfortable tearing out all the puffery myself for personal political reasons, but every time I see the page, I cringe. - Richfife ( talk) 00:06, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi, can you all direct me to any research on new article fates? Maybe
Thanks in advance and I realize different people may structure the questions differently, so whatever is out there, appreciate it.
TCO ( talk) 19:34, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
I am not finding it. I just see a page for a trial that never ran. (P.s. Don't mean to be all "peel me a grape" but if anyone has the scoop, please ping me. This board is too active to watch.) TCO ( talk) 05:11, 14 July 2013 (UTC)
I am not sure just how prevalent this problem is, but for just one acronym I've already found two cases: [18] [19]. Perhaps an edit filter should be set up to detect these? They represent a regretable loss of information that could go undetected for years (almost four years for my second link). -- Njardarlogar ( talk) 08:17, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
(I figures I'd ask this here. If there's a better place, I'm sure some helpful editor will let me know)
I have a question regarding the use of symbols as indicators of the increase or decrease of a value or ranking in an infobox. There is widespread contradictory use of these symbols. For example, on some pages;
To me, this seems to be the appropriate way to use these symbols. I have found them used this way on most articles. Examples: Facebook, IBM, ExxonMobil and Chrysler.
However, other pages are using the symbols as follows;
Here it appears that the wider end of the symbol is used to indicate "greater" while the narrow end is used to indicate "lesser", (like an upright version of the mathematical symbols), with the "greater" end indicating an increase in monetary value or a higher ranking on a list, while the "lesser" end indicates a decreased monetary value or a lower ranking on a list. I find this to be a somewhat confusing use for these symbols, (even the templates show the contradictions) and have only found them on fewer articles. Examples: Craigslist, Workopolis, Wikitravel and The Smoking Gun.
Can we determine just what is the proper use of these symbols, then set that as the standard for all WP articles? Thanks, - thewolfchild 04:28, 14 July 2013 (UTC)
From Mind control "(Undoing Revision Is Not Fair In That Secret Information Held By Governments Cannot Be Sourced!)" - BayShrimp ( talk) 01:17, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
I've asked for opinions at administrators' noticeboard regarding restricting an admin's use of specific admin tools - as a sanction less dramatic or draconian than de-sysop. There seems to be general agreement that ArbCom can impose limited restrictions on an admin's tool use. We are exploring whether the community (as opposed to ArbCom) may do that and, if so, whether and how the community should do that. (To keep the discussion in one place, please comment there, not here.) -- Anthonyhcole ( talk · contribs · email) 07:26, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I'm not English native speaker and I want to write longer articles (expanding the current ones or bringing new articles to Wikipedia). However, I know that my English is with grammar mistakes. Is there any page or category, in which I could mention such a article to be reviewed by native speaker? (I mean only for longer articles, not for short sentences and paragraphs). Thanks a lot -- Quar ( talk) 10:33, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
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The images above are described as copyrighted and fair-use materials, but I don't think so. The images are simple combinations of national and regional flags/arms, so I think their statuses must be changed into "public domains."
How do you think about it? -- Wikipean ( talk) 15:28, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi all. While gnoming around at WP:NPP, I noticed that a number of incoming articles about western fine arts paintings included external links to a purely commercial website, wahooart.com. See:
At present, there are... well, I can't count them, but a
large number of articles that include an "en.wahooart.com/x..." external link. I'm in the process of removing them all.
Your thoughts? --
Shirt58 (
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11:51, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
There's a discussion going on at WikiProject Spaceflight regarding whether logos are recognisable to casual readers. If anyone has time (particularly users with no expertise in this field), please could you have a look at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spaceflight\RTest and see if you can identify any of the logos. Thanks -- W. D. Graham 10:51, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
The Iron Lady M. Thatcher has died aged 87 due to a stroke. -- Borvo ( talk) 12:05, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
WebCite is threatening to close down if they don't meet fundraising goals. See their front page for details. Should we start looking for a replacement or... what? -- N Y Kevin 03:24, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
A new WikiProject for Admin Nominators has been created, to support all editors interested in acting as nominators for potential administrators via the Requests for Adminship process. The project is an outcome of a successful proposal in round 2 of the recent RfC on reforming RfA. Anyone interested in nominating, whether or not they have any experience, is very welcome to join. Espresso Addict ( talk) 18:41, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
The TOC at Help:Redirect is being confused by the HTML markup used to emulate what a redirect page looks like. I've tried
But nothing fixes it.— Cpiral Cpiral 01:14, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
Ahhh. John of Reading mentioned {{ fake heading}} on the talk page, and it worked. — Cpiral Cpiral 17:10, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
Here are my recommendations to make Wikipedia a better environment: 1) I think anyone who commits slander, libel or makes false accusations in a deletion discussion should be suspended for 30 days. As I read through comments during the deletion discussions. As I read through other various article entries but what was more shocking was in deletion review. I saw a lot of acidic commentary that was in clear violation of wikiettiquette. However, just calling them on it and reminding them of this policy doesn't see to take affect.
2) In the deletion review, administrators should know the policies: IP address entries do have a say in a deletion discussions.
3) realize that the wiki-environment skews "negative" and because of this, in deletion discussions someone giving two word answers like "Delete - self-promotion" versus someone who writes entire paragraphs to "keep with justified cause" put in more effort should have weighted value.
4) I got a pvt message from an LGBT Wiki-contributor that was rather upsetting. They stated that the environment was too toxic for them to remain and they were part of the review process for LGBT materials. Who do I share this email with? I am finding that what the general wiki-public sites for deletion by a majority might be very significant to a minory group. You are claiming fairness by opening discussion to the LGBT group but that group is hollow if people are leaving it because they are tired of constantly being attacked.
5)You should appoint "wiki-mentors" for new contributors because right now you throw them in with the lions and they get beaten down by rather harsh wording. There should be two mentors assigned for a month to each new contributor to guide them through the maze. Wikipedia contribution is a very overwhelming and arduous task.
Desaderal
Desaderal (
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05:09, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
Excuse me, could someone, who have got rights for blocking, block this user? It has been vandalized Skylanders: Swap Force despite I've been warned It about vandalism and looks like It is not gonna stop that without blocking. -- Santtu37 ( talk) 05:57, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
Is Wikipedia aware that "town pump" or "village pump" is a slang term for a slut? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.66.14.72 ( talk) 15:30, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
The "W" logo that Wikipedia uses when a browser tab is open looks slightly different now than it did about 30 minutes ago. Is it just my browser or did Wikipedia make some changes to their text/font? 24.90.152.15 ( talk) 02:35, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
I like the pop-up windows that show up when I click on a bibliographic reference call [n], but I'm not good enough with CSS to duplicate the process. I can get in-line material to show up in this manner, but not things stored neatly at a distance. Is it possible to read your CSS files? Ferren ( talk) 08:05, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
There is a request for comment how much weight should be given to the Clean Water Act Trial in the BP article. Your input is appreciated. Beagel ( talk) 08:17, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
I am conducting a survey at the link above to accomplish two things. First, I hope to gather a list of some potential future candidates interested in cratship. Second, I hope to be able to use the results of the survey as solid evidence of how admins view the RfB process and what factors cause the very low amount of activity. Anyone is welcome to comment, but the input of admins is particularly desired. Regards, AutomaticStrikeout ( T • C • Sign AAPT) 14:58, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
This question came up in conversation. So, I've made Wikipedia:Articles with the most references, with a few items to start off. Please expand it, and we'll see what patterns, if any, emerge. — Hex (❝?!❞) 17:07, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
We would appreciate a couple more reviews about a "Did You Know" nomination for the Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar. Thank you - Nabla ( talk) 10:43, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
Should a photo gallery be removed? See Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Request_board#List_of_sopranos_in_non-classical_music GeorgeLouis ( talk) 17:35, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
The Wikipedia:Most missed articles -- often searched for, nonexistent articles -- has not been updated since a batch run in 2008. The German Wikipedia person, Melancholie ( de:Benutzer:Melancholie) who did the batch run has not been active since 2009. Where would be a good place to ask for someone with expertise to do another run? It does not seem to fit the requirements of Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) since it is not a technical issue about Wikipedia. It is not a new proposal, and not a new idea. It is not about help using Wikipedia, and it is not a factual WP:Reference Desk question. I didn't find a WikiProject that looked promising. So I am asking for direction here. -- Bejnar ( talk) 22:33, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
Can I blog & discuss about my WP experieces here at WP? I expect it to be a page at my userspace. - DePiep ( talk) 20:46, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
Why are people placed into categories at the bottom of pages such as "People from Brooklyn" when they were only born in that location and that's it? For example I myself am "from Brooklyn". I grew up here my entire life and if someone asks me where I'm from I say Brooklyn NY. I was born however in San Diego and moved to Brooklyn when I was a few weeks old. Apparently under Wikipedia's logic I would be a person "from San Diego" even though that makes no sense and I never would tell a person I'm from San Diego.
Another thing I've noticed regarding this issue is a celebrity who grew up say in Texas from 1-25 years old then moves to Brooklyn and has lived there for 2 years. They also get put into the "People from Brooklyn" category even though they're clearly from Texas. Can someone please answer these 2 questions? Thank you very much.
24.193.127.141 ( talk) 04:52, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
Can someone please answer my questions regarding this Wikipedia category placement issue? Thanks. 24.193.127.141 ( talk) 16:19, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
Naburu38 didn't answer either of my questions. He/she only commented. I'd appreciate if someone who's more knowledgable about Wikipedia policies could help me out.. 24.193.127.141 ( talk) 19:11, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
"Because we believe this is more helpful to readers than the alternative" - so what is the alternative then? Notice how you didn't address either of my questions with your vague response.
Also who exactly is "we"? What high-IQ Wikipedia people are deciding that a person should be placed into a "people from" location category when they were solely born there but have nothing to do with that geographic location and were raised somewhere else? 24.193.127.141 ( talk) 02:21, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
A lot more discretion could be used however when placing a person into a "people from" category. Many times I have read Wikipedia articles where the location category the person is placed in doesn't match where they were raised or grew up, but does match the particular location the person was born in. 24.193.127.141 ( talk) 03:28, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
You can add musical notation through the use <score></score>
.
Like this
<score>\relative c' { f d f a d f e d cis a cis e a g f e }</score>
gives
See more details : [3] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xmlizer ( talk • contribs) 22:06, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
{{
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updated: {{
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gives <
score>
which links to the extension page. --
Gadget850 (Ed)
talk
22:17, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
WhatamIdoing ( talk) 22:35, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
Test:
Cool! BTW, what is the legal situation for small excerpts of contemporary music?-- Atlasowa ( talk) 12:42, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
I tried to figure out how to use userboxes and went to Wikipedia:Userboxes. The first section there, Wikipedia:Userboxes#Using existing userboxes, begins with
so I went to look at that page, figuring I'd get more info. But I didn't, because the content is identical.
This is not a new situation, I found. There's just one entry on the talk page, Wikipedia talk:Userboxes/Using existing#Delete?; note the date:
I tried to fix it, but
I gave up and undid my edits. It's too big a mess, and it's too late in the evening for me. I'm also not prepared to deal with the bureaucratic tangles of trying to propose an article for deletion that's already been PRODded and rejected. But this is really, really bad practice in too many ways, and should be fixed. Thnidu ( talk) 02:55, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
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Hello!
There is a new request for comment on Meta-Wiki concerning the removal of administrative rights from long-term inactive Wikimedians. Generally, this proposal from stewards would apply to wikis without an administrators' review process.
We are also compiling a list of projects with procedures for removing inactive administrators on the talk page of the request for comment. Feel free to add your project(s) to the list if you have a policy on administrator inactivity.
All input is appreciated. The discussion may close as soon as 21 May 2013 (2013-05-21), but this will be extended if needed.
Thanks, Billinghurst (thanks to all the translators!) 04:33, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
It seems to me some editors confuse ancestors and descedants, ancestry and descendance: take a look at Magnus_Barefoot#Ancestry which in fact lists descendants of Magnus III. What do you think? (And it seems to me this is not the first time I've seen something like this on WP). Signed: Basemetal (write to me here) 18:03, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
There is currently a Request for Comment on Meta here about links to sister projects, currently accomplished by means of a template at the bottom of each page. Integration with Wikidata is also being discussed there. – Ypnypn ( talk) 18:12, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
I was going to go to Wikipedia:Wikiquette assistance, but I found out that that page is obsolete. Where should I go instead?? Georgia guy ( talk) 15:49, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
(copied from Talk:Bengali language#Spoken and literary varieties: spellings, articles, sections)
The spellings "Choltibhasha" and "Shadhubhasha" seem to be in more common use in English than the spellings (and pronunciation) "Cholito bhasha" and "Shadhu-bhasha". I've changed them accordingly at the heads of the bullet points in Bengali language#Spoken and literary varieties, mentioning alternate forms in parens. I've also added a redirect page Shadhubhasha → Shadhu-bhasha.
In general, the spellings are chaotic and should be cleaned up. Further, the beginning text of Bengali dialects#Spoken and literary variants is almost identical to that of Bengali language#Spoken and literary varieties (in this article), but diverges a lot after the bullets, and this article's section has far more references. ISTM that the two sections should be merged, and one transcluded into the other. -- Thnidu ( talk) 17:46, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
Someone just put a warning comment notice on my Talk page that I am engaged in an edit war, reverting without comment.
I am not engaged in an edit war. I have not reverted anything.
I did edit the article for Books LLC to add a note that it was a "controversial" press whose main methodology was copying and binding Wikipedia articles, which is completely true and is even cited in the refences which are already there (which was why I felt little need to add more references, besides which the formatting on that article is so eye-blurring I would be hard pressed to insert a new reference properly).
I am being threatened with being blocked from editing "if I persist."
Please look at my editing history and the history of the Books LLC page.
I believe these charges to be inaccurate, and I am seriously concerned that my good name as a Wikipedia editor is being unjustly threatened.
Artemis-Arethusa ( talk) 21:37, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
The issue of these two Categories is being discussed on the WP:Categorization/Noticeboard at American novelists vs. American women novelists. The matter has received quite a bit of notice recently in the news off-Wiki, with Tweets from Amy Tan & other authors plus columns in the New York Times, The New Stateman, NPR, The Independent, etc. Just Google "Wikipedia American women novelists" and see what you come up with. I think this issue should be discussed by the Wikipedia editorial community at large so have posted this courtesy notice here at the Village pump. The Cat. Noticeboard does seem to be the appropriate forum and there doesn't seem to be any other place within the encyclopedia where the matter has been brought up. Thanks, Shearonink ( talk) 19:59, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
Pardon my ignorance here, but is there a way to send web crawlers a 'disallow' message when they are searching an editor's Wikipedia user space? I don't particularly want search engines posting results from my draft work. Thank you. Praemonitus ( talk) 00:41, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
{{
NOINDEX}}
. Signed:
Basemetal (write to me
here)
04:39, 28 April 2013 (UTC){{
Userspace draft}}
, which does a NOINDEX and also informs readers that they are looking at a draft.
EdJohnston (
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03:42, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
The page view stats on Depression (mood) started declining in a very peculiar way on the 15th. [4] Is this happening on other articles? -- Anthonyhcole ( talk · contribs · email) 13:37, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
Some accounts will soon be renamed due to a technical change that the developer team at Wikimedia are making. More details on Meta.
(Distributed via global message delivery 03:30, 30 April 2013 (UTC). Wrong page? Correct it here.)
The default position of the "edit" link in page section headers is going to change soon. The "edit" link will be positioned adjacent to the page header text rather than floating opposite it.
Section edit links will be to the immediate right of section titles, instead of on the far right. If you're an editor of one of the wikis which already implemented this change, nothing will substantially change for you; however, scripts and gadgets depending on the previous implementation of section edit links will have to be adjusted to continue working; however, nothing else should break even if they are not updated in time.
Detailed information and a timeline is available on meta.
Ideas to do this all the way to 2009 at least. It is often difficult to track which of several potential section edit links on the far right is associated with the correct section, and many readers and anonymous or new editors may even be failing to notice section edit links at all, since they read section titles, which are far away from the links.
(Distributed via global message delivery 18:20, 30 April 2013 (UTC). Wrong page? Correct it here.)
The (unused) {{ Criticism title}} cleanup template message suggests the use of the word 'Criticism' in an article title is non-neutral. There are a number of articles that use 'Criticism' in their title, including Criticism of religion, Criticism of Islam, Criticism of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Criticism of capitalism, Criticism of Apple Inc., Criticism of government response to Hurricane Katrina, Criticism of Google, and Criticism of the Israeli government. I am unclear whether the template is standard policy or not. WP:POVNAMING suggests renaming "Criticism..." to something like "Society's view of...". What should be the proper approach here? Thanks. Praemonitus ( talk) 23:57, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
There's nothing inherently non-neutral about "criticism of xxx" as long as the article is a description of criticism of the subject based on reliable secondary sources that describe such criticism, rather than our article itself consisting of such criticism based on primary sources that criticise the subject. I'm sure that many of our criticism articles don't live up to this ideal. Phil Bridger ( talk) 18:46, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
There's nothing inherently non-neutral about "criticism of xxx", just as there is no reason you can't stand a knife in its tip. As we, Wikipedia, reflect the sources, and we do not engage in any critical commentary ourselves, I think we should try to title such sections as "[So and so's] criticism of xxx" to emphasize to editors and potential editors alike that the criticism is not from us. -- SmokeyJoe ( talk) 02:17, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
On Jimbo's talk page, User Rd232 said they'd like to put something to our readership. I've got something I'd like to ask them, too, so I've started Wikipedia:Requests for comment/English Wikipedia readership survey 2013. -- Anthonyhcole ( talk · contribs · email) 17:19, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
Recently citation templates like {{
cite web}}, {{
cite journal}} and {{
cite book}} have been rewritten in Lua, and have more options. The number of authors is unlimited (was: 9). While all authors can be entered, we can set |displayauthors=n
to limit the number that is shown on the page (all still are available for metadata like
COinS). All very good. My question is: what is a good number to show? Is there a rule of thumb? Some publications have 30 to 40 authors (see
Ununoctium with
this citation: 30 authors), and having them on the page is a bit too much. any suggestions? -
DePiep (
talk)
13:25, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
|displayauthors={{{displayauthors|}}}
in the template. We should also be recording the author full first names, and using |authorformat=vanc
to truncate if desired. This allows full population into the COinS metadata. --
Gadget850
talk
13:40, 28 April 2013 (UTC)|displayauthors={{{displayauthors|n}}}
, n being the number I am looking for here.|displayauthors={{{displayauthors|{{template other||n}}}}}
, to show the full list in template space. -
DePiep (
talk)
15:13, 28 April 2013 (UTC)|type=
instead of |format=
, for example.|displayauthors=
/|displayeditors=
. As things are now, the reader has to find the citation in the article source text or, as in the case of DePiep's citation, know to look at the template. This, of course, is probably not the right place to discuss this idea.|displayauthors=m
. -
DePiep (
talk)
16:37, 28 April 2013 (UTC)|displayauthors=
, then shalt thou specify three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number of authors thou shalt specify, and the number of the authors displayed shall be three. Four shalt thou not use, neither use thou two, excepting that thou then change to three. Five and more is right out. (An adaptation of Monty Python's
Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch apologies to them.)What happened to Special:ActiveUsers? It seems to have gone defunct, but why? -- Theurgist ( talk) 12:16, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
When placing double brackets around a word what would be an appropriate or useful edit summary? I searched Wikipedia for an answer but could not find one. All I could find was something about "red links" aka WP:RED but what I'm inquiring about is creating "blue links" when placing brackets around a specific word/words. 24.90.154.201 ( talk) 04:19, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
I just removed a use of Template:smallcaps at the beginning of Brumalia because it wasn't giving the desired result.
The first sentence included
"V" for capital u in Latin is perfectly reasonable, as they were forms of the same letter. But in modern lowercase it's ridiculous.
The wikicode was
{{lang-la|{{smallcaps|''Brvmalia''}}}}
which should have worked. The template documentation warns to use it sparingly, and that it will not work right in certain circumstances. It looks as if I've found another such. But I don't want to modify the documentation; I'd rather leave that to someone who knows more (than zero!) about how the template works. Further, I haven't tested this problem beyond my own laptop (a MacBook Air running Lion), with Firefox 20.0, Safari 6.0.4, and Chrome 26.0.1410.65. -- Thnidu ( talk) 02:25, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
<span class="smallcaps" style="font-variant:small-caps;">Test</span>
produces Test{{lang-la|{{smallcaps|Brvmalia}}}}
gives
Latin: Brvmalia.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
02:43, 5 May 2013 (UTC)While editing Nocturnal Neurosis (band) I was quite startled when one of the external links that I clicked on played a loud and harsh screeching sound (one of the artist's songs). We have icons that show up if an EL is a PDF, icons to label foreign language ELs, and other templates that label possibly troublesome aspects of external links. But I didn't find any that notify the reader "Hey, if you visit this external link, that page is going to automatically play some audio". Is there any template like that?-- Atlantima ~✿~ ( talk) 15:49, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
-- Atlantima ~✿~ ( talk) 17:33, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
There are two disambiguation pages for Clinton Park:
There is also something wrong with the entries for the section on the neighborhood park in Clinton Park, Houston.
I would appreciate it if some clever editor would straighten out this situation. There should be only one disambiguation page, and there should be a link to the neighborhood park in Houston. -- DThomsen8 ( talk) 01:42, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
IRC office hours about Flow on 9 May
In #wikimedia-office on 9 May, 1800-1900 UTC, Brandon Harris (senior designer at WMF) will lead a discussion of Flow, an upcoming change in the wiki discussion interface.Flow involves replacing user talk pages.
He will be showing an interactive prototype so you can try it out, and we want to hear your feedback. Please come! If that time doesn't work, please let us know what times will work.
Please spread the word to your communities! Thanks. Sharihareswara (WMF) ( talk) 21:52, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
Discussing this here, because the template talk page in question hasn't seen any activity since 2006....
The image for {{ User wikipedia/NP Patrol}} is terrible.
People who do new page patrolling aren't police officers. This grumpy cop (even worse when viewed at full size) making a "HALT!" gesture is not friendly or encouraging, which is how we should be to new editors; even if they've made a new page that isn't very good. How would you feel if, as a new user, totally unfamiliar with Wikipedia culture, you received a message from someone, and went to their user page — only to see this? Can we please, together, find a better image to represent this activity. — Scott • talk 11:21, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Sample template using the icon embedded above:
Praemonitus ( talk) 23:20, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
Hey! It must be a problem with {{ Infobox Olympic bid}}. As you can see in Medellín bid for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics, it says XXIII Olympic Winter Games, can someone fix it, please? Sorry if this is not the right place to post this. Thanks, --· × α£đ· es 02:08, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
If so, please correct this abominable translation that I got off Google in a time of desperate need. Thanks! — TORTOISE WRATH 03:17, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I'm not really sure if this is the right place for this (Or if there is a right place anywhere for it), but I am trying to conduct a brief survey of Wikipedia users for a sociology class. If anyone could take a few minutes to take it, then it would be much appreciated. The Survey is only 8 questions and is confidential. If I shouldn't be posting this here, I'm sorry. Is there another place for general purpose discussion? Thanks.
-- Passerby30 ( talk) 03:39, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
I took the survey. Let us know how your class assignment turns out! -- Atlantima ~✿~ ( talk) 15:45, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
I typed an impossible word to generate the template text when trying to create another article. Just to show the text where the full stop at the end after the question mark should be deleted. I cannot find the template name (or the automatic text) on my own, so I can't edit the text. So, don't create the article Beletirxkh of course.
This is the jpg of the text (internetlink)
Dartelaar [write me!] 09:39, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
Sorry to post this here, but I'm not computer-literate and have given up on figuring out what all these cute link names mean.
Somebody who knows how to do it should put some kind of disambiguation notice on the "Eastern Congo Initiative" page to distinguish that NGO from the Congo Initiative ( http://www.congoinitiative.org/), a similar but unrelated NGO based in Wisconsin and affiliated in some fashion with the Université Chrétien Bilingue du Congo, in Beni, Kivu-Nord, DR Congo. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.155.175.147 ( talk) 15:05, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
Here's an interesting PhysOrg article about correlations between numbers of Wikipedia article reads and fluctuations in the stock market.
The study suggests that significant profit margins could be produced from the data. The implications for Wikipedia may be concerning. Praemonitus ( talk) 00:53, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
Once you transclude or substitute something, nothing attributes the content to the original authors as required by cc-by-sa. Everytime we click save, it says that we agree a link is enough attribution, however, transclusion doesn't even do that. We are violating our own copyrights. Ramaksoud2000 ( Talk to me) 00:00, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
There is an RfC at List of gymnasts which is not attracting any opinions so far. The discussion is about the future look and feel of this list, and I commend it to you. The list is currently good. It could be better. Your opinion will help that. Fiddle Faddle ( talk) 08:51, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
For the very first time, the UK community will be competing in the annual Wiki Loves Monuments competition in September. This is a community-led effort, with support from the UK chapter, Wikimedia UK. A number of volunteers have already expressed interest in helping to organize the contest, but there is much to be done and many more volunteers are needed, both now and over the coming few months.
If you would like to contribute towards making our first ever competition the great success we expect it to be, please visit Commons:Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in the United Kingdom and leave your name there. Even if you are only able to offer us moral support, or want to take part as photographer in September, please leave your details anyway. You need not be based in the UK to help. -- MichaelMaggs ( talk) 15:31, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
Do we have a project or noticeboard where we can ask for help with adding IPA characters? I looked at Help:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(pronunciation)#Entering_IPA_characters, and I don't see such a place mentioned. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:59, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
In File:Journal de Bruxelles nr 167 1800 (614, 615).png (colom 1) I read that French prisoners where mistreated in Portchester. I suspect they where held in Portchester castle. Strangely there is talk of a French commissioner being responsible for the mistreatment. Was it usual that the responsibility of the treatment of prisoners was by the country of the prisoners? This seams strange to me. Smiley.toerist ( talk) 10:20, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
zh:Wikipedia:首页, it's a new homepage. -- Qiyue2001 ( talk) 09:19, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
I just came across pilkipedia. I wonder if anyone on the Wiki thinks that there may be copyright implications here. Does Wikipedia have copyright on its presentation style. I think it does. Anyone looking at this site would surely agree that it is a blatant rip-off of the Wikipedia style. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jodosma ( talk • contribs) 02:54, 18 May 2013
I just came across a category that has different issues with many of the articles in it. It may be too much for the photography project to handle. Details are in my new post at Category talk:Photography by genre. We probably don't need to discuss it here but I thought I would add the link so others can provide input or put it on watch lists. I also posted similar at the photography project. If it needs to be linked elsewhere or moved then feel free to do so or discuss a move there.-- Canoe1967 ( talk) 16:20, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
This is a general question best illustrated by an example; should music group The Dead Lay Waiting be in
It started in the first, I moved it to the second, and it has now been moved to the third. I'm sure musical groups do not count as organisations; but do they count as people... GrahamHardy ( talk) 22:46, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
We have a new tool, Forward to Libraries, which helps readers find books at their local library related to the articles they are reading. There is an RfC at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Linking subjects to books at your local library (Forward to Libraries) to determine how this tool should be used on Wikipedia. Users that are interested may wish to comment there. 64.40.54.57 ( talk) 01:27, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
In 2007 an editor created a page Samblanay based on material from the 1911 Britannica. The article he used was titled "Samblançay" but that editor, being from Singapore, thought probably that the French "cé cédille" (ç) was some sort of unimportant decoration. Check the first version of the page for more creative spellings, which you can compare with its source the article "Samblançay" in the 1911 Britannica. Ok, mistakes do happen. But for 6 years that page has been around without anyone noticing. I did because I followed today's DYK Gibbet of Montfaucon and one thing led to another. So the completely spurious "Samblanay" form has had time to spread through the Internet. A Google search today returned 1230 hits. I did not check all of them, but all of them that I did check go back to that original 2007 Wikipedia blunder, including stuff on Facebook and in Wikipedia material repackaged and resold by outfits of the kind you are probably familiar with. Another collateral damage of "Wikipedia the encyclopedia that anyone can edit". I wonder how many other good stories like this one are out there. If there are enough we may even write a Wikipedia article about them! Contact Basemetal here 20:23, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello. We have a discussion on surveys and opinion polls in this article. Any comment will be helpful. Thanks. Farhikht ( talk) 11:14, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
Please comment on the ongoing replacement of {{ Infobox musical artist}} with {{ Infobox orchestra}} at Template talk:Infobox orchestra#Use of this infobox. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:27, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
The nl:WP will soon be the second-largest wikipedia. Why? The use bots to create articles about animals. What do you think when you hear that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.82.13.65 ( talk) 13:36, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
Hey guys how are you doing? While getting involved with Brazilian Wikipedia community, I got access to some very interesting data. According to Wkimedia stats, whereas there are 22 English-speaker-editors per million, there are only 5 Portuguese-speaker-editors. That said, I was thinking of good strategies to improve editors' participation, to increase the number of editors and to convert more readers into editors (only 3% of Wikipedia Portuguese readers are also editors).
I know that Wikipedia in Enlish is a huge community and that you might face or have faced that very same problem. That said, I would very much appreciate if you could share some strategies/projects that have worked in English-speaking countries, in terms of tackling the aforementioned challenges.
I believe that cross-country collaboration among wikipedist has the potential of spreading good solutions! Phelps246 ( talk) 06:10, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
On Saturday 29 June there are European edit-a-thon planned in several countries with the subject World War I. This World War had Belgium as chess board so it would be great and a good idea to organize a an edit-a-thon in Belgium.
An edit-a-thon is a (small) event where people come together and work on articles on a particular topic. Often such edit-a-thon is organized for people relatively new to Wikipedia and held at an organization.
Conclusion: the only work is in finding an organization.
I am not aware of other museums/etc, anyone? Another possibility is a university with a history faculty. Which universities have such?
For this purpose I have created the page:
meta:World War I edit-a-thons/Belgium
Be welcome!
Romaine ( talk) 16:20, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi.
Just to ask a question, but why are the text in a lot of SVG images written in Segoe UI font?
Worst regards, Greek Fellows". Visit ma talk page and ma contributions. 13:37, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello! My name is Constance and I am personally committed to increasing visibility and overall accessibility to dance. I feel that this can be achieved primarily by making sure that specific dance artists/organizations have a page and by adding have links to their works.
Since I am new to this site, I've already taken the time to browse through the Help and Tutorial pages. However, I am hoping for additional advice from anyone on how I can be more effective with making this happen. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Harrisco1122 ( talk • contribs) 20:01, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
Not sure if there is somewhere better to post this other than the template talk page [where no one else has commented]; if so, feel free to point out, and apologies.
I'm proposing a modified version of the template/menu that appears at the top of (most) noticeboards, and of many other pages. The proposed new version is here: Template talk:Noticeboard links/Draft. Comments are welcomed at Template talk:Noticeboard links. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 00:17, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
I was editing an article on the Edinburgh International Festival and created a link to the Renaissance poet Sir David Lyndsay. I then noticed that the link was bringing up the David Lyndsay disambiguation page. I then moved the David Lyndsay page I was interested in targeting to David Lyndsay (poet) (to differentiate it) and amended existing redirects. I then discovered that entering 'David Lyndsay' in the Wikipedia general search box was skipping the disambiguation page entirely and leading directly to the David Lyndsay, the poet. This is hardly satisfactory for those seeking other David Lyndsays. I've tried some reverts but they're not working; so I conclude I am doing something wrong, hence clueless. Can anyone advise me on how to resolve this issue? Kim Traynor | Talk 14:35, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
How can a user remove his "email me" action without loggin in?? Is it possible?? Miss Bono (zootalk) 13:39, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
I've got a very long list of several thousand stale AfC drafts marked as "promotional" that I'm sorting through. Some help tagging for deletion them where appropriate would be welcome. All of them are eligible for CSD G13 (stale AfC Draft), but a third-to-a-half are also long-running G12s (that is, blatant copyright violations), and more than half of them are G11's (blatant ads). The vast majority of this material is in fact a problem and really should go.
Similarly, editors scanning through the list for material that should, within policy, be saved from deletion would be helpful. It's a big project, more eyes will produce better results.
If you would like to help, please start by dropping me a note on my talk page. I'm trying to work through the list in a coherent order so as to work constructively with other editors who are looking for items to salvage, and I've also intentionally left a small number of these articles that I've scanned undeleted for possible recovery as well. It will be easier not to step on each other's toes if we work together. Thanks! -- j⚛e decker talk 15:48, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
At the top of my page there is a star logo and a heart logo. I finally figured out what they are for, but what about newcomers? Why can't we use words instead? Unfamiliar logos are not friendly at all. Same for the mosh of abbreviations. I mean, what does TW, CSD, XFD, etc., mean to the average person? Please comment. GeorgeLouis ( talk) 13:35, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello! My name is Kathleen Dalton and I am a college student studying dance history and education. I would like to add some dance videos and information on new artists to Wikipedia. If anyone has any advice on how to best go about doing this just let me know! Thank you so much! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kathleenelizabethdalton ( talk • contribs) 19:00, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello, note that Abdoulaye Sekou Sow has died. Thank you. Scymso ( talk) 14:44, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
Which is the article containing the highest numbers of categories? -- Marce79 ( talk) 15:30, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi, when I view a Wikipedia page I've noticed that the links are coloured blue. When I print that page the blue becomes black. How do I make the page print with the links in blue as per the page on viewed screen using both Firefox and IE? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Q41019573 ( talk • contribs) 03:02, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
The White House's use of CAPTCHAs is giving trouble to blind and visually impaired people. Would it be reasonable to assume that Wikipedia's use of CAPTCHAs does the same? CAPTCHAs are intended to prove users are human, therefore blind and visually impaired people are ...? As an aside, in posting this I encounter a CAPTCHA because of the link. For anyone interested it was "grabssian". Luckily I am not sufficiently visually impaired - yet anyway. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.40.100.126 ( talk) 01:17, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
Is there an article on criticism of the modern evolutionary synthesis? — goethean 15:58, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
There is a Trademark practices discussion on Meta at the moment.
The main proposal from the WMF legal team is the creation of a new "community' logo which will have a more liberal licensing arrangements so it can be used for community projects.
I am opposed to this as, for me the jigsaw globe is the wikipedia community logo and that is the logo they should be making easier to use. Creating a new 'community' logo will, I believe, just serve as an excuse to tighten the licensing arrangements for the jigsaw globe logo.
If you have comments please go to the meta page and comment there. filceolaire ( talk) 14:49, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
History of Gibraltar has been nominated for an appearance as Today's Featured Article on 13 July to mark the 300th anniversary of the Treaty of Utrecht. If you have any views, please comment at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests. Thank you. Bencherlite Talk 10:26, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
I came upon this person whose contributions appear to almost exclusively consist of adding links to his podcast promoting pseudoscience. Can I just remove these links, citing policy on self-promotion or pseudoscience or both? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Variantseven ( talk • contribs) 14:40, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
You know how some talk pages have a box that the top that says "This is the talk page for this; if you want to post about that, please use that other talk page"? Well, I came across a pair of talk pages where the instructions partially contradict each other. I was going to tag them with <code>{{contradict-other}}</code>, but it's not designed for that. It says "this article" rather than "this page", and when it tries to link to the talk page corresponding to one of the contradictory pages, it can't construct the link correctly.
I guess this is a rare enough situation that it may not be worth making any changes for, but I thought I'd mention it all the same.
(As to the conflict on the talk pages, I'll just post a regular new section to each of them. Yes, I could just WP:SOFIXIT myself, but I don't think I'm involved enough with the subject matter to do that appropriately.)
-- 50.100.192.246 ( talk) 06:05, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
. Consider it a barnstar. Kleuske ( talk) 15:09, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
I'm an IP editor and cannot view the history of Jeff V. Merkey ( WP:Viewdelete). After reading an old (12 March 2008) BBC article, I'm now curious which changes were made by Wales to aforementioned article around March 2008. According to the BBC article, the 'edit history of the page does show changes made by Jimmy Wales and that the page was "protected"' (emphasis mine). Can anyone tell me how Wales changed the article? By the way, not yet mentioned in the Criticism of Wikipedia article is the criticisms that Wikipedia allows featured articles to be about businesses. I don't have an external, reliable source; I was simply reading Talk:Elderly Instruments/Archive 1 and Talk:Scene7. On these Talk pages, aforementioned criticism appears to be voiced primarily by IP and novice editors, but I also read some fairly emotional comments from disappointed Wikipedia veterans. It's probably not noteworthy enough to mention in this Criticism of Wikipedia article. Just something I noticed while reading through these pages that I thought I could mention here. -- 82.170.113.123 ( talk) 14:44, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
Do we need to edit WP:TALK to /specifically/ say not to create talk pages that only contain WikiProject banners for every Template, Category, and redirect on Wikipedia?
It spams the 'assesment' categories with thousands of 'useless' pages (among other things), they're all 'Empty talk pages for future use' against policy, and they're all G8 deletion candidates....this is pointless and disruptive, but, unfortunately, not /technically/ against a 'rule' I can point to.
The 'consensus' about 'incomplete redirects' seems to be that they should be 'kept' if they actually have old talk, if it's a 'tracked' redirect from a WikiProject, or if the redirect is a 'redirect with possibilites'....just running through the categories and making tens of thousands of talk pages is WP:DUMB. Revent ( talk) 21:10, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
I even find those template tags extremely annoying on article talk pages. In my time...:)..when it was a blue link, the article was discussed, a red link meant no discussion. Now it's always blue and usually only Wikiproject templates. Garion96 (talk) 23:06, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
class=Redirect
? I'm very interested in your answers. —
Justin (koavf)❤
T☮
C☺
M☯
02:13, 31 May 2013 (UTC){{
TrainsWikiProject}}
(the fact that the banner has |class=cat
is immaterial). Similarly at
Wikipedia:WikiProject Doctor Who/Article alerts#TfD, those two templates are listed because their talk pages have {{
WikiProject Doctor Who}}
; and again, at
Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Article alerts#RfD, the redirect's talk page has {{
WikiProject U.S. Roads}}
, but here, the |class=Redirect
is important. There are plenty more examples in
Category:Article alert reports via banner subscription. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
08:25, 31 May 2013 (UTC)If an article is redirected then the talk page should either be redirected (if there's been previous discussion on the page), or deleted. I'm not sure it matters too much, but either way - there's no need to keep blank talk pages hanging around for redirects. Ryan Postlethwaite 8:04 am, 24 June 2008, Tuesday (4 years, 11 months, 8 days ago) (UTC−5)
I agree that deletion or redirection is more appropriate than a project tag for a redirect page. –xenocidic (talk) 8:08 am, 24 June 2008, Tuesday (4 years, 11 months, 8 days ago) (UTC−5)
My reasoning for deletion or redirect is as follows: a project tag on the talk page of a redirect will artifically inflate the number of articles under the project's care. Since these talk pages have virtually no history except for the project tag, they should qualify as a "non-controversial deletion". While a redirect would also be appropriate, I don't think it's particularly necessary. –xenocidic (talk) 8:36 am, 24 June 2008, Tuesday (4 years, 11 months, 8 days ago) (UTC−5)
Yup, the project tag should be on the target talk page so it doesn't need to be on the redirect. Ryan Postlethwaite 8:11 am, 24 June 2008, Tuesday (4 years, 11 months, 8 days ago) (UTC−5)
I decided to create the user script mentioned above, to change the color of the talk tab link if the talk page seems to have only templates: User:Anomie/talklink. Anomie ⚔ 14:01, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
At the Report of Van Fleet Mission to Far East, I wrote the cited description [10], however, it has been repeatedly revert by User:Qwyrxian [11] [12]. And at the Liancourt Rocks dispute, he is doing same thing [13] [14]. Although he has stated some reason to do that, in fact, it is only a pretext for not let me edit. Maybe he is a korean, and he's going to prevent the editing of all disadvantageous to Korea... Both of my editing are cited from Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affaires [15] [16] and it are believed to be well was conformity to the rules of Wikipedia.
And most of Korea relations articles has received such interference by some Koreans. Obviously, it is vandalism of Wikipedia. There're too many korean editors(including administrator) who do not follow the rules, to maintain Wikipedia as good quality and neutral.
Is there anyone who has a good idea?-- BlueSkyWhiteSun ( talk) 09:21, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
Am I the only one being nice and all? To me, I see self-important, vain, pompous people, including administrators, patronizing everybody, like me, for not doing things right. Whenever I screw up in talk:Thriller (album), I get patronized or berated by some guy, who thinks he can inspire people. At this moment, I have made several friends and seemed to never accomplish having many more. After all hard work non-stop, I wonder if I should be committed to Wikipedia forever. To make matters worse, minor grammar is not a small deal to me. "than" vs. "that"? Whatever happen to good grammar? Also, whenever I make a lot (or too many) rename requests, I get mocked. Whenever I made so-called absurd rationales, I "inspired" people to oppose the proposal. Maybe if I could meet members of Wikipedia in person, I would gain personal connection toward others rather than stick my current perspectives to others based on mere context. If I must stay here, where can I find nice people? -- George Ho ( talk) 03:27, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
I noticed that the page views for Refrigerator death are close to 4,000 for today. Since before that, views seem to have ranged in the low double digits, and since I haven't heard about any-thing happening concerning this relatively historic subject and the only edit was simply a de-linking, I am curious if this number isn't in error. Does any-one have any ideas? Kdammers ( talk) 11:41, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
What are your thoughts on CwoodGames.jimdo.com? Comments and edits welcome — Preceding unsigned comment added by Techbrewson ( talk • contribs) 03:39, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
I remember a month or two ago being advised that there was a fairly new template I could use to facilitate discussion, but I can't remember the name and I can't find it. The idea is
Can someone please point me to it? And is there a simple way I've overlooked to find such things, or is there really a problem with proliferation without adequate indexing? TIA.
Thnidu ( talk) 03:40, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
In the dottle article is a malformed reference to an entry in the Oxford English Dictionary online version [17]. Could I get someone who has a subscription to that site to take a look at this malformed reference, check it against the dictionary, and repair the reference? -- Frotz( talk) 08:46, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi! You might be interested to know that now there's yet another Wikipedia version above the million article mark. It happened late last evening (European time). See article Swedish Wikipedia for update and links to sources. More links and talk are available here and here. The best of wishes.-- Paracel63 ( talk) 12:38, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
The Wikipedia Library gets Wikipedia editors free access to reliable sources that are behind paywalls. I want to alert you to our latest donation.
Cheers, Ocaasi 21:02, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
My apologies for the incorrect link: You can sign up for Cochrane Collaboration accounts at the COCHRANE sign-up page. Cheers, Ocaasi 21:37, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi
I'm the Wikimedian in Residence for the Natural History Museum and Science Museum in London. The Science Museum have agreed to release 50 of it's images (at a medium resolution) under a Wikimedia compatible license. The 2 websites that the images would be available from are:
I'm hoping this is the start of something larger but could just be a one off so am trying to come up with a most wanted list.
I've started a list of images to release on my talk page, please feel free to add to it, I'd like to get over 50 so if there are any problems we still have a good list.
Mrjohncummings ( talk) 12:47, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
As there seems to be a small but growing number of people choosing to use their real names to edit, I've created {{ User real name}} to indicate it on your user page if you so wish. — Scott • talk 15:08, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
How do you expect adding sources etc if you lock up an article? Olmav ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 09:12, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
On Saturday 29 June there are several edit-a-thons organized in several countries in Europe with the subject World War I. This World War had Belgium as chess board so it is great to announce an edit-a-thon in Belgium. This event where new and existing users can write and expand articles is held in Leuven (Louvain). The location is KU Leuven - AGORA Leercentrum and is located at the E. Van Evenstraat 4 on 15 minutes walking from Leuven railway station.
An edit-a-thon is a (small) event where people come together and work on articles on a particular topic. Often such edit-a-thon is organized for people relatively new to Wikipedia and held at an organization.
Signing up is needed at wmbewikimedia.org
Be welcome! Romaine ( talk) 02:31, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
At the same time there will be an edit-a-thon in the Netherlands about the same subject, between 12:00 tot 17:00 in Doorn (near the city of Utrecht). More information at wmnl:WOI editathon. Romaine ( talk) 20:50, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
Are there any photographers who take pictures at Sheremetyevo airport? Edward Snowden's plane is landing at Sheremetyevo at 5:15PM Moscow time: http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1267261/snowden-leaves-hong-kong-commercial-flight-moscow - I'm not sure if that would be helpful to articles about Edward Snowden, but anyone thinks so, there's the hint: you can photograph Snowden's airplane as it lands
It's Aeroflot Flight#213 (as stated by the Hong Kong news article) - Aeroflot's website says
The aircraft should be an Airbus A330-300 as that is the equipment Flight 213 usually uses.
WhisperToMe ( talk) 12:34, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
As I understand it, Wikipedia is supposed to be ad-free. But in the last few days, I get large ads that slide onto close to a half of the content of what I am trying to read or edit on Wikipedia. I assume these are not condoned by Wikipedia, much less coming from it; how-ever, the only site where I get them is Wikipedia (right now, covering the top half of my screen is an ad that starts out "Dermatologist Hate Her." Can any-one clear this up (and away. preferably)? Do I have a worm or is this common to other computers?
When I just clicked on it, it went away only to immediately shortly pop up on the bottom right corner in a smaller version that slid away on its own. Kdammers ( talk) 09:48, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
hi!i do have a question regarding how the uk universities admit students.for highlight,i study in tanzania which is in africa,currently i am in my advanced level hoping to finish next year by GODS grace.i would like to join one of the universities in the united kingdom.so will there be any contradictions.or what are the processes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.73.220.26 ( talk) 06:58, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
I do believe that once I read somethre in the en-wiki that an IP editor (unregistered editor) received an admin flag. Now I cannot find it again. Is it true or is it my false memory? -- NeoLexx ( talk) 16:26, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
This bit of vandalism a year ago blanked a lot of content. It can't be quickly undone due to intervening edits. If someone has time to go unwind this, that would be great. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 20:22, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
See Talk:Sousveillance for an RFC which needs outside comment. Any additional comments would be useful to prevent an edit war and help provide resolution. Thanks. -- Jayron 32 23:47, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
Please note that Valentin Mandacanu has died on 29 october 2012. Scymso ( talk) 06:59, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
This week and the last ones, several students participating in the wikiArS initiative are publishing their works in Commons. Therefore we've new illustrations, infographies and animations that can be used in Wikipedia articles. We have also graphics useful for Wikispecies and two wikibooks for wikijunior. Look some of them below. And if you have ideas about image gaps in Wikipedia that could be wikiArS assignments next Academic Year, please ask for images. -- Dvdgmz ( talk) 16:58, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
Infographies about Naica Mine by Albertvila1 and Andreu
Scientific illustrations of extinct or in dangerous mammals
Animations by Damek, FedericaBri, C.calvo, Cristobalsanchezruiz, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Vázquez, Manuarteaga and Danitor1
Spanish writers portaits by Nuria nml and Hakima El Kaddouri
Catalan politicians portraits by Di.Francitorra
Tales for Children about Naica Mine in Catalan Wikijunior by Laia Sabán and CarolGC
This is incredibly late notice and I apologize for that. I put it on the central notice calendar (Meta) earlier but that isn't incredibly helpful for everyone here. For those that don't know I have been running the new Wikimedia Shop for the past year or so as it was slowly brought online and I'm now transitioning away from it to move into the Legal and Community Advocacy department because of needs there. The shop itself, and the Editor Giveaways will be moving into the fundraising team where they have a lot more bandwidth to keep it moving forward and to do the giveaways more consistently (rather then me doing it as I had rare time). That transition is expected to happen around the 1st of July. Sadly I was shanghaied into doing much of the technical setup for the current Wikimedia Elections and other LCA tasks and so some of the pieces of the end of my shop time (like this announcement) got away from me. I apologize profusely for that.
The public side of the shop, which does not make much money yet because we want to keep costs low and we don't advertise much, was always intended to subsidize the Editor Giveaways program. We did a push for Wikipedia Day in January with a flash sale for editors (10% off all products, 24 hours with a logged in banner worldwide) which basically brings it down to close to cost after the shipping subsidy we give (max $15 shipping for most orders up to 5-6 lbs anywhere in the world). This was followed the next day by a logged out (Anonymous) banner, for north americans (where the shipping is easiest) to help fund the giveaways.
Before I officially handed the shop off I wanted to go with one last hurrah:
The current plan (which may change a bit) is:
I'll be keeping an eye on this section, and am reachable by email. Please let me know if there are 'any' questions. Most of the feedback I got the only other time we tested this (it worked well) was very positive, so I'm hopeful it will go well with lessons learnt about banner size etc. However, if there is one thing I've learnt as a member of the community for 7+ years, I'm always learning more. Jalexander-- WMF 07:30, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
Friends, an RFC has been started to settle issues of punctuation around text in quotation marks. Keep WP:LQ as it is, or allow alternatives? Tony (talk) 09:19, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
does Frank Pick Warrant a Front Page ? ......
why do I care ? no historical social cultural or even political significance
Badly need to improve CHOICE of articles on Front Page ... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.179.39.251 ( talk) 00:46, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
I just noticed that there are now 2 ways to edit an article, the "edit source" way uses the familiar theme; the new theme now called "edit" is different. I have a problem with it. If you use the "edit source" option, there's an HTML comment at the top of Christine Jorgensen saying to use she/her to refer to Christine Jorgensen throughout her life. But with the new "edit" way of editing the article, no one will notice this HTML comment. People who prefer to edit with the new "edit" way of editing the article will change pronouns in this article the way they want to. Any thoughts?? Georgia guy ( talk) 23:26, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:94.193.68.7&action=history says it all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.193.68.7 ( talk) 11:21, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
There's a discussion of this at Talk:Sun Myung Moon. Specifically if the lede is based on newspaper stories should it use their wording? Or is it okay to use more "encyclopedic" wording? It would not make a really big difference for this article, but join in the discussion if you like. Steve Dufour ( talk) 00:12, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
Recently I came across an editor who was creating talk pages for redirects, and noting that most of our articles do not have talk pages, questioned the practice, and was directed to a discussion on a user talk page. I would recommend following the advice on the talkpage header template, do not create a talk page just to place this header here. As an editor, it is annoying to click on a talk page only to find that there is nothing there other than the headers. I know that we put project headers on talk pages, but I would recommend not doing that if that is the only content on the talk page. Talk pages should not be used to categorize articles, and certainly not used to categorize redirects. Apteva ( talk) 16:31, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
A friend has brought to my attention the following advertisement for a book called Pipil grammar, edited by Jesse Russell and Ronald Cohn (whoever they are), which has a circle on the cover that says "High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles!". It is published by "Bookvika publishing". The book is stated to be available from Barnes & Noble; its announced price is $19.95, it is a paperback, and there is a 3% discount for ordering online, giving a final price of $19.26. There are four lines of "descriptive text" on the page. The text corresponds exactly to the opening lines of the Wikipedia article titled "Pipil grammar". It is a longish article which was substantially written by me single-handed a few years ago and naturally has since been improved through (as far as I know, only occasional) edits by fellow-Wikipedians. I think it is fair to say that in a moral sense I am the author of the work (or main co-author if you like). Now I am aware that Wikipedia is a collective product and editors of articles do not hold a legal copyright in a strict sense. On the other hand, I did not know that writing in Wikipedia gave other individuals the right to publish commercially the free content of the articles one has written with the intention of making it available free of charge to everyone! Is this in order? What is happening here? This seems to raise a number of questions. First of all I'd like to know what Wikipedia's policy is on this and what connection, if any, there is between Wikipedia itself and such commercial enterprises. E.g. is this happening with Wikipedia's knowledge and permission, or is it a rogue action, or is this even Wikipedia's own doing? What is the copyright status of the resulting publication, what rights do the so-called "editors" (the ones named on the cover of the commercial book, I mean) hold, and what (competing?) rights might I have as the actual source of the material? As it happens I am very active in the Pipil language and Pipil grammar, and there is a real possibility that I might want to publish a proper book titled "Pipil grammar" in the foreseeable future containing my own work. Am I now going to have to compete against a compilation of (ultimately) my own writing produced by a third party and also called "Pipil grammar"? Or even be accused of plagiarizing myself?? I'd appreciate anybody's clarifications, advice or comments. Thanks. A R King ( talk) 07:38, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for your answers. Not totally reassuring perhaps, but I do understand the viewpoints involved, though some of the imaginable results do still seem a bit ludicrous, but maybe I just need to get my head around it... Being all for freely sharing knowledge myself (which is why I contribute to Wikipedia), I am not averse to this, just wary of being a victim of a genuine rip-off that would damage my bonafide (and non-commercial) interests. -- A R King ( talk) 17:50, 7 July 2013 (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.
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 22 July 2013.
For the Arbitration Committee, — ΛΧΣ 21 22:03, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
WebCite is going to close. if we would be able to save dead internet links anymore => we have to cancel Wikipedia:Verifiability as completely meanles and stupid! ( Idot ( talk) 13:29, 8 July 2013 (UTC))
Please connect the english article of Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko to the russian one. Thank you Scymso ( talk) 17:47, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
Moonraker ( talk · contribs) ( notified) makes a mass replacement of “likely” with “probably”. I think it is a silly stylistic tweak making texts to sound more scientifically but without actual sense, and shall be stopped and reverted. Incnis Mrsi ( talk) 07:14, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
They seem like synonyms to me, so there's no reason to replace them. Likely or probably things must be sourced, remember. -- NaBUru38 ( talk) 15:30, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
There is presently a banner popping up requesting donations. It advises that Wikipedia does not use ads (which is fine) but it also states that Wikipedia does not use/receive and government funding. My question is (if I may ask it here) is; Why Not? If there were any kind of government funds (ie: grants, etc.) that were available, with no strings attached, why would Wikipedia not pursue this means of income? Nobody wants ad banners blinking across the pages, but I know I wouldn't mind a small notation somewhere that read something like "Sponsored in part by the U.S. Dept. of Education", instead of these huge pop-ups asking for money every few months. Anybody? - thewolfchild 00:02, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
I'm seeing this in Australia when I log out. It says
“ | Dear Wikipedia readers: We are the small non-profit that runs the #5 website in the world. We have only 150 staff but serve 450 million users, and have costs like any other top site: servers, power, programs, and staff. Wikipedia is something special. It is like a library or a public park. It is like a temple for the mind, a place we can all go to think and learn. To protect our independence, we'll never run ads. We take no government funds. We survive on donations averaging about $30. Now is the time we ask. If everyone reading this gave $3, our fundraiser would be done within an hour. If Wikipedia is useful to you, take one minute to keep it online and ad-free another year. Please help us forget fundraising and get back to Wikipedia. Thank you. | ” |
It has mixed messages, saying "To protect our independence, we'll never run ads" but then "If Wikipedia is useful to you, take one minute to keep it online and ad-free another year" (emphasis added), and Jimmy says "I could have made it into a for-profit company with advertising banners, but decided to do something different.". Being ad-free is non-negotiable according to the Jimmy mantra; it isnt a year by year decision, right..? (worried look). But what is more annoying is that in many countries Wikipedia is funded by government grants, subsidies, etc. Those government funds don't go towards the servers and the WMF staff, but they do go towards programs and staff in those countries. e.g. just last week in Australia, 'Wikipedia' has just won a government research grant (its more complicated than than: see the bottom of Signpost NaN), and there are quite a few US academics also being funded to research Wikipedia, but in some countries the relationship between the government funding and Wikipedia is much more direct. John Vandenberg ( chat) 12:21, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi, guys. :) The Fundraising team has discussed their reasoning here at meta:Fundraising 2013. July is the start of the fiscal year at the WMF, and as they explain there they are experimenting with spreading donations out more throughout the year. Just one banner is being deployed to ~5% of readers. They explain some of their main goals there:
- We're aiming to reach more readers throughout the year (not just people who visit in the few weeks that we run banners at the end of the year).
- We can get into the fun part of the fundraiser (A/B testing, finding issues, testing tech improvements live, learning about our readers, etc).
- Instead of being a mad scramble at the end of the year, we get to ramp up consistently and make improvements year-round.
- The fundraising team can work & improve with more consistent roles throughout the year.
-- Maggie Dennis (WMF) ( talk) 01:59, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
Clear as mud. Thanks for all the replies everybody. - thewolfchild 16:54, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
There is an RFC that may be of interest to this group at Talk:Gun_control#RFC. Subject of the RFC is "Is the use of gun restriction legislation or other confiscations by totalitarian governments (Nazi, Communist etc) accurately described as "Gun Control". Are such instances appropriate for inclusion in the Gun Control article. (Details at RFC in article)" Gaijin42 ( talk) 15:59, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
See for yourself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BuddyBixby419 ( talk • contribs) 11:24, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
OK, thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BuddyBixby419 ( talk • contribs) 17:33, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Let's say the author is Kimberly Dillon Summers, last=Summers|first=Kimberly; then we just drop Dillon? Since there is no middle=, I think maybe the instructions are lacking in the 'what to do with the middle' department? -- 82.170.113.123 ( talk) 22:25, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
I'm a close friend of his mother and I don't feel comfortable tearing out all the puffery myself for personal political reasons, but every time I see the page, I cringe. - Richfife ( talk) 00:06, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi, can you all direct me to any research on new article fates? Maybe
Thanks in advance and I realize different people may structure the questions differently, so whatever is out there, appreciate it.
TCO ( talk) 19:34, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
I am not finding it. I just see a page for a trial that never ran. (P.s. Don't mean to be all "peel me a grape" but if anyone has the scoop, please ping me. This board is too active to watch.) TCO ( talk) 05:11, 14 July 2013 (UTC)
I am not sure just how prevalent this problem is, but for just one acronym I've already found two cases: [18] [19]. Perhaps an edit filter should be set up to detect these? They represent a regretable loss of information that could go undetected for years (almost four years for my second link). -- Njardarlogar ( talk) 08:17, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
(I figures I'd ask this here. If there's a better place, I'm sure some helpful editor will let me know)
I have a question regarding the use of symbols as indicators of the increase or decrease of a value or ranking in an infobox. There is widespread contradictory use of these symbols. For example, on some pages;
To me, this seems to be the appropriate way to use these symbols. I have found them used this way on most articles. Examples: Facebook, IBM, ExxonMobil and Chrysler.
However, other pages are using the symbols as follows;
Here it appears that the wider end of the symbol is used to indicate "greater" while the narrow end is used to indicate "lesser", (like an upright version of the mathematical symbols), with the "greater" end indicating an increase in monetary value or a higher ranking on a list, while the "lesser" end indicates a decreased monetary value or a lower ranking on a list. I find this to be a somewhat confusing use for these symbols, (even the templates show the contradictions) and have only found them on fewer articles. Examples: Craigslist, Workopolis, Wikitravel and The Smoking Gun.
Can we determine just what is the proper use of these symbols, then set that as the standard for all WP articles? Thanks, - thewolfchild 04:28, 14 July 2013 (UTC)
From Mind control "(Undoing Revision Is Not Fair In That Secret Information Held By Governments Cannot Be Sourced!)" - BayShrimp ( talk) 01:17, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
I've asked for opinions at administrators' noticeboard regarding restricting an admin's use of specific admin tools - as a sanction less dramatic or draconian than de-sysop. There seems to be general agreement that ArbCom can impose limited restrictions on an admin's tool use. We are exploring whether the community (as opposed to ArbCom) may do that and, if so, whether and how the community should do that. (To keep the discussion in one place, please comment there, not here.) -- Anthonyhcole ( talk · contribs · email) 07:26, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I'm not English native speaker and I want to write longer articles (expanding the current ones or bringing new articles to Wikipedia). However, I know that my English is with grammar mistakes. Is there any page or category, in which I could mention such a article to be reviewed by native speaker? (I mean only for longer articles, not for short sentences and paragraphs). Thanks a lot -- Quar ( talk) 10:33, 15 July 2013 (UTC)