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2013 in film is 332,397 bytes (without images). Please discuss whether or not to sub-divide it, at Talk:2013 in film#Length. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:23, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
Somewhere there is a list of editors who created many new articles, but I do not see how to find it. Please tell me.
Beyond that, how can I know how many articles I have created can be counted? Is there a tool?-- DThomsen8 ( talk) 02:18, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
Any idea why the site is gone? I am looking for this report, which was still online a few weeks ago. Gun Powder Ma ( talk) 22:21, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
running for a fifth time - 10 Feb to 9 march.... Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 21:24, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
Should the article Alakol, Kazakhstan, which provides a list of places in Kazakhstan called "Alakol", have a {{WikiProject Central Asia|class=stub|importance=low|Kazakhstan=yes|Kazakhstan-importance=low}} talk page, or a {{disambiguation}} talk page, or should it have a Set index talk page, or should something else be done to the article itself? Advice, please. -- DThomsen8 ( talk) 22:49, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
At times when you display a Wikipedia article history, instead of the Wikipedia user name (for registered users) or the IP address (for non registered users) you get something like this 2605:a601:448:cf01:d857:6ccf:a737:a59d. (I take it this is a sequence of 8 numbers in 4 hex digit format).
What are those things and how can I get my own edit to be displayed under such a token?
Contact Basemetal here 17:46, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
Here User:Jimbo Wales said
There can and should be some debate about what the appropriate level of reserves is, and some debate about whether we should be pursuing an endowment strategy (i.e. trying to get enough money now such that Wikipedia could survive and thrive from interest earnings alone, or some other similar target).
— Jimbo Wales 16:58, 14 November 2013
Anyone interested in discussing that?
The WMF should have enough in reserve to run the servers and provide the technical support we need for a few years, of course. That's prudent.
However, the readers love the encyclopedia - the articles we write - and want it to survive; they don't care which little group of people provides technical support and runs the servers, and I'm sure they're not donating so that the present bunch can have guaranteed jobs for life regardless of the quality of service they provide. If the day comes when our readers lose interest in funding the WMF projects, the WMF can fade away. Our articles will survive. And a more relevant project will arise. -- Anthonyhcole ( talk · contribs · email) 11:24, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
Draft:Integral flour can someone please help me with this? Thanks in advance. Alex discussion ★ 20:31, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi all!
I hope to soon start a mass AfD for all the articles created by a certain paid editor.
I wonder if two people — one administrator and one non-administrator — could please help me out? Please simply save a copy of http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.freelancer.is/projects/Article-Rewriting-Article-Submission/Replace-existing-WIKIPEDIA-page-maintain.html on your computer. This is a Google Cache page which includes strong evidence that the editor is paid. Please let me know below once you have done so.
Such strong evidence is available only in Google Cache — not on the open Web.
If you volunteer now, then once I start the AfD, I may call on you again: I may ask you to post a comment to help back up my accusation of paid editing.
WebCite cannot save Google Cache pages.
One administrator, plus one non-administrator, will be sufficient. I do not need more volunteers than that.
I thank you in advance.
Cheers, — Unforgettableid2 ( talk) 08:13, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
When died Masaaki Tsukada, on january 27 or 29? Scymso ( talk) 18:53, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
Please take a look at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kat Walsh
Smallbones( smalltalk) 20:17, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
In the past, there have been requests that discussions about potentially controversial TFAs are brought to the attention of more than just those who have WP:TFAR on their watchlist. With that in mind: Fuck (film) has been nominated for an appearance as Today's Featured Article. If you have any views, please comment at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests. Thank you. Bencherlite Talk 12:34, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
There is a discussion on whether the Editor Review should be marked historical. Input would be appreciated. Konveyor Belt 16:33, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
These are traintickets where kilometers (miles?) are bougth in bulk and deducted on each trip. There is a Dutch article nl:Kilometerboekje and a German one, de:Kilometerbank. There used to be a lot of other examples in many countries. I try to gather more sources to get an overview of these type tickets. They maybe known under other names. I have received two German sources:
Could somebody help in getting more sources or idealy a book or source where all the information has been collected? If someone want to write an English article on the subject I wil help with information on the Dutch railways. Smiley.toerist ( talk) 23:49, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
I recently created a template, {{
Service award progress}}, which shows your progress towards the next
service award. I'm looking for people to try it out and notify me somehow if they find any bugs. To use it, all you have to do is stick it on your userpage somewhere and pass in the same things you pass into {{
Service awards}} (i.e. |year=
, |month=
, |day=
, and |edits=
). Bugs and suggestions should be posted on
the template's talk page; if I don't respond, you can put a {{
Talkback}} on
my talkpage. Thank you very much!
APerson (
talk!)
02:16, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
...you can tick it in your Beta tab in Preferences. Its main goal is viewing image preview and basic info without going away from an article.
Please actively add your thoughts and healthy criticism it at its feedback page (as also linked in its entry in the Beta tab). It is a thing that directly faces the contributors daily after all, and your feedback would be valuable. -- Gryllida ( talk) 04:10, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
The first Scientologist to cite this book in the Church of Scientology editing on Wikipedia article wins the "Self-referential Circular Reference of the Decade" barnstar! Kaldari ( talk) 07:17, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
== Is it safe? ==
I want to add back the orange bar notification (the so-called "bar of doom"). And I saw a warning which said that the script code may contain malicious content which may compromise my account, I just want to make sure if it is safe. And if it is not, is there another way to re-create it? — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Andrei Marzan (
talk •
contribs)
17:35, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
I want to add back the orange bar notification (the so-called "bar of doom"). And I saw a warning which said that the script code may contain malicious content which may compromise my account, I just want to make sure if it is safe. And if it is not, is there another way to re-create it?--Yutah Andrei Marzan Ogawa 17:35, 1 February 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andrei Marzan ( talk • contribs)
The Arbitration Committee clerks are currently looking for a few dependable and mature editors willing to serve as clerks. The responsibilities of clerks include opening and closing arbitration cases and motions; notifying parties of cases, decisions, and other committee actions; maintaining the requests for Arbitration pages; preserving order and proper formatting on case pages; and other administrative and related tasks they may be requested to handle by the arbitrators. Clerks are the unsung heroes of the arbitration process, keeping track of details to ensure that requests are handled in a timely and efficient manner. Clerks get front-line seats to the political and ethnic warfare that scorches Wikipedia periodically, and, since they aren't arbitrators themselves, are rarely threatened with violence by the participants.
Past clerks have gone on to be (or already were) successful lawyers, naval officers, and Presidents of Wikimedia Chapters. The salary and retirement packages for Clerks rival that of Arbitrators, to boot. Best of all, you get a cool fez!
Please email clerks-llists.wikimedia.org if you are interested in becoming a clerk, and a clerk will reply with an acknowledgement of your message and any questions we want to put to you.
For the Arbitration Committee clerks, Rs chen 7754 04:59, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
I wanted to tweak the opening/closing ceremony dates for the 2014 Winter Olympics but when I attempted to make the edit the text is not there. What's this all about, why does text disappear when I try to edit? 24.193.43.35 ( talk) 13:26, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
I'm thinking of collecting a bunch of old revision URLs for Wikipedia articles that used to be very detailed in the past, however have become stubbified, shortened or made into redirects as a result of a rise in the enforcement of policies such as WP:N, WP:V, WP:NOR and WP:RS at around 2009. Back in the old days, many many years ago, Wikipedia was essentially the place where anyone could show up and dump whatever they want, and in some cases you could find huge piles of niche information; then one day, the community decided to revamp the system once and for all, and place greater emphasis on reliability. Many of the articles purged had to do with things such as television shows, films, computer and video games, and music, since these are the things that are often the most difficult to properly reference and verify niche information for very specific audiences. During the 2007-2008 era, "in popular culture" sections used to be the absolute plague of Wikipedia, from what I remember.
Currently I know of three old versions of articles that are quite detailed:
Does anyone else happen to know of any other such examples? This is just something I'm doing for fun and to fill in my curiosity, and simply that; I'm interested in finding out what other things old Wikipedia used to have in store, hidden away in a dark corner. -- benlisquare T• C• E 17:24, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
A few sources claim that minorities, particularly blacks, suffered a disproportionately high number of casualties during the Vietnam War. I've been trying to verify this or debunk it, but a lot of the information I've been finding is contradictory. I'm not really an expert on Vietnam or the methods they used to collect data about race, and the only two reliable sources I've been able to find contradict each other. Vietnam War casualties doesn't mention the controversy at all, while Winter Soldier Investigation#Racism Panel treats it like a given.
Some of the unreliable sources I've seen claim that in at least one year, blacks were 20% of the casualties, but less than that in other years, enough to bring the number back down to 12-15%. Some claim that Latinos were counted as whites. There are claims about discriminatory drafting, but also that minorities were denied combat roles because of the racism against them. I just can't make heads or tails of this. Are there any experts out there who know something about this? PraetorianFury ( talk) 17:45, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
I was told to take this to the village pump so apologizes find I took this to the wrong place. But I really want to address this problem I have with GAR as of late. What's happening with GAR is that all the reviews it has on its board is completely stalled out. Its oldest review, for Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, has been up since November 2nd of last year and nothing has been done about it. The GAR for Frank Underwood (House of Cards) was requested to be withdrawn and as of this writing, is currently at GAN. What I'm saying is that the process is mismanaged and there needs to be some sort of reform or management added to it. This is just depressing to look at. GamerPro64 04:04, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
File
George Izard.jpg already in commons.
Please, delete
File:George Izard.jpg, thank you. --
Francois-Pier (
talk)
04:07, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
I don't know why, and i don't konw if this the place for leave a message, but i have the whole day with a notification, the problem is doesn't appear a message or another thing, but a error message with this text.
Could not find the requested workflow. Return to Main Page.
. -- Ravave ( talk) 18:24, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
@ Whatamidoing (WMF):@ Quiddity (WMF):: Thank you for you two. Fixed, and i hope there aren't more bugs xD. And don't worry, Quiddity. Everybody (myself too) makes some errors. -- Ravave ( talk) 11:42, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
In Arnaldus_de_Villa_Nova, his birth and death years are listed as circa 1235–1311. The last sentence in the second paragraph reads "About 1313 he was summoned to Avignon by Pope Clement V, who was ill, but he died on the voyage off the coast of Genoa.". This is problematic in several ways: 1) We are first told that Arnaldus died in 1311, so is the 1313 date wrong? 2) Sentence is unclear about who died on the voyage: If it was Arnaldus, then the aformentioned birth and death dates are in conflict with the 1313 date. If it was Clement V, then 1313 is wrong or Pope_Clement_V is wrong. Would someone who knows more about these two people please check the two articles for accuracy? -- Frotz( talk) 11:23, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
In the article about "Epilepsy" there is a section called "Prevention" where it names "port tapeworm". Click on this name and you get "pork tapeworm"
Prevention[edit]While many cases are not preventable, efforts to reduce head injuries, provide good care around the time of birth, and reduce environmental parasites such as the port tapeworm may be effective.[3] Efforts in one part of Central America to decrease rates of port tapeworm resulted in a 50% decrease in new cases of epilepsy.[10] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.32.29.1 ( talk) 12:04, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
Horrified today to discover that my "Watchlist" star icon is animated, spinning cutely whenever I click it. Any competent UI designer knows that this kind of thing is at best controversial and will alienate users who find such things distracting or even distressing. Yes, we do exist. To me, such tricks are just thoughtless nastiness by people who simply don't care about those of us who suffer distraction and distress from peripheral animations. C'm on, guys, prove you are not prejudiced bigots and please get rid of this little horror. Keep editing Wikipedia truly accessible to all, not just to the people you want us to be. My apologies if I post this in the wrong place, but there seems no obvious slot for such a comment. — Cheers, Steelpillow ( Talk) 13:37, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
[mediawiki/core.git]/skins/vector/components/watchstar.less
,
[2] which has .rotation(700ms);
in it.)Hi I'm Anita I originally from Philippines and reside from a small village in hindang Leyte in the Philippines. We have around 100 family lives there but we don't have enough resources especially water. It is very difficult if you don't have enough water coz water is very important in our daily life use in laundry, cooking, taking a shower, in use to water the animal to drink and water the plant. We have water but not enough to cater for the people who live there. Some people there not taking a bath everyday coz don't have enough water for the village. We have water there but its just far from our village and it is difficult coz you carry it by bucket or pail or water container and it was heavy to carry for woman. I'm urging those have kind at heart to help my village people to have water pump so we can build our water tank and we can supply the water in every houses. I am organizing it on my behalf coz we ask already in our local government but the refuse our project coz the said. We don't have enough people there help if our village had 500 resident. But in my opinion our village are few but non the long year ahead our village are growing. Now its almost 300 hundred plus residents at the moment. Pls help us thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.120.251.94 ( talk) 07:52, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
From Monday 3 February to Thursday 6 February a group of about 50 Wikimedians were present in the European Parliament in Strasbourg to take photos of members of the European Parliament. From about half of all members (766) of the parliament there have been photos taken during these days. Still a lot of them have to be uploaded to Commons. Also from members from the UK and Ireland photos have been taken. A part from the pictures already have been added to articles on the various language Wikipedias, but many not. Please help us with that. If you add a photo in one language, it would be recommended to add the photo also to the articles in other languages.
The category with photos can be found on Commons here and includes also the other photos that have been taken by the group members during the project in Strasbourg.
In the past weeks on several Wikipedias users started a project to write all missing articles at least from the country a language is mostly spoken in, but certainly also from all other countries of the European Union. All members of the European Parliament have an article on at least one language version of Wikipedia, but on a lot of language versions their articles are missing and still need to be written. This writing project currently happens on for example the Dutch Wikipedia.
The project page for having been at the European Parliament is at Commons at Commons:Wikipedians in European Parliament. The project is part of a larger project to take photos from members of national and regional parliaments. In the past years Wiki loves parliaments was for example active in the state parliaments in Germany. Which parliament shall be next?
Thanks for the help! Greetings - Romaine ( talk) 15:33, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
Please participate in the discussion I linked in the subject of this section. Thanks. -- Gryllida ( talk) 04:22, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
Frank Schulenburg has been named as the Executive Director of the Wiki Education Foundation. Here is the press release giving more details. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 21:22, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
Not relevant to the English-language Wikipedia - though if it were, I'm sure we'd have something to say about a contributor who uses the word 'autistic' as a term of abuse. AndyTheGrump ( talk) 05:23, 14 February 2014 (UTC) |
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This message is just not relevant for "AndytheGrump" who claims to speak on behalf of millions of readers. What a pity. My original text, no reason for censorship, here: Hi all. Congrats for being the most varied and read Wikipedia of all. My name is Xibalba, some older folks may know me as Torero... My experience with Wikipedia started some 11 years ago and I immediately embraced the idea of spreading knowledge. Since then I've done that quite enthiuastically, I must say. I worked some 3+ years as Torero but until some crazy manhunt of people who really have nothing better to do than bullying others, and mainly those who speak up against the autistic authorities, kicked me out. "Forever". Haha, live-long sentences on Wikipedia. Come on, these people take themselves seriously? Idiots, no other words for them. Later I came back and worked under Xibalba. Built a portal which is in unfinshed state because these creeps think I should be excluded for 1 year (!) (after being banned forever? the dictators seem to be confused) from Wikipedia because I "sock puppet"ed? What the f*ck? Who uses that kind of language? I did my best in providing the Dutch readers some insight into Colombia (various topics) and geology. And that was just some of the things I did. Take a look at some "vandalistic work" (yeah, you don't believe it, but check this: I have a "file", like I am some kind of criminal or so. Really that is how these people think, can you imagine?, absolutely VERBOTEN to delete or obscure. No I shall be the terrorist. Idiots.
My objective is and has always been clear; "inform as many people as possible, on such a level that both amateurs are intrigued and experts still can learn something, using all the different formats Wikipedia provides us, volunteers who want to donate our knowledge and/or amateur interest to the World. Free, well-accessible, heavily linked (and red links should not be ignored -as is on the Dutch-speaking counterpart- but encouraged; they are the seeds for new knowledge-sharing pages) information made visual and interesting to read. Presented in an orderly manner using Commons as our vault of making things visual to the general public. Backed by reliable sources." Obviously the Dutch-speaking "friends" did not embrace this idea, as I have tried so many times, no "keeping the status quo" and "not using creative street language" was more important for these autistic idiots who don't know anything about the outside world. A dead horse has more flexibility and insight in what readers want then they do. I have been in 52 countries and counting. 18-year old autistic (even proudly presented on his User Page) attic nerds who became moderator just 3 weeks before (a birthday present, how cute) who claims he can befather, object without arguments or harrass me. Doesn't know shit about Colombia, geology, databasing, anything, but think they have to play the boss over me, my knowledge and experience. Seems to know a lot about computer games ans Muse concerts, so that's a great comfort in bringing something good to our offspring. What do I find here guys? A welcoming embrace and motivation to continue to spend my valuable and scarce free time, experience and knowledge here? A professional, respectful, open for new ideas, environment I helped to create myself, when setting up an internal Wikipedia in one of the largest companies in the world? Do I find respect here, not grotesquely uninformed edits in beautiful articles by literally people who do not even read the article? Or do I find the same autistic tight-assed nerds without any feeling for scale or what's important, like the Dutch dominating forces (respect for the few but very enthusiastic really valuable people who keep the (paleo)biology well-maintained there. All others who know I respect them because of how they spend their wiki-time -on articles, not on others!-)? You tell me and I might register. Have a good night, 186.28.35.72 ( talk) 04:30, 13 February 2014 (UTC) (Xibalba/Torero) P.S.: Oh, and when you talk to my former Dutch-speaking 'friends', tell them how deeply ashamed I am to confirm what I observed for so many years; the eternal blindness, deafness and unwillingness to make something of a misleadingly "big" Wikipedia. Completely unreadable and uninteresting lists of Pokemon-shows MUST be kept at all costs but for instance this informative list was removed completely (by the same person, luckily I had a back-up): A deeper shame about my own people I cannot feel and that has unfortunately to be expressed in the most modest way possible. Maybe you don't like my style, but I know from a broad experience that our clients (the readers), whose voices are never heard, do. They are not the slightest bit interested in all the bull sh*t behind these Wiki-doors.
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I believe it is little known across the Wiki Community: the Greek
user Diu (
el.wiki) has been personally sued by a politician and is now in legal trouble for an edit which our Greek Colleagues call correct. Diu added a sourced fact, in the politician's article, that he found in local press; he has been sued, the journalist has not. The whole story is in English
here.
It is something which may happen to everyone of us just for making correctly our work in the encyclopedia. This is why the Greek Wikipedians' protest is called "We are all Diu". I believe they are right: we all are... --
g (
talk)
01:49, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
Hmmm, did I make some strange accidental change to my preferences somehow, because I notice that all the section numbering in articles is gone... or did I fail to get the memo on this one??? Roberticus ( talk) 21:53, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
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Y'all wrote:
> At least 76 people are killed when a military plane crashes in Algeria.
I would like to suggest using "proper English," e.g., "At least 76 people were killed when a military plane crashed in Algeria."
I.e., proper use of tenses. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.25.58.182 ( talk) 10:39, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
Are you sure the army actually took control of Heathrow in '74? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.30.132.30 ( talk) 17:29, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
This is listed under diseases. how to we change that. Very unhappy trans people out there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transsexualism — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.160.137.87 ( talk) 04:17, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
please note that Peter Florin died. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.185.175.84 ( talk) 09:03, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Is there some policy or essay against creating "shrines" or "memorials" to banned users? Thought I came across one once but I'm not finding it now. NE Ent 13:12, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
There's quite a backlog at 3O if anyone would care to lend a hand. Best regards, TransporterMan ( TALK) 14:52, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
I need some advice on Mir Yar Beg, Mir Yar Beg Sahibzada, and Mohammad Murad Beg. It would seem that Beg is a title, although not specifically for Tajikistan. What I want to know is how these three names should be shown on the talk page listas, and on the article's Person template and {{DEFAULTSORT}}. Currently the articles and talk pages have a variety of name orders. What should they be?-- DThomsen8 ( talk) 02:09, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
I would like to know if there's any rule about the maximum number of primary meanings a dis-ambiguation page may have. Go to Charleston. I see it as having 2 primary meanings, and I moved them to the top of the article. Any opinions?? Georgia guy ( talk) 22:38, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
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There is some text at the top of Special:Cite titled " important note". There seems to be no way to discuss or edit this text. Is this note contained in a template anywhere on which users can comment? Who has the authority to change this kind of text? Blue Rasberry (talk) 16:00, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
My new essay and MFD-magnet: The Wikiderata. Enjoy. — TransporterMan ( TALK) 19:41, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
We have a paid wiki-design contract position with the Wikimedia Foundation: We need your help making it easier for Wikimedians to participate in the movement and with each other!
On Talk:Zavkhan Province I am told about a blacklisted reference. I am unsure what I can or should do about it. Please provide some guidance to me. -- DThomsen8 ( talk) 00:45, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
So at 2013 Comic-Con International, other wikipedians and myself had a small meetup and since one of the attendees was hosting a panel at that years Comic-Con, I was thinking perhaps Wikipedia can propose a panel to Comic-Con as we have become one of the most popular sources of information, including about "comics and related popular artforms" (as stated in the Comic-Con International's mission statement). Since then I have become far less active than I once was. However, if we can come up with a panel idea, perhaps we can pitch it to the convention, and see if it'll work for this year or next years programming. I am thinking the worse thing that can be said to us is no.
Perhaps it can be about how Wikipedians attempt to neutrally document comics and related popular artforms in a readily accessible encyclopedic manner? Or, it can be a presentation on how anyone can become a Wikipedian? These are just two ideas for a panel topic. I would like to hear from others regarding this idea, so I'll be inviting others to this conversation.-- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 11:28, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Not sure whether this is the right place, but I wanted to notify the community about this.
Using the misleading headline "In Defense of Wikipedia’s Credibility", a recent piece
[3] in
Cornell Daily Sun by some Christo Eliot openly invites its readers to manipulate entries in Wikipedia and even provides advice how to do it undetected. Cite from the piece: Am I suggesting that everyone go onto the Internet and add bogus information to Wikipedia pages? Yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying. --
Túrelio (
talk)
13:48, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
When Special:Random took me to Borajna, I became curious whether there was an article on the flag. I clicked on the image File:Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg and scrolled down to the "File usage" section, where it said:
First a side comment: "page links" is wrong. The same page may contain multiple links. What it means is "pages that link". Also, "only" is badly placed, seeming to refer to "this file" rather than "first 100".
Now my main point. I looked at the list, and when I got this far down the alphabet:
I deduced that there was no article "Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina" linking to this file. I then followed the link to Bosnia and Herzegovina and searched in the page for the word "flag". It turned out that in the navbox Template:Bosnia and Herzegovina topics at the bottom of the page, "National Flag" is a link to Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It exists after all, and of course it links to the image.
So why did that not show up in the "File Usage" list? Because even though the list of the "first" 100 links is in alphabetical order, it does not mean the first 100 links in alphabetical order. I don't know what it does mean. Is it the first 100 in order of creation, or are they in a meaningless and essentially random order like when a hash table is interrogated for a list of its keys?
If I click on the link offering me a "full list", I get one, starting with the "first 20" links and options to step forward or back in the list and to show more at a time. The first 100 items in this list are almost the same ones as on the original page (I assume the few differences reflect recent edits for which the pages are not yet updated), but they are no longer in alphabetical order. I suppose, again, that they are in order of creation or in a random order like a hash table. But this means that if I want to see whether a certain page has a link to this file, I potentially have to page through the entire list.
I think that if this feature is to work this way, then it should be changed so that people see what they're getting and aren't fooled by the alphabetical order as I was. So either the words "first 100" should either be changed to something meaningful (like "100 oldest" if that's what it is) or else it should say say "Here are 100 of the pages that link to this file". And I think that if people follow the link to the full list, it should either say what the order is (if it is by date, show the dates) or else say that the order is arbitrary.
But I don't see why the list couldn't be stored in alphabetical order in the first place, in a data structure associated with the image page. The list only needs to be regenerated when an article is edited in a way that adds the first, or removes the last, link to the image. That seems like a simple piece of programming. And then the "File Usage" page could show something meaningful — the first 100 links alphabetically — and stepping through the list would also be meaningful. In addition, the File Usage page could then show how many entries there are in the list instead of the vague "more than 100".
-- 50.100.193.30 ( talk) 04:47, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
Speaking of order, Category:Xanth books lists the pages for books in the Xanth novels in their order of publication, by the trick of specifying each book's serial position in the page's category link:
I've described this on the talk page and put a pointer on the Category page for use in adding future books in the series.
I haven't seen this trick before. On the one hand, it seems useful; on the other, it makes it harder to find a book in the series by its title, and the purpose is just as well served by the list in Xanth#Books; on the gripping hand, changing it would require editing the articles on all 35 books. What are people's opinions about it? To contact me please use {{ping}}.
I was going to post this question at WikiProject Novels, but that project seems moribund at best. -- Thnidu ( talk) 05:46, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
I'd prefer not to post my query here, but this new user is a single purpose account being explicitly used to opine as to the lack of NPOV on article talk pages. While this wouldn't normally bother me, he's out to bait someone and I non-admin WP:OOPSed by querying him on his trying to get someone else to develop some hearsay on his behalf. Yes, I am stupid and, yes, I've trout slapped myself already.
It doesn't exactly fit the 'vandal' profile for reporting, but the number of edits he's making on talk pages in order to make a redundant point and, now, to call me out - which I won't respond to - on a page that is rife with traffic at the moment is disruptive: see from here to here (1 initial + 3 edits), and here to here (5 edits in total). I'm not sure whether he's just a sad soul trolling just to engage with someone, or whether he's spamming for self-promotion (his own project?). Is there any method by which to keep an eye on his activities in order to prevent another outbreak of disruptive use of a talk page as a forum? -- Iryna Harpy ( talk) 06:13, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
There is currently a request for comments on Talk:Pablo Casals in which some users might wish to participate. The issue involves Casals' first name on pages that link to Pablo Casals. Full information is provided on the talk page. 131.111.185.66 ( talk) 21:58, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
It seems like there are a lot of pages on Wikipedia titled "criticisms of..." and no pages entitled "affirmations of...". I'm just saying... Eatmark ( talk) 02:12, 6 March 2014 (UTC)Eatmark
please if you are interested in Syrians people participate in the RfC at Talk:Syrian people-- Attar-Aram syria ( talk) 12:46, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
Is there a way to facilitate a 'speedy inclusion'? Regarding Draft talk:Abby Martin#Additional coverage. It seems that administrative support is needed to free up the article name in mainspace. A reworked version of the article Abby Martin—with improved referencing—was declined 28 Feb. 2014 with little or no specific explanation. Then just days later Ms. Martin was featured in articles by both NBC and the Huffington Post.
-- Kevjonesin ( talk) 22:48, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
Why are articles for creation under the Wikipedia talk namespace? I'd think that there'd be a breakdown between the article being drafted, under the Wikipedia namespace, and discussion of the article, under Wikipedia talk. —Largo Plazo ( talk) 19:43, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
When I am logged in, the page title (as shown in browser tab) now takes on the format of "Article name - Wikipedia", whereas before it was "Article name - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia". On the page itself, there is still a line below the article title that says "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia". I was wondering why the titles have changed and where was this discussed? I use monobook. Rcsprinter123 (push) @ 22:33, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
<title>Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</title>
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Do we have any other Windows 8 users here? I'm on Win 7. Ian.thomson ( talk) 00:17, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
I will also try here to wikilink Category:Living people ("Category:Living people")...
ahh, based on my preview it doesn't work here either...
is this a technical thing, or are my settings messed up, as I can't see my attempted wikilink? Thanks! Roberticus talk 13:53, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
The Catalan-speaking world... Want to find out more? From March 16 to April 15 we will be organising the Catalan Culture Challenge, a Wikipedia editing contest in which victory will go to those who start and improve the greatest number of articles about 50 key figures of Catalan culture. You can take part by creating or expanding articles on these people in your native language (or any other one you speak).
We look forward to seeing you!
Amical Wikimedia-- Kippelboy ( talk) 07:11, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
A new update has been posted for the Wiki Education Foundation at the Education Noticeboard. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 08:52, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
Depending which numbers you follow, sometime in the past week or so I became the tenth Wikipedian to pass 500,000 edits. I believe I am entitled to some kind of key or something. Cheers! bd2412 T 20:31, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
This Monday and Tuesday, the U. S. Copyright Office is holding a workshop on orphan works and mass digitization. Orphan works are works for which the copyright has not yet expired, but the rightsholder is unknown or uncontactable, and the work is thus unavailable for reuse. The workshop is for the Copyright Office to get perspectives on potential legislation to legalize the reuse of orphan works under certain conditions.
The president of Wikimedia District of Columbia, James Hare, is on one of the panels for this workshop, and we're looking for specific examples of how the unavailability of orphan works on Wikimedia projects hurts our educational mission. So if you've wanted to use a work in the past but couldn't because the author or rightholder was unknown, reply here and tell us your story, and we might retell it to the Copyright Office. Thanks! Antony–22 ( talk⁄ contribs) 17:53, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
Template:Infobox surname works the same as Template:Infobox family name. I suggest that the two templates be merged. 175.156.59.135 ( talk) 09:02, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
This section is a violation of
Wikipedia:Canvassing (specifically "Campaigning" as defined on that page). I would have removed it entirely, but it has already been commented on by a second person.
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Hello everybody. On the page Talk:Crowned Crane, there is an ongoing discussion about how to capitalise the title of articles about bird species. Many of them are currently capitalised, apparently because some organisations and guidelines regarding birds recommend this. Some also pretend that animal species names are not proper nouns (!) and argue that capitals would be useful to avoid possible confusion is some cases (e.g. Common Starling). But they are not proper nouns and the secod argument is not valid as anybody can use link to Wikipedia articles to make everything clear (e.g. common starling avoid any potential uncertainty). More importantly, the conventions of Wikipedia clearly say that one should not capitalise animal species name and page titles ( WP:TITLE, WP:FAUNA and WP:NCCAPS). Finally, even if ornithologists like to capitalise species name, a convention clearly say that the general consensus of not capitalising animal species should prevail over a local habit ( WP:CONLEVEL). I think it is an important discussion and do not hesitate to come and give your opinion on Talk:Crowned Crane. Mama meta modal ( talk) 06:07, 12 March 2014 (UTC).
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There is now also an ongoing request for comments on the same subject: Talk:Crowned Crane#Request for comments.
Do not hesitate to come and comment on this question. Mama meta modal ( talk) 08:53, 16 March 2014 (UTC).
Hi, I want to know how to make a menu ( variation 11) since I don't know the parameters, for more information on what I want, ask here and place a talkback notification on my talk page. Cheers! --Yutah Andrei Marzan Ogawa123| UPage|☺★ (talk) 15:10, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello all,
The Wikimedia Volunteer Response Team (also known as OTRS[1]) had an extremely busy year answering emails from Wikimedia users, readers and other interested people. We have once again prepared a statistical report of administrator activity and ticket volume for the year 2013.
I invite you all to review this report on Meta[2]. If you have any questions at all feel free to leave them on the talk page. If you wish to review the first report, published last year with data from 2012, you may also view that on Meta[3].
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m:OTRS
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m:OTRS/Reports/2013
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m:OTRS/Reports/2012
For the OTRS administrators, Rjd0060 ( talk) 20:49, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
Dear editors: I have started a discussion at the following location about whether and to what degree inline citations as opposed to general references should be required in Afc submissions before they are accepted to mainspace. My comments there are based on my understanding of relevant Wikipages such as WP:GENREF, WP:MINREF, and WP:Notability. I would appreciate discussion about whether I have interpreted these pages correctly. Here is the discussion:
— Anne Delong ( talk) 21:20, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
I make a lot of redirects (example). I click "View history", then "Page view statistics" to see if people are really using them; in this case, 14 times in the last 30 days. However, almost all those figures are in the range of 5 to 20, and it's too often to be a coincidence – although a few are used much more often, and Pom Pom Pull Away is only once in 30 days. So are real people using redirects like Phillip Ashton? Or is it counting how often bots look at them, which would account for similar statistics? Art LaPella ( talk) 19:53, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi Village Pump, does anybody know why wikipedians use four tildes as a signature? IN German Genealogy the tilde stands as short cut for baptism, si that a possible background? BR Serten ( talk) 06:25, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
/home/chris
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I am moving this to here from VPPR after it got reverted there ··· Vanischenu ( mc/ talk) 13:36, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello,
While I am an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, I write this email as a volunteer.
So now since the effort started by this class of students at Sinenjongo High School has had a level of success I thought - what could I do for them for all they've done that would also be good for the Wikimedia Movement? I asked a few of the students (all of whom have now graduated / matriculated high school) and they suggested that they could use some laptops for their schoolwork. I couldn't imagine being in college today and not having a computer, so I started a crowdfunding campaign here to buy one for each of the students involved in this effort
What everyone on this list needs to understand is that this whole class knows how to edit Wikipedia. Four Wikipedians (two from South Africa, one from Botswana and me from the USA) all showed them how twice during their one hour per week in front of a computer in high school. I blogged more about them here.
They all speak Xhosa natively - a language that could use some work (xh.wikipedia) and all I'd have to do is ask them to promise to keep editing that Wikipedia in exchange for the computers. They are very poor so this is a huge break for them - AND we'd get additions to xh.wikipedia.
That's my rationale for posting here - I don't think a grant for hardware like this on such a 'small' scale would warrant a WMF grant because its several thousand dollars that could probably be better spent in other areas, so I started the crowdfunding campaign. So far we have $500, which is enough for a little more than one laptop. The goal just over 20.
I'm open to ideas for what kinds of ordinary affordable laptops we could get that might be available in bulk in and around Cape Town, South Africa.
Also -
I'm saddened to say that one of the students in this class at recently passed away in a traffic accident last weekend. His name was Ntsika Kellem. You can see a moment I had with him here:
Or you can see him at 0:15 - 0:20 mentioning the names of South African Cellular carriers here:
We are putting finishing touches on the documentary about him and his class and their effort and we plan to dedicate the film to him or some other appropriate gesture.
If this is an inappropriate place to post this, or you have better ideas than I do about where this should go, please let me know. Thank you everyone, for reading.
Victor Grigas ( talk) 23:09, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
Over the last few months I've seen a lot of edits done by strange code names, such as these on
Some of these were clear vandalism and others seemed OK. What are these? --
Light show (
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We ask editors with a COI to refrain from editing articles directly, and instead, request an edit on the talk page. We even provide a template, which creates a log of requests. Category:Requested edits. However, that list has 87 items, going back to November. If everyone watching this page addressed one item a month, we would catch up in less than two days. I do not realistically expect everyone to pitch in, but it would only take a few to get the backlog down to a less embarrassing level.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 14:17, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
There is currently a RFC on Coat of arms of the Netherlands. All are welcome to comment. Fry1989 eh? 17:21, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
First let me say I find Wikipedia itself to be a wonderful resource. But my comment is, I find the featured article to usually be of no interest. Rather boring subjects are chosen even though I have very wide interests. For comparison, please take a look at the article of the day , this day in history and news on this day, on the Free Dictionary by Farlex website. www.thefreedictionary.com/ I would like to see Wikipedia attain their standard for interest and presentation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnkeevil ( talk • contribs) 16:38, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
I made a well-intentioned, but stupid, mistake with two RfC. I started an RfC on Talk:Ukraine regarding the map. I then thought it would be best to do this for Talk:Russia as well since the disputed is between them. In retrospect, this was not the best idea as it may result in different outcomes. I did not want to seem like I was vote gaming or anything bad faith and reverted my removal-closure of the RfC on Talk:Russia per the advice of Iryna Harpy and came here to ask for advice. What should be done with the Talk:Russia RfC? EvergreenFir ( talk) 04:45, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello,
It's been some time that I have the following problem with the wikipedia's web page API, i.e.
How to hide the left column of the wiki page?
This is critical for a computer display with a limited width or horizontal resolution. On a Windows PC, I can use the "Print/export -> Printable version", but all the links in the text and other HTML features will get lost.
Suggestion: 1. A "hide" button on the vertical dividing line to control the display/hide for the whole left column; or 2. a switch to the format that is similar to the current display format and controls on an Android cell phone.
Thanks.
--- Chang — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chang zhou ( talk • contribs) 23:03, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
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17:38, 25 March 2014 (UTC)I'd like to donate to Wikipedia, but my only way to do it is through Amazon. Unfortunately, I can't do that, since I only use gift cards for it and it doesn't let you send money directly from your account to here. Anyone know a workaround? Supernerd11 :D Firemind ^_^ Pokedex 04:01, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
PLease note that Roger Somville has died. Thank You. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.185.175.84 ( talk) 07:08, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
Hello all, another question: I've got a list of articles I've created on my userpage (and I'm thinking about adding one of significantly improved by me), and I want to put the little symbol for what class it is next to each name. I've seen it done somewhere (a wikiproject?), but I can't for the life of me remember where. Is there a way to do this, and if so, is there a way to make it auto-update (i.e. Magic: The Gathering Conspiracy getting upped to Start-class while it's marked as a stub in my userpage)? Supernerd11 :D Firemind ^_^ Pokedex 03:00, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
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to produce the icon. I don't think it can be updated automatically though. As far as I know most Wikiprojects update their Wikiproject pages using the
WP 1.0 bot and the articles themselves are modified manually.
Zell Faze (
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14:39, 2 April 2014 (UTC)An example link is after the red link in this section, and I am skeptical of its value. Has this kind of use of an interwiki link been discussed somewhere? Biosthmors ( talk) pls notify me (i.e. {{ U}}) while signing a reply, thx 23:27, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
Hey, did Wikipedia's font change just now? My browser is set to display serif fonts always, but now I see sans-serifs everywhere on the wiki... Was something changed that causes the Wikipedia website not to respect the user's font settings on the browser? How can I get serif fonts on Wikipedia and make it a joy to read (and edit!) again? Thanks, Sofia Koutsouveli ( talk) 03:41, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
Hello. At one point, I tried to submit Misandry as a candidate for AfD. Looking back, I realize it was due to bias and self-hatred a while back. I do not plan to do this again, but I have to ask: How can I make things right? What should I add to my user page as a reminder to never do that again, and to notify people of what I did as incentive to contribute in a more positive manner in the future? -- Pichu0102 ( talk) 23:57, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
WP:Today's featured article/requests is using a new system on an experimental basis. Firstly, the old requirement to calculate how many "points" the suggested article had has gone. Secondly, we are using a nomination template based on that used at DYK in the hope that this will make the process easier to complete. If you would like to nominate a featured article that has yet to appear on the main page – whether written by you or by others – please come along to WP:TFAR and give the new system a go. All feedback welcome. Thanks, Bencherlite Talk 13:40, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
I'm not sure if it's the same as nationality << there are native speakers of English invited to discuss. TIA, Klaas|Z4␟ V: 12:42, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
The article Texas says:
If it were still an independent country, Texas would be the 40th largest behind Chile and Zambia.
This is a statement answering an imaginary question, namely "How would Texas rank if it were a country of its own and not part of the United States??" I would like to know if there's any consensus about whether answering imaginary questions is allowed in Wikipedia. Georgia guy ( talk) 00:02, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
Help Me Find An Actor David Gordon Please
Hi
I am trying to find out what ever has happened to the actor David Gordon whom stars in the music video by Heart performing 'All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You'. which came out in March, 1990. I believe his name is David Gordon but can't find any information about this actor. He is also in Elton John music video 'You Got To Love Someone'.
Thank you for your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.162.44.223 ( talk) 05:52, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
Is it just me, or has Wikipedia changed its typeface?-- The Theosophist ( talk) 19:28, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
Where is Khorasan, Iran? This place in the lede of WP:Central Asia and refers to a disambiguation page. Can someone who knows Iran fix this so it is clear where this place is lcated?-- DThomsen8 ( talk) 00:34, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi again, I just AfD'd a one-sentenced unsourced BLP at the same time that someone else CSD'd it. I removed the AfD tag from the article, but how do I get rid of it at the list of current AfD's? Supernerd11 :D Firemind ^_^ Pokedex 19:44, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
I browse Wikipedia on a weekly basis and find numerous blatant errors (incorrect names, incorrect birth dates/years, blatant grammatical errors, blatant text errors, etc) almost every time. Usually I don't bother to correct them, but what I'll often do is make note of the article and come back every so often to see if the blatant error has been corrected. 90% of the time (even if it's months later) the error remains on the WP article. So here is my question: how does this happen, and how can WP be considered reliable and legitimate when these flagrant errors abound and remain uncorrected for long periods of time?
Two recent examples:
The Dennis Kozlowski article had an incorrect first name (a totally blatant error for an encyclopedia) going back to January 2011. That's over THREE YEARS where an article had somebody's name wrong.
In February 2013 a user added a second surname to the David Parker Ray article. I did a google search and could find ZERO reliable sources for that surname. So a completely made-up name remained on a WP article for over a year, again how does nobody catch this stuff?
24.193.119.220 ( talk) 06:07, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
If you find an error, but don't fix it, you're part of the problem, surely? doktorb words deeds 06:47, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
There's this little thing called WP:SOFIXIT that, if more people would at least attempt to follow, can really help out here. Yes, Wikipedia's got its own little internal squabbles, but have you ever been part of a group that doesn't? With thousands of registered users and a bunch of IP's editing millions of pages (almost 5 million just in en.wikipedia) and the hundreds of somewhat less visible pages (such as this one), there's naturally gonna be some conflict. There's also an extensive list of articles that nobody watches at all (I was recently in a discussion about it, and the people who can see the list (It's sysop-only to stave off vandalism) say that the first thousand don't even get past the digits), plus the articles about some niche topic that the only people involved have long since retired. Sorry if I seem harsh, but it really irks me how many people hate Wikipedia just because of a few mistakes. Supernerd11 :D Firemind ^_^ Pokedex 03:51, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
I have been reading everything I can about the Wiki-gender gap, as part of some work I am doing on inclusivity. This article is rather interesting, although it rather understates the percentage of women editors at 10%.
It does however say "Early computer programmers were women, but this is generally not known and has been ignored on the Wikipedia page about the history of computer programming." I was surprised, because I know we cover Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper particularly well. I also knew we had articles on all six pioneer ENIAC programmers - they are listed on the [[Computer programmer] article, together with Lovelace, making 7 of the 8 named programmers women. (Turing is not mentioned.) We do not have an article History of computer programming, but we do have History of computer science, perhaps that is what is meant? Outline_of_computer_programming#History_of_programming is a good general resource.
Maybe someone can point Taylor Ulrich to this question, so that the omission can be found and rectified. I'd also be interested to know what the outcomes of the "Wikistorming" are.
All the best,
Rich
Farmbrough,
07:03, 13 April 2014 (UTC).
A request for comments on the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater article has been posted on the article's talk page. Please contribute your thoughts and ideas. 71.139.142.29 ( talk) 14:31, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
Can a kind soul mark this page as reviewed for me? I'm tired of seeing the review toolbar on the side § FreeRangeFrog croak 17:45, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
As part of the U.S. Library Week, Oxford University Press is giving free access to their online materials until Saturday. This is limited to U.S. and Canadian users. Please repost where you see fit. See here for login details: OUP page. The Interior (Talk) 00:08, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
Hon. Frank J. LaBuda has served as the elected justice of the highest trial level court in the State of New York since 1997. During his tenure as a trial judge he has authored more than 154 officially published decisions addressing constitutional, statutory and common law issues. Judge LaBuda’s decisions have provided legal precedent for other trial judges on issues of evidence, trial procedure, criminal, civil, Surrogate’s and negligence law.
Judge LaBuda established two Special Courts in Sullivan County—Drug Court, which provides diversion programs to defendants with substance abuse issues, and Vetrac, a specialized court that addresses the unique circumstances of criminal defendants who are veterans.
Judge LaBuda’s legal career spans over four decades; prior to being elected State Judge and Surrogate, he spent over twenty years in private practice and in the public sector. In his private practice, Judge LaBuda handled civil and criminal jury trials in both federal and state courts. He also served as a Prosecutor prior to taking the bench. For ten years as a Prosecutor he held the distinguished position of Chief Assistant District Attorney of Sullivan County for all criminal prosecutions.
In addition to his notable legal career, Judge LaBuda first served as a Captain in the Judge Advocate General Corps from 1975 to 1978, and then returned to active duty for a second time during the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War as a U.S. Army Major in Operation Desert Storm. During the Gulf War he conducted investigations into various war crimes and was engaged in field operations and logistics in Kuwait and Iraq. Following the war, Judge LaBuda has been an advocate for Veterans rights and issues. He is also a member of the International Association of Criminologist (IAK) for European police and security investigators.
Judge LaBuda earned his Doctor of Jurisprudence with honors from Case Western University School of Law in Ohio and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Lehman College of the City University of New York. He also graduated from the U.S. Army Judge Advocate School at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, and has attended many specialized training seminars for State and Federal Judges through the George Mason University School of Law and Economics Center. The Judge has also been a professor of law at the State University of New York at Sullivan County; a speaker at continuing legal education seminars for judges in New York State, and a judge at the annual “Gabrielli National Law Competition” at the University of Albany School of Law in New York.
Judge LaBuda, who is fluent in the German language, has traveled extensively throughout Europe and Central Asia as a speaker on constitutional law, the Judiciary in the U.S., Arbitration and Trial practice. He has lectured and participated in legal symposia in Ghana, Hungary, Korea, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovenia, and Uzbekistan. — Preceding
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Since WikiProject International Relations appears to be quite inactive, I don't know of any other place to ask apart from here. Is there a way of dealing with users pushing a WP:FRINGE agenda of a little-known, non-notable self-declared country? Special:Contributions/Mountstella (who has also previously edited beforehand as an anon IP) has added mentions to multiple articles about the so-called "Kingdom of Colonia St John", using the alleged kingdom's official website as a citation. I'm under the impression that if a self-declared nation has very little demonstrated notability, forcing its insertion into articles is WP:UNDUE and perhaps even WP:PROMO depending on who's doing it. Has there been any precedent in the past to use as a reference? -- benlisquare T• C• E 14:28, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
I am proposing moving and renaming Albert Levy (soldier) for the reasons cited in the talk section. As it is an obscure article, I thought a more public place would be good to seek input on this. Thanks. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 01:19, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
I don't understand what happened to my request to change my username from Cherilm93 to CheriLM. I was under the impression Cherilm would become my new login, but that never changed. Then I thought all instances of my login name would change to the new login name. Is it so that maybe it never happened? I got a confirmation in a message, but everything is still the same. Cherilm93 ( talk) 00:54, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
This is so crazy. Cherilm "does not exist", so I can't login that way. I edited the 93 out of my login name in my article in Talk, but when it signs it at the end it says Cherilm93 made the edit. So now I am REALLY confused. I suppose the nice thing is not that many people are seeking out information on this article. Cherilm93 ( talk) 21:00, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
Been seeing this tag on Recent Changes here and there. Don't remember ever seeing it before. Um... what's it mean? Evan ( talk| contribs) 05:53, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
How much space should be discussing his climate change views? See Talk:Christopher_Monckton,_3rd_Viscount_Monckton_of_Brenchley#Undue_weight. Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 22:35, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
Why someone keep add Goat Island in TV channel?- John123521 ( Talk- Contib.) RA 03:08, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
There is a discussion about the appropriate location for an actively updated Wiki Education Foundation (WEF) page that I would like to invite editors interested in the education program to comment on. The question is whether to soft redirect that page to m:Wiki Education Foundation, where the WEF will be maintaining active pages about its activities, or leave it as it currently stands. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 17:31, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
Has anyone tried Wikipedia:Unvisited? Is it open source? Is the author a Wikipedian? The idea seems very good, but the lack of any links back to Wikipedia/Commons on the Google Play page makes me a bit suspicious. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 07:25, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
(I cannot find the place to discuss this, so I am entering it here as a fall -back. When will accessing Wikipedia editing-related pages be made reasonably accessible?)
According to our article on William Shakespeare, the 450th anniversary of his baptism is on April 26th. I recommend that it be put onto the front page in one of the categories, e.g., featured article or on this day in history. 211.225.33.104 ( talk) 10:38, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
Could any experienced user please have a look at Wikipedia talk:Redirects for discussion#Doubled listing? That page is rather inactive and this is mildly time sensitive. Also, we should probably start auto-archiving that page or something, because it's huge. -- N Y Kevin 20:44, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
On tonight's The World Tonight they were talking to someone from the Liverpool Echo about this: Shocking Hillsborough insults added on Wikipedia from Government computers. Fairly unremarkable vandalism by Wikipedia's standards, so could perhaps have done with someone familiar with WP that and how easily it's dealt with. Don't know if it's of wider interest or will see any more press coverage (the Echo is a local paper though well known nationally).-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 22:30, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
This has been sitting in my userspace for a while, and since it already had a WP redirect, I figured I'd just make it official. It is now a Wikipedia-space essay. While I was at it, I did the same with Wikipedia:Neoplorgismanteau. Cheers! bd2412 T 16:33, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
I would like to know about the contracts Wikipedia has with Comic-Con. I realised that in articles about stars almost always pictures of them at Comic-Con are prefered (even if there are much better ones), mostly with the logo visible and a link to Comic-Con (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Lawrence). So there are thousands of links from Wikipedia articles to Comic-Con ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/San_Diego_Comic-Con_International). So obviously there is some kind of "collaboration" between Wikipedia and Comic-Con, but I couldn't find anything about it. -- 188.101.3.198 ( talk) 11:39, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
I realize most page titles just capitalize the first letter, but I just notices pages for mathematical theorems, lemmas, etc. seem to follow this pattern also. See: Schreier refinement theorem, Zassenhaus lemma. These are names of significant theorems, etc. and each word should be capitalized. What's the best way to fix this? -- Yoda of Borg ( talk) 02:19, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
We've been following this convention for more than a decade and this probably involves more than five-thousand titles. It is true that many writers in contexts other than Wikipedia use capitals in things like Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, etc. Maybe some day we'll have software with which we could seek out and suitably edit five-thousand articles whose titles follow this convention and a hundred-thousand occurrences in the bodies of other articles, including links to them. Michael Hardy ( talk) 14:51, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
{{
ping}}
is necessary every time to give a notification) (you seem to love capitalizing, to the point of capitalizing the common noun wiki!).--
Jasper Deng
(talk)
05:54, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
{{ping}}
to trigger a
notification, any link to a user's page will do. For example:
Jasper Deng. The ping template and related templates are just convenient.
Novusuna
talk
06:01, 29 April 2014 (UTC)We're approaching a milestone: 4,500,000 (4 and a half million) articles on the English Wikipedia. The current count is at 4,499,966. It shouldn't be long, maybe two hours... -- Jakob ( talk) (Please comment on my editor review.) 03:00, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
I just found an account with a blank pasword. See Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-02-06/Password security. Is there anything that needs to be done? Any way the account has 0 contribs. -- Fauzan ✆ talk ✉ email 11:32, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
How long after I've requested (on its Talk page) that a page be renamed, when it's obvious from the content that it does need renaming, does someone typically come along and fix it? I don't know whether I'm being too impatient. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SpringFwd ( talk • contribs) 17:36, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
Please join the merge discussion in Talk:Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople. Thanks. -- Why should I have a User Name? ( talk) 20:29, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
I would like to know about the contracts Wikipedia has with Comic-Con. I realised that in articles about stars almost always pictures of them at Comic-Con are prefered (even if there are much better ones), mostly with the logo visible and a link to Comic-Con (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Lawrence). So there are thousands of links from Wikipedia articles to Comic-Con ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/San_Diego_Comic-Con_International). So obviously there is some kind of "collaboration" between Wikipedia and Comic-Con, but I couldn't find anything about it. -- 188.101.3.198 ( talk) 11:39, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
I realize most page titles just capitalize the first letter, but I just notices pages for mathematical theorems, lemmas, etc. seem to follow this pattern also. See: Schreier refinement theorem, Zassenhaus lemma. These are names of significant theorems, etc. and each word should be capitalized. What's the best way to fix this? -- Yoda of Borg ( talk) 02:19, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
We've been following this convention for more than a decade and this probably involves more than five-thousand titles. It is true that many writers in contexts other than Wikipedia use capitals in things like Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, etc. Maybe some day we'll have software with which we could seek out and suitably edit five-thousand articles whose titles follow this convention and a hundred-thousand occurrences in the bodies of other articles, including links to them. Michael Hardy ( talk) 14:51, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
{{
ping}}
is necessary every time to give a notification) (you seem to love capitalizing, to the point of capitalizing the common noun wiki!).--
Jasper Deng
(talk)
05:54, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
{{ping}}
to trigger a
notification, any link to a user's page will do. For example:
Jasper Deng. The ping template and related templates are just convenient.
Novusuna
talk
06:01, 29 April 2014 (UTC)We're approaching a milestone: 4,500,000 (4 and a half million) articles on the English Wikipedia. The current count is at 4,499,966. It shouldn't be long, maybe two hours... -- Jakob ( talk) (Please comment on my editor review.) 03:00, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
I just found an account with a blank pasword. See Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-02-06/Password security. Is there anything that needs to be done? Any way the account has 0 contribs. -- Fauzan ✆ talk ✉ email 11:32, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
How long after I've requested (on its Talk page) that a page be renamed, when it's obvious from the content that it does need renaming, does someone typically come along and fix it? I don't know whether I'm being too impatient. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SpringFwd ( talk • contribs) 17:36, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
Please join the merge discussion in Talk:Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople. Thanks. -- Why should I have a User Name? ( talk) 20:29, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
Is this how the talkpges on wikipedia are going to be in the future? -- Fauzan ✆ talk ✉ email 18:24, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
I have gathered a dataset of 6,140 stubs that in February were more popular than the average Featured Article and posted it on User:Nettrom/datasets/March 2014 popular stubs. The articles come from the March 4, 2014 dump and were identified using a combination of computer classification and article assessments, as well as viewership data from Wiki ViewStats. A more detailed description of our method is found at the bottom of the dataset page.
Would love to know what others think of this dataset. Is it useful? Are these articles you'd like to work on improving? Given their popularity and current low quality, they should be prime candidates for improvement, right? Cheers, Nettrom ( talk) 20:30, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
Turns out that these articles are covered by some 800 WikiProjects. I'll spend some time on figuring out how to condense it down to a manageable number of projects, it'll take a few days. Cheers, Nettrom ( talk) 18:43, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
I have now updated the dataset so it lists popular stubs per WikiProject. Because there are so many projects (610 after some cleaning) I have broken it into four parts depending on how many stubs they each have listed. There's also an overview table so it's possible to search for specific WikiProjects to find which subpage their popular stubs are listed on. I'll be looking into the issue of short-lived bursts in popularity when I next have time, as that can potentially provide useful additional information. Regards, Nettrom ( talk) 19:48, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
I am the Wiki Education Foundation campus ambassador for a grad school class studying the atmospheric boundary layer at UCLA. I pinged WikiProject Meteorology more than a week ago to no avail. I have eight grad students that are working in their sandboxes and are eager for your input. Chris Troutman ( talk) 03:12, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
Three new top level domain name registries have asked ICANN to allow them to register two character domain names under their TLDs. New TLD registries aren’t allowed to offer two character second level domain names per their agreements with ICANN, but I expect this to change in coming years. The requests are very different.... .Wiki applicant Top Level Design has asked for two character domains with the support of Wikimedia Foundation, the group behind Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation wants to register two letter second level domain names to forward to matching wikipedia.org domains, e.g. fr.wiki to redirect to fr.wikipedia.org and en.wiki to en.wikipedia.org.
— 3 new domain registries ask ICANN for two character domain names, Andrew Allemann, Domain Name Wire, 29 April 2014
A) If this is true, why has there been no public announcement of it by WMF?
B) Likewise, if this is true, the plan is to engrave the common mistake of referring to Wikipedia as just "Wiki" in DNS forever? That's just great.
C) Is this related to
strategy:Proposal:.WIKI. and .WK. top level domains, a proposal from 2009 that appeared until now to have gone nowhere?
—
Scott •
talk
14:15, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
There is a list at User:Pigsonthewing/Direct calls to Infobox of 2398 articles which use {{ Infobox}} directly. While that's not prohibited, of course, there's often a more suitable template to use, such as in this edit. Some are simply frames for images. Please feel free to strike through items in that list if you convert them (or if you check and nothing needs to be done; in which case, please leave a comment there also). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:56, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
Competition time: Write new and improve existing articles out of a list of subjects related to Umeå. Exclusive prizes. The challenge carries on from 1 May to 31 May. Read more at meta. -- Jan Ainali (WMSE) ( talk) 22:45, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
Well I shouldn't worry too much, @Jayron32. I'm pleased to see you have said what the dozens of volunteers involved also said. However Gibraltar had 1,000 new articles and ~3,000 new images with lots of stuff in both Africa and Spain including putting Ceuta "on the map" which now has lots of articles too. I think this is possibly the second most successful GLAM project in terms of new articles generated. Since Gibraltarpedia there have been successes for Joburgpedia. We have a QRpedia code on Mahatma Gandhi's house. Praguepedia locations have been on the front page lots of times as has Bremenpedia and Freopedia. I hav'n't mentioned all the wikitowns. A new Australian town will be announced in the next few days. .... Victuallers ( talk) 15:26, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
I noted what seemed an odd addition to Plumpy'nut; the editor was apparently trying to find a citation, but apparently found one on his own. Now there appears to be legal baggage attached to his finding. I tagged it with a cn. Are there policies for allegations, similar to BLP, but for NGOs, organizations like Doctors without borders? Do I mean Wikimedia? For what it's worth, I simply moved the addition to its own article. -- Ancheta Wis (talk | contribs) 06:40, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi folks: we'd love to hear what you think about Media Viewer, a new tool that aims to improve the viewing experience on Wikipedia and its sister sites.
This multimedia browser displays images in larger size and with less clutter, providing a more immersive user experience, as described here. It was developed in collaboration with many community members -- including over 12,000 beta users here on English Wikipedia, who have been testing it since November 2013. The current plan is to release this tool gradually in coming weeks: it is already enabled by default on over a dozen sites (including the Dutch, French and Polish Wikipedia), and will be deployed more widely throughout May, as described in this release plan.
Can you share your feedback about this tool, to help address any critical issues before its May 15 release on the English Wikipedia? To try it out, please log in and click on the small 'Beta' link next to 'Preferences' in your personal menu. Then check the box next to 'Media Viewer' in the Beta Features section of your user preferences — and click 'Save'. You can now click on any thumbnail image on this site to see it in larger size in the Media Viewer. For more info, check out these testing tips or this Help page.
Once you've tried the tool, please share your feedback in this discussion, to help improve this feature. You're also welcome to take this quick survey -- or join this in-depth discussion on MediaWiki.org, as you prefer. Thanks for sharing your insights! Fabrice Florin (WMF) ( talk) 00:29, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
I originally posted this to the Main Page, but unsurprisingly, it's beind censored from their by the people who I am complaining about, on the technicality that it's not directly related to the Main Page. This seems to be the closest place I can find here to a complaints page, so, I'm going to put it here instead. if anything, I'm just extremely interested to see what excuse they will find to remove it from here to. Apparently they find it extremely uncomfortable to talk about this at all. Strange attitude for a website which likes to present itself as an open collboration.
Here it is:
If you want to know why, read the Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates page. There you will find all sorts of uninformed, illogical, and downright dishonest claims about the UK legal system and the way the British press works. You will also see the quite idiotic claim that, by ignoring this news, Wikipedia is somehow defending Adam's from defamation - something apparently the rest of the world's media (and indeed Wikipedia's own article on Adams), isn't apparently all that concerned about. If like me, you think this is contemptible, and want to challenge it - then you will just have complain to your congressman I guess, because it has become clear to me today at Wikipedia talk:In the news that the people at Wikipedia who make those sort of arguments, will absolutely, positively, not answer any questions at all about it - and others will apparently defend their rights to do so, by closing down such discussions. Apparently it's 'disruptive' to question the logic that goes into faulty Wikipedia decision making like this. As always, if you want to know what's going on the world, consult the other 'old media' outlets who, for all their faults, still make it their job to report on the news in a serious and credible manner. Only come to Wikipedia if you want to know about video games and other stuff nobody really gives a crap about. Lokie Dokie ( talk) 13:25, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
And oh wow. User:Doktorbuk just tried to close this section too. I'm sure that had absolutely nothing to do with the fact he is a regular commenter in the discussions there, and he was actually one of the people I criticised for their comments in the LA Clippers section, in the section I started on Adams at Wikipedia talk:In the news. I'm sure he thought nobody here would have realised that, and maybe might have assumed he had no hand in this dispute whatsoever. Circling the wagons really does seem to be a big part of the lives of the folks who like to decide what happens over there. What on Earth can be so scary about having their logic questioned, that they need to go to these extraordinary lengths to shut me up? Lokie Dokie (talk) 15:54, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
Dear Wikipedians, I want to ask a question about verifiability for some articles. Some edits (such as this) completely remove most of the contents in the page because of verifiability. (Btw, I haven't contributed to this article) No sources have been added to the article, but most of it's content can be verified with an easy web search. When I see some edits like these, it also removes the work of previous wikipedians. My question is, How should we interpret this rule? Does it strictly impose that every sentence should be cited? In my opininon, a tag like who?, when? or citation needed might be used in the first place. I think we should give some space for the editors to cite their work. Cheers.. -- joseph msg 08:29, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
Just a note to let anyone who's interested know I've posted the Wiki Education Foundation's Monthly Report for March, both on wiki and on Commons. My apologies for the delay; hopefully we've worked out the process kinks and can get the April report out in a more timely manner! I welcome any suggestions for what would make this report more useful for you in the future. -- LiAnna (Wiki Ed) ( talk) 03:09, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
Dear English Wikipedia community,
Please honor the efforts today of the men and women who helped this Spanish Wikipedia article survive the a deletion process: es:Liceo Mexicano Japonés ( Liceo Mexicano Japonés). This helped preserve not only a Wikipedia article, but it also preserved a record of an internet account of an important institution of an ethnic group in Mexico City, the Japanese Nikkei, and it helped ensure young men and women in Mexico City would learn more about their history and their culture.
Please recognize the efforts of these Spanish-speaking Wikipedians...
...and these Japanese-speaking Wikipedians...
...in helping rescue the article. (If I forgot anyone, I'm sorry!)
In addition, please honor the efforts of those on Reddit. http://reddit.com/u/enomooshiki has provided to me and others in the Wikipedia community a difficult-to-access master's degree thesis by Chizuko Watanabe ("The Japanese Immigrant Community in Mexico: its History and Present", California State University Los Angeles, 1983). In addition to the rescue of the article, more people will learn about Chizuko Watanabe's scholarship and her work will become available and known to many around the world. In addition, http://reddit.com/u/fabianhjr had given me a list to the Google Scholar sources which helped me find a Japanese source.
Thank you, - WhisperToMe WhisperToMe ( talk) 00:01, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
Greetings. Please send me the address of someone who can suggest a new entry. It's so obvious I'm amazed it's not here.
(It's a topic of political sensitivity, so I don't want to divulge it in this space.)
Thanks,
dpf — Preceding unsigned comment added by Frazierdp ( talk • contribs) 01:35, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
I've just enabled the citation tool in VisualEditor, which adds a prominent menu in the toolbar listing the most common citation templates to insert as new citations. You can also use this tool to edit most existing references that use these templates, bypassing the need to edit a template inside a reference. Feedback welcome!
Jdforrester (WMF) ( talk) 14:38, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I'm from Persian Wikipedia and I have a question about WP:ALSO. one of our users added Timeline of United States inventions (1946–91) in See also section in more than 200 articles (includes Personal computer, C (programming language), Video game console, Digital camera, Mobile phone, Firewall (computing), Perl, Ethernet, Internet, ...). I didnt saw anything like this in English Wikipedia. the translation of Timeline of United States inventions (1946–91) in our wiki just have year and titles without any descriptions, and we have the year of inventions in article's History section. also we have related categories such as Category:20th-century introductions and Category:1975 introductions for these articles. one of our Administrators thinks these edits are fine but me and some other users thinks its wrong and if we think like that anybody can add any unrelated links to See also sections. what do you think about this ? should we rollback them ? the user has thousands of edits like this. is this vandalism or not ? Thanks ARASH PT talk 15:20, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
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2013 in film is 332,397 bytes (without images). Please discuss whether or not to sub-divide it, at Talk:2013 in film#Length. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:23, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
Somewhere there is a list of editors who created many new articles, but I do not see how to find it. Please tell me.
Beyond that, how can I know how many articles I have created can be counted? Is there a tool?-- DThomsen8 ( talk) 02:18, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
Any idea why the site is gone? I am looking for this report, which was still online a few weeks ago. Gun Powder Ma ( talk) 22:21, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
running for a fifth time - 10 Feb to 9 march.... Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 21:24, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
Should the article Alakol, Kazakhstan, which provides a list of places in Kazakhstan called "Alakol", have a {{WikiProject Central Asia|class=stub|importance=low|Kazakhstan=yes|Kazakhstan-importance=low}} talk page, or a {{disambiguation}} talk page, or should it have a Set index talk page, or should something else be done to the article itself? Advice, please. -- DThomsen8 ( talk) 22:49, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
At times when you display a Wikipedia article history, instead of the Wikipedia user name (for registered users) or the IP address (for non registered users) you get something like this 2605:a601:448:cf01:d857:6ccf:a737:a59d. (I take it this is a sequence of 8 numbers in 4 hex digit format).
What are those things and how can I get my own edit to be displayed under such a token?
Contact Basemetal here 17:46, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
Here User:Jimbo Wales said
There can and should be some debate about what the appropriate level of reserves is, and some debate about whether we should be pursuing an endowment strategy (i.e. trying to get enough money now such that Wikipedia could survive and thrive from interest earnings alone, or some other similar target).
— Jimbo Wales 16:58, 14 November 2013
Anyone interested in discussing that?
The WMF should have enough in reserve to run the servers and provide the technical support we need for a few years, of course. That's prudent.
However, the readers love the encyclopedia - the articles we write - and want it to survive; they don't care which little group of people provides technical support and runs the servers, and I'm sure they're not donating so that the present bunch can have guaranteed jobs for life regardless of the quality of service they provide. If the day comes when our readers lose interest in funding the WMF projects, the WMF can fade away. Our articles will survive. And a more relevant project will arise. -- Anthonyhcole ( talk · contribs · email) 11:24, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
Draft:Integral flour can someone please help me with this? Thanks in advance. Alex discussion ★ 20:31, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi all!
I hope to soon start a mass AfD for all the articles created by a certain paid editor.
I wonder if two people — one administrator and one non-administrator — could please help me out? Please simply save a copy of http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.freelancer.is/projects/Article-Rewriting-Article-Submission/Replace-existing-WIKIPEDIA-page-maintain.html on your computer. This is a Google Cache page which includes strong evidence that the editor is paid. Please let me know below once you have done so.
Such strong evidence is available only in Google Cache — not on the open Web.
If you volunteer now, then once I start the AfD, I may call on you again: I may ask you to post a comment to help back up my accusation of paid editing.
WebCite cannot save Google Cache pages.
One administrator, plus one non-administrator, will be sufficient. I do not need more volunteers than that.
I thank you in advance.
Cheers, — Unforgettableid2 ( talk) 08:13, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
When died Masaaki Tsukada, on january 27 or 29? Scymso ( talk) 18:53, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
Please take a look at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kat Walsh
Smallbones( smalltalk) 20:17, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
In the past, there have been requests that discussions about potentially controversial TFAs are brought to the attention of more than just those who have WP:TFAR on their watchlist. With that in mind: Fuck (film) has been nominated for an appearance as Today's Featured Article. If you have any views, please comment at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests. Thank you. Bencherlite Talk 12:34, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
There is a discussion on whether the Editor Review should be marked historical. Input would be appreciated. Konveyor Belt 16:33, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
These are traintickets where kilometers (miles?) are bougth in bulk and deducted on each trip. There is a Dutch article nl:Kilometerboekje and a German one, de:Kilometerbank. There used to be a lot of other examples in many countries. I try to gather more sources to get an overview of these type tickets. They maybe known under other names. I have received two German sources:
Could somebody help in getting more sources or idealy a book or source where all the information has been collected? If someone want to write an English article on the subject I wil help with information on the Dutch railways. Smiley.toerist ( talk) 23:49, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
I recently created a template, {{
Service award progress}}, which shows your progress towards the next
service award. I'm looking for people to try it out and notify me somehow if they find any bugs. To use it, all you have to do is stick it on your userpage somewhere and pass in the same things you pass into {{
Service awards}} (i.e. |year=
, |month=
, |day=
, and |edits=
). Bugs and suggestions should be posted on
the template's talk page; if I don't respond, you can put a {{
Talkback}} on
my talkpage. Thank you very much!
APerson (
talk!)
02:16, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
...you can tick it in your Beta tab in Preferences. Its main goal is viewing image preview and basic info without going away from an article.
Please actively add your thoughts and healthy criticism it at its feedback page (as also linked in its entry in the Beta tab). It is a thing that directly faces the contributors daily after all, and your feedback would be valuable. -- Gryllida ( talk) 04:10, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
The first Scientologist to cite this book in the Church of Scientology editing on Wikipedia article wins the "Self-referential Circular Reference of the Decade" barnstar! Kaldari ( talk) 07:17, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
== Is it safe? ==
I want to add back the orange bar notification (the so-called "bar of doom"). And I saw a warning which said that the script code may contain malicious content which may compromise my account, I just want to make sure if it is safe. And if it is not, is there another way to re-create it? — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Andrei Marzan (
talk •
contribs)
17:35, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
I want to add back the orange bar notification (the so-called "bar of doom"). And I saw a warning which said that the script code may contain malicious content which may compromise my account, I just want to make sure if it is safe. And if it is not, is there another way to re-create it?--Yutah Andrei Marzan Ogawa 17:35, 1 February 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andrei Marzan ( talk • contribs)
The Arbitration Committee clerks are currently looking for a few dependable and mature editors willing to serve as clerks. The responsibilities of clerks include opening and closing arbitration cases and motions; notifying parties of cases, decisions, and other committee actions; maintaining the requests for Arbitration pages; preserving order and proper formatting on case pages; and other administrative and related tasks they may be requested to handle by the arbitrators. Clerks are the unsung heroes of the arbitration process, keeping track of details to ensure that requests are handled in a timely and efficient manner. Clerks get front-line seats to the political and ethnic warfare that scorches Wikipedia periodically, and, since they aren't arbitrators themselves, are rarely threatened with violence by the participants.
Past clerks have gone on to be (or already were) successful lawyers, naval officers, and Presidents of Wikimedia Chapters. The salary and retirement packages for Clerks rival that of Arbitrators, to boot. Best of all, you get a cool fez!
Please email clerks-llists.wikimedia.org if you are interested in becoming a clerk, and a clerk will reply with an acknowledgement of your message and any questions we want to put to you.
For the Arbitration Committee clerks, Rs chen 7754 04:59, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
I wanted to tweak the opening/closing ceremony dates for the 2014 Winter Olympics but when I attempted to make the edit the text is not there. What's this all about, why does text disappear when I try to edit? 24.193.43.35 ( talk) 13:26, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
I'm thinking of collecting a bunch of old revision URLs for Wikipedia articles that used to be very detailed in the past, however have become stubbified, shortened or made into redirects as a result of a rise in the enforcement of policies such as WP:N, WP:V, WP:NOR and WP:RS at around 2009. Back in the old days, many many years ago, Wikipedia was essentially the place where anyone could show up and dump whatever they want, and in some cases you could find huge piles of niche information; then one day, the community decided to revamp the system once and for all, and place greater emphasis on reliability. Many of the articles purged had to do with things such as television shows, films, computer and video games, and music, since these are the things that are often the most difficult to properly reference and verify niche information for very specific audiences. During the 2007-2008 era, "in popular culture" sections used to be the absolute plague of Wikipedia, from what I remember.
Currently I know of three old versions of articles that are quite detailed:
Does anyone else happen to know of any other such examples? This is just something I'm doing for fun and to fill in my curiosity, and simply that; I'm interested in finding out what other things old Wikipedia used to have in store, hidden away in a dark corner. -- benlisquare T• C• E 17:24, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
A few sources claim that minorities, particularly blacks, suffered a disproportionately high number of casualties during the Vietnam War. I've been trying to verify this or debunk it, but a lot of the information I've been finding is contradictory. I'm not really an expert on Vietnam or the methods they used to collect data about race, and the only two reliable sources I've been able to find contradict each other. Vietnam War casualties doesn't mention the controversy at all, while Winter Soldier Investigation#Racism Panel treats it like a given.
Some of the unreliable sources I've seen claim that in at least one year, blacks were 20% of the casualties, but less than that in other years, enough to bring the number back down to 12-15%. Some claim that Latinos were counted as whites. There are claims about discriminatory drafting, but also that minorities were denied combat roles because of the racism against them. I just can't make heads or tails of this. Are there any experts out there who know something about this? PraetorianFury ( talk) 17:45, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
I was told to take this to the village pump so apologizes find I took this to the wrong place. But I really want to address this problem I have with GAR as of late. What's happening with GAR is that all the reviews it has on its board is completely stalled out. Its oldest review, for Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, has been up since November 2nd of last year and nothing has been done about it. The GAR for Frank Underwood (House of Cards) was requested to be withdrawn and as of this writing, is currently at GAN. What I'm saying is that the process is mismanaged and there needs to be some sort of reform or management added to it. This is just depressing to look at. GamerPro64 04:04, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
File
George Izard.jpg already in commons.
Please, delete
File:George Izard.jpg, thank you. --
Francois-Pier (
talk)
04:07, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
I don't know why, and i don't konw if this the place for leave a message, but i have the whole day with a notification, the problem is doesn't appear a message or another thing, but a error message with this text.
Could not find the requested workflow. Return to Main Page.
. -- Ravave ( talk) 18:24, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
@ Whatamidoing (WMF):@ Quiddity (WMF):: Thank you for you two. Fixed, and i hope there aren't more bugs xD. And don't worry, Quiddity. Everybody (myself too) makes some errors. -- Ravave ( talk) 11:42, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
In Arnaldus_de_Villa_Nova, his birth and death years are listed as circa 1235–1311. The last sentence in the second paragraph reads "About 1313 he was summoned to Avignon by Pope Clement V, who was ill, but he died on the voyage off the coast of Genoa.". This is problematic in several ways: 1) We are first told that Arnaldus died in 1311, so is the 1313 date wrong? 2) Sentence is unclear about who died on the voyage: If it was Arnaldus, then the aformentioned birth and death dates are in conflict with the 1313 date. If it was Clement V, then 1313 is wrong or Pope_Clement_V is wrong. Would someone who knows more about these two people please check the two articles for accuracy? -- Frotz( talk) 11:23, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
In the article about "Epilepsy" there is a section called "Prevention" where it names "port tapeworm". Click on this name and you get "pork tapeworm"
Prevention[edit]While many cases are not preventable, efforts to reduce head injuries, provide good care around the time of birth, and reduce environmental parasites such as the port tapeworm may be effective.[3] Efforts in one part of Central America to decrease rates of port tapeworm resulted in a 50% decrease in new cases of epilepsy.[10] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.32.29.1 ( talk) 12:04, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
Horrified today to discover that my "Watchlist" star icon is animated, spinning cutely whenever I click it. Any competent UI designer knows that this kind of thing is at best controversial and will alienate users who find such things distracting or even distressing. Yes, we do exist. To me, such tricks are just thoughtless nastiness by people who simply don't care about those of us who suffer distraction and distress from peripheral animations. C'm on, guys, prove you are not prejudiced bigots and please get rid of this little horror. Keep editing Wikipedia truly accessible to all, not just to the people you want us to be. My apologies if I post this in the wrong place, but there seems no obvious slot for such a comment. — Cheers, Steelpillow ( Talk) 13:37, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
[mediawiki/core.git]/skins/vector/components/watchstar.less
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in it.)Hi I'm Anita I originally from Philippines and reside from a small village in hindang Leyte in the Philippines. We have around 100 family lives there but we don't have enough resources especially water. It is very difficult if you don't have enough water coz water is very important in our daily life use in laundry, cooking, taking a shower, in use to water the animal to drink and water the plant. We have water but not enough to cater for the people who live there. Some people there not taking a bath everyday coz don't have enough water for the village. We have water there but its just far from our village and it is difficult coz you carry it by bucket or pail or water container and it was heavy to carry for woman. I'm urging those have kind at heart to help my village people to have water pump so we can build our water tank and we can supply the water in every houses. I am organizing it on my behalf coz we ask already in our local government but the refuse our project coz the said. We don't have enough people there help if our village had 500 resident. But in my opinion our village are few but non the long year ahead our village are growing. Now its almost 300 hundred plus residents at the moment. Pls help us thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.120.251.94 ( talk) 07:52, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
From Monday 3 February to Thursday 6 February a group of about 50 Wikimedians were present in the European Parliament in Strasbourg to take photos of members of the European Parliament. From about half of all members (766) of the parliament there have been photos taken during these days. Still a lot of them have to be uploaded to Commons. Also from members from the UK and Ireland photos have been taken. A part from the pictures already have been added to articles on the various language Wikipedias, but many not. Please help us with that. If you add a photo in one language, it would be recommended to add the photo also to the articles in other languages.
The category with photos can be found on Commons here and includes also the other photos that have been taken by the group members during the project in Strasbourg.
In the past weeks on several Wikipedias users started a project to write all missing articles at least from the country a language is mostly spoken in, but certainly also from all other countries of the European Union. All members of the European Parliament have an article on at least one language version of Wikipedia, but on a lot of language versions their articles are missing and still need to be written. This writing project currently happens on for example the Dutch Wikipedia.
The project page for having been at the European Parliament is at Commons at Commons:Wikipedians in European Parliament. The project is part of a larger project to take photos from members of national and regional parliaments. In the past years Wiki loves parliaments was for example active in the state parliaments in Germany. Which parliament shall be next?
Thanks for the help! Greetings - Romaine ( talk) 15:33, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
Please participate in the discussion I linked in the subject of this section. Thanks. -- Gryllida ( talk) 04:22, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
Frank Schulenburg has been named as the Executive Director of the Wiki Education Foundation. Here is the press release giving more details. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 21:22, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
Not relevant to the English-language Wikipedia - though if it were, I'm sure we'd have something to say about a contributor who uses the word 'autistic' as a term of abuse. AndyTheGrump ( talk) 05:23, 14 February 2014 (UTC) |
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This message is just not relevant for "AndytheGrump" who claims to speak on behalf of millions of readers. What a pity. My original text, no reason for censorship, here: Hi all. Congrats for being the most varied and read Wikipedia of all. My name is Xibalba, some older folks may know me as Torero... My experience with Wikipedia started some 11 years ago and I immediately embraced the idea of spreading knowledge. Since then I've done that quite enthiuastically, I must say. I worked some 3+ years as Torero but until some crazy manhunt of people who really have nothing better to do than bullying others, and mainly those who speak up against the autistic authorities, kicked me out. "Forever". Haha, live-long sentences on Wikipedia. Come on, these people take themselves seriously? Idiots, no other words for them. Later I came back and worked under Xibalba. Built a portal which is in unfinshed state because these creeps think I should be excluded for 1 year (!) (after being banned forever? the dictators seem to be confused) from Wikipedia because I "sock puppet"ed? What the f*ck? Who uses that kind of language? I did my best in providing the Dutch readers some insight into Colombia (various topics) and geology. And that was just some of the things I did. Take a look at some "vandalistic work" (yeah, you don't believe it, but check this: I have a "file", like I am some kind of criminal or so. Really that is how these people think, can you imagine?, absolutely VERBOTEN to delete or obscure. No I shall be the terrorist. Idiots.
My objective is and has always been clear; "inform as many people as possible, on such a level that both amateurs are intrigued and experts still can learn something, using all the different formats Wikipedia provides us, volunteers who want to donate our knowledge and/or amateur interest to the World. Free, well-accessible, heavily linked (and red links should not be ignored -as is on the Dutch-speaking counterpart- but encouraged; they are the seeds for new knowledge-sharing pages) information made visual and interesting to read. Presented in an orderly manner using Commons as our vault of making things visual to the general public. Backed by reliable sources." Obviously the Dutch-speaking "friends" did not embrace this idea, as I have tried so many times, no "keeping the status quo" and "not using creative street language" was more important for these autistic idiots who don't know anything about the outside world. A dead horse has more flexibility and insight in what readers want then they do. I have been in 52 countries and counting. 18-year old autistic (even proudly presented on his User Page) attic nerds who became moderator just 3 weeks before (a birthday present, how cute) who claims he can befather, object without arguments or harrass me. Doesn't know shit about Colombia, geology, databasing, anything, but think they have to play the boss over me, my knowledge and experience. Seems to know a lot about computer games ans Muse concerts, so that's a great comfort in bringing something good to our offspring. What do I find here guys? A welcoming embrace and motivation to continue to spend my valuable and scarce free time, experience and knowledge here? A professional, respectful, open for new ideas, environment I helped to create myself, when setting up an internal Wikipedia in one of the largest companies in the world? Do I find respect here, not grotesquely uninformed edits in beautiful articles by literally people who do not even read the article? Or do I find the same autistic tight-assed nerds without any feeling for scale or what's important, like the Dutch dominating forces (respect for the few but very enthusiastic really valuable people who keep the (paleo)biology well-maintained there. All others who know I respect them because of how they spend their wiki-time -on articles, not on others!-)? You tell me and I might register. Have a good night, 186.28.35.72 ( talk) 04:30, 13 February 2014 (UTC) (Xibalba/Torero) P.S.: Oh, and when you talk to my former Dutch-speaking 'friends', tell them how deeply ashamed I am to confirm what I observed for so many years; the eternal blindness, deafness and unwillingness to make something of a misleadingly "big" Wikipedia. Completely unreadable and uninteresting lists of Pokemon-shows MUST be kept at all costs but for instance this informative list was removed completely (by the same person, luckily I had a back-up): A deeper shame about my own people I cannot feel and that has unfortunately to be expressed in the most modest way possible. Maybe you don't like my style, but I know from a broad experience that our clients (the readers), whose voices are never heard, do. They are not the slightest bit interested in all the bull sh*t behind these Wiki-doors.
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I believe it is little known across the Wiki Community: the Greek
user Diu (
el.wiki) has been personally sued by a politician and is now in legal trouble for an edit which our Greek Colleagues call correct. Diu added a sourced fact, in the politician's article, that he found in local press; he has been sued, the journalist has not. The whole story is in English
here.
It is something which may happen to everyone of us just for making correctly our work in the encyclopedia. This is why the Greek Wikipedians' protest is called "We are all Diu". I believe they are right: we all are... --
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Hmmm, did I make some strange accidental change to my preferences somehow, because I notice that all the section numbering in articles is gone... or did I fail to get the memo on this one??? Roberticus ( talk) 21:53, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
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Y'all wrote:
> At least 76 people are killed when a military plane crashes in Algeria.
I would like to suggest using "proper English," e.g., "At least 76 people were killed when a military plane crashed in Algeria."
I.e., proper use of tenses. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.25.58.182 ( talk) 10:39, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
Are you sure the army actually took control of Heathrow in '74? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.30.132.30 ( talk) 17:29, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
This is listed under diseases. how to we change that. Very unhappy trans people out there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transsexualism — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.160.137.87 ( talk) 04:17, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
please note that Peter Florin died. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.185.175.84 ( talk) 09:03, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Is there some policy or essay against creating "shrines" or "memorials" to banned users? Thought I came across one once but I'm not finding it now. NE Ent 13:12, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
There's quite a backlog at 3O if anyone would care to lend a hand. Best regards, TransporterMan ( TALK) 14:52, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
I need some advice on Mir Yar Beg, Mir Yar Beg Sahibzada, and Mohammad Murad Beg. It would seem that Beg is a title, although not specifically for Tajikistan. What I want to know is how these three names should be shown on the talk page listas, and on the article's Person template and {{DEFAULTSORT}}. Currently the articles and talk pages have a variety of name orders. What should they be?-- DThomsen8 ( talk) 02:09, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
I would like to know if there's any rule about the maximum number of primary meanings a dis-ambiguation page may have. Go to Charleston. I see it as having 2 primary meanings, and I moved them to the top of the article. Any opinions?? Georgia guy ( talk) 22:38, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
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There is some text at the top of Special:Cite titled " important note". There seems to be no way to discuss or edit this text. Is this note contained in a template anywhere on which users can comment? Who has the authority to change this kind of text? Blue Rasberry (talk) 16:00, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
My new essay and MFD-magnet: The Wikiderata. Enjoy. — TransporterMan ( TALK) 19:41, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
We have a paid wiki-design contract position with the Wikimedia Foundation: We need your help making it easier for Wikimedians to participate in the movement and with each other!
On Talk:Zavkhan Province I am told about a blacklisted reference. I am unsure what I can or should do about it. Please provide some guidance to me. -- DThomsen8 ( talk) 00:45, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
So at 2013 Comic-Con International, other wikipedians and myself had a small meetup and since one of the attendees was hosting a panel at that years Comic-Con, I was thinking perhaps Wikipedia can propose a panel to Comic-Con as we have become one of the most popular sources of information, including about "comics and related popular artforms" (as stated in the Comic-Con International's mission statement). Since then I have become far less active than I once was. However, if we can come up with a panel idea, perhaps we can pitch it to the convention, and see if it'll work for this year or next years programming. I am thinking the worse thing that can be said to us is no.
Perhaps it can be about how Wikipedians attempt to neutrally document comics and related popular artforms in a readily accessible encyclopedic manner? Or, it can be a presentation on how anyone can become a Wikipedian? These are just two ideas for a panel topic. I would like to hear from others regarding this idea, so I'll be inviting others to this conversation.-- RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 11:28, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Not sure whether this is the right place, but I wanted to notify the community about this.
Using the misleading headline "In Defense of Wikipedia’s Credibility", a recent piece
[3] in
Cornell Daily Sun by some Christo Eliot openly invites its readers to manipulate entries in Wikipedia and even provides advice how to do it undetected. Cite from the piece: Am I suggesting that everyone go onto the Internet and add bogus information to Wikipedia pages? Yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying. --
Túrelio (
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When Special:Random took me to Borajna, I became curious whether there was an article on the flag. I clicked on the image File:Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg and scrolled down to the "File usage" section, where it said:
First a side comment: "page links" is wrong. The same page may contain multiple links. What it means is "pages that link". Also, "only" is badly placed, seeming to refer to "this file" rather than "first 100".
Now my main point. I looked at the list, and when I got this far down the alphabet:
I deduced that there was no article "Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina" linking to this file. I then followed the link to Bosnia and Herzegovina and searched in the page for the word "flag". It turned out that in the navbox Template:Bosnia and Herzegovina topics at the bottom of the page, "National Flag" is a link to Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It exists after all, and of course it links to the image.
So why did that not show up in the "File Usage" list? Because even though the list of the "first" 100 links is in alphabetical order, it does not mean the first 100 links in alphabetical order. I don't know what it does mean. Is it the first 100 in order of creation, or are they in a meaningless and essentially random order like when a hash table is interrogated for a list of its keys?
If I click on the link offering me a "full list", I get one, starting with the "first 20" links and options to step forward or back in the list and to show more at a time. The first 100 items in this list are almost the same ones as on the original page (I assume the few differences reflect recent edits for which the pages are not yet updated), but they are no longer in alphabetical order. I suppose, again, that they are in order of creation or in a random order like a hash table. But this means that if I want to see whether a certain page has a link to this file, I potentially have to page through the entire list.
I think that if this feature is to work this way, then it should be changed so that people see what they're getting and aren't fooled by the alphabetical order as I was. So either the words "first 100" should either be changed to something meaningful (like "100 oldest" if that's what it is) or else it should say say "Here are 100 of the pages that link to this file". And I think that if people follow the link to the full list, it should either say what the order is (if it is by date, show the dates) or else say that the order is arbitrary.
But I don't see why the list couldn't be stored in alphabetical order in the first place, in a data structure associated with the image page. The list only needs to be regenerated when an article is edited in a way that adds the first, or removes the last, link to the image. That seems like a simple piece of programming. And then the "File Usage" page could show something meaningful — the first 100 links alphabetically — and stepping through the list would also be meaningful. In addition, the File Usage page could then show how many entries there are in the list instead of the vague "more than 100".
-- 50.100.193.30 ( talk) 04:47, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
Speaking of order, Category:Xanth books lists the pages for books in the Xanth novels in their order of publication, by the trick of specifying each book's serial position in the page's category link:
I've described this on the talk page and put a pointer on the Category page for use in adding future books in the series.
I haven't seen this trick before. On the one hand, it seems useful; on the other, it makes it harder to find a book in the series by its title, and the purpose is just as well served by the list in Xanth#Books; on the gripping hand, changing it would require editing the articles on all 35 books. What are people's opinions about it? To contact me please use {{ping}}.
I was going to post this question at WikiProject Novels, but that project seems moribund at best. -- Thnidu ( talk) 05:46, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
I'd prefer not to post my query here, but this new user is a single purpose account being explicitly used to opine as to the lack of NPOV on article talk pages. While this wouldn't normally bother me, he's out to bait someone and I non-admin WP:OOPSed by querying him on his trying to get someone else to develop some hearsay on his behalf. Yes, I am stupid and, yes, I've trout slapped myself already.
It doesn't exactly fit the 'vandal' profile for reporting, but the number of edits he's making on talk pages in order to make a redundant point and, now, to call me out - which I won't respond to - on a page that is rife with traffic at the moment is disruptive: see from here to here (1 initial + 3 edits), and here to here (5 edits in total). I'm not sure whether he's just a sad soul trolling just to engage with someone, or whether he's spamming for self-promotion (his own project?). Is there any method by which to keep an eye on his activities in order to prevent another outbreak of disruptive use of a talk page as a forum? -- Iryna Harpy ( talk) 06:13, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
There is currently a request for comments on Talk:Pablo Casals in which some users might wish to participate. The issue involves Casals' first name on pages that link to Pablo Casals. Full information is provided on the talk page. 131.111.185.66 ( talk) 21:58, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
It seems like there are a lot of pages on Wikipedia titled "criticisms of..." and no pages entitled "affirmations of...". I'm just saying... Eatmark ( talk) 02:12, 6 March 2014 (UTC)Eatmark
please if you are interested in Syrians people participate in the RfC at Talk:Syrian people-- Attar-Aram syria ( talk) 12:46, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
Is there a way to facilitate a 'speedy inclusion'? Regarding Draft talk:Abby Martin#Additional coverage. It seems that administrative support is needed to free up the article name in mainspace. A reworked version of the article Abby Martin—with improved referencing—was declined 28 Feb. 2014 with little or no specific explanation. Then just days later Ms. Martin was featured in articles by both NBC and the Huffington Post.
-- Kevjonesin ( talk) 22:48, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
Why are articles for creation under the Wikipedia talk namespace? I'd think that there'd be a breakdown between the article being drafted, under the Wikipedia namespace, and discussion of the article, under Wikipedia talk. —Largo Plazo ( talk) 19:43, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
When I am logged in, the page title (as shown in browser tab) now takes on the format of "Article name - Wikipedia", whereas before it was "Article name - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia". On the page itself, there is still a line below the article title that says "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia". I was wondering why the titles have changed and where was this discussed? I use monobook. Rcsprinter123 (push) @ 22:33, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
<title>Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</title>
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Bjelleklang -
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Do we have any other Windows 8 users here? I'm on Win 7. Ian.thomson ( talk) 00:17, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
I will also try here to wikilink Category:Living people ("Category:Living people")...
ahh, based on my preview it doesn't work here either...
is this a technical thing, or are my settings messed up, as I can't see my attempted wikilink? Thanks! Roberticus talk 13:53, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
The Catalan-speaking world... Want to find out more? From March 16 to April 15 we will be organising the Catalan Culture Challenge, a Wikipedia editing contest in which victory will go to those who start and improve the greatest number of articles about 50 key figures of Catalan culture. You can take part by creating or expanding articles on these people in your native language (or any other one you speak).
We look forward to seeing you!
Amical Wikimedia-- Kippelboy ( talk) 07:11, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
A new update has been posted for the Wiki Education Foundation at the Education Noticeboard. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 08:52, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
Depending which numbers you follow, sometime in the past week or so I became the tenth Wikipedian to pass 500,000 edits. I believe I am entitled to some kind of key or something. Cheers! bd2412 T 20:31, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
This Monday and Tuesday, the U. S. Copyright Office is holding a workshop on orphan works and mass digitization. Orphan works are works for which the copyright has not yet expired, but the rightsholder is unknown or uncontactable, and the work is thus unavailable for reuse. The workshop is for the Copyright Office to get perspectives on potential legislation to legalize the reuse of orphan works under certain conditions.
The president of Wikimedia District of Columbia, James Hare, is on one of the panels for this workshop, and we're looking for specific examples of how the unavailability of orphan works on Wikimedia projects hurts our educational mission. So if you've wanted to use a work in the past but couldn't because the author or rightholder was unknown, reply here and tell us your story, and we might retell it to the Copyright Office. Thanks! Antony–22 ( talk⁄ contribs) 17:53, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
Template:Infobox surname works the same as Template:Infobox family name. I suggest that the two templates be merged. 175.156.59.135 ( talk) 09:02, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
This section is a violation of
Wikipedia:Canvassing (specifically "Campaigning" as defined on that page). I would have removed it entirely, but it has already been commented on by a second person.
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Hello everybody. On the page Talk:Crowned Crane, there is an ongoing discussion about how to capitalise the title of articles about bird species. Many of them are currently capitalised, apparently because some organisations and guidelines regarding birds recommend this. Some also pretend that animal species names are not proper nouns (!) and argue that capitals would be useful to avoid possible confusion is some cases (e.g. Common Starling). But they are not proper nouns and the secod argument is not valid as anybody can use link to Wikipedia articles to make everything clear (e.g. common starling avoid any potential uncertainty). More importantly, the conventions of Wikipedia clearly say that one should not capitalise animal species name and page titles ( WP:TITLE, WP:FAUNA and WP:NCCAPS). Finally, even if ornithologists like to capitalise species name, a convention clearly say that the general consensus of not capitalising animal species should prevail over a local habit ( WP:CONLEVEL). I think it is an important discussion and do not hesitate to come and give your opinion on Talk:Crowned Crane. Mama meta modal ( talk) 06:07, 12 March 2014 (UTC).
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There is now also an ongoing request for comments on the same subject: Talk:Crowned Crane#Request for comments.
Do not hesitate to come and comment on this question. Mama meta modal ( talk) 08:53, 16 March 2014 (UTC).
Hi, I want to know how to make a menu ( variation 11) since I don't know the parameters, for more information on what I want, ask here and place a talkback notification on my talk page. Cheers! --Yutah Andrei Marzan Ogawa123| UPage|☺★ (talk) 15:10, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello all,
The Wikimedia Volunteer Response Team (also known as OTRS[1]) had an extremely busy year answering emails from Wikimedia users, readers and other interested people. We have once again prepared a statistical report of administrator activity and ticket volume for the year 2013.
I invite you all to review this report on Meta[2]. If you have any questions at all feel free to leave them on the talk page. If you wish to review the first report, published last year with data from 2012, you may also view that on Meta[3].
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For the OTRS administrators, Rjd0060 ( talk) 20:49, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
Dear editors: I have started a discussion at the following location about whether and to what degree inline citations as opposed to general references should be required in Afc submissions before they are accepted to mainspace. My comments there are based on my understanding of relevant Wikipages such as WP:GENREF, WP:MINREF, and WP:Notability. I would appreciate discussion about whether I have interpreted these pages correctly. Here is the discussion:
— Anne Delong ( talk) 21:20, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
I make a lot of redirects (example). I click "View history", then "Page view statistics" to see if people are really using them; in this case, 14 times in the last 30 days. However, almost all those figures are in the range of 5 to 20, and it's too often to be a coincidence – although a few are used much more often, and Pom Pom Pull Away is only once in 30 days. So are real people using redirects like Phillip Ashton? Or is it counting how often bots look at them, which would account for similar statistics? Art LaPella ( talk) 19:53, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi Village Pump, does anybody know why wikipedians use four tildes as a signature? IN German Genealogy the tilde stands as short cut for baptism, si that a possible background? BR Serten ( talk) 06:25, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
/home/chris
as well.
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I am moving this to here from VPPR after it got reverted there ··· Vanischenu ( mc/ talk) 13:36, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello,
While I am an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, I write this email as a volunteer.
So now since the effort started by this class of students at Sinenjongo High School has had a level of success I thought - what could I do for them for all they've done that would also be good for the Wikimedia Movement? I asked a few of the students (all of whom have now graduated / matriculated high school) and they suggested that they could use some laptops for their schoolwork. I couldn't imagine being in college today and not having a computer, so I started a crowdfunding campaign here to buy one for each of the students involved in this effort
What everyone on this list needs to understand is that this whole class knows how to edit Wikipedia. Four Wikipedians (two from South Africa, one from Botswana and me from the USA) all showed them how twice during their one hour per week in front of a computer in high school. I blogged more about them here.
They all speak Xhosa natively - a language that could use some work (xh.wikipedia) and all I'd have to do is ask them to promise to keep editing that Wikipedia in exchange for the computers. They are very poor so this is a huge break for them - AND we'd get additions to xh.wikipedia.
That's my rationale for posting here - I don't think a grant for hardware like this on such a 'small' scale would warrant a WMF grant because its several thousand dollars that could probably be better spent in other areas, so I started the crowdfunding campaign. So far we have $500, which is enough for a little more than one laptop. The goal just over 20.
I'm open to ideas for what kinds of ordinary affordable laptops we could get that might be available in bulk in and around Cape Town, South Africa.
Also -
I'm saddened to say that one of the students in this class at recently passed away in a traffic accident last weekend. His name was Ntsika Kellem. You can see a moment I had with him here:
Or you can see him at 0:15 - 0:20 mentioning the names of South African Cellular carriers here:
We are putting finishing touches on the documentary about him and his class and their effort and we plan to dedicate the film to him or some other appropriate gesture.
If this is an inappropriate place to post this, or you have better ideas than I do about where this should go, please let me know. Thank you everyone, for reading.
Victor Grigas ( talk) 23:09, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
Over the last few months I've seen a lot of edits done by strange code names, such as these on
Some of these were clear vandalism and others seemed OK. What are these? --
Light show (
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17:39, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
We ask editors with a COI to refrain from editing articles directly, and instead, request an edit on the talk page. We even provide a template, which creates a log of requests. Category:Requested edits. However, that list has 87 items, going back to November. If everyone watching this page addressed one item a month, we would catch up in less than two days. I do not realistically expect everyone to pitch in, but it would only take a few to get the backlog down to a less embarrassing level.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 14:17, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
There is currently a RFC on Coat of arms of the Netherlands. All are welcome to comment. Fry1989 eh? 17:21, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
First let me say I find Wikipedia itself to be a wonderful resource. But my comment is, I find the featured article to usually be of no interest. Rather boring subjects are chosen even though I have very wide interests. For comparison, please take a look at the article of the day , this day in history and news on this day, on the Free Dictionary by Farlex website. www.thefreedictionary.com/ I would like to see Wikipedia attain their standard for interest and presentation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnkeevil ( talk • contribs) 16:38, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
I made a well-intentioned, but stupid, mistake with two RfC. I started an RfC on Talk:Ukraine regarding the map. I then thought it would be best to do this for Talk:Russia as well since the disputed is between them. In retrospect, this was not the best idea as it may result in different outcomes. I did not want to seem like I was vote gaming or anything bad faith and reverted my removal-closure of the RfC on Talk:Russia per the advice of Iryna Harpy and came here to ask for advice. What should be done with the Talk:Russia RfC? EvergreenFir ( talk) 04:45, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello,
It's been some time that I have the following problem with the wikipedia's web page API, i.e.
How to hide the left column of the wiki page?
This is critical for a computer display with a limited width or horizontal resolution. On a Windows PC, I can use the "Print/export -> Printable version", but all the links in the text and other HTML features will get lost.
Suggestion: 1. A "hide" button on the vertical dividing line to control the display/hide for the whole left column; or 2. a switch to the format that is similar to the current display format and controls on an Android cell phone.
Thanks.
--- Chang — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chang zhou ( talk • contribs) 23:03, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
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17:38, 25 March 2014 (UTC)I'd like to donate to Wikipedia, but my only way to do it is through Amazon. Unfortunately, I can't do that, since I only use gift cards for it and it doesn't let you send money directly from your account to here. Anyone know a workaround? Supernerd11 :D Firemind ^_^ Pokedex 04:01, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
PLease note that Roger Somville has died. Thank You. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.185.175.84 ( talk) 07:08, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
Hello all, another question: I've got a list of articles I've created on my userpage (and I'm thinking about adding one of significantly improved by me), and I want to put the little symbol for what class it is next to each name. I've seen it done somewhere (a wikiproject?), but I can't for the life of me remember where. Is there a way to do this, and if so, is there a way to make it auto-update (i.e. Magic: The Gathering Conspiracy getting upped to Start-class while it's marked as a stub in my userpage)? Supernerd11 :D Firemind ^_^ Pokedex 03:00, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
{{
Class/icon}}
to produce the icon. I don't think it can be updated automatically though. As far as I know most Wikiprojects update their Wikiproject pages using the
WP 1.0 bot and the articles themselves are modified manually.
Zell Faze (
talk)
14:39, 2 April 2014 (UTC)An example link is after the red link in this section, and I am skeptical of its value. Has this kind of use of an interwiki link been discussed somewhere? Biosthmors ( talk) pls notify me (i.e. {{ U}}) while signing a reply, thx 23:27, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
Hey, did Wikipedia's font change just now? My browser is set to display serif fonts always, but now I see sans-serifs everywhere on the wiki... Was something changed that causes the Wikipedia website not to respect the user's font settings on the browser? How can I get serif fonts on Wikipedia and make it a joy to read (and edit!) again? Thanks, Sofia Koutsouveli ( talk) 03:41, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
Hello. At one point, I tried to submit Misandry as a candidate for AfD. Looking back, I realize it was due to bias and self-hatred a while back. I do not plan to do this again, but I have to ask: How can I make things right? What should I add to my user page as a reminder to never do that again, and to notify people of what I did as incentive to contribute in a more positive manner in the future? -- Pichu0102 ( talk) 23:57, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
WP:Today's featured article/requests is using a new system on an experimental basis. Firstly, the old requirement to calculate how many "points" the suggested article had has gone. Secondly, we are using a nomination template based on that used at DYK in the hope that this will make the process easier to complete. If you would like to nominate a featured article that has yet to appear on the main page – whether written by you or by others – please come along to WP:TFAR and give the new system a go. All feedback welcome. Thanks, Bencherlite Talk 13:40, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
I'm not sure if it's the same as nationality << there are native speakers of English invited to discuss. TIA, Klaas|Z4␟ V: 12:42, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
The article Texas says:
If it were still an independent country, Texas would be the 40th largest behind Chile and Zambia.
This is a statement answering an imaginary question, namely "How would Texas rank if it were a country of its own and not part of the United States??" I would like to know if there's any consensus about whether answering imaginary questions is allowed in Wikipedia. Georgia guy ( talk) 00:02, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
Help Me Find An Actor David Gordon Please
Hi
I am trying to find out what ever has happened to the actor David Gordon whom stars in the music video by Heart performing 'All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You'. which came out in March, 1990. I believe his name is David Gordon but can't find any information about this actor. He is also in Elton John music video 'You Got To Love Someone'.
Thank you for your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.162.44.223 ( talk) 05:52, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
Is it just me, or has Wikipedia changed its typeface?-- The Theosophist ( talk) 19:28, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
Where is Khorasan, Iran? This place in the lede of WP:Central Asia and refers to a disambiguation page. Can someone who knows Iran fix this so it is clear where this place is lcated?-- DThomsen8 ( talk) 00:34, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi again, I just AfD'd a one-sentenced unsourced BLP at the same time that someone else CSD'd it. I removed the AfD tag from the article, but how do I get rid of it at the list of current AfD's? Supernerd11 :D Firemind ^_^ Pokedex 19:44, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
I browse Wikipedia on a weekly basis and find numerous blatant errors (incorrect names, incorrect birth dates/years, blatant grammatical errors, blatant text errors, etc) almost every time. Usually I don't bother to correct them, but what I'll often do is make note of the article and come back every so often to see if the blatant error has been corrected. 90% of the time (even if it's months later) the error remains on the WP article. So here is my question: how does this happen, and how can WP be considered reliable and legitimate when these flagrant errors abound and remain uncorrected for long periods of time?
Two recent examples:
The Dennis Kozlowski article had an incorrect first name (a totally blatant error for an encyclopedia) going back to January 2011. That's over THREE YEARS where an article had somebody's name wrong.
In February 2013 a user added a second surname to the David Parker Ray article. I did a google search and could find ZERO reliable sources for that surname. So a completely made-up name remained on a WP article for over a year, again how does nobody catch this stuff?
24.193.119.220 ( talk) 06:07, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
If you find an error, but don't fix it, you're part of the problem, surely? doktorb words deeds 06:47, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
There's this little thing called WP:SOFIXIT that, if more people would at least attempt to follow, can really help out here. Yes, Wikipedia's got its own little internal squabbles, but have you ever been part of a group that doesn't? With thousands of registered users and a bunch of IP's editing millions of pages (almost 5 million just in en.wikipedia) and the hundreds of somewhat less visible pages (such as this one), there's naturally gonna be some conflict. There's also an extensive list of articles that nobody watches at all (I was recently in a discussion about it, and the people who can see the list (It's sysop-only to stave off vandalism) say that the first thousand don't even get past the digits), plus the articles about some niche topic that the only people involved have long since retired. Sorry if I seem harsh, but it really irks me how many people hate Wikipedia just because of a few mistakes. Supernerd11 :D Firemind ^_^ Pokedex 03:51, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
I have been reading everything I can about the Wiki-gender gap, as part of some work I am doing on inclusivity. This article is rather interesting, although it rather understates the percentage of women editors at 10%.
It does however say "Early computer programmers were women, but this is generally not known and has been ignored on the Wikipedia page about the history of computer programming." I was surprised, because I know we cover Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper particularly well. I also knew we had articles on all six pioneer ENIAC programmers - they are listed on the [[Computer programmer] article, together with Lovelace, making 7 of the 8 named programmers women. (Turing is not mentioned.) We do not have an article History of computer programming, but we do have History of computer science, perhaps that is what is meant? Outline_of_computer_programming#History_of_programming is a good general resource.
Maybe someone can point Taylor Ulrich to this question, so that the omission can be found and rectified. I'd also be interested to know what the outcomes of the "Wikistorming" are.
All the best,
Rich
Farmbrough,
07:03, 13 April 2014 (UTC).
A request for comments on the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater article has been posted on the article's talk page. Please contribute your thoughts and ideas. 71.139.142.29 ( talk) 14:31, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
Can a kind soul mark this page as reviewed for me? I'm tired of seeing the review toolbar on the side § FreeRangeFrog croak 17:45, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
As part of the U.S. Library Week, Oxford University Press is giving free access to their online materials until Saturday. This is limited to U.S. and Canadian users. Please repost where you see fit. See here for login details: OUP page. The Interior (Talk) 00:08, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
Hon. Frank J. LaBuda has served as the elected justice of the highest trial level court in the State of New York since 1997. During his tenure as a trial judge he has authored more than 154 officially published decisions addressing constitutional, statutory and common law issues. Judge LaBuda’s decisions have provided legal precedent for other trial judges on issues of evidence, trial procedure, criminal, civil, Surrogate’s and negligence law.
Judge LaBuda established two Special Courts in Sullivan County—Drug Court, which provides diversion programs to defendants with substance abuse issues, and Vetrac, a specialized court that addresses the unique circumstances of criminal defendants who are veterans.
Judge LaBuda’s legal career spans over four decades; prior to being elected State Judge and Surrogate, he spent over twenty years in private practice and in the public sector. In his private practice, Judge LaBuda handled civil and criminal jury trials in both federal and state courts. He also served as a Prosecutor prior to taking the bench. For ten years as a Prosecutor he held the distinguished position of Chief Assistant District Attorney of Sullivan County for all criminal prosecutions.
In addition to his notable legal career, Judge LaBuda first served as a Captain in the Judge Advocate General Corps from 1975 to 1978, and then returned to active duty for a second time during the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War as a U.S. Army Major in Operation Desert Storm. During the Gulf War he conducted investigations into various war crimes and was engaged in field operations and logistics in Kuwait and Iraq. Following the war, Judge LaBuda has been an advocate for Veterans rights and issues. He is also a member of the International Association of Criminologist (IAK) for European police and security investigators.
Judge LaBuda earned his Doctor of Jurisprudence with honors from Case Western University School of Law in Ohio and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Lehman College of the City University of New York. He also graduated from the U.S. Army Judge Advocate School at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, and has attended many specialized training seminars for State and Federal Judges through the George Mason University School of Law and Economics Center. The Judge has also been a professor of law at the State University of New York at Sullivan County; a speaker at continuing legal education seminars for judges in New York State, and a judge at the annual “Gabrielli National Law Competition” at the University of Albany School of Law in New York.
Judge LaBuda, who is fluent in the German language, has traveled extensively throughout Europe and Central Asia as a speaker on constitutional law, the Judiciary in the U.S., Arbitration and Trial practice. He has lectured and participated in legal symposia in Ghana, Hungary, Korea, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovenia, and Uzbekistan. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
207.29.158.22 (
talk)
16:17, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
Since WikiProject International Relations appears to be quite inactive, I don't know of any other place to ask apart from here. Is there a way of dealing with users pushing a WP:FRINGE agenda of a little-known, non-notable self-declared country? Special:Contributions/Mountstella (who has also previously edited beforehand as an anon IP) has added mentions to multiple articles about the so-called "Kingdom of Colonia St John", using the alleged kingdom's official website as a citation. I'm under the impression that if a self-declared nation has very little demonstrated notability, forcing its insertion into articles is WP:UNDUE and perhaps even WP:PROMO depending on who's doing it. Has there been any precedent in the past to use as a reference? -- benlisquare T• C• E 14:28, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
I am proposing moving and renaming Albert Levy (soldier) for the reasons cited in the talk section. As it is an obscure article, I thought a more public place would be good to seek input on this. Thanks. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 01:19, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
I don't understand what happened to my request to change my username from Cherilm93 to CheriLM. I was under the impression Cherilm would become my new login, but that never changed. Then I thought all instances of my login name would change to the new login name. Is it so that maybe it never happened? I got a confirmation in a message, but everything is still the same. Cherilm93 ( talk) 00:54, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
This is so crazy. Cherilm "does not exist", so I can't login that way. I edited the 93 out of my login name in my article in Talk, but when it signs it at the end it says Cherilm93 made the edit. So now I am REALLY confused. I suppose the nice thing is not that many people are seeking out information on this article. Cherilm93 ( talk) 21:00, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
Been seeing this tag on Recent Changes here and there. Don't remember ever seeing it before. Um... what's it mean? Evan ( talk| contribs) 05:53, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
How much space should be discussing his climate change views? See Talk:Christopher_Monckton,_3rd_Viscount_Monckton_of_Brenchley#Undue_weight. Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 22:35, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
Why someone keep add Goat Island in TV channel?- John123521 ( Talk- Contib.) RA 03:08, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
There is a discussion about the appropriate location for an actively updated Wiki Education Foundation (WEF) page that I would like to invite editors interested in the education program to comment on. The question is whether to soft redirect that page to m:Wiki Education Foundation, where the WEF will be maintaining active pages about its activities, or leave it as it currently stands. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 17:31, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
Has anyone tried Wikipedia:Unvisited? Is it open source? Is the author a Wikipedian? The idea seems very good, but the lack of any links back to Wikipedia/Commons on the Google Play page makes me a bit suspicious. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 07:25, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
(I cannot find the place to discuss this, so I am entering it here as a fall -back. When will accessing Wikipedia editing-related pages be made reasonably accessible?)
According to our article on William Shakespeare, the 450th anniversary of his baptism is on April 26th. I recommend that it be put onto the front page in one of the categories, e.g., featured article or on this day in history. 211.225.33.104 ( talk) 10:38, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
Could any experienced user please have a look at Wikipedia talk:Redirects for discussion#Doubled listing? That page is rather inactive and this is mildly time sensitive. Also, we should probably start auto-archiving that page or something, because it's huge. -- N Y Kevin 20:44, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
On tonight's The World Tonight they were talking to someone from the Liverpool Echo about this: Shocking Hillsborough insults added on Wikipedia from Government computers. Fairly unremarkable vandalism by Wikipedia's standards, so could perhaps have done with someone familiar with WP that and how easily it's dealt with. Don't know if it's of wider interest or will see any more press coverage (the Echo is a local paper though well known nationally).-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 22:30, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
This has been sitting in my userspace for a while, and since it already had a WP redirect, I figured I'd just make it official. It is now a Wikipedia-space essay. While I was at it, I did the same with Wikipedia:Neoplorgismanteau. Cheers! bd2412 T 16:33, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
I would like to know about the contracts Wikipedia has with Comic-Con. I realised that in articles about stars almost always pictures of them at Comic-Con are prefered (even if there are much better ones), mostly with the logo visible and a link to Comic-Con (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Lawrence). So there are thousands of links from Wikipedia articles to Comic-Con ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/San_Diego_Comic-Con_International). So obviously there is some kind of "collaboration" between Wikipedia and Comic-Con, but I couldn't find anything about it. -- 188.101.3.198 ( talk) 11:39, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
I realize most page titles just capitalize the first letter, but I just notices pages for mathematical theorems, lemmas, etc. seem to follow this pattern also. See: Schreier refinement theorem, Zassenhaus lemma. These are names of significant theorems, etc. and each word should be capitalized. What's the best way to fix this? -- Yoda of Borg ( talk) 02:19, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
We've been following this convention for more than a decade and this probably involves more than five-thousand titles. It is true that many writers in contexts other than Wikipedia use capitals in things like Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, etc. Maybe some day we'll have software with which we could seek out and suitably edit five-thousand articles whose titles follow this convention and a hundred-thousand occurrences in the bodies of other articles, including links to them. Michael Hardy ( talk) 14:51, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
{{
ping}}
is necessary every time to give a notification) (you seem to love capitalizing, to the point of capitalizing the common noun wiki!).--
Jasper Deng
(talk)
05:54, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
{{ping}}
to trigger a
notification, any link to a user's page will do. For example:
Jasper Deng. The ping template and related templates are just convenient.
Novusuna
talk
06:01, 29 April 2014 (UTC)We're approaching a milestone: 4,500,000 (4 and a half million) articles on the English Wikipedia. The current count is at 4,499,966. It shouldn't be long, maybe two hours... -- Jakob ( talk) (Please comment on my editor review.) 03:00, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
I just found an account with a blank pasword. See Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-02-06/Password security. Is there anything that needs to be done? Any way the account has 0 contribs. -- Fauzan ✆ talk ✉ email 11:32, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
How long after I've requested (on its Talk page) that a page be renamed, when it's obvious from the content that it does need renaming, does someone typically come along and fix it? I don't know whether I'm being too impatient. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SpringFwd ( talk • contribs) 17:36, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
Please join the merge discussion in Talk:Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople. Thanks. -- Why should I have a User Name? ( talk) 20:29, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
I would like to know about the contracts Wikipedia has with Comic-Con. I realised that in articles about stars almost always pictures of them at Comic-Con are prefered (even if there are much better ones), mostly with the logo visible and a link to Comic-Con (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Lawrence). So there are thousands of links from Wikipedia articles to Comic-Con ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/San_Diego_Comic-Con_International). So obviously there is some kind of "collaboration" between Wikipedia and Comic-Con, but I couldn't find anything about it. -- 188.101.3.198 ( talk) 11:39, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
I realize most page titles just capitalize the first letter, but I just notices pages for mathematical theorems, lemmas, etc. seem to follow this pattern also. See: Schreier refinement theorem, Zassenhaus lemma. These are names of significant theorems, etc. and each word should be capitalized. What's the best way to fix this? -- Yoda of Borg ( talk) 02:19, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
We've been following this convention for more than a decade and this probably involves more than five-thousand titles. It is true that many writers in contexts other than Wikipedia use capitals in things like Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, etc. Maybe some day we'll have software with which we could seek out and suitably edit five-thousand articles whose titles follow this convention and a hundred-thousand occurrences in the bodies of other articles, including links to them. Michael Hardy ( talk) 14:51, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
{{
ping}}
is necessary every time to give a notification) (you seem to love capitalizing, to the point of capitalizing the common noun wiki!).--
Jasper Deng
(talk)
05:54, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
{{ping}}
to trigger a
notification, any link to a user's page will do. For example:
Jasper Deng. The ping template and related templates are just convenient.
Novusuna
talk
06:01, 29 April 2014 (UTC)We're approaching a milestone: 4,500,000 (4 and a half million) articles on the English Wikipedia. The current count is at 4,499,966. It shouldn't be long, maybe two hours... -- Jakob ( talk) (Please comment on my editor review.) 03:00, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
I just found an account with a blank pasword. See Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-02-06/Password security. Is there anything that needs to be done? Any way the account has 0 contribs. -- Fauzan ✆ talk ✉ email 11:32, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
How long after I've requested (on its Talk page) that a page be renamed, when it's obvious from the content that it does need renaming, does someone typically come along and fix it? I don't know whether I'm being too impatient. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SpringFwd ( talk • contribs) 17:36, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
Please join the merge discussion in Talk:Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople. Thanks. -- Why should I have a User Name? ( talk) 20:29, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
Is this how the talkpges on wikipedia are going to be in the future? -- Fauzan ✆ talk ✉ email 18:24, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
I have gathered a dataset of 6,140 stubs that in February were more popular than the average Featured Article and posted it on User:Nettrom/datasets/March 2014 popular stubs. The articles come from the March 4, 2014 dump and were identified using a combination of computer classification and article assessments, as well as viewership data from Wiki ViewStats. A more detailed description of our method is found at the bottom of the dataset page.
Would love to know what others think of this dataset. Is it useful? Are these articles you'd like to work on improving? Given their popularity and current low quality, they should be prime candidates for improvement, right? Cheers, Nettrom ( talk) 20:30, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
Turns out that these articles are covered by some 800 WikiProjects. I'll spend some time on figuring out how to condense it down to a manageable number of projects, it'll take a few days. Cheers, Nettrom ( talk) 18:43, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
I have now updated the dataset so it lists popular stubs per WikiProject. Because there are so many projects (610 after some cleaning) I have broken it into four parts depending on how many stubs they each have listed. There's also an overview table so it's possible to search for specific WikiProjects to find which subpage their popular stubs are listed on. I'll be looking into the issue of short-lived bursts in popularity when I next have time, as that can potentially provide useful additional information. Regards, Nettrom ( talk) 19:48, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
I am the Wiki Education Foundation campus ambassador for a grad school class studying the atmospheric boundary layer at UCLA. I pinged WikiProject Meteorology more than a week ago to no avail. I have eight grad students that are working in their sandboxes and are eager for your input. Chris Troutman ( talk) 03:12, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
Three new top level domain name registries have asked ICANN to allow them to register two character domain names under their TLDs. New TLD registries aren’t allowed to offer two character second level domain names per their agreements with ICANN, but I expect this to change in coming years. The requests are very different.... .Wiki applicant Top Level Design has asked for two character domains with the support of Wikimedia Foundation, the group behind Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation wants to register two letter second level domain names to forward to matching wikipedia.org domains, e.g. fr.wiki to redirect to fr.wikipedia.org and en.wiki to en.wikipedia.org.
— 3 new domain registries ask ICANN for two character domain names, Andrew Allemann, Domain Name Wire, 29 April 2014
A) If this is true, why has there been no public announcement of it by WMF?
B) Likewise, if this is true, the plan is to engrave the common mistake of referring to Wikipedia as just "Wiki" in DNS forever? That's just great.
C) Is this related to
strategy:Proposal:.WIKI. and .WK. top level domains, a proposal from 2009 that appeared until now to have gone nowhere?
—
Scott •
talk
14:15, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
There is a list at User:Pigsonthewing/Direct calls to Infobox of 2398 articles which use {{ Infobox}} directly. While that's not prohibited, of course, there's often a more suitable template to use, such as in this edit. Some are simply frames for images. Please feel free to strike through items in that list if you convert them (or if you check and nothing needs to be done; in which case, please leave a comment there also). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:56, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
Competition time: Write new and improve existing articles out of a list of subjects related to Umeå. Exclusive prizes. The challenge carries on from 1 May to 31 May. Read more at meta. -- Jan Ainali (WMSE) ( talk) 22:45, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
Well I shouldn't worry too much, @Jayron32. I'm pleased to see you have said what the dozens of volunteers involved also said. However Gibraltar had 1,000 new articles and ~3,000 new images with lots of stuff in both Africa and Spain including putting Ceuta "on the map" which now has lots of articles too. I think this is possibly the second most successful GLAM project in terms of new articles generated. Since Gibraltarpedia there have been successes for Joburgpedia. We have a QRpedia code on Mahatma Gandhi's house. Praguepedia locations have been on the front page lots of times as has Bremenpedia and Freopedia. I hav'n't mentioned all the wikitowns. A new Australian town will be announced in the next few days. .... Victuallers ( talk) 15:26, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
I noted what seemed an odd addition to Plumpy'nut; the editor was apparently trying to find a citation, but apparently found one on his own. Now there appears to be legal baggage attached to his finding. I tagged it with a cn. Are there policies for allegations, similar to BLP, but for NGOs, organizations like Doctors without borders? Do I mean Wikimedia? For what it's worth, I simply moved the addition to its own article. -- Ancheta Wis (talk | contribs) 06:40, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi folks: we'd love to hear what you think about Media Viewer, a new tool that aims to improve the viewing experience on Wikipedia and its sister sites.
This multimedia browser displays images in larger size and with less clutter, providing a more immersive user experience, as described here. It was developed in collaboration with many community members -- including over 12,000 beta users here on English Wikipedia, who have been testing it since November 2013. The current plan is to release this tool gradually in coming weeks: it is already enabled by default on over a dozen sites (including the Dutch, French and Polish Wikipedia), and will be deployed more widely throughout May, as described in this release plan.
Can you share your feedback about this tool, to help address any critical issues before its May 15 release on the English Wikipedia? To try it out, please log in and click on the small 'Beta' link next to 'Preferences' in your personal menu. Then check the box next to 'Media Viewer' in the Beta Features section of your user preferences — and click 'Save'. You can now click on any thumbnail image on this site to see it in larger size in the Media Viewer. For more info, check out these testing tips or this Help page.
Once you've tried the tool, please share your feedback in this discussion, to help improve this feature. You're also welcome to take this quick survey -- or join this in-depth discussion on MediaWiki.org, as you prefer. Thanks for sharing your insights! Fabrice Florin (WMF) ( talk) 00:29, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
I originally posted this to the Main Page, but unsurprisingly, it's beind censored from their by the people who I am complaining about, on the technicality that it's not directly related to the Main Page. This seems to be the closest place I can find here to a complaints page, so, I'm going to put it here instead. if anything, I'm just extremely interested to see what excuse they will find to remove it from here to. Apparently they find it extremely uncomfortable to talk about this at all. Strange attitude for a website which likes to present itself as an open collboration.
Here it is:
If you want to know why, read the Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates page. There you will find all sorts of uninformed, illogical, and downright dishonest claims about the UK legal system and the way the British press works. You will also see the quite idiotic claim that, by ignoring this news, Wikipedia is somehow defending Adam's from defamation - something apparently the rest of the world's media (and indeed Wikipedia's own article on Adams), isn't apparently all that concerned about. If like me, you think this is contemptible, and want to challenge it - then you will just have complain to your congressman I guess, because it has become clear to me today at Wikipedia talk:In the news that the people at Wikipedia who make those sort of arguments, will absolutely, positively, not answer any questions at all about it - and others will apparently defend their rights to do so, by closing down such discussions. Apparently it's 'disruptive' to question the logic that goes into faulty Wikipedia decision making like this. As always, if you want to know what's going on the world, consult the other 'old media' outlets who, for all their faults, still make it their job to report on the news in a serious and credible manner. Only come to Wikipedia if you want to know about video games and other stuff nobody really gives a crap about. Lokie Dokie ( talk) 13:25, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
And oh wow. User:Doktorbuk just tried to close this section too. I'm sure that had absolutely nothing to do with the fact he is a regular commenter in the discussions there, and he was actually one of the people I criticised for their comments in the LA Clippers section, in the section I started on Adams at Wikipedia talk:In the news. I'm sure he thought nobody here would have realised that, and maybe might have assumed he had no hand in this dispute whatsoever. Circling the wagons really does seem to be a big part of the lives of the folks who like to decide what happens over there. What on Earth can be so scary about having their logic questioned, that they need to go to these extraordinary lengths to shut me up? Lokie Dokie (talk) 15:54, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
Dear Wikipedians, I want to ask a question about verifiability for some articles. Some edits (such as this) completely remove most of the contents in the page because of verifiability. (Btw, I haven't contributed to this article) No sources have been added to the article, but most of it's content can be verified with an easy web search. When I see some edits like these, it also removes the work of previous wikipedians. My question is, How should we interpret this rule? Does it strictly impose that every sentence should be cited? In my opininon, a tag like who?, when? or citation needed might be used in the first place. I think we should give some space for the editors to cite their work. Cheers.. -- joseph msg 08:29, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
Just a note to let anyone who's interested know I've posted the Wiki Education Foundation's Monthly Report for March, both on wiki and on Commons. My apologies for the delay; hopefully we've worked out the process kinks and can get the April report out in a more timely manner! I welcome any suggestions for what would make this report more useful for you in the future. -- LiAnna (Wiki Ed) ( talk) 03:09, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
Dear English Wikipedia community,
Please honor the efforts today of the men and women who helped this Spanish Wikipedia article survive the a deletion process: es:Liceo Mexicano Japonés ( Liceo Mexicano Japonés). This helped preserve not only a Wikipedia article, but it also preserved a record of an internet account of an important institution of an ethnic group in Mexico City, the Japanese Nikkei, and it helped ensure young men and women in Mexico City would learn more about their history and their culture.
Please recognize the efforts of these Spanish-speaking Wikipedians...
...and these Japanese-speaking Wikipedians...
...in helping rescue the article. (If I forgot anyone, I'm sorry!)
In addition, please honor the efforts of those on Reddit. http://reddit.com/u/enomooshiki has provided to me and others in the Wikipedia community a difficult-to-access master's degree thesis by Chizuko Watanabe ("The Japanese Immigrant Community in Mexico: its History and Present", California State University Los Angeles, 1983). In addition to the rescue of the article, more people will learn about Chizuko Watanabe's scholarship and her work will become available and known to many around the world. In addition, http://reddit.com/u/fabianhjr had given me a list to the Google Scholar sources which helped me find a Japanese source.
Thank you, - WhisperToMe WhisperToMe ( talk) 00:01, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
Greetings. Please send me the address of someone who can suggest a new entry. It's so obvious I'm amazed it's not here.
(It's a topic of political sensitivity, so I don't want to divulge it in this space.)
Thanks,
dpf — Preceding unsigned comment added by Frazierdp ( talk • contribs) 01:35, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
I've just enabled the citation tool in VisualEditor, which adds a prominent menu in the toolbar listing the most common citation templates to insert as new citations. You can also use this tool to edit most existing references that use these templates, bypassing the need to edit a template inside a reference. Feedback welcome!
Jdforrester (WMF) ( talk) 14:38, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I'm from Persian Wikipedia and I have a question about WP:ALSO. one of our users added Timeline of United States inventions (1946–91) in See also section in more than 200 articles (includes Personal computer, C (programming language), Video game console, Digital camera, Mobile phone, Firewall (computing), Perl, Ethernet, Internet, ...). I didnt saw anything like this in English Wikipedia. the translation of Timeline of United States inventions (1946–91) in our wiki just have year and titles without any descriptions, and we have the year of inventions in article's History section. also we have related categories such as Category:20th-century introductions and Category:1975 introductions for these articles. one of our Administrators thinks these edits are fine but me and some other users thinks its wrong and if we think like that anybody can add any unrelated links to See also sections. what do you think about this ? should we rollback them ? the user has thousands of edits like this. is this vandalism or not ? Thanks ARASH PT talk 15:20, 9 May 2014 (UTC)