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Hello everyone, I'm John F. Lewis, an administrator on Wikipedia's account creation interface. Recently, our project has had an increased backlog in getting accounts for new users. Our numbers are currently over 400 people waiting for accounts on the English Wikipedia. If you could even spare a moment to do a few requests a day to help us clear this backlog, that would go a long way to encouraging new editors to participate with an account. If this interests you and you're willing to help, and you match the following description, then please do apply! Ideal users are:
We have a very friendly team to help you get started, we also have a private IRC channel where you can ask questions or get help with difficult account requests. If you have any questions for us or about the process, feel free to ask at the talk page. If you can help out, we would greatly appreciate it. For the ACC team, John F. Lewis ( talk) 18:05, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
Just a friendly reminder that WMF Board of Trustees Election will be ending in about 24 hours! So if you want to contribute your opinion on who should be part of the highest level leadership of the WMF, now is the time. Dragons flight ( talk) 23:18, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
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There's actually somebody who copies other people's private (even sexual) Instagram photos, prints them up six feet wide, then sells them at an art gallery for $90,000.
I doubt we can afford whatever witchcraft he works on the customers, but obviously he knows some legal tricks that we should know... yesterday.
Those with an excessive regard for copyright can say that "we need to know how to distinguish our activities from his so that we are not caught up if there is some reactionary legislation passed to target him." Still, we need to know how this works. And I'd love to see us put it to good educational use. (not necessarily Instagram porn, but can we have the freaking Eiffel Tower now?) Wnt ( talk) 19:39, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi all - as some of you are aware I wasn't around much for the first part of this year. I had serious physical issues (severe septic shock) coupled with other issues (septic encephalopathy) that meant that when I was here, I wasn't always acting rationally or like myself - and was also a lot more aggressive than I normally am. I know this is an unusual use of WP:AN, but since the extra aggressiveness definitely effected some of my own-wiki actions, I felt like it would be a good idea to let people know about it. I put an explanation here, but I'd be happy to answer any questions anyone has. I know this is pretty odd for a VP post but felt it worth mentioning and couldn't find a better section. Best, Kevin Gorman ( talk) 06:41, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
Where are the essays treating the above subjects? I cannot find them. I am confused, even though I have BeenAroundAWhile ( talk) 02:37, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
If the default thumbnail size in pixels remains constant as screen resolutions increase, thumbnails will appear to shrink as a percentage of screen size. Has the default been increased along with average resolution? If so, when and by how much? ― Mandruss ☎ 19:22, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
Category:Pages using authority control with parameters reveals that there is inconsistency between English Wikipedia and Wikidata. Most of the pages in this category have parameters with different values than it is stored in Wikidata. Any idea of how can we resolve this? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:51, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
Separately, there should probably be a category of Category:Wikipedia categories tracking Wikidata differences or similar; probably tagged with {{ wikipedia category|hidden=yes|container=yes}} since I suspect until full integration we will have lots of these fun categories scattered around.
Template talk:Authority control#Next steps is relevant. -- Izno ( talk) 14:56, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
Note that Bruno Pesaola died on 29 may acording to italian wikipedia. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.185.175.84 ( talk) 23:49, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
Our Help:Authority control page is particularly unhelpful... while it explains what "authority control" is, it does not tell us how to it. To give an example: the "Authority control" for our article on Freemasonry just lists the German "GND" number... I want to add the US Library of congress's "LCCN" number... but can't find out how to do so. Blueboar ( talk) 12:09, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
Is it possible to transfer this file on wikidata or not? I would like to add it to the equivalent french article. A.Gust14 ( talk) 14:31, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
I went to WP:AIV to report a promotion-only account, but it's now protected. So I went to the User_talk: page of the editor who protected it, and that's protected too. If anyone would like to do the necessary, see User:Crystalpoolsindia1 (see also User:Crystalpoolsindia). 171.100.247.198 ( talk) 07:05, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
I went through part of the history of the article Tsetse fly, after having found edits directed against an incidental remark about a 34 million years old geologic strata. I found to my surprise, that there has been a number of such edits, spread sparsely, and (seemingly) by different editors. The latest removed the entire statement, claiming to fix a dating error.
I know that some people are very actively proposing changes based on their Bible interpretation rather than on the scientific sources in articles about e.g. evolution; but in these cases there are numerous other editors aware of this. I didn't think that small notes about longer time lines in articles about 'non-controversial' subjects could be under this kind of pressure. Now, I don't know.
Therefore, I'd like to know if others have noted the same kind of edits directed against mentioning a time-scale of more than a few thousand years in "general" articles. If not, the pattern I thought I saw could be incidental. If others have seen the same, then perhaps some bot wizard could fix a way to find resent changes removing words like "million" from articles, since such changes might be parts of a 'Young Earther' agenda. JoergenB ( talk) 15:22, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
WP:NFC, our non-free content policy, requires non-free images to be low resolution. When a non-free image is challenged on its file size, it is taken to WP:NFCR for discussion. The problem is that WP:NFCR is populated by editors whose sole interaction with Wikipedia seems to be image policy. They seem to lack experience with not just editing content, but reading it.
Non-free images are now being resized to the default desktop thumbnail width of 220px. Take this film poster for example, discussed here. User preferences are now being ignored. The pixel density of your display and the quality of your eyesight are irrelevant, the regulars at WP:NFCR essentially believe the thumbnailer should be disabled for non-free images and that they are all uploaded at a maximum width of 220px.
I think this is ridiculous. - hahnch e n 20:13, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Galicia 20 - 20 Challenge is a public writing competition which will improve improve and translate this list of 20 really important articles into as many languages as possible. Everybody can help in any language to collaborate on writing and/or translating articles related to Galicia. To participate you just need to sign up here. Thank you very much.-- Breogan2008 ( talk) 22:23, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I discovered this article. There is no source in the article (dead link) and I can't find anythings on Google. It's a hoax or not ? -- Gratus ( talk) 12:32, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
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Jason Quinn (
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13:26, 10 June 2015 (UTC)I am new to this, sorry if miscategorized. If this should be posted elsewhere, advice would be appreciated. Here is my question:
My sister Brett Anderson is the lead singer for the band The Donnas (they put out 7 studio albums). She had her own page, in addition to a page for The Donnas band, just like other band members. At some point, someone deleted her personal page. As you may know, the music world is filled with rivalries and this may have been an intentional act or just someone editing Wikipedia. I don't know. Regardless, Brett's career is both significant and continuing past her time in The Donnas and I think that warrants her having a personal page. Any help I could get restoring it would be very appreciated. Thank you.
Dryananderson ( talk) 14:17, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi Wikimedians,
As you people might be aware, Wikimania 2015 which is going to be held in Mexico from July 14th to 19th. We, the Indian attendees at Wikimania, would like to represent Wiki Indic Community booth in the same. We are creating Leaflets and Posters for the community village at Wikimania 2015 to display in Wikimania 2015. We would like to invite you to gather the content and design(optional) for posters ( Sample) and leaflets ( Sample) about the Indic language project of your choice. We will take care of printing and displaying the posters/leaflets.
The maximum dimensions for your poster are 36 x 48 in (91.44 x 121.92 cm). We suggest using the A0 paper size, which is 33.11 x 46.81 in (~84 x 118 cm). The contents of the poster has to be in English. Posters and leaflets based on all Indic language Wikimedia projects are welcome. The design should be a media file uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Please post the link to your content/design file on http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wikimania_2015/Booth/Posters_Leaflets before 25th of June. In case if you face any issues please reachout to Dineshkumar Ponnusamy or Netha Hussain.
For guidelines regarding creating posters, please have a look at this link : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_patterns/Posters_that_work
We look forward to receiving your posters/leaflets and displaying them while at
Wikimania 2015!
Note: This is not a competition or contest, we expect at most 1 poster and 1 leaflet from each Community.
Thanks,
Indian Wikimania 2015 Participants — Preceding
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Dineshkumar Ponnusamy (
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17:51, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
I can't find where to make a recommendation for a featured article, so I'm suggesting it here: The Magna Carta for June 15th. The article is already a "good article." The 15th is the 800th anniversary of the agreement. Kdammers ( talk) 22:50, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi guys. I've faced a thing that there're local filedescs created for Commons files with content of {{ DYKfile}}. That was done by DYKUpdateBot. I don't know an original purpose of these edits and whether it was intended to actually create local descriptions. I think it should be that either that information is moved into Commons (idk whether there's already a template about enwiki DYK but if there's no then it can be easily created) and then the local page deleted or the local page can just be deleted if that information is of no use anymore. Just leaving it be doesn't seem like a good solution because it's nothing other than rubbish. An example descpage: /info/en/?search=File:Фото_для.JPG?action=edit (link it like this otherwise it isn't obvious). -- ᛒᚨᛊᛖ ( ᛏᚨᛚᚲ) 23:27, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
I will be away for a few days. Please try to get all the disambiguation links fixed before I get back. Cheers! bd2412 T 16:25, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
Where can I find the imho handy translation tool~? On NL Wikipedia its this link: https://nl.wikipedia.org/?title=Speciaal:Paginavertalen&campaign=contributionsmenu&to=nl . And yes I will take care to not using machine translations. Ellywa ( talk) 09:52, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
Here is the RfC. petrarchan47 คุ ก 23:52, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi all, I just published this profile of Peacemaker67 on the Wikimedia blog, and I'd love any feedback or comments you have on it. Ed Erhart (WMF) ( talk) 02:24, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
Hey all,
As you may have seen, we’re currently running an experiment studying the effect of enabling VisualEditor for new users. The first half of the A/B test (in which half of all new accounts get the option to use VisualEditor automatically, and half stay not getting it) is now complete, and we’ve moved to the data collection phase of the A/B test. As outlined in the timeline, this phase will continue for the next week, and then we’ll analyse the data and post the results here.
To help inform us best, I’m very interested if any of you have noticed any problems that might have been overlooked by us, or which may affect the quality of the results and the conclusions we can draw. In the forthcoming analysis of A/B test data, we’re going to be looking for evidence about whether offering VisualEditor makes editing easier/more productive for newcomers, and whether it raises additional burdens (reverting damage, blocking vandals) for current editors. It’s particularly important to me that, before we start any conversations about offering VisualEditor to new users on a permanent basis, we have as much information as possible for everyone to make the best decision discussions.
Yours,
Jdforrester (WMF) ( talk) 01:16, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
Please fix the problem with search function. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.185.175.84 ( talk) 11:34, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi folks. About a month ago, I announced that I'd be running a short A/B test with the VisualEditor for newly registered users. That test is complete and I have posted a write-up of the results on Meta. See m:Research:VisualEditor's effect on newly registered editors/May 2015 study. -- Halfak (WMF) ( talk) 18:08, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
@ Halfak:, @ JamesF:: Most promising. Thank you for the update, and the fast turnaround! – SJ + 23:47, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
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I'm looking askance at a navbox (in obvious need of being moved to a template) at the bottom of Madison Marquette that lists a very large number of properties associated with that real estate developer and operator, about some of which there are articles. In one sense there's nothing unusual about this, collecting links to a large number of articles related to a single topic into a navbox. On the other hand, because this is a commercial operation, it smacks of a portal for doing business. Maybe I'm overthinking it. What do you all think? —Largo Plazo ( talk) 20:56, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
It's occurred to me to post this in a more topical location. (Not forum shopping: this obviously isn't a reaction to having received a pile of adverse opinions here!) If anyone sees this here and has a contribution for the discussion, please come over to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam#Navbox for a real estate company's properties. —Largo Plazo ( talk) 13:58, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi, in 2014 IAAF Diamond League, some of the winners in the 'results' table are marked in grey. The article does not say what this means. Does anyone know? Ssu ( talk) 07:00, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
I used to edit fairly regularly, but don't anymore. However, I stumbled across the Andriy Slyusarchuk article, and it is so terribly, atrociously bad, especially considering its BLP status, I thought somebody should look at it. It's extremely long, full of straight up confusing, poorly written, unencyclopedic crap; I'm disappointed it's lasted so long in this form (only a couple edits in years). I always defend Wikipedia to its detractors, but when I come across something like this, I end up sorely disappointed in the system. One "copy-editing" tag at the top of the article is definitely, definitely not enough.
I know this discussion is moved, but I feel I need to make a bit of noise here as well, because even though we've only got a few days to take action, and the community is almost unanimously in favour of placing a site banner, there is still no banner visible on the English Wikipedia.
Action must be taken. Now, or it will be too late. 82.139.82.82 ( talk) 21:55, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
Quick note: User:EpochFail posted a note here a while ago about an A/B study for VisualEditor. The results were posted last week at m:Research:VisualEditor's effect on newly registered editors/May 2015 study. The WP:TLDR is that everything is approximately the same, except that users of VisualEditor are slightly less likely to get reverted.
The thing that was most interesting to me was that a lot of editors who got access to both VisualEditor and the wikitext editor when they registered their accounts opened both, looked at the options, and then chose the one that they wanted to use to make their edit. There's a proposal based on these results at the Village Pump (proposals) to eventually give all new users both editors, and let them use whichever they want.
By the way, if you haven't tried it out for a while, then you can opt in via Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures or have a quick look on a random article (requires Javascript). Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 18:04, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
The RFC can be viewed by clicking
*HERE*. Please feel free to vote in the Survey and/or join the Threaded Discussion.
Richard27182 (
talk)
05:53, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
I made this box to be put in a userpage or user talk page if anyone wants to. If somebody wants to make it a template I can put it in my userspace.
This banner is displayed as a result of the rulings by the U.S. supreme court on gay marriage. 27 June 2015 |
-- Fazbear7891 ( talk) 06:55, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
...will be run again in August. Signups are at Wikipedia:Stub Contest/Entries. Cheers, Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 22:02, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
It's not explicitly a Wikipedia issue but one that affects our project in a weird way. Main discussion is here, but the short situation, we've found that certain video game sites (ones that seem to be owned by CBS Media) that, when archived via Wayback or WebCite, load up initially but then replace the content with a short Youtube clip of Eddie Murphy, thus effectively making the archive url useless. We have found disabling javascript stops the content replacement, but I've tried to debug (poorly) to find where the content rewrite is happening and how we can try to prevent that in the future. If anyone is skilled in the ways of Javascript, help to figure this out would be great. -- MASEM ( t) 23:28, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
The Wikimedia Foundation has given a grant to the Ada Initiative to conduct an Ally Skills Workshop at Wikimania this July. Valerie Aurora of the Ada Initiative recently wrote to the gender-gap mailing list:
Editors (of any gender) who want to help close the gender gap are welcome and can sign up here. Admins willing to help women with dispute resolution are particularly welcome. Sarah (talk) 01:14, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
Is there a way to hide the announcements on my Watchlist? They're getting in the way and there's apparently no obvious way to turn them off. Praemonitus ( talk) 14:41, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
This is a totally random idea I just had. First, I know virtually nothing about bots. My idea is that it would be cool if on the first and subsequent annual anniversaries of a Wikipedia editor account's creation, if there was an automated "birthday bot" that left a message on the user's talk page thanking them for their contributions to the project. If it was super fancy, it could perhaps include statistics on the user's contributions. Again, this is just a totally random idea that I think would be kind of a cool morale-boosting tool. Safehaven86 ( talk) 20:16, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
Anyone who likes grime music like I do? How about this userbox?
This user enjoys listening to grime music, especially from the pioneers of the genre. |
And I don't know how to do this, but why don't we put anyone who uses this userbox under a category of people who listen to grime?
Coderenius (
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23:53, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
| nocat = {{{nocat|}}} | usercategory = Wikipedians who listen to grime music
English Wikipedia started in 2001 with a single article. By 2006 we had one million articles. On 13 July 2012 we had our four millionth article. The Wikimedia Stats website shows that as of May 31, 2015 English Wikipedia has about 4.88 million articles. At the recent rates of article creation, we will reach 5 million articles in the last few months of 2015. How should we celebrate this milestone? Pinging Katherine (WMF) and Philippe (WMF) so that they're aware of this discussion. Please propose ideas and coordinate projects! Regards, -- Pine ✉ 05:12, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
I think that a Wikimedia Blog post and celebration on English-language Wikimedia social media channels would be great, especially if coordinated with the Wikimedia affiliates which have significant English-language contributor bases. -- Pine ✉ 05:18, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
Good idea. Obviously if the 5 millionth article itself is celebrated, there should be criteria that it could be a good article (that it's not an article likely to be deleted, not a DAB, not a redirect). Also do we know what the 1 millionth, 2 millionth etc articles are? —Мандичка YO 😜 06:31, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
Jumping from 4 to 5 million is just an excuse to reflect on the Wikipedia articles. I'd focus on the diversity and depth.
So one aspect of the celebration should be to show how each corner of the world, each academic discipline and each cultural item is present (or missing). We can see how we are more complete than other general works, but less complete than other specialty works.
And another aspect should be to show how deep (or shallow) are our articles. We can show show how some articles seem to be almost finished, and how so many others are stubs, often from relevant subjects.
-- NaBUru38 ( talk) 20:27, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
I, Pablothepenguin ( talk), hereby recommend that the above notorised articles are henceforth removed from Wikipedia. I note in point that I have an article on a Scottish bus route deleted. I have not stood down. I am looking to obtain a copy to keep in my user sandbox to work on until it is in better condition. However the draconian laws of Wikipedia dictate that articles must pass a trial of notability. If even one of the millions of editors disagrees with the article, it is gone. I declare that the London bus route articles are issued undue attention. I propose that they are removed from Wikipedia and are given the same shabby treatment that the rest of Wikipedia's public transport related articles are given. I request their deletion for the sake of us Scots and the underlings of England, the patronage of Wales, the populace of the twain Ireland's and the greater citizenship of the planet Earth. I have terrible people skills and so my syntax and writings are cheesy. Pay me some respect and try to ignore the cheesiest parts of this paragraph. I sign, thusly, Pablothepenguin ( talk) 22:14, 3 July 2015 (UTC).
I received this email through wiki last night... it's strange and I'm not sure what it says or what to make of it. The sender in the header was: :Ελληνική Βικιπαίδεια <wiki@wikimedia.org>
And the message within read:
-- Floydian τ ¢ 00:29, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia/Assessment#Removed Just curious, sorry if this is the wrong place, but what happened to them? i don't see a discussion anywhere in the project itself? is it a bot error? sorry for being annoying, best wishes. GuzzyG ( talk) 03:53, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
This RfC concerns an issue that has been plaguing archiving sites WebCite and Wayback Machine for over half a month now. When a url from GameSpot, Giant Bomb or Comic Vine is archived using these two archive sites, the page is redicted to a looping clip from an Eddie Murphy comedy routine, rendering the page unusable. The problem was first brought up on the Video Game WikiProject talk page in June: this is the relevant first discussion and a follow-up I created. In those threads, Comic Vine was not mentioned as I have only just tested it and found it too was affected by the issue. One user has said that it is something to do with the page's Javascript, but nothing further has happened so far. GameFAQs and Metacritic, also owned by CBS, do not appear to be affected, but I have not looked thoroughly into other websites.
Two previous discussions have been started with no results. This is an urgent appeal: will someone with access to the forums of any of these sites, or CBS Interactive's forums, please alert the site staff to this issue. Given how volatile the internet space is, thousands of informative articles are at risk of vanishing without there being an archived version. This cannot and must not continue. If you wish to see proof, they can either attempt to archive a page themselves or go to any page from these sites archived on Wayback or WebCite within the last two weeks. -- ProtoDrake ( talk) 13:57, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
Hello all.
First of all, I hope you will forgive my bad wording as English is not my mother tongue.
Just, as I am not so experienced on WP:EN, I would like help/advises on how to manage the continuous reverts between some contributors under IP who do not agree on some flights destinations to some East Asian Airports (
here,
there ...). As it looks to be dynamic IPs, I feel difficult to put something in their discussion pages to invite them to debate rather than reverting themselves together; also, I do not find them eager to discuss (but here it is a personal point of view)
Thank you to route my request to the proper page.
Regards,
--
Sundgauvien38 (
talk)
13:16, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
This is a Peer review request to seek broader input to improve page: meta:Help:Form I & Affidavit (Customised for relinquishment of copyright as per 'free cultural work' definition) an option available under (Indian) Copyright act 1957 rules.
Mahitgar ( talk) 06:54, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
I would like to request a modification of the {{GOCEreviewed}} template to display the issues= parameter on the talk page and as a category at the bottom of the talk page. There are special pages to propose deletion of templates and other needs, but no page for modification. Where should this modification be requested?-- DThomsen8 ( talk) 00:40, 12 July 2015 (UTC)
I don't quite know where to put it, so I'm dropping it here: I'd very much like for someone in the know to write up this article. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, there's some info here (and ALL over the internet are NGOs doing these kinds of projects). It's hugely important, and totally not a part of the world of the average Wiki editor, including me. I could write up a stub, but it would take me forever and I'd not do a good job. Please someone pick this up and run with it: I think it's exactly the kind of article that fits our mission. After Meghan Trainor's bootyshaking and a list of all Pokemon awards, of course. Thanks! Drmies ( talk) 20:03, 12 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi everyone,
I know that users’ IP addresses are recorded somewhere in the wikisystem and they can be dug up if needed. But can you tell me if anything more is recorded, such as the ID (or equivalent) of the device (i.e. computer) which is used in a given edit. Would be grateful if you could answer this question. -- Polomnik ( talk) 20:20, 12 July 2015 (UTC)
Title summarizes it all. The db- templates are already on the articles in the initial revision, and not edited in afterwards. Plus, when I proceed to check the logs for the page, it doesn't mention any page under that title that has been deleted already. Can someone please investigate? ( Ataa Ullah Khan Wato Kheshgi is an example.) Gparyani ( talk) 00:26, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
Currently at Talk:Second Sino-Japanese War there is a rather unusual debate going on, with an editor from Japan claiming that Wikipedia is unfairly portraying Japan during World War II in a negative light. As of present, articles throughout Wikipedia acknowledge that the Nanking Massacre was a wide-scale act of murder which targeted civilians, given that the overwhelming majority of English-language reliable sources written by western scholars and historians describe it as so (and hence to paint it otherwise would fall under WP:FRINGE). However, this editor claims that the Japanese military was, in fact, rightfully exterminating guerrilla forces operating within the city of Nanking, and uses a rather partisan citation to affirm this (many books in Japan written on behalf of right-wing organisations outright deny that a "massacre" occurred, and that it was only a military operation against guerrillas). Furthermore, he makes his position clear on the talk page that Wikipedia's current interpretation of the war is being unfair towards Japan, and considers it targeted "bullying" against Japan as a whole.
I would like to obtain a third opinion, if possible. How should we treat topics like this as a whole, throughout the Wikipedia project? -- benlisquare T• C• E 16:36, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
Why are so many pages on your wiki "visible to gold members only"? How much does gold membership cost? And why, whenever I try to apply for gold membership, am I redirected to this weird page with lots of adverts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.25.27.108 ( talk) 22:29, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
For more information (note: commercial site, has ads): http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/gold-membership-trolling -- 108.38.204.15 ( talk) 11:25, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
An RfC that may interest you has been posted on Wikipedia_talk:Advocacy_ducks#RfC:_Is_the_following_addition_relevant_in_the_Signs_of_advocacy_section?. Atsme 📞 📧 13:22, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
According to us Hariot Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava was ambassador to Russia and later Turkey.
It's true that ODNB says "In 1879–81 Lady Dufferin was ambassadress at St Petersburg and in 1881–4 at Constantinople."
Surely this is a similar wording to "mayor" and "mayoress" (wife of a mayor), whereas a woman holding the post would be known as "Mayor Jones" (or, once upon a time, "Lady Mayor Jones").
All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough,
12:53, 13 July 2015 (UTC).
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Americans for Prosperity#Request for comment: $44M of $140M raised by Americans for Prosperity in 2012 election cycle from Koch-related funds. Please contribute to this request for comment. Thanks. Hugh ( talk) 02:57, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
List of Indian cities by GDP (per capita) ( talk · · hist) provides a comparison of GDP per capita of the major Indian cities. It has recently been updated with 2014 WP:OR figures for a single city (Bangalore) to put it at the top of the table. The RfC is intended to ensure WP:NPOV. Thanks. Batternut ( talk) 11:26, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
@ Another Believer: 2015 Wiki Loves Pride was supposed to occur in June 2015, this is now July. But the notices that were posted at that time such as this one [9] were not signed. This causes major problems on all pages that use bots to archive their contents, as this stale notice that no longer matters will stay on the talk page indefinitely as it isn't indicated with a timestamp when it was posted, so will not be archived. There are a very large number of posts of this nature during the period of June 2-3 [10] by Another Believer ( talk · contribs) that are still unsigned. Some have been signed here and there by people who've accessed talk pages, but this clearly hasn't occurred over most of them (such as [11] at the time this was posted). So, how do we fix this problem? The person who posted them messages has already been informed of this problem, as has Wiki Loves Pride, but in the weeks since the notice was given, little has been done to solve the problem. -- 67.70.32.20 ( talk) 05:40, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
All mass postings must include a standard bot-recognizable timestamp; failure to include one breaks the archival bots, so no mass posting should be allowed without a timestamp. -- 67.70.32.20 ( talk) 05:40, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
There are days when I see problems at Wikipedia, and I despair that it can sustain. Today, I ran across an article that is a blatant copyright violation using material from multiple URLs. No worries, right? We'll just speedy delete it. Sure. Ok. I tagged it (see University of Santo Tomas College of Rehabilitation Sciences, if it hasn't been deleted already). But on closer look, we find this article was created in 2009...six years ago...and has contained massive copyright violations ever since. This isn't isolated; it appears possible that many, if not most or even all, of the articles linked from Template:UST are copyright violations. I look at this sort of stuff, facepalm, and wonder why I should even bother? If nobody's cared in six years that this stuff was effectively stolen from this institution's websites, why should I care? If Wikipedia hasn't cared for six years, obviously it isn't important.
To the abstract, I see that WP:CCI is hopelessly backlogged, with open investigations dating all the way back to 2010. Sure, I could post yet another CCI about these articles and their contributors (there may be several). To what end? It will take years to resolve, if ever.
The inability of Wikipedia's mechanisms to deal with this sort of problem is extremely serious. Pessimistically, I foresee the responses here being "sofixit", "shrug", "help to reduce the problem rather than complain about it" and etc. I despair of Wikipedia ever being able to handle this problem. I don't really even known where to voice this concern. So, I'm here at the pump with a sandwich board on me saying "The End of Copyright Violations Isn't Nigh" and I'm sure I'll be disregarded. -- Hammersoft ( talk) 16:51, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
If you'd like to try it, check "Show the new version of the Main Page currently under development. You can help!" under "Testing and development" in Preferences>Gadgets. Eman235/ talk 19:53, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
Need outside comment on whether or not the sources are valid, and the controversy is indeed a controversy. If you have any questions about what is being discussed feel free to contact me. The talk page is overwhelming. Thanks. FauXnetiX ( talk) 20:04, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
Dear fellow editors of Enwiki,
I have noticed that the era that we, Hungarians call Első magyar köztársaság ("First Hungarian Republic"; and existed between 1918-1920) is called Hungarian Democratic Republic here. No such state existed in Hungary by this name. It was called Hungarian Republic or Hungarian People's Republic, but hence it had nothing to do with socialism at all. I tried to move it to the exact title, but it was reverted.
Actually Hungarian Democratic Republic and Hungarian Republic (1919–20) are the same states. Just please check hu:Első magyar köztársaság.
I want to ask your opinions about whether it is possible to move and merge these articles.
Thanks for your attention, Oppashi ( talk) 06:35, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
@ Jayron32: Is this good enough? "1918 - Austro-Hungarian Empire is broken up at the end of World War I. Hungarian republic is proclaimed following a revolution." And not Republic, and not Democratic, but Republic. Most of historians removed "People's" from this era during Communism, because of the name of the state would have been the same. Oppashi ( talk) 09:45, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
This is a Peer review request to seek broader input to improve page: meta:Help:Form I & Affidavit (Customised for relinquishment of copyright as per 'free cultural work' definition) an option available under (Indian) Copyright act 1957 rules.
Mahitgar ( talk) 03:53, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
Hello people from the en:wiki (sorry for my english, i'm french). A little question please... do you know who is, in the all languages, the contributor who've brought the largest single article number to a level of GA / QA ? It's easy to find who've add the more bytes or do the most edit, but I've not find answer to this question. A big thank to you in advance -- Tsaag Valren ( talk) 15:35, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
Earlier this week the national library of the Netherlands (KB) donated over 3100 images from 3 historic atlases (period 1690-1750) to Commons.
Each atlas has its own category
This was the first time the KB used the GLAMwiki-uploadtool, which can upload large numbers of images batchwise. This tools has been used by many GLAMs, including the Institute for Sound & Vision and the Peace Palace. So far meer dan 430.000 images have been donated worldwide using this tool.
The three atlases were digitized in the late ‘90s and put online on the Memory of the Netherlands website. This has been the source of the current donations.
Uploading to Commons is just the start, in the next couple of weeks the KB will work on
The KB would like to invited all Wikip/m/edians to reuse the images as widely as possible, which could include
Including these 3 atlases the KB has now released 7 historic atlases, see this overview. -- OlafJanssen ( talk) 11:44, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
I have translated the article "
Elfchen" from the german wikipedia. Since it's an article about poetry I would like to see this article be reviewed by a native english speaker to may replace some parts that could be formulated in a better way as well as spelling and grammar mistakes. The article is pretty much a word by word translation which is missing some parts (eg. I don't know how to correctly translate "Schreibwerkstatt" - word by word it would be writingworkshop - where (according to de.wikipedia) students learn writing/poetry technics).
The name of the article was taken from here:
here. If there is a better name for it please rename the page! I did sort the page in category "Poems". If there is a more fitting one again: feel free to move it.
If you have any questions or suggestions contact me. The best way is to use
my talk page on Wikimedia Commons! I eg though of adding an elevenie like
Web
Community project
Free of charge
All humanities knowledge combined
Wikipedia
to have some Wikipedia related example in there that is not translated. -- D-Kuru ( talk) 12:16, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
An RfC about a suggested title exchange between Cyrano de Bergerac and Cyrano de Bergerac (play) -- The Traditionalist ( talk) 17:21, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
Last month, I made a proposal at WP:VPPR about gradually enabling VisualEditor alongside the wikitext editor for new editors here. Given the consensus in that discussion, I'm moving ahead with that change, starting later this week.
At first, I will restrict the configuration so that only 5% of new accounts (chosen randomly) have a choice of which editing tool to use. As promised, I'll report back on how well this goes, before increasing the rate to a larger proportion and monitoring from there.
If you have any questions or see any problems, please alert us. The fastest way to reach the team is by contacting us on IRC at #mediawiki-visualeditor connect, by filing a report in Phabricator, or by leaving a note at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback.
Yours,
Jdforrester (WMF) ( talk), Product Manager, VisualEditor – 18:05, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
I'm leading a collaboration out of Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute that is researching how current editors make sense of the history of articles before they edit, and what kinds of tools or resources might help editors to do a better job. Based on some interviews with some local expert Wikipedians, we're designing prototypes that stitch together article pages and talk sections, history and editors relationships, or talk sections with short digestible synopses.
We think these prototypes would not only help expert Wikipedians make sense of new pages faster, but also help newbies avoid common pitfalls before contributing. But we need your help. While we're accessing all sorts of new data and generating visualizations, we need to stay grounded with what editors actually need. Following HCI traditions, we want to involve Wikipedians in the design process before we start developing prototypes for evaluation.
If you'd like to help us out, we're having short 30-45min Skype conversations with experienced editors (1000+ contributions to en:wiki) where we talk about the kinds of resources editors need to use to make good edits, and get some feedback on several different ways to add new information or redesign Talk sections. More details and a link to the signup sheet are at the lede of the project page on Meta.
As we continue to do this work, we hope to deploy some prototype Talk data visualizations on our Meta page for the Wikipedia community to explore. Ultimately we hope to deploy our tools for general use as either addons to WikiMedia or browser extensions. Watch out project page for more info. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about the study or the kinds of research we're doing. Thanks for your time!
JeffRz ( talk) 18:23, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
I'm worried that much of the article on Space: 1889 is lifted from a promotional guide, or at the least is not in proper Wikipedia style. If this is not the correct place to report this, where should I go? Brownie Charles ( talk) 04:32, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Americans for Prosperity#Request for comment: $44M of $140M raised by Americans for Prosperity in 2012 election cycle from Koch-related funds. The RfC proposes a one-sentence addition to the "Funding" section of Americans for Prosperity. This is an update and a request for wider participation. The main source for the proposed content is a pair of reports in The Washington Post, supported by FactCheck.org and the National Journal. Generous excerpts from the sources are provided in the statement of the RfC question for your convenience. Please help with this request for comment. Thank you in advance for your time and attention. Thanks. Hugh ( talk) 16:28, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
This request for comment will most likely close Thursday 6 August 2015. This is an update and a request for wider participation. Issues in the appropriate application of our due weight content policy remain in the discussion. Your comments are needed. Please help with this important request for comment. Thank you in advance for your time and attention. Hugh ( talk) 04:58, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
Which is the correct or preferred way of linking in the following case?
-- Leyo 12:51, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
just in case anyone missed it when I pinged the first time round.... Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 11:27, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to participate in the RfC at Talk:The Pirate Bay#RfC - 24 July 2015. This RfC, which asks "Should all of the urls for this website be included in the infobox?", is due to end in approximately 21 days time and would really benefit from some fresh eyes. Thank you. -- AussieLegend ( ✉) 19:24, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
I started Karen Taylor (basketball) lately and reverted edits claiming she passed away. I am unsure if this is true and I am on a mobile device. Can somebody check/potentially warn accounts/welcome accounts? Thx. Biosthmors ( talk) pls notify me (i.e. {{ U}}) while signing a reply, thx 20:11, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
How can the race driver Derek White (today's Did You Know?) be 'native american' when he's not American at all? He's First Nations Canadian. Toyokuni3 ( talk) 15:53, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
Not sure what to call this. I need a double redirect but in Wikipedia that's something else.
There are two possible redirect targets. Teen Beach Movie and Teen Beach 2. Wikipedia doesn't provide for this situation.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:55, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
Hello! Really sorry, I'm not sure if I'm on the right place to talk about it. I'm not used to English Wikipedia, I'm more used to French one and to Commons.
But I'm having a problem being reverted two times of the article Judith Chemla by a IP because of the year of birth of this French actress. This IP might be absolutely sure of one year of birth, whereas there are 4 different sources stating two different years of birth. I already had the case on the French Wikipedia, but maybe the policy about it is different here. On FR-WP, when we're not sure, we clearly write it on the the article, especially when sources are relevant on both sides. Here it might be the case. On Talk:Judith Chemla the IP tells that it's not, according to him VIAF and BNF are not relevant authorities sources. In my opinion, as long as there is no exact date of birth with day, month and year, we can't be sure of the year of birth (in my old version I explain in the references how we can't be sure, and there are the VIAF and BNF sources stating the 2nd possible year of birth). And if we can't be sure, I think either we put 2 possible years of birth in the article, or no year of birth at all. And when a better source will be found, there will be time to update it.
I have noticed that in FR-WP for example for Arielle Dombasle, there are 2 birth dates, whereas on EN-WP there is only one. Then I prefer to be sure how to work on WP-EN according to your policies that I'm not used to. Thank you very much for your help. Jeriby ( talk) 09:38, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
As promised last week, I'm following up to let you know about the current state of our process of gradually enabling VisualEditor alongside the wikitext editor for new editors here. Last week, only 5% of new accounts (chosen randomly) were given a choice of which editing tool to use. We have monitored the results and found no technical problems, editing corruptions, or other concerning issues. Consequently, this week we have increased it to 10% of new accounts. We will keep monitoring this and adjust the proportion of new accounts in gradual increments if we continue to see positive results.
As always, if you have any questions or see any problems, please alert us. The fastest way to reach the team is by contacting us on IRC at #mediawiki-visualeditor connect, by filing a report in Phabricator, or by leaving a note at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback.
Yours,
Jdforrester (WMF) ( talk), Product Manager, VisualEditor – 22:21, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
I saw this recent report about VIN cloning. I am concerned that images like this may be construed as a potential source of 'stolen' VINs. Is there anything currently in wikipedia policies anywhere that address this issue? The article Vehicle identification number gives much information about VINs and how they are constructed but also includes some photos with full VINs. Should we not allow images in wikipedia/wikimedia like this on a privacy basis? Nyth 63 14:57, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
There is an RfC about the sue of galleries in articles about artists. It is about the use of legacy gallery formats over newer versions. The old one is being promoted on account it ""allows each work the dignity they demand" while simultaneously taking up significantly more space with smaller thumbnails. -- CFCF 🍌 ( email) 13:09, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
In essence either of these:
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Spasemunki made an excellent point above about how these show up in mobile browsers. I did a test and have uploaded 3 screenshots to commons that display the different examples shown above. (There are no other changes, and the examples are of
Talk:Paul Signac as of August 8.)
I believe these results are conclusive in saying that the packed mode displays better with the modern gallery format. Also note that the resolution of the phone in question (an LG G4) is 2.5k, which is not representative of most phones. Using an ordinary lower resoltion phone the wasted space between image and caption might actually exceed the range of the screen, resulting in needing to scroll down to see the caption and image in the same screen.
Please weight in to support the best alternative on the RfC.
Any one speaking Georgian? Xaris333 ( talk) 18:41, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi all, the Learning and Evaluation team at Wikimedia Foundation will host a program leader panel to discuss Writing Contests on different Wikimedia projects. Community members from Kosovo, Ukraine and Australia will share their experience hosting this type of Wikimedia program. Please join us to discuss the latest resources:
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13:48, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
There is a new scam product called "Cogniq" or "CogniQ" (basically a mix of unregulated herbal supplements) that is being pushed on numerous social media sites with links to obviously fake articles claiming that various celebrities (Johnny Depp, Stephen Hawking, Bradley Cooper, Denzel Washington, Tiger Woods) use or endorse the product, and making unsupported effectiveness claims (including that it is "so effective" that governments are planning to ban it, for some reason). I just deleted and blocked four new "user" accounts who are obvious spam bots, having done nothing but create User talk pages containing borderline gibberish content promoting or linking to these fake "Cogniq" articles. The scam, being a very recent creation, will not have reached Wikipedia levels of notability, and its perpetrators may well pocket their earnings and disappear before it ever reaches that point. In the meantime, be wary of any effort to introduce mention of this scam product into Wikipedia, either through spambot talk page postings, or in articles relating to its supposed endorsers. Cheers! bd2412 T 17:42, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
At Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Orazio Gentileschi - Il suonatore di liuto (National Gallery of Art).jpg we see this
and also this at the Talk page Talk:The_Lute_Player_(Orazio_Gentileschi)#Attribution of the article concerned
That looks like WP:Original Research to me, officially sanctioned by the administrators Crisco 1492 and Drmies.
For what it's worth, the subject has never been suggested as being Caccini, not even "possibly". The standard reference works make no mention, nor does the holding museum (National Gallery of Art, Washington), although it was nevertheless cited as the only source by the nominator in the article (tailor-made for the nomination). A glance at the painting, in part an allegory of love and music, is sufficient to determine it cannot possibly be a portrait of anyone of significance as the girl has loosed her bodice. Needless to say no sitter of the age would have allowed herself to be portrayed in such a fashion, or even in that pose for that matter. But for my efforts as IP (threatened, blocked and then locked out) and another editor (blocked as a sock), this hugely popular and much loved painting would have gone out as a portrait of Francesca Caccini in Wikipedia's voice as per the original nomination and repeated within minutes over dozens of mirror sites on Google searches. 138.199.69.140 ( talk) 11:25, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
Versus001 performed a mass addition of {{ Start date and age}} to articles regarding shooting incidents justifying that the age of an event should be mentioned in the infobox along with the date. As some editors would disagree with this, a discussion was started on his talk page to arrive at a consensus. It was noted that the discussion should be moved to Village pump in order to get a clearer consensus. As an end note, my opinion is that it's redundant to implement this template on articles concerning recent events. -- Chamith (talk) 20:28, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
{{
Current}}
, for example, which have proven their value by averting untold time-wasting conflict. Unneeded freedom results in unnecessary conflict, as we've seen today. Are there likely to be significant differences that would warrant, say, a minimum age of 5 years in one type of article and a minimum of 20 in another? ―
Mandruss
☎
20:40, 6 August 2015 (UTC)ONUnicorn, re your last point, such a guideline would not constitute a requirement to add the template after n years. In any case, the amount of effort is the same whether you add the template today or five years from now, so I don't know what you mean by more maintenance work. ― Mandruss ☎ 00:09, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
*Comment: I think having "x number of years ago" adds unnecessary clutter to Infoboxes. Infoboxes are supposed to be summaries of an article's salient points, so if the age of the incident or anniversary of the incident isn't covered in the article then perhaps the Infobox shouldn't mention it either...
Shearonink (
talk)
02:00, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
*Comment:The specific template makes it look like we are counting days from an event which hasn't ended yet. Shooting incidents or terrorist attacks don't actually commence. They take place, which means they start and end at the moment it occurs. In that case we should be using {{
Years or months ago}} instead. --
Chamith
(talk)
04:36, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
For the record of this discussion, I would like to explain myself on performing this mass addition. On the 2015 Lafayette shooting article, LimitationsAndRestrictions495656778774 applied the template, and since I didn't see the template on any other mass-casualty articles, I made attempts at removing it. However, those edits were reverted by him/her twice now, so I just decided to add the template on all the others, since he/she is insistent that it belongs in the article. If that one article should have it, I didn't see any reason why all those others should not. Versus001 ( talk) 23:32, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
Has a consensus been reached yet? Versus001 ( talk) 01:18, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
Hello all. Is en.wikipedia.uz/Main_Page some sort of mirror or an official WMF site? Thanks. Biosthmors ( talk) pls notify me (i.e. {{ U}}) while signing a reply, thx 16:48, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
If anyone is speaking Minangkabau or Cebuano, I need help, just to correct 1 paragraph I have written in these languages. Xaris333 ( talk) 18:46, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
There is currently an RfC at Talk:Joseon#RfC: Joseon Kingdom or Joseon Dynasty?. Please drop by with your 2¢. ミーラー強斗武 ( StG88ぬ会話) 09:30, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
see RfC at talk:Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action; please come and express your opinion. Iran nuclear weapons 2 ( talk) 19:59, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
As part of our efforts to improve the use of the edit filter, an edit filter noticeboard has been created. We hope that this will be a better venue for users to discuss and ask questions about edit filters, whilst also freeing up WT:EF for discussion of the corresponding project page. Sam Walton ( talk) 15:39, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
In my ongoing efforts to alienate as much of the Wikipedia orthodoxy as possible (previous attempts include this proposal and numerous XfD !votes), I've written Wikipedia:Stack Exchange is eating our lunch. I would appreciate it if someone who believes that Wikipedia is not failing could go through the essay and pick out all the stuff I got wrong. If anyone wants to write Wikipedia:Stack Exchange is not eating our lunch, I would of course be willing to reciprocate. -- N Y Kevin 23:22, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
My (lazy) searched did not come up with any information on how or if articles are linked to existing wiki content. For example, you create the page "horse" and it has the word "quadruped" in the text. If there is a page called "quadruped" is there a bot to automatically link those two pages? OR, because of the plethora of articles and unknown associations between then, does this happen all by hand? Question: is there any automation to speed up linking articles?-- Lucas559 ( talk) 17:29, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
There is a new RFC about how we should refer to Miss Cleo. To view and/or participate, follow the link at:
Talk:Miss Cleo#RFC: How to describe Miss Cleo in her article.
Richard27182 (
talk)
00:01, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
Hello,
The Wikimedia Foundation would like your feedback about how we can reimagine Wikimedia Foundation grants, to better support people and ideas in your Wikimedia project. Ways to participate:
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I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation. 05:19, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
It used to be (back in 2006 and 2007) that talk pages (and I think user pages as well - maybe all non-mainspace pages) had a light blue background, while article pages had a white background. Now pretty much everything has a white background. Does anyone know when that changed? Can someone point me to a discussion about it? (I'm not wanting to rehash anything; just curious about when it changed and what the reasons for the change were.) ~ ONUnicorn( Talk| Contribs) problem solving 17:53, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I'm just occasional wikignome on cs.wiki, but recently I realized that there is lot of musical bands with names of Biblical books (i.e. Genesis, The Kings, Exodus, Apocalyptica), so I joked about it and ultimatelly was chalanged to do complete Bible. Long story short, here it is. Input welcomed.
As side result, new category was created, feel free to expand.-- Fafrin ( talk) 19:52, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
There is a new RfC asking if the heavy metal music article should include a paragraph on the gender, race and sexual orientation of heavy metal musicians. To view and/or participate, follow the link here. OnBeyondZebrax • TALK 17:12, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
Happy weekend everyone, just headsup that the reading team is currently soliciting community input for the upcoming strategy of the reading department. Feel free to take a look and participate :)-- Melamrawy (WMF) ( talk) 20:20, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
An RFC related to the Quds Day is opened here. Mhhossein ( talk) 10:24, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
Members of the community are invited to give their thoughts at a request for comment to discuss Wikipedians' alternatives to consensus, and the formation of a proposed Regulation Committee. Thank you, -- ceradon ( talk • edits) 04:20, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
Per m:Global bans, I am notifying the project of this proposal. Everyone is welcome to go and voice their opinion of the proposal and about the user in general.-- GZWDer ( talk) 09:39, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi all, there is a backlog of moves that are very quiet with little input. If anyone has any opinion at all on any then comment away. cheers, Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 00:10, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
Dhakuri is on the way to Pindari glacier(you have to reach Pindary by trek and Dhakuri is next stop when one trek from Loharkhet side.) Why my photo of Dhakuri is deleted from here.Pls explain me. /info/en/?search=Pindari_Glacier Thanks and regards. Sumita Roy Dutta ( talk) 10:15, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
Over the last few months, we have been slowly expanding the availability of VisualEditor as an option for editors. At first we ran an A/B test, and then a slow ramp-out for new accounts ( A/B test announcement in May, proposal at WP:VPPR from June, note about it starting in August). This is now complete, which means that all accounts registered now will get the choice to use VisualEditor.
As always, if you have question or encounter problems, please feel free to reach out to us at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback.
Jdforrester (WMF) ( talk), Product Manager, VisualEditor – 16:19, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
Suggestions, please - I'm looking for an example of an iconic image, uploaded to Commons under an open licence, of a recent, unplanned, newsworthy event, to illustrate an article asking people to donate such images in future. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:53, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
I am looking for new Wikipedia articles on railways or in particular on narrow gauge railways. Are there any search engines, which can filter those that are let's say less than a month old? -- NearEMPTiness ( talk) 18:40, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
Why doesn't WMF or someone at Wikipedia contact LTA socks who have a website and tell them to stop? Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 23:43, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi all,
We are excited to introduce a new Wikimedia Public Policy site. The site includes resources and position statements on access, copyright, censorship, intermediary liability, and privacy. The site explains how good public policy supports the Wikimedia projects, editors, and mission.
Visit the public policy portal: https://policy.wikimedia.org/
Please help translate the statements on Meta Wiki. You can read more on the Wikimedia blog.
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I started an RfC regarding the old WikiProject Wikipedia's move to Wikipedia:WikiProject Improving Wikipedia about a day ago, and seeing as only one other user has commented there, I've decided to come here to try to attract more community input. Everyone is welcome to voice their opinions there. CabbagePotato ( talk) 06:20, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
{{ WPW Referral}}
The original WikiProject Wikipedia has been restored and discussion is occurring on alternative titles for the New WikiProject Wikipedia effort. Liz Read! Talk! 22:10, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi all, there's a new post out at the Wikimedia blog, titled " Innovation is welcome: apply for grants to improve Wikimedia," that I wanted to highlight. If you or a team of people have an idea that will improve a Wikimedia site, you can get a grant to cover certain costs. Check it out! Obligatory disclaimer: due to legal restrictions (I believe—please don't quote me on this), the WMF cannot fund content creation. Ed Erhart (WMF) ( talk) 21:50, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
There is an RfC on the Heavy metal music talk page regarding whether the guitar solo should be mentioned in the 2nd paragraph of the Characteristics section. To participate, see here OnBeyondZebrax • TALK 20:46, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
There is an RfC on the Heavy metal music article talk page on whether the Lyrical themes section should identify the Parents Music Resource Center as the organization that criticized heavy metal lyrics for their allegedly misogynist and occult content. To participate, follow this link. OnBeyondZebrax • TALK 01:46, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
Greetings! The Individual Engagement Grants program is accepting proposals from August 31st to September 29th to fund new tools, community-building processes, and other experimental ideas that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers. Whether you need a small or large amount of funds (up to $30,000 USD), Individual Engagement Grants can support you and your team’s project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space.
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According to an entry made in The Memorial of John Slafter, by Edmund F. Slafter, my 6 times great grandfather, the Hon. Benjamin Carpenter was Lt. Governor of Vermont in 1779. Though he is buried in Guilford, Vermont on Carpenter Hill road, Wikipedia neglects to mention him in its list of notable persons from that town. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:CF41:AD10:DC5B:5D14:3AFE:E554 ( talk) 20:52, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
Time on the RfC on how Miss Cleo should be described in her article is rapidly running out. The RfC will be closing in less than a week. If you would like to participate, now would be a good time to do so. The RfC is at:
Talk:Miss Cleo#RFC: How to describe Miss Cleo in her article.
Richard27182 (
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10:20, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
Ferenc Kiss (wrestler) ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Please note that wrestler Ferenc Kiss died on 8 september 2015. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.185.175.84 ( talk) 11:39, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
Thanks! VGrigas (WMF) ( talk) 14:48, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
An RfC about the format of a field in the "cite web" template has begun at Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 9#Request for Comments: Italics or Non-Italics in "website" field. -- Tenebrae ( talk) 16:57, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
Stock-free agriculture have been changed to Animal-free agriculture, it is ok? ! -- Jesus estw ( talk) 04:08, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
James F. has started a discussion at WP:VPPR about offering VisualEditor to inexperienced editors. New accounts already have access to both VisualEditor and the wikitext editor now. This proposal would (for example) retroactively opt-in editors who were missed during the last couple of months (e.g., 75% of the editors who created an account during the week of the gradual deployment process when only 25% of new accounts were being opted in, etc.) and dead accounts.
This is partly driven by technical/ WP:PERF issues. It appears that more than a million accounts will be opted into VisualEditor via Beta Features by the end of the year, and handling preferences for such a large number in Beta Features is a strain on the servers. The preference will therefore be moved out of Beta Features soon, and into the regular preferences system. The proposal is to use this preferences migration opportunity to make a one-time change to preferences for inexperienced editors, while preserving the existing preferences settings for active, experienced editors. If you have opinions on the best way to handle these accounts, or to define which accounts fall into which group, then please join the conversation. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 23:18, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
I used WebCite because the source I used, which was not independent but was all I could find, will likely change. In fact, even after I preserved it, the archived version changed as I looked at it. Twice. So what is preserved is not the image, but a set of three images. The third version of the web page appears after one clicks on the X in the upper right corner of the second version (which I preserved separately with its own URL). But only the first version, which disappears after a few seconds, documents what I added to KAHM.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 18:38, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
Please come to the RFC at Talk:Peter_Dinklage#RFC_on_the_inclusion_of_his_dwarfism_in_the_lead if it interests you to do so. -- Jayron 32 03:06, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
Should the Combination tone article, which includes a section on Resultant tones include information about the use of resultant tones in heavy metal music power chords? For talk page discussion, see here. OnBeyondZebrax • TALK 02:36, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
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In collaboration with Cascadia Wikimedians User Group and with input from Victor Grigas (WMF) and Marti Johnson (WMF), I've nearly finished producing a video to celebrate the milestone of 5 million articles. I (or someone) will publish it on Commons as close as possible to the day when we reach 5 million articles.
I like the open letter that's currently at User:Mz7/sandbox/5 million articles and would encourage us to put it on the main page, and/or create a banner that links to that article. I'll add the video into that letter after the video is published to Commons.
Along the lines of a suggestion offered by Ed Erhart (WMF), I would like us to create a community written press release that can be published simultaneously on the milestone day by WMF and the English-speaking Wikimedia affiliate organizations.
I would invite users to propose suggestions for the press release here and/or in their userspace with links from this page.
I have drafted a very rough press release below and would encourage others to edit it.
***** ***** ***** ***** *****
EMBARGOED UNTIL ENGLISH WIKIPEDIA HAS 5 MILLION ARTICLES as shown on
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Statistics
English Wikipedia reaches milestone of 5 million articles
Wikipedia is the largest open text project and the largest encyclopedia in human history. Today, the community that creates, edits, shares, and protects English Wikipedia announces that the encyclopedia has reached the milestone of 5 million articles.
Wikipedia started in 2001 on a single computer as an offshoot of Nupedia. During the first month of its existence English Wikipedia grew from a single article to over 200, and to 18,000 articles in its first year. There are now Wikipedias in over 280 languages, with English being the largest.
Wikipedia is an open text encyclopedia that almost anyone can edit. Thousands of people around the world collaborate to write and improve Wikipedia. As of September 2015, there are approximately 26 million registered user accounts on English Wikipedia, and over 120,000 registered accounts that have edited in the last 30 days. People who are interested in learning more about Wikipedia or becoming Wikipedians are encouraged to register an account. A variety of help options like the Wikipedia Teahouse are available to assist new users, and users can also contact their local Wikimedia affiliate organization for assistance and to connect with other Wikipedians.
CONTACT INFORMATION: (contact information follows for WMF and Wikimedia affiliates in countries that have English as an official or primary language)
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Please add any other suggestions, comments, or questions below about the press release or video. I will send invitations for users to discuss the press release and related communications, and put a note on Centralnotice. Please note the discussion happening already on this page in a separate section regarding a proposal to change the site logo to mark the 5 million milestone.
If someone could design and propose a site banner that we can link to the open letter, that would be great.
Regards, -- Pine ✉ 01:04, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for getting the ball rolling Pine. By current growth estimates, we will cross that line in about a month and a half. Maybe that draft blurb needs to be put on a dedicated project page somewhere, so it can be copy-edited more peacefully, and this discussion needs to be pinned onto the Village pump until the big day. I'd like us to prepare a page where readers can post their feedback. i.e. make it a two way communication, not just a press release. It could be useful to have Flow enabled on that feedback page. ;-) It would be interesting to see how that turns out. John Vandenberg ( chat) 06:21, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
Also, it would be interesting to have a special " WP:Did you know feature that is entirely facts about 'knowledge', or something else relevant. John Vandenberg ( chat) 06:31, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
If m:Www.wikipedia.org template doesn't say "5,000,000+ articles" by the time this press release goes out the door, please ping me or another Meta sysop to update the portal. We usually go by m:List of Wikipedias/Table, which is updated nightly by a bot, but five million is important enough a milestone to make an exception. – Minh Nguyễn 💬 08:46, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
Pine, let the WMF Comms know if you need help with the template. Both quantity and quality matter -- more to celebrate! LilaTretikov (WMF) ( talk) 18:25, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
There is less than one week left to submit Individual Engagement Grant (IEG) proposals before the September 29th deadline. If you have ideas for new tools, community-building processes, and other experimental projects that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers, start your proposal today! Please encourage others who have great ideas to apply as well. Support is available if you want help turning your idea into a grant request.
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AT the top right of my edit pages there is a pencil icon. What is it for? Kdammers ( talk) 18:57, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I have seen the history of Jack Meakin (actor) article, and I don't understand what is going on. First, Accy192 created it, but he has been slowly removing its content, now it is smaller than a stub, but for example in this version the article is way bigger. It has been deleted before and also with the title Jack Meakin (Actor). I was not sure if just ask Accy192 about the article blanking, because maybe it needs to be reviewed by other users, and then reverting it to a better version or delete it. Thanks in advance for your help, I hope you please fix this issue, I am not a regular editor of English Wikipedia. -- UAwiki ( talk) 10:26, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi, here is a message to inform the Wikiversity community about my grant submission on Meta-Wiki. You are welcome to correct mistake, give opinion or endorse it. A nice end of the day for every one. Lionel Scheepmans ✉ Contact (French native speaker) 22:52, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
Hello.
You probably remember the 2013 meat adulteration scandal, revealed in France by Findus lasagnes. The brand had hired a French e-reputable agency to "clean the web" in order to appear as a victim of fraud, among other... on Wikipedia. An attempt that does not go unnoticed ! Mid-2014, I noticed what looks like a "branding polishing" ( see here). The case is forgotten, until in a report broadcast on France 5, a consultant in e-reputation explains his methods, while the french page about this ( fr:Fraude à la viande de cheval de 2013 (https : //fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraude_à_la_viande_de_cheval_de_2013) is cited as an example in the television.
The french Wikipedia community has mobilized and, in response, has restored the relevant page in a version-neutral, highlighting the existence of a highly organized e-reputation network serving large companies. A group that does not respect the new rules on the reporting of paid contributions. Mobilizing Wikipedians made the page about this fraud is now very complete, that is to say almost ready to spend on the home page of Wikipedia in French (our BA label), or it should be visible about 2 million people. Quite a setback for Findus! -- Tsaag Valren ( talk) 15:56, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
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{{Infobox UK place |country = England |latitude= 51.6967 |longitude= -0.3991 |official_name= Leavesden |shire_county = [[Hertfordshire]] |region= East of England}}
The map looks superficially like a normal image, but there is one significant difference: if you click on it, instead of being taken to a page where you can select a larger size of the image, you are taken to a page for the base map (in this case, of Hertfordshire) without the annotation showing the place name (Leavesden). This is kind of useless if the reason why you clicked on it was to see it in a larger size, to help you identify where in Hertfordshire Leavesden is.
Can this be improved? -- 174.88.134.156 ( talk) 06:35, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
I often see articles that are written or edited by a user of English as a foreign language, with a feeble grasp on English grammar, spelling, etc. My questions: (1) Isn't it desirable to discourage this sort of thing (or is such an article considered better than no article, and therefore not a problem)? (2) Is there a policy in place to discourage writing in broken English, or at least advising such editors to get help with English before uploading (or does the remedy just consist of hoping a later, English-speaking editor will fix it up)? Sometimes the writing is so garbled I can't extract a meaning to fix up, even when I know the writer's native language. Kotabatubara ( talk) 15:23, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
Last month, we asked for community feedback on a proposal to change the structure of WMF grant programs. Thanks to the 200+ people who participated! A report on what we learned and changed based on this consultation is now available.
Come read about the findings and next steps as WMF’s Community Resources team begins to implement changes based on your feedback. Your questions and comments are welcome on the outcomes discussion page.
Take care, I JethroBT (WMF) 17:02, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
How does one find out if an editor is running an approved bot or has permission to run a bot? I ask because the edits of Srednuas Lenoroc ( talk · contribs) seem to be suspiciously bot-like, but I can't tell if this is authorized or not.
Note: I've already asked this at Wikipedia talk:Bots/Requests for approval, but I'm not sure who reads that page. -- Calton | Talk 09:11, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
Category:Old requests for peer review has this text after the page description:
Like, what the HECK? I'm deleting it and leaving a note on the Talk page, which was last modified on 11 March 2013, at 15:21 and is currently " a perfect and absolute blank". -- Thnidu ( talk) 15:35, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
This may or may not be in the correct Village Pump category, but for what it's worth.........
I like to regularly read a list of all current RfC's. Because the RfC list (
WP:RFC/A) lists the RfC's by category and many RfC's are listed in multiple categories, this means I have to look at the same RfC's over and over again to make sure I've seen them all. Would it be possible to maintain a separate list of RfC's not broken down by category, where each RfC is listed once and only once?
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As proposed here, this bot is know available, you can test him here, so please test it. Greetings, Luke 081515 19:28, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
I noticed an odd phenomenon that I can't seem to easily google. If you go to the page view statistic for say, Aspirin and look at the periodicity, you note that the peak viewing is mid week and the lowest viewing is at the weekend. This seems to be the same for most articles that I have looked at (apart from peaks caused if the subject was in the news). Is this phenomenon understood? I can only assume people have better things to do at the weekend, and only read wikipedia while at work? Which seems to imply that reading from the ubiquitous smart phone is not dominant.
KreyszigB ( talk) 21:24, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
This is the village pump and is the place we hang out and discuss...well, stuff. This is what my instructor wrote on a recent microbiology assignment:
I will be away until mid-October. Please try to have this project completed by the time I return. Cheers! bd2412 T 15:28, 7 October 2015 (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.
Is Wikipedia going to temporarily have a celebratory version of its logo on the day/week that the 5 millionth article is created? Personally, I think it's a good idea. Lets casual readers realize concretely the true size of this project. -- Jakob ( talk) aka Jakec 23:14, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
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I would like to turn the redirect Mohammed Ali Shah into a disambiguation page that goes to both Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar and Muhammad Ali Shah. I am not sure why it redirects to Afghan detainees at Guantanamo Bay; the closest name there appears to be Ali Shah Mousavi (and Talk:Mohammed Ali Shah redirects to Ali Shah Mousavi). Given the history associated with [[Mohammed Ali Shah]] and [[Talk:Mohammed Ali Shah]], is there some sort of appropriate bureaucracy that should be done before someone (probably me) turns [[Mohammed Ali Shah]] into the disambiguation page I initially described? Thanks. Biosthmors ( talk) pls notify me (i.e. {{ U}}) while signing a reply, thx 20:08, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
Done @ Biosthmors: there is no bureaucracy to answer to on that one. I just created the dab for you. Edit it was you wish. — Maile ( talk) 00:10, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
I subscribe to New York Times online, so I don't think about their paywall when I edit. Conversely, I hit WSJ's paywall often, so I usually code |subsrciption=y
in CS1 citations for WSJ. Do editors who don't subscribe to NYT run up against their paywall a lot, and should NYT cites include |subscription=y
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There is now a serious backlog patrolling new pages. This is approaching the 2012 levels. Help is required, but please from genuinely experienced editors only. See Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol. -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 04:50, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi and apologies if I have placed my request on the wrong page.
I'm a long time editor and fan of Wikipedia. I want to use an index of all articles on Wikipedia as a library of search terms to run against a large database of documents I have.
I am aware that an index of all pages on Wikipedia does exist at Special:AllPages, but I calculated there have to be around 7,000 pages in that index and the data still need to be parsed and sorted.
Does a single file index of all articles in Wikipedia exist? It would be large, close 5 million entries, but a text file could handle that.
If one doesn't exit, does anyone with technical know how already know how to parse the wikipedia "All Pages" index using a program such as curL?
Thanks in advance. Regards. David Straub ( talk) 15:25, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
I don't know where to ask about doing this, but today I thought I had deleted my user name when moving a userspace draft to mainspace. I discovered I hadn't, though the reason may have been the computer getting slowed down with some ad-related problem. On that computer lately, I will think I've turned something blue to replace it or copy and paste it or delete it when it didn't happen. But people get so confused with all those options on the left that it might be a good idea to show the new name and ask if this is what you really want.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 19:20, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
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Hello everyone, I'm John F. Lewis, an administrator on Wikipedia's account creation interface. Recently, our project has had an increased backlog in getting accounts for new users. Our numbers are currently over 400 people waiting for accounts on the English Wikipedia. If you could even spare a moment to do a few requests a day to help us clear this backlog, that would go a long way to encouraging new editors to participate with an account. If this interests you and you're willing to help, and you match the following description, then please do apply! Ideal users are:
We have a very friendly team to help you get started, we also have a private IRC channel where you can ask questions or get help with difficult account requests. If you have any questions for us or about the process, feel free to ask at the talk page. If you can help out, we would greatly appreciate it. For the ACC team, John F. Lewis ( talk) 18:05, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
Just a friendly reminder that WMF Board of Trustees Election will be ending in about 24 hours! So if you want to contribute your opinion on who should be part of the highest level leadership of the WMF, now is the time. Dragons flight ( talk) 23:18, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
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There's actually somebody who copies other people's private (even sexual) Instagram photos, prints them up six feet wide, then sells them at an art gallery for $90,000.
I doubt we can afford whatever witchcraft he works on the customers, but obviously he knows some legal tricks that we should know... yesterday.
Those with an excessive regard for copyright can say that "we need to know how to distinguish our activities from his so that we are not caught up if there is some reactionary legislation passed to target him." Still, we need to know how this works. And I'd love to see us put it to good educational use. (not necessarily Instagram porn, but can we have the freaking Eiffel Tower now?) Wnt ( talk) 19:39, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi all - as some of you are aware I wasn't around much for the first part of this year. I had serious physical issues (severe septic shock) coupled with other issues (septic encephalopathy) that meant that when I was here, I wasn't always acting rationally or like myself - and was also a lot more aggressive than I normally am. I know this is an unusual use of WP:AN, but since the extra aggressiveness definitely effected some of my own-wiki actions, I felt like it would be a good idea to let people know about it. I put an explanation here, but I'd be happy to answer any questions anyone has. I know this is pretty odd for a VP post but felt it worth mentioning and couldn't find a better section. Best, Kevin Gorman ( talk) 06:41, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
Where are the essays treating the above subjects? I cannot find them. I am confused, even though I have BeenAroundAWhile ( talk) 02:37, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
If the default thumbnail size in pixels remains constant as screen resolutions increase, thumbnails will appear to shrink as a percentage of screen size. Has the default been increased along with average resolution? If so, when and by how much? ― Mandruss ☎ 19:22, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
Category:Pages using authority control with parameters reveals that there is inconsistency between English Wikipedia and Wikidata. Most of the pages in this category have parameters with different values than it is stored in Wikidata. Any idea of how can we resolve this? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 23:51, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
Separately, there should probably be a category of Category:Wikipedia categories tracking Wikidata differences or similar; probably tagged with {{ wikipedia category|hidden=yes|container=yes}} since I suspect until full integration we will have lots of these fun categories scattered around.
Template talk:Authority control#Next steps is relevant. -- Izno ( talk) 14:56, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
Note that Bruno Pesaola died on 29 may acording to italian wikipedia. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.185.175.84 ( talk) 23:49, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
Our Help:Authority control page is particularly unhelpful... while it explains what "authority control" is, it does not tell us how to it. To give an example: the "Authority control" for our article on Freemasonry just lists the German "GND" number... I want to add the US Library of congress's "LCCN" number... but can't find out how to do so. Blueboar ( talk) 12:09, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
Is it possible to transfer this file on wikidata or not? I would like to add it to the equivalent french article. A.Gust14 ( talk) 14:31, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
I went to WP:AIV to report a promotion-only account, but it's now protected. So I went to the User_talk: page of the editor who protected it, and that's protected too. If anyone would like to do the necessary, see User:Crystalpoolsindia1 (see also User:Crystalpoolsindia). 171.100.247.198 ( talk) 07:05, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
I went through part of the history of the article Tsetse fly, after having found edits directed against an incidental remark about a 34 million years old geologic strata. I found to my surprise, that there has been a number of such edits, spread sparsely, and (seemingly) by different editors. The latest removed the entire statement, claiming to fix a dating error.
I know that some people are very actively proposing changes based on their Bible interpretation rather than on the scientific sources in articles about e.g. evolution; but in these cases there are numerous other editors aware of this. I didn't think that small notes about longer time lines in articles about 'non-controversial' subjects could be under this kind of pressure. Now, I don't know.
Therefore, I'd like to know if others have noted the same kind of edits directed against mentioning a time-scale of more than a few thousand years in "general" articles. If not, the pattern I thought I saw could be incidental. If others have seen the same, then perhaps some bot wizard could fix a way to find resent changes removing words like "million" from articles, since such changes might be parts of a 'Young Earther' agenda. JoergenB ( talk) 15:22, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
WP:NFC, our non-free content policy, requires non-free images to be low resolution. When a non-free image is challenged on its file size, it is taken to WP:NFCR for discussion. The problem is that WP:NFCR is populated by editors whose sole interaction with Wikipedia seems to be image policy. They seem to lack experience with not just editing content, but reading it.
Non-free images are now being resized to the default desktop thumbnail width of 220px. Take this film poster for example, discussed here. User preferences are now being ignored. The pixel density of your display and the quality of your eyesight are irrelevant, the regulars at WP:NFCR essentially believe the thumbnailer should be disabled for non-free images and that they are all uploaded at a maximum width of 220px.
I think this is ridiculous. - hahnch e n 20:13, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Galicia 20 - 20 Challenge is a public writing competition which will improve improve and translate this list of 20 really important articles into as many languages as possible. Everybody can help in any language to collaborate on writing and/or translating articles related to Galicia. To participate you just need to sign up here. Thank you very much.-- Breogan2008 ( talk) 22:23, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I discovered this article. There is no source in the article (dead link) and I can't find anythings on Google. It's a hoax or not ? -- Gratus ( talk) 12:32, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
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Jason Quinn (
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13:26, 10 June 2015 (UTC)I am new to this, sorry if miscategorized. If this should be posted elsewhere, advice would be appreciated. Here is my question:
My sister Brett Anderson is the lead singer for the band The Donnas (they put out 7 studio albums). She had her own page, in addition to a page for The Donnas band, just like other band members. At some point, someone deleted her personal page. As you may know, the music world is filled with rivalries and this may have been an intentional act or just someone editing Wikipedia. I don't know. Regardless, Brett's career is both significant and continuing past her time in The Donnas and I think that warrants her having a personal page. Any help I could get restoring it would be very appreciated. Thank you.
Dryananderson ( talk) 14:17, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi Wikimedians,
As you people might be aware, Wikimania 2015 which is going to be held in Mexico from July 14th to 19th. We, the Indian attendees at Wikimania, would like to represent Wiki Indic Community booth in the same. We are creating Leaflets and Posters for the community village at Wikimania 2015 to display in Wikimania 2015. We would like to invite you to gather the content and design(optional) for posters ( Sample) and leaflets ( Sample) about the Indic language project of your choice. We will take care of printing and displaying the posters/leaflets.
The maximum dimensions for your poster are 36 x 48 in (91.44 x 121.92 cm). We suggest using the A0 paper size, which is 33.11 x 46.81 in (~84 x 118 cm). The contents of the poster has to be in English. Posters and leaflets based on all Indic language Wikimedia projects are welcome. The design should be a media file uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Please post the link to your content/design file on http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wikimania_2015/Booth/Posters_Leaflets before 25th of June. In case if you face any issues please reachout to Dineshkumar Ponnusamy or Netha Hussain.
For guidelines regarding creating posters, please have a look at this link : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_patterns/Posters_that_work
We look forward to receiving your posters/leaflets and displaying them while at
Wikimania 2015!
Note: This is not a competition or contest, we expect at most 1 poster and 1 leaflet from each Community.
Thanks,
Indian Wikimania 2015 Participants — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Dineshkumar Ponnusamy (
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contribs)
17:51, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
I can't find where to make a recommendation for a featured article, so I'm suggesting it here: The Magna Carta for June 15th. The article is already a "good article." The 15th is the 800th anniversary of the agreement. Kdammers ( talk) 22:50, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi guys. I've faced a thing that there're local filedescs created for Commons files with content of {{ DYKfile}}. That was done by DYKUpdateBot. I don't know an original purpose of these edits and whether it was intended to actually create local descriptions. I think it should be that either that information is moved into Commons (idk whether there's already a template about enwiki DYK but if there's no then it can be easily created) and then the local page deleted or the local page can just be deleted if that information is of no use anymore. Just leaving it be doesn't seem like a good solution because it's nothing other than rubbish. An example descpage: /info/en/?search=File:Фото_для.JPG?action=edit (link it like this otherwise it isn't obvious). -- ᛒᚨᛊᛖ ( ᛏᚨᛚᚲ) 23:27, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
I will be away for a few days. Please try to get all the disambiguation links fixed before I get back. Cheers! bd2412 T 16:25, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
Where can I find the imho handy translation tool~? On NL Wikipedia its this link: https://nl.wikipedia.org/?title=Speciaal:Paginavertalen&campaign=contributionsmenu&to=nl . And yes I will take care to not using machine translations. Ellywa ( talk) 09:52, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
Here is the RfC. petrarchan47 คุ ก 23:52, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi all, I just published this profile of Peacemaker67 on the Wikimedia blog, and I'd love any feedback or comments you have on it. Ed Erhart (WMF) ( talk) 02:24, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
Hey all,
As you may have seen, we’re currently running an experiment studying the effect of enabling VisualEditor for new users. The first half of the A/B test (in which half of all new accounts get the option to use VisualEditor automatically, and half stay not getting it) is now complete, and we’ve moved to the data collection phase of the A/B test. As outlined in the timeline, this phase will continue for the next week, and then we’ll analyse the data and post the results here.
To help inform us best, I’m very interested if any of you have noticed any problems that might have been overlooked by us, or which may affect the quality of the results and the conclusions we can draw. In the forthcoming analysis of A/B test data, we’re going to be looking for evidence about whether offering VisualEditor makes editing easier/more productive for newcomers, and whether it raises additional burdens (reverting damage, blocking vandals) for current editors. It’s particularly important to me that, before we start any conversations about offering VisualEditor to new users on a permanent basis, we have as much information as possible for everyone to make the best decision discussions.
Yours,
Jdforrester (WMF) ( talk) 01:16, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
Please fix the problem with search function. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.185.175.84 ( talk) 11:34, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi folks. About a month ago, I announced that I'd be running a short A/B test with the VisualEditor for newly registered users. That test is complete and I have posted a write-up of the results on Meta. See m:Research:VisualEditor's effect on newly registered editors/May 2015 study. -- Halfak (WMF) ( talk) 18:08, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
@ Halfak:, @ JamesF:: Most promising. Thank you for the update, and the fast turnaround! – SJ + 23:47, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
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I'm looking askance at a navbox (in obvious need of being moved to a template) at the bottom of Madison Marquette that lists a very large number of properties associated with that real estate developer and operator, about some of which there are articles. In one sense there's nothing unusual about this, collecting links to a large number of articles related to a single topic into a navbox. On the other hand, because this is a commercial operation, it smacks of a portal for doing business. Maybe I'm overthinking it. What do you all think? —Largo Plazo ( talk) 20:56, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
It's occurred to me to post this in a more topical location. (Not forum shopping: this obviously isn't a reaction to having received a pile of adverse opinions here!) If anyone sees this here and has a contribution for the discussion, please come over to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam#Navbox for a real estate company's properties. —Largo Plazo ( talk) 13:58, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi, in 2014 IAAF Diamond League, some of the winners in the 'results' table are marked in grey. The article does not say what this means. Does anyone know? Ssu ( talk) 07:00, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
I used to edit fairly regularly, but don't anymore. However, I stumbled across the Andriy Slyusarchuk article, and it is so terribly, atrociously bad, especially considering its BLP status, I thought somebody should look at it. It's extremely long, full of straight up confusing, poorly written, unencyclopedic crap; I'm disappointed it's lasted so long in this form (only a couple edits in years). I always defend Wikipedia to its detractors, but when I come across something like this, I end up sorely disappointed in the system. One "copy-editing" tag at the top of the article is definitely, definitely not enough.
I know this discussion is moved, but I feel I need to make a bit of noise here as well, because even though we've only got a few days to take action, and the community is almost unanimously in favour of placing a site banner, there is still no banner visible on the English Wikipedia.
Action must be taken. Now, or it will be too late. 82.139.82.82 ( talk) 21:55, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
Quick note: User:EpochFail posted a note here a while ago about an A/B study for VisualEditor. The results were posted last week at m:Research:VisualEditor's effect on newly registered editors/May 2015 study. The WP:TLDR is that everything is approximately the same, except that users of VisualEditor are slightly less likely to get reverted.
The thing that was most interesting to me was that a lot of editors who got access to both VisualEditor and the wikitext editor when they registered their accounts opened both, looked at the options, and then chose the one that they wanted to use to make their edit. There's a proposal based on these results at the Village Pump (proposals) to eventually give all new users both editors, and let them use whichever they want.
By the way, if you haven't tried it out for a while, then you can opt in via Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures or have a quick look on a random article (requires Javascript). Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 18:04, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
The RFC can be viewed by clicking
*HERE*. Please feel free to vote in the Survey and/or join the Threaded Discussion.
Richard27182 (
talk)
05:53, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
I made this box to be put in a userpage or user talk page if anyone wants to. If somebody wants to make it a template I can put it in my userspace.
This banner is displayed as a result of the rulings by the U.S. supreme court on gay marriage. 27 June 2015 |
-- Fazbear7891 ( talk) 06:55, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
...will be run again in August. Signups are at Wikipedia:Stub Contest/Entries. Cheers, Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 22:02, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
It's not explicitly a Wikipedia issue but one that affects our project in a weird way. Main discussion is here, but the short situation, we've found that certain video game sites (ones that seem to be owned by CBS Media) that, when archived via Wayback or WebCite, load up initially but then replace the content with a short Youtube clip of Eddie Murphy, thus effectively making the archive url useless. We have found disabling javascript stops the content replacement, but I've tried to debug (poorly) to find where the content rewrite is happening and how we can try to prevent that in the future. If anyone is skilled in the ways of Javascript, help to figure this out would be great. -- MASEM ( t) 23:28, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
The Wikimedia Foundation has given a grant to the Ada Initiative to conduct an Ally Skills Workshop at Wikimania this July. Valerie Aurora of the Ada Initiative recently wrote to the gender-gap mailing list:
Editors (of any gender) who want to help close the gender gap are welcome and can sign up here. Admins willing to help women with dispute resolution are particularly welcome. Sarah (talk) 01:14, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
Is there a way to hide the announcements on my Watchlist? They're getting in the way and there's apparently no obvious way to turn them off. Praemonitus ( talk) 14:41, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
This is a totally random idea I just had. First, I know virtually nothing about bots. My idea is that it would be cool if on the first and subsequent annual anniversaries of a Wikipedia editor account's creation, if there was an automated "birthday bot" that left a message on the user's talk page thanking them for their contributions to the project. If it was super fancy, it could perhaps include statistics on the user's contributions. Again, this is just a totally random idea that I think would be kind of a cool morale-boosting tool. Safehaven86 ( talk) 20:16, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
Anyone who likes grime music like I do? How about this userbox?
This user enjoys listening to grime music, especially from the pioneers of the genre. |
And I don't know how to do this, but why don't we put anyone who uses this userbox under a category of people who listen to grime?
Coderenius (
talk)
23:53, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
| nocat = {{{nocat|}}} | usercategory = Wikipedians who listen to grime music
English Wikipedia started in 2001 with a single article. By 2006 we had one million articles. On 13 July 2012 we had our four millionth article. The Wikimedia Stats website shows that as of May 31, 2015 English Wikipedia has about 4.88 million articles. At the recent rates of article creation, we will reach 5 million articles in the last few months of 2015. How should we celebrate this milestone? Pinging Katherine (WMF) and Philippe (WMF) so that they're aware of this discussion. Please propose ideas and coordinate projects! Regards, -- Pine ✉ 05:12, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
I think that a Wikimedia Blog post and celebration on English-language Wikimedia social media channels would be great, especially if coordinated with the Wikimedia affiliates which have significant English-language contributor bases. -- Pine ✉ 05:18, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
Good idea. Obviously if the 5 millionth article itself is celebrated, there should be criteria that it could be a good article (that it's not an article likely to be deleted, not a DAB, not a redirect). Also do we know what the 1 millionth, 2 millionth etc articles are? —Мандичка YO 😜 06:31, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
Jumping from 4 to 5 million is just an excuse to reflect on the Wikipedia articles. I'd focus on the diversity and depth.
So one aspect of the celebration should be to show how each corner of the world, each academic discipline and each cultural item is present (or missing). We can see how we are more complete than other general works, but less complete than other specialty works.
And another aspect should be to show how deep (or shallow) are our articles. We can show show how some articles seem to be almost finished, and how so many others are stubs, often from relevant subjects.
-- NaBUru38 ( talk) 20:27, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
I, Pablothepenguin ( talk), hereby recommend that the above notorised articles are henceforth removed from Wikipedia. I note in point that I have an article on a Scottish bus route deleted. I have not stood down. I am looking to obtain a copy to keep in my user sandbox to work on until it is in better condition. However the draconian laws of Wikipedia dictate that articles must pass a trial of notability. If even one of the millions of editors disagrees with the article, it is gone. I declare that the London bus route articles are issued undue attention. I propose that they are removed from Wikipedia and are given the same shabby treatment that the rest of Wikipedia's public transport related articles are given. I request their deletion for the sake of us Scots and the underlings of England, the patronage of Wales, the populace of the twain Ireland's and the greater citizenship of the planet Earth. I have terrible people skills and so my syntax and writings are cheesy. Pay me some respect and try to ignore the cheesiest parts of this paragraph. I sign, thusly, Pablothepenguin ( talk) 22:14, 3 July 2015 (UTC).
I received this email through wiki last night... it's strange and I'm not sure what it says or what to make of it. The sender in the header was: :Ελληνική Βικιπαίδεια <wiki@wikimedia.org>
And the message within read:
-- Floydian τ ¢ 00:29, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia/Assessment#Removed Just curious, sorry if this is the wrong place, but what happened to them? i don't see a discussion anywhere in the project itself? is it a bot error? sorry for being annoying, best wishes. GuzzyG ( talk) 03:53, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
This RfC concerns an issue that has been plaguing archiving sites WebCite and Wayback Machine for over half a month now. When a url from GameSpot, Giant Bomb or Comic Vine is archived using these two archive sites, the page is redicted to a looping clip from an Eddie Murphy comedy routine, rendering the page unusable. The problem was first brought up on the Video Game WikiProject talk page in June: this is the relevant first discussion and a follow-up I created. In those threads, Comic Vine was not mentioned as I have only just tested it and found it too was affected by the issue. One user has said that it is something to do with the page's Javascript, but nothing further has happened so far. GameFAQs and Metacritic, also owned by CBS, do not appear to be affected, but I have not looked thoroughly into other websites.
Two previous discussions have been started with no results. This is an urgent appeal: will someone with access to the forums of any of these sites, or CBS Interactive's forums, please alert the site staff to this issue. Given how volatile the internet space is, thousands of informative articles are at risk of vanishing without there being an archived version. This cannot and must not continue. If you wish to see proof, they can either attempt to archive a page themselves or go to any page from these sites archived on Wayback or WebCite within the last two weeks. -- ProtoDrake ( talk) 13:57, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
Hello all.
First of all, I hope you will forgive my bad wording as English is not my mother tongue.
Just, as I am not so experienced on WP:EN, I would like help/advises on how to manage the continuous reverts between some contributors under IP who do not agree on some flights destinations to some East Asian Airports (
here,
there ...). As it looks to be dynamic IPs, I feel difficult to put something in their discussion pages to invite them to debate rather than reverting themselves together; also, I do not find them eager to discuss (but here it is a personal point of view)
Thank you to route my request to the proper page.
Regards,
--
Sundgauvien38 (
talk)
13:16, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
This is a Peer review request to seek broader input to improve page: meta:Help:Form I & Affidavit (Customised for relinquishment of copyright as per 'free cultural work' definition) an option available under (Indian) Copyright act 1957 rules.
Mahitgar ( talk) 06:54, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
I would like to request a modification of the {{GOCEreviewed}} template to display the issues= parameter on the talk page and as a category at the bottom of the talk page. There are special pages to propose deletion of templates and other needs, but no page for modification. Where should this modification be requested?-- DThomsen8 ( talk) 00:40, 12 July 2015 (UTC)
I don't quite know where to put it, so I'm dropping it here: I'd very much like for someone in the know to write up this article. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, there's some info here (and ALL over the internet are NGOs doing these kinds of projects). It's hugely important, and totally not a part of the world of the average Wiki editor, including me. I could write up a stub, but it would take me forever and I'd not do a good job. Please someone pick this up and run with it: I think it's exactly the kind of article that fits our mission. After Meghan Trainor's bootyshaking and a list of all Pokemon awards, of course. Thanks! Drmies ( talk) 20:03, 12 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi everyone,
I know that users’ IP addresses are recorded somewhere in the wikisystem and they can be dug up if needed. But can you tell me if anything more is recorded, such as the ID (or equivalent) of the device (i.e. computer) which is used in a given edit. Would be grateful if you could answer this question. -- Polomnik ( talk) 20:20, 12 July 2015 (UTC)
Title summarizes it all. The db- templates are already on the articles in the initial revision, and not edited in afterwards. Plus, when I proceed to check the logs for the page, it doesn't mention any page under that title that has been deleted already. Can someone please investigate? ( Ataa Ullah Khan Wato Kheshgi is an example.) Gparyani ( talk) 00:26, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
Currently at Talk:Second Sino-Japanese War there is a rather unusual debate going on, with an editor from Japan claiming that Wikipedia is unfairly portraying Japan during World War II in a negative light. As of present, articles throughout Wikipedia acknowledge that the Nanking Massacre was a wide-scale act of murder which targeted civilians, given that the overwhelming majority of English-language reliable sources written by western scholars and historians describe it as so (and hence to paint it otherwise would fall under WP:FRINGE). However, this editor claims that the Japanese military was, in fact, rightfully exterminating guerrilla forces operating within the city of Nanking, and uses a rather partisan citation to affirm this (many books in Japan written on behalf of right-wing organisations outright deny that a "massacre" occurred, and that it was only a military operation against guerrillas). Furthermore, he makes his position clear on the talk page that Wikipedia's current interpretation of the war is being unfair towards Japan, and considers it targeted "bullying" against Japan as a whole.
I would like to obtain a third opinion, if possible. How should we treat topics like this as a whole, throughout the Wikipedia project? -- benlisquare T• C• E 16:36, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
Why are so many pages on your wiki "visible to gold members only"? How much does gold membership cost? And why, whenever I try to apply for gold membership, am I redirected to this weird page with lots of adverts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.25.27.108 ( talk) 22:29, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
For more information (note: commercial site, has ads): http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/gold-membership-trolling -- 108.38.204.15 ( talk) 11:25, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
An RfC that may interest you has been posted on Wikipedia_talk:Advocacy_ducks#RfC:_Is_the_following_addition_relevant_in_the_Signs_of_advocacy_section?. Atsme 📞 📧 13:22, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
According to us Hariot Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava was ambassador to Russia and later Turkey.
It's true that ODNB says "In 1879–81 Lady Dufferin was ambassadress at St Petersburg and in 1881–4 at Constantinople."
Surely this is a similar wording to "mayor" and "mayoress" (wife of a mayor), whereas a woman holding the post would be known as "Mayor Jones" (or, once upon a time, "Lady Mayor Jones").
All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough,
12:53, 13 July 2015 (UTC).
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Americans for Prosperity#Request for comment: $44M of $140M raised by Americans for Prosperity in 2012 election cycle from Koch-related funds. Please contribute to this request for comment. Thanks. Hugh ( talk) 02:57, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
List of Indian cities by GDP (per capita) ( talk · · hist) provides a comparison of GDP per capita of the major Indian cities. It has recently been updated with 2014 WP:OR figures for a single city (Bangalore) to put it at the top of the table. The RfC is intended to ensure WP:NPOV. Thanks. Batternut ( talk) 11:26, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
@ Another Believer: 2015 Wiki Loves Pride was supposed to occur in June 2015, this is now July. But the notices that were posted at that time such as this one [9] were not signed. This causes major problems on all pages that use bots to archive their contents, as this stale notice that no longer matters will stay on the talk page indefinitely as it isn't indicated with a timestamp when it was posted, so will not be archived. There are a very large number of posts of this nature during the period of June 2-3 [10] by Another Believer ( talk · contribs) that are still unsigned. Some have been signed here and there by people who've accessed talk pages, but this clearly hasn't occurred over most of them (such as [11] at the time this was posted). So, how do we fix this problem? The person who posted them messages has already been informed of this problem, as has Wiki Loves Pride, but in the weeks since the notice was given, little has been done to solve the problem. -- 67.70.32.20 ( talk) 05:40, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
All mass postings must include a standard bot-recognizable timestamp; failure to include one breaks the archival bots, so no mass posting should be allowed without a timestamp. -- 67.70.32.20 ( talk) 05:40, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
There are days when I see problems at Wikipedia, and I despair that it can sustain. Today, I ran across an article that is a blatant copyright violation using material from multiple URLs. No worries, right? We'll just speedy delete it. Sure. Ok. I tagged it (see University of Santo Tomas College of Rehabilitation Sciences, if it hasn't been deleted already). But on closer look, we find this article was created in 2009...six years ago...and has contained massive copyright violations ever since. This isn't isolated; it appears possible that many, if not most or even all, of the articles linked from Template:UST are copyright violations. I look at this sort of stuff, facepalm, and wonder why I should even bother? If nobody's cared in six years that this stuff was effectively stolen from this institution's websites, why should I care? If Wikipedia hasn't cared for six years, obviously it isn't important.
To the abstract, I see that WP:CCI is hopelessly backlogged, with open investigations dating all the way back to 2010. Sure, I could post yet another CCI about these articles and their contributors (there may be several). To what end? It will take years to resolve, if ever.
The inability of Wikipedia's mechanisms to deal with this sort of problem is extremely serious. Pessimistically, I foresee the responses here being "sofixit", "shrug", "help to reduce the problem rather than complain about it" and etc. I despair of Wikipedia ever being able to handle this problem. I don't really even known where to voice this concern. So, I'm here at the pump with a sandwich board on me saying "The End of Copyright Violations Isn't Nigh" and I'm sure I'll be disregarded. -- Hammersoft ( talk) 16:51, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
If you'd like to try it, check "Show the new version of the Main Page currently under development. You can help!" under "Testing and development" in Preferences>Gadgets. Eman235/ talk 19:53, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
Need outside comment on whether or not the sources are valid, and the controversy is indeed a controversy. If you have any questions about what is being discussed feel free to contact me. The talk page is overwhelming. Thanks. FauXnetiX ( talk) 20:04, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
Dear fellow editors of Enwiki,
I have noticed that the era that we, Hungarians call Első magyar köztársaság ("First Hungarian Republic"; and existed between 1918-1920) is called Hungarian Democratic Republic here. No such state existed in Hungary by this name. It was called Hungarian Republic or Hungarian People's Republic, but hence it had nothing to do with socialism at all. I tried to move it to the exact title, but it was reverted.
Actually Hungarian Democratic Republic and Hungarian Republic (1919–20) are the same states. Just please check hu:Első magyar köztársaság.
I want to ask your opinions about whether it is possible to move and merge these articles.
Thanks for your attention, Oppashi ( talk) 06:35, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
@ Jayron32: Is this good enough? "1918 - Austro-Hungarian Empire is broken up at the end of World War I. Hungarian republic is proclaimed following a revolution." And not Republic, and not Democratic, but Republic. Most of historians removed "People's" from this era during Communism, because of the name of the state would have been the same. Oppashi ( talk) 09:45, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
This is a Peer review request to seek broader input to improve page: meta:Help:Form I & Affidavit (Customised for relinquishment of copyright as per 'free cultural work' definition) an option available under (Indian) Copyright act 1957 rules.
Mahitgar ( talk) 03:53, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
Hello people from the en:wiki (sorry for my english, i'm french). A little question please... do you know who is, in the all languages, the contributor who've brought the largest single article number to a level of GA / QA ? It's easy to find who've add the more bytes or do the most edit, but I've not find answer to this question. A big thank to you in advance -- Tsaag Valren ( talk) 15:35, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
Earlier this week the national library of the Netherlands (KB) donated over 3100 images from 3 historic atlases (period 1690-1750) to Commons.
Each atlas has its own category
This was the first time the KB used the GLAMwiki-uploadtool, which can upload large numbers of images batchwise. This tools has been used by many GLAMs, including the Institute for Sound & Vision and the Peace Palace. So far meer dan 430.000 images have been donated worldwide using this tool.
The three atlases were digitized in the late ‘90s and put online on the Memory of the Netherlands website. This has been the source of the current donations.
Uploading to Commons is just the start, in the next couple of weeks the KB will work on
The KB would like to invited all Wikip/m/edians to reuse the images as widely as possible, which could include
Including these 3 atlases the KB has now released 7 historic atlases, see this overview. -- OlafJanssen ( talk) 11:44, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
I have translated the article "
Elfchen" from the german wikipedia. Since it's an article about poetry I would like to see this article be reviewed by a native english speaker to may replace some parts that could be formulated in a better way as well as spelling and grammar mistakes. The article is pretty much a word by word translation which is missing some parts (eg. I don't know how to correctly translate "Schreibwerkstatt" - word by word it would be writingworkshop - where (according to de.wikipedia) students learn writing/poetry technics).
The name of the article was taken from here:
here. If there is a better name for it please rename the page! I did sort the page in category "Poems". If there is a more fitting one again: feel free to move it.
If you have any questions or suggestions contact me. The best way is to use
my talk page on Wikimedia Commons! I eg though of adding an elevenie like
Web
Community project
Free of charge
All humanities knowledge combined
Wikipedia
to have some Wikipedia related example in there that is not translated. -- D-Kuru ( talk) 12:16, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
An RfC about a suggested title exchange between Cyrano de Bergerac and Cyrano de Bergerac (play) -- The Traditionalist ( talk) 17:21, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
Last month, I made a proposal at WP:VPPR about gradually enabling VisualEditor alongside the wikitext editor for new editors here. Given the consensus in that discussion, I'm moving ahead with that change, starting later this week.
At first, I will restrict the configuration so that only 5% of new accounts (chosen randomly) have a choice of which editing tool to use. As promised, I'll report back on how well this goes, before increasing the rate to a larger proportion and monitoring from there.
If you have any questions or see any problems, please alert us. The fastest way to reach the team is by contacting us on IRC at #mediawiki-visualeditor connect, by filing a report in Phabricator, or by leaving a note at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback.
Yours,
Jdforrester (WMF) ( talk), Product Manager, VisualEditor – 18:05, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
I'm leading a collaboration out of Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute that is researching how current editors make sense of the history of articles before they edit, and what kinds of tools or resources might help editors to do a better job. Based on some interviews with some local expert Wikipedians, we're designing prototypes that stitch together article pages and talk sections, history and editors relationships, or talk sections with short digestible synopses.
We think these prototypes would not only help expert Wikipedians make sense of new pages faster, but also help newbies avoid common pitfalls before contributing. But we need your help. While we're accessing all sorts of new data and generating visualizations, we need to stay grounded with what editors actually need. Following HCI traditions, we want to involve Wikipedians in the design process before we start developing prototypes for evaluation.
If you'd like to help us out, we're having short 30-45min Skype conversations with experienced editors (1000+ contributions to en:wiki) where we talk about the kinds of resources editors need to use to make good edits, and get some feedback on several different ways to add new information or redesign Talk sections. More details and a link to the signup sheet are at the lede of the project page on Meta.
As we continue to do this work, we hope to deploy some prototype Talk data visualizations on our Meta page for the Wikipedia community to explore. Ultimately we hope to deploy our tools for general use as either addons to WikiMedia or browser extensions. Watch out project page for more info. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about the study or the kinds of research we're doing. Thanks for your time!
JeffRz ( talk) 18:23, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
I'm worried that much of the article on Space: 1889 is lifted from a promotional guide, or at the least is not in proper Wikipedia style. If this is not the correct place to report this, where should I go? Brownie Charles ( talk) 04:32, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Americans for Prosperity#Request for comment: $44M of $140M raised by Americans for Prosperity in 2012 election cycle from Koch-related funds. The RfC proposes a one-sentence addition to the "Funding" section of Americans for Prosperity. This is an update and a request for wider participation. The main source for the proposed content is a pair of reports in The Washington Post, supported by FactCheck.org and the National Journal. Generous excerpts from the sources are provided in the statement of the RfC question for your convenience. Please help with this request for comment. Thank you in advance for your time and attention. Thanks. Hugh ( talk) 16:28, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
This request for comment will most likely close Thursday 6 August 2015. This is an update and a request for wider participation. Issues in the appropriate application of our due weight content policy remain in the discussion. Your comments are needed. Please help with this important request for comment. Thank you in advance for your time and attention. Hugh ( talk) 04:58, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
Which is the correct or preferred way of linking in the following case?
-- Leyo 12:51, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
just in case anyone missed it when I pinged the first time round.... Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 11:27, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to participate in the RfC at Talk:The Pirate Bay#RfC - 24 July 2015. This RfC, which asks "Should all of the urls for this website be included in the infobox?", is due to end in approximately 21 days time and would really benefit from some fresh eyes. Thank you. -- AussieLegend ( ✉) 19:24, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
I started Karen Taylor (basketball) lately and reverted edits claiming she passed away. I am unsure if this is true and I am on a mobile device. Can somebody check/potentially warn accounts/welcome accounts? Thx. Biosthmors ( talk) pls notify me (i.e. {{ U}}) while signing a reply, thx 20:11, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
How can the race driver Derek White (today's Did You Know?) be 'native american' when he's not American at all? He's First Nations Canadian. Toyokuni3 ( talk) 15:53, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
Not sure what to call this. I need a double redirect but in Wikipedia that's something else.
There are two possible redirect targets. Teen Beach Movie and Teen Beach 2. Wikipedia doesn't provide for this situation.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:55, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
Hello! Really sorry, I'm not sure if I'm on the right place to talk about it. I'm not used to English Wikipedia, I'm more used to French one and to Commons.
But I'm having a problem being reverted two times of the article Judith Chemla by a IP because of the year of birth of this French actress. This IP might be absolutely sure of one year of birth, whereas there are 4 different sources stating two different years of birth. I already had the case on the French Wikipedia, but maybe the policy about it is different here. On FR-WP, when we're not sure, we clearly write it on the the article, especially when sources are relevant on both sides. Here it might be the case. On Talk:Judith Chemla the IP tells that it's not, according to him VIAF and BNF are not relevant authorities sources. In my opinion, as long as there is no exact date of birth with day, month and year, we can't be sure of the year of birth (in my old version I explain in the references how we can't be sure, and there are the VIAF and BNF sources stating the 2nd possible year of birth). And if we can't be sure, I think either we put 2 possible years of birth in the article, or no year of birth at all. And when a better source will be found, there will be time to update it.
I have noticed that in FR-WP for example for Arielle Dombasle, there are 2 birth dates, whereas on EN-WP there is only one. Then I prefer to be sure how to work on WP-EN according to your policies that I'm not used to. Thank you very much for your help. Jeriby ( talk) 09:38, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
As promised last week, I'm following up to let you know about the current state of our process of gradually enabling VisualEditor alongside the wikitext editor for new editors here. Last week, only 5% of new accounts (chosen randomly) were given a choice of which editing tool to use. We have monitored the results and found no technical problems, editing corruptions, or other concerning issues. Consequently, this week we have increased it to 10% of new accounts. We will keep monitoring this and adjust the proportion of new accounts in gradual increments if we continue to see positive results.
As always, if you have any questions or see any problems, please alert us. The fastest way to reach the team is by contacting us on IRC at #mediawiki-visualeditor connect, by filing a report in Phabricator, or by leaving a note at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback.
Yours,
Jdforrester (WMF) ( talk), Product Manager, VisualEditor – 22:21, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
I saw this recent report about VIN cloning. I am concerned that images like this may be construed as a potential source of 'stolen' VINs. Is there anything currently in wikipedia policies anywhere that address this issue? The article Vehicle identification number gives much information about VINs and how they are constructed but also includes some photos with full VINs. Should we not allow images in wikipedia/wikimedia like this on a privacy basis? Nyth 63 14:57, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
There is an RfC about the sue of galleries in articles about artists. It is about the use of legacy gallery formats over newer versions. The old one is being promoted on account it ""allows each work the dignity they demand" while simultaneously taking up significantly more space with smaller thumbnails. -- CFCF 🍌 ( email) 13:09, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
In essence either of these:
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Spasemunki made an excellent point above about how these show up in mobile browsers. I did a test and have uploaded 3 screenshots to commons that display the different examples shown above. (There are no other changes, and the examples are of
Talk:Paul Signac as of August 8.)
I believe these results are conclusive in saying that the packed mode displays better with the modern gallery format. Also note that the resolution of the phone in question (an LG G4) is 2.5k, which is not representative of most phones. Using an ordinary lower resoltion phone the wasted space between image and caption might actually exceed the range of the screen, resulting in needing to scroll down to see the caption and image in the same screen.
Please weight in to support the best alternative on the RfC.
Any one speaking Georgian? Xaris333 ( talk) 18:41, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
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There is a new scam product called "Cogniq" or "CogniQ" (basically a mix of unregulated herbal supplements) that is being pushed on numerous social media sites with links to obviously fake articles claiming that various celebrities (Johnny Depp, Stephen Hawking, Bradley Cooper, Denzel Washington, Tiger Woods) use or endorse the product, and making unsupported effectiveness claims (including that it is "so effective" that governments are planning to ban it, for some reason). I just deleted and blocked four new "user" accounts who are obvious spam bots, having done nothing but create User talk pages containing borderline gibberish content promoting or linking to these fake "Cogniq" articles. The scam, being a very recent creation, will not have reached Wikipedia levels of notability, and its perpetrators may well pocket their earnings and disappear before it ever reaches that point. In the meantime, be wary of any effort to introduce mention of this scam product into Wikipedia, either through spambot talk page postings, or in articles relating to its supposed endorsers. Cheers! bd2412 T 17:42, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
At Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Orazio Gentileschi - Il suonatore di liuto (National Gallery of Art).jpg we see this
and also this at the Talk page Talk:The_Lute_Player_(Orazio_Gentileschi)#Attribution of the article concerned
That looks like WP:Original Research to me, officially sanctioned by the administrators Crisco 1492 and Drmies.
For what it's worth, the subject has never been suggested as being Caccini, not even "possibly". The standard reference works make no mention, nor does the holding museum (National Gallery of Art, Washington), although it was nevertheless cited as the only source by the nominator in the article (tailor-made for the nomination). A glance at the painting, in part an allegory of love and music, is sufficient to determine it cannot possibly be a portrait of anyone of significance as the girl has loosed her bodice. Needless to say no sitter of the age would have allowed herself to be portrayed in such a fashion, or even in that pose for that matter. But for my efforts as IP (threatened, blocked and then locked out) and another editor (blocked as a sock), this hugely popular and much loved painting would have gone out as a portrait of Francesca Caccini in Wikipedia's voice as per the original nomination and repeated within minutes over dozens of mirror sites on Google searches. 138.199.69.140 ( talk) 11:25, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
Versus001 performed a mass addition of {{ Start date and age}} to articles regarding shooting incidents justifying that the age of an event should be mentioned in the infobox along with the date. As some editors would disagree with this, a discussion was started on his talk page to arrive at a consensus. It was noted that the discussion should be moved to Village pump in order to get a clearer consensus. As an end note, my opinion is that it's redundant to implement this template on articles concerning recent events. -- Chamith (talk) 20:28, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
{{
Current}}
, for example, which have proven their value by averting untold time-wasting conflict. Unneeded freedom results in unnecessary conflict, as we've seen today. Are there likely to be significant differences that would warrant, say, a minimum age of 5 years in one type of article and a minimum of 20 in another? ―
Mandruss
☎
20:40, 6 August 2015 (UTC)ONUnicorn, re your last point, such a guideline would not constitute a requirement to add the template after n years. In any case, the amount of effort is the same whether you add the template today or five years from now, so I don't know what you mean by more maintenance work. ― Mandruss ☎ 00:09, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
*Comment: I think having "x number of years ago" adds unnecessary clutter to Infoboxes. Infoboxes are supposed to be summaries of an article's salient points, so if the age of the incident or anniversary of the incident isn't covered in the article then perhaps the Infobox shouldn't mention it either...
Shearonink (
talk)
02:00, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
*Comment:The specific template makes it look like we are counting days from an event which hasn't ended yet. Shooting incidents or terrorist attacks don't actually commence. They take place, which means they start and end at the moment it occurs. In that case we should be using {{
Years or months ago}} instead. --
Chamith
(talk)
04:36, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
For the record of this discussion, I would like to explain myself on performing this mass addition. On the 2015 Lafayette shooting article, LimitationsAndRestrictions495656778774 applied the template, and since I didn't see the template on any other mass-casualty articles, I made attempts at removing it. However, those edits were reverted by him/her twice now, so I just decided to add the template on all the others, since he/she is insistent that it belongs in the article. If that one article should have it, I didn't see any reason why all those others should not. Versus001 ( talk) 23:32, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
Has a consensus been reached yet? Versus001 ( talk) 01:18, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
Hello all. Is en.wikipedia.uz/Main_Page some sort of mirror or an official WMF site? Thanks. Biosthmors ( talk) pls notify me (i.e. {{ U}}) while signing a reply, thx 16:48, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
If anyone is speaking Minangkabau or Cebuano, I need help, just to correct 1 paragraph I have written in these languages. Xaris333 ( talk) 18:46, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
There is currently an RfC at Talk:Joseon#RfC: Joseon Kingdom or Joseon Dynasty?. Please drop by with your 2¢. ミーラー強斗武 ( StG88ぬ会話) 09:30, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
see RfC at talk:Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action; please come and express your opinion. Iran nuclear weapons 2 ( talk) 19:59, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
As part of our efforts to improve the use of the edit filter, an edit filter noticeboard has been created. We hope that this will be a better venue for users to discuss and ask questions about edit filters, whilst also freeing up WT:EF for discussion of the corresponding project page. Sam Walton ( talk) 15:39, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
In my ongoing efforts to alienate as much of the Wikipedia orthodoxy as possible (previous attempts include this proposal and numerous XfD !votes), I've written Wikipedia:Stack Exchange is eating our lunch. I would appreciate it if someone who believes that Wikipedia is not failing could go through the essay and pick out all the stuff I got wrong. If anyone wants to write Wikipedia:Stack Exchange is not eating our lunch, I would of course be willing to reciprocate. -- N Y Kevin 23:22, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
My (lazy) searched did not come up with any information on how or if articles are linked to existing wiki content. For example, you create the page "horse" and it has the word "quadruped" in the text. If there is a page called "quadruped" is there a bot to automatically link those two pages? OR, because of the plethora of articles and unknown associations between then, does this happen all by hand? Question: is there any automation to speed up linking articles?-- Lucas559 ( talk) 17:29, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
There is a new RFC about how we should refer to Miss Cleo. To view and/or participate, follow the link at:
Talk:Miss Cleo#RFC: How to describe Miss Cleo in her article.
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00:01, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
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It used to be (back in 2006 and 2007) that talk pages (and I think user pages as well - maybe all non-mainspace pages) had a light blue background, while article pages had a white background. Now pretty much everything has a white background. Does anyone know when that changed? Can someone point me to a discussion about it? (I'm not wanting to rehash anything; just curious about when it changed and what the reasons for the change were.) ~ ONUnicorn( Talk| Contribs) problem solving 17:53, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I'm just occasional wikignome on cs.wiki, but recently I realized that there is lot of musical bands with names of Biblical books (i.e. Genesis, The Kings, Exodus, Apocalyptica), so I joked about it and ultimatelly was chalanged to do complete Bible. Long story short, here it is. Input welcomed.
As side result, new category was created, feel free to expand.-- Fafrin ( talk) 19:52, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
There is a new RfC asking if the heavy metal music article should include a paragraph on the gender, race and sexual orientation of heavy metal musicians. To view and/or participate, follow the link here. OnBeyondZebrax • TALK 17:12, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
Happy weekend everyone, just headsup that the reading team is currently soliciting community input for the upcoming strategy of the reading department. Feel free to take a look and participate :)-- Melamrawy (WMF) ( talk) 20:20, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
An RFC related to the Quds Day is opened here. Mhhossein ( talk) 10:24, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
Members of the community are invited to give their thoughts at a request for comment to discuss Wikipedians' alternatives to consensus, and the formation of a proposed Regulation Committee. Thank you, -- ceradon ( talk • edits) 04:20, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
Per m:Global bans, I am notifying the project of this proposal. Everyone is welcome to go and voice their opinion of the proposal and about the user in general.-- GZWDer ( talk) 09:39, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi all, there is a backlog of moves that are very quiet with little input. If anyone has any opinion at all on any then comment away. cheers, Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 00:10, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
Dhakuri is on the way to Pindari glacier(you have to reach Pindary by trek and Dhakuri is next stop when one trek from Loharkhet side.) Why my photo of Dhakuri is deleted from here.Pls explain me. /info/en/?search=Pindari_Glacier Thanks and regards. Sumita Roy Dutta ( talk) 10:15, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
Over the last few months, we have been slowly expanding the availability of VisualEditor as an option for editors. At first we ran an A/B test, and then a slow ramp-out for new accounts ( A/B test announcement in May, proposal at WP:VPPR from June, note about it starting in August). This is now complete, which means that all accounts registered now will get the choice to use VisualEditor.
As always, if you have question or encounter problems, please feel free to reach out to us at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback.
Jdforrester (WMF) ( talk), Product Manager, VisualEditor – 16:19, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
Suggestions, please - I'm looking for an example of an iconic image, uploaded to Commons under an open licence, of a recent, unplanned, newsworthy event, to illustrate an article asking people to donate such images in future. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:53, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
I am looking for new Wikipedia articles on railways or in particular on narrow gauge railways. Are there any search engines, which can filter those that are let's say less than a month old? -- NearEMPTiness ( talk) 18:40, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
Why doesn't WMF or someone at Wikipedia contact LTA socks who have a website and tell them to stop? Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 23:43, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi all,
We are excited to introduce a new Wikimedia Public Policy site. The site includes resources and position statements on access, copyright, censorship, intermediary liability, and privacy. The site explains how good public policy supports the Wikimedia projects, editors, and mission.
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I started an RfC regarding the old WikiProject Wikipedia's move to Wikipedia:WikiProject Improving Wikipedia about a day ago, and seeing as only one other user has commented there, I've decided to come here to try to attract more community input. Everyone is welcome to voice their opinions there. CabbagePotato ( talk) 06:20, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
{{ WPW Referral}}
The original WikiProject Wikipedia has been restored and discussion is occurring on alternative titles for the New WikiProject Wikipedia effort. Liz Read! Talk! 22:10, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi all, there's a new post out at the Wikimedia blog, titled " Innovation is welcome: apply for grants to improve Wikimedia," that I wanted to highlight. If you or a team of people have an idea that will improve a Wikimedia site, you can get a grant to cover certain costs. Check it out! Obligatory disclaimer: due to legal restrictions (I believe—please don't quote me on this), the WMF cannot fund content creation. Ed Erhart (WMF) ( talk) 21:50, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
There is an RfC on the Heavy metal music talk page regarding whether the guitar solo should be mentioned in the 2nd paragraph of the Characteristics section. To participate, see here OnBeyondZebrax • TALK 20:46, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
There is an RfC on the Heavy metal music article talk page on whether the Lyrical themes section should identify the Parents Music Resource Center as the organization that criticized heavy metal lyrics for their allegedly misogynist and occult content. To participate, follow this link. OnBeyondZebrax • TALK 01:46, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
Greetings! The Individual Engagement Grants program is accepting proposals from August 31st to September 29th to fund new tools, community-building processes, and other experimental ideas that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers. Whether you need a small or large amount of funds (up to $30,000 USD), Individual Engagement Grants can support you and your team’s project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space.
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According to an entry made in The Memorial of John Slafter, by Edmund F. Slafter, my 6 times great grandfather, the Hon. Benjamin Carpenter was Lt. Governor of Vermont in 1779. Though he is buried in Guilford, Vermont on Carpenter Hill road, Wikipedia neglects to mention him in its list of notable persons from that town. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:CF41:AD10:DC5B:5D14:3AFE:E554 ( talk) 20:52, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
Time on the RfC on how Miss Cleo should be described in her article is rapidly running out. The RfC will be closing in less than a week. If you would like to participate, now would be a good time to do so. The RfC is at:
Talk:Miss Cleo#RFC: How to describe Miss Cleo in her article.
Richard27182 (
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10:20, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
Ferenc Kiss (wrestler) ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Please note that wrestler Ferenc Kiss died on 8 september 2015. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.185.175.84 ( talk) 11:39, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
Thanks! VGrigas (WMF) ( talk) 14:48, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
An RfC about the format of a field in the "cite web" template has begun at Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 9#Request for Comments: Italics or Non-Italics in "website" field. -- Tenebrae ( talk) 16:57, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
Stock-free agriculture have been changed to Animal-free agriculture, it is ok? ! -- Jesus estw ( talk) 04:08, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
James F. has started a discussion at WP:VPPR about offering VisualEditor to inexperienced editors. New accounts already have access to both VisualEditor and the wikitext editor now. This proposal would (for example) retroactively opt-in editors who were missed during the last couple of months (e.g., 75% of the editors who created an account during the week of the gradual deployment process when only 25% of new accounts were being opted in, etc.) and dead accounts.
This is partly driven by technical/ WP:PERF issues. It appears that more than a million accounts will be opted into VisualEditor via Beta Features by the end of the year, and handling preferences for such a large number in Beta Features is a strain on the servers. The preference will therefore be moved out of Beta Features soon, and into the regular preferences system. The proposal is to use this preferences migration opportunity to make a one-time change to preferences for inexperienced editors, while preserving the existing preferences settings for active, experienced editors. If you have opinions on the best way to handle these accounts, or to define which accounts fall into which group, then please join the conversation. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 23:18, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
I used WebCite because the source I used, which was not independent but was all I could find, will likely change. In fact, even after I preserved it, the archived version changed as I looked at it. Twice. So what is preserved is not the image, but a set of three images. The third version of the web page appears after one clicks on the X in the upper right corner of the second version (which I preserved separately with its own URL). But only the first version, which disappears after a few seconds, documents what I added to KAHM.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 18:38, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
Please come to the RFC at Talk:Peter_Dinklage#RFC_on_the_inclusion_of_his_dwarfism_in_the_lead if it interests you to do so. -- Jayron 32 03:06, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
Should the Combination tone article, which includes a section on Resultant tones include information about the use of resultant tones in heavy metal music power chords? For talk page discussion, see here. OnBeyondZebrax • TALK 02:36, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
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In collaboration with Cascadia Wikimedians User Group and with input from Victor Grigas (WMF) and Marti Johnson (WMF), I've nearly finished producing a video to celebrate the milestone of 5 million articles. I (or someone) will publish it on Commons as close as possible to the day when we reach 5 million articles.
I like the open letter that's currently at User:Mz7/sandbox/5 million articles and would encourage us to put it on the main page, and/or create a banner that links to that article. I'll add the video into that letter after the video is published to Commons.
Along the lines of a suggestion offered by Ed Erhart (WMF), I would like us to create a community written press release that can be published simultaneously on the milestone day by WMF and the English-speaking Wikimedia affiliate organizations.
I would invite users to propose suggestions for the press release here and/or in their userspace with links from this page.
I have drafted a very rough press release below and would encourage others to edit it.
***** ***** ***** ***** *****
EMBARGOED UNTIL ENGLISH WIKIPEDIA HAS 5 MILLION ARTICLES as shown on
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Statistics
English Wikipedia reaches milestone of 5 million articles
Wikipedia is the largest open text project and the largest encyclopedia in human history. Today, the community that creates, edits, shares, and protects English Wikipedia announces that the encyclopedia has reached the milestone of 5 million articles.
Wikipedia started in 2001 on a single computer as an offshoot of Nupedia. During the first month of its existence English Wikipedia grew from a single article to over 200, and to 18,000 articles in its first year. There are now Wikipedias in over 280 languages, with English being the largest.
Wikipedia is an open text encyclopedia that almost anyone can edit. Thousands of people around the world collaborate to write and improve Wikipedia. As of September 2015, there are approximately 26 million registered user accounts on English Wikipedia, and over 120,000 registered accounts that have edited in the last 30 days. People who are interested in learning more about Wikipedia or becoming Wikipedians are encouraged to register an account. A variety of help options like the Wikipedia Teahouse are available to assist new users, and users can also contact their local Wikimedia affiliate organization for assistance and to connect with other Wikipedians.
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Please add any other suggestions, comments, or questions below about the press release or video. I will send invitations for users to discuss the press release and related communications, and put a note on Centralnotice. Please note the discussion happening already on this page in a separate section regarding a proposal to change the site logo to mark the 5 million milestone.
If someone could design and propose a site banner that we can link to the open letter, that would be great.
Regards, -- Pine ✉ 01:04, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for getting the ball rolling Pine. By current growth estimates, we will cross that line in about a month and a half. Maybe that draft blurb needs to be put on a dedicated project page somewhere, so it can be copy-edited more peacefully, and this discussion needs to be pinned onto the Village pump until the big day. I'd like us to prepare a page where readers can post their feedback. i.e. make it a two way communication, not just a press release. It could be useful to have Flow enabled on that feedback page. ;-) It would be interesting to see how that turns out. John Vandenberg ( chat) 06:21, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
Also, it would be interesting to have a special " WP:Did you know feature that is entirely facts about 'knowledge', or something else relevant. John Vandenberg ( chat) 06:31, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
If m:Www.wikipedia.org template doesn't say "5,000,000+ articles" by the time this press release goes out the door, please ping me or another Meta sysop to update the portal. We usually go by m:List of Wikipedias/Table, which is updated nightly by a bot, but five million is important enough a milestone to make an exception. – Minh Nguyễn 💬 08:46, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
Pine, let the WMF Comms know if you need help with the template. Both quantity and quality matter -- more to celebrate! LilaTretikov (WMF) ( talk) 18:25, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
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I JethroBT (WMF) ( talk) 15:26, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
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WP:WEBNOTE. Much of the discussion seems to be surrounding how "one can get this information in a simple google search" or "this may be illegal" – something that in previous discussion was shot down by WMF.
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AT the top right of my edit pages there is a pencil icon. What is it for? Kdammers ( talk) 18:57, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I have seen the history of Jack Meakin (actor) article, and I don't understand what is going on. First, Accy192 created it, but he has been slowly removing its content, now it is smaller than a stub, but for example in this version the article is way bigger. It has been deleted before and also with the title Jack Meakin (Actor). I was not sure if just ask Accy192 about the article blanking, because maybe it needs to be reviewed by other users, and then reverting it to a better version or delete it. Thanks in advance for your help, I hope you please fix this issue, I am not a regular editor of English Wikipedia. -- UAwiki ( talk) 10:26, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi, here is a message to inform the Wikiversity community about my grant submission on Meta-Wiki. You are welcome to correct mistake, give opinion or endorse it. A nice end of the day for every one. Lionel Scheepmans ✉ Contact (French native speaker) 22:52, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
Hello.
You probably remember the 2013 meat adulteration scandal, revealed in France by Findus lasagnes. The brand had hired a French e-reputable agency to "clean the web" in order to appear as a victim of fraud, among other... on Wikipedia. An attempt that does not go unnoticed ! Mid-2014, I noticed what looks like a "branding polishing" ( see here). The case is forgotten, until in a report broadcast on France 5, a consultant in e-reputation explains his methods, while the french page about this ( fr:Fraude à la viande de cheval de 2013 (https : //fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraude_à_la_viande_de_cheval_de_2013) is cited as an example in the television.
The french Wikipedia community has mobilized and, in response, has restored the relevant page in a version-neutral, highlighting the existence of a highly organized e-reputation network serving large companies. A group that does not respect the new rules on the reporting of paid contributions. Mobilizing Wikipedians made the page about this fraud is now very complete, that is to say almost ready to spend on the home page of Wikipedia in French (our BA label), or it should be visible about 2 million people. Quite a setback for Findus! -- Tsaag Valren ( talk) 15:56, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
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Many articles about places are accompanied by a location map like the one seen at right here, which is generated automagically from this Infobox code:
{{Infobox UK place |country = England |latitude= 51.6967 |longitude= -0.3991 |official_name= Leavesden |shire_county = [[Hertfordshire]] |region= East of England}}
The map looks superficially like a normal image, but there is one significant difference: if you click on it, instead of being taken to a page where you can select a larger size of the image, you are taken to a page for the base map (in this case, of Hertfordshire) without the annotation showing the place name (Leavesden). This is kind of useless if the reason why you clicked on it was to see it in a larger size, to help you identify where in Hertfordshire Leavesden is.
Can this be improved? -- 174.88.134.156 ( talk) 06:35, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
I often see articles that are written or edited by a user of English as a foreign language, with a feeble grasp on English grammar, spelling, etc. My questions: (1) Isn't it desirable to discourage this sort of thing (or is such an article considered better than no article, and therefore not a problem)? (2) Is there a policy in place to discourage writing in broken English, or at least advising such editors to get help with English before uploading (or does the remedy just consist of hoping a later, English-speaking editor will fix it up)? Sometimes the writing is so garbled I can't extract a meaning to fix up, even when I know the writer's native language. Kotabatubara ( talk) 15:23, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
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Come read about the findings and next steps as WMF’s Community Resources team begins to implement changes based on your feedback. Your questions and comments are welcome on the outcomes discussion page.
Take care, I JethroBT (WMF) 17:02, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
How does one find out if an editor is running an approved bot or has permission to run a bot? I ask because the edits of Srednuas Lenoroc ( talk · contribs) seem to be suspiciously bot-like, but I can't tell if this is authorized or not.
Note: I've already asked this at Wikipedia talk:Bots/Requests for approval, but I'm not sure who reads that page. -- Calton | Talk 09:11, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
Category:Old requests for peer review has this text after the page description:
Like, what the HECK? I'm deleting it and leaving a note on the Talk page, which was last modified on 11 March 2013, at 15:21 and is currently " a perfect and absolute blank". -- Thnidu ( talk) 15:35, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
This may or may not be in the correct Village Pump category, but for what it's worth.........
I like to regularly read a list of all current RfC's. Because the RfC list (
WP:RFC/A) lists the RfC's by category and many RfC's are listed in multiple categories, this means I have to look at the same RfC's over and over again to make sure I've seen them all. Would it be possible to maintain a separate list of RfC's not broken down by category, where each RfC is listed once and only once?
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As proposed here, this bot is know available, you can test him here, so please test it. Greetings, Luke 081515 19:28, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
I noticed an odd phenomenon that I can't seem to easily google. If you go to the page view statistic for say, Aspirin and look at the periodicity, you note that the peak viewing is mid week and the lowest viewing is at the weekend. This seems to be the same for most articles that I have looked at (apart from peaks caused if the subject was in the news). Is this phenomenon understood? I can only assume people have better things to do at the weekend, and only read wikipedia while at work? Which seems to imply that reading from the ubiquitous smart phone is not dominant.
KreyszigB ( talk) 21:24, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
This is the village pump and is the place we hang out and discuss...well, stuff. This is what my instructor wrote on a recent microbiology assignment:
I will be away until mid-October. Please try to have this project completed by the time I return. Cheers! bd2412 T 15:28, 7 October 2015 (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.
Is Wikipedia going to temporarily have a celebratory version of its logo on the day/week that the 5 millionth article is created? Personally, I think it's a good idea. Lets casual readers realize concretely the true size of this project. -- Jakob ( talk) aka Jakec 23:14, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
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I would like to turn the redirect Mohammed Ali Shah into a disambiguation page that goes to both Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar and Muhammad Ali Shah. I am not sure why it redirects to Afghan detainees at Guantanamo Bay; the closest name there appears to be Ali Shah Mousavi (and Talk:Mohammed Ali Shah redirects to Ali Shah Mousavi). Given the history associated with [[Mohammed Ali Shah]] and [[Talk:Mohammed Ali Shah]], is there some sort of appropriate bureaucracy that should be done before someone (probably me) turns [[Mohammed Ali Shah]] into the disambiguation page I initially described? Thanks. Biosthmors ( talk) pls notify me (i.e. {{ U}}) while signing a reply, thx 20:08, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
Done @ Biosthmors: there is no bureaucracy to answer to on that one. I just created the dab for you. Edit it was you wish. — Maile ( talk) 00:10, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
I subscribe to New York Times online, so I don't think about their paywall when I edit. Conversely, I hit WSJ's paywall often, so I usually code |subsrciption=y
in CS1 citations for WSJ. Do editors who don't subscribe to NYT run up against their paywall a lot, and should NYT cites include |subscription=y
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There is now a serious backlog patrolling new pages. This is approaching the 2012 levels. Help is required, but please from genuinely experienced editors only. See Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol. -- Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 04:50, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi and apologies if I have placed my request on the wrong page.
I'm a long time editor and fan of Wikipedia. I want to use an index of all articles on Wikipedia as a library of search terms to run against a large database of documents I have.
I am aware that an index of all pages on Wikipedia does exist at Special:AllPages, but I calculated there have to be around 7,000 pages in that index and the data still need to be parsed and sorted.
Does a single file index of all articles in Wikipedia exist? It would be large, close 5 million entries, but a text file could handle that.
If one doesn't exit, does anyone with technical know how already know how to parse the wikipedia "All Pages" index using a program such as curL?
Thanks in advance. Regards. David Straub ( talk) 15:25, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
I don't know where to ask about doing this, but today I thought I had deleted my user name when moving a userspace draft to mainspace. I discovered I hadn't, though the reason may have been the computer getting slowed down with some ad-related problem. On that computer lately, I will think I've turned something blue to replace it or copy and paste it or delete it when it didn't happen. But people get so confused with all those options on the left that it might be a good idea to show the new name and ask if this is what you really want.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 19:20, 16 October 2015 (UTC)