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In recognition of breast cancer awareness month, we should turn our redlinks pink during October. What do you think? RO (talk) 16:18, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
" Geoffrey Howe" is honourably mentioned at In the News 's Recent Deaths ticker when he died. However, there were half of supports and half of opposes. It was temporarily pulled out solely due to poor referencing, but improvements on the article led to reinserting the guy's name. Is Wikipedia or In the News overemphasizing British politics? --This is George Ho actually ( Talk) 20:50, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi,
I'm not sure if this is the right place to put this.
Can anyone tell me why Twinkle lists criteria that don't apply to certain namespaces? For example, it lists G1 and G2 when I use it on user pages, but neither criteria applies to user pages. It doesn't list the user page criteria on articles, so I'm wondering why it lets me tag user pages with these invalid (for user pages) criteria?
Thanks
Adam9007 ( talk) 22:11, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
Special:AbuseFilter/731 is very odd. It disallows writing about the descendants of Israelites in Namespace4. The description says this is for the Reference Desk, but Namespace-4 is much bigger than the reference desk. Indeed it disallows editing the wikiprojects because Namespace-4 is the Wikipedia-namespace. As for the reason why I'm being so circuitous about this, the Village Pump is also in Namespace-4 and thus I cannot actually write the terms disallowed (German: Juden; French: Juif; but not in English), as they are disallowed here as well.
This seems to be a very bad idea for a filter, if it cannot be restricted to the Reference Desk, then it is very problematic, as it restricts editing for all Wikipedia-namespace pages, including those that are specifically about these topics, where one would expect to be able to use the term that the project page is about in discussions about the topic.
-- 70.51.44.60 ( talk) 04:06, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
CHiPs is an article about a television series that ended 32 years ago. One of the actors in that series was
Bruce Jenner, who is now Caitlyn Jenner. It has, like many others, been targeted by some editors for changes given Jenner revealing that she is now a woman. An editor recently added some templates to the talk page that seem out of place.
[1]
[2] I can't find any evidence of sanctions that apply to this page that warrant inclusion of the {{
sanctions}} template, and the "content" that the second template refers to is Bruce Jenner (now
Caitlyn Jenner) as Officer Steve McLeish (1981–1982)
and a partial sentence that says
Erik Estrada was replaced by Jenner
Given the extremely minimal references to Jenner in the article, and the seeming lack of any actual sanctions that apply to it, I don't see any justification for including the templates, but I am seeking opinions from other editors before removing them. The editor who added them has already edit-warred at the article, so this action seems prudent. --
AussieLegend (
✉)
04:13, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
Google Custom Search is a facility offered by Google to search only certain sites or parts of sites. It's blocked on m:spam blacklist (under \bgoogle\..{1,5}/cse\b) primarily because an option is available for AdSense revenues to be kicked back to the link creator. Fine so far.
A series of requests have come into MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist requesting whitelisting for some CSE pages, in order to conduct federated searches or to search a certain subset of sites for sources for certain types of articles.
I haven't processed any of these because I'm not sure what the right way to handle them is. On the one hand, the link can still be shared on-wiki (just not clicked) by using <nowiki> tags, the links will not be used in the mainspace, and the engines are opaque and neither say what is being searched nor if there is kickback commission going on. On the other, it is probably fairly harmless and the requests are from trusted users.
Should CSEs be whitelisted and linking allowed on the spam-whitelist?
Tagging User:Czar, User:Nikkimaria, User:Diego, User:Beetstra, and User:Ocaasi who have been involved in various discussions of the subject at various times. Stifle ( talk) 08:38, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
@ Dirk Beetstra: Did you see Ravensfire's comment above, and their "replaced with a google cache" comment at MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist#infosecinstitute.com? It appears googleusercontent.com can be used to evade the blacklist entry. Johnuniq ( talk) 09:39, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi all, pursuant to a discussion we had here a few weeks ago, a new RfC is up to determine what our logo will be when we hit five million articles. Please cast your votes! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 19:02, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
How can one downsize the y-axis of the left wikitable, called "Number of illegal migrants entering Hungary in 2015" to 12,500 but keep the overall height of the table so that the individual bars appear larger. Currently, the latest bars are almost invisible now that Hungary has successfully sealed off its border and the number of illegal migrants has plummeted from thousands to a few dozen only. Thanks in advance Gun Powder Ma ( talk) 13:08, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
I have translated into Russian Russian involvement in the Syrian Civil War (slightly abridged) keeping in the translation the sources from the original article. The translated article was marked as {{ Disputed}} by another Russian editor on the grounds that I cannot certify the sources myself.
My question is: Can the factual accuracy of an article be undisputed in one language and challenged in another? Please note that I translated the article practically word to word using the Translate (GoogleTrans) tool (see also
here)?. What is the general practice?
I can imagine situation when indisputable sources in Russian project may be considered as disputable in English taking into consideration general dependance of Russian media from the government, but how it can be in the opposite direction? What is international experience in this matter if any?
NB: This topic was discussed
here. —
Сергей Олегович (
talk)
17:39, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar | ||
This is to every editor. Happy five millionth. You are wonderful people and this is a great project. All things considered, this experiment is going very well. Thank you from me, someone who uses this encyclopedia a lot. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 22:59, 23 October 2015 (UTC) |
(No need to reply or anything. This is just what people call a "shout-out" or something.) Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 22:59, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
I've just created an article draft, Draft:SkyWatcher, and I'd like to know if it is verifiable or not. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Luis150902 ( talk • contribs) 09:38, 24 October 2015 (UTC) @ Luis150902:Not with the sources you provided. User-contributed and directory-style sites do not establish notability for a topic, because they are no discriminating. User-contributing sites can include anything and directory-style sites try to include everything. Github and Sourceforge are both user-contributed sites that generally allow any programming project to be listed. You need to find sources that don't list just anything, and don't exist to promote the project. Oiyarbepsy ( talk) 03:10, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
can someone please look at my request at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Entertainment. -- 74.130.133.1 ( talk) 16:14, 24 October 2015 (UTC)-- 74.130.133.1 ( talk) 16:14, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
I moved an article from one cat to another one several hours ago [3]. However, for me it still shows up in the old cat and does not show up in the new one. Another example is Air Astana destinations, which apparently Cyberbot still sees as AfDed [4] though the template was removed long time ago. That looks similar to the Commons disaster when a week ago it had a backlog of a million of files not showing up because the categories failed to update. Are my examples smth similar? If this is the case, we should immediately suspend all speedy deletions of empty categories - since they in fact might be populated. It does not see to be a caching issue, at least I tried to purge.-- Ymblanter ( talk) 02:56, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi everybody. Earlier today I created the article Merry Go Boy and linked it to several other articles, including three related ones that I also created. I got notices that the MGB article had been linked to the others created by me, and now I'm wondering why. I know they got linked, because I did it. Does the computer system simply generate such notices without knowing who created which article or what? Thanks, White Arabian mare ( Neigh) 16:00, 27 October 2015 (UTC)White Arabian mare
Thanks, I noticed that I didn't get the notices for another article I did yesterday. White Arabian mare ( Neigh) 19:36, 30 October 2015 (UTC)White Arabian mare
The following maps are examples of a problem that has recently occured with places moving south. I have no idea how to solve the problem.
For example the Cornish Pirates ground is now situated in Mount's Bay. See the map at 2015–16 RFU Championship.
Other examples are 2015–16 English Premiership (rugby union) and 2015–16 Premier League.
Many thanks. Jowaninpensans ( talk) 18:44, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
Please watchlist Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Optional RfA candidate poll and drop by to give your views. Thank you kindly. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 00:00, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello, apologies for the delayed notice, but this is headsup that, on the mobile version, Wikidata search results will be showing underneath the article name while searching. This has already been active on beta for a while, how it works is that for a person on their mobile device, when they start typing in the search item, the description will show underneath each item like the example in the image.
. Thanks-- Melamrawy (WMF) ( talk) 11:29, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
How many new articles are submitted every day, week, or month? Of these, how many are accepted to creation? Evoapps ( talk) 01:56, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
I made checks on some photos of Special:ListFiles/Patrickroque01, especially on some places in , and I am feeling confused whether they are not transferrable to Commons (because of no freedom of panorama in the Philippines) or either de minimis or the work is ineligible for copyright. An administrator adds the Do not copy to Commons tag without double-checking whether an copyrighted architectural or art work is only incidental or not ineligible for copyright protection. I want someone to check on most of his images, mostly depicting places in Metro Manila with several buildings appearing on the image, whether they are de minimis or ineligible for copyright. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TagaSanPedroAko ( talk • contribs) 16:46, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
Many wishes from el-wikipedia for the 5 million articles! -- FocalPoint ( talk) 20:02, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello all,
The Wikimedia Foundation has just published a digest of community news on its blog. This will be a new weekly feature and aims to supplement already-existing community news outlets. The premiere edition features a story on Wiki Loves Africa and a list of short news items, all translated from English into seven languages.
Please pass it around! If you have news that you'd like be included next week, please send it directly to me or drop links into the new post's Meta page. Ed Erhart (WMF) ( talk) 19:23, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
We could really use a few participants to contact organizations. Please see:
Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 06:23, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
The RFC asks if two sources are the same and if we should remove sources that come to the same conclusions. Please help by providing uninvolved editor comments. AlbinoFerret 19:27, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
I previously started this thread about the issue of red links not showing in the mobile version. I was happy to recently see that they were working now. User:Melamrawy_(WMF), thanks and please send my thanks to whoever helped make that happen. Biosthmors ( talk) pls notify me (i.e. {{ U}}) while signing a reply, thx 00:55, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Give_out_Deletion_to_Quality_Awards.
A one-time-run would be totally acceptable here.
Is there any way either a bot or someone with a user script or automated or semi-automated skills, can help out here ?
Thank you,
— Cirt ( talk) 03:37, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
There is a phrase I find jarring, when I read it in US DoD documents, that I saw had crept into some of our articles.
DoD documents routinely use the phrase "to include" where everyone else would use "including". The wikipedia article on the M1117 Armored Security Vehicle currently says: "As of mid-2007, 1,729 vehicles were delivered or under contract with many being dispersed not just to MPs but numerous other military units to include the Iraqi National Police."
Is this DoD phrase even proper English? Does the DoD have their own style guide that requires using "to include", instead of "including"?
Is there any reason someone shouldn't change ever bad instance of the use of the phrase "to include", to "including", whenever they come across one? Geo Swan ( talk) 17:11, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
Assuming that Elizabeth II is viewed by the world as first & foremost the Queen of the United Kingdom. Should this be reflected throughout Elizabeth II related articles? GoodDay ( talk) 07:18, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
Contemporary worship music has a paragraph that includes the words "This sound clip". I don't know if there is a sopund clip somewhere, but the article needs something to indicate where the sound clip is, or that it doesn't have one. There are tags all over the article, but it obviously needs at least one more.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:18, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
I have tried to ask for sources for the following issues: [ [6]] Since I did not get any response for over a week now, I'd like to ask the same over here. Could anybody help me out on this? I'm limited by a white-list so it's impossible for me to gain sources myself... So, anybody...please? Oxygene7-13 ( talk) 16:36, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
Nominations for the 2015 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee elections are officially open. The nomination period runs from Sunday 00:00, 8 November (UTC) until Tuesday 23:59, 17 November (UTC). Editors interested in running should review the eligibility criteria listed at the top of Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2015/Candidates then create a candidate page following the instructions there. Mike V • Talk 00:09, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
Please help rollback changes made by 175.194.129.142 on Pump It Up Fiesta 2. The anon make multiple changes so it's hard to simply undo his revisions. Thanks in advance. -- Kurniasan ( talk) 15:07, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello
I come from the Wikipedia in French and I have a problem with a broken link on Nexus (magazine) : Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism. Annual Reports 1997: Australia. Accessed 3 January 2013
The link is broken and I cannot find this document on the web. On wp.fr, we have wikiwix archives on links, but this one gives a 404 error and I don't know if wp.en has archives and how to enable them.
Thnak you for your answers and please tell me if I didn't post in the right section. Regards, Ѕÿϰדα×₮ɘɼɾ๏ʁ You talkin' to me? 08:33, 8 November 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by SyntaxTerror ( talk • contribs)
Dear fellow wikipedians,
Wikipedia has been awarded the Erasmus Prize 2015. This prize is awarded annually to a person or institution that has made an exceptional contribution to culture, society or social science. The King of the Netherlands will present the award on 25 November. This will create media attention which will hopefully result in plenty of new volunteers. Prior to the award ceremony we would like to write and improve articles on former Erasmus Prize winners. All 80 former laureates should be notable enough to merit an article.
Please join the project and help us provide our fellow laureates with articles.
Sincerely, FrankTMeijer and Taketa ( talk) 21:17, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I'm going to be teaching new users to use Visual Editor system and noticed that it has an in depth user guide and quirky Adventure, but no intermediate tutorial. I'm thinking of adapting the guide to a quick Introduction_to-like format. I am concious, however, that there are already a lot of competing tutorials and introductions. Have there been any efforts in the last few years to consolidate them at all? Any advice on creating a simple one for VE? T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo) talk 12:27, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
Started For those interested. I've started a VE tutorial here:
help:introduction to editing (VE) and developed a unified template {{
intro to}}
.
T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)
talk
01:38, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
I'm French and I did an adaptation of my demonstration in French in Flambage corresponding to your page buckling, so I created the page Euler's critical load then I added 2 links towards this new page in the page buckling. Could somebody check about my English, AND more difficult about the mathematical notations? In this situation, it's usefull to know about this peculiar subject. I thank tou for your help.-- Jojodesbatignoles ( talk) 15:57, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
Anybody ever hear of this? Jim.henderson ( talk) 05:15, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
I'm personally waiting for Wikiopoly. See User:MER-C/Monopoly. :) --Jules (Mrjulesd) 12:59, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
I've played a golf-simulator on a IBM-PS1 when I was young(er) that claimed to have real sound. (during startup the game actually told you this) It must be from the mid 90s and was one of the first games that actually spoke. I have absolutely no idea what the name of this game was so I'd like to ask anybody who thinks to know this game to help me out. Thanx in advance: Oxygene7-13 ( talk) 17:28, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
Nothing significant, but I find it odd that none of the specific VP divisions contain a link back to the main WP:VP page. Should one be added somewhere near the top as a courtesy? — 烏Γ ( kaw) │ 08:25, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
Years ago (under a different username), I suggested the articles that are now at "Lists of box office number-one films in the United States." I looked at them recently, only to find some problems with them:
These articles are in need of cleanup. Theskinnytypist ( talk) 22:55, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
I am getting already for a week or longer every day, sometimes several times per day, alerts that my e-mail has been unsubscribed due to multiple delivery failures. Verification works every time (basically, I perform it after every alert). My e-mail is corporate. Does anyone else get it, or is this a problem at my end? Thanks.-- Ymblanter ( talk) 08:12, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
Where to ask questions about OUTING policy and if certain actions constitutes OUTING or not? Which noticeboard would be the most appropriate?-- MyMoloboaccount ( talk) 22:26, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
I need help from an editor who has experience with creating images such as this one of a scale. Please ping me or respond on my talk page. -- BullRangifer ( talk) 03:50, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello. I want to invite you to participate in this writing contest about natural sites of Spain and Portugal till December 6, 2015. You can join it in every language. More information in meta:WLE 2015 Writing Contest/en. Thanks. -- Millars ( talk) 22:56, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
All-Russia Athletic Federation is featured as bolded target in the Main Page, but the article may has some issues. I proposed "pull", but no one objected it being part of the Main Page.
UFC 193 is treated with disdain just because it's a sport? Look at UFC 193; there have been improvements. As for
Russian sports page, I have to clean it up, but how does a small page like that become featured? Is Wikipedia going against Russia despite quality issues? --
George Ho (
talk)
01:38, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
Look, never mind what I said. The sports page won't gain consensus anyway. Even posting story of ban on Russia would have been less logical if I hadn't been pressured to clean it up. George Ho ( talk) 03:11, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
Did Haystak really died? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.185.175.84 ( talk) 17:34, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
I remember recently seeing a graphic or report showing active editors on the rise again. Can anyone help me find that again? It sure would be nice to shove in the faces of those continuing to talk about our "decline". Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 20:53, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
Regarding the categories Economies, Economic systems and Economics: the 1st is subcategory of the 2nd, the 2nd is subcategory of the 3rd and the 3rd is subcategory of the 1st. Is this phenomenon acceptable? SoSivr ( talk) 17:00, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the tip, SoSivr. Fixed, by taking Economics out of Economies. (The first is a mode of study or analysis, the second a set of examples, cases, and related lingo. The first is not a subcategory of the second generally.) Please feel free to sharpen your taxonomic claws further by figuring out what the category Society belongs inside or outside of. :) -- econterms ( talk) 18:51, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
At Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Arbitration enforcement 2 the community is being marginalised by the committee.
It is ironic that this is taking place on a case which is largely a result of the Committee's own previous actions in the Gamergate, Gender Gap, Gun Contol, Lightbreather and AE1 cases, as well as their severely misjudged de-sysop of Yngvadottir.
We have elections coming up, it is true. But can we hold these people to account? They seem to be a law unto themselves, happy to act outside their competence and jurisdiction, and happy to ignore consensus.
All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough,
05:14, 8 November 2015 (UTC).
In November of 2005, I randomly selected 100 pages for a totally non-scientific survey of article quality. Ten years and 23,000 edits later, I've re-visited those pages to see how they've changed. Twelve of the original 100 have been deleted, while another four have been turned into redirects, leaving 77 articles, 6 disambiguation pages, and one list.
There have been two big success stories in the past decade.
First, sourcing: in November of 2005, only 15% of the articles I examined had sources. Today, footnotes have sprouted all over the place, and 86% of the articles have at least one source of some sort. Not everyone gets the reliable sources policy, though, with one article sourced almost entirely to comic book issues, and another to Baidu Baike.
Second, images with free-content licenses. In 2005, only 24 articles had images, and non-free and unsourced images were almost as common as freely-licensed ones. Today, 57 of the articles are illustrated. The number of free images has increased more than eight-fold, while the number of non-free images has dropped slightly.
Article quality has followed a generally upward trend: of the original articles, 44 were stubs and 20 were one-line substubs. Today, only two of the substubs remain, and almost half of the stubs have been expanded. There seems to be a ceiling to quality, though: in 2005, I did not rank any of the articles as being of "high quality"; today, there still aren't any that I would consider to be of high quality, even by the relaxed standards of 2005. By current standards, none of the original articles ranks above "B-class", and most are rated "C-class" or below.
As I found in the last three times I re-examined these pages, there's no correlation between number of edits and change in quality. The most-edited article ( Midfielder, at about 3150 edits since the last check) is largely unchanged in quality, while one of the most-improved ( Lichen planus) saw only 429.
And finally, all three Digimon articles in the original set are gone, either deleted or turned into redirects. -- Carnildo ( talk) 11:15, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
I can think of at least two possible interpretations of this result.
-- Guy Macon ( talk) 17:07, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
Ok, my impression is that a great many old articles lie fallow after creation, so I'd be curious if you did it a second time, with a random mix of old and new articles (given there were less than a million in 2005 it should mean the majority will be new) and compare quality then. Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 19:16, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
According to this Forbes article, an EU plan for copyright reform might make it possible that payment can be exacted from Wikipedia for displaying external links to content of European publishers, something we do in the References sections of countless articles. Is it as bad as it sounds? Do we need to act to keep this from becoming reality? -- Lambiam 11:07, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
Two options:
I'm not sure which would be more cheerful. They're both delightful otpions. Alsee ( talk) 05:15, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
I need another set of eyes at Princeton Theological Seminary please. An editor representing the Princeton Theological Review began attempting to place non-neutral, conflict of interest edits onto the page. I've reverted twice, notified the editor, and reported the account the UAA. Post this, another new account is now trying to push the same information plus more onto the article. I've reverted twice on that page already, and so I'm walking away from it. Other eyes, please. -- Hammersoft ( talk) 15:23, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
Can someone with AWB or some other tool, go around and datestamp the unsigned mass posting [17] made in June 2015 by Another Believer ( talk · contribs) ? There are tens or hundreds of WikiProjects that were mass posted to, but all those with automated archival cannot archive that section because it doesn't have a datestamp. This problem can be seen at WT:SPORTS [18], where successive archivebot runs fail to archive this mass posting an event that has since expired. Newer sections have already been archived, yet this message remains [19] [20] [21]. This occurs in several WikiProjects, so all should have datestamps attached that haven't already had datestamps added or been manually archived or deleted.
-- 70.51.44.60 ( talk) 08:23, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
RFC
located here.
Quis separabit?
16:38, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
Many of them should be moved to Category:Redirects from alternative scientific names, since they are not linguistic synonyms but taxonomic synonyms, e.g. Arctus pygmaeus, and the alternative scientific name category refers to taxonomic synonyms. I want to move these redirects to the taxonomic synonym category, but I can't do this without your help because they are too many and I don't have much time, so please help me.-- RekishiEJ ( talk) 08:53, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
There is an RfC on whether the heavy metal music article should include an image of a metal band in the infobox. Please contribute your views at the RfC located here. OnBeyondZebrax • TALK 15:27, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
Notice of RfC on Eagles of Death Metal talk page: /info/en/?search=Talk:Eagles_of_Death_Metal#RfC:_Anti-Israel_Boycott_-_Roger_Waters :
Is the conflict between Eagles and Death Metal and and the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) activists (eg Roger Waters) over their performances in Israel, and the band's strong public confrontational statements against BDS and support for Israel relevant. and should be mentioned in the history section? Should the following below be added to this article? prepared by --Moxy (talk) 19:54, 20 November 2015 (UTC) as per Ronreisman previous attempt in wrong location
The band performed at the Barby Club in Tel Aviv, Israel, in spite of pressure from anti-Israeli Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activists. Roger Waters sent a letter to the band which reportedly demanded that they boycott Israel. Hughes publicly commented on Waters' letter at the Tel Aviv concert, saying "I would never boycott a place like this ... You know what I wrote back? Two words ... Never waste your time worrying about what an asshole thinks about you.” Hughes repeated the obvious two-word profanity to the cheering crowd. During the show he said “I’ve never felt more at home in my life”
"Concert review: The Eagles of Death Metal". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
"Paris attacks: Eagles of Death Metal defied pro-Palestine boycott movement and Roger Waters to play Israel". Retrieved November 20, 2015.
Jesse Hughes, Eagles Of Death Metal Tell BDS And Roger Waters Where To Go, Israel July 12th" youtube.
— User:Ronreisman
Previous talks can bee seen above at Talk:Eagles of Death Metal#Threats to bataclan wording and at Talk:Roger Waters#Conflict with VIctims of November 2015 Paris attacks
Ronreisman ( talk) 16:54, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
I got an email this morning, supposedly from Jimmy Wales, asking for a donation.
My email client highlighted it as a possible scam, presumable because links that superficially appeared to go to wikimedia.com actually direct to wikimedia.mkt4477.com.
However, the email addressed me by name and knew how much I donated last year.
On the other hand, there is nothing on the front page about the appeal.
If this is a scam, there needs to be a prominent warning on the front page.
If it isn't a scam there needs to be something obvious on the front page to show that the yearly appeal is in progress. PRL42 ( talk) 10:19, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
This very very very very inappropriate behavior there. I was blocked merely because of my nationality. I just cleaned up my talk page and that was a reason for a block. Note that there was a Serbo-Croatian war during the 1990s. But there is no reason for this kind of nationalistic behavior.
As you can see here https://hr.wikipedia.org/?title=Razgovor_sa_suradnikom:VS6507&action=history this admin user on hr wiki is harassing me because of the nationality. Whom should I ask for help? Alex ( talk) 16:38, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
Hey all, I wanted to inform everyone of two discussions with WikiProject Military history and WikiProject Med, about piloting links to WP:Research help in articles, Astinson (WMF) ( talk) 00:32, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
In the section Space_flight_simulator_game#Trade_Wars, why is there a "non-primary source needed" tag after the bit about games being influenced by Trade Wars? Isn't a quote by a developer exactly the type of thing you want? SharkD Talk 00:14, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
{{ WikiProject Death}} features two different images of human skulls, one a photograph. Is it acceptable for such images to be posted on the talk pages of articles on recent massacres such as the Paris shootings, fatal aircraft cashes or other violent deaths? Please discuss, at Template talk:WikiProject Death#Images. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:58, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
2015 Minneapolis shooting needs eyes to keep it NPOV. I removed the worst, but it still needs work. All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough,
20:17, 27 November 2015 (UTC).
I ran into this wiki today. Quite interesting how there's a wiki full of discarded Wikipedia pages! Does anyone here have knowledge of the circumstances of its birth? smileguy91 talk - contribs 22:44, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
Note that Joe Marston died on november 29 according to sources on Google. Thank you.
There is a RfC at Template talk:Infobox language#RfC: What should the language infobox display when editors have not found any speaker figures?:
In the case that editors have looked for speaker figures, but have not found any, they can set the parameter speakers of
Template:Infobox language to ?
. This currently causes the infobox to display “Native speakers (no data)”. There are two questions:
Thanks for your comments. -- mach 🙈🙉🙊 09:38, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
A lot of work went into creating brochures about various WikiProjects for Wikimania 2014, then they disappeared. I think the brochures should be available to be used by the projects for other promotional occasions - using them only once is a waste of effort. Where are the brochures now and what needs to be done to make them available for reuse by the respective projects? Roger (Dodger67) ( talk) 11:53, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi folks, am going to run this competition in January. see Wikipedia:Take the lead!. Cheers, Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 02:29, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
Much of the Tyron Akins is copied from his Auburn Tigers bio. Ssu ( talk) 06:50, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
See this The Atlantic report:
This affects Wikipedia since we use newspaper articles as sources. If any Wikipedians actually have subscriptions to The Wall Street Journal etc. it would be very useful for them to focus on federal government political reporting. Writing content on Wikipedia and pointing to relevant articles could help overcome this issue. WhisperToMe ( talk) 22:50, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
Dear Wikipedians,
(Please let us know if we need to post this in a different section of the Village Pump. I will move it there.)
I am a computer science PhD student at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. We are working on a project in which we plan to invite some Wikipedia editors to complete a survey. We will describe the overview of the research proposal and invite you to review and approve. Thanks for your tremendous help!
Project overview: The project focuses on identifying the main article and sub article relationship in a purpose of better serving the Wikipedia article structure. (For example, main article: United States and sub-article History of the United States). Accordingly to the definition of {Main} Template, "(w)hen a Wikipedia article is large, it is often written in summary style. This template is used after the heading of the summary, to link to the subtopic article that has been summarized." However, the use of the {main} template is not well executed and contains a lot of misclassification. This relationship is important for artificial intelligent system that uses concept level Wikipedia content and for reducing the language barrier on multilingual wikipedia.
Survey overview: The purpose of the survey is to understand editor's understanding of the main/sub article relationship and their decision criteria when they create sub-articles. We want to recruit 30 editors to fill out an online survey, which can be completed in about 5 mins.
Participant: We want to recruit a mixture of editors who have created main/sub-article relationship (expert) and who haven't done so. We will identify the expert by mining the edit history of the article that contains correct use of the Template{Main}.
Recruiting method: We will leave message in the editors' user talk page.The message will include greeting, brief introduction of this study, appreciation and link to the survey.
We will make sure we contact the editors and conduct the survey in a respectful manner to the Wikipedian and the community. Please feel free to let us know if you have any concerns!
Thanks Allen Lin. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cheetah90 ( talk • contribs) 22:01, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
Feel free to reuse. Design is courtesy of User:Brianhe. -- Pine ✉ 18:39, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
This user was a member of the Wikipedia community when it was awarded the Erasmus Prize. |
There is a current RFC regarding a passage in the Muhammad article. If anyone cares to join the link is here: /info/en/?search=Talk:Muhammad#rfc_06D1994 Tivanir2 ( talk) 23:29, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi!
I don't know where to go with this because the situation is so absurd. I have been trying for weeks to make the article about the controversial party Sweden Democrats on the Swedish version sv:Sverigedemokraterna and I have just been unjustly banned for the second time. The problem is that the same guys who are against changing anything of importance on that page are also administrators with weird arguments for example: if one member of a discussion leaves, nobody can change anything until his outspoken approval has been shown(1) and that is does not effect the conclusion if the leading investigator of the state investigation about whether or not Sweden democrats are racist or not was an outspoken enemy of the Sweden Democrats(2). They also actively engages in Wikipedia:Edit warring(3).
I think it is very difficult anyone who isn't very interested in Swedish Politics the controversy regarding the Sweden Democrats and not even all Swedes understand it. Basically there is two perspectives. One perspective is in early days they were associated with right wing extremist and some say once extremist always extremist. The other perspective is that history is not that relevant and wants to focus on today's politics. The later perspective does not exist in any shape or form on the Swedish version of Wikipedia, but does in the English version(Moderation and growth, Into parliament, Rise in support). When I tried to introduce this to Swedish article I got banned when an administrator reset the article without barely commenting(4). Look at the statements that were removed and tell if the were controversial, and see the several page discussion about these changes.
To give you some context of the topic Sweden takes 6 times as many immigrates as Germany (5) and while USA debates whether or not it should take 10 000 Syrian refugees. Sweden accepts 10 000 refugees per week although several times smaller than USA. Sweden Democrats is the only party that has been questioning this. Although they are considered extreme what they actually say is that they want to bring down immigration to Denmark's level(about 90 % less). There has never been any negative comments about the size of the immigration in the Swedish mainstream news, but it has been mentioned in the New York Times (6). Recently a Iranian immigrant sv:Tino Sanandaji with a degree from University of Chicago who mainstream media can't play the racist card on has started to speak up against media, and also leaked documents about the government tried to cover up the cost of immigration (7). Although he has found a translator now, most of this is in Swedish currently. Here he criticize the largest newspaper Dagens Nyheter who even though OECD concluded that immigration was a net loss for Sweden, reported that they claimed it was a net gain(8).
Where do I go with this and how I get rid of the bias on Swedish Wikipedia when the admins are biased?
[22] 1. [23] "Det finns ingen tidsgräns. Yger (diskussion) 28 november 2015 kl. 11.06 (CET) " 2. [24] Utredaren - oavsett vem det är - har att följa uppdragsgivarens (regeringens) direktiv Lindansaren (diskussion) 30 oktober 2015 kl. 15.45 (CET) 3. [25] Every criteria fulfilled 4. [26] "återställer kontroversiella redigeringar. Det blev väldigt fokus på vad sd tycker där." 4 december 2015 kl. 16.34 Averater 5. [27] 6. [28] 7. [29] 8. [30]
I know I have been trolling in my early Wikipedia days, but I have been serious now for a couple of years. And this is serious. Does this community agree with them or not? Maybe I am just insane-- Immunmotbluescreen ( talk) 18:57, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
Gladstone Anderson really died ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.185.175.84 ( talk) 16:54, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
I request the developers of Wikipedia and technical support team to please consider my request. My request is that Wikipedia should develop an official Wikipedia app for windows mobile phone users. Ankit2299 ( talk) 16:59, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
Is Wikipedia a place where you can meet new people and make friends? I tried to work and cooperate well with others, but I get treated negatively or underappreciated. Yes, Wikipedia is not a social network, but I hoped that Wikipedia is a welcoming community. Right now, disdain has been common, discouraging a newcomer's efforts to make friends here. Probably a successful Wiki-alike competitor would invite everyone alike... besides Wikia. -- George Ho ( talk) 03:12, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
In line with the diffusion of free knowledge, in recent years Wikimedia Spain has celebrated Wiki Loves Monuments and Wiki Loves Earth, photographic contests that serve to value the historical, artistic and natural heritage. In that sense, we believe that another important aspect of the culture of a country is its folklore and, within this, its festivals and traditions.
Along with its monumental or natural wealth, Spain has a rich and varied folklore worth to value: religious celebrations, festivals, food festivals... For that reason we´ll organize a new contest in 2016, Wiki Loves Folk, focusing on this type of cultural heritage. While in the past we have based on Sites of Cultural Interest and Sites of Community Importance, in this case we propose the promotion of those celebrations that have any of the following statements: International Touristic Interest, National Touristic Interest, Regional Touristic Interest and Provincial Touristic Interest.
At this moment we are immersed in preparations but very soon we´ll publish details of the competition: celebration dates, rules for participation, awards, etc. We invite you to participate in their organization and preparations. Best regards. -- Rodelar ( talk) 12:13, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello, continuing preparations for Wiki Loves Folk, we propose a contest for choosing the logo; the dates for submitting proposals are between December 10, 2015 and January 31, 2016 and the voting period between February 1 and February 10, 2016. More information and rules on this page. Regards. -- Rodelar ( talk) 12:16, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello Wikimedians!
The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on
our partners page, including
EBSCO,
DeGruyter, and
Newspaperarchive.com. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--
The Wikipedia Library Team 01:01, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
The category
Problem solving is a subcategory of the category
Creativity; also the latter is a subcategory of the former.
Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)/Archive_51#The_3_categories_Economies.2C_Economic_systems_and_Economics SoSivr ( talk) 18:04, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
Moreover I made suitable subcategories of Creativity subcategories of Problem solving (two subcateg/s of Creativity,
Abstraction and
Imagination, ARE ALREADY subcateg/s of Problem solving, a good sign !). For example:
Is there a transwiki process (such as tagging templates) to use to mark pages that are not written in English to move to a different, appropriate language Wikipedia ?
And is there a way to mark content that is not English and clearly not meant to be on English Wikipedia for deletion? (Pages that WP:PNT says are not within its purview, therefore not appropriate content for English Wikipedia)
-- 70.51.44.60 ( talk) 05:02, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
I know all edits come with submitted timestamps but is there a way to find out how long it took someone to compose an edit? One way would be to use the difference between when the editing window was first opened and the submitted time, but as far as I know the time at which the edit is started is not recorded. I don't think any information about previews leading up to a submission is recorded either. Just seeing if anyone knows something I don't.
Evoapps ( talk) 03:25, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
After some sleuthing, I've uncovered a few answers to my original question that I want to post here. Here is a research project that aims to answer this question specifically. Research:Measuring editor labor hours. Various session metrics can be combined to estimate the activity session. Research:Activity session
Evoapps ( talk) 14:53, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
Another cycle in the category tree: the category
People is a subcategory of the category
Humans; also the latter is a subcategory of the former.
In my opinion among the two subcategory relationships the first one is the one that should be preferred.
--Related:
Wikipedia:Categorization#Subcategorization (shortcut:
WP:SUBCAT)
--First related post/discussion:
Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)/Archive_51#The_3_categories_Economies.2C_Economic_systems_and_Economics
--Second related post/discussion:
#A_cycle_in_the_category_tree:_Problem_solving_and_Creativity
SoSivr (
talk)
21:03, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello. I want to invite you to participate in a writing contest about three state museums in Madrid (Museum of Romaticism, Museo del Traje and National Archaeological Museum), from today December 14, 2015 till January 14, 2016. You can join it in every language. More information in GLAMing Madrid Challenge. Best, -- Rodelar ( talk) 09:24, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
Please feel free to contribute | on this RfC . KoshVorlon 13:30, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
There is an RfC at Help talk:IPA for English#RfC: Should we continue recommending the sign ⟨ɵ⟩?:
We are currently recommending that the sign ⟨ɵ⟩ be used for a reduced vowel diaphoneme that can correspond either to the phoneme /oʊ/ or the phoneme /ə/, for example in the word omission. Should we continue to do so?
In the IPA, the sign ⟨ɵ⟩ represents the close-mid central rounded vowel. Our use of ⟨ɵ⟩ is based on Bolinger, Dwight (1986), Intonation and Its Parts, Stanford University Press, pp. 347–360. Bolinger proposed not to analyze the reduced vowels as mere versions of the full vowels, but as a special set consisting of three vowels: The “fronted” Willie vowel /ɨ/, the “central” Willa vowel /ə/, and the “backed” willow vowel /ɵ/. Bolinger’s use is slightly different from ours (1) because Bolinger’s /ɵ/ is not a diaphoneme, but a phoneme; (2) because there are words such as willow or lasso or the second part of the MOUTH diphthong where Bolinger would use /ɵ/, but we would not; and (3) because Bolinger’s analysis allows for an alternation between /ɵ/ and /ə/ in words such as canopy, Indonesia, allophonic, or composition.
The English Wikipedia is the only major dictionary that has adopted Bolinger’s sign ⟨ɵ⟩ in a broad phonemic IPA transcription scheme (for an overview of other dictionaries’ broad phonemic IPA transcription schemes, see Help:IPA conventions for English#Reduced vowels).
If you are interested in the edit history of ⟨ɵ⟩ on Help:IPA for English, you may want to check out User:J. 'mach' wust/sandbox#Edit history of ⟨ɵ⟩ (with diff links etc.).
Thanks for your comments. -- mach 🙈🙉🙊 12:42, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
Note that Gabre Gabric died on 16 december acording to sources. Thank You. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.185.175.84 ( talk) 15:58, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
For amusement value – Secure Restoration advertises themselves by saying "as featured on Wikipedia.org", meaning simply that we cite them (or did, until I just deleted the relevant paragraph). I'd never realised that was something to brag about! I tried to snapshot the page with WebCite for posterity, but it seems to have refused the bot. A version of the site from May is archived by the Wayback Machine, but it precedes our "endorsement". Adrian J. Hunter( talk• contribs) 08:01, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
Hey folks. I’m seeking your help to decide on topics for new IdeaLab campaigns that could be run starting next year. These campaigns are designed to attract proposals from Wikimedia project contributors that address a broad gap or area of need in Wikimedia projects.
Here’s how to participate:
With thanks,
I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation. 23:02, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
At WP:AfD, there is currently no or little backlog, however, for the first time in several months, votes are clearly in much demand. We have many nominated articles with no votes even after being multiply relisted. Please spend a bit of time commenting on nominations, most importantly where there are no or few votes. Thanks.-- Ymblanter ( talk) 09:06, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
I'm currently seeing a banner for Wikimania 2016, which reads:
The Wikimania Conference is now open for scholarship applications and program submissions.See the main page for more information.
The page to which it links has nothing about scholarships, and there is nothing on the "main page" of this wiki. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:30, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
Dear Wiki[p,m]edians,
the call for proposals for Wikimania 2016 is open! All the members of the Wikimedia projects, researchers and observers are invited to propose a critical issue to be included in the programme of the conference, which will be held in Italy, in Esino Lario, from June 21 to 28.
Through this call we only accept what we call critical issues, i.e. proposals aiming at presenting problems, possible solutions and critical analysis about Wikimedia projects and activities in 18 minutes. These proposals do not need to target newbies, and they can assume attendees to already have a background knowledge on a topic (community, tech, outreach, policies...).
To submit a presentation, please refer to the
Submissions page on the Wikimania 2016 website. Deadline for submitting proposals is 7th January 2016 and the selection of these proposals will be through a blind peer-reviewed process. Looking forward to your proposals. --
Yiyi (
Dimmi!)
09:03, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi all, I am coordinating a contest in January - Wikipedia:Take the lead! - and have discovered that many many articles with either no or too-short leads are not tagged as such. Rather than tag-bomb all over the place, I reckon it'd be good to tag high-importance or vital articles, things that are broad, important or accessible. I've done a bit but would be grateful if any folks decided to do some selective tagging with {{no lead}} or {{lead too short}}. For more info see the contest page or discussion here. Cheers, Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 06:09, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
Apparently Timed text is now functional on enwiki, but I can’t find anything about it beside the article. Apparently you create a page in some format in the TimedText namespace, and that page somehow gets linked to a related file in File namespace. I looked at Wikipedia:Timed text, but that is a broken soft link to Commons. I looked also at WP:ACCESSIBILITY, and the outdated mention there said only that as of 2012 it is not available on enwiki.
What raised the issue for me was what to do with a non-free TimedText page: WP:NFC hardly mentions “Timed text” and “Timedtext”; so I started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Non-free content/Archive 65#Non-free TimedText. — teb728 t c 22:12, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
Assuming there's a way to do so in bulk, could someone move the sub-pages of Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Reference library/Top video games lists to the Wikipedia namespace please? Currently most of them are in my user space still. User:SharkD/Top_video_games_lists/15 is an example. There's about 100 of them. Thanks! SharkD Talk 02:52, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
We expanded the collection videos on Wikimedia Commons with historical newsreel footage. Hereunder you can see some examples in this category all 392 videos can be found. This donation involves footage and newsreels from WWII and the Dutch state mines (coal mines) and footage of daily life. If you would like to help in matching videos to articles relevant to the subject, you can use this tool and it will take you directly to an overview of all videos that have not been used yet on the Dutch Wikipedia. Kind regards, Beeld en Geluid Collecties ( talk) 10:02, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
So, the donation banner states: "We'll get right to it: this week, we ask you to help Wikipedia". Well "this week"' seems to have dragged on for quite a while, as I recall being pestered by the banner for the past 3 weeks, despite dismissing it and already donating. How long is the fundraising campaign? If it runs for the whole of December, then the WMF needs to be transparent with their readers rather than suggesting a span of only a week. It should say "this month". It's annoying, misleading and poor practice. JamesA >talk 13:57, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
I am planning to participate more in WikiNews and to advertise it. However, I have never written the first article in my life. Also, the rules demanded originality and creativity. If I can participate more in WikiNews, I do not need to worry about Wikipedia's ITN anymore. Must I be a journalist or attend journalism courses before doing so? -- George Ho ( talk) 01:19, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
Hurray! My first article got published... Well, someone else made copy editing, but what the heck! By the way, how can I repopulate the sister site? It almost looks dead with bunch of FIFA and stuff. -- George Ho ( talk) 06:19, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
Apparently I'm someone's hobby. - Richfife ( talk) 00:42, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
I am a 19 year old university student. On 16 December 2015, CISA was passed in the US Congress.
/info/en/?search=Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA
In January 2012, Wikipedia instigated protest of the nefarious SOPA and PIPA initiatives by blacking out its website for 24 hours. I will never forget it. I hope it doesn't become our fifth of November.
You and 100, 000 other websites forced the hand of the Whitehouse: "[We will] not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet."
Why the comparative silence on more recent, arguably more important internet freedom setbacks?
Please, Wiki, I do not want to live in a future where private communications must be government approved.
Millennials are counting on you. The future of humanity may well depend on our ability to freely exchange information --and our ability to keep other information private.
It's time for another blackout. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.114.29.54 ( talk) 22:12, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
There are a lot of contexts where the term "modern" can be redundant, ambiguous, or imho, a weasel word.
For example, airplanes are a very modern technology, so references to "modern airplanes" could include all airplanes, distinguishing them from kites and medieval gliders, or could include all airplanes since the Wright Flyer, distinguishing them from earlier experiments, or all airplanes still in use, or hundreds of other possibilities.
Outside technical terms such as "anatomically modern Homo sapiens," "modernism," and so on, maybe it would help to try to find other words.
"Airplanes in the modern era" and "airplanes since the Wright Flyer" might be awkward, but "present-day aircraft" might be a better alternative for the last set, even if the present changes from time to time. 108.45.79.25 ( talk) 21:59, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
Please put Aafje Heynis into the deaths list. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.185.175.84 ( talk) 14:28, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello,
I've made a grant request to go to the Youth Olympic Games who will take place in Lillehammer in February 2016. I will be accredited as a media photographer and will be able to take high quality pictures for the Wikimedia projects. You can endorse this request here.
Happy holidays to all.
Pleclown ( talk) 17:49, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
Niantic Labs, now named "Niantic, Inc.", is a real company, the developer of the augmented reality video game Ingress. Within the game is an organization called the Niantic Project, which like all the characters in the game is fictional. Niantic Labs maintains a number of in-universe websites that its players ("Agents") can interact with, including several for the Niantic Project. These websites report on events and people that exist only within the game as if they were real.
The article for Niantic, Inc. is in the hidden Category:Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia. The article correctly lists http://nianticlabs.com/ as the company's official website, but Wikidata lists http://www.nianticproject.com/, which is the in-universe supposed website of the fictional Niantic Project.
I tried to edit the Wikidata page to correct it, but I've never used Wikidata before and am totally unfamiliar with it. Whatever I tried to do raised an error, and I couldn't save anything. I don't expect to use Wikidata, and so I don't want to invest the time and effort it'd take to make this one fix. Would someone who can please do so? Thank you. Please {{Ping}} me to discuss. -- Thnidu ( talk) 20:53, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
There is an active RfC about the White privilege article.
To view and/or participate, follow the link:
Talk:White privilege#RFC: Neutrality of the first paragraph
Richard27182 (
talk)
08:51, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
Has anyone ever heard or used this term? If so...or if not...make a comment at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Permastub..... Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 23:50, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
An RfC has been initiated to determine whether or not the title, Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, is a significant alternate name that belongs in the lead section of the article. The RfC can be found here: Talk:Star Wars: The Force Awakens#RfC: Is "Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens" an alternate title to the film?. -- GoneIn60 ( talk) 00:25, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
Should "The Fitz and the Fool Trilogy" and "The Ki and Vandien tales" be italicized in Robin Hobb article? I am not sure they are official titles. SharkD Talk 01:15, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
Need some extra eyes on this one. User:Wrestlinglover is pressing for the inclusion of a combined reigns table in at least the NXT championship article. Despite being informed that the table is redundant until there is a two time champion he insists that the table he wants incorporates "new information", when the information is already available in the table above through the list of champions in chronological order. I started a vote to involve other editors and to maybe get him to see that maybe he is wrong by pure numbers or by further comments. But he refuses to budge - creating an impasse. The "discussion" (more like a circular debate that he admits to fueling here) can be found here. Mega Z090 ( talk) 03:34, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
While editing the page Peyton, I noticed two really strangely named articles:
I would suggest renaming them to Peyton Randolph (politician, 1779–1828) and Peyton Randolph (politician, 1721–1775), respectively. I'm not sure what the convention is for dead people; if it is to only list the birth date, then go with that. nyuszika7h ( talk) 23:30, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
There are references in Wikipedia to documents (or video/audio/images) from groups such as ISIS and AQ but no link to the actual material. Is this because of copyright or is it suppressed because of some other legal reason? Keith McClary ( talk) 05:48, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
On January 1 we celebrate
Public Domain Day as many works of authors who died 70+ years ago now enter the public domain and can be used freely.
Let us be aware: copyright is temporary. It only lasts during the authors lifetime and 70 years afterwards (in most countries). During those years it is limiting Wikipedia and her sister projects in showing works of art, literature, public art and buildings in countries without freedom of panorama, and more in the articles. But now a new batch is freed from copyrights!
An overview of images and texts that are restored or added to the Wikimedia Commons, are collected on: this page.
Many of these files still need a place in articles. You can help!
You can also help by uploading new files of subjects that are freed of copyrights.
You can also help by tagging all requests for deletion pages with the
category when the file can be restored, which will be/was deleted.
As I follow the log of restored files this week, more images and texts will follow. If still files or texts are missing in the list, let me know or add them yourselves.
A very happy Public Domain Day! Romaine ( talk) 11:53, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
The article Yuribey Bridge include a claim that "Photos can be shown only on Russian Wikipedia, because of Russian law.". This seems dubious; can anyone explain, or refute, that please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:18, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
There is a Request for Comment at the Talk page for transhumanist politics. The Transhumanist Party recently finished an American bus tour – should it be mentioned in the "History" section of the article? – Haptic-feedback ( talk) 07:00, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
I m not native speaker of English but i created few days ago new article, Pałapus. I am not able/i cannot insert coordinates into infobox can you help me? Prywaciarz101 ( talk) 12:41, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
So I finally decided to clean out my watchlist hoard today. I've managed to cut it down to around 6000 pages. I'm guessing this is still waaay too much. I'd like to get a general feel for where I am compared with the rest of the community. Am I in the norm? Am I way beyond average? (I'm thinking it could only be the latter, heh.) It looks like there was a small survey done back in 2007 which was helpful, but perhaps standards have changed since then. So just wondering, how big is your watchlist? ;D -- œ ™ 05:58, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello. User 1.39.49.93 ( talk · contribs) has made several edits today, mostly just deleting photos that didn't need deleting. I reverted most of the edits, but 4 edits were made to sex-related articles, which I don't feel comfortable editing. If someone there wants to have a look at this editor's contributions I'd appreciate it. Thank you. Magnolia677 ( talk) 13:43, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello. Is there an easy way to archive the external links of an article? I used to do this by hand, one by one. But it takes time. Xaris333 ( talk) 06:49, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:ExxonMobil#Request for comment: ExxonMobil among most vocal climate change deniers. Thanks. Hugh ( talk) 21:14, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Nations_and_intelligence#rfc:_Lead_section. -- The Master ( talk) 03:44, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
Dear Wikimedians,
the deadline for the call for proposals for Wikimania 2016 has been moved on 17th January 2016, so you have 10 days to submit you proposal(s). To submit a presentation, please refer to the
Submissions page on the Wikimania 2016 website. --
Yiyi (
Dimmi!)
09:48, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
As our mission here is the gathering of knowledge, I thought this article might be of interest here - Kenyon, Georgina (2016-01-06). "The man who studies the spread of ignorance". www.bbc.com. It touches on various issues that (imho) should matter to the WP community. Roger (Dodger67) ( talk) 15:00, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
I have turned M Magazine into a disambiguation page, however I am not sure whether the current title of M (magazine) is appropriate or what it should be renamed to. And perhaps the redlink M Magazine (U.S.) could have a better name too, as the former is a U.S. magazine too. I would appreciate advice on this. nyuszika7h ( talk) 19:26, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
If one views an old revision, there is a functional "Edit" link at the top. If they edit the revision, it reverts all edits made after the time of that revision. I've done this unintentionally once, and I've seen it done once by another editor. In the latter case, it would have gone unnoticed had I not noticed the problem three days after the fact (by which time it was un-undoable and somewhat difficult to fix). Is there a legitimate need for this Edit link? ― Mandruss ☎ 01:59, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
I note that there is a red warning about this at the top of the edit session. In the above-cited two cases, that wasn't enough to prevent the mistake. It seems unlikely that I and the other editor are the only two idiots editing Wikipedia, and we should be idiot-proof wherever possible. ― Mandruss ☎ 02:08, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
Could anyone point me toward a tool that would give some statistics as to whether pages are found by readers directly or through a redirect page. I am looking to do some analysis as to whether we are using common names or not. W C M email 19:06, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
I will be away for a few days. Normally, I would ask that you have Wikipedia finished by the time I return, but I will be more modest this time, and merely ask that all the disambiguation links be fixed. Cheers! bd2412 T 18:56, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
Bonjour,
I manage a project called LibreIdea since August 2014.
It s a wikipedia of ideas (we called them ingenies) and research questions with the goal to create a collaborative tool of progress.
Our main objective is to create cocis that will assist us to create ideas.
Vev ( talk) 22:51, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
The second major WADA ( World Anti-Doping Agency) report into corruption etc has made front page headlines over the past few days. It is a major issue. But the WADA article and those associated with it have received virtually no edits at all. I've spent some time today updating Lamine Diack (head of the IAAF for sixteen years). But otherwise, it's virtually nothing. At. All.
Astonishing, eh? Maybe not. It reflects how it is that so many editors spend time editing pages of subjects that they are themselves interested in, such as the hundreds (probably) that have been editing David Bowie since Monday morning.
Though I wouldn't mind doing so, I simply don't have the time to update all the relevant articles, so I'm drawing the attention of whoever is reading this to the situation. As things stand, I think it reflects rather badly on Wikipedia.
Incidentally, in case you're thinking that this situation is only something occurring this week, or in the case of relevant Wiki editing, not occurring this week, if you look at Doping in sport you'll find that the headline-grabbing Sunday Times feature of a few months ago doesn't get one mention. Seriously! It seems that this whole area in athletics - and it is a major one - just doesn't raise the interest of those who are Wiki editors. And it also suggests that some wholesale updates are necessitated.
Now I know that Wiki editing is voluntary, no-one needs to point that out to me, but... Boscaswell ( talk) 16:44, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
Hello
Today, Wikipedia celebrate its 15 years anniversary.
However ... even after 15 years, content about Africa in general, and African women in particular, is still limited on the world's largest source of knowledge. For this reason, it was important to some of us to celebrate Wikipedia 15 by organising a bilingual (English/French) writing contest to increase the number of notable African women that are covered on Wikipedia. This contest is also meant as a starting point of m:Wiki Loves Women, a content liberation project related to Women in Africa in 6 countries.
We would love to see you participate to the writing contest !
If you want to, there are 3 ways to participate
It is all meant to be an easy going contest... no hassle... just for the pleasure of working together on a theme still little covered on Wikipedia
Anthere ( talk) 11:36, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi everybody, We are gathering right now in the context of the event Heroines organized by Just for the Record. We are discussing about the best way to think about the distinction between the terms hero and heroine. If you are interested in this discussion, you are welcomed to follow and participate to it on the Hero talk page. Léonie Butler ( talk) 14:49, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
What were the first articles on Wikipedia? Jackiespeel ( talk) 22:24, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
Gentlemen, may I inquire about the Russian propaganda article? For what reason it has been replaced with a redirect? There is in Ukrainian Wikipedia a imposing article that pins accusations upon the Russian, in particular, upon the Russian publicity machine. I ask for the explanations.
Yours sincerely
-- В.Галушко ( talk) 23:42, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
I'm not an expert on categorization, so I thought I'd ask around: why do we have categories such as Category:Terrorism victims and its subcats (victims of specific attacks or sorts of terrorism)? Per WP:DEFINING, only defining attributes of people should be categorized. But being a terrorism victim is normally not defining, because most terror attacks strike people more or less at random. People are usually not notable for being terrorism victims alone ( WP:BIO1E), so whatever makes them notable is normally something else that they are more appropriately categorized for. Sandstein 12:12, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
Do IP editors receive notifications regarding the rollback or reversion of their edits, particularly in cases of vandalism? I can't help wondering whether this is desirable behaviour or not, as it seems to encourage re-reverting. -- ℕ ℱ 22:45, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
{{
ping}}
, by the way. The only way to "notify" an IP editor of anything is via their user talk page (which uses a different mechanism from that described on the previously linked page). ―
Mandruss
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05:12, 18 January 2016 (UTC)Please correct the error. 206.47.112.137 ( talk) 05:02, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
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05:51, 18 January 2016 (UTC)Your attention is called to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cities#Request for comment, where a discussion is being held concerning the Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, article. BeenAroundAWhile ( talk) 19:39, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
We have some issues over at the article Paleolithic diet that i think could use some more editors with fresh eyes and some fresh input to see what's going on and what may need some help moving discussions forward. If you have some time to take a look, i appreciate it. I'm posting this as suggested at WP:CONSENSUS as a way to help when there seems to be a logjam in consensus building. There is suggests posting on the Village Pump where "Neutrally worded notification of a dispute here also may bring in additional editors who may help." So that's what i've done here, to see if it may attract some editors who have time. I've also posted at WP:NPOVN but got little response from there so far. SageRad ( talk) 16:17, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
The project has
three core content policies one of which is
NPOV, the policy which is briefly explained as such: "All Wikipedia articles and other encyclopedic content must be written from a neutral point of view, representing significant views fairly, proportionately and without bias."
Looking into criticism type articles, one will find that those articles are not written from a neutral point of view because not all significant views are presented "fairly, proportionately and without bias." Yes, there are some notable views from notable figures, but they are not the whole story. To fix this problem I propose to act based on
Wikipedia:Criticism and avoid having separate articles on criticisms besides having no stand alone article on 'praise'. Instead, we may create articles entitled ' Reception of X '. This way, we can gather all the viewpoints and there's a chance to have a 'balanced' and 'neutral' article.
Mhhossein (
talk)
13:11, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
"while "criticism" can mean opinions either way on a given topic, the word is nearly always taken in common terms to be negative facets and draw in undesirable OR, POV, and other issues that magnify the problem,"and this is while the title has also to comply with neutrality. Mhhossein ( talk) 04:32, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
I read the above comments and would like to present them briefly. Mhhossein ( talk) 13:29, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
The comments by editors are as such:
It's good that there's a " Criticism" which contains lots of good points and presents a mixture of the above comments. As the above comments show, most of the editors either agree on having 'reception of X' or conditionally avoiding 'criticism of X' articles which is widely discussed there. But really why not trying to have the essay as a guideline (as you see it has gained some supporters)? Mhhossein ( talk) 18:56, 27 January 2016 (UTC) (edited Mhhossein ( talk) 06:32, 30 January 2016 (UTC))
Well folks, I've just seen this statistic, which highlights the importance of improving leads. Still time to enter Wikipedia:Take the lead! as each entry has a chance of winning an Amazon voucher :) Cheers, Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 21:37, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
We are excited that pre-production has started for a series of motivational and educational videos that will introduce Wikipedia and some of its sister projects to new contributors.
Over the past several years, many videos have been produced to train new contributors. This series will feature VisualEditor and the new citation tool called Citoid. Additionally, the series will include an introduction to the Wikimedia Commons repository of freely-licensed media.
The video series and associated materials will help students and instructors who participate in the Wikipedia Education Program. The series is also designed to assist the professional staff and volunteers of galleries, libraries, archives, and museums ( GLAMs) with understanding how their content gains exposure on Wikimedia sites, and how to document or upload their content for direct viewing on Wikipedia and its sister projects.
The video content will be available in segments that can be viewed, translated, or updated individually.
There are currently volunteer translators for Arabic, Armenian, Czech, German, Greek, Odia, and Spanish. Additional volunteers with high proficiency translation skills are welcome to sign up on the talk page.
We are currently seeking feedback on the outline for the scripts, as well as suggestions for an attractive name for the series. Please leave any comments on this talk page!
Regards,
Series director and screenwriter
This series is funded by an individual engagement grant from the Wikimedia Foundation. A big thanks to the community, the IEG Committee, and WMF for their support.
Last December, I invited you to help determine future ideaLab campaigns by submitting and voting on different possible topics. I'm happy to announce the results of your participation, and encourage you to review them and our next steps for implementing those campaigns this year. Thank you to everyone who volunteered time to participate and submit ideas.
With great thanks,
I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation. 23:49, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
Please note that Ihor Zaytsev died on 28 january according to Google. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.185.175.84 ( talk) 15:02, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
I used to see a pink box when I hit a redlink that lead to a deleted subjectspace page, now I see an empty page like all other pages that have never been created. Is this broken CSS on Wikipedia's end, or is this an intentional Wikipedia end-user display change? -- 70.51.200.135 ( talk) 05:52, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
I've asked the WMF board of trustees to pass a resolution (a) acknowledging that Wikipedia (among other WMF properties) is not reliable and (b) encouraging the WMF to support initiatives aimed at improving the reliability of Wikipedia (and other WMF properties).
Please have your say here. -- Anthonyhcole ( talk · contribs · email) 14:51, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi guys. I'm a fairly regular editor of Wikipedia, and I was wondering if I could get some help or reviews of my user page. I'm looking to make in generally neater and nicer looking. I'm also learning HTML5 so if you want to put some suggestions on how to use the div tag for my user page that'd be great. Thanks in advance! Will2022 ( talk) 14:29, 19 January 2016 (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.
The Wikipedia article traffic statistics page at http://stats.grok.se/ stopped reporting information after January 20. (You can still see data up to and including that date, but nothing later.) What's going on? Michael Hardy ( talk) 18:18, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
Can anyone explain me something? in article Michał Sędziwój it is written that "He discovered that air is not a single substance and contains a life-giving substance-later called oxygen 170 years before similar discoveries by Scheele and Priestley." So why it isnt mentioned in article oxygen? Prywaciarz101 ( talk) 15:31, 6 February 2016 (UTC)
Died somebody on february 7? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.185.175.84 ( talk) 23:52, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
What do u people think of cannabis? I think it should be legalized. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NeoBlitz ( talk • contribs) 08:54, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
Special:MediaStatistics lists some file types that are banned on Commons. I took my wrong extension query and found these files:
Thoughts? — Dispenser 14:02, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
Bonjour,
My English is too bad for writing in this language.
Est-ce que cette photo a été prise " in vehicle meetings in North America " ?
Pouvez-vous indiquer dans quel état américain, dans quelle ville et à quelle occasion ? In California ? In Los Angeles ?
Merci d'avance. ( LaVoiture-balai ( talk) 20:49, 9 February 2016 (UTC))
:::@ PLawrence99cx: You are the one who took the photo; can you please answer this person's questions? LaVoiture Je suis désolé, mais je ne sais pas où la photo a été prise. Je l'ai demandé au photographe de répondre ici. ~ ONUnicorn( Talk| Contribs) problem solving 13:01, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
PLawrence99cx seems to be "in holidays". Another contributor has found the other photo of the same photograph with indications of CA and LA. A Californian could "certify" it and gave details of the occasion of this vehicle meeting. ( LaVoiture-balai ( talk) 18:05, 10 February 2016 (UTC))
I found one of the images posted on a gallery of the Citroën Car Club of Southern California ( http://www.socalcitroen.com/gallery-1.html 7 of 10). But it gives no background or source, and is mixed in with photos that are obviously vintage and promotional. But I think this is the organization that put on the car show in the picture. I'm still looking Oiyarbepsy ( talk) 07:27, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
@ LaVoiture-balai:Je pense que c'est le Citroën Rendezvous en Saratoga Springs, New York, en été 2009 ou 2010. Oiyarbepsy ( talk) 08:02, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
Bonjour to you all. Pardon me for not noticing this forum sooner. These pictures were taken in Los Angeles, California at the 'Best of France & Italy' show, which is held the first Sunday of every November. @ LaVoiture-balai: PLawrence99cx ( talk) 04:57, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
There are a lot of notice tags in Wikipedia article space that have been around for many years. I'm starting to suspect that they may actually be demotivating the correction of articles. For example, suppose an anonymous editor makes a correction to address a tag. Do they know whether they can remove the notice? Will they get slammed for removing it? The safer route may be to just leave it alone. Anonymous editors may actually feel less threatened about editing an article that has no warning notices.
Perhaps a statistical study would help? It could be helpful to know the percentage of useful non-bot edits to articles with tags, vs. those without. Another parameter that may be useful is the half-life for the various tags—what is the average duration for the pool of tags set in a given month to be reduced in half? Are some warning notices more likely to be addressed than others? Should we do away with some types of notices because they are not constructive? Praemonitus ( talk) 19:50, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 23:09, 29 January 2016 (UTC)If you have the ability, please boldly assist Wikipedia by editing this page to remedy the flagged issue! All problems are fixed by the efforts of volunteers. If you've read the link provided explaining the problem, and have thoroughly fixed it, you may simply remove this maintenance template.
I would be interested to know if the issue relates to certain specific tags, but not others. I suspect that some tagged issues get addressed quickly, whole others may sit there never being fixed. Blueboar ( talk) 23:37, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
it could easily be placed on 90% of the articles here- So we should eliminate the most visible thing telling editors that we need more inline citations? It may be wishful thinking, but I have to believe that tag is having some significant beneficial effect, enough to make it a net positive. Not only in the individual articles, but toward evangelization of inline citations in general. ― Mandruss ☎ 05:25, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
Here's a proposed experiment - Pick four of five maintenance tags and edit them so they place the article in the category but aren't visible on the page; do this for thirty days. Afterwards, restore the template to what it was before, and again, do this for 30 days. Monitor the categories and see how many IPs and new editors resolve the issues (which, I concede, is the hard part). Oiyarbepsy ( talk) 02:01, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
don't trust this page as much as you would otherspoint. fredgandt 12:57, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
According to this post, Wikipedia is not in the top 10 US digital media properties for October 2015, which surprised me. So how far down is Wikipedia? GoingBatty ( talk) 20:05, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
My apologies for wasting the time of those for whom this is not necessary. I'm not speaking to you. But I've run across too many editors, even many with some experience, who misapply
WP:AGF because they do not know the meaning of the words "good faith".
Per the Merriam-Webster
dictionary entry, good faith is about honesty. It has absolutely nothing to do with good reasoning, good judgment, or good competence. If someone offers constructive criticism or advice, or even if they accuse you of a shortage of competence, feel free to disagree with them. But, please, do not respond by accusing them of failing to observe WP:AGF. Thanks. ―
Mandruss
☎
06:00, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
On the 15th January 2016, Wikipedia celebrated its 15 years of existence. But ... even after 15 years, the content on Africa in general - and African women in particular - remains limited. The Wiki Loves Women project decided to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Wikipedia by organising the bilingual (English and French) #15Challenge Writing Contest to increase the number of biographies of notable African women. We asked for 15 teams to create 15 articles on notable African women. These are the results... At the end of the contest,
produced no less than ...
This result is way beyond our expectations! And so incredibly amazing! The tireless jurors were Jane023, FloNight, Smirkybec, and Isla Haddow for the English articles, and Vikoula5, Laurent Jerry and Anthere for the French articles.
The final winners were ....
For the English contest
For the French Contest
And finally ...
Best translation effort: team Armenia with User:Armineaghayan, User:El-ßäbrega, User:Garik.Khachatryan and User:Armin Karapetyan, for the 41 articles translated in Armenian language
We would like to thank every single person who took part, who wanted to take part (and couldn't) and who helped, but were not part of a team. You are all amazing! Anthere and Isla Haddow ( talk) 09:18, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
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In recognition of breast cancer awareness month, we should turn our redlinks pink during October. What do you think? RO (talk) 16:18, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
" Geoffrey Howe" is honourably mentioned at In the News 's Recent Deaths ticker when he died. However, there were half of supports and half of opposes. It was temporarily pulled out solely due to poor referencing, but improvements on the article led to reinserting the guy's name. Is Wikipedia or In the News overemphasizing British politics? --This is George Ho actually ( Talk) 20:50, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi,
I'm not sure if this is the right place to put this.
Can anyone tell me why Twinkle lists criteria that don't apply to certain namespaces? For example, it lists G1 and G2 when I use it on user pages, but neither criteria applies to user pages. It doesn't list the user page criteria on articles, so I'm wondering why it lets me tag user pages with these invalid (for user pages) criteria?
Thanks
Adam9007 ( talk) 22:11, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
Special:AbuseFilter/731 is very odd. It disallows writing about the descendants of Israelites in Namespace4. The description says this is for the Reference Desk, but Namespace-4 is much bigger than the reference desk. Indeed it disallows editing the wikiprojects because Namespace-4 is the Wikipedia-namespace. As for the reason why I'm being so circuitous about this, the Village Pump is also in Namespace-4 and thus I cannot actually write the terms disallowed (German: Juden; French: Juif; but not in English), as they are disallowed here as well.
This seems to be a very bad idea for a filter, if it cannot be restricted to the Reference Desk, then it is very problematic, as it restricts editing for all Wikipedia-namespace pages, including those that are specifically about these topics, where one would expect to be able to use the term that the project page is about in discussions about the topic.
-- 70.51.44.60 ( talk) 04:06, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
CHiPs is an article about a television series that ended 32 years ago. One of the actors in that series was
Bruce Jenner, who is now Caitlyn Jenner. It has, like many others, been targeted by some editors for changes given Jenner revealing that she is now a woman. An editor recently added some templates to the talk page that seem out of place.
[1]
[2] I can't find any evidence of sanctions that apply to this page that warrant inclusion of the {{
sanctions}} template, and the "content" that the second template refers to is Bruce Jenner (now
Caitlyn Jenner) as Officer Steve McLeish (1981–1982)
and a partial sentence that says
Erik Estrada was replaced by Jenner
Given the extremely minimal references to Jenner in the article, and the seeming lack of any actual sanctions that apply to it, I don't see any justification for including the templates, but I am seeking opinions from other editors before removing them. The editor who added them has already edit-warred at the article, so this action seems prudent. --
AussieLegend (
✉)
04:13, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
Google Custom Search is a facility offered by Google to search only certain sites or parts of sites. It's blocked on m:spam blacklist (under \bgoogle\..{1,5}/cse\b) primarily because an option is available for AdSense revenues to be kicked back to the link creator. Fine so far.
A series of requests have come into MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist requesting whitelisting for some CSE pages, in order to conduct federated searches or to search a certain subset of sites for sources for certain types of articles.
I haven't processed any of these because I'm not sure what the right way to handle them is. On the one hand, the link can still be shared on-wiki (just not clicked) by using <nowiki> tags, the links will not be used in the mainspace, and the engines are opaque and neither say what is being searched nor if there is kickback commission going on. On the other, it is probably fairly harmless and the requests are from trusted users.
Should CSEs be whitelisted and linking allowed on the spam-whitelist?
Tagging User:Czar, User:Nikkimaria, User:Diego, User:Beetstra, and User:Ocaasi who have been involved in various discussions of the subject at various times. Stifle ( talk) 08:38, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
@ Dirk Beetstra: Did you see Ravensfire's comment above, and their "replaced with a google cache" comment at MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist#infosecinstitute.com? It appears googleusercontent.com can be used to evade the blacklist entry. Johnuniq ( talk) 09:39, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi all, pursuant to a discussion we had here a few weeks ago, a new RfC is up to determine what our logo will be when we hit five million articles. Please cast your votes! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 19:02, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
How can one downsize the y-axis of the left wikitable, called "Number of illegal migrants entering Hungary in 2015" to 12,500 but keep the overall height of the table so that the individual bars appear larger. Currently, the latest bars are almost invisible now that Hungary has successfully sealed off its border and the number of illegal migrants has plummeted from thousands to a few dozen only. Thanks in advance Gun Powder Ma ( talk) 13:08, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
I have translated into Russian Russian involvement in the Syrian Civil War (slightly abridged) keeping in the translation the sources from the original article. The translated article was marked as {{ Disputed}} by another Russian editor on the grounds that I cannot certify the sources myself.
My question is: Can the factual accuracy of an article be undisputed in one language and challenged in another? Please note that I translated the article practically word to word using the Translate (GoogleTrans) tool (see also
here)?. What is the general practice?
I can imagine situation when indisputable sources in Russian project may be considered as disputable in English taking into consideration general dependance of Russian media from the government, but how it can be in the opposite direction? What is international experience in this matter if any?
NB: This topic was discussed
here. —
Сергей Олегович (
talk)
17:39, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar | ||
This is to every editor. Happy five millionth. You are wonderful people and this is a great project. All things considered, this experiment is going very well. Thank you from me, someone who uses this encyclopedia a lot. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 22:59, 23 October 2015 (UTC) |
(No need to reply or anything. This is just what people call a "shout-out" or something.) Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 22:59, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
I've just created an article draft, Draft:SkyWatcher, and I'd like to know if it is verifiable or not. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Luis150902 ( talk • contribs) 09:38, 24 October 2015 (UTC) @ Luis150902:Not with the sources you provided. User-contributed and directory-style sites do not establish notability for a topic, because they are no discriminating. User-contributing sites can include anything and directory-style sites try to include everything. Github and Sourceforge are both user-contributed sites that generally allow any programming project to be listed. You need to find sources that don't list just anything, and don't exist to promote the project. Oiyarbepsy ( talk) 03:10, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
can someone please look at my request at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Entertainment. -- 74.130.133.1 ( talk) 16:14, 24 October 2015 (UTC)-- 74.130.133.1 ( talk) 16:14, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
I moved an article from one cat to another one several hours ago [3]. However, for me it still shows up in the old cat and does not show up in the new one. Another example is Air Astana destinations, which apparently Cyberbot still sees as AfDed [4] though the template was removed long time ago. That looks similar to the Commons disaster when a week ago it had a backlog of a million of files not showing up because the categories failed to update. Are my examples smth similar? If this is the case, we should immediately suspend all speedy deletions of empty categories - since they in fact might be populated. It does not see to be a caching issue, at least I tried to purge.-- Ymblanter ( talk) 02:56, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi everybody. Earlier today I created the article Merry Go Boy and linked it to several other articles, including three related ones that I also created. I got notices that the MGB article had been linked to the others created by me, and now I'm wondering why. I know they got linked, because I did it. Does the computer system simply generate such notices without knowing who created which article or what? Thanks, White Arabian mare ( Neigh) 16:00, 27 October 2015 (UTC)White Arabian mare
Thanks, I noticed that I didn't get the notices for another article I did yesterday. White Arabian mare ( Neigh) 19:36, 30 October 2015 (UTC)White Arabian mare
The following maps are examples of a problem that has recently occured with places moving south. I have no idea how to solve the problem.
For example the Cornish Pirates ground is now situated in Mount's Bay. See the map at 2015–16 RFU Championship.
Other examples are 2015–16 English Premiership (rugby union) and 2015–16 Premier League.
Many thanks. Jowaninpensans ( talk) 18:44, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
Please watchlist Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Optional RfA candidate poll and drop by to give your views. Thank you kindly. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 00:00, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello, apologies for the delayed notice, but this is headsup that, on the mobile version, Wikidata search results will be showing underneath the article name while searching. This has already been active on beta for a while, how it works is that for a person on their mobile device, when they start typing in the search item, the description will show underneath each item like the example in the image.
. Thanks-- Melamrawy (WMF) ( talk) 11:29, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
How many new articles are submitted every day, week, or month? Of these, how many are accepted to creation? Evoapps ( talk) 01:56, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
I made checks on some photos of Special:ListFiles/Patrickroque01, especially on some places in , and I am feeling confused whether they are not transferrable to Commons (because of no freedom of panorama in the Philippines) or either de minimis or the work is ineligible for copyright. An administrator adds the Do not copy to Commons tag without double-checking whether an copyrighted architectural or art work is only incidental or not ineligible for copyright protection. I want someone to check on most of his images, mostly depicting places in Metro Manila with several buildings appearing on the image, whether they are de minimis or ineligible for copyright. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TagaSanPedroAko ( talk • contribs) 16:46, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
Many wishes from el-wikipedia for the 5 million articles! -- FocalPoint ( talk) 20:02, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello all,
The Wikimedia Foundation has just published a digest of community news on its blog. This will be a new weekly feature and aims to supplement already-existing community news outlets. The premiere edition features a story on Wiki Loves Africa and a list of short news items, all translated from English into seven languages.
Please pass it around! If you have news that you'd like be included next week, please send it directly to me or drop links into the new post's Meta page. Ed Erhart (WMF) ( talk) 19:23, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
We could really use a few participants to contact organizations. Please see:
Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 06:23, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
The RFC asks if two sources are the same and if we should remove sources that come to the same conclusions. Please help by providing uninvolved editor comments. AlbinoFerret 19:27, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
I previously started this thread about the issue of red links not showing in the mobile version. I was happy to recently see that they were working now. User:Melamrawy_(WMF), thanks and please send my thanks to whoever helped make that happen. Biosthmors ( talk) pls notify me (i.e. {{ U}}) while signing a reply, thx 00:55, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Give_out_Deletion_to_Quality_Awards.
A one-time-run would be totally acceptable here.
Is there any way either a bot or someone with a user script or automated or semi-automated skills, can help out here ?
Thank you,
— Cirt ( talk) 03:37, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
There is a phrase I find jarring, when I read it in US DoD documents, that I saw had crept into some of our articles.
DoD documents routinely use the phrase "to include" where everyone else would use "including". The wikipedia article on the M1117 Armored Security Vehicle currently says: "As of mid-2007, 1,729 vehicles were delivered or under contract with many being dispersed not just to MPs but numerous other military units to include the Iraqi National Police."
Is this DoD phrase even proper English? Does the DoD have their own style guide that requires using "to include", instead of "including"?
Is there any reason someone shouldn't change ever bad instance of the use of the phrase "to include", to "including", whenever they come across one? Geo Swan ( talk) 17:11, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
Assuming that Elizabeth II is viewed by the world as first & foremost the Queen of the United Kingdom. Should this be reflected throughout Elizabeth II related articles? GoodDay ( talk) 07:18, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
Contemporary worship music has a paragraph that includes the words "This sound clip". I don't know if there is a sopund clip somewhere, but the article needs something to indicate where the sound clip is, or that it doesn't have one. There are tags all over the article, but it obviously needs at least one more.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:18, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
I have tried to ask for sources for the following issues: [ [6]] Since I did not get any response for over a week now, I'd like to ask the same over here. Could anybody help me out on this? I'm limited by a white-list so it's impossible for me to gain sources myself... So, anybody...please? Oxygene7-13 ( talk) 16:36, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
Nominations for the 2015 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee elections are officially open. The nomination period runs from Sunday 00:00, 8 November (UTC) until Tuesday 23:59, 17 November (UTC). Editors interested in running should review the eligibility criteria listed at the top of Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2015/Candidates then create a candidate page following the instructions there. Mike V • Talk 00:09, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
Please help rollback changes made by 175.194.129.142 on Pump It Up Fiesta 2. The anon make multiple changes so it's hard to simply undo his revisions. Thanks in advance. -- Kurniasan ( talk) 15:07, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello
I come from the Wikipedia in French and I have a problem with a broken link on Nexus (magazine) : Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism. Annual Reports 1997: Australia. Accessed 3 January 2013
The link is broken and I cannot find this document on the web. On wp.fr, we have wikiwix archives on links, but this one gives a 404 error and I don't know if wp.en has archives and how to enable them.
Thnak you for your answers and please tell me if I didn't post in the right section. Regards, Ѕÿϰדα×₮ɘɼɾ๏ʁ You talkin' to me? 08:33, 8 November 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by SyntaxTerror ( talk • contribs)
Dear fellow wikipedians,
Wikipedia has been awarded the Erasmus Prize 2015. This prize is awarded annually to a person or institution that has made an exceptional contribution to culture, society or social science. The King of the Netherlands will present the award on 25 November. This will create media attention which will hopefully result in plenty of new volunteers. Prior to the award ceremony we would like to write and improve articles on former Erasmus Prize winners. All 80 former laureates should be notable enough to merit an article.
Please join the project and help us provide our fellow laureates with articles.
Sincerely, FrankTMeijer and Taketa ( talk) 21:17, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I'm going to be teaching new users to use Visual Editor system and noticed that it has an in depth user guide and quirky Adventure, but no intermediate tutorial. I'm thinking of adapting the guide to a quick Introduction_to-like format. I am concious, however, that there are already a lot of competing tutorials and introductions. Have there been any efforts in the last few years to consolidate them at all? Any advice on creating a simple one for VE? T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo) talk 12:27, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
Started For those interested. I've started a VE tutorial here:
help:introduction to editing (VE) and developed a unified template {{
intro to}}
.
T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)
talk
01:38, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
I'm French and I did an adaptation of my demonstration in French in Flambage corresponding to your page buckling, so I created the page Euler's critical load then I added 2 links towards this new page in the page buckling. Could somebody check about my English, AND more difficult about the mathematical notations? In this situation, it's usefull to know about this peculiar subject. I thank tou for your help.-- Jojodesbatignoles ( talk) 15:57, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
Anybody ever hear of this? Jim.henderson ( talk) 05:15, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
I'm personally waiting for Wikiopoly. See User:MER-C/Monopoly. :) --Jules (Mrjulesd) 12:59, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
I've played a golf-simulator on a IBM-PS1 when I was young(er) that claimed to have real sound. (during startup the game actually told you this) It must be from the mid 90s and was one of the first games that actually spoke. I have absolutely no idea what the name of this game was so I'd like to ask anybody who thinks to know this game to help me out. Thanx in advance: Oxygene7-13 ( talk) 17:28, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
Nothing significant, but I find it odd that none of the specific VP divisions contain a link back to the main WP:VP page. Should one be added somewhere near the top as a courtesy? — 烏Γ ( kaw) │ 08:25, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
Years ago (under a different username), I suggested the articles that are now at "Lists of box office number-one films in the United States." I looked at them recently, only to find some problems with them:
These articles are in need of cleanup. Theskinnytypist ( talk) 22:55, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
I am getting already for a week or longer every day, sometimes several times per day, alerts that my e-mail has been unsubscribed due to multiple delivery failures. Verification works every time (basically, I perform it after every alert). My e-mail is corporate. Does anyone else get it, or is this a problem at my end? Thanks.-- Ymblanter ( talk) 08:12, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
Where to ask questions about OUTING policy and if certain actions constitutes OUTING or not? Which noticeboard would be the most appropriate?-- MyMoloboaccount ( talk) 22:26, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
I need help from an editor who has experience with creating images such as this one of a scale. Please ping me or respond on my talk page. -- BullRangifer ( talk) 03:50, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello. I want to invite you to participate in this writing contest about natural sites of Spain and Portugal till December 6, 2015. You can join it in every language. More information in meta:WLE 2015 Writing Contest/en. Thanks. -- Millars ( talk) 22:56, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
All-Russia Athletic Federation is featured as bolded target in the Main Page, but the article may has some issues. I proposed "pull", but no one objected it being part of the Main Page.
UFC 193 is treated with disdain just because it's a sport? Look at UFC 193; there have been improvements. As for
Russian sports page, I have to clean it up, but how does a small page like that become featured? Is Wikipedia going against Russia despite quality issues? --
George Ho (
talk)
01:38, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
Look, never mind what I said. The sports page won't gain consensus anyway. Even posting story of ban on Russia would have been less logical if I hadn't been pressured to clean it up. George Ho ( talk) 03:11, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
Did Haystak really died? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.185.175.84 ( talk) 17:34, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
I remember recently seeing a graphic or report showing active editors on the rise again. Can anyone help me find that again? It sure would be nice to shove in the faces of those continuing to talk about our "decline". Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 20:53, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
Regarding the categories Economies, Economic systems and Economics: the 1st is subcategory of the 2nd, the 2nd is subcategory of the 3rd and the 3rd is subcategory of the 1st. Is this phenomenon acceptable? SoSivr ( talk) 17:00, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the tip, SoSivr. Fixed, by taking Economics out of Economies. (The first is a mode of study or analysis, the second a set of examples, cases, and related lingo. The first is not a subcategory of the second generally.) Please feel free to sharpen your taxonomic claws further by figuring out what the category Society belongs inside or outside of. :) -- econterms ( talk) 18:51, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
At Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Arbitration enforcement 2 the community is being marginalised by the committee.
It is ironic that this is taking place on a case which is largely a result of the Committee's own previous actions in the Gamergate, Gender Gap, Gun Contol, Lightbreather and AE1 cases, as well as their severely misjudged de-sysop of Yngvadottir.
We have elections coming up, it is true. But can we hold these people to account? They seem to be a law unto themselves, happy to act outside their competence and jurisdiction, and happy to ignore consensus.
All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough,
05:14, 8 November 2015 (UTC).
In November of 2005, I randomly selected 100 pages for a totally non-scientific survey of article quality. Ten years and 23,000 edits later, I've re-visited those pages to see how they've changed. Twelve of the original 100 have been deleted, while another four have been turned into redirects, leaving 77 articles, 6 disambiguation pages, and one list.
There have been two big success stories in the past decade.
First, sourcing: in November of 2005, only 15% of the articles I examined had sources. Today, footnotes have sprouted all over the place, and 86% of the articles have at least one source of some sort. Not everyone gets the reliable sources policy, though, with one article sourced almost entirely to comic book issues, and another to Baidu Baike.
Second, images with free-content licenses. In 2005, only 24 articles had images, and non-free and unsourced images were almost as common as freely-licensed ones. Today, 57 of the articles are illustrated. The number of free images has increased more than eight-fold, while the number of non-free images has dropped slightly.
Article quality has followed a generally upward trend: of the original articles, 44 were stubs and 20 were one-line substubs. Today, only two of the substubs remain, and almost half of the stubs have been expanded. There seems to be a ceiling to quality, though: in 2005, I did not rank any of the articles as being of "high quality"; today, there still aren't any that I would consider to be of high quality, even by the relaxed standards of 2005. By current standards, none of the original articles ranks above "B-class", and most are rated "C-class" or below.
As I found in the last three times I re-examined these pages, there's no correlation between number of edits and change in quality. The most-edited article ( Midfielder, at about 3150 edits since the last check) is largely unchanged in quality, while one of the most-improved ( Lichen planus) saw only 429.
And finally, all three Digimon articles in the original set are gone, either deleted or turned into redirects. -- Carnildo ( talk) 11:15, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
I can think of at least two possible interpretations of this result.
-- Guy Macon ( talk) 17:07, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
Ok, my impression is that a great many old articles lie fallow after creation, so I'd be curious if you did it a second time, with a random mix of old and new articles (given there were less than a million in 2005 it should mean the majority will be new) and compare quality then. Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 19:16, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
According to this Forbes article, an EU plan for copyright reform might make it possible that payment can be exacted from Wikipedia for displaying external links to content of European publishers, something we do in the References sections of countless articles. Is it as bad as it sounds? Do we need to act to keep this from becoming reality? -- Lambiam 11:07, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
Two options:
I'm not sure which would be more cheerful. They're both delightful otpions. Alsee ( talk) 05:15, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
I need another set of eyes at Princeton Theological Seminary please. An editor representing the Princeton Theological Review began attempting to place non-neutral, conflict of interest edits onto the page. I've reverted twice, notified the editor, and reported the account the UAA. Post this, another new account is now trying to push the same information plus more onto the article. I've reverted twice on that page already, and so I'm walking away from it. Other eyes, please. -- Hammersoft ( talk) 15:23, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
Can someone with AWB or some other tool, go around and datestamp the unsigned mass posting [17] made in June 2015 by Another Believer ( talk · contribs) ? There are tens or hundreds of WikiProjects that were mass posted to, but all those with automated archival cannot archive that section because it doesn't have a datestamp. This problem can be seen at WT:SPORTS [18], where successive archivebot runs fail to archive this mass posting an event that has since expired. Newer sections have already been archived, yet this message remains [19] [20] [21]. This occurs in several WikiProjects, so all should have datestamps attached that haven't already had datestamps added or been manually archived or deleted.
-- 70.51.44.60 ( talk) 08:23, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
RFC
located here.
Quis separabit?
16:38, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
Many of them should be moved to Category:Redirects from alternative scientific names, since they are not linguistic synonyms but taxonomic synonyms, e.g. Arctus pygmaeus, and the alternative scientific name category refers to taxonomic synonyms. I want to move these redirects to the taxonomic synonym category, but I can't do this without your help because they are too many and I don't have much time, so please help me.-- RekishiEJ ( talk) 08:53, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
There is an RfC on whether the heavy metal music article should include an image of a metal band in the infobox. Please contribute your views at the RfC located here. OnBeyondZebrax • TALK 15:27, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
Notice of RfC on Eagles of Death Metal talk page: /info/en/?search=Talk:Eagles_of_Death_Metal#RfC:_Anti-Israel_Boycott_-_Roger_Waters :
Is the conflict between Eagles and Death Metal and and the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) activists (eg Roger Waters) over their performances in Israel, and the band's strong public confrontational statements against BDS and support for Israel relevant. and should be mentioned in the history section? Should the following below be added to this article? prepared by --Moxy (talk) 19:54, 20 November 2015 (UTC) as per Ronreisman previous attempt in wrong location
The band performed at the Barby Club in Tel Aviv, Israel, in spite of pressure from anti-Israeli Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activists. Roger Waters sent a letter to the band which reportedly demanded that they boycott Israel. Hughes publicly commented on Waters' letter at the Tel Aviv concert, saying "I would never boycott a place like this ... You know what I wrote back? Two words ... Never waste your time worrying about what an asshole thinks about you.” Hughes repeated the obvious two-word profanity to the cheering crowd. During the show he said “I’ve never felt more at home in my life”
"Concert review: The Eagles of Death Metal". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
"Paris attacks: Eagles of Death Metal defied pro-Palestine boycott movement and Roger Waters to play Israel". Retrieved November 20, 2015.
Jesse Hughes, Eagles Of Death Metal Tell BDS And Roger Waters Where To Go, Israel July 12th" youtube.
— User:Ronreisman
Previous talks can bee seen above at Talk:Eagles of Death Metal#Threats to bataclan wording and at Talk:Roger Waters#Conflict with VIctims of November 2015 Paris attacks
Ronreisman ( talk) 16:54, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
I got an email this morning, supposedly from Jimmy Wales, asking for a donation.
My email client highlighted it as a possible scam, presumable because links that superficially appeared to go to wikimedia.com actually direct to wikimedia.mkt4477.com.
However, the email addressed me by name and knew how much I donated last year.
On the other hand, there is nothing on the front page about the appeal.
If this is a scam, there needs to be a prominent warning on the front page.
If it isn't a scam there needs to be something obvious on the front page to show that the yearly appeal is in progress. PRL42 ( talk) 10:19, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
This very very very very inappropriate behavior there. I was blocked merely because of my nationality. I just cleaned up my talk page and that was a reason for a block. Note that there was a Serbo-Croatian war during the 1990s. But there is no reason for this kind of nationalistic behavior.
As you can see here https://hr.wikipedia.org/?title=Razgovor_sa_suradnikom:VS6507&action=history this admin user on hr wiki is harassing me because of the nationality. Whom should I ask for help? Alex ( talk) 16:38, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
Hey all, I wanted to inform everyone of two discussions with WikiProject Military history and WikiProject Med, about piloting links to WP:Research help in articles, Astinson (WMF) ( talk) 00:32, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
In the section Space_flight_simulator_game#Trade_Wars, why is there a "non-primary source needed" tag after the bit about games being influenced by Trade Wars? Isn't a quote by a developer exactly the type of thing you want? SharkD Talk 00:14, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
{{ WikiProject Death}} features two different images of human skulls, one a photograph. Is it acceptable for such images to be posted on the talk pages of articles on recent massacres such as the Paris shootings, fatal aircraft cashes or other violent deaths? Please discuss, at Template talk:WikiProject Death#Images. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:58, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
2015 Minneapolis shooting needs eyes to keep it NPOV. I removed the worst, but it still needs work. All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough,
20:17, 27 November 2015 (UTC).
I ran into this wiki today. Quite interesting how there's a wiki full of discarded Wikipedia pages! Does anyone here have knowledge of the circumstances of its birth? smileguy91 talk - contribs 22:44, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
Note that Joe Marston died on november 29 according to sources on Google. Thank you.
There is a RfC at Template talk:Infobox language#RfC: What should the language infobox display when editors have not found any speaker figures?:
In the case that editors have looked for speaker figures, but have not found any, they can set the parameter speakers of
Template:Infobox language to ?
. This currently causes the infobox to display “Native speakers (no data)”. There are two questions:
Thanks for your comments. -- mach 🙈🙉🙊 09:38, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
A lot of work went into creating brochures about various WikiProjects for Wikimania 2014, then they disappeared. I think the brochures should be available to be used by the projects for other promotional occasions - using them only once is a waste of effort. Where are the brochures now and what needs to be done to make them available for reuse by the respective projects? Roger (Dodger67) ( talk) 11:53, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi folks, am going to run this competition in January. see Wikipedia:Take the lead!. Cheers, Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 02:29, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
Much of the Tyron Akins is copied from his Auburn Tigers bio. Ssu ( talk) 06:50, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
See this The Atlantic report:
This affects Wikipedia since we use newspaper articles as sources. If any Wikipedians actually have subscriptions to The Wall Street Journal etc. it would be very useful for them to focus on federal government political reporting. Writing content on Wikipedia and pointing to relevant articles could help overcome this issue. WhisperToMe ( talk) 22:50, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
Dear Wikipedians,
(Please let us know if we need to post this in a different section of the Village Pump. I will move it there.)
I am a computer science PhD student at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. We are working on a project in which we plan to invite some Wikipedia editors to complete a survey. We will describe the overview of the research proposal and invite you to review and approve. Thanks for your tremendous help!
Project overview: The project focuses on identifying the main article and sub article relationship in a purpose of better serving the Wikipedia article structure. (For example, main article: United States and sub-article History of the United States). Accordingly to the definition of {Main} Template, "(w)hen a Wikipedia article is large, it is often written in summary style. This template is used after the heading of the summary, to link to the subtopic article that has been summarized." However, the use of the {main} template is not well executed and contains a lot of misclassification. This relationship is important for artificial intelligent system that uses concept level Wikipedia content and for reducing the language barrier on multilingual wikipedia.
Survey overview: The purpose of the survey is to understand editor's understanding of the main/sub article relationship and their decision criteria when they create sub-articles. We want to recruit 30 editors to fill out an online survey, which can be completed in about 5 mins.
Participant: We want to recruit a mixture of editors who have created main/sub-article relationship (expert) and who haven't done so. We will identify the expert by mining the edit history of the article that contains correct use of the Template{Main}.
Recruiting method: We will leave message in the editors' user talk page.The message will include greeting, brief introduction of this study, appreciation and link to the survey.
We will make sure we contact the editors and conduct the survey in a respectful manner to the Wikipedian and the community. Please feel free to let us know if you have any concerns!
Thanks Allen Lin. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cheetah90 ( talk • contribs) 22:01, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
Feel free to reuse. Design is courtesy of User:Brianhe. -- Pine ✉ 18:39, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
This user was a member of the Wikipedia community when it was awarded the Erasmus Prize. |
There is a current RFC regarding a passage in the Muhammad article. If anyone cares to join the link is here: /info/en/?search=Talk:Muhammad#rfc_06D1994 Tivanir2 ( talk) 23:29, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi!
I don't know where to go with this because the situation is so absurd. I have been trying for weeks to make the article about the controversial party Sweden Democrats on the Swedish version sv:Sverigedemokraterna and I have just been unjustly banned for the second time. The problem is that the same guys who are against changing anything of importance on that page are also administrators with weird arguments for example: if one member of a discussion leaves, nobody can change anything until his outspoken approval has been shown(1) and that is does not effect the conclusion if the leading investigator of the state investigation about whether or not Sweden democrats are racist or not was an outspoken enemy of the Sweden Democrats(2). They also actively engages in Wikipedia:Edit warring(3).
I think it is very difficult anyone who isn't very interested in Swedish Politics the controversy regarding the Sweden Democrats and not even all Swedes understand it. Basically there is two perspectives. One perspective is in early days they were associated with right wing extremist and some say once extremist always extremist. The other perspective is that history is not that relevant and wants to focus on today's politics. The later perspective does not exist in any shape or form on the Swedish version of Wikipedia, but does in the English version(Moderation and growth, Into parliament, Rise in support). When I tried to introduce this to Swedish article I got banned when an administrator reset the article without barely commenting(4). Look at the statements that were removed and tell if the were controversial, and see the several page discussion about these changes.
To give you some context of the topic Sweden takes 6 times as many immigrates as Germany (5) and while USA debates whether or not it should take 10 000 Syrian refugees. Sweden accepts 10 000 refugees per week although several times smaller than USA. Sweden Democrats is the only party that has been questioning this. Although they are considered extreme what they actually say is that they want to bring down immigration to Denmark's level(about 90 % less). There has never been any negative comments about the size of the immigration in the Swedish mainstream news, but it has been mentioned in the New York Times (6). Recently a Iranian immigrant sv:Tino Sanandaji with a degree from University of Chicago who mainstream media can't play the racist card on has started to speak up against media, and also leaked documents about the government tried to cover up the cost of immigration (7). Although he has found a translator now, most of this is in Swedish currently. Here he criticize the largest newspaper Dagens Nyheter who even though OECD concluded that immigration was a net loss for Sweden, reported that they claimed it was a net gain(8).
Where do I go with this and how I get rid of the bias on Swedish Wikipedia when the admins are biased?
[22] 1. [23] "Det finns ingen tidsgräns. Yger (diskussion) 28 november 2015 kl. 11.06 (CET) " 2. [24] Utredaren - oavsett vem det är - har att följa uppdragsgivarens (regeringens) direktiv Lindansaren (diskussion) 30 oktober 2015 kl. 15.45 (CET) 3. [25] Every criteria fulfilled 4. [26] "återställer kontroversiella redigeringar. Det blev väldigt fokus på vad sd tycker där." 4 december 2015 kl. 16.34 Averater 5. [27] 6. [28] 7. [29] 8. [30]
I know I have been trolling in my early Wikipedia days, but I have been serious now for a couple of years. And this is serious. Does this community agree with them or not? Maybe I am just insane-- Immunmotbluescreen ( talk) 18:57, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
Gladstone Anderson really died ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.185.175.84 ( talk) 16:54, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
I request the developers of Wikipedia and technical support team to please consider my request. My request is that Wikipedia should develop an official Wikipedia app for windows mobile phone users. Ankit2299 ( talk) 16:59, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
Is Wikipedia a place where you can meet new people and make friends? I tried to work and cooperate well with others, but I get treated negatively or underappreciated. Yes, Wikipedia is not a social network, but I hoped that Wikipedia is a welcoming community. Right now, disdain has been common, discouraging a newcomer's efforts to make friends here. Probably a successful Wiki-alike competitor would invite everyone alike... besides Wikia. -- George Ho ( talk) 03:12, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
In line with the diffusion of free knowledge, in recent years Wikimedia Spain has celebrated Wiki Loves Monuments and Wiki Loves Earth, photographic contests that serve to value the historical, artistic and natural heritage. In that sense, we believe that another important aspect of the culture of a country is its folklore and, within this, its festivals and traditions.
Along with its monumental or natural wealth, Spain has a rich and varied folklore worth to value: religious celebrations, festivals, food festivals... For that reason we´ll organize a new contest in 2016, Wiki Loves Folk, focusing on this type of cultural heritage. While in the past we have based on Sites of Cultural Interest and Sites of Community Importance, in this case we propose the promotion of those celebrations that have any of the following statements: International Touristic Interest, National Touristic Interest, Regional Touristic Interest and Provincial Touristic Interest.
At this moment we are immersed in preparations but very soon we´ll publish details of the competition: celebration dates, rules for participation, awards, etc. We invite you to participate in their organization and preparations. Best regards. -- Rodelar ( talk) 12:13, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello, continuing preparations for Wiki Loves Folk, we propose a contest for choosing the logo; the dates for submitting proposals are between December 10, 2015 and January 31, 2016 and the voting period between February 1 and February 10, 2016. More information and rules on this page. Regards. -- Rodelar ( talk) 12:16, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello Wikimedians!
The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on
our partners page, including
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The Wikipedia Library Team 01:01, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
The category
Problem solving is a subcategory of the category
Creativity; also the latter is a subcategory of the former.
Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)/Archive_51#The_3_categories_Economies.2C_Economic_systems_and_Economics SoSivr ( talk) 18:04, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
Moreover I made suitable subcategories of Creativity subcategories of Problem solving (two subcateg/s of Creativity,
Abstraction and
Imagination, ARE ALREADY subcateg/s of Problem solving, a good sign !). For example:
Is there a transwiki process (such as tagging templates) to use to mark pages that are not written in English to move to a different, appropriate language Wikipedia ?
And is there a way to mark content that is not English and clearly not meant to be on English Wikipedia for deletion? (Pages that WP:PNT says are not within its purview, therefore not appropriate content for English Wikipedia)
-- 70.51.44.60 ( talk) 05:02, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
I know all edits come with submitted timestamps but is there a way to find out how long it took someone to compose an edit? One way would be to use the difference between when the editing window was first opened and the submitted time, but as far as I know the time at which the edit is started is not recorded. I don't think any information about previews leading up to a submission is recorded either. Just seeing if anyone knows something I don't.
Evoapps ( talk) 03:25, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
After some sleuthing, I've uncovered a few answers to my original question that I want to post here. Here is a research project that aims to answer this question specifically. Research:Measuring editor labor hours. Various session metrics can be combined to estimate the activity session. Research:Activity session
Evoapps ( talk) 14:53, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
Another cycle in the category tree: the category
People is a subcategory of the category
Humans; also the latter is a subcategory of the former.
In my opinion among the two subcategory relationships the first one is the one that should be preferred.
--Related:
Wikipedia:Categorization#Subcategorization (shortcut:
WP:SUBCAT)
--First related post/discussion:
Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)/Archive_51#The_3_categories_Economies.2C_Economic_systems_and_Economics
--Second related post/discussion:
#A_cycle_in_the_category_tree:_Problem_solving_and_Creativity
SoSivr (
talk)
21:03, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello. I want to invite you to participate in a writing contest about three state museums in Madrid (Museum of Romaticism, Museo del Traje and National Archaeological Museum), from today December 14, 2015 till January 14, 2016. You can join it in every language. More information in GLAMing Madrid Challenge. Best, -- Rodelar ( talk) 09:24, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
Please feel free to contribute | on this RfC . KoshVorlon 13:30, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
There is an RfC at Help talk:IPA for English#RfC: Should we continue recommending the sign ⟨ɵ⟩?:
We are currently recommending that the sign ⟨ɵ⟩ be used for a reduced vowel diaphoneme that can correspond either to the phoneme /oʊ/ or the phoneme /ə/, for example in the word omission. Should we continue to do so?
In the IPA, the sign ⟨ɵ⟩ represents the close-mid central rounded vowel. Our use of ⟨ɵ⟩ is based on Bolinger, Dwight (1986), Intonation and Its Parts, Stanford University Press, pp. 347–360. Bolinger proposed not to analyze the reduced vowels as mere versions of the full vowels, but as a special set consisting of three vowels: The “fronted” Willie vowel /ɨ/, the “central” Willa vowel /ə/, and the “backed” willow vowel /ɵ/. Bolinger’s use is slightly different from ours (1) because Bolinger’s /ɵ/ is not a diaphoneme, but a phoneme; (2) because there are words such as willow or lasso or the second part of the MOUTH diphthong where Bolinger would use /ɵ/, but we would not; and (3) because Bolinger’s analysis allows for an alternation between /ɵ/ and /ə/ in words such as canopy, Indonesia, allophonic, or composition.
The English Wikipedia is the only major dictionary that has adopted Bolinger’s sign ⟨ɵ⟩ in a broad phonemic IPA transcription scheme (for an overview of other dictionaries’ broad phonemic IPA transcription schemes, see Help:IPA conventions for English#Reduced vowels).
If you are interested in the edit history of ⟨ɵ⟩ on Help:IPA for English, you may want to check out User:J. 'mach' wust/sandbox#Edit history of ⟨ɵ⟩ (with diff links etc.).
Thanks for your comments. -- mach 🙈🙉🙊 12:42, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
Note that Gabre Gabric died on 16 december acording to sources. Thank You. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.185.175.84 ( talk) 15:58, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
For amusement value – Secure Restoration advertises themselves by saying "as featured on Wikipedia.org", meaning simply that we cite them (or did, until I just deleted the relevant paragraph). I'd never realised that was something to brag about! I tried to snapshot the page with WebCite for posterity, but it seems to have refused the bot. A version of the site from May is archived by the Wayback Machine, but it precedes our "endorsement". Adrian J. Hunter( talk• contribs) 08:01, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
Hey folks. I’m seeking your help to decide on topics for new IdeaLab campaigns that could be run starting next year. These campaigns are designed to attract proposals from Wikimedia project contributors that address a broad gap or area of need in Wikimedia projects.
Here’s how to participate:
With thanks,
I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation. 23:02, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
At WP:AfD, there is currently no or little backlog, however, for the first time in several months, votes are clearly in much demand. We have many nominated articles with no votes even after being multiply relisted. Please spend a bit of time commenting on nominations, most importantly where there are no or few votes. Thanks.-- Ymblanter ( talk) 09:06, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
I'm currently seeing a banner for Wikimania 2016, which reads:
The Wikimania Conference is now open for scholarship applications and program submissions.See the main page for more information.
The page to which it links has nothing about scholarships, and there is nothing on the "main page" of this wiki. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:30, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
Dear Wiki[p,m]edians,
the call for proposals for Wikimania 2016 is open! All the members of the Wikimedia projects, researchers and observers are invited to propose a critical issue to be included in the programme of the conference, which will be held in Italy, in Esino Lario, from June 21 to 28.
Through this call we only accept what we call critical issues, i.e. proposals aiming at presenting problems, possible solutions and critical analysis about Wikimedia projects and activities in 18 minutes. These proposals do not need to target newbies, and they can assume attendees to already have a background knowledge on a topic (community, tech, outreach, policies...).
To submit a presentation, please refer to the
Submissions page on the Wikimania 2016 website. Deadline for submitting proposals is 7th January 2016 and the selection of these proposals will be through a blind peer-reviewed process. Looking forward to your proposals. --
Yiyi (
Dimmi!)
09:03, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi all, I am coordinating a contest in January - Wikipedia:Take the lead! - and have discovered that many many articles with either no or too-short leads are not tagged as such. Rather than tag-bomb all over the place, I reckon it'd be good to tag high-importance or vital articles, things that are broad, important or accessible. I've done a bit but would be grateful if any folks decided to do some selective tagging with {{no lead}} or {{lead too short}}. For more info see the contest page or discussion here. Cheers, Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 06:09, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
Apparently Timed text is now functional on enwiki, but I can’t find anything about it beside the article. Apparently you create a page in some format in the TimedText namespace, and that page somehow gets linked to a related file in File namespace. I looked at Wikipedia:Timed text, but that is a broken soft link to Commons. I looked also at WP:ACCESSIBILITY, and the outdated mention there said only that as of 2012 it is not available on enwiki.
What raised the issue for me was what to do with a non-free TimedText page: WP:NFC hardly mentions “Timed text” and “Timedtext”; so I started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Non-free content/Archive 65#Non-free TimedText. — teb728 t c 22:12, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
Assuming there's a way to do so in bulk, could someone move the sub-pages of Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Reference library/Top video games lists to the Wikipedia namespace please? Currently most of them are in my user space still. User:SharkD/Top_video_games_lists/15 is an example. There's about 100 of them. Thanks! SharkD Talk 02:52, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
We expanded the collection videos on Wikimedia Commons with historical newsreel footage. Hereunder you can see some examples in this category all 392 videos can be found. This donation involves footage and newsreels from WWII and the Dutch state mines (coal mines) and footage of daily life. If you would like to help in matching videos to articles relevant to the subject, you can use this tool and it will take you directly to an overview of all videos that have not been used yet on the Dutch Wikipedia. Kind regards, Beeld en Geluid Collecties ( talk) 10:02, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
So, the donation banner states: "We'll get right to it: this week, we ask you to help Wikipedia". Well "this week"' seems to have dragged on for quite a while, as I recall being pestered by the banner for the past 3 weeks, despite dismissing it and already donating. How long is the fundraising campaign? If it runs for the whole of December, then the WMF needs to be transparent with their readers rather than suggesting a span of only a week. It should say "this month". It's annoying, misleading and poor practice. JamesA >talk 13:57, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
I am planning to participate more in WikiNews and to advertise it. However, I have never written the first article in my life. Also, the rules demanded originality and creativity. If I can participate more in WikiNews, I do not need to worry about Wikipedia's ITN anymore. Must I be a journalist or attend journalism courses before doing so? -- George Ho ( talk) 01:19, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
Hurray! My first article got published... Well, someone else made copy editing, but what the heck! By the way, how can I repopulate the sister site? It almost looks dead with bunch of FIFA and stuff. -- George Ho ( talk) 06:19, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
Apparently I'm someone's hobby. - Richfife ( talk) 00:42, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
I am a 19 year old university student. On 16 December 2015, CISA was passed in the US Congress.
/info/en/?search=Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA
In January 2012, Wikipedia instigated protest of the nefarious SOPA and PIPA initiatives by blacking out its website for 24 hours. I will never forget it. I hope it doesn't become our fifth of November.
You and 100, 000 other websites forced the hand of the Whitehouse: "[We will] not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet."
Why the comparative silence on more recent, arguably more important internet freedom setbacks?
Please, Wiki, I do not want to live in a future where private communications must be government approved.
Millennials are counting on you. The future of humanity may well depend on our ability to freely exchange information --and our ability to keep other information private.
It's time for another blackout. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.114.29.54 ( talk) 22:12, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
There are a lot of contexts where the term "modern" can be redundant, ambiguous, or imho, a weasel word.
For example, airplanes are a very modern technology, so references to "modern airplanes" could include all airplanes, distinguishing them from kites and medieval gliders, or could include all airplanes since the Wright Flyer, distinguishing them from earlier experiments, or all airplanes still in use, or hundreds of other possibilities.
Outside technical terms such as "anatomically modern Homo sapiens," "modernism," and so on, maybe it would help to try to find other words.
"Airplanes in the modern era" and "airplanes since the Wright Flyer" might be awkward, but "present-day aircraft" might be a better alternative for the last set, even if the present changes from time to time. 108.45.79.25 ( talk) 21:59, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
Please put Aafje Heynis into the deaths list. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.185.175.84 ( talk) 14:28, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello,
I've made a grant request to go to the Youth Olympic Games who will take place in Lillehammer in February 2016. I will be accredited as a media photographer and will be able to take high quality pictures for the Wikimedia projects. You can endorse this request here.
Happy holidays to all.
Pleclown ( talk) 17:49, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
Niantic Labs, now named "Niantic, Inc.", is a real company, the developer of the augmented reality video game Ingress. Within the game is an organization called the Niantic Project, which like all the characters in the game is fictional. Niantic Labs maintains a number of in-universe websites that its players ("Agents") can interact with, including several for the Niantic Project. These websites report on events and people that exist only within the game as if they were real.
The article for Niantic, Inc. is in the hidden Category:Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia. The article correctly lists http://nianticlabs.com/ as the company's official website, but Wikidata lists http://www.nianticproject.com/, which is the in-universe supposed website of the fictional Niantic Project.
I tried to edit the Wikidata page to correct it, but I've never used Wikidata before and am totally unfamiliar with it. Whatever I tried to do raised an error, and I couldn't save anything. I don't expect to use Wikidata, and so I don't want to invest the time and effort it'd take to make this one fix. Would someone who can please do so? Thank you. Please {{Ping}} me to discuss. -- Thnidu ( talk) 20:53, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
There is an active RfC about the White privilege article.
To view and/or participate, follow the link:
Talk:White privilege#RFC: Neutrality of the first paragraph
Richard27182 (
talk)
08:51, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
Has anyone ever heard or used this term? If so...or if not...make a comment at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Permastub..... Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 23:50, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
An RfC has been initiated to determine whether or not the title, Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, is a significant alternate name that belongs in the lead section of the article. The RfC can be found here: Talk:Star Wars: The Force Awakens#RfC: Is "Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens" an alternate title to the film?. -- GoneIn60 ( talk) 00:25, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
Should "The Fitz and the Fool Trilogy" and "The Ki and Vandien tales" be italicized in Robin Hobb article? I am not sure they are official titles. SharkD Talk 01:15, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
Need some extra eyes on this one. User:Wrestlinglover is pressing for the inclusion of a combined reigns table in at least the NXT championship article. Despite being informed that the table is redundant until there is a two time champion he insists that the table he wants incorporates "new information", when the information is already available in the table above through the list of champions in chronological order. I started a vote to involve other editors and to maybe get him to see that maybe he is wrong by pure numbers or by further comments. But he refuses to budge - creating an impasse. The "discussion" (more like a circular debate that he admits to fueling here) can be found here. Mega Z090 ( talk) 03:34, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
While editing the page Peyton, I noticed two really strangely named articles:
I would suggest renaming them to Peyton Randolph (politician, 1779–1828) and Peyton Randolph (politician, 1721–1775), respectively. I'm not sure what the convention is for dead people; if it is to only list the birth date, then go with that. nyuszika7h ( talk) 23:30, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
There are references in Wikipedia to documents (or video/audio/images) from groups such as ISIS and AQ but no link to the actual material. Is this because of copyright or is it suppressed because of some other legal reason? Keith McClary ( talk) 05:48, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
On January 1 we celebrate
Public Domain Day as many works of authors who died 70+ years ago now enter the public domain and can be used freely.
Let us be aware: copyright is temporary. It only lasts during the authors lifetime and 70 years afterwards (in most countries). During those years it is limiting Wikipedia and her sister projects in showing works of art, literature, public art and buildings in countries without freedom of panorama, and more in the articles. But now a new batch is freed from copyrights!
An overview of images and texts that are restored or added to the Wikimedia Commons, are collected on: this page.
Many of these files still need a place in articles. You can help!
You can also help by uploading new files of subjects that are freed of copyrights.
You can also help by tagging all requests for deletion pages with the
category when the file can be restored, which will be/was deleted.
As I follow the log of restored files this week, more images and texts will follow. If still files or texts are missing in the list, let me know or add them yourselves.
A very happy Public Domain Day! Romaine ( talk) 11:53, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
The article Yuribey Bridge include a claim that "Photos can be shown only on Russian Wikipedia, because of Russian law.". This seems dubious; can anyone explain, or refute, that please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:18, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
There is a Request for Comment at the Talk page for transhumanist politics. The Transhumanist Party recently finished an American bus tour – should it be mentioned in the "History" section of the article? – Haptic-feedback ( talk) 07:00, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
I m not native speaker of English but i created few days ago new article, Pałapus. I am not able/i cannot insert coordinates into infobox can you help me? Prywaciarz101 ( talk) 12:41, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
So I finally decided to clean out my watchlist hoard today. I've managed to cut it down to around 6000 pages. I'm guessing this is still waaay too much. I'd like to get a general feel for where I am compared with the rest of the community. Am I in the norm? Am I way beyond average? (I'm thinking it could only be the latter, heh.) It looks like there was a small survey done back in 2007 which was helpful, but perhaps standards have changed since then. So just wondering, how big is your watchlist? ;D -- œ ™ 05:58, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello. User 1.39.49.93 ( talk · contribs) has made several edits today, mostly just deleting photos that didn't need deleting. I reverted most of the edits, but 4 edits were made to sex-related articles, which I don't feel comfortable editing. If someone there wants to have a look at this editor's contributions I'd appreciate it. Thank you. Magnolia677 ( talk) 13:43, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello. Is there an easy way to archive the external links of an article? I used to do this by hand, one by one. But it takes time. Xaris333 ( talk) 06:49, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:ExxonMobil#Request for comment: ExxonMobil among most vocal climate change deniers. Thanks. Hugh ( talk) 21:14, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Nations_and_intelligence#rfc:_Lead_section. -- The Master ( talk) 03:44, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
Dear Wikimedians,
the deadline for the call for proposals for Wikimania 2016 has been moved on 17th January 2016, so you have 10 days to submit you proposal(s). To submit a presentation, please refer to the
Submissions page on the Wikimania 2016 website. --
Yiyi (
Dimmi!)
09:48, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
As our mission here is the gathering of knowledge, I thought this article might be of interest here - Kenyon, Georgina (2016-01-06). "The man who studies the spread of ignorance". www.bbc.com. It touches on various issues that (imho) should matter to the WP community. Roger (Dodger67) ( talk) 15:00, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
I have turned M Magazine into a disambiguation page, however I am not sure whether the current title of M (magazine) is appropriate or what it should be renamed to. And perhaps the redlink M Magazine (U.S.) could have a better name too, as the former is a U.S. magazine too. I would appreciate advice on this. nyuszika7h ( talk) 19:26, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
If one views an old revision, there is a functional "Edit" link at the top. If they edit the revision, it reverts all edits made after the time of that revision. I've done this unintentionally once, and I've seen it done once by another editor. In the latter case, it would have gone unnoticed had I not noticed the problem three days after the fact (by which time it was un-undoable and somewhat difficult to fix). Is there a legitimate need for this Edit link? ― Mandruss ☎ 01:59, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
I note that there is a red warning about this at the top of the edit session. In the above-cited two cases, that wasn't enough to prevent the mistake. It seems unlikely that I and the other editor are the only two idiots editing Wikipedia, and we should be idiot-proof wherever possible. ― Mandruss ☎ 02:08, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
Could anyone point me toward a tool that would give some statistics as to whether pages are found by readers directly or through a redirect page. I am looking to do some analysis as to whether we are using common names or not. W C M email 19:06, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
I will be away for a few days. Normally, I would ask that you have Wikipedia finished by the time I return, but I will be more modest this time, and merely ask that all the disambiguation links be fixed. Cheers! bd2412 T 18:56, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
Bonjour,
I manage a project called LibreIdea since August 2014.
It s a wikipedia of ideas (we called them ingenies) and research questions with the goal to create a collaborative tool of progress.
Our main objective is to create cocis that will assist us to create ideas.
Vev ( talk) 22:51, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
The second major WADA ( World Anti-Doping Agency) report into corruption etc has made front page headlines over the past few days. It is a major issue. But the WADA article and those associated with it have received virtually no edits at all. I've spent some time today updating Lamine Diack (head of the IAAF for sixteen years). But otherwise, it's virtually nothing. At. All.
Astonishing, eh? Maybe not. It reflects how it is that so many editors spend time editing pages of subjects that they are themselves interested in, such as the hundreds (probably) that have been editing David Bowie since Monday morning.
Though I wouldn't mind doing so, I simply don't have the time to update all the relevant articles, so I'm drawing the attention of whoever is reading this to the situation. As things stand, I think it reflects rather badly on Wikipedia.
Incidentally, in case you're thinking that this situation is only something occurring this week, or in the case of relevant Wiki editing, not occurring this week, if you look at Doping in sport you'll find that the headline-grabbing Sunday Times feature of a few months ago doesn't get one mention. Seriously! It seems that this whole area in athletics - and it is a major one - just doesn't raise the interest of those who are Wiki editors. And it also suggests that some wholesale updates are necessitated.
Now I know that Wiki editing is voluntary, no-one needs to point that out to me, but... Boscaswell ( talk) 16:44, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
Hello
Today, Wikipedia celebrate its 15 years anniversary.
However ... even after 15 years, content about Africa in general, and African women in particular, is still limited on the world's largest source of knowledge. For this reason, it was important to some of us to celebrate Wikipedia 15 by organising a bilingual (English/French) writing contest to increase the number of notable African women that are covered on Wikipedia. This contest is also meant as a starting point of m:Wiki Loves Women, a content liberation project related to Women in Africa in 6 countries.
We would love to see you participate to the writing contest !
If you want to, there are 3 ways to participate
It is all meant to be an easy going contest... no hassle... just for the pleasure of working together on a theme still little covered on Wikipedia
Anthere ( talk) 11:36, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi everybody, We are gathering right now in the context of the event Heroines organized by Just for the Record. We are discussing about the best way to think about the distinction between the terms hero and heroine. If you are interested in this discussion, you are welcomed to follow and participate to it on the Hero talk page. Léonie Butler ( talk) 14:49, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
What were the first articles on Wikipedia? Jackiespeel ( talk) 22:24, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
Gentlemen, may I inquire about the Russian propaganda article? For what reason it has been replaced with a redirect? There is in Ukrainian Wikipedia a imposing article that pins accusations upon the Russian, in particular, upon the Russian publicity machine. I ask for the explanations.
Yours sincerely
-- В.Галушко ( talk) 23:42, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
I'm not an expert on categorization, so I thought I'd ask around: why do we have categories such as Category:Terrorism victims and its subcats (victims of specific attacks or sorts of terrorism)? Per WP:DEFINING, only defining attributes of people should be categorized. But being a terrorism victim is normally not defining, because most terror attacks strike people more or less at random. People are usually not notable for being terrorism victims alone ( WP:BIO1E), so whatever makes them notable is normally something else that they are more appropriately categorized for. Sandstein 12:12, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
Do IP editors receive notifications regarding the rollback or reversion of their edits, particularly in cases of vandalism? I can't help wondering whether this is desirable behaviour or not, as it seems to encourage re-reverting. -- ℕ ℱ 22:45, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
{{
ping}}
, by the way. The only way to "notify" an IP editor of anything is via their user talk page (which uses a different mechanism from that described on the previously linked page). ―
Mandruss
☎
05:12, 18 January 2016 (UTC)Please correct the error. 206.47.112.137 ( talk) 05:02, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
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05:51, 18 January 2016 (UTC)Your attention is called to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cities#Request for comment, where a discussion is being held concerning the Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, article. BeenAroundAWhile ( talk) 19:39, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
We have some issues over at the article Paleolithic diet that i think could use some more editors with fresh eyes and some fresh input to see what's going on and what may need some help moving discussions forward. If you have some time to take a look, i appreciate it. I'm posting this as suggested at WP:CONSENSUS as a way to help when there seems to be a logjam in consensus building. There is suggests posting on the Village Pump where "Neutrally worded notification of a dispute here also may bring in additional editors who may help." So that's what i've done here, to see if it may attract some editors who have time. I've also posted at WP:NPOVN but got little response from there so far. SageRad ( talk) 16:17, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
The project has
three core content policies one of which is
NPOV, the policy which is briefly explained as such: "All Wikipedia articles and other encyclopedic content must be written from a neutral point of view, representing significant views fairly, proportionately and without bias."
Looking into criticism type articles, one will find that those articles are not written from a neutral point of view because not all significant views are presented "fairly, proportionately and without bias." Yes, there are some notable views from notable figures, but they are not the whole story. To fix this problem I propose to act based on
Wikipedia:Criticism and avoid having separate articles on criticisms besides having no stand alone article on 'praise'. Instead, we may create articles entitled ' Reception of X '. This way, we can gather all the viewpoints and there's a chance to have a 'balanced' and 'neutral' article.
Mhhossein (
talk)
13:11, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
"while "criticism" can mean opinions either way on a given topic, the word is nearly always taken in common terms to be negative facets and draw in undesirable OR, POV, and other issues that magnify the problem,"and this is while the title has also to comply with neutrality. Mhhossein ( talk) 04:32, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
I read the above comments and would like to present them briefly. Mhhossein ( talk) 13:29, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
The comments by editors are as such:
It's good that there's a " Criticism" which contains lots of good points and presents a mixture of the above comments. As the above comments show, most of the editors either agree on having 'reception of X' or conditionally avoiding 'criticism of X' articles which is widely discussed there. But really why not trying to have the essay as a guideline (as you see it has gained some supporters)? Mhhossein ( talk) 18:56, 27 January 2016 (UTC) (edited Mhhossein ( talk) 06:32, 30 January 2016 (UTC))
Well folks, I've just seen this statistic, which highlights the importance of improving leads. Still time to enter Wikipedia:Take the lead! as each entry has a chance of winning an Amazon voucher :) Cheers, Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 21:37, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
We are excited that pre-production has started for a series of motivational and educational videos that will introduce Wikipedia and some of its sister projects to new contributors.
Over the past several years, many videos have been produced to train new contributors. This series will feature VisualEditor and the new citation tool called Citoid. Additionally, the series will include an introduction to the Wikimedia Commons repository of freely-licensed media.
The video series and associated materials will help students and instructors who participate in the Wikipedia Education Program. The series is also designed to assist the professional staff and volunteers of galleries, libraries, archives, and museums ( GLAMs) with understanding how their content gains exposure on Wikimedia sites, and how to document or upload their content for direct viewing on Wikipedia and its sister projects.
The video content will be available in segments that can be viewed, translated, or updated individually.
There are currently volunteer translators for Arabic, Armenian, Czech, German, Greek, Odia, and Spanish. Additional volunteers with high proficiency translation skills are welcome to sign up on the talk page.
We are currently seeking feedback on the outline for the scripts, as well as suggestions for an attractive name for the series. Please leave any comments on this talk page!
Regards,
Series director and screenwriter
This series is funded by an individual engagement grant from the Wikimedia Foundation. A big thanks to the community, the IEG Committee, and WMF for their support.
Last December, I invited you to help determine future ideaLab campaigns by submitting and voting on different possible topics. I'm happy to announce the results of your participation, and encourage you to review them and our next steps for implementing those campaigns this year. Thank you to everyone who volunteered time to participate and submit ideas.
With great thanks,
I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation. 23:49, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
Please note that Ihor Zaytsev died on 28 january according to Google. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.185.175.84 ( talk) 15:02, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
I used to see a pink box when I hit a redlink that lead to a deleted subjectspace page, now I see an empty page like all other pages that have never been created. Is this broken CSS on Wikipedia's end, or is this an intentional Wikipedia end-user display change? -- 70.51.200.135 ( talk) 05:52, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
I've asked the WMF board of trustees to pass a resolution (a) acknowledging that Wikipedia (among other WMF properties) is not reliable and (b) encouraging the WMF to support initiatives aimed at improving the reliability of Wikipedia (and other WMF properties).
Please have your say here. -- Anthonyhcole ( talk · contribs · email) 14:51, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi guys. I'm a fairly regular editor of Wikipedia, and I was wondering if I could get some help or reviews of my user page. I'm looking to make in generally neater and nicer looking. I'm also learning HTML5 so if you want to put some suggestions on how to use the div tag for my user page that'd be great. Thanks in advance! Will2022 ( talk) 14:29, 19 January 2016 (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.
The Wikipedia article traffic statistics page at http://stats.grok.se/ stopped reporting information after January 20. (You can still see data up to and including that date, but nothing later.) What's going on? Michael Hardy ( talk) 18:18, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
Can anyone explain me something? in article Michał Sędziwój it is written that "He discovered that air is not a single substance and contains a life-giving substance-later called oxygen 170 years before similar discoveries by Scheele and Priestley." So why it isnt mentioned in article oxygen? Prywaciarz101 ( talk) 15:31, 6 February 2016 (UTC)
Died somebody on february 7? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.185.175.84 ( talk) 23:52, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
What do u people think of cannabis? I think it should be legalized. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NeoBlitz ( talk • contribs) 08:54, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
Special:MediaStatistics lists some file types that are banned on Commons. I took my wrong extension query and found these files:
Thoughts? — Dispenser 14:02, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
Bonjour,
My English is too bad for writing in this language.
Est-ce que cette photo a été prise " in vehicle meetings in North America " ?
Pouvez-vous indiquer dans quel état américain, dans quelle ville et à quelle occasion ? In California ? In Los Angeles ?
Merci d'avance. ( LaVoiture-balai ( talk) 20:49, 9 February 2016 (UTC))
:::@ PLawrence99cx: You are the one who took the photo; can you please answer this person's questions? LaVoiture Je suis désolé, mais je ne sais pas où la photo a été prise. Je l'ai demandé au photographe de répondre ici. ~ ONUnicorn( Talk| Contribs) problem solving 13:01, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
PLawrence99cx seems to be "in holidays". Another contributor has found the other photo of the same photograph with indications of CA and LA. A Californian could "certify" it and gave details of the occasion of this vehicle meeting. ( LaVoiture-balai ( talk) 18:05, 10 February 2016 (UTC))
I found one of the images posted on a gallery of the Citroën Car Club of Southern California ( http://www.socalcitroen.com/gallery-1.html 7 of 10). But it gives no background or source, and is mixed in with photos that are obviously vintage and promotional. But I think this is the organization that put on the car show in the picture. I'm still looking Oiyarbepsy ( talk) 07:27, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
@ LaVoiture-balai:Je pense que c'est le Citroën Rendezvous en Saratoga Springs, New York, en été 2009 ou 2010. Oiyarbepsy ( talk) 08:02, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
Bonjour to you all. Pardon me for not noticing this forum sooner. These pictures were taken in Los Angeles, California at the 'Best of France & Italy' show, which is held the first Sunday of every November. @ LaVoiture-balai: PLawrence99cx ( talk) 04:57, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
There are a lot of notice tags in Wikipedia article space that have been around for many years. I'm starting to suspect that they may actually be demotivating the correction of articles. For example, suppose an anonymous editor makes a correction to address a tag. Do they know whether they can remove the notice? Will they get slammed for removing it? The safer route may be to just leave it alone. Anonymous editors may actually feel less threatened about editing an article that has no warning notices.
Perhaps a statistical study would help? It could be helpful to know the percentage of useful non-bot edits to articles with tags, vs. those without. Another parameter that may be useful is the half-life for the various tags—what is the average duration for the pool of tags set in a given month to be reduced in half? Are some warning notices more likely to be addressed than others? Should we do away with some types of notices because they are not constructive? Praemonitus ( talk) 19:50, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 23:09, 29 January 2016 (UTC)If you have the ability, please boldly assist Wikipedia by editing this page to remedy the flagged issue! All problems are fixed by the efforts of volunteers. If you've read the link provided explaining the problem, and have thoroughly fixed it, you may simply remove this maintenance template.
I would be interested to know if the issue relates to certain specific tags, but not others. I suspect that some tagged issues get addressed quickly, whole others may sit there never being fixed. Blueboar ( talk) 23:37, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
it could easily be placed on 90% of the articles here- So we should eliminate the most visible thing telling editors that we need more inline citations? It may be wishful thinking, but I have to believe that tag is having some significant beneficial effect, enough to make it a net positive. Not only in the individual articles, but toward evangelization of inline citations in general. ― Mandruss ☎ 05:25, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
Here's a proposed experiment - Pick four of five maintenance tags and edit them so they place the article in the category but aren't visible on the page; do this for thirty days. Afterwards, restore the template to what it was before, and again, do this for 30 days. Monitor the categories and see how many IPs and new editors resolve the issues (which, I concede, is the hard part). Oiyarbepsy ( talk) 02:01, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
don't trust this page as much as you would otherspoint. fredgandt 12:57, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
According to this post, Wikipedia is not in the top 10 US digital media properties for October 2015, which surprised me. So how far down is Wikipedia? GoingBatty ( talk) 20:05, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
My apologies for wasting the time of those for whom this is not necessary. I'm not speaking to you. But I've run across too many editors, even many with some experience, who misapply
WP:AGF because they do not know the meaning of the words "good faith".
Per the Merriam-Webster
dictionary entry, good faith is about honesty. It has absolutely nothing to do with good reasoning, good judgment, or good competence. If someone offers constructive criticism or advice, or even if they accuse you of a shortage of competence, feel free to disagree with them. But, please, do not respond by accusing them of failing to observe WP:AGF. Thanks. ―
Mandruss
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06:00, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
On the 15th January 2016, Wikipedia celebrated its 15 years of existence. But ... even after 15 years, the content on Africa in general - and African women in particular - remains limited. The Wiki Loves Women project decided to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Wikipedia by organising the bilingual (English and French) #15Challenge Writing Contest to increase the number of biographies of notable African women. We asked for 15 teams to create 15 articles on notable African women. These are the results... At the end of the contest,
produced no less than ...
This result is way beyond our expectations! And so incredibly amazing! The tireless jurors were Jane023, FloNight, Smirkybec, and Isla Haddow for the English articles, and Vikoula5, Laurent Jerry and Anthere for the French articles.
The final winners were ....
For the English contest
For the French Contest
And finally ...
Best translation effort: team Armenia with User:Armineaghayan, User:El-ßäbrega, User:Garik.Khachatryan and User:Armin Karapetyan, for the 41 articles translated in Armenian language
We would like to thank every single person who took part, who wanted to take part (and couldn't) and who helped, but were not part of a team. You are all amazing! Anthere and Isla Haddow ( talk) 09:18, 16 February 2016 (UTC)