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The Russian-language Wikipedia, the theme of "Corruption in Wikipedia" administrators instantly blocked. Why can not understand the fact of corruption in Wikipedia?
Machine translation theme will copy here:
"Friends, how relevant is of corruption in Wikipedia (probability) and what the possible formats, it can be shown? I list some:
1) First User protects point of vision the second participant, instead of wanting to protect the point of view of the first (of);
2) Admins protect someone instead of something of interest. That is to say, administrators involved in the sale of the truth and it will earn a living, see Wikipedia as a source of income;
3) Admins punish someone commissioned by someone;
4) Admins repress (block forever), a number of people who will be able in the future to prevent them in the election to this position again. With this offer a lifetime membership.
The problem is that Wikipedia is not only a platform of ordinary scientists, and sometimes a number of states will try to push through it, some their ideologies, to use it as an instrument of its ideological politics. And for such purposes allocated huge sums from the budget at all times. I fear that these policies will affect and Wikipedia. This includes state-level pressure on the AK, the administrator, and someone else.
I'm not saying that is the case today. But in the future - not excluded.
Please discuss".
Daryanush ( talk) 11:41, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
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The Wikimedia movement is beginning a movement-wide strategy discussion, a process which will run throughout 2017. For 15 years, Wikimedians have worked together to build the largest free knowledge resource in human history. During this time, we've grown from a small group of editors to a diverse network of editors, developers, affiliates, readers, donors, and partners. Today, we are more than a group of websites. We are a movement rooted in values and a powerful vision: all knowledge for all people. As a movement, we have an opportunity to decide where we go from here.
This movement strategy discussion will focus on the future of our movement: where we want to go together, and what we want to achieve. We hope to design an inclusive process that makes space for everyone: editors, community leaders, affiliates, developers, readers, donors, technology platforms, institutional partners, and people we have yet to reach. There will be multiple ways to participate including on-wiki, in private spaces, and in-person meetings. You are warmly invited to join and make your voice heard.
The immediate goal is to have a strategic direction by Wikimania 2017 to help frame a discussion on how we work together toward that strategic direction.
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Isn't this WP:Owning? I'm a bit concerned that the article will just be whatever he wants, since some of his sources are pretty biased. In over 200 edits, he's the only one who has been editing that page for two months. ÞunoresWrǣþþe ( talk) 09:18, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
In the run up to International Women’s Day on the 8th March, Wiki Loves Women is launching the on-Wikipedia translated drive #16WikiWomen : m:16 African Women Translate-a-thon
The idea is for Wikipedians to take 16 days to translate the Wikipedia biographies of 16 notable African women, into at least 16 languages (African and/or international languages).
The articles to be translated will be the biographies of African women. The list of language can be, but is not limited to:
The list of the 16 women biographies that will be translated are:
Please jump in! Whilst all those articles already exist in English, you may improve them... or you may translate them into another language you know, or you relay the project in other linguistic communities.
If you wish to participate, please feel free to add your name and any comments here :
m:16 African Women Translate-a-thon/participants
Results will be tracked on this page :
m:16 African Women Translate-a-thon/tracking
Thanks
Anthere ( talk) 10:44, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
I noticed that many of the Simplified Chinese translations use traditional Chinese characters. Why is this? York12321 ( talk) 15:54, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
Is there an official channel trough which an editor could request a re-assessment of an article? Plaza del Lago, for instance, is an article that was assessed several years ago as a "start-class" article. However, it has long since outgrown such a categorization. Since I originally created this page (it was the first article I created. My learning-curve on Wikipedia largely took place through creating and revising this article), I am obliged to relieve myself from providing a new assessment myself, as I possess a I strong bias towards it. But how/ where could I make a request for other users to do so? Is there a category tag one could add in such circumstances, or a page that a user would need to add the article to a list? Or do no such constructs currently exist on Wikipedia? And shouldn't we have one?
If I am not mistaken no such construct exists, and perhaps one should.
SecretName101 (
talk)
23:56, 19 February 2017 (UTC)
Voting for coordinators has now begun
HERE and will continue through/to 23:59 UTC Monday 06 March. New Page Review and its Page Curation is a core MediaWiki extension. The process of expertly vetting all new articles is a critical issue needing a couple of 'go to' people. The coordinators will do their best for for the advancement of the improvement of NPP and generally keep tracks on the development of those things. Coordinators have no additional or special user benefits, but they will try to keep discussions in the right places and advance negotiations with the WMF.
Please be sure to vote. Any registered, confirmed editor can vote. Nominations are now closed.
Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (
talk)
02:04, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi all
Please could someone have a look at the suggested edits made by a UNESCO staff member to the UNESCO article? The request was made over 2 months ago.
On another note, we are currently uploading a few 100 graphics from the UNESCO Science Report to Wikimedia Commons here. Please do keep checking back to the category as I continue to upload images over the coming weeks. Here are a small selection, almost all are .svg files to allow best quality, adaptation and translation.
Thanks very much
-- John Cummings ( talk) 13:29, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
Apokrif ( talk) 18:13, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
The above page was created as a redirect to Dr. Phil (TV series) by Gourami Watcher who has the autopatrolled right. The page has been turned into a very weak article. Am I right in thinking that cases like this escape new pages patrol? Has there been any discussion about suitable responses? Johnuniq ( talk) 03:36, 19 February 2017 (UTC)
Ping Kudpung—you have enough work to do in the NPP area, but in case you are not aware of the above loophole you may as well add it to your list of things to be considered. Johnuniq ( talk) 06:22, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
Could we get more comments here? [1] -- 168.235.1.4 ( talk) 18:50, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
m:Grants:Evaluation/100 Words Campaign is trying to find images that illustrate intangible concepts, such as "ability" or "constructiveness". Please boldly add your favorites. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 20:50, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
Howdy, I've been working on updating the article Tansy beetle and aim to get it to GA standard. Following my request for peer-review from a fellow editor, they then asked one of the previous contributors to the article, Geoff Oxford, for views on the topic via his talkpage User talk:Geoff Oxford. Geoff is an academic and wrote several of the sources I referenced in the article. Looking at his recent activity I had thought it unlikely he would actually answer via the talk page so took it upon myself to look him up at the University of York and sent him an email directly. He has cordially replied sending through a few open access papers to reference in the article. My question is this - what is Wikipedia's policy about contacting possible useful sources outside of the Wikipedia space in the real world? Have I unwittingly committed some terrible faux pas? Or even bludgeoned myself with a COI issue in my excitement??
Advice/comments appreciated. Zakhx150 ( talk) 09:54, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
Hello! Community Tech is teaming up with Matthewrbowker to address the 2016 top 10 wish of rewriting the popular XTools suite. The first tool Community Tech will be working on is Articleinfo (accessible via the "Revision history statistics" link on history pages). At it's simplest, our goal is to rewrite it to be stable and fully functional. Before we get started, we want your feedback on what you'd like to see in the new version, and what you don't like about the current version. Please review our plans and provide any feedback at meta:Community Tech/Rewrite Xtools/Articleinfo. Thank you! — MusikAnimal talk 00:09, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
Just something curious I'd like to share:
“ | That site, called Intellipedia, has been around for more than a decade. It’s made up of three different wikis, at different classification levels [...] Built on the same software platform as Wikipedia, Intellipedia's articles are often cribbed directly from the free encyclopedia, but with sensitive classified information added by analysts. | ” |
The Government’s Secret Wiki for Intelligence. -- bender235 ( talk) 23:19, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
See Talk:Chemistry#RFC on the inclusion of a particular passage in the lead of this article. Please contribute if you have an opinion. Thanks. -- Jayron 32 02:55, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
re: Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2017_March_3#Older_Column_templates & Category:Multi-column templates - Older Column templates & view: Template:Column-generating template families which inserts section-subsections...
I was 'bitten' a while ago by a dog of an Older Column templates unexpected behavior, and upon reviewing the templates usage, Rip-Van-Winkle-like found there are whole families of more modern Column templates we ought be using with often less complexity in application and more importantly, are compatible with newer CSS standards and modern browsers.
Most importantly, they wrap properly in the realm of smartphones, and PAD computer operating systems, whereas the Older Column Templates I list for discussion DO NOT! Since PAD and other portable devices now make up a huge percentage of cases when we are accessed, as a computer engineer it seems silly to let incompatible column templates stay around when most can readily be replaced systematically, at least semi-automatically with, I suspect, a bit of cleaver BOT ops in the proper order.
More importantly the tougher cases can be weeded into nothingness with a small dose of daily editing. Most all need only a new name substituted and formats checked. The trouble will come from style formats and margins, but the new CSS3 families have all the advantages there. The options are listed in
Template:Column-generating template families.
So, please Bookmark to do a daily 'Onesie'... fix something on WhatLinksHere check on {{ Col-begin}} and clear an old bit of code in favor of a newer better choice. My, it's just technically engaging enough to wake me up while I'm working on opening the other eye and working my way down from the top O'that 'first half-cup' of Morning joe! (Just don't drive and edit at the same time!) // Fra nkB 22:01, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
See Sargon of Akkad (YouTube), and it's history page. Without pointing fingers to certain parties, it appears that an edit war cannot be avoided if the users continue to edit as they do now. Is there someone out there with a real neutral point of view, who can look at the edits? Or where can I find such a person? I found WP:AN/3, but there I need to accuse certain persons, and I do not believe that is the road that must be taken. Best regards, Jeff5102 ( talk) 08:34, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
This RfC on Napoleon Hill just started. This is not a high traffic article so the more eyes the better, if you can spare a few minutes. Thanks. SW3 5DL ( talk) 15:29, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
I feel that a football/soccer goal keepers Wikipedia page should include the amount of goals they have conceded for their club/country etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andywooo ( talk • contribs) 17:00, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
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I am looking for more comments regarding a page move here: [2]. Any input from more editors would be greatly appreciated! -- My Core Competency is Competency ( talk) 16:02, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
Hi. Can someone please review all sources of this " prizes" (zB: [3], [4]...). Most of them (if not all) are really crap. Regards. -- Ganímedes ( talk) 16:06, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
They seem to come up a lot on Special:Random. Same question for municipalities/towns/villages as well. Thanks, Abe g92 contribs 02:09, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
The soft redirect Wikipedia:NP is currently discussed at WP:RFD. I invite you to chime in. -- George Ho ( talk) 19:48, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
@ George Ho: What is a soft redirect? SW3 5DL ( talk) 13:39, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
a replacement of usual or "hard" redirects and is used where the destination is another site—including Wikimedia's sister projects." A soft redirect is intended "
for external use" as a hard one doesn't work for such. Also, it can redirect to a special page using "Special:" namespace. You can read more. -- George Ho ( talk) 13:46, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
Apparently, DMOZ is closing down on March 14. {{ DMOZ}}, a high-risk template, will have to be deprecated as a result. Also, there's a proposal to create a MediaWiki-based, WMF-hosted web directory that you may be interested in. KATMAKROFAN ( talk) 04:40, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
Hello everyone,
I come to you to invite to re-read the submission of a new partnership project between the Wikimedia movement and the Belgian NGOs. The project is titled Wiki 4 Coop and I invite you to discover its submission page on Meta-Wiki. Do not hesitate to endorse the project if you like it and even correct my English if you have a little time. A beautiful end of day for all of you, Lionel Scheepmans ✉ Contact (French native speaker) 11:44, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
Please see Template talk:Specific#Wording for a suggestion on rewording this template message to make the purpose and meaning clearer, especially regarding the use of secondary sources. — Sangdeboeuf ( talk) 02:08, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
On page /info/en/?search=Special:Statistics which is accessible from the main page by clicking on the number of articles in English, if you click on "Content Pages", it'll take you to https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:AllPages&hideredirects=1 which the very first article (!) is a redirect and (!! Chess) is just a section of an article. Shouldn't redirects be hidden? Why is this? Thanks, Alex the Nerd ( talk) 21:18, 20 March 2017 (UTC)Alex the Nerd
Dear Wikimedians/Wikipedians:
Today we are starting a broad discussion to define Wikimedia's future role in the world and develop a collaborative strategy to fulfill that role. You are warmly invited to join the conversation.
There are many ways to participate, by joining an existing conversation or starting your own:
Track A (organized groups): Discussions with your affiliate, committee or other organized group (these are groups that support the Wikimedia movement).
Track B (individual contributors): On Meta or your local language or project wiki.
This is the first of three conversations, and it will run between now and April 15. The purpose of cycle 1 is to discuss the future of the movement and generate major themes around potential directions. What do we want to build or achieve together over the next 15 years?
We welcome you, as we create this conversation together, and look forward to broad and diverse participation from all parts of our movement.
Sincerely,
Nicole Ebber (Track A Lead), Jaime Anstee (Track B Lead), & the engagement support teams05:09, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
Is there a template I can tag articles with that use too many non-free images in them? Thanks. SharkD Talk 04:31, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
This is a gray area. Wikipedia purposefully follows a far more strict fair use policy than actual US copyright law. We do that to encourage as much "free" content as possible. We are the "free encyclopedia" after all. In terms of actual US copyright law, those images on that article are probably fine (standard disclaimer: this is not legal advice but my interpretation of the complexities of copyright). I can see how someone would argue that each of those photos fits into our fair use policy. I can see how they could win that argument. I can also see how the opposite can be true. The grayness of our policy allows for both to occur. The only way to be sure would be to put the lot towards FFD as one nomination and see how others interpret it. -- Majora ( talk) 19:11, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
Nowadays blocks can be indefinite, which means that their expiry has not been set. Was the code word originally "in-finite" as opposed to "in-definite"? In the Finnish Wikipedia there is still in use the translation "forever", which leads me to think that the original wording in English might have been something else than it's now. -- Pxos ( talk) 11:38, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
Hello friends,
Please enjoy this animation my computer took one week to generate. :) -- Psiĥedelisto ( talk) 10:17, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
Like~ ONUnicorn( Talk| Contribs) problem solving 18:53, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
The Arbitration Committee clerks are currently looking for a few dependable and mature editors willing to serve as clerks. The responsibilities of clerks include opening and closing arbitration cases and motions; notifying parties of cases, decisions, and other committee actions; maintaining the requests for Arbitration pages; preserving order and proper formatting on case pages; and other administrative and related tasks they may be requested to handle by the arbitrators. Clerks are the unsung heroes of the arbitration process, keeping track of details to ensure that requests are handled in a timely and efficient manner. Clerks get front-line seats to the political and ethnic warfare that scorches Wikipedia periodically, and, since they aren't arbitrators themselves, are rarely threatened with violence by the participants.
The salary and retirement packages for Clerks rival that of Arbitrators, to boot. Best of all, you get a cool fez!
If you're interested, please read and follow the directions on this page
For the Arbitration Committee Clerks, Kharkiv07 ( T) 20:52, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
The first time a reference appears in an article, it's the full cite. Thereafter, it is supposed to be the <refname="whatever"/> version (and not the other way around with maybe the full cite at the 10th occurrence and then the partial ones preceding it). I am pretty sure that this is a policy/guideline but I cannot find the WP page or shortcut! Help please & thanks. Shearonink ( talk) 19:05, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
I would like to announce my grant proposal for the development of a gadget for editing Wikidata information (primarily used in the infoboxes) without leaving the Wikipedia page. My goal is to make one simple gadget helpful for all users which cover 80-90% of the needs, even if not everything is available for editing. In simpler terms, it's about creating an editor for "Wikidata infoboxes". Please write your opinion and wishes on the grant page. — putnik 09:52, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I accidentally refreshed an Special:EmailUser page a stack of times yesterday. I still seem to be throttled 20 hours later. Is there a time limit before the action is unlocked, or have I triggered some permanent lock? T.Shafee(Evo&Evo) talk 03:47, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
'emailuser' => [ 'ip' => [ 5, 86400 ], // 5 per day per ip (logged-out and new users) 'newbie' => [ 5, 86400 ], // 5 per day for non-autoconfirmed 'user' => [ 20, 86400 ], // 20 per day for users ],
The reassessment on Super Mario World, Talk:Super Mario World/GA2, is still open. A volunteer may be needed, or the page can be converted to the community reassessment. Comments are welcome either here or there. -- George Ho ( talk) 09:47, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
Please comment on a few requests for comments on the Microscope article.
Talk:Microscope#Request_for_comment_on_how_a_scanning_electron_microscope_works
Talk:Microscope#Request_for_comment_on_ultramicroscope
Thank you, -- 2601:648:8503:4467:F4B3:6D6C:9DCC:DC06 ( talk) 21:02, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
Where was the last serious proposal for recalling bad or abusive admins, and what kept it from being adopted? — swpb T 18:48, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
Is there a neat, user-friendly explanation of why we need to keep article histories? I think there used to be, but I can't find it.
I'm dealing with a persistent user who doesn't understand our copyleft obligations at all. Any links to suggested help or project places, or even the meta, would be greatly appreciated.
Places that might mention or link to it you'd think include:
And perhaps I'm already looking straight at it somewhere there. Happens from time to time. Anyway, any help appreciated. Andrewa ( talk) 03:19, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
Now raised at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#Page history. Andrewa ( talk) 21:07, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I've been writing up an essay on spotting hoaxes during NPP and things to watch out for, based on personal experience. I hope it covers some new ground.
I'd be keen to see if anyone has any thoughts or feedback - I'm thinking of moving it from userspace to being an essay if people like it. Blythwood ( talk) 11:43, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
Hi all
I'm applying for a grant from WMF to continue my work at UNESCO from September this year, please take a look, let me know what you think and endorse if you want.
The main goals are:
Thanks
-- John Cummings ( talk) 20:06, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
I am aware that the redirect filter for the page list is disabled due to performance issues. Does anybody know when it is expected to be working again? Thanks, Alex the Nerd ( talk) 20:10, 4 April 2017 (UTC)Alex the Nerd
I'm starting to construct a list article, and am finding the coordinates for the locations involved expressed in both decimal form (41.289°S 174.777°E) and degree/minute/second form (57°18′22″N 4°27′32″W). Given that I'm going to have to convert some of them, is there any reason to prefer one form over another? Is there any advantage to a reader, or to other software that might want to make use of the data? Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 01:04, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
Is open. 3 images have already been selected by a jury. Please select a 4th winner in the images listed here. Vote now :) c:Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2016/Community Prize Selection Anthere ( talk) 14:34, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
Hey folks, I have been collaborating with some researchers who are publishing a dataset of externally reviewed Wikipedia articles (the sample was taken back in 2006). I'd like to take the opportunity to compare the prediction quality of m:ORES' article quality model with these external reviewers, but in order get a good picture of the situation, it would also be very helpful to get a set of Wikipedian assessments for the same dataset. So, I have gathered all of the versions of externally reviewed articles in User:EpochFail/ORES_audit and I'm asking for your help to gather assessments. There's 90 old revisions of articles that I need your help assessing. I don't think this will take long, but I need to borrow your judgement here to make sure I'm not biasing things.
To help out, see User:EpochFail/ORES_audit.
ORES is a generalized machine prediction service that helps catch vandalism, measure the development of articles, and support student editors. The more we know about how ORES performs against important baselines, the better use of it we can make it to measure Wikipedia and direct wiki work. -- EpochFail ( talk • contribs) 22:04, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
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On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, I am pleased to announce that self-nominations are being accepted for the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Elections.
The Board of Trustees (Board) is the decision-making body that is ultimately responsible for the long-term sustainability of the Wikimedia Foundation, so we value wide input into its selection. More information about this role can be found on Meta-Wiki. Please read the letter from the Board of Trustees calling for candidates.
The candidacy submission phase will last from April 7 (00:00 UTC) to April 20 (23:59 UTC).
We will also be accepting questions to ask the candidates from April 7 to April 20. You can submit your questions on Meta-Wiki.
Once the questions submission period has ended on April 20, the Elections Committee will then collate the questions for the candidates to respond to beginning on April 21.
The goal of this process is to fill the three community-selected seats on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. The election results will be used by the Board itself to select its new members.
The full schedule for the Board elections is as follows. All dates are inclusive, that is, from the beginning of the first day (UTC) to the end of the last.
In addition to the Board elections, we will also soon be holding elections for the following roles:
Please note that this year the Board of Trustees elections will be held before the FDC and Ombuds elections. Candidates who are not elected to the Board are explicitly permitted and encouraged to submit themselves as candidates to the FDC or Ombuds positions after the results of the Board elections are announced.
More information on this year's elections can be found on Meta-Wiki. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the election talk page on Meta-Wiki, or sent to the election committee's mailing list, board-electionswikimedia.org.
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My concerns about "High-Conflict Subjects vs. Saboteurs," expressed in Wikipedia talk:Protection policy, recently drew this reponse from a senior editor:
I replied:
Then I did a little research, to underscore the long history of Wikipedia's tarnished reputation, and found these critiques of Wikipedia, published by the same sources that Wikipedia generally encourages editors to cite as references. If they're credible, then consider these articles they've published about Wikipedia's credibility:
We Wikipedians need to be careful about our reputation, and how we earn it, and how we protect it, or Wikipedia will gradually fade into irrelevance, for lack of credibility, and even our most honorable work will be lost in the smoke of our faults. ~ Penlite ( talk) 08:57, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
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The Wikimedia Foundation will be testing its secondary data center in Dallas. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to conduct a planned test. This test will show whether they can reliably switch from one data center to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
They will switch all traffic to the secondary data center on Wednesday, 19 April 2017. On Wednesday, 3 May 2017, they will switch back to the primary data center.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop during those two switches. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
Other effects:
This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. Please share this information with your community. / User:Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk)
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Right folks, I am setting this up to run May 15 to June 30 again...with the usual Amazon vouchers up for grabs. Cheers, Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 13:35, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
TL;DR: We hope you will contribute your thoughts to this question: "What do we want to build or achieve together over the next 15 years?" - at either Wikipedia:Wikimedia Strategy 2017 or on metawiki at m:Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Cycle 1, plus continue discussing each others' ideas. Quiddity (WMF) ( talk) 19:37, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
Hi all!
Summary: The first cycle of strategy conversations is ending soon. We hope you will contribute your answer to this question: "What do we want to build or achieve together over the next 15 years?"
This phase has been an opportunity to come up with new ideas. The next phase is about refining these ideas to reach some consensus on the most important ones. This means that there will still be opportunities to contribute in the future! It also means that the focus of the conversation will change. If you are interested in generating creative new ideas about the future of our projects, now is the time to share your thoughts!
Participating is easy. Check out the participation page on Meta-Wiki's movement strategy portal for more information. Find online discussions, local meetups, and a survey on Meta-Wiki.
One note: In consideration of the Passover and Easter holidays people around the world are recognizing this week and weekend, we have moved the closing day for this discussion cycle to the end of April 18 (23:59 UTC). That means you have a few additional days to share your ideas - big and small - for Wikimedia's future.
Once this discussion cycle ends next week, we will be gathering common topics from across all the global discussions and posting them on Meta-Wiki. That includes conversations from the wikis, meetups with experts, discussions from affiliates, and anywhere else we have documented.
The next phase of the discussion will begin by May 1. We’ll be working together to prioritize the thematic statements. More information on that cycle is available on Meta-Wiki, and we’ll share more when that cycle gets started.
I have already seen and heard some fantastic ideas from our first discussion cycle these past few weeks. I look forward to seeing what ideas emerge in the final days of this cycle!
Un cordial saludo (Spanish translation: “Best regards”),
Katherine
-- Posting. Quiddity (WMF) ( talk) 19:37, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
Looking at Category:Political parties user templates recently, I found a number of pages listed that were not userboxes, but rather were user pages that included political party userboxes. It seems that some of the userboxes included the designation [[Category:Political parties user templates]] without including "noinclude" tags around the category, thus placing the pages that transcluded the userbox into the category of Category:Political parties user templates as well.
I managed to identify several of the problematic templates and added "noinclude" tags around the category, so that they would say
However, if this is happening with political party user templates, it could be happening with other kinds of userboxes too. Is there any way to find other userboxes that fail to use the "noinclude" tag around their category designations? -- Metropolitan90 (talk) 19:48, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
insource:"category:political parties user templates" -insource:"noinclude>[[category:political"
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20:49, 14 April 2017 (UTC)Dear Wikipedians, Happy easter for those of you celebrating.
Tomorrow, the International Day for Monuments and Sites is celebrated. On that same day, the first edition of the UNESCO Challenge will also commence. The UNESCO Challenge is a challenge co-arranged by UNESCO, the Swedish National Heritage Board and Wikimedia Sverige, with the purpose to improve articles on world heritage sites. UNESCO are going to release a large series of images ( in this category), and a lot of open access texts on the sites, which may be used in the challenge.
Write in whatever language you like! You find the page for participation and points registration here.
Best, Eric Luth (WMSE) ( talk) 09:59, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard open letter. This is time sensitive, I intend to send the letter tomorrow. Smallbones( smalltalk) 19:33, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
Just spreading the word about our ongoing project. If this interests you, feel free to also disseminate the word over social media! It's a wide-ranging topic with all kinds of interesting facets, so even if this isn't your usual area, I invite you to drop in and check out our list of redlinks to see if any of them catch your attention. Thanks! Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney ( talk) 07:41, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
You are invited to participate in the upcoming which is being held from Saturday, April 15 to Sunday, April 30, and especially on April 20, 2017!The purpose of the collaboration, which is being organized by WikiProject Cannabis, is to create and improve cannabis-related content at Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in a variety of fields, including: culture, health, hemp, history, medicine, politics, and religion. For more information about this campaign, and to learn how you can help improve Wikipedia, please visit the "420 collaboration" page. |
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The phrase "Jesus Christ" is a theologically loaded title that Jews and others reject, and that (per
WP:NPOV) should not generally be used on English Wikipedia except in very specific circumstances. The neutral, equally recognizable term is "Jesus of Nazareth". I went to
Jesus Christ yesterday to see if there were pages that linked to it inappropriately, but before I got to that I saw that the redirect page currently includes the text Please do not replace these redirected links with a link directly to the target page unless expressly advised to do so below or elsewhere on this page
. This was clearly meant to discourage editors from piping directly to the article title from pages that use the same "alternate name" as the redirect, but that wording assumes that all alternate names are equally acceptable for Wikipedia to be using in its text, which is not the case.
The template in question, Template:Redr, is apparently deprecated, but I really don't know what that means when the template is permanently "template-protected to prevent vandalism" (even though the odds of extended-confirmed editors engaging in bona fide "vandalism" on relatively obscure template pages that can generally only be seen by clicking noredirect links are next to nil).
Shouldn't the text be changed to Please do not replace these redirected links with a link directly to the target page without a good reason
? I don't even know how or where to go about doing this, which is why I'm at the miscellaneous village pump.
Hijiri 88 ( 聖 やや) 00:54, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
Please read Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship#Poll candidate search needs your participation.
Please join and participate.
Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 00:01, 23 April 2017 (UTC)
There has been a really great conversation at Talk:Criticism of Walmart and I'm looking for more editors to join the discussion. To summarize: Wikipedians have noticed and have begun attempts to fix the Criticism of Walmart article, which is full of WP:UNDUE and WP:POV content, and is far from encyclopedic in areas. Some editors have suggested throwing out the article and starting from scratch, while others have said the article would take a "massive" effort to clean up properly. The issue is no one knows where to start, which brings me here. Input and advice from additional editors could be a huge benefit to finding a way forward with this. As one of Walmart's representatives on Wikipedia, I have a conflict of interest and I do not feel comfortable making suggestions as to whether the editors should try to correct the existing article or start over by reducing it to a stub, as has been suggested by others. I am, however, willing to help with whatever "grunt" work is necessary to assist other editors in fixing the page (providing references, assisting with identifying inaccuracies, etc.). Any insight is valuable and appreciated. Thanks, JLD at Walmart ( talk) 14:32, 25 April 2017 (UTC)
There are ongoing proposals, including older ones, to close or delete some language projects, like Beta Wikiversity and Moldovan Wikipedia. Also, there are proposals for new projects, like NonFreeWiki, WikiJournal, Wikigames, and Wikidirectory. -- George Ho ( talk) 05:08, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
Talk:Microscope#RFC_should_article_focus_on_instrument.2C_microscope.2C_or_technique.2C_microscopy
-- 2600:387:6:807:0:0:0:C2 ( talk) 14:30, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
The first cycle of the Wikimedia movement strategy process recently concluded. During that period, we were discussing the main directions for the Wikimedia movement over the next 15 years. There are more than 1500 summary statements collected from the various communities (including 40 from your local discussion). The strategy facilitators and many volunteers have summarized the discussions of the previous month. A quantitative analysis of the statements will be posted on Meta for translation this week, alongside the report from the Berlin conference.
The second cycle will begin soon. It's set to begin on May 5 and run until May 31. During that period, you will be invited to dive into the main topics that emerged in the first cycle, discuss what they mean, which ones are the most important and why, and what their practical implications are. This work will be informed and complemented by research involving new voices that haven’t traditionally been included in strategy discussions, like readers, partners, and experts. Together, we will begin to make sense of all this information and organize it into a meaningful guiding document, which we will all collectively refine during the third and last cycle in June−July.
We want to help your community to be more engaged with the discussions in the next cycle. Now, we are looking for volunteers who could
We are looking forward to your feedback!
Base (WMF) and SGrabarczuk (WMF) ( talk) 16:30, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
Article Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija should be renamed in only Kosovo and Metohija, as has already been done with Autonomous Province of Vojvodina ( Vojvodina). -- SrpskiAnonimac ( talk) 22:53, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
This redirect page, Lavonia-Carnegie Library, is about the Carnegie Library in the town of Lavonia, Georgia. Of course, hyphens are used when combining two of the same type of thing, e.g. the Smith-Jones house, the Dallas-Ft. Worth area, but is it correct to use it when one is a town and the other is a person's last name? Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 02:12, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
In this diff user:Ag2gaeh is linking to German Wikipedia instead of clarifying a statement he has made. Is this appropriate? I don't think we should be sending English speaking users to German Wikipedia to seek clarification, when the author can simply explain the thing his or herself. (Note that he has provided a German reference in addition to the interwiki link, which is not a problem. But why can't he simply explain it himself?) He has also been removing all the {{ clarify}} tags I've added to the article. His writing style is not very advanced, and I am having trouble understanding the article. SharkD Talk 12:15, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
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Community health initiative
Helping the Wikimedia volunteer community to reduce the level of harassment and disruptive behavior on our projects.
Hello! Today we'd like to introduce the new Community health initiative, the people who will be working on it, and most importantly how you can get involved.
Over the past several years the Wikimedia Foundation has researched and learned how harassment affects participation on Wikipedia [1] and have received numerous requests from the English Wikipedia community for better tools and preparation to deal with negative behavior. [2] In January we received funding via a Newmark Foundation grant to address this problem over the next two years. [3]
We're calling these efforts the 'Community health initiative' and our work contains four equally important parts:
The Research team's Anti-Harassment Research project will aim to understand and model the characteristics of harassment in Wikimedia projects in order to inform the development of anti-harassment tools and recommendations for community-specific behavioral policies and enforcement processes.
We want to build software that empowers contributors and administrators to make timely, informed decisions when harassment occurs. Four focus areas have been identified where new tools could be beneficial in addressing and responding to harassment:
We will work with the community to research and analyze how behavioral issues on English Wikipedia are a) covered in policy, and b) enforced in the community, particularly noticeboards where problems are discussed and actioned. We will provide research on alternate forms of addressing specific issues, researching effectiveness, and identifying different approaches that have found success on other Wikimedia projects. We believe this will help the Wikipedia community make informed changes to existing policies and guidelines.
To help functionary and community governance groups better coordinate their work, we will facilitate in the development of a training platform and will guide the establishment of a modules based around the critical area of addressing harassment.
After consultation with functionaries (stewards, global admins, Arbitration Committees, admins), community members, and outside experts an initial group of modules about Online harassment and Keeping events safe was created and is now available for training.
The Anti-Harassment Tools team includes five Wikimedia Foundation employees, partnering with members of the Wikipedia community who want to participate. The software we build will be useless if it doesn't address real-world workflow problems for the existing Wikipedia community, so we will heavily rely on your input to make our efforts a success.
You can read about more about the team. We're still searching for two PHP developers for this team, if you're interested apply here!
We're just getting started, and we look forward to your participation every step along the way. As we've prepared for the grant and and on-boarded the new team members we've collated some notes on meta, [5] most of which we've moved here to Wikipedia:Community health initiative. These plans and notes will almost certainly change base on the Wikipedia community's input.
Want updates or learn more about how to participate? Sign up for the Community health initiative mailing list or the Community health initiative Newsletter or follow our progress on the Community health initiative on English Wikipedia page.
We'd love to hear your initial thoughts on Wikipedia talk:Community health initiative on English Wikipedia. There's a lot to discuss and we hope to hear from you. Thank you! — Caroline, Sydney, & Trevor of the Anti-Harassment Tools team. 23:41, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
References
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The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is the ultimate governing authority of the Wikimedia Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization registered in the United States. The Wikimedia Foundation manages many diverse projects such as Wikipedia and Commons.
The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 1 to 23:59 UTC May 14. Click here to vote. More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the 2017 Board of Trustees election page on Meta-Wiki.
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19:14, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
I make redirects, so I ask what is correctly next to Dunđerski Palace and Dunđerski Castle:
?
I wasn't sure where to start a discussion about the US repesentative articles and the inclusion of information about the American Health Care Act, so I started it at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Politics/American politics#Does one consequence of a bill belong in the article of every politician that voted for the bill?. ~ GB fan 14:37, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
Article Indo-European (disambiguation) rename in only Indo-European (as was done with English (disambiguation) → English) -- SrpskiAnonimac ( talk) 16:09, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
Greetings,
I think everyone has heard about the block on all Wikipedia editions in Turkey. We, the Wikimedia Turkey User Group, have been trying to find out what the perceived issue is and they finally have an answer for us: the following two articles (subsections, to be exact) at enwiki:
I, of course, wouldn't dream of asking you to censor the content of a WMF project, being an experienced Wikimedian of 11 years with several advanced user rights across-the-board. What I only ask of you, the enwiki community, is to review the subsections in question, ensure that they are up to our standards and make sure we have a product that we can stand behind, as always. Both subsections seem to include 40+ references, but I personally think there is room for improvement due to some unsourced statements and claims. Please help us fight this block by helping the articles become as unbiased as possible. Thank you.
Vito Genovese 14:27, 29 April 2017 (UTC)
I commend those Turkish Wikipedians who are continuing to fight for free knowledge during this situation and will continue to do so. Just like I commend those Chinese Wikipedians who are forced to use a VPN just to be here. However, there are far better venues to request review of something than the pump. As the very first thing I mentioned in my previous post was to be bold and fix any issues you find, I don't see how that should cause any issues. -- Majora ( talk) 21:40, 29 April 2017 (UTC)
How many edits a month are needed to be considered "active" on Wikipedia? Was just wondering about this. South Nashua ( talk) 19:50, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
This category was still missing, but it has just been created. Actually every article about a children's book fits in it. The Wiki ghost ( talk) 18:22, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
Not sure where to post this, but I would like some clarity on the matter. A while back I did global name change and after that all links to my old page/chat worked as redirects, but now when someone created a new account with my old name all those redirects was deleted so they link into his account now. I was talking about this on my finnish chat page and seems this is how system has been working from the start (unless you know to request block or create new account with your own old name after name change to mark as dummy). My question is, has there been any attempt to improve the way renaming accounts work to prevent something like this? Can’t imagine this to be super rare issue… -- OneMember ( Talk) 20:34, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
Nothing has been published for two months because the editor is absent. These things happen, but it is time to move on.
Does someone else what to have a go at running it, or should it be shut down? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.205.251.27 ( talk) 11:33, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
Given the success of Internet Slowdown Day and Internet Blackout in protecting a free and open internet, I'm surprised there are no discussions about bringing it back given the danger Net Neutrality is in right now. ηoian ‡orever ηew ‡rontiers 13:33, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
There are a lots of articles that are Birthday Honours lists.
Taking two as examples 100 years apart:
2008:
These lists are different from lists like those of the High Sheriffs eg: High Sheriff of Surrey that have been created by extracting one line of information from lots of different issues of the London Gazette among other sources, because a Birthday Honours list copy the structure of the Gazette birthday honours list as well as its content.
These lists which are laid out nearly identical to the Gazette lists. They are not part of articles where there is an analysis of what is specifically in the list that is different from other similar lists. Eg analysis like this:
The first BHL under the New Labour government of 2023 saw a decrease in the number of honours going to members of City firms and an increase in those going to member of the NHS (reliable source). ...
The 1920 Birthday Honours list/article does not mention the selling of honours scandal (see Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925), nor does the 2006 Birthday Honours list mention the Cash for Honours scandal (at the time I am writing this note even in a See also section).
Given the tone of Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and some of its specific comments in it, ought these Birthday Honour Lists (BHLs) be on Wikiepdia, or should the content be moved onto Wikisource? If they are not to be moved, what can be done to improve them?
-- PBS ( talk) 13:15, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
London Gazette | Wikipedia |
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General Sir William Gustavus Nicholson, K.C.B., Chief of the General Staff (1st Military Member, Army Council.) | General Sir William Gustavus Nicholson, K.C.B., Chief of the General Staff (1st Military Member, Army Council.) |
General Sir John James Hood Gordon, K.C.B., Indian Army, Colonel 29th Punjabis. | General Sir John James Hood Gordon, K.C.B., Indian Army, Colonel 29th Punjabis. |
Gazette | Wikipedia |
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Dr. James Iain Walker Anderson, C.B.E. For public and voluntary service. | Dr. James Anderson, CBE. For public and voluntary service. |
William Samuel Atkinson, Headteacher, Phoenix High School, Hammersmith and Fulham, London. For services to Education and to Community Relation | William Atkinson, Headteacher, Phoenix High School, Hammersmith and Fulham, London. For services to Education and to Community Relations. |
The Right Honourable Alan James Beith, M.P., Member of Parliament for Berwick-upon-Tweed. For services to Parliament | Rt. Hon. Alan Beith, MP, Member of Parliament for Berwick-upon-Tweed. For services to Parliament. |
Copyright is not really an issue partly because of US law on lists and partly because the UK government's new Open licence that is close to Wikipedia's CC BY-SA 3.0 License. However to met the licensing requirements I think that the articles on Birthday Honour's do need to add attribution to the references section:
-- PBS ( talk) 13:15, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello, please find it in your hearts to comment on the Donald Trump talk page OPTIONS and SURVEY are HERE regarding how to best state how Trump won the election. Really would appreciate the input so that we might put this to rest, finally. Appreciate it. Thanks. SW3 5DL ( talk) 14:31, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
In the template {{ views}} I want to add links to stuff like Elevation (view) and Dimetric projection. However, these topics don't have pages of their own. Is it okay to do this? SharkD Talk 03:47, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
Wikipedia is the fifth most visited site in the world, yet its true potential is hampered by copyright limits. [11]
Wikipedia is also completely open source and anyone can download the entire site, all 4.4 million articles in just over one day. [12][ /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Database_download
I am an American attorney who lives in Moscow. Russian copyright law is not followed, and in the handful of copyright cases that go to court, there is less than 1000$ fine. If I recall the highest ever Russian court ordered fine is around $1000.
A company in Russia could download all of wikipedia everyday.
All of the links on this English language Russian wikipedia clone would have all of the full original books, articles, and magazines - fully online and open for the world to read and share. The most up to date English wikipedia article would be in one window. The links to the full books would be in another window.
How long before this English language Russia wikipedia clone started to be edited by Americans and native English speakers? There could be two generated tabs at the top of each 4.4 million articles:
How long before the most comprehensive online library ever created surpassed the original wikipedia as the fifth most visited site in the world?
Moscowamerican ( talk) 10:23, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
Per WP:RFC, I'm publicizing this RfC here, as I'm not sure there will be a neutral response without doing so. The cause of death on the Ted Bundy page is currently listed as "State-sanctioned homicide (execution by electrocution)", which seems to me to be inconsistent with how the cause of death is listed for other executed criminals within the American justice system. (Mostly they seem to say "Execution" or "Execution by insert method here"). I'd appreciate any feedback. Thanks! Rockypedia ( talk) 18:04, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
2 weeks ago, I posted that the Cycle 2 would start last week. It was postponed though, and the final official date is May, 11 (tomorrow). The end was also moved - to Friday, June 9. You can discuss 5 themes here. (You can also add and discuss your own themes). Any questions? SGrabarczuk (WMF) ( talk) 15:38, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Talk:Emmett Till#RfC: Should we include the "accused of showing an interest in a white woman" aspect in the lead or specifically the lead sentence?. A WP:Permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn ( talk) 03:06, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
Where can I go to get an illustrations I have created critiqued? I am looking for people who know more about making illustrations than the topic of the illustrations. Thanks. SharkD Talk 20:25, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
The merger of {{ Infobox song}} and {{ infobox single}} is still in progress per recent RfC at WT:SONGS. More at Template talk:Infobox song#Beginning merger proceedings with "infobox single". -- George Ho ( talk) 15:00, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
It is also discussed all over at Template talk:Infobox song and then Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Songs. -- George Ho ( talk) 03:10, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
Dutch public broadcaster VPRO and the Institute for Sound and Vision are cooperating with the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Nederland to make unique footage about groundbreaking sciene available.
The Mind of the Universe is an international tv series and open source digital platform about the rapid evolution of our knowledge. Through interviews with groundbreaking scientists, it provides a glimpse of tomorrow’s world,
The interviews were produced in 2015, 2016 and 2017 by Dutch public broadcaster VPRO for a tv series, VPRO decided from the start that all materials (including footage not used for the documentary) would be made available under an open license.
The platform Mind of the Universe Open Science TV provides access to all this material. It also has transcripts of the interviews, which are searchable by keyword. All materials can be downloaded and re-used, as they were published under a CC-BY-SA license.
With the help of a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation, and working closely with Wikimedia Nederland, the Institute for Sound and Vision will host a series of events to promote use Mind of the Universe material throughout the Wikimedia projects. They will also produce a white paper to share their experiences and promote the concept of CC-BY-SA licensing among public broadcasters worldwide.
For the Wikimedia projects the Mind of the Universe material is a valuable contribution: it is professionally made material, featuring the leading scientists of today explaining the state of research in their fields of work. The material also includes footage of research facilities, including some which had never before allowed cameras inside. SindyM3 ( talk) 08:51, 15 May 2017 (UTC) (Wikimedia Netherlands)
Dear Friends a joint pilot program is underway between RMNH (Regional Museum of Natural History),Bhopal and Wikipedians,details can be seen here, proccedings will be updated periodically.Suggestions invited,Thanks :- Swapnil.Karambelkar ( talk) 14:01, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
The issue hasn't gotten out of hand enough that I think WP:AN needs to be notified, but I'm not experienced dealing with current events and IP editing at P. G. T. Beauregard related to the removal last night/this morning of a monument to the Confederate General in New Orleans is heating up and I would like to ask that a wider set of eyes keep an eye on the article over the next day or two. Smmurphy( Talk) 17:03, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
The Wikimedia movement strategy core team and working groups have completed reviewing the more than 1800 thematic statements we received from the first discussion. They have identified 5 themes that were consistent across all the conversations - each with their own set of sub-themes. These are not the final themes, just an initial working draft of the core concepts.
You are invited to join the online and offline discussions taking place on these 5 themes. This round of discussions will take place between now and June 12th. You can discuss as many as you like; we ask you to participate in the ones that are most (or least) important to you.
Here are the five themes, each has a page on Meta-Wiki with more information about the theme and how to participate in that theme's discussion:
On the movement strategy portal on Meta-Wiki, you can find more information about each of these themes, their discussions, and how to participate.
Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation • Please help translate to other languages. • Get help21:08, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
On this subpage of the village pump, on regular basis, the strategy-related posts look like they were ignored. Maybe most users think there's no need to react here? Everything is clear to everybody? I doubt that, but, well. Anyway, I hope someone will notice and appreciate my message: so far, in the first 10 days of the Cycle 2, we've gathered 80k bytes of comments. For comparison, in the Cycle 1, which lasted a month, 119k were saved. Clearly that's a progress, but I'm asking for more. More opinions, more concerns, more questions, any type of feedback. And remember, no such thing as a stupid question :) SGrabarczuk (WMF) ( talk) 22:29, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
Normally, we delete images, after they have been transferred to commons...
After uploading what was then the current version of File:Humbercinema.JPG I realized a good faith contributor had uploaded a brand new image over an earlier, properly licensed image.
I uploaded the earlier image to commons, as well File:Humber cinema at night in 2010.JPG and cropped it File:Humber cinema at night in 2010 (cropped).JPG
The problem is that if the local version is deleted, the attribution and original licensing is obfuscated.
I left a longer explanation at File talk:Humbercinema.JPG, and at User talk:SPKx#Humber Cinema photo.
So, what is the best way to preserve the revision history of this image? Geo Swan ( talk) 13:47, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
This is a major difference from ordinary transfers to commons. Geo Swan ( talk) 19:13, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
This article says:
"Nearly a superset of C, C++ now supports most of C, with a few exceptions."
Guys, what kind of bu.llcr.ap is this? This statement suggests the compatibility improves over time and that it is a design goal of C++.
This may have been historically true, but now the ways of both languages part more and more nowadays! A non-exhaustive list of features of C introduced in C11 or even C99 deliberately not supported by C++: • struct initialization with designators, • restrict type qualifier, • bounds-checked functions, • thread support (C++11 added threading support, but with a different API!), • VLAs, etc, etc!
Also see this thread in the ISO C++ Standard - Discussion mailing list to see how very wrong you were.
Fix this article!, Okay? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.77.194.225 ( talk) 12:51, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
Golbez my thinking was that talk pages are usually abandoned and hardly anyone lookes at them, so I can post a message there and someone will read it in 10 years maybe if ever. So I thought I’d post it here so at least some1 actually sees my message. On a second thought though, talk page for C seems to be fairly active, so I’m pasting my message there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.77.194.225 ( talk) 16:14, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
HELP
I am receiving notifications (mostly Welcome notices I think) from non-English editions of wikipidia. I have no objection to other editions existing, but I have no wish to be involved in them, and no wish to even receive notifications from them. They create a false sense of urgency for something that will never be relevant to me.
How can I block those notifications? Ideally, how can I pre-emptively prevent any future edits on my user pages in the myriad other language editions, as I have no desire to be notified every time a new language I can't read decides to "welcome" me to their edition of wikipedia. Rhialto ( talk) 15:31, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, we are pleased to announce that self-nominations are being accepted for the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee and Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson elections. Please read the letter from the Wikimedia Foundation calling for candidates at on the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation elections portal.
Funds Dissemination Committee
The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) makes recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia movement funds to eligible entities. There are five positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at
the FDC elections page.
Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson
The Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process, investigates complaints at the request of the Board of Trustees, and summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on an annual basis. One position is being filled. More information about this role can be found at
the FDC Ombudsperson elections page.
The candidacy submission phase will last until May 28 (23:59 UTC).
We will also be accepting questions to ask the candidates until May 28. You can submit your questions on Meta-Wiki. Once the questions submission period has ended on May 28, the Elections Committee will then collate the questions for the candidates to respond to.
The goal of this process is to fill the five community-selected seats on the Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee and the community-selected ombudsperson. The election results will be used by the Board itself to make the appointments.
The full schedule for the FDC elections is as follows. All dates are inclusive, that is, from the beginning of the first day (UTC) to the end of the last.
More information on this year's elections can be found at the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation elections portal.
Please feel free to post a note about the election on your project's village pump. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the talk page on Meta-Wiki, or sent to the election committee's mailing list, board-electionswikimedia.org.
On behalf of the Election Committee,
Katie Chan, Chair,
Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Joe Sutherland, Community Advocate, Wikimedia Foundation
21:05, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
At The Wikipedia Library we want to make sure that you have the resources you need to write great articles. We've got a great collection of resources (including more than 80,000 journals!) from over 60 partners already available, and have some top priorities that we're working on adding, but we want you to tell us which databases we should be focusing on! If there's a paywalled database/publisher/archive that you wished that you could grab a free account for through TWL for your contributions to Wikipedia, please add a request on our requests page. And if the site is already there, add a +1 and any relevant details about the material you need so that we know there's additional interest - it helps us prioritise and also helps when we pitch the program to them! Thanks, Samwalton9 (WMF) ( talk) 19:04, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
== New Peruvian Regulations: Spelling of toponyms in indigenous languages ==
Hi Anthony Appleyard. I would like to inform you about recent Regulations of the Peruvian government concerning toponyms in indigenous languages. According to Decreto Supremo No 004-2016-MC (Supreme Decree), published on July 22, 2016 which approves the Regulations to Ley 29735 (Law 29735 of July 5, 2011), the aim of the Peruvian government is a) to keep the naming of toponyms in the indigenous languages and b) to replace the commonly misspelled indigenous toponyms by their adequate spellings according to the normalized alphabets to gain a unified spelling. The National Geograhic Institue IGN (maps of Peru) is therefore involved. (For details see Reference 1 below.)
These Regulations also touch the naming of Wikipedia articles.
I noticed that you are skeptical about the many requested moves of place names from ‘Quechua spelling to Spanish spelling’. However, these are rather moves from 'correct Quechua spelling' to 'wrong Quechua spelling'. The same occurs with articles names in Aymara. It affects quite a large numbers of articles, mainly concerning the categories of mountains, lakes and now also the archaeological sites of Peru.
However, all these moves are in conflict with the Peruvian law. And obviously all these moves from right to wrong are all in vain and will have to be reverted. The government is determined to fight discrimination against indigenous peoples and their languages resolutely. We should take this into account. Thank you. -- CaTi0604 ( talk) 19:22, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
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I have been working on file descriptions and then verifying some logos as too simple or unoriginal for copyright. Some examples are File:Accion U.S. Network Logo Small.png and File:AHA New Logo (Stacked).png. There are more at Category:All orphaned non-free use Wikipedia files and Category:Orphaned non-free use Wikipedia files, where images can be thoroughly checked before deletion. Some more volunteers may be needed please. Thanks. -- George Ho ( talk) 20:11, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
Please note a nomination for Bot Approvals Group membership is active. Feel free to comment here. ~ Rob13 Talk 22:45, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
On the "Cahen" page the description of one of the people mentioned says: "Cahen Wheeler, (born 15th July, 2000) to Welsh boy (NOT from bargoed), a true mathematician" Is it a vandalism? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.174.66.42 ( talk) 05:07, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
Dear all ,
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I often see AfDs with lots of !votes for merge or redirect to some other article. If someone proposes a merger while the AfD is happening, what then? It sort of splits the discussion. Has this been discussed? Do we have some guidelines on this? Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 03:01, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
And sometimes there is a concurrent page move discussion and merger discussion.
This example shows that: A May 15, 2016 page move request then a May 16, 2017 merger proposal. They were both ongoing at the same time and it caused a bit of confusion as the page move wanted A --> B while the merger wanted B --> A. Do we need some sort of protocol? Linking to each other so users are aware? Making them subsequent (if needed) and not concurrent? Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 03:18, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
I can't speak about which direction these are going, but Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Covfefe incident and Talk:Donald Trump on social media are happening right now. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 03:22, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
Hello,
To answer a request from the 2016 Community Wishlist for more user control of notifications, the Anti-harassment tools team is exploring changes that allow for adding a per-user blacklist to Echo notifications. This feature allows for more fine tuned control over notifications and could curb harassing notifications. We invite you to test the new feature on beta and then discuss it with us. For the Anti-harassment tools team SPoore (WMF) (talk) , Community Advocate, Community health initiative ( talk) 15:25, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
Prompted by this post to ANI, I looked at the Romani Wikipedia and noticed that it seems to be fairly inactive. What is the best advice to give to people who discover abuse - in particular blatant abuse as reported in the linked post - at an inactive language version? Is it the stewards that step in? (I don't actually know whether there are active admins at rmy.wp, but I'm guessing that there may not be a lot of them given that there is a banner at the top of the project's pages calling for a revival of Romani Wikipedia, if interested speakers of the language can be found.)
Sorry if this question is misplaced, but hopefully there's somebody who can at least point me at a relevant guideline :-) -- bonadea contributions talk 09:49, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
Should the article The Plot to Hack America make use of the template {{ Donald Trump series}} ?
See Request for Comment, at Talk:The_Plot_to_Hack_America#RfC_about_the_Donald_Trump_series. Sagecandor ( talk) 05:37, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
I just noticed that we have articles on Kaushik Narshibhai Patel and Timil Kaushik Patel, both of whom (if Wikipedia is to be believed -- I've actually never heard of either of them) essentially share a name with a convicted murderer who doesn't appear to be mentioned anywhere on Wikipedia.
I'm a little concerned that crime junkies who don't know anything about cricket might accidentally think that one or the other of the above cricketers, both apparently LPs, is the same person as the child-murderer, also probably an LP. I'm a crime junkie who doesn't know anything about cricket and I quickly figured out what was going on, but I'm also a Wikipedian with above-average knowledge of how WP:NATHLETE and WP:NCRIME work, which probably can't be said for most of our readers.
Is there precedent for some kind of "Not to be confused with such-and-such person about whom we don't have an article" headnote?
Hijiri 88 ( 聖 やや) 11:33, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
News update: The WP:Signpost just published the newest issue after over three-month hiatus. Read it all yourselves. -- George Ho ( talk) 02:47, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi. Long-term RC patroller here. Along with options showing and hiding registered/unregistered users edits there's a new option on the Recent changes page about hiding and showing "probably good edits". I'm curious about what the difference is that makes an edit a 'probably good edit' compared to one that isn't. Thanks. Minima © ( talk) 21:51, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
212.198.122.22 ( talk · contribs) is making large numbers of small changes to Hebrew text. See Special:Contributions/212.198.122.22. There are no edit comments. Someone who reads Hebrew should check these. Could be improvement, vandalism, or some dispute over Hebrew spelling. Thanks. John Nagle ( talk) 20:15, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
Recently I had an RFC which was closed (inappropriately I feel) by an inexperienced volunteer. When I went to the volunteers page and asked (very politely I might add) for an explanation, I was at first told "No - I see no need". Upon further inquiry, the volunteer agreed to explain the reason for his closure, and then promptly disregarded his commitment to do so. Further entreaties were met with radio silence. Here is a link to said discussion - is this how volunteers are supposed to behave when asked a simple question that would take less than 5 minutes to answer? 2600:1012:B068:9A8C:51CA:D45C:30DF:BD0E ( talk) 00:03, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
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Does anyone this book (pdf, epub)? @ Casliber:? OJJ ( talk) 10:46, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
Move article Pontus (disambiguation) → Pontus-- SrpskiAnonimac ( talk) 21:05, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
RfC about the author credits of first edition in first sentence in a book article.
Please see Request for Comment, at Talk:Trump_Tower:_A_Novel#RfC_about_the_author_credits_of_first_edition_in_first_sentence. Sagecandor ( talk) 02:38, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
Its confuse (for newbies who go there expecting to be here). It would be more helpful if it followed this structure:
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Someone from Belgium tried to hack one of my on-line accounts that is associated with my Wikipedia username, a couple of days ago. The account is secure, but I thought it worth mentioning in case this is part of a bigger attack. All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough,
19:27, 23 June 2017 (UTC).
The Signpost is looking to publish an article on the state of task forces (or subprojects of other projects) and issues they face in 2017. Would anyone here be interested in giving us their thoughts/opinions, to be included in the piece? (It doesn't need to be long – just a paragraph or two will be fine, unless you want to write more.) If so, can you please leave a link to your submission at WP:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom/Submissions § The state of taskforces in 2017. Thank you, - Evad37 [ talk 03:04, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
Today I found out that search results from selected sister projects—Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikivoyage, Wikiquote, and Wikisource—are now active. Even I discovered that it happened
two days ago. I
typed in "singing", clicked "containing" option, and found out the results from selected sister projects. Too bad for other sister projects, like Commons and Wikinews, whose
newsroom has articles pending review. But at least we have great news. See more at the
archived RfC discussion.
For practice, I went to
my own preferences, click "Gadgets" tab, and then clicked "Disable the suggestions dropdown-lists of the search fields
". Therefore, I can see the results from sister projects more and more with the "dropdown-lists"/autocomplete system disable. I don't know when I can re-enable the system as it doesn't direct me automatically to see those results.
Thoughts about this? -- George Ho ( talk) 18:42, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
Right now, the option to disable/opt-out search results from sister projects is proposed. George Ho ( talk) 06:13, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
Note: Per RfC discussion, there was "no consensus" to include search results from Wikibooks. Therefore, I filed a task at Phabricator. -- George Ho ( talk) 01:01, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
The title "Wiki loves Indian defence services" took me a bit aback. It was a project back in March (now archived) with notices delivered by messages like this: [14] . Obviously a multi-cultural activity such as this doesn't want to give the impression of "loving" any one country's military. Is there a policy/guideline/consensus that would govern this kind of thing? - Bri ( talk) 00:44, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
I have been studying English for thirty years... This is much more a technical question but I know that the tecnologic department only worries about informatic issues so im forced to submit this here. Thge question is, can you understand me? As non native English speaker (my mother language is spanish), someone argued against me lack of competence in English [ https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:Beyond_My_Ken&diff=778970258&oldid=778969517}. This user was Beyond My Ken, and possibly he is right but out of messure and unfair as he told me that my English is very bad, i dont feel offended with this though one consequence is im being actually handcoughed in enwiki.. Concisely, Beyondmyken is not lying when he says that I have errors when using (writting specially) the language of the natives but neither is doing fair on me. I myself also notice this errors but BeyondMyken is not fair because they are those that are so silly that deeply embarrass me being that i fail far from bad ortography and bad conjugation, may be you find some typos in this text. Which i point is my domain of this language is rusted besides of being very poor and hence they result from confusion besides ignorance, I use English so often that sometimes I cant notice the difference with spanish and I need to think to know in which language am I reading some text. May be you can note that I dont have the classic errors that a foreign speaker ussually comits, such as misconjungating or adapting words from spanish resulting in uncomprensible and inexistent in English, or a very limited vocabulary. Very at last i represent the group at all when minimally my search for common or uncommon latin roots for unknown words fail and generally those are cases where i take too much risk. Beyondmyken arged thatI dont know to use contractions so if you rather prefer a spanish tilde(´) besides nothing between or the propper appostrophe (is it this? "'") it´s ok for me because I use different keyboards and Imk not always sure where the apostrophe is, when i used windows it was alt+39 but not anymore my case, you will agree that this are minor errors Like writting English besides english, I all my life have written the latter as i was taught. The center of all of this is that I effectively need an intensive course on wikiversity for reviewing conjugation and prepositions, lately "in" and "on" are being the same for me and I have even written "it dont" besides "it doesnt", also confusion with have and do (not with "make" and "do"), as I said, errors are there but they are fruit of confusion rather than ignorance. Learning latin even didnt help me improoving, by the contrary replaced the space that English once occuppied. What I really want is your concensus about my competence in English by means of being able to at least create short articles and edit in the same manner. -- Neurorebel ( talk) 23:23, 20 June 2017 (UTC) P.D.:I havent used any corrector this time, Im sorry
Respect to my official academical knowledge of English, I studied English in my college through high school from first year in college to 4th grade high school, that is from my five years old to my fifteen years old, they are ten years of curricular studies in total. Since then i kept using English for music, comics, reading, Intyernet, chatting, watching movies, etc, occasions when I need subtitles for speech are rare.-- Neurorebel ( talk) 13:30, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
ALSO i WONDER COULD IT BE THAT ENGLISH CHANGED THAT MUCH IN THIS LAST TEN YEARS?-- Neurorebel ( talk) 13:30, 29 June 2017 (UTC)-- Neurorebel ( talk) 13:30, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
Dear Wikipedians,
Between 1 July and 31 July, Wikimedia Sverige and UNESCO co-arranges the second writing challenge of the Connected Open Heritage project, the COH Challenge.
As part of the Connected Open Heritage project a large number of images under a free license have been uploaded, e.g. of world heritage sites and of important archaeological and built heritage sites in Syria, Mexico, Cyprus and Sweden ( the images can be found here). The purpose of this challenge is to get as many of these images as possible to be used in Wikipedia articles (however, at most five images – with caption – per article).
You can find the participation page here, where you also register your points. Participate in any language you’d like! The winner receives as well the honor as great prizes.
Best, Eric Luth (WMSE) ( talk) 11:25, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi English Wikipedia editors. I'm reaching out to you to notify you that we (Wikimedia Foundation Research team) will launch a 3-question survey in 13 languages on Thursday, June 22, to learn more about Wikipedia readers (think of readers as anyone who visits a page on Wikipedia, so an editor reading a page is also considered a reader). The survey will go live on 2017-06-22 and is planned to stop after a week. The current sampling rate for enwiki is set to 1 out of 40. You can track the task at T168197. Some more information about this research: an announcement on wikimedia-l and the list of participating languages. If you're interested to discuss this research further or if you have questions, please ping me. If you're interested to be the point of contact between us and your community, please ping me as well. Otherwise, please know that we have a close eye on the survey and we expect everything to go smoothly from the technical point of view as we're repeating what we have done a few times last year and tested it in a few languages in 2017 as well. Thanks! :) -- LZia (WMF) ( talk) 09:11, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
I was recently blocked for having a promotional user page, and I wanted to put it back up with some edits so it would less promotional. You can find my sandbox here. You can discuss any changes on the changes on the Sandbox talk page.
Thanks, Upsidedown Keyboard ( talk) 16:01, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi! I'm a Polish Wikipedian currently working for Wikimedia Foundation. My task is to ensure that all online communities are aware of the movement-wide strategy discussion.
Between March and May, members of many communities shared their opinions on what they want the Wikimedia movement to build or achieve. (The report written after the first round of discussions is here, and a similar report after the second round will be available soon.) At the same time, designated people did a research outside of our movement. They:
Now, the research conclusions are published, and the third round is going to begin. Our task is to discuss the identified challenges and think how we want to change or align to changes happening around us. Each week, a new challenge will be posted. The discussions will take place until the end of July. Literally all of you are invited!
If you want to ask a question, ping me or read the FAQ. SGrabarczuk (WMF) ( talk) 22:13, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
There was a short discussion on Jimbo's talk page here, and again, here. Maybe the community does not care? Realityornot ( talk) 02:52, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
Not sure if this is the right venue, but I wish to take over a Template redirect for a somewhat different purpose. I noted here (
link) that for some people, the frequently seen term !vote is completely opaque. I would like to create a template, {{!vote}}
, that would simply emit the text, [[WP:NOTVOTE|!vote]]
to link what it means, since for years I saw it, and never knew. However, there is already a Template there, or rather, a redirect, which redirects to
Template:Not a ballot. Where should I ask if anyone minds if I take over this redirect? Fwiw, the #Redirects section of the
doc page for the template lists three redirects, but not that one, so I'm not even clear if anyone is using that one. What's the right way to advertise or ask about this, so I don't step on any toes about the old redirect?
Mathglot (
talk)
07:45, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi - I notice what I'm hoping is a glitch - that items in categories are in two columns rather than three. If this is a glitch, has anyone any idea what's causing it... or if it's some new attempt to fix something that wasn't broken by making it worse, is there some way of adding a doohickey in my monobook or elsewhere so that I can see them properly again? Grutness... wha? 14:36, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
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The Russian-language Wikipedia, the theme of "Corruption in Wikipedia" administrators instantly blocked. Why can not understand the fact of corruption in Wikipedia?
Machine translation theme will copy here:
"Friends, how relevant is of corruption in Wikipedia (probability) and what the possible formats, it can be shown? I list some:
1) First User protects point of vision the second participant, instead of wanting to protect the point of view of the first (of);
2) Admins protect someone instead of something of interest. That is to say, administrators involved in the sale of the truth and it will earn a living, see Wikipedia as a source of income;
3) Admins punish someone commissioned by someone;
4) Admins repress (block forever), a number of people who will be able in the future to prevent them in the election to this position again. With this offer a lifetime membership.
The problem is that Wikipedia is not only a platform of ordinary scientists, and sometimes a number of states will try to push through it, some their ideologies, to use it as an instrument of its ideological politics. And for such purposes allocated huge sums from the budget at all times. I fear that these policies will affect and Wikipedia. This includes state-level pressure on the AK, the administrator, and someone else.
I'm not saying that is the case today. But in the future - not excluded.
Please discuss".
Daryanush ( talk) 11:41, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English. Message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki.
The Wikimedia movement is beginning a movement-wide strategy discussion, a process which will run throughout 2017. For 15 years, Wikimedians have worked together to build the largest free knowledge resource in human history. During this time, we've grown from a small group of editors to a diverse network of editors, developers, affiliates, readers, donors, and partners. Today, we are more than a group of websites. We are a movement rooted in values and a powerful vision: all knowledge for all people. As a movement, we have an opportunity to decide where we go from here.
This movement strategy discussion will focus on the future of our movement: where we want to go together, and what we want to achieve. We hope to design an inclusive process that makes space for everyone: editors, community leaders, affiliates, developers, readers, donors, technology platforms, institutional partners, and people we have yet to reach. There will be multiple ways to participate including on-wiki, in private spaces, and in-person meetings. You are warmly invited to join and make your voice heard.
The immediate goal is to have a strategic direction by Wikimania 2017 to help frame a discussion on how we work together toward that strategic direction.
Regular updates are being sent to the Wikimedia-l mailing list, and posted on Meta-Wiki. Beginning with this message, monthly reviews of these updates will be sent to this page as well. Sign up to receive future announcements and monthly highlights of strategy updates on your user talk page.
Here is a review of the updates that have been sent so far:
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Isn't this WP:Owning? I'm a bit concerned that the article will just be whatever he wants, since some of his sources are pretty biased. In over 200 edits, he's the only one who has been editing that page for two months. ÞunoresWrǣþþe ( talk) 09:18, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
In the run up to International Women’s Day on the 8th March, Wiki Loves Women is launching the on-Wikipedia translated drive #16WikiWomen : m:16 African Women Translate-a-thon
The idea is for Wikipedians to take 16 days to translate the Wikipedia biographies of 16 notable African women, into at least 16 languages (African and/or international languages).
The articles to be translated will be the biographies of African women. The list of language can be, but is not limited to:
The list of the 16 women biographies that will be translated are:
Please jump in! Whilst all those articles already exist in English, you may improve them... or you may translate them into another language you know, or you relay the project in other linguistic communities.
If you wish to participate, please feel free to add your name and any comments here :
m:16 African Women Translate-a-thon/participants
Results will be tracked on this page :
m:16 African Women Translate-a-thon/tracking
Thanks
Anthere ( talk) 10:44, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
I noticed that many of the Simplified Chinese translations use traditional Chinese characters. Why is this? York12321 ( talk) 15:54, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
Is there an official channel trough which an editor could request a re-assessment of an article? Plaza del Lago, for instance, is an article that was assessed several years ago as a "start-class" article. However, it has long since outgrown such a categorization. Since I originally created this page (it was the first article I created. My learning-curve on Wikipedia largely took place through creating and revising this article), I am obliged to relieve myself from providing a new assessment myself, as I possess a I strong bias towards it. But how/ where could I make a request for other users to do so? Is there a category tag one could add in such circumstances, or a page that a user would need to add the article to a list? Or do no such constructs currently exist on Wikipedia? And shouldn't we have one?
If I am not mistaken no such construct exists, and perhaps one should.
SecretName101 (
talk)
23:56, 19 February 2017 (UTC)
Voting for coordinators has now begun
HERE and will continue through/to 23:59 UTC Monday 06 March. New Page Review and its Page Curation is a core MediaWiki extension. The process of expertly vetting all new articles is a critical issue needing a couple of 'go to' people. The coordinators will do their best for for the advancement of the improvement of NPP and generally keep tracks on the development of those things. Coordinators have no additional or special user benefits, but they will try to keep discussions in the right places and advance negotiations with the WMF.
Please be sure to vote. Any registered, confirmed editor can vote. Nominations are now closed.
Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (
talk)
02:04, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi all
Please could someone have a look at the suggested edits made by a UNESCO staff member to the UNESCO article? The request was made over 2 months ago.
On another note, we are currently uploading a few 100 graphics from the UNESCO Science Report to Wikimedia Commons here. Please do keep checking back to the category as I continue to upload images over the coming weeks. Here are a small selection, almost all are .svg files to allow best quality, adaptation and translation.
Thanks very much
-- John Cummings ( talk) 13:29, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
Apokrif ( talk) 18:13, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
The above page was created as a redirect to Dr. Phil (TV series) by Gourami Watcher who has the autopatrolled right. The page has been turned into a very weak article. Am I right in thinking that cases like this escape new pages patrol? Has there been any discussion about suitable responses? Johnuniq ( talk) 03:36, 19 February 2017 (UTC)
Ping Kudpung—you have enough work to do in the NPP area, but in case you are not aware of the above loophole you may as well add it to your list of things to be considered. Johnuniq ( talk) 06:22, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
Could we get more comments here? [1] -- 168.235.1.4 ( talk) 18:50, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
m:Grants:Evaluation/100 Words Campaign is trying to find images that illustrate intangible concepts, such as "ability" or "constructiveness". Please boldly add your favorites. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 20:50, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
Howdy, I've been working on updating the article Tansy beetle and aim to get it to GA standard. Following my request for peer-review from a fellow editor, they then asked one of the previous contributors to the article, Geoff Oxford, for views on the topic via his talkpage User talk:Geoff Oxford. Geoff is an academic and wrote several of the sources I referenced in the article. Looking at his recent activity I had thought it unlikely he would actually answer via the talk page so took it upon myself to look him up at the University of York and sent him an email directly. He has cordially replied sending through a few open access papers to reference in the article. My question is this - what is Wikipedia's policy about contacting possible useful sources outside of the Wikipedia space in the real world? Have I unwittingly committed some terrible faux pas? Or even bludgeoned myself with a COI issue in my excitement??
Advice/comments appreciated. Zakhx150 ( talk) 09:54, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
Hello! Community Tech is teaming up with Matthewrbowker to address the 2016 top 10 wish of rewriting the popular XTools suite. The first tool Community Tech will be working on is Articleinfo (accessible via the "Revision history statistics" link on history pages). At it's simplest, our goal is to rewrite it to be stable and fully functional. Before we get started, we want your feedback on what you'd like to see in the new version, and what you don't like about the current version. Please review our plans and provide any feedback at meta:Community Tech/Rewrite Xtools/Articleinfo. Thank you! — MusikAnimal talk 00:09, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
Just something curious I'd like to share:
“ | That site, called Intellipedia, has been around for more than a decade. It’s made up of three different wikis, at different classification levels [...] Built on the same software platform as Wikipedia, Intellipedia's articles are often cribbed directly from the free encyclopedia, but with sensitive classified information added by analysts. | ” |
The Government’s Secret Wiki for Intelligence. -- bender235 ( talk) 23:19, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
See Talk:Chemistry#RFC on the inclusion of a particular passage in the lead of this article. Please contribute if you have an opinion. Thanks. -- Jayron 32 02:55, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
re: Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2017_March_3#Older_Column_templates & Category:Multi-column templates - Older Column templates & view: Template:Column-generating template families which inserts section-subsections...
I was 'bitten' a while ago by a dog of an Older Column templates unexpected behavior, and upon reviewing the templates usage, Rip-Van-Winkle-like found there are whole families of more modern Column templates we ought be using with often less complexity in application and more importantly, are compatible with newer CSS standards and modern browsers.
Most importantly, they wrap properly in the realm of smartphones, and PAD computer operating systems, whereas the Older Column Templates I list for discussion DO NOT! Since PAD and other portable devices now make up a huge percentage of cases when we are accessed, as a computer engineer it seems silly to let incompatible column templates stay around when most can readily be replaced systematically, at least semi-automatically with, I suspect, a bit of cleaver BOT ops in the proper order.
More importantly the tougher cases can be weeded into nothingness with a small dose of daily editing. Most all need only a new name substituted and formats checked. The trouble will come from style formats and margins, but the new CSS3 families have all the advantages there. The options are listed in
Template:Column-generating template families.
So, please Bookmark to do a daily 'Onesie'... fix something on WhatLinksHere check on {{ Col-begin}} and clear an old bit of code in favor of a newer better choice. My, it's just technically engaging enough to wake me up while I'm working on opening the other eye and working my way down from the top O'that 'first half-cup' of Morning joe! (Just don't drive and edit at the same time!) // Fra nkB 22:01, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
See Sargon of Akkad (YouTube), and it's history page. Without pointing fingers to certain parties, it appears that an edit war cannot be avoided if the users continue to edit as they do now. Is there someone out there with a real neutral point of view, who can look at the edits? Or where can I find such a person? I found WP:AN/3, but there I need to accuse certain persons, and I do not believe that is the road that must be taken. Best regards, Jeff5102 ( talk) 08:34, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
This RfC on Napoleon Hill just started. This is not a high traffic article so the more eyes the better, if you can spare a few minutes. Thanks. SW3 5DL ( talk) 15:29, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
I feel that a football/soccer goal keepers Wikipedia page should include the amount of goals they have conceded for their club/country etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andywooo ( talk • contribs) 17:00, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
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As we mentioned last month, the Wikimedia movement is beginning a movement-wide strategy discussion, a process which will run throughout 2017. This movement strategy discussion will focus on the future of our movement: where we want to go together, and what we want to achieve.
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I am looking for more comments regarding a page move here: [2]. Any input from more editors would be greatly appreciated! -- My Core Competency is Competency ( talk) 16:02, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
Hi. Can someone please review all sources of this " prizes" (zB: [3], [4]...). Most of them (if not all) are really crap. Regards. -- Ganímedes ( talk) 16:06, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
They seem to come up a lot on Special:Random. Same question for municipalities/towns/villages as well. Thanks, Abe g92 contribs 02:09, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
The soft redirect Wikipedia:NP is currently discussed at WP:RFD. I invite you to chime in. -- George Ho ( talk) 19:48, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
@ George Ho: What is a soft redirect? SW3 5DL ( talk) 13:39, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
a replacement of usual or "hard" redirects and is used where the destination is another site—including Wikimedia's sister projects." A soft redirect is intended "
for external use" as a hard one doesn't work for such. Also, it can redirect to a special page using "Special:" namespace. You can read more. -- George Ho ( talk) 13:46, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
Apparently, DMOZ is closing down on March 14. {{ DMOZ}}, a high-risk template, will have to be deprecated as a result. Also, there's a proposal to create a MediaWiki-based, WMF-hosted web directory that you may be interested in. KATMAKROFAN ( talk) 04:40, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
Hello everyone,
I come to you to invite to re-read the submission of a new partnership project between the Wikimedia movement and the Belgian NGOs. The project is titled Wiki 4 Coop and I invite you to discover its submission page on Meta-Wiki. Do not hesitate to endorse the project if you like it and even correct my English if you have a little time. A beautiful end of day for all of you, Lionel Scheepmans ✉ Contact (French native speaker) 11:44, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
Please see Template talk:Specific#Wording for a suggestion on rewording this template message to make the purpose and meaning clearer, especially regarding the use of secondary sources. — Sangdeboeuf ( talk) 02:08, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
On page /info/en/?search=Special:Statistics which is accessible from the main page by clicking on the number of articles in English, if you click on "Content Pages", it'll take you to https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:AllPages&hideredirects=1 which the very first article (!) is a redirect and (!! Chess) is just a section of an article. Shouldn't redirects be hidden? Why is this? Thanks, Alex the Nerd ( talk) 21:18, 20 March 2017 (UTC)Alex the Nerd
Dear Wikimedians/Wikipedians:
Today we are starting a broad discussion to define Wikimedia's future role in the world and develop a collaborative strategy to fulfill that role. You are warmly invited to join the conversation.
There are many ways to participate, by joining an existing conversation or starting your own:
Track A (organized groups): Discussions with your affiliate, committee or other organized group (these are groups that support the Wikimedia movement).
Track B (individual contributors): On Meta or your local language or project wiki.
This is the first of three conversations, and it will run between now and April 15. The purpose of cycle 1 is to discuss the future of the movement and generate major themes around potential directions. What do we want to build or achieve together over the next 15 years?
We welcome you, as we create this conversation together, and look forward to broad and diverse participation from all parts of our movement.
Sincerely,
Nicole Ebber (Track A Lead), Jaime Anstee (Track B Lead), & the engagement support teams05:09, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
Is there a template I can tag articles with that use too many non-free images in them? Thanks. SharkD Talk 04:31, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
This is a gray area. Wikipedia purposefully follows a far more strict fair use policy than actual US copyright law. We do that to encourage as much "free" content as possible. We are the "free encyclopedia" after all. In terms of actual US copyright law, those images on that article are probably fine (standard disclaimer: this is not legal advice but my interpretation of the complexities of copyright). I can see how someone would argue that each of those photos fits into our fair use policy. I can see how they could win that argument. I can also see how the opposite can be true. The grayness of our policy allows for both to occur. The only way to be sure would be to put the lot towards FFD as one nomination and see how others interpret it. -- Majora ( talk) 19:11, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
Nowadays blocks can be indefinite, which means that their expiry has not been set. Was the code word originally "in-finite" as opposed to "in-definite"? In the Finnish Wikipedia there is still in use the translation "forever", which leads me to think that the original wording in English might have been something else than it's now. -- Pxos ( talk) 11:38, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
Hello friends,
Please enjoy this animation my computer took one week to generate. :) -- Psiĥedelisto ( talk) 10:17, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
Like~ ONUnicorn( Talk| Contribs) problem solving 18:53, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
The Arbitration Committee clerks are currently looking for a few dependable and mature editors willing to serve as clerks. The responsibilities of clerks include opening and closing arbitration cases and motions; notifying parties of cases, decisions, and other committee actions; maintaining the requests for Arbitration pages; preserving order and proper formatting on case pages; and other administrative and related tasks they may be requested to handle by the arbitrators. Clerks are the unsung heroes of the arbitration process, keeping track of details to ensure that requests are handled in a timely and efficient manner. Clerks get front-line seats to the political and ethnic warfare that scorches Wikipedia periodically, and, since they aren't arbitrators themselves, are rarely threatened with violence by the participants.
The salary and retirement packages for Clerks rival that of Arbitrators, to boot. Best of all, you get a cool fez!
If you're interested, please read and follow the directions on this page
For the Arbitration Committee Clerks, Kharkiv07 ( T) 20:52, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
The first time a reference appears in an article, it's the full cite. Thereafter, it is supposed to be the <refname="whatever"/> version (and not the other way around with maybe the full cite at the 10th occurrence and then the partial ones preceding it). I am pretty sure that this is a policy/guideline but I cannot find the WP page or shortcut! Help please & thanks. Shearonink ( talk) 19:05, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
I would like to announce my grant proposal for the development of a gadget for editing Wikidata information (primarily used in the infoboxes) without leaving the Wikipedia page. My goal is to make one simple gadget helpful for all users which cover 80-90% of the needs, even if not everything is available for editing. In simpler terms, it's about creating an editor for "Wikidata infoboxes". Please write your opinion and wishes on the grant page. — putnik 09:52, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I accidentally refreshed an Special:EmailUser page a stack of times yesterday. I still seem to be throttled 20 hours later. Is there a time limit before the action is unlocked, or have I triggered some permanent lock? T.Shafee(Evo&Evo) talk 03:47, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
'emailuser' => [ 'ip' => [ 5, 86400 ], // 5 per day per ip (logged-out and new users) 'newbie' => [ 5, 86400 ], // 5 per day for non-autoconfirmed 'user' => [ 20, 86400 ], // 20 per day for users ],
The reassessment on Super Mario World, Talk:Super Mario World/GA2, is still open. A volunteer may be needed, or the page can be converted to the community reassessment. Comments are welcome either here or there. -- George Ho ( talk) 09:47, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
Please comment on a few requests for comments on the Microscope article.
Talk:Microscope#Request_for_comment_on_how_a_scanning_electron_microscope_works
Talk:Microscope#Request_for_comment_on_ultramicroscope
Thank you, -- 2601:648:8503:4467:F4B3:6D6C:9DCC:DC06 ( talk) 21:02, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
Where was the last serious proposal for recalling bad or abusive admins, and what kept it from being adopted? — swpb T 18:48, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
Is there a neat, user-friendly explanation of why we need to keep article histories? I think there used to be, but I can't find it.
I'm dealing with a persistent user who doesn't understand our copyleft obligations at all. Any links to suggested help or project places, or even the meta, would be greatly appreciated.
Places that might mention or link to it you'd think include:
And perhaps I'm already looking straight at it somewhere there. Happens from time to time. Anyway, any help appreciated. Andrewa ( talk) 03:19, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
Now raised at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#Page history. Andrewa ( talk) 21:07, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I've been writing up an essay on spotting hoaxes during NPP and things to watch out for, based on personal experience. I hope it covers some new ground.
I'd be keen to see if anyone has any thoughts or feedback - I'm thinking of moving it from userspace to being an essay if people like it. Blythwood ( talk) 11:43, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
Hi all
I'm applying for a grant from WMF to continue my work at UNESCO from September this year, please take a look, let me know what you think and endorse if you want.
The main goals are:
Thanks
-- John Cummings ( talk) 20:06, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
I am aware that the redirect filter for the page list is disabled due to performance issues. Does anybody know when it is expected to be working again? Thanks, Alex the Nerd ( talk) 20:10, 4 April 2017 (UTC)Alex the Nerd
I'm starting to construct a list article, and am finding the coordinates for the locations involved expressed in both decimal form (41.289°S 174.777°E) and degree/minute/second form (57°18′22″N 4°27′32″W). Given that I'm going to have to convert some of them, is there any reason to prefer one form over another? Is there any advantage to a reader, or to other software that might want to make use of the data? Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 01:04, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
Is open. 3 images have already been selected by a jury. Please select a 4th winner in the images listed here. Vote now :) c:Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2016/Community Prize Selection Anthere ( talk) 14:34, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
Hey folks, I have been collaborating with some researchers who are publishing a dataset of externally reviewed Wikipedia articles (the sample was taken back in 2006). I'd like to take the opportunity to compare the prediction quality of m:ORES' article quality model with these external reviewers, but in order get a good picture of the situation, it would also be very helpful to get a set of Wikipedian assessments for the same dataset. So, I have gathered all of the versions of externally reviewed articles in User:EpochFail/ORES_audit and I'm asking for your help to gather assessments. There's 90 old revisions of articles that I need your help assessing. I don't think this will take long, but I need to borrow your judgement here to make sure I'm not biasing things.
To help out, see User:EpochFail/ORES_audit.
ORES is a generalized machine prediction service that helps catch vandalism, measure the development of articles, and support student editors. The more we know about how ORES performs against important baselines, the better use of it we can make it to measure Wikipedia and direct wiki work. -- EpochFail ( talk • contribs) 22:04, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
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On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, I am pleased to announce that self-nominations are being accepted for the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Elections.
The Board of Trustees (Board) is the decision-making body that is ultimately responsible for the long-term sustainability of the Wikimedia Foundation, so we value wide input into its selection. More information about this role can be found on Meta-Wiki. Please read the letter from the Board of Trustees calling for candidates.
The candidacy submission phase will last from April 7 (00:00 UTC) to April 20 (23:59 UTC).
We will also be accepting questions to ask the candidates from April 7 to April 20. You can submit your questions on Meta-Wiki.
Once the questions submission period has ended on April 20, the Elections Committee will then collate the questions for the candidates to respond to beginning on April 21.
The goal of this process is to fill the three community-selected seats on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. The election results will be used by the Board itself to select its new members.
The full schedule for the Board elections is as follows. All dates are inclusive, that is, from the beginning of the first day (UTC) to the end of the last.
In addition to the Board elections, we will also soon be holding elections for the following roles:
Please note that this year the Board of Trustees elections will be held before the FDC and Ombuds elections. Candidates who are not elected to the Board are explicitly permitted and encouraged to submit themselves as candidates to the FDC or Ombuds positions after the results of the Board elections are announced.
More information on this year's elections can be found on Meta-Wiki. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the election talk page on Meta-Wiki, or sent to the election committee's mailing list, board-electionswikimedia.org.
On behalf of the Election Committee,
Katie Chan, Chair,
Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Joe Sutherland, Community Advocate, Wikimedia Foundation
My concerns about "High-Conflict Subjects vs. Saboteurs," expressed in Wikipedia talk:Protection policy, recently drew this reponse from a senior editor:
I replied:
Then I did a little research, to underscore the long history of Wikipedia's tarnished reputation, and found these critiques of Wikipedia, published by the same sources that Wikipedia generally encourages editors to cite as references. If they're credible, then consider these articles they've published about Wikipedia's credibility:
We Wikipedians need to be careful about our reputation, and how we earn it, and how we protect it, or Wikipedia will gradually fade into irrelevance, for lack of credibility, and even our most honorable work will be lost in the smoke of our faults. ~ Penlite ( talk) 08:57, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
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The Wikimedia Foundation will be testing its secondary data center in Dallas. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to conduct a planned test. This test will show whether they can reliably switch from one data center to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
They will switch all traffic to the secondary data center on Wednesday, 19 April 2017. On Wednesday, 3 May 2017, they will switch back to the primary data center.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop during those two switches. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
Other effects:
This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. Please share this information with your community. / User:Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk)
MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 17:34, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
Right folks, I am setting this up to run May 15 to June 30 again...with the usual Amazon vouchers up for grabs. Cheers, Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 13:35, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
TL;DR: We hope you will contribute your thoughts to this question: "What do we want to build or achieve together over the next 15 years?" - at either Wikipedia:Wikimedia Strategy 2017 or on metawiki at m:Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Cycle 1, plus continue discussing each others' ideas. Quiddity (WMF) ( talk) 19:37, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
Hi all!
Summary: The first cycle of strategy conversations is ending soon. We hope you will contribute your answer to this question: "What do we want to build or achieve together over the next 15 years?"
This phase has been an opportunity to come up with new ideas. The next phase is about refining these ideas to reach some consensus on the most important ones. This means that there will still be opportunities to contribute in the future! It also means that the focus of the conversation will change. If you are interested in generating creative new ideas about the future of our projects, now is the time to share your thoughts!
Participating is easy. Check out the participation page on Meta-Wiki's movement strategy portal for more information. Find online discussions, local meetups, and a survey on Meta-Wiki.
One note: In consideration of the Passover and Easter holidays people around the world are recognizing this week and weekend, we have moved the closing day for this discussion cycle to the end of April 18 (23:59 UTC). That means you have a few additional days to share your ideas - big and small - for Wikimedia's future.
Once this discussion cycle ends next week, we will be gathering common topics from across all the global discussions and posting them on Meta-Wiki. That includes conversations from the wikis, meetups with experts, discussions from affiliates, and anywhere else we have documented.
The next phase of the discussion will begin by May 1. We’ll be working together to prioritize the thematic statements. More information on that cycle is available on Meta-Wiki, and we’ll share more when that cycle gets started.
I have already seen and heard some fantastic ideas from our first discussion cycle these past few weeks. I look forward to seeing what ideas emerge in the final days of this cycle!
Un cordial saludo (Spanish translation: “Best regards”),
Katherine
-- Posting. Quiddity (WMF) ( talk) 19:37, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
Looking at Category:Political parties user templates recently, I found a number of pages listed that were not userboxes, but rather were user pages that included political party userboxes. It seems that some of the userboxes included the designation [[Category:Political parties user templates]] without including "noinclude" tags around the category, thus placing the pages that transcluded the userbox into the category of Category:Political parties user templates as well.
I managed to identify several of the problematic templates and added "noinclude" tags around the category, so that they would say
However, if this is happening with political party user templates, it could be happening with other kinds of userboxes too. Is there any way to find other userboxes that fail to use the "noinclude" tag around their category designations? -- Metropolitan90 (talk) 19:48, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
insource:"category:political parties user templates" -insource:"noinclude>[[category:political"
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20:49, 14 April 2017 (UTC)Dear Wikipedians, Happy easter for those of you celebrating.
Tomorrow, the International Day for Monuments and Sites is celebrated. On that same day, the first edition of the UNESCO Challenge will also commence. The UNESCO Challenge is a challenge co-arranged by UNESCO, the Swedish National Heritage Board and Wikimedia Sverige, with the purpose to improve articles on world heritage sites. UNESCO are going to release a large series of images ( in this category), and a lot of open access texts on the sites, which may be used in the challenge.
Write in whatever language you like! You find the page for participation and points registration here.
Best, Eric Luth (WMSE) ( talk) 09:59, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard open letter. This is time sensitive, I intend to send the letter tomorrow. Smallbones( smalltalk) 19:33, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
Just spreading the word about our ongoing project. If this interests you, feel free to also disseminate the word over social media! It's a wide-ranging topic with all kinds of interesting facets, so even if this isn't your usual area, I invite you to drop in and check out our list of redlinks to see if any of them catch your attention. Thanks! Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney ( talk) 07:41, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
You are invited to participate in the upcoming which is being held from Saturday, April 15 to Sunday, April 30, and especially on April 20, 2017!The purpose of the collaboration, which is being organized by WikiProject Cannabis, is to create and improve cannabis-related content at Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in a variety of fields, including: culture, health, hemp, history, medicine, politics, and religion. For more information about this campaign, and to learn how you can help improve Wikipedia, please visit the "420 collaboration" page. |
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The phrase "Jesus Christ" is a theologically loaded title that Jews and others reject, and that (per
WP:NPOV) should not generally be used on English Wikipedia except in very specific circumstances. The neutral, equally recognizable term is "Jesus of Nazareth". I went to
Jesus Christ yesterday to see if there were pages that linked to it inappropriately, but before I got to that I saw that the redirect page currently includes the text Please do not replace these redirected links with a link directly to the target page unless expressly advised to do so below or elsewhere on this page
. This was clearly meant to discourage editors from piping directly to the article title from pages that use the same "alternate name" as the redirect, but that wording assumes that all alternate names are equally acceptable for Wikipedia to be using in its text, which is not the case.
The template in question, Template:Redr, is apparently deprecated, but I really don't know what that means when the template is permanently "template-protected to prevent vandalism" (even though the odds of extended-confirmed editors engaging in bona fide "vandalism" on relatively obscure template pages that can generally only be seen by clicking noredirect links are next to nil).
Shouldn't the text be changed to Please do not replace these redirected links with a link directly to the target page without a good reason
? I don't even know how or where to go about doing this, which is why I'm at the miscellaneous village pump.
Hijiri 88 ( 聖 やや) 00:54, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
Please read Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship#Poll candidate search needs your participation.
Please join and participate.
Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 00:01, 23 April 2017 (UTC)
There has been a really great conversation at Talk:Criticism of Walmart and I'm looking for more editors to join the discussion. To summarize: Wikipedians have noticed and have begun attempts to fix the Criticism of Walmart article, which is full of WP:UNDUE and WP:POV content, and is far from encyclopedic in areas. Some editors have suggested throwing out the article and starting from scratch, while others have said the article would take a "massive" effort to clean up properly. The issue is no one knows where to start, which brings me here. Input and advice from additional editors could be a huge benefit to finding a way forward with this. As one of Walmart's representatives on Wikipedia, I have a conflict of interest and I do not feel comfortable making suggestions as to whether the editors should try to correct the existing article or start over by reducing it to a stub, as has been suggested by others. I am, however, willing to help with whatever "grunt" work is necessary to assist other editors in fixing the page (providing references, assisting with identifying inaccuracies, etc.). Any insight is valuable and appreciated. Thanks, JLD at Walmart ( talk) 14:32, 25 April 2017 (UTC)
There are ongoing proposals, including older ones, to close or delete some language projects, like Beta Wikiversity and Moldovan Wikipedia. Also, there are proposals for new projects, like NonFreeWiki, WikiJournal, Wikigames, and Wikidirectory. -- George Ho ( talk) 05:08, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
Talk:Microscope#RFC_should_article_focus_on_instrument.2C_microscope.2C_or_technique.2C_microscopy
-- 2600:387:6:807:0:0:0:C2 ( talk) 14:30, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
The first cycle of the Wikimedia movement strategy process recently concluded. During that period, we were discussing the main directions for the Wikimedia movement over the next 15 years. There are more than 1500 summary statements collected from the various communities (including 40 from your local discussion). The strategy facilitators and many volunteers have summarized the discussions of the previous month. A quantitative analysis of the statements will be posted on Meta for translation this week, alongside the report from the Berlin conference.
The second cycle will begin soon. It's set to begin on May 5 and run until May 31. During that period, you will be invited to dive into the main topics that emerged in the first cycle, discuss what they mean, which ones are the most important and why, and what their practical implications are. This work will be informed and complemented by research involving new voices that haven’t traditionally been included in strategy discussions, like readers, partners, and experts. Together, we will begin to make sense of all this information and organize it into a meaningful guiding document, which we will all collectively refine during the third and last cycle in June−July.
We want to help your community to be more engaged with the discussions in the next cycle. Now, we are looking for volunteers who could
We are looking forward to your feedback!
Base (WMF) and SGrabarczuk (WMF) ( talk) 16:30, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
Article Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija should be renamed in only Kosovo and Metohija, as has already been done with Autonomous Province of Vojvodina ( Vojvodina). -- SrpskiAnonimac ( talk) 22:53, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
This redirect page, Lavonia-Carnegie Library, is about the Carnegie Library in the town of Lavonia, Georgia. Of course, hyphens are used when combining two of the same type of thing, e.g. the Smith-Jones house, the Dallas-Ft. Worth area, but is it correct to use it when one is a town and the other is a person's last name? Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 02:12, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
In this diff user:Ag2gaeh is linking to German Wikipedia instead of clarifying a statement he has made. Is this appropriate? I don't think we should be sending English speaking users to German Wikipedia to seek clarification, when the author can simply explain the thing his or herself. (Note that he has provided a German reference in addition to the interwiki link, which is not a problem. But why can't he simply explain it himself?) He has also been removing all the {{ clarify}} tags I've added to the article. His writing style is not very advanced, and I am having trouble understanding the article. SharkD Talk 12:15, 24 April 2017 (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:
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Community health initiative
Helping the Wikimedia volunteer community to reduce the level of harassment and disruptive behavior on our projects.
Hello! Today we'd like to introduce the new Community health initiative, the people who will be working on it, and most importantly how you can get involved.
Over the past several years the Wikimedia Foundation has researched and learned how harassment affects participation on Wikipedia [1] and have received numerous requests from the English Wikipedia community for better tools and preparation to deal with negative behavior. [2] In January we received funding via a Newmark Foundation grant to address this problem over the next two years. [3]
We're calling these efforts the 'Community health initiative' and our work contains four equally important parts:
The Research team's Anti-Harassment Research project will aim to understand and model the characteristics of harassment in Wikimedia projects in order to inform the development of anti-harassment tools and recommendations for community-specific behavioral policies and enforcement processes.
We want to build software that empowers contributors and administrators to make timely, informed decisions when harassment occurs. Four focus areas have been identified where new tools could be beneficial in addressing and responding to harassment:
We will work with the community to research and analyze how behavioral issues on English Wikipedia are a) covered in policy, and b) enforced in the community, particularly noticeboards where problems are discussed and actioned. We will provide research on alternate forms of addressing specific issues, researching effectiveness, and identifying different approaches that have found success on other Wikimedia projects. We believe this will help the Wikipedia community make informed changes to existing policies and guidelines.
To help functionary and community governance groups better coordinate their work, we will facilitate in the development of a training platform and will guide the establishment of a modules based around the critical area of addressing harassment.
After consultation with functionaries (stewards, global admins, Arbitration Committees, admins), community members, and outside experts an initial group of modules about Online harassment and Keeping events safe was created and is now available for training.
The Anti-Harassment Tools team includes five Wikimedia Foundation employees, partnering with members of the Wikipedia community who want to participate. The software we build will be useless if it doesn't address real-world workflow problems for the existing Wikipedia community, so we will heavily rely on your input to make our efforts a success.
You can read about more about the team. We're still searching for two PHP developers for this team, if you're interested apply here!
We're just getting started, and we look forward to your participation every step along the way. As we've prepared for the grant and and on-boarded the new team members we've collated some notes on meta, [5] most of which we've moved here to Wikipedia:Community health initiative. These plans and notes will almost certainly change base on the Wikipedia community's input.
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We'd love to hear your initial thoughts on Wikipedia talk:Community health initiative on English Wikipedia. There's a lot to discuss and we hope to hear from you. Thank you! — Caroline, Sydney, & Trevor of the Anti-Harassment Tools team. 23:41, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
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I make redirects, so I ask what is correctly next to Dunđerski Palace and Dunđerski Castle:
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I wasn't sure where to start a discussion about the US repesentative articles and the inclusion of information about the American Health Care Act, so I started it at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Politics/American politics#Does one consequence of a bill belong in the article of every politician that voted for the bill?. ~ GB fan 14:37, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
Article Indo-European (disambiguation) rename in only Indo-European (as was done with English (disambiguation) → English) -- SrpskiAnonimac ( talk) 16:09, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
Greetings,
I think everyone has heard about the block on all Wikipedia editions in Turkey. We, the Wikimedia Turkey User Group, have been trying to find out what the perceived issue is and they finally have an answer for us: the following two articles (subsections, to be exact) at enwiki:
I, of course, wouldn't dream of asking you to censor the content of a WMF project, being an experienced Wikimedian of 11 years with several advanced user rights across-the-board. What I only ask of you, the enwiki community, is to review the subsections in question, ensure that they are up to our standards and make sure we have a product that we can stand behind, as always. Both subsections seem to include 40+ references, but I personally think there is room for improvement due to some unsourced statements and claims. Please help us fight this block by helping the articles become as unbiased as possible. Thank you.
Vito Genovese 14:27, 29 April 2017 (UTC)
I commend those Turkish Wikipedians who are continuing to fight for free knowledge during this situation and will continue to do so. Just like I commend those Chinese Wikipedians who are forced to use a VPN just to be here. However, there are far better venues to request review of something than the pump. As the very first thing I mentioned in my previous post was to be bold and fix any issues you find, I don't see how that should cause any issues. -- Majora ( talk) 21:40, 29 April 2017 (UTC)
How many edits a month are needed to be considered "active" on Wikipedia? Was just wondering about this. South Nashua ( talk) 19:50, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
This category was still missing, but it has just been created. Actually every article about a children's book fits in it. The Wiki ghost ( talk) 18:22, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
Not sure where to post this, but I would like some clarity on the matter. A while back I did global name change and after that all links to my old page/chat worked as redirects, but now when someone created a new account with my old name all those redirects was deleted so they link into his account now. I was talking about this on my finnish chat page and seems this is how system has been working from the start (unless you know to request block or create new account with your own old name after name change to mark as dummy). My question is, has there been any attempt to improve the way renaming accounts work to prevent something like this? Can’t imagine this to be super rare issue… -- OneMember ( Talk) 20:34, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
Nothing has been published for two months because the editor is absent. These things happen, but it is time to move on.
Does someone else what to have a go at running it, or should it be shut down? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.205.251.27 ( talk) 11:33, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
Given the success of Internet Slowdown Day and Internet Blackout in protecting a free and open internet, I'm surprised there are no discussions about bringing it back given the danger Net Neutrality is in right now. ηoian ‡orever ηew ‡rontiers 13:33, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
There are a lots of articles that are Birthday Honours lists.
Taking two as examples 100 years apart:
2008:
These lists are different from lists like those of the High Sheriffs eg: High Sheriff of Surrey that have been created by extracting one line of information from lots of different issues of the London Gazette among other sources, because a Birthday Honours list copy the structure of the Gazette birthday honours list as well as its content.
These lists which are laid out nearly identical to the Gazette lists. They are not part of articles where there is an analysis of what is specifically in the list that is different from other similar lists. Eg analysis like this:
The first BHL under the New Labour government of 2023 saw a decrease in the number of honours going to members of City firms and an increase in those going to member of the NHS (reliable source). ...
The 1920 Birthday Honours list/article does not mention the selling of honours scandal (see Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925), nor does the 2006 Birthday Honours list mention the Cash for Honours scandal (at the time I am writing this note even in a See also section).
Given the tone of Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and some of its specific comments in it, ought these Birthday Honour Lists (BHLs) be on Wikiepdia, or should the content be moved onto Wikisource? If they are not to be moved, what can be done to improve them?
-- PBS ( talk) 13:15, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
London Gazette | Wikipedia |
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General Sir William Gustavus Nicholson, K.C.B., Chief of the General Staff (1st Military Member, Army Council.) | General Sir William Gustavus Nicholson, K.C.B., Chief of the General Staff (1st Military Member, Army Council.) |
General Sir John James Hood Gordon, K.C.B., Indian Army, Colonel 29th Punjabis. | General Sir John James Hood Gordon, K.C.B., Indian Army, Colonel 29th Punjabis. |
Gazette | Wikipedia |
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Dr. James Iain Walker Anderson, C.B.E. For public and voluntary service. | Dr. James Anderson, CBE. For public and voluntary service. |
William Samuel Atkinson, Headteacher, Phoenix High School, Hammersmith and Fulham, London. For services to Education and to Community Relation | William Atkinson, Headteacher, Phoenix High School, Hammersmith and Fulham, London. For services to Education and to Community Relations. |
The Right Honourable Alan James Beith, M.P., Member of Parliament for Berwick-upon-Tweed. For services to Parliament | Rt. Hon. Alan Beith, MP, Member of Parliament for Berwick-upon-Tweed. For services to Parliament. |
Copyright is not really an issue partly because of US law on lists and partly because the UK government's new Open licence that is close to Wikipedia's CC BY-SA 3.0 License. However to met the licensing requirements I think that the articles on Birthday Honour's do need to add attribution to the references section:
-- PBS ( talk) 13:15, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello, please find it in your hearts to comment on the Donald Trump talk page OPTIONS and SURVEY are HERE regarding how to best state how Trump won the election. Really would appreciate the input so that we might put this to rest, finally. Appreciate it. Thanks. SW3 5DL ( talk) 14:31, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
In the template {{ views}} I want to add links to stuff like Elevation (view) and Dimetric projection. However, these topics don't have pages of their own. Is it okay to do this? SharkD Talk 03:47, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
Wikipedia is the fifth most visited site in the world, yet its true potential is hampered by copyright limits. [11]
Wikipedia is also completely open source and anyone can download the entire site, all 4.4 million articles in just over one day. [12][ /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Database_download
I am an American attorney who lives in Moscow. Russian copyright law is not followed, and in the handful of copyright cases that go to court, there is less than 1000$ fine. If I recall the highest ever Russian court ordered fine is around $1000.
A company in Russia could download all of wikipedia everyday.
All of the links on this English language Russian wikipedia clone would have all of the full original books, articles, and magazines - fully online and open for the world to read and share. The most up to date English wikipedia article would be in one window. The links to the full books would be in another window.
How long before this English language Russia wikipedia clone started to be edited by Americans and native English speakers? There could be two generated tabs at the top of each 4.4 million articles:
How long before the most comprehensive online library ever created surpassed the original wikipedia as the fifth most visited site in the world?
Moscowamerican ( talk) 10:23, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
Per WP:RFC, I'm publicizing this RfC here, as I'm not sure there will be a neutral response without doing so. The cause of death on the Ted Bundy page is currently listed as "State-sanctioned homicide (execution by electrocution)", which seems to me to be inconsistent with how the cause of death is listed for other executed criminals within the American justice system. (Mostly they seem to say "Execution" or "Execution by insert method here"). I'd appreciate any feedback. Thanks! Rockypedia ( talk) 18:04, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
2 weeks ago, I posted that the Cycle 2 would start last week. It was postponed though, and the final official date is May, 11 (tomorrow). The end was also moved - to Friday, June 9. You can discuss 5 themes here. (You can also add and discuss your own themes). Any questions? SGrabarczuk (WMF) ( talk) 15:38, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Talk:Emmett Till#RfC: Should we include the "accused of showing an interest in a white woman" aspect in the lead or specifically the lead sentence?. A WP:Permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn ( talk) 03:06, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
Where can I go to get an illustrations I have created critiqued? I am looking for people who know more about making illustrations than the topic of the illustrations. Thanks. SharkD Talk 20:25, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
The merger of {{ Infobox song}} and {{ infobox single}} is still in progress per recent RfC at WT:SONGS. More at Template talk:Infobox song#Beginning merger proceedings with "infobox single". -- George Ho ( talk) 15:00, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
It is also discussed all over at Template talk:Infobox song and then Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Songs. -- George Ho ( talk) 03:10, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
Dutch public broadcaster VPRO and the Institute for Sound and Vision are cooperating with the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Nederland to make unique footage about groundbreaking sciene available.
The Mind of the Universe is an international tv series and open source digital platform about the rapid evolution of our knowledge. Through interviews with groundbreaking scientists, it provides a glimpse of tomorrow’s world,
The interviews were produced in 2015, 2016 and 2017 by Dutch public broadcaster VPRO for a tv series, VPRO decided from the start that all materials (including footage not used for the documentary) would be made available under an open license.
The platform Mind of the Universe Open Science TV provides access to all this material. It also has transcripts of the interviews, which are searchable by keyword. All materials can be downloaded and re-used, as they were published under a CC-BY-SA license.
With the help of a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation, and working closely with Wikimedia Nederland, the Institute for Sound and Vision will host a series of events to promote use Mind of the Universe material throughout the Wikimedia projects. They will also produce a white paper to share their experiences and promote the concept of CC-BY-SA licensing among public broadcasters worldwide.
For the Wikimedia projects the Mind of the Universe material is a valuable contribution: it is professionally made material, featuring the leading scientists of today explaining the state of research in their fields of work. The material also includes footage of research facilities, including some which had never before allowed cameras inside. SindyM3 ( talk) 08:51, 15 May 2017 (UTC) (Wikimedia Netherlands)
Dear Friends a joint pilot program is underway between RMNH (Regional Museum of Natural History),Bhopal and Wikipedians,details can be seen here, proccedings will be updated periodically.Suggestions invited,Thanks :- Swapnil.Karambelkar ( talk) 14:01, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
The issue hasn't gotten out of hand enough that I think WP:AN needs to be notified, but I'm not experienced dealing with current events and IP editing at P. G. T. Beauregard related to the removal last night/this morning of a monument to the Confederate General in New Orleans is heating up and I would like to ask that a wider set of eyes keep an eye on the article over the next day or two. Smmurphy( Talk) 17:03, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
The Wikimedia movement strategy core team and working groups have completed reviewing the more than 1800 thematic statements we received from the first discussion. They have identified 5 themes that were consistent across all the conversations - each with their own set of sub-themes. These are not the final themes, just an initial working draft of the core concepts.
You are invited to join the online and offline discussions taking place on these 5 themes. This round of discussions will take place between now and June 12th. You can discuss as many as you like; we ask you to participate in the ones that are most (or least) important to you.
Here are the five themes, each has a page on Meta-Wiki with more information about the theme and how to participate in that theme's discussion:
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On this subpage of the village pump, on regular basis, the strategy-related posts look like they were ignored. Maybe most users think there's no need to react here? Everything is clear to everybody? I doubt that, but, well. Anyway, I hope someone will notice and appreciate my message: so far, in the first 10 days of the Cycle 2, we've gathered 80k bytes of comments. For comparison, in the Cycle 1, which lasted a month, 119k were saved. Clearly that's a progress, but I'm asking for more. More opinions, more concerns, more questions, any type of feedback. And remember, no such thing as a stupid question :) SGrabarczuk (WMF) ( talk) 22:29, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
Normally, we delete images, after they have been transferred to commons...
After uploading what was then the current version of File:Humbercinema.JPG I realized a good faith contributor had uploaded a brand new image over an earlier, properly licensed image.
I uploaded the earlier image to commons, as well File:Humber cinema at night in 2010.JPG and cropped it File:Humber cinema at night in 2010 (cropped).JPG
The problem is that if the local version is deleted, the attribution and original licensing is obfuscated.
I left a longer explanation at File talk:Humbercinema.JPG, and at User talk:SPKx#Humber Cinema photo.
So, what is the best way to preserve the revision history of this image? Geo Swan ( talk) 13:47, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
This is a major difference from ordinary transfers to commons. Geo Swan ( talk) 19:13, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
This article says:
"Nearly a superset of C, C++ now supports most of C, with a few exceptions."
Guys, what kind of bu.llcr.ap is this? This statement suggests the compatibility improves over time and that it is a design goal of C++.
This may have been historically true, but now the ways of both languages part more and more nowadays! A non-exhaustive list of features of C introduced in C11 or even C99 deliberately not supported by C++: • struct initialization with designators, • restrict type qualifier, • bounds-checked functions, • thread support (C++11 added threading support, but with a different API!), • VLAs, etc, etc!
Also see this thread in the ISO C++ Standard - Discussion mailing list to see how very wrong you were.
Fix this article!, Okay? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.77.194.225 ( talk) 12:51, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
Golbez my thinking was that talk pages are usually abandoned and hardly anyone lookes at them, so I can post a message there and someone will read it in 10 years maybe if ever. So I thought I’d post it here so at least some1 actually sees my message. On a second thought though, talk page for C seems to be fairly active, so I’m pasting my message there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.77.194.225 ( talk) 16:14, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
HELP
I am receiving notifications (mostly Welcome notices I think) from non-English editions of wikipidia. I have no objection to other editions existing, but I have no wish to be involved in them, and no wish to even receive notifications from them. They create a false sense of urgency for something that will never be relevant to me.
How can I block those notifications? Ideally, how can I pre-emptively prevent any future edits on my user pages in the myriad other language editions, as I have no desire to be notified every time a new language I can't read decides to "welcome" me to their edition of wikipedia. Rhialto ( talk) 15:31, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
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At The Wikipedia Library we want to make sure that you have the resources you need to write great articles. We've got a great collection of resources (including more than 80,000 journals!) from over 60 partners already available, and have some top priorities that we're working on adding, but we want you to tell us which databases we should be focusing on! If there's a paywalled database/publisher/archive that you wished that you could grab a free account for through TWL for your contributions to Wikipedia, please add a request on our requests page. And if the site is already there, add a +1 and any relevant details about the material you need so that we know there's additional interest - it helps us prioritise and also helps when we pitch the program to them! Thanks, Samwalton9 (WMF) ( talk) 19:04, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
== New Peruvian Regulations: Spelling of toponyms in indigenous languages ==
Hi Anthony Appleyard. I would like to inform you about recent Regulations of the Peruvian government concerning toponyms in indigenous languages. According to Decreto Supremo No 004-2016-MC (Supreme Decree), published on July 22, 2016 which approves the Regulations to Ley 29735 (Law 29735 of July 5, 2011), the aim of the Peruvian government is a) to keep the naming of toponyms in the indigenous languages and b) to replace the commonly misspelled indigenous toponyms by their adequate spellings according to the normalized alphabets to gain a unified spelling. The National Geograhic Institue IGN (maps of Peru) is therefore involved. (For details see Reference 1 below.)
These Regulations also touch the naming of Wikipedia articles.
I noticed that you are skeptical about the many requested moves of place names from ‘Quechua spelling to Spanish spelling’. However, these are rather moves from 'correct Quechua spelling' to 'wrong Quechua spelling'. The same occurs with articles names in Aymara. It affects quite a large numbers of articles, mainly concerning the categories of mountains, lakes and now also the archaeological sites of Peru.
However, all these moves are in conflict with the Peruvian law. And obviously all these moves from right to wrong are all in vain and will have to be reverted. The government is determined to fight discrimination against indigenous peoples and their languages resolutely. We should take this into account. Thank you. -- CaTi0604 ( talk) 19:22, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
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I have been working on file descriptions and then verifying some logos as too simple or unoriginal for copyright. Some examples are File:Accion U.S. Network Logo Small.png and File:AHA New Logo (Stacked).png. There are more at Category:All orphaned non-free use Wikipedia files and Category:Orphaned non-free use Wikipedia files, where images can be thoroughly checked before deletion. Some more volunteers may be needed please. Thanks. -- George Ho ( talk) 20:11, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
Please note a nomination for Bot Approvals Group membership is active. Feel free to comment here. ~ Rob13 Talk 22:45, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
On the "Cahen" page the description of one of the people mentioned says: "Cahen Wheeler, (born 15th July, 2000) to Welsh boy (NOT from bargoed), a true mathematician" Is it a vandalism? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.174.66.42 ( talk) 05:07, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
Dear all ,
Hope this message finds you well!
Again this year 2017 the
Iberocoop network is launching the editing contest "Translating Ibero-American" aiming to position the Ibero-american culture outside our borders :)
You can find the contest page here
We hope you can join us!
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I often see AfDs with lots of !votes for merge or redirect to some other article. If someone proposes a merger while the AfD is happening, what then? It sort of splits the discussion. Has this been discussed? Do we have some guidelines on this? Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 03:01, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
And sometimes there is a concurrent page move discussion and merger discussion.
This example shows that: A May 15, 2016 page move request then a May 16, 2017 merger proposal. They were both ongoing at the same time and it caused a bit of confusion as the page move wanted A --> B while the merger wanted B --> A. Do we need some sort of protocol? Linking to each other so users are aware? Making them subsequent (if needed) and not concurrent? Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 03:18, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
I can't speak about which direction these are going, but Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Covfefe incident and Talk:Donald Trump on social media are happening right now. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 03:22, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
Hello,
To answer a request from the 2016 Community Wishlist for more user control of notifications, the Anti-harassment tools team is exploring changes that allow for adding a per-user blacklist to Echo notifications. This feature allows for more fine tuned control over notifications and could curb harassing notifications. We invite you to test the new feature on beta and then discuss it with us. For the Anti-harassment tools team SPoore (WMF) (talk) , Community Advocate, Community health initiative ( talk) 15:25, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
Prompted by this post to ANI, I looked at the Romani Wikipedia and noticed that it seems to be fairly inactive. What is the best advice to give to people who discover abuse - in particular blatant abuse as reported in the linked post - at an inactive language version? Is it the stewards that step in? (I don't actually know whether there are active admins at rmy.wp, but I'm guessing that there may not be a lot of them given that there is a banner at the top of the project's pages calling for a revival of Romani Wikipedia, if interested speakers of the language can be found.)
Sorry if this question is misplaced, but hopefully there's somebody who can at least point me at a relevant guideline :-) -- bonadea contributions talk 09:49, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
Should the article The Plot to Hack America make use of the template {{ Donald Trump series}} ?
See Request for Comment, at Talk:The_Plot_to_Hack_America#RfC_about_the_Donald_Trump_series. Sagecandor ( talk) 05:37, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
I just noticed that we have articles on Kaushik Narshibhai Patel and Timil Kaushik Patel, both of whom (if Wikipedia is to be believed -- I've actually never heard of either of them) essentially share a name with a convicted murderer who doesn't appear to be mentioned anywhere on Wikipedia.
I'm a little concerned that crime junkies who don't know anything about cricket might accidentally think that one or the other of the above cricketers, both apparently LPs, is the same person as the child-murderer, also probably an LP. I'm a crime junkie who doesn't know anything about cricket and I quickly figured out what was going on, but I'm also a Wikipedian with above-average knowledge of how WP:NATHLETE and WP:NCRIME work, which probably can't be said for most of our readers.
Is there precedent for some kind of "Not to be confused with such-and-such person about whom we don't have an article" headnote?
Hijiri 88 ( 聖 やや) 11:33, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
News update: The WP:Signpost just published the newest issue after over three-month hiatus. Read it all yourselves. -- George Ho ( talk) 02:47, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi. Long-term RC patroller here. Along with options showing and hiding registered/unregistered users edits there's a new option on the Recent changes page about hiding and showing "probably good edits". I'm curious about what the difference is that makes an edit a 'probably good edit' compared to one that isn't. Thanks. Minima © ( talk) 21:51, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
212.198.122.22 ( talk · contribs) is making large numbers of small changes to Hebrew text. See Special:Contributions/212.198.122.22. There are no edit comments. Someone who reads Hebrew should check these. Could be improvement, vandalism, or some dispute over Hebrew spelling. Thanks. John Nagle ( talk) 20:15, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
Recently I had an RFC which was closed (inappropriately I feel) by an inexperienced volunteer. When I went to the volunteers page and asked (very politely I might add) for an explanation, I was at first told "No - I see no need". Upon further inquiry, the volunteer agreed to explain the reason for his closure, and then promptly disregarded his commitment to do so. Further entreaties were met with radio silence. Here is a link to said discussion - is this how volunteers are supposed to behave when asked a simple question that would take less than 5 minutes to answer? 2600:1012:B068:9A8C:51CA:D45C:30DF:BD0E ( talk) 00:03, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
Community health initiative
Helping the Wikimedia volunteer community to reduce the level of harassment and disruptive behavior on our projects.
Good Tuesday, Wikipedia!
I'd like to invite you to participate in a discussion about how the Anti-Harassment Tools team at the WMF is prioritizing our work, and how you can help. Join us at Wikipedia talk:Community health initiative on English Wikipedia#Anti-Harassment Tools prioritization.
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Does anyone this book (pdf, epub)? @ Casliber:? OJJ ( talk) 10:46, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
Move article Pontus (disambiguation) → Pontus-- SrpskiAnonimac ( talk) 21:05, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
RfC about the author credits of first edition in first sentence in a book article.
Please see Request for Comment, at Talk:Trump_Tower:_A_Novel#RfC_about_the_author_credits_of_first_edition_in_first_sentence. Sagecandor ( talk) 02:38, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
Its confuse (for newbies who go there expecting to be here). It would be more helpful if it followed this structure:
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Join the conversation at Wikipedia talk:Community health initiative on English Wikipedia#Exploring how the Edit filter can be used to combat harassment. I hope to see y’all there!
— TBolliger (WMF) ( talk) 23:17, 21 June 2017 (UTC) on behalf of the Anti-Harassment Tools team
Someone from Belgium tried to hack one of my on-line accounts that is associated with my Wikipedia username, a couple of days ago. The account is secure, but I thought it worth mentioning in case this is part of a bigger attack. All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough,
19:27, 23 June 2017 (UTC).
The Signpost is looking to publish an article on the state of task forces (or subprojects of other projects) and issues they face in 2017. Would anyone here be interested in giving us their thoughts/opinions, to be included in the piece? (It doesn't need to be long – just a paragraph or two will be fine, unless you want to write more.) If so, can you please leave a link to your submission at WP:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom/Submissions § The state of taskforces in 2017. Thank you, - Evad37 [ talk 03:04, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
Today I found out that search results from selected sister projects—Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikivoyage, Wikiquote, and Wikisource—are now active. Even I discovered that it happened
two days ago. I
typed in "singing", clicked "containing" option, and found out the results from selected sister projects. Too bad for other sister projects, like Commons and Wikinews, whose
newsroom has articles pending review. But at least we have great news. See more at the
archived RfC discussion.
For practice, I went to
my own preferences, click "Gadgets" tab, and then clicked "Disable the suggestions dropdown-lists of the search fields
". Therefore, I can see the results from sister projects more and more with the "dropdown-lists"/autocomplete system disable. I don't know when I can re-enable the system as it doesn't direct me automatically to see those results.
Thoughts about this? -- George Ho ( talk) 18:42, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
Right now, the option to disable/opt-out search results from sister projects is proposed. George Ho ( talk) 06:13, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
Note: Per RfC discussion, there was "no consensus" to include search results from Wikibooks. Therefore, I filed a task at Phabricator. -- George Ho ( talk) 01:01, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
The title "Wiki loves Indian defence services" took me a bit aback. It was a project back in March (now archived) with notices delivered by messages like this: [14] . Obviously a multi-cultural activity such as this doesn't want to give the impression of "loving" any one country's military. Is there a policy/guideline/consensus that would govern this kind of thing? - Bri ( talk) 00:44, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
I have been studying English for thirty years... This is much more a technical question but I know that the tecnologic department only worries about informatic issues so im forced to submit this here. Thge question is, can you understand me? As non native English speaker (my mother language is spanish), someone argued against me lack of competence in English [ https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:Beyond_My_Ken&diff=778970258&oldid=778969517}. This user was Beyond My Ken, and possibly he is right but out of messure and unfair as he told me that my English is very bad, i dont feel offended with this though one consequence is im being actually handcoughed in enwiki.. Concisely, Beyondmyken is not lying when he says that I have errors when using (writting specially) the language of the natives but neither is doing fair on me. I myself also notice this errors but BeyondMyken is not fair because they are those that are so silly that deeply embarrass me being that i fail far from bad ortography and bad conjugation, may be you find some typos in this text. Which i point is my domain of this language is rusted besides of being very poor and hence they result from confusion besides ignorance, I use English so often that sometimes I cant notice the difference with spanish and I need to think to know in which language am I reading some text. May be you can note that I dont have the classic errors that a foreign speaker ussually comits, such as misconjungating or adapting words from spanish resulting in uncomprensible and inexistent in English, or a very limited vocabulary. Very at last i represent the group at all when minimally my search for common or uncommon latin roots for unknown words fail and generally those are cases where i take too much risk. Beyondmyken arged thatI dont know to use contractions so if you rather prefer a spanish tilde(´) besides nothing between or the propper appostrophe (is it this? "'") it´s ok for me because I use different keyboards and Imk not always sure where the apostrophe is, when i used windows it was alt+39 but not anymore my case, you will agree that this are minor errors Like writting English besides english, I all my life have written the latter as i was taught. The center of all of this is that I effectively need an intensive course on wikiversity for reviewing conjugation and prepositions, lately "in" and "on" are being the same for me and I have even written "it dont" besides "it doesnt", also confusion with have and do (not with "make" and "do"), as I said, errors are there but they are fruit of confusion rather than ignorance. Learning latin even didnt help me improoving, by the contrary replaced the space that English once occuppied. What I really want is your concensus about my competence in English by means of being able to at least create short articles and edit in the same manner. -- Neurorebel ( talk) 23:23, 20 June 2017 (UTC) P.D.:I havent used any corrector this time, Im sorry
Respect to my official academical knowledge of English, I studied English in my college through high school from first year in college to 4th grade high school, that is from my five years old to my fifteen years old, they are ten years of curricular studies in total. Since then i kept using English for music, comics, reading, Intyernet, chatting, watching movies, etc, occasions when I need subtitles for speech are rare.-- Neurorebel ( talk) 13:30, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
ALSO i WONDER COULD IT BE THAT ENGLISH CHANGED THAT MUCH IN THIS LAST TEN YEARS?-- Neurorebel ( talk) 13:30, 29 June 2017 (UTC)-- Neurorebel ( talk) 13:30, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
Dear Wikipedians,
Between 1 July and 31 July, Wikimedia Sverige and UNESCO co-arranges the second writing challenge of the Connected Open Heritage project, the COH Challenge.
As part of the Connected Open Heritage project a large number of images under a free license have been uploaded, e.g. of world heritage sites and of important archaeological and built heritage sites in Syria, Mexico, Cyprus and Sweden ( the images can be found here). The purpose of this challenge is to get as many of these images as possible to be used in Wikipedia articles (however, at most five images – with caption – per article).
You can find the participation page here, where you also register your points. Participate in any language you’d like! The winner receives as well the honor as great prizes.
Best, Eric Luth (WMSE) ( talk) 11:25, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi English Wikipedia editors. I'm reaching out to you to notify you that we (Wikimedia Foundation Research team) will launch a 3-question survey in 13 languages on Thursday, June 22, to learn more about Wikipedia readers (think of readers as anyone who visits a page on Wikipedia, so an editor reading a page is also considered a reader). The survey will go live on 2017-06-22 and is planned to stop after a week. The current sampling rate for enwiki is set to 1 out of 40. You can track the task at T168197. Some more information about this research: an announcement on wikimedia-l and the list of participating languages. If you're interested to discuss this research further or if you have questions, please ping me. If you're interested to be the point of contact between us and your community, please ping me as well. Otherwise, please know that we have a close eye on the survey and we expect everything to go smoothly from the technical point of view as we're repeating what we have done a few times last year and tested it in a few languages in 2017 as well. Thanks! :) -- LZia (WMF) ( talk) 09:11, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
I was recently blocked for having a promotional user page, and I wanted to put it back up with some edits so it would less promotional. You can find my sandbox here. You can discuss any changes on the changes on the Sandbox talk page.
Thanks, Upsidedown Keyboard ( talk) 16:01, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi! I'm a Polish Wikipedian currently working for Wikimedia Foundation. My task is to ensure that all online communities are aware of the movement-wide strategy discussion.
Between March and May, members of many communities shared their opinions on what they want the Wikimedia movement to build or achieve. (The report written after the first round of discussions is here, and a similar report after the second round will be available soon.) At the same time, designated people did a research outside of our movement. They:
Now, the research conclusions are published, and the third round is going to begin. Our task is to discuss the identified challenges and think how we want to change or align to changes happening around us. Each week, a new challenge will be posted. The discussions will take place until the end of July. Literally all of you are invited!
If you want to ask a question, ping me or read the FAQ. SGrabarczuk (WMF) ( talk) 22:13, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
There was a short discussion on Jimbo's talk page here, and again, here. Maybe the community does not care? Realityornot ( talk) 02:52, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
Not sure if this is the right venue, but I wish to take over a Template redirect for a somewhat different purpose. I noted here (
link) that for some people, the frequently seen term !vote is completely opaque. I would like to create a template, {{!vote}}
, that would simply emit the text, [[WP:NOTVOTE|!vote]]
to link what it means, since for years I saw it, and never knew. However, there is already a Template there, or rather, a redirect, which redirects to
Template:Not a ballot. Where should I ask if anyone minds if I take over this redirect? Fwiw, the #Redirects section of the
doc page for the template lists three redirects, but not that one, so I'm not even clear if anyone is using that one. What's the right way to advertise or ask about this, so I don't step on any toes about the old redirect?
Mathglot (
talk)
07:45, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi - I notice what I'm hoping is a glitch - that items in categories are in two columns rather than three. If this is a glitch, has anyone any idea what's causing it... or if it's some new attempt to fix something that wasn't broken by making it worse, is there some way of adding a doohickey in my monobook or elsewhere so that I can see them properly again? Grutness... wha? 14:36, 2 July 2017 (UTC)