Hi. I'm looking for occassional guidance. I've gotten captivated the pages involving T-carrier, the T1 Transmission System, DS-1, etc., all of which are part of the telecommunications infrastructure in this country, and the inaccuracies, inconsistancies, and disorganization. I'd like to help. Would appreciate having someone to bounce ad hoc questions off of. I'n not looking for a teacher, necessarily, I recognize its my responsibility to read the manual before energizing. But it would be nice to have a life line. Also, if you have a recommendation on a "Writting for Wikipedia" book I'll grab it next time I hit Barnes & Noble. (I know there a lot of material on line, but I'm 65; I like books). Thanks, tTballister (talk) 18:22, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello, Just to cut the message short and to be more accurate: If you are looking for a full adoption (going through the policies and processes) I would be more than happy to take you on. If however you looking for just someone you can ask questions to, Then you may ask them as I try to be as helpful as possible. John F. Lewis (talk) 18:25, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
Ok, Question 1.
What is the best way to change the names of existing articles? Relative to re-organizing the pages of the T1/DS-1 topic(s) I'd like to:
- Rename the current article "T-carrier" to "T1 Transmission System", becausse almost all content there presently is specific to the T1 member of the T-carrier group,
- Then create a new "T-carrier" page that cites the full heirarcy of systems that were defined, preserving the small section on this in the current T-carrier page.
- Rename the current page "Digital multiplex hierarchy" to "Digital Signal Hierarchy", because its content discusses the formally named "Digital Signal Hierarchy".
The resulting set of article names is:
"T-carrier" - a group of systems that carry information on copper. (article exists but convolutes multiple topics)
"T1 Trasmission System" - just one of the T-carrier systems that were designed and deployed. (Article doesn't exist)
"Digital Signal Hierarchy" - A group of signal formats for the information sent on the copper, and were referred to as levels. (Content exists under "Digial Multiplex Heirarchy")
"Digital Signal 1" - just one of the Digital Signal Levels. (Article exists, but doesn't reference the hierarchy it belongs to).
Not having time to look into the articles indepth: I believe your plans are just reorganizing the naming of the articles. If so as long as the topic matches the title they should be good. For the non existing article just move it. I asked an admin to come and check if the other 3 could pass for a deletion for a move (CSD G6). John F. Lewis (talk) 21:21, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
You seem to have hit the nail on the head in regard to what you should and want to do.:
Go back to T1 Transmission System after the move and recreate the article listing the group of systems as you said above.
You could move Digital multiplex hierarchy straight to Digital Signal Hierarchy. Alternatively you could create a redirect and leave the article where it is. Do whichever feels more appropriate given your knowledge.
"You mentioned keeping them vandal free, maybe you are looking for Rollbacker as the reviewer right does not allow any special vandal fighting rights. John F. Lewis (talk) 8:50 pm, 19 January 2013, last Saturday (3 days ago) (UTC+0)"
Hello, I've just marked a version of the community portal for translation. Hopefully, the version as it is will be sufficient for now. Please help with the translation. Thanks.
Agradecemos enormemente tu ayuda. Traductores como tú hacen que Wikidata funcione
como una verdadera comunidad multilingüe.
¡Gracias!
Los coordinadores de traducción de Wikidata, 07:31, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
AFT5 newsletter
Hey all; another newsletter.
If you're not already aware, a Request for Comment on the future of the Article Feedback Tool on the English-language Wikipedia is open; any and all comments, regardless of opinion and perspective, are welcome.
Our final round of hand-coding is complete, and the results can be found here; thanks to everyone who took part!
We've made test deployments to the German and French-language projects; if you are aware of any other projects that might like to test out or use the tool, please let me know :).
Developers continue to work on the upgraded version of the feedback page that was discussed during our last office hours session, with a prototype ready for you to play around with in a few weeks.
News and notes: Requests for adminship reform moves forward The English Wikipedia's requests for adminship (RfA) process has entered another cycle of proposed reforms. Over the last three weeks, various proposals, ranging from as large as a transition to a representative democracy to as small as a required edit count and service length, have been debated on the RfA talk page. The total number of new administrators for 2012 was just 28, barely more than half of 2011's total and less than a quarter of 2009's total. The total number of unsuccessful RfAs has fallen as well. These declining numbers, which were described in what would now be considered a successful year (2010) as an emerging "wikigeneration gulf", have been coupled with a sharp decline in the number of active administrators since February 2008 (1,021), reaching a low of 653 in November 2012.
WikiProject report: Say What? — WikiProject Linguistics This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Linguistics. Started in January 2004, the project has grown to include 7 Featured Articles, 4 Featured Lists, 2 A-class Articles, and 15 Good Articles maintained by 43 members. The project's members keep an eye on several watchlists, maintain the linguistics category, and continue to build a collection of Did You Know? entries. The project is home to six task forces and works with WikiProject Languages and WikiProject Writing Systems.
Featured content: Wazzup, G? Delegates and featured topics in review This week, the Signpost's featured content section continues its recap of 2012 by looking at featured topics. We interviewed Grapple X and GamerPro64, who are delegates at the featured topic candidates.
Arbitration report: Doncram case continues The opening of the Doncram case marks the end of almost 6 months without any open cases, the longest in the history of the Committee.
Technology report: Data centre switchover a tentative success On 22 January, WMF staff and contractors switched incoming, non-cached requests (including edits) to the Foundation's newer data centre in Ashburn, Virginia, making it responsible for handling almost all regular traffic. For the first time since 2004, virtually no traffic will be handled by the WMF's other facility in Tampa, Florida.
I've been making some progress on Snuggle development recently and I could use your feedback. Specifically, I've created a work log that I plan to update every time I get a chance to work on Snuggle. My intention is that you'll be able to watch that page to track my progress so I can get your feedback on features when they are early in development. The most recent entry (also the only entry) discusses new functionality for interacting with newcomers via Snuggle. I posted some mockups in the work log that show how I imagine the new features to work and I could use some feedback before I start writing the code. Thanks! --EpochFail(talk • work)20:29, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
Notificación de traducción: Wikidata:Administrators
Hola John F. Lewis,
Estás recibiendo esta notificación porque te inscribiste como traductor de Wikidata en español, galés y polaco.
La página Wikidata:Administrators está disponible para su traducción. Puedes traducirla aquí:
traducir al español
traducir al galés
traducir al polaco
There's a new version of the page to translate. There's significantly more content in it that needs to be translated. Every translation needs to be updated. Thanks.
Agradecemos enormemente tu ayuda. Traductores como tú hacen que Wikidata funcione
como una verdadera comunidad multilingüe.
¡Gracias!
Los coordinadores de traducción de Wikidata, 21:27, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
The Signpost: 28 January 2013
In the media: Hoaxes draw media attention On New Year's Day, the Daily Dot reported that a "massive Wikipedia hoax" had been exposed after more than five years. The article on the Bicholim conflict had been listed as a "Good Article" for the past half-decade, yet turned out to be an ingenious hoax. Created in July 2007 by User:A-b-a-a-a-a-a-a-b-a, the meticulously detailed piece was approved as a GA in October 2007. A subsequent submission for FA was unsuccessful, but failed to discover that the article's key sources were made up. While the User:A-b-a-a-a-a-a-a-b-a account then stopped editing, the hoax remained listed as a Good Article for five years, receiving in the region of 150 to 250 page views a month in 2012. It was finally nominated for deletion on 29 December 2012 by ShelfSkewed—who had discovered the hoax while doing work on Category:Articles with invalid ISBNs—and deleted the same day.
WikiProject report: Checkmate! — WikiProject Chess When we challenged the masters of WikiProject Chess to an interview, Sjakkalle answered our call. WikiProject Chess dates back to December 2003 and has grown to include 4 Featured Articles and 15 Good Articles maintained by over 100 members. The project typically operates independently of other WikiProjects, although the project would theoretically be a child of WikiProject Board and Table Games (interviewed in 2011). WikiProject Chess provides a collection of resources, seeks missing photographs of chess players, and helps determine ways that Wikipedia's coverage of chess can be expanded.
News and notes: Khan Academy's Smarthistory and Wikipedia collaborate To many Wikimedians, the Khan Academy would seem like a close cousin: the academy is a non-profit educational website and a development of the massive open online course concept that has delivered over 227 million lessons in 22 different languages. Its mission is to give "a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere." This complements Wikipedia's stated goal to "imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge", then go and create that world. It should come as no surprise, then, that the highly successful GLAM-Wiki (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) initiative has partnered with the Khan Academy's Smarthistory project to further both its and Wikipedia's goals.
Featured content: Listing off progress from 2012 This week, the Signpost featured content section continues its recap of 2012 by looking at featured lists. We interviewed FLC directors Giants2008 and The Rambling Man as well as active reviewer and writer PresN.
Arbitration report: Doncram continues The Doncram case has continued into its third week.
Technology report: Developers get ready for FOSDEM amid caching problems As reported in last week's "Technology Report", the WMF's data centre in Ashburn, Virginia took over responsibility for almost all of the remaining functions that had previously been handled by their old facility in Tampa, Florida on 22 January. The Signpost reported then that few problems had arisen since handover. Unfortunately that was not to remain the case, with reports of caching problems (which typically only affect anonymous users) starting to come in.
The deletion of the characters section was due to it being unnecessary and more detailed than what is needed. I posted on the talk page for Wizard101 stating my intentions, as well as that I would carry them out if nobody was opposed. Since nobody replied to my comment, I assumed that it was OK, especially since the Wizard101 page has a flag for having minutiae. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rakomwolvesbane (talk • contribs) 23:15, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
Saying 'If no one opposes' is not consensus that stands. A discussion has to take place for consensus to be reached. In addition Wikipedia articles are supposed to be detailed and informative. Unless what you deleted was about lets say Minecraft on that article: It is necessary. Plus removal of which with no proper consensus is usually considered vandalism. John F. Lewis (talk) 23:19, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
OK, I see. I'll wait for responses/discussion, but what if nobody responds within, say, two weeks? Is there a point at which I can take the lack of response to be affirmation, or should I just keep waiting indefinitely? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rakomwolvesbane (talk • contribs) 00:51, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
Unfortunately with consensus, if it doesn't come naturally you would have to force it by posting at the appropriate WikiProject or contacting editors to put their view in. John F. Lewis (talk) 00:57, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
Turns out I fell asleep but I spotted the questions and things you said last night so...
"I made a quick pull to correct a word in a comment... Most pointless pull ever though :)" My spelling can sometimes be terrible in comments, i type them so quickly and generally dont read them.
"It removes the {{stub}} tag: Considered adding the {{stub}} tag?" currently the $tag's in the config are only tags to add to the multiple issues template. as there are literally hundreds or thousands of stub tags we decide not to set them in the config as we can match them all with a regex :) and if we ever get around to adding them we can just use {{stub}} rather than one of the stub types.
"are there any tags Addbot does not apply that you wish it would/could?" yes all of them.
Johmn why did you move my page back to user, I'm trying to move my page to the main stream Wikipedia. Can you help me try to understand why it was moved back by you to user and not to Wikipedia? Thanks Carl Mazaros 23:03, 4 February 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by MafiaMobDoll (talk • contribs)
John we are not playing chess, just asked a simple question as to why? If you would have stated in the first place I moved my article to the wrong format, it would have saved us alot of misunderstanding. So what you are telling me is to move my page to article namespace, can I ask why? — Preceding unsigned comment added by MafiaMobDoll (talk • contribs) 23:37, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
It belongs in the main space purely because that is how the encyclopaedia is organised. The Wikipedia namespace is reserved for contributions to project policy or organised discussion among users. John F. Lewis (talk) 23:40, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
Disambiguation link notification for February 5
Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Noya (given name), you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Israeli (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.
John why did you as for my page regarding Wendy Hanley-Mazaors to be deleted? I have worked very hard on this bio, along with help from Wikipedia. So Please tell me why you would do that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by MafiaMobDoll (talk • contribs) 00:44, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
Again: I did not ask for deletion. I am requesting deletion of a redirect I created. I moved your article back to your user space. John F. Lewis (talk) 00:47, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
John I'm asking why you moved my page back to user, when I'm trying to move the page to main stream Wikipedia? Please help me try to understand why you did this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by MafiaMobDoll (talk • contribs) 23:05, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
Please tell me why you re-directed my page? I need an explanation for Wikipedia? Please answer my question? I have contacted Wikipedia and they informed me, they did NOT delete or re-direct my page. So why would you take the time and re-diorect my page, when this bio is truthful, and backed up with hundreds of media information, books, and television. Carl Mazaros 23:32, 4 February 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by MafiaMobDoll (talk • contribs)
User:MafiaMobDoll, I'm looking at User:MafiaMobDoll/Wendy Mazaros, and I see an advertisement, not at all written in the neutral tone of an encyclopedia article. In fact, it is so promotional in tone that I wonder if you are Ms. Mazaros herself, or a close associate of hers. Before it's ready for encyclopedia space, it'll need to be rewritten in a neutral way. If you are a person with a conflict of interest in this subject, it would be better if you didn't write about it, but focused your attention on articles you can improve on subjects that you aren't directly connected with. Don't worry- if this is truly a notable person, it's inevitable that she'll be written about by a person who is unconnected to her. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs)23:41, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
FisherQueen this article was based on fact, and references. How would you suggest it be written in a neutral content. How it was written was mostly by quotes from newspaper articles, media reports, and her book that spans over 35 years. Sorry I must disagree with you... She did not write the article and that is all that matters. Please read again, almost every sentence has a reference... This is neutral and true... I could have added 100 more references to make even more neutral. I like the way I wrote it, short, sweet and to the point. It tells a story of a runaway child who ends up in a Circle of Terror! — Preceding unsigned comment added by MafiaMobDoll (talk • contribs) 00:09, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
Neutrality is not based on references. Neutrality is based on the point of view. These are just some of the things that are not neutral about it: "tender age", "fell into the arms", "Binion threw Wendy", the use of bold/big in "Corporate Promoter for the Dragna Crime Family and LA Crime Family", "and enjoys a wide circle of family and friends", "harrowing life story", "vivid portrait". Also, you say that you used "quotes from...". If you copied the whole article from other sources, then it's a copyright violation and will be deleted soon. gwickwiretalkedits00:14, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
FisherQueen thank you for the add on in regards to the first sentence, after reading it, I kinda see what you mean. actually there is not that much about Wendy it is all about who was in her life. The article should just be about Wendy? Should I leave out her husbands, family and or anything contected to her. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MafiaMobDoll (talk • contribs) 00:24, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
qwickwire, yes I used references and quotes, but they are attached as references, through news media outlets, and wikipedia. I did NOT write the quotes, did not need too, they are in the references. Since when was it against the wiki rules to bold certain names and things? Makes the story stand out.
I tried to help, but I had a lot of trouble understanding why this person is notable. The reliable sources you cited didn't discuss her in any meaningful way, while the sources that did talk about her didn't meet the reliable sources guidelines and were mostly about the fact that she has written a book. Wikipedia:FA#History_biographies is a list of some of the best biography articles on Wikipedia; they might help you to see what a really good biography looks like, so you have a sort of model as you work. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs)12:26, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
We aren't here to "make the story stand out". Please see WP:BOLD. Also, you cannot copy quotes from sources, even if referenced, and pass it off as your own article. If you don't fix that soon I'll have to request deletion as a big admitted copyvio. gwickwiretalkedits19:37, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
The Signpost: 04 February 2013
Special report: Examining the popularity of Wikipedia articles On February 12, 2012, news of Whitney Houston's death brought 425 hits per second to her Wikipedia article, the highest peak traffic on any article since at least January 2010. It is broadly known that Wikipedia is the sixth most popular website on the Internet, but the English Wikipedia now has over 4 million articles and 29 million total pages. Much less attention has been given to traffic patterns and trends in content viewed.
News and notes: Article Feedback Tool faces community resistance Article feedback, at least through talk pages, has been a part of Wikipedia since its inception in 2001. The use of these pages, though, has typically been limited to experienced editors who know how to use them.
WikiProject report: Land of the Midnight Sun This week, we took a trip to WikiProject Norway. Started in February 2005, WikiProject Norway has become the home for almost 34,000 articles about the world's best place to live, including 16 Featured Articles, 19 Featured Lists, and nearly 250 Good Articles. The project works on a to do list, maintains a categorization system, watches article alerts, and serves as a discussion forum.
Featured content: Portal people on potent potables and portable potholes This week, the Signpost's featured content section continues its recap of 2012 by looking at featured portals, a small yet active part of the project. We interviewed FPOC directors Cirt and OhanaUnited.
In the media: Star Trek Into Pedantry On 30 January 2013, Kevin Morris in the Daily Dot summarised the bitter debates in Wikipedia around capitalisation or non-capitalisation of the word "into" in the title of the upcoming Star Trek film, Star Trek Into Darkness.
Technology report: Wikidata team targets English Wikipedia deployment Following the deployment of the Wikidata client to the Hungarian Wikipedia last month, the client was also deployed to the Italian and Hebrew Wikipedias on Wednesday. The next target for the client, which automatically provides phase 1 functionality, is the English Wikipedia, with a deployment date of 11 February already set.
John, are you taking new adoptees right now? If so, User:Sneazy is looking for someone who has a course, and most of the others I can think of are full. Yunshui recommended you. Sneazy spelled out what he was looking for in an adopter here, and you seem to fit his criteria. GoPhightins!11:25, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
I am indeed taking on new adoptees. I shall reply to the user on their talk page, thanks for pointing this out to me Go Phightins, John F. Lewis (talk) 16:15, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
Demiurge can be held responsible for whatever he does elsewhere, but you will be held responsible for any edit warring you do on his talk page. Per the link above, he can remove whatever he wishes from his talk page. RyanVesey23:16, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
I am stopping now. Clear false reverts on the project; False policy comments; Two occasions of 3RR violation and a refusal to co-operate. I have had enough of Demiurge1000 doing this and so as with it, An Administrator recommend doing this and with refusal, It is up to them to deal with it now. Though, Thank you for your message Ryan. John F. Lewis (talk) 23:20, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
Please don't change a comment you make after someone has replied to it. Instead, strike out whatever you want to strike out, and add any new comment lower in the thread. That way, people will know you no longer intend to say that, but can still understand what people replying to you were replying to There's a guideline that says this somewhere, but hopefully you can see the reason behind it and I won't have to go looking for it. --Floquenbeam (talk) 14:43, 8 February 2013 (UTC) p.s. A day or so ago, I copied your comment that Demiurge removed a little further down in the thread. --Floquenbeam (talk) 14:45, 8 February 2013 (UTC) (See, this is how you do it. --Floquenbeam (talk) 14:56, 8 February 2013 (UTC))
Actually, on reflection, it looks like John F. Lewis, and Demiurge1000, and Go Phightins, and GiantSnowman, and Gwickwick, all want to disrupt everyone else's life by feuding about stupid things. I can only handle one disruptive editor at a time; if there are going to be five of them, I give up and withdraw my participation. Sooner or later, someone will take it to ANI, and it will be blissfully off my watchlist. --Floquenbeam (talk) 14:56, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
I have put a note in to state it was refactored [1]. Please carry on with normal business. If I see any more edit warring, I will hand out blocks. WormTT(talk) 15:05, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
I would just like to state none of the previous edits I made were to be seen as disruptive but rather genuine edits. Also Floquenbeam, A part if this was taken to .ANI about Demiurge1000 claiming my request for him to explain two edits as vandalism but was closed by Writ Keeper. Though I have no intentions to keep up communications with Demiurge1000 after the events that took place yesterday and for that I apologies to anyone who saw and/or considered it to be a purpose case of disruptive editing. John F. Lewis (talk)
That's medeis, not mendeis. And next time someone who's been adopted makes the exact same unwelcome edit three times, over an edit summary, and over the most obvious possible hidden comments you can imagine, deleting "'''<!--lay off with the edits to my comment-->'''" around every phrase in my edit, while leaving "or" in place between the hidden comments, i'll go to you first. In the meantime, please refrain from further comments in regard to this user on my talk page. μηδείς (talk) 22:58, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
The Signpost: 11 February 2013
Op-ed: An article is a construct – hoaxes and Wikipedia Wikipedia has a long, daresay storied history with hoaxes; our internal list documents 198 of the largest ones we have caught as of 4 January 2013. Why?
Featured content: A lousy week Six articles, one list, and fourteen pictures were promoted to "featured" states this week on the English Wikipedia.
WikiProject report: Just the Facts This week, we got the details on WikiProject Infoboxes.
In the media: Wikipedia mirroring life in island ownership dispute Foreign Policy has published a report on editing of the Wikipedia articles on the Senkaku Islands and Senkaku Islands dispute. The uninhabited islands are under the control of Japan, but China and Taiwan are asserting rival territorial claims. Tensions have risen of late—and not just in the waters surrounding the actual islands.
News and notes: UK chapter governance review marks the end of a controversial year Wikimedia UK, the non-profit organization devoted to furthering the goals of the Wikimedia movement in the United Kingdom, has published the findings of a governance review conducted by Compass Partnership.
Discussion report: WebCite proposal Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
New Article Feedback version available for testing
Hey all.
As promised, we've built a set of improvements to the Article Feedback Tool, which can be tested through the links here. Please do take the opportunity to play around with it, let me know of any bugs, and see what you think :).
A final reminder that the Request for Comment on whether AFT5 should be turned on on Wikipedia (and how) is soon to close; for those of you who have not submitted an opinion or !voted, it can be found here.
WikiProject report: Thank you for flying WikiProject Airlines This week, we put our life in the hands of WikiProject Airlines. Starting in July 2005, the project has improved articles relating to airline companies, alliances, destination lists, and travel benefit programs. WikiProject Airlines has accumulated over 4,000 pages, including 4 Featured Articles and 26 Good Articles.
Technology report: Better templates and 3D buildings As of time of writing, twenty wikis (including the English, French and Hungarian Wikipedias) are in the process of getting access to the Lua scripting language, an optional substitute for the clunky template code that exists at present.
News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation declares 'victory' in Wikivoyage lawsuit On February 15, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) declared 'victory' in its counter-lawsuit against Internet Brands (IB), the owner of Wikitravel and the operator of several online media, community, and e-commerce sites in vertical markets. The lawsuit clears the last remaining hurdles for the WMF's new travel guide project, Wikivoyage.
In the media: Sue Gardner interviewed by the Australian press Sue Gardner's visit to Australia sparked a number of interviews in the Australian press. An interview published in the Daily Telegraph on 12 February 2013, titled "Data plans 'unnerving': Wikipedia boss", saw Gardner comment on Australian plans to store personal internet and telephone data. The planned measure, intended to assist crime prevention, would involve internet service providers and mobile phone firms storing customer usage data for up to two years.
Featured content: Featured content gets schooled Two articles, nine lists, and thirteen pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week.
WikiProject Articles for creation Backlog Elimination Drive
WikiProject AFC is holding a one month long Backlog Elimination Drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running from March 1st, 2013 – March 31st, 2013.
Awards will be given out for all reviewers participating in the drive in the form of barnstars at the end of the drive.
There is a backlog of over 2000 articles, so start reviewing articles! Visit the drive's page and help out!
In the media: Ex-WMF trustee creates "Wikipedia Corporate Index" for PR agency On 13 February 2013, PR Report, the German sister publication of PR Week, published an article announcing that PR agency Fleishman-Hillard was offering a new analysis tool enabling companies to assess their articles in the German-language Wikipedia: the Wikipedia Corporate Index (WCI).
Recent research: Wikipedia not so novel after all, except to UK university lecturers "Wikipedia and Encyclopedic Production" by Jeff Loveland (a historian of encyclopedias) and Joseph Reagle situates Wikipedia within the context of encyclopedic production historically, arguing that the features that many claim to be unique about Wikipedia actually have roots in encyclopedias of the past.
News and notes: "Very lucky" Picture of the Year The Wikimedia Commons 2012 Picture of the Year contest has ended, with the winner being Pair of Merops apiaster feeding, taken by Pierre Dalous. The picture shows a pair of European Bee-eaters in a mating ritual—the male bird (right) has tossed the wasp into the air, and he will eventually offer it to the female (left).
Featured content: Blue birds be bouncin' Six articles, three lists, and twelve images were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this month.
WikiProject report: How to measure a WikiProject's workload How can we measure the challenges facing a project or determine a WikiProject's productivity? Several prominent projects have been doing it for years: WikiWork.
Technology report: Wikidata development to be continued indefinitely Wikimedia Germany (WMDE) this week committed itself to funding the Wikidata development team, ending fears that phase three would be abandoned.
Round 1 is now over. The top 64 scorers have progressed to round 2, where they have been randomly split into eight pools of eight. At the end of April, the top two from each pool, as well as the 16 highest scorers from those remaining, will progress to round 3. Commiserations to those eliminated; if you're interested in still being involved in the WikiCup, able and willing reviewers will always be needed, and if you're interested in getting involved with other collaborative projects, take a look at the WikiWomen's Month discussed below.
Round 1 saw 21 competitors with over 100 points, which is fantastic; that suggests that this year's competition is going to be highly competative. Our lower scores indicate this, too: A score of 19 was required to reach round 2, which was significantly higher than the 11 points required in 2012 and 8 points required in 2011. The score needed to reach round 3 will be higher, and may depend on pool groupings. In 2011, 41 points secured a round 3 place, while in 2012, 65 was needed. Our top three scorers in round 1 were:
Miyagawa (submissions), primarily for an array of did you knows and good articles, some of which were awarded bonus points.
Casliber (submissions), due in no small part to Canis Minor, a featured article awarded a total of 340 points. A joint submission with Keilana (submissions), this is the highest scoring single article yet submitted in this year's competition.
Other contributors of note include:
Sven Manguard (submissions), whose Portal:Massachusetts is the first featured portal this year. The featured portal process is one of the less well-known featured processes, and featured portals have traditionally had little impact on WikiCup scores.
Featured topics have still played no part in this year's competition, but once again, a curious contribution has been offered by The C of E (submissions): did you know that there is a Shit Brook in Shropshire? With April Fools' Day during the next round, there will probably be a good chance of more unusual articles...
March sees the WikiWomen's History Month, a series of collaborative efforts to aid the women's history WikiProject to coincide with Women's History Month and International Women's Day. A number of WikiCup participants have already started to take part. The project has a to-do list of articles needing work on the topic of women's history. Those interested in helping out with the project can find articles in need of attention there, or, alternatively, add articles to the list. Those interested in collaborating on articles on women's history are also welcome to use the WikiCup talk page to find others willing to lend a helping hand. Another collaboration currently running is an an effort from WikiCup participants to coordinate a number of Easter-themed did you know articles. Contributions are welcome!
A few final administrative issues. From now on, submission pages will need only a link to the article and a link to the nomination page, or, in the case of good article reviews, a link to the review only. See your submissions' page for details. This will hopefully make updating submission pages a little less tedious. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) J Milburn (talk) 00:59, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
The Signpost: 04 March 2013
Op-ed: We must do more to turn readers into editors Recently I was having a casual conversation with a friend, and he mentioned that he spent too many hours a day playing video games. I responded with a comment that I, too, spent way too much time on an activity of my own – Wikipedia. In an attempt to reply with a relevant remark, he offered something along the lines of: "So have you ever written anything?" After a second, I quickly answered yes, but I was still in shock over his question. It seemed to be rooted in a belief on his part that using Wikipedia meant just reading the articles, and that editing was something that someone, hypothetically, might do, but not really more likely than randomly counting to 7,744.
News and notes: Outing of editor causes firestorm "WP:OUTING", the normally little-noticed policy corner of the English Wikipedia that governs the release of editors' personal information, has suddenly been brought to wider attention after long-term contributor and featured article writer Cla68 was indefinitely blocked last week. This snowballed into several other blocks, a desysopping by ArbCom, and a request for arbitration.
Featured content: Slow week for featured content Three articles, six lists, and three pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week, including the article on "Laura Secord", who was a Canadian heroine of the War of 1812 best known for warning the British of an impending American attack.
WikiProject report: WikiProject Television Stations This week, we tuned to WikiProject Television Stations, a project that dates back to March 2004. WikiProject Television Stations primarily focuses on local stations, national networks, television markets, and other topics related to television channels in North America, the Caribbean, and some Pacific countries. The project has a fair bit of work ahead of them with over 4,000 unassessed articles and only one Good Article out of 626 assessed articles, giving the project a relative WikiWork rating of 5.262.
From the editor: Signpost–Wikizine merger I am pleased to announce that the Signpost and Wikizine have reached an in-principle agreement that will see Wikizine published as a special Signpost section at the beginning of each month.
News and notes: Finance committee updates During March, three of the Wikimedia Foundation's grantmaking schemes on Meta will reach important crossroads, which will shape how both the editing communities and Wikimedia institutions handle the distribution of donors' money across the movement.
Featured content: Batman, three birds and a Mercedes Twelve articles, five lists, and eight pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week, including an image of the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, a front-engine, 2-seat luxury grand tourer automobile developed by Mercedes-AMG.
WikiProject report: Setting a precedent This week, we spent some time with WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court Cases.
Technology report: Article Feedback reversal The WMF has aborted a plan to deploy version 5 of the Article Feedback tool (AFTv5) rolled out to all English Wikipedia articles.
Hey John F. Lewis; I'm dropping you this note because you've used the article feedback tool in the last month or so. On Thursday and Friday the tool will be down for a major deployment; it should be up by Saturday, failing anything going wrong, and by Monday if something does :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 22:24, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
I overlooked several notable sources by accident which lead me to believe the CSD was removed on a 'I believe it may' situation. Once I started to see notable sources popping up on the article and in the discussion I had to withdraw in order to stop time being wasting on an article that clearly meets inclusion. John F. Lewis (talk) 16:14, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
John, you recently put a speedy deletion template on the New Sweet Home page, which had been started by User:Kaylee Elizabeth xx. Rather than follow instructions, she deleted the template.
New Sweet Home is claimed on User:Kaylee Elizabeth xx's user page as a Fox show that she, herself, starred in. (It also claims she was born in late 1998, making her 14 now.) The user page is currently also up for deletion: it contains clear falsehoods, like the claim that she's done music for Glee albums.
The user page has also been edited extensively by 82.30.29.154, who may well be Kaylee herself under an IP, and who has been around rather longer. The IP was blocked in January for vandalism, but User talk:82.30.29.154 was scrubbed shortly thereafter, erasing the visible trail of warnings and worse. Lately the talk-page warnings have been getting serious once again. I'm not sure whether it's appropriate to reinstate the speedy deletion template; if so, I'll leave it to you to pursue this. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 03:11, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
Thankyou for pointing out the removal and the creator has connections towards the show, plus the fact being a minor also brings some weight. I it is removed again, I would either tale to AfD (useless in this instance) or ill just poke a admin to deal with it. John F. Lewis (talk) 09:58, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
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My apologies. However, I don't think the hoax criteria is applicable; this does seem to be an educational institution of little note. dci | TALK 22:16, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
I did a search before putting it under the criteria and I did not find anything with that specific name and what I did, did not match anything provided within the article, plus due to state of it any criteria would apply in all honesty. It was also previously deleted as a Hoax before I tagged it (again). John F. Lewis (talk) 22:17, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
This [2] indicates it exists. I find it a bit unfortunate that there isn't some sort of CSD pertaining to schools; indeed, the criteria in question can occasionally be quite frustrating. dci | TALK 22:21, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
True. Though the article does not saying 'THIS IS A SCHOOL'. It rather screams else as all the information contains 'x'. You can Multi other criteria if you wish though it may apply under Hoax as per the previous deletion so either way, it applies under some criteria somewhere. John F. Lewis (talk) 22:24, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
Although I'm still leaning towards saying this place exists, I understand your rationale behind placing the hoax criteria on the article. Thanks for your willingness to discuss this issue. dci | TALK 22:28, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
Always willing to discuss. I had experience with CSD/AfDs where others refuse to co operate and it is really irritating. I aim to never do such as discussion shows civility. John F. Lewis (talk) 22:31, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
The Signpost: 18 March 2013
News and notes: Resigning arbitrator slams Committee Just two months into his second term as an arbitrator on the English Wikipedia, Coren resigned from the Committee with a blistering attack on his fellow arbitrators. At the heart of a strongly worded statement, posted both on his talk page and the arbitration notice board, was the claim that ArbCom has become politicised to the extent that "it can no longer do the job it was ostensibly elected for".
WikiProject report: Making music This week, we composed a tribute to WikiProject Composers. The project was created during the final hours of 2004 and finalized in early January 2005. It has grown to encompass over 8,000 pages, including 26 Featured Articles and 23 Good Articles. WikiProject Composers faces a difficult workload, with a relative WikiWork rating of 5.45.
Interview: Meeting in the middle: Wikipedia and libraries Ask librarians what they think about Wikipedia and you might get some interesting answers. Some will throw up their hands about the laziness of the Google generation and their overdependence on Wikipedia. Some see it as the "competition". And some will tell you it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Featured content: Wikipedia stays warm Nine articles, seven lists, eleven images, and one topic were promoted to "featured status" this week on the English Wikipedia.
Arbitration report: Richard case closes On Thursday, arbitrator Coren resigned, following closely on the heels of Hersfold's resignation on Wednesday. There are two open cases. A final decision has been given in the Richard case.
Technology report: Visual Editor "on schedule" The WMF's engineering report for January was published this week, giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month.
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The Signpost: 25 March 2013
WikiProject report: The 'Burgh: WikiProject Pittsburgh Our travels have brought us to Pittsburgh, the American city known for steelworks and bridges.
Featured content: One and a half soursops Seven articles, one list, six pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
Arbitration report: Two open cases This case, brought by Mark Arsten, was opened over a dispute over transgenderism topics that began off-wiki. The evidence phase was scheduled to close March 7, 2013, with a proposed decision due to be posted by March 29.
News and notes: Sue Gardner to leave WMF; German Wikipedians spearhead another effort to close Wikinews Sue Gardner, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation since December 2007, has announced her plans to leave the position when a successor is recruited. Ranked as one of the most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine, Sue Gardner is widely associated with the rise of the Wikimedia movement as a major custodian of human knowledge and cultural products.
Technology report: The Visual Editor: Where are we now, and where are we headed? Since its inception in May 2011, the Foundation's Visual Editor project has grown to become one of its main focuses. As the project nears its two-year birthday, the Signpost caught up with Visual Editor project manager James Forrester to discuss the progress on the project.
Special report: Who reads which Wikipedia? The Wikimedia Foundation has released its latest report card for the movement's hundreds of sites. The WMF has published statistics about the sites since 2009, but only recently have these been expanded in scope and depth to provide a rich source of data for investigating the movement and the world it serves. Dutch-born Erik Zachte is the driver of the WMF's statistical output, and he writes that the report card and accompanying traffic statistics comprise "enough tables, bar charts and plots to keep you busy for a while".
WikiProject report: Special: FAQs This week's Report is dedicated to answering our readers' questions about WikiProjects. The following Frequently Asked Questions came from feedback at the WikiProject Report's talk page, the WikiProject Council's talk page, and from previous lists of FAQs.
Featured content: What the ? The Signpost interviewed prolific featured content creator and former Signpost "featured content" report writer Crisco 1492 about ? and Indonesian cinema. ? was the "Today's featured article" for 1 April 2013. 1 April is popularly known as April Fools' Day in many countries.
Arbitration report: Three open cases A case brought by Lecen involves several articles about former Argentinian president Juan Manuel de Rosas (1793–1877).
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Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), primarily for an array of warship GAs.
Miyagawa (submissions), primarily for an array of did you knows and good articles, some of which were awarded bonus points.
Casliber (submissions), due in no small part to Canis Minor, a featured article awarded a total of 340 points. A joint submission with 
Keilana (submissions), this is the highest scoring single article yet submitted in this year's competition.
Sven Manguard (submissions), whose Portal:Massachusetts is the first featured portal this year. The featured portal process is one of the less well-known featured processes, and featured portals have traditionally had little impact on WikiCup scores.
Sasata (submissions), whose Mycena aurantiomarginata was the first featured article this year.
Muboshgu (submissions) and 
Wizardman (submissions), who both claimed points for articles in the Major League Baseball tie-breakers topic, the first topic points in the competition.
Toa Nidhiki05 (submissions), who claimed for the first full good topic with the Casting Crowns studio albums topic.
The C of E (submissions): did you know that there is a Shit Brook in Shropshire? With April Fools' Day during the next round, there will probably be a good chance of more unusual articles...
