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The Signpost: 22 October 2012
- Special report: Examining adminship from the German perspective
Unlike the long-running disputes that have characterised attempts to reform the RfA process on the English Wikipedia, the German Wikipedia's tradition of making decisions not by consensus but knife-edged 50% + 1 votes has led to a fundamentally different outcome. In 2009, the project managed to largely settle the RfA mode issue in 2009 indirectly.
- Arbitration report: Malleus Fatuorum accused of circumventing topic ban; motion to change "net four votes" rule
One clarification request concerns the civility enforcement case – specifically, Malleus Fatuorum's perceived circumvention of his topic ban. It has resulted in thousands of bytes spent in vitriolic discussions, multiple blocks, and "no confidence" motions against the Arbitration Committee and one arbitrator, among other ramifications.
- Technology report: Wikivoyage migration: technical strategy announced
Planning for Wikivoyage's migration into the WMF fold built up steam this week following a statement by WMF Deputy Director Erik Möller about what the technical side of the migration will involve. Wikivoyage, which split from sister site Wikitravel in 2006, is hoping to migrate its own not-inconsiderable user base to Wikimedia, as well as much of its content, presenting novel challenges for Wikimedia developers
- Discussion report: Good articles on the main page?; reforming dispute resolution
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
- News and notes: Wikimedians get serious about women in science
It is well known that women are underrepresented in the sciences, and that high-achieving female scientists have often been excluded from authorship lists and passed over for awards and honours solely on the basis of gender. Also significant has been the underplaying in the academic literature, news reporting, and online, of women's current and historical contributions to science.
- WikiProject report: Where in the world is Wikipedia?
The WikiProject Report normally brings tidings from Wikipedia's most active, inventive, and unique WikiProjects. This week, we're trying something new by focusing on Wikipedia's dark side: the various regional and national WikiProjects that are dead or dying. How can some tiny municipalities and exclaves generate highly active, cross-language, multimedia platforms be successful while the projects representing many sovereign countries and entire continents wallow in obscurity? Today, we'll search for answers among geographic projects large and small, highly active and barely functioning, enthusiastic about the future and mired in past conflicts.
- Featured content: Is RfA Kafkaesque?
Eleven articles, including one on Franz Kafka, three lists, one image, and one portal were promoted to 'featured' status this week.
A favour
Looking through the list of Adopters, I saw your name, and realized that you might really be able to help a user. User:Davebrayfb apparently really wants to help the project, but right now cannot recognize how or why his edits have been problematic. Although I hate "forced adoptions", this is one of those needed cases. Could you review his edits, his talkpage, and perhaps consider adopting him? I added the "I want adoption" template to his userpage on his behalf. I suppose the best thing would be to let him know on his talkpage, and then perhaps he can become unblocked once you have set/agreed on the adoption ground rules. Cheers. (✉→BWilkins←✎) 12:36, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
- Someone else seems to have done this. Rcsprinter (chatter) @ 15:13, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
Resolved
The Signpost: 29 October 2012
- News and notes: First chickens come home to roost for FDC funding applicants; WMF board discusses governance issues and scope of programs
The first round of the Wikimedia Foundation's new financial arrangements has proceeded as planned, with the publication of scores and feedback by Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) staff on applications for funding by 11 entities—10 chapters, independent membership organisations supporting the WMF's mission in different countries, and the foundation itself. The results are preliminary assessments that will soon be put to the FDC's seven voting members and two non-voting board representatives. The FDC in turn will send its recommendations to the board of trustees on 15 November, which will announce its decision by 15 December. Funding applications have been on-wiki since 1 October, and the talk pages of applications were open for community comment and discussion from 2 to 22 October, though apart from queries by FDC staff, there was little activity.
- WikiProject report: In recognition of... WikiProject Military History
This week, we're checking out ways to motivate editors and recognize valuable contributions by focusing on the awards and rewards of WikiProject Military History. Anyone unfamiliar with WikiProject Military History is encouraged to start at the report's first article about the project and make your way forward. While many WikiProjects provide a barnstar that can be awarded to helpful contributors, WikiProject Military History has gone a step further by creating a variety of awards with different criteria ranging from the all-purpose WikiChevrons to rewards for participating in drives and improving special topics to medals for improving articles up to A-class status to the coveted "Military Historian of the Year" award.
- Technology report: Improved video support imminent and Wikidata.org live
The TimedMediaHandler extension (TMH), which brings dramatic improvements to MediaWiki's video handling capabilities, will go live to the English Wikipedia this week following a long and turbulent development, WMF Director of Platform Engineering Rob Lanphier announced on Monday ... Wikidata.org, a new repository designed to host interwiki links, launched this week and will begin accepting links shortly. The site, which is one half of the forthcoming Wikidata trial (the other half being the Wikidata client, which will be deployed to the Hungarian Wikipedia shortly) will also act as a testing area for phase 2 of Wikidata (centralised data storage). The longer term plan is for Wikidata.org to become a "Wikimedia Commons for data" as phases 2 and 3 (dynamic lists) are developed, project managers say.
- Featured content: On the road again
Thirteen articles, ten lists, nine images, one topic, and one portal were promoted to featured after peer reviews.
- Recent research: WP governance informal; community as social network; efficiency of recruitment and content production; Rorschach news
A paper in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, coming from the social control perspective and employing the repertory grid technique, has contributed interesting observations about the governance of Wikipedia.
{{Help}}
Hello Rcsprinter123, thanks for ur response. When I contributed a little bit change "He is known for his straightforward approach" on Mohan Babu page, it has been deleted and I got a msg from cluebot sying it is a vandalism. I didn't find anything vandalising anyone. What's wrong with it and I want to add a unique feature of Mr.Mohan Babu on his page. Plese help me, thanks! And one thing I would like to say is it would be better if some editors should not link everything with vandalism. EshwarRaaja (talk) 15:43, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
Some bubble tea for you!
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Thanks for ur response to help me. EshwarRaaja (talk) 15:48, 3 November 2012 (UTC) |
LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman Good Article Nomination
Hi there, I am pleased to inform you that LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman has been awarded Good article status. Perhaps you could help review another good article nominee at Wikipedia:Good article nominations. Thank you for your work towards improving Wikipedia - Oddbodz (talk) 12:50, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
Hello, you recently voted on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/C++ grammar. Could you have a look at the comments left after your vote and perhaps reconsider your position or give a stronger rationale to keep this article? Cheers, —Ruud 21:02, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 05 November 2012
- Op-ed: 2012 WikiCup comes to an end
J Milburn is a British editor who has been on the site since 2006. He is one of two judges of the WikiCup. Here, he uses an op-ed to explain the way the WikiCup works and to review this year's competition, which ended recently.
- News and notes: Wikimedian photographic talent on display in national submissions to Wiki Loves Monuments
The results of most of the national heats for Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) have been published on Commons. A maximum of 10 images have been submitted by all but eight of the 34 participating countries, and the international jury for what is the largest competition of its type in the world is set to announce the global winner in four weeks' time.
- In the media: Was climate change a factor in Hurricane Sandy?
Hurricane Sandy was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record and has caused millions of dollars in damage. Naturally, Wikipedia covered it. But was Wikipedia's coverage unbiased?
- Discussion report: Protected Page Editor right; Gibraltar hooks
The Signpost's weekly roundup of topics for discussion on the English Wikipedia.
- Featured content: Jack-O'-Lanterns and Toads
This week, the Signpost interviewed two editors. The first, PumpkinSky, collaborated with Gerda Arendt in writing the recently featured article on Franz Kafka and won second prize in the Core contest last August. The second, Cwmhiraeth, collaborated with Thompsma in promoting the article Frog, which was featured last week. We asked them about the special challenges faced while writing Core content and things to watch out for.
- Technology report: Hue, Sqoop, Oozie, Zookeeper, Hive, Pig and Kafka
The Wikimedia Foundation's engineering report for October 2012 was published this week on the Wikimedia Techblog and on the MediaWiki wiki, giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month. TimedMediaHandler also went live.
- WikiProject report: Listening to WikiProject Songs
This week, The Signpost sings along with WikiProject Songs which focuses on articles about songs of every generation and genre. The project initially began as a rough outline in October 2002 and was reimagined in March 2004 using its parent WikiProject Albums as a template.
Re:Adoption
Absolutely. I would love to be adopted by you. How exaclt does the adoption process proceed? [First question -How exactly to put that talkback option?] TheOriginalSoni (talk) 04:02, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
- Great! That's really good news. To deliver a talkback, you can simply add {{subst:talkback|Username}} in a new section on somebody's talk page. I use a script called Twinkle which helps with a lot of simple little edits. I just click a button on your talkpage and it edits the page to deliver it for me. Do you have twinkle? If not, you can enable it in your preferences and you'll be amazed how much you don't have to do yourself. Regarding adoption, I guide you through a series of lessons and tests, and at the end you get "graduation". Does that sound good? Rcsprinter (post) @ 12:52, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for the advice on twinkle. It will greatly solve many of my problems.
- Perfectly. How and when do we start? TheOriginalSoni (talk) 11:22, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
- We can start as soon as I have five minutes to set it up, I'm very busy right at the moment. I'll give you your own page where the adoption will be based, and we'll work through the lessons from there. Sorry for the delays! Rcsprinter (state the obvious) @ 20:08, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
- Alright. Do leave a message on my talk page when u r done. Do u know if WP has any pages specifically for newcomers, listing everything that can be done, and needs to be done? TheOriginalSoni (talk) 21:01, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
- It's at User:Rcsprinter123/Adopt/TheOriginalSoni. Post any further queries there. Rcsprinter (warn) @ 19:47, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
- Alright. Do leave a message on my talk page when u r done. Do u know if WP has any pages specifically for newcomers, listing everything that can be done, and needs to be done? TheOriginalSoni (talk) 21:01, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
- We can start as soon as I have five minutes to set it up, I'm very busy right at the moment. I'll give you your own page where the adoption will be based, and we'll work through the lessons from there. Sorry for the delays! Rcsprinter (state the obvious) @ 20:08, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
{{Help}}
Hello Rcsprinter123. I'd be interested in being adopted by you. I'm just two days old in Wikipedia and, frankly, I feel myself in slippery ground.My primary field of interest is Landscape (theoretical aspects of) and, particularly, Landscape Appreciation and Criticism. I just created my User Page but left it empty because I'm puzzled by the Templates offered. Need help there. I thought of starting in Landscape:Talk before attempting to write any articles.
Could you find sometime to guide me through the labyrinth? User: Landscapnik --Landscapnik (talk) 22:10, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
No idea why the above message appeared as a single long line --Landscapnik (talk) 22:15, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) It appeared in a long line because you left a space prior to beginning to type. Just start typing all the way to the left. I fixed it for you. Go Phightins! 22:18, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
- Hi Landscapnik, and thanks Phightins for fixing that. I see that you are indeed rather new to the project, two days already. I must say, that's better than some people who create an account to make one edit and never come back to it.
Even though I've been here almost two and a half years, I'm still new in some ways too! I would be delighted to adopt you; a quick look at your contributions shows that you are interested in Landscaping, as your message above and username also suggest. Why not see what articles can be created to do with it, share your knowledge with the world? One thing I must tell you is I'm not generally available to do big interactions during the week - if you try and contact me at the weekends that would be better. I will set you up a page in the adoption centre soon as I can; in the meanwhile, try and get contributing to articles. How did you come across the Wikipedia Adopt-a-User scheme? Regards, Rcsprinter (converse) @ 17:44, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
- You can now find the page at User:Rcsprinter123/Adopt/Landscapnik. Post any further queries there. Rcsprinter (warn) @ 19:47, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
- Hi Landscapnik, and thanks Phightins for fixing that. I see that you are indeed rather new to the project, two days already. I must say, that's better than some people who create an account to make one edit and never come back to it.
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The Signpost: 12 November 2012
- News and notes: Court ruling complicates the paid-editing debate
Last week, media outlets reported a ruling by a German court on the problem of businesses using Wikipedia for marketing purposes. The issue goes beyond the direct management of marketing-related edits by Wikipedians; it involves cross-monitoring and interacting among market competitors themselves on Wikipedia. A company that sells dietary supplements made from frankincense had taken a competitor to court. The recently published judgment by the Higher Regional Court of Munich, in dealing with the German Wikipedia article on frankincense products, was handed down in May and is based on European competition law.
- Featured content: The table has turned
Thirteen articles, six lists, and five images were promoted to 'featured' status last week.
- Technology report: MediaWiki 1.20 and the prospects for getting 1.21 code reviewed promptly
In late September, the Technology report published its findings about (particularly median) code review times. To the 23,900 changesets analysed the first time (the data for which has been updated), the Signpost added data from the 9,000 or so changesets contributed between September 17 and November 9 to a total of 93,000 reviews across 45,000 patchsets. Bots and self-reviews were also discarded, but reviews made by a different user in the form of a superseding patch were retained. Finally, users were categorised by hand according to whether they would be best regarded as staff or volunteers. The new analyses were consistent with the predictions of the previous analysis.
- WikiProject report: Land of parrots, palm trees, and the Holy Cross: WikiProject Brazil
As promised, we're expanding our horizons by featuring projects that cover underrepresented areas of the globe. This week, we headed to WikiProject Brazil which keeps track of articles about the world's largest Portuguese-speaking country. The project has shown spurts of activity and continues to serve as a hub for discussions, despite the project's collaborations, peer reviews, and outreach activities being largely inactive.
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Working on articles
Please consider placing a {{inuse}} tag at the top of an article if you're working on it. Otherwise when people find it during NPP it just looks like another unremarkable application with no supporting references to assert notability. §FreeRangeFrog 22:16, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
- Maybe. Rcsprinter (deliver) @ 22:17, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
- What does that mean? §FreeRangeFrog 22:24, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
- Ill just expand it in a while. For now, I'm not bothered putting more tags there. I will add sources to assert its notability. Rcsprinter (orate) @ 22:28, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
- What does that mean? §FreeRangeFrog 22:24, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Heinz Baked Beanz
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The Signpost: 19 November 2012
- News and notes: FDC's financial muscle kicks in
The WMF's Funds Dissemination Committee has published its recommendations for the inaugural round 1 of funding. Requests totalled US$10.4M, nearly all of the FDC's budget for both first and second rounds. The seven-member committee of community volunteers appointed in September advises the WMF board on the distribution of grant funds among applying Wikimedia organizations. The committee, which has a separate operating budget of $276k for salaries and expenses, considered 12 applications for funds, from 11 chapters and from the WMF itself for its non-core activities. The decision-making process included community and FDC staff input after October 1, the closing date for submissions. Taken together, the volunteers decided to endorse an average of 81% of the funding sought—a total of $8.43M, which went to 11 of the 12 applicants. This leaves $2.71M to be distributed in round 2, for which applications are due in little more than three months' time.
- WikiProject report: No teenagers, mutants, or ninjas: WikiProject Turtles
This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Turtles. The young project started in January 2011 and has accumulated 5 Featured Articles, 3 Featured Lists, and 6 Featured Pictures. The project maintains a combined to-do list and hot articles meter, a popular pages ranking, and a collection of resources for turtle articles. We interviewed Faendalimas and NYMFan69-86.
- Technology report: Structural reorganisation "not a done deal"
WMF Executive Director Sue Gardner was forced to clarify this week that proposed structural changes to the Foundation's Engineering and Product Development Department were not a "done deal" and that it was "important that you [particularly affected staff] realise that ... your input is wanted". The reorganisation, announced on November 5 and planned for the middle of next year, will see its two components split off into their own departments.
- Featured content: Wikipedia hit by the Streisand effect
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- Discussion report: GOOG, MSFT, WMT: the ticker symbol placement question
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include the question of ticker symbol placement and the notability of various types of creative performer.
Disambig contest updates.
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- Terribly sorry, I never thought to realise. In future, I'll remember that when updating it. Regards, Rcsprinter (talk) @ 12:42, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
Done
FYI- I'm done with the final exam. I figured you already knew this, but just a heads up; you can start grading at your leisure. Go Phightins! 02:39, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
- That's great, thank you! I just felt I might as well wait until Saturday (today) before starting to mark because I've got time. In fact, an empty day. And you know, the test is merveilleux too. You've been a good adoptee. Rcsprinter (message) @ 12:41, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
- On a different note, do you mind if I steal/modify your userpage header? Go Phightins! 03:54, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
- Not at all. Rcsprinter (deliver) @ 11:36, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
- OK, great! Well, the Go Phightins! adoption course has gotten started a little faster than I expected, but I think I can handle it. Thanks again for all of your help. Go Phightins! 13:17, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
- Not at all. Rcsprinter (deliver) @ 11:36, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
- On a different note, do you mind if I steal/modify your userpage header? Go Phightins! 03:54, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
GAs?
Hey Rcsprinter123. Been long since came across you...hows everything there? LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman I think that it isn't at GA yet and I'd have never passed it in its current state. Its really not your fault but of the reviewer's. However, I saw your name on GAN and I opened both of your articles and I see pretty big issues. Lothian_Buses is almost close to a quick fail due to reasons that almost half of the article is unsourced and the article has numerous MoS fixes to be done. Slug seems to be a bit incomplete with merely 9K words of prose and thus I don't feel it'll pass. At slug, you can fix the issues by adding 10K more words of prose, which is well sourced (I really cannot help there as I don't know anything about the subject). However, at Lothian Buses, I think I can help out. According to GA, every line in the article should have at least one reliable source (that is why you were lucky with LNER to pass out). I'll leave addition of sources to Lothian Buses to you but I'll be doing an overhaul at LB article today. I hope you won't mind my changes. Cheers! TheSpecialUser TSU 07:23, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 26 November 2012
- News and notes: Toolserver finance remains uncertain
On November 24, a general assembly of Wikimedia Germany (WMDE) voted on the fate of the Wikimedia Toolserver, a central external piece of technical infrastructure supporting the editing communities with volunteer-developed scripts and webpages of various kinds that are assisting in performing mostly menial tasks.
- Recent research: Movie success predictions, readability, credentials and authority, geographical comparisons
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- Featured content: Panoramic views, history, and a celestial constellation
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Hello Rcsprinter. At WikiProject Gastropods we were very surprised to see that Slug had been nominated for GA, because we thought it was not so very good at all yet (we had it as C class). It is going to be a great scramble to try to get it up to GA and we may not manage to succeed with it. Perhaps you did not realize that our project was responsible for that article? Thanks for the compliment n that you thought it was pretty good, but next time would you please try to let us know before you nominate a gastropod article for GA, if you possibly can? Thanks Rcs, Best wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 01:04, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
- Y'alright, I will. Rcsprinter (state) @ 17:01, 7 December 2012 (UTC)