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A barnstar for you!

The Special Barnstar
This barnstar is awarded to you in appreciation of your submission to the WP:2012 main page redesign proposal.
The straw poll has now closed (see results), but the discussion continues on the talk page – hope to see you there! Evad37 (talk) 00:21, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Error about number of GARs

Hi Chris! I noticed that your BOT is not getting the right number of reviews done. So far, I've started 36 reviews but there are only 32 showing up. I quickly failed 4 articles (immediately took off the GA template from the talk right after creating the subpage) and this might be the reason for the error, perhaps can you fix this issue? TheSpecialUser TSU 22:56, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Responded on WT:GAN --Chris 08:54, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

WP:GA nominations

You Reverted my edits on WP:GA nominations, I Nominated Shahrukh Khan for Good article Is it wrong Please May I Know the reason for reverting the edit Greatuser (talk) 11:33, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

Please follow the instructions. You need to add {{subst:GAN|subtopic=Theatre, film and drama articles}} to the top of Talk:Shahrukh Khan --Chris 07:55, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

Question regarding my names

Hello,

as I was previously GreatOrangePumpkin, could you merge the numbers together? Regards.--Tomcat (7) 13:33, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

 Done --Chris 06:40, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 05 November 2012

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.
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.
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?
The Signpost's weekly roundup of topics for discussion on the English Wikipedia.
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.
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.
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.

User:GA bot/Stats

Hi Chris G.

I don't believe that User:GA bot is updating my statistics at User:GA bot/Stats. This diff (fourth line down) shows no changes for my count between 00:52, 1 October 2012 and 18:51, 7 November 2012.

I'm not sure what triggers an update "signing up to do a review" or "sentencing a nomination", but in that time period:

Can you check the system for me? Pyrotec (talk) 21:21, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Sorry to add a further comment (or postscript), I went back to a count of 484 at 22:02, 27 August 2012 so only one of those nine reviews seems to have been added to the count - I've not yet found out which one it was. Pyrotec (talk) 21:35, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Sorry about that. It appears that about 280 reviews went "missing" over the period of a few months. I've now updated the table. I'm not entirely sure what has caused this, although I have quite a few hunches. I've made some changes, so hopefully it won't happen again. --Chris 15:23, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Request Bot update

Will you ensure RFC bot updates the two boards I've added to the dashboard. [1] Is this something that would normally happen or do you have to task the bot for each included board. I ask because there are some other boards I'd like to monitor and I want to know the best manner to request they be added. Thank you. My76Strat (talk) 16:59, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

The bot's not designed for WP:AIV and WP:UAA, those aren't notice boards; It would be like trying to add CAT:CSD. If you want something like that, it might be worth creating something like Template:Cratstats for admins. --Chris 15:30, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Talkback

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-- Wikipedical (talk) 21:48, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 12 November 2012

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.
Thirteen articles, six lists, and five images were promoted to 'featured' status last week.
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.
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.

Question regarding my account name change

Hi, I see that you can't change my name to Minimat because it exists on another wiki. I'm guessing it's on the French one, since it's the name of my French account... Is there a way to fuse them, or at least use the same name considering that I can provide the password of the other one? Thanks in advance, --SuburbanKnight (talk) 14:21, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

I've added a note. Could you please make an edit with your French account confirming that you own it, and then post the diff on the request page. Once the rename is done, you can unify your account using WP:SUL, which will in a sense fuse the two accounts. Note: Don't do anything to unify your account until after the rename has been done. --Chris 03:38, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
Done (I hope!). Thanks for your kind help. --SuburbanKnight (talk) 11:01, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

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User:GA bot/Stats

Hi Chris G. Sorry to trouble you again, but I'm back on the same old topic: User:GA bot is still behaving "erratically" in updating User:GA bot/Stats. I opened a review of Military of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth at about 21.21 on 16th of Nov and the Bot "saw" that action here, since it updated WP:GAN and the Wikipedia:Good article nominations/Topic lists/History. After that, its next update of the statistics, was for Go Phightins! at 23:42 on 16th Nov here. In total, updating of the list was carried out on 16th Nov for five users typically about fifteen minutes after opening of the relevant review. My count was not updated. I usually transcribe the review template {{Talk:some-article/GA1}} onto the article's talkpage and update the status on "onreview". I've not tried letting the bot do it for me. Could that be why my statistics are not being updated? Pyrotec (talk) 17:06, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Out of curiosity I opened another GAN review but I did not transclude the review template, neither did I change the status to "on review". I let the bot do it. It did both and also updated the stats, so it seems that the "trigger" is either/or transcluding the review template/changing the status to "On Review", not the creation of the {{Talk:some-article/GA1}} page. I'll manually add the "missing review". Pyrotec (talk) 20:38, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
Oh, you've been manually changing the status to onreview? That makes a lot more sense now. I'll try and have a fix in the next few days. --Chris 14:52, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

GA bot ignoring passes

I passed an article, The Concert for Bangladesh about 50 minutes to an hour ago, but GA bot appears to have ignored it. Has it crashed or did I do something wrong? Paul MacDermott (talk) 00:14, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

ok, I reverted everything and submitted an identical nomination which has worked. Am I right in thinking GA bot is triggered by a GA List subst command? I completed my first review in Word before I posted it so didn't subst the GA List, whereas I did with the second. Paul MacDermott (talk) 01:05, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
That, is very strange. When checking if an article has been passed, GA bot simply looks for {{GA}} (or a template with currentstatus=GA) on the talkpage. Not quite sure what happened there; I'll have to do some investigating. --Chris 14:52, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

Error again

I'm really sorry to trouble you again but this certainly is an issue. This shows my GA reviews to be 58 while actually, I have only done 44 reviews. I don't know what is causing the error, so can you take a look at the problem? Cheers! TheSpecialUser TSU 11:26, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

I've manually changed it for the moment (your edit would have worked - except the bot had already started its run before your edit - hence it overwrote it with old data). I have a pretty good idea of why there was a sudden jump in your count, so I'll be working on this in the next few days. Sorry about all of this. --Chris 14:52, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 19 November 2012

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.
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.
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.
Seven featured articles, four featured lists and ten featured pictures – including the photograph that spawned the Streisand effect – were promoted this week.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include the question of ticker symbol placement and the notability of various types of creative performer.

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The Signpost: 26 November 2012

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.
An open-access preprint presents the results from a study attempting to predict early box office revenues from Wikipedia traffic and activity data. The authors – a team of computational social scientists from Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Aalto University and the Central European University – submit that behavioral patterns on Wikipedia can be used for accurate forecasting, matching and in some cases outperforming the use of social media data for predictive modeling. The results, based on a corpus of 312 English Wikipedia articles on movies released in 2010, indicate that the joint editing activity and traffic measures on Wikipedia are strong predictors of box office revenue for highly successful movies.
Six articles, one list, and six images were promoted to 'featured' status this week.
Wikidata, the new "Wikimedia Commons for data" and the first new Wikimedia project since 2006, reached 100,000 entries this week. The project aims to be a single, human- and machine-readable database for common data, spanning across all Wikipedia projects, which will "lead to a higher consistency and quality within Wikipedia articles, as well as increased availability of information in the smaller language editions" while lowering the burden on Wikipedia's volunteer editors—whose numbers have stalled overall, and continue to dwindle on the English Wikipedia.
This week, we uncovered WikiProject Deletion Sorting, Wikipedia's most active project by number of edits to all the project's pages. This special project seeks to increase participation in Articles for Deletion nominations by categorizing the AfD discussions by various topic areas that may draw the attention of editors. The project was started in August 2005 with manual processes that are continued today by a bevy of bots, categories, and transclusions. The project took inspiration from WikiProject Stub Sorting and some historical discussions on deletion reform. As the sheer number of AfDs continues to grow, the project is seeking better tools to manage the deletion sorting process and attract editors to comment on these deletion discussions.
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