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The Signpost: 04 March 2013

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.
"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.
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.
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.

I just received a message from your bot that seems to be in error

I just received what I believe is an incorrect message from your bot that said:

"Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Songs of the Century, you added links pointing to the disambiguation pages American Pie and The Entertainer (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."

I did not add those links and secondly the links are not disambiguations. They point to the actual article. I think there is an error in your bot.

Marty Acks (talk) 13:50, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 11 March 2013

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.
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.
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.
There are three open cases, and a final decision has been given in the Doncram case.
This week, we spent some time with WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court Cases.
The WMF has aborted a plan to deploy version 5 of the Article Feedback tool (AFTv5) rolled out to all English Wikipedia articles.

Heyo!

 Hello JaGa, Eduemoni↑talk↓ has given you a shining smiling star! You see, these things promote WikiLove and hopefully this has made your day better. Spread the Shining Smiling Star whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or someone putting up with some stick at this time. Enjoy! Eduemoni↑talk↓ 03:43, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Duh. My mistake. Fixing it now. Sorry about. I will look at diff next time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MartyAcks (talk • contribs) 02:52, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Aleksander Korwin Gosiewski rewrited article

I do appreciate your help very much. Thank you. --Gustavo Szwedowski de Korwin 21:36, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Bot out of action?

The disambiguation lists on the Toolserver are not updates for the last 3 days. Toolserver problem or bot on holiday? The Banner talk 08:35, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Toolserver problem. Replication has been lagging for several days, and the bot usually can't run until it gets down below 510 minutes or so. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 10:24, 17 March 2013 (UTC), corrected 18:44, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
sugar... The Banner talk 21:15, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 March 2013

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".
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.
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.
Nine articles, seven lists, eleven images, and one topic were promoted to "featured status" this week on the English Wikipedia.
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.
The WMF's engineering report for January was published this week, giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month.

The Signpost: 25 March 2013

Our travels have brought us to Pittsburgh, the American city known for steelworks and bridges.
Seven articles, one list, six pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
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.
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.
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.
A paper presented at last month's CSCW Conference observes that "Mass collaboration systems are often characterized as unstructured organizations lacking rule and order", yet Wikipedia has a well developed body of policies to support it as an organization.

DPL bot

Just a word of support for your DPL bot. Recently, I've been doing virtually nothing but fixing underlinked articles and your bot has been tremendously helpful! Hope you can get it running soon.WQUlrich (talk) 19:54, 29 March 2013 (UTC)



i got it wat u r saying....but india played against them...i just linked arabian gulf instead of arabian gulf rugby team.Thanks for bringing this to my notice...now i've fixed it. Preetam040 (talk) 04:12, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

I am not sure of the proper response procedure to the 'Code Monkey (disambiguation)' link in the 'Programmer' edit, but it is the only 'Code Monkey' Wikipedia link.

The point was to legitimize, with a reference, that 'Code Monkey' is also a derogatory Programmer term.

CasualVisitor (talk) 16:23, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

DPL Bot good, but-?!

Just got a disam link message here, the curious thing is I haven't edited the Willem Jeths article; I declined it for AfC three weeks ago, but that was it. Any ideas? Cheers! Basket Feudalist 17:38, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

This has happened before, and it mystifies me. There's something going on when a user removes a hatnote/template that is confusing DPL bot. Thing is, it doesn't always do this; it's a rare phenomenon. All I can say is, I'm sorry you got improperly notified, and I'll try to figure it out (although I haven't yet figured out how to reproduce it, let alone fix it), and thanks so much for not getting angry about the message. --JaGatalk 00:31, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

(after EditConflict with SignPost) Got such a message from your DPL as well, after editing the infobox on Fabeltjeskrant. Repairing was easy. Thank you for maintaining such a great tool; keep up the good work @Wikipedia, thanx  Klaas|Z4␟V:  13:22, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 01 April 2013

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".
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.
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.
The first round of individual engagement grants (IEGs) have been awarded, disbursing about $55.6k (€42.7k) to seven applicants.
A case brought by Lecen involves several articles about former Argentinian president Juan Manuel de Rosas (1793–1877).
Users of ten Wikipedias got access to phase 2 of Wikidata following its first rollout to production wikis.

The Signpost: 08 April 2013

Numerous Wikimedia Commons editors have chimed in on the Wikimedia Foundation's deployment of a new feature to its mobile website. Allowing anonymous users to register and upload pictures for use in an article, the feature was placed prominently at the top of Wikipedia articles in multiple languages.
This week, we felt the world tremble in the presence of WikiProject Earthquakes. The project was started in May 2008 to deal with articles about earthquakes, aftershocks, seismology, seismologists, plate tectonics, and related articles. While the project has seen success building 14 Featured Articles, one A-class Article, and 21 Good Articles, a fairly heavy workload remains, with a relative WikiWork rating of 4.94. WikiProject Earthquakes maintains a portal, a list of open tasks, a popular pages listing, and an article alerts watchlist.
Last Friday, the Wikimedia movement awoke to news that one of their number—Rémi Mathis, a French volunteer editor—had been summoned to the offices of the interior intelligence service DCRI and threatened with criminal charges and fines if he did not delete an article on the French Wikipedia about a radio station used by the French military.
The arbitration committee is looking for expertise in Argentina and the Spanish language for a case involving former Argentinean president Juan Manuel de Rosas (1793–1877).
Four articles and two pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
The deployment of phase 2 of Wikidata to the English Wikipedia, originally scheduled for 8 April but delayed due to technical problems, may be rescheduled again as the result of community resistance.

DAB solver

SPL Bot seens to be linking to unreachable pages see last on my talk page for links - nice bot, thanks Timpo (talk) 10:03, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

That's a very cool bot you got

Dropped by just to show my appreciation. Thanks, Ukrained2012 (talk) 16:32, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Technical Barnstar
for the Dab solver Ukrained2012 (talk) 16:33, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

:)

Hey! Just wanted to know how can I delete from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Miley_Cyrus_songs "Take Me Along (Miley Cyrus song)" and "We Belong to the Music" because they are not pages just re-directions and i don't know how to delete it from that category. thank u so much! have a nice day :D --Everyone calls me Lol (talk) 12:10, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

 Done --JaGatalk 02:00, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

Appreciate your response: Indulgence temporal disambiguation

Would like to get your opinion poss. resolution, my talk page. Thanks --Espresso-con-pana (talk) 16:10, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 April 2013

The RfA process is widely discussed here on the English Wikipedia and it has been well documented that less and less new Requests for adminship are being filed. There are an abundance of bytes devoted to the discussion and analysis of this situation and plenty of hands have been wrung over the matter. Various RfCs have attempted to find a way to fix the problem. Many proposals have been made offering solutions, some more potentially drastic than others, with the goal of making the changes necessary to kick–start RfA back into regular action. However, Wikipedia operates based on consensus and, to this point, there are have simply been too many disagreeing views for us to reach a consensus on how to increase RfA activity.
This week, we ventured to WikiProject South Africa. The project was started in February 2005 and is home to thirteen pieces of featured material, two A-class articles, and twenty-one good articles.
The most recent move to reform the requests for adminship process on the English Wikipedia has failed, after a complex and drawn-out three-step procedure for community input was subject to decreasing participation as time wore on and came up with no clear consensus.
Four articles, twelve lists, and seven pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

Watch this pls

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Word2013 any help? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Word2013 (talk • contribs) 12:00, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks,for helpful criticism! Dmitry Dzhagarov (talk) 10:55, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Teamwork Barnstar
Thank you JaGa and DBL Bot for helping me add the right links! Stu (aeiou) 15:36, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Items not coming off the monthly & bonus lists after being fixed

I keep running into articles on the lists that have already been repaired, specifically on October 25, 2012.

A couple of examples:

Did something happen on that day? It does get frustrating attempting a repair to find it's been done months ago! Not to mention, since they haven't been removed from the list, new items that do need fixed can't be added. Any thoughts? --JustAGal (talk) 20:44, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 April 2013

An article by John Sweeney published on 22 April 2013 on scnow.com, the website of the Florence, South Carolina Morning News, reported that Florence city officials have taken to monitoring and correcting the Wikipedia article on their city.
This week, we spent some time with a project that develops tools and methods for improving the user experience in the hope that new users will continue editing the encyclopedia. The project was started in July 2012 and has grown to include 124 members. The project's members partner with the Teahouse and the Welcoming Committee to spread WikiLove, welcome new users, encourage civility, and other related activities.
The Wikimedia Conference is an annual meeting of the chapters to discuss their status and the organisational development of the Wikimedia movement. For the first time it included groups that wish to be considered for WMF affiliation as thematic organisations and one of the three groups that was recently affiliated as a user group. The conference was also attended by members of the Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) Board of Trustees, the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC), the WMF Affiliations Committee, and a representative of the Wikivoyage Association.
Nine articles, four lists, eight pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.
The Sexology case is nearing completion after arbitrators were unable to agree on a topic ban for one of the participants.
On Monday, the English Wikipedia became the 12th wiki to be able to pull data from the central Wikidata.org repository, with other wikis scheduled to receive the update on Wednesday.

The Signpost: 29 April 2013

The Funds Dissemination Committee released its recommendations to the WMF board last Sunday. The news that the Hong Kong chapter's application for US$212K had failed was followed by a strongly worded resignation announcement by Deryck Chan on the public Wikimedia-l mailing-list.
On 24 April 2013, novelist Amanda Filipacchi published what turned out to be an influential op-ed in the New York Times; illuminating the unusual background of the Yuri Gadyukin hoax.
Nine articles, three lists, three pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" this week.
This week, we traveled to the Japanese Wikipedia's WikiProject Baseball for perspectives from a version of Wikipedia that treats WikiProjects as their own unique namespace (プロジェクト:) independent of "Wikipedia:".
The WP:TOP25 and WP:5000 reports chronicle the most popular Wikipedia articles on a weekly basis.
The Sexology case closed shortly after publication with no changes.
A report on an online service which was created to conduct real-time monitoring of Wikipedia articles of companies, and more.
This week saw the deployment of the Echo extension, also known as "notifications".
We noticed though that when you edited Thorpe (surname), you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page George Thorpe (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.

Yeah, I know! I couldn't figure out what to do so I gave it a try.

When I was searching for a particular George Thorpe (for whom I later created a redirect page), I ended up at the Thorpe (surname) page. There are lots of Thorpes listed but no George Thorpes, which I later found had a page of their own. But it didn't make sense to me that looking up all the Thorpes at the Thorpes (surname) page would show you Kay Thorpe or Percy Thorpe or Laura Thorpe, but not one George Thorpe, of which there are several. Wouldn't a visitor to Thorpe (surname) want to see George Thorpe mentioned somewhere?

But I guess (as I now see), a search for George Thorpe does lead straight to the George Thorpes's disambiguation page, so maybe my search actions on that occasion were faulty. (I'm exposing my limitations as a Wikipedia user in addition to those as an editor.)

Anyway, I've deleted the line in question from Thorpe (surname)

Thanks, Lyn50 (talk) 12:23, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks

I just wanted to tell you that I think DPL bot is Great! RJFJR (talk) 14:21, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

DPL bot

I (quite deliberately) put in a link to a disambiguation page - in this case Black Friday from the Friday article. While I can quite see the point about links to dab pages being mostly ("almost always", with great stress on the "almost") inadvertent and frequently unhelpful this one WAS quite deliberate, and in context it IS helpful - there is no "more useful" alternative that I can see that is not already linked anyway, so a "mend" would simply remove the link altogether, which WOULD be retrograde. Is there a quick standard way of replying to the bot's message with a "not inadvertent, useful in this case, please check" reply, that will get you (or another human) giving the particular instance a quick once-over? No problems if the human concerned still doesn't like the dab link, but I don't like the blanket rule, when there are instances (as here) when an intentional link to a dab page can be genuinely useful. --Soundofmusicals (talk) 23:40, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

Why is your bot telling me that I did something that I didn't do?

I got notification on May 5 that I have had edited a page. Apparently I had allegedly made an edit on that website, specifically I have supposed to have added a link to a disambig page.

Problem is, I didn't do such a thing. Wasin't my edit.

So how come a bot concluded so? Or does that mean it is actually not a bot that detects the errors and that it only sends the message to me after a human concluded that the edit was mine? --Loginnigol (talk) 17:12, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

DPL bot

Might I suggest adding a clause for DPL bot to skip posting messages (like this one) if the user is indefinitely blocked? If that's too hard to add in, I understand. Regards, m.o.p 20:00, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

DPL bot question

I've received a question about a possible new feature for the DPL bot, and I'm not sure it's feasible or something that could get approved. An editor has asked if the bot could notify editors when a link that they have added turns into a link to a disambiguation page. In the case with the editor in question, a link to Evil Eye was added at some point in the past, which was fine (it redirected to Evil eye at the time it was added), but then, when the redirect at Evil eye was changed to Evil eye (disambiguation), the link became a link that needed to be fixed. The editor is wondering if, at the time the redirect was changed, notification could be sent to the editor who originally added the link, so that the link can be fixed.

I commented that it might not be possible to do, but even if it was, there might be too many message sent for the task to get approved (in just one example from this week, when Heer was changed to a disambiguation page, over 1200 links needed to be fixed). What do you (or any talk page stalkers) think? -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 21:11, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

DPL Bot error

I noticed in going through the backlog of pages in need of dab that Level Comics seems to keep being re-tagged with the dablinks template, despite being fixed. I was about to fix it, but it seems DPL Bot keeps re-tagging it every time someone removes the tag. Dab solver can't find anything, and I couldn't either. My guess is that it's some kind of DPL Bot error. Thought I'd let you know in case you have time to check it out. Thanks for making the bot in the first place; it's really helpful! Ethraen (talk) 02:24, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) It appears that the tag is getting added every 2-3 months. With as many redlinks as there are on that article, I would guess that disambiguation pages are being creating which turn a few links blue, and then the page has the tag added. I've removed the tag again and will keep an eye on the page to see what happens going forward. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 06:05, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Disambig report

I should've had my report earlier on today. Where is it?--Launchballer 21:02, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 06 May 2013

Although not yet in great numbers, candidates are coming forward for Wikimedia Foundation elections, which will be held from 1 to 15 June. The elections will fill vacancies in three categories, the most prominent of which will be the three community-elected seats on the ten-member Board of Trustees (or the first Board meeting after the election results are announced, if sooner). The current two-year terms for these trustee positions ends on 1 September.
The Wikimedia Foundation will be receiving more than $100,000 worth of free developer time courtesy of internet giant Google, it was announced this week. The funds, allocated as part of Google's Summer of Code programme, will support up to 21 student developers through three months of coding time.
May sees the beginning of Round 3 of the 2013 WikiCup, with 33 of the original 127 competitors remaining. ... six articles, ten pictures, and two portals were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
The SOS Children's Villages news service advised on 3 May 2013 that Wikipedia for Schools 2013 is nearly ready for release. ... On 26 April 2013, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation published an article reviewing Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik's edits to the English Wikipedia, where it revealed the name of Breivik's English Wikipedia account.
This week's English Wikipedia project, WikiProject Biophysics, is home to several experts in their fields and a collaboration with the Biophysical Society. The project is hosting a contest through July 15 with six contributors winning $100 in cash and given the opportunity to attend the 2014 meeting of the Biophysical Society in San Francisco. Other strong entries will be awarded barnstars online and everyone who contributes can receive a physical button mailed out to them.

The Signpost: 13 May 2013

The removal of administrator rights from all volunteers on the Wikimedia Foundation's official website sparked a highly emotional reaction on the Wikimedia-l mailing list—one of the largest off-wiki methods of communication for the Wikimedia movement.
This week, we spent some time watching WikiProject Mixed Martial Arts, which was started in August 2005 and has grown to include 12 Good Articles and a Featured List.
Fourteen articles, three lists, and three pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia, including Boletus luridus, seen above.
An article published on May 10 on Odwyerpr.com written by Greg Hazley documented a "spar" between Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and public relations firm Qorvis partner Matt Lauer, who disputes Wikipedia's guideline discouraging public relations firms from editing articles on their clients.
The Race and politics case has been accepted for arbitration, and the evidence phase is now open. Two other cases remain open.

Can DPLbot be extended to catch misspellings?

Okay, not all misspellings, of course. But I'm thinking, anytime someone introduces a wikilink to a page in category:Redirects from misspellings, that would be a good thing to catch, just as when someone introduces a wikilink to a disambiguation page. Would it take a lot of work to extend DPLbot to do this?

I periodically go through and find all the instances of things like Cincinatti and correct them to Cincinnati. A bot notification would probably cut down a lot of those. It wouldn't catch unlinked ones, of course, but it would be a start. TJRC (talk) 00:52, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Re-evaluation, please?

Would you re-evaluate Robert van Scoyk please? I've cleaned up the disambiguation links and renamed/cited the references. Cheers Shir-El too 21:35, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

Hello,

Thanks for the notice! No more disambiguation links for you on the aforementioned subject!

Jstrx — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jstrx (talk • contribs) 03:59, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

The da Vinci Barnstar

The da Vinci Barnstar
DPL bot is a good bot, and you should feel good for operating it! Sophus Bie (talk) 08:37, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

User_talk:DPL_bot#Bug

Please see the above section. Werieth (talk) 14:26, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Your script Verwaiste_Bilder.php on Toolserver

Hi JaGa, http://toolserver.org/~jason/Verwaiste_Bilder.php says Database connection error. Unknown database 'dewiki_p' Can you help? Thanks, --Emha (talk) 15:58, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

This problem still exists. Can you please answer and/or fix it? Thanks, --Emha (talk) 10:47, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 May 2013

Nominations closed last Friday for the three community-elected seats on the Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) ten-member Board of Trustees—the ultimate corporate authority of the worldwide WMF. The Board has influential roles and responsibilities over one of the most powerful global information sources on the Internet.
This week, we traveled to WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome. The project was started in May 2006 and has 37 featured articles.
On 16 May, the Spanish Wikipedia became the seventh Wikipedia to cross the million article Rubicon, a symbolic yet important achievement.
Salon.com published another article detailing the ongoing incidents with Wikipedia user Qworty, who has identified himself as Robert Clark Young. It documents Qworty's role in the controversy involving Amanda Filipacchi's op-ed, which kindled a debate on Wikipedia sexism as it relates to categories, where Qworty was responsible for a series of revenge edits against Filipacchi in the days after she released her op-ed.
Nine articles, six lists, and eight pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

DPL bot notification error

Today I received this message from tthe DPL bot, [1], that I added a dab link, Danish, to Press Play On Tape. My only edit to the recently recreated article was to add a speedy deletion template, [2], that did not mention Danish and was removed twelve seconds later, [3]. The Danish link was made in the first edit for the article, [4], so User:WhisperToMe should be notified because I am done dealing with this article. Aspects (talk) 15:56, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Barnstar of Diligence
How many times your you and your DPL bot found and helped me correct my inaccurately placed links pointing to DAB pages? So many that you deserved this barnstar! :D Daniele.tampieri (talk) 20:17, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peterbruce01 (talk • contribs) 00:38, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 May 2013

Alongside the Signpost's interviews with the Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) Board of Trustees candidates, the Signpost asked the candidates for the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) and its Ombudsperson position a series of questions relating to the positions they may be taking on. For the FDC candidates, this will include specific recommendations to the WMF on how to disburse over US$11 million in donors' funds to affiliate organizations, something which appears to have garnered little attention from the editing community at large so far.
In the continuing saga of User:Qworty's outing as author Robert Clark Young, several blogs and websites covered the now-banned user's anti-Pagan editing. In an article published on 22 May 2013, TechEye described Qworty's edits as a "reign of terror" and were pleased to find that he had not succeeded in removing several prominent Pagan biographies from the encyclopedia.
The elections for the three community seats on the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees start on 8 June. This second and final part of the interview explores two broad themes: Meta, the site that hosts movement-wide coordination; and offline entities—the chapters and the new thematic organisations and user groups.
This week, we plotted out the demarcations of WikiProject Geographical Coordinates, which aims to create a single standard of handling coordinates in Wikipedia articles.
Twelve articles, four lists, and twelve pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
An article in Library Review offers a much-needed comparison of data from a population of editors outside the English Wikipedia.
Second only to the technical track of Wikimania in terms of numbers, the Berlin Hackathon (2009–2012) provided those with an interest in the software that underpins Wikimedia wikis and supports its editors a place to gather, exchange ideas and learn new skills.

Reference to bullhead in Lake Shipp page

Since I am uncertain which type of bullhead fish a source was referencing, I took the reference to it out of the article. I usually check these things, but this one slipped by. Bill Pollard (talk) 13:44, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

Misdirected DPL notification

Thanks for the notification, but it wasn't me. Article "May 26–30, 2013 tornado outbreak" links to Florida, New York and Bellaire, Kansas were not mine, I just changed the stub tags. I think the links may have been removed by a later editor anyway. Just a heads up, possible glitch. Rpyle731talk 06:15, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

DPL bot yet again; nothing wrong

Just got a note from DPL bot about a bad link I placed; I've fixed it, so all is well. My only question regards the time — the message was a few minutes ago, but I created the page on 27 May; why did it wait until now? If you only run the bot occasionally, it might help to add a short note about running times on the FAQ page. Nyttend (talk) 13:45, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

DPL bot

Hi; is there a reason why the DPL bot keeps sending the same notification, for the same edit, three days in a row? Titoxd(?!? - cool stuff) 22:06, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 05 June 2013

I am excited to announce that a Portuguese-language journal, Correio da Wikipédia has been launched by Vitorvicentevalente. It has just published its third edition, and I encourage readers who speak the language to read and contribute to its already-expansive coverage of the Portuguese Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement.
Five articles, four lists, and thirteen images were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.
This is mostly a list of requests for comment believed to be active on 4 June 2013 linked from subpages of Wikipedia:RfC or watchlist notices.
On 31 May, the Wikimedia Foundation's Legal and Community Advocacy team announced that the Wikivoyage logo would have to be replaced, because it has become the subject of a cease-and-desist letter from the World Trade Organization (WTO).
An article on TheNextWeb.com says that the Chinese Government has effectively blocked Wikipedia by cutting off access to the HTTP Secure (https) "workaround", almost completely cutting off access to those in China.
This week, we reflect on the anniversary of D-Day by storming the shores of Operation Normandy, a special initiative of WikiProject Military History.
Last week, the Signpost reported on a feeling at the Amsterdam hackathon that Toolserver developers were coming round to the idea of migrating to Wikimedia Labs.

FREE KITTENS FOR ALL CAT LOVERS

Bhaskarachandra has given you a kitten! Kittens promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Your kitten must be fed three times a day and will be your faithful companion forever! Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a kitten, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend.

Spread the goodness of kittens by adding {{subst:Kitten}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message, or kittynap their kitten with {{subst:Kittynap}}

thanks - and an idea

thanks for catching the technical stuff. I do appreciate it. 

I just highlighted the word and asked it to link, it didnt let me know is was a disambiguation page or I would not have said ok.  Is there some way to get that into the little box that comes up?

(Usually the whole time I am writing for you the back of my brain is nagging me to get back to "real" work so I dont have time to chase down pages myself.)

re Big East

Hello, JaGa. You have new messages at Above others's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Above others (talk • contribs)

Not a programmer or computer scientist here

...but received some message about your bot on my page. Could you please use plain English to explain what you are talking about. For example, what is a dablink?

What is a Dablink? I am an expert in other fields, not wiki programming lingo. Thanks.

This is the second time I've noticed this problem. (The first time you blamed me for it!)

  • The template {{Islands of the Qikiqtaaluk Region}} used to link to Camp Island. Now it links to Camp Island (Nunavut).
  • This template is on MANY pages.
  • If you do a "what links here" on both pages, you will see two different lists of pages.
  • If you choose a page from the "Camp Island" list, (any page), and examine it, you will see that page does NOT link to "Camp Island". You will, however, see that it DOES link to "Camp Island (Nunavut)".

i.e. "What links here" has some sort of synchronisation problem, and it is causing your bot to put templates on pages that do not merit them.
Happy to discuss the matter in more detail if necessary. Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 11:19, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Should you want them, I can also point you at other examples. Pdfpdf (talk) 00:27, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) Hey Pdfpdf, I can answer this one (partially) for you. Templates that are transcluded (see WP:TRANS) don't get updated on every page that they are on immediately. When an ambiguous link is added to a template, that link will show in the 'What links here' until the page is edited, which refreshes the transclusion of the template and updates the 'What links here' links. The bot uses the 'What links here' links to see if any ambiguous links have been created, so that's why you got the notifications that you did. If anyone else has a better or more technical explanation, I'm sure they'll chime in. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 00:58, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks! So does that mean that EVERY page that uses the template needs to be edited? That's pretty tedious!! I hope there is an easier way to resolve the issue than editing every page ... Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 01:08, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
I think that they get updated at some point, but I don't know how or when it happens. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 01:54, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

Your location

Somewhat confused by your userpage — you're in Category:Wikipedians in Ohio, and as such your location is listed as Ohio on User:Moe Epsilon/Administrators by location, but the text of your userpage makes me think that you're no longer there. Could you clarify something? No need to leave me a message. Nyttend (talk) 23:31, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 12 June 2013

Late last year, the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) awarded $8.4 million in donors' money to 11 Wikimedia entities, including the Wikimedia Foundation and 10 nationally defined chapters. Under this arrangement, these organisations are required to issue quarterly reports on how far they have progressed towards their declared programmatic and financial goals. The FDC has now announced that all 11 completed and submitted their reports by the 1 April deadline, and have responded to each.
Seven articles, two lists, five pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
In an article published by the Huffington Post's United Kingdom edition, writer Thomas Church asserts that the new VisualEditor will change history, literally. It says that Wikipedia's mark-up language has been to its advantage, as most people didn't bother trying to learn it
I've long thought that we should get rid of the Wikimedia Commons as we know it. Commons has evolved into a project with interests that compete with the needs of the primary users of Commons and the reason it was created. It's also understaffed, which results in poor curation, large administrative backlogs, and poor policy development.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia.
Last week's most popular article list on the English Wikipedia was dominated by the massively popular TV series Game of Thrones, which claimed six slots in the top 25, including the top three. Its popularity was likely stoked by the most recent episode, The Rains of Castamere. Bollywood continued to increase its share of views as well, aided by the tragic suicide of star Nafisa Khan.
Two cases, Race and politics and Tea Party movement have been suspended. Argentine History remains open, and a proposed decision was posted on 12 June.
This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Computing. Started in October 2003, the project has grown to include 17 featured articles, 11 featured lists, 3 pieces of featured media, and 80 good articles.

Please tell your bot thanks for reminding me

User_talk:PC-XT#Disambiguation_link_notification_for_June_19

Also, when I went back to fix it using Dab solver, I think it said I got a point, which I don't deserve for fixing my own edit. I know the project page says errors are expected, other fixes I did may not have given points, and it probably won't matter in the list, (or if it does, other users will probably check my edits,) but I'm leaving a message, anyway, out of respect. :)

Thanks for your great tools! -PC-XT+ 04:22, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

Notices for a dab even if my edit didn't add it?

Regarding a message I got over this edit to Karoline Frogner: I didn't add the link to the dab page; all I added were maintenance tags. A new editor had added the link in question. Is it the bot's designed behaviour to notify the experienced user of the link? I'd think this would trigger lots of extraneous messages, especially to editors who are tagging articles or reverting vandalism. —C.Fred (talk) 14:24, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 19 June 2013

Following last week's op-ed by Gigs ("The Tragedy of Wikipedia's Commons"), the Signpost is carrying two contrary opinions from MichaelMaggs, a bureaucrat on Wikimedia Commons, and Mattbuck, a British Commons administrator.
The season finale of Game of Thrones ensured that the epic high fantasy series would dominate the top 10 again last week; however, it was joined by Maurice Sendak and Man of Steel.
Memeburn.com published an article on the yearning of students in South Africa for free knowledge through Wikipedia Zero.
This week, we visited WikiProject Tennessee, a project dedicate to the state at the geographic and cultural crossroads of the United States.
With erysichton elaborata, the Swedish Wikipedia passed the one million article Rubicon this week. While this is a mostly symbolic achievement, serving as a convenient benchmark with which to gain publicity and attention in an increasingly statistical world, the particular method by which the Swedish site has passed the mark has garnered significant attention—and controversy.
Eleven articles, twelve lists, and eleven pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week.
A list of current discussions on the English Wikipedia.
The WMF's engineering report for May was published recently on the Wikimedia blog and on the MediaWiki wiki ("friendly" summary version), giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month.
Richard Farmbrough was set to have his day in court, but as events transpired, this was not to be so. On 25 March 2013, an accusation was made against Farmbrough at Arbitration Enforcement (AE), claiming that he violated the terms of an automated edit restriction. Within hours, Farmbrough had filed his own request with the arbitration committee, citing the newly filed AE request and claiming that the motion was being used "in an absurd way" in the filing of enforcement requests: "I have not made any edits that a sane person would consider automation."

Thank you DPL bot

I just learned how to thank other users, but, apparently one can't thank bots, or, possibly, I have not learned it that well. Thanks for the handy code that explained the problems with my article links. -AfadsBad (talk) 21:17, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 June 2013

With most TV shows on hiatus for the summer, attention has turned to movies, celebrity and sports. The dramatic events at the 2013 Confederations Cup drew massive attention, as did summer blockbusters like Man of Steel and World War Z. But the most searched event of the week was the tragic and unexpected death of popular actor James Gandolfini on June 19.
The Daily Dot has examined the perennial controversy over explicit or pornographic media on Commons. This latest salvo was touched off when Russavia uploaded a portrait of Jimmy Wales made by the artist Pricasso, who paints with his genitalia.
A comparative work by T. Yasseri., A. Spoerri, M. Graham and J. Kertész looks at the 100 most controversial topics in 10 language versions of Wikipedia, and tries to make sense of the similarities and differences in these lists.
Less than three days after the close of voting, the volunteer election committee posted the results on Meta. The worldwide Wikimedia movement has elected three WMF trustees for two-year terms on the 10-seat Board: Samuel Klein (supported by 43.5% of voters), Phoebe Ayers (38.3%), and María Sefidari (35.6%). The new trustees will take their seats at a critical time for the movement: one of the first tasks in their terms will be to help the Board to find and approve the new executive director to take up the top job when Sue Gardner departs.
A list of current discussions on the English Wikipedia.
This week, the Signpost interviews Adam Cuerden, a Wikimedian who has been for years gathering featured pictures, and who constantly participates in what could be his favourite part of the project. Cuerden dedicates most of his time to scanning and restoring old, valuable illustrative works. He explains to us how the featured process works, its relation with other parts of the encyclopedia, and how pictures evolve before reaching featured status.
This week, we walked the runway with WikiProject Fashion. Started in March 2007, the project is home to 4 Featured Articles and 41 Good Articles. The project has a lengthy list of how you can help and a list of Article Alerts.
Argentine History was closed. Two cases, Race and politics and Tea Party movement, remain suspended until July.

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism.Sksaj (talk) 16:54, 29 June 2013 (UTC)


POTD notification

POTD

Hi Jaga,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:HP Pavilion (angle).jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on July 15, 2013. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2013-07-15. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:36, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Files

Hi. I wrote an article in Russian ru:Парни из Скоттсборо. You could download the image to the Wikimedia Commons, so that I could illustrate an article? Sorry, I can not speak English very well.

Зейнал (talk) 08:14, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 03 July 2013

Amy Chozick's profile of Jimmy Wales in the New York Times sparked significant controversy in international news outlets this week. Chozick's profile covered Wales's personal life, including his 12-year-old daughter, ex-wife, and current wife Kate Garvey, describing Wales himself as "a well-groomed version of a person who has been slumped over a computer drinking Yoo-hoo for hours." Chozick described his current role in Wikipedia as "Benevolent Dictator for Life", a statement which garnered conflict from all corners of the web, including from Wales, who responded to the piece as a whole with a lengthy talk page statement.
Four articles, four lists, and fifteen pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.
This week, the Signpost went to the kennel and interviewed WikiProject Dogs. The project has several featured and good articles, along with a large number of "Did you know" entries. We asked three project members about the challenges of creating, curating, and maintaining canine content in an increasingly dog-obsessed world.
The key annual event in the Wikimedia calendar, Wikimania 2013, will be held in Hong Kong in just five weeks' time. Among the events will be a presentation by two people who are working to promote the development of medical content on Wikimedia projects. One is James Heilman of Wiki Project Med, a non-profit dedicated to making "clear, reliable, comprehensive, up-to-date educational resources and information in the biomedical and related social sciences freely available to all people in the language of their choice". The other is Lori Thicke, president of Translators Without Borders (TWB), the Connecticut-based organisation set up in 2010 to provide pro-bono translation services for humanitarian non-profits
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
The VisualEditor extension has gone live by default to registered users on the English Wikipedia, marking a huge milestone in a project that has taken the best part of a decade to reach fruition. The extension was previously described as "the biggest and most important change to our user experience we’ve ever undertaken" by the WMF team behind it.
The real world made a strong showing in the top 10 last week, as news stories such as Yahoo!'s purchase of Tumblr, the murder of Odin Lloyd, the continuing drama over NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and the ill-health of Nelson Mandela crowded out the usual roster of TV shows, movies, websites and video games. Not that they were entirely excluded, of course.
Following a one-month period of moderated discussion, Tea Party movement has been reopened by the Committee. The proposed decisions are currently being voted upon. Race and politics remains suspended pending the return of User:Apostle12.

Database connection error

Hi JaGa. tools:~jason/Verwaiste_Bilder.php does not work anymore. It says 

Database connection error. Please try again later.
Unknown database 'dewiki_p'

Could you please have a look? --Leyo 14:38, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, I can check it out. I'm pretty busy with school/family these days so it may take some time but I will get it working again. --JaGatalk 02:17, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
There is no particular hurry, except of the archival of this section within 31 days. ;-) --Leyo 08:12, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Praise

Gotta tell ya - I'm very impressed with the way you have implemented your bot, and in my (of course, completely unbiased) POV, it's mainly due to the choice of wording in what you post on people's talk pages. It's slightly embarrassing to have it pointed out that one has "stuffed up", but your choice of words concentrates on fixing the problem rather than emphasising that someone has stuffed up. The contrast with the beta-command-bot's approach is dramatic. Whereas beta-command-bot used to thoroughly annoy me, my response to your bot and it's talk page posting is "Damn, stuffed up again. Gee that's a useful little bot." Good work! And Well done! Cheers, and many thanks! Pdfpdf (talk) 11:51, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Your script Verwaiste_Bilder.php on Toolserver

Sorry JaGa, the problem is not solved by archiving. User_talk:JaGa/Archive_15#Your_script_Verwaiste_Bilder.php_on_Toolserver needs an answer by you. Is it possible, please? --Emha (talk) 09:05, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, real life has been pretty demanding these days. I have some time off coming in the next week and I'm hoping to get some Toolserver work in then. I'll take a look. --JaGatalk 03:40, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 July 2013

This is Wikinews' fundamental problem: it can neither do a good job providing a summary of world news, nor does it have any special focus that it does well. It's a collection of random articles, with only the occasional, passing resemblance to important current events.
This week, we traveled to Cymru with the folks at WikiProject Wales.
The most-viewed articles on the English Wikipedia last week include...
In apparent acknowledgment of the urgency of two issues facing the Wikimedia movement—the need to engage both women and the global south—the WMF Board has appointed Ana Toni as one of its four expert members. Toni will bring rare expertise to the movement, and the Signpost understands that her skills in advocacy and her key roles in international NGOs are likely to be a natural match with the WMF as the hub of disseminating free knowledge around the world.
The fundamental idea of an infobox is clear: keep it simple and limited to essentials. At some point, however, these basic principles seem to have been abandoned, in favour of an approach akin to "the more the merrier".
Five articles, six lists, and ten pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include ...

The Signpost: 17 July 2013

This week, we explored the fantasy worlds of video game developer Square Enix by interviewing WikiProject Square Enix. The project began in September 2006 as a spin-off of WikiProject Final Fantasy, but today covers that, Kingdom Hearts, Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger, and a variety of other game series, with exceptions explained in the interview below. The project is home to 32 pieces of Featured material and 104 Good and A-class articles.
The most-viewed articles on the English Wikipedia last week include...
Last week the Wikimedia Foundation released its annual plan for July 2013 to June 2014. It provides a surprisingly frank view—of past achievements and failures, and future goals and risks—that could be afforded only by a non-profit that is confident and beholden to no commercial or political interests.
Four articles, five lists, and sixteen pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
The case Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds was opened. Voting on the Tea Party movement case continued, after a failed attempt at moderated discussion. A group tasked with deciding the content of the lead section of the Jerusalem article has reported back to the committee. Applications for checkuser and oversight permissions close on 22 July.

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/San Francisco Ferry Building
An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status
Your image, File:San Francisco Ferry Building (cropped).jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! Armbrust The Homunculus 06:09, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 July 2013

The Washington Post reported Tuesday on the most controversial articles on various language Wikipedias as determined by a cross-continental research group.
This week, the Signpost delved into the vast and complex areas of beliefs, cultural systems, and world views that make up religion. WikiProject Religion has been around since 2005 and has a complex scope, in that it only takes articles that deal with religion in a non-sectarian sense, along with any articles that do not have a dedicated daughter project.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
Contributors to Wikivoyage, the sister project adopted by the Wikimedia Foundation last year, are celebrating their 10th anniversary this week. ... The Wikimedia Foundation has announced via press release that it has partnered with Aircel to provide free mobile access to Wikipedia.
Death hangs over the top 10 this week, as tragic deaths both past and present continued to cast their pall over an already troubled world. The death of Corey Monteith led to a spike in interest in the man himself, his girlfriend and co-star Lea Michele, and the show that made them both famous, Glee.
Twelve articles, seven lists, and eight pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
The case Infoboxes was opened. The evidence phase continues in Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds. Voting on the proposed decision continues in the Tea Party movement case.

Lost Experience

Hi, JaGa -- I left a note and question on the DPL bot page. I just hoped to get your opinion on the best place to link a fictional book... Thank you, Mthwaite (talk) 19:54, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 July 2013

One of the narratives I've heard a lot is that Wikipedia is unable to change, that it's too stagnant, too poorly resourced, too inherently resistant to change. I don't believe that at all.
An ArXiv preprint titled "Highlighting entanglement of cultures via ranking of multilingual Wikipedia articles" is about the Wikipedia articles on individuals and their position in the hyperlink network of the articles in each Wikipedia language edition, considering the whole hyperlink network.
Somewhat predictably, the birth of a new heir to the House of Windsor on 22 July led the English-speaking world to suddenly embrace Monarchism. In honour of this occasion, the Traffic report will be assiduously employing British spelling and dating conventions. Cheers.
This week, we visited the Turkish Wikipedia for an interview with VikiProje Siyaset (WikiProject Politics). The project began in April 2010 and has sustained a small but enthusiastic group of editors focusing on both the domestic politics of Turkey and international politics. The basics for article quality and importance ratings have been determined, but tracking this data has not yet become widespread on the Turkish Wikipedia. The project maintains a portal, a variety of resources, and a rotating selection of images to spruce up the project's page.
The ninth annual Wikimania conference will open in just over a week at the Jockey Club Auditorium, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Wikimania is for people worldwide who have an interest in Wikimedia Foundation projects. It features presentations and discussions on those projects, on free knowledge and content, and on related social and technical issues.
The case Race and politics was closed, while three other cases remain open.
Eight articles, five lists, seven pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia this week include...

Random act of kindness

 Hello JaGa, Eduemoni has given you a shining smiling star! You see, these things promote WikiLove and hopefully this has made your day better. Spread the Shining Smiling Star whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or someone putting up with some stick at this time. Enjoy! Eduemoni↑talk↓ 18:21, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

Malcolm Shepherd

Thanks for the tip Have changed the link so it should read OK nowKusala1952 (talk) 14:57, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 07 August 2013

Fourteen editors have been proposed for a six-month page ban in the Tea Party movement case. In the Infoboxes and Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds cases, the workshop and evidence phases have closed, and proposed decisions are scheduled to be posted.
It's crickets and tumbleweeds this week, as the top 10 sees its lowest view-count since the project began. If Wikipedia were selling anything, we'd be having a fire sale by now.
The opening days of the annual Wikimania, referred to as the "pre-conference", are not typically newsworthy. This changed dramatically when the Chapters Association council met on Thursday.
This week, we journey into a WikiProject that focuses about what keeps Wikipedia running, the freedom of speech.
The week's newest featured content includes...
Recent discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

KEYH

Thanks for letting me know about the KOA link; I corrected it.

Rudy2alan 18:20, 13 August 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rudy2alan (talk • contribs)

The Signpost: 14 August 2013

About a thousand Wikimedians journeyed to Hong Kong this week for the annual Wikimania conference, the annual gathering of the Wikimedia movement. Wikimania, which has been held since 2005, serves as the principal physical meetup for Wikimedians around the world.
One major story that came out of Wikimania was Jimmy Wales' statements at the conference that he would prefer to have Wikipedia banned entirely in mainland China than censored as it is currently.
The week's newest featured content includes seven articles, four lists, and twelve pictures.
Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia and its public face to most of the media, has declared that media organizations are missing out on the "opportunity of the century" by not conducting true investigative reporting into American surveillance practices, a debate kindled by information leaked by Edward Snowden.
Recent discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
The Kiefer.Wolfowitz and Ironholds case has closed, with a unanimous decision to desysop a Wikimedia Foundation employee and indefinitely ban another editor. The Tea Party movement case has stalled yet again, in the wake of a controversial proposal to ban 14 editors. A proposed decision in the Infoboxes case was scheduled to be posted on 14 August.

DPL Bot

Hi, how did you create DPL bot, I'd like to do something simmilar that does the same for another wikimedia project.Original Authority (talk) 11:28, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

DPL bot sits on top of easily hundreds of hours of disambiguation work. It isn't something that could be reproduced lightly. --JaGatalk 17:39, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Nike list

Disambiguated. Archolman User talk:Archolman 17:27, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Bot for set index articles

An issue for plant articles, and hence for WP:PLANTS, is that there are often a lot of plants whose English name includes a word that is also used, regionally at least, as the name of a one particular plant. This has often been dealt with by disambiguation pages like Nettle (disambiguation). However, such pages, including this one, don't really follow the guidelines on disambiguation pages. They are, at least partly, set index articles, listing plants whose names include a particular term. However, one argument against more use of SIAs is that there is no automated warning when new links are added to them, yet these are almost always as much errors as are links to dab pages. We have experience of such problems with plant SIAs.

So my question is: could your dab bot be extended to produce the same kind of warning for links to pages flagged as SIAs? If so, do you see any problem with doing this? Peter coxhead (talk) 13:51, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

Oops. I was discussing this issue with Peter coxhead and didn't let him know I'd already left you a message about it at User talk:DPL bot. Sorry about the duplicated request. I'll watch for a response here, ignore my message on the bot's talk page. I'll just mention again Category:Set indices on plant common names as the group of articles we are interested in. Plantdrew (talk) 04:55, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
Set index articles are a tricky thing. I worry about the very problem you are describing. Problem is, I couldn't send "Did you mean..." messages for SIAs since there's nothing wrong with linking to an SIA, by definition. The first time I message someone who really did intend to link to that page, look out! They'd come after me with torches and pitchforks. No, I'm afraid this can't be solved with DPL bot. I'm sorry I can't be of more help. --JaGatalk 02:51, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
I understand the problem, and knowing how some editors react, I can see that a "false positives" would be an issue. One idea that occurred to me is whether it would, in principle, be possible to create a bot which kept a list of article titles and users interested in links to them and informed those users whenever a wikilink was created. Then it would be possible to opt into such reports. Maybe even if agreed, this would be too computationally demanding. Just an idea. Peter coxhead (talk) 18:14, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
I think something could be built over time. I would start with a simple report of all the links to articles in Category:Set indices on plant common names. Later, we could think about how to categorize links in terms of "valid" vs. "invalid" vs. "unknown" and perhaps send notifications to opted-in users with updates. But that would be a long-term plan, requiring a lot of work. At present, I've just started back to school and am trying to migrate to Tool Labs to boot. So this would be a long time coming I'm afraid. Of course, since none of this builds on anything I've done before, you could also make a bot request for this. The first step (building the report) would be a fairly easy task for anyone familiar with the Wikipedia database. Or, if you're in no hurry, I could put something together for you - but it could be months before I get to it. --JaGatalk 16:16, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for your response. I guess we'll continue to think about and discuss this for a while. The problem can be partly solved by choice of article title, thus putting the SIA at "List of plants called X" is much less likely to attract incorrect links than if it were just at "X". However, "X" may be a more useful title for readers. Um... Peter coxhead (talk) 20:54, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 August 2013

Wikipedia's gender identity MOS section and its effect on Chelsea Manning was both praised and emulated in the media this week. ... Coverage of the distributed open collaborative course called "Storming Wikipedia" continued this week.
98 registered participants attended the annual WikiSym+OpenSym conference from August 5-7 at Hong Kong's Cyberport facility.
This week, we secured free admission for WikiProject Amusement Parks, the project dedicated to amusement rides, roller coasters, theme parks, traveling carnivals, and funfairs.
The debt that Wikipedia owes sites like Reddit or Google often goes unacknowledged around here. If the purpose of Wikipedia is to bring knowledge to the world, then it is sites like these that are actually doing it.
The 2013 WikiCup competition is entering its final round. Eleven articles and nine pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM), Wikimedia's annual volunteer-driven and the world largest photo contest, is gearing up to be conducted throughout September 2013. The event, originally developed in the Netherlands in 2010, has gone global with 34 countries taking part last and 49 this year.
Wikipedia's traditional image gallery format, produced by the markup, has remained largely unchanged for years. The resulting layout, seen below, does not adapt well to variations in image size, and has been characterized by some critics as aesthetically unappealing.

Technical correction

Hi, JaGa. On tools:~dpl/templates_with_dab_links.php, the following text appears:

This is no longer true, due to a recent change in MediaWiki. It is now necessary to edit each of the linking pages to update the links, but I don't think we want to encourage that. Instead, I'd just delete the sentence. The devs would prefer we just wait for the job queue to do its thing. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 11:38, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

 Done Thanks for letting me know about it. --JaGatalk 17:39, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 August 2013

Wikipedia's gender identity MOS section and its effect on Chelsea Manning was both praised and emulated in the media this week. ... Coverage of the distributed open collaborative course called "Storming Wikipedia" continued this week.
98 registered participants attended the annual WikiSym+OpenSym conference from August 5-7 at Hong Kong's Cyberport facility.
This week, we secured free admission for WikiProject Amusement Parks, the project dedicated to amusement rides, roller coasters, theme parks, traveling carnivals, and funfairs.
The debt that Wikipedia owes sites like Reddit or Google often goes unacknowledged around here. If the purpose of Wikipedia is to bring knowledge to the world, then it is sites like these that are actually doing it.
The 2013 WikiCup competition is entering its final round. Eleven articles and nine pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM), Wikimedia's annual volunteer-driven and the world largest photo contest, is gearing up to be conducted throughout September 2013. The event, originally developed in the Netherlands in 2010, has gone global with 34 countries taking part last and 49 this year.
Wikipedia's traditional image gallery format, produced by the markup, has remained largely unchanged for years. The resulting layout, seen below, does not adapt well to variations in image size, and has been characterized by some critics as aesthetically unappealing.

The Signpost: 04 September 2013

After media praise for Wikipedia's decision to move the Bradley Manning article to Chelsea Manning, the reversion of that page move on August 31, after a discussion in which several hundred Wikipedians participated, has so far triggered less favourable feedback, as well as a blog post from Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Sue Gardner expressing her disappointment with the decision.
On September 3, the Wikimedia Foundation launched the second stage of the process to improve the privacy policy implemented on most Wikimedia sites, including Wikipedia and its sister projects, by publishing a policy draft.
A news-heavy week offers some insight, perhaps, into humanity's priorities.
As mentioned in "In the news" on Wikipedia's main page, the Library of Birmingham in the United Kingdom has opened. This interior photo was taken a week before opening. The article reports that the library "has been described as the largest public library in the United Kingdom, the largest public cultural space in Europe, and the largest regional library in Europe."
Four articles, four lists, and eight pictures were promoted to 'featured' status this week on the English Wikipedia
This week, we spent some time with the minds behind WikiProject Psychology. The project was created in March 2006 and has grown to include 14 Featured Articles and 43 Good Articles.
The dispute over the title for the Manning article escalated quickly to arbitration levels, as the Bradley/Chelsea Manning naming dispute case was accepted for arbitration.
In this week's "Technology report", we explore ways of making Wikipedia more accessible to users of screen readers. Graham87 is a highly active contributor who is also blind and accesses the site through a screen reader.

Orphaned non-free media (File:Alfred Adler (1870-1937) Austrian psychiatrist.jpg)

Thanks for uploading File:Alfred Adler (1870-1937) Austrian psychiatrist.jpg. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'file' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that all non-free media not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Werieth (talk) 21:06, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 11 September 2013

'The National Law Journal reported on September 9 that lawyer Susan L. Burke has been taking legal steps to discover the identity of Wikipedia editor . Zujua had edited her biography, allegedly adding misleading content about various lawsuits in the process
The Signpost went to Indonesia this week.
Four articles, eight lists, and eight pictures were promoted to "featured" status this week on the English Wikipedia.
The deadline for proposals to the Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) volunteer committee on Meta will pass on 30 September. The program is designed to fund projects that tackle long-term problem and have a significant editing community impact; it has previously supported solutions like The Wikipedia Library, which improves Wikipedian access to online reference sources like JSTOR (see Signpost coverage).
While the Syrian Civil War crept its slow way into the minds of the public, with a new fourth related entry in the top 25, the top 10 remained dominated by celebrity, mainly sports and music. Two megabucks transfers stimulated public interest in football/soccer ahead of the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, while Lil Wayne's public apology ahead of his latest album release sent him to the top.
Discussion over the Manning title dispute was off to a running start as evidence and workshop phases continued in the Bradley/Chelsea Manning naming dispute. The Infoboxes case closed with topic bans for two users, and a recommendation for community discussion of infoboxes.

Thanks!

Thanks for the message on Disambiguation links. I fixed it. I wonder if you'd be able to assist in getting an image added to that page. I want to do it correctly, but am a bit confused as to how to go about doing correctly. Thanks again! Wikimwpr (talk) 16:51, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

No problem! Looks like you've already successfully added the image. Did you need any more help with that? --JaGatalk 17:56, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

Ludwig I, King of Bavaria

Could you revert this move? The user needs to discuss this or request this.--The Emperor's New Spy (talk) 22:09, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

I think that's acceptable. Undiscussed move, little editing history on the soon-to-be-deleted disambig/redirect. Will do. --JaGatalk 04:01, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

List of monarchs of Caucasian Iberia

Can you merge history of List of Kings of Caucasian Iberia and List of monarchs of Iberia to List of monarchs of Caucasian Iberia? They were all improperly moved.--The Emperor's New Spy (talk) 04:27, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

History merges can be tricky. I really don't have time for that one. Sorry. --JaGatalk 04:41, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
Do you know who might?--The Emperor's New Spy (talk) 14:57, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
If I remember correctly, User:Anthony Appleyard is a history merge maven. I don't know what he's up to these days, but I'd say he could give you good advice at the very least. --JaGatalk 00:27, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

BOT refinements?

NOT too sure as to what is happening with my editing style but your BOT Sure doesn't like me, in new article's creation, in this event. I suspect if you'd test for {{void}}'s use and skip testing and reports when used the BOT will stop having conniptions with my start class stubs. I use void to 'null out' boilerplate stolen from other article pages so as to keep the form and format, for reference. Mostly this happens when starting several interlinked topics at once, in this case, a neglected but historically important region surrounding the LC&N and LCAN operations. Most pages listed there on the 14th were stubbed in and tagged as {{Underconstruction}}. It can nag at me if you like, but at least parsing around void blocks is highly recommended. // FrankB

  • Alternative, a few of those listed in the link were 'legit' complaints, though in my experience... most of my experienced 'BOT successes' are disambig hits, not your BOT. The other possibility is use of italics in the style and manner as in the preceding words.
most ''my experienced 'BOT successes' ''are disambig hits,

Good luck! // FrankB 17:45, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

I want to add language to delay notifications for articles with the "under construction" template. Would that help? (Note: I'm back in school and it will be a long time before I can author this task.) --JaGatalk 18:08, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 September 2013

The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC), the volunteer-led body that evaluates chapter and (for the first time) thematic organizational annual plan grant requests to the Wikimedia Foundation, is preparing for its third round of public proceedings to deliberate on the distribution of several million US dollars of Wikimedia movement funds.
This week, the Signpost headed to WikiProject Good Articles. As of publishing time, out of the 4,331,477 articles on Wikipedia, only 18,464 are rated as "good" (about 1 in 235).
Thirteen articles, six lists, and five pictures were promoted to "featured" status last week on the English Wikipedia.
In this week's "Technology report", we look at how the growth of Wikidata can benefit Wikipedia. Gerard Meijssen is a highly active contributor and frequent blogger about Wikidata. We asked him to share his thoughts on how the new project benefits Wikipedia.
The top 10 is bookended by unlucky dates, as Friday the 13th fell just after the anniversary of 9/11. Breaking Bad's final season continued to draw attention, while interest in Miley Cyrus's youthful exuberance is fading only slowly.

"Check to confirm"

Hi,

I'm wondering what "check to confirm" does when you get a message from your dablink bot thingy. I read through the FAQ but it really isn't written from the "just give me the bare bones fact I need in order to choose between the options" perspective.

What I mean to say is that the FAQ is fine, only I wish you would add a 5-second paragraph at the top explaining the difference between "check to confirm" and "fix with that thingy". In language comprehensible to us not-really-Wikipedians, of course.

In other words, I suspect this is so very clear to you that you never even ask the following question:

Check to confirm? Is that "yes, I confirm I want my link to lead to a disambig page"? Or is it "Yes, I confirm whatever action your bot took to resolve the issue"? Or... what? Confirm what?

Also, the second option... well let's just say I have already forgotten what it is called, since it's only technobabble to me. Could this option be renamed "Technical fix for Wiki-experts"? ;)90.229.34.175 (talk) 07:11, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

Thank you at least for making it clear no action is needed or expected. Such language is most welcome, and I salute you for including it.

Cheers!

  • Hi! Yeah, I guess it is pretty confusing. "Check to confirm" just means "click on this and we'll tell you if the problem still exists". It's for cases when, after the bot leaves its message, someone else swoops in and fixes it. I suppose "Double-check" might be better, or "Verify problem still exists", or...? You're right, I'm so used to it I haven't questioned it. --JaGatalk 07:20, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

In recognition of your work

The da Vinci Barnstar
I received yet another message from DPL bot today. As usual, it made my day a little bit nicer to get such a friendly, appreciative message, in addition to the helpful suggestion of disambiguation work. You should be proud of how this bot supports community members improving the encyclopedia. Steven Walling • talk 23:34, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
Thank you. This has always been my favorite barnstar, and it means a lot to me to get it from you. Cheers. --JaGatalk 01:06, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 September 2013

Over the last year, there's been extensive debate about whether public relations professionals and other corporate representatives should participate on Wikipedia and, if so, to what extent and what kinds of rules should be followed.
The saga of Walter White, chemistry teacher-turned-drug kingpin, as told in the critically adored television series Breaking Bad, has been a water-cooler necessity for years, and now, as it nears its end, audiences are feverishly following every plot thread to guess what the finale will reveal.
Fox News writer Perry Chiaramonte published an article detailing Wikipedia's alleged abandonment of its fight to remove pornography.
On 30 September, Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM), the Wikimedia community's global photo competition, will reach to the end of its submission period. The proceedings have been underway since the first of this month; national juries will start reviewing submissions for the first round of selections after it closes ... Community aggravation with one of the Wikimedia Foundation's signature initiatives, the VisualEditor, came to the fore again this week with the announcement and implementation of code blocking the tool.
This week, we continued our exploration of other language editions of Wikipedia by visiting the Spanish Wikipedia's Wikiproyecto Fútbol (WikiProject Football).
Twelve articles, six lists, and five pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
A conference paper makes a rather serious claim: "We find a surprisingly large number of editors who change their behavior and begin focusing more on a particular controversial topic once they are promoted to administrator status."

Request Help

Hi i am User:Foliate08 got a message from your bot saying the following:

"We noticed though that when you edited List of agricultural universities and colleges, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Banda (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. It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 11:35, 25 September 2013 (UTC)"

But i could not understand its exact meaning could you please help me with this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Foliate08 (talk • contribs) 07:51, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Let me try to help you by breaking it down.
  1. You edited the Wikipedia article called List of agricultural universities and colleges.
  2. Here is a link to the changes you made in the article.
  3. One of the lines you added to the article reads: "* [[Manyawar Shri Kanshiram Ji University of Agriculture and Technology]], [[Banda]]"
  4. Writing [[Banda]] means you created a link to a Wikipedia page called Banda.
  5. From the context, most likely you meant to link to an article about the place called "Banda" where that particular university is located.
  6. But the Wikipedia page Banda is not an article about that place; it is a disambiguation page. Click on the "Banda" link to see what that means.
  7. It would be more helpful to readers if you would edit List of agricultural universities and colleges again, and replace [[Banda]] with a link to the Wikipedia article that actually talks about the place where the university is located. For example, if the university is located in Uttar Pradesh (I have no idea whether this is correct or not, it is just an example), then you could edit the article to read [[Banda, Uttar Pradesh|Banda]].
  8. Or you could click on the "Fix with DabSolver" link in the message that DPL Bot left on your talk page, and the tool will help you find the correct article and make a properly formatted correction.
Hope this helps. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 18:32, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
Wow, thanks for the great reply, Russ! --JaGatalk 17:26, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
Not that great; it didn't get them to fix it!  :-( R'n'B (call me Russ) 18:36, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 02 October 2013

Medical images have transformed many aspects of modern medicine. Over the past two decades the increasing sophistication of MRI, CT-scanning, and X-ray techniques has made these technologies the cornerstone of diagnosing a range of conditions, replacing what used to be largely guesswork by doctors. They can be the difference between life and death for a patient, and their importance is underlined by the tens of billions of dollars spent on them annually just in North America. For Wikimedia Foundation projects, advanced images are now a powerful tool for describing and explaining, and educating our worldwide readership of medical articles.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
In what will be remembered as a game-changing week for Wikimedia grantmaking, the Foundation's executive director, Sue Gardner, published a forthright and in places highly critical statement, Reflections on the FDC process, and grantmaking staff revealed that the WMF will significantly strengthen its targeting of optimal impact in funding.
Six articles and two pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.
Editor's note: To go beyond the mere facts of cases, the "Arbitration report" invited several editors who participated in the recent Infoboxes case to comment on infoboxes: what they are, where new users can go to find out about them, specifications and protocols, best practices, and how the upcoming community discussion recommended by the Committee in the case decision should be framed.
This week, we revisited the enthusiastic editors at WikiProject U2. Started in June 2007, the project has grown in spurts, resulting in a collection of 8 Featured Articles and 24 Good Articles. The project maintains a to do list, portal, and a list of references.

Hello JaGa,
Is this tool also available for the Dutch Wikipedia? Regards, Southparkfan (talk) 10:11, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

Afraid not. It would take some time to set up, and I just don't have that time right now. Sorry. --JaGatalk 17:25, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the answer. Southparkfan (talk) 15:04, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 October 2013

If you're living in the United States, what did you do during the government shutdown? Well, it seems most people watched the final episode of Breaking Bad.
This week, we moved to the esoteric world of Australian roads.
Seven articles, six lists, and twelve pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.
An investigation by the English Wikipedia community into suspicious edits and sockpuppet activity has led to astonishing revelations that Wiki-PR, a multi-million-dollar US-based company, has created, edited, or maintained several thousand Wikipedia articles for paying clients using a sophisticated array of concealed user accounts.
The University of California, San Francisco attracted substantial media attention over its new course offering that will give credit to fourth year medical students for editing Wikipedia articles about medicine.
A proposed decision has been posted in the Manning naming dispute. The workshop phase of the Ebionites 3 case closes 13 October. Arbitrator NuclearWarfare has resigned.

Thanks!

Thanks!

Messiaindarain (talk) 10:22, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 October 2013

Media coverage on Wiki-PR, the multi-million-dollar US-based company that has broken several policies and guidelines on the English Wikipedia in its quest to create and maintain thousands of articles for paying clients, continued this week with a feature story by Martin Robbins in the British edition of Vice magazine.
A slow week, with low overall views and the Top 10 dominated by longstanding pages. Gravity, Alfonso Cuaron's outer space-set action art film, not only held its position at the top of the US box office but climbed to the top of the Wikipedia chart as well, showing that it has become a major talking point.
This week, we studied coats of arms and flags with the folks at WikiProject Heraldry and Vexillology. Started in September 2006, the project has grown to include 20 Featured Articles and nearly 50 Good Articles. The project maintains a portal, a list of resources, and a variety of images and templates.
Six articles, two lists, and thirty-three pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.
The Manning naming dispute case has closed, with a strong and unanimous statement by the Committee against disparaging references to transgendered persons. Sanctions were enacted against six editors.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

New REFBot

There is a suggestion on Wikipedia:Bot requests for a new REFBot working as DPL bot and BracketBot do. I beg politely for consideration. Please leave a comment if you wish. Maybe you could work on it like you did it with DPLBot? That would be fine. Thanks a lot in anticipation. --Frze (talk · contribs) 09:32, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

It looks like a good idea but it isn't anything I would have time to work on right now. Good luck, I hope you get a taker! I've always believed the potential for bot-assisted editing is huge, and we've barely tapped into it. Cheers, --JaGatalk 18:06, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

Something's wrong

DPL bot isn't updating the dab challenge leaderboard, and the dispenser's tools are giving error messages so I can't see how many I've fixed since last night. There must be a problem somewhere affecting everything else. Can you take a look please? Thanks, Rcsprinter (constabulary) @ 15:59, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Well, the bot seems to be editing now but it is only updating the times on the leaderboard but not the scores. I seem to be over 100 behind what I know I've done. Rcsprinter (talk) @ 08:30, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

Is this still a problem? I just checked and there's no replag, which is the usual suspect. Could you point me to an edit that didn't get registered? Thanks, --JaGatalk 18:03, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
No, it does actually seem to be working now [5]. I don't think replag was the problem because it was saying two minutes even though it was a couple of days behind. But it's running now, so that's all good. Rcsprinter (converse) @ 18:34, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

The Lesbian and Gay Foundation in Manchester

Hi, thank for advice. Intergration have been checked and sorted for social intergration. Zboralski (talk) 12:24, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 October 2013

The next twice-yearly round of Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) grantmaking is soon to close for community questioning and commentary. Ten nation-based Wikimedia chapters and one thematic organisation are asking for a total of more than US$5M of donors’ money from the Foundation’s renamed annual plan grant process. Aside from Wikimedia UK ($708k), the three biggest asks are from the German-speaking chapters: Wikimedia Germany is asking for $2.4M and Wikimedia Austria $311k; and the German-language-related Swiss chapter is applying for $500k.
Media, sports and Google Doodles dominate, though a very odd fish decided to crash the party.
Twelve articles, four lists, and four pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week, including the article on cabbage.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
MIT Technology Review published a long article on what it called "The decline of Wikipedia". Editor involvement has decreased since 2007; according to the article, this has had an adverse qualitative effect on content, particularly on issues pertinent to non-British and American male geeks.
This week, we headed to an elementary subject with WikiProject Elements. Founded by Mav in 2002, this project has grown to have 19 featured articles, 2 featured topics, and 68 good articles. The project also has a list of templates, and a periodic table of elements filled with pictures.

Deletion of CII - Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre

Dear Friends, I have been updating my organisation profile i.e CII - Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre, wiki page. To my surprise, that entire page has been deleted. May i know the reason behind it. And how can someone just delete a page like that. Request your kind help on this regard. And please let me know if i can retrieve the data & restore the webpage. Regards, Shravani Gupta — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shravanigupta (talk • contribs) 08:36, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

With explicit advertising an article can be removed quite quickly. When you keep re-adding the article, the removal process only goes quicker... The Banner talk 16:56, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 October 2013

The top 10 encapsulates the history of human aviation; at #1, a Google Doodle celebrating the 216th anniversary of the first parachute jump; at #10, the enduringly popular scifi film Gravity, a paean to human spaceflight. It's odd to think it's taken us 200 years to travel about that many miles up.
While giving a speech on behalf of a gubernatorial candidate, Paul advocated his pro-life position, and compared allowing unrestricted abortions to the film Gattaca. He went on to use strikingly similar language and phraseology in his speech to what the Wikipedia page reads. The Washington Post's article conceded that Wikipedia is a widely used source for trivial information, but mocked the fact that a politician would view it as a reliable source.
In January we raised several potentially troublesome issues for the Wikimedia movement in taking on Wikivoyage, including the apparent inadequacy of the English Wikivoyage sex-tourism policy, hurriedly strengthened against mention of child sex after our inquiries. However, both sex-tourism and illegal-activities policies remain equivocal about how the site should treat entries about sex tourism more generally, and drugs that are classed as illicit in almost every country. Yet the Signpost has found it remarkably easy to locate material in Wikivoyage that violates both the spirit and the letter of the policies.
This year's WikiCup competition has finished, while three articles, five lists, and six pictures, were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.
Laura Stein, a researcher at the University of Texas at Austin, has concluded that, based on her comparison of user policy documents (including the Terms of Service) of YouTube, Facebook and Wikipedia, Wikipedia offers the highest level of participation power overall.
With Halloween, the Day of the Dead, and other gloomy celebrations this week, we're taking a look at Wikipedia's dead and dying. For some dead WikiProjects, the sole purpose of their life was simply to serve as a warning to others. Some of these projects may still be salvageable, but for most, a revival is unlikely. Here are some projects that never got off the ground and the lessons that can be gleaned from their follies
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