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[edit]Lemurbaby, thanks for starting the Good Article Review process on Presidential Council (Benin). Just letting you know that I'm currently traveling and so the quick 5 minutes I have right now to check wikipedia will be my only time for a couple days (maybe longer). So, please don't take inactivity as a sign of disinterest. When the review is done, please hit me up on my talk page and I promise to get to it as soon as possible. Thanks. AbstractIllusions (talk) 02:48, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks for the great critical review on the page -- truly helped improve the article. I've done one big edit and then some other smaller ones over the past 12 hours. Hope that I addressed your issues with the page. If you find some problems, please let me know (I wrote it offline in weird circumstances, but triple checked, so keeping my fingers crossed). Thanks again. AbstractIllusions (talk) 02:35, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
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[edit]We need to discuss this. I do not think that comparing to other Wikipedias or much less copy and pasting all their text in is really applicable or relevant. You can't just say "this article is longer or covers more" when we have separate articles and different scopes. This is blatantly obvious in the Chinese Hentai article and some are just outright combinations of pages that already cover the material in-depth on their own pages on enwiki. You seem to be entering into a content dispute rather than merely reviewing on some of them by doing so. Also, you are asking things which are not in sources and are not even relevant or covered in some cases. There has never been a study into "Yuri"'s history by any academic and over 50 classifications of "hentai" exist, but the American vs Japanese usage is just as bad for yaoi and yuri - the real issue is the definition here. I'd actually like for a descriptive article on the origin and usage of the words rather than its actual content... I can't stomach some of what is in hentai and zero sources cover it. Unless you can really get sources for them; I doubt any article could ever be built because no self-respecting academic would touch the content much less analyze and write about it. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 00:39, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
- I'm not asking you to copy and paste anything. I'm pointing to examples of high quality reviewed articles that cover these topics in greater depth and detail than what I'm seeing here. I'm having a hard time following what you're talking about here. Are you saying that you think the foreign language FA articles are just agglomerations of information that is currently found in the articles on related subtopics? If that's what you're saying, that may well be true, but that doesn't diminish the importance of the range and depth of discussion in the FA articles. I think the bigger question is "What is the depth of information that needs to be covered in X article?" Related articles can and should cover portions of the main article in greater detail - for example, an article on yaoi should cover yaoi in more detail than the article on hentai does, but the hentai article needs to provide a solid summary of what yaoi is. The articles you nominated are well developed to something around a B or C level. They're not GA yet for all the reasons I listed in the reviews, which address issues beyond content alone. As far as what's covered in sources, clearly the sources used in these articles are not primarily academic (if any academic articles were used at all, for that matter). That's not the standard I'm asking for, although where it exists, it would be good to include. It's not correct to assume that academics won't touch hentai. It's part of sexuality studies and articles like this, this and this are a sampling of the kind of academic material out there in English alone. I would bet the Japanese discourse on all things anime goes much farther, but I don't read Japanese so can't draw on those sources. I doubt strongly that there are NO sources that provide information on the topics I've asked you to develop in these articles, not the least because those sections on the foreign language versions of the articles are well sourced. I took (a lot) of time to give these articles a solid review, even in spite of the basic shortcomings (poor prose, grammar problems etc) that should have been fixed before they were nominated. I don't intend to be obstructionist here. I want these articles to be GA as much as you do. They just weren't at GA level when you nominated them, and I'm identifying what kinds of changes need to be made to get them there. If there are specific recommendations you don't agree with, let's address those points together. Lemurbaby (talk) 01:35, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
- I really take issue with your response here. First, because of the sourcing claims. McLelland's text is cited 15 times in "hentai" alone, I clearly knew of and used the work. Phoenix's work is not even of the criteria upon which can be used by academic and Wikipedia policies; I can't use it as an RS so I can't cite it. The last is also a book review... how is that going to help me, especially when it is not even about anime or manga topics. Now, the yuri matter is fairly conclusive, provide me one source English or Japanese that covers the history and development of the yuri genre and not merely the origin of the word. Scholarly work is limited here - I've gone through over 30 books and brief snippets and low grade work and forums comprise the bulk of the information. And many of the RSes have pretty big issues that even I can point out as being on a bad premise or outright wrong - I've done this to several publications so far. If its the definition and meaning of the terms; yes I could do it, but if you want what isn't covered in academia then I there is no way in which it could be passed. Let's put this bluntly; have you ever seen a source on vorephilia for anime and manga or on "guro" instead of eroguro? Hentai, in Japanese, is perverse and does not extend to "this, this and that" and in English its just any anime or manga that is pornographic or sexually explicit thanks to the 1990s marketing. I got only a handful of academic publications and a handful of essays; but I've exhausted all leads for it. Try if you want; but you'll not find any sources online or offline I think for these. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 01:54, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
- You stated academic sources won't touch these topics (not sure exactly which ones you mean), and I provided examples of how the topic can be covered in academic sources. Other existing articles on related topics (like the Yuri article) also incorporate some academic articles among their references. Since you've used one of the ones I cited, I think you'd have to agree it would be an overstatement to say academics don't write about hentai topics. Is there a policy you're aware of that would prevent you from citing the Phoenix piece? If websites can be cited, why not undergrad theses, which are certainly more academic? And regarding the utility of book reviews, sometimes they can be useful in summarizing the content of the book or synthesizing multiple views on the topic that the book covers. I've written academic book reviews and this is typically a feature of good ones. Regarding sources for history, there's no reason to expect that one source will provide all the information you need. It's typically a treasure hunt for articles like these. The main Yuri article has a pretty solid history section and it's supported with references. In the Hentai article, you'd just want to basically summarize some of the key points and use those same references, for example. Again, the resources do not need to be academic - that would be preferred, but we take the best that we can get. But from what you wrote above ("if you want what isn't covered in academia then I there is no way in which it could be passed") it sounds like you're the one who is insisting on academic sources... for everything? Or just for certain points within articles? I'm not really clear what information you believe will be difficult to source. We should work with the best that we can find, and improve it as better information comes along. Lemurbaby (talk) 02:20, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
- You are dodging the question, but I'll bite. Namely academic papers need to be peer reviewed and published in a journal or other body of work to be counted with the exceptions. The policy for Phoenix is WP:SCHOLARSHIP, "Masters dissertations and theses are considered reliable only if they can be shown to have had significant scholarly influence." As this is not a PhD and is instead a BA level this cannot be used as an RS and secondly; I could publish my stuff if that was your level for inclusion - please respect and understand that I've searched and searched, but have exhausted the pool of sources. I have personally acquired and read almost every publication on anime and manga topics from major and minor scholars that are available in English and I've been learning Japanese to translate the texts of others - this has come in handy in the past. No where have I found an academic study into the development of Yuri - if you can find just one indepth study (100+ pages) then I'll tip my hat and do all I can to get it translated and included. I appreciate the work you put in; it just presents a problem I cannot rectify. Though I honestly do not understand the grammar and other issues; you mention them, but do not really point out problems - I can read and understand it without confusion, but what is specifically wrong with the text? ChrisGualtieri (talk) 03:43, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
- I'm not dodging your question - I'm trying to answer what I understand your question to be, which frankly isn't clear. What exactly is your point? Are you saying nothing but academic sources of quality should be used in your articles? If that's your position, then most of the sources these articles use are invalid. And I still don't agree that the Phoenix article is not useful. Number one, it has a solid literature review with lots of its own sources that you can pull from. Number two, it meets the WP:Scholarship criteria for validity because it has been "vetted by one or more scholars", namely the four people on their thesis committee. Even if you decided yourself that this isn't enough and that the main conclusions they want to draw from their research are not valid, that doesn't mean that you can't use this paper to locate other research of use. So can we stop debating this little point now? What about the very long list of points in each of your reviews that you need to work on if you want these articles to pass? If you spent all this time just working on responding to the reviews, the articles would be improved, and would be closer to passing (or already passed) by now. Why don't you try to address the issues one by one. If there is a specific request you don't understand or don't agree with, we will deal with it on the review page and not my talk page. Normally reviews should close within 7 days of the reviewer completing the work. It would be good if you could refocus your energy there and I will do what I can to help clarify things along the way. I think we may be having some miscommunication here so please stop accusing me of anything (dodging the question etc) and give me the benefit of the doubt (these reviews were done in good faith from my side), and let's work together to improve the quality of these articles, which are so important, and which we both want to see at GA level. Lemurbaby (talk) 11:14, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
- You are dodging the question, but I'll bite. Namely academic papers need to be peer reviewed and published in a journal or other body of work to be counted with the exceptions. The policy for Phoenix is WP:SCHOLARSHIP, "Masters dissertations and theses are considered reliable only if they can be shown to have had significant scholarly influence." As this is not a PhD and is instead a BA level this cannot be used as an RS and secondly; I could publish my stuff if that was your level for inclusion - please respect and understand that I've searched and searched, but have exhausted the pool of sources. I have personally acquired and read almost every publication on anime and manga topics from major and minor scholars that are available in English and I've been learning Japanese to translate the texts of others - this has come in handy in the past. No where have I found an academic study into the development of Yuri - if you can find just one indepth study (100+ pages) then I'll tip my hat and do all I can to get it translated and included. I appreciate the work you put in; it just presents a problem I cannot rectify. Though I honestly do not understand the grammar and other issues; you mention them, but do not really point out problems - I can read and understand it without confusion, but what is specifically wrong with the text? ChrisGualtieri (talk) 03:43, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
- You stated academic sources won't touch these topics (not sure exactly which ones you mean), and I provided examples of how the topic can be covered in academic sources. Other existing articles on related topics (like the Yuri article) also incorporate some academic articles among their references. Since you've used one of the ones I cited, I think you'd have to agree it would be an overstatement to say academics don't write about hentai topics. Is there a policy you're aware of that would prevent you from citing the Phoenix piece? If websites can be cited, why not undergrad theses, which are certainly more academic? And regarding the utility of book reviews, sometimes they can be useful in summarizing the content of the book or synthesizing multiple views on the topic that the book covers. I've written academic book reviews and this is typically a feature of good ones. Regarding sources for history, there's no reason to expect that one source will provide all the information you need. It's typically a treasure hunt for articles like these. The main Yuri article has a pretty solid history section and it's supported with references. In the Hentai article, you'd just want to basically summarize some of the key points and use those same references, for example. Again, the resources do not need to be academic - that would be preferred, but we take the best that we can get. But from what you wrote above ("if you want what isn't covered in academia then I there is no way in which it could be passed") it sounds like you're the one who is insisting on academic sources... for everything? Or just for certain points within articles? I'm not really clear what information you believe will be difficult to source. We should work with the best that we can find, and improve it as better information comes along. Lemurbaby (talk) 02:20, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
- I really take issue with your response here. First, because of the sourcing claims. McLelland's text is cited 15 times in "hentai" alone, I clearly knew of and used the work. Phoenix's work is not even of the criteria upon which can be used by academic and Wikipedia policies; I can't use it as an RS so I can't cite it. The last is also a book review... how is that going to help me, especially when it is not even about anime or manga topics. Now, the yuri matter is fairly conclusive, provide me one source English or Japanese that covers the history and development of the yuri genre and not merely the origin of the word. Scholarly work is limited here - I've gone through over 30 books and brief snippets and low grade work and forums comprise the bulk of the information. And many of the RSes have pretty big issues that even I can point out as being on a bad premise or outright wrong - I've done this to several publications so far. If its the definition and meaning of the terms; yes I could do it, but if you want what isn't covered in academia then I there is no way in which it could be passed. Let's put this bluntly; have you ever seen a source on vorephilia for anime and manga or on "guro" instead of eroguro? Hentai, in Japanese, is perverse and does not extend to "this, this and that" and in English its just any anime or manga that is pornographic or sexually explicit thanks to the 1990s marketing. I got only a handful of academic publications and a handful of essays; but I've exhausted all leads for it. Try if you want; but you'll not find any sources online or offline I think for these. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 01:54, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
- Simply put, some of the changes you want are not possible on Hentai because the sources do not exist and the ones that do, do not cover specific aspects you want. Though I'll do my copy editing on Neon Genesis Evangelion. That ESL editor sorta messed it up, but I can fix some of it real quick. Let's go from there okay? ChrisGualtieri (talk) 01:15, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
- Okay, I got some time off over the next two days. I hope you are active to help guide me along here - I did not expect you to take all the articles and I was overwhelmed during my limited time. I've been working on NGE, but I know there is much to do - I am just really confused and scattered. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 02:10, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
- Hi Chris, as long as you're actively working on them, take as long as you need. I know this is a lot to do simultaneously, and I'm moving to Pakistan over the weekend (working there the next two years) so I'll be busy as well. I may not have internet connection at home next week but I'll try to be responsive and check progress on my computer at the office during breaks. Definitely don't let this stress you out. Wikipedia isn't supposed to be a stressful place. :) - Lemurbaby (talk) 18:13, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
- Okay! I've done some more work on NGE. So could you take a peak at it? ChrisGualtieri (talk) 23:06, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
- Hello? Are you still active? Could you update a list of issues for NGE or something? I don't know what is left to do on it and I'm keen on fixing up any last issues that are necessary for it. Then I think the next one would be great to do. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 03:46, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
- I see you copyediting it. Does it look like it is GA class yet? ChrisGualtieri (talk) 16:18, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Andriamasinavalona
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Your GA nomination of Andriamasinavalona
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Rahovy and Ratafika
[edit]Hello, do you know what happened to Rahovy, one of the brothers of Radama I? His twin brother Ratafika was starved to death by Ranavalona I but sources don't mention Rahovy's fate. --KAVEBEAR (talk) 19:33, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
- Hi Kavebear, sorry for the long delay in responding. I'm hoping to get back into editing articles on here in another 3 months or so. Radama I would be my priority after Andrianampoinimerina. I'll try to make sure your question is answered there. - Lemurbaby (talk) 07:36, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
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Good to see an edit from you today - I was worried you were gone forever! Hope all is well with you I.R.L. and look forward to seeing you back here whenever you return. — Amakuru (talk) 10:02, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
- Hi! Good to hear from you, and touched you noticed me poking my head back in here. :) I really want to keep contributing to WP but my job has just been too intense here in Pakistan. But I'll be departing soon - May 20 - and on to a four year assignment in (wait for it)... Madagascar! :) Although that assignment will most likely also be intense, I'm hoping to make the best use of it to fill in some of the blanks on the Madagascar project. Let's see how it pans out after I get there in August. Let me know if you have anything needing a review - I owe people left and right for reviewing everything I nominated for GA way back in the day but to whom I was totally unable to be responsive at the time. - Lemurbaby (talk) 10:40, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
- Oh wow, that's exciting! I bet you're thrilled to be going back to Madagascar, I'm very jealous because I'd love nothing more than to go and live in Africa again. There's nothing I have for review right now, but Rwandan genocide and Rwandan Civil War are still on the slow path towards somewhere, so hopefully before too long - they get a little better every year anyway... — Amakuru (talk) 13:08, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 28 May 2016
[edit]- News and notes: Upcoming Wikimedia conferences in the US and India; May Metrics and Activities Meeting
Dates and venues for WikiCon USA 2016, WikiCon India 2016, 2016 Glam Boot Camp and 2016 Wikimedia Diversity Conference
- Special report: Compensation paid to Sue Gardner increased by almost 50 percent after she stepped down as executive director
Sue Gardner appears to be earning more money as the WMF's special advisor than she did as its executive director
Not everything you read online is fact
- Featured content: Eight articles, three lists and five pictures
Another eight featured articles, three featured lists and five featured pictures
- Op-ed: Journey of a Wikipedian
Mental health carries a powerful stigma. The more we are open about it, the less that weighs all of us down
- Arbitration report: Gamaliel resigns from the arbitration committee
Gamaliel and others case nears its end, and there are new 30/500 rules
- Recent research: English as Wikipedia's Lingua Franca; deletion rationales; schizophrenia controversies
Round-up of recent Wikipedia research
- Traffic report: Splitting (musical) airs / Slow Ride
We've recently come into possession of a new tool.
Albin Olsson has been right there with them, capturing dramatic images of singers from around the world.
The Signpost: 05 June 2016
[edit]- News and notes: WMF cuts budget for 2016-17 as scope tightens
The Signpost analyzes the WMF's revised annual plan
Recent press interviews
- Featured content: Overwhelmed ... by pictures
One article, one list, and seven images were featured this week
- Traffic report: Pop goes the culture, again.
Film and television maintain a strong grasp on Wikipedia's readership
- Arbitration report: ArbCom case "Gamaliel and others" concludes
The final results of the heated case
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Video Games
We sat down with the writers of some of the most vistied Wikipedia articles
The Signpost: 15 June 2016
[edit]- News and notes: Clarifications on status and compensation of outgoing executive directors Sue Gardner and Lila Tretikov
WMF board chair Patricio Lorente answers questions
- Special report: Wikiversity Journal—A new user group
Wikimedia enters academic publishing
- Featured content: From the crème de la crème
Eleven featured articles, nine featured lists and fourteen featured pictures
- In the media: Biography disputes; Craig Newmark donation; PR editing
Recent media coverage of Wikipedia and Wikimedia
Two for the price of one—do the popular Commons image contest and Wikidata licensing serve the community as well as they should?
- Traffic report: Another one with sports; Knockout, brief candle
Wikipedia's most read articles in the last two weeks
Poetry: “it is the stuff of the soul; it speaks to the body, the mind, and the spirit alike.” Sonja Bohm worked for years to get all of Florence Earle Coates’ poetry online, and now proofreads poetry on the English Wikisource, the free library. We asked why.
The Signpost: 04 July 2016
[edit]- News and notes: Board unanimously appoints Katherine Maher as new WMF executive director; Wikimedia lawsuits in France and Germany
News from Wikimania and the courts
- Op-ed: Two policies in conflict?
Paid-contributions disclosure vs. outing
- In the media: Terrorism database cites Wikipedia as a source
Reliability worries
- Featured content: Triple fun of featured content
Six articles, nine lists, one topic and thirteen pictures promoted
- Traffic report: Goalposts; Oy vexit
European football and politics dominate the top-10
- Blog: Jimmy Wales names Emily Temple-Wood and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight as Wikipedians of the Year
From the Wikimedia Foundation blog
Contests
[edit]User:Dr. Blofeld has created Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/Contests. The idea is to run a series of contests/editathons focusing on each region of Africa. He has spoken to Wikimedia about it and $1000-1500 is possible for prize money. As someone who has previously expressed interest in African topics, would you be interested in contributing to one or assisting draw up core article/missing article lists? He says he's thinking of North Africa for an inaugural one in October. If interested please sign up in the participants section of the Contest page, thanks.♦ --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 01:30, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 21 July 2016
[edit]Four seats to be filled in top WMF grantmaking body; General Counsel and Secretary Geoff Brigham leaves Wikimedia
- Discussion report: Busy month for discussions
New ArbCom restrictions; genetically modified food safety
Female scientists in India; Cracked.com probes Wikipedia's weaknesses
- Featured content: A wide variety from the best
Promotions in four featured-content forums
- Traffic report: Sports and esports
Northern summer makes sport the winner
- Arbitration report: Script writers appointed for clerks
Plus a clerk appointment and two motions
- Recent research: Using deep learning to predict article quality
Plus navigating the Chinese Wikipedia, and talkpage sentiment
The Signpost: 04 August 2016
[edit]And the Signpost loses and gains a co-editor-in-chief
- News and notes: Foundation presents results of harassment research, plans for automated identification; Wikiconference submissions open
WMF and Alphabet are developing an algorithm designed to detect personal attacks
Plus Android and Taylor Swift
- Obituary: Kevin Gorman, who took on Wikipedia's gender gap and undisclosed paid advocacy, dies at 24
Condolences are being left on his English Wikipedia talk page
- Traffic report: Summer of Pokémon, Trump, and Hillary
Pokémon Go led the chart for two weeks running
- Featured content: Women and Hawaii
Eight articles, two lists and fourteen pictures were promoted
- Recent research: Easier navigation via better wikilinks
Plus: new Wiki Studies journal, Wikipedia usage on Twitter and more
WMF announces enhancements to the notifications system
- Technology report: User script report (January to July 2016, part 1)
New user scripts and other tech news
The Signpost: 18 August 2016
[edit]- News and notes: Focus on India—WikiConference produces new apps; state government adopts free licenses
Conference draws highly diverse and productive participation, and several years' advocacy pays off in a new government policy
- Special report: Engaging diverse communities to profile women of Antarctica
Guest post recaps in-depth engagement of experts to address Wikipedia gender gap while improving coverage of their field
- In the media: The ugly, the bad, the playful, and the promising
Wikipedia coverage ranged from sobering to playful in this issue's roundup
- Featured content: Simply the best ... from the last two weeks
Eight articles, eleven lists, one topic and five pictures were promoted
- Traffic report: Olympic views
Politics gives way to sports, TV and film
- Technology report: User script report (January–July 2016, part 2)
A review of numerous useful Wikipedia customizations
- Arbitration report: The Michael Hardy case
New case opened, and a reminder to administrators not to impose blocks based on private information
The Signpost: 06 September 2016
[edit]The Board’s two-year moratorium on new chapters and thematic organisations has expired; presentation of new criteria is reigniting smoldering controversies and introducing new ones
- Special report: Olympics readership depended on language
A comparison of the 15 most-read articles related to the Olympics, in seven language editions of Wikipedia
Wikipedia gaining ground in credibility among librarians; and a healthy helping of media coverage
- WikiProject report: Watching Wikipedia
An interview with WikiProject TV member CAWylie
- Featured content: Entertainment, sport, and something else in-between
Twelve articles, eight lists and four pictures were promoted
- Traffic report: From Phelps to Bolt to Reddit
An update on two weeks of Wikipedia traffic, based on a new and improved tracking tool
- Technology report: Wikimedia mobile sites now don't load images if the user doesn't see them
New scripts and technical news
- Recent research: Ethics of machine-created articles and fighting vandalism
One study encounters critique of its ethics from Wikipedians; another critiques the ethics employed by Wikipedia
Switzerland's largest public science library is uploading 134k photos
The Signpost: 29 September 2016
[edit]- News and notes: Wikipedia Education Program case study published; and a longtime Wikimedian has made his final edit
Medical school class's Wikipedia contributions profiled as case study; and a remembrance of Ray Saintonge, Wikimedian since 2002
- In the media: Wikipedia in the news
This edition's roundup of media coverage
- Featured content: Three weeks in the land of featured content
Nineteen articles, eleven lists, one portal and twelve pictures were promoted
- Arbitration report: Arbcom looking for new checkusers and oversight appointees while another case opens
TRM, CUOS '16, R&I, RfC
- Traffic report: From Gene Wilder to JonBenét
Four weeks of Wikipedia's most popular articles examined
- Technology report: Category sorting and template parameters
Titles with numbers now sort numerically, and a new tool to check how template parameters are used
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Invite to the African Destubathon
[edit]Hi. You may be interested in participating in the African Destubathon which starts on October 15. Africa currently has over 37,000 stubs and badly needs a quality improvement editathon/contest to flesh out basic stubs. There are proposed substantial prizes to give to editors who do the most geography, wildlife and women articles, and planned smaller prizes for doing to most destubs for each of the 53 African countries, so should be enjoyable! Even if contests aren't your thing we would be grateful if you could consider destubbing a few African articles during the drive to help the cause and help reduce the massive 37,000 + stub count, of which many are rated high importance (think Regions of countries etc). If you're interested in competing or just loosely contributing, whether it's a river in Malawi, a Nigerian footballer, or a South African civil rights activist, please add your name to the Contestants/participants section. Diversity of work from a lot of people will make this that bit more special. For those of you who signed up to the North African contest, that will hopefully be held in the new year. Thanks. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:11, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
Precious anniversary
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| ... you were recipient no. 270 of Precious, a prize of QAI! |
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:11, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 14 October 2016
[edit]- News and notes: Fundraising, flora and fauna
Wikimedia Foundation reports on fundraising challenges and new initiatives; Indian botanists rally to build Wikimedia Commons' photo collection
- Discussion report: Cultivating leadership: Wikimedia Foundation seeks input
A new "peer academy" is proposed to find and support leadership in volunteer communities
And this edition's roundup of media coverage
- Technology report: Upcoming tech projects for 2017
A new editor, a new parsing algorithm, and another server switch
- Featured content: Variety is the spice of life
Twelve articles, twelve lists and twenty-one pictures were promoted
- Traffic report: Debates and escapes
Donald Trump remains a view-magnet, others change their channel
- Recent research: A 2011 study resurfaces in a media report
We explore the study, which sought insights from Wikipedia metadata into global events
The Signpost: 4 November 2016
[edit]Victoria Coleman to fill long-vacant CTO role; Trustee Kelly Battles joins Quora executive team; last week for community input on Creative Commons 4.0 license
- In the media: Washington Post continues in-depth Wikipedia coverage
Plus our roundup of recent media stories
- Wikicup: WikiCup winners
Winners of the tenth annual WikiCup competition announced and profiled
- Discussion report: What's on your tech wishlist for the coming year?
Progress on the 2015 Community Wishlist for tech features; and plans for a new Wishlist
- Technology report: New guideline for technical collaboration; citation templates now flag open access content
Proposed best practices for communication and community involvement, and an improvement to Wikipedia's citation infrastructure
- Featured content: Cream of the crop
Fourteen articles, six lists and fourteen pictures were promoted
- Traffic report: Un-presidential politics
Two weeks of insights into the mind of the mob
- Arbitration report: Recapping October's activities
Two cases closed, and an administrator loses editing rights
- Recent research: Why women edit less, and where they are overrepresented; article importance and quality; predicting elections from Wikipedia
A recap of recent research in our realm
ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!
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Hello, Lemurbaby. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 4 November 2016
[edit]- News and notes: Arbitration Committee elections commence
An overview of the English Wikipedia ArbCom election; brief notes as Asian and African initiatives wind down
Election prompts media to explore themes important to Wikipedians, including news literacy, privacy, and data security
115,000 images were submitted as part of the annual competition.
A sampling of photo submissions to the annual photography campaign
- Featured content: Featured mix
Eight articles, two lists and nine pictures were promoted
- Special report: Taking stock of the Good Article backlog
A close examination of the efficacy of the GA Cup contest, a longstanding effort to reduce the backlog of articles awaiting review
Empowering volunteers and local chapters to engage with fundraising would yield varied benefits
- Traffic report: President-elect Trump
Someone is likely to dominate traffic for a long time
The Signpost: 22 December 2016
[edit]- Year in review: Looking back on 2016
Roundup of the year's news from the Wikimedia world, featuring Wikipedia's 15th anniversary and organizational disarray at the Wikimedia Foundation
- News and notes: Strategic planning update; English ArbCom election results
WMF reflects, to some degree, on its past approaches to strategic planning
- Special report: German ArbCom implodes
The German Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee loses more than half its members amid political feud
A proposal from the Inspire Campaign to address harassment was recently implemented to prevent unconstructive and malicious editing on user pages
Even a well executed outreach event can yield disappointing results
Wikipedia women in the news, and media reacts to 2016 ad banner campaign
- Featured content: The Christmas edition
Twenty-three articles, ten lists and twenty-one pictures were promoted
- Technology report: Labs improvements impact 2016 Tool Labs survey results
And a roundup of recently-added tools
- Traffic report: Post-election traffic blues
Four weeks of popular article analysis
Winning photos in world's largest photography contest reveal a world of monuments—and the volunteers who love them
- Recent research: One study and several abstracts
Privacy and Tor, and several other studies
The Signpost: 17 January 2017
[edit]- From the editor: Next steps for the Signpost
Building toward better recruitment and retention
- News and notes: Surge in RFA promotions—a sign of lasting change?
A close look at the history of approving administrators on English Wikipedia, and a roundup of news
The wiki environment can appear deceptively uniform, but it masks strikingly different editorial experiences
- In the media: Year-end roundups, Wikipedia's 16th birthday, and more
The latest media reports
- Featured content: One year ends, and another begins
Twelve articles, thirteen lists and twelve pictures were promoted
- Arbitration report: Concluding 2016 and covering 2017's first two cases
Various minor developments
- Traffic report: Out with the old, in with the new
If you're reading this, you escaped 2016 alive
- Technology report: Tech present, past, and future
Data sets now available on Commons, wishes to be worked on in 2017, and a recap of the Wikimedia Developer Summit
- Recent research: Female Wikipedians aren't more likely to edit women biographies; Black Lives Matter in Wikipedia
And several other research papers reviewed and summarized
The Signpost: 6 February 2017
[edit]- Arbitration report: WMF Legal and ArbCom weigh in on tension between disclosure requirements and user privacy
The two statements prompt extensive community discussion; plus, our updates on recent ArbCom decisions
Undisclosed paid editing by a financial broker mired in scandal spans years, impacting Wikipedia's editors and readers
Foundation's latest foray into political waters, and grants funding structured data and anti-harassment measures, met with enthusiasm and concern
Several developments in the $2.5 million strategic planning process explored, and a team within the software production department is sidelined
- WikiProject report: For the birds!
Our second interview with the productive WikiProject Birds crew
Veteran editing workshop leader responds to a previous Signpost op-ed
Wikipedia's response to Trump inauguration and a fruitful, public "edit war" lead our media updates
- Technology report: Better PDFs, backup plans, and birthday wishes
Plus the latest scripts, bots, and tech news
- Traffic report: Cool It Now
Three weeks of the most popular Wikipedia articles
- Featured content: Three weeks dominated by articles
Twenty-eight articles, seven lists, two topics and four pictures were promoted
Women's marches on seven continents attracted strong Wikipedia engagement; Media luminaries and a presidential candidate joined WMF boss Katherine Maher at a New York gathering
Hello, Happy New Year etc!
[edit]Hi Lemurbaby
Always nice to see you around here making a few edits! Have you found a break in your busy schedule, wherever it is you're based now? Hope everything's going well.
I've been plugging away here and there, where time permits, trying to get the Rwandan stuff up to speed. In fact, I have recently got Rwandan Civil War to a state where I'm somewhat happy with it. It's up at WP:GAN at the moment, so if you feel like diving right back into a GA review, your expertise would be valuable. No probs if you don't have the time though.... Let me know if there's anything I can help you out with as well, reviews of articles or whatever. I'm an admin now as well, so can do the adminy things if there's any of that to be done. Cheers — Amakuru (talk) 16:07, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
The Signpost: 27 February 2017
[edit]- From the editors: Results from our poll on subscription and delivery, and a new RSS feed
The Signpost's poll suggests we should take a cautious approach to the Newsletter Extension, under development; and our RSS feed is functional once again
- Recent research: Special issue: Wikipedia in education
This month's edition focuses on research about the role of Wikipedia in education
- Technology report: Responsive content on desktop; Offline content in Android app
Demonstrations of developers' experiments and works in progress
- In the media: The Daily Mail does not run Wikipedia
Is the Daily Mail fake news and your media roundup
- Gallery: A Met montage
A selection of CC0 images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Special report: Peer review – a history and call for reviewers
An overview of English Wikipedia's peer review process
- Op-ed: Wikipedia has cancer
Increased WMF spending every year is not sustainable
- Featured content: The dominance of articles continues
Fifteen articles, two lists, and six pictures were promoted
- Traffic report: Love, football, and politics
They may not mix in life, but they do in popularity
Republished from the Wikimedia blog
New Wikipedia User Wanting to ask something!!
[edit]Hey! My name is Frances Gauna it is pronounced as (Gown-a.) I am a Latino but I speak English and Spanish very well and I wanted to know if you still edit here on Wikipedia so we can email each other (if you want me to give you my e-mail so we can message or just talk here.) You are probably an adult right now which will be awkward for you to talk to a child who is 11 years old! ( I will be 12 in July 6th 2017) And I recently looked on your articles and they perfectly describe Madagascar and everything you wrote about. (Obviously, I don't remember every detail which is not possible unless you have a photographic memory.) If you can will you read my article about Ancient Rome and give me tips on how I could improve it because, I am new to Wikipedia as a user writing articles. Well, I wouldn't want to waste your time and rambling on and on so, I hope that you had a good day and that you are amazing. (No, I'm not a stalker I'm just saying this so, if you read this when your in a bad mood or had a horrible day it will make you feel better, i hope.)
P.S: I will read most of your articles when I have the time! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Typicalfrances (talk • contribs) 23:42, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
TFL notification
[edit]Hi, Lemurbaby. I'm just posting to let you know that List of World Heritage Sites in Madagascar – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for April 28. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 23:28, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks for letting me know, Giants2008. The blurb looks great. I live here in Madagascar now (should stay until 2020) and hope to get back on writing articles more regularly again. Cheers, Lemurbaby (talk) 01:41, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
The Signpost: 9 June 2017
[edit]- From the editors: Signpost status: On reserve power, help wanted!
Inviting new writers, editors, and ideas
- News and notes: Global Elections
WMF Board election results, and FDC elections begin
- Arbitration report: Cases closed in the Pacific and with Magioladitis
Two cases were closed from 19 February to 27 March.
Lead sentence metadata is out of control and a serious impediment to readability
- Featured content: Three months in the land of the featured
Eighty-eight articles, forty-three lists, five topics and twenty-two pictures were promoted
- In the media: Did Wikipedia just assume Garfield's gender?
Garfield is male, and other places Wikipedia made the news
- Recent research: Wikipedia bot wars capture the imagination of the popular press
...but are they real?; personality and attitudes to Wikipedia; large expert review experiment
- Technology report: Tech news catch-up
Bots, scripts, tools, and changes from February to June 2017
- Traffic report: Film on Top: Sampling the weekly top 10
Two weeks of film dominance: Baahubali and the Academy Awards
The Signpost: 23 June 2017
[edit]- News and notes: Departments reorganized at Wikimedia Foundation, and a month without new RfAs (so far)
While the English Wikipedia community produces no new requests for adminhood in June, the Wikimedia Foundation makes changes to the Product and Technology departments.
- In the media: Kalanick's nipples; Episode #138 of Drama on the Hill
The anatomy of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick's chest area has been the talk of the month. But so have high-profile edits, hacked articles, and one particular newborn growing up.
- Op-ed: Facto Post: a fresh take
Exploring sourcing issues in Wikimedia projects, a solution in Wikidata and fact mining, and a newsletter to continue the conversation.
- Featured content: Will there ever be a break? The slew of featured content continues
22 featured articles, 17 featured lists, 7 featured pictures
- Traffic report: Wonder Woman beats Batman, The Mummy, Darth Vader and the Earth
Summer blockbusters and sports, Trump and world events.
A researcher applies Marxist critiques of political economy to investigate whether gamification, a culture of altruism, and other anti-corporatist influences on peer production can create a sustainable gift economy in a project like Wikipedia.
- Technology report: Improved search, and WMF data scientist tells all
Search now can include sister projects; EpochFail
The Signpost: 15 July 2017
[edit]- News and notes: French chapter woes, new affiliates and more WMF team changes
The English Wikipedia sees its first new admin of the season, discord rocks Wikimedia France, some tweaks to the WMF reorg, and a new WMF annual plan mark this issue's community news.
- Featured content: Spectacular animals, Pine Trees screens, and more
Recently promoted articles, lists, and pictures.
- In the media: Concern about access and fairness, Foundation expenditures, and relationship to real-world politics and commerce
A grab bag of alt-right speech, classical scholars, the dark web, elicited European tourism, $500,000 golden parachutes, forgery, the Great Firewall, net neutrality, nukes, paid editing, porn, and terrorism.
- Recent research: The chilling effect of surveillance on Wikipedia readers
A closer look at the research that found that the 2013 Snowden revelations coincided with a significant drop of pageviews for privacy-sensitive Wikipedia articles
...and is there anything we can do to stop it? Opinions and examples from across the project.
- Gallery: A mix of patterns
An interesting mix of patterns and colors to brighten your day...
- Humour: The Infobox Game
Enjoy the Parameters: The Infobox Game can be enjoyed by everyone, not just those interested in water buffalo breeds, volcanic hotspots or the mysterious heteroisoform, and some day just might spawn an important facet of the financial derivatives industry.
- Traffic report: Film, television and Internet phenomena reign with some room left over for America's birthday
Popular interest in celebrities, blockbusters and an upcoming season of a popular television show drive traffic, with a smattering of world events, holidays and a Reddit storm around – surprise – free porn for the U.S. Congress.
- Technology report: New features in development; more breaking changes for scripts
Syntax highlighting, changes to Recent Changes, Wikidata on the enhance watchlist, accessible editing buttons and jQuery upgrade may break scripts.
- Wikicup: 2017 WikiCup round 3 wrap-up
The heat turns up on the 32 contestants who entered round three: 13 featured articles, 82 good articles, 167 DYKs, but we had to pick just eight of them to advance.
The Signpost: 5 August 2017
[edit]Wikimania in Montreal, lawsuit in Sweden, challenges in France
- Recent research: Wikipedia can increase local tourism by +9%; predicting article quality with deep learning; recent behavior predicts quality
Local tourism gains +9% when Wikipedia articles are improved; significant improvements in predicting article quality with deep learning; recent editor behavior is a strong predictor of content quality
- WikiProject report: Comic relief
An interview with a project that is centered around comics.
- In the media: Wikipedia used to judge death penalty, arms smuggling, Indonesian governance, and HOTTEST celebrity
Wikipedia and reliable sources of information continue to define each other
- Traffic report: Swedish countess tops the list
Plus plenty of sports, film, and television
The Canadian Supreme Court ruled that Google must remove search results worldwide, dismissing concerns that this may impede freedom of expression for people outside of Canada or inspire other countries to censor speech.
Wikimedia contributors support each other's projects in many unexpected ways
- Featured content: Everywhere in the lead
Recently promoted articles, lists and pictures – with a very heavy one in the mix
- Technology report: Introducing TechCom
The Architecture Committee adopts a new charter and name; and the latest in script, bot, and tech news
- Humour: WWASOHs and ETCSSs
An elite squad of highly insightful editors can lead the way for other editors who may need to retrain their faces into forming a smile.
The Signpost: 6 September 2017
[edit]- From the editors: What happened at Wikimania?
Please share your Wikimania 2017 experiences!
- News and notes: Basselpedia; WMF Board of Trustees appointments
Some of the goings-on from Wikimania 2017.
- Featured content: Warfighters and their tools or trees and butterflies
Take your pick of the best of Wikipedia.
- Traffic report: A fortnight of conflicts
White supremacists v. anti-fascism groups, Mayweather v. McGregor, Moon v. Sun.
- Special report: Biomedical content, and some thoughts on its future
Wikipedia's medical and scientific content has come a long way since 2001. Here are some thoughts on how it may continue to evolve.
- Recent research: Discussion summarization; Twitter bots tracking government edits; extracting trivia from Wikipedia
A list of recent research publications on various topics.
Plus the latest reports of vandalism and mistakes in Wikipedia.
- WikiProject report: WikiProject YouTube
WikiProject YouTube is a new project on both English and Simple English Wikipedia.
- Technology report: Latest tech news
Syntax highlighting, failed login notifications, watchlist filters, and more.
- Wikicup: 2017 WikiCup round 4 wrap-up
Ships, typhoons, birds, and more!
- Humour: Bots
They do the things you don't want to do (and sometimes things you don't want done).
Hi Lemurbaby, I see you edited this article a month ago. Mike is thinking about re-running this at TFA, but I see that the lead talks about 2012 as being in the future ... do you have an update on the information in the lead? - Dank (push to talk) 02:04, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
- My mistake, Mike has 5 reruns already for October so this won't be appearing. But it was good to see you're still editing. - Dank (push to talk) 04:11, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
The Signpost: 25 September 2017
[edit]- News and notes: Chapter updates; ACTRIAL
News from Wikimedia France, Wikimedia Macedonia, and Wikimedia Israel's; Autoconfirmed article creation trial begins
Also: Jeopedia, Dubaipedia, shaping science, fake quote reused by scholarly sources
- Humour: Chickenz
The best that poultry has to offer
- Recent research: Wikipedia articles vs. concepts; Wikipedia usage in Europe
Plus the latest research publications.
- Technology report: Flow restarted; Wikidata connection notifications
Plus more tech news, and the latest scripts and bots
- Gallery: Chicken mania
Complimenting this issue's Humour about chickens...
Finally we're seeing some initial successes, but the Wikimedia movement is still far from being environmentally sustainable.
- Traffic report: Fights and frights
Boxing, hurricanes, clowns, and more!
- Featured content: Flying high
Newly featured birds, planes, and high achievers
Precious five years!
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--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:50, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
The Signpost: 23 October 2017
[edit]- News and notes: Money! WMF fundraising, Wikimedia strategy, WMF new office!
The Wikimedia Foundation publishes the latest fundraising report, convenes over the close of the strategic plan discussion, and moves into a new space.
- Featured content: Don, Marcel, Emily, Jessica and other notables
A variety of topics promoted.
- Humour: Guys named Ralph
If your name is Ralph, well sorry.
Advocates for sharing offline information gather to make content, software, hardware, and social decisions.
A chat with a developer of open source software which allows users to download web content for offline reading, and the future of offline access to Wikipedia.
- In the media: Facebook and poetry
Fighting fake news and plagiarism.
- Special report: Working with GLAMs in the UK
Wikimedia UK's partnerships and achievements working with GLAM institutions.
- Traffic report: Death, disaster, and entertainment
Readers interested in the the death of Hef, Puerto Rico, films and television.
The Signpost: 24 November 2017
[edit]- News and notes: Cons, cons, cons
The first ever Wikidata conference was a con we wanted. Problematic paid editing while in a position of trust: not so much.
- Arbitration report: Administrator desysoped; How to deal with crosswiki issues; Mister Wiki case likely
Arbitration matters from October and November.
- Technology report: Searching and surveying
A new advanced search interface; the Community Wishlist Survey is back.
- Interview: A featured article centurion
Brianboulton talks about featured articles on his 100th promotion.
- WikiProject report: Recommendations for WikiProjects
A novel approach to recruit members for your project!
- In the media: Open knowledge platform as a media institution
Wikipedia seen as flawed but important; conservative think-tank fellow wants his say; volunteer in Madison wants to close the gender gap.
- Traffic report: Strange and inappropriate
Readers intrigued by the Netflix show Stranger Things, and by sexual assault allegations.
- Featured content: We will remember them
War memorials, soldiers, extinct species, and devastating hurricanes are some of the most recently promoted featured content.
- Recent research: Who wrote this? New dataset on the provenance of Wikipedia text
And other new research publications.
The entertainment value of Wikipedia.