User talk:Moe Epsilon/Archive 33
Keith BeaversSorry Moe that was my little sister. But I do know Beith Beavers and in fact he is my swim coach so if u could add he know coaches at Kingston Blue Marlins (KBM) that would be great! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.64.170.180 (talk) 00:54, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
Max Wright editI added the Max Wright edit as I thought it was strange to name his earlier DUI charges and find it very strange that this scandal is curiously absent from his bio. It is referenced and verified. 60.224.160.192 (talk) 02:31, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
Why so many reverts to good faith edits that make an article better?This is a bit disturbing to see all these edits of good faith contributions which actually improve the article. Maybe your bot is going crazy? --Jeffmcneill (talk) 05:59, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
Why was my first edit on Wikipedia removed on good faith?I am just curious as to why you removed my first edit on Wikipedia? http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pattaya&diff=cur&oldid=518466277 I live in Bangkok and have made the journey from by train to Pattaya - it takes about four hours. Other people have had the same experience http://thailandbytrain.com/Pattaya.html You removed my addition to the Pattaya article on "good faith" but I've no idea what reason you have. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paulgarri (talk • contribs) 06:36, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
The original 'historical base' is incorrect.None of that happened, just sayin'. It doesn't even provide a souece. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.126.7.11 (talk) 08:05, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
SuperSE143I saw your note on User Talk: SuperSE143. I had previously blocked the user indefinitely for copyright violation, but another admin unblocked soon after after the user promised to stop. Since SuperSE143 obviously hasn't, I've asked for that admin to reblock the user (I can't myself per WP:WHEELWAR). Qwyrxian (talk) 12:12, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
David Ward (university president)Thanks for the correction for a better Wikipedia. But this IP address is actually shared by thousands of people, so I don't know who contributed to the page. 202.124.205.15 (talk) 02:50, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
Charles Schultz - Sonoma County AirportHow in the world is including an edit about the deal the airport worked with Alaska Airlines to allow a free case of wine in checked baggage not constructive? In this era of pervasive bag fees, this is a huge deal - especially given the weight of wine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.236.74.151 (talk) 16:04, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 22 October 2012
Unlike the long-running disputes that have characterised attempts to reform the RfA process on the English Wikipedia, the German Wikipedia's tradition of making decisions not by consensus but knife-edged 50% + 1 votes has led to a fundamentally different outcome. In 2009, the project managed to largely settle the RfA mode issue in 2009 indirectly.
One clarification request concerns the civility enforcement case – specifically, Malleus Fatuorum's perceived circumvention of his topic ban. It has resulted in thousands of bytes spent in vitriolic discussions, multiple blocks, and "no confidence" motions against the Arbitration Committee and one arbitrator, among other ramifications.
Planning for Wikivoyage's migration into the WMF fold built up steam this week following a statement by WMF Deputy Director Erik Möller about what the technical side of the migration will involve. Wikivoyage, which split from sister site Wikitravel in 2006, is hoping to migrate its own not-inconsiderable user base to Wikimedia, as well as much of its content, presenting novel challenges for Wikimedia developers
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
It is well known that women are underrepresented in the sciences, and that high-achieving female scientists have often been excluded from authorship lists and passed over for awards and honours solely on the basis of gender. Also significant has been the underplaying in the academic literature, news reporting, and online, of women's current and historical contributions to science.
The WikiProject Report normally brings tidings from Wikipedia's most active, inventive, and unique WikiProjects. This week, we're trying something new by focusing on Wikipedia's dark side: the various regional and national WikiProjects that are dead or dying. How can some tiny municipalities and exclaves generate highly active, cross-language, multimedia platforms be successful while the projects representing many sovereign countries and entire continents wallow in obscurity? Today, we'll search for answers among geographic projects large and small, highly active and barely functioning, enthusiastic about the future and mired in past conflicts.
Eleven articles, including one on Franz Kafka, three lists, one image, and one portal were promoted to 'featured' status this week.
9mm ParabellumThe mistake you made was allowing opinions and word of mouth on a page that should only contain facts. Massad Ayoob, Marshall and Sanow, none of them are valid sources, in fact they've all been proven wrong and cited that they make things up to sell a certain type of ammunition or improve the popularity of a particular caliber when it suits them. For example, the Illinois State Police did use a 115-grain jacketed hollow point, but the US Air Marshals and the Border Patrol never have. The Air Marshals use .357 caliber SIGs and Glocks, which has even been stated by a spokesman in the case where 2 Air Marshals shot a man in the terminal some 5 or 6 years ago. The border patrol has used Beretta 96s in .40 S&W nearly since the .40 S&W came out. I have heard they use 155-grain hollow points, but I will not stand by that since I have never actually pulled and measured one. Additionally, in the section of "9mm NATO", they state that the 9mm NATO is an overpressure variant of the 9mm Luger which is not true. NATO measures case pressure mid-case, not at the case-mouth. Measuring mid-case will show a pressure increase of 8,000-10,000 psi, taking that into account, the pressures of 9mm NATO, 9mm Luger to SAMMI specs and 9mm Luger to CIP specs are all within the margin of error for each other and are therefore equivalent. One thing people seem to site when "proving" that NATO or CIP ammunition is "hotter" is the published muzzle velocity, however, most of the published muzzle velocity for european and NATO 9mm ammunition is from 7.5 inch test barrels as opposed to the 4 inch barrel used for SAMMI specifications, the M882 in particular is measured out of a Beretta M9 with a 4.9 inch barrel, thus giving a published muzzle velocity of 1263 +/-5 fps, which is exactly what it was designed for. If you put that same round in a 4 inch barrel, the bullet will lose approximately 75-100 fps per inch of barrel less it travels through and it will be exactly the same as any SAMMI standard pressure 9mm 112-115-grain Full Metal Jacket "Target Load". I'm sure there's more incorrect on this page as well as many of the other pages of various calibers, but I'll have to check them later. My hope is that you will not be promoting invalid sources, because these people are still around and still write books. And they change their mind as often as police departments chang their caliber/ammunition of choice. The reason is because they market for whomever pays them better at a given time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 8000Shooter (talk • contribs) 21:43, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
Unfortunately for the reputation of Wikipedia, I don't find it SO important as to take 12 hours out of my day to rewrite the entire article citing VALID sources such as the US Army field manual, ballistic tests, news articles from 6 years ago etc. Let me make one thing clear AGAIN though, gunwriters are NOT valid sources, they're salesmen; if you insist on noting valid sources per topic, it should be just as important to confirm that they ARE. Massad Ayoob was a police officer and Marshall and Sanow were doctors... they print what they call "Street Results". One article written by Massad Ayoob claimed he witnessed an autopsy of a man shot directly in the heart with a Cor-Bon 115-grain +P+ 9mm and alleged the heart of the departed had been "shredded like burrito filling". To start with, that can't happen to your heart from a gunshot because the bullet will simply pass through it, it will not stop exactly in your heart and spin like a blender. As well, somebody who had actually witnessed what a bullet did inside a person would likely not be so childishly graphic about it... which he obviously has not seen the 30,000 autopsies he has claimed... if any. Anyway, the reason he claimed this is because Cor-Bon is or was at the time, a sponsor of Guns & Ammo and Handguns and their 9mm +P+ load is always being marketed as it is one of the most expensive factory 9mm loads on the market, much like the Glaser Safety Slug, also made by Cor-Bon. The point I'm making is these are no more valid sources thana kid who plays video games and tells you what brings the bad guys down. Do your job so Wikipedia stays factual. And for good measure, here is a copy of the small caliber field manual listing the 9mm NATOs mid-case pressure, bullet weight, velocity etc http://www.kmike.com/Ammo/tm%2043-0001-27.pdf 9mm is on page 12 and there are various other sources such as IDF easily attainible to civilians. You can also start on the other military calibers with this copy of the manual, after all, you're getting paid to verify information rather than attest that something was written in a magazine, right? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 8000Shooter (talk • contribs) 07:33, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
James CollinsI am pointing out a fact that James Collins does in fact have ginger hair. I will NOT appreciate you deleting this, it is a fact. I would be grateful if you'd mind your own business. Yours truly JD — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.5.37.11 (talk) 14:12, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
About "Charm School"-album of RoxetteFirst: I appreciate that you contacted me for say me that whae you say. Thank you!. Second: You say that some of the changes I made to artítulo entitled "Charm School" are not constructive; but you don't say what those changes that I made... I would like to know specifically what those cambinos not constructive of which you speak. Thank you!. — m3c4n0 13:06, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
Jared Padalecki ProtectionHello, I don't know if you're aware of why the Jared Padalecki page had been edited so much, but I feel I can inform you. Editing Jared's page is a task included on the list of items to obtain as part of the Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen, which is run in part by Misha Collins who is a good friend and co-worker of Jared's. The page must be edited to include team names and to mention that Jared loves Misha. None of the edits are meant to do any harm and will have no lasting effect on the page's quality as the hunt itself ends in five days. I feel that Jared wouldn't mind if his page was altered a bit for the sake of this hunt, but I can understand if you feel differently. However, with the page under protection, many teams now cannot complete this task. I am asking that you remove the protected status and allow teams to continue working their way through the list of challenges. Regards, Pattimalone (talk) 16:36, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 29 October 2012
The first round of the Wikimedia Foundation's new financial arrangements has proceeded as planned, with the publication of scores and feedback by Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) staff on applications for funding by 11 entities—10 chapters, independent membership organisations supporting the WMF's mission in different countries, and the foundation itself. The results are preliminary assessments that will soon be put to the FDC's seven voting members and two non-voting board representatives. The FDC in turn will send its recommendations to the board of trustees on 15 November, which will announce its decision by 15 December. Funding applications have been on-wiki since 1 October, and the talk pages of applications were open for community comment and discussion from 2 to 22 October, though apart from queries by FDC staff, there was little activity.
This week, we're checking out ways to motivate editors and recognize valuable contributions by focusing on the awards and rewards of WikiProject Military History. Anyone unfamiliar with WikiProject Military History is encouraged to start at the report's first article about the project and make your way forward. While many WikiProjects provide a barnstar that can be awarded to helpful contributors, WikiProject Military History has gone a step further by creating a variety of awards with different criteria ranging from the all-purpose WikiChevrons to rewards for participating in drives and improving special topics to medals for improving articles up to A-class status to the coveted "Military Historian of the Year" award.
The TimedMediaHandler extension (TMH), which brings dramatic improvements to MediaWiki's video handling capabilities, will go live to the English Wikipedia this week following a long and turbulent development, WMF Director of Platform Engineering Rob Lanphier announced on Monday ... Wikidata.org, a new repository designed to host interwiki links, launched this week and will begin accepting links shortly. The site, which is one half of the forthcoming Wikidata trial (the other half being the Wikidata client, which will be deployed to the Hungarian Wikipedia shortly) will also act as a testing area for phase 2 of Wikidata (centralised data storage). The longer term plan is for Wikidata.org to become a "Wikimedia Commons for data" as phases 2 and 3 (dynamic lists) are developed, project managers say.
Thirteen articles, ten lists, nine images, one topic, and one portal were promoted to featured after peer reviews.
A paper in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, coming from the social control perspective and employing the repertory grid technique, has contributed interesting observations about the governance of Wikipedia.
Thomas PeterffyHello Moe, In regards to the Thomas Peterffy, I feel it is partially my responsibility to remove personal opinions in a space designated for facts. Since Wikipedia is not an opinion column, or a forum for far left-wing rants, lets stick to the facts or at bare minimum put this brainless drivel in the criticism section. Thanks, M — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.138.114.227 (talk) 12:18, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
Congratulations from STiki!
IMVUDo you know what you are doing kid or just trying to waste constructive peoples time? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.84.149.240 (talk) 03:47, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
How is telling facts a personal attack? May i ask which country you come from? This is your only warning; if you make personal attacks on other people again, as you did at User talk:Moe Epsilon, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Comment on content, not on other contributors or people. ZappaOMati 03:54, 1 November 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.84.149.240 (talk)
ManhattanHow is that not constructive? I didn't delete anything. It could be removed for "original research" since my source was hearing about the drink, rather than reading about it in an article. But in what sense is that possibly "not constrictive"???? 209.6.89.16 (talk) 12:32, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
Shaken not stirredI find it rather amusing that you would suggest that my additions weren't "constructive", as you put it. The information I provided clearly contributed to the subject matter. Furthermore, my second addition to the article was done in a manner to leave the original information, out of respect for the original contributor. The information you decided to leave there is still blatantly incorrect and is contradicted by earlier information in the same article. So if your attention to detail is as rigid as you would like to make it appear, I'd appreciate more consistency and less unsolicited condescension. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.226.4.14 (talk) 02:22, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 05 November 2012
J Milburn is a British editor who has been on the site since 2006. He is one of two judges of the WikiCup. Here, he uses an op-ed to explain the way the WikiCup works and to review this year's competition, which ended recently.
The results of most of the national heats for Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) have been published on Commons. A maximum of 10 images have been submitted by all but eight of the 34 participating countries, and the international jury for what is the largest competition of its type in the world is set to announce the global winner in four weeks' time.
Hurricane Sandy was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record and has caused millions of dollars in damage. Naturally, Wikipedia covered it. But was Wikipedia's coverage unbiased?
The Signpost's weekly roundup of topics for discussion on the English Wikipedia.
This week, the Signpost interviewed two editors. The first, PumpkinSky, collaborated with Gerda Arendt in writing the recently featured article on Franz Kafka and won second prize in the Core contest last August. The second, Cwmhiraeth, collaborated with Thompsma in promoting the article Frog, which was featured last week. We asked them about the special challenges faced while writing Core content and things to watch out for.
The Wikimedia Foundation's engineering report for October 2012 was published this week on the Wikimedia Techblog and on the MediaWiki wiki, giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month. TimedMediaHandler also went live.
This week, The Signpost sings along with WikiProject Songs which focuses on articles about songs of every generation and genre. The project initially began as a rough outline in October 2002 and was reimagined in March 2004 using its parent WikiProject Albums as a template.
Hobbit (word)Dear Moe Epsilon, I am responding to your message that you edited the Wikipedia entry for “Hobbit” and your request for comments concerning the accuracy of your changes. Please note that your changes are, in fact, inaccurate and a violation of Wikipedia’s terms of service. The Saul Zaentz Company owns numerous trademark registrations in the United States and around the world for Hobbit and marks that incorporate Hobbit. For many years the public has associated Hobbit exclusively with the iconic characters created by J. R. R. Tolkien, and the myriad of movies, goods and services our company and its licensees have marketed and sold under that trademark. We are not aware of instances where our trademark Hobbit is used in non-Tolkien books but please let us know if you have examples of such use. But please note that, even if a third party were to make an unauthorized use of the trademark Hobbit that would not negate our global trademark rights or otherwise support your proposed Wikipedia edits. As noted, by issuing numerous trademark registrations the United States Patent and Trademark Office and trademark offices around the world have for many years acknowledged the validity of the trademark Hobbit and The Saul Zaentz Company’s ownership of that trademark. Your attempts to edit the Wikipedia entry for Hobbit – by alleging that it is a generic term or “genericized trademark” - are therefore both factually and legally inaccurate. As you know Wikipedia prohibits users from knowingly editing entries to include inaccurate or misleading information. We assume the foregoing information demonstrates that your proposed edits are both inaccurate and misleading and you will refrain from making any further similar edits. I assume you share our interest in resolving this matter amicably and without needing to request intervention from Wikipedia. To that end please let me know if you have any questions. samalama666 Samalama666 (talk) 18:26, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
Hobbit (word)Hi Moe, Just curious as to why you feel it is necessary to hide the fact that the word, Hobbit, is in fact a registered trademark of the Saul Zaentz Company. Wikipedia is a place for individuals to hopefully find actual facts. Please explain yourself. Kind regards, samalama666 Samalama666 (talk) 19:10, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
AristotleThanks for tidying my revert [1]. I did it quickly from an ipad because I was scared I would forget it, meaning the material would remain deleted, and I could see it was not controversial. Just to clarify: I never added the material or noticed the tags. But I have read Peter Green's book, which I have a copy of somewhere, and I think the material should be fine.--Andrew Lancaster (talk) 14:17, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
Sun Directyes i done correct — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.206.188.74 (talk) 05:38, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
I appreciate your enthusiasm, but to avoid edit-conflicting the closing bureaucrat, you may consider waiting a couple of minutes after the RfA has been closed before updating the chronological tables. Thanks, 28bytes (talk) 23:55, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 12 November 2012
Last week, media outlets reported a ruling by a German court on the problem of businesses using Wikipedia for marketing purposes. The issue goes beyond the direct management of marketing-related edits by Wikipedians; it involves cross-monitoring and interacting among market competitors themselves on Wikipedia. A company that sells dietary supplements made from frankincense had taken a competitor to court. The recently published judgment by the Higher Regional Court of Munich, in dealing with the German Wikipedia article on frankincense products, was handed down in May and is based on European competition law.
Thirteen articles, six lists, and five images were promoted to 'featured' status last week.
In late September, the Technology report published its findings about (particularly median) code review times. To the 23,900 changesets analysed the first time (the data for which has been updated), the Signpost added data from the 9,000 or so changesets contributed between September 17 and November 9 to a total of 93,000 reviews across 45,000 patchsets. Bots and self-reviews were also discarded, but reviews made by a different user in the form of a superseding patch were retained. Finally, users were categorised by hand according to whether they would be best regarded as staff or volunteers. The new analyses were consistent with the predictions of the previous analysis.
As promised, we're expanding our horizons by featuring projects that cover underrepresented areas of the globe. This week, we headed to WikiProject Brazil which keeps track of articles about the world's largest Portuguese-speaking country. The project has shown spurts of activity and continues to serve as a hub for discussions, despite the project's collaborations, peer reviews, and outreach activities being largely inactive.
Henne and LindleyChad Henne and Ryan Lindley didn't start today.--Yankees10 04:42, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 19 November 2012
The WMF's Funds Dissemination Committee has published its recommendations for the inaugural round 1 of funding. Requests totalled US$10.4M, nearly all of the FDC's budget for both first and second rounds. The seven-member committee of community volunteers appointed in September advises the WMF board on the distribution of grant funds among applying Wikimedia organizations. The committee, which has a separate operating budget of $276k for salaries and expenses, considered 12 applications for funds, from 11 chapters and from the WMF itself for its non-core activities. The decision-making process included community and FDC staff input after October 1, the closing date for submissions. Taken together, the volunteers decided to endorse an average of 81% of the funding sought—a total of $8.43M, which went to 11 of the 12 applicants. This leaves $2.71M to be distributed in round 2, for which applications are due in little more than three months' time.
This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Turtles. The young project started in January 2011 and has accumulated 5 Featured Articles, 3 Featured Lists, and 6 Featured Pictures. The project maintains a combined to-do list and hot articles meter, a popular pages ranking, and a collection of resources for turtle articles. We interviewed Faendalimas and NYMFan69-86.
WMF Executive Director Sue Gardner was forced to clarify this week that proposed structural changes to the Foundation's Engineering and Product Development Department were not a "done deal" and that it was "important that you [particularly affected staff] realise that ... your input is wanted". The reorganisation, announced on November 5 and planned for the middle of next year, will see its two components split off into their own departments.
Seven featured articles, four featured lists and ten featured pictures – including the photograph that spawned the Streisand effect – were promoted this week.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include the question of ticker symbol placement and the notability of various types of creative performer.
Yes, I think you made a mistake in your revision of List of waterfalls of England. You "identified as test/vandalism" my edit, which is erroneous. Therefore, your revision is without basis and may be construed as test/vandalism. Your reversion has been reverted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.69.44.137 (talk) 04:16, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
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SHIRINGTON NORTHstop fucking editing my posts like you know what you are talking about. i have direct affilitation with the program and you keep erasing stuff. go find another article to fuck with man because i know what i am talking about you 8=D like who the fuck are you man? stop messing with our page. please it was constructive cause the comment was a motherfucking cunting lie!
what the motherhell are you talking about? i deleted the lacrosse lie? you son need to get your facts straight i do not stand for this bullshit pigshit and treason.. no taxation without motherfucking representation son! Broad
Sorry.I was letting my younger brother use my laptop earlier, seems he edited the Wes Craven article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ash Loomis (talk • contribs)
AWB Job RequestHey Moe, I was wondering if you could do a quick AWB job for me. I just need all instances of File:PearY6Bv.jpg changed to File:Cornflower blue Yogo sapphire.jpg with the edit summary "updating file name". The file in question was renamed to File:Cornflower blue Yogo sapphire.jpg to File:PearY6Bv.jpg so it goofed alot of awards up. This is the list of all the places the old file name is in use. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 00:16, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
Is there anyway to move the job to the top of the CommonsDelinker queue? - Neutralhomer • Talk • 02:00, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
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New day: you say Merridew, but the user pages are not tagged with that common name, most commonly used name even today, why? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:33, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
I saw at least two cases now where the redirect of the pic doesn't work, one is this. Why not? Not at all? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:14, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
The Signpost: 26 November 2012
On November 24, a general assembly of Wikimedia Germany (WMDE) voted on the fate of the Wikimedia Toolserver, a central external piece of technical infrastructure supporting the editing communities with volunteer-developed scripts and webpages of various kinds that are assisting in performing mostly menial tasks.
An open-access preprint presents the results from a study attempting to predict early box office revenues from Wikipedia traffic and activity data. The authors – a team of computational social scientists from Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Aalto University and the Central European University – submit that behavioral patterns on Wikipedia can be used for accurate forecasting, matching and in some cases outperforming the use of social media data for predictive modeling. The results, based on a corpus of 312 English Wikipedia articles on movies released in 2010, indicate that the joint editing activity and traffic measures on Wikipedia are strong predictors of box office revenue for highly successful movies.
Six articles, one list, and six images were promoted to 'featured' status this week.
Wikidata, the new "Wikimedia Commons for data" and the first new Wikimedia project since 2006, reached 100,000 entries this week. The project aims to be a single, human- and machine-readable database for common data, spanning across all Wikipedia projects, which will "lead to a higher consistency and quality within Wikipedia articles, as well as increased availability of information in the smaller language editions" while lowering the burden on Wikipedia's volunteer editors—whose numbers have stalled overall, and continue to dwindle on the English Wikipedia.
This week, we uncovered WikiProject Deletion Sorting, Wikipedia's most active project by number of edits to all the project's pages. This special project seeks to increase participation in Articles for Deletion nominations by categorizing the AfD discussions by various topic areas that may draw the attention of editors. The project was started in August 2005 with manual processes that are continued today by a bevy of bots, categories, and transclusions. The project took inspiration from WikiProject Stub Sorting and some historical discussions on deletion reform. As the sheer number of AfDs continues to grow, the project is seeking better tools to manage the deletion sorting process and attract editors to comment on these deletion discussions.
file name changes in ru.wikiHello! I wanted to ask about your recent contributions to ru.wiki: why do you change filenames yourself? As I remember, CommonsDelinker could do it himself Rubin16 (talk) 09:18, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 03 December 2012
The global jury of Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM), the world’s largest photo contest, announced its results on 3 December.
Three articles, two lists, and four images were promoted to 'featured' status this week.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
Deployments of MediaWiki 1.21wmf5 cause widespread problems for users across wikis when HTML and CSS updates came temporarily out of sync. On the first wikis targeted for deployment, this was caused by the different cache invalidation rates for HTML (typically one month) and CSS (typically five minutes). The retrospective on the problem highlighted the fact that that the test wiki – the WMF's answer to a production environment that individual developers can no longer practically emulate themselves – actually demonstrated the exact problem that would later manifest itself on production wikis. It went unnoticed.
This week, we went searching for white roses in the lands of WikiProject Yorkshire. The project began in May 2007 as a way to improve articles about the historic English county of Yorkshire and its modern-day administrative divisions and cities. Since then, the project has accumulated 31 Featured Articles, 14 Featured Lists, 91 Good Articles, and a monstrous list of Did You Know entries. Despite all of the effort improving Yorkshire articles, the project has experienced waning participation in the last few years. The project still publishes a newsletter each month, monitors the popularity of and recent changes to its articles, maintains a portal, and collects resources for contributors to use.
Mario GotzeWhy did you remove my information given on Mario Gotze, i was letting people know that he is happy and now in a relationship, which is more than you can do, please give me a sensible reason you removed my post. And i dare ask you if i was lying? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.175.96.218 (talk • contribs)
The Signpost: 10 December 2012
At the time of writing, this year's election has just closed after a two-week voting period. The eight seats were contested by 21 candidates. Of these, 15 have not been arbitrators (Beeblebrox, Count Iblis, Guerillero, Jc37, Keilana, Ks0stm, Kww, NuclearWarfare, Pgallert, RegentsPark, Richwales, Salvio giuliano, Timotheus Canens, Worm That Turned, and YOLO Swag); four candidates are sitting arbitrators (David Fuchs, Elen of the Roads, Jclemens, and Newyorkbrad); and two have previously served on the committee (Carcharoth and Coren). Four Wikimedia stewards from outside the English Wikipedia stepped forward as election scrutineers: Pundit, from the Polish Wikipedia; Teles, from the Portuguese Wikipedia; Quentinv57, from the French Wikipedia; and Mardetanha, from the Persian Wikipedia. The scrutineers' task is to ensure that the election is free of multiple votes from the same person, to tally the results, and to announce them. The full results are expected to be released within the next few days and will be reported in next week's edition of the Signpost.
Eight articles, four images, six lists, and one topic were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week.
The Visual Editor project – an attempt to create the first WMF-deployable WYSIWYG editor – will go live on its first Wikipedias imminently following nearly six months of testing on MediaWiki.org. A full explanatory blog post accompanied the news, explaining the project and its setup. Once a user has opted-in, the editor can handle basic formatting, headings and lists, while safely ignoring elements it is yet to understand, including references, categories, templates, tables and images. At the last count, approximately 2% of pages would break in some way if a user tried the Visual Editor on them; it is unclear whether any specific protection will be put in place beyond relying on editors to spot problems.
In celebration of Human Rights Day, we checked out WikiProject Human Rights. Started in February 2006, the project has grown to include over 3,000 articles, including 12 Featured Articles, 3 Featured Lists, 66 Good Articles, a large collection of Did You Know entries, and a few mentions "in the news". The project monitors listings of popular pages and cleanup tags. We interviewed Khazar2, Cirt, and Boud.
SorryI found the picture from a notable website so I thought it'd be a good edition... didn't know it wasn't free content... Mrmoustache14 (talk) 05:18, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
guidancei don't know whether to write here . i need your guidance. i edited outline of sports. you undid it. i require guidance how to do correctly. i found google and many wikipedia articles. i like to play youtube video on "outline of sports" page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xtremefans (talk • contribs) 13:48, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
LeahyIm thinking of editing the page. I need to show this young man's contributions to the world. He has been central in Ardfert's sporting and social successes. With your permission id like to create a page for him and edit Ardfert's with him in it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.107.98.121 (talk) 12:01, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
Courtly loveThe page is being edited by a class at some college, and the students are obviously inexperienced with WP. I've been letting them be for the time being and figure that I will deal with the material they've contributed when the class ends. Since the edit you re-added was originally contributed by the same person who removed it, I'm going to undo your edit. Deor (talk) 21:29, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
Que vive la France, sacrebleu !Hi brother, it's me again. I just love my country. I could not resist the temptation. Sorry again. Happy Xmas. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.139.42.98 (talk • contribs)
The Signpost: 17 December 2012
Seven days after the close of voting, the results of the recent Arbitration Committee (ArbCom) elections have been announced by two of the four stewards overseeing the election, Mardetanha and Pundit. Of the 21 candidates, 13 managed to gain positive support-to-oppose ratios, and the top eight will be appointed to two-year terms on the committee by Jimbo Wales, exercising one of his traditional responsibilities.
In the past year, we've tried to expand our horizons by looking at how WikiProjects work in other languages of Wikipedia. Following in the footsteps of our previously interviewed Czech and French projects, we visited the German Wikipedia to explore WikiProjekt Computerspiel (WikiProject Computer Games). The project dates back to November 2004 and has become the back-end of the Computer Games Portal, which covers all video games regardless of platform. Editors writing about computer games at the German Wikipedia deal with unique cultural and legal challenges, ranging from a lack of fair use precedents to the limited availability of games deemed harmful for youths to strong standards for the inclusion of material on the German Wikipedia.
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include ...
This week's big story on the English Wikipedia is obviously the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting (which, by the time you read this, may be renamed 2012 Connecticut school shooting). Quickly created and nominated for deletion not once but twice, and both times speedily kept, the article saw the expected flurry of edits (a look at the history suggests an average of at least one a minute over the first day and a half) and more than half a million page views on the first full day.
Four articles, three lists, and five images were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week, including a picture of a three-week old donkey (also known as an 'ass').
MediaWiki users (including Wikimedians) can now organise themselves into groups, receiving recognition and support-in-kind from the Wikimedia Foundation. The project, backed by new Wikimedia technical contributor coordinator Quim Gil, has seen five proposals lodged in its first week of operation. The idea of MediaWiki groups mimics that of Wikimedia User Groups.
Your Somme revertThat was one of the better satirical edits.;O)Keith-264 (talk) 08:08, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
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