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Neutralhomer • Talk • 00:26, 3 June 2012 (UTC) 00:26, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
You said work with someone to improve an article. I will do that. Tell me who .. tell me what article. Chedzilla (talk) 02:01, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
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If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 18:44, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
Apologies for the lateness of this letter; our usual bot wasn't working. We are now entering round 4, our semi-finals, and have our final 16. A score of 243 was required to reach this round; significantly more than 2011's 76 points, and only a little behind 2010's 250 points. By comparison, last year, 150 points in round 4 secured a place in the final; in 2010, 430 were needed. Commiserations to Pool A's igordebraga (submissions), who scored 242 points, missing out on a place in the round by a whisker. However, congratulations to Pool B's Grapple X (submissions), whose television articles have brought him another round victory. Pool A's Cwmhiraeth (submissions) came second overall, with an impressive list of biological did you knows, good articles and featured articles. Third overall was Pool D's Muboshgu (submissions), with a long list of contibutions, mostly relating to baseball. Of course, with the points resetting every round, the playing field has been levelled. The most successful Pool was Pool D, which saw seven into the final round. Pool B saw four, C saw three and Pool A saw only the two round leaders.
A quick note about other competitions taking place on Wikipedia which may be of interest. There are 13 days remaining in the June-July GAN backlog elimination drive, but it is not too late to take part. August will also see the return of The Core Contest- a one month long competition first run in 2007. While the WikiCup awards points for audited content on any subject, The Core Contest about is raw article improvement, focussing heavily on the most important articles on Wikipedia. As ever, if you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 10:47, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
My daughter is fond of pointing out that people often use the word "ironic" when, sometimes, the right term is "coincidence". This is one of those cases - I started composing a post, using the word ironic, but decided it was really a coincidence.
I decided to comment to Silver_seren about an NLT issue, and one of my points was that the distinction between civil and criminal wasn't as explicit as it might be, in the policy or the talk page, and after making that observation, I see you've emphasized that very point.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 16:58, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
I did notice your comment on the Arb page, and I'm not ignoring it. I have a busy day ahead, but I will get back to you ASAP, hopefully this evening. — Ched : ? 12:46, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
I didn't want to interrupt that thread, as you've made some really interesting points, enough that I need to think about them and read them more than once. I think you and I may share a similar goals and perspectives. Our experiences are very different here, so our ideas may be different at first, but you have really got me thinking. I've been here a while, but only 10 weeks into being an admin, and finding my perspective changing radically by what I see, both good and bad. But I am filled with hope. I really would like you to look at that new project Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention because a large part of the reason it was started was because of some of these ideas. It is barely complete enough to even be alpha, but it could use some leadership from established admins who have a balanced approach. I'm not talking about committing a lot of time as much as joining to share good ideas and offering your perspective. There is real contention between admins and content creators, more so that in years passed, but I think this can be bridged, and allow us to continue building our base of quality editors. We lose too many to simple misunderstandings on the talk pages during these blocks, and in other misunderstandings as well. No offense will be taken if you aren't interested, but I think you really could help make a difference with just a little effort there, in shaping what it can become, and providing calm, rational ideas. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © 22:13, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
We met at Arbitration/Clarification and amendment, and you have a good reputation among editors I have a lot of respect for, so I was wondering if you'd have the time or sufficient interest to look at this situation. I won't be in the least offended if you'd rather not. --Anthonyhcole (talk) 12:37, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
Just a note that I made some progress at Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Biography_articles_without_WPBiography_tags. — Carl (CBM · talk) 12:30, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
Since you have listed yourself as a peer review volunteer interested in copyediting articles, would you like to support the quest to counter systemic bias on Wikipedia by giving a thorough review of the short, but interesting, article about Ya Kun Kaya Toast, a multinational kaya toast chain and Singaporean cultural icon? Thanks! 谢谢!Terima kasih! நன்றி! --J.L.W.S. The Special One (talk) 10:09, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
...is that many of the very people you try to help are the ones that bite your hand. I'm pretty immune to that, which is likely a good thing and comes in handy for the task. I wouldn't take any of that personal. You just happened to walk in the path of frustration and got hit by it, you didn't cause it. Pessimism is all too common, and you have to let it roll of your back like water on a duck. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © 01:06, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello Carcharoth - first my apologies for not getting back to you sooner. I'm not sure if you wanted a response from me regarding the comments on the AC page, but I'm fully willing to offer them. Perhaps it's because everyone holds you in such high esteem that I want to justify my own comments to you, but I do honestly believe in what I said. By the very nature of our project (an encyclopedia) we tend to attract a vast number of editors who are in high-school or early college years. That is a good thing in many aspects - but there is an impulsiveness to youth that needs guided in my view. Granted that we can not know the age of any editor due to the anonymity of our project, but we can see the maturity in various posts. My point in the AC post was that there is a large amount of "baiting" and "taunting" which is rampant in our project. This often leads our more senior editors to respond in a rather unfriendly fashion. Due to our "be nice" policies, experienced adults are called on the carpet by "just here for a bit" young editors who quote CIV rather than understanding the spirit of our project. Don't get me wrong - there are a ton of great young folks here that are fantastic -- Julian C, Jon D., Anon Dis, Steve Z, Peter S, Coffee, and I'm sure a dozen others.
I know I'm a crotchety cynical old man. And perhaps I'm out of touch with the reality of the project, but I honestly feel that if we're to move forward - then there needs to be a strong guiding hand that says "you can not provoke our established editors". There are people here who have EARNED respect, and if we allow fly-by-night accounts to poke people into a response that's less than apologetic, and then chastise the truly valuable contributor - then we condemn the project to failure.
On a closing note? ... I hear you play chess. If you know an online venue ... I'd love to play a game. — Ched : ? 06:50, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
Credo Reference, who generously donated 400 free Credo 250 research accounts to Wikipedia editors over the past two years, has offered to expand the program to include 100 additional reference resources. Credo wants Wikipedia editors to select which resources they want most. So, we put together a quick survey to do that:
It also asks some basic questions about what you like about the Credo program and what you might want to improve.
At this time only the initial 400 editors have accounts, but even if you do not have an account, you still might want to weigh in on which resources would be most valuable for the community (for example, through WikiProject Resource Exchange).
Also, if you have an account but no longer want to use it, please leave me a note so another editor can take your spot.
If you have any other questions or comments, drop by my talk page or email me at wikiocaasi@yahoo.com. Cheers! Ocaasi t | c 17:11, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
Noticed this comment: "Reading archives is not pleasant. Seems the bots archive by last edit not by how they may have been arranged on a page". When I run into that, it can be easier to load up the page version before archiving and read that. Really, archives should include a list of diffs showing the removals that created the archives. But not sure if any bot is set up to do that. Carcharoth (talk) 04:47, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
A little birdie told me that you're a bit of a legal eagle, and suggested that I should solicit your input about an article I'm preparing to take to GAN on a High Court judge, Melford Stevenson. He was quite an interesting character, as perhaps all judges are, but if you don't have the time or inclination then no worries. Malleus Fatuorum 00:10, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
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If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 09:09, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
We're approaching the beginning of 2012's final round. Pool A sees Cwmhiraeth (submissions) as the leader, with 300 points being awarded for the featured article Bivalvia, and Pool B sees Grapple X (submissions) in the lead, with 10 good articles, and over 35 articles eligible for good topic points. Pool A sees Muboshgu (submissions) in second place with a number of articles relating to baseball, while Pool B's Ruby2010 (submissions) follows Grapple X, with a variety of contributions including the high-scoring, high-importance featured article on the 2010 film Pride & Prejudice. Ruby2010, like Grapple X, also claimed a number of good topic points; despite this, not a single point has been claimed for featured topics in the contest so far. The same is true for featured portals.
Currently, the eighth-place competitor (and so the lowest scorer who would reach the final round right now) has scored 332, more than double the 150 needed to reach the final round last year. In 2010, however, 430 was the lowest qualifying score. In this competition, we have generally seen scores closer to those in 2010 than those in 2011. Let's see what kind of benchmark we can set for future competitions! As ever, if you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 22:19, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
Hey all. Some quick but important updates on what we've been up to and what's coming up next :).
The curation toolbar, our Wikimedia-supported twinkle replacement. We're going to be deploying it, along with a pile of bugfixes, to wikipedia on 9 August. After a few days to check it doesn't make anything explode or die, we'll be sticking up a big notice and sending out an additional newsletter inviting people to test it out and give us feedback :). This will be followed by two office hours sessions - one on Tuesday the 14th of August at 19:00 UTC for all us Europeans, and one on Wednesday the 15th at 23:00 UTC for the East Coasters out there :). As always, these will be held in #wikimedia-office; drop me a note if you want to know how to easily get on IRC, or if you aren't able to attend but would like the logs.
I hope to see a lot of you there; it's going to be a big day for everyone involved, I think :). I'll have more notes after the deployment! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 20:01, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
Hey all :)
A couple of new things.
First, you'll note that all the project titles have now changed to the Page Curation prefix, rather than having the New Pages Feed prefix. This is because the overarching project name has changed to Page Curation; the feed is still known as New Pages Feed, and the Curation Toolbar is still the Curation Toolbar. Hopefully this will be the last namechange ;p.
On the subject of the Curation Toolbar (nice segue, Oliver!) - it's now deployed on Wikipedia. Just open up any article in the New Pages Feed and it should appear on the right. It's still a beta version - bugs are expected - and we've got a lot more work to do. But if you see something going wrong, or a feature missing, drop me a note or post on the project talkpage and I'll be happy to help :). We'll be holding two office hours sessions to discuss the tool and improvements to it; the first is at 19:00 UTC on 14 August, and the second at 23:00 on the 15th. Both will be in #wikimedia-office as always. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 15:40, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
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