User:Djembayz/Archive July 2014

Emma Mashinini almost ready to go?
Added a lead. What do you think? I wish there was more info about her doings after 1990 but I don't find much. Also do you think there's any special reason the title of her book (Strikes have followed me all my life) is not fully capitalized? It doesn't bother me terribly but I also don't think this is a South African convention or a particular choice for this book. Happy new year!! groupuscule (talk) 19:08, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Happy New Year to you too! Sure, let's move the titles to caps (the small letters are a habit from work ... :) Looks ready to me.
 * Shall we go for a DYK? Djembayz (talk) 03:45, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, let's do it. Please go ahead and take the article to mainspace if you think it's ready; I'll begin a "QPQ" review shortly. Thank you for introducing me to the life of such an amazing person. groupuscule (talk) 05:00, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Moved. There are probably a zillion great people in places like Africa, India and China we haven't heard of yet ... makes you realize how big the world is! Djembayz (talk) 05:59, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Amen. Now, here's a DYK nomination for Ms. Mashinini. Please feel free to change around the hook(s). Wish we could find an appropriately licensed picture of her, but I haven't seen anything on Commons or Flickr. salaam groupuscule (talk) 19:44, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

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Meetups coming up in DC!
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You are invited to two upcoming events in DC:


 * Meetup at Capitol City Brewery on Saturday, January 25 at 6 PM. Please join us for dinner, drinks, socializing, and discussing Wikimedia DC activities and events. All are welcome! RSVP on the linked page or through Meetup.
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Surveillance awareness day
You were supportive of the idea that Jehochman proposed: "A message is most effective when it matches the format of the media. We're an encyclopedia. On Feb 11, I suggest we fill our front page with articles, blurbs and news about mass spying and privacy. That will send a strong message, and help educate people. It's sort of like what we do on April 1, except serious instead of foolish."

Since this proposal received so much support, I and several others have done our best to begin the process of implementation. That said, the proposal is very controversial with Main Page insiders who have, understandably, objections that boil down to WP:NOTADVOCATE.

It's valuable to have feedback from people who oppose any deviation from the status quo, but we really need feedback from people who understood Jehochman idea, supported it, and could tell us whether we're succeeding in "implementing the vision" that Jehochman laid out and how to improve the proposal.

If you have the time, would you lend your view over at Surveillance awareness day. If you want to see a list of custom content that could be available, we have a Arbitrary mockup #2, that shows lots of proposed content on one page.

Your feedback is most appreciated. --HectorMoffet (talk) 09:55, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks!
In spite of a bumpy start, USS Mahan (DD-364) article is now a GA. Thank you for your help along the way. Pendright (talk) 23:39, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of List of endangered languages with mobile apps


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Coming up in February!
Hello there!

Our February WikiSalon is coming up on Sunday, February 23. Join us at our gathering of Wikipedia enthusiasts at the Kogod Courtyard of the National Portrait Gallery with an optional dinner after. As usual, all are welcome. Care to join us?

Also, if you are available, there is an American Art Edit-a-thon being held at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Professor Andrew Lih's COMM-535 class at American University on Tuesday, February 11 from 2 to 5 PM. Please RSVP on the linked page if you are interested.

If you have any ideas or preferences for meetups, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/DC.

Thank you, and hope to see you at our upcoming events! Harej (talk) 18:41, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

New Category
Added Category:Wikipedians who edit Wikipedia to your User Page, for your approval. A little humor! If you don't like, you can of course remove.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:00, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

Joan Semmel
Thank you for the boost on the Joan Semmel page! I've been too busy this week to give it any more love, but it's really gratifying to see it up. Even more amazing--our page got a mention in ARTnews online: 101 Women Artists Who Got Wikipedia Pages This Week. Hitnoyellow (talk) 05:14, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

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Did you mean to userfy Djembayz/Participation in Wikimedia projects? Right now it is in the article namespace. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 01:12, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Feedback needed on using special characters
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While we always welcome general feedback (please report any issues in Bugzilla in the "VisualEditor" product or drop your feedback on the central feedback page on MediaWiki.org), the developers are especially interested right now in feedback on the special character inserter. This new tool is used for inserting special characters (including symbols like ₥, IPA pronunciation symbols, mathematics symbols, and characters with diacritics). It is intended to help people whose computers do not have good character inserters. For example, many Mac users prefer to use the extensive "Special Characters..." tool present at the bottom of the Edit menu in all applications or to learn the keyboard shortcuts for characters like ñ and ü.

The current version of the special characters tool in VisualEditor is very simple and very basic. It will be getting a lot of work in the coming weeks and months. It does not contain very many character sets at this time. (The specific character sets can be customized at each Wikipedia, so that each project could have a local version with the characters it wants.) But the developers want your ideas at this early stage about ways that the overall concept could be improved. I would appreciate your input on this question, so please try out the character inserter and tell me what changes to the design would (or would not!) best work for you.

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 * How should the sections be navigated? Should there be a drop-down? A nested menu?
 * The wikitext editor has never included many symbols and characters, like ℗ and ♀. Do you find that you need these missing characters?  If the character inserter in VisualEditor includes hundreds or thousands of special characters, will it be overwhelming? How will you find the character you want? What should be done for users without enough space to display more than a few dozen characters?
 * Should the character inserter be statically available until dismissed? Should it hover near the mouse? Should it go away on every selection or 10 seconds after a selection with no subsequent ones?
 * Some people believe that the toolbar already has too many options—how would you simplify it?

The developers are open to any thoughts on how the special character inserter can best be developed, even if this requires significant changes. Please leave your views on the central feedback page, or, if you'd prefer, you can contact me directly on my talk page. It would be really helpful if you can tell me how frequently you need to use special characters in your typical editing and what languages or other special characters are important to you.

Thank you again for your work with VisualEditor and for any feedback you can provide. I really do appreciate it.

P.S. You might be interested in the current ideas about improving citations, too. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 00:20, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Category:Zotero
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An idea
Hi Dyembayz... I saw your edits to Orick, California and the older native town. I am getting ready to propose merging those two articles as neither is likely to ever grow huge, and the early settlement is only a part of the later one. What do you think? Ellin Beltz (talk) 23:05, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your reply. I understand about the ghost towns, but for Humboldt County at least, please understand that one former user typed in the name of every crossroads, giving us a huge list, sometimes with a CDP and a ghost town in 99% the same location and nearly the same name.   I am in the process of ticking through that list and trying to write whatever is possible about it (e.g. Bracut, California but as these were not particularly notable little crossroads it's hard to do much more than location - even for some of the Euro/American ghost towns.  I will check with the project you suggested.  Thanks for the tips.  Ellin Beltz (talk) 02:29, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
 * My husband pointed something out about Orick in particular and others of these "ghost towns". They have had continuous human habitation, but they changed their names.  He says the reason not to worry about artifacts in Orick (and elsewhere around the area) is that the original towns were on one or both sides of the only trailways, as the roads widened and then when Caltrans widened everything out to 150 feet, the sites were lost completely.  But for Orek, Orick... it's the same town, even the lede in Orick says it is just another name.  He explained it so nicely I thought I'd mention it to you.  His example was to take his tablet and go look for the Wikipedia page on the Lenepe village at Battery Park, Manhattan Island, New York where the Dutch bought the island for the proverbial 23 dollars worth of stuff (1960s dollars).  He couldn't find one because the city of Manhattan grew up and covered it and all the other villages which once dotted the island.  Good example.  Thanks for reply, I will check with the project people before doing anything but at least I'm more organized on this one. Cheers!  Ellin Beltz (talk) 04:47, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Did meetup happen?
I was at the Kogod Courtyard for the DC meetup to day promptly at 3:00pm. I didn't see any group that seemed to be the Wikipedians. One group had a sign "meetup" but it was the DC Philosophy Club. Anbothe was a photographer's group. Where was everyone? was this canceled? DES (talk) 23:59, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

DC Meetups in March
 Happy March!

Though we have a massive snowstorm coming up, spring is just around the corner! Personally, I am looking forward to warmer weather.

Wikimedia DC is looking forward to a spring full of cool and exciting activities. In March, we have coming up:


 * Evening WikiSalon on Wednesday, March 12 from 7 PM – 9 PM. Meet up with Wikipedians for coffee at the Cove co-working space in Dupont Circle! If you cannot make it in the evening, join us at our...
 * March Meetup on Sunday, March 23 from 3 PM – 6 PM. Our monthly weekend meetup, same place as last month. Meet really cool and interesting people!
 * Women in the Arts 2014 meetup and edit-a-thon on Sunday, March 30 from 10 AM – 5 PM. Our second annual Women in the Arts edit-a-thon, held at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Free lunch will be served!

We hope to see you at our upcoming events! If you have any questions, feel free to ask on my talk page.

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An exciting month of wiki events!
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I am pleased to say that April will be a very exciting month for Wikipedia in Washington, DC. We have a lot of different events coming up, so you will have a lot to choose from.

First, a reminder that our second annual Women in the Arts Edit-a-Thon will take place on Sunday, March 30 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

Coming up in April, we have our first-ever Open Government WikiHack with the Sunlight Foundation on April 5–6! We are working together to use open government data to improve the Wikimedia projects, and we would love your help. All are welcome, regardless of coding or editing experience. We will also be having a happy hour the day before, with refreshments courtesy of the Sunlight Foundation.

On Friday, April 11 we are having our first edit-a-thon ever with the Library of Congress. The Africa Collection Edit-a-Thon will focus on the Library's African and Middle East Reading Room. It'll be early in the morning, but it's especially worth it if you're interested in improving Wikipedia's coverage of African topics.

The following day, we are having our second annual Wiki Loves Capitol Hill training. We will discuss policy issues relevant to Wikimedia and plan for our day of outreach to Congressional staffers that will take place during the following week.

There are other meetups in the works, so be sure to check our meetup page with the latest. I hope to see you at some of these events!

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Two edit-a-thons coming up!


Hello there!

I'm pleased to tell you about two upcoming edit-a-thons:


 * This Tuesday, April 29, from 2:30 to 5:30 PM, we have the Freer and Sackler edit-a-thon. (Sorry for the short notice!)
 * On Saturday, May 10 we have the Wikipedia APA edit-a-thon, in partnership with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, from 10 AM to 5 PM.

We have more stuff coming up in May and June, so make sure to keep a watch on the DC meetup page. As always, if you have any recommendations or requests, please leave a note on the talk page.

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Happy May!

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 * On Thursday, May 15 come to our evening WikiSalon at the Cove co-working space in Dupont Circle. If you're available Thursday evening, feel free to join us!
 * Or if you prefer a Saturday night dinner gathering, we also have our May Meetup at Capitol City Brewing Company. (Beer! Non-beer things too!)
 * You are also invited to the Federal Register edit-a-thon at the National Archives later this month.

Come one, come all!

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Greetings!

Wikimedia DC has yet another busy month in June. Whether you're a newcomer to Wikipedia or have years of experience, we're happy to see you come. Here's what's coming up:


 * On Wednesday, June 11 from 7 to 9 PM come to the WikiSalon at the Cove co-working space. Hang out with Wikipedia enthusiasts!
 * Saturday, June 14 is the Frederick County History Edit-a-Thon from 11 AM to 4 PM. Help improve local history on Wikipedia.
 * The following Saturday, June 21, is the June Meetup. Dinner and drinks with Wikipedians!
 * Come on Tuesday, June 24 for the Wikipedia in Your Library edit-a-thon at GWU on local and LGBT history.
 * Last but not least, on Sunday, June 29 we have the Phillips Collection Edit-a-Thon in honor of the Made in America exhibit.

Wikipedia is better with friends, so why not come out to an event?

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Belle Glade, Florida
Hi there. I noticed you added a reference to the Belle Glade, Florida article, but I'm not sure what it's referencing. Thanks. Magnolia677 (talk) 12:28, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

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DYK for Schloss Warthausen
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Precious
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Thank you, drumming faerie tuning in to Wikipedia, for quality articles such as Schloss Warthausen and Lucile Petry Leone, for, for taking care of indigenous peoples of North America, ships, women scientists and artists, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

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 * Thank you! Glad to know others are also interested in seeing these topics covered in the encyclopedia. Djembayz (talk) 22:40, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
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The Great American Wiknic and other events in July


I am pleased to announce our fourth annual picnic, the Great American Wiknic, will take place at Meridian Hill Park in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, July 13 from 1 to 5 PM (rain date: July 20). We will be hanging out by the statue of Dante Alighieri, a statue that was donated to the park in 1921 as a tribute to Italian Americans. Read more about the statue on Wikipedia. If you would like to sign up for the picnic, you can do so here. When signing up, say what you’re going to bring!

July will also feature the second annual Great American Wiknic in Frederick, Maryland. This year’s Frederick picnic will take place on Sunday, July 6 at Baker Park. Sign up here for the Frederick picnic.

What else is going on in July? We have the American Chemical Society Edit-a-Thon on Saturday, July 12, dedicated to notable chemists, and our monthly WikiSalon on Wednesday, July 16.

We hope to see you at our upcoming events!

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Thanks for TISA page expansion!
Just wanted to say that your edits to the TISA page was really cool! Hopefully, the deal receives more press coverage despite measures taken to prevent this and we have more material to expand the page with. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Je.est.un.autre (talk • contribs) 04:18, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

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Sorry for the last minute update, but our friends at the DC Historical Society have scheduled a Battle of Fort Stevens Edit-a-Thon to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War battle fought in the District. The event will last from noon to 2 PM on Wednesday, July 30. Hope you can make it!

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 * hospital is available. An advanced ventilator care facility, [[Rockcastle Regional Hospital and

Gender gap invitation

 * Cancel that, I see you're there already. Chin up! I hope you're feeling okay. SlimVirgin (talk) 02:39, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

Family friendly talk page
Much appreciate the opinion of Robert McClenon that we might consider avoiding slang not considered appropriate in mixed company! But am removing it in the interests of maintaining a "family friendly talk page" in my own user space. Djembayz (talk) 13:17, 27 July 2014 (UTC)


 * I'm sure that the families of Twatt, Orkney will be impressed. Especially those whose spelling is poor ;) - Sitush (talk) 19:20, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

Troll?
What was your intention here? --John (talk) 17:44, 27 July 2014 (UTC)


 * If you want to create a fork please plan it on your own website. <b style="vertical-align:20%;text-shadow:0px 0px 4px blue;font-size:60%;color:SteelBlue">Chillum</b> 17:51, 27 July 2014 (UTC)


 * :Just because, as I wrote at the link above, the intention was not as clear as it might have been does not mean it is trolling. It's quite appropriate for that task force. So it might be nice to change your subject heading. Carolmooredc  (Talkie-Talkie)  17:54, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Ha! Carol, your comment just goes to further my impression that the task force itself, in terms of its present scope, has no place on Wikipedia. - Sitush (talk) 19:19, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Actually, Lightbreather described this as a rhetorical question, while I took it as a statement about some broader proposal relevant to the Gender Gap. I'm sure Djembay will explain if there is more to be explained. No need to follow me around, by the way, Sitush. Just remember you remain banned from my user talk page.
 * Generally speaking, at least we still have that method of dealing with one form of incivility, harassment and dickishness. Carolmooredc (Talkie-Talkie)  22:25, 27 July 2014 (UTC)