User talk:ACrockford

Welcome!
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 * Mmm, cookies... Thanks! ACrockford (talk) 12:26, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Looking good...
The WIR project pages are looking good! - cheers sats 14:53, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Obviously you're welcome to include any info, links, categories, etc. that will help or will reach interested users! ACrockford (talk) 15:04, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Just dropped by to say I enjoyed your blog post! I'll also echo ' comments above - the pages are looking good; I'm looking forward to watching how things develop.  SagaciousPhil   -  Chat  13:57, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Definitely setting a high standard for WIR reporting and documentation - that's for sure sats 00:56, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you both! Now I just need to follow through with the same standard in terms of delivery. And hello, it's good to hear from you Sagaciousphil! Glad you enjoyed the post! ACrockford (talk) 11:41, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

Cambuskenneth collection
Hello, I heard about your project on twitter. I have started a number of pages about 16th-century Scotland. This one, burning of Edinburgh (1544), mentions a discrete collection of books in National Library under 'Looting.' I wonder if you think a picture of these books, or of their inscriptions could be added to wikicommons for this article, or indeed future articles about the Norris of Speke family. Similarly, articles like this, Mariotta Haliburton, quote from letters in the library, and so it might be possible to get images of the signature of personalities like hers. Is this beyond your remit? 15:52, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Hello! This is absolutely within my remit - I don't know the collections well enough myself to be able to confirm yes or no, but will absolutely put some enquiries throughout staff at the NLS who would know more about these items within the collection and what their possibility of release is. Thanks for bringing it to my attention, and I will ask around this month to see what I can find out. I'd point out that it's a busy month though, so if you don't hear anything in the next couple of weeks, give me another ping as I may have gotten a bit distracted and I am keen to get as many relevant items released as I can, especially if they can be added to specific articles! I would also encourage you, if you are interested, to add these same points to the NLS/Wikimedia project page, perhaps under the participate or discussion tabs, so that members of NLS staff who have been or are trained in future will also see it and be able to respond. ACrockford (talk) 11:39, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

added and sorted
have dabbled in a small effort at commons re the building at G IV bridge - by any chance if you ever come across anybody who has good sources on the building of the building (sic) and the 'sculptures' on the facade - would appreciate a clue or two... sats 15:12, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland
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Burns night
Trust it all goes well. Burns or nae Burns :) (My copy of works of Burns and Concise Scots dictionary failed to inspire any further than to wish you well!) satusuro 14:18, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
 * of all my tagging of scottish categories over time, I think the curiosity of make it probably my favourite. satusuro 15:28, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

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Hi Ally!
Hi Ally, thanks for your help today!--LM141v (talk) 11:04, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Hello! Anytime! Glad to meet you! ACrockford (talk) 11:08, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi Ally! --Novoje (talk) 11:05, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

TaPRA Glasgow
Hi Ally,

Enjoying being in rainy Glasgow today! --Evemargitta (talk) 11:05, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

June 8 Meetup
I'd love to come, but I have a somewhat packed day; any idea how late the meetup's likely to last? Because I probably can't come before 4. Adam Cuerden (talk) 05:24, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure - if past meetups are anything to go by they can go until about 5 but I suppose it depends on how many people show up and how long they are able to stay! Would you be near enough that you could stop in without going out of your way? Otherwise we should try and find a way to let you know if we'll still be around. ACrockford (talk) 01:04, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I'll be up at Ferry Road, so I can probably make it over easily enough. Adam Cuerden (talk) 06:43, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Okay! Also knowing that you wouldn't be there before 4, I can stick around even if others have to go. ACrockford (talk) 14:01, 30 May 2014 (UTC)

Pleasure working with you :)
Hi Ally, Just wanted to let you know that I've truly enjoyed working with you on arrangements for the Wikipedia Education Collaborative's next meetup in Edinburgh. I've no idea where we'd be without you! Also wanted to say that I like your copyeditor and researcher badges from The Wikipedia Adventure. Almost makes me want to return to the mission to get those myself! :) All the best, Anna Koval (WMF) (talk) 22:44, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland


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Looks good
The new image - I was at the London event to see and hear that being announced and presented, well done!!! satusuro 14:31, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

University of Edinburgh: Wikipedia Teaching Assignments in the School of Social and Political Science
Hi Ally, This semester (Sept-Sec, 2014) have a class of 30 MSc students (Rethinking Development Economics) who have just completed a 1000 writing assignment - that involves them writing a wikipedia entry. I am now trying to run a short lunchtime workshop to encourage people to upload them to wikipedia. It would be great if we could invite you to come and talk to them, or even help run a brief training session. It would be great if we could use this as a pilot for other courses/colleagues across the School of Social and Political Science. Please send me an email or give me a call (numbers on my homepage: www.sps.ed.ac.uk/cross)

Thanks 129.215.5.255 (talk) 13:49, 29 October 2014 (UTC)Jamie Cross. Email: jamie.cross(at)ed.ac.uk


 * Hi Jamie - sorry not to get back to you sooner. This weekend was EduWiki and Train the Trainers, and I'm in London this week until Thursday night. I'll try and send you an e-mail today, but otherwise I'll be in touch on Monday if that's not too late? ACrockford (talk) 16:13, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!
Wee! How exciting, thank you! ACrockford (talk) 16:14, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

IdeaLab proposal
There is a proposal at the IdeaLab that may interest you. Lightbreather (talk) 19:25, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Test Kaffeeklatsch area for women-only
Since WikiProject Women as proposed at the IdeaLab may take some time to realize, and based on a discussion on the proposal's talk page, I have started a test Kaffeeklatsch area for women only (cisgender or trans-woman, regardless of sexual orientation).

It is a place where women can go and be sure they'll be able to participate in discussions without being dominated by men's advice, criticism, and explanations. If interested, your participation would be most welcome. Lightbreather (talk) 23:06, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

WP:PERM Request
After reviewing your request for the account creator right, I have enabled the flag on your account. Keep in mind these things: If you no longer require the right, let me know, or ask any other administrator. Drop a note if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of the account creator right. Happy editing! — xaosflux  Talk 21:52, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
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 * Thank you! ACrockford (talk) 19:33, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Redirects
Hola! Here's the link for creating redirects. Lirazelf (talk) 09:32, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Brilliant! Thanks for this - happy birthday to your mum today, too! ACrockford (talk) 15:12, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for March 9
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Nice to meet you
Nice to put faces to the names. The link I was trying to find to my proposed alternative Wikipedia policy was here. The policy would have been:


 * ''Wikipedia's editors are expected to avoid, unless necessary for editorial reasons, the use of language which can be reasonably expected to offend a significant number of Wikipedia's readers. Wikipedia's editors are also expected to avoid the use of language which can reasonably be construed as belittling another user, unless such language is necessary for editorial reasons (e.g. warning an editor who is repeatedly introducing serious errors and refuses to accept reasonable explanations as to why their changes are inappropriate). Once an editor has had it drawn to their attention that another editor considers their conduct unacceptable, that editor should either cease the behavior in question or explain to the complaining editor why they consider the conduct reasonable; if the editors are unable to agree on what constitutes reasonable conduct, wider community input should be requested to determine consensus on the issue. If an editor continues unnecessarily to use language which has been determined to be offensive to significant numbers of Wikipedia's readers, or which is widely considered to constitute the unnecessary belittling of another Wikipedia editor, sanctions may be imposed upon the editor in question.
 * ''Likewise, if an editor repeatedly accuses another editor of inappropriate conduct after such conduct has been deemed appropriate by the broader community, and continues to make such accusations after the fact of it being considered acceptable has been drawn to their attention, sanctions may be imposed to prevent the editor in question from continuing to make vexatious complaints.
 * ''Other than in exceptional cases in which a given editor's continued activity has a realistic potential to cause serious damage to the English language Wikipedia or serious damage to public perception of the English language Wikipedia, blocks and other sanctions will not be applied for breaches of this policy, both in the case of users using language considered to be uncivil and in the case of users considered to be making vexatious complaints, prior to community discussion about the appropriateness of such sanctions.

Once you ignore the fact that it's written in WP:Bradspeak to try to make it as watertight as possible, the whole thing boils down to "We recognise that on a multinational project, people have different ideas about what's appropriate, so nobody's going to get in trouble for a first offence. However, once someone's told you they find something offensive, the burden is on you to demonstrate that it's necessary to use this particular form of words if you want to continue using it. If you carry on using this language regardless, it might trigger a request for a broader community discussion about whether this language is appropriate, which could lead to blocks or other sanctions." It naturally never went anywhere, but I've yet to see a good reason why it wouldn't work. (In fact, speaking of Bradspeak, User:Newyorkbrad, now you're no longer bound by Arbcom omerta can you see any reason why replacing the meandering mess of WP:CIV with these three paragraphs wouldn't work?)

Let me know if you do get back to 19th-century teratology, and I'll be glad to help; aside from a brief series on bridges, virtually all my significant Wikipedia contributions have been on the outsider in Victorian (or sometimes 18th-century or early 20th-century) society, ranging from the astonishingly-offensive-on-every-level Pig-faced women and Tarrare to the special trains used to take mental patients to hospital. – iridescent  20:10, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

Hey! Did you see this?
Brilliant for the DRB group. :) Lirazelf (talk) 13:44, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia Science Conference
Hi, this is another update on the Wikipedia Science Conference taking place in London on Wednesday 2nd and Thursday 3rd of September. I hope you’re excited as I am about this event. Cheers, MartinPoulter (talk) 18:17, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Booking has opened at just 29 pounds, including lunch on both days.
 * Take a look at the (pretty much final) programme if you haven’t seen it yet. With 18 plenary speakers - three from overseas - as well as the large unconference section, there’s a lot going on, and the Royal Society of Chemistry is sponsoring a wine reception in the evening.
 * We are also in the full swing of publicity. Emails have been, and are, going out to funders, scholarly societies, and university departments, but any additional promotion is appreciated. Please share a link, or tell colleagues in relevant fora. All publicity material for the conference is, of course, freely licenced for you to adapt.
 * After the conference there will be two hackathons: one Cambridge on the Friday, the other hosted by Wikimedia UK in London on the Saturday. These are being led by Daniel Mietchen and Stefan Kasberger. Follow the link for more details.

You're invited to the Ally Skills Workshop at Wikimania!
Thank you for contributing to the grant request for training Wikipedia admins to be more aware of sexism! This grant has been approved in pilot form, and the Ada Initiative is running an Ally Skills Workshop at Wikimania 2015. This workshop will focus on teaching specific skills and techniques directly relevant to Wikipedia admins and editors, and in particular will teach people about the psychology of trolls. The workshop will be on Thursday July 16 from 2pm to 5pm in Don Diego 3.

If you are attending Wikimania, you are invited to apply to the Ally Skills Workshop! Space is limited and we may not be able to accept all applications, so apply now. More information, including a link to the application form, is here:

Ally Skills Workshop description and application form

People of all genders are welcome to attend. Unfortunately, travel scholarships for Wikimania are already closed and we don't know of any other sources of travel funding. If you know anyone else attending Wikimania who might be interested in attending this workshop, please encourage them to apply!

Thank you for your time,

Valerie Aurora (Instructor and Interim Executive Director of the Ada Initiative)

Valerietai (talk) 20:28, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

Help us improve wikimeets by filling in the UK Wikimeet survey!
Hello! I'm running a survey to identify the best way to notify Wikimedians about upcoming UK wikimeets (informal, in-person social meetings of Wikimedians), and to see if we can improve UK wikimeets to make them accessible and attractive to more editors and readers. All questions are optional, and it will take about 10 minutes to complete. Please fill it in at:
 * https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JJMNVVD

Thanks! Mike Peel (talk) 18:03, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

PhD Thesis as a reference
Hi there! Wondering what you might know about the above - wp:Scholarship is a bit vague... the Uni of Edinburgh event yesterday resulted in Neuroangiogenesis, see the message on the talk page there. Any advice appreciated! Lirazelf (talk) 12:41, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

Wiki meet
Hi, you are cordially invited to our next ScotWiki meetup. The National Library of Scotland is extremely accessible via train for those travelling from outside the city, and via bus for Edinburgh residents. Its visitor centre offers food, drinks, and WiFi and should give us plenty of room to meet and have a chat after work!

Hopefully see you there, Stinglehammer (talk) 11:33, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

The 10,000 Challenge
Hi, at The 10,000 Challenge we're striving to bring about 10,000 article improvements and creations for the UK and Ireland and inspire others to create more content. In order to achieve this we need diversity of content, in all parts of the UK and Ireland on all topics. Eventually a regional contest will be held for all parts of the British Isles, like they were for Wales and the Wedt Country. We currently have just over 1900 articles and need contributors! If you think you'd be interested in collaborating on this and helping reach the target quicker, please sign up and begin listing your entries there as soon as possible! Thanks.♦ --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:40, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

Europe 10,000 Challenge invite
Hi. The WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Germany, Italy, the Benelux countries, Iberian Peninsula, Romania, Slovenia etc, much like The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for Europe and your specialist country like WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every country of Europe, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any country sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thank you. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 01:56, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

Wikimedian in Residence BoF at Wikimania 2017
Hello!

My name is David Alves (User:Horadrim~usurped), and I'm an Wikipedian in Residence at RIDC NeuroMat (User:Horadrim). I've reach your contact through the Wikimedian in residence page in Outreach. As you may know, Wikimania 2017 is coming! I am here because, as a fellow WiR, I believe this would be a great opportunity for us to share experiences, discuss difficulties and exchange solutions, creating a community among us capable of supporting in other projects that would benefit from residents. In that sense, I have submitted a proposal of a Birds of a Feather activity to Wikimania that you can check out here. I hope to count with your support in this project and would like to invite you to join us if you participate in Wikimania. In case of any doubts, please feel free to contact me, either in my talk pages or by e-mail at david.alvesoutlook.com.

Thank you very much! ‎Horadrim~usurped (talk) 00:33, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject Women in Red/The World Contest
Hi. This month The Women in Red World Contest is being held to try to produce new articles for as many countries worldwide and occupations as possible. There is over £3000 in prizes to win, including Amazon vouchers and paid subscriptions. Wikimedia UK is putting up £250 specifically for editors who produce the most quality new women bios for British women, with special consideration given to missing notable biographies from the Oxford Dictionary of Biography and Welsh Dictionary of Biography. If you're not interested in prize money yourself but are willing to participate independently this is also fine, but please add any articles created to the bottom of the main contest page even if not competing. Your participation in the contest and contributing articles on British women from your area or wherever would we much appreciated. Thanks.

Ottawa-Gatineau mailing list & WikiClub
Hello ACrockford,

I hope you’re doing well. You receive this short message because you are a member of the Category:Wikipedians in Ottawa, and I would like to point out that a mailing list for the Ottawa-Gatineau region now exists. Also, the newly formed Ottawa-Gatineau WikiClub might be of interest to you.


 * Mailing list registration: https://discussions.wikimedia.ca/lists/listinfo/ottawa-gatineau
 * Official page of the Ottawa-Gatineau WikiClub: https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ottawa-Gatineau_WikiClub

Thank you and have a nice day! Benoit Rochon (talk) 19:23, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

Your Wikidata item
I'm building w:template:WiR_table_row to help automate the Wikipedians_in_Residence table. Do you have an existing qid? See Q25212744 as an example. T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 09:06, 29 September 2019 (UTC)