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thanks for your welcome & looking forward to liaising. L'honorable

WikiCup 2015 March newsletter


That's it, the first round is done, sign-ups are closed and we're into round 2. Forty-seven competitors move into this round (a bit shy of the expected 64), and we are roughly broken into eight groups of six. The top two of each group will go through to round 3, and then the top scoring 16 "wildcards" across all groups.

Twenty-two Good Articles were submitted, including three by, and two each by , , , and. Twenty-one Featured Pictures were claimed, including 17 by (the Round 1 high scorer). Thirty-one contestants saw their DYKs appear on the main page, with a commanding lead (28) by. Twenty-nine participants conducted GA reviews with completing nine.

If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Thanks to everyone for participating, and good luck to those moving into round 2. ,, and --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:38, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

WikiCup 2016 March newsletter (update)
Along with getting the year wrong in the newsletter that went out earlier this week, we did not mention (as the bot did not report) that claimed the first Featured Article Persoonia terminalis of the 2016 Wikicup. ,, and .--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:05, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

I understood that anyone can edit a page. The information about the East End of Newport News is largely inaccurate. I simply updated it. Why did you delete it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Honest Blog (talk • contribs) 02:10, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

Just to validate my facts; I have lived in the East End for 11 years and I am a homeowner. Most of what you posted is old data. Unfortunately the negativity continued about the area because of data like yours and the media which emphasis the crime. There is more crime in Denbigh than the East End.

Editor of the Week&thinsp;: nominations needed!
The Editor of the Week initiative has been recognizing editors since 2013 for their hard work and dedication. Editing Wikipedia can be disheartening and tedious at times; the weekly Editor of the Week award lets its recipients know that their positive behaviour and collaborative spirit is appreciated. The response from the honorees has been enthusiastic and thankful.

The list of nominees is running short, and so new nominations are needed for consideration. Have you come across someone in your editing circle who deserves a pat on the back for improving article prose regularly, making it easier to understand? Or perhaps someone has stepped in to mediate a contentious dispute, and did an excellent job. Do you know someone who hasn't received many accolades and is deserving of greater renown? Is there an editor who does lots of little tasks well, such as cleaning up citations?

Please help us thank editors who display sustained patterns of excellence, working tirelessly in the background out of the spotlight, by submitting your nomination for Editor of the Week today!

Sent on behalf of Buster Seven   Talk  for the Editor of the Week initiative by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:18, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

Seeking an Update To Steve Rannazzisi Bio
I've been directed to the Tea House but my question doesn't appear to be showing up, so I'm reaching out to you.

I would like to update the page of American comedian/actor Steve Rannazzisi. A major aspect of his public persona is omitted from the introduction and the entry is incomplete as a result.

Rannazzisi built his career saying he escaped the South Tower of the World Trade Center on 9/11. He didn't. This is something that defines his public persona and should not be buried in the text as it is now.

Rannazzisi's career is inexorably linked to his 9/11 story. He began telling it to comedians immediately after moving to Los Angeles days after the attack. He began telling elaborate versions of the lie publicly starting in 2009. He shared detailed accounts on multiple comedy podcasts and interviews. The New York Times was going to out his false narrative in September 2015, but Rannazzisi admitted it publicly hours before the story ran.

Typing "Steve Rannazzisi" into google returns 172,000 hits, with mulitple mentions of the lie on the first page. "Steve Rannazzisi 9/11" returns nearly 60,000 hits on google. So more than a third of his presence on the internet is tied to the falsehood. Type in "Steve Rannazzisi" and click the "News" feed in google and you'll see scores of articles on the subject.

It is absolutely integral that his connection to a lie he told for 14 years be mentioned prominently in his bio. It belongs in the first paragraph, if not part of the first sentence.

(THIS APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN DOUBLE-POSTED. MY APOLOGIES)

187Journalist (talk) 23:08, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

Username
Just dropping by to say that your username is very nice! I also really like your picture on the Teahouse host's page. Elsa Enchanted (talk) 18:49, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks! :) -- Amaryllis Gardener  talk 19:04, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

WikiCup 2016 May newsletter


Round 2 is over and 35 competitors have moved on to Round 3.

Round 2 saw three FAs (two by and one by ), four Featured Lists (with three by ), and 53 Good Articles (six by  and five each by, , and ). Eleven Featured Pictures were promoted (six by and five by ). One Featured Portal, Featured Topic and Good Topic were also promoted. The DYK base point total was 1,135. scored 265 base points, while and  each scored 150 base points. Eleven ITN were promoted and 131 Good Article Reviews were conducted with completing a staggering 61 reviews. Two contestants, and, broke the 700 point mark for Round 2.

If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Thanks to everyone for participating, and good luck to those moving into round 2. ,, and -- MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:59, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

Caracal
I see you worked hard on this article. You would be happy to see it now, it is a GA nominee. Cheers! Sainsf (talk · contribs) 05:04, 15 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Now it is a Good Article once again. Sainsf  (talk · contribs) 07:52, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
 * That's great! -- Amaryllis Gardener  talk 02:52, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

Hello AmaryllisGardener
Hello AmaryllisGardener, i need to move my draft article main space Draft:Oluwole to Indomix thanks.--Benard2 (talk) 16:47, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I'll let someone else review it first. I put a pending review tag on the draft. -- Amaryllis Gardener  talk 17:16, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

Offensive username
Hi, AmaryllisGardener. Re your welcome to Katyscameltoe (now indeffed), I guess you don't know what "camel toe" means? Bishonen &#124; talk 20:51, 29 July 2016 (UTC).
 * I don't remember welcoming that user, are you sure it wasn't a Teahouse invite left by a bot with my name on it? I was part of a program that included TH host usernames in bot-delivered invites to make them seem more personal. -- Amaryllis Gardener  talk 22:22, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
 * So it was. I read too quickly; you hadn't signed it, you were just there, making it more personal. Too personal..? I don't want to fuss, but is there any human check at all of new users before they get thanked for contributing to Wikipedia and invited to the Teahouse? No big deal, I guess. Bishonen &#124; talk 23:19, 29 July 2016 (UTC).

Offensive username
Hi, AmaryllisGardener. Re your welcome to Katyscameltoe (now indeffed), I guess you don't know what "camel toe" means? Bishonen &#124; talk 20:51, 29 July 2016 (UTC).
 * I don't remember welcoming that user, are you sure it wasn't a Teahouse invite left by a bot with my name on it? I was part of a program that included TH host usernames in bot-delivered invites to make them seem more personal. -- Amaryllis Gardener  talk 22:22, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
 * So it was. I read too quickly; you hadn't signed it, you were just there, making it more personal. Too personal..? I don't want to fuss, but is there any human check at all of new users before they get thanked for contributing to Wikipedia and invited to the Teahouse? No big deal, I guess. Bishonen &#124; talk 23:19, 29 July 2016 (UTC).

Vishnu Savara _ Biography
Hiii,

This is Amit Manore from Mumbai (India)

I am editing Vishnu Savara _ Biography; but its not showing correctly after editing..... (it not showing in order one by one) can you please help me in that... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amitmanore (talk • contribs) 07:26, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

How to respond to Deletion request?
Hello. A logo I uploaded is being tagged with a deletion request. I'm not sure how to respond. All guides I've read suggest that a logo can't be uploaded. However, several articles do indeed include a logo (eg: The_Walt_Disney_Company). How would I proceed? Mme pickford (talk) 15:39, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Well, the Walt Disney Company logo is writing in a font, so it isn't copyright protected, but it's trademark protected. Trademarked pictures can be uploaded to Commons, but copyright protected pictures can't. This logo is considered to be copyright protected. Wikipedia does contain some copyrighted images (i.e. the Starbucks logo), but these aren't stored on Wikimedia Commons, but are uploaded directly to Wikipedia. You can upload a logo to Wikipedia through the File Upload Wizard. -- Amaryllis Gardener  talk 16:30, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Oh yes, I've uploaded the logo no problem. My concern now is addressing this Deletion Request. I'm new on here, and don't know what the protocol is. Yes, I Googled before asking. ;)Mme pickford (talk) 19:08, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
 * You uploaded the logo to Commons, which doesn't accept that type of file. You need to upload it instead at the link I gave (Wikipedia only). Sorry, I know it's confusing. -- Amaryllis Gardener  talk 20:03, 22 September 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to the African Destubathon
Hi. You may be interested in participating in the African Destubathon which starts on October 15. Africa currently has over 37,000 stubs and badly needs a quality improvement editathon/contest to flesh out basic stubs. There are proposed substantial prizes to give to editors who do the most articles, and planned smaller prizes for doing to most destubs for each of the 53 African countries, so should be enjoyable! So it would be a good chance to win something for improving stubs on African sportspeople, including footballers, athletes, Olympians and Paralympians etc, particularly female ones, but also male. Even if contests aren't your thing we would be grateful if you could consider destubbing a few African articles during the drive to help the cause and help reduce the massive 37,000 + stub count, of which many are rated high importance (think Regions of countries etc). If you're interested in competing or just loosely contributing a few expanded articles on African Paralympians, Olympians and committees etc, please add your name to the Contestants/participants section. Diversity of work from a lot of people will make this that bit more special. Thanks. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:13, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

Halloween cheer!


Happy Halloween!

Hello AmaryllisGardener: Thanks for all of your contributions to improve Wikipedia, and have a happy and enjoyable Halloween!   –  – Davey 2010 Talk 23:31, 31 October 2016 (UTC) Send Halloween cheer by adding {{subst:Happy Halloween}} to user talk pages with a friendly message.

WikiCup 2016 November newsletter: Final results
The final round of the 2016 WikiCup is over. Congratulations to the 2016 WikiCup top three finalists:
 * First Place -
 * Second Place -
 * Third Place -

In addition to recognizing the achievements of the top finishers and everyone who worked hard to make it to the final round, we also want to recognize those participants who were most productive in each of the WikiCup scoring categories:
 * Featured Article – Cas Liber (actually a three-way tie with themselves for two FAs in each of R2, R3, and R5).
 * Good Article – MPJ-DK had 14 GAs promoted in R3.
 * Featured List – produced 2 FLs in R2
 * Featured Pictures – Adam Cuerden restored 18 images to FP status in R4.
 * Featured Portal – produced the only FPO of the Cup in R2.
 * Featured Topic – and Calvin were each responsible for one FT in R3 and R2, respectively.
 * Good Topic – MPJ-DK created a GT with 9 GAs in R5.
 * Did You Know – MPJ-DK put 53 DYKs on the main page in R4.
 * In The News – and, each with 5 ITN, both in R4.
 * Good Article Review – MPJ-DK completed 61 GARs in R2.

Over the course of the 2016 WikiCup the following content was added to Wikipedia (only reporting on fixed value categories): 17 Featured Articles, 183 Good Articles, 8 Featured Lists, 87 Featured Pictures, 40 In The News, and 321 Good Article Reviews. Thank you to all the competitors for your hard work and what you have done to improve Wikipedia.--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:52, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

We will open up a discussion for comments on process and scoring in a few days. The 2017 WikiCup is just around the corner! Many thanks from all the judges. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. ,, and

WikiProject Good Articles's 2016-2017 GA Cup
--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:40, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

New Page Review needs your help
Hi ,

As an AfC reviewer you're probably aware that a new user right has been created for patrolling new pages (you might even have been granted the right already, and admins have it automatically).

Since July there has been a very serious backlog at Special:NewPagesFeed of over 14,000 pages, by far the worst since 2011, and we need an all out drive to get this back down to just a few hundred that can be easily maintained in the future. Unlike AfC, these pages are already in mainspace, and the thought of what might be there is quite scary. There are also many good faith article creators who need a simple, gentle push to the Tea House or their pages converted to Draft rather than being deleted. Although New Page Reviewing can occasionally be somewhat more challenging than AfC, the criteria for obtaining the right are roughly the same. The Page Curation tool is even easier to use than the Helper Script, so it's likely that most AfC reviewers already have more than enough knowledge for the task of New Page Review.

It is hoped that AfC reviewers will apply for this right at WP:PERM and lend a hand. You'll need to have read the page at WP:NPR and the new tutorial.

(Sent to all active AfC reviewers) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:33, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

The Challenge Series
The Challenge Series is a current drive on English Wikipedia to encourage article improvements and creations globally through a series of 50,000/10,000/1000 Challenges for different regions, countries and topics. All Wikipedia editors in good standing are invited to participate.


 * Use   to invite others using this template.
 * Sent to users at Northamerica1000/Mailing list using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:15, 19 November 2016 (UTC).

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!
Hello Amaryllis,

I am reaching you out after your post of quora: https://www.quora.com/Can-I-add-data-about-myself-on-Wikidata/answer/Amaryllis-Gardener?srid=3pps

I am author of http://nifty.works, a prototype for brainstorming and discovery of factual knowledge. It shows mindmap of a subset of Wikidata - English Wikipedia.

I would like to extend the project to other domains of public interest. And here, I found quickly that some type of entities are missing in Wikidata - both as description, both as just mere presence. I though that it would be useful to commit and automate creation of missing entities in Wikidata, data that I met and curated in my journey of computing knowledge graphs for mapping industrial domains - much of my R&D is not yet publicly visible ! According to Wikidata policy, is it possible to create a bot to programmatically insert new entities for specific types? My vision is converge to Wikidata all datasets that I found public, and enable a repository that could be levereged by people (innovators, students, researchers, startup) and not only by big companies. As example, I think it would be useful to add information about private companies, an hot field for startup ecosystem and innovation. Once there are records, it may be easier to extend and populate them by other people, too. If wikipedia extends Freebase, in principle it should be possible.

Could I contribute in doing bots to automate the process? I know I can find documentation here: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Creating_a_bot

But I would like to have an in-person briefing and hear your insight as administrator.

Thank you so much, Luigi

Gg4u (talk) 23:59, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Hello Luigi, I recommend you look at and apply for a bot at Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot. -- Amaryllis Gardener  talk 00:17, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

BBC 12-hour Editathon - large influx of new pages & drafts expected
AfC Reviewers are asked to be especially on the look out 08:00-20:00 UTC (that's local London time - check your USA and AUS times) on Thursday 8 December for new pages. The BBC together with Wikimedia UK is holding a large 12-hour editathon. Many new articles and drafts are expected. See BBC 100 Women 2016: How to join our edit-a-thon. Follow also on #100womenwiki, and please, don't bite the newbies :) (user:Kudpung for NPR. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:02, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

RC Patrol-related Proposals in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey
Greetings Recent Changes Patrollers!

This is a one-time-only message to inform you about technical proposals related to Recent Changes Patrol in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey that I think you may be interested in reviewing and perhaps even voting for:


 * 1) Adjust number of entries and days at Last unpatrolled
 * 2) Editor-focused central editing dashboard
 * 3) "Hide trusted users" checkbox option on watchlists and related/recent changes (RC) pages
 * 4) Real-Time Recent Changes App for Android
 * 5) Shortcut for patrollers to last changes list

Further, there are more than 20 proposals related to Watchlists in general that you may be interested in reviewing. (and over 260 proposals in all, across many aspects of wikis)

Thank you for your consideration. Please note that voting for proposals continues through December 12, 2016.

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Collect your prize
Hi, please carefully read the instructions at the bottom of Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon for collecting your prize. I will need you to send me an email, your wiki name, what I owe you and your preference for currency in dollars or pounds/country of residence.♦ Dr. Blofeld  14:42, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

WikiCup December newsletter: WikiCup 2017
On 1 January 2017, WikiCup 2017 (the 10th Annual WikiCup) will begin. This year we are trying something a little different – monetary prizes.

For the WC2017 the prizes will be as follows (amounts are based in US$ and will be awarded in the form of an online Amazon gift certificate):
 * First place – $200
 * Second & Third place – $50 each
 * Category prizes – $25 per category (which will be limited to FA, FL, FP, GA, and DYK for 2017). Winning a category prize does not require making it to the final round.

Note: Monetary prizes are a one-year experiment for 2017 and may or may not be continued in the future. In order to be eligible to receive any of the prizes above, the competing Wikipedia account must have a valid/active email address. After two years as a WikiCup judge, Figureskatingfan is stepping down. We thank her for her contributions as a WikiCup judge. We are pleased to announce that our newest judge is two-time WikiCup champion Cwmhiraeth.

The judges for the 2017 WikiCup are, , and.

Signups are open now and will remain open until 5 February 2017. You can sign up here.

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Season's Greetings
Happy Holidays text.png Hello AmaryllisGardener: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, North America1000 15:30, 18 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings1}} to send this message

Wiki Article Joan Gelfand
Hi Amaryllis, I found an article on WikiVisually that had been deleted by you in Dec. 2014 on Joan Gelfand, a San Francisco Bay Area author, for lack of inline citations. I am a relatively new editor at Wikipedia but I am specializing in articles on authors (poets in particular), especially those of the Beat Generation (Gelfand is not, but has links to that group). I would like to rewrite the article (it's rather poorly written) and include those citations. I am trained as a historical researcher so citations are meat and potatoes for me. Would you suggest I start the article as if it's entirely brand new? I ran into a problem when submitting the article on Clive Matson, because a previous article had been rejected (dreadfully written with no citations) but the Review Editor held it up because the other article existed. I would appreciate any suggestions from you. With Regard, Eurydice2016. Eurydice2016 (talk) 19:56, 20 December 2016 (UTC)