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WikiCup 2011 July newsletter
The finals are upon us; we're down to the last few. One of the eight remaining contestants will be this year's WikiCup champion! 150 was the score needed to progress to the final; just under double the 76 required to reach round 4, and more than triple the 41 required to reach round 3. Our eight finalists are:


 * , Pool A's winner. Casliber has the highest total score in the competition, with 1528, the bulk of which is made up of 8 featured articles. He has the highest number of total featured articles (8, 1 of which was eligible for double points) and total did you knows (72) of any finalist. Casliber writes mostly on biology, including ornithology, botany and mycology.
 * , Pool B's winner and the highest scorer this round. PresN is the only finalist who has scored featured topic points, and he has gathered an impressive 330, but most of his points come from his 4 featured articles, one of which scored double. PresN writes mostly on video games and the Hugo Awards.
 * , Pool A's runner-up. Hurricanehink's points are mostly from his 30 good articles, more than any other finalist, and he is also the only finalist to score good topic points. Hurricanehink, as his name suggests, writes mostly on meteorology.
 * , Pool B's runner-up. Wizardman has completed 86 good article reviews, more than any other finalist, but most of his points come from his 2 featured articles. Wizardman writes mostly on American sport, especially baseball.
 * , the "fastest loser" (Pool A). Miyagawa has written 3 featured lists, one of which was awarded double points, more than any other finalist, but he was awarded points mostly for his 68 did you knows. Miyagawa writes on a variety of topics, including dogs, military history and sport.
 * , the second "fastest loser" (Pool B). Most of Resolute's points come from his 9 good articles. He writes mostly on Canadian topics, including ice hockey.
 * , who was joint third "fastest loser" (Pool A). Most of Evan's points come from his 10 good articles, and he writes mostly on meteorology.
 * , who was joint third "fastest loser" (Pool B). Most of Phil's points come from his 9 good articles, 4 of which (more than any other finalist) were eligible for double points. He writes mostly on aeronautics.

We say goodbye to our seven other semi-finalists,, , , , , and. Everyone still in the competition at this stage has done fantastically well, and contributed greatly to Wikipedia. We're on the home straight now, and we will know our winner in two months.

In other news, preparations for next year's competition have begun with a brainstorming thread. Please, feel free to drop by and share any thoughts you have about how the competition should work next year. Sign ups are not yet open, but will be opened in due course. Watch this space. Further, there has been a discussion about the rule whereby those in the WikiCup must delcare their participation when nominating articles at featured article candidates. This has resulted in a bot being created by new featured article delegate. The bot will leave a message on FAC pages if the nominator is a participant in the WikiCup.

A reminder of the rules: any points scored after August 29 may be claimed for the final round, and please remember to update submission pages promptly. If you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, 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 receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 23:52, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

September 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States
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Re: Sociology of Marriage
Thank you, I was in fact not expecting extra help, so this is a nice surprise. As you can see from this, I am quite strict about having them edit often. Some of them may be asking questions on my talk page, I try to reply to all of them and comment on their edits, and I'd suggest that if you feel like it, instead of waiting for them to ask you a question, you may want to check their recent contribs and comment on them if you think they need help, or deserve praise. I designed this section to make it easy for us to check on their activity. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; talk to me 15:33, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I can always use input; the students just did a bunch of edits and I am out and about answering questions and putting out fires (biting there, revertion there, contested deletion there, a bunch of how-to-add-a-reference-help-mes...). Feel free to join! :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; talk to me 04:22, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

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Introduction
First off, I have no idea if I'm posting this in the correct place (Wikipedia Newbie), so I'm sorry if this disrupts the flow of your page. But I just wanted to introduce myself. I'm a student participating in the Wikipedia project as a part of the class 'Introduction to Law and Technology'. This seems like a truly great project and cause, and I'm very excited to get started contributing to a truly awesome source of information and cooperation. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cbrown00 (talk • contribs) 01:29, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Good Evening,

I am studying the Polaris Project in my Political Participation class, and was wondering if you'd be interested in mentoring me from this point on? I will be studying this organization until December, and need someone to mentor me.

Thank You,

Juliejones24 (talk) 01:59, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

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Update on courses and ambassador needs
Hello, Ambassadors!

I wanted to give you one last update on where we are this term, before my role as Online Facilitator wraps up at the end of this week. Already, there are over 800 students in U.S. classes who have signed up on course pages this term. About 40 classes are active, and we're expecting that many more again once all the classes are up and running.

On a personal note, it's been a huge honor to work with so many great Wikipedians over the last 15 months. Thanks so much to everyone who jumped in and decided to give the ambassador concept a try, and double thanks those of you who were involved early on. Your ideas and insights and enthusiasm have been the foundation of the program, and they will be the keys the future of the program.

Courses looking for Online Ambassadors
Still waiting to get involved with a class this term, or ready to take on more? We have seven classes that are already active and need OA support, and eleven more that have course pages started but don't have active students yet. Please consider joining one or more of these pods!

Active courses that really need Online Ambassadors:
 * Sociology of Poverty
 * Architectural Design
 * Introduction to Educational Psychology
 * Intro to Mass Communication
 * Psychology Seminar
 * Theories of the State
 * Advanced Media Studies

Courses that may be active soon that need Online Ambassadors:


 * Housing and Social Policy
 * Anthropology, Wikipedia, and the Media
 * History & Systems
 * Horror Cinema
 * Digital Media... just bits in a box
 * Composition I
 * Telecommunications Management
 * Training Systems
 * Stigma: Culture, Deviance, Identity
 * Art and Terrorism
 * Political Violence and Insurgency

--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 23:10, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

Talk:College dating
Since this group has to deal with AfD, some extra comments won't go amiss. Thanks! --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; talk to me 01:50, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

WikiCup 2011 September newsletter
We are on this year's home straight, with less than a month to go until the winner of the 2011 WikiCup will be decided. The fight for first place is currently being contested by, and , all of whom have over 200 points. This round has already seen multiple featured articles (1991 Atlantic hurricane season from Hurricanehink and Northrop YF-23 from Sp33dyphil) and a double-scoring featured list (Miyagawa's 1948 Summer Olympics medal table). The scores will likely increase far further before the end of the round on October 31 as everyone ups their pace. There is not much more to say- thoughts about next year's competition are welcome on the WikiCup talk page or the scoring talk page, and signups will open once a few things have been sorted out.

If you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, 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 receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 12:28, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

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Re: class
No, it still varies significantly between various groups. Feel free to check on each group progress (which can be significant to none) and to offer them comments and suggestions! --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; talk to me 05:13, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

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Yale Law and Technology Wikipedia Project
Hi Benjinhan, like those below me, I wanted to introduce myself. My name is Sam and I'm looking forward to learning from you! Thank you.--SamH25 (talk) 18:56, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi Bejinhan! Like Tate (below), I am also involved in Yale's Law and Technology Wikiproject. I will have questions about editing and creating Wikipedia pages. My questions are basically the same as Tate's. Should I ask questions here on your talk page? Thanks so much!

Yael — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yzinkow (talk • contribs) 19:32, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi Bejinhan, I am also introducing myself. I will be writing on Bryan v. MacPherson with two other students. I'm sure I will have questions as well! Cgiugale (talk) 19:54, 6 November 2011 (UTC) (Carla) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cgiugale (talk • contribs) 19:50, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Hi Bejinhan, I would like to introduce myself. I am working with Cgiugale and Npmakarov89 on Bryan v. MacPherson. Any advice or suggestions for our article would be greatly appreciated. Andersme (talk) 02:43, 5 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi Bejinhan, we have finally finished our first draft of the article Bryan v Macpherson! Any suggestions or advice would be very much appreciated. Thank you for the help. Andersme (talk) 05:51, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanks but
Please note that your recent edit 9 removed some inline references. Could you restore them? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; talk to me 03:10, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
 * But you removed it from a number of sentences, leaving only the final and insufficient end-of-the-para reference. While the article was larger before, code wise, it was better referenced than after your edit. Could you restore the (preferably shortened) reference to the sentences that had it before? Thanks, --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; talk to me 03:15, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I explained this at Talk:Grounds_for_divorce, as the students can benefit from this as well. I appreciate your help, and I hope you will agree with me that what I am proposing is the best solution. You are right that the ref is the same, but shortening it AND keeping it after every sentence is better than removing it. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; talk to me 03:23, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Wow, that was an old discussion. Those days we were just winning the fight to adopt inline references, you know... when I think of all those people who where fighting tooth and nail to keep the "brilliant prose" standards, arguing that footnotes "look bad".... *shivers* Anyway, those days I think we have an increasing consensus that most if not all sentences need a reference. The rules on that are still fuzzy, but I think the trend is clear. A more recent discussion: Wikipedia_talk:Featured_article_candidates. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; talk to me 04:16, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah, brilliant prose... the main argument was that brilliant prose is enough - that inline references were not needed for a top quality article. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; talk to me 15:40, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

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Help needed for a student class project
Please see WikiProject Classroom coordination/SFSU Class Project and consider adding your name.

The scope of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Classroom coordination/SFSU Class Project is mainly concerned with new articles.

According to the teacher's instructions, this group of students may not create a lot of new articles, but may instead focus more on improving existing articles.

So, there may be little for us to do in the way the WikiProject China/NNU Class Project required. The students may, however, still call on us for guidance in other areas. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 09:13, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

Yale Law & Tech WikiProject
Hi! My name is Tate, and I would like you to be my mentor. I am taking Brad Rosen's Law & Technology class at Yale, and I would like to edit pages under that general subject.

I am new to Wikipedia editing, so I will be asking a fair amount of questions. Can I post them directly on this talk page? Also, I see a lot of other posts here as well. Should I limit my questions to this heading, and should this heading be somewhere else on the talk page? How can I put a page on my 'Watchlist'? I saw a link for your page, but I have not seen links for others.

Thank you for your help! Tateharsh (talk) 22:19, 10 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi Evangeline! I received your message. Thank you for your help! I have been looking at articles to work on, and I have come across a few that haven't been started yet. (I posted them on my user page). Anyways, with relevance to our class, I think I want to work on Prior use. I think there is a lot to say about it, and since we have discussed it in class, I already have a slight background. Before I start, do you have any suggestions? Also, what do you think about the topic in particular? Thank you! Tateharsh (talk) 01:00, 15 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi! So I've talked to my professor about topics I should do, and he was really excited about Detroit Free Press v. Ashcroft. I actually think it would be easier to write a comprehensive article of a court case than 'Prior Use' because the topics are exhaustive.  Also, the court documents will be great references. What do you think about this case?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tateharsh (talk • contribs) 17:37, 15 October 2011 (UTC)


 * I will be working in my sandbox. Thank you for your help! Tateharsh (talk) 15:18, 19 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Evangeline, can you direct me to the links that you found for Detroit Free Press v. Ashcroft? Thank you, Tateharsh (talk) 15:16, 21 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your help!Tateharsh (talk) 06:14, 25 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi! I finished my first draft of Detroit Free Press v. Ashcroft! Can you please read my article?  If you have any suggestions, you can write on my talk page or on the discussion page of the article itself. Thank you for your help! Tateharsh (talk) 02:59, 30 November 2011 (UTC)


 * No problem at all. It took me forever to get around to finally writing it! Also, I did use the citeweb template. Some information was missing from the articles, but I filled in what was available.  Should I leave the blank attributes in the template? (For example, if the publisher was missing, should I leave that section in the template anyways?)  Thank you! Tateharsh (talk) 23:02, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Yale Law & Tech WikiProject
Hi Evangeline! I think I've found the topic I would like to work on for my Wikipedia project. I would like to improve and expand the First to file and first to invent article. I think there is a lot more to be said. I already edited the Changing to first-to-file section to reflect recent developments. What do you think? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yzinkow (talk • contribs) 04:06, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments! I am working on a list of references right now and will get back to you with a final list soon. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yzinkow (talk • contribs) 17:00, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

CS183 Introduction
Hi Evangeline,

I'm in CS183 and participating in the Wikipedia project. I'm introducing myself to fulfill the requirements for week one.

If I have any questions in the future, I'll be sure to let you know!

Best, Matthewgaba (talk) 04:07, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

CS183 Introduction
Hi Bejinhan,

I've been doing the set up assignments out of order, but I'm introducing myself now. I looking forward to working on this project more in the future and learning about adding to wikipedia.

Piamedes —Preceding undated comment added 04:31, 17 October 2011 (UTC).

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Nifty tool
With this link, you can see which the students' articles are being edited, where discussions are taking place, and what the students are doing. Feel free (and invited) to join the action and comment on it. Note the current hot spot is at Talk:College dating. --<sub style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; talk to me 19:03, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

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Student blocked
I have regretfully blocked for a week because for the third time he posted at Advanced jigs and fixtures material copied from http://www.scribd.com/doc/3587826/Jigs-Fixture. The copyright material was also on his user page. If he wants to be unblocked, he will need to convince an administrator that he has read and understands Copy-paste and will not copy again. If you have not already, please ask all your students to read that page, which explains the copyright issue in simpler terms that the formal Copyrights.

I have updated the table at India Education Program/Students to note this block. I don't know whether "outsiders" are supposed to amend that table - if not, feel free to undo my edit there. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 09:37, 29 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi John, thanks for notifying me. I am not the mentor for this particular student. I am just part of the "emergency task force" tasked with cleaning up the India Education Program students' articles... hence, the reason why my name is in as the online ambassador for him. I will alert the person in charge of this and hopefully, it wouldn't be repeated. Bejinhan   talks   11:12, 29 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi! Just a note to say I found the user names for 3 students with missing links on User:Bejinhan/IEP:
 * Yogesh Kulkarni =


 * Sayali Bharambe =


 * Prakash waghmode =


 * Also I just blanked the user page of Swapnil.sonawane111 (another one on your emergency list). It was a copyvio from http://www.welding-robots.com/articles.php?tag=657
 * Best, Voceditenore (talk) 15:47, 29 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the help, Voceditenore! I'll be keeping an eye on their articles. John, I've left a message on Swapnil's talk page regarding the copyvio. That's the best I can do about it now... just hoping it doesn't repeat. Bejinhan   talks   12:20, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2011 October newsletter
The 2011 WikiCup is now over, and our new champion is, who joins the exclusive club of the previous winners: (2007),  (2008),  (2009) and  (2010). The final standings were as follows:



Prizes for first, second, third and fourth will be awarded, as will prizes for all those who reached the final eight. Every participant who scored in the competition will receive a ribbon of participation. In addition to the prizes based on placement, the following special prizes will be awarded based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, the prize is awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round.


 * The Featured Article Award:, for his performance in round 2. matched the score, but Casliber won the tiebreaker.
 * The Good Article Award:, for his performance in round 4.
 * The Featured List Award:, for his performance in round 4. matched the score, but Miyagawa won the tiebreaker.
 * The Recognised Topic Award (for good and featured topics):, for his performance in round 3.
 * The Did You Know Award:, for his performance in round 1.
 * The In the News Award:, for his performance in round 1.
 * The Reviewer Award (for good article reviews):, for his performance in round 3.

No prize was awarded for featured pictures, sounds or portals, as none were claimed throughout the competition. The awards will be handed out over the next few days. Congratulations to all our participants, and especially our winners; we've all had fun, and Wikipedia has benefitted massively from our content work.

Preparation for next year's WikiCup is ongoing. Interested parties are invited to sign up and participate in our straw polls. It's been a pleasure to work with you all this year, and, whoever's taking part in and running the competition in 2012, we hope to see you all in January! J Milburn and The ed17 00:32, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Class Editing Session Tonight (11/1)
Hi Bejinhan, I'm tbs27, one of the campus ambassadors for New Media: Innovation, Community, and Dissidence at Georgetown. Just wanted to let you know that the class is meeting tonight for a group editing session, so we may contact you if any questions come up! We'll be meeting starting at 7:15pm EST, so maybe we'll see you online if you happen to be on IRC then, or else you may hear from some of the students later this week. Thanks! Tbs27 (talk) 16:24, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

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Come back

 *  Wifione  Message 06:49, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
 * It's nice of you to ask me to return. I actually can't believe I'm writing this, but I do miss ACC. You know, the creating of accounts, vetting through the information, and all that stuff. But what's passed has passed (check my ACC account status) so I really can't and do not wish to come back. I'm focusing more on the main project here now. :) Bejinhan   talks   06:53, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Come back and get your user id reactivated. After that, you can choose to not be active. But come back please. Wifione  Message 06:55, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Any reason why you sound desperate? ;) Really, I said long ago that I wouldn't appeal the decision and I intend to keep my word. Bejinhan   talks   11:45, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
 * :-) True, I must be sounding desperate :) No, not like that. It's just that I find it a shame to lose such a top account creator. Anyway, I respect your stand; yet, would encourage you to come back whenever you wish. Best always and take care. Wifione  Message 04:23, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

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re:
as you are bad. 189.4.30.29 (talk) 04:31, 5 November 2011 (UTC)


 * I guess I wouldn't be receiving the rose you've just posted on 20+ other talk pages...? Bejinhan   talks   04:34, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Aw man how does it feel to be left out bro :P <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;"><b style="color:#333333;">Res</b> Mar 04:38, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Haha, but well, I got a good laugh out of this. Bejinhan   talks   04:40, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Not the first WikiLove activist I've seen either, ae. User_talk:Tony1. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;"><b style="color:#333333;">Res</b> Mar 04:43, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
 * That's a strange one. Bejinhan   talks   04:47, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Copyvio cleanup at IEP
Hi Bejinhan. I left some suggestions for you at Wikipedia talk:India Education Program/Students, although you may have already tried them. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 08:34, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

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Talk:Pregnancy#RfC: Which photo should we use in the lead?
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Ambassador input could be useful
Hi Benjinhan. If you have a little time, I think my students could use some help with somebody going over their now mostly GAN articles, and helping them with some technical issues - how to fix broken reference, how to make the article more MoS compliant, and such. Any plagiarism/copyvio spotchecks you would feel like doing would also be helpful. Lastly, one student started their wiki editing only recently and they could use some extra help and wikilove:. PS. Check the Wikipedia talk:School and university projects/User:Piotrus/Fall 2011 tool I added here - click me gives you the overview of where the action is :) --<sub style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; talk to me 19:23, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
 * If you can help them with some more technical stuff, and/or give them how-to's instructions, it would be great! Thanks! --<sub style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; talk to me 18:35, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Future of the US Education Program and the Ambassador Project
There is a discussion about the future and the growth of the US education program along with the future of the Wikipedia Ambassador Project here. Voceditenore (talk) 07:17, 18 November 2011 (UTC)