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This message was a mess. I hope that only affected my talk page? WhatamIdoing (talk) 09:07, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Train-the-Trainer 2017: Invitation to participate
Hello Diptanshu.D, It gives us great pleasure to inform that the Train-the-Trainer (TTT) 2017 programme organised by CIS-A2K is going to be held from 20-22 February 2017.

What is TTT?

Train the Trainer or TTT is a residential training program. The program attempts to groom leadership skills among the Indian Wikimedia community members. Earlier TTT have been conducted in 2013, 2015 and 2016.

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Your input is requested at Sockpuppet investigations/Anasuya.D
Please comment on the case page: Sockpuppet investigations/Anasuya.D which involves you.  QEDK ( 愛 ) 04:05, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

WP:INCUBATOR
I invite you to comment on my idea of article incubator. The idea is not new and details of the previous version can be found at WP:INCUBATOR. I would be glad if you enhance it with your experience. Feel free to improve upon the proposal that I have placed. Anasuya.D (talk) 09:33, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

Insignificant edits with AWB
Hi! Please note AutoWikiBrowser rule number 4. You shouldn't make automated edits that have little or no effect on the page like and. Both is slightly faster than the template, so if you're not using columns or other features, then it would probably be better to leave it alone. This is perhaps especially true if the page is mostly being edited by someone who prefers the visual editor, because the list of references will auto-update while editors are inserting new references if the native wikitext code is on the page, but the template can't show the changes until the page is saved. Plain, native  is also preferable for articles that will be translated, because many Wikipedias don't have a reflist template (the German Wikipedia even seems to have banned its use). On the other hand, if you want to use columns, that's currently the only way to do it. Dynamic columns are on the way, though: see the top section of Template talk:Reflist for an update. will soon behave the same as (or whatever minimum size has been chosen). This should solve the fixed-column problem that template creates for people using smartphones. WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:48, 23 February 2017 (UTC) The reviewer right does not change your status or how you can edit articles. If you no longer want this user right, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. In case of abuse or persistent inaccuracy of reviewing, the right can be revoked at any time by an administrator. TonyBallioni (talk) 20:09, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
 * , thanks for your inputs. In fact, my main objective was to replace the fixed column references with 30em columns wherever applicable. After running the initial round my next step would have been to generate the list of medicine related articles that have and to replace it with . Furthermore, I also plan to replace  with . This had been the purpose of my edits.  D ip ta ns hu Talk 05:00, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
 * It sounds like I am able to save you the trouble of making all those edits, then, given the events that are happening elsewhere. At minimum, I recommend postponing this project for a while.  Also, I recommend talking it over with the other CHECKWIKI folks before doing it.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 07:00, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
 * That sounds good. As of now there are only 250 pages left to be processed in the first round from among about 25,000 medicine related pages. I will stop it outright. I was planning to begin replacing with  immediately after. Should I halt that too? Thereafter, I was planning to take up   and define a logic to form the list from pages having 11 or more instances of   (to indicate the number of references) and then run a find and replace of  with . Should I halt that too? Please suggest.
 * Could you please suggest any CHECKWIKI user whom I could consult in this regard?  D ip ta ns hu Talk 08:00, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
 * behaving the same as is in the test code, but hasn't gone live.  It hasn't been announced yet either, so there's no way you would have known except if you follow the  talk page.  Hold off on replacing/adding any reflist template for now.
 * There's an ARB case going on about cosmetic edits with AWB. It's dangerous right now to even think about making a cosmetic edit with AWB.  Dang, I thought it.  WMF's Thought Police are going to haul me off now.
 * Something that could be done with AWB... The magiclink that does   -->   is going away.  It is being replaced with   -->  .  One can also use a pipe (|), like a regular wikilink...   -->  .  You can use a regex in AWB to change this over.  If you don't know how to code regex's I can do one for you.  A listing of pages using the magiclink is at Category:Pages using PMID magic links.   I've noticed that some of the cases are when a novice editor adds a ref without using cite templates, but the rest of the article does use templates.  In this case, it would be best to convert the bare ref to use a cite template.  CHECKWIKI/WPC 102 dump (CheckWiki error #102) contains other PMID problems. Bgwhite (talk) 08:19, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your inputs. I will discuss with you separately about regex and other uses of AWB. : I will hold off the project completely.
 * Earlier, I had discussed about colwidth here. Thereafter I have been adhering to 30em. I had not otherwise following the discussions on Reflist talk page.  D ip ta ns hu Talk 09:13, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
 * I just got encouraged by and need to ask  and  if I should get going once again. I would (also) be taking up the PMID stuff soon.  D ip ta ns hu Talk 18:44, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Your discussion about colwidth was in 2013. If it was still 2013-2016, then changing to  would be appropriate.  I was also changing it to .  I no longer do this.
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Speedy deletion declined: Alan Rero
Hello Diptanshu Das. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Alan Rero, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: playing in a national team indicates significance. Thank you.  So Why  15:33, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
 * It is good to be a player in the national team but that does not make published information about this automatically available and therefore does not mandate that the person needs a Wikipedia page. Wikipedia is not a primary source of information and I found a lack of reliable information about this person and therefore tagged the article for deletion. I am adding a deletion tag once again. Please do not remove it. If you wish, feel free to contest the deletion and add more reliable sources to the article. If that gets done, deletion would automatically get averted. D ip ta ns hu  &#128172; 15:42, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
 * As an experienced editor, I assumed you knew the difference between speedy deletion and regular deletion. For an article to avert speedy deletion, any credible claim of significance is sufficient. What you are referring to is notability. That can be discussed at WP:AFD without me objecting. But do not re-request speedy deletion because it might be considered WP:ADMINSHOPing. Regards  So Why  15:49, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I accept that instead of a speedy deletion, it should have been considered for a regular deletion on grounds of notability. D ip ta ns hu  &#128172; 15:52, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
 * No worries then. I fixed your AFD btw, you forgot to transclude it in the log and forgot the usual templates and stuff. For the future, consider activating Twinkle, it allows you to automate such nominations. Regards  So Why  15:56, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Although I have been editing Wikipedia for long and have been aware of the principles of Wikipedia editing, it is only recently that I have been invited to patrol new pages. I have just recently taken up the role and am yet to get at ease with the process. Thanks for understanding. D <font color="#ff6600">ip <font color="#009900">ta <font color="#0000ff">ns <font color="#6600cc">hu  &#128172; 15:59, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
 * As I said, no worry and do check out Twinkle, it makes all those tags (tagging, reporting, warning etc.) so much easier. If you have any questions regarding new page patrolling, don't hesitate to ask me. Regards  So Why  16:10, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Surely I would. <font face="Segoe script"><font color="#ff0000">D <font color="#ff6600">ip <font color="#009900">ta <font color="#0000ff">ns <font color="#6600cc">hu  &#128172; 22:48, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

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A new bibliographical landscape
At the beginning of December, Wikidata items on individual scientific articles passed the 10 million mark. This figure contrasts with the state of play in early summer, when there were around half a million. In the big picture, Wikidata is now documenting the scientific literature at a rate that is about eight times as fast as papers are published. As 2017 ends, progress is quite evident.

Behind this achievement are a technical advance (fatameh), and bots that do the lifting. Much more than dry migration of metadata is potentially involved, however. If paper A cites paper B, both papers having an item, a link can be created on Wikidata, and the information presented to both human readers, and machines. This cross-linking is one of the most significant aspects of the scientific literature, and now a long-sought open version is rapidly being built up. The effort for the lifting of copyright restrictions on citation data of this kind has had real momentum behind it during 2017. WikiCite and the I4OC have been pushing hard, with the result that on CrossRef over 50% of the citation data is open. Now the holdout publishers are being lobbied to release rights on citations.

But all that is just the beginning. Topics of papers are identified, authors disambiguated, with significant progress on the use of the four million ORCID IDs for researchers, and proposals formulated to identify methodology in a machine-readable way. P4510 on Wikidata has been introduced so that methodology can sit comfortably on items about papers.

More is on the way. OABot applies the unpaywall principle to Wikipedia referencing. It has been proposed that Wikidata could assist WorldCat in compiling the global history of book translation. Watch this space.

And make promoting #1lib1ref one of your New Year's resolutions. Happy holidays, all!



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Hi , I updated the European Federation of Psychiatric Trainees page but I am not sure what you mean by improving links to wikipedia. bw, --Ofix (talk) 08:22, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

New Years new page backlog drive
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Facto Post – Issue 8 – 15 January 2018
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Metadata on the March
From the days of hard-copy liner notes on music albums, metadata have stood outside a piece or file, while adding to understanding of where it comes from, and some of what needs to be appreciated about its content. In the GLAM sector, the accumulation of accurate metadata for objects is key to the mission of an institution, and its presentation in cataloguing.

Today Wikipedia turns 17, with worlds still to conquer. Zooming out from the individual GLAM object to the ontology in which it is set, one such world becomes apparent: GLAMs use custom ontologies, and those introduce massive incompatibilities. From a recent article by, we quote the observation that "vocabularies needed for many collections, topics and intellectual spaces defy the expectations of the larger professional communities." A job for the encyclopedist, certainly. But the data-minded Wikimedian has the advantages of Wikidata, starting with its multilingual data, and facility with aliases. The controlled vocabulary — sometimes referred to as a "thesaurus" as term of art — simplifies search: if a "spade" must be called that, rather than "shovel", it is easier to find all spade references. That control comes at a cost. Case studies in that article show what can lie ahead. The schema crosswalk, in jargon, is a potential answer to the GLAM Babel of proliferating and expanding vocabularies. Even if you have no interest in Wikidata as such, simply vocabularies V and W, if both V and W are matched to Wikidata, then a "crosswalk" arises from term v in V to w in W, whenever v and w both match to the same item d in Wikidata.

For metadata mobility, match to Wikidata. It's apparently that simple: infrastructure requirements have turned out, so far, to be challenges that can be met.

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 * Funders should mandate open citations, article 9 January 2018 in Nature by David Shotton
 * From snowflake to avalanche: Possibilities of using free citation data in libraries, translation from the German original of Annette Klein, Mannheim University Library
 * GLAM/Newsletter/December 2017/Contents/WMF GLAM report
 * Why Mickey Mouse’s 1998 copyright extension probably won't happen again: Copyrights from the 1920s will start expiring next year if Congress doesn't act, Timothy B. Lee, 8 January 2018, Arstechnica
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Facto Post – Issue 9 – 5 February 2018
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m:Grants:Project/ScienceSource is the new ContentMine proposal: please take a look.

Wikidata as Hub
One way of looking at Wikidata relates it to the semantic web concept, around for about as long as Wikipedia, and realised in dozens of distributed Web institutions. It sees Wikidata as supplying central, encyclopedic coverage of linked structured data, and looks ahead to greater support for "federated queries" that draw together information from all parts of the emerging network of websites. Another perspective might be likened to a photographic negative of that one: Wikidata as an already-functioning Web hub. Over half of its properties are identifiers on other websites. These are Wikidata's "external links", to use Wikipedia terminology: one type for the DOI of a publication, another for the VIAF page of an author, with thousands more such. Wikidata links out to sites that are not nominally part of the semantic web, effectively drawing them into a larger system. The crosswalk possibilities of the systematic construction of these links was covered in Issue 8.

External links speaks of them as kept "minimal, meritable, and directly relevant to the article." Here Wikidata finds more of a function. On viaf.org one can type a VIAF author identifier into the search box, and find the author page. The Wikidata Resolver tool, these days including Open Street Map, Scholia etc., allows this kind of lookup. The hub tool by takes a major step further, allowing both lookup and crosswalk to be encoded in a single URL.

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 * What galleries, libraries, archives, and museums can teach us about multimedia metadata on Wikimedia Commons, Wikimedia Foundation blogpost, 29 January 2018, by Jonathan Morgan and Sandra Fauconnier
 * The Wikipedia Library/1Lib1Ref/Connect, 2018 institutional participation in the #1lib1ref campaign
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 * Cochrane–Wikipedia Initiative, Wikipedia Signpost special report 5 February 2018, by
 * What is the Last Question?, 5 February 2018
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New Page Reviewer Newsletter
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Backlog update: New Year Backlog Drive results:
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Electrical Engineer (Profession Page)
The page Electrical Engineer as been re directed back to Electrical Engineering. Both must be different Articles. Why the Article as been changed.? Jin0y (talk) 08:47, 19 February 2018 (UTC) Jin0y (talk) 08:47, 19 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Jin0y, I have removed the redirect Electrical engineer and reverted to the previous version wherein I had left the proposal for deletion. Please discuss about the deletion of the current article in the relevant section. I would prefer a discussion to ensue first. Let the decision be based on a consensus. You had tried to change the redirect from Electrical engineering back to the same page. It does not work that way. <font face="Segoe script"><font color="#ff0000">D <font color="#ff6600">ip <font color="#009900">ta <font color="#0000ff">ns <font color="#6600cc">hu  &#128172; 10:52, 19 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Jin0y, Please refer to the page Software engineer. If you can upgrade the page Electrical engineer to a similar status, there would be no problem in retaining the page. The current page has little to no contents and does not cite references. In the current status, the page does not meet Wikipedia standards and is liable to get deleted. <font face="Segoe script"><font color="#ff0000">D <font color="#ff6600">ip <font color="#009900">ta <font color="#0000ff">ns <font color="#6600cc">hu  &#128172; 10:56, 19 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Diptanshu Das, Thankyou for your valid information and reverting the page. I have gone through the article Software Engineer. I assure that the article Electrical Engineer will be developed completely soon.-- jinoytommanjaly (talk) 13:01, 19 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Jin0y, it is good to know that you are developing the page. However, take a note that the article Software Engineer too is not a quality one. You would therefore have to develop it following the Wikipedia norms. Also have a look at Chemical engineer and articles in Category:Engineering occupations. <font face="Segoe script"><font color="#ff0000">D <font color="#ff6600">ip <font color="#009900">ta <font color="#0000ff">ns <font color="#6600cc">hu  &#128172; 14:21, 19 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Diptanshu Das, Thankyou for keep supporting. Will look on to the article, Chemical Engineer you have suggested.-jinoytommanjaly (talk) 14:51, 19 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Also check Structural engineer. Meanwhile, be sure to ensure neutrality of the article that you are developing. Electrical engineers are not produced from a single institute. <font face="Segoe script"><font color="#ff0000">D <font color="#ff6600">ip <font color="#009900">ta <font color="#0000ff">ns <font color="#6600cc">hu  &#128172; 02:59, 20 February 2018 (UTC)


 * , Thankyou for the feedback given. Will look to the matter raised.-jinoytommanjaly (talk) 07:55, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

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Facto Post – Issue 10 – 12 March 2018
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Milestone for mix'n'match
Around the time in February when Wikidata clicked past item Q50000000, another milestone was reached: the mix'n'match tool uploaded its 1000th dataset. Concisely defined by its author,, it works "to match entries in external catalogs to Wikidata". The total number of entries is now well into eight figures, and more are constantly being added: a couple of new catalogs each day is normal.

Since the end of 2013, mix'n'match has gradually come to play a significant part in adding statements to Wikidata. Particularly in areas with the flavour of digital humanities, but datasets can of course be about practically anything. There is a catalog on skyscrapers, and two on spiders.

These days mix'n'match can be used in numerous modes, from the relaxed gamified click through a catalog looking for matches, with prompts, to the fantastically useful and often demanding search across all catalogs. I'll type that again: you can search 1000+ datasets from the simple box at the top right. The drop-down menu top left offers "creation candidates", Magnus's personal favourite. Mix'n'match/Manual for more.

For the Wikidatan, a key point is that these matches, however carried out, add statements to Wikidata if, and naturally only if, there is a Wikidata property associated with the catalog. For everyone, however, the hands-on experience of deciding of what is a good match is an education, in a scholarly area, biographical catalogs being particularly fraught. Underpinning recent rapid progress is an open infrastructure for scraping and uploading.

Congratulations to Magnus, our data Stakhanovite!

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Help : review article
Hi Let me introduce myself. I am Felix and I’m a novice in Wikipedia ! I wrote an article recently, it’s a biography of a french-american journalist : Laura Haim. Now, I’m waiting for validation from wikipedian reviewer. Would you be able to help me? I have no idea how long it could take… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Laura_Haim Many thanks for your help. Best

Felix Billybon (talk) 16:56, 15 March 2018 (UTC)


 * I would definitely try to help you out. As I can see, a couple of inputs are already in place and there is some more work that needs to go into the article.<font face="Segoe script"><font color="#ff0000">D <font color="#ff6600">ip <font color="#009900">ta <font color="#0000ff">ns <font color="#6600cc">hu  &#128172; 04:06, 18 March 2018 (UTC)


 * As I can see, portions of the article have been directly copied from certain sites. This cannot be done when you create an article on Wikipedia. You may source contents from somewhere but you need to rewrite it in your own words. The first step would be to use some online plagiarism checker to identify those lines and to rewrite those. I will try to help you in this regard. <font face="Segoe script"><font color="#ff0000">D <font color="#ff6600">ip <font color="#009900">ta <font color="#0000ff">ns <font color="#6600cc">hu  &#128172; 04:14, 18 March 2018 (UTC)


 * I have rewritten certain portions to remove copyvio. I have reviewed the article and have moved it to mainspace. I have also added categories to the article. It is important to add relevant categories. I have also assigned the article to relevant WikiProjects (on the talk page). When you edit articles in the future, make sure to take these steps apart from writing original text. <font face="Segoe script"><font color="#ff0000">D <font color="#ff6600">ip <font color="#009900">ta <font color="#0000ff">ns <font color="#6600cc">hu  &#128172; 05:03, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

New Page Review Newsletter No.10
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages! ACTRIAL:
 * ACTRIAL's six month experiment restricting new page creation to (auto)confirmed users ended on 14 March. As expected, a greatly increased number of unsuitable articles and candidates for deletion are showing up in the feed again, and the backlog has since increased already by ~30%. Please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day.

Paid editing
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Nominate competent users for Autopatrolled
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You Marked My Page To Be Deleted
Hello, You left a note on my page saying that you marked it for deletion. All of our sources are justified and the article does not infringe on copyright. I am unsure why our article was flagged for deletion. May you please explain on what grounds you think that my article on Mary K. Okheena should be deleted as soon as possible. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JasmineJazzChapman (talk • contribs) 14:53, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, indeed I had left a deletion note on the article Mary K. Okheena. Although I had overlooked the entry in the biographical dictionary, the fact remains that the information contained in the article should come from reliable sources. I found a paucity of reliable sources for the given personality. <b style="color:#f00">D</b><b style="color:#f60">ip</b><b style="color:#090">ta</b><b style="color:#00f">ns</b><b style="color:#60c">hu</b> &#128172; 17:19, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

BuyUcoin Wikipedia Page
Some edits have been made after your valuable review.

Could you please check and re-evaluate the article?

Here's the link for your convenience - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuyUcoin — Preceding unsigned comment added by A2lya (talk • contribs) 11:45, 8 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Absolutely fine. Great work! <b style="color:#f00">D</b><b style="color:#f60">ip</b><b style="color:#090">ta</b><b style="color:#00f">ns</b><b style="color:#60c">hu</b> &#128172; 13:03, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

Really appreciate your support, sir. And thanks a lot for your contribution on the article. :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.161.123.78 (talk) 13:08, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marin_Roussev_Mehandjiev
Hello. Can you, please, help me finish the work for this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marin_Roussev_Mehandjiev - we have all the sources in the world. What should be done in order to have it ready? — Preceding unsigned comment added by НАЛБ (talk • contribs) 16:54, 8 April 2018 (UTC)


 * As you perhaps have seen, I have already updated the article Marin Roussev Mehandjiev. However, here are the things you need to do:
 * It seems that you have a direct association with the person in question. On the article talk page please declare COI, if any, as per WP:COI.
 * The contents of the article need to be referenced. Please provide inline references mentioning the sources of the pieces of information contained in the article.
 * When you write on a talk page, make sure to sign by putting ~ at the end.
 * <b style="color:#f00">D</b><b style="color:#f60">ip</b><b style="color:#090">ta</b><b style="color:#00f">ns</b><b style="color:#60c">hu</b> &#128172; 18:39, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 11 – 9 April 2018
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The 100 Skins of the Onion
Open Citations Month, with its eminently guessable hashtag, is upon us. We should be utterly grateful that in the past 12 months, so much data on which papers cite which other papers has been made open, and that Wikidata is playing its part in hosting it as "cites" statements. At the time of writing, there are 15.3M Wikidata items that can do that.

Pulling back to look at open access papers in the large, though, there is is less reason for celebration. Access in theory does not yet equate to practical access. A recent LSE IMPACT blogpost puts that issue down to "heterogeneity". A useful euphemism to save us from thinking that the whole concept doesn't fall into the realm of the oxymoron.

Some home truths: aggregation is not content management, if it falls short on reusability. The PDF file format is wedded to how humans read documents, not how machines ingest them. The salami-slicer is our friend in the current downloading of open access papers, but for a better metaphor, think about skinning an onion, laboriously, 100 times with diminishing returns. There are of the order of 100 major publisher sites hosting open access papers, and the predominant offer there is still a PDF. From the discoverability angle, Wikidata's bibliographic resources combined with the SPARQL query are superior in principle, by far, to existing keyword searches run over papers. Open access content should be managed into consistent HTML, something that is currently strenuous. The good news, such as it is, would be that much of it is already in XML. The organisational problem of removing further skins from the onion, with sensible prioritisation, is certainly not insuperable. The CORE group (the bloggers in the LSE posting) has some answers, but actually not all that is needed for the text and data mining purposes they highlight. The long tail, or in other words the onion heart when it has become fiddly beyond patience to skin, does call for a pis aller. But the real knack is to do more between the XML and the heart.

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 * Making women more visible online—with Wikidata tools!, Wikimedia blogpost 29 March 2018 by Sandra Fauconnier
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Declined CSD
Hi Das, I've declined an article you tagged A7 because the subjects passes WP:NPROF criteria 6 as has held a highest-level elected or appointed administrative post at a major academic institution or major academic society. He's a Vice chancellor of a State operated University established over 20 years ago. Regards, Mahveotm (talk) 11:26, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Which part of the post calls for attention
I wrote all that i have written from a neutral point of view and if u are not cleared with it check the source — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sunboy005 (talk • contribs) 13:14, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
 * The article Muhammad Akaro Mainoma relies primarily on the primary source of the university website. I have indicated the reason at Articles for deletion/Muhammad Akaro Mainoma. You are free to contest the deletion. <b style="color:#f00">D</b><b style="color:#f60">ip</b><b style="color:#090">ta</b><b style="color:#00f">ns</b><b style="color:#60c">hu</b> &#128172; 15:06, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Re: Akhil Sachdeva
Hi, I just noticed the warning you left on my talk page. I find it improper that you are leaving a message like "Please keep these things in mind when you create subsequent articles on Wikipedia" on my talk page, without checking the page history (it was a redirect) and my contribution history. I was one of those people who helped form the new page curation system (which you used to review) and have been a very long time editor. It is not a good practice to give warnings to regulars, and it is a good habit to check the article's history when reviewing, as in this case, it was a redirect and not an article. Please have a read of our guideline to know the purpose of redirects. Best,  Jim  Car  ter  13:30, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
 * , allow me to clarify. Firstly, we all try to help in our own capacities. Now, since I am a new page reviewer, I am given the options of reviewing an article and the options include sending a message to the creator with any suggestions that the reviewer (me in this case) may have. I had chosen to send the message especially because we have already interacted. The first line as well as the structure is an automated one and the message from the reviewer gets put within. So, what you inferred as a warning, is a feature of the tools provided. You can feel free to discuss it with the respective community. Regarding the looking up of history, I did it soon after the review and I left a second note immediately afterward. <b style="color:#f00">D</b><b style="color:#f60">ip</b><b style="color:#090">ta</b><b style="color:#00f">ns</b><b style="color:#60c">hu</b> &#128172; 15:56, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I would suggest not to use the default feature of page curation (I have not used it since a long time) to send a message to the creator before thoroughly checking through the article history. The messages are particularly aimed at new editors. I guess you realized that you were sending the message to an autopatrolled user? Cheers!  Jim Car ter  00:35, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for your recommendations in my first article.

Silvio Grand
I notice that there are a lot of specific Wikipedia technical ways to do it, that i still dont manage. Please feel welcome to modify my article or explain me specifically what to modify and how, it it is possible for you. My best Regards, Aileen. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Asdankers (talk • contribs) 22:44, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I have left a message on your talk page. Please go through the provided links and it will help you to understand the specific ways of Wikipedia. Furthermore, when you write on some talk page, make sure to sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Do not hesitate to contact me in case you have any doubts of queries ever in the future. <b style="color:#f00">D</b><b style="color:#f60">ip</b><b style="color:#090">ta</b><b style="color:#00f">ns</b><b style="color:#60c">hu</b> &#128172; 01:19, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi
Ok...Pls delete this page as I now understand some of the reasons. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Odx101 (talk • contribs) 18:18, 20 April 2018 (UTC)


 * , I hope that you are talking about your article Sonni Gopal. I have left a welcome note on your talk page. Please go through the links. It will help you to understand what Wikipedia is all about, and will act as a guide for you to edit Wikipedia. <b style="color:#f00">D</b><b style="color:#f60">ip</b><b style="color:#090">ta</b><b style="color:#00f">ns</b><b style="color:#60c">hu</b> &#128172; 18:25, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi, I do not understand why you have deleted the Christine Wild author page I created. Could you please clarify?

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

 * please help translate this message into your local language via meta

Thanks again :-) --  Doc James  along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 03:00, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

ACTRIAL:
 * WP:ACREQ has been implemented. The flow at the feed has dropped back to the levels during the trial. However, the backlog is on the rise again so please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day; a backlog approaching 5,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.

Deletion tags
 * Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders. They require your further verification.

Backlog drive:
 * A backlog drive will take place from 10 through 20 June. Check out our talk page at WT:NPR for more details. NOTE: It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing. Despite our goal of reducing the backlog as much as possible, please do not rush while reviewing.

Editathons
 * There will be a large increase in the number of editathons in June. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

Paid editing - new policy
 * Now that ACTRIAL is ACREQ, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. There is a new global WMF policy that requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.

Subject-specific notability guidelines
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 * Development is underway by the WMF on upgrades to the New Pages Feed, in particular ORES features that will help to identify COPYVIOs, and more granular options for selecting articles to review.
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Facto Post – Issue 12 – 28 May 2018
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ScienceSource funded
The Wikimedia Foundation announced full funding of the ScienceSource grant proposal from ContentMine on May 18. See the ScienceSource Twitter announcement and 60 second video.

The proposal includes downloading 30,000 open access papers, aiming (roughly speaking) to create a baseline for medical referencing on Wikipedia. It leaves open the question of how these are to be chosen.
 * A medical canon?

The basic criteria of WP:MEDRS include a concentration on secondary literature. Attention has to be given to the long tail of diseases that receive less current research. The MEDRS guideline supposes that edge cases will have to be handled, and the premature exclusion of publications that would be in those marginal positions would reduce the value of the collection. Prophylaxis misses the point that gate-keeping will be done by an algorithm.

Two well-known but rather different areas where such considerations apply are tropical diseases and alternative medicine. There are also a number of potential downloading troubles, and these were mentioned in Issue 11. There is likely to be a gap, even with the guideline, between conditions taken to be necessary but not sufficient, and conditions sufficient but not necessary, for candidate papers to be included. With around 10,000 recognised medical conditions in standard lists, being comprehensive is demanding. With all of these aspects of the task, ScienceSource will seek community help.

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NPP Backlog Elimination Drive
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel: there are currently 2900 unreviewed articles, and 4000 unreviewed redirects.

Announcing the Backlog Elimination Drive! Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. —  Insertcleverphrasehere (or here)  06:57, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
 * As a final push, we have decided to run a backlog elimination drive from the 20th to the 30th of June.
 * Reviewers who review at least 50 articles or redirects will receive a Special Edition NPP Barnstar: NPPbarnstar SE.png. Those who review 100, 250, 500, or 1000 pages will also receive tiered awards: RR3217-0014 100 rubles USSR 1989 Gold avers.png, Swiss-Commemorative-Coin-1991-CHF-250-reverse.png, Coin of Kazakhstan 500Thinker averse.png, US-$1000-SC-1878-FR-346a-PROOF.jpg.
 * Please do not be hasty, take your time and fully review each page. It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing.

Srampickal ittan Mappilai
I need time to add more exact details Dont block me... What I pointed there  is true — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jainjoo (talk • contribs) 08:49, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I am not an admin and therefore cannot block or unblock you. But somebody else can. I felt that you are perhaps trying to add value. However, if you want to do so, you need to do so following the norms of Wikipedia. Please get familiarised first by going through the links I have provided in my message on your talk page. Also, when you reply on a talk page, sign by leaving ~ at the end. <b style="color:#f00">D</b><b style="color:#f60">ip</b><b style="color:#090">ta</b><b style="color:#00f">ns</b><b style="color:#60c">hu</b> &#128172; 09:16, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

Benjamin Bilski
Hello

Please don't delete article about Benjamin Bilski - in some hours or days I will finish it with prooflinks and proves of importance of this article GGFox (talk) 10:00, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I have removed the speedy deletion template and have moved it to draft space. You can request a review after you are done with the article. <b style="color:#f00">D</b><b style="color:#f60">ip</b><b style="color:#090">ta</b><b style="color:#00f">ns</b><b style="color:#60c">hu</b> &#128172; 10:10, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank You
 * Hello. I finished editing process of this article. Could You review it? GGFox (talk) 11:13, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

Shirley Beverly French
The reason I wanted to do this is because in Ronald Yoder Sr. Entertainment videos, he features a photograph of actress Tilda Swinton and describes her as a child's psychologist named Shirley Beverly French. --Mozart834428196 (talk) 12:23, 25 June 2018 (UTC)
 * , unfortunately the reason is not self-explanatory and therefore such a redirect can give rise to an unnecessary confusion. I hope you understand. <b style="color:#f00">D</b><b style="color:#f60">ip</b><b style="color:#090">ta</b><b style="color:#00f">ns</b><b style="color:#60c">hu</b> &#128172; 20:04, 25 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Very well, then. --Mozart834428196 (talk) 11:23, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 13 – 29 May 2018
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Uncharted (movie)
Hi there! I noticed a recent draft you approved seemed under-sourced to meet the notability threshold for films, so I moved it back to draft space to incubate further. If you feel this in in error, leave me a message, and thanks! Drewmutt ( ^ᴥ^ ) talk  15:05, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 14 – 21 July 2018
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NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers. Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.
 * June backlog drive


 * New technology, new rules
 * New features are shortly going to be added to the Special:NewPagesFeed which include a list of drafts for review, OTRS flags for COPYVIO, and more granular filter preferences. More details can be found at this page.
 * Probationary permissions: Now that PERM has been configured to allow expiry dates to all minor user rights, new NPR flag holders may sometimes be limited in the first instance to 6 months during which their work will be assessed for both quality and quantity of their reviews. This will allow admins to accord the right in borderline cases rather than make a flat out rejection.
 * Current reviewers who have had the flag for longer than 6 months but have not used the permissions since they were granted will have the flag removed, but may still request to have it granted again in the future, subject to the same probationary period, if they wish to become an active reviewer.


 * Editathons
 * Editathons will continue through August. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. —  Insertcleverphrasehere (or here)  00:00, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
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Facto Post – Issue 15 – 21 August 2018
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NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.


 * Project news
 * The New Page Feed now has a new "Articles for Creation" option which will show drafts instead of articles in the feed, this shouldn't impact NPP activities and is part of the WMF's AfC Improvement Project.
 * As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.


 * There are a number of coordination tasks for New Page Patrol that could use some help from experienced reviewers. See New pages patrol/Coordination for more info to see if you can help out.


 * Other
 * A new summary page of reliable sources has been created; Identifying reliable sources/Perennial sources, which summarizes existing RfCs or RSN discussions about regularly used sources.


 * Moving to Draft and Page Mover
 * Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
 * If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
 * Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
 * The best tool for draftification is User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js(info). Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changed like this). Note that if you do not have the Page Mover userright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged as CSD R2, but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
 * The Page Mover userright can be useful for New Page Reviewers; occasionally page swapping is needed during NPR activities, and it helps avoid excessive R2 nominations which must be processed by admins. Note that the Page Mover userright has higher requirements than the NPR userright, and is generally given to users active at Requested Moves. Only reviewers who are very experienced and are also very active reviewers are likely to be granted it solely for NPP activities.

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Facto Post – Issue 16 – 30 September 2018
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NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

, there are 3650 unreviewed articles and the backlog now stretches back 51 days.
 * Backlog


 * Community Wishlist Proposal
 * There is currently an ongoing discussion regarding the drafting of a Community Wishlist Proposal for the purpose of requesting bug fixes and missing/useful features to be added to the New Page Feed and Curation Toolbar.
 * Please join the conversation as we only have until 29 October to draft this proposal!


 * Project updates
 * ORES predictions are now built-in to the feed. These automatically predict the class of an article as well as whether it may be spam, vandalism, or an attack page, and can be filtered by these criteria now allowing reviewers to better target articles that they prefer to review.
 * There are now tools being tested to automatically detect copyright violations in the feed. This detector may not be accurate all the time, though, so it shouldn't be relied on 100% and will only start working on new revisions to pages, not older pages in the backlog.


 * New scripts
 * User:Enterprisey/cv-revdel.js(info) — A new script created for quickly placing copyvio-revdel on a page.

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Facto Post – Issue 17 – 29 October 2018
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NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018
Hello ,
 * Community Wishlist Survey – NPP needs you – Vote NOW
 * Community Wishlist Voting takes place 16 to 30 November for the Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements, and other software requests. The NPP community is hoping for a good turnout in support of the requests to Santa for the tools we need. This is very important as we have been asking the Foundation for these upgrades for 4 years.


 * If this proposal does not make it into the top ten, it is likely that the tools will be given no support at all for the foreseeable future. So please put in a vote today.


 * We are counting on significant support not only from our own ranks, but from everyone who is concerned with maintaining a Wikipedia that is free of vandalism, promotion, flagrant financial exploitation and other pollution.


 * With all 650 reviewers voting for these urgently needed improvements, our requests would be unlikely to fail. See also The Signpost Special report: 'NPP: This could be heaven or this could be hell for new users – and for the reviewers', and if you are not sure what the wish list is all about, take a sneak peek at an article in this month's upcoming issue of The Signpost which unfortunately due to staff holidays and an impending US holiday will probably not be published until after voting has closed.

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