User talk:Igordebraga/Archive7

Your input is requested
at Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue/Community view before Friday.

Only 100 or so words. It should be fun and serious at the same time.

All the best,

Smallbones( smalltalk ) 23:47, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Sorry about ....
Sorry that I didn't get to you sooner. I really didn't know what to expect with the traffic report this month and blew it. My feeling is that the text was a bit long - I know end of the year summary deserves extra.

This is a very special issue to me and I'm really behind in a lot of thing right now. 6,000,000 articles, The Signpost's 15th anniverary, Wikipedia Day (19th anniversary), a potentially controversial Special report. I'm swamped. But I do think that this issue will get some mainstream news coverage, so I just wanted everything possible to be "on best behavior" and asked the copyeditor to err on the conservative side this month. If there's anything you want me to review, please just let me know.

Thanks for everything you do for The Signpost.

Smallbones( smalltalk ) 17:18, 23 January 2020 (UTC)

Signpost time again!
Just a reminder that we publish on Saturday. I'm looking forward to seeing the new Traffic report.

Thanks,

Smallbones( smalltalk ) 03:10, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

sign of appreciation
I just hope that you know how many people enjoy you 25 wiki report. Your commentaries along with the lists are so insightful. many thanks over Pjt48 (talk) 15:31, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

Do you want help with the Top N report?
I noticed the report was down, and have seen your !calls for help :) Do you WANT help? As I posted on the Top 5000 talk page, I think I could put together a bare-bones top 1000 daily report pretty quickly (though it might lack some of the bells and whistles of the current reports). Would that be helpful? Is there any other way I could help? J-Mo 20:26, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Update: See J-Mo 22:06, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

Just to be clear
Do you want me to do the whole report this week? You didn't specify.  Serendi pod ous  10:21, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I have no idea how to do the US one without screaming, so if you could have a go I'd appreciate it.  Serendi pod ous  22:49, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

Reaching out for help
Hello Igordebraga, my name is Rebestalic

I am currently tying myself in knots finding data for Top 25 Report/March 15 to 21, 2020; how do you and your fellow Top 25/50 editors find weekly data for other weekly reports?

Thank you very much, Rebestalic [dubious—discuss]  01:08, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Let me know what's happening please
Just a reminder that we publish on Saturday. It looks like you might be having some troubles again. I'm looking forward to seeing the new Traffic report, but if it's not possible, just drop me a line.

Thanks, Smallbones( smalltalk ) 21:33, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Ok, I'll take that as "at least a 90% chance of getting it to me by Sunday, March 29, 4:00 UTC" That's fine with me, there may be other delays with other folks for very understandable reasons.
 * Monothematic is ok, most of the issue will be like that. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 22:53, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

Congrats
Smallbones( smalltalk ) 00:18, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

About that Joe Exotic video
Hello Igordebraga,

I am acutely aware that I might be beginning to develop into an Igordebraga-dependent parasite who constantly sends edit thanks and is now leaving the second post on said user's talk page, but I would really like to thank you for helping me out on this week's Top 25 (as if it was supposed to be written by myself only, how vain of me) and including that John Oliver 2016 election sum-up--Exotic's campaign video really was incredible. I've also seen that the last few Top 25s have been filtered through and stamped on The Signpost, that's a really cool thing as well

Now, if you don't mind, I'm going to repeat the last of what Joe Exotic said in his video here because his words really are memorable.

...'I am broke as brown lumps of semi-solid matter that I won't go into further detail describing'... ...'I have a judgement against meh from some female canine animal down 'ere in Florida'... ...'And this is all paid for by The Committee for Joe Exotic Speaks For America.'

watches his video again 😂

Rebestalic [dubious—discuss]  01:48, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

RfC
Good day! Please take a look at this discussion. With regards. Bionic (talk) 10:42, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Request for comment
Hello. Please share your thoughts on this. With regards. Bionic (talk) 12:04, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

A Major Major Problem
Hello (yet again) Igordebraga,

As seen above, I have a Major, Major Problem

That's right, a Major Major Problem.

Majo--

Being that I had created last week's Top 25 report on the wrong title--I've linked it here. Notice the extra 'to'. Having finished it just then, I was planning to paste it into the actual Top25 report page, when luckily some confusion over dates forced a revert to last-last week's version. I made a few discoveries, and here I am now

You know, I kept on telling myself 'You have to be doing something wrong, otherwise someone else would be working here too' but I never did listen

What would you like me to do?

Rebestalic [dubious—discuss]  12:03, 24 April 2020 (UTC)


 * P.S. To make the problem worse, I have just found out that the pageview data between the two versions are different.


 * P.P.S. (yes) I see why, it's because you had the good common sense to get rid of the two outliers, them being Bible and Mark Anthony Stroman.


 * I might as well just copypaste the annotations that I did that are empty in the actual version, that should work fine

What is the Top 25's current data source?
Now that Andrew's page is over? We should link it on the talk page, to help newer contributors.  Serendi pod ous  10:19, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

WikiCup 2020 May newsletter
The second round of the 2020 WikiCup has now finished. It was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 75 points to advance to round 3. There were some very impressive efforts in round 2, with the top ten contestants all scoring more than 500 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 186 good articles achieved in total by contestants, and the 355 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.

Our top scorers in round 2 were:


 * Epicgenius, with 2333 points from one featured article, forty-five good articles, fourteen DYKs and plenty of bonus points
 * Royal standard of England (1406–1603).svg Gog the Mild, with 1784 points from three featured articles, eight good articles, a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews and lots of bonus points
 * 🇧🇼 The Rambling Man, with 1262 points from two featured articles, eight good articles and a hundred good article reviews
 * Harrias, with 1141 points from two featured articles, three featured lists, ten good articles, nine DYKs and a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Vilenski with 869 points, Blason Gondor.svg Hog Farm with 801, 🇻🇪 Kingsif with 719, SounderBruce with 710, 🇺🇸 Dunkleosteus77 with 608 and 🇲🇽 MX with 515.

The rules for featured article reviews have been adjusted; reviews may cover three aspects of the article, content, images and sources, and contestants may receive points for each of these three types of review. Please also remember the requirement to mention the WikiCup when undertaking an FAR for which you intend to claim points. Remember also that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

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Top 25 Report is ready
I’m not sure what else needs to be done, but all the commentary is finished for this week. Thatone weird wikier &#124; Say hi 08:41, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

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Will you be ready for The Signpost by Friday?
It looks like 2 or 3 weeks are ready. Should I just copy them over? Let me know in any case. Stay healthy! Smallbones( smalltalk ) 02:31, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

When edit conflicts go wrong
Good morning, good afternoon or good evening

I, Rebestalic, am back to bother you

Regarding the current Top 25 report: How did you get the pageview statistics for this week? I personally copied and pasted off Hostbot's Top 1000

And yeah, it looks a mess because I thought the edit conflict was between myself 😂

Rebestalic [leave a message....]  05:51, 24 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Oh wait, here we are, looks better

WikiCup 2020 July newsletter
The third round of the 2020 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it into the fourth round each had at least 353 points (compared to 68 in 2019). It was a highly competitive round, and a number of contestants were eliminated who would have moved on in earlier years. Our top scorers in round 3 were:


 * Epicgenius, with one featured article, 28 good articles and 17 DYKs, amassing 1836 points
 * 🇧🇼 The Rambling Man, with 1672 points gained from four featured articles and seventeen good articles, plus reviews of a large number of FACs and GAs
 * Royal standard of England (1406–1603).svg Gog the Mild, a first time contestant, with 1540 points, a tally built largely on 4 featured articles and related bonus points.

Between them, contestants managed 14 featured articles, 9 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 152 good articles, 136 DYK entries, 55 ITN entries, 65 featured article candidate reviews and 221 good article reviews. Additionally, 🇩🇰 MPJ-DK added 3 items to featured topics and 44 to good topics. Over the course of the competition, contestants have completed 710 good article reviews, in comparison to 387 good articles submitted for review and promoted. These large numbers are probably linked to a GAN backlog drive in April and May, and the changed patterns of editing during the COVID-19 pandemic. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). 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 or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:33, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

WikiProject Video games Newsletter Q2 2020
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WikiCup 2020 September newsletter
The fourth round of the competition has finished, with 865 points being required to qualify for the final round, nearly twice as many points as last year. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants with 598 and 605 points being eliminated, and all but two of the contestants who reached the final round having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were


 * Free Hong Kong flag.svg Bloom6132, with 1478 points gained mainly from 5 featured lists, 12 DYKs and 63 in the news items;
 * 🇮🇩HaEr48 with 1318 points gained mainly from 2 featured articles, 5 good articles and 8 DYKs;
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Vilenski with 1201 points mainly gained from 2 featured articles and 10 good articles.

Between them, contestants achieved 14 featured articles, 14 featured lists, 2 featured pictures, 87 good articles, 90 DYK entries, 75 ITN entries, 95 featured article candidate reviews and 81 good article reviews. Congratulations to all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

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Join the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!
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Page view statistics
Hi, I'm helping to put together Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue/Traffic report and we're missing some page view statistics graphs for September. If you get a chance to create those, we can add those to the report. Thanks! ☆ Bri (talk) 14:40, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

WikiProject Video games Newsletter Q3 2020
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Okay this time I'm actually adding a section header
Plagarised from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Igordebraga:

Hey Igordebraga, Rebestalic back to annoy

Were you the person who said Bolsonaro was an 'idiot' in last week's Top 25? 😂😂 I love that, especially considering he's from where you're from

And thank you for the honorary mention for me, or perhaps that wasn't you, either way I didn't do any work but am grateful my name's there anyway

Rebestalic [leave a message....]  10:59, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

P.S. the note about plagarism is due to me copying my original message text from an un-section-headered section into the current section--utilise the handy page history tool if you're more than not curious at all

P.P.S. HOW DARE YOU REMOVE MY BELOVED EXCLAMATION MARKS 😂 Rebestalic [leave a message....]  07:41, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

WikiCup 2020 November newsletter
The 2020 WikiCup has come to an end, with the final round going down to the wire. Our new Champion is, the runner-up last year, who was closely followed by. In the final round, Lee achieved 4 FAs and 30 GAs, mostly on cue sport topics, while Gog achieved 3 FAs and 15 GAs, mostly on important battles and wars, which earned him a high number of bonus points. was in third place with 4 FAs and 8 GAs on football topics, with close behind with 19 GAs and 16 DYK's, his interest being the buildings of New York.

The other finalists were, , and. The final round was very productive, and besides 15 FAs, contestants achieved 75 FAC reviews, 88 GAs and 108 GAN reviews. Altogether, Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors all through the contest. Well done everyone!

All those who reached the final will receive awards and the following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or in the event of a tie, to the overall leader in this field.


 * wins the featured article prize, for a total of 14 FAs during the course of the competition.
 * win the featured list prize, for 5 FLs in round 4.
 * wins the featured picture prize, for 3 FPs in round 3 and 5 overall.
 * wins the featured article reviewer prize, for 23 FAC reviews in round 5.
 * wins the good article prize, for 45 GAs in round 2 and 113 overall.
 * wins the topic prize, for 33 articles in good topics in round 2.
 * wins the good article reviewer prize, for 100 good article reviews in round 2.
 * wins the DYK prize, for 22 Did you know articles in round 4 and 94 overall.
 * wins the ITN prize, for 63 In the news articles in round 4 and 136 overall.

Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2021 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:37, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

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Precious anniversary
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The Signpost next issue November 29
Hey Igordebraga!

We publish Sunday noonish NYTime and I just noticed the Traffic Report. It's ok if you miss one issue, but I'm guessing you don;t want to since I've never seen you miss before. Any chance for a Saturday evening submission?

Sincerely,

Smallbones( smalltalk ) 01:58, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

Sure, will do it soon. igordebraga ≠ 04:48, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

Regarding the Top 25 Report
Hello. I am very disappointed in the Top 25 Report and was even more disappointed to see past versions of it. Each one is making a mockery of our President and whenever President-Elect Biden is featured, there is nothing bad to say about him, and he has as many problems as President Trump. I wish that you would at least equally make fun of them (if this is what you consider "funny") or cease to mock the President altogether please. Thanks, EDG 543 (message me) 22:03, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Whatever, snowflake.  Serendi pod ous  22:09, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I think you misunderstood what I was saying. I mentioned nothing about weather conditions, (although, it is expected to snow where I am this Saturday). I was talking about the Top 25 Report. Thanks, EDG 543 (message me) 22:18, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Check the WT:TOP25 for my response, even if you only went after me because I was the latest to write. (sidenote:I usually see "snowflake" used by the right towards the left, not the opposite) igordebraga ≠ 02:21, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Kanye West studio albums GTC
I have given you credit on the nominations page; care to leave any comments? Interestingly enough, I see you nominated his albums in the past. --K. Peake 08:14, 23 December 2020 (UTC)