User talk:Ilikepie2221/Archive 3

The Citation Challenge
Someone has made it to level one!

LAAFan is now working on achieving level two.

Are you going to let him stay ahead of you?

Just curious. :)

The Transhumanist 20:26, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Award Center Newsletter
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Just a heads up
I thought you might like to know that the Awards Center page has been deleted, along with its newsletter. :(

So, where do we go from here?

To new and even more interesting projects, of course!

As announced in the newsletter, I've been preparing to co-coordinate a large collaboration/competition called Around the World. It was going to be run at the Awards Center, but since that no longer exists, the collaboration will be hosted somewhere else.

Around the World will begin July 15th as planned - it's location will be announced soon.

It'll be a blast. In the competition, participants will be helping to develop over 200 pages (drafts, which will be moved to article space once they are ready), using advanced tools to edit every single one of them!

This is going to be interesting.

And the event shall have awards which are being created specifically for it as we speak!

If you would like me to keep you informed of this and other interesting collaborations I'll be working on and/or organizing in the future, please drop me a note on my talk page, and I'll be happy to keep you in the know.

I look forward to your reply.

Sincerely,

The Transhumanist 21:44, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Around the World
First of all, I'd like to issue my......uh..... something that involves being sorry for AWC to be deleted. I was about to contribute to the MFD but it was closed. Oh well.

I'm glad that Around the World is still alive though. I'm just asking what kind of topics would be covered by it. I hope it doesn't get killed by MfD. =) Anyways, it seems really interesting and...I NEED DETAILS...please! Anyways, I congratulate you on continuing your contributions on Wikipedia despite the fact the AWC was deleted, and hope you continue to make good edits. Around the World will be very fun, and Good luck!(on organizing it, I mean) P.S. Will there be barnstars! =) Just kidding DA PIE EATER (talk) 22:04, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll be sure to keep you informed. Thank you for your interest.  By the way, there will be awards...


 * For each participant who "goes 'round the world" (that'll be explained in the instructions) :) there's an award ranked by how many times they complete the gauntlet, and there will be a medal awarded monthly for the one who performs the most "trips around the World" during that month, and the reigning champion will get to display our World Champion trophy on his or her user page (until someone sets a new record of course). :)


 * I hope you'll join in when the fun starts.


 * Sincerely,


 * The Transhumanist 22:18, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Security Auditor's Research Assistant
Sorry about that - I speedied that, and was just getting around to adding the rationale. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 14:52, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

I need your feedback...
Which of the following medals looks better. This one:



Or this one:



Which one do you like better?

Please let me know on my talk page.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist 21:23, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
Hey, just like to say thanks for the barnstar. Salavat (talk) 01:43, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Invite
You had signed up for the Citation Challenge in the now deleted awards center. So I thought you might be interested in this project I recently joined:

What is Around the World?
It's a collaboration!

A collaboration using advanced wiki-tools!

The event is being co-sponsored by Wikiproject Lists of basic topics and WikiProject Geography, and participants will be "traveling" all around "the World" visiting each country online (here on Wikipedia and perhaps beyond) as they apply advanced wiki-tools to improve pieces of the profiles of each and every country on Earth!. Each pass through these pages is a "trip around the World..."

The set of pages we are working on is currently located at WikiProject Lists of basic topics.

Each page presents essential information on each country in a topic outline format, for ease of overviewing and navigating. Most of the topics presented are linkified, which turns these pages into a hypertextual map to material about each country on Wikipedia. When completed, they shall all become part of Wikipedia's contents system.

The pages share a standard format, with the information on each country presented in the same general order. So rather than getting stuck on a single country trying to complete it, each participant works on all 200+ political entities, completing a single data item or detail across all of the pages!

For this they use advanced tools like WP:AWB, Linky, etc. It goes fast, and since others are doing this at the same time, it makes "the World" feel like a beehive, and the participants are its bees. :) The energy is contagious.

And since you are moving from country to country, the tasks make it feel like you are traveling around the world, and you get to learn a little about every country as you do so. This approach also allows for greater efficiency, because by the time you've done 30 or so of a particular item, you've figured out how to finish it faster and more effectively (such as where to find the data or how to make adjustments), and this specialization speeds up development - but more importantly it reduces errors.

The tasks are varied, which adds even more variety to the project. Some tasks are look-ups-and-fill-ins, some are copy and paste, some are image hunts, some are maintenance adjustments, some are link fixing, some are blue-linking (creating an underlying redirect so a link turns blue), some are fact checking, etc.

For an example of what a nearly complete page looks like, see these:


 * List of basic Albania topics • List of basic Argentina topics • List of basic Australia topics • List of basic Canada topics • List of basic Ecuador topics • List of basic Egypt topics • List of basic France topics •  List of basic Germany topics •  List of basic Iceland topics •  List of basic India topics • List of basic Indonesia topics • List of basic Iraq topics • List of basic Republic of Ireland topics •  List of basic Italy topics • List of basic Isle of Man topics • List of basic Israel topics • List of basic Japan topics • List of basic Macau topics • List of basic Mexico topics • List of basic Russia topics • List of basic Taiwan topics •  List of basic United Kingdom topics •  List of basic United States topics

There are only about 200 more pages to go!

Standing by to help are co-coordinators, who can lend a helping hand to participants, provide instruction and tips on how to use the tools, and help them find what they are looking for. Co-coordinators also use advanced tools to inspect the work of participants, and touch it up as needed, or if a task was done wrong throughout, point this out to the participant so he or she can make the necessary corrections.

Co-coordinators are working on the set of pages right now, to familiarize themselves with "the World" so they can help more effectively by the time the main event starts. But there's still lots of preparation left to be done, and we are looking for editors experienced in advanced wikitools who would like to become co-coordinators.

The Transhumanist 04:26, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

James II &c
Hi again, Is this OK so far ? I've got to add a few more names, then just look up their dates. I cannot seem to get the James I or William III or Glorious Revolution &c "catagories" to turn blue???? or do the "pop up" thing? When I've finished imputing all the text, I'll attempt to link this article to others?. Thanks for your assistance M8.Stephen2nd (talk) 17:42, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

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Articles for deletion/Charles Walker (checkers player)
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