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ARCHIVE PAGE 90: June 2015

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A kitten for you!
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Submission
Hey Invertzoo! What do you reckon on Draft:FMRFamide in Biomphalaria glabrata? Best, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 02:08, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Hey FoCuS. I am away on a marine expedition and I am very busy indeed so I can't really take the time to comment properly on that draft article. Sorry. Best wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 00:41, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Hey again FoCuS. I fixed the article up a little bit, but it still needs a lot more work. It still reads far too much like a submission to a science journal and not enough like an encyclopedia article. Invertzoo (talk) 18:32, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

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Editor of the Week
User: Buster7 submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

An editor since July of 2007, most of User:Invertzoo's barnstars are over 2 yrs old so an updated thanks and a pat on the back is timely. Some comments from her talk pages reflect her Wikipedia career and how she inter-relates with other editors; "a very special person", "passion for her work", "polite with integrity", "So welcome and helpful to a newbie", "a skilled writer", "a great friend and mentor", "Diligence dedication and devotion", "elegant work with clarity for non-specialists', "persistent". 75% of her 86000 edits are in article mainspace and she uses the edit summary 95% of the time which are examples of an editor hard at work. This nomination was seconded by  User:L235 and John from Idegon.

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Thanks again for your efforts! . Buster Seven   Talk  05:20, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your contributions, and congratulations on the award! L235 (t / c / ping in reply ) 05:39, 14 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Wow, thank you very much everyone! It is always nice to be recognized. Invertzoo (talk) 14:25, 14 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Congratulations. You deserve it. JoJan (talk) 16:49, 15 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Thank you JoJan! Invertzoo (talk) 19:24, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 4
Newsletter • May/June 2015

Hello friends! We have been hard at work these past two months. For this report:

The directory is live!

For the first time, we are happy to bring you an exhaustive, comprehensive WikiProject Directory. This directory endeavors to list every single WikiProject on the English Wikipedia, including those that don't participate in article assessment. In constructing the broadest possible definition, we have come up with a list of approximately 2,600 WikiProjects. The directory tracks activity statistics on the WikiProject's pages, and, for where it's available, statistics on the number of articles tracked by the WikiProject and the number of editors active on those articles. Complementing the directory are description pages for each project, listing usernames of people active on the WikiProject pages and the articles in the WikiProject's scope. This will help Wikipedians interested in a subject find each other, whether to seek feedback on an article or to revive an old project. (There is an opt-out option.) We have also come up with listings of related WikiProjects, listing the ten most relevant WikiProjects based on what articles they have in common. We would like to promote WikiProjects as interconnected systems, rather than isolated silos.

A tremendous amount of work went into preparing this directory. WikiProjects do not consistently categorize their pages, meaning we had to develop our own index to match WikiProjects with the articles in their scope. We also had to make some adjustments to how WikiProjects were categorized; indeed, I personally have racked up a few hundred edits re-categorizing WikiProjects. There remains more work to be done to make the WikiProject directory truly useful. In the meantime, take a look and feel free to leave feedback at the WikiProject X talk page.

Stuff in the works!

What have we been working on?


 * A new design template—This has been in the works for a while, of course. But our goal is to design something that is useful and cleanly presented on all browsers and at all screen resolutions while working within the confines of what MediaWiki has to offer. Additionally, we are working on designs for the sub-components featured on the main project page.
 * A new WikiProject talk page banner in Lua—Work has begun on implementing the WikiProject banner in Lua. The goal is to create a banner template that can be usable by any WikiProject in lieu of having its own template. Work has slowed down for now to focus on higher priority items, but we are interested in your thoughts on how we could go about creating a more useful project banner. We have a draft module on Test Wikipedia, with a demonstration.
 * New discussion reports—We have over 4.8 million articles on the English Wikipedia, and almost as many talk pages as well. But what happens when someone posts on a talk page? What if no one is watching that talk page? We are currently testing out a system for an automatically-updating new discussions list, like RFC for WikiProjects. We currently have five test pages up for the WikiProjects on cannabis, cognitive science, evolutionary biology, and Ghana.
 * SuggestBot for WikiProjects—We have asked the maintainer of SuggestBot to make some minor adjustments to SuggestBot that will allow it to post regular reports to those WikiProjects that ask for them. Stay tuned!
 * Semi-automated article assessment—Using the new revision scoring service and another system currently under development, WikiProjects will be getting a new tool to facilitate the article assessment process by providing article quality/importance predictions for articles yet to be assessed. Aside from helping WikiProjects get through their backlogs, the goal is to help WikiProjects with collecting metrics and triaging their work. Semi-automation of this process will help achieve consistent results and keep the process running smoothly, as automation does on other parts of Wikipedia.

Want us to work on any other tools? Interested in volunteering? Leave a note on our talk page.

The WikiProject watchers report is back!

The database report which lists WikiProjects according to the number of watchers (i.e., people that have the project on their watchlist), is back! The report stopped being updated a year ago, following the deactivation of the Toolserver, but a replacement report has been generated.

Until next time, Harej (talk) 22:20, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

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