User talk:Kopiersperre

Renewable energy in Germany plot
Sorry, there isn't really any sourcecode to speak of for that plot. It is just a log-log plot of the table in the article Renewable_energy_in_Germany. It should be pretty easy to reproduce - just copy the table into a text file and plot it in gnuplot, using svg as the output terminal. For minor changes, it is also possible to edit the svg file directly (for example if you want to translate it into another language). Amaurea (talk) 00:40, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

Competition between Airbus and Boeing
Hi Kopierperre. Thanks for your contribution of net orders to Competition between Airbus and Boeing. Two points:
 * 1) The colours representing Airbus and Boeing are reversed from the other diagrams and needs to be changed, Airbus has been blue and Boeing Red.  As it stands it is confusing.
 * 2) The sources are different from the ones used in the other tables.  The article has been using ONLY http://www.airbus.com/company/market/orders-deliveries and http://active.boeing.com/commercial/orders/ and not press releases, which are too hard to interpret.  The sources cited on the image are not the sources currently being used, although the actual figures appear to be correct, for 2014 at any rate. E x nihil  (talk) 03:49, 24 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi Ex nothing, the colours are now changed. I don't understand your second point.--Kopiersperre (talk) 21:13, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

Re:Process engineering symbols
Yes, I can help you.

I think it is better to use some standard as reference (e.g. ISO). I will let you know some details later. Bye. --194.81.54.250 (talk) 20:08, 3 June 2014 (UTC) - (Daniele Pugliesi)


 * You're right. We should follow DIN EN ISO 10628-2 (on german)--Kopiersperre (talk) 08:28, 4 June 2014 (UTC)


 * I was looking for BS ISO standards, but the tables I have found about it are not complete, so we can use the DIN standard you mentioned.
 * I am thinking to completed the table in User:Kopiersperre/P&ID looking for the symbols we just have and comparing them with the standard and, in the case they are different, creating one symbol at time in svg (using inkscape software). I want to use each symbol in the page related to chemical equipment and I want to use a "model" for chemical equipment pages, similar to this one: User:Daniele Pugliesi/Model/Equipment.
 * Do you have a plan or any suggestion? --Daniele Pugliesi (talk) 12:35, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I added some English name near the German names of the equipment; where I put a question mark (?) it means that I am not sure about the translation, so you can remove these question marks if you know that the translation is correct or you can replace the name with the correct one. --Daniele Pugliesi (talk) 15:35, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I created commons:Category:P&ID symbols and its subcategory in order to classify P&ID symbols in a more rational way.

Acetophenone svg image
Could you explain this change you made (edit summary "svg")? You replaced one svg with another, which is not an obvious improvement (summary suggested to me that you switched from a different format)--by eye, they look identical except for the specific resonance form of the ring. DMacks (talk) 22:32, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I wanted to replace File:Acetophenone.png, because I've filed a deletion request on this file. The png then wasn't in the article (I still doesn't understand this) and my fingers mechanically replaced the image although it was a SVG before.--Kopiersperre (talk) 23:30, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Makes sense. There's a long-term occasional problem with the file-usage list getting out-of-sync with reality. Nobody seems to have found the actual cause or even a pattern:( DMacks (talk) 01:28, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

Dimethirimol
The image you wanted, I think. --Smokefoot (talk) 14:59, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot. May you take a look at the german article? I dont't want to bother you, but the style does not fit the other structures. May you redraw it with "ACS 1996 Style"?--Kopiersperre (talk) 15:23, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi, I switched my image to ACS 1996, which modifies the line width. The main issue is that whoever drew some of your structures puts CH3 groups where I use lines.  By the way, here is a list of relevent species Sulfonylurea.  There is a lot of info on this area in Ullmann's Encylopedia, which is probably more widely available than Romps.  --Smokefoot (talk) 15:49, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Dear Smokefoot, the Römpp is free for me and the Ullmann's is quite expensive. I would be glad if I had access to Ullmann's. I am not working on Sulfonyureas in the moment. Dimethirimol is a 2-amino-pyrimidine fungicide.--Kopiersperre (talk) 16:01, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
 * If you want me to redraw the molecule according to some specification, let me know. Chemists rarely draw CH3 at the end of a zig-zag so if you want uniform drawings, perhaps go the other way.  About the sulfonyureas that I mentioned, most are pyrimidine derivatives.  None have articles in the English Wikipedia.  I need to learn more about Römpp, because we are often hear complaints that readers cannot access Ullmann's. --Smokefoot (talk) 16:14, 4 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Römpp also costs money, so it's no real alternative. And it's GERMAN. The last chemistry lexicon here, which refuses to get anglicized.
 * Whether you draw CH3 or not, I doesn't mind. Some in german project chemistry want them to be drawn. I just wanted you to reduce your line thickness.--Kopiersperre (talk) 16:24, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 1
Hi! Thank you for subscribing to the WikiProject X Newsletter. For our first issue...

'''Has WikiProject X changed the world yet? No.'''

We opened up shop last month and announced our existence to the world. Our first phase is the "research" phase, consisting mostly of reading and listening. We set up our landing page and started collecting stories. So far, 28 stories have been shared about WikiProjects, describing a variety of experiences across numerous WikiProjects. A recurring story involves a WikiProject that starts off strong but has trouble continuing to stay active. Most people describe using WikiProjects as a way to get feedback from other editors. Some quotes:
 * "Working on requested articles, utilising the reliable sources section, and having an active WikiProject to ask questions in really helped me learn how to edit Wikipedia and looking back I don't know how long I would have stayed editing without that project." – Sam Walton on WikiProject Video Games
 * "I believe that the main problem of the Wikiprojects is that they are complicated to use. There should be a a much simpler way to check what do do, what needs to be improved etc." – Tetra quark
 * "In the late 2000s, WikiProject Film tried to emulate WP:MILHIST in having coordinators and elections. Unfortunately, this was not sustainable and ultimately fell apart." – Erik

Of course, these are just anecdotes. While they demonstrate what is possible, they do not necessarily explain what is typical. We will be using this information in conjunction with a quantitative analysis of WikiProjects, as documented on Meta. Particularly, we are interested in the measurement of WikiProject activity as it relates to overall editing in that WikiProject's subject area.

We also have 50 people and projects signed up for pilot testing, which is an excellent start! (An important caveat: one person volunteering a WikiProject does not mean the WikiProject as a whole is interested; just that there is at least one person, which is a start.)

While carrying out our research, we are documenting the problems with WikiProjects and our ideas for making WikiProjects better. Some ideas include better integration of existing tools into WikiProjects, recommendations of WikiProjects for people to join, and improved coordination with Articles for Creation. These are just ideas that may or may not make it to the design phase; we will see. We are also working with WikiProject Council to improve the directory of WikiProjects, with the goal of a reliable, self-updating WikiProject directory. Stay tuned! If you have any ideas, you are welcome to leave a note on our talk page.

That's all for now. Thank you for subscribing!

– Harej 17:21, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 2
For this month's issue...

Making sense of a lot of data.

Work on our prototype will begin imminently. In the meantime, we have to understand what exactly we're working with. To this end, we generated a list of 71 WikiProjects, based on those brought up on our Stories page and those who had signed up for pilot testing. For those projects where people told stories, we coded statements within those stories to figure out what trends there were in these stories. This approach allowed us to figure out what Wikipedians thought of WikiProjects in a very organic way, with very little by way of a structure. (Compare this to a structured interview, where specific questions are asked and answered.) This analysis was done on 29 stories. Codes were generally classified as "benefits" (positive contributions made by a WikiProject to the editing experience) and "obstacles" (issues posed by WikiProjects, broadly speaking). Codes were generated as I went along, ensuring that codes were as close to the original data as possible. Duplicate appearances of a code for a given WikiProject were removed.

We found 52 "benefit" statements encoded and 34 "obstacle" statements. The most common benefit statement referring to the project's active discussion and participation, followed by statements referring to a project's capacity to guide editor activity, while the most common obstacles made reference to low participation and significant burdens on the part of the project maintainers and leaders. This gives us a sense of WikiProjects' big strength: they bring people together, and can be frustrating to editors when they fail to do so. Meanwhile, it is indeed very difficult to bring editors together on a common interest; in the absence of a highly motivated core of organizers, the technical infrastructure simply isn't there.

We wanted to pair this qualitative study with quantitative analysis of a WikiProject and its "universe" of pages, discussions, templates, and categories. To this end I wrote a script called ProjAnalysis which will, for a given WikiProject page (e.g. WikiProject Star Trek) and WikiProject talk-page tag (e.g. Template:WikiProject Star Trek), will give you a list of usernames of people who edited within the WikiProject's space (the project page itself, its talk page, and subpages), and within the WikiProject's scope (the pages tagged by that WikiProject, excluding the WikiProject space pages). The output is an exhaustive list of usernames. We ran the script to analyze our test batch of WikiProjects for edits between March 1, 2014 and February 28, 2015, and we subjected them to further analysis to only include those who made 10+ edits to pages in the projects' scope, those who made 4+ edits to the projects' space, and those who made 10+ edits to pages in scope but not 4+ edits to pages in the projects' space. This latter metric gives us an idea of who is active in a certain subject area of Wikipedia, yet who isn't actively engaging on the WikiProject's pages. This information will help us prioritize WikiProjects for pilot testing, and the ProjAnalysis script in general may have future life as an application that can be used by Wikipedians to learn about who is in their community.

Complementing the above two studies are a design analysis, which summarizes the structure of the different WikiProject spaces in our test batch, and the comprehensive census of bots and tools used to maintain WikiProjects, which will be finished soon. With all of this information, we will have a game plan in place! We hope to begin working with specific WikiProjects soon.

As a couple of asides...


 * Database Reports has existed for several years on Wikipedia to the satisfaction of many, but many of the reports stopped running when the Toolserver was shut off in 2014. However, there is good news: the weekly New WikiProjects and WikiProjects by Changes reports are back, with potential future reports in the future.
 * WikiProject X has an outpost on Wikidata! Check it out. It's not widely publicized, but we are interested in using Wikidata as a potential repository for metadata about WikiProjects, especially for WikiProjects that exist on multiple Wikimedia projects and language editions.

That's all for now. Thank you for subscribing! If you have any questions or comments, please share them with us.

Harej (talk) 01:43, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Confindustria logo
I've completed your request at the Graphics Lab. I'm unsure of the exact copyright, so I have instead uploaded the vector privately here:

It's a simple trace using Inkscape. Let me know when you've downloaded it so I can take it back down. I hope you'll be able to upload it to the appropriate places and identify the right tags for it.  Nik Naks  talk - gallery 14:15, 30 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much. I've just found vector data at Brands of the World (-> Confindustria.svg). Sorry, that I've bothered you with my request.--Kopiersperre (talk) 17:28, 30 March 2015 (UTC)


 * I understand that is the newer logo? The one I traced is an old logo, does that mean it falls foul of copyright?  And really, it was a very quick request to fulfil, don't worry about it!  Nik Naks  talk - gallery 20:28, 30 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Confindustria.svg is the actual logo. But I've also found a better version of the old logo you traced (-> Confindustria Logo.svg). I don't know what happens to a trademark when it gets deleted. I can't imagine that it falls out of copyright.--Kopiersperre (talk) 21:01, 30 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Oh, I see! Well, much better to have that version, then.  And no, I'm not sure either.  Most copyright law remains a mystery to me...   Nik Naks  talk - gallery 15:51, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 3
Greetings! For this month's issue...

We have demos!

After a lengthy research and design process, we decided for WikiProject X to focus on two things:
 * A WikiProject workflow that focuses on action items: discussions you can participate in and tasks you can perform to improve the encyclopedia; and
 * An automatically updating WikiProject directory that gives you lists of users participating in the WikiProject and editing in that subject area.

We have a live demonstration of the new WikiProject workflow at WikiProject Women in Technology, a brand new WikiProject that was set up as an adjunct to a related edit-a-thon in Washington, DC. The goal is to surface action items for editors, and we intend on doing that through automatically updated working lists. We are looking into using SuggestBot to generate lists of outstanding tasks, and we are looking into additional options for automatic worklist generation. This takes the burden off of WikiProject editors to generate these worklists, though there is also a "requests" section for Wikipedians to make individual requests. (As of writing, these automated lists are not yet live, so you will see a blank space under "edit articles" on the demo WikiProject. Sorry about that!) I invite you to check out the WikiProject and leave feedback on WikiProject X's talk page.

Once the demo is sufficiently developed, we will be working on a limited deployment on our pilot WikiProjects. We have selected five for the first round of testing based on the highest potential for impact and will scale up from there.

While a re-designed WikiProject experience is much needed, that alone isn't enough. A WikiProject isn't any good if people have no way of discovering it. This is why we are also developing an automatically updated WikiProject directory. This directory will surface project-related metrics, including a count of active WikiProject participants and of active editors in that project's subject area. The purpose of these metrics is to highlight how active the WikiProject is at the given point of time, but also to highlight that project's potential for success. The directory is not yet live but there is a demonstration featuring a sampling of WikiProjects.

Each directory entry will link to a WikiProject description page which automatically list the active WikiProject participants and subject-area article editors. This allows Wikipedians to find each other based on the areas they are interested in, and this information can be used to revive a WikiProject, start a new one, or even for some other purpose. These description pages are not online yet, but they will use this template, if you want to get a feel of what they will look like.

We need volunteers!

WikiProject X is a huge undertaking, and we need volunteers to support our efforts, including testers and coders. Check out our volunteer portal and see what you can do to help us!

As an aside...

Wouldn't it be cool if lists of requested articles could not only be integrated directly with WikiProjects, but also shared between WikiProjects? Well, we got the crazy idea of having experimental software feature Flow deployed (on a totally experimental basis) on the new Article Request Workshop, which seeks to be a place where editors can "workshop" article ideas before they get created. It uses Flow because Flow allows, essentially, section-level categorization, and in the future will allow "sections" (known as "topics" within Flow) to be included across different pages. What this means is that you have a recommendation for a new article tagged by multiple WikiProjects, allowing for the recommendation to appear on lists for each WikiProject. This will facilitate inter-WikiProject collaboration and will help to reduce duplicated work. The Article Request Workshop is not entirely ready yet due to some bugs with Flow, but we hope to integrate it into our pilot WikiProjects at some point.

Harej (talk) 00:57, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

Replying about my user page


Thank you for inquiring as to whether I have plans to finish my user page. I did not know that there was anything particular one is supposed to do with a user page. What do you suggest? Dratman (talk) 14:25, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
 * You could place some art or nothing to see here.--Kopiersperre (talk) 17:50, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Kopiersperre/100 Best Fonts


A tag has been placed on User:Kopiersperre/100 Best Fonts requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section U3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it contains a gallery in the userspace which consists chiefly of fair use or non-free images. For legal reasons, we cannot allow non-free and copyrighted images to be used on user pages, and user pages containing galleries of such images may be eligible for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Stefan2 (talk) 21:11, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

Talkback
Stefan2 (talk) 21:27, 20 May 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)

Joseph Fraenkel Obituary pdf
Hi, I read your request at WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request on a small mobile screen, and didn't notice that someone else had already offered to send you the piece. Your request hasn't been marked sent/received/resolved. If you still need it I can send you a pdf of: Please use Special:EmailUser to email me so that I can reply with the pdf as an attachment. Regards, Worldbruce (talk) 03:09, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Dana, Charles L. "Obituary: Dr. Joseph Fraenkel," Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease 1992 p. 546-547

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 5
Newsletter • October 2015

Hello there! Happy to be writing this newsletter once more. This month:

We did it!

In July, we launched five pilot WikiProjects: WikiProjects Cannabis, Evolutionary Biology, Ghana, Hampshire, and Women's Health. We also use the new design, named "WPX UI," on WikiProject Women in Technology, Women in Red, WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health. We are currently looking for projects for the next round of testing. If you are interested, please sign up on the Pilots page.

Shortly after our launch we presented at Wikimania 2015. Our slides are on Wikimedia Commons.

Then after all that work, we went through the process of figuring out whether we accomplished our goal. We reached out to participants on the redesigned WikiProjects, and we asked them to complete a survey. (If you filled out your survey—thank you!) While there are still some issues with the WikiProject tools and the new design, there appears to be general satisfaction (at least among those who responded). The results of the survey and more are documented in our grant report filed with the Wikimedia Foundation.

The work continues!

There is more work that needs to be done, so we have applied for a renewal of our grant. Comments on the proposal are welcome. We would like to improve what we have already started on the English Wikipedia and to also expand to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. Why those? Because they are multilingual projects and because there needs to be better coordination across Wikimedia projects. More details are available in the renewal proposal.

How can the Wikimedia Foundation support WikiProjects?

The Wikimedia Developer Summit will be held in San Francisco in January 2016. The recently established Community Tech team at the Wikimedia Foundation is interested in investigating what technical support they can provide for WikiProjects, i.e., support beyond just templates and bots. I have plenty of opinions myself, but I want to hear what you think. The session is being planned on Phabricator, the Wikimedia bug tracker. If you are not familiar with Phabricator, you can log in with your Wikipedia username and password through the "Login or Register: MediaWiki" button on the login page. Your feedback can help make editing Wikipedia a better experience.

Until next time,

Harej (talk) 09:03, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

PRODs
Hi Kopiersperre, with regard to your PROD back-and-forth at Windmill Organics, a quick note: PRODs are deletion nominations that you feel are uncontroversial. If someone disputes the PROD (the article creator, for instance) then the PROD is over and the next step is AfD. Resubmitting PRODs is not the way to go. Please note step 2 at WP:PROD:
 * 2. If anybody objects to the deletion (usually by removing the proposed deletion/dated tag—see full instructions below), the proposal is aborted and may not be re-proposed.

Also, if you go the AfD route, please be sure to follow WP:BEFORE—We must perform due diligence to try to find sources that would establish notability. Hope that helps. Also, I've left a note on the article creator's page advising of the need to establish notability. I'm a little bit surprised considering his experience. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 17:58, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for this advice. In German Wikipedia RfDs may be controversial.
 * Generally, I have some problems with this Wikipedia. Why are there articles like this or this? I've never had the pleasure to work collaboratively on articles here. The number of stubs starving for some work disencourages me and nobody ever changes my stubs.--Kopiersperre (talk) 20:13, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I feel your frustration. There are just soooo many articles and not enough editors who are familiar with our multitude of guidelines and policies. I know that there are editors who seem to take pride in creating as many articles as they can without much regard for quality. I'm not speaking of anyone in particular, however. The Hermann Knüfken seems hastily assembled and I don't understand why editors don't make the establishment of notability their first priority. It shifts the burden to other editors to do all the reference legwork, which is really lazy. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 20:20, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

ENR Top International Contractors charts
Hi, I can send you the two complete charts of:



to fulfill your request at WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request/Archive_25. Please use Special:EmailUser to email me so that I can reply with the pdf as an attachment. Regards, Worldbruce (talk) 07:49, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Fluor Corporation
I was wondering if you might be willing to look at a couple small updates I requested on the Talk page a while back. David King, Ethical Wiki (Talk) 00:54, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm wondering why you are not able to do this. Have you an COI? Because this is not my homewiki, I will not invest much time here.--Kopiersperre (talk) 11:29, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, I have a COI. David King, Ethical Wiki (Talk) 14:37, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

Created articles tool
It really depends on what you're looking for, but all the information is there. What do you need? → Σ σ  ς. (Sigma) 00:09, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 6
Newsletter • January 2016

Hello there! Happy to be writing this newsletter once more. This month:

What comes next

Some good news: the Wikimedia Foundation has renewed WikiProject X. This means we can continue focusing on making WikiProjects better.

During our first round of work, we created a prototype WikiProject based on two ideas: (1) WikiProjects should clearly present things for people to do, and (2) The content of WikiProjects should be automated as much as possible. We launched pilots, and for the most part it works. But this approach will not work for the long term. While it makes certain aspects of running a WikiProject easier, it makes the maintenance aspects harder.

We are working on a major overhaul that will address these issues. New features will include:
 * Creating WikiProjects by simply filling out a form, choosing which reports you want to generate for your project. This will work with existing bots in addition to the Reports Bot reports. (Of course, you can also have sections curated by humans.)
 * One-click button to join a WikiProject, with optional notifications.
 * Be able to define your WikiProject's scope within the WikiProject itself by listing relevant pages and categories, eliminating the need to tag every talk page with a banner. (You will still be allowed to do that, of course. It just won't be required.)

The end goal is a collaboration tool that can be used by WikiProjects but also by any edit-a-thon or group of people that want to coordinate on improving articles. Though implemented as an extension, the underlying content will be wikitext, meaning that you can continue to use categories, templates, and other features as you normally would.

This will take a lot of work, and we are just getting started. What would you like to see? I invite you to discuss on our talk page.

Until next time,

Harej (talk) 02:53, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 7
Newsletter • February 2016

This month:

One database for Wikipedia requests

Development of the extension for setting up WikiProjects, as described in the last issue of this newsletter, is currently underway. No terribly exciting news on this front.

In the meantime, we are working on a prototype for a new service we hope to announce soon. The problem: there are requests scattered all across Wikipedia, including requests for new articles and requests for improvements to existing articles. We Wikipedians are very good at coming up with lists of things to do. But once we write these lists, where do they end up? How can we make them useful for all editors—even those who do not browse the missing articles lists, or the particular WikiProjects that have lists?

Introducing Wikipedia Requests, a new tool to centralize the various lists of requests around Wikipedia. Requests will be tagged by category and WikiProject, making it easier to find requests based on what your interests are. Accompanying this service will be a bot that will let you generate reports from this database on any wiki page, including WikiProjects. This means that once a request is filed centrally, it can syndicated all throughout Wikipedia, and once it is fulfilled, it will be marked as "complete" throughout Wikipedia. The idea for this service came about when I saw that it was easy to put together to-do lists based on database queries, but it was harder to do this for human-generated requests when those requests are scattered throughout the wiki, siloed throughout several pages. This should especially be useful for WikiProjects that have overlapping interests.

The newsletter this month is fairly brief; not a lot of news, just checking in to say that we are hard at work and hope to have more for you soon.

Until next time,

Harej (talk) 01:43, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 8
Newsletter • March / April 2016

This month:

Transclude article requests anywhere on Wikipedia

In the last issue of the WikiProject X Newsletter, I discussed the upcoming Wikipedia Requests system: a central database for outstanding work on Wikipedia. I am pleased to announce Wikipedia Requests is live! Its purpose is to supplement automatically generated lists, such as those from SuggestBot, Reports bot, or Wikidata. It is currently being demonstrated on WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health (which I work on as part of my NIOSH duties) and WikiProject Women scientists.

Adding a request is as simple as filling out a form. Just go to the Add form to add your request. Adding sources will help ensure that your request is fulfilled more quickly. And when a request is fulfilled, simply click "mark as complete" and it will be removed from all the lists it's on. All at the click of a button! (If anyone is concerned, all actions are logged.)

With this new service is a template to transclude these requests: Wikipedia Requests. It's simple to use: add the template to a page, specifying,  , or  , and the list will be transcluded. For example, for requests having to do with all living people, just do. Use these lists on WikiProjects but also for edit-a-thons where you want a convenient list of things to do on hand. Give it a shot!

Help us build our list!

The value of Wikipedia Requests comes from being a centralized database. The long work to migrating individual lists into this combined list is slowly underway. As of writing, we have 883 open tasks logged in Wikipedia Requests. We need your help building this list.

If you know of a list of missing articles, or of outstanding tasks for existing articles, that you would like to migrate to this new system, head on over to Wikipedia Requests and help out. Doing this will help put your list in front of more eyes—more than just your own WikiProject.

An open database means new tools

WikiProject X maintains a database that associates article talk pages (and draft talk pages) with WikiProjects. This database powers many of the reports that Reports bot generates. However, until very recently, this database was not made available to others who might find its data useful. It's only common sense to open up the database and let others build tools with it.

And indeed: Citation Hunt, the game to add citations to Wikipedia, now lets you filter by WikiProject, using the data from our database.

Are you a tool developer interested in using this? Here are some details: the database resides on Tool Labs with the name. The table that associates WikiProjects with articles and drafts is called. Pages are stored by talk page title but in the future this should change. Have fun!

On the horizon


 * The work on the CollaborationKit extension continues. The extension will initially focus on reducing template and Lua bloat on WikiProjects (especially our WPX UI demonstration projects), and will from there create custom interfaces for creating and maintaining WikiProjects.
 * The WikiCite meeting will be in Berlin in May. The goal of the meeting is to figure out how to build a bibliographic database for use on the Wikimedia projects. This fits in quite nicely with WikiProject X's work: we want to make it easier for people to find things to work on, and with a powerful, open bibliographic database, we can build recommendations for sources. This feature was requested by the Wikipedia Library back in September, and this meeting is a major next step. We look forward to seeing what comes out of this meeting.

Until next time,

Harej (talk) 01:29, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 9
Newsletter • May / June 2016

Check out this month's issue of the WikiProject X newsletter, featuring the first screenshot of our new CollaborationKit software!

Harej (talk) 00:23, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

California Proposition 65 (1986)
Thanks for adding the full list of chemicals to this page. However, I think it would work better as a separate page (the list is longer than the rest of the article and overwhelms it, in my opinion). So I have moved it to California Proposition 65 list of chemicals. If you object, please let me know. Regards, -- Ed (Edgar181) 20:58, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
 * @Edgar181: I'm pleased that the list is welcomed generally. I was smiling quite heavily that California is banning fishsoup and contraceptive hormons. Regards, Kopiersperre (talk) 21:09, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
 * They are not banned, California just wants everyone to know about the hazards of things like Chinese-style salted fish. :) -- Ed (Edgar181) 22:54, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

source for gas prices


I don't know exactly where the USEIA data came from, but I found a source of similar data for historical Japanese and European natural gas prices:

https://www.quandl.com/collections/markets/natural-gas

The website presents charts, but can also display the prices as tables. US Henry Hub prices, of course, are on the US EIA website. Thanks for your work on the charts. Plazak (talk) 13:15, 25 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Done. I couldn't download the UK data, so I took Germany.--Kopiersperre (talk) 15:39, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

Removing "misleading" diagrams, and perhaps adding one
Guten morgen. I see you have removed some diagrams related to evolutionary biology as "misleading". Perhaps this needs careful discussion on the relevant talk pages, as the diagrams I saw seemed to have a strong connection to the text, and to illuminate it in a helpful way. If the diagrams are out of date, that can be flagged up; if they only illustrate one theory or aspect, that can be "engineered" in the diagram caption. I note also that you have added a 2010 diagram to the Cavalier-Smith article; it too may need some "caption engineering" as I believe it may be out of date... Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:34, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Mianus River Bridge photo
That's an official HAER photo. I can see why you want it cropped, but removing the whole picture pending such, when you could request someone do that on the appropriate Talk page, strikes me as a bit much. - Denimadept (talk) 23:46, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I follow my guideline "better no photo than a not sufficient photo". Is it such a loss?--Kopiersperre (talk) 23:54, 3 November 2016 (UTC)


 * I'm an Inclusionist. Better a crappy photo than none. Anyway, I've cropped and uploaded the photo.  Please let me know if there's a remaining issue. - Denimadept (talk) 00:01, 4 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Sadly you're the majority. When I came to the Wikipedia, I was embarrassed from every bullsh*t stub or crappy picture.--Kopiersperre (talk) 01:10, 4 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Ya gotta start somewhere, guy. MVP first, then figure how to improve it. - Denimadept (talk) 03:41, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 10
Issue 10 of the WikiProject X newsletter is here!

This month, we discuss the new CollaborationKit extension. Here's an image as a teaser:



23:59, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

List of historical harpsichordmakers
Wow!

Thank you for translating the list of historical harpsichordmakers into German.

Best wishes Andskotansdrjoli (talk) 18:56, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:EM Microelectronic-Marin.png
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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 17:27, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of System Sensor for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article System Sensor is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/System Sensor until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished. JTZegers (talk) 22:10, 3 November 2022 (UTC)