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Article Proposal
Hi Max, I have found an anthropological article that is missing crucial information in regards of a battle for intellectual property copyrights that the Hopi and Apache tribes fought to obtain from American Museums indigenous intellectual property.

Is this an appropriate submission for the course? My resource is in The Volume 39, Number 2, April 1998 Current Anthropology by the University of Chicago and the title is Can Culture Be Copyrighted?
 * I think this is a very good topic. In fact we had a reading on it last semester that I decided to forgo this term, but perhaps I'll put it back in a again now Maximilianklein (talk) 18:34, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Xavier Peniche (talk) 16:13, 10 October 2010 (UTC)


 * I cancelled out the here; you don't need it, Xavier; if you leave a message on someones talk page, they will see it. You only need to use  when you want a helper to answer a question - and please use it on your talk page when you do that. Cheers,  Chzz  ►  19:25, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia!
Hi Max, welcome to Wikipedia! We're excited about your class this semester! Annie Lin (Campus Team Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation) (talk) 03:11, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Ben NanoNote


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An apology!

 * Hello, I'm the Piracy mentor. After much thought etc. I've decided that the Wikipedia chapter of my life should draw to a close. I do sincerely apologize for the inconvenience. I'm contacting Sage Ross next; he can help you choose anew mentor. Again, sorry for the inconvenience. Best of luck! &bull; Ling.Nut (talk) 00:51, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Online Ambassador selection process
Please share you views on the current version of the proposed Online Ambassador selection process, which the steering committee has recommended for adoption by the ambassadors program. Once we settle on a selection process, we can start recruiting more Online Ambassadors for next term (in which we will have more students, and the students will be more involved with mentors from early on).--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 15:33, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Creating subpages
Here's the mini-lesson that I wasn't able to give you on Sunday.

As you know, you can create subpages (or sandboxes) off of any project page or your user page. What makes it a sandbox is simply that it has a backslash /, and these pages do not need to adhere to any WP:MOS requirements.

To add any number of subpages on to your already existing class project hub, simply create a new link on the project page's main page. Do not create a link off of a talk page because then it will forever have to have talk as part of the page name and it will make it confusing. You want the subpages to go directly from the main page of whatever project (or class) you're working on. So on your page WP:WikiProject United States Public Policy/Courses/Spring 2011/Politics of Piracy (Max Klein and Patrick Berger) create a red link that's something like  WikiProject United States Public Policy/Courses/Spring 2011/Politics of Piracy (Max Klein and Patrick Berger)/Assignments  or  WikiProject United States Public Policy/Courses/Spring 2011/Politics of Piracy (Max Klein and Patrick Berger)/Blog , etc. These will then link off into their own subpages. You can create subpages off of these subpages as well. Once you add the link, go back to the main page like you normally would and click on the red link in order to create the page.

(I feel like the course article name is extremely long and should have a shortcut like  WP:USPP/Politics of Piracy/2011  or something, which then redirects to your main page. ... don't do this if it confuses you though : ). I don't know how strict they are in the USPP project about shortcuts. You may want to ask Sage. I just can't imagine constantly having to type and navigate that huge long name (Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy/Courses/Spring 2011/Politics of Piracy (Max Klein and Patrick Berger)) every time you have to go to or create a new subpage ).

Let me know if you have any questions! HstryQT (talk) 16:31, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
 * A redirect? Totes! How about WP:USPP/PoP2011?--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 16:46, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the quick feedback Sage. This came out of a discussion in the Campus Ambassador training this weekend regarding encouraging students to work within Wikipedia as much as possible and to centralize discussion on the class project's talk page and various subpages. The idea came about to include subpages for assignments or other posts that students can then respond to. Thanks again! HstryQT (talk) 18:12, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
 * One thing we want to do (either having mentors, or students themselves do it), is to add links from their userpages to the course page, the course talk page, and the talk pages of their mentor and campus ambassadors, as well as a link straight to the #wikipedia-en-classroom channel on IRC. That way the key places to get help will be one click away from their userpages.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 20:25, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

January 2011
Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit you made to Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy/Courses/Spring 2011/Politics of Piracy (Max Klein and Patrick Berger) has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. Slon02 (talk) 02:24, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

I am constructing a class page, so please be patient with these edits as I am learning to make tabs, thanks Maximilianklein (talk) 02:26, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 28 January 2011
Delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 00:33, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

survey
just to let you know, the survey appears to have no option for those of us who happen to be 21 years old. (it goes from 18-20 to 22-25.) Kgorman-ucb (talk) 09:07, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Geeks Bearing Gifts


The article Geeks Bearing Gifts has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Non-notable book.

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Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 13 February 2011
Delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 18:24, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Link to contribution on a Discussion page
Hi Max! I hope I'm sending you a message in the way that you meant -- please let me know if I was supposed to use a different avenue. Anyway, here's a link to the Discussion page for Brownfield Land. I added my review here. See you in class! Kristal776 (talk) 06:29, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Attendance for the week of 2/21
Just letting you know in advance that I will not be able to attend the decal this Tuesday due to a scheduling conflict. Please let me know if there is anything particular I should be aware of from this week's class. Thank you.

--Amlz (talk) 11:23, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Wikipedia:WikiClub at Berkeley


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Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 21 March 2011
Delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 22:24, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Wikimania
Hi Maximilianklein,

I don't think we've been in contact yet, my name is Amy, I'm the researcher for the Public Policy Initiative. Your topic for Wikimania sounds really good. Do you want to possibly merge presentations for Wikimania? I have a presentation that has been very well-received at other conferences about teaching with Wikipedia; it has student videos and some interactive activities. The Initiative staff (myself included) think it would be great to team up with other project participants if possible at Wikimania. So let me know if you are interested.

Also, the submissions for WikiSym are due tomorrow and I was thinking of a topic similar to yours for a workshop - something like "lessons from the classroom: creating a wiki assignment that works". Were you planning on submitting to WikiSym? would you be interested in co-presenting? I will be busy working on that submission on Monday. Best - ARoth (Public Policy Initiative) (talk) 04:45, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Hello Amy, I'd be very interested in merging presentations for Wikimania. I hadn't heard much about WikiSym yet. If I'm in the States I would like to co-present there as well. Due to the fact that the initial experimentation of using projectspace to run a class is still ongoing I don't have a complete presentation at the moment. That means I probably will not have anything ready for WikiSym by tomorrow, but maybe there is a way to incorporate the ideas I'm purporting. My topic of conducting assignments in projectspace is a subtopic of yours so perhaps I could be a bullet point for you.
 * As for Wikimania do you know of any space that campus ambassadors or PPI involved staff are using to begin collaboration for Wikimania presentation or perhaps we should start one. Maximilianklein (talk) 07:18, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm excited you want to join forces! Let's start a collaborative Wikimania space. Where? A page linked to the Ambassador page? I am not that WP savvy, so I am not super comfortable creating pages and such. If you start a Wikimania submissions page, let me know where it is. ARoth (Public Policy Initiative) (talk) 16:50, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Children's Museum Update
Hey Max, just thought you'd appreciate, so tagging this onto your talk page as well! I wanted to give you an update on the Children's Museum Wikipedia collaboration. You can check out my brief overview in the Children's Museum blog, which includes details on the |Museum Apprentice Program project to create five new Wikipedia articles as well as the image donation and use of the new Wikipedia Widget to link the museum's website to Wikipedia.

Last month we completed our first museum image content donation of 30 images. While this seems to be a low number, what makes the donation unique is the curatorial involvement in choosing and vetting the images for their appropriateness and usefulness within Wikimedia (many of the objects are copyrighted toys and other works that have copyright restrictions.) The curators in the collections department were very hands-on in their involvement, and we'll be outlining this process in an upcoming case study. If you would like to help further this process, I'd be happy for you to help disperse the images into useful Wikipedia articles, or let the appropriate WikiProjects know of the new images. Another 30 will be uploaded in the coming month.

In addition to the collaboration with the Museum Apprentice Program students and the curatorial department, another important collaboration was between User:Ealdgyth and the American Collections curators to significantly update the Broad Ripple Park Carousel article. After an impressive amount of time and work, the article has now received Featured Article status. The museum is absolutely thrilled and will now be adding a QR code to the carousel exhibit Carousel: Wishes and Dreams. In the future, more QR codes will be added to the objects that have had articles written by the MAP students. We're excited by the success of this collaboration & will also be writing a case study on the process.

There is now a recurring Indianapolis Update on the newly minted GLAM Newsletter. If you'd like to subscribe to the GLAM newsletter, you can do so here. Thanks! And let me know if you have any questions! HstryQT (talk) 17:56, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 22 April 2011
Delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 16:34, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Invitation to take part in a study
I am a Wikipedian, who is studying the phenomenon on Wikipedia. I need your help to conduct my research on about understanding "Motivation of Wikipedia contributors." I would like to invite you to Main Study. Please give me your valuable time, which estimates about 20 minutes. I chose you as a English Wikipedia user who made edits recently through the RecentChange page. Refer to the first page in the online survey form for more information on the study and me.cooldenny (talk) 01:32, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Response Paper
Hey Max, I wasn't sure where to submit this, so I'm just gonna post it here. I posted it on my discussion page as well. Thanks for everything. -Jens

I have taken two other decals at UC Berkeley during my enrollment here and I must say that this one has topped the other two in terms of applicable knowledge and learned skills. I had never made an edit to a Wikipedia article before and, after taking this class, I now confidently feel as if I can be a valuable contributor to the organization and I plan on continuing to edit articles from this point forward. I signed up for the class hoping to learn about piracy and I did, however I also I ended up learning much more about how to be a good Wikipedia editor. It was incredibly easy to get in contact with an online ambassador and he (“Alan the Roving Ambassador”) was very helpful in getting me acquainted with Wikipedia policies and procedures. I don’t know what happened to the groups we formed, but I chose to edit the articles on Mitch Bainwol, chairman and CEO of the RIAA, and Cary Sherman, President of the RIAA, because I felt they were each relevant to the class and they were both stubs at the beginning of the semester. As much as I wanted to badmouth each of them and add a subtle little detail that might attack their reputations in some way, I chose to remain neutral on every aspect and tried to maintain an unbiased tone when adding information. I learned more about these two figures, why people see them as “evil” and how one could consider them to be just two people doing their jobs as well as they can. In the end, this class was very insightful on the use of Wikipedia and the effect of piracy on the entertainment industry and I would recommend it to anyone interested in either or both of the two topics. Gunheim (talk) 21:50, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

It's generally considered uncool to edit somebody else's userpage
That's why I reverted your edit to User:Mbroderick271. If he's cool with it, that's a whole 'nother thing. (I've had to request outside help with my userboxen in the past myself; and they're broken again.) -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  13:21, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I had been talking to Mbroderick271 in person and over email about the Wikipedia Club at Berkeley, he asked me how to join. I felt it was alright to give him the user box. Maximilianklein (talk) 20:27, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
 * By the way: could you please explain to MBroderick why I had to delete the Wiley stuff? I had to explain it to him three years ago, and he just doesn't seem to get how seriously we take these matters? (And I'd like to thank you in general for what you're doing on your campus.) -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  13:27, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I'll talk to him about the Wiley stuff. And your welcome for all the work on Campus, it's a labour of love. Maximilianklein (talk) 20:27, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

Please take the Wikipedia Ambassador Program survey
Hi Ambassador,

We are at a pivotal point in the development of the Wikipedia Ambassador Program. Your feedback will help shape the program and role of Ambassadors in the future. Please take this 10 minute survey to help inform and improve the Wikipedia Ambassadors.

WMF will de-identify results and make them available to you. According to KwikSurveys' privacy policy: "Data and email addresses will not be sold, rented, leased or disclosed to 3rd parties." This link takes you to the online survey: http://kwiksurveys.com?u=WPAmbassador_talk

Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments, Thank You!

Amy Roth (Research Analyst, Public Policy Initiative) (talk) 20:41, 24 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Done Maximilianklein (talk) 21:35, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Wikinic
Hello! The Los Angeles Wikinic is fast approaching, and we need intrepid volunteers to bring supplies and whatnot. I've posted a little info and a sign-up sheet at Meetup/LA/4 so please let me confirm your attendance and sign up to bring something. Thanks!  howcheng  {chat} 23:49, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

WikNic follow-up
Regarding Red Dwarf (TV series) - you're right, I absolutely should have made some updates! Were you on that larger email chain as circulated by ItsNotInstalled? — Preceding unsigned comment added by AnnBLea (talk • contribs) 16:55, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

RE: Becoming a Campus Ambassador
Hi, Max. I'm glad you think I'm a good fit. :-) How should I get started in my ambassadeering? —Emufarmers(T/C) 06:50, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Emufarmers, please visit the Campus Ambassador page which has application instructions, and then we can schedule a chat about how to proceed. Maximilianklein (talk) 07:13, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

Ambassador Program: assessment drive
Even though it's been quiet on-wiki, the Wikipedia Ambassador Program has been busy over the last few months getting ready for the next term. We're heading toward over 80 classes in the US, across all disciplines. You'll see courses start popping up here, and this time we want to match one or more Online Ambassadors to each class based on interest or expertise in the subject matter. If you see a class that you're interested, please contact the professor and/or me; the sooner the Ambassadors and professors get in communication, the better things go. Look for more in the coming weeks about next term.

In the meantime, with a little help I've identified all the articles students did significant work on in the last term. Many of the articles have never been assessed, or have ratings that are out of date from before the students improved them. Please help assess them! Pick a class, or just a few articles, and give them a rating (and add a relevant WikiProject banner if there isn't one), and then update the list of articles.

Once we have updated assessments for all these articles, we can get a better idea of how quality varied from course to course, and which approaches to running Wikipedia assignments and managing courses are most effective.

--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 17:26, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Campus Ambassador program in the Netherlands??
Hi Max, I am a board member of Wikimedia Netherlands, and I received a forwarded mail from Lodewijk regarding interest in the Wikipedia Campus Ambassador's program in the Netherlands. Apparently you know of someone who wants to start a group in Rotterdam. Wikimedia Netherlands is a bit overloaded at the moment with projects and we don't have any (known) volunteers interested specifically in this, but if the educational program in Rotterdam uses an English curriculum I suppose they could just use the Campus Ambassador's materials on this wiki. Can you let me know in a nutshell whether this is feasible? Otherwise we'll just file it under "projects for 2012 to discuss at the next members meeting". Thanks and good luck with the next round of students! Jane (talk) 11:15, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Hello Jane, I think what you propose is a feasible idea. Although maybe in size you've overestimated the demand. Just one professors wants to participate, and they could use most of the English resources. The only one thing they would not have is some short ~15 minute in class tutorials from a Campus Ambassador that classes usually receive. So really the only volunteer need would be 1 person to give a few short lessons, and also be available by email or phone to answer the professor's questions. To emphasise we really would only need one Dutch Wikimedian to for about 3 hours per week. Even if that's not possible then we can of course use the Online Ambassadors as much as possible. Maximilianklein (talk) 13:53, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi Max, I suppose if it's only a time commitment of 3 hours a week I could do this, but I heard from Lodewijk that there is some chemistry guy in Leiden who would be a good candidate. I will try and contact him. Jane (talk) 19:11, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Excellent, I'd like to put you in touch with the Professor in question if you could send me your email to: 'isalix' at gmail dot com Maximilianklein (talk) 08:23, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Spoken Wikipedia Project
Hey! so I enlisted some help for your excellent idea you mentioned at Wikimania (to add the AIDS page to the spoken wikipedia project). Are you still in contact with Issac, this way we can contact him when it is done? Here is the link where we are dividing up the sections, you should sign up for a section since it was originally your idea! Michigan Wikipedians Spoken Word Project MichChemGSI (talk) 17:28, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of TinyCo


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San Francisco meetup at WMF headquarters
Hi Maximilianklein,

I just wanted to give you a heads-up about the next wiki-meetup happening in SF. It'll be located at our very own Wikimedia Foundation offices, and we'd love it if some local editors who are new to the meetup scene came and got some free lunch with us :) Please sign up on the meetup page if you're interested in attending, and I hope to see you soon! Maryana (WMF) (talk) 01:03, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Looking for Campus Ambassador for University of New Haven
Hi Max,

I have been talking to Daniel DGG and Richard Pharos here at the Wikipedia Day in NYC, and they suggested me to ask you if you could serve as campus ambassador for my Cognitive Psychology class at UNH. I have an online ambassador and I'll contact one more. Please let me know if you are available.

Cheers, Stefania —Preceding undated comment added 20:31, 28 January 2012 (UTC).


 * Hello Stefania, I'll send an email out to all my New Haven Ambassadors from last semester and see if any of them would like to volunteer their services for you. Maximilianklein (talk) 03:44, 30 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by S.mereu (talk • contribs) 23:55, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi Max, did you find anybody yet? Thanks! S.mereu (talk) 14:14, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Not yet, but I sent out a secondary round of outreach though. Maximilianklein (talk) 07:28, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Ok, I'll wait then. If you don't hear back from anybody in the area, let me know because somebody from NY offered to come once to the class. It would still be better to have somebody available here. Thanks again! S.mereu (talk) 00:09, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm having difficulty finding those in New Haven at the moment, so I think you ought to take that offer if you have the opportunity for right now. Sorry and thanks. Maximilianklein (talk) 07:34, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
 * We may have a good candidate in User:Anthonytordillos. I'm instucting him to contact you. Can you provide me with your email address? Mine is 'isalix at gmail' Maximilianklein (talk) 19:08, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for trying. I will email you right now, so we can continue our conversation in private. Thanks! S.mereu (talk) 23:29, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I was the person who offered, and I am willing to do it, if there is nobody available nearer, but I will not have the time to be able to follow up with the class.   DGG ( talk ) 20:34, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

β-testing
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Being Gentler to Newbies
I was being gentle. Thats why the pages didn't end up with AFD notices slapped on them. Thats also related why I ended up spending over an hour on IRC trying to solve one of the student's issues. But hey if you feel that there weren't enough kittens involved in the process I'm sure you can find someone to write a bot to add them. In the meantime my interaction with the students was via a handful of templates and via IRC which I don't think you have logs of.

At least one of the traditional points of such courses is that the students are meant to get some idea of what wikipedia is like. And for most new users wikipedia is clinical. Which is what the students got from me (other than the IRC stuff). If you don't like this feel free to join any one of the many failed attempts to address the issue.

As for your statement that ""I think the students could do with a little more guidance." is an unfair and uncalled for judgement on his teaching skills." it fails on a number of levels.

Firstly there is no actual judgment of teaching skills in there. I don't know about which educational systems you've had dealings with but all the ones I've run across have found time to be finite. Guidance takes time. Thus students needing more of it can just be an issue of there not being enough time.

Secondly the alternatives aren't an improvement. The choice of titles was universally poor or worse. Now there are only a handful of ways of explaining this:
 * The students are incompetent (statistically unlikely given the 100% failure rate and inconsistent with my interactions with the students)
 * The lecture is incompetent (unlikely I understand that the even the universities in the former colonies have some standards)
 * The students simply aren't interested (possible but inconsistent with those I interacted with)
 * There wasn't enough guidance (consistent with all available evidence)

In the end if poorly supervised students start interacting with wikipedia they are going to sooner or later run into the regulars who will deal with them as is. Attacking those regulars won't change that other than to make sure that the only ones prepared to deal with students are either the burned out patrollers who simply don't care or the extreme personalities who don't care about you.

I think you get my general drift.©Geni 22:25, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for your feedback
Re: your message on my talk...

You might want to know that I (and an entire group of people) spent over an hour in IRC-help helping an editor who was associated with that particular issue and that this editor was very happy when they signed off. They received innumerable helps, instruction and links in-channel and also on their talkpage. Did you have an issue with this? I thought it was a clear and concise statement of the situation, I posted what had happened as I wanted to let the instructor and the various ambassadors know that there might be multiple misunderstandings about the class' assignments on the part of the students. If I were the instructor or one of the ambassadors, I would want to be informed. The Online Ambassador and the instructor both thanked me for my efforts. Cheers, Shearonink (talk) 02:55, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * After you put it this way, I'm sorry to have made the implication. I completely apologise for any antagonism. Maximilianklein (talk) 19:42, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

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Invitation
Are you still in LA? I remember you were saying something about moving... — howcheng  {chat} 18:35, 21 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the invite, but I am in San Francisco. Where your inspirational planning has lead me to take on the role of the SF Wiknic. Maximilianklein (talk)

San Francisco Wiknic 2012

 * Turns out to be a bad weekend, we're (almost ready to announce) holding a Mozilla WebMaker pop-up event at Code for America with the OAhack group (as well as Open Gov and Open Data crews). Read More about Mozilla's WebMaker campaign. The OAhack Wiki (as you're aware).
 * Mattsenate (talk) 21:16, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

SF Article Review Party! Fun times (and food) for all.
Hi, Max! Just wanted to let you know the Education Program team is hosting an Article Review Party at the SF Wikimedia Foundation office on Sunday, June 24th (from 11ish–3ish). We'll provide food, drinks, music, and laughter. You just provide your brilliant mind and acute eye for reviewing articles. If you can spare an hour or two, please sign up and join us on this mirthful occasion. Hope to see you there! JMathewson (WMF) (talk) 18:24, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Jack Welch
Hi Maximilianklein, thanks for looking into the Jack Welch question I had posed on his article's talk page. I adjusted my proposed text in part based on your feedback, and the green text in my July 9 post is what I would now propose to replace the second-to-last paragraph of the "CEO" section with. Would you have the opportunity to review it again? Thanks, Hamilton83 (talk) 13:09, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi again Maximilianklein, I have revised the section about Jack Welch's compensation from GE. In the most recent version I have updated the middle section to address your concern about the reason why Jack Welch chose the lifestyle benefits over money. I have also added in details about the specific benefits per Coaster92's advice. Would you have time to review and make the edit if you agree? Thanks, Hamilton83 (talk) 20:08, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you for reviewing the revision and making the edit yesterday, however, the original paragraph regarding Jack Welch's compensation is still included in the "CEO" section. The new wording now in the "Criticism" section was intended to replace this: would you be able to remove the paragraph from the "CEO" section? Thanks, Hamilton83 (talk) 14:02, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Comment on citations for science journals
Max, Could you make some kind of comment here? The situation is that perhaps Wikipedia's citation system ought to be reviewed. A major United States-based distributor of scientific literature is considering whether to advocate for online papers to have a system for easy formatting of citations on Wikipedia. There are several issues with this - one is that the current citation system may be worth reforming first, and there is also a question of whether sources used for one article perhaps ought to also be made more easily available for the equivalent article in other languages. Perhaps OCLC either has opinions on this or could just be aware of the conversation.  Blue Rasberry   (talk)   14:19, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for your endorsement of my online ambassador application. ~ Matthewrbowker Talk to me 10:51, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

Working on OCLC page
Hi Max,

I've been in Alaska for the past week or so, but I'm about to put in a couple of hours working on the OCLC page updates. This is all still very new to me, so I'm going to read through the Article size and Wikifying help pages, probably along with several other help pages, and start making little changes when I feel confident.

I might read about this in a help page in the next hour or so, but I'll go ahead and ask anyway: Should I contact you, or other editors before updating the live page? How much discussion should be done before the edits go live?


 * There's really not strict protocol. You could make your changes to the live page immediately if you thought they were totally uncontroversial. In this case, I'd post on the talk page, ask some of the other editors of the page, discuss or wait a about a week, and then make edits based on the comments you get. Maximiliankleinoclc (talk) 18:07, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for your help!

JulieAustad (talk) 00:34, 8 August 2012 (UTC)


 * I see your answer to my question in an email from you saying I should ping previous editors. I'll look into that. :)

JulieAustad (talk) 00:36, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #18
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 15:15, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Updated demo system
 * Reset, undo, reverts and other cool things are working now (not on demo yet unfortunately)
 * Edit is now disabled if item should not be editable (e.g. in diff view)
 * Decided on how to solve messed up DOM structure of items around the page header
 * Decided on how to proceed with JS-API
 * All of the test coverage for Diff extension
 * Extended test setup on local test machine
 * Discussions/Press
 * Deployment (Italian Wikipedia community is discussing becoming the second to use Wikidata)
 * Export to RDF
 * Signpost coverage of first deployment preparations
 * Events
 * upcoming: Campus Party (If you want a ticket let Lydia know. She might be able to get you one.)
 * Lydia will give a keynote at FrOSCon
 * Denny will give a keynote at SMWCon
 * Open Tasks for You
 * We added new stuff here if you want to hack
 * Give feedback on the layout concepts for phase 2

Wikidata weekly summary #19
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 13:55, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Installed a lot of extensions on the demo system. Let us know if any important ones are missing.
 * Going to old versions and undoing changes works as expected
 * The history and recent changes show useable comments now
 * The Universal Language Selector is installed on the demo and replaces the Stick to that Language extension
 * Updated Wikibase client code for fetching and displaying links from a shared (with the repo) database table, and optionally overriding them with interwiki links from local wikitext.
 * Improved internationalization messages
 * Added selenium tests for undo, rollback, restore, diffs, old revisions, history and a few more
 * Setup MAC to be part of our selenium grid testing environment
 * Fixed many little bugs in the UI, including cross browser issues
 * Improved modularity of client side caching and generalized it to work with any type of entity rather than just items.
 * Wrote up interfaces for snaks, statements and related stuff for the second phase of Wikidata
 * Discussions/Press
 * Internationalization, localization and co in preparation for deployment discussions on a rtl-language Wikipedia
 * Some mentions of Wikidata in relation to a re-design proposal that became pretty popular. Like this one
 * Events
 * upcoming: Campus Party
 * upcoming: FrOSCon
 * We submitted a SxSW proposal. It’d be awesome if you’d vote for us.
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Logo is settled and all good now after some modifications: with and without text Stickers and stuff are next.
 * Open Tasks for You
 * If you want to code, check this
 * Help spread the word about Wikidata in your Wikipedia if it’s not being talked about there yet.
 * Help translate the most important pages on meta and the software on translatewiki.net

Wikidata weekly summary #20
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 21:26, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Pywikidata, developed by Joan Creus, was released \o/
 * Updated demo system
 * The repository part of the demo system had — believe it or not — too many entries from user and bot activity, apparently making it difficult to find a page to create. We truncated and filled it with about 100 chemical elements again
 * Started to implement new layout: this includes restructuring DOM and introducing an action column
 * Started refactoring of selenium tests layout
 * Finished most of the core of the phase 2 data model implementation
 * Created abstract storage interface for the repository
 * Started generalizing the secondary storage to work for all types of entities
 * Picked up work on the ContentHandler again, addressing concerns voiced by WMF staff and tying up loose ends
 * Started work on edit collision detection, will be changed as we observed unexpected side effects
 * The new API module for linking titles is live
 * Launched a demo client site in Hebrew
 * Various internationalization improvements and fixes
 * Revising the Special:ItemByTitle page on the repository
 * Special:ItemByLabel will become Special:ItemDisambiguation
 * Discussions/Press
 * Collecting ideas about how to prevent unwanted edits
 * Video of the Wikidata panel at Wikimania has been published (the talks will hopefully follow soon)
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/New_sites_system
 * Events
 * Campus Party
 * upcoming: FrOSCon
 * upcoming: WikiCon
 * announced next office hours (5th and 6th of Sept.)
 * still looking for support for our SxSW panel
 * Open Tasks for You
 * for possible coding tasks check this
 * check the needs-input box here and see where you can give feedback

Wikidata weekly summary #21
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 21:45, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Development
 * Worked on version 2 of generic site handling in MediaWiki incorporating feedback from wikitech and mediawiki.org, as well as updating the WIkibase code to match
 * Rewrote SQLStore to accommodate phase 2 and phase 3 of Wikidata
 * Added maintenance script for rebuilding the store data
 * Implemented action column in user interface. All buttons for user-interaction are now aligned on the right side (for ltr-languages).
 * The language-code is now shown in a separate column in the site-links table
 * Started implementing sorting for site-link table columns
 * Lots of cleanup in JavaScript code
 * Edit conflict detection in a simple form is in place
 * Some minor changes to the API to support conflict detection, mostly “lastrevid” and “baserevid”
 * The configurable URL argument “usekeys” was removed. (Please check if your bots are still working.)
 * The special page “ItemByLabel” is about to be revitalized as a full “ItemDisambiguation” page
 * Discussions/Press
 * Discussion about unwanted edits
 * Events
 * Campus Party (video)
 * FrOSCon
 * right now: WikiCon
 * upcoming: State of the Map
 * upcoming: office hours on IRC
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Please vote for our SXSW panel. Voting ends today.
 * Open Tasks for You
 * for possible coding tasks check this
 * check the needs-input box here and see where you can give feedback