User talk:Osarius/Archive 8

Talkback
SarahStierch (talk) 17:31, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Talkback
SarahStierch (talk) 21:22, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

language arts crew
Can you help me? I am confused. The CSD tag is gone now. Oh lol. I see, you did it yourself. Thanks! Ambiguous Furry Rocking Thing(talk) 14:46, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

Welcome to the Teahouse!
Hi Osarius! Thank you for signing up to be a future host at the Teahouse. Well, great news - the future is here: we'd love you to be a Teahouse host! Teahouse hosts do more than just answer questions. A few things we'd love to see you do as a Teahouse host:
 * First, declare your Hostness! Add yourself to the Host page! This page is where new editors and your fellow hosts can learn about you and get in touch with you easily if needed. By signing up here you declare that you know how to serve up a great cup of tea. Add yourself here.


 * Invite new users with our invite guide. Please invite new users to the Teahouse! At that guide you'll find some tips on how to invite. It's super important; we have plenty of Wikipedians answering questions, but not enough asking the questions!
 * Visit the tips page. The tips page provides you some basic tips on how to engage with visitors at the Teahouse. We have a special way of doing things - unlike other areas of Wikipedia! (Such as greeting new editors with a simple "Hi!" and being as easy to understand and friendly as possible.)
 * Join the conversation by participating on the host lounge talk pages. We also have an IRC channel now for hosts to get to know one another, develop your skills, and eventually the channel will serve as an additional help space for new editors!
 * To visit the IRC channel: (Feel free to ask me for help if you're having trouble connecting!)
 * Participate in developing the Teahouse further by getting involved in phase two. Learn more here.

I'm so happy that you volunteered to lend a hand at the Teahouse. I look forward to following your contributions and invitations, and your assistance in making the Teahouse a great and warm place for new Wikipedians. See you there :) SarahStierch (talk) 17:29, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

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SarahStierch (talk) 17:35, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Atmel AVR attiny comparison chart
You're right; I hadn't seen the lack of content when the page was originally tagged. Nyttend (talk) 20:08, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

Page Triage newsletter
Hey all. Some quick but important updates on what we've been up to and what's coming up next :).

The curation toolbar, our Wikimedia-supported twinkle replacement. We're going to be deploying it, along with a pile of bugfixes, to wikipedia on 9 August. After a few days to check it doesn't make anything explode or die, we'll be sticking up a big notice and sending out an additional newsletter inviting people to test it out and give us feedback :). This will be followed by two office hours sessions - one on Tuesday the 14th of August at 19:00 UTC for all us Europeans, and one on Wednesday the 15th at 23:00 UTC for the East Coasters out there :). As always, these will be held in #wikimedia-office; drop me a note if you want to know how to easily get on IRC, or if you aren't able to attend but would like the logs.

I hope to see a lot of you there; it's going to be a big day for everyone involved, I think :). I'll have more notes after the deployment! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 19:58, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

The Tea Leaf - Issue Five
Hi! Welcome to the fifth edition of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter of the Teahouse!


 * Guest activity increased in July. Questions are up from an average of 36 per week in June to 43 per week in July, and guest profile creation has also increased. This is likely a result of the automatic invite experiments we started near the end of month, which seeks to lessen the burden on hosts and other volunteers who manually invite editors. During the last week of July, questions doubled in the Teahouse! (But don't let that deter you from inviting editors to the Teahouse, please, there are still lots of new editors who haven't found Teahouse yet.)
 * More Teahouse hosts than ever. We had 12 new hosts sign up to participate at the Teahouse! We now have 35 hosts volunteering at the Teahouse. Feel free to stop by and see them all here.
 * Phase two update: Host sprint. In August, the Teahouse team plans to improve the host experience by developing a simpler new-host creation process, a better way of surfacing active hosts, and a host lounge renovation. Take a look at the plan and weigh in here.
 * New Teahouse guest barnstar is awarded to first recipient: Charlie Inks. Using the Teahouse barnstar designed by Heatherawalls, hostshajatvrc and Ryan Vesey created the new Teahouse Guest Barnstar. The first recipient is Charlie Inks, for her boldness in asking questions at the Teahouse. Check out the award in actionhere.
 * Teahouse was a hot topic at Wikimania! The Teahouse was a hot topic at Wikimania this past month, where editor retention and interface design was heavily discussed. Sarah and Jonathan presented the Teahouse during the Wikimedia Fellowships panel. Slides can be viewed here. A lunch was also held at Wikimania for Teahouse hosts.

As always, thanks for supporting the Teahouse project! Stop by and visit us today!

You are receiving The Tea Leaf after expressing interest or participating in the Teahouse! To remove yourself from receiving future newsletters, please remove your username here. Sarah (talk) 08:33, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

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SarahStierch (talk) 23:38, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

New Pages newsletter
Hey all :)

A couple of new things.

First, you'll note that all the project titles have now changed to the Page Curation prefix, rather than having the New Pages Feed prefix. This is because the overarching project name has changed to Page Curation; the feed is still known as New Pages Feed, and the Curation Toolbar is still the Curation Toolbar. Hopefully this will be thelast namechange ;p.

On the subject of the Curation Toolbar (nice segue, Oliver!) - it's now deployed on Wikipedia. Just open up any article in the New Pages Feedand it should appear on the right. It's still a beta version - bugs are expected - and we've got a lot more work to do. But if you see something going wrong, or a feature missing, drop me a note or post on the project talkpage and I'll be happy to help :). We'll be holding two office hours sessions to discuss the tool and improvements to it; the first is at 19:00 UTC on 14 August, and the second at 23:00 on the 15th. Both will be in #wikimedia-office as always. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 15:58, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

Your input is requested at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/HostBot 2
Thought you might be interested in weighing in on the invites v. welcomes thread? - J-Mo Talk to Me   Email Me  21:36, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

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SarahStierch (talk) 06:22, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

Hi, yes "Kenneth hawks" can be deleted if you please. I meant to create "Kenneth Hawks" & since have done so. Thanks. S2grand (talk) 18:48, 1 September 2012 (UTC)s2grand

As I said above feel free to delete "Kenneth hawks". I meant to create "Kenneth Hawks" & have since done so. Thanks for the tip, didn't know that. S2grand(talk) 19:04, 1 September 2012 (UTC)s2grand

The Tea Leaf - Issue Six
Hi! Welcome to the sixth edition of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter of the Teahouse!
 * Teahouse serves over 700 new editors in six months on Wikipedia! Since February 27, 741 new editors have participated at the Teahouse. The Q&A board and the guest intro pages are more active than ever.
 * Automatic invites are doing the trick: 50% more new editors visiting each week. Ever since HostBot's automated invitetrial phase began we've seen a boost in new editor participation. Automating a baseline set of invitations also allows Teahouse hosts to focus on serving hot cups of help to guests, instead of spending countless hours inviting.
 * Guests to the Teahouse continue to edit more & interact more with other community members than non-Teahouse guests according tosix month metrics. Teahouse guests make more than twice the article edits and edit more talk pages than other new editors.
 * New host process implemented which encourages anyone to get started as a Teahouse host in a few easy steps. Stop by the hosts page and become a Teahouse host today!
 * Host lounge renovations nearing completion. Working closely with Teahouse hosts, we've made some major renovations to the Teahouse Host Lounge - the main hangout and resource space for hosts. Learn more about the improvements here.

As always, thanks for supporting the Teahouse project! Stop by and visit us today!

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SarahStierch (talk) 22:40, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

Page Curation update
Hey all :). We've just deployed another set of features for Page Curation. They include flyouts from the icons in Special:NewPagesFeed, showing who reviewed an article and when, a listing of this in the "info" flyout, and a general re-jigging of the info flyout - we've also fixed the weird bug with page_titles_having_underscores_instead_of_spaces in messages sent to talkpages, and introduced CSD logging! As always, these features will need some work - but any feedback would be most welcome.

TW
Take it easy on TW button clicking. This page had not one but two reliable refs. Only a novice didn't make them prominent. We have to help novices to make proper articles, not delete their work. Staszek Lem (talk) 02:10, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

P.S. Tis page as well. Please take more time looking at the page. Staszek Lem (talk) 02:13, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

Bristol Pound for DYK?
Hello, Osarius. Thank you for working on the wikiarticle Bristol Pound. Please be encouraged to expand it a little further. If the article grows to have 1500 characters of prose within 5 days of its creation (Sept. 19th + 5 days = Sept. 24th), it qualifies to be nominated for an appearance in the DYK section on MainPage. Happy typing! Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 21:29, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
 * It's nominated! Please see T:TDYK.  Hope this helps. Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 23:53, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
 * It looks like that the Bristol Pound is going onto MainPage at midnight tonight (UTC)! Yeah! --PFHLai (talk) 08:22, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

Page Curation newsletter
Hey. This will be, if not our final newsletter, one of the final ones :). After months of churning away at this project, our final version (apart from a few tweaks and bugfixes) is now live. Changes between this and the last release include deletion tag logging, a centralised log, and fixes to things like edit summaries.

Hopefully you like what we've done with the place; suggestions for future work on it, complaints and bugs to the usual address :). We'll be holding a couple of office hours sessions, which I hope you'll all attend. Many thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 10:59, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

The Toven
Thanks for your well intentioned support, but I'd be grateful if you made warnings to other editors on their Talk pages rather than mine (I realise you've given the new editor a final warning, so that should be suffiecient, I'm sure). All the best! Sionk (talk) 18:18, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
 * No worries. Osarius - Want a chat? 19:31, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

Bristol Pound
Bloody good idea! Thanks for the creation. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 09:42, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Bristol Pound
Yngvadottir (talk) 00:04, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

Talkback
SarahStierch (talk) 00:10, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

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That's fine, Osarius. Actually, I don't think set sizes would fit well into the measurement page. If I try again, I'll start with something meatier. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fmkatz(talk • contribs) 01:14, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

My message to Omar-Toons
Dear user Osarius

Thanks a lot for your message. I deeply believe that personal attacks damage the community. The user Omar-Toons strive to impose his own vision of things. He already addressed other contributors with impolite statements.

When I wrote ‘’ Think you get a first warning’’ I mean the warning he gets from other administrators here because of some impolite behavior. Dear user, I am a university professor and reviewer for some very advanced scientific journals published in Oxford, UK. I hope to bring many good things to Wiki.

Very respectfully Fort-Henry (talk) 16:54, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Page Curation newsletter - closing up!
Hey all :).

We're (very shortly) closing down this development cycle for Page Curation. It's genuinely been a pleasure to talk with you all and build software that is so close to my own heart, and also so effective. The current backlog is 9 days, and I've never seen it that low before.

However! Closing up shop does not mean not making any improvements. First-off, this is your last chance to give us a poke about unresolved bugs or report new oneson the talkpage. If something's going wrong, we want to know about it :). Second, we'll hopefully be taking another pass over the software next year. If you've got ideas for features Page Curation doesn't currently have, stick them here.

Again, it's been an honour. Thanks :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 12:05, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Talkback
SarahStierch (talk) 00:45, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

editing
You have stopped my edut, but i believe it is a valid entry, can you not add this to the page

Pseudoscience
Why on earth are you removing my addition?? It's well known to be a common alternative! — Precedingunsigned comment added by 112.134.217.25 (talk) 12:48, 18 October 2012 (UTC)


 * If you add a verifiable source, then I'll be more than happy to allow the edit. Osarius - Want a chat? 12:51, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Message from Búfalo Barreto
Hi, Osarius. In the case of the National Executive Committee of the Peruvian Aprista Party page, another librarian called RJFF proposed me to merge this page into the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance page. I already merge it, but now I don't know how to rub the page. Please if you could rub the page to finish the conflict. Thanks for your comprehension, Best Regards Búfalo Barreto (talk) 13:06, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅ Osarius - Want a chat? 13:09, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Osarius- I am not happy.
I am not happy with your disapproval. For all you know, I could have just discovered a new tea, the Jocelyn tea. This is very disrespectful.

-Jocelyn xox — Preceding unsigned comment added by66.60.76.2 (talk) 14:17, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is not for something made up one day. If it is real, add a verifiable third party source so we can verify the information is correct. Osarius - Want a chat? 14:24, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Miss Ethiopia
User Browenfox is part of the Miss Ethiopia organisation and is the same person as: Habeshakonjo and Aman Taye Lemma who have been blocked for vandalising the Miss Ethiopia page, they work for the company and are hell bent on giving their sanitised self serving version of Miss Ethiopia for their business interests, and disregarding Wiki's NPOV they will continue to create accounts and vandalise sections of this page that give sourced and factual accounts of their actions and this page, replacing it with un sourced information and blank out pages.
 * User:Browenfox has been blocked indefinitely. No further action required. Please remember to sign your posts in future ( ~ ).Osarius - Want a chat? 15:33, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Question
How do you know that Jessie and Leila are coming back to ANTM in the next episode? It hasn't even aired yet. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.210.127.26 (talk) 14:57, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Please add a reliable source when adding information like that to an article. Osarius - Want a chat? 15:35, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
 * You didn't answer my question. You have no way of knowing Jessie and Leila are coming back to ANTM, because the episode hasn't aired yet. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.210.108.73 (talk) 15:58, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Ah I was wondering what on earth you were talking about, but I have figured it out. This is the diff that I saw, when I clicked Revert (as it looks like an editing test), I assumed that it only reverted that. Apologies if I accidentally reverted any other text, but this wasn't highlighted to me. Osarius - Want a chat? 16:39, 18 October 2012 (UTC)