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The Signpost: 22 April 2013

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Rushton2010
You're always welcome to award me another one ;) hehehe.

I'm glad someones enjoying them. I am rather enjoying researching them and writing them. I've only got 4 more monasteries in Derbyshire to create articles for, so I have absolutely no idea how I will spend my time when they're done! lol

Best Rushton2010 (talk) 23:54, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
 * And your reply gave me a first see of how the new Echo notifications system works. Rather missing the orange banner, though. Are you from Derbyshire, like myself, or further afield? Sir  Rcsprinter,  Bt (confer)  @ 00:37, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
 * You can always disable it at preferences, Sir Rcs. TheOriginalSoni (talk) 01:23, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
 * user:rcsprinter123/Not Rcs. Sir  Rcsprinter,  Bt (speak)  @ 15:22, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

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Tom Levitt
Hi there,

Don't know if you noticed, but something seems to have gone wrong with the picture you added to Tom Levitt.

Cheers WhaleyTim (talk) 22:03, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Hello Tim - it's been deleted mysteriously, so I've asked why. Sir  Rcsprinter,  Bt (cackle)  @ 06:34, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Adoption
Can you adopt me :D

WikiCup 2013 April newsletter
We are a week into Round 3, but it is off to a flying start, with claiming for the high-importance Portal:Sports and Portal:Geography (which are the first portals ever awarded bonus points in the WikiCup) and  claiming for a did you know of sea, the highest scoring individual did you know article ever submitted for the WikiCup. Round 2 saw very impressive scores at close; first place and second place  both scored over 1000 points; a feat not seen in Round 2 since 2010. This, in part, has been made possible by the change in the bonus points rules, but is also testament to the quality of the competition this year. Pool C and Pool G were most competitive, with three quarters of participants making it to Round 3, while Pool D was the least, with only the top two scorers making it through. The lowest qualifying score was 123, significantly higher than last year's 65, 2011's 41 or even 2010's 100.

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multimodal
Sorry to shoot emails and talk-page messages within minutes: do we have a source for the HK and London estimates of attendees? Tony  (talk)  12:56, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Not as such, I got the figures from when I made the graph using predictive software based on the past rate of attendee escalation manipulating the numbers up into the future going higher and higher as the event becomes more popular. I wouldn't be surprised if we got more than 2000 people coming. Sir  Rcsprinter,  Bt (orate)  @ 15:12, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Adoption: Dispute resolution
OK, I'm ready. Arctic  Kangaroo  15:23, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Good, the test is there waiting for you. Remember you don't need to post on my talkpage unless I haven't responded for a while; I can see on the adoption page when you are ready. Sir  Rcsprinter,  Bt (post)  @ 19:49, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

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The Wikipedia Adventure: Text Mockup (feedback welcome!)
Hi TWA folks!

It's been a long time since we worked on The Wikipedia Adventure together, but this spring I proposed the game for an Individual Engagement Grant and it was accepted :)

I spent the last two months refining the script and getting ready to build the game using Guided tours. I am working with an amazing designer and getting expert curation tips from the Grant program leader.

Here is the full 7-mission text version of the game: http://jatspan.org/twa2.html#29

I'd love to have your feedback on it, before I get started with the build. I would love it if you would leave any thoughts, tips, comments, recommendations, suggestions, ideas, or concerns, at WP:TWA/Feedback.

Hope you're doing great,

--Ocaasi 14:00, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you very much! Sir  Rcsprinter,  Bt (yak)  @ 11:43, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

Conversion Hub Deletion
As the closing editor for the Conversion Hub AfD a couple of days ago, I wanted to make you aware that the editor that listed the article for deletion has re-listed it after your no concensus closure Adel4570 (talk) 14:11, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, I saw. Sir  Rcsprinter,  Bt (lecture)  @ 14:24, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

F8 please
I have now deleted File:Bowers Bus L172EKG 62 at Hayfield.jpg. If you have any more like this, please mark them with db-nowcommons (F8) rather than the totally misleading db-fpcfail (F2). &mdash; RHaworth (talk · contribs) 11:35, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Oh, right... what's the difference? Sir  Rcsprinter,  Bt (talkin' to me?)  @ 11:37, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

I would have hoped that the difference was obvious. F2 is used in a case such as File:Varg fotograferad pa Polar Zoo Norge (6).jpg where someone had created just a description page containing "Gaby is cool". F8 is used where actual images exist on both Commons and Wikipedia. I did check the first time you tagged the bus image with F2 - if the Common image had been there at the time, I would have accepted the F2 tag, deleted the image and told you to use F8 in future. &mdash; RHaworth (talk · contribs) 11:50, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

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