User talk:Resident Mario/Archive 7

The Bugle: Issue XCVIII, May 2014
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Sleeping Dogs
Hey man, I'm sorry for any incoveniences. Would you like to help me organize the Sleeping Dogs (video game) article? There's a lot to do left, like the front section, development and reception sections. But I'm positive that the article will be perfect, if not excellent by the end of the day. Thanks for your cooperation! URDNEXT (talk) 12:54, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
 * This is a very long article that looks, from a glance, ready for a GAN comb-through. If you're asking me if I'd like to contribute to that GAN, then the answer is no&mdash;I'm barely active, already have a very lengthy review to do, of Bikini, and video game articles are stylistically technical and outside of my area of expertise, however many of them I play. Res Mar 23:17, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Ok. URDNEXT (talk) 23:34, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Sorry to be a downer. Res Mar 15:17, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Bikini
Sorry to bother you again. Can you please explain this comment - "The costume shocked the conservative Indian audience... Do you mean that it shocked the conservative members of the audience, or that the Indian audience was so conservative that it shocked a conservative audience? Format this sentence with one of these signal words to make this distinction clearer." I am having difficulty addressing this, because I didn't understand what you meant. Aditya (talk • contribs) 05:14, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
 * No worries. This sentence troubled me because what the "conservative" in "conservative Indian audience" refers to is ambiguous, in my opinion. As I see it you can read this sentence one of two ways: the entire audience for the movie was so conservative that it found the content of the film shocking; and that it is only certain members of the audience, of conservative social virtues, who found it shocking. To make this clearer, I suggested substituting "a" for "the" in the first case, so that the sentence reads "...a conservative Indian audience", or in the second case placing "members of the" between "conservative" and "Indian" in the sentence. Either of these structures would clear up the ambiguity. I would have made this change, but I am myself unsure which of these meanings is the correct one, which is why I left this particular wording fix to you. Res Mar 04:20, 20 June 2014 (UTC)


 * I think I have managed to address all your concerns, apart from the dead links. I plan to update them as soon as the article is in a satisfactory shape. Please, check what else is required. Since the PR is closed, you can comment directly to the article talk page. Thanks for all the help and the patience. Aditya (talk • contribs) 15:38, 2 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the discussion at GAN. Much appreciated. Having said that I must say that Wikipedia has taught me to be patient, and to be accepting. When I did not get the extension, I decided to take a bit slower, and nominate it again. :D Aditya (talk • contribs) 14:21, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Aloha
How are things? Are you working on any interesting articles? Viriditas (talk) 02:16, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Only semi-active, still. Mauna Loa and Shield volcano could use attention (Hawaiian Volcano Observatory too maybe eventually), but I'm still sort of in that stage where I'm not sure I want to commit to any one project. Been thinking about getting out of volcanoes for a bit and working on some other sorts of articles. I found Jacob Little to be a refreshing experience...but haven't yet found something similarly interesting to try my hand at. Res Mar 02:44, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I just noticed that we have no articles on either the deep biosphere beneath the ocean crust nor the intraterrestrial organisms that live there. If you have any interest in collaborating on these topics, let me know. Viriditas (talk) 09:23, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Isn't deep biosphere another name for what we currently have as Deep sea, though? Res Mar 18:20, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I sure hope so. :) Less work for me. Viriditas (talk) 10:01, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

Mauna Loa
Hey ResMar! I'd love to help. What do we still need to do? I can hardly keep up with this article any more. :)  ceran  thor 21:29, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
 * My activity level has flatlined (look how late my response is!), and classes start again quite soon. Now that Wikipedia's rendered my research and writing skills rock solid I find myself focusing more on reading books and working on extracurricular projects more closely related to my field of study then on editing encyclopedic articles on volcanoes I'll probably won't see in the next decade, if ever. Mauna Loa's unfinished state nags at me, but...all the fun (ae. the geology) is already written and it's down to combing through thinly placed sources on human history, recreation, and ecology, which I just can't get around to doing. See also my response to Volc, below. <b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 05:31, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Hi
Where have you been? Have not seen you in awhile.  Volcano guy  22:13, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
 * To be honest I've been focusing more on my personal studies, and less on Wikipedia. I still tidy things here or there, but I don't actively edit, and if I ever do in the future I think I'll focus on "discovered" articles more along the lines of Jacob Little. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 05:28, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject Good articles Future GAN Backlog Drive
Hello everyone! Hope you've all been having a great summer!

TheQ Editor recently proposed the idea of having another Backlog Drive in either September/October or November/December of this year. For those of you who have participated in the past two drives you know I was the one who organized them, however, come September, this will be my most important year in school so I will not be able to coordinate this drive (if it happens). TheQ Editor has volunteered to be a coordinator for the drive. If any of you would like to co-coordinator, please notify TheQ Editor on his talk page.

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GA Cup
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As we all know, the recent GAN Backlog Drives have not had any big impact on the backlog. Because of that, me (Dom497), Figureskatingfan, and TheQ Editor have worked on an idea that could possibly finally put a dent into the massive backlog. Now, I will admit, the idea isn't entirely ours as we have took the general idea of the WikiCup and brought it over to WikiProject Good Articles. But anyways, here's what we have in mind:

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WikiProject Military history coordinator election
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Sleeping Dogs at FAC
How's it going Mario? Remember when I asked you if you could help with Sleeping Dogs? I totally understand that you weren't available at the time, but since then the article has been really improved. In fact, I nominated it to FA alongside Czar and Tezero five days ago. The only problem is a lot of the reviewers are complaining about the article's prose, and Tezero and Czar don't have much time in their hands to fix all the issues the reviewers raised. If I was really good at writing proses, the article would have already passed, but I have only been in the site for over four months, so I'm not that good yet. Is there anyway that you could copy edit the article? Even just some sections would be extremely helpful. I contacted magioladis and some other editors about this, but I'm not sure if they're available too. Your help is really appreciated. Thank you. URDNEXT (talk) 23:43, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Responded on URDNEXT's talk page. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 21:48, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

Nominations for the Military history Wikiproject's Historian and Newcomer of the Year Awards are now open!
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Making a clickable image
Hi, I'm an admin over at en.wb and, for a while, I've been wanting to create a clickable map for one of the books I've been developing over several years. I saw Template:Volcanic Eruption Map and was quite impressed. Are there any help pages anywhere for creating such maps? The map I want exists but my problem is making it clickable. Any links would be appreciated. As I'm not very active here at en.wikipedia it would be useful if you left any reply on my talk page (here or wb). Thanks.-- XANIA - ЗAНИAWikipedia talk &#124; talk 21:40, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Replied on your talk page. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 04:58, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

Craigend Castle
You have deleted a reference to the castle being placed on the market with no indication as to why. The castle is 'under offer', so this statement is still valid. Shipsview (talk) 16:05, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
 * A quick web search brings me to this article indicating that the sale offer went nowhere, and this one indicating some plans being made for the future. As it stands, the castle is no longer for sale. A new paragraph should be written on these developments (I was merely doing some pass-through wikignoming). <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 16:10, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Fair enough, though I was following the Council property pages Shipsview (talk) 17:25, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks ... a lot

 * I'm honored! All the best to you as well; maintaining projects with as much behind them as the Signpost has accrued is always a challenge. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 23:43, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, my friend
That was very kind of you. Taking bikini to GAN. Aditya (talk • contribs) 02:41, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Rollback
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IRC
I'm online now with the nickname "Ed17" or in the normal Signpost channel. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 21:36, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
 * At ? I don't see you...<span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 21:39, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Signpost index
I have a present for you. :) The code  now produces the following:

Don't start using that anywhere just yet, as the module is likely to change a lot as I add more features to it. For now, it would be best to make sure that Module:Signpost/index has all the proper tags. I've tried to fill in the tags as best I can automatically, but there are still tags missing, and tags that are erroneous. Probably the best strategy now would be to look through it to see if there are any tags that are obviously missing and that could be filled in by text matching the title fields, and if there any tags that consistently produce false positives. I can then fix them in the Python script that I generated the data from, and fix those as best I can automatically. After that, we can go through and put the finishing touches to the data manually. I've posted the Python dictionary I used to generate the tags at Module:Signpost/index/doc, so you can make fixes to it there if you want. Best — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 15:34, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm looking at it now.
 * Oh, is that...a thing we've done? Haha. So current task: come up with a comprehensive draft of the meta-tags we'll be using? <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 15:48, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I would say seven articles on porn constitutes a "thing", yes. ;) And about the meta-tags, yes, that's right. Tweaking the list of tags at Module:Signpost/index/doc will be a lot easier than tweaking the tags in the index manually, so we should get that right first. — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 16:23, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
 * It sounds like this may be a process that we should open the floor to the community on, as manually coming up with a good list of all of the important things that have happened in 10 years is borderline impossible. After consultation we can prune the list as needed, remove the inevitable doubled entries, etc. etc.
 * By the way, am I being too enthusiastic with these ping templates? I can't imagine how I ever kept track of conversations before without them! <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 16:31, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
 * We could do that, I suppose, but all it really needs is for a few people to look through the list and check that there are no glaring errors or omissions. The omissions should be pretty easy to spot from the article titles - it's just that there's about 4000 of them... The rest of the tags can be added manually later, perhaps using some kind of JavaScript tool that can be activated on article pages. — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 16:43, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Oh, and lots of pings, please, yes. :) — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 16:44, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
 * On the topic of information extraction: can you also add subheadings and bolded briefs to the extractions? See for instance Wikipedia Signpost/2011-05-16/News and notes. These ran in the News and notes, In the news/In the media/Wikipedia in the news consistently for their entire span, and for Technology reports for most of its span. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 16:56, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
 * This is with regards to the subheadings; the bolding of the news in brief is more recent implementation and only goes back to around August 2010. Tagging the earlier ones is going to have to be manual. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 16:58, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Yep, that shouldn't be too hard. I'll add the code to include them when I next run my data-mining script, after we've sorted out the meta-tag list. — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 17:27, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I just got a bit of a reminder of why this is so important. I stepped into WikiProject Articles for creation/RfC to physically restrict access to the Helper Script and stepped out, winded. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 22:32, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I've begun the process of manually adding tags to the taglist via sweeping the article titles. I've also thought some about how this tagging effort would be implemented. I think one way to do it would be have a bot come in and automatically wrap stories and headers in a  template of some sort, autofilling script-generated tags and leaving a flag on to indicate that it's only been bot-generated and not manually combed yet. Tags will be added individually: ,  , and so on. There needs to be some capacity for telling a user that they are adding a tag which does not exist in the taglist if they are doing so, either through the template (via Lua) or elsewhere (via user script); and then some capacity for allowing them to easily add that tag to the list if they chose to do so.
 * Or maybe we can dodge having to add anything to the old articles at all by editing entry pages instead? What are your thoughts? <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 06:03, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I've made progress in the manual title-sweep tagging and am more than half-way to 2005. I realized that all this thinking about how the tags will be implemented is too much too soon because we need to figure out how they'll be generated, indexed, and recorded first. I'm a big fan of the way this is done on Stack Exchange: . What do you think? <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 22:29, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Stack Exchange's way of doing it is pretty nice, yes. However, that would require us to write the code in JavaScript and add it as a default gadget or as a Mediawiki extension, which is a little bit farther than I would be willing to go in my spare time, I think. Part of that is that to do it properly it would need to be implemented as a MediaWiki extension with a database, rather than storing the data in a Lua module, and that would take me quite a bit of time as I don't really have much prior PHP, JS or extension-coding experience. Plus Mediawiki extensions have to be rigorously reviewed before they can be deployed on Wikimedia sites. With Lua it would be easy enough to generate a list of all tags, but it wouldn't be dynamic, as the content has to be fixed at the time the page is rendered. Having said that, making a user script to edit tags directly from article pages probably wouldn't be all that hard. — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 01:33, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Wouldn't it be possible to store tag information in a Lua documentation file, and then extract that for visualizing information for a tag? For instance:
 * Wouldn't it be possible to store tag information in a Lua documentation file, and then extract that for visualizing information for a tag? For instance:

{		tag = u"CorenSearchBot", aliases = [u"core search bot]" searchstring = [u"corensearchbot"], description = "Coren Search Bot is an automated bot on the English Wikipedia                              which runs checks on and flags possible plagiarism." more = "User:CorenSearchBot" related tags = {"plagarism", "bots"}, },

And then write a script to allow for easily editing these? <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 01:54, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I have another Lua request. Can you write a Lua module that, given a timestamp and a page title, returns a revision timestamped to that date? This is re the second part of what I described to you earlier: with a single Find-Replace operation I was able to introduce a nice experimental "Historical view" into an old Signpost article. See here, try clicking on "Historical view". The diff is just a funny diff I saw on the Main Page. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 04:20, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Sorry, that's not possible to do inside Lua, as Lua doesn't have access to page histories. There is no function available in Scribunto to perform the most important step, finding the revision ID from the page and the timestamp. — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 04:44, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
 * ---Shoot. But this is something a bot would be able to do, right?
 * This conversation is getting a little unwieldy, would you like to move it to email? I can link you up to the Signpost's internal mailing list so that Ed and the head editors can also participate in this.
 * I also spoke to Dispenser and I think I can convince him to maybe help us out a little bit further down the road =). <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 05:12, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

Signpost MfD discussion moved
Res, per your suggestion, I moved the MfD/organizational discussion we were having to Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost from the Suggestions page. I've never used the WP IRC channels so I'm unsure about communicating on this platform but you can leave a message for me on my talk page or email me. Liz <sup style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><b style="color:#006400;">Read!</b> <b style="color:#006400;">Talk!</b> 16:09, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Re: IRC. Go here, enter a name and a CAPTCHA, and hit connect. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 16:14, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

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Botswana Wikipedia Project
Hi Resident Mario, I just posted something on the Signpost suggestions page and it has already been taken down, can you explain why? Should my suggestion be in a different format or was it already vetoed as a suggestion? Thanks! Abchave1 (talk) 17:56, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
 * It was "taken down", but in the sense that it was taken downpage&mdash;the Suggestions page is ordered chronologically and you (somewhat mysteriously, I must say) posted your request at the top of the page. Indeed, if I had not seen the change in the Signpost IRC stream it's quite likely we would not have noticed the message at all (you've also done that again here).
 * The actual suggestion still stands. No comment yet on whether or not it will be run, we'll look into it for the next issue&mdash;current focus is on getting the issue due end-of-today out the door. Thanks for your suggestion, <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 18:05, 4 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Haha thanks for the help. This is my first time really using the talk pages and I didn't really know where to put it or where to find your comments, but now I know.  Will look forward to hearing back about the possibility of it being featured!  If I don't respond it may be because I am unable to find it since I am still learning this. afton.chavez@gmail.com. Thanks Abchave1 (talk) 19:14, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
 * You're very welcome :) <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 19:23, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

So...
What's our plan?  ceran  thor 22:45, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I was hoping our class breaks align, but...they don't, at all. Mine isn't until end-of-month. In the meantime my volunteer time'll be occupied by the Signpost, it's really not ideal.
 * You can find me anytime this weekend at . <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 02:52, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Oh, and . <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 04:15, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
 * if we went for Volcano afterwards we could pick up a WP:MILLION. I don't even think it'd be that hard... :) But that's hopeful thinking. First I need to finish Mauna Loa. Top priority! The fun parts, geology and eruptive history, are done; what is left is ecology and tourism, which are a drag to research and write. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 05:55, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
 * <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 05:57, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Have you gathered sources to flesh out those sections? I'm willing to help write those sorts of sections; as a biologist I love ecology (to an extent) and tourism isn't always awful!  ceran  thor 18:12, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Come to IRC! So you're a biologist now? =) <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 18:14, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Something wrong with poll
Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-03-04/From_the_editor -- looks like no has 3 votes and yes has 7, but colors and percentages are displaying in opposite proportion (or vice versa).  Go  Phightins  !  23:12, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I know. I don't know what wrong with it&mdash;I spent several hours checking all the usecases last weekend&mdash;screw parser functions, man. I've hidden it for now. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 02:00, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Fixed. I've reopened it again. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 02:23, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
 * And re-fixed. Officially pathetic. I'm sorry. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 04:15, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

Draft...
Hey Resident Mario, how is this (bottom section of User:Casliber/sandbox? cheers, Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 20:25, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Ok, looks good so far. You need to fill it out more lengthwise though. Some suggestions: what the winning submissions were like in the early iterations, more on what Danny's impetus was for moving the contest theme to featured content the third round (and maybe more on the early rationale if you can find it), what Moreschi's inspiration was, who the winners were, what their submissions were, what Danny had to say about the winners, maybe a little more on the Veropedia project if you think it's appropriate.
 * With that established I'd really want to see your rationale for reviving the contest: I strongly agree with your statement as to FA esoterica (I wrote an essay in the Signpost with reference to this issue a long time ago). You're one of en-wiki's weightiest content contributors so seeing your opinion on this topic would be very, very interesting to our readers.
 * From that standpoint you can present why you think that the core contest is a good way of addressing this issue and convince the readers that they, too, should sign up for the effort.
 * With some editing and some moving around this could be included as a blurb in News and notes, but I think we'd much rather see you expand it somewhat and make a full essay out of it, which would have much more of an impact. However, there is a bit of time sensitivity, as your contest is already underway!
 * <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 20:55, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Yeah I forgot we are already ploughing through March - 24 hours then. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 22:23, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Next publication date is this Wednesday so you can give yourself a little more time than that. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 23:33, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Okay - what you think now? Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 03:41, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Editing it now. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 04:08, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Testing the pong vanity template
Test. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 15:04, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

Permissions for edit notice editing
Hello, a proposal to change the permissions required for editing edit notices is taking place at Village_pump_(proposals); as you have edited recent pages related to this topic your feedback is welcome. Happy editing, — xaosflux  Talk 21:59, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost wiki
As I've been putting together the tags index for the Signpost articles, of necessity I've been thinking of the different ways that this could be achieved. One of the first things that I thought of was, could we do this with categories? Using categories is the usual way to tag articles on-wiki, of course, but I rejected that idea because we have WP:CFD and category policies that mean we can't just add Signpost articles to things like Category:Finance. But just now it's hit me - and I don't know why I didn't think of it before - how about moving the Signpost to a new wiki? If we do everything on a new wiki we can use HotCat as our tagging userscript and categories as our "tags", all within a very well-tested and well-understood framework. And if we are separate from the English Wikipedia it will be a lot easier to get the WMF to enable extensions that it won't do here because it would cause too high a server load. In particular I'm thinking of DynamicPageList, which can generate arbitrary lists of pages based on things like category membership. That would take care of making the lists of articles that Module:Signpost has been aiming to do, particularly if we can get the version enabled that interfaces with Lua. We could also do other cool stuff, like have a "Newsdesk" namespace, and be able to track changes to all Signpost articles through Special:RecentChanges. And if you think about it, it doesn't really make sense for the Signpost to be on enwiki - it has covered other WMF activity from near its inception, and I suspect it has only remained on enwiki through inertia. What do you think - is this a good idea? — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 08:08, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
 * One problem: seeing as you can't yet transclude templates across wikis, you wouldn't be able list Signpost articles directly in an enwiki discussion using a template. You would have to link to a Signpost-wiki page that did that. I hear that cross-wiki transclusion is a planned MediaWiki feature, but no-one seems to be in a hurry to get round to implementing it. (Maybe it's time I learned PHP as well...) — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 09:21, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
 * This is too much! I don't think there's enough Signpost to the Signpost to justify hosting it on an entire other wiki&mdash;it's true that if the project were remade in its current form today we'd host it at Meta, but moving to another wiki is an enormous technical challenge without much to gain from it! Besides, we're part of the en-wiki historical lore at this point. I don't think we need categories at all: isn't it as simple as including  in the page, then having the scraper dump these into the Lua module periodically? <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar  18:16, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

If you scroll down this far on my talk page I demand you sign below

 * 1) I was looking through my talk page archives and saw that this worked well when I last did it in 2011. Come into the light ye visitors! <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar  17:17, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 2) Ha! --L235 (alt / t / c /  ping in reply ) 00:56, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 3) Why hello there. :) — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 08:09, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 4) Hey I love your userpage.  (File:Signposting.svg in case it gets changed later.) — Soap — 17:02, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I'll try to spruce it up a little bit later when I have the time, so as to provide links to metadata about who I actually am as an editor. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 04:14, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Re: Accessibility concern
Hello, if you add alt text to the historical links such as "(historically relevant story)", then they will be perfectly accessible. Graham 87 07:08, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Done. Thanks! <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 15:25, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Signpost preload template question
Starting a new ITM in the newsroom used to employ this template: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Story-preload/ITN. However, after you revamped it, it now uses a generic story template. Is it possible to go back to the ITN preload? Gamaliel ( talk ) 18:07, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I fixed the draft lacking a footer, this is something I've been meaning to do, we also need to have more than two spaces in the preload template for irregular features. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 18:09, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 18:18, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Gamaliel  ( talk ) 18:31, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Second thing also ✅, we have four spec slots now (well, once the newsroom is refreshed this week). <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 18:32, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I tried deleting it and starting a new one to test it and the results were not what I expected. Apparently I am cursed when it comes to templates. :( Gamaliel  ( talk ) 18:48, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Haha Gamaliel I adjusted which newsroom slots are assigned to what section; you can't substitute it directly back in and expect to work! Here is my test. To test it yourself try using the substitution but rolling the date forward 7 days, to next week. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 18:55, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Fixed. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 20:48, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
 * It works! Sorry for the mess.  Gamaliel  ( talk ) 21:09, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Co-author
Thanks for adding. It wasn't necessary! Tony  (talk)  12:29, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

TFL notification
Hi, Mario. I'm just posting to notify you that List of largest volcanic eruptions – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for April 17. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008  ( Talk ) 20:39, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Very good to see! <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 20:44, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

I would be grateful ...
... if you could drop me a mail. I tried from my end, and got an error message. Andreas JN 466 01:45, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

your beautiful picture of an invisible rail
I requested that it be reinstated, at The WikiMedia Commons village pump Naytz (talk) 17:57, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Reference errors on 2 April
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 * Tut, and a number of others besides in the process of copying over a student's work. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 00:35, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

Mass message typo
See here You had a "the the" in all the messages I saw (en.wikt, en.ws, en.wv). —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:34, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Manual mass message. Tisk. Am I annoyed enough to go back through all that? ...maybe... <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 21:36, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

In response to your query about Wikiversity

 * Guy vandegrift

I discovered Wikiversity less than 2 years ago accidentally while looking for material to copy and distribute to students in a college level physics course I was teaching. Now I am approaching the point where an acceptable amount of course materials open source and to the point where Wikipedia/Wikiversity does most of the teaching.

The key I believe is testing: '''You can learn almost anything from the internet already. The trick is to get open source testbanks developed to the point where people can use them to demonstrate proficiency.'''

At the moment, testbanks are generally kept as secrets-- it is considered unethical for professors to post testbanks that they purchased or obtained because the students purchased a textbook. But if we could make the testbank REALLY BIG, it could be open source and students would learn the material just by studying for the exams. If that sounds like a radical idea, it is how most states in the USA decide whether a person knows the rules of the road well enough to take a driving test.

I haven't counted the questions, but here are some of the testbanks I have assembled so far:


 * v:Category:Physics_equations/Quizzes
 * v:Category:Wikiversity quizzes placed on Wikipedia

When fully developed, these test banks could offer self learners the opportunity to obtain college credit in some college courses at virtually zero cost to the taxpayer or student.

Please understand that we are not talking about the entire education of a college student. But those introductory "100"" level courses are to a large extent fact-based. Also suitable to this test-bank approach are the non-lab components of first and second year science and math courses.  Above that level, the testbank approach would form smaller components of the course.  "Automating" the distribution of information and verification of student proficiency frees instructors' time to focus on higher level teaching.

--Guy vandegrift (talk) 01:53, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I am new to Skype but someone at work said I can use our campus email system to hook up. I will try tonight, and otherwise will contact you tomorrow (eastern standard US time).  I think that means I am UTC-5? --Guy vandegrift (talk) 19:03, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Re in e-mail. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 01:07, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Hi, if you want to talk about it over line (Skype), here I am. I am UTC+1. Let me know.--Juandev (talk) 13:09, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Juandev
 * Hi, can you tell me what sister project you are active on and interested in being interviewed for? <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 01:06, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Wikiversity.--Juandev (talk) 13:06, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Please see: v:Wikiversity:Colloquium, Erkan Yilmaz 11:14, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Other Wikimedia projects and cross-wiki editing
I have been editing Wikipedia for over ten years, and I have been fairly heavily involved in cross-wiki editing for most of that time. I am an administrator at English Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and Wikiquote (and a bureaucrat at Wikiquote), and have a healthy dose of projects at English and French Wikisource. I see all of these projects as feeding into each other. For example, one of the major projects that I have undertaken at Wikiquote is incorporating public-domain books of quotations in Wikiquote page. In so doing, I have come across collections that quote from authors for whom Wikipedia articles are missing or under-served, and have created or expanded the Wikipedia articles in the course of developing the scope of the quote page. Furthermore, in order to feed these efforts, I have imported some substantial public-domain books of quotations into Wikisource. Similarly, I have imported a public-domain edition of Black's Law Dictionary into Wikisource, which also serves as a source of definitions for Wiktionary, and references for Wikipedia articles describing the state of the law at the time that the dictionary was published. The things that I have done and directions that I have gone in Wikipedia are now completely different, and perhaps richer and more fulfilling, than what I would have done had I never become involved in these other projects. bd2412 T 00:15, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Would you be interested in doing an interview over Skype about these other projects? <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 01:11, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Sure. What's a good time for you? bd2412  T 01:23, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I can do it now, or anytime this week except for Saturday afternoon. I will email you my account credentials. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 01:27, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Sunday, around 2-3 in the afternoon. bd2412  T 01:50, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
 * EST? <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 01:51, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
 * EST, yes. bd2412  T 01:59, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
 * It appears I screwed up the timing a little bit: the event I thought I was going to on Saturday is on Sunday. Huge apologies! Are you ok with moving it to the same or a similar time on Saturday? <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 20:57, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
 * That, I'm afraid, would interfere with certain spousal birthday plans. How about Friday evening, at 7:00 PM EST? bd2412  T 21:15, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Also good, I'll put it on the schedule. And happy spousal birthday! <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 21:29, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks. See you Friday! bd2412  T 01:37, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

Wikivoyage
Please see my reply at Wikivoyage. Cheers! Nicolas1981 (talk) 07:27, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Is 1+2+3+.. equal to -1/12? Not by any reasonable definition of the word "equal".
See Quantum_mechanics/Casimir_effect_in_one_dimension Nice talking to you.--Guy vandegrift (talk) 03:10, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

On FC
Alright. What do you need to know? And what needs to be done to make this simple. I could break the FC template into header, FA start, FL start, FP start, FT start, FPO start, footer and so on so the script could grab each and paste in if needed, if that'd be simpler. Adam Cuerden (talk) 16:11, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

April 29: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Rewrite
Do you feel that a rewrite is needed for the weekly schedule section of newsroom? Though we still follow roughly the same thing, a better presentation will do good..eh? I mean some table or something like that..-The Herald <sup style="margin-left:0.5px">the joy of the LORD <sub style="margin-left:-47.5px">my strength 16:33, 17 April 2015 (UTC)
 * What's there right now seems fine. There's a lot of thinking that I've had to do in terms of organization&mdash;the SP has a lot of cruft. It's still not ideal, but workable. A more visually appealing schedule would bump into the problem of the sidebar being there, and can't be centered; it's also not something I'm too interested in working on at the moment. There may be a metics page later on. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 17:37, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

selected quote
Hi. I need help for this quote. What should I do next? Munifi3nt (talk) 19:15, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ here. Thanks. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 19:23, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Oh! how quickly! thank you very much. Munifi3nt (talk) 19:48, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

Wiktionary hits 4 mill
Hi, as a follow-up to Wiktionary's 4 millionth, would it be worth mentioning that the article's creator is apparently a sockpuppet of User:Wonderfool? --Type56op9 (talk) 12:17, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the sentiment, and smell ya later! :-)
I appreciate the sentiment, Resident Mario.

If I do return, I will most definitely pick up where I left off.

By the way, I did try to contact HaeB in addition to my own efforts, but they never got back to me. I just wanted to let you know that for future recommendation purposes.

The archives were quite helpful, however.

In addition, I shall still try to read the Signpost when I can, so that I can stay up to date on what is going on on Wikipedia. But I will have a variable counter listed on my userpage that says the last time I've edited (as I will still, like I said, on the nonce check back to read the Signpost or check my watchlist. But even that will be fairly haphazard and inconsistent in manner). Additionally, I will probably be somewhat active on Wiktionary, as I was before I became particularly active on Wikipedia in the first place.

As such, it's less "retirement" than "semi-retirement", I'd reckon.

In any case, I thank you very much for all of the help that you have been! Tharthandorf Aquanashi (talk) 23:32, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes; noted; thank you. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 23:36, 8 May 2015 (UTC)

sign post Graphs
Nice graphs intro!!! I have made a few additions, please review, and possibly fix grammar/text/style, i'm not so good with those :) --Yurik (talk) 11:13, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

June 10: WikiWednesday Salon / Wikimedia NYC Annual Meeting
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question on irc
For your question on irc, you can do something like  combined with #ifexist, but it will break at the end of the year. But I imagine its possible to come up with something more robust that wouldn't. Bawolff (talk) 20:06, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
 * I should have specified that I need to do this in code (Python, specifically). I was hoping that I could just do a subpage search and grab the most recent date-string but after looking through a few queries that approach doesn't immediately strike me as practical. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 23:37, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
 * If you're running this on tool labs, you can do an sql query to get it (e.g. http://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/3885 will give the subpage that was most recently created). Bawolff (talk) 18:44, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
 * I solved the problem using a brute-force approaching: checking if the page exists going back fourteen days, and returning the one that does. I first need to make sure that what's there now works and works well...then I can start looking into getting a bot, getting a lab account, associating the two, and finally, rewriting the script so that it is in the simplest and most reliable possible form, given the platform (Labs) it is deployed on. One thing at a time! :) Thank you though, I wonder if there aren't other queries as well that I can much more easier run via Labs than via what I have now. Several times I have to fall back on scrubbing raw HTML to get the data I want, a terrible thing to have to do and a huge breakage pressure point. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 19:41, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
 * That really depends on what sort of data you're after. You don't need a labs account to run (short) queries on quarry.wikimedia.org, so you can play with the data without getting an account (if you know sql). However, usually the sort of thing requiring actually looking at wikitext or raw html, isn't that available from sql queries. Bawolff (talk) 20:07, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

Formatting issue with the FC setup
The title of the noms are meant to be in bold. Also, it's grabbing the name of the nominations of FPs from the string at the end of their nomination, when ideally it will be taking them from the relevant subpage of WP:GO, as that includes italics and is also reformatted to be descriptive in cases where the bit after "Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/" is, say, "Sun 2" or "File:Campilhas March 2015-1a.jpg", or, worse, the jokey titles of nominations I tend to use. It's also alphabetizing the nominations, a step which probably should be skipped, honestly, because it has a good chance of putting images in a set in different parts of the list. Adam Cuerden (talk) 11:49, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

Obviously, it's still far better than what we had, though! Adam Cuerden (talk) 11:43, 7 June 2015 (UTC)


 * As a note, File:Jane Addams - Bain News Service.jpg will be a good test of the script when it comes up next week: I think it's the first with slightly more complex attribution; I'm hoping it'll either fail in an obvious way, do it correctly, or do it mostly-correctly (e.g. needing a little formtatting tweak), the worst case scenario for these kind of images would be the illusion of having been done right, as we don't want to accidentally strip credit. =) Adam Cuerden (talk) 13:54, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
 * The title of the noms are meant to be in bold. Fixed.
 * ...ideally it will be taking them from the relevant subpage of WP:GO Eh...I'd rather you push WP:FP to use sane, standardized nomination titles; the utter lack of standardization, especially with featured pictures, caused me all sorts of nightmares in preparing the script. I can work around this problem with yet more code, but it'll make it harder to maintain the future, and I can't necessarily guarantee I'll still be here a year from now to fix things when they break.
 * Honestly? That's not possible. No-one has succeeded to this point; it's unlikely to happen just because we might want it to. Adam Cuerden (talk) 20:07, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
 * It's also alphabetizing the nominations This I can't fix. The script uses the nomination order returned by an API query, which is alphabetized; it does not dip into the raw WP:GO page.
 * Jane Addams Here you are. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 16:29, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Hmm. "created by Bain News Service" class="mw-redirect; " - think you could catch for those things, and just replace it with "created by &lt;font color=red>ERROR: Complete manually&lgt;/font>"? Adam Cuerden (talk) 20:07, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Um&mdash;not immediately, no. There is an almost infinite amount of things that can go wrong here so I can't really quantify what is a break and what isn't. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 20:18, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Hmm. Could you take it from the nomination page instead of the file? It's usually better formatted there. Adam Cuerden (talk) 20:21, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Nomination information is taken from the nomination page. In this sub-case the script finds a wikilink in the raw code and retrieves it. If there are multiple wiki-links in the nomination string, the script returns something garbled. It came up the way that I wrote it and I kept it, because if there is more than one wikilink in the nomination information there's no way for me to know anything about the contribution of the second or third or fourth or what have you wikilink. It could be the agency of the photographer, or their geographic nation, or what have you. In those cases I saw that it broke in a predictable way, and kept the output, because that predictability makes it a useful flag for FC writing. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 20:33, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Eh.. I'd rather it just threw an error, honestly. It's less likely to result in mistaken lack of credit Adam Cuerden (talk) 20:35, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
 * In this case I don't think it's such a big deal because the poor formatting makes it obvious that something is amiss. The trouble with specifically returning an error string is two-fold. First, how do I classify particular strings as errors or as successes, and distinguish between them? Second, if I start returning specific error messages, will the editors using the script know to keep an eye out for garbled output, or will they be trained to only hunt for red text? Because it's impossible, in this case, to know and account for every possible error that could be returned.
 * As for the problem of attribution: because of a total lack of standardization in featured topics and featured portals, co-nominations in either featured topics (rare) or portals (plausible) will not be picked up: only the first user-name link the script finds on the page will be returned. This is a much bigger failure point then the FP string troubles. Perhaps it would be worthwhile for you to go through the templates for this process and/or speak with the delegates and fix up the way nominations are done so that it is more obvious? <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 20:43, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Hm. I have talked about that at FPO. Shoul d do something. Wouldn't be too hard to template it. Adam Cuerden (talk) 13:26, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Hm. I have talked about that at FPO. Shoul d do something. Wouldn't be too hard to template it. Adam Cuerden (talk) 13:26, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

Fix to the FC setup
In the bits where it has text that outputs in the form "10 featured pictures were promoted this week" could you wrap the number in 10 (where "10" is whatever the output is) so it's converted into words? Adam Cuerden (talk) 12:03, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Done, though without substitution, because these magic words actually now call Lua modules! ( is worse than the unsubstituted statement). How time flies. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar  16:22, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
 * By the way, Adam, if you want to further improve the robustness of the script you should talk the people handling the various featured content processes into including obvious metadata string in their nominations. For instance, instead of:

You'd have:

Or:

As it is written now the script still occasionally breaks, this would largely fix that. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 16:27, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Hmm. Will see what I can do. FP will be the awkward one in that respect. Adam Cuerden (talk) 17:34, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Relevant, I have now produced a full write-up of the script's capabilities, dos, and don'ts, available here. Working on getting it up as a cluster. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 23:11, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

Hey, could you add the images into the pre-setup? I think the last issue ended up under-illustrated because it didn't suggest that images should be added. They should be as per Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Story-preload/FC - one or two besides each section, one at the top, one at the bottom. Adam Cuerden (talk) 16:34, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

Graphs Templates
Hi, thanks for the doc on Graphs! I think we should host all graph-related templates on mw:Extension:Graph/Guide, or similar, and have some bot auto-copy it to the subscribed languages. This way we can standardise from early on on the templates and approaches. --Yurik (talk) 20:40, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
 * I wish I could take credit for that, but I can't! The descriptions were actually taken from a buried sub-page of the module on the German Wikipedia which contained the English-language description. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 22:17, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Oh! You are right; as a stopgap measure until truly interwiki transclusion is enabled, that is the best approach. Do we have any infrastructure to do that with? <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 22:18, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
 * - no idea, guess we should bring it up with bot running people... ? --Yurik (talk) 22:38, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

We have a problem

 * Um... Mario? Remember how you said that the error made it obvious things needed checked?
 * You yourself buggered up the attribution for Addams. It's not a problem, but it's really not a good sign. Also, File:Seth_Rollins_holds_Money_in_the_Bank_briefcase_at_a_WWE_house_show_in_January_2015.jpg (which named Crisco 1492 as the creator, which is not at all correct) is another problematic case.

I think that the bot, in situations like these, needs to just fail, and give a note saying "Manual checking of creator needed" without trying to fill in the information. Plausible-but-incorrect information is far worse than nothing, as plausible doesn't get fixed. Adam Cuerden (talk) 03:28, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
 * With regards to the first case, that of Jane Addams. I told you that it would gum it up that way and that was the way that it gummed up. my edit was a correction, but I think that it's one that's reasonable to expect you to be able to make. I was a little surprised, in fact, that you haven't made it yet, given that that case was precisely what we had discussed earlier. Again, I will take no action here for the reasons I described earlier&mdash;you have not convinced me that this is something I can classify and fix.
 * With regards to the second issue, Seth Rollins. In this case the issue is one of precedence: the script looks for wikilinks in the creator field, and if it finds one it fills it in. It will then looks for URL links, and only do so if it fails to find a username link. This is a design shortfall involving my ordering of  statements, because I believe that it is much more normal to return a URL first, if it exists. I will swap the positions of the two in the code, and that will fix this particular issue. However, I think that it is reasonable to also append a (check) to the field's output if the script detects multiple types of links or multiple instances of links in the "creator" field; I believe that my guess will be right 95% of the time, but it won't hurt to have another eyeball.
 * That being said, you are again underestimating the complexity of the problem. You say that "in situations like these", but what situations do you mean, precisely? I can't wave a magic wand and determine each and every case when the script returns output that is wrong, you know that. You have to specify and classify precisely what situations you mean.
 * And finally, I am unconvinced that occasional mis-attribution is something to fret about too much. That's my personal opinion, though. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 03:42, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Aye, but the thing is, the Jane Addams case was fixed incorrectly, whereas a person clicking to the image instead of trying to fix it based on what the bot pasted in - would see both names, and presumably know well enough that both should appear. Hmm. I suppose the thing is, I think it's relatively easy to fix issues if you know an issue exists. As the vast majority of situations are unambiguous - one name in the creator field - where any ambiguity exists, the bot can still fill in nomination and nominator (I'm honestly not very concerned about co-nominators in FP, as FP is the one featured content process where nominators and creators quite often aren't the same), and that saved most of the work. Adam Cuerden (talk) 04:13, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Ah, so you mean to say that you think it should be able to pick up and add a "restorer" field (you, in this case?). Well, from a technical perspective it's definitely not something the script can pick up&mdash;trying to write that capacity in would also mess with the pickup system I have written now. From a writer's perspective, well, not to belittle your contribution, but does it really matter who the restorer was? I thought that information was encoded in the "nominator" string, because presumably the same person who did the restoration is the one who's nominating it. FPs have the unique problem of "found noms", common there but vanishingly rare in the other featured content processes, and this does somewhat dilute the importance of being the nominator&mdash;but not severely, AFAIK. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 04:41, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
 * How often does someone show up and nominate an image that someone else did all the work on? <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 04:42, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Fsirly often, actually. It's part of the collegial environment - if you find a good image, you're encouraged to nominate it. Adam Cuerden (talk) 17:43, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
 * I have changed the output again to add another exception, to handle cases like this. What will happen now is that if the script finds that there are multiple links in the "Creator" field, it will simply return . It will not attempt to guess at who's who, and will leave that part to the writer. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar  17:06, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
 * I've also added filler images to the draft generation. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 17:24, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks! And sorry to be difficult. Adam Cuerden (talk) 17:43, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Not at all, the thing needs to work after all. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 18:03, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
 * It's a fantastic bit of code. Just that we'll be using it for years, so a little extra time won't hurt.
 * Oh, one other usage case: How does it handle File:Rosette,_Titles_of_Sha_Jahan.jpg? Adam Cuerden (talk) 21:39, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Oh that's easy, it'll return . If it can't find any links in the creator field it'll return the text itself. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar  21:55, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

SP N&N header
Thx for this; should it be in ? John Vandenberg (chat) 03:48, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it's the second template inside of the  tag. I should adjust that incidentally: makes this operation, which we have to do for each part of each issue after all, a little harder for no good reason. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar  15:04, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Signpost
Hey, Mario, It was interesting to read your article in the upcoming Signpost because I have spend so much time categorizing the archives. I categorized every article that the Signpost issued from 2011-2015, every single one, none of which had any assigned categories. Now, I've started back at 2005 and am going forward to 2010. It's not like I'm expecting a thank you from Signpost staff for spending weeks doing this, I offered to do this. But when you discuss how difficult the archives are to navigate, an acknowledgement of what I've contributed would be nice. I realize that you are envisioning some new form of tagging but, right now, you can go and read all of the arbitration reports from 2011, all of the research reports from 2014, all of the articles that came out in August 2013 or all of the editorials from 2015. It might be nice to mention this categorization currently exists in case an editor wants to find an article in the archives. Thanks. Liz <sup style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><b style="color:#006400;">Read!</b> <b style="color:#006400;">Talk!</b> 20:12, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
 * , I continue to be amazed that you are continuing to put so much effort into HotCating Signpost archival articles, frankly not in a positive way. I feel like I have told you several times that your effort is perfunctory, for several reasons.


 * The first reason is that as an entity archives are mostly useless unless they are complete or mostly complete, and you are nowhere near that point yet. Not do I expect it to be possible for you to ever reach it, because even with the herculean effort you have demonstrated so far I doubt you have the wherewithal to navigate to and category over a decade's worth of content. There are over 5,000 Signpost articles. Do you really intend to go through and categorize every single one? I suppose you do feel that you can and will do so; but I do I personally think you will go through and do it? No. Because it is madness.


 * And besides, it's futile. It would take me an unknown but not nearly as lengthy amount of time to code, test, BOTREQ, and fully run a bot to handle all of these tasks&mdash;maybe five hours of effort altogether, maybe less. That bot would get that task done and get it done automatically in a few hours. Everyone would be free to move on with their lives. If you really feel so strongly about this issue I suggest that instead of spending still more time rubbing sticks together, you get out the propane torch.


 * Second and more importantly, your work is being made redundant even as you are doing it by a much more sophisticated system. You have named several categories that you have assembled through manual sweat of the brow; very good. I will now return the contents of these categories back to you without using categories at all, but through the use of the tagging system. Here we go:

all of the arbitration reports from 2011:

all the articles that came out in August 2013:

all the editorials for 2015 so far:

My immediate advice to you would be to stop this madness at once.

My next advice would be to, if you're still interested in this, go help put together the list here:. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 01:42, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

Minor FC setup fixes
Things I've noticed keep needing to be fixed. Minor things:


 * Noinclude wrappers, exactly as in this diff (it fixes single page view)
 * just before the last, centred image.


 * The starter images for FAs/FLs/FPs should come after the "[Number] Featured [X] were promoted this week.", not before the headers for each. (The "after the header") is a manual of style thing; it makes the context clearer for blind readers, which we have a few of.)


 * Most minor of all, can you leave out, say, the FL image if no FLs were promoted that week?

Minor, minor things, but may as well do them, right? Adam Cuerden (talk) 20:52, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Noted, I'll work on it tomorrow or on Monday. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 15:41, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks! It's about the only issues left that I can see, so... =) Adam Cuerden (talk) 15:51, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Ok all of these tasks are now ✅. Here is the output. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 18:08, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Great! I'll let you know if there's anything after next issue, but think we've got it. Adam Cuerden (talk) 19:29, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

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FC setup - last tweak.
I'm happy to code it, but in the bit that reads

&lt;center>This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from START-END MONTH.&lt;/center>

Can you tell me what date info you have, so I can give you a template that can accept that data, and spew out a formatted one-week date range? E.g 14 to 21 June 2015, 28 June to 4 July 2015, or whatever's appropriate for the range? Adam Cuerden (talk) 13:51, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Done. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 19:27, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Just Gamaliel was complaining about having to do it. Quite a lot, actually. Adam Cuerden (talk) 19:38, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

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Signpost Tech News setup
FYI. I noticed that in the first <tt> </tt> was not matched by a corresponding <tt> </tt>. While not apparent on proofreading, this would cause the report to be omitted from editions of Wikipedia Signpost/Single. --Lambiam 21:36, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Good catch; I will fix it now, thanks. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 04:33, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I was unable to trace the issue, there's something strange going on&mdash; is being erased from the output in this one instance only. Hmm. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar  04:46, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
 * There was also this erasure the week before: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-07-01/Technology_report&diff=prev&oldid=669202132. Moreover, the same phenomenon occurred two weeks ago in a different Signpost section also initiated by you: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-06-24/From_the_editor&action=edit&oldid=667830447 (started out at Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom/Proposals/Tagging initiative). --Lambiam 07:00, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Never mind it after a good night's rest I spotted and fixed the issue. Thanks! <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 14:24, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

FC
The next FC is ready at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Goings-on/June_28,_2015 I'm not quite sure what you're waiting on?
 * Script is set to use the GO page of the most recent Sunday minus 14 days, so, it will not return the correct content until the Sunday page is archived. Hmm. May need to think about how to more flexibly set up the timetable. That being said: I wrote this importer to make setting up and writing FC easier for you. Please tell the others not to compensate for the reduced workload by lengthening the already extremely wordy FC descriptions even further: there needs to be a 100 word firm length limit, and fewer than 75 words would be preferable. The longest of those descriptions was 241 words. At that point readers would be better off just going to the article and reading the lead themselves. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 05:08, 12 July 2015 (UTC)
 * . <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 05:10, 12 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Okay, fewer than 75 words. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 06:31, 12 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I tried to keep the FC/FP all at 75 to 100, and in the current issue we were able to do just that. For the sake of organization I try to start on the FP section, at the bottom and work up so as to not cross paths with Xanthomelanoussprog, who does a great job with the FA's... LMK if I can be of any further assistance. Cheers! <font style="font-variant:small-caps">talk→  WPPilot   10:03, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thanks! <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 02:34, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Sunday August 2: WikNYC Picnic
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FC error
The template at the bottom of the page (Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-article-comments-end) needs two dates: one week before the current edition and one week after it. For example at Wikipedia Signpost/2015-07-01/Featured content it should have been instead of  Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 08:10, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you; this issue should now been addressed going forward. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 22:46, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

Another error. It seems that 5 August edition all versions are created with "This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from 12 July to 19 July.", which contains the same incorrect range every time. The correct dates can be easily retrieved from the WP:GO archive. For example the dates for Goings-on/July 19, 2015 are July 19 and July 25. Also is there a reason, why the descriptions on WP:GO are not used? The contributors to the FC section doesn't seem to bother with retitling images if they are part of a set, and having the same text for ten images doesn't really looks good. Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 09:48, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
 * The date issue has to do with the way the Wikimedia force-caches information, and I've yet to figure out how to resolve that issue. The captions from WP:GO are not used at the moment, but might be at a future revision. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 14:20, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

Stub Contest
Right, where shall I write a blurb...I forgot about this and it's about to start....Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:50, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
 * RM is on a (hopefully) brief hiatus from writing news and notes, leaving me as the backup ... if you want to go ahead and write it directly as the second lead story for NAN, you can find the draft in the newsroom. Thanks!  Go  Phightins  !  13:29, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Ok cool - will bookmark it and get it done in next 72 hrs Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 14:27, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Ah&mdash;good to see this moving forward. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 22:46, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

August 19: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Essay
The essay you requested in Wikipedia Signpost/2015-8-12/News and notes opposing superprotect is now in preparation at User:Eat me, I'm a red bean/Why I'm against superprotect. —Preceding undated comment added 05:37, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

Signpost filler templates
I'd like to put a list or chart of seven items in the filler image column in ITM. Any suggestions on how I can best make that work? Gamaliel ( talk ) 14:18, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

Technology report
Is it OK to add things to the weekly Technology report in the Signpost or should it match the Tech News bulletin exactly? Kaldari (talk) 22:31, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
 * It's absolutely ok to contribute to the tech section. We haven't run anything that way yet, but the structure would look like this: a lead that you would write would be the first heading, and then the TN info would be available under an "In brief" heading, just like how things are arranged in the other core sections of the Signpost (the ones with the regular writers...). <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 02:25, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Ping me if we need to hold up publication. It'll be late tonight or early tomorrow EST.   Gamaliel  ( talk ) 02:37, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

Great Signpost this week
I gave some personal thanks to Bryce, but I wanted each of you Signpost board folks how much I appreciated this issue. Not only was the op-ed outstanding and thought provoking, the news section was well above average and Tony's travelogue was distinctive and fun to read. For my part, I'd like to see more profiles like that which appeared in the blog. It's impossible to cover every noteworthy event, but the statistical analysis seemed to line up with my anecdotal recollection of the event as it unfolded. Having the opportunity to see such an event analysis on an occasional basis may prove to be a different cross section of exactly how we function in real time. I'm taking the liberty to copy this to each of your board members; please pass my good wishes among your entire team. Outstanding reading. BusterD (talk) 04:47, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

Can you
tell me, learn me how to start this page, FP, using your script? Ideally I would like to start the same day when the other is published. I was messing around with this until then; but your script surely saves a lot of time. Hafspajen (talk) 23:11, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I had to start it manually, sorry, we are very late, that's a pretty long list. Wikipedia Signpost/2015-08-26/Featured content. If I would only know how, I could have done it myself. I will add the rest from your script by hand, somehow, when you are back. Hafspajen (talk) 13:07, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
 * , the bit of code with which I am generating these pages, is a Python script that at the moment I am running on a weekly basis off of my own computer. It's run via the command line using the  command.
 * So far no one else has ever used the script. First this is because it's still a work in progress, as there's a couple of things I'd like to write in and issues I'd like to address. I will hopefully get around to sitting down and banging out the code this week. Second this is because the script is not very portable. This a command line tool without a GUI, and therefore not something I expect those not sufficiently technically inclined to be able to easily make use of.
 * In the long term the best-case deployment for this script is to create a Labs tool for it. I have too many projects and too little experience in this realm, however, so although I tinkered with it a bit I am not the person to make this happen.
 * That means that, for now, if you want to use this tool yourself, you will have to install it. This is a highly technical operation because it requires installing Python, adding Python to the system variables, installing pywikibot, configuring pywikibot, and then downloading and saving the scripts.
 * On the other hand, yes, sometimes I forget to run it, or life intercedes and I don't get around to it, as happened here. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 18:58, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
 * OK. Well, tell me how shall we fix it? Shall I temporarily remove the content so you can run it? It is a tremendous help, you know, that script. I go to the page and blank it, and later I paste back content, is that OK? I think is the easiest. Hafspajen (talk) 19:03, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Page is blank, you can run it now. Hafspajen (talk) 19:06, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Done. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 20:54, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Oh, great, thanks! I was feeling a bit lost 040.The Death of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.jpg without it. Hafspajen (talk) 20:56, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Mario, would you mind doing it again on this part? Hafspajen (talk) 21:04, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Sorry, sent it to the wrong page, you've got it there now. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 21:36, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Right, got that. Moving back everything. Hafspajen (talk) 21:49, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

September 16: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Just wondering
What's with all the "Δ" in your edit summaries?  Rcsprinter123    (rap)  19:32, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
 * In part, I can't be bothered to type out edit summaries, in part, there is a small carte blanche advantage to not providing detailed edit summaries when constructing news articles. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 05:01, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

Sep 2015
Greetings Resident Mario! I have written something that I would like to submit to either The Signpost or Wikipediocracy. Since submission for both these places does not seem clearly laid out I am wondering if you could point me in the right direction. Any help would be appreciated. Feel free to ping me here or on my own talk page, either works. DaltonCastle (talk) 23:39, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Actually I think I found where to go. Although, overall it looks like my post would be better suited on Wikipediocracy than The Signpost, unless I am incorrect about content differences. DaltonCastle (talk) 23:43, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
 * See Wikipedia Signpost/2015-07-08/Editorial. We don't republish stories from Wikipediocracy; Wikipediocracy may republish stories from us, not sure. Most of the time it's just a matter of the signal-to-noise ratio of the piece you are submitting: without seeing the draft I can't say much about whether or not we would accept it, unfortunately. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 05:05, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thanks! <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 19:27, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject Military history coordinator election
Greetings from WikiProject Military history! As a member of the project, you are invited to take part in our annual project coordinator election. If you wish to cast a vote, please do so on the election page by 23:59 (UTC) on 29 September. Yours, Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 05:21, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

#!&* Credit-feefing script
Really I couldn't care less (for the credit; obviously I care enough to point out a problem), but I noticed that your import script for the FPs in the Signpost gave the nomination to both me and Brandmeister for the nomination of Lovers Beneath An Umbrella in the Snow here when he didn't do nothing (nothing!) except persuade me that I should have confidence in my own nomination. I suppose the script checks for signatures after the "as nominator" and before any Oppose or Comment or Support? Or uses spells, what do I know? Anyway, I thought you might want to know in case it is any easy fix. If you aren't going to fix it, let me know why it makes the mistake and I'll sign up for the Wikicup next year and take advantage of it. ;P. Belle (talk) 14:11, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I had to really coax it to get it to decent accuracy: these nominations are not done with data discoverability in mind. I haven't looked to closely at what the particular shortcoming was in this case, but it probably happens reasonably often. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 16:47, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

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Oct 28: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Sunday Nov 22: Soviet Jewry Edit-a-thon & Women In Science Edit-a-thon
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ArbCom elections are now open!
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== Dec 9: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC; Dec 12: Art & Law editathon + Dec 13: Black Film editathon ==

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Nominations for the Military history WikiProject historian and newcomer of the year awards now open!
On behalf of the Military history WikiProject's Coordinators, we would like to extend an invitation to nominate deserving editors for the 2015 Military historian of the year and Military history newcomer of the year awards. The nomination period will run from 7 December to 23:59 13 December, with the election phase running from 14 December to 23:59 21 December. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:05, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Merry Christmas and happy new year
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Merry Christmas and happy new year. (: --<span style="white-space:nowrap;text-shadow:#008C3A 0.1em 0.1em 1.5em,#01796F -0.1em -0.1em 1.5em;"><b style="color:#01796F;">Pine</b><sup style="color:#01796F;">✉
 * Thank you ! Much appreciated. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 04:49, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

Hi
Just wondering why don't work on volcano articles anymore.  Volcano guy  08:50, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Hey! Long time no see! I'm generally very busy for one thing, and the basis of my interests have shifted for another. It was kind of fun, though. If I start writing articles again I'll probably start with bits of New York City history, like I did with Jacob Little. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:#333333; font-size:small;">Res</b> Mar 18:15, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Shifted? Are you kidding me? I'm still on a roll writing and updating volcano articles!  Volcano guy  19:39, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

Saturday February 6 in NYC: Black Life Matters Editathon
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Feb 16: Art+Feminism Training / Photo-Poetics @ Guggenheim Feb 17: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Saturday, March 5: Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon @ MoMA
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March 16: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Military history WikiProject coordinator election
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