User talk:Rosiestep/Archive 6

Are you looking for a project you can really sink your teeth into?
I noticed you are a member of the Geography WikiProject. I thought you might be interested in this...

A huge collaboration is underway, in which participants all work on 247 pages at a time. That's right, there are 247 pages in the set, and we're all working on all of them! We kind of cheat, by using advanced wikitools like AWB and Linky that let you load or switch between pages quickly (and other tricks).

We're building a geography reference aid for Wikipedia covering every country of the world. Organized as topic outlines (a type of structured list), these pages present maps, pictures, basic information on each country, and links to essential articles about each country on Wikipedia. We have created 247 drafts (one for every country of the world), 28 of which have been completed enough that they've been moved to article space already (so people can make use of them, even though they're still under construction). The rest are getting pretty close.

Each of these pages in turn form part of Wikipedia's outline of knowledge, and when completed, this branch of the outline will be the best general navigation aid for browsing country-related information on Wikipedia.

We're looking for users who love geography, and who use or would like to start using:
 * WP:AWB, or
 * Firefox, with the Linky add-on, or
 * similar tools and/or other tricks

...to edit many pages fast.

While some of us work on completing one country page at a time, most of the work we do entails completing a particular knowledge item on all of the pages. For example, filling in the population figures for each country, or creating redirects to "bluelink" standard link names used throughout the set, or placing a specific type of map on each page, etc. etc.

Working in this way is kind of like traveling around the world, since you get to visit the page of each country of the world to work on it.

Tasks range from the simple (filling in blanks, search/replace, copy/paste) to the more complex (Customizing sections to each country, Google searches of Wikipedia to find relevant articles, etc.).

This project is very important, because information is only useful if you can find it, and these pages show you what's here on Wikipedia without you having to guess at what to type in a search box.

To give you an idea of what these pages will look like when complete, here are the most complete ones so far:
 * Topic outline of France
 * Topic outline of Iceland
 * Topic outline of Japan
 * Topic outline of Thailand
 * Topic outline of Taiwan

If you are interested in joining in on the fun, please drop me a note.

Sincerely,

The Transhumanist 03:17, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

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Out of curiosity...
Are you registered to use WP:AWB?

Do you have Firefox, with the Linky add-on?

And do you have WP:WikEd installed? (great for on-the-fly search/replaces, and therefor is perfect for making lists of links to use Linky on).

The Transhumanist 20:22, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

AWB Search/Replace request
I don't currently have access to a computer that can run AWB (I'm at a library).

Could you do a search/replace for me? Here it is:

On all the pages listed at User:The Transhumanist/Country list, please change:


 * Economic rank:

To:


 * Economic rank (by nominal GDP):

(use the wikicode itself for the search/replace)

Be sure to turn off all automatic fixes (wikification, etc.) There's some non-wikified stuff in these that we need in them for now. Please make sure AWB does the search/replace only and nothing else.

Thank you.

The Transhumanist 21:05, 7 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I got approved for AWB 2 days ago, tried to install it, but was unsuccessful on this computer. Will have another go on it over the weekend on my other one. Sorry if I didn't clarify previously that I'm approved for AWB but not using it yet. --Rosiestep (talk) 21:09, 7 October 2008 (UTC)


 * No problemo. This weekend would be fine.  By the way, I've used AWB a lot, so if you have any questions when you start using it, feel free to ask me.  The Transhumanist  21:13, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Webaman
I agree, I actually thought about doing a speedy delete... but was unsure V. Joe (talk) 14:40, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Arctic-stub
Hi Rosiestep - not sure why you're adding Arctic-stub to geographic features, but you shouildn't be. As made clear ion the discussion of Arctic-stub at WP:WSS/D, it should not be used for geographic features - those would naturally get stubs relating only to their actual location. It should only be used for items which are not geographic, such as expeditions, regulations, history of the arctic and the like. Grutness...wha?  00:52, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Fair enough - thought I'd better mention it to you in case you hadn't. To cut a long story short, geo-stubs are regarded as largely separate from other stub types (simply because there are so many of them) and work as strictly as possible on a by-country basis. Also, there's little point adding arctic-stub to something that already has, say, a nunavut-geo-stub, since being marked with a nunavut-geo-stub by itself indicates it's arctic-related. Grutness...wha?  23:06, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh, true - and even more so with some other places (Norway-geo-stub, for instance), but anyone looking for geographical articles on the Arctic will still have a pretty reasonable place to start looking with the current geo-stub categories. Grutness...wha?  23:47, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Nevada County, CA NRHP table?
Hi Rosiestep ... I've been working on National Register of Historic Places listings in California and the related county NRHP lists. Back on August 19, you removed the Nevada County table from the main state list (here's the diff), but I can't find it anywhere. The "refer to" note under Nevada County in the state list just points right back to the state list (it's a circular reference). Do you remember where you put Nevada County table? I looked through your edit history, but didn't see anything that looks like the table in question. Thanks in advance for any assistance. --Sanfranman59 (talk) 02:55, 21 October 2008 (UTC)


 * No worries ... I assumed that it was just an oversight, but I didn't just want to recreate the table if it's out there somewhere and possibly has had some edits applied to it. I'm going to work on bringing the state article down to a more reasonable size by removing additional county lists. I don't quite get why most of the listings are presented in both the table format and in the old-style list format, but I'll remedy that along the way also. --Sanfranman59 (talk) 03:22, 21 October 2008 (UTC)


 * The old style lists below the tables are there because I inserted the tables, and i meant to go through the old lists and check them before deleting them. I meant to check them to ensure all of their items were covered in the table, and to ensure that any disambiguation or other info in them was properly captured in the corresponding table entry.  However, since then i have been bogged down in doing that kind of work in New York state county list-tables, and i haven't gotten back to California yet. doncram (talk) 18:33, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

History of Kodaikanal
Rosiestep, Thank you for noticing the article, the Amazing Barnstar and the DYK nomination.

Another cat lover, Marcus (talk) 18:04, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Geography WikiProject update
We've been steadily developing the set of country outlines, and they are getting close to being ready to move to article space. There's over two hundred of them, so when the move takes place it will be a pretty big event.

Penubag has been hard at work creating the images for awards for this project, in preparation for a collaborative contest we will be hosting that is expected to attract new editors to the team.

In the meantime, I and a few others have been working on 3 fronts:
 * 1) On the 28 country outlines that have already been moved to article space to complete them so they will be the best examples that they can be for editors working on the rest of the set.
 * 2) Adding or correcting other data (fixing redlinks, filling in blanks, etc.) in the overall set.  This is the main type of work participants in "the contest" will be doing.  The reason we're doing some of this now is to get a feel for it, to develop the fastest methods for each type of task.
 * 3) Improving the overall design and implenting changes on all 247 pages, whether in article space or not.

The main thing that needs to be done to the outlines so that they can be moved to article space is correct and complete the government branches sections, many of which include incorrect information that was placed there as temporary data by a template when these pages were created (in order to match the most countries and cut down on the work load).

We're looking for editors who love to work on lots of pages fast, who use or would like to use advanced tools like AWB and Linky. Most of the tasks entail working on a specific item on all of the pages in the set.

We're having a blast, but we're spread pretty thin and could sure use your help.

If you'd like to join in on the fun, drop me a note.

The Transhumanist 00:31, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Foxe Basin
When you have a second, can you take a look at the recent edit of Foxe Basin? What's this guy talking about? Thanks! Cbaer (talk) 19:56, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Gastrotypographicalassemblage
Thanks for the improvements for the article. I had been focusing on Dorfsman, but it was clear that Gastrotypographicalassemblage deserved an article of its own and I know nothing about the visual arts. Thanks again for taking the time to expand the article. Alansohn (talk) 18:46, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Another country outline moved to article space!
Topic outline of Zimbabwe is now in article space. It still needs images and some bluelinking, and is undoubtedly missing some relevant links.

Please take a look at it. You will no doubt spot things you can easily fix that I overlooked.

The Transhumanist 19:55, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
Hello, I inform you that I requested move for the article at J. M. G. Le Clézio to go back to the original title, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. Since you has shown interest in the article, I would appreciate your input in the discussion. The discussion for move has very a few participants so far, so more people's opinion on this matter would be really necessary. Regards.--Caspian blue 14:40, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

DYK for tribal colleges and universities
- And thanks for your assistance at DYK :) Gatoclass (talk) 15:22, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

DYK request
User Rosiestep, hi! I am sorry to bother you, and I am not sure that this request is seemly, so please feel free to ignore this request if you wish. I note that you recently went through some of the Template talk:Did you know entries and checked them. One of those DYK's is for an article I did (political foundation at European level) - it's my first DYK nom, so I'm kinda on tenterhooks at the moment. As of this moment, nobody has put one of those thingies next to it, and I'm concerned that it may be overlooked. Could I ask you therefore to look over it and mark it accordingly? (Obviously I can't do it myself - I wrote it). Of course, if you're busy, please feel free to ignore me, but if you do look over it, thank you for your time - the concept is new and poorly understood, but is currently the subject of media interest in Ireland, so wider dissemination is of interest to the Irish polity. Regards, Anameofmyveryown (talk) 01:43, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your intervention: I'm very pleased. Yay! Regards, Anameofmyveryown (talk) 14:36, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

DYK
Howdy, I have created a new hook for the article Archibald Gracie III. Thanks and Have a Great Day! Duke R. Oliver I His Duchy 23:21, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

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Montecito Tea Fire
Thanks for your work on the Montecito Tea Fire article. Your contributions have greatly improved the article, and I have added a co-author credit for you in the current DYK nomination for the article. Cbl62 (talk) 23:20, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Agree with your sentiment on the fires. Things do look much better in Los Angeles at least. Cbl62 (talk) 23:54, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

YOB instead of DOB. Check instructions
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MV Biscaglia
Hi. Great work at the article. I nominated the article for a DYK. But you deserve the DYK more then I do so please change the "hook" if you think of a better one. Best, -- brew crewer  (yada, yada) 17:41, 30 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I churned it through [this] tool and it came up 60 characters short. I'll see what I can do. -- brew  crewer  (yada, yada) 18:10, 30 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I've made a few edits to the article. But please take them as suggestions and revert if you don't agree. Best, -- brew crewer  (yada, yada) 21:08, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

North Sea
Thank you for your contributions to the North Sea article. I have re-written some sections so that they can have sources, references and citations for every fact. Can you be a second set of eyes, and see if every number, year, new piece of info has a citation please. If you see a copy edit that needs being done, could you also help the article in the midst of the GA review. The GA review is currently studying the verifiablity of the article and if it is properly referenced with verifiable sources for facts. Kind Regards and thank you.SriMesh | talk  00:08, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you! I feel like I am going around in circles already.  :-)  SriMesh |  talk  00:34, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I see you have been making some updates regarding the references. I can also update these as well tomorrow. as I see what now needs to be done regarding the formatting in the citation template.  Tis late now. Do you think that under economy the oil and fisheries section support their facts? And should the redbad citation be deleted?  Kind Regards SriMesh |  talk  03:28, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I like working on ref repair so I'll keep on that until I can't find anything else to fix. I think the oil and fisheries section is appropriately cited; leave as is.  I'm not crazy about the redbad citation but the Professor Shin Kim citation, which basically supports the same facts, isn't optimal, so I suggest to keep both. --Rosiestep (talk) 03:57, 8 December 2008 (UTC)


 * So what I did was add more references. I think every fact has a ref now.  I hope so.  Kind RegardsSriMesh |  talk  04:19, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

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Think before you change...
Your recent page name change has broken the link to the FAC for the article which you have recently renamed (without a single warning I might add) July 2006 Westchester tornado. The name it had, followed a previous name of a single event tornado created by the project. I'd greatly appreciate if you could do one of two things. 1) undo the name change 2) correct the broken link to the FAC for the article. Thanks, Cyclonebiskit (talk) 02:10, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Article moves
Numerous articles have been moved recently. This has resulted in many double redirects which then results in bad links. Please update redirects to the old articles so that they point to the new locations. Evolauxia (talk) 03:16, 11 December 2008 (UTC)


 * It seems you are, now, fixing the redirects and may not have gotten to all of the articles yet. Thanks.  Evolauxia (talk) 03:20, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Tahiryuak Lake
Were you wworking on Australian lakes? Actually the real question was, do you have the English translation? Also I just notice Lake Anjikuni and Angikuni Lake. Angikuni Lake is the correct name and I'll see about merging them together later. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 00:27, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
 * It was because your original link was to Northern Territory in Australia. I need to stop trying to type jokes. They never work. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 06:29, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Lucky, I'm at work and will have to stick with; A small cup of coffee.JPG Merry Christmas Mince Pie.jpg

Thanks
Thanks for the hospitality! Have a great new year The Bald One       White cat 20:26, 31 December 2008 (UTC)