User talk:Slgrandson/Archive/2015

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Saturday February 7 in NYC: Black Life Matters Editathon
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Not everything Cyrillic is Russian
Hi. Saw your addition to WP:PNTFC. Please be aware that not all text in Cyrillic characters is in the Russian language. Many major languages use Cyrillic script, and more minor ones do as well. Cheers, Mathglot (talk) 01:16, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of User talk:Davey Beals


A tag has been placed on User talk:Davey Beals requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section U5 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to consist of writings, information, discussions, and/or activities not closely related to Wikipedia's goals. Please note that Wikipedia is not a free Web hosting service. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. meshach (talk) 23:44, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Sunday March 22: Wikipedia Day NYC Celebration and Mini-Conference
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April 29: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Speedy Deletion
It's really interesting with all the other articles in the Web Development category that are clearly insignificant and promotional in nature, you choose mine for speedy deletion. Not only is my article about a company with a 9 year track record of providing tech and development services to world-renown corporations, many of which also have pages on Wikipedia, but it was written much better than 90% of the other articles in this category. That it only had a couple references was mainly due to it being an article still in development (most of the articles in the Web Development category have little to no references).

Don't sweat it in any event, I've blanked the page myself and it will be deleted soon.

On another note, I have been an editor here for nearly 10 years now, under one account or another and I've seen guys like you come and go. You get all gung ho about adding speedy deletion tags and censoring other people's content, all the while skipping over articles much more appropriate for your scrutiny. You act like some sort of "wiki-dictator" and you think it makes you look smart or important, but to most people you simply look like a jerk with low self-esteem... Ormr2014 (talk) 22:25, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Can you mention what article title that was so that I can take a look? Haven't seen any evidence yet. --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 00:56, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

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June 10: WikiWednesday Salon / Wikimedia NYC Annual Meeting
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Bots
You are receiving this message because a technical change may affect a bot, gadget, or user script you have been using. The breaking change involves API calls. This change has been planned for two years. The WMF will start making this change on 30 June 2015. A partial list of affected bots can be seen here: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-June/081931.html  This includes all bots that are using pywikibot compat. Some of these bots have already been fixed. However, if you write user scripts or operate a bot that uses the API, then you should check your code, to make sure that it will not break.

What, exactly, is breaking? The "default continuation mode" for action=query requests to api.php will be changing to be easier for new coders to use correctly. To find out whether your script or bot may be affected, then search the source code (including any frameworks or libraries) for the string "query-continue". If that is not present, then the script or bot is not affected. In a few cases, the code will be present but not used. In that case, the script or bot will continue working.

This change will be part of 1.26wmf12. It will be deployed to test wikis (including mediawiki.org) on 30 June, to non-Wikipedias (such as Wiktionary) on 1 July, and to all Wikipedias on 2 July 2015.

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 * Or you could update your code to use the simplified continuation documented at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query#Continuing_queries (example ), which is much easier for clients to implement correctly.

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This Friday: Women in Architecture edit-a-thon @ Cambridge, MA
You are invited to join the Women in Architecture edit-a-thon @ Cambridge, MA on October 16! (drop-in any time, 6-9pm)--Pharos (talk) 18:27, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

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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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