User talk:The Interior/Archive 8

Bow River
Hi The Interior. First off, cool to see you in person the other day in class! Second, thanks for helping out with the Bow River article. It is very much appreciated. Our articles must be completed by the night of April 10th (the article still is not in its final form), and I have a quick question. I was thinking about deleting the "Ecology" and "Conservation and development" sections of the Bow River article. "Ecology" doesn't have much information about the Bow's ecology and it doesn't really contribute to the article. It's just one sentence that says "citation needed". "Conservation and development" seems redundant, given what Rkfire and I have added. I think I could add all the minor details in it to other sections, perhaps with the exception of the sentence reading "The Bow Valley Provincial Park was established in the Bow Valley and is a part of the Kananaskis Country park system." Do you have any advice about whether or not I should proceed in doing this? I think it would clean up the article overall. Do you think the Wikipedia community would appreciate this potentially minor loss of information for the sake of "cleanliness"?--Dejlambert (talk) 05:43, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Hey Djlambert. Definitely trim any overlap or redundancy.  However, I'd avoid removing the ecology section because that's an area where the article could use expansion.  Having an undeveloped section for it encourages other editors to expand, whereas with no heading, it may not occur to people that there is still room for improvement there.  Great work by all on this page, I may even work on the ecology section myself and maybe nominate the article for Good status.  The Interior  (Talk) 20:14, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your advice! I'll be sure to leave the Ecology section.--Dejlambert (talk) 03:52, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

HIST 396
Hi The Interior, Many, many thanks for all of your help with HIST 396. It was great to chat this week, and good to see that Cronon piece. SockeyeSam (talk) 03:22, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Ditto: and we have a date for eating crickets: Friday April 13. What could be more fitting? Can you make it @ 12PM? Will confirm the place in a day or two. --Greentina (talk) 03:18, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Works for me. I've got my last exam that morning, so don't judge me if I have a midday cocktail with my crickets.  The Interior  (Talk) 04:08, 9 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Can you make it at 1130 @ Rangoli (they don't take reservations - we all need to be there in order to be seated, and I was told 1130 was a good time to arrive). --Greentina (talk) 20:20, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Will be there @ 11:30. The Interior  (Talk) 18:27, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Hi The Interior, thanks very much for your input on our Trail Smelter article, especially moving the photo which of course made more sense, and your edits and comments along the way. We were wondering if you could help us with regard to putting a request for article creation out there. We think that one of the smelter's legacies was the damage done to Lake Roosevelt, but there is a lot of debate about how the pollution got into that lake. We have mentioned it as a legacy in our article but think that it deserves more attention than we can give within the scope of our assignment, especially since we were meant to be historical and these allegations are more recent. thanks in advance for any help you can offer. Sliver9754 (talk) 06:50, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I'll leave a note on the Talk page, but I agree that the 2004 content should be on the lake article, and just mentioned, maybe as a "see also" on the smelter dispute page. By going into detail about other, more modern controversies, we run the risk of the article becoming a criticism page for COMINCO.  The Interior  (Talk) 18:20, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

good point. I have actually found recent writing arguing that the smelter can't be responsible for all of this since lakes closer to trail are not so polluted, so I would like to add stuff like that, however these are scientific journals so i am not sure how to decipher all that language, or whether research like that is what we are meant to use on wikipedia anyways. I would like to give Cominco the benefit of the doubt since it is difficult to prove unequivocally where all the pollution came from. thanks for your input. Sliver9754 (talk) 05:24, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank you for your support at my RfA. I will do my best to live up to people's confidence in me. Yngvadottir (talk) 15:33, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
 * OMG it was my pleasure, I'm sure you'll do fine. The Interior  (Talk) 18:23, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Hell's Gate move
Soooooo, now what?--Eye101 (talk) 02:17, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
 * ... now we wait for an industrious admin to drop by, analyze our arguments, and if they are logical to the admin, and he/she doesn't find some obscure reason it can't be moved, Hells Gate it is. 7 days on Wikipedia can easily mean two or three weeks.  The Interior  (Talk) 18:26, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Ha, I guess that makes sense; we get what we pay for ;) --Eye101 (talk) 18:39, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!
Aww, shucks. Thanks! The Interior (Talk) 18:26, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for the promotion for OA, much appreciated! I really want to help with some courses in the future. Inverse Hypercube (talk) 22:17, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
 * No problem, I knew you'd be good addition to the OA corps and was actually about to ask you to apply! The Interior  (Talk) 22:32, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library
The DYK project (nominate) 00:07, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for expressing your support for me in the User_talk:PumpkinSky thread and/or participating in the User_talk:PumpkinSky thread. Peace to everyone. Pumpkin Sky  talk  01:06, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
 * No problem, dude. The Interior  (Talk) 04:29, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

Assessing students' contributions
Howdy, Remember that saying, "there's no free lunch...."? :-) I'm beginning to assess the students' WP articles and I wonder if there's any easy way to get a sense of the aggregate number of edits they've made (without counting) and the number of bytes they've contributed? I know I can get a list of their contribs, but is there any way of generating aggregate data for individual users? Many thanks! --Greentina (talk) 05:04, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
 * How about this one (example)? It doesn't calculate byte contributions, though. Inverse Hypercube  (talk) 06:07, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
 * That's a neat tool, IH, haven't used that one before. Tina, there's also just the plain old edit counter if you haven't found it yet - X's Edit Counter.  I don't know of a tool for bytes added, might just have to gauge it by the article history pages.  Hope your marking is going well.  The Interior  (Talk) 14:52, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks to you both! This is really helpful. Giving grades to individuals for a team project is a bit tricky.... --Greentina (talk) 23:45, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Please rephrase
I invite you to rephrase using the term unfree labour or similar neutral terminology. Stuartyeates (talk) 21:59, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Are we referring to student work in general, or specifically to requirements that the students use the peer-review projects such as DYK?  The Interior  (Talk) 22:02, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I am referring to references to historical regimes under which large numbers of people died. Stuartyeates (talk) 22:07, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh, I get you now. That is what terms like "non-voluntary" and "compulsory" evoked for me.  The Interior  (Talk) 22:16, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

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DYK for Surrey City Centre Public Library
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Precious

 * Means a lot from you Gerda, it's a pleasure being able to work with people like yourself. The Interior  (Talk) 11:42, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

UAA/Helperbot
If a user is blocked, the Helperbot will continue to revert remove them on UAA. If they're abusing their talkpage, I'd recommend contacting the administrator who blocked them. Calabe1992 05:25, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Ahh! Are you on Helperbot's side?! ;) I was just trying to get an admin's attention, which worked apparently. .  Didn't need to revert, was just a minor talkpage billboard dealio.  The Interior  (Talk) 05:37, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
 * No problem. Unfortunately, there's not really a well-established way to deal with those who abuse their talk page after being blocked, and I don't feel it's worth an AN or ANI notice either. So I tend to get in touch with the blocking admin or one that I know is online. Calabe1992 05:40, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
 * For sure. You know what's funny.  I was actually reading your Rfa and doing that UAA report half-assedly in another window.  To see a message pop up from you while reading about you was quite startling!  The Interior  (Talk) 05:46, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Heh. Happy editing. Calabe1992 05:48, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Maybe next time it will be you I ask, mmm? The Interior  (Talk) 05:51, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
 * No comment on that while RfA is ongoing. Calabe1992 05:52, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks!
DYK I appreciate the heads-up and congrats to you actually producing the content and suggesting it. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:57, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Further editing Were you interested in continuing editing on this article? Do you want to shoot for a GA? —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:31, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm open to getting this to GA - however - do we have enough substantial sources at the moment? We could start compiling a source list on the talk page, and see how it goes from there. The Interior  (Talk) 15:28, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Just went a lookin, not much out there right now, but when the album is released digitally there's bound to be more reviews/press. I set up a google alert for it.  The Interior  (Talk) 15:49, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Monuments Canada
Hello! A while back, you expressed some interest in participating in a Canadian component in the annual Wiki Loves Monuments project. It's up and running, and if you're still interested, we'd love to see you at Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 Canada. Cheers, --Skeezix1000 (talk) 22:16, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

DYK for The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends
PanydThe muffin is not subtle 08:07, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

Harvey Pitt
Hello The Interior. I see you erased some text from Harvey Pitt and discussed your views on the Talk page - thanks for doing that. Prior to your erasure a new User, Gettingitaccurate, erased a couple of paragraphs. He (or she) obviously has concerns regarding WP:BLP because he initially raised them at the Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard. The paragraphs Gettingitaccurate erased appear to be properly supported by in-line citations so I restored those two paragraphs. You might have a quick look to see if you think the in-line citations are legitimate.

I have left a message at User talk:Gettingitaccurate advising him that I restored his erasures, and asking that he raise his concerns on an article's Talk page when contamplating erasing information that is properly supported by one or more in-line citations. Dolphin ( t ) 23:07, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Hey Dolphin, how goes. I felt that the citations as presented were not sufficient per BLP.  Went into a bit more detail on the talk page.  If the authors of those two offline works did state what was in the article, then we need to know exactly where in their books they said it, and attribute the statement to them. As to the NYT bit, I'm very leery about including quotes from opinion pieces anywhere in WP, especially in BLP's.  The Interior  (Talk) 23:15, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks! You appear to have it entirely under control so I will leave it in your capable hands.  Cheers.  Dolphin  ( t ) 23:19, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

New Pages update
Hey :). A quick update on how things are going with the New Page Triage/New Pages Feed project. As the enwiki page notes, the project is divided into two chunks: the "list view" (essentially an updated version of Special:NewPages) and the "article view", a view you'll be presented with when you open up individual articles that contains a toolbar with lots of options to interact with the page - patrolling it, adding maintenance tags, nominating it for deletion, so on.

On the list view front, we're pretty much done! We tried deploying it to enwiki, in line with our Engagement Strategy on Wednesday, but ran into bugs and had to reschedule - the same happened on Thursday :(. We've queued a new deployment for Monday PST, and hopefully that one will go better. If it does, the software will be ready to play around with and test by the following week! :).

On the article view front, the developers are doing some fantastic work designing the toolbar, which we're calling the "curation bar"; you can see a mockup here. A stripped-down version of this should be ready to deploy fairly soon after the list view is; I'm afraid I don't have precise dates yet. When I have more info, or can unleash everyone to test the list view, I'll let you know :). As always, any questions to the talkpage for the project or mine. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:26, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

DYK request
Hey there. I've been trying to fill the holding area at DYK for May 13th (Mother's Day), and I solicited the article The Mother (Matka)‎. It will need a lot of work before it can get to DYK. So I looked through the history of Karel Čapek to see who could help, and that's how I came to you. Provided there is not another (important) hockey game on, would you be interested in working on and nominating this article for DYK? I am not looking for any credit, I just want a full DYK for Mother's Day (for myself I've started M.O.M., Music for Our Mother Ocean). It would be lame if we have 6 hooks about mothers and one about Elvis or hermaphrodites. ▫  Johnny Mr Nin ja  18:34, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Johnny, sorry for the late reply. I would love to work on that one, Capek is one of my favourite authors.  And mothers are also favourites of mine.  However, I'm in a remote work camp in northern Alberta and can only edit with my smart phone.(which is reallllly sloppy)  I will try get on the cAmp computer tonight and do some work on it if possible. Thanks for getting some mom hooks together!  The Interior  (Talk) 15:10, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
 * This is a cruel twist of fate! The hooks are being loaded now. I will try and get it ready. ▫  Johnny Mr Nin ja  18:00, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, it's just bad timing. I'm on a wildland firefighting crew this summer, and things are getting pretty tinder dry up here - see .  Hope to be back to my laptop soon.  The Interior  (Talk) 13:46, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh, gotcha. When you said "work camp" I assumed it was some sort of prison program, possibly related to a hockey riot. The volunteer firefighter thing is pretty noble. I concede that it is more important to prevent Alberta from burning down than it is to win a DYK template. ▫  Johnny Mr Nin ja  19:39, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Fight the fire, the music is playing right now, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:06, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

New Page Triage prototype released
Hey The Interior! We've finally finished the NPT prototype and deployed it on enwiki. We'll be holding an office hours session on the 16th at 21:00 in #wikimedia-office to show it off, get feedback and plot future developments - hope to see you there! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 03:35, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

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New Page Triage/New Pages Feed
Hey all :). A notification that the prototype for the New Pages Feed is now live on enwiki! We had to briefly take it down after an unfortunate bug started showing up, but it's now live and we will continue developing it on-site.

The page can be found at Special:NewPagesFeed. Please, please, please test it and tell us what you think! Note that as a prototype it will inevitably have bugs - if you find one not already mentioned at the talkpage, bring it up and I'm happy to carry it through to the devs. The same is true of any additions you can think of to the software, or any questions you might have - let me know and I'll respond.

Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 13:19, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Blairmore
Hey, I see from the participation page for the Wikimedia loves monuments project at Commons that you will be in Blairmore in the summer. Any chance you are already there? I've been working on the Frank Slide article lately, hoping to get it to FA in time for the 110th anniversary next year and would very much like to get a better panorama than the one that exists now, and perhaps a photo of the interpretive centre. I was contemplating taking a drive down myself, but have been ridiculously busy lately. If you're already close by, it would be great to get some updated images without the need for a day trip! Cheers! Resolute 03:26, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Shouldn't be a problem, Resolute. I'm actually based at the Livingstone Gap firebase for the summer, so we go into the Crowsnest for fuel/cigarettes/etc. fairly often.  I'll do a little side trip down to the slide sometime soon.  We get moved around the province when there's lots of fires, but things are pretty quiet right now. I'll try a couple panoramas, grab one of the interpretive centre, anything else on the wish list?  On the historical places front, I've covered the Bar U Ranch south of Longview.  Let me know if you've covered anything else in S. Alberta so we don't double up. Nice work on the Frank Slide, was just listening to a neat little song, Frank AB, by the Rural Alberta Advantage, about ill-fated lovers buried in the rubble.  The Interior  (Talk) 15:15, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
 * No, that's perfect, thanks! The only other thing I need for the article is someone who can duplicate a map without it looking like it was done in MS paint.  Thanks again, Resolute 16:35, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Wow, small world! I will also be in the area this summer. If there are any extra pics/whatnot still needed come mid-August I would be happy to help out. --Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 22:37, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Party at Frank Slide! I guess that would be a bit morbid. Let me know when you're going to be in the Crows Nest, we should meet up.  It's a wonderful little valley.  The Interior  (Talk) 17:14, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I'll be staying with family in the area, I'll certainly drop a line while there. Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 21:55, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

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The Tea Leaf - Issue Four
Hi! Welcome to the fourth issue of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter for the Teahouse!


 * Teahouse pilot wraps up after 13 weeks After being piloted on English Wikipedia starting in February, the Teahouse wrapped up its pilot period on May 27, 2012. We expect this is just the beginning for the Teahouse and hope the project will continue to grow in the months to come!

Thank you and congratulations to all of the community members who participated - and continue to participate!


 * What you've all been waiting for: Teahouse Pilot Report is released! We look forward to your feedback on the methodology and outcomes of this pilot project.
 * ....and if a pilot report wasn't enough, the Teahouse Pilot Metrics Report is out too! Dive into the numbers and survey results to learn about the impact the Teahouse has made on English Wikipedia.
 * Teahouse shows positive impact on new editor retention and engagement
 * 409 new editors participated during the entire pilot period, with about 40 new editors participating in the Teahouse per week.
 * Two weeks after participating, 33% of Teahouse guests are still active on Wikipedia, as opposed to 11% of a similar control group.
 * New editors who participated in the Teahouse edit 10x the number of articles, make 7x more global edits, and 2x as much of their content survives on Wikipedia compared to the control group.


 * Women participate in the Teahouse 28% of Teahouse participants were women, up from 9% of editors on Wikipedia in general, good news for this project which aimed to have impact on the gender gap too - but still lots to be done here!
 * New opportunities await for the Teahouse in phase two as the Teahouse team and Wikipedia community examine ways to improve, scale, and sustain the project. Opportunities for future work include:
 * Automating or semi-automating systems such as invites, metrics and archiving
 * Experimenting with more ways for new editors to discover the Teahouse
 * Building out the social and peer-to-peer aspects further, including exploring ways to make answering questions easier, creating more ways for new editors to help each other and for all participants to acknowledge each other's efforts
 * Growing volunteer capacity, continuing to transfer Teahouse administration tasks to volunteers whenever possible, and looking for new ways to make maintenance and participation easier for everyone.

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If you have any other questions or comments, drop by my talk page or email me at wikiocaasi@yahoo.com. Cheers! Ocaasit &#124; c 17:34, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Black Cat sighting
Good to meet you, sir! I now realize you were saying "Athabasca"—the bar was quite loud! Glad to have met you; perhaps we will cross paths again. Maybe at a New Pornographers concert in Van? Also: Happy birthday! Pongr (talk) 04:36, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
 * And you, good sir! DC was much more hospitable than I had assumed.  Don't know why, but I thought it would be very dull and political.  Re: Athabasca - I'm sure the slurring didn't help, what did you think I was saying?  Re: Les Pornomakers Nouvelles, Sept. 2?  The Interior  (Talk) 01:44, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Online Ambassadors
Hi! Thanks so much for your message, I am very very excited to join the online ambassador team. I was wondering if courses for Fall 2012 are out yet, or if we need to wait a little. If we need to wait, will all of us get a notification, or is there a page I should watchlist? Thanks again for your help. Best, Keilana&#124;Parlez ici 17:12, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Great to have you on board, Keilana! As far as I know, we haven't posted the list of Fall courses yet, but the US courses will be listed here: United States Education Program/Courses/Present, and the Canadian ones will be listed here: Canada Education Program/Courses/Present.  The Education pages are a bit of a mess right now (too many of them), and hopefully we will be able to streamline them soon.  The Ed. program is sort of in transition right now.
 * I found the most rewarding experience is to choose courses on topics which personally interest me. If you want to get cracking right away, you could ping one of the OA's for the summer courses in the US program and ask if they need help with anything.  Best,  The Interior  (Talk) 17:32, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Gotcha, I'll watchlist this page. I wonder if any courses from my university will show up? That would be a trip. Thanks again for your help! Best, Keilana&#124;Parlez ici 17:35, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
 * You never know. You could approach any profs at your uni you think might be interested, and Jami Mathewson from the WMF (User:JMathewson (WMF)) would be able to give them info about how to get started.  The Interior  (Talk) 17:53, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I probably will, I'd love to make that happen. I know there's a teacher at my former high school who did a project last year, but it kinda flopped (mostly because no one could figure out to edit), so he asked me to teach him some of the ropes. I'm definitely going to hook him up with the program also! Thanks again. Keilana&#124;Parlez ici 18:01, 23 July 2012 (UTC)==Page Curation newsletter==

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

Hopefully you like what we've done with the place; suggestions for future work on it, complaints and bugs to the usual address :). We'll be holding a couple of office hours sessions, which I hope you'll all attend. Many thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 11:00, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Richardson fire
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DYK nomination of Clarence Louie
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Page Triage newsletter
Hey all. Some quick but important updates on what we've been up to and what's coming up next :).

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

I hope to see a lot of you there; it's going to be a big day for everyone involved, I think :). I'll have more notes after the deployment! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 19:59, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

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


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

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

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Thanks, I think
Thanks for the barnstar! However, contrary to your comment, I would like to hope that I am replaceable... Cheers... --Orlady (talk) 16:11, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh, I'd hope so too, but in reality, your combo of smarts and dedication would make for a very short shortlist of candidates. The Interior  (Talk) 16:25, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

Fall 2012 Online Ambassador Program
Hi, Pat!

I hope the great fires of Canada are treating you well. :) I'm not sure if you're still planning to support any classes as an OA this semester, since you'll be pretty busy with Working Group stuff, but if you are, please add your name to this census. Once the new class list is available, I will notify you guys so you can sign up for a class (or two) that interests you. Hope you're available! Thanks! JMathewson (WMF) (talk) 20:33, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Done Jami, got a few days off. Jumping in as many lakes as I can find.  The Interior  (Talk) 04:17, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

Talkback
Keilana&#124;Parlez ici 04:37, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Richardson fire
Thanks from me and the wiki Victuallers (talk) 08:03, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Clarence Louie
Orlady (talk) 16:02, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

New Pages newsletter
Hey all :)

A couple of new things.

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

On the subject of the Curation Toolbar (nice segue, Oliver!) - it's now deployed on Wikipedia. Just open up any article in the New Pages Feed and it should appear on the right. It's still a beta version - bugs are expected - and we've got a lot more work to do. But if you see something going wrong, or a feature missing, drop me a note or post on the project talkpage and I'll be happy to help :). We'll be holding two office hours sessions to discuss the tool and improvements to it; the first is at 19:00 UTC on 14 August, and the second at 23:00 on the 15th. Both will be in #wikimedia-office as always. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 15:57, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends blood vinyl release
The information I added about the blood vinyl release of The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends is taken from http://headyfwends.com, a website set up by the band to sell this version, and from the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne's Twitter account (https://twitter.com/waynecoyne), where he posted links to photos of people who he has personally delivered copies of the blood vinyl release to holding their copies (often with Wayne in the photo), plus one of him trading a copy for two copies of the Jack White single. There are your sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eyevocal (talk • contribs) 04:01, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

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

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

You are receiving The Tea Leaf after expressing interest or participating in the Teahouse! To remove yourself from receiving future newsletters, please remove your username here. EdwardsBot (talk) 00:11, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

Request for your assistance for The Wikipedia Library
Hi! You signed up to be a helper at the Highbeam project page. As The Wikipedia Library expands, I am seeking some assistants who can collaborate on project administration by spending a few hours now and then working on a variety of tasks.

Right now I am looking for help on the Questia round 1 signups, reviewing editors' applications to check for edit count (1000), account history (1 year), and current blocks. Note, there is no subjective judgment required, just a factual criteria-check. Here's what you can do:
 * 1) Sign up for a section of 50 applications at this page
 * 2) The first check involves using Popups (enabled in Special:Preferences -> click "Gadgets", check the box to enable Popups, then click save).
 * 3) By hovering over a username on the applications list, Popups will show the edit count, age of account, and whether the editor is blocked on English Wikipedia
 * 4) If an editor is blocked, list their name at this page
 * 5) If an editor does not meet the 1-year/1000 editor check using Popups, open their user talk page in a new tab in your browser.
 * 6) Then, you then need to check if the editor meets the criteria on another Wikipedia language project.
 * 7) To check global contributions use the Global Contributions surveyor] on toolserver.
 * 8) Toolserver is a bit slow so I find it helpful to have 3 tabs running simultaneously.
 * 9) Scroll down to the bottom of the toolserver results to see if 1000 edits or 1-year age of accounted are met at another project.  You can also see if the editor is blocked on another project.
 * 10) If neither Popups nor the Global Contribution Surveyor met the criteria, then list their name at [less than 1000 edits, or less than 1 year old account|this page]
 * 11) Mark your section ✅ at this page

Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks so much! -- User:Ocaasi 19:50, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

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

DYK nomination for Treasure Mountain (Colorado)?
Would you like to nominate it, or should I? —hike395 (talk) 05:27, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Go for it. Got a hook in mind? The article still needs a bit of polish, but it's pretty good.  I'll help out. While we're talking, thanks for all your image work on mountain topics round here.  The Interior  (Talk) 05:36, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
 * ...that Treasure Mountain (Colorado) was named after an ill-fated French mining expedition?
 * I added an inline citation to an RS for the hook. But, I am out of time for creating the DYK nomination this morning: I'll try to do it this evening. If I cannot get to it this evening, feel free to do it instead.
 * Thanks for the thanks! —hike395 (talk) 13:59, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Looks like Mike nominated the article, and it was passed already! That was pretty quick for DYK. Mike went with a Lincoln-based hook, it works.  I found the whole Bonaparte-ordered expedition more interesting, but hey, Lincoln's a big draw.  The Interior  (Talk) 01:37, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Illecillewaet Glacier
Posted a review. Nicely done! 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 21:09, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Had fun with this one, actually got to hike to the nose of it a couple weeks ago.  I've driven through Glacier Park dozens of times without having an inkling any of the fairly interesting history if the area.  User:The Interior/Glacier House is supposed to be a companion piece, but I'm still waiting for a source on interlibrary loan.  The Interior  (Talk) 21:16, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Fabulous country. Good trip. You didn't go by rail by any chance? Keep up the good work. 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 21:30, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, passenger travel is not a priority for CP, or for Canadians. There is VIA Rail, but they're pricey.  (And they don't stop in Glacier anymore because of the tunnels).  I drove, and probably contributed to the shrinkage even more :(  The Interior  (Talk) 21:36, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Pity. That being said, I like to use an additional footnote format, like in this article Elvis' Greatest Shit. I've got to believe that there is some tidbit that would help the article, but is in some ways a digression. Just a thought and a format suggestion. 7&amp;6=thirteen (<b style="color:#000">☎</b>) 22:52, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh my lord, that Elvis article is hilarious. I'd like to get my hands on some of those tunes.  As for the add. footnotes, feel free to add some to the article where you think appropriate.  There is actually quite a wealth of info to do with this topic (compared to most BC topics), mostly due to the hotel and the many people it brought to the glacier.  The Interior  (Talk) 23:01, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
 * You don't want that music. Nevertheless, there are links in the article that will take you where you want to go, and play a lot of it, if you take the time to winnow through it all. They had to be put in subtly for reasons that I'm sure you understand. If you give me a morsel and a citation, I will create the footnote. Since I've done it a lot, it will take me little time. I was really surprised that you requested a GA review NOW. Nice boldness.  <b style="color:#060">7&amp;6=thirteen</b> (<b style="color:#000">☎</b>) 23:06, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Might be a bit hasty, but I figure I still have a few weeks to tinker before we get a review. I'll think about juicy but tangential anecdotes.  Thanks for the new para on the Vauxes; I have a feeling they were a pretty cool family.  The Interior  (Talk) 23:16, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

FYI, there is no wikilink to British Columbia and Canada in the article. I assume that is deliberate‽ <b style="color:#060">7&amp;6=thirteen</b> (<b style="color:#000">☎</b>) 00:58, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

Glacier House Hotel
An article on that would not be hard to do. And you should be able to get a double WP:dyk. Just a thought. <b style="color:#060">7&amp;6=thirteen</b> (<b style="color:#000">☎</b>) 21:28, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Working on it, see link above. Waiting for The great glacier and its house : the story of the first center of Alpinism in North America, 1885-1925 which is 220 pages on just the hotel.  Source-arific!  The Interior  (Talk) 21:36, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
 * It looks like it well deserves a DYK, and it will be a great article and subject. <b style="color:#060">7&amp;6=thirteen</b> (<b style="color:#000">☎</b>) 21:49, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

thanks!

 * Thanks Sage! The Interior  (Talk) 15:57, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Illecillewaet Glacier
Nyttend (talk · contribs) 16:03, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thanks a lot Ironholds. It is indeed up for GA, just need to clear up the license on one of the images and we should be there.  Best,  The Interior  (Talk) 17:28, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

Talkback
SarahStierch (talk) 17:24, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

Online Ambassador Inquiry
Hello Interior! You helped my class on digital literacies at Ball State University last Spring with their article projects. Is there any chance you would be able to do that again this semester? There are really two points of need, the topic selection process following their brainstorming on Oct 11, and article draft review following their submission at the end of October–early November. Here's the project timeline. Thanks again for working with us last Spring--the students were mostly beginners but they responded well to the challenge with your help.

Note: I've gone through the official Wikimedia course application process but have not heard back from anyone in two weeks, and I need to get going on the project--thus I'm contacting potential ambassadors directly. (Pardon the duplication--I'm also sending this by email.) –Webster Newbold (talk) 16:18, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
 * No problem Webster. One reason you haven't had an OA sign up is that your course wasn't listed at United States Education Program/Courses/Present.  I'll rectify that for you.  Best,  The Interior  (Talk) 17:19, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
 * How many students do you have in thsi section, Webster? The Interior  (Talk) 17:26, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Hello again, Interior; thanks so much for being willing to work with us again. The setup is almost the same as last Spring--I have two sections overall, and am seeking at least one ambassador per section (that would be four or five topics per section, since the students are working in groups). I prefer to have one ambassador to communicate with per class, to minimize communication glitches. I have had other offers of help, so if you could work with one class as you did last spring that would be great. One section has 16 and the other section 18 students. And thanks for listing the course; I applied several weeks ago but heard nothing from the Wikimedia folks; maybe they're swamped. Webster Newbold (talk) 19:26, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Sounds good, maybe i'll take the 16 person section as i've signed up for a few classes this term. Jami should be in touch with you soon, I talked with her regarding your class.  The Interior  (Talk) 20:33, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
 * OK, that is an afternoon class, which would probably be better for you since I think you are 2 or 3 hours behind us. Thanks for the help –Webster Newbold (talk) 20:50, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

RfC
So as to not derail the RfC with my opposition discussion, I have removed it from the voting section and have started a new discussion section. I don't mind if my "vote" is not counted. Gigs (talk) 02:15, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Cool. I fully support your right to raise criticisms of thematic organizations.  However, there are probably better places to do so ;) Best,  The Interior  (Talk) 02:23, 3 October 2012 (UTC)