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Please copy the contents of older talkpages when centralizing discussion. If this is not done the concerns risk being lost. Best wishes and happy holidays, Carl Fredrik   💌 📧 22:26, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I know, I'm in the middle of it. Handling multiple things. Thanks. The Transhumanist 22:30, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

Just a quick and small point
If you edit someone's talk page repeatedly in quick succession, they get inundated with pings and, if email is enabled, emails. Each time you leave me a message, I tend to get lots of such interactions. The emails in particular are a nuisance, as my phone buzzes every time, which is very distracting.

I know I'm probably being hypocritical here, but please could you try to make more use of the preview button and/or leave windows open with messages half written before clicking save, so you can think of everything in one go?

Apologies for sounding petty. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 11:48, 16 January 2017 (UTC)


 * I tend to reread my messages after I post them, and almost always find little corrections to make. I guess I'm a perfectionist. I'll try not to look at the messages again after I post them the first time. You'll be getting the communications raw! No worries. It's not petty if your phone is driving you mad. :) BTW, I hope the reasons I posted in that message made sense. Cheers. The Transhumanist 12:00, 16 January 2017 (UTC)


 * All makes sense. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 12:46, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

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 * On the Draft:Outline of bipolar disorder page, [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=763782380 your edit] caused a broken reference name (help) . ([ Fix] | [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Help_desk&action=edit&section=new&preload=User:ReferenceBot/helpform&preloadtitle=Referencing%20errors%20on%20%5B%5BSpecial%3ADiff%2F763782380%7CDraft:Outline of bipolar disorder%5D%5D Ask for help])
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Donald Trump, please resign
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Love the outlines
Hi there! I just wanted to let you know that I think your planet outlines are really cool. I have long thought it was a shame that only Wikipedians seem to know about Books or Portals, because they are really great tools for structuring knowledge (while everyone loves diving down the Wikipedia rabbit hole, we could really do with some better content organization). The outlines strike me as a great way to bring that sort content organization to mainspace, where it will actually reach a large number of readers. I notice that I am the first one to edit them besides yourself, and I hope you know that I do so with love.

Some geography articles needing attention
Since on your user page or somewhere, you call yourself an expert in geography, you would perhaps want to look at [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AContributions&contribs=user&target=Jahnjahnafricano&namespace=0&newOnly=1 these articles], which are in desperately in need of some attention. 103.6.159.65 (talk) 18:55, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

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Automatic Taxonomy Classification
Hi, you've probably seen already but just wanted to give you a heads up that I did some work on the article. I know it still needs a lot more work but I think its an improvement and at least it has inline references and (I hope) makes some sense. I wasn't familiar with the terminology of hyponyms and hypernyms (its amazing how different groups find ways to give different names to concepts that are essentially the same). I thought that the idea of is-a hierarchies was more familiar so at first I went with that but the more I looked at all the papers the more I realized they all use (which I should have realized) the linguistics terms of hypernyms and hyponyms so I felt it was important to describe those terms. For people who start digging into the actual papers I hope at least they will start with a basic understanding of the terminology. I almost then deleted what I wrote about is-a but as I said I think that concept is more widely understood, especially these days with object-oriented programming so popular so I felt it was worth leaving both terms. I think the original article used both concepts as well although it wasn't clear to me what hypernyms were from what was in the original article. Let me know if you have feedback or of course feel free to just edit. I've asked some colleagues for more references on the topic but so far no one has come through. If they do I may update some more, or if you have some feedback and want me to address it I'll give it a shot but otherwise moving on. Thanks for asking though it was actually fun to do some non-trivial editing, haven't done it in a while. It helped that I had some actual work that I didn't want to do so this was a nice distraction ;-) --MadScientistX11 (talk) 21:49, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
 * replied on user's talk page. The Transhumanist 04:00, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Outlines
Why are you moving outline pages from "Outline of..." to "Outline about..."? The former is more natural and, perhaps more important, is the long standing naming convention as described at Outlines. "Outline about xxx" is not even normal English usage - I would always use "outline of" something and expect to see it, and an Ngram confirms it is about 1000 times more common.-- JohnBlackburne wordsdeeds 12:22, 10 March 2017 (UTC)


 * I'm not. They got reverted, and it is currently in discussion here (I've posted a question for you there). Based on reactions so far, I don't think consensus will be on my side on this one. And so, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. You're right: grammatical correctness trumps semantic accuracy. And so, "Outline of" is fine by me. The Transhumanist 01:09, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Re: Tip of the day monitoring
Thanks for your message about proofing Tip of the Day posts in advance. I'll be glad to try to do that, although I may forget sometimes.

If I spot an error or something that raises a question, should I notify you directly or post my concerns on the Tip of the Day talk page? Eddie Blick (talk) 02:02, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I forget too. So, the more pairs of eyes on these, the better.  Posting alerts and comments on the TOTD talk page is fine; simply ping me (and JoeHebda) so we receive an alert.  Also, feel free to edit the tips directly.  JoeHebda and myself have all the tips watchlisted, so we'll be able to review the changes made. Thank you for your help to keep the tip of the day relevant and useful!  If you have any questions pertaining to anything to do with Wikipedia, don't hesitate to ask.  Sincerely, The Transhumanist 02:31, 14 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Before I read your reply, I found three problems in the tip for tomorrow and posted them at Wikipedia talk:Tip of the day. I will try to remember to ping you and Joe Hebda the next time I spot something. Thanks for the okay on direct editing. I'll do that if I spot something that isn't too involved. I appreciate your offer of help regarding Wikipedia. I still have a lot to learn about it. Eddie Blick (talk) 02:39, 14 March 2017 (UTC)


 * You picked the right department: it will teach you all the best tricks! The Transhumanist 05:19, 14 March 2017 (UTC)


 * You are right about that! I have found many useful tips since I began reading the Tip of the Day posts regularly. Eddie Blick (talk) 18:01, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

Outline of human communication
User:SuggestBot pointed me towards Human communication as a page I might want to edit, which is tagged for cleanup. While a full article might be worth writing, it occurred to me that it might be a good case for an outline. It already gives a list of blue-linked topics to read for communication broken up by group type (with oneself, with multiple people, within a group, within an organization, etc), and it could be broken up in other ways similarly (mode: written, verbal, gestural, ...; intent: informative, expressive, persuasive, ...; register: formal, informal, slang, vulgarity, ...; relationship to truth: nonsense, lies, evasiveness, honesty, ...; transmission: physical writing, live speech, recorded speech, video, digital equivalents, ...; target-type: human-human, human-machine, human-animal, ...; ...) plus related topics such as translation, linguistics, the history of these various things, ... . Even in outline this might be too broad to be manageable, but perhaps with judicious links to sub-outlines it could work. Since it's such a large topic, I don't know that a prose article can reasonably work. Of course, having said that, even more expansive topics such as philosophy, art and science do have solid prose articles, so perhaps I'm just being timid. What do you think? Would your normal prescription be to aim to have both, one for encyclopedic description and the other for navigability? I don't really believe I'm qualified to do justice to either but I'm interested in learning more about the outline approach and how it slots in to other types of article writing, and this seemed like an interesting example. Mortee (talk) 00:23, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Actually, this triggered another thought: since outlines are in a way analagous to categories (hierarchical categorisations of information intended to aid exploration) but are clearly different in form, has there been discussion before about the idea of having a separate page-space for outlines? For a lot of abstract pages X, having a category X and an outline X both make sense. Perhaps outlines should live at Outline:x rather than trying to co-exist in the main article space with other pages that have a very different intent, style, set of policies etc. It might make sense for outlines to live in a parallel space in that way, but presumably that would require some serious buy-in from Wikimedia and their devs, which in turn would need them (outlines) to prove their worth in a substantial way as compared to other means of navigating between articles... Hmm. I'll ponder this some more. Mortee (talk) 00:31, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your interest in my favorite topic: outlines! I copied and answered this thread over at Talk:Outline of communication. I'll see you there. The Transhumanist 05:59, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Reply to computer programming questions
Hi, I've now taken time to read your questions about computer programming. Unfortunately, I don't think I'll be able to help you with your scripting, at least not the ones you are developing, as I'm really not up to scratch with Wikipedia's more complicated script syntax. I would, however, be interested in starting a WikiProject with you. WikiProject JavaScript, perhaps? Linguist talk&#124; contribs 16:10, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Answered on your talk page. The Transhumanist 16:46, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Thoughts about UPDC tips page
I took the liberty of correcting a typographical error in the Multi-page system section. I didn't see any other errors.

I do, however, have some thoughts about the following sections for your consideration.

Express yourself
How about providing links to some examples of pages that show various types of creativity? Seeing several examples of well-done pages might inspire a person as he or she is creating his or her own page. ✅

Mix and match your colors and fonts
How does a person implement the use of various colors and fonts on a page? I wouldn't know how to apply them on my user page. Perhaps you could add some links to useful pages in this section.✅

Use images to get your point across
As with the section about colors and fonts, you might add links to pages with information about how to place images on user pages, especially with regard to position and size. You might also add something about use of Wikimedia Commons and the permissions that are needed for images that are used on Wikipedia (in case someone might have thoughts of using a copyrighted image on his or her page). One other thought: How about including something about user boxes? From time to time I see questions in the Tea House about user boxes, such as where to place them and how to align them. ✅

I hope that these suggestions are helpful. Obviously, you are free to use them or not as you see fit. Eddie Blick (talk) 00:52, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Okay, all done. Let me know what you think. The Transhumanist 11:18, 20 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Yes, it looks fine with those additions. (I took the liberty of correcting a typographical error in the link to the page about placing images). 21:01, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

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Wiki Brain
Hi, I noticed that your WP:VPI thread, which I moved there from WP:VPR, has received no response after four days. Since I think VPI gets less attention, I feel somewhat responsible. Since the VPR/VPI distinction isn't widely understood and only rarely enforced, you could move back to VPR with my blessing. &#8213; Mandruss  &#9742;  19:39, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Revised and reposted it here: Village pump (idea lab)/Archive 22. The Transhumanist 20:15, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Merger discussion for Intelligence explosion
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RekishiEJ, what ever happened to this: Wikipedia talk:Community portal/Archive 18

I look forward to your reply, The Transhumanist 04:53, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

Hatnotes
Has there been a change in our policy about hatnotes ....just wondering why your moving hatnote below nav headers over the norm of them being first?--Moxy (talk) 19:36, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Moxy, it's a guideline, and it states top of page or section. In this case, it seems that the hatnotes go better at the top of the content of the lead section, rather than being divided from it by the nav menu, the scope of which is beyond the scope of the page itself. The formatting of the pages in the set is less erratic and ties together better if the menu isn't jumping around. (Click each link in the help nav menu bar to see what I mean). If you feel that the guideline trumps formatting issues pertaining to a set of pages, then feel free to revert -- I trust your judgement in all matters pertaining to the help pages. At your service as always, The Transhumanist 20:18, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Didn't know about the effect on mobile views. Good catch. The Transhumanist 21:55, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

Hey guys, check this out...
I thought you might be interested in the thread below...

Using WikiBrain to visualize Wikipedia's neighborhoods
Hey Transhumanist, I figured you'd be interested in this. I've organized the WikiBrain researchers to present at the monthly mw:Wikimedia Research/Showcase. See mw:Wikimedia_Research/Showcase for the details of the talk that Shilad will be giving. He'll be demoing some of the cool spacial visualizations I was hinting at in another thread. The talk will be broadcast/recorded on Wednesday 4/19 at 1830 UTC. I'll be taking question and delivering them to the speaker (Shilad) from the chatroom. If you can join us, you'll find me in there as "halfak". --<span style="display:inline-block;padding:0 .25em;border-bottom:2px solid #008;background: #f6f6f6;" title="aka halfak">EpochFail (talk &bull; contribs) 20:55, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
 * I forgot to say. Here's the streaming link that'll become active as soon as the talk starts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Prf0Vb-k1I --<span style="display:inline-block;padding:0 .25em;border-bottom:2px solid #008;background: #f6f6f6;" title="aka halfak">EpochFail  (talk &bull; contribs) 20:57, 17 April 2017 (UTC)


 * EpochFail, thank you for the heads up. Two days from now? I've got to think of some questions!  But I have no frame of reference.  What is a "Wikipedia neighborhood"? And what do you mean by "visualize?" What is a "spatial visualization?"  How is "spatial" being applied here?  What is "spatial" about Wikipedia?  Is a "neighborhood spatial, and if so, how?  And I almost forgot. What are "advanced semi-automated open knowledge technologies?"  What are the other main terms I should know?  If I were to add these to a glossary, what would the subject in its title be? "Glossary of _______________." What goes in the blank? The Transhumanist 21:44, 17 April 2017 (UTC)


 * I think that Shilad will be answering your questions in the presentation about WikiBrain and the visualizations. :D


 * WRT "advanced semi-automated open knowledge technologies", I imagine the intersection of advanced technologies (like AIs, data mining, information retrieval) and social processes that allow Wikipedians to manage large knowledge resources. One obvious example is counter-vandalism practice and vandalism detection models, but there's a lot more potential there.  E.g. User:SuggestBot uses information retrieval techniques to recommend articles to edit.  User:Nettrom and I are working on Article Importance modeling.  We're hoping to use that to help WikiProjects to direct their work and to find articles that they ought to tag, but haven't yet.  Designing advanced algorithms that *fit into* a social process is really a place where we're ahead of the rest of the world and I think we should invest in that and lead.  I'm putting my "free time" where my mouth is by working on these technologies.  --<span style="display:inline-block;padding:0 .25em;border-bottom:2px solid #008;background: #f6f6f6;" title="aka halfak">EpochFail  (talk &bull; contribs) 17:42, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

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Thank you for the invitation to join the Tip of the Day Project. I have added my name to the list. Eddie Blick (talk) 16:01, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

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Semi-automated outline edits
Your edits to this outline ended up leaving non-linked text just hanging in the middle of the outline. Why did you do this? ―Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:34, 8 May 2017 (U
 * Thanks for asking. I expected them to have children items soon, which they now do. I found a number of topics to list under "Sports of Western Sahara", etc. The Transhumanist 22:35, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Wikicode fix needed at Wikipedia:Community bulletin board
Greetings, At Community bulletin board section, there is a huge gap after your signature on the Javascript announcement. I have tried many edits for about 1/2 hour now without any luck & unable to fix except by removing your signature. If you could please look into this & update, that would be great! Thanks, <span class="plainlinks" style="background: rgba(0,0,0,.05);">— JoeHebda • (talk) 14:32, 13 May 2017 (UTC)b
 * Joe, thank you for alerting me, though I don't see a gap (I use Firefox). Are you still seeing it? If so, I need more information. What browser (including version) are you seeing it in? Does the gap show up in all sizes of zoom? Have you tried any other browsers, and does it show up there too? I look forward to your responses, and hopefully we can fix the glitch. If need be, I can remove the notice (nobody has responded to it anyways). The Transhumanist 04:02, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, it was the "Zoom" level of 125-percent causing this gap to appear. My browser is Chromium (a clone of Google Chrome). Even in IE-11 the gap appears at first Zoom level, only the gap is above your message...go figure! So this is really a "non-issue". Thanks for the help. Regards, <span class="plainlinks" style="background: rgba(0,0,0,.05);">— JoeHebda • (talk) 07:46, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

Interesting reading!
But, apparently broken link for Convert software near the top of the 'Intro' tab. It appears that the author or someone associated with this product is perhaps redoing the site. SewerCat (talk) 15:22, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
 * SewerCat, I can't figure out what you are talking about, but it sounds interesting... The Transhumanist 04:20, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Now that I've read my message over, I definitely see what you mean. (Maybe I should be excluded from editing wikipedia?) In any case, I refer to . One of its links is to 'Convert' software and that link seems to be broken. Could be a possible item number 23,436 on your to-do list. SewerCat (talk) 18:22, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
 * SewerCat, dead link removed. Thank you for the heads up. The Transhumanist 18:43, 15 May 2017 (UTC)::

Re: What level are you?
Hi Transhumanist,

I am actually quite fluent in JavaScript, but time restricts me from becoming a major code contributor to MediaWiki, extensions, widgets, or for that matter non-WM-related open-source projects. However, I might be interested in helping with small tasks or writing about JavaScript. Thanks also for linking to some interesting resources.

Cheers, Ynhockey (Talk) 17:11, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

"History" redirects
I see you are making many "history" redirects, including things like "History of Neil MacGonigill" This seems like massive overkill to me. Please stop for now while this can be discussed. Fram (talk) 09:03, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
 * For starters, even if we need this (which in most cases I doubt), you should check your capitalization: "History of Neighborhoods of Omaha, Nebraska" should be "History of neighborhoods of Omaha, Nebraska" instead. But most of these seem like highly unlikely redirects and not the thing which should be indiscriminately mass created. Fram (talk) 09:07, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I'll go back through the list and get the capitalization I missed. Then I'll discuss with you adequate selection criteria for the remainder of the list. The Transhumanist 09:22, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Please wait. It's no use correcting the capitalization if we don't know yet whether these redirects are wanted in the first place. First discuss the basics, then correct the capitalization on those that will be kept. Thanks for the offer though. Fram (talk) 09:25, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

(edit conflict) (can we keep the discussion here? I don't like two-page discussions). You seem to create a redirect for every page that has a "history" section, no matter if that redirect is in any way a likely search term or not (in many, perhaps most, cases it's not). You do so in a seemingly automated method (hence the capitalisation problems presumably) creating hundreds (thousands?) of such redirects. We have had a cases already recently of people cretaqing way too many redirectswithout much thought or care, and this is usually frowned upon by many editors. We may already need a serious cleanup effort of what you have created so far, so at least getting you to stop for now instead of creating more problematic redirects in this vein is a good start. Fram (talk) 09:24, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Your creations fall under WP:MASSCREATION. You have created 1000s of redirects in a very short time which wouldn't be allowed without prio consensus even if they all were unproblematic. Coupled with the errors (capitalization, in many cases you would add a "the" somewhere to get "history of the [article title]" instead of what you did here, and perhaps most importantly many of these are highly unlikely search terms anyway) you should not have started this without prior approval, and you should certainly not restart it without such approval. Fram (talk) 09:31, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Fram, I was not aware that masscreation covered redirects (it mentions articles and categories). I'm available to cleanup whatever is necessary. What kind of cleanup do you suggest? The Transhumanist 09:38, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Well, as far as I am concerned, the cleanup would involve thousands of deletions (the longer I look at this, the more massive the numbre of creations becomes, 5000 creations since 05.31 this morning brings me back to still "history of N"), with the remainder checked for capitalization and addition of "the" where needed. Simply deleting them all and then, after approval, creating the necsssary and correct ones only sems like the most sensible solution. Fram (talk) 09:51, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Fram, so that this isn't a totally wasted effort, would you be okay with leaving the redirects for administrative regions in place (History of cities, counties, etc.)? The Transhumanist 09:58, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Even those are often useless. History of Naubatpur is a redirect to indeed a history section, which has no history at all. In general, these ones are less problematic than the others, so keeping them will be less of a problem, but even so they will need a thorough checking afterwards (and please, no more mass creations of them!). Fram (talk) 10:03, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Fram, since I cannot delete pages, to aid in the cleanup, I can prepare a list of the links without the administrative regions. The Transhumanist 10:08, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
 * That would be great! Fram (talk) 10:11, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Fram, I'm on it. By the way, don't people often leave the "the" out of their search queries?  I've never thought of a missing "the" as making an invalid redirect.  I think it falls under "likely misspellings" (for terms/topics) at WP:POFR. What are your thoughts? The Transhumanist 10:24, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
 * One can make dozens of potential variations on what might look for one day. Most of these will never be used. History of Needlegun seems much more unlikely to me than History of the needlegun. In any case, when searching for something like that, the search box will normally return the right target even without such a redirect, so they don't really help much. When I search for History of ballistics, the search returns Ballistics as the first result. Searching History of Tour de France or History of the Tour de France both give Tour de France as the first result. So these aren't needed, at the "right" or at the wrong spelling. Fram (talk) 10:28, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Fram, what about from Google? The Transhumanist 10:34, 24 May 2017 (UTC) (P.S.: I'm working on the list).
 * Checked at Google, again gives me the relevant Wikipedia article as first result (both for balisstics and for Tour de France). Fram (talk) 10:38, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

You can see Bots/Requests for approval/SSTbot 3 for a discussion about a similar though much, much smaller (only 600 or so!) batch creation of redirects, and the agreement that this needs prior approval. In this case, where you had some 7,000 creations to get from "N" to "Nev" (or realistically way more than 100,000 redirects at the end of the task), prior approval is definitely needed, and doing this with a bot (using the bot flag) to filter them out from "recent changes" would be necessary as well probably. Fram (talk) 10:36, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Fram Makes sense. I'll refine my approach and will run it by them when I'm ready. In the meantime, I'll get you that list. I'll ping you when it is done. The Transhumanist 10:42, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Fram I've compiled a partial list of links for deletion at User:The Transhumanist/sandbox. The rest of the list, minus the administrative divisions I've culled so far, is at User:The Transhumanist/Sandbox26. I'll keep culling the administrative divisions, and will keep you apprised of my progress. The Transhumanist 11:23, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Fram, after toiling at the culling task for awhile, it became clear that would take days. Therefore, I've posted the entire list of links for deletion at User:The Transhumanist/sandbox. Let me how you wish to proceed. The Transhumanist 12:03, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I'll start deleting them, thanks. Fram (talk) 12:45, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you. The Transhumanist 12:53, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

More volunteers needed for Community bulletin board?
Hello again. I see that you have contributed to the bulletin board. I thank you for that. However, seems that we're losing its regulars. Mind if I post a notification at WP:Village pump (miscellaneous) and then WT:Community portal for recruitments? --George Ho (talk) 18:09, 4 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Dear George,


 * The CBB is like a regular bulletin board, for anyone who needs to post a notice or bulletin about their events, projects, activities, and so on. It is for announcers who have something to announce. It's not a news gathering service, and therefore recruiting volunteers or journalists to post news items goes way beyond the purpose of that department. It's just a spot for everyone in the neighborhood to post stuff when they feel the need to.


 * Like regular bulletin boards, activity on the CBB ebbs and flows. Having volunteers to post notices doesn't generally help, because they would have to know what to post. You never know where the announcements are going to come from (people with unusual projects, etc.), or when. It's announcer-driven.


 * It's normal for the CBB to slow down during late spring, and summer vacation months. It'll pick back up again in the fall.  The main reason it is there is to provide an unrestricted place for posting notices to the general community, as needed. For example, when the new redesign of the Main Page was ready to vote on it was posted there, and it had the biggest turn out ever! All the other notice venues have limitations in scope, or require lead time, etc. But you can always be sure to be able to post a notice at the CBB - it's always available, and is unrestricted.


 * The important thing is that the CBB is there ready and waiting.


 * Thank you for your interest. The Transhumanist 21:19, 4 June 2017 (UTC)
 * With pleasure. I'm new to the bulletin board, though I've recently edited "centralized discussion" template. I don't know whether to announce having more participants at WP:FFD, WP:RFD, and/or WP:TFD. Though others can search for those processes themselves, would posting such notification be fine? --George Ho (talk) 21:47, 4 June 2017 (UTC)
 * No, that's not needed: the deletion departments have their own notification system. Good brainstorming though.  Remember, bulletin boards just sit there until someone needs to post something.  There is no need to advertise the CBB.  It is on the community's most trafficked page.  People know it is there. I just posted another notice, in case you are interested. Check it out. The Transhumanist 23:37, 4 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Cool... Well, already participated in that one, but thanks anyway. George Ho (talk) 23:50, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Announcements
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Topical guide (historical)
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Russian ceramics
Hello, Transhumanist. I'm writing to you because you are the only participant listed at WP:WikiProject Ceramics. Over at Articles for Creation, I've been looking at a draft for a Russian painter of ceramics, Draft:Larisa Ivanovna Grigoryeva (1920 - 1997). Although not asserted in the draft itself, the draft's creator has asserted notability on the basis of a large number of works that are held by the Hermitage Museum, for which the evidence is here. This is not the website for the Hermitage (it's for a government cataloging site), but I clicked through of a few of the examples and I'm satisfied that these works are indeed held by the Hermitage. But they apparently have never been exhibited by that museum. And that leads to my question -- does the mere fact that the Hermitage accepted a donation of a person's work of art render that person "notable" under WP:NARTIST? By rough analogy, I wouldn't consider an American author to be notable simply because some of their books were held by the Library of Congress. Nor would I consider a British author to be notable merely on the basis of seeing some of their books in the British Library. And so, I'm left to wonder whether the same conclusion applies here. I recognize that your interest in ceramics might not extend to Russian ceramics. But if it does, I would greatly appreciate any insights that you can provide. NewYorkActuary (talk) 19:56, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
 * NewYorkActuary, she is featured in 250 Years of Lomonosov Porcelain Manufacture St. Petersburg: 1744-1994. That states she was a porcelain painter and worked there 1945-1987. Forty-two years is enough time to become well-established as a master, so the likelihood is high that her works have been displayed prominently somewhere. According to the guideline WP:ARTIST, an artist is notable if "the person's work has been a substantial part of a significant exhibition." So, what you need are news sources that identify her work on display in an exhibition. One significant exhibition would do. Another option is to see an antiques or museum piece dealer -- they might know where to look the individual pieces up, to see where they are currently. I checked the Met's collection, and it came up with nil. Checking the collections of every museum would be tedious and time-consuming. Art dealers may know of a shortcut. By the way, if the article passes notability, it would also be interesting to find out if any of her pieces have been auctioned off, and for how much.  The Transhumanist 04:11, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the great response. My apologies for the delay in getting back to you.  Although I saw your response not too long after you posted it, I wanted to mull over the information before responding. There's no doubt that Gregoryeva had a long association with the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory.  There's also no doubt that the factory itself has a notable place in the history of ceramics.  But I'm left wondering whether those two facts alone are sufficient to justify an article.  I note that the text you point to does indeed contain photographs of five of the artist's works.  But the prose portion of the text doesn't mention her at all, and those five photographs are sharing space in the text with a much larger number of other works (I estimate at least 400 other photographs).  And so I think you are quite correct in noting that the draft's creator needs to demonstrate that Gregoryeva's work has been the subject of significant exhibitions.  And the draft falls far short of making this demonstration, providing only an unsourced list of cities in which exhibitions have taken place (without even specifying dates!).  And even if those exhibitions do become properly sourced, will they be exhibitions of Gregoryeva's works, or exhibitions of Lomonosov works of which Gregoryeva might be represented by only two or three pieces?  Of course, neither one of us knows the answer to this.  But the fact that the draft's creator is leaving such basic questions unanswered leads me to believe that more documentation will be needed here. Later today, I'll communicate my concerns to the draft's creator on the Talk page of the draft.  Any comments you care to leave there will be welcome. Thanks again for the response.  NewYorkActuary (talk) 21:10, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Anytime. See ya around! The Transhumanist 02:01, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Userscript manager


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Nomination for deletion of Template:Outline City+
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MfD nomination of Portal:Health and fitness/Selected fitness article
Portal:Health and fitness/Selected fitness article, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Health and fitness/Selected fitness article and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Health and fitness/Selected fitness article during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you.

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Movement Strategy reminder
Hi. You contributed in a previous part of the discussion, so this is just a reminder to you (and any interested talkpagewatchers), that it's the second week of our Movement Strategy Cycle 3 discussion. There's a new topic each week in July, and this week's is: How could we capture the sum of all knowledge when much of it cannot be verified in traditional ways? You can see more details, and suggest solutions or respond to other people's thoughts (from this week and last week) at Wikimedia Strategy 2017. You can also read a summary of discussions that took place in the past week. Cheers. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 03:18, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Lists Bosnians and Herzegovinians listed at Redirects for discussion
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Outline of Java Script has been accepted
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 * If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the  .
 * If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider.


 * The move was premature. This draft is a long way from being ready for article space. The Transhumanist 17:05, 7 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Please don't accept or reject any of the outlines until you have read Outlines. Outlines make up one of Wikipedia's navigation systems.  They map out the coverage of subjects on Wikipedia. If one is moved to article space too early, someone might delete it because it is too rough. If they are deleted, that puts us a step backward, as they will just need to be created again later, to fill the gap in this navigation system, the goal of which is to cover all substantial subjects. Thank you. The Transhumanist 17:20, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

Deletion discussion about Outline of JavaScript
Hello, The Transhumanist,

I wanted to let you know that there's a discussion about whether Outline of JavaScript should be deleted. Your comments are welcome at Articles for deletion/Outline of JavaScript.

If you're new to the process, articles for deletion is a group discussion (not a vote!) that usually lasts seven days. If you need it, there is a guide on how to contribute. Last but not least, you are highly encouraged to continue improving the article; just be sure not to remove the tag about the deletion nomination from the top.

Thanks,

 Onel 5969  <i style="color:blue">TT me</i> 20:12, 10 August 2017 (UTC)


 * It shouldn't have been moved to article space in the first place, as it was not ready. It is still a draft. The Transhumanist 17:08, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Outline of fungi


Hello, The Transhumanist. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Outline of fungi".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the  or  code.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Legacypac (talk) 00:17, 26 August 2017 (UT


 * Thanks for the heads up. The article now resides in the main namespace. The Transhumanist 17:09, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Outline of galaxies (September 16)
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Help with a grant proposal for MetaWiki
Greetings The Transhumanist - Today User:Barbara (WVS) asked me here to help her as an advisor for a grant proposal to MetaWiki. This is way beyond my Wikipedia experience so I was wondering if you might be able to lend a hand. Or if you know of another editor who could contribute that would be great. Cheers, <span class="plainlinks" style="background: rgba(0,0,0,.05);">— JoeHebda • (talk) 18:30, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

This Month in Education: September 2017
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Nomination of Tip of the day for deletion
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Outlines/Drafts
Would it be possible for you to email me, please? Thank you, Cote d&#39;Azur (talk) 09:37, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
 * You don't do the email thing and I don't write on talk pages, so how can we communicate? —Cote d&#39;Azur (talk) 10:31, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I see. In this case I cannot help because I really do not write on talk pages, I apologise. —Cote d&#39;Azur (talk) 11:09, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

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Thank you for your interest in our system and signing up for our study! Just to let you know, we are in the process of submitting a Signpost report for our system to involve more WikiProjects. So we might have to wait for two or three weeks when our report publishes, and send recommendations to all the participating projects at the same time. Hope you don't mind. I will let you know we are ready to send you recommendations! Thank you! Bobo.03 (talk) 02:24, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

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Hello
Well you've got me curious! What's the hobby? <i style="color:#CEEDFB;background:#501AAC">ohmyerica (<i style="color:#CEEDFB;background:#501AAC">talk</i>)</i> 18:29, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Outline of acoustics has been accepted
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 * Dear Headbomb, I didn't submit this to Articles for Creation. The above message, and the AfC banner posted on the article's talk page are in error. Please direct me to the edit which submitted this to Articles for creation. Thank you. The Transhumanist 22:47, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
 * It was a draft, I edited it, brought it to a state I considered it good enough for mainspace, and I moved it there with the AFC script since it was simpler to categories, tag with banners etc. I debated unticking the 'notify creator', but I'd figure you'd want to know it's been moved to mainspace. The notice may not have been the best, but it feel it was good enough. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 01:04, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Adapting a tool. Resourceful. Thanks for clearing up my confusion, and for improving the outline. Cheers. The Transhumanist 02:07, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

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your tlk page is like a jungle
Ok back to your query at my talk - I would say that the effectiveness of the separating the watch list into sections is not effective over 15k on the list - my watchlist being much larger it has no positive aspect at all - but it does do the task - and doesnt take long... JarrahTree 10:02, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Indenting
It's rarely a good idea to mess around with someone else's WP:indenting. You may disagree with their choice, but their may be a reason they addressed their response at a specific level. Worst case, you can substantially change a post's mentioning, e.g. if someone replied to post A and you make it so it's indented as a reply to post B, people may think the points there apply to post B when they are directed at post B. If you really feel a mistake was made that needs to be corrected, it's generally better to ask first. This is a particularly good example of the mess you can create as you made a post posted before appear as if were a reply to one that was made after [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Humanities&diff=823262254&oldid=823260691]. Nil Einne (talk) 08:17, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the heads up.   The Transhumanist 08:21, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

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Recommendations for your WikiProject Health and fitness will be delivered soon
Hi The Transhumanist,

Thank you for your interest in using our tool. Sorry about the wait. We've been working on improving our tool in the past several weeks, and we will send recommendations to you very soon. Stay tuned. Thank you!

Also, I noticed that you signed up for other projects including JavaScript, Outlines, and Indexes. For now, we can only make recommendations to topical projects, so Outlines and Indexes are not yet included, sorry.. I am having problem retrieving data for WikiProject JavaScript. I will try to make it happen! Bobo.03 (talk) 23:16, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

Recommending new editors to your WP Health and fitness
Hi The Transhumanist,

Our system generated a list of potential new editors for your project. They may be interested in collaborating with your project members on your project's articles. As you will notice, the list contains both experienced editors and newcomers. Both are valuable for Wikipedia and your project. Please go ahead and introduce your project to them, and point them to some project tasks to start with. We also provide a template invitation message to make it easier to contact the potential new editors. Just click the invite link to write the invitation message.

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Recommending new editors to your WP JavaScript
Hi The Transhumanist,

Our system generated a list of potential new editors for your project. They may be interested in collaborating with your project members on your project's articles. As you will notice, the list contains both experienced editors and newcomers. Both are valuable for Wikipedia and your project. Please go ahead and introduce your project to them, and point them to some project tasks to start with. We also provide a template invitation message to make it easier to contact the potential new editors. Just click the invite link to write the invitation message.

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Transfer to main space.
At what point should a draft outline be moved to mainspace? It seems that there are people opposed to incomplete outlines so I would prefer to avoid an attack of knee-jerk deletionism by getting Draft:Outline of underwater diving to an easily defensible condition before making the move. On the other hand, I do not want to delay unnecessarily, as the outline will be useful to WP:SCUBA and anyone interested in underwater diving.

I am making use of the recently created experimental short descriptions as annotations on WP:SCUBA articles, so will have annotations for most if not all of the links already in the list, however there are hundreds more article which will go into other sections, many of which do not yet have a short description. Cheers, &middot; &middot; &middot; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 09:55, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Replied on poster's talk page.   The Transhumanist 10:29, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Translation team
Could you help me create a team of translators and editors so as to translate more and more pages from the English Wikipedia to the Others ? Let's form a team to add more and more features to other wikis and this wiki as well. My concerns are most on the Bengali Wiki and the Dutch Wiki. I see the later very poor ... And lacks active editors. Bengali wiki is lacking various scientific informations. I am a resident of the Bengals and I felt the problems of the local students who lacks the knowledge of the English Language. Editing in Bengali in a great time taking task for its large number of characters. Inspite of being my mother tongue I would require a team. And for the Dutch language, I am still novice and I am forced to use the "Google translate " frequently. Another concern is that, many pages are protected and I am restricted from editing those. Access to the source code could help me to create a new article or section more easily and faster. So could you grant me the required permissions? Arka (talk) 11:50, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Dear Dr. Sroy, the technology of machine translation is advancing so rapidly via the Law of Accelerating Returns, that creating a team may be pointless. It would take a team of thousands to make a noticeable dent, and by the time you did build a team of that size, effective translation software may likely have been developed which could do the same amount of work in a small fraction of the time.
 * Concerning permissions, most editing permissions are granted automatically once you reach a certain number of edits. See User access levels.   The Transhumanist 12:55, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Recommending new editors to WikiProject Health and fitness
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Here is a new list of recommendations for project Health and fitness. Sorry that I introduced some bugs in the previous version as I mentioned, but everything has been fixed. I might be sending one or two more new lists to you in the coming Mondays, and hope you'll find great new members!

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Recommending new editors to WikiProject JavaScript
Here is the list for WikiProject JavaScript

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Recommending new editors to WikiProject Outlines
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Recommending new editors to Indexes
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Beta testers for Wikipedia search results enhancements
You asked on the Community bulletin board for volunteers to test some search engine enhacements.

OK, I'll try this: I'm a very ordinary editor with no particular expertise in this field, but it may be useful to have some such editors among your testers <b style="color:seagreen">Noyster</b> (talk),  19:33, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

Your recent edits of many outline articles
In your recent edits of many outline articles, you removed navigation templates and categories, examples below. Examples: As it happens, I came to explore your edits after I went to Outline of Mexico and saw that you had removed. So, what's going on? —Anomalocaris (talk) 07:01, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Was this on your own initiative?
 * Was this pursuant to some directive somewhere that implies that these templates and categories don't belong?
 * Was this pursuant to a discussion somewhere?
 * Other?
 * Outline of Harvard University removed  and others
 * Outline of James Bond removed and others
 * Outline of the Catholic Church removed and others
 * Outline of the United Kingdom removed
 * Outline of Wisconsin removed


 * Replied on user's talk page. Matter resolved.     &mdash; The Transhumanist    16:55, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

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Outline of marketing
Over the past 6 months or so, I have spent a bit of time here and there, updating the Outline of marketing by adding relevant links, providing brief explanations of core concepts and organising the plethora of links into logical groupings with relevant headings and sub-headings. This has been an ongoing project and is far from complete. However, I only work on it, when I have some spare time.

I notice that you recently added a tag which stated, amongst other things, that "further improvements are on the way." I was wondering whether you have some specific plans in relation to updating or improving the Outline? If so, I will desist with my present plans and leave it to you. My feeling is that any page, such as this outline, will have the best possible outcome, if there is just one single vision for its overall structure and organisation.

One of the biggest challenges that I have encountered in the construction of this outline is the level of duplication of articles in the marketing area - i.e. articles with the identical/ similar content, but with different article titles. I have posted elsewhere including the marketing project page (with a long list of duplications), and on individual talk pages in relation to this level of duplication. However, as I search for relevant links to add to the Outline of marketing, more and more duplication becomes apparent. Just last week, for example, I found an article for Six Segment Analysis which is an inferior version of PEST analysis. Such is the culture at Wikipedia that there is a great deal of resistance to article mergers or article deletions, that any substantial reduction in the level of duplication is unlikely in the forseeable future. Therefore a key challenge is how to include duplicated articles, within a coherent and meaningful structure. BronHiggs (talk) 01:45, 8 March 2018 (UTC)


 * That's a standard notice, to inform unfamiliar editors what outlines are, in case they have a knee jerk reaction and the impulse to nominate it for speedy deletion or something. More detailed answer on user's talk page.     &mdash; The Transhumanist      01:50, 8 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your reply and additional comments. Wow! Who knew that underwater diving was such a complex and diverse topic? Best wishes BronHiggs (talk) 02:54, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

Geography headings
What's the point of adding a "geography" header and demoting the "climate" header to subheader. You are lengthening the TOC on countless pages for no obvious good reason. has this been discussed and some consensus for this reached? Fram (talk) 08:28, 8 March 2018 (UTC)


 * I've been doing it in batches, as the first step in restructuring the articles, consolidatiing subtopics under parent topics -- geography is the parent of more than just climat, in most cases. I'm about to go in an finish up on the latest batch. Check back in a few minutes and see if you approve.     &mdash; The Transhumanist      08:32, 8 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Seems weird to have "main sights" under geography, it usually belongs under culture (or history) or as its own heading. I would personally never look for the main sights of a city under "geography". Fram (talk) 09:29, 8 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Geography includes areas and places. How about "Places of interest"? See Galway.     &mdash; The Transhumanist      09:43, 8 March 2018 (UTC)


 * The articles are about places to start with anyway. Keeping natural aspects under geography (climate, topography, ...) feels natural; including cultural elements is not helpful IMO. The changes also make at least some articles look worse, e.g. Tivoli, Lazio had a better layout before your changes. In Galway as well there are layout aspects you don't seem to have taken into account during your restructuring. I would urge you to slow down and perhaps discuss this at the cities project to see whether most people think your changes in general are better or worse (or some of both). Fram (talk) 09:55, 8 March 2018 (UTC)


 * I missed the pics on Tivoli. They're location is fixed now. Thank you for pointing that out. On Galway, there was a TOC template in there that shortened the toc when I structured it. I've removed that so it balances out the infobox like it did before.     &mdash; The Transhumanist      10:19, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

We have Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/Settlements: Article structure. Putting "climate" under "geography" is allowed under that page, however if that is the only section under geography, it is an unnecessary extra line in the TOC and on the page with no actual benefit. Other changes you make go against that page though, e.g. "notable people" do not belong under "culture", and the main sights (attractions, museums, ...) should either have their own section or be included under culture, but not under geography. Sport is considered a separate section (nota part of culture), media is a separate section (not part of economy). Please stop making your changes and discuss this first at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cities/Settlements: Article structure or (perhaps better) Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cities. Fram (talk) 10:11, 8 March 2018 (UTC)


 * The link you provided led to these:
 * WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements
 * WikiProject Cities/US Guideline
 * WikiProject Canadian communities
 * Manual of Style/Philippine-related articles
 * WikiProject Indian cities


 * Wow. Different heading arrangements for different parts of the world. Didn't expect that. Will read up before continuing. Thanks.     &mdash; The Transhumanist      10:30, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

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Outline mentioned
Thought this m ight be pleasing. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:15, 16 March 2018 (UTC).


 * Long time, no see. I am glad you are still going strong on Wikipedia. It wouldn't be the same without you.


 * It's nice to know outlines were being noticed in 2010. Are they being noticed in 2018? The last time it worked, your pagestats program showed that outlines together were getting over 9 million views per year. My guess is that it is more nowadays (as the outlines have improved, and there are more of them). Unfortunately, your pagestats program doesn't work anymore, as the page it checks is no longer updated. Do you have something similar to take its place?


 * By the way, something has happened since the last time you visited. I've got a program up and running called SearchSuite.js. It adds menu item functionality to Wikipedia's search results, to put a bit more control in the user's hands. Let me know what you think of it.


 * It's been good to see you again. Stop by anytime, and have yourself a cup of virtual tea. :)      &mdash; The Transhumanist      07:36, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Portal:Contents/Indices
Portal:Contents/Indices, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Contents/Indices and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Contents/Indices during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Rathfelder (talk) 20:55, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

ToC level and MOS:OUTLINE
Hi Transhumanist,

Was doing a bit of tidying at Outline of birds. I was thinking of increasing the ToC limit to 3, and wanted some style guidance for that; a brief Preview of it looked fine to me. But before committing, I searched around at the Portal for anything like a Manual of Style like some projects have (e.g., MOS:BIO, MOS:JAPAN, MOS:MATH, MOS:ORGANISMS) to see what the recommendation was for ToC limit, but I couldn't find one.

If there already is something like a style guide for outlines, basically a "everything you always wanted to know about properly formatting an Outline page but were afraid to ask", then please just create and redirect MOS:OUTLINE to it, and stick a shortcut up on the Portal page somewhere. And if there isn't a MOS for Outline, can you create one?

I can see two useful entries for it already:
 * Toc limit
 * Factoring out upper-level header terms by piping, and alphabetization

Regarding the second: I see for example, that at Outline of birds we have alpabetized in the M's' and N's respectively, which I think is correct. But we also had mixed in with I's, which seems half-right, and Bird vocalization was in there twice, once piped to Vocalization and in the V's, and once unpiped, and in the B's. (I've fixed these.)
 * *Mobbing
 * *Nest
 * *Avian intelligence

If it were up to me, I'd say pipe everything that has the upper level term (or equivalent adjective) in it to remove it (just like bottom-matter Nav templates generally do), so, recommend: Nest and Intelligence when those are entries one level under Bird (or Birds).

I think for toc limit, I'd do it case-by-case: if it looks horrible and too long to go past 2, then 2. But I Previewed  on Outline of birds and Outline of Catalonia and the ToC seems more informative and not at all obtrusive at that level.

But whether you agree/disagree with my choices isn't so much the issue; I'm sure by this point, you have a vast storehouse of wisdom and convention about how to do these pages correctly, and probably do it as a matter of habit without even thinking about it. But for those of less involved or new to the project, it's less obvious. It would be a good idea to get it written down. There's so much precedent out there already, it's just dispersed and not collected and summarized clearly in one place, and if it were, 99% of the time people would just follow it, and probably save you a ton of minor tweaks. (Tip: if you like the idea, first thing to do is create Manual of Style/Outlines and stick one sentence in there, maybe topped with Under construction; then create MOS:OUTLINE and #REDIRECT it to the first; then you're good to go and can develop your MOS in peace.) HTH, Mathglot (talk) 23:30, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

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Nomination of Tip of the day for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Tip of the day is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Tip of the day& until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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User:The Transhumanist
I just thought I would ask, why is your userpage a redirect to a .js page instead of to your actual user talk page (the one I am commenting on right now)? Master of Time  ( talk ) 06:36, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
 * That .js talk page is the workshop for the script. It is my focus right now. It's what defines me, more than anything else, at the current time. I need to improve it, and I need feedback on it. Have you tried it?
 * I redirected to the page, rather than transcluded the page, for convenience, though I may transclude at some point.
 * Also, I chose the workshop as my user page placeholder while I redesign my actual user page, which had gotten a bit dated. Meanwhile, my signature leads to my talk page. So, there's no need for my user page to redirect to there.
 * I hope that helps. I was sort of thinking sideways at the time. And I like to experiment.   &mdash; The Transhumanist   06:49, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
 * No, I haven't tried it. I'll give it a look, though! And thanks for enlightening me on my question. Master of Time   ( talk ) 07:00, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
 * You are most welcome.   &mdash; The Transhumanist   07:04, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
 * In case you are interested, I've restarted my user page. It is just a stub for now, but it will grow.   &mdash; The Transhumanist   00:34, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

WP:SORTKEY

 * What is the reason of such edits as  and many similar edits made by you in the last months? "Outline of mining" is not a main article for . Only Mining is a main article for this category. Articles like "Outline of X", "List of X" should be sorted with asterisk. Read WP:SORTKEY:
 * WP:SORTKEY: The main article/s of a category, if existent, should get sorted with a space as key so that it/they appear at the very top of the category. Example:  Those articles are typically homonymous or at least synonymous to their category. Furthermore other general articles that are highly relevant to the category should be sorted with an asterisk as key so that they also appear at the top of a category but beneath the main article/s. Example:   Those articles are typically called "History of example", "Types of example", "List of example" or similar.
 * So, restore back the correct sortkeys (asterisk) for outline articles. 46.211.156.45 (talk) 02:37, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Check the creation entry for Outline of mining, and you will see that it was categorized and sorted at the root level, since its very beginning. "Outline of" in the title only indicates the format of the page, not its subject, which is identical with the root article's title, and synonymous with the category.
 * You obviously have more than an absolute beginner's familiarity with the guidelines, which makes me wonder why you are contacting me with a brand new IP address account, where your post to my talk page is its very first edit. That indicates that you aren't talking to me with your regular account. If this was in error, I understand. Simply make further posts under your regular account name and I'll be happy to reply. If you refuse or fail to do so, then I must conclude that you are purposely violating WP:SOCK.   &mdash; The Transhumanist   06:51, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Don't try to do the WP:Personal attacks instead of assuming the good faiths. I am a very experienced IP user (with dynamic IP) and I have done a lot of categorization work without any regular accounts and "socks", if you want to know. Discuss the problem, not users. Your edits were very-very wrong. It doesn't matter, what was with the articles many years ago. The articles typically called "History of X" ("Types of X", "List of X", "Outline of X") or similar are not main for WP:EPON eponymous categories and should be categorized with asterisk per WP:SORTKEY. Only one topic article such as Mining is a main article for category typically. So, see my ask above, do you refuse to restore the correct categorization with asterics? Based on what arguments? 46.211.101.254 (talk) 11:13, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Concerning your IP, fair enough, but you also need to assume good faith that I'm not just making things up. Concerning the issue at hand: the edits are fine. The title isn't the article. The article is the contents on the page. That is, the subject. The subject of an outline is eponymous with its category. You are applying eponymous to the outline's title rather than to its subject. With "History of mining", "History of" is part of the subject. With "Outline of mining", "Outline of" is not part of the subject. The article is not about an outline, it is about mining. But the "History of" article is about history, and therefore is not eponymous.
 * Outlines cover subjects even more thoroughly than root articles do. Outlines are topic lists, rather than item lists, making them about the subject, rather than instances of the subject. A distinction would be that a list of sharks presents types of sharks and thus is "highly relevant", while an outline of sharks is about sharks in general in the same way the root article is, except that the outline is in hierarchical tree structure format. Its focus is the subject, rather than a related topic or subtopic. Root-level articles, including outlines and indices, get sorted with a space.
 * I hope you find that explanation to your satisfaction.   &mdash; The Transhumanist   12:28, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you for correct explanation finally. Now I understand the reasons of your edits, but your logic is absolutely wrong. It's a very bad situation when "Outline of X" is located above the main "X" article in the related category (see for example, Outline of wine is located above Wine). Readers want to see the main article first, not "outline" of something, so space as a sortkey should be used for only one main article (in most cases). I will start a discussion on related forum to ask what the other editors think about your version of sortkeys for outlines. 46.211.2.10 (talk) 14:14, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
 * No need. Thank you for sharing your opinions. Your wine example convinced me. I agree with you that all other links should fall after the key article. I hadn't considered whether or not "Index" and "Outline" should appear ahead of the root article. It's not hard picking the root article out from them. But, from library classification and publishing points of view, that would be presenting the table of contents and the index before the subject itself, which does seem awkward, when you think about it. To ensure that they fall below the bare subject, per WP:SORTKEY #10, I'll start correcting outlines' placement with my next maintenance pass, or sooner, if I can figure out how to use WP:AWB to do it. And I've added "Outline of" and "Index of" to the appropriate place in WP:SORTKEY (#10). Thank you for your persistence. I'll try to be more open minded in future discussions, with whomever they happen to be with. Keep up the good work. We're lucky to have you here.    &mdash; The Transhumanist   12:04, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ Adjusted sort key for those outlines that appeared before key article in the root article's category, per WP:SORTKEY #10.   &mdash; The Transhumanist   12:35, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

Closing 2017 Intelligence explosion/Technological singularity merge proposal soon
Did you want to make any further comments or discussion on the old 2017 Talk:Technological_singularity before I put in a request to close? Rolf H Nelson (talk) 06:27, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Portals WikiProject update, April 22, 2018
Thank you for joining the Portals WikiProject.

Here's our first project-wide update. I hope you enjoy it...

Reboot
The WikiProject reboot has been a success: the new re-envisioned project is up and running, with new members, ongoing discussions about automation, design, and upkeep; maintained task queques; and updates to members, like this, the very first one!


 * Nice catch. Thanks.   &mdash; The Transhumanist   23:48, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

The RfC
As you know, there's a proposal to delete all portals. It started out looking pretty dismal for portals, with primarily posts supporting their demise. It turned out that the proposer didn't post a deletion notice on the very pages being nominated for deletion (a requirement for all deletion discussions). Once that was done, a flood of opposition came in and has apparently turned the tide.

RfCs generally run for 30 days. It started April 8th, and so it has about 14 more days to run its course.

The more work we can do during that time on the portals, the stronger the reasons for keeping them will be. And the more prepared we will be for any MfDs that follow the closing of the RfC.

AWB?
You may be wondering why we asked for AWB experience in the member-sign-up list.

We are gearing up to do maintenance runs on the entire set of portals, and the more people we have who can use AWB, the better.

But we're not quite ready to start this yet.

To be able to use AWB on the portals, we first need to know what the end result needs to be. Like on the news sections, do we comment out the out-of-date ones, or do we place the code to activate the newsbot on those pages? That would require an assessment of WikiNews and its news generating performance (areas covered, volume in each area), etc.

You can help us figure this out at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals.

Another area we're gearing up for, to do passes with AWB, are upgrades to the intro sections of portals. Many of these have static (copied/pasted) excerpts that go stale over time.

We're trying to figure out how to make self-updating excerpts to replace the existing static excerpts that are on many portals, and once this is done, AWB will be used to place the new code. See the discussion on this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals.

"What can I do?"
There are 3 major areas of activity right now:

Update the main portal list at Portal:Contents/Portals
There are a few hundred existing portals that are missing from this list.

The list of missing entries, and instructions on what to do, can be found at Portal talk:Contents/Portals.

We need everybody's help on this. It's a big chore for one persons. But, many hands make light work. Please help chip away at this chore as much as you can. A little each day, form all of us, will get this done pretty quick.

Familiarize yourself with the portal system
In addition to browsing the portals in the 2 lists mentioned in the section above, you should take a look at the portal name space itself and what is in it.

That can be done at WikiProject Portals.

Join in on the discussions
There are discussions on many aspects of the WikiProject's operations, with more to come.

Such as about the purposes and functions of portals, design discussions, and so on.

There's even a automated design discussion over at Village Pump Technical, on selective transclusion.

I hope to see you on the talk page.

What's coming?
In addition to the automation efforts mentioned above, we will be looking into how to automate the selection and display of alternating excerpts, and alternating pictures, for the various portal sections.

Watch for these discussions on the Wikiproject's talk page.

Summing up...
Get ready, get set, go! &mdash; The Transhumanist  22:54, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

STOP
Your AWB runs are making a mess, sending you this in hopes it stops flags you in AWB. — xaosflux  Talk 23:36, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Sorry, typos. Fortunately, there were only 30 items in those 2 runs. Got it the 3rd time. I've been staring at the screen too long, I think. ;)   &mdash; The Transhumanist   14:24, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Third time's a charm
You'll have to go back and re-re-edit all of those pages, because with no user prefix it didn't subst. Primefac (talk) 23:36, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you for spotting that for me.   &mdash; The Transhumanist   14:25, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for taking the initiative
Good night man, great you actually take up the glove to revive the Portals. Basically I have these 3 points: If there can be a "blueprint" for that, it doesn't seem so hard to implement it Portal-wide... Content-wise I can add my cents (and hopefully sense), but it's the automation part that is important, imho. Tisquesusa (talk) 01:16, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
 * 1) - how can we get this automated function (for highlighted articles, pictures and DYKs combines) implemented for every (interesting) portal, like a blueprint
 * 2) - update the this "you can work on" page (maybe take it automatically from the related WikiProject)
 * 3) - get a list of interesting articles/pictures/DYKs in a queue to list for the automated function


 * You are welcome. In answer to your questions: software. Either Lua, JavaScript, or PhP. Number #3 would be most interesting if the software could make the list itself.   &mdash; The Transhumanist   08:13, 24 April 2018 (UTC)


 * +1 thx. already running automated sources = de:Portal:Waffen/Charts // de:P:WFA // de:Portal:Waffen/Neue Artikel/Botauswertung. Cheers --Ｔｏｍ (talk) 20:31, 24 April 2018 (UTC) P.S. the last is used to update the mainpage permanently


 * very nice you like de:WP develoments :-) may give a technical hint? It was 2010 when exactly this edit moved a srollbar of this subpage on the side. Since 8 years some minor edits had to be done for improvements. At the right position of the page it was easy to implement by:




 * the only problem was to find the solution ;-) Best --Ｔｏｍ (talk) 05:24, 25 April 2018 (UTC) P.S, Did I forget to mention it? Of course the subpage has an daily update by Bot-Service.

Canvassing
Your activity here is canvassing and your attempt to close my MfDs are inapproproate. Please Reverse your actions or I will take you to ANi for a discussion. Legacypac (talk) 13:18, 23 April 2018 (UTC)


 * You do realize you said please and threatened me in the same sentence. What kind of diplomacy is that?


 * You are incorrect, as displaying deletion alerts are standard on WikiProjects. So much so, that they are usually automated. The portal wikiproject simply hasn't automated that function yet. The admins at ANI will confirm that.


 * For some examples, see:
 * WikiProject Australia
 * WikiProject Football
 * WikiProject Albums


 * I hope that clarifies things for you.


 * By the way, I've changed the wording on WikiProject Portals to the standard lingo "Article alerts". "Alerts" is much more attention grabbing than "monitor", and more familiar to editors. Thank you for your concern about the term "monitor".   &mdash; The Transhumanist   14:06, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Alps (subject portal) listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Alps (subject portal). Since you had some involvement with the Alps (subject portal) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Legacypac (talk) 17:31, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Your signature messes up talk pages
Whenever you post something on a talk page, the colors in your signature keep going all the way to the bottom of the page, could you please fix your signature?
 * That's weird, there are no colors in my sig. I'll go check it. The code on the preferences page is
 * I'll sign here, so I can look at how it renders.   &mdash; The Transhumanist   09:20, 25 April 2018 (UTC)


 * It comes out looking like this:  Which is normal, with no colors specified in it.


 * Thank you for the heads up. Please point me to the page where it is affecting colors.   &mdash; The Transhumanist   09:25, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Re: The Portals WikiProject has been rebooted.
Thank you for accepting some assistance in this section, greatly appreciate the offer to join in the effort to reboot the section and make it better.

Again, I appreciate the invite.

Birdymckee (talk)Birdymckee, 1356 hrs., 25 April 2018


 * You are most welcome.   &mdash; The Transhumanist   21:53, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Your canvassing
It appears that you have been canvassing—leaving messages on a biased choice of users' talk pages to notify them of an ongoing community decision, debate, or vote. While friendly notices are allowed, they should be limited and nonpartisan in distribution and should reflect a neutral point of view. Please do not post notices which are indiscriminately cross-posted, which espouse a certain point of view or side of a debate, or which are selectively sent only to those who are believed to hold the same opinion as you. Remember to respect Wikipedia's principle of consensus-building by allowing decisions to reflect the prevailing opinion among the community at large. Thank you.


 * Dear Brian_Everlasting,


 * Those were invitations to the Portals WikiProject. That's not canvassing. That's recruiting! Perfectly acceptable for WikiProjects to do. Thank you for your concern.  &mdash; The Transhumanist   05:37, 27 April 2018 (UTC)


 * P.S.: In case others are wondering what we are referring to, here's a copy of the post:

Hello, from the Portals WikiProject...
You are invited to join the effort to revitalize and improve the Portal system...

The Portals WikiProject was rebooted 9 days ago, and is going strong. Fifty-two editors have joined so far, with more joining daily.

We're having a blast, and excitement is high...

Our goal is to update, upgrade, and maintain portals.

In addition to working directly on portals, we are developing tools to make building and maintaining portals easier. We've finished one so far, with more to come.

Discussions are underway about how to upgrade portals, and what the portals of the future will be.

There are plenty of tasks (including WikiGnome tasks too) on the WikiProject page.

With more to come.

We may even surprise ourselves and exceed all expectations. Who knows what we will be able to accomplish in what may become the biggest Wikicollaboration in years.

See ya at the WikiProject!

Sincerely,    &mdash; The Transhumanist   03:13, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Wish list is a very good Idea + Proposal for Collection
Hello The Transhumanist, your wish list is a very good Idea. Do you collect response?
 * 1) + from me:  Best --Ｔｏｍ (talk) 08:28, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
 * 2) + from me:  Best --Ｔｏｍ (talk) 09:15, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
 * 3) + from me:  Best --Ｔｏｍ (talk) 11:16, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Portal:Crawley
Hi Transhumanist, sorry I wasn't suggesting Portal:Crawley might be deleted just because it wasn't supported by WikiProject Sussex. The portal is a deletion candidate par excellence. It is dreadful, not even half-finished, with an incomplete introduction, red links and a host non-existent sub-pages. It was started in July last year but no work has been done since and the editor concerned hasn't done anything on Wikipedia since either. And I'm concerned that the subject is insufficiently notable for its own portal. Crawley is a boring, industrial, otherwise nondescript town next to Gatwick Airport. It's not a tourist destination and has little of historical or cultural note. So what I was implying is that unless the relevant WikiProject takes an interest, it's just going to sit there as a great example for the deletionists. Bermicourt (talk) 06:23, 28 April 2018 (UTC)


 * That's a relief. You are smarter than I look. :)   &mdash; The Transhumanist   09:06, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

Portal:Community of Christ
Hello, this is the first Portal which was made dynamic with the Transclude random excerpt template by Certes. This is very great news for the wikiproject because we now do not need subpages to make a Portal dynamic. I improved this static Portal with the template and made it into a dynamic one within minutes. I want to thank you and Certes for making the next generation of Portals.--Broter (talk) 17:33, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Automated spamming
I've raise your automated spamming of portal pages as AN Legacypac (talk) 03:40, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

It may be an idea for you to participate in the discussion. I have proposed removing your awb access for misuse. Spartaz Humbug! 06:33, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

For those interested in the topic of discussion above, here is the latest version of the on-topic notice in question, including links to pertinent discussions and resources that affect the portals:

Status report from the Portals WikiProject
WikiProject Portals is back!

The project was rebooted and completely overhauled on April 17th, 2018.

Its goals are to revitalize the entire portal system, make building and maintaining portals easier, and design the portals of the future.

As of April 29th, membership is at 56 editors, and growing.

There are design initiatives for revitalizing the portals system as a whole, and for each component of portals.

Tools are provided for building and maintaining portals, including automated portals that update themselves in various ways.

And, if you are bored and would like something to occupy your mind, we have a wonderful task list.

From your friendly neighborhood Portals WikiProject. &mdash; The Transhumanist  03:36, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Hello, The Transhumanist, I need your help
Can you please delete all the notices on all the portals that there is an active discussion? I closed the discussion as either no consensus or SNOW oppose, but either way the portals will not all be deleted. Thank you for your great contributions to Wikipedia! Brian Everlasting (talk) 05:42, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

I reverted your closing...
According to Closing discussions, "Any uninvolved editor may close most discussions, not just admins."

It takes a disinterested 3rd-party to close it, and such individuals have already been requested at WP:AN:

A request/arrangement was made for admins to close it. That happened over ten days ago at Administrators' noticeboard. When 30 days has gone by, they will adjudicate the discussion.

Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  06:21, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

A Barnstar for you!

 * Transhumanist, thank you for your extraordinary efforts on behalf of portals. It reminds me of the time when a series of attacks on scientific bibliographies led to the formation of WikiProject Bibliographies. I don't understand why your detractors are so passionate about deleting portals, but your actions have been a model for how to deal with an attack constructively. RockMagnetist(talk) 16:10, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

Portals
Congratulations, it appears your relentless targeted advertising of the RFC, your beating the RFC Supporters with a stick by posting countless times there, your dishonest insistence that Current Events was on the chopping block, and your obstruction of clean up efforts at MfD are paying dividends. Have fun playing with Portal space where no one will read your work. I'm sure someone will eventually clean up the mess when your interest wanes. Cheers. Legacypac (talk) 02:02, 2 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Thank you. I accept your congratulations on behalf of Wikiproject Portals and the portal-loving community – it was a team effort. In addition, I'd like to clarify some things about your claims above...
 * Each page nominated for deletion must have a notice at the top of its page, per the deletion guideline. Not to have one there, would be unfair to those who use such pages, and would constitute a secret deletion tribunal. We don't do things that way on Wikipedia.
 * As new facts became available (e.g., a motivated and thriving WikiProject to support the portals, new building blocks, etc.), it was appropriate to post the developments to the RfC, to support informed decision making.
 * Proposals are literal, not figurative. The proposal specified "all portals". All means all.
 * The fact is, the rebooted WikiProject is cleaning up the mess, rather rapidly. By updating and upgrading the portals, rather than getting rid of them.
 * I think I'll be hanging around for awhile, but the project is more than likely to achieve critical mass and may outlive us all, due in part to the development of tools to assist editors in building, upgrading, and maintaining portals that are fully dynamic and self-updating.
 * Portals are more fun to work with than ever. Thank you for your role in making this happen. You made us try even harder, and inspired us to pull together as a team. You'll have a warm place in our hearts, forever.   &mdash; The Transhumanist   02:49, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Invitation Portals WikiProject
I noticed on Portal talk:Zoos and aquariums your info about that Portals will be rebooted and completely overhauled and invitation to join the Portals WikiProject. I agree that Portals are positive, if maintained, and want to express my gratitude for your work in this regard. I joined the project, will try to improve the Zoo Portal. Dan Koehl (talk) 11:19, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Portals
Hi Transhumanist. Just seen your latest note on the portal talk pages. Well done for leading the charge! I'm busying myself bringing the 30 or so portals I 'manage' up to scratch, but also chucking in ideas about better portal visibility and management, some from German Wikipedia which I am tracking in this area too. Anyway keep up the good work. Bermicourt (talk) 14:27, 2 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Thank you. And I like the portal rating system you have been working on.  I can hardly wait to see it when it is complete and ready to implement on the WikiProject Portals banner.   &mdash; The Transhumanist   23:11, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

I think you are wasting your time, and that of many others. Trying to revive a patient that has been on life-support for years is futile. Please try to move on and stop wasting your efforts. As they say, put the stick down and walk away from the horse. Morphenniel (talk) 22:51, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I think the opposite is true: the problem was that portals weren't receiving adequate life support. They are like plants in a garden that need tending. Now that they are getting water and fertilizer, watch them flourish.
 * Have you stopped by the WikiProject? Much progress has been made, with more on the way. We could hardly call that futile, as profound results are being achieved rapidly.
 * The most exciting thing coming out of the project these days is automation. Ways to make portals update themselves. Like transcluded excerpts that always match the source material. Auto random selection has also been made easier. And we're working on a way for portals to pull in new material by themselves, without the need for an editor to copy and paste it.
 * Relax, and have a cup of tea. We'll tend to the garden.   &mdash; The Transhumanist   23:50, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

This Month in Education: April 2018
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Portal newsletter
Thank you for taking the time to compile this summary (and for the glowing references to the new templates!) I found it very interesting but I'm aware that some editors seem sensitive about spam. I'm wondering whether it might be better next time just to send everyone a summary paragraph with a link to the full newsletter. Or even just ask them to add that page to their watchlists, so they'll get alerted whenever a new edition appears. Thanks again, Certes (talk) 10:16, 4 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Dear Certes, you are most welcome, and thank you for your concern. It is definitely not spam, as it is sent on an opt-in basis, and members who have opted in can opt-out anytime they like. On the WikiProject page, in the section where members sign-up, is the following message:
 * "If you'd like to receive task requests and project-related updates on your talk page, please add your name below. Also, please indicate if you are a user of AWB or JWB, and if you know Lua. Follow your name with an asterisk if you do not wish to receive project-wide updates. Those marked with 2 asterisks have not been confirmed as wishing updates."
 * Only one member indicated they didn't want the updates. The 2 asterisks signifies those who were on the list before the reboot, and who I've been unable to contact.
 * I've sent out 3 updates so far, with zero complaints, and for each issue I've been receiving several thank yous on the notice system (there's one for this issue already). For those who would rather not receive updates, we have a newsletter section on the WikiProject page where each issue gets posted, though usually a couple of days or so after the main run.
 * I hope I've addressed your concerns about spam. Sincerely,    &mdash; The Transhumanist   12:12, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I appreciate the effort you put into the update and I found it interesting, but could you perhaps post it as a collapsed nav-frame next time? Or some other shortening method? I'm worried about my talkpage becoming the next Domesday book. Thanks, Cesdeva (talk) 23:42, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

Hi
thank you for your efforts in portals. i replaced some sub-pages in portals. can we add an alignment option to pictures for example Portal:Medicine after replacing intro subpage the image appears on the right rather than left. regards--مصعب (talk) 18:41, 11 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Good idea. I copied your request to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals  &mdash; The Transhumanist   22:43, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject Pennsylvania and more
Yes, I have added WikiProject tags all over the world, at least 10,000 and more. Did over 400 for Jersey, a small island I am visiting in June. Cheers!--Dthomsen8 (talk) 23:10, 11 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Can I come?  &mdash; The Transhumanist   23:27, 11 May 2018 (UTC)
 * When I was there about ten years ago, Poplars Tea room was a great place to have lunch. Kind regards, Cesde v a  (talk) 16:45, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

2.0 Portal:Community of Christ
I have removed all subpages from this Portal. Please look at the Portal and delete the subpages. You can see the subpages still in the page history.--Broter (talk) 11:06, 13 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I'll take a look. Thanks.  &mdash; The Transhumanist   23:49, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

I discovered this: Random quotation – this template was used in the Portal:LDS Church to eleminate the need for subpages for quotes.--Broter (talk) 12:43, 13 May 2018 (UTC)
 * That looks useful. Now we just need to figure out a way to fill it in automatically. :)  &mdash; The Transhumanist   23:49, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

Portals RfC
I'm not sure the RfC is actually uncontentiously closed yet. The closer acted unilaterally and wasn't part of the multi-editor team that was highly expected to close it. Cesde v a (talk) 19:55, 13 May 2018 (UTC)
 * If the closing statement is stricken and replaced, or supplemented, I'll report it as a new news item on the WikiProject page. Thank you for the heads up.  &mdash; The Transhumanist   20:41, 13 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Cheers. Cesde v a  (talk) 21:03, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Signpost interview on WikiProject Portals
Hello! I would like to ask you a few questions about WikiProject Portals for the WikiProject Report in the upcoming issue of the Signpost. The questions can be found here. Feel free to leave feedback or further information! Zarasophos (talk) 16:11, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
 * FYI, the May issue will be published in 4 days. If you want your answers to the interview questions to be included, please post them until then! Zarasophos (talk) 09:46, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

Can you give me some help with Portal:Peter Paul Rubens?
Please can you help me with the portal Portal:Peter Paul Rubens? I have started with some basic work, but it needs a bit more. --Mozart834428196 (talk) 18:33, 22 May 2018 (UTC)
 * But you aren't done with Portal:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Here's my reply to you, copied from Nick Moyes' talk page:


 * as Nick conveyed above, things have changed quite a lot, and are continuing to change pretty fast. So, don't worry too much about being a portal maintainer, but by all means be a portal builder! Once you have the portal set up fully, it will almost run completely on its own, and whoever else is around after that could easily maintain it. Once we (the WikiProject) are done developing tools for portals, portals will be fully automated after their initial build, and will be contained almost fully on a single page.  For now though, some subpages are needed (like for pictures).
 * Check out the portal now. I've given you a more developed starting point, using some of our new coding (much easier). To stick in your colors, go to Portal:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart/box-header. There are also notes in most of the sections on how to complete them.  Though, for the picture section, click on the redlink, and insert a file in the new page that opens up. Keep doing that until no more redlinks come up. That will give you a selection of 5 pictures that the portal will randomly show.
 * Feel free to change anything you want. Don't worry about making errors, as everything is fixable. Also feel free to ask further questions. And, above all, have fun.
 * Portals use templates extensively, so it would help you to read up on those. The template used for the "selected" sections is Template:Transclude random excerpt.
 * By the way, what other portals are you interested in building?  &mdash; The Transhumanist   07:55, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
 * It would be quite good if we could make a Georgian Era portal. I advise the title Portal:Georgian Era. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mozart834428196 (talk • contribs) 12:26, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Also, in that portal, you could have a "selected Georgian satirical cartoon". --Mozart834428196 (talk) 12:30, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

The Mozart portal is still not completed. Are you going to work on it? &mdash; The Transhumanist  21:34, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

Portal guidelines
I humbly request that you revert your changes. We are mid-way through an RfC on proposed changes. Significantly changing the guidelines during the middle of a discussion process on that exact matter is a breach of etiquette to say the least. Cesde v a (talk) 22:44, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Dear, there is no need to worry. I was trying for a practical interim solution. I removed out-of-date statements and instructions, and wrote a temporary lead, which in no way affect the adoption of a new set of guidelines. This is so that new portal makers will not be misguided while we wait for the new standards. If you still do not agree, you can revert, though it will be at the cost of new portal makers following the erroneous directions that were there before. I leave the choice up to you.  &mdash; The Transhumanist   17:39, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Your change altered the comparison between the current guidelines and the proposed draft. The proposal statement 'in-situ guidelines' was invalidated, evidenced by the fact you had to edit that part of the proposal to link to an old revision. The RfC has been withdrawn and a new draft is being made, taking into account the discussion points. I hopefully won't have to revert, as with any luck the revised draft will be adopted soon and this won't matter. I know you made the edits in good faith but please seek community consensus next time when making changes to policy, it affects us all. What you consider trivial or 'out-of-date' may not be seen that way by others. Kind regards, Cesde v a  (talk) 18:17, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Just thinking about new portal makers looking for guidance, who would not be able to discern or consider the out-of-date status of the material, but rather would be caught off-guard and misled by it. In the meantime, if you believe the changes cause problems rather than solve them, then by all means revert. Sincerely,  &mdash; The Transhumanist   18:28, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm sure the changes are net positive, I made a similar edit in my sandbox when dissecting the existing guidelines. Above I was primarily concerned with protecting the sanctity of the discussion process. You are more than welcome to drop by the draft sandbox and its associated talk page. It would be nice to get your input. Cesde v a  (talk) 19:00, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I look forward to working with you on that. I'll pop in as time allows.  &mdash; The Transhumanist   19:19, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

Portals WikiProject update, 25 May 2018
We have grown to 79 members.

Please provide a warm welcome to our latest additions, Wpgbrown, Cactus.man, JLJ001, and Wumbolo.

A lot is going on, much of it on the WikiProject's talk page, so be sure to go there and join in on any of the many discussions taking place there.

Elsewhere around the portal project, or related to portals, the following is happening...

New news template ready for testing
Evad37 has created a new template, with supporting lua module, to handle news in portals...

Transclude selected current events is ready to be tested in some actual portals. Let Evad37 know if you need help with the search patterns.

Noyster commented that "This is the best portal innovation since sliced bread!"

See the relevant discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals.

Thank you, Evad.

Coming soon: Automatic article alerts (but there is a glitch)
Our WikiProject is now subscribed to the bot that makes automatic article alerts, but the subpage where they are posted has not been added to our WikiProject page yet because of a weird problem...

Featured portal nominations from two years ago keep popping up on there.

Please check WikiProject Portals/Article alerts to see if you can figure out how to fix this.

Once that is remedied, it will be posted on our WikiProject page.

Thank you.

Note that, this will only track base pages, because to track the rest, we'd have to create over 140,000 talk pages for the subpages, and that just isn't worthwhile (as we're trying to remove the subpages anyways). Therefore, any alerts for subpages will still need to be posted manually.

New portal, still needs work

 * Portal:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, courtesy of Mozart834428196. See also, the discussion.

Drafting a new portals guideline
Your input/editing is welcome on the draft-in-progress of a new guideline for portals.

See or work on the draft at User:Cesdeva/sandbox11.

See also the discussion at: Wikipedia talk:Portal guidelines

RfC on new TOC layout for main portal list
There is a proposal to change the look of the table of contents at Portal:Contents/Portals.

See: Portal talk:Contents/Portals.

Deletion discussion survivors
Thank you to those who have participated in portal deletion discussions. There are still some editors out there who despise portals, and this comes across in their argumentation style. Wow. Such negativity. But, there is some good news...


 * Portal:Quidditch survived its 2nd deletion nomination
 * Portal:Prehistory of Antarctica did the same

Current deletion discussions are posted on our WikiProject page.

Portal space clean up
While portal detractors are trying to get rid of portals via MfD, we have deleted many of them via speedy deletion (per Db-p1 or Db-p2). Essentially, they were bare skeletons, with maybe a little meat on them. The plus here is that speedy deletion is without prejudice to re-creating the portals. They can easily be restarted from scratch without getting approval, or be undeleted by request by someone willing to work on them. We have kept track of these, for when someone wants to rebuild them. They are listed at Portal talk:Contents/Portals.

We are also removing subpages, the functions of which have been migrated to portal base pages. To see which ones have been removed, look for the redlinks in our watchlist.

There is also an MfD concerning some of these at Miscellany for deletion/Redundant subpages of the Cornwall portal.

For subpages that need to be deleted, you can conveniently place this speedy deletion template at the top of each of them:

Then an admin will come along and delete them.

Please help list the unlisted portals!
There are still 100 existing portals not yet presented on the main portal list at Portal:Contents/Portals. There were 400, so we've come a long way. Thank you! But we are not done yet...

Please list a couple of them. Every little bit helps. If each member of this project listed one more, it would almost all be done. Many hands make light work.

The list of missings, and instructions, are to be found at Portal talk:Contents/Portals.

I hope to see you there!

Wrapping up
These developments make up just the tip of the iceberg. I'll have more to report in the next update, soon. &mdash; The Transhumanist  00:36, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

Whoa, I missed one...
There's an article about the Portals WikiProject in the new issue of Signpost:

Wikipedia Signpost/2018-05-24/WikiProject report

Enjoy.

P.S.: We now have 80 members. Evad37 just joined! &mdash; The Transhumanist  01:39, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I've answered you on my talk page. :) Robertgombos (talk) 07:11, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

Portal Buttons.
Hi. I had to undo your edit to Template:Portal button 2 because it broke the layout at Portal:Contents/Portals (new) (the only place it's supposed to have been used).

This template is only being used on a temporary basis (hopefully), and will be superseded by Template:PortalButton which allows for more customisation, but has problems floating correctly.

Thanks for the heads up on the wider consensus on the set, I will see what I can do there. JLJ001 (talk) 08:51, 25 May 2018 (UTC)


 * You are welcome, and thank you for the heads up.  &mdash; The Transhumanist   08:54, 25 May 2018 (UTC)


 * I don't know all the places I am suppose to advertise this, but the RfC to get input on designing the new Portal:Contents is open. JLJ001 (talk) 15:04, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

New message at Ntmamgtw's talk page
Ntmamgtw (talk) 13:14, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

A Barnstar for you!
Thank you. I feel honored. Please keep in mind that I have not been working alone. Credit goes to the nearly 400 editors who came forward to speak up for the keeping of portals. And although the RfC to delete all portals is over, the job of defending portals from deletion is not. For the portal namespace to be retained in the long term, the portals in it will need to be improved to a worthy quality level, otherwise we may see more deletion attempts. This task is far more than a single editor can handle. Fortunately, many editors have come forward to meet the challenge. Working to develop portals and the entire portal system, is a team of 80 editors who are diligently redesigning, upgrading, updating, and maintaining portals. They are the members of the Portals WikiProject, and without them there might be no portals. They are doing a wonderful job, and I am very proud of them. Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  17:22, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

To the rescue...

 * I must say that writing "to the rescue" as if some kind of murder had been imminent feels disrespectful towards fellow editors. --Nemo 18:45, 26 May 2018 (UTC)


 * No offence intended but the proposal was to murder the entire portal system. That's mass portal genocide! Son't you think it would be difficult to put it forward any other way? JLJ001 (talk) 20:21, 26 May 2018 (UTC)


 * While I feel no disrespect toward those who wished to delete the portals, I am disappointed in their decision to remove a problem rather than fix it. The term "rescue" is Wikipedia jargon that I was using casually. "Rescue" is in common use to refer to saving pages from deletion. There is even a department dedicated to this called the Article Rescue Squadron. Most of the portals are in sad shape. That's why the whole set of them were nominated for deletion. They need rescuing, still. Fortunately, due to the massive amount of support for portals that came forth at the RfC, there is now a vibrant WikiProject working on their revitalization. I felt that the RfC was a dark day in the history of Wikipedia. But, as they say, "every cloud has a silver lining". A lot of good came out of it. Sincerely,  &mdash; The Transhumanist   20:47, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

Portal RfC
You posted a nice thank-you message on my talk page for my support of the Portal system, but I was actually partially supporting depreciation :). I supported depreciation because I wasn't convinced portals could be maintained, but on seeing the amazing response from editors (you in particular), I would've changed my vote.
 * P.S. It might be time to archive some of your talk page...  Tera TIX  03:08, 27 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Deprecation isn't deletion, and therefore you were also partially opposed to the proposal. And saving portals in any form, preserves them for possible reviving or leapfrogging later. Hence, my heartfelt thanks. And with technology advancing so rapidly, I don't believe they would have stayed deprecated for long. See accelerating change. If you like our responses at the RfC, you should check out the development threads at WT:WPPORT.   &mdash; The Transhumanist   04:16, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

Keep an eye on Portal:Right-wing populism
You might want to check Portal:Right-wing populism periodically as someone seems to want to whitewash it into a propaganda portal. 86.134.164.162 (talk) 13:15, 27 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Thank you. I'll pass this along to the Portals WikiProject.  &mdash; The Transhumanist   20:00, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

Precious
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:53, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

Portals and RfAs
Hey, I know you're kind of the Portal Czar these days, so I figured I'd post here, but it was largely spurred on by 's RFA. There was mention that there are a large number of uncontroversial subpages in the portal space that might need deleting, but not enough admins to go around(?). Don't know how much you both know about the admin toolset on Twinkle, but there's a d-batch option that lets an admin delete a list of bluelinks with one click, so if yall are finding yourselves not wanting to individually G6 a few thousand pages, just make a list and drop me a note. Cheers, Primefac (talk) 11:51, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't say "Czar"; more like "caught in a tornado". The WikiProject has definitely taken on a life of its own, and I'm constantly playing catch up. It's exciting. Thank you for mention of Pbsouthwood's RfA; he'll make a good admin. I'm glad you contacted me at this time, because we are working on our first major maintenance runs of the entire set of portals. I've almost got all the Wikimedia sections migrated, and so there will be a list of around a thousand obsoleted subpages with Associated Wikimedia in them that will need to be deleted. We're nearly ready to start on the intro sections as well. Eventually, including all section types, over 140,000 subpages may be removed. By the way, I've copied the relevant portion of your post to the WikiProject's talk page, to let everyone know of your availability. Thank you.
 * Since we are on the subject of portals, the thing I've been thinking about the most lately is what they can be transformed into. What the portal of the future will be. Because whatever that is, we have the manpower and motivation now to make it happen. Obviously, besides reducing them down to one page each, the main push is for automation, so that all portals are automatically maintained. Not so obvious is that we are also trying to automate their construction too. Maybe someday, the entire portal system and its WikiProject will run automatically. :) (Like Mathbot). What remains to be imagined is what the automatically running portals will look like. We are looking for new features. I invite you to share your vision with us. No idea is too bizarre. It's brainstorming! Please feel free to post your ideas and wishes on what portals could or should be able to do at WikiProject Portals. Come help shape the future of Wikipedia's support pages. I hope to see you there. Sincerely,  &mdash; The Transhumanist   18:14, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Always happy to give advice if/when pinged, but unfortunately I have too much on my plate at the moment to get too dug into the Portals project at this point in time. Thanks for the invite, though! Primefac (talk) 18:38, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I'll keep that in mind. Thank you. In the meantime, if you think of something you wish portals could do, be sure to share your idea. ;)  &mdash; The Transhumanist   19:05, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

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Portals WikiProject update #007, 31 May 2018
We have grown to 89 members.

This is the seventh issue of this newsletter. For previous issues, see our newsletter archive.

Welcome
A warm welcome to our nearly one dozen new members...

Our new members include:
 * Evad37
 * Checkingfax
 * Grey Wanderer
 * Voceditenore
 * TestPAKISTAN
 * Godsy
 * Greatedits1
 * Charlesdrakew
 * Ww2censor
 * Simon Burchell
 * TheGridExe

Be sure to say "hi" and welcome them to the team.

The portal set has shrunk
There were 1515 portals, but now we have 1475, because we speedy deleted a bunch of incompleted portals that had been sitting around for ages, that were empty shells or had very little content. Because they were speedied, they can be rebuilt from scratch without acquiring approval from WP:DRV.

Maintenance runs on the portals set have begun
This is what we have been gearing up for: upgrading the portals en masse, using AWB.

More than half of the Associated Wikimedia sections have been converted to no longer use a subpage. This chore will probably be completed over the next week or two. Many thanks to the WikiGnome Squad, who have added an Associated Wikimedia section to the many geography-related portals that lacked one. The rest of the subjects await. :)

The next maintenance drive will be on the intro sections. Notices have gone out to the WikiProjects for which one or more portals fall within their subject scope. Once enough time has elapsed for them to respond (1 week), AWB processing of intro sections will begin.

Thank you, you
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your part in the RfC. I went back and reread much of it. I believe your enthusiasm played a major part in turning the tide on there. I'm proud of all of you.

Why reread that mess, you ask?

To harvest ideas, and to keep the problems that need to be fixed firmly in mind. But, also to keep in touch. See below...

Thank yous all around
I've contacted all of the other opposers of the RfC proposal to delete portals, to thank them for their support, and to assure them that their decision was not made in vain. I updated them on our activities, provided the link to the interviews about this project in the Signpost, pointed out our newsletter archive so they can keep up-to-date with what we are doing, and I invited them all to come and have a look-see at our operations (on our talk page).

Sockpuppet, and reverting his work
It so happened that one of our members was a sockpuppet: JLJ001. According to the admin who blocked him, he was a particularly tricky long term abuser. This is a weird situation, since the user was quite helpful. He will be missed.

This has been somewhat disruptive, because admins are doing routine deletions of the pages (portals, templates, etc.) he created, and reversion of his edits (I don't know if they will be reverting all of them). Please bear with them, as they are only doing what is best in the long run.

The following pages have been deleted by the admins so far, that I know of:
 * Portal:Plymouth
 * Portal:Bedfordshire
 * Portal:Suffolk
 * Portal:Norfolk
 * User:JLJ001/tag
 * Template:Non-standard portal flag
 * Template:Portal flag

Automation so far, section by section...

 * Intro – Transclude lead excerpt
 * Selected article – Transclude random excerpt
 * In the news – Transclude selected current events
 * Associated Wikimedia –
 * Categories –

Automatic article alerts is up and running
Automatic article alerts are now featured on the project page.

Some super out-of-date entries kept showing up on there, so posting it on the Project page was delayed. Thanks to Evad37 and AfroThundr for providing solutions on this one. Evad37 adjusted the workflow settings per Article alerts/Subscribing, to make sure only the appropriate page types show up. AfroThundr removed the tags from the old entries that caused them to keep showing up in the article alerts.

Other things that could use some automation
Noyster pointed out that it would be nice to automate the updating of the portals section at the Community bulletin board.

Another major component of the portal system is the main list of portals, at Portal:Contents/Portals. How would we go about automating the updating of that?

Please post your ideas on the WikiProject's talk page. Thank you.

Deletion discussion survivors
Keep in mind that we have already speedy deleted almost all of the nearly empty portals, which can be rebuilt without approval whenever it is convenient to do so. Other portals should be completed if at all possible rather than delete them through MfD (which requires approval from Deletion review to rebuild).


 * Portal:Juanes – see the discussion

(Current deletion discussions are posted on our WikiProject page).

Portals needing repair

 * Portal:Toys

Wrapping up
There's still more, but it will have to wait until next issue.

Until then, see ya around the project. &mdash; The Transhumanist  12:04, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

What's your opinion?
They keep reverting, never providing any rationales. They think they own the page and just positive, no negative. 86.134.164.162 (talk) 14:13, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I've copied this thread to the Portals WikiProject's talk page for wider response.  &mdash; The Transhumanist   21:32, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Where? 86.134.164.162 (talk) 05:24, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Hmmm. Not sure what happened. See: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals. This thread is now copied there.  &mdash; The Transhumanist   05:52, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Portal project newsletter
Can you change the posting to talk pages so it just includes a link to the newsletter? Something like "We have a new newsletter! Come read it here." More than half of my talk page is filled with this newsletter. Thanks! ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 19:02, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Posted link, as requested.  &mdash; The Transhumanist   21:30, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Precious
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:54, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Thank you. I looked, but couldn't figure out what 1 & 4 June 2009 were referring to. Just curious. &mdash; The Transhumanist  19:26, 4 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Follow the link "awesome W." and look for your name: 2 others said it before me! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:48, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Portals
Portals are very important. So I have joined THE PORTALS WikiProject. Kpgjhpjm (talk) 07:49, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

Portal category AWB
portal category or should be added to subcategories of  that have "portals" in the title. You can do it yourself, or post it to the WikiProject. w umbolo  ^^^  15:34, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I know just the guys for the job. This is the perfect task for them to try out their new toy. :) Cheers.  &mdash; The Transhumanist   19:34, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

Update
Hi, just to let you know i might not be online much in the next week or so, i'm moving to a different country for work. I'll try and get going with AWB as fast i can though. I actually just bought a laptop, so i'm excited to start using it. Believe it or not, i've been editing and writing markup all this time using a mobile phone.

I'd say PortalButton is about a month off being ready for beta. It's the cornerstone of the new UI i've been working on, so that should ready then too.

Best regards, Cesde v a  (talk) 14:53, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
 * , congrats on the upgrade. What kind of laptop is it? 17"? I7 Quadcore? Linux? Safe travels,  &mdash; The Transhumanist   18:46, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Not quite, it uses a Pentium Gold processor, and runs Win10. I've used Linux in the past, specifically #bang/Debian. As handy as a terminal is, i'm in a GUI mood, so I think I'll hang on to Windows for now at least. Cheers, got a ferry to catch soon. Cesde v a  (talk) 22:31, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Terminal? That was like, 20 years ago. Linux has full GUI capabilities, while its terminal interface is available whenever needed, similar to the command shell of Windows. I use the LXDE desktop environment, and browse the web with both Firefox and Chrome, for example. See The Linux Command Line Versus Linux Graphical User Interfaces.
 * There is a risk with converting over to Linux, though. There's no guarantee your laptop will be fully compatible. When I took the plunge, and wiped my system in favor of installing Linux, my audio didn't work. While it was the manufacturer's fault for refusing to support Linux with the info needed to make drivers, it was over a year before I found a fix. But it has worked like a charm ever since.
 * I particularly love program support, with thousands of the most popular programs already installed. Other programs are listed in a central repository accessed through Synaptic. So when I come across info about a Linux program that I like, there's a large chance it is already installed. If not, then it's in Synaptic, ready to be downloaded/installed with a click.
 * Even so, there are some programs still only available for Windows, like AWB, which is why I still have my previous laptop.
 * I wouldn't convert until you have a spare machine. I don't see how you can get by without at least 2. :)  &mdash; The Transhumanist   10:38, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
 * My PC came with Windows, which I used to download Ubuntu and make it dual boot. In theory I can restart it in its original configuration but in practice I've only used it for Linux.  JWB does almost everything AWB does, and works on any OS.  Certes (talk) 10:48, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I find turning my head to the second machine easier than rebooting. While I use JWB occasionally, I rely on AWB for its further list support features. Though I hate it when I type on the wrong keyboard, and wonder why nothing's happening. :)  &mdash; The Transhumanist   11:03, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Of course, if you have two machines available, that's always easier. Even a worthless old PC should run Linux well. Certes (talk) 11:51, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

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Hello, Hello :)
Transhumanist, is there a quick way for a reassessment? Or could you quickly (the article was substantially improve in the last 1-2 months - [Talk:Jasmine_Directory]). |class=start=start|importance=low|computing-importance= nothing was here

Do you it's worthy for a reassessment?

Robertgombos (talk) 12:16, 5 June 2018 (UTC)


 * I bumped it up to a B. Then I went in and added a section, but the article is still incomplete, and needs further work. I recommend that you read WP:COI, and as a co-founder, you should refrain from personally editing the article yourself.  &mdash; The Transhumanist   22:49, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Indexes
Why do we have indexes on Wikipedia?

By purpose, indexes are identical to categories, in that both alphabetically list articles related to some topic. I looked at past discussions at talk pages related to indexes, and only found a small discussion and a request for comment (both here) about their existence. I see few arguments and they don't convince me. I will discuss some of them in the next paragraph.

Generally, categories aren't ported to offline versions of Wikipedia. I would propose some kind of "printworthiness" for categories like we have for redirects. Some editors were giving arguments for having list articles, but indexes are not list articles (in the sense that they have no room for expansion, by definition). Readers don't care much about categories, but if that is so, they don't care about indexes either. It is true that categories can't contain red links, while indexes can; I must say that I fundamentally disagree with that (just like infoboxes shouldn't contain "unknown" parameters, indexes of articles on Wikipedia shouldn't contain red-links). Some said at the RfC that indexes are more editor-oriented, and I believe that makes them unsuitable for mainspace. Another argument was that indexes can have related changes tracked; however, categories can do that as well. w umbolo  ^^^  12:26, 5 June 2018 (UTC)


 * , good question. It's nice to see when an editor puts thought into the purposes and practices of the encyclopedia. I hope I can provide you with some good answers...


 * Each of Wikipedia's navigation systems, of which categories and indexes are two, have their own strengths and weaknesses. Categories are useful for some things, and not for others. The same applies to indexes.


 * Categories are split up, and so are not alphabetical across the whole subject. They are classified indexes, sorted by subtopic. The counterpart to classified indexes, are alphabetical indexes. Wikipedia's index articles are alphabetically arranged for their whole subject, where possible.


 * One thing you can do with indexes more easily than with categories is see related changes for all the topics (or at least many more of them) belonging to the subject. Categories are split up into many smaller groups, making the operation repetitive, quite tedious, and time-consuming when you want to cover the whole subject.


 * Categories are decentralized (as tags at the bottom of many different articles), while indexes are centralized. The main ramification of this is that there is a record of what happened with indexes, which makes them much better for tracking. When a category is removed from a page, the page disappears from those categories with no record in the categories' histories. You would have to notice that it is missing. With indexes, the removal of links from them show up in the indexes' histories.


 * Indexes support redlinks, categories do not. When a page is deleted, it disappears from its categories without a trace. On indexes, you can see the redlink, and look into the reason for it. Redlinks can also indicated that an article is needed for that topic, a benefit of list articles, including indexes. Providing redlinks is one of the ways that Wikipedia has expanded so rapidly. You just click on a redlink, and an editor opens up so you can start typing away. This ease of creating new articles is why redlinks are a core feature of the MediaWiki software, and thus a key feature of Wikipedia. Very powerful, and one of the factors leading to the most comprehensive encyclopedia in the world.


 * Categories are not ported to offline versions of Wikipedia, leaving those versions without an index. Printed encyclopedias have tables of contents and indexes, as they are very useful. And so does Wikipedia, as they are very useful, even more so than with paper encyclopedias, because WP indexes contain links you can click on, rather than page numbers that you would have to manually open a book to. Indexes utilize the power of hypertext very effectively, compacted, all on one page.


 * Both categories and indexes are a form of list, while indexes are a type of list article. While potential for expansion has no bearing on the qualification to be a list, as lists can be of finite sets of things, the scope of subject indexes expand as the scope of Wikipedia's coverage of their subjects expand. And Wikipedia is expanding all the time.


 * Indexes are alphabetical general topics list. There are two types of general topics lists on Wikipedia: indexes and outlines. Outlines are structured general topics lists. Outlines and indexes go hand-in-hand. Outlines serve as the subject-based tables of contents of Wikipedia, while indexes serve as the alphabetical indexes of Wikipedia. Analogous to books, but with the power of hypertext. How useful is a book with the table of contents and index ripped out? Which brings us to the issue of search...


 * It is not actually true that readers don't care about categories or indexes. The page views indicate that those are probably used mainly when search fails a reader, when readers are forced to find what they are looking for through browsing. Having these browsing backup systems are very important. Because you can't search for something you don't know the name of. Also, search fails miserably when you type in something like "Everything on geology". Wikipedia, on the other hand, provides lists of everything on geology. They are great for students wanting an overview of everything Wikipedia includes on a subject. In this regard, the mathematics topics lists are phenomenal, including both indexes and outlines, though they don't include those terms in their titles. Search works well most of the time, but not all of the time. For those other times, we have our browsing-based navigation systems.


 * If indexes were moved out of article space, then ported versions of Wikipedia would be indexless. The benefits mentioned directly above would not be available to readers.


 * The various navigation systems are synergistic. They are built in different ways by editors with different styles, and are useful in building each other. Indexes are useful to identify topics that need to be added to categories, and are much easier to build. Therefor, they are a useful preparation step for category building, and for outline and glossary building too, for example. Categories, in turn, help to provide terms that the other navigation systems can use.


 * Another aspect of indexes is that they exist, and can therefor be improved upon. You can't transform them into something even better if they no longer exist. Nobody knows what improvements or inventions may be made in the future regarding them. Take the portals, for example. They are currently being improved in ways nobody ever dreamed of before. The same type of thing (innovation) is also happening to outlines, and can also happen to glossaries, indexes, categories, etc. That's a good thing. Let's keep 'em all. See WP:CLN.


 * I hope I've shed some light on the usefulness of indexes. Sincerely,  &mdash; The Transhumanist   21:57, 5 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the reply. Since there is no documented scope of indexes, I would like to propose that an article X belongs to an index Y iff a subtopic of Y is a defining characteristic of X. By making criteria for index articles kind of equivalent to those for categories, we could fully automate the generation of index articles. As a matter of fact, we would only need to pick a topic, select which subcategories are "true subtopics", and let the index be generated automatically (most likely we would have to resort to updating indexes using bots, as it seems unlikely that a MediaWiki proposal would pass). Red-links can be added manually and won't be removed by automated processes.


 * I reread your reply and believe that my solution fulfills the whole purpose of indexes. Categories don't have histories of add/remove operations, and my proposed automatic processes would generate an accurate summary of additions/removals each time the index is updated (perhaps daily). If indexes were automated, they wouldn't lose anything; they would only be more up-to-date.


 * I'm thinking about why indexes could use the WP:DEFINING logic, and will try to put some arguments. I took a look at Subject indexing, which linked Subject (documents). I read the latter; however, I can't really summarize the whole article. I do feel that it both applies to Wikipedia's concept of indexes, and that it doesn't deviate much from WP:DEFINING. w umbolo   ^^^  12:49, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
 * See User:Mathbot. Let me know what you think.  &mdash; The Transhumanist   03:40, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

FYI
Not sure if they reverted (without explanation) other edits of yours. --JustBerry (talk) 18:55, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
 * , your notice has allowed me to look into it, and I appreciate that. I discovered that it was a listing of a deleted user page at the WP:UPHF, of a user who has been blocked indefinitely. So, the dead link needed to be removed from the list. Thank you for the heads up. Sincerely,  &mdash; The Transhumanist   20:46, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Ah, I see now. Glad you could take a look into it. Cheers, JustBerry (talk) 21:22, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

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Portals WikiProject update #008, 7 June 2018
The WikiProject now has 92 participants, including 16 admins.

Welcome
A warm welcome to the newest members of the team:
 * Keith D
 * RL0919

Be sure to say hi.

Congrats
Pbsouthwood has just gotten through the grueling RfA process to become a Wikipedia administrator. Be sure to congratulate him.

The reason he went for it was: "For some time I expect to be busy with subpage deletion for Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals as mentioned above. The amount of work is expected to keep me busy for some time. I am primarly a content creator and contributor to policy discussions, but would be willing to consider other admin work on request, providing that I feel that my involvement would be appropriate and not too far outside my comfort zone."

New feature: Picture slideshow
Evad37 has figured out a way to let the user flip through pictures without purging the page. Purging is awkward because there is an intermediary confirmation screen that you have to click on "yes". In the new picture slideshow section, all you have to do is click on the  to go to the next picture or   to instantly show the previous feature. The feature also shuffles the pictures when the page is initiated, so that they are shown in a different order each time the user visits the page (or purges it).

It is featured in Portal:Sacramento, California. Check it out to the right.

Keep in mind that the feature is a beta version. Please share your comments on how to refine this feature, at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals.

The one-page portal has been achieved
We now have a one-page portal design. It isn't fully automated, nor is it even fully semi-automated, as there are still some manually filled-in areas. But it no longer requires any subpages in portal space, and that is a huge improvement. For example, Portal:Sacramento, California utilizes the one-page design concept. While is employs heavy use of templates, it does not have any subpages of its own.

I commend you for your teamwork
This is the most cooperative team I've ever seen. With a strong spirit of working together to get an important job done. Kudos to you.

In conclusion...
There's more. A lot more. But it will have to wait until next issue, but you don't have to wait. See what's going on at the WikiProject's talk page. &mdash; The Transhumanist  02:13, 7 June 2018 (UTC)