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Invitation to events in June and July: bot, script, template, and Gadget makers wanted
I invite you to the yearly Berlin hackathon, 1-3 June. Registration is now open. If you need financial assistance or help with visa or hotel, then please register by May 1st and mention it in the registration form.

This is the premier event for the MediaWiki and Wikimedia technical community. We'll be hacking, designing, teaching, and socialising, primarily talking about ResourceLoader and Gadgets (extending functionality with JavaScript), the switch to Lua for templates, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Labs.

We want to bring 100-150 people together, including lots of people who have not attended such events before. User scripts, gadgets, API use, Toolserver, Wikimedia Labs, mobile, structured data, templates -- if you are into any of these things, we want you to come!

I also thought you might want to know about other upcoming events where you can learn more about MediaWiki customization and development, how to best use the web API for bots, and various upcoming features and changes. We'd love to have power users, bot maintainers and writers, and template makers at these events so we can all learn from each other and chat about what needs doing.

Check out the the developers' days preceding Wikimania in July in Washington, DC and our other events.

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User script list deprecation
Wikipedia's list of user scripts is in bad shape, in that it is disorganized and contains many non-working, unmaintained, or thoroughly obsolete entries. Cleanup has been on the to-do list since 2007, but little progress has been made. Instead, the whole list is now set to be deprecated on 1 May 2012, to be replaced with a new list. This draft list has been up for about a month, and in that time I've been soliciting script users and authors to come add scripts they know to be working and relevant.

If you know of scripts that you would like to survive this deprecation (and are confirmed working and relevant), you're welcome to add them to the new list. Note that the old list will be retained and linked from the main list, so there is no real deadline. Thanks for your help.  Equazcion ( talk )  00:57, 22 Apr 2012 (UTC)

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WikiProject Wikify: July Newsletter and August Drive

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WikiProject Wikify and the future of wikification
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February 2013 Wikification Drive
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WP:FOOD Needs You!
Hi there Shruti14! I've noticed you have yourself listed as a member of the Food and Drink Wikiproject. Unfortunately it looks like the project has been slowly sliding into inactivity except for a couple of people. That makes me a sad potato, and nobody likes a sad potato amirite?

If you'd like to turn my frown upside down, can you do two small things?

First off, go here and add Tick (✅) next to your name if you're still part of the project.

Second, go to the project talkpage and participate in a discussion about how to make the project more active, and how to go about making articles in our area of interest a lot better.

You don't want to make me cry, do you? Potatoes have a lot of eyes you know. So come on, join in! :)

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I have decided to put on a mini-contest within the November 2013 monthly disambiguation contest, on Saturday, November 23 (UTC). I will personally give a $20 Amazon.com gift card to the disambiguator who fixes the most links on that server-day (see the project page for details on scoring points). Since we are not geared up to do an automated count for that day, at 00:00, 23 November 2013 (UTC) (which is 7:00 PM on November 22, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the project page leaderboard. I will presume that anyone who is not already listed on the leaderboard has precisely nine edits. At 01:00, 24 November 2013 (UTC) (8:00 PM on November 23, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the leaderboard at that time (the extra hour is to give the board time to update), and I will determine from that who our winner is. I will credit links fixed by turning a WP:DABCONCEPT page into an article, but you'll have to let me know me that you did so. Here's to a fun contest. Note that according to the Daily Disambig, we currently have under 256,000 disambiguation links to be fixed. If everyone in the disambiguation link fixers category were to fix 500 links, we would have them all done - so aim high! Cheers! bd2412 T 02:26, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

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March 2014 GAN Backlog Drive
It's that time again! Starting on March 1, there will be another GAN Backlog Drive! There will be several changes compared to previous drives:


 * This drive will introduce a new component to it; a point system. In a nutshell, older nominations are worth more points than newer nominations. The top 3 participants who have the points will be awarded the Golden, Silver, or Bronze Wikipedia Puzzle Piece Trophy, respectively.
 * Unlike the December 2013 Backlog Drive, earning an additional barnstar if you reached your goal has been removed.
 * The allowance to have insufficient reviews has been lowered to 2 before being disqualified.
 * An exception to the rule that all reviews must be completed before the deadline has been created.

Also, something that I thought I would share with all of you is that we raised $20.88 (USD) for the WMF in the December 2013 drive. It may not sound like a lot but considering that that was raised just because we reviewed articles, I would say that's pretty good! With that success, pledges can be made for the upcoming drive if you wish.

More info regarding the drive and full descriptions regarding the changes to this drive can be found on the the drive page. If you have any questions, feel free to leave a message on the drive talk page.

I look forward to your participation and hope that because of it, some day the backlog will be gone!

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High School Diploma
Wouldn't it be better to merge High School Diploma (United States) and High School Diploma (Canada) into one article at High School Diploma, at least unless and until there is enough material to support two separate articles? They don't seem to be particularly distinct other than the geographic difference. bd2412 T 03:13, 27 February 2014 (UTC)


 * That's a possibility. I was however envisioning that perhaps there could be much more information (I just started the US and Canada articles today) on the different diplomas offered regionally, possibly on state and federal standards and regulations governing each, and son on, which could merit two separate articles. --Shruti14 talk • sign 03:18, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I have merged them for now. The topic is not exactly ambiguous, in any case. I suspect that you will find that some U.S. states are more similar to some Canadian jurisdictions than to their most diverse U.S. counterparts. bd2412  T 14:14, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

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 * Thanks. The duplicated content is in fact an external web page's direct copy of a previous version of the Wikipedia article. The content therefore belongs to Wikipedia itself. --Shruti14 talk • sign 12:12, 27 February 2014 (UTC)


 * In which case, you need to follow the instructions at Copying within Wikipedia in order to correctly attribute the content. MER-C 04:46, 2 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Sorry if I didn't make myself clear. This wasn't a copy from one Wikipedia text to another. This was an external website's copy of Wikipedia content - one that Wikipedia has no control over. --Shruti14 talk • sign 12:59, 3 March 2014 (UTC)


 * What matters here, User:Shruti14, is if you authored the content. Content on Wikipedia does not belong "to Wikipedia" (as you suggest here) but rather to the specific contributors who add it. They liberally license it for reuse and modification, but the terms of our license requires that attribution must be provided, otherwise using their content is a copyright issue. If you are not the sole substantial editor to an article on Wikipedia, you cannot reuse its content in other articles on our projects without following the directions at Copying within Wikipedia. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:11, 3 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Right, but in this case, an external website copied the content from Wikipedia. The bot detected that the content was from an external source when in fact it was from Wikipedia and copied by the external website. The external website itself indicates this by the copied content, under the article title, being preceded by "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" on that external website page. --Shruti14 talk • sign 13:21, 3 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Also, to clarify: the content was moved from the main article to the country-specific article, not copied from the previous article. --Shruti14 talk • sign 13:24, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid you are missing the point. :/ Never mind what the external website did, you created an article by copying content from somewhere else on Wikipedia. You must provide attribution, or you are violating the copyright of the contributors. MER-C and I are trying to explain to you how to provide this attribution in the future so that this does not happen again. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:45, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Understood that. But the guideline only explains what should be done to provide attribution if there a copy and paste from one article to another if the original article is left empty and turned into a redirect page (in which case a history merge should be done, which must be performed by an administrator). It isn't exactly clear on what to do in this case, which is a partial move of content from one page to another, in which the original article is left intact with new content. A complete history merge would include the history of revisions on article content that is not relevant to this article (such as information on O Levels in other parts of the world that are not connected to the British O Level). I did note in the edit summary that I was moving content. Is there anything else that can/needs to be done? --Shruti14 talk • sign 13:57, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
 * What you said in the edit summary was "new article as per talk". I'm afraid that doesn't explain that the content was moved or where it was moved from, and there was no note placed on the talk explaining explicitly the origin of the text until User:MER-C added one. In terms of Copying within Wikipedia, it says, "At minimum, this means a link to the source page in an edit summary at the destination page—that is, the page into which the material is copied. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to make a note in an edit summary at the source page as well. Content reusers should also consider leaving notes at the talk pages of both source and destination." The section Copying_within_Wikipedia goes into more detail and even provides a sample of how this can be done. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:04, 3 March 2014 (UTC)