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Oops
Hi there. Well done with all your anti-vandalism efforts. Just a note to say that here you needed to go back a bit further - it wasn't just that one user but a little tag team of silly edits. I had to go back a few more to - I hope - catch it all! Hope this helps, best wishes DBaK (talk) 21:23, 18 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks for catching that, the vandals can be quite sneaky sometimes. Winner 42 Talk to me!  21:27, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
 * No worries; thanks for the nice reply. Cheers DBaK (talk) 21:30, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

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Hey there, Winner 42. Just a quick note about this revert: users, even vandals, are allowed to remove warnings from their user talk page. By custom it's understood to mean they've read and acknowledge the warnings. I doubt that's what this user intended, but at any rate, these user talk page self-blankings aren't generally reverted. Happy Huggling! -- Rrburke (talk) 20:38, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Oops, my bad. Didn't see that it was his talk page, I thought he was going after User:I dream of horses talk page again. Thanks for the advice though. Have a nice vandal whacking! Winner 42 Talk to me!  20:50, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

I was serious about that Lorde comment.
I mean, it is completely subjective to selectively include quotes, such as the block quote following my edit, so I didn't see any issue with providing editorial commentary. Anyway, what I wrote was funny, and would certainly brighten the day of anyone with a sense of humor, or piss off any Lorde fans under the age of 18. Either way, the world is a better place.
 * While what you said is somewhat funny, Wikipedia at least attempts to try and maintain a Neutral Point of View. Winner 42 Talk to me!  20:55, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

Emily Schooley AFD request
Since you don't seem to have been involved in editing the Emily Schooley article prior to the request for deletion, I was hoping you could provide insight into why you began the AFD debate? Sadfatandalone (talk) 00:54, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
 * At a glance the article seemed to be about a non notable person, but I was viewing a version of it that had been effected by some questionable/vandalizing edits. I didn't understand that this was such a controversial topic and had never heard of the subject before. I doubt I would nom the article again given what I know now, but I stand by the fact that the article is very poorly sourced and additional verifiable sources need to be added to the article to meet Wikipedia's standards (The article still cites Wikipedia as a source...).  To get to the heart of the matter, I see you have opened up a sock puppet investigation, I can assure you I have no relation to any of the accounts you have listed.  Winner 42  Talk to me!  01:21, 23 November 2014 (UTC)


 * No worries, I didn't think you were involved in any sockpuppetry. Was there a request for the article to be deleted that you responded to, or did you just come across the vandalized article and submit the AFD? Sadfatandalone (talk) 01:29, 23 November 2014 (UTC)


 * The latter, I came across the article via Huggle after the vandalizing edits had been flagged. I was uncertain whether to rollback or not as it appeared that the edits were just removing unsourced information from a BLP, at which point I looked at the remaining sources, did a quick Google search of the person before determining that I would go to AfD. In hindsight, I should have looked harder at the previous edits, but I mistakenly did not. Winner 42 Talk to me!  01:34, 23 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks for clarifying, as it wasn't clear what had happened. Happy editing! Sadfatandalone (talk) 01:47, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

Hello Winner 42. I'm not clear on how to respond to your message. Is this how I do it? By typing a response here? Anyway I am trying to update this Wikipedia article which is about myself. I am trying to make it more accurate and up to date. I did not start the article but I would like to improve it since I obviously know a lot about it's subject. How can I do this in a way that will not be changed back to the less accurate version?

Thanks

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Valentina Seferinova page proposed for deletion
Hi I have now addressed the issued about reference etc & linked the page with other relevant Wikipedia pages. Please let me know if this is to your satisfaction. Many thanks. Regards Visb723

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Equity crowdfunding the section on equity crowdfunding on the crowdfunding page is now duplicate content. I'll re-make the deletion and add an explanation when I do so. Thanks for spotting that I hadn't added an explanation. Peterjthomson (talk) 02:45, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

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I think to send a message all I have to do is write on your talk page? Anyways, I'm not sure why I am not allowed to add basic info about a prominent event in American history under Ferguson's page just b/c Ferguson is currently undergoing a crisis. Plessy v. Ferguson actually happened, and I was neutral about my edit. Don't you think it's kind of unjust to censor information from the public just because of well, I'm not sure what your aim is, I can only assume it's because you don't want people to know about Ferguson's racist history, or b/c you're trying to avoid fanning the flames. However, I thought Wikipedia was supposed to be a source of free knowledge? How is it just to retract information just because it suits your current needs? I just have trouble seeing how my edit is considered disruptive since it's just basic info about an event that actually occurred in history. People deserve to know. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Curryloverno.1 (talk • contribs) 01:21, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Ok, I appreciate the time you took to write me this message and there are a number of things going on here so bear with me for a moment. First off Wikipedia is not trying to censor the information amount Plessy v. Ferguson, there is an article about it and everything. Plessy v. Ferguson is actually Homer A. Plessy v. John H. Ferguson which doesn't (directly) have anything to do with the town which is why editors found that the informational section you added was not relevant to the article about the town. Perhaps there is a place to talk about the case and its influence in the article about the unrest, but it likely doesn't need a mention in the town article.  Secondly, you became engaged in what we on Wikipedia call an Edit War.  You and one other editor both broke the three revert rule which is generally bad, but because both of you seemed to be acting in good faith, possibly nothing will come of it.  In the future, try to go to the talk page of the article to discuss the issue you have with the article with other editors.  Hope this was helpful. Winner 42  Talk to me!  01:36, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Assassin's Creed edit
I am sorry to have so abruptly deleted the content from the List of Assassin's Creed characters page. The content has been moved to Principal characters in the Assassin's Creed series. The reason I did so was to clear room on the main page. Thanks for noticing!Count Awesome Talk  02:52, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
 * My bad, didn't realize that you were in the process of merging, I have since reverted by revert. Happy editing! Winner 42 Talk to me!  02:55, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Justin P. Wilson
Annoying, isn't. They keep insisting.Zigzig20s (talk) 02:59, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
 * All I want to know is how can we harness the energy of vandals for good. Winner 42 Talk to me!  03:01, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

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Wikipedia page "Xeditor" - advertising?
Hi Winner 42,

you've tagged the Xeditor article as advertising. I rewrote it and removed all the puffery stuff. Could you please have a look, if it's okay now?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeditor

Thanks in advance! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hoffma28 (talk • contribs) 14:24, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

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 * Hello. Sorry about that, it was a rather poor showing of judgement on my part.  Thanks for catching it, I'll be sure to check for copyright violations in the future.  Happy editing! Winner 42  Talk to me!  01:09, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

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Young Guru
Hello Winner42!

Hope all is well,

I was reaching out regarding my declined edits surrounding my artist.

I updated his bio accordingly how I would like to present him and you denied the approval.

Please contact me at your nearest convenience regarding this situation.

Updated bio provided below.

Thanks! , Happy New Year

--- Legendary mix engineer, Gimel “Young Guru” Keaton is the man behind the iconic sound of world-renowned artist Jay-Z. Over the course of the last twenty years Guru has become one of the most influential minds in audio engineering. Initially known for his award-winning audio mixes on some of the most successful commercial releases in the history of modern music he is also highly regarded for his unique ability to communicate complex technical terms, to not only students but creatives and business professionals alike. This strength has led to invitations to speak at multiple corporations, including Google’s HQ, Pandora HQ, Bittorent HQ and Ogilvy & Mather’s HQ in Hong Kong. In addition, Young Guru has spoken at numerous universities such as NYU-Poly, Cornell University, Emory University and the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music a New York University. In 2013 Young Guru accepted an invitation to serve as Artist-in Residence at The University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music. Fall 2014 serves as his second consecutive year as a part of the faculty. He is also involved with several National Science Foundation projects via a long-standing relationship with Georgia Tech, one of the top technical institutions in the world.

In 2013, Google recognized Guru’s unique position as an early adopter at the cross roads of music and tech and offered him the opportunity to create a commercial showcasing how musicians could benefit from using their Google Glass technology. This content piece went on to have over 900,000 views on YouTube and was featured by The New York Times, Wired.com and Vice Magazine just to name a few. The October 2014 issue of Vogue Italia includes a piece highlighting Guru and his thoughts pertaining to sound philosophy and emerging technologies. Guru also partnered with Hewlett-Packard and The Recording Academy’s Grammy University Program to create the first tour of its kind called, the Era of the Engineer tour, in 2013. Through this initiative he traveled to thirteen college campuses to speak on what he likes to call “creative engineering” which recognizes the cross disciplinary nature in which most Millennials approach the creative process.

Guru’s love for music stems from his upbringing. He began his music career as a 7th grader in the late 1980s in Wilmington, Delaware deejaying block parties. “I was a young kid and the culture started to take over. It was about the expression of it: the dancing, graffiti and MCing; but it was the music part of it that really captured me,” says Young Guru in an interview with CNN. This passion for deejaying and his close relationship to Jay Z’s sound allowed him to take his turntables from small parties in Delaware to arenas worldwide. He continues to make deejaying a priority, spending his down time playing nightclubs and private brand events in cities around the globe.

Young Guru remains one of the most sought after audio engineers in music today. Most recently he’s completed mixes for budding newcomers, Jhene Aiko and A$AP Mob as well as veteran artist, Common’s Nobody’s Smiling which debuted #1 on Billboard charts upon its release. In addition to his work behind the boards and in the classroom he has announced his highly anticipated, Era of the Engineer vol. 1; a “how to” book for engineers, producers and artists alike. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DLuvFamous (talk • contribs) 17:13, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

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Why did you change my edits to the cygnet page that was a trie fact, I researched it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aids1234567891234567891 (talk • contribs)

Million award!

 * Wow, thank you for this :) Happy Editing! Winner 42 Talk to me!  17:12, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Notts County
Dear editor!

Bálint Bajner is our favourite football player, he is one of the most popular figures of the Hungarian facebook page, called TrollFoci. When Bajner was in his last team, we left some comments in the facebook page of the team. Mirror's article: http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/no-bajner-no-party-ipswich-4080105 So he's a new club, and we want to eberybody know that he is the best, so that's why I want to write this comment to the Wikipedia article: 'Bálint Bajner, the popular Hungarian footballer plays in this team.'

Sincerely, Bajner's fan. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.135.80.3 (talk) 19:14, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Hello and thank you for your response. Adding content to Wikipedia makes it better for all of us, but the information you add must be both neutrally written and verifiable.  Feel free to edit in content related to Bajner as long as it complies with those two policies. Happy Editing! Winner 42  Talk to me!  19:30, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Dpa
Hi sorry I am new here is this what you mean by references

Ryan, John; Dunford, George; Sellars, Simon (2006). Micronations. Lonely Planet. pp. 39–40. ISBN 1-74104-730-7. Retrieved 10 August 2011. Nick Squires (4 May 2010). "The world's micronations unite to demand recognition". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 10 August 2011. "Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands (Queensland, Australië)". Columbus. 22 June 2010. Retrieved 10 August 2011. Talek Harris (22 July 2010). "Emperors, princes and Australia's league of mini-nations". Sin Chew Daily. Retrieved 11 August 2011. Nick Squires (24 February 2005). "Mini-states Down Under are sure they can secede". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 11 August 2011. Hans Hafkamp (13 January 2005). "Gay Kingdom Declares War On Australia". Gay-News. Retrieved 10 August 2011.

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Dpa377 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dpa377 (talk • contribs) 21:10, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Hello, in almost all cases Wikipedia requires reliable sources to verify the content of articles. If those sources include information which can verify your article, then you can cite them in an inline citation next to the fact they support.  See Help:Referencing for beginners for how to do this. At a glance the sources you have given appear reliable.  Happy Editing! Winner 42  Talk to me!  21:35, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Project Portfolio Management (PPM)
Winner42,

The proposed modification to the 'Evolution of PPM' section of the Project Portfolio Management article was in the interest of adding some context and specifics on the history of this topic. The initial author cites only the 'early 2000s' with no real historical specificity. In fact, I built the first project portfolio management solution called 'Project Portfolio(tm)' nearly a decade earlier, as early as 1990. The original author apparently has no knowledge of its origin. I have documentary proof of this in the form of a publication from 1994 that extols the virtue of this Portfolio management software. Just wanted to set the record straight. At that time, no other software had Portfolio management capability.

Side note: I made no attempt to mention myself in the suggested change. This was a product for which I was the inventor (designed, built & released), effectively creating a new genre of software where none had existed before. This is first-hand first-person information.

Is there some way that we can correct the historical accuracy of this article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Grbeyer (talk • contribs) 22:55, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

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Jacobite rebellion edit
This isn't a big deal to me, but, by way of explanation, I restored the term 'decisive' because it's generally agreed that the Jacobite rebels' hopes died with the '45, despite the fact that the Young Pretender continued to plot, and the bulk of Jacobites weren't formally reconciled to Hanoverian rule until the Old Pretender died in 1766. More importantly, IMHO, there is a strong, sub-Romantic, pro-Jacobite lobby on wP that seeks to belittle or deny Whig victories.91.85.208.0 (talk) 17:52, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

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golden horde
golden horde was turkic and i have refernces!! Mehmeett21 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mehmeett21 (talk • contribs) 02:32, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

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Update to Matthew Lee Robinson
Hi Winner 42,

I just discovered the Talk Page and Messages area of Wikipedia and wanted to respond to a message you left in November 2014. I am actually Matthew Lee Robinson, so I wanted to update the Matthew Lee Robinson page to reflect the most current and thorough happenings.

Cheers and best wishes,

MLR. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dustybadenpowell (talk • contribs) 03:45, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-08
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Software changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 18 (calendar).
 * On Wednesday your Meta user page will be shown if you don't have a user page on a wiki.
 * You can now change the order of categories in VisualEditor using drag-and-drop.
 * In VisualEditor, you now need to make a change before you can "Apply Changes" to citations and templates.
 * The way the cursor moves in VisualEditor is changing. Your browser now handles the cursor directly. Most of you will see no change. In right-to-left text, the cursor now moves in a 'visible' rather than 'logical' way. This is like other sites but you may be surprised at first.​

Meetings
 * The VisualEditor Team had their first public bug triage meeting on February 11. They will post the results on the meeting page.
 * You can join the second weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on February 18 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * You can join a meeting with the developers of the Content Translation tool. It will be on February 18 at 13:00 (UTC).

Future changes
 * You can comment on a proposal about abandoned Labs tools.

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Tech News: 2015-09
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes
 * All new accounts are now global.
 * Your Meta user page is now shown if you don't have a user page on a wiki. You can report problems if you see any. You can ask a bot to delete your old user pages.

Software changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 25. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 26 (calendar).
 * It is now easier to see template fields in VisualEditor. The fields are bigger.
 * It is now easier to see when a button is disabled in VisualEditor.
 * Sometimes when you copy-pasted a template in VisualEditor, it was replaced by HTML. This problem is now fixed.
 * Tools in Labs will stop working for a few hours on February 24.

Meetings
 * You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
 * You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on February 26 at 00:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * At the moment you need to log in to edit Wikimedia wikis on mobile devices. You can say if anyone should be allowed to edit on the mobile sites. The discussion ends on March 15.
 * Images in the interface will soon work better in Opera 12.

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Tech News: 2015-10
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Recent software changes
 * A Lua function to use Wikidata has changed. You need to update the pages that use it.
 * You can use the Content Translation tool on Wikipedia in Uzbek and Minangkabau. You need to enable it in your Beta options.
 * You can now hide banners if you don't have an account.

Software changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 4 (calendar).
 * You can use the Content Translation tool on Wikipedia in Punjabi and Kyrgyz. You can ask for the tool in other languages.
 * Editing the fake blank line in VisualEditor is now simpler. This change also fixed a few bugs.
 * The TemplateData editor now warns you if a related page already has TemplateData.
 * The TemplateData table now tells you if a template doesn't take any parameters.

Meetings
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 * You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 4 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * You can join technical meetings in France and Mexico this year. You will be able to ask for help if you can't pay yourself.

Future changes
 * You will be able to get a direct link for a section of a page.

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Tech News: 2015-11
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Recent changes
 * You can now create books on almost all wikis. It doesn't work yet on wikis using the language converter.
 * VisualEditor had problems with categories in Safari. It sometimes moved or removed the categories. The issue is now fixed.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 11 (calendar).
 * In VisualEditor the "Edit beta" button is now called "Edit" on the English Wikipedia.
 * The feedback tool in VisualEditor now looks like the other tools. It also asks for information about your browser to help fix bugs.
 * You now see the VisualEditor toolbar even if the rest of the page is still loading.
 * You now see more information when you edit a link, a reference or other items in VisualEditor. You also see a clearer edit button in those tools.
 * If you use the ContentTranslation tool you now see red links in the list of articles in other languages. The link is red if the article doesn't exist in the language of your options or of your browser. You can translate the article by clicking on the red link.

Meetings
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 * You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 11 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * You can join a technical meeting in France in May. You can ask for help if you can't pay yourself.

Future changes
 * You can get help to become a developer. You can learn more on the Google Summer of Code and Outreachy pages.
 * You will soon be able to read technical reports in Phabricator.

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Tech News: 2015-12
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Recent changes
 * The servers that resize images are using new software. You should report new problems that you notice with images.
 * You can now see lists of bugs about Commons, Wikisource and Wiktionary.
 * It is now easier to add special characters in VisualEditor. You can edit the list of characters for your wiki.

Problems
 * Wikis were broken for a few minutes on Thursday due to a code error.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 18 (calendar).
 * A puzzle piece icon (VisualEditor - Icon - Template-big.svg) now shows hidden templates in VisualEditor. You can edit the template by clicking the icon. For example, you can now edit anchor templates.
 * You can now add examples, and details about old parameters, in TemplateData.

Meetings
 * You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
 * You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 18 at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The list of bad user names on your wiki will no longer work. The global list will replace it. You can ask to add rules for bad user names on Meta.
 * You can comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis.
 * The final steps of single user login (SUL) will happen in April. You can see the rules to rename accounts.

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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 2
For this month's issue...

Making sense of a lot of data.

Work on our prototype will begin imminently. In the meantime, we have to understand what exactly we're working with. To this end, we generated a list of 71 WikiProjects, based on those brought up on our Stories page and those who had signed up for pilot testing. For those projects where people told stories, we coded statements within those stories to figure out what trends there were in these stories. This approach allowed us to figure out what Wikipedians thought of WikiProjects in a very organic way, with very little by way of a structure. (Compare this to a structured interview, where specific questions are asked and answered.) This analysis was done on 29 stories. Codes were generally classified as "benefits" (positive contributions made by a WikiProject to the editing experience) and "obstacles" (issues posed by WikiProjects, broadly speaking). Codes were generated as I went along, ensuring that codes were as close to the original data as possible. Duplicate appearances of a code for a given WikiProject were removed.

We found 52 "benefit" statements encoded and 34 "obstacle" statements. The most common benefit statement referring to the project's active discussion and participation, followed by statements referring to a project's capacity to guide editor activity, while the most common obstacles made reference to low participation and significant burdens on the part of the project maintainers and leaders. This gives us a sense of WikiProjects' big strength: they bring people together, and can be frustrating to editors when they fail to do so. Meanwhile, it is indeed very difficult to bring editors together on a common interest; in the absence of a highly motivated core of organizers, the technical infrastructure simply isn't there.

We wanted to pair this qualitative study with quantitative analysis of a WikiProject and its "universe" of pages, discussions, templates, and categories. To this end I wrote a script called ProjAnalysis which will, for a given WikiProject page (e.g. WikiProject Star Trek) and WikiProject talk-page tag (e.g. Template:WikiProject Star Trek), will give you a list of usernames of people who edited within the WikiProject's space (the project page itself, its talk page, and subpages), and within the WikiProject's scope (the pages tagged by that WikiProject, excluding the WikiProject space pages). The output is an exhaustive list of usernames. We ran the script to analyze our test batch of WikiProjects for edits between March 1, 2014 and February 28, 2015, and we subjected them to further analysis to only include those who made 10+ edits to pages in the projects' scope, those who made 4+ edits to the projects' space, and those who made 10+ edits to pages in scope but not 4+ edits to pages in the projects' space. This latter metric gives us an idea of who is active in a certain subject area of Wikipedia, yet who isn't actively engaging on the WikiProject's pages. This information will help us prioritize WikiProjects for pilot testing, and the ProjAnalysis script in general may have future life as an application that can be used by Wikipedians to learn about who is in their community.

Complementing the above two studies are a design analysis, which summarizes the structure of the different WikiProject spaces in our test batch, and the comprehensive census of bots and tools used to maintain WikiProjects, which will be finished soon. With all of this information, we will have a game plan in place! We hope to begin working with specific WikiProjects soon.

As a couple of asides...


 * Database Reports has existed for several years on Wikipedia to the satisfaction of many, but many of the reports stopped running when the Toolserver was shut off in 2014. However, there is good news: the weekly New WikiProjects and WikiProjects by Changes reports are back, with potential future reports in the future.
 * WikiProject X has an outpost on Wikidata! Check it out. It's not widely publicized, but we are interested in using Wikidata as a potential repository for metadata about WikiProjects, especially for WikiProjects that exist on multiple Wikimedia projects and language editions.

That's all for now. Thank you for subscribing! If you have any questions or comments, please share them with us.

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Tech News: 2015-13
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Changes this week Meetings
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 25 (calendar).
 * The text of a reference is now more visible when you click on it. It has a blue background. Many wikis already have the blue color. Those wikis can now remove it from their CSS page.
 * VisualEditor is now much faster. For many users it is now at least as fast as the wikitext editor.
 * When you add a list of references in VisualEditor, you now see it right away. You can still change its group by editing it.
 * You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
 * You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 25 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Talk pages using "LiquidThreads" on mediawiki.org will soon use the new system.

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