User talk:Wittylama/Archive 6

Contact me please?
John Horner at the ABC. We spoke after your recent presentation. Call the ABC on 8333 1500 and ask for me or horner.john[at]abc.net.au — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.2.218.132 (talk) 00:46, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

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A kitten for you!
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GLAM OTRS
I saw that you are looking for volunteers for glam@wikimedia.org OTRS queue. I would like to help.Thelmadatter (talk) 13:24, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

Check your blog security
I've not visited http://www.wittylama.com/ for a while and wanted to check it out. Avast! warns me the page is infected and doesn't let it go any further - this is very rare. I then disable it and proceed anyway thinking it was a false positive, but just to check, I look at what it's loading in AdBlockPlus. It tries loading stuff from http://gpjgnrhytn.cz.cc/ and http://zfqseenlwy.cx.cc/ which is as dodgy as fuck. Avast! classifies it as Threat:HTML:IFrame-OZ[Trj] - hahnch e n 22:24, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks Hahnchen, I've been trying to get it fixed but can't seem to get anywhere :-( Witty Lama 02:47, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
 * You have so much goodwill from the Wikimedia community. Just give root access to your site to one of the techies you trust and I'm sure they'll sort it out. - hahnch e n 20:04, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Oh, it looks like you have sorted it out. - hahnch e n 20:05, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

Talkback
—Tom Morris (talk) 16:32, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

Your contributed article, 2011 Oslo bombing


Hello, I notice that you recently created a new page, 2011 Oslo bombing. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page - 2011 Oslo explosion. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at 2011 Oslo explosion - you might like to discuss new information at the article's talk page.

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Removing Speedy at 2011 Oslo bombing
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Click tracking
Village pump (proposals). — Dispenser 01:56, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

Autopatrolled
Hi Wittylama, just wanted to let you know that I have added the autopatrolled right to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the patroller right, see Autopatrolled. Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! Sadads (talk) 22:27, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Your trip to South Korea
This is Tomo from Japanese Wikipedia. We had a short talk after the GLAM presentation at Wikimania 2011. As for your trip to South Korea in October, I wonder if you can make a stop in Japan. There are a couple individuals who make contacts with GLAMs, but their progress is rather unclear because the movements are not shared publicly. I am sure there are many GLAM professionals who are interested in collaboration with Wikipedia, but in my opinion, they just don't know hot to get started. If you can cone, I will do my best to arrange your stay in Japan, so keep me updated about your schedule. Thanks. --Tomo_suzuki ( talk ) 13:30, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
 * There will be a Library Fair & Forum in Japan from November 9 to 11. All kinds of GLAM people (25,000 of them in 2010) gather in one place near Tokyo. We probably are able to book a time for your lecture. Please let me know if you are available. --Tomo_suzuki ( talk ) 17:22, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

Category:Museums external links templates
Hi,

Allison from the Israel Museum asked me to create a template like MoMAartist to link to her museum's site. I created IMJ-IAC and i was surprised to find out that there's no category for such templates. I created Category:Museums external links templates and put these two there. Do you know any other templates that would fit?

Thanks. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 10:20, 1 September 2011 (UTC)


 * I just saw the template you did. I put it on Nahum Tevet's article and informed User:Drkup(IMJ) about its use.
 * Maybe a template for the collection's search, ie for this.
 * Maybe a category for keeping track of the IMJ articles called "Artists at Israel Museum"? Bgwhite (talk) 21:12, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Wow Drkup(IMJ) (talk) 21:16, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Changed one of your edits
I moved Auk back to high importance - we typically rate all family level articles as high importance (genus are mid and species generally low). This isn't reflective of the overall importance of the article to Wikipedia, just to the project. Sabine's Sunbird  talk  20:40, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Understood. Sorry for the confusion. But I reckon it's still better than a 'start' so I'm glad to be able to push it up to 'C' at least! :-) Wittylama 21:39, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

GLAMCamp Amsterdam
Hi

I met with Fæ a couple of weeks ago and he recommend me come to GLAMcamp Amsterdam, I've set up WP:GLAM/MonmouthpediA. I think it fairly certain I can get a travel sponsorship from Wikimedia UK. I went to sign on the list, it said to contact you. Is there any space left at the camp? I'm guessing there is no space left on the boatel?

All the best

Mrjohncummings (talk) 11:29, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

Office Hours
Hey ! I'm just dropping you a message because you've commented on (or expressed an interest in) the Article Feedback Tool in the past. If you don't have any interest in it any more, ignore the rest of this message :).

If you do still have an interest or an opinion, good or bad, we're holding an office hours session tomorrow at 19:00 GMT/UTC in #wikimedia-office to discuss completely changing the system. In attendance will be myself, Howie Fung and Fabrice Florin. All perspectives, opinions and comments are welcome :).

I appreciate that not everyone can make it to that session - it's in work hours for most of North and South America, for example - so if you're interested in having another session at a more America-friendly time of day, leave me a message on my talkpage. I hope to see you there :). Regards, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 14:34, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Hey, Liam! Acknowledging that office hours sessions are normally pretty...what's the polite word...shit for those in the south-and-right-a-bit-hemisphere (what with being held at around 4am) I'm holding a session on Saturday at 3am UTC in #wikimedia-office on the Article Feedback Tool. Hopefully that fits nicely into the middle of the aussie day, and you can attend :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 05:40, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

November 2011
Please do not spam facebook groups with links to wikis of the Wikimedia Foundation. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to your latest DYK, invitations for people to give you wikilove, and links to some obscure wiki project in which you are involved. If you feel that your friends on facebook could be interested in some link to something on wikipedia, then please be aware that someone is likely to wiki stalk your talk page and/or leave a humourous message in greeting. Please take this realllllly seriously and keep this in mind when considering that this is a humourous warning in flagrant breach of WP:DTTR. Thank you. &tilde;danjel [ talk | contribs ] 07:40, 8 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Don't beat yourself up about it and I promise I won't either. :) I'm really just saying 'hi'. &tilde;danjel [ talk | contribs ] 03:02, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

Florence Violet McKenzie‎
Wow. Amazing piece of work. Thanks! — Hebrides (talk) 22:00, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Article Feedback Tool newsletter
Hey, all! A quick update on how version 5 of the Article Feedback Tool is developing. I'm sending this to both newsletter recipients and regular participants, because I appreciate we've been a bit quiet :).

So, we're just wrapping up the first round of user contributions. A big thank you to everyone who has contributed ideas (a full list of which can be found at the top of the page); thanks almost entirely to contributions by editors, the tool looks totally different to how it did two months ago when we were starting out. Big ideas that have made it in include a comment voting system, courtesy of User:Bensin, an idea for a more available way of deploying the feedback box, suggested by User:Utar, and the eventual integration of both oversight and the existing spam filtering tools into the new version, courtesy of..well, everyone, really :).

For now, the devs are building the first prototypes, and all the features specifications have been finalised. That doesn't mean you can't help out, however; we'll have a big pile of shiny prototypes to play around with quite soon. If you're interested in testing those, we'll be unveiling it all at this week's office hours session, which will be held on Friday 2 December at 19:00 UTC. If you can't make it, just sign up here. After that, we have a glorious round of testing to undertake; we'll be finding out what form works the best, what wording works the best, and pretty much everything else under the sun. As part of that, we need editors - people who know just what to look for - to review some sample reader comments, and make calls on which ones are useful, which ones are spam, so on and so forth. If that's something you'd be interested in doing, drop an email to okeyes@wikimedia.org.

Thanks to everyone for their contributions so far. We're making good headway, and moving forward pretty quickly :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 16:40, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

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DYK for Florence Violet McKenzie
— HJ Mitchell &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  00:04, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

GLAMcamp
Hi Liam

Just wanted to thank you for all the hard work you put into GLAMserdam, you guys did a super job.

--Mrjohncummings (talk) 18:09, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

Office Hours
Hey ; another Article Feedback Tool office hours session! This is going to be immediately after we start trialing the software publicly, so it's a pretty important one. If any of you want to attend, it will be held in #wikimedia-office on Friday 16th December at 19:00 UTC. As always, if you can't attend, drop me a line and I'm happy to link you to the logs when we're done. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 22:31, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Children's Museum update
It's time again to share the latest news on the Children's Museum of Indianapolis Wikipedia project! In the last few months we have been busy with our third image donation, which was made up of 150 images that were professionally photographed specifically for this upload. We are asking for volunteers to categorize these images and distribute them into Wikipedia articles. Your help is appreciated! Check them out here.

We have also donated our first ' and a second ' to Commons. In September we were thrilled to welcomed Jimmy Wales to the museum. Following our successful Edit-a-Thon and Translate-a-Thon in August, translations have continued with the help of the established QRpedia community, (particularly Russian translations thanks to Lvova!) We have begun to analyze our implementation of QRpedia codes and completed an extensive case study. In November we presented at the Museum Computer Network conference about how museums can effectively collaborate with Wikipedia. You can see more details on the Prezi.

In more general news, in addition to serving as the Children's Museum's Wikipedian-in-Residence, it was recently announced that I will be taking on the role of US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator for the Wikimedia Foundation. In this role I will be working to streamline the process of connecting interested US GLAMs with the Wikipedia community. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to let me know. Be sure to sign up for This Month in GLAM to keep up with the latest GLAM-Wiki news from around the world (subscribe).

We have a listing of High Need and Moderate Need requests on the Ways to Help section on the project page. I encourage you to lend a hand if you're able. While the Children's Museum partnership continues to truck along, we still are in desperate need of volunteers to help disperse our images and update and maintain content. Thank you for your time and help. Happy holidays! LoriLee (talk) 16:45, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut
Hi there, I've responded to the concerns you had about the DYK nomination for this article at the nomination page. Thanks for dropping by!  Arctic   Night  15:09, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Henri L'Estrange
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Article Feedback Tool - notes and office hours
Hey guys! Another month, another newsletter.

First off - the first bits of AFT5 are now deployed. As of early last week, the various different designs are deployed on 0.1 percent of articles, for a certain "bucket" of randomly-assigned readers. With the data flooding in from these, we were able to generate a big pool of comments for editors to categorise as "useful" or "not useful". This information will be used to work out which form is the "best" form, producing the most useful feedback and the least junk. Hopefully we'll have the data for you by the end of the week; I can't thank the editors who volunteered to hand-code enough; we wouldn't be where we are now without you.

All this useful information means we can move on to finalising the tool, and so we're holding an extra-important office hours session on Friday, 6th January at 19:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office. If you can't make it, drop me a note and I'll be happy to provide logs so you can see what went on - if you can make it, but will turn up late, bear in mind that I'll be hanging around until 23:00 UTC to deal with latecomers :).

Things we'll be discussing include:
 * The design of the feedback page, which will display all the feedback gathered through whichever form comes out on top.
 * An expansion of the pool of articles which have AFT5 displayed, from 0.1 percent to 0.3 (which is what we were going to do initially anyway)
 * An upcoming Request for Comment that will cover (amongst other things) who can access various features in the tool, such as the "hide" button.

If you can't make it to the session, all this stuff will be displayed on the talkpage soon after, so no worries ;). Hope to see you all there! Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 04:50, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

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Article Feedback Tool - things to do
Hey guys! A couple of highly important things to do over the next few weeks:
 * We've opened a Request for Comment on several of the most important aspects of the tool, including who should be able to hide inappropriate comments. It will remain open until 20 January; I encourage everyone with an interest to take part :).
 * A second round of feedback categorisation will take place in a few weeks, so we can properly evaluate which design works the best and keeps all the junk out :P. All volunteers are welcome and desired; there may be foundation swag in it for you!

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Florence Violet McKenzie GA review
One citation needed, then we're done. (Also, removed your post on my talk page - you weren't logged in - best I can do). Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 09:37, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Your input is needed on the SOPA initiative
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Article Feedback Tool
Hey guys; apologies for the belated nature of this notification; as you can probably imagine, the whole blackout thing kinda messed with our timetables :P. Just a quick reminder that we've got an office hours session tomorrow at 19:00 in #wikimedia-office, where we'll be discussing the results of the hand-coding and previewing some new changes. Hope to see you there :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 21:46, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

wittylama.com down?
Hi. http://wittylama.com doesn't seem to be loading for me. (http://www.wittylama.com/blog/ as well.) --MZMcBride (talk) 01:45, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, unfortunately that is correct. The whole thing's down. It was hosted by a friend of mine. My Wordpress install got hit with a bad case of the flu about 6months ago (or more) and the whole thing was taken offline to reinstall from a backup... but he's not had the chance to do it since then. I'm still hopeful I can get it reinstalled on a different server (without having to lose the back-catalogue of content) at some point... Wittylama 01:50, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
 * And, by magic, it's now back up again.. :-) Wittylama 12:38, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

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Sydney meet
I'd love to, but I'm a long way out of town, so evening in Newtown is not the best for me! Pity. Amandajm (talk) 11:25, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

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Article Feedback Tool newsletter
Sorry for the radio silence, guys :). I just wanted to let you know that we're planning on starting a new round of hand coding, which you can sign up for here. This will be the final round (honest!), and is basically because we found some really interesting results from the last round that blew our collective mind. It's important to check that they weren't a fluke, though, and so a bit more work is needed.

If you have any questions, drop a note on my talkpage - and if you know anyone who would be interested in participating, please tell them about it! We'll be holding an IRC training session in #wikimedia-office at 18:00 UTC on the 21st of March to run through the tool and answer any questions you may have. Thanks! :) Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 00:40, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Saw your note here btw; anything I can do to help explain? :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 07:54, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Tambo floods
The original version which I adjusted to a red link definitely refers to floods this year, where as Queensland floods currently redirects to the 2010-2011 floods only (which is the page you directed the link to, also changing the intent). Mark Hurd (talk) 01:42, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Ah Ok! I thought the redlink was a mistake from our editing training, not an intentional redlink. Cheers, Wittylama 01:47, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:BritishMuseum-barnstar.png
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 * I removed the speedy deletion template and sent this message to Kelly - I'll probably send a message to Fae as well.
 * I removed the speedy deletion template. It doesn't look copyrightable to me since it doesn't meet the threshold of originality.  It is, after all, just a barnstar on Wikipedia.  Do any other Wikipedia barnstars have OTRS forms filed on them?  Should we delete all the ones that don't have OTRS forms?  In any case, this is clearly not your usual speedy.  Put it up for regular deletion if you must.  Smallbones (talk) 22:19, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Did you notice the discussion at Possibly unfree files/2012 March 23? There doesn't seem to be any notice about it on this page. --Stefan2 (talk) 21:24, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Please see article Paid editing on Wikipedia
Before I got distracted by one of my pet peeves (pointless petty deletions of files), I wanted to let you know that you are in the ARTICLE Paid editing on Wikipedia. They've got the facts wrong, but I'm sure they are open to correction. See my comment at the talk page. Smallbones (talk) 18:39, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for pointing that one out to me - I was not aware of it. I don't know what it used to say (don't particularly want to work through the diffs!) but it looks pretty fine to me now. Not "brilliant prose" but it's not factually incorrect as far as I can tell. It's true that some of the GLAM work has been criticised for being too close to CoI so it makes sense that it should be addressed in the relevant WP article. The text as it currently stands puts what we've been doing in an fair-enough context and expressly says that there has been no controversy. Wittylama 03:14, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Article Feedback Tool updates
Hey all. My regular(ish) update on what's been happening with the new Article Feedback Tool.

Hand-coding

As previously mentioned, we're doing a big round of hand-coding to finalise testing :). I've been completedly bowled over by the response: we have 20 editors participating, some old and some new, which is a new record for this activity. Many thanks to everyone who has volunteered so far!

Coding should actively start on Saturday, when I'll be distributing individualised usernames and passwords to everyone. If you haven't spoken to me but would be interested in participating, either drop me a note on my talkpage or email. If you have spoken to me, I'm very sorry for the delay :(. There were some toolserver database issues beyond our control (which I think the Signpost discussed) that messed with the tool.

New designs and office hours

Our awesome designers have been making some new logos for the feedback page :) Check out the oversighter view and the monitor view to get complete coverage; all opinions, comments and suggestions are welcome on the talkpage :).

We've also been working on the Abuse Filter plugin for the tool; this will basically be the same as the existing system, only applied to comments. Because of that, we're obviously going to need slightly different filters, because different things will need to be blocked :). We're holding a special office hours session tomorrow at 22:00 UTC to discuss it. If you're a regex nut, existing abuse filter writer, or simply interested in the feedback tool and have suggestions, please do come along :).

I'm pretty sure that's it; if I've missed anything or you have any additional queries, don't hesitate to contact me! Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 14:44, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: March 2012
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Benefit of Danny B. to GLAM cooperation
Regarding "Feel persecuted by Danny B. RfC" and money invested to him, I would like to ask you for your evaluation of Danny B.'s benefit to the development of GLAM cooperation. Thanks!--NN (talk) 06:17, 27 April 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.232.241.214 (talk)

Sydney meetup
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Article Feedback Tool office hours
Hey ; just a quick note to let you know that we'll be holding an Office Hours session at 18:00 UTC (don't worry, I got the time right ;p) on 4th May in #wikimedia-office. This is to show off the almost-finished feedback page and prep it for a more public release; I'm incredibly happy to have got to this point :). Hope to see you there! Regards, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 03:51, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

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Ping
Hi, I just sent you an email re. the Wikipedian in Residence program. Cheers,  Litho  derm  19:53, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: May 2012
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Article Feedback Tool, Version 5
Hey all :)

Just a quick update on what we've been working on:
 * The centralised feedback page is now live! Feel free to use it and all other feedback pages; there's no prohibition on playing around, dealing with the comments or letting others know about it, although the full release comes much later. Let me know if you find any bugs; we know it's a bit odd in Monobook, but that should be fixed in our deployment this week.
 * On Thursday, 7th June we'll be holding an office hours session at 20:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office. We'll be discussing all the latest developments, as well as what's coming up next; hope to see you all there!
 * Those of you who hand-coded feedback; I believe I contacted you all about t-shirts. If I didn't, drop me a line and I'll get it sorted out :).

Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 22:49, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks...
...for the kind words on VPT. :) Steven Walling (WMF) &bull; talk   00:37, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

AFT5 release coming up - help us design a banner!
Hey all :). First-off, thanks to everyone for all their help so far; we're coming up to a much wider deployment :). Starting at the end of this month, and scaling up until 3 July, AFT5 will begin appearing on 10 percent of articles. For this release we plan on sending out a CentralNotice that every editor will see - and for this, we need your help :). We've got plans, we know how long it's going to run for, where it's going to run...but not what it says. If you've got ideas for banners, give this page a read and submit your suggestion! Many thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 16:24, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: June 2012
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So, big news this week - on Tuesday, we ramped up to 5 percent of articles :). There's been a lot more feedback (pardon the pun) as I'm sure you've noticed, and to try and help we've scheduled a large number of office hours sessions, including one this evening at 22:00 UTC in the channel, and another at  01:00 UTC for the aussies amongst us :). I hope to see some of you there - if any of you can't make it but have any questions, I'm always happy to help.

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AFT5 newsletter
Hey again all :). So, some big news, some small news, some good news, some bad news!

On the "big news" front; we've now deployed AFT5 on to 10 percent of articles, This is pretty awesome :). On the "bad news", however, it looks like we're having to stop at 10 percent until around September - there are scaling issues that make it dangerous to deploy wider. Happily, our awesome features engineering team is looking into them as we speak, and I'm optimistic that the issues will be resolved.

For both "small" and "good" news; we've got another office hours session. This one is tomorrow, at 22:00 UTC in - I appreciate it's a bit late for Europeans, but I wanted to juggle it so US east coasters could attend if they wanted :). Hope to see you all there!

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Good day, I saw your username on the Australian Aboriginal Languages page (from back in 2008) and thought you might be interested by the creation of Wikimedia Indigenous Languages. Amqui (talk) 19:33, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

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Extreme Auto Customs
I don't know if User talk:BrandenNYG is just you writing, or a template I haven't seen before, but I have to say - good job giving a new editor a clear, concise, readable explanation of what's going on, rather than just dropping an impenetrable wall of text on them that serves no purpose other than to intimidate and confuse. Wily D 07:10, 4 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Huh - I pretty commonly follow up with editors whose pages get A7'd or G11'd, so they'll have a shorter message giving them my name to ask questions to, and I've never seen that message before. I've seen a lot of page curation nominations, and had actually been pretty skeptical - it seems like there're a lot more bad A7 tags since it went live, which I kinda figured meant it gave a lousy explanation of A7 on the button or whatever.   Huh.  Maybe the mess twinkle leaves is just burnt into my brain.  Wily D  07:21, 4 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Well - I'll split the difference; realistically, even if you're just engaging in best practice while most people seemingly aren't, you deserve some credit. Since scraps of credit are the only reward we get for good behaviour, there's no need to be stingy with them. Wily D  07:24, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

Not have enough time
Sir, i may add something to it when i had enough time. Thanks for the opinion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hsr361 (talk • contribs) 07:30, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

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I lost my curation toolbar recently and had to search a bit before I found it. Made an assumption and well, the obvious occurred. What is the manual procedure for marking a page as reviewed? BusterD (talk) 04:37, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

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tech-dweeb
Liam, I have a Mac laptop, and previously I've just paid for a card and password that gives me ten bucks worth of access at a hotel. There's a board under table? Does this mean I need to bring something to plug into my puter? Tony  (talk)  09:07, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
 * the "board under the table" is the powerboard - to plug your charger into. So, bring that so you don't run out of battery. As for the wifi, you don't need anything extra than just your laptop, there's a password that they'll give you onsite and connection is free. Wittylama 01:31, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

The Death of my Baby
Sorry, you can't A7 a book. It's not web content, and it's got no legs. People (singly or in groups and organisations) and named animals (like Gertie the Waltzing Bandicoot) are suitable (OK, fish don't have legs - the legs are a general principle). Products aren't, and nor is anything downloadable. You probably know this. I'm finding quite a few people making mistakes like this all of a sudden, and it coincides with the introduction of Page Curation. The deletion reason '- significance' is bad to my way of looking. It's not specific like Twinkle's separate tags. Anyway, as I can find no evidence for the existence of the book (on Google at least - it may exist on paper somewhere or on one computer...), I've prodded it. Peridon (talk) 14:43, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

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This is not a newsletter
This is just a tribute.

Anyway. You're getting this note because you've participated in discussion and/or asked for updates to either the Article Feedback Tool or Page Curation. This isn't about either of those things, I'm afraid ;p. We've recently started working on yet another project: Echo, a notifications system to augment the watchlist. There's not much information at the moment, because we're still working out the scope and the concepts, but if you're interested in further updates you can sign up here.

In addition, we'll be holding an office hours session at 21:00 UTC on Wednesday, 14 November in #wikimedia-office - hope to see you all there :). I appreciate it's an annoying time for non-Europeans: if you're interested in chatting about the project but can't make it, give me a shout and I can set up another session if there's enough interest in one particular timezone or a skype call if there isn't. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 11:30, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

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AFT5 newsletter
Hey all :). A couple of quick updates (one small, one large)

First, we're continuing to work on some ways to increase the quality of feedback and make it easier to eliminate and deal with non-useful feedback: hopefully I'll have more news for you on this soon :).

Second, we're looking at ways to increase the actual number of users patrolling and take off some of the workload from you lot. Part of this is increasing the prominence of the feedback page, which we're going to try to do with a link at the top of each article to the relevant page. This should be deployed on Tuesday (touch wood!) and we'll be closely monitoring what happens. Let me know if you have any questions or issues :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 14:25, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

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Young and Talented School of Stage and Screen
Hey there. Andreea Teia posted the text of some of the references she used for this article on her talk page. The second to last paragraph, the big one, seems to be the right kind of profile-type article the subject needs to meet WP:GNG. What do you think? —<B>Torchiest</B> talk<sub style="margin-left:-3ex;">edits 21:09, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

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Norman Selfe
Good work on Norman Selfe, I've left a few comments at Talk:Norman Selfe/GA1 but the article needs very little improvement to meet the GA criteria. Cheers, James086 <sup style="color:#006400;">Talk  13:46, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I imagine a FAC will only be caught up on the prose (my weakest area so I will be of limited help) and less-obvious MOS things. I'll make any improvements I can see. James086 <sup style="color:#006400;">Talk  13:10, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm currently working on a potential FA myself and I'm reading through these tutorials. I'll continue to apply them to Norman Selfe as I go. James086 <sup style="color:#006400;">Talk  17:42, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
 * On the prose, sure, GA. Possibly FA ... see how it goes. Tony   (talk)  11:22, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Date stamp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Indonesian_National_Revolution no date stamp with your sig FYI - if it wasnt you, you would have been tagged for addition of unnecessary ext links being added to Indonesian articles, if you get the gist... not sure extra audio visual is necessarily an enhancement. The project has enough issues already. Happy NY anyway SatuSuro 05:38, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi SatuSuro - Thanks for the notification. I've gone back and added the timestamp anyway :-) Not sure what you mean by external links - this is CC-By-SA content that the ABC has released (via me) and I've uploaded to commons. I've been going through and adding the videos to relevant articles today - see my recent edit history and have a look at the category on commons . I think you'll find that these are invaluable primary source videos. Wittylama 05:45, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for responding - big problem with over 90% of the Indonesian language Indonesia project and over 70% of the English language Indonesia project articles dont have any WP:RS sources of any sort - The ever decreasing editor population on wikipedia and the relative increase in issues of maintaining something like the Indonesian project is really showing when we have basically one regular resident dedicated admin having to deal with the 10,000 + articles project and the number of turkeys we seem to attract.  May your new year be turkey free... SatuSuro 05:55, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I noticed you didnt reply to that one - interesting how the issue of lack of competent content maintainance seems to be a silent elephant in the room these days - where as they - who is there to look after the stuff?? any ideas or clues what the current word is on that one?  or are there more bots on the way...  SatuSuro 08:33, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Hey... What's with the aspersions? It's dinner time, I'm not ignoring you. I'm hoping that the Visual Editor plus te Echo&Flow projects will do great things in terms of technical fixes to contributor decline. Of course, there's lots of social problems too that there's no quick solution for... (Especially the "good problem" o what happens if those technical fixes are extremely successful and we have a crap-load of new users to acculturate).
 * As for the particular problem of Indonesian content, to be honest, I was a but confused about that that had to do with my request (especially your reference to external links). I think all wiki projects (except MILHIST of course) are struggling and would like to see some WMF tech focus on how to revitalise them - so it's not an Indonesian-specific problem. Meanwhile though, did you have a look at some of the videos I linked to? Pretty uniquely relevant content IMHO :-) Wittylama 09:02, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
 * nasturtions aspersions - its all in goofy tumour, dont take it personally - dinner time? - its jakarta time here (you should see the press they get these days - dissapearing under traffic jams, literally sinking, etc) - ;) - yeah you are right the whole place needs a kick up the proverbial - true - yeah the vids are quite inneresting... got any more lined up at all? SatuSuro 09:17, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
 * that's all the videos they've given me in the pilot round of this project. When they've checked on the metadata accuracy, usage in context, page view and click through rates then we'll be getting more I hope :-) Not sure if there will be more Indonesian-specific content - my guess is there might be natural history/documentary content as a 2nd round pilot as that has low likelyhood of copyright problems. Ultimately though, this could be a HUGE amount of content if they continue putting up their own archives under a free license. Wittylama 11:36, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

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AFT5 newsletter
Hey all; another newsletter.


 * If you're not already aware, a Request for Comment on the future of the Article Feedback Tool on the English-language Wikipedia is open; any and all comments, regardless of opinion and perspective, are welcome.
 * Our final round of hand-coding is complete, and the results can be found here; thanks to everyone who took part!
 * We've made test deployments to the German and French-language projects; if you are aware of any other projects that might like to test out or use the tool, please let me know :).
 * Developers continue to work on the upgraded version of the feedback page that was discussed during our last office hours session, with a prototype ready for you to play around with in a few weeks.

That's all for now! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 16:09, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

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