Wikipedia talk:The Great Wikipedia Dramaout/3rd

Notification spam
I've been roughing up a notification spam message: User:TFOWR/sandbox2. I thought if I got a nice spam prepared, it would make life easier for editors volunteering to notify editors who participated in the 2nd dramaout. The message is unfinished, any thoughts on what text we'd put in it? I suppose this is related to copy-editing here, so I might hold off on notifying people for a wee while.

TFOWR 16:01, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Never mind that, take a look at User:Berean Hunter/NODRAMA! TFOWR 18:58, 17 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Oops. Sorry, I should have read this talk page first. I didn't mean to overshadow your fine efforts. :) ⋙–Berean–Hunter—►  ((⊕)) 20:16, 17 June 2010 (UTC)


 * No worries, and personally I would much prefer to re-use your finer efforts ;-) <b style="color:#000">TFOW</b><b style="color:#F00">R</b> 22:39, 17 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Which I have done: User:TFOWR/NODRAMA ;-) I've dumped an example on my talk page. Any thoughts, comments? If everyone's OK with this later today I'll start spamming editors who participated in the 2nd Dramaout. <b style="color:#000">TFOW</b><b style="color:#F00">R</b> 10:08, 18 June 2010 (UTC)


 * For greater coverage, you may consider broadening the scope to also include those who participated in the first Dramaout as well. I wasn't in the 2nd because of real life issues but I'm glad to be back for the 3rd. My 2 pennies... <b style="color:#00C">⋙–Ber</b><b style="color:#66f">ean–Hun</b><b style="color:#00C">ter—►</b>  (<b style="color:#00C">(⊕)</b>) 14:41, 18 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Will do. I missed the 2nd for much the same reasons - extended wikibreak. I do remember the 1st, but didn't participate (can't remember why: maybe I thought it meant I had to avoid the dramah board...) ;-) <b style="color:#000">TFOW</b><b style="color:#F00">R</b> 14:44, 18 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Suomi Finland 2009 and I have covered the first 40. Any volunteers for the next 43? Or for the first event's list? <b style="color:#000">TFOW</b><b style="color:#F00">R</b> 11:15, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

Updated talk box
Updated talk page box. I didn't ask permission, we should consider maybe a more permanent home for this box? <b style="color:#000">TFOW</b><b style="color:#F00">R</b> 15:25, 17 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Either way is fine with me. I don't mind people editing it...never reverted anyone there. <b style="color:#00C">⋙–Ber</b><b style="color:#66f">ean–Hun</b><b style="color:#00C">ter—►</b>  (<b style="color:#00C">(⊕)</b>) 20:19, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Thank you
This is really the first time that I will actually create content, as in the last two times I only managed to avoid drama, but did nothing else... The first time I escaped to Wikibooks, and the second I wasn't particularly active anyway. But this time I'll be working on the manufacturing of Hong Kong for five full days of the dramaout! (If I finish that too soon I'll move on to some other article...)  Kayau  Voting  IS   evil 00:07, 23 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Good to hear. Myself I'll probably concentrate on de-orphaning articles, something which I have a lot of fun doing. -- &oelig; &trade; 03:27, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

Watchlist
Is there a simple way to tweak one's watchlist so it defaults to articles only? That oughta help.--~TPW 13:14, 24 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Simpliest way would probably be to either bookmark it in article view, or save your raw watchlist to text (for later recovery), then clear out anything not an article :-) -- AnmaFinotera  (talk · contribs) 14:38, 24 June 2010 (UTC)


 * There should be "Namespace:" drop-down list in the "Watchlist options" section of your watchlist page that allows you select whichever namespace you want to display. In your case all you have to do is select (Article) and click the Go button. -- &oelig; &trade; 04:56, 27 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Oh, but you already knew that :) I just realized that you meant you want it to default to that setting, as in stay that way for good.. in that case, there may be a way of doing that via your vector.css (or monobook, whichever skin you use) but I don't know how. -- &oelig; &trade; 04:59, 27 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Per your request, I've created a js script for a control called "article watch" which narrows down the watchlist to just article space and the respective talkpages...it also hides bot edits for you.


 * Try adding the following to your monobook.js:


 * importScript('User:Berean Hunter/articlewatch.js');


 * ...then you'll find the function in your toolbar. (not working for those logged into the secure server...still needs tweaked for that) Enjoy, <b style="color:#00C">⋙–Ber</b><b style="color:#66f">ean–Hun</b><b style="color:#00C">ter—►</b>  (<b style="color:#00C">(⊕)</b>) 01:28, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Question
If there are serious incidents or incidents requiring administrator attention who will attend to them if admins are told to try and stay away from noticeboards like WP:ANI? A better solution or a better thing with the same sentiment would be for admins to pledge to improve articles requiring improvements and a mass cleanup by going through all current stubs. Lil-unique1 (talk) 23:00, 4 July 2010 (UTC)


 * I should hope that participating admins be willing and able to respond to non-article-space issues that only they can address, such as requests for explanation and clarification of admin actions, requests for undeletion of pages that they deleted, requests for unprotection of pages they protected, etc. Powers T 15:27, 6 July 2010 (UTC)


 * I'd hope so! I'd expect admins to still be responding to pre-existing issues. For my part, I'm trying to focus on new pages and removing speedy deletion tags from articles. But I'm still dropping by WP:AIV and WP:RFPP every so often. <b style="color:#000">TFOW</b><b style="color:#F00">R</b> 15:37, 6 July 2010 (UTC)