Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cardiff/Archive 1

GA Sweeps invitation
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Doctor Who at FAR
nominated Doctor Who for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Cirt (talk) 02:55, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Sherman Theatre Article
Hello there. I see that the cleanup of the Sherman Theatre article is on your "to-do" list. This article has been getting on my nerves for some time, particularly when I pass the theatre (I live in Cardiff). So I've given it a substantial rewrite. It's basically quite a short stub now, so still needs expanding, but the cleanup is done :-) Dylanfromthenorth (talk) 07:46, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement
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Request for comment on Biographies of living people
Hello Wikiproject! Currently there is a discussion which will decide whether wikipedia will delete 49,000 articles about a living person without references, here:

Requests for comment/Biographies of living people

Since biographies of living people covers so many topics, nearly all wikiproject topics will be effected.

The two opposing positions which have the most support is:
 * 1) supports the deletion of unreferenced articles about a living person, User:Jehochman
 * 2) opposes the deletion of unreferenced articles about a living person, except in limited circumstances, User:Collect

Comments are welcome. Keep in mind that by default, editor's comments are hidden. Simply press edit next to the section to add your comment.

Please keep in mind that at this point, it seems that editors support deleting unreferenced article if they are not sourced, so your project may want to pursue the projects below.

Propose renaming Category:Bus routes in Cardiff
Hi

I have proposed renaming the newly-created Category:Bus routes in Cardiff to Category:Bus transport in Cardiff.

The reasons are explained at Categories for discussion/Log/2010 March 21, where your comments are welcome. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:11, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

As creator of the category, I have supported this move to include infrastructure as well.

Cardiff articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
Version 0.8 is a collection of Wikipedia articles selected by the Wikipedia 1.0 team for offline release on USB key, DVD and mobile phone. Articles were selected based on their assessed importance and quality, then article versions (revisionIDs) were chosen for trustworthiness (freedom from vandalism) using an adaptation of the WikiTrust algorithm.

We would like to ask you to review the Cardiff articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (&diams;) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Monday, October 11th.

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WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Cardiff will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Cardiff's history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 22:04, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Cardiff Meetup 30 Jun 2012
See this link to Cardiff Meetup on 30 June 2012. Seth Whales  talk    21:02, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

2nd Cardiff Meetup (1 November 2013)
The Second Cardiff Meetup announcement has just been made. Details are available here where you can sign up. It will coincide with the EduWiki Conference. Please come along! --Rhyswynne (talk) 10:15, 16 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Just to let you know, we'll be upstars at the Urban Tap House, Westgate Street tonight. Laters!--Rhyswynne (talk) 13:48, 1 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Following a request for feedback on my talk page, here's how it went (from my perspective):

Unsurprisingly, most at the wikimeet were those who were attending EduWiki 2013 in the city, and as I’d missed the conference, I got feedback from the day.

Cardiff/Wales/cy:wp specific

 * A few users/potential users from Cardiff were present, and I got to meet User:Ham. *User:Llywelyn2000 mentioned that he’d been in contact with a group of students at Cardiff University who want to set up Student Society there. He’s also been in contact with two departments in Swansea University who are interested in collaborating.
 * One problem on cy:wp related to low number of editors is keeping facts up-to-date, so roll-out of WikiData will be very welcome. User:RexxS, who was at the wikimeet, has offered to help us out (and has already started).

A meet-up in the future
I’d really like to arrange a Cardiff specific wikimeet sometime in the new year, with the aim of possible arranging an event in the city in the near future. I’m thinking of either a workshop for beginners or an GLAM themed edit-a-thon/Back Stage Pass type event. We can obviously arrange something like this on-line, but it would be nice to meet editors face-to-face to discuss ideas, and who we should target. Cardiff has a lot of institutions (local and Wales wide) which we could approach, and it would be handy to know if anyone has any links/contacts that we can ‘exploit’. Again User:Llywelyn2000 has been encouraging/hassling(!) some to open up content. Off top of my head, there are:
 * National Museum Wales (National Museum and St Fagan)
 * Various Cardiff Council departments e.g Cardiff Story Museum, Parks
 * Butetown History & Arts Centre
 * Glamorgan Archives
 * Cardiff University (various departments, Special Collections and Archives at the library)
 * Mushin Museum (History of Anaesthesia Museum), University of Wales Hospital **New**
 * National Bodies such as Literature Wales, RIBA Wales, Charities, S4C

So, does anyone have any thoughts/would anyone like to meet up?--Rhyswynne (talk) 13:06, 4 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Yes, I'm interested and I may have some national museum contacts - I'll explore that. EdwardLane (talk) 03:57, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
 * OK I have facebook contact with staff at the national museum (paleontology) and if you're interested in sorting out one of the backstage pass type events they can put you/us in touch with teh right folk. I'm guessing I'll need to chat to Rhyswynne if this is going anywehre but drop me a message here. EdwardLane (talk) 00:27, 14 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi Edward! Can you email me with names of your contacts at the Museum. I'll then arrange a meeting: your backstage suggestion could be a good 'foot-in'th-door!'. Llywelyn2000 (talk) 11:31, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

Train the Trainers
A Train the Trainers course was held at the Thistle Hotel, Cardiff 1-2 February 2014. Two days of very hard work - and no rugby! Llywelyn2000 (talk) 11:40, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

Cardiff Wikimedia Meetup 3
The third Cardiff wikimeetup will be held at the Central Bar on Windsor Place on Saturday 31 May at 5:30 pm. If you're interested, please sign up here. Everyone welcome! Ham (talk) 16:05, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2014
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Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Editathon at Swansea: 28th January 2015
An Editathon is to be held at Swansea University on the 28th January; this is the second to be held at Swansea. New and experienced Wikipedians are welcome to beef up exiting articles and create new ones based on Medieval and Early Modern Women. The university has an exciting proect: 'Women Negotiating the Boundaries of Justice: Britain and Ireland c.1100-c.1750 which 'explores women's relative access to justice in various parts of Britain and Ireland between the twelfth and eighteenth centuries.'

This may be the start of something really good. And there's even a free lunch! Please join us. Llywelyn2000 (talk) 11:25, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


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SWALEC Stadium listed at Requested moves
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Wiki Loves Pride!
 You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!


 * What? Wiki Loves Pride, a campaign to document and photograph LGBT culture and history, including pride events
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 * How can you help?
 * 1.) Create or improve LGBT-related articles and showcase the results of your work here
 * 2.) Upload photographs or other media related to LGBT culture and history, including pride events, and add images to relevant Wikipedia articles; feel free to create a subpage with a gallery of your images (see examples from last year)
 * 3.) Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)

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Thanks, and happy editing!

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Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
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