Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Community/Archive 1

Bootcamp
The Bootcamp is being redone. see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bootcamp

Adding communities from FIC directory to Wikipedia
I'd like to propose adding a new project goal of systematically adding the communities listed in the Fellowship of Intentional Community's directory to wikipedia. The directory already includes vital stats from each community and some may also have their own web pages.

This proposal seems to fall within the scope of the community project. I think it would also us a concrete goal to sink our teeth into. Most of the project goals right now are fairly abstract and its hard to know where to start. When adding communities from the directory it would simply be a matter of starting our way at the top of the list of communities and working down.

Finally, I think this would be a good way of raising the visibility of the Community project. We could promote this specific sub-project on like minded projects and forums. And if everyone referenced the community project in comments when editing pages we'd start showing up on the recent changes list as well. Activity usually attracts more activity. Just as no visible activity in a project reinforces that inactivity.

I'm open to feedback on this idea. The next step in moving forward would be to add it to the community project list of goals and then to see about automatically generating a list like those used in WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles. The list could have a redlink to the most logical title and then a link to its page in the FIC directory. - Mennonot 01:36, 4 March 2006


 * Indeed, but the FIC directory is HUGE! I noticed we now have an article on the Fellowship for Intentional Community and have included a link to their site on Portal:Community/Web resources. A list of ecovillages exists, but if there is a list of other intentional communities, I'm not aware of it. Thanks for your feedback and support, mennonot especially for your vote to keep Portal:Community! - CQ 01:20, 15 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes there is: List of intentional communities &bull; CQ 07:15, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Building Community
The Wikipedia Community is in my opinion among the cream of the crop in online communities. The fact that it functions as a Community of practice with a focused task - building an encyclopedia - remains an organizing force that few web-enabled groups have. While Jimbo Wales and the Wikimedia Foundation have set up a strong central authority to assure the continuation of the project through some formal structures, there is still much room and freedom for organizing within the ranks of the community. This WikiProject is one of many grassroots efforts to tighten the fabric in a somwhat scientific and intentional way.

I'm proposing to develop a very comprehensive portal and categorization scheme to implement this from a taskforce perspective - seperate from, but completely aware of and complient with - the official channels and vehicles provided by our hosts through the Community Portal.

It is very important to differentiate Portal:Community, which is to become a reference for community builders everywhere, from the Community Portal which is expressly for Wikipedians. This little project space is here to help us focus on what Wikipedia - the encyclopedia has to say about community and to study and improve how Wikipedia - the community performs.

Let's build some community! -- CQ 13:40, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Talkpage templates
On the project page for this WikiProject, there's a link to which causes it to show up on Category:Main pages with misplaced talk page templates. Would it bother anyone if I put a subst'd version of the talk page version of the template on the main page, so it no longer shows up in that category? Thanks. :)

~Kylu ( u | t )  02:45, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks Kylu, but I fixed it by deactivating the template on our project page. -- CQ 04:16, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Note! This code: yields:

...and should only be used on talk pages.


 * Thanks CQ! I just figured I'd check before doing any editing, since it says "please do not edit" on there. I figured maybe someone had a good reason for wanting it there. :) ~Kylu ( u | t )  01:56, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

TaskForce
The Community builders taskforce is working with User categorisation and Classification trying to build a handy task table. If you want to join the TaskForce, please say so below. CQ 15:27, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Members
Please add yourself below using followed by a brief message.

Community Builders TaskForce Members:
 * Trying to get this ball rolling
 * Will help where I can.
 * Sunray 19:33, 31 July 2006 (UTC) Great initiative! Will lend a pen, where needed, and wield a blue pencil, when necessary.

Current tasks
Currently, I'm working on the top-level tasks announcing this project, mainly here. -- CQ 17:24, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Setting it up at WikiProject Community/Communitas! -- 18:35, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Proposed tasks
Heading toward United States Wikipedians and U.S. state WikiProjects that have Portals. See Listing of US state WikiProjects, Portals and Wikipedians. -- CQ 17:24, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Task template
We work through the one template, trying to keep it simple and effective. You can employ it by typing WP:CBTF. You can edit it here but please discuss your changes to the table content above. For technical or aesthetic changes use Template_talk:WP:CBTF. -- CQ 18:35, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Comments
I'm finding that I'm quite busy with other things, and am only slowly getting my head around what the Community Builders TaskForce is doing... though I do like the user categorization mentioned above, and the whole idea of strengthening the community, including helping people collaborate with others of similar interest.

I'm wondering if we should separate the project focusing on community-related articles in sociology (e.g. co-housing) from the project aiming to strengthen community & cooperation in Wikipedia.

So I'll leave my name here, but just consider me a peripheral member - I'll check in and contribute from time to time. Feel free to ask for my input if there's a specific issue. --Singkong2005 talk 06:12, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Articles for the Wikipedia 1.0 project
Version 1.0 Editorial Team/WPHumanities

Waiting to be contacted. See WikiProject Community/Assessment page when you get here. Thanks. • CQ 21:56, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

What kind of help do you need? I'm not an official member of the 1.0 Ed team but I've helped other projects set up categories and templates to do rating. I take it you want to rate your articles? Take a look at Beatles, Firefly, Indigenous Peoples of North America or any of the other projects to see how to set things up, it's not hard. But with only 4 articles you can just create the categories and add the articles by hand if you want. ++Lar: t/c 23:12, 17 July 2006 (UTC)


 * OK, I added in the parameters for your "top-level" article, Community with this edit. Since it is the lead article for the project, it is also automatically top level in importance. After that you need simply to create the relevant categories for the bot to read, as follows:

Hope this helps, Walkerma 00:06, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) Create a category called Category:Community articles by quality, and place this in Category:Wikipedia_1.0_assessments (You've done that already)
 * 2) Tag a few article talk pages with the template, ideally using articles at every level of the assessment scale - FA, A, GA, B, Start and Stub, and also an NA (not assessed). Click on the categories created by the template, and place all of these into the category you made before, Category:Community articles by quality. (If you don't have any FAs etc, just create the empty categories ready for when you do).
 * 3) If you want to do importance too (it seems you do), then do the same as you did with quality, only place these in the category Category:Community articles by importance. (you've already created this)
 * 4) Wait for the bot to pick it all up!


 * Thank you very much Lar and Walkerma. Yes, that helped a bunch! It's all starting to make sense, now. I'm pretty sure I put some articles in class=Start that should remain NA or Stub. I will kick them back down once the Bot makes a round and I mirror the table to our projects /Assessment area. Assessment talk. CQ 03:30, 18 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I removed the lower-level categories (such as Start-Class community articles) from the top category Category:Wikipedia_1.0_assessments, they might confuse the bot and get counted twice! There is a hierarchy Category:Wikipedia_1.0_assessments > Category:Community articles by quality > Category:XXX-Class community articles.  It looks as if the bot couldn't find the articles - I hope I fixed the problem. We'll have to see tomorrow night. Walkerma 05:17, 18 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Ah, OK. I got a bit confused on the Category scheme, and probably messed up something. I think they are OK now. I tried to get everything relevant into Category:WikiProject Community. Hope that don't mess up the bot. A big problem we'll have for a while is that all of the articles are Start class or less! Walkerma: Thanks a heap for the '''help! &bull; CQ 06:26, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Collaboration of the Month - August 2006
Communitas!

The spirit of community can't be free without the sense of community. True? • CQ • 20:50, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Education
Education and community have alway been intertwined. I've made some initial contact with WikiProject Education, being very impressed with the scope that they are tackling and the level of organization the project has achieved. Hoping to hear from them soon.


 * The articles, Situated learning and Learning object are loosly|moderately|tightly relevant to our scope. Thoughts? &bull; CQ 20:38, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Tagging talk pages and assessing articles
Hi. If you still have work to do tagging talk pages and assessing articles, my AWB plugin might be of interest to you.

The plugin has two main modes of operation:
 * Tagging talk pages, great for high-speed tagging
 * Assessments mode, for reviewing articles (pictured)

As of the current version, WikiProjects with simple "generic" templates are supported by the plugin without the need for any special programatic support by me. I've had a look at your project's template and you seem to qualify.

For more information see:
 * About the plugin
 * About support for "generic" WikiProject templates
 * User guide
 * About AWB (AutoWikiBrowser)

Hope that helps. If you have any questions or find any bugs please let me know on the plugin's talk page. --Kingboyk 12:20, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Project directory
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 20:59, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Stablepedia
Beginning cross-post.
 * See Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team. If you wish to comment, please comment there. ★ MESSED  ROCKER ★  03:29, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

''End cross-post. Please do not comment more in this section.''

Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 22:45, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Conspiracy Con AfD
Conspiracy Con (which I believe would fall under this project since it is a convention devoted to the conspiracy community) has been nominated for deletion--even after extensive sourcing. Please give your comments/vote. Thanks. -Eερ² (t 21:49, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Notice of List articles
Page(s) related to this project have been created and/or added to one of the Contents subpages (not by me). This note is to let you know, so that experts in the field can expand them and check them for accuracy, and so that they can be added to any watchlists/tasklists, and have any appropriate project banners added, etc. Thanks. --Quiddity 20:00, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
 * List of basic community topics
 * Compare List of basic community topics with List of community topics. &bull; Q^#o &bull; 22:40, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Finding a home for articles
Hello WP Community - its good to find you. At the risk of sounding desperate, I want to find a WP that can assist with the following articles, and aside from a non-existent WP on youth studies this might be the best location for these. However, I do not want to tag a bunch of articles where they're not wanted... Any feedback would be appreciated; following are the articles: Youth voice, Youth studies, Adultism, Adultcentrism, Evolving capacities, Fear of youth, Fear of children, Youth politics, Youth leadership, Youth development, Community youth development, Positive youth development, Youth activism, Youth participation, Youth empowerment, Youth-led media, Children's rights, Timeline of children's rights in the United States, Youth rights, History of Youth Rights in the United States, Youth philanthropy, Aging out, Youth movement, Youth engagement, Youth-adult partnerships, Youth council. • Freechild   'sup?   19:18, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Wikiproject Prisons
If anyone's interested, I've proposed a new wikiproject for the creation of articles regarding specific prisons here. --Cdogsimmons (talk) 20:51, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Community GA Sweeps Review: On Hold
As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria and I'm specifically going over all of the "Culture and Society" articles. I have reviewed Community and believe the article currently meets the majority of the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. I have left this message at this WikiProject's talk page so that any interested members can assist in helping the article keep its GA status. In reviewing the article, I have found there are some issues that may need to be addressed, and I'll leave the article on hold for seven days for them to be fixed. I have left messages on the talk pages of the main contributors of the article and several other related WikiProjects. Please consider helping address the several points that I listed on the talk page of the article, which shouldn't take too long to fix if multiple editors assist in the workload. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 05:02, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Rename proposal for the lists of basic topics
This project's subject has a page in the set of Lists of basic topics.

See the proposal at the Village pump to change the names of all those pages.

The Transhumanist 09:55, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.
 * The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
 * The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
 * A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

Each WikiProject should already have a new C-Class category at Category:C-Class_articles. If your project elects not to use the new level, you can simply delete your WikiProject's C-Class category and clarify any amendments on your project's assessment/discussion pages. The bot is already finding and listing C-Class articles.

Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme. This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year. Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot  ( Disable )  22:04, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Community
Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.

We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Release Version Nominations.

A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.

We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 23:26, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Milestone Announcements
I thought this WikiProject might be interested. Ping me with any specific queries or leave them on the page linked to above. Thanks! - Jarry1250 (t, c) 21:46, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group
Hi! I'd like to draw your attention to the new WikiProject coordinators' working group, an effort to bring both official and unofficial WikiProject coordinators together so that the projects can more easily develop consensus and collaborate. This group has been created after discussion regarding possible changes to the A-Class review system, and that may be one of the first things discussed by interested coordinators.

All designated project coordinators are invited to join this working group. If your project hasn't formally designated any editors as coordinators, but you are someone who regularly deals with coordination tasks in the project, please feel free to join as well. &mdash; Delievered by §hepBot  ( Disable )  on behalf of the WikiProject coordinators' working group at 05:10, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Article alerts
This is a notice to let you know about Article alerts, a fully-automated subscription-based news delivery system designed to notify WikiProjects and Taskforces when articles are entering Articles for deletion, Requests for comment, Peer review and other workflows (full list). The reports are updated on a daily basis, and provide brief summaries of what happened, with relevant links to discussion or results when possible. A certain degree of customization is available; WikiProjects and Taskforces can choose which workflows to include, have individual reports generated for each workflow, have deletion discussion transcluded on the reports, and so on. An example of a customized report can be found here.

If you are already subscribed to Article Alerts, it is now easier to report bugs and request new features. We are also in the process of implementing a "news system", which would let projects know about ongoing discussions on a wikipedia-wide level, and other things of interest. The developers also note that some subscribing WikiProjects and Taskforces use the  parameter, but forget to give a link to their alert page. Your alert page should be located at "Wikipedia:PROJECT-OR-TASKFORCE-HOMEPAGE/Article alerts". Questions and feedback should be left at Wikipedia talk:Article alerts.

Message sent by User:Addbot to all active wiki projects per request, Comments on the message and bot are welcome here.

Thanks. — Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}κοντριβς – WP Physics} 08:59, 15 March, 2009 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement
This message is being sent to each WikiProject that participates in the WP 1.0 assessment system. On Saturday, January 23, 2010, the WP 1.0 bot will be upgraded. Your project does not need to take any action, but the appearance of your project's summary table will change. The upgrade will make many new, optional features available to all WikiProjects. Additional information is available at the WP 1.0 project homepage. &mdash; Carl (CBM · talk) 03:10, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia Online Ambassadors program now accepting applications
I want to invite members of this WikiProject to apply for the Wikipedia Online Ambassadors program. It's a program for helping new users through their early edits, and will focus on students who are assigned to edit Wikipedia in their courses; it's part of the Wikimedia Foundation's Public Policy Initiative right now (see WikiProject United States Public Policy and the Signpost article about it), and will hopefully be the basis for a longer-term effort at improving the way we nurture newbies.--Sross (Public Policy) (talk) 18:12, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

Does this project do assessment of pages for individual communities
I'm seeking clarification on this project's goals. Because the project's front page says "This project's primary purpose is to build and manage Portal:Community (Wikipedia Community Reference) - a guide to articles that deal with the definitions of community and community development in general." my first impression was that this project's editors only do assessment of articles on sociological topics related to community (i.e. the work of defining), not articles for particular communities (e.g. the various intentional communities). If that is true, then the applicable projects for individual communities would instead be either the WikiProject_Cooperatives project (for cooperatives only) or the catch-all WikiProject_Organizations project. However, I do see a few intentional communities among articles that have been assessed by this project (all rated as stub or start), and the Communities portal itself includes a link to a list of intentional communities.

Should the primary purpose of this project instead read something like "articles that deal with the definitions of community and with community development in general"? I'm developing the article for the Abode of the Message (it still needs work, I know), and trying to figure out where to look for assessment. -- MouseRancher (talk) 19:41, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Is there an Infobox for individual communities that aren't cooperatives
I am not finding anything under the Community project regarding an Infobox for articles about individual communities (e.g. individual intentional communities). Does anyone know if something like that already exists? There is one for cooperatives (Template:Infobox_cooperative), but not one I can find for intentional communities that are not cooperatives. There is a Template:Infobox_community, but it's for demographic information, and not really appropriate. For the Abode of the Message article I have ended up using one created for non-profit organizations (Template:Infobox_non-profit), which is somewhat unsatisfying. If it seems worthwhile, I can create a new infobox, perhaps Template:Infobox_intentional_community. I can't seem to think of a broader template name that would encompass virtual communities, for instance. Thoughts? -- MouseRancher (talk) 20:45, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Community 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 Community 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.

We have greatly streamlined the process since the Version 0.7 release, so we aim to have the collection ready for distribution by the end of October, 2010. As a result, we are planning to distribute the collection much more widely, while continuing to work with groups such as One Laptop per Child and Wikipedia for Schools to extend the reach of Wikipedia worldwide. Please help us, with your WikiProject's feedback!

For the Wikipedia 1.0 editorial team, SelectionBot 22:17, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

The Great Backlog Drive
PanydThe muffin is not subtle 22:45, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

Is this wikiproject active?
Above, I see mainly bot annoucements, and queries without any replies... --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 11:26, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
 * With no replies for two weeks, I am marking this project as inactive :( --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 22:11, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the notice. I've been away for awhile but I'm back now. Should be a bit more active in the years to come. CharleyQuinton (talk) 03:12, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Please review

 * Articles for deletion/Aaron Tobey which concerns Aaron Tobey Richmond Airport 4th Amendment Naked Protest

..and proposals being discussed there for a potential merged or more general additional article on US civilian aiport security regulation issues and public reactions, perspectives on and by foreign travelers, sociology, law, cultural phenomenology, and international context. The later detection of Fukushima radiation at US airports, which is not yet mentioned in this article, is also being discussed as a subtopic to be added into a general article. Separately from the 'criiticms' subsection on the US Transportation Security Administration alone.

Articles for deletion/Don't touch my junk is a second related AfD regarding another article which also presents a US airport bodily search protest.

A potential general article not only on protest but on efficacy, social context, and events which are of national and international note in these regards would also include breaking 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and Fukushima I nuclear accidents news such as Japan radiation sets off O'Hare airport alarms -- CBS News Chicago station reports trace amounts of radiation clinging to flights from country ravaged by earthquake, tsunami:


 * "Trace amounts of radiation from Japan have been detected in Chicago, CBS News station WBBM-TV reports.

Travelers coming in from Japan on Wednesday triggered radiation detectors at O'Hare International Airport as they passed through customs. Only very small amounts of radiation were detected.

...Feds move more radiation monitors to West Coast...

"We are aware of the radiation," said Chicago Aviation Department spokeswoman Karen Pride. "We are adding screenings and precautionary measures."

...Radiation was also found in luggage and on passengers on flights from Japan.

Mayor Richard M. Daley and other city officials wouldn't provide any additional details, saying federal authorities were handling the situation.

"Of course the protection of the person coming off the plane is important in regards to any radiation and especially within their families," Daley said at an unrelated event." [more at] Articles for deletion/Aaron Tobey [and in the original CBS article March 17, 2011]. - Pandelver (talk) 20:18, 18 March 2011 (UTC)


 * I take it the issue is settled. CharleyQuinton (talk) 03:17, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Community GAR
Community an article tagged by this project is up for good article review. You might like to respond to some of the concerns Community|here. AIR corn (talk) 04:19, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Portal:Society at peer review
Portal:Society is now up for portal peer review, the review page is at Portal peer review/Society/archive1. I've put a bit of effort into this as part of a featured portal drive related to portals linked from the top-right corner of the Main Page, and feedback would be appreciated prior to featured portal candidacy. Thank you for your time, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 02:41, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

Portal:Society for featured portal consideration
I've nominated Portal:Society for featured portal candidacy, discussion is at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Society. Thank you for your time, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 22:27, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
 * '''Portal:Society

Expansion of Population mobility article
Hello! I am a student at Rice university and am working to revise the current population mobility article. I'm updating the article to show how the ability to travel and relocate effects families and women in particular. Wikipedia currently lacks information on geographic mobility outside the US, and does not look at how the ability to travel can change the dynamic of a community. The current Population mobility article focuses only on demographic measures of population mobility and the technical definition of mobility in the US Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey. Do you think this idea fits under population mobility, or does it work better in another article? Thanks! matt.9.johnson (talk) 22:01, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I'll have to study how the term is applied. The English language versions of many articles tend toward US-centricity which isn't cool at all. I agree that "the ability to travel can change the dynamic of a community" and needs coverage somewhere. If you and your colleagues at Rice can expand the Population mobility article with sourced information that fits world-wide, please do so. If not, we should probably merge what little is there into Human migration. You may also have a look at Internally displaced person for some context and ideas. Thank you, Matt! CharleyQuinton (talk) 04:01, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Charley, thank you for your feedback! I'm sorry I am responding to this so late- I didn't have my watchlist setup the way I thought I did and completely missed it.  I was able to find a fair amount of information and expand the article substantially.  There are a lot of good reports and journal articles on the subject (as well as two full books I am waiting on from the library).  The source information out there comes from both economic researchers and more sociological ones, so the article has grown to have two distinct flavors between its main sections (about technical measurement and then social impacts).  I have gotten a lot of feedback from my classmates, and will be making a fair number of changes to the article over the next week to incorporate their suggestions.  Thank you for your help and for giving me links to those related articles!  I'll link them into the See also section of population mobility as well.  Let me know if you have any further suggestions or advice! matt.9.johnson (talk) 06:23, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

CfD discussion for societies and cultures
There is a discussion going on right now at WP:Categories for discussion that involves changing the category names for all cultures, from, for example, "Afghan society" to "Society of Afghanistan". I can see that next will be changing "German culture" to "Culture of Germany" and the like. This would be for all ethnicities, nationalities and cultures. If you would like to weigh in, the conversation is occurring at Categories for discussion/Log/2014 March 27. Liz Read! Talk! 14:53, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2014
You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride 2014, a campaign to create and improve LGBT-related content at Wikipedia and its sister projects. The campaign will take place throughout the month of June, culminating with a multinational edit-a-thon on June 21. Meetups are being held in some cities, or you can participate remotely. All constructive edits are welcome in order to contribute to Wikipedia's mission of providing quality, accurate information. Articles related to LGBT culture may be of particular interest. You can also upload LGBT-related images by participating in Wikimedia Commons' LGBT-related photo challenge. You are encouraged to share the results of your work here. Happy editing! -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 19:13, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

Leaflet for Wikiproject Community at Wikimania 2014
Hi all,

My name is Adi Khajuria and I am helping out with Wikimania 2014 in London.

One of our initiatives is to create leaflets to increase the discoverability of various wikimedia projects, and showcase the breadth of activity within wikimedia. Any kind of project can have a physical paper leaflet designed - for free - as a tool to help recruit new contributors. These leaflets will be printed at Wikimania 2014, and the designs can be re-used in the future at other events and locations.

This is particularly aimed at highlighting less discoverable but successful projects, e.g:

• Active Wikiprojects: Wikiproject Medicine, WikiProject Video Games, Wikiproject Film

• Tech projects/Tools, which may be looking for either users or developers.

• Less known major projects: Wikinews, Wikidata, Wikivoyage, etc.

• Wiki Loves Parliaments, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves ____

• Wikimedia thematic organisations, Wikiwomen’s Collaborative, The Signpost The deadline for submissions is 1st July 2014 For more information or to sign up for one for your project, go to: Project leaflets Adikhajuria (talk) 12:41, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

stem-centric-career-development
Today, STEM careers offer a wide range of jobs in diverse segments. Some of the most unique as well as powerful jobs in the world require a background in science, technology, engineering and math. Interest in STEM studies and careers has swelled more than 20 percent from the interest expressed by the graduating class of 2004. In 2012 there were more than 7.4 million workers in the fields of science and technology, and by 2018 there could be more than 8.6 million STEM workers, not counting self-employed people.

(Source; STEM connector)

Why STEM Centric Career Development?

Unemployment has skyrocketed, job security has evaporated, and compensation has declined for most all workers. Retail jobs make up for most of the new low wage jobs, and better jobs across all industries demand the application of creativity, innovativeness and complex thought. Routine and easily defined job face competition from automation and outsourcing. Middle class job loss is America’s most pressing economic problem. Yet foreign competition, cheaper labor and free trade are easily blamed for the decline of career opportunities. Beliefs about protecting jobs by keeping them at home or not hiring immigrant talent will not affect the realities of labor or globalization.

The U.S. faces fundamental challenges about its role in the global workplace and economic order. Unlike cyclical unemployment where layoffs come from temporary pauses in activity, the present structural changes have relocated jobs permanently. Creating new jobs is taking longer, workers are experiencing more stress and less satisfaction, and employers seeking to grow companies face greater credit risks. To achieve this, students and adults must face tough choices about how to invest in their future. Few workers can avoid the consequences of competing in a super-integrated world where all aspects of production have become commodities. All raw materials, design, manufacturing, distribution, and financing are accessible at anytime from anywhere, by anyone. As a result, assumptions about career development strategies for Main Street workers, college graduates, and outer space explorers need review. Embracing a STEM-Centric career development orientation is necessary if career development is to build bridges across the community and beyond.

What You Can Do:

Whether you’re a student, counselor, educator, or parent, you can get involved. You’re taking the first step by visiting this site. If you’re a student, push your school to teach STEM classes. Counselors, it’s your job to promote students to peruse a STEM. Educators, you should be teaching students the relevance of STEM in everyday life, and to you parents, push your children to do well in STEM.

Job4Americans Initiative

Brought to you by Ideal Education – NJ not for profit organization, RenParikh.com and its Educational Affiliates, Job 4 Americans is an initiative designed to put Americans back to work, by directly connecting employment opportunities with employer driven training models. Bridging training and employment opportunities in the Medical, Information Technology, and Business Administration industries, Job 4 Americans works to connect Americans with an opportunity to obtain the necessary skills to transition from unemployment and underemployment, in to a hands-on work environment where there their existing skills can be developed and shaped in to the future of employment in the United States.

Job 4 Americans plans to realize this initiative through a two pronged process that serves the employer and the displaced worker. By creating customized training solutions for employers; helping them access government funding aimed at creating job growth; and facilitating training that upgrades the skills of their workforce, we can create an environment of economic growth, individual promotion, and create entry level opportunities for local businesses.

GLOBAL ACADEMIC ALLIANCE PROGRAM

What We Do?

Comprised of a group of educators, university administrators, and consultants, Global Academic Alliance Program assists students and academic institutions in meeting their educational goals efficiently and affordably.

We serve students through offering personalized academic and admissions support, assisting in articulating their educational objectives, and creating unique study pathways to accelerate and enhance their educational trajectories.

We partner with colleges and universities worldwide to create innovative study pathways in various disciplines, customized to the needs of specific student populations.

Finally, we support partner institutional offerings through establishing learning centers in the United States, India and Singapore. In coordination with our academic affiliates, our learning center teams conduct student recruitment, administer educational programs, and deliver supplemental services to facilitate student success.

Our Education Philosophy

Education is one of the most significant investments an individual will ever make; therefore, it is essential that academic programs be customized to the individual’s unique needs, desires, and circumstances.

Mediation between students and institutions is essential to fill in gaps in educational programs and to serve students who are not adequately prepared for their planned courses of study.

The student-teacher relationship is the core of a successful education; while distance learning technologies may enhance academic programs, the integrity and immediacy of the classroom experience must be preserved.

Our Process

Global Academic Alliance Program begins by analyzing the education needs of specific groups of students, both local and international. We focus on factors such as the student’s English language proficiency, cultural differences and financial circumstances, intensity of program courses, and individual scheduling flexibility.

Next, we collaborate with colleges and universities to formulate unique study pathways to address these needs. In developing our study plans, we mediate between institutions in the United States and abroad to provide advisement on differences in educational systems and to develop optimal modes of international program delivery.

Third, we work with academic institutions to implement these programs, whether at the university’s main campus, at one of Global Academic Alliance’s educational centers, or at a Global Academic Alliance host-partner institution in India or Singapore. Global Academic Alliance’s international staff offers logistical and operational support to deliver the programs effectively.

Finally, Global Academic Alliance ensures students’ successful curriculum completion through offering antecedent programs to fulfill pre-requisites and develop necessary core competencies for academic success.

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)

Community Liaison job openings at WMF
Hello! There are currently 2 job openings, and I thought someone here might be interested. Specifically: If you need further information, feel free to send an email to cep@lists.wikimedia.org (but do not use this address to apply). Please pass it along, if you know someone who might be interested or a good fit for the Community Engagement team. Thanks! Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 18:26, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Community Liaison - this position will initially focus on working with the Flow team and also with the Editing (VisualEditor) team, mostly at non-English wikis; however, a lot of smaller or short-term tasks continually come up, so the WMF is particularly looking for someone who is adaptable, and with several diverse interests.
 * Community Liaison (Part time contract) - this part-time position will primarily focus on working with the Mobile teams, as the link explains.

WikiProject X is live!


Hello everyone!

You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

Note: To receive additional notifications about WikiProject X on this talk page, please add this page to WikiProject X/Newsletter. Otherwise, this will be the last notification sent about WikiProject X.

Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

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
 * When? June 2015
 * 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.)

Or, view or update the current list of Tasks. This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. Visit the group's page at Meta-Wiki for more information, or follow Wikimedia LGBT+ on Facebook. Remember, Wiki Loves Pride is about creating and improving LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects, and content should have a neutral point of view. One does not need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Wikipedia, plain and simple, and all are welcome!

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the campaign's main talk page.

Thanks, and happy editing!

User:Another Believer and User:OR drohowa

Proposed addition to "Avoiding personal attacks"
There is a proposal to add a short paragraph to the "Avoiding personal attacks" section of the No personal attacks policy page. The discussion is Proposed addition to "Avoiding personal attacks". Your participation is welcome. Lightbreather (talk) 01:20, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Expert attention
This is a notice about Category:Community articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock (talk) 22:52, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Created article - Moveable Feast
I've created a new article on the Baltimore based nonprofit that delivers food to ill people -- Moveable Feast.

Please feel free to help out or collaborate on improvements, at Talk:Moveable Feast.

Thank you,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 03:25, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Archived old addressed threads
Archived old addressed threads.

Metric used was threads older than one year with zero new activity or responses, threads that were notifications to other discussions long since closed like closed deletion discussions from years ago, etc.

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 03:54, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Moveable Feast (organization) listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Moveable Feast (organization) to be moved to Moveable Feast. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 20:16, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
 * To opt out of RM notifications on this page, transclude, or set up Article alerts for this WikiProject.

Move discussion for Maryland community organization
Please see Talk:Moveable_Feast_(organization).

Thank you,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 20:24, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

WP:ONEWAY questions and case study
Hello: I'm curious to know if there's a precedent for dealing with the following issue:

Suppose some online community exists that is focused on some given theme. If both the community and the theme have wiki pages, and the community page links to the theme page, what sort of standard of notability (or otherwise) should be used to decide whether the theme page should link to the community page?

The practical version of this question is links from Masturbation to NoFap. This is discussed on the relevant talk page: Talk:Masturbation. Critics have suggested that NoFap is not notable and that it represents a "fringe" view. However, it has 200000 members at present and has been around since 2011, so to me it seems stable and significant enough to mention. There are plenty of articles in the popular press linking the topics, and some research articles as well. However, there is some disagreement on the issue, given that NoFap is not "mainstream". Please comment on the above-mentioned talk page if you have a chance. Thanks Arided (talk) 02:31, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

Portals are being redesigned.

The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template Transclude lead excerpt.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

Background
On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.

If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.

Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  07:29, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!
A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.
 * – Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Community for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Community is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Community (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America1000 11:24, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

WikiProject up and running
Hi. I would like to get this WikiProject up and running again. anyone else interested? feel free to let me know. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 16:53, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

Utopian & intentional communities
Hi, I have been working my way through Category:Intentional communities in reverse alphabetic order & moving the ones in the US to Category:Intentional communities in the United States. Along the way, I have been trying to standardize the citations with citation templates, parenthetical referencing when appropriate, using Citation Style 1 templates to add OCLC & ISBN numbers & online links to publications, infoboxes, & other WikiGnome activities.

One thing that I have noticed is that Utopian community, List of American Utopian communities, & Category:Utopian communities all seem to have evolved with no connection to WikiProject Community. I am interested in working with others to rectify that & will probably contact other editors to discuss that here.

Peaceray (talk) 04:48, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
 * hi . I just saw your note above. that sounds really excellent. I would like to get this WikiProject up and running again. anyone else interested? feel free to let me know. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 16:56, 16 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Of interest: Peaceray (talk) 06:09, 17 January 2020 (UTC)