Wikipedia talk:WikiProject SUNY/Archive 1

Talk page template need work
The template for WikiProject SUNY is displaying the little robot icon, even if the auto parameter is omitted. I have tried to fix this, but cannot. Someone please help. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 20:29, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

Cornell University - SUNY Naming Dispute
We are having an article naming dispute concerning a unit that is part of both SUNY and Cornell and need the opinion of more editors. An article started as New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations on April 1, 2004. It was moved to Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations to be consistent with other Cornell unit articles on July 21, 2006. It was moved to ILR School on December 12, 2010, and then to Cornell University ILR School on December 13. Since that time, the Cornell business school article was moved to Johnson Graduate School of Management, so I contend that if we are going to reflect benefactors and official names in Wikipedia article names, we might as well stick to the official name of this school and acknowledge its benefactor -- New York State-- as well. You can join the discussion at: Talk:Cornell University ILR School Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 06:27, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Assessment
We now have the robot working properly on building the assessment table based on the project banners that have been placed on the talk pages of each article. I have added a quality and importance rating to each of the 86 articles that are currently in the WikiProject. If you create a new artcle, please add both parameters to the talk page banner. Thanks. 66.173.140.100 (talk) 13:55, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
 * We now have 87 article and all have been assessed for quality and importance. When you add the project banner to the talk page of an article, please include the parameters |class=|importance=  so that our project will continue to be completely assessed. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 11:44, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Popular pages
Given that this project has only three active members, I think it should be easy to get consensus to ask a robot to tabulate our pages in order of most request viewing. Is there any objections? Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 09:32, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

GA Reviews
Due to a concerted effort to eliminate the backlog on reviewing GA nominations, you can get a quick turnaround on your articles. Please consider cleaning up and nominating deserving SUNY articles, and we will try to process them promptly. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 13:22, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
 * You have two choices, either we can divide efforts by my reveiwing the article as a part of my general efforts to conduct GA reviews, or we can collaborate on preparing the article for a GA review. I am willing to work with you in either capacity. Please let me know. Racepacket (talk) 10:01, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

Pageview stats
After a recent request, I added WikiProject SUNY to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at WikiProject SUNY/Popular pages.

The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. You can view more results, request a new project be added to the list, or request a configuration change for this project using the toolserver tool. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! Mr.Z-man 00:25, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Retiring
We have had a good run. We did assessments on every SUNY related article and cleaned up a number of problem areas. Best wishes on your future progress. Racepacket (talk) 11:00, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

Proposal for United States A-Class review process
There is a proposal at WikiProject United States to start an A-Class review process for United States related articles. Please stop by and join the discussion. Kumioko (talk) 02:15, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Talk page banner for this project
There is a discussion at WT:WPNY about moving this project's assessment from the WPUS banner to WPNY. Feel free to comment there. –  T M F  (talk) 15:35, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

Discussion on consolidating inactive and semi-active university WikiProjects
This project may be affected by a proposed consolidation of inactive and semi-active WikiProjects covering universities. The proposed consolidation is being discussed on the talk page of WikiProject Universities. We are seeking feedback from the projects that may be impacted before we decide on a course of action. Please drop by to participate in the discussion. Thanks! –Mabeenot (talk) 06:47, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

Albany, Binghamton, and Stony Brook softball articles
Hello, everyone. I've recently started the College softball task force, working to help expand Wikipedia's college softball coverage. Three of the articles we are looking for are Albany Great Danes softball, Binghamton Bearcats softball, and Stony Brook Seawolves softball articles. If anyone on this project would be willing to consider adopting one of them and writing a team article, please consider visiting the softball project. Thanks, Ejgreen77 (talk) 04:39, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

College basketball team navigation template
Please join the discussion at the College Basketball Wikiproject for forming a consensus on the creation of a basic navigation template for college basketball teams. CrazyPaco (talk) 09:38, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Popular pages tool update
As of January, the popular pages tool has moved from the Toolserver to Wikimedia Tool Labs. The code has changed significantly from the Toolserver version, but users should notice few differences. Please take a moment to look over your project's list for any anomalies, such as pages that you expect to see that are missing or pages that seem to have more views than expected. Note that unlike other tools, this tool aggregates all views from redirects, which means it will typically have higher numbers. (For January 2014 specifically, 35 hours of data is missing from the WMF data, which was approximated from other dates. For most articles, this should yield a more accurate number. However, a few articles, like ones featured on the Main Page, may be off).

Web tools, to replace the ones at ~alexz/pop, will become available over the next few weeks at popularpages. All of the historical data (back to July 2009 for some projects) has been copied over. The tool to view historical data is currently partially available (assessment data and a few projects may not be available at the moment). The tool to add new projects to the bot's list is also available now (editing the configuration of current projects coming soon). Unlike the previous tool, all changes will be effective immediately. OAuth is used to authenticate users, allowing only regular users to make changes to prevent abuse. A visible history of configuration additions and changes is coming soon. Once tools become fully available, their toolserver versions will redirect to Labs.

If you have any questions, want to report any bugs, or there are any features you would like to see that aren't currently available on the Toolserver tools, see the updated FAQ or contact me on my talk page. Mr.Z-bot (talk) (for Mr.Z-man ) 05:28, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

Leaflet for Wikiproject SUNY 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) 14:37, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

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) 22:48, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

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)

RM: University at Buffalo
Please see this. Thanks, Ejgreen77 (talk) 17:47, 8 May 2015 (UTC)

Popular pages report
We – Community Tech – are happy to announce that the Popular pages bot is back up-and-running (after a one year hiatus)! You're receiving this message because your WikiProject or task force is signed up to receive the popular pages report. Every month, will post at /Popular pages with a list of the most-viewed pages over the previous month that are within the scope of. We've made some enhancements to the original report. Here's what's new:
 * The pageview data includes both desktop and mobile data.
 * The report will include a link to the pageviews tool for each article, to dig deeper into any surprises or anomalies.
 * The report will include the total pageviews for the entire project (including redirects).

We're grateful to for his original, and we wish his bot a happy robot retirement. Just as before, we hope the popular pages reports will aid you in understanding the reach of, and what articles may be deserving of more attention. If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at m:User talk:Community Tech bot.

Warm regards, the Community Tech Team 17:16, 17 May 2017 (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)

User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like and turns it into something like
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from cite web, cite journal and doi.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:02, 29 April 2022 (UTC)