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Job opportunity at the Bodleian Library
Hi all,

I hope you don't mind me spreading the news here. The Bodleian Libraries and Wikimedia UK are delighted to announce that we will be supporting a part time Wikimedian in Residence at the Bodleian library in Oxford. The post provides the opportunity to work with some of the world’s richest collections to improve content on Wikipedia and its sister projects and to share with the world the resources held in the Bodleian Libraries. More details including how to apply at bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Deadline 19th January 2015. Daria Cybulska (WMUK) (talk) 12:41, 9 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Hello,, and thanks for letting us know. The talk page here isn't very active but there are a number of Oxford-based or Oxford-related editors active on WP and some of us are (at least sporadically!) busy producing Oxford-related content, as a look at the specifically Oxford-themed content at Portal:University of Oxford/Quality content will show.  So a Bodleian Wikimedian in Residence will be excellent news for those of us looking for that elusive Oxford-based reference but whose own Bodleian days are many years and / or scores of miles away! Keep us posted, please.  BencherliteTalk 17:13, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Category discussion - "faculty" or "academics" of the University of Oxford?
See Categories for discussion/Log/2015 January 21. One proposal is to merge Category:Faculty of the University of Oxford into Category:Academics of the University of Oxford; there is a counter-proposal to merge them the other way round. If you have views on whether the category should be called "Academics" or "Faculty", then please join in. BencherliteTalk 17:52, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Anyone have access to the "Bodleian Library Record"?
I'm looking around for another list of Oxford professors or similar to create (to go with the 8 featured lists I've got in this field already) and I'm going to work on the Heather Professor of Music. Does anyone have access to this article: If so, and you felt able to scan me a copy, I'd be very grateful. Thanks, BencherliteTalk 11:40, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
 * H. W. Shaw, ‘The Oxford University chair of music, 1627–1947, with some account of Oxford degrees in music from 1856’, Bodleian Library Record, 16 (1997–9), 233–70
 * Doesn't seem to be on JSTOR. If you're patient .... somebody will have (applications just closed & page removed). Why not ask the faculty? Johnbod (talk) 11:55, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, I saw that (looks above!). I tried JSTOR but no joy. I thought I'd try here first (and WP:REX) before anywhere else - approaching the faculty would mean having to explain why I wanted it! BencherliteTalk 12:00, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
 * There seems to be a copy in the Music Faculty Library; I could probably get it out at some very indefinite point in the future, but it wouldn't be soon. Jonathan A Jones (talk) 16:46, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Category merger - Rawlinsonian Professors of Anglo-Saxon / Rawlinson and Bosworth Professors of Anglo-Saxon
In 1916, the position of Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon was renamed Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon. We have one article (the former name redirecting to the new) but two categories for the pre- and post-1916 professors. Should they be merged or kept as they are? See Categories for discussion/Log/2015 January 26 - all contributions welcome. BencherliteTalk 01:07, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

FP nomination
Members of this WikiProject (and others, of course) are invited to comment at Featured picture candidates/The Brazen Nose knocker, being as the picture is highly relevant to Brasenose College. BethNaught (talk) 19:21, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Proposal to move Methodism to Child Project
Per WikiProject Council/Proposals/Methodism Jerodlycett (talk) 09:42, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Hello from the Bodleian Libraries
Hello Oxonian Wikipedians, I'm overjoyed to be the Bodleian Libraries' Wikimedian In Residence and I hope I get to meet all of you in the coming months. I'm commuting from Bristol and staying over in Oxford on some nights, so if anyone wants to get together for a drink on an evening mid-week, that'd be ideal for me. I intend to be at the upcoming Oxford meetups (see wmuk:Events).

At the moment I'm meeting people to examine possibilities for content sharing, and setting up a workshop for staff. Later in the year I'll be running some editathons around women in science and I think there is a lot more scope for public events. There's a lot of appreciation in the University for the work being done here on Wikipedia, and I hope we can bring the communities closer together. Project activities will be recorded at GLAM/Bodleian. Feel free to contact me on my Talk page or via martin.poulter@undefinedbodleian.ox.ac.uk.

I note User:Bencherlite's request above and I'll see what I can do to help. MartinPoulter (talk) 09:32, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Please help address rampant plagiarism
...at John Pym. The source text for the carte blanche transfer of the copyrighted material to Wikipedia is identified in the article's Talk section. Le Prof 71.239.87.100 (talk) 02:08, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

Experts on Oxford literary, history, and arts scene, 1920-1990
…in re: Harold Acton article, please see. Cheers, Le Prof 71.201.62.200 (talk) 05:42, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

Expert attention
This is a notice about Category:University of Oxford articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock (talk) 18:10, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

GA review for Auden
MusicAngels (talk) 18:27, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

Women in Science events at the University of Oxford
To celebrate the bicentenary of Ada Lovelace, Oxford IT Services, the Bodleian Libraries and Wikimedia UK are running four events next week (Monday 12 October to Thursday 15 October) around Women In Science. These include three events editing, improving and illustrating Wikipedia, plus a Wikisource transcribe-a-thon. If you can make it to Oxford, you'd be welcome to join us, but please email martin.poulter@bodleian.ox.ac.uk in advance. See the blog post for an overview or go to the project pages for more detail on what we're doing. MartinPoulter (talk) 13:13, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

World War I editathon, Tuesday 10th November, University of Oxford
Hi, participation is welcome in an editathon next week on the theme of Oxford in World War I. There are spaces available for Wikipedians who want to attend in person- follow the link for details. MartinPoulter (talk) 17:13, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

Infobox heading and link colours
A July 2015 revision to Template:Infobox Oxford college changed the rendering of links from light orange to deep blue. This made the links hard to see when displayed against the dark primary colour of most of the college infobox headings (see example). It's not for me to decide whether the heading colours are more important than the link colours, so I have set them both back to the default pending a consensus that is legible for all possible college primary colours. Template talk:Infobox Oxford college is perhaps the best place for any discussion. - Pointillist (talk) 00:50, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

Oxford Colleges page
The Faculty of Theology website at University of Oxford lists Ripon College Cuddesdon as a College of the Faculty of Theology at Oxford. I feel this information should be included in the article.Corsairfud (talk) 16:14, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Ripon College Cuddesdon is not one of the Colleges of the University of Oxford. Jonathan A Jones (talk) 19:29, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

The Deil's Hallowe'en
I tried placing this request at WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request, but this book is only known to exist at Oxford and the University of Glasgow, so I would very much appreciate any help that anyone here could give. I need a copy of The Deil's Hallowe'en, a poem by Young Glasgow (which may be a pseudonym) that was published in Glasgow in 1856, apparently as a standalone book. II do not need the entire poem, but only the page on which appears the line "A drappie o' the real McKay," plus any additional pages that may be needed to give the line context (e.g., does "real McKay" refer to a brand of whisky?). I believe this is page 25. This is for our article on real McCoy. John M Baker (talk) 15:54, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I have called up the Oxford copy from stacks and hope to take a look tomorrow. Jonathan A Jones (talk) 16:10, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much, Jonathan. John M Baker (talk) 16:56, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

Here's the relevant text: Beneath my twa reel-yeukin' cluits There's what 'ill sharpen a' your wits,— A drappie o' the real M`Kay, Ye'll find it, deevils, when you try. I red ye, lads, by horn and hoof! It's jist a hunder over-proof. I wadna gi'e a catholic damn For an adulterated dram ; But that, my joes, ye needna fear, There's no a drap o' water here. In context it's very clear that the reference is to whisky, but note the spelling: "M`Kay", and it's not clear that it's what we would now call a brand name, though it is consistent with that.

The book was very fragile so I haven't taken scans but I do have some bad iPhone photos I can provide if you email me. Jonathan A Jones (talk) 16:37, 8 June 2016 (UTC)


 * That's excellent, Jonathan! Thank you very much for this.  I've seen you an email and would love to see the photos.  John M Baker (talk) 18:16, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

2016 Community Wishlist Survey Proposal to Revive Popular Pages
Greetings Members!

This is a one-time-only message to inform you about a technical proposal to revive your Popular Pages list in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey that I think you may be interested in reviewing and perhaps even voting for:


 * Fix and improve Mr.Z-bot's popular pages report

If the above proposal gets in the Top 10 based on the votes, there is a high likelihood of this bot being restored so your project will again see monthly updates of popular pages.

Further, there are over 260 proposals in all to review and vote for, across many aspects of wikis.

Thank you for your consideration. Please note that voting for proposals continues through December 12, 2016.

Best regards, — Delivered: 18:18, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

January 2017 at Women in Red
(To subscribe, Women in Red/Invite list. Unsubscribe, Women in Red/Opt-out list) --Ipigott (talk) 17:13, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

Is John Vickers the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC of the disambiguation page on which his name appears?
A discussion regarding the above topic at Talk:John Vickers (disambiguation) may be of interest. &mdash;Roman Spinner (talk)(contribs) 21:11, 20 February 2017 (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)

Disambiguation links on pages tagged by this wikiproject
Wikipedia has many thousands of wikilinks which point to disambiguation pages. It would be useful to readers if these links directed them to the specific pages of interest, rather than making them search through a list. Members of WikiProject Disambiguation have been working on this and the total number is now below 20,000 for the first time. Some of these links require specialist knowledge of the topics concerned and therefore it would be great if you could help in your area of expertise.

A list of the relevant links on pages which fall within the remit of this wikiproject can be found at http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/cgi-bin/topic_points.py?banner=WikiProject_University_of_Oxford

Please take a few minutes to help make these more useful to our readers.&mdash; Rod talk 19:52, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Proposed changes to Corpus Christi College, Oxford
I've proposed some changes to Corpus Christi College, Oxford and would appreciate your thoughts on how to improve them. See the for discussion. (talk) 17:02, 7 May 2018 (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  07:59, 30 May 2018 (UTC)