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How to coorect wrong disambiguation for Pougarje article (proposal)? With best regards,

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hi

Hmm, sounds ambitious. I might just join you. Andrew Dalby 20:18, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

Bienvenido, Velkommen, vítáme vás, Witamy, Καλώς Ορίσατε, Добро пожаловать, Salvē, 歡迎, 欢迎, 歓迎, 환영합니다, ยินดีต้อนรับ, Dobrodošli, أهلاً وسهلاً, Вітаємо, Welkom, सुस्वागतम, Добредојдовте, Croeso, Добре дошли, Вітаем ... Gibraltarpedia in an international and multi-cultural collaboration

Bienvenido, آداب عرض, स्वागत, ברוך בואך, Benvido, Benvenuto, Benvinguts, Bienvenue, Bonvenon, Willkommen, Fàilte, Ongi etorri, Tere tulemast, Tervetuloa, Üdvözlet, Välkomna... Gibraltarpedia in an international and multi-cultural collaboration

'Gibraltarpedia in an international and multi-cultural collaboration'

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We would like to invite you to contribute to the GibraltarpediA project, the world's first WIkipedia City. The project needs writers, photographers, translators and others to help build the first wiki city which bridges Europe and Africa. We are going to transform Gibraltar and the surrounding areas in Morocco and Spain into areas rich with encyclopedic content immediately accessible using QR codes and NFC on plaques for visitors and local people.

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'Gibraltarpedia in an international and multi-cultural collaboration'

I had a fiddle, not sure it's quite right Mrjohncummings (talk) 21:47, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

Translated to Spanish. We'll also need the banner itself translated. --Gibmetal 77^{talk 2 me} 10:47, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Hello

Hi

Just testing the network to see if it works --Mrjohncummings (talk) 09:33, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

received :-) Victuallers (talk) 09:38, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

Wikimedia

Good evening. I don't know my way around Wikimedia very well and I was hoping you could help me with something. I have uploaded quite a few images, however, to Wikimedia (at least I know how to do that). Anyway, I received a message a few minutes ago that an image that I uploaded earlier this evening doesn't have permission. It's File:Panorama from Green's Lodge Battery.png. I did my usual, including description and license, but they want proof that I have permission. Gibmetal77 is on holiday, but he told me ages ago that all of the images on Jim Crone's DiscoverGibraltar site were available by CC-SA-3.0. I don't understand what extra proof I'm supposed to provide and to whom I'm supposed to provide it. Do you have any suggestions? They're threatening speedy deletion. Thank you. Anne (talk) 02:40, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

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vids Victuallers (talk) 22:51, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

Arvind Singh

Hello, just letting you know that the above article you created has been proposed for deletion. The proposer doesn't appear to have notified you, so I thought it polite to do so. Thank you. Rotten regard Softnow 23:50, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

De Montfort University

Hello Victuallers (talk) 09:10, 6 November 2012 (UTC) Oh hello Victuallers!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Allytups (talk • contribs) 15:54, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Hello Victuallers! I was able to create my account at home now. Yay! Fania FaniaRa (talk) 17:01, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Ok, I need first advice. When editing larger portions of articles, should I edit bit by bit over time or do all changes in my sandbox first and then add them in one go when finished? What's considered better practice? FaniaRa (talk) 19:43, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Sorry this is a personality thing. I normally do it bit by bit as I'm a bit worried that someone else might change what I am planning to change. This can create a bit of a mess to clear up. On the other hand - If I am creating a big change then it might appear really odd if someone looks at it half way through (and they get confused). I think I would recommend the bit by bit. The most fun I have had when editing is when two or three people are editing the same article at once. (Its not as good as Google docs as you get lockouts - but still fun). If you do it a little bit at a time then you won't lose too much if it goes wrong. If you want then I can look at your changes if you want some confidence. But you are meant to be bold - you can always say sorry! Hope that helps a bit. Victuallers (talk) 19:58, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Hi Victuallers - thanks for your time today. Interesting and informative. Keith Perch (talk) 22:15, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for the talk. Now to try editing a page before settling down for a bit of election. Betacolonist (talk) 23:18, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for the words of encouragement and pointer to helpful stuff - I need the help! Betacolonist (talk) 23:32, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for another two hours of encouragement! I've now done my duty and made a few edits - to prove I have no fear I rewrote a paragraph of the DMU page, adding a subheading, to do a bit more justice to the abandoned branch campuses, as well as the Milton Keynes page likewise. Betacolonist (talk) 23:22, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

Yesterday's session

Hello Victuallers! Thanks for the TDC session yesterday - very interesting & informative.Tbuck01 (talk) 15:10, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

RE: Holiday?

Sorry Roger, I missed your message. I'm afraid I wouldn't have had time though, too much to see - beautiful place! --Gibmetal 77^{talk 2 me} 00:41, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

DiscoverGibraltar photographs

Hi Victuallers! I forgot to mention the follow up of my discussion of the photos from DiscoverGibraltar. I am being told that my photos from that site can be deleted because of the wording that Jim Crone used on his web page. Apparently, Wikimedia insists that Mr. Crone delete that reference to "may be used for Gibraltarpedia." Otherwise, it's not a valid license, so they say. Would it be possible for you to pass on the message to Jim Crone? Or is there someone else that I should be contacting? Thank you. (BTW, I'm nowhere close to catching up on my email!) Anne (talk) 02:53, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

Hi Anne "Wikimeda insists"? I left a message for the editor who made the comment on wiki commons but he did not respond. I presume this has gone away? Victuallers (talk) 20:26, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Apollo 11 lunar sample display, Apollo 17 lunar sample display

Thanks for your reviews. We are working on the concerns you have for Sweden and Norway. Using this Javascript kit tool I get 1840 characters for the History section of Norway.However I'll see what I can do to expand Norway. We will expand Sweden and get back to you when done.--Doug Coldwell ^talk 15:34, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

I have expanded and copyedited the Sweden article History section and get 1513 characters in this section alone using the Javascript kit tool above. Will that work? We will continue to work on expanding the Sweden and Norway articles. Could you give us an approval on these articles for now? Thanks.--Doug Coldwell ^talk 16:10, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

We have expanded and copyedited the Sweden article History section and get 1613 characters in this section alone using the Javascript kit tool above. Will that work? We will continue to work on expanding the Sweden and Norway articles. Could you give us a "tick" on these articles now (

like others did). Thanks.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:05, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

Can you respond to User:Volunteer Marek's list. Thanks.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 21:11, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
Could you give us a "tick" on Norway and Spain articles on User:Volunteer Marek's list. Thanks.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 13:28, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

Plague suggestion

Hello, you may want to use fi:Gibraltarin Pieni synagoga for Little synagoga. Oh, and when you go to put the plague, please take a photo ! It seems to be very seldom open. Mr. John Cummins has tried. --Tappinen (talk) 22:34, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

Certification

Following up the Coventry conversation. Did you see this Regular correspondent says:

RodgerTheDodger
11 November 2012 11:13 3
Plus the fact that small employers (which is most of us outside the public sector) are far more impressed by applicants who can say they have actually done something. We had one applicant, no qualifications, but 30+ articles on Wikipedia. I read them, they were good. Someone who makes a pro-active contribution, fits their work into a set of standards. Wonderful! Doesn't need to be Wikipedia, there is no model, just be pro-active. There so many ways now to learn, 'do' and publish with the internet that people can exploit.

--ClemRutter (talk) 12:49, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

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Barnstar and gun

Thanks Victuallers for the Barnstar. I have no objection to receiving unearned honours. This isn't the first in my life to date. On the subject of the gun, I went with consistency with the image title, working on the basis that the title was sufficiently detailed that the photographer probably didn't make it up, but rather had some basis for the title. I am quite ready to believe that the gun is a 12-pounder Vickers, but then we should rename the image and justify the renaming in the image's talk page. Regards, Acad Ronin (talk) 15:22, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

Ta, and roger that re image file.Acad Ronin (talk) 15:30, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

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Hi there. I undid your edits to my sandbox but moved the content to User:Victuallers/Fortifications of Gibraltar so you don't lose it. That may be useful later for creation of trails but I'd like to keep the stuff in my sandbox for future publication as a list article if you don't mind. Thanks, --Gibmetal 77^{talk 2 me} 22:33, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

Thats OK Tyson, I'll leave you to it. I was only offering a suggestion. Many lists are actually tables. Victuallers (talk) 22:36, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

Gibraltar on french wikipedia

No problem. If you got important articles of Gibraltar that you know are missing, I can work on stubbing it. Like tears in rain (talk) 11:56, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

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Collaboration

A pity that the collaboration between myself and Gibmetal and Anne no longer seem to be apparent, but the reception received over Gibraltarpedia DYKs explains it I guess. Streets of Gibraltar and Queensway weren't DYK'ed. I'll still create content anyway even if decent stubs/start class material.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 14:30, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

I think Anne has taken a lot of stick at DYK and has ended up being a lone voice. However we have created over 500 articles and thats not counting the Moroccan stubs you did which I keep meaning to geotag. I have a T shirt for you if you email a c/o address. Boxing day is prize day! If the plan works then we get >100 plaques up in Gib. Easy hits are translating the nearby Spanish and French articles. .... Have you left xmas greetings on Anne/Tyson's page? Victuallers (talk) 14:40, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

Tis OK, quite alright. I was keen on working with them on the Algeciras article at some point but its been in Gib's sandbox since August! I can still create a lot of the missing articles as stubs, but busy at present.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 14:43, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

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"Crooks slap on duff codes leading to evil sites"

Watch out for people sticking stickers over those plaques!

Actually this is perhaps an advantage of plaques - a fake add-on sticker would probably be more obvious on a plaque than on a poster. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 14:20, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the link. We also make sure that the url is human readable so that the wary could check if they wanted to, QRpedia was reviewed by security experts ad found to be good for a QR code solution. Actually I'm not sure if I believe this really happens - its like cleverly vandalising wikipedia .... we mostly get silly vandalsm as the clever people have better games to play. Victuallers (talk) 14:28, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

SayapediA: QRpedia in Sayada, Tunisia

Hi,
This is Habib M'henni, I am from Sayada, Tunisia. I saw your message in Youtube Video about our project of a wiki for the city of Sayada and QRpedia. Regards -- Dyolf77 (talk) 22:59, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Hi Habib, sorry no French or Arabic from me. Very interested in Sayapedia. Do you have plans or pictures of QRpedia codes? It seems to be outside Wikipedia which is odd. Do you intend to use QRpedia on a wiki that is not part of wikipedia? That is unusual. I would like to help you and maybe get some help in return. As you may know our best project is working in Morocco, Spain and Gibraltar. Victuallers (talk) 23:25, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Hi, I have this first QR code, here in slide page 13, it should be set at the entrance of the city gate and the municipality (probably this week and, of course, I will take photos). For the local wiki, it's just an incubator for articles that will be integrated to wikipedia. Our first goal is to work with local people to edit some articles about the city, take photos...

We are (me and my local team) honored to work with you on this project and others. Best regards --Dyolf77 (talk) 23:43, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

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Merry Christmas

best wishes for you and your family. I hope everythings fine! :-) --Arnaugir (talk) 07:53, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

Re:Merry Christmas

Thanks for your kind words! Regarding my exams, I made it by a hair, so now I can take a deserved rest (at least till January 2, when I'll back to work). About the challenge, I'll write some more articles until Boxing Day, but I don't want that these points will taken into account. Two hundred points are a good round number :) - Al Lemos (talk) 14:25, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

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Citation

Hi Roger, I'm planning to nominate Gibraltar Hindu Temple for DYK, but it still needs more information about the temple in the history section. Third para of Hinduism in Gibraltar#History is suitable, where did you get this info from? can you provide citation? Thanks and regards. — Bill william compton^Talk 07:07, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

I was trying to find anything related to the prana pratishta ceremony. Do you think it's ready for DYK? — Bill william compton^Talk 18:05, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

My info came from here https://www.facebook.com/pages/Gibraltar-Hindu-Temple/251946471569758?ref=ts&fref=ts Victuallers (talk) 18:16, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

I know, but Facebook can't be used as a citation (right?). — Bill william compton^Talk 18:24, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

RE: Score

Sorry for the very late reply. Thanks for your invitation for GibraltarpediA. Merry Xmas!--Tianyamm2 (talk) 09:10, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

St Mary & St Nicholas Church Leatherhead

It looks as though you were the last person to take a (critical) look at the page for this church. I have compiled a replacement text of nearly 2500 words based on the church's history booklet. I believe this resolves the travelogue remark at the top of the page. As a relative novice, I'd welcome your advice on how to get a few people to review my article and how to make the edit if it is deemed acceptable. PeterSteadman (talk) 14:47, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

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Competition closes at midnight UK time on 26th Dec (jusy before its the 27th!) Victuallers (talk) 12:30, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

Thank you

for the award and kind words. --Antidiskriminator (talk) 20:19, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

FAC

Hi Roger, can I claim points for FAC? I haven't nominated the article yet, but I can work on it. — Bill william compton^Talk 13:26, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Re: First Gibraltar Challenge GLAM Barnstar

I am honoured to have received the first GibraltarpediA barnstar, thank you! I just wish I would have had more time on my hands... --Gibmetal 77^{talk 2 me} 10:19, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

All the best for the new year, and whatever anybody said of you in 2012 I appreciate what you've done with improving content for Gibraltar on here. I'm still up for creating articles on the missing topics in the new year if I can find a few facts and sources! Couldn't find much at all on the churches for some reason, thanks for your help though..♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 22:38, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Had a good days editing today, started quite a few Gibraltar related ones this evening.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 22:15, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Gibraltar Photographic Society, Joe Holliday , Solomon Seruya, Tito Vallejo , Ibex Cave, Martin's Cave and Bru!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 22:32, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Seven is impressive! and the caves are hard because of the lack of sourced data. I have been looking to see if there are Spanish La Linea articles that have sources Victuallers (talk) 23:19, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Can you add the correct coords to Martin's Cave.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 20:51, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Moroccan villages? Yeah it was my intention to cover all of the communes, but got sidetracked.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 23:08, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Camp Bay, Gibraltar needs a bit more.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 23:19, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

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Because your name has popped up in a couple of places on this: DYK Ending the Gibraltar restrictions. One is in a discussion (Bluemoonset, me, Prioryman) over your voluntarily recusing yourself from reviewing. The other is at the bottom of the section, BBC News link from Sept 2012 posted by Poeticbent. — Maile (talk) 14:46, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

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Happy New Year

Hi Victuallers, I owed you a message, mainly to thank you your kind message in my talk page. I'm really happy to help and I'll keep on doing that regardless of rewards :-) I'd be very happy to have a Gibraltarpedia T-shirt but believe me, it's not necessary. Please, don't hesitate to contact me whenever you need some adminship stuff from commons or whatever other issue. Best regards --Ecemaml (talk) 10:39, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Gibraltar Botanic Gardens list

Thanks, kudos to User:Peter coxhead for the laborious work he has done in formatting the list. It's always interesting working with lists of plants to see where the gaps are in terms of articles and redirects. I have the advantage that many of these are garden plants in my part of the world and I was surprised to find a number of redlinks for very common plants.

By the way, I'm impressed by your work on QRPedia and applying it to projects. I would be great to see this incorporated with signage for botanic gardens.--Melburnian (talk) 10:24, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

To keep the thread together, I'll reply to the message on my talk page here. Actually formatting the list wasn't quite as laborious as it might seem, since I automated most of it off-line. I did notice and correct a few mis-spellings of scientific names; I see that Melburnian has corrected some more. If the list was created automatically from data from the Botanic Garden, they must have some erroneous names!

The code I used did change some wikilinks. For example, previously there were links like "[[Puya aff. chilensis]]", but we're not going to create an article with this title so the link is going to stay red. I made such links go only to the genus name. I didn't like the idea of "[[Puya chilensis|Puya aff. chilensis]]", but did think about "Puya aff. [[Puya chilensis|chilensis]]". However, it would be unusual to link only the specific epithet. Any comments on this?

Although I believe that lists of plants in botanic gardens should be available on the web, I'm not totally convinced that Wikipedia is the right place for them. Peter coxhead (talk) 21:07, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

I agree about the list of plants - its not a great solution but the precedent isn't set here. I can see that a botanst however might like to know where the nearest strange plant is on show. The list helps ... but there must be neater solutions. The list dis come from the botanic gardens but I don't think they ever expected it to be read by a computer. So they have inherited a better list I think. As for the naming of plants and the correct wiki links then I leave it to you guys - I dont know enough to comment. I can just about knock out a stub. My aim remains however to get visitors to be able to find out what each of these is in a number of languages. (spanish seems to have a lot of articles) Victuallers (talk) 21:18, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Yes, agree with Peter that Wikipedia article space may not be the best place for such lists, despite my own interest. However, I'm going to continue with starting more of the articles with redlinks when I have some spare time. With regard to Puya aff. chilensis, I think it's probably best not to link anything. I've linked the epithet on previous occasions, but I don't think it's quite the right solution in retrospect.--Melburnian (talk) 12:50, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Yes, I think I agree with you. I'll fix the "aff." links. Peter coxhead (talk) 13:41, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

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Algeciras

Doing some stubs on monuments which I believe fall into Gibraltarpedia. Can you do me a favour and wikilink the articles I start in the list on the Algeciras article? ♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 14:53, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Lighthouse of Punta Carnero, Lighthouse of Isla Verde , Río Pícaro, Torre del Arroyo del Lobo, ‎ Capilla del Cristo de la Alameda (Algeciras) , Capilla de la Caridad (Algeciras), ‎ Aqueduct of Algeciras, Hotel Sevilla (Algeciras), Hotel Reina Cristina. I've recently set up categories for buildings of each Spanish province which I intend to significantly improve. May as well start with Andalusia. My plan is to sub stub all of the caves shortly and then they can be fleshed out.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 11:20, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

I've "sub stubbed" the missing cave articles, easier to flesh out that way. BTW I've found this which locates all of the caves. You could use this map with flash earth you should be able to find them, just click on the coordinates and it should give you the decimal coordinates once you locate the exact spot of the cave.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 11:54, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

I know you're busy but if you have some time and feel like fleshing out a few in Category:Buildings and structures in San Fernando, Cádiz with translation and more sources, especially the churches, I'd be grateful. They are all within Gibraltarpedia scope or are they not? ♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 20:18, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Two things. You need to add the attribution to the website for the CC text you are using at the top of the reference section and the images you've uploaded have been tagged for OTRS, you need to show where the licensing is and clear that up with the admin in the commons, otherwise they'll delete them.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 19:53, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Are you going to Gibraltarpedia tag my San Fernando articles like Iglesia Mayor de San Pedro y San Pablo?♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 12:25, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi Victuallers. You are adding Gibraltarpedia talkpage tags to articles about monuments outside Gibraltar. I mean Cádiz, Jerez, San Fernando and other ones. I think that it is wrong. Regards. emijrp (talk) 13:12, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

I speak about Gibraltarpedia scope, which is clear. Bay of Gibraltar doesn't include Cádiz, Jerez de la Frontera, San Fernando, Cádiz and others. You can change Gibraltarpedia scope of course, but don't tag articles in areas outside the current scope, because it is confusing. Regards. emijrp (talk) 15:03, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

More Estadio Nuevo Mirador, Torre de los Adalides , Kursaal of Algeciras ♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 23:22, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

I've started Cabo Negro ‎, Erraouz Barrage ‎and Asmir Barrage which I think are within the scope of GibPedia or am I mistaken? You haven't even tagged Tangier, Tetouan the region as part of G'media, why is that? .♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 18:23, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

BIG problem, need your help

Hey. I'm wrapping up a WP:CCI on Gohens84, and found massive copyright violations on, well, everything he's done. The only one I haven't touched yet is John Thomas Scharf, but if my findings are any indication I'm going to have to delete it. Are you able to re-write at least a somewhat decent draft in a sandbox that I could replace it with so that an important article isn't a redlink? Wizardman 18:15, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

If the sources were PD, then it would still be ideal not to copypaste the wording, but in any case it appears very few sources are. Beyond that, if it was just close paraphrasing I would just try to rewrite it myself, but we instead have 50-100 word chunks taken verbatim. I'll give an example from the first source I checked at random:

Article: "however, the shear weight of Sedgwick's force enabled him to capture the heights. The battery pulled back to a concealed position near the Telegraph Road and unleashed a terrible fire upon the advancing Union infantry." and "It has been written that the 1st Maryland's fire was so accurate that they decimated the Union battery opposite them."

Source [1]: "Eventually though the shear weight of Sedgwick's force enabled him to capture the heights. Snowden pulled his battalion back to a concealed position near the Telegraph Road and unleashed a terrible fire upon the advancing infantry." and "It has been written that the 1st Maryland's fire was so accurate that day that they decimated a Federal battery opposite them."

The fact that a few of the sources are offline too means I can't assume good faith on any of those either, normally I would. It's a shame because on the surface it looks like a great article, just behind the facade we see the giant, possibly fatal, flaw. Wizardman 03:18, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

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World's Anti-Slavery Convention

Since I notice that you've been working on an articles about the World's Anti-Slavery Convention in userspace, I thought I should let you know that I've now created an article on this topic. Celuici (talk) 14:05, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

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Nine Muses

Good afternoon, First, let me say that I usually contribute on the French WP, so I may not know all the English rules. I didn't see any reason for linking a XVIIIth century English painter to a modern music band. He didn't know that band in his time (LOL). If the band did name itself after the given title of the painting, the link should appear in the WP article on that band and refer to the painter page on WP or better, if it is called after the Greek goddesses, to the Muse page. Cordially Jean Marcotte (talk) 21:18, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

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Hi Roger, I thought you might like to know that I'm aiming to have Gibraltar's first FA ready by 11 April - see my comments at User talk:Prioryman#Moorish Gibraltar GA?. I'd be interested in your views. Prioryman (talk) 13:38, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

I've created Template:Ceuta and Template:La Línea de la Concepción, please ensure that all existing entries are tagged.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 16:11, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

The first draft of History of Gibraltar is now pretty much done - it's currently just over 9,000 words. I will be going through it to polish it up and add extra references where necessary, but could you please (1) let me have some feedback and (2) add any links where you think they might be pertinent? I've got a GA reviewer lined up and I intend to submit it for GA next weekend, with a view to getting it to GA status by the end of this month and to get it through FAC by the end of March, in time for the 11 April tercentenary. Prioryman (talk) 22:59, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

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Yey, a picture was lurking in the commons all along!! Didn't expect anybody to show an interest in a DNB entry! Thanks! ♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 19:24, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

I've created a fair few articles today which I think you'd probably want to list under the created articles.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 21:33, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Can you find anything more on Ermita Sagrado Corazón de Jesús, I picked up something about a Bethlehem nativity show, but not sure if it is about that place.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 11:13, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Can you add coordinates, photos and info if possible to:

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I've tagged the Moroccan villages I started this morning, please add them to the list. I've created Template:Tarifa, can you fix the sub geo headers so they look neat?♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 14:34, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

I've added the villages to the top of the list, they need putting in alpha order. Siege of Algeciras (1342-1344) has also been started.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 18:14, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

I thought Campo de Gibrlatar area was included in the project. I was reverted on two articles. ♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 13:18, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Spotted Player's Navy Cut in the Monomouth Regimental Museum. Does that museum have plaques for exhibits as that could have one.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 12:32, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Wow

You are making the bridge to Africa nto a four lane highway! I will add them .... I m in Monmouth at the moment... old times Victuallers (talk) 15:00, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

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Victuallers, I don't really know what you mean. Maybe it's my poor English, but I haven't reverted anything in "Gibraltarpedia articles" because I don't know what a Gibraltarpedia article is. I do know what a wikipedia article is and its enhancement is not dependent on any labeling. I've just reverted a label set in two articles that haven't been written or enhanced by any member of the Gibraltarpedia crew. You know, I have no idea about your bizarre project advertisement (I'm still wondering why you don't use the regular templates to label articles you enhance). It's not only your persistence in misusing DYK. It's simply that working in wikipedia does not require marking the territory as if it were needed to write an article. Or you're meaning that your crew won't work in an article unless you can mark it. It'd look like quite weird (and BTW, Castellar de la Frontera is not in "the Strait of Gibraltar, the Spanish municipalities along the coast of the Bay of Gibraltar, the northernmost coast of Morocco and the Spanish town of Ceuta on the African coast opposite Gibraltar"). Best regards --Ecemaml (talk) 23:43, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

Please check a user's edits carefully before welcoming them

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Thanks, and have some makowiec!

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Baklava

Many thanks, you are most kind for letting me know. I do enjoy adding some visuals to entries when I can. And I enjoyed reading that piece, too! Best regards, MarmadukePercy (talk) 10:40, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

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Bastions

Hi, started most of the missing ones except Forbes which I couldn't source. You may wish to expand.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 12:13, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

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Hi Roger, good to hear about the plaque discussions. Do we have a target date for when the first batch of plaques should be installed by? I'll come up with a list of the first 30 plaques as soon as I can - probably the most prominent sites. So John's no longer involved in this project? --Gibmetal 77^{talk 2 me} 12:43, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

There has been quite a delay and John got a very good offer (one that he would have been foolish to turn down), but he is still very much involved. Pleased to see you are still chipping away at the articles! Victuallers (talk) 14:18, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

GibraltarPedia prize

A question if I may. This page [2] mentions a prize of a trip to Gibraltar, which (as it happens) was won [3] by user:Bill william compton. Can you tell us who sponsored the prize? WMUK told me it was nothing to do with them. Grateful for any help. 86.169.241.160 (talk) 19:31, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

To add to this, there seem to be Gibraltarpedia T-shirts. Do you know where or who they can be obtained from? --Demiurge1000 (talk) 19:46, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Sure, can you tell me who is asking and why? ... and is this the question you want the answer to or will you go into a huddle and return with additional questions because I do think we should concentrate on the mission. Oh and T-shirts - they are given out by the project. Victuallers (talk) 19:50, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Shall I email you? You can't state it in public? There will be no more questions, I hope. 86.169.241.160 (talk) 19:57, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

What does one have to do to get a T-shirt? Apologies if you're the wrong person to direct this question to. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 20:06, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, but I don't know anything about T-shirts. I was asking about the VIP trip to Gibraltar. 86.169.241.160 (talk) 20:19, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Roger, you added these details of the prize [4] to the page on 3 September 2012. Surely you must know who was sponsoring it? Was it you? Why is it difficult to answer? 86.169.241.160 (talk) 20:17, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Oh I love how you have a diff to convince me that I really did do it. I don't need proof of my own actions. Yes do email me if you want to keep your identity secret. Victuallers (talk) 20:20, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi I emailed you at your gmail email at 20:34. Can you confirm whether you got that please? As I say, it was advertised on a Wikipedia page (per the diff http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:GLAM/GibraltarpediA/Gibraltar_Challenge/Prizes&diff=510610567&oldid=510440348), and it says 'we' so one would automatically assume it was being offered by Wikipedia (which is not Myspace or whatever). It was also offered under the auspices of a Wikipedia project. But Wikimedia UK, who I contacted yesterday, deny any knowledge of it. So, given that the prize, worth a considerable amount of money, was being offered as an incentive to write articles, it is reasonable to ask who was sponsoring it. As to who is asking, my name is Edward Buckner. 86.169.241.160 (talk) 22:41, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

OK I got your reply, which doesn't answer anything. "It was not an organisation". Does the Gibraltar Tourist Ministry count as an organisation? In fact, can I ask: was it the Ministry of Tourism. By 'not an organisation' do you exclude travel companies, airlines, hotels, anything like that? 86.169.241.160 (talk) 22:46, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

I do thank you for agreeing to not ask any supplemental questions. Take care Victuallers (talk) 23:05, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Putting all that aside, could you clarify though as to

Who won the prize?
Who provided the prize?
Was the winner announced on Wikipedia?

Thanks, Volunteer Marek 19:51, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi VM, Most of the information can be obtained by typing "winner gibraltarpedia" into Google, but I have copied the results below which was announced on en:wikipedia last year and several of the main wikipedia's on 3rd January.

Bienvenido, آداب عرض, स्वागत, ברוך בואך, Benvido, Benvenuto, Benvinguts, Bienvenue, Bonvenon, Willkommen, Fàilte, Ongi etorri, Tere tulemast, Tervetuloa, Üdvözlet, Välkomna... Gibraltarpedia in an international and multi-cultural collaboration

.

This covers your first and last points and the second point requires some permissions. I will see if that is possible. Regards Victuallers (talk) 22:14, 23 March 2013 (UTC) (The winner was announced within 20 minutes of the competition ending) Victuallers (talk) 22:41, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

I will see if that is possible. - any word on that? Volunteer Marek 16:35, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

Sorry VM, the answer was posted but not here. It was on the Gpedia page. The cost of the prizes was covered by John Cummings and I Victuallers (talk) 18:15, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

Indeed. John clarifies that it was paid by you and he some of the money you were paid by the Government of Gibraltar for running training session and creating and advising on some of the wifi infrastructure. TheOverflow (talk) 07:18, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Indeed. Thanks for supplying the link Victuallers (talk) 21:34, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Happy to help. On a related note, Prioryman has been approaching previous opposers of lifting Gibraltar DYK restrictions on the lifting of those restrictions. I responded that I would not support a lifting until it "is confirmed that Gibraltarpedia funding is concluded, and all obligations of those engaged by the Government of Gibraltar as a result of that engagement have been met". Are you able to confirm that the funding is now concluded, and whatever obligations attached to that funding have been met? (Or, if not, advise when they will be?) Many thanks. TheOverflow (talk) 23:52, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

I am pointedly avoiding that debate. We de-coupled the Gibraltarpedia competition from DYK to avoid any assumption that there was a link to DYK. DYK is a wonderful project but making an assumption that this is any relationship to the Gibraltar project is just imaginary. Victuallers (talk) 09:27, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Without you becoming involved in a debate, could you please clarify if this edit [5] means that your contractual relationship with the Government of Gibraltar is now over? TheOverflow (talk) 00:37, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for your thoughtful response on my talk page, it was quite helpful in assisting me to understand your position. TheOverflow (talk) 04:52, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

Dessert Reciprocation Re: John Keep

Unlike John Keep, the beignets are front and center.

Awesome! Oddly enough, none of us had even heard of the painting. John Keep was actually the guy that made it legal for black people and women to attend college in the United States. He's a proud trustee over here at Oberlin, despite being oh-so-dead. Thanks for the baclava! See you 'round.

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Nottingham Meetup

Hi, re this edit - did you intend to point it at a broken redirect on meta? The signup page appears to be hosted on English Wikipedia. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:58, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

I did indeeed intend to make the links work, but I'd forgotten how complicated it is with two sets of records to update on two diff wikis. Any ideas? Victuallers (talk) 18:04, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Cross-wiki redirects don't work, and nor do double redirects (even if entirely within one wiki), so since the signup page is on English Wikipedia, it's probably best to link directly to that from Template:UK Wikipedia meetups and ignore meta entirely. --Redrose64 (talk) 18:07, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Batteries

Hi I've blue-linked the batteries, I'll help add a fact and source to as many as I can over the weekend, but might take at least a week to expand them up to half decent level.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 22:34, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

I've stubbed the additional batteries, that's more than enough for now!! I'll leave it a few weeks before I create any more. Hopefully that is still manageable for you, great job on expanding the others.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 17:48, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Barnstar

How very kind, thank you - it is nice to see that someone is reading the articles - I just wish I had more time to write for Wikipedia these days!--Jackyd101 (talk) 17:49, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

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Just seen some edits about IWM pictures that came from your work. Thank you its good to meet such a productive editor. Victuallers (talk) 08:42, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Why thank you sir, slurp mmm... I just like connecting stuff so that folks can always find more about something. While bot image mass uploads do a good initial job, the finer linkages and metadata tidyup require a level of semantic interpretation that only individual human attention can provide and is ridiculously time-consuming. Any thoughts ? AI for image markup ? regards, Rod. Rcbutcher (talk) 09:41, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

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Created a few stubs, can you expand?♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 18:21, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

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No problem at all :) I was just waiting for a full proofreading before translating the article for another language. Before to do it, I'm going to create the translation of "History of Gibraltar" in Catalan (for now, just the introduction). - Al Lemos (talk) 22:56, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

It's online. - Al Lemos (talk) 01:40, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

It's online too :) - Al Lemos (talk) 21:55, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

I dunno... but Gibraltar House is in London, not in Madrid. So, I think that the correct name, even in the Spanish-pedia, it's really "Gibraltar House". The Casa de Gibraltar is just to clarify the meaning for any Spanish monoglot. - Al Lemos (talk) 23:58, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

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	Whatever trolls says about you, the amount of good work you've put into expanding lots of my stubs is a credit to the project and you're doing a great job. ♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 20:03, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

Started Clive Beltran, Isobel Ellul-Hammond.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 20:15, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

Some more Lathbury Barracks, Christian Brothers School, Gibraltar, Queen's Hotel, Gibraltar.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 06:36, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks Dr B - they are a good weight for a stub. I will link them up Victuallers (talk) 08:46, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

I've started List of shipwrecks of Gibraltar using the discovery website. Obviously I couldn't get exact decimal point accuracy with the coordinates as they're marked as blobs but I lined 'em up on different browsers with their map and flashearth and my coordinates at most would be metres out, very close I think. Not sure of the folks in Gibraltar have a list of the coordinates locations to the nearest cm! There are some others I missed out which weren't named or weren't ships and there's some existing articles not covered, feel free to add. Although you might find more about the entries given, some might be worth their own articles. Maybe a table would be better, maybe not,up to you and the Gibson.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 20:11, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Two more, Iglesia de San Mateo (Tarifa), Port of Tarifa. Strsngely couldn't much at all on the port, maybe you can find something, the final part of the bridge to Africa one might say!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 21:09, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Ragged Staff Guard

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Douglas Cave

Hi Roger, could you please add a reference for your contributions in this article? Thanks ;) --Gibmetal 77^{talk 2 me} 18:52, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Just a joke between the Doc and I ;)

Underwater Gib sounds interesting. It's a subject I don't really know much about other than what I've learnt from the Gibraltar Artificial Reef article. As you may have noticed I'm just carrying out some copyedits over your last contributions... Hope you don't mind!

By the way, though Douglas Path and Cave are named after each other as are Martin's Cave and Path, I really don't think they should be merged as they're two separate entities which other than sharing a name and within relative proximity of each other aren't directly linked... --Gibmetal 77^{talk 2 me} 19:42, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

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Speaking of maps as historical sources, you might be interested in File:Plan de Gibraltar.jpg, which I've just uploaded. There's a *lot* of detail on it. Prioryman (talk) 23:06, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Great find! --Gibmetal 77^{talk 2 me} 08:04, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Check out my talk page for what I've done with it, and also check out File:Plan de Gibraltar - Barbié du Bocage.jpg... Prioryman (talk) 19:50, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Quiet afternoon in Burnley

I finally uploaded this video-- it made the 500 mile round trip worth while.

Quiet afternoon in Burnley

It is the only footage I have seen of two looms in action. -- Clem Rutter (talk) 23:38, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Ah yes, a form of non-automatic loom known as "cone overpick", distinguished by the horizontal picking sticks above the shuttle boxes, rotating on a vertical shaft. Non-automatic since the loom needed to be stopped in order to change the shuttle when the pirn went empty. --Redrose64 (talk) 08:06, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

It was a superb day and I agree that the video is more than enough. Maybe the advert for the day should not have said "come and meet" but "come and see". It was great to see you and WormThatTurned etc but the real buzz was this room and realising that its all Steam powered .... ie coal powered. Well worth the trip as you say and good to meet dozens of interested non-wikipedians. Well done for organising it. Victuallers (talk) 08:37, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

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Re:Gib museum

Hi Vic! I'll give a look at the article that you have mentioned, just give him my e-mail address. Oh, and the tee didn't arrive yet, but I'm still confidently waiting :)

Best regards, - Al Lemos (talk) 23:12, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Dear Vic, Galician is a bit more akin to Portuguese - but my Galician is worst than my Spanish :) - Al Lemos (talk) 23:10, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

Well the Spanish version looks good and takes us to 950 new articles! (and thats ignoring the teeny stubs) by interesting to see if we can make 1000 by Utrecht celebrations. Victuallers (talk) 08:33, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

It was great news indeed. Celebrations are planned for Friday and there's even talk of getting a public holiday... Fingers crossed! ;)

49 is not a small number but not entirely out of reach either... Prioryman is working on an article on the Inundation, Lines of Contravallation of Gibraltar and Hardy Town and I know he was also planning one on the Tunnels of Gibraltar. The quality of his work here is amazing! Al Lemos had promised to create articles for all of Gib's current MPs. There are only three left but we have a by-election on 4 July and he may well be interested in covering the newly elected MP. He's done an awesome job with the biographies he's written so far, even translating them to Spanish, Catalan and Galician! Tommy said he'd work on Shipping in Gibraltar. I need to find the time to sit down and get some of the stuff that's been in my sandbox for ages published once and for all. I just find it's a real shame that Anne seems to have left again (last active on 1 May) she was doing an admirable job on the individual fortifications, etc and seemed keen to continue when she returned... --Gibmetal 77^{talk 2 me} 12:01, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

Ragged Staff Magazine

Hi Roger. Sorry for the delay, been caught up with the Gibraltar Football Association's acceptance into UEFA, and I'm not even a football fan! Anyway, the photo you added to Ragged Staff Cave is of the structure known as Ragged Staff Magazine however, it couldn't have ever been a cave as this was constructed in the open ground of the Southport Ditch adjacent to the South Bastion, immediately north of Ragged Staff Gates. I think the cave is immediately south of the gates within a tunnel system but I'll enquire to be sure. --Gibmetal 77^{talk 2 me} 17:29, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks for your words John. I'm still trying to expand some articles about fortifications in the bay of Gibraltar and your work in the English wikipedia will help me a lot. If you need me to help you translating any of the diagrams I uploaded to Commons, I could do it without problems, I only need the new text. Regards! Falconaumanni (Carlos para los amigos) 15:31, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

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Hi Roger. The entire route has been mistakenly known as Mediterranean Steps for ages but the section from the road at Jews Gate Cemetery to the actual steps (where the entrance to Martin's Cave is) is named Martin's Path. Trying to find a suitable source. Think the book on Gib's flowers may have something... --Gibmetal 77^{talk 2 me} 18:07, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

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Mwoahahaha!!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 11:21, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

.... and thanks to your help.... 1000 new articles! a Kiloto(w)n of energy at your disposal Dr Blofeld Victuallers (talk) 00:18, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

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You may be aware of the deletion discussion at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Devil's_Gap_Footpath - where a QRpedia linked article may be deleted - I suggested a redirect, but there is concern that it would not be appropriate. Prioryman noted that if the article were deleted "Wikipedia's own reputation that would be hit if a QR code produced a 404". So I wondered, is it possible to do a redirect within QRpedia? TheOverflow (talk) 01:24, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

I would be interested to know too, though I should note that in this case a redirect within QRpedia will not be needed. Prioryman (talk) 06:21, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

This isn't a big problem guys. So if we take Satyagraha House as an example. I choose that one cos its recent and its one I'm very pleased to see. Imagine we have a wiki link on Mahatma Gandhi's House. (Because as of last week we do! OK enough of the advert!) If this building was thought to be un-notable then we would redirect Satyagraha House at Mahatma Gandhi or Houses where Gandhi lived and make sure that Satyagraha House was in bold so that it didn't appear as too much of a shock. So this 404 problem would only happen if you tried to write an article about something that was not only un-notable but wasn't even worth mentioning in any wiki article. (Not a likely scenario I think). Victuallers (talk) 10:03, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, that's reassuring. TheOverflow (talk) 03:58, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

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Hello (xh: Molo, zu: Sawubona, tn: Dumela rra, etc.)! Out of curiosity, where did you ask for translations of this article? I see it has been translated recently on some smaller African-language wikis. It's nice to see content creation by native speakers (or fluent speakers) on these wikis. πr² (t • c) 03:21, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Hi PiRSquared (nice name), well this isnt my project. Satyagraha House is part of a Wikimedia ZA project called Joburgpedia. I have been helping a lot but its lead by three South Africans and sponsored by the Swiss chapter. There was a an editathon at Gandhi's house yesterday and that was where the six languages were started. The project is targetted at Soweto mostly, QRpedia and African languages. I was a $1000 flight away so I could only join then via an editor. If you are interested in the project then search for Joburgpedia and you should find the work so far. If you sign up or edit a few Joburgpedia articlers then that would make us all smile:-) Thanks for the interest. Victuallers (talk) 21:29, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for the response. :-) πr² (t • c) 16:51, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Coordinates of Tutu House? I know those for the nearby Mandela House, but I'm wondering what the coords are for this one. πr² (t • c) 00:25, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

hmmm see below

Finding location of somewhere

I had a think about hopw I could get coords for Tutu House which google maps wouldnt find

Go to Google Photos - find a photo. I found this one http://www.panoramio.com/photo/68745441 - Can't use it, but thats not important
Feed in the coords into the great Swiss Knife locator http://tools.freeside.sk/geolocator/geolocator.html
This reveals the pic (and the location) is at 26.239286° , 27.910175°

and Geolocator even gives the wiki markup Victuallers (talk) 15:36, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Thank you very much! πr² (t • c) 18:45, 30 July 2013 (UTC) Your welcome Victuallers (talk) 18:53, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

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I appreciate your expansion, but I could care less if the topic changing makes this fail DYK. It is mostly important to improve articles, not so much to get a fact on the main page. I liked the DYK process, but now I can't handle the incomplete QPQ reviews, the nitpicking, and editors who comment and run. I recently nominated two articles for Good Article status and I will stick with it because unlike DYK, editors don't say that it is quantity over quality. I withdrew the nomination. SL93 (talk) 15:44, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

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I've followed your advice on Template:Did you know nominations/Museum de Oude Wolden. Would your perhaps have a look? Thanks, Editør (talk) 10:45, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your help with the DYK nominations. – Editør (talk) 13:45, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

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Thumbs up on the article. -- Zanimum (talk) 15:36, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Jackie Grant

I've a few bits and pieces on him, but nothing much. The main criticism came from Learie Constantine, but I don't recall CLR James mentioning him much. I'll have a little dig and see what I can find, but I'm a little busy at the moment. It may be in the next couple of days, or it may be longer! I'm certainly interested and I'll do what I can. Free pictures are almost impossible to find. The only chance would be if you can find an image published in Australia during the 1930-31 tour. Google have a archive of the Sydney Mail which can be useful, although tedious to find as the search facility does not seem to work; Trove is also useful. But your best hope is that there are no free images and upload a fair use one, to be honest. Sarastro1 (talk) 22:48, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Warehouse

This is just a note that I'm not concerned about what you did anymore. Also, I was very close to withdrawing the article even before you came along. SL93 (talk) 01:40, 9 August 2013 (UTC) So be it. Victuallers (talk) 08:30, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Ohlange High School

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most

Of WP is odd, if you would really like an explanation, would prefer off wiki, thanks... sats 08:20, 12 August 2013 (UTC) Sure, my email address is available. My worry is that your edit summary said that you were going to "clarify" what contribution was, which seemed odd. Victuallers (talk) 08:26, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

Bay of Gibraltar

Thanks Victuallers, it's a pleasure for me to collaborate in this proyect and I hope new good articles will come soon, there is a lot of work to do. Regards. Falconaumanni (Carlos para los amigos) 11:51, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

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Freo piccies

Dan is a good call, but also try Gnangarra and self - we all have access to things that might not seem obvious from your end of the plane ride... ( I was in the mother country recently...)... also samwilson is worth a call if we all come up short of the expectations... as for the elusive response the other day - the list is of contributors/helpers of the project over-all and not necessarily persons who have edited the articles... hope that straightens things up a bit - it seemed needed to clarify that in some cases no edits were made at all despite their putting their names up. sats 09:33, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

pers gnangarras comments at my talk page it is useable - there are no FOP restrictions in Australian jurisdictions sats 14:32, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Norfolk Hotel

It wasn't a coincidence, more an inspiration. Awhile back I did an article on the Kalgoorlie Brewing Company and realised there was a lot of Western Australian history on beer & hotels that hadn't been documented. Also have been working on a number of Freo articles so it seemed apt that when I saw the incorrect link to Castlemaine that it was time to write that article. Maybe it might get me to pull out my camera as well. A bigger coincidence is that I was going to go to the Norfolk for drinks after work tomorrow unfortunately the weather here is fairly bleak so may have to wait until there's more sunshine before I take some pictures. Will check wikimedia to see if some of the other WA editors haven't already put some up. Dan arndt (talk) 15:53, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Deanna Coates photo

Thanks for finding an image of/for Deanna Coates - it really improves the article. violet/riga _^[talk] 17:29, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Anton Lembede

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George Davies

Have been trying to fill-in a few of his details (and reference them) - appreciate the acknowledgement of my efforts. Dan arndt (talk) 08:14, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

thanks for the add to the DYK nomination. Dan arndt (talk) 02:11, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

Me da ase!!!

My heading means Thank You in Fante dialect, very grateful for recognizing my work. God bless. CrossTempleJay → talk 10:03, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

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Akan Drum

Hi, I believe that Akan Drum is a very Ghanaian musical instrument. I just read that article and I have no doubt it is truly Ghanaian. The Akan form the largest ethnic group in the country and I am a member of that group. In the past our people relied solely on drums for important reasons. They included entertainment, communication and display of rank or power.

Maybe someday you should pay a visit to Ghana and I will be glad to show you around this great country. God bless. CrossTempleJay → talk 09:23, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

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Corvettes

About the references...I copied the first part of the background from a British corvette page as the British origin isn't really covered in Canadian books. Though thank you for pointing out that what the ship is named for should be placed somewhere in the article. If people were having problems with Morden...The Pas was going to give them serious issues when I got to that one. --Foxxraven (talk) 20:53, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

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There is no such rule that the plot doesn't count towards prose size. SL93 (talk) 22:09, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

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You are much better advised to visit the Freopedia and/or User:Gnangarra talk pages - I am brain frazzled/stressed by a very strange work roster timing for a week or so... my sincerest apologies sats 09:00, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

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Wikipedia Editors of La Martiniere

Hello! :)

I find wikipedia's talk pages very confusing. They do not generate notifications which an editor may check... You can only get to know what's updated or vandalised only if you are a wikipedian and you log into your account. People who do not know about wikimarkup, get discouraged to edit even if they find something editable.

So, taking into consideration, a need for a 'Joint Venture' by the Martinians to edit articles regarding Mart, I have started a group on Facebook (as everyone is connected to fb nowadays). I believe all Martinian editors at one place, discussing the scope of an edit may prove a better consensus.

Following is the link to the Facebook Group. Please join it and add fellow Martinians who may want to help make Mart-related articles on wikipedia up to date & worth reading

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Have a nice day! :)

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This Month in GLAM – Volume III, Issue VIII, August 2013
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New Wales Coast Path WikiProject

As a member of WikiProject Wales, WikiProject Cardiff or an user who has contributed to Welsh articles we invite you to contribute to a new project, Living Paths!: articles, images, translations... Lonely Planet rated the coast of Wales "the best region on Earth" in 2012, yet there is a very low number of articles on the history and culture of places along the Coastal Path. This promises to be an exciting project as it gathers momentum with many Users joining in across the world.

If you are interested in training groups in Wales, please leave a message on the Talk Page.
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Thanks for your suggestion

I have replied on my talk page, and adjusted my comments on my user page. Regards, Ground Zero | t 01:29, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

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This Month in GLAM: September 2013

This Month in GLAM – Volume III, Issue IX, September 2013
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DYK for Alexander Carse

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DYK for Thomas Musgrave Joy

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Books and Bytes

Volume 1, Issue 1, October 2013

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News from the library world: Wikipedian joins the National Archives full time; the Getty Museum releases 4,500 images; CERN goes CC-BY

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Template:Did you know nominations/Adrianus Djajasepoetra

Victuallers, I was wondering whether you'd be willing to take over shepherding this article through the DYK process. You made a number of edits that addressed some of the issues that had been raised, but not all of them, including the hook problem. As Bernardino Rakha hasn't edited for two weeks, we have to assume he won't be back to handle the nomination; if you aren't able to take over, it will be closed. Please let me know. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:27, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

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DYK for John Gendall

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Lots of Norfolk Hotels

Hi there! Just to let you know I have moved Norfolk Hotel, Fremantle back to that title because I've just started an article on another Norfolk Hotel, which you won't be surprised to hear is in Brighton. I've sorted out all the redirects and everything. Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 21:00, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

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DYK for Trmal's Villa

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Thanks for the brownie - saving it for coffee break! Just for the record, however, my Concise Oxford specifies that such a posh, or as they put it "large", room is found "esp. in hotel or place of public resort, fit for assemblies"; while meaning 5 is "drinking-bar", not designated as an Americanism. But fortunately, as you say, "living room" works for us all. Cheers from your friendly non-American neighbourhood pedant, Awien (talk) 14:19, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: October 2013

This Month in GLAM – Volume III, Issue X, October 2013
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DYK for Hus' House (Vinohrady)

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Hi Victuallers, I appreciate all your recent contributions, especially the ones connected to Czech culture. I would like to invite you to WikiProject Czech Republic, where you can work with other editors to expand coverage. Look forward to seeing you there! Thanks, C 679 11:19, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

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DYK for Hus' House (Vršovice)

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DYK for Basse Yutz Flagons

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A kitten for you!

Thanks for fixing my hook. :)

LauraHale (talk) 18:06, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

Actually, the number of typos in there is embarrassing for me. :( Thank you so much for fixing them. --LauraHale (talk) 19:00, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

No pictures of me in the shirt, though I suppose I could take one. It was a shirt I have been advised not to wear out of the house. I'd really like to get something similar for when I get Sochi all sorted because that would be very cool to have with blue and white. Haven't seen anything related to Praguepedia. If you're doing Prague, why weren't you at the WM CEE conference? If you want data about Czech Paralympians (Qrcode them. Paralympians should be Qrcoded.), I have a fair amount of information that could probably be fixed to semi-automate content creation about missing ones on English Wikipedia. See this blog post here. I'm supposedly getting an image donation and I would like to have articles to stick those images on. Hence the big push here. It has just been so long since I have done bulk Wikipedia article editing that I have almost forgotten how. My writing skills be all rusty. --LauraHale (talk) 19:17, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

Praguepedia was done about a year ago but there were few articles in English so I thought Id fix that as so many people have done useful translations of English for QRpedia. It seemed like a good time to correct the balance so I did quite a lot last week about places in Prague. I wasny as CEE as I was working! Victuallers (talk) 19:25, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

Menggen Jimisu has been copy edited and nominated. And WM CEE conference was fun. :) Interesting people and hopefully got things set in motion for other stuff. I think the Ukrainians are thinking of hosting it next year. --LauraHale (talk) 07:05, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

Arg. I can understand the name thing. (I am currently working on article about a boccia player. He has two first names and two last names. He has a nickname, Paco. Spaniards often abbreviate his first first name. The sources refuse to call him the same thing. I've seen every possible variant, including Paco second last name. That's just so incredibly wrong.) If you want to have a go at fixing the DYK nomination, much obliged. (If you want to have a go at large scale DYKs about Spanish Paralympians, I have a list I am working on on my user page at the bottom. Obviously you must love Spain because you love Spanish Gibraltar. Trufax. ¡Gibraltar español! rocks it.) I hate discovering those sort of errors. I'm not a huge fan of the hook because I think it takes away from the sport aspect and makes it a personal story thing. Thus, it feels possibly exploitative. On the other hand, I have had multiple conversations about this topic with people in the disability sport community, and it isn't a particularly huge issue. Blah blah. --LauraHale (talk) 19:45, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

Veronica Pamies Morera, Sandra Peña Cortes, Francisco Beltran Manero, Jose Villar Dueso, Jose Prado Prado, Jose Rodriguez Vazquez, Manuel Martin Perez are pretty formulaic in the extreme. (Trying to create articles in bulk about people playing the same sport tends to result in this.) Manuel Martin Perez is probably the most interesting of the lot. If you want some DYKs and think you could add enough to make them unique, have at. The people who play this sport are pretty amazing in my opinion given the high level of physical disability some of them have. They line up their ball using a special tool by blowing on it. It is one of those real games of strategy. Sporting part is their. Personal narrative is not so much. --LauraHale (talk) 21:23, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

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Some time ago you selected one of my additions to Wikipedia for a DYK (Brian Bowman, first Euphonium performance in Carnegie Hall). Another page that I am surprised never made it to DYK was that on the Coast Guard dog Sinbad (first Coastguardsman to be the subject of a biography, a dog enlisted as a seaman - a clever stunt by the crew to keep him, but he was paid and awarded service ribbons).

Someone clearly upset that a dog was ever treated as more than property has absolutely destroyed what I believe was a solid article prior to August of this year (OK it needed better inlines). The info box is gone, the sources are challenged or gone, and every statement of fact that made this dog unique from property is prefaced with defamatory, dismissive or just plain false assertions modifying the claim as taken from the source. The editor involved has even challenged the validity of the source book, magazine articles and the history section of the official US Coast Guard website.

What remains is an insult to Coastguardsmen, a perversion of history (albeit a history contrived in no small part for propoganda reasons during WWII), and mis-information. It should not remain as is.

I don't know how to fight people like this, bent on destroying good faith attempts to share knowledge in order to promote a personal point of view, and frankly am thinking this is why people don't stick with it as Wikipedia contributors.(I know I'm worn out with this)

Can you help?--Rwberndt (talk) 15:35, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

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DYK for Strašnice

On 29 November 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Strašnice, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Strašnice became a part of Prague in 1922? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Strašnice. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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DYK for Vinohrady_Water_Tower

On 30 November 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Vinohrady_Water_Tower, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Vinohrady Water Tower once provided 200 cubic metres (7,100 cu ft) of municipal water storage but now houses offices and apartments? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Vinohrady_Water_Tower. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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DYK for William Hastie

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DYK for Menggenjimisu

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DYK for Thomas Athol Joyce

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Thankee

Thank you for my 25 DYK medal! I have already passed 50, and feel my desire for them quite sated. I feel a fellowship with you in rummaging through the 19th century, do check out Edwardx and I's recent London housing bent. It'll be the death of us all. Keep writing :) Gareth E Kegg (talk) 23:44, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

DYK for St. Nicholas Church (Vršovice)

On 6 December 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article St. Nicholas Church (Vršovice), which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that you can find the position of Venus in the Prague sky at the St. Nicholas Church in Vršovice (pictured)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/St. Nicholas Church (Vršovice). You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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DYK for Lion of Knidos

On 7 December 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Lion of Knidos, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the town of Datça petitioned in 2008 to have the British Museum's Lion of Knidos (pictured) returned to Turkey? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lion of Knidos. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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DYK nomination of Totem Pole (British Museum)

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DYK for Statue of Tara

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54,000 hits over two days Victuallers (talk) 07:20, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

Way to go! Excellent hook - love that teasing "(partly pictured)"! I think that puts it in the top 10-ever. Make sure you add it to the stats. Johnbod (talk) 18:31, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

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Citations and plots

Hey Victuallers :). So, re your edit summary here:

Usually we don't require plot summaries for things like films or books - this is because it's pretty much impossible to produce them without relying on original research (i.e., reading the book, or watching the film) unless you're lucky enough to find reviewers who have documented the plot, as I was with Santa Santita. It's just not possible to do, and so we tolerate OR. In this case, however, we've sort of got the inverse situation - unless you're deeply familiar with the Haida (or were with Weah when he told Newcombe the stories, in which case you're aging really well ;)) it's highly improbable that you're relying on original research, and not true that there aren't secondary sources covering the stories - there are, which is how the stories in their original form (an oral tradition) came to survive. So, sourcing is possible to a degree not found with most plot summaries, while OR is incredibly unlikely to be the source. Hope that helps :). Ironholds (talk) 00:31, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Kayung totem pole

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Please, do you know what's missing in the transcription of this video TimedText:GibraltarpediA introduction video.ogg.en.srt? Excuse me :( --Raoli (talk) 11:49, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

Hi Raoli - Ive been busy elsewhere and not had a chance to look. I will in next 24 hours Victuallers (talk) 21:49, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

Thank you very much! --Raoli (talk) 22:09, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

Toodyay road

Is like 20 km north of Clackline Bridge, and the road from Clackline to Toodyay is called Clackline Toodyay Road... satusuro 11:02, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

haha happy christmas as well, just wait till i start wheatbelt roads for the wheatbelt project... then we will see some challenging road names and hard to correlate locations - :) satusuro 11:47, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

Bronze Heads from Ife and the 1938 date

thx! comments in line Arg. I've just realised what's going on in this article (which I missed, since all I was focused on was fixing that section). Although the article has become a good description of the significance of the bronze heads (plural) from Ife, it started out as being only about the particular bronze head that is held at the British Museum, and which was one of the later discoveries. If I recall from my research yesterday, Frobenius discovered his head fairly early (the newspaper accounts would suggest 1911), but further heads were only discovered a decade and more later, which would fit with the 1938 date for the British Museum head. Anyway, the article seems to be factually correct as written right now, as does the DYK hook. The hook is maybe slightly misleading about the article topic in referring to heads plural, but that seems to be within the realm of acceptability for DYK hooks.

Slightly more concerning, though, is that by working through A History of the World in 100 Objects, you are creating a series of articles in which the lede, title and infobox are on specific artifacts held at the British Museum, rather than on the historical subject that forms the body of the article. Chinese Tang tomb figures is another example of this (which I noticed yesterday as I was putting it into the DYK prep area). More than half the article is actually about Liu Tingxun, who has no separate article (I actually created a redirect back to that article), but the lede, title and infobox are about his tomb guardians held at the British Museum.

I get confused by this. I was told that you/one called an article "Buckingham Palace" (imagine 12 years ago!) this was because a) its the common name and because b) its the only one. WHEN you discover another Buckingham Palace is when you should decide whether to put (London) or (Queen's house) on the end. The article on "Statue of Tara" is about the BM one - but its gets complicated because there is a copy in Colombo too. Usually these articles split when there is sufficient information. It could be that Liu Tingxun may may an article himself one day but the BM doesn't have the info as far as I can see .... but I've asked a Chinese editor to look over there too. Maybe the first version of Buckingham Palace might have mentioned "The queens Art Collection", "Pall Mall" and "The Royal Family" .... eventually they would have become their own articles.

You're doing a fantastic and very laudable job in making these articles, but could I suggest trying to focus them more on the specific facet of history that they describe, rather than on just the artifacts? -Kieran (talk) 17:51, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

(Thanks! Although it was another editor who has started most of the recent ones) I think that a snippet of history has to be included - but if we are not careful then we will have a 100 articles of Ceylon's history with each about an artefact - its a balance and has to be primarily targeted at the one item. However some of the 100 articles are very vague so "Stone Age Axe" ..... isn't going to support very much about a particular axe unless it has its own back story. I think the Head of Ife is now much better then I could ever have written! .... and it may grow to be "statueS! of Ife" Victuallers (talk) 19:28, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

Mulling over this a little more, I don't think all of these articles need this kind of treatment. For example, the Lion of Knidos is fairly unambiguous. Some definitely could -- for instance Statue of Tara is probably not really in compliance with Wikipedia naming policy (there being numerous statues of Tara in the world, both in museums and in Buddhist temples). In that case, there is a good article about Tara, but the article could probably do with a move to something like Statue of Tara at the British Museum. I'd rather discuss this a bit before going ahead and doing it, though. -Kieran (talk) 18:08, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

You are (unfortunately) completely wrong about the naming rules, which encourage or mandate this sort of title - see below. And your suggestion is well outside the naming conventions - see WP:VAMOS and the general guidelines. Johnbod (talk) 04:09, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

I think what bothers me, (apart from the perpetuation of WP:BIAS) and particularly about Statue of Tara, is the use of the definite article in the lede, implying that this is the only statue of Tara. Going by the main article, statues of Tara are about as common as statues of the Virgin Mary, so this is about equivalent to if, say, the article on the Golden Madonna of Essen were called simply Statue of the Virgin Mary. The same is true of the bronze head of Ife -- it's not the only bronze head from Ife, or the first discovered, or even the most significant, yet the article refers to it using the definite article. I feel like those titles probably made sense as written in the book given the very specific context of "A History of the World in 100 Objects [held at the British Museum]", but don't make as much sense within Wikipedia's much wider context (of an encyclopaedia of human knowledge). -Kieran (talk) 02:24, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

I agree both of those would be better renamed, though I'm not sure to what. They're certainly not as common as statues of Mary, but the BM will have plenty I'm sure, so something like Statue of Tara (British Museum) is no better. The Ife one might be easier. While they are strictly in accordance with general WP naming guidelines, until a 2nd statue of Tara gets an article, I've always been unhappy when the rules produce this sort of result, which they very often do for subjects in Christian art too. It's very common for just taking the name the museum uses to produce this sort of result. If you think these are bad, try Category:Indianapolis Museum of Art artworks with gems like Moroccan wall hanging - italicized too - and Vase with carved peony scrolls! I've renamed some of the worst in the past. It would of course be nice if people spent more time writing hugely-researched articles on more general topics, but we know most Wikipedians prefer discrete subjects for obvious reasons, & it is pointless to complain about this. I'd be content if you just added appropriate categories, Victuallers - Chinese pottery & Tang dynasty art are pretty obvious for Chinese Tang tomb figures, though that really does need a rename. Johnbod (talk) 04:09, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

@Johnbod, I think the important point here is that there is no argument here - its a discussion. @Ironholds recently renamed Totem Pole (British Museum) to Kuyung Totem Pole citing a similar argument to @Kierano. I had no objection as I can see his reasoning but I can also see counter arguments (including policy). If we talk about The totem pole in the British Museum then most people who have visited there would know exactly which one we were talking about. In my first draft I even included a picture of the closest pretender to the title (but this was thought off subject). I'm not sure we are going to settle this but do be assured that I'm happy to see the titles modded as long as it is still recognisable and it isnt the subject of an edit war .... (neither of which I think is very likely!).

The historical context is important for these artefacts but the emphasis is intended to be on the specific example. The Statue of Tara has its own peculiar back story which gives a specific example of how the Brits treated the people of Sri Lanka and how they then hid their findings as too erotic to be seen. Visitors to museums I suggest want to know the specific stuff. and then read about its context. I'm very pleased to see that we had 55,000 hits on Statue of Tara due to a hooky hook - but intriguingly we still got several hundred a day on the following days. This suggests that people are interested in specific artefacts. The Chinese Tang figures are on the main page at the moment so it might be interesting to see if anyone else has a view. Oh and thanks for the comments and contributions. Happy Xmas. Victuallers (talk) 09:07, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

I think this discussion is proceeding quite fruitfully and non-argumentatively, not to worry. What I'm getting most from it is that there is currently no policy on the naming of articles about artworks and artifacts, and that the current generic naming policy is inadequate. The correct solution would be for us to start the work of creating such a policy (with some kind of RfC for wider input). I'm a little busy right now, but will add this to my to-do list. -Kieran (talk) 17:19, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

I agree - very civilised. When the RFC is ready then we should post on the GLAM lists as that might attract some good views. The 100 articles might be a representative sample of notable items that vary from the very specific like the Swimming Reindeer to generic like Solar Light with the ones we have discussed in between. Victuallers (talk) 17:47, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

See my comment above. There is a policy, at WP:VAMOS (Wikipedia:VAMOS#Works_of_art), although the general naming principles (especially WP:PRECISION, which the disambiguation police love) rather work against it in the cases of a) works with very common titles but only one example with an article or b) works with no title, only a descriptive name that could apply to thousands of works but only one example with an article (as here). It should probably be added to, especially to spell out the differences between these two cases, and how to deal with generic objects in the decorative arts etc.. It isn't worth trying to change the general policy frankly, & general RFCs on specialized visual arts issues tend to produce bad results. Notifying relevant projects of a discussion at VAMOS is best. I may bang out a draft there sometime. Johnbod (talk) 17:49, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Chinese Tang tomb figures

On 20 December 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Chinese Tang tomb figures, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the thirteen figures (example pictured) who guarded the tomb of General Liu Tingxun in 728 AD are now in London? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Chinese Tang tomb figures. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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7,800 hits Victuallers (talk) 08:18, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/A Boy was Born

The whole "was/Was" was a mess. The original nominator withdrew, so I undid the withdrawal, and then re-nominated it to undo the harm. You reviewed it, so can you review it again? --George Ho (talk) 08:22, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

See also, and my talk. We have now an article that doesn't mention a single time that the published title of the work is not the one our MOS dictates. I can't support that. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:25, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

As someone who hasn't stated a view then I could offer some binding arbitration if those who think this important are willing to finish the debate and move one Victuallers (talk) 13:03, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

The nom is closed, so I think is the discussion. I moved on, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:09, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

Sad that good work has been lost by a silly argument over the case of a single letter. The whole point is that its better to have an imperfect article rather than no article. Pleased you have have moved on - best wishes Victuallers (talk) 10:51, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

The work is not lost, the article is there, but I don't want to show the "wrong version" on the Main page. The article is moving the right direction, did you see? - Lost: BarkingMoon, since July 2011, - that was the one time I screamed about a loss here, and still remember that I felt sick. - Christmas Cheers: thank you! Mine will appear on my user and talk on 24 December, - with our without the Boy is not decided yet ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:46, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks so much for your input on the Matilda Hays article. I really enjoyed writing it and am interested to know what you meant on Template:Did you know nominations/Matilda Hays when you said other hooks were possible.--CaroleHenson (talk) 18:47, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

Oh, just after I posted this I saw another section on this page. It seems "hook" refers to the DYK verbiage. If that's the case, yes, there would have been other hooks. If, however, you meant verbiage within the article that could be expanded upon, that would be good to know.--CaroleHenson (talk) 18:50, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks for greetings, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Brandmeister^talk 22:29, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

Turkeys

Thanks for the thought. I don't know if you have turkeys in your part of the world, but here is a picture in case you don't. Thanks also for the review on Template:Did you know nominations/Battle of Shela. I like your hook better. I was surprised when I saw it had been nominated. Not one I would have chosen. Then I saw another one. And another... Why not?

Anyway, happy Christmas. Aymatth2 (talk) 01:37, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

I as well, appreciate the random well wishes. Thank you. --Nick Penguin_(contribs) 06:14, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

Yuor posts [6] include what looks like a copy of an old irrelevant section from somewhere: "Wikidata and Interwiki links". PrimeHunter (talk) 11:22, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

Whack!

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Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

You are right - Ive tried to fix a few but it looks as if my xmas wishes have got mixed up with a trout. Thwack!! self trouted! Victuallers (talk) 12:20, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks - the 3 plus editors got Bronze Head from Ife 11,000 hits yesterday Victuallers (talk) 10:26, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

Tartupedia

Hello Vict,

I was performing some researchs about active Wikitown projects now and I've noticed the project called in Estonian "Tartupeedia" ie "Tartupedia" and so I want to ask you if it's possible to write an article at "GLAM: Newsletter" for the December Issue on Wikimedia Outreach. I started a regular correspondence with Raul Veede that he've overwhelmed me with information about the project in English. In this way everyone can know about this. If you want I'll send you the Raul's text in English. Thank you
I'd be grateful for any information on these matters about QRpedia plaques: 1.what are the exact materials, 2.how big are the plaques, 3.how exactly are they produced, 4.how many have people had to replace in any citypedia projects in a year, 53might there be some way to reduce the costs... Thank you too

:) — Raoli (talk) 23:52, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

send me the stuff - happy to do what I can. Praguepedia church is on front page on Boxing Day Victuallers (talk) 10:24, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

Tartupedia

December 21, 2013

I : Hi, I would like to know what is the status of the project "Tartupeedia" now. I have read also you userpage Kasutaja:Oop/Tartupeedia/Tartupeedia_tööplaan where you say that "Oktoobri lõpp 2013: projekti eelarve järgmiseks aastaks purki, rahataotlus WMF-ile (ja võib-olla kuhugi veel)". Which is the project budget for the next year? I would like to be notified of any updates or changes.

December 22, 2013

Raul Veede : The project is going on well. While we haven't pushed the QR part much, we have run some smaller contests and one big, and the results of the almost-year-long photo contest are going to be announced in January.

We've got some support from the city government (money for the travelling exhibition, prizes and free premises for the award ceremony in January). We have started cooperation with several GLAM institutions in the city, which is, of course, a wider theme but also concerns the city and Tartupeedia (Vanemuine theater, Tartu Art Museum, Estonian Sports Museum, etc; we're going to meet the folks at Estonian National Museum in January).

We've held some lectures and workshops in museums (Estonian Print Museum) and city district societies (Supilinna Selts, Karlova Selts). While all our efforts to engage new contributors haven't been very successful, we're trying to figure out new methods to engage people and improve the content - we'd like to have decent articles at least in Estonian and English before we launch the QR codes. And we've found a new guy who is interested in the organizatory work which we have in abundance.

Project budget for the next is not yet ready, as we're still finishing our chapter's budget and grant application to WMF. We'll apply to some local sources, too (next meeting with a potential sponsor is scheduled in January). But I can let you know about it as soon as I'll know it myself.

We have a project page in the wiki of Wikimedia Eesti, the Estonian chapter of Wikimedia movement (amongst other things, I'm a board member), and a portal on Estonian Wikipedia:
https://et.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tartupeedia
https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portaal:Tartupeedia

We don't have an English page yet, though, as we have initially concentrated our efforts on the Estonian part. After all, we must have content there that could be translated into the other languages, before we start with directing readers there via the QR codes.

This project was reflected in our annual grant application to Wikimedia Foundation for 2013, and will be part of the next one for 2014. We have received a lot of support from several enterprises and GLAM institutions (mostly as prizes). Tartupeedia has been reflected in Estonian media but we haven't put much effort to the international media because we still have to go for the articles about Tartu in other languages - we're currently just developing the Estonian versions.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_EE/2013

We haven't gone into producing QR plaques yet (although the indoor codes on paper are used in Estonian Sports Museum). Hence, we don't know who might produce the plaques in Estonia, and hence we do not know the exact costs. . As they seem to be quite simple in nature, I suspect it might be better to produce them locally, but who knows.

We'd also very much like to build a free WiFi all over the midtown, but that would be a large and expensive project, to be made in joint effort with the city government. So it will not be our first priority. I don't know if other citypedias have used free WiFi, and it would be very interesting to know. As far as I see it, it would be very beneficial for the tourists. Mobile data connections are relatively cheap in Estonia and there are many free WiFis in the town (including the city government's) but the foreigners won't have a local carrier and it is tedious to walk around the town, moving from one WiFi to another, often having to log in or accept another set of terms. Thus, a unified WiFi would be good and could be advertised. Still, there are many technical problems (starting from the locals using it for P2P connections and ending with taking care of the equipment in following years).

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tartupeedia_punane.svg is one version of the official logo. For all images, see: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tartupedia

We also have a somewhat competitive project arranged by one of the state institutions - Ettevõtluse Arendamise Sihtasutus, Enterprise Estonia - that has established QR-plaques on 100 tourism objects all over Estonia. Those codes refer to their own tourism site http://www.visitestonia.com that gives more tourist-oriented information in less languages than Wikipedia ideally could. But amonst theo ther things, they cover some of the objects we are also interested in, like the very house where I work in - the oldest wooden house in Tartu, Uppsala maja.
https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uppsala_maja

That's all. --Raoli (talk) 19:07, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

I was translating into Italian the same article, then I saw that you were doing it already in English so I have relied on your version. Howsoever, you can get more information about "Tartupedia" but in Italian here it:TartupediA. ;) If you need I can translate them into English. Raoli (talk) 13:56, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

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I have read and translated from the article in English QRpedia#Wikimedia_UK_dispute Gibraltarpedia#Controversy. However, I do not believe that things have gone so. I agree with you that is incorrect. :) --Raoli (talk) 14:22, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

However, in that paragraph in Italian everything is explained, leaving to the reader to get an idea: it only describes the facts. Tell me exactly where it is wrong and I will correct it immediately. thank you --Raoli (talk) 14:31, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Ok? :) Raoli (talk) 18:03, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

On it.wikipedia I can not create separate articles because they are not, by themselves, notables, so I created a mega page that contains everything. Then articles like "MonmouthpediA", "GibraltarpediA", "*-pediA" would be immediately deleted. In fact, many people on it.wikipedia see the articles about Wikipedia as promotional or potential conflicts of interest and therefore are likely to delete them. If you were at the pub I was at a party. Enjoy! Raoli (talk) 01:07, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

Ah, ok. You mean a project page like "Wikipedia:Wikitowns"! Ok! --Raoli (talk) 17:25, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your help so far, do you want a helping hand to write an article about #Tartupedia on "GLAM: Newsletter"? Ready to give it to you :) HNY! Felice anno nuovo Vict! --Raoli (talk) 02:36, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

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[8]♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:05, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi Dr B. Yep I hust did some copy editting. Currently I'm looking at Tartupedia but I shall see what can be done here if I can find time. Victuallers (talk) 15:30, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Hello Victuallers. Thanks for your work in the Bremen QRpedia project and a Happy New Year. --Godewind (talk) 07:30, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

thx4thx Thank you @Godewind - the reminder was due to @Dr._Blofeld (the evil genius) - I'm hoping to move that article to DYK - any referenced stuff you could could add would help as I'm out of stuff that I can find in English. Victuallers (talk) 20:12, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

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QR Bremen

Glad to see you're working on Bremen. Are you officially involved in the project or just helping out?--Ipigott (talk) 14:05, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

I thought you might be interested. I came across the project purely by accident and offered my help in editing and translating. They wanted to invite me to a meeting in Bremen (now scheduled for late January) but I am not too keen to travel so far. I don't know how fluent you are in German but you might be able to help. You should get in touch with Godewind if you are interested. I've also looked at Tartupeedia which seems to be based on the QR code application in their sports museum. Although I've been to Estonia a few times, I'm certainly not fluent in Estonian and therefore can offer only limited help. Sounds interesting though.--Ipigott (talk) 15:48, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

Aaah well the evil genius Dr B pointed me in this direction. If you watch DYK over the next few days then you will see that I have written quite a few Tartupedia articles (including the Sports Museum) recently and a fair few for Freopedia and Joburgpedia. I think I'm as interested in multilingualism as you :-) but my second language is fortran. I just envy polyglots like yourself. If you are passing Derby on your way to Newcastle then we have a good pub. Victuallers (talk) 15:55, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

Most of the background is at de:Benutzer:Godewind/QR-Code auf Infotafeln. The priority at the moment is to produce English versions of the articles on the list (which will be associated with plaques) but they are also interested in other languages. Mobile access through the plaques has been very limited to date but the project has not yet been officially launched. They intend to have a press conference soon.

Hardly ever get to the UK these days. Mostly Luxembourg and Denmark now. Thanks all the same.--Ipigott (talk) 16:00, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

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Hallo Victuallers, gratuliere zum Artikel. Ein Hinweis zum Caller: er steht noch in Bremen, ist nur umgezogen zum neuen TV-Studio an der Schlachte. --Godewind (talk) 20:25, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

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I'm following you

In order to begin to learn your Italian! ;)
(in Italian)Per cominciare ad imparare l'italiano! ;)

Following you for a while, I've noticed a lot of beautiful and interesting articles to whom I haven't thought just. That's why I've translated them.
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I reported the article it:QRpedia into the "Featured article", so I'm writing to you. I also would like to know, before a large number of people discuss the article, if there are still wrong information in your opinion. I had tried to remove or modify them, but if there are again please let me know as soon as possible. bye — Raoli (talk) 02:38, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

"Another town in Italy has asked me whether I would help them create a wikitown." You should create a consulting firm! :) — Raoli (talk) 23:14, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

However, have you an idea on how we can resolve this situation? Wikipedia:WikiProject QRpedia#Statistics (bugzilla) — Raoli (talk) 00:26, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Mastumah/Astamaku

Thanks for improving the article and bringing it to DYK. Good luck with the nomination, cheers! --Al Ameer (talk) 22:49, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

And unfortunately, I do not have a modern-day image of the village. Thus, the hook might need to be changed to emphasize the Assyrian conquest of the ancient city. --Al Ameer (talk) 22:51, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

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Essighaus

There is an issue with the DYK here. I don't really understand what the problem is. Perhaps you can take care of it as you added the bit on Freud.--Ipigott (talk) 14:57, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

... done Victuallers (talk) 15:22, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

DYK queue

Hi, sorry to bother you but I think you just moved a set of hooks to Queue 5? I just glanced at the hooks and noticed the lead one has a DAB link for Benzonia. SagaciousPhil - Chat 16:53, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

You're welcome - sorry I didn't spot it while it was still in prep! SagaciousPhil - Chat 18:24, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

Differences between QRpedia and QRcode

What are the technical differences between a QRcode and a QRpedia? Over the internet I've found nothing. Thank you Raoli (talk) 12:57, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

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QRcodes can contain any arbitrary data, but commonly they contain a URL (Perhaps we should use the broader term IRI, but in practice they're nearly always a URL - sometimes this can be a restriction). QRcodes on mobile phones are usually scanned by an app that is expecting a URL to be encountered (some apps might expect UPC or ISBN codes). So when they see a URL, they fire up the phone's web browser and go to that page.

This works great – except that QRcodes, like some RFID and NFC tags don't have much space on them. QRcodes are a compromise between physical size of the code, length of the embedded data, level of detail on the code (so how good an image you have to get) and the error-checking embedded in the code. If you're using physically small codes (such as cufflinks [9] (point your phone at the screen and try to follow them!)), or you need reliable reading of them with poor images (QRcodes suck as a way for casual shoppers to respond to adverts, because many of them just aren't that easy to read), then you have a problem – how can you get by with shorter URLs?

A common way is to make all the code URLs point to a short domain name (http://jman.eu for the cufflinks) and use short resource paths (the 'other bit') after this. Sometimes a simple numeric code is used, which is compact but a nuisance to maintain. It's all a compromise.

All QRpedia codes are just QRcodes (some, but not many, QRcodes are QRpedia codes). They also embed a URL within them. The only differences are in the data that's embedded (by standard rules) into that URL, and also what happens when you browse to that URL. QRpedia codes all point to the same domain, which is a web server running the QRpedia code (It's open sourced and at http://qrwp.googlecode.com). This server doesn't have to host any other content. QRpedia uses the server at http://qrwp.org, but the same code would work elsewhere with very similar QRcodes, they'd just have to have the right domain name printed on them. They'd no longer be "QRpedia codes", they'd be "QRcodes using the QRpedia framework".

At the QRpedia server, the short embedded URL from the QRcode is sliced up and it does two clever things before it's turned into a long URL pointing at a Wikipedia project. Most obviously this uses the "What is this thing?" tag from the QRpedia code to find the right WP page URL for that QRpedia resource (this can be done very simply, but sometimes needs to be more complex). It also uses a language code (from the phone device) to decide which bit of international Wikipedia to look at, as this depends on who is looking at a QRpedia resource, not which resource they're looking at. As QRpedia is strongly concerned about international tourism, this is an important feature for it that's hard to achieve by methods before QRpedia.

Now a complication, that QRpedia deals with for you: not only does a QRpedia server have to return en:Monnow Bridge (if an English language phone looks at the bridge), it also has to return this as cy:Pont Trefynwy (a Welsh language phone) and fr:Pont Monnow (un téléphone cellulaire) instead, rather than cy:Monnow Bridge or fr:Monnow Brdge.

Broadly, QRpedia began as a handle server (of which DOI is one of the most common). Very short codes are expanded to big codes, allowing the short codes to be squeezed somewhere small. In addition, specific to Wikipedia, it knows when to point readers at :cy:WP instead of :en:WP and how to turn Monnow Bridge into Pont Trefynwy, when needed.

I hope this is helpful to you, and that Roger doesn't mind me jumping in. Any corrections are of course welcome. Andy Dingley (talk) 13:48, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

Its says it is in German. If you try the Breman QRpedia code on the left then it is always in German - but the one on the right will give you English or German depending on your favourite language and the site will fit your phone or tablet.

Other wiki towns only use one code - This is all that is required. The Joburgpedia plaques have two languages to show that you can access info in many languages. How we show that you don't need to use a QR code is till a matter of debate

Andy - its nice to know that I have at least one angel over my shoulder! Maybe you could give me a hand with my editing too :-) The shortening of the QR code is a key issue. The Bremen-pedia plaques have two codes. The right one is a QRpedia code and the left one is a QR code. YOu can see how complicated the url is by just looking at how complex the code looks. The one on the left uses goo.gl shortening. The one on the right uses QRWP shortening. The one on the left could go anywhere .... and you wouldn't know where its was until you got there! The one on the right is human readable as you can see the name of the wikipedia article in the url Before you get there. The QRpedia code will not go to a !bad" site because it can only go to Wikipedia (and Wikisource or Wikivoyage). THe other point is that the left hand site might lose its funding next week.... the QRpedia code will work "forever" as its backed by a UK charity Victuallers (talk) 15:19, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

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Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 16:02, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

One for @Johnbod Victuallers (talk) 16:45, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks! Johnbod (talk) 17:41, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

Get a screenshot John, there is a great picture of Ted on the Royal Society web site but the license is unclear. This would be so much better with a pic. Victuallers (talk) 18:01, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

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Polite reminder

Hi Victuallers, and thanks for all the work you do at DYK - I've only started writing lots of DYKs recently and you seem to be a real key player in the project, and I appreciate the reviews you do. I guess you've got a lot of things on your watchlist, so I just thought I'd let you know that I've now done the required QPQ on Odell Great Wood - is this green-tickable now? Thanks, :) Acather96 (click here to contact me) 21:55, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

RE: A Picture

Thanks(Lihaas (talk) 05:10, 20 January 2014 (UTC)).

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QRpedia-Code

Hello Victuallers. Ein QRpedia-Code mit Umlauten wird nicht richtig interpretiert und erzeugt einen ungültigen Link. Das war nicht so als ich die Plaques für das Bremer Projekt erstellt habe.

Wikipedia
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%BCtting_%28Bremen%29

QRpedia
http://de.qrwp.org/Sch%25C3%25BCtting_%2528Bremen%2529

Kannst Du helfen? Ich weiß nicht an wen ich das weiterleiten kann. --Godewind (talk) 13:24, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

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Re: Review of Duesenberg Model A - online citation for first hook

Thank you for reviewing the DYK nomination for Duesenberg Model A; I appreciate greatly having a review done for the article so quickly after it was nominated!

I'm not sure whether I should mention it here or at the nomination template, but the first hook, about being the first production car with four-wheel hydraulic brakes, had two supporting citations, one of which was, and still is, offline. The other was, and still is, here: Errett Lobban: His Empire, His Motor Cars: Auburn, Cord, Duesenberg, p. 40, at Google Books, at the first complete sentence in the second column on the page. Sincerely, SamBlob (talk) 18:39, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Thank you again for your review and for your revision to your review! Sincerely, SamBlob (talk) 19:53, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

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QRpedia bug - Apostrophes. HELP!

Schütting in Bremen. Wrong link in german language!

Hey Vic, hope you're doing well.

Something seems to have changed since QRpedia was transferred to Wikimedia UK... Codes for the following articles were generated and printed prior to the project's transfer:

They worked just fine but that's no longer the case... Common factor? The apostrophe!

The problem seems to be that although the URL for the article is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Jago's_Arch, when it is copy-pasted into QRpedia it displays as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Jago%27s_Arch and gives you a code for the latter URL. It used to work fine but if you were to scan that code now it returns en.qrwp.org/St._Jago%2527s_Arch, i.e. adding an extra '25' to the URL and this returns an HTTP 400 Bad request.

These codes have been integrated into wider information panels which will be costly to replace, so in an attempt to find a short-term fix I tried to create an in-wiki redirect ([[St. Jago%2527s Arch]]), but as you can see it doesn't let me create an article with this title.

Help please! --Gibmetal 77^{talk 2 me} 23:12, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Same problem in german language "Deutsch(Deutschland)" on smartphone (english ok) in our project with 16 plaques like this or this. Need help!!! --Godewind (talk) 06:36, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Thank for the new information Jurgen and Tyson. Sorry this has happened. If necessary we can change back to the old code. I will raise this today with Wikimedia UK. Not sure how this can happen as the rule was that we would not make any changes or improvements to make sure it kept working. I will place new information here when I have it. 07:33, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks Roger. It seems that Godewind’s problem is with the brackets so it would appear that non-letter characters in the title of an article are now being problematic. Grateful if you could please let me know who you've spoken to at Wikimedia UK so I can contact them to. Many thanks, --Gibmetal 77^{talk 2 me} 11:08, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi Ty, I have been exchanging emails since 8:30 this morning with principally Tom Morton who is a programmer for them. His investigating as we speak but he also needs the help of another programmer who is not unavailable. The current theory is that the new code has been moved but a fix for an old problem has not been included. I will update when I have more information and send you Tom's email in case you want to talk Victuallers (talk) 11:16, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

@Godewind @Gibmetal77 - The cause of the problem has been identified by @Rexx. The temporary work around is not to cut and paste from the address bar but to cut and paste the plain text url into qrpedia.org. This means that odd characters are delivered correctly for encoding. A more permanent solution follows. Victuallers (talk) 11:36, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, but this is no help for existing plaques with qr-codes. It's a matter of interpreting the incomming urls, generated from mobiles by reading the plaques. The urls are double urlencoded. Just do a regex replace %25 to % with the whole string. --Quarz (talk) 11:48, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Hello Quarz. Of course this doesnt affect existing QRpedia codes if they have been created using an incorrect url. I was just explaining where that incorrect url has come from. What I think we need to know is how many incorrect codes are out there? It may be possible to correct them when decoding if the problem is large enough. Victuallers (talk) 11:55, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Hey guys. I'm happy to say that this should now be fixed for you. Because the servers that used to host qrwp.org and that currently host it are configured in a subtly different way it exposed a technical bug in the QR code generation (namely, it let you post those urls and didn't intelligently fix them before encoding the QR code). Unfortunately, the old server configuration masked the problem and allowed it to work. I've managed to deploy a fix that will allow things to go back to work! Sorry for the issues. By the way, I'm happy for you to contact me directly on tom [at] wikimedia.org.uk with bugs and technical QRpedia problems. Feel free to hand that email addresses out to any other stakeholders too :) --Errant ^(chat!) 12:03, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks to a many way discussion and one bright idea the problem is solved @Quarz, @Gibmetal77. Readers interested in seeing the recent progress in Bremen may care to read this. Jurgen's hard work seems to be paying off and there is nearly an "absurd" amount of en:DYK articles thanks to @Ipigott et al :-)

@ErrantX: Thanks a million! I've just scanned these codes and they seem to work now :). I'll try to visit the other codes after work just to be sure...

@Victuallers: Thanks for helping to sort this out so quickly :) --Gibmetal 77^{talk 2 me} 12:54, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks to all. Our 32 Code-plaques works well. :-)) --Godewind (talk) 13:36, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

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Can you fix the errors in Claudia Lösch (skier)?♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:28, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

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Problem with Queue 3 load

Victuallers, you're supposed to take the whole of a prep area when you move it to a queue: everything from top to bottom, including all the DYKmake and DYKnom templates. At the moment, Queue 3 is incomplete and going to cause problems when it's promoted.

Can you please fix it right away? Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 21:07, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

Queue 3

Something is wrong with Queue 3. The Hooks heading is visible, and code seems broken. Compare this to that. --George Ho (talk) 21:15, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

see above - thx Victuallers (talk) 21:17, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks to you and @BlueMoonset - fixed I hope Victuallers (talk) 21:30, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

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Can you check out Radisson Blu Hotel, Bremen for me. It looks like the building which was the hilton Bremen. Google books has more sources on Hilton Bremen than this though.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:53, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

Bit busy today .... probably this evening/ tomorrow. Found some pictures of other stuff though. If your new articles make 1500 chars then I may DYK them Victuallers (talk) 13:48, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

True, Radison Blu, before Hilton Bremen. --Godewind (talk) 14:33, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

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Hugo Bergmann

You appear to have broken a ref and maybe something else on the page. Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 08:05, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

BremenpediA

So now it's BremenpediA! One more to add to your list. See here. Virtually all the articles on Godewind's list now also have English versions (through few are actual translations). We now need to see how the project develops. It may be a good idea to work the Bremen article up to GA level. I could assist with this but I would prefer to see contributions from the Bremen community. The other language versions (especially French and Dutch) should also be addressed. Any ideas?--Ipigott (talk) 09:48, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Hey that is nice to see that the brand has taken off. I see that @Orlady has also nominated a couple of your articles - so thanks to her too. I wanted to ask the project about their latest plaques. They are using Open Plaques - great, but they are not using QRpedia on the blue plaques :-( The latter is important as a next step might be to encourage more languages. Is there long term plan to support QRpedia? I'm not sure and with my monoglot skills it is to subtle a point to raise easily. Maybe you could ask? Assuming the answer is yes then the next step is to convert their project page to English. I have no problem with the base language being German but it is likely that other languages may not speak German but may speak English. I would also like to suggest that we meet at Wikimania ... I was debating whether to go to Bremen and meet some of the people... Victuallers (talk) 10:14, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

As far as I can gather, they are now working on a more extensive BremenpediA project of which the current QR-code list will be just a part. I think they are trying to get more support from the city and seem to expect news by the end of February. They'll also be developing a new project page. I'm not sure how all this should be coordinated with the EN-wiki. Up to now, everything seems to have been in German.--Ipigott (talk) 12:29, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Unsere Seite BremenpediA (in Arbeit) --Godewind (talk) 12:46, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

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Thanks for AGF, @Mandarax and @Allen3 - can't imagine why this shows me doing this - must be an accident and I can't see how it happened - not my style to revert unless its pure vandalism. Thanks for catching my error Victuallers (talk) 20:45, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Langenstraße (Bremen)

On 8 February 2014, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Langenstraße (Bremen), which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that many of the historic buildings in Langenstraße in Bremen were seriously damaged during World War II but have been carefully reconstructed since? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Langenstraße (Bremen). You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

The DYK project (nominate) 21:02, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

DYK for House of the Seven Lazy Brothers

On 9 February 2014, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article House of the Seven Lazy Brothers, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that the roof of the House of the Seven Lazy Brothers shows how hard-working the brothers had really been? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/House of the Seven Lazy Brothers. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Orlady (talk) 13:33, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Glockenspiel House

On 10 February 2014, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Glockenspiel House, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that while pictures of Christopher Columbus, Count Zeppelin and Charles Lindbergh appear on the Glockenspiel House, a carillon plays? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Glockenspiel House. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Orlady (talk) 06:02, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

GLAM meeting in Bremen

Victuallers, do you want to meet us in Bremen to GLAM project planning in March? (look for my mail last week) --Godewind (talk) 14:29, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

Will find mail - yes Im interested! Victuallers (talk) 23:29, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Fine, I have send a new mail yesterday to your gibraltarpedia-adress --Godewind (talk) 06:17, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

This wiki-kitten is here to express my thanks for your help with maintaining the DYK process. Your assistance is highly appreciated!

_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 16:13, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Atlantis House

On 11 February 2014, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Atlantis House, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that the Art Deco building for studying Atlantis (interior pictured) in Bremen had a crucifix, but with Odin on it? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Atlantis House. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Orlady (talk) 06:47, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Great result :-)) --Godewind (talk) 09:19, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Eva Ganster

On 11 February 2014, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Eva Ganster, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that ski jumper Eva Ganster (pictured) pre-jumped at the 1994 Olympics, twenty years before ski jumping became an Olympic sport for women this year? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Eva Ganster. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

The DYK project (nominate) 15:03, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

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An Ethics of Dissensus

Sorry, I misunderstood you, couldn't see on the talk page where transclusion ends and comment begins, restored it. (Please sign.) - I understood immediately that "dissensus" is the opposite of "consensus", and that we need ethics or culture of it, - that's my part of the message ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:24, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

I understood immediately that "dissensus" is the opposite of "consensus" too.... but I'm guessing there is some subtlety to the concept if you write a book about it :-) And it is an unusual word that is not defined on wiki that I could see. Do feel free to jump in and approve the hook/article. I do suspect that Prof is more interesting than her article. Victuallers (talk) 18:02, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

International Women's Day

Hello Victuallers. I have noticed your interest in International Women's Day. Given the fact thate entire month of March is considered to be Women's Month, I have been pretty active in this connection in previous years with coverage of Women in photography with a List of women photographers last year and Women in architecture with List of female architects in 2012. This year I intend to cover Women in dance along the same lines (ballet, choreography, musicals, film, ballroom dancing, national traditions...). Surprisingly, this is an area which has not been properly addressed on Wikipedia, especially on the international level. I have left messages on Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Dance and Wikipedia talk:WikiWomen's History Month/To-do list but these sites are moribund. If you agree with my idea, I would appreciate your assistance and suggestions. I intend to start on the list and biographies in a day or two.--Ipigott (talk) 07:05, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

Woooo! Well it looks as if IWD and IWM will start to address our gender bias on line for at least a while. *Very* pleased to have your interest - I, like others, are just taking an interest in this. I notice that there was a dancer in the queue.... more would be great. Victuallers (talk) 09:15, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

Many on the way. I first want to provide a basic List of female dancers. I'll then expand on the countries one by one, adding the missing biographies. The more help I can get, the better.--Ipigott (talk) 21:29, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for your excellent additions to Clotilde von Derp, including the striking picture, the useful "Empire" source, and the DYK nom. She has turned out to be quite an interesting figure. Have put together a few bits and pieces on Jutta Deutschland and will be trying to cover Gerda's other red links. No harm in running related DYKs sooner rather than later. They may help to encourage wider participation. There's certainly plenty more work to do.--Ipigott (talk) 10:42, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Nalini Anantharaman

Hello! Your submission of Nalini Anantharaman at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Soman (talk) 03:42, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Eduard Scotland

On 19 February 2014, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Eduard Scotland, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Eduard Scotland and Alfred Runge designed luxury ocean liner cabins before they created St Petrus House? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Eduard Scotland. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

The DYK project (nominate) 08:03, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Video games

We have many articles on unreleased games, since unreleased games can still meet the GNG. In the lede, "published by" pairs with "developed by", which isn't to say that the game has been published yet, but that the developer and publisher are X and Y. I've done dozens of articles and it hasn't been an issue yet. czar ♔ 13:49, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

I'm not surprised, but I wasnt sure. I do think it odd that we write articles about things that could never see the light of day or turn out to be disasters but I'll let it proceed with your reassuirance. I do think it was unfortunate that it said "published by" when it hadn't been published - thanks for the explanation ... thanks for the heads up. Victuallers (talk) 13:59, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Some baklava for you!

Thanks so much indeed for your copyediting on Gün Sazak. CeeGee 21:02, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks CG ... tasty Victuallers (talk) 21:33, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Dedicated QRpedia codes for mk.wiki articles

Hello Roger. I am B. Jankuloski, admin and bureaucrat on mk.wiki. Our community here, lead by Wikimedia Macedonia are in preparations for organising community editing to round off our articles on the animals in Skopje Zoo and monuments in the old part of the town, and proceed to installing QR codes to be read via QRpedia in the following period. When I opened QRpedia itself, and tested the code creation for a certain Macedonian language article on our wiki, I noticed that the generated code gives the article on the particular Wikipedia language version that matches the phone interface language. That is brilliant for most countries, where phones are used in native langauge interface. However, most people here in Macedonia use the English interface, as we had no proper versions for some time and then, badly translated. There is just still no habit using phones in the native language, to our great lament.

This makes me wonder how we will be able to create the codes that lead straight to the mk.wiki article, bypassing this wonderful but, for us, deal-braking feature. Is it possible to make such code that will go direct to the Macedonian Wikipedia artice? --B. Jankuloski (talk) 12:00, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

Hmmm. Yes I think it is. I have been considering this problem for about 18 months and I believe I have a solution but need time to write it up. (actually two or three). I'm hoping that I might do this in time for the GLAM WIKI meeting at the end of March in Bremen being organised by @Godewind - I have been promising this! How we make this happen is another thought but I have been thinking about that too. Victuallers (talk) 12:29, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

Ping

Hi. I just wanted to note that in several places (example) you've done [[ping|User]] rather than {{ping|User}}. Obviously, this creates a link to the Ping page rather than the desired link to the user's page. Furthermore, notifications are, unfortunately, not generated in Template space; if you need to notify a user about something on a nomination template, you'd have to use another method, such as a note on the user's talk page. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 01:49, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

DYK nomination of J. S. Wood

Hello! Your submission of J. S. Wood at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! EagerToddler39 (talk) 14:24, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

Hello Victuallers, thanks for reviewing my DYK at Template:Did you know nominations/María Ruanova. I'm reminding you that you had nominated J.S. Wood for a DYK. I expressed concerns with the hook on 25th February. You have yet to address those issues so the DYK cannot proceed. Do you intend to proceed with the DYK or are you abandoning the nomination? If you still wish to proceed please make the relevant adjustments to the article and ping me when everything has been corrected. EagerToddler39 (talk) 19:46, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

As you suggested, I have dived in. I am rather busy in real life for a few days, perhaps you might be able to keep half an eye on it? Moonraker (talk) 18:11, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

Rosina Galli (dancer)

HI there. I can't figure out why Refs 9, 10, and 12 are displaying poorly at Rosina Galli (dancer). Do you have an idea on what would fix them? --Rosiestep (talk) 21:18, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

For future reference, the way to fix problems in which the URL contains square brackets is to replace "[" with "[" and "]" with "]".

http://x.com?has_[brackets]_in_url^[1]

http://x.com?has_[brackets]_in_url^[2]

MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 22:51, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, to both of you! --Rosiestep (talk) 22:54, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for fielding that @Mandarax and for your other advice above, Thanks for your altruism! Rosie - I find that the Google URL frequesntly displays much to much information. I don't really understand what Im doing but I finf that I can uually delete all the stuff after an & sign. THe URL seems to record the search terms that go you to the site. THese terms are not required if you want to just uniquely identify the site.

@Rosiestep Pleased to see you on board for the W H MONTH. International Womens day now has about 30 hooks so that is going to work! ..... however if anyone is going to notice Women's History Month then we need more than 60 extra articles IMO. There are just over 20 days and with three hooks a day then 60 would give us just one extra hook in each set. I'm not sure any non wikipedians would notice one extra hook, We probably need 120 plus articles for the casual observer to notice IMO. That is quite a challenge..... pass it on. Victuallers (talk) 23:06, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

Oh, yes, I'm definitely on board for W H MONTH. I've been working on dancers, but other biographies, too. There really doesn't seem to be a place where editors are listing the articles they're creating such as Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism_2014#Results. Adding to List of female dancers and removing bluelinking entries at Wikipedia:WikiWomen's_History_Month/To-do_list are important, but we also need a centralized place to list our contributions for this drive. Something like Wikipedia:WikiWomen's_History_Month#2014_Results would track our progress; or maybe there's something like that already? --Rosiestep (talk) 15:42, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

Thank you very much, Victuallers, for all of your work in the pursuit of making IWD/WHM successful. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 22:41, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

Aurora Bosch might interest you. --Rosiestep (talk) 15:58, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the review on L Araujo. I added ALT, which you suggested, and it's probably a better fit with the picture. --Rosiestep (talk) 15:33, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Marit Ruth

Hi, I just approved your hook. Should I move it to a holding area for March? (Otherwise it will probably get snapped up pretty quickly.) Yoninah (talk) 23:29, 23 February 2014 (UTC) Please. Thanks ... and good night :-) Victuallers (talk) 23:33, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

Sorry

I reverted it back to what you had. — Maile (talk) 22:12, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Hertha Feist

On 1 March 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hertha Feist, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Hertha Feist dance school was moved by the Nazis to smaller premises? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hertha Feist. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 07:02, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

So here we are in Women's History Month. I've started to put the dancer DYKs on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Dance list. If you still feel in the mood to improve the bios or nominate them for DYK, I've started several new ones in the past few days (see here). Gerda has been working hard too: see here. The List of female dancers seems to be coming on fine. Thanks for all your recent work on the dancers and other deserving ladies. --Ipigott (talk) 08:09, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Barbara Brandon-Croft

Thanks for reviewing this article at DYK. Re your comments about a non-free image - I found Croft on FB and requested she contribute a photo to Wiki Commons. I'm still awaiting her response. It would be a great enhancement to the article. EagerToddler39 (talk) 00:41, 2 March 2014 (UTC) @EagerToddler39 Brill Victuallers (talk) 09:28, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

Help with first DYK submission

Hi Victuallers. I thought I'd let you know that we have another UK schools GA, Norwich School. I have made a DYK submission here. But since it's my first time I was hoping a pair of experienced eyes such as yours could take a look at it. Cheers, Duffit ^talk 12:19, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

Sometimes our fingers don't type what we want them to

Hi, on Template:Did you know nominations/Teresa Bandettini, you said "I prefer alt1", but I'm pretty sure you intended to say that you prefer the original hook. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 05:40, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Mrs. Lovett Cameron

On 4 March 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Mrs. Lovett Cameron, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that in reply to The Woman Who Did, a novel about a New Woman, Mrs. Lovett Cameron wrote The Man Who Didn't? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Mrs. Lovett Cameron. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

The DYK project (nominate) 16:02, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

María Nieves

Thanks for all your additions to that article. Nice job 7&6=thirteen (☎) 18:42, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

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Kate Marsden

See my requests

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DYK for Teresa Bandettini

On 5 March 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Teresa Bandettini, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Italian improv performer Teresa Bandettini was given her portrait (pictured) by Angelica Kauffman in 1794? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Teresa Bandettini. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

The DYK project (nominate) 08:02, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Kate Marsden

Hello! Your submission of Kate Marsden at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! DoctorKubla (talk) 08:27, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

Reviving Fenella

I am finding DYK nominations rather wearying, would you feel like nominating Mary Eliza Kennard? Moonraker (talk) 20:26, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK on Hanpu

Thank you for posting the DYK on Hanpu (my very first DYK!) on the talk page. I notice there is one word missing from the version that was reviewed and accepted at Template:Did you know nominations/Hanpu, which said that Hanpu married "a wild Jurchen woman", that is, a woman from the "wild Jurchens". Do you think it would be possible to reinsert that word into the hook to make it more "hooky" again? If you think the formulation is too misleading, perhaps the link to Jurchen people could be placed under "wild Jurchen" instead of just "Jurchen" as it is now? No matter what you decide, thank you for being such an involved and creative administrator. Keep up the good work! Madalibi (talk) 00:23, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

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DYK for Susana Agüero

On 6 March 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Susana Agüero, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Lyon Opera Ballet ballerina Susana Agüero returned to Buenos Aires when she had eyesight problems? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Susana Agüero. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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WikiWomen's History Month

I was inspired by your mention of WikiWomen's History Month on the DYK nomination page to expand the article Edith Marion Patch!

I notice that when you, and others, prepare sets of hooks in the DYK preparation areas, your name and message comes up when the DYK banner appears on the creator's talk page. I guess this is the result of some instructions lower down on the preparation area page where it says "You can also give out credits using the following templates:". I sometimes prepare sets of hooks but have never tried awarding credits. Is this done at the time the set of hooks is made up, as implied by the prep area blurb, or is it done by the administrator at the time the set moves to the front page? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:29, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

It's added by the admin who moves the preps to the queues. When this is done you add a template called DYKdo and you can add a message and a sig that the bot uses when it informs the nominators. I always to try and add a message to show that its not all bots - real people make this process work. Oh and thanks for your help with the project. Your contributions seem always well judged. Cheers Victuallers (talk) 11:18, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Oleksandra Kononova

On 8 March 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Oleksandra Kononova, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that after the last Paralympics, Oleksandra Kononova became the Ukrainian sports personality of the year? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Oleksandra Kononova. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

The DYK project (nominate) 00:02, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Clotilde von Derp

On 8 March 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Clotilde von Derp, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that both expressionist dancer Clotilde von Derp and her husband (pictured) were known for their transvestite costumes? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Clotilde von Derp. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

The DYK project (nominate) 08:02, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Helen Fraser (feminist)

Hi, I have just been informed by a bot that there had been a discussion about an article that I had created at Template:Did you know nominations/Helen Fraser (feminist) because of a particular fact that I included. In the discussion, you asked me a question relating to International Women's Day. I don't understand the process or understand enough about the issue to have a view about what you ask. I do have a view about how the role of women has been undervalued by history and I think wikipedia has a moral duty to rectify this but has policies that prevent this from happening. I would be happy to ellaborate on this to the relevant person/people. Graemp (talk) 09:37, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi see the talk page. Sorry this has happened.... and I have fixed it. Victuallers (talk) 11:13, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Womens history month

On the talkpage of Helen Fraser you asked me if I had anything else that might be of interest in a DYK sense. I offer up the article I created on Ursula Williams and a Quite Interesting fact about her candidacy. Summarised briefly "Did you know that in 1923 Ursula Williams legitimately stood for the UK Parliament even though she was too young to vote for herself." Graemp (talk) 11:30, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Nalini Anantharaman

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Materialscientist (talk) 01:00, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Sophie Tieck

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Materialscientist (talk) 01:01, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Marit Ruth

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Allen3 ^talk 10:35, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: February 2014

This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue II, February 2014
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This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue II, February 2014
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France report: National Archives; Sèvres & mass uploads; Wikipedians in the European Parliament Germany report: Claim open culture, again and again India report: National Museum, New Delhi, India (January 2-5, 2014) Netherlands report: Art and Feminism; Wikipedian in Residence; War memorials Norway report: Women on Wikipedia Sweden report: Local portal and CC toolkits UK report: Wikimedia UK Open Access report: Open Access at Wikimania; Signalling OA-ness Calendar: March's GLAM events
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Akiko Kobayashi

Any chance you can find enough additional info on Akiko Kobayashi (chemist) so it can be dky eligible? --Rosiestep (talk) 15:46, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

tried - no success yet. But an interesting read Victuallers (talk) 16:50, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

Glad to see what you were able to do, especially the Implications section on her research. I'm no scientist so I could not have done it justice. --Rosiestep (talk) 20:22, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

I used to be a materials expert in a prev. life but the subject has moved on a lot.

I just looked down the pending DYKs and the ones in the queue. Is it my imagination or do we have arguably 50/50 male to female hooks? Lots of good work by @Ipigott, @ Matty.007, @Vensatry, @OttRider, @FruitMonkey, @Hmlarson et al, @Ruby2010, @Johnbod, @Moonraker, @Orlady (and the ones I missed)... do add them!. There may be more - but maybe some girl is looking at the DYK section and seeing that it has 50% female hooks and thinking that its perfectly normal. Hope so. Victuallers (talk) 20:57, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

I've been trying to add all of these to the DYK section of the Outcomes page, but I don't know that they've also been added to the list of new articles on the Outcomes page. We can sort that out at the end of the month, if not sooner. Caroline von Briest might interest you; lots of refs with her maiden name and also her married name. --Rosiestep (talk) 14:07, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

West Midlands Police Museum editathon

Just a reminder that the West Midlands Police Museum editathon is this Saturday; I look forward to seeing you there. Please take a moment to re-read the event page, so you know what to bring with you, and what to expect on the day. Do let me know if you have any questions, or can't attend. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:54, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks Andy, plan is to drive down with Harry. Is there a Womens history angle? Victuallers (talk) 18:21, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Bexhill Museum

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DYK for Mary Eliza Kennard

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Materialscientist (talk) 02:02, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK nomination of The Lily (newspaper)

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Thanks for handing out the DYK credits! Best, Mat ty.007 17:00, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

New DYKs

Hi Roger, I was wondering if you could help me out. I'm looking to work on a few 'new' articles, maybe create with your help, on something outside of my usual areas of interest. I want to work on bringing them up to DYK status. Could you help me out? --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 20:06, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Parramatta (1866)

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Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 16:52, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Penelope Spencer

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The DYK project (nominate) 00:02, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Akiko

Hi Victuallers - Can you take a look at the issue mentioned here: Template:Did you know nominations/Akiko Kobayashi (chemist)? Thx. --Rosiestep (talk) 14:45, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

WMP Museum

Thank you for your time and contributions in Birmingham today. As always, it was good to see you; albeit we hardly had time to chat. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:41, 15 March 2014 (UTC) Twas a good day out Andy, well organised. I also see Charity Bick now has a pic. Looks very good. Victuallers (talk) 19:59, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Joseph Pease (India reformer)

He was the uncle of Joseph Pease (railway pioneer) the Quaker MP. It is adequately tricky not to confuse them, and I have come across academic references that do exactly that.

What I wanted to let you know is, that on World Anti-Slavery Convention, I can make a good case that the Joseph Pease is the uncle not the nephew. The Kale reference in the article makes that clear enough; and also the presence of his daughter Elizabeth Pease is supporting evidence. If you agree, I can do the dab. Charles Matthews (talk) 20:02, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

OK, it seems that what you wrote on Talk:Anti-Slavery International in 2011 agrees with me, so going ahead on that basis. Charles Matthews (talk) 20:17, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

I trust you Charles! Do tell me if any of the image maps need changing although obviously feel free to have a go Victuallers (talk) 20:25, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Paula Hinton

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The DYK project (nominate) 08:03, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Olga Smirnova (ballet)

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Best wishes Victuallers (talk) 16:02, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Akiko Kobayashi (chemist)

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Karimat El-Sayed

Hi Vic - Can you expand Karimat El-Sayed with the info on her research and then nom it? --Rosiestep (talk) 02:29, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK for The Lily (newspaper)

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Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 08:02, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Karimat El-Sayed

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DYK nomination of Maria Nieves

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DYK for Dore Hoyer

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Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 16:04, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

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DYK for Kate Marsden

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Thank you for the DYK on Monument to the Fallen and Murdered in the East

Thank you for the DYK on Monument to the Fallen and Murdered in the East. I just did the initial translation from Polish and got the page working. Wikipedia user Piotrus cleaned it up massively and provided all the references and checking that me, as an English-only speaker, couldn't do (or was too lazy too). Escottf (talk) 20:57, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Ida Boy-Ed

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DYK for María Nieves

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Gerd Larsen

Thank you for getting Gerd Larsen into much better shape. I've amended Template:Did you know nominations/Gerd Larsen to reflect that.Edwardx (talk) 17:15, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Vasa QRpedia

Surely you meant the Vasa Museum with this edit.[10] Vasa (ship) is about a ship and an archaelogical artifact, not an organiztion. Or am I missing something?

Peter ^Isotalo 22:41, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Replied.[11]

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DYK for Charlotte von Kalb

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The DYK project (nominate) 10:52, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Mary Birdsall

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Thanks from me and the wiki Victuallers (talk) 18:58, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Caroline von Briest

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Thank you Victuallers (talk) 20:47, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Bremen Cotton Exchange

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DYK for Mellissa Dunn

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DYK for Randi Altschul

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DYK for Dust My Broom

10K+ hits for a 75 year old blues song? And the hook wrote itself! The Devil must have had something to do with it. Thanks. —Ojorojo (talk) 13:30, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Philip Lindsley--thank you and picture

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Alexander Little Page Green's picture

Hi. Are you able to add this painting to Alexander Little Page Green's page please?Zigzig20s (talk) 10:51, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

Is the image under a compatible licence to be on Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Commons? Or is it gonna be Fair Use onle? --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 10:55, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

I don't know. I know someone added paintings from this website for some mayors of Nashville, so I thought it would be fine. Do you know how to check?Zigzig20s (talk) 13:54, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Since there is no copyright notice on the bottom of the page, the best thing is to email the owner of the website and ask. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 13:56, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Could you please do that? I try to keep my wikipedia identity confidential.Zigzig20s (talk) 14:48, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Isabelle Blume

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Moving template

Hi Roger, I need a template moved/renamed and was unsure of how it was to be done. I was told that it required admin access. If that is the case, could you move Template:Fire departments of India to Template:Firefighting in India ??? Thanks a lot. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 10:52, 10 April 2014 (UTC) done! Victuallers (talk) 12:30, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 13:55, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Queen Street Mill editathon

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This Month in GLAM: March 2014

This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue III, March 2014
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Congrats Roger. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 21:23, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Dykish Award

Slakr's Dykish Award

For your tireless efforts at handling DYK well, I present you the Dyk of all DYKs, Viktor Dyk. I have absolutely no idea who he is or what he did, but it's clear that he was a total Dyk. By the way, DYK that Dyk doesn't have a DYK? Perhaps we could DYK the Dyk. :P

Heh, but on a serious note: thanks for your endless patience in staying on top of the DYK entries. It's a thankless job until someone doesn't do at, at which point, people notice just how important you are. :) Anyway, thanks again for all you do. Cheers =) --slakr^\ talk / 04:52, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Your opinion

Hi, do you think we can get Rezan Zoğurlu to DYK? --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 21:27, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Take Me Home (Cher song)

Could you check my nomination again? I think now you can pass it since I already did the QPQ review necessary. Prism △ 22:26, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Zofia Daszyńska-Golińska

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Passion

Thank you for moving Good Friday articles to prep. I rarely ask a personal favour like time of day and such things, but this time I do. I believe that (on top of my passion and vanity) the St John Passion deserves an image by the weight of the article and the power of Bach's handwriting, and that it would be better after the simple chorale, not during European night, in prep 2 that is. Off to singing, four days in a row now, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:40, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

I will set it back to the original image, but I think its not very legible. Maybe you are right. All the best Victuallers (talk) 20:49, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

I'll do my best, but I may need to "oomph" up the image. Its very poor at 100x100 - good singing! Victuallers (talk) 16:47, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for your approach! Can we at least show John also, and the upper vivid "black" line. - I think the proposed image doesn't show details but energy - and creates curiosity ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:42, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Agnes Bluhm

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Exhausted?

I don't believe a polite request to ask you to explain your comment is out of order. For some reason I'm not entirely sure about, you seem to be accusing me of lying about where I got that image from. If that isn't the case then an explanation would clear up any misunderstanding. W C M_email 19:32, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

I am sorry if you have made that assumption. That was not my intention. I am finding it difficult to communicate on this issue and that is my fault I guess. That is why I am exhausted. An image needs to have a source. You seem to be saying that is where you got it from ... I don't dispute that. However when I found the image it did not record the source of the image. Commons may have been "your source" but Wikipedia requires "a source". "A source" is the place it came from originally. Ideally this is the name of the book or the painting or the photographer/date/place etc. This sourcing is what commons gives you. If you decide to not use commons then you lose that benefit. You need to show me how it is going to work without commons if you decide not to use it. (I understand why, I'm annoyed at commons too..... but it doesn't help to just moan about it).

My wish was to get your article onto the main page. I spent sometime adding a source for the picture and finding a ref to support the simplified hook that I suggested. (More work than is usual I suggest - and unappreciated and ineffective work at that). I did feel that I was wasting my time when you asked that I justify my actions and asked me to assist with clearing a hook that I had found problematic. I felt thwarted in my efforts to help, but you should not feel insulted. I am just disappointed that I was not able to get your article onto the main page and I have had to give up. That is a pity and I do hope that your next reviewer is able communicate better than I did. Getting to this point of spending time discussing a failure just adds to my feeling of working for no benefit ... I'm taking a break from approving hooks. Victuallers (talk) 20:16, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

No offence taken BTW I am not a newbie at DYK, I already have a number under my belt as well as contributing to a GA. I am just one of those editors who doesn't feel a need to trophy hunt on my user page.

[12] - Commons link and source to original image ie there was no need to guess as you did. I still see nothing in any policy that would compel me to use Commons and anyway that image was and is fully sourced. If I may offer a constructive suggestion, you weren't clear as to what you were looking for and I could have easily provided it (ie the commons page). In any case the reference to putting the image on Commons merely complicated matters ie I looked but could find no mention in policy it was a requirement. I now assume from your response there is none. For info, the hook is fully sourced in the article, so I am left rather bewildered what you were trying to achieve but no matter I did assume you were trying to help.

Anyway apologies if I have inadvertently added to your wikistress, we work in a medium that is not good for conveying nuance and it is all too easy to misintepret an innocent remark. I hope a break helps. W C M_email 21:20, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Emmeline Lewis Lloyd

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Mary Osborn

If you have the time and interest, can you add the info about her research? --Rosiestep (talk) 03:01, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Malcolm (Macbeth)

Due to an urgent realization of the need for main page content on the 450th birthday of William Shakespeare on April 26, I have unwithdrawn Template:Did you know nominations/Malcolm (Macbeth). Could you please reconsider it with haste.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 00:27, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

Hi Tony, I think this would be tricky to do even if the article itself was approved. Do feel free to approach another, but I suspect this is just too difficult. Victuallers (talk) 06:39, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

I will note that you have withdrawn from the nomination so that others will feel more free to evaluate it.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 07:41, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

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Good job on this one and I have to add that it was nice to do some cooperative editing again. Please feel free to leave me messages should there be any other Czech-related articles in your sights. Thanks, C 679 16:12, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

I have pushed Haničincová to eligibility but I am stumped for a hook. Please feel free to nominate it if I haven't already done so, if you can think of a suitable hook. Thanks! C 679 18:55, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Tom Hulatt

Thanks for the expansion and DYK nomination, I read the Mary Beard article on the BBC News site and wanted to find out more about Hulatt, particularly as the Roger Bannister Wiki page said there were only three AAA runners (now amended by me). I've also added the full list of runners to the Roger Bannister running track page. The date on your proposed hook should read '6 May'. Sealman (talk) 18:30, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

Oh good! Goo feel free to improve or delete stuff Victuallers (talk) 20:35, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

Joan Miró Global Challenge — you're invited!

Dear Victuallers,
I am glad to invite you to join us in an international Wikipedia editing party. This event, called Joan Miró Global Challenge, will take place next 10th May, and it will consist of a 10-hour Wikipedia editing party, where wikipedians from all around the world will be welcome to edit together to reach the goal of making 10 key articles about Joan Miró and his artworks available in at least 10 languages. More information about the whole project can be found in this post at the Wikimedia Foundation blog.

As you have already worked on articles about Joan Miró, we thought you might be interested. Also, we would appreciate it if you could spread the word and invite the members of your community to participate. I thank you for your help in advance, and will be happy to help if any clarification is needed.

Best regards! --ESM (talk) 18:52, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

Sounds fun - although I suspect we did maybe twenty in English - hope there is a reminder Victuallers (talk) 20:12, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

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Umepedia

Nice to hear from you. It took its time, with some false starts, to get a good QRpedia project going in Sweden. Although this is not a very ambitious project in itself, it is rather much in control and should be successful as a showpiece that will be noticed by communities, public property owners and other actors on this scene. Some of the prerequisites from your first project are not in hand, but I guess we anyhow have to work on a project approach that may fit to the specific cultural context in Sweden. The cost, material and look of the plates are of course a major issue, which may not be totally perfectly solved, but even here we have specific issues to deal with, like the snow and the harsch winter climate up in Northern Sweden.

One of the major prerequisites of course has been the availability of WiFi connections, as mobile telephone charges for holders of foreign SIM cards still are prohibitive. In the case of Umeå, there is a municipality owned energy corporation which also owns a communitywide fibre network. The deal so far is that there will be free hot-spots in 2014, and hopefully this could be extended if this first project will be favorable assessed by the city authorities.

I keep in memory your presentation on the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin 2012, which of course was an important inspiration event for us. Regards Boberger (talk) 20:56, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

@Boberger - thanks for the feedback. I'm impressed at your self awareness for your project. (e.g. a month is very short). I was going to tell you that you could more ambitious but I realised that you have your own culture. (I worked for a year in Bergen in Norway). The wifi is an issue. It took a long time to get wifi installed in Monmouth, but I suspect that the public would see that as a a real deliverable. Do consider using NFC which can work in parallel to QR codes and it is easier to use. If you are going to "win" the debate with the city authorities then do make sure that you are not counting QR scans, but new article counts is a better measure. Im thrilled to see that my Berlin talk is remembered. Ideas 1) See my talk page in sv - that picture should be on sv:qrpedia page with a link to ubepedia. 2) Make sure you use cc by sa to give attribution to your helpers 3) Are you getting the museums to use this inside their organisations? Why is it not Ubeapedia but ubepedia? Best wishes Victuallers (talk) 21:51, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for tips and insights. Regarding museums I think we are in the brink to get a good museum to use QRpedia. Why Umepedia? The answer is a nice adaption to the dialect in Västerbotten County and other parts of Northern Sweden. Southerners like me pronounce (in "King's Swedish) Umeå and similar geographical names as "ú - me - ó", while Northerners always use the shorter och more rational "ú - mä" with a strong weight on the first syllable. This language custom also is prevalent in official names for many combined name like "Ume(-)älven" (the Ume River) and "Ume(-)bor (residents in Umeå). So, I guess even if we had tried to name the project Umeåpedia, it would had been known as Umepedia anyway.

There actually is another advantage in an international project: you cut the diacritical sign å, which most non-Swedes do not understand properly. The huge Swedish-based contractor Skanska actually was baptized Skånska (from Skåne, the most southern province of Sweden, called Scania in Latin and English). Skånska just dropped the small circle above the a, although this fundamentally changed the pronounciation of the noun of the company. (å in Skånska is like the vocal sound in English all, a in Skanska is like the vocal sound in British English ah! or Alcatraz).

The project page for Umepedia you xill find at https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Umepedia/Ans%C3%B6kan_om_projektpengar_fr%C3%A5n_Ume%C3%A52014, but it is in Swedish. Boberger (talk) 11:16, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Tom Hulatt

Victuallers, I've just made sure that this got promoted on the proper day. I'm hoping that you'll provide a QPQ, since anyone who gets a DYKmake credit and also nominates the hook is supposed to do just that. (Indeed, the template shows a "soon" next to the "Reviewed" header, so you knew this when you submitted the nomination.) We could use some reviews right about now. C679 apparently doesn't understand the rules or that distinction, but I didn't want to delay this hook, which would probably make it miss the day. Please let me know which DYK nom you do review. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:42, 6 May 2014 (UTC) Hi : Thanks, although the make credit is not important. I do have lots of reviews I have done which have not been "cashed in". I didn't offer a QPQ as I respected C679's view (if we don't respect the reviewers then they will stop doing the task). I will list a few reviews I have done here which are uncredited. I am trying to avoid doing any reviews as I find the process irksome. Hopefully the project will return to better health. Victuallers (talk) 06:47, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

Articles I reviewed from the April 19 queue include Jeanne Immink, Catlow Valley (Oregon), Myrtle_Bachelder, Keith Stanfield, Muslim League (Opposition), Irene Greif or Dayton Project. Take two or three if you like. Victuallers (talk) 16:13, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. Glad to know about the extras, and appreciate that you went above and beyond. BlueMoonset (talk) 17:04, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

@BlueMoonset: Sorry, I wasn't aware of that technicality of the rule. The wording at Wikipedia:Dyk mentions QPQ for "self-nominations" but when I checked the article history it had been recently created by a different editor. Anyway I won't claim credit for that review. I'm glad it made the front page on its day though. Thanks, C 679 05:05, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Štěpánka Haničincová

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Hi roger, do you think I could nominate Umeå Energi for DYK? --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 18:41, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

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Cheers mate, here's to another successful DYK! --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 06:08, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

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I am very happy to receive a barnstar, but I wasn't actually feeling threatened; just enquiring! Some of these three-lettered gramophones (or whatever they are called) sound like diseases. Amandajm (talk) 02:07, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

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Baggböle manor

Hello. I got an edit conflict after rewriting section three ("Sawmill era"), and noticed that you had edited the article while I was slowly tapping on my laptop. So, since you're clearly a more experienced editor than I am, I'll give you my text, leaving to you to decide if you want to merge it with your text for that section, use my text as it is, or not use it at all...

== Sawmill era ==

The mansion was built at the top of the river bank, overlooking the buildings that were gathered closer to the water, in an area that now holds an arboretum: barracks for the workers, offices, materiel sheds, a blacksmith's shop, a coal house and a boathouse. Neither of those buildings nor the two actual sawmills - the upper built in 1842, the lower in 1850 - with eight water-powered powersaws in each - are, however, left today. All that has been preserved is one of the saws, which has been restored to working order and can be seen in the village of Klabböle, just across the Ume River from Baggböle.

After the heydays of the sawmill at Baggböle - from 1850 to 1880, with at its peak 170 workers in the mill - both the operations and some of the barracks for the workers were moved to a new steam-powered sawmill in Holmsund, the port at the mouth of the Ume River that the lumber was shipped from, while the sawmill and its associated buildings at Baggböle were abandoned and left to rot.

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== Sawmill era == The mansion was built at the top of the river bank, overlooking the buildings that were gathered closer to the water, in an area that now holds an [[arboretum]]: barracks for the workers, offices, materiel sheds, a [[blacksmith]]'s shop, a coal house and a boathouse. Neither of those buildings nor the two actual sawmills - the upper built in 1842, the lower in 1850 - with eight water-powered powersaws in each - are, however, left today. All that has been preserved is one of the saws, which has been restored to working order and can be seen in the village of Klabböle, just across the Ume River from [[Baggböle]]. After the heyday of the sawmill at Baggböle - from 1850 to 1880, with at its peak 170 workers in the mill - both the operations and some of the barracks for the workers were moved to a new steam-powered sawmill in [[Holmsund]], the port at the mouth of the Ume River that the lumber was shipped from, while the sawmill and its associated buildings at Baggböle were abandoned and left to rot.

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Klabböle kraftverk

Howdy. I wanted to know that why you rated it at medium importance for Sweden wikiproject? OccultZone (Talk) 16:11, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Oh I get sick of everything being low .... do change it, I don't mind Victuallers (talk) 16:16, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Cannot be changed back if it has been rated higher and not really objected. Hardly any good articles about Sweden, so no problem. OccultZone (Talk) 16:24, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

PM of India

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Victuallers, I'm glad you're taking this one on. About "loan" vs. "lend": while loan is a noun, it is also a verb, so "loaned" was correct, as is "lent". (This is in American English; "loan" in verb form may not be as common in British English.) BlueMoonset (talk) 14:32, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

I know "loaned" is used but this was not the only use of the word. (Can't remember the context but its there if you care to inspect). This is a very British article and "lent" is the more correct term.... although I'm not warring? over the verbisation? of nouns. :-) Victuallers (talk) 14:39, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

Verbizing (doubtless the American spelling) nouns happens all the time in the many Englishes out there. :-) My impression is that it happens less on your side of the pond than mine, but I could be very wrong about that. (I think the article is fine as you've edited it.) BlueMoonset (talk) 14:46, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

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I see that you edit Swedish subject articles, if you could please take a look at two articles that I have created Rudolf Fredrik Berg and Henry Dunker. For whatever small or big edits that you can contribute ;). Thanks.--BabbaQ (talk) 19:59, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

When you got time for it please take a look at Skogssamer. Thank you!--BabbaQ (talk) 16:53, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

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Historic houses

Hi Victuallers: You might be interested to see that WP:Architecture now has a task force on Historic houses. I have offered a preliminary list of red links for Denmark at Todo items for anyone. Maybe you would like to help in drawing up similar lists for other countries, perhaps based on your recent interest in Sweden and Estonia. We could also develop priorities based on the regions or even municipalities drawing on and . Any other ideas you might have for advancing this work would be appreciated.--Ipigott (talk) 15:19, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

Baggböle

Hello. I have copy-edited/rewritten the article from beginning to end, including adding/deleting/changing a few minor things in the text, so I would appreciate if you took a quick look at it. Cheers. Thomas.W ^talk 17:45, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Looks fine to me Tom, thanks for the copy edit and the collaboration Victuallers (talk) 19:08, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

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Gynning

Please take a look at the Carolina Gynning article when you got time for it! I will nominate it for GA soon. Thanks.--BabbaQ (talk) 09:53, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

(talk page stalker)@BabbaQ: I took a quick look at that article, and it is IMHO very much glorified, almost to the level of being a promo piece (based on my living in Sweden and having been able to follow her career from Big Brother and on, even though I admittedly haven't been spending too much energy on following it...). So IMHO the article needs a rewrite and clean-up to remove exaggerations and peacockery. A small example being that the article describes her house as a "mansion", even though neither of the articles given as a reference describes it as such, just using the word "hus", i.e. "house"/"home". Being a mansion, that is a much larger than average and very luxurious home, isn't even supported by any of the pictures in the articles used as reference. I'm sorry if I'm being negative, but I seriously think that it needs a clean-up in order to qualify as an encyclopaedic biography, and not a promo piece. Thomas.W ^talk 11:07, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

@Thomas.W:-Thank you for your input. And I agree with you somewhat. But I will remind you that this is not a politician or similar that the article covers. it is a "media personality" and by that I mean that some of the sources plus article content could be viewed as "The Sun Newspaper" material while actually covering the actual events and notable doings by this particular person. What I mean really is that you can not compare an article about a politician and the standard of sourcing etc for example with Gynnings article. Regards,--BabbaQ (talk) 19:56, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

Hello BabbaQ, I know she's a media personality, not a politician, so I'm only removing the worst parts of it, correcting blatant errors (such as claims of having starred in a movie even though her name doesn't appear in any promotional material for it; in fact the only places where her name appears in connection with that movie seems to be on user contributed web sites, such as Wikis and IMDB...), and adding a few tags to show where better sources are needed, without removing the insufficiently sourced stuff. Because if we were to apply the full "politician" standards to the article, demanding reliable third-party sources for everything, there wouldn't be more than a stub left of it. But the article does need to be toned down a bit, and it can't be mostly based on claims she has made herself in tabloid interviews. Thomas.W ^talk 20:17, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

Suggestion. If she has claimed she starred in a film and that films material doesnt mention her then we can present these two facts .... which give balance to her article. Victuallers (talk) 21:39, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Treak Cliff Cavern

Thanks for contributing to Treak Cliff Cavern – I'm not intimately familiar with the DYK process and hadn't been following up after my initial response to the original reviewer so hadn't seen the subsequent comments until now. Although I missed seeing it in situ, I was chuffed to see it had made top spot on the DYK section of Wikipedia main page. Dave.Dunford (talk) 10:41, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

Yup

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I'm assuming AGF. I think that the main two have no idea how DYK works. I think they imagine that QPQ powers it and that is a terrible method to leave in charge (I can understand how one might imagine this as its not made clear how DYK works). I think they need some hints that they are appearing to look silly to the people who still run DYK. No one is that angry.... surely. They will have to AGF eventually and stop insulting the editors and the project. I'm hoping the editors will see that when they say "half-arsed and crappy" .... they mean them and they will defend the Wikipedia method.... that creates errors, improving editors and the best learning resource ever constructed. It is good to see the thank yous that arrive when you edit. Thanks. I am open to more radical suggestions. Victuallers (talk) 13:54, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

You are perhaps more self disciplined than the average. I think one is sincere, just intolerant. The other will stop at nothing in a desperate, sad need for attention. It's kind of embarrassing to watch someone publicly reveal their short comings that way.— Maile (talk) 15:16, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

Oh Im not questioning your diagnosis, put my prognosis is based on the idea that Wiki has won against vandalism, vanity, pundits and stupidity ... and my bet is that it will win again. Sadly it will do them and the project damage until they realise that running in shouting insults is not that inspirational and as you say exposing your own ignorance is going to look very poor as time goes by. Still open to more radical suggestions. Luckily I can talk openly as I'm told my writings are unintelligible see DYK talk). (Could that be due to the reader?) Victuallers (talk) 15:29, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

Read my mind. Lately, I've been having a strange sense of Déjà vu. Another place, another time, same scenario, same M.O.. Must be my imagination. Childish tag team tantrums. My oh my. Must be my imagination. — Maile (talk) 22:54, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

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Please take a look at Sophia Rosenhane when you got time for it. Thanks.--BabbaQ (talk) 22:40, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

G'day Roger - Got your message, thanks and by the way I'm Robert. It's wonderful this article will feature on main page. All I want to correct now is Paarkantji to Paakantyi, according to the latest spelling of linguist Luise Hercus. Have done so in Bonney article and in the Paarkantji article it cross-refs to, but can't see for the life of me how to change that latter article's heading. Any help? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Djbcjk (talk • contribs) 12:38, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

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Alexander Cunningham

I have serious doubts about the provenance of the supposed portrait of Alexander Cunningham, the archaeologist. That site mentioned as a source is a low-quality blog and when one looks around one finds that the image is taken from http://mcbrideandcunningham.blogspot.com/ and that refers to an Alexander Cunningham who was a brick mason. Shyamal (talk) 16:58, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip off. There are alternate pictures we can load one of these instead Victuallers (talk) 17:11, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

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Hello Victuallers, Thank you for putting forward your views in the Teahouse. I accept you are quite correct in moving my text from my Mildred White article if that is what you wanted to do, but it was a bit of a shock to see parts of my hard work pop up in another article ! And, I have to he honest, I think some of the removed parts are vital in explaining MW in an encyclopedic way. You will see I have had a lot of problems with this article and I am still working on it to improve the 'non primary' sources but it is slow and time consuming, but I continue. I appreciate your offer of help should I get further issues and may well come back to you for advice. TimothyWF (talk) 21:13, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

I can see why you included the bits about "the bigger picture" but actually the wiki has very little about the bigger picture in you case. You should be able to make reference to the history of women in Policing in the article and link that to a more detailed description. As it is you had created a very good "stand alone" article .... but the wiki articles are not (meant to be) stand alone. Their wonderful feature is that you can burrow down to find more detail and this means that each article can concentrate on its story. In your case a very important biography.... but she was not the only important player and other organisations were important too. Anyway .... I do appreciate the note and I do realise that the wiki way is a shock..... but thats because it is a new way of working. We can be better than we could be alone. (1000 people will read your text next month in the new improved article - Well done!) All the best. Are you going to be at Wikimania? Victuallers (talk) 21:33, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

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Thanks for the picture

Thank you for all your contributions to Puankhequa. I expected some from other corners of the world, but not so soon and not so interesting. :) Just curious: We have been looking like crazy for a free picture of the portrait in the Museum of Gothenburg, I was almost planning a trip there just to photograph it (!), so where did you find it? Thanks again. It will be fun to see what further additions might be. Best, w.carter-Talk 22:26, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Where did I find it? See the source. How? Luvk I think ans also I use "-" in searches to say not this or not that. Article looks good. Good luck at DYK Victuallers (talk) 09:39, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

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Well now I feel like a right pillock... Thanks for cleaning up those dates! BethNaught (talk) 09:33, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Aah mistakes are what productive people do! Victuallers (talk) 09:41, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

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Are you sure Captain isn't a higher rank than Commander in the Navy? Philafrenzy (talk) 21:45, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Adding projects

Thanks for adding projects to talk pages. As a recent fan of the Nearby feature on Wikipedia Mobile, I've become vigilant about adding coords, but I remain to be convinced about the importance of adding projects. I am of course more than happy for you to do so! Edwardx (talk) 10:50, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

So nearby? I live near Spondon... Victuallers (talk) 10:53, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

London SW6 myself, but I've created articles for just about everything of note locally to me. The Malt Shovel, Spondon needs photos (inside and out), hint, hint ... Edwardx (talk) 11:20, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

OK I'll do it - will you do some copy editing on my SA articles in exchange? Victuallers (talk) 11:22, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Of course. By "SA" is that South Africa? Edwardx (talk) 11:34, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Correct - you will find them in my recent "New Articles". 3 are at DYK but don't feel obliged to review. Cheers

I'm a few DYK reviews behind, so that is a timely request. Edwardx (talk) 13:05, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

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School photos

FYI I have uploaded a few photos for THS here and HCHS here. Helen Online 11:38, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

and they look great. I know it takes a while to get pictures like this. Thanks for returning to District Six. Do you know if a Cape Wikitown is going to happen? There was talk of it at Wikimania Victuallers (talk) 22:06, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Pleasure. I am not aware of it, only Wikipedia:GLAM/JoburgpediA which I am not involved in, but I really have not been much involved in the local chapter before now. I live about 50 kilometres (31 mi) away from Cape Town, was attending a Wikimedia chapter meetup (my first). Helen Online 06:27, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Oh well tell them that we have started and we are pausing for breath. I assumed this was "on" so I wrote a few schools up on spec. I shall wander away I guess now.... unless there is a "call to arms" or HOnline needs help Victuallers (talk) 13:09, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

I am overwhelmed at the moment, the rest of the month is for catching up with WLM. Helen Online 13:31, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Good luck with that. I have loaded a few pics, but I'm no leading photographer so I can only hope that someone likes out of focus pics. I was impressed by the clarity of your pictures. You must have a great camera. Cheers Victuallers (talk) 15:08, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

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Czia!

This is more than four years ago but you asked us to translate a few Hungarian articles; I think we did but have little record on our talk pages as we tend to clear them down regularly. But we both live in Hungary now and if you want a word either ask User:Monkap, my wife, or me, and we can probably have a stab at it. We tend as we must to keep a separate identity on WP, which is mostly for the best, but occasionally if you leave it logged in she or me edits as the other. That is not bad faith or sockpuppeting, I assure you. Si Trew (talk) 22:16, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the note Simon. I'll put this offer on the list. Is Hungarian your first language? Victuallers (talk) 22:38, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

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Howard Bergerson DYK

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From the team: GLAMout global Africa report: Uganda Museum Austria report: Open Science aboard the MS Wissenschaft in Vienna Belgium report: Wiki Loves Monuments in Belgium & Luxembourg France report: National archives upload Germany report: World Café; GLAM on Tour; Museum für Naturkunde releases 15 million insect items; MS Wissenschaft Italy report: A new Wikipedian in Residence; Lyon Declaration Mexico report: 50 hours of art in Wikipedia Netherlands report: Atlas Ortelius Norway report: The National Library of Oslo Spain report: Edit-a-thon at Biblioteca Nacional; Wiki Loves Monuments Sweden report: From industrial sound to books and libraries UK report: September, a month for the Arts USA report: News from Philadelphia & New York City Special story: Identifying images from Commons found in the wild Open Access report: Open Access Reader; New Topic Page; Open Access File of the Day suspended Calendar: October's GLAM events
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Florence Mildred White

Hello Victuallers. I have been doing some more research on my article on Florence Mildred White, the first documented policewoman in England. I have found several sources relating to policewomen generally which are more suitable for the Women in Law Enforcement article than my White article which I would be pleased to forward to you if you want them. I am preparing a further section on White in her Talk, the result of further data. TimothyWF (talk) 19:12, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

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I added your article Kate Vaughan to the DYK stats. As it had reached over 5,000 views. Cheers.--BabbaQ (talk) 16:57, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

Male vs. women writers

I saw your point here regarding the categorization of male vs. women writers. Just to note...we do in fact have categories such as Category:American male writers and Category:American male novelists. I don't know much about their origins, but I've begun using them as well. They fly under the radar, but they exist. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 23:37, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

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Cheered me up. So I passed it on to quite a few. Thanks Victuallers (talk) 10:15, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

What a lovely way to start the week - thanks very much! --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 14:07, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

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DYK

Thank you for your comments on my talk page. Actually it was you who first encouraged me and sparked my interest in DYK by nominating my first article Cefn Golau back in 2010 when I was a novice. That in turn led to my enthusiasm for Wikipedia. Thanks. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:13, 1 November 2014 (UTC) Thats brilliant I never realised. We need to keep alive the idea that new and productive editors arise as a bi product of making editting the wiki fun and interesting Victuallers (talk) 22:48, 1 November 2014 (UTC)

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A cookie for you!

Thanks for all you've done and continue to do with my lists, particularly the one on women. T. Anthony (talk) 08:12, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

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Tuterei Karewa

Hey Victuallers. On this article, I had an external media link to File:Tuterei, Karewa (ngatimaru chief) by J Lles died 1943.jpg because of the Terms of Use on the website that the Hocken Collections, University of Otago. I was in correspondence with the institution when you had uploaded the image to Commons, and got this reply back from them:

Thank you for your enquiry of 17 October, 2014, regarding use of a photo we have of Ngatimaru chief Tuterei Karewa.

I noticed this image is already being used on the Wikipedia article.

Terms of Use of our images are stated on the Hocken Snapshop website on the home page and on the copyright page.

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If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.

I'm in total agreement with you that the image is in public domain. That said, I'd rather this be a link to external media because I'm not a lawyer and don't have the knowledge to grapple with New Zealand copyright law or the possible claim the institution has to the photograph or scan of the photo or whatnot. Let me know what you think. I, JethroBT ^{drop me a line} 18:00, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

Disappointed by NZ position

Hi Jethro, this is a tricky balance. I have given talks boasting about the NZ leading role in global copyright where the government has agreed that the cultural value of your inheritance is more important than the minor monies that might be made from selling images that are actually already out of copyright..... so I'm disappointed to see that this institution has such a dated view. I'm hoping this is out of line with general NZ GLAM aspirations as its obviously an anachronistic view. The image is solidly out of copyright so I guess they need to speak to a wiki commons admin if they think they have a legal claim to this image. My view is that they are creating a (diminishing) job for themselves in managing exhausted NZ copyrights (... and there is a bigger role in sharing the inheritance which was left with them to share with the world). Other GLAM professionals, in the UK, give me privately the impression that their institutions are trying to fufil the requirements of old bequests and loan agreements that they themselves believe are "past their best". They understand that their moral position is bereft of value but they dont know how to get themselves out of the corporate inertia'l mess. Thanks for the chance to get that off my chest. Do feel free to quote this "rant". If I can help you them do ask. cheers Victuallers (talk) 21:30, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

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This Month in GLAM: October 2014

This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue X, October 2014
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Australia and New Zealand report: National Library Conference; Feminist Art Edit-a-thon Finland report: Edit-a-thon Course "Bring Culture to Wikipedia" France report: Edit-a-thon & Mass upload Germany report: GLAM on tour Sauerland; WMDE World Café at the Conference of National Cultural Institutions Italy report: War Books; EAGLE project; National Library Conference Netherlands report: Images donated by Nijmegen municipality archive; World Day for Audiovisual Heritage Sweden report: Wiki Loves Monuments; Europeana Task Force UK report: The breadth of UK GLAM work: chemistry, ballet, tanks and more USA report: News from Philadelphia & New York City Open Access report: Open Access Week; peer-reviewed OA journal publishes Wikipedia article Calendar: November's GLAM events
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Library of Sir T.B.

Hi Victuallers, many thanks for the suggestion, but probably best not raise its profile because while of course its not 'my' piece whatsoever, i do distinctly remember 10 years having to plead for it not to be deleted from Wikipedia. The whole project here seems to be dominated by people too eager to hastily tweak, delete, object or edit in an unconstructive way, but totally unable to write a whole, coherent sentence themselves, yet alone an original page, which of course is very frustrating when someone does not even understand the topic. I think we may have communicated before sometime ago, yes ? Norwikian (talk) 17:24, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

Oh the tweakers serve as well I think. My articles, at least, magically get better. We have spoken before. I'm not sure how yopu manage to evaluate these people. Are you sure they are not trying to help? I suspect your article will never be deleted ... and I don't believe featured lists ever are. It was only a suggestion. thanks for your contributions. Victuallers (talk) 17:32, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

Women, Art and Culture

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Frances Maria Kelly

Thanks for your continued edits and contributions to articles for the Women, Art and Culture class!!! I saw that you removed the close paraphrasing tag on the applicable section for the Frances Maria Kelly article.

More out of curiosity, and to be on the same page for tagging sections/articles, what was the reason for removing the tag? Thanks!--CaroleHenson (talk) 20:41, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

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There is a slab coming out of the oven in 40 mins. ;-> — Preceding unsigned comment added by ClemRutter (talk • contribs) 21:06, 1 December 2014 (UTC) Save me a bit after it gets really sticky. Fresh oats I hope Victuallers (talk) 21:10, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

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Emma Sulkowicz

You said it didn't feel like an encyclopedia article. [13] How so? Everymorning talk to me 22:48, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

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Benin

The Benin objects on display in the British Museum used to include a couple of carved ivory salt cellars with interesing subjects. One, unless I'm misremembering, showed men swimming naked among crocodiles, who were snapping at those enticing dangly bits. I wonder if they're still being shown? Awien (talk) 18:24, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

Im not sure. Im 120 miles away. You could try my very quiet partner on this article who seems to visit the BM, write a lot about it, but says very little. Oh! and best regards and happy xmas Victuallers (talk) 18:28, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

Just a thought for your next visit to London. Me, I'm 4,630 km away, but one of these days . . . And merry Christmas and a happy new year to you too. Awien (talk) 18:36, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

Re-sorting the WPWW new articles list

Hi, No one else commented about the re-sorting so I think it's fine to go for it. I'll get it started. --Rosiestep (talk) 15:37, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

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Akan Drum

Yes !

musée royal de l'Afrique centrale (Tervuren)
musée d'Ethnographie (Anvers)
Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde (Munich)
Afrika Museum (Berg en Dal)
Museum Rietberg (Zurich)
musée Barbier-Mueller (Genève)
musée du Louvre (Paris)
musée Dapper (Paris)
musée des Arts premiers Branly (Paris)

all have items older than the akan drum.

Your Truly, -- Spiessens 16:13, 10 December 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Spiessens (talk • contribs)

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This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue XI, November 2014
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Australia and New Zealand report: ALIA partnership goes countrywide Belgium report: Workshops for collection holders across Europe; Founding event of Wikimedia Belgium; Wiki Loves Monuments in Belgium & Luxembourg; Plantin-Moretus Museum; Edit-a-thon at faculty library in Ghent University; Image donation UGentMemorie; Upcoming activities France report: Wiki Loves Monuments; mass upload; Musée de Bretagne Germany report: Facts, fun and free content Ireland report: Ada Lovelace day in Dublin Italy report: National Library Conference; Wiki Loves Monuments; Archaeological Open Data; BEIC Netherlands report: Video challenge; Wikidata workshop and hackathon; Wikipedia courses in libraries; WWII editathon Norway report: Edit-a-thon far north at the Museum of Nordland (Nordlandsmuseet) Spain report: Picasso, first Galipedia edit-a-thon, course in Biblioteca Reina Sofía and free portraits South Africa report: Wiki Loves GLAMs, Cape Town Sweden report: Use, reuse and contributions back and forth UK report: Medals, maps and multilingual marvels Special story: ORCID identifiers Open Access report: Open proposal: Wikidata for Research; Open Access signalling Tool testing report: Tools for references, images, video, file usage; Popular Pages Calendar: December's GLAM events
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Why the "high" rating for the Sinclair C5?

In this edit, you gave the Sinclair C5 a "high" importance rating at Wikipedia:WikiProject Automobiles. I do not understand why an electrically-assisted human powered tricycle that failed heavily in the marketplace would earn a "high" importance rating at WikiProject Automobiles, nor, indeed, why it would be within the scope of the project at all. Could you please explain the rating, so that I might know why I shouldn't change it from "high importance" in WikiProject Automobiles to "unknown importance" in WikiProject Transport? Sincerely, SamBlob (talk) 18:07, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

This isn't a big deal - change it if you feel strongly about it. I think that the first attempt to sell an electric car to a population of a country is fairly important. You may feel that in hindsight it wasn't successful but neither was the first steam powered or petrol driven car. As I say its your call, you don't need my permission to change it. Do it! If you feel that uncommercial tricycles that occasionally needed pushing then can you compare it with this trike. Victuallers (talk) 20:31, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

Touché, although a three-wheeled "automobile" that couldn't climb a hill under its own power or go much (if any) faster than 10 mph was far more acceptable in the 1880s than in the 1980s. OTOH, a Motorwagen could transport two or three people on level ground. Sincerely, SamBlob (talk) 23:15, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

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Derby Cathedral

Hi Roger,

Could you assist in eliciting some input into Derby Cathedral's really (really) naff Wiki page? I've just left a brief note there about how poor the page is, but am unsure how effective that will be. I've just started planning a public trail leaflet around the outside of the Cathedral -and most definitely want to include a QRpedia code to it. It'll look at the carved green men, the three-part history of the building, the clock face, and maybe mention the peregrines, too. (It has the support of HLF and the Dean) I've contacted Derby-Osnabruck twinning Facebook page to try and get some input into creating a German page (there isn't one!). I know a Prof from Derby Uni who is currently writing a book on the history of the Cathedral to be published next year, so hope to get some info from him, but of course it already needs to be in the public domain to be acceptable here.

Anything you can do to promote a bit of activity and some worthwhile enhancements would be fantastic.

(PS The 'Flora of Derbyshire' will be published in spring 2015, and I'm awaiting the first set of proof-reading copies to check any day now!!) Nick. Parkywiki (talk) 00:39, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the info and invite. Sounds great. Im teaching maths at Littleover now. Flora of Derbyshire woooo! (I recently wrote a bio of the female authors of the Flora of Leicestershire). I'll have a look at the Derby Cathedral page - nag me if I don't! QRpedia??? sounds cool. Derby have not not exploited this as much as other cities. "City of Invention?" although I see "your" hippo on the signs when I enter Allenton. - Roger Victuallers (talk) 00:46, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

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Hi, you were kind enough to crop out a head shot of Schwester Selma for my DYK nomination. I wonder if you could crop out a head shot of Dr. Moshe Wallach from the above image so I can put it in the infobox on his article. He is standing, second from left. Thank you, Yoninah (talk) 20:49, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

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Hello, I would like to consider the feasibility of having Qrpedia codes in a meseum at my locale. I hereby kindly request you to send me a proposal template of what you have been giving to institutions and towns you have worked with before. Where possible lay emphasis on value proposition to the meseum and government (which own the museums). I believe when I make my point clear to them on how they will benefit my proposal is likely to be accepted. My email is tmtandaoni at gmail. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.84.1.18 (talk) 08:51, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

Value

You will find my presentations on line at slideshare and they are all cc by sa. The advantages are so great that you should specify what the museum is going to give in return IMO (e.g. is all there stuff that is out of copyright freely available?). If well organised then they will get increased visibility and volunteer involvement and they will increase the accessibility and diminish their own admin costs. Make sure you have factored in the admin costs and don't use Wikimedia money without some benefit. Make sure you choose the right measures of success. Good luck. Ask again if you need more. Victuallers (talk) 13:26, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

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This Month in GLAM: December 2014

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Sharpe artices

Oustanding work; thanks --Tagishsimon (talk) 19:42, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

"Not sure I agree with the one you identified by the side Ms Calderwood..." ... The Capper women? I agree that at least one of my additions did not follow the conventional format in the Wikisource DNB (different font, iirc). Either the DNB entry misses the font it should have, or else the (presumably contemporary to its publication?) DNB epitome index has an anomolous entry in it. Sadly I'm having bandwidth problems so have not looked again, but I did notice the anomoly at the time.

(rural location, satellite internet, 30Gb per month cap looking like being broken before the end of the month ... alternate landline connection currently dead ... very frustrating long story. Means I may be bit AWOL for a while.).

I have no problem if we cannot get enough material together for an article. Suggest we mark such cases as "insufficient info to establish notability" and move on.

My main aim is to ensure we have added any red women from the DNB epitome pages (i.e. Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/DNB Epitome 01 et al), to the Missing Women list, or else have an article (and then adding redirects). So anyone I add to the list merited an entry in the epitome index. That's not to say that DNB (or other sources) provide enough information to enable us to consider them notable (or even stubbable, in the absence of more than a sentence) now.

Equally, Mr. V., you've set a rather high bar for yourself with the two Sharpe women ... I hesitate to use the phrase 'silk purse from sow's ear', but you did rather conjour up a pair of excellent articles from the scantest of DNB source. ;) --Tagishsimon (talk) 13:14, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

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BremenpediA news

Hello Victuallers. Godewind asked me to tell you some news.
Good news first: The number of infoplaques in Bremen labled with QRpedia increased to 145, see BremenpediA. And QRpedia will go on: In 2015 the focus changes to sculptures, fountains and other pieces of art in urban space. You can see more here. Of course, english Wikipeda articles are most welcome.

The bad news: We have no much luck with QRpedia statistics. Statistics for about 60 items (~40%) can't be adressed by article name because of german special chars or incorrect urlencoding. I can't figur out how to adress this. Please, can you help in any way? The affected items are marked whith "-1" in the column "Anzahl" of this table.
Best regards --Quarz (talk) 17:08, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Lady Mary Hamilton

On 18 January 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Lady Mary Hamilton, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that the novels of Lady Mary Hamilton may have influenced the naming of characters in Jane Austen's books? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lady Mary Hamilton. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Invitation: Editathon at Thinktank, Birmingham, on 7 March 2015

You are invited to an editathon at Thinktank, Birmingham, on 7 March 2015.

The focus will be on the museum's science and industry collection. We will have an exclusive preview of (and be able to photograph) exhibits recently acquired for the forthcoming new Spitfire Gallery, plus talks, and the opportunity to work with curators. Assistance will be available for new editors.

A light lunch and refreshments will be provided. Booking required. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:41, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

I'll be there! Victuallers (talk) 09:01, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Womens History Month (was Henriette Arendt)

Hi Victuallers. Glad to see you are helping to document women writers but I cannot find any evidence that Arendt was among them. Perhaps you got your lines crossed.--Ipigott (talk) 12:48, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

No, I don't think so.... I did add some stuff this morning in anticipation of an enquiry of this type. I'm not sure what a "writer" is..... are we writers? This policewoman it appears (via translation) wrote about the state of women and children in Germany. I know your language abilities are much better than mine so if you read the sources and disagree then Id be happy for you to reclassify her. My driving force here is to get all the women from the DNB documented and many of these are writers. By the way, are you interested in another binge on the DYK page for women history month? Victuallers (talk) 12:57, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

I have researched this a bit and added a few lines to the article. She can certainly be classified as a writer on the basis of what I have added. I am actually already working quite intensively on preparations for Women's History Month. This year I have opted for women writers, however ambitious this may be. I have already created basic lists of Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish women writers and have written quite a few related biographies. You can find the recent ones here. I hope to cover most of the continental European countries in the same way. I think it would be a great help if you could assist in promoting some of these on DYK and of course making some additions or contributions of your own. Maybe Rosiestep who is behind WikiProject Women writers would like to help with DYK too? Several of my recent biographies could do with a bit of extra work.--Ipigott (talk) 16:39, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

(Thanks) Hmmm Ive been thinking the same. We did very well last year and the front page had about a similar number of men and women for a month.... but I'm not sure anyone noticed. I hope to fix that. I have a couple of ideas which Im hoping might come off. I'd like to see us establish some targets. How many new article would be "OK" ... same as last year? How many would be impressive? ....Twice as many? How much would be incredible? 100 editors involved with 5 articles each? Every DNB article about a woman "done"? Letters of complaint about too many women on the front page? More news follows I hope so watch this. Any nay says? Victuallers (talk) 19:05, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

I think DYKs could also help to encourage more editors to include biographies of women as one of their priorities. So the sooner we start the better. I must say you have always been pretty dynamic on picking out interesting snippets for the hooks, not to mention handling all the tiresome mechanics of the operation. If we take women writers as our target, we should be able to include far, far more DYKs than last year. Maybe you also have some good ideas about how to rally interest in the operation?--Ipigott (talk) 20:42, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Well my first idea is here. I'm suggesting we get a stack ready in user space. They can also be DYKed at the right time. Pleased you dropped a note Ian. Cheers. Victuallers (talk) 21:11, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

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If you create an article and there's a country name which is a red link, it's a clue that it might be worth checking that name! I've amended Nuaru to Nauru twice in Olympia Zacharias! Also redlinked categories shouldn't appear: I found a better one for her. Your version - my version. I just came across her while stub-sorting Category:People stubs. PamD 22:43, 10 February 2015 (UTC) Well done, I hope to find time to thank you more fully for your efforts in this area in the future. At the moment I don't have time to look at your diifs but I hope to save that for the morning. Thank you for your contributions which are all appreciated even if you make an error. Victuallers (talk) 22:49, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: January 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue I, January 2015
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How To Pick Up More Women ...

My proposed Wikimania talk "How To Pick Up More Women" is here

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No problem. I'm pretty sure that the Wikidata dimension is à propos, and represents a good new direction in finding redlink lists aimed at the gender gap, in particular. Are you familiar with mix'n'match? It is a data entry tool for Wikidata; but the effort can also be used to track down missing persons. Note for example the "Women in Science" and "CLARA" catalogs.

So that is at the research end: generating the articles, as you do, is also worth it! Charles Matthews (talk) 20:44, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Hmmm Victuallers, I'm glad you want to tackle this topic. That said, I don't know your intended audience, but while the clever and mildly naughty title does get one's attention and will attract existing male editors and could be useful for a workshop on the topic of how to not be a WP:DICK, I have to say that as a woman who is already a WP editor, that title would not draw me in at all, (unless, perhaps as a presenter with advice...) mostly because I'd feel self-conscious and nervous that such a workshop would draw a bunch of adolescent-minded trolls that hope to meet girls - and a few flirty or bawdy women who think the title is funny ... but it's an approach that will discourage the specific editors who are the most likely to be missing at present - academic, professional, mature adults. Also, women in general (and I'm overgeneralizing a bit) tend to be conflict - adverse and prone to quit the project rather than dig in and fight. You will notice that most of us gals who stay are a wee bit on the feisty side, but even among WP editors, I find that many of the editors who self-identify as women on WP are more conflict-adverse than the average WP editor; many just avoid working in high-conflict areas or on high conflict topics. I avoid a gender-disclosing username on purpose and I've personally had few problems related to gender, but I'm pretty feisty even in real life ( I have a career with a lot of high-conflict situations, I view WP editing as a form of relaxation - most of the time!)Montanabw ^(talk) 04:51, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi Montanabw .... thanks for the reply. This is intended to stimulate in the intellectual way (only!). I myself try to avoid high conflict areas, which is maybe why I'm attracted by the gender issue (having daughters helps!). However if we want to fix things then we need to discuss/reclaim them. I am up for extending the presentation so lets talk more. The title is a "hook" and if we can attract the stereotypical nerd editor (I'm not sure these guys exist per se) then that's the ones we need to change their direction. Can you comeback with more? I also think that this is an issue that we all need to solve. We have too few female editors - this is a big problem. We need to change/shift the direction of the editing effort. There is some good stuff going on. How do we give those bits more power. More? Victuallers (talk) 10:22, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Glad to see Rosie is supporting your approach but I also note that at least one other editor shares my concerns. I'm not too sure how the Wikimania thing works but if you are required to make a presentation I would suggest you team up with at least one woman. Here are my reactions to your specific questions:

Is there a way that we improve our productivity in creating articles about women? I think a targeted approach is called for, maybe along the lines of specific WikiProjects like Women writers, or even on a country or language basis, maybe by sensitizing the countries involved. Ideally a female ringleader for each area should be identified. In addition to biographies, I think we should also address more general areas of achievement, for example the success women are enjoying in Scandinavian crime fiction, in youth awards on the music scene, on the academic front or in politics.

Should we try and avoid English speaking white women so that we increase our benefit? We should certainly not avoid anything but we could indeed try to put more emphasis on non-English speaking women and perhaps on women's initiatives, associations and successes in at least the world's leading countries.

Are new articles enough? Should we just make sure articles are well linked and well cited? More than just linking and listing, I think we should make a special effort to destub or expand on existing articles, especially those on important figures.

Do you have any data on the success (failure) of overcoming systemic bias in Wikipedia? I know some such data exist but it might be useful to bring these together under one of the existing WikiProjects.

Do women only editathons/wikiprojects help? Don't know but I expect they do. Recruitment of women editors (backed by mentoring) might lead to better results.

Much of the above could of course be achieved outside the conference too but a good presentation would help. I look forward to seeing how this develops further.--Ipigott (talk) 09:12, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks so much for the feedback Ian. I'm up for extending the presenters and I see that one has tentatively offered above. This is not intended (obviously) to reinforce stereotypes but to look them clearly in the face. Some of the problem is due to stereotypes I suspect. The nerdy wikipedian is just one of them. I'm pleased that this has stimulated some discussion. I was initially worried that you had taken me seriously.... I can see thats fixed. Cheers. I hope to comeback for more. Victuallers (talk) 10:22, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

I think the title is catchy and the topic is important. Definitely, this needs at least one woman co-presenter to avoid the semblance of being just a titillating, hoot-producing presentation -- a mature editor(s), respected by the community. I'll continue with my comments later, but RL is calling. --Rosiestep (talk) 15:33, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Like And Rosiestep would be a good one! Montanabw ^(talk) 22:35, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

A co-presenter is fine (t & c apply :-) ), but I don't want to PC out the hook. I do hope there is a chance that a lot of editors will want to come to a lively and stimulating presentation - although only one person has said they want to come up to now! (If we can people to look up from their mobile phones and laptops then thats only a start). I want to make sure that we calm it down not by dumbing down but by establishing a challenge of showing how they can help. I struck this, to de-emphasise me teaching you to suck eggs....It said, After all, when we say its our project then it includes us all. We are all involved in the systemic bias and it requires more than a minority to make a mark on the issue. I know I'm teaching to the converted. What does cultural anthropology say about making change? I know about this from business and education, but not what the academic view is. Victuallers (talk) 16:21, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

(Reply to the general question about support, not to the above:) I am not sure I even understand the title. I am a woman who works well with both men and women, - actually don't care who is what (I made funny mistakes guessing gender), - so I don't think I be of much help. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:27, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

(Gerda, the title is a pun: see pickup artist). Montanabw ^(talk) 22:35, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

- I definitely support the concept of the talk, I think Rosiestep and I both worry about the "titillating, hoot-producing presentation" - but that can be done with a solid co-presenter. To be very blunt, white English-speaking women are pretty damn critical to all of this, and it needs to be someone (like Rosie, who I have met in RL), who gets it about the breadth of the issues and doesn't take a "paint it pink and be cute" approach. The WMF has positively sucked at dealing with this issue - the real issue, IMHO is that people need to feel they have a community and a connection to continue editing. So the tech is not the problem, and the layout of the main page is not the problem, the problem is the endless trolling and debating and playground stupid-fights-over-nothing nonsense - and all of that can be overcome with people creating a community. (The Teahouse is, in concept, one place that can work, though I find it a bit clunky ). Montanabw ^(talk) 22:35, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

@Montanabw: Sorry. text is not ideal. I feel as if I'm being strongly challenged on several fronts but I'm not sure why. "titillating, hoot-producing presentation" is not my concept and I cannot see why I need to explain again that this isnt going to happen. You may worry about this but I cannot see the rationale for your fears. Who is going to create or give this type of presentation? It isnt me. Can we assume that this is not going to happen and move on? Not sure what you mean by "To be very blunt, white English-speaking women are pretty damn critical to all of this". What is "all of this"? Or is this the previous issue? Moving on. Rosiestep is pushing at an open door with me. We have been working at DYK together for years and over the last year we have been following a very similar path. You suggest; The Teahouse is successful, but I'm not sure what success it has in fixing/ helping to fix the systemic bias. I presume it has delivered more than its fair weight of new female editors (are there figures for new editors and new articles?). Is there a reason for thinking that the WMF should have solved this issue? Have they not backed projects that had consensus as being plausible solutions? I'm not trying to be contentious here, I'm just trying to find out some high level detail. ......you say........"IMHO is that people need to feel they have a community and a connection to continue editing. " agreed. Can we build on your thought? How can this be used to deprecate systemic bias? Victuallers (talk) 23:35, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

It's not my intent to attack. I'm not explaining myself terribly well, either. I like your concept, but the title is setting off a Danger, Will Robinson klaxon in my gut. I guess I think that the WP world has too many immature trolls for a double-entendre to work. In my comment above, I was responding to the statement "Should we try and avoid English speaking white women ..." -- surely you aren't saying we English speaking white women have nothing to say about the topic? We are the most visible targets of the problem (perhaps you not been following Gamergate or mansplaining - but those articles give a snapshot of the morass ) I'm all for women of color and/or non-English speaking women being involved too (as they usually have it even worse), but this idea that we white women are to be avoided? I guess the short version of my concern is that the "we can attract women if we pink it and shrink it" attitude that pervades WMF isn't helped by the title, even though it's clever. But the gender gap and the systemic bias issues are pretty complicated (I'm noticing a lot of systemic bias problems with the articles about Native American people, for example; I was ripping my hair out several months back over some people who didn't understand why it was very, very offensive to use the term "red Indian"...). Really, I'm not ripping you personally, Victuallers, I'm just expressing a bit of concern about potential pitfalls of a lecture title. You did ask for feedback... Montanabw ^(talk) 23:26, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

+1. --Djembayz (talk) 00:49, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

My two cents: I like the idea in general, but not these two things in particular:
- Picking up women is something you do in bars. How about just "recruit more women" or something like that?
- Instead of "Should we try and avoid English speaking white women so that we increase our benefit?" maybe "Should we try to attract more non-English speaking and/or non-Anglo women?"

--Lightbreather (talk) 01:39, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

@Lightbreather: I like your suggestions and have addressed both on the proposal page. Thank you. --Rosiestep (talk) 02:31, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank you! Lightbreather (talk) 02:53, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

@Lightbreather: @Rosiestep: In the opening para of the proposal you will see that "Pickup more women" .... means articles about women. There is a problem of recruiting more women, but I am actually concerned about the systemic bias that wikipedia articles reflect in Wikipedia. I suspect you are reading more into the proposal than is there. I'm not sure that the systemic bias doesnt create the problem of recruiting women although I'm not convinced yet. Please however do not think that we want to "pick up" new editors. I suspect we are on the same side, can we discuss how we can assist each other ? Victuallers (talk) 17:54, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

My 2p for what its worth. Kudos for tackling an important subject, but humour doesn't always translate well, and Wikimania always has a lot of people for whom English is definitely not a first language. A renamed more focussed submission would be clearer and probably taken more seriously. More positively, I've started to ask about overlooked women as a standard question when I'm planning events and the results so far are positive. Not every event can be a gendergap event, but a lot of non-gendergap events can quietly have a gendergap element and Jane Squire should have an article! Ϣere SpielChequers 00:13, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks WSC. I know that humour doesn't translate but AGF will translate, I hope, for many. This is a subject I've been working on for at least two years and I see the edit-a-thons and the new projects... I do work on the latter and I attend the former for social reasons. These are taking the subject seriously as you suggest and I hope that others would realise that Rosie and I are taking this seriously too. We have slowed our editing to work on this talk and this problem. We do need to ask about overlooked women but we have lists of hundreds of them. How are we/us/you going to make a difference? Maybe its not possible but we are willing to work and think and make a fuss about it. I'm pleased that you realise that both of us (and others) are already working hard on this problem. (I don't usually edit in talk space but in article space). Its not enough. We hope to find/propose a better idea. I would hope that few would want to attend a talk that re-explains the problem, but some will come to this talk to find out "what the fuss is about". I was worried about the title but there are now people coming forward to discuss their views and at least two people have volunteered to co-present and key Wikipedians like you are taking an interest. I'm very pleased to have @Rosiestep: who as a result of this talk is going to Mexico to co-present. (Sorry next bit doesn't translate) The glass may actually be a tumbler and I'm told its either half-full or half empty.... but more importantly, can we fill it? Victuallers (talk) 12:04, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

I think you're making a bigger deal out of this than you need to. The topic is a good one, but the "pick up" joke, even if it's not meant to offend, is counter to your goal. Just drop it. Lightbreather (talk) 17:17, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Big deal not required. I'm quite happy to leave this subject now and concentrate on the core problem. I'm only responding to comments here. Victuallers (talk) 17:21, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Maybe this will make it easier to understand. Let's say I were going to present something about how men could behave on Wikipedia to make it more welcoming to women. Maybe I think it would be kinda cute or clever to title my presentation, "How not to be a dick on Wikipedia." Maybe I meant that to just "lighten up" the topic, but considering how hypersensitive many WP men are about not being perceived as sexist, probably a lot of them would think that presentation title would be in poor taste. Lightbreather (talk) 17:28, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

I would never attend a presentation with this title, no matter what the content is. It's not "naughty", it is a phrase connected with misogynist pick up artist culture. It is anti-feminist, it is disgusting and there is no way you can twist around the meaning to imply that means anything other than its primary association of men lying, manipulating and deceiving women in order to coerce them for sex. Have you read any PUA forums? It's hateful stuff that objectifies women and implies their only purpose is to provide sexual services to men. It's repulsive stuff. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:25, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

Bravo Lightbreather & Liz; You said a mountain in one paragraph. @Victuallers, I feel very sorry for you as well as extremely disappointed in your behavior about this topic. What you think is funny isn't amusing funny or clever. PUA is for sex. It comes from the historical methods about how to "pick up more women". This isn't cute, clever, funny or topical - it's an insult to the very community you claim to be wishing to serve. On reading your talk page, I find you to be racist as well. I won't be attending any talks you give in Mexico City or elsewhere. I think your attitude is a danger to the project and recommend that you consider applying to work with a mental health professional to deal with your misogeny and racism issues. Ellin Beltz (talk) 17:34, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

That's a pretty big accusation considering that the title was changed before you made this attack. I can only presume that you require only a glimmer of evidence before you accuse people of what you perceive to be true. How are you going to accuse people who really are guilty? This is Godwin's law gone crazy. Victuallers (talk) 00:09, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

QRpedia

I like the Wikitowns map on User:Victuallers/wikitowns. Can we do the same for QRpedia? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:44, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Its all free Andy, esp. to you. Do be careful of making it too crowded. As you can see its quite busy with just the major wikitowns. See you on 8th March? As you can see from my talk described above I have been doing articles that are not about some pub in Brum. Di I get a free beer for that article? Victuallers (talk) 15:47, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Review

Thanks for reviewing Sophia Duleep Singh. This [14] is held up. It could also be posted for WHMonth or day as she was an activist for the cause of music. Could you help with its review? Thanks.--Nvvchar. 05:14, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Verónica Cruz Sánchez

I have gone back and forth, not sure if I should nominate her as a DYK for Women's month or not. Verónica Cruz Sánchez work is amazing, as are her films. But most of the women featured are not "controversial" in a sense and the topic of women's bodies always seems to be so. I created the article yesterday, so I have a few more days to decide and I'd appreciate your opinion. Too controversial or not? Thanks :) SusunW (talk) 23:12, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Oh do nominate her. She's a feminist looking after minorities - and a Mexican one. However do keep at eye on "neutral". I saw that women are "incarcerated"... I'm guessing they are actually imprisoned or put in custody. I didn't read all the detail but we need the reader to make a judgement based on the facts. If its bad then they will see that its bad. If you need help writing a hook then I'm very pleased to help. Victuallers (talk) 23:46, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

They are actually in prison. For up to 30 years -- average for murder in Mexico 6 years. Average for abortion or miscarriage 25-30 years. It is outrageous. I tried really, really hard to remain neutral, not hurt anyone's religious sensibilities or use "charged" words. In my head, I was screaming, but on the page, I think I stayed neutral and without any POV. I'm doing it. Both you and Montanabw weighed in the same way. Thank you very, very much! SusunW (talk) 00:47, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the education! Might be useful to include a cited sentence to explain that they ARE "incarcerated". Victuallers (talk) 08:24, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

There is a citation at the end of the next sentence. :)SusunW (talk) 23:53, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for doing the DYK clearance. There are photos of her on the web, but I hardly understand the rules for US copyright, much less Mexican ones O.o SusunW (talk) 16:33, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

Elise Otté

Thanks for including this in DYK. However, I do not think I should be mentioned in the credits as I did very little on the article.--Ipigott (talk) 07:40, 18 February 2015 (UTC) Feel free to remove yourself Ian but you are supporting this DYK effort and helping to get articles like this nominated. An accolade shared is not an accolade halved. Bask. Victuallers (talk) 14:54, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

OK. Like your proverbial turn of phrase. Thanks too for adding interesting content to Regina.--Ipigott (talk) 18:47, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/2014 oil spill on Sundarbans

Victuallers, it looks like you placed this unapproved hook in prep 5 on February 17—and you didn't promoted the template. It almost made it to the main page, but Harrias noticed it and removed it a few hours before the scheduled move. Please be more careful in future: the most recent icon was clearly the "review again" one. Thank you. BlueMoonset (talk) 22:35, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

That does look like my mistake. I had created a hole and wanted to refill it. I must have not looked thoroughly enough. Glad you and Harrias caught it. Victuallers (talk) 22:47, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Anastasia Gosteva might interest you for the beginning of March.--Ipigott (talk) 18:02, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

Another interesting one is Margarita Sharapova.--Ipigott (talk) 20:38, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

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Albert Stopford

Long time no see Victuallers. Could you give me a hand at Albert Stopford. I think it is interesting for a DYK, but did not succeed to understand the procedure. A further step needs to be done, section III. You are more experienced.Taksen (talk) 11:33, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

Hello Victuallers, this is what he sent me User_talk:Taksen#Incomplete_DYK_nomination Taksen (talk) 09:16, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

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Thanks, I'm not sure the tiara is the most interesting part, but monarchists will like it.Taksen (talk) 12:16, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Blofeld

Can you ask your friend not to post his shit on Ellin Beltz's talk? Thanks. INeverCry 06:19, 3 March 2015 (UTC) As distinct from this message? See this mirror? Victuallers (talk) 16:41, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

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Thanks for the DYK clearance. Would that I spoke Japanese, I think I could flesh it out a bit more, but I don't. So....hopefully someone who does can give her a bit more of an interesting twist. I did, however, think that she was substantial enough to be notable and appreciate your help on getting diversity into the ranks of Wikipedia's coverage on women. :) SusunW (talk) 15:29, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

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Two Girls Dressing a Kitten by Candlelight

QPQ done on this if you would care to tick it? Thanks, Philafrenzy (talk) 13:49, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Mrs. Woodham

Hey old friend. Take a look at the AFD for Mrs. Woodham. I thought everyone in the DNB was notable? Maybe not? Thanks :) Missvain (talk) 19:56, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

@Missvain: ... fixed I think.... may need prissing, but not now deletable Victuallers (talk) 10:36, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Yahoo! You rock! Missvain (talk) 16:36, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Hortense Allart

Hortense Allart may interest you. Also ping. --Rosiestep (talk) 16:17, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

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Hi, it seems like we're the only ones working on this nomination. Would you mind looking at my ALT4 suggestion? Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 12:16, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. Could you add a tick? Yoninah (talk) 16:24, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

I can tick the hook @Yoninah: (I thought I had) but I have rewritten this article so much that it feels like I am a co-author so not happy to tick the article. Victuallers (talk)

Would you like a nomination co-credit? Yoninah (talk) 00:12, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

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DYK for Doris Mühringer

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DYK for Rosemond Mountain

On 20 March 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Rosemond Mountain, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Rosemond Mountain (pictured)‍—‌said to be the best female singer on the English stage‍—‌was taught by the castrato Venanzio Rauzzini? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Rosemond Mountain. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Louisa Parr at DYK

Hi Victuallers -- Thanks for starting this interesting article. I've reviewed it and all seems in order, except that you still need to provide a QPQ. Regards, Espresso Addict (talk) 20:29, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Arbana Xharra

On 21 March 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Arbana Xharra, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that investigative journalist Arbana Xharra uncovered links to terrorist organizations while investigating religious extremism in Kosovo? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Arbana Xharra. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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DYK for Þórdís Gísladóttir

On 21 March 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Þórdís Gísladóttir, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that Icelandic children's author Þórdís Gísladóttir writes about how to find out what goes on behind your neighbours' curtains? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Þórdís Gísladóttir. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 12:02, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Esther Ballestrino is new Victuallers (talk) 20:47, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Amelia Denis de Icaza

On 23 March 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Amelia Denis de Icaza, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that a massive Panamanian Flag flies above the statue of Amelia Denis de Icaza, who wrote Al Cerro Ancón? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Amelia Denis de Icaza. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Soweto Blues

Thanks for the review, friend. Since you mentioned it, I just thought I'd address one point; you're right about the content imbalance, it's just that that imbalance is not the product of me wanting to give it too much weight, but rather me flinging all the relevant content I could find into the article, as a base for other people to build on. Considering how important a song it is, there is surprisingly little detailed coverage of it. Regards, Vanamonde93 (talk) 07:52, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Anne O'Hagan Shinn

On 26 March 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Anne O'Hagan Shinn, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that feminist writer Anne O'Hagan is thought to have written anonymously about the difficulties of living with an old-fashioned mother? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Anne O'Hagan Shinn. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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DYK for Hortensia Blanch Pita

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DYK for Louisa Parr

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DYK for Mary Birdsall House

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Sugako Hashida

Did bolding Sugako Hashida DYK mean you are okay with that hook? And, can I approve a hook I suggested or does someone else have to do it? SusunW (talk) 03:31, 28 March 2015 (UTC) - Oh the bolding was required just to be a hook. I'm much too close to the article to approve a hook it has to be someone not involved. Thanks and well done Victuallers (talk) 20:30, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Julia Nava de Ruisánchez

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Template:Did you know nominations/Solar eclipse of 1 May 1185

Submitted ALT1. --Doug Coldwell (talk) 11:24, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

I see we have "Sufficient hooks" with an excellent ALT1 going. Is there "Sufficient references" as well?--Doug Coldwell (talk) 09:46, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Perhaps you meant to say "Sufficient references" in your comments, since there is only one hook.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 22:15, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Thats correct Doug, Do you think it needs fixing? If so, then feel free Victuallers (talk) 22:19, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Made the minor fix. AND thanks for helping me on the ALT1 - looks good!--Doug Coldwell (talk) 22:23, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Honora Sneyd

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Template:Did you know nominations/Teresia Constantia Phillips

Hello,

I have reviewed the above and found minor problems in the citations. I also wrote a couple of alternative hooks. To do so, I made a minor editorial change to the article, which you may want to check. I liked the article. Too bad it's too late for Women's History Month.

Georgejdorner (talk) 16:51, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

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Congratulations on Women's History Month

Congratulations! You have achieved enormous progress in the outcomes for this year with almost double the number of new articles, three times as many improved articles and almost as many DYKs as last year. Thanks to Rosiestep's WikiProject women writers, we've all had fun including lots of new biographies on literate ladies from around the world but artists have also been popular. I'm actually thinking of making artists my priority for 2016 -- so I hope you'll still be around to provide support. Glad too to see we've had such strong support from users such as Big iron, Jane023 and SusunW, to mention but just a few. How about your Mexico assignment?--Ipigott (talk) 18:11, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

I'm thrilled that we got over 600 articles and 150 improved! Semana Santa here and everything is closed, but we are working on getting me a library pass to UADY. Fingers crossed. SusunW (talk) 18:47, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

I'm very pleased for all of us (e.g. Rosiestep, Ipigott, Big iron, Jane023, SusunW, ‎Gerda Arendt, Zanhe, Charles Matthews, T._Anthony, Missvain and others like Magnus and ...). I'm sitting here grinning as I type this as I know that others did so much. I'm a bit disappointed that the Mexico talk hasn't made much progress but that my fault. I was very keen to see if we could "really do something" to make a difference. I'm not saying we haven't but I do know that if you have a fire then why not throw petrol on it. As it is I felt that our fire was attracting some who just wanted to make a (needless) point. Still enough of that I'm back to grinning and "yo" to all (especially those I missed to mention by name) . Collaborative editing is a magnitude better than so solo editing and we have done something! Victuallers (talk) 19:06, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

Yes it's been very enlightening and I learned a lot about 19th-century women artists in the process. Hopefully next year we can do something with more impact based on better tooling. Who knows? Jane (talk) 19:15, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

It was truly amazing to me. As a new editor, I found it a very reaffirming process (in spite of the flack over the presentation, which I still think is a wonderful idea.) Besides the writers and artists the editing groups that Antony-22 posted about medical women and scientists added a bunch of articles to the list too. SusunW (talk) 19:48, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

Roger and Ian, you really are tireless and inspiring; thank you for being you. I won't re-mention all the other collaborators I rubbed shoulders with last month as I don't want to inadvertently leave someone out, but there were a lot of old chums and new ones. I jazzed that our forces are growing! Like you, Ian, I'm already thinking about 2016, and some big goals, really big goals, which might sound ridiculously unachievable so I'll keep them to myself for now. From what I can tell, the Mexico talks are still in the vetting process, but I think we should hear back soon! --Rosiestep (talk) 21:44, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Sugako Hashida

On 4 April 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sugako Hashida, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that scriptwriter Sugako Hashida wrote the original script for Oshin, the first asadora to be both produced and written by women in Japan? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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DYK nomination of Ellen Pickering

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DYK for Hortense Allart

On 6 April 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hortense Allart, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Hortense Allart's novels were based on her adventures, including Les enchantements de Prudence, Avec George Sand, which enjoyed a succès de scandale? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hortense Allart. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Esther Ballestrino

Hi, I noticed that your DYK nomination just got promoted. I did a copyedit on it and found one paragraph that was not cited; please see there. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 00:02, 7 April 2015 (UTC) Cheers @Yoninah:, fixed. Victuallers (talk) 09:24, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

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DYK for Esther Ballestrino

On 9 April 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Esther Ballestrino, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Esther Ballestrino, the former boss of Jorge Mario Bergoglio (later Pope Francis), was thrown from an aircraft by the Argentine security services? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Esther Ballestrino. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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DYK for Chen Xuezhao

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This Month in GLAM: March 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue III, March 2015
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Africa report: Closing the gap of the Global South Belgium report: Gendergap and Belgiumgap Catalan areas report: One day at the radio France report: A very busy month! Germany report: 1 topic, 2 talks, 3 hours Italy report: Agreements with national cultural institutions and professional associations Mexico report: Wiki rides the subway editathon and second edition of the Editatona gender gap marathon Netherlands report: Nature, Art, Feminism and a GLAM-WIKI conference Poland report: Six months in Spain report: Women's edit-a-thons, Workshops and Miguel Delibes Sweden report: Fashion; BARK; Council of Central Museums UK report: GLAM activities in the UK USA report: Wikipedia in Philadelphia & New York Open Access report: Wikimania Open Access policy; Wikimania; Wikipedia Science Conference; Punch-card microfluidics Calendar: April's GLAM events
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	Thank you for taking the time to look at the Clayton Knight DYK and add an article for Katharine Sturges Dodge. (I had planned on getting to that eventually. Now, I can work on just adding to it instead when I have free moments.) And, yes, please feel fee to add an ALT hook to that DYK. TeriEmbrey (talk) 13:47, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

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Charlotte Caroline Richardson

Hi. hope you're well. I was going to copyedit this article but I'm a bit confused. Her father was Robert Richardson who married Elizabeth Smales so presumably Elizabeth took on his surname and therefore Charlotte is Charlotte Caroline Richardson? What name was she writing under in her career Richardson from her father or Smales from her mother? It's noted later in the article she took on her husband's name "Richardson" but surely she's already called Richardson due to her father. Cowlibob (talk) 14:15, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

I was surprised to see the DYK credit. Thanks for adding! Cowlibob (talk) 18:43, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Rik Vercoe

Victuallers, there's been a response to the issues you raised in your review here. Were you planning to return to do another round, or should I post a request for a new reviewer? Please let me know if the latter. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 17:54, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

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DYK for Zíbia Gasparetto

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The DYK project (nominate) 20:33, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Charlotte Caroline Richardson

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DYK for María Teresa Tula

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— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 22:36, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Carmen de Burgos

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Materialscientist (talk) 06:52, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

Clayton Knight & Clayton Knight Committee articles

Thanks for pointing out the problems with the Clayton Knight articles in relation to the Art gallery source. I didn't personally read or use the source that is causing the problems in my work in editing those articles. I am pretty sure that both articles can be fixed within the next week though. TeriEmbrey (talk) 14:09, 20 April 2015 (UTC) That's cool, the main problem here is just fixing it (and hopefully teaching) Victuallers (talk) 15:55, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

Ann Lemoine

I'm not sure how much more can be found on her, but Ann Lemoine was an interesting person, and perhaps you have access to some other resources in your neck of the woods. If you're busy with other things, no worries. --Rosiestep (talk) 02:48, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

Review

Hi! Can you please consider reviewing this Template:Did you know nominations/Dah Parvatiya which is pending since 6 March. Thanks.--Nvvchar. 06:25, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

Ellen P.

Why was Ellen Pickering DYK nom closed? I only waited for sources or a reply? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:43, 22 April 2015 (UTC) Hi Gerda, I should have asked you. However the article still has a dispute tag and I agree with you that it would not have a strong hook. I made this a DYK because Poovey used it as a counter example of the type of work that we are doing as part of Women's History Month. I thought the discussion during the nomination was very silly and I didn't want to waste more time. If you would like to bring the nomination back then I will. All my best respects. Roger Victuallers (talk) 20:53, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

Please reopen the DYK as you shouldn't be the one opening and closing your own hook. As of yesterday, I have obtained all of the missing sources through the resource exchange process and I am in the process of solving the NPOV dispute in the next 48 hours with the available material. @Gerda Arendt:. Viriditas (talk) 02:38, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

Victuallers, I can't help but notice that you closed out the DYK at 20:24, 22 April,[15] approximately one hour after I acknowledged receiving all of the requested sources after waiting a week for them.[16]. This appears to be much more than a simple coincidence and makes you look like a vindictive, spiteful person who is more interested in his own ego and less in improving the encyclopedia. I have to say, Victuallers, this makes you look very, very bad. Viriditas (talk) 02:43, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

I better don't say, Viriditas, how the last comment makes you look in my eyes. Get the sources in, revert the close or promote it to GA, move on, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:03, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

Do tell me, Gerda Arendt, how it makes me look. Eleven different editors worked on this DYK and the article in an attempt to improve it, only to have Victuallers scuttle the DYK because he couldn't bear the thought of collaboration. I just read 30+ pages of sources I requested to help fix this problem and devoted much time over the past several weeks. So please, by all means, tell me how it makes me look. The DYK Victuallers submitted was a gross distortion and placed undue weight on a disputed, controversial opinion. Instead of reviewing the sources, he ignored them. Instead of allowing others to help fix the problem, he closed the DYK approximately one hour after I received the sources on the request board. You may want to get your eyes checked. I should also point out that other editors provided perfectly good hooks such as Maile's ALT2, so there wasn't any reason to close the DYK in the first place. As usual, I have no dog in this fight. I have no DYK credit coming to me, or any reason to be "involved". My only interest was in using my valuable time to promote the article and hook to the main page. It's therefore ironic, that the biggest obstacle to this task is the nominator himself. Viriditas (talk) 08:11, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

I have no time to read all this. Revert the close and move on. - The term scuttle reminds me of the worst thing happening to me here. See my talk for the spiral of justice ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:13, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

I apologize. I hate it when people use a word that reminds me of something else. :) I will not revert the action of an admin, as that usually results in a block. Frankly, I'm completely over this. Like I said, I have no dog in this fight. I don't care what happens. However, when I put in this much time, I very much like to have a documented record of following through with what I say I'm going to do. I told you on your talk page, Gerda, that I was going to request the sources and fix the article so you could pass it. Because the nominator closed out the DYK one hour after I received the sources, I can no longer follow through on what I said I was going to do. That's my primary issue. Anyway, I'll give it a rest now. Viriditas (talk) 08:15, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

Before reading, I reopened the nomination. If you want to add to the article, feel free to do so, if not I will ask others to look at the tag. A DYK article is not required to be "complete". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:22, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

If you guys are interested in this then be my guest. (I would n't dream of blocking you for reverting my normal edits. That is not what I was given "the tools".) I erroneously thought that this article was only just worth writing because I have a thing about trying to get every female recognised by the UK Dictionary of National Biography to have an article. Its part of a drive to pull these people back from obscurity and queue jump them (for once) over their male peers. I don't think Ms Pickering is very interesting apart from the fact that she was the subject of a modern debate at a conference in 1999. I find the idea of a content dispute to be against the spirit of my editing (as I don't intend to dispute any AGFable editor (which we all are)). If there is "a dispute" then I don't want to be involved - which is why I no longer wanted to support the DYK nom. but I'm quite happy for you guys to continue if one of you wants to re-nominate, if this is allowed. Victuallers (talk) 15:27, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Qian Xiuling

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Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 06:16, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

Hi Victuallers, Did you know ... that Qian Xiuling was one of the most viewed DYKs of April 2015, beating most April Fool's Day jokes? I've added it to WP:DYKSTATS. Thank you for creating the article about this remarkable woman, as well as numerous others! -Zanhe (talk) 18:42, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Jiang Biwei

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Wikimania

Yay! The proposal was approved and we're going to Wikimania! Did you get travel sorted out? Did you give any more thought to the challenges? You've been quiet recently so hope all is ok. --Rosiestep (talk) 13:52, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Lorina Bulwer

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DYK for Teresia Constantia Phillips

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DYK for Lü Bicheng

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DYK for Katherine Sturges Dodge

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Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 19:35, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Lady Strangford

Hey, Roger! Thank you so much for the article about lady Strangford, it was so sweet of yours to notify me! You might be interested to add the picture File:Radilovo-museum-Lady-Strangford-exposition-2.jpg with a view from the exposition related to Lady Strangford in the small history museum in the village of Radilovo, where she opened one of the 6 hospitals during the April Uprising in Bulgaria. I must check my archives, but probably more pictures from this exposition will be found... →Spiritia 10:58, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

That's so cool @Spiritia: - I certainly will.... but maybe you should... as I think this is your research and I'd like to share the article with a Bulgarian speaker. Victuallers (talk)

DYK for Harriet Newell Noyes

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DYK and notability revisited

Thank you for contributing on DYKS.

I know one DYK and you can also check it. I heavily doubt about the notability of the subject. Do we have a policy regarding the obvious notability and the credibility of the references concerning these DYKs or even local consensus? I don't see any credibility in sources like "Berlin Man Receives V.F.W. Post". The Coos Guardian. July 5, 1934. Could it be clearer, I wouldn't question, but this is so much about the main page. OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 17:04, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

@OccultZone: ... what are you discussing? Victuallers (talk) 17:12, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

Do you think that this this subject pass WP:NOTABILITY and even if it does, are there any quality sources? OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 17:15, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

I agree. Its not very important and the DYK hook exaggerates his importance. Ive No'ed it. Victuallers (talk) 18:03, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: April 2015

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DYK nomination of Assyrian lion weights

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DYK for Second Battle of Idlib

And thank you! :D EkoGraf (talk) 06:45, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Ann Childe Seguin

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DYK for Assyrian lion weights

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Harrias ^talk 07:17, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Redirect categories

Gah! Regarding this: I don't often have cause to go through categories, but was quite sure there were very few cases a redirect should be in such a category. Taking another look at WP:RCAT, I was quite wrong. Looks like I have a few more self-reverts to do... — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 12:19, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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	Thank you for your work connected with Wikipedia:WikiProject Dictionary of National Biography/Missing women. You've created so many biographies!! And I appreciate what you've done. Rosiestep (talk) 14:32, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

oooh... assymetric curtsey, small stumble, embarrassed smile Victuallers (talk) 16:00, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Eliza Wigham DYK nomination

Amazing, thank you! The article was created at an editathon, the group will be really happy :) Lirazelf (talk) 13:14, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Lady Strangford

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Presentation @ Wikimania

Hi Roger. I have a lot of time this coming week to work on the presentation. Do you have time to connect with me this weekend so that we flesh things out? If yes, when? Also, are you coming to Mexico City? I know you're busy with other things, but I need to understand what each of us is putting together, how it will flow, etc. Thank you. --Rosiestep (talk) 06:01, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

Great Rosie, I will skype you at 5 and 6 pm today (UK time). I will try both to allow you to choose or to allow for miscalculation. Do make an alt suggestion if this doesn't work for you I enjoyed our last call. Speak to you later I hope. Roger 08:35, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

Trying to get on skype. --Rosiestep (talk) 16:01, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

I have skype open Victuallers (talk) 16:05, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

Comment at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Ser Amantio di Nicolao

Hi, please don't add comments at closed RfAs; they're usually kept exactly the same to preserve the "historical record", if you will. Thanks! L235 (t / c / ping in reply) 21:32, 28 June 2015 (UTC) oops Victuallers (talk) 21:35, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

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DYK for Teréz Karacs

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Speedy deletion nomination of Siti Hediyati Hariyadi

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I thought it was good practice to wait at least 10 or 20 minutes before adding one of these. Adding this template does not show good practise. Victuallers (talk) 16:23, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

Tales of Frankenstein

Thank you for the help getting this article DYK approval. It was my hardest yet! Inkwell765 (talk) 18:13, 2 July 2015 (UTC) You are welcome - I hope you stay at DYK as you have a interesting subject in old films. Victuallers (talk) 06:02, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

I think my next project will be The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler, the first film about cloning, even before the term existed.

How do you put a DYK article on the statistics page? My article for Dimension 5 qualifies, but I can't find any instructions.

Inkwell765 (talk) 15:43, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

OH I guess its the usual wiki technique of ...... look at one like the one you want to create... copy it ... paste it .... and then change it until it says what you wanted it to say then ....(be bold and) save it. If it looks a mess then come here and I and any other dYKer will be pleased to sort it out as we all make mistakes.... if anyone does moan then tell them to "be nice" or get an admin to remind them of the way we are meant to work. (I could (and will if you cannot even start on it) do it for you but then you wouldnt learn as much) Welcome again Victuallers (talk) 16:04, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Incomplete DYK nominations

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The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler

I found more cites for this being the first clone film. Or maybe something about A Brave New World? Inkwell765 (talk) 02:57, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: June 2015

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Hello hello - of course, not a problem, I'll take a look at both! Thanks again for the DYK nomination - a real boost for the group. Lirazelf (talk) 13:06, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

Will do, and best of luck for Wikimania! Lirazelf (talk) 15:00, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

FYI, have now created Ladies' London Emancipation Society, was bugging me that it came up as a red link... Lirazelf (talk) 13:33, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Babette Haag

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DYK for William Troy (abolitionist)

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Wikimania Mexico

Day 1. I'm sitting on the floor, just right of center.

Glad to see you finally made it to the conference together with Rosiestep. Hope all goes well on Sunday. Let us know how many more you pick up!--Ipigott (talk) 09:07, 17 July 2015 (UTC) Hi Ian, I'm not at the conference (work) - so Rosie is presenting and I don't think you'll be surprised by the contents as we have been fellow travellers on this mission. The project should appear on the wiki over the weekend and we'll need some polyglots! Thanks for the best wishes and to you as well of course. Victuallers (talk) 11:19, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

@Ipigott: Thanks for the well wishes, Ian. Supporting Roger in saying we are in it together. --Rosiestep (talk) 13:02, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

Sorry you didn't make it in person but I have no doubt that you are there in spirit. Gooooooooo Rosie. Knock 'em dead! Okay, maybe not, we need the good editors to be alive and kicking. SusunW (talk) 13:13, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

:@Rosiestep: Nice to see you smiling there in the front row (the photo enlarges well). But there are really far too few women at the conference (although it is good to see it looks as if some of them have come in from afar). Just as well Roger let you go along alone! I see too there's an interesting presentation in Spanish tomorrow on women Wikipedians in Mexico (in which SusunW should be interested).--Ipigott (talk) 13:23, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

@Ipigott: would that my listening skills were good enough to understand it. If I cannot SEE Spanish, I am lost. My brain just cannot comprehend words. I somehow get lost in the musicality of the language and then realize I am supposed to be listening to words to respond. I honestly think it would be a diagnosable condition as it happens to me in all languages. It is not that I am not paying attention and try as I might, I cannot keep that switch from being thrown. BUT, she gave an e-mail. I will contact her. SusunW (talk) 13:54, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

@SusunW: She's relatively new herself and seems interested in art and culture. She is probably not aware of all the work you have been doing in support of women in Mexico as she only seems to have looked at Spanish speakers. She has been on Wikipedia for about a year and has created seven articles. Hope you've now fully recovered from you recent illness. As for languages, I've always been better at understading what people say and communicating by word of mouth. For me, reading and especially writing come later. I speak fluent Danish (which I learnt later than the others) and still have difficulty in writing without spelling mistakes. Hope Roger doesn't mind all this clutter on his page.--Ipigott (talk) 14:24, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

@Ipigott: This was the hackathon event photo. The actual conference starts today and I believe there are more women present, guessing 20%, while @WereSpielChequers: (seated next to me) guesses 23-24%. --Rosiestep (talk) 15:13, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

@Ipigott: Brilliant! I already heard back from her. She speaks English. Is interested in collaboration. I also suggested she try to get to @Rosiestep:'s presentation. (We seem to have the opposite issues with languages. It is why it takes a village.) SusunW (talk) 15:46, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

@SusunW: Pauline is speaking tomorrow, but I'm trying to find her today! --Rosiestep (talk) 16:22, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

Like SusunW (talk) 18:03, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

While you're at it Rosiestep, you could try to find Anna Torres (originally from Spain) and Melina Masnatta from Argentia who are participating in the same session. Neither of them have done much work on the Spanish Wikipedia but they represent Wikimedia in Argentina.--Ipigott (talk) 17:46, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

Ipigott, I've put out feelers that I'm looking for Maria, Pauline, Anna, and Melina. If I don't connect with them today, I'm hopeful for sure I will at the women's luncheon tomorrow. --Rosiestep (talk) 19:15, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks all for your best wishes - I regard every best wish here as a barnstar!. I can see my contribution was to increase the proportion of women in Wikimania (by staying away!). As you know Rosie and I believe that the best solution is to concentrate on the content as that as it has the most influence on the very next generation (e.g. of wikipedians but also leaders).

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Ethel Bellamy

Thank you very much for your edits; the photo in particular really enhaces the article. Also creating another article to de-orphan the first is going above and beyond! BethNaught (talk) 20:52, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

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Gerda Müller

General: why would you replace a {{ill}} link, which provides access to the article in another language, by a simple red link? - Specific: one collaboration with Fehling is listed here, another here. A note "citation required" might be better than removing the fact. It's a translation from de, - always the same problem of having to find the refs afterwards, but most facts are correct, - sigh ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:11, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi Gerda, sorry to see the "sigh" but why would you have a link to :de when its not there? Its a small point and you can have it your way. I'm not sure why you are worried about this but I'm happy to leave it that way if it helps. Oh and thanks for nominating it, hope you like the other changes. Victuallers (talk) 14:27, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

Hans Lohmeyer is there, no? (Otherwise I would not.) - I worry about a name like Fehling removed, which I don't think is a minor thing. - The sigh refers to hours spent on finding refs in retrospect for Lutherkirche, - afraid of a similar thing here ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:31, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

My misunderstanding - I thought the red link and the "de" meant it wasnt there in German either. I eventually clicked on the "de" and the transwiki worked. Your "sigh" was required!!! Victuallers (talk) 15:12, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

Good news! Use ill frequently, you can specify three formats in a row: 1) the (future) wanted English title, 2) the title in the other language, and 3) what will show (in red) if needed, for example if the wanted English title has a dab. Once the English is created, it all transforms magically into a simple blue link! - This and other secrets on WP:QAIPOST. - Thank you for digging further, - I should expand an article I nominated for GA yesterday, the cantata for yesterday, + RL ;) - Instead of expanding, I wrote my first woman in red and nominated another, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:56, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

I am stalking your page and now that I have figured out how to use "ill", I love it. I just wish there was a way that Wiki's search would tell you that there is an article in another language. I usually only find out by Googling ... which is how I found the Swedish one of Susanna Rydén. I learn so much from all of you. ;) SusunW (talk) 16:14, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

Stalk away, I got a lesson too :-)

Metrics

Hi, Have you heard from Max or Magnus regarding the week's metrics in creating new women's bios? --Rosiestep (talk) 01:36, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

Suna Besha

It appears that this request here Template:Did you know nominations/Suna Besha for posting on 27th July, in the article approved by you, has been missed. I hope it will appear soon as the festival of Nabakalebara 2015 of which Suna Besha is a part is still continuing. --Nvvchar. 06:23, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks.--Nvvchar. 06:54, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

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Wp:Women in red

You haven't responded to my email so I'll address you here. Can you see to it that it's merged with WP:Women?♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:16, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

Oooo emails are slow at present, but I did this to show that you have my attention.... Victuallers (talk) 20:12, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

To the point please. Are you going to take responsibility for merging it or shall I?♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:43, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

I was confused by your merging statement Dr B. I haven't found your email??? (I'll send you a test email later). I thought the merge referred to the data that Rosie was talking about above. I don't feel authorised to do this merge so I guess its up to you. I do like the look of the page though and you have done well to find a source of such good pictures of notable women. Victuallers (talk) 08:51, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

Did you not read my thread proposal in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red? Also some further thoughts in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women. I don't want to tread on anybody's toes or disrespect anybody's effort to date to set up Women in Red/XX, but I do think it's best that we scale it to a general women project, and red links can be a part of it, but also include GA/FA goals etc for quality.♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:56, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

My own strong feeling here is that a name change should be due to consensus and I don't see it at the moment. Ive been quiet recently as I found the last name change very pointy and unpleasant. We should not repeat that. If we take the point that the problem (of content gender bias) is very large and we give it a name (WP:Women or WIR) then we haven't changed the problem but we have just named it. Rosie and I proposed that we address start class biographies not because that is the whole of the problem but because it would be measurable with a wikidata query and it targets articles that the average teenager would see as useful to them. The content gender gap is measured by others looking at the 15% that are about women compared with the 85% about men. We could create thousands of stubs but a) we would be stopped and b) it would create articles that failed to satisfy the average reader. If we could create thousands of start articles then we would change the measure. "Moving the Needle" as Rosie says. Next year we could say yes it isnt fixed but it is being addressed and we have data to support the claim. Victuallers (talk) 09:17, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

This isn't simply a name change though. It's scaling the project to balance quantity and quality goals. But the main focus remains the same, missing articles. If you are serious about addressing gender bias long term I hope you'll see that a general women project would be the best possible thing we can do towards tackling it and drum up the most interest. With Women in Red, that basically excludes editors from the project who really want to work on promoting women bios to GA and FA, because it focuses purely on missing articles. We need both assets to tackle systematic bias, as we have many notable women bios on here which are poorly developed too.♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:51, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

I know we are basically agreeing, ... however WIR is not just to improve start female bios, and obviously we dont want to exclude any editor who wants to mitigate systemic bias. I see the start article count as a measurable target within the general problem of gender bias. The attraction to me of this is that its measurable. Its not the solution to the problem, but it is a mitigation. Changing the 15% to 20% changes the way that teenagers see the world. If we could agree a points system to count biographies at diff. levels (like monmouthpedia) then that works for me. (Marie Curie obviously needs more than a start article!) However the wiki will be measured by that "15%" figure - we can point to every female nobel laureate having an FA article and that is a great achievement but we need to be able to "move the needle" and show that the big problem is fixable. Victuallers (talk) 10:12, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

In an ideal world, we'd have 500,000 editors working on Wp:Intertranswiki on a daily basis, translating all of the articles. But in practice at best it's no more than half a dozen of us. There's only so much we can do. Wp:Women like any project on here will never have the numbers of dedicated editors we need. We know that in reality it will be down to just a few of us and we can't realistically move the needle much given our limitations. But we can take a subject by the scruff of its neck and try to promote something in theory and do our best to set it on its way and do what we can. A general women project long term I think would attract more people.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:37, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

We can have both. The 500K editors is unrealistic, but there are 100,000 editors - (although a small percentage do achieve a lot.) A drive to fix the problem will only move the 15% needle it won't remove the need for a gauge entirely. Short term targets and long term aspirations are compatible. Victuallers (talk) 10:47, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi. Perhaps you're busy or perhaps you just missed being pinged by me here, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red#New article feed problems, regarding metrics. --Rosiestep (talk) 02:39, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

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FYI regarding Mitchell

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Brugherio

Are you involved in the Brugherio work on QRpedia? I have just been editing Villa Fiorita, Brugherio translated by User:FrOsmetti who tells us he is working on "the GLAM project WiBrugherio, whose first step is to create a multilingual tourist guide of the city using QR codes generated by QRpedia". It looks as if he could do with assistance in translation. here's their project page.--Ipigott (talk) 09:49, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Actually we are trying to figure out how to have a good translation in English. We are comparing our article with the corrections done by Ipigott to improve the other articles that we are translating. FrOsmetti (talk) 10:27, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Aaah It was @Ipigott: who told me. Good luck - however getting it checked by someone whose first language is English as the en:wiki can be very fussy and they must just delete all your articles if an admin finds that machine translation is being used too much. What is the size of your project? How many editors do you have? Victuallers (talk) 11:29, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

This is the project it:Progetto:WiBrugherio/Lavori_in_corso and these are the people that are working on it it:Progetto:WiBrugherio/Partecipano_al_progetto. FrOsmetti is the one in charge for the translation and we have decided not to use machine translation. We have also asked for a review to other users to help to improve the English translation. Labaici (talk) 13:17, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

@Labaici: Your decision not to make any use of machine translation may be misguided. Both the Google and Systran systems are quite well developed for Italian into English. I experimented with Villa Fiorita and found that although the syntax left a lot to be desired, much of the terminology was correctly translated. Maybe you could make use of MT as an additional source of assistance. Although I am fluent in Italian myself, I frequently consult machine translations as they often come up with the mot juste you are looking for but cannot quite remember. But as Victuallers points out, the best results are obtained when articles are translated or checked by a native English speaker (or at least by someone who is highly fluent in English). I am trying to provide that level of assistance but it would be more rewarding if you could ensure a higher level of translation than we have with Villa Fiorita and Saint Lucius, Brugherio. At the moment, it would be easier for me to translate your articles from scratch rather than revise your translations.--Ipigott (talk) 14:00, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

@Labaici: Agree with Ipigott. Do use Machine translation but do not leave it like it, it needs to be polished :-) |Polyglots like Ipigott use it and I use it (with caution). Hope this helps Victuallers (talk) 14:20, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

@Ipigott: @Victuallers: Thank you very much for your advice and for the help you are giving us! Anyway we also used Google Translator, but it is difficult for us (native Italian speakers) to deviate from the Italian form. Here you can see the article we are working on now: Draft:Girlanda_Silva_Palace. FrOsmetti also asked a mother tongue English translator for help. What do you suggest us to do for next articles? --Labaici (talk) 14:32, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

@Labaici: You first need to identify more editors who can help you with translation. I suggested earlier students of English but maybe also local English-speaking residents. You could also liaise with Milan on this. I suggest you keep the articles in draft form or in sandboxes until their quality has been improved. I've had a quick look at Girlanda Silva Palace. Italian "palazzo" is far wider than the English "palace" and can often be translated as mansion, villa or simply house. Good luck with your project.--Ipigott (talk) 15:26, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Ok, thanks a lot! --Labaici (talk) 08:35, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

Re: WikiProject Did you know nomination for Paolo Andreani

Hi Victuallers, thank you very much for your cooperation in our project . I glanced at the message you left on my talk page, but I did not understand exactly what it is and how we can help. --Labaici (talk) 08:35, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

OK understood. Then we'll try to take a look to the article to see if anything important is missing. And yes, we are going to use the QRCodes on Brugherio's most important buildings, including Villa Sormani :) -- Labaici (talk) 09:18, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

John Goldicutt

Victuallers, could you find it in your heart to use the picture on Goldicutt? It seems a waste not to. Thanks. Philafrenzy (talk) 20:28, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

Hi Phil, I havn't loaded any picture hooks. Someone else has pre-filled them. I guess you could move it back if you feel strongly and await a free picture hook (and another role of the dice). Victuallers (talk) 21:10, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

Villa Sormani

Hi Victuallers, could you please help me with Wikidata item about Villa Sormani? --Labaici (talk) 07:25, 7 August 2015 (UTC) I'm willing, but I dont really understand wikidata yet. S I can only make clever? guesses. Suggest you try another,but return if I'm the best you can find and tell me what you want to do. Victuallers (talk) 07:28, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

Ok thaks anyway -- Labaici (talk) 17:26, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

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Holidays

In addition to Expo Milan 2015, from September 20 there will be a new edition of Ville Aperte. Also, if you plan to come to Brugherio, I believe we can arrange a sightseeing tour of the town :) --Labaici (talk) 16:40, 7 August 2015 (UTC) Now that is very tempting, I'm hoping to end in Barcelona but a hair pin turn into Italy sounds tempting. Will any QR codes be up then? Victuallers (talk) 18:16, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

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This Month in GLAM: July 2015

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Template:Did you know nominations/Manisha Koirala filmography

Hi. Hope you're well. Hope your initiative to get more female bios is going well. Would it be possible for you to move this DYK to special occasion section for August 16th (45th birthday of this actress)? The reviewer has agreed to this but is unsure on how to do it and I can't do it as I'm the nominator. Cowlibob (talk) 18:05, 11 August 2015 (UTC) Done Victuallers (talk) 06:40, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Women in Red

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WiBrugherio

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QR Codes Scan Issue

Hello,

I was testing QR Codes using a QR Code scanner on several phones and none seems to respond to language of the operating system of the phone despite the fact that the articles I tried are available in the languages of the OS in the phone. I tried Deutsch, Spanish and Francais

I tried the article David Rudisha and Wangari Mathai. Aha... (talk) 06:26, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

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QR Pedia Code Issue

Hey, Yes I understand how QRPedia works. Sorry for the mix up in my previous message. I generated QRpedia Codes for the two articles I posted here earlier by pasting the English links of the articles at qrpedia.org. Scanned the generated codes with phone running on one of the languages that the article is available in. I am getting message that "The article is not available in your language (de)." ie David Rudisha and Wangari Mathai. While the said articles are available on the German Wikipedia. Same happened when I set the OS for the phone to Spanish (es). Aha... (talk) 05:56, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

Is there a developer you know we can contact directly via email or any other mode? I have had to postpone a meeting severally with potential partners on the use of Qrpedia Codes at their establishment.Aha... (talk) 13:28, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

I will re look at the posting I made but you really need to ask your question there as they are meant to keep QRpedia going "forever". That was what they offered in exchange for looking after it. I can phone them more cheaply than you so I could do that but are they are of your need? Victuallers (talk) 13:42, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

Odd behaviour.. I'll take a quick look (though I am not familiar with the QRpedia code, that's the other WMUK tech Emmanuel). FWIW you should raise any bugs here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/?list_id=219833&resolution=---&resolution=LATER&resolution=DUPLICATE&query_format=advanced&product=QRpedia --Errant ^(chat!) 15:11, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

I am following the discussion on the bugzilla page related to the bug. I think we should now wait for the certificates to be renewed to see if the current errors are collected since it seems one commenter (who appears more knowledgeable about the mode of operation of the backend of QRPedia) stated the expiry of the certificates could be causing the problem. Thanks Victuallers and EranntX. Aha... (talk) 17:06, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

I'm pretty certain that the only thing that has changed since the last time I saw Qrpedia working is that its security certificate expired. The supplier of the certificate is a French company and it has often taken a while to get certificates renewed, although we did request renewal of the certificate several weeks ago. We really need to have the certificate working before we can try to look for any other problems, so I'll do my best to keep track of what's happening with the certificate and let you know as soon as I hear anything. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org.uk/show_bug.cgi?id=384 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org.uk/show_bug.cgi?id=396 - Cheers --RexxS (talk) 18:12, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

I agree the cert needs renewing. I am not sure it is causing the second error that was reported.... having looked peripherally through the code I think it's an actual code issue (and not a new one). Best to leave it to Emmanuel. I could go hack it about on the live server but best to follow process ;) --Errant ^(chat!) 09:26, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

It looks like we have new certificates in place now. Can I ask you and Kwisha if the problem is still there for either of you? as I can't see the problems you were having. --RexxS (talk) 23:47, 29 August 2015 (UTC) -- signing again to ping Kwisha --RexxS (talk) 15:08, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

Yay Rexxs. The error still persists. I generated QRpedia codes using a non English Wikipedia article link, I scanned the code using my Phone running an OS in English. I get an error that the article is not available in (en) while the article is available in en. I would expect the QRPedia code to give me an English article upon scanning. Aha... (talk) 18:51, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

David Rudisha French QRpedia code - this code should take you to David Rudisha in English if scanned with a mobile phone set to English as its menu language.

Hi Rexx, your guys seem to be having trouble testing this. I have created this QRpedia code using the article . This article should read by an English language mobile phone and en:David Rudisha should be displayed. I can see no improvement since this problem was first identified. I still get a complaint about security and when I persist it tells me there is no version in English. Is there a plan to fix this? Will this QRpedia code be useful? Victuallers (talk) 19:23, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

The Bugzilla ticket was closed yesterday, with promise of (but no link to) a new one. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 07:30, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing: @RexxS: @ErrantX: Thanks Andy,

Facepalm Surely WMUK have a contractual obligation to do what they committed to Andy. Programmers testing software before they end bug reports is basic stuff. Hopefully this is a communication problem. I'm guessing someone thinks that closing the Bugzille ticket is important whereas its clear that fixing the problem is the objective. Rexx, What do we need to do? How are projects around the world ,who maybe do not even speak English, meant to rely on this service? Victuallers (talk) 07:50, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

Hey chaps, I've just got back from holiday to dive into this.

We wanted to fix the qrpedia.org HTTPS first to isolate one issue at a time (although I think we knew that it was not at the root of the issue it's always worth removing other issues to count them out).
The underlying problem is that WP switched to using HTTPS by default. What's happened then is that the QRpedia code has been discovered to get confused with talking to the Wikipedia API over HTTPS; Emmanuel has fixed this and having tested the above QR Code this now works.
Another side effect of this is that qrwp.org (which is the short url used for redirection) is now being used over HTTPS. This was never the case before, but now everyone is pasting HTTPS urls it is trying to use the same security. qrwp.org was never set up with HTTPS in the life of Qrpedia, so again this is a new problem that's emerging.

Now Emmanuel has rooted out the cause we can fix it; we're discussing this here. That's an existing ticket, I believe Emmanuel has closed the original ticket, gone to create a new one and seen the existing one - which is the right place to discuss it. Hence no direct link. Unfortunately, due to how that domain (qrwp.org) is used we'll have to get a Wildcard SSL certificate (not cheap, and can be a bit longer to obtain from our supplier) so it might take a little time to get sorted on that one: I'll prompt Richard S today though and get it moving. In the interim we might be able to force all new QR codes to use http for the interim. --Errant ^(chat!) 08:57, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

Many thanks, Tom. I'm very grateful to you and Emmanuel for getting stuck into this problem. I've been busy sorting out IT problems for the company I used to work for over the last few days, so I'm sorry I haven't found a chance to delve into this. I have a more time now, so I'm available for any help or testing you want - just let me know. Roger, Kwisha, I promise I'll keep on top of the issues, but we ought to give our developers the time they need to deliver a comprehensive solution. Thanks for your patience. --RexxS (talk) 21:19, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

Would it be true to say this is another symptom of a hasty and non-consensus move to https?

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:14, 4 September 2015 (UTC).

@RexxS, @ErrantX, @Pigsonthewing. I have just noticed that after tappiing that "open with browser" the articles are now being serves in the language of the phone except for the reason that it gives a warning first about qrwp.org certificates expiring. To me this sounds like progress since I couldn't previously achieve this. Is their an new development regarding the certificates renewal? Thanks. Aha... (talk) 16:59, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

We're having trouble in general with certificates and our supplier... so stay tuned! I have proposed a couple of solutions and am waiting for feedback. --Errant ^(chat!) 19:33, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

@Kwisha and ErrantX: I'm just checking back now that we have working certificates again; sorry it's been a slow process, but I'm determined to set up a system that anticipates the need for renewal before the next time. I'm still seeing a problem with fr.QRWp.Org - (a certificate warning) but once I've acknowledged it, I'm redirected to the en-wp mobile site as expected and it doesn't recur on subsequent attempts. I thought I'd better ask Roger and Kwisha if they are seeing the problems still? --RexxS (talk) 00:09, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

I have tried and the QRPedia Codes work.I am running an Android phone. Thank you everyone for working on this. Aha... (talk) 09:38, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

Marcelline Vigano

Sorry, we don't have any reference about her. Thanks for creating the item. Ciao! -- Labaici (talk) 09:04, 18 August 2015 (UTC) Thats a pity as she could be another article on the main page but I only have one source and two is really the mininmum. Victuallers (talk) 13:43, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

Josephine Tilden

Hi! I did some copyedit on the article, mostly quick spelling/grammar fixes and wikilinks. She sounds like a very interesting person. I'd like to know even more about her. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 17:30, 20 August 2015 (UTC) Ive only used about 80%? of the stuff I found. There is more in the ref "Algae of Acrimony". I just flicked thro a list of woman bios and chose one that looked as if she could fill a few paragraphs. The article about the "seaside station" by her mate Conway is a good read and its on wikisource. Interestingly she seems to get a mention on the opening page but she isn't named. Thanks. Do feel free to improve/change anything you want Victuallers (talk) 17:43, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

Adelaide Manning

Can I reinsert "Elizabeth" as part of title? It is also commonly used by reliable sources. Also, her initials E.A. Manning were used. --George Ho (talk) 23:01, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Jake Olson (gridiron football)

Victuallers, yesterday you removed this hook from Prep 2 and placed it instead in Prep 4 with edit summaries of "moved out too negative hook" and "too negative IMO" respectively. If a hook is problematic without an easy fix, the usual options are to use a different approved hook from the nomination, pull the hook entirely from prep and have the nominator come up with something else, or mention the issue at WT:DYK in the hopes of finding a solution that will provide a change without pulling the hook.

I've just now pushed back the hook further to avoid a quick promotion if someone gets busy with the prep sets, and I've asked Crisco 1492 for a second opinion on whether the hook is too negative for a BLP on the main page (and whether the approved original hook would also be too negative, with its four season-ending injuries). If you want to pursue one of the usual options, please do. BlueMoonset (talk) 13:56, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

Replying here to keep the discussion centralized. I don't think the hook was the kind of "negative" aspects that initially inspired the rule (I read it more like "If you're running a blurb on O.J., focus on the football and not the glove"). But there is enough ambiguity in the rules that I understand why you pulled it. If you prefer running an alternate hook, that's fine with me. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:23, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Adelaide Manning

On 21 August 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Adelaide Manning, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Adelaide Manning helped Florence Nightingale to fund Cornelia Sorabji when she arrived from India in 1889 to obtain a degree? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Adelaide Manning. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Bach

Bach twice in one DYK set is perhaps too much of a good thing, even on Sunday, no? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:25, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Didnt spot that - I'll see if I can move one Victuallers (talk) 07:38, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for not moving the one especially requested for today ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:22, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Caroline Bishop (kindergarten)

On 25 August 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Caroline Bishop (kindergarten), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that when the Berlin college for kindergarten teachers needed holiday cover in 1883, they sent for Caroline Bishop from England? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 18:46, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

Brugherio again

I really appreciate the time and effort you have been devoting to all the new articles on Brugherio. From the navbox, it looks as if about half the planned articles are now up and running. The QRpedia initiative really appears to be catching on. While I am here, I wonder if you would like to offer your services as a mentor during our Women in leadership editathon which we are planning for 7 to 20 September.--Ipigott (talk) 08:02, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

Hi Ian, Im still busy on Brugherio but you may have noticed a fair few women and women related articles. I may wonder oner and see how the ediatathon looks. A virtual one sounds like a good idea Victuallers (talk) 14: 10, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Increa Park

On 26 August 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Increa Park, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the longest recycled plastic bench in Italy is claimed to be at Increa Park in Brugherio? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Increa Park. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 08:43, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

Public art lists

I wrote a blog post and am busy on social media and mailing lists, trying to encourage more people to create or contribute to locality-based lists of public art. Can you help, for your part of the world? Please look out for newbie contributions, assist the editors and tidy up as needed. Please help to publicise this drive, too! Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:15, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

Julia Lloyd

The hook in Template:Did you know/Preparation area 1 at the moment says "... that Julia Lloyd opened the free kindergarten in Greet in 1904?" which doesn't make much sense (to me anyway, and I'm totally at the top of my "getting the sense" game). I think it should either be "... that Julia Lloyd opened the Free Kindergarten in Greet in 1904?" (proper noun; probably not right), or ""... that Julia Lloyd opened the first nursery in Greet in 1904?". It's probably DYK-treason to change it yourself; I'll change it if you agree. Belle (talk) 11:24, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

Good catch @Belle: - I could' nt see it at first or second reading. It should read (Kindergartens were different to traditional nurseries then) it could read "that Julia Lloyd opened the Greet Free Kindergarten in 1904?" Thx for spot and offer of help! Victuallers (talk) 14:06, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

Voila! Couldn't have you strung up by DYK vigilantes, could we? Belle (talk) 14:11, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Jonathan Miller (abolitionist)

On 28 August 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Jonathan Miller (abolitionist), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Colonel Miller argued that women were "primeval abolitionists" who should be admitted to the World Anti-Slavery Convention in 1840? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jonathan Miller (abolitionist). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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DYK for Elena Cattaneo

On 28 August 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Elena Cattaneo, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Elena Cattaneo "show[ed] the influence that individual scientists can have in fighting anti-science forces"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Elena Cattaneo. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 21:57, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

You're invited! Women in Red World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Leadership

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DYK for Villa Sormani

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DYK for Saint Lucius, Brugherio

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DYK for Julia Lloyd (kindergarten)

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Allen3 ^talk 11:03, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

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Did you Know that 15% of the biographies on Wikipedia are about women? Not impressed? WiR focuses on "content gender gap". If you'd like to help contribute articles on women and women's works, we warmly welcome you! WiR will be hosting one of this world virtual edit-a-thon. The 3-day event will focus on improving Wikipedia's coverage of Asian Pacific American women and their works (books, paintings, and so on).

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Advice on an AfD

Hello there, hoping you can help - I notice that the Clare Henry article has been nominated for deletion - I wondered if you might be able to offer your thoughts? I feel I have a potential conflict of interest as I've had some contact with her through my Wikimedian in Residence role. Lirazelf (talk) 14:46, 1 September 2015 (UTC) Youve been in contact? Where is the photo..... is her archive cc by sa ... have you asked? Oh Ive tidied up the article and it will be fine at afd I think. Victuallers (talk) 09:09, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Image cropping

Hi, I just came across this image in Begoña Errazti, and think it poorly reflects on the subject to be standing in front of the toilets. Would you be able to crop it? Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 10:25, 2 September 2015 (UTC) @Yoninah: OK Victuallers (talk) 11:46, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

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DYK for Josephine Tilden

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DYK for Diabougou (Senegal)

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DYK for Carden Wallace

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Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:01, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Very Long User names

I have noticed a trend on this lately - which perhaps you have also. A person that wants to vandalize articles just gets a long number, example " 2604:2000:5266:D200:2C92:76D2:DBD5:EA4F ". He then uses this for just one edit, to vandalize an article, like Alexander Bain (inventor). Then he abandons that User Name and goes and gets another long number to vandalize another article. Should there be a limit to how long a User Name can be (i.e. 14-18 letters) and no long numbers. Just throwing this out in case you see it also.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 22:38, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) I think you may be seeing IPv6 addresses, not usernames. They are becoming more common as we are running out of IPv4 addresses; you could take a look at our IPv6 article to see how they work. Cheers --RexxS (talk) 23:43, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

@RexxS: That must be it as here I got a similar one. Now I see what's gong on.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:54, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Stafford Allen

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Clitheroe Castle

Thanks so much for your work at Clitheroe Castle. Out of interest did my adding the Refimprove tag trigger your involvement, where you aware of the upcoming GLAM event, or just a strange coincidence?--Trappedinburnley (talk) 22:10, 13 September 2015 (UTC). I'm not at all keen on clean up templates (better to clean up one than mark ten for others to do IMO). My interest came from seeing the GLAM event being added to things coming up and I was intrigued to see that it just needed a small amount of TLC. Still lacking a link to Dixon Robinson I think. Cheers Victuallers (talk) 08:02, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

I share your view on the templates (until yesterday I thought them useless, as nobody ever seemed to do anything about them). In this case I thought it might make a good training opportunity at the event. Not that I'm complaining, there's still plenty to do (as always I suppose). Thanks again. Trappedinburnley (talk) 16:45, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

I think we agree ... I thought "why add them?" last night.... and then I thought they would be good for newbies to see what we can see immediately. Victuallers (talk) 18:07, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Cascina Increa reference

Hi Victuallers, sorry if I did not answer to your ping, but, as I wrote here, I was on holiday. Is it ok now? Ciao --Labaici (talk) 08:32, 14 September 2015 (UTC) Thats cool its fixed. Hope you enjoyed your holiday. Im off to Spain this week Victuallers (talk) 08:57, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

It was great :) Enjoy Spain! Ciao --Labaici (talk) 16:58, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

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André Lhote, Effat Nagy

Hello Victuallers, I've removed your paragraph on the relationship between André Lhote and Effat Nagy because I could not find it in the reference you provided. Feel free to point out precisely where that information can be found, and add it to the article. Thanks in advance. Coldcreation (talk) 09:49, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

I see it now. My initial search didn't pick it up because Andre Lotte is spelled incorrectly. Coldcreation (talk) 20:21, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Demba Diawara

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Gatoclass (talk) 12:51, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion - can you advise?

Hello there. Thanks for the edits on the articles from the event I was doing yesterday! Hoping you can advise.. although there was a lot of work done in advance of the event, it looks like some of the text used for a few articles was too close to the GSA Archives and they've been marked for speedy deletion. Thomas Canfield Pomphrey, Charles Hepburn Scott, Saul Yaffie, with Alexander Proudfoot and Alex J. Musgrove already gone. Do you know of any Wikiprojects who might be able to help with some rewording, and save the articles? Lirazelf (talk) 08:32, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

@Lirazelf: I'm not stalking your events its just that you keep editing "my?" articles. :-) Its a tricky job training newbies. Odd that plagiarism avoidance isn't taught elsewhere as new wiki editors (who someties have already written dissertation!) find it very tricky. I see you have Deb helping and a few other experienced editors. You could try the architecture talk page, WMUK, or your own talk page (people watch it). Quickest solution is comment out the offending paragraphs and ask the newbies to fix it? The deleted articles are not lost ... they can be brought back once there is a solution. Oh I see that you are talking about copyright with your partners. Advice. Be firm! They are getting free help and it is too easy for them to say that copyright is tricky and hard to fix ..... that is their contribution to the deal and they need to step up and do something. I have walked away from a museum who offered me the whole museum to play with .... but would not shift on quite easy copyright releases. </rant> Victuallers (talk) 15:21, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for this, much appreciated. 9 new editors yesterday, 13 new articles... and some interesting lessons learned, which I'll be putting in my reports. Agree on copyright - we've been doing a lot on (slow) culture change, some promising leads.. but can be so frustrating. I will persevere in my patented "being-enthusiastic-at-people" mode. So much potential up here. Lirazelf (talk) 16:13, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Saint Bartholomew, Brugherio

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Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:06, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

File:Zabeen Hirji.jpg

Hi, I wonder if you could help me by cropping this image and making it a vertical portrait? Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 12:04, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! Yoninah (talk) 19:21, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

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Thank you for participating

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Editathon at Clitheroe Castle Museum tomorrow

Hi Victuallers, I read your post on Geonotice board about taking part remotely to the editathon tomorrow. Good to have you on board. Let me know if there is any information I can send you remotely. Do you have a specific interest? Jhayward001 (talk) 17:23, 25 September 2015 (UTC) Hi Jay, I'm busy today but Im hoping you like the contributions Ive made beforehand. I did notice an absense of women if I remember right. Victuallers (talk) 10:35, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

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DYK for Annely Juda

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Another photo cropping request

Hi, would you mind cropping File:Alice Bentinck.jpg into a vertical portrait? It's okay to include her arms and a bit of the couch (I like the pose). Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 20:25, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks so much! Yoninah (talk) 17:13, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

You're invited! Women in Red World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Architecture

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Dates: 15 to 25 October 2015
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Host/Facilitator: Women in Red (WiR): Did you know that only 15% of the biographies on Wikipedia are about women? WiR focuses on "content gender gap". If you'd like to help contribute articles on women and women's works, we warmly welcome you!
Sponsor: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in association with Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, Women in Design, and Wikiproject Women Wikipedia Design
Event details: This is a virtual edit-a-thon hosted by WiR in parallel with a series of "physical" Guggenheim edit-a-thons. It will allow all those keen to improve Wikipedia's coverage of women in architecture and design to participate. The campaign aims to further the goals of Ada Lovelace Day for STEM, and Art+Feminism for art, in a field that by its nature combines both. As the virtual edit-a-thon stretches over a week and a half, inexperienced participants will be able to draw on the assistance of more experienced editors while creating, translating or improving articles on women who are (or have been) prominent in this field. All levels of Wikipedia editing experience are welcome.
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DYK nomination of Florence Baker

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DYK nomination of Julie Schwabe

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Images from BBC Your Paintings

Hi, thanks for adding the portrait to Clitheroe, I've also added it to the museum article. Is it a straightforward upload process? I'm interested in these two also:

[17]
[18]

Is there any change you can upload when you have time, or give me a pointer or two? Trappedinburnley (talk) 17:59, 9 October 2015 (UTC) Done Victuallers (talk) 22:45, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

Cheers! Trappedinburnley (talk) 11:04, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

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This Month in GLAM: September 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue IX, September 2015
Headlines
Argentina report: Edit-a-thon & editing challenges Belgium report: Wiki Loves Art; Publications; SOIMA 2015: Unlocking Sound and Image Heritage France report: Clever September Germany report: Opening up (with) the Prussians! Italy report: Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 Italian edition and photographic archives Macedonia report: Bringing Wikipedia closer to animal lovers Netherlands report: Who's afraid of Jacob van Ruisdael? Various gifts from Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden Spain report: Wiki Loves Monuments; Wiki Takes Ayora; Glaming Madrid; Wikimedia Connection; Creative Commons Valladolid Film Festival Sweden report: Books, exhibitions, maritime connections and monuments UK report: Wake me up, when September ends... USA report: Edit-a-thon in Seattle Open Access report: Homo naledi; Wikigate; Open Access Week Wikidata report: Wikidata this month Calendar: October's GLAM events
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DYK Vine staff

Is 7&6 an alias of yours? or just expressing agreement that dude made some good points? You can just thank him directly. =) — $Llywelyn II$ 07:10, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Prep 5

Hi, I saw your notice about Ada Lovelace Day on the WT:DYK talk page, and have nominated and reviewed a number of hooks. I cleared Preps 5 and 6 for this purpose, and have promoted to prep all the ones I didn't work on. Could you promote the rest? Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 08:44, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

@Yoninah: Brilliant! - will do as much as I can. Impressive if we achieve even a little given the late start. Victuallers (talk) 09:10, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for your help. Since they were all bios, we interspersed them in Preps 5 and 6. Ten Ada Lovelace Day hooks were promoted. Yoninah (talk) 10:44, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Ditto - I'm going to see if I can finder a stronger image for P5 Victuallers (talk) 11:32, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Emma Martin (socialist)

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Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 14:47, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Abiah Darby

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Materialscientist (talk) 03:02, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Lina Eckenstein

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Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 14:47, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Could you look at one of the sentences in that article? It is strange and unwieldy. I think I know what went wrong, but you would be able to know.

This work drew a great number of sources together which some that she translated to argue that many of the aspirations that women sought in the twentieth century were in some ways achieved by women in religious institutions a thousand years before.

Should that have been

... number of sources together, some of which she had translated, to argue that ...

Shenme (talk) 21:35, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Florence Baker

On 14 October 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Florence Baker, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a searcher for the source of the Nile was raised as an orphan, traded as a slave, and died Lady Florence Baker (pictured)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Florence Baker. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 02:31, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

DYK

Whoa, Roger, I am so sorry for that edit, but I did not have that page open so I am clueless how that happened. Worried sick that someone else is logged in as me. --Rosiestep (talk) 13:20, 14 October 2015 (UTC) I have found in the past that if you press the "thank" for an edit too many times then it has the opposite effect. Anyway - no worries Victuallers (talk) 13:24, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Changed my password, just in case. Thanks. --Rosiestep (talk) 13:27, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Roshanara

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The sentence cited by the hook needs rewording, but more importantly, you'll need to do a little work with the public domain license templates for image policy compliance. Sorry about that. Squeamish Ossifrage (talk) 17:45, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

Birmingham meetup

See you there? Well... not here... this photo is from a pub in Manchester... but that's cos there haven't been enough meetups in Birmingham.

Hi there! Did you know that there will be a meetup in Birmingham on the 15th of November?

There hasn't been many meetups in Birmingham. I will be passing through on the 15th of November, so I thought I would see who fancied meeting up, while I'm in the area. I'm leaving this message on your talk page because you have previously expressed an interest in a meetup in Birmingham or Coventry.

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DYK for Jane Elizabeth Waterston

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DYK for James Johnston (missionary)

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Materialscientist (talk) 13:16, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

Richard Robert Madden

Hi, can you provide a reference for the new information in the above article? Thanks, Hohenloh⁺ 14:28, 16 October 2015 (UTC) Thanks for the heads-up, sorry to revert your edit, but I think I have now added refs. The article continues to improve. Victuallers (talk) 14:40, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

Roshanara

You probably want to replace my image with one of yours in the infobox, the Bain image looks so ugly compared to the other images. It will still be available through the link to Wikicommons. I will add her to Wikidata. I also found a list of her dances that were copyrighted here and duplicated here. I am not sure how to present them, I may add a Wikidata entry for each dance and link it to her was a "work", like you would for books for an author. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 16:58, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

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Hi Roger. Some time since we were in touch. You thanked me for adding "listas" on Berta Bobath but to tell you the truth, I really do not know whether it serves any useful purpose. For years and years, I filled in all the Persondata slots on every biography I created or reviewed and now I am told by Pigsonthewing that the information is useless as the only reliable source is Wikidata. Unfortunately, despite several attempts, Wikidata is quite beyond me but there seem to be a team of people there who add the data from the biographies sooner or later anyway. As you are a DB expert, perhaps you can think up some way of automatically retrieving key data from biographies (e.g. from the leads) for inclusion in Wikidata? We seem to have started quite a bit of interest in Women in architecture with the latest editathon - already running to over a hundred new articles. Don't know if there's any big day coming up when DYKs on female architects could be displayed as they were so successfully in connection with Ada Lovelace. Any new towns interested in QRpedia?--Ipigott (talk) 14:34, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

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Thanks for moving the article on the plague crosses of Brugherio. I knew the name wasn't quite appropriate but at the same time I had no idea plague crosses were an actual thing! Cheers for noticing! FoCuS contribs; talk to me! 16:45, 21 October 2015 (UTC) Me neither.... it took me a while to work it out. Luckily @Ghmyrtle: had created the right article. Check out the change to that article (it should get some extra hits when your article is on the main page). Victuallers (talk) 19:40, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

" In 1931 her son "

In Alice Coomaraswamy is the "her", Stella or Alice? --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 16:56, 21 October 2015 (UTC) Good point. Alice I think - it may need correcting/moving ! Wives 2 and 4 had children with Ananda.Victuallers (talk) 17:01, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Bloch party

You're welcome! — $Llywelyn II$ 07:36, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the help, but I think "the original ahistoricity/anti-Austrian bias" is stretching the facts and I'm not sure it reflects on the articles bias? How many of the sources mention the name of the country in the detail that you have added? She was born there and she was there for a few weeks (my POV view is that her mother was hiding from the neighbours as she wasnt married). I'm not going to edit war over this but currently the lead sentences hides "New York". The phrasing in the ibox is much better balanced. So can I thank you again for your help but do consider before making accusations of bias to see if there is any evidence. "Anti-Austrian"?? Really?? Please consider amending this phrasing. Victuallers (talk) 08:14, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

You may not be aware of it but there's still a lot of animosity among different ethnicities in eastern Europe and quite a bit of untoward behavior about their articles on Wikipedia. You're quite right that we (and I!) should WP:AGF, even when you didn't add the historical information but simply rephrased the ahistorical part. In fact, you thanked me for the improvement when I went ahead and looked it up and thus seem to have just been uninterested in the point rather than any kind of WP:POINTy nationalist; that's why it's important to focus on the article rather than people. If you were just worried about how I thought of you, (a) don't bother: I'm just yr 'umble reviewer and (b) the thanks cleared that point for me. There's no need to rephrase anything, though: it would be a policy-violating disservice to remove the appropriate information or the links but, as long as the information remains part of the article, it's already passed muster and should sail through the DYK process. —

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Oh, and thank you for your work and the new article! —

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Cheers @LlywelynII: - the bias word implies some intent. I am aware that some are arguing over whether people born before some country's were formed are born in that country or not. I was trying to sidestep that by saying "in what is now Poland". Your comment's implied that I have an agenda. I understand that it was unintentional. Thx4thx and here is some for you. Victuallers (talk) 11:02, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

Brugherio's plague crosses notability

Hi Victuallers, could you help us here and here? The notability of Brugherio's plague crosses is in doubt, but we would like to keep the item on en.wiki, if it is possible to. Thanks a lot! Best --Labaici (talk) 09:37, 23 October 2015 (UTC) I will have a look although its is the community's decision as to what they want to do. The best you can so is to gather sources as the notability stems from these documents and it may be that some may not realise that google.it may deliver good sources. Victuallers (talk) 09:43, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

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Dohhhh.... - I assumed from the old article title that Brugherio was a person. Obviously not... Ghmyrtle (talk) 19:55, 23 October 2015 (UTC) :) grin Victuallers (talk) 10:50, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

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Your edit, is clearly correct in removing 'loaded' language. However, you have left the text slightly 'clunky'. 'and moved to Spain in 2007 after his father legalised his status two years previously' grammatically, should read 'and moved to Spain in 2007 after his father HAD legalised etc.' though, even simpler would be 'and in 2007, moved to Spain, two years after his father had legalised his status there.' Maybe even the 'had' is unnec in US Eng, which is the page 'standard'.

If you wish to contact, or would prefer me to make a formal request on talk, please 'ping' me. Pincrete (talk) 18:50, 25 October 2015 (UTC) Hi, thanks, I went for your first option. Victuallers (talk) 20:22, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

And speaking of the page standard can we have legalized instead? ;-)

P.S. @Pincrete: The word after makes the sequence of two different events in the past clear, so that in AE at least, your surmise was correct, the had is unnecessary. But it's also not wrong in AE as is, so if it sounds better to BE ears, we might as well leave it in. When the sequence is unclear, had is required in AE as well. You may find this quick search experiment from Google books interesting; it shows past perfect only slightly more common in BE than AE, at least in this one example:

BE: "realised I had forgotten" (1240) :: "realised I forgot" (951) = 1.3

AE: "realized I had forgotten" (7140) :: "realized I forgot" (5920) = 1.2

Cheerio, and tut-tut ol' boy, Mathglot (talk) 10:27, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks and reply to edit for Gabriele von Schrenck-Notzing

Many thanks for reviewing the articles for Evelyn Tucker and Gabriele von Schrenck-Notzing, and for all of your work on behalf of Women in Red. (It always helps to have extra eyes when proofing new articles, especially after making edits in the wee hours of the morning.) I'm also posting here because I wanted to respond to a question you raised with one of your edits, "not sure that Findagrave is considered a reliable source," because I think it's an important discussion to have.

While there have been mistakes found on Find A Grave over the years (something which has also happened with more than a few Wikipedia articles), Find A Grave has improved significantly in the last several years with attention being given by its new owner, Ancestry.com, to its policies and procedures, as well as the website's tech infrastructure. One recent upgrade added a citation tool in recognition of the site's increasing use by librarians, genealogists and historians (including members of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, various Mayflower Society chapters, and the venerable New England Historic Genealogical Society).

I have used it in my own U.S. Civil War research over the past decade, and have also interacted with a number of other professional researchers who use Find a Grave as well (on behalf of the aforementioned organizations and other groups). Many of these individuals have stated for the record (via public conference presentations, news interviews, etc.) that Find A Grave most definitely contains useful data. (The Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Kansas calls it "an invaluable resource.") Most will also tell you that Find A Grave may and should be used as a source for biographical sketches, but should never be "the only source" (which is why I've added a diverse range of sources to the bio for Gabriele von Schrenck Notzing - a bio which is still a work in progress because I keep finding more data about her).

As for how the research into Gabriele's life story has unfolded, I began researching her background by using the basic data provided on the Women in Red's "Missing articles by occupation/aviation" list, but quickly realized that the death date shown for her on that list - 1929 - was incorrect. (Someone had apparently entered the death year for Baron von Schrenck, rather than Gabriele, who died in 1953. That info may have been based on a stub entered about Gabriele on several Wikipedia mirror sites, which I came across as my research progressed.) Her Find A Grave memorial (supported by a photo of the gravemarker of the baroness, her husband, and other family members) gave me a revised death date, which helped uncover more critical info about her life, the lives of her family members, and her aviation training, and a photo of her at the controls of a biplane (with supporting documentation/source materials).

So, while I don't always cite Find A Grave as a source for bios, I do think it's appropriate in Gabriele's case because of the reasons stated above. Again, many thanks for your input. Best wishes for continued success with your own research!

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Reply to talk

I did not write that bit! I only wrote parts of that section and added to someone else's work. However, I have googled it and you are right. I will delete that part.

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Feel free to replace my article with the one you did for the 2000th article. David did that. I emailed you a day or two ago but figure for some reason you don't want to talk to me privately any more.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:22, 29 November 2017 (UTC) No issue Dr B, See my email Victuallers (talk) 12:11, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

One for Twitter: Vaekehu.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:44, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

HLF

Following our discussion, I've laid out a few thoughts here for us to mull over in a pub sonetime. (Am having a few PC problems, so emails are not too accessible at the moment.) Cheers Nick Moyes (talk) 09:24, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

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Hey there - I have a question - I created a page the other night after an Irish actress died and an IP keeps changing the details. I have a citation for the information I was adding (simple enough - that she was 18 when she started her major role) and it's not exactly controversial to suggest she was in her 20s but there is no citation. I have changed it twice I think but to keep going is an edit war. So I want to know what the sane next step should be because it's been a while since I edited and I'm out of practice and the IP doesn't seem to be responding at all.. Biddy White Lennon 'My' citation[19] ☕ Antiqueight ^haver 00:38, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi A8 Ive encouraged your IP editor to have a discussion with you and I have also tweeted your new article here Victuallers (talk) 08:22, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

Now it's a logged in user and I've had no luck either with comments on the talk page of the article or the users talk page. Can you give me some guidance on what to do - should I leave it alone or revert or what? The person may know on a personal level that the detail is more accurate but I have only been able to find the Irish Times citation for her age. I hate to leave something less accurate but I don't particularly want to fight about it. The editor tends to leave notes like this "Despite various sources stating Cronin was born in 1923, they are incorrect; his correct year of birth is 1928." so I don't know if he just knows better than everyone else or what! ☕ Antiqueight ^haver 22:40, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Tsewang Dolkar Khangkar and Lobsang Dolma Khangkar

The image you uploaded File:Lobsang Dolma Khangkar also called Lobsang Dolma or Ama Lobsang Dolma.jpeg from http://archive.is/5ehYR actually correspond to daughter of Lobsang Dolma Khangkar (Tsewang Dolkar Khangkar) also named Dr. Dolkar. On this webpage, there is a photo of Lobsang Dolma Khangkar labelled as "Foremost Tibetan Lady Doctor in Exile Dr. Lobsang Dolma Khangkar (1935 - 1989)." Please, can you uploaded this one also? Many thanks, --Rédacteur Tibet (talk) 20:50, 27 November 2017 (UTC) I've fixed that! Cannot do the daughter as we are only allowed this method when the person has died. Nice article! Victuallers (talk) 21:24, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

Many thanks for the image, the information, and your view. Very nice photo (extract) of Dr. Lobsang Dolma.--Rédacteur Tibet (talk) 22:01, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

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Having written a far bit about her contemporaries and family, including her husband, I had earmarked Julia's page as a glaring omission for Women in Red. It has been on my to do list for too long. When I finally got around to doing something about it this week I discovered you had already done so - so thank you very much. I will try and upgrade it. --Michael Goodyear (talk) 02:52, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

FYI. I added some material and took the liberty of nominating your article for GA --Michael Goodyear (talk) 14:53, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Seems the GA reviewer did not like it. Got put on hold immediately. Would you take a look at it? Michael Goodyear (talk) 00:28, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

I can Michael but oddly Ive never done a GA, so I'm not sure I would be much use. I look on in awe at the range of info you have there. Victuallers (talk) 15:30, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Don’t worry, we resolved our differences and it is now GA. Thank you for initiating it. Michael Goodyear (talk) 09:42, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

I'll tweet it at #wikiwomeninred - you did 99%! Victuallers (talk) 10:13, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

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Merry Christmas Victuallers!!

Hi Victuallers, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year,
Thanks for all your help and contributions on the 'pedia! ,
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The Cite Before Wikimas?

Hi Roger, Merry Christmas to you both.

As I didn't get around to returning the compliment and sending you both a card, I thought you might like this little poem wot I wrote, instead.

The Night Before Wikimas...

See you in the New Year. Regards Nick Moyes (talk) 16:38, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

Think that must have taken some time! Skilfully done. Victuallers (talk) 18:36, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

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about Anna Muthesius‎

Hi Victuallers, I wanted to stop by and personally thank you for expanding the Anna Muthesius I made on yesterday. I was wondering if you know how to make one of those fancy infoboxes they put in some articles. I really don't know how to do it on an article like this one. I love the other images you added. If you do know how, and have time to do it, do you think an infobox would be right for her article? Thanks for your time helping out! Lacypaperclip (talk) 12:26, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

ThankYOU. I sure do. The easiest way is to find the persons Q number in Wikidata. (See the left hand column of the article to find it). Anna's number is "Q562603". Then I use a clever little tool called PrepBio which is here. You type in Q562603 and press enter. This actually creates a skeleton of the whole article buts its easy to cut and paste the top bit into the article..... Off you go! Victuallers (talk) 12:35, 14 January 2018 (UTC) - Oh and sadly I suspect the later books in "Works" are by another as silk wasnt really an Arts and Crafts fabric. Victuallers (talk) 12:37, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

The math is easy, but I need help with data

I'd like to followup on the post I started at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Women_in_Red#18_in_18?. As you know, the math is simple, but the base assumptions are mildly tricky. Based upon your response, I take it there are about 1.25 million biographies. However, that isn't close enough to 1,432,907 from Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography to be rounding, so is there some other way to count them?

I assume the 1.4 million number is EN Wiki, because it is part of a wikiproject which I believe in EN only.

I also assume the recent tweets about 17% are EN only.

I poked around this site, presumably the source, but haven't found the answer.

Once we sort out the inventory, the question is how many new bios are being created? And what is the breakdown by gender? I don't know where to get that data.

The minor point I wanted to make is that it gets harder and harder to add a single percentage point. Which may have been your “yes” answer.

I'm not fully on board with your “no” answer. Are we getting better tools? Yes. Is there reason to thing that better tools make it easier to write bios about females relative to males? Doesn't seem likely, but perhaps you were talking about tools specifically aimed at bios for females? If so, what tools?

You also mention better editors. Maybe, I hope so, but I'm not so sure. But a similar question arises – why would better editors increase the ratio? --S Philbrick (Talk) 22:01, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

I'm talking :en because its the one I know best. 1.25m = c. number of male biogs. 1.4 is a good number for total. Although I'd round it to 1.5 to keep it round. 17.37% is the latest I remember and other languages are of that order (bar Welsh). "I don't know where to get that data." .... see our metrics that are a live list. Your tools point ... yep you're right. It makes us more productive but has no effect on the ratio. However we do measure our side with cool tools and you "get what you measure". I still think that there is a "no" based on improved understanding. Some answers - cheers Victuallers (talk) 23:54, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Sphilbrick: First of all, you may have seen my recent comments on the WiR talk page. Secondly, to answer your query in more detail, if you look at the history of the main WiR page, you'll see that since April 2016, we have been posting the percentage of EN women's biographies which Wikidata tags as feminine, the first figure being 16.08%. Since 1 May 2016, we have even given the actual figures for total biographies (then 1,347,281) and those coded feminine on Wikidata (then 217,442). By examining the updates to the main page, you can see how those figures have evolved. The most recent, for 15 January 2018, show the percentage was 17.39% (263,022 out of a total of 1,512,528). All these are based on the WHGI website which presents weekly developments for all the language versions of Wikipedia. You'll see that the EN version is behind some of the other major languages on the proportion of women's biographies, some of which are around 23%. The EN version, however, has substantially more biographies than any of the others. If you are really interested, you can find all the data for the past couple of years on WHGI and use Excel to see how things have evolved. Personally, I am satisfied with the data we have displayed on WiR. Hope this answers you questions and helps with your analysis.--Ipigott (talk) 16:46, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

File:Alexander Rapaport.jpg

Hi, I just found a decent image of one of the founders of Masbia. I wonder if you could crop out the man in the middle so I can put it in the article. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 12:42, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) I cropped him. — Wylie pedia 20:34, 22 January 2018 (UTC) Thats twice then Victuallers (talk) 22:13, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Thank you both! Yoninah (talk) 17:32, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

Derby Local Studies Library/Derby UNi

Sorry to contact you this way, Roger - email facilty not currently set up on my new PC...

The name I was trying to think of was, of course, Mark Young. There are two people of that name at Derby City Council - his email at local studies is simply mark.young AT derby.... or contact them on localstudies.library@derby.gov.uk Do feel free to mention my name, as I did suggest to him last year that I could be interested in working with them on Wikipedia-related matters, and that I might contact him further down the line.

Once you've fleshed out a few details with Derby Uni, it would be good to put details on the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Derbyshire, if only to keep a modicum of activity going on there from time to time. Have a good weekend. Nick Moyes (talk) 11:35, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks Nick Victuallers (talk) 11:37, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

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Suffragettes

I've noticed some of your work on this topic. Nice. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 14:30, 6 February 2018 (UTC) Why thank you (wobbly curtsey) Victuallers (talk) 15:04, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

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Editathon handout - Feedback sought

As promised, I've worked up a "Next steps" leaflet to be given to everyone attending the forthcoming Editathon at the University of Derby next month. Bear in mind the use of shortcuts is to allow the document to be printed/photocopied with links that can be easily typed in. I'd probably expect to format it in MS Word. It was written as something they would take away at the end of an event, rather than be given on arrival as a help sheet.

Find the document here: User:Nick Moyes/editathon/handout1

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Roger, I'm going to start working on a presentation proposal. Do you want to work on this with me? Are you planning to attend the conference in Cape Town? --Rosiestep (talk) 18:04, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

I decided that I put in a lot of effort last year and didn't make the cut for a travel grant. I have been smiling to myself over whether I should devote my time to meta, blogging and wiki-data and get to Wiki-mania with a talk called "How I gave up editing Wikipedia and got to Wikimania". Hmmm if I write it then I'd need someone to present it? I completed the 365th Twitter banner today (and I'm busy moving to Scotland and lecturing about Wikipedia at Loughboro Uni). If you go then do visit Johannesburg then go see the Joburgpedia plaque. They have QRpedia codes and I arranged for the plaques to be made in Wales. Victuallers (talk) 18:44, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Scotland? I imagine that's a big move. And congratulations on the position at Loughboro U. Understand your disappointment in the scholarship application outcome; I would feel the same, under the circumstances. And you know I get what you are saying regarding doing less work on Wikipedia and more wiki work in sister projects and/or other spaces (e.g. social media) as I've shifted my energies as well. Did you see your name in the New Zealand press on Tuesday in this article, "Archival Activism: the Editors fighting Wikipedia’s Sexism Problem"? --Rosiestep (talk) 19:55, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Np, I hadnt seen it - good profile and nice to see our talk lasted for more than 15 minutes (Andy Warhol wouldnt approve) Victuallers (talk) 09:16, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

"Jimmy Whales" - that typo in the article elicited a chuckle. Edwardx (talk) 13:11, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

I couldn't resist commenting on your above exchange. The Loughborough assignments look interesting. (Congratulations, Roger, on your meetup page: lots of interesting links. Seems to be the second in the series.) Nevertheless, while I think it's great that both you and Rosie are branching out into related areas, I really think we still need to maintain strong leadership for Women in Red. While I'm happy to do what I can to promote the project and encourage editors (both new and old) to improve our coverage of women, I find that with every new month, my Wikipedia time is increasingly taken up with back office and administrative tasks, rather than with content editing. As a result, I see the number of new articles I write each month is steadily decreasing. In this connection, I think it is a pity that no one is willing to apply for a grant so that we can go ahead with more WiR contests using Dr. Blofeld's highly successful approach. (Unless Roger can work something out with the Swedes.) I also find I am spending more and more time on statistical problems, recruitment, liaison with new members, forward planning, editathon pages, etc. Don't get me wrong: I'm glad to play my part, especially when improvements can be seen. Speaking assignments and press coverage are of course useful too, but I sincerely hope we can continue to enjoy continued leadership from the two of you in regard to our day-to-day work and our defined goals. If you are really so short of time, we should perhaps seriously try to encourage others to help out with top level liaison, grant applications and developing our strategic goals in the months and years ahead. We've achieved quite a lot but unfortunately the EN wiki is falling further and further behind in the overall coverage of women on Wikipedia.--Ipigott (talk) 12:49, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

In my opinion, the Women in Red community has always followed a distributed leadership model: each person does as much or as little as they want. Anyone who wants to take on any role can just do it, e.g. Librarian in Residence by Megalibrarygirl. Yes, you have certainly taken on a lot of the leadership roles, Ipigott; thank you! Any ideas of how to make it more widely known amongst our members that we'd appreciate if others stepped forward and took on some of the leadership tasks? I can offer one suggestion: MILHIST has quarterly or semi-annual "Coordinator" elections. Maybe something like that? --Rosiestep (talk) 00:32, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

Taken sometime to think about this Ipigott. I'm not sure I ever felt in a leadership role apart from when I wrote the first draft of the talk. I do take credit for having the idea and for co-founding the project with Rosie. (Must write a history one day). I have contributed ~every day for several years and I don't claim to have contributed as much as some. At the mo I am trying to move house and I continue to work for local universities (as per my talk page) which includes a (pro bono obvs) WiR event in Derby on the 8th. Can I be appointed before I'm replaced? I cannot commit to more than a daily contribution until the summer. I guess we could have elections but Mega Library Girl, Dr B, SusanW and others may feel that they can/should step back once someone is named as the person. Victuallers (talk) 10:01, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

I wasn't proposing any "replacements". I just feel there may be a need to have someone with the necessary motivation and experience to take care of some of the practical problems such as grants, more active development of a forward-looking strategy, measures to attract more contributors (including students), and liaison with decision-makers in related Wikimedia projects, including Meta, Commons, Wikidata and other language versions of Wikipedia. I hope very much both you, Roger, and Rosie will continue to participate as much as your free time allows. It's just that there seem to be a number of loose ends at the moment which require some kind of follow-up. Perhaps we should draw up a list of priorities and see if anyone is interested in becoming involved. It's not as urgent as all that but it's probably worth sorting out fairly soon.--Ipigott (talk) 11:32, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

Roger, there would be none of this without you, *your idea*, your invitation to me ("the door is open, you don't have to knock") to work on this together. I forever heart you.

Ipigott, please do do start a thread on the WiR talkpage detailing your perception of loose ends and what you think requires some kind of follow-up so others could join the conversation there. I think that would be best. Thank you. --Rosiestep (talk) 15:37, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

Let me think about it for a few days. It will have to be presented very carefully. I would first like to see how Max Klein's work on the Wikidata stats turns out. I expect to hear from him again in the next few days.--Ipigott (talk) 15:45, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

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here for Loughborough today Victuallers (talk) 11:33, 2 March 2018 (UTC) or today Victuallers (talk) 13:07, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

Monmouth School

Hi Victuallers, I hope you are keeping well. I know you've seen a fair few school articles in your time, and wondered if you'd cast your eye over the above. I've done a bit of work on it and have put it up for GAR. But I freely admit I'm close to it, partly because I've written much of it and partly because it is my old school. Before someone picks it up for GAR, I'd be very grateful if you could take a quick look to see whether I've covered the main areas and whether the tone is ok. I don't want it to be promotional. Any suggestions most gratefully received. Best regards. KJP1 (talk) 14:57, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks - how on earth did I miss that link? Too close! KJP1 (talk) 15:32, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

You're welcome.... apart from that it looks fine to me Victuallers (talk) 20:02, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

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Concerns about editing on "digital marketing"

I see that you created the page Wikipedia:University of Loughborough/Events and Workshops/Digital Marketing, so I am writing to you to inform you of my concerns. I noticed that one of the people enrolled in the project has been blocked indefinitely for advertising. I have checked the editing history of a small sample of the accounts that are listed as enrolled, and of those I checked every one has been editing in promotional terms, often using marketing-speak to express themselves. I am concerned that before long many more of them will be blocked, and much of their work deleted, or worse still that they will not be blocked and their work will not be deleted, resulting both in a significant increase in the amount of promotional content in the encyclopaedia and also an increase in the number of people who edit Wikipedia and who think that promotional editing is acceptable. I assume that the idea was for the people involved to edit in a neutral way about "digital marketing", rather than for them to actually do "digital marketing", and perhaps you could emphasise to them that they must not edit in promotional ways. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 17:01, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

Since I posted the message above I have seen the editing history of several more students in this event, and many of them were doing much better than those that I mentioned above. Evidently my initial sample was not entirely typical. Nevertheless, I think there is still cause for concern, and you may like to consider possible ways of dealing with it. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 18:44, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

Another observation since I last posted here. In a number of cases students have added ridiculous amounts of content about digital marketing to articles where digital marketing is not central to the topic of the article, giving grossly excessive weight to one small part of the topic. In some cases there has even been addition of content which is about digital marketing and not about the topic of the article at all. That may be done at least partly on the basis that the general comments added about digital marketing are related to other statements in the article which are in turn related to the topic of the article, but I am not sure that it isn't largely driven by a belief (I hope mistaken) that the more text about "digital marketing" a student adds to articles the more marks he or she will get. In any case, whatever the reason for it, it is totally inappropriate. All things considered, it looks to me as though most if not all of the students are making the grave mistake of focusing their attention entirely on finding opportunities to add content on "digital marketing", rather than on assessing in what ways and to what extent adding such content to a particular article is appropriate, if at all. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 23:11, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

Replied on your page Victuallers (talk) 09:05, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

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The version you have now left misses out on some key events. Not accidentally, since there is for example no evidence that he was at the Battle of Hastings and he could have been enjoying an apéritif on his terrace in France while it was taking place. But please say which specific missing events were relevant to his life story.

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Mary Hayley

Okay, so you know me and my lack of skill with photos. I am clear that both of the photographs in Hayley's article can be on commons, as they were published (in London, New York and Toronto) in 1917. I have no earthly idea how to make a category for Mary Hayley and think they should be in a category specific to her. As I am going to nominate it for a GA, I would like to use this engraving of the original portrait, as it is clearer [20], but I have no idea of that can be uploaded to commons. I believe you told me it had to have been done by 1800, but this says it was published in 1821. Can you help? Thank you. SusunW (talk) 15:51, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

Adding to that, this appears to be an engraving of the street where they lived and ran the business. Is it useable? SusunW (talk) 16:11, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

And one more (Ian thinks I need more photos for GA.) Her signature appears here [21] on page 171 on a letter dated 1783 which was published in 1915, so I think we are fine to add it to commons, but are signatures different from other copyrighted items? SusunW (talk) 16:36, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

Hi Susun, I'll have a look. 1880 is the approximate year for any photo as it means that if the photographer took it when they were very young .... and then lived a long time - then the 70 years after their death can have presumed to have been exhausted. The other easy one to remember (maybe) is. If it was published in the USA before 1923 then its out of copyright. Hope that helps. There is too much more for anyone to remember when it comes to copyright. Victuallers (talk) 17:36, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks Victuallers. I get so confused with this stuff. Any help is GREATLY appreciated. SusunW (talk) 18:15, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

I loaded them. Still have no idea how to make a category, but hopefully someone will come along and fix it ;) SusunW (talk) 21:26, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

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Hi, Roger. In the light of this, is there any chance of removing the Daily Mail from banned sources on Wikipedia? Do you think we could rally support from WMUK and other active editors around the country? It's always seemed very strange to me that the Daily Mail should have been deemed a less reliable source than other British newspapers.--Ipigott (talk) 05:57, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

@Ipigott: Oh I think that the paper needs to apologise, several times. I cannot forgive its front page story that UK judges were traitors. That was a confession that the paper was willing to forget the truth to gain popularity. I think they have lost too much credibility and their presence online is counter productive. I occasionally click on their "news" links and I feel "used" after I find out what I am being offered. So, good to hear that he's gone, but IMO the reputation remains. I suspect that a high profile discussion about the papers improved credibility would fail -- but may be of benefit to the paper as it doesn't seem to realise its poor reputation. It could be that Dacre will be replace by someone who is even more into fake news. Victuallers (talk) 07:43, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

OK, I respect your judgment. Then let's just leave things as they are. I think nevertheless that several other British papers publish articles which are just as sensational and unreliable. The problem with the Mail is that it is one of the few which offers online access to its news stories. Just as well we still have The Guardian. Some of the articles from the Financial Times are also accessible, particularly those on the arts.--Ipigott (talk) 10:46, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

Thanks Ian, sensational is OK, but unreliable? OK we make mistakes but retract afterwards, the mail hasn't done that and everyone who knows its a complete lie. I was thinking. Liverpool never forgave the Sun and that story about Hillsboro' MIGHT have been believed by the journalists who wrote it, but the Daily Mail story about Brexit could only have been written by a conspiracy theorist. There was no point in protesting as it was certain that even the author (and every one on the paper) knew it was not credible. That single story prevents any reasonable debate about the good reliable news that they do produce (on page 9). I know what you mean about the Guardian. I fantasise that wiki should sponsor it. Victuallers (talk) 12:28, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

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Hi, I just approved this hook to run in June. Could you help me by cropping out the woman in the bottom image? Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 19:27, 24 June 2018 (UTC) done! Victuallers (talk) 09:48, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

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I appreciate you correcting my grammar mistakes on Julienne Lusenge and other biographies I have worked on. Great image of Lusenge! I forgot about checking Flickr for possible photos. Thanks for adding it. MauraWen (talk) 17:32, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

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Bessie Blount Griffin

Hi, if I understood your tweet you said that you added a picture to this article, but I believe there is confusion about the image since it shows up in google (same image) for both Bessie Blount Griffin and for Marie Van Brittan Brown ? any idea how to solve this issue? Thanks Golan's mom (talk) 06:42, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

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Lidiya Shulaykina

Thanks for stepping in. I find Planespotter's attitude offensive. If I thought they represented anything other than an eccentric minority I'd be tempted to abandon my WiR article/stub creation efforts. But I will try to ignore them and forget their existence. I enjoy creating solid well-sourced stubs, with a full set of incoming redirects where needed, and will continue to do so for WiR and elsewhere. PamD 22:00, 22 July 2018 (UTC) Thanks PamD, your efforts are widely appreciated. I'm surprised by an approach which I suspect may be counter productive. However its a broad church with 5 million articles there is room for everyone to play. Victuallers (talk) 07:45, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

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