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Proposal for Rollback

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I have been working on Wikipedia to revert vandalism for a while now, although I took a break recently because it was too time consuming. Now I find myself with more time, and would like to continue by using Huggle so I can clean things up faster. As I need rollback privileges to use Huggle, I would be really grateful if you could assign them to me. Thanks so much. WikiTome Talk 11:45, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

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Take down thy til end of august "happiness on others' misfortune" banner!

Since you've obviously been back. That, or change it to reflect your (in)activity. (It is meant to be construed as slightly poking fun at a fellow clerk.) - Penwhale | dance in the air and follow his steps 14:07, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

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The Wikipedia Guild of Copy-Editors invites you to participate in the November 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive, a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy-editing. The drive will begin on 1 November at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 30 November at 23:59 (UTC). The goal for this drive is to reduce the backlog by 10% (approximately 500 articles). We hope to focus our efforts on the oldest three months (January, February, and March 2009) and the newest three months (September, October, and November 2010) of articles in the queue.

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Spaceflight portals

Hello! As an member editor of one or more of the Spaceflight, Human spaceflight, Unmanned spaceflight, Timeline of spaceflight or Space colonisation WikiProjects, I'd like to draw to your attention a proposal I have made with regards to the future of the spaceflight-related portals, which can be found at Portal talk:Spaceflight#Portal merge. I'd very much appreciate any suggestions or feedback you'd be able to offer! Many thanks,

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WikiProject Space Colonization activity

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Elections are currently underway for our inaugural Guild coordinators. The voting period will run for 14 days: 00:01 UTC, Friday 1 December – 23:59 UTC, Tuesday 14 December. All GOCE members in good standing, as well as past participants of any of the Guild's Backlog elimination drives, are eligible to vote. There are six candidates vying for four positions. The candidate with the highest number of votes will become the Lead Coordinator, therefore, your vote really matters! Cast your vote today.

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NYC Meetup: Saturday, December 4

 
We meet outside by the trees at 5:00 PM.

Our next Wikipedia NYC Meetup is this weekend on Saturday Dec 4 at Brooklyn Museum during their awesome First Saturdays program, starting at 5 PM.

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GOCE Year-end Report

Season's Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors
 
 

We have reached the end of the year, and what a year it has been! The Guild of Copy Editors was full of activity, and we achieved numerous important milestones in 2010. Read all about these in the Guild's 2010 Year-End Report.

Highlights
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  • Guild Plans for 2011
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Get your copy of the Guild's 2010 Year-End Report here On behalf of the Guild, we take this opportunity to wish you Season's Greetings and Happy New Year. See you in 2011!
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GOCE drive newsletter

 

The Guild of Copy Editors – May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive


The Guild of Copy Editors invite you to participate in the May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive, a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy-editing. The drive began on May 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on May 31 at 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this backlog elimination drive are to eliminate as many articles as possible from the 2009 backlog and to reduce the overall backlog by 15%. ! NEW ! In an effort to encourage the final elimination of all 2009 articles, we will be tracking them on the leaderboard for this drive.

Awards and barnstars
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We look forward to meeting you on the drive! Your GOCE coordinators: SMasters, Diannaa, Tea with toast, Chaosdruid, and Torchiest

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Userspace Edit

Just to say: I have modified User:Amorymeltzer/header for changing the hyperlink for Special:Preferences to Special:Preferences#preftab-1 (Apperence tab). Also, done modern instead of Modern. If you don't like the changes feel free to revert it. ~~EBE123~~ talkContribs 19:37, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! Both are quite reasonable, and indeed are probably what should have been done in the first place. 'Preciate it.
 
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You're invited to the New York Wiknic!

 
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GOCE drive invitation

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The latest GOCE backlog elimination drive is under way! It began on 1 July and so far 18 people have signed up to help us reduce the number of articles in need of copyediting.

This drive will give a 50% bonus for articles edited from the GOCE requests page. Although we have cleared the backlog of 2009 articles there are still 3,935 articles needing copyediting and any help, no matter how small, would be appreciated.

We are appealing to all GOCE members, and any other editors who wish to participate, to come and help us reduce the number of articles needing copyediting, as well as the backlog of requests. If you have not signed up yet, why not take a look at the current signatories and help us by adding your name and copyediting a few articles. Barnstars will be given to anyone who edits more than 4,000 words, with special awards for the top 5 in the categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words".

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Smithsonian Archives of American Art Backstage Pass

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GLAM-Wiki Baltimore meetup

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DC Meetup, July 29

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DC-area Meetup, Saturday, August 6

National Archives Backstage Pass - Who should come? You should. Really.
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Invitation to New Orleans developers' meeting

New Orleans Wikimedia Hackathon
 
MediaWiki and Wikimedia developers' meetup
Hi, Amorymeltzer. I'd like to invite you to come to the New Orleans Hackathon 2011. It's an opportunity for MediaWiki developers and Wikimedia operations engineers to come together to work on advancing Wikimedia's tools and infrastructure, focusing on Wikimedia Labs (starting with the dev-ops virtualization cluster), and to train and to squash bugs.

The theme of this event: "the infrastructure of innovation". We're going to improve and discuss the Wikimedia Labs projects infrastructure and other stuff that makes it easier for anyone to supercharge Wikimedia with awesomeness. We're going to work on our gadgets/extensions/tools support, authorization/authentication strategy, dev-ops virtualization, and general training and hacking.

It's mostly going to be dev sprints and bugsmashing, with some discussion and workshops. The event is open to anyone who wants to come and contribute, and is an opportunity to spend time with senior MediaWiki developers & ops engineers, write beautiful code, and learn about the latest developments.

If you can make it to New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 14-16 October 2011, we'd love to have you. Please add your name to the attendees list. Thanks! Sumanah (talk) 20:23, 24 August 2011 (UTC) (Volunteer Development Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation)

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You're invited! Wikimedia DC Annual Membership Meeting

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Wikimedia District of Columbia, the newest officially recognized chapter, is holding its Annual Membership Meeting at 1pm on Saturday, October 1, 2011 at the Tenley-Friendship Neighborhood Library.

 

Agenda items include:

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The meeting is open to both the general public and members from within the DC-MD-VA-WV-DE region and beyond. We encourage everyone to attend!

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Wikipedia:The Musical in NYC Oct 22

 
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All are welcome, sign up on the wiki and here!--Pharos (talk) 03:49, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

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You're invited! Wikipedia Loves Libraries DC

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FINE ART EDIT-A-THON & DC MEETUP 26 is December 17! The Edit-a-Thon will cover fine art subjects from the Federal Art Project and the meet up will involve Wikipedians from the area as well as Wiki-loving GLAM professionals. You don't have to attend both to attend one (but we hope you do!) Click the link above and sign up & spread the word! See you there! SarahStierch (talk) 17:03, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

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Devoloping MediaWiki.

Sir I am a php developer, now i am thinking about developing MediaWiki project, Before I start work i want to know few things about terms of use. I think you can answer my questions because you are working with wikimedia for long time. my questions are flowing:

1. Can I make a commercial website with this source? 2. Can I edit and devolve and modify this source for my website? 3. Can I add more things with this this source?

I read MediaWiki terms of use but i didn't get my answer. Please response me.

Thank You Sir. Nilanjan Das. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nilu wiki (talkcontribs) 11:05, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

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National Archives ExtravaSCANza

You are invited to the National Archives ExtravaSCANza, taking place every day next week from January 4–7, Wednesday to Saturday, in College Park, Maryland (Washington, DC metro area). Come help me cap off my stint as Wikipedian in Residence at the National Archives with one last success!

This will be a casual working event in which Wikipedians are getting together to scan interesting documents at the National Archives related to a different theme each day—currently: spaceflight, women's suffrage, Chile, and battleships—for use on Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons. The event is being held on multiple days, and in the evenings and weekend, so that as many locals and out-of-towners from nearby regions1 as possible can come. Please join us! Dominic·t 01:07, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

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Articles for Creation Appeal

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Articles for Creation is desperately short of reviewers! We are looking for urgent help, from experienced editors, in reviewing submissions in the pending submissions queue. Currently the are 1268 submissions waiting to be reviewed.

Do you have what it takes?
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  4. Are you autoconfirmed?
  5. Can you review submissions based on their individual merits?

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Self-blocking request

Can you please block me from Wikipedia permanently? I don't want to edit entries anymore. Guinsberg (talk) 21:06, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

I don't think self-blocks requested in the heat of things makes anything better. You are doing well taking a bit of a break right now, so why not take a LOA from Wikipedia for a while, at least for the weekend? ~ Amory (utc) 00:06, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
I just came on here to withdraw the request for a while. You're right, and thanks. :) Guinsberg (talk) 00:40, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

You said:

I use the word sysop instead of admin wherever possible. You should too.

Why should I? Thanks. --Broadside Perceptor (talk) 00:36, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

It's a personal preference. I think administrator can give the wrong impression and that sysop comes closer to what the rights convey. ~ Amory (utc) 06:07, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

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MSU Interview

Dear Amorymeltzer,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.


So a few things about the interviews:

  • Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
  • Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
  • All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
  • All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
  • The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.


Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 04:15, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

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Dispute Resolution – Survey Invite


Hello Amorymeltzer. I am currently conducting a study on the dispute resolution processes on the English Wikipedia, in the hope that the results will help improve these processes in the future. Whether you have used dispute resolution a little or a lot, now we need to know about your experience. The survey takes around five minutes, and the information you provide will not be shared with third parties other than to assist in analyzing the results of the survey. No personally identifiable information will be released.

Please click HERE to participate.
Many thanks in advance for your comments and thoughts.


You are receiving this invitation because you have had some activity in dispute resolution over the past year. For more information, please see the associated research page. Steven Zhang DR goes to Wikimania! 11:24, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

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Hello, Amorymeltzer. Will you weigh in on the above discussion since you've weighed in on it before? I would ask others who weighed in on that previous discussion to weigh in again, but they're either blocked or inactive. Flyer22 (talk) 18:31, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

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Hello there. As you expressed interest in hearing updates to my research in the dispute resolution survey that was done a few months ago, I just wanted to let you know that I am hosting an IRC office hours session this coming Saturday, 28th July at 19:00 UTC (approximately 12 hours from now). This will be located in the #wikimedia-office connect IRC channel - if you have not participated in an IRC discussion before you can connect to IRC here.

Regards, User:Szhang (WMF) (talk) 07:00, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

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"Masterpiece Museum" Edit-a-Thon at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
 

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Steven Zhang's Fellowship Slideshow

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  • Background: A brief overview of the DR ecosystem.
  • Research: The most recent DR data
  • Survey results: Highlights from Steven Zhang's April 2012 survey
  • Activity analysis: Where DR happened, broken down by the top DR forums
  • DR Noticeboard comparison: How the newest DR forum has progressed between May and August
  • Discussion update: Checking up on the Wikiquette Assistance close debate
  • Proposal: It's time to close the Geopolitical, ethnic, and religious conflicts noticeboard. Agree or disagree?

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Organized by Wikimedia DC, this event will take place on October 12, 2012, and will include new editor training, a "backstage pass" tour of the National Museum of Natural History, and an edit-a-thon. Everyone is welcome to attend!

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You are invited to Wikipedia Goes to the Movies in NYC, an editathon, Wikipedia meet-up and workshops focused on film and the performing arts that will be held on Saturday, December 1, 2012, at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (at Lincoln Center), as part of the Wikipedia Loves Libraries events being held across the USA.

All are welcome, sign up on the wiki and at meetup.com!--Pharos (talk) 06:50, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

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December 10 is Ada Lovelace's birthday! Not only was she the world's first computer programmer, but also the world's first female open source developer! Come celebrate with Wikimedia District of Columbia at Busboys & Poets for an informal get together!

The Washington, DC event will be held on Monday, December 10, 2012 at Busboys & Poets on 5th St NW & K St NW near Mt Vernon Square. The area is easily accessible by the Red Line Chinatown stop and the Yellow Line and Green Line Mt Vernon Square stop, as well as by WMATA buses.

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Please join Wikimedia DC and four other local media nonprofits—the National Press Club's Young Members Committee, 100Reporters, IRE and the Fund for Investigative Journalism—in winding down another year with a night of well-mannered frivolity.

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Doing the "Open Space" thing at one of our earlier NYC Wiki-Conferences.

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Random quotes on your page.

How did you make your page have random quotes appear on it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scientific Alan 2 (talkcontribs) 22:13, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

It's a custom-made template I put in a subpage. You can learn more about templates here. ~ Amory (utc) 19:01, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
I know about templates, but how do you make it choose random text? Scientific Alan 2 (talk) 15:48, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
Ahhh, that's an old trick. You'll want to read about Magic words. Rather than write a random-number generator using wiki templates, I just used NUMBEROFPAGES. Grabbing some digits from there functions as an easy pseudorandom generator. For example: 19 ~ Amory (utc) 18:57, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

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DC happy hour on Thursday, February 28!

Please join Wikimedia DC for Happy Hour at the Capitol City Brewery at Metro Center on Thursday, February 28 at 6 p.m. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

For more information and to sign up, see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 34. Hope to see you there! Harej (talk) 02:30, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

Removed a warning template

As you say, it doesn't matter, but the second warning was for a different article, Decimal. I was worried that the user in question was going to continue their little section-blanking spree, and wanted to be sure there were enough warnings in place for a mod to block if needed, but it seems like they lost interest — perhaps because we reverted their changes so quickly. I will keep an eye on them, if they try the same thing anytime soon I'll restore the warning. ubiquity (talk) 20:43, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

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Hi Amorymeltzer, since you are interested in meetups in DC, I'd like to invite you to attend the Cato Institute's "Wikipedia and Legislative Data" events on March 14. (There's also an all day workshop on March 15; let me know if you are interested, we may be able to add more people.)

There will be an introduction to Wikipedia and open edit-a-thon in the afternoon, and a Sunshine Week Reception in the evening. I hope you can make it!

Hope to see you there! -Pete (talk) 18:59, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

DC meetup & dinner on Saturday, March 9!

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Linking

We typically link to the term in question rather than the redirect. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 16:15, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Replied at User talk:Jmh649#Linking ~ Amory (utc) 17:25, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Candice Farmer

Hi Amorymeltzer, did you manage to access the Sunday Times article? Or did you just delete parts of the Wikipedia article because the source wasn't fully online? Sionk (talk) 02:08, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

I was wondering about that. Maybe I missed something, but as far as I could see the article loaded perfectly fine. It's short and not full of much, but it is one of the better sources listed. I couldn't find any of that information in it, though. ~ Amory (utc) 02:13, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
Maybe there is a limit to the number of free articles that can be accessed. I couldn't access it fully. The Times are one of the newspapers that put their content behind a paywall a few years back. No problems anyway, if the personal info wasn't in the article then you were within your rights to remove it. All the best! Sionk (talk) 02:21, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

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Hi! I'm not fussed either way, but is there any reason you downgraded my 3-month long protection on this article to 2 weeks? I think a longer protection period was called for, given that the article is a BLP and female politicians always attract more than their share of idiocy.

Not calling you out - I'm a little rusty, so I was wondering if I just went too far :) ~ Riana 18:37, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

^ Ignore, noticed that you changed it back. :) ~ Riana 18:38, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

  ~ Amory (utc) 18:47, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
The innocent grin of innocence! All good. ~ Riana 18:52, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

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A pie for you!

  Thanks for cleaning up WP:AFC/R - I got edit conflicted a few times while trying to close multiple requests at once, until you had answered them all. Huon (talk) 01:47, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
Possibly the only time I've been thanked for edit conflicting! ~ Amory (utc) 01:51, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Geist Force (video game)

This game (1999) for the Sega Dreamcast was developed six years before "Geist" was released on Nintendo (not the same game). Geist Force was not released until 2012 when Assemblergames.com purchased the unfinished game with the Dreamcast development kit, then finished the game. I do not know exactly what else to do here, but I can only tell you that myself and many others bought the game after it was finished. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Monkeeman3 (talkcontribs) 02:04, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

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    • Added parser page property to hold entity id in client. This fixes:
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      • bugzilla:44536 - have the edit link go directly to the Q### pages, instead of Special:ItemByTitle which shall make the link be more reliable and work for all namespaces
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Just wondering

"I use the word sysop instead of admin wherever possible. You should too."

Why? Rivertorch (talk) 06:23, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

The word "administrator" or "admin" has such a connotation. I fully admit that "sysop" or "system operator" has a strong connotation too, but one that is slightly more in line with what the RfA bit means. It's just a technical convenience. A (real network) sysop may indeed administer, but when someone in life says "I am an administrator" there is a notion of hierarchy that just doesn't exist. As a sysop I do indeed have some authority, but only that vested in me by the community; there should be no implication that I am in any way "better" or "above" because of that. Honestly, I think a lot of the recent dustup can be traced to that: people seeing or feeling a hierarchy where there shouldn't be or isn't one, which just leads to a pissing contest that gets everyone wet.
It's all moot, though, because most of the time saying "sysop" is awkward as hell. Requests for Sysopship? Sysophood? Just weird. ~ Amory (utc) 16:19, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
Interesting. "Administrator" always seemed a bit ambiguous to me: I know of RL contexts where "administrators" are the lowliest of employees and other contexts where the top officials, including the president, of large, notable institutions are "administrators". I always thought "sysop" sounded more colorful or interesting or something (especially in the plural, it makes me think of cyclops and Special Ops), but I've noticed that it doesn't seem to be used as much as it once was around here. Rivertorch (talk) 06:16, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
TBH I put it up there ages ago and am less enthusiastic now. I just get tired of explaining to friends that no, I'm not in charge of Wikipedia, I just clean-up around the place. ~ Amory (utc) 15:22, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

"Numeral" redirect requests

Just FYI, I was about to decline the various "numeral" Andromeda redirect request with non-standard numeral characters as extremely unlikely search terms. Huon (talk) 04:19, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Word. I can't for the life of me figure out which is which, can you? I'll delete any you can point my way... ~ Amory (utc) 04:21, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
Nevermind, duh, got it. Thanks a bunch; I should go to bed. ~ Amory (utc) 04:26, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
You seem to have missed And ⅱ, And ⅲ, And ⅳ and And ⅶ. I'm almost convinced 65.92.180.137 is trolling us, but it's so high-quality trolling that every single request must be evaluated, and quite a few are good. Others seem like deliberate make-work. Huon (talk) 04:32, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
Thanks. I don't know, I tend to AGF in these cases, maybe too much, but there has been some precedent. A few years ago where there were a huge rush of Astronomy redirects at AFC/R and, well, it's the nature of the beast: Astronomers use a lot of different names. Honestly I think most of these are kind of absurd, but if solid evidence is there for the existence and usage of the term then it's fair game in my book. No harm, eh? ~ Amory (utc) 04:39, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
Well, "no harm" is debatable. For example, they didn't request creation of And I (as opposed to And V, And X and so on), but requested And i to redirect to Andromeda I. Since they were aware that we had an And I article, I'd call that deliberately misleading. Since they didn't request "And v" or "And x" either, I find it very hard to believe that they honestly thought "And i" would more commonly refer to the galaxy than the song. Huon (talk) 05:06, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
Maybe, or maybe s/he just cares way more about Andromeda. It wouldn't be the first time someone thought a redirect was better suited for a different purpose. ~ Amory (utc) 15:19, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Rollback

Hi. Quick question: In my denied request for rollback, you admonished (?) me to be sure to revert to a "good version." I'm just curious why you mentioned that. When I roll back manually, I have to do it one step at a time, so if there is more than one version to take care of, I have to revert to a bad version first, no? StevenJ81 (talk) 12:26, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

You've actually got a couple options here. You can use some of the addons, like twinkle or popups, as they will let you revert to a specific revision. They can be a bit awkward, and usually involve a boring edit summary; okay for pure and simple vandalism but not for other reversions (good-faith, etc.). What you can do is open up a specific revision, such as this, and then click edit. If you do so, you'll edit that version of the page, not the latest. So open up the last good revision, click edit, and just type "Reverting vandalism" or something in the minor edit summary and you're good to go. Since it's an old revision and different from the latest, it will save. ~ Amory (utc) 17:16, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
That's pretty clever. Thanks. StevenJ81 (talk) 17:38, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
I did that this morning at Education in Bareilly. Pretty smooth. StevenJ81 (talk) 15:44, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

You are invited to a Women in the Arts Meetup & Edit-a-thon on Friday, March 29

In honor of Women's History Month, the Smithsonian and the National Museum of Women in the Arts are teaming up to organize a Women in the Arts Meetup & Edit-a-thon on Friday, March 29, 2013 from 10:00am - 5:00pm. The event is focused on encouraging women editors while improving Wikipedia entries about women artists and art world figures. This event is free of charge, but participation is limited to 20 volunteers, so RSVP today! Sarasays (talk) 23:21, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #50

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Rolled out new code on wikidata.org. The new stuff you probably care about is:
      • Improved references. They can now have multiple lines. This should make references much more useful. You can now have one reference with for example values for each of the properties "book", "author", "page" to describe one source.
      • Fixed the prev/next links in diff view (bugzilla:45821)
      • d:Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel now lets you filter by language and entity type
    • Widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly: added setting to enable/disable it per wiki and made it available for logged-in users only
    • Widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly: improved layout / size
    • Made it so that the “edit links” link on Wikipedia is also shown when the corresponding item only has a link to this one language and no other languages
    • Submitted improved Apache config patch to make wikidata.org always redirect to www.wikidata.org, which is awaiting code review and deployment.
    • Improved the script that is responsible for taking Wikidata changes to the Wikipedias
    • Added a few ways to better debug the script responsible for taking Wikidata changes to the Wikipedias. This should help with investigating why some changes take way to long to show up on the Wikipedias.
    • Started work on automatically adding edited items to the user’s watchlist (according to preferences)
    • Finished script for rebuilding search keys, so we can finally get case insensitive matches in a lot of places
    • Support for multi-line references in diff view
    • Selenium tests for inclusion syntax
    • Improved parser function (that will be used to access Wikidata data on the Wikipedias) to accept property ID or label
    • Increased isolation of data model component to increase clarity and visibility of bad dependencies
    • Worked on schema access in the SQLStore (of the query component)
  • Discussions/Press
  • Events
    • 3rd Media Web Symposium 2013
    • Wikidata trifft Archäologie
    • SMWCon Spring NYC
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Did you know?
    • When you edit a statement there is a little wheel in front of the text field. This lets you choose between “custom value”, “unknown value” and “no value”. “No value” means that we know that the given property has no value, e.g. Elizabeth I of England had no spouse. “Unknown value” means that the property has a value, but it is unknown which one -- e.g. Pope Linus most certainly had a year of birth, but it is unknown to us.
  • Open Tasks for You
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CN shortcut

Thank you very much, Amorymeltzer, for manually protecting the CN shortcut to the {{Citation needed}} template. Just so you'll be aware, there is an open bug report, T13700, to try to get the devs to make it so the cascade protection will suffice without having to doubly protect the pages on the cascade list. Have a great day! – PAINE ELLSWORTH CLIMAX! 17:57, March 24, 2013

Thanks, good to know. ~ Amory (utc) 01:25, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
Welcome! – PAINE ELLSWORTH CLIMAX! 06:24, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 25 March 2013

Wikidata weekly summary #51

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • The first 11 Wikipedias can now include data from Wikidata in their articles (If you want to see it in action see the infobox at it:Torino)
    • Worked on automatic summaries for statements
    • Worked on making properties accessible from the client using their label so you can use {{#property:executive director}} instead of {{#property:p169}} for example
    • Made qualifiers ready for the next deployment (Please test. See details further down.)
    • Selenium tests for qualifiers
    • Fixed some issues related to QUnit testing
    • Worked on improved handling and code design of multiple snak lists in the UI (qualifiers, references)
  • Discussions/Press
  • Events
    • Newline 2013
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • We’re currently carefully monitoring performance after the deployment of phase 2 on the first 11 Wikipedias. There seem to be a few small issues. As soon as they are resolved we'll deploy on English Wikipedia. All other Wikipedias are planned to follow very soon after that.
    • Bye and a big thank you to Anja, Silke, Jens and John who are leaving the development team at the end of the month and will work on other cool things. You’ll be missed!
    • Ever had any doubt about the possibilities of Wikidata? Talk to Wiri!
    • We worked on reducing the time it takes for Wikidata edits to show up in the Wikipedias and made some progress. Daniel posted an analysis
    • We started running a script on the database in order to make search on Wikidata case-insensitive. This should be finished in a few days and then search should be more useful.
    • In addition to the above we have rolled out a new search box that suggests items. This should also make finding things on Wikidata a lot easier for you.
    • We’re making some progress with Internet Explorer 8 support but there are a lot of issues with it (some outside our control). It’s unclear at the moment how much we can improve it still without spending an unjustified amount of time on it. You can follow the progress at bugzilla:44228
    • Edits are now auto-confirmed for users with more than 50 edits and account age 4 days: bugzilla:46461
    • Do you need old-style interwiki links for a sister project for example? This is for you
    • The Wikimedia Foundation applied as a mentoring organisation for Google Summer of Code again. We have proposed some Wikidata projects for students to take up if the Foundation is accepted again. At least 2 other organisations that applied also propose Wikidata ideas. More details on that once we know which organisations are accepted.
    • Denny hacked together a tree of life based on data from Wikidata
    • Wikidata was added to wikipulse
    • A template to retrieve data from Wikidata if no local value is set
  • Did you know?
  • Open Tasks for You
    • See note at the end of this weekly summary
    • Help test qualifiers (m:Wikidata/Notes/Data model primer#Qualifiers - see also example statements there) on the test wiki so we can roll it out with the next release
    • Did you file a bug report for Wikidata or did someone else do it for you? Please take a minute to check if it is still valid. (Thanks for filing it btw!)
    • Add some missing descriptions to those items with the same label?
    • Hack on one of these

Could I have 2 mins of your time? As I’ll be working on some other projects for Wikimedia Germany as well from now on the time I can spend on Wikidata will be reduced. This means I’ll have to figure out what is useful to spend time on. If you’re reading this could you let me know for example on this discussion page? Also if you have ideas how to improve the weekly summaries please post them. --Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk)

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Ping!

I have now done 75-100 "undo"-vandalism changes... -Josve05a (talk) 12:54, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Well, damn, that was fast! Nicely done. I see there was that one error, good job reverting it quickly and keeping the notice on your user page. Enjoy rollback! ~ Amory (utc) 16:16, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
Thank you! -Josve05a (talk) 17:56, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

removing a site

My family ha experienced identity theft and a stalker has been putting information up that is causing us great legal problems. No one has the right to put up an entire history on my or my family.

Why do you continue to revert this information and how can I get this off of the internet? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Boucherbeamish (talkcontribs) 16:35, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Hello, I'm sorry you seem to have troubles. However, as far as I can see there is nothing improper about the articles. The information, while maybe not interesting, is sourced, which means the information is out in the public, which I suppose is one of the downsides of being a notable person. At the very least you could suggest on the talk page that some of the information isn't particularly relevant. If you are seriously having an issue, check out the contact page, in particular the email address listed there, although I'll be up front and say that I don't think much will be done since the information is largely relevant and sourced. ~ Amory (utc) 19:45, 30 March 2013 (UTC)