Welcome to the one hundredth and forty fourth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 15,404 last month to 15,578 on 30 March 2020). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 159 is ahead of WP:GM who have 87. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 68 out of a total number of 4,477 articles.
Currently we have fifty two Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Destubathon
The Great Britain and Ireland Destubathon has been running throughout March and a thank you to all members that participated in the effort to reduce the number of stub articles in the project. There were 32 Yorkshire articles de-stubbed by the effort. Though the number for the project has increased, this is due to tagging of more articles, with 174 new articles tagged this month.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The April 2020 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.
The project is subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.
Monitoring is essential Use the watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.
Moves Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
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The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wrea Head Hall until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. MrClog (talk) 17:54, 13 April 2020 (UTC)Reply
Welcome to the one hundredth and forty fifth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 15,578 last month to 15,672 on 30 April 2020). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 166 is ahead of WP:GM who have 87. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 68 out of a total number of 4,485 articles.
Currently we have fifty one Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The May 2020 articles selected below are an editor choice and a member choice from the project talk page.
The project is subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.
Monitoring is essential Use the watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.
Moves Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
Thanks
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Latest comment: 4 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Just letting you know that I responded to your question at the Teahouse. If you think the closing admin has not closed the AFD according to consensus, you'll want to open up a discussion at WP:DRV. bibliomaniac1521:00, 6 May 2020 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 4 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Hi GhostInTheMachine! The thread you created at the Wikipedia:Teahouse, AFD -- Wrea Head Hall, has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days. You can still find the archived discussion here. If you have any additional questions that weren't answered then, please feel free to create a new thread.
Latest comment: 4 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
The Special Barnstar
For the brilliant observation of the difference between 'notable' and 'noted' with ref to Wikipedia's fundamental critieria of notability, which opens doors to major change for underrepresented groups on Wikipedia. BessieMaelstrom (talk) 11:59, 17 May 2020 (UTC)Reply
Hi GhostInTheMachine! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission. I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
Welcome to the one hundredth and forty sixth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 15,672 last month to 15,729 on 30 May 2020). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 172 is ahead of WP:GM who have 87. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 68 out of a total number of 4,495 articles.
Currently we have fifty one Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The June 2020 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations on the project talk page.
The project is subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.
Monitoring is essential Use the watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.
Moves Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
Thanks
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Latest comment: 4 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion
Hi GhostInTheMachine,
I stumbled upon your recently created TalkHelper user script, but noticed that the {{tlg}} template you used didn't play nicely with the substitution prefix. With a couple edit attempts, as you'll see, I managed to find the correct template ({{tlxs}}, if you're interested) from Enterprisey's reply-link script, that did. So, in addition to fixing that, I also marked your userspace subpage as 'reviewed' in the New Pages Patrol Page Curation toolbar. Incidentally, I meant to send you a note directly from that toolbar, but after I marked it as 'reviewed', that option wasn't available to me.
If you'd like, feel free to create a shortcut to the script (WP:TALKHELPER is available) using {{shortcut}}, so that other users can easily link to and promote your script. Looks like a very useful script, and I'm contemplating giving it a try.
Latest comment: 4 years ago2 comments1 person in discussion
water preservation
Thank you for beginning quality articles around natural water, such as Eccup Reservoir and American Whitewater, for gnomish work with short descriptions, for wishing a kind recovery, and for "It can also become a challenge to keep AGF in mind." - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
Enterprisey's parsoid-round-trip uses Parsoid to convert wikitext to HTML and back, and then shows the result and the difference between the original wikitext and the post-conversion wikitext.
Frietjes's infoboxgap assists in renumbering infobox labels/data/classes, so that a new line can be inserted in the middle of the infobox.
Twinkle has made a number of improvements, including using a change tag to identify actions made with it and automatically filing edit requests for protected XfD nominations.
GeneralNotability's spihelper updated to 2.2.10, fixing a number of small bugs, automatically tagging globally locked socks as such in the sockpuppet template, and restoring open cases following an SPI history merge.
Enterprisey's script-installer gadget has been updated with more internationalization of messages, as well as addition of a user preference, window.scriptInstallerInstallTarget to allow controlling where new scripts are to be installed.
Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion
Hi GitM, I've been looking at your TalkHelper2 script. I've been wanting to adapt it toa a specific use case but I've zero js skills. Here's the usecase:
On a mediawiki page like this one, the corresponding wikidata item will list some people as having specific roles (author, editor, peer reviewer), and some of those people will have their wikimedia username listed on their wikidata item.
Ideally, I'd love to colour comments on the talkpages based on on who they were left by. Bascially, where the script uses:
$('.talkHelper' + when + ':contains(' + wgUserName + ')').addClass('talkHelperMe');
Evolution and evolvability Thanks for contacting me — it is always gratifying to know that others do notice my user scripts. The TalkHelper script identifies Wikipedia Talk page posts by finding the timestamp that is always added at the end of a talk post in Wikipedia. In the case of the Wikiversity Talk page, there are no timestamps and also no user signatures in the Wikipedia sense, so TalkHelper, as it currently exists, has nothing to work with. This makes it a rather different process to identify the users involved and "brand" the various page components accordingly. The author (Mario Rizzetto) is referenced only once and is identified in the Article info template on the main page. The display of the author name could easily be changed by altering the template itself – by adding suitable styling if everybody should see the highlighting or by adding a class so that a user script can add the styling for only you. How do we connect a review to a specific user or class of user? Looking at the article history — the first review was added by you on 5 December 2019 and the template does not reference a specific user. The second was added by you as well, but is attributed to William L Irving, which matches the second "reviewed by" entry in Wikidata. The "Third peer review" also has an "anonymous peer reviewer", but the history shows that you added the review. One way forward might be for you to create some form of mock-up of how you think the pages could look (and which components take the additional colours) and what connects the post to a user. Another route might be to enhance the review template so that extra parameters can indicate the role of the reviewing user or perhaps more directly the class of "branding" to use when displaying the review. — GhostInTheMachinetalk to me20:27, 15 December 2020 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for the detailed info! You're right that currently all the edits are bgin made by hand (via people submitting to this form that we then copy across). This is because most of the contributors (especially reviewers) have zero editing experience so kept messing up posting talkpage comments. The main problem with the v:template:review and v:template:response templates is that the syntax is easy to break when they get highly nested. Now that the [reply] fuction is running, we're hoping to transition back to normal talkpage comments, so would go back to standard signatures! Here's a crude mockup with blue white and grey indicating the three roles.
It can only alternate colours, rather than spotting different posting users.
I can't seem to colour the non-indented comments.
For some reason it seems to only show the formatting for me when I'm logged out, but I can't find any script I have installed over there that'd be over-riding it!
Twinkle has made a number of improvements, including using a change tag to identify actions made with it and automatically filing edit requests for protected XfD nominations.
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