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The Bugle: Issue CXXIX, January 2017
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Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
What's new?
Our goal to add filters to the Recent Changes page is going well. We will contact soon some communities - the ones where ORES is available as a Beta feature - to plan a possible trial.
Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
Edit Review Improvements' Glossary is ready for translation.
Notifications [More information • Help pages]
- Revert notifications were not received on Wikidata. This is now fixed. [1]
Flow [More information • Help pages]
- We plan to change Flow's URLs to make them more human readable. Your feedback is welcome.
- Communities which have allowed Flow trials with manual enabling (Hebrew Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia) will be asked if they want to switch to Beta feature activation. [2]
- A small maintenance on Flow database will happen during week 4. No impact is expected. [3]
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Administrators' newsletter - February 2017
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.
Administrator changes
NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67
Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13
Guideline and policy news
- A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
- Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
- Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.
Technical news
- When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
- Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
- The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.
Arbitration
- The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.
Obituaries
- JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.
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The Bugle: Issue CXXX, February 2017
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Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
What's new?
Flow satisfaction survey’s results are available. The survey provides useful data on what users like and don't like about Flow. This information will be helpful in discussions recently begun as part of the editing team's Annual Plan process. As the editing team investigates its priorities for next fiscal year (which begins in July), many ideas for improvements have been suggested, including projects to research the future of wiki discussions and to fix Flow's shortcomings.
Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]
- Huggle users are asked to share their feedback concerning proposed improvements for Huggle.
Notifications [More information • Help pages]
- Flow notifications category in the Notification Preferences page will be changed from (in English) "Flow" to "Flow Discussion". Messages that have to be updated on TranslateWiki are echo-category-title-flow-discussion and echo-pref-tooltip-flow-discussion. [4]
- Mentions were not recognized when more than one section is added during the same edit or when an new section was added and a change (new message or deletion) was done in another section. This is now solved. [5]
Flow [More information • Help pages]
- Rich text mode is now the default in Flow replies. Some inconsistencies used to exist. Now the preference between visual mode and wikitext mode is updated when a content change is made in the selected editor, literally when it is typed in, not when it is saved or when the editor is switched. [6]
- We plan to change Flow's URLs to make them more human readable. Your feedback is still welcome, the conversation will be closed on February 28th.
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Please help
editThe west end freo cat issue has raised its ugly head again - your comments would be appreciated - thanks JarrahTree 12:19, 19 February 2017 (UTC)
- fixed the article move and spellin gin the article there are redirects, spelling issues in other articles that will need to be fixed Gnangarra 13:12, 19 February 2017 (UTC)
March Madness 2017
editG'day all, please be advised that throughout March 2017 the Military history Wikiproject is running its March Madness drive. This is a backlog drive that is focused on several key areas:
- tagging and assessing articles that fall within the project's scope
- updating the project's currently listed A-class articles to ensure their ongoing compliance with the listed criteria
- creating articles that are listed as "requested" on the project's various task force pages or other lists of missing articles.
As with past Milhist drives, there are points awarded for working on articles in the targeted areas, with barnstars being awarded at the end for different levels of achievement.
The drive is open to all Wikipedians, not just members of the Military history project, although only work on articles that fall (broadly) within the military history scope will be considered eligible. More information can be found here for those that are interested, and members can sign up as participants at that page also.
The drive starts at 00:01 UTC on 1 March and runs until 23:59 UTC on 31 March 2017, so please sign up now.
For the Milhist co-ordinators. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) & MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:24, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
Fair Use in Australia discussion
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The Bugle: Issue CXXXI, March 2017
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Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
What's new?
We have focused all our efforts on the New filters for edit review. You will discover these filters on your wiki soon (see below).
Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
- The documentation concerning the new filters for recent changes has been written and marked for translation.
Future changes
- We will release the ⧼eri-rcfilters-beta-label⧽ beta option on Portuguese and Polish Wikipedias March 28. This beta option adds powerful filtering and other tools as well as an improved filtering interface to the Recent Changes page (and Recent Changes Linked). To try out these new tools on these two wikis, go to the Beta tab of the Preferences page (after the 28th) and select ⧼eri-rcfilters-beta-label⧽.
- In the weeks following the initial release to Polish and Portuguese Wikipedias, the New Filters for Edit Review beta will go out to the following list of Wikipedias in waves (schedule to be done):
Flow [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
<math><hiero><score><syntax><source><ref>shortcuts are now working on Flow visual editing mode. Type a shortcut in the visual editing mode will open the control panel for the chosen option. [10]- Concerning
<ref>, footnotes will be automatically included at the end of the message, unless if they are displayed elsewhere in the message by the appropriate template.
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- Flow has been removed from Metawiki. [11]
Future changes
- The way you switch between wikitext and the visual editors in the desktop view has changed. It will be a drop-down menu. This is the same as in the mobile view. [12]
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The Bugle: Issue CXXXII, April 2017
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Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
What's new?
The fourth fiscal quarter began the first of this month, and Collaboration Team has begun work on our new quarterly goals. In the coming months, we'll be working to release the New Filters for Edit Review beta on all wikis and then to improve the beta as much as possible based on user feedback. On that score, we're planning a round of user interviews on the new tools in May to get detailed information about usability and usefulness. If you've tried the new features and have thoughts, please share them with us in any language.
Our other focus right now is to look at what changes will be needed to spread the new filtering interface to other review pages, especially Watchlist. We're also exploring how to incorporate the tools we didn't include in the new interface in this round, like the Tag Filters, time-frame selector and Namespace filter.
Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
- New Filters for Edit review are now available on Polish, Portuguese, Persian, Russian and Turkish Wikipedias as a Beta feature. French Wikipedia and Mediawikiwiki have the filters as a Beta feature too, but without the quality and intent filters. [13]
- Special:RecentChangesLinked now displays a message when no results are found for a given combination of filters. [14]
Problems
- Polish Wikipedia is experiencing an issue with predictions (quality and intent filters using ORES). The different predictions are in conflict. An edit can be considered as "good" and "bad" at the same time, and the filter levels are somewhat redundant. We have formulated a plan to address this and are working on a fix, which is deployed progressively on Polish Wikipedia. [15]
- The issue on Polish Wikipedia is shared by a few other wikis: Dutch, Czech and Hebrew, and Wikidata. The deployment for those wikis has been postponed to Tuesday, May 9. Wikis without this predictions problem have been deployed or will be deployed with no change on the schedule. [16]
- Interestingly, the "problem" with those wikis is that they perform better than we anticipated. Once the fix is in place, the tools will work with particular simplicity on these wikis.
Future changes
- English Wikipedia and all wikis without ORES prediction services will get the New Filters for Edit review on Monday, April 24. [17]
- All remaining wikis will get the New Filters for Edit review on Tuesday, May 9. [18]
- Wikidata edits will be added as a type of change on New Filters for Edit review. [19]
Notifications [More information • Help pages]
- Notifications badges were overlapping other tabs on Internet Explorer 11 and Firefox 3.6, using MonoBook skin. This is now fixed. [20]
Flow [More information • Help pages]
- Flow is now available as a Beta feature on French Wikiversity. [21]
- All Flow documentation is now available on one page gathering all information, to help users to search for an information.
- Flow's AbuseFilter integration now allows blocking a particular user from participating on a talk page, or any topic within it. [22]
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The Bugle: Issue CXXXIII, May 2017
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DYK nomination of Lillian Dean
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Hello! Your submission of Lillian Dean 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! BlueMoonset (talk) 02:05, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
- thanks for the heads up I have pinged the primary author and a project leader to the the DYK page, noting this was created during an outreach project Gnangarra 04:06, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
Adam Armstrong (settler)
editCould you take a look at Adam Armstrong (settler) which you accepted here [23] User:Nedvol is very angry and accusing me of deleting his article, but he appears to have moved it back to draft space here Draft:Adam Armstrong for some reason? Can you help at all? Theroadislong (talk) 07:17, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
What's new?
- “New Filters for Edit Review” beta released: As of May 9, the New Filters for Edit Review beta has been released to all wikis. The beta lets users review edits on Recent Changes using an easier and more powerful interface and many new tools, including user-defined highlighting and, on some wikis, predictive filters powered by ORES, a machine-learning program. You must opt in to the beta to try it out.
- More features coming soon: The New Filters are still very much in development. In addition to fixing bugs and making adjustments (here’s our current to-do list), we’re actively adding new features, many at users’ request. A few notable additions you can look for this month: A cool tool for saving filter settings; a “Watchlisted pages” filter; a “Flagged Revisions” filter (for some wikis only); a “Last revision” filter.
- Tell us your ideas—but don’t wait: The team is focused right now in making changes to the New Filters beta. But in a few months, we’ll be moving on to other projects. So now is the time to give the new tools a try and then tell us what you think. What works well? What could make things better for you?
- In the medium-term: By the end of summer, we plan to complete a suite of improvements that will, among other things: incorporate all the remaining Recent Changes tools into the new filtering interface; create new ways for reviewers to move back and forth through the filter queue; implement a “Reverted” filter; and, finally, bring the New Filters UI and tools to Watchlist.
- Have time for a talk? We're looking for people we can interview about their experiences with the new beta. If you’re a regular user of Recent Changes and have tried the new features—and if you can spare an hour to chat in English with our design researcher—please email dchen
wikimedia.org with the subject line “user interview.” Let us know how to get in touch with you and what time zone (city, country...) you’re in. - Wish you had ORES on your wiki? Some of the more interesting New Filters for Edit Review features are dependent on the machine-learning service ORES, which is available only on a small but growing list of wikis. For ORES to work on a wiki, volunteers from that wiki must train it by scoring some thousands of sample edits. Here’s a link that explains how the process works and how you can get it started on your wiki.
Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
Many Recent Changes pages have on top a list of links. We plan to integrate those links in a collapsible menu. You are invited to comment the 3 proposals we have drafted on Phabricator.- On wikis where Flagged Revisions are used, an edit highlighted as bad by ORES will not be highlighted anymore when the edit is reviewed by someone. [24]
- You can highlight pages that are in your Watchlist in Recent Changes. 3 different filters are available: in watchlist, not in watchlist, new changes in watchlist. [25]
- Wikidata, Dutch, Czech, Hebrew, Estonian and Finnish Wikipedia now have the new filters available as a Beta feature, and ORES is enabled by default on those wikis. [26]
- All wikis now have the Recent changes Filters as a Beta feature. [27]
- Users are invited to opt in to the Recent changes Filters beta when they visit the Recent Changes page. [28]
- On wikis that have ORES predictions enabled by default, it is now possible to choose how to display the predictions in watchlist and recent changes pages. [29]
Future changes
- It will be possible soon to save and retreive your favorite filters combinations. [30]
- We are working on adding filter groups for last revisions, edits from Wikidata and reverted edits. [31][32][33]
Notifications [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
- When an article you have created is linked to a Wikidata item, you can receive a notification. Wikidata and all the Wikivoyages have it since May 9th, other wikis will follow. [34]
- Special:Notifications tabs is now set to "Unread" if there are any unread messages. [35]
Flow [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
- You can enable Flow as a Beta feature on your talk page on Arabic Wikipedia and Catalan Wikiquote. [36][37]
- When you send more than 50 mentions on one Flow post, you are now warned you have hit the limit. [38]
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Orphaned non-free image File:The project (TV show) set.jpg
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Orphaned non-free image File:The Project(TV program) cast 2015.jpg
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A kitten for you!
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hi Gnangarra, a big thankyou for your explanation at Talk:Education in Western Australia
File:The project (TV show) set.jpg listed for discussion
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File:The Project(TV program) cast 2015.jpg listed for discussion
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The Bugle: Issue CXXXIV, June 2017
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Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
What's new?
Integrated Filters
- The team is moving full speed ahead on a follow-up project to the New Filters for Edit Review beta dubbed "Integrated Filters." The name refers to the fact that we are integrating the Recent Changes tools that currently remain in the old user interface (like Namespace and Tag filters), along with some tools and capabilities from Watchlist and elsewhere, into the new Recent Changes interface.
- You can get an overview of the Integrated Filters projects, and the general release strategy, on the description page of the project Phabricator board. Among the more interesting new capabilities:
- Category filters: We'll be adding the ability to filter by category. This is a little tricky, since wiki categories often work in a somewhat counter-intuitive way, with the broadest categories returning the fewest results—because categories like "Science" or "Art" tend to contain not articles but other categories. So we're exploring solutions where a category search will crawl at least a layer or two down the category treat to, hopefully, bring back more useful results. [39]
- User filters: We're adding the ability to filter by any username, similar to what's available already on the the User Contributions page. [40]
- Live update: Users will have the ability to look at a more or less continuous flow of changes. This is a much requested feature that we expect will open up new possibilities for Recent Changes, especially for patrollers who want to see vandalism or other changes as they happen. While the updates won't truly be "live," the page updates will be frequent, similar to the way real-time tools (like RTRC or LiveRC) works. [41]
Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]
Have time for a talk?
- We're looking for people we can interview about their experiences with the new beta. If you’re a regular user of Recent Changes and have tried the new features—and if you can spare an hour to chat in English with our design researcher—please email dchen wikimedia.org with the subject line “user interview.” Let us know how to get in touch with you and what time zone (city, country...) you’re in.
Recent changes
- It is now possible to save your favorite filters sets by using bookmarks. [42]
- This feature documentation can be translated.
- It is possible to filter only the last edits done on a page on the Recent Changes page. [43]
- ORES review tool has been deployed to French Wikipedia. This wiki can use predictions filters. To have the predictions filters on your wiki, you need to work on the labeling campaign for your wiki or request it. [44]
- There were some issues with loading highlighted results when the URL was copied and pasted. This is now fixed. [45]
- A "Watchlisted pages" filter group now lets reviewers use Recent Changes, and all its tools, to patrol changes to pages they've Watchlisted. If you have any feedback about how useful this is nor isn't—especially given that we plan to add the new filtering interface to the Watchlist page — let us know.
- There were issues with the tools still in the older filtering UI — like the Namespace filter and the number of results selectors. These have been fixed. [46]
Future changes
- Integration of new features on recent changes pages is planned. They will include menus to filter users, tagged edits, categories and namespaces. See the "What's new" section above for more information.
- Now that users can save filter settings, and declare any settings they want as the Recent Changes page default, we'll be reviewing the RC page Preferences with an eye to getting rid of as many as we can. For instance, if you want to hide minor edits or Category changes by default, you can now do that right on the RC page, instead of having to go to a separate page to manage defaults.
- On many Recent Changes Pages, the community has defined a large number of links that are displayed directly under the page name (example on Polish Wikipedia). Many of these links are unrelated or only peripherally related to Recent Changes, add informational complexity of the RC page. Research shows that they are used only rarely or never. We want to clarify RecentChanges page functionality, so we plan to put the links into a collapsible panel.
- Should the panel default to open or closed? That is, should the default state (which users can change with one click) show the links as hidden or displayed? Let us know what you think.
- The most used links are shortcuts to certain type of edits, (Mobile, Newcomers...). Users can already save their favorite filter settings to the Saved Settings menu, which should make some of the existing links redundant. We plan to provide default bookmarks for the most used filters combinations. [47]
Notifications [More information • Help pages]
Future changes
- Wikimedia Deutschland have scheduled the notifications of Wikibase notifications to Wikimedia projects: all the Wikivoyages on May 3; all the Wikipedias except en, fr, de on May 30; all other projects on June 13 and Wikipedias en, fr, de on September 5. [48]
- It will be possible to restrict who can send you notifications. [49]
Flow [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
- Flow has been activated on all talk pages on Catalan Wikiquote. [50]
Future changes
- On the Beta feature page, the activation message has been review to emphase the fact that the unstructured wikitext page will be archived. [51]
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The Bugle: Issue CXXXV, July 2017
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Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
What's new?
The team is currently working on three main goals, which we expect to complete this summer or in September:
- Graduate New Filters for Edit Review core features out of beta:
- The core New Filters features slated to become standard parts of Recent Changes are the ones that have been out in beta for a while and fully road-tested by the community.
- These include the new filtering interface, the machine-learning filter groups “User Intent Predictions” and “Quality Predictions,” the highlighting tools, the ability to save your filter settings for later use, and the new filter groups: “Watchlisted pages,” “Last revision” and "User registration and experience."
- There’s a list of “blocker” tasks we need to complete before these features are ready to graduate out of beta.
- We expect to release those features by default in September. A more precise message will be sent to communities. If you have questions about it, you can write a message on Mediawiki.org, in any language.
- Extend the New Filters to Watchlist: The Watchlists of very active editors can include thousands of pages. To help these busy folks keep up with their work, we’re adding the New Filters UX and tools to Watchlist. The Watchlist and Recent Changes pages are similar, but there is some work involved in adapting the tools to their new setting. That work should be ready some time in late summer or early fall. Stay tuned for an announcement!
- Continuing work on “Integrated Filters”:
- While the New Filters for Edit Review beta brought probably 70% of the old-style Recent Changes features into the new user interface, it left some behind—like the Tag and Namespace filters and the controls for the number of days searched and number of results presented. As the name is meant to suggest, “Integrated filters” integrates those old-style tools into the new UI.
- It also adds some new tools users have asked for, such as:
- “Live updates” which provides a near real-time automatic refresh of the Recent Changes page.
- Category filters, which enable users to search by category.
- User filters, which let you define searches that include or exclude edits by particular users.
- We will put the community-defined related links that cluster at the top of most Recent Changes pages into a collapsible panel, in order to clarify the Recent Changes page.
We should note that it’s not certain these last two additions will make the cut for inclusion this year. If you want a make the case for either one, we want to hear from you.
Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
- Some styling adjustments are ongoing on the filters for recent changes. [52]
- RecentChanges with the Beta feature were very slow to load on Wikidata. It is now fixed. [53]
- In the Beta feature, you can try the Live Updates feature. Just add
&liveupdate=1at the end of the URL in Recent Changes page. [54]
Future changes
- ORES review tool will be deployed to Romanian and Albanian Wikipedia soon. These wikis will be able to use predictions filters. To have the predictions filters on your wiki, you need to work on the labeling campaign for your wiki or request it. [55]
- Sometimes the RecentChanges page were reloading before the filters have ended to be loaded. It is going to be fixed. [56]
Notifications [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
- It is now possible to display the number of unread notifications in the browser title bar, using a gadget. [57]
Future changes
- It will be possible to restrict who can send you notifications on a wiki. This new feature will accessible in your preferences, in the Notifications tab, on Wednesday, July 26. [58]
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The Bugle: Issue CXXXVI, August 2017
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About a range you unblocked
editIn case you don't get the ping, I asked you a question on my user talk page about a range you unblocked. This was raised by an IP editor who noticed it has immediately begun vandalizing. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 18:49, 11 August 2017 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue CXXXVII, September 2017
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The Bugle: Issue CXXXVIII, October 2017
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Caladenia paludosa?
editHello Gnangarra,
Some years ago you uploaded an image of an orchid you labelled as Caladenia paludosa (Caladenia 01 gnangarra 2.jpg). I am certain that this is actually an image of Caladenia arenicola. The two species are similar and both occur in the Perth area but Andrew Brown notes in his most recent book "The species [Caladenia paludosa] is distinguished from the related carousel spider orchid (Caladenia arenicola) by its more broadly-clubbed lateral sepals, forward projecting labellum, glossy-red apex and shorter, thickened fringe segments." I hope you will not mind if I replace your image with a photo I took of Caladenia paludosa about a week ago in the Jandakot Regional Park. Gderrin (talk) 10:39, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
- Go for it especially as you have a more definitive id Gnangarra 11:15, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
is this a joke
editI have looked through the instructions of this competition is this really intending to create 100,000 stub articles and then abandon them. On top specifically reward someone for creating what will be one horrible mess. How is notability going to be establish, who is going to verify the all 100,000 articles, who is going to check for copyright violations, who is going to ensure that all 100,000 meet WP:BLP and continue to meet it into the future. Sorry to put a dampener on the whole concept do really need to create a contest that ignores all the basic policies. 0.75 kb of prose would never pass through article creation which require 1.5k of prose why should we expect more from new comers than we do from ourselves. Gnangarra 13:43, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
Gnangarra I moved the conversation here as I took it as a personal attack. You've totally got the wrong end of the stick, yes, 100,000 is a long term challenge and not part of the contest (I still don't know if we're going to do the challenge), and I still haven't decided on minimum length, previous contests were minimum 1.5 kb. But given that it's a world contest sometimes there is a problem with finding decent material for developing world countries. I hope WMF will fund contests for women to improve quality later, but for now we're doing this. Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon allowed creation for women bios and was a massive success (aside from the deleted ones created by a blocked creator) which saw an enormous improvement in general quality. I hope to do something like that for women bios soon enough. I'm giving $250 of prizes to people who take the time to review articles. copyedit, ensure they comply with guidelines etc. Sorry you think so poorly of it, but the idea is NOT to dump lots of stubs but to produce a lot of decent new starter articles on women globally and try to get us towards 20% women bios. Articles which are poorly sourced/written/formatted or non notable etc won't be approved.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:53, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
- Dr. BlofeldIt is not a personal attack I question the validation process of the contest noting that we set a higher standard for new editors, please kindly restore my comments. I'm well aware of the problems facing not just women but Indigenous communities in colonial countries in getting sufficient content for articles but firstly the subject must achieve notability that alone should provide sufficient material for 1.5k. Gnangarra 16:10, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
I've run several very successful contests already which have greatly improved general quality, Wikipedia:Awaken the Dragon was another one, look at the articles done for that, was that a mess? Just show a little more good faith please. You have a valid point on minimum length, I've made it 1KB. It ought to really be 1.5 KB but during the African Destubathon I remember trying to find info on Djibouti or Eritrea athletes etc and really finding it hard to get even 1 kB, and some were Olympic competitors. They were notable but it's a big challenge finding material for many world countries. I lowered the requirement not because I want to see a dump of crappy stubs but a greater diversity of content and countries not discriminated against because of the unevenness in sourcing issue. I'd rather see a 1-1.2 kb length new articles than no article on subjects like that rather than having to be bloated out to reach 1.5 kb. I don't agree that notable women for really poor developing world countries will always easily have 1.5 kb. I warmly welcome constructive inout, but just not in the tone of your original message. If you have some ideas on how to ensure that quality articles are produced and the contest is better run I'd be happy to hear it.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:16, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
- Firstly please restore my comment on the talk page, whether you like being criticised or not is irrelevant my observation and concerns relate solely to this event. I again repeat how can we as community run an event where we accept less from ourselves than those who are trying to participate in the first place. I ask how will Notability be assured, how will copyright violations be identified, how will BLP be maintained. We can create bots to make creations of articles on Olympic athletes as barrier for inclusion is just selection to participate. Gnangarra 16:30, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
How is notability assured, copyvios identified and BLP maintained generally? We manage it. There's $250 prizes towards editors who take care of monitoring and running it. The bot will just check length and sourcing. People who only mass generate sports bios won't be eligible for prizes. One of the reasons I approached WmAus was because I wanted some further prizes to go towards quality entries. Something to support ADB entries and a focus on quality but if you don't want to support this it's up to you.♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:57, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
- Dr. Blofeld nothing to do with WMAU, my comment are mine, I resigned as President and was replace a couple of weeks ago Gnangarra 09:28, 16 October 2017 (UTC)