User talk:K6ka/Archives/2018/December

Latest comment: 5 years ago by 5 albert square in topic Happy New Year!

The Signpost: 1 December 2018

A goat for you!

 

Folks often go through phases of refusing to eat certain foods, or at times refusing to eat anything at all. Understandably this can be a worrying and stressful time for parents like me let us eat together.

Dhagaade (talk) 06:55, 2 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

This week's article for improvement (week 49, 2018)

 
Waves in Lake Ontario
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Lake surfing

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2018).

 

  Administrator changes

  Al Ameer sonRandykittySpartaz
  BosonDaniel J. LeivickEfeEsanchez7587Fred BauderGarzoMartijn HoekstraOrangemike

  Interface administrator changes

 Deryck Chan

  Guideline and policy news

  • Following a request for comment, the Mediation Committee is now closed and will no longer be accepting case requests.
  • A request for comment is in progress to determine whether members of the Bot Approvals Group should satisfy activity requirements in order to remain in that role.
  • A request for comment is in progress regarding whether to change the administrator inactivity policy, such that administrators "who have made no logged administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped". Currently, the policy states that administrators "who have made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped".
  • A proposal has been made to temporarily restrict editing of the Main Page to interface administrators in order to mitigate the impact of compromised accounts.

  Technical news

  Arbitration

  Miscellaneous

  • In late November, an attacker compromised multiple accounts, including at least four administrator accounts, and used them to vandalize Wikipedia. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. Sharing the same password across multiple websites makes your account vulnerable, especially if your password was used on a website that suffered a data breach. As these incidents have shown, these concerns are not pure fantasies.
  • Wikipedia policy requires administrators to have strong passwords. To further reinforce security, administrators should also consider enabling two-factor authentication. A committed identity can be used to verify that you are the true account owner in the event that your account is compromised and/or you are unable to log in.

  Obituaries


16:12, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

December 2018 GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors December 2018 Newsletter
 

Hello and welcome to the December 2018 GOCE newsletter. Here is what's been happening since the August edition.

 

Thanks to everyone who participated in the August blitz (results), which focused on Requests and the oldest backlog month. Of the twenty editors who signed up, eleven editors recorded 37 copy edits.

For the September drive (results), of the twenty-three people who signed up, nineteen editors completed 294 copy edits.

Our October blitz (results) focused on Requests, geography, and food and drink articles. Of the fourteen people who signed up, eleven recorded a total of 57 copy edits.

For the November drive (results), twenty-two people signed up, and eighteen editors recorded 273 copy edits. This helped to bring the backlog to a six-month low of 825 articles.

The December blitz will run for one week, from 16 to 22 December. Sign up now!

Elections: Nominations for the Guild's coordinators for the first half of 2019 will be open from 1 to 15 December. Voting will then take place and the election will close on 31 December at 23:59 UTC. Positions for Guild coordinators, who perform the important behind-the-scenes tasks that keep our project running smoothly, are open to all Wikipedians in good standing. We welcome self-nominations, so please consider nominating yourself if you've ever thought about helping out; it's your Guild and it doesn't run itself!

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators; Reidgreg, Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95, Miniapolis and Tdslk.

To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:05, 3 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

New article topic "Facebook Blueprint"

Hi i tried to creat an article Facebook Blueprint but it was removed beacuse i have no source. it`s a free online education website by facebook.

Now i have a source

https://www.facebook.com/blueprint https://india.pearsonvue.com/Clients/Facebook-Blueprint.aspx https://www.udemy.com/facebook-marketing-fusion-how-i-got-1806-likes-at-001-cpc/ https://www.youracclaim.com/org/facebook-blueprint/badge/facebook-blueprint-ambassador https://www.branex.ca/blog/facebook-blueprint-certification/ https://www.tripepismith.com/facebook-blueprint/

Will you help me to creat this one article ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mayur Bhatt Shiv (talkcontribs) 09:22, 5 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

Sorry about reverting your edit on Ferromagnetism

I was reverting vandalism on the page and didn't notice you had already done it, so I accidently [reverted your revert]. Sorry, my bad! --ChetvornoTALK 23:46, 5 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

Growth team updates #4

Welcome to the fourth newsletter for the new Growth team!

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.

We need your feedback!

We have two requests for community members:

  1. Now that data is coming in for the welcome survey, we are planning how to use that data to personalize the newcomer's first day. See our current thoughts here, and join the conversation here.
  2. Try out the help panel's interactive prototype, and read about how we're planning to roll it out, and post any thoughts or reactions here.

Two Growth team projects have been deployed (detailed updates here)

  • Personalized first day (welcome survey) was deployed on November 20 on both Czech and Korean Wikipedias.
    • The survey is now being shown to half of new users (A/B test). Responses are being recorded in the database. We'll report on initial results during December.
    • We are planning to test a second version of the survey, called "Variation C", which we think will maximize the number of users who complete the survey and stay on the wiki.
    • The original objective of this project was to give newcomers the materials they need to achieve their goals, and so now we are currently planning how we will use the information collected in the welcome survey to personalize the newcomer's experience. We hope community members will read our current thinking and join the conversation here. Some of the plans we are considering include:
      • Making it easy for newcomers to see editing activity around the topic areas in which they indicated that they're interested.
      • Connecting interested newcomers to experienced editors.
      • Surfacing the help content most relevant to the reason for which the newcomers created their accounts.
  • Understanding first day (EditorJourney) was deployed on November 15 on both Czech and Korean Wikipedias. It has been done after a longer security review and final testing than expected. Data is now being recorded for all new users on those wikis, and we've been auditing the data and preparing to make initial reports during December. Stay tuned for the next newsletter!

Help panel is under construction

  • Focus on help desk (help panel) is planned to be deployed during the week of January 7 on both Czech and Korean Wikipedias.
  • This interactive prototype is the best way to see the design and wording in the feature.
  • We ran live user tests on the prototype, with results posted here.
  • In addition to giving the ability to ask a question, the help panel will also contain a set of links to existing help content. Our ambassadors on Czech and Korean Wikipedias are determining the right initial set of most helpful links in this task.
  • We encourage community members to try out the prototype and read about the rules for who will get the feature, and add any thoughts to this discussion.

We are still looking for volunteers

Do you want to participate to our experiments? We are looking for new communities to work with us (especially a new mid-size wiki), and people to become ambassadors to help us to communicate with the different communities. Discover how you can involve yourself or your community.

Also, please share this update with your community and interested people!

Learn more about us

You can visit our team page to find out why our team was formed and how we are thinking about new editors, and our project updates page for detailed updates on the projects we work on.

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This week's article for improvement (week 50, 2018)

 
Nuuk is the capital and largest city of Greenland. Pictured is the Nuussuaq district in Nuuk, with Sermitsiaq mountain in the background.
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Nuuk

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Previous selections: Lake surfing • Siri


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Precious anniversary

Precious
 
Two years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:12, 10 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

17:33, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Growth team updates #1

Welcome to the first newsletter for the new Growth team!

The Growth Team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects. We will be starting with Wikipedias, but we hope these changes will benefit every community.

8 ideas we consider: tell us what you think about them!

We are considering new features to build, that could retain new editors in mid-size Wikipedias. We will be testing new ideas in Czech and Korean Wikipedias, and then we'll talk to more communities (yours!) about adopting the ideas that work well.

We have posted the 8 ideas we are considering. We would really appreciate your thoughts and the thoughts from your community. Please share the ideas, and tell us what do you and your community think of those ideas before September 9.

Share your experiences with newcomers

We want to hear about what is working and what is not working for new contributors in your wiki. We also want to hear any reactions, questions, or opinions on our work. Please post on the team’s talk page, in any language!

Learn more about us

You can visit our team page to find out why our team was formed and how we are thinking about new editors, and our project page for detailed updates on the first project we'll work on.

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— Preceding unsigned comment added by MediaWiki message delivery (talkcontribs) 13:11, 24 August 2018 (UTC)Reply

WikiCup 2018 November newsletter

The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is   Courcelles (submissions), who over the course of the competition has amassed 147 GAs, 111 GARs, 9 DYKs, 4 FLs and 1 ITN. Our finalists were as follows:

  1.   Courcelles (submissions)
  2.   Kosack (submissions)
  3.   Kees08 (submissions)
  4.   SounderBruce (submissions)
  5.   Cas Liber (submissions)
  6.   Nova Crystallis (submissions)
  7.   Iazyges (submissions)
  8.   Ceranthor (submissions)


All those who reached the final win awards, and awards will also be going to the following participants:

Awards will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved much this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition.

Next year's competition begins on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; it is open to all Wikipedians, new and old. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2019 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email) and Vanamonde93 (talk · contribs · email).

— Preceding unsigned comment added by MediaWiki message delivery (talkcontribs) 06:18, 3 November 2018 (UTC)Reply

Children's Lit WikiProject

Hey there. I found your name on this list and while I don't think Children's lit is your thing I thought I would invite you to join in case I had this wrong. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 17:12, 15 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

@Barkeep49: I might've landed in the list because of anti-vandalism edits in that category. I do have a lot of children's books in my bookshelf (left over from my childhood days) so I guess I could, in theory, help out. I really don't think I'll be very active in there, though. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 17:31, 15 December 2018 (UTC)Reply
I figured it was because of counter vandalism. I wouldn't have normally left you a message but figured in this case it wouldn't hurt. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 17:34, 15 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

This week's article for improvement (week 51, 2018)

 
A bookworm / beetle grub found inside a paperback book, showing some of the damage it has wrought
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The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Bookworm (insect)

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20:34, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Serius adnims like you deserve kittens!

 

Thank you for your continued helpful responses to community inquiries and attempts to cut down vandalism and deal with backlog. You’re defitnely serius about being an adnim. Also, at least you get more then a t-shirt for being an admin!

Best regards, Redactyll Letsa taco 'bou it, son! 02:04, 19 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

 
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Hi K6ka/Archives/2018, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas
and a very Happy and Prosperous New Year,
Thanks for all your help and thanks for all your contributions to the 'pedia,

   –Davey2010 Merry Christmas / Happy New Year 14:45, 23 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

Happy New Year!

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This week's article for improvement (week 52, 2018)

 
A diagram that includes the scalp
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Scalp

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Happy Holidays!

 

Happy Holidays!
May your winter holidays be filled with joy, laughter and good health. Wishing you all the best in 2019 and beyond.

--Cameron11598 (Talk) 04:51, 24 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

The Signpost: 24 December 2018

Merry Christmas!

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This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2018)

 
Poster for a production of Boucicault's farce Contempt of Court, c. 1879. From the Library of Congress.
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Farce

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Happy New Year, K6ka!

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Happy New Year!

 

Happy New Year!

Hello K6ka: Thanks for all of your contributions to Wikipedia, and have a great New Year! Cheers, 5 albert square (talk) 23:45, 31 December 2018 (UTC)Reply



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